The DePaul University
Department of English
Presents
Cruikshank, George. George
Cruikshank’s Table-book, London: Published
at the Punch Office, 1845. The Sixth Annual
English Spring
Conference
Arts and Letters Hall
May 8, 2015
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2015 DePaul English Spring Conference
Conference Coordinators
Hana Yoo
Graduate Assistant to Graduate Programs
MA in English
Anastasia Sasewich
Graduate Assistant to Undergraduate Programs
MA in Writing and Publishing
Faculty Advisor
Dr. John Shanahan
Associate Professor of English
Welcome to the 2015 DePaul English Spring Conference! We are
proud to showcase the work of more than forty talented DePaul
undergraduates and graduate students, and we hope you enjoy the
writing and research into which they have put so much effort.
The conference, now in its sixth year, has continued to grow in its
participation and support. We are pleased to offer DePaul
University graduate and undergraduate students the opportunity to
present both literary scholarship and creative writing to their
peers. The DePaul community has continued to demonstrate
enthusiasm for this annual event through writing submissions,
publicity for the conference, and attending the panels.
We would like to extend our thanks to all faculty and students who
volunteered to help with moderating panels. Without your help and
support, this wouldn’t be possible!
Special thanks to Jennifer Wright, for her advice in all aspects of
planning; to James Phelps, in communicating with undergraduate
students; and to Professors John Shanahan and Jennifer Conary for
advice and support in organizing this year’s event. The conference
gratefully acknowledges the generous financial support provided by
the Department of English.
We are honored to welcome author Crystal Chan today as our
keynote speaker. We hope you will join us tonight as she
shares with us her journey to becoming a successful author.
DePaul University Presents: and once again, we hope you
Congratulations
to all
the presenters,
enjoy the conference.
Lorem Ipsum Dolor Anastasia Sasewich and Hana Yoo
2015 English Spring Conference Coordinators
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Session One: noon–1:15 p.m.
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Room 409: Literary Analysis: Narrating Religion
1. Laura Anne Gray, “Is This Duress?”: The Rape of the
Lovesome Damsel in Chrétien de Troyes’ The Knight of the Cart
2. Marissa DePumpo, The End of the Affair and The Loneliness of
The Long Distance Runner: The Humanity of Unreliable Narration
3. Katelynn Moxon, What We Talk About When We Talk About
God: The Wonder of Religious Language and Negative
Predication in Literature
Room 410: Literary Analysis: Jane Austen
1. Sheila Gerhardt, Moral Worth and Corruption of Characters
within Mansfield Park
2. Sam Okrasinki, Emma Woodhouse: Ladies’ Woman?
3. Alyssa Walker, Sensing Mansfield Park: Sight and Sound and
Austen
4. Katherine Connolly, Mind Your Manners: The Importance of
Social Conformity for Austen’s Heroines
Room 412: Fiction
1. Ty Wilcosky, "To Be Born a Stone"
2. Anne Malina, "Bus Stop"
3. Rhiannon Lindgren, "Two Cold Shots of
Espresso"
4. Sam Garfinkel, "A Full Head of Hair"
Room 414: Fiction
1. Nina Gaulin, "The Piece" and "Cupcakes"
2. Adrianna Cole, "Untitled"
3. Kelly Holifield,"Chasing the Stars"
4. Avery Cunningham, Titans and Men: A Novel,
Chapter One
2015 Conference Volunteers
Feature d Alumna
Amanda Licastro, MAE ’08, is an Instructional Technology
Fellow through the Macaulay Honors College and an
instructor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
Her research focuses on the relationship between technology
and writing, where she applies digital humanities methods to
the questions raised by composition and rhetoric theory. She
is also the cofounder and project manager of The Writing
Studies Tree.
Spe cial Thanks …
… To alumni Tim Hillegonds, Maria Hlohowskyj, and Josh
Lesser for making the trek back to DePaul and regaling us
with your words of wisdom.
Thanks to our
Panel Mode rato rs!
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Keynote Presentation: 6 p.m. in ALH Room 103
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Crystal Chan
Session Two: 1:30–2:45 p.m.
