Nancy Drew’s Forever American Girlhood
Will the iconic Nancy Drew character created 95 years ago be left in the past, or will she make her place in today’s ideal of American girlhood?
Stephanie Haun
Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Instrumental Music
Education and an M.A. in English: Literary Study from the University of
Tennessee in Chattanooga. During her pursuit of the M.A., her research
interests were varied, ranging from tracing the ideas presented in the
poetry of Walt Whitman to the music of Bruce Springsteen, as well as
exploring Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and the topic of cocaine
addiction. Stephanie presented a shortened conference essay, “SelfAdministered, Hypodermically, Subcutaneously, or Intravenously: Exploring the Cocaine Addiction of Sherlock Holmes,” at the Tennessee Philological Association Conference in 2010. She is a 2018 graduate of Queens University of Charlotte and earned the M.F.A. in Creative Writing.