The Department of English Undergraduate Literary Research Conference took place April 8 in Shanks Hall. The following students presented papers:

  • Ursilia Beckles, English, “Abandoning Dark Skin and Punishing the Radical Woman”
  • Elizabeth Boyer, English and Professional and Technical Writing, “Natural Attractions: Analyzing Symbols of Nature and Contradictions in Donne’s Love Poems”
  • Tim Cox, Architecture, “Postcolonial Interiors in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things”
  • Grace Daniels, English, “More Than a Love Story: Beatrice as a Female Icon in Much Ado About Nothing”
  • Adreanna DeMarino, English, “On the Ubermensch in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger”
  • Curriculum and Instruction master’s student Andrew Denton, “Witty Fools Versus Foolish Wits: The Displacement of Wise Fools in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and As You Like It”
  • Christa Greatorex-Potter, Biochemistry, “Queen Elizabeth I, Viola, and Rosalind: Examples of Dynamic and Three-Dimensional Women in the Early Modern Period”
  • Taylor Lane, English and Creative Writing, “A Deck of One’s Own: Tarot in Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’”
  • Kaitlyn Pastino, International Relations and Professional and Technical Writing, “Gender Structure in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”
  • Stefan Price-Aguirre, English, “Base, Lag, Superstructure and Super-Superstructure in The Wife of Bath”
  • Isaac Riddle, English, “Orientalism and the Continuation of Anti-Eastern Perceptions in Modern Media”
  • Stephanie Sheets, English, Creative Writing, and Professional and Technical Writing, “Feminism, Politics, and the Female Journey in Nora Ephron’s 1996 Wellesley College Commencement Address”
  • Emma Stein, English and Professional and Technical Writing, “Margaret Cavendish’s Use of Modern Feminist Ideals in ‘The Blazing World’ and ‘Convent of Pleasure’ in Response to Her Real Life”
  • Kathleen Walker, Creative Writing and English, “Woman Written by Man: Anti-Feminism in Medieval England and ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue’”