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Mrs. Kimberly Martinson
graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Honors College at Arizona
State University in 2001, after completing a thesis on anthropological
motifs in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. She came to
the University of Oklahoma to pursue a Master of Arts degree in
English, with an emphasis in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy. Her
Master’s thesis examined the interaction of Christianity on literacy in
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1856 novel Dred: A Tale of the Great
Dismal Swamp, and she presented a paper on this subject to the
Conference on Christianity and Literature in 2005. During her Master’s
work, Ms. Martinson taught first-year composition courses in
traditional and computer-mediated settings, and helped facilitate
departmental training for teaching in the computer-mediated
environment. During the 2004-2005 academic year, she taught technical
writing in networked classrooms. In her doctoral work, Ms. Martinson
plans to study the personal and life writings of Stowe alongside her
fiction and publicity in order to examine Stowe’s ideals about
Christian womanhood.
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