English Comps Symposium – Saturday, May 5, 2012
WELCOME – 12:45
Session I – 1:00-2:00
A. Poetry – Laird 206
- Clare Costello, “First Responder” (poems)
- Emily Foster, “From the Inside Out: A Travelogue in Poems”
- Makini Allwood, “Photographic Responses to Ntozake Shange’s nappy edges”
B. Modernist American Literature – Laird 211
- Sara Harrison, “The Lens of the Particular: Hemingway in Photographs”
- Emil Constantino, “The Commodification of Women in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County”
- Emily Hartley, “Perspective and the Role of Objectivity in John Steinbeck’s Nonfiction”
C. Culpability, Guilt and Lies in Fiction – Laird 212
- Melissa Terrien, “Culpable Readers of Pride and Prejudice and Emma”
- Jessie Hao, “Guilty or Not Guilty: Struggle to Represent Trust in True Crime Novels”
- Joe Decker, “The Honest Lies” (fiction)
Session II – 2:15-3:00
A. Colloquium Group – Animals in Literature – Laird 211
- Bailey Gartley, Carsten Gehring, Katelyn Hoffman, Kathryn Johnson, Emily Miller, & Kelly O’Brien
Session III– 3:15-4:15
A. Place & American Literature – Laird 206
- Hana Maruyama, “Placing Jhumpa Lahiri on the Frontier of American Literature”
- Taylor ffitch, “Local Landscape in Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion”
- David Hecht, “The Wandering Aramean”
B. Drama – Laird 211
- Annie Metcalf, “Subversion through Speech and Structure in Christopher Marlowe’s Plays”
- Jonathan Isaac, “’Not only what is, but what is possible’: Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun”
- Katie Lazo, “Lois Lowry’s The Giver on Stage: Adaptation/Interpretation”
C. 21st Century Literature – Laird 212
- Isabel Gregerson, “How to Begin: Part One of a Two-part Novella”
- Casey Markenson, “Fall, Falling, Fallen: Suspending 9/11 Through Literature”
- Helen Grossman, “Jennifer Egan’s Postmodern Sublime in A Visit from the Goon Squad”
RECEPTION – 4:15-5:00 – Laird Second Floor Hallway