Program-At-A-Glance
Presiding: Jonathan Lawinger, GTRA
8:15 am
6 - 1 MIKE T. WESTPHALDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor “Not a Vacuum”: A Postcolonial Analysis of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
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8:30 am
6 - 2 MELISSA N. DRYERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Fighting for Peace: A Historical Analysis of Mia Couto’s Sleepwalking Land
8:45 am
6 - 3 MARTIN L. GALLOWAYDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The Devastating Swarm: The Impact of Colonization in Achebe's Things Fall Apart
9:00 am
6 - 4 JAMES N. COLLINSDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Hegemony versus Tradition: The Power of Colonialism in Things Fall Apart
9:15 am
6 - 5 ANDREW J. LINHARESDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Examining Marxism and Biblical Imagery in Ngugi’s A Grain of Wheat
Presiding: Dr. Paul Yoder, Assistant Professor of English Education
7 - 1 DELISA D. YOUNGDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor The Electra Complex in Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca
7 - 2 DANIEL W. CONWAYDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor King Lear's Deal with the Devil
7 - 3 JENNIFER L. MASSADr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Of Hobbits and Lacan: Bilbo’s Journey to Reconnect With His Mother
7 - 4 ALY N. PALCHICKDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Feminist Analysis of Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess
Presiding: Dr. Sally Cook, Associate Professor of Linguistics
8 - 1 JOHN D. TRESSLER*, HANNAH J. KAY, LAINEY R. SEYLER, and JOANNA M. RISTOWDr. Mary Shapiro, Faculty Mentor What IM Saying: Instant Messaging as a Unique Linguistic Form
8 - 2 ANDREA E. CLUCKDr. Sally Cook, Faculty Mentor Issues in Contrastive Rhetoric: Bridging the Gap Between English and Arabic
8 - 3 KATIE A. COXDr. Mary Shapiro, Faculty Mentor A Gender-Based Analysis of the Syntactic and Morphological Functions of Profanity
8 - 4 SAMANTHA R. PUTTHOFFDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Surrender, Resist: Language and Power in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
8 - 5 NEIL V. BALESDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Assimilating a Mouthful: Language and Cultural Connections in Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions
Presiding: Dr. Chett Breed, Professor of English
9 - 1 AMELIA K. HEMENWAYDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Questioning Gender Politics: An Examination of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway
9 - 2 MAYUMI NOGUCHIDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Interpreter Of The Unconscious: A Look At Jhumpa Lahiri’s "Interpreter of Maladies"
9 - 3 NICOLE L. RAYDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Marxist Analysis of the Institution of Marriage in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
9 - 4 MEGAN N. KINGDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor African American Women in the 1920s: Oppressive Dominated Hierarchies in Nella Larsen's Passing
9 - 5 BRETT B. NIEMANNDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Psychoanalytic Examination of Racial Identity in Nella Larsen's Passing
Presiding: Crystal Buffaloe, GTRA
10 - 1 ALEXANDER B. STOLLDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Women’s Glacial Slide to Recognition: Henry Adams’ Theory of History and the American Venus
10 - 2 LAURA A. PROVANCEDr. Bridget Thomas, Faculty Mentor Rome got beat by a girl: Women as a reflection of societal strength in Tacitus
10 - 3 JENIFER L. ROESEMEIERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Belles and Barbarians: The Difference of Gender and Class in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
10 - 4 ASHLEY E. LONGDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Time, Energy, and the "Academic" Agenda
10 - 5 JESSICA R. LUFKINDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Oppositions Guide the Representation of Madness in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power
Presiding: Dr. Thomas Stewart, Assistant Professor of Linguistics
9:45 am
23 - 1 TIFFANY D. CAESARDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Race, Class, and Gender in Southern Rhodesia: A Comparison of Lessing's The Grass is Singing and Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions
10:00 am
23 - 2 CHRISTINE M. CANNINGDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Gender (Im)Balance in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
10:15 am
23 - 3 AUDREY B. LEIHSERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Mumbi’s Task: Duty and Self-Identity in Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat
10:30 am
23 - 4 BLAKE B. NIEMANNDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Gender and Power Relationships in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa
Presiding: Dr. Clifton Kreps, Professor of Classics
24 - 1 AMY E. REYNOLDSDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Clubs and Axes: Truth, Prejudice, and Satire in Terry Pratchett's Thud!
