English Literature & Creative Writing

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2018
Friday, April 13th
9:00 AM

American Literary Naturalism in H. P. Lovecraft

Brett DeWitt, Butler University

Oral Presentation

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Characterizing Evil through Physical Transformation in Milton’s and Lewis’ Fiction

Olivia Richardson, Houghton College

Oral Presentation

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

9:15 AM

Inherited Consequences: The Effects of the War on Bosnian Young People Born after the War

Brooke Regier, Purdue University Northwest

Oral Presentation

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Narrators of Change: a Contemporary Study of Patrisse Kahn-Cullors, Malala Yousafazai, and Emma Watson

Evan Davis, Butler University

Oral Presentation

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

9:30 AM

Killing the Youth, Battle Royale and the Politics of Generational Warfare

Heather Atkins, Butler University

Oral Presentation

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

On Fungi, Future, and Feminism: An Ecofeminist Analysis of M.R. Carey's "The Girl with All the Gifts"

Leah Heim, Ball State University

Oral Presentation

9:30 AM - 10:15 AM

9:45 AM

Speaking about the Unspeakable: Sexual Violence in Young Adult Literature

Lydia Gard, Grace College

Oral Presentation

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Through Their Eyes: Exploring Severe Mental Illness through Short Stories

Emily Adkins, Eastern Kentucky University

Oral Presentation

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

10:30 AM

The Digital Literature Review

Leah Heim, Ball State University
Bailey Shrewsbury, Ball State University
Katie Garrett, Ball State University
Audrey Bowers, Ball State University

Oral Presentation

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

10:45 AM

The Dystopian Novel and Human Nature

Sarah Madden, Houghton College

Oral Presentation

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

11:00 AM

The Evolution of Membership: Community and Ecology in Wendell Berry and Barbara Kingsolver

Sarah Vande Brake, Houghton College

Oral Presentation

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

1:30 PM

Narrative Technique in the Works of the Pearl Poet

Karl Agger, Butler University

Oral Presentation

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

1:45 PM

Praxis of the Theory of Poetry as Philosophy

Max Burns, Xavier University

Oral Presentation

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM

2:00 PM

The Taylor MacDonald Hamlet Manuscript: A Project of Descriptive and Interpretive Bibliographic Scholarship

Kendra Smalley, Taylor University
Kaylen Dwyer, Taylor University

Oral Presentation

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

2:30 PM

Learning to Walk on My Own: A Journey of Following Footsteps Through Europe

Julia Robben, Ball State University

Poster Presentation

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Research and Design of a Youth Writing Camp at Taylor University: WORDshop 2018

Hannah Perry, Taylor University
Hillary Foreman, Taylor University
Camy Hanna, Taylor University

Poster Presentation

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

The Post is Female

Megan Schillereff, Ball State University

Poster Presentation

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Zombies, Race, and Misinformation in "Men Against Fire"

Nick Smith, Ball State University

Poster Presentation

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

3:00 PM

Anxiously Awaiting: Exploring the Stigma Surrounding Mental Illness in Rural America through a Fiction Novella

Alex Bartlow, Butler University

Oral Presentation

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM

3:15 PM

Whirling Atoms: Continuity and Distortion in Edith Wharton's Fiction

Rachel Zimmerman, Houghton College

Oral Presentation

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

3:30 PM

“A Wooden Part of Her Soul”: Disability in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories

Stuart Mullet, Grace College

Oral Presentation

3:30 PM - 4:15 PM

3:45 PM

“While the imagination strains / after deer”: William Carlos Williams’ Interrogations of the American Transcendental Imagination and the Proto-Suburban Scene

Tyler Wagner, Butler University

Oral Presentation

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM