Early Exposure to Literary Adaptation: Disney, Dr. Seuss and Beyond
On Thursday, March 23, the English department hosted its annual conference, which this year considered “Adaptations and Influences: Literature’s Relationship with Other Disciplines.” Dr. Scott Stoddart, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, discussed two novels adapted to film in “History Repeats Itself: The Femmes Fatales of Laura and Gone Girl”; Dr. Rachel Wifall of the English Department considered the recent trend of joining “high art” with pop culture in “Expanding the Canon: Austen and Shakespeare and Zombies”; filmmakers and Saint Peter’s alumni Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno ’84 discussed their film The Black Monk: What Do You Seek?, which was inspired by a short story by Anton Chekhov; student presenters discussed the intersectionality of literature with film, television, internet series, comic strips and video games.