Please join the English Department and the class of 2021 English majors for senior comps oral presentation.
Pre-register for this event: https://occidental.
Schedule of Presentations
January 29, 2021
12:30-1:45pm PT:
Amber Lee, "Witchery as Dispossession: Indigenous Cosmology and Critical Race Theory in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony"
Meara Conner, "Femininity, Trauma and Narrative in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin"
Oscar Sullivan, "The Junkie’s Metamorphosis: How William Lee Becomes Heroin in Junky"
2-3:15pm PT:
Sofia Wolfson, "The Duality of the Female Voice in Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"
Marissa Conlon, “Improvisation and Commodification in Langston Hughes’s Jazz Poems”
River Lisius, “'Tell it More Than One Way at Once': Image-Text Hybridity and the Question of Post-Critical Reading in Ali Smith’s How to be Both"
3:30-5pm PT:
Maya Chen, "The Island of Doctor Moreau: The Spectre of Colonialism"
Elizabeth Brewer, "Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and the Emergence of a New Literary Genre"
Adam Kim, "Allegory’s Failure, Violence, and the Reader in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene"
