Presentation Schedule

9:30-10:30 a.m. | Mythological and Medieval Times

Moderator: Laura Getty, University of North Georgia
Cassandra Spires, University of North Georgia Similarities Between 1 Samuel and The Odyssey
Haley Shea Barfield, University of North Georgia When Monastic Materialism Meets Criminal
Conviction
Kate Koehler, University of North Georgia Lovers and Gentle-Birds in Chaucers Parliament of
Birds

10:45-11:45 a.m. | Feminism and Gender in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Sigma Tau Delta Moderator: Leigh Dillard, University of North Georgia

Gabrielle Stecher, University of Georgia Sexuality and the Woman-Servant: Pamela,
Refocalization, and Standpoint Epistemology
North Georgia Conference Daniela Scioscia, University of North Georgia Blurred Lines: Complex Gender Roles in
Aphra Behns The Rover
Ashley Brooks, University of North Georgia Nursery Versus Straightjacket: The Feminist
Paradox of Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper
Terra Sullens, University of North Georgia Inexperience, Innocence, and Ignorance: An
9:30 a.m. 3:15 p.m. Examination of Jane Austens Unorthodox Heroine in Northanger Abbey
Nesbitt 3110A 12:00 12:55 p.m. | Lunch

University of North Georgia 1:00 2:00 p.m. | Roundtable: Creative Responses to Literary Studies
Gainesville Campus Moderator: Macklin Cowart
14 October 2016 James Worsham, Unviersity of North Georgia Chaucer and Guilds
Joelma Sambdman, Unviersity of North Georgia Whiteboard Animation of the Life of Writer
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Callie Bryant and Shea Barfield, Unviersity of North Georgia Modern Methods for Medieval
Literature

