This Week: English Students Presenting at URCAD 2020

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 16:08:03 -0400

This year the Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) will be hosted online, and many English students will make presentations about their compelling research. Find all their names in the list below and read summaries of their work under the Presenters tab on the URCAD website.

Jonathan Acuna-Lopez | English
Seeing in Parts: Borderlands Consciousness in Bless Me, Ultima
Mentor: Sharon Tran

Kiara Bell | English
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: Using Afrofuturist Theory to Examine Themes of Black Visibility
Mentor: Maleda Belilgne

Anna Hartman | English
Understanding Uprisings: Media Discourse and Maryland Race Uprisings (1845-2015)
Mentor: Lindsay DiCuirci

Anna Hartman | English
Timed Writing: Perfecting This Essential College-Readiness Skill
Mentor: Cheryl North

Ajay Kharkar | English
Developing More Effective Tutoring Strategies for Multilingual Writers in the Writing Center
Mentor: Elaine MacDougall

Tanya Ramsey | English
Peer Education Impacts on Student Outcomes: A Case Study from the UMBC McNair Scholars Program
Mentor: Elaine MacDougall

Tiwalade Topia | English
Poems About Homes
Mentor: Lia Purpura