Dan Cryer
Dan Cryer is a PhD student in Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of
English. His dissertation follows the social activism of the early twentieth
century conservationist Aldo Leopold, arguing that Leopold attempted to extend
the rights of citizenship to the natural world and to act as its voice in the
Democratic process. Dan served for two years as Assistant Director of UNM’s Core
Writing program, was the grad student administrator for the College of Arts
& Sciences’ Writing Intensive Learning Communities pilot project, and has
worked extensively with UNM’s Writing Across Communities initiative. He was an
online course designer at the office of New Media and Extended Learning, and has
taught courses in composition and technical and professional writing.
Colleen Dunn
Colleen Dunn is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of
New Mexico. Her dissertation, which focuses on the lives of saints produced in
Anglo-Saxon England, is driven by a central concern: the choice made by Old
English hagiographers writing about female virgin martyrs to forgo (and thereby
silence) native Anglo-Saxon women martyred during the Viking attacks, in favor
of foreign subjects. Focusing particularly on the adapted lives of St. Juliana
of Nicomedia and St. Margaret of Antioch, her research will explore what these
cultural productions reveal about early medieval understandings of female
sanctity, and further, the far-reaching implications these understandings had
for an Anglo-Saxon audience.
Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen
Douglas Ryan VanBenthuysen is a PhD candidate in the University of New Mexico
Department of English Language and Literature, with a focus on Medieval Studies.
His dissertation focuses on the concept of authority in the Old English Genesis
poem(s), particularly Genesis A, an Anglo-Saxon poem based on the biblical book
of Genesis. The dissertation examines both the poet's use of language and
connections to Anglo-Saxon culture. Doug's other scholarly interests include Old
English Language and Old Norse Language and Literature. In addition to his
scholarly pursuits, Doug enjoys spending time with his ten year old son,
Mauricio.Please see the below page for details:
http://www.unm.edu/~artsci/for-students/fellowships/recipients/2013.html
