THIRD ANNUAL Literatures and Linguistics Undergraduate Colloquium (LLUC)
March 31, 2012
Ken Olsen Science Center (KOSC), Gordon College
CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
| 8–8:45 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast | KOSC 124 |
| 8:45–9 a.m. |
Welcome—Andrew Logemann, Chair of the Department of English, Gordon College | KOSC 124 |
| 9–10:30 a.m. |
On Language | KOSC 125
Kristen Beebe (Gordon College): "A Language Learner's Difficulty Understanding Humor Across Language and Culture"
Leanne Butler (Central Connecticut State University): "Children and the Use of Plurals"
Hope Johnson (Gordon College): "Saving Face: A Comparison of Cross-Gender Politeness Strategies in Anonymous and Face to Face Contexts"
Narratology | KOSC 126
Agnieszka Beata Rybka (Emerson College): "Human Sacrifice in Mrs. Dalloway"
Katie Weber (Gordon College): "The Spiritual Discipline: Michel Foucault and The Chosen"
Rumur Dowling (Harvard University): "Musical Modeling and Absolution in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus"
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| 10:30–11 a.m. |
Coffee Break | KOSC 124 |
| 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. |
Culture and Anarchy | KOSC 125
Danielle Richards (Dordt College): "The Structural Science of Ferdinand de Saussure"
Sarah Seibert (Gordon College): "Insights from Liturgy: Comparing Prayers from the Jewish and Christian Traditions"
Samantha Berstler (Harvard University): "Let the Day Be Darkness: Problems of Destruction, Creation, and Trauma in the Book of Job"
Strangers to Ourselves | KOSC 126
Jessica Kane (Gordon College): "Catherine's Adventures in Wonderland: Parody in Austen’s Northanger Abbey"
Rebecca McLaughlin (Bridgewater State University): "Examining the Other: The Role of the Racial Other in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heightsand Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone"
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| 12:30–1:30 p.m. |
Lunch Break | Lane Student Center |
| 1:30–3 p.m. |
Looking Awry | KOSC 125
Andrea Amado (Gordon College): "Warma Kuyay"
Danielle Nicole Drees (Harvard University): "The Entropy of Intertextuality: Entropic Confusion of Authors and Genres in Stoppard'sArcadia"
Lindsey Reed (Gordon College): "Breathing in Absalom, Absalom!'s Conclusion"
Gender Trouble | KOSC 126
Stephanie Grace (Framingham State College): "Daddy’s Little Girl: The Father Versus the Suitor in The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Shoemaker’s Holiday"
Erik Fredner (Harvard University): "Another Castle: The Stolen Princess Narrative in Medieval Literature and Video Games"
Allison Lynch (Gordon College): "A More Accessible Love: Shakespeare vs. Petrarch"
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| 3–3:30 p.m. |
Coffee Break | KOSC 124 |
| 3:30–4:30 p.m. |
Keynote Address—Richard F. Thomas, George Martin Lane Professor of Classics, Harvard University | KOSC 124 |
