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We've received tremendous proposals this year and are excited by the diverse presentations we have scheduled.
Key Speaker
This year, we eagarly welcome Dr. Janice Witherspoon Neuleib, Professor of English at Illinios State University.
Dr. Neuleib specializes in composition studies, writing instruction, writing project administration and the Advanced Placement English Language Exam. Dr. Neuleib will present the keynote speech and will also assist in judging the presentations to determine the conference awards.
Awards
The conference organizers will present awards to outstanding work presented at the conference. We will provide more detialed information about the awards availble soon. Please check this site for updated information.
Schedule
Please note: This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
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Friday, 3/27
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6 PM
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Casual Gathering (Bison Witches - Just north of campus at Mill Ave. and 6th St.) — Readings from Sonoran Prize Winners
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Saturday, 3/28
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8 - 8:30 AM
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Registration in Language and Literature Room 243. (Registration is open all day)
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8:30 - 9:45 AM
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Breakout Session 1
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Panel 1: Writing, Composition, Thought, and Rhetoric — Language and Literature 240
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Panel Chair: Nicole Pfannenstiel, Arizona State University
- David Edwards, Arizona State University: “The Science of Good Writing: Improving Communication Skills Among Undergraduate Scientists”
- Seth Clippard, Arizona State University: "Deep Rhetoric: Discourse and Radical Ecology"
- Megan Fisk, Arizona State University: “The Great Schlep’s Effectiveness”
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Panel 2: Native American Culture and Identity — Language and Literature 247
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Panel Chair: William Bolton, Arizona State University
- Amy Gore, Montana State University: “The Shadow on the Page: The Native American Presence in the American Literary Canon”
- Paris Masek, Arizona State University: “Blurred Words: The Cultural Confusion Created by the Fictional Works of Sherman Alexie”
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10 - 11:15 AM
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Breakout Session 2
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Panel 3: Material Culture in Medieval and Restoration Literature — Language and Literature 240
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Panel Chair: Nathaniel Bump, Arizona State University
- Nathaniel Bump, Arizona State University: “A Courtly Carle: Market Relativism and Civil Strife in Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle”
- Emily Cole, Arizona State University: “The Despoiling of Maidenhood: The Preservation of Virginity, The Maintenance of Sovereignty”
- Ginger Hanson, Arizona State University: “‘I Go to My Pleasure, Business’: Horner as Laborer, Commodity, and Capitalist in Wycherley’s The Country Wife”
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Panel 4: Narrative, Letters, Language, and Change — Language and Literature 241
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Panel Chair: Nicole Pfannenstiel, Arizona State University
- Marqueshia Wilson, Arizona State University: “Narrative and Language as Mimetic Characterization: From Faulkner to Sapphire”
- Nicole Pfannenstiel, Arizona State University: “A Reception Trope of Hannah Webster Foster’s Epistolary Novels”
- Rosemary Smith, Arizona State University: “Black Jewels: Transforming the New Negro in Harlem Renaissance Literary Magazines”
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Panel 5: Literary Reception and Perception— Language and Literature 247
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Panel Chair: Dawn Durante, Arizona State University
- Dawn Durante, Arizona State University: “The Case of Random House: The Legal Battle to Publish Ulysses”
- Erin Vonnahme, Arizona State University: “American Psycho and National Dysfunction”
- Riki Meier, Arizona State University: “BookTalk: A Feminist Ethnographic Investigation of Literary Appetence and Narrative Discourse”
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11:30 - 12:45 PM
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Breakout Session 3
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Panel 6: Art, Performance, and Entertainment — Language and Literature 240
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Panel Chair: William Bolton, Arizona State University
- Ashley Allen, Arizona State University: “The Material Nature of Art”
- Corby Tushla, California State University, Fullerton: “Autobiographically-Based Solo Performance Worth the Price of Admission”
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Panel 7: Multi-linguality, Travel, and Literature — Language and Literature 247
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Panel Chair: Jason Bryant, Arizona State University
- Laura Pfeffer, Arizona State University: “Challenging Tongues: The ‘Irreducible Hybridity’ of Language in Contemporary Multilingual Poetry”
- Melissa Castillo-Garsow, Arizona State University: “More than Spanglish: Academic Boundaries and Code Switching in the Gloria Anzaldúa’s ‘Nueva Mestiza’”
- Dotty Dye, Arizona State University: “L’Immoraliste and L’Aventure Ambiguë: The Transformative Function of Travel in a Narrative Setting”
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12:45 - 2 PM
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Lunch
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2 - 3 PM
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Keynote Speaker — Language and Literature 2
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Dr. Janice W. Neuleib, Illinois State University: "Subversive Activities: Writing, Rhetoric, and Teaching"
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3:15 - 4:30 PM
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Breakout Session 4
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Panel 8: Postcolonialism and Literature — Language and Literature 240
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Panel Chair: Dale Pattison, Arizona State University
- Trey Gordon, Stephen F. Austin State University: “‘Please, Sir, I Want Some More:’ Decoding the Child in Postcolonial Literature”
- Bryan Tarpley, Stephen F. Austin State University: “‘The heart was missing:’ Identity Crisis and Paralysis in Nuruddin Farah’s Maps”
- Scott Kirkland, Stephen F. Austin State University: “We Learned Bad Things: Jamaica Kincaid’s Library in A Small Place”
- Eralda Lameborshi Tarpley, Stephen F. Austin State University: “Wounded English: Language and Identity in Ken Saro Wiwa’s Sozaboy”
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Panel 9: Myth and Religion — Language and Literature 247
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Panel Chair: Cynthia Simmons, Arizona State University
- Kathryn Mickel, Arizona State University: “Death, Race and the Perception of the Zombie in Voodoo Culture”
- Kelly Culver, Sam Houston State University: “Transformed Possibilities for the Myth of the West in Contemporary and Future Culture”
- Joel Stoker, Arizona State University: “Spreading the Kingdom: The Encounter of Frank Sanford and Chief Alfred Sam, and Cultural and Race Dynamics in Early Pentecostalism”
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4:45 - 6:00 PM
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Breakout Session 5
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Panel 10: Location, Transformation, and Sexuality — Language and Literature 241
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Panel Chair: Cynthia Simmons, Arizona State University
- Cynthia Fern, California State University, Fullerton: “Location and Ben Loy’s Sexuality in Louis Chu’s Eat a Bowl of Tea”
- Melissa Tse, Arizona State University: “Chinese Immigration and Sexuality: Lost Memories of Racism, Hysteria and Mystification”
- Chia-Yen Chang, Arizona State University: “The Transformation of the Archetypes of the Penvensie Children in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
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Panel 11: Communities, Culture, and Identity — Language and Literature 247
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Panel Chair: Dale Pattison, Arizona State University
- Jeff Holmes, Arizona State University: “Inhabiting Gamespace(s): Practically Situated Presence in World of Warcraft”
- Kim Pfeifer, Arizona State University: “The Game: A Personal Narrative”
- Fatma Haidari, Arizona State University: “Jargonated Family: The Role of Referents and Nicknames in Shaping Family Jargons: A Sociolinguistic/Pragmatic Approach”
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7:00 PM
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Dinner (Location TBD)
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