Abstracts for Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title Albright College PA Adamo, Eric 23632 Feminism and Race in Colonial American Literature PA Army, Abigail 23743 Laurie Halse Anderson and the Undiagnosed Teen PA Curley, Emily 23754 The Reconstruction of the Slave Narrative Alma College MI Clark, Asiel 23769 The Sea: Edna Pontellier's Incomplete Search for Identity MI Krueger, Laine 23289 Direction MI Nolan, Christopher 23669 Math Rock MI Sullivan, Ashley 23647 From Ashes to Happiness MI Warners, Savanah 23185 The Duality of Lily Bart in "The House of Mirth" American University of Kuwait Kuwait Alqallaf, Shaymaa 23238 Black Panther and the Magical What if? Kuwait Alqazweeni, Bahja 23197 The Construction of Identity under Colonialism Kuwait Ashkanani, Laila 23382 Breathing Underwater Kuwait Jadayel, Lara 23196 The Consequences of Misinterpreted Quranic Verses Kuwait Kotb, Maryam 23224 The Inexorable Plummet of Feminism Appalachian State University NC Schettino, Emily 23612 Is Charlie Still a Slave to Drunkenness? Arkansas Tech University AR Austin, Sydney 23329 The Song of Crickets and Cicadas AR Farrier, Alex 23144 Witch Hazel and Rotted Roses AR Holman, Miranda 23047 No Longer the Man I Call My Father AR Holman, Miranda 23063 Manic Tales from the Loony Bin AR Peck, Evan 23364 Freshwater AR Roberts, Emily 23417 Case En Pointe AR Rodriguez, Betsie 23464 Stereotyping of Oryx in Oryx and Crake AR Smith, Kalina 23181 Next of Kin Auburn University Montgomery AL Burton, EmilyRae 23308 The Valid Position of Singular They within the English Language Aurora University IL Larsen, Ashley 23076 “Never Doubt I Love”: Love and Doubt in Victorian Poetry Azusa Pacific University CA Lomeli, Ashli 23313 Annabelle CA Maurer, Kendall 23072 The Color Purple: Necessary to the Canon Baker University KS Birt, Mary Caroline 23744 The Irish Lady Liberty in Cathleen ni Houlihan KS Greer, Hannah 23279 Stephen Dedalus and Religion KS Jamison, Erynne 23690 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: A Novel of Sexual and Artistic Discovery KS Morris, Monica 23497 The Individual Mind of Stephen Dedalus Ball State University IN Akers, Allison 23512 Masque de Mort IN Baugh, Taylor 23511 ANThropology IN Goff, Erin 23258 Mother Knows Best IN Hart, Madison 23524 Obedience in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest IN Haywood, Rachel 23157 Under Development IN Scalf, Carli 23617 Frankenstein, Feminism and Marginalization IN Townsend, Taylor 23219 Wellistown IN Williams, Kerigan 23420 Learning How To Be Alone Baylor University TX Pollard, Delaney 23594 Letting Bobby Pins Fall

Page 1 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title Belmont University TN Connolly, Carolyn 23090 The Daffodils of June TN Howell, Macey 23339 Muslim Superheroes: Islam in Comic Books TN Meadows, David 22999 The Loveable Blues TN Pfitzer, Sarah 23712 Bodily Resistance: Waiting for the Barbarians Blue Mountain College MS Kinsey, Victoria 23009 This Is Not a Love Letter MS McClure, Caroline 23480 The Ishouldbe's Brenau University GA Ge, Aijia 23155 Female Madness in Jane Eyre GA Tao, Jiajia 23208 Dark Dots GA Wang, Ruoyu 23676 Clothing In King Lear- A Tool to Hide Beastliness in Human Nature Broward College Florida Arancibia, Justin 23535 Technology's Influence on Human Vices Calhoun Community College Alabama Brown, Melissa 23077 Blurring the Lines California Baptist University CA Boetger, Amber 23069 Evolution of Personhood California State University, Stanislaus CA Heslop, Jacklyn 22942 Short-term Immersion for English Foreign Language Learners Campbell University NC Gatti, Mary 23124 Jane Austen: Handsome, Clever, and Radical NC Huth, Lydia 23210 Volumnia and Gertrude as Renaissance “New Mothers” NC Upton, Jordan 23065 Religion and Race as Superstructures in Edgerton's Raney Cardinal Stritch University WI Davidson, Deann 23103 Red Balloon Carlow University PA Havrilla, Anna 23465 Pathos of Poetry PA Hoch, Samantha 23528 Poetry Anthology PA Moore, Clarissa 23543 The Pillars of Existential Psychology in Shakespeare’s Hamlet PA Nacey, Taylore 23679 The Effects of Depression and Psychosis in Hamlet Carson-Newman University TN Childress, Coleman 23513 In an Aquaplane Over Some Trees TN Dickson, Conner 23253 Mind Your Child for Oranges TN Lane, Teresa 23214 Poetry Collection-Time, Space & Other Mysteries TN Reed, Gabriel 23353 Poems in Search of Names Carthage College WI Hansen, Joe 23091 Anonymity and Individuality in Graham's Magazine Cedar Crest College PA Sandhu, Ravneet 23687 Something Other than the Marriage Plot Centenary University NJ Acuna, Andrew 23655 El Calabozo NJ Archilla, Ariana 23522 The First Room NJ Bise, Sachel 23172 Love in the Mind of an Anxious Human NJ Brizek, Maria 23795 Freedom Discourse in Sula and Song of Solomon NJ Cordova, Marco 23791 Family in Crisis NJ Piatt, Jade 23152 Anything You Can Do: Satire and Race in Oroonoko NJ Schwab, Luciana 23492 Functions of Play & Imagination Central Connecticut State University CT Birch, Haley 23482 Atypical Masculinity in the Wake of Terror Central Michigan University

Page 2 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title MI Agee, Genevieve 23257 Poetry Collection: Death and Love MI Fields, Ivory 23371 Variables MI Hollenbeck, Jimmy 23478 Fight the Power: Legitimating Rap as Literature MI Karinen, Tayler 23578 Driftwood MI LaPointe, Summer 23272 In Time, We Unravel MI Lowes, Kelsey 23288 The Man at the Door MI Morin, Jeremiah 23296 My Dad, The General MI Morse, Makenna 23240 A Bug's End MI Shapland, Anna 23294 Tiffany Aching as YA: Growing Up in Discworld MI Stroebe, Marisa 23277 Should Have Missed Him MI Tuinstra, Hunter 23247 Revolutionaries Latin American Literature MI Tuinstra, Nicole 23328 Angst Central State University OH Knight, Ophelia 23606 Black and (Un)Contemporary Chadron State College NE Ermish, Alyssa 23765 The Perfect Date NE Hesting, Zane 23733 Some Recipes NE Schneider, Shannon 23176 Elizabethan Queenship in Cleopatra and Katherine of Aragon NE Sughroue, Naomi 23330 The Argument for Existence in Paradise Lost Chapman University CA Balmer, Perry 23633 Walker of the Wood CA Wood, Peggy 23380 My Dad is an Alien Chatham University PA Stopenski, Carina 23276 Transfeminism in Imogen Binnie's Nevada Clemson University SC Fourspring, Abigail 23553 Spatial Embodiment: How Land Enacts Violence SC Lenertz, Tara 23622 Seasonal College of the Ozarks MO Epler, Jake 23399 The Three Whitmans of "Song of Myself" Columbia College, South Carolina SC Moore, Emily 23734 Working on Love: A Progression of Self-Awareness Cottey College MO Baumgartner, Abigail 23493 The Golden Mother MO Bond, Valerie 23591 LGBTQ The Community Through the Eyes of Our Pets MO Loyless, Laurel 23666 The Role of Motherhood in Maryse Conde’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Dakota State University SD Schuldt, Noah 23630 Watch the Skirt: Gender in Shinkai's Kimi no Na wa SD Waldner, Viana 23506 The Tattered Rose Dixie State University UT Fundingsland, Brandi 23147 How the Past Shapes Identity in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred UT Greene, Amy 23075 You versus Thou: The Importance of Pronouns in Othello UT Handy, Julie 23424 Oh Ophelia UT Lee, Emma 23192 Censorship of Big Tobacco UT Lupher, Jim 23262 Cummings: Pioneering Visual Poetry UT Marsh, Jennifer 23327 DIY Heaven UT McFadden, Mary 23344 The Transformation UT Miranda, Jasmin 23481 Like mother like daughter Duquesne University PA Evans, Catherine 23275 Advocacy in a “Christmas Carol” and Oliver Twist East Texas Baptist University

Page 3 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title TX Perry, Grace 23507 After Eden: Jay Gatsby as a Modern American Adam TX Robinett, Lila 23441 In Their Minds Eastern University IL Burton, Ashlee 23456 Symbolic Witchcraft in Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Book I IL Carlin, Abigail 23605 Reformed Masculinity in Reality Ghost Hunting Television Elon University NC Bond, Victoria 23011 Birdcage NC Conte, Natalia 23581 Persona Poetry: Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Wollstonecraft NC Galante, Nicole 23010 The Nuances of Power, Mental Health, and Reality in YA NC Parker, Sawyer 23598 Back to Black: Reclaiming Darkness in YA Fantasy NC Waxman, Meara 23029 Syntax in Anne Brontë's Novels and Caroline Norton's Texts Emory & Henry College VA Kerr, Nina 23282 Homing: Poems in Return Ferris State University MI Kodeski, Samantha 23728 Don't Start a Fight FL Lehmann, Tabatha 23080 Charley NY Mathes, Emma 23373 Searching For Love and Finding Myself Fort Hays State University KS Ayers, Samuel 23731 Commodities: A Marxist Perspective on The Sirens of Titan KS Locke, Cassidy 23342 The Process KS Sansom, Judy 23404 Messianic Archetypes throughout Literature KS Wilson, Tristan 23188 All the Maybes Fort Lewis College CO Day, Becca 23431 I've Always Been Okay Framingham State University MA Harmon, Paul 23074 Of Missiles and Euphemisms-Reality Behind the DD-214 Franklin College IN Fain, Samantha 22967 What is Left of Me Franklin Pierce University NH Kisiel, Shaye 23306 A Collection of Thoughts and Decisions NH Mulcahy, Caitlyn 23059 I Am, I Am, I Am Freed-Hardeman University TN Muse, Megan 23714 Foster TN Smith, Christin 23651 Coleridge and Wordsworth on Environmental Conservation Friends University KS Hawkins, Amanda 23331 A Moral Compass: Jane Eyre’s Moral Development KS Roush, Abigail 23758 Suffocation And Silencing In The Yellow Wallpaper Furman University SC Kressner, Faith 23426 Pilgrimage to a Rock House SC Oliver, Olivia 23078 Viktor Geneva College PA Lewis, Ariadne 23139 Dante's Vision of God: The Divine Comedy and C.S. Lewis George Fox University OR Coulter, Elliot 23716 God is Fear OR Hoffman, Ashton 23628 Expectations OR Palpant, Kialynn 23516 This is How a World Begins Georgia College & State University GA Barron, Brittany 23202 Mad Girl at Home Graceland University