24 - 2 JULIE C. DENTONDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Analyzing the Characters' Dreams in Of Mice and Men
24 - 3 ANN M. LOWEDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor "Who in the World am I?" Examining Personality in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
24 - 4 GEMMICKA F. PIPERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Tubular Reality: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Exploration of Amelie Nothomb's The Character of Rain
Presiding: Dr. Martha Bartter, Professor of English
25 - 1 KARA M. BOLLINGER Dr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Steinbeck’s Vision for Society in Cannery Row: A Marxist Approach
25 - 2 HARRY L. ALTHOFFDr. Martha Bartter, Faculty Mentor "Lonesome No More!": Kurt Vonnegut's Battle with Modern Isolation
25 - 3 KATHERINE J. HUFFMANDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Opponent and Ally: A Psychoanalytical Approach to A Separate Peace
25 - 4 DINGHAO HEDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Christian Story: Madeleine L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Presiding: Cassandra Phillips, GTRA
26 - 1 STACEY D. WALKERDr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor Madman in the Attic: Possession, Power, and Hypocrisy in Cather’s The Professor’s House
26 - 2 AMY N. DEIS* and ALAN J. REININGERDr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor The Preacher Who Doesn't Believe in God
26 - 3 AMY L. SHIPPDr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor The Subjugation of Women in Elmer Gantry
26 - 4 AMY L. SCHWEIZERDr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor Elmer Gantry's Manipulation by Music
Presiding: Talia Linneman, GTRA
27 - 1 PERRIN C. CARRELLProf. Mark Spitzer, Faculty Mentor Mapping the Strong Woman in Steinbeck
27 - 2 HEATHER N. FARRIERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
27 - 3 MARTIN L. GALLOWAYDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Cinderella: A Look at Fairytales through the Lens of Psychoanalytic Criticism
27 - 4 TRACEY M. HURTDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A New Historicist Examination of Masculinity in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
The Numbers Behind NUMB3RS: The real mathematical story that inspired the hit television series
Dr. Keith Devlin, Executive Director and Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, and "the Math Guy" on National Public Radio.
Presiding: Dr. James Cianciola, Assistant Professor of Communication
12:15 pm
RT-1 - JILL M. MOELLER*, ERIN L. BROOKS, KYLE M. BYBEE, GRACE A. DELNERO, LAURA N. GLASBRENNER, EMMA L. PAGEL, and ERIN PAGELDr. James Cianciola , Faculty Mentor Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication
Presiding: Dr. Gregg Siewert, Professor of French
1:15 pm
40 - 1 ASHLEY E. MORRISDr. Eric Jewell, Faculty Mentor Aspiration and Elision in Dominican Spanish
1:30 pm
40 - 2 LEIGH K. EDMONSTONDr. Patrick Lecaque, Faculty Mentor French Architecture in Missouri: An Analysis of Architectural Influences and Styles in the St. Louis Area
1:45 pm
40 - 3 BREANNA K. HULSEYDr. Matthew Tornatore, Faculty Mentor Script Conventions and Philosophy in Medieval Spain
2:00 pm
40 - 4 GREG S. WISERDr. Rodney Taylor, Faculty Mentor Schopenhauer's "Will" and Wittgenstein's "Object": A Comparative Interpretation
2:15 pm
40 - 5 KAYCE M. SWIGELSONDr. Patrick Lecaque, Faculty Mentor Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be: But If You Have To, Please Save the Documents for Posterity
Presiding: Dr. Patrick Lobert, Professor of French
41 - 1 JOHN E. FAUSZDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Sufism as a Model for the Migrant Condition in Rushdie's Satanic Verses
41 - 2 MICHAEL A. BONODr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor War Within Ali's "A Wrong Turn" and Rushdie's Midnight's Children
41 - 3 ARTHUR D. GREGGDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Picking Up the Shards: Fragmentation Themes as a Reaction to Post-Colonial Theories
41 - 4 BENJAMIN C. GARRETTDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Queering Ila: Looking at the possibilities with a Trans-National-Sexuality within the novel Shadow Lines
Presiding: Dr. Diane Johnson, Associate Professor of Communication
42 - 1 KRISTI J. LANGENDOERFERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Split Personality: The Many Faces of Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad in Mahfouz’s Palace Walk
42 - 2 NATALIE M. GORSKIDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Western Education and Personal Maturation in Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Mahfouz’s Palace of Desire
