Presentations

Conference Check-in 

Pre-Function Area - Fifth Floor

Panel 1 | Enlightening the Enlightenment

Lightenment: A Little Cousin to Enlightenment

Andrea Marion, Dartmouth College

Colonial Astronomers and the Transit of Venus:  An Exemplar of American Enlightened Thinking

Kelly A. Harrison, Stanford University 

A Rational Explanation for Flat Earth Conspiracy Thinking 

Rachel Privett, University of Memphis

Panel 2 | War in Art and Literature

Truth in Fiction: The Value of Literary Classics for Military Professionals

Joshua Chambers, Johns Hopkins University

Awestruck Battlefields: Otto Dix's Der Krieg Series and Artistic Depictions of Warfare 

Carson Poole, San Diego State University

Panel 3 | Pedagogical Awe and Wonder

Awe, Connection, and Stewardship: Radical Pedagogies at the Nexus
of STEM and the Liberal Arts

Austin Caldwell Haigler, North Carolina State University

"Flying by the Seat of Your Pants": An Aha Moment from Teaching  "Ways of Knowing"

Patricia L. Carlton, PhD, University of Central Florida

The Wonder of Teaching: Those Aha! Moments

Stephanie Jares, North Carolina State University

Panel 4 | Our Body Our Self, Our Costume Our Self

Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me: Barbie Millicent Roberts at 64

Lee Woodward, Johns Hopkins University

Between Two Worlds: Cosplayers as Mediums of Personhood and Social Connection

Thor Madsen, Reed College

Awestruck: Representations of the Youthful Female Body as an Object of Wonder, and Gendered Ageism in the Media Image of the Ageless Woman 

Nishi Khodaria, San Diego State University

Panel 1 | Existential Encounters with Beauty

Escaping the Confinement of the Self Through Art: Existential Anxiety, Authenticity, and Encountering the Aesthetic in the Quotidian

Carla Marian Cuevas, San Diego State University

"I Dwell in Possibility": The Existential Benefits of Question-Dwelling

Cally Mervine Kiser

χαλεπά τά κάλα - Difficulties in the Beauty of the Wonder

Julia Shiller, Georgetown University

Panel 2 | Literary Wonders

Magical Realism: Modifying the Mundane 

Anne Doventry, Rice University

Beowulf and The Prince

Kim Gudmundson, Stanford University

Wonderous Creatures:  James Joyce's Ulysses and the Medieval Imagination

Cheryl A. Solis, Stanford University 

Panel 3 | Wondering About Psychoanalysis and More

The Wonderworkers: An Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Patient–Doctor Relationship
 

Xiaotian Vera Liu, Dartmouth College 

Personal Purpose and Suicide: A New Paradigm for Artificial Intelligence

Shashwat Vidhu Sher, Stanford University

Trauma's Ecosystem

Paula Celeste Neeley, Metropolitan State University

Panel 4 | Awe, Art and Photography

So Moved? Virtual Pilgrimage in Early Modern Flanders

Christopher Pastore, University of Pennsylvania 

Framing the Eye: Wonder and Mystery on the Edges of Art

Martha Williams, Johns Hopkins University

Environmental Awe and the Ecosublime: Photographer Carleton Watkins' Portrayal of the American West and its Changing Landscape, 1850–1875

AD Wilson, Stanford University

Panel 1 | The Wonder of Wonder

The History of Political Philosophy: An Inquiry into Utopia

Aneesh Kanthan, Johns Hopkins University

Mental Health Wellness: The Wonder in Everyday Life Post COVID-19

Tricia Patterson, Southern Methodist University

Panel 2 | Psyche and Landscape

A Lifetime Finding Awe in His Own Backyard: Thoreau's Journals

Cynthia McMillian Newberry, Stanford University

"Ecologues" of These States: A Lineage of American Ecopoetry

Mike Breger, Stanford University

A Day at the Beach:  The Sensory Allure of Sand Coastlines

David Griffin Knight, University of Oklahoma

Panel 3 | Humans in the Museum or the Museum in the Human?

Reconsidering the Fantastical Nature of the Museum: The Verity of the “Ark Encounter”

Kennii Ekundayo, San Diego State University

Of Celebrants and Sin Eaters: Dystopian Visions and the Tectonics of Being Human

Michael Wyatt Harper, Mount San Antonio College

Setting and Scene: The Human Experience as Story

Lue Kraltchev, MLS, Southern Methodist University

Panel 4 | Literary Odysseys

The Artist's Novel: Defining the Künstlerroman

Brian Eckert, Johns Hopkins University

Literary Keys to Transforming the Climate Crisis in the 1914 Allegorical ​Story "Yesterday's Meeting" by Adela Zamudio (1854–1928), Bolivia

Lynette Yetter, Reed College

Panel 1 | Valley of Vision and Sound

"The Show's Still Goin' When You Get in the Van:" The Free-Form, Therapeutic Music of Sunburned Hand of the Man

J. Kelly Davis, Duke University

A Glimpse into the Soul of Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky - His Personal Struggles and His Music

Patsy Gee Liao, Rice University

"Don't Let the Palm Trees Fool You": Visions of California in Chicano Hip-Hop

Dianne Violeta Mausfeld, University of Bern

That Was The River, This is The Sea: Vibration and Awe, Quantum Mechanics, Pop Music, and the Search for a Unified Field Theory

David Carter Morreale, Loyola University Maryland

Panel 2 | Wonder of Future's Past

Countering National Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Liberation in
August Wilson's The Piano Lesson

Jasmine Shirey, Dartmouth College

Understanding Afrofuturism and Black Culture through the Modern Use of Ancient African Principles

Karyn C. Thomas, North Carolina State University 

Juneteenth Pilgrimage: Returning to Galveston's Menard House on our Way to Ashton Villa

Candace Reese, DLS, Southern Methodist University

Panel 3 | Encountering the Ghost in the Machine

Hope, Courage, and Resilience Through Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

Cherie Hoepfl, Rice University

The Anatomy of Introspection:  Cathartic-Sharing Philanthropy (CSP) Methodology

James Martin Costánzá Jr., Arizona State University