English and World Literatures
Senior Capstone and Independent Study Presentations
Emily Inman
Wednesday December 7, 2016
2:30-3:45 | MAIN 509
“Drunkenness as Transcendence: Uncovering Sufi Theme and Form in Algerian Poetry.”
(Independent Study sponsored by Professor Julie Huntington)
Cody Gambino
“Cold War Queers: How Cold War Politics Influenced Themes in Queer Literature.”
Heather Harbach
“The Construction of Bride's Cosmetic Consumption Through Influencer Marketing in Toni Morrison's God Help The Child.”
Ashley Potter
“The Subjective Narration in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: A Metaphysical Experience Uncovered.”
Wednesday December 7, 2016
4:00-5:15 | COMMONS WEST
Sophie Curtis
"The Changing Landscape of American Narration: The Unreliable Narrator in Literature and the Incohesive Narrative of Visual Art."
Leah Braithwaite
"The Image that Speaks Louder than the Caption: Redefining the Postcolonial Ekphrastic Model."
Eli Ramos
“Metafiction and the Margin: The Case of King Kendrick.”
Penny Pun
“Impossible to Put Together: The Disabled Narratives in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape and Happy Days.”
Wednesday December 14, 2016
2:30-5:15 | MAIN 503
Jaimie Cranford
"Feminist Retellings of Fairy Tales Through the Music of the Riot Grrrl Movement."
Sarah Young
“From Among the Dead to Vertigo: An Examination of Adaptation.”
Christina Tersero
“Navigating Japanese-American Identity through My Own Consumption of Popular Culture.”
Ayiisha Ferrell
“Exposed: Abusive Relationship Characteristics Disguised as Romantic Love in Young Adult Fiction.”
Alexis Wilson
Wednesday December 14, 2016
4:00-5:15 | COMMONS WEST
“The Human God Complex: God-like Behavior in George Orwell’s 1984 and Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.”
Cody Gambino
“18th-century Counter Culture: Representations of Virtue in the Marquis de Sade's Justine.”
(Independent Study sponsored by Professor Cecilia Feilla)
Emily Inman
“Silence in the Divine Comedy: Dante and Virgil’s Structuring of Inferno and Purgatorio as a Response to Poetic Abyss.”
Wesley Hayden
"Laser Canon: Failed Futures in Science Fiction and How these Warning Signs Shape Contemporary Social Dimensions."
Alex Zandria Parker
“Dispelling the Truth Behind Narrative: Gendered Narration and the Patriarchy in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and Invisible Monsters.”