Senior English majors to give thesis presentations Nov. 20-22

Thirty-seven seniors majoring in English communications and English literature will give their thesis presentations in the DiStefano Lecture Hall Nov. 20-22. Featured will be students’ examination and in-depth analysis of a variety of cultural topics drawn from popular contemporary novels, classic literature, fairy tales, television shows, movies and social media, among others.

Seniors have been working under the supervision of Dr. Madeleine Esch, assistant professor of English; Dr. Matthew Ramsey, associate professor of English; and Dr. Margaret Svogun, professor of English.

6-9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20

• Lindsay LaChapelle: “Hannah Hart Creates Community on YouTube: Virtual Stardom in the Gratification Generation”
• Murphy McCann: “Here Come the Grooms: Gay Representation in Modern Family”
• Maryelizabeth Pfund: “Breakfast News in its Best Filter: The Creation and Dissemination of Broadcast News on Instagram”
• Jasmine Boisvert: “‘If There’s One Thing I Hate, It’s the Movies’: Discussing the Significance of Language in The Catcher in the Rye”
• Stephanie Peros: “Crowns and Roses: How Women in Miss America and The Bachelor Need to Have Beauty and Desirability to be a Winner”
• Elizabeth Maligranda: “NBC is Alive with The Sound of Music: The Influence of Historical Television Content and the Effect of Live-ness”
• Erin Demers: “The Evolution of Mockumentary Style in Parks and Recreation”

2-5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21

• Christian Lawber: “Beyond the Playing Field: The Impact of Social Media on Professional Sports”
• Ashlee Fuoco: “The Celebrity-Fan Dynamic: How John Green has Created a Unique Relationship with his Fans”
• Christina Cordes: “It’s All in the Family”
• Cameron Gaudet: “Fantasy Football: Changing the Ways a Fan Watches Football”
• Kaitlyn Drexel: “Lights, Comic, Action! Bringing Superhero Comic Books to Life through TV Show Adaptation”
• Anthony Conte: “10th Man: Major League Baseball’s Use of Interactive Television through Twitter”
• Rachael Souza: “We Are All Heathcliff”

6-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21

• Georgi DeMartino: “Binge is the New Black: Binge Watching’s Potential Effects on Socializing Among Viewers”
• Jiyon Ruffin: “Flipped the Script: The Evolution of Media Sharing and Hip-Hop’s Role in Changing the Music Industry”
• Hannah Bishop: “Ad-ding Up Correlations of Style: Comparing Seventeen and Teen Vogue’s Depiction of Women in Advertisements”
• Frank Lombari: “Long Live the Evil Queen: Once Upon a Time’s Adaptation of a Classic Villain”
• Alyssa Villa: “Un-Tangling Women’s Roles in Recent Disney Princess Films”
• Cayley Christoforou: “Does Pretty Really Hurt? Reshaping Feminism in Beyonce’s #whatispretty Campaign”
• Albert Vuoso: “Going Global: A Look at Ideologies and Myths in Heineken’s ‘Open Your City’ Campaign”

9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 22

• Jessica Lovell: “The Power of Language: A Closer Look at Orwell’s 1984 and Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451”
• Victoria Della Salla: “Can Men Do it All? Examining the Male Characters in the 1980s Sitcom Full House”
• Amanda Iacampo: “Mercy for Anne and a Rose for Lucrezia: The Famed Femme Fatales of Historical Fiction”
• Steven Russell: “The Internet Culture of Menswear”
• Ciara Speller: “Into the Valley of ShondaLand: Traversing the Lives of Black Female Primetime Leads Today”
• Fiona Flanagan: “Lena Dunham: The Face of Feminism, or Undermining the Cause?”
• Lauren Kane: “George Eliot’s Home Epic: The Brilliance of Middlemarch’s Provincial Life”

1-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22

• Samantha Wood: “Netflix, Binge-Watching and the Transformation of TV Narrative and Form”
• Erica McLaughlin: “Love, Lust and Let’s Stop Reading: An Analysis of Cosmopolitan’s Content in Comparison to its Declining Subscription Sales”
• Sophie Deblois: “Immortal Love: How Dante’s Divine Comedy was Composed for Beatrice”
• Alexa Thompson: “It’s Not You, It’s Me … and 641 Others: Interpersonal Relationships and Technology in Spike Jonze’s Her”
• Mariah Parmalee: “So Must I Be if You See Me So: Merging Reality, Illusion and Time in Peter Beagle’s The Last Unicorn”
• Gianna Gerace: “Women On-Screen: Easy A, Juno and Feminism”
• Leah Palazzo: “Theories of Appropriate Intent”
• Kelly Kern: “A Study in Fandom: Tumblr and the Evolution of the Sherlock Fan”