EAPSU Schedule

Registration: Opens 8 a.m.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
9 – 10 a.m.

Group A: Nonfiction Genres

Tina Myers (Cal U) “Contemporary Complements”
Kirsten DeMonstoy (Mansfield) “An Erudite Excursion”
Jessica Hathaway (Cal U) “Discovering the Secret in the Picture”
Matthew Stumpf (Cal U) “The Show They Never Saw Coming”
Erin Galligher (West Chester) “Becoming”

Group B: Nonfiction Genres

Tasha Oskey (Cal U) “Non-traditional Students”
Natalee Moody (IUP) “Bingers, Purgers and Pealing Past the Pain”
Eric K. Rippel (Cal U) “B.A. in Beer Pong”
Elizabeth Blumer (IUP) “This Trip Has no Title”
Jessica Sabol (IUP) “Moments, Exposed”

Group C: Criticism

Krista Clark (Cal U) “Feminist Criticism: The Scarlet Letter”
Sarah Rodi (Cal U) “Resolution and Reconciliation in The Scarlet Letter”
Kelly Boland (St. Vincent College) “You Oughta Know About Feminism”
Jennifer Sine (Lock Haven) “The Impact of Minny Temple”
Lorraine LaPrade (Coppin State University) “Bound but not Silenced:
Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz and Mary Prince”


10 – 11 a.m.

Group D : Poetry

Regina Butler (Cal U) “The Place She’s Never Been”
“Campus Soldier”
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pair of Pantyhose”
Rebecca L. Miller (Slippery Rock) “God is not a Communist”
“Madalynn”
“Voltaire Would Vomit”
“There is a Fine Line”
Allison Harris (Shippensburg) “Shippensburg” August (I-VI)
Edie Hitchcock (Chatham) “Fireworks,” “Rock Collection”
Samuel Friedman (West Chester) “Reflections on Life”
Jerry Lincoln (Cal U) “Hunting for Angels in November”
“The Road”
“The Wind”


(10 – 11a.m. continued)

Group E: Fiction, Nonfiction & Drama

Subena Perry (Cheyney) “A Pinch of Salt to the Open Wound”
Sam Massarella (West Chester) “Beyond Tonto Rim”
Sarah Grim (IUP) “The Defining Moments”
Christina Chiarelli (Millersville) “Living in Doubt: The Story of Jeffrey Bridges”
Anthony Carpinelli (Cal U) “Banana Republic”

Group F: British Literary Criticism

Matthew Weber: (University of Cincinnati) “Free Will in a Precarious Paradise”
Nicole Cheikh (West Chester) “Eighteenth-Century Women’s Education in
Pamela and Moll Flanders”
Megan Brundage (Slippery Rock) “Dance with the Devil” (Dr. Faustus)
Robert Eby III (Bloomsburg) “A Metatextual Look at Shakespeare’s Sonnet 131”
Amanda Arnold (Slippery Rock) “Mary Wroth: How She Uses the Labyrinth”


11a.m. – Noon

Group G: Poetry & Fiction

Melissa Rogers (IUP) “The Life We Dreamt”
Glen Plumley (IUP) “Myepic”
Patty Bell (Cal U) “Fish Can Fly”
“The Wall Inside Our Minds”
Nicole Capozzi (Cal U) “They Stand”
Jill Telford (Cheyney) “The Public Enemy”
“Written by an Artist’s Pen”
Michael Stadnycki III (West Chester) “Connections”
Ines Ghalleb (Clarion) “Be the Artist of Your Own Life”

Group H: Literary Criticism

Will Melvin (West Chester) “Exploring Haunting Possibilities: Psychoanalytic in
Harris’s The Red Dragon”
Sara Steinfeld (Cal U) “Number the Stars: Lois Lowry”
Edie Hitchcock (Chatham) “Genetic Modification and the Changing Relationship
Between Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”
Christy Trotnick (Slippery Rock) “The Body as a Dangerous Entity in Margaret
Atwood’s Alias Grace”
Rebecca Richman (West Chester) “The Maimie Papers: an Unlikely Friendship”

Group I: Nonfiction & Criticism

Carlyle Slaughter and Chelsea Taylor (Slippery Rock) “Remembering Po Chu i”
William Johnston (IUP) “An Exploration of Titles)
Sarah Hamilton (Cal U) “You’re a Good Man (Teacher) Charlie Brown (Sarah
Hamilton)”


Group J: PANEL: What To Do With a Degree in English?

California University English Department Alumni tell how they’ve put their
degree to work.


LUNCH Noon to 1 p.m.


1 – 2 p.m.

EAPSU BOARD MEETING (Board meets 1 – 2 p.m.)


Group K: Literary & Film Criticism

Allison Hurwitz (West Chester) “We’re the Monster Squad: Friendship, Familial
Structure, and Acceptance through Otherness in The Monster Squad”
Erin C. Farley (East Stroudsburg) “A Time and Place: Two Men Leave their mark in
their World”
Kellee Gomola (Slippery Rock) “What’s So Funny about Indians?: the kairos of a
Humorous Writer” (Sherman Alexie)
D.C. Fisher (IUP) “Self Reflexive Absurdism in ‘Cotton Comes to Harlem’”
Courtney Brandt (Bloomsburg) “Jungian Archetypes of Anima in Caddy Compson”

Group L: Literary Criticism

Elise Auvil (IUP) “A Beacon of Hope: Juno in Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock”
Danielle Speed (Cheyney) “Analysis of Matthew Arnold’s ‘The Buried Life’”
Mollie Crisp (Villa Julie College) “Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre’ the
Effects of Deviations and Verb Forms on Readers in Yeats’s ‘The
Second Coming’”
Michael Stadnycki III (West Chester) “Who is Primitive?: Joseph Conrad’s Sense of
Africa”
Nicole Cheikh (West Chester) “Social Dissent in D.G. Rossetti’s ‘Jenny’ and
A. Webster’s ‘A Castaway’”

Group M: Poetry & Fiction

Megan Oberle (Clarion) “Walls”
“Mud-Rain”
“The Sun Rising Once Upon a Time”
“Clutter”
Paige Bonitz (Shippensburg) “Starstyle Hustle”
Anthony Vaccaro (Cal U) “A Pale Blue Dot”
Dominic Uliana (Slippery Rock) “Jazz Man on a Chicago Street Corner”
“Philadelphia Nightclub”
Jonathan Muggleston (Kutztown) “A Year in a Minute”



2 – 2:45 p.m.

Group N: Linguistics Research PANEL: “Bad Boy”

(IUP) Mary Barron, chair
Jason Kish, Mike Simon, Justin Silvis


Group O: World Literature PANEL: “Restaging the Battle of the Books: Visualizing the
Ancients in Modern Spaces”

(Lock Haven) Professor Richard van Dyke (chair)
Courtney Fuller “New York City Gangs and Lysistrata”
Ciara Connally “Dubai and the Ultimate Odyssean Utopia”

Group P: Essay, Film Criticism & Fiction

Yoona Cho (Slippery Rock) “Emerson’s Lesson to College Students”
Nicholas Katsiadas (Slippery Rock) “Panoptocism and the Stasi: The Lives of Others”
Nicole Bartley (Slippery Rock) Panopticism in The Village”
Vito Gulla (West Chester) “Half a Person”

PERFORMANCE: BELLE OF AMHERST Natali Performance Center 3 p.m.

NOTE: Students with two presentations:

Edie Hitchcock
Michael Stadnycki
Nicole Cheikh