Students and Scholars Zan Cammack

This episode discusses Jacqueline Roy's 2000 debut novel The Fat Lady Sings and themes such as race, gender and sexuality, and mental health. It turns out this is an incredibly apt novel to wrap up an exceptionally heavy semester on a note of hope and joy.

CW: sexual assault, loss of a loved one

In this student-led episode, Kath, Addison, and Brooke discuss the Theatre of the Absurd in relation to Samuel Beckett’s play Krapp’s Last Tape and Enda Walsh’s play Penelope. 

Bibliography 


Beckett, Samuel. Krapp's Last Tape. Faber and Faber Ltd, 2014.
Billington, Michael. “Penelope | Theatre Review.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 26 July 2010, www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/jul/26/penelope-druid-lane-galway-review.
Dickson, Andrew. “Nonsense Talk: Theatre of the Absurd.” The British Library, The British Library, 3 Aug. 2017, www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/nonsense-talk-theatre-of-the-absurd.
Hurt, John. “Krapp's Last Tape: John Hurt on Samuel Beckett's Loner Hero.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 23 July 2014, www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jul/23/john-hurt-samuel-beckett-krapps-last-tape.
Lavey, Martha. “Welcome to Penelope.” Steppenwolf Theatre, www.steppenwolf.org/articles/welcome-to-penelope/.
Steppenwolftheatre, director. Enda Walsh on Penelope. YouTube, YouTube, 19 Jan. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOX9VM7o_KI.
Walsh, Enda. Penelope. Nick Hern Books, 2010.
Williams, Tom. “Penelope.” Theatre Reviews, 19 Dec. 2011, chicagocritic.com/penelope/.

In this student-led episode, Jamey, Alexis, and Emma discuss Christopher Isherwood’s novel Prater Violet in connection with film and propaganda.



Bibliography


Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood 
“Breakfast at the Prater: Christopher Isherwood, His Women and Men” by Ercolino, Stefano, et al. Imaginary Films in Literature. Brill | Rodopi, 2016.
Propaganda and the Citizen in British Feature Films of World War II
“The Power of Cinema’: Film in the 1920s and 30s” from University of Warwick 
Britain's World War II films were more than just propaganda
Queer Camera: Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and Prater Violet by U Patra. 

In this student-led episode, Darian, Robby, Alicia, Jessica, and Ashley walk us through the concepts of stream of consciousness and how this narrative style became a trademark of modernist works such as Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway.

In this episode our guest scholar, Jonathon Patterson, explores poetry from World War One. He explains why poetry was one of the primary media outlets for soldiers and citizens during this era and how it was politicized. He also discusses broadening representations in our definition of  WWI poets and why these works remain relevant over 100 years later.

Jonathan Patterson is a doctoral candidate at Kansas University and plans to defend his dissertation on spatiality in the experiences of World War One combat poets later this semester. He has published work on this theme in several peer-reviewed journals including Alicante Journal of English Studies and The Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies.

This episode we welcome guest scholar Dr. Ashley Nadeau as she examines Dracula as a novel that draws from popular Victorian genre fiction, and detective fiction in particular. She also uses examples of material culture within the novel—railways, blood, nightdresses, and typewriters—as objects that help us better understand Dracula’s narrative.

Dr. Nadeau received her doctorate from University of Massachusetts Amherst where she studied Victorian fiction in relation to architecture and form. She has been faculty here at UVU for the past three years. She has recently begun a new study exploring the impact of audiobooks on 19th century studies, making her insights into new media particularly exciting.