Ethics - Widener University

Empathy & 

Ethics 

College English Association 

38th Annual Conference 

New Orleans, LA 

April 12-14, 2007

College English Association 

An Association of Teacher-Scholars since 1939 

President 

Ann R. Hawkins, Texas Tech University 

First Vice-President & Program Chair 

Ed Demerly, Henry Ford Community College 

Second Vice-President 

Marina Favila, James Madison University 

Executive Director 

Charles A. S. Ernst, Hilbert College 

Treasurer 

Joseph Pestino, Nazareth College of Rochester 

Publications Editor 

Daniel Robinson, Widener University 

Associate Publications Editor & Webmaster 

Janine Utell, Widener University 

Web Site Archivist 

Bege Bowers, Youngstown State University 

Historian 

Robert Hoskins, James Madison University 

National Coordinator of Affiliates 

Scott Borders, Anderson University 

Immediate Past President 


Board of Directors: 

Siobhan Brownson, Winthrop University 

Juanita Hayes, Florida A & M University 

R. D. Madison, United States Naval Academy 

Kathy Rugoff, University of North Carolina, 

Wilmington 

Nina Tassi, Fordham University 

Joseph M. Viera, Nazareth College of Rochester 

Craig Warren, Penn State Erie, Behrend College 

Barbara Wiedemann, Auburn University, 

Montgomery 

George Xu, Clarion University 

2006 Special Panel Chairs and Program Committee Members 

Dean Baldwin, Penn State Erie, Behrend College 

Laura Barrio-Vilar, University of Kentucky 

Lisa Bernstein, University of Maryland University 

Campus 

Benjamin Carson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 

Karen Lentz Clark, Towson State University 

Shelia Collins, Texas Tech University 

Rynetta Davis, SUNY College at Brockport 

Lauren De La Vars, St. Bonaventure University 


Robin Hammerman, Stevens Institute of 

Technology 


Miles A. Kimball, Texas Tech University 

Peter Kratzke, University of Colorado 

Jeraldine R. Kraver, University of Northern 

Colorado 

Walter Levy, Pace University 

R. D. Madison, U.nited States Naval Academy 

Carol Osborne, Coastal Carolina University 

James Palmer, Prairie View A & M University 

Timothy Peoples, North Harris College 

Joseph Pestino, Nazareth College of Rochester 

Coretta Pittman, Baylor University 

Kathy Rugoff, University of North Carolina, 

Wilmington 

William Scott Sandlin, Texas Tech University 

Brandy Schillace, Case Western Reserve University 

Emily Smith, Emory University 

Staci Stone, Murray State University 


Joseph Viera, Nazareth College of Rochester 

Craig Warren, Penn State Erie, Behrend College 

Barbara Wiedemann, Auburn University, 

Montgomery 

Special Thanks 

Lauren Whiteaker, Texas Tech University 

Miles A. Kimball, Texas Tech University

Letter from the President 

Welcome to the 38th Annual Meeting of the College English Association! 

I’ve been saying for years now that CEA is the best kept secret in academic conferences. Smart, 

collegial, even daring. 

I started coming to CEA for no better reason than John Shawcross told me to go (but who 

needs a better reason?). John might have been President at the time, but he was (as always) 

right. I think I was hooked from the very first conference. Why? 

CEA’s the best place I know of to try out ideas and to get great feedback, all in a friendly, 

collegial atmosphere. 

Perhaps it’s because the typical CEA member has to know how to teach a range of topics. 

Most of our members—even those, like me, now at research institutions—have a long history 

teaching composition, world literature, upper-level courses for majors, and anything else 

our departments need at any given moment. We develop broad interests, and we see the 

connections across them. The intellectual challenges of these kinds of appointments are often 

under-valued in an academy which privileges a narrow, deep, but disconnected knowledge over 

a broad, connected one. As a result, one rarely hears the research-school mantra—“not my 

field”—at CEA because for the most part CEA members all know something about everything 

(sometimes a lot about everything). And CEA members realize that what we don’t know, we 

might still have occasion to learn. 

The benefit this offers other presenters at CEA is significant, for surprisingly often, you are 

presenting to scholars who know the text you are discussing. And when I say presentations 

get friendly responses, that’s not to say that CEA members don’t ask rigorous questions. In 

fact, I get better , smarter, harder questions at CEA than at the more specialized conferences I 

attend. I think the difference is one of intent: I’ve never gotten a question at CEA that wasn’t 

intended to help me develop my work in profitable directions. And though occasionally we do 

get someone (trained at those “other” conferences) who thinks the purpose of questions is to 

show how much the questioner knows, pretty soon that poor soul figures out that’s not what 

we’re about. 

Perhaps this is also the reason that CEA values teaching and pedagogical discussions so 

much. We place the value of our labor in our classrooms and in our students. Even when 

not specifically about teaching, CEA’s scholarly papers are more applicable to my life in the 

classroom—alerting me to brand-new teaching tools (and how to use them), to texts I might 

want to read (or teach). The presentations themselves are always intellectually inventive or 

pedagogically creative like the presentation I’ve never forgotten on commonalities between 

Chaucer and a important Aztec poet. 

As I’ve gotten older, CEA has also become a meeting-place for me and colleagues who have 

moved to other institutions or who are in other fields. We have common ground at CEA—each 

of us able to find plenty to hear about in our own fields, while still being at the same conference. 

And I’ve also developed CEA-friends, those colleagues I see only once a year, but whose 

friendliness, kindness and wit make each year a valued and memorable event. 

If, dear reader, you have been to a CEA conference before, then you know what I’m talking 

about. But if you are new to our organization, you are in for a treat, and I hope you find your 

expereinces here as welcoming, friendly, and challenging as I have always found mine. 

I have been honored to serve CEA this year as President. 

Ann R. Hawkins, 

CEA President, 2005-2006, Spring 2007 

P. S.: Please come by the registration table and say hi. If there’s anything you need, let us know.

Table of Contents 

CEA on the WEB ....................................................................... ii 

Call For Papers | CEA 2008, St. Louis, Missouri............................iii 

Program Overview By Day & Time...............................................v 

Program Summary By Topic ........................................................x 

CEA Honors and Awards............................................................xiv 

Full Program.............................................................................. 1 

CEA Presidents and Executive Directors.................................... 39 

More Info on CEA 2008..............................................................40 

Index........................................................................................ 42 

Note Pages................................................................................ 49 

Maps of Hotel Conference Rooms............................................... 50 

CEA on the Web 

Need information about CEA? Check out the information we have for you on the web! 

Our Main Website: http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/index.htm 

Here CEA offers up-to-date information on the organization, our publications, 

membership, officers, and our annual conference. Begun in February 2006, this 

site is maintained by Janine Utell at Widener Unversity. 

Our conference management database: http://english.ttu.edu/CEA/ 

This system offers you access to information about your submission. You set 

up a user id (each year), submit your proposal, then you can watch the process: 

you can log in to see the status of your proposal, to register for the conference, 

to pay online (if you wish), to verify the information on your name tag, etc. 

Our email address for general queries: cea.english@gmail.com 

Got a question, but you’re not sure who to ask? Email us at this address below. 

One of the officers will make sure the right person gets your query: 

CEA Archive site: http://www.as.ysu.edu/~english/cea/ceaindex.htm 

Our CEA web archive offers full information about CEA prior to February 

2006, but also offers some more recent information when we need to offer 

more than one access point--so it’s a good idea to remember the archive as a 

possible source of information. The archive is maintained by Bege Bowers at 

Youngstown State University. 

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Table of Contents | CEA on the Web

Call for Papers | CEA 2008 

Passages 

39th Annual Conference | March 27-29, 2008 | St. Louis, Missouri 

How do we think about passages? Are they just rites we go through as we grow up? or is any 

journey a passage? Are thresholds passages? Can we define what marks a passage? Is it some 

personal or communal experience? How do we think about travel 

For our 2007 meeting, CEA invites papers and panels that consider how we construct and understand 

passages and how those understandings inform what we write, read, and teach? 

We invite papers or panels on all areas of literature, languages, film, composition, pedagogy, 

creative writing, business/technical writing, etc., that explore aspects of the conference theme. 

Proposals may interpret the CEA theme broadly, including—but not limited to—the following 

possible areas: 

• Rites of Passage: physical, psychological, emotional, imaginative, cultural, relational 

• Journeys: diaspora, aging, heroic quests, mythic journeys, and coming-of-age narratives 

• Personal journeys: disfigurement, disability, poverty, diasposa, refugee status, discrimination, 

job loss, divorce, disease, death 

• Physical Passages: travels, tunnels, mountains, oceans, gaps, river-crossing, bridges 

• Rhetorical Passages: tropes of rhetoric, 

• Literary Passages: is the idea of close reading of a “passage” still a valid construct? how do we 

identify passages for students? where does a passage begin and end? 

• Spiritual Passages: the real world vs. the mystical world, metaphysical moments, liminal 

perceptions, thresholds, the revelatory, transformations and transfigurations, epiphanies 

• American Passages: migrants and immigrants, pioneers of expansion and settlement, pioneers 

of progress, the hobo and the vagabond, the runaway, slaves/ex-slaves and abolitionists, delinquents 

and reformers, the impoverished and the affluent, American dreams and dreamers, 

the triumphal rise of “geeks” and “nerds,” idols and icons--American-style 

• Rhetorical Passages: tropes of thetoric, constructs of discourse, configurations and conjurations, 

speeches and speechifying, pulpits and soap boxes 

• American Passages: migrants and immigrants, pioneers of expansion and settlement, pioneers 

of progress, the hobo and the vagabond, the runaway, slaves/ex-slaves and abolitionists, delinquents 

and reformers, the impoverished and the affluent, American dreams and dreamers, 

the triumphal rise of “geeks” and “nerds,” idols and icons, American-style 

We encourage consideration of these and other questions related to the conference theme: 

• How are passages portrayed in literature and film? 

• How do works of fiction, poetry, film, and memoir articulate passages? 

• How does travel literature convey the idea of passages, both complete and incomplete? 

• Does human response to issues of passages differ historically and regionally? How is that 

response depicted in literature, film, etc. 

• How are passages addressed in the English classroom, in what we read, write, research, and 

teach and practice as professionals? 

• How are our students challenged to consider ideas of passage? 

• What role does difference (in culture, in ethnicity, in gender, in sexual preference) make in 

ideas of passage? 

• How do students write about passages? should they? are they able to respond critically to the 

passages of their own lives? 

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General Program 

In addition to our conference theme, we also invite proposals on diverse topics from 

experienced academics as well as from young scholars and graduate students. CEA welcomes 

panels and proposals on all aspects of literature, writing, and college teaching. 

We encourage a variety of proposals in any of the areas English and writing departments 

encompass including, but not limited to, book history and textual criticism | composition and 

rhetoric | comparative literature | computers and writing | creative writing | critical pedagogy 

| cultural studies | film studies | developmental education | English as a second language | 

linguistics | literary studies | literary theory | multicultural literature | online courses and the 

virtual university | pedagogy | popular culture | race, class, and gender studies | reading and 

writing across the curriculum | student placement | study skills | teacher education | technical 

communication | and world literature. 

We also welcome papers on those areas that influence our lives as academics: student 

demographics; student/instructor accountability and assessment; student advising, chairing the 

department, the place of the English department in the university overall, etc. 

Questions? Contact Marina Favila at cea.english@gmail.com. Please put Program Chair in RE 

line. 

Submission Instructions 

CEA prefers to receive submissions electronically through our conference management 

database housed at the following web address. 

http://english.ttu.edu/cea/conftool 

Electronic submissions open August 1st and close on November 1st. 

Abstracts for proposals should be between 200 and 500 words in length and should include a 

title. 

Submitting electronically is a two-step process: 1) setting up a user id, then 2) using that id to 

log in – this time to a welcome page which provides a link for submitting proposals to the 

conference. If submitting a panel, panel organizers should create user ids for all proposed 

participants. 

Though CEA prefers to receive proposals through the conference database, we will accept hard 

copy proposals, postmarked no later than October 15th, via regular mail. Hard-copy proposals 

should include the following information: 

• Name 

• Institutional affiliation (if applicable) 

• Mailing address (including zip code) 

• Phone number 

• Email address 

• Title for the proposed presentation. 

• Abstract of 200-500 words 

• A-V equipment needs, if any 

• Special needs, if any 

Panel organizers should include the above information for all proposed participants. 

If you are willing to serve as a session chair or respondent, please indicate this in your cover 

letter. 

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CFP for CEA 2008 | St Louis

Address hard copy submissions to the Program Chair. 

Marina Favila 

Department of English 

Keezell Hall 215, MSC 1801 

James Madison University 

Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 

Fax # 540-568-2983 

Important Information 

• To preserve time for discussion, CEA limits all presentations to 15 minutes. 

• Notifications of proposal status will be sent around December 5th. 

• All presenters must join CEA by 1 January, 2007 to appear on the program. 

• No one may read more than one paper at the conference. 

• Presenters must read their own paper. 

• CEA does not sponsor or fund travel or underwrite participant costs. 

Note to Graduate Students 

• Graduate students may submit their conference presentation for the CEA Best Papers 

Award, which carries a small prize. Information on how to submit that paper will be sent to 

accepted panelists after the membership deadline. 

• Graduate students are asked to identify themselves in their proposals so that we might send 

information about the Best Paper Award when it is available. 

Program Overview by Day & Time 

Wednesday, April 11 

1–4; 6.30–8.30 p.m. 

Conference Registration 

1–2.30 

Membership Committee 

2.30–4 

Ongoing Concerns Committee 

Publications Committee 

Constitution Committee 

4–6 

CEA Board Meeting, Part 1 

6–8.30 p.m. 

CEA Board of Directors Dinner 

8.30–11 

CEA Board Meeting, Part 2 

Rhythms Foyer 

Gallier A (4th floor) 

Gallier A (4th floor 

Gallier A (4th floor 

Roux Bistro 1/2 (2nd floor behind restaurant) 

Nottoway Room (4th floor) 

Restaurant of Choice 

Nottoway Room (4th floor) 

Wednesday, April 11—Overview by Time v

Thursday, April 12 

8–9.15 | Session 1 

General 1 | Covering (Up?) Katrina Salon 801 

20th Century American Literature 1 | Cormac McCarthy’s Heroes Salon 816 

19th Century British Literature 1 | George Eliot & John Stuart Mill Salon 817 

Composition and Rhetoric 1 | Fixing Inconsistencies Salon 820 

African American Literature 1 | Language as Power Salon 821 

New York CEA 1 | Literature and Law Salon 824 

Pedagogy 1 | English and Adult Moral Education Salon 825 

Latino/a Literature 1 | Politics of Space and Gender Salon 828 

Women’s Connection 1 | Truth, Trauma, and Female Memoir 

Cornet Room 

Film 1 | Making Tragedy Exotic Rhythms 2 

Creative Writing 1: Fiction | Philosophy and Rivers Rhythms 3 

Documentary Screening | Writing the Wartime Experience Salon 829 

Note: this film lasts 81 minutes and will end during the Beverage Break. 

9.15–9.30 | Beverage Break | Sponsored by New York CEA Lagniappe 

9.30–10.45 | Session 2 

Pedagogy 2 | Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of the Other Salon 801 

Film 2 | Cueing the Viewer: Visual Rhetoric and the Right Response Salon 816 

Women’s Connection 2 | Women’s Empathy and Giving Salon 817 

Composition and Rhetoric 2 | Ethics and Diversity Salon 820 

Latino/a Literature 2 | Fashioning Identities in the Borderlands Salon 821 

Short Story 1 | Borges and Two Brits Salon 824 

British Literature 1 | Ethical Frameworks Salon 825 


Academic Leadership 1 | So You Want to Be an Administrator? Salon 829 

20th Century American Literature 2 | Literary Betrayals 

Cornet Room 

African American Literature 2 | Race, Violence, and Ethics Rhythms 2 

Creative Writing 2: Poetry | Visitations and Power Rhythms 3 

10.45–11 | Beverage Break | Sponsored by Michigan CEA Lagniappe 

11–12.15 | Session 3 

African American Literature 3 | Food in Toni Morrison Salon 801 

Self 1 | Connecting Students and Canonical Literature Salon 816 

Distance Learning 1 | Empathy and Ethics On-Line Salon 817 

Composition and Rhetoric 3 | Ethics and Pedagogy Salon 820 

General 2 | Speculative Worlds Salon 821 

New York CEA 3 | Literature and Criminal Justice Salon 824 

20th Century British Literature 1 | Memory and Tradition Salon 825 

Academic Leadership 2 | Identity and New Faculty Members Salon 828 

Women’s Connection 3 | Revolutions of Embodiment Salon 829 

18th Century British Literature 1 | Satire, Sympathy, Community Cornet Room 

Creative Writing 3: Non-Fiction | Other American Stories of Exile Rhythms 2 

20th Century American Literature 3 | Poetry Rhythms 3 

12.15-1.30 | CEA Recognition Luncheon | Invitation Only Gallery 

1.30–2.45 | Session 4 

20th Century American Literature 4 | A Confederacy of Dunces Salon 801 

African American Literature 4 | Community, Identity, and Culture Salon 816 

Pedagogy 3 | When Who You Are Is Unethical to Your Students? Salon 817 

18th Century British Literature 2 | Indecent Proposals Salon 820 

20th Century British Literature 2 | Focus on Forster Salon 821 

Composition and Rhetoric 4 | Web-Based Pedagogies Salon 824 

Film 3 | Reading Literature Through Film Salon 825 

Renaissance British Literature 1 | Shakespeare Salon 828 

Composition and Rhetoric 5 | Imagining the Learning Curve 

Cornet Room 

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Thursday, April 12 | Overview by Day and Time

Creative Writing 4: Poetry | Meditations and Metonymies Rhythms 2 

Food and Literature | Food in Fiction Rhythms 3 

2.45–3 | Beverage Break | Sponsored by Texas CEA Lagniappe 

3–4.10 | Session 5 

General 3 | Victorian Regionalism Salon 801 

NY CEA 4 & Pedagogy 4 | “I” of the Beholder Salon 816 

African American Literature 5 | Cultural Politics Salon 817 

Film 4 | Responses to Tragedy and Discrimination Salon 820 

Self 2 | Composing Self-Other Relations in the Classroom Salon 821 

20th Century American Literature 5 | Race, Borders and Illness Salon 824 

Technical Communication and Rhetoric 1 | Public Rhetorics Salon 825 

20th Century British Literature 3 | Rewriting Texts Salon 828 

Women’s Connection 4 | Teaching Women Salon 829 

Composition and Rhetoric 6 | Confessional Narratives 

Cornet Room 

Creative Writing 5: Fiction | Accidents and Revisions Rhythms 2 

19th Century British Literature 2 | Women Novelists Rhythms 3 

4.15–5.30 | Session 6 

African American Literature 6 | Musical Influences, Oral Traditions Salon 801 

Film 5 | Overcoming Resistance Salon 816 

Pedagogy 5 | Philosophical Considerations on Teaching Salon 817 

Composition and Rhetoric 7 | Composition After Katrina Salon 820 

Women’s Connection 5 | Representing Twentieth-century Feminism Salon 821 

Technical Communication and Rhetoric 2 | Race and Community Salon 824 

New York CEA 5 | Holocausts and Service-Learning Salon 825 

Composition and Rhetoric 8 | Teaching the “Arts” Salon 828 

19th Century British Literature 3 | William Wordsworth Salon 829 

Creative Writing 6: Non-Fiction | Church: Refuge and Repression Rhythms 2 

5.30–6.30 | Plenary Session Gallery Ballroom 

6.30–8 | President’s Reception Waterbury Ballroom (2nd floor)! 

Friday, April 13 

Note: To reach Roux Bistro 1/2, go through the hotel restaurant to the meeting rooms. 

7–8.15 

CEA & CEA Regional Affiliate Officers Breakfast 

Hotel Restaurant (2nd floor) 

8–9.15 | Session 7 

New York CEA 6 | Representing Struggle Salon 820 

Film 6 | Cinematic Narratives and Ethical Obligations Salon 816 

Renaissance British Literature 2 | Audience Response Salon 817 

20th Century British Literature 4 | Narrative Art and Reading Salon 821 

Pedagogy 6 | Models for Course Designs Salon 824 

19th Century American Literature 1 | Civic and Familial Virtue Salon 825 

Book History 1 | Teaching and Researching the Histories of Texts Salon 828 

19th Century British Literature 4 | The Variety of Romanticisms Salon 829 

Composition and Rhetoric 9 | Basic Writers in the 21st Century 

Cornet Room 

Creative Writing 7: Non-Fiction | Documenting Lives Rhythms 2 

Women’s Connection 6 | Violent Separations Rhythms 3 

9.15–9.30 | Beverage Break | Sponsored by Ohio CEA Lagniappe 

9.30–10.45 | Session 8 

Documentary Screening | Writing the Wartime Experience Roux Bistro 1/2 

19th Century American Literature 2 | Early Women’s Insights Salon 816 

Friday, April 13 | Overview by Day and Time 

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20th Century American Literature 6 | Embattled Literature Salon 817 

19th Century British Literature 5 | Charles Dickens Salon 820 

Composition and Rhetoric 10 | Evaluating Writing Assessment Salon 821 

World Literature 1 | Language of Human Suffering Salon 824 

Renaissance British Literature 3 | Renaissance Anxieties Salon 825 

Pedagogy 7 | Shakespeare on Stage, Page, and Screen Salon 828 

Book History 2 | Readers and Readings Salon 829 

African Caribbean Literature 1 | Women’s Histories 

Cornet Room 

Creative Writing 8: Poetry | Miracles and Margins Rhythms 2 

The Short Story 2 | American Stories Rhythms 3 

10.45–11 | Beverage Break | Sponsored by Indiana CEA Lagniappe 

11–12.15 | Session 9 

New York CEA 7 | Anatomy of Violence Salon 816 

Pedagogy 8 | Diversity in the Classroom Salon 817 

19th Century British Literature 6 | Pedagogies and Contexts Salon 820 

Composition and Rhetoric 11 | Encountering the “Other” Salon 821 

Film 7 | Unstable Borders: Disability and Animation Salon 824 

Book History 3 | Creating a Teaching Collection: The Case of Jane Eyre Salon 825 

World Literature 2 | Beckett, Zola, and Quixote Salon 829 

19th Century American Literature 3 | Kate Chopin 

Cornet Room 

American and Canadian Literature | U. S. / Canadian Relationships Rhythms 3 

Renaissance British Literature 4 | On Gender and Philosophy Salon 828 

African Caribbean Literature 2 | Nations and Homes Rhythms 2 

12.30–2 Diversity Luncheon Waterbury Ballroom (2nd floor) 

2–3.15 | Session 10 

19th Century British Literature 7 | Empathy and the Heroine Salon 821 

20th Century American Literature 7 | Hemingway and Faulkner Salon 817 

Composition and Rhetoric 12 | Negotiating Honesty and Belief Salon 820 

Native American Literature 1 | Simulation and Oral Tradition Salon 816 

Sea at CEA 1 | Pirates! Rhythms 3 

President’s Forum | Electronic Texts and the Way We Teach Salon 825 


African Caribbean Literature 3 | Religion, Spirituality, and Ethics Salon 829 

Teacher Education 1 | Addressing Ethics in Teacher Preparation 

Cornet Room 

Creative Writing 9: Non-Fiction | The Shape(s) of Nonfiction Rhythms 2 

Pedagogy 9 | Successes and Failures with the Special Needs Student Salon 824 

Composition and Rhetoric 13 | Empathy in Composition Roux Bistro 1/2 

3.15–3.30 | Beverage Break | Sponsored by Wendell Aycock Lagniappe 

3.30–4.45 | Session 11 

African Caribbean Literature 4 | Diasporic Subjectivities Salon 816 

Teacher Education 2 | Ethical Issues in the Classroom Salon 817 

20th Century American Literature 8 | Cosmos, Earth, Environment Salon 820 

Book History 4 | Texts and Their Histories Salon 821 

Children’s Literature | Fostering an Ethical Sensibility Salon 824 

Composition and Rhetoric 14 | Extending Empathy Salon 825 

19th Century British Literature 8 | Dickens, Eliot, and Slums Salon 828 

Pedagogy 10 | Putting Empathy to Work in the Classroom Salon 829 

New York CEA 8 | Anatomy of Violence 

Cornet Room 

Creative Writing 10: Workshop | Poetry Workshop I Rhythms 2 

SEA at CEA 2 | More Pirates! Rhythms 3 

Native American Literature 2 | Ceremonies, Identity Roux Bistro 1/2 

5–5.45 | Open Business Meeting Cornet Room (8th floor) 

6–8 | Women’s Connection Reception Maurepas Room (3rd floor) 

8–10 | Performance Session Waterbury Ballroom (2nd floor) 

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Friday, April 13 | Overview by Day and Time

Saturday, April 14th 

7–8 | Peace Breakfast Hotel Restaurant (2nd floor) 

8–9.15 | Session 12 

Composition and Rhetoric 15 | Foundations of Truth Salon 816 

African Caribbean Literature 5 | Derek Walcott Salon 817 

Composition and Rhetoric 16 | Grammar, Tutors, Writing Centers Salon 820 

Pedagogy 11 | Strategies for Teaching and Relating Salon 821 

Composition and Rhetoric 17 | Tutoring Post-Katrina Writings Salon 824 

Teacher Education 3 | Local Literature and a ‘New’ New Orleans Salon 825 

Religion and Literature 1 | The Question of Ethical Presence Salon 828 

New York CEA 9 | Anatomy of Violence 

Cornet Room 

Peace 1 | Morality, Militarism, and Ante-Modernity Rhythms 3 

19th Century American Literature 4 | Disasters and Miscarriages Salon 829 

9.15–9.30 | Beverage Break 

Sponsored by Nazareth College Arts and Sciences 

Lagniappe 

9.30–10.40 | Session 13 

African American and Caribbean Literature Salon 817 

Religion and Literature 2 | The Liminal Position Salon 820 

Composition and Rhetoric 18 | Empathy and Ethics: Who Cares? Salon 821 

British Medieval Literature 1 | Heroes, ‘Villains,’ and Combat Salon 825 

Women’s Connection 7 | Understanding Women Salon 828 

General 4 | Alienation and Intertexts Salon 829 

Creative Writing 11: Workshop | Poetry Workshop 2 Rhythms 2 

Peace 2 | Writing Peace Rhythms 3 

New York CEA 10 | Interdisciplinary Approaches Salon 824 

Pedagogy 12 | Family, Social Relations, and Ethics 

Cornet Room 

10.45–12 | Session 14 

Composition and Rhetoric 19 | Creating Writing Assignments Salon 816 

Reading | Larry Rubin: A Poetry Reading Salon 817 

New York CEA 11 | Interdisciplinary Approaches Salon 820 

African Caribbean Literature 6 | Nationalism and Diaspora Salon 821 

Self 3 | Empathy and Ethics of Inclusion Salon 824 

Composition and Rhetoric 20 | How and What We Teach Post-Katrina Salon 825 

20th Century British Literature 5 | Performance and Practice Salon 828 

British Medieval Literature 2 | Chaucer’s Wives and Daughters 

Cornet Room 

Peace 3 | Literacy and Peace Rhythms 3 

20th Century American Literature 9 | Ranching, Dancing, Poetry Salon 829 

American Literature 5 | Human Relations in Uncle Tom’s Cabin Rhythms 2 

12.00–12.50 | Book Drawing at Book Exhibit Rhythms 1 

12.50–2.30 | All-Conference Luncheon Waterbury Ballroom (2nd floor) 

2.30-6.15 | Cajun Critters Swamp Tour (see full program for instructions) 

2.45–4 | Session 15 

Pedagogy 13 | Service Learning and the Problem of Empathy Salon 816 

Self 4 | Nature, Humanity, and Economics Salon 817 

Composition and Rhetoric 21 | Making News By Telling Stories Salon 820 

Composition and Rhetoric 22 | Dialogues, Blogs, Disability Rhetoric Salon 824 

Peace 4 | Voices from the Nuclear Age Salon 825 

Self 5 | Reading Others, Writing the Self Salon 828 

Film 8 | Gender and Racial Politics of Westerns Salon 829 

20th Century British Literature 6 | Interrogating Ethical Intimacies Salon 821 

Saturday, April 14 | Overview by Day and Time 

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Program Summary by Session Type 

Note: interdisciplinary or mixed panels are only erratically cross-listed 

Academic Leadership 

So You Want to Be an Administrator? Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 829 

Identity and New Faculty Members Thursday 11–12.15 | Salon 828 

African American Literature 

Language as Power Thursday 8–9.15 | Salon 821 

Race, Violence, and Ethics Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Rhythms 2 

Food in Toni Morrison Thursday 11–12.15 | Salon 801 

Community, Identity, and Culture Thursday 1.30-2.45 | Salon 816 

Cultural Politics Thursday 3–4.10 | Salon 817 

Musical Influences, Oral Traditions Thursday 4.15-5.30 | Salon 801 

The Question of Ethical Presence Saturday 8–9.15 | Salon 828 

Oppression, Spirituality, and the Primitive Mind Saturday 9.30–10.40 | Salon 817 

African Caribbean Literature 

Women’s Histories 

Friday 9.30–10.45 | Cornet Room 

Nations and Homes Friday 11–12.15 | Rhythms 2 

Religion, Spirituality, and Ethics Friday 2–3.15 | Salon 829 

Diasporic Subjectivities Friday 3.30–4.45 | Salon 816 

Derek Walcott Saturday 8–9.15 | Salon 817 

Oppression, Spirituality, and the Primitive Mind Saturday 9.30–10.40 | Salon 817 

Nationalism and Diaspora Saturday 10.45–12 | Salon 821 

American and Canadian Literature 

|U. S. / Canadian Relationships Friday 11–12.15 | Rhythms 3 

American Literature 

19th Century American Literature 

Victorian Regionalism Thursday 3–4.10 | Salon 801 

Civic and Familial Virtue Friday 8–9.15 | Salon 825 

Early Women’s Insights Friday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 816 

Kate Chopin 

Friday 11–12.15 | Cornet Room 

Disasters and Miscarriages Saturday 8–9.15 | Salon 829 


Human Relations in Uncle Tom’s Cabin Saturday 10.45–12 | Rhythms 2 

20th Century American Literature 

Cormac McCarthy’s Heroes Thursday 8–9.15 | Salon 816 

Literary Betrayals 

Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Cornet Room 

The Self and the Human in American Poetry Thursday 11–12.15 | Rhythms 3 

A Confederacy of Dunces Thursday 1.30-2.45 | Salon 801 

Race, Borders and Illness Thursday 3–4.10 | Salon 824 

Embattled Literature Friday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 817 

U. S. / Canadian Relationships Friday 11–12.15 | Rhythms 3 

Hemingway and Faulkner Friday 2–3.15 | Salon 817 

Cosmos, Earth, Environment Friday 3.30–4.45 | Salon 820 

The Liminal Position Saturday 9.30–10.40 | Salon 820 

Alienation and Intertexts Saturday 9.30–10.40 | Salon 829 

Ranching, Dancing, Poetry Saturday 10.45–12 | Salon 829 

British Literature 

British Medieval Literature 

Literature and Law Friday 2–3.15 | Salon 828 

Heroes, ‘Villains,’ and Combat Saturday 9.30–10.40 | Salon 825 

Chaucer’s Wives and Daughters 

Saturday 11-12.45 | Cornet Room 

Renaissance British Literature 

Shakespeare Thursday 1.30-2.45 | Salon 828 

Audience Response Friday 8–9.15 | Salon 817 

 

Program Summary by Session Type

Renaissance Anxieties Friday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 825 

On Gender and Philosophy Friday 11–12.15 | Salon 828 

18th Century British Literature 

Ethical Frameworks Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 825 

Satire, Sympathy, Community 

Thursday 11–12.15 | Cornet Room 

Indecent Proposals Thursday 1.30-2.45 | Salon 820 


George Eliot & John Stuart Mill Thursday 8–9.15 |Salon 817 

Ethical Frameworks Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 825 

Borges and Two Brits Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 824 

Women Novelists Thursday 3–4.10 | Rhythms 3 


William Wordsworth Thursday 4.15-5.30 | Salon 829 

The Variety of Romanticisms Friday 8–9.15 | Salon 829 

Charles Dickens Friday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 820 

Pedagogies and Contexts Friday 11–12.15 | Salon 820 

Empathy and the Heroine Friday 2–3.15 | Salon 821 

Dickens, Eliot, and Slums Friday 3.30–4.45 | Salon 828 



Speculative Worlds Thursday 11–12.15 | Salon 821 

Memory and Tradition Thursday 11–12.15 | Salon 825 

Focus on Forster Thursday 1.30-2.45 | Salon 821 

Rewriting Texts Thursday 3–4.10 | Salon 828 

Narrative Art and Reading Friday 8–9.15 | Salon 821 

Performance and Practice Saturday 10.45–12 | Salon 828 

Interrogating Ethical Intimacies Saturday 2.45-4 | Salon 821 

Book History 

Teaching and Researching the Histories of Texts Friday 8–9.15 | Salon 828 

Readers and Readings Friday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 829 

Creating Teaching Collections: The Case of Jane Eyre Friday 11–12.15 | Salon 825 A Special 

Presentation on Teaching Sponsored by Rare Book School 

President’s Forum | Electronic Texts and Teaching Friday 2–3.15 | Salon 825 

Texts and Their Histories Friday 3.30–4.45 | Salon 821 

Children’s Literature 

Fostering an Ethical Sensibility Friday 3.30–4.45 | Salon 824 


Composition and Rhetoric 

Fixing Inconsistencies Thursday 8–9.15 | Salon 820 

Ethics and Diversity Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 820 

Ethics and Pedagogy Thursday 11–12.15 | Salon 820 

Empathy and Ethics On-Line Thursday 11–12.15 | Salon 817 

Web-Based Pedagogies Thursday 1.30-2.45 | Salon 824 

Imagining the Learning Curve 

Thursday 1.30-2.45 | Cornet Room 

Confessional Narratives 

Thursday 3–4.10 | Cornet Room 

Composition After Katrina Thursday 4.15-5.30 | Salon 820 

Teaching the “Arts” Thursday 4.15-5.30 | Salon 828 

Basic Writers in the 21st Century 


Evaluating Writing Assessment Friday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 821 

Encountering the “Other” Friday 11–12.15 | Salon 821 

Negotiating Honesty and Belief Friday 2–3.15 | Salon 820 

Empathy in Composition Friday 2–3.15 | Roux Bistro 1/2 

Extending Empathy Friday 3.30–4.45 | Salon 825 

Foundations of Truth Saturday 8–9.15 | Salon 816 

Grammar, Tutors, Writing Centers Saturday 8–9.15 | Salon 820 

Tutoring Post-Katrina Writings Saturday 8–9.15 | Salon 824 


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Empathy and Ethics: Who Cares? Saturday 9.30–10.40 | Salon 821 

Creating Writing Assignments Saturday 10.45–12 | Salon 816 

How and What We Teach Post-Katrina Saturday 10.45–12 | Salon 825 

Making News By Telling Stories Saturday 2.45–4 | Salon 820 

Dialogues, Blogs, Disability Rhetoric Saturday 2.45–4 | Salon 824 

Creative Writing 

Fiction | Philosophy and Rivers Thursday 8–9.15 | Rhythms 3 

Poetry | Visitations and Power Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Rhythms 3 

Non-Fiction | Other American Stories of Exile Thursday 11–12.15 | Rhythms 2 

Poetry | Meditations and Metonymies Thursday 1.30-2.45 | Rhythms 2 

Fiction | Accidents and Revisions Thursday 3–4.10 | Rhythms 2 

Non-Fiction | Church: Refuge and Repression Thursday 4.15-5.30 | Rhythms 2 

Non-Fiction | Documenting Lives Friday 8–9.15 | Rhythms 2 

Poetry | Miracles and Margins Friday 9.30–10.45 | Rhythms 2 

Non-Fiction | The Shape(s) of Nonfiction Friday 2–3.15 | Rhythms 2 

Workshop | Poetry Workshop I Friday 3.30–4.45 | Rhythms 2 

Workshop | Poetry Workshop 2 Saturday 9.30–10.40 | Rhythms 2 

Reading | Larry Rubin: A Poetry Reading Saturday 10.45–12 | Salon 817 

Distance Learning 


Documentary 

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience Thursday 8–9.15 | Salon 829 

Friday 9.30–10.45 | Roux Bistro 1/2 

Film 

Making Tragedy Exotic Thursday 8–9.15 | Rhythms 2 

Cueing the Viewer: Visual Rhetoric Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 816 

Reading Literature Through Film Thursday 1.30-2.45 | Salon 825 

Responses to Tragedy and Discrimination Thursday 3–4.10 | Salon 820 

Overcoming Resistance Thursday 4.15-5.30 | Salon 816 

Cinematic Narratives and Ethical Obligations Friday 8–9.15 | Salon 816 

Unstable Borders: Disability and Animation Friday 11–12.15 | Salon 824 

Gender and Racial Politics of Westerns Saturday 2.45–4 | Salon 829 

Food and Literature 

Food and Community in Toni Morrison Thursday 11–12.15 | Salon 801 

Food in Fiction Thursday 1.30-2.45 | Rhythms 3 

General 

Covering (Up?) Katrina Thursday 8–9.15 | Salon 801 




Latino/a Literature 

Politics of Space and Gender Thursday 8–9.15 | Salon 828 


Fashioning Identities in the Borderlands Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 821 


Native American Literature 

Simulation and Oral Tradition Friday 2–3.15 | Salon 816 

Ceremonies, Identity Friday 3.30–4.45 | Roux Bistro 1/2 

New York CEA 

Literature and Law Thursday 8–9.15 | Salon 824 

Literature and Law Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 828 

Literature and Criminal Justice Thursday 11–12.15 | Salon 824 

“I” of the Beholder Thursday 3–4.10 | Salon 816 

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Program Summary by Session Type

Holocausts and Service-Learning Thursday 4.15-5.30 | Salon 825 

Representing Struggle Friday 8–9.15 | Salon 820 

Anatomy of Violence Friday 11–12.15 | Salon 816 

Literature and Law Friday 2–3.15 | Salon 828 

Anatomy of Violence 

Friday 3.30–4.45 | Cornet Room 


Saturday 8–9.15 | Cornet Room 

Interdisciplinary Approaches Saturday 9.30–10.40 | Salon 824 

Interdisciplinary Approaches Saturday 10.45–12 | Salon 820 

Peace 

Morality, Militarism, and Ante-Modernity Saturday 8–9.15 | Rhythms 3 

Writing Peace Saturday 9.30–10.40 | Rhythms 3 

Literacy and Peace Saturday 10.45–12 | Rhythms 3 

Voices from the Nuclear Age Saturday 2.45–4 | Salon 825 

Pedagogy 

English and Adult Moral Education Thursday 8–9.15 | Salon 825 

Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of the Other Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 801 


When Who You Are Is Unethical to Students? Thursday 1.30-2.45 | Salon 817 

“I” of the Beholder Thursday 3–4.10 | Salon 816 

Philosophical Considerations on Teaching Thursday 4.15-5.30 | Salon 817 

Models for Course Designs Friday 8–9.15 | Salon 824 

Shakespeare on Stage, Page, and Screen Friday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 828 

Diversity in the Classroom Friday 11–12.15 | Salon 817 

Successes and Failures with the Special Needs Student Friday 2–3.15 | Salon 824 

President’s Forum | Electronic Texts & Teaching Friday 2–3.15 | Salon 825 

Putting Empathy to Work in the Classroom Friday 3.30–4.45 | Salon 829 

Strategies for Teaching and Relating Saturday 8–9.15 | Salon 821 

Family, Social Relations, and Ethics 

Saturday 9.30–10.40 | Cornet Room 

Service Learning and the Problem of Empathy Saturday 2.45–4 | Salon 816 

President’s Forum 

Electronic Texts and the Way We Teach Friday 2–3.15 | Salon 825 

Reading 

Larry Rubin: A Poetry Reading Saturday 10.45–12 | Salon 817 

Religion and Literature 



SEA at CEA 

Pirates! Friday 2–3.15 | Rhythms 3 

More Pirates! Friday 3.30–4.45 | Rhythms 3 

Self 

Connecting Students and Canonical Literature Thursday 11–12.15 | Salon 816 

Composing Self-Other Relations in the Classroom Thursday 3–4.10 | Salon 821 

Empathy and Ethics of Inclusion Saturday 10.45–12 | Salon 824 

Nature, Humanity, and Economics Saturday 2.45–4 | Salon 817 

Reading Others, Writing the Self Saturday 2.45–4 | Salon 828 

Short Story 


American Stories Friday 9.30–10.45 | Rhythms 3 

Teacher Education 

Addressing Ethics in Teacher Preparation 


Ethical Issues in the Classroom Friday 3.30–4.45 | Salon 817 

Local Literature and a ‘New’ New Orleans Saturday 8–9.15 | Salon 825 


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Technical Communication and Rhetoric 

Public Rhetorics Thursday 3–4.10 | Salon 825 

Race and Community Thursday 4.15-5.30 | Salon 824 

Women’s Connection 

Truth, Trauma, and Female Memoir Thursday 8–9.15 | Cornet Room 

Women’s Empathy and Giving Thursday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 817 

Revolutions of Embodiment Thursday 11–12.15 | Salon 829 

Teaching Women Thursday 3–4.10 | Salon 829 

Representing Twentieth-century Feminism Thursday 4.15-5.30 | Salon 821 

Violent Separations Friday 8–9.15 | Rhythms 3 

Understanding Women Saturday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 828 

World Literature 


Language of Human Suffering Friday 9.30–10.45 | Salon 824 

Beckett, Zola, and Quixote Friday 11–12.15 | Salon 829 



CEA Honors and Awards 

We are now accepting nominations for the following awards: 

Joe D. Thomas CEA Distinguished Service Award recognizes service to CEA through 

contributions to the organization over a period of time (through committee work, service 

as an elected officer, and other projects) 

CEA Honorary Life Membership recognizes extraordinary and sustained service to the 

Association and the profession 

CEA Professional Achievement Award recognizes an Association member who has signally 

contributed to teaching and scholarship at the college level 

Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award: A $500.00 grant is awarded to an outstanding junior 

CEA member for work in a project involving scholarship or pedagogy related to English 

Studies 

These awards will be presented at the 2008 conference. For information on making 

nominations or application, please contact Charles Ernst, Executive Director, or Ann 

R. Hawkins, soon to be Immediate Past President. Members are encouraged to selfnominate 

where appropriate. 

CEA also presents the following honors: 

Robert A Miller Memorial Prize honors the best essay and writer of that essay to appear in a 

CEA publication during the preceding year (date below indicates year of conference when 

award was conferred) 

Outstanding Paper presented by a Graduate Student at CEA’s Annual Conference. Modest 

Cash Award. 

These honors are chosen from a pool of all eligible submissions, there is no need to nominate 

essays for these awards. 

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CEA Honors and Awards

Thursday, April 12th 

8–9.15 Session 1 

General 1 | Salon 801 

Covering (Up?) Katrina: Discursive Ambivalence in Katrina Coverage 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Aimee Berger, Texas Christian University, “Haunting the Periphery: 

Resurrecting the Racist Imaginary in Katrina Coverage” 

Kate Cochran, Northern Kentucky University, “Katrina Coverage and 

Mississippi” 

Christina Riley-Brown, Mercyhurst College, “First Anniversary Media 

Coverage of Hurricane Katrina” 

20th Century American Literature 1 | Salon 816 

Cormac McCarthy’s Heroes 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Nika Nordbrock, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 

Layne Neeper, Morehead State University, “‘Good Guys’ and the Limits of 

Empathy in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road” 

Pilar Damron, Northwest Vista College, “John Grady Cole and Don Quixote: 

An Unlikely Pair of Idealists on Horseback” 

Mark Withrow, Columbia College, Chicago, “Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: 

Empathy and Ethics in a Post-Apocalyptic World” 

19th Century British Literature 1 | Salon 817 

Empathy in George Eliot and John Stuart Mill 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Pedagogy 1 | Salon 825 

Ronald Morrison, Morehead State University 

Zhanshu Liu, Nassau Community College, “Plotting Empathy: The Conflicts 

between Narrative Form and the Jewish Element in George Eliot’s Daniel 

Deronda” 

Jim Scannell, Utica College, “Empathy and Appreciation: George Eliot and 

the Affective Theory of Ethical-Aesthetic Interaction” 

Heather Marcovitch, Mount Allison University, “Performance and Empathy 

in the Ballad of Reading Gaol” 

English and Adult Moral Education 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Daniel Linnenberg, University of Rochester 

Jean Harper, Indiana University East “Documentary Work: The Intersection 

of Image and Text” 

Andi Penner, San Juan College, “Strategic Mentoring: Promoting Student 

Success Through Faculty Mentoring” 

Virginia Skinner-Linnenberg, Nazareth College of Rochester, and Daniel 

Linnenberg, University of Rochester, “A Surprising Revelation: English 

and Adult Moral Education Overlap” 

Thursday, April 12, 8-9.15 1

Composition and Rhetoric 1 | Salon 820 

Fixing Inconsistencies 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Marjory Payne, Nazareth College of Rochester 

Jean A. Wagner, University of Southern Indiana, ““Show Me the Money!’: 

Making the Impractical Practical” 

Larry Gries, University of Southern Indiana, “Synthesizing Disciplines and 

Personality: When a Teacher’s Worlds Happily Collide” 

African American Literature 1 | Salon 821 

Language as Power 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Terrence Tucker, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 

Willie J. Harrell, Jr., Kent State University, “The ‘Glorious Fabric of 

Collected Wisdom, Our Noble Constitution’: African-American 

Appropriation of the Founding Fathers’ Rhetoric through Jeremiadic 

Discourse” 

Andrea K. Frankwitz, Gordon College, “William and Ellen Craft’s Rhetorical 

Journey of a Thousand Miles to Liberty” 

Juanita Hayes, Florida A&M University, “Chimerical Empowerment: A 

Conjured Motif (The Conjure Woman) 

New York CEA 1 | Salon 824 

Literature and Law 

Sponsored by the NY-CEA 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Scott Whiddon, Transylvania University 

Scott Whiddon, Transylvania University, “‘Don’t Serve Time--Make Time 

Serve You’--The Rhetorics of Empathy as seen in The Angolite” 

Daniel Mason, Mansfield University, “A Fatal Flaw? or Why Do Private 

Detectives Have No Friends?” 

Latino/a Literature 1 | Salon 828 

Politics of Space and Gender 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Fernando Benavidez, Texas Tech University 

Wendy Braun, Louisiana State University, “Race, Gender, and Sexual 

Encounters in Dominican-American Literature: Julia Alvarez’s How the 

García Girls Lost Their Accents and Junot Díaz’s Drown” 

Lorna Pérez, State University of New York, Buffalo, “Space of Memory, 

Houses of Alienation: Community and the Urban / Suburban Divide in 

Judith Ortiz Cofer” 

Women’s Connection 1 | Cornet Room 

Truth, Trauma, and Female Memoir 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Allyson Whipple, Case Western Reserve University 

Kristie Camacho, Everest College, “Princess or Property? Female Trauma and 

Testimony in Graciela Limon’s Song of the Hummingbird and Susan Straight’s 

A Million Nightingales” 

Erin Breaux, Louisiana State University, “Writing Trauma and Healing: Meena 

Alexander’s Fault Lines” 

Allyson Whipple, Case Western Reserve University, “‘I’ll Tell You No Lies’: 

Mary McCarthy and an Ethical Approach to Memoir” 

Thursday, April 12 8-9.15

Film 1 | Rhythms 2 

Making Tragedy Exotic 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jenise Hudson, North Carolina Central University 

Anitra Canty, North Carolina Central University 

Curtis Henderson, North Carolina Central University 

Jenise Hudson, North Carolina Central University 

Creative Writing 1: Fiction | Rhythms 3 

Philosophy and Rivers 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Matthew Dube, William Woods University 

William Hays, Delta State University, “The Sophists” 

Andrew Perry, Rochester Institute of Technology, “Grandfather River, 

Chapter 11: ‘Robert’” 

Pushpa v. k., Jahade Daneshkayi University, Ahwaz, “The Tree House” 

Documentary Screening | Salon 829 

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience 

Director: Richard E. Robbins 

Production Company: The Documentary Group 

Operation Homecoming explores the firsthand accounts of American soldiers 

through their own words. The film is built upon a project created by the 

National Endowment for the Arts to gather the writing of soldiers and their 

families who have participated in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . Through 

interviews and dramatic readings, the film presents a profound window into 

the human side of America’s current conflicts. Actors such as Beau Bridges, 

Robert Duvall, Aaron Eckhart, Blair Underwood, among others, narrate 

the soldiers’s writings. A shortened version airs this month on PBS. More 

information is available at www.thedocumentarygroup.com 

NOTE: This film is 81 minutes long; it will end during the beverage break. 

Please exit quickly, so that the next panel can begin on time. See topical index 

for other screening times. 

9.15–9.30 Beverage Break 

Sponsored by New York CEA | Lagniappe 

9.30–10.45 Session 2 


Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of the Other 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jean A. Wagner, University of Southern Indiana 


Mary Wright, Christopher Newport University, 

Jill Sessoms, Coastal Carolina University 

Jessica Clark, Christopher Newport University 

Thursday, April 12 9.30-10.45 3

Film 2 | Salon 816 

Cueing the Viewer: Visual Rhetoric and the Right Response 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Daisy Miller, Hofstra University 

Jennifer Rich, Hofstra University, “Shock Corridors: Visual Rhetoric in Gus 

Van Sant’s Elephant” 

Russell Harrison, Hofstra University, “Proletarian Resistance and Visual 

Rhetoric” 

Daisy Miller, Hofstra University, “Pointing the Way: Rhetorical Signposts at 

the United States Military Academy” 

Women’s Connection 2 | Salon 817 

“I keep my heart for you”: Women’s Empathy and Giving 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Linda Winterbottom, University of Texas, San Antonio 

Kelley Evans, Ohio University, “And You Will Be Consumed” 

Nereida Reyes, University of Texas, San Antonio, “Her Name is Miriam” 

Linda Winterbottom, University of Texas, San Antonio, “Lydia’s Struggle” 

Elly Williams, Ohio University, Excerpt from “Collision” 

20th Century American Literature 2 | Cornet Room 

Literary Betrayals 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Wendell Aycock, Texas Tech University 

Lisa Bouma Garvelink, Kuyper College, “The Pain of Betrayal for Willa 

Cather and Her Professor” 

Robert Haynes, Texas A & M International University, “Two Studies in 

Betrayal: Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Horton Foote’s The Young Man 

from Atlanta” 

Cathy Schlund-Vials, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, “U. S. Empire 

and the Narrative Politics of Empathy: Carlos Bulosan’s ‘I Would 

Remember’” 


Ethics and Diversity 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Katherine Nelson-Born, Columbia Southern University 

Hector Perez, University of the Incarnate Word, “Balancing Empathy and 

Ethics in Composition Classes” 

Amelia Keel, Kingwood College, “Case Studies in Corporate Decision- 

Making: Teaching Ethics in the First Year Composition Class” 

Latino/a Literature 2 | Salon 821 

Fashioning Identities in the Borderlands 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Kristie Hernandez Camacho, Everest College 

Fernando Benavidez, Texas Tech University, “Postmodernism and the 

Chicano/a Identity Predicament in Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/LaFrontera: The 

New Mestiza” 

David Mounty Faul, Southeastern Louisiana University, “Quest Romance in 

the Borderlands: Gloria Anzaldua and the Chicana Search for Feminine 

Identity” 

Jennifer Fallas, Bridgewater State University, “The Shifting Borders of 

Identity: Pilar as Mestizaje in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban” 

Thursday, April 12 9.30-10.45 p.m.

Short Story 1 | Salon 824 

Borges and Two Brits 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Dean Baldwin, Penn State Erie, The Behrand College 

Craig Warren, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, “Empathy and Empire 

in Kipling’s ‘The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes’” 

Tim Peoples, North Harris College, “‘Sausserian Theory in Jorge Luis Borges’s 

‘The Garden of Forking Paths’” 

Dean Baldwin, Penn State University, “Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘The Beach 

at Falesa’: A Case Study in Empathy and Ethics” 

British Literature 1 | Salon 825 

Ethical Frameworks 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi 

Brandy Schillace, Case Western Reserve University, “‘Reduc[ing] the Sexes to 

a Level’: The Rhetoric of 18th-century Female Educationalists” 

Carolyn Austin, Texas Lutheran University, “Blake’s ‘Pity’ and Macbeth’s Pity: 

An Interarts and Intertextual Examination of the Ethics of Guilt and 

Mercy” 

Breanne Oryschak, Queen’s University, “Satisfying Her Proper Interest: 

Desire and the Law in Eliza Haywood’s Amatory Fiction” 



Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Pervushina Lyuba, Minsk State Linguistics University, Belarus 

William McBride, Illinois State University, “America’s Haunted House of 

Lost Causes and Unfinished Business” 

Aryn Bartley, Michigan State University, “Postmodern Parables: David’s Story 

and The Truth and Reconciliation Commission” 

Patrick Williams, Missouri State University, “‘A Living Sermon Against Sin’: 

Hester’s A and the Spectacle of the Scaffold in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet 

Letter” 

African American Literature 2 | Rhythms 2 

Race, Violence, and Ethical Responses 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

James Fairfield, University of Kentucky 

Gabriel Briggs, University of Kentucky, “Before I’d Be a Slave: Locating the 

New Negro in Nashville” 

Terrence Tucker, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “Full Bad? Ethics, 

Violence, and Nationalism in Walter Mosley’s Fearless Jones Novels” 

Creative Writing 2: Poetry | Rhythms 3 

Visitations and Power 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jennifer Semple Siegel, York College of Pennsylvania 

Barbara Wiedemann, Auburn University, Montgomery, “Destination 

Unknown” 

Susan Facknitz, James Madison University, “Fugue” 

Theri Pickens, University of California, Los Angeles, “Spinning Wheels” 

Thursday, April 12 9.30-10.45 5

Academic Leadership 1 | Salon 829 

So You Want to Be an Administrator? 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Eleanor Green, Villa Julie College 

Nina Tassi, Independent Scholar 

Deborah Dooley, Nazareth College of Rochester 

Eleanor Green, Villa Julie College 

10.45–11 Beverage Break 

Sponsored by Michigan CEA | Lagniappe 

11–12.15 Session 3 


Community and Food in Toni Morrison 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Gabriel Briggs, University of Kentucky 

James Ayers, Louisiana State University, “‘Home is Not a Little Thing’: 

Versions of Community and Collective Memory in Toni Morrison’s 

Paradise” 

June Chase Hankins, Texas State University, San Marcos, “An Ethic of 

Storytelling in Toni Morrison’s Jazz” 

Jennifer Roe, University of North Texas, “Resisting Cultural Inscription: Toni 

Morrison’s Subversive Use of Food Imagery” 

Academic Leadership 2 | Salon 828 

Constructing the Identity of New Faculty Members 

Moderator: Kathleen McEvoy, Washington and Jefferson College 

Presenters: 


Speculative Worlds 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Amy Gerald, Winthrop University, “Crossing / Spanning Academic 

Departments: How Infiltration Can Serve Collaboration” 

Shannon Stewart, Coastal Carolina University, “‘It Takes a Village’: Collegial 

Collaboration for Tackling the Job Market” 

Pam Whitfield, Rochester Comm and Tech College, “Reaching Beyond 

the Walls: Building Professional Capital Through Inter-Institutional 

Collaboration” 

Kathleen McEvoy, Washington and Jefferson College, “The Lone Wolf / The 

Pack Member: How Isolation Feeds Collaboration” 

Mark Burgh, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 

Maria Odette Canivell, James Madison University, “An Epistemological 

Approach to Magical Realism: Literature and Cognition, Empathy and 

Identity in Latin American Writers” 

Leon Markham, University of Akron, “Neil in Stockholm: Stardust, 

Transformation Myths, and the Stockholm Syndrome” 

Shauna Rogan, California Institute of Integral Studies, “Reciprocal 

Adoptability in Neverwhere” 

Sharon Cote, James Madison University, “What do You Know: Cognitive Remodeling 

in Science Fiction” 

Thursday, April 12 11-12.15 p.m.

Self 1 | Salon 816 

Connecting Students and Canonical Literature 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Lisa Bernstein, University of Maryland, University College 

David Nixon, Palm Beach Community College 

Lisa Bernstein, University of Maryland, University College 

John Ribar, Palm Beach Community College 

Daniel McGavin, Palm Beach Community College 

Distance Learning | Salon 817 

Empathy and Ethics On-Line 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Mysti Rudd, Lamar State College, Port Arthur, “Blogging in the Aftermath of 

Hurricane Rita: Building Empathy Between Comp. II Students by Sharing 

Our Stories of Evacuating, Returning and Adapting” 

Stone Shiflet, Northcentral University, “Empathy and Ethics?: Finding the 

Balance in Online Writing Instruction” 

Cherie Turpin, University of the District of Columbia, “Feminist Praxis, 

Online Teaching, the Urban Campus” 


Ethics and Pedagogy 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Leisa Belleau, University of Southern Indiana 

Tom Bowers, Northern Kentucky University, “Developing an Ethics of 

Empathy: How a Writing Class Can Confront Differences Between the 

Private and Public” 

Bryna Siegel, University of Rhode Island, “Postmodernism and Genre: 

Teaching Critical Ethics” 

Peter Kratzke, University of Colorado, Boulder, “Sensitizing Students to 

Language, Rhetoric and Literature Through Song Lyrics” 


Literature and Criminal Justice 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jim Scannell, Utica College 

Virginia Fugarino, University of Houston, “Constructing the Criminal, 

Playing the Penitent: Execution Sermons, Personal Narrative and Levi 

Ames” 

Katja Lee, Nipissing University, “Framed and Constrained by Crime: Prison 

Life Writing and the Diaries of Jeffrey Archer” 

Grace Sikorski, Anne Arundel Community College, “Teaching Critical 

Thinking Through Homicide Investigation and Mock Trial” 


Revolutions of Embodiment 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Tiffany Walter, Louisiana State University, “Creating a Spectacle of the 

Female Body: A Feminist Critique of the Postcolonial Nation” 

Ken McGraw, Case Western Reserve University, “On the Defensive: Women, 

Rhetoric, and Sodomy in 18th-Century London” 

Desiree Rowe, Arizona State University, “The (Dis)Appearance of Up Your 

Ass: Valerie Solanas as Abject Revolutionary” 

Thursday, April 12 11-12.15 p.m.

18th Century British Literature 1 | Cornet Room 

Satire, Sympathy, and Community 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Carolyn Austin, Texas Lutheran University 

Sarah Morrison, Morehead State University, “ Empathy and Sympathy in 

Elizabeth Inchbald’s A Simple Story” 

Jim Owen, Columbus State University, “On Being Human: The Power of 

Sympathy in Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling” 

Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi, “The Explosion of Popular Culture 

Satiric Motifs in Richard Cumberland’s The West Indian” 

Creative Writing 3: Non-Fiction | Rhythms 2 

The Other American Stories of Exile 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Leslie Jill Patterson, Texas Tech University 

Sara Hoover, University of Memphis 

Wendy Winter, University of Memphis 

John Schulze, University of Memphis 

Stephen Dufrechou, University of Memphis 

20th Century American Literature 3 | Rhythms 3 

The Self and the Human in American Poetry 

Moderator: Miriam Clark, Auburn University 

Presenters: 

Peter Siedlecki, Daemen College, “Charles Olson’s ‘The Human Universe’” 

Jinhua Li, Texas Tech University, “Enchantment of Self with Self” 

Miriam Clark, Auburn University, “Adrienne Rich, Jean Valentine, and the 

Case of Poetry in a Difficult World” 


Memory and Tradition 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Arundhati Sanyal, Seton Hall University 

Michael Mays, University of Southern Mississippi, “Empathy and Ethics: The 

Ethos of Irish National Memory” 

Diane Caddell, Austin Community College, “Honos, Virtus, Fortitudo: The 

Idea of Honor in Lord of the Rings” 

Britt Terry, University of South Carolina, “Romancing the Past: Evelyn 

Waugh’s Decline and Fall and John Ruskin’s Stones of Venice” 

12.15-1.30 

CEA Recognition Luncheon | By Invitation Only | Gallery 

1.30–2.45 Session 4 


Analyzing A Confederacy of Dunces 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Carol Policy, Palm Beach Community College 

Kay Harrison, Georgia Perimeter College 

Lee Jones, Georgia Perimeter College 

Fran Holt-Underwood, Georgia Perimeter College 

Thursday, April 12 1.30-2.45 p.m.


Community, Identity, and Culture 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Patrick Bernard, Franklin and Marshall College 

Lars Soderlund, University of South Carolina, “‘I’se sho’ gwine to hear him’: 

Black Dialect as Anti-Empathy in Washington’s Up From Slavery” 

Craig Carroll, University of Massachusetts, Boston, “‘Minor’ American 

Theatrics” 

Roxane Pickens, College of William and Mary, “Playing with Empathy, 

Passing on Ethics: Managing Racial Identity in Nella Larsen’s Passing” 

What Happens When Who You Are Is Unethical to Your Students? 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Peter Carriere, Georgia College and State University 

Nancy Dixon, University of New Orleans, “The ‘I’ of the Storm: Teaching 

English and Helping Students and Instructors Cope in Post-Katrina New 

Orleans” 

John Kilgore, Eastern Illinois University, “Empathy and Alturism as Facts of 

Language: A 15-Minute Meditation” 

Kathryn Flynn, Claremont Graduate University, “The Storm of the I: 

Language as Powerful Determiner of Communal Empathetic Perspective.” 


Indecent Proposals 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Robin Hammerman, Stevens Institute of Technology 

James Barloon, University of St. Thomas, “‘Reader, I Slept with Him’: 

Rochester’s Indecent Proposal in Jane Eyre” 

Bernadette Clemens, Case Western Reserve University, “Excavating Vivie 

Warren: Rooting the Shavian Woman in the Late Novels of Thomas 

Hardy” 

Sue Bennett, Dixie State College of Utah, “Outside the Castle: Expressions of 

Feminist Power in Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’” 


Only Connect?: Focus on Forster 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jeffrey Cass, Texas A & M International University 

Jett McAlister, University of Chicago, “‘The Warp and the Woof’: Text as 

Ethical Possibility in Howard’s End” 

Brendan Balint, Loyola University, Chicago, “Beckett’s Ethical Failures” 

Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Northeastern University, “Desire, Love, and 

Sympathy in Forster’s Maurice” 


Web-Based Pedagogies 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Heidi Johnsen, LaGuardia Community College 

Andrew Reiner, Towson University, “‘I’ Matters: The Value of Personal 

Narrative in the Age of X-Box and Family Guy” 

Richie Crider, Towson University, “A Heuristic Approach to Improving 

Student Writing by Embracing Technology and Other Exterior Influences” 

Marilyn Johnson, Cabrini College, “Co-opting New Technology for 

Traditional Classes” 

Thursday, April 12 1.30-2.45 p.m. 9


Reading Literature Through Film 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Carol Bliss, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 

Patrice Thoms-Cappello, Seton Hall University, “Geography, Perspective 

and Paradise: Authoring the Ethical Response to Disaster in Literature 

and Film” 

Jack Barbera, University of Mississippi, “Gus Van Sant’s Elephant: A Modern 

Explanation” 

Richard Marshall, University of Indianapolis, “Six Characters, and Some 

Students, in Search of Reality: Using Popular Media to Teach Pirandello” 

Renaissance British Literature 1 | Salon 828 

Revenge and Ethics in Shakespeare 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jane Kinney, Valdosta State University 

Marina Favila, James Madison University, “Empathy and Altruism in 

Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens” 

Virginia Strain, University of Toronto, “Practical Reasoning and Ethical 

Decision in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure” 

James McHenry, Columbus State University, “The Winter’s Tale - Titus 

Andronicus All Over Again? Catholic Themes in Revenge and Romance” 

Composition and Rhetoric 5 | Cornet Room 

Imagining the Learning Curve 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Kirstin Bratt, Penn State University, Altoona 

Sandra Tarabochia, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, “Composing Critical 

Empathy: Reconsidering Student Difficulty Across Disciplines” 

Trela Anderson, Fayetteville State University, “Right-Brained Assignments 

for Right-Brained Learners: Teaching Developmental Writing to Mostly 

African-American College Students” 

Susan Friedman, University of South Florida, “Using First-Person Narratives 

in College Classroom to Foster Self-Study, Well-Being, and Empathy” 


Meditations and Metonymies 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Barbara Wiedemann, Auburn University, Montgomery 

Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University, “Selected Dramatic Monologues” 

Nate Pritts, Northwestern State University, Louisiana, “Selected Poetry” 

Jerry Bradley, Lamar University, “Hollywood Metonymic” 

Food and Literature | Rhythms 3 

Food in Fiction 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Walter Levy, Pace University 

Abigail Moore, State University of New York, Oswego, “‘It’s Good to Watch 

You Eat’: Women, Eating, and Hunger in Dorothy Allison’s ‘A Lesbian 

Appetite’” 

Walter Levy, Pace University, “Panic and Picnics in E.M. Forster’s Fiction” 

Yahui Chang, Texas Tech University, “Sweet Foods, Identity, and Love-Triangle 

in Louise Erdrich’s Love Machine and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” 

Ronald Morrison, Morehead State University, “The Roast Beef of England 

and the Roast Beef of France: Dickens and the Ethics of the Victorian 

Market” 

10 Thursday, April 12 1.30-2.45 p.m.


Sponsored by Texas CEA | Lagniappe 



Responses to Tragedy and Discrimination 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Sharon Cote, James Madison University 

Michelle Liptak, Siena College, “Expressing the Inexpressible: Depicting 

Grief and Securing Compassion in Todd Field’s Film Adaptation In the 

Bedroom” 

Donna Hart, Greenville College, “From Crash to Katrina” 

Gary Bodie, Northwestern State University, “Lessons from the Storm Front: 

Teaching Katrina to Her Survivors” 

New York CEA 4 & Pedagogy 4 | Salon 816 

“I” of the Beholder 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

James Long, Louisiana State University 

Luc Guglielmi, Kennesaw State University, “Eroticism and Pornography: 

a Case Study of Belgian Comic Books Used in French University 

Classrooms” 

Lynn Rudloff, St. Edward’s University, “Teaching Persepolis: Empathy through 

Visual Rhetoric” 

Gerald Siegel, York College of Pennsylvania, “Understanding Changing 

Educational Contexts: Teaching in a Post-Communist Eastern Europe” 


Cultural Politics 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Lars Soderlund, University of South Carolina 

Kathryn Stevenson, University of California, Riverside, “Baraka’s ‘Black Art,’ 

Anti-Semitism, and Identification” 

Rick Mitchell, California State University, Northridge, “Natural Disaster 

/ Racial Disaster: In New Orleans, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale 

Hurston” 

Shelia Collins, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “No Men Needed Here: 

Racial Oppression and African-American Female Response” 

Composing Self-Other Relations in the Classroom 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Stephanie Kerschbaum, Texas A & M University 

Jennifer Griffith, Independent Scholar, “Bahktin, Levinas, and the Other in 

the Writing Classroom” 

Stephanie Kerschbaum, Texas A & M University, “Pratt’s Contact Zones, 

Bahktin, and Literacy Re-Enactments” 

Tiffany Kriner, Wheaton College, “Submission as Invention: The Other in 

Research Topic Selection” 

Thursday, April 12 3-4.10 p.m. 11


Race, Borders and Illness 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Joseph Viera, Nazareth College of Rochester 

Richard Pressman, St. Mary’s University, “Lyle Saxon Confronts the ‘N’ 

Word: Children and Strangers as a Revisionist Novel” 

Karen Lescure, Wharton Junior College, “Questions of Political Borders 

in Robert Frost’s ‘Mending Wall’ and Economic Inequity in Toni Cade 

Bambera’s ‘The Lesson’” 

Barbara Burkhardt, University of Illinois, Springfield, “‘An Attitude of Loss’: 

Influenza, Exile, and the Novels of William Maxwell” 

Creative Writing 5: Fiction | Rhythms 2 

Accidents and Revisions 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Andrew Perry, Rochester Institute of Technology 

Joseph Wessling, Xavier University, “Alice in Academe” 

Matthew Dube, William Woods University, “Animal Cruelty” 

Darrell Fike, Valdosta State University, “Soft Shoulder” 

Technical Communication and Rhetoric 1 | Salon 825 

Public Rhetorics, Public Disputes 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Miles A. Kimball, Texas Tech University 

Kenneth Rayes, University of New Orleans, “Writing with Katrina Online: 

The Success and Challenge of Online Technical Writing Classes after a 

Traumatic Event” 

James Heiman, St. Cloud State University, “‘A Solution to a Worrisome 

Problem’: The Rhetoric of Scientific Discourse in a Public Policy Dispute 

about the Environment” 

Mark Noe, University of Texas, Pan American, “The Apprentice Enters 

the Professional Writing Classroom: The Ethics of Cooperation and 

Competition” 


Rewriting and Re-Envisioning Texts 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Robert Hoskins, James Madison University, “‘Vital Morality’ in William 

Golding’s Free Fall” 

Omri Moses, Concordia University, “Forms and Exposure: The Uneasy 

Intimacy of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty” 

Janine Utell, Widener University, “When Is Adultery Okay? When It’s Good 

for the Soul: Joyce, Levinas, Love” 


Teaching Women 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Darcy Brandel, Marygrove College, “Defamiliarizing Feminism: Can Difficult 

Aesthetics Help Liberate Our Sisters?” 

Irene Moody, Case Western Reserve University, “Still Claiming an Education: 

Teaching Adrienne Rich on the Thirteenth Anniversary of Her 

Convocation Speech at Douglass College” 

Molly Burke, Tulane University, “Teaching Alice Sebold’s Lucky: Reading a 

Rape Survival Memoir Both Empathetically and Critically” 

12 Thursday, April 12 3-4.10 p.m.


The Ethical Dilemma: Confessional Narratives 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Betty Hoskins, James Madison University 

Joshua Call, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, “Feeling for Change: Ethics and 

Affective Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom” 

Lad Tobin, Boston College, “The Ethics of Responding (or Not Responding) 

to Troubling Student Essays” 

Coretta Pittman, Baylor University, “Writing Matters: The Ethical and 

Political Function of Writing” 

Victorian Regionalism 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Siobhan Brownson, Winthrop University 

Bradley King, University of South Carolina, “Living in Fallible ‘Worlds’: 

Henry Thoreau, C. S. Peirce, and Subjective Realism” 

Lauren De La Vars, St. Bonaventure University, “The Victorian Woman Poet’s 

‘Interpreter Life’: Augusta Webster and the Dramatic Monologue” 

19th Century British Literature 2 | Rhythms 3 

Women Novelists, Women’s Ethics 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Staci Stone, Murray State University 

Arundhati Sanyal, Seton Hall University, “The Ethics of Empathy: Reading 

the Public-Private Discussion in George Eliot’s Middlemarch” 

Thomas Smith, Penn State University, Abington College “The Roots of 

Harriet Martineau’s Childrearing Ethics” 

Esther Guenat, Texas Tech University, “Are you there, God?’: Spiritual 

Replacement in George Eliot’s Silas Marner” 

4.15–5.30 Session 6 


Musical Influences, Oral Traditions 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Andrea Frankwitz, Gordon College 

Patrick Bernard, Franklin and Marshall College, “Call and Response and the 

Ethics of Communal Discourse” 

Michael Ward, St. Mary’s University, “The Metaphor of the Knight-Errant in 

Albert Murray’s Scooter Tetralogy” 

Doris Davis, Texas A & M University, Texarkana, “The Music of Women in 

the Plays of August Wilson” 

Overcoming Resistance 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Patrice Thoms-Cappello, Seton Hall University 

Carol Bliss, California State University, Pomona, “Micro-Communications: 

Building and Developing Empathy and Respect in Today’s Multicultural 

Society” 

Margaret Johnson, Idaho State University, “‘Romantic Comedy as an Ethical 

Approach to Queer Cinema” 

Thursday, April 12 4.15-5.30 p.m. 13


Philosophical Considerations on Teaching 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jeffrey Cass, Texas A & M International University 

Jerome Denno, Nazareth College of Rochester, “Architecture of the Survey” 

Peter Carriere, Georgia College and State University, “The I, the Face, 

and Responsibility: Pedagogical Implications of Emmanuel Levinas’s 

Philosophy of Ethics” 

Kate Behr, Concordia College, “What Price Empathy?” 


Remapping Composition After Katrina 

Moderator: Dominic Micer, University of Southern Indiana 

Presenters: 

Leisa Belleau, University of Southern Indiana, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at 

Katrina: Human Struggle in the Literature of Kent Haruf, Rodney Jones, 

Beth Lordan, and Ten Others” 

Ellen Barker, Texas A & M International University, “After the Storm: 

Students in Texas ‘Cleaning Up’ through Proposal Writing” 


Representing Twentieth-century Feminism 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Sharon Prince, Wharton County Junior College 

Marsha Anderson, Wharton County Junior College, “No Money--No Room-- 

No Problem: Women in Virginia Woolf” 

Joyce O’Shea, Wharton County Junior College, “Sinclair Lewis: A Forgotten 

Feminist” 

Sharon Prince, Wharton County Junior College, “Literal and Metaphorical 

Homelessness: Patriarchal Abandonment in Marge Piercy’s The Longings of 

Women” 

Technical Communication and Rhetoric 2 | Salon 824 

Imagining Race and Community 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Liticia Salter, Texas A & M University, Qatar 

Anthony Flinn, Eastern Washington University, “FEMA’s Genres of Response: 

The Pressure of Typification in Emergency Assessment” 

Miles A. Kimball, Texas Tech University, “Information Graphics and Race” 

Jennifer Ramirez-Johnson, Texas State University, San Marcos, “White Man 

Speaks With Forked Tongue: Technical Communication and Complicity in 

the Subjugation of Minority Knowledge and Culture” 


Learning Empathy: Holocausts and Service-Learning 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Lauren De La Vars, St. Bonaventure University 

Melissa Lingle-Martin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “The Natural 

and Psychological Landscapes of the Holocaust: Representations of 

Nature and (In)Humanity in Holocaust Literature and Art” 

Lee Spears, Western Kentucky University, “The Service Research Report: 

Introducing Service Learning and Collaboration in the ‘Research Paper 

Course’” 

14 Thursday, April 12 4.15-5.30 p.m.


Teaching the “Arts” 

Moderator: John Pell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 

Presenters: 

John Pell, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Recovering an Ethic 

of Reflexivity: Classroom Identities Through the Lenses of Pragmatism, 

Intimacy and Empathy” 

Mary Pennington, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “A Story About 

How We Begin to (Re)Member: Creating and Understanding Identity 

Crises When Thinking / Writing Reflexively” 

Will Duffy, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Critical Intimacy: 

Rethinking the Student / Teacher Exchange” 

W. Keith Duffy, Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill, “The Writing 

Classroom and Digital Recording Technology: Compose Yourself” 


William Wordsworth’s Empathy and Ethics 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

James Rovira, Rollins College 

Nicole Flynn, Tufts University, “A ‘Strange Alteration’: the Narrative Subject of 

William Wordsworth’s ‘The Brothers’” 

Byron Brown, Valdosta State University, “Sympathy and Selfhood in 

Wordsworth’s ‘The Old Cumberland Beggar’” 

Laura Dabundo, Kennesaw State University, “William Wordsworth and the 

Ethics of Community in English Romanticism” 


Examining Church: Refuge and Repression 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University 

Leslie Jill Patterson, Texas Tech University, “The Tomb Where Silence 

Labors” 

William Scott Sandlin, Texas Tech University, “Where Roots Found Water” 

5.30–6.30 

Plenary Session Gallery Ballroom (1st floor) 

White Like Me: Reflections on Race, Privilege and Power in America 

Keynote Speaker: Tim Wise 

A Tulane graduate living in Nashville, Tim Wise is an expert on racial relations, 

especially white privilege, promoting the need for empathy and ethics in racial 

relations, while emphasizing diversity. His presentation will examine the way in 

which white racial privilege shapes the nation’s education system and the larger 

society, making justice elusive and damaging the prospects of a functioning 

democracy. Wise will discuss the costs of inequity for both people of color and 

whites as well as methods for dismantling discriminatory practices. 

6.30–8 

President’s Reception Waterbury Ballroom (2nd Floor) 

Thursday, April 12 .30-8 p.m. 15

Friday, April 13 th 

7–8.15 

CEA & Regional Officers’ Breakfast | Hotel Restaurant 



Models for Course Designs 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Kelley Evans, Ohio University 

Douglas Chismar, Ringling School of Art and Design, “Can You Feel It Now? 

Insights from the Phenomenology and Psychology of Empathy” 

Laura Head, University of South Florida, “Empathy in the Writing Classroom: 

Teaching a ‘You First’ Approach to Ourselves as Well as Our Students” 

Denise Lavoie, International Academy of Design and Technology, 

“Pedagogical Notes from the Pacific Northwest: Empathy, Ethics and the 

Design School Student” 


Representing Struggle 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Kimberly Jacobs-Beck, University of Cincinnati 

Brenda Vellino, Carleton University, “A Pedagogy of Human Rights 

Remembrance in Adrienne Rich’s Later Poetry and Essays” 

Mary Woods, Buffalo State University, “Freedom Exists for Those Who 

Uphold It“ 

Jill Anderson, University of Mississippi, “‘I want more people’: Queer 

Relationships and Inheritance in E.M. Forster’s Howard’s End” 

Cinematic Narratives and Ethical Obligations 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Elizabeth George, University of Washington, “Based on the Book, Debased 

by the Film: Entangled Empathies of Students Reading Film” 

Rachel Walsh, Stony Brook University “Fashionable Empathy: Neocolonial 

Imaginings of Post-colonial Africa” 

Sharon Buzzard, Quincy University, “Narrative Betrayals: Capote’s Biography 

into Film” 


Empathy, Ethics, and the Audience Response 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Diana Vecchio, Widener University 

Katie Kalpin, University of South Carolina, Aiken, “Audience and the 

Authorization of Women’s Scaffold Speeches” 

Jolene Mendel, Warnborough University, “Everyman: Protestant Ethics and 

the Morality Play” 

Jennifer Heller, Lenoir-Rhyne University, “Standing and Waiting: An 

Empathetic Response to Paradise Lost” 

16 Friday, April 13 -8.15, 8-9.15 a.m.


Narrative Art and the Ethics of Reading 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Zhanshu Liu, Nassau Community College 

Kirsty Martin, University of Oxford, “‘A Rough and Furry Creature’: Vernon 

Lee’s Empathy” 

Steve Wiegenstein, Culver-Stockton College, “Empathy and Point of View in 

the Novels of David Lodge” 

Annie Adams, Morehead State University, “Looking at the Company She 

Keeps: Analyzing the Ethics of Reading in A. S. Byatt’s The Conjugial 

Angel” 


Civic and Familial Virtue 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Book History 1 | Salon 828 

Paul Juhasz, Tarleton State University 

Martha Reiner, Miami-Dade College, “Civic Virtue and Public Debate: 

College Debate Societies in the 19th-Century United States” 

Joan Frederick, James Madison University, “Melville and Matthew: Moral 

Transformation in ‘Bartleby the Scrivener’” 

Gabriela Serrano, University of North Texas, “Sinless Daughters and 

Apathetic Fathers in Hawthorne’s ‘Rappaccini’s Daughter’ and The House 

of the Seven Gables” 

Teaching and Researching the Histories of Texts 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Robin Hammerman, Stevens Institute of Technology 

Liticia Salter, University of Texas, Qatar, “Be Good or Go to Hell: 

Hieroglyphic Bibles and their ‘Curious’ History” 

Cristina Maqueda, Texas Tech University, “Felicia Hemans and Her Readers” 

Erin Kelly, Nazareth College of Rochester, “Taming the Text: Introducing 

Undergraduate Students to Editing Issues in Shakespeare’s Plays” 


The Variety of Romanticisms 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Byron Brown, Valdosta State University 

Eloise Sureau, Butler University, “Alexander Dumas, Reader of William 

Godwin: A Structural, Thematic and Narrative Comparative Study of The 

Count of Monte Cristo and Caleb Williams’” 

James Rovira, Rollins College, “Kierkegaard and English Romanticism” 

Jeffrey Cass, University A & M International University, “Romantic 

Orientalism and Elizabeth Hamilton’s Hindoo Rajah” 


Basic Writers in the 21st Century 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Sean Barnette, Lander University 

Katherine Nelson-Born, Columbia Southern University, “Choosing the Road 

Less Traveled: Web-Enabled Collaborative Activities Promote Creativity, 

Empathy, and Storytelling for Success in the Conceptual Age” 

Ron Mitchell, University of Southern Indiana, “Living-Learning Composition” 

Amy Lynch-Biniek, Kutztown University, “The Ethics of Identity: What Is a 

Compositionist?” 

Friday, April 13 8-9.15 a.m. 17


Documenting Lives 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

William Scott Sandlin, Texas Tech University 

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, University of Southern California, “‘Hello, My Name 

Is’: Televising Empathy in Korean Adoptee Birth Search Interviews” 

Sharon Black, Humboldt State University, “Coming Into Focus” 

Melissa Wilkinson, Louisiana State University, “Notes on the River Center 

Shelter” 

Patty Kirk, John Brown University, “The Hunger Voyages” 

Women’s Connection 6 | Rhythms 3 

Violent Separations 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Steve Brahlek, Palm Beach Community College 

Elizabeth Buckalew, University of Alabama, “‘The Only Photograph That 

Really Grabs Me’: Ekphrastic Empathy and Women Writers” 

Sukanya Gupta, Louisiana State University, “A Process of Othering: India and 

Pakistan” 

Raphael Comprone, Saint Paul’s University, “Empathy, Ethics, and Alterity in 

Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain” 


Sponsored by Ohio CEA | Lagniappe 

9.30–10.45 Session 8 

Documentary Screening | Roux Bistro 1/2 (2nd floor behind restaurant) 

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience 

Director: Richard E. Robbins | Production Company: The Documentary Group 

Operation Homecoming explores the firsthand accounts of American soldiers 

through their own words. The film is built on a project created by the National 

Endowment for the Arts to gather the writing of soldiers and their families 

who have participated in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Through interviews 

and dramatic readings, the film presents a profound window into the human 

side of America’s current conflicts. Actors such as Beau Bridges, Robert 

Duvall, Aaron Eckhart, Blair Underwood narrate the soldiers’s writings. A 

shortened version airs this month on PBS. Note: 81 minutes long. The next panel in 

this room begins after lunch if attendees wish to remain after the screening for discussion. 


Early American Women’s Insights 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Peter Kratzke, University of Colorado, Boulder 

David Wallace, Louisiana State University, “Indian Like Me: Mary Jemison’s 

Outsider’s Perspective” 

Laura Cruse, Northwest Iowa Community College, “Petticoats, Paper, and 

Principles: Letters of Abigail Adams and Catherine Van Cortlandt to Their 

Husbands During the Revolution” 

Jason Corner, Ohio State University, Newark, “The Haughty Woman: 

Empathy and Ethics in the Antebellum Domestic Novel” 

18 Friday, April 13 9.30-10.45 a.m.


Embattled Literature 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Layne Neeper, Morehead State University 

Daniel Paliwoda, State University of New York, Albany, “Lessons of 

Empathy, Examples of Ethical Criticism: The Classroom and the Reading 

Experience” 

Beth Capo, Illinois College, “Teaching Literature about 9/11” 

David Anshen, University of Texas, Pan American, “The Writer Who Came In 

From the Cold War: Failure of Nerve or the Politics of Form in Norman 

Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost” 


Empathy in Charles Dickens 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Annette Federico, James Madison University 

Katherine Montwieler, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, “Reading 

Compassion: The Bodies of Bleak House” 

Mary-Catherine Harrison, University of Michigan, “The Paradox of Fiction 

and the Ethics of Empathy” 

Gina Dorré, University of Nevada, Reno, “Bounderby Unbound: Hard Times, 

Caricature, and the Ideological Function of Form” 


Evaluating Writing Assessment 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Joyce Meier, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

Valerie Vancza, University of Rhode Island, “Our Values Evaluated: Growth, 

Effort, and Standards in Writing Assessment” 

Eric Turley, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, “Taking a Stance: Standardized 

Writing Assessment in Postsecondary Education” 

Heidi Johnsen, LaGuardia Community College, “The Ethics of High-Stakes 

Testing in a Basic Writing Class” 

World Literature 1 | Salon 824 

Language of Human Suffering 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Gerald Siegel, York University of Pennsylvania 

Twila Papay, Rollins College, “Conciliation and Reconciliation: Australian 

Literature of Lived Experience” 

Joseph Moore, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, “Meditations on 

Metaphysics and Human Suffering: Reading Derrida and Camus” 

John Rowe, Manchester Metropolitan University, “Security and the Ethical 

Relation: A Dialogue between Derrida and Nagarjuna” 

African Caribbean Literature 1 | Cornet Room 

Women’s Histories 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Rynetta Davis, State University of New York, Brockport 

Deborah Nester, Okaloosa University, “Ancestry and Augury: Ina Cesaire’s 

Caribbean Marketwoman” 

Vanessa Valdés, Vanderbilt University, “Maternal Filth in Singing Softly / 

Cantando Bajito (1989)” 

Kelly Baker Josephs, York College, “Troubling Troubled Waters: Makeda 

Silvera’s Queering of the Maternal Romance” 

Friday, April 13 9.30-10.45 a.m. 19


Renaissance Anxieties 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Sonya Brockman, State University of New York, Buffalo 

Irene Larson, University, of Minnesota “A Conflicted View of Justice in 

Edmund Spenser: The Poet, the Politician, and the State of Ireland in The 

Faerie Queene and A View of the Present State of Ireland” 

Jane Kinney, Valdosta State University, “The Wounds of the Body Politic: 

Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday” 

Sonya Brockman, State University of New York, Buffalo, “Reading around 

Munera: Allegorical Violence and Female Transgression in Spenser’s The 

Faerie Queene” 

Shakespeare on Stage, Page, and Screen 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Joan Frederick, James Madison University 

Philip Weller, Eastern Washington University, “A Bridge to Tragedy” 

Kimberly Jacobs-Beck, University of Cincinnati, “Multiple Voices, Your 

Own Imagination: Dramatic Literature, Empathy, and the Survey Course” 

Rachel Key, East Central University, “Using Popular Culture in the Classroom 

to Examine American Empathy and Ethics” 

Readers and Readings 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jamie Beatty, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 

Spencer Dew, “Martin Buber as a Model for Reading” 

Karen Beth O’Dell, Texas Tech University, “The History of a Text: Wilkie 

Collins’s The Moonstone” 

Christopher Gage, Texas Tech University, “Our Mutual Friend: A Textual 

History” 


Miracles and Margins 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Theri Pickens, University of California, Los Angeles 

Daniel Terry, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, “Poems from Days 

of Dark Miracles” 

Stephanie De Haven, University of Texas, Austin, “Voices of Rosewood: 

Poems from the Woodlawn Project” 

The Short Story 2 | Rhythms 3 

American Stories 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Cathy Schlund-Vials, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College 

Elizabeth Myers, Texas Tech University, “Beauty Parlors and Gossiping, 

Revengeful Women: Responding to Personal Struggles in Eudora Welty’s 

‘Petrified Man’” 

Brian Whalen, James Madison University, “George Saunders and Mark Twain: 

a Moral Lineage” 

Price McMurray, Texas Wesleyan University, “‘An Egyptian Skull at Our 

Banquet’: Hawthorne, Emerson, and the Idealist Convivium” 

Stephanie Taitano, University of Texas, Arlington, “The Transformative Voice 

in Marie Darrieussecq’s Pig Tales” 

20 Friday, April 13 9.30-10.45 a.m.


Sponsored by Indiana CEA | Lagniappe 

11–12.15 Session 9 



Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Jerome Denno, Nazareth College of Rochester 

Alison Watkins, Ringling School of Art and Design, “Living the Life of the 

Dirty” 

Jim Watkins, Ringling School of Art and Design 

Trudy Mercadal-Sabbagh, Florida Atlantic University, “Susan Sontag, War 

Photography, and the Other” 

Richard Westphal, Aurora University, “The Avoidance of Empathy: Ethical 

Action in W. G. Sebald’s The Emigrants” 

Pedagogical Issues: Diversity in the Classroom 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Audrey Hillyer, University of Southern Indiana 

Lauren McKee, University of Southern Mississippi, “Classroom Politics: 

Teaching Multiethnic Literature in the Undergraduate Classroom” 

J. A. White, Morgan State University, “Towards an Ethics of Teaching Gay- 

Lesbian-Bisexual-Transvestite (GLBT) Literature in the (Conservative) 

Graduate Classroom” 

Alexander Hartwiger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Reading 

with the Other: A New Approach to Diversity in the Classroom” 


On Gender and Philosophy 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Sean Cissel, James Madison University, “‘The Stars’ Tennis-Balls’: An 

Existentialist Reading of Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi” 

Laura Fly, James Madison University, “‘But Were She Able, Thus She Would 

Revenge’: Bel-imperia’s Payback on a Masculine World” 


Creating a Teaching Collection: The Case of Jane Eyre 

A Special Presentation on Teaching Sponsored by Rare Book School 

Presenter: Barbara Heritage, University of Virginia 

Ever wondered how to get your students engaged in primary research? To 

avoid topics that encourage plagiarism? To spark analytical abillities? Barbara 

Heritage, Asssistant Director of Rare Book School, will demonstrate how 

to collect literary objects and ephemera to create a teaching collection that 

engages undergraduates and graduate students in primary research. Heritage 

will overview the ways students and teachers can use such a collection; and 

she’ll outline how to identify, assess, and collect materials. Though her case 

study is Jane Eyre, Heritage provides strategies that can be used with any topic 

in any literary field. A small portion of the RBS Jane Eyre collection will be 

available for examination and discussion. 

Friday, April 13 11-12.15 p.m. 21


Pedagogies and Contexts 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jim Owen, Columbus State University 

Adriane Smith, Nazareth College of Rochester, “Nostalgic Imperialism: 

Searching for ‘Home’ in the Landscape of the ‘Other’” 

Kelly Jennings, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith, “So That’s Why They 

Call It Victorian Literature: Or, Using Student Presentations to Provide 

Context in Upper-Level English Classes” 

Karen Lentz Madison, Loyola College of Maryland, “Strutting and Fretting: 

Thackeray on Stage” 

African Caribbean Literature 2 | Rhythms 2 

Nations and Homes 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Karen Lescure, Wharton Junior College 

Kimberly Wine, North Carolina State University, “Boundary Lines in the 

Landscape of Dreams: Mapping the Cultural Landscape in Wilson Harris’s 

Palace of the Peacock” 

Emily Churilla, Stony Brook University, “Re/writing Home: History, 

Performance, and Memory in Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound” 

Unstable Borders: Disability and Animation 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jack Barbera, University of Mississippi 

Pushpa Parekh, Spelman College, “Crossing Borders: Ethico-Critical 

Dimensions of Disability” 

Mark Burgh, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “‘Mein Fuhrer, I Can Walk!’: 

Ethics and Immobility in Some Films of Stanley Kubrick” 

Andrew Howard, Texas Tech University, “The Postmodern Prometheus— 

Humanity and Narration in the Science-Fiction Worlds of Dick’s Do 

Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Scott’s Blade Runner” 

World Literature 2 | Salon 829 

Beckett, Zola, and Quixote 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Timothy Peoples, North Harris College 

Wendell Aycock, Texas Tech University, “Don Quixote and Translation” 

Wan-li Chen, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “The Confluence of Lacan 

and Beckett: Compassion Toward Human Suffering and its Risk in Ethics” 

Katherine Lawber, Salve Regina University, “Zola and the Growth of 

Commerce” 

Harold Lawber, Salve Regina University 

19th Century American Literature 3 | Cornet Room 

Domesticity and Desire in Kate Chopin 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Roger Hecht, State University of New York, Oneonta 

Lars Johnson, Bethany Lutheran University, “Profaning the Sanctified, 

Sanctifying the Profane: Empathetic Responses to Womanhood and the 

Expression of Desire in Kate Chopin“ 

Emily Ryan, Buffalo State College, “Re-Awakening: Examining the Rationale 

Behind Edna’s Suicide in The Awakening” 

Peter Ramos, Buffalo State College, “Unbearable Realism: Ethics and 

Individuality in The Awakening” 

22 Friday, April 13 11-12.15 p.m.

American and Canadian Literature | Rhythms 3 

U. S. / Canadian Relationships 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Robert Hoskins, James Madison University 

Julie O’Connor, Michigan State University, “Creation by Disruption: 

Regionalist Approaches to Contemporary Canadian and American 

Literature” 

Philip Egan, Western Michigan University, “The ‘Juliet’ Stories of Runaway: 

The Latest Chapters in the Mother-Daughter Wars of Alice Munro” 

Sean Chadwell, Texas A & M International University, “‘Some Things You 

Howl’: Polyphony and Narrative Empathy in The Thin Place” 


Encountering the “Other” 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Larry Gries, University of Southern Indiana 

Marjory Payne, Nazareth College of Rochester, “A Vision of Empathy and 

Ethics in the Freshman English Syllabus” 

Anne Matthews, Millikin University, “Autoethnographies and Ethics: First- 

Year Writing Students, Identity and Action” 

Kedra James, Kansas State University, “The War Against Wal-Mart: The 

‘Devil’ In Our Community” 

Mary Rist, St. Edwards University, “Visual Rhetoric and Viewer Empathy in 

News Photographs: Putting Demonstration Before Theory in Writing 

Classrooms” 

12.30–2 

Diversity Luncheon | Waterbury Ballroom (2nd floor) 

Empathy and Ethics: Teaching at a New Orleans HBCU after Katrina 

Keynote Speaker: Violet Harrington Bryan, Xavier University 

Professor of English, Bryan has published The Myth of New Orleans in Literature: 

Dialogues of Race and Gender (1993) as well as shorter articles for a variety of 

volumes: an article on the drama and fiction of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata 

Aidoo in Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in 

Black Women’s Literature (2006); a literary biography of Lorenzo Thomas and an 

entry on African American Poetry Collectives for the Encyclopedia of American 

Poetry (2005); an analysis of New Orleans writer, Marcus Christian for Creole: 

The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color (2000);and a discussion 

of the 20th century African American literary community in Literary New 

Orleans in the Modern World, (1998). Her essays have appeared in journals such as 

WarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, the Xavier Review, and the CLA 

Journal. In her talk, Dr. Bryan discusses how students and teachers at Xavier 

University continue to show in their teaching and learning the major effects 

that Hurricane Katrina has had on their lives. 

Note: Admission is by Ticket Only. 

