2002 Conference Proceedings:

8:00-8:35 AM:
Registration and refreshments

8:35-9:00 AM:
Welcome and opening remarks-Dr. Joanne Gass

9:00-10:30 AM:
Session 1: Eighteenth Century Britain: Pen, Press, and Tongue
Session Chair: Debra Danielsen, B.A CSUF

"The Pen, the Press and the Public Reasons for the Literary Explosion, Which Took Place in the Eighteenth-Century" Peggy Strong, Graduate Student, Cal State Fullerton

"An Eye Toward Nationalism: Samuel Johnson, Genre and Writing the Nation" Dale Katherine Ireland, M.A. Candidate, CSU Hayward

"Phatic Communion in Jane Austen's Emma" Felicia Hellman, Graduate Student CSUN

9:00-10:30 AM:
Session 2: Shakespeare and More
Session Chair: TBA

"An Apologist's Thanks to Sir Thomas More and William Shakespeare for the Characterization of King Richard III in The History of King Richard the Thirde and The Tragedy of King Richard the Third, Respectively" Janis Okerlund, Graduate Student, Cal State Fullerton

"Exploring the Greek Versus the Christian in Sir Thomas More's Utopia" Christie Shockency, Graduate Student, Cal State Fullerton

"Patronage, Identity, and the Psychology of Surveillance" Shannon Osborne Ford, Graduate Student, Cal State Fullerton

10:30-10:45:
Break

10:45-12:15 PM:
Session 3: English Medieval and Renaissance Drama
Session Chair: Theresa Freije, Rio Honda College

"Prike not yowr felicities in thingys transitorye": Anti-theatricality and the play Mankind" Scott Wood, Ph.D. Student in English, UC Riverside

"The Chorus as Metadramatic Device in Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy" Celeste Paolo, Undergraduate in English, San Jose State University

"Ambition, Blood or Lust in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi" Debra Danielsen, Graduate Student, Cal State Fullerton

12:45-12:15 PM:
Session 4: Postmodernizing the Past
Session Chair: TBA

"Restoring and Revising Wor(l)ds of Silence in J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Jean Rhys' Wide Saragasso Sea" Edahrline Salas, M.A., Cal State Los Angeles

"Babette: Jack's Mother Figure" Amber Montez, Undergraduate senior, CSUF

"The Art of Storytelling: Historical Narratives in The Fan-Maker's Inquisition" Elli England, Graduate Student, Cal State Fullerton

10:45-12:15 PM:
Session 5: Bonds and Bombs: Japanese and African Female Perspectives
Session Chair: Peggy Strong, Graduate Student, Cal State Fullerton

"Denying the Shadow, Denying the Self The Loss of Identity in Yamauchi's "Chartered Lives" Sheila Bare, Undergraduate, Cal State Northridge

"Traumatic Sites, Wounded Subjects: Re-Vision and Re-Construction in Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills Lorraine Sfeir, MA Candidate, CSLA

"Nnu Ego and Efuru: Feminist Icons?" Bryant Brislin, undergraduate, Cal State Fullerton

12:15-1:45
Lunch and guest speaker: Dr. Blaine

1:45-3:15 PM:
Session 6: Postmodernism: God is Dead and So is Nietzsche
Session Chair: Gina Rho, Graduate Student CSUF

"Premodern Postmodernism: Sacred Unknowing" Mardi Morillo, Cal State Fullerton Graduate Student

"Nietzsche and Heidegger: Forebears to Derrida and Post-Structuralism" Jeremy Kaye, Undergraduate, Cal State Fullerton

"I Am Jack's Postmodern Angst: --A Study of the Consequences of Commercial Colonization in the film Fight Club" Melissa Garcia Knoll, MA Candidate in English, CSU Fullerton

1:45-3:15 PM:
Session 7: Toni Morrison
Session Chair: Jodi Nearing, Graduate Student, CSUF

"The Progression of Toni Morrison as a Writer" Poolak Arshadi, Cal State Fullerton

"Toni Morrison's Subversion of Twentieth Century American Ideologies" Denise Kron, Graduate Student

"The Beginning of the End" Elizabeth Bobier

3:15-3:30 PM:
Break

3:30-5:00 PM:
Session 8: Sex, Violence and Money: Drama
Session Chair: Michelle Peace, B.A., CSUF

"The Fingers That Pull the Triggers: Solyony in Chekhov's Three Sisters" Brandon Floerke, Graduate Student, Cal State Fullerton

"Money Grubbing in the Works of Tennesee Williams" Clifton R. Justice, Graduate Student, CSUN

3:30-5:00 PM:
Session 9: Creative Writing
Session Chair: Melissa Garcia Knoll, Graduate Student CSUF

"…And Yet We Go on Singing" Lynn Benson, MFA candidate, San Jose State University

"Typhooned" Jorai Hunter, Graduate Student, CSUF

3:30-5:00 PM:
Session 10: Hawthorne and Melville
Session Chair: Dr. Chris Ruiz-Velasco, CSUF

"Hawthorne and the May Pole's Flowers: Merry Mount as Middle Ground" Patricia Godinez, MFA Candidate, Cal State Fullerton

"Aminadab, Aylmer, and Georgiana: The Undesirable Threesome" Gina Rho, Graduate Student, Cal State Fullerton

"Bartleby the Christ" Lisa Beaulieu, Graduate Student, Cal State Hayward

"The Following Extracts: Deposition and Riddle in 'Benito Cereno'" Scott Yates, M.A. Candidate, San Francisco State University