8:00am-8:30am
Welcome / Breakfast Reception Room: Gabrieleno
8:30am-10:00am -- Session 1
Early Modern - Ontiveros A
Session Chair: Dr. Ellen Caldwell
"The Cultural Geography of Spenser's Faerie Queen: It's No 'Globalony'"
Christie Shockency CSU Fullerton Graduate Student
"Renaissance Humanism: Trinity in Christian Kabbalah"
Kathryn LaFevers Evans CSU San Marcos Graduate Student
The Issue of an Heir: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Anxiety in Elizabethan England"
Stacey Pratt Brigham Young University Graduate Student
American Literature -- Ontiveros B
Session Chair: Tanaz Billimora
"Our Beloved Phoebe: The Erotic Triangle in Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of Seven Gables"
Amber Montez CSU Fullerton Graduate Student
"Gender as Performance, Liminal Space, and Freedom: Interpreting Hester Prynne's Scarlet Letter as Androgyny in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter"
Sana Sayed CSU Fullerton graduate student
"Hunting Power: Women Lobbyists at the United States Capital, 1869-1908"
Jennifer Liddell CSU Fullerton
Creative writing 1 -- Ontiveros C
Session Chair: Dr. Irena Pratis
"In Memory of Me, In Spite of Me" (short fiction)
Fabian A. Carballo CSUF Graduate Student
Selection of Poetry:
"Contents of My Sister's Suitcase"
"An Asian Mother's Sex Education Talk with her Pre-Adolescent Girls"
"Legend"
Margaret Wang Cardiff U Master's Graduate
"The Body of Christ" (short fiction)
Jeremiah Hall CSUF Graduate Student
10:15 - 11:45 -- Session 2
Popular Culture -- Ontiveros A
Session Chair: Dr. David Sandner
"Homo Ex Machina: 'For a Breath I Tarry' and the Digital Faust"
Jason Taylor CSU Fullerton Graduate Student
"Phenome(non) Controversial Cinema: Popularity, Sweatshops and Strategies of Local Resistance in Cardoso's Real Women Have Curves"
Luis Carlos Rodriguez USC Doctoral Student
"Karma's a word … A way of saying 'what I am here to do'." Language and the Lacanian Orders in the Matrix Trilogy"
Scott Loren University of Zurich, Switzerland. Doctoral candidate
Creative Writing 2 -- Ontiveros B
Session Chair: Bryant Brislin
"Out of the Bleu" (short fiction)
Erick Wong CSU Fullerton Graduate Student
Selection of Poetry
"Joseph Before Potiphar"
"Something About Joseph"
"Joseph in Egypt"
Anthony A. Lee
Daniel Van Afram: A Modern Retelling of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" (short fiction)
Daniel V. Afram CSU Fullerton Undergraduate Student
Contemporary Latin American Novel -- Ontiveros C
Session Chair: Dr. Joanne Gass
"Two Latin American Hybrid Women Characters: La Malinche and Bonifacia"
Rocio Gonzalez CSU Fullerton Graduate Student
"Trading Spaces:
The Oscillatory Nature of Metonymic Substitution in The Green House"
Orlando Serrano CSU Fullerton Graduate Student
"Responding to Columbus: The Harp and the Shadow in the Eyes of the Postmodern"
Carlos Centeno CSU Fullerton Graduate Student
12:00pm-1:00pm -- Lunch and Keynote Speaker: Dr. Atara Stein "Culture, Context, and Connections: The Byronic Hero in Popular Culture."
Dr. Stein, of CSU Fullerton, will be discussing her work with popular culture and the Byronic hero.
1:15 - 2:45 -- Session 3
Gender Identity -- Ontiveros A
Session Chair: Dr. Chris Ruiz-Velasco
"The Use of Women Through the Middle Ages"
Esther Weld CSU Fullerton Undergraduate
"'We learned to whisper almost without sound' Forced Orality and Loss of Identity in The Handmaid's Tale"
Susan Johnson CSU Fullerton Graduate Student
"Femme Fatales and Mexican Maids: Disruptive Women and Masculine Anxiety in Two Joaquin Murieta Narratives"
Gina Rho University of Notre Dame Doctoral Student
Post - Modern Identity -- Ontiveros B
Session Chair: Carleen Ibrahim
"Jack - Out of the Box: Identifying Authentic Identity Through the Confines of a Postmodern Prison"
Sacha Moore CSU Fullerton Graduate Student
"Where Bourgeoisie Dare Not to Tread -- The Unfortunate Necessity of Agony for the Artist"
Robert Piluso CSU Fullerton Undergraduate
"Interpretation, Mutilation, Domination: The Body's Role in Macbeth"
Christina Grunkemeyer CSU Fullerton Graduate Student
3:00 - 5:00 Gabrieleno Room Closing ceremonies
cake coffee will be served
Open poetry reading
