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The Journey...
Rashonda Wilson developed her capstone paper from the Fall 2016 "Edith Whar-
ton in Fiction and Film" seminar and presented it at the American Studies Collo-
quium. The paper, titled "The Garden of One Nasty Woman," examines Wharton's
use of gendered spaces—the library and the garden—as sites of agency for female
characters.
Third year Cinema Studies major Bushra Varachia's film, The Phoenix, was one of
18 films chosen from over 100 entries to be a finalist in Cinetopia Film Festi-
val's Detroit Voices competition. The finalist films will be shown in the closing screen-
ing and awards announced at the Sixth Annual Cinetopia Film Festival on Sunday,
June 11, 7:30 pm at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in
Detroit (www.cinetopiafestival.org)
Cinema Studies major Rachel Delfuoco gave a joint conference presentation with
Prof. Andrea Eis on their work as Rosen Fellows at the National Conference on Lib-
eral Arts and the Education of Artists in New York City, and their paper, “Research,
Artistic Process, and Learning," was published online in January 2017 in the confer-
ence proceedings: http://www.sva.edu/uploads/assets/download/
PROCEEDINGS%202016.pdf
Six Cinema Studies students had their films shown in the Off the Screen component
of the Ann Arbor Film Festival:
Senada Cosovic, Chaos
Rachel Delfuoco, syllables between the earth and silence
Sarah Griffith, Perfection
Isaac Kawesa, Aleatorio
Matthew McCormick, QWERTY
Elaine Smith, Glimmering Vision
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