Friday, 16 October 2009
8:30 - 9:15 Refreshments and Registration
Merrifield Hall, 3rd Floor
Session A
9:15-10:30 a.m.
Panel 1
Room 311
Chair: Christine Grossman
1. Margaret Bail, Western Connecticut State University:
Inversion and Contrasting Pairs in Much Ado about Nothing
2. Christopher Gust, University of North Dakota: In and Out upon Occasion:
Subversion and Submission in Munday's Oldcastle
Panel 2
Room 312
Chair: David Godfrey
1. Charlotte Klesman, University of North Dakota:
Impact of Imbedded Culture
2. Gary Albrightson & Mike Porter, Dakota College: Assessing Critical
Thinking in Classroom Discussion
Panel 3
Perspectives on Online Teaching & Delivery in Foreign Languages
Room 313
Chair: Michelle M. Sauer
1. Steve Schmidt, University of North Dakota:
Online Learning and Teaching of First-Year Foreign Languages
2. Debra Maury, University of North Dakota: Out of the Classroom and into
Cyberspace: One Professor's Journey into Online Spanish Literature and Culture
3. Jane Sims, University of North Dakota: Support Tools and Resources for
Online Courses in Foreign Languages Curricula
10:30 Coffee and refreshments
Session B
10:45-12:00
Panel 4
Creative Writing Pedagogical Strategies for theWriting Classroom
Room 311
Chair: Christopher Gust
1. Christine Grossman, North Dakota State University:
A Nudge of the Elbow: Creative Writing Pedagogy Practices for First-Year Writing
2. Stashenko Hempeck, North Dakota State University: Wink, Wink, Nudge,
Nudge, Say No More, Say No More: Male Instructors' Impacts on Updating Creative
Writing Pedagogy for First-Year Writing
3. Heather Steinmann, North Dakota State University: Creative Processes
for Composition [NOTE: CANCELLED]
Panel 5
We Shall Remain:
Dakota Language and Tribal Culture
from the Past,
in the Present, & to the Future
Room 312
Chair: Kathryn Nedegaard
1. Bruce Maylath, North Dakota State University: Coming
Full Circle Linguistically: The Critical Role of the LCMND in Preserving North
America's Indigenous Languages (Case in Point: Dakota)
2. Clifford Canku (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota), North Dakota State University:
Historical Context of Dakota Prisoner of War Letters of 1862-1868
3. John Peacock (Spirit Lake Dakota), Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore:
Translation, Colonization, and Decolonization
Panel 6
Room 313
Chair: Courtney Waid
1. David A. Godfrey, Jamestown College: That Hollow
Unreality, ‘Man': The Education of Odo Valescca in Edith Wharton's The
Valley of Decision
2. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, University of North Dakota: The Settler Saga,
Guilt and White Victimhood in 19th-Century South African and Australian Novels
3. Johnny Coomansigh, Minot State University: Yes, Darling & the Manicou Man:
a Description of Masculine Labels Embedded in the Oral Traditions of Trinidadian
Society
12:00-1:15
Lunch
(on your own)
Session C
1:15-2:30 p.m.
Panel 7
Room 311
Chair: Amina Escalera
1. Amina Escalera, Minot State University: Qui a tué
Don Juan? Parcours du mythe a travers quelques oeuvres canoniques
2. Vincent Schonberger, Lakehead University: La problématique de l'écriture
chez Gabrielle Roy
3. Mélanie Curé, University of Manitoba: Enracinement or déracinement:
La culture de la mémoire chez J. R. Léveillé
Panel 8
Room 312
Chair: Maila Zitelli
1. Pat Lomire, Minot State University: The Art of
Perestroika: The Mythology, Virtual Reality and Political Technology of a Pop
Culture Concept
2. Courtney Waid, North Dakota State University: Media Exposure, Perceptions
of the Quality and Credibility of Media Crime Coverage, and Students' Punitive
Attitudes [Note: Co-authors, Tara O'Connor Shelley, Colorado
SU & Rhonda R. Dobbs, UTexas, Arlington]
Panel 9
Room 313
Chair: Andrea Donovan
1. Lori Newcomb, Wayne State University: Liminality,
Communitas and Capitalism in Paul Auster's Mr. Vertigo
2. Sarah Aleshire, Minot State University: Between No Future & Year Zero:
The Ever-Present of the Nomad Punk
3. Eric Furuseth, Minot State University: When Humorists Meet the Working
World: The Personal Essays of Martin Amis and Ian Frazier
Session D
2:45-4:00 p.m.
