Two Wilkes Honors College undergraduates concentrating in English Literature have been accepted to give papers at the nation's only undergraduate literature conference, which takes place March 30-April 1, 2006 at Weber State University in Utah. See www.weber.edu/nulc .

Derek McGrath will present his paper “Shrinking from my father”: Disguises and Dickens' Darwinism in Our Mutual Friend; and another paper, "A distorted Midwest: A comparison to the valley of ashes in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby"

Kathryn Smith will present her paper "Tess as a Flawed Heroine: The Necessity of Moral Responsibility in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles

These students work with Honors College literature professors Dr. Hilary Edwards and Dr. Laura Barrett