Proceedings of GREAT Day 2019

Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement & Talent (GREAT) Day is a college-wide symposium celebrating the creative and scholarly endeavors of Geneseo students. In addition to recognizing those achievements, the purpose of GREAT Day is to help foster academic excellence, encourage professional development, and build connections within the community.This volume of The Proceedings of GREAT Day reflects the breadth of scholarship and creativity presented at Geneseo’s GREAT Day. It represents a community that explores and values examinations of diversity and identity, explorations of the arts and human behaviors, and creative expression. The full array of creativity, research, and scholarship present at GREAT Day cannot be reproduced in a journal. Instead, this issue demonstrates a broad curiosity, driven by academic interest rather than confined to limited expertise. Articles in this issue include examinations of personal narratives of the self in community, dance’s cultural values, and the behavior of enigmatic mathematical functions, from such diverse academic fields as psychology, literary and cultural studies, dance, communications, and mathematics. In the process of selecting articles from different academic disciplines, themes emerged on identity and personal exploration and environments for literary thought. In addition to articles, this issue contains interviews with the GREAT Day keynote speaker, various college administrators, and a student editor for a past volume of The Proceedings of GREAT Day. In all its content, this volume of Proceedings of GREAT Day challenges disciplinary boundaries, opening the door for conversations from a wide range of academic fields and perspectives on current issues and topics that resonate with diverse populations.Now in its eleventh year, The Proceedings of GREAT Day continues to publish creative and scholarly student work presented at GREAT Day. The journal is available online, with additional content, at go.geneseo.edu/greatjournal