2007 NAHE Conference
AGENDA
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Conference Registration Lower Lobby Foyer
12:30
p.m. - 2:00 p.m. SESSION
I (A-C) Nevada, California,
Redwood
Section
I-A: Panel
Presentation: "(Y)our America"-A Documentary Theatre Project with
9th and 10th Graders Redwood
Room
Chair: Gina Rothman, Metropolitan
Arts and Tech High School
Section I-B: PSYCHOLOGICAL
APPROACHES TO THE HUMANITIES
California
Room
"A House-Broken
Heart: Marginality, Desire, and the Super-Ego in Barnes's Nightwood"
Aaron Groves, San Francisco State University
"Splitting
of the Self: Corporeal Manifestations of 'Second Selves'"
Allison St. John, San Francisco State University
"Polymorphous
Desire and the Imagination: Giving in to the Pleasure Principle within the
Framework of the Humanities"
Christopher Zepeda, San Francisco State University
"Delusions
of Grandeur: Paranoia in the Life and Work of Philip K. Dick"
David Gill, San Francisco State University [Session Chair]
Section I-C:
HUMANISM AND SPIRITUALITY:
IDENTITY AND DESIRE
Nevada
Room
"Humanity:
Humanities = Spirituality:Sexuality"
Rev. Ray Mesler, Jr., Milwaukee, WI
"Incantations/Recantations:
Sacred Desire, Mystical Love, and the Body Feminist "
Deborah Rasa, New College of California [Session Chair]
2:00 p.m. Board
Meeting Montery/Carmel
Suite
2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. SESSION
II (A-B) Nevada,
California
Section II-A: HUMANISTIC EDUCATIONS: MEDICINE, LAW, ENGINEERING California Room
"Health
Sciences LEAP: Infusing Humanities into Pre-Professional Medical Education"
Carolyn Bliss, University of Utah
"Transforming
How Doctors are Trained: Dissonance and Harmony in Medical Humanities"
Elizabeth Donaldson, New York Institute of Technology
"Human(it)zing
Justice"
Ona Russell, California Bar Association
"Turning
Engineering Students on to the Arts"
Leon A. Raikes, Maine Maritime Academy [Session Chair]
Section II-B: ETHICS
AND IDENTITY IN POPULAR CULTURE
Nevada
Room
"Shared
Experience and Identity: Using Online Games to Teach Composition"
Jacqueline Cain, Tacoma Community College
"Interrogating Conversation: Complicating the Ethics of Hospitality in Homicide: Life on the Streets" Brandy Grabow, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
"The Humanities
and Baseball"
Eric Solomon, San Francisco State University
"'Unnatural,
unclean, and filthy'": Chinese-American Cooking Literature Confronting
Racism in the 1950s"
Sherrie A. Inness, Miami University [Session Chair]
3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Break Lower Lobby Level
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. SESSION
III (A-D) Oregon, Nevada, California,
Redwood
Section
III-A: Workshop: "Engaging Dissonance for Transformation: Classroom Techniques
to Create a Learning Community"
California
Room
Workshop Leader: Judy Helfand,
Santa Rosa Junior College-Petaluma Campus
Section
III-B: Workshop: "Shakespeare Then/Shakespeare Now: Theater History and
Performance-Based Methodology" Nevada
Room
Workshop Leader: Bruce
Avery, San Francisco State University
Section III-C: HISTORICAL USES OF DISSONANCE AND HARMONY IN THE HUMANTIES Oregon Room
"Making
Use of Milton: Why a Puritan Humanist Works So Well in Today's Classroom"
Danny Campbell, Columbia College
"Transformation of Innocence: Reflecting American Identity in the Mythology of the Twin Towers" Cerena Ceaser, San Francisco State University
"Dissonance
and Harmony: General Winfield Scott's Policy of Pacification in the Mexican
American War of 1846"
James Chichetto, Stonehill College
"Simultaneously Autonomous and Unfree: Teaching Dissonance and Ambivalence in Wartime" David Jenemann, University of Vermont [Session Chair]
Section III-D: Workshop:
"Dreaming Anew-An Exploration of Shamanic Ceremonial Powers" Redwood
Room
Workshop Leader: Akasa
Tseng
Dinner on your own
Thursday, 1 March 2007
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Conference Registration/Book
Exhibits
Lower
Lobby Foyer
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. SESSION
IV (A-D) Oregon, Nevada, California,
Redwood
Section
IV-A: ART, LITERATURE, AND PHILOSOPHY
California
Room
"Virginia
Woolf's Aesthetics: A Convergence of Phenomenology and Feminism "
Annette Allen, University of Louisville
"The Weak
Novels of Milan Kundera"
David L. Mosley, University of Louisville
"The Making
of Black Men: Phenomenology in Cecil Brown's The Live and Loves of Mr.
