Ninth Annual Department of English
Undergraduate-Graduate
Research Conference
March 7-8, 2014
PROGRAM
FRIDAY MARCH 7
3:00-5:30 PM
Used Book Sale, DIGS Lobby
Books by the pound! Proceeds go to support scholarships and events in the
Department of English
3:00-5:30 PM
Poster Sessions, DIGS Lobby
Chelsea Bergmann, "A Record of Success: Journaling in the Secondary English
Classroom"
Jessica Doscher, "The Redemption of the Fisher King"
Courtney McGrath, "On Written Vernacular: Dialect, Code Switching, and Standard
Written English in the Classroom"
Katie Murphy, "'The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million':
Post-Impressionism in The Portrait of a Lady"
Sarah Elizabeth Wilcox, "William and Maud: From Idealization to Violence"
Brierly Wills, "Basil of Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes' Downstairs Neighbor"
5:30-6:30 PM
Creative Writing Showcase, Dina’s Place, DIGS
FREE APPROVED CULTURAL EVENT
Featuring readings of original poetry, fiction, and prose by students Margaret Adams,
Rachel Burns, Laure Jane Burgess, Lauren Clark, Maria Delaquil, Loren Mixon, Alex
Muller, and Diego Segura, and a memorial to Professor Scott Ely with Bryan Ghent
reading from Prof. Ely’s final novel, Starlight.
SATURDAY MARCH 8
9:30AM—
1:30PM
Critical Showcase, Macfeat Conference Room B
9:30-10:30
RE-EXAMINING SHAKESPEARE AND MILTON
Tyler Brooks, “The New Pyrrhus: Hamlet, the Players, and Acts of Compromise”
Rachel Phillips, “’For Inferior, Who is Free?’: Gender Hierarchy and Paradise Lost”
Joanna Tepper, “Tracing the Circe Myth: Milton’s Eve as the Dangerous Feminine”
10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-11:45
CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON TWENTIETH-CENTURY AUTHORS
Brierly Wills, "'Like a Gipsy Foundling': Cultural Implications of The Countess Olenska
in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence"
Andrew Brackett Harris, “Separating the Sea from the Symbols: Psychological
Wholeness in Earnest Hemmingway’s The Old Man and the Sea”
11:45-12:30
12:30-1:30
Samantha Baker, “The Oppressive Economy of Babies: Marxism in Atwood’s The
Handmaid’s Tale”
Lunch. (Please RSVP to the Department office by Wednesday March 5 so we know
how much food to order!)
Keynote Speaker, Professor William Naufftus, University Distinguished Professor
“Sir George Otto Trevelyan in India, or Are White Males a Bad Idea?”