Conference Program 2024

Conference Schedule & Rooms At-A-Glance

      • 3:30 – 4 PM Poster Presentations, LArts North Atrium 
      •  4 – 4:30 PM Panel 1, LArts 206
      •  4 – 4:30 PM Panel 2, LArts 214 
      •  4:30 – 5 PM Panel 3, LArts 206 
      • 4:30 – 5 PM Panel 4, LArts 214
      •  5 – 5:30 PM Poster Presentations, LArts North Atrium 

Poster Presentations

LArts North Atrium (3:30 & 5 pm) 

  • Jocelyn Bulcao, Women and Gender roles in “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”
  • Sydney Cayer, The effects of technology on internal corporate communication
  • Noah Lamperti, Social Media Multimodality and Outdoor Conservation Advocacy
  • Alex Correia, Deconstructing the South: Adapting Lydia Maria Child’s “The Quadroons” in William Wells Brown’s Clotel
  • Jocelyn Kingman, Ripping the Wallpaper: A Feminist Critique on Charlotte Gillman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
  • Emma Konn, The role of Social Media in advocacy and activism movements: Is performative activism hindering activism movements?
  • Bridget O’Meara, Communication Strategies in Early Childhood Education
  • Amelia Potvin, Cross-Cultural Document Design & Translation
  • Katherine Santin, “Good humans” and “digitally inhospitable” spaces: A queer usability approach to stasis theory
  • J. Engels, “Volume and vastness: an exploration of the transcendency of arts communication”
  • Brandon Souza, The Self-Enforced Commodification of Asian-Americans

Panel 1: Communicating, Producing, and Consuming Knowledge

4 pm, LArts 206, Moderated by Dr. Katie DeLuca

  • Alex Correia, Representations of Illness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
  • Leah P. Freeman, Work Ethics and Advocacy in Communications
  • Stephanie LeBlanc, Harnessing Social Media for Student-Centered Communication: An Autoethnography of the Implementation of the UMass Dartmouth Student Service Center Instagram
  • James D. Mellen, From Attention to Action: Motivating An Audience To Read Motivating Text
  • Arthur Schlerman, Technology Abuse in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

Panel 2: Authority and Agency in Crisis

4 pm, LArts 214, Moderated by Dr. Anupama Arora

  • Jocelyn Bulcao, Performance in The Marrow of Tradition 
  • Ellie Cook, Analyzing Tolerance in Hope Leslie and The Scarlet Letter
  • Kailee Ferreira, The Tension of Differences in Howards End and To the Lighthouse
  • Isabella Gerardi, Northern Abolitionism, Racism, and Hypocrisy
  • Carlos Rosado-Lorenzo, Earthseed: Agency in Times of No Control 

Panel 3: Reimagined Communities and Contested Legacies

4:30 pm, LArts 206, Moderated by Dr. Caroline Gelmi

  • Stan-ley Costa, Domesticity as White Supremacy in the 19th Century
  • Jocelyn Kingman, “New Chinese Blood”:  A Feminist Critique on Chang- Rae Lee’s novel On Such a Full Sea
  • Jordan Parry, Inconsistencies in Earthseed from Octavia Butler’s Parable series
  • Kennedy Callahan, Unpacking Utopia: Interpreting Dystopia in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
  • Cynthia Suthar, Manipulation of Information in Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition 
  • Jason Rodriguez, “We Must Seed Ourselves far from This Place”: Representation and Deconstruction in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower

Panel 4: Movements across Colony, Capital, and Climate

4:30 pm, LArts 214, Moderated by Dr. Laurel Hankins

  • Tam Carter, De-Anthropomorphizing Narration in Modernist Fiction: Understanding How Traditional English Reading Practices Limit Interpretive Ability
  • Amanda MacDonald, “Pushing Against the Emptiness”: Individualism, Collectivism, and the Economics of Imagination in Chang Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea
  • Victoria Raposo, Exploring the Wilderness in The Scarlet Letter
  • Ryan Taffe, Memory: Home for Those Without One in Modernist Fiction
  • IsaBella Winter, Home Economics: A Study of Edwardian England in Howards End
  • Paul Casey, Consequences of Utility in Place of Intimacy in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake