Honors English Students Present at the FAU Undergraduate Research Symposium

Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry
14th Annual Research Symposium
Friday, April 5th, 2024
 

Congratulations to eight English Honors students on presentation of their research at FAU's 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 5th, 2024.


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Music, Art, Literature, Theater, History & Philosophy I
Ren Shamburger, for “Giving Our Kids Goosebumps: How Popular Children’s Horror Shows Us the Value of Scary Stories”
faculty mentor: Dr. Timothy Miller
Arwen Paredes, for “‘Something to Care For’: Empathetic Gameplay and Representations of Trauma in Baldur’s Gate 3
faculty mentor: Dr. Timothy Miller
Idrissa Dial, for “Comparative Analysis on Which Challenger of H.P. Lovecraft and Author of Speculative Fiction Was Most in Their Work Effective: Victor Lavalle, Matt Ruff, or Misha Green?”
faculty mentor: Dr. Dr. Regis Fox
Leslie Chacon, for “Reading Brave New World as a Religious Satire”
faculty mentor: Dr. Regis Fox
Dakota Darwin, for “Sonic Futures: Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuturistic Soundscapes of Queer Liberation”
faculty mentors: Dr. Regis Fox and Dr. Karina Vado
Pamela Smith, for “The Fantasy: Harry Potter and the Morals of Christianity”
faculty mentor: Dr. Regis Fox
Music, Art, Literature, Theater, History and Philosophy II
Sara Pierson, for “The Problematic Consistency of Labor Estrangement and Structural Inequalities within Dystopian Literary Fiction”
faculty mentor: Dr. Stacey Balkan
Sasha Switz, for “The Encroachment and Effects of the Postfeminist Sensibility on the Popular Romance Genre”
faculty mentor: Dr. Taryne Taylor