Symposia

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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
Julie Feng, "The Art of Ars Poetica: Exploring the Movement of Metalanguage in Poetry about Poetry," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Poetry and Poetics
Merzamie (Mimi) Cagaitan, "Behind the Veils of Industry: The Filipina Mail-Order Bride as the Ultimate Western Male Fantasy," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Publics/Public Spheres
Kali Swenson, "Imagining a Novel Nation: The Indian English Novel and the Indian Independence Movement," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Literature, Culture
Jordan Augustine, "NSFW: The Subversive Cultural Logic of Anonymous Online Culture," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Culture, Digital Humanities
Samuel Pizelo, "Biopower and Heterology: An Examination of Protest and Resistance through the Photographs of Abu Ghraib," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Global Studies
Anthea Piong, "Education Reform in a Results-Oriented Society," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Education
Sarah St Albin, "The Fallibility of Post-Enlightenment Virtue in Matthew G. Lewis’ The Monk," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Literature
Stephanie Whitney, "Exploring the International Student Experience: Improving the University's Response to a Changing Student Population," 2012.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Education
Melanya Materne, "Literature in the Common Core State Standards: A Critique," 2012.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Education
Merzamie (Mimi) Cagaitan, "Soft Slips of Flesh: The Female Body as a Place of Sexual Violence and Site of Economic, Social, and Cultural Exchanges," 2012.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Sexuality, Feminism and Feminist Theory
Sher-Min Yang, "The Literature of Sexuality: Evolving British Attitudes through the Later 20th Century into Contemporary Times," 2012.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Sexuality, 20th Century
Jon Volkman, "Through the Eyes of the Mongoose: The Intent of Audience," 2012.	Undergraduate, Symposia
Alexander Catchings, "Pastiche and Humor in the Neo-Slave Narrative," 2012.	Undergraduate, Symposia	African American
Brandon Weaver, "Visual Violence: Deconstructing the Romani Myth in Three Films of Tony Gatlif," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Global Studies
Kenneth Yuen, "Meaning, Metaphor, and Linguistic Indeterminacy," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Linguistics
Sarah Poppe, "The Literary Body: Modernist Experiments with Object and Image," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Modernism
Jonathan Armoza, "From France to Arcadia to Louisiana: An Examination of 'Civilizing Discourse' and Materialism in Acadian-Cajun Folk Tales," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Comparative Literature
Brian Hardison, "Contexts of Colonization: The Literary-Historical Treatment of the Anglo-Saxon Settlement," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	History
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
Joseph Frantz, "Donald Justice and New Formalist Poetry," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Poetry and Poetics
Michelle Kwon, "Imperial Profiling: Reading Western Figurations of 'Global' Citizenship through Egypt's 'Facebook Revolution'," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Digital Humanities
Jessica Jungwirth, "Tutors as Participant Researchers: How English Language Learners (ELLs) Taught Us Better Ways to Support Writing and Learning," 2011.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Pedagogy
Martha Flores-Perez, "ELL Endorsement: Teaching Multilingual Students," 2010.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Multilingualism, Pedagogy
Ella (Sonja) West, "An Analysis of First Person Narratives by Women Political Prisoners in Apartheid South Africa," 2010.	Undergraduate, Symposia	African, Women Writers
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