Eidólons: Songs of Ourselves at the Beginning of a New Millenium

CEA Program Chair Wendell Aycock, Texas Tech University

3:30-5:00 P.M. Ongoing Concerns Committee, Brinkley

3:30-5:00 P.M. Publications Committee, Cockrell

3:30-5:00 P.M. Constitution Committee, Ben Hollander

6:00-8:00 P.M. Conference Registration, West Mezzanine

8:00-10:00 P.M. CEA Board Meeting, International

8:30 A.M. CEA Board Continental Breakfast, International

9:00 A.M.-Noon CEA Board Meeting, International

12:00 Noon-6:00 P.M. Registration, West Mezzanine

12:00 Noon-1:30 P.M. CEA Recognition Luncheon, Jackson

12:00 Noon-6:00 P.M. Book Exhibit, Bert Parker

2:00-3:15 P.M. Concurrent Sessions (1-8)

3:15-3:30 P.M. Beverage Break, West Mezzanine

3:30-4:45 P.M. Concurrent Sessions (9-16)

5:00-6:00 P.M. Opening Plenary Session, Hernando Desoto

6:30-8:00 P.M. President’s Reception, Club Bar/Hollander

9:30-11:00 P.M. Poetry Reading and Lecture, General Moorman

2:00-3:15 P.M.

1. Varying Pedagogical Methods: Music, Engineering, and the Sea

2:00-3:15 P.M. Brinkley

Chair Kathy Rugoff, University of North Carolina-Wilmington

Presenters Gaye Winter, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, "Using Music as a Teaching Tool in English Composition and English Literature Classes"

Dean Fontenot, Texas Tech University, "Teaching Engineering through Literature: Introducing Non-Fiction to First-year Engineering Students"

Jill B. Gidmark, University of Minnesota, "Water-Talk in Dry- Dock: A Graduate Seminar in Literature and the Sea"

2:00-3:15 P.M. Cockrell

Chair Louis Hill Pratt, Florida A&M University

Presenters Charles J. Nolan, Jr., U. S. Naval Academy, "Hemingway’s Remarkable ‘Sea Change’"

Christopher A. Heafner, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, "Elements of Understanding: The Four Elements of Fire, Water, Earth and Air and Their Corresponding Philosophies in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury"

Ronald J. Nelson, James Madison University, "The ‘Simple Maze-Maker’ in Carol Shields’s Larry’s Party"

2:00-3:15 P.M. Ben Hollander

Chair Barbara Szubinska, Eastern Kentucky University

Presenters Jill Eichhorn, Austin Peay State University, "Dancing between Fiction and History: Miriam Grace Monfredo’s Women’s History Murder Mysteries"

Vlatka Velcic, Austin Peay State University, "Contemporary Armed Conflict in Fiction by Women: Le Minh Khue on Vietnam, Hanan Al-Shaykh on Lebanon, Dubravka Ugresic on Former Yugoslavia"

Judi Mitchell-Mobley, Austin Peay University, "'I’m just feeding him. I ain’t adopting him’: Women’s Roles in Clyde Edgerton’s Walking Across Egypt"

4. Respuestas of American, Mexican, Indian, and African American Women

2:00-3:15 P.M. Alonzo Locke

Chair M. Christine Cotton, Columbia College

Presenters Ann Daghistany, Texas Tech University, "Louisa May Alcott’s WORK and Employment Environments for Victorian American Women"

Julia Whitsitt, Lander University, "Sor Juana’s Uses of Ethos Against Ethos in La Respuesta"

Shrimati C. Das, Nehru College, India, "Woman and Her Family: Indian and Afro-American: A Literary Perspective"

2:00-3:15 P.M. Magnolia

Chair Darrell Fike, Valdosta State University

Presenters Darrell Fike, Valdosta State University, "The Pleasure Principle: The Liberation of Personal Voice in Academic Writing"

Devan Cook, Boise State University, "Essaying Composition: Teaching Personally, Writing Professionally"

Mark Smith, Valdosta State University, "Composition Scholarship or Political Ideology"

2:00-3:15 P.M. General Moorman

Chair Richard Raymond, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Presenters Cheryl Harris, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "Record the Past: Mining History in the Retirement"

Frankie Chadwick, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "Go Forth Every Day: Enhancing the Writing Skills of Senior Citizens"

Betty Freeland, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "Prepare for the Future: Service Learning in the Work World"

7. "Something is Converted to Savor": Transforming the Raw Materials of Life

2:00-3:15 P.M. International

Chair Bes Stark Spangler, Peace College

Presenters Jeanne R. Nostrandt, James Madison University, "Eating and Other Rituals in Southern Life"

James Owen, James Madison University, Columbus State University, "Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse: Mrs. Ramsey’s Last Supper"

Jean W. Cash, James Madison University, "Larry Brown’s Father and Son: Proper and Improper Nourishment"

2:00-3:15 P.M. Kentshire

Chair Laurie Baker, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Presenters Avilah Getzler, University of California, Berkeley, "Warning: Reading Without Instructions Can Be Dangerous to Your Health"

Emily Cruse, University of Pennsylvania, "Star Pins and Jimmy- books: Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom in Emily Climbs"

Sally Palmer, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, "The Erotic Classroom: Bronte’s Shirley and the Teacher-Pupil Relationship"

Laurie Baker, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, "’Teaching’ Plays: The Shaping of a Pedagogical Practice"

3:15-3:30 P.M.

Refreshments by: Florida State University

3:30-4:45 P.M.