Jiveass Nigger, Clarence Major's All Night Visitors, and James
Baldwin's Another Country"
Therí A. Pickens, University of California, Los Angeles
"Fluidity
and Fixity: Monet's Reflections on the Perceiving Self"
Michael J. Call, Brigham Young University [Session Chair]
Section IV-B: AMERICAN
CULTURAL IDENTITIES: JOURNALISM, LITERATURE, AND PHOTOGRAPHY Redwood
Room
"Wisconsin
Death Trip(typch): Us, Them, and Context"
Carmen Germain, Peninsula College
"Frontier
Theory: Uniting the Literature of the United States"
Gordon Matassa, San Francisco State University
"'What [We]
Have Left'": The Southern Swamp and Cultural Identity in Linda Hogan's
Power and Randall Kenan's Let the Dead Bury Their Dead"
Anthony Wilson, LaGrange College
"Transforming
Landscapes: Ellen Gilchrist's New Orleans Poetry and Fiction as Literary Reflection/Refraction
of Clarence Laughlin's Photography"
Lydia Whitt Rice, University of Louisiana at Lafayette [Session Chair]
Section IV-C:
Panel Presentation: "Outcomes Assessment and the Humanities" Nevada
Room
Panel
Chair: John Lawson, Robert Morris University
"Why
Outcomes Assessment Is Integral to the Humanities"
Dacia Charlesworth, Robert Morris University
"Performance
and Assessment"
Heather Pinson, Robert Morris University
"Who Will Assess the Assessors?"
Don Larsson, Minnesota State University
"Humanities
Assessment: Top-Down and Bottom-Up"
John Lawson, Robert Morris University [Session Chair]
Section IV-D:
PERFORMALITY AND TRANSFORMATION
Oregon
Room
"Six Players in Search of a Role: Casting as a Liminoid Performance and Transformational Process" James A. Bell, Grand Valley State University
"Adopting
a Creative Approach to Creative Student Practice"
John Freeman, Brunel University
"Genevieve
Stebbins and the Performance of Interdisciplinarity"
Melissa Richard, University of North Carolina-Greensboro [Session Chair]
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break Lower Lobby Level
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. SESSION
V (A-D) Oregon, Nevada, California,
Redwood
Section
V-A: TRANSFORMATIVE PEDAGOGIES
California
Room
"The Hidden
Agenda of Writing Across the Curricula"
Raymond H. Clines, Jacksonville University
"An Interdisciplinary
Approach to Meeting Writing Demands of the Workplace"
Diane Martinez, Kaplan University
"Thrown
to the Wolves: The First Year Experience as Ritual Initiation"
Melissa Kizina, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"A Tale
of Two Transcriptions: Essays in Jazz and the Teaching of Academic Writing"
Martin Turkis II, San Francisco State University [Session Chair]
Section V-B: ACROSS
LANGUAGE AND DISCIPLINE
Nevada
Room
"TheWordless
Picture Book as an Interdisciplinary Text"
Sunghee Choi, Pennsylvania State University
"Multilingual
Dissonance in Third Language Acquisition"
Nell Rose Hill, Ferris State University
"PLAY: The
Evolutionary Structure of Culture and Consilience of Disciplines"
Susan M. Bentley, University of Louisville [Session Chair]
Section V-C: IDENTITY, HYBRIDITY, COMMUNITY
Oregon
Room
"Our Landscapes
of Home: Teaching in Learning Communities on the Olympic Peninsula"
Alice Derry, Peninsula College
"Salmon,
the Klallam Language, and the Gift Economy"
Kate Reavey, Peninsula College
Returning to
Wirikuta: Peyote and the Huichol Indians
David Lawlor, Humboldt State University
"Narrating
Mexico: Hybrid Identities in Testimonial Literature"
Douglas M. Hazzard, Jacksonville University [Session Chair]
Section V-D:
Workshop: "KIDS PERFORM" (Staging Shakespeare with Elementary/Middle
School Students) Redwood
Room
Workshop Leaders: Carmen and Jim Aiken, Kensington Hilltop Elementary School
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. SESSION
VI (A-D) Oregon,
Nevada, California,
Redwood
Section VI-A:
Panel Discussion: "A Capstone Seminar in the Humanities:
Integrating Differing Forms of Cultural Evidence into Cultural Argument"
California
Room
