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Writing Into The Profession 2008

Conference Schedule


8:15-8:45am

Registration/Sign-In

Light Breakfast

First Floor Lobby

 

8:45-10:00am

Opening Remarks: Matt Mullins

Plenary Session 1-Moderator: Matt Mullins

MHRA 1215

The Job Search and Professionalization

Elizabeth Vogel - Arcadia University

Lee Templeton - North Carolina Wesleyan University

 

10:15-11:20am

Panel 1-Moderator: Cindy Webb

Title: Issues in Contemporary Literature

1. Kate Kimball - Virginia Tech - "Finding Your Way Back: Understanding the Language of

Redemption in Regards to Cultural Identity in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner"

2. Joseph Bennett - College of Charleston & The Citadel - "Defining the Drink in Carver's What

We Talk about When We Talk about Love"

3. Elizabeth Crachiolo - Northern Michigan University - "Myth as Redemption in Marian

Engel's Bear."

 

Panel 2-Moderator: Brandy Grabow

Title: Rhetoric, Composition, and the Profession

1.Rachel Bowman - University of North Carolina Greensboro - "Relating Relations: A

Problematological Topical Analysis of a Graduate Seminar Discussion"

2. Jennifer Burgess - College of Charleston - "Adjunct Anxiety"

3. Brian Gogan - Virginia Tech - "Ex/Changes in Composition: What Movement Does for

Writing"

 

Panel 3-Moderator: Alan Benson

Title: British/Irish Studies

1.Madison D. Brown - Valdosta State University - "Spenser's Supposed Models/Spenserian

Tension"

2. Robert Beshere - University of North Carolina Greensboro - "What's In a Name: Theorizing

an Etymological Dictionary of Shakespearean Characters"

3. Brent S. Robida - Clemson University - "'Bear Us Like the time': The Consolation of

Waiting for Godot"

 

11:30-12:35

Panel 4-Moderator: Ingrid Ruffin

Title: Contemporary Literature

1. Allison Carr - University of Cincinnati - "One of These Things Just Doesn't Belong Here: A

Reinvention of Genre in Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands"

2. Miriam Brown - University of Georgia - "'Fear-of-Women:' Eliding and Mythologizing

Women in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Fifth Book of Peace"

3. Grant Jolliff - University of North Carolina Greensboro - "Taibo and Marcos' The

Uncomfortable Dead: The Latin American Detective Novel as an Instrument of Social

Conscience and Political Commentary"

 

Panel 5-Moderator: Belinda Walzer

Title: Theory, Identity, and English Studies

1. Paul T. Corrigan - North Carolina State University - "Theory and Christian Spirituality"

2. Al Harahap & Robert Cedillo - California State University, San Bernardino & University of

Nevada, Reno - "Who Are We?: The Ambiguity of English Studies and the English Scholar"

3. Craig A. Meyer - Ohio University - "Feminist Rhetorical (and Composition) Studies"

 

Panel 6-Moderator: Natalie Dejonghe

Title: Issues in Contemporary Theory

1. Emily Scism - Clemson University - "Postmodern Family Dynamics in Don DeLillo's White

Noise"

2. Daniel Lawson - Virginia Tech - "The Graphic Adaptation of the 9/11 Commission Report: A

Semiological Problematic"

3. Cindy Montgomery Webb - University of North Carolina Greensboro - "Locating the

Memory of Diaspora in Remnants from Home in Gayl Jones's Corregidora"

 

Panel 7-Moderator: Bob Beshere

Title: Modernism

1. Bethany Hall - East Tennessee State University - "The Spiritual-heroic Refrigerating

Apparatus": A Preservation of Dante's Muse Figure in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

2. Cocoa M. Williams - Clemson University - "Uniting Octave and Sestet: Completing the

'Cycle' of McKay's Sequence"

3. Ryan Keefe - Virginia Tech - "The Semiotics of Sinclair Lewis"

 

12:45-1:30pm

Lunch (provided)

 

1:45-3:00pm

Plenary Session 2-Moderator: Charles Tedder

MHRA 1215

Finding Your Niche

Kelly Ritter - University of North Carolina Greensboro

Anthony Cuda - University of North Carolina Greensboro

Linda Gretton - Elon University

 

3:15-4:20pm

Panel 8-Moderator: Laurie Lyda

Title: 19th Century Across the Atlantic

1. Charlie Guy McAlpin - University of North Carolina Greensboro - "The Tattooed Treatise:

Breaking Down Mind/Body Binaries in Moby Dick"

2. Sam Lackey - College of Charleston - "From Laughter to Tears: The Disillusionment of

Vanity Fair"

3. Nicole Adams - John Carroll University - "Hank's Spiral into Violence in A Connecticut

Yankee at King Arthur's Court"

 

Panel 9-Moderator: Matt McNees

Title: Poetic Practices

1. Kristina Marie Darling - Washington University - "'No Service has Thou, I would not

achieve it': Spirituality, Scripture, and Poetic Practice in Emily Dickinson's Fortieth

Fascicle"

2. Summar C. Sparks - North Carolina State University - "A Poetic Expression of Pragmatic

Philosophy: 'The House Ws Quiet and the World Was Calm' by Wallace Stevens"

3. Jonathan C. Williams - Clemson University - "'She is near, she is near': Specular Poetics and

Tennyson's Pursuit of the Real"

 

Panel 10-Moderator: Rachel Bowman

Title: Race and Identity in Literature

1. Scott Gibson - University of North Carolina Greensboro - "'Half despoiled of their white

mantle': 'White' Characters in African-American Novels, 1890-1956"

2. Casarae Gibson - Purdue University, West Lafayette - "Re-shaping Afro-American Identity

Through Ancestral Roots in Dumas' Ark of Bones"

3. Shane Wilson - Valdosta State University - "Doomed to Fail: how Behn's Oroonoko

Destabilizes the Colonial Hierarchy"

 

4:30-5:00pm

Creative Reading-Moderator: Matt Mullins

 

Fiction: Glenn Lester - University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

Poetry: Joellen Craft - University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

Closing Remarks-Matt Mullins

 

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