NULC 2024 Student Presentation Schedule

Friday, March 29, 2024

Session 1 Breakouts: 8-9 a.m.

(1A) Fiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Serena Smith

  • Zachary Brady, Utah State University, "Mortui Vivos Docent"
  • Hallie Burnett, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Amateur Gods" & "The Homemaker"
  • Jana Lee Moon, Weber State University, "Mindbreaker"
  • Lindsey Rowley, Weber State University, "Passerby"

(1B) British Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Mariah Hawkins

  • Matthew Corsi, Colorado Mesa University, "Literary Studies: Redefining the Boundary of Human and Non-Human"
  • Jessica Mancini, University of Toronto, "A Recipe For Ideology: Identifying the Political Unconscious in The Cottage Cookbook"
  • Bridget Smith, Weber State University, "The Transformation of Mr. Collins"
  • Anna Wang, Point Loma Nazarene University, "The Weaver Who Weaves Verse"

(1C) Poetry
Room 219
Moderator: Sylvia Newman

  • Marissa Archibald, College of Southern Idaho, "Selected Poetry"
  • Rachel Douglass, Weber State University, "Selected Poetry"
  • Benjamin Jensen, Weber State University, "Heaven in Earth: A Collection of Nature Poetry"
  • Alayna Mosher, Weber State University, "Quartet of Poems on Mind, Body, and Heart"

(1D) World Literature
Room EH 206
Moderator: Michael Wutz

  • Amal Al Salim, Weber State University, "Edward Said's Orientalism in the Modern World"
  • Addison Bradshaw, Colorado Mesa University, "The Art of Ambush: Unveiling Shock Within Fantasy"
  • Eden Jacob, Utah State University, "The Tragedy of King Christophe, Negritude, and Césaire"

Session 2 Breakouts: 9:15-10:15 a.m.

(2A) Creative Nonfiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Brandon Jackson

  • Mireya Garcia, Weber State University, "The Inescapable, Ticking Time"
  • Emily Koelling, Weber State University, "Penance"
  • Alexa Stultz, Weber State University, "You Are So Mature: The Double Standard Surrounding Youth or Lack Of"
  • Marcos Gabriel Quinones, Stella & Charles Gutman Community College, "My Brother, My Brother"

(2B) Fiction
Room EH 218
Moderator: Laura Stott

  • Ray Chong, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Old Rooster"
  • Bethany Daigle, Colorado Mesa University, "Bear Cookies"
  • Hayden Goodman, Weber State University, "Shinigami Eater: A Horror Short Story"
  • Josie Hulme, Weber State University, "Me and Liz"

(2C) American Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: Hal Crimmel

  • Nicholas Blankenship, Colorado Mesa University, "Why Courage Shocks Us"
  • Bracken Gossett, Weber State University, "Walt Whitman and Democratic Nature"
  • Dominic Grammatico, Central Michigan University, "The Problem of Prudence in Bartleby, the Scrivener"
  • Matthew Rich, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " It's Just a Paper About Ken"

(2D) Professional & Technical
Room EH 206
Moderator: Mariah Hawkins

  • Michael Austin, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Constructive Conflict Storytelling: Applying Creative Writing to Narrative Mediation"
  • Jude Bolick, Colorado Mesa University, "Representation of Disabilities in Peter V. Brett’s The Warded Man"
  • Claire Elise Safeer, Weber State University, "Ancient Magic, Modern Fashion"

Session 3 Breakouts: 1-2 p.m.

(3A) American Literature 
Room EH 215
Moderator: Kyra Hudson

  • Hallie Burnett, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Poems about Poems: Examining Meta-Narratives in Billy Collins' Picnic, Lightning"
  • Madelyn Maxfield, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Supplanting Justice with Mercy in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road"
  • Jazmyne Olson, Weber State University, "Conformity & Carol: How Queer Narratives Are Molded by Capitalist Culture"

(3B) British Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Sunni Wilkinson

  • Kylee Casey, Weber State University, "A Plague on Both Your Houses: Analyzing Characterization Through Shifting Medium"
  • Ava Child, Southern Utah University, "Villette: Lucy Snowe’s Confession of a Divided Self"
  • Everett Clark, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " Metatext and Self-Forgiveness in Atonement"
  • Baylee Dorcey, Regis University, "A Psychoanalytic Study of Deviancy and Development in Dracula"

(3C) World Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: Tim Costello

  • Jasmine Lownes, Regis University, " The Moor’s Last Sigh: A Web Narrative of Allegory and Simulacrum"
  • Elijah Moss, Utah State University, "Saleem Sinai’s Messy Exploration of Self: Structure in Midnight’s Children"
  • Emma Tremblay, Weber State University, "The Role of Marxism in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians"

(3D) Creative Writing
Room EH 306
Moderator: Reggie Carlisle

  • Brenden Taylor, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " Breathing's Purpose"
  • Brandon Jackson, Weber State University, "Selected Poetry"
  • Brenden Taylor, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " Breathless to Breathing"

Session 4 Breakouts: 2:15-3:15 p.m.

