Emily Tokarowski Presents at James & Virginia McCroskey Undergraduate Scholars' Conference

2016 Apr 14

Emily Tokarowski, a member of the Class of 2016 and a Environmental Studies major at Stonehill, took part in the sixth annual James & Virginia McCroskey Undergraduate Scholars' Conference in Baltimore, Md. where she, along with three other Stonehill students, each presented research papers.

"Papers are competitively selected through blind review and Stonehill has been well-represented since the conference's inception," explains Stonehill Communication Professor Anne Mattina, who accompanied the students at the conference, held in conjunction with the Eastern Communication Association's (ECA) 107th annual convention.

Lindsay Aidan Farrell won a Top Paper Award for her research on Rhetorical Magic: J.K Rowling's Ability to Move an Oppositional Audience with a Speech Paradoxical to the Occasion, a critical analysis of the famed author's Harvard commencement address.

Mattina also presented at the ECA Convention, alongside Communication Department colleague Associate Professor Monique Myers, on "Interdisciplinary Teaching within Learning Communities at Stonehill College," which was part of a wider roundtable discussion on where the communication discipline fits within a broader academic context.