Talks

Talk and Q&A for Dunedin Public Library's True Crime Book Club with Mary Kay McBrayer, author of AMERICA'S FIRST FEMALE SERIAL KILLER: JANE TOPPAN AND THE MAKING OF A MONSTER Book for sale at these retailers: IndieBound: https://bit.ly/30ohtHI Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/americas-first-female-serial-killer-mary-kay-mcbrayer/1133216565 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Americas-First-Female-Serial-Killer/dp/1642502073

ON THE TOUGH GUY WITH THE HEART OF GOLD

In this short presentation at DePaul University's Pop Culture Convention: A Celebration of Slashers, Mary Kay McBrayer talks about how Robert Eggers' film, The Witch, evokes much of its horror through inverting traditional slasher film tropes. Some of them that she talks about are... 1. The Final Girl (obviously) 2. The Man's Existential Crisis (of the occult film) 3. The Terrible Place 4. Twins

My ENGL 1101 students have an upcoming project in which they lead a discussion over a film in a small group. They chose this film (their primary text) over which they will write their final research essay from a list I provided. One objective of facilitating the discussion is to crowd- source for ideas to use in their essays, so in this demonstration, I isolated three different essay topics. Using the three topics shows how they can move among the topics while facilitating in a group. This assignment both prepares them to write their individual essays and satisfies the oral presentation component of ENGL 1101.