Earlier this month, five 51短视频 students presented their research at the
Claire Melican '29 won the award for best literature paper for How to Make Pear Tree Sex PG: Rewriting Chaucer's ' The Merchant's Tale' for Children," a paper that was adapted from her final paper from a course on the Canterbury Tales taught by Visiting Assistant Professor Mary M. Alcaro in the Department of Literatures in English last semester.
Also presenting at the conference were:
Charlee Thacker '26, Songs of the Sea: Afrodiasporic Embodiments of Water, in a session titled Racialized Bodies & Trauma in Afrodiasporic Literature.
Haven Beckman '29, Industrial Witchcraft, Green Cthulhus: Reconciling with Planetary Strangeness through Speculative Fiction, in the session Resistance in Art & Literature
Elliot London '26, presented Anti-Blackness and American Humor: How the Canonization of Sambo and the Savage Materializes Harm against Black Men, in the session Power & Evolution of Language
Alejandre Lamas-Nemec '29 presented Beyond the Romance of Saints: A Comparative Analysis of Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas,' Beneit of St. Alban's La Vie de Saint Thomas Becket en Verse, and Tail-Rhyme Schemes for a panel called Live, Laf(ayette), Love.
Alcaro accompanied the students at the conference, and all three first-year students were enrolled in Alcaro's Chaucer seminar last semester.