Page 4 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title IA Moore, Matthew 23701 The Eye in Identity: Asian-Americanness in Chan is Missing Grand Valley State University MI Sowers, Lindsay 23715 Satan in Paradise Lost Hastings College NE Trad, Jessica 23385 A Bench For Two Heidelberg University OH Miller, Ethan 23033 Patriarchal Rebellion: Angels in America Henderson State University AR Franke, Noah 23678 Metanoia AR Smith, Kasey 23657 Punishment and Redemption of the Fallen Woman AR Sullivan, Taylor 23691 This Monochrome Life NC Burke, Emily 23732 Child's Empire NC Case, Keaton 23438 Mrs. Ramsay as a Lost Artist in To the Lighthouse NC Palenbaum, Emmi 23409 Marlow as the Buddha in Heart of Darkness NC Pusser, Meagan 23182 American Illusions in Death of a Salesman NC Thomas, Raegan 23135 Heteroglossia in The Sound and the Fury NC Wallace, Julia 23466 Conrad and Marlow’s Crisis of Representation Illinois State University IL Donnan, Megan 23588 An Examination of Class: Kirino’s Criticisms of Neoliberalism in Out IL Kolimas, Jesenia 23323 Avant-Falsity - Postmodernism Can't Handle Truth IL Lorenzen, Brandie 23020 Doves at Night IL Rutgens, Hope 23007 The Selfish & Bloody Nature of a Human Heart IL Williams, Britni Marie 23510 The Posthuman, Technology, and Embodiment Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne IL Acha, Ikanwie 23739 Courage or Comfort? Indiana University East IN Baxter, Sara 23158 Conspiracy Theories IN Sliger, Abbie 23403 Shakespeare’s Coriolanus Indiana University of Pennsylvania PA Sass, Kaitlynn 23624 Savage Traders Indiana Wesleyan University IN Warner, Kailey 23293 The Whole of Me is More Than John Carroll University OH Mancino, Francesca 23083 The “Grand, Ungodly, God-Like” Ahab and Moby-Dick Johnson C. Smith University NC Nyahasha, Tawanda 22971 The Vessel Kansas State University KS Davis, Macy 23560 Homes for my Past and Future KS Kipp, Kaylee 23428 Yolen’s Briar Rose and the Subverted Fairy Tale KS Wolf, Natalie 23640 A Wealth of Happiness Kent State University OH Palombo, Emily 23228 A Lifetime of Loss: A Collection Lamar University TX Garcia, Kaily 23614 A Real Fight TX Thibodeaux, Ashley 23116 Modernity and Faith in Tennyson's "Morte d'Arthur" TN Baker, Emily 23218 Soul Food TN Bell, Judith 23503 Parental Expectations in "Everyday Use" TN Ericson, Brian 23699 Synergistic Storytelling in the MCU TN Fischbach, Hope 23225 Breathing

Page 5 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title TN Jenkins, Makayla 23703 The Signifying Monkey Overcomes the False Messiah TN O'Fallon, Macy 23285 68 Degrees TN Rogers, Hannah 23035 Glory in Death TN Trail, Lydia 23704 I Loathe You, Asthma TN Walker, Ashley 23175 The Beatific & the Scientific TN White, Hunter 23415 Sarah Penn as prophet in “The Revolt of ‘Mother’” Liberty University VA Belcher, Cassie 22960 As Much Soul as You: Bronte and Jane Eyre VA DeOrnellis, Drake 23468 The Power and Limits of Language in Identity Formation VA Donley, Alex 23621 Power, Art, and Subversion in "The Dead" VA Pickard, Rebecca 23505 Absent of Prayer Lincoln Memorial University TN Davis, Cierra 23685 An Author to Her Book: A Defense of Frankenstein (1831) TN Helton, Alisha 23395 Coping With Death Lincoln University, Missouri MO Forrest, Ariel 23455 James Wright - Poems of Disconnection MO Phillips, Dontay 23338 Poetry Explication: Only as the Day is Long MO Walquist, Kieron 23001 Death Defying Acts MO Zaiger, Benjamin 23203 Along the I-70 Lindsey Wilson College KY Evans, Mikayla 23517 "The Yellow Wallpaper" and the American Dream KY Freeny, Caitlin 23093 Comedic Elements in Hamlet KY Roberts, Lance 23340 Runner KY Stewart-Wilcox, Micah 23567 Spec Ops: The Line and the Simulacrum of Heroism KY Turner, Emma 23106 Gender Dynamics in "Hills Like White Elephants" Linfield College OR Anderson, Kiana 23575 What Fell Apart: A critique of masculinity OR Lu, Chu Kong Adrian 23190 Secrecy, Self-pleasure & Semen in Jekyll and Hyde OR Valdes, Gretel 23576 What Happens in Vegas TN Parker, Sarah 23094 A Red Cap and a Leather Jacket TN Willis, Sydney 23724 A Lust for Loneliness TN Wilson, Ryan 22990 The Weight of a Story Louisiana Tech University LA Arnold, Victoria 23117 Female Interaction in Masculine Politics within Shakespeare LA Chapman, Mallory 23345 Disguises and Deception: Identity in Le Morte D’arthur LA Guillory, Lauren 23119 Existential Barriers in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer LA Phillips, Sydney 23136 A Dead-End Street LA Tucker, James 23118 Revolution in Frankenstein and Paradise Lost LA Tucker, Kimberly 23051 Kingly Honor & Image: Hal's Progression in the Henriad LA Verret, Stormi 23396 Fairy Tales, Liminality, and Jane Eyre Luther College IA Jacobson, Kari 23303 Escape or Bondage: The Senses in “Paul’s Case” Mansfield University PA Henry, Logan 23494 A Monster's Howl Marian University WI Dorobek, Philomena 23808 A Woman Knows WI Janik, Jacqueline 23105 Edna St. Vincent Millay's Subversive Femininity WI Martin, Connor 23414 Again and Again and Again Marist College NY Carcaldi, Theresa 23518 Meet Me at the Roller Rink

