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Joanne R Gilbert, Ph.D.

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"A slayer with family and friends; that sure as hell wasn't in the brochure": The Rhetorical Construction of Relational Power in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Jessica Paige Gauthier, the author of this work, is both a Currie Scholar and an Earhard Scholar, working under my supervision. She has presented this work at both the 2011 Michigan Academy of Arts and Sciences conference and at the 2011 Alma College Honors Day, where she was awarded the Kapp Prize for scholarship in the Humanities.

 

Alma College’s first-year students can choose to “go green” through the Get Out Bike Program, designed to reduce their carbon impact. By signing a pledge not to bring a car to campus, participants in the program receive a bike to keep at a discounted rate. Downtown businesses are easily accessible to student cyclists. Campus also is bordered by the 41-mile Fred Meijer Heartland Trail.

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Dr. Robert Vivian

Dr. Robert Vivian
Departments: English

It doesn’t matter the genre — poetry, plays, nonfiction, novels or short-stories — Bob Vivian just loves to write.

“Teaching and writing are a kind of moveable feast for me,” says Vivian. What I love about Alma is the opportunity to teach and learn on all kinds of different subjects without being pigeon-holed into just one.”

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