Symposia

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Author/Title	Research Type	Related Fields
Alexander Catchings, "Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes: The Integrated Audience's Gaze on Black Performance," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	African American
Tiffany Loh, "All Up In The Hair: The Significance of Coiffure in Crome Yellow," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Literature
Jeremy Goheen, "But Will I Be a Man?' The Masculinity Strategy in Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Gender
Alejandro (Alex) Guardado, "Cinema of Loss: Exploring the Role of War and Trauma in Burundian Films," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Film/Cinema
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
Rachel Schlotfeldt, "Newbook Digital Texts in the Humanities: The Emma B. Andrews Diaries," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Digital Humanities, Digital Literacy
Julie Feng, "The Art of Ars Poetica: Exploring the Movement of Metalanguage in Poetry about Poetry," 2013.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Poetry and Poetics
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
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
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
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
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
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
Rebecca Mark, "Trans(form)ative Language: Asian American Poetry and Racial Difference," 2010.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Race and Ethnicity, Asian American, Language, Poetry and Poetics
Martha Flores-Perez, "ELL Endorsement: Teaching Multilingual Students," 2010.	Undergraduate, Symposia	Multilingualism, Pedagogy