Session 1 Breakouts

8-9 am

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

  • Miriam Ikner, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Unreliability and Self-Forgiveness: The Ineffectiveness of Briony’s Atonement"
  • Ainsley Marshall, Southern Utah University, "And Thus the Antihero was Born: The Connection Between Obsession and Religion in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Emily Bront褢’s Wuthering Heights"
  • Autumn Simundson, Texas A&M University, " The Dark Lord and Her Ladyship: Gendered Evil in Middle-Earth"

(1B) Poetry
Room EH 218
Moderator: Alexa Stultz

  • Ivana Cuculiza, Weber State University, "It’s Not a Style—It’s a State "
  • Nat Mayers, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Migration the Collection
  • Miho Sato, National Taiwan Normal University, "Butterfly Knot"

(1C) American Literature
Room 219
Moderator: Bracken Gossett

  • Grace Brophy, Colorado Mesa University, "Blurring boundaries Between the Human and Non-human in Wicked (1995)"
  • Victoria Morriss, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Tokens, Necklaces, and Trinkets: Jewelry’s influence in Sunrise on the Reaping"
  • Rylee Sturgis, Southern Utah University, "How Systems of Segregation Shape Literature and Society"

(1D) Fiction
Room EH 206
Moderator: Sam Rasley

  • Emma Kirby, Weber State University, "The Labyrinth
  • Cooper Loftus, Southern Utah University, "Foreshadowing AI and social media in Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
  • Janae Merrill, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Bar Between Life and Death"

(1E) Creative Nonfiction
Room EH 220
Moderator: Shauna Gunnell

  • Ghaya Merghani, Regis University, " Doubt Truth to be a Liar"
  • Jackson Reed, Weber State University, "Running Out of Blood"
  • Jessie White, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Non-Special Snowflake"