BYU ENGLISH SYMPOSIUM

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SESSION 1: 8:00 – 9:15

PANEL A: Elsie C. Carroll Essay Contest Winners
ROOM: B094 JFSB
CHAIR: Joey Franklin
PRESENTERS:

  • First place: McKenna Jackson
  •  Second place: Mauri Johnson
  •  Third place: Steven Joplin

PANEL B: On Understanding Trauma through Literature: A Roundtable Discussion
ROOM: B101 JFSB
CHAIR: Trent Hickman
PRESENTERS:

  • Maren Nield
  • Michael Scott Walton
  • Carma Hiland
  • Summer Weaver
  • Hannah Azar

PANEL C: ’Tis Pity She’s/He’s a Whore: Creating Sympathy in Restoration Drama
ROOM: 4188 JFSB
CHAIR: Brett McInelly
PRESENTERS:

  • Stewart Foster, “Beyond the Erotic: Horner’s Social Motivations in William Wycherley’s The Country Wife”
  • Mary Jensen, “Postcolonial Power Dynamics in The Rover”
  • Rex Dyches, “What Pity Justice Can Afford in All for Love”

PANEL D: All Questions, No Answers: Literature and the Human Experience
ROOM: 4186 JFSB
CHAIR: Brian Jackson
PRESENTERS:

  • Ethan McGinty, “{This} Means Nothing”
  • Abby Clayton, “Anything but Normal”
  • Taylor Flickinger, “God is Blind”
  • Bayleigh Cragun, “Rosie’s Robot”

SESSION 2: 9:30 – 10:45

PANEL A: MY ENGLISH + STORIES
ROOM: JFSB 4186 – 4188
CHAIR: Trina Harding
PRESENTERS:

  • Katey Workman – Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
  • Yadira Veamatahau – Mike Taylor 394R
  • Mary Jensen – Wordsworth Trust
  • Kiri Case – Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and More Good Foundation
  • Joshua Jorgensen – Scottish Parliament
  • Aliah Eberting – BYU Broadcasting
  • Heather Bergeson – Church Publications
  • Seth Haws – Provo City Lab
  • Candice Boren – Inscape intern
  • Michela Miller – Mentored research

PANEL B: How Stories Shape Society: Contrasting African and Pacific Oral Stories with their Modern Counterparts
ROOM: B101 JFSB
CHAIR: Jill Rudy
PRESENTERS:

  • Savannah Collins, “A Good Man and a Great King: The Two-Way Exchange Between Hero and Community in The Mwindo Epic and Marvel’s Black Panther”
  • Corrine Downs, “Maui, Mauna Kea and the Multi-million Dollar Colonization Problem”
  • Madison Gotfredson, “The Power of Story Socialization: Analyzing Male Gender Roles and Expectations in Harry Potter and The Mwindo Epic”
  • Chelsea Mortensen, “The Tides of Change: Flood Archetypes and Cultural Clash in Terry Pratchett’s Nation”

 

PLENARY SESSION: 11:00 AM – 12:05 PM
WOMEN IN ACADEMIA PANEL
ROOM: JFSB 4186 – 4188
MODERATOR: Amy Williams
PRESENTERS:

Mary Eyring
Sharon Harris
Amber Jensen
Amy Williams

SESSION 3: 12:15 PM – 12:50 PM (Note: This is an abbreviated session.)

PANEL A: Christ Commodified and Sexualized
ROOM: B150 JFSB
CHAIR: Juliana Chapman
PRESENTERS:

  • Jace Einfeldt, “Billy’s Commodified Christ: Christian Kitsch in Slaughterhouse-Five”
  • Ana Hirschi, “Richard Crashaw’s Sexual Christ with Women”

PANEL B: Perspectives on the Harlem Renaissance and Biographical Film
ROOM: B101 JFSB
CHAIR: Brian Jackson
PRESENTERS:

  • Noelle M. Conder, “Our Works Become Us: Depicting Writers as their Works in Biographical Film”
  • Alexander Smith, “McKay, Hughes, and Cullen: Differing Views of Violence in Harlem Renaissance Poetry” 3

PANEL C: Pushing the Boundaries of Literature’s Usefulness
ROOM: B103 JFSB
CHAIR: Laurie Denning

PRESENTERS:

