The Nine Living Muses (British women poets, artists, historians, literary scholars, translators) 1778
Supportive fellow grads before the event. Arianna, Dawn, Kaitlyn, Julie and Megan. In the foreground Gerald Soliday and Mandy McGuire (the outside person - Brain and Behavioral Sciences).
More support - unfortunately there is no picture of Peter Park (Early Modern European History) who was also there (thanks Peter).
Me explaining to Pat Michaelson (British literature) just how nervous I was.
Waiting outside for the committee to decide my fate. I could hear them laughing, and could only hope it was a good thing.
Dan Wickberg (American Intellectual History) came outside looking very serious and then said - "you passed, congratulations!" and took me back into the room where the rest of the committee was waiting.
Pam Gossin (Women and Literature/History of Science/Anime) signing off on the dissertation.
Pat Michaelson and Dan Wickberg signing.
Jim got us some munchies for afterwards ...
and beautiful flowers that lasted a week.
My friend-in-arms James King, Gerald Soliday, the back of the inimitable Blake Remington, and me.
Me and Pam Gossin (History of science and English literature)
Rainer Schulte (director of the Translation Center) stopped by to say congratulations.
Gerald Soliday (Early modern European social and cultural history) - my dissertation chair and mentor.
Pam Gossin kindly held still for a portrait.
My dear friend Sherry Clarkson (A&H graduate studies godess).
Happy but exhausted.
Catharine Macaulay - historian and political thinker.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - travel writer and poet who introduced small pox innoculation to Britain.
Mercy Otis Warren - historian and political theorist. One of the founding mothers of the United States.
Elizabeth Montagu - poet, writer, captain of industry, salon hostess, literary patron.
Vauxhall Gardens ca 1785 - a popular place for people to socialize, listen to music, see and be seen.
