English Comps Symposium – Saturday, May 6, 2017
Coffee & Pastries — Hallway of 2nd Laird — 9:00 AM
WELCOME — Department Chair Nancy Cho — 9:25 AM
SESSION I 9:30-10:30 AM
A. Project and Creative Writing: Narrative Explorations—Laird 206
Claire Trujillo, “Alaska Narratives”
Jennifer Kwon, “Exploration and Trial of Translation Theory in Korean Literature”
Molly Hildreth, “Home”
B. Creative Writing: Reimagining Genre—Laird 211
Leslie Mei, “Bildungsroman: An Autobiography”
Julie Zhou, “Generics: Selected Stories”
Sophia King, “GODLAND”
C. Research: The Literary-Political Imagination—Laird 212
Connor Rohwer, “Imagining Revolution: Defamiliarization and the Politics of the
Imagination in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Popular Songs”
Ellen Carter, “An Ever-Expanding Sum: Doubling, Feminist Discourse, Multiplicity, and
the (Re)telling of the Jane Eyre-Bertha Story”
Justice TenEyck, “Writing as Resistance: The Prison Writing of Bobby Sands”
SESSION II 10:35-11:35 AM
A. Colloquium: Literary Dialogues—Laird 211
Daria Briol, Emily Clark, Mike Hellman, Claire O’Brien
B. Creative Writing: Poetry I—Laird 212
Kate Abram, “Grit.”
Annemarie Eayrs, “The Dying Room”
Carrie Johnson, “the spaces between”
SESSION III 11:40 AM–12:40 PM
A. Research: Textual Frontiers—Laird 211
Olivia Williams, “The Art of Imitation: Multivalent Narratives and the Question of
Culpability in William Blake’s Paradise Lost Illustrations”
Ben Matson, “Finding a Place in Postmodernism: The Postpostmodernity of Cloud Atlas”
Katie Ciaglo, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Authorship: Editorial
Intervention and Collaboration in Raymond Carver’s Short Stories”
B. Creative Writing Poetry II—Laird 212
Leah Roche, “How Not to Drown”
Eli Sorich, “twofold”
Zara Pylvainen, “The Wrong Hymn”
RECEPTION / LUNCH — Hallway of 2nd Laird — 12:30-1:30 PM