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8am – 9am: Registration and Welcome (Main Room)
8 – 8:45 am: Check-In / Registration
8:45 am: Welcome Ceremony
9 – 10:15 am: Session #1
1a. Sounding Identity (Room #1)
Chair: Karolyne Ochoa, University of Houston Clear Lake
“The Power of Music as Redemption”
Justin Ford, Lamar University
“The Essence of Jazz”
Evi Nino, Alpha Omega Academy
“Cowboy Carter: The Reclamation and Reimagining of Country Music”
J. Shakespeare English, Texas Women’s University
1b. Reimagining the Canon (Room #2)
Chair: Ashley Estrada, The University of Texas at El Paso
“Tell Me, What Are My Words Worth?”
Olivia Vaughn, Seton Catholic Prep
“Jane Austen: The Picturesque Personified”
Caitlin Ferraro, The University of Texas at El Paso
“Reconsidering Genre, History, and Haunting in "Caballero"”
Alivia Ragsdale, Texas Tech University
10:30 – 11:45 am: Session #2
2a. Feminist and Gendered Interventions (Room #1)
Chair: Baylie Jett-Mills, Texas Tech University
“Marginal Gender Praxis: Feminized Survival Theory within Keise Laymon’s Heavy”
Bleah Patterson. University of North Texas
“Religion vs. Spirituality: A Complex Understanding on the Convictions of Women”
Madisen King, Texas Tech University
“Rumiko Takahashi: A Female Creator's Emergence in a Male-Dominated Genre”
Nikita D’Monte, The University of Texas at Dallas
2b: Bodies, Memories, Transformations: Creative Writing (Room #2)
Chair: Lindsey Rowley, Sam Houston State University
“Buying Kinda Ugly”
Megan Van Rensburg, Sam Houston State University
“I Eat Okra Soup with a Spoon: A Poetry Collection”
Amanda Nwosu, Sam Houston State University
“Men Come From Women”
Victoria Perry, Midwestern State University
“A Silent Promise”
Savannah Zeiler, Southern Arkansas University
“I, Monster”
Kellen Rust, Texas Tech University
“Desperate Measures”
Lexi Goodwin, Southern Arkansas University
12pm – 1 pm: Lunch Break
1 – 2:15 pm: Session #3
3a. Forms, Silence, and Self (Room #1)
Chair: Connor Swauger, Lamar University
“Prison of Perfection”
Brianne Tu, Alpha Omega Academy
“Fragmentation in Using Images and Documents in Poetry”
Allison Phillips, Sam Houston State University
“Tell Me, What Are My Words Worth?”
Olivia Vaughn, Seton Catholic Prep
“Silence Doesn’t Mean They Aren’t Learning”
Chance Givens, Sam Houston State University
3b: Melancholia, Memory, and Marginalized Identities (Room #2)
Chair: Shahrzad Hamzeh, The University of Texas at Dallas
“ How Beautiful [The Oppressed] Were”
Karine Irwin, The University of Texas at El Paso
““I Saw Everything”: Melancholia, Mourning, and Moving on in Hiroshima, Mon Amour”
Baylie Jett-Mills, Texas Tech University
“Identity Distortion in Fictionalized Recountings of Historical Horrors in Slavery”
Ashley Estrada, The University of Texas at El Paso
2:30 – 3:45 pm: Session #4
4a. Re-Making Monsters and Myth (Room #1)
Chair: Nikita D’Monte, The University of Texas at Dallas
“Condemning the Wilde Bite”
Conner Swauger, Lamar University
“On Victor’s Creature: Romantic Satanism in Frankenstein”
Kensi MacCammond Williams, Lamar University
“Queer Representation in a Patriarchal World”
Peyton Lundberg, Sam Houston State University
4b. Mapping the Unseen: Creative Writing (Room #2)
Chair: Lexi Goodwin, Southern Arkansas University
“Forbidden Moves: My Steps of Persian Dance and Survival”
Shahrzad Hamzeh, The University of Texas at Dallas
“Constellations in Scars”
Karolyne (Karol) Ochoa, University of Houston–Clear Lake
“The Rising Sun Will Tell”
Jasmine White, Sam Houston State University
“The Modern Flâneur in Familiar Spaces”
Mirielle Angueira, The University of Texas at El Paso
“Trading Words, Trading Worlds”
Clara Burghelea, The University of Texas at Dallas
4 – 5 pm: Keynote Address (Main Room)
[TBA] - Dr. LaToya Scott, Sam Houston State University
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