Alumnus Update: Jordan Burr

After graduating from UMKC with his MA in English literature in 2011, Jordan Burr was accepted to the Ph.D. program at the University of Kansas (advice to prospective Ph.D. applicants: apply early and to a ton of programs)! At KU, Burr was awarded a JoAnn Klemmer Research Assistantship, which allowed him to work closely with…

Metzger Presents at Medieval Conference

Cheryl Metzger (MA 2013) presented her paper “A Woman’s Handbook to Power: Christine de Pizan’s Scholastic Argument in Le Livre des Trois Vertus” at the “Making Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Culture” Conference on April 4th and 5th in Chapel Hill, NC. The conference was co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina and King’s…