8:00AM - 1:00PM: Registration,
Center for Natural Sciences
(CNS) Atrium
9:00AM - 10:15AM: Session
I
Room E103:
Contemporary American Poetry
Presenters:
Matt Katch
(Illinois Wesleyan University), "An Unusual Flowering: Complexities of
the Araki Yasusada Hoax"
Linda Martin (Illinois Wesleyan
University), "Long Live the Death of Poetry!"
Sarah Sherman (Illinois Wesleyan
University), "Greeting Cards as Contemporary American Poetry"
Room E104:
Rhyme and Reason in Poetry and Pedagogy
Presenters:
Nikki Pilotte (Illinois Wesleyan University)
Mary Kate Polzin (Illinois Wesleyan
University), "A Closer Look at the English Literature and Composition
Advanced
Placement Program"
Melanie Waltman (Illinois Wesleyan
University), "Encounters with Performance Poetry in High School
Forensics"
10:30AM - 11:30AM: Panels
Room
E105: The Future of 18th Century
British Literature Studies
Presenters:
Dr. Katherine
Ellison
Beyazit Akman
Beth Zold
Room E104: Feminist Approaches to Literature
Presenters:
Gretchen Frank
Dr. Mary Ryder
Molly McLay
Room E102: Post-graduate
Professional Options
Presenters:
Linda Lienhart
Dr. Wes Chapman
Dr. Robert McLaughlin
11:30AM - 12:15PM: Lunch
Join us in the atrium of the Center for Natural Sciences (CNS) for a (FREE!) pizza lunch and socializing!
12:30PM - 1:45PM: Keynote Speech by
Dr. Lisa Ruddick (large lecture hall, C101)
"The Quality of
Aliveness in Literature"
2:00PM - 3:15PM: Session II
Room
E103: A Sexy Session of Shakespeare:
Exploring Gender and Homosexuality
Presenters:
Emily Franzen (Illinois
Wesleyan University), "Putting the 'Oh!' in Othello: The Tragic
Consequences of Iago's
Unnamable Desires"
Marcella Russo (St. Xavier's University),
"Language vs. Reality:
The Impossibility of Finding the Right Word"
Renee Keane (Illinois Wesleyan
University), "It's Pat! Identifying
Gender in Shakespeare"
Room E104: Through a Looking Glass
Darkly: Altered Perspectives
Presenters:
Kaelyn Riley
(Illinois Wesleyan University)
Leila Ann Whitley
(Illinois Wesleyan University), "The Space Between: Examining Samuel
Beckett as a Verse
Dramatist"
Aaron Burns (Illinois
Wesleyan University), "A Dinner
Party in The Waste Land"
3:30PM - 4:45PM: Session III
Room
E103: Defining Identities in the
Space Between
Presenters:
Romana Amato (St. Xavier's
University), "Don Quixote's Search for Identity: A
Reflection of Mirror Images"
Anna Hegdahl (Wheaton
College), "Chinese
Voice in English Dress (and vice versa): Literary Voices in Sui Sin Far"
Fran Thielman (Wheaton
College), "Dead
Letter: Melvin's Rejection of Calvinism in Moby Dick and Bartleby the
Scrivener"
Room E104: Classic English Masters
Presenters:
Teresa Sherman (Illinois Wesleyan
University),
"Chaucer, Wyclif, and the Fabliau: An Analysis of Heterodoxy in
The Canterbury
Tales"
Kristin A. Maki
(Augustana College),
"Examining Liminal Space through the Lais
genre in The Canterbury Tales"
Joshua Held (Trinity
International University), "Locus
and the Courtly Love
Tradition: Eve's Sonnet in Paradise
Lost"
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