Program-At-A-Glance
Presiding: Holly Fling
8:00
102 - 1 JEREMEY W. KINGDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Imitative Heteronormative Masculinity in Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask
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8:15
102 - 2 RACHEL R. MERTENSDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Mother as Both Caretaker and Protector: Rehana Haque's Empowerment in Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age (2007)
8:30
102 - 3 REBECCA L. HANCOCKDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The Magnitude of the Small: An Ecofeminist Analysis of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
8:45
102 - 4 KYLE M. LEHENBAUERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Migration of Displacement: A Deconstructive Analysis of Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows
9:00
102 - 5 THERESE M. SPOLLENDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Nation and Identity in Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows
Presiding: Royce Kallerud
105 - 1 MATTHEW A. SLUDERDr. Royce Kallerud, Faculty Mentor Framing the Strange: An Analysis of Naturalization by Genre Cues at Work with Sherwood Anderson's "Hands"
105 - 2 CATHERINE A. DUGGANDr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor Take Off the Beer Goggles: A Rethinking of Czech Poetry
105 - 3 RACHEL A. SPILLARSDr. Royce Kallerud, Faculty Mentor The Beginning of Our Horror Obsession in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto: Naïveté and Binary Opposition in the Gothic Sublime
105 - 4 JOHN H. GIBBSDr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor "I Could Be A Biologist In This Poem": Reexamining What Comprises Voice
Presiding: Linda Seidel
106 - 3 JOEL A. GEDERSDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Descendant Without Ancestors: A Critical Analysis of Agha Shahid Ali's "Cracked Portraits" and "Snowmen."
106 - 4 JULIE A. WIKLEDr. Heather Cianciola, Faculty Mentor Ballet from a Positive Feminist Perspective
Presiding: Hena Ahmad
109 - 1 DAIVD D. WINNDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor An Existential Wail
109 - 2 GARRETT M. KELSEYDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Scream of Silence: An Autobiographical/Existentialist Examination of Kenzaburo Oe's The Silent Cry
109 - 3 NICOLE P. RENFRODr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Confessions of a Mask: Norms and Socially Constructed Gender Roles
109 - 4 JACOB S. WADDELLDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The Grotesque Realism of Kenzaburo Oe's The Silent Cry
305 - 5 MIA POHLMANDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor "This Cry is Foreign:" Imagery and Displacement in Agha Shahid Ali's "A Call" and "Houses"
Presiding: Elizabeth Delmonico
110 - 1 CHARLOTTE E. MERRIGANDr. Linda Seidel, Faculty Mentor The Illusion of No Child
110 - 2 NATHAN J. SANDBOTHEDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Ghosts & Benedictions: James Joyce's The Dead
110 - 3 BELKISA CAUSEVICDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor "Bridging the Gap": The Nature of Life and Death in Jose Saramago's All the Names
110 - 4 CALLYN N. BURGESSDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Orientalism in North Africa: A Case Study of Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup
110 - 5 SIAN M. HUMMELDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor "Homage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz": Agha Shahid Ali's Translation of Poetry
Presiding: Wendy Miner
113 - 2 JEREMY E. MAPP♦Dr. Wendy Miner, Faculty Mentor Comparing Reading Comprehension of Self-Selected Texts With Fourth-Grade Book Sets
Presiding: Sarah Mohler
9:30
203 - 1 HILARY KUNTZDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Psychoanalyzing Ammu: A Lacanian Interpretation of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
9:45
203 - 2 EARL JACKSONDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Political Analyzation of The Shadow Lines
10:00
203 - 3 CASEY L. HENDERSONDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor (Re)Locating the Subject and Verb: How Graphic Elements in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis Replace and Enhance Its Linguistic Components
10:15
203 - 4 LAURA BLUNKDr. Sarah Mohler, Faculty Mentor Imagining Ahab: Reader Visualization in Moby-Dick
10:30
203 - 5 ERIN L. GRUENEBERGDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Kept in the Shadows: A Postcolonial/Disability Reading of Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day
212 - 1 BRANDON M. CARTERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello: A Comparative Analysis of Agha Shahid Ali's "Vacating an Apartment "and "The Previous Occupant"
212 - 2 ASHLEY M. ADAMSDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Lingual Hierarchy: An Analysis of Language Use in Postmodern Indian Literature
212 - 3 MADELINE J. WATSONDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor "A Psychoanalytic Reading of Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask"
212 - 4 TARA DONELSONDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Conflicting Identities in Burnt Shadows
212 - 5 LAWRENCE K. LUODr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor When Religion, Culture and Castes Clash
Eugenics in 20th Century America: The Kirksville Connection
David Micklos, Executive Director, Dolan DNA Learning Center
Presiding: Barbara Price
1:00
302 - 1 SHANNON K. KELLEY♦Dr. Robert Martin and Dr. Barbara Price, Faculty Mentors The Effects of Class Drafting Time on Student Writing
1:20
302 - 2 KAYLA N. JUNGERMANN♦Dr. Barbara Price and Dr. Robert Martin, Faculty Mentors Effects of Combining Foundational Grammar Instruction with Inclusion Strategies on Student Writing
1:40
302 - 3 EMILY J. ADKINSON♦Dr. Robert Martin, Faculty Mentor The Effect of Kinesthetic Activities on Vocabulary Acquisition
2:00
302 - 4 JULIANNA K. TAYLOR♦Dr. Barbara Price, Faculty Mentor Paradigm Shift in the Secondary English Classroom: What Literacy Educators Should Be Doing
Presiding: Bob Mielke
1:30
307 - 3 ASHLEY N. BUTNERDr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor Reexamining the Bad: A Historical Perspective on the Pro-Plantation Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
1:45
307 - 4 SUSAN M. HORAKDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor "Worshiping Shirley Temple:" An African American, Feminist Criticism of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
307 - 5 STEPHANIE R. SCHAEFERDr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor Beauty and Propaganda: W.E.B Du Bois, Abel Meeropol, James Weldon Johnson, and Paul Laurence Dunbar
312 - 1 AMY N. SALLWASSERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Questioning the Traditional Role of Motherhood in Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age
1:15
312 - 2 MADELINE J. WATSONDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor "A Feminist Reading of Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows"
312 - 3 ANN N. RICEDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Feminist Approach to Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day
312 - 4 ANDREW W. GAGLIODr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The Shadows of History: A Feminist Critique of Agha Shahid Ali's "Snowmen" and "Story of a Silence"
408 - 5 ELIZABETH A. MARTCHINKDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age
2:30
405 - 1 MARGARET K. VARTY♦Dr. Barbara Price, Faculty Mentor The Effect of Practice on the Quality of Research Writing
3:10
405 - 3 ASHLEY S. KLEINSORGE♦Dr. Barbara Price, Faculty Mentor The Effect of Text-based Journal Prompts on Student Journal Completion
408 - 1 KOREY A. KIMBALLDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Feminist Reading of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children
2:45
408 - 2 HANNAH RACKERSDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Cutting Up History to Suit Yourself: Saleem Sinai's Unreliable Narration in Midnight's Children
3:00
408 - 3 DEANNA M. LEIBERDr. Christine Harker, Faculty Mentor "Giants' Work": Interpreting The Ruin
Presiding: Danielle Schieber
410 - 1 AMELIA M. ADAMSDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A New Day on Midnight's Children: Postcolonial Influences from Great Britain to India
410 - 2 MEREDITH N. RUPPDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Obtained in Translation: A Sociolinguistic Exploration of the Indian English in Midnight's Children
410 - 3 SARAH H. ANDREWS-WEISSDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Burnt Shadows: Unity and Division Combined (A Deconstructionist Approach)
3:15
410 - 4 KELSEY E. MCGOVERNDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Remembering the Past: A Psychoanalytical Analysis of The Half-Inch Himalayas
Presiding: Rebecca Harrison
412 - 1 LAURA A. WELLINGTONDr. Priscilla Riggle, Faculty Mentor Oh Frank? He's a Dragon: An Exploration of the Formation of Folk Groups Through Role-Playing Games