  • Tina Hawley, “Let Me Tell You a Story: First-person Viewpoint in Young Adult Literature”
  • Rosa Swan, “Applying Bibliotherapy to Aid Elementary Students with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder”

PANEL D: Film Competition Award Viewing (Note: This event begins at 12:30)
ROOM: Education in Zion Theater
CHAIR: Dennis Cutchins
PRESENTERS:

  • Tucker Lindgren, “Notes”

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
What: “Yes, and”: How My English Degree Became an Improv Tool for My Career”
Who: Lisa Valentine Clark, Comedian, Actor, and Radio Host
Where: HBLL Auditorium

 

ENGLISH SOCIETY SOCIAL: 2:15 PM – 3:00 PM
What: Post-keynote mingle with food and stimulating conversation
Who: All welcome!
Where: The FLAC (basement of JFSB, across from Education in Zion Auditorium)

 

SESSION 4: 3:10 PM – 4:00 PM

PANEL A: Hart-Larson Poetry Contest Winners
ROOM: B150 JFSB
CHAIR: Michael Lavers
PRESENTERS:

  • First place: McKenna Jackson
  • Second place: Alixa Brobbey
  • Third place: Kathryn Passey

PANEL B: A Roundtable on Music and Gender Power Dynamics in Shakespeare
ROOM: B101 JFSB
CHAIR: Sharon Harris
PRESENTERS:

  • Tess Jackson – Amanda Hall
  • Meghan Hoesch

PANEL C: The Rhetoric of Ethical Leadership
ROOM: B103 JFSB
CHAIR: Nancy Christianson
PRESENTERS:

  • Kristin Osmani and Sarah Henderson, “Shaping Words to Shape the World: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as a Rhetorical Leader”
  • Jaden Steeves and Amelia Oross, “Seeing the Big Picture: The Worldview of William Wilberforce”
  • Heidi Moe Graviet and McKenna Melander, “On Rhetoric, Leadership, and Ethics: Nelson Mandela”

PANEL D: Practicing the Art of Death and Caring
ROOM: B105 JFSB
CHAIR: Nick Mason
PRESENTERS:

  • Celina French, “Emily Dickinson and Death: A Grave Conversation”
  • Olivia Moskot, “The Wordsworths and All of the Vulnerable Things”
  • Chelsea Clay, “Pleasure-hunters and Tourists: Rethinking Dwelling and Traveling in Light of Wordsworth Railway Protests of 1844”

HUMANITIES 3MT COMPETITION: 4:00
Where: Education in Zion Theater

FRIDAY: FEBRUARY 28, 2020

SESSION 1: 9:00 AM – 9:50 AM

PANEL A: Ann Doty Fiction Contest Winners
ROOM: B042 JFSB
CHAIR: John Bennion
PRESENTERS:

  • First place: Amber Arnoldsen
  • Second place: McKenzie Fullmer
  • Third place: Katherine Andrews

PANEL B: Podcasting as “English +”: A Roundtable on Applied Digital Communication
ROOM: B101 JFSB
CHAIR: Gideon Burton
PRESENTERS:

  • Sam Jacob
  • Patrick Lamoureux
  • Marcus Ricardson
  • A.J. Dickens
  • Gabrielle Beard
  • Breanna Staten

PANEL C: Perspectives on Zitkala-Sa
ROOM: B103 JFSB
CHAIR: Mike Taylor
PRESENTERS:

  • Celisa Marie Fullmer, “Bicultural Balance: The Imbricated Influence of Native Literature”
  • Emily Hopwood, “Preserving Words: Zitkala-Sa’s Natural Appeal to an Environmentally Concerned America”
  • Amanda Lund, “Victory of the Brave in Zitkala-Sa’s Sun Dance Opera” 5

PANEL D: Shakespeare’s Subversions
ROOM: 4116 JFSB
CHAIR: Bruce Young
PRESENTERS:

  • Shelby Shipley, “Men Were Deceivers Ever: Deceptive Appearances in Much Ado About Nothing”
  • Natalie Tate, “Othello and Humanity: The Importance of Paradox in Shakespeare’s Morality Play”
  • Katey L. Workman, “Was Is Not Is: As You Like It and Resilience Theory”

