English Comps Symposium – Saturday, May 9, 2015
Coffee & Muffins—Laird Second-Floor Hallway—9:00 a.m.
WELCOME—Chair Tim Raylor—9:25 a.m.
Session I 9:30-10:30 a.m.
A. Colloquium—Laird 211
- Julia Bullock, Claire Ferguson, Bethany McHugh, Shane McSparron, Joss Olson, Lucas Rossi, Erin Winter
B. Creative Writing I—Laird 212
- Nityasya Belapurkar, Stories: “Further Lessons in Being Disengaged”
- Malina Workman, Stories: “The Voice of the Martyrs”
C. The Marriage Plot—Laird 206
- Zoe Borden, “The Construction and Valorization of Marriage in Pride and Prejudice”
- Lucy Wasserburg, “Female Imprisonment and First-Person Narrative Authority in Jane Eyre”
Session II 10:35-11:20 a.m.
A. Early Modern Drama—Laird 212
- Grace Fremont, “The Poetic Geography of Shakespeare’s Travelers”
- Sarah Olson, “Sibling Incest, the Family, and Female Agency in Jacobean Drama”
B. Creative Writing II—Laird 211
- Andry DeJong, Memoir: “The Winds of Aadi”
- Jeremiah Moriarty, Stories: “Garden Party”
Session III 11:25 a.m.-12:25 p.m.
A. Politics, Place, and Myth—Laird 212
- Ellen Currier, “Shelley’s Reinterpretation of Romantic Prometheanism in Frankenstein”
- Avery Rux, “Plotlessness, Abstraction, and Expressionism in Winesburg, Ohio”
- Henry Southwick, “An Analysis of W.B. Yeats’s and Seamus Heaney’s Political Sonnets”
B. Creative Writing III—Laird 206
- Sam Braslow, Poems: “Catalina Island”
- Anna Donnella, Memoir: “Pieces”
- Jill Poskanzer, Stories: “The Campbell Triptych”
RECEPTION/LUNCH—Laird Second-Floor Hallway—12:25-1:30 p.m.