Symposia

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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
Alejandro (Alex) Guardado, "Cinema of Loss: Exploring the Role of War and Trauma in Burundian Films," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Film/Cinema
Alexander Catchings, "Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes: The Integrated Audience's Gaze on Black Performance," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	African American
Alexander Catchings, "Pastiche and Humor in the Neo-Slave Narrative," 2012.	Undergraduate, Symposia	African American
Alexandra Deem, "The Black Cook and the Tin Drum: Intimate Ethics in Literature," 2014.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Literature
Anne-Cecile (Lorelai) Germain, "The Controversy of the Tea Party in Contemporary American Culture in Light of Dissent Theories of Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	American
Anthea Piong, "Education Reform in a Results-Oriented Society," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Education
Arista Burwell-Chen, "How to Be a Good Ally: A Guide to Dismantling Colorblindness, White Normativity, and Everyday Racism without Erasing Oppressed Voices," 2015.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Race and Ethnicity, Critical Race Theory
Brandon Weaver, "No Pain No Gain; Violence and a Critique of American Identity in Contemporary Cinematic Incarnations of the Western," 2010.	Undergraduate, Symposia	American, Film/Cinema
Brandon Weaver, "Visual Violence: Deconstructing the Romani Myth in Three Films of Tony Gatlif," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Global Studies
Brian Hardison, "Contexts of Colonization: The Literary-Historical Treatment of the Anglo-Saxon Settlement," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	History
Cali Kopczick, "Complicating Professional Development: A Tutor-Driven Approach to Professionalization in the Writing Center," 2014.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Writing Pedagogy
Charlie Jones, "Is the Swan Actually Dying?: Close-Reading Ballet for Detrimental Influences of Commercialization," 2015.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Critical Theory
Christina Bleu, Katherine Lee, "The Korean Lexicon," 2015	Undergraduate, Symposia	Linguistics, Language
Christopher (Chance) Campbell, "Formal Mimicry as Literary Genre Art: Signs of Performative Authorship in Darko Vukovic's 'Closings' and Katarina Grgic's 'Early April'," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Genre Theory
Dandi Meng, "After All This Becomes Lit': Becoming and Performativity in Contemporary English-Language Native Poetry," 2015.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Language, Poetry and Poetics
Dandi Meng, "Aura in Photographic Reproductions of the Didarganj Yakshi," 2014.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Media Studies
Danielle Gintz, "Re-Membering Time: Reimagining Deleuzian Memory through Literature and Theoretical Physics," 2015.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Literature
Elizabeth ("Eliza") Wu, "American Mythology: The Intersection of Shakespeare and the Asian American Body Onstage," 2015.	Undergraduate, Symposia	American, Shakespeare, Asian American
Ella (Sonja) West, "An Analysis of First Person Narratives by Women Political Prisoners in Apartheid South Africa," 2010.	Undergraduate, Symposia	African, Women Writers
Emily Pierce, "A Qualitative Study of Teachers' Perspectives on Family Literacy Practices: Discovering the Outcomes for Literacy Learning of Children from Diverse Demographic Backgrounds," 2015.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Race and Ethnicity
Hilary Bowen, "Dance with Horses," 2015.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Performance Studies
Hyungbin Kang, "The Sea Wolf: A Naturalist Novel?" 2014.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Literature
Jeremy Goheen, "But Will I Be a Man?' The Masculinity Strategy in Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Gender
Jessica Jungwirth, "Tutors as Participant Researchers: How English Language Learners (ELLs) Taught Us Better Ways to Support Writing and Learning," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Pedagogy
Jinny Park, "The Ideal Soldier': Masculinity in the Military and Sexually Assaulted Female Soldiers," 2015.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Gender, Sexuality