English major Evie Gannon '25 presented her research at a recent undergraduate humanities conference.
On March 22, 2025, English major Evie Gannon ’25 presented her research at the Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium. This Symposium, held at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, was attended by students from around the United States.
Gannon’s paper, “Agency and Creation of Space: Empowered Women in the Gothic Fictions Mexican Gothic and Build Your House Around My Body,” is part of a project mentored by Professor of English Rosemary Haskell. The research investigates 21st-century adaptations of the eighteenth-century Gothic mode, with a particular focus on the changing representations of women characters and the spaces they inhabit in their novels. “Mexican Gothic” is by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and “Build Your House Around My Body” is by Violet Kupersmith.