Spring Conference Order Of Events

“Upon A Precