Thirteen English students and one Theatre Education student from an English class presented at the USU Fall Student Research Symposium on December 7, 2023. The symposium featured undergraduates from across USU, and our majors gave both oral presentations and poster presentations; one student presented an art exhibit. Dorcas Anabire, a PhD student in Technical Communication and Rhetoric (and a Presidential Doctoral Research Fellow), presided as a judge. Below is a list of students who participated:

Posters

Kris Carpenter Blossoms and Breaking Points: Madness and Nature in Shakespeare (Christine Cooper-Rompato, Faculty Mentor)

Tina Chambers (Theatre Education), The Romanticization of Ophelia’s Death in Art, 19^th-Century-Present (Christine Cooper-Rompato, Faculty Mentor)

Melissa Cook, Travels in Ireland (Russ Beck, Faculty Mentor)

Basil Payne, Queering the Herbarium: Plants, Poetry, and Multimodal Expression (Christine Cooper-Rompato, Faculty Mentor)

 

Oral Presentations

Maren Archibald, Is this you? Foucauldian Ethics in Multifactor Authentication (Jared Colton, Faculty Mentor)

Katie Bingham, Leena Bath, Krishelle Gibson, An Ethical analysis of Generative AI (Jared Colton, Faculty Mentor)

Maya Higley and Melody Gilman, Articulation Theory in Application of Gender Reveals (Chen Chen, Faculty Mentor)

Sydney Little, Intersections of Climate Change and Feminism: Ayana Johnson and Mikki Kendall (Christine Cooper-Rompato, Faculty Mentor)

Quinn Mallory, Heavenly Mother: An Analysis of Female Representation in Divinity (Chen Chen, Faculty Mentor)

Preston Waddoups, Samuel Beckett, the Body, and Philosophy (Michaelann Nelson, Faculty Mentor)

 

Art Exhibit

Van Gogh, Zachary Brady (Travis Franks, Faculty Mentor)