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2–3.15 Session 10 


Empathy and the Heroine 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Brooke Mitchell, Wingate University 

Staci Stone, Murray State University, “Empathy and Helen Huntingdon in 

Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” 

Siobhan Brownson, Winthrop University, “Levels of Empathy for Hardy’s 

Tess” 

Lee Maynard, Auburn University, “Empathy Interrupted: Fanny Price and the 

Problem of the Unlikeable Heroine in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park” 

Brooke Mitchell, Wingate University, “Reader Empathy and the Novel 

without a Hero(ine) That Is Vanity Fair” 


Hemingway and Faulkner: Legacies 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Robert Haynes, Texas A & M International University 

Larry Carlson, College of Charleston, “Hemingway and Walker Evans: 

Friendship, Modernism, and Social Conscience in the Cuba Exhibition” 

Sara Elliott, Aurora University, “More Sound, Less Fury: Joyce Carol Oates’s 

We Were The Mulvaneys as Limited Feminist Revision of Faulkner’s The 

Sound and The Fury” 

Charles Nolan, United States Naval Academy, “Teaching and Reading 

Hemingway” 

resident’s Forum | Salon 825 

Electronic Texts and the Way We Teach 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Ann Hawkins, Texas Tech University 

Maura Ives, Texas A & M University, “Jean Ingelow’s Head: New Technology, 

Old Texts, and Students as Scholars” 

Miles A. Kimball, Texas Tech University, “Tools, Technology and Teaching” 

Ann R. Hawkins, Texas Tech University, “The Thrill of Discovery: Engaging 

Undergraduates in Primary Research” 


How I Know What I Know: Negotiating Honesty and Belief 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Linda Moore, University of West Florida 

Linda Moore, University of West Florida 

Carol Hulse, University of West Florida 

Judy Young, University of West Florida 

Native-American Literature 1 | Salon 816 

Postindian Simulation, Regionalism, and Oral Tradition 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State University 

Awndrea Caves, University of Arizona, “‘This Ain’t Dances with Salmon, You 

Know’: Postindian Simulations in Sherman Alexie’s Smoke Signals” 

Brian Twenter, University of South Dakota, “Reproducing the Oral Tradition 

in The Way to Rainy Mountain” 

Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State University, “A Wasi’chu at the Sun 

Dance: Unconditional Hospitality, Or Welcoming the ‘Wholly Other’” 

24 Friday, April 13 2-3.15 p.m.

Sea at CEA 1 | Rhythms 3 

Pirates! 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Herbert Gilliland, United States Naval Academy 

James Long, Louisiana State University, “Drowned by an English Town: 

Shipwreck’s Role in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Amy Foster’” 

Robert Madison, United State Naval Academy, “Floating Tom Hutter: 

Cooper’s Inland Pirate” 

Plamen Arnaudov, Louisiana State University, “Raveneau de Lussan, 

Buccaneer Apologist and Mythical Hero’” 

PNew York CEA 8 | Salon 828 


Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Dean Baldwin, Penn State Eire, The Behrend College 

Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University, “Ethics and Representations of Shared 

Consciousness” 

Mark Barr, Eastern Michigan University, “Regulating Romantic Reading: 

Literary Justice in Coleridge’s On the Constitution of Church and State” 

Theresa Desmond, Long Island University, “Retributive, Rehabilitative, and 

Restorative Justice in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale” 

African Caribbean Literature 3 | Salon 829 

Religion, Spirituality, and Ethics in the Caribbean 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Shelia Collins, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 

Eva Shoop, Auburn University, “Dewbreakers and Rural Takers: Ethical 

Complexity in Edwidge Danticat’s Dewbreaker and J. M. Coetzee’s 

Disgrace” 

Molly Travis, Tulane University, “Narrative Distancing, Empathy, and Ethics in 

Toni Morrison’s Beloved and J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace” 

Dara Green, Florida State University, “Si-Dieu-Veut: Vodou as Catalyst and 

Fatalist Religion in Masters of the Dew” 

Teacher Education 1 | Cornet Room 

Addressing Ethics in Teacher Preparation 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Steven Varela, University of Texas, El Paso 

Jeff Pruchnic, Wayne State University, “Coldness and Critique: The Empathy, 

Ethics, and Aesthetics of Pedagogy” 

Melissa Whiting, University of Arkansas, Fort Wayne, “Field Experiences 

Preparing for Diversity and Reality” 

Jennifer Naimark, University of Northern Colorado, “Ethics, and 

Assessment: Strange Bedfellows” 


The Shape(s) of Nonfiction 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Darrell Fike, Valdosta State University 

Eve Rutherford, State University of New York, Binghamton, “Ethics and 

Empathy: Experiences in Emergency Medicine” 

Janna Pate, Texas Christian University, “How Can You Love Someone Like 

That? An Agnostic’s Reply” 

Deborah Hall, Florida State University, “Teaching Creative Nonfiction: 

Analyzing Structure and Shape” 

Friday, April 13 2-3.15 p.m. 25


Successes and Failures with the Special Needs Student 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Gloria Shafaee-Moghadam, United States Naval Station, Newport 

Alison Reynolds, Midwestern State University, “Mea Culpa: A Teacher 

Negotiates Disability in the Writing Classroom” 

Christopher Nank, Beacon College, “Teaching Longer Literary Works to 

Students with Learning Disabilities” 

Gail Wood Miller, Berkeley College, “Understanding the Student with 

Learning Differencies” 

Composition and Rhetoric 13 | Roux Bistro 1/2 

Defining Empathy in Composition Classrooms 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Tom Bowers, Northern Kentucky University 

Dana Kinzy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, “A Pedagogy of Empathy: 

Negotiating Shifting Worldviews in the Writing Classroom” 

Dominic Micer, University of Southern Indiana, “Not Empathy, But 

Sympathy: Rethinking the Work of Writing in the 21st Century” 

Jee Eun Kim, University of Southern Mississippi, “Provincial Citizens with 

Global Power?: Global Awareness and Empathy in Freshman Composition 

Classes” 

Anne Caswell Klein, Princeton University, “‘I know what I mean in my head’: 

Empathy and Indwelling in the College Composition Classroom” 


Sponsored by Wendell Aycock, CEA President, 2002-2003 | Lagniappe 

3.30–4.45 Session 11 


Diasporic Subjectivities 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Peter Ramos, Buffalo State College 

Tiffany Adams, University of Georgia, “Committed to Community: Erna 

Brodber’s Louisiana as a Inter-National Text” 

Anita Rosenblithe, Raritan Valley Community College, “Pan-Africanism and 

Activism in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven” 

Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama, “Re(Moving)/Remembering 

Mary Prince: Gender, Labor, and the Formation of ‘Authenticity’ in Afro- 

Caribbean Women’s Migration Narratives” 


The Cosmos, the Earth, and the Environment 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Stone Shiflet, Northcentral University 

Keith Huneycutt, Florida Southern Unversity, “Empathy for the Devil: 

Judging Mister Watson in Peter Matthiessen’s Bone by Bone” 

Steve Brahlek, Palm Beach Community College, “Ladder or Gauntlet: 

Ecocritical Perspective of Conflict in Rawlings’s ‘Jacob’s Ladder’” 

Joseph Pestino, Nazareth College of Rochester, “The Struggle with Cosmic 

Faux Empathy: Paul West’s Tea with Osiris” 

26 Friday, April 13 3.30-4.45 p.m.

Creative Writing 10: Workshop | Rhythms 2 

Poetry Workshop I 

Moderator: 

Larry Rubin, Georgia Tech University 

Note: participation limited to those who submitted poetry in advance. 

Teacher Education 2 | Salon 817 

Ethical Issues in the Classroom 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Melissa Whiting, University of Arkansas, Fort Smith 

Ruth Walker, University of Wollongong, “Plagiarism in the Academy: Or, 

You’re So Paranoid You Probably Think This Paper Is About You” 

Cheli Reutter, University of Louisville, “Teaching Ethics and Empathy: 

American Literature and Medical Humanities Course” 

Steven Varela, University of Texas, El Paso, “Teaching for Social Justice 

Through Collaboration” 


Extending Empathy Inside and Outside the Classroom 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Ron Mitchell, University of Southern Indiana 

Karen Peirce, United States Military Academy, “Building Intercultural 

Empathy Through Writing: Reflections on Teaching Alternatives to 

Argumentation” 

Chuck Jackson, University of Houston, Downtown, “What Looms: The 

University, The Jailhouse, and Pedagogy” 

Elizabeth Sturgeon, Mount St. Mary’s University, “Where Is the Love?: 

Empathy and Ethics at Abu Ghraib” 


Dickens, Eliot, and Victorian Slums 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Sue Bennett, Dixie State University of Utah 

Rebecca Mitchell, University of Texas, Pan American, “Learning to Read: 

Interpersonal Literacy in Adam Bede” 

Annette Federico, James Madison University, “Moral Trapdoors” 

Mary Ellen Kappler, Humber College, “Through the Looking Glass: Visiting the 

Late-Victorian Fictional Slum” 

Putting Empathy to Work in the Classroom 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Melanie Lee, Ohio University 

Sara Farris, University of Houston, Downtown, ‘I Can’t Relate’: 

Inexperienced Readers and the Ethical Moment” 

Joyce Meier, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, “Mission and Monastery: 

The Empathetic Challenge of Two Community-based Courses” 

Audrey Hillyer, University of Southern Indiana, “Selective Empathy” 

Murray Sellers, Lander University, “Spanning the Gulf: Empathy, Dialogue, 

and Harmony in Exploring Literature of Diversity” 

Friday, April 13 3.30-4.45 p.m. 27


Texts and Their Histories 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jean Harper, Indiana University East 

Erin Heath, Texas Tech University, “A Textual History of Silence of the Lambs” 

Lauren Whiteaker, Texas Tech University, “Lolita: A Textual History” 

Javier Ramirez, Texas Tech University, “A Textual History of The Eternal 

Sunshine of a Spotless Mind” 

Children’s Literature | Salon 824 

Fostering an Ethical Sensibility in our Students 

Moderator: 

Panelists: 

Jeraldine Kraver, Northern Colorado University 

Amelia Brown, California State University, San Marcos, “Charlotte and Stuart: 

Teaching Understanding of Disability Through E. B. White” 

Jean Jones, Troy University, “Empathy and Children’s Literature” 

Mary Ann Tighe, Troy University, “Empowering Girls through Young Adult 

Literature” 

Douglas Meyers, University of Texas, El Paso, “Subverting Silence with 

Empathy and Ethics: The Young Adult Novels of Alex Sanchez” 

New York CEA 9 | Cornet Room 

Anatomy of Violence (2) 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jerry Bradley, Lamar University 

Sara Kakazu, State University of New York, Buffalo, “Performing Resistance: 

Violence, Racial Injury, and Redress in Olympia Vernon’s Logic” 

Linda Urschel, Huntington University, “Playing by the Rules: The Ethics of 

Detective Fiction” 

Alisa Smith-Riel, Northern Illinois University, “‘A Cheap Idea’?: Violence and 

Sex in William Faulkner’s Sanctuary” 

SEA at CEA 2 | Rhythms 3 

More Pirates! 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Robert Madison, United States Naval Academy 

Luis Iglesias, University of Southern Mississippi, “Pirates, Patriots, and The 

Gulf: James Fenimore Cooper’s Jack Tier” 

Herbert Gilliland, United States Naval Academy, “Be-qualmed: Marryat’s 

Pirates and Privateers” 

Heather Levy, Wright State University, “Virginal Pirates: The Captains of 

Avarice and Empathy in Conrad’s The Rescue and ‘A Smile of Fortune’” 

Native American Literature 2 | Roux Bistro 1/2 

Ceremonies, Identity, and Empathy 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State University 

Jeffrey Gross, University of Kentucky, “Giving Credit to the Unidentified 

Founding Father: Hobomok’s Role in the Formation of American Identity” 

Judith Phagan, St. Joseph’s College, “Storytelling as Healing Medicine: 

Ceremonies at the Crossroads” 

Catherine Lipnick, Suffolk County Community College, “Teaching 

Transformation: Encouraging Empathy for the Interrelated Totality” 

28 Friday, April 13 3.30-4.45 p.m.

5–5.45 

Open Business Meeting | Cornet Room 

All conference participants encouraged to attend 

6–8 

Women’s Connection Reception | Maurepas Room (3rd floor) 

Katrina Warriors: 

Women’s Studies, Women’s Activism in New Orleans 

Keynote Speaker: Supriya M. Nair, Tulane University 

In her talk, Nair discusses some of the key challenges facing women’s issues 

in post-Katrina New Orleans, and also some initiatives and hopes regarding 

women’s lives and involving women’s activism, making links between our 

institutional sites and everyday lives, between the classroom and city. She is an 

Associate Professor of English, an affiliate of the African and African Diaspora 

Studies Program, and currently Director of Women’s Studies. In addition to 

articles on postcolonial/anglophone literature and feminist theory, Nair has 

authored Caliban’s Curse: George Lamming and the Revisioning of History (Michigan 

1996), co-edited Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism 

(Rutgers 2005); she is completing a book on Anglophone Caribbean literatures. 

Note: Admission is by Ticket Only. 

8–10 

Performance Session | Waterbury Ballroom (2nd floor) 

Resurrecting Belief from Home’s Decay: 

Scenes from Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire 

Director: 

Dramaturge: 

Troop: 

Actors: 

Christy Stanlake 

Jason Shaffer 

Masqueraders, United States Naval Academy 

Sean Bingham, Joy Dewey, David Smestuen, Julie Barca 

Talk Back Session with actors, dramaturge, and director will follow the performance. 

Friday, April 13 5-5.45, 6-8, 8-10 p.m. 29

Saturday, April 14 th 

7–8 

Peace Breakfast 

For 14 years, CEA members interested in peace have met informally for 

breakfast on Saturday. If you are interested in peace issues or simply would like 

to meet congenial souls for a meal, then join us at the hotel restaurant. There is 

no fee--other than what you choose to spend on your meal--for this gathering. 

8–9.15 Session 12 


Foundations of Truth 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Cynthia Ris, University of Cincinnati 

Gary Leising, Utica College, “But That’s What Happened: Negotiating the 

Lines between Truth and Fiction in the Creative Writing Classroom” 

James Knippling, University of Cincinnati, “‘But I Did Not Shoot the 

Deputy’: When Students Cop in Comp” 

Cynthia Ris, University of Cincinnati, “True Confessions and Repressions: 

Moderating ‘Truth’ in the Writing Classroom” 


Identity and Culture in Derek Walcott 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Vindra Dass, University of Central Florida 

Robert Pridemore, University of Central Florida, “That ‘Bedbug ah Bitin’: 

Derek Walcott’s Spoiler’s Return as Decolonized Native Language” 

Monica Valcavi, University of Bologna, “Diasporic Identity in Derek Walcott’s 

Poetry and Drama” 

Maureen Sullivan, University of Alaska, “Mythicizing ‘I’s’ Eye: Subverting the 

Epic in Derek Walcott’s Omeros” 


Grammarians, Tutors, and the Writing Center 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Betty Hoskins, James Madison University 

Kirstin Bratt, Penn State University, Altoona, “Rules and Social Graces: 

Metaphors for Grammarians from Emily Post” 

Melinda Parrish, United States Naval Academy, “Undergraduate Tutoring as 

Personal Writing Therapy” 

Betty Hoskins, James Madison University, “Ethics and Empathy in the 

Writing Center” 


Tutoring Post-Katrina Writings: Engagement and Empathy 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Marnie Genre, University of New Orleans 

Julia Cianci, University of New Orleans 

Sarah Bailly, University of New Orleans 

Marnie Genre, University of New Orleans 

30 Saturday, April 14 -8, 8-9.15 a.m.


Strategies for Teaching and Relating 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Sue Doe, Colorado State University, Fort Collins 

Sue Doe, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, “Building Shared Empathy 

Among Contingent and Tenure-Track Faculty: Confronting Labor Policies 

to Restore and ‘Restory’ Relationships” 

James Reitter, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, “Developing the Teacher/ 

Student Relationship Through Journal Writing” 

Teacher Education 3 | Salon 825 

Local Literature and a ‘New’ New Orleans: 

Reimagining and Rebuilding 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Amy Carpenter Ford, University of Michigan 

Elizabeth Jeffers, University of New Orleans 

Catherine Michna, Boston College 

Amy Carpenter Ford, University of Michigan 

Religion and Literature 1 | Salon 828 

The Question of Ethical Presence 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Arthur Eaves, Austin Peay State University 

Ciahnan Darrell, University of Chicago, “‘An Ethic Runs Through It’: 

Narrative as a Medium for Ethical Instruction” 

James Fairfield, University of Kentucky, “A Time Honored Tradition: 

Lynching, Religion, and Communal Redemption in Black No More” 

Paul Juhasz, Tarleton State University, “The Misunderstood Eyeball: The 

Impact of Jonathan Edwards on the Unitarian Response to Ralph Waldo 

Emerson’s Nature” 

New York CEA 10 | Cornet Room 


Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Peace 1 | Rhythms 3 

Rachael Baitch, James Madison University 

James Arnett, City University of New York, Graduate Center, “Inside and 

Out: Spectacular Violence and the Queer Body in WWI Literature” 

Patricia Brooke, Fontbonne University, “Numbing, Passé, Dangerous, and/ 

or Radically Experimental: Violence and Desire in Kathy Acker’s Early 

Novels” 

Matt Snyder, University of Florida, “The Silences and Elisions of Kafka’s 

‘In the Penal Colony,’ Michel-Rolph Troulliot’s Silencing the Past, and Neil 

Whitehead’s Dark Shamans” 

Morality, Militarism, and Ante-Modernity 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Karen Lentz Madison, Loyola College of Maryland 

J. R. (Dick) Bennett, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “‘But Mothers Do 

Not Smile’; ‘We Feel What We Perceive’; Literature and Air War” 

Larry Van Meter, York University, “Paradise Lost, Bahktin, and Ante- 

Modernity” 

Tony Stelly, Penn State University, York, “Play Under Protest” 

Saturday, April 14 8-9.15 a.m. 31


Disasters and Miscarriages 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Christiane Farnan, Siena College 

Mark Boren, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, “Monstrous 

Miscarriages: Weapons of Empathy, Abortion, and the Effects of 

Masculine Ambition in Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs 

of A Sleepwalker” 

Orlando Pizana, St. Petersburg College, “Open the Boat for Discussion: 

Stephen Crane’s, and Other Literary Luminaries’s, Explanation for 

Preparedness amid the Experience with Natural Disasters.” 

