A Visit to the Renaissance Pleasure Faire

By Jamie Kwan As a scholar of the Early Modern, I have made my yearly pilgrimage to the annual Renaissance Society of America (RSA) conference.  As many of you may know, it is an academic, interdisciplinary, three to four day event filled with panels, roundtables, and networking; it is a  prime time to cross paths…

What do Leonardo da Vinci and Drew Barrymore have in common? Ever After

By Jamie Kwan If you are a child of the 90’s, it is very likely you watched your fair share of Drew Barrymore movies growing up.  One of my favorites, Ever After, is a social-justice-feminist retelling of Cinderella, with Drew Barrymore as the heroine, now named Danielle de Barbarac.  Watching this for the first time…