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Our in-progress lineup for creative night:
Panel 1: THE ONE THAT IMITATES, FAMOUSLY
Between Protestantism and Atheism: Religious Thought and The Influence of Edmund Spenser on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetry
Carlos Fuentes
Friendly Glue: How Photoplay Created Community
Mark Sardella
Love, by the Book: on Clichés and Affect in Sophie Calle’s Double Game
Emily Watlington
Panel 2: THE ONE THAT TAKES AND TRANSFORMS
Game of Clones: Authorship, Ownership, and the World’s Most-Pirated TV Show
Colleen Gaspirc
Sexuality and Monstrosity in the film adaptation of Beowulf
Marie-Christine Lavoie
Pamela 2.0: Public and Private in the Digital Age
Jessica Tucker
Panel 3: THE ONE THAT NAVIGATES THE FANFICTION ARCHIVE
In Defence of Happy Endings
Madelaine Caritas Longman
The Heat is On: Gender in Omegaverse Fanfiction
Danna Petersen-Deeprose
An Imperfect Archive: Reimagining Feminist Fan Writing Practices
Morgan Bimm
Panel 4: THE ONE THAT DECONSTRUCTS THE GAZE
Finding Yourself in Slash: How Gender Performance Evolves in a Female-Centric Space
Ashley Lanni
“She Started Out as Such an Ugly Duckling”: The Transmogrification of Female Royalty in Children’s Animated Films
Alex Custodio
The Post and the Grab: The Invisible Labour of Feminist Instagram Artists
Eileen Mary Holowka
Panel 5: THE ONE THAT HAS AGENCY AS THE FINAL BOSS
Copy/Paste/Play: Amateur Games as Appropriation Art
Saeed Afzal
Who’s Telling the Story ? A Study of the Video Game Perceiving Narrator through Kentucky Route Zero.
Benjamin Gattet
#SavePepe: The Political and Social Mobilizations of Internet Memes
Marika Brown
Panel 6: THE ONE THAT DECOLONIZES OUR WORDS AND BODIES
Gertrude Stein, The Vichy Paradox
Ariane Legault
The Spectre of Colonialism: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as a Satire of Imperialism
Laura Giuliani
Joyce Would Love the Internet: The Adaptation and Decolonization of the English Language in “The Oxen of the Sun”
Katheryne Morrissette