French Studies Capstone Presentations Spring 2020
Dr. Paul Manfredi, Seminar in Languages & Literatures
The presentations will be given virtually via Zoom.
May 12, 2020, 3:00-3:20pm - Anastasia Bidne
3:20-3:30pm - Q & A
Allons-y: Mobilization and Islamophobia in Contemporary French Culture
Celine Evans
Sex Work in France: The Muted Voices of Prostitutes
Jack Halsey
Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse (The Gleaners and I): French Food Culture under the European Union
May 11, 2020, 2:00-2:20pm - Holly Knutsen
2:20-2:30 - Q & A
Gender, Power and Abuse: How French Culture Has Allowed the Intellectual Elite to Abuse, and How that Could Change in the Era of #Metoo
May 11, 2020, 3:00-3:20pm - Bill Le
3:20-3:30pm - Q & A
Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: A Comparative Analysis of the Culinary Hybridity of Post Franco-colonial Territories
May 12, 2020, 2:00-2:20pm - Moses Mbugua
2:20-2:30pm - Q & A
From Money to Colors: the Evolution of the Congo Dandies
May 12, 2020, 2:30-2:50pm - Alicia McGee
2:50-3:00pm - Q& A
Leila Sebbar and the Interaction of Collective and (Official) National Memory
May 11, 2020, 2:30-2:50pm - Jamie-Rose McNeil
2:50-3:00pm - Q & A
The Misunderstood Moroccan “Other”: Reflections on Colonialism and Disjointed Ethnic Identity in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s L’Enfant de sable (The Sand Child)
Cece Robinson
“Milyamba:” Sister Fa’s Feminism
May 12, 2020, 3:30-3:50pm - Juntong Wu
3:50-4:00pm - Q& A
The Ecocriticism of Germinal by Emile Zola