Panel Chair: Mark E. Blum, University of Louisville
Presenters: Tara
Tuttle and Michael Williams, University of Louisville
Discussants: Dale Golden, Mike Hagan, and Allan McGuffey, University of Louisville
Section VI-B: ACROSS
LANDSCAPE, SPACE, AND TIME
Nevada
Room
"From Renaissance
Wellspring to World War Battlefield: Reading and Teaching Andrea Zanzotto's
The Woodland Book of Manners"
Patrick Barron, University of Massachusetts, Boston
"Understanding
Landscape: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
"A Walk
at the Edge of the Empire"
William L. Chandler, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater [Session Chair]
Section VI-C: TRANSFORMATIVE
CULTURAL READINGS
Oregon
Room
"Power and the Fluidity of Privilege and Oppression: The Case of Tuskegee and Invisible Man" Barbara A. Baker, Tuskegee University
"Making
Sense of Huckleberry Finn's Ending, 121 Years Later: Another Possible
Reading"
Michael MacBride, Minnesota State University-Mankato
"'The Red
Rag to the Bull': Reading Claude McKay's Banjo as a Critique of Hemingway
and 'The Lost Generation'"
Kareasa Wilkins, San Francisco State University
"Hell's
Belles: Southern Moralists and the Making of White Southern California, 1915-1930"
Daniel Cady, California State University-Fresno [Session Chair]
Section VI-D: INTERDISCIPLINARY
APPROACHES TO TEACHING IN THE HUMANITIES Redwood
Room
"Anime in
Interdisicplinary Humanities Courses"
David Linebarger, Northeastern State University
"From Guttenberg
to the BBC: Discovering the European Roots of American Media"
Dennis Stouse, Jacksonville University
Annmarie Willette, Jacksonville University
"Scientists
and New Romantics: Dante, Goethe and the Scientific Method"
Chris Coffman, Independent Scholar
"Building
Civic Engagement through Service-Learning Projects in Interdisciplinary Humanities
Courses"
Therese Tomaszek, Davenport University [Session Chair]
2:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. SESSION
VII (A-D) Oregon, Nevada, California,
Redwood
Section VII-A:
HUMANISTIC CULTURAL REPRESENTATION
California
Room
"Homework
for Dessert: Multiple Intelligences and Media Studies in the Home"
Benjamin Thevenin, Florida State University
"Transformations
of a Textile Innovator: Jack Lenor Larsen"
Stephanie Zollinger, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Campus
"Swimming
Symbols of a Modern Nation? The Politics of Painting on German Passenger Ships,
1910-1914"
Mark A. Russell, Concordia University [Session Chair]
Section VII-B: CROSSING NATIONAL BOUNDARIES: HIERARCHIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS Nevada Room
"The Vestige of Court Poetry in Modern Yoruba Musicians: A Study of Sikiru Ayinde Barrister " Busuyi Mekusi, University of the Witwatersrand
"Chinese
Expressions of Circular Synthesis"
Liping Zhang, Florida A & M University
"The Transformation
of Mongolian Art"
Douglas Sjoquist, Lansing Community College [Session Chair]
Section VII-C: Workshop:
"Trans-Campus Communication Gateways:
Creating Regional Dialogues in English Composition Classrooms"
Oregon
Room
Workshop Leaders: Kevin R. Morrissette, University of Massachusetts, Boston
David Rogers, Jr., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Section
VII-D: Panel Presentation: Identity, Representation, Collaboration: Interdisciplinary
Pedagogy in a First-Year Experience Program Redwood
Room
Panel Chair: Julia M. Garrett, Randolph-Macon College
"Cultural
Representations of the Body"
Laura Holliday, Randolph-Macon College
Scott London, Randolph-Macon College
"Minding:
A Case Study in Philosophy and Psychology"
Alva Hughes, Randolph-Macon College
Donna Turney, Randolph-Macon College
"Melting
Pot to Mosaic: Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity"
Julia M. Garrett, Randolph-Macon College
Debra Rodman, Randolph-Macon College
3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Break Lower Lobby Level
4:00 p.m.
