NULC 2025 Student Presentation Schedule

Friday, April 4, 2025

Session 1 Breakouts: 8-9 am

(1A) World Literature
Room EH 215
Moderator: 

  • Ray Chong, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "All That is Solid Melts into Air: Commodified Time in Smilla's Sense of Snow"
  • Kirsten Nygaard, Eastern Wyoming College, "The Evolution of Snow White"
  • Vitoria Rich, Eastern Wyoming College, "Cannibals to Breadcrumbs: The Origins of Hansel and Gretel"

(1B) American Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: 

  • Ianni Acapulco, Ohio State University, "The Unvanishing Act: Understanding There There's Ending"
  • Syrena Finnell, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Masculinity, tragedy, and inspiration porn: How disability is portrayed in The Sun Also Rises"
  • Arjun Kumar, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "The Sun Still Sets: An Ecocritical Examination of Hemingway's Post-War Landscape"
  • Ezra Stein, Southern Utah University, "A Riddle Inside an Enigma: Baudrillard's Four Stages of Simulacra, Oliver Stone's JFK and the Efforts of Historical Fiction to Reckon with the Kennedy Assassination"

(1C) British Literature
Room 219
Moderator: 

  • Ella Curcuruto, Eastern University, "Mother Wants a Lipstick: The False Leisure of Susan Pevensie"
  • Anna Jarrell, Marshall University, "From Exaltation to Execution: The Duality of Religious Identity in Othello"
  • Lydia Koszegi, Hiram College, "The Wicked Vampire of the East"
  • Braden Price, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The stories that make up the philosophy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"

(1D) Poetry
Room EH 206
Moderator: 

  • Morgan Bailey, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Betrayal: The Consequence of Trust"
  • Mickey Gines, Weber State University, "Exploring Perspectives of Early American Literature Through Creative Literary Works"
  • Joshua Milliner, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Thou Art That"
  • Audrey Sizemore, Arizona State University, "Winter Rain"

Session 2 Breakouts: 9:15-10:15 pm

(2A) Fiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: 

  • Bailey Betancourt, Regis University, "Mature or Cynical"
  • Gracie Leavitt, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Laboring Man"
  • Ashton Luddington, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "From the Journal of Paine"
  • Eldyn Molina, Colorado Mesa University, "From the Rudders of Cpt. Zultan Burst"

(2B) American Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator:

  • Darcy Brumfield, Southern Utah University, "Rethinking Unreliable Narrators in The Yellow Wallpaper"
  • George Dibble, Brigham Young University, "William Carlos Williams' This is just to Say: The Need for Love's Depicted Reinvention"
  • Trevor McEuen, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Henry James, The Real Thing and Hermeneutics"
  • Samantha Suplizio, Colorado Mesa University, "Redefining Identity Using Liminality"

(2C) Creative Nonfiction
Room EH 219
Moderator: 

  • Kassidy Poole, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Xenophobia and the Battle for Immigrant Rights in America"
  • Taylor Ruiz, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Fall: The LGBTQ+ Experience in the LDS Faith"
  • Rachel Rushforth, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Societal Complications"
  • Dylan Watts, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Keep a Commonplace Book"

(2D) World Literature
Room EH 206
Moderator: 

  • Harrison Bacchus, Central Michigan University, "Ethics Reflected Through Characters in Balzac's Old Goriot"
  • Meera Balan, Reed College, "From Erasure to Empowerment: The Role of English in Dalit Struggle Against Caste"
  • Tahirih Bochmann, Colorado Mesa University, "Exploring Hybridized Identity in Teresia Teaiwa's Fear of Flying (in Broken Gilbertese)"

Session 3 Breakouts: 1-2 pm

(3A) Digital Literature & Technical Writing 
Room EH 215
Moderator: 

