2024 CURIO Symposium Program and Presentations

English Language-Learning Curriculum for Emory Hospital Staff

Parker Timmons, Georgia Southern University

5:45 PM - 7:45 PM

The Life of Sergeant George Guy Burgess

Mary Anna Saunders, Georgia Southern University

5:45 PM - 7:45 PM

The Michigan War Dog Memorial

Abby Noonan

5:45 PM - 7:45 PM

Moluccan Refugees Fight for Dutch Recognition in the Netherlands

Enzo Montero, Georgia Southern University

5:45 PM - 7:45 PM

Raider Run

Braden Lott, Georgia Southern University

5:45 PM - 7:45 PM

Places!

Seth Lee, Georgia Southern University

5:45 PM - 7:45 PM

Dong Loc Junction: Balancing Acts of Honor, Masculinity, and Femininity

Whitley Gatch, Georgia Southern University

5:45 PM - 7:45 PM

The Rapid Mass Organizing of Religious Guerrilla Forces during the Maji Maji War

Jake Braswell, Georgia Southern University

5:45 PM - 7:45 PM

How Large Language Tools can Change Language-Interpreting

Carson Blackford, Georgia Southern University

5:45 PM - 7:45 PM

From Creation, to Revision, to Compilation

Brayden Short, Georgia Southern University

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

My Past at Georgia Southern and my Future Goals

Nicholas Sheredy

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Teaching to Improve the Gap: Reading Interventions

Destinee McCloud

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Development of Creativity and Characterization in Writing: My Senior Portfolio Analysis

Addison Hall, Georgia Southern University

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

From College to Career: My Journey as an English Major; or, The Agency of an English Major

Michaela Ford, Georgia Southern University

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

My Creative Odyssey: Using the Skills of an English Major

Jailyn Davis

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

A Novelist’s Epic: An Avant-Garde Portfolio

Vienna Cragin

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Ad Astra: A Section of my Non-Fiction Memoir

Sofia Navarro

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Ink and Intimacy: A Cultural Affair

Kennedi Williams

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Descartes and Surrealism

Abby Herndon, Georgia Southern University

6:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Stepping into the Era of (Taylor’s Version)

Zoey Pittman, Georgia Southern University

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Identity in Kievan Rus’: An Inquiry into Staraya Ladoga’s Ethnic Composition

Sutton Patterson, Georgia Southern University

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Why Pope Leo IX Declined to Endorse Peter Damien’s Suggestions in Liber Gomorrhianus

Max Besselman

6:00 PM - 7:15 PM

On Health Equity and Suffering

Allison Ambrose, Georgia Southern University

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Rites of Mourning: Plague and Remembrance in Hamlet and Hamnet

Destinee Walker

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The Life of Claude B. Terry

Jaylee Kilgo

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

(Taylor’s Version): What her Fight with Big Machine Records Means for the Intellectual Property of Creatives

Kayla Jones, Georgia Southern University

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Welcome to the Xanny Family: A Content Analysis of Pharmaceutical Drug References in Rap Music

Savannah Johnston, Georgia Southern University

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

”Widsith Came to Talk: Preservation of the Scop within Old English Poetry”

Maya Johnson-McCauley, Georgia Southern University

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The Evolution of Depictions of African-Americans in American Cinema

Kamryn Gibson, Georgia Southern University

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

After FYE: Exploring Sophomore Support at GSU

Alex Gholston, Georgia Southern University

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM

The Representation of Young Black Men in 1980s and 1990s Sitcoms

Tavin Cochran, Georgia Southern University

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Chart-Toppers and Heart-Stoppers: Navigating the Pulse of Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart

Maggie Churilla, Georgia Southern University

7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

An Analysis of the Pagan and Christian Elements in Beowulf

Danielle Ball, Georgia Southern University

7:30 PM - 8:45 PM

Song of the Wheels

Jessica Day, Georgia Southern University

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Great Again: A Rhetorical Criticism of Donald Trump's Inaugural Address

Pilcher Thornton, Georgia Southern University

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Audience Perceptions of Social Issues in Contemporary Theatre

Gabrielle Reilly

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

The Importance of Being Scholarly: A Pedantic Play for the Academically Inclined

Kimberly Bronte

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Through a Strasburg Window and The Roses Still Bloom

Brianna Lancaster, Georgia Southern University

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

From College to Career: My Journey as an English Major

Brianna Bella

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

A Life of Her Own: Exploring the Cultivation of Feminist Language on the Subject of Girlhood

Emmalyne Roper, Georgia Southern University

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Marilyn: More Than Just Another Showgirl

Allie Strausl, Georgia Southern University

3:15 PM - 4:15 PM