William Kemp Symposium
The Fifth Annual Kemp Symposium will showcase research, presentations, and performances from students in various classes in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Speech. The Symposium will be held on Monday, 20 April 2008 and Tuesday, 21 April 2008. More information will be posted in early April. Last year's program is below:
The FOURTH Annual William Kemp Symposium
for Majors in English, Linguistics, & Speech
To download the full program, nicely formatted, click here or scroll below for the full but unformatted schedule.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Coffee Service will be available in the Combs 3rd Floor Hallway
9:00 – 9:50 a.m.
111 Combs Hall – Politics and Drama
Annie Kinniburgh, “Social Subterfuge: Hellena’s Sexuality”
Cassandra Carlton, “Aphra Behn’s Attack on Rape Culture”
Michael Szydlowski, “Restoration Drama & Patriotism”
Larisa Mount, “Advocacy for Female Sexual Freedom in ‘The Rover’ and ‘The
Country Wife’”
Chair: Prof. Marie McAllister
10:00 – 10:50 a.m.
111 Combs Hall – Poetry Reading of Original Works by Students
Whitney R. Roberts, Allison Sweet, Rachel Millard, and Grace Harris
Students will read original poems from their work in the Creative Writing –
Poetry Seminar
Chair: Prof. Claudia Emerson
11:00 – 11:50 a.m.
111 Combs Hall – What’s Hot in Restoration and 18th-Century Drama
Amanda Bates, “18th Century Restoration Drama: The Missing Prologues and
Epilogues”
Kristynn Sullivan, “Testing and Sexual Manipulation in Restoration & 18th-
Century Drama”
Gracie Hart, “Morality and Deception in ‘School for Scandal’ and ‘She Stoops to
Conquer’”
Noah Hughey-Commers, “Jewish Stereotypes in the Restoration Period”
Brittany DeVries, “A Linguistic Approach to Dryden’s All For Love”
Kyle Brassard, “Restoration Rakes”
Chair: Prof. Marie McAllister
003 Combs Hall – Magazine Feature Writing
Kim Pernice, Brynn Boyer, Joey Merkel, Andrea Nealon, Tally Botzer, Stone
Ferrell, and Stephanie Breijo
Students will read excerpts from a variety of magazine assignments, including
humorous essays, personal experience narratives, profiles, and depth-issue
articles.
Chair: Prof. Steve Watkins
12:00 – 12:50 p.m. – Lunch Break
1:00 – 1:50
111 Combs Hall – Creative Writing
Tally Botzer, “Good Morning, Starshine” – a piece of creative nonfiction
Gracie Hart, Alyssa Johnson, Emily Vallowe, Mandy May, Julianne Sudduth,
Amanda Bates, and Larisa Mount
Students will read excerpts from short stories written for the advanced class in
narrative technique
Chair: Prof. Eric Lorentzen
2:00 – 2:50 p.m.
111 Combs Hall – Individual research studies in linguistics
Elizabeth Baldys, “Verlan: Non-Sonority Driven Metathesis”
Sylvia Sierra, “‘A Radical Point of View’: Linguistic Construction of the
Political Identity of a Student Activist”
Elizabeth Baldys, “Interactive Frames and Medical Discourse”
Chair: Prof. Christina Kakava
114 Combs Hall – A Poet, a Lawyer, and Oscar Wilde Walk Into a
Bar: Student Projects in the Department
Benjamin Vigeant, “The American Comedic Voice”
Amanda Schlener, “Communication and Law Case Study: Affirmative Action”
Stone Ferrell, “Resolving a Dilemma: Wilde’s Social Conscience in Vera, or the
Nihilists and The Importance of Being Earnest”
Jaclyn Connors, Jessica Eadie, Mary Kate Markano, Amanda May, Caroline
Schumaker, and Rachel Vetterlein, “Eighteenth-Century Audio”
Chair: Prof. Marie McAllister
3:00 – 3:50 p.m.
001 Combs Hall – Women’s Experimental Theater
Shawna Peruzzi, “Challenging Constructions of the Patriarch: Reclaiming Identity
in Women’s Experimental Theater”
Elizabeth Staggs, “Moving from the Margins”
Courtney McAllister, “Alternative Alienation: Language and Brechtian ‘
Techniques in Women’s Experimental Drama”
Chair: Prof. James Harding
003 Combs Hall – Meaning, Structure, and Grammatical Categories
Casey Ridlon and Dresden Glover, “Reading Sentences that are Potentially
Ambiguous”
Elizabeth Baldys, “Grammatical Gender in French and Spanish: a
Psycholinguistic Analysis”
Leslie Fannon, “L1 Interference with Retrieval of L2 Pseudo-Cognates”
Chair: Prof. Heidi Lorimor
4:00 – 5:00
139 Combs Hall - Kemp Symposium Keynote Address
Welcome and Introductions: Dr. Terry Kennedy, Department Chair
Keynote Speaker: Professor Steve Watkins
“Goat Girl: Readings from a Novel-in-Progress”
The ELS Department Picnic has been postponed to Thursday afternoon due to weather
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Coffee Service will be available in the Combs 3rd Floor Hallway
9:30 – 10:45 a.m.