SESSION 2: 10:00 AM – 10:50 AM

PANEL A: Graduate Multi-genre Award Winners
ROOM: B132 JFSB
CHAIR: Lance Larsen
PRESENTERS:

  • Fiction: Rachael Lynn Buchanan
  • Essay: Rachelle Larsen – Poetry: Anika Shumway

PANEL B: The Range of Rhetoric
ROOM: B103 JFSB
CHAIR: Nancy Christianson
PRESENTERS:

  • Emily Cluff, “Free Will and Communist Critiques in Richard Wright’s Native Son”
  • Sariah Fales, “Elements of Visual Rhetoric through the Infographic”
  • Madelyn Taylor, “Happenings: Allan Kraprow’s Non-media Response to Marshall McLuhan”

PANEL C: Poetry and Play in the Face of Crisis
ROOM: 4116 JFSB
CHAIR: Peter Leman
PRESENTERS:

– Sam Jacob, “Puzzles and Dirt: Supra-Political, Empathetic Environmentalism in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song”
– Lindsay Taylor, “Politics and the Individual in Brian Friel’s “The Freedom of the City”
– Taylor Bitton, “Poetic Maturity Identity, and a Troublesome Future in ‘Personal Helicon’”

PANEL D: Prophets and Poets: Smith, Milton, Edwards, Whitman
ROOM: 4186 JFSB
CHAIR: Ed Cutler
PRESENTERS:

  • Grant Frazier, “On Visionary Men: A Comparison of Joseph Smith and John Milton”
  • Michela Miller, “Walt Whitman: Bard of the Unborn”
  • Leah Kelson Parks, “The Bridge Between the Great Awakenings: ‘Dominant Idioms’ of Religion in Jonathan Edwards and Joseph Smith”

SESSION 3: 11:00 AM – 11:50 AM

PANEL A: CRITERION WINNERS PANEL
ROOM: B106 JFSB
CHAIR: Mike Taylor
PRESENTERS:

  • Sam Jacob
  • Amber Bird
  • Adam Brantley

PANEL B: God, Art, and the Natural World
ROOM: B037 JFSB
CHAIR: Juliana Chapman
PRESENTERS:

  • Amanda Charles, “Painting, Poetry, and People: How to Find True Human Fulfillment”
  • Noelle M. Conder, “Peter, Pan, and Persephone: Keepers of the Mythical World”
  • Joshua Richardson, “Nature in Heaven and Nature on Earth: Heaven’s Natural World in The Great Divorce”

PANEL C: Perspectives on The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
ROOM: 4116 JFSB
CHAIR: Dawan Coombs
PRESENTERS:

  • Corrine Downs, “Meet Me: Society’s Standards on the Disabled through the Eyes of Singer in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”
  • Taylor Flickinger, “Mirror to the Soul”
  • Heather Talbot, “A Middle-aged Awakening: The Psychological Adolescence of Biff Brannon”

PANEL D: Trauma and Masculinity in Twentieth-century American Literature
ROOM: 4186 JFSB
CHAIR: Dennis Perry
PRESENTERS:

  • Sarah Hill, “In Our Time: A Call for Understanding Trauma”
  • Jessica Jenson, “Carrying War Itself: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in The Things They Carried”
  • Madison Van Vleet

 

ENGLISH READING SERIES: 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM
What: Reading from and discussion with an established, published author
Who: Alison K. Hymas – Poet and Short Story Writer
Where: HBLL Auditorium

SESSION 4: 1:00 PM – 1:50 PM

PANEL A: WRITING 150 Winners I
ROOM: Education in Zion Theater
CHAIR: Shelli Spotts
PRESENTERS: TBA

PANEL B: Captivity and Abolition Narratives
ROOM: 4188 JFSB
CHAIR: David Stock
PRESENTERS:

  • Anne Lester, “Women and Power: An Exploration of Fear in Early American Writing”
  • Emily J. Nichols, “The Search for Redemption: How Olaudah Equiano Captivates his Audience through his Interesting Captivity Narrative”
  • Elizabeth Daley, “Liberty Bell Readers’ Reactions to ‘The Runaway Slaves at Pilgrim’s Point’: The Slave Woman’s Justified Ferociousness and Responses to her Master’s Brutality”

PANEL C: Biography and Sexuality in Shakespeare
ROOM: 4116 JFSB
CHAIR: Amber Jensen
PRESENTERS:

