Texts and Technology Assistant Professor, Mel Stanfill, organized the “Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Texts and Technology: A Graduate Symposium,” November 29, in the Burnett Honors College.
Presentations included –
Panel 1: Historical Approaches to Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Texts and Technology
When will Puerto Rico become the 51st State?
Alicia Duffy
Clara Zetkin’s constitutive communism: Organizing working women in 1922
Nick J. Sciullo
Creating a Reverberating Beat: the Women Writers of the Beat Generation
Elena Maria Rogalle
Panel 2: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Writing and Storytelling
Miscegenation in South Asian-American diasporic literature
Madhura Nadarajah
Women Writers and Pseudonyms in Fantasy Literature
Amy Mendoza
Opinion, Entering the Conversation, and First-Year Writing
Emily Hensley
What are the Best Practices for Studying Women Filmmakers Who Work Under Oppressive Governments and Societies?
Rachel Braaten
Panel 3: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Popular Culture
Mainstream Camp: Drag Culture for the Masses
Isabelle Lanthier
The Filter Bubble’s Impact on Standup Comedy
Chris Grabert
Sarah Lance and Bisexuality from The Arrow to The Legends of Tomorrow
Rachel Marks
White Masculinity and Digital Political Discourse: Memes, Bernie Bros, and the 2016 Democratic Primary
Rachel Winter