SMU English Students Present at the 2025 AAUEC

The Annual Atlantic Undergraduate English Conference (AAUEC) was hosted March 14-16 in Fredericton by the University of New Brunswick. Six students selected by a department faculty committee presented their writing – scholarly essays, short stories, poetry – to an enthusiastic audience of students and faculty representing several other Maritime universities.  The Saint Mary's University Department of English Language & Literature has sponsored student participation at the conference for over 20 years.

Our 2025 Student Presenters:

• Ryan Ash, “Untangling the Semantics of Syncretism:  the hermeneutic relevance of the motif-index in the mythography of William Blake” 
• Annastatia Brooks, “Life and Death in the Cemetery:  A Reflection on Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard”
• Jacob Butler, “Bed” (short story)
• Nicole Edwards, “How the Serpent Drowned on Fire” (hybrid creative and critical expression)
• Callie Lloyd,  “A Landscape of Intergenerational Trauma:  The Ripple of Violence Through Generations of Indigenous Women in The Break”
• Andrew Stillwell,  “Waking the Author:  The Destructive Search for Authority Surrounding Frankenstein”

In the photo:

Top Row, L to R: Jacob Butler, Andrew Stillwell, Dr. David Heckerl (Faculty Rep & Chauffeur)

Bottom Row, L to R:  Nicole Edwards, Ryan Ash, Annastatia Brooks, Callie Lloyd