- 5:30 p.m. SESSION VIII (A-D) Oregon,
Nevada, California,
Redwood
Section VIII-A:
GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATION
California
Room
"Globalization
and Postcolonial Education: A Philosophical Perspective"
Majid Amini, Virginia State University
"Speaking
Volumes-The Role of Religion in History Textbooks in Chennai, India"
Jessica Levknecht, The George Washington University
Hema Ramanathan, University of West Georgia
"The Transformation
of Humanities Education in Ireland: European Education Policy and the Transmission
of National Culture"
Michael O' Sullivan, Nagoya University of Commerce & Business
"What to
do after you have the Right Answer: Introducing Uncertainty while Teaching
Literature in the Middle East"
Marielle Risse, Dhofar University [Session Chair]
Section VIII-B: IMAGE AND TEXT Nevada Room
"Remembering/Disremembering
Fizzles: Samuel Beckett's Collaboration with Jasper Johns"
David Hatch, Brigham Young University
"George
Herbert's 'Easter-Wings'-Dialogue Between Text and Image in Renaissance Pattern
Poetry"
Stephanie Lahey, Saint Mary's University
"Reading
as Seeing: Intermediality in Early American Fiction"
Christopher Lukasik, Purdue University
"Sister
Arts and Brothers in Arms: Molière, Mignard, and the Rules (and Rulers)
of Painting"
Michael Call, Brigham Young University [Session Chair]
Section VIII-C: CRITICISM
AND PEDAGOGY Oregon Room
"How Leslie
Fiedler Saved My Semester"
George Pursley, San Francisco State University
"Teaching
Fictions: The Failure of Tradition and Hope for the Future"
Gregory Skutches, Lehigh University
"Teaching
Textual Inquiry: Filling in Gaps 'Foundherently'"
Matthew Hollrah, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
"From the
Popular Front and the New York Intellectuals to Identity Politics and Mass
Culture: The Legacy of Leslie Fiedler"
Samuele F. S. Pardini, Vanderbilt University [Session Chair]
Section VIII-D:
PERFORMANCE IN DANCE AND THEATRE
Redwood
Room
"The Two
Play Problem: Exploring Williams' Original Conception of The Glass Menagerie"
Keith Dorwick, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
John Patrick, University of Lousiana at Lafayette
"Choreographic
Transformations: Incorporating Giselle Into the Interdisciplinary Canon"
Debra Sowell, Brigham Young University [Session Chair]
7:00 p.m. Opening Plenary Session in Goldrush Ballroom A
Welcome: Marcia Green, President and Joana Owens Program Chair
NAHE Business: Marcia Green, President
Passing
of the Gavel: Marcia Green to Donald Larsson
Election Results: Donald
Larsson, newly-installed President
KEYNOTE
ADDRESS: Marjorie Perloff, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
"The
Manifesto as Art Form: A Futurist Invention"
Welcoming Reception Emerald Ballroom
Friday,
2 March 2007
9:00
a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Conference Registration/Book Exhibits
Lower Lobby Foyer
9:00 a.m.
