NULC 2026 Student Presentation Schedule

Friday, March 27, 2026

Session 1 Breakouts: 8-9 am

(1A) British Literature
Room EH 215
Moderator: Michael Wutz

Miriam Ikner, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Unreliability and Self-Forgiveness: The Ineffectiveness of Briony’s Atonement"
Ainsley Marshall, Southern Utah University, "And Thus the Antihero was Born: The Connection Between Obsession and Religion in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Emily Brontё’s Wuthering Heights"
Autumn Simundson, Texas A&M University, " The Dark Lord and Her Ladyship: Gendered Evil in Middle-Earth"

(1B) Poetry
Room EH 218
Moderator: Alexa Stultz

Ivana Cuculiza, Weber State University, "It’s Not a Style—It’s a State "
Nat Mayers, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Migration the Collection
Miho Sato, National Taiwan Normal University, "Butterfly Knot"

(1C) American Literature
Room 219
Moderator: Bracken Gossett

Grace Brophy, Colorado Mesa University, "Blurring boundaries Between the Human and Non-human in Wicked (1995)"
Victoria Morriss, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Tokens, Necklaces, and Trinkets: Jewelry’s influence in Sunrise on the Reaping"
Rylee Sturgis, Southern Utah University, "How Systems of Segregation Shape Literature and Society"

(1D) Fiction
Room EH 206
Moderator: Sam Rasley

Emma Kirby, Weber State University, "The Labyrinth
Cooper Loftus, Southern Utah University, "Foreshadowing AI and social media in Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"
Janae Merrill, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Bar Between Life and Death"

(1E) Creative Nonfiction
Room EH 220
Moderator: Shauna Gunnell

Ghaya Merghani, Regis University, " Doubt Truth to be a Liar"
Jackson Reed, Weber State University, "Running Out of Blood"
Jessie White, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Non-Special Snowflake"

Session 2 Breakouts: 9:15-10:15 pm

(2A) Fiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Ryan Ridge

Joshua Colenda, Weber State University, "The King"
Jordynn Hunt-Davidson, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Contemplations of Azrael"
Braden Price, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Stories that inspire the modern Prometheus "
Calvin Stevens, College of Southern Idaho, "False Scenes"

(2B) British Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Ryan Evans

Meera Balan, Reed College, "Who Holds the Voice? Race and Narrative Authority in Othello"
Sandra Keehn, Boise State University, " The Influence of Areopagitica: Milton’s Life Retold in 1984 and Fahrenheit 451"
Jess Lee, University of British Columbia, "What Poetry Knew Before Medicine: Early Modern Sexual Health"

(2C) World Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: Bracken Gossett

Ashley Bollinger, Colorado Mesa University, "Atwood Talks Back"
Ilse Eskelsen, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "To Become Adults as No One Ever Had Before: Place and the Bildungsroman in E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View and Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults"

(2D) American Literature
Room EH 206
Moderator: Sam Rasley

Aidan Leschen, Colorado Mesa University, "What’s the Big Deal About Being Human?: All Systems Red and Human/Nonhuman Boundaries "
Brynn Ure, Southern Utah University, "The Round House: Joe's Coming-of-age Story, Questionable Morals, and a Character's Impact"
Alexander Jackson, Weber State University, "Who Has No Mouth, and Who Must Scream?"

(2E) Poetry
Room EH 220
Moderator: TBD

Session 3 Breakouts: 1-2 pm

(3A) Panel: History and Literature
Room EH 215
Moderator: Mali Subbiah and Greg Lewis

Kelsie Klein, Weber State University, "Not a Man in The Flesh: The Revolutionary Poetry and Politics of Qiu Jin"
Hayden Northrup, Weber State University, "Autumnn Wind, Autumn Rain: Remembering Qiu Jin"
Asilynn Smith, Weber State University, "The Evolution of Din Ling in the Chinese Revolution: From Revolution to Persecution and Rehabilitation"
Blaine Wagner, Weber State University, "The Chinese Literary Enlightenment: An Examination of the Literary and Historical Influences of the Chinese New Cultural Movement"

(3B) American Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Kyra Hudson

Kate Barton, Reed College, " Gidibaajimowinminwag: Shapes of Ojibwe Literature"
Nhi Bui, San José University, "in the sense that / who cares?: Unsettling Coloniality in Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem"
Isaac Wood, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Divine Reflections: Decoding and Demystifying Religion in Indigenous Literature"

(3C) Digital Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: Liz Ozmun

Madelyn McCracken, Idaho State University, "Star Wars as an Almost Feminist Series of Films"
Janae Merrill, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Does Remose Warrant Forgiveness? An Analysis of My Hero Academia"

(3D) Poetry
Room EH 206
Moderator: Sunni Wilkinson

Lindsey Booth, Weber State University, "Tethered and Untwined"
McKinley Gerber, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Last Will, The Refuge, The Temptation, and Behind the Eye"
E.A. Morrigan, Weber State University, "Emerald Formaldehyde Envy"

(3E) Fiction
Room EH 220
Moderator: Tim Costello

Syrena Finnell, Weber State University, " Lost and Found: three short stories"
Hannah Olaveson, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Shadows in the Wheat"

Session 4 Breakouts: 2:15-3:15 pm

(4A) Creative Nonfiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Ryan Evans

