English Symposium Schedule
Friday, March 25, 2011
Registration: 8:00–12:00 and 1:00–5:00 at the FLAC (B003 JFSB). Participants should check in and pick up their name-tags.
| 9:00-9:50 | ||
| B103 JFSB | Rhetoric and Composition/Pedagogy (Chair, Kristine Hansen) | |
| Carolyn Carter | “The Rules of Engagement: A Brain-Based Approach to Teaching in the College Writing Classroom” | |
| Jarron Slater | “It’s Not About You; It’s About Us: Voice as Cooperation Between Reader and Writer” | |
| Travis Washburn | “Look Your Audience in the Eye: The Case for Personal Voice” | |
| B101 JFSB | Language and Language Systems (Chair, Meredith Reed) | |
| Rachel Kirkwood | “‘Shall I Project a World?’: The Crying of Lot 49 and the Closed System of Academic Criticism. | |
| Ashley Williams | “‘Yo Mama!’ Language Interacting with Identity in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man” | |
| Whitney Tessers | “Having Your Cake and Eating It Too” | |
| B150 JFSB | The Woman Question (Chair, Katie E. Young) | |
| Celeste Zsembery | “Neither Blue nor Bore: Loudon’s Construction of the Clever, Intelligent Woman Reader in The Ladies’ Companion” | |
| Elizabeth Christianson | “In Search of the Real in Ella D’Arcy’sThe Bishop’s Dilemma“ | |
| Katie E. Young | “In Wisdom and in Folly: Owls, Marriage, and Women’s Issues in Elizabeth von Arnim’s Elizabeth and her German Garden and The Solitary Summer“ | |
| 4116 JFSB | Healing and Cultural Memory (Chair, Jack Mallard) | |
| Marinda Quist | “Opposition and Healing in A Raisin in the Sun“ | |
| Candice Taylor Stratford | “Feet Firmly in Control: The Transmission of Memory in Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow“ | |
| Amy Takabori | “Functions of Compensations of/in Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces“ | |
| 1013 JKB | Creative Writing, Genre Potpourri (Chair, Shelah Miner) | |
| Emily Belanger | “Jimbo’s Day with the Aliens” | |
| Michael Lemon | “Songs and Words: An Anthology of Music and Flash Stories” | |
| Amber L. Watson | “Gasp-Falling Goldfishes: the Language of Being Human” | |
| 10:00-10:50 | ||
| 1129 JKB | The Unthinkable and the Unspeakable (Chair, Trent Hickman) | |
| May V. Anderton | “Wrapping One’s Mind Around Borges: Patterns of and within Infinity” | |
| Sienna Palmer Dittmer | “The Fuku of Race and the Problem of Dominicanness in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” | |
| Drew Merrill | “From the Corner of her Eyes: Problematizing Witness in In the Time of the Butterflies.” | |
| B101 JFSB | Flouting Romantic Genre Expectations (Chair, Nick Mason) | |
| Kessia Robinson | “Communication Pathways: Man and Nature in Wordsworth’s ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’” | |
| Laura Lindsay | “Jane Austen and the Strength of Persuadability” | |
| Becca Ogden Jensen | “‘Merit beyond any already published’: Austen and Authorship in the Romantic Age” | |
| B105 JFSB | Burke, Booth and the Bones of Modern Rhetoric (Chair, Jon Ostenson) | |
| Paige Thompson | “Seeking to be Understood: a Critical Reading of Kenneth Burke and Wayne Booth” | |
| Aimee Robison | “Burke, Booth, and the Rhetoric of Forgiveness” | |
| Meridith Reed | “Responsible Reading and the Work of the Critic in Kenneth Burke and Wayne Booth” | |
| 1013 JKB | Shifting American Ideals (Chair, Phil Snyder) | |
| Ryan Brown | “Give it the Gun: Power Shifting and Automobility in Cain’s Mildred Pierce“ | |
| Kylar Jones | “Societal Decay” | |
