Lit Lang - MAH Celebration Program Flipbook

DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA The Department of Literature, Languages, & Humanities and the Program of Master of Arts in Humanities  PROGRAM  END OF YEAR CELEBRATION Tuxedo Literature & Arts Journal Literature, Language & Humanities Departmental Awards Sigma Tau Delta Inductees Master of Arts in Humanities Join us for a Virtual Reception following the program. May 5, 2021 5:30 p.m. Zoom Meeting

 SPRING 2021 PROGRAM  Tuxedo Literature & Arts Journal Amy Wong, Faculty Advisor Spring 2021 Editors Camille Bernt, Trevor Blixt, Lauren Cervenak, Rick Ramirez English, Humanities, and Literary & Intercultural Studies (ADC) Carlos Rodriguez, Department Chair Camille Bernt Into the Abyss: Self-Destruction, Madness and Radical Empowerment in Moshfegh’s “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” and Kang’s “The Vegetarian” Trevor Blixt The Other Derelicts, A Novella Annika Cerini Taoist Principles in Walt Whitman’s \"Song of Myself\" Mateen Hirbob A Diary of Modern Thought Selah Laigo Addressing Maternal Mortality Rates of Black Women in the United States: California’s Example Pamela Love Girl on the Streets, A Novella Iris Brito-Stevens The Space Between, A Photographic Exploration of Identity and Place As an Act of Self-determination and Self Consciousness Christopher Williams The Effectiveness of Black Role Models on African American Adults

Departmental Awards Sr. Nicholas Maltman, O.P. Award for excellence in English Sr. Catherine Marie Lilly O.P. Award for excellence in English and the promotion of literature on campus Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society Inductions Perry Guevara, Dominican Chapter Advisor Sydney Banas, minor, Lauren Cervenak, BA, Michelle van Kriedt, MA Nyah Malone, BA, Priya Ohara, minor, Harper Savage, BA, Jordan Shields, MA Master of Arts in Humanities Joan Baranow, Program Director Erin Anderson Ai Weiwei’s Artwork on the Problematic Depictions of Immigrants In America Primary Reader: Christian Dean Second Reader: Leslie Ross Kelly Bowers Broken Mirrors: Iterations of the Other in the Post-Colonial Novel Primary Reader: Thomas Burke Second Reader: Amy Wong Olivia Knuffke Unaccompanied Cello Through the Ages: Lecture and Recital Primary Reader: Anne Lerner-Wright Second Reader: June Oh James (Nick) Leonard Applied Music - Guitar Primary Reader: June Oh Jordan Shields Reconcilable Differences Primary Reader: Thomas Burke Second Reader: Joan Baranow

CONTACTS Carlos Rodriguez, Chair English Literature Humanities and Cultural Studies Literary and Intercultural Studies (ADC) [email protected] (415) 257-1313 Joan Baranow, Program Director MA Humanities [email protected] (415)-485-3264 Amy Wong, Tuxedo Faculty Advisor Tuxedo Literature & Arts Journal [email protected] (415) 482-1935 Perry Guevara, Sigma Tau Delta Advisor Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society [email protected] (415) 482-1941