Ithaca College

Eight students gave papers representing original research at “From Beauty to Black Widow” a feminist pop culture conference held at Mansfield University from April 20-21.

The students and their papers were:

Claire Conklin – “Litchfield Penitentiary and *censored* Planet: Imprisoned Feminism”

Sydney Krause – “Power Play: Augmenting and Undermining the Power Structure in *censored* Planet and The Handmaid’s Tale”

Abby Rogers – “Advertisements as Social commentary in *censored* Planet”

Matthew Radulski – “Riverdaddies: Examining the troubled fathers of Riverdale”

Angelina Randazzo – “Nimona: A New Monster”

Alayna Vander Veer– “Looking Beyond the Image: An Analysis of Three sento bishojo Characters in Japanese Anime”

Andy Yzaguirre The Power in the Punch: Webcomics as Medium for Women’s Stories

Lila Kwederis – “Villainizing the Classics in Leigh Barduga’s the Language of Thorns”

“From Beauty to Black Widow” is a daughter conference of Ithaca College’s own “Pippi to Ripley: Sex and Gender in Fantasy, Science Fiction, Comics and Children’s Literature.”  Pippi to Ripley is held in odd years at IC; it will be returning on April 26th and 27th, 2019.