- 10:30 a.m. SESSION IX (A-D) Oregon,
Nevada, California,
Redwood
Section IX-A:
THE BEATS: TRANSGRESSIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
Nevada
Room
"Allen Ginsberg:
Clothed in Nakedness"
Jasmine Kitses, San Francisco State University
"The Aesthetic
of Weldon Kees"
Matthew J. McNees, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
"Celebrating
Beat Literature: 1955-Present"
Casey Brown, Jacksonville University
Raymond H. Clines, Jacksonville University [Session Chair]
Section IX-B: PHILOSOPHICAL
GATEWAYS OF THE HUMANITIES
Oregon
Room
"The Supplement--Gadamer's
and Derrida's Theories of Interpretation"
Peter Gade Stendal, University of Copenhagen
"Truth and
Truthfulness: The Hermeneutic Perspective in Orson Scott Card's Xenocide"
Lyn Motai, San Francisco State University
"Dickens
and the Mechanics of Education: The Case of the Teacher and the Flâneur
in Our Mutual Friend"
Ryan Young, San Francisco State University [Session Chair]
Section IX-C:
MUSICAL FORM, CREATION, RESPONSE
California
Room
"A Review
of Two Psychoanalytic Biographies of Beethoven: Their Relevance for Humanities
Courses on Western Music"
Barbara Hassid, Independent Scholar
"Music Listening
as Music Making"
Charles Morrison, Wilfrid Laurier University
"Benjamin
Britten's Auden Songs: Resuscitating 'Volume II'"
Sarah Terry, University of Washington
"Adequate
Form: Theme and Variation in Keats and Beethoven"
Frederick S. Thompson, Peninsula College [Session Chair]
Section
IX-D: FILM, MEDIA, AND THE POLITICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE
Redwood
Room
"Taking_a_part:
A Mixed-Media Exploration of Art, Social Agency and Change'
Gavin Sands, Elon University
"Why Greeks
Tolerate Violent Student Protest"
Jack Simmons, Armstrong Atlantic State University
"'There
is no logic in this'": Orson Welles's Transgressive Challenge to Cold
War Paranoia in Mr. Arkadin (1955)
Geoffrey Green, San Francisco State University [Session Chair]
10:30
a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break Lower Lobby Foyer
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Plenary Session Redwood Room
KEYNOTE
ADDRESS: Robert Scholes, Ph.D.
Research
Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
"Modernism's Other: The Art of Advertising"
12:30 p.m.
- 2:00 p.m. SESSION X (A-D) Oregon,
Nevada, California,
Redwood
Section X-A:
REPRESENTATION AND REALITY
Nevada
Room
"Men of
Our Times: Man Underground and Jean-Baptiste; An Existential Analysis of Bad
Faith in Two Literary Characters"
Sophia Leahy, University of San Francisco
"Pictures
Telling the Story: Dickens, His Illustrators, and the Influence of William
Hogarth"
James Reitter, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"Authenticating
the Black-Indian Body"
Sarita Nyasha Cannon, San Francisco State University
"Beckett,
Bruegel, The Matrix, and the Dynamics of Hope"
Shawn Tucker, Elon University [Session Chair]
Section X-B: GENDER
IDENTITY
Redwood
Room
"The Worst
Wolves Are Hairy on the Inside: Metaphor in Angela Carter's 'The Company of
Wolves'"
Ellen Peel, San Francisco State University
"Mary Cassatt's
Modern Woman and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair"
Mary Ann Wilson, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"'Wrestling
with Demons or Angels or Both': Art, Ambiguity, and the Potential for Self-Transformation
with/in Elizabeth Rosner's Blue Nude
Charlotte Berkowitz, Independent Scholar
"Hostages
in the Rose Garden: Feminine Neurosis in La Belle et La Bête'"
Doré Ripley, California State University East Bay [Session Chair]
Section X-C: HUMANISTIC REPRESENTATIONS OF SPIRITUALITY AND PROFANITY ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES Oregon Room
"Incorporating
Music in Humanities Courses: A User's Guide"
Jim Larner, Marian College
"The Blues:
At the Crossroads of Sacred and Profane "
Wendall Hanna, San Francisco State University
"The Wisdom
of the Saints: Illuminating Ecological Consciousness through Mystical Experience"
Amanda Linn Barker, Humboldt State University
"Jacob's
Ladder: Angel Encounters in 20th Century Literature, Art, and Film"
Lisa Graley, University of Louisiana at Lafayette [Session Chair]
Section
X-D: EXPLORATIONS IN MUSIC AND FILM
California
Room
"Whitman's
Periodical Travels as Music Critic"
Emily A. Bell, University of Florida
"Dissonance
and Harmony and the 'Household Symphony'" of George Cukor's Gaslight
Marcia Green, San Francisco State University
"Identity
Under Construction: Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings in The Elephant
Man and Lorenzo's Oil "
Julie McQuinn, Lawrence University
"Transformation
of the 'Psycho Theme' in Bernard Herrmann's Music for Psycho
Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas-Fort Smith [Session Chair]
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Break Lower Lobby Level
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. SESSION
XI (A-D) Oregon, Nevada, California,
Redwood
Section XI-A:
HUMANISTIC PEDAGOGY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
California
Room
"Transformations
in the Classroom: Re-Inventing the Interdisciplinary Humanities"
Carole C. Barnett, Jacksonville University
"What Would
Horace Mann Say About "No Child Left Behind"?
