On behalf of senior English majors, I ask you to mark your calendars for the virtual English Capstone Showcase, where emerging scholars in the ECU English Program will share their work at https://flipgrid.com/peters1300.
Here are the projects you have to look forward to:
Creative Writing:
Kara Hodo: “Uncovering the Cause of Creepy: Psychoanalytic Theory, the Uncanny Valley, and Abjection”
Preston Mann: “Corrupted Blood”
Bryce Clark: “The Stomach of Saturn”
Danielle Wooly: “Mistaken Identity”
English Pedagogy:
Amanda Daniel: “Multimodal Systems in Education: Creating Accessible Classrooms”
Nikki Herrin: “Representing Black Voices in the High School English Classroom”
Jackson Embry: “Teaching AAVE in the English Arts Classroom”
Literary Analysis:
Gloria Evans: “The Duality of a ‘Dream’ or ‘Destiny Deferred’: Songs of Sympathy Across the Spectrum of Suffering”
Cody Baggerly: "Lust, Pride, and Jealousy; A Discourse in Shakespeare's Love"
Kristen Mendoza-Keenom: “How to Build a Monster: The Frankenstein Effect in Romantic Literature and Modern Society”
Mitchell Potts: “The Abject Objects of As I Lay Dying: An Heideggerian Analysis of William Faulkner”
Hanna Barnhart: "Confronting the White American Identity: The Underexamined Black American Identity"
Popular Culture Criticism:
Katie Cowger: “‘If the Savage One is Me’: Disney's Dangerous Single Story of Indigeneity”
Austin Ward: “V for Victim”
Megan Green: “Inside the Language of Orange is the New Black”
We hope you will join us!