Schedule

SASCOL 2023 Schedule of Events

All events take place on the third floor of the D. P. Culp Center, East Tennessee State University.

Conference Registration              8:30 a.m.-8:50 a.m.  Forum Room 311

Conference Welcome                   8:50 a.m. Forum Room 311

Concurrent Session 1                    9:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m. 

Panel A:  Embodied Milton
Room 303

Chair:  Dr. Joshua Reid, East Tennessee State University

• Tuck Ledbetter (Undergraduate Student, ETSU), “The Garden of Ideology: Milton’s Adam and the Manufacturing of the Bourgeois Subject” 
• Matthew Barker (Undergraduate Student, ETSU), “The Organs of His Fancy: The Parallels between Paradise Lost and Body Horror Media’s Sadistic and Sexist Destruction of the Female Body and Agency” 
• Savannah Sprinkle (Undergraduate Student, ETSU), “John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Ecofeminism: The Exploitations and Connections of Eden, Earth, and Eve” 
• Samantha Matney (Undergraduate Student, ETSU), “One Just Woman: The Heroine at the Heart of Paradise Lost” 

Panel B:  Voice and Vision in Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Room 304

Chair:  Dr. Jesse Graves, East Tennessee State University

• Erin Darnell (Undergraduate Student, East Tennessee State University), “Caged Fury: Exploring the Power and Complexity of Feminine Rage in American Poetry”
• Camille Hagelberg (Undergraduate Student, East Tennessee State University), “The Poetic Voice: Perspective within the Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg”
• Drew Ripley (Undergraduate Student, East Tennessee State University), “The Colloquial as Art: Exploration into Common Vernacular within the Poetry of e.e. cummings and Allen Ginsberg”

Concurrent Session 2                    10:30 a.m.-11:50 a.m. 

Panel C: Appalachian Rhetoric and Response
Room 303

Chair:  Dr. Emily Dotson, University of Virginia-Wise 

• Trevor Meade (Undergraduate Student, University of Virginia-Wise), “These Mountains Do Not Forget:  A Study of Appalachian Murder Ballads in Modern Music” 
• Sydney Phillips (Undergraduate Student, University of Virginia-Wise), “Eye Opening Appalachia: Discovering False Appalachian Nostalgic Representation Found in J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy” 
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• Isaac Wood (Undergraduate Student, Milligan University), “Hannah and Burley Coulter: Responding to the Requirements of Others at the Expense of Freedom in the Fiction of Wendell Berry”

Panel D:  The Unattainable American Dream
Room 304

Chair:  Dr. Brittany Nantz, University of the Cumberlands 

• Alexis Lamb (Undergraduate Student, East Tennessee State University), “The Cost of Capitalism: A Social Commentary on Melville's ‘Bartleby, The Scrivener’”
• Summer Mills (Undergraduate Student, University of the Cumberlands), “‘Who Wants Flowers When You’re Dead?’: A Psychological- Feminist Critique of The Catcher in the Rye”
• Erica Dick (Undergraduate Student, University of the Cumberlands), “A Critical Focus of The Great Gatsby through an Examination of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan.”  

Panel E:  Literary Nonfiction: Narrating Selves, Understanding Others
Forum Room 311

Chair:  Dr. Kevin O’Donnell, East Tennessee State University

• Raylee McKenzie (Undergraduate Student, ETSU), “Bye-Bye, Thyroid: My Childhood Cancer Story”
• Amber Walls (Undergraduate Student, ETSU), "Down to the Foundations: My Faith Deconstruction"  
• Emily Greene (Undergraduate Student, ETSU), "Finding Andromeda: Growing up with Undiagnosed Autism"  
• Morgan Fellers (Undergraduate Student, ETSU): "How Not to Get Away with Murder: A Review of In Cold Blood (1966)"

Lunch Break                                    11:50 a.m.-12:55 p.m.

We invite our participants to enjoy the many venues in the Culp Center, from the fast food options on the first floor to the conventional dining hall on the third floor.

Concurrent Session 3                    1:00 p.m.-2:20 p.m.

