2023 archive

Session 1 | 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. (EDT)

Panel A: Victorian Studies (Moderator: Dr. Anita Turlington, University of North Georgia, Gainesville)

• Carolyn Carpenter, Lander University (SC): Let's Be Friends: The New Woman Movement and Sue Bridehead

• Michaela Smith, Georgia Southern University (GA): Objectification in Rossetti's "Jenny"

Panel B: Multicultural and Post-Colonial Studies (Moderator: Dr. Terry Easton, University of North Georgia, Gainesville)

• Ange Saldivar, Northwestern State University of Louisiana (LA): The Lonely Londoners and the Trinidadian Calypso

• Zoe Talbot, The College of New Jersey (NJ): Love as a Commodity in The God of Small Things

• Alex Moran, Florida State University: Self-Destructive Escapism: Analyzing the Television Leitmotif in Junot Diaz's "Drown"

• Saif Zalmiyar, University of North Georgia Gainesville (GA): Literary Witness: Journey, Circumscription, and Disposability of the Working Class 

Session 2 | 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. (EDT)

Panel A: Philology, Pedagogy, and Publishing (Moderator: Dr. Felicia Jean Steele, The College of New Jersey)

• Tiffany Nolde, Alumni, University of North Georgia Gainesville (GA)/Texas A&M University, Commerce (TX): The Usage-Based Approach: Creating a Successful Learning Environment for English Language Learners

• Christopher Doney, Northwestern State University of Louisiana (LA): The Expansion of English Language in Central Asia: The Case Study of Tajikistan

• Ashley Gibson, University of North Georgia, Gainesville (GA): A Cooperative Future: Exploring Alternatives to Big Five Publishing Houses

• Kassie Price, Arkansas Tech University: Demonstrating Gender Equality

Panel B: Medieval Tales (Moderator: Matthew Moon, University of North Georgia, Gainesville)

• Peter Merrill, Berry College (GA): Sir Gawain Hearkens to the Green

• Tyler Bell, Arkansas Tech University (AR): Grendel's Mother and the Importance of Birthright in Beowulf

• William Saccavino, University of North Georgia, Gainesville (GA): Three Cheers for the Miller's Tale

Session 3 | 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. (EDT)

Panel A: Nature and Technology (Moderator: Jim Watkins, Berry College)

• Jacob Klaung, Loras College (IA): The Relationships between Nature, Self, and the Divine: A Critical Analysis of Whitman, Emerson, and Thoreau

• Benjamin Ainsworth, University of North Georgia, Gainesville (GA): Wait a Minute, This is Math: Technical Writing and the Power of Conceptualization

• Victoria Severiche, Berry College (GA): The "Modern" Indian: How Tommy Orange Uses Technology in There, There

Panel B: Creative Writing I: Shadows of Memory (Moderator: Dr. Valerie Surrett, University of North Georgia, Gainesville)

• Eunice Tan, Union University (TN): Through Her Window

• Megan Basten, Loras College (IA): From the Wings of Cardinals

• Josh Nichols, Arkansas Tech University (AR): Ready for War

Lunch break 1:15 – 1:45 p.m. (EDT)

Stick around in the main room for a brief message from Sigma Tau Delta Southern Region Student Leaders Eunice Tan (Union University) and Ja’Vontaye Gagum (North Carolina Central University) at the beginning of this short lunch break.

Session 4 | 1:45 – 3:00 p.m. (EDT)

Panel A: Then to Now—Medieval to the Modern (Moderator: William Saccavino, University of North Georgia, Gainesville)

• Elana Koehler, Alumni, Augusta University (GA): Belief and Becoming Worthy: Indiana Jones and Joseph of Arimathea

• Mackenzie Simpson, Arkansas Tech University (AR): Courtly Love Depicted in Yonec: The Blessed and the Damned

• Ashley Jackson, Berry College (GA): Masculinized Love: A Reading of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen

• Lucy Meurer, Union University (TN): The Poisoned Process: An Analysis of Judeo-Christian Hostility in The Merchant of Venice

Panel B: Creative II: Exploring the Self (Moderator: Dr. J. Ereck Jarvis, Northwestern State University of Louisiana)

• Josie Munday, Union University (TN): In a Day's Time (unable to present)

• Trevor Williams, Northwestern State University of Louisiana (LA): The Art of Speechlessness

• Isabella Melendez, Chapman University (CA): 1999

Session 5 | 3:15 – 4:30 p.m.  (EDT)

Panel A: Monsters and Weird Fiction (Moderator: Dr. Jessica Walker, University of North Georgia, Gainesville)

• Kelly Taylor, Chapman University (CA): The Truth in the Blood: Finding the True Monster in the Modern Vampire Tale

• Samuel Makley, Berry College (GA): A Gothic Resurrection: Dracula and Misery as Intertexts

• Matthew Moon, University of North Georgia, Gainesville (GA): A Traditionally Weird Analysis of Works from Poe to Lovecraft