Opening Remarks 8:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Karen Tei Yamashita Director, Literature Department Undergraduate Program

Panel One: Creative Writing: Memoir
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Claire Williams: This Girl Pulls the Whole World Over Herself: A Short Memoir in 3 Parts
Lauren Vargas: The Echoes of Light
Cynthia Pinto: A Picture Starts a Lifetime
Cheyenne Street Houck: Heritage
Brooke Velasquez: Things I Did After My Mother Died

Panel Two: Translation Theory
10:45 – 11:45 a.m.
Rosa Angélica Castañeda: En Palabras Este Son: A creative transposition of the Mexican Folklórico dance El Son de La Negra
Abigail Louise Jennings: Huckleberry Finn: Putting Theory into Practice
Kyle Thomson: Playing for a Limited Stage Only: The Difficulty of Translating Resistance and Spectatorship as Cultural Memory

Panel Three: Literature and the Body
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Hannah Louise Denyer: Code, Language, and the Wild
Cory Austin Knudson: Mind/Body: Toward Asymptotic Becoming
Kerry Keith: Escaping Exile: The (Im)Prisoned Body of Assata Shakur
Alexis Robles: Transformations of Little Red Riding Hood: Erotic, Traditional, and Feminist Bodies

LUNCH BUFFET 1:15 – 1:45 p.m.

Panel Four: Poetry: Pre/Early/Modern
1:45 – 2:45 p.m.
Crystal Franco: How to go Beyond Language by Using Language: Metaphor’s Groundbreaking Role in Maurice Scève’s Emblems of Desire
Amber McCready: Visual and Auditory Codes in “El Desdichado”
Brenda Houser: Transgendering Comedy and Pathos in Ovid’s “Iphis and Ianthe”

Panel Five: Literature and Film
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Kile Bigbee: Lost in Fear: The Experience of The Blair Witch Project
Merav Walklet: “I’VE COME HERE TO CHEW BUBBLEGUM AND TO KICK ASS… …AND I’M ALL OUT OF BUBBLEGUM.”
Alyssa Shimmin: Fantasy and Wish Fulfillment in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994): An Oedipal Reading of Dylan

Closing Remarks 4:00 p.m.
Karen Bassi Chair, Literature Department

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