Sigma Tau Delta 2025 Convention 19 - 22 Mar 2025 All times in EST

Wednesday, 19 March
3pm Registration
Kings Landing (2)
Thursday, 20 March

3pm Shop English Pop-Up Store 7am Breakfast Buffet

Kings Garden 4 (2) Ballroom Foyer (2)

3pm White Whale Bookstore 7:30am Registration

Kings Garden 5 (2) Kings Landing (2)

3pm Vendors 8am Shop English Pop-Up Store

Kings Garden 5 (2) Kings Garden 4 (2)

6:30pm Opening Ceremony 8am A-02—Student Leadership Workshop

Ballroom 1-2 (2) Ballroom 1-2 (2)
Chaired by: Autumn Koors-Foltz and Kelly Taylor

6:45pm Local Authors & Pittsburgh Literary History

Ballroom 1-2 (2) 8am A-01—Chapter Advisor Workshop
Ballroom 3 (2)
Chaired by: Kassia Krone and Felicia Steele

8pm Local Authors Book Signing

Kings Garden Foyer (2)
Chaired by: Kelly Taylor and Autumn Koors-Foltz and Matthew Chinique 8am A-03—Alumni Workshop
and Kaylee Stocks Ballroom 4 (2)
Chaired by: Tiffany Nolde and William Saccavino

8:45pm Rectangle Reading

Ballroom 1-2 (2)
Chaired by: Carie King

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March Shirley Jackson, Psychoanalysis, and Subversion

» Laci Burton (Stony Brook University)
9:30am B-01—Professional Development Workshop I
Terror in the South: Gendered Narratives in Southern Gothic
Kings Garden 1 (2)
» Aubrey Tangen (Florida State University)
Chaired by: Felicia Steele
Free Will and Forced Grace in Flannery O'Connor's "Greenleaf"
What Can You Do With an English Major? A Workshop on Mapping
Career Pathways for Students » Ashton Thomas (Louisiana Tech University)
» Janine Utell (Modern Language Association)
Truth that Liberates but Burdens: Cautions from The Yellow
Wallpaper
9:30am B-02—Professional Development Workshop II
» Kamyllie Gutierrez (Santa Clara University)
Kings Terrace (2)
Chaired by: Autumn Koors-Foltz and Kelly Taylor
11am C-02—American Lit: Man Kind
Kings Terrace (2)
What Can Student Leadership Do for You?
Chaired by: Zachariah Lawson and Larry Dennis
» Chris Wike, Allie Reznik, Kristen Capano, Kaitlynn Sass, Destiny Jones,
Elle Hardoin, & Ja’Vontaye Gagum
Masculine Change within Welty's "The Wide Net"
9:30am B-03—Professional Development Workshop III » Arista Elderkin (Berry College)
Kings Plaza (2)
Chaired by: Ellen Foster Bullet in the Burnout: Anders' Secret Death Wish
» Sierra Marando (Florida State University)
Celebrating Willa Cather
» Rachel Olsen & Tracy Tucker (The Willa Cather Foundation) Uneasy Lies the Head: On White Elitism in M. L. Rio’s If We Were
Villains
9:30am » Amritha Selvarajaguru (The University of Iowa)
B-04—Professional Development Workshop IV
Brigade (2)
Masculinity in Hemingway and House
Chaired by: Lexey Bartlett
» Chloe Taylor (Lindsey Wilson College)
Teaching / Writing / Publishing / Advising: Making it All Work
11am C-03—British Lit on an Emotional Journey
» Kassia Krone & Billie R. Tadros (Friends University & The University of
Scranton) Kings Plaza (2)
Chaired by: Therese Holzapfel and Kristy Cherry-Randle
11am C-01—American Lit: American Gothic
Kings Garden 1 (2) Rituals of the Liminoid: From Combat to Union in Shakespeare’s
As You Like It
Chaired by: Miranda Hughes-Ribeiro and Simone Billings
» Sami LeJune (Louisiana Tech University)

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March Autonomy: The Double-Edged Sword

» Katie Thoman (Franklin College)
Shallow Repentance in Moll Flanders
11am C-06—Creative Nonfiction: Drawing from Childhood
» Riley Verner (The University of the South)
Chartiers (2)
Healing from Emotional Neglect in The Secret Garden Chaired by: Nash Porter and Stacey Kikendall
» Rebekah Brown (Wayland Baptist University)
Good Fortune
Adah’s Language of Resistance in Body and Story: A Re-description » Casey Kregeloh (Rutgers University - New Brunswick)
of a Second-Class Citizen
» Jim Case (Northwestern State University of Louisiana) Conditioned
» Josh Nichols (Arkansas Tech University)
11am C-04—British Lit: Frightfully Queer
Brigade (2) Paper Airplanes
Chaired by: Catherine Gonzalez and Alethea Gaarden » Evie Reed (Otterbein University)

The Haunting of Gender and Sexuality in Rebecca Getting an Education Has Not Been Easy
» Joelle DuFault (The College of New Jersey) » Lojan Shaker (Barry University)

Vampires: Stoker's Dracula on Desire & Repression A Cabin I Recall

» Sian Brossard (The College of New Jersey) » Elijah Wilhelm (Park University)

The Queer Evolution of the Vampire 11am C-07—Original Poetry: Ends and Begins
» Dylan Stritzinger (Mercyhurst University) Fort Pitt (1)
Chaired by: Megan Lee and Christina Brown
11am C-05—Exploring Hispanic/Latino/Latina Identity
Traders (2) Break Me Again
Chaired by: Rebecca Payne and Teresa Hernández » Elizabeth Klein (The College of New Jersey)

The Web of the Identities and the Consciousness Reflections in Time

» Agaretha Kosasih (Duquesne University) » Lacy Olivarez (Southern Arkansas University)

Cuerpo y Alma—Exploring the Identity of Chicana Lesbians Roots & Reflections

» Natalie Marroquin (University of North Georgia, Gainesville) » faith otey (Carlow University)

Authorship and Ownership in Valeria Luiselli's Faces in the Crowd First Final Thoughts
» Emily Segar (Duquesne University) » Marley Ramon (Mercyhurst University)

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March How to Be Free

» Allison Frazer (Duquesne University)
Born of the golden wheat
Person Who Leaves
» Mariya Yasinovska (Saint Louis University)
» Marcus Tsai (The University of Texas at Dallas)

Akhiok Rose
Its
» April Albee (Utah State University Statewide)
» Julianna Swarm (Duquesne University)

11am C-08—Original Poetry: [Un]bearable 11am C-10—Creative Nonfiction: Identifying Myself

Smithfield (1) Duquesne (1)
Chaired by: Nikita D'Monte and Nicole Sheets Chaired by: Rowen Slepian and Leigh Ann Rhea

Crises of My Twenties I Am a Black Man

» Emily Denney (Thomas More University) » Devan Compton (Calhoun Community College)

What Keeps Me Here Thoughts of an Aspiring Librarian

» Jacqualyn Henrichsen (Olivet Nazarene University) » Lauren Crider (Cedarville University)

Fading Scar Memoir of an Itinerant Childhood

» Alexandria Highland (Slippery Rock University) » Fatima Ozer (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Toxic Relationships-- Poetry I Want to Forgive My Existence

» Orionna Howard (Ohio Northern University) » Addison Swasey (Franklin Pierce University)

The Ravished Saint 11am C-11—Original Prose: Hallowed Be

» Isabel Snyder (Slippery Rock University) Benedum (1)
Chaired by: Dirk Wynn and Macklin Cowart
Society's Garbage Can
» Kim Horner (The University of Texas at Dallas) Praying Man
» Elliote Blake (Ashland University)
11am C-09—Original Prose: What We Leave Behind
Birmingham (1) Santiago
Chaired by: Rowan Feasel and Sonia Brown » Maisie Mehn (Illinois State University)

The Biggest Shoes to Fill Hallowed Head

» Jubilee Forbess (Stephens College) » Julia Stephens (Florida State University)

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March

Inherited Legacies
» Michaela Smith (Georgia Southern University)
A Silver Branch
» Haley Wathen (Park University)
A Mother and Son's Journey through Literacy
11am C-12—Adapted for the Screen » Brett Berquist (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Sterlings 1 (1)
Chaired by: Isabella Flores and Melissa Caldwell 11am C-15—
Black Diamond (2)
Branagh's Humanization of War
» Glorian Hidalgo Vega (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) 11am C-16—Roundtable: Requesting and Writing Letters of
Recommendation
Kings Garden 2 (2)
Reclaiming the Narrative: A Comparative Analysis of Native
American Representation in Twilight and Reservation Dogs Chaired by: Amy Gates
» Luca Guttengeber (Southern Utah University)
Requesting and Writing Letters of Recommendation
Power and Passive Resistance in The Handmaid's Tale » Amy Gates (Missouri Southern State University), Alexandra Reznik
» Ashlynn Perry (Lipscomb University) (Chatham University), Carie King (The University of Texas at Dallas),
Swati Anwesha (The University of Texas at Dallas), Sophia Braun (Ohio
Northern University), Taylor Province (Fort Hays State University)
11am C-13—
Sterlings 2 (1)
11am C-17—Roundtable: The Community Within
11am C-14—Creative Nonfiction: Family Takes Rivers (2)
Sterlings 3 (1) Chaired by: Madison Black
Chaired by: Gabriella Meditz and Billie Tadros
The Community Within
Must it Have Been Akin to a Wife-Swap? » Stephanie Diaz Rocha (Northeast Alabama Community College),
» Adelle Confer (The University of Scranton) Emily Flores (Northeast Alabama Community College), Gina Peduto-Sly
(Northeast Alabama Community College), Latrice Warren (Arkansas
State University Mid-South)
Iconography—Holy Mothers
» Melinda Mullet (Whitworth University)
11am C-18—Roundtable: "How do you love and unlove?" Natalie Diaz's
When My Brother Was an Aztec
Home Heinz (1)
» Natalie Sforza (Suffolk University) Chaired by: Michaelann Nelson

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March Constructing Activism in Black Women's Literature

» Abigail Kadlec (University of Oregon)

