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| * Download a .pdf version of the program. |
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Thursday March 27, 2008
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| 5:30 - 8:15pm |
Dr. Surridge’s pre-conference workshop, “Successful Graduate Writing,”
Sally Monserud Hall (Writing Center) |
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| Friday, March 28, 2008 |
| 9:30 - 10:00am |
Registration and check-in
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ADM 141 |
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Coffee and pastries will be available. |
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| 10:00 - 10:15am |
Opening Remarks
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ADM 145 |
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Dr. Patricia Linton, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English,
University of Alaska Anchorage |
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| 10:15 - 10:30am |
Break
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| 10:30 - 11:45pm |
SESSION ONE |
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Unholy Resurrections: Internal Voices and Silences |
ADM 144 |
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Dr. Toby Widdicombe, Chair |
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Cierra Winkler, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Lacan's Role-Refersing Mirror in Frankenstein"
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Janna Bare, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Psychoanalysis of Fear Induced in Frankenstein"
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Gwen Jungwirth, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Frankenstein and the Unspoken - A Marxist Interpretation"
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A Ring of Fire in Hyperreality: Digital Literacies and the Expanding Pedagogical Landscape |
ADM 145 |
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Robin Crittenden, Chair |
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Dr. Lori Mumpower, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Hurricanes and Spider Webs: How Faculty Perceive and Imagine the Spaces of Online Learning"
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Sarah E. Gallup, Oregon State University |
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"Learning by Imitation: Pedagogical Implications in the Works of David Bartholomae"
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Dr. Jennifer C. Stone, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Convergence in the Online Texts of Contemporary Childhood"
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| 11:45 - 1:00pm |
Lunch Break |
ADM 141 |
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A light lunch will be available. Sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta. |
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| 1:00 - 2:15pm |
SESSION TWO |
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Intersections and Identities: New Directions in Virginia Woolf |
ADM 144 |
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Dr. Suzanne Forster, Chair |
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Theo W. Sery, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"The Waves and the Iron Cage: A Sociological Reading of The Waves"
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Dr. Robert Crosman, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Feminist or Womanist? The Figure of the Artist in Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Walker's The Color Purple"
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Derek N. La Shot, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"The Soul, the Dictator, and Class in Woolf's Mrs Dalloway"
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Global Harmonics: Making Space Across Utopias, Canons, and Cultures |
ADM 145 |
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Dr. Jeane Breinig, Chair |
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Dr. Toby Widdicombe, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Cinematic Parodies of Utopia: or, How Bing, Bob, Stan, and Ollie Ended up in a State of Confusion"
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Karen Ward, Wilfrid Laurier University |
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"Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms and Problematic Self-Inclusion in Canada's Literary Canon"
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Dr. Paul E. Dunscomb, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Tales of the Floating 'Hood': Use of African American Tropes in Samurai Champloo"
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| 2:15 - 2:30pm |
Break |
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| 2:30 - 3:45pm |
Roundtable Discussion: Flying too Close to the Sun: Ideologies of Academic Plagiarism |
ADM 145 |
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Dr. Trish Jenkins, Chair |
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Dr. Dan Kline, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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Dr. Kerri Morris, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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Dr. Jackie Cason, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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Sally Bremner, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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| 3:45 - 4:15pm |
Break |
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| 4:15 - 5:30pm |
Keynote Presentation |
ARTS 116 |
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Introduction by Dr. Trish Jenkins, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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Dr. Bruce McComiskey, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
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"Intra-Disciplinarity: Integrating the Disciplines of English Studies"
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| 5:30 - 7:00pm |
Reception |
ARTS |
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Sponsored by the UAA Alumni Association |
2nd Floor |
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| Saturday, March 29, 2008 |
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| 9:30 - 10:00am |
Registration
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ADM 141 |
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Coffee and pastries will be available. |
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| 10:00 - 11:15am |
SESSION THREE |
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Being and Other: Tracing the Self and Society across Textual Boundaries |
ADM 144 |
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Dr. Jackie Cason, Chair |
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Joseph R. Farag, Wilfrid Laurier University |
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"Other Encounters: Race, Nation and Gender in Charlotte Bronte's Villette"
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Evan Smith, The University of British Columbia |
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"Being-in-the-Text: Phenomenological Literary Affect and the Obriation of Teleological Poetics in Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett"
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William Swears, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Driven Mad by Pain: Post-Traumatic Stress on The Island of Dr. Moreau"
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Appearances of the Disappeared: Redefining Gender, Sexuality, and Relationships |
ADM 145 |
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Dr. Robert Crosman, Chair |
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Pamela Kabaya, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"The Breakdown of Marriage and Tradition in George Meredith's Modern Love"
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Ryan Schowen, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"'Make Yourself Useful'" On the Cultural Intelligibility of Bisexuality"
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Dr. Robert Crosman, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"'My Mailer - or, A Prisoner of Gender'" A Reconsideration"
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| 11:15 - 11:30am |
Break |
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| 11:30 - 12:45pm |
SESSION FOUR |
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Poetic Afterthoughts: Periods, Genres, and Readers |
ADM 144 |
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Dr. Judith Moore, Chair |
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Erika Veth, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Tennyson, Milton, and Pastoral Elegy"
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John Kelly, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Voyages in Translation: Differential Conciousness and Situated Knowledge as Alternative Methodologies for Revisiting, Rediscovering, and Rerouting the Epic Journey through Influence, Intertextuality, and Innovation in Walcott's Omeros"
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Cynthia Deike-Sims, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Reading Isaac Rosenberg: A Postmodern Re-valuation of Blakean Qualities"
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Creative Voices: Texts, Cultures, and Identities |
ADM 145 |
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Dr. Suzanne Forster, Chair |
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Leslie Hsu Oh, University of Alaska Anchoage |
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"'Canyonlands' and 'Of Moon Cakes and Dragons,' - Excerpts from Dragons in the Deep: A Memoir"
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Signe Jorgenson, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"What We Do Here"
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Jonathan Bower, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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"Lines in Conversation (A Cold War Redux Featuring Johnny Cash)"
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| 12:45 - 2:00pm |
Lunch Break |
ADM 141 |
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A light lunch will be available. Sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta. |
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| 2:00 - 3:15pm |
Workshop |
ADM 145 |
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Dr. Bruce McComiskey, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
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"Developing Composition Assignments"
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| 3:15 - 3:45pm |
Break |
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| 3:45 - 4:45pm |
Reception |
ARTS |
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Sponsored by Cengage Learning |
2nd Floor |
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| 5:00-6:15pm |
Keynote Presentation |
ARTS 116 |
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Introduction by Dr. Genie Babb, University of Alaska Anchorage |
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Dr. Lisa Surridge, University of Victoria |
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"Seeing the Plot: Illustration and Narratology in Victorian Serial Fiction"
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