Session 2 Breakouts

9:15-10:15 am

(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)"