WLL Seniors Present Research to Department

On December 8th, our seniors presented their research on a wide range of topics: from contemporary Japanese cinema to American Gothic Horror to Egyptian Street Art to the early modern Chinese short story, to name just a few. Four panels of presentations were followed by lively discussion among students and faculty.

The symposium, which took place via Zoom, was presented with the following program:

Department of World Languages & Literatures
Senior Symposium
XL 479
Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020
3:30-7:35pm

Brief introductory remarks:
Prof. Yuri Corrigan (3:30-3:35pm)

Panel 1: 3:35-4:30pm
Chair: Sarah Feather (MESALL)

1. Pengcheng Lu (Japanese), “Natsume Soseki on Westernization as Mimicry”
2. Dominique Okoh (Japanese), “Troubled Youth in Contemporary Japanese Cinema”
3. Brigid Mack (Japanese), “Finding the ‘I’ in Isolation: Japanese Women Writers on Identity and Authenticity”

Panel 2: 4:30-5:40pm
Chair: Noah Fischer (Chinese)

1. Michael Landestoy (Japanese), “Translating ‘Ghosts of Lexington’”
2. Ranielle Nulman (Russian), “Translating Katia Kapovich”
3. Ziyan Pan (Japanese), “Yokai in Contemporary Japanese Children’s Literature”
4. Eren Rodriguez (Japanese), “Lovecraft’s Deformation of the Monomyth”

Panel 3: 5:45-6:40pm
Chair: Eren Rodriguez (Japanese)

1. Sarah Feather (MESALL), “Women and Feminine Representation in Egyptian Street Art”
2. Kyle Matthews (Japanese), “Women Musicians, Gender Expression, and the State in Post-Occupation Japan”
3. Sylvie Gallagher (Comparative Literature), “Obsession and Possession: Author and Hero in Borges and Nabokov”

Panel 4: 6:45-7:35pm
Chair: Kyle Matthews (Japanese)

1. Noah Fischer (Chinese), “Chinese Diary Stories: Ventriloquizing Modern Activism”
2. Jiaxin Peng (Japanese), “The Case for Dehumanization: The Lovers’ Forest and the Undying Desire for Aesthetics in BL Mangas”
3. Qian Yu (Comparative Literature), “Destruction and Reconstruction of Identity in Kon”

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