  • Abby Clayton, “Marketing Shakespeare the Man: David Garrick and the Stratfordian Jubilee”
  • Aubrey Dickens, “’Goodnight, sweet prince’: Modern Reactions to and Interactions of Queer Youth with Shakespeare’s Hamlet”
  • Leah Kelson Parks, “’O, she is fallen’: Fall of Eve Parallelism in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing”

SESSION 5: 2:00 PM – 2:50 PM

PANEL A: WRITING 150 Winners II
ROOM: Education in Zion Theater
CHAIR: Shelli Spotts
PRESENTERS: TBA

PANEL B: Female Identity in Modern and Contemporary Literature
ROOM: B150 JFSB
CHAIR: Meredith Reed
PRESENTERS:

  • Olivia Moskot: “Brains and Hearts: Virginia Woolf’s Natural, Incomparable Care in Mrs. Dalloway – Mauri Pollard, “Creative Prison or Liberty: Assessing Motherhood for Women Writers through Kisha Lewellwyn Schlegel’s Fear Icons”
  • Lindsay Taylor, “Male Empathy and the Female Protagonist”

PANEL C: Women Poets of the Romantic Era: Case Studies in Literary Archives
ROOM: 4188 JFSB
CHAIR: Paul Westover
PRESENTERS:

  • Sarah Safsten, on Felicia Hemans
  • Taylore Bonds, on Hemans, Landon, and Browning
  • Lexa Porter, on Landon

PANEL D: Horror and Exploitation in Twentieth-century Literature
ROOM: 4116 JFSB
CHAIR: Emron Esplin
PRESENTERS:

  • Jace Einfeldt, “The Portrait of the Philippine English Fictionist as Translator”
  • Kristin Pederson, “Siegel, Nyby, and Lovecraft: Of Humanity, Sanity, and their Opposites”
  • Eric Lambert, “Against Authoritarian Control: Instruction in ‘A View of the Woods’” 8 SESSION 6: 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM

PANEL A: Adolescence, Trauma, and Masculinity in The Catcher in the Rye
ROOM: B150 JFSB
CHAIR: Ben Crosby
PRESENTERS:

  • Bayley Goldsberry, “Competing Masculinities in Postwar America in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye”
  • Samantha Montgomery, “Modern Authenticity in Teaching The Catcher in the Rye”
  • Sierra Olsen, “Toxic Masculinity, Adolescence, and Mental Health in The Catcher in the Rye”
  • Sarah Safsten, “On Adolescence, Trauma, and Censorship in Catcher in the Rye and ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’”

PANEL B: Overlooked Identities: Non-white writers, Non-male athletes, and Literacy
ROOM: 4188 JFSB
CHAIR: Amber Jensen
PRESENTERS:

  • Megan Hatt, “Native Son: Bigger’s Search for Freedom”
  • Allie Manner: “A Dream Deferred: Activism and Inevitability as Art”
  • Kekai Cram, “We intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves: Collective Identity as Expressed in Faith Ringgold’s Story Quilts and Dalani Tanahy’s Kapa”
  • Abby Zlotnick, “What about Girls?: The Intersection of Sports and Literacy in the English Classroom”

PANEL C: Literature and its Multi-modal Tools
ROOM: 4116 JFSB
CHAIR: Emron Esplin
PRESENTERS:

  • Adam Call, “Adaptation as Non-Zero-Sum Game: The Case of ‘Story of Your Life’ and ‘Arrival’”
  • Fenyu Wang, “Art in Medicine: A Powerful Aid to Modern Medical Education”
  • Rebecca Purse, “Responding to Nature’s Invitations for Increased Wellbeing”
  • Abby Thatcher, “A Novella in Technicolor: Clarice Lispector as Author and Artist within ‘The Hour of the Star’”

PANEL D: Keep Up with the Kids: Exploring Thematic Choices in Young Adult Literature: A Panel Discussion in PechaKucha Format
ROOM: 4186 JFSB
CHAIR: Chris Crowe
PRESENTERS:

  • Chloe Foulk
  • Elizabeth Daley
  • Emma Parnell
  • Tina Hawley
  • Leah Kelson Parks
  • Abby Marchant
  • Natalie Tate