“"How do you love and unlove?” Natalie Diaz’s When My Brother Guided by Strong Black Mothers Up the Broken Stair
Was an Aztec » Rebecca Neely (Cedarville University)
» Natalee Harrison (Utah State University, Logan), Lizzie Leishman
(Utah State University, Logan), Ella Stott (Utah State University, Logan),
Indigo Mardis (Utah State University, Logan), Ellie Fallows (Utah State 1:45pm D-02—American Lit: Intentional Faulkner
University, Logan) Kings Terrace (2)
Chaired by: Elizabeth Klein and Macklin Cowart
12pm Chapter Displays
First-Person Bias: Reader & Narrator Relationship
Ballroom Foyer (2)
» Katharine Parsons (The College of New Jersey)

Death as Purpose in As I Lay Dying

» Taylor Beam (Shepherd University)
12pm Chapter Merchandise Sales
Ballroom Foyer (2)
Fissuring and Fusing: Modernism and Perspective in As I Lay Dying
and There There
12:15pm Lunch (on your own) » Sofia Loiacono (Mercyhurst University)

1pm White Whale Bookstore "Not his tongue nor that of any man": The "Language" of the
Kings Garden 5 (2) Female Body in Light in August
» Alma Moegle (Louisiana Tech University)
1pm Vendors
Kings Garden 5 (2) 1:45pm D-03—British Lit through a Queer Theory Lens
Kings Plaza (2)
1:45pm D-01—American Lit: Black Women in Action Chaired by: Leigh Dillard and Jaxon Leifer
Kings Garden 1 (2)
Chaired by: Alexandra Moniz and Rachel Carr Nature’s Infidel and Industry’s Thrall: Social Commentaries in
Orlando’s Narrative Structure
» Theodore Lopata (University of North Georgia, Gainesville)
Paradise and the Societal Complications of Ruby
» Kylie Jackson (Lindsey Wilson College) Kiss Kiss Cutpurse: The Androgynous Protagonist and Class
» Sydney Goodfield (Florida State University)

Black Feminism and the Mothering of Text

Homo-Relationships in Shakespeare’s Roman Plays
» Madison Jukkola (Mercyhurst University)
» Joseph Stahle (Southern Utah University)

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March 1:45pm D-06—Creative Nonfiction: Going through the Motions
Chartiers (2)
Chaired by: Fatima Ozer and Michael Healy
To Be “An Unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde Sort”: An Analysis into
the Impact of Dorian Gray on Maurice
» Allison Harmon (Lamar University) How to Inhabit a Dancer's Body
» Sydney Anderson (Whitworth University)
1:45pm D-04—British Lit: Inside and Out
Brigade (2) What the War of Life Taught Me So Far
Chaired by: Michaela Smith and Rebecca Brackmann » Lauren DeSantis (The University of Scranton)

Condemned to the Domestic Sphere Poisoning

» Vishal Cain (Ohio University) » Lillian Giddings (The University of Iowa)

The Carceral State in After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

A Stick in the Ground, a Rock in the Corner
» Beatrice Kahn (University of Oregon)
» Hannah Sanchez (Texas Tech University)

Liminality and Aggregation: Social Space in Evelina

1:45pm D-07—Original Poetry: Beauty and the Beasts
» Emma Bapst (Cedarville University)
Fort Pitt (1)
Chaired by: Camille Floyd and Nicole Sheets
Philanthropy, Domestic Ideology, and Women's Desires in the
Victorian Novel
» Amelia Rodgers (University of Nebraska Kearney) Seahive; An Oceanic Installment - Episodes 1-6
» Genavieve Hudson (Stephens College)
1:45pm D-05—Film and the Body
Traders (2) Shadows of Solace
Chaired by: Benjamin Ainsworth and Diane Steinberg » Annabelle Parker (Furman University)

Black Bodily Appropriation in Get Out Landfill Beasts

» Rebecca Briegs (The College of New Jersey) » Kelsey Pavelick (Sul Ross State University)

Hopeful Monsters: Monstrosity in Princess Mononoke

A Bestiary for What We Bury
» Stephanie Martinez (The College of New Jersey)
» Madeline Riske (The University of Iowa)

“I told you before, ogres don’t live happily ever after!”: Racial
Allegory in Shrek 2 Haunted Chicken House
» Emma Turner Hutchinson (Lindsey Wilson College) » Kathryn Runyans (Calhoun Community College)

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March Kvetch Sesh

» Rowen Slepian (University of Pittsburgh)
1:45pm D-08—Original Poetry: Place-specific
Full of Loneliness
Smithfield (1)
» Leah Starr (Tulane University)
Chaired by: Nikita D'Monte and William Saccavino
1:45pm D-10—Creative Nonfiction: One of Ours
Artifacts of anarchy
Duquesne (1)
» Cayleigh Baillargeon (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Chaired by: Therese Holzapfel and Simone Billings

Five Untitled Sonnets on Dis/Misplacement

The Bolter
» Kyle Battle (Western Michigan University)
» Hannah Apgar (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Five Poems from Lake Superior Shell Searching

» Kailey Buettner (Northern Michigan University) » Marisa Hooper (Saint Vincent College)

Cosmic Dance One of Ours: One of Theirs: Myself

» Sarah Lognion (McNeese State University) » Dorothy Hostetler (Palm Beach Atlantic University)

Rot Collection: Disappearing Songs of the Ohio Landscape Finding Home

» Adam Willis (Otterbein University) » Sasha Jantsch (Slippery Rock University)

I Saw Houses Down South Reflections upon Phoenix Windows

» Kaysyn Jones (Florida State University) » Nicole Speyrer (Belmont University)

1:45pm D-09—Original Prose: America in the Spotlight 1:45pm D-11—Original Prose: Heavy Doses
Birmingham (1) Benedum (1)
Chaired by: Adrienne Cahillane and Ellen Foster Chaired by: Ivy Morgan and Tiffany Nolde

Made in Manhattan Mother's Daughter

» Adam Freda (Marist College) » Jadyn Jones (Tennessee Wesleyan University)

Temperance Warning Labels

» Kaitlyn Hawker (Whitworth University) » Kye Lombard (Southern New Hampshire University - Online)

Lace and Oleander Candy House

» Jessica Prather (Utah State University Statewide) » Abby Morgan (University of Oregon)

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March To Call Myself a Horse Girl

» Haley Kollstedt (Cedarville University)
Platitudes
» Athena Scott (Louisiana Tech University) The Passage
» Darby Shelton (Florida State University)
1:45pm D-12—Children's/Young Adult Lit: Fantasy
Sterlings 1 (1) 1:45pm D-15—
Chaired by: Serena Richards and Abigail D'Antoni
Black Diamond (2)

Resistant Readers: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1:45pm D-16—Roundtable: Internships: Why You Need Them and How to Get
» Audrey Ball (Fort Hays State University) Them
Kings Garden 2 (2)
Harry Potter as Gothic Literature Chaired by: Felicia Steele
» Elizabeth Clingan (Fort Hays State University)
Internships: Why you need them and how to get them!
Through the Lens of Uncanny Fantasy: Childhood and Genre in » Felicia Steele (The College of New Jersey), Janine Utell (Modern
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Coraline Language Association), Jo Hoffman (Centenary College of Louisiana),
» Nicole Hirt (Palm Beach Atlantic University) Kristen M. Jacinto (Penguin Random House Audio)

Peter Pan’s Exile as a Bridge of Subjectivity 1:45pm D-17—Roundtable: "How the Screen Shapes the Story": Page to
Screen Adaptations
» Shelby Roth (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
Rivers (2)
Chaired by: Ailyn Del Rio
1:45pm D-13—
Sterlings 2 (1)
"How the Screen Shapes the Story": Page to Screen Adaptations
1:45pm D-14—Creative Nonfiction: Holding Things Together » Abigail Arbeiter (Wichita State University), Brooke Foster (Rider
University), Talia Hincks (Rider University), Natalie Feild (Wichita State
Sterlings 3 (1) University)
Chaired by: April Albee and Kel Sassi
1:45pm D-18—
Worms, Rats, Frogs, Spiders Heinz (1)
» Alexandria Bournonville (Northern Michigan University)
3:15pm E-01—American Lit: Gender and Agency
Sea of Stone Kings Garden 1 (2)
» Zachary Brady (Utah State University, Logan) Chaired by: Grant Bivens and Robin Cadwallader

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March Feminine Freedom in Chaucer’s "The Miller’s Tale"
» Abigail Dunagan (Berry College)
They Shut Me Up in Prose: Dickinson's Volcanic Legacy in
Nineteenth-Century Literature To Cuckhold a God: How “The Merchant’s Tale” Ridicules the
» Caitlin Carson (Shepherd University) Emerging Middle Class
» Jo Hoffman (Centenary College of Louisiana)
Hilda Doolittle: Writing Away from the Institutions of Modernism
» Abhipriya Priyadarshi (The University of Texas at Dallas) Karma Lochrie and Chaucer's Miller's Tale
» Aoibhinn O'Shea (University of Oregon)
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder‘s Society
» Ciara Corbett (The College of New Jersey) A bilateral transaction?
» Tomas Pena (University of Oregon)
Grief and Hope Amidst the Apocalypse
» Evelyn Huang (Azusa Pacific University)
3:15pm E-04—British Lit: Gender in Austen and the Brontes
Brigade (2)
3:15pm E-02—American Lit: The Queer Canon Chaired by: Alicia Santos and Charmion Gustke
Kings Terrace (2)
Chaired by: Kaitlynn Sass and Glen Brewster The Function of Gossip in Jane Austen
» Jaden Bauer (Franklin Pierce University)
The Winter of Sex
» James Carlton (University of Oregon) The Accomplished Woman: Educational Identity in Jane Austen
» Natalie Feild (Wichita State University)
The Post-Closet: Queer Domesticity, Enclosure, and Queer
Southern Gothicism in Lee Mandelo’s "Summer Sons" Jane Eyre and the Victorian Fairy-Bride
» Andrew Dampier (Louisiana Tech University) » Brenna Lockwood (Lincoln Memorial University)

Hear the Music: Queering Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" Checkmate: Sir Walter's Strategic Attempt to Rise to the Top
» Owen Gornicki (Alma College) » Avery Grace Thompson (Belmont University)

Queerness and Passing in Spiegelman’s Maus 3:15pm E-05—Books, Bans, and Belonging
» Heath Rosser (Oklahoma Christian University) Traders (2)
Chaired by: Lauren Bachman and Hillary Coenen
3:15pm E-03—British Lit: Tales of Chaucer
Kings Plaza (2) Diversifying Children’s Lit & Reinventing the Canon
Chaired by: Theodore Lopata and Felicia Steele » Jake Hamtil (The College of New Jersey)

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March Whalefall

» Ben Ahlrichs (The University of Iowa)
Literacy in Literature: Passionately Booked
The Ocean Ate My Sister
» Sarah Mooney (Coastal Carolina University)
» Christina Ellison (Sam Houston State University)
Understanding the Ban: Banned Books in Education
» Anna Rundbaken (University of North Georgia, Gainesville) Questions for the Gods
» Grace Fette (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
Representation in Classical Literature: Reaching Outside of the
Canon Take Me to the Church House
» Brooke Williams (College of the Ozarks) » Kailee King (Southern Arkansas University)

To Read or Not To Read: A Question BookTok Answers Damnable Ignorance

» Tiffany Nolde (University of North Georgia, Gainesville) » Aidan Newberry (University of Tennessee at Martin)

3:15pm E-06—Creative Nonfiction: This Land Is Footprints on Everything

Chartiers (2) » Cadie-Jayne Tullos (Southern Arkansas University)
Chaired by: Faith Montagnino and Ellen Foster
3:15pm E-08—Original Poetry: Family Legacy
Eulogy for the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Smithfield (1)
» Brenna Gallagher (Chatham University)
Chaired by: Shelby Roth and Sonia Brown
Who is One of Us and Who is Not
Heirlooms
» McKinley Greenwood (Pepperdine University)
» Alice Browning (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
My Cracked Throne
» Leona Johnson (Liberty University) Grief in 3 Parts
» Cheyenne Hennesay (University of Texas at Arlington)
A Bloodied Saddle
» Faith Siegel (Pepperdine University) Metamorphosis
» J'Linn Langford (Baker University)
Frucht dem Vaterlande: An Autoethnography
» Emma Vande Krol (The University of Iowa) Lineage
» Mollie McMullan (SUNY at Geneseo)
3:15pm E-07—Original Poetry: Wading in the Deep
Fort Pitt (1) Everything I Know About Love: An Interim Collection
Chaired by: Cassandra Tew and Shannin Schroeder » Katharine Tesar (Southern Utah University)

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March 3:15pm E-11—Original Drama Acts Out

Benedum (1)
Family Tree Chaired by: Dakota Mecham and Kriss Larkin
» Marcus Tsai (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Elizabeth Fisher’s Day Out
3:15pm E-09—Original Prose: Be Afraid » Kaya Barringer (Park University)
Birmingham (1)
Chaired by: Kelsey Pavelick and Lisa Bell The Tangled Lines
» Lauren Hamilton (Texas Tech University)
The Misery Games—Excerpt
» Robin Alvarez (Sul Ross State University) Motif on Grief
» Lizzie Hyte (Utah State University Statewide)
Automat
» Jessica Flowers (Freed-Hardeman University) To The Tune of Chaos: A Ten Minute Play
» Gabriella Palmer (The University of Scranton)
Chipped
» Olivia McGillivray (Fort Hays State University) 3:15pm E-12—World Lit: Composing Meaning
Sterlings 1 (1)
Ravenous Fear
Chaired by: Christopher Chandler and Charity Gibson
» Haley Pitman (Louisiana Tech University)
Standing Up: Lucille Clifton's "miss rosie" and Feminist Protest
3:15pm E-10—Deep Dives into Natalie Diaz
» Claire Hasty (Cottey College)
Duquesne (1)
Chaired by: Sadie Olsen and Stacey Kikendall
More than Hiding the Pants Zipper
» Katelyn Vaccaro (Whitworth University)
Gender & Religion in When My Brother Was an Aztec
» Rachel McDonald (The College of New Jersey)
Barred From the Gates of Rome
Exploring the "Not-Knowing" in Diaz's "Amaranth Gates" » Elise Bragdon (College of the Ozarks)
» Nash Porter (Park University)
3:15pm E-13—
The Dismembered Body and Generational Trauma Sterlings 2 (1)
» Lauren Farrell (The College of New Jersey)
3:15pm E-14—Creative Writing Is Child's Play
Why Her Brother Was an Aztec Sterlings 3 (1)
» Elijah Wilhelm (Park University) Chaired by: Alexis Mills and Serena Richards

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March 3:15pm E-18—Roundtable: Improving Literacy: How Can We Make a
Difference?
Heinz (1)
Death of a Girl Chaired by: Susan Crisafulli
» Ophelia Klein (Eastern Illinois University)
Improving Literacy: How Can We Make a Difference?
Florentine's Fossils » Susan Crisafulli (Franklin College), Sarah Cooper (Franklin College),
» Isabella Minor (Freed-Hardeman University) Lizzy Sekhon (Franklin College), Katie Thoman (Franklin College)

The Last Bear In The Forest 4:45pm F-01—Research in the Round

» Ana Zelidon (Southern Adventist University) Ballroom 3-4 (2)
Chaired by: Leigh Dillard and Shannin Schroeder
Only the Evergreens Know
Narrative (Dis)empowerment
» Katelynn Adrian (McNeese State University)
» Lauren Bachman (University of North Georgia, Gainesville)

3:15pm E-15— Incest, Rape, Murder and Betrayal: Sympathy for Sinners
Black Diamond (2) » Catherine Clarke (University of North Georgia, Gainesville)

3:15pm E-16—Roundtable: Relational Rhetoric: Writing Centers as Vamps and Autonomy

Community Spaces
» Abigail D'Antoni (University of North Georgia, Gainesville)
Kings Garden 2 (2)
Chaired by: Mallory Saylor The Sound of Madness: Misophonia-esque Auditory Perception in
Literature
Relational Rhetoric: Writing Centers as Community Spaces » CJ Gibson (Fort Hays State University)
» Marisa Hooper (Saint Vincent College), Kayanne Marti (Saint Vincent
College), Sophia Nelson (Saint Vincent College) The House as a Setting in the Gothic
» Caitlin Hancock (Florida State University)
3:15pm E-17—Roundtable: Now Our Minds Are One: Bringing Together Willa
Cather’s Frontier Rhetoric and Indigenous Rhetoric The Use of Violent Language in the Quotidian
Rivers (2) » William Henke (Whitworth University)
Chaired by: Julia Combs
Ew! The New Wave of Disgust in Pop Culture
Now Our Minds Are One: Bringing Together Willa Cather’s Frontier » Kaysyn Jones (Florida State University)
Rhetoric and Indigenous Rhetoric
» Erin Atkinson (Southern Utah University), Chelsea Jocelyn (Southern Student Autonomy: Incorporating Student Voice and Choice in the
Utah University), Jacob Carr (Southern Utah University), Luca Classroom
Guttengeber (Southern Utah University) » Kayleigh Kearsley (Utah State University, Logan)

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March How to Talk to English Majors about Careers without Freaking
Them Out: A Workshop for Faculty
» Janine Utell (Modern Language Association)
Teaching and Preserving Classic Literature in the Digital Age
» Jonathan Kirk (Saint Francis University) 4:45pm F-04—Professional Development Workshop II
Kings Terrace (2)
Western Literary Canon Formation Chaired by: Diane Steinberg
» Maggie Machado (The College of New Jersey)
Teaching Conversation
What Can Comics do that Novels Can't? » Natalie Marroquin, Jessica McCole, Capri Scarcelli, & Ja’Vontaye
» Alex Moran (Florida State University) Gagum (East Forsyth High School (Gainesville, GA), Sigma Tau Delta
Program Coordinator, Elizabeth Forward High School (Pittsburgh, PA),
& Marion High School (Marion, SC))
The Impact of Isolation
» Julia Robak (Westfield State University)
4:45pm F-05—Professional Development Workshop III
Kings Plaza (2)
Classical Mothers of Literature
Chaired by: Emad Mirmotahari
» Johnna Ryan (Palm Beach Atlantic University)

Bookstores in Service to the Community

Folklore Reimaginings in Popular Media
» Arlan Hess & Adlai Yeomans (City Books & White Whale Bookstore)
» Darby Shelton (Florida State University)
4:45pm F-06—Professional Development Workshop IV
The Concept of a “Monster,” in Literature
Brigade (2)
» Harleigh Sirafos (Westfield State University)
Chaired by: Kevin Stemmler
Assumptions of Identity in Literature Dependent on the Personal
Balancing Acts: Nurturing Personal Interests While Meeting
» Amy Swartz (Muhlenberg College) Academic Demands
» Ellen Foster, Joan Reeves, & Kevin Stemmler (PennWest Clarion,
Balancing the Literary Canon Northeast Alabama Community College, & PennWest Clarion)
» Trey Whitted (Anderson University)
4:45pm F-07—Professional Development Workshop V
Integrating Young Adult Literature in Middle and High School Traders (2)
Classrooms Chaired by: Tiffany Nolde
» Kaitlyn Williams (Northwestern State University of Louisiana)
Pathways from English Major to Career
4:45pm F-03—Professional Development Workshop I » Kristen Capano, Leslie Poljak, & Chris Wike (Penguin Random House,
Kings Garden 1 (2) Pitt Library, & United Steelworkers)
Chaired by: Amy Gates

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Continued from Thursday, 20 March

4:45pm F-02—Chapter Share

9:30pm Snacks
Kings Garden Foyer (2) Ballroom 1-2 (2)

Friday, 21 March
5:15pm NEHS Welcome Reception
Sky Lounge (24)
7:30am Registration
Kings Landing (2)
6pm SKD Meet & Greet
Meet in Hotel Lobby (1)
8am Shop English Pop-Up Store
Kings Garden 4 (2)
6pm Dinner (on your own)

8am G-01—American Lit: Women in Poetry

7:30pm Keynote Speaker: Natalie Diaz
Kings Garden 1 (2)
Ballroom 1-2 (2)
Chaired by: Harleigh Sirafos and Corbett Upton
Chaired by: Autumn Koors-Foltz

Emily Dickinson's Utility of the Moon as a Device of Lesbianism in

"The Moon was But a Chin of Gold"
» Cassandra Barron (Pepperdine University)
8:30pm Chapter Merchandise Sales
Ballroom Foyer (2) Emily Dickinson: Transcendentalism as A Window to Queer
Acceptance
8:30pm Keynote Speaker Book Signing: Natalie Diaz » Elizabeth Nielson (Utah State University Statewide)
Kings Garden Foyer (2)
“The Starry Night” and the Taboo of the Female Experience
Chaired by: Kaylee Stocks and Arista Elderkin and Sophia Jockell and
Carmen Lok » Charlie Barefield (Westminster College (PA))

