Comparative Literature MA Essay Presentations

Monday, May 13, 2024
Dartmouth Hall 104

3:30 pm
Introduction: Michael Wyatt
Moderator: Lethokuhle T. Msmang

3:40 pm
Sophie Shields
Displaced Ukrainian Writers since 2014, a Postcolonial Perspective

4:00 pm
Wenjun Yang
Reading in the Margins: Cosmopolitan Women Readers in Sijie Dai's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and Yoko Tawada's "Persona"

4:20 pm
Danny Meza Keane
Redirecting Rivers and Restoring Forests:  Geotransformación  and Overcoming Underdevelopment in Socialist Cuba

4:40 pm Q & A

Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Dartmouth Hall 104

3:30 pm
Introduction: Michael Wyatt
Moderator: Miranda Ochoa Natera

3:35 pm
Phoenix Guqing Wang
Troubling Waters: Anthropocene Marine Gothic in 19 ^th -Century Anglo-American Fiction

3:55 pm
Lethokuhle T. Msimang
Me and Ms Jones - The Androgyny of Black Women 

4:15 pm Q & A

4:25 pm
Zihan Zhang
Self-Effacement in Christian Mysticism: A Case Study of Teresa of Ávila and Simone Weil

4:45 pm Mikayla Walker
Mending Wounds: A Reparative Feminist Analysis of the Japanese Film Series Guinea Pig

5:05 pm Q & A

Monday, May 20, 2024
Dartmouth Hall 104

5:00 pm
Introduction: Michael Wyatt
Moderator: Wenjun Yang

5: 10 pm
Pumho Karimi
Questioning Modernity's Episteme: A Comparative Literary Analysis Towards Planetary Spiritualism

5:30 pm
Miranda Ochoa Natera
Marvelous Ordinariness: Re-engaging with Realism's Social Function

5:50 pm Q & A

6:00 pm
Yilu Ren
Transcreation in World of Warcraft's China Localization: Echoes of Poetry across Two Worlds

6:20 pm
Aliza Phillips
Star Power: An Analysis of Digital Astrology Content as an Instrument of Political Tractability 

6:40 pm Q &A

Reception to follow in Dartmouth Hall 101

All COLT MA graduate students, guests, advisors and faculty are invited.

Chair
Comparative Literature Program
Veronika Fuechtner

Director
Graduate Program
Ainsley Morse

Workshop in Critical Writing InstructorMichael Wyatt

Special thank you to all the advisors.