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“A Fascination, Strange And Compelling”: Marriage As The Prevention Of Queerness In Nella Larsen’S Passing, Lillianna Wright
“A Fascination, Strange And Compelling”: Marriage As The Prevention Of Queerness In Nella Larsen’S Passing, Lillianna Wright
Liberty University Research Week
Graduate
Textual or Investigative
Helga Crane’S Attempt At Obtaining Societal Power, Natalie Abernathy
Helga Crane’S Attempt At Obtaining Societal Power, Natalie Abernathy
Liberty University Research Week
Graduate
Textual or Investigative
The Gilded Finch: An Exploration Of Class Conflict, Mattea Harrison, James Nutter
The Gilded Finch: An Exploration Of Class Conflict, Mattea Harrison, James Nutter
Liberty University Research Week
Undergraduate
Creative and Artistic
Diane Di Prima: A Beat Poet?, Shelby K. Miller
Diane Di Prima: A Beat Poet?, Shelby K. Miller
Student Scholar Showcase
The Beat Poets were a group of men who wrote counterculture poetry that committed on society. They embraced themes of open sexuality, Buddhism and Eastern religions, and activism. Diane di Prima, called by most literary scholars but not by her contemporaries, was one of those Beat Poets who embraced those themes. Her focus on motherhood and female empowerment is what caused her contemporaries to reject her as an equal. A second focus will the continued rejection of di Prima from the literary canon.
Girl Power: Recovering The Female Stage Voice In Ben Jonson’S The Masque Of Queens, Sara Severens
Girl Power: Recovering The Female Stage Voice In Ben Jonson’S The Masque Of Queens, Sara Severens
Student Scholar Showcase
The Masque of Queens by Ben Jonson was written in 1609, and is a play about chaos and order. My research focused on the significance of royal women as lead roles in a play when society did not allow females to be employed as actors, the juxtaposition of royal high class and the witches who open the play in an “anti-masque,” and the role masques played in the greater order of the literary canon.
I chose this topic because masques are a neglected genre of English literature and theatre that could be better utilized in classrooms, as well as in …
Public Versus Private Spheres Of Domesticity, Jessie F. Mizic
Public Versus Private Spheres Of Domesticity, Jessie F. Mizic
TAC Talks
My research is a close reading of The Awakening by Kate Chopin written in 1899 as a critique of the cult of true womanhood. While ideologies that promote the spheres of domesticity have existed for hundreds of years, it wasn’t until Barbara Welter’s 1976 article, “The Cult of True Womanhood” that the four main tenets that these ideologies were named; piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity. The last Virtue in the Cult of True Womanhood is the tenet of Domesticity. This was important in establishing the realms of public and private domestic spheres for men and women during this era. Men …
A Proposal For Composing Change At Colby: Preventing Sexual Assault, Laura Wu
A Proposal For Composing Change At Colby: Preventing Sexual Assault, Laura Wu
CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium
This project is part of a larger research project focused on an issue or problem that affects the Colby community. I will present an overview of the problem and present a feasible solution.
Potential Sex Discrimination At Colby's Math & Computer Science & Engineering Departments, Zilin Chen
Potential Sex Discrimination At Colby's Math & Computer Science & Engineering Departments, Zilin Chen
CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium
This project is meant to identify why there are fewer women in MSE studies. And I will also present some feasible solutions not to solve the problem itself but to improve the situation.
Animating Shakespeare On Screen, Molly Ostrow, Katherine Kibler, Jillian Riendeau
Animating Shakespeare On Screen, Molly Ostrow, Katherine Kibler, Jillian Riendeau
CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium
This project will explore the animated adoration of Shakespeare and how these various productions function in our culture today.
Love, A Dream, Brittany A. Cordaro
Love, A Dream, Brittany A. Cordaro
Symposium of Student Scholars
No abstract provided.
“Against The Ebony Of Her Skin”: The Impact Of Harlem Renaissance Blues Culture And Literature On The Development Of Womanism, Maia Y. Rodriguez
“Against The Ebony Of Her Skin”: The Impact Of Harlem Renaissance Blues Culture And Literature On The Development Of Womanism, Maia Y. Rodriguez
Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium
This paper will investigate the ways in which the music and writers spurred by the explosion of African American culture that was the Harlem Renaissance were responsible for propagating the rhetoric and fresh representations of African American womanhood that would later be incorporated into the theoretical framework of black feminism championed by critics like bell hooks and brought into fruition as the recognizable school of womanism by Alice Walker. I will argue, using the literature of “proto-feminist” Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston as well as the literature of womanist writers like Walker, that without the Harlem …