8:00am-8:30am
Welcome / Breakfast Reception Room: Gabrieleno
8:30am-10:00am -- Session 1
Early Modern Human Fashioning -- location: Ontiveros A
Session Chair: John Baker
"Emotional Manipulation"-Larry Chapa, Undergraduate, CSU Fullerton
"The Cost of Gender Superiority: Lanyer and Milton's Portrayals of Eve"-Susan Johnson, Graduate Student, CSU Fullerton
"You Don't Know Jack": Patronage, Persona, and the Creation of Self- Shannon Osborne Ford, MA. Candidate, CSU Fullerton
Cultural Identity and Voice -- location: Ontiveros B
Session Chair: Trangdai Tranguyen
"John Keats, Quasi-Philosopher" - Marc Cohen, Graduate Student, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
"Actions Explained: Joe Trace in Terms of Heinz Kohut's Self Psychology"- Katie L. Johnson, Graduate Student, CSU Sacramento
"There but for the Grace of Her, Go I: The Sisterhood of Survival as Portrayed in
Song of Solomon and The Color Purple"-Marsha Schnirring, Undergraduate,
CSU Fullerton
10:30am-10:45am -- Transition and Break
10:45am-12:15pm -- Session 2:
Creative Writing location: Ontiveros A
Session Chair: Susan Johnson
Poem -- "Progress" -Curt Neilsen
An excerpt from the novel Aero Redeemed-Bryant Brislin, Undergraduate,
CSU Fullerton
An excerpt from the short story "A Story of Thursday and Friday"-
Matthew D'Abate, CSU Fullerton
Theory and Culture -- location Ontiveros B
Session Chair: Gina Rho
"New Criticism and Marxist Theory: Suppression vs. Liberation"-
Kirsten Marie Clemens, Undergraduate
"The Rhetorical Vision of the Beatles"-Christie Shockency,
Graduate Student, CSU Fullerton
"Dupin, Derrida and Lacan: Analyzing the Analysts' Analyses"-
M.A. Arce, Graduate Student, CSU Hayward
12:15pm-1:30pm -- Lunch and Keynote Speaker: Dr. Scott McClintock, CSU Fullerton
"Is LA a 'Real' Woman? John Rechy's Queering of the Chicano Literary Canon"
Scott McClintock has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, from the University of California, Irvine. Currently he is a Lecturer in the Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics at Cal State Fullerton, has been a Visiting Assistant Professor in English at Loyola Marymount University and has taught at many area colleges and universities. Forthcoming publications include "The 'Matter of Being Expatriots': Hemingway, Cuba, and Inter-American Literary Study" (in Hemingway's Cuban Fiction, Kent State Univ. Press), "In the Penal Colony" (in Comparative Literature Studies), "Geography of Difference: The Changing Image of Bombay in Salman Rushdie's Fiction" (in South Asian Review). Publications i(with Frederick Fornoff) include "La Poetica de Ausencia en Laureano ALban" (Revista Iberoamericana) and Introduction to Laureano ALban, Enciclopedia de Maravillas.
1:45-3:15pm -- Session 3:
Desiring Beyond Gender -- location: Ontiveros A
Session Chair: Melissa Garcia Knoll
"Power from Desire: Homosocial Desire in Porter's Flowering Judas"-
Sheila Bare, Undergradute, CSU Northridge
"Jake Barnes and his 'Damned Good-Looking Boy': Homoerotic Desire
in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises"-Gina Rho, Graduate Student
(M.A. Candidate), CSU Fullerton
"Mimicking Masculinity: Catherine's Sexual-Crossing"-Amber Montez,
Graduate Student, CSU Fullerton
Perceiving Tragedy -- location: Ontiveros B
Session Chair: Anita D. Buers
"The world as we try to know it: Cambyses, Tamburlaine, and Titus Adronicus
Challenge audience perceptions of how each dramatic world works"-
Lead D. Lovison, Graduate Student, CSU Pomona
"Shakespeare Sails on the Pequod"-Tony Luu, PhD Student, UC Riverside
"Embodied Absence" and the Tragedy of The Catcher in the Rye-
Lynn Benson, MFA Candidate, San Jose State University
The Arsenal of Female Power -- location: Ontiveros C
Session Chair: Peggy Strong
"Weapons of the Strong; Weapons of the Weak: Degradation and the Gender
of Power in Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"-
Jason M. Taylor
"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle"-Georgeanne Bollinger
"Reflections of the Virgin/Prostitute Dichotomy in Latina Literature"-
Erin Delaney, Undergraduate, CSU Northridge
3:15pm-3:30pm -- Transition and Break
3:30pm-5:00pm -- Session 4:
Politics and Cultural Insanity -- location: Ontiveros A
Session Chair: Amber Montez
"The Prefigure Of
Postmodern Shadow: Dialogism, Discourse, and Narrative Structure In Hemingway's In Our Time" -- Shree Rajan, Graduate Student, CSU Fullerton
"Quiet Imperialism"-Ryan Campbell
"Saint Pauline the Psychopath: A Study of Insanity Induced by Colonization-
Melissa Garcia Knoll, M.A.
"Anarchist Miracles In The Crying Of Lot 49: The Anti-Magical Realist Pogrom
And The Mysteries Of Smoking In Bed"-Brian Johnson, Graduate Student,
CSU Chico
