URCA CONFERENCE (UCSB)
2024
Identity Unearthed
Ileana Zuckerman: “Speaking of Aspasia”
Josephine Yi: “The Song of Small Stories”
Kristen Wu: “Swallow”
Meiya Sidney: “moonlight”
Community Voices
Sierra van der Brug: “The Legalities of Womanhood”
Isabella Benetti: “The Bloody Pants”
Leo Rubio: “Beyond Words, Beyond Notes: Exploring Jazz through Writing and Writing through Jazz”
Exploring Facets of Our Past
Scarlett Adams: “Main Character Syndrome”
Tian Ding: “College Survival Guide”
Sophie Girard: “Mosaic”
Olive Howden: “In the Absence of Sound”
Anissa Estrada: “Growing with Glimpses: A Hybrid Graphic Novel Memoir”
Critical Media
Isabel Montalvo: “How Bad is Bad?”
Makenna Stark: “Wellness: Insecurity’s Profit Machine”
Amitha Bhat: “Art-ificial Intelligence: Analyzing Perceptions of AI-Generated Literature and its Future Implications”
Sophie Najm: “Veziers, Thieves, and Princesses: The History and Impact of Western Screen Adaptations of Arabian Nights”
Jasmine Liang: “Elapse”
2023
Reflection and Resilience
Ash Phormmasa: “A Life Worth Living”
Brea Spencer: “Bittersweet”
Kiana Perez-Granadoes: “Sterling Silver River”
Sierra Vakili: “To Get to the Other Side”
Global Perspectives
Leila Katibah: “Hyperreality in a Globalized World”
Viviana Bustamante: “Fandom Lore: Finding Identity in Fiction”
Sydney Fry: “Minority Languages and the Survival of Cultural Identity”
Hannah Meyers: “’48 Hours in …’: A Gaucho’s Guide to Studying and Traveling in Europe”
Understanding Ourselves Through Storytelling
Sofia Mosqueda: “Of Earth and Sky”
Daian Martinez: “In the Middle”
Maya Salem: “Broken Hourglass: Myth-making in Civil War”
Reed Gaynor: “Pura Vida”
The Ideologies of Identity
Robbin Balagtas: “The Rhetoric of Belonging at UCSB”
Minyi Jiang: “The Influence of Chinese Maoism in Iran”
Phoebe Pineda: “The Embattled Feminine Gaze: A Study in Reylo Discourse”
Elaina Smolin: “Behind the Shades: A Close Look at the Blurred Lines Between Joan Didion’s Fiction and Nonfiction”
2022
Luis Garcia (2022): Gaucho Survival Guide to Covid-19
Aurora Paget (2022): Lost in Translation: A look into Multilingualism’s Effect on Personality and Identity
Charlie Prindle (2022): The Eidolons
Luc Le (2022): The Kids Aren’t Alright: Depictions of Teenage Depression and Anxiety in Popular Fiction
Kaitlyn Soto (2022): Unsafe Passage: A Generational Story of Vietnamese “Boat People”
Kat Yuen (2022): The Ace-B-Cs: An Open Syllabus on Asexualities
CCCC (Undergraduate Research Poster Session)
Scarlett Adams (2024): Main Character Syndrome
Ileana Zuckerman (2024): An Interdisciplinary Approach: Writing Centers Turning Toward the Field of Art History to Explain Analytical Writing
Elaina Smolin (2023): The Limits of Creative Nonfiction: An Investigation of Genre Constraints in Collegiate Writing Classes
Leila Katibah (2023): Hyperreality in a Globalized and Digital World
Robbin May Balagtas (2023): The Rhetoric of Belonging at UCSB
Sydney Fry (2023): Minority Languages and the Survival of Cultural Identity
Kaitlyn Soto (2022): Unsafe Passage: A Generational Story of Vietnamese “Boat People”
Amelia Rodriguez (2021): “Becoming the Woe-Bringer: The Monstrousness of Heroism in Headley’s Beowulf and The Mere Wife”
Vivian Waldman-Randall (2021): Her Nature: Exploring Modes of Nature Writing through the Female Perspective
JHU Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium
Kiyan Atrian (2022): A “Chosen” Ministry: Drag Performance and Queer Religious Trauma
Aurora Paget (2022): “Lost in Translation: A look into Multilingualism’s Effect on Personality and Identity”
Connor (Zishi) Ding (2022): “Scar Siblings”
Julia Barrera (2022): “Breaking Binaries: a Zine on Gender Non-Conforming Experience”
Kaitlyn Soto (2022): “Unsafe Passage: A Generational Story of Vietnamese ‘Boat People'”
Kat Yuen (2022): “‘DO YOU LIKE SEX?’: Exploring Queer Theory with the Personal as Asexual Creative”
Marie-Fleur Borac (2022): “The Orthoverse Unpack”
Sarah Hamm (2022): “Preventing and Healing Domestic Abuse: A Policy Investigation of Meditation in Public”
2021
Amelia Rodriguez (2021): Screeving Queens: Polari, Performance, and Concealment
Katherine Swartz (2021): “Twenty Years Too Many: The Evolution of Practices and Purposes in the War in Afghanistan”
Lukas Aeschlimann (2021): “Larry-Made: The Life and Death of Larry Aeschlimann, and the Lessons Found Therein”
Nickita Gupta (2021): “Stories Untold: Immigrant Perspectives of the American Dream”
Rebecca Bogdanovic (2021): “The Lady Who Came With Me: An Investigation into the Americanized Rhetoric of Immigration”
Samantha Abajian (2021): “Curling Back to Your Roots: Profiles of Curly Hair Journeys”
Vivian Walman-Randall (2021): “An Ocean Apart: A Novel about Women on the Sea”
2020
Melody Roth (2020): Mixed Emotions: “An Introspective Study on Modern Mixed-Race Liminality”
Hannah Mok (2020): “The Cupertino Bubble: Technological, Ethnic, and Societal Influences on Student Attitudes Toward Education”
URCA Digital Colloquium (UCSB)
2022
Grace Wilken (2022): Days and Nights: An Anti Manic Pixie Dream Girl Film
Kenny Moody (2022): The Sound of Queerness In Tap Dance
Connor (Zishi) Ding (2022): Scar Siblings
Sarah Hamm (2022): Meditation in Public Schools for Preventing and Healing Domestic Abuse
Charlie Prindle (2022): The Grimm Manor
2020
Jack Holbrook (2020): Screenplay Adaptation: Richard Brautigan’s A Confederate General from Big Sur
Hannah Mok (2020): The Cupertino Bubble: Technological, Ethnic, and Societal Influences on Student Attitudes Toward Education
Melody Roth (2020): Mixed Emotions: An Introspective Study on Modern Mixed-Race Liminality
