8:00 - 9:15 am I Thomas Hall 113
Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Janet Graham and Dr. Megan Hartman
Katherine Lindfors, “Memories of the West”
Liz Eberspacher, “Willa Cather and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Reimagining the Feminine Ideal”
Ella Furgeson, “Marriage Choice and Fate: Icelandic and Norse Literature Destigmatizing the Medieval Damsel”
12:30 - 1:45 pm I Thomas Hall 107
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Marguerite Tassi
Anna Stephens, “The Tempest's Miranda: The Eye of the Storm”
Chrissy Hansen, “Sidney's Manifesto: The Political World of Mary Sidney's Psalm 82”
Amelia Rodgers, “Detecting Donne in Dorothy L. Sayers's Busman's Honeymoon”
2:00 - 3:15 pm I Thomas Hall 111
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Annarose Steinke
Emily Kjenaas, “What is Freedom? Free Verse in the Poetry of Mina Loy”
Gracie Luebbe, “Gender Politics and Role Reassertion within T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land: A Feminist Critique of ‘A Game of Chess’”
Amelia Rodgers, “Are Detectives Human? Integrating the Mind, Body, and Heart of Detective Fiction’s Central Character”
3:30 - 4:45 pm I Thomas Hall 113
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Rebecca Umland
Brandi Edmond, “Knights without Kingdoms: Liminal Heroes and Hollywood’s Collective Memory”
Elijah Lynch, “The Big Sleep and the War: How Wartime Hollywood Reimagined Raymond Chandler’s Pre-War Knight-Detective”
Anna Stephens, “The Black/Dark Knight: Both Less and More than Arthur"
3:30 - 4:45 pm I Thomas Hall 111
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Brad Modlin
“Time Makes You Bolder,” by Kaitlynn Ashlock
Poetry by Lila Waterfield
Poetry by Emma Huggins
5:00 pm