By Discipline: English (2008)

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The following abstracts for discipline English have been submitted:

• (In)Fidelity in Ernest Dowson's "Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Franklin K. R. Cline
  Dr. Cole Woodcox, Faculty Mentor
  (17-4, 10:30, OP 2121)
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• (Mis) Representation: African American Women in the Media
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Gemmicka F. Piper
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (47-3, 3:15, OP 2121)
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• Argen the Demon: A Story in 13 Parts
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Eric O. Scott
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (48-3, 3:15, OP 2117)
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• BEER ME that TWINKIE
  Performance Art
  
  (English)
  Philip J. Schaefer
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (48-4, 3:30, OP 2117)
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• Blake's Necessary Evil: The Role of Contraries in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Leigh K. Wickell
  Dr. Royce Kallerud, Faculty Mentor
  (33-3, 1:45, OP 2121)
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• Blood in the Best House: Holy and Unholy Space in Beowulf
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Eric O. Scott
  Dr. Adam Davis, Faculty Mentor
  (6-2, 8:30, OP 2121)
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• Cognitive Photography: A New Critical Analysis of Agha Shahid Ali's "Postcard from Kashmir"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  David J. Giovagnoli
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (34-5, 2:15, OP 2113)
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• A Community Facing Extinction: a Study of the End of Proselytization Among the Parsis of India
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Zeeshan R. Reshamwala
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (6-1, 8:15, OP 2121)
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• A Critical Analysis Of Child Exploitation In America
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Danielle E. Wall
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (47-2, 3:00, OP 2121)
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• Dostoevsky's Verbose Protagonists: an Analysis of Linguistic Domination in Notes from Underground and Crime and Punishment
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Erin K. Goggin
  Dr. Shannon Jumper, Faculty Mentor
  (17-1, 9:45, OP 2121)
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• The Evolution of Early Twentieth-Century Egyptian Women as Portrayed in The Cairo Trilogy
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Megan A. Schoor* and Sara Besserman
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (34-3, 1:45, OP 2113)
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• Experimental Stylistic, Tone, and Form Shifts in Creative Non-Fiction
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Jeremy D. Jones
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (48-2, 3:00, OP 2117)
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• Fairy Tales and Gender Roles: Fantasies or Fallacies?
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Dana J. Bruxvoort
  Dr. Linda Seidel, Faculty Mentor
  (47-1, 2:45, OP 2121)
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• Feminist Smut: A Study of Anais Nin's Erotica
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Angela M. Carter
  Dr. Christine Harker, Faculty Mentor
  (49-3, 3:15, OP 2113)
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• Five Poems of Yehuda Amichai (Original Translation)
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Eran Feintuch
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (34-4, 2:00, OP 2113)
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• JFK and Slothrop: Pynchon's References to the Kennedys in Gravity's Rainbow
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Molly M. McCleery
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (34-2, 1:30, OP 2113)
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• The Making of a Modern Ghazal
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Carol J. Pedersen
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (34-1, 1:15, OP 2113)
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• Margaret Sanger's Use of Eugenics and Birth Control
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Emily J. Murdock
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (33-1, 1:15, OP 2121)
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• Masochism of the Faithful: A Look at Unbending Religion as Portrayed in Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers and Zadie Smith's White Teeth
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Elizabeth A. Klass
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (6-3, 8:45, OP 2121)
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• Matthew Ashbury
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Robert T. Topping
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (48-1, 2:45, OP 2117)
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• Performing Englishness and Resisting Assimilation: An Examination of the Migrant in The Satanic Verses and White Teeth
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  James T. Estes
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (49-2, 3:00, OP 2113)
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• Questioning Kelman's Critique of Stereotypes in The Satanic Verses
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Christopher J. Pivirotto
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (6-5, 9:15, OP 2121)
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• Racial and Class Bias In Du Bois' "The Souls Of Black Folk"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Tiffany D. Caesar
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (33-2, 1:30, OP 2121)
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• A Reading Roundtable: 20 Writers on "The Family"
  Roundtable
  
  (English)
  Jennifer D. Miller*, Maureen T. Foody, Abby L. Neidig, Andrew J. Linhares, Luke Gardner, Lucia Flaim, Emily J. Murdock, Sarah K. Biggerstaff, Meredith L. Wells, Andrew L. Madras, Kimber J. Beckler, Harry O. Burson, Keith D. Watson, Amie M. Keane, Christopher J. Moore, Matthew J. Welker, Michelle R. Bachman, John E. Fausz, Shannon C. Harbaugh, and Nathan S. Hoffman
  Dr. Charles Breed, Faculty Mentor
  (28-1, 12:15, SUB Georgian B)
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• The Reality of Fear: How Hysteria has Further Dissolved U.S. Relations with the Islamic World
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Andrew P. Kindiger
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (47-4, 3:30, OP 2121)
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• A Reconciliation Between Biography and Deconstruction in A. S. Byatt's Possession
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Paul R. Witte
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (33-4, 2:00, OP 2121)
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• Society and Self-Actualization in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Molly L. McKay
  Dr. Royce Kallerud, Faculty Mentor
  (33-5, 2:15, OP 2121)
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• Spoken Soul as a Performance: An Analysis of Crash
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Christopher B. Stone
  Dr. Mary Shapiro, Faculty Mentor
  (49-1, 2:45, OP 2113)
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• "To Live a Fool and Die a Sage": Jay Gatsby as a Warped Quixotic Hero
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Harry L. Althoff♦
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (17-2, 10:00, OP 2121)
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• Voodoo and Travel Dust: Religion in the Life and Literature of Zora Neale Hurston
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Andrea E. Cluck
  Dr. Monica Barron, Faculty Mentor
  (6-4, 9:00, OP 2121)
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• Western Influence on Late Byzantine Literature
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Thomas W. Lecaque
  Prof. Claire Peckosh, Faculty Mentor
  (17-3, 10:15, OP 2121)
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