Conference Program 2022

Gallery Walk  |  3:30–4:00 pm


LARTS North Atrium

  • Amanda Beres, “Non-Profits, The Digital Humanities, and Genre: How Genre Can Be Used as Rhetorical Tool to Reach a Target Audience”
  • Ghenwa Elkhoury, “Vulnerable Designers”
  • Malik Gibson, “Dracula for Women’s Rights”
  • Barbara Gurgel, “From Theory to Praxis: Conducting Social Justice with TPC”
  • Christina Le, “Online Communities vs. Real Life Socializing”
  • Gary Petersen, “What’s So Funny about Peace, Love and Technical Communication”
  • *Amanda Rioux, “The Hypermediated Teaching Philosophy”
  • Barbara Shaddix, “A Feminist Critique of the Disconnect of Internal Communication from Lived Realities: Narratives from the Workplace”
  • *Sarah Weisberg, “Dissonance of the Scapegoat: Reframing Holocaust Education with Technical Communication”

 

*Master of Arts in Professional Writing & Communication Thesis Portfolio Presentation

Panel One  |  4:00–4:30 pm  


LARTS 214, “Reconstructions: Canon, Consumerism and Nostalgia,” moderated by Professor Zysk

  • Samantha Travis, “Womanhood & Race in Lanier’s ‘To Our Hills’ and Morrison’s Beloved” 
  • Reilly Brenner, “Nostalgia in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake” 
  • Busola Awobode, “Social Media and New Age Journalism” 
  • Kamryn Kobel, “Queerness, Femininity, and Colonization: Native American Identity Within Native American Literature” 

Panel Two  |  4:30–5:00 pm


LARTS 214, “Mediating Feelings,” moderated by Professor Howe

  • Aurora Barrett, “Visual Rhetoric and Analysis of ‘Teen Media’” 
  • Gerry Santos “The Passing Interpretation”
  • *Sharon Gannon, “A Study in How Emotions and Attitudes Can Influence Comprehension” 
  • James Mellen, “Constituting Q Anon” 

*Master of Arts in Professional Writing & Communication Thesis Portfolio Presentation

Gallery Walk  |  5:00–5:30 pm


LARTS North Atrium. PIZZA!! COOKIES!!

  • Amanda Beres, “Non-Profits, The Digital Humanities, and Genre: How Genre Can Be Used as Rhetorical Tool to Reach a Target Audience”
  • Ghenwa Elkhoury, “Vulnerable Designers”
  • Malik Gibson, “Dracula for Women’s Rights”
  • Barbara Gurgel, “From Theory to Praxis: Conducting Social Justice with TPC”
  • Christina Le, “Online Communities vs. Real Life Socializing”
  • Gary Petersen, “What’s So Funny about Peace, Love and Technical Communication”
  • *Amanda Rioux, “The Hypermediated Teaching Philosophy”
  • Barbara Shaddix, “A Feminist Critique of the Disconnect of Internal Communication from Lived Realities: Narratives from the Workplace”
  • *Sarah Weisberg, “Dissonance of the Scapegoat: Reframing Holocaust Education with Technical Communication”

*Master of Arts in Professional Writing & Communication Thesis Portfolio Presentation