Program-At-A-Glance
Presiding: Hena Ahmad
8:00
107 - 1 ERIN M. TWENTERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Fear the Female: A Look at Okonkwo's Need to Display Masculinity in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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8:15
107 - 2 SARAH K. BARGERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Death and Destruction: A Postcolonial Analysis of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
8:30
107 - 3 KARI A. KOLDADr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor God is My Reason: The Effects of Post-Colonialism on Religion and Patriarchy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Purple Hibiscus
8:45
107 - 4 ERICA D. RAINESDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The Colonial Other: A Queer Studies Approach to Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
9:00
107 - 5 JENNIFER RILEYDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The Curious Hybrid Girl: Post-Colonial Literary Theory and Cultural Hybridity in Nervous Conditions
Presiding: Shirley McKamie
108 - 1 CONOR J. GEARINDr. Brent Orton, Faculty Mentor Britten’s War Requiem: Queering the Mass to Speak Against War
Presiding: James D'Agostino
110 - 1 CAITLIN M. CAREYDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor La Nepatla and the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
110 - 2 MARISA A. GEARINDr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor Blank Page: An Exploration of Poetry and Empty Space
110 - 3 S SALEHA JAWEIDDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Agha Shahid Alis The Half-Inch Himalayas: A Modernistic Bricolage in a Postmodernist Context
110 - 4 KAYLEEN M. GREENDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor How Many Realities Do You Live In?: The Usage of Realism Inside The Shadow Lines
110 - 5 CONOR J. GEARINDr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor The Poem as Argument: Attempts to Persuade the Reader with Image and Music
Presiding: Alanna Preussner
111 - 1 CARLY R. WINCHELLDr. Royce Kallerud, Faculty Mentor Caleb Williams: A Nihilist Perspective
111 - 2 ANNIE E. CONNORDr. Sarah Mohler, Faculty Mentor Read Me the World: A Framework for Successful Multicultural Children's Literature
111 - 3 MIQUELA M. TAFFADr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor The Liminal Indian: A Study of the Effects of Language on Culture
111 - 4 ZANE T. DEZEEUWDr. Sarah Mohler, Faculty Mentor Reevaluating Our Schema for the Novel: A Cognitive Analysis of "A Visit From the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan
Presiding: Rebecca Dierking
9:30
202 - 1 ANGELA E. JOHNSON♦Dr. Barbara Price and Dr. Rebecca Dierking, Faculty Mentors Effects of Modeling on Student Composition
9:45
202 - 2 KAYLEE R. VAN WEELDEN♦Dr. Barbara Price, Dr. Rebecca Dierking, and Dr. Monica Barron, Faculty Mentors Engaging Readers and Writers through E-Responding
10:00
202 - 3 KIRSTEN E. SELF♦Dr. Rebecca Dierking, Dr. Barbara Price, and Dr. Dana Smith, Faculty Mentors Making Sense of To Kill a Mockingbird: An Investigation of Multi-Sensory Workshops in the Language Arts Classroom
10:15
202 - 4 NATALIE E. VONARX♦Dr. Rebecca Dierking, Dr. Barbara Price, and Dr. Adam Davis, Faculty Mentors Publishing Student Writing
205 - 1 JAMILLIA E. LUNNDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Debunking the Myth of "the Dark Continent": Chinua Achebe's portrayal of pre-colonial Ibo society in his novel Things Fall Apart
205 - 2 SETH A. EMERYDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Childhood Trauma as a Postcolonial Device in The God of Small Things
205 - 3 MATTHEW L. PASSINIDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Use Your Perspective with Precision: How First-Person Perspective is Used to Explore Memory in The Shadow Lines
205 - 4 DANIEL W. TREMAINEDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Defining Family Relationships: A Queer Postcolonial Analysis of Jhumpa Lahiris The Lowland
Students as Digitally Enabled Scholars: Undergraduate Research in the Information Age
Jeffrey McClurken Chair and Professor of History and American Studies, University of Mary Washington
1:00
308 - 1 LYDIA A. WHITACREDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Baby Kochamma and Ammu as Victims and Perpetuators of the Cycle of Tragedy: A Postcolonial and Feminist Analysis of Arundhati Roys The God of Small Things
1:15
308 - 2 SAMANTHA N. BENNETTDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Papa Knows Best: An Analysis of Religion in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
1:30
308 - 3 CORBIN A. KOTTMANNDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor DNA and Destination: Diaspora and Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland
1:45
308 - 4 ABIGAYLE D. PHILLIPSDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Walking the Line; Freedom and Violence in the Shadow Lines
2:00
308 - 5 CULLEN ROOPDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The "Good Father": Deconstructing the Patriarch in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
Presiding: Elizabeth Delmonico
309 - 1 DREW A. KOBBYDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Undeniable Postcolonial Truths: Race, Class Gender in Michelle Cliff's Abeng
309 - 2 KIANA A. ROWANDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The Politics of Love Letters in Assia Djebars Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
309 - 3 NATHAN J. SANDBOTHEDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Finnegans Wake: James Joyce and His Public
309 - 4 DOUGLAS M. TAULDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The Cultural Weight of Agha Shahid Ali's "Prayer Rug"
Presiding: Scott Alberts
311 - 3 DREW ROBERSONDr. Monica Barron, Faculty Mentor Speech and Nonsense in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times
2:30
407 - 1 SARAH L. CHABOTDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The Hardest Thing I Have Ever Done
2:45
407 - 2 BRENDAN E. EZVANDr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor Staging the Nightmare of History: "Circe" as Theater of Cruelty
3:00
407 - 3 SABRINA M. GILLIARDDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The Lines that Separate Us: Political Borders and Personal Boundaries in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines
3:15
407 - 4 SAVANNAH ST. AUGUSTINEDr. James D'Agostino, Faculty Mentor Playing the Deck: A Study in the Fluidity of Poetry and Identity
410 - 1 AUDREY A. LANEDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Adichie's Purple Hibiscus: Postcolonial Individuals in the Postmodern World
410 - 2 SEBASTIAN G. MALDONADO-VELEZDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor "Canceling the Apocalypse": A Post-Colonial Study on Del Toro's "Pacific Rim"
410 - 3 ASHLEY A. LYNCHDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Voice in Bloom: Understanding the Transformation of Kambili's Identity in Chimamanda Adichie's Purple Hibiscus
410 - 4 ADRIANA M. LONGDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Voice for the Silenced: A Feminist Examination of Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
