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Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of English
Gonzaga University
Spokane, WA 99258-0102
Phone: (509) 323-6717
theile@gonzaga.edu
 

  
 

Undergraduates Presenting at RMMLA
 
Calgary 2007         Tucson 2006         Coeur d'Alene 2005
 
Undergraduates Unplugged
Chair:  Marie I. Drews, Washington State University  
Presenters:  Jenny Lynn Zylstra, Washington State University. "Images of Una: Divine Love and Forgiveness in The Faerie Queene."  
  Daniel James Rudary, University of Richmond. "Southern Honor in William Faulkner's The Unvanquished."  
  Chad E. Iwertz, Pepperdine University. "'Hold Me in Awe': Spiritual Rhetoric and Allegory in Early Middle English Literature."  
  Chase Patrick Mohney, Harvard College. "Killing History: Conceptions of Violence and History in The Marrow of Tradition."
 
Undergraduates Unplugged - I*
Chair:  Andrew D. McCarthy, Washington State University  
Alternate Chair:  Hilary Hawley, Washington State University  
Presenters:  Laura Brooke Staley, Lenoir-Rhyne College. "Dante’s Hell: Just or Generous?."  
  Jake F. Sigman, Lenoir-Rhyne College. "Blood and Salvation: The Significance of Ritual in The Sun Also Rises.."  
  Anthony Carlton Cooke, City College of San Francisco. "Let's Make the Myths: Literature vs. Real Life."  
  Katie S. Homar, John Carroll University. "'Passions that were not my own': Critique and Preservation of True Pastoral Life in Wordsworth's 'Michael'.." top
 
Undergraduates Unplugged - II*
Chair:  Verena Theile, Washington State University  
Alternate Chair:  Jessica E. Schubert, Washington State University  
Presenters:  Thea T. Marlatte, Trinity Western University. "Why Read Literature?: Reason, Sense, and Responsibility."  
  Mark F. Kraemer, Saginaw Valley State University. "Literary Inquires in Question: A Case Study of the Religious Contexts of Beowulf in Consideration of the Problems Encountered by Literary Scholars Dealing with Ancient Works."  
  Mary L. Davenport, North Central College. "Is the ‘Messy, Wonderful Middle’ Enough?: A Critique of Labeling Literature Using the Poetry of Alberto Rios."  
  Melissa Ann Merritt, University of Texas, Dallas. "Making a Monster: Nora’s Role in A Doll’s House."
 
 
Undergraduates Unplugged - I*
Chair:  Josh Mondau, Washington State University  
Alternate Chair:  Verena Theile, Washington State University  
Presenters:  Matt Spears, California State University, San Marcos. "The Canonicity of Cliché: Idiomatic Language & Formulaic Diction in Beowulf and the Heaney Translation."  
  Rachel Neff, Washington State University. "No me llame Señorita, soy una Señora: Rosario Castellanos' 'Cooking Lesson' as a Demonstration of the Other in a Mexican Marriage."  
  Stephen Allen, Seattle Pacific University. "(In)justice: Transitional Identities in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace."  
  Rebecca L. Schweitzer, University of California at Davis. "Prince Hal's Theatricality: A Mode of Political Power in Shakespeare's Henry IV and Henry V."
 
Undergraduates Unplugged - II*
Chair:  Nicholas J. DeSelle, Washington State University  
Alternate Chair:  Verena Theile, Washington State University  
Presenters:  Melissa Forbes, Seattle Pacific University. "The Significance of Rupture: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and An Artist of the Floating World."  
  Megan Jean Rea, Georgian Court University. "Placing Drama in Context: Exploring the Identity/Reality Paradigm of Language Patterns in Beckett, Pinter, and Stoppard."  
  Olivia D. Everett, Fort Lewis College. "The Creation of the Huntress through Myth and Meaning."  
  Rebecca Nisetich, University of Massachusetts. "Manhood and Masculinity in Morrison's Beloved."
Last updated November 2007