April 13-15, 2017
“Claim Your Curiosity”
Thursday,April13th(CochranCampus)
2:00p.m.–3:15p.m.–SpeakerandBookSigning–
DillardAuditorium
TinaWhittle
“HowtoCatchaWildIdea”
3:00p.m.–3:30a.m.–Registration–Dillard
Session1
3:30p.m.-4:45p.m.(Cochran)
TheQuestforAutonomyinLiteraturebyWomen
(Dillard241)
Moderator:BenitaMuth
JonCrabb"ARoomofOne'sOwn"
RobinDaniels"TheYellowWallpaper"
SavannahMcIlrath"TheFailedRedemptionof
EdnaPontellier"
PerspectivesonJaneEyre(Dillard244)
Moderator:LorraineDubuisson
LoganGibbs,"“TheOrphan’sFunction”:Exploring
theLiteraryPurposeofOrphansinJaneEyre
andTheCiderHouseRules"
CourtneyLong,"ScorchingDesire:TheRoleof
FireinJaneEyre"
PhillipOdom,"Oblivious:ACommentaryonMale
ConsciousnessinaPatriarchalSociety"
ExplorationinIdentity(Dillard246)
Moderator:LisaBro
KariceDavis,“Self-love”(narrative/creativenon-
fiction)
CameronDober,“EvidenceofKing’sPower”
RachelHarbin,“Menstruation,Mayhem,and
MisogynyinStephenKing’sCarrie”
LaraPersiani,“ManhoodPostponedinRichardWright’s
‘TheManWhoWasAlmostaMan.’”
PowerandPerception(Dillard248)
Moderator:LouBell
JessicaJohnson,“MereMortalsandGrand
‘Design’”
NicholasSewell,“Mankind'sPerceptionofMonsters
andTheSevenDeadlySins”
MatthewWagoner,“VictorianViewsofEmpowered
Women”
MichaelArd-Kelly,“HowtheMostPowerfulVillain
EscapedUnscathedinTheBeetle:AMystery”
ExploringCommunity,IdentityandSelfinDigital
Media(Dillard239)
Moderator:RebeccaEdwards
RichardKellyandChelseaWilliford
Friday,April14th(MaconCampus)
8:00a.m.–9:00a.m.–Registration–COASLobby
9:00a.m.–10:00a.m.–KeynoteSpeaker–
COASTheater
SpencerBarron,LindseyGiddensandChrisGordon
“MurderinFactandFaction”
Session2
10:15a.m.-11:30a.m.(Macon)
Health@Work:IDS3800’sExperientialLearningProject
andResearch(COAS120)
Moderator:SabrinaWengier
NicholasBiddle“CaughtintheWeb”
ErinMcLendon,“TheCostofCommercials:An
ExaminationintoFoodAdvertisementTargeting
Children”
JessicaHite“TheRoleofSocioeconomicsinChildhood
Obesity”
MargieRosbury“WeightChallenges?ConsiderBody
ChemistryandLifestyleChoices”
AdolescentLiterature(COAS122)
Moderator:ShaneTrayers
MaritzaGonzalez,“"HopeisWheretheFutureIs:Life
OutsideofReservationsinShermanAlexie’sThe
AbsolutelyTrueDiaryofaPart-TimeIndian"
JacquelineMunson,“TheCultureoftheRez”
MeaAndrews,“LordoftheFlies:AJourneyThrough
Utopia,Dystopia,andAtavism”
TaylorPaul,“Don’tDreamIt,BeIt:TheImportanceof
TheRockyHorrorPictureShowinThePerksofBeing
aWallflower”
SocialIssuesandCultureinLiterature(COAS108)
