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Prof. Claire Meldrum successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on March 8, 2019. Her dissertation, “The Mockery of Things: Material Culture and Domestic Ideology in the Detective Fiction of Anna Katharine Green” considers the role of physical objects like dress, home decor and architecture in the work of the early America crime fiction writer, Anna Katharine Green. Dr. Meldrum earned her PhD in English Literature from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. Way to go, Claire!