Language and Linguistics Student Conference Schedule
The full program, including abstracts of presentations, may be downloaded here.
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8:00 – 8:30 |
Registration |
Heritage Room |
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8:30 – 8:50 |
Opening Remarks |
Heritage Room |
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Dr. Pat LaGrow, Vice Provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs |
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Dr. Gary Steward, Interim Dean for the College of Liberal Arts |
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8:50 – 9:00 |
Break |
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9:00 – 10:05 |
Descriptive Analysis |
NUC 300 |
| • Eastern versus Western Romance Languages: Differences in the Formation of Past Participles – Sarah A. Hart |
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| • Applying Classic Code Switching to Bilingual Utterances of Bilingual Libyan Children in Oklahoma – Azza B. Abugharsa |
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| • Final Vowel Elision in Ekegusii: An Experimental Study – Troy E. Spier |
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| • Tolkien's Middle Earth: An In-Depth Look at Quenya – Sarah P. Berling |
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Artistic Subjectivity and Literature |
NUC 301 |
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| • Revenge and Therapy: The Making of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" – Margo R. Moore |
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| • Art's Hindering Intuition – Kimberly E. Hoover |
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| • The Artist Subjectivity of Jane Eyre – Charles D. Carter, II |
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| • Animal Liberation, or Frankenstein's Speciesism – Katherine J. Williams |
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Pedagogy |
NUC 314 |
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| • Input of the Globalizing World on Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Europe: The Role of Foreign Language Assistants – Elisabeth Weber |
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| • Who the Hell Am I? Identity, Language, and Education for Speakers of Black English Vernacular – Shana L. C. Barrett Prince |
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| • Offloading the Mind onto Sofa Cushions: Distributed Cognition and Learning College Football Plays – Michael Rifenburg |
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| • Overcoming Apathy in English Classrooms: Attempting the Impossible – Thomas M. Horne |
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Panel: Written in Blood? Dark Themes in Young Adult Literature |
NUC 320-B |
| • Life's Dark Themes: How the Classroom can Bridge YA Literature – Daniel C. Saunders |
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| • Violence in the Contexts of Love and Peer Pressure – Susan C. Fuchs |
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| • (Un) Chaste and (Un) Seemly – Katie Widmann |
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10:05 - 10:15 |
Break |
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10:15 - 11:15 |
Keynote Address |
Heritage Room |
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Dr. John Morreall |
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11:15 - 11:25 |
Break |
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11:25 - 12:15 |
Social Aspects of Language |
NUC 300 |
| • "Real" Down-Home Southern English: Comparing an Oklahoman's Actual and Perceived Dialects – Justin T. McBride |
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| • The Generation Gap: Diverging Approaches to Online Discourse – Moira R. Saltzman |
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• Why I Will Never Move to Saskatchewan: How Speech Impediments Affect Vocabulary |
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Organic Aspects of Language |
NUC 301 |
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| • Phonological Adaptations of Loanwords in New Mexican Spanish – Madeline L. Carrell |
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| • Toward Revitalization of Indigenous Languages: The Case of Cora in Santa Teresa, Nayarit, México – Jesahe Herrera Ruano |
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| • The Dialects of Baraïn (East Chadic) – Joseph Lovestrand |
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Outsider Perspectives in Literature |
NUC 314 |
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| • The Socially Inept and the Morally Corrupt: An Examination of Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling – Stanton R. Yeakley |
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| • Tristram O'Horseback – Hannah V. Bingham |
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| • A Woman who Wants to be a Slave: The Social Plight during Late Qing Dynasty in Lu Xun's "The New Year's Sacrifice" – Yining Zhu |
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Panel: Playing with Texts and Contexts in Young Adult Literature |
NUC 320-B |
| • Dystopian Consumerism: Social Injustice in M.T. Anderson's Feed – Charlotte E. Freeman |
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| • The Soundtrack of Books – Maggie McGee |
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| • The Captivity of Speak – Lauren A. Vandever |
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12:15 - 1:40 |
Luncheon |
Will Rogers Room |
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1:40 – 1:45 |
Break |
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1:45 - 2:35 |
Panel: Film and Language |
NUC 300 |
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Society and Self in Literature |
NUC 301 |
| • From Illusion to Reality: The Epiphany of the Protagonist in James Joyce's "Araby" – Jie Zheng |
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| • Passive versus Aggressive Viewpoints in The Lathe of Heaven – Mindy C. Borth |
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| • A Lover's Prison: The Tyranny of Primogeniture in The Old Manor House – Hallie Stapp |
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Cultural and Literature |
NUC 314 |