2:15 3:15 p.m. | Reflections of Modern Life through Literature

Moderator: Cameron Williams, University of North Georgia
Shalonda Cash, Oglethorpe University Self-Identity for the Forgotten Woman
Heaven Leigh Stone, University of North Georgia The Wisdom of Peter Rabbit: Teaching
Victorian Children the Right Way to Behave
Lina Morgan, University of North Georgia The Horror of Everyday Life and Fear of Adolescent
Revolt as Portrayed in Stephen Kings Cain Rose Up
Presentation Abstracts
Haley Shea Barfield these constraints, the narrator obsesses over the wallpaper, claiming lovers whose stories are peynted overal along the walls of Venus
University of North Georgia, Gainesville ownership of it despite her initial repulsion toward it. By the end temple. Examination of each of these stories reveal that the female
When Monastic Materialism Meets Criminal of the story, the narrator has consolidated her own being with that love interest invariably was forced into an adverse situation due
Conviction of the woman she believes is trapped behind the wallpaper. This to the demands of a manipulative male operating according to
This essay analyzes consolidation is representative of her embracing the force of her the precepts of courtly love. Chaucers critical wit slyly points out
the prevailing Medieval Literature nervous illness and rejecting her would-be role as a proper woman flaws in the conventions of aristocratic love with a feminist fervor
Summer 2016
influence of the Robin Faculty Mentor: Macklin Cowart
of society, though in doing so she is still unable to fully escape from uncommon for a poet of the fourteenth century. As the poem
Hood ballads over the feminist paradox she struggles against throughout the story. progresses, Chaucer moves effortlessly into utilizing the differing
time, particularly breeds of birds as a representation of the clashing social classes
commenting on the relationship between Robins spiritual devotion Shalonda Cash within the unstable social hierarchy of his society. Chaucer may
to the Virgin Mary and the exposure of misconduct among members Oglethorpe University have lived and written his classic poetry and novels in fourteenth
of the Church in Robin Hood and the Monk, as is also represented Self Idenity for the Forgotten Woman century England, but students all over the world continue to study
in The Gest of Robyn Hode. Within the framework of Robins Women as a whole his works today. His poetry and prose remains startlingly socially
travel prayer along the route to Nottingham, the success of Little have for a long Lady Rebel: relevant, and their intricacies have created a place for Chaucer
John in rescuing Robin Hood implies that the outlaws are in Gods time struggled to Womens Literature on the bookshelves of generations of students of literature.
Spring 2016
favor, a contribution of the underlying authorial intent. Through discover ways of
Faculty Mentors: Reshmi Hebbar,
examining the mode in which the Monk is killed in Robin Hood finding themselves. Sarah Terry Lina Morgan
and the Monk, one can observe a clear message beneath the surface The majority of the University of North Georgia, Gainesville
of the violent actions often taken by characters of the outlaw ballads, time, we are only The Horror of Everyday: Life and Fear of
a message which speaks out against greed and abuse of authority in able to get the search for self-discovery through the typical same Adolescent Revolt as Portrayed in Stephen
both church and government. As a result, the Robin Hood ballads woman. It is those forgotten women and their narratives that are Kings Cain
have persevered in their popularity over time due to the ever-present left unsaid and untold. The African American woman and the Rose Up Independent Research
corruption among humanity and the desire of the voiceless common Arabic woman in particular are groups of women whose narratives The work discusses Project
people for a hero figure who would address the causes of their distress of self-identity discovery are either limited or non-existent. Due to Stephen Kings Faculty Mentor: Steve Pearson
and suffering. Thus, despite the availability of plots that current these groups of women being unable to tell their story, they must portrayal of Curt
generations are more easily able to relate to, the Robin Hood ballads convey their story in alternative ways. The best way they are able Garrish, a college student winding down to the end of a semester,
carry on, frequently referenced and restated by fans and scholars alike. to tell these stories would be to do so with a sense of agency while who, by the end of the short story, has begun to open fire out of his
simultaneously rejecting the social mores of their society. Their dorm room onto passersby. Further exploring how King achieves
Ashley Brooks Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston, a classic a complex and in-depth psychological profile of Garrish in such a
University of North Georgia, Gainesville novel, and the contemporary novel Women of Sand and Myrrh brief story, the piece considers the protagonist as a representation
Nursery Versus Straightjacket: The Feminist (1988) by Hanan al-Shaykh are able to give these women and not only of anxiety toward the mundane and monotonous nature
Paradox of Charlotte Perkins Gilmans The their forgotten identities a chance to tell their stories. From Janie, of everyday expectations, but also a more societal fear of youthful
Yellow Wallpaper Hurstons heroine in Their Eyes Were Watching God, we are able to rebellion and violence against the status quo. The conceptualization
In this literary analysis, get an opportunity to see her self-identity through Hurstons use of of these broad and contrary fears are examined with an analytical
American Realism and
I examine Charlotte the indirect discourse, while al-Shaykh manages to use first person focus on American pop culture and current events. The paper is
Naturalism
Perkins Gilmans Spring 2016
narrative from four different Arabic women, who are both native also concerned with the use of religious language and references
short story The Faculty Mentor: Chris Bell and foreign to the unnamed country, to tell their story. The goal is in Kings Cain Rose Up and how this speaks to our cultural
Yellow Wallpaper. to pursue how the women, whose search for self-identity is most relationship with Christianity and, more broadly, with religion as a
My argument focuses times obscured from a readers view, manage to do tell their story. whole. Tying the primary work to its historical influence Charles
on how the literary devices used by Gilman within the story reflect Whitmans 1966 attack while attending the University of Texas as
the narrators perpetual entrapment in a feminist paradox: to either Kate Koehler well as its continued relevance in todays controversial and violent
remain destabilized by mental disturbance or be besieged by the Univeristy of North Georgia, Dahlonega era, the paper presents this short story as a poignant expression of the
inescapable doldrums of domestic life. Gilman wrote the story after Lovers and Gentle-Birds in Chaucers continuous and contradictory nature of anxiety in the Western world.
being forced to endure a doctor-prescribed rest cure, a common Parliament of Birds
treatment for supposedly hysterical women in the nineteenth century. As a court poet, Daniela Scioscia
Gilmans perturbation toward her rest cure treatment is evident Chaucer was unable Chaucer University of North Georgia, Gainesville
to openly criticize Spring 2016 Blurred Lines: Complex Gender Roles in Aphra
through the voice and actions of the similarly afflicted narrator, but
Faculty Mentor: Laura Getty
the storys message goes beyond that of a simple medical protest. the society and Behns The Rover
Gilman uses the yellow wallpaper as a representation of the narrators practices of the Aphra Behns comedy Eighteenth-Century
