Session 1 Breakouts

8-9 a.m.

(1A) World Literature
Room EH 215
Moderator: Michael Wutz

• Ray Chong, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "All That is Solid Melts into Air: Commodified Time in Smilla's Sense of Snow"
• Wilson Hurdle, Brigham Young University, "Exploring the Labyrinth: History and Horror"
• Kirsten Nygaard, Eastern Wyoming College, "The Evolution of Snow White"
• Vitoria Rich, Eastern Wyoming College, "Cannibals to Breadcrumbs: The Origins of Hansel and Gretel"

(1B) American Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Hal Crimmel

• Ianni Acapulco, Ohio State University, "The Unvanishing Act: Understanding There There's Ending"
• Syrena Finnell, Weber State University, "Masculinity, tragedy, and inspiration porn: How disability is portrayed in The Sun Also Rises"
• Arjun Kumar, Weber State University, "The Sun Still Sets: An Ecocritical Examination of Hemingway's Post-War Landscape"
• Ezra Stein, Southern Utah University, "A Riddle Inside an Enigma: Baudrillard's Four Stages of Simulacra, Oliver Stone's JFK and the Efforts of Historical Fiction to Reckon with the Kennedy Assassination"

(1C) British Literature
Room 219
Moderator: Clark Draney

• Ella Curcuruto, Eastern University, "Mother Wants a Lipstick: The False Leisure of Susan Pevensie"
• Anna Jarrell, Marshall University, "From Exaltation to Execution: The Duality of Religious Identity in Othello"
• Lydia Koszegi, Hiram College, "The Wicked Vampire of the East"
• Braden Price, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Stories that Make Up the Philosophy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"

(1D) Poetry
Room EH 206
Moderator: Erin Thomas

• Morgan Bailey, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Betrayal: The Consequence of Trust"
• Mickey Gines, Weber State University, "Exploring Perspectives of Early American Literature Through Creative Literary Works"
• Joshua Milliner, Weber State University, "Thou Art That"
• Audrey Sizemore, Arizona State University, "Winter Rain"