b'Murderous Mothers: PostpartumPsychosis and The Yellow Wall-paperGeorgia J. WynnSponsor: Dr. KatawalCharlotte Perkins Gilman, the author of The Yellow Wall-paper, suffered from postpartum depression after giving birth. Gilmans experience with postpartum depression served as inspiration for the main character in The Yellow Wall-paper. While Gilman and the main characters conditions share some similarities, the main character in the story suffers from psychosis, the most severe version of postpartum depression. Despite the differences in their conditions, both Gilman and the main character experience the same form of treatment, the rest cure, a type of isolation therapy. While many people studying The Yellow Wall-paper assume the rest cure is not beneficial but simply a tool of patriarchy, in reality, filicidal and suicidal mothers with postpartum psychosis may benefit from it. This study focuses on building current scholarship regarding The Yellow Wall-paper with an emphasis on disability studies and psychoanalysis. Many scholars analyzing The Yellow Wall-paper observe the rest cure as simply a tool of the patriarchy, but this counter perspective introduces the possibility of the rest cure being a necessity for the main character and her childs survival.Department of HistoryThe Mummy: An Analysis of Egyptomania and How Ancient Egypt is Portrayed in The Mummy FranchiseCassidy WeaverSponsor: Dr. ByrdThe rapid growth of Egyptomania, sparked by the discovery of Pharaoh Tutankhamuns tomb, led to the creation of mummy movies, including multiple versions of The Mummy, all of which take creative liberties to distort ancient Egyptian history and culture to appeal to the audiences from the time periods in which each film was made through themes of imperialism, colonialist perspective, feminism, and marketing appeal. This paper consists of in-depth analysis of the most prominent movements of Egyptomania and the various ways in which ancient Egyptian mummies and motifs have been commodified, specifically focusing on the largest wave of Egyptomania that was sparked by the discovery of Tutankhamuns tomb, which inspired the creation of The Mummy films and the trope of the pharaohs curse.Following the analysis of Egyptomania is the comparative analysis of Karl Freunds The Mummy (1932), Terence Fishers The Mummy(1959), and Stephen Sommers The Mummy(1999). The purpose of this analysis is to identify the historical inaccuracies of ancient Egypt depicted in the films as well as to understand how the events and beliefs in the time periods in which these three versions of The Mummy were made affect the portrayals of ancient Egypt and how the films themselves are products of Egyptomania.35'