SponsoredBy:

Comprising28departmentsinthearts,humanities,socialsciences,naturalsciencesandmathematics,aswellas15specialprogramsand23centersandinstitutes,theCollegeofArtsandSciencesisthelargestacademicunitattheUniversityatBuffalo.Ournearly450dedicated

facultymembers,including27SUNYDistinguishedProfessors,prepareover1,600graduatestudentsperyeartobecomethecriticalthinkers

andcompassionateleaderssovitaltoanever-evolvingsociety.

AdministrativeHost:

LocalHost:

1stAnnualUndergraduateResearchForumMarch21,2019

NortheastModernLanguageAssociation

Chairs:JenniferMdurvwa,UniversityatBuffaloClaireSommers,GraduateCenter,CUNY

TableofContents

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

5

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

4 1

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.

2 3