2011 Student Research Conference:
24th Annual Student Research Conference

Program

Program-At-A-Glance

7:30 am • MG Cyber Cafe, OP Lobby, & VH Lobby
Continental Breakfast

8:30 am - 7:00 pm • University Art Gallery
Annual Student Juried Exhibition

8:00 - 9:15 • VH 1236
SESSION 2
Oral -
English XI

Presiding: Hena Ahmad

8:00

2 - 1  DEVIN A. HEIER
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Social Disorientation: A Historical and New Critical Analysis of Shusake Endo's Silence

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8:15

2 - 2  ALEX C. SENGER
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
The Past in a Portrait: Agha Shahid Ali's "Cracked Portraits" and its Construction of History

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8:30

2 - 3  JORDAN H. LEWIS
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Reading Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things as a Feminist Novel

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8:45

2 - 4  DANIEL R. PHILBIN
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
"The Looms of Bengal Silenced": History and Memory in Agha Shahid Ali's "The Dacca Gauzes"

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9:00

2 - 5  MATT R. HERNANDEZ
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Colonial Legacy in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

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8:00 - 9:15 • VH 1408
SESSION 3
Oral -
English IV

Presiding: Elizabeth Delmonico

8:00

3 - 1  JONATHAN D. WALTON
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Dreams in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

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8:15

3 - 2  ALY MARTI
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
"A Blink of the Earth Woman's Eye:" Ecofeminism in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

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8:30

3 - 3  SARAH E. PAULEY
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
"Power's Fear of Powerlessness" in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

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8:45

3 - 4  CONSTANCE A. TUBBS
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
The God of Loss: The Role of Velutha in The God of Small Things

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9:00

3 - 5  GUINEVERE A. LAWSON
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Siblings and Love Laws in Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things and V. C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic

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8:00 - 9:15 • VH 1324
SESSION 4
Oral -
English VII

Presiding: Robert Mielke

8:00

4 - 1  JESSICA M. JENKOT
Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
Gender and Race in Second Class Citizen and Their Eyes Were Watching God

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8:15

4 - 2  KATHRYN E. FRITZ
Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
Séance: Finding and Expressing the Poetic in Research

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8:30

4 - 3  KATHERINE E. RAMLOSE
Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
Tom Stoppard's Portrayal of Czechoslovakian History in Rock 'n' Roll

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8:45

4 - 4  KATHERINE V. MURPHY
Dr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor
Their Side of the Story: A Multi-Genre Exploration of Autobiography

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9:00

4 - 5  MADISON C. MARCH
Dr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor
Class, Gender, and Diaspora: The Role of Status and Flexibility in Buchi Emecheta's Second-Class Citizen

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9:15 - 9:30 am • MG Cyber Cafe, OP Lobby, & VH Lobby
Break

9:30 - 10:45 • VH 1236
SESSION 14
Oral -
English XII

Presiding: Julianna Taylor

9:30

14 - 1  MEAGAN E. MCGLASSON
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
The Binary Nature of Sexuality in Xinran's The Good Women of China and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

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9:45

14 - 2  LAUREN A. BAKER
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Discriminatory Attitudes Toward Men's and Women's Sexual Needs in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

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10:00

14 - 3  JENNIFER L. WILBORN
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Portrayals of Loss in Xinran's The Good Women of China.

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10:15

14 - 4  AMANDA L. WILLIAMS
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Of All Things Female: The Écriture Féminine in The God of Small Things

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10:30

14 - 5  MICHELLE E. NORIEGA
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Reducing Homosexuality to a Stereotype in Xinran's The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

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9:30 - 10:45 • VH 1408
SESSION 15
Oral -
English X

Presiding: Hena Ahmad

9:30

15 - 1  TREVOR A. GRIZZELL
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy: Transnational Visions of Women's India(s)

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9:45

15 - 2  MADISON C. MARCH
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Class Consciousness in Sunlight on a Broken Column: Locating the Connections between Attia Hosain and the Progressive Writers' Movement

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10:00

15 - 3  SAMANTHA R. SIMMS
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Antidepressants for an Uplifting Future?

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10:15

15 - 4  REBECCA J. KOLL
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Driven to Despair: A Psychoanalytical Examination of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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10:30

15 - 5  ASHLEY L. WOLF
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
"When the Dream is Over": A Psychoanalytic Reading of Agha Shahid Ali's "I Dream It Is Afternoon When I Return to Delhi"

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9:30 - 10:45 • VH 1324
SESSION 16
Oral -
English V

Presiding: Anthony Meyer

9:30

16 - 1  IAN J. CANTRELL
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Through a Surrealist Lens: Memory and Dreams in The Half-Inch Himalayas by Agha Shahid Ali

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9:45

16 - 2  DEVIN K. O'BRYAN
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
"My Body Casts His Shadow": Exploring the Uncanny in Agha Shahid Ali's The Half-Inch Himalayas

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10:00

10:15

10:30

16 - 5  MEGAN A. KABLER
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Exile, Loss, and Longing in Agha Shahid Ali's The Half-Inch Himalayas

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11:00 am - 12:15 pm • VH 1000
Plenary Session: All Disciplines

From the Bible to Star Wars: Religion and Popular Culture

John Lyden,Visiting Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Grand View University


1:15 - 2:30 • VH 1236
SESSION 24
Oral -
English II

Presiding: Kelly Tharp

1:15

24 - 1  JULIE E. PERREY
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
It Had To Be You: An Analysis of Women's Relationships in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

