Session 6聽Breakouts聽

10:30-11:30 am

(6A) Creative Nonfiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Dana Gibson

  • Suzzanne Bigelow, Arizona State University, "What Was Found in the Breaking"
  • Adam Dolle, College of Southern Idaho, "We Are Not Cowboys"
  • Alexa Stultz, Weber State University, "i love u Lists - The Slang of School Shootings"
  • Joelle Wills, Colorado Mesa University, "Restoration"

(6B) World Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Sunni Wilkinson

  • Kirra Trenholm, Colorado Mesa University, "Tintin in the Land of Progression: A Belgian Reporter's Xenophobic Journey through Comics"
  • Morganne Price, Southern Utah University, "Magical Realism: Resisting Postcolonialism in Midnight's Children"
  • Ellen Yang, Stanford University, "Now, Then, and Everything in Between: Intimacy and Mediated Temporality in Normal People"

(6C) Poetry
Room EH 219
Moderator: Jan Hamer

  • Rachel Douglass, Weber State University, "Untitled"
  • Daniel Gifford, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "One Day: The World I Shall Make"
  • Braden Price, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Cheers to the Forgotten Ones"

(6D) American Literature
Room EH 206
Moderator: Clint Johnson

  • Kaelynn Blake, Central Michigan University, "Temporal Distortions in Benjy's Perspective of The Sound and the Fury"
  • Chelsea Jocelyn, Southern Utah University, "Surveillance and Repression: McCarthyism and the Lavender Scare in The Price of Salt"
  • Jazmyne Olson, Weber State University, "Dreaming Through the Ashes: Drawing from Speculative Indigenous Narratives in the Face of Climate Change & Queer Oppression"