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Celebrating Collaboration

Smith College’s annual showcase of student research and performance highlights students’ intellectual achievements and their collaborative efforts with faculty in a variety of departmental, program and interdisciplinary projects. It is a celebration of liberal arts education.

The 2009 event featured the work of 257 students who participated in 153 presentations, with the guidance of 104 faculty members. Students participated in individual talks, panels, poster sessions, exhibits and performances, in the areas of science and technology, performing arts, and social, cultural and literary studies.

American Studies, American Studies Diploma Program, Art, Astronomy

Biological Sciences

Chemistry

Classical Languages & Literatures, Comparative Literature, Computer
Science

Dance, Economics,
Education & Child Study

Engineering

English Language &
Literature, Film Studies,
First Year Seminar, French Studies

Geosciences

German Studies,
Government, History, Internships, Italian
Language & Literature

Kahn Institute, Landscape Studies, Mathematics & Statistics, Music

Physics

Psychology

Smithipedia, Sociology, Spanish Language &
Literature, Study of Women & Gender

English Language and Literature

Hannah Wren Dunning '09 and Elizabeth Pusack '09
Dam Poetry and Essays on Eggs and Moons
Poetry and prose reading deriving from special studies with Ann Boutelle, senior lecturer in English language and literature

Film Studies

Katherine Gray '09
"Didn't Your Mommy Tell You That Isn't Nice?" Patterns and Shifts in Rape-Revenge Films, 1973-1998
PowerPoint presentation deriving from thesis with Alexandra Keller, associate professor of film studies

Ana Abbasi '10
Masculinity in Mainstream Cinema: Fleshing Out Male Nudity on Screen
DVD presentation deriving from special studies with Alexandra Keller, associate professor of film studies

First Year Seminar

Katy Butler '12, Olympia Georgeson '12 and Clare Landefeld '12
Reading the Earth: Writing a Journal
PowerPoint presentation deriving from classwork and STRIDE research with Sharon Seelig, Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities (English Language and Literature)
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French Studies

Rachel Pryzby '09
Hainteny: The Traditional Poetry of Madagascar
PowerPoint presentation deriving from special studies with Jonathan Gosnell, associate professor of French studies
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Erica Faller '09
"The Siege of Progress": Dead City Prose and the Urbain Landscape in George Rodenbach's "Bruges-la-Morte"
Paper presentation deriving from thesis with Jonathan Gosnell, associate professor of French studies, and Luc Gilleman, associate professor of English language and literature

Laura Itzkowitz '09
Between Europe and Tahiti: Diderot's Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville
Paper presentation deriving from thesis with Janie Vanpée, professor of French studies

Elyse Martin '11
Re-Membering Marie Antoinette
PowerPoint presentation deriving from STRIDE research with Janie Vanpée, professor of French studies
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Nadia Rivera-Nieves '09J
Educating the Natural Citizen: Rousseau's Emile
Paper presentation deriving from special studies with Janie Vanpée, professor of French studies

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