ALTOONA, Pa. — Students enrolled in Assistant Professor of English Kyle King's English 487W course offered senior seminar presentations on Thursday, Dec. 9, in the Mountain View room of Port-Sky Café. The theme of this year’s seminar was “Rhetoric and Literature of Social Movements and Social Change.”
Presenters included the following:
- Mary Stewart: "Slave Narrative Rhetoric and the Escape from White Editorship"
- Maleah Orr: "Analyzing Anti-COVID-19 Vaccine and Anti-Mask Postings on Online Forums in Central Pennsylvania"
- Timothy Chuhran: "Robespierre, the Bogeyman of Social Movements"
- Sidra Arshad: "Feminists of Color: Responses to the Whiteness of the Second Wave"
- Devin Poplin: "Pro- and Anti-ERA Social Movement Leadership in Mrs. America"
- Jon Ramsey: "Embodied Athlete Activism and the Transcendence of the Black Lives Matter Movement in Professional Sports"
- Deepesh Shrestha: "Using Graphic Novels to Tell the Story of Social Movement Leaders in John Lewis’s March Trilogy"
- Paige Parris: "Intergenerational, Intersectional Feminism in Amy Poehler’s MOXiE!"
The event also included the induction of new members of Sigma Tau Delta, the English honor society. New inductees are Maleah Orr, Carrie Lathero and Whisper Horton.
Kyle King, assistant professor of English and director of the Writing Commons, offering remarks at the fall 2021 English Senior Seminar presentation.
Jeannette Lang, assistant teaching professor of English and assistant director of the Writing Commons, offers remarks at the fall 2021 English Senior Seminar presentation.
Maleah Orr (left) was inducted into the Sigma Tau Delta English honor society on Dec. 9, 2021.
Whisper Horton (right) was inducted into the Sigma Tau Delta English honor society on Thursday, Dec. 9.
Mary Stewart presents “Slave Narrative Rhetoric and the Escape from White Editorship” at the fall 2021 English Senior Seminar presentation.
Timothy Chuhran presents “Robespierre, the Bogeyman of Social Movements” at the fall 2021 English Senior Seminar presentation.
Sidra Arshad presents “Feminists of Color: Responses to the Whiteness of the Second Wave” at the fall 2021 English Senior Seminar presentation.
Devin Poplin presents “Pro- and Anti-ERA Social Movement Leadership in Mrs. America" at the fall 2021 English Senior Seminar presentation.
Jon Ramsey presents “Embodied Athlete Activism and the Transcendence of the Black Lives Matter Movement in Professional Sports” at the fall 2021 English Senior Seminar presentation.
Deepesh Shrestha presents “Using Graphic Novels to Tell the Story of Social Movement Leaders in John Lewis’s March Trilogy” at the fall 2021 English Senior Seminar presentation.
Paige Parris presents “Intergenerational, Intersectional Feminism in Amy Poehler’s MOXiE!” at the fall 2021 English Senior Seminar presentation.