Panel F:  Faulknerian Resonances Among His Contemporaries and Today
Room 303

Chair:  Dr. Erin Presley, Eastern Kentucky University

• Aubrey Keller (Graduate Student, Middle Tennessee State University), “Not-So-Private Parts: Sexual Dismemberments of McCullers’s Alison Langdon and Faulkner’s Quentin Compson”
• Nicholas Krause (Graduate Student, Middle Tennessee State University), “The Faulkner Cinematic Universe: Adapting the Unadaptable”
• Tamara Kelley-Jones (Graduate Student, Middle Tennessee State University), “The Bevel’s in the Details”

Panel G:  Stylistics and Literature
Room 304

Chair:  Dr. Theresa McGarry, East Tennessee State University

• Caroline Froc (Graduate Student, ETSU): “Rhetorical stress, Deictic Gazes, and Panel Transitions: A Semantic Linguistic Analysis of Power Play in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman”
• Juliet Chukwuma (Graduate Student, ETSU): “A Stylistic Analysis of Metaphors in Maya Angelou’s 'Caged Bird'”
• Nathan Geisel (Graduate Student, ETSU), “‘Who Killed Desdemona?’: A Stylistic Comparison of Othello 5.2 and Bob Dylan’s Early Murder Ballads”
• Obinwanne Okeke (Graduate Student, ETSU), “A Stylistic Analysis of Metaphors in ‘Easy in the Islands’”

Panel H: Women in Literature 1: Power
Forum Room 311

Chair:  Dr. Thomas Alan Holmes, East Tennessee State University 

• Anthony Grubb (Undergraduate Student, University of the Cumberlands), “An Examination of Daenerys Targaryen as a Savior in A Song of Ice and Fire”
• J. T. Rucker (Graduate Student, Milligan University), “‘Nor earth nor sea nor cloudless sky’: An Ecofeminist Reading of Emily Brontë’s ‘I’m happiest when most away’”
• Korbin Rhue (Undergraduate Student, East Tennessee State University), “Defiance of the Domestic Space in Jane Eyre and Treasure Island”
• Olivia Brokaw (Undergraduate Student, Milligan University), “Rendered (In)Visible: Women’s Complicity in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries and Restored Dignity in Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These”

Concurrent Session 4                    2:30 p.m.-3:50 p.m. 

Panel I:  Space and Place
Room 303

Chair:  Dr. David Michael Jones, East Tennessee State University

• Jake Lawson (Graduate Student, East Tennessee State University), “The Deep Ecology of Walt Whitman”
• Halley Andrews (Graduate Student, Middle Tennessee State University), “The Liminal as Leitmotif in Yeats’ Poetry”
• Claire Liszka (Graduate Student, East Tennessee State University), “The Search for the Lacanian Real in James Joyce’s Dubliners.”
• Sasha Chunchukov (Graduate Student, Austin Peay State University), “Living Among the Words: Indigenous Literature and Active Engagement”

Panel J:  Shakespeare: Politics, Gender, and Popular Culture
Room 304

Chair:  Dr. Robert Sawyer, East Tennessee State University

• Chloe Foster (Undergraduate Student, East Tennessee State University): “Note by Note: Music and Shakespeare”
• Taylor Harr (Undergraduate Student, East Tennessee State University), “Almost Forgotten: Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet”
• Brett Strother (Undergraduate Student, East Tennessee State University), “Say His Name: Othello, Paul Robeson, and Racism in America”
• Robert Crossley (Undergraduate, East Tennessee State University “The Moral Characters of Aaron and Macbeth”

Panel K:  Women in Literature II: Violence
Forum Room 311

Chair:  Danielle Byington, East Tennessee State University

• Cheston Axton (Graduate Student, East Tennessee State University), “A Long and Monstrous Traine: Duessa and the Collective Unconscious of the Monsterized Female Body”
• Ami` Hanna-Huff (Graduate Student, Belmont University), “Daphne Monet Deserves to be Heard: The Evolution of the Femme Fatale” 
• Makayla Shortt (Undergraduate Student, East Tennessee State University), “The Fetishization of Beautiful Dead Girls in Literature”

Keynote Address        4 p.m., Forum Room 311

Dr. Erin Presley, Eastern Kentucky University: “Horace Kephart's Place in Appalachian Studies”

Keynote Abstract: Horace Kephart's legacy in Appalachian Studies is complicated. His influence on important literary figures such as Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Ron Rash, and Robert Morgan is undeniable as is the pivotal role his writing played in the campaign to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the 1920s. Despite his contributions, few people outside of those familiar with the park’s history are aware of Kephart’s efforts as social scientists minimize him as "eccentric" and a "local-color writer." This address considers the enduring impact of Kephart's writings and argue for his importance in the interdisciplinary field of Appalachian Studies.  

Achievement in Essay Awards Presentation and Prize Drawing, Forum Room 311
Following the Keynote Address 

2023 Essay Judge:  Dr. David Korfhagen

Gift Card and Book Drawing