  • Anna Jarrell, Marshall University, "The Froggish Phobia: An Ecocentrical Reading of The Princess and the Frog"
  • Gracie Leavitt, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Living in Quiet Desperation: American Men's Depression in an Economic Society"
  • Christian Paystrup, Southern Utah University, "Neuroqueering Masked Autistic Male Representation and Trauma in Ezra"
  • Kiara Wright, Southern Utah University, "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here: Financial Masculinity and Gender Performance in American Psycho"

(3B) American Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: 

  • Malia Agostinelli, High Point University, "The Awakening of the Fatherless Psyche"
  • Anja Cajigas, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Resounding Call: Tension Between Soul and Mind in O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away"
  • Lydia Koszegi, Hiram College, "Will the Real Cowboy Please Stand Up"
  • Wonjoo Lee, Ohio State University, "Resistance in Fourteen Lines: Claude McKay's Sonnets in the Context of the Red Summer"

(3C) British Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: 

  • Adhithi Anjali, University of California-Davis, "The Public Body: Developing Identity Through Violation"
  • Ray Chong, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Can the Proletariat Speak?: Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Ideological Limitations of Hard Time"
  • Megan Hunter, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Bridging or Widening the Gap?: A Rebuke of Michael Payne's Claims of Sexual Equity in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway"
  • Laura Plasencia, Southern Utah University, "Shaping Existence: Existentialism in Hamlet and Its Adaptations"

Session 4 Breakouts: 2:15-3:15 pm

(4A) Panel "Literature as History: The Reciprocal Relationship"
Room EH 215
Moderator: Mali Subbiah

  • Reese Donnelly, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Qiu Jin: A forgotten Feminist to the West"
  • Hayden Dussol, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Malintzin of the Maquilas': Social Commentary on the U.S.-Mexican Border"
  • Allyson Hoffman, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Literature is a Historical Archive of Cultures, Places, and Times"
  • Zoe Marchant, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "The Miners' Cry: Cry, the Beloved Country's Mining Industry and Its Place in History"

(4B) British Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: 

  • Asher Behmer, Reed College, "The Liminal Vathek: A New Perspective on Beckford's Arabian Tale"
  • Elena Faulk, Regis University, "Power in the Fluidity of Identity: Bianca from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew"
  • Mariah Roman, Point Loma Nazarene University, "National Identity, Social Order, and Romanticization: Gypsies in Jane Austen's Emma"
  • Angelina Ross, Hiram College, "Repressed Desires and Inner Turmoil in Hamlet (1990)"

(4C) American Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: 

  • Erin Atkinson, Southern Utah University, "Fearful, Not Feared: Indigenous Storytelling of Naivety in Louise Erdich's The Round House"
  • Stuart Campbell, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " John Ashberry's And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name: Absurdity, Meaning, and Failing Language"
  • Adan Cruz, Regis University, "Thoreau & Jacobs: Freedom in Numbers or Division?"
  • Anie Vaninetti, Pacific University, "The Depths of The Middle Passage: Merfigures in African Enslavement"

(4D) Fiction
Room EH 206
Moderator:

  • Syrena Finnell, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, " You and I: Two Short Stories"
  • Maddie Maschger, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "This Is What It's Like To Live"
  • Nat Mayers, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "A Dead Girls Biography"
  • Jana Moon, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Friendship is Madness, Chapter One: Money Can't Buy Sappiness"

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Session 5 Breakouts: 8-9 am

(5A) Fiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: 

  • Morgan Bailey, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Myriamorth Massacre"
  • Grant Fairbanks, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Ironbound"
  • Joshua Milliner, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Two Please"

(5B) British Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: 

  • Taylor Galavotti, High Point University, "Talk Therapy in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse"
  • Nathasya Josephine, National Taiwan Normal University, "Dystopian Fiction: Life's Bleak Realities in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Butler's Erewhon"
  • Maddie Maschger, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Role of Marriage in Charlotte Brontë's Works"
  • Madison Molis, High Point University, "Idealized Women in Rossetti's In an Artist's Studio"

(5C) American Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator:

