UndergraduateResearchSymposium2021 Courtney Cowles BA Film & Television Women Directors and Big Budget Action Films In recent years, women film directors have finally been able to break into the action genre and direct big budget films featuring strong female...
UndergraduateResearchSymposium2021 Brennen Halsey BFA Theatre Production – Acting An Exploration of the Inaccuracies in Shakespeare’s Histories Some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays are his Histories. These histories are riddled with inaccuracies however....
UndergraduateResearchSymposium 2020 Resistances Aria Levin BA Theatre Studies Spotlight on Social Change: Bringing the People to the Stage This paper explores the work of Augusto Boal and the method by which his Theatre of the Oppressed educates people about current...
UndergraduateResearchSymposium 2020 Resistances Bergen Borer BA Film & Television Resistance in Beyoncé’s ‘Formation’ In Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, his seminal book about popular media and its effects on social institutions,...
UndergraduateResearchSymposium 2020 Resistances Megan Wiese BFA Theatre Production – Design and Technical Production Justice and Mercy: History and Religious Ambiguity in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice An exploration of historical, contextual, and...