English M.A. Thesis Expo
April 27, 2021
Intro/Welcome (James Davis, Hannah Cohen)
Participating Students
- Steven Schaedler, “A Frightful Pleasure”: Engineering Affect in The Changeling (advisor Prof. Tanya Pollard)
- Bethany Weniger, Why Can’t We Be Friends: A Study of the Patriarchal and Hierarchical Challenges to Female Friendship in Jane Austen’s Emma and Four of its Film Adaptations (advisor Prof. Karl Steel)
- Kyle Flanagan, Truth Doesn’t Make a Noise: How Silence and Repetition Expose the Ambiguity of Contemporary Masculinity (advisor Prof. Jason Frydman)
- Runako Gulstone, Gentrification as Colonialism in Fort Greene, Brooklyn: An Analysis of L.J. Davis’s A Meaningful Life (advisor Prof. James Davis)
- Megan Lackie, Monstrous Women: Constructions of Masculine Anxieties in Literature’s Female Villain (advisor Prof. Geoffrey Minter)
- Hannah Cohen, Holden, the Antihero: Illuminating Twentieth-Century’s Most Famously Fractured Teenager Through the Lens of Hamlet (advisor Prof. Geoffrey Minter)
- Tau Battice, Liberation through Literary Representation: On Afro-Brasileiras Writing Their Own Stories and Re-Writing Brazilian Society (advisor Prof. Simanique Moody)
- Nadine Ahmad, A Study of Nella Larsen’s Passing in Comparison to Modern “Reverse Passing” (advisor Prof. James Davis)
- Beth Cooper, Double Vision: Reading Utopian and Dystopian Speculative Fiction in the Anthropocene (advisor Prof. Rosamond King)