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1:30

24 - 2  CHARUNDI K. PANAGODA
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
An Ecofeminist and Ecocritical Analysis of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

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1:45

24 - 3  JESSICA M. JENKOT
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
All Is Fair In Love and War: Love in Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things

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2:00

24 - 4  TIANNA K. SIMENSON
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
The Loss of Innocence in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

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2:15

24 - 5  EMILY J. AUTREY
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Locked Out of the History House: Criticizing Orientalism in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

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1:15 - 2:30 • VH 1408
SESSION 25
Oral -
English VI

Presiding: Karianne Jones

1:15

25 - 1  JAIME N. CHAMBERS
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Geography of the Self: Landscape and Identity in Agha Shahid Ali's "Postcard from Kashmir"

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1:30

25 - 2  ERIC R. GAULDEN
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
A Redefinition of Home: An Analysis of "Postcard from Kashmir"

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1:45

25 - 3  OMONSEIGHO O. ESANGBEDO
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
EXILE: An Analysis of Agha Shahid Ali's "Postcard from Kashmir"

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2:00

25 - 4  CAROLINA SCALZO
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Sustaining the Human Dignity of Biotechnology: A Plausible Cause?

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2:15

25 - 5  JULIANNE E. MEYER
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
"To Crush or to Hold": The Power of a Mother in Janet Fitch's White Oleander

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1:15 - 2:30 • VH 1324
SESSION 26
Oral -
English VIII

Presiding: Linda Seidel

1:15

26 - 1  KATHRYN J. MCCLAIN
Dr. Sarah Mohler, Faculty Mentor
Interlocking Worlds: A Cognitive Reading of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

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1:30

26 - 2  STEPHEN J. FURLONG
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
How Parents Shape Us: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Plath's "Daddy" and Hughes' "Mother to Son"

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2:00

26 - 4  DAVID D. WINN
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
An Examination of Insanity and Allusion in Vladimir Nabokov's "Signs and Symbols"

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1:15 - 2:30 • VH 1228
SESSION 33
Oral -
Education

Presiding: Paul Yoder

1:30

33 - 2  REBECCA PUND*♦ and ALAINA MEUTH♦
Dr. Barbara Price and Dr. Paul L. Yoder, Faculty Mentors
Comparing the Effectiveness of Vocabulary Instruction Methods

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2:00

33 - 4  ALLISON B. PHILLIPS♦
Dr. Paul L. Yoder, Faculty Mentor
Increasing Student Engagement and Comprehension Through Literature Circles

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2:30 - 2:45 pm • MG Cyber Cafe, OP Lobby, & VH Lobby
Break

2:45 - 4:15 • VH 1236
SESSION 38
Oral -
English III

Presiding: Alanna Preussner

2:45

38 - 1  TOM FRANKEN
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Structure and Chaos: Examining Dominant and Submissive Entities in The God of Small Things

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3:00

38 - 2  MEGHAN L. NEWTON
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Color as Metaphor: The Psychological Significance of Color in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

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3:15

38 - 3  SERENA A. KARRAKER
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
A Marxist Approach to Roy's The God of Small Things

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3:30

38 - 4  KURTIS B. MILBERG
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
The Evasion of Dreams in The God of Small Things

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3:45

38 - 5  ANN N. RICE
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
The Caste of Arundhati Roy's Novel The God of Small Things

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2:45 - 4:15 • VH 1408
SESSION 39
Oral -
English IX

Presiding: Kasey Perkins

2:45

39 - 1  ALISON N. STAGNER
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Presentation Withdrawn

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3:00

39 - 2  JANNA E. LANGHOLZ
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Things Incapable of Communication: Ambiguity and Absurdity in Post-War Japan

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3:15

39 - 3  KI'ARA D. CROSS
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
The Characteristics of a Good Woman in The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices

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3:30

39 - 4  JAMES LEWIS
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
The Oppression of the Individual: A New Historicist Analysis of Lao She's The Rickshaw Boy

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3:45

2:45 - 4:15 • VH 1324
SESSION 41
Oral -
English I

Presiding: Hena Ahmad

2:45

41 - 1  JAMES W. MELLISH
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
"What You Want Destroys What You Need": A Marxist Criticism of Vance Moore's Odyssey

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3:00

41 - 2  ALEXANDER C. DAGUE
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
"The Cask of Amontillado": A Psychoanalytic Criticism

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3:15

41 - 3  MEGAN A. CALDWELL
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
A Woman's Way; A Feminist-Marxist Analysis of A Doll's House and "A Rose for Emily"

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3:30

41 - 4  BRANDON S. WHITMORE
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
"Maps and Mirrors" in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines

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3:45

41 - 5  JUSTINE C. DE ROACH
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
A Marxist Interpretation of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

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2:45 - 4:15 • MG 2090
SESSION 44
Oral -
Philosophy & Religion II

Presiding: Lloyd Pflueger

3:00

44 - 2  RACHEL E. WHITE
Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor
Three Women in the Wrong; A Feminist Approach to the Stories of Eve, Delilah, and Mary Magdalene in the Bible

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4:30 - 5:15 pm • Alumni Room - SUB
Chandler Monroe Oratorical Contest Winner Speeches and Award Presentations

4:30 - 5:30 pm • Student Union - Georgian Room
Reception

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