By Discipline: English (2011)

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The following abstracts for discipline English have been submitted:

• "To Crush or to Hold": The Power of a Mother in Janet Fitch's White Oleander
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Julianne E. Meyer
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (25-5, 2:15, VH 1408)
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• An Album of Loss: A New Critical Analysis of the Imagery in Agha Shahid Ali's "Postcard from Kashmir" and "A Lost Memory of Delhi" from his collection The Half-Inch Himalayas
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Noelle G. Chandler
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (16-3, 10:00, VH 1324)
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• All Is Fair In Love and War: Love in Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Jessica M. Jenkot
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (24-3, 1:45, VH 1236)
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• Antidepressants for an Uplifting Future?
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Samantha R. Simms
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (15-3, 10:00, VH 1408)
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• The Binary Nature of Sexuality in Xinran's The Good Women of China and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (Asian Studies, English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Meagan E. McGlasson
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (14-1, 9:30, VH 1236)
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• "A Blink of the Earth Woman's Eye:" Ecofeminism in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Aly Marti
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (3-2, 8:15, VH 1408)
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• "The Cask of Amontillado": A Psychoanalytic Criticism
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Alexander C. DaGue
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (41-2, 3:00, VH 1324)
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• The Caste of Arundhati Roy's Novel The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Ann N. Rice
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (38-5, 3:45, VH 1236)
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• The Characteristics of a Good Woman in The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Ki'ara D. Cross
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (39-3, 3:15, VH 1408)
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• Class Consciousness in Sunlight on a Broken Column: Locating the Connections between Attia Hosain and the Progressive Writers' Movement
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Madison C. March
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (15-2, 9:45, VH 1408)
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• Class, Gender, and Diaspora: The Role of Status and Flexibility in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Madison C. March
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (4-5, 9:00, VH 1324)
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• Colonial Legacy in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Asian Studies)
  Matt R. Hernandez
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (2-5, 9:00, VH 1236)
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• Color as Metaphor: The Psychological Significance of Color in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Meghan L. Newton
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (38-2, 3:00, VH 1236)
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• Comparing the Effectiveness of Vocabulary Instruction Methods
  Oral Paper
  
  (Education, English)
  Rebecca Pund♦* and Alaina Meuth♦
  Dr. Barbara Price and Dr. Paul L. Yoder, Faculty Mentors
  (33-2, 1:30, VH 1228)
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• Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy: Transnational Visions of Women's India(s)
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Trevor A. Grizzell
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (15-1, 9:30, VH 1408)
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• Discriminatory Attitudes Toward Men's and Women's Sexual Needs in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (Asian Studies, English)
  Lauren A. Baker
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (14-2, 9:45, VH 1236)
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• Dreams in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Jonathan D. Walton
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (3-1, 8:00, VH 1408)
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• Driven to Despair: A Psychoanalytical Examination of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Rebecca J. Koll
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (15-4, 10:15, VH 1408)
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• An Ecofeminist and Ecocritical Analysis of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Charundi K. Panagoda
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (24-2, 1:30, VH 1236)
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• The Evasion of Dreams in The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Kurtis B. Milberg
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (38-4, 3:30, VH 1236)
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• An Examination of Insanity and Allusion in Vladimir Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  David D. Winn
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (26-4, 2:00, VH 1324)
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• Exile, Loss, and Longing in Agha Shahid Ali's The Half-Inch Himalayas
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Megan A. Kabler
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (16-5, 10:30, VH 1324)
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• EXILE: An Analysis of Agha Shahid Ali's "Postcard from Kashmir"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Omonseigho O. Esangbedo
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (25-3, 1:45, VH 1408)
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• Gender and Race in Second Class Citizen and Their Eyes Were Watching God
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Jessica M. Jenkot
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (4-1, 8:00, VH 1324)
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• Geography of the Self: Landscape and Identity in Agha Shahid Ali's "Postcard from Kashmir"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Jaime N. Chambers
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (25-1, 1:15, VH 1408)
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• The God of Loss: The Role of Velutha in The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Constance A. Tubbs
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (3-4, 8:45, VH 1408)
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• How Parents Shape Us: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Plath's "Daddy" and Hughes' "Mother to Son"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Stephen J. Furlong
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (26-2, 1:30, VH 1324)
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• The Illuminative Capacities of the Transactive Theory of Reading, and the Impulse Toward Creative Fusion of Self and Other: A Look at Agha Shahid Ali's The Half-Inch Himalayas
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Aileen A. Gallagher
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (16-4, 10:15, VH 1324)
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• Increasing Student Engagement and Comprehension Through Literature Circles
  Oral Paper
  
