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ENGL 461/562: Fall 2007 Conference Saturday, 1 December 2007 Location: Ruffner 115 Beverages and light refreshments will be available. |
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ENGL 461/562: Fall 2007 Conference Saturday, 1 December 2007 Location: Ruffner 115 Beverages and light refreshments will be available. |
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Organized by Dr. Chene Heady and Dr. Esther Godfrey
Panel 1: 8:30-9:45
Topic: Twentieth Century Literature
Brian Sims: “All the World’s a Stage: Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of
an Author and the Origins of Deconstruction”
Mark Anderson: “I Know You Are (Phony), But What Am I?: An Examination of the
State Apparatuses That Shape J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield”
Anna Craver: “Shaping Scout into Society: A Look at the Influence of Social Power
Structures in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird”
Lisa Johnson: “The Marginalizing Dream: How the American Dream Leads to a
Marginalized Individual in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street”
Panel 2: 9:55-11:10
Topic: Children’s Literature and Adolescent Literature
Matt Vitale: Huck Finn’s Quest for Social Position: A Marxist Reading of Twain’s
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Carlie McAbee: “Through the Wardrobe Door: Reader Response in C.S. Lewis’s
Land of Narnia”
Brandy Payne: “A Freudian Analysis of Scott Westerfield’s Peeps”
Heather Lester: “This, That, and the Other Gender: A Psychoanalysis of the Emergence
and Acceptance of the Androgen in Neil Gaiman's Coraline
Panel 3: 11:20-12:20
Topic: Gender Studies Approaches to Literature
Mike Foshay: “The Shifting Women of Ovid’s Metamorphoses”
Carlton Brooks: “Willy Loman’s Sex Change Operation: The Deconstruction of Gender
Binaries in Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman”
Melanie Goss: “No One Can Hurt Me But Me: Illness as Agency in The Madwoman in
the Attic and the Literature of the Pro-Ana Community”
LUNCH BREAK: 12:20-1:20
Panel 4: 1:20-2:35
Topic: 19th Century British and American Literature
Nikki Swann: “ ‘Excellent Dancing Indeed!’: Gender as Performance in Jane Austen’s
Emma”
Dani Woodie: “Dissecting the Creature in the Classroom: A Reader Response Analysis of
The Various Teaching Approaches to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Sarah Tweedy: “Removing Romance from John Keats’s ‘Eve of St. Agnes’”
Maria Masci: “A Marxist Reading of Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby the Scrivener’”
Panel 5 2:45-4:00
Topic: Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies Approaches to Literature
Jordan-Brittany Cook: “Gatsby’s Jewishness: The Hidden Orientalism of Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby”
Jonathan Page: “A Postcolonial Reading of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart”
Ashley Taylor: “Pecola vs. Shirley Temple: The Black/White Binary in Toni Morrison’s
The Bluest Eye”
Lauren Kenny: “Blurring the Color Line: Exploring Racial Ambiguities in Danzy
Senna’s Symptomatic”
Panel 6: 4:15-5:30
Topic: Literary Monsters, Eccentrics, and Sociopaths
Heather West: “Blood Feud in Beowulf: Social Structure or Social Destruction?”
Allison Fetko: “Good Girls Gone Vamp: An Examination of the Changing Roles of
Women in Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
Merritt Droste: “Isolation or Freedom: Contrasting Views of Women in Bram Stoker’s
Dracula”
Melissa Davis: “A Good Dénouement is Hard to Find: A Reader Response Analysis
of Flannery O’Connor’s Southern Gothic Fiction”
Spring 2007 Conference Schedule
Spring 2006 Conference Schedule