Moderator:SusanPhillips
ErinByington,“LookBehindtheFaçade:AnAnalysisof
VictorianHegemonyandHomosexualityinThe
StrangeCaseofDr.JekyllandMr.Hyde”
RachelMaddox,“DanielDefoeandSocialCriticismin
MollFlanders”
SarahIstambouli,“TheTransformedArchetype:Things
AreNotAlwaysWhatTheySeem”
ElisabethColquitt“DomesticViolenceinLeFanu’s
Carmilla”
AnAnalysisoftheEffectsofFilms,AdsandElectronic
Devices(COAS106)
Moderator:AndreNicholson
MirandaShepherd,“NonsensicalNormality:An
absurbnessofCustomsandTheirImpractical
ImplicationsasShownThroughSelectTim
BurtonFilms”
Kiahl’jahJoseph,“TheFearinHorrorFilms:An
ExaminationofHowTwoHorrorFilmsEffect
Viewers”
KimNguyen,“IsaniPadBabysittingYourBaby?An
AnalysisofElectronicDeviceUsageonChildren”
ZoeEdenfield,“AreYouaHousewifeor
Hardworker?AnExaminationofGender
StereotypesinAds”
Fiction(COAS118)
Moderator:KellyWhiddon
RyanFordham,RachelHastings,LeslieLaw
11:30–12:30Lunch–RehearsalHall
12:00–12:30–SpeakerandAwardsCeremony–
RehearsalHall
BeccaBalmes
PushingYourLuck:SucceedLikeanArtist"
Session3
12:45p.m.-2:00p.m.(Macon)
Representations of Gender in Literature by Women
(COAS122)
Moderator:LorraineDubuisson
RachelMaddox,"TheAwakeningandMental
Illness"
ErinMcLendon"FemaleHysteriaandVictorian
Literature"
JacquelynMunson"GenderInequalityinPre-19th
CenturyLiterature"
JessicaLanders"UnexpectedFeminism"
FilmHistory:Auteurs(COAS104)
Moderator:PatrickBrennan
GriffinVerSteeg:"HeartandWhimsy:Francois
Truffaut'sShootthePianoPlayer"
KylaBayer:"NouvelleVagueandtheShiftinPolitical
ModernityinJean-LucGodard’sMasculin
Féminin."
JessicaHite:"VertigoandtheHitchcockAesthetic"
ChelseaWilliford:"TheNewHollywoodRevolution:
Auteurism,Ambiguity,andArtistryinStanley
Kubrick’sTheShining"
SpanishandtheBusinessWorld(COAS108)
Moderator:MaritzaBell-Corrales
MaryAwoyeye,EdrickBisher,RuthCampton,JaneFord,
TaylorMessexandDarneshaSherrod
CreativeNonfiction(COAS118)
Moderator:KellyWhiddon
JasonCormier,MichaelaLatimer,KarolinaPhilmon,
CelestePollard
DocumentaryVideo(COAS106)
Moderator:LaurenCater
JoshuaHooker,“MyEscape”
TiffanyBarragan,“Yosoy,Yo”
CharlesRodriguez,“TheHilariousCaseofMistaken
Identity”
MaritzaGonzalez,“RunningsTowardtheAmerican
Dream”
ChristineNguyen,“FirstGeneration”
DeshaneirKing,“FattieAddie”
ScienceI:Chemistry(COAS120)
Moderator:JonathanCannon
JillianAmurao,TylerBrack,SaraPeacockandDr.Renat
Khatmullin(Advisor),“GreenSoapSynthesis”
JillianAmurao,TylerBrackandDr.RenatKhatmullin
(Advisor),“SonogashiraCouplingReaction”
GraceTerryandDr.JonathanCannon(Advisor),
“EvaluatingTwoModelsfortheEffectsof
OsmolytesonProteinStabilityandFunction:
MeasuringtheInteractionsofGlycineBetaine
withCarboxylicAcids”
JuliaDavis,TylerDillandDr.EstelleNuckels(Advisor),
“InvestigatingtheTransitionStateEnergies
BetweenSN1andSN2Reactions”
Session4
2:15p.m.-3:30p.m.(Macon)
Oral History Project Roundtable: Perspectives on
AmericaatWar(COAS118)
Moderator:StephenTaylor
ArtCurnutte,JoannaVagott,VerettaCampbell,Brittani
Fandozzi
Feminist Perspectives on Literature by Women (COAS
122)
Moderator:LorraineDubuisson
KatelynGill"RedefiningWomen:Wollstonecraft,
Rich,andtheFightfortheFemininePen"
LaurenGill"HaveHerCakeandEatitToo:
CharlotteBronte’sRealizationofMargaret
Fuller’sFeministDiscourse"
MaritzaGonzalez""JaneEyre:SubtleFeminist"
JessicaWoodall"FanFictionbyWomen"
FilmHistory:Hollywoodinthe30sand40s(COAS104)
Moderator:PatrickBrennan
DonaldJohnson:"PityforaMonster:
CulturalHistoryofSympathyintheBride
ofFrankenstein"
CharlesRodriguez:"CultureandFilmAffectingEach
OtherinHollywood’s1943BatmanFilmSerial"
ThoughtsandPhilosophiesonLearningaForeign
Language(COAS108)
Moderator:YunsukChae
BrittanyJackson,“TheImpactofLearningaNew
Language”
KenniaGrover,“ReturningtoMyCareerBetterThan
Ever”
SamanthaMorgan,“LaPlusBelleLangue”
LaurelFaye,“TheFlavorsofLanguage”
WayneGasaway,“LearningaForeignLanguage:An
OpenDoortoaCulture”
SaraKathrynSmith,"MySpanishExperience"
SuzanneTetteh,"It'sAllFrenchtoMe"
Science2:BiologyandPhysics
Moderator:EdwynnWallace(COAS120)
ColleenClark,LauraCocoma-Hernandez,Professor
KirbySwenson(Advisor)“SurveyofTardigrades
foundonthecampusesofMiddleGeorgiaState
University”
BrianWhiteandProfessorEdwynnWallace(Advisor),
“UsingMultipleObjectTrackinginImageJto
MeasuretheMagneticMomentof
MagnetotacticBacteriainGeorgia”
FawnaWyatt,MalloryNorris,AnthonyCleator,
Dr.ThomasHancock(Advisor),“Adaptive
strategiesofHydrocotylebonariensisgrowing
onsoutheastern(USA)barrierislands”
Session5
3:45p.m.-5:00p.m.(Macon)
HistoryBeyondtheMGAClassroom(COAS118)
Moderator:MattZimmerman
JohnLegg,MichealWilliams,DeMarcusBeckham
Story,Truth,andWarinTimO’Brien’sTheThingsThey
Carried(COAS122)
Moderator:ChipRogers
SeanMcGraw,“TheEver-ChangingTruthinThe
ThingsTheyCarried.”
TaylorPaul’s,“TheDestructionofFemininity:Tim
O’Brien’sTheThingsTheyCarriedandthe
GenderBinary.”
DarneshaSherrod,“TheComplexitiesofTruth:Story-
TruthVersusHappening-TruthinTimO’Brien’s
TheThingsTheyCarried.”