Page 6 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title NY D'Addario, Isabella 23143 Delilah Bard NY DeWald, Caroline 23502 Thoughts? NY Foley, Gerard 23204 To Have A Choice NY Larkin, Kathleen 23259 Peripheral Vision NY Long, Allison 23299 Sophomore Years NY Simmonds, Mary 23496 A Constant Work in Progress: Coming to Terms with My ADHD McKendree University IL Jeffery, Sophie 23241 Patreon: An Unexpected Return of Patronage McNeese State University LA Long, Brittany 23413 A Waste Land Constructed Out of Culture: Symbolism in Eliot Mercyhurst University PA Biega, Kristian 23305 The Commodification of Feeling in Boswell and Sterne PA Clendaniel, Andrea 23283 A Linguistic Look at The Scarlet Letter PA Floyd, Logan 23062 The Visitor Was a Lie, but He Was Real PA Ganger, Lauren 23347 Pride & Pianoforte: Jane’s Dilettantes & Virtuosos PA Schweiger, Allison 23627 God Help the Reader: Rituals and Redemption PA Stevens, Abigail 23429 Performance and Panopticism: Identity in Invisible Man Merrimack College MA Leaden, Emma 23514 Ex Machina as a Subversive Gothic Tale MA McLaughlin, Ashley 23221 The Wastes Miami University OH Jankovsky, Anna 23243 Work to Progress: Changing Roles of Women in House of Mirth Midland University NE Patterson, Braska 22951 Opposites Minot State University ND Miller, DeAndra 23798 Black & Blue Missouri State University MO Lenahan, Ashley 23775 Love Song MO Orlandos, Christina 23301 Millennial Financial Anxiety in The Lizzie Bennet Diaries IL Grissom, Amanda 23346 A Study in Relationships Morningside College IA Brown, Kristen 23343 Time to Grieve: Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse IA Nordstrom, Tyler 23698 Socialism in Mansfield's "The Garden Party" IA Pizzini, Marianna 23579 Christian References in Winesburg, Ohio IA Van Vliet, Taylor 23485 Female Oppression and Frustration in Winesburg, Ohio Muhlenberg College PA Baranoski, Madison 23265 What Came Before the Hollow PA Betz, Hannah 23584 Look at me: The Mother-Queen in Carr's Hecuba PA Casey, Emily 23652 Poems for the Third Coming PA Chernin, Blake 23260 How to Ride a Rollercoaster PA Dailey, Bri 23717 Still Life with Fructose and Reflection PA Garrison, Taylor 23128 The Future of History PA Lockett, Pierce 23223 Frank O’Hara’s Cityscapes of Consumption PA Pfeiffer, Elizabeth 23700 Petrichor & Disorder PA Schubert, Emily 23626 Mourning Commute North Central University MN Boes, Gracyanna 23533 Welcome In MN Hall, Samson 23782 Step 9 MN Haseltine, Grace 23222 Heart Cookies MN Thalacker, Emily 23348 The Junk Drawer Poems

Page 7 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title Northeastern Illinois University IL Daher, Marwen 23767 A War of/on Language: Layli Long Soldier’s Whereasness. IL Frei, Clifton 23249 Turtle Island or The West: What Privilege Obscures IL Juerjens, Katelyn 22968 "AACK!": Gender, Beauty, and the Workplace in Cathy IL Peters, William 23788 An Interrogation of Homophobia in Batman Northern Arizona University AZ Darrow, Elizabeth 23785 Illuminating the Sinister Northern Illinois University IL Murphy, Lenora 22987 Chicago Style Northern Kentucky University KY Thomas, Calla 23548 DL-44 Northern Michigan University MI Arnold, Susan 23070 Rouge Noir MI Emily, Megan 23562 What's Unsaid MI Fellows, Emma 23229 Amethyst Adolescence MI Gardiner, Madeline 23787 Reconciliation: Relativity Oglethorpe University GA Covalsen, Lexi 23697 The Politics of Girlhood Ohio Northern University OH D'Agostino, Olivia 22947 Breath Again OH Deubler, Richard 23688 Familiar Scorn OH Shrider, Madison 23383 A Case of You Oklahoma Baptist University OK Dean, Lauren 23446 The Decline of Autobiographical Romantic Mothers OK Harrison, Chloe 23636 Deceitful Beauty: Mapping Indolence from Spenser to Keats OK Pierce, Melody 23236 The Cost of Aylmer’s Ambition in “The Birth-Mark” OK Shaw, Emily 23149 Memory in Wordsworth’s The Prelude OK Wood, Jonathan 22992 Poe and Whitman: Together in Death Oklahoma Christian University OK Colston, Emily 23752 Fahrenheit 451 and the Suppression of Nature OK Franks, Darby 23187 Angels in America as a Parable of Poststructuralism OK Knox, Cynthia 23756 Ex-Warriors and the Horror of Exile OK Madison, Megan 23386 Behind Blue Eyes OK Ransford, Madisen 23711 Dancing and Courtship in Pride and Prejudice OK Vanlandingham, Alex 23171 Subversion of Capitalism in "Moll Flanders" Oklahoma City University OK Gregg, Natalie 23141 Appetite, Hunger, and Desire in The Morgesons OK Kurtz, Haley 23281 Dandi March: Creating Ethos in Understanding Expectation OK Parker, Madelyn 23164 Food Synesthesia in "The Lazarus Project" Olivet Nazarene University IL Alexakos, Alyssa 23407 Perfection's War on Nature IL Bechtel, Laura 23593 To Grandmother's House we Go IL Bergman, Jacob 23673 Bombers IL Bronke, Kiley 23209 A Hopeless Romantic: Intertextuality and Disgrace IL Garratt, Elisabeth 23250 Janie Crawford’s Story-Telling and Selfhood IL Kalafut, Marlena 23764 Heading Home IL Klaassen, Elisa 23177 The Subjugation of Jane and Bertha in Jane Eyre IL Latocha, Leanne 23400 Triadic Suffering and Frankenstein’s Creation IL Mohler, Lauren 23263 The Boys and the Bees IL Testa, Robin 23648 Street Craps Ouachita Baptist University

