MSU Denver Undergraduate English Conference
Friday, March 13, 2015
Program and Schedule
Metropolitan State University of Denver
Springhill Suites - Auraria Campus
8:30
Registration desk opens at Springhill Suites – coffee and pastries provided
9:00-10:15
African American English
Salon A
Chair: Dr. Pamela Troyer, MSU Denver Faculty
"Slang: A Language of Exclusion for ESL Learners" – Alessandra Ragusin – MSU Denver
"African American English: Stereotypes and Classroom Acceptance"
Naomi Tucker – MSU Denver
“Taboo Language in African American Socialization” – Quiana Vargas – CSU Pueblo
Culture and Text
Chair: Dr. Jessica Parker, MSU Denver Faculty
Salon B
“Cultural Analysis of MTV’s Daria and Girlhood” – Addie Jo Briggs – CSU Pueblo
“Importance of Clothing in Two Modernist Texts” – Rachel Hammer – UNC
“Realizing and Wielding Intertextuality” – Alexander Ovick – MSU Denver
English Education I
Chair: Dr. Gloria Eastman, MSU Denver Faculty
Salon C
“Teaching Poetry in Diverse and Effective Ways” – Ashley Gerber, Lisa Lane, Belle Fair,
Katie Scroggs, Mackenzie Packard, Sarah Anderson, Erin Rhinehart
10:30-11:45
Poetry
Chair: Dr. Renée Ruderman, MSU Denver Faculty
“My Dream of a Quiet World” – Brady Hansen – MSU Denver
“Laureate” “Gibbous” – Emily Jessen – CU Denver
Poetry – Samantha Miller – MSU Denver
Salon A
Paradise Lost
Chair: Dr. Pamela Troyer, MSU Denver Faculty
Salon B
“The Complexities of Knowledge in Paradise Lost” – Ashley Gerber – MSU Denver
"Free Will: Man's Salvation and Damnation" – Mitch Cota – MSU Denver
“To Know, Know Another: Sex in Paradise Lost” – Avery Little – MSU Denver
Linguistics
Chair: Dr. Andrew Pantos, MSU Denver Faculty
Salon C
“Cognitive Development in Children with Bilingual Skills” – Colette Marchesani – MSU
“Determination of Word Order in English and Russian” - Margot Anthony – MSU Denver
“Honey, I Can’t Blend In: A Discourse Analysis” – Samuel Williams – MSU Denver
11:45-12:30
Lunch Break – Food will be provided
12:30-1:45
Fiction
Chair: Dr. Cindy Carlson, MSU Denver Faculty
Salon A
“Acid and Copper” – Ashley Greenbaum – MSU Denver
“Culvert” – Kimberlie Grady – CU Denver
Victorian Literature
Chair: Dr. Gloria Eastman, MSU Denver Faculty
Salon B
“Pushing the Boundaries of Gender and Class in North and South” – Pamela Trayser –
MSU Denver
“A Christmas Carol: A Traditionally British Moral Ghost Story” – Alyson Lawton
MSU Denver
“Jane Eyre through Simone de Beauvoir” – Haley Burke – MSU Denver
English Education II
Chair: Dr. Kathleen Deakin, MSU Denver Faculty
Salon C
“Honoring Diversity through Young Adult Literature” – Michael Hoffman, Avery Little,
Michelle Larsen, Christine DiNunzio, Lisa Lane, Sarah Anderson
2:00-3:15
Literature
Salon A
Chair: Dr. Craig Svonkin, MSU Denver Faculty
“Melville’s Mediated Response to Transcendentalism” – Emily Butler-Probst – MSU
Denver
“A Modestly Large Proposal” – Cyle Hirschfeld – MSU Denver
“Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying: Rejecting Patriarchy through the Dismissal of
Language” – Hannah Pearson – CSU Pueblo
Creative Non-Fiction
Chair: Prof. Mikkilynn Olmstead, MSU Denver Faculty
Salon B
“Baggage” – Lindsay Lake – MSU Denver
“Twoness” – Kelcie Scott – MSU Denver
“The Dress” – Colette Marchesani – MSU Denver
Salon C
Film
Chair: Dr. James Aubrey, MSU Denver Faculty
“Fractured Meaning in Chaplin’s Modern Times” – Michael Poley – MSU Denver
“Alienation in Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times” – Aspen Johnson – MSU Denver
“An Analysis between Hamlet and Ye Yan” – Lingzhi Wen – CSU Pueblo
*Thank you for making this year’s conference a success!*
~MSU Denver Department of English~
~And special thanks to Dr. Myron Anderson and the
MSU Denver Office of Institutional Diversity
for continued support of this event~