On January 8, 2016, Krysta Purcell presented her paper, “Exploring the Unknown: An Onomastic Study of Over the Garden Wall,” to the American Name Society at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The American Name Society is a scholarly society devoted to the study of names and naming, which meets annually with the Linguistic Society of America, the American Dialect Society, and other language-focused scholarly organizations. Krysta’s presentation grew out of her Honors Thesis, which she successfully defended in December 2015. Krysta presented her paper in a panel that included two senior faculty members presenting papers on aspects of names in Shakespeare’s plays and a doctoral student who won this year’s Emerging Scholar Award. Krsyta’s paper more than held its own in this panel of strong papers, and Krysta demonstrated poise and professionalism both in the presentation and in the question period that followed.
Krysta Purcell
