Graduate student Jennifer Doyle-Corn will have an article published in the next issue of the the Sigma Tau Delta Review.

An article by Jennifer Doyle-Corn, a graduate student in the English literature program at Western Carolina University, has been accepted for publication in the 2009-10 issue of the Sigma Tau Delta Review, a journal of the prestigious international English honor society Sigma Tau Delta.

The article, titled “(Mis)shaping History: Milton’s Nationalist Rhetoric in ‘Observations Upon the Articles of Peace,’” was one of 12 selected for publication this year from more than 1,000 submissions from across the country and was the only article selected from North Carolina. The journal is scheduled to publish in early spring. Doyle-Corn also was invited to read at the Sigma Tau Delta national conference in St. Louis in March.

“This is my first academic publication, and I am thrilled,” said Doyle-Corn, a member of Sigma Tau Delta. She and her husband, Worth Corn, a writer and editor at The Mountaineer newspaper in Haywood County, both earned undergraduate degrees in English from WCU in 2004. The couple live in Cullowhee, as do Doyle-Corn’s parents, Pete and Celia Doyle.

Doyle-Corn’s essay argues that Milton’s position in the Cromwellian government of England, where he produced nationalistic propaganda including “Observations Upon the Articles of Peace,” represented a discourse of bigotry, anti-Catholicism and sociological intolerance that contributed to a longstanding biased historical picture of the Irish rebellions of the 1640s. 

Doyle-Corn wrote the article as a class assignment for Mimi Fenton, a WCU professor of English who specializes in Milton. “The acceptance of Jennifer’s article for publication in the competitive Sigma Tau Delta Review speaks to the high quality of her work,” Fenton said.

Doyle-Corn plans to graduate with her master’s degree in May, enter a doctoral program in English in the fall and then pursue a teaching career.

For more information about Western Carolina’s English department, contact Brian Gastle, department head, at (828) 227-7264.

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