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UNIVERSITY OF ST.

FRANCIS JOLIET, ILLINOIS

22nd ANNUAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE


SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2013 8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. REGISTRATION Welcome Remarks KEYNOTE ADDRESS Susanna Childress [On Writing Poetry] MORNING SESSIONS

10:15-11:45 1. Shakespeares Comedies

Socializing the Falcon: Petruchios Manipulation of Falconry Techniques In Taming Katherine by Kristen Raczka, Dominican University Hierarchy, Ability, and Function in The Tempest by Manuel Jacquez, Fresno State University A Brief History of A Midsummer Nights Dream in the Theater and Its Evolution by Phillip Brumbaugh, University of Illinois Imagination and the Lover in A Midsummer Nights Dream by Sarah Haley, University of St. Francis 2. African-Americans in Literature Song of Myself, The Anti-Slavery Poem by Ryan Lindemulder, Trinity Christian College

Shifting Perspective and Morality in Morrisons Sula by Adam Schuster, University of Colorado Internet: The New Spoken Word Forum by Rekara Gage, Towson University Paul Laurence Dunbar and the establishment of African American Modernist Identity by Katerina Canyon, St. Louis University 3. Contemporary Literature The Relationship of Horses in Cormac McCarthys All The Pretty Horses by Kirstan Trauba, University of Wisconsin "The Anime Cyborg: A Thing of the Present. A Conversation with Ghost in the Shell" by Hannah Huisman, Trinity Christian College. So Irrefutable It Cant Be True: The Erosion of the Traditional Scientific Narrative in Randy Shilts And the Band Played On by Diana Carter, Whitworth University Warhol: The POPist of Modern Life by Leah Yanuszeki, Wayne State University 4. Creative Writing: Poetry The Clock by Lilbeth Moreno, University of California, San Diego Game Over by Esther Kim Conmy, University of Hawaii How It Feels by James Reid, University of Central Florida In Defense of Burning the Forest by Doug Overbeck, University of St. Francis 5. Religion & Literature Eden and Erik Erikson: Pyschosocial Theory and the Garden of Eden by Alexander Zhitnik, Lesley University Decapitulation in Hemingways Sun Also Rises by Ethan Holmes, Trinity Christian College A Conversion to Charity in Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger, Jr. by Brittany Brewer, Indiana University

6. Gender & Sexuality I If Only They Had Viagra: Impotence and Gendered Power Dynamics in Seventeenth Century Society by Bridget Kramer, Indiana University Remember the Ladies: Individuality, Community, and Equality of Early and Modern Women by Rebekka Strom, Oglethorpe University Karl Marx, Henry Adams, and Simone de Beauvoir: WomanBabylon or BabyMaker? by Blake Alderman, Catholic University of America Mina Loys Representation of Feminism and Sexuality by Cheja Tucker, Towson University 11:45-12:45 12:45-2:30 7. Elizabethan Theater Utopia Found in The Shoemaker's Holiday by Brittany Rucin, Trinity Christian College The Language of Love: Suitors Repudiation of Paternal Behavior in Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, and King Lear by Rebecca Jones, Christopher Newport University Transformation and Mania: The Moment of Madness, Crisis, and Defamiliarization in Hamlet, King Lear, and Pericles by Cameron Nuss, Wayne State University Sibling Relationships in Revenge Tragedies: Hamlet, The Spanish Tragedy, and The Revengers Tragedy by Charlotte Kupsh, University of Wisconsin 8. On Poetry I George Herberts Vision of Grace by Anna Phillips, Trinity Christian College Achieving a Christ-like Body, Mind, and Soul: An Eco-Theological Look at the Poetry and Sermons of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Lydia Presley, Eureka College LUNCH EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Wilfred Owen: The De-Romanticization of War by Emily Bruinius, Trinity Christian College Poetic Renarration as Theology: Dietrich Bonhoeffers Jonah and the Prophetic Office by Jeremiah Coogan, Wheaton University 9. Nineteenth-Century Novel Jane Eyre: An Unlikely Heroine by Samantha Venhuizen, Trinity Christian College Jane Eyre and the Laws of Nature by Brittany Worthington, Kalamazoo College Treatment of Estate Improvement in Mansfield Park by Marie Albiges, Christopher Newport University Tolstoys Shades of Gray in Tolstoys Anna Karenina by Bradford Boonstra, University of Chicago 10. Literature of the Early Twentieth Century Responsibility: The Uncanny Crisis of Ethan Frome, a Modern Tragedy by Rebecca Woestman, Towson University Joyces Ulysses, Dada, and the Schema by Nick Kleese, University of Iowa Marriage as a Social Convention in Joyces Boarding House by Kevin Sterne, DePaul University Whats Missing?: The Presence of Absence in Dubliners by Tyler Flynn, John Carroll University 11. World Literature I The Meaning Behind Every Story in The Heart of Darkness and Wide Sargasso Sea by Rebecca Jones, Christopher Newport University The Desire For Freedom in the Stories of Danticat and Aidoo by Lanetta Dickens, University of Houston Defending the Drinkard by Erin Dedin, University of St. Francis

Mimicry, Hybridity, and Ambivalence in Salihs Season of Migration to the North by Graham Hall, University of Central Florida 12. Trauma Narratives The Portrait of War In Young Adult Literature by Margaret Kinder, West Virginia University Healing and Creative Expression: The Symbolism of Art in Trauma Literature by Hannah Hunt, Christopher Newport University Speak and Thirteen Reasons Why by Rebekah Palmer, University of Wisconsin 2:45 P.M. 4:15 p.m. LATER AFTERNOON SESSIONS

13. Gender & Sexuality II Anorexia and Atwoods Edible Woman by Adina Shuttari, Wayne State University The Struggle for Masculinity in Dorothy Allisons Bastard Out of Carolina by Elaine Zautke, Cardinal Stritch University Glen or Glenda: Ed Wood and Gender Confusion by Leah Kuffner, University of Central Florida Immortalizing Lolita by Ashley Plack, Towson University 14. On Poetry II e.e. cummings: Surrealism, Emotion, and the rites of Spring by Sarah Hiscock, University of St. Francis
The Wren Opon her Nest: Gendering Language in Emily Dickinsons Master Letters by Sara Harvey, University of Northern Colorado

The Merger of the Sister Arts: Blakes Synthesis of the Visual and Verbal by Jamie Weber, Eureka College 15. History & Politics Predestined to Revolution: Puritan Rhetoric and Themes in Tom Paine's Common Sense by Doug DePalma, Depaul University

The Empirical Desert of The Real: Locke, Berkeley, and Baudrillard by Kenneth Alba, Southern Connecticut State University Colonialism, American Indians, and Childrens Literature by Emma Hudspath, Illinois College The Black Veil over America: A Meditation on Corruption by Allison Giannotti, University of Pittsburgh 16. Medieval Literature The Pandering of Pandarus by Samantha Crane, McKendree University The Love of Life: Playing Games in Sir Gawain and The Green Knight by Anna Shane, University of Chicago Framed by Funerals: Beowulf As An End-of-Era Elegy by Rachel Jason, Carthage College 17. World Literatre II Living in the Land: A Comparative Inquiry into Geographic Metaphor in Dante' Inferno and Walcott's Omeros by Wesley Cocozello, Catholic University of America The Memoirs of Women In India by Alison Elder, Texas A&M University The Familiarity in Ishiguros Never Let Me Go by Karlianne Seri, Towson University Reading The World: Sebalds Rings of Saturn by Tyler Lutz, University of Chicago 18. Creative Writing: Short Stories Cold Knife Incision by Meaghan Ellis, Towson University A Wicked Girl by Erin DeSoto, The University of Arizona Caroline by Laura Hart, SUNY Fredonia Sunken Ships by Micah Mammano, Columbia College

Hostages by Laurel Abell, Towson University 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Alicia Erian [On Writing A Memoir] CONFERENCE DINER

6:15 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Spring Musical The USF Sometimes Thespians Present 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE a one act musical comedy conceived by Rebecca Feldman, with music and lyrics by William Finn based on a book by Rachel Sheinkin, with additional material by Jay Reiss

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