3:30-4:45 P.M. Brinkley

Chair M. Christine Cotton, Columbia College

Presenters Bill Scalia, Louisiana State University, "Sea Imagery in Melville’s ‘Misgivings’ and ‘The House-top’"

Robert Kibler, Minot State University, "When a Good Raft and Compass Won’t Do: Ezra Pound’s Reliance in The Cantos on Guan yin, Chinese Patron-Goddess of Those Who Travel by Sea"

Larry Rubin, Georgia Tech, "The Sea as Creative Inspiration: Poetry"

3:30-4:45 P.M. Cockrell

Chair Deborah M. Mix, Michigan State University

Presenters: Amy Hodges, Austin Peay State University, "Search for Self in Ellen Foster and Clover"

Barbara Szubinska, Eastern Kentucky University, "Ulysses as Woman: Barbara Kingsolver’s Treatment of the Journey as a Vehicle for Women’s Personal Growth"

Linda Barnes, Austin Peay State University, "The Search for a Female Self in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine"

3:30-4:45 P.M. Ben Hollander

Chair Nelljean M. Rice, Coastal Carolina University

Presenters Nelljean M. Rice, Coastal Carolina University, "Ceremonies that Defeat Despair: ‘. . . things which don’t shift and grow are dead things’--A Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony"

Linda Smoak Schwartz, Coastal Carolina University, "Chaim Potok’s The Chosen: Embracing Cultural and Religious Diversity in the New Millennium"

Preston L. McKever-Floyd, Coastal Carolina University, "Tell Nobody but God: The Theme of Transformation in The Color Purple"

3:30-4:45 P.M. Alonzo Locke

Chair Arlene Wilner, Rider University

Presenters Arlene Wilner, Rider University, "Scholarship and Teaching: Enhancing the Partnership"

Michele Haughey, Rider University, "Faculty Learning Communities: Practicing What We Preach"

Anne Salvatore, Rider University, "Curricular Reform and Faculty Development: Redefining Remediation" Kathrin Wagner, Rider University, "Scholarly Teaching Across Cultures: Challenges and Strategies"

3:30-4:45 P.M. Magnolia

Chair Gloria Jones, Winthrop University

Presenters Amy Scher, Broward Community College, "The Blank Page: Prewriting Motivational Strategies"

Mark Ray Schmidt, University of Arkansas at Monticello, "Metaphors as Pedagogical Tools in Composition Classrooms"

3:30-4:45 P.M. General Moorman

Chair Lawrence I. Berkove, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Presenters Janelle Collins, Arkansas State University, "New Tales to Tell: Gayl Jones’s Return to Storytelling"

Dana Chamblee Carpenter, Lipscomb University, "An Artist’s Journey: Maya Angelou’s Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas"

Deborah Smith Pollard and Lawrence I. Berkove, University of Michigan-Dearborn, "James Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’: A Musical Christ"

3:30-4:45 P.M. International

Chair Monica Weis, Nazareth College of Rochester

Presenters Anthony Oldknow, Eastern New Mexico University, "Communism and The Class System in Big Jim McLain"

Cyndy Hendershot, Arkansas State University, "The Manchurian Candidate and Early Sixties Anti-Communism"

Carolyn Bruder, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, "David Mamet at Play in the Fields of Genre"

16. Victorian Views: Dickens, Browning, and Thackeray

3:30-4:45 P.M. Kentshire

Chair Jill Eichhorn, Austin Peay State University

Presenters Tara McDonald, Winthrop University, "Are Ruskin and Dickens Chopping Beads or Chopping Heads?"

Linda Pridgen, East Tennessee State University, "John Jasper– Portrait of the Fragmented Self"

Larry D. Griffin, Dyersburg State Community College, "The Auditor in Robert Browning’s Dramatic Monologues"

Karen Lentz Clark, University of Arkansas, "The Puppet Strings of the Culture Industry"

5:00-6:00 P.M. Hernando Desoto

Welcome Bonnie Braendlin, CEA President, Florida State University

Introduction Alex McFadden, Valdosta State University

Speaker Fred Freeman, The University of Edinburgh, "Not ‘a trifling business’--Robert Burns as a Song-Writer"

7:00-8:30 A.M. CEA Department Chairs’ Breakfast, Jackson

8:00-5:00 P.M. Conference Registration, West Mezzanine

8:00-5:00 P.M. Book Exhibit, Bert Parker

8:30-10:00 A.M. Concurrent Sessions (17-24)

10:00-10:15 A.M. Beverage Break, West Mezzanine

10:15-11:30 A.M. Concurrent Sessions (25-32)

11:30-1:00 P.M. Diversity Luncheon, Jackson

1:15-2:30 P.M. Concurrent Sessions (33-40)

2:30-2:45 P.M. Beverage Break, West Mezzanine

2:45-4:00 P.M. Concurrent Sessions (41-49)

5:00-6:00 P.M. CEA Business Meeting, Hernando Desoto

7:00-9:00 P.M. Women’s Connection Dinner, Louis XVI

7:00-8:30 A.M., Jackson

8:30-10:00 A.M.

8:30-10:00 A.M. Brinkley

Chair Jeraldine R. Kraver, University of Texas at San Antonio

Presenters: Odilia Boffill, University of Texas at San Antonio, "Aphrodite’s Appetite: Isabel Allende Talks Food and Sex"

William J. Carrasco, Austin Peay State University, "From Legend to Social Reality: Narrative and Semantic Stereotypes in La Llorana"

Amelia Uribe, University of Kentucky, "Writing Resistance in New Spain: The Texts of Francisca Josepha de la Concepción de Castillo"

8:30-10:00 A.M. Cockrell

Chair Bruce Bickley, Florida State University

Presenters Beth Jensen, Georgia Perimeter College, "’The sea . . . whisper’d me’: The Emergence of Self in Whitman’s ‘Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking’"

Maryhelen C. Harmon, University of South Florida, "Reflections of Narcissus in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Watery World"

Aaron Urbanczyk, Florida State University, "Mardi as Microcosm: Social Spaces and Society at Sea in Melville’s First Romance"

8:30-10:00 A.M. Ben Hollander

Chair Robert Hoskins, James Madison University

Presenters James Ruff, James Madison University, "Cultural and Psychological Approaches to The Searchers"

Alan J. Silva, James Madison University, "Reimagining Captivity in John Ford’s The Searchers"

Robert Hoskins, James Madison University, "Tragic Wanderer: Ethan Edwards in The Searchers"

8:30-10:00 A.M. Alonzo Locke

Chair: Marina Favila, James Madison University

Presenters Courtney J. Ruffner, Manatte Community College and Ringling School of Art and Design, "Shifting Poetics in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet"

David M. Taylor, Southeast Missouri State University, "The Acceptance of Othello, the Moor of Venice"

Dagny Boebel, Manchester College, "'Yours, if you talk of tales’: The Struggle for Discourse Dominance in The Taming of the Shrew"

8:30-10:00 A.M. Magnolia

Chair Larry Carlson, College of Charleston

Presenters Larry Carlson, College of Charleston, "Fruitlands as Transcendentalist Dystopia"

Daniel Shealy, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, "’Like a Great Fire’: Louisa May Alcott and Theodore Parker"

Alfred Guy Litton, Texas Woman’s University, "Margaret’s Erotic Influence (?): Margaret Fuller and Charles King Newcomb’s ‘Songs of Love’"

8:30-10:00 A.M. General Moorman

Chair Daniel Robinson, Widener University

Presenters William Richey, University of South Carolina, "Ray Davies’ Songs of Self-Consciousness"

Daniel Robinson, Widener University, "’Everybody’s a Star’: A Kinky Deconstruction of Tommy and Ziggy Stardust"

Mark Graybill, Widener University, "’Nothing really matters’: Inauthenticity, Intertextuality, and Rock in Wayne’s World"

8:30-10:00 A.M. International

Chair Epifanio San Juan, Washington State University

Presenters Jack V. Barbera, University of Mississippi, "The Spiritual Profundity of American Beauty"

Ed Wiltse, Nazareth College, "Triumph of the Nerds: Media Fans in Two Recent Films"

Epifanio San Juan, Washington State University, "From Madame Butterfly to Miss Saigon: Stigmata of Others, Ourselves"

8:30-10:00 A.M. Kenshire

Chair Reginald Martin, University of Memphis

Presenters Jid Lee, Middle Tennessee State University, "Harriet Jacobs and Harriet Wilson: Two Black Women in the Hands of White Audiences"

Litasha Dennis, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, "African American Women Writers and the Novel of Manners"

Reginald Martin, University of Memphis, "The Significance of Eroticism in the Texts of Writers of African Descent"

10:00-10:15 A.M.

Refreshments by: The University of Mississippi

10:15-11:30 A.M.

10:15-11:30 A.M. Brinkley

Chair Ann R. Hawkins, Austin Peay State University

Presenters Deborah M. Mix, Michigan State University, "’Identity Always Worries Me’: Gertrude Stein’s Everybody’s Autobiography"

Jeraldine R. Kraver, University of Texas at San Antonio, "Writing Our Lives: Making the Words Fit the Pictures in Norma Cantu’s Canicula"

Tracey McHenry, Eastern Washington University, "Inside Sioux Society/Outside Academe: Ella DeLoria’s Waterlily as Fictionalized Anthropology"

10:15-11:30 A.M. Cockrell

Chair Elbert R. Hill, Southeastern Oklahoma State University

Presenters Elbert R. Hill, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, "Sex, Lies, and Drugs: A History of Modern Young Adult Literature"

Robin Murray, Eastern Illinois University, "Multicultural Songs of Innocence and Experience: An Initiation into the Diversity of Cultures"

Michael Main, Southeastern Illinois College, "Innocence for the Experienced: Young Adult/Children’s/Fantasy Literature in the College Classroom"

Paula J. Smith Allen, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, "Is It Time for a Change? A (Mis?-)Adventure in Anthologizing for the High School Curriculum"

Gail Lewis, Vivian Webb School, "Summer Reading Programs for Adolescents"

10:15-11:30 A.M. Ben Hollander

Chair Kerry McKeever, University of Idaho

Presenters: Kathleen St. Peters, St. Louis University, "Sydney Owenson’s Irish Nationalism: How the Wild Irish Girl Rewrote the Act of Union"

Charles K. David, Austin Peay State University, "Marguerite, Countess of Blessington’s Vision of France in Victims of Society"

Mary Lynn Broe, Grinnell College, "Beyond Artful Voyeurism: Reading Irish Poets in a Time of Political Trauma"

10:15-11:30 A. M. Alonzo Locke

Chair R. D. Madison, United States Naval Academy

Presenters Linda L. Jacobs, Francis Marion University, "'Deswamped, Denuded, and Derivered’: Rape of the Natural World in Faulkner’s Go Down Moses"

Karen Sray, U. S. Naval Academy, "The River in Siddhartha: Confronting the Journey"

Curt Leitz, University of Minnesota, "Nature or Nurture? The Tragic Vision of Twentieth-Century Mississippi River Travelogues"

10:15-11:30 A. M. Magnolia

Chair Becky Cargile, Freed-Hardeman University

Presenters Donald Shull, Freed-Hardeman University, "Writing to the Reader: Audience, Gender, and Narrative Strategies in Two Middle English Versions of the Melusine Story"

Amy Beth Norman, Indiana University, "Coming of Age in the South: Developing Female Voice in Lee Smith’s Short Stories"

John McLaughlin, Freed-Hardeman University, "Rachel Crothers on Broadway: A Case Study in Women’s Popular Comedy of the 1920s"

Margaret Payne, Freed-Hardeman University, "’If you remember something, then it’s true’: Barbara Kingsolver’s Third-Wave Feminist Strategies in Animal Dreams"

10:15-11:30 A. M. General Moorman

Chair Fred L. Standley, Florida State University

Presenters Kathy Rugoff, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, "Phantoms of Philip Roth: Race, Ethnicity, and Aesthetics in The Ghost Writer, and The Human Stain"

V. Britt Terry, Winthrop University, "Meaningful Noise: The Places of Voice in Don DeLillo’s White Noise"

10:15-11:30 A. M. International

Chair Ronald J. Nelson, James Madison University

Presenters Justin Wert, University of Mississippi, "Crane’s ‘The Blue Hotel’: Perceptions of Violence in At-Risk Student Responses"

Ronald J. Nelson, James Madison University, "The Film and Drama Versions of Crane’s ‘The Blue Hotel’"

Joan Frederick, James Madison University, "Black, Brown, Yellow: Dogs in the Short Fiction of Stephen Crane"

10:15-11:30 A. M. Kentshire

Chair Doris Davis, Texas A&M University, Texarkana

Presenters Kathy Hadley, Michigan State University, "’The Helpless Way She Hung on Him’: Teaching Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Doris Davis, Texas A&M University, Texarkana, "The Signifying Monkey in the Short Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston"

Norma R. McDuffie, Winthrop University, "A Nietzschean Study of Toni Morrison’s Sula: The ‘Sovereign Individual’"

11:45-1:00 P.M. Jackson

Chair James R. Bennett, University of Arkansas

Speaker Ramenga Osotsi, James Madison University, "The Swahili Canon and Its Assessment of Writers in English"

1:15-2:30 P.M.

1:15-2:30 P.M. Brinkley

Chair Tracey McHenry, Eastern Washington University

Presenters Lisa K. Jordan, University of Texas at San Antonio, "Motherlove: The Role of Mothers in Toni Morrison’s Beloved"

Coretta M. Pittman, Wayne State University, "(Re)defining Women’s Sexuality in the Music of Female Hip-Hop Artists"

Shelia Collins, University of Kentucky, "Censoring Sexuality in Late Nineteen-Century African American Women’s Novels"

1:15-2:30 P.M. Cockrell

Chair Bruce Bickley, Florida State University

Presenters Shari Hodges, University of Mississippi, "Vampires at the Seaside: Whitby as a Gothic Setting in Bram Stoker’s Dracula"

M. Christine Cotton, Columbia College, "Lost at Sea? Narrative Vagaries in Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before"

Hannah Martin, United States Naval Academy, "The Dry Flood: Imagery of the Deluge in The Woman of the Dunes"

1:15-2:30 P.M. Ben Hollander

Chair Ned Laff, Barat College

Presenters Ned Laff, Barat College, "Problems in the Field of Advising"

Dean Baldwin, Pennsylvania State University Erie, The Behrend College, "Planning a National English Advising Association"

1:15-2:30 P.M. Alonzo Locke

Chair Bonnie Braendlin, Florida State University, CEA President

Presenters Bob J. Frye, Texas Christian University, "Creating Selves in First- Year Composition: Helen Keller, Scott Momaday, and Weekly Epistolary Selves"

Nancy P. Woodson, Otterbein College, "Using Memoir to Reveal the Self"

E. Suzanne Owens, Lorain County Community College, "Songs in the Key of ‘Me’"

1:15-2:30 P.M. Magnolia

Chair Jim O’Hara, Penn State York

Presenters Michael Jarrett, Penn State York, "Elvis vs. Jazz"

David Russell, Penn State York, "Elvis-Style Citizenship"

Jim O’Hara, Penn State York, "He’s Still Basically Alright, Mama, or Five Types of Elvis Enigma"

1:15-2:30 P.M. General Moorman

Chair Dagny Boebel, Manchester College

Presenters Ann Hawkins, Austin Peay State University, "Marketing Shakespeare: The Growth of the Boydell Gallery between 1788 and 1804"

Marina Favila, James Madison University, "Shakespeare’s Mortal Joy"

Leslie Walker, Winthrop University, "Fathers, Daughters, and Marriage in Shakespeare: Patriarchal Domination Versus Protestant Views of Choice"

39. American Poets: Poe, Whitman, and Cummings

1:15-2:30 P.M. International

Chair Julia Whitsitt, Lander University

Presenters Ruth M. Harrison, Arkansas Tech University, "Poe’s ‘Israfel’: A Song of Thomas Campion"

C. Harry Bruder, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, "The Modern Man I Sing: Revisiting Whitman’s Modernity"

Jeff Grieneisen, Manatee Community College, "The Cultural Representations of Others in the Poetry of E. E. Cummings"

1:15-2:30 P.M. Kentshire

Chair Robert Hoskins, James Madison University

Presenters Fred Standley, Florida State University, "The Politician as English Major: Sen. Claude Pepper’s Harvard Law School Diary"

Dale Purvis, Georgia Southern University, "Listen! The Wind: Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Second Narrative of Flight"

William Tanner, Texas Woman’s University, "Mythology and Multiculturalism; Or Mistakes Made Clear"

2:30-2:45 P.M.

2:45-4:00 P.M.

41. A Look at Diversity, Idiom, and Globalization

2:45-4:00 P.M. Brinkley

Chair Laura C. Jarmon, University of Tennessee at Martin

Presenters Linda Cooper Knight, College of the Albemarle, "Write Me a River: Using Everyday Elements to Teach Writing in a Diverse Classroom"

Laura C. Jarmon, University of Tennessee at Martin, "Evasion and Deferral in Black Folk Speech"

Rosita Chazarreta Rourke, Independent Scholar, "Globalization and a Culture of Resistance: Prospects for the New Millenium"

2:45-4:00 P.M. Cockrell

Chair Dean Baldwin, Pennsylvania State University Erie, The Behrend College

Presenters Natalie Tarenko, Texas Tech University, "The Recording Angel Figure in Victorian Literature and Beyond"

Joan Dargan, St. Lawrence University, "’Our Private and Exacting Demons’: Rereading the Journals of Sylvia Plath"

Ron Shafer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, "The Poetry of Jane Kenyon: Journey to Light"

2:45-4:00 P.M. Ben Hollander

Chair Jill Gidmark, University of Minnesota

Presenters R. D. Madison, United States Naval Academy, "A Confused Noise Within: What Happens in The Tempest"

R. Bruce Bickley, Florida State University, "Landless Truths: Thought-Diving to Windward of the Lee Shore in Melville and Thoreau"

Robert Del Tredici, Vanier College-Montreal, "Herman Melville, Thomas Berry, and the Proto-Ecozoic Sea"

2:45-4:00 P.M. Alonzo Locke

Chair Windy Charles, Piedmont College

Presenters Lisa Hodgens Lumpkin, Piedmont College, "Breaking Out: Revisioning Ourselves as English Professionals"

Windy Charles, Piedmont College, "Breaking Out: Reinventing the Writing Self"

Stephanie Almagno, Piedmont College, "Ethnic Women Writers and the Study of the Formation of Self"

Liz Kelly, Western Carolina University, "Bridging the Gap between Public and Private Discourse: Applications of Joan Didion’s Essays in the Composition Classroom"

2:45-4:00 P.M. Magnolia

Chair Bob J. Frye, Texas Christian University

Presenters Kathy Gehr, College of Charleston, "Citizen Scholars and the

Ethics of Advancing Composition"

Melissa Standley, Lander University, "Song of Myself but In the Service of Others: The Composition Balancing Act, or Redefining My Composition Pedagogy"

Bob J. Frye, Texas Christian University, "Seeking Pedagogical Inspiration for the New Millennium: Parker Palmer’s The Courage to Teach as a Provocative Resource"

2:45-4:00 P.M. General Moorman

Chair Ann Daghistany, Texas Tech University

Presenters Mase Lewter, Texas Tech University, "Madame Bovary’s Blind Man, An Intertextual Reconsideration"

Louise Hanes, Valdosta State University, "Teaching Japanese Literature: Three Influential Religions of Japan"

Sue Bennett, New Mexico Junior College, "To See Ourselves as Others See Us"

47. Irish Literature

2:45-4:00 P.M. International

Chair Beverly Spears, Professor Emerita of Francis Marion University

Presenters Dan Ross, Columbus State University, "Footprints of the Father: Seamus Heaney and the Uncanny"

Beverly Spears, Professor Emerita of Francis Marion University, "Gifted Family in a Torn Land: The Irish Yeatses"

Erin O’Neill, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, "Public Memory, Private Grief: Some Personal Observations on Distant Music in Joyce’s ‘The Dead’"

2:45-4:00 P.M. Kentshire

Director Larry Rubin, Georgia Institute of Technology

5:00-6:00 P.M. Hernando Desoto

7:00-9:00 P.M. Louis XVI

7:00-8:15 A.M. CEA Affiliates Officers and Members Breakfast, Jackson

8:00-10:00 A.M. Conference Registration, West Mezzanine

8:00-12:00 A.M. Book Exhibit, Bert Parker

8:30-9:45 A.M. Concurrent Sessions (49-55)

9:45:10:00 A.M. Beverage Break, West Mezzanine

10:00-11:15 A.M. Concurrent Sessions (56-61)

11:20-12:35 A.M. Concurrent Sessions (62-67)

12:35-12:50 P.M. Traditional CEA Book Drawing, Bert Parker

12:50-2:30 P.M. All-Conference Luncheon, Venetian

8:30-9:45 A.M.

49. Perspectives on American Women Writers

8:30-9:45 A.M. Kentshire

Chair Dan Crocker, Southeast Missouri State University

Presenters Joseph Csicsila, Eastern Michigan University, "Setting the Record Straight: Sara Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins Freeman, American Literature Anthologies, and the American Canon"

Mark Madigan, Nazareth College of Rochester, "The ‘Mulatto’ Mourner in Cather’s ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’"

Dean Shackelford, Southeast Missouri State University, "’The Kind That Spits the Ice Cubes at You": Flannery O’Connor and Technology"

Teresa C. Caruso, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, "The (fe)Male Self: Flannery O’Connor’s Women"

8:30-9:45 A.M. Brinkley

Chair Epifanio San Juan, Washington State University

Presenters Percy Miller, Savannah State University, "’The Song of Songs’: A Pragmatic Wedding Ceremony"

Aleisha R. Cheatle, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, "From the 1830s to the Present: Sex, Scandal, and Social Hierarchies in the Novel and Film"

Alice Ann Fiser Munson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "Law and Literature: Old Friends, New Options"

George Bellis, St. Cloud State University, "Deconstructing Florida: Life and Literary Studies"

8:30-9:45 A.M. Cockrell

Chair Jeffrey Cass, Texas A&M International University

Presenters Jenifer Becklehymer, Austin Peay State University, "Interpreting the Poetess: Letitia Landon and The Troubador"

Karen Sorenson, Austin Peay State University, "Marie-Elisabeth Cave, a Woman Artist as Viewed by her Critics"

Kerry McKeever, University of Idaho, "The Body I Love to Hate, the Body I Hate to Love: Dido, Perdita, and Melancholia in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man"

8:30-9:45 A.M. Ben Hollander

Chair Peggy Wilfong, Cedarville University

Presenters M. Sean Wilson, Austin Peay State University, "’Celebrations of a Heroic Life’: Reading the Icelandic Sage of King Hrolf Kraki as a Cultural Prequel to Beowulf"

Vivian Thomlinson, Cameron University, "Spiritual Redemption and Marital Accord in ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’"

Peggy Wilfong, Cedarville University, "Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland’s Edward II: Self-Reflective and Cautionary"

8:30-9:45 A.M. Alonzo Locke

Chair Eleanor Green, University of Maine-Presque Isle

Presenters Robyn S. Shaw, Western Carolina University, "Enid Blyton’s ‘Alice -All-Alone’ as an Analogy for Reading"

James R. Bennett, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, "Vonnegut’s Response to Air War on Cities in Slaughterhouse Five"

Peter Kratzke, University of Texas at San Antonio, "Jack London’s Martin Eden, The Man on Bicycle"

8:30-9:45 A.M. Magnolia

Chair Gaye Winter, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

Presenters Margaret Walters, Kennesaw State University, "Writing Assignments that Enable Students to Become Part of a Writing Community: Moving from the Classroom to Communities Beyond"

Cynthia McWilliams, Austin Peay State University, "Peer Review, Silent Students, and the Classroom Community"

Twila Yates Papay, Rollins College, "Writing into Community: Lessons in Civic Education"

8:30-9:45 A.M. General Moorman

Chair Colby H. Kullman, University of Mississippi

Presenters Mark Burgh and Kelly Jennings, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Johnson C. Smith University, "From Marlowe to Magneto: The Persistence of the Jewish Villain in Popular Culture"

Walter Levy, Pace University, "Picnics of Innocence and Experience"

Robert F. Geary, James Madison University, "Songs of Pain: Popular Fiction as Theodicy in Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow"

9:45-10:00 A.M

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10:00-11:15 A.M.

10:00-11:15 A.M. International

Chair Evelyne Weeks, Winthrop University

Presenters Earl Wilcox, Winthrop University, "Edith Wharton and Divorce: The Novelist as Creator of American Culture"

Siobhan Craft Brownson, Winthrop University, "'That of Janus Would Be Most Suitable for Me’: Mary and Emily in Susan Ferrier’s Marriage"

Gloria G. Jones, Winthrop University, "Marriage in Middlemarch: Great Expectations or Thwarted Once More"

10:00-11:15 A.M. Kentshire

Chair Mary E. Martin, Winthrop University

Presenters Phebe Davidson, University of South Carolina-Aiken, "Community and Isolation: Bounding the Writing’s Life"

Mary E. Martin, Winthrop University, "The Ritual of Leaping"

John Harvey, Indiana University Southeast, "The Crowd We Call Our Lives"

Dorothy Perry Thompson, Winthrop University, "Hurrying the Spirit: Quickening the Word"

10:00-11:15 A.M. General Moorman

Chair Barbara Wiedemann, Auburn University at Montgomery

Presenters Greg Carpenter, Lipscomb University, "The Intersection of Race and Masculinity in Tennessee Williams’ Plays"

Richard S. Pressman, St. Mary’s University of Texas, "'Lyle Saxon Confronts the ‘N’ Word: Children of Strangers as an Anti- Racist Novel"

Kristen Rouse, Florida State University, "The ‘Invisible Empire’ Visible: A New South, a New National Manhood"

Barbara Wiedemann, Auburn University at Montgomery, "Southern Women Writers and Natural Surroundings"

10:00-11:15 A.M. Magnolia

Chair Peter Kratzke, University of Texas at San Antonio

Presenters Miles A. Kimball, Murray State University, "Women and Language in W. H. Mallock’s Human Document"

Jeffrey Cass, Texas A&M International University, "The Story of Avis: Phelps’s Orientalist Figure of the Sphinx"

Kelli Karns, University of Texas at San Antonio, "Eve and Lilith in Kate Chopin’s Awakening"

10:00-11:15 A.M. Alonzo Locke

Chair Wes Berry, Rockford College

Presenters Mary Hussmann, St. Lawrence University, "Out There"

Salita Bryant, University of Mississippi, "Selected Poems from ‘Love, and Do What You Will’"

Wes Berry, Rockford College, "The Day the Mushrooms Died: A Story with a Morel"

61. Self-Reflexivity in American Fiction of the Late 20th Century

10:00-11:15 A.M. Ben Hollander

Chair Dean Shackelford, Southeast Missouri State University

Presenters Daniel Crocker, Southeast Missouri State University, "What’s the Use?: Ishmael Reed’s The Free-Lance Pallbearers as a Postmodern Parody of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man"

Charles A. S. Ernst, Hilbert College, "Constructing the Self: The Dream of Business and the Business of Dreams in Steven Millhauser’s Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer"

Allen Pridgen, Virginia Intermont College, "Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins: Naming and Being"

11:20-12:35 P.M. Brinkley

Chair Madeline Santoro, Union College

Presenters Byran Moore, Arkansas State University, "What We Teach When We Teach Composition: Teaching Writing as a Thinking, Process (and Skill) Course"

Robert and Laura Lambdin, University of South Carolina- Columbia, "Composition with Apologies to the Police: ‘I Hope That Someone Gets My Message (Board) in a Bottle’"

Madeline Santoro, Union College, "Tips for Developing On-Line Courses"

11:20-12:35 P.M. Cockrell

Chair Michael Vander Weele, Trinity Christian College

Presenters Rebecca Steinberger, College Misericordia, "Savage Seductions and Racial Rifts: East/West Binaries and Imperialist Ideology in E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India"

John Haegert, University of Evansville, "India as Subversive Other in Forster’s A Passage to India"

Sharon Higby, James Madison University, "Conrad and Achebe: Defining Darkness at a Distance"

Michael Vander Weele, Trinity Christian College, "Simone Weil: Reading the Self Away"

11:20-12:35 P.M. Ben Hollander

Chair Byron K. Brown, Valdosta State University

Presenters: Colby H. Kullman, University of Mississippi, "Norm Figures in William Hogarth’s Satiric Engraving"

Stephan Schaffrath, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, "Order- versus-Chaos Dichotomy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula"

Byron K. Brown, Valdosta State University, "’Under the Sea’: Harry Potter and the Quest for Wholeness"

11:20-12:35 P.M. Alonzo Locke

Chair Nina Tassi, Morgan State University

Presenters Thomas H. Getz, Penn State York, "Stone Speech: The Problematic Relationship of Language and Nature"

Nina Tassi, Morgan State University, "The Prophetic ‘I’ of the Contemporary Poet"

Roy I. Mumme, Florida Gulf Coast University, "Disremembered Songs: Faded Meanings, Kenotic Metaphors, and Lost Vocabularies Among the ‘Homeless-Bound’"

11:20-12:35 P.M. Magnolia

Chair Ronald J. Nelson, James Madison University

Presenters H. Fil Dowling, Jr., Professor Emeritus, Towson State University, "’The Unreal Real’: Structure and Subjectivity in Crane’s ‘The Five White Mice’"

Patrick Dooley, St. Bonaventure University, "Stephen Crane in Mexico: Tolerance, Openness and Cultural Anti-imperialism"

Benjamin Fisher, University of Mississippi, "British Perspectives on Stephen Crane’s Maggie and George’s Mother"

11:20-12:35 P.M. General Moorman

Chair Earl Wilcox, Winthrop University

Presenters Max Childers, Winthrop University, "Readings from Congregation of the Dead"

Evelyne Weeks, Winthrop University, "Readings from The Cross"

Julie Townsend, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, "Readings from Drag Queen Women"

12:35-12:50 P.M. Bert Parker

12:50- 2:30 P.M. Venetian

Presiding Bonnie Braendlin, CEA President

Introduction Wendell Aycock, Texas Tech University

Speaker Rolando Hinojosa, University of Texas at Austin, "Quo Vadis, American Literature?"

End of CEA Program

Allen, Paula J. S., 26

Almagno, Stephanie, 44

Aycock, Wendell, CEA Program Chair, All-Conference Luncheon

Baker, Laurie, 8

Baldwin, Dean, 35, 42

Barbera, Jack, 23

Barnes, Linda, 10

Becklehymer, Jenifer, 51

Bellis, George, 50

Bennett, James R., Diversity Luncheon, 53

Bennett, Sue, 46

Berkove, Lawrence I., 14

Berry, Wes, 60

Bickley, R. Bruce, 18, 34, 43

Boebel, Dagny, 20, 38

Boffill, Odilia, 17

Braendlin, Bonnie, CEA President, Plenary Session, 36, All-Conference Luncheon

Broe, Mary Lynn, 27

Brown, Byron K., 64

Brownson, Siobhan C., 56

Bruder, C. Harry, 39

Bruder, Carolyn, 15

Bryant, Salita, 60

Burgh, Mark, 55

Cargile, Becky, 29

Carlson, Larry, 21

Carpenter, Dana C., 14

Carpenter, Greg, 58

Carrasco, William J., 17

Caruso, Teresa, 49

Cash, Jean W., 7

Cass, Jeffrey, 51, 59

Chadwick, Frankie, 6

Charles, Windy, 44

Cheatle, Aleisha, 50

Childers, Max, 67

Clark, Karen L. 16

Collins, Janelle, 14

Collins, Shelia, 33

Cook, Devan, 5

Cotton, M. Christine, 4, 9, 34

Crocker, Daniel, 49, 61

Cruse, Emily, 8

Csicsila, Joseph, 49

Daghistany, Ann, 4, 46

Dargan, Joan, 42

Das, Shrimati, 4

David, Charles K., 27

Davidson, Phoebe, 57

Davis, Doris, 32

Del Tredici, Robert, 43

Dennis, Litasha, 24

Dooley, Patrick, 66

Dowling, H. Fil, 66

Durham, Dixie L., 23

Eichhorn, Jill, 3, 16

Ernst, Charles A. S., 61

Favila, Marina, 20, 38

Fike, Darrell, 5

Fike, Matthew, 13

Fisher, Benjamin, 66

Freeman, Fred, Plenary Session

Fontenot, A. Dean, 1

Frederick, Joan, 31

Freeland, Betty, 6

Frye, Bob J., 36, 45

Geary, Robert F., 55

Gehr, Kathy, 45

Getz, Thomas H., 65

Getzler, Avilah, 8

Gidmark, Jill, 1, 43

Graybill, Mark, 22

Green, Eleanor, 53

Grieneisen, Jeff, 39

Griffin, Larry D., 16

Hadley, Kathy, 32

Haegert, John, 63

Hanes, Louise, 46

Harmon, Maryhelen C., 18

Harris, Cheryl, 6

Harrison, Ruth M., 39

Harvey, John, 57

Haughey, Michele, 12

Hawkins, Ann R., 25, 38

Heafner, Christopher, 2

Hendershot, Cyndy, 15

Higby, Sharon, 63

Hill, Elbert R., 26

Hinojosa, Rolando, All-Conference Luncheon

Hodges, Amy, 10

Hodges, Shari, 34

Hoskins, Robert, Executive Director, 19, 40

Hussman, Mary, 60

Jacobs, Linda L., 28

Jarmon, Laura C., 41

Jarrett, Michael, 37

Jennings, Kelly, 55

Jensen, Beth, 18

Jones, Gloria G., 13, 56

Jordan, Lisa K., 33

Karns, Kelli, 59

Kelly, Liz, 44

Kibler, Robert, 9

Kimball, Miles A., 59

Knight, Linda C., 41

Kratzke, Peter, 53, 59

Kraver, Jeraldine R., 17, 25

Kullman, Colby H., 55, 64

Laff, Ned, 35

Lambdin, Laura, 62

Lambdin, Robert, 62

Lee, Jid, 24

Leitz, Curt, 28

Levy, Walter, 35, 55

Lewis, Gail, 26

Lewter, Mase, 46

Litton, Alfred Guy, 21

Lumpkin, Lisa H., 44

Madigan, Mark, 49

Madison, R. D., 28, 43

Main, Michael, 26

Martin, Hannah, 34

Martin, Mary E., 57

Martin, Reginald, 24

McDonald, Tara, 16

McDuffie, Norma, 32

McFadden, Alex, Plenary Session

McHenry, Tracey, 25, 33

McKeever, Kerry, 27, 51

McKever-Floyd, Preston L., 11

McLaughlin, John, 29

McWilliams, Cynthia, 54

Miller, Percy, 50

Mitchell-Mobley, Judi, 3

Mix, Deborah M., 10, 25

Moore, Bryan, 62

Mumme, Roy I., 65

Munson, Alice A. F., 50

Murray, Robin, 26

Nelson, Ronald J., 2, 31, 66

Nolan, Charles J., 2

Norman, Amy B., 29

Nostrandt, Jeanne R., 7

O’Hara, Jim, 37

O’Neill, Erin, 47

Oldknow, Anthony, 15

Osotsi, Ramenga, Diversity Luncheon

Owen, James, 7

Owens, E. Suzanne, 36

Palmer, Sally, 8

Papay, Twila Y., 55

Payne, Margaret, 29

Pittman, Coretta M., 33

Pollard, Deborah S., 14

Pratt, Louis H., 2

Pressman, Richard S., 58

Pridgen, Allen, 61

Pridgen, Linda, 16

Purvis, Dale, 40

Raymond, Richard, 6

Rice, Nelljean M., 11

Richey, William, 22

Robinson, Daniel, 22

Ross, Dan, 47

Rourke, Rosita C., 41

Rouse, Kristen, 58

Rubin, Larry, 9, 48

Ruff, James, 19

Ruffner, Courtney, 20

Rugoff, Kathy, 1, 30

Russell, David, 37

Salvatore, Anne, 12

San Juan, Epifanio, 23, 50

Santoro, Madeline, 62

Scalia, Bill, 9

Schaffrath, Stephan, 64

Scher, Amy, 13

Schmidt, Mark R., 13

Schwartz, Linda S., 11

Shackelford, Dean, 49, 61

Shafer, Ron, 42

Shaw, Robyn S., 53

Shealy, Daniel, 21

Shull, Donald, 29

Silva, Alan J., 19

Smith, Mark, 5

Sorenson, Karen, 51

Spangler, Bes S., 7

Spears, Beverly, 47

Sray, Karen, 28

St. Peters, Kathleen, 27

Standley, Fred, 30, 40

Standley, Melissa, 45

Steinberger, Rebecca, 63

Szubinska, Barbara, 3, 10

Tanner, William, 40

Tarenko, Natalie, 42

Tassi, Nina, 65

Taylor, David M., 20

Terry, Britt, 30

Thomlinson, Vivian, 52

Thompson, Dorothy P., 57

Townsend, Julie, 67

Urbanczyk, Aaron, 18

Uribe, Amelia, 17

Velcic, Vlatka, 3

Wagner, Kathrin, 12

Walker, Leslie, 38

Walters, Margaret, 54

Weeks, Evelyne, 56, 67

Weele, Michael V., 63

Weis, Monica, 15

Wert, Justin, 31

Whitsitt, Julia, 4, 39

Wiedemann, Barbara, 58

Wilcox, Earl, 56, 67

Wilfong, Peggy, 52

Wilner, Arlene, 12

Wilson, M. Sean, 52

Wilson, Robert A., 30

Wiltse, Ed, 23

Winter, Gaye, 1, 54

Woodson, Nancy, 36