  • Isabella Hamann, Colorado Mesa University, "Out of my Mind: A Contemporary Feminist Disability Analysis"
  • Lily Jensen, Brigham Young University, "Marriage Law in Marilynne Robinson's Jack"
  • Addison Smith, Southern Utah University, "Navigating Morality and Technology in Klara and the Sun"
  • Oliver Stirland, Southern Utah University, "Purposeful Ambivalence: Contradictory Attitudes Towards Suicide in A Wall of Fire Rising by Edwidge Danticat"

Session 6 Breakouts: 10:30-11:30 am

(6A) Creative Nonfiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Dana Gibson

  • Suzzanne Bigelow, Arizona State University, "What Was Found in the Breaking"
  • Alexa Stultz, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "i love u Lists - The Slang of School Shootings"
  • Joelle Wills, Colorado Mesa University, "Restoration"
  • Alicia Woodward, University of Utah Honors College, "Mother, Daughter, Woman: Traveling Through Inhabited Roles"

(6B) World Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: 

  • Kirra Blue, Colorado Mesa University, "Tintin in the Land of Progression: A Belgian Reporter's Xenophobic Journey through Comics"
  • Morganne Price, Southern Utah University, "Magical Realism: Resisting Postcolonialism in Midnight's Children"
  • Ellen Yang, Stanford University, "Now, Then, and Everything in Between: Intimacy and Mediated Temporality in Normal People"

(6C) Poetry
Room EH 219
Moderator: 

  • Rachel Douglass, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Untitled"
  • Daniel Gifford, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "One Day: The World I Shall Make"
  • Lance Mundell, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "My Own Prison Collection"
  • Braden Price, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Cheers to the Forgotten Ones"

(6D) American Literature
Room EH 206
Moderator: 

  • Kaelynn Blake, Central Michigan University, "Temporal Distortions in Benjy's Perspective of The Sound and the Fury"
  • Wilson Hurdle, Brigham Young University, "Exploring the Labyrinth: History and Horror"
  • Chelsea Jocelyn, Southern Utah University, "Surveillance and Repression: McCarthyism and the Lavender Scare in The Price of Salt"
  • Jazmyne Olson, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "Dreaming Through the Ashes: Drawing from Speculative Indigenous Narratives in the Face of Climate Change & Queer Oppression"

Session 7 Breakouts: 11:45-12:45 pm

(7A) American Literature
Room EH 215
Moderator: 

  • Jacob Carr, Southern Utah University, "X-Posing the Gaze: Identification, Repression, and the Spectacle of Desire in Ti West's X"
  • Beatrice Crist, Grinnell College, "Burial in Ariel Dorfman's Novels: Fiction as Commemoration"
  • Ellie Hutchings, Colorado Mesa University, "Situating Race in Liminality: Toni Morrison's Recitatif"
  • Ashton Luddington, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, "The Pursuit of Something More"

(7B) British Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: 

  • Abigail Kadlec, University of Oregon, "Characteristics of Modernist Women's Literature and its Revival in Contemporary Novels"
  • Samaya Shah, Pingry School, "The Idolization of Wealth and the Moral Decline in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens"
  • Audrey Sizemore, Arizona State University, "Richardson's Pamela: Denial, Despair, and Desire"

(7C) World Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: 

  • Abigail Fathauer, Depauw University, "Birthing Bodies, Cursing Tongues: Women as Creators in Early Celtic Literature"
  • Elizabeth Melendez, 91¶ÌÊÓƵ, " Literature and Revolution: China's Dynastic Evolution"
  • Ella Newstead, Grinnell College, "Symbolic Parenthood and Origins in Salman Rushdie's Novels"

(7D) Fiction
Room EH 219
Moderator: 

  • Claire Bennion, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Summer Maddox Moved"
  • Miriam Ikner, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " Sweat On My Lips"
  • Neal Patching, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Mountaineer: A Reflection of a Trial Overcome"