Panel 10
Room 311
Chair: Lori Newcomb
1. Mark Brown, Jamestown College: A Succession of
Nameless Beauties: A Pedestrian Approach to Tintern Abbey
2. Andrea Donovan, Minot State University: Percy Bysshe Shelley Re-Invented
Through Historical Fiction: Variant Facts, Fictions, and Perceptions
3. Sylvia Brown, Denison University: When Objects Speak: Sherlock Holmes and
the Power of the Conjuring Detective
Panel 11
Room 312
Chair: Johnny Coomansigh
1. Stephan Jaeger, University of Manitoba: Historical
Simulations of the Collective Civilian War Experience
2. Margaret Sherve, Minot State University: It's the Same, But Different:
Creating Home in New Place
3. John Morrow, Minot State University: North Dakota: The Hispanic Heritage
Panel 12
Room 313
Chair: Margaret Bail
1. Rick Watson, Minot State University: The Myth of
the Historical Jesus: When Language Fails
2. Maila Zitelli, Minot State University: All Joking Aside: Manfred Beier's
Maria Morzeck (1969) Exposes Anna Segher's Excursion of the Dead Girls
(1943) as a Parody of Leonid Anreev's The Red Laugh (1904)
3. Gaby Divay, University of Manitoba: Sebastian Brant's Narrenschiff
(1494) at the University of Manitoba: Dysart Collection No. 22, the 1497 Latin
ed. & one of sixteen UM Incunabula (PPt Presentation)
4:10 Break
4:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Merrifield 300
Lisa Weston
California State University, Fresno
Wax Knows No Shame:
Literacy and the (Re)Gendering of Early Medieval Bodies
6:30 DINNER
L'Bistro
CanadInn
1000 South 42nd Street
NOTE: Menu options
available, ranging from $16 to $29 [excluding wine]
Saturday, 17 October 2009
8:30 - 9:15 Refreshments
Merrifield Hall, 3rd floor
Session E
9:15-10:30 a.m.
Panel 13
Room 311
Chair: Gaby Divay
1. Natalie LaFleur, University of Manitoba: Le rôle
de la parole dans Jacques le fataliste de Denis Diderot
2. Maria Pentrelli Cotroneo, Université Laval: Pouvoir du langage:
langage littéraire, langage filmique
3. Armelle St. Martin, University of Manitoba: Altérité et superstitions
religieuses dans Les Voyages du Père Labat
Panel 14
Saints & Would-Be Saints
Room 312
Chair: Laura Ashburn
1. Michele Willman, University of North Dakota: Pilgrimage
and Personal Sovereignty: Margery Kempe's Negotiations in Her Journeys to the
Holy Land
2. Michele L. Kozloski, University of North Dakota: A Confessor's Control:
Raymond of Capua's Construction and Exploitation of St. Catherine of Siena
3. Emily Hill, University of North Dakota: Ordination through Holy Vision:
Saint Juliana of Mt. Cornillion and Her Quest for the Feast of Corpus Christ
10:30 Coffee and refreshments
Session F
10:45-12:15
Panel 15
Anchoritic Spirituality
Room 311
Chair: Emily Hill
1. Andrea Stevenson, University of North Dakota: (Un)Fit
for Virgin Ears: Representations of Sex in Anchoritic Literature
2. Jessica Short, University of North Dakota: Writing for the Woman: Gender-Specific
Language in Sawles Warde
3. Betsy Jenson, University of North Dakota: The Anchorhold: Heaven or Hell?
A Spatial Paradox
Panel 16
Room 312
Chair: Adam Kitzes
1. Bethany Brevik, Independent Scholar: A Formula
for Love: Exploring Feminist Ideals in Contemporary Romance
2. Heather Jackson, University of North Dakota: Anarcha-Feminism, Mutual Aid,
and Support: Providing Childcare within Radical Communities and Other Events
3. Christopher Lozensky, Independent Scholar: Nothing Ended, Nothing Begun,
Nothing Resolved: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Brokeback Mountain
Panel 17
Room 313
Chair: Stephan Jaeger
1. Abigail Gaugert & Erik
Kornkven, North Dakota State University: The Thing about Language Is That
It Doesn't Always Make Sense: Understanding the Nonstandard Reduplicative Copula
'Is Is'
2. Robert E. Kibler, Minot State University: Visual Arrythmia and Transcendental
Aesthetics in Ezra Pound's Asian Sources and Cantos
3. Alexandra Glynn, North Dakota State University: Vanity Fair and
the Rhetoric of Kindness
Saturday 17, 2009
12:15-1:45 p.m.
Lunch and Business Meeting
Merrifield 300
Session G
1:45-3:15 p.m.
Panel 18
Gendered Voices in the Pre-Modern World
Room 311
Chair: Jessica Short
1. Laura Ashburn, University of North Dakota: Rejecting
Femininity: The Ambiguous Line to the Divine
2. Kathryn A. H. Nedegaard, University of North Dakota: Recovering Sexus
Minor: Aristocratic Christian Women in the Patristic Era
3. Christopher Shaw Gust, University of North Dakota: You Can Take It
with You: Imaginings of the Post-Mortem Body in High Medieval Ghost Folklore
Panel 19
Room 312
Chair: Robert Kibler
1. Jacqueline Rogers, University of Winnipeg:
Why Am I Writing about Myself in the University? Teaching Narrative Inquiry/First
Person Narrative
2. Brandy T. Wilson, Minot State University: My Space Is My [lesbian] space.com:
Finding a Space for Lesbian Identity & Lesbian Community on the Web
