Thursday 28 April
Intro to English Studies Presentations
12:10-12:40 Panel 1: WRITING (AND) THE AUTHOR
Chris White, “Hemingway’s Inner Woman: Rethinking Hemingway’s Macho Reputation in The Sun Also Rises”
Shelby Snider, “‘Daddy, I have had to kill you’: Sylvia Plath’s Psychological Breakdown in ‘Daddy’”
Rebecca Turner, “Is That Charlotte Behind the Paper?”
12:40-1:10 Panel 2: REDEPLOYING IDEOLOGY WITHIN THE CANON
Ruth Blaskis, “Christianity and the Medieval Court in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
Arielle Catalano, “Life and Law in To Kill a Mockingbird”
Billy Cowley, “Picking the Miltonic Brain: Rationality’s Role in Paradise Lost”
1:10-1:30 Panel 3: RESTRAINT AND RESISTANCE
Chris Cimorelli, “The City of Subvert: Methods of Control in Orwell’s 1984”
Patrick Kelleher, “Brave New Diversity”
1:30-2:00 Panel 4: POSTMODERN NARRATIVE STRATEGIES
Jeff Bates, “This Is Not an Exit: Exploring the Shifting Reality of American Psycho”
Ford Dyas, “Literary Fear and Political Loathing in Hunter S. Thompson’s Las Vegas”
Jacob Graudin, “‘I have nothing left…Except this story’: Structure & Storytelling in House of Leaves”
2:00-2:30 Panel 5: READING THROUGH CHARACTER
Taylor Joyce, “Eudora Welty’s Optimist’s Daughter”
Brooke Asbury, “Learn to Be Lonely: Isolation in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Gage Saylor, “The Multiplicity of Dust Mounds: Loyalty, Greed, and Love in Our Mutual Friend”
2:30-3:00 Panel 6: RECEPTION
Ian Moore, “The Dark Side of Man: Is Conrad’s Heart of Darkness a Product of Racism, or His Time?”
Ashley Maggio, “‘Is she crazy?’: The Hysteria Around the ‘Plath Reader’ and The Bell Jar”
Autumn Barber, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Critic?: An Examination of Critical Reception of the American Dream Concept as Portrayed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby”