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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Prof. Lauren Shohet's Senior Seminar Research Conference

MATERIAL / TEXTS
SENIOR SEMINAR RESEARCH CONFERENCE
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17
SAC 300

10:30 IMAGE, STORY, MEDIUM
Shannon Welch, “The Intersection of Photography and Narrative in Japanese Photographic Novels”
Michael Libonati, “Metalepsis in Children’s Picture Books: ‘Realistic,’ Immersive, and Affective Experience for Young Readers”
Wesley Brown, “Pulp History: The Ascension of Science Fiction in the Mid-Twentieth Century”

11:30 LETTERS, SPECTACLES, AND SIGNS
Devon Ferris, "Scaffold Speeches: Medium, Form, Effect"
Anthony Iozzia, “Reading the Allegorical Landscape of Spenser's Faerie Queene
Philip O’Connell, “Text Messaging: Effects of the Medium”

1:00 READING SPEECH, READING SILENCE
Tina Krajewski, "Sylvia Plath: Writing Suicide, Reading Betrayal"
Gregory Dool, “Silent Reading of Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
Stephanie Gabriele, “Madame Bovary and the Effects of Silent Reading"