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ENGLISH & LINGUISTICS SENIOR SEMINAR CONFERENCE
April 23-24, 2015
Thursday, April 23
9am-10:20
Georgian A (SUB 2016)
Moderator: Rebecca Dierking
9am Emily Schwent, “Associations, Aspirations, and Outcasts in the 1920's: An Analysis of
"Passing" in Nella Larsen's Works and Life”
9:15 Jessica Chiodini, “Western Feminism and Its Shortcomings: Nella Larsen's Passing
as a critique of femininity”
9:30 Ryan Webb, “The Great Gatsby: Film Adaptation and Hutcheon's Four Clichés”
9:45 Jessica Wilke, “Mockingjay and Media Styles: The Relationship between Adaptation
and Critical Media”
10am Elizabeth Wolk, “Asexual Novella Adapation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast”
Georgian B (SUB 2017)
Moderator: Stephen Shapiro
9am Amy Allemang, “Specific Language Impairment as a Predictor of Early Narrative Skill”
9:15 Eric Wickert, “Kalevala: Thematic Generalizations from Russian Epics”
9:30 Amber Wienhaus, “Lost in Translation: The Oneida Creation Myth”
9:45 Titus Fansler, “Narrative Structure in Kiowa Storytelling”
10am Binh Tran, “Conversational Narrative of Vietnamese Speakers”
10:30am-11:50
Georgian A (SUB 2016)
Moderator: Taylor Latham
10:30 Jordan Fort, “From Swords to Six-Shooters: Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven”
10:45 Cassandra Roeslein, “The Patriarchy in The Great Gatsby: Gender Roles in
America in the 1920s”
11am Alexandra Timmer, “The Profile of Dorian Gray”
11:15 Samantha McCain, “African American Women in the 1920s: Nella Larsen's Protagonist
the Tragic Mulatta”
11:30 Kaitlyn Fowle, “Naomi Wolf & Thomas Pynchon: A Critique of Esther's Nose Job”
Georgian B
10:30
10:45
11am
(SUB 2017)
Moderator: Heather Cianciola
Amy Soto, “¡Simón! : An Analysis of Code-switching in Latino Children’s Literature”
Garrett Kelsey, “Choice in Video Game Narrative”
Claire Drone-Silvers, “Passive-Aggressive: An Analyis of Passive Forms in Caesar's
De Bello Gallico”
11:15 Michelle Hooper, “The Representation of Rape”
11:30 Heaven Desmond, “Use of Adjectives in the Horror Genre”
KEYNOTE
12pm
Georgian B (SUB2107)
Akela Cooper, "When Nobody Knows Your Name: How Grad School
Helped Me Start My Screenwriting Career."
1:30pm-2:50
Georgian A (SUB 2016)
Moderator: Jocelyn Cullity
1:30 Neva Sheaffer, “'Nasty Pretty Girls' or the Femme Fatale Role Mode in Film & V”
1:45 Blair Hill, “The Princesses of Heart: Feminism in Kingdom Hearts”
2pm Andrew Cogswell, “Pitching Y: The Last Man for Television”
2:15 Nick Gibson, “Deceptions of the Self and Others”
2:30 Kayla Compton, “Sebastian”
Georgian B (SUB 2017)
Moderator: Royce Kallerud
1:30 Lauren Baker & Nic Evans, “[Insert Funny Title Here]”
2pm Calley Sivils, “The Story of Our Lives: Narration and Facebook”
2:15 Jeffrey Leafblad, “Anaphora Resolution in Narratives”
2:30 Amy Jones, “Narratives & Autism Spectrum Disorders”
3pm-4:20
Georgian A (SUB 2016)
Moderator: Priscilla Riggle
3pm Henry Janssen, “Assimilation of High- and Low-Culture in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow”
3:15 Zoe Maffitt, “Sic: A Multimedia, Multi-genre Project”
3:30 Maria Taboada, “5th Portal: A Fantasy Roadtrip Novel”
3:45 Carl Kirk, “A Historical Context and Analysis in V”
4pm Zach Venturella, "Surreal on Screen: How Poetry Can Impact Screenwriting"
3pm – 3:50
Georgian B (SUB 2017)
Moderator: Jamie Miller
3pm Junia Weatherbie & Jordan Davis, “Songs We Tell: Applying Linguistic Theory to
Musical Theater and Ballads”
3:30 Rachel Cain, “Computational Narratives”
Friday, April 24th
9:30-10:20am
Activities Room (SUB 3200)
Moderator: Rebecca Dierking
9:30 Chris Sheffer, “The Greater Gatsby: The Immortal, Incorruptible Ideal of Love and the
American Dream”
9:45 Elise Brummett, “The Utopia in Their Eyes: An Analysis of F. Scott Fitzgerald's and Willa
Cather's Portrayal of the Middle-Class in The Great Gatsby and The
Professor's House”
10am Olivia Muegge, “Unique Characters in a Family”
Conference Room (SUB 3000)