8am G-02—American Lit: Causing Harm

Kings Terrace (2)
9:30pm Student Leadership Trivia Night Chaired by: Rebecca Payne and Charity Gibson
Ballroom 1-2 (2)
Chaired by: Kelly Taylor and Isaiah Russell and Zachary Brady Beyond the Bandages: A Revealing Look into Empathy, Eroticism,
and Trauma in “The Wound-Dresser"
» Matilda Gibb (Utah Tech University)

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Continued from Friday, 21 March The Tragedy of Ophelia and Anne

» Isabella Flores (Utah Tech University)
Avocets and Angels: Examining Trauma and Religion
Maids and Cuckolds in Much Ado About Nothing
» Jorgi Anderson (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)
» Abigail Jones (Houston Christian University)
Cut it Out: Violent Self-Expression in The Member of the Wedding
Juliet and Ophelia: Women in the Roles of Protagonists vs Love
» Janette Gowdy (Luther College)
Interests
» Gaylen Bailey (Utah Tech University)
Wounded Poetry Hands: The Poetics of Agha Shahid Ali
» Junaid Shah Shabir (The University of Texas at Dallas)
8am G-05—Mothers in Texts
Traders (2)
8am G-03—British Lit: A Whiff of Scandal
Chaired by: Lidiya Kelyman and Linda Troost
Kings Plaza (2)
Chaired by: Dorothy Hostetler and Madeline Gangnes
A Comparative Analysis of Motherhood in Beloved and To The
Lighthouse
Unhealthy Worship of Beauty in Death in Venice » Camilo Guerrero (Ramapo College of New Jersey)
» Hanna Giardetti (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
Trauma in Mother-Daughter Relationships
“A Scandal in Bohemia” and Irene Adler’s Revolt against Victorian » Audrey Munley (The University of Scranton)
Society
» Elyse Lortz (Ohio Northern University)
Black Motherhood and Fungibility in Jordan Peele's Us
» Danielle Richard (University of Oregon)
“Unsexing Ourselves:” Proto-Feminism in Victoria Cross’s
“Theodora” and Sarah Grand’s “Woman Question”
» Faith Montagnino (The University of Scranton) Bad Wives, Bad Mothers: Lesbianism in Nana
» Zoe Colvin (Stephens College)
Ghastly Gossip: Understanding the Role of Scandal in The Turn of
the Screw 8am G-06—Creative Nonfiction: Causing Dis-Ease
» James Nelson (College of the Ozarks) Chartiers (2)
Chaired by: CJ Jones and Gary Tandy
8am G-04—British Lit: Shakespeare's Women
Brigade (2) Viral
Chaired by: Elizabeth Klein and Gillian Paku » Lia Claxton (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Feminine Reimagining: Pericles and The Porpoise I Have Always Been Afraid of the Dark
» Alexis Cherby (The College of New Jersey) » Angelica Goins (Midwestern State University)

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Continued from Friday, 21 March 8am G-08—Original Poetry: Changeable

Smithfield (1)
Chaired by: Kyle Battle and Renae Shawgo
Inherited Survival
» Zoe LaVallee (SUNY at Geneseo)
Under My Peruvian Skin
» Chanel Hoyos (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
I Don’t Like Animals
» Alex Morales (George Fox University) Unbound Currents: A Manifesto on Love and Liberation
» Rogelio Cruz (Texas Tech University)
A Manual for Uncertainty
» Stephen Turner (Furman University) Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns Grow
» Sarah Farritor (University of Nebraska Kearney)
8am G-07—Original Poetry: Short Bursts of Lyricism
Fort Pitt (1) Nuestros Trabajo
Chaired by: Destinee Martin and Jen Peterson » Cassandra Hile (Lincoln University, Missouri)

OCD Awareness Week A Life in Limbo

» Annabelle Chipps (Slippery Rock University) » Emma Hinesley (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Caged in Kinship Environmental Oddity

» Jordan Davis (Stephens College) » Indigo Mardis (Utah State University, Logan)

Red Shirt
8am G-09—Original Prose: While We're Young
» Brinn Gallup (Morningside University) Birmingham (1)
Chaired by: Cassandra Tew and Shannin Schroeder
Crocodile Tears
Seasons
» Ellie Heslon (Lipscomb University)
» Hannah Bunch (Liberty University)

Keeping Them Comfortable

What It Means To Be Chinese
» Elizabeth Radko (University of New Haven)
» Carmen Lok (Southern Arkansas University)

Dyking around Fly Away

» Meredith Stafford (Berry College) » Jessica Phillips (Calhoun Community College)

Stages of Recollection The Tempus

» Katelynn Webster (Southern Adventist University) » Allen Stankiewicz (The University of Scranton)

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Continued from Friday, 21 March Grasshoppers

» Kelly Taylor (Chapman University)
8am G-10—Original Poetry: One of Ours
Duquesne (1) In Consequence
Chaired by: Claire Stevens and Kristy Cherry-Randle » Annelise Walsh (Liberty University)

All That Noise 8am G-12—Children's/Young Adult Lit: Powerful Words

» Jalon Jones (Carlow University) Sterlings 1 (1)
Chaired by: Shelby Roth and William Hamilton
Becoming One of Yours
» Alex Moran (Florida State University) Anthropocentric Anthropomorphism in Children’s Lit
» Emma Diamond (The College of New Jersey)
Shield of Belonging or γυνή μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον
» Lilly Roehrig (University of Alabama)
Mentorship and Agency in Young Adult Literature
» Lauren Farrell (The College of New Jersey)
Pink Ink
» Taylor Smith (Georgetown College)
The Purpose of Fragility
8am G-11—Original Prose: Quickly Told » Dorian Segura (Arkansas Tech University)
Benedum (1)
Chaired by: Sonia Halabi and Jess Landis Anne Frank and Mahmoud Darwish on Human Rights
» Zachariah Lawson (Lindsey Wilson College)
Daughter Issues
» McKagen Chio (Western Michigan University) 8am G-13—American Lit: Taking on Baldwin and Wright
Sterlings 2 (1)
Scattered Chaired by: Isaiah Davis and Kriss Larkin
» James McIntyre (Ouachita Baptist University)
Wright Was Wrong: Hurston’s White Characters
A Field of White Lilies » Rowan Feasel (Mississippi State University)
» Logan McKelvey (University of Texas at Arlington)

Sonny’s Fight Against the Future

A Duel of Blood
» Isabel Lindsay (The College of New Jersey)
» Gabriel Seevers (Saint Vincent College)

Just Another Day The Folly of Manhood

» Rachel Strout (Franklin Pierce University) » Connor Swauger (Lamar University)

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Continued from Friday, 21 March 8am G-17—Roundtable: Myth and Identity in When My Brother Was an
Aztec
Heinz (1)
Do You Mind, Mr. Wright? Silence, Cool Pose, and Creative Black Chaired by: Christine Cooper-Rompato
Masculinity in Black Boy
» Kaysyn Jones (Florida State University)
Myth and Identity in When My Brother Was an Aztec
» April Albee (Utah State University Statewide), Kayleigh Kearsley (Utah
8am G-14—Creative Nonfiction: What I Imagine I am State University Logan), Sadie Olsen (Utah State University Logan), Ivy
Sterlings 3 (1) Morgan (Utah State University Logan), Abby Ball (Utah State University,
Chaired by: Briana Bindus and Heidi Williams Logan)

Fly 9am Chapter Displays

» Kiran Bains Sahota (The University of Texas at Dallas) Ballroom Foyer (2)

Novelty
» Brenna Parker (The University of Scranton)
9am Chapter Merchandise Sales
Ballroom Foyer (2)
Mental Health Shrouded in Confusion
» Megan Robertson (University of North Georgia, Gainesville) 9:30am H-01—American Lit: Constructed Worlds
Kings Garden 1 (2)
Given Thirty-One Minutes Chaired by: Kaysyn Jones and Heidi Hanrahan
» Elena Vigil (Whitworth University)
Dickinson, Fairies, and Belief Beyond the Veil
8am G-15— » Heather Gilman (Shepherd University)
Black Diamond (2)
Omelas as a Flawed Utopia
8am G-16—Roundtable: Careers and Transferable Skills for the English
Major » Caitlin Hancock (Florida State University)
Rivers (2)
Chaired by: Alexandria (Allie) Remm Searching for Artistic Autonomy
» Amber Hightower (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Careers and Transferable Skills for the English Major
» Alexandria (Allie) Remm (University of Nebraska Kearney), Taylor
Carkoski (University of Nebraska Kearney), Amelia Rodgers (University Thing Power in Parable of the Sower
of Nebraska Kearney), Jeremy Broyles (Mesa Community College) » Kim Horner (The University of Texas at Dallas)

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Continued from Friday, 21 March 9:30am H-04—British Lit: Going Gothic

Brigade (2)
9:30am Chaired by: Jonathan Kirk and Ereck Jarvis
H-02—Willa Cather in the Spotlight
Kings Terrace (2)
Language and Sentiment in Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
Chaired by: Erin Atkinson and Kevin Stemmler
» Kylie Pitman (Oklahoma Christian University)
Hugging Claude Wheeler
» Johnna Ryan (Palm Beach Atlantic University) An Adlerian Reading of The Turn of the Screw
» Arabella Grant (College of the Ozarks)
Beyond Borders
» Nouf Arige (St. John's University) Gossip Girl? No, Gossip Guy: Spilling Tea in the Victorian Era
» Sophia Jockell (University of North Georgia, Gainesville)
Building for the Future: Architectural Beauty in Father Latour's
Cathedral Male Doctoring on Female Bodies in Dracula
» Mary Atkins (University of Dallas) » Taylor Province (Fort Hays State University)

Finding Place in Santa Fe 9:30am H-05—Literature Out at Sea

» Hannah Merritt (Collin County Community College) Traders (2)
Chaired by: Elliote Blake and Derrick Spradlin
9:30am H-03—British Lit: Frankenstein and His Creature
Kings Plaza (2) Billy Budd: A Tragic Beacon of Hope
Chaired by: Joelle DuFault and Karolyn Steffens » Elizabeth Frykman (Samford University)

