Session I

Session II

Session III

 

Session I: 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

PANEL A

HUM 1039

Lotte Fincken “I Am No Bird; and No Net Ensnares Me”: Unreliable and Split Narration in Modern American Narratives of Female Depression
Rin Fenster Pride and Priorities
Blake Coniglio Anatomy of a Soul

Moderator

Professor Virginia Breen

 

PANEL B

HUM 1040

Ailie Kinnier There Is No Such Thing As An Autonomous Text: Considering the Paratext of Digital Mediums
Theodore Haegele The Utility Closet: Queer(ing) Sculpture and the (dys)Functional Object, 1967-1997
Linda Harvey Underbelly

Moderator

 Professor Anthony Domestico

 

PANEL C

HUM 1041

Kassidy Prentice-O’Dell Martin Scorsese Put Her In A Bed: The Erasure of Indigenous Women in American History
Desirae Smith In Living Memory
Kirry Kaufer Impossible Creatures

Moderator

Professor Anna Ozbek

PANEL D

HUM 1042

Julia Rosenberg Spanish Silver and the Forging of the Pacific World
Hanna Drillings Friend, Food, and Fancy: The History of Guinea Pigs in Art
Nick Rampulla The Pepsi Problem

Moderator

Professor Elise Lemire

 

Session II - 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM

PANEL A

HUM 1039

Barbara Kay “Lenses From Which I See the World”: The Experiences of LGBTQ+ People With Borderline Personality Disorder
Gawain Mosher Unmonstering: Finding Queer Hope in Monstrous Literature
Jade Viñas Let Kids Read the Rainbow: The Importance of Queer Children’s Literature

Moderator

Professor Paul Megna

 

PANEL B

HUM 1040

El J Ayala Bartering
Michael Abramson The Deadbeat Collection
Nicholas Antoski “Gone” and  “Glaring”

Moderator

Professor Mehdi Okasi

 

PANEL C

HUM 1041

Daniela Rodriguez Venezuelan Immigrants in New York: How a Community of Displaced People Becomes Visible Inside the Melting Pot
Dylan Silva A Nation in Motion & Its Forgotten Motives: Exploring Dimensions that led to the Fall of Salazar’s Dictatorship in 1960s Portugal
Aidrian Graber From Schmaltz to Success: A Deli-icious Analysis of the History and Evolution of Ashkenazi Jewish Cuisine

Moderator

Professor  Donna Cornachio

  

 

PANEL D

HUM 1042

Isobelle Novak Phenomenology of World
Abigail Lofrese “When She Jumped, She Probably Thought She’d Fly”: Suburban Gothic and the Destructive Potential of Aestheticism
Vanessa Lewis The Slab

Moderator

Professor Megan Rossman

Session III: 11:35 AM - 12:35 PM

PANEL A

HUM 1039

Sonnel Hill Basora A Black Woman’s Guide to Calling Love Back Home
Cielo Howell Mother, Maiden, Moon
Agota Petrauskas Always Somewhere

Moderator

Professor Elise Lemire

 

PANEL B

HUM 1040

Angelica Diaz Pleasure and Liberation: From Frederick Douglass to Summer Walker
Isabella Martinelli Fangirl Isn’t a Dirty Word: The Cultural Force Behind the Superficial Stigma
Savannah Meyer Bulbs and Soft Things with Bones

Moderator

Professor Megan Rossman

 

PANEL C

HUM 1041

Lirije Mustafaj Medicine Through War
Leymare Figueroa Medical Mistrust: The Tale of Scientific Racism and African Americans
Madison Fetzer My Sibling’s Keeper: Growing Up in the Shadow of a Chronically Ill Sibling
Moderator Professor Jessica Levy

 

PANEL D

HUM 1042

Fernando Coronado The Masculine Urge to Isolate
Finn Beirne-Shafer Unbecoming
Moderator Professor Anthony Domestico