Mother/Nature Conference Organizers

Conference Chair

Jennifer Robertson is a second-year doctoral student at Southern Miss. She earned dual bachelor degrees in physics and literature from Ball State University, and received her Master of Arts in 2010 from USM after completing her thesis “'This Particular Web': Morality and Human Evolution in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch." Her research interests include literature and science in the 19th century, rhetoric of science, and transatlantic studies. 

 

 Conference Organizers

  • Paige Gray

Paige Gray is a PhD student in English at Southern Miss, specializing in children's literature. She received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia College Chicago and worked in print media as a writer, editor, and graphic designer for several years before coming to Hattiesburg.

  • Laura Hakala

Laura Hakala is a second year PhD student in English at Southern Miss.  She received her master's degree from Georgia Southern University, and her research interests include children's and young adult literature, as well as American literature.

 

Conference Committee

  • Mac Boyle

  • Olivia Bushardt

  • Kara Manning

  • Jennifer Roy

  • Tyler Sasser

     

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