lack of control over her own life at the hands of both her fragile nobility from which he earned his pay. However, he managed to The Rover marks an British Women Writers
mental state, and the patriarchal society that will not allow her to creatively weave his disapproval into the subtle fabrics of his poetry. important work for summer 2016
fill any role that is not that of an anxious housewife. As a result of In Parliament of the Birds, Chaucer lists the names of classical both eighteenth- Faculty Mentor: Leigh Dillard
Presentation Abstracts
century writing and female authorship. Behn is often lauded for her the virtue of its young, female readership can disguise the novels vs. bad. Potter shows what good comes to those children who listen
groundbreaking works of literature that cross the barriers of gender, underlying musings on female sexuality in relation to socioeconomic and what tragedy can befall those children who do not listen. Potter
and The Rover is no exception. The comic play contains women class. This essay will consider the novels subversive presentation draws inspiration from her own sheltered Victorian upbringing, but
of high status as well as prostitutesthe patriarchal dichotomy of of sexuality of the women of the servant class with the aid of a instead of understanding the struggle of the children she was writing
women often portrayed in; however, Behn switches their roles and combined theoretical lens of refocalization and feminist standpoint for, she continued to push those stifling messages of good vs. bad.
mixes the characteristics of high-and low-status women to create epistemology. Although the novels epistolary format at first seems
complex characters and blur these over-used and well-defined to complicate reading the novel through such a lens, the ability Terra Sullens
stereotypes. Florinda destabilizes the typical character of young to shift the focus away from the virtuous Pamela and towards the University of North Georgia, Dahlonega
women by fighting against a planned marriage, as opposed to antithetical, combative Mrs. Jewkes allows for womens sexual desire Inexperience, Innocence, and Ignorance: An
eagerly seeking a husband. Courtesans are portrayed as devious to be understood as a fluid entity that can be fulfilled in non- Examination of Jane Austens Unorthodox
and self-serving; however, in The Rover the courtesan, Angelica, traditional ways. While women of the servant class were heavily Heroine in Northanger Abbey
falls in love with Willmore, leading to her humiliation. Both of influenced by the patriarchal teachings of what was considered During the 1 century,
these women have agency over their bodies and sexuality. Florinda appropriate sexual behavior, they were also privy to a secret, female- women and men alike Eighteenth-Century
fights against a traditional marriage to pursue her own desires, and only body of knowledge arising out of their position among other were producing works British Women Writers
Angelica proudly uses her sexuality to make money, which in doing women in the hidden domestic sphere. The privilege of standpoint of authorial finesse. summer 2016
Faculty Mentor: Leigh Dillard
so gives her power over her male clients. In most novels, women for women in this scenario is one that privileges non-conventional However, due to the
characters fall into these two character archetypes and feel one- sexual fulfillment, a topic that Pamela, through this focalization of strict social conventions
dimensional, their creation merely working to further the mens Mrs. Jewkes perspective, is forced to address, despite the novels of the time, women were subjected to harsher censorship and
ambitions. Behn blurs these lines by reversing the archetypes. otherwise heavy-handed attempt at feminine moral instructional. criticism than their male counterparts. To keep their reputations in
tact, women began writing within a feminine novel form created by
Cassandra Spires Heaven Leigh Stone author Samuel Richardson. There was a heavy emphasis placed upon
University of North Georgia, Gainesville University of North Georgia, Gainesville creating a prudent heroine who was well-versed in the proper conduct
Similarities Between 1 Samuel and The The Wisdom of Peter Rabbit: Teaching Victorian of both the private and public sector. In her novel, Northanger
Odyssey Children the Right Way to Behave Abbey, Jane Austen creates a heroine who breaks these stereotypes
Despite the scholarship Through The Tale of through her innocence and ignorance regarding Bath society and
Literature of the Bible English Literature of the
on The Odyssey Peter Rabbit, published social conventions of the eighteenth century. In addition to creating
and 1 Samuel, few
Summer 2015
in 1902, Beatrix Potter Victorian Era an unorthodox heroine, Austen continues to break stereotypes
Faculty Mentor: Steve Pearson fall 2016
have considered the perfectly illustrates Faculty Mentor: Shannon Gilstrap throughout her novel by using Catherines innocence to propel the
connections between the various mental plot. While many female authors were adhering to the feminine
the two works. The boxes that Victorian novel form, Austen pioneered a way of writing that not only offered
arc of the stories are very similar. The minor characters appear children were put into by the adults and the writers of the time a fresh perspective of the eighteenth century heroine but also a way
first in the story, with the main characters, David and Odysseus period. Children were supposed to strive for Godly innocence, to propel a novels plot without invoking stereotypical melodrama.
introduced much later in the story. They start off with different yet they were believed to have
characters first. Not only are God and Zeus very similar too each been born inherently sinful and ROUNDTABLE:
other, but Poseidon and Saul are also. David and Odysseus share rebellious. It was thought that Creative Responses to Literary Studies
their battle sense and a relationship to a god of some kind. In those rebellious children would This roundtable will highlight the work of students at UNG, responding in creative, perhaps unexpected
addition to Odysseus and Davids battle sense, they also have other bring about the downfall of the ways to the challenge of reading literature. Participants will discuss the process of creating these projects as
personality traits that can sometimes help, and sometimes it does cultured society and that they compared to their experiences with more commonly assigned research essays.
not help them in the story. Not only do readers see Odysseus and must seek the redemption of God
Davids overall character, but readers can also see how temptations, to atone for their sins. However,
such as the women they desire, can affect their character. the Victorians discounted the fact James Worsham: Chaucer
that children need time to grow Chaucer and Guilds spring 2016
Faculty Mentor: Macklin Cowart
Gabrielle Stecher and develop before they can truly
University of Georgia obey orders and understand the Joelma Sambdman: Eighteenth-Century
Sexuality and the Woman-Servant: Pamela, consequences of their actions. Whiteboard Animation of the Life of British Women Writers
Refocalization, and Standpoint Epistemology Victorian children were looked Writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu summer 2016
The publicly lauded at as mini-adults instead of being Faculty Mentor: Leigh Dillard
function of Samuel Eighteenth-Century Novel in their own developmental
Callie Bryant and Haley Shea
Richardsons Pamela fall 2016 stage in life. Peter Rabbit and
Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Kraft his siblings show the spectrum
Barfield: Medieval Literature
as a conduct manual
between innocence and rebellion Modern Methods for Medieval summer 2016
for the instruction
and protection of and the difference between good Literature Faculty Mentor: Macklin Cowart