Presentations

1: Media and Empathy in Documentary Theater: Audience as ‘the Foreigner’ in Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank’s Aftermath

Merve Atasoy, Boğaziçi U

2: Nearly Human: The Spectacular Emotions of Dogs in Nineteenth-Century Melodrama

Amy E. Hughes, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3: ‘Go On and Scream’: Orality and Empathy in African American Women’s Drama

Kelsey Kiser, Southern Methodist U

4: Looking Back at the Voyeur: Suzan-Lori Parks’s Unsympathetic Heroines

Eunha Na, Seoul National U

Presider

Nicole Tabor, Moravian C