Winners of the ULM Research Symposium Essays

Every spring, ULM sponsors a Research Symposium in which students showcase their work for the year. Papers read from a variety of disciplines compete for recognition and the best are chosen from among them by a team of faculty judges.

 

 L-R: Cameron Irby, Rebekah Barnes, Anson Andrews, David Brasher, Rachael Maddox

Spring 2016

Undergraduate:

1st:    David Brasher, “‘A Theatre of Manliness’: How Ronny Heaslop’s Masculinity in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India Serves British Colonialism.” Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jana Giles (English; Undergraduate)
2nd: Cameron Irby, “Teaching Electronic Literature: An Argument for a New Literary Medium.” Faculty Mentor: Dr. Julia Guernsey-Pitchford (English; Undergraduate)
3rd:  Rachael Maddox, “Netflix Narrative: The Development of Serial Storytelling.” Faculty Mentor: Dr. Janet Haedicke (English; Undergraduate)
 
Graduate:
 
1st: Rebekah Barnes, “Stephen’s Artistic Identity: Paternity in Joyce’s Portrait and Ulysses.” Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jana Giles (English; Graduate)
2nd:   Anson Andrews, “Eagles and Authority: Chaucer’s Subversion of Classical Authority and Creation of English Authority.” Faculty Mentor:  Dr. Will Rogers (English; Graduate)

Spring 2015

Undergraduate: Oral Presentation

First place: Rachael Maddox of Start presented “Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Unraveling the Roles of Shakespeare’s Forests.” Maddox’s mentor is Dr. Julia Guernsey-Pitchford.

Graduate: Oral Presentation

First place: Catherine Olson of Oil City presented “Roman de la Rose: A ‘False Seeming’ Multiplicity.” Olson’s faculty mentors are Dr. Jana Giles and Dr. Rebecca Stephenson.

 

 

Spring 2014
Graduate winners  First place: Adam Breitenbach  “E.M. Forster’s Strategic          Indeterminacy in A Passage to India”  Faculty mentor:  Dr. Jana Giles	Undergraduate First place: Jillian Allbritton  “Stinking Lizaveta: the Humble Saint of The Brothers Karamazov” Faculty mentor:  Dr. Jana Giles

Spring 2013
Graduate winners First place: Adam Breitenbach Department of English "The Monkey Wrench Gang and Environmental Radicalism" Faculty Mentor: Dr. Jana Giles Second place: Justina Salassi Department of English "Hipster Kitsch: Toward and Appreciation of the Other" Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mary Adams Third place: Katherine Roy Department of English "The High Price of Dreaming: The Performance of Masculinity in August Wilson's Fences and Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog" Faculty Mentor, Dr. Janet Haedicke	Undergraduate First place: Melinda Johnson Department of Foreign Languages "English in Korean Popular Culture" Faculty Mentor: Dr. Rebecca Stephenson Second place: Danielle Jones Pharmacy "The Influence of Catalunya on the Life and Works of Antoni Gaudi" Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ruth Smith
	Adam Breitenbach                            Justina Salassi

Spring 2012
Graduate winners First place: Andrew Price Department of English “Literary Hoaxes” Faculty mentor Dr. Mary Adams. Second place: Hannah Clifton Department of English “King Arthur in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” Faculty mentor Dr. Rebecca Stephenson.	Undergraduate First place: Shanae Thomas Department of English “Amy as a Decider in the novel Roxana” Faculty mentor Dr. David Nunnery.

Spring 2010

First place: Stephanie Pierce, “Mad and Melodious: An Analysis of Ophelia’s Songs in Hamlet.” Faculty mentor Dr. LaRue Sloan. Second place: Maure Kyser, “The Construct of the Ideal Woman in The Rape of Lucrece.” Faculty mentor Dr. LaRue Sloan. Third place. Kristi Thomson, “Turning Tragedy into Triumph in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Faculty mentor Dr. Julie Guernsey-Pitchford.

 

Spring 2009
First place Winners
Brittany Layne Stringer Department of Communications “Communicating Health: Childhood Obesity and Elementary Health Education” Mentor, Dr. Mara Loeb	Vanelis Rivera Department of English "Lacing Up Sexuality and Unlacing Independence: Moll’s Wearing of a Codpiece and Breeches in The Roaring Girl” Mentor, Dr. LaRue Sloan.
President Cofer awards Vanelis Rivera 1st place for her research paper on Moll Frith.	Second place: Lauren Fix Department of English.  “Until Death Do Us Part: A Study of Marriage in The Tragedy of Othello.”  Mentor, Dr. LaRue Sloan. Third place: Tara Kester Department of History.  “The Aftermath of the 1967 Newark Riots: Not a Legacy, Just a Continuation.”  Mentors, Dr. Monica Bontty and Dr. Jeffrey Anderson.