Session 5聽Breakouts

8-9 am

(5A) Fiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Clint Johnson

  • Evalynn Berg, Concordia University, "The Wallflower"
  • Joshua Colenda, Weber State University, "Gedem Frankenstein M.D."
  • Jessie White, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Jeroughty Woods"

(5B) World Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Ethan Harris

  • Bee Bielak, Central Michigan University, "Rilke’s Poetry of Phenomenology: Letters to a Young Poet as Philosophical Framework"
  • Anna Seipert, Southern Utah University, "I Am Cringe But I Am Free: Queer Monsters and Gothic Taboos"

(5C) American Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: Michael Handy

  • Stuart Campbell, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Hard Times: Losing Humanity for the Sake of the Few"
  • Anna Mueller, Black Hills State University, "I Think, Therefore: Battle of the Epistemologies in Oryx and Crake"
  • Sophie West, Brigham Young University, " A book about making: The Creative Power of Agency in John Steinbeck's East of Eden"

(5D) Poetry
Room EH 206
Moderator: Aurora Wall

  • Marissa Archibald, Weber State University, "Poetry Sampling"
  • Claire Bennion, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Tiny Paragons"
  • Shaneice Collins, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Metamorphosis of Young Adulthood"
  • Phoenix Li, College of Southern Idaho, "Where Has the Spirit Gone?"