CuriousEncounterswiththePast:Twenty-firstCentury
ReadingsofNineteenth-CenturyNovels(COAS120)
Moderator:NateGilbert,AssociateProfessorofEnglish
MeaAndrews,“TheElevationofaNovel:Comedyand
theNarrativeVoiceofNorthangerAbbey”
SaraDempsey,“BiblicalAllusionsinJaneEyre”
BethanyDixon,“RomanticismtoRealityinSirWalter
Scott’sWaverly”
KaitlynRowe,“AchievingIndependence:AnExploration
oftheLifeofJaneEyre”
FilmHistory:Genres(COAS104)
Moderator:PatrickBrennan
RachelHastings:"BreakfastatTiffany's:OldStandards
andPushingBoundaries"
DeshKing:"JustAnotherGirlontheIRT:90sHip-Hop
FilmsandIndependentCinema"
RachelPodwolsky:"SeventiesSocialCommentaryand
theDystopianGenreinSoylentGreen”
AnnaSpinks:"BladeRunnerandNeo-Noir"
RealismandMagazines:ProductiveProductions(COAS
108)
Moderator:SharonColley
JacquelineMunsonandKatelynGill
ExaminingBeautyStandards,MusicVideosandSocial
Media(COAS106)
Moderator:AndreNicholson
ShawniseAddison,“WhoSaidBlackisBeautiful?An
AnalysisoftheStandardofBeautyforBlack
Women”
JacoreyHoward,“Objectified,Sexualizedand
Criminalized:AnExaminationofthePortrayalof
BlackPeopleinMusicVideos”
JulieBarker,“Facebook,TwitterorCNN:AnAnalysisof
HowYoungPeopleGetTheirPolitical
Information”
Saturday,April15th(MaconCampus)
8:00a.m.–9:00a.m.–Registration–COASLobby
9:00a.m.–10:00a.m.–KeynoteSpeaker–
COASTheater
JohnAdam
“PatternsinNature:ATreasureTrovefortheCurious”
Session6
10:00a.m.-10:45p.m.(Macon)
PosterSession(RehearsalHall)
JordanD.Collins,JohnEllisonClary,AshleyMicaela
Allgary,Dr.PulipakaJayaRao(Advisor),“To
CharacterizetheProductionofFungalSpores
fromOverwinteringLesionsinShootsofPecan
TreesandControlthePathogenbyEarly
FungicideApplication”
JosephR.MullisandErinS.Reid,Dr.ClintReady,Dr.
GloriaHuddleston(Advisors),“Effectsof
EssentialOilsontheFeedingBehaviorof
Honeybees”
DakotaTharpeandDr.KimPickens(Advisor),“InVitro
SterilizationandGerminationofPinckneya
pubens”
RedChuandCaseyWiltsek,Dr.JonathanCannon
(Advisor),“ImprovedMeasurementsofthe
EffectsofGlycineBetaineandPHonGlutamic
AcidSolubility”
DavidChristy,JadaviaHill,Dr.GeraldBuffone(Advisor),
“DevelopingOrganicMethodologiesforthe
SynthesisofMarinePolycyclicEtherNatural
Products”
JuliaElliott,ShirleyA.PowellandDr.ChristineRigsby
(Advisor),“DeterminationofIdealTissue
ProcessingMethodforUseofPreserved
SpecimensinHistologicalStudies”
BenShabatandDr.EstelleNuckels(Advisor),“Scripting
andManagementofComputerResources”
TrentenWilliams,TaylorMessex,SeemaPatelandDr.
PushpaYadav(Advisor),“Inductionof
PolyploidyinSteviarebaudiana”
Session7
11:00a.m.-12:15p.m.(Macon)
Oral History Project Roundtable: Listening to Middle
GeorgiaVeterans(COAS118)
Moderator:StephenTaylor
AntonioSmith,BarbaraPaul,ConnieClark,KylePearson
Poetry(COAS120)
Moderator:ShaneTrayers
MeaAndrews,RachelMaddox,SeanMcGraw
AlumniJobPanel(COAS104)
Moderator:Sheree’Keith
CalabriaTurner
JanieBoyd
MelissaMiddlebrooks
ImmanuelBurney
GraduateStudiesPanel/Q&A:Preparingfor,Applying
to,andSucceedinginGraduateSchool(COAS106)
Moderator:Dr.LorettaClayton
Panelists:
AmandaJohnson,MGAGraduateStudentAdvisory
Council(GSAC)Chair
LarryHollingsworth,MGAGraduateStudentAdvisory
Council(GSAC)Chair-Elect
TerriLeDoux,MGAGSACMemberandMSNStudent
CharlesWilliams,MGAGSACMemberandMSITStudent
CaseyYoung,MGAMasterofScienceinInformation
Technology(MSIT)Graduate
HeatherHarper,MGAMasterofScienceinInformation
Technology(MSIT)Graduate
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