Ithaca College

On March 5-6 Professor Katharine Kittredge of the English Department and her students, Samantha Hewitt and Hannah Hjerpe-Schroeder traveled to Dublin, Ireland to present at the “Sound, Image, Text” conference sponsored by the Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature.

The conference featured participants from nine different countries and the paper topics ranged from Anglo-Saxon manuscripts to Italian translations of Sylvia Plath.  Samantha’s presentation, “Speaking Volumes through Visuals: Two Graphic Novels Depicting the Trauma of War” arose out of her current English Honors project.  Professor Kittredge and Hannah presented on the preliminary finding of their Spring 2010 Fred L. Emerson Collaboration project; their presentation was entitled “Thomas Dermody, Eighteenth-century Alcoholic Child Poet: ‘Irish Chatterton’ or Juvenile Delinquent.