42 - 3 JOSH D. HUBERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Casualties of Homemaking in Society: An Examination of Amina in The Cairo Trilogy and Mainini in Nervous Conditions
42 - 4 SARA L. SHELDENDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor A Zulu Chief as the Tragic Hero: Thomas Mofolo’s Representation of Chaka Caught in Hamartia
42 - 5 ANDRES R. DELGADODr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Crowd Psychology in Zululand: Managing the Multitudes in Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka
Presiding: Dr. Royce Kallerud, Associate Professor of English
43 - 1 JOHN P. MCDONOUGHDr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor Oroonoko, Herakles, and the Meaning of Myth
43 - 2 SHAUNNA K. WILKINSONDr. Royce Kallerud, Faculty Mentor Why Happily Ever Does Not Mean What It Used To: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice As a Challenge To Traditional Cinderella Stories
43 - 3 BRITTANY R. NIELSEN WATSONDr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor "Blushing Virgins and Wanton Whores": Diverse Portrayals of Women in The Monk
43 - 4 SARAH E. MADDOX♦Dr. Royce Kallerud, Faculty Mentor Reshaping the Curriculum: An Examination Using Charlotte Smith
43 - 5 GINA R. COOKDr. Christine Harker, Faculty Mentor "Pendulum of Opposites" Palestinian-American Women's Poetry and the Conflict of Identities
Presiding: Dr. Sana Camara, Associate Professor of French
44 - 1 EMILY K. PUFALLDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Cultural and Economic Contexts and their Effects on Two Women's Struggles for Independence in Mariama Bâ's So Long A Letter
44 - 2 MEGAN E. SASSENRATHDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Negotiating Feminism and Tradition in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter
44 - 3 TERESA D. KERBAWYDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Political Vibrations: The Changing Expression of Negritude in "Black Woman" and Other Poems by Leopold Sedar Senghor
44 - 4 THOMAS E. MORGANDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Poetic or Politic?: The Double Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor
Presiding: Dr. Karon Speckman, Associate Professor of Communication
2:45 pm
56 - 1 SARA A. JAMESDr. Andrew Klyukovski, Faculty Mentor How Enlightened is Society of Motherhood
3:00 pm
56 - 2 LINDA E. SCHULTEDr. Andrew Klyukovski, Faculty Mentor Musical Rhetoric: Analysis of the Ideologies Expressed in the Music of Dmitri Shostakovich
3:15 pm
56 - 3 KATHERINE A. KLEINDr. Diane Johnson and Dr. Judy Harris, Faculty Mentors Parent-Child Communication: Effects on Child Development
3:30 pm
56 - 4 LAURA N. GLASBRENNERMr. Kristopher Stroup, Faculty Mentor Mythic Criticism on the Lyrics in Grief Songs
3:45 pm
56 - 5 SARA A. JAMESDr. Karon Speckman, Faculty Mentor Blogs and the First Amendment
57 - 1 HARRISON M. PARKSDr. Bob Mielke, Faculty Mentor "To Gaze upon the Chasm:" Critical Verse Inspired by the Work of Wallace Stevens
57 - 2 MICHAEL J. DERBYProf. Mark Spitzer, Faculty Mentor "A Good Spoon"
Presiding: Dr. David Partenheimer, Professor of English
58 - 1 ALEKSANDRA B. JUSZCZYKDr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor The Treatment of Space in Cather's The Professor’s House
58 - 2 CARA A. HURSTDr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor “I think I know what you did last night”: An Evaluation of Organized Midwestern Religion
58 - 3 DANA RUFENERDr. Alanna Preussner, Faculty Mentor Dangerous Crossing: Deconstruction of Stereotyped Gender Roles in Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and The Professor's House
58 - 4 COURTNEY B. SCHAEFERDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Freud, Oedipus, and Lacan: A Critique on the Freudian Psychoanalysis of Oedipus the King
Presiding: Dr. Elizabeth Delmonico, Professor of English
59 - 1 JENNIFER M. COOLIDGEDr. Betsy Delmonico, Faculty Mentor Teaching English in China: A Study in Proficiency and its Effect on Conferences with Second Language Students in the University Writing Center
59 - 2 ROBYN C. SKINNERDr. Betsy Delmonico, Faculty Mentor Pop or Soda? Analysis and Comparison of Black English in Chicago vs. St. Louis
59 - 3 KRISTY L. WARMBOLDDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Portrayals of Women in Egypt from 1917-1919 in Mahfouz's Palace Walk
59 - 4 ERIC M. BAUMBACHDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Engaging Historical Narrative in Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade
59 - 5 ELIZABETH C. RAINEDr. Hena Ahmad, Faculty Mentor Autobiographical Influences and Connections to the Reader as Seen in Soyinka’s Childhood and Dangarembga’s Conditions