Creator, Created An Image of Indigeneity: Orientalism in Moby-Dick

» Cecilia Castro (Mercyhurst University) » Maggie Machado (The College of New Jersey)

The Devil Rebuking His Sin Captain Vere’s Hermeneutics of Love in Billy Budd
» Jose Jaquez (Midland College) » Ana Wright (Samford University)

Frankenstein and the Danger of a Feminine Man 9:30am H-06—

» Rachel McDonald (The College of New Jersey) Chartiers (2)

Nature’s Wrath in Frankenstein’s “Monster”: Frankenstein and the 9:30am H-07—Original Poetry: Romantic at Heart
Mystification of Women Fort Pitt (1)
» Aven Sanders (Lindsey Wilson College) Chaired by: CJ Jones and Sigrid King

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Continued from Friday, 21 March 9:30am H-09—Original Prose: Out of Childhood

Birmingham (1)
Chaired by: Maisie Mehn and Vanessa Rouillon
Extravaganza
» Jensan Bauman (Duquesne University)
Excerpt of "Quince"
» Kiara Braden (California State University, Northridge)
A Certain Stripe of Violet
» Hanna Denton (University of Kentucky)
Voyage
Wake Pygmalion » Marissa Candido (Muhlenberg College)
» Keegan Flanagan (Carlow University)
Choosing What Matters
Dear Beloved, » Jenna Clark (Abilene Christian University)
» Karoline Hartner (Franklin Pierce University)
i ask the father to recount me.
Small Me: A Short Collection of Small Poems » Sophia Csulak (High Point University)
» Evan Spencer (Georgetown College)
9:30am H-10—Creatively Inspired by Diaz
9:30am H-08—Original Poetry: Changing Winds Duquesne (1)
Smithfield (1) Chaired by: Gabriella Palmer and Teresa Hernández
Chaired by: Alicia Santos and Sabina Amanbayeva
Am I still one of you?
The Brown Beads » Ariel Longoria (Utah State University, Logan)
» Shaymaa Alqallaf (American University of Kuwait)
Their Children Who Ran Across the Earth
The Experiences that Connect Us » Elisa Vigil (Whitworth University)
» Acadia Clements (University of Texas at Arlington)
a hunger to belong
North of the River » Nya Rowe (The University of Scranton)
» Claudia Gamble (Liberty University)
Jackie's Lips
Manic Pixie American Dream » Charlie Dorlon (Chatham University)
» Bleah Patterson (Sam Houston State University)
9:30am H-11—Original Prose: Intentional Oddities
ticking clock Benedum (1)
» Charlotte Salotto (SUNY at Geneseo) Chaired by: Savannah Zeiler and Shannin Schroeder

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Continued from Friday, 21 March Form in "The Yellow Wallpaper" and Gone Girl
» Baylee Hart (Lindsey Wilson College)
Sea Goddess
» Tyler Edwards (Chapman University) Setting and Adolescence for a Young Girl
» Emma Kersgaard (University of Oregon)
Branches
» William Ashcraft (Southern Arkansas University)
The Death of Essentialist Feminism in Lorrie Moore's "You're Ugly
Too"
Two Days - Experimental Fiction
» Anjaly Kappen (Nova Southeastern University)
» Sophia Braun (Ohio Northern University)

Gone Wishing 9:30am H-14—World Lit: All-Consuming Dystopias

» Therese Holzapfel (PennWest Clarion) Sterlings 3 (1)
Chaired by: Anna Rundbaken and Prathim Maya Dora-Laskey
9:30am H-12—World Lit: Modernism and Beyond
Sterlings 1 (1) Compliance and Rebellion in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Chaired by: Adrienne Cahillane and Matt Hearn » Alayna George (Duquesne University)

I Think You Think Therefore You Are: Analyzing Subject-Object What Was I Made For?: Marxism in Never Let Me Go
Relationships in Lolita, Persepolis, and Nausicaa
» Lily James (Ohio Northern University)
» Shaylyn Chilek (University of Pittsburgh)

Landscape and Irish Short Fiction Literal Consumerism: Barthesian Mythology in Tender is the Flesh
» Renae Redling (Lipscomb University) » William Saccavino (University of North Georgia, Gainesville)

Modernists Take Manhattan!

Orwellian Terminology: 1984 and Now
» John Jenkins (Kennesaw State University)
» Lindsey Kutz (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg)
Lyrics Alley: The Intersection of Modernity and Femininity
» Ashley Imdieke (Luther College) 9:30am H-15—
Black Diamond (2)
9:30am H-13—American Lit: Looking in on Feminism
Sterlings 2 (1) 9:30am H-16—Workshop with Natalie Diaz
Chaired by: Beatrice Kahn and Gillian Paku Kings Garden 2 (2)
Chaired by: Sonia Brown
Panopticism and Housekeeping
» Chloe Bollin (Cottey College)

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Continued from Friday, 21 March 12pm Vendors

Kings Garden 5 (2)
9:30am H-17—Roundtable: Finding Fulfillment beyond the Classroom
12pm Boxed Lunch Pick-Up
Rivers (2)
Kings Garden 3 (2)
Chaired by: Donna Newsome

12:15pm Regional Breakout: Eastern

Finding Fulfillment beyond the Classroom Ballroom 1-2 (2)
» Joan Reeves (Northeast Alabama Community College), Leah Barnett
(Northeast Alabama Community College), Ashok Karra (Odessa 12:15pm Regional Breakout: Southern
College), Bradley Sides (Calhoun Community College), Christopher
Tindall (Arkansas State University Mid-South) Ballroom 3-4 (2)

12:15pm Regional Breakout: Far Western

9:30am H-18—Roundtable: Writing Our Place Traders (2)
Heinz (1)
Chaired by: Renae Shawgo 12:15pm Regional Breakout: High Plains
Chartiers (2)

Writing Our Place

12:15pm Regional Breakout: Southwestern
» Renae Shawgo (PennWest Clarion), Haley Bruns (PennWest Clarion),
Alexy McDermid (PennWest Clarion), Elizabeth Mrozek (PennWest Kings Garden 2 (2)
Clarion), Sarah Clark (PennWest Clarion), Kyla Alker (PennWest Clarion)
12:15pm Regional Breakout: Midwestern
Rivers (2)
11am Business Meeting
Ballroom 1-2 (2) 1pm Chapter Merchandise Sales
Ballroom Foyer (2)
11am SKD Linda Kraeger Awards Luncheon
Meet in Hotel Lobby (1) 1pm LitFest—Kassia Krone: Hollywood's Monstrous Moms: Vilifying
Mental Illness in Horror Films
11:15am NEHS One of Ours Presentations Smithfield (1)
Commonwealth 1 (1) Chaired by: Sophia Jockell

12pm White Whale Bookstore

Kings Garden 5 (2)

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Continued from Friday, 21 March Fear, Anxiety, and Dickinson's Dashes

» Britney Huntley (Shepherd University)
1pm LitFest—Clare Beams: Crafting Story with Workshop
Birmingham (1) A Manifestation of Grief: How Contemporary Poets Utilize White
Space As a Medium
Chaired by: Bradley Sides and Tiffany Nolde
» Britt Bustos (Sam Houston State University)

Poetic Propaganda: Art and Advertising in Babbitt

» Chloe Jorns (University of Alabama)
1pm LitFest—Diana Khoi Nguyen: Poetry and Visual Arts with Workshop
Heinz (1)
“I—made this Jar”: Exploring David Drake’s Poetry
Chaired by: Michaelann Nelson and Gary Dop
» Annison Harhay (University of Oregon)

2:15pm I-03—British Lit: Gender in Early Poetry

2:15pm I-01—American Lit: Gendered Roles Kings Plaza (2)
Kings Garden 1 (2) Chaired by: Felicia Steele and Ciara Corbett
Chaired by: Trey Whitted and Jen Peterson
The Ironic and Erotic in Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander”
» Grant Bivens (University of Tennessee at Martin)
Unveiling the Mammy Archetype
» Ebony Riley (The College of New Jersey)
Hester Pulter’s Voicing of Grief Through Community
» Madison Luc (Pepperdine University)
"Pearl" or "Weed" : Dickinson Explores Wifehood
» Hannah Tinsman (Shepherd University) Women’s Value in 18th Century Poetry
» Christine Osborne (Lamar University)
Gender Roles and Rest Cure with Woolf and Gilman
Autopsy: The Body & Bodily Exchanges in “The Flea”
» Abigail Trantham (University of Nebraska Kearney)
» Erin Parker (The College of New Jersey)

A Final Girl's Duress in A Streetcar Named Desire 2:15pm I-04—British Lit: Edge of Romance
» Matthew Chinique (The College of New Jersey) Brigade (2)
Chaired by: Camille Floyd and Gillian Paku
2:15pm I-02—American Lit: Poetic Devices
Kings Terrace (2) Percy Shelley's Allure to the Unnamed
Chaired by: Alexis Mills and Prathim Maya Dora-Laskey » Shannon Ervay (SUNY at Geneseo)

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Continued from Friday, 21 March Tumultuous Tranquility

» Breanna Cotner (Midwestern State University)
Unveiling Arabella: A Feminist Exploration through The Female
Quixote Finding Hope in Hardships
» Kate Whitmore (Oklahoma Christian University) » Rebecca Stanish (Mercyhurst University)

Their Dear Boys: Male Friendship in Tennyson’s In Memoriam and

Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest The Day It Ends
» Ryan Malecha (Luther College) » Aysia Walton (Horry-Georgetown Technical College)

Deadly Infatuation: A Modern Retelling of the Myth Narcissus in 2:15pm I-07—Original Poetry: Acts of Becoming
Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Fort Pitt (1)
» Matthew Milotakis (Roger Williams University) Chaired by: Kelsey Pavelick and Marsha Rhee

2:15pm I-05—Theology's World Tour The Makings of Me

Traders (2) » Kaitlyn Altman (Ohio Northern University)
Chaired by: David Pedersen and Kye Lombard
A Seasonal Becoming
William Blake's Poetic Illustration of Celestial Ideas
» Nicole Bagley (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
» Gabriella Meditz (The University of Scranton)

Ivan Karamazov: Prideful Decision and Deep Conscience I Am Everyone and No one Who Came Before Me
» Claire Ahlem (George Fox University) » Brianna Chapman (Sam Houston State University)

Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue: The Link between Christianity and Collection of malnourished thoughts
Classical Literature » Jacob Dunn (Thomas More University)
» Maelyn Moss (McNeese State University)

Becoming Mine
Proof of the Devil
» Savannah Parker (Palm Beach Atlantic University)
» Ann-Marie Thomas (Olivet Nazarene University)

2:15pm I-06—Creative Nonfiction: Alternate Endings Food for Thought

Chartiers (2) » Alana Cole (University of Oregon)
Chaired by: Keynon Causey and Glen Brewster
2:15pm I-08—British Lit: Victorian Vices and Virtues
Letter to Another Me Smithfield (1)
» Faith Roy (Westfield State University) Chaired by: Isaiah Davis and Lexey Bartlett

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Continued from Friday, 21 March A Song of Ice and Imperialism: Revisiting Nanook of the North
with Edward Said
» Kai DeCarli (University of Oregon)
Victorian Anti-Intellectualism in Stevenson’s The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Disney’s Queer-Coded Villains: The Gender Transgressors
» CJ Gibson (Fort Hays State University)
» Killeen Reidy (Eastern Illinois University)
Not Sold in Stores: Conscious Consumerism in Rossetti's "Goblin
Market" Identifying Keyser Söze through Barthes’ Ethic of Signs
» Christian Jackson (Tennessee Wesleyan University) » Lucia Stephenson (Fordham University)

From the Monstrous to the Mundane: Queer Interpretations of Subversion of the Final Girl Trope in Nope
Dracula through Dracula Daily » Gabriella Stokes (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)
» Sadie Olsen (Utah State University, Logan)
2:15pm I-11—Original Prose: Queer Characterization
Jungian Repression of Death in David Copperfield Benedum (1)
» Keljan Thomas (Tennessee Wesleyan University) Chaired by: Allison Silver and Kevin Stemmler

2:15pm I-09—Original Prose: All Love to You My Pilot

Birmingham (1) » Oshelynn Cabrera (Penn State Abington)
Chaired by: Lidiya Kelyman and Jayne Higgins
Non Immaculata
The Aquarium » Cassandra Dumas (James Madison University)
» Janine Adamski (Western Michigan University)
When it rained in Greece
Contrails » Lauren Lagasse (Marist College)
» Alex Gaboury (SUNY at Geneseo)
Snowball Flowers
A Coward's Hope » MonteLee Norton (University of Southern Indiana)
» Josh Hammingh (George Fox University)
2:15pm I-12—British Lit Brings the Drama
Streets filled with the Dead Sterlings 1 (1)
» Miles Tarquinio (Slippery Rock University) Chaired by: Melinda Mullet and Heidi Hanrahan

2:15pm I-10—Films Flip the Script “The Absence Of Presence”: Death & Separation in Rosencrantz &
Duquesne (1) Guildenstern Are Dead
Chaired by: Autumn Koors-Foltz and Judith Clark » Sky Martin (Elon University)

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Continued from Friday, 21 March Excerpt from The Legends of Mistbow

» Emma Weniger (The College of New Jersey)
Silence, Secularization, and Scripture in Waiting for Godot
» Caleb McGever (Whitworth University) 2:15pm I-15—
Black Diamond (2)
Torn Between Two Worlds: Wilde’s Earnest Exposé
» Lyla Flint (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith) 2:15pm I-17—Roundtable: One of Ours: Cultivating Community and Identity
in Your Classroom: A Roundtable for Soon-to-Be Teachers
2:15pm I-13—World Lit: Writing from the Margin Rivers (2)
Sterlings 2 (1) Chaired by: Christopher Lockwood
Chaired by: Fatima Ozer and Emad Mirmotahari
One of Ours: Cultivating Community and Identity In Your
Mohsin’s Last White Man: A Critique of Wokeness Classroom. A Roundtable For Soon-to-be Teachers
» Morgan Sandzimier (Duquesne University) » Rodrigo Ponciano Ojeda (St. Nicholas School, Alphaville), Dana
Meehan (International School of Kigali), Ines De La Pena Thevenet
Belonging in Miranda’s Bad Indians and Soldier’s Whereas: Poems (PrepaTec Eugenio Garza Sada,), Emma Stankiewicz (Danbury High
School), Glorivette Anibarro Soto (Colegio Catolico Notre Dame), Kelsey
» Natalee Harrison (Utah State University, Logan) Bierling (Upper Darby High School)

Challenging of Identity and Home in HOMES

2:15pm I-18—Roundtable: Audio Dramas—Storytelling through Sound
» Kate Linggi (St. Olaf College)
Heinz (1)
Exploring the Impact of Historical Trauma Chaired by: Michaelann Nelson
» Alvaro Larrea (Liberty University)
Audio Dramas—Storytelling through Sound
2:15pm I-14—Original Prose: Worldbuilding » Lizzie Hyte (Utah State University Statewide), Alexis Goodwin
Sterlings 3 (1) (Southern Arkansas University), William Ashcraft (Southern Arkansas
University)
Chaired by: Julia Robak and Linda Miller

In Four Years 2:30pm I-16—NEHS Willa Cather Foundation Session

» Isabella Felton (Oklahoma City University) Commonwealth 1 (1)

The House
» Molly Herron (Muhlenberg College)
3:45pm Keynote Speaker: Cynthia Kadohata
Therefore I am Human Ballroom 1-2 (2)
» Elivia Pease (Westfield State University) Chaired by: Carmen Lok

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Continued from Friday, 21 March

8pm Open Mic

Kings Garden 1-2 (2)
4:30pm Chaired by: Kelly Taylor
Chapter Merchandise Sales
Ballroom Foyer (2)

4:45pm Keynote Speaker Book Signing: Cynthia Kadohata

Kings Garden Foyer (2)
9:30pm Snacks
Chaired by: Sophia Jockell and Matthew Chinique and Emily Palmisano Ballroom 1-2 (2)
and Cyrah Johnson

Saturday, 22 March
5:45pm President's Reception for Faculty and Alumni
Sky Lounge (24) 7:30am Registration
Kings Landing (2)
5:45pm Dinner (on your own)
8am J-16—Roundtable: Literary Easter Eggs in Popular Media
7pm Keynote Book Signing: Benjamin Alire Saenz Ballroom 1-2 (2)
Kings Garden Foyer (2) Chaired by: Jess Landis and Alan Schulte
Chaired by: Arista Elderkin and Sophia Jockell and Matthew Chinique and
Isaiah Russell and Autumn Koors-Foltz
"Literary Easter Eggs in Popular Media"
» Jess Landis (Franklin Pierce University), Jaden Bauer (Franklin Pierce
University), Rachel Strout (Franklin Pierce University), Addison Swasey
(Franklin Pierce University), Anna Rundbaken (University of North
7pm SKD Advisor Meeting Georgia, Gainesville), Jarid Mancil (Southern Arkansas University)
Commonwealth 1 (1)
8am J-02—American Lit: Narrowing in on Narration
Kings Terrace (2)
Chaired by: Ken Salzer and Brooke Foster
8pm Movie Night
Ballroom 1-2 (2)
Chaired by: Arista Elderkin and Sophia Jockell and Matthew Chinique and "Ain't No Cinnamon": Dialect in Twain's Stories
Isaiah Russell and Autumn Koors-Foltz » Kaisha Girard (Southern New Hampshire University - Online)

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Continued from Saturday, 22 March Law Trivialized by Privilege

» Roshni Dave (The College of New Jersey)
Unreliable Narration and Neurosis in Invisible Man
» Jaxon Leifer (The College of New Jersey) The Power of Choice in Julius Caesar
» Ellie Fallows (Utah State University, Logan)
Trial by Fire: Repetitive Language in Jack London's "To Build a Fire"
» Jaxson Pearson (Oklahoma Christian University) The Convincing Role of Leadership
» Catherine Huebner (Utah Tech University)
Challenging the Originary Narrative
» Danielle Thompson (Morningside University) 8am J-05—Putting Value into Words
Traders (2)
8am J-03—British Lit: Early Theological Writing Chaired by: Sonia Halabi and Susan Crisafulli
Kings Plaza (2)
Chaired by: Jo Hoffman and Leigh Dillard (Mis)reading Affect, Narrative, and Community Belonging: The
Austin Strike, 1985-1986
Mystics of the Feminine Trinity: Julian of Norwich and Female » Forrest Davis (Willamette University)
Spirituality
» Grace Allen (Florida State University) Culture and Recursion: Daniel Everett’s Challenges to Universal
Grammar
A Poetics of Abundance: “And” as a Generative Labor of Language » Adeline Moss (Louisiana Tech University)
in Milton’s Paradise Lost
» Sam Barnhart (College of Charleston) Power of storytelling: Importance of ethics in journalism
» Alyssa Bayles (Utah Tech University)
Martin Luther, The Translator: The Impact of Martin Luther's
Bible Translations
Language and Identity in Translations
» Matthew Moon (University of North Georgia, Gainesville)
» Kayleigh Kearsley (Utah State University, Logan)
Virtuous Pain: Masochism in Donne's "Holy Sonnet 14"
8am J-06—Creative Nonfiction: In Memory of
» Allison Sadler (Western Kentucky University)
Chartiers (2)
8am J-04—British Lit: Powering Up the Bard Chaired by: Elliote Blake and Margaret Oakes
Brigade (2)
On Kombucha
Chaired by: Diane Steinberg and Emma Diamond
» Preston Brent (Samford University)
Pandora’s Box: Patriarchy and Female Consciousness in Titus
Andronicus The Fire
» Lucas Yang (Case Western Reserve University) » Chasity Clark (The University of Iowa)

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Continued from Saturday, 22 March Look Both Ways and Little Red Eyeing Flower
» Emily Nally (Muhlenberg College)
Gouges in Wood, Memory, and History
» Makayla Greening (Southwestern Oklahoma State University)
8am J-09—
Birmingham (1)
Marshmallow Memories
» Alexandria (Allie) Remm (University of Nebraska Kearney) 8am J-10—Music Makes the World Go 'Round
Duquesne (1)
8am J-07—Original Poetry: In a Queer Light Chaired by: Ryleigh Kelley and Kaine Ezell
Fort Pitt (1)
Chaired by: Billie Tadros and Isabel Lindsay The Invisible String Between Three Perspectives in Taylor Swift's
folklore
» Grace Calabrese (Ohio Northern University)
Three in Frog Years
» Charlie Dorlon (Chatham University)
Phoebe Bridgers' "I Know the End": A Masterpiece of Poetic
Technique
Black Que(e)ries
» Rachel Holsapple (Lincoln University, Missouri)
» Isabella Hardin (University of Kentucky)

