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Presentations
AfricAmer 1: Navigating Place and Time: Identity in Recent African American Literature
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 9:30am
– 10:45am · Location: Room F Mahncke
Session Chair: Kathleen McEvoy, Washington
& Jefferson College
Mothers, Grandmothers, and Community Mothers: Representations of Motherhood in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped
West Virginia University Institute of Technology, United States of America
Confluences of Past and Present: Unearthing the History of Today in Sing, Unburied, Sing and The Nickel Boys
Christian Brothers University, United States of America
"Bow low to the earth": Jesmyn Ward’s Forgotten Rural South
Belmont University, United States of America
The Gothic Double in Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half
SUNY Fredonia, United States of America
BritLit19 1: Watched, Consumed, and Contained: Gender in 19th-Century Texts
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 9:30am
– 10:45am · Location: Room E Baker
Session Chair: Patrick Jackson, Columbus
State University
The Byronic Androgyne: Troubling Gender Through Confluence of Byron’s Sex and Text in Don Juan
Columbus State University, United States of America
“She threw it on the floor and stamped on it, because it was not according to her taste”: Plaster Saints, Multiple Selves, and the Destruction of Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure
Wingate University, United States of America
Confluences of Surveillance and Control: Transportation Arteries in Woman in White and Bleak House
Augusta University, United States of America
CrWrNF 1: Reading and Writing the Personal
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 9:30am
– 10:45am · Location: Room J Magnolia
Session Chair: Deepthi Siriwardena,
University of Florida
"A Bird Without Wings"
Cleveland State University, United States of America
Educated: The Story of How a Self Constructs Itself
University of North Carolina Charlotte, United States of America
Westward Ho! Cultural Convergence and Composing Rural America
University of Cincinnati Clermont College, United States of America
Hole in Her Heart
University of Southern Indiana, United States of America
Latinx2: Latinx Literary and Cultural Studies
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 9:30am
– 10:45am · Location: Room H Quadrangle
Session Chair: Ethel Ophelia Johnson, FILM
STUDIES
“Past=Present=No Future: The Confluence of Time and Trauma-Shaped Historical Memory in The Tattooed Soldier”
University of Kansas, United States of America
“Amor Prohibido Debates: Selena’s Streaming Series and the Fandom Forums Clash.”
Kansas State University, United States of America
Making Space for The Silenced: The visual rhetorics of anti-femicide activists in Mexico and transnational feminist movements
University of Wyoming, United States of America
LitTheory 2: Inhabited Spaces: The confluence of language and location–public/private, canonical/emerging, space/place
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 9:30am
– 10:45am · Location: Room B Frontier
Session Chair: Joseph Robertshaw, University
of Alabama Huntsville
Private Faces in Public Places
Lee College, United States of America
Hyphenated Spaces: A Feminist Geographical Reading of Helen Barolini’s Umbertina
University of Alabama, United States of America
Examining Discussion Surrounding the American Feminist Literary Canon through Critical Race Theory
Chicago State University, United States of America
Ecocomposition: The Confluence of Language and Location
Peaks Digital
PopCult 4: Rhetoric of Pop Culture
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 9:30am
– 10:45am · Location: Room C Everett
Session Chair: Regina St. John, Arkansas
Tech University
Woman a Constipated Animal and Other Medical Observations and Advice: The Rhetoric of Women’s Healthcare
Texas Wesleyan University, United States of America
Signs of the Times: Letterboard Rhetoric in an Age of Change
Shawnee State University, United States of America
Reclaiming the Populist: Woody Guthrie and the Heritage of the Ordinary
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, United States of America
TeacherEd: The Confluence of the College, Composition, and K-12 Classroom
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 9:30am
– 10:45am · Location: Room I Alamo
Session Chair: Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw,
University of Southern Indiana
The Precarity of Confluence in the Concurrent Enrollment English Classroom
Southwest Minnesota State University
The Critical Confluence of ESL Education and English/ Language Arts Teacher Preparedness
Kutztown University, United States of America
The Borderlands of Dual Credit Students
University of South Florida, United States of America
WarTraum 2: Gazing Backwards
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 9:30am
– 10:45am · Location: Room G Vance
Session Chair: Craig Warren, Penn State
Erie, The Behrend College
The Impossibility of Post-Memory: Novel(istic) Realities in/of Diasporic Anglophone Lebanese Writings
American University of Beirut, Lebanon (Lebanese Republic)
“Word and Image in the Great War’s Poetry and Art”
United States Air Force Academy, United States of America
The Inside-Out Traumas of War in Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Tarleton State University, United States of America
AmerLit18/19 1: American Miscellany
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023:
11:00am – 12:15pm · Location: Room F Mahncke
Session Chair: Lisette Gibson, Capital
University
The Perception of Disabilities in 19th and 20th Century American Novellas
Georgia Southern University, United States of America
Utopian Writing in the Early United States
St. Mary’s University, United States of America
Re-Assessing Our Colonial Heritage: The Controversial Memorialization of Hannah Duston
Washington & Jefferson College, United States of America
“The Exciting Cause of Which Is Unknown”: The Benefits and Limitations of Using Asylum Intake Records to Recover Patient Experiences
The University of South Carolina – Columbia
CmpRhetPr 1: Spotlight on Teaching Rhetoric and Critical Analysis
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023:
11:00am – 12:15pm · Location: Room C Everett
Session Chair: Debra Knutson, Shawnee State
University
Aristotle on a Vintage Bicycle: Using the (Probably Unfamiliar) Bicycle Illustrations of Daniel Rebour to Teach How the Rhetorical Appeals Typically Work
University of Colorado / Boulder, United States of America
AI’s Loyalty to Aristotle
University of Louisville, United States of America
Getting from “Someone Should Develop That” to “Why Not Me?”: Developing an OER for an Undergraduate Rhetorical Analysis Course
St. Edward’s University, United States of America
“Words are the only things that last forever”: Lessons from Winston Churchill for A Metaverse Generation
DeVry University, United States of America
CrWrFP 2: Finding a Voice and a Self in Poetry and Prose
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023:
11:00am – 12:15pm · Location: Room J Magnolia
Session Chair: John Schulze, Midwestern
State University
We Find Ourselves Gathered Around a Stranger with a Massive Stack of Ones at a Bowling Alley Claw Machine
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire-Barron County, United States of America
Haiku Experiment
University of Nebraska at Omaha, United States of America
Reclaiming My Heritage: "No Sabo" Chicana
Our Lady of the Lake University, United States of America
NEH: National Endowment for the Humanities
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023:
11:00am – 12:15pm · Location: Room E Baker
Session Chair: Patrick (“PC”) Fleming,
National Endowment for the Humanities
How the National Endowment for the Humanities supports teaching, research, and university service
National Endowment for the Humanities, United States of America
Panel 2: Eliminating fear in First-Year Composition: Bolder, Better Writing
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023:
11:00am – 12:15pm · Location: Room K Yellow Rose
Session Chair: Karuna Hin, Chapman
University
Pass/No Pass Assignments and Revision as Means to Stronger Compositions
Labor-Based and/or Rubric-Based? Examining the Effects of a Hybrid Grading System in the Composition Classroom
Failure Rhetoric: How We Teach Students to Fear
Ped 1: Getting student buy-in: Finding space for convergence in the writing classroom
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023:
11:00am – 12:15pm · Location: Room B Frontier
Session Chair: Andy Trevathan, Louisiana
State University-Baton Rouge
Advantages of Merging Humor into Pedagogy in Multicultural Freshman Composition Courses
Arkansas Tech University, United States of America
The Efficacy of Metacognitive Reading Strategies in the College Classroom: Student Perception towards the Learning Experience
1National Defense University, United States of America; 2Fayetteville State University
Thinking outside of the box: Zoom, the Classroom and Post Pandemic Education
Tarleton State University, United States of America
High Impact Practice
Purdue University, United States of America
Queer 2: Queer Pedagogies
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023:
11:00am – 12:15pm · Location: Room D Bluebonnet
Session Chair: Jeffrey Cass, Arkansas Tech
University
Queering in the Composition Classroom
Auburn University at Montgomery, United States of America
“It’s Really Sexist When We Don’t Privilege Individuals Stories.” Narratives of Gender and Queer Identities in the First-Year Composition Classroom: A Two-Part Research Study
Lake Forest College, United States of America
“One Voice, One Demand”: Teaching Queer History Through The Well of Loneliness and Stone Butch Blues
Berry College, Georgia
TechCommATTW: Innovative Approaches to Text and Teaching in Professional Communication
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023:
11:00am – 12:15pm · Location: Room I Alamo
Session Chair: Patricia Pytleski, Kutztown
University
I See, You See, We All See: Teaching Revising with the Johari Window Framework
Kansas State University, United States of America
How to Teach Writing Persuasive Resumes in Undergraduate Classrooms in Technical Communication? Developing an Integrative Pedagogic Approach Using Rhetoric, Information Design, and Visual Rhetoric (RIV) Framework
UNC Wilmington, United States of America
Musical Listening: Sonic Rhetorics in the Technical and Professional Writing Classroom
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
VisualCult 2: The Confluence of Historical and Speculative Narratives
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023:
11:00am – 12:15pm · Location: Room H Quadrangle
Session Chair: Cortney Barko, West Virginia
University Institute of Technology
Joy in Labor: A Brief History of Craft Through the Arts & Crafts Movement
Christopher Newport University, United States of America
Aging and Youthing: Confluences and Representations in Aging Studies and Science Fiction
1Arizona State University, United States of America; 2University of Graz, Austria
Writing for Advocacy: Teaching Women’s Historical Science Narratives and Writing in Environmental Studies
Aurora University, United States of America
Illustrating Shared Precarity through Cyborg Pedagogy in VR
Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
WarTraum 3: War and/or Trauma and Literature
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023:
11:00am – 12:15pm · Location: Room G Vance
Session Chair: Chimi Woo, Prairie View A
& M University
Finding Form and Content Through Entangled Memory and Postmemory in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s "The Refugees"
Weber State University, United States of America
Documenting Destruction: Poetry and War in the Middle East
United States Air Force Academy, United States of America
Phil Klay’s Redeployment and War Rhetoric as Literature for Use
Weber State University, United States of America
BritLit18 1: The Long Eighteenth Century: Textuality, Sexuality, and the Nature of Monarchy
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 1:30pm
– 2:45pm · Location: Room E Baker
Session Chair: Jean Filetti, Christopher
Newport University
Women Writing at Windsor: Convergences at the Court of King George III and Queen Charlotte
Duquesne University, United States of America
Public Spectacles and Private Affairs: Molly Regulation in 18th Century London
Roanoke College, United States of America
The Eighteenth-Century Chaucer and the Rewriting of English History
George Mason University, United States of America
By Yarrow’s Streams: Wordsworth, Scott, and Divergent Romanticisms
Monmouth University, United States of America
CmpRhetPr 2: What Matters in Composition Studies NOW
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 1:30pm
– 2:45pm · Location: Room I Alamo
Session Chair: Jody Marin, Texas A&M
University-Kingsville
Identity Formation through Archival Research
Indiana University, United States of America
Coming Together: Translingualism in the Writing Center
University of Alabama, United States of America
Student Takeaways: A RAD Approach of Assessing Student Perceptions and Learning Outcomes in the Writing Center
Ferris State University
Recreating a Sense of Community and Rebuilding Collaboration Skills in Post-COVID Writing Classes
Christopher Newport University, United States of America
CrWrFP 1: Creative Writing Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 1:30pm
– 2:45pm · Location: Room J Magnolia
Session Chair: Rachel Lanier Bragg, West
Virginia University Institute of Technology
Evangelina Thinks About Teeth
Michigan State University, United States of America
Rabbit Run
Midwestern State University, United States of America
"The Show Must Go On"
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, United States of America
FilmStudies 2: Changes in Perspective
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 1:30pm
– 2:45pm · Location: Room H Quadrangle
Session Chair: Carolyn Kyler, Washington
& Jefferson College
Framing the “Third World Woman”: Representational Violence Liz Mermin’s documentary The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2006)
University of Florida, United States of America
Mothers-in Arms: The Confluence of the Strong Black Matriarch (“A Raisin in the Sun”) and the Fierce Warrior Mother ("Woman King" and “Wakanda Forever”) Gives Rise to a new Cinematic Creation
FILM STUDIES, United States of America
Billy Budd, Sailor: Melville, Ustinov, and Denis
Columbia College Chicago, United States of America
Trespassing the Terrain Whiteness: The Jane Austen Book Club and Representation in the Austen Universe
University of Texas at El Paso, United States of America
GrmLin 1: Diverse Literary and Linguistic Currents
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 1:30pm
– 2:45pm · Location: Room F Mahncke
Session Chair: Valerie Kasper, Saint Leo
University
A Rhetorical Analysis of a Risk Management Speech by a British Prime Minister
Kindai University Technical College, Japan
“To Not be Seen as Abrasive”: At the Junction of Gender and Writing at Work
George Washington University, United States of America
An Extended Analysis of Politeness Strategies in Anglophone Caribbean Radio
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico (U.S.)
A Confluence of Conflicts: Today’s Brave New World of Literary Challenges and Bannings
Capital University, United States of America
NatAmerLit1: Place, Narrative, and Decolonial Storytelling
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 1:30pm
– 2:45pm · Location: Room G Vance
Session Chair: Deborah Spillman, Central
Connecticut State University
Virtual Documentary Exploration Carlisle and Building the Future on the Past “Home from School”, an Illustration of Resilience and Activism working alongside Allyship
Virginia Tech University, United States of America
The Importance of Place in Teaching about the Past
American Public University System, United States of America
Native American Postmodern-Mimetic Narrative: A Retort to Hegemonic Colonial Discourse.
Southeastern Oklahoma State University, United States of America
Decolonial Storytelling and the Re-worlding of Alaska in Ernestine Hayes’ Memoirs
University of Central Oklahoma, United States of America
Panel 3: Life out of the Margins: Blurring Form and Genre in Creative Writing
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 1:30pm
– 2:45pm · Location: Room K Yellow Rose
Session Chair: Susan Finch, Belmont
University
Session Chair: Dominika Wrozynski, Manhattan
College
Life out of the Margins: Blurring Form and Genre in Creative Writing
Life out of the Margins: Blurring Form and Genre in Creative Writing
Life out of the Margins: Blurring Form and Genre in Creative Writing
Ped 6: Talking about Teaching
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 1:30pm
– 2:45pm · Location: Room B Frontier
Session Chair: Linda Piccirillo-Smith, Kent
State University
Guiding Beside – Guiding Asides – Guiding: Decide
Grand Rapids (Michigan) Community College, United States of America
Reconsidering Deadlines
South Texas College, United States of America
Teaching Pandemic/s: What We Have Yet to Learn (Or Are Unwilling to Admit)
Missouri State University, United States of America
Seeing Me: Confluence and Representation in the College Writing Classroom
Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge, United States of America
PedServ 1: Pedagogy: Service Learning
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 1:30pm
– 2:45pm · Location: Room D Bluebonnet
Session Chair: Susan Friedman, University of
Alabama-Huntsville
Convergence: Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods in English Studies for Undergraduate English Majors
Utah State University, United States of America
Service Learning in the Teaching of Rhetorical Appeals
Florida Atlantic University, United States of America
From Difference to Confluence: Reframing Service-Learning Conversations and Practice
Boston University, United States of America
What an Untangled Web We Weave: Digital Literacy and De-Mystifying the Research Process
Dallas College, United States of America
Roundtable 2: The Confluence of Teaching and Administration
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 1:30pm
– 2:45pm · Location: Room C Everett
Session Chair: Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian
College
The Confluence of Teaching and Administration
The Confluence of Teaching and Administration
The Confluence of Teaching and Administration
The Confluence of Teaching and Administration
AcadAdmin 1: Doors Closing; Windows Opening: Current and Future Studies in English
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 3:00pm
– 4:15pm · Location: Room I Alamo
Session Chair: Imogene Bunch, Christopher
Newport University
Revising Developmental Placement: Using High School GPA as a Developmental English Placement Measure
Texas A&M University-Kingsville, United States of America
Agency is a Confluence: Eddying with the Impulse to Inclusion
Colorado State University
Moving Beyond Service: (Re)situating the English Major in Ethical Leadership
The University of Findlay, United States of America
AfricAmer 2: A Relevant Past: Seeing Today through History in African American Literature
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 3:00pm