Room 409: Fiction
1. Kevin Sterne, "Brush Strokes"
2. Melissa Weirick, "Because We Are Sisters"
Room 410: Poetry
1. Eric Hollander, “Some Ducks: Integral Serialism and
Conceptual Processes in Poetry Composition”
2. Kiah Stern, “Moonlight Hymn”
3. Alye Prentice, “Miscellaneous Poems from a Person of Affect”
4. Josh Fisher, “Between the Footnotes”
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Room 412: American Literature and Culture
1. Adam Syvertsen, The European American: Hawthorne and the
Early Nineteenth Century American Identity
2. Jordan Weber, “The long diminishing parade of time you didn’t
hear”: William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Race, and
Temporality
3. Edward Bonneau, Segregation Still Alive in Chicago: There’s
No Way Out
4. David Cherry, The American Dream Awakened in T.C. Boyle’s
Tortilla Curtain
Crystal Chan grew up as a mixed-race kid in the middle of the
Wisconsin cornfields and has been trying to find her place in the
world ever since. Over time, she found that her heart lies in public
speaking, performing, and ultimately, writing. She has given talks
and workshops across the country; facilitated discussion groups at
national conferences; is a professional storyteller for children and
adults alike; and contributes to Wisconsin Public Radio.
In Chicago, where Crystal now lives, you will find her biking along
the city streets and talking to her pet turtle. Her debut middlegrade novel, Bird, is published by Atheneum Books for Young
Readers.
Room 414: Writers Guild
This panel of regular group participants will provide an introduction to Writers Guild, one of
the UCWbL's writing groups, which provides a forum for the discussion of creative work in
DePaul University Presents: multiple
genres
and is available
to current students, alumni, and other members of the
DePaul community.
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(http://crystalchanwrites.com/bio)
Lorem Ipsum Dolor Avery Cunningham, MAWP ’16
Clare Stuber, MAWGS, ‘15
David Mathews, MAWP ‘13
Jennifer Finstrom, MAWP ‘12
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Session Three: 3–4:15 p.m.
Session Four: 4:30–5:45 p.m.
Room 409: Virginia Woolf
Room 409: Mythology
1. Daniel Clarkson, The Architecture of Death in Virginia Woolf’s
To The Lighthouse
2. Jade Turner, “A return to the land of what the land has given
me”: An Ecocritical Perspective on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A
Biography
Room 410: Poetry
1. Caleb Bromberg, “Weathered Moonpaint: Springwind Recital” 2. Dana Alsamsam, “Roots”
3. Meagan Anderson, “((tales from the psych ward and other
poems))”
Room 412: Creative Nonfiction: Families
1. Michael Cuaresma, “Grandma Jan and the Mexican Man”
2. Maddie Jones, “The Hauntedness of Absence”
3. Nikki Bartoloni, “My Boy”
Room 414: Editing the Literary Magazine (Crook & Folly Panel) 1. Anastasia Sasewich, Crook & Folly Nonfiction Genre Editor
2015
Eric Streichert, Crook & Folly Micro Prose Genre Editor 2015
Megan Pietz, Crook & Folly Copyeditor 2015
Dave Welch, Threshold Editor-in-Chief 2004
Stephanie Klein, Crook & Folly Events and Publicity
Coordinator 2015, and panel moderator
6. Eric Houghton and Lucina Schell, Crook & Folly Editors-inChief 2015
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1. Avery Cunningham, A Black Pawn and a White King: The
Main Characters of Titans and Men: A Novel and Their
Mythological Counterparts
2. Kate Currie, Blake's Concept of Innocence and Experience as
an Intertwined Relationship
3. Rachel Summerfield, Bestiary, Elise Paschen
4. Kristina Roderick, "A Dialogue between the Soul and
Body”: How Death Cab for Cutie Has the Answer
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Room 410: Eighteenth-Century Literature
1. James Neisen, No Sense, All Sensibility: Opinions on The
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
2. Mihaela Stoica, Fashion Rewarded: Clothing as Cultural
Artifact of Social Hybridity in Samuel Richardson's Pamela
3. Norah Alsuhaibani, A Close Reading of The Pilgrim’s Progress
Room 412: Alumni Career Panel
1. Maria Hlohowskyj, MAWP ’13, Creative Programs Manager
at StoryStudio Chicago and Words for Work Business Writing
Training
2. Josh Lesser, MAE ’14, Adjunct Instructor, Roosevelt
University, and Test-Prep Director for Chicago Academic
3. Tim Hillegonds, MAWP ’14, Essayist and founder of the
Chicago-based copyrighting agency Thrive Content Solutions
RoomFusce 414: “Digital
sagittis eHumanities:
lit eu elit. Where Your DePaul
Degree Can Take You”
Amanda Licastro, MAE ’08
N.B.: This is a hands-on workshop, and students are encouraged
to bring laptops or tablets.