Taylor Swift is the Music Industry

trans [re]conciliation
» Greta Soos (The College of New Jersey)
» Elias Kerr (The University of Scranton)

in this archetype, i am the lighthouse Would’ve/Could’ve/Should’ve: TS’s Feminist Refrain

» Autumn Koors-Foltz (University of Maine at Farmington) » Stefan Stojanoski (The College of New Jersey)

The Mistake Nature Created 8am J-11—Original Prose: Lighthearted

» Alexy McDermid (PennWest Clarion) Benedum (1)
Chaired by: Athena Vasquez and Matt Hlinak
8am J-08—Original Prose in Flash Form
Smithfield (1) Dive Bar Daguerreotype
Chaired by: Kye Lombard and Linda Miller » Erin O'Donnell (Northern Michigan University)

Day in the Lives Eat Your Words

» Lillian Jandrisevits (Marist College) » Abigail Arbeiter (Wichita State University)

Rings FEAR NOT

» Megan Milligan (Santa Clara University) » Ally McAfee (Whitworth University)

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Continued from Saturday, 22 March

Rose Buds
» Elizabeth Von Loh (The University of Iowa)
Creature Feature
» McKayla Mercer (Louisiana Tech University)
8am J-15—
Black Diamond (2)
8am J-01—American Lit: Voicing Dissent
Sterlings 1 (1)
8am J-17—Roundtable: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Three Utah Curse
Chaired by: Keyavia Downing and Diane Dowdey Words
Rivers (2)
Hypocrisy in Wheatley's "To His Excellency George Washington"
Chaired by: Ami Comeford
» Cade Chambers (Baker University)

More to be Heard Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Three Utah Curse Words
» Madison Mozak (Morningside University) » Matilda Gibb (Utah Tech University), Oliver Stirland (Southern Utah
University)
Courage to Change
» Joseph Romero (Calhoun Community College) 8am J-18—Roundtable: Meet the Journal Editorial Staff
Heinz (1)
Find the Meaning in Meaninglessness
Chaired by: Carie King
» Kimberly Rouse (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)

8am J-12— Meet the Journal Editorial Staff

Sterlings 2 (1) » Carie King (The University of Texas at Dallas), Kriss Larkin
(Southwestern Oklahoma State University), Alana King (Austin
Community College), Raisa Harris (The University of Southern
8am J-13—Creative Writing: Body Image in Prose and Poetry Mississippi, Hattiesburg)
Sterlings 3 (1)
Chaired by: Andrew Dampier and Sabina Amanbayeva
8am J-14—NEHS: Aristotle and Dante Presentations
Elements Commonwealth 1 (1)
» Erika Girard (Southern New Hampshire University - Online)

Now and Then Forever

» Natalie Turner (Oklahoma City University) 9:30am K-16—Workshop with Benjamin Alire Saenz
Ballroom 1-2 (2)
Doll Parts
» Mo Blackwood (Rhode Island College)

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Continued from Saturday, 22 March “These foils have all a length?”: Character Foils in Julius Caesar
and Hamlet
» Daniel Douglas (Freed-Hardeman University)
9:30am K-02—American Lit: Passing on History
Kings Terrace (2) The Taming of the Shrew and The Merchant of Venice:
Chaired by: Miranda Hughes-Ribeiro and Amy Gates Shakespeare’s Additional Problem Plays
» Peyton Peters (University of Southern Indiana)
Community Through Music in the Vietnam War
» Katie LaCoco (Kennesaw State University) Consciousness Personified in Othello
» Addie Travis (Freed-Hardeman University)
Hurstwood’s Obsession with the Past through Newspapers
» Mason Bouffard (Westfield State University) 9:30am K-05—Revolution in Art and Literature
Traders (2)
Power and Subversion in "All The Light We Cannot See" Chaired by: Keynon Causey and Prathim Maya Dora-Laskey
» Abigail McQueen (Lipscomb University)
Ervin Bossányi’s Religious Multiculturalism as an Antithesis to
9:30am K-03—British Lit: Talking Woolf Fascist Rhetoric
Kings Plaza (2) » Oliver Stirland (Southern Utah University)
Chaired by: Kaitlynn Sass and Kevin Stemmler
Equal Rights, Interrupted: The Feminist Movement through the
Rhetorical Questions as Talk Therapy in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lens of Women's Works
Lighthouse » Claire Wittlieff (Alma College)
» Taylor Galavotti (High Point University)
Politicizing Art: Proximity and Universality
The New Woman: Displacing the Centrality of Marriage » Maia Andrus (University of Oregon)
» Emily Housley (University of Oregon)
Art by the Standard of the Revolution: Soviet Literature and
Disillusionment and Epiphany: Virginia Woolf’s Exploration of Censorship Practices
Unfulfilled Enlightenment » Sarah Chew (Samford University)
» Abigail Murrill (Lee University)
9:30am K-06—Children's/Young Adult Lit: Harsh Realities
Virginia Woolf’s Christological Narratives Chartiers (2)
» Clara Wodny (Luther College) Chaired by: Annabelle Chipps and Z Walker-Goncalves

9:30am K-04—British Lit: The Bard's Tragic Touch The Lion and the Lamb: Constructions of Gender in Stephanie
Brigade (2) Meyer’s Life and Death
Chaired by: Jonathan Kirk and Margaret Oakes » Elizabeth Buchan (Slippery Rock University)

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Continued from Saturday, 22 March One of the Voices

» Runxuan Li (Syracuse University)

I Am Not Ruined, I Am Ruination: A Feminist Analysis of Genya The Child of Hameln

Safin
» Sydney Quick (Eastern Illinois University)
» Brooke Foster (Rider University)
The Story Machine
The Fantasy of a Perfect YA Heroine: Issues Surrounding
» Loralai Stevenson (Lee University)
Characterization of YA Heriones
» Jeanette Hutzell (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg)
Nyktimene
» Hannah Van Der Kamp (Chapman University)
9:30am K-07—Original Poetry: Seeking Identity
Fort Pitt (1) 9:30am K-09—Original Prose: Undoing Identity
Chaired by: Anne Rashid and Stefan Stojanoski Birmingham (1)
Chaired by: Julia Robak and Kendall Sewell
To Be Mud
» Umber Batool (University of Texas at Arlington) Black, Buzzing, Beguiled Spot
» Morgan Bryant (Lindsey Wilson College)
Miss Ellaneous
» Alora Borovich (Carlow University) Cure
» Theodore Czepiel (Lincoln Memorial University)
Hollow Beauty
» Destiny Jones (Southern Arkansas University) Death and Time Hate George Lakoff
» Kirra Trenholm (Colorado Mesa University)
Renaissance
Uneasy
» Audrey Luffman (Baker University)
» Kelli Tucker (Stephen F. Austin State University)

Searching: A Journey to Find Identity 9:30am K-10—One of Ours: Writing in the World
» Naomi McMahan (Olivet Nazarene University)
Duquesne (1)
Chaired by: Aysia Walton and Madeline Gangnes
Lost Identity Collection
» Alexis Mills (Southwestern Oklahoma State University) Gender and Genre: On Queer Writers Queering Writings
» Emily Carey (The University of Scranton)
9:30am K-08—Original Prose: Building Stories
Smithfield (1) The Eloquence of Patrick Fermor in Syntax
Chaired by: Maisie Mehn and Sarah Dangelantonio » John Knutson (University of Oregon)

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Continued from Saturday, 22 March Peachbud Girls and Wedding Cake Women in Adrienne Rich’s
“Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law”
» Finn McAdams (Cottey College)
From the Kitchens of Lords to Pinterest Boards: An Examination of
Recipe Discourse
» Haley Hansen (Coastal Carolina University) Matthew O’Connor and Transfemininity in Nightwood
» Cooper Miller (Louisiana Tech University)
Dismantling the Writing Center
» Valerie Rosqueta (Saint Louis University) The Physical vs. Societal in “The Husband Stitch”
» Allison Silver (The College of New Jersey)
Love on Alien Frontiers
» Rylee Davidson (Coastal Carolina University) 9:30am K-12—Original Prose: Identifying What's Real
Sterlings 2 (1)
9:30am K-11—Perceptive Literature Chaired by: Elias Kerr and Michelle Wood
Benedum (1)
Chaired by: Rowan Feasel and Marsha Rhee The Motley Girl
» Austin Dabney (Fisher College)
The Real and Ridiculous Threat of Orgoglio
» Jordan Gilbert (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg) The Meaning of McStevens
» Shiloh Drake (Cedarville University)
Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss: Examining Cranford Using Patricia
Spacks’ Desire and Truth
Haruspicy
» Gabriella Piccirilli (Mercyhurst University)
» Derek Whorley (Randolph College)

The Significance of Perceived Masculinity in Weep Not, Child

How's the Weather?
» Haylee Morman (Mississippi State University)
» Jonathan Wood (Furman University)

Hollow Victory: Animalism and Dehumanization in All Quiet on

the Western Front 9:30am K-13—British Lit Is Reborn
» Alexandria Lay (Cottey College) Sterlings 3 (1)
Chaired by: Isabella Flores and Julia Combs
9:30am K-01—American Lit: Gender Questions in LGBTQIA+
Sterlings 1 (1) Stephen Dedalus: From Catholicism to Vocation
Chaired by: Theodore Lopata and Corbett Upton » Paige Daul (St. Norbert College)

Women as Obstacles in "Brokeback Mountain" Yeats' Philosophies in "The Second Coming"

» Allison Davis (Ohio Northern University) » Emily Howell (Southwestern Oklahoma State University)

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Continued from Saturday, 22 March 10am Vendors

Kings Garden 5 (2)

A Transcendent Path to Catharsis and Divine Inspiration 10am Chapter Displays

» Savannah Mayfield (Oklahoma Baptist University) Ballroom Foyer (2)

