By Discipline: English (2010)

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The following abstracts for discipline English have been submitted:

• The 13th Way to Inherit: An Applicable Discussion on the Lyric Poem
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Erin M. Neuman ♦
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (7-1, 8:00, VH 1432)
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• All She Wanted Was A Rose: A Feminist Reading of Faulkner's "A Rose For Emily"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Jessica M. Jenkot
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (13-5, 9:00, VH 1304)
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• All Those Ravin' Women: Feminist Connections in Aeschylus' The Oresteia
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Theatre, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Joanna K. Bess
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (50-1, 1:15, VH 1232)
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• The American Sublime; The Travels of John Powell and Colin Fletcher in the Grand Canyon
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, American Studies)
  Grant A. Kling♦
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (63-3, 3:15, VH 1432)
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• Anarchic Linguistic Artistry: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Monica J. Morrey
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (13-2, 8:15, VH 1304)
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• Classical Nontraditionalism: The Relationship Between Catullus and Modernist Poetry
  Oral Paper
  
  (Classics, English)
  David J. Giovagnoli
  Dr. Bridget Thomas, Faculty Mentor
  (14-4, 8:45, VH 1324)
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• Colonialism and Nationalism in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Melissa W. Kapitan
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (15-2, 8:15, VH 1232)
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• Colonialism and Religion in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, African Studies)
  Katherine G. McWherter
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (15-5, 9:00, VH 1232)
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• Compliance With and Rejection of Gender Roles in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Kate Chopin's "The Storm"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Kathryn A. Toomey
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (61-1, 2:45, VH 1304)
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• Cooper's Great Failure: A Historical and Literary Comparison of Eve Effingham and Josephine March
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Monica J. Morrey
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (63-1, 2:45, VH 1432)
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• Deadly Eroticism: The Politics of Desire in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Amanda E. Jackson
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (32-3, 10:00, VH 1232)
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• Detrimental Effects of "Mimicking the Master" in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Daniel R. Granda
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (7-4, 8:45, VH 1432)
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• Didn't Mother (Nature) Teach you how to Read: Ecofeminism in Purple Hibiscus and The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Environmental Studies, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Molly R. Reich
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (50-2, 1:30, VH 1232)
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• Dogs, Pigs, and Sheep: Pink Floyd, George Orwell, and the Human Condition
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Political Science, Sociology/Anthropology)
  James D. Megahan
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (30-4, 10:15, VH 1432)
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• Edward Cullen: Out of the Closet and into Our Carnal Desires
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Shannon C. Harbaugh♦
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (30-1, 9:30, VH 1432)
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• An Examination of African Feminism in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: Identity versus Culture
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Artesia S. Willis
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (49-3, 1:45, VH 1304)
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• Feminist and Narrative Analysis of the Film Little Miss Sunshine
  Oral Paper
  
  (Communication, Women's and Gender Studies, English)
  Laura A. Warmbrodt
  Dr. Elizabeth M. Clark, Faculty Mentor
  (60-3, 3:15, VH 1320)
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• For the Love of Caste in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Regina D. Rodgers
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (49-5, 2:15, VH 1304)
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• Free Association With Things In My Bedroom
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Leia P. Wilson
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (50-4, 2:00, VH 1232)
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• From Page to Screen: A Feminist and Aesthetic Analysis of the film Twilight
  Oral Paper
  
  (Communication, Women's and Gender Studies, English)
  Krista M. Crider
  Dr. Elizabeth M. Clark, Faculty Mentor
  (10-1, 8:00, VH 1320)
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• Gender Roles Within Horror Films: A Feminist Criticism of Hollywood Stereotypes
  Oral Paper
  