| • Traditions of Women, Kitchen Poets that Have Passed On and Recognized in Writing – Alex R. Temblador |
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| • Koni'kvsha—Choctaw Little People – Randell W. Baze |
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| • Lonesome for Indians: Contemporary Native American Social Issues in Sherman Alexie's "What You Pawn I Will Redeem" – Derek J. Bartholomew |
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Metaphors |
NUC 320-B |
| • Predecessor to the Black Folk Sermon – Noelle S. Hurt |
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| • Metaphorical and Metonymic Conceptualization in Epitaphs – Cynthia E. Enriquez |
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| • The Role of Wizards in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth and Their Symbolism and Importance to Modern Society – Christopher A. Goforth |
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2:35 - 2:45 |
Break |
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2:45 – 3:50 |
Influences on Meaning |
NUC 300 |
| • Mary, Mary, Quite the Contradiction – Jennifer D. Bean |
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| • Is a Philosopher a Sorcerer? Critical Analysis of the Differences in Text between the British and American English Editions of Harry Potter – Alexandra V. Bohannon |
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| • Lost in Translation: Comparing the Levels of Translation between Hebrew and English – Marsha C. Wells-Perez |
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| • The N-Word – Camaria J. Falu Febres |
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Gender and Sexuality in Literature |
NUC 301 |
| • The Hetero/Homosexual Binary, Queer Sexuality, and Modern Media – Christopher L. Vian |
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| • In the Eye of the Male Gaze: How Habibi Affirms Feminist and Literary Theories and the Graphic Novel as Literature – Sarah M. Brewer |
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| • HopeLeslie Devoted To You: A Re-Visioning of the Male Hero in Catherine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie – Misti K. Pryor |
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| • Serpent Rampant: Sympathetic Sanity, Heteronormative Convention, and the Case for Homosexuality in "The Cask of Amontillado" – Matthew L. Cherry |
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Panel: Bartholomae versus Boyd |
NUC 314 |
| • Bartholomae: Inventing the University and Incorporating the Writer into the Academic Discourse – Alexandra Temblador |
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| • Integrating the Ivory Tower – Juanita C. Evans |
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| • Well He Did It First: A Discourse Analysis of Richard Boyd – Bryce E. McCleary |
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| • Expectations of Emulation Must be Tempered by Experience – Dorothy Cady |
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| • Independent Discourse: No Man's Disciple – Corey M. Hamilton |
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Subverting the Status Quo |
NUC 320-B |
| • Conflict of Estrangement: Notions of Ideology and Reality in Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge" – HeeJeong Lee |
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| • Sometimes Dead is Better: The Struggle to Control Death in Stephen King's Pet Sematary – Phillip W. Harvey |
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| • Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon: Freedom from a Cage – Jerimiah Goad |
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| • "Knot It": Acts of Male Oppression and Female Liberation in "Triffles" – Jess N. Tucker |
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3:50 – 4:00 |
Break |
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4:00 – 5:05 |
SLA/TESL |
NUC 300 |
| • Strategies for the Silent Period: The Affective Filter Hypothesis and the Natural Approach – Priscilla N. Wood |
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| • The Critical Period and its Effects on First and Second Language Acquisition – Jaime M. Worden |
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| • Second Language Acquisition – Seema Khatoon |
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| • Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition – Meihua Guo |
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Marginalized Groups in Literature |
NUC 301 |
| • Developing an Identity: Anti-Emigration Propaganda in Smollett's Humphrey Clinker – Jenny M. Dahl |
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| • Philosophy and Slaves: The Effect of Greek Philosophy on Roman Slaves – Jonathan D. Cox and Matthew J. Leeper |
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| • Egalitarianism and Community in Sarah Fielding's David Simple – Hannah E. Ketring |
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| • Damaged Gender Currency: Public and Private Spheres in Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless – Jenna R. Pedersen |
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Religion and War in Literature |
NUC 314 |
| • Aspects of the Writings of John Calvin – Jessica R. Jones |
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| • A Comparison of "The Dream Road" and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Elise J. Dean |
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| • "Judith:" The Old English Poem as Representative of the Poet's Religious Culture – Lynneth J. Miller |
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| • Poetic Voices of World War I: Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, and Rudyard Kipling – Jodi L Ierien |
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Societal Norms and Boundaries |
NUC 320-B |
| • Society's Obsession with Longevity and Aging in Kurt Vonnegut's "Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow" – Jenna B. Bradley |
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| • Borders that Divide Us – James N. Reynolds |
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5:10 - 5:20 |
Closing Remarks |
Heritage Room |
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5:25 – 6:45 |
Sigma Tau Delta Regional Meeting |
NUC 300 |
100 North University Drive, Edmond, OK 73034 | (405) 974-2000