Critical Introductions

The students who took Jaime Goodrich’s section of ENG 5030 (Topics in Women’s Studies) in Fall 2019 composed the following critical introductions for More’s corpus of poetry. These introductions were then edited by Jaime Goodrich (Associate Professor of English, Wayne State) and Kelly Plante (doctoral student in English, Wayne State).

  1. Baker and his Mysticism by Mackenzie Devine, Denise Schell, and Kelly Plante
  2. Benedictinism by Gabrielle Harris, Emily Roth, and Kelly Plante
  3. Biography of More by Kelly Plante | Timeline by Jaime Goodrich
  4. Convent Poetry by Paige Bottorff, Elliot Fish, and Kaycee White
  5. English Convents on the Continent by Kay Cirocco, Julia Hodgson, Amy Salter
  6. Gertrude More and Thomas More by Jessi Hyde and Kelly Plante
  7. More and Religious Verse by Bailey Meyerhoff
  8. More and the Feminist Tradition by Malak Bazzi and Kelly Plante
  9. More and Women Writers by Olivia Johnson, Carrie Paveglio, Emily Tujaka
  10. More’s Critical Reception by Shahrin Khan and Kelly Plante
  11. More’s Genres by Negwa Nagi
  12. More’s Themes by Louie Alkasmikha and Kelly Plante
  13. Religious Politics among the Cambrai Benedictines by Vicky Beacham, Brenda Kizy, and Kelly Plante
  14. Writing and the Cambrai Benedictines by Angela Swierczynski