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Casey A'Hearn

Degree Program: MA

Graduation Year: 2024

Advisor: Richard Newton

Bio

Casey graduated from the University of Rochester with a B.A. with honors in Religion. As a McNair Scholar, Casey examined the ways that creative writing and religious theology were intertwined by using the theory of subcreation to analyze myths of Christian afterlife. Casey began their M.A at UA in the Fall of 2022 (holding a McNair Graduate Fellowship for 2022-23 and working as a GTA in the Blount Scholars Program for 2023-24), working with Prof. Newton on a wide variety of digital humanities projects, culminating in a research paper submitted for possible publication. Beginning in the Fall of 2024 Casey is attending Princeton University to work toward earning a Ph.D.