Undergraduate Research
2013: 8th Annual Undergraduate/Graduate Research Conference
The Department of English will hold its 8th Annual English Department Undergraduate/ Graduate Research Conference on March 1-2, 2013. This conference allows students in all three undergraduate tracks and in the M.A. and M.A.T. programs the opportunity to submit their work to a juried competition and, if selected, to make a professional presentation that is attended by students, faculty, the Winthrop community, and the general public. The Conference has grown substantially over the years: it now consists of a Creative Reading (as a cultural event) on Friday night, poster sessions and a reception on Friday afternoon, and an all-day conference with free lunch and a speaker on Saturday.Since 2011, the Winthrop Literary Society also holds a book sale to raise money for departmental writing awards; this will take place in the DIGS lobby on Friday afternoon.
The Program:
3-5 PM Used Book Sale to benefit the Winthrop Literary Society and Departmental Awards, outside 114 DIGS
3:4:30 PM Poster Presentations
Presenters:
Nicole Drown, “Heuristics in the Student-Centered Writing Class”
Josh Dunn, “Competing Theories of Self in All the King’s Men”
Joseph Giordano, “Invisible Shackles: Slavery’s Ripple Effect in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Kristina Meehan, “Researching Chaucer and Freud: The Mortal’s Psychological Destiny in Troilus and Criseyde”
Lauren Mixon, “’My poor fool’: The doubling of Cordelia and the Fool in King Lear”
Rachel Phillips, “She Looks Like a Woman, But She Acts Like a Man”
Mirielle Smith, “Drowning in the Human Voices: Hegemonic Masculinity in ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’”
5-6:30 PM Creative Showcase, Dina's Place. Approved Cultural Event
Dr. Mary E. Martin (poetry)
Dr. Casey A. Cothran (fiction)
Joseph Giordano (fiction)
Kristina Meehan (poetry)
Jesse Pritchard (poetry)
Laura Jane Burgess (poetry)
Laura Leigh Todd (fiction)
Evan O’Neal (poetry)
Nicole Montgomery (poetry)
Alex Muller (poetry)
Coffee and Goodies: 8:30-9:00
Welcome and Introduction: 9:00—9:15 a.m.
Panel 1: Power Struggles (9:00- 10:30)
John Crawford, “’The Law Hath Not Been Dead, Though it Hath Slept’: The Transition from Elizabeth I to James I in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure”
Ashley Moore, “’This Is Who You Are’: Examining Ideology within Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”
Alex Muller, “One Hundred Years of Solitude: Deconstructing the City of Mirrors through Lacanian Theory”
Amanda Covington, “’Correspondent to Command”: Linguistic Acquisition in The Tempest”
Panel 2: Critical Perspectives (10:45-12:15)
Nicole Drown, “Men, Monkeys, and Lap-Dogs: The Emasculation of Men in Pope’s The Rape of the Lock”
Joseph Giordano, “Tearful Marionettes: an Analysis of Marginalized Female Sexuality in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!”
Evan O’Neal, “Sherlock Holmes, Psychology, and Pop Culture”
Loren Mixon, "Culture Blends and the Emergence of Online Dictionaries”
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Leslie Bickford, "'Arrested and Held Immobile by a Single Word': The Role of Language in the Individuation of Faulkner's Joe Christmas"
Past Conference Programs2012 Complete Conference Program (pdf - 317 kb)
2011 Complete Conference Program (pdf- 115 kb)
2010 Complete Conference Program (pdf- 383 kb)
2009 Complete Conference Program (pdf- 293 kb)
2008 Complete Conference Program (pdf- 131 kb)
**The English Majors' Handbook has tips for writing abstracts. (pdf- 35 kb)