Session 2聽Breakouts

9:15-10:15 pm

(2A) Fiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Ryan Ridge

  • Joshua Colenda, Weber State University, "The King"
  • Jordynn Hunt-Davidson, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Contemplations of Azrael"
  • Braden Price, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Stories that inspire the modern Prometheus "
  • Calvin Stevens, College of Southern Idaho, "False Scenes"

(2B) British Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Ryan Evans

  • Meera Balan, Reed College, "Who Holds the Voice? Race and Narrative Authority in Othello"
  • Sandra Keehn, Boise State University, " The Influence of Areopagitica: Milton’s Life Retold in 1984 and Fahrenheit 451"
  • Jess Lee, University of British Columbia, "What Poetry Knew Before Medicine: Early Modern Sexual Health"

(2C) World Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: Bracken Gossett

  • Ashley Bollinger, Colorado Mesa University, "Atwood Talks Back"
  • Ilse Eskelsen, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "To Become Adults as No One Ever Had Before: Place and the Bildungsroman in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View and Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults"

(2D) American Literature
Room EH 206
Moderator: Sam Rasley

  • Aidan Leschen, Colorado Mesa University, "What’s the Big Deal About Being Human?: All Systems Red and Human/Nonhuman Boundaries "
  • Brynn Ure, Southern Utah University, "The Round House: Joe's Coming-of-age Story, Questionable Morals, and a Character's Impact"
  • Alexander Jackson, Weber State University, "Who Has No Mouth, and Who Must Scream?"