(4A) Creative Nonfiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Dana Gibson

  • Phoebe Harris, Idaho State University, "Desensitized"
  • Josie Hulme, Weber State University, "High Water"
  • Lindsey Rowley, Weber State University, "The Hometown That Could"
  • Serena Smith, Weber State University, "You Need Me"

(4B) American Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Sunni Wilkinson

  • Ray Chong, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Beloved and Sinfield: Faultlines and Development of the Resistive Subject"
  • Margaret Draper, Weber State University, "Some Girls Just Don't Know How to Die: The Contemporary Final Girl in the Works of Stephen Graham Jones"
  • Victoria Forgan, Colorado Mesa University, "Un-scripting Disability in Poetry"

(4C) Fiction
Room EH 219
Moderator: Clark Draney

  • Jayne Bauer, Midland College, "Seeking Inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe"
  • Alexander Cook, Brighan Young University-Idaho, " Endless Road"
  • Pierce Kester, Weber State University, "Snow Falls"
  • Mackey Lin, Weber State University, "Scarlet Sabre"

(4D) Poetry
Room EH 206
Moderator: Jan Hamer

  • Daniel Gifford, Brigham Younge University-Idaho, " The Betrayer of Days: A Cautionary Tale of One Who Abandoned Light"
  • Hayden Goodman, Weber State University, "Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children–Excerpts"
  • Bradi Jones, Weber State University, "A Glimpse Into the Human Condition Through Poetry"
  • Paige Winegar-Fetzer, Weber State University, "Ecstatic Stillness: A Five Poem Collection"

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Session 5 Breakouts: 8-9 a.m.

(5A) American Literature
Room EH 215
Moderator: Amanda Southall

  • Izzy Hamann, Colorado Mesa University, "Nimona: Monstrously Human"
  • Lily Jensen, Brigham Young University, "The Frontier Myth in the Texts of Zitkala-Ša and Richard Henry Pratt"
  • Erica Kelley, Colorado Mesa University, "Defining Art: Introducing the Unfamiliar"
  • Paige Winegar-Fetzer, Weber State University, "Literary Diversity and The Fundamental Nature of Ecopoetry"

(5B) Fiction

Room EH 218

Moderator: Marci Boyle

  • Madelyn Maxfield, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Katabasis"
  • Grace Kenidy Miller, Weber State University, "Jodie's Diary"
  • Eldyn Molina, Colorado Mesa University, "Burnt Almonds"
  • Gloria Henrichsen, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Last Impressions"

(5C) Creative Nonfiction
Room EH 219
Moderator: Krystal Cruz

  • Jenifer Call, Weber State University, "Yahtzee"
  • Shauna Gunnell, Weber State University, "A Day in the Life: Space Edition"
  • Cali Seguin, Weber State University, "More Than Just a Race: The Race That Changes Us"
  • Breanne White, Weber State University, "An Ode to Champagne"

(5D) Other
Room EH 206
Moderator: Jan Hopkins

  • Charlotte Lindeman, Utah State University, " Sunshine"
  • Makayla Wach, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Framing the Narrative: Found Footage and the Epistolary Novel"
  • Marcos Gabriel Quinones, Stella & Charles Gutman Community College, "Bound by Nothing"
  • Harmon Tobler, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " Many a Moses: Religion and the Perpetual American Narrative"

Session 6 Breakouts: 9:15-10:15 a.m.

(6A) Fiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Clint Johnson

  • Bowen Loveland, Weber State University, "What Light Reveals"
  • Kirra Moore, Colorado Mesa University, "In Which a Stranger Drinks Cranberry Tea"
  • Kalijah Robertson, Weber State University, "Untitled"
  • Riggs Robertson, Colorado Mesa University, "Desolate Tasks"

(6B) American Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Susan McKay

  • Michael Austin, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Fabricated Franklin: Applying Narrative Theory to the Autobiography"
  • Evan Shelley, Colorado Mesa University, "A Kind of Birth: Body Ownership, Reproductive Oppression and the Vulnerable Birther in Octavia Butler's Bloodchild"
  • McKenzie Wood, Eastern Wyoming College, "Villains and the Women Who Love Them Enough to Kill for Them"

(6C) British Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: Jaid Wehrenberg

  • Gwen Furniss, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " Imagination as a Vehicle for Diety in Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
  • Hannah Gregory, Central Michigan University, "Gothic Women as Tokens of Exchange in The Castle of Otranto"
  • Brian Lines, Eastern University, "A Far Green Country: Allos Topos in The Lord of the Rings"
  • Preston Waddoups, Utah State University, "Samuel Beckett, the Body, and Philosophy"

(6D) World Literature
Room EH 206
Moderator: Ryan Evans

  • William Clark, Utah State University, "Circular Time and Generational Struggle in One Hundred Years of Solitude"
  • Joseph Gibson, Weber State University, "A Jungian Exploration of Gamera vs Guiron"
  • Heather S. Jones, Southern Utah University, "A Reclamation: Death and Hybridity as Power in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman"
  • Avery Knaub, Weber State University, "Of Gods and Men: Ancient Egyptian Same-Sex Desire and the Male-Centered Realm of Sexuality"

Session 7 Breakouts: 10:30-11:30 a.m.

(7A) Poetry
Room EH 215
Moderator: Clint Johnson

  • Tim Costello, Weber State University, "Various Poems"
  • Braden Terry Price, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Tell Me a Story"
  • Sophia Spencer, Weber State University, "Thought Trilogy"
  • Ashley Vongbandith, Weber State University, "Survival Horror: Trauma is Suffocating, Slaughterhouse & Tum Mak Hoong"

(7B) Fiction
Room EH 218
Moderator: Susan McKay

  • Matthew Rich, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Merchant"
  • Serena Smith, Weber State University, "Purgatory"
  • Makayla Wach, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Genesis"
  • Konnor Whitfield, Idaho State University, "Where the Freeway Ends"

(7C) American Lit
Room EH 219
Moderator: Clark Draney

  • Gwen Furniss, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " The Human Aspect of Symbolic Interpretation in Melville's Moby-Dick"
  • Samantha Rasley, Weber State University, " Literary Analysis: Spilled Milk and The Power of Survivors"
  • Evon Series, Eastern University, "The Radical Orthodoxy of Phillis Wheatley"