Moderator: Amy Sallwasser
9:30 Natalie Williams, “Title Themes in Pynchon's 'Entropy' and Joyce's 'The Dead'”
9:45 Jake Hurst, “For the Sake of the Song: Songs in the Works of Pynchon (Crying of
Lot 49 and Inherent Vice)”
10am Allison Tray, “From Underage Side-kick to Best Friend: The Adapted Story of James
'Bucky' Barnes”
10:30-11:20am
Activities Room (SUB 3200)
Moderator: Priscilla Riggle
10:30 Lincoln Brown, “Of Coyotes and My Father (Memoir)”
10:45 Rachel Davis, “Weaving Fictional Magic: Creating My First Novel”
11am Dan Owen, “Nihilism in Gravity’s Rainbow”
Conference Room (SUB 3000)
Moderator: Hayden Wilsey
10:30 Hannah Brockhaus, “Genre Conventions in Call the Midwife, Book and Television
Adaptation: A Case Study”
10:45 Keri Shine, “In the Height of Consumerism: Fitzgerald and Larsen and the
American Dream”
11am Caroline Maurer, “Beautiful Little Fools: Femininity and Humor in the works of
Dorothy Parker and Anita Loos”
11:30am-12:20pm
Activities Room (SUB 3200)
Moderator: Linda Seidel
11:30 Michelle Adams, “The Making of the Mulatta: Psychological Realism in Nella Larsen's
Passing”
11:45 Amelia Adams, “Liberation, Feminization, and Emasculation: Male Enervation and the
Power Struggles that arise in 1920's Masculine Communities”
12pm Nick Kilgore, “Reprobate”
Conference Room (SUB 3000)
Moderator: Adam Davis
11:30 Megan Folken, “Comparative Analysis of Magical Realism in Thomas Pynchon's
Gravity's Rainbow and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude”
11:45 Doug Taul, “European Paranoia during WWII in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow”
12pm Natasha Honigfort, “DEATH NOTE: An Evaluation of Differences between Manga,
Anime, and Live Action Movies”
12:30
KEYNOTE
Activities Room (SUB 3200)
Akela Cooper, “Folklore as Persuasion in Grimm and The 100: A
Scriptwriter’s Perspective on SciFi Horror.”
1:30-2:20pm
Activities Room (SUB 3200)
Moderator: Amy Sallwasser
1:30 Seth Emery, “Compulsory Masculinity and War Wounds: Exploring Injury and Manhood
in The Sun Also Rises and Hearts in Atlantis”
1:45 Christian Orlet, “The New Woman: Defying Gender Stereotypes”
2pm Ellen Burken, “Pig Bodine: American Sailors and the Crude Masculine Identity”
Conference Room (SUB 3000)
Moderator: Jocelyn Cullity
1:30 Devan Codi Caton, “Eleanor & Park, An Adaptation for the Screen”
1:45 Samantha Nassar, “Memoir Writing and Film Adapting – Through the Lens of
Eat, Pray, Love”
2pm Emily Wildhaber, “The Wake: Losing the Parish Rectory”
2:30-3:20pm
Activities Room (SUB 3200)
Moderator: Betsy Delmonico
2:30 Drew Roberson, “The Limits of Interpretation of Pynchon's Postmodernism”
2:45 Justin Duello, “Sherlock Holmes in Modern Days: An Investigation in Adaptation”
3pm Connor Maguire, “Adapting the Brothers Grimm: Anne Sexton's Transformations”
Conference Room (SUB 3000)
Moderator: Hena Ahmad
2:30 Kira Gresoski, “If Only Daughter Could Say: Reaching Towards the Unvoiced Feminine in
Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury”
2:45 Lydia Whitacre, “A Decade for Beginnings in Shifts of Perspective: Distinct Binary
Categories of Gender and Race and 'Passing' in Larsen, Toomer, and Hemingway”
3pm Kelsey Ruoff, “InTents: a Short Story of Short Stories”
3:30-4:20pm
Activities Room (SUB 3200)
Moderator: Kevin Manley
3:30 Carly Rae Winchell, “'Crash Course' in Screenwriting”
3:45 Kaylee Kohne, “Vs.: A Graphic Novel”
4pm Deanna Susek, “Demeter and the Pastoral”
3:30-4:20pm (cont.)
Conference Room (SUB 3000)
Moderator: Bob Mielke
3:30 Hector Funtes, “A Referential Criticism Reading of Gravity's Rainbow: A Meta-Critical
Approach”
3:45 Bianca Kliethermes, “A Freudian Reading of the Animate/Inanimate Tensions in V”
4pm Sarah Moutray, “Valiant or Venomous: the 1920’s “New Woman” as Portrayed by
Hemingway’s Lady Brett Ashley”
4:30-5pm
Conference Room (SUB 3000)
Moderator: Adam Davis
4:30 Jamie McBurnett, “Nine Lives”
4:45 Katie Lavery , "Love Notes: A Collection of Narrative Poems"