  (Education, English)
  Allison B. Phillips♦
  Dr. Paul L. Yoder, Faculty Mentor
  (33-4, 2:00, VH 1228)
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• Interlocking Worlds: A Cognitive Reading of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Kathryn J. McClain
  Dr. Sarah Mohler, Faculty Mentor
  (26-1, 1:15, VH 1324)
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• It Had To Be You: An Analysis of Women's Relationships in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Julie E. Perrey
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (24-1, 1:15, VH 1236)
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• Locked Out of the History House: Criticizing Orientalism in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Emily J. Autrey
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (24-5, 2:15, VH 1236)
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• "The Looms of Bengal Silenced": History and Memory in Agha Shahid Ali's "The Dacca Gauzes"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Asian Studies, Art History)
  Daniel R. Philbin
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (2-4, 8:45, VH 1236)
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• The Loss of Innocence in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Tianna K. Simenson
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (24-4, 2:00, VH 1236)
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• "Maps and Mirrors" in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Brandon S. Whitmore
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (41-4, 3:30, VH 1324)
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• A Marxist Approach to Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Serena A. Karraker
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (38-3, 3:15, VH 1236)
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• A Marxist Interpretation of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Justine C. De Roach
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (41-5, 3:45, VH 1324)
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• "My Body Casts His Shadow": Exploring the Uncanny in Agha Shahid Ali's The Half-Inch Himalayas
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Devin K. O'Bryan
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (16-2, 9:45, VH 1324)
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• Of All Things Female: The Écriture Féminine in The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Asian Studies, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Amanda L. Williams
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (14-4, 10:15, VH 1236)
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• The Oppression of the Individual: A New Historicist Analysis of Lao She's The Rickshaw Boy
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  James Lewis
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (39-4, 3:30, VH 1408)
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• The Past in a Portrait: Agha Shahid Ali's "Cracked Portraits" and its Construction of History
  Oral Paper
  
  (Asian Studies, English)
  Alex C. Senger
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (2-2, 8:15, VH 1236)
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• Portrayals of Loss in Xinran's The Good Women of China.
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Asian Studies)
  Jennifer L. Wilborn
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (14-3, 10:00, VH 1236)
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• "Power's Fear of Powerlessness" in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Sarah E. Pauley
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (3-3, 8:30, VH 1408)
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• Presentation Withdrawn
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Alison N. Stagner
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (39-1, 2:45, VH 1408)
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• Reading Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things as a Feminist Novel
  Oral Paper
  
  (Asian Studies, English)
  Jordan H. Lewis
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (2-3, 8:30, VH 1236)
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• A Redefinition of Home: An Analysis of "Postcard from Kashmir"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Eric R. Gaulden
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (25-2, 1:30, VH 1408)
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• Reducing Homosexuality to a Stereotype in Xinran's The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Asian Studies, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Michelle E. Noriega
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (14-5, 10:30, VH 1236)
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• Séance: Finding and Expressing the Poetic in Research
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Kathryn E. Fritz
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (4-2, 8:15, VH 1324)
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• Siblings and Love Laws in Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things and V. C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Guinevere A. Lawson
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (3-5, 9:00, VH 1408)
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• Social Disorientation: A Historical and New Critical Analysis of Shusake Endo's Silence
  Oral Paper
  
  (Asian Studies, Japanese, English)
  Devin A. Heier
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (2-1, 8:00, VH 1236)
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• Structure and Chaos: Examining Dominant and Submissive Entities in The God of Small Things
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Tom Franken
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (38-1, 2:45, VH 1236)
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• Sustaining the Human Dignity of Biotechnology: A Plausible Cause?
  Oral Paper
  
  (English, Biology)
  Carolina Scalzo
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (25-4, 2:00, VH 1408)
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• Their Side of the Story: A Multi-Genre Exploration of Autobiography
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Katherine V. Murphy
  Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
  (4-4, 8:45, VH 1324)
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• Things Incapable of Communication: Ambiguity and Absurdity in Post-War Japan
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Janna E. Langholz
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (39-2, 3:00, VH 1408)
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• Three Women in the Wrong; A Feminist Approach to the Stories of Eve, Delilah, and Mary Magdalene in the Bible
  Oral Paper
  
  (Philosophy & Religion, English, Women's and Gender Studies)
  Rachel E. White
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (44-2, 3:00, MG 2090)
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• Through a Surrealist Lens: Memory and Dreams in The Half-Inch Himalayas by Agha Shahid Ali
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Ian J. Cantrell
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (16-1, 9:30, VH 1324)
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• Tom Stoppard's Portrayal of Czechoslovakian History in Rock 'n' Roll
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Katherine E. Ramlose
  Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
  (4-3, 8:30, VH 1324)
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• "What You Want Destroys What You Need": A Marxist Criticism of Vance Moore's Odyssey
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  James W. Mellish
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (41-1, 2:45, VH 1324)
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• "When the Dream is Over": A Psychoanalytic Reading of Agha Shahid Ali's "I Dream It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Ashley L. Wolf
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (15-5, 10:30, VH 1408)
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• A Woman's Way; A Feminist-Marxist Analysis of A Doll's House and "A Rose for Emily"
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Megan A. Caldwell
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (41-3, 3:15, VH 1324)
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• "Women and Their Trifles": A Look At The Influence Women Have and The Significance of Motherhood In Their Oppressed Roles in Susan Glaspell's Trifles
  Oral Paper
  
  (English)
  Daunte L. Monroe
  Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
  (39-5, 3:45, VH 1408)
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