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The following abstracts for division Language & Literature have been submitted:

• French Architecture in Missouri: An Analysis of Architectural Influences and Styles in the St. Louis Area
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (French)
  Leigh K. Edmonston
  Dr. Patrick Lecaque, Faculty Mentor
  (40-2, 1:30 pm, OP 2113)
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• A Marxist Analysis of the Institution of Marriage in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Nicole L. Ray
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (9-3, 8:45 am, VH 1428)
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• "A Good Spoon"
  Performance Art
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Michael J. Derby
  Prof. Mark Spitzer, Faculty Mentor
  (57-2, 3:00 pm, OP 2115)
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• “I think I know what you did last night”: An Evaluation of Organized Midwestern Religion
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Cara A. Hurst
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (58-2, 3:00 pm, OP 2117)
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• “Not a Vacuum”: A Postcolonial Analysis of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Mike T. Westphal
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (6-1, 8:15 am, OP 2115)
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• African American Women in the 1920s: Oppressive Dominated Hierarchies in Nella Larsen's Passing
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Megan N. King
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (9-4, 9:00 am, VH 1428)
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• Analyzing the Characters' Dreams in Of Mice and Men
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Julie C. Denton
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (24-2, 10:00 am, OP 2113)
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• Aspiration and Elision in Dominican Spanish
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (Spanish)
  Ashley E. Morris
  Dr. Eric Jewell, Faculty Mentor
  (40-1, 1:15 pm, OP 2113)
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• Assimilating a Mouthful: Language and Cultural Connections in Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Neil V. Bales
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (8-5, 9:15 am, OP 2113)
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• Autobiographical Influences and Connections to the Reader as Seen in Soyinka’s Childhood and Dangarembga’s Conditions
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Elizabeth C. Raine
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (59-5, 3:45 pm, VH 1428)
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• Belles and Barbarians: The Difference of Gender and Class in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Jenifer L. Roesemeier
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (10-3, 8:45 am, VH 1232)
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• Blogs and the First Amendment
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (Communication)
  Sara A. James
  Dr. Karon Speckman, Faculty Mentor
  (56-5, 3:45 pm, OP 2113)
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• "Blushing Virgins and Wanton Whores": Diverse Portrayals of Women in The Monk
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Brittany R. Nielsen Watson
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (43-3, 1:45 pm, OP 2117)
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• Casualties of Homemaking in Society: An Examination of Amina in The Cairo Trilogy and Mainini in Nervous Conditions
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Josh D. Huber
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (42-3, 1:45 pm, OP 2115)
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• A Christian Story: Madeleine L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Dinghao He
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (25-4, 10:30 am, OP 2115)
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• Cinderella: A Look at Fairytales through the Lens of Psychoanalytic Criticism
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Martin L. Galloway
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (27-3, 10:15 am, VH 1232)
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• Clubs and Axes: Truth, Prejudice, and Satire in Terry Pratchett's Thud!
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Amy E. Reynolds
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (24-1, 9:45 am, OP 2113)
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• Crowd Psychology in Zululand: Managing the Multitudes in Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Andres R. Delgado
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (42-5, 2:15 pm, OP 2115)
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• Cultural and Economic Contexts and their Effects on Two Women's Struggles for Independence in Mariama Bâ's So Long A Letter
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Emily K. Pufall
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (44-1, 1:15 pm, VH 1428)
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• Dangerous Crossing: Deconstruction of Stereotyped Gender Roles in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and The Professor's House
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Dana Rufener
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (58-3, 3:15 pm, OP 2117)
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• The Devastating Swarm: The Impact of Colonization in Achebe's Things Fall Apart
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Martin L. Galloway
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (6-3, 8:45 am, OP 2115)
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• The Electra Complex in Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Delisa D. Young
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (7-1, 8:15 am, OP 2117)
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• Elmer Gantry's Manipulation by Music
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Amy L. Schweizer
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (26-4, 10:30 am, VH 1428)
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• Engaging Historical Narrative in Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Eric M. Baumbach
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (59-4, 3:30 pm, VH 1428)
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• Examining Marxism and Biblical Imagery in Ngugi’s A Grain of Wheat
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Andrew J. Linhares
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (6-5, 9:15 am, OP 2115)
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• A Feminist Analysis of Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Aly N. Palchick
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (7-4, 9:00 am, OP 2117)
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• Fighting for Peace: A Historical Analysis of Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Melissa N. Dryer
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (6-2, 8:30 am, OP 2115)
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• Freud, Oedipus, and Lacan: A Critique on the Freudian Psychoanalysis of Oedipus the King
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Courtney B. Schaefer
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (58-4, 3:30 pm, OP 2117)
