By Discipline: English (2020)

• Agha Shahid Ali’s "The Tiger at 4:00 A.M.": Symbolism in the Writing Process

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English, Creative Writing)
  Jessica L. Barbee
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Belly Dancing and Bacardi: Locating Contemporary Bulgarian National Identity in Chalga Lyrics

   

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English, Music)
  Allie J. Wills
  Dr. Sarah Mohler, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Combatting Stereotypes: How Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Challenges Stereotypes and Why it Belongs in Our Pubilc School Systems

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English)
  Dale A. Bagley
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Cosmopolitanism in Agha Shahid Ali’s "Leaving Your City"

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English)
  Joshna Karki
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Culture, Tradition, and Self-Discovery: Using Zadie Smith’s White Teeth to Explore the Impacts of Immigration on Identity

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English)
  Annie F. O'Brien
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Dangerous Fruits:

  Lesbian Victorian Poetics and the Blurring of Female Homosexuality

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Caroline M. Lesch
  Dr. Sarah Day, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Familial and Racial Loyalties in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English, Creative Writing, Middle Eastern Studies)
  Margaret L. Mitchell
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Filmmaking In Action

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (Interdisciplinary Studies, English, Communication)
  Samuel Elkins
  Dr. Jocelyn Cullity and Dr. Bridget Thomas, Faculty Mentors
  
  
  

• How Estha's Boyhood Experiences Shape his Relationship to the External World in The God of Small Things

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English, Creative Writing)
  Caleb A. Barkhurst
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Interpreters of Dune: Divergent Adaptations of Frank Herbert

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English, Art - Visual Communications)
  William B. Hume
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Into the Mind of Mustafa Sa'eed: A Look at Season of Migration to the North through Tayeb Salih's Feminist Lens

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (Political Science, English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Brian J. Hennessy
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Kambili's Personal Identity: An Examination of Adichie's Purple Hibiscus

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English, Statistics)
  Kyla D. Brown
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• The Lesson we Should Learn from Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English)
  Zoe R. Harper
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Mary Shelley's Sexuality and Gender Constructions in her Letters and her Earlier Novels

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (Women's and Gender Studies, English, History)
  Molly Johnson
  Dr. Sarah Mohler and Dr. Adam Davis, Faculty Mentors
  
  
  

• A Mother’s Language: The Interconnected Power Domains of Maternity and Female Discourse in Margaret Atwood’s "Spelling" and The Handmaid’s Tale

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Dalaney D. Plott
  Dr. Christine Harker, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Persepolis & Perceptions: Culture and History Despite Negative Stereotypes in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis

   

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English, Political Science)
  Colton Borders Z. Borders
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• The Power of Knowledge: A Look at Marji's Empowerment through Education in Persepolis

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English)
  Maria A. McGonegle
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• The Rise and Fall of a Fighter: An Intimate Exploration of Okonkwo as an Analogy in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English)
  Catherine T. Timson
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Self-Study: Time Management as Key to Reducing Teacher Stress

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (Education, English)
  Jennifer J. Fazio♦
  Dr. Rebecca Dierking, Dr. Summer Pennell, and Dr. Wendy Miner, Faculty Mentors
  
  
  

• Sense of Self and Loss in Agha Shahid Ali’s “Vacating an Apartment” and “The Previous Occupant”

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English)
  Grace Cochran
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Skagboys: Constructing Scottish National Identity

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English, Interdisciplinary Studies, History)
  Jia Zuo♦
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Teaching Identity and Intersectionality with Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street

   

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English)
  Austin D. Heineman
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  
  
  

• Using Graphic Novels to Teach Characterization in the Secondary English Classroom

  
  Oral Presentation
  
  (English, Education, English MAE Intern)
  Taylor L. Jokerst♦
  Dr. Barbara Price, Dr. Summer Pennell, and Dr. Sarah Day, Faculty Mentors