HCD Oral: Humanities

Abstract

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Anna Mendelssohn, Avant-Garde Poetess Maudite
Soulet Ali, 4^th-Year, Philosophy & English, Creative Writing
Mentor(s): Professor Sara Crangle, English, University of Sussex

A Cartesian Charybdis: Vortex Theory and the Circulation of Knowledge
Annabella Archacki, 4^th-Year, History and Philosophy of Science
Mentor(s): Professor Chris Kennedy, Linguistics

Materiality in Art: Planning a Student Symposium at the Smart
Rafaela Brosnan, 4^th-Year, Art History & Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Mentor(s): Issa Lampe, Smart Museum of Art, Feitler Center for Academic Inquiry

Security, Resilience, and Crisis: Forms of the City in the Age of Climate Change
Sam Clark, 3^rd-Year, Urban Studies
Mentor(s): Professor Chris Kennedy, Linguistics

“After it Happened, President Bush Told Us All to Go Shopping:” Immigrant Subjectivity and Capitalist Crisis in Ling Ma’s Severance (2018)
Paola Del Toro, 4^th-Year, English Language and Literature
Mentor(s): Professor Adrienne Brown, English

Art in the Anthropocene
Amelia Frank, 4^th-Year, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Visual Arts Mentor(s): Professor Benjamin Morgan, English

Politeness in British Public Smoking Signage
Eleanor Frank, 4^th-Year, English
Mentor(s): Professor Lynne Murphy, Linguistics, University of Sussex

Etymology and Expression: Vergil in Translation
Donald (Don) Harmon, 2^nd-Year, Classics
Mentor(s): Professor Sarah Nooter, Classics; Anne Janusch, Creative Writing

The Gothic Corpse: Womanhood, Personhood, and Society in Elizabeth Bowen’s “Look at All Those Roses”
Claire Holland, 4^th-Year, English Language and Literature & Political Science
Mentor(s): Professor Rachel Galvin; English, Comparative Literature, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture

Impacts of the Rising Female Amchi Population on Tibetan Medicine in Nepal
Hannah Kupferschmid, 4^th-Year, Global Studies
Mentor(s): Professor Sean Dowdy, Anthropology

Cybernetic Flux: Hélio Oiticica’s Parangolé Capes and the Construction of Reality
Jonathan Mandel, 4^th-Year, Art History & Philosophy and Allied Fields
Mentor(s): Professor Megan Sullivan, Art History; Hanne Graversen, Art History

Cell Theory, Evolution, and the Secret of Sex, 1865-1945
Laura Needham, 4^th-Year, Neuroscience & Art History
Mentor(s): Dr. Natalia Cecire, English, University of Sussex

Expertise Without Experience: Can Computers Be Artists?
Nicholas (Nick) Ornstein, 3^rd-Year, Neuroscience, Media Arts and Design
Mentor(s): Professor Chris Kennedy, Linguistics

From Clay to Computer: Digitizing the Oriental Institute’s Cuneiform Tablet Collection
Madeline Ouimet, 2^nd-Year, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (Archaeology Track)
Mentor(s): Professor Susanne Paulus, Assyriology, Oriental Institute

Inheriting Infidelity: A Psychoanalytic Examination of Post-WWII American Literature
Nicole Romeu, 4^th-Year, English
Mentor(s) Professor Deborah Nelson, English

How to Do Kings with Words: Bodies Politic and Performer in Shakespeare’s Richard II
Emily Stevens, 4^th-Year, English, Theatre and Performing Studies
Mentor(s) Professor Noémie Ndiaye, English; Sophia Sherry, English 

Metaphors of Communication in Martin Luther’s Postils
Serena Strecker, 4^th-Year, Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Germanic Studies
Mentor(s): Professor Christopher Wild, Germanic Studies

Narrating Economic Crises: Gone Girl as a Commentary on Economic Behavior
Melanie Wang, 4^th-Year, English
Mentor(s): Professor Elaine Hadley, English

Flowing Past the Feminine: Molecular Becoming and Secrets in Finnegans Wake
Renee Wehrle, 3^rd-Year, English Language & Literature, Creative Writing
Mentor(s): Professor Maud Ellmann, English Language and Literature

Language, Community, and Authority: Bilingual Signage in Hegewisch
Anna Whitney, 3^rd-Year, Linguistics
Mentor(s): Professor Amy Dahlstrom, Linguistics

As Eve, So All Women: Patriarchal Biases in Interpretations of Genesis 2-3
Alexis Wolf, 4^th-Year, Comparative Literature & Jewish Studies
Mentor(s): Professor Simeon Chavel, Hebrew Bible, Divinity School

The Beauty of Co-Curation: Contemporary Art in the Field Museum’s New Native American Hall
Chin Ying Wu, 3^rd-Year, Art History & Chemistry
Mentor(s): Dr. Alaka Wali, North American Anthropology, Field Museum

The Performing Gender in Nabokov’s Lolita
Mingxin (Ming) Xu, 4^th-Year, English, Theater and Performance Studies
Mentor(s): Professor Malynne Sternstein, Fundamentals

May the Gods Curse Him—A Comparative Analysis of Illocutionary Acts in Greek and Luwian Curses
Huaxi Zhou, 4^th-Year, Classics
Mentor(s): Professor Sofía Torallas-Tovar, Classics