2016 Afternoon Extended Presentation Session

Poetry Concentration Capstone Research Projects: Seelye 101

This session of poetry readings derives from work for the Poetry Concentration Research Capstone project with Ellen Doré Watson, director of the Poetry Center and lecturer in English language and literature.

Sophia Deady ’16, Elizabeth McCormack ’16, Madison Chafin ’17J, Marney Rathbun ’16, Gabrielle Wolinksy ’16, Shira Burns ’16

Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Student Fellowships: Seelye 105

Beryl Ford ’17, Jocelyn Proietti ’16, Angela Acosta ’17, Alyssa Flores ’16, Miari Stephens ’16, Sydney Brown ’16, Shanice Bailey ’17J, and Gabrielle Peterson ’16
Future Professors Without Borders: A Roundtable Discussion with Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellows
Panel presentation deriving from MMUF research with Naomi Miller, professor of English language and literature

Blackness in the Americas: Resistance, Rebellion, Revolution, Rights: Seelye 106

This session of presentations derives from classwork in history and sociology and special studies in digital education in history with Jennifer Guglielmo, associate professor in history, Ginetta Candelario, associate professor of sociology and of Latin American Studies, and Miriam Neptune, digital scholarship librarian.

Kayla Bernier-Sontag ’16, Celine Rosak ’16, Melanie Kennedy ’16, Liz Curran-Groome ’18, Zoraida Colon ’18J, Aleah Robinson ’17, Joanna Brinker Pennock ’16, Nybria Acklin ’18, Adriana Valerio AC, Maya Bonner ’18, N’dea Drayton ’16, Tyahra Angus ’16, Makayla Wright ’16, Tiara Austin ’18

Africana Studies: Seelye 201

This session of presentations readings derives from special studies and classwork with Kevin Quashie, professor of Africana Studies, and Katwiwa Mule, associate professor of comparative literature.

Taina Bey ’16
Movement’s Time: Experiences of a Black Moving Body
Performance deriving from special studies with Kevin Quashie, professor of Africana Studies

Micah Collins-Sibley ’16
“I Awoke from the Sound of My Own Voice”: Practicing (Re)memory and Healing through Poetry
Performance deriving from classwork with Kevin Quashie, professor of Africana studies

Rahma Haji ’17
Motherhood in African Literature
Presentation deriving from special studies with Katwiwa Mule, associate professor of comparative literature

Miranda Hanrahan-Beach ’19
Mother/Whore: Womanhood in Athol Fugard’s Tsotsi
Presentation deriving from classwork with Katwiwa Mule, associate professor of comparative literature

Book Studies Concentration: Seelye 207

This session of presentations derives from work for the Book Students Concentration with Martin Antonetti, curator of rare books and director of the Book Studies Concentration, and Barbara Blumenthal, rare book specialist.

Evanleigh Davis ’16
‘Skykid’: An Illustrated Novel
Presentation deriving from a concentration project with Martin Antonetti, Rare Books and Marketing Outreach Director, and Barry Moser, Irwin & Pauline Alper Glass Professor of Art

Flannery Wiest, ’16
“We are not now Gentlewomen of England:” Transcribing the Travel Diary of Lady Sarah Spencer Lyttelton
Presentation deriving from a concentration project with Martin Antonetti, Rare Books and Marketing Outreach Director

Nora Demick ’16
Japanese Matchboxes and the Influence of the Avant-Garde
Presentation deriving from a concentration project with Martin Antonetti, Rare Books and Marketing Outreach Director

“Radical” Approach: An Interactive Exploration of Chinese Learning at Four Levels: Seelye 301

Kimberly Zhang ’19, Ji Won Chung ’19, Regina Wu ’18, Nina Xue ’18, Molly Hurd ’18, Suyoung Moon ’17J, Ellen Sulser ’18, Sarah Porter ’17J, and Paola Sanchez ’16
Presentation deriving from classwork with Yalin Chen, lecturer of East Asian languages and literature, Ling Zhao, lecturer of East Asian languages and literature, and Marsha Liaw