3MT (2023) Finalist - Sophie Richardson

On April 14th 2023, ten finalists competed in Yale's seventh 3-Minute Thesis Competition, which challenged PhD students from Yale's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences to clearly and engagingly present their research to a diverse panel of judges - in 3 minutes or less! This presentation is from Sophie Richardson, a 7th year in the English department. The full title of her presentation is “Surface as Simile: Material Metaphors in Early Modern English Literature”.