Kathleen Monahan, St. Peter’s College, “The Calculus of Charity: Disaster 

and Response in Authur Mervyn” 


Sponsored by College of Arts & Sciences, Nazareth College of Rochester | Lagniappe 

9.30–10.40 Session 13 

African American and Caribbean Literature | Salon 817 

Oppression, Spirituality, and the Primitive Mind 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Nicole de Fee, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 

Patricia Burns, University of Texas, Austin, “From Oppression, Survival, and 

Resistance to Violence in Ann Petry’s The Street” 

Majid Amini, Virginia State University, “Négritude and the Primitive Mind” 

Gloria Morrissey, Middle Tennessee State University, “Recovering Identity 

Through Afro-Caribbean Spirituality” 

Religion and Literature 2 | Salon 820 

The Liminal Position 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Peter J. Kratzke, University of Colorado, Boulder 

Ymitri Mathison, Prairie View A & M University, “Converting the Idolatrous 

Heathens: British Missionaries in the South Seas and India in Children’s 

Fiction” 

Arthur Eaves, Austin Peay State University, “David and Jonathan: Queer Eye 

on the ‘Straight’ Guys” 

Jeraldine R. Kraver, Northern Colorado University, “Wandering in the 

Contact Zone: Tradition and Modernity in the Fiction of Contemporary 

Jewish Women Writers” 


Empathy and Ethics in Composition: Who Cares? 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

William Zipfel, University of Cincinnati 

Linda Mercer, University of Cincinnati 

Ron Hundemer, University of Cincinnati 

Judith Sharp, University of Cincinnati 

William Zipfel, University of Cincinnati 

32 Saturday, April 14 9.30-10.40 a. m.

British Medieval Literature 1 | Salon 825 

Medieval Heroes, ‘Villains,’ and Combat 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Billy Ray Newsome, Morehead State University, “Give the Devil His Due: 

Satan in Medieval Drama” 

Frank Tobienne, Purdue University, “Beowulf: An Examination of Allegory” 

Diana Vecchio, Widener University, “Engaged In Combat: The Conflict 

Between Empathy and Ethics in Malory’s Works” 

Winter Elliott, Brenau University, “Sympathy for the Monster: Teaching a 

Human Grendel” 


Understanding Women 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Elly Williams, Ohio University 

Pervushina Lyuba, Minsk State Linguistics University, Belarus, “Empathy 

and Ethics in Erica Jong’s Creative Work” 

Angela Hathikhanavala, Henry Ford Community College, “‘All That 

Happens, One Must Try To Understand’: Jeannie’s Mediating Legacy in 

Tillie Olsen’s Tell Me a Riddle” 

Amy Hobbs, Central State University, “‘In the Position of Another Woman’: 

The Rhetoric of Empathy in American Women’s Literature” 

Alienation and Intertexts 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Writing Peace 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Jean Jones, Troy University 

Carole Policy, Palm Beach Community College, “‘I Think That I Am 

Beginning To Bloat’: The Alienated Academic-At-Large in A Confederacy of 

Dunces” 

Jane Bethune, Salve Regina University, “A Confederacy of Dunces: Parallels in 

Spanish Renaissance Literature and History” 

Rachael Baitch, James Madison University, “Being (Un)Framed: Women in the 

19th Century According to Pre-Raphaelite Art and Wilkie Collins’s The 

Woman in White” 

Larry Van Meter, York University 

Kay Meyers, Oral Roberts University, “We Never Seem to Learn: 

Misanthropic Missionaries in Melville and Kingsolver” 

Tunis Romein, Charleston Southern University, “The Aesthetics of Horror: 

Anthony Loyd on the War and Genocide in Bosnia” 

Phillip Jenkins, United States Naval Academy, “Writing Through the Pain” 

Creative Writing 11: Workshop | Rhythms 2 

Poetry Workshop 2 

Moderator: Jennifer Semple Siegel, York College of Pennsylvania 

Note: participation limited to those who submitted poetry in advance. 

Saturday, April 14 9.30-10.40 a.m. 33


Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Writing 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Daniel McGavin, Palm Beach Community College 

Andrew Yerkes, University of St. Thomas, “Resisting Literary Darwinism” 

Richard Eichman, Sauk Valley Community College, “Reviving Historicism: 

Illuminating the Cultural Artifacts within Literature” 

Stephanie Eckroth, Texas Tech University, “The Rhetoric of Reprint: 

Reconsidering the Impact of Steele’s ‘Inkle and Yarico’” 

Pedagogy 12 | Cornet Room 

Family, Social Relations, and Ethics 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University 

Elizabeth Battles, Texas Wesleyan University, “Peer Feedback in Theory and 

Practice: Does it Even Matter?” 

Cassandra Falke, East Texas Baptist University, “The Quixotic Critic” 

Sophie Ratcliffe, Oxford University, “‘The Vanity of Our Calling’: Empathy, 

Ethics, and the Envious Critic” 

10.45–12 Session 14 


Changing How and What We Teach Post-Katrina 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Holly Baumgartner, Mercy College of Northwest Ohio 

Anne Rioux, University of New Orleans 

Matthew Suazo, University of New Orleans 

Sarah Debacher, University of New Orleans 

Holly Baumgartner, Mercy College of Northwest Ohio 

Jennifer Discher, Mercy College of Northwest Ohio 

Doreen Piano, University of New Orleans 


Creating Writing Assignments 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Coretta Pittman, Baylor University 

Katona Hargrave, Troy University, “Giving Significance to Problem Solution 

Writing Assignments” 

Debra Matthews, Macon State University, “Not Looking Away: The 

Homeless Journal” 

Matthew Fike, Winthrop University, “Thinking in a Discipline: An 

Assignment in Critical Thinking Class” 


Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Writing 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Cassandra Falke, East Texas Baptist University 

Teresa Chung, Harper College, “A Sympathetic Fellow: Rhetorical Inventions 

of Self and Other in Adam Smith’s Moral Philosophy” 

Tim Wenzell, Seton Hall University, “Nature, Poetry, and Service Learning: 

Teaching Nature in the Urban Community” 

Amanda Wilkins, Princeton University, “Personal History, Collective History: 

Mapping Shock and the Work of Analogy” 

34 Saturday, April 14 10.45-12 p.m.

Reading | Salon 817 

Larry Rubin: A Poetry Reading 

For over 40 years, Larry Rubin’s published poetry has impressed readers with 

its immediacy and power of emotion. The mix of psychology and mythology is 

highly engaging. His work has deep compassion particularly in the treatment of 

family and friends. A sense of empathy pervades his work. 


Nationalism and Diaspora 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Vindra Dass, University of Central Florida 

Matthew Mullins, North Carolina State University, “Textual Structure and 

the African Diaspora in Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound” 

Vindra Dass, University of Central Florida, “Derek Walcott and Caribbean 

Culture” 

Keja Valens, Salem State University, “Sexual Alternatives in Patricia Powell’s 

Me Dying Trial” 

Empathy and Ethics of Inclusion 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Beth Capo, Illinois College 

Gloria Shafaee-Moghadam, United States Naval Station, Newport, 

“Empathy and Ethics: Diversity in the Non-Diverse Classroom” 

Nicole Schneider, Southeast Missouri State University, “Secrets They Can’t 

Hide: Homosexual (ELL) Students and Their Reality” 

Sara Day, Texas A & M University, College Station, “‘Please Don’t Make Me 

Tell It All: Cisneros’s ‘Red Clowns’ and the Vulnerability of the Reader” 


Performance and Practice 

Moderator: Annie Adams, Morehead State University 

Presenters: 


Literacy and Peace 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Kathryn Kleypas, American University of Kuwait, “They ‘Mistook the 

Superficial for the Essence’: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and 

Englishness Between Essentialism and Performance” 

Jonathan Goldman, Tulane University, “Jean Rhys, Anonymous Celebrity” 

Timothy Wientzen, Duke University, “Their ‘Differences were Similar’: The 

Practice of Ethics in James Joyce’s ‘Ithaca’” 

Karen Lentz Madison, Loyola College of Maryland 

Melanie Lee, Ohio University, “Agonistic Literacy: Has the Pen Become the 

Sword?” 

Kimberly Braddock, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, “An Idea for the 

First-Year Composition Course Defined: Encouraging Empathy for Family 

Literacy and Diplomatic Response” 

Stanley Yake, Masschusetts College of Liberal Arts, “Empathy, Self-Esteem, 

and the Moral Foundation of Peace” 

Judith Stanton, Bridgewater State University, “Revenge, Empathy, and Moral 

Voice in The Odyssey” 

Friday, April 14 10.45-12 p.m. 35

British Medieval Literature 2 | Cornet Room 

Chaucer’s Wives and Daughters 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 


Blythe Dorn, University of Chicago, “‘Considerynge the Beste on Every Syde’: 

The Sympathetic Argument of ‘The Franklin’s Tale’” 

Matthew Brown, University of Notre Dame, “Custance’s Pale Face: Empathy 

and Virtual Audiences in Chaucer’s ‘Man of Law’s Tale’” 

Richard Houser, Louisiana State University, “Legal Empathy and the Wife of 

Bath in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales” 

Lisa Barksdale-Shaw, Central Michigan University, “Questioning Vengeance: 

The Ethical Dilemma of Cuckolding in Chaucer’s ‘The Reeve’s Tale’” 


Ranching, Dancing and Poetry 

Moderator: Cheli Reutter, University of Louisville 

Presenters: 

Claire Mathey, Culinary Institute of America, “All the King’s Men: Willie 

Stark’s Struggle with Empathy and Ethics” 

Nika Nordbrock, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, “Cowboy Poetry 

Creates Empathy for Ranching Lifestyle” 

Jamie Beatty, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 

Elizabeth Lewis, University of New Orleans, “Paterson in Paris” 

American Literature 5 | Rhythms 2 

Human Relations in Uncle Tom’s Cabin 

Moderator: Jason Corner, Ohio State University, Newark 

Presenters: 

Christiane Farnan, Siena College, “‘From Oldtown to Ghostown’: Horace 

Holyoke’s Denial of Empathy in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oldtown Folks” 

Roland Finger, Concordia University, “Ethical Sentiments: Stowe and Political 

Self-Critique” 

Cynthia Murillo, University of New Mexico, “Resignifying Motherhood 

through Exile: Body Politics in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 

Roger Hecht, State University of New York College at Oneonta, “Using Uncle 

Tom’s Cabin to Teach Literary Theory / Using Theory to Teach Uncle Tom’s 

Cabin” 

12.00–12.50 Book Drawing | Rhythms 1 

12.50–2.30 All-Conference Luncheon | Waterbury Ballroom 

Busted Flat in Baton Rouge: 

I Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans 

Keynote Speaker: Emily Toth, Louisiana State University 

As one who lost her apartment in New Orleans and is now full-time in Baton 

Rouge, Toth will offer a series of post-Katrina deliberations in consideration 

of thousands of other displaced people, focusing on Louisiana writers like 

Kate Chopin and musicians like Louis Armstrong, given how their creations 

were based on love and longing for Louisiana, even when they lived elsewhere. 

Acknowledging the prospect of a great diaspora, Toth reminds us that even jazz 

funerals always end with dancing and a repast. Note: admission by ticket only. 

36 Friday, April 14 12-12.50, 12.50-2.30 p.m.

2.30-6.15 Cajun Critter Swamp Tour 

2.30: Swamp tour ticket holders line up in staging area near Pelican Bar (1st floor) 

2.35: Board bus outside front of Sheraton Hotel 

2.45: Bus departs for dock (1/2 hour ride) 

3.30-5.30: Swamp Tour 

5.30-6.15: Bus returns to hotel 

2.45–4 Session 15 


Service Learning and the Problem of Empathy 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Peace 4 | Salon 825 

Lisa Langstraat, Colorado State University 

Lisa Langstraat, Colorado State University, “Service Learning as Affective 

Re-Education: On the Perils of Empathy and the Politics of Compassion” 

Aaron Leff, Colorado State University, “Narrative Deliberation: Empathy, 

Ethics, and Action” 

Chandra Brown, Colorado State University, “Textual Empathy: Service 

Learning Projects That Empower Students and Community” 

Voices from the Nuclear Age 

Moderator: J. R. (Dick) Bennett, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 

Presenters: 


Toni Lefton, Colorado School of Mines, “Exploring the Intersection of 

Empathy, Ethics, and Eloquence” 

Sue Tyburski, Colorado School of Mines, “Exploring the Intersection of 

Empathy, Ethics, and Eloquence” 

Nature, Humanity, and Economics 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

David Anshen, University of Texas, Pan American 

Sarah McFarland, Northwestern State University, “Composing Our 

Environments: Ecocriticism, Ethics, and the Composition Classroom” 

Jeremy Bailey, Texas Tech University, “Nature as Seductress: A Reading of 

John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra” 

Bryan Moore, Arkansas State University, “‘The Forests Answer All’: Virgil’s 

Anthropomorphic Nature Sympathy” 


Dialogues, Blogs, and Disability Rhetoric 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Sean Barnette, Lander University 

Danielle Cordaro, Purdue University, “Empathy Empowered: Learning 

Disability Rhetoric and First Year Composition” 

Morgan Reitmeyer, Purdue University, “Questing For Dialogue: Seeking 

Conversation Between Critical Pedagogy, Graduate Teaching Assistants, 

and the Composition Classroom” 

Sean Barnette, Lander University, “Not Fanning the Flames: The Ethics of 

Blogs in the Composition Classroom” 

Friday, April 14 2.45-4 p.m. 37


Reading Others, Writing the Self 

Moderator: Richard Westphal, Aurora University 

Presenters: 


Michael Sanders, Cazenovia College, “Continuity, Corporeity, and the 

Ground of Ethics” 

Tracy Schrems, St. Bonaventure University, “Holding Out for a Hero: A 

Special Needs Mom’s Perspective” 

Joseph Cirincione, Rockhurst University, “Ignatian Pedagogy, Literature, and 

Ethics: From Empathy to Action” 

The Gender and Racial Politics of Westerns 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Roland Finger, Concordia College 

Matthew Benson, Concordia College, “Red Hot Race Issues and the Last of 

the Mohicans” 

Jennifer Gunnerson, Concordia College, “From Lethal Western Men to 

Tarantino and Sopranos” 

Cayle Halberg, Concordia College, “Kevin Costner and Brad Pitt Playing 

Indians for White America” 

David Lund, Concordia College, “African Americans, Western Outlaws, and 

Jamaica” 


Interrogating Ethical Intimacies 

Moderator: Carolyn Elliott, University of Pittsburgh 

Presenters: 

Carolyn Elliott, University of Pittsburgh, “Beckett’s Murphy: ‘A Critique of 

Pure Love’” 

Elaine Childs, University of Tennessee, “The Ethical Response to Dangerous 

Beauty in W. B. Yeats and Olivia Shakespear: Why The Devotees Should Be 

Reprinted and Included on Syllabi” 

Matt Fullerty, George Washington University, “The Invisible Line: Ethical 

Responsibility Between Professor and Student in the Academic Play: 

Butley (1971), Educating Rita (1980) and Oleanna (1992)” 


Making News By Telling Stories 

Moderator: 

Presenters: 

Mark Longaker, University of Texas, Austin 

Sean McCarthy, University of Texas, Austin, “Rebuilding the Future: New 

Urbanism and Katrina in the English Classroom” 

William Rodney Herring, University of Texas, Austin, “Making News by 

Telling Stories: Narrative Analysis and the Limits of Liberalism” 

Mark Longaker, University of Texas, Austin, “What Separates Us? Parting the 

Floodwaters of Race and Class” 

38 Saturday, April 14 2.45-4 p.m.

CEA Presidents 

1938–39 Robert Malcolm Gay (pro tem) 

1940 William Clyde Devane 

1941 Norman Foerster 

1942–43 Howard Foster Lowry 

1943-44 Henry Seidel Canby 

1944 Henry Seidel Canby 

1945-46 Mark Van Doren 

1947 Odell Shepard 

1948 Theodore Spencer 

1949 Gordon Keith Chalmers 

1950-51 Robert Tyson Fitzhugh 

1952 Ernest Erwin Leisy 

1953-54 William Louser Werner 

1955 Katherine Koller 

1956 (George) Bruce Dearing 

1957 Harry Redcay Warfel 

1958 Henry Whittington Sams 

1959 John Ciardi 

1960 Donald Jacob Lloyd 

1961 Harry Thornton Moore 

1982–83 Paul Thompson Bryant 

1962 John Waldron Ball 

1963 Charles Marston Clark 

1964 Elisabeth W. Schneider 

1965 Muriel Joy Hughes 

1966 Allan Hugh MacLaine 

1967-68 Henry Hitch Adams 

1969 Francis Lee Utley 

1969–71 Edward Huberman 

1971–73 William James Griffin 

1973–74 Samuel N. Bogorad 

1974–75 Glenn Owaroff Carey 

1975–76 George Mills Harper 

1976–77 H. Alan Wycherley 

1977–78 Howard Oakley Brogan 

1978–79 Earle Gene Labor 

1979–80 Elizabeth Lyle Huberman 

1980–81 James Henry Pickering 

1981–82 Donald E. Morse 

1983–84 Frances Hernandez 

1984–85 Helen S. Thomas 

1985–86 J. F. (Jake) Kobler 

1986–87 Angela Dorenkamp 

1987–88 Fred Standley 

1988–89 Edith Blicksilver 

1989–90 Barbara Ann Brothers 

1990–91 Keith C. Odom 

1991–92 Earl J. Wilcox 

1992–93 Doris Meriwether 

1993–94 John T. Shawcross 

1994–95 Robert C.Johnson 

1995–96 Betsy Hilbert 

1996–97 James R. Bennett 

1997–98 Beverly Spears 

1998–99 William E. Tanner 

1999–2000 Norman E. Stafford 

2000–01 Bonnie L. Braendlin 

2001–02 Wendell Aycock 

2002–03 Eleanor Green 

2003–04 Jill Barnum 

2004–05 Dean Baldwin 

2005-06 Ann R. Hawkins 

April-Dec. 2006 Maurice O’Sullivan 

Spring 2007 Ann R. Hawkins 

CEA Executive Directors 

1978 Donald E. Morse 

1978–81 Robert Hacke 

1981–84 Elizabeth Cooper 

1984–94 John J. Joyce* 

1994–99 Earl J. Wilcox 

1999–2004 Robert V. Hoskins 

2004–present Charles A. S. Ernst 

*Prior to John Joyce’s term, the position was known as “Executive Secretary. 

CEA Presidents and Executive Directors 39

More Information on CEA 2008 

The clean, elegant lines of the St. Louis Gateway Arch rise high above the 

Mississippi River, a literal representation of the city’s most famous epithet, 

“Gateway to the West.” Inspired by this image, CEA pays tribute to St. 

Louis and to the many pioneers who passed through its threshold, risking 

the world they knew for nothing more (or less) than the promise of a new 

beginning. Our theme for the 2008 conference is Passages. 

We could have chosen various terms to investigate this theme--travel, 

sojourn, migration--but the word “passages” not only suggests the many 

journeys we hope to explore in literature and film, but also signals the importance 

of the transitional moment, when one must leap into the unknown 

and face/embrace the change that follows. Poets, novelists, dramatists, 

and directors have long been drawn to the idea of a rite of passage. Heroic 

quests, mythic journeys, and coming-of-age narratives abound in both classic 

and contemporary works: Virgil’s Aeneid, Dante’s Inferno, Woolf’s To the 

Lighthouse, Dickey’s Deliverance, Camus’s Black Orpheus, Hurston’s Their Eyes 

Were Watching God, to name but a few. Travel literature follows suit, pairing 

literal passages (from covered wagon to rocket ship) with characters’ inner 

journeys. Think Homer’s Odyssey, Cather’s The Song of the Lark, Kerouac’s On 

the Road, Forster’s or Whitman’s Passage to India. Even the fantastical trips of 

Wells’s Journey to the Center of the Earth or Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Dark 

ness provide another lens through which to analyze human folly, ambition, 

and desire. Of course, presenters need not explore a work solely devoted to 

this theme. Papers focused on the image itself would be welcome, for surely 

some new insight still waits to be discovered in the dark tunnel of the tardy 

white rabbit or the haunted chasm of Kubla Khan. 

