Student Tribune
Elizabeth Jonston (English/Philosophy) to Present at Filling Station: Today (11/17/17)
Dr. Elizabeth Johnston (English/Philosophy) will present today, November 17,
at the College Hour (12-12:50 pm) Filling Station: A Faculty Research
Presentation Series. The event, which takes place in 8-200, is open to the
entire MCC community.
An Associate Professor of English at MCC, Elizabeth Johnston received her
PhD in 18th Century British Literature from West Virginia University and has
been teaching college writing and literature for twenty years. Her work on
Medusa has appeared in The Atlantic, Yellow Medicine Review, and the
collections Bad Girls And Transgressive Women In Popular Film And
Television (Palgrave 2017) (Palgrave 2017) and Women Versed In
Myth (MacFarland 2016). For her Filling Station presentation, Elizabeth
will "trace the various representations of the iconic figure of Medusa from her
origins in Greco-Roman myth, through the reclamation of Medusa's narrative by
second- and third-wave feminist poets, to the re-appropriation of her story by
late 20th and 21st century film, advertisement, and gaming culture.
Representations of Medusa in popular culture evidence a backlash against
feminist gains." Johnston will also point to "the ways in which powerful women
like Hilary Clinton have historically been aligned with the monstrous female
icon to dismiss and/or vilify their authority."
Leuzzi, Anthony
English/Philosophy
11/17/2017