Jeffery S. Winter, National College of Education/National-Louis University
"Assessment
in the Humanities: How Do We Know We are Widening Their Horizons?"
Lee Ann E. Westman, Ferris State University
William Dyer, Minnesota State University-Mankato [Session Chair]
Section XI-B: Panel
Presentation: "Teaching Literature Alongside Painting and Architecture" Nevada
Room
Panel Chair: Ernest Smith, University of Central Florida
"Teaching
Ekphrastic Poetry: Where Poetry and Painting Meet"
Ernest Smith, University of Central Florida
"Literary
and Architectural Aesthetics"
David Simmons, Brevard Community College
"Teaching
Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Frank Lloyd Wright: Interiority, Consciousness,
Time, and Space in the Modernist Novel and the Home"
Carol Michaelsen, University of Central Florida
Section XI-C: QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY: COLONIAL, POSTCOLONIAL, GLOBAL Oregon Room
"Playboys
Armed and Kittish: A Look into the Social and Political Function of Matura's
Playboy of the West Indies"
James Aevermann, University of Guam
"Female
Subjectivity and Multiconsciousness in the Fiction of Nayantara Sahgal and
Anita Desai"
Adrianna Bayer, Humboldt State University
"The Crisis
and Restructuring of Global Identities Represented in Tsitsi Dangarembga's
Nervous Conditions and Zadie Smith's White Teeth"
Salumeh Eslamieh, San Francisco State University
"Mohammad
Iqbal on Connections Between Self, Nation, and the World"
Abdul Jabbar, City College of San Francisco [Session Chair]
Section XI-D: REPRESENTATIONS
OF TRANSGRESSION ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES Redwood
Room
"Hitchcock's
Homosexuals: An Analytical Perspective of the Homosexual Sociopath"
Chanté Mouton, San Francisco State University
"Living
the Don Juan Myth: Psychoanalyzing Slim's Pimp: The Story of My Life"
Sean Ellis, San Francsico State University
"To Die
Upon a Kiss: The Violent Lover in Popular Culture"
Duncan Lawson, San Francisco State University [Session
Chair]
4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. SESSION
XII
Panel Presentation:
"Cultural Studies and the Question of 'Academic Freedom'" Redwood
Room
Panel Chair: Brian Ganter,
University of Washington
"'Academic
Freedom' Means 'Freedom from Necessity': A Riposte"
Brian Ganter, University of Washington
"Exploring
the Limits of 'Freedom'": Implementing Contentious Curricula in the Writing
Classroom"
Rachel Goldberg, University of Washington
"The Politics of Freedom after Cultural Studies"
Stephanie Skourtes, University of British Columbia
Saturday, 3 March 2007
9:00 a.m. - Noon Conference Registration/Book Exhibits
Lower Lobby Foyer
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. SESSION XIII
(A-E) Oregon, Nevada, California,
Redwood,
Washington
Section XIII-A: SHAKESPEAREAN MEANINGS Washington Room
"Horus,
Hamlet, and the End of the Violence Cycle"
Jess Barbour, Elon University
"If It's
Not One Thing, It's Your Mother: Hamlet on Film"
Julie Sloan Brannon, Jacksonville University
"Arms and
Letters as Instruments of Dissonance and Harmony: A Study of Shakespeare's
As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet "
Raychel Haugrud Reiff, University of Wisconsin-Superior
"Teaching
King Lear as a Metaphysical Thought Experiment"
