2016 Beacon Award Winner
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Helen Cauley
The 2016 Beacon Award recipient is Helen Cauley an English Ph.D. candidate and a writing instructor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Her dissertation centers on the influences of the Scottish Enlightenment in the Sherlock Holmes stories. |
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She is a journalist and, since 1990, has been an active member and former president of the Confederates of Wisteria Lodge, Atlanta’s Sherlock Holmes society.
Her latest project with the Confederates was to establish an online “meet up” page to encourage young and adult would-be Sherlockians to learn more about the society.
Her teaching has introduced the original Sherlock Holmes stories to young people.
As part of her dissertation, she designed a research-based persuasive composition course around the Canon entitled “Curious Scholars.” That course also introduces her students to the vocabulary of the canon. Her assignments engage students in the powers of observation, deduction, and reasoning. Ms. Cauley also makes continual references to the original stories.
In addition, for the last two years, Ms. Cauley has conducted monthly Sherlock discussion group sessions that meet at the community library and draw readers across all ages.
Her latest project with the Confederates was to establish an online “meet up” page to encourage young and adult would-be Sherlockians to learn more about the society.
Her teaching has introduced the original Sherlock Holmes stories to young people.
As part of her dissertation, she designed a research-based persuasive composition course around the Canon entitled “Curious Scholars.” That course also introduces her students to the vocabulary of the canon. Her assignments engage students in the powers of observation, deduction, and reasoning. Ms. Cauley also makes continual references to the original stories.
In addition, for the last two years, Ms. Cauley has conducted monthly Sherlock discussion group sessions that meet at the community library and draw readers across all ages.