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• Gender (Im)Balance in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Christine M. Canning
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (23-2, 10:00 am, OP 2117)
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• Gender and Power Relationships in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Blake B. Niemann
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (23-4, 10:30 am , OP 2117)
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• A Gender-Based Analysis of the Syntactic and Morphological Functions of Profanity
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Katie A. Cox
  Dr. Mary Shapiro, Faculty Mentor
  (8-3, 8:45 am, OP 2113)
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• Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication
  Roundtable
  
  Language & Literature (Communication)
  Jill M. Moeller*, Erin L. Brooks, Kyle M. Bybee, Grace A. DelNero, Laura N. Glasbrenner, Emma L. Pagel, and Erin Pagel
  Dr. James Cianciola , Faculty Mentor
  (RT-1-, 12:15 pm, Alumni Room, SUB)
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• Hegemony versus Tradition: The Power of Colonialism in Things Fall Apart
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  James N. Collins
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (6-4, 9:00 am, OP 2115)
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• How Enlightened is Society of Motherhood
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (Communication)
  Sara A. James
  Dr. Andrew Klyukovski, Faculty Mentor
  (56-1, 2:45 pm, OP 2113)
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• Interpreter Of The Unconscious: A Look At Jhumpa Lahiri’s "Interpreter of Maladies"
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Mayumi Noguchi
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (9-2, 8:30 am, VH 1428)
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• Issues in Contrastive Rhetoric: Bridging the Gap Between English and Arabic
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Andrea E. Cluck
  Dr. Sally Cook, Faculty Mentor
  (8-2, 8:30 am, OP 2113)
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• King Lear's Deal with the Devil
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Daniel W. Conway
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (7-2, 8:30 am, OP 2117)
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• "Lonesome No More!": Kurt Vonnegut's Battle with Modern Isolation
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Harry L. Althoff
  Dr. Martha Bartter, Faculty Mentor
  (25-2, 10:00 am, OP 2115)
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• Madman in the Attic: Possession, Power, and Hypocrisy in Cather’s The Professor’s House
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Stacey D. Walker
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (26-1, 9:45 am, VH 1428)
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• Mapping the Strong Woman in Steinbeck
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Perrin C. Carrell
  Prof. Mark Spitzer, Faculty Mentor
  (27-1, 9:45 am, VH 1232)
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• Mumbi’s Task: Duty and Self-Identity in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Audrey B. Leihser
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (23-3, 10:15 am, OP 2117)
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• Musical Rhetoric: Analysis of the Ideologies Expressed in the Music of Dmitri Shostakovich
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (Communication)
  Linda E. Schulte
  Dr. Andrew Klyukovski, Faculty Mentor
  (56-2, 3:00 pm, OP 2113)
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• Mythic Criticism on the Lyrics in Grief Songs
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (Communication)
  Laura N. Glasbrenner
  Mr. Kristopher Stroup, Faculty Mentor
  (56-4, 3:30 pm, OP 2113)
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• Negotiating Feminism and Tradition in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Megan E. Sassenrath
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (44-2, 1:30 pm, VH 1428)
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• Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be: But If You Have To, Please Save the Documents for Posterity
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (French)
  Kayce M. Swigelson
  Dr. Patrick Lecaque, Faculty Mentor
  (40-5, 2:15 pm, OP 2113)
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• A New Historicist Examination of Masculinity in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Tracey M. Hurt
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (27-4, 10:30 am, VH 1232)
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• Of Hobbits and Lacan: Bilbo’s Journey to Reconnect With His Mother
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Jennifer L. Massa
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (7-3, 8:45 am, OP 2117)
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• Opponent and Ally: A Psychoanalytical Approach to A Separate Peace
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Katherine J. Huffman
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (25-3, 10:15 am, OP 2115)
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• Oppositions Guide the Representation of Madness in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Jessica R. Lufkin
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (10-5, 9:15 am, VH 1232)
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• Oroonoko, Herakles, and the Meaning of Myth
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  John P. McDonough
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (43-1, 1:15 pm, OP 2117)
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• Parent-Child Communication: Effects on Child Development
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (Communication)
  Katherine A. Klein
  Dr. Diane Johnson and Dr. Judy Harris, Faculty Mentors
  (56-3, 3:15 pm, OP 2113)
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• "Pendulum of Opposites" Palestinian-American Women's Poetry and the Conflict of Identities
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Gina R. Cook
  Dr. Christine Harker, Faculty Mentor
  (43-5, 2:15 pm, OP 2117)
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• Picking Up the Shards: Fragmentation Themes as a Reaction to Post-Colonial Theories
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Arthur D. Gregg
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (41-3, 1:45 pm, OP 2111)
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• Poetic or Politic?: The Double Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Thomas E. Morgan
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (44-4, 2:00 pm, VH 1428)
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• Political Vibrations: The Changing Expression of Negritude in "Black Woman" and Other Poems by Leopold Sedar Senghor
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Teresa D. Kerbawy
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (44-3, 1:45 pm, VH 1428)
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• Pop or Soda? Analysis and Comparison of Black English in Chicago vs. St. Louis
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Robyn C. Skinner
  Dr. Betsy Delmonico, Faculty Mentor
  (59-2, 3:00 pm, VH 1428)
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• Portrayals of Women in Egypt from 1917-1919 in Mahfouz's Palace Walk
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Kristy L. Warmbold
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (59-3, 3:15 pm, VH 1428)