More important, the theme suggests the way our profession analyzes and 

memorializes these literary and cinematic journeys. Regardless of our theoretical 

backgrounds, we have all been trained as close readers. We privilege 

the passage, often with joy. Who doesn’t know the pleasure of a “red wheel / 

barrow / glazed with rain”; the taste of a tea-soaked Madeleine; the philosophical 

ruminations of a melancholy Dane? We believe that sometimes the 

part is worth more than the whole, and we celebrate that part in our classroom. 

Join us. 

40 More Info on the 2008 theme

We invite papers on 

Rites of Passage: We welcome papers that analyze literary and cinematic 

works through the lens of mythology, psychology, and anthropology, in 

particular those that offer insight into our journey towards adulthood or the 

many transitional phases of maturation. 

Spiritual Passage: Religious texts embrace the term as a means to connect 

the real world with the mystical world. Consider that the most common 

euphemism for death is “passing,”as if life and death are separated by a 

dividing line that one need only pass over. Papers exploring passages of the 

spirit, be they heaven-bound or hell-bent, in print or celluloid, are welcome. 

Passage as Journey: Travel literature is its own genre, and epic journeys 

often come with a celebratory song! From the Beowulf scop to the Beat 

poet, Arlo Guthrie to the Rolling Stones, lyricists remind us that “Life is a 

Highway.” We welcome papers invoking the call to travel, regardless of the 

destination. 

Passage to America: Regardless of your political stance, our Statue of 

Liberty continues to invite “huddled masses, yearning to breathe free.” We 

join the current debate by inviting papers on immigration literature and film. 

One could also analyze America’s identity through our literary icons: the pioneer, 

the hobo, the Huck Finn, and the runaway in American narrative. 

Literary Passages: For the academic, passages are our stock in trade, the 

medium through which we journey through the text; for it’s a rare class that 

dares to tackle Shakespeare’s ¬Tempest in one sitting. Instead, we are dwellers, 

preferring to spend quality time with an image, an echo, a pattern. 

Papers that celebrate the “passage” with an extended close reading are welcome. 

We also invite papers that seek to analyze the process of close reading 

or any other literary theory that claims to illuminate the art form through an 

analysis of its parts. 

More Info on the 2008 theme 41

Index 

A 

Adams, Annie 17, 35 

Adams, Tiffany 26 

Amini, Majid 32 

Anderson, Jill 16 

Anderson, Marsha 14 

Anderson, Trela 10 

Anshen, David 19, 37 

Arnaudov, Plamen 25 

Arnett, James 31 

Austin, Carolyn 5, 8 

Aycock, Wendell 4, 22 

Ayers, James 6 

B 

Bailey, Jeremy 37 

Bailly, Sarah 30 

Baitch, Rachael 31, 33 

Baldwin, Dean 5, 25 

Balint, Brendan 9 

Barbera, Jack 10, 22 

Barca, Julie 29 

Barker, Ellen 14 

Barksdale-Shaw, Lisa 

36 

Barloon, James 9 

Barnette, Sean 17, 37 

Barr, Mark 25 

Bartley, Aryn 5 

Battles, Elizabeth 34 

Baumgartner, Holly 34 

Beatty, Jamie 20, 36 

Behr, Kate 14 

Belleau, Leisa 7, 14 

Benavidez, Fernando 

2, 4 

Bennett, J. R. (Dick) 

31, 37 

Bennett, Sue 9, 27 

Benson, Matthew 38 

42 

Berger, Aimee 1 

Bernard, Patrick 9, 13 

Bernstein, Lisa 7 

Bethune, Jane 33 

Bingham, Sean 29 

Black, Sharon 18 

Bliss, Carol 10, 13 

Bodie, Gary 11 

Boren, Mark 32 

Bowers, Tom 7, 26 

Braddock, Kimberly 35 

Bradley, Jerry 10, 28 

Brahlek, Steve 18, 26 

Brandel, Darcy 12 

Bratt, Kirstin 10, 30 

Braun, Wendy 2 

Breaux, Erin 2 

Briggs, Gabriel 5, 6 

Brockman, Sonya 20 

Brooke, Patricia 31 

Brown, Amelia 28 

Brown, Byron 15, 17 

Brown, Chandra 37 

Brown, Matthew 36 

Brownson, Siobhan 13, 

24 

Bryan, Violet H. 23 

Buckalew, Elizabeth 18 

Burgh, Mark 6, 22 

Burke, Molly 12 

Burns, Patricia 32 

Buzzard, Sharon 16 

C 

Caddell, Diane 8 

Call, Joshua 13 

Camacho, Kristie 2 

Canivell, Maria 6 

Canty, Anitra 3 

Capo, Beth 19, 35 

Carlson, Larry 24 

Carriere, Peter 9, 14 

Carroll, Craig 9 

Carson, Benjamin 24, 

28 

Cass, Jeffrey 9, 14, 17 

Castaldo, Annalisa 34 

Caves, Awndrea 24 

Chadwell, Sean 23 

Chang, Yahui 10 

Chen, Wan-li 22 

Childs, Elaine 38 

Chismar, Douglas 16 

Chong, Stephanie 2 

Chung, Teresa 34 

Churilla, Emily 22 

Cianci, Julia 30 

Cirincione, Joseph 38 

Cissel, Sean 21 

Clark, Jessica 3 

Clark, Miriam 8 

Clemens, Bernadette 9 

Cochran, Kate 1 

Collins, Sheila 11 

Collins, Shelia 25 

Comprone, Raphael 18 

Cordaro, Danielle 37 

Corner, Jason 18, 36 

Cote, Sharon 11 

Crider, Richie 9 

Cruse, Laura 18 

D 

Dabundo, Laura 15 

Damron, Pilar 1 

Darrell, Ciahnan 31 

Dass, Vindra 30, 35 

Davis, Doris 13 

Day, Sara 35 

Debacher, Sarah 34 

de Fee, Nicole 32

De La Vars, Lauren 

13, 14 

DeLotto, Jeffrey 10, 15 

Demerly, Ed 1, 7 

Denno, Jerome 14, 21 

Desmond, Theresa 25 

Dew, Spencer 20 

Dewey, Joy 29 

Discher, Jennifer 34 

Dixon, Nancy 9 

Dobbs, Jennifer 18 

Doe, Sue 31 

Dooley, Deborah 6 

Dorn, Blythe 36 

Dorré, Gina 19 

Dube, Matthew 3, 12 

Duffy, W. Keith 15 

Duffy, Will 15 

Dufrechou, Stephen 8 

E 

Eaves, Arthur 31, 32 

Egan, Philip 23 

Elliott, Carolyn 38 

Elliott, Sara 24 

Elliott, Winter 33 

Evans, Kelley 4, 16 

F 

Facknitz, Susan 5 

Fairfield, James 5, 31 

Falke, Cassandra 34 

Fallas, Jennifer 4 

Farnan, Christiane 32, 

36 

Faul, David Mounty 4 

Favila, Marina 10, 21 

Federico, Annette 19, 

27 

Fike, Darrell 12, 25 

Fike, Matthew 34 

Finger, Roland 36, 38 

Flinn, Anthony 14 

Fly, Laura 21 

Flynn, Kathryn 9 

Flynn, Nicole 15 

Ford, Amy 31 

Frankwitz, Andrea 13 

Frankwitz, Andrea 

K. 2 

Frederick, Joan 17, 20 

Friedman, Susan 10 

Fugarino, Virginia 7 

Fullerty, Matt 38 

G 

Gage, Christopher 20 

Garvelink, Lisa Bouma 

4 

Genre, Marnie 30 

George, Elizabeth 16 

Gerald, Amy 6 

Gilliland, Herbert 25, 

28 

Goldman, Jonathan 35 

Green, Dara 25 

Green, Eleanor 6 

Gries, Larry 2, 23 

Griffith, Jennifer 11 

Gross, Jeffrey 28 

Guenat, Esther 13 

Guglielmi, Luc 11 

Gunnerson, Jennifer 38 

Gupta, Sukanya 18 

H 

Halberg, Cayle 38 

Hall, Deborah 25 

Hammerman, Robin 

9, 17 

Hankins, June 6 

Hargrave, Katona 34 

Harper, Jean 1, 28 

Harrell, Willie J. 2 

Harrison, Kay 8 

Harrison, Mary-Catherine 

19 

Harrison, Russell 4 

Hart, Donna 11 

Hartwiger, Alexander 

21 

Hathikhanavala, Angela 

33 

Haven, Stephanie De 

20 

Hawkins, Ann 21, 24 

Haynes, Robert 4, 24 

Hays, William 3 

Head, Laura 16 

Heath, Erin 28 

Hecht, Roger 22, 36 

Heiman, James 12 

Heller, Jennifer 16 

Henderson, Curtis 3 

Hernandez Camacho, 

Kristie 4 

Herring, William Rodney 

38 

Hillyer, Audrey 21, 27 

Hobbs, Amy 33 

Holmgren, Lindsay 25 

Holt-Underwood, Fran 

8 

Hoover, Sara 8 

Hoskins, Betty 13, 30 

Hoskins, Robert 12, 23 

Houser, Richard 36 

Howard, Andrew 22 

Hudson, Jenise 3 

Hulse, Carol 24 

Hundemer, Ron 32 

Huneycutt, Keith 26 

I 

Iglesias, Luis 28 

Ives, Maura 24 

J 

Jackson, Chuck 27 

43

Jacobs-Beck, Kimberly 

16, 20 

James, Kedra 23 

Jeffers, Elizabeth 31 

Jenkins, Phillip 33 

Jennings, Kelly 22 

Johnsen, Heidi 9, 19 

Johnson, Lars 22 

Johnson, Margaret 13 

Johnson, Marilyn 9 

Jones, Jean 28, 33 

Jones, Lee 8 

Josephs, Kelly 19 

Juhasz, Paul 17, 31 

K 

Kakazu, Sara 28 

Kalpin, Katie 16 

Kappler, Mary 27 

Keel, Amelia 4 

Kelly, Erin 17 

Kerschbaum, Stephanie 

11 

Key, Rachel 20 

Kilgore, John 9 

Kim, Jee 26 

Kimball, Miles A. 12, 

14, 24 

Kinney, Jane 10, 20 

Kinzy, Dana 26 

Kirk, Patty 18 

Klein, Anne 26 

Kleypas, Kathryn 35 

Knippling, James 30 

Kratzke, Peter 7, 18 

Kratzke, Peter J. 32 

Kraver, Jeraldine 28 

Kraver, Jeraldine R. 32 

Kriner, Tiffany 11 

Kullman, Colby 5, 8 

L 

Langstraat, Lisa 37 

44 

Larson, Irene 20 

Lavoie, Denise 16 

Lawber, Harold 22 

Lawber, Katherine 22 

Lee, Katja 7 

Lee, Melanie 27, 35 

Leff, Aaron 37 

Lefton, Toni 37 

Leising, Gary 30 

Lentz Madison, Karen 

22, 35 

Lescure, Karen 12, 22 

Levy, Heather 28 

Levy, Walter 10 

Lewis, Elizabeth 36 

Li, Jinhua 8 

Lingle-Martin, Melissa 

14 

Linnenberg, Daniel 1 

Lipnick, Catherine 28 

Liptak, Michelle 11 

Liu, Zhanshu 1 

Long, James 11, 25 

Longaker, Mark 38 

Lund, David 38 

Lynch-Biniek, Amy 17 

Lyuba, Pervushina 5, 33 

M 

Madison, Karen Lentz 

31 

Madison, Robert 25, 28 

Maqueda, Cristina 17 

Marcovitch, Heather 1 

Markham, Leon 6 

Marshall, Richard 10 

Martin, Kirsty 17 

Mason, Daniel 2 

Mathey, Claire 36 

Mathison, Ymitri 32 

Matthews, Anne 23 

Matthews, Debra 34 

Maynard, Lee 24 

Mays, Michael 8 

McAlister, Jett 9 

McBride, William 5 

McCarthy, Sean 38 

McEvoy, Kathleen 6 

McFarland, Sarah 37 

McGavin, Daniel 7, 34 

McGraw, Ken 7 

McHenry, James 10 

McKee, Lauren 21 

McMurray, Price 20 

Meier, Joyce 19, 27 

Mendel, Jolene 16 

Mercadal-Sabbagh, 

Trudy 21 

Mercer, Linda 32 

Meyers, Douglas 28 

Meyers, Kay 33 

Micer, Dominic 14, 26 

Michna, Catherine 31 

Miller, Daisy 4 

Miller, Gail Wood 26 

Mitchell, Brooke 24 

Mitchell, Christopher 

15 

Mitchell, Rebecca 27 

Mitchell, Rick 11 

Mitchell, Ron 17, 27 

Monahan, Kathleen 32 

Montwieler, Katherine 

19 

Moody, Irene 12 

Moore, Abigail 10 

Moore, Bryan 37 

Moore, Joseph 19 

Moore, Linda 24 

Morrison, Ronald 1, 10 

Morrison, Sarah 8 

Moses, Omri 12 

Mullins, Matthew 35 

Murillo, Cynthia 36 

Myers, Elizabeth 20

N 

Naimark, Jennifer 25 

Nair, Supriya M. 29 

Nank, Christopher 26 

Neeper, Layne 1, 19 

Nelson-Born, Katherine 

4, 17 

Nester, Deborah 19 

Newsome, Billy Ray 33 

Nixon, David 7 

Noe, Mark 12 

Nolan, Charles 24 

Nordbrock, Nika 1, 36 

O 

O’Connor, Julie 23 

O’Dell, Karen Beth 20 

O’Shea, Joyce 14 

Oryschak, Breanne 5 

Osborne, Carol 3, 16 

Owen, Jim 8, 22 

P 

Paliwoda, Daniel 19 

Palmer, James 33, 36 

Papay, Twila 19 

Parekh, Pushpa 22 

Parrish, Melinda 30 

Pate, Janna 25 

Patterson, Leslie Jill 8 

Payne, Marjory 2, 23 

Peirce, Karen 27 

Pell, John 15 

Penner, Andi 1 

Pennington, Mary 15 

Peoples, Tim 5 

Peoples, Timothy 22 

Perez, Hector 4 

Pérez, Lorna 2 

Perry, Andrew 3, 12 

Pestino, Joseph 19, 26 

Peters, Sarah L. 4, 10 

Phagan, Judith 28 

Piano, Doreen 34 

Pickens, Roxane 9 

Pickens, Theri 5, 20 

Pittman, Coretta 13, 34 

Pizana, Orlando 32 

Policy, Carol 8 

Policy, Carole 33 

Pressman, Richard 12 

Pridemore, Robert 30 

Prince, Sharon 14 

Pritts, Nate 10 

Pruchnic, Jeff 25 

R 

Ramirez, Javier 28 

Ramirez-Johnson, Jennifer 

14 

Ramos, Peter 22, 26 

Ratcliffe, Sophie 34 

Rayes, Kenneth 12 

Reiner, Andrew 9 

Reiner, Martha 17 

Reitmeyer, Morgan 37 

Reitter, James 31 

Reutter, Cheli 27, 36 

Reyes, Nereida 4 

Reynolds, Alison 26 

Ribar, John 7 

Rich, Jennifer 4 

Riley-Brown, Christina 

1 

Rioux, Anne 34 

Ris, Cynthia 30 

Rist, Mary 23 

Robbins, Richard E. 3 

Rogan, Shauna 6 

Romein, Tunis 33 

Rosenblithe, Anita 26 

Rovira, James 15, 17 

Rowe, Desiree 7 

Rowe, John 19 

Rubin, Larry 27, 35 

Rudd, Mysti 7 

Rudloff, Lynn 11 

Rutherford, Eve 25 

Ryan, Emily 22 

S 

Salter, Liticia 14, 17 

Sanders, Michael 38 

Sandlin, William Scott 

15, 18 

Sanyal, Arundhati 8, 13 

Scannell, Jim 1, 7 

Schillace, Brandy 5, 

7, 12 

Schlund-Vials, Cathy 

4, 20 

Schneider, Nicole 35 

Schrems, Tracy 38 

Schulze, John 8 

Sellers, Murray 27 

Semple Siegel, Jennifer 

5, 33 

Serrano, Gabriela 17 

Sessoms, Jill 3 

Shafaee-Moghadam, 

Gloria 26, 35 

Shaffer, Jason 29 

Sharp, Judith 32 

Shiflet, Stone 7, 26 

Shoop, Eva 25 

Siedlecki, Peter 8 

Siegel, Bryna 7 

Siegel, Gerald 11, 19 

Sikorski, Grace 7 

Simmons, Merinda 26 

Skinner-Linnenberg, 

Virginia 1 

Smestuen, David 29 

Smith, Adriane 22 

Smith, Thomas 13 

Smith-Riel, Alisa 28 

Snyder, Matt 31 

Soderlund, Lars 9, 11 

Spears, Lee 14 

45

Stanlake, Christy 29 

Stanton, Judith 35 

Stelly, Tony 31 

Stevenson, Kathryn 11 

Stewart, Shannon 6 

Stone, Staci 13, 24 

Strain, Virginia 10 

Sturgeon, Elizabeth 27 

Suazo, Matthew 34 

Sullivan, Maureen 30 

Sureau, Eloise 17 

T 

Taitano, Stephanie 20 

Tarabochia, Sandra 10 

Tassi, Nina 6 

Terry, Britt 8 

Terry, Daniel 20 

Thoms-Cappello, Patrice 

10, 13 

Thorndike-Breeze, 

Rebecca 9 

Tighe, Mary 28 

Tobienne, Frank 33 

Tobin, Lad 13 

Tomsyck, Sarah 13 

Travis, Molly 25 

Tucker, Terrence 2, 5 

Turley, Eric 19 

Turpin, Cherie 7 

Twenter, Brian 24 

Tyburski, Sue 37 

U 

Urschel, Linda 28 

Utell, Janine 12 

V 

v. k., Pushpa 3 

Valcavi, Monica 30 

Valdés, Vanessa 19 

Valens, Keja 35 

Vancza, Valerie 19 

46 

Van Meter, Larry 31, 33 

Varela, Steven 25, 27 

Vecchio, Diana 16, 33 

Vellino, Brenda 16 

Viera, Joseph 12 

W 

Wagner, Jean A. 2, 3 

Walker, Ruth 27 

Wallace, David 18 

Walsh, Rachel 16 

Walter, Tiffany 7 

Ward, Michael 13 

Warren, Craig 5 

Watkins, Alison 21 

Watkins, Jim 21 

Weller, Philip 20 

Wenzell, Tim 34 

Wessling, Joseph 12 

Westphal, Richard 21, 

38 

Whalen, Brian 20 

Whiddon, Scott 2 

Whipple, Allyson 2 

White, J. A. 21 

Whiteaker, Lauren 28 

Whitfield, Pam 6 

Whiting, Melissa 25, 27 

Wiedemann, Barbara 

5, 10 

Wiegenstein, Steve 17 

Wientzen, Timothy 35 

Wilkins, Amanda 34 

Wilkinson, Melissa 18 

Williams, Elly 4, 33 

Williams, Patrick 5 

Wine, Kimberly 22 

Winter, Wendy 8 

Winterbottom, Linda 

4 

Wise, Tim 15 

Withrow, Mark 1 

Woods, Mary 16 

Wright, Mary 3 

Y 

Yake, Stanley 35 

Yerkes, Andrew 34 

Young, Judy 24 

Z 

Zipfel, William 32

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