Between Places and Digital Spaces: The Mental Health Journey in

Queenie
» Simeon Mills (Franklin Pierce University) 10am Chapter Merchandise Sales
Ballroom Foyer (2)
9:30am K-15—
Black Diamond (2) 10am NEHS Special Session with Cameron Barnett
Commonwealth 1 (1)
9:30am K-17—Roundtable: Experiential Learning and the English Major
Rivers (2)
Chaired by: Emad Mirmotahari
10:45am Snacks
Kings Garden Foyer (2)
Experiential Learning and the English Major
» Emad Mirmotahari (Duquesne University), Sophia Jockell (University
of North Georgia, Gainesville), Kathryn Jorgensen (The College of New 11am LitFest—Cameron Barnett: Reading and Workshop
Jersey), Stephanie Martinez (The College of New Jersey), Mairin Landis Fort Pitt (1)
(Duquesne University), Bailey Martini (Duquesne University) Chaired by: Zachary Brady

9:30am K-18—Roundtable: Reclaiming Identity: Memory, Diaspora, and

Selfhood in Graphic Narratives
Heinz (1) 11am LitFest—Billie R. Tadros & Elias Kerr: Creative Mentorship:
Chaired by: Carie King Connection, Collaboration, and Craft
Smithfield (1)
Reclaiming Identity: Memory, Diaspora, and Selfhood in Graphic Chaired by: Matthew Chinique and William Saccavino
Narratives
» Swati Anwesha (The University of Texas at Dallas), Nikita D'Monte
(The University of Texas at Dallas), Kiran Bains Sahota (The University
of Texas at Dallas)
11am LitFest—Sherrie Flick: Flash Fiction with Workshop
Birmingham (1)
10am White Whale Bookstore Chaired by: Kevin Stemmler
Kings Garden 5 (2)

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Continued from Saturday, 22 March Rivers Wash Away History: Indigenous Trauma in Solar Storms
» Erin Atkinson (Southern Utah University)

12:30pm L-03—British and Irish Lit in Their Natural Habitat

Kings Plaza (2)
11am LitFest—Cynthia Kadohata: Writing for a Young Adult Audience: Fact
Chaired by: Jim Case and Amy Gates
into Fiction
Heinz (1)
Feminine Identity Formation in Irish Short Fiction
Chaired by: Shannin Schroeder and Carmen Lok
» Mac Chamberlain (Lipscomb University)

Setting and Subjectivity in A Pale View of Hills

» Isaiah Russell (Fort Hays State University)
12:30pm L-16—Roundtable: Taylor Swift's Literary References: Insights from
the Tortured Poets Department
Listening and Nature: The Descriptive Language in John Clare's
Ballroom 1-2 (2) Poetry
Chaired by: Hillary Coenen » Madisyn Bishop (Utah Tech University)

Taylor Swift's Literary References: Insights from the Tortured Decentering Anthropocentrism: An Exploration of Animal and
Poets Department Disability Studies in Sewell's Black Beauty
» Dakota Mecham (Utah State University Statewide), Greta Soos (The » Angela Saldivar (Northwestern State University of Louisiana)
College of New Jersey), Addison Swasey (Franklin Pierce University),
Savannah Mayfield (Oklahoma Baptist University), Rya'Lynn Simons 12:30pm L-04—British Lit: Enlightened on Gender
(Oklahoma Baptist University)
Brigade (2)
Chaired by: Andrew Dampier and Linda Troost
12:30pm L-02—American Lit: Shaped by Our Environment
Kings Terrace (2) Voices Unheard: Reclaiming Female Narratives in The Silence of
Chaired by: Michaela Smith and Benjamin Bergholtz the Girls
» Hannah Squires (Florida State University)
“where we take shape in the dark air”: The Specter of Our
Humanity in John Hollander’s “Swan and Shadow” Feminine vs. Masculine Men in Evelina
» Raewyn Kraybill (Chatham University) » Emilia Brunner (Washington & Jefferson College)

Building Argument: Aldo Leopold’s Ecocentricism The Female Gaze: Redefining Womanhood in Lord Tennyson’s “The
Lady of Shalott”
» Katherine Michienzi (Mercyhurst University)
» Jacob Link (Lee University)

The Humanity of Area X in Annihilation Desire, Fame, and Immortality in Sappho and Phaon
» Victoria Severiche (Berry College) » Karsyn Rhoades (Lee University)

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Continued from Saturday, 22 March 12:30pm L-07—Original Prose: Telltale Traumas

Fort Pitt (1)
12:30pm Chaired by: Megan Robertson and Ami Comeford
L-05—To Tell the Truth: Film and Social Media
Traders (2)
Campfires
Chaired by: Lauren Bachman and Seth Lee
» Christian Chijioke (Liberty University)
Ride On: Heart of the Western Genre
Ghosts Aren't Real, but Monsters Are
» Benjamin Ainsworth (University of North Georgia, Gainesville)
» Yakira Johnson (North Dakota State University)
Erik: The Man Behind the Mask
Smothered Memories
» Eden Goude (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith)
» Rebecca Payne (University of North Georgia, Gainesville)

True Detective: Night Country: A Subversion of Crime and Gender

The Fog
» Leah Koenig (Luther College)
» Emily Theroux (Duquesne University)

Surveillance Capitalism: The Commodification of Mankind

12:30pm L-08—American Lit: Rooted in the Margins
» Molly Morgan (Duquesne University)
Smithfield (1)
Chaired by: Derrick Spradlin and Junaid Shah Shabir
12:30pm L-06—Original Poetry: Death Cycles
Chartiers (2)
Mine, Yours, and Theirs: Exploring the “Third Space” in South-
Chaired by: Kelsey Pavelick and Z Walker-Goncalves Asian American Feminist Literature
» Swati Anwesha (The University of Texas at Dallas)
To Live and Forget
» Hannah Eygabroad (Olivet Nazarene University) Flower Symbolism in The Bluest Eye
» Lizzie Leishman (Utah State University, Logan)
Flesh on the Floor and Other Poems
» Camille Floyd (Lipscomb University) Relationships Between Flight, Purpose, and Identity in P. Djèlí
Clark’s The Black God’s Drums
Ouroboros: Death as New Beginnings » Julianna Reidell (Arcadia University)
» Mairin Landis (Duquesne University)
Abel’s Healing in House Made of Dawn
What the Rubble Remembers » Trey Whitted (Anderson University)
» Paris Woodward-Ganz (University of Oregon)
12:30pm L-09—World Lit: Locating Meaning
Lenses of Loss Birmingham (1)
» Samantha Zimdahl (Marian University Wisconsin) Chaired by: Maggie Machado and Carl Miller

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Continued from Saturday, 22 March Elissa 5 and Alistair 4, excerpts from Family Matters
» Steve Savoie (Southeastern Louisiana University)
Finding “The Well of Life”: A Criticism of “The Secret Source” by
Ben Okri Graveless
» McKenna Love (University of Southern Indiana) » Kira Tjomsland (Palm Beach Atlantic University)

Mann’s Death in Venice and the Coronavirus Pandemic A Wreck

» Ashley Baranowski (Palm Beach Atlantic University) » Hannah Westergard (Freed-Hardeman University)

Tolstoy Debunks the Myth of "Happily Ever After" 12:30pm L-01—American Lit's Musical Refrain
» Catherine Gonzalez (The College of New Jersey) Sterlings 1 (1)
Chaired by: Destinee Martin and Adam Stier
The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Alone
» Sophia Nelson (Saint Vincent College) Communism, Imperialism, and Colonialism in M. Butterfly
» Samantha Giesen (Morningside University)
12:30pm L-10—Original Prose: One of Ours
Duquesne (1) The Authenticity Paradox of M. Butterfly
Chaired by: Briana Bindus and Christina Brown » Kelsey Schieffer (Morningside University)

History Will Say They Were Good Friends A Reckoning in the Radio: Redefining God in Joyce Carol Oates’
» Cara Bond (St. Mary's College of Maryland) “Where are You Going, Where have You Been?”
» Dirk Wynn (Chatham University)
Foster Reader
» Halle Kibben (Palm Beach Atlantic University) Shakespeare in Americana: The Band's "Ophelia" As a Southern
Retelling of Hamlet
Sienna, Sienna, Sienna » Athena Vasquez (Centenary College of Louisiana)
» Will Roth (University of Pittsburgh)
12:30pm L-12—British Lit: In Search of the Brontes
To Fall like a Star Sterlings 2 (1)
» Kyra Lipetzky (Saint Vincent College) Chaired by: Roshni Dave and Gary Tandy

12:30pm L-11—Original Prose: Fatal Fantasies The Complicated Road to “I Do”: Jane Eyre, the Marriage Plot, and
Benedum (1) Genre Studies
Chaired by: Caleb McGever and Matt Hlinak » Emily King (George Fox University)

Notes of Vibrancy Weather or Not, They Get Together

» Andrew Doughty (Whitworth University) » Annika Morschauser (St. Norbert College)

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Continued from Saturday, 22 March 2pm Keynote Speaker: Benjamin Alire Saenz
Ballroom 1-2 (2)
Chaired by: Kelly Taylor and Sophia Jockell
“Quenchless Fire”: Rhetoric, Religion, and Empire in Jane Eyre
» Rylee Schmidt (Oklahoma Christian University)

12:30pm L-13— 3pm Keynote Book Signing: Benjamin Alire Saenz

Sterlings 3 (1) Kings Garden Foyer (2)
Chaired by: Matthew Chinique and Carmen Lok and Cyrah Johnson and
12:30pm L-15— Emily Palmisano
Black Diamond (2)

12:30pm L-17—Roundtable: This Roundtable Was Written by AI . . . or Was It?

Rivers (2) 4:15pm Awards & Closing Ceremony
Chaired by: Sherri Craig Ballroom 1-2 (2)

This Roundtable was Written by AI…or Was It?

» Sherri Craig (Southeastern Louisiana University), Tiffany Nolde
(University of North Georgia, Gainesville), Roberto Martinez
(Metropolitan State University of Denver), Christopher Chandler
(Southeastern Louisiana University)

12:30pm L-18—Roundtable: One of Ours, One for Others: Exploring Jesuit

Values through When My Brother Was an Aztec
Heinz (1)
Chaired by: Faith Montagnino

One of Ours, One for Others: Exploring Jesuit Values through

"When My Brother Was an Aztec"
» Faith Montagnino (The University of Scranton), Brenna Parker (The
University of Scranton), Audrey Munley (The University of Scranton)

1pm NEHS Special Session with Sherrie Flick

Commonwealth 1 (1)

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