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• The Preacher Who Doesn't Believe in God
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Amy N. Deis* and Alan J. Reininger
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (26-2, 10:00 am, VH 1428)
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• A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Heather N. Farrier
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (27-2, 10:00 am, VH 1232)
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• A Psychoanalytic Examination of Racial Identity in Nella Larsen's Passing
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Brett B. Niemann
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (9-5, 9:15 am, VH 1428)
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• Queering Ila: Looking at the possibilities with a Trans-National-Sexuality within the novel Shadow Lines
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Benjamin C. Garrett
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (41-4, 2:00 pm, OP 2111)
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• Questioning Gender Politics: An Examination of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Amelia K. Hemenway
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (9-1, 8:15 am, VH 1428)
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• Race, Class, and Gender in Southern Rhodesia: A Comparison of Lessing's The Grass is Singing and Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Tiffany D. Caesar
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (23-1, 9:45 am, OP 2117)
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• Reshaping the Curriculum: An Examination Using Charlotte Smith
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Sarah E. Maddox♦
  Dr. Royce Kallerud, Faculty Mentor
  (43-4, 2:00 pm, OP 2117)
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• Rome got beat by a girl: Women as a reflection of societal strength in Tacitus
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (Classics)
  Laura A. Provance
  Dr. Bridget Thomas, Faculty Mentor
  (10-2, 8:30 am, VH 1232)
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• Schopenhauer's "Will" and Wittgenstein's "Object": A Comparative Interpretation
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (German)
  Greg S. Wiser
  Dr. Rodney Taylor, Faculty Mentor
  (40-4, 2:00 pm, OP 2113)
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• Script Conventions and Philosophy in Medieval Spain
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (Spanish)
  Breanna K. Hulsey
  Dr. Matthew Tornatore, Faculty Mentor
  (40-3, 1:45 pm, OP 2113)
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• Split Personality: The Many Faces of Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad in Mahfouz’s Palace Walk
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Kristi J. Langendoerfer
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (42-1, 1:15 pm, OP 2115)
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• Steinbeck’s Vision for Society in Cannery Row: A Marxist Approach
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Kara M. Bollinger
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (25-1, 9:45 am, OP 2115)
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• The Subjugation of Women in Elmer Gantry
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Amy L. Shipp
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (26-3, 10:15 am, VH 1428)
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• Sufism as a Model for the Migrant Condition in Rushdie's Satanic Verses
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  John E. Fausz
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (41-1, 1:15 pm, OP 2111)
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• Surrender, Resist: Language and Power in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Samantha R. Putthoff
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (8-4, 9:00 am, OP 2113)
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• Teaching English in China: A Study in Proficiency and its Effect on Conferences with Second Language Students in the University Writing Center
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Jennifer M. Coolidge
  Dr. Betsy Delmonico, Faculty Mentor
  (59-1, 2:45 pm, VH 1428)
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• Time, Energy, and the "Academic" Agenda
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Ashley E. Long
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (10-4, 9:00 am, VH 1232)
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• "To Gaze upon the Chasm:" Critical Verse Inspired by the Work of Wallace Stevens
  Performance Art
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Harrison M. Parks
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (57-1, 2:45 pm, OP 2115)
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• The Treatment of Space in Cather's The Professor’s House
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Aleksandra B. Juszczyk
  Dr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor
  (58-1, 2:45 pm, OP 2117)
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• Tubular Reality: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Exploration of Amelie Nothomb's The Character of Rain
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Gemmicka F. Piper
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (24-4, 10:30 am, OP 2113)
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• War Within Ali's "A Wrong Turn" and Rushdie's Midnight's Children
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Michael A. Bono
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (41-2, 1:30 pm, OP 2111)
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• Western Education and Personal Maturation in Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Mahfouz’s Palace of Desire
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Natalie M. Gorski
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (42-2, 1:30 pm, OP 2115)
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• What IM Saying: Instant Messaging as a Unique Linguistic Form
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  John D. Tressler*, Hannah J. Kay, Lainey R. Seyler, and Joanna M. Ristow
  Dr. Mary Shapiro, Faculty Mentor
  (8-1, 8:15 am, OP 2113)
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• "Who in the World am I?" Examining Personality in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Ann M. Lowe
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (24-3, 10:15 am, OP 2113)
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• Why Happily Ever Does Not Mean What It Used To: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice As a Challenge To Traditional Cinderella Stories
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Shaunna K. Wilkinson
  Dr. Royce Kallerud, Faculty Mentor
  (43-2, 1:30 pm, OP 2117)
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• Women’s Glacial Slide to Recognition: Henry Adams’ Theory of History and the American Venus
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Alexander B. Stoll
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (10-1, 8:15 am, VH 1232)
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• A Zulu Chief as the Tragic Hero: Thomas Mofolo’s Representation of Chaka Caught in Hamartia
  Oral Paper
  
  Language & Literature (English)
  Sara L. Shelden
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (42-4, 2:00 pm, OP 2115)
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