– 4:15pm · Location: Room F Mahncke
Session Chair: Jeff Gross, Christian
Brothers University
A Confluence of Voices: Revisiting Langston Hughes’s Poetry in a Racially Divisive Moment in History
1Florida Institute of Technology, United States of America; 2Texas A&M International University
A History of Blackness in Colonizing Militaries: Shakespeare’s Othello to the Buffalo Soldiers
Texas Christian University, United States of America
Of One Blood and the Upside-Down Black Skyscraper
Howard University, United States of America
Sampling Rage: The Acoustics of African American Righteous Discontent from the Harlem Renaissance to the Age of Obama
Massachusetts Maritime Academy, United States of America
BritLit19 2: Representation, Identity, and Belonging in 19th-Century British Culture
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 3:00pm
– 4:15pm · Location: Room E Baker
Session Chair: Ken McGraw, Roanoke College
Selfhood and Otherness: National Identity and the Gothic in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Prairie View A & M University, United States of America
A Just Critique of William Wordsworth’s Borrowings and Influencings: Unresolved Relationships, Motherlands, Memory, the Maternal, and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
Young Harris College, United States of America
Brown Romanticism: Capitalism and Race in William Godwin’s St. Leon and Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
Arkansas Tech University, United States of America
CmpRhetPr 3: Diverse Experiences and Perspectives in Writing Courses
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 3:00pm
– 4:15pm · Location: Room C Everett
Session Chair: Gerald Siegel, York College
of Pensylvania
Composing An Antiracist Academy: Reimagining Systems and Structures in a First-Year Writing Program
CUNY Guttman Community College, United States of America
Mixed Race Narratives: From the Media to the Classroom
University of California, Merced, United States of America
The Confluence of Words and Technology: Digital Meaning-making in Podcasts
University of Alabama Huntsville, United States of America
CmpRhetTh 3: Bringing Together the Past and the Present
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 3:00pm
– 4:15pm · Location: Room J Magnolia
Session Chair: Evashisha Masilamony, South
Texas College
Write Like a Roman! Using the Progymnasmata with Modern Student Writers
College of Charleston, United States of America
An Argument for the Return of Formulaic Writing
The Harley-Jackson Foundation, United States of America
Composing Multimodally: Rethinking Writer’s Identity
The University of Alabama
The Importance of Digital Literacy in English Composition Classrooms
CSUSB Graduate Student, United States of America
Panel 10: Teaching South Asian literature in English in the American Classroom
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 3:00pm
– 4:15pm · Location: Room D Bluebonnet
Session Chair: Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Texas
A&M University-Kingsville
Session Chair: Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State
University
Grief, Memory, and Intertextuality: Anuk Arudpragasam’s "A Passage North"
Representation of Animals in Perumal Murugan’s "The Story of a Goat"
Gender and Identity in Shani Mootoo’s short story “Out on Main Street”
Panel 4: Mandated Assessment: The Convergence and Divergence of Power and Placement
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 3:00pm
– 4:15pm · Location: Room K Yellow Rose
Session Chair: Sonya Barrera Eddy, Texas
A&M University San Antonio
Mandated Assessment: The Convergence and Divergence of Power and Placement
Mandated Assessment: The Convergence and Divergence of Power and Placement
Mandated Assessment: The Convergence and Divergence of Power and Placement
Mandated Assessment: The Convergence and Divergence of Power and Placement
Mandated Assessment: The Convergence and Divergence of Power and Placement
Ped 3: Using Reflection in the English Studies Classroom
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 3:00pm
– 4:15pm · Location: Room B Frontier
Session Chair: Rachel Key, Dallas College
Rhetorical Diversity: The Exploration of Social Discourse through Reflective Writing to Help Create Identity
Our Lady of the Lake University, United States of America
Making Literature Practical: Teaching Healthy Love and Relationships through Literature Courses
Arkansas Tech University, United States of America
The message of Sankofa – a way to engage students in writing about race in college composition courses
Kent State University, United States of America
The Debrief as Ethical Community Building: In and Beyond Classrooms
University of Denver, United States of America
PopCult 2: Pop Culture, Literary Violence, and True Crime
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 3:00pm
– 4:15pm · Location: Room G Vance
Session Chair: Monica Weis SSJ, Nazareth
College
True Crime, Meet Tourism: The Revision of True Crime Podcast Websites as True Crime Tourism
West Virginia University Institute of Technology, United States of America
“‘She Gon’ Kill For Real, Talk About Clyde and Bonnie’: Pop Culture in the Composition Classroom”
Clayton State University, United States of America
True Crime in the Classroom
Laramie County Community College
Tales of Knighthood: Chaucer’s Supported Hierarchies of Masculine Violence
Louisiana State University, United States of America
PostCol 1: New Ways of Thinking about Post-Colonial Literature
Time: Thursday, 30/Mar/2023: 3:00pm
– 4:15pm · Location: Room H Quadrangle
Session Chair: Elizabeth Battles, Texas
Wesleyan University
Configuring the Caribbean through sf
The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, United States of America
A Confluence of Forces: Theorizing the Transcolonial
Lamar University, United States of America
The Diasporic Thought of Edward Wilmot Blyden
Central Connecticut State University, United States of America
Francophone Education as an Instrument of Postcolonial Resistance in the Novels of Camara Laye and Mariama Bâ
Independent Scholar, United States of America
AmerLit20/21 1: American Novels: Trauma, History, Faith
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 9:30am –
10:45am · Location: Room F Mahncke
Session Chair: Jessica Hausmann, Georgian
Court University
Gothicism in The Book of Lost Saints
Morgan State University, United States of America
Death and Capitalism in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Louisiana State University, United States of America
History and Romance in Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See
Georgia State University Perimeter College, United States of America
BritLit16/17 1: Gender and Identity
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 9:30am –
10:45am · Location: Room E Baker
Session Chair: Douglas Terry, West Virginia
University Institute of Technology
Building a new book: Rewriting the stories that defined women in Renaissance England
University of Southern California
Teaching fin amor in the "Me Too" Age
Quinnipiac University, United States of America
Conflation of Identities in Othello
the University of Alabama, United States of America
Medieval Manuscript Fragments and the Fashioning of British and American National Self-Consciousness
Rollins College, United States of America
CmpRhetPr 4: Teaching for Transfer: Connecting Writing Courses with Other Contexts
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 9:30am –
10:45am · Location: Room C Everett
Session Chair: Elizabeth Weatherford,
Florida Gulf Coast University
Assembling a Professional Writing Portfolio for a Digital World: A Storytelling Approach
Capital University, United States of America
The Convergence of Academic, Career, and Personal Writing in the Composition Classroom
Saint Leo University, United States of America
Teaching Composition in a Post-Covid Learning Environment: Community Engagement as a Core Value
The University of Alabama, United States of America
Reconceptualizing Our Understanding of Literature Based Argumentative Writing
University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, United States of America
CmpRhetTh 1: Pedagogy in Composition and Rhetoric
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 9:30am –
10:45am · Location: Room J Magnolia
Session Chair: Lisa Siefker Bailey, IUPUC
A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Joining Rhet/Comp Together with Lit/Crit
University of Oklahoma, United States of America
A/r/tography as First-Year Composition Practice
U.S. Military Academy, United States of America
Mindfulness Practices amid Convergent Technologies: Toward a Critical Digital Empathy
University of Nevada, Reno, United States of America
Reclaiming the Writing Portfolio in Practice and Theory
Indiana University Southeast, United States of America
Merton 1: Always Seeing Anew: Thomas Merton’s Insights and Discoveries
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 9:30am –
10:45am · Location: Room G Vance
Session Chair: Lee Jones, Georgia State
University
The Paradise Consciousness of Thomas Merton: Using His Camera to See with a Paradise Eye
Bellarmine University, United States of America
Called to Joy, Together: Merton’s Vocation and Ours
Nazareth College, United States of America
Discovering Celtic Spirituality: a Graced Moment of New Life
Nazareth College, United States of America
MultiWrld 1: Confluences of Theory and Representation
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 9:30am –
10:45am · Location: Room H Quadrangle
Session Chair: Paula Reiter, Mount Mary
University
The New African Woman: The Voice and Ethos of Author and Protagonist in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter
Elizabeth City State University, United States of America
Kundera, Kitsch, and Madame Bovary
Lander University, United States of America
“Coming for Our Rightful Place in the Center of the Canon: The Confluence of Voices and Ideas in the Fiction of Kali Fajardo-Anstine
University of Southern Indiana, United States of America
Informal Representation within the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora: Reading Dissent through Tamil Feminism
University of Oregon, United States of America
PeaceStud: Promoting Peace in Word, Deed, and Practice
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 9:30am –
10:45am · Location: Room B Frontier
Session Chair: Monica Weis SSJ, Nazareth
College
The Ballot or the Bullet: Imagining an Antiwar Alternative to White Political Violence in Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
Louisiana State University Shreveport, United States of America
Circumventing "Hostipitality": The Enduring Legacy of 19th-Century Choctaw Nation and Irish Solidarity
Georgia State University, United States of America
Nationalism, Memoir, and Liberatory Pedagogy
Kennesaw State University, United States of America
PedDiv 1: Diversity in English Curriculum
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 9:30am –
10:45am · Location: Room D Bluebonnet
Session Chair: Eric Meljac, West Texas
A&M University
Mobility, Fluidity, and the quest for frameworks for Composition
University of Washington, United States of America
University Expansion Means… : Racism, Urban Renewal, and Teaching the University
Western Kentucky University, United States of America
HBCU – Teaching with Engaging Text
Savannah State University, United States of America
Postcolonial Theory: Interdisciplinarity and Liminality in the English Studies
Royal Military College of Canada, Canada
WomCon 1: Voice, Truth, and Story Telling
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 9:30am –
10:45am · Location: Room I Alamo
Session Chair: Elizabeth Battles, Texas
Wesleyan University
FemPoetiks of Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out
University of Washington, Tacoma, United States of America
Behind the Veil: Constrained Imaginative Acts in The Mysteries of Udolpho
Cottey College, United States of America
Delving into the Archives and Moving Beyond the Pecan Shellers Strike: Projecting Tenayuca’s Voice through a Literary History
Virginia Tech University, United States of America
Preserving the Spirit of ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
University of Texas at Arlington, United States of America
AfricAmer 3: African American Literature and the Politics of Identity
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 11:00am
– 12:15pm · Location: Room F Mahncke
Session Chair: Jim Owen, Columbus State
University
Confluence in Natasha Trethewey’s "White Lies"
Georgia State University, United States of America
Writing the “Other” in James Baldwin’s Fiction: The Center, the Margins, and the Politics of Representation
Point Park University, United States of America
The Hybridity of Texts: The Role of Authorship in Hannah Crafts The Bondwoman’s Narrative
Winthrop University, United States of America
CmpRhetPr 5: Classroom Strategies that Support Student Success
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 11:00am
– 12:15pm · Location: Room C Everett
Session Chair: Adam Padgett, University of
Nevada, Reno
Ready or Not: Exploring the Gap Between the IEP and First-Year Composition at the University of Dayton
University of Dayton, Murray State University
“Shushing the Scholars: Finding Authorial Power in Freshman Composition through Ethnographic Writing”
St. Ambrose University, United States of America
Revisioning Classroom Space(s): Student Agency through Hyflex
Our Lady of the Lake University, United States of America
Retraining the Excessively Trained: Using Academic Freedom to Inspire Student Growth
Florida Gulf Coast University, United States of America
CrWrCl 1: Isn’t All Writing Creative? How Teaching Creative Writing Extends Beyond the Creative Writing Classroom
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 11:00am
– 12:15pm · Location: Room J Magnolia
Session Chair: Gerald Siegel, York College
of Pensylvania
Creative writing and Academic Literacy in Mamelodi
Susquehanna University, United States of America
A Confluence of Energy Issues and the Human Condition in the Fiction Writing Classroom
IUPUC, United States of America
Interdisciplinary Synergy: Sustaining a 2-Year Creative Writing Program
Finger Lakes Community College, United States of America
Genre Theory as Pedagogical Tool: A Case Study on the Personal Statement
Rice University, United States of America
DisAbl Studies 1: Intersectional Approaches to Race and Disability
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 11:00am
– 12:15pm · Location: Room I Alamo
Session Chair: Glenda Pritchett, Quinnipiac
University
Blurring Identity Bounds in “Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom"
University of Southern Mississippi, United States of America
Making Room at the Table: How Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel Expands In-Universe Cultural Representation in Dungeons & Dragons
Rice University, United States of America
Colonial Aliens & Willful Populations: A Comparative Analysis of The War of the Worlds (1897) and Nope (2022)
DePaul University, United States of America
Latinx1: Latinx Poetry and Prose
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 11:00am
– 12:15pm · Location: Room H Quadrangle
Session Chair: Mark Rollins, Lander
University
Teaching Puerto Rican Literature of the Diaspora in Central Florida
University of Central Florida, United States of America
“"Foreign Speaking English/Inglés hablado en extranjero”: Giannina Braschi’s Poetics of Totality
TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, United States of America
Entombed Voices
Texas A&M Univeristy-Kingsville, United States of America
Magical Realism and Coming of age: The Maturation of a Writer in the Novel Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
Liberty University, United States of America
LitTheory 1: Bloodlines in Literary Theory: The begats from Nietche through Derrida to Fish and Said
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 11:00am
– 12:15pm · Location: Room B Frontier
Session Chair: Camille Langston, St. Mary’s
University
Nietzsche and the American Existential Struggle: Defining the American Dream through Liberating Humanity in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
Texas Tech University, United States of America
Paradise Lost as a Signifier for Derrida’s “World as Text”: Deconstruction and Ideology in Canonical Texts
University of Texas at Tyler, United States of America
"A Multiplicity of Witnesses": Truth and Objectivity in the Non-Fiction Work of E.L. Doctorow
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, United States of America
Refugee Aesthetics: Resistance and Alienation in Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and Alexander Hemon’s Blind Jozef Pronek and Dead Souls
Western Kentucky University, United States of America
Panel 6: Convergence: Society, Literature, and the Classroom / "Half In Love With Easeful Death”: The Intersection of Death and Nature
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 11:00am
– 12:15pm · Location: Room K Yellow Rose
Session Chair: Sherri Ahern, Florida
International University
"Half In Love With Easeful Death”: The Intersection of Death and Nature
The Convergence and Confluence of Diverse Identities in the Classroom
Media Literacy and Literature: The Convergence of Rhetoric and Reading
Queer 1: Queer Lives and Times
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 11:00am
– 12:15pm · Location: Room D Bluebonnet
Session Chair: James Drown, University of
Illinois at Chicago
Assembling the (Queer) Female Body: Narrative as Therapeutic Remedy in Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World
Alcorn State University, United States of America
Emily Dickinson: The Nature of Love and Letters
Arkansas Tech University, United States of America
A Shift In The Portrayal Of Homosexuality From The Victorian Period to The Modern Period as Depicted In The Picture Of Dorian Gray and Mrs. Dalloway
Texas Woman’s University, United States of America
The anatomy of unnarrated romances
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
VisualCult 1: Material and Metaphorical Sites of Confluence
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 11:00am
– 12:15pm · Location: Room G Vance
Session Chair: Robert Haynes, Texas A&M
International University
Gossip at the Quilting Bee: A Crucial Form of Solidarity in Nineteenth-Century America
Kendall College of Art and Design, United States of America
Politics, Praxis, & Palimpsests: Epistemological Revelation in Modern Erasure Poetry
Binghamton University, United States of America
"The Flood of Books: Tracing the Information Flow Metaphor to the Printing Press"
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
WomCon 2: Problems of Crime, Gender, and Individuality
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 11:00am
– 12:15pm · Location: Room E Baker
Session Chair: Geovani Ramírez, Virginia
Tech University
The Bridegroom and His Bride, “She in her meekness, he in his pride”: Gender Portrayals in Christina Rossetti’s “The Prince’s Progress”
University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus, United States of America
“The Death of the Soul”: Monuments of Power and Ghosts of Individuality in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
University of Saint Francis, United States of America
Domesticating Crime: Echoes of “Trifles” in True Crime Popularity?
Georgian Court University, United States of America
A Psychopath’s Disguise: Absence Repression and Social Performance in Chelsea G. Summers’ A Certain Hunger
Radford University, United States of America
AmerLit20/21 2: Women and Place in American Literature
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 2:00pm –
3:15pm · Location: Room F Mahncke
Session Chair: Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State
University
Plays on Housing
Seton Hall University, United States of America
Optima Dies, Prima Fugit: Willa Cather’s Vision of the American West in My Antonia
Columbus State University, United States of America
Naturalism in Winnifred Eaton’s Cattle and Dorothy Scarborough’s The Wind
Texas A&M University Kingsville, United States of America
“The damn dust—It gets in your marrow”: Domesticity and Nature in Josephine Johnson’s Dust-Bowl Novel, Now in November
West Virginia University Institute of Technology, United States of America
CmpRhetPr 6: Rethinking Assessment in Writing Classrooms and Programs
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 2:00pm –
3:15pm · Location: Room C Everett
Session Chair: Bryan Lutz, Ohio Northern
University
Establishing a culture of writing program assessment at a regional university
Southwestern Oklahoma State University, United States of America
Reimagining the Guidelines Sheet as a Genre-Oriented Instructional Apparatus in Writing Intensive Courses
Neumann University, United States of America
Reclaiming The Writing Process: Equitable Evaluation and Student-Centered Methods of Assessment
1Arizona State University, United States of America; 2Glendale Community College, United States of America
Grace Under Pressure: Exploring the Limits of Grace Policies in Response to Unpredictable Events
Florida Gulf Coast University, United States of America
CmpRhetTh 2: Decolonizing and Remaking the Classroom
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 2:00pm –
3:15pm · Location: Room J Magnolia
Session Chair: David Gall-Maynard, The Ohio
State University
Rhetoric of Silence: Reclaiming Voices
Glenville State University, United States of America
Decolonizing the FYC classroom: Gloria Anzaldua’s “New Mestiza” Changing Perspectives
The University of Oklahoma, United States of America
Heritage: Remembering and Understanding the Contributions of Victor Villaneuva, Marilyn Sternglass and Min-Zhan Lu to Basic Writing
Utah Valley University, United States of America
Reclamation Stories: How Marginalized Rhetors Challenge the Dominant Narrative and Claim Their Place in History
Texas Christian University, United States of America
MultiWrld 2: Confluences of Language and Form
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 2:00pm –
3:15pm · Location: Room H Quadrangle
Session Chair: Buell Wisner, Georgia State
University Perimeter College
A Re-examination of Contexts in Search of Credible Justifications and Defensible Strategies for Translating the Persian Poetry of Nima Yushij (1895-1960) for an American Audience
Kennesaw State University, United States of America
Cultural Approach to Batak Toba Folklore
Davao del Sur State College, Philippines
When an Alphabet Is Subversive: Emergence, Suppressions, and Re-Emergence of Hangul
East Stroudsburg University, United States of America
A Psychogeographical Analysis of Affective Sensoria in Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights
Government of the Punjab, Pakistan
Panel 11: Weaving Together Personal Stories and History in the English Classroom
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 2:00pm –
3:15pm · Location: Room D Bluebonnet
Session Chair: Matthew Kelly, University of
Texas at Tyler
Weaving Together Personal Stories and History in the English Classroom
Weaving Together Personal Stories and History in the English Classroom
Weaving Together Personal Stories and History in the English Classroom
Panel 7: History and Horton Foote/ "Dramaturgy and WWI History in Horton Foote’s 1918"
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 2:00pm –
3:15pm · Location: Room K Yellow Rose
Session Chair: DeAnna Toten Beard, Baylor
University
Dramaturgy and WWI History in Horton Foote’s 1918
The Artist’s Dilemma
Trip to Bountiful: Horton Foote’s Most Popular and Often Misunderstood Play
Ped 4: Convergences of classroom design and assessment
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 2:00pm –
3:15pm · Location: Room B Frontier
Session Chair: Sergey Rybas, Capital
University
How to Ungrade
Butler University, United States of America
The Perils of Perfectionism: Strategies for Addressing Perfectionism in English Composition
Full Sail University, United States of America
Writing from the Inside Out: Antiracist Education and Self-Reflection in the Online Composition Classroom
Lee College, United States of America
Deepening Design Using Rhetorical Empathy in the Classroom
Kendall College of Art and Design, United States of America
PopCult 1: New Traditions in Children’s and Adolescent Literature
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 2:00pm –
3:15pm · Location: Room G Vance
Session Chair: Jamie McDaniel, Radford
University
The Changing, and Not So Changing, Nature of Banned Books: A Focus on the Graphic Novel Flamer by Mike Curato
University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America
The History We Do Not See: Jacob Glatstein’s Emil and Karl
University of Northern Colorado, United States of America
The Mystery of the Mind: Defining Childhood and Adolescence in Classic Children’s Literature
University of Texas at Dallas, United States of America
Hey Auntie!: The Complex Lives of African American Aunts
Tarrant County College – Northeast, United States of America
Profession 1: Positioning the Profession in Precarious Times
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 2:00pm –
3:15pm · Location: Room E Baker
Session Chair: Danita Berg, Florida
Institute of Technology
Assessing Assessment: ‘Grading is Fun’ and Other Lies
Southwestern Oklahoma State University, United States of America
Convergence and Revision: Mapping a New Curriculum in a Small English Department
Mount Mary University, United States of America
The Role of the Composition Instructor and Gen Ed Reform in the Post-Pandemic United States
Flagler College, United States of America
WomCon 3: Women of the Past
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 2:00pm –
3:15pm · Location: Room I Alamo
Session Chair: Geraldine Poppke Suter,
Furman University
Was Sarah J. Hale a Civil War Racist or Abolitionist? A Discussion on Colonization, Segregation, and Christian Morality
St. Mary’s University, United States of America
Parrhesiatic Discursivity in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman
University of Texas at Tyler, United States of America
Analyzing Austen: The Confluence of Regency Literature and Modern Psychology
Anderson University, United States of America
AfricAmer 4: Writing for Change: Contemporary Art and Spaces for Progress
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 3:30pm –
4:45pm · Location: Room F Mahncke
Session Chair: Alyse Jones, Georgia State
University
The tone is what (we) set it: Cooperation and Collaboration in Hip Hop Cyphers
University of Michigan, United States of America
Whispering Racism in a Postracial World : Interracial and Intraraical Erasures in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout
Middle Georgia State College, United States of America
Memoirs and Activism: A Rhetorical Examination of LGBTQ+ BIPOC Contemporary Writers
Georgia State University, United States of America
Fluid Identities and Genres in the Work of Rivers Solomon
Washington & Jefferson College, United States of America
CmpRhetPr 7: Writing and Identity
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 3:30pm –
4:45pm · Location: Room C Everett
Session Chair: Vittoria Rubino, U.S.
Military Academy
Beyond Listening: Teaching Collaborative Inquiry Through Restorative Justice
University of Houston-Victoria, United States of America
The Convergence of Sociopolitical Bodies: The Creation of Agency and Identity Through Student-led Dialogue and Writing.
Our Lady of the Lake University, United States of America
At the Confluence of the Writing Center and First-year Writing: A Data-Driven Model of Collaborative Assessment
Ohio Northern University, United States of America
Convergent Scaffolding: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a Digital Rhetoric Course Open to All Majors"
Texas Wesleyan University, United States of America
MultiWrld 3: Confluences and Constructions of Identity
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 3:30pm –
4:45pm · Location: Room H Quadrangle
Session Chair: Cynthia Leenerts, East
Stroudsburg University
Bad Modernization: Carceral States and the Postcolonial African Bildungsroman
Northwestern Polytechnic, Canada
Constructing the Self in north Korean Discourses of Individuality and Nationhood
Rice University, United States of America
Muslim Noodles and Perhat Tursun’s Plight of the Uyghur
Kansas Wesleyan University
Panel 8: Post-Pandemic Action Research: Pedagogical Responses to the Year of Zoom
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 3:30pm –
4:45pm · Location: Room K Yellow Rose
Session Chair: Morgan Read-Davidson, Chapman
University
Adapting the Adaptations: Incorporating pandemic-related interventions in the “post”-pandemic Writing Program.
Post-Pandemic Action Research: Pedagogical Responses to the Year of Zoom
Perception, Agency, Confidence: How Social Rhetoric & Collaboration Shapes Agency in Student WritIng
Panel 9: Navigating the Confluence of Pre/Post-Pandemic Approaches in the Literary Classroom and Beyond
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 3:30pm –
4:45pm · Location: Room J Magnolia
Session Chair: Margaret Cantu-Sanchez, St.
Mary’s University
Discourse and Digimodernism in the Post-Pandemic Classroom
Pandemic Pivoting Within Academia and Activism: Exploring the Confluence of Classroom Pedagogies and Latinx/Chicanx Scholarship
Addressing AI-Generated Writing in the Classroom: Lessons from Cyberpunk Literature
Ped 5: What does our writing and teaching look like?
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 3:30pm –
4:45pm · Location: Room B Frontier
Session Chair: Lee Anna Maynard, Augusta
University
A Corpus-based Comparison of Linguistic Markers of Stance and Genre in Advance Academic Writing of Engineering Students
Shanghai International Studies University, China, People’s Republic of
Language assessment of entry-level kindergarten children in multilingual schools in Ghana
University of Ghana, Ghana
Trying for Confluence When It’s All Incongruous: Attempting to Build an “American-Style” Writing Program at a UK University
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
“And this gives life to thee”: The Confluence of Ars Poetica and Artificial Intelligence in William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18
Texas Woman’s University
PedDiv 2: Identity and Inclusivity
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 3:30pm –
4:45pm · Location: Room D Bluebonnet
Session Chair: Greg Bruno, Kingsborough
Community College
Diversity Through Affect Theory
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America
The Fracturing of Selfhood in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
University of Alabama, United States of America
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you”: Octavia Butler’s Earthseed and Lessons for Our Times
Reflexive Practice for the Personal and Professional Self in Higher Education
PopCult 3: Convergence and Confluence
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 3:30pm –
4:45pm · Location: Room G Vance
Session Chair: Melody Wise, Glenville State
University
The Diary of Anne M.Frank as an example of creative confluence
Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
Emoji as Visual-Textual Confluence: Replacing What Was Lost
Clayton State University, United States of America
Wings of the Fantastic: The Convergent and Divergent Nature of Dragons in Fantasy Literature from the ancient Argonautica to House of Dragons
Johnson & Wales University, United States of America
Converging Tampa’s Buried Black History with the Present: A Critique of Public Discourse
University of Tampa, United States of America
Roundtable 1: Ideas in the Making
Time: Friday, 31/Mar/2023: 3:30pm –
4:45pm · Location: Room I Alamo
Session Chair: Jeraldine Kraver, University
of Northern Colorado
Collaborative Assessment through the Recorded Writing “Showcase”
Engaging STEM- and Career College-Focused Students in Interdisciplinary Writing
Go Gentle into that Good Classroom
In Search of Mystery Embedded in the Title
In Search of the Red Pen?
Reading in Time
Revisiting bell hooks’s "Critical Thinking" for Compositional Settings
Teaching After Retirement? Pros, Cons, and Considerations
Worrying the Splinter: First-Year Writing as Portal to Before
AmerLit20/21 3: Learning from Literature
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023: 9:15am
– 10:30am · Location: Room F Mahncke
Session Chair: Joseph Jordan, University of
Tennessee, Chattanooga
The Poet in the Natural World: Dissolving Epiphanies in the Poetry of W. S. Merwin
Touro University, United States of America
"Racism Exists but Racists Are All Gone": What Can English Professors Learn about Diversity from Americanah?
Raritan Valley Community College, United States of America
“Run, Nadia, Run!”: Paulette Jiles’ Eco-Dystopia, Lighthouse Island
Ohio Northern University, United States of America
Convergence at the End of the World: The Blurring of Human and Canine in Post-Apocalyptic Narratives
University of South Alabama, United States of America
CaribLit 1: Detangling Relations in Caribbean Literature
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023: 9:15am
– 10:30am · Location: Room H Quadrangle
Session Chair: Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw,
University of Southern Indiana
‘actions, no consequence’: At the Brink of Narrative Experience, Subjectivity, and Language in Skin Can Hold
Texas A&M University, United States of America
The Need for Cultural Fluidity: The Examples of Okonkwo and Fish Eye
University of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago
Tropical Paradises and Natural Disasters: Fictions of the Contemporary Caribbean
Dickinson College, United States of America
Posthuman Materiality as Metaphysical Possibility in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Slave Old Man
Rutgers University, United States of America
DisAblStudies 2: Reconsidering Disability in the Classroom and Literary History
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023: 9:15am
– 10:30am · Location: Room E Baker
Session Chair: Camille Langston, St. Mary’s
University
Reconsidering Sound: Crafting a Visual Prosody
University of Oregon, United States of America
Literate Misfitting: Exploring the Experiences of Disabled Student Writers
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
Temporal Sovereignty, Disaster Pedagogy & “Crip Time”: Challenging Western Clock Time on an Academic Schedule
University of Minnesota, United States of America
The Timeline of the Disabled Body throughout Literary History
Graduate Student at ULL, United States of America
Film Studies 1: Film Depicting Identities
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023: 9:15am
– 10:30am · Location: Room G Vance
Session Chair: Erin Clair, Arkansas Tech
University
Cracking the Code: Representations of SGM in Disney’s Luca
Sam Naimi Psychotherapy, United States of America
NINA WU: The Feminised Confluences of the Asian Body within Screen Story Form
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
The many incarnations of a Saree .
Deakin University & Nayang Technological University, Singapore
Interracial/intergender versus Intra-racial/intragender Antagonism in Postcolonial Literature
1Central Piedmont Community College, United States of America; 2Winston-Salem State University; 3University of Houston
Irish Lit: Words of the Irish
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023: 9:15am
– 10:30am · Location: Room C Everett
Session Chair: Valerie Kasper, Saint Leo
University
In the Deep Heart’s Core: Latent Irish-ness at the Heart of Yeats’s Seminal Work
American Public University System, United States of America
Open Closets: The Difficulties of Sexuality for Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust
West Texas A&M University, United States of America
Taming the “Grasshopper Mind:” Self-Help and The Modernist Stream of Consciousness
Valley City State Univeristy, United States of America
Singing the Secrets: Using Hunger and Irish Poetry to Highlight the Highest Uses of Language
University of North Georgia, United States of America
Ped 2: Creating Spaces for Inclusive Discourse
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023: 9:15am
– 10:30am · Location: Room B Frontier
Session Chair: Laura Petersen, Our Lady of
the Lake University
Discourse communities and the embodied classroom space: How social experiences on the margins may foster healthy writer identity
Biola University, United States of America
When Remote & On-Ground Teaching Converge: A Post-Pandemic Pedagogy that Fosters Equity & Engagement
Hudson County Community College, United States of America
Hospitality in the writing center: A practical guide for tutors
Oklahoma Baptist University, United States of America
“Conversations in Gender and Sexuality”: A Confluence of Feminist and Queer Theory Pedagogies in the “Conversant Classroom”—
University of Alabama-Huntsville, United States of America
RelignLit 1: Digging Beneath the Text: Finding New Relationships
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023: 9:15am
– 10:30am · Location: Room I Alamo
Session Chair: Jamie McDaniel, Radford
University
Cultural Convergence: David Michie’s The Magician of Lhasa
Texas Tech University, United States of America
Belief in Grief: The Elegy in Contemporary American Spiritual Poetry
Baylor University, United States of America
Medieval Medicine, Morality, and COVID-19
Lincoln University, United States of America
Here’s to a Rhyming God: Meaningful Patterns in Poetry and Faith
James Madison University, United States of America
TrvLit: Human, Colonial, and Ecological Landscapes
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023: 9:15am
– 10:30am · Location: Room K Yellow Rose
Session Chair: Lee Anna Maynard, Augusta
University
Our Traveling Correspondent: Newspaper Letters from the American West, 1880-1890
Slippery Rock University, United States of America
Contorted Colonial Memories: Literary Reconstructions of Cameroon in Colonial Travel Writing.
Troy Univeristy, United States of America
Imagining a New Ecological Literature for the Anthropocene: The Confluence of Travel Writing, Climate Activism, and the New Ecology in Modern Environmental Literature
Kingsborough Community College, United States of America
Legitimizing Rule Through Material Knowledge: The Imperial Library of The Mughals
University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas, United States of America
AmerLit18/19 2: Dark Romantics Then and Now
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023:
10:40am – 11:55am · Location: Room F Mahncke
Session Chair: John Samson, Texas Tech
University
Poe’s "To Helen" and the Logic of Dreams
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, United States of America
“His Hideous Art: Poe’s Perverse Gamesmanship in “The Tell-Tale Heart””
Georgia Military College, Warner Robins, United States of America
A Convergence in the Stars: Providential Portents of America in Hawthorne’s Night Sketches of New England
Texas A&M International University, United States of America
“Writing around the edges of things”: On the Lighthouse in American Literature and in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, United States of America
BritLit20/21 1: Narrative Questions: Artificial Intelligence, Spectres, and Suffering
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023:
10:40am – 11:55am · Location: Room D Bluebonnet
Session Chair: Ken Bugajski, University of
Saint Francis
“It’s a Ghost Story: Reclaiming Marie Hay’s The Evil Vineyard”
Winthrop University, United States of America
“Alternate Histories, Possible Futures: Confluences of Genre in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me”
Texas A&M University-San Antonio, United States of America
The Cosmic Humor of Ted Hughes
Columbus State University, United States of America
Dialogical Narratology: Lewis’s Till We Have Faces and the Rhetorical Characteristics of the Twice-Told Tale
University of Kentucky, United States of America
CmpRhetTh 4: Where Well-being and Education Meet
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023:
10:40am – 11:55am · Location: Room B Frontier
Session Chair: Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State
University
Writing Well-Being across the Major
University of Kentucky, United States of America
The End Is Always Near: Evaluating the Influence of Premillennial Apocalyptic Rhetoric on Evangelical Christian Attitudes Toward Climate Change Discourse
The Ohio State University, United States of America
Finding A Way In: Teaching the Lyric Essay
1Association for the Study of African American Life and History; 2The Authors’ Guild; 3National Writers’ Union; 4Popular Culture Association
WarTraum 1: Storytelling and War
Time: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023:
10:40am – 11:55am · Location: Room G Vance
“The Reality and The Record:” Performance and Trauma in the Asylum Interview
Miami University, United States of America
Teaching Joe Sacco’s Safe Area: Gorazde to illustrate the confluence of war
Lander University, United States of America
The Sword and the Saber: Russian and Ukrainian Identity in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard
Northeastern Illinois University, United States of America
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AfricAmer 1: Navigating Place and Time: Identity in Recent African American LiteratureLocation: Room F MahnckeSession Chair: Kathleen McEvoy, Washington & Jefferson College |
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BritLit19 1: Watched, Consumed, and Contained: Gender in 19th-Century TextsLocation: Room E BakerSession Chair: Patrick Jackson, Columbus State University |
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CrWrNF 1: Reading and Writing the
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Latinx2: Latinx Literary and Cultural
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LitTheory 2: Inhabited Spaces: The
confluence of language and location–public/private, canonical/emerging,
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9:30am – 10:45am |
PopCult 4: Rhetoric of Pop CultureLocation: Room C EverettSession Chair: Regina St. John, Arkansas Tech University |
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Room C Everett |
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9:30am – 10:45am |
TeacherEd: The Confluence of the College, Composition, and K-12 ClassroomLocation: Room I AlamoSession Chair: Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern Indiana |
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Room I Alamo |
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9:30am – 10:45am |
WarTraum 2: Gazing BackwardsLocation: Room G VanceSession Chair: Craig Warren, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College |
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Room G Vance |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
AmerLit18/19 1: American MiscellanyLocation: Room F MahnckeSession Chair: Lisette Gibson, Capital University |
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Room F Mahncke |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
CmpRhetPr 1: Spotlight on Teaching
Rhetoric and Critical Analysis |
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Room C Everett |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
CrWrFP 2: Finding a Voice and a Self in
Poetry and Prose |
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Room J Magnolia |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
NEH: National Endowment for the
Humanities |
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Room E Baker |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
Panel 2: Eliminating fear in First-Year Composition: Bolder, Better WritingLocation: Room K Yellow RoseSession Chair: Karuna Hin, Chapman University |
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Room K Yellow Rose |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
Ped 1: Getting student buy-in: Finding space for convergence in the writing classroomLocation: Room B FrontierSession Chair: Andy Trevathan, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge |
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Room B Frontier |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
Queer 2: Queer PedagogiesLocation: Room D BluebonnetSession Chair: Jeffrey Cass, Arkansas Tech University |
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Room D Bluebonnet |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
TechCommATTW: Innovative Approaches to Text and Teaching in Professional CommunicationLocation: Room I AlamoSession Chair: Patricia Pytleski, Kutztown University |
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Room I Alamo |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
VisualCult 2: The Confluence of Historical and Speculative NarrativesLocation: Room H QuadrangleSession Chair: Cortney Barko, West Virginia University Institute of Technology |
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Room H Quadrangle |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
WarTraum 3: War and/or Trauma and LiteratureLocation: Room G VanceSession Chair: Chimi Woo, Prairie View A & M University |
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Room G Vance |
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1:30pm – 2:45pm |
BritLit18 1: The Long Eighteenth Century: Textuality, Sexuality, and the Nature of MonarchyLocation: Room E BakerSession Chair: Jean Filetti, Christopher Newport University |
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Room E Baker |
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1:30pm – 2:45pm |
CmpRhetPr 2: What Matters in
Composition Studies NOW |
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Room I Alamo |
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1:30pm – 2:45pm |
CrWrFP 1: Creative Writing Fiction and
Creative Non-Fiction |
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Room J Magnolia |
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1:30pm – 2:45pm |
FilmStudies 2: Changes in PerspectiveLocation: Room H QuadrangleSession Chair: Carolyn Kyler, Washington & Jefferson College |
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Room H Quadrangle |
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1:30pm – 2:45pm |
GrmLin 1: Diverse Literary and
Linguistic Currents |
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Room F Mahncke |
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1:30pm – 2:45pm |
NatAmerLit1: Place, Narrative, and
Decolonial Storytelling |
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Room G Vance |
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1:30pm – 2:45pm |
Panel 3: Life out of the Margins: Blurring Form and Genre in Creative WritingLocation: Room K Yellow RoseSession Chair: Susan Finch, Belmont UniversitySession Chair: Dominika Wrozynski, Manhattan College |
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Room K Yellow Rose |
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1:30pm – 2:45pm |
Ped 6: Talking about TeachingLocation: Room B FrontierSession Chair: Linda Piccirillo-Smith, Kent State University |
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Room B Frontier |
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1:30pm – 2:45pm |
PedServ 1: Pedagogy: Service LearningLocation: Room D BluebonnetSession Chair: Susan Friedman, University of Alabama-Huntsville |
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Room D Bluebonnet |
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1:30pm – 2:45pm |
Roundtable 2: The Confluence of
Teaching and Administration |
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Room C Everett |
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3:00pm – 4:15pm |
AcadAdmin 1: Doors Closing; Windows Opening: Current and Future Studies in EnglishLocation: Room I AlamoSession Chair: Imogene Bunch, Christopher Newport University |
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Room I Alamo |
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3:00pm – 4:15pm |
AfricAmer 2: A Relevant Past: Seeing Today through History in African American LiteratureLocation: Room F MahnckeSession Chair: Jeff Gross, Christian Brothers University |
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Room F Mahncke |
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3:00pm – 4:15pm |
BritLit19 2: Representation, Identity, and Belonging in 19th-Century British CultureLocation: Room E BakerSession Chair: Ken McGraw, Roanoke College |
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Room E Baker |
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3:00pm – 4:15pm |
CmpRhetPr 3: Diverse Experiences and
Perspectives in Writing Courses |
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Room C Everett |
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3:00pm – 4:15pm |
CmpRhetTh 3: Bringing Together the Past
and the Present |
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Room J Magnolia |
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3:00pm – 4:15pm |
Panel 10: Teaching South Asian literature in English in the American ClassroomLocation: Room D BluebonnetSession Chair: Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Texas A&M University-KingsvilleSession Chair: Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State University |
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Room D Bluebonnet |
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3:00pm – 4:15pm |
Panel 4: Mandated Assessment: The Convergence and Divergence of Power and PlacementLocation: Room K Yellow RoseSession Chair: Sonya Barrera Eddy, Texas A&M University San Antonio |
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Room K Yellow Rose |
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3:00pm – 4:15pm |
Ped 3: Using Reflection in the English
Studies Classroom |
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Room B Frontier |
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3:00pm – 4:15pm |
PopCult 2: Pop Culture, Literary
Violence, and True Crime |
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Room G Vance |
