How the second person perspective utilizes distance as a way to tell traumatic stories, specifically from marginalized perspectives
Presenter(s): Hayley Schlueter—English Faculty Mentor(s): Will Alden Session 4: Let’s KIDD Around: KIDD Creative Writing Program This project aims to understand the unique ways in which the second person perspective can be utilized for stories about trauma, and...
Digital Infrastructure and Physical Displacement in Portland, Oregon.
Presenter(s): Marcella Rosen—Art and Technology Faculty Mentor(s): David Rueter Session 3: An Unprecedented Creative Work In June 2018 the Portland City Council adopted Resolution 37371, which aims to implement programs that will transition Portland, OR, into a smart...
What I Wanted to Say, But Couldn’t: Epistolary Poetry’s Effects on Access and Intimacy for Asian-American Diasporic Poets
Presenter(s): Katie Quines—Spatial Data Science, Geography Faculty Mentor(s): Ariel Machell Session 4: Let’s KIDD Around: KIDD Creative Writing Program While much attention has been paid to the thematic similarities between poetic works produced by Asian-American...
Emery Owens Abstract
Presenter(s): Chelsea Pitarresi—Journalism, Cinema Studies Faculty Mentor(s): Dan Cheung Session 4: Let’s KIDD Around: KIDD Creative Writing Program “Emery Owens” is a story of the liminal spaces of life; the peculiarity of the early stages of adulthood and adult...
Suspending Disbelief in the Unreal: The Craft of Magical Realism
Presenter(s): Sophia Mick—Humanities Faculty Mentor(s): Will Alden Session 4: Let’s KIDD Around: KIDD Creative Writing Program How do you get a reader to happily believe that your character’s husband has turned into an ape? Or that your narrator has developed a...
A Lost Whisper: Recovering Vanessa Howard
Presenter(s): Lorelei Kelsey—English, Creative Writing Session 4: Cultural Considerations—The Other During my Spring term in 2019 at the University of Oregon I was assigned an archival assignment, I was to uncover a little known author of color . I elected to find a...
Ecopoetry and Us
Presenter(s): Adeline Fecker—Biology Co-Presenter(s): Nolan Kriska, Hailey O’Donnell Faculty Mentor(s): Barbara Mossberg Session 3: An Unprecedented Creative Work “Ecopoetics” comes from the two greek roots: oikos, meaning family, property and house; and poiesis,...
The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems: A Haunting Maternal Presence in Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Poetry
Presenter(s): Martha DeCosta—English (major) and Creative Writing (minor) Faculty Mentor(s): Corbett Upton Session 3: Beyond a Melody The image of the ideal mother as a self-sacrificial caretaker for her children echoes in Edna St . Vincent Millay’s Pulitzer Prize...