{"id":207490,"date":"2019-04-09T16:46:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/?p=207490"},"modified":"2019-04-09T16:46:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:46:30","slug":"english-m-a-students-and-prof-patricia-matthew-in-conference-presentations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/2019\/04\/09\/english-m-a-students-and-prof-patricia-matthew-in-conference-presentations\/","title":{"rendered":"English M.A. students and Prof. Patricia Matthew in conference presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly Plaksin and Greg Riggio delivered papers at St. John\u2019s University Graduate English Conference, Saturday April 6th. The conference theme this year was \u201cForms of Justice\u201d and featured original research by 30 graduate students. Plaksin\u2019s paper, &#8220;&#8216;Civilized Industry&#8217; and Joint-Matriarchy in the Short Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman,\u201dexamined the ways that Perkins Gilman&#8217;s short stories reflect the feminist ideals she outlines in her social treatise The Home.\u201d In his essay &#8220;Fighting Dismemberment: Moonlight as Protest Literature,\u201d Riggio measured the film Moonlight against James Baldwin&#8217;s strict criteria for protest literature. Approximately 60 faculty, students, and community members were in attendance. The conference was hosted by the graduate students of St. John\u2019s Queens campus. Plaksin&#8217;s essay started as a paper for Prof. Monika Elbert&#8217;s Research Methods course. Riggio&#8217;s essay was originally written for Prof. Adam Rzepka&#8217;s Critical Theory class. Professor Patricia Matthew delivered the keynote address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly Plaksin and Greg Riggio delivered papers at St. John\u2019s University Graduate English Conference, Saturday April 6th. The conference theme this year was \u201cForms of Justice\u201d and featured original research by 30 graduate students. Plaksin\u2019s paper, &#8220;&#8216;Civilized Industry&#8217; and Joint-Matriarchy in the Short Stories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman,\u201dexamined the ways that Perkins Gilman&#8217;s short stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":207491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-news","category-featured-students","category-107_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207493,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207490\/revisions\/207493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}