  (Communication, Women's and Gender Studies, English)
  Alexandria N. Boles
  Prof. Don Krause, Faculty Mentor
  (10-3, 8:30, VH 1320)
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• Genre Blending
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Emi E. Griess
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (39-4, 2:00, VH 1324)
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• Helping English Language Learners Avoid Unintentional Plagiarism
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Education, Linguistics)
  Talia C. Linneman♦
  Dr. Sally Cook, Faculty Mentor
  (36-2, 1:30, VH 1236)
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• Hozho Beauty and the Value of Life in Luci Tapahanso's poem "It Has Always Been this Way": A Postcolonial Analysis
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Crystal M. Billington
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (28-5, 10:30, VH 1304)
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• Hybridity and Agency in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Trevor A. Grizzell
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (13-4, 8:45, VH 1304)
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• "I Am Not My Mother": Postcolonial Reform Without Female Role Models
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Laura C. Gorday
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (32-1, 9:30, VH 1232)
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• Identity Politics: Deconstructing "Latino" in the Works of Junot Díaz and Piri Thomas
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Jessica L. Reavey
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (48-4, 2:00, VH 1432)
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• "In Their Beds and In Their Kitchens": Gender Roles in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, African Studies)
  Emily A. Ward
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (62-3, 3:15, VH 1232)
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• Isolation and Alienation: Colonialism's Impact in Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Derek J. Franklin
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (28-4, 10:15, VH 1304)
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• Issues of Self-Esteem and Self-Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Jessica A. Morgan
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (48-2, 1:30, VH 1432)
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• John Wesley Powell and Colin Fletcher: Exploring Attitudes Toward the Grand Canyon
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Laura E. Ferry♦
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (63-2, 3:00, VH 1432)
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• Kipling's Antipodean Attitudes Towards Race and Imperialism in Colonial India
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Zeeshan R. Reshamwala
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (49-2, 1:30, VH 1304)
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• Life Studies Framed by History
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Ashley S. Kleinsorge*, Kathryn Fritz, Andrew Harper, Kayla Jungermann, Monica J. Morrey, Keenan Schott, Emily A. Ward, Anna Whitehead, Nicholas A. Carrell, Daniel C. Robaczewski, and Jeffrey H. Cabatingon
  Dr. Charles Breed, Faculty Mentor
  (39-1, 1:15, VH 1324)
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• Love-Making and Sign-Making, But Not in That Order: The Semantics of Desire in Italo Calvino's "Cosmicomics"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Philosophy & Religion, Physics)
  Jennifer C. Jalack
  Dr. Sarah Mohler, Faculty Mentor
  (7-5, 9:00, VH 1432)
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• The Macondo Time Zone: A Postcolonial Interpretation of Time in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Stephen C. Kainz
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (15-1, 8:00, VH 1232)
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• Magic and Melody in the In-Betweens: Breaches of Binary Reasoning in Sir Orfeo
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Medieval Studies)
  Amy E. Reynolds
  Dr. Christine Harker, Faculty Mentor
  (7-2, 8:15, VH 1432)
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• A Marxist Analysis of Steve Martin's Shopgirl
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Amanda M. Buckwalter
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (28-1, 9:30, VH 1304)
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• A Marxist Reading of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Kristen G. Lilley
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (28-2, 9:45, VH 1304)
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• Maxima in Minima
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Shawn M. Bodden
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (39-3, 1:45, VH 1324)
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• Motherhood in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Unaccustomed Earth"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Kitty C. Rice
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (32-4, 10:15, VH 1232)
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• Multiculturalism, Identity, and Intimacy: The Construction of Home within "Part Two: Hema and Kaushik" of Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Clare C. Echterling
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (50-3, 1:45, VH 1232)
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• Music and Poetry: A History of Collaboration
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Music, Interdisciplinary)
  Emi E. Griess
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (39-2, 1:30, VH 1324)
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• Paper withdrawn
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Jennifer E. Pautz
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (15-4, 8:45, VH 1232)
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• Paper withdrawn
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Carolyn U. Boyer
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (48-1, 1:15, VH 1432)
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• Paper Withdrawn
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Madison C. March
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (62-1, 2:45, VH 1232)
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• Paper Withdrawn
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Valerie R. Spencer
  Dr. Sarah Mohler, Faculty Mentor
  (30-2, 9:45, VH 1432)
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• Patriarchal Oppression in William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Corey C. Elkins
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (61-3, 3:15, VH 1304)
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• Personal Freedom Through Resisting Gender Roles in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Amanda B. Hamilton
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (32-2, 9:45, VH 1232)
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• A Phenomenological Reading of Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Philosophy & Religion)
  Andrew J. McCall
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (22-2, 9:45, MG 2090)
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• Race in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as Allegory For a Young America
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Clinton P. Mohs
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (49-4, 2:00, VH 1304)
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• Reliably Unreliable: Saleem Sinai as Narrator in Rushdie's Midnight's Children
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Ira J. King
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (13-3, 8:30, VH 1304)
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• Root Canal: Uprooting Zadie Smith's White Teeth
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Rebecca L. Simington
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (15-3, 8:30, VH 1232)
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• "A Rose for Emily" and Gender Role Confliction
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Patrick F. Linhares
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (61-4, 3:30, VH 1304)
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• Secrets of the Rose: William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Pamela J. Troxel
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (13-1, 8:00, VH 1304)
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• Sherlock's Rival: Jane Eyre as Detective and the Crime of Female Selfhood
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Lisa N. Scott
  Dr. Heather Cianciola, Faculty Mentor
  (62-4, 3:30, VH 1232)
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• Shifting Marital Roles in "A Temporary Matter" by Jhumpa Lahiri
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Katherine E. Kennison
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (61-2, 3:00, VH 1304)
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• Social Identification in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Clinton P. Mohs
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (49-1, 1:15, VH 1304)
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• Stereotypical or Atypical: The Portrayal of The Governess in Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw"
  Oral Paper
  
