FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington’s continuing series, “Noisy, Wild, and Extremely Troublesome: Lectures in the Arts and Humanities,” returns for the spring semester, 2016, with two events. With zombies, sea monsters and other creatures involved, these lectures promise to be noisier, wilder and even more troublesome than before.
Roundtable Discussion of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” – Wednesday, Feb. 24 from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m., Rm. 23, Roberts Learning Center.
UMF English faculty members will lead this roundtable talk about the new movie mash-up of Jane Austen with the undead. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is currently playing at Narrow Gauge Cinemas in Farmington. See it before the roundtable and join the discussion.
“The Products of Intertextuality: The Value of Student Adaptations in a Literature Course” – Wednesday, March 2 from 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m., Performance Space, Emery Community Arts Center.
This lecture, by Misty Krueger, visiting assistant professor of English, focuses on examining intertextuality—the way that similar or related texts influence or differ from each other—and engaging students in textual production through the creation of an adaptation. It will discuss the success of assigning an adaptation project in an upper-level literature course at UMF and show examples of several student projects, including adaptations of writings by William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Mary Shelley and Ben H. Winters and of existing film adaptations of Sense and Sensibility and Frankenstein. Krueger links student projects to critical concepts such as re-vision and multimodality, and disciplines such as literary studies and the digital humanities. She also analyzes how the projects reflect students’ interests in popular culture and fandom.
This series of events is sponsored by the UMF Division of Humanities; the Department of Sound, Performance, and Visual Inquiry and the UMF Honors Program.
These events are free and open to the public.
