01 Dec
12:00 pm 2020

On behalf of senior English majors, I ask you to mark your calendars for the virtual English Capstone Showcase, where emerging scholars in the ECU English Program will share their work at https://flipgrid.com/peters1300.

 

Here are the projects you have to look forward to:

 

Creative Writing: 

Kara Hodo: “Uncovering the Cause of Creepy: Psychoanalytic Theory, the Uncanny Valley, and Abjection”  

Preston Mann: “Corrupted Blood”  

Bryce Clark: “The Stomach of Saturn” 

Danielle Wooly: “Mistaken Identity” 

 

English Pedagogy: 

Amanda Daniel: “Multimodal Systems in Education: Creating Accessible Classrooms”  

Nikki Herrin: “Representing Black Voices in the High School English Classroom” 

Jackson Embry: “Teaching AAVE in the English Arts Classroom” 

 

Literary Analysis: 

Gloria Evans: “The Duality of a ‘Dream’ or ‘Destiny Deferred’: Songs of Sympathy Across the Spectrum of Suffering”  

Cody Baggerly: "Lust, Pride, and Jealousy; A Discourse in Shakespeare's Love" 

Kristen Mendoza-Keenom: “How to Build a Monster: The Frankenstein Effect in Romantic Literature and Modern Society” 

Mitchell Potts: “The Abject Objects of As I Lay Dying: An Heideggerian Analysis of William Faulkner” 

Hanna Barnhart: "Confronting the White American Identity: The Underexamined Black American Identity" 

 

Popular Culture Criticism: 

Katie Cowger: “‘If the Savage One is Me’: Disney's Dangerous Single Story of Indigeneity” 

Austin Ward: “V for Victim” 

Megan Green: “Inside the Language of Orange is the New Black”  

 

We hope you will join us!

Event Location
Virtual