  (Music, English)
  Eugenia A. Siegel♦
  Dr. Marc Rice, Dr. Warren Gooch, and Dr. Jay Bulen, Faculty Mentors
  (44-1, 1:15, VH 1010)
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• Strong But Dependent: A Look at Faulkner's Emily
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Nick E. Wallner
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (61-5, 3:45, VH 1304)
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• Subverting Masculinity in Victorian Gothic Literature
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Sara E. Besserman
  Dr. Paul L. Yoder, Faculty Mentor
  (62-2, 3:00, VH 1232)
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• "This Business of Womanhood is a Heavy Burden": Femininity and Education in Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Allison B. Phillips
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (62-5, 3:45, VH 1232)
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• Thoughts and Reflections on Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette
  Oral Paper
  
  (American Studies, English, History)
  Shawn E. Peters
  Prof. Claire Peckosh, Faculty Mentor
  (16-3, 8:30, MG 2090)
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• Troy Reborn: Wace, Benoit, and the Trojan Legitimacy in the Court of Henry II
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, History, French)
  Thomas W. Lecaque♦
  Dr. Christine Harker, Faculty Mentor
  (7-3, 8:30, VH 1432)
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• Two Ways To Stimulate Relevant Classroom Discussion
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Education, Interdisciplinary)
  Stephanie M. Chrissotimos♦
  Dr. Barbara Price, Faculty Mentor
  (24-1, 9:30, VH 1236)
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• Untouchability and Incest: The Love Laws' Commentary in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Asian Studies)
  Alissa M. Walkner
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (48-3, 1:45, VH 1432)
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• Vigilantes, Cowboys, and Morality: The Western Dime NovelWorth Every Penny
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, American Studies, Sociology/Anthropology)
  Patrick R. Silvey♦
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (30-3, 10:00, VH 1432)
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• William Faulkner and "A Rose for Emily": Products of Their Time
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Rachelle Q. Wales
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (48-5, 2:15, VH 1432)
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• Zany Tzara!
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Interdisciplinary)
  Shawn M. Bodden* and Michael A. Chapman
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (28-3, 10:00, VH 1304)
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