Alejandra Espinoza, Weber State University, "Meet Me Halfway"
Aja Gubler, Weber State University, "Poetry Through My Years"
Angelina Ross, Kent State University, "Little Pink Worm"

(4B) American Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Chelsea Adams

Grace Anderson, University of Missouri-Columbia, "Magical Realism and Resistance in The Water Dancer"
Taylor Hope, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Eternal Archetypes and the Apostolic Curse in Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away"
Spencer Huff, Colorado Mesa University, "In-Between Violence: Hybridity and Identity in Blood Meridian"
Anna Mueller, Black Hills State University, "I’m Low Down: Human Nature in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"

(4C) British Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: Karen Moloney

Stuart Campbell, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Lying Heaped on the Altar of Rebellion"
Lindsey Hoover, University of Arizona, "Cavalier Poetics and the Politics of Elegance"

(4D) Fiction
Room EH 206
Moderator: Erin Cebreros Medina

Claire Bennion, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Eighteen"
Shayla Maloney, San José University, "Tales of the Kan"
Jana Moon, Weber State University, "A Curio of Curious Stories "

(4E) Poetry
Room EH 220
Moderator: TBD

Phoenix Li, College if Southern Idaho, "Mary Alice Park"
Reilly Prescott, Colorado Mesa University, "Between The Brambles And The Blackberries"
Angelina Stone, Regis University, " Between Then and Now"

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Session 5 Breakouts: 8-9 am

(5A) Fiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Clint Johnson

Evalynn Berg, Concordia University, "The Wallflower"
Joshua Colenda, Weber State University, "Gedem Frankenstein M.D."
Jessie White, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Jeroughty Woods"

(5B) World Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Ethan Harris

Bee Bielak, Central Michigan University, "Rilke’s Poetry of Phenomenology: Letters to a Young Poet as Philosophical Framework"
Anna Seipert, Southern Utah University, "I Am Cringe But I Am Free: Queer Monsters and Gothic Taboos"

(5C) American Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: Michael Handy

Stuart Campbell, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Hard Times: Losing Humanity for the Sake of the Few"
Anna Mueller, Black Hills State University, "I Think, Therefore: Battle of the Epistemologies in Oryx and Crake"
Sophie West, Brigham Young University, " A book about making: The Creative Power of Agency in John Steinbeck's East of Eden"

(5D) Poetry
Room EH 206
Moderator: Aurora Wall

Marissa Archibald, Weber State University, "Poetry Sampling"
Claire Bennion, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "Tiny Paragons"
Shaneice Collins, Brigham Young University-Idaho, "The Metamorphosis of Young Adulthood"
Phoenix Li, College of Southern Idaho, "Where Has the Spirit Gone?"

Session 6 Breakouts: 9:15-10:15 am

(6A) Fiction
Room EH 215
Moderator: Clint Johnson

Lindsey Booth, Weber State University, " Echoes In the Quiet"
Ross Linn, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " Edgar's Last Drink"
Arthur Pence-Smith, Weber State University, " Go Go Power [Fantasy]! Analyzing the Portrayal of Rape Culture in Mercedes Lackey’s The Fairy Godmother"

(6B) British Literature
Room EH 218
Moderator: Amanda Walters

Trevor McEuen, Weber State University, " Henry V and the Corporeality of Political Power"
DeAnn Smith, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " Floriography and the Femininity in Rebecca"

(6C) American Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: Mia Brabaeck

Syrena Finnell, Weber State University, " Intertwining narratives in There There and Indigo League"
Hope Henning, Gonzaga University, " The Prosthetic Villain: Cripistemology and Reading Bodies of Dis/Ability in Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter"

(6D) Creative Nonfiction
Room EH 206
Moderator: Elke Sprague

Anja Cajigas, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " Necrosis"
Alexis Knight, Weber State University, "Fire Drooler"
Samantha Manlapig, Regis University, " Centrifugal Force"

(6E) World Literature
Room EH 220
Moderator: Kirsten Parkinson

Ellen Petty, Central Michigan, "Examining Murakami and the Subconscious Through a Lacanian Framework"
Sean Rubin, Hiram College, "The Power of Desire: The Symbolism of the Perforated Sheet in Midnight's Children"

Session 7 Breakouts: 10:30-11:30 pm

(7A) Digital Literature
Room EH 215
Moderator: Elke Sprague

Colson Stock, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " Building Agency: Memes in Rhetorical Contexts"
Molly Gilles, Hiram College, " The Rise of Sexuality in Romantic Comedies: Comparing Bringing Up Baby and 10 Things I Hate About You"

(7B) Poetry
Room EH 218
Moderator: Jan Hamer

Evalynn Berg, Concordia University, " The Tortured Recluse, Narrated in Nocturnes"
Aja Gubler, Weber State University, " Spiraling"
Devin Planas, College of Southern Idaho, " The Doomed Phoenix Collection"
Braden Price, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " The fires that build and burn"

(7C) American Literature
Room EH 219
Moderator: Susan McKay

Jordynn Hunt-Davidson, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " The Interlacing of Patriarchal Ideals Within Anti-Corset Narratives"
Braeden Jolstead, Brigham Young University-Idaho, " Man’s Divinity in The Road"

(7D) World Literature
Room EH 206
Moderator: TBD