| Theodore Smith, | “Evolving Ideals: the Fate of America” | |
| B103 JFSB | Time: Chaucer to Final Fantasy (Chair, Dennis Cutchins) | |
| Andrew Allen | “Immersive Literature: a Well-Coded Video Game.” | |
| Gary Fuller | “‘Ful Armonye’: Love and Cosmos in the ‘Parliament of Fowls’” | |
| Emily Young | “Time and the Scottish Novel: Antiquarian History vs. Quantum Time” | |
| 11:00–11:50 | ||
| B132 JFSB | Constructing Gender (Chair, Aimee Robison) | |
| Rebecca C. Hay | “The Other to Create the One” | |
| Stephanie Johnson | “Unwilling to be Free: the Governess’s Desire to be an Angel” | |
| Courtney Beesley | “Soft-Boiled Crime Fiction: Hope for Heidegger’s Humanity” | |
| B103 JFSB | Food and Empire (Chair, Jill Rudy) | |
| Kristy Stewart | “Muck and Chocolate: Food for Soldiers in Life and Literature” | |
| Rebecca Barlow | “Getting to Know Mrs. Beeton” | |
| Emma Nelson | “Immigration and Foodways: Food Traditions in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake“ | |
| B150 JFSB | Meeting and Fighting the Man (Chair, Jaqueline Thursby) | |
| Ryne Steinacker | “Minority Culture and Subversion inInvisible Man and Round Dance“ | |
| Jonathan Smith | “Media as a Tool of State Control in Richard Wright’s Native Son“ | |
| Kylie McQuarrie | “Hegemony and The Road“ | |
| B105 JFSB | New American Gods (Chair, Edward Cutler) | |
| Jacob Kunzler | “The Bible and Marilynne Robison’s Novels” | |
| Amy Whitaker | “The Deterioration of Devotion: Religion’s Shifted Role in The Custom of the Country“ | |
| Annique Winegar | “Thoreau’s Discovery of Universal Truths Through Hinduism” | |
| B101 JFSB | Everyday Rhetoric (Chair, Paige Thompson) | |
| Jacob Sherman | “The Philosophy of Douglas Adams, as Told in Rhetorical Figures” | |
| K. Robert Kirkham | “Combating the ‘Theophany of Flaming Creosote in Disguise’: An Analysis of Enthymematic Dialectics in Bad Religion’s The Empire Strikes First“ | |
| Devon Cook | “Perspective and Shifts in Reynold Price’s A Long and Happy Life” | |
| 12:00-12:50 | English Reading Series, HBLL Auditorium: Dr. John Bennion | |
| 1:00-1:50 | ||
| B101 JFSB | Shakespeare: Ritual and Order (Chair, Nancy Christiansen) | |
| Chad Harrison | “The Damned Spot’s Canvas: The Hand as an Image of False Loyalty inMacbeth“ | |
| Kara Kemp | “Identity and Impotence in Orson Welles’s Othello“ | |
| Rachel Wise | “Gendered Witchcraft in Orson Welles’s ‘Voodoo’ Macbeth“ | |
| B103 JFSB | Adolescence and Foodways (Chair, Debbie Dean) | |
| Lindsay Woolf | “Harry Potter and the Origin of Food” | |
| Andrea Ostler | “Food and its Impact on Adolescents and their World” | |
| Natalie Johansen | “Restoring the Art of Family Mealtime” | |
| B150 JFSB | Types in Victorian Novels (Chair, Lori Yancey) | |
| Rachel Giddings | “Warped Communication in Gaskell’sNorth and South” | |
| Jen Price | “Armature of Love: Subordinating and Asserting Issues of Masculinity and Femininity in the BBC’s North and South“ | |
| Shannon Stimpson | “Division and Unification in Gaskell’sNorth and South“ | |
| B140 JFSB | Gender in American Literature (Chair, Zach Hutchins) | |
| Rachel Page | “Mesmerizing Women in Blithedale” | |
| Shayla Whipple | “‘The Absence that Drives Desire’: Gender Roles in Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises“ | |
| Rebecca Lofley | “American Philomelas: A Female American Poetic Tradition” | |
| 1013 JKB | Grails and Hell (Chair, Miranda Wilcox) | |
| Sydney Maucotel | “The Devil’s Playground: A Rhetorical Analysis of Kenneth Burke and the Amish Teenage Identity Crisis” | |
| Lindsay Brown | “On the Road to the Grail: Linking Father-Son Relationships in Mallory’sLe Morte D’Arthur and McCarthy’s The Road“ | |
| Genevieve Busch | “‘I Dreamed a Dream in Time Gone By’: Thomas Malory’s Use of the Dream as Lay Morality Discourse” | |
| 2:00-2:50 | ||
| B105 JFSB | Gender and Othello (Chair, Kelsey Mortenson) | |
| Sabrina McCann | “Early Modern Feminine Ideals: Portia and Desdemona” | |
| Lauren Ashley | “Devotion to Distortions: How Gender Centers in Othello Mirror Pornography Problems” | |
| Chad de Lisle | “Race and Gender Issues in Othello andMerchant of Venice“ | |
| B101 JFSB | Rhetorica Americana (Chair, David Isaksen) | |
| Breanne White | “Visual Rhetoric on Puritan Tombstones: The Unwritten Sermon” | |
| David Isaksen | “Barack Obama’s ‘We the People’ and the Rhetorical Power of Literary Form” | |
| Spencer Wells | “In Thanksgiving and Praise: Prayer’s Rhetoric and Congressional Thanksgiving Proclamations” | |
| B140 JFSB | Short Story: Small Town America (Chair, Stephen Haynie) | |
| Stephen Haynie | “Our Town’s Witch Doctor” | |
| Hilary Watkins | “Marty Burton Finds True Love” | |
| Erin Jackson | “The Deep Fried Fighting Praying Mantis” | |
| B103 JFSB | History and Tradition (Chair, Sarah Campbell) | |
| Kelly Rogers | “Literary Cowboy: McCarthy’s Ideal inNo Country for Old Men” | |
| Sarah Campbell | “Re-appropriation of Guevara in Loving Che“ | |
| Jacob Lyman | “Don Lee and the African American Creation of Past, Present, and Future” | |
| 3:00-3:50 | ||
| B150 JFSB | Creative Nonfiction Collection (Chair, Patrick Madden) | |
| Bentley Snow | “Eurail to Rome” | |
| Scott Morris | “On Whom Things are Lost” | |
| Shelah Mastny Miner | “The Black Truck” | |
| B105 JFSB | Takes on the Classics (Chair, John Talbot) | |
| Andrew Wells | “Homer, Ovid, Milton, and Pope: The Anxiety of Mitigated Influence” | |
| Holli Hale | “Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Nietzschean Tragedy” | |
| Carin Olavson | “Mindfully Catching Nature Through Antiquity” | |
| B013 JFSB | Politics and Identity at the Periphery (Chair, Shannon Stimpson) | |
| Deborah Westwood | “Samuel Johnson: Paradox of Religion” | |
| Sari Carter | “Writing to the Moment: Creating Identity in Pamela and Mrs. Dalloway“ | |
| Brad Gerhardt | “Decentralizing Modernism: Politics of Periphery and Avant-Garde Alienation” | |
| 2009 JKB | Graphic Adolescence (Chair, Rachel Meibos Helps) | |
| Jack Lundquist | “Scott Pilgrim v. the World: The Emergence of the Graphic Novel” | |
| Jessica Vavrinec | “Bitten: The Evolution of the Vampire Novel in Teen Literature” | |
| Alana Maiello | “The Golden Age of Spirituality in Young Adult Literature” | |
| 2002 JKB | Drama, Science, and Religion (Chair, Kjerstin Evans) | |
| Hillary Gamblin | “Nationality and Space in As You Like Itand the Book of Esther” | |
| Alexis Wood | “Absent Father and Absent Presence in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia“ | |
| Maichael Mayans | “Unpredictable, Yet Undeniable Downfall: Thermodynamics in the Relationships of Arcadia“ | |
| 4:00-4:50 | Keynote: “Reflections on ‘Going Pro’,” Dr. Nancy Christiansen, B092 JFSB (refreshments provided) | |
The English Symposium is sponsored by the BYU English Department and organized by the English Society and the English Graduate Student Association.