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3:00pm – 4:15pm |
PostCol 1: New Ways of Thinking about
Post-Colonial Literature |
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Room H Quadrangle |
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Date: Friday, 31/Mar/2023 |
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9:30am – 10:45am |
AmerLit20/21 1: American Novels:
Trauma, History, Faith |
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Room F Mahncke |
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9:30am – 10:45am |
BritLit16/17 1: Gender and IdentityLocation: Room E BakerSession Chair: Douglas Terry, West Virginia University Institute of Technology |
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Room E Baker |
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9:30am – 10:45am |
CmpRhetPr 4: Teaching for Transfer: Connecting Writing Courses with Other ContextsLocation: Room C EverettSession Chair: Elizabeth Weatherford, Florida Gulf Coast University |
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Room C Everett |
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9:30am – 10:45am |
CmpRhetTh 1: Pedagogy in Composition
and Rhetoric |
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Room J Magnolia |
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9:30am – 10:45am |
Merton 1: Always Seeing Anew: Thomas Merton’s Insights and DiscoveriesLocation: Room G VanceSession Chair: Lee Jones, Georgia State University |
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Room G Vance |
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9:30am – 10:45am |
MultiWrld 1: Confluences of Theory and
Representation |
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Room H Quadrangle |
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9:30am – 10:45am |
PeaceStud: Promoting Peace in Word,
Deed, and Practice |
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Room B Frontier |
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9:30am – 10:45am |
PedDiv 1: Diversity in English
Curriculum |
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Room D Bluebonnet |
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9:30am – 10:45am |
WomCon 1: Voice, Truth, and Story
Telling |
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Room I Alamo |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
AfricAmer 3: African American Literature and the Politics of IdentityLocation: Room F MahnckeSession Chair: Jim Owen, Columbus State University |
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Room F Mahncke |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
CmpRhetPr 5: Classroom Strategies that
Support Student Success |
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Room C Everett |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
CrWrCl 1: Isn’t All Writing Creative? How Teaching Creative Writing Extends Beyond the Creative Writing ClassroomLocation: Room J MagnoliaSession Chair: Gerald Siegel, York College of Pensylvania |
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Room J Magnolia |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
DisAbl Studies 1: Intersectional Approaches to Race and DisabilityLocation: Room I AlamoSession Chair: Glenda Pritchett, Quinnipiac University |
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Room I Alamo |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
Latinx1: Latinx Poetry and ProseLocation: Room H QuadrangleSession Chair: Mark Rollins, Lander University |
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Room H Quadrangle |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
LitTheory 1: Bloodlines in Literary Theory: The begats from Nietche through Derrida to Fish and SaidLocation: Room B FrontierSession Chair: Camille Langston, St. Mary’s University |
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Room B Frontier |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
Panel 6: Convergence: Society, Literature, and the Classroom / "Half In Love With Easeful Death”: The Intersection of Death and NatureLocation: Room K Yellow RoseSession Chair: Sherri Ahern, Florida International University |
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Room K Yellow Rose |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
Queer 1: Queer Lives and TimesLocation: Room D BluebonnetSession Chair: James Drown, University of Illinois at Chicago |
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Room D Bluebonnet |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
VisualCult 1: Material and Metaphorical
Sites of Confluence |
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Room G Vance |
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11:00am – 12:15pm |
WomCon 2: Problems of Crime, Gender,
and Individuality |
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Room E Baker |
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2:00pm – 3:15pm |
AmerLit20/21 2: Women and Place in
American Literature |
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Room F Mahncke |
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2:00pm – 3:15pm |
CmpRhetPr 6: Rethinking Assessment in
Writing Classrooms and Programs |
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Room C Everett |
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2:00pm – 3:15pm |
CmpRhetTh 2: Decolonizing and Remaking
the Classroom |
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Room J Magnolia |
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2:00pm – 3:15pm |
MultiWrld 2: Confluences of Language
and Form |
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Room H Quadrangle |
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2:00pm – 3:15pm |
Panel 11: Weaving Together Personal Stories and History in the English ClassroomLocation: Room D BluebonnetSession Chair: Matthew Kelly, University of Texas at Tyler |
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Room D Bluebonnet |
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2:00pm – 3:15pm |
Panel 7: History and Horton Foote/ "Dramaturgy and WWI History in Horton Foote’s 1918"Location: Room K Yellow RoseSession Chair: DeAnna Toten Beard, Baylor University |
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Room K Yellow Rose |
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2:00pm – 3:15pm |
Ped 4: Convergences of classroom design
and assessment |
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Room B Frontier |
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2:00pm – 3:15pm |
PopCult 1: New Traditions in Children’s
and Adolescent Literature |
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Room G Vance |
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2:00pm – 3:15pm |
Profession 1: Positioning the
Profession in Precarious Times |
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Room E Baker |
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2:00pm – 3:15pm |
WomCon 3: Women of the PastLocation: Room I AlamoSession Chair: Geraldine Poppke Suter, Furman University |
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Room I Alamo |
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3:30pm – 4:45pm |
AfricAmer 4: Writing for Change: Contemporary Art and Spaces for ProgressLocation: Room F MahnckeSession Chair: Alyse Jones, Georgia State University |
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Room F Mahncke |
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3:30pm – 4:45pm |
CmpRhetPr 7: Writing and IdentityLocation: Room C EverettSession Chair: Vittoria Rubino, U.S. Military Academy |
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Room C Everett |
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3:30pm – 4:45pm |
MultiWrld 3: Confluences and
Constructions of Identity |
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Room H Quadrangle |
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3:30pm – 4:45pm |
Panel 8: Post-Pandemic Action Research: Pedagogical Responses to the Year of ZoomLocation: Room K Yellow RoseSession Chair: Morgan Read-Davidson, Chapman University |
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Room K Yellow Rose |
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3:30pm – 4:45pm |
Panel 9: Navigating the Confluence of Pre/Post-Pandemic Approaches in the Literary Classroom and BeyondLocation: Room J MagnoliaSession Chair: Margaret Cantu-Sanchez, St. Mary’s University |
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Room J Magnolia |
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3:30pm – 4:45pm |
Ped 5: What does our writing and
teaching look like? |
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Room B Frontier |
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3:30pm – 4:45pm |
PedDiv 2: Identity and InclusivityLocation: Room D BluebonnetSession Chair: Greg Bruno, Kingsborough Community College |
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Room D Bluebonnet |
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3:30pm – 4:45pm |
PopCult 3: Convergence and ConfluenceLocation: Room G VanceSession Chair: Melody Wise, Glenville State University |
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Room G Vance |
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3:30pm – 4:45pm |
Roundtable 1: Ideas in the MakingLocation: Room I AlamoSession Chair: Jeraldine Kraver, University of Northern Colorado |
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Room I Alamo |
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Date: Saturday, 01/Apr/2023 |
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9:15am – 10:30am |
AmerLit20/21 3: Learning from
Literature |
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Room F Mahncke |
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9:15am – 10:30am |
CaribLit 1: Detangling Relations in
Caribbean Literature |
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Room H Quadrangle |
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9:15am – 10:30am |
DisAblStudies 2: Reconsidering Disability in the Classroom and Literary HistoryLocation: Room E BakerSession Chair: Camille Langston, St. Mary’s University |
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Room E Baker |
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9:15am – 10:30am |
Film Studies 1: Film Depicting
Identities |
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Room G Vance |
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9:15am – 10:30am |
Irish Lit: Words of the IrishLocation: Room C EverettSession Chair: Valerie Kasper, Saint Leo University |
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Room C Everett |
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9:15am – 10:30am |
Ped 2: Creating Spaces for Inclusive
Discourse |
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Room B Frontier |
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9:15am – 10:30am |
RelignLit 1: Digging Beneath the Text:
Finding New Relationships |
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Room I Alamo |
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9:15am – 10:30am |
TrvLit: Human, Colonial, and Ecological
Landscapes |
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Room K Yellow Rose |
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10:40am – 11:55am |
AmerLit18/19 2: Dark Romantics Then and
Now |
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Room F Mahncke |
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10:40am – 11:55am |
BritLit20/21 1: Narrative Questions: Artificial Intelligence, Spectres, and SufferingLocation: Room D BluebonnetSession Chair: Ken Bugajski, University of Saint Francis |
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Room D Bluebonnet |
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10:40am – 11:55am |
CmpRhetTh 4: Where Well-being and
Education Meet |
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Room B Frontier |
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10:40am – 11:55am |
WarTraum 1: Storytelling and WarLocation: Room G Vance |
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Room G Vance |
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