139 Combs Hall – Comic Romance
Kay Boatner, “Belphoebe and Britomart: The Queen Elizabeth That Was and the
Queen Elizabeth That Could Have Been”
Whitney Mitchell, “Romance and Money Transactions in The Roaring Girl”
Ashley McNabb, “The Rise of Companionate Marriage and The Knight of the
Burning Pestle”
Kelly Woodard, “Britomart and Radigund in The Faerie Queene”
Chair: Prof. Maya Mathur
111 Combs Hall – Language processing and perception
Della Hinn & Cassie Kollman, “The Effects of Attention Demands on Sentence
Processing”
Anne Longerbeam, “The Effect of Context on Speech Perception”
Chair: Prof. Heidi Lorimor
001 Combs Hall – Closing the Generation Gap: Exploring the State of Feminist
Activity in Today’s Popular Culture – Part I
Students from English 468
Chair: Prof. Mary Rigsby
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
001 Combs Hall - Student Life at UMW: A Documentary
Ashley Sifer and the students of FSEM 100: Documentary Film and Its Rhetoric
Students will present their work on a documentary about student life at UMW,
including their preparation, production, and the debut of the documentary.
Chair: Prof. Anand Rao
111 Combs Hall – “Not Unordered in Not Resembling”: Reimagining Language,
Self, and the Classroom
Natalie Smith and Courtney McAllister, “Anti-Phallologocentrism: H.D.’s
Concentric Circles and the Collaborative Classroom”
Larisa Mount, Kate LeBoeuf, and Sarah Gundle, “Perspectives on Gertrude
Stein’s ‘Tender Buttons’”
Chair: Prof. Mara Scanlon
114 Combs Hall – The Fredericksburg Regional English Dialect Survey (FREDS)
Beth Baldys, Margaret Bauman, Rachel Fuhrken, Cle LaMonica, Casey Pherson,
Sylvia Sierra, Ben White, and Leslie Worthington
Students will present a progress report of a study on the local accent of people born in Fredericksburg. They will discuss the role of settlement history and will review previous linguistic studies of the area. Students will explain the project methodology and sample design, and will present preliminary results from a carefully designed reading passage. They will compare these results to the recent Atlas of North American English. This study is the first phonological survey of the area in over 60 years and it contributes to understanding the linguistic influence of two different urban centers on Fredericksburg.
Chair: Prof. Paul Fallon
12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
111 Combs Hall – Closing the Generation Gap: Exploring the State of Feminist
Activity in Today’s Popular Culture – Part II
Candace Kent and Elizabeth Papoulakos: "Vogue Controversy: Patriarchal
Norms within Popular Culture"
Elizabeth Downey, “The Generation Gap in Feminist Studies”
Kate LeBoeuf, “Blogs: How to Customize Your Feministing”
and other students from English 468
Chair: Prof. Mary Rigsby
237 Combs Hall - Dissing Elizabeth: (Re)Imagining the Virgin Queen
Courtney Brown, “Critiquing the Cult of Elizabeth in The Faerie Queene” Tally Botzer, “Images of Queen Elizabeth: From Goddess to Prostitute” Liz Chirico, “Artegall, Britomart and Radigund: The Power Struggle Between the
Most Dynamic Female Characters in The Faerie Queene”
Chair: Prof. Maya Mathur
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.
111 Combs Hall – Studies in Shakespeare
Tashina Gorgone, “Consumers and Producers: A Look at Gender and Economics
in ‘A Chaste Maid in Cheapside’”
Alyssa Davis, “Shakespeare’s Use of a Tragic Chorus”
Diane Rogers, “What a Witch”
Rachel Blier, “This Rough Magic: Supernatural Ambiguity in Shakespearean
Drama”
Erin Shuemaker, “Impotence and Desire in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra”
Chair: Prof. Maya Mathur
139 Combs Hall – Online Literary Journal Publication
Students will present their online journals: Spindle, Ecollective, and The
Zephyranthes
Chair: Prof. Claudia Emerson
213 Combs Hall – Rings and Power: Studies of Tolkien
Frances Montemayor, “Power: Can It Be Good?”
Kathleen Pacious, “Precious Grace”
Chair: Prof. Warren Rochelle
3:30-4:45
111 Combs Hall – Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: Enacting Feminist
Approaches for Recovery, Revision, and Recognizing Creativity
Briana Bremner, "Representations of Femininity in Charlotte Perkins
Gilman's Herland"
Erin Shuemaker, “We Should Have Always Lived in the Castle”
Elizabeth Downey, “Resistance to Patriarchal Authority in Desert Flower by
Waris Durie and Cathleen Miller”
and other students from English 468
Chair: Prof. Mary Rigsby
114 Combs Hall – The LP-Team
Julia Owens, “Performance in Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls. . .”
Whitney R. Roberts, “Vocal Landscapes in Contemporary American
Long Poem: an Examination of Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris and Derek Walcott’s Omeros”
Tyler Babbie, "Choric Prose and Lyric Drama in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt”
Julia Owens, Edward Hall, and Nathan Strobel, “The Long Poem
Wiki Project”
Chair: Prof. Mara Scanlon
139 Combs Hall – Individual studies in Language, Discourse, and Social Interaction
Rachel Fuhrken, “Theory and Praxis of Complimenting in the ESOL Classroom”
Gwynne Mapes, “Young-Adult Sisters’ Discourse: Identity Construction in
Electronic Communication”
Natalie E. Smith, “The Construction of Race and Ethnic Identity in Children’s
Animated Television”
Rebecca Henderson, “Rhythm and Narrative: A Sociolinguistic Study of Berber
Oral Narrative”
Chair: Prof. Christina Kakava
5:00 – 5:50 p.m.
139 Combs Hall —LIT Induction
Speaker: Professor F. Gregory Stewart
Reception to Follow Outside of 139 Combs Hall