sponsored by: 1st annual undergraduate research forum · sponsored by: comprising 28 departments in...
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Comprising28departmentsinthearts,humanities,socialsciences,naturalsciencesandmathematics,aswellas15specialprogramsand23centersandinstitutes,theCollegeofArtsandSciencesisthelargestacademicunitattheUniversityatBuffalo.Ournearly450dedicated
facultymembers,including27SUNYDistinguishedProfessors,prepareover1,600graduatestudentsperyeartobecomethecriticalthinkers
andcompassionateleaderssovitaltoanever-evolvingsociety.
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LocalHost:
1stAnnualUndergraduateResearchForumMarch21,2019
NortheastModernLanguageAssociation
Chairs:JenniferMdurvwa,UniversityatBuffaloClaireSommers,GraduateCenter,CUNY
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Track1Presenters.........................................................................................................1Track2:HowtoApplytoGraduateSchoolWorkshop..................................3Track3Presenters.........................................................................................................4
WelcomeThisyear,NeMLAishostingitsfirsteverUndergraduateResearchForumincelebrationofits50thAnniversaryConventioninWashington,DC.Thisisthefirsttimeundergraduatestudentshavebeeninvitedtopresentaspartoftheconvention.Eachparticipantwillpresentaposterhighlightingtheirresearchandgivea3to5minuteoralpresentation.WeinviteyoutojoinusinwelcomingourundergraduatepresentersintoNeMLA!
Track3:4:30pmto6pm3.34BellaVistaAFernandaGarcia-Oteyza,EugeneLangSchoolforLiberalArtsattheNewSchoolAbstract:“Transformation,Identity,andtheEucharistinMariedeFrance's'Lais'”Area:MedievallanguagesandLiterature
JianingZhao,PrincetonUniversityAbstract:“TheVirgin,TheSlave,andtheElusiveChinesePrincessintheItalianEye”Area:ComparativeLiterature,GenderStudiesandDigitalHumanitiesShaunNowicki,UniversityatBuffaloAbstract:“AcrosstheSea,UpontheStage:EarlyModernDepictionsofImmigrants”Area:EnglishAliciaManers,HardingUniversityAbstract:“PracticingReflexiveEthnographywhenCo-constructingtheIdentityofSyrianRefugeeWomen”Area:SociolinguisticsCallieO'Rourke,EugeneLangSchoolforLiberalArtsattheNewSchoolAbstract:“D.H.LawrenceandtheProblemwiththePastoral”Area:LiteraryStudiesBrendanDufty,CollegeofWoosterAbstract:”ActingwithVirtue:anAnalysisoftheMoralSysteminAmoresPerros”Area:PhilosophyandEnglish
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Track3:4:30pmto6pm3.34BellaVistaA
KaylaMarasia,Washington&JeffersonCollegeAbstract:“Woolf,Joyce,andDesire:QueeringtheSexualEpiphany”Area:EnglishandGenderStudies
HollySauer,Washington&JeffersonCollegeAbstract:“ThePressuresofPseudo-MotherhoodinEliotandJoyce”Area:EnglishMeghanONeill,GrandValleyStateUniversityAbstract:“Unspeakable:ClassicalAllusionandHomosexualIdentityinE.M.Forster’sMaurice”Area:ClassicsandGenderStudiesDerekWillie,UniversityofPennsylvaniaAbstract:“’AVastSumofConditions’:SexualPlotandEroticDescriptioninGeorgeEliot’sMillontheFloss”Area:EnglishandFrenchLeahHeadley,HendrixCollegeAbstract:“TheRoleoftheSapphicGazeinPost-FrancoSpanishLesbianLiterature”Area:EnglishandSpanishHaleyHulan,GrandValleyStateUniversityAbstract:”BuryYourGays:History,Usage,&Context”Area:English
Track1:1pmto2:30pm1.34BellaVistaA
DeionDresser,GeorgetownUniversityAbstract:“Némaschilenéfemminile:comelalinguadigenereneutrosiaccordaconlalinguaitaliana”Area:ItalianLanguageandLiterature
ShuyuChenandHanYan,RutgersUniversityAbstract:“WorldLanguagesatRutgers:AWebMultimediaProject”Area:LinguisticsYuxinWen,UniversityofPennsylvaniaAbstract:“CrossingtheLinguisticBorderline:ALiteraryTranslationofShuTing’s‘TheLastElegy’”Area:ComparativeLiteratureandCreativeWritingMathieuKing,GeorgetownUniversityAbstract:“TheImportanceoftheSubjunctivesintheFrenchLanguage”Area:FrenchEmmaScheve,UniversityofPortlandAbstract:“TheParadoxicalNatureofWomenTravelWriters:Transcending&ReinforcingBoundaries”Area:HistoryandGermanStudiesSeannaViechweg,HaverfordCollegeAbstract:”FindingHome:ARevisionofTimeTravelinOctaviaButler’sKindred”Area:English
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Track1:1pmto2:30pm1.34BellaVistaA
MeganConley,UniversityofMarylandCollegeParkAbstract:“NickJoaquin’sTropicalGothicandWhyWeNeedPhilippineEnglishLiterature”Area:EnglishandAsianStudies
QingyangZhou,UniversityofPennsylvaniaAbstract:“InteractionsBetweentheChineseandtheJewishRefugeesinShanghaiDuringWorldWarII”Area:German,JewishandAsianStudies;MediaStudiesSunaCha,GeorgetownUniversityAbstract:“EchoesandPoetry,MosquesandModernity:APassagetoaMuslim-IndianConsciousness”Area:EnglishandArtHistoryCecilyChen,UniversityofPennsylvaniaAbstract:“Phenomenology,Sound,andtheFunctionoftheFinaleinGeorgeEliot’sMiddlemarch”Area:EnglishandArtHistoryBrennaZanghi,UniversityatBuffaloAbstract:“DecodingCulturalRepresentationsandRelationsinVirtualReality”Area:EnglishandClassicsMikaelaSchulz,UniversityatBuffaloAbstract:”SocialAcceptanceandHeroismintheTáin”Area:EnglishandEthics
Track2:2:45pmto4:15pm2.34BellaVistaA
Workshop:HowtoPrepareYourApplicationMaterialsforGraduateSchoolChairs:DonovanRamon,KentuckyStateUniversityJenniferMdurvwa,UniversityatBuffaloClaireSommers,GraduateCenter,CUNYThisworkshopisintendedforundergraduateandmastersstudentsplanningtoapplytoPhDorothergraduateprograms.Wewilldiscussbestpracticeswhenpreparingyourgraduateschoolmaterialsandwhattolookforwhenfindingthebestfitinagraduateprogram.Theworkshopwillincludetimetoreceivefeedbackonyourpersonalstatementandresumeandattendeesareencouragedtobringcopiesoftheirapplicationmaterials.
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