Writing the Wave at UNCW on April 19th, 2008.
UNCW GEA Conference Schedule
Friday April 18, 2008
7:00-8:00 Private meet & greet with slam poets Paul D & Gina Loring (w/appetizers)
Clock Tower Lounge
8:00-11:30 Poetry Jam public performance by Paul D and Gina Loring
Sponsored by ACE Springfest
Warwick Center Ballroom
Saturday April 19, 2008
10:00-10:30 Registration (breakfast provided)
10:30-11:30 Shifty Readings in American Literature - Sunset Beach Room
Moderator: Dr. Keith Newlin
- William Dever, Governors State University – “Restoring the Universal: Roth’s Use of Anthology in His Zuckerman Trilogy”
- Jessica Puzzo, UNC Wilmington – “Contradictions, Madness, and Denial: Rationalizing Madness in Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’”
- Melinda A. Hollis, University of Southern Florida – “The Possibility of a Paradigm Shift: Charting Changes and Formations of New Approaches to U.S. Southern Literature”
Caught in a Net: Literary Hodgepodge - Bald Head Island Room
Moderator: Dr. Lewis Walker
- Daniel Parsons, N.C. State University – TBA
- Justine Mikaloff, UNC Wilmington – “For Her Majesty’s Worship: Paralleled Love Triangles in Malory’s ‘Tale of Sir Tristram’”
- Karl McKimpson, UNC Wilmington – “Wise Wives: Kate’s Final Speeches to Henry VIII and in The Taming of the Shrew”
11:30-12:30 Changing Tides: Terminological Trends – Sunset Beach Room
Moderator: Dr. Michelle Manning
- Daniel Lawson, Virginia Tech – “Terminological Trends: Use of the Term ‘Identity’ in Composition Studies”
- Amy Reed, Virginia Tech – “Terminological Trends: The Concept of ‘Tacit Knowledge’ in Composition Studies”
- Brian Gogan, Virginia Tech – “Terminological Trends: Rhythms of ‘Reciprocity’ and the Changing Tide of Composition Studies”
Ain’t No Party Like a Westside Party: The Writing Center - Bald Head Island Room
Moderator: Will Wilkinson
- Jon Schneiderman, Indiana University of Pennsylvania – “Technology and Writing Centers: The Evolution of Online Writing Labs”
- Jessica Puzzo and David H. Bowman, UNC Wilmington – “Roads Converging: Approaching Differences in Subject Tutoring and Writing Centers”
12:30-2:00 Lunch on your own
2:00-3:00 Rockin’ the Boat: Cultural Studies - Sunset Beach Room
Moderator: Dr. Meghan Sweeney
- Nick Crawford, UNC Wilmington – “‘Beyond the Maps of Language’: Reconsidering Don DeLillo’s Rock Novel”
- Sean Kelly, Virginia Tech – “The Rise of Richard Wright’s Black Superhero”
- David H. Bowman, UNC Wilmington – “Prophet and Profit: The Portrayal of the Jew in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda”
Plunging to the Depths of Modernism - Bald Head Island Room
Moderator: Dr. Kathy Rugoff
- Aimee Wilson, UNC Wilmington – “The Fall of Mr. Duffy: Paradise Lost and ‘A Painful Case’”
- Tom Sowders, UNC Wilmington – “‘Her Head between His Hands’: Sexist Possession in Swann in Love and ‘The Dead’”
- Karlie Herndon, UNC Wilmington – “Character Come to Life: The Kafkaesque and Yukio Mishima as an Incarnation of Franz Kafka’s Works”
3:00-4:30 Words from Offshore: Creative Trends - Sunset Beach Room
Moderator: Dr. Colleen Reilly
- Joseph Telegen, Western Carolina University – “Adventures in Not Reading Heart of Darkness”
- Jacki Booth, UNC Wilmington – “The Art of Teaching: A T.A.’s Journey from the Stage to the Classroom and Back Again”
- Michelle Billman, UNC Wilmington – “Today’s Memoir”
- Chad Martin – “All Jesters’ Folly” (fiction)
Deep-Sea Exploration: Bending the Word-Image – Bald Head Island Room
Moderator: Dr. Tony Atkins
- John Paul Walter, Saint Louis University – “Old Practices and New Literacies: Composing with Words and Images”
- Jeremy Smyczek, UNC Wilmington – “That Dog Won’t Hunt: Voyage of the Beagle and Darwin’s Rhetoric of Renunciation”
- Betsy Cutler, Virginia Tech – “Places and Trends: Rhetorical and Visual Waves in Composition”
- Drew Virtue, UNC Wilmington – TBA
4:30-6:00 Keynote Address: “No Wild Idea Left Behind: Media Mutations and the Teaching of Writing and Literature,” Dr. Daniel Anderson, UNC-Chapel Hill – Wrightsville Beach Room
7:00-until Post-conference gathering at Jeremy Smyczek’s house
605 Church St. – BYOB and something to grill
If you have questions, contact Jeremy at 910-228-9636
Other Conference Opportunities
Several sites track various types of up-coming conferences and calls for papers.
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- University of Pennsylvania Call for Papers Website
- UPenn no longer mass-email’s its CFP and must be checked periodically, but remains one of the best sources for CFP’s.
- South Atlantic Modern Language Association
- 15th Annual British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference
- AllConferences.com
- Academic Keys
- EServer CFP
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