English Comps Symposium – Saturday, May 7, 2016
Coffee & Muffins – Laird Second Floor Hallway – 9:00 am
WELCOME – Tim Raylor, Department Chair – 9:25 am
Session I 9:30-10:30 a.m.
A. Victorian Cultural Critiques—Laird 206
- Francesca Arcidiacono, “Specimens of Subversion: Resisting Museums in Victorian Literature”
- Claire Edgley, “The Power of Social Policing: Internalized Discipline in Victorian Heroines”
- Samantha Saltzman, “Christina Rossetti’s Case for Granting Power and Autonomy to Girls”
B. Monsters and Talking Birds—Laird 211
- Peter Alexander, “Textuality and Scientific Racism in Stoker and Lovecraft”
- Wren Wells, “A Life of its Own: Control Within and Beyond Frankenstein”
- Joshua Wickert, “Chaucer’s Birds Can Be Vulgar”
C. Creative Writing: Poetry—Laird 212
- Juan Carlos Chotocruz-Abarca, “IN the Land of the Free”
- Mikayla Coulombe, “To Darkness”
- Madeline King, “Disclosure”
Session II 10:35-11:35 a.m.
A. Gender, History, and Performance—Laird 206
- Madelaine Horn, “Women and Honour in Shakespeare’s History Plays”
- Sarah Meister, “The Interpretive Value of Prison Shakespeare”
- Kayla McKinsey, “Women’s Subjectivity in South Asian Narratives of Relocation”
B. Creative Writing and Projects: Drama and Hybrid Forms—Laird 211
- Kristen Nassar, “This is What Sticks (And How to Clean Your Room)”
- Isabel Carter, “For Your Viewing Pleasure”
- Casey Short, “Changing Conventions: New Media and Narrative Levels in Webcomics”
- Kathleen George, “Stripped”
C. American Experimental Forms—Laird 212
- Erik Johnson, “Thoreau’s Pedagogy toward Poetic Perception in Walden”
- Claire Pennington, “Postmodernism and Moralizing Narrative in The Crying of Lot 49”
- Noah Bunnell, “The Re-Birth of the Critic: Deconstructing Metacriticism in House of Leaves”
Session III 11:40 a.m.-12:40 p.m.
A. Colloquium—Laird 211
- Grace Black, Alex Caulfield, Sam Chao, Jeong Lim, Helenmarie McHugh, Alexandra Norvet
B. Morality, Subversion, and the Reader—Laird 206
- Ben Hiskes, “The Roles of Reason and the Reader in Paradise Lost”
- Austin Showen, “Hierarchical Subversion in Dickens’ Criminals”
- Miriam Wolf, “Subversion and the Carnivalesque in Children’s Literature”
C. Creative Writing: Fiction—Laird 212
- Emma Sunog, “Secrets”
- Casper Kelly, “July 6, 2015”
- Wilson Josephson, “Fatherland”
RECEPTION/LUNCH—Laird Second-Floor Hallway—12:40-1:40 p.m.