MultiMedia Project - Angel

Angel created an artistic piece that illustrates the various identities of the narrator in Eliza Haywood's story, "Fantomina." Published in the 18th Century, Haywood's narrator takes on several disguises in order to conduct a social experiment, and to engage in a romantic and physical relationship with a man.

In Angel's work, the narrator controls marionettes of her different identities (a maid, a prostitute, a widow, and a mystery woman) and love interest.  This is particularly striking because Angel reveals the narrator's surprising agency as a white woman in 18th Century England.   

MultiMedia Project - Britney

by Britney

For my project I decided to choose the story of "Fantomina" as my subject of interest. In the story of Fantomina, Fantomina is committing acts which is modernly known as “Catfishing”. The idea that our aristocratic lady is creating disguises to catfish Beauplaisir inspired me to create a modern approach of her experiences. I created a cellular device on a piece of paper and on the screen we see some sort of social media platform open. The social media platform I decided to use was instagram. Instagram is a popular platform where people tend to show themselves off and their lavish lifestyle, although most times not all is what it seems. I chose instagram as the platform for our catfisher because that is where catfishing is commonly taking place. On the screen we can obviously see that the main account logged in is our aristocratic woman that goes by the username of “aristocratic.womxn” and how although she has millions of followers she only has one close friend. To represent her grand status I drew pictures that would recommend places she has traveled. Much like the era of Fantomina wealth equivalates to aristocracy and posting it on the internet proves it. That close friend being her mother which helps reflects off of the novel on how her mother was the only one to help her with her pregnancy.

The second account logged in is “phantom.mina”, who represents Fantomina and has red lips as her profile picture to represent her as a prostitute and seductive, The third profile is represented by a cowboy hat and the username of “_countrycelia_” who is obviously Celia the maid from the countryside. Mrs. Bloomer is represented by a black widow spider with an appropriate username; “blackwidowblxxmer”. The black widow represents how she is a widow, hence the name. The final identity, Incognita, is represented by blue question marks and by the username “incognita.incognito”. In the photo the doll in the yellow dress is our mastermind behind it all laying comfortable in her bed playing with Bleauplaisir’s mind and emotions.

MultiMedia Project - Melanie

Melanie, for her project, authored a PowerPoint that investigated the life ad trials of Mary, Queen of Scots.  The historical and interpersonal conflict between Queen Elizabeth I and her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, captured the interest and imagination of many students.

MultiMedia Project - Bruce

Bruce created a drawing that captures two identities of a narrator in Eliza Haywood's story, "Fantomina." Published in the 18th Century, Haywood's narrator takes on several disguises in order to conduct a social experiment, and to engage in a romantic and physical relationship with a man.

MultiMedia Project - Emily

Emily created an art piece that depicts the plot of Eliza Haywood's story, "Fantomina." Published in the 18th Century, Haywood creates a narrator who takes on several disguises in order to conduct a social experiment, and to engage in a romantic and physical relationship with a man.

MultiMedia Project - Gabriela

Gabriela created a PowerPoint to address the life and writing of Margery Kempe, a medieval religious writer who lived in England.

Food Topics

 









This semester in Composition I courses, students will consider the topic of food in different ways.  My colleague, Professor Allison Wright, does research, writing, and teaching connected to food studies, and after numerous conversations with and learning from her, I started asking my students to choose various topics under the larger umbrella of "food." 

As the writers in these courses develop their topics and ideas, I become more excited about the scholarship they will produce (I also get pretty hungry). 

Some topics under consideration include:

• Important foods
• Pupusas
• Atole
• Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Birthday Cake
• Tamales
• Important Memories
• A BBQ with friends
• Holiday celebrations
• A new food experience, such as a student visiting Thailand
• A family gathering
• Important People Making Food
• Grandmothers 
• Fathers
• Friends
• Mothers

Food is a means of engaging with others, but also a way to connect to one's cultural, religious, or national roots.  Though a seemingly simple overall topic, student scholars often draft and create incredibly touching and important pieces related to their food experiences and memories.  When the writing is meaningful, the results are incredible.