Page 8 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title AR East, Aaron 23186 The Words that Wordsworth Chooses AR Jeffers, Haydn 23112 Washington Irving and the Not-So-American Myth AR Overstreet, Micah 23113 What's at Stake: An Ecocritical Look at Dracula AR Seale, Claire 23268 Slop and Devil's Ambrosia AR Smith, Paige 23705 A Knight's Tale: Modern Chivalry and Rape Culture Palm Beach Atlantic University FL Bulthuis, Sydney 23604 Ovid and the Bible FL Fernandez, Ariana 23779 Moral Authority and Motherhood in Uncle Tom’s Cabin FL Konynenbelt, Megan 23205 On the Qualitative Lives of Birds FL Prime, Eden 23600 Let Dead Stories Sleep FL Sakrisson, Rachel 23162 Jungle-centrism: A New Take on The Jungle Book FL Selden, Sarah 23378 A Room of Her Own: Triumph in To the Lighthouse FL Skinner, Abigail 23232 The World in Which We Live is Made of Wood FL Stanish, Brooke 23071 Eliot’s Mermaids of the Mind FL Taylor, Olivia 22940 Wake Up FL Weiss, Julianna 23650 Females and Femininity in James Joyce Park University MO Clayton, Jocelyn 23702 Straws MO Hartleroad, Madelyne 23561 A Good Prophet Is Hard to Find MO Walton, Aimee 23629 The Kiss Pepperdine University CA Daggett, Makenzie 23335 To Inhume CA Hansen, Anemone 23034 Othello’s Heroine: Emilia and the Power of Truth CA McCollum, Shea 23245 Things Remembered and Things Forgotten CA Parent, Madeline 22969 Investigation of Societal Fears in Sherlock Holmes CA Pope, Kathryn 23725 Bram Stoker's Dracula: Defying Patriarchal Order CA Schutt, Emilie 23670 Nora’s Change in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House CA Ware, Brenna 23643 “Diving into the Wreck”: Deconstruction of Gender Ramapo College of New Jersey NJ Abere, Amanda 23237 The Steadfast Promise of "Work in Progress" NJ Pruiksma, Bailey 23525 Death of a Giant MO Breyer, Abigail 23683 Hashtag Activism and the Rhetoric of #MeToo MO Clay, Veronica 23354 A Girl's World MO Ulsher, Sarah 23563 The Role of the Abject in Monstrosity Saint Francis University PA Boisvert, Shay 23060 Sound of Silence Saint Joseph's University PA Donohue, Jean 23199 Daddy's Last Day Saint Leo University FL Girard, Kaisha 23760 Earnestly Influential FL Leles, Joshua 23246 The Bullet Hole FL Miller, Emily 22959 What We Plan To Do FL Urbaniak, Raymond 23521 Critique of Courtly Love in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight FL Whatley, Madison 23178 Reclaiming the Power of Women in Heart of Darkness Saint Louis University MO Stansbarger, Kennedy 22950 A Lamentation on the Altar Saint Vincent College PA Fertal, Bridget 23031 Forbidden Bodies: Phenomenology in Feminist Poetry PA Krempasky, Paige 23019 The Volatile: Male Seduction on Female Identity PA Truckenmiller, Mallory 23215 Borderless: Translating Culture in Night Badly Written

Page 9 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title Sam Houston State University TX Bardin, Timothy 23735 Frankenstein, Vivisection, and the Victorian Scientist TX Henson, Emily 23595 The Monster as Adam and Satan TX Orellana, Walkyria 23477 The Creature's Expectation and Expulsion Samford University AL Thorington, Emily 23030 Cars and Identity in The Great Gatsby Schreiner University TX Villarreal, Kasandra 23028 Life Cycle Shepherd University WV Hardy, Katharine 23048 To Marry or Not To Marry WV Hersey, Gabrielle 22981 Perverse Philosophy: Poe and Transcendentalism WV Markle, Sarah 23541 Woman Takes the Fall WV McCarron, Alex 23156 The Devil's in the Details WV McCarron, Claudia 22993 American Exceptionalism in Villeneuve’s Sicario WV Sutton, Lilli 23061 The Mariner's Guilty Conscience Slippery Rock University PA Akers, Taylor 23490 Changing Through Gray PA Bybee, Zechariah 23586 Saturday PA Huestis, Nicole 23547 The Robot PA LaBruzzo, Danielle 23635 The Circles of Transcendence PA Punger, Tabitha 23436 Basking in Beauty PA Skinner, Christian 23227 The Revenge Business PA Swartwout, Anna 23776 Here's to Being Southern Adventist University TN Winegardner, Emma 23736 Contaminating Wound: Binti, Trauma and Reciprocity Southern Arkansas University AR Jett, Rachel 23565 Grasping At Straws: After "Serving in Florida" AR King, Kameron 23509 The Calm After the Storm Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville IL Burt, Sarah 23324 The Ghosts of Christmas Past Springfield College MA Dumas, Samantha 23590 Breaking Racial Stereotypes in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun MA Reed, Lakeisha 23418 African-American Masculinity and Society in A Raisin in the Sun MA Robitaille, Alysha 23134 Emotions in Patriarchy: Antony and Othello St. Catherine University MN Dunn, Olivia 23121 The In-Between Saint Martin's University WA Chappell, Amanda 23663 Concussions, Young Love, and the Story of a Girl St. Norbert College WI Hennick, Leah 23532 Shakespeare On Love WI Hopkins, Katherine 23664 Living Memories WI Igl, Natasha 23271 Jane Yolen's Briar Rose: Fairy Tales and Survival WI Mundt, Alaina 23111 Weathering WI Wenc, Madeleine 23484 The Question of a Woman's Worth in Oliver Twist WI Zampino, Jack 23616 Unsettled Stephen F. Austin State University TX Johnson, Elyse 23037 Wiccan on Maple Drive TX Perschall, Abigail 23166 YA Retellings MO Arnold, Mary 22989 Women Who put the Prince in Princess

