Literature: Faculty Presentations (1991-2023)
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Collection preserves presentations by faculty and staff of the former Department of Literature. These presentations are included in collections of the successor Department of English.
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from 2023
Marilyn Monroe, Murderess: How a Femme Fatale Role Shaped Monroe's Star Persona, Amanda Konkle
from 2022
Writing as Perceiving: Defamiliarization, Normalization and Juxtaposition, Laura Valeri
A Story Walks into a Bar, Laura E. Valeri
from 2021
Media in the Wake of COVID and the Uprisings, Kendra R. Parker
‘The Portrait Was a Black Madonna’: Octavia E. Butler, Politics of Representation, and the Black Church, Kendra R. Parker
“The Portrait was a Black Madonna”: Octavia E. Butler, Politics of Representation, and the Black Church, Kendra R. Parker
The Parable of the Sower: An Octavia E. Butler Book Discussion, Kendra R. Parker and Kristen Lillvis
from 2020
African American Journeys to 2020, Kendra R. Parker
To be Black, female, and immigrant—oh, the horror!: The Vampire Queen in Richard Wenk’s Vamp, Kendra R. Parker
Abolition in American Literature: A Nation Removes Its Shackles—Frederick Douglass, David Walker, and Harriet Jacobs, Kendra R. Parker
‘...in the fresh young darkness close together ’:Teaching Redefining Realness, Kendra R. Parker
I Studied My History; I Studied My Past: Culture, Gender, and Race in Beyoncé’s Homecoming, Kendra R. Parker
from 2019
Harnessing the Shadows: Ghosts, Vampires, and Undying Relationships to Our Past, Kendra R. Parker
Her Bondage and Her Freedom? Roxane Gay’s Hunger as Kin to Emancipatory Narratives, Kendra R. Parker
from 2018
‘Stupidly good’: A Classical Context for Milton’s Satan, Christopher P. Baker
The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media, Carol P. Jamison
Spanglish and the Evolution of English, Carol Parrish Jamison
Marilyn Monroe, Murderess, Amanda Konkle
Postfeminism the Musical: The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Amanda Konkle
from 2017
Volpone as Hobbesian Comedy, Christopher P. Baker
The Art of Losing: Reflections on Reading and Teaching, Re-Visioning and Regeneration, Helen E. Howells
'Old Tales Are Like Old Friends': Reimagining and Retelling in Westeros, Carol P. Jamison
Teaching Westeros: Medievalism, Medieval Studies, and George R. R. Martin, Carol P. Jamison
COLA Dean’s List celebration: Guest Speaker, Prof.Carol Parrish Jamison, Carol Parrish Jamison
Sigma Tau Delta induction, Carol Parrish Jamison