Session 7 Breakouts

11:45 am -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"