Page 10 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title MO Crist, Madison 23333 Jazz Diffuses the Cold War MO Crist, Madison 23337 Essence SUNY, College at Geneseo NY Galvao, Jennifer 23619 The Simplest of Solutions: White-Washing Atrocity NY Manosh, Elyse 23654 Female Christians in Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Can I Get an Amen? NY McAneny, Sean 23693 Violence and the Body in Seamus Heaney's "Act of Union" NY Riggio, Brianna 23402 Manipulation of Men in Jane Austen's Works NY Schmeer, Samantha 23527 Walking with Thoreau & Silko: A Comparative Study NY Snyder, Jacob 23641 Samuel Johnson’s Ecocriticism: Sustainable Joy NY Welch, Sean 23569 Rejections of Misogyny and Status through the Duchess of Malfi Tennessee Wesleyan University TN Holbrook, Rachel 23444 The Girl from the Trailer Park Texas A&M University-Kingsville TX Guajardo, Jason 23574 In Working Condition The College of New Jersey NJ Boland, Rachel 23242 The Tragedy of the Duality of the Charlies NJ Giambona, Luke 23405 Austen Shows a Changing Superstructure in Names NJ Grisson, Jada 23761 Aristophanes Deconstructs Gender and Heals Greece NJ Gundermann, Stepha 23101 A Psychological Method to Legal Madness: King Lear NJ Johnson, Jennifer 23252 Harriet Jacobs: Invisibility as Power NJ Jones, Silas 23350 Americanizing Gender and Sexuality in M. Butterfly NJ Joyce, Alyssa 23358 Identifying Self-Determination: 20th C Af-Am Lit NJ Kaploun, Rebecca 23049 Animal as The “Other” in King Lear NJ Loria, Jeanette 23498 Marriages in Emma: Ideological State Apparatuses NJ Marchini, Giovanna 23169 Social Class / Mental Illness: Duchess of Malfi NJ McHugh, Alaina 23487 Coming Out & Speaking Up in Other Side of Paradise NJ McHugh, Alaina 23759 Aligning Humans & Nature in "Elsewhere Flood" NJ Mild, Tara 23805 The Achievement of Agency NJ Miller, Emily 23099 The "Bright Tide" of Life: Tess Taylor & Metaphor NJ Pugliese, Julia 23251 I Myself Am a Work in Progress NJ Raices, Cynthia 23073 A Rejection of Lear as Constituent NJ Sekunda, Tyler 23066 Satan's Heroic Revolution on Behalf of Mankind NJ Vena, Kelly 23067 Blue Collar Diaries NJ Weiss, Hailey 23462 Trauma as Discourse: Behaviorism/Narrative Theory NJ Whittle, Emily 23068 Fanny Price: Separate, Not Equal at Mansfield Park The University of Iowa IA Dolan, Nicholas 23737 Mad Humanists: Frankenstein and Naturphilosophie IA Hughes, Austin 23401 Adam's Other Bones: Notes on Creation Thomas More College KY Whitehill, Rachel 23212 Mary-Anise Lavender Clearwater Transylvania University KY Chapman, Emily 23045 Et Tu, Femme? KY Pinto, Jennifer 23234 Toxic Southern Masculinity in Absalom, Absalom! MO Hedrick, Laura 23773 Defining the Midwestern Fantastic in Bone Gap MO McDermott, Madeline 23526 Through My Eyes and On My Head AL Barnard, Cecilia 23014 Nineteenth Century Society and Hermaphroditism AL Bohannon, Katie 23489 Blossoms of Mankind AL Dickerson, Grace 23740 On Beauty, Emotion, and Intellectuals AL Rowe, Michael 23425 All the Japanese I Learned at McDonald’s

Page 11 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title AL Smith, Caroline 23038 Surreptitiously Savage University of Arkansas - Fort Smith AR Switzer, Sarah 23201 Hard Times: Imaginative Sympathy University of California, Los Angeles CA Austin, Peyton 23792 Puritans and the Responsibility of Sin CA Díaz, Jessikah 23300 "We Die, My Friend": Material Death In Wordsworth CA Escamilla, Elise 23601 Tainted Waters: Violence As Pollution CA Ferraro, Andrea 23286 Empathy in Le Guin’s “Vaster” and Dick’s Androids CA Shaw, Carly 23793 Mobility and Destruction in The Great Gatsby University of Colorado, Colorado Springs CO Elisha, Sophia 23295 Benevolent and Hostile Sexism in Indian Fiction CO Elisha, Sophia 23721 Against the Apocalypse: Landscapes in Conflict University of Dallas TX Capizzi, Margaret 23554 Monster of a Man or Man of a Monster? TX Frank, Genevieve 23463 The World As Meditation TX Gernhardt, Hannah 23341 Transcendence of the Body in Rossetti's "Jenny" TX Kuzma, Clare 23571 Sissy Jupe as the Catalyst of Hard Times TX Morales, Mersey 23780 Revisiting the Signification of Hawthorne’s Pearl TX Pervan, Ajla 23184 Do Not Say They Are Dead TX Rossini, Maria 23297 The Worth of the Willow TX Ryland, Monica 23639 The Error of Tennyson's Ulysses TX Safranek, Rose 23749 Mind and World in Stevens' "Anecdote of the Jar" TX Vera, Ines 23611 Perfect Imperfection: "Poems of Our Climate" University of Evansville IN Renfro, Lily 23379 Invasion of the Mind University of Guam Guam Barcinas, Jianna 23387 A New World Guam Brown, Kiana 23689 Novel That Kills: Boundless Boundaries in Octavia Butler's Kindred Guam Capati, Nikko 23120 Regaining Women's Nature Guam Clymer, Dylan 23198 The Era of Electronic Inculcation Guam Dimalanta, Christen 23055 A Dance Made to Restore Guam Lee, Christina 23195 The Void: Dis-Individuation in Contemporary Rap Guam Mortes, Krischelle 23310 Am Not Guam Perez Jr., Albert 23573 Saccade University of Houston-Downtown TX McHugh, Hunter 23555 The Whiteness of Dolls and Milk University of Indianapolis IN Sartoris, Shauna 23706 Black Shadow: Poems About Africa IN Seitz, Kylie 23291 My Cousin the Clown University of Kentucky KY Carter, MiKayla 23384 Does Mary Shelley's Creature Pass the Turing Test? KY Kamer, Madison 23519 The Black Woman's Body and it's Labors KY Kirk, Katie 23024 'Watchmen’s Dysfunctional World Through “Sanities” KY Kirk, Katie 23057 October's End University of Louisiana, Lafayette LA Mitchell, Hillary 23220 The Ballad of the Fox Hunt University of Miami FL Ortiz-Monasterio, Sar 23741 The Tragedies of Sophocles' Antigone and Creon FL Weir, Chinoia 23720 The Eye Sees More Than the Heart Knows University of Missouri, Kansas City MO Arnone, Chris 23092 On Both Sides

