Senior English Seminar Conference Program


Geri Farrell, “The Insufficient Nature of the Human Language”
Shelby Brown
, “Edward Abbey’s Use of Comedy in Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang”
Allison Bearly
, “Constructed Nature: The Human Impact in Desert Solitaire and Double Whammy”
9:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room

Callyn Burgess, “In Parenthesis: A Modern Epic for a Modern War”
Belkisa Causevic
, “‘On entend le Canon’: A Translation of Schoolboy Yves Congar’s World War I Journal”
John Brooks
, “Sergeant York: Constructing an American Hero”
9:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Activities Room

Amy Koonce, “Johnny Depp May Be Adorable But Mental Illness Isn’t: The of Women in Benny and Joon”
Stephanie Sherman
, “Helpless Hero: The Effect of PTSD in Brothers”
10:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room

Laura Kenny, “Who Run the World? Girls”
Theresa Wildhaber
, “From Corsets to Overalls: American Women in the Workforce During the First World War”
Kelly Cunningham
, “Writers as Pacifists During and After the Great War”
10:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Activities Room

Hope Benefield
, “Abstractions”
Paula Vaught
, “Leprechauns, Black Bears, and Other Things About Divorce”
Shelby Welch
, “Stars”
11:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room

Diane Prinster, “Once Upon a Disability: Portrayals of the Disabled Villain”
Kaitlin Austin
, “Portrayal of Disability in Shirley Temple’s Heidi”
Rachel Hoffman
, “The Phantom of the Opera: Changing Portrayals of Disability”
11:30 a.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Activities Room

Alexandria Lockett
, “Whats the ‘T’ about English Majors? Some Reflections about the Trans-Power of the Field—in around, and outside Academic Jobs”
12:30 p.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room

Jennifer Marks, “Small Town, Big War: Re-purposing Kirksville, Missouri, for the Great War”
Robert Overmann
, “’Ill in the’Ville’: The Events and Culture of Kirksville, Missouri, During the 1918 Influenza as Viewed through Kirksville Newspapers”
Amy Ritter
, “Eugenics, Harry Laughlin, and World War I”
1:30 p.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room

Lauren Ragsdale
, “A Study in Disabilities: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in Conan Doyle’s Stories and BBC’s Sherlock”
Janae Fritze
, “Representations of Conjoined Twins in Grey’s Anatomy’s ‘Don’t Stand So Close to Me’ and ‘This Magic Moment’”                                                                                                                                 
1:30 p.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Activities Room

Michelle Hadler
, “Bad-Mouthing the Enemy: Dysphemistic Use of Language in WWI”                               
Heather Ernst
, “Bringing Harlem to Europe: Power, Jazz, and the Other in WWI”
2:30 p.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Conference Room

Samantha Battrick, “High on the Mountaintop: Seeking Out Nature for Spiritual Renewal and to Commune With God”
Sadie Gerau
, “The Sublimity of Landscapes in American Nature Writing”
Julie Phillips
, “The Starting Point: A Case for the Power of Children’s Natural Wonder”
2:30 p.m.
Dec. 1
Student Union Building Activities Room

Megan Dice, “The Kilt and the Evolution of Scottish Identity in The Great War”
Paige Bergan
, “Reaching the Sky: The Impact of Pioneering Aircrafts in WWI”
Tori Palumbo
, “Man Up: Debilitating Social Attitudes toward Shell Shock and the Intersectionality of Disability and Gender in Pat Barker’s Regeneration”
10:30 a.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Conference Room

Isaac B. Akers
, “The Absolute Adventures of Grass Peldrage & Miriam Watch”
Thomas Fitzler
, “At the Edge of Expansion”
Marissa Meehan
, “Wyndfall Jones”
Erin Twenter
, “The Awkward Stage: How to Catch It Before It Claims Your Youth”
10:30 a.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Activities Room

Nathan Sandbothe, “The Public’s Walt Whitman”
Stephen Furlong
, “Heritage: An Origin Story of the Poetry of Linda Hogan and Louise Glueck”
Conor Gearin
, “‘There are birds here’: American Nature Writing in a Fragmented World”
Jessica Koch
, “Situational Irony and Its Effects on Nature”
August Thies
, “Nature Writing as a Tool to Teach and Encourage the Sciences”
12 p.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Conference Room

Keynote: Alexandria Lockett, “Contagious Nonsense: Informatic Mythography in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo and Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters”                                                                                                                           
1:30 p.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Conference Room                                                                                                                      

Libby Jenkins, “’Til We Meet Again”
Lauren Neilson
, “The Good Egg”
David Winn
, “Laura: Revised”
Joe Rhyne
, “#LifeAsWeProbablyDon’tKnowIt: A Ritualistic Trip Around the World”
3 p.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Conference Room

Zainab Jasim, “Jane Eyre’s Bertha Mason: Madwoman or Feminist Rebel?”
Julianne Dworak
, “The Best Years of Our Lives: Gender Issues and Disabled Veterans”
Lindsay Hickman
, “American Horror Story: Disabilities and Classism in 1950’s America”
Kim Wronkiewicz
, “Neurodiversity vs. The Medical Model: A Discussion of Autism from “Look Me In the Eye”
3 p.m.
Dec. 2
Student Union Building Activities Room
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