Thomas Sorger, Roger Williams University [Session Chair]
Section XIII-B:
APPROACHES TO WOMEN'S WRITING: TRAUMA, PERCEPTION,DIVERSITY, TRANSFORMATION
California
Room
"The Transformative
Power of Silence: Trauma Narratives of Marginalized Mothers"
Brandy A. Harvey, Nicholls State University
"Black Dog:
End-Run on a Train from Stonestown"
Lois Lyles, San Francisco State University
"A Case
for The Octoroon: Diversifying the Pedagogical Scope of Mary Elizabeth
Braddon and Victorian Literature"
Stacy Sakamoto, San Francisco State University
"Italy Revisited
and Reinvented by Contemporary Women Writers"
Alma Bennett, Clemson University [Session Chair]
Section XIII-C:
Panel Presentation: Transforming Teaching: (Re)Written Boundaries of Equity
in Film, Composition & Literary Studies"
Nevada
Room
Panel Chair: Nikola Hobbel, Humboldt State University
Discussant: Sarah McGreevy, Humboldt State University
"Transforming
Education"
Virginia Bax, Humboldt State University
"Teaching
Film as Literature: A Novel Approach to Transforming the Classroom"
Danielle Stadler, Humboldt State University
"Things
within Things: The Use of Alice Munro's Writings as a Pedagogical Device"
Sharon Black, Humboldt State University
"Queering
Composition"
Matt Franks, Humboldt State University [Session Chair]
Section XIII-D:
BEYOND TRANSGRESSIVE TRANSFORMATION: LITERATURE AND FILM, MODERNISM/POSTMODERNISM
Oregon
Room
"The Fascinating
Liminality of Jorge Luis Borges"
Kenneth Zimmerman, Tallahassee Community College
"Modernity
and Beyond"
Herman Haluza, San Francisco State University
[Session Chair]
Section XIII-E:
Off Mike: A Memoir
of Talk Radio & Literary Life
Redwood
Room
A
Reading by Michael Krasny, San Francisco State University,
Host of Forum on KQED, San Francisco Public Radio
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Break Lower Lobby Level
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. SESSION XIV (A-D) Oregon,
Nevada, California,
Redwood
Section XIV-A:
Workshop: "No More Excuses: A Stress-Free Method for Managing Students"
California
Room
Workshop Leader:
Gloria Howell, Saint Leo University
Section XIV-B: INTERDISCIPLINARY TRANSFORMATIONS OF EMOTION AND INTERPRETATION Nevada Room
"Burke's
Four Master Tropes: A New Way of Reading Robert Frost's 'Dust of Snow'
Steven M. Pedersen, San Diego State University
"Heuristics
Qua Hermeneutics"
Harrold Larrimore, San Francisco State University
"Poetry,
Aviation, Damnation: Flight in the Epic Underworld Topos and its Afterlife'
Stephanie Rowe, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
[Session Chair]
Section XIV-C: Roundtable:
"Building Bridges Between Introductory English and Communication Courses" Oregon
Room
Len Assante,
Volunteer State Community College
Shellie Michael, Volunteer State Community College
Section XIV-D: A Panel
of Original Ekphrastic Works
Redwood
Room
Panel Chair: Denise Rogers, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"Ekphrasis
and Performance-Based Pedagogy"
John Lawson, Robert Morris University
"Verlaine
Across the Disciplines"
Christine Renaudin, Sonoma State University
12:30 p.m. - 2: 00
p.m. CLOSING LUNCH ON NAHE Emerald Ballroom
Luncheon
Address : John Bassett, Ph.D.
President, Clark University
"Humanities Education in the New Century"
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