Page 12 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title MO Arnone, Chris 23392 Autumn 2018: Poetic Responses to Work & Days MO Fitzsimmons, Brynn 23432 Used-to Musician University of Montevallo AL Cleckley, Donovan 23768 Queering the Modern Woman in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood University of Nevada, Las Vegas NV Cruz, Gabriel 23000 Day by Day: A Collection of Poetry University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC Wheless, Harris 22945 The Unemployed Professor University of North Carolina Charlotte NC Bjoin, Makalea 23479 His Intrusive Thoughts NC Margolis, Zachary 23559 Madness under the Midnight Sun University of North Carolina Wilmington NC Jackson, Rebecca 23133 Weasley is Our King: Ron's Homosexual Panic NC Scott, Lindsay 23233 “Ich bin ein Berliner” Speech University of North Georgia, Gainesville Campus GA Ayers, Amanda 23389 A Syntactic Study of Sherlock Holmes GA Barfield, Haley Shea 23445 Transhumanism, Media Convergence, BCI, and VR GA England, Lainey 23539 Queer Identity in Carson McCullers’ The Member of the Wedding GA Godina, Selene 23476 A Latina Defining Race and Racism GA Montgomery, Tiffany 23032 The Benefits of a Pleasure Reading Habit University of North Texas TX Smith, Samuel 23216 Orwell and the Post-Left University of Northern Iowa IA Kauffman, Kay 23115 John Milton, Paradise Lost, and Me IA Rozario, Bethany 23165 Overlooking an Underpass University of Notre Dame IN Turgeon, Claire 23707 LLLLatte University of Oregon OR Brubaker, Corinne 23334 Lemony Snicket: Treachery and Approachability OR Chapman Ball, Cadax 23189 Shelley’s Nature of Poetry: The Creative Process OR Fenty, Caroline 23318 Split OR Hovet, Sarah 23556 Enclosing Subjectivity: Letters in Clarissa OR Medina, Isabela 22994 Nebulous Divisions of Order and Chaos in Beowulf OR Nykanen, Anika 23483 Where Journalism Fails OR Pete, Alyssa 23284 Deviant Gender and Sexuality in Frankenstein and RHPS OR Souza, Katherine 23360 “Wakening”: Indigenous Sci-Fi and Cree Figures OR Zeigler, Scott 23391 Antagonistic River: Reading Nature in Fiction University of Pikeville KY Keeton, Laura 23056 In Case of Fire KY Wilkes, Rebecca 23457 The Sour Patch Kid University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg PA Hunker, Audrey 23248 Violated University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown PA Berkebile, Breanna 23523 My Father Owns a Greenhouse PA Calandrella, Joshua 23667 Dante's Divine Visions of Light PA Murad, Sawsan 23806 Dante's Artistic Purpose: Purgatorio and Beyond University of Portland OR Cruse, Wes 23015 Poetics of the Divine: Hopkins' “The Windhover” University of Rio Grande OH Coon, Megan 23040 History Romanticized OH Hornsby, Mackenzie 23615 Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Literature

Page 13 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title PA Charles, Cara 23596 Tess Taylor’s Work & Days- Response to Theology and Science University of South Alabama AL Woolverton, David 23005 Scenes of the Jinn University of South Dakota SD Cameron, Molly 23052 Uprooted SD Cameron, Molly 23053 Active Resistance: Potiki as Cultural Activism SD Perea-Morales, Sonia 23430 Beasts Live in Us University of Southern Indiana IN Epley, Jacquelynn 22946 Consuming Cleopatra: Sexuality and Witchcraft Rhetoric IN Martin, John 23180 Beginnings University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast MS Rivera, Jonathan 23682 Because of Hearts and Minds University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN White, Will 23046 "Thou Art Nothing": Nothingness in King Lear University of Tennessee, Martin TN Merrell, Shannon 23016 The Stories We Live University of Texas - Dallas TX Hollis, Danika 23126 Dear Sweet Child University of Toronto Scarborough Canada Cader, Aishah 23154 Derridean Deconstruction Reading of Metaphor Canada Chong, Grayson 23168 How to Compose Redemption Songs Canada Chong, Grayson 23170 Persephone Lost Canada Marcelli, Nicholas 23153 Rhetorical Constructs in Blake’s Holy Thursday Poems University of West Alabama AL Richardson, Joy 23618 The Cost of Utopia in Brave New World and Minority Report AL Richardson, Joy 23625 Sleep & Nights University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh WI Bougie, Constance 22998 The Lady of Shalott as Protest Artist Utah State University UT Anderson, Shaun 23102 David's Body UT Bylund, Jackson 23686 The Monster of Wickit Village UT Ensign, Abby 23104 Identity and Legitimacy in King Lear UT Hardy, Nate 23366 Caught UT Howard, Whitney 23261 Silence in Adichie’s “The Thing Around Your Neck” UT Myler, Kathryn 23361 Calvin & Hobbes: Breaking Down the Walls of Incongruity UT Pointer, Stephanie 23376 “A Rooted Sorrow:” Macbeth’s Tragic Illness UT Roberts, Alexis 23771 Baseball and post impressionism UT Skeen, Spencer 23777 Franklin’s Autobiography, Self-Fashioning, and Deity UT Tolman, Ashley 23041 Cantaloupe UT Vaughn, Madison 23167 Complex Silence in Adichie's Novels Utah State University Eastern UT Bradley, Samantha 23722 Perfectly Terrifying UT Kantaris, Katielyn 23174 Work On Progress Walsh University OH Kline, Helen 23742 Hybrid OH Marchand, Louis 23146 A Scene From A Party Washington & Jefferson College PA Marasia, Kayla 23230 The Deadly Siren Song in The Waste Land PA Riley, Molly 23557 Catching “Roman Fever:” The Ending as a Beginning Washington University

Page 14 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title MO Leopold, Joshua 23351 Capitalism with a Capital “C” in Goody Two-Shoes Wayland Baptist University TX Brown, Rebekah 23084 Imitating the Sun: Henry V's Ties to Richard II TX Hansen, Kaelene 23713 Freedom to Choose YA Readers and Lewis's The Lion TX Salazar, Anita 23695 An Open Letter from a Woman in Progress TX Thompson, Rebekah 23610 Year 2018 Western Illinois University IL Dayhoff, Emma 23449 Life Got in the Way IL Gundling, Kaylee 23486 Director's Cut (Abridged) IL Moore, Apryl 23443 The Sadomasochism and Meaning of Addie Bundren IL Steele, Desiree 23363 Gender & Sexuality in Legend of Zelda:Breath of the Wild Western Kentucky University KY Clardy, Joseph 23266 That Great, Vast Canvas KY Houston, Emily 22938 Appalachian Goodbyes KY McCoy, Rachel 23127 The Ferryman Sails to Monotheism KY Turner, Natalie 23500 The Sorrow Days KY Watson, Hayley 23316 Dearly Beloved KY Zimmerer, Zachary 23730 Conrad's "Imperialism in Heart of Darkness” Western Michigan University MI Smith, Michele 23568 Allegory and Gendered Agency in "The Clerk's Tale" Western State Colorado University CO Doublin, Khayla 23367 Decisions CO Gray, Melanie 23082 Booty Blunders -Flash Fiction CO Henrich, Maddie 23081 Sunday Night CO Van Kirk, Abigail 23054 Nocturnes of the Volatile Westfield State University MA Brouillette, Kristin 23086 Addressing Trauma in Emily Doe's Court Statement MA Campbell, Julianna 23566 Collections of a Freshman Experience MA Fitzsimmons, Shanno 23608 Picking Up the Marbles: Making Meaning of Graphic Texts MA Linnehan, Ashley 23620 The Identity of Illness in Marbles MA Luongo, Christine 23495 Rejecting Expectations in The Two Kinds of Decay MA Miller, Nicholas 23088 Every Reason to Keep Your Students Writing MA Paul, Erica 23085 Wilt MA Potter, Elizabeth 23549 "Can't Visualize Myself as Nothing but a Criminal" MA Taylor, Abigail 23200 When I Broke My Leg MA Therriault, Audrey 23125 Seasonal Worker Wilkes University PA Egan, Mackenzie 23151 Sentiment PA Schunk, Brianna 23006 Look at the Freaks: Examining Disability Theatre Williams Baptist College AR Jaques, Bethany 23677 Beyond Duality in "Markheim" AR McKuin, Melanie 23270 Battling Grief: Sethe Edition AR West, Warner 23538 Vampirism as a Metaphor for Sin in "Olalla" Alumni Epsilon Chapter Bahls, Kelli 23039 Speaking Bird Baloch, Indigo 23534 All Sugar, No Venom Capano, Kristen 23256 Fanny in the Attic: Austen Defies Femininity Coburn, Haley 23660 Camping in the Wilde Coburn, Haley 23762 Ex Wives Delaney, Jackie 23290 [This is a bud opening] Dixon, Nikolle 23022 Constellations

Page 15 of 16 Abstracts for Sigma Tau Delta 2019 International Convention Papers and Creative Works - Posted 12/17/2018 School Author Name Sequence Title Eckstein Berkowitz, D 23602 I'll Just Leave These Here Falkner, Holly 22963 Hot Cocoa Ferlotti, Rebecca 23719 Mileage Fowler, Jesse 23336 This is America Goff, David 23012 Calhoun Gomez, Alexandra 23079 The Ground of Mine Sanctuary Hager, Marah 22978 Revitalization of Self in Strayed's Wild Holzapfel, Therese 23317 The Journey of the Hero Hopster, Kayley 23529 “The Mute Protest”: Repression and Rebellion in 1984 Jones, Nicole 23471 Satire and Pathography in Joyce Carol Oates' "Lovely, Dark, Deep" Kahn, Rachael 23206 Othello (Excerpt) Knickerbocker, Kara 23044 The Shedding Before the Swell Lagasca, Maria 23179 A Brief for Closers LeMaster, Lucas 23058 Love and Power: Dominance in A Midsummer Night's Dream Lobaito, Charles 22936 The Mirror Canvas Malone, Megan 23018 Alone Matheny, Jessica 23278 Trailer Park Poet McGuinness, Siobhai 23365 Beauty and Brutality Morales-Soto, Denise 23356 APPARATUS VIVENTEM Neipris, Katie 22935 Language Games and Untranslatability in Wonderland Orosco, Eric 23708 Homecoming Otto, Rebekah 23546 Good Morning, My Love Paplham, Benjamin 23194 The One in Charge of the Money Paplham, Mary 23320 General Oceanography Powell, Chyina 23390 Windows Printon, Maria 23213 Once a Fairy Tale Ramser, Stephanie 23140 What Calls Our Bodies Home Roberson, Sarah 23460 Black Woman Unbound in Ntozake Shange Schnepper, Sheyanna 23003 The Hitchhiker Strayhall, Catherine 23751 descendancy: to the bravest part of me Tesch, Lizzie 23681 Logophile Upton, Amber 22995 The Power of Words Upton, Amber 22996 An Alaskan Summer Williams, Heather 23023 Omens Williams, Heather 23410 Disrobing King Lear: The Good, the Bad, and the Naked

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