As part of the Arts, Literature, and Communication Festival, Literature Profile graduating students in Liana Bellon’s Integrating Activity course present their end-of-term projects.

Monday, April 27, 2026, from 4 PM to 5:45 PM in 5B.13

Welcome statement: Jade Bernier

Panel One: Restraints and Freedoms
This first panel, moderated by Samantha Casciati, is concerned with poems, plays, and novels that centre on transformative experiences.

Sandrine Côté
Escapism in Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Dalia Chioda
Duality in Shelley’s Frankenstein and Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest

Pascale McEwen
The Importance of Setting in Coming-of-Age Novels: A Comparative Analysis of Betty Smith’s A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City

Panel Two: The Individual and Society
This panel, moderated by Lola Leitao, is interested in how characters respond to external forces and ideas.

Angel Liwanag Morrison
Gothic Imagery and Social Class in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations

Antoine Schmidt
An Analysis of Faith in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts

Steven Richard-Franks
Japanese Imperialism in Yukio Mishima’s “Patriotism”

Eva Chiaradia
Notions of Art in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Weir’s Dead Poets Society

Wednesday, April 29, 2026, from 4 PM to 5:45 PM in 5B.13

Welcome statement: Malcolm Downer-Leslie

Panel One: Framing the Future
This panel, moderated by Matthew Forget, explores dystopic and prophetic elements in literature.

Chiara Greco
“Senseless Cruelty”: A Comparative Analysis of Dostoyevsky’s The House of the Dead and Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh

Eve Larocque
Prophecies in Homer’s Odyssey and Eliot’s The Waste Land

Aryan Narayanswamy
Art and Capitalism: An Analysis of Wolff’s “Bullet in the Brain”

Panel Two: Female Characters
This panel, moderated by Amanda De Paola-Leclerc, focuses on female agency in classic and contemporary texts.

Maggie Steele
The Dangers of Idealizing the Beloved: An Analysis of Shakespeare’s Othello

Zoe Savchenko
Subverting Hysteria in Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Plath’s The Bell Jar

Bianca Koppe
Female Agency in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Maas’ A Court of Mist and Fury