Echoes of
Transformation
Schedule of Events: April 4, 2008
9:00 AM-9:30 AM Registration
Programs and nametags will be available at the registration
table in front of Boehm 145.
9:30 AM-10:50
AM Session One
Boehm 101
Michelle Sarver, “Illuminating Gender Identity through Women
in Art”
Kaylin Bower, “Evolution of Emotion: The
Transformative Power of the Narrative”
Luke Shimer, “Modernizing the Inferno”
Boehm 220
Jonathan Muggleston, “HD and the I
Ching: The Tradition of the Paratactic Method”
Brian Robinson, “Drawing the Line Between
Globalization and Cultural Imperialism”
Mary (Katie) Isamoyer, “Solving
the Issue of Female Circumcision”
Andrea Fenton, “1984 Lives On”
Boehm 145 *Please note: Panel C will run from
10 AM-11 AM
Jill Daub, “The Poet Who Had No Pity”
David Brown, “Contrasting Elements of "The Eve of St.
Agnes”
Joseph Blevins, “Sames of Am:
Deconstruction Duality in E.E. Cummings”
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Boehm 145
Keynote Address, Foster Winans
1:20 PM-2:40 PM
Session Two
Boehm 101
Aaron Smyk, “Technology and
Composition: Hyper-Empowerment Versus the Hyperreal”
Greg Hafer, “Education, Writing,
and the Façade of Masculine Supremacy”
Boehm 145
Andrea Pfaff, “Outside the Patriarchal System: Safer Places
for Women to Live”
Jessica Shimer, “Goblin Market:
Sexual Politics, Rape, Religion, and Men as the Insignificant Other”
Amanda Stivala,
“The Strength of a
Mask”
Natasha Zimmer, “Antony and Cleopatra”
Alexandra Martinez, “The Unavoidable Mistake: The Reckless
Lover in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and A
Lover’s Complaint”
3:00 PM-4:20 PM
Session Three
Boehm 101
Panel G: Transformative Genres: Realism
Joshua Zosky, “Is the Grass
Realistically Greener on the Other Side of the Pond?”
Mark Emerick, “The politics of
American Literary Realism: Huck Finn
and The Jungle as Political Commentary”
Kimberly Hertzog, “The American Realist Narrator”
Boehm 145
Panel H: Transformative Motifs: The Gothic
Cait Turner, “The Monster in The Mirror: Fractured Male Identities in Contemporary Gothic
Literature”
Paul Walsh, “The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner": A Gothic Tale”
Boehm 220
Panel I: Transformative Voices: Seamus Heaney
Brett Straughn, “Struggle versus
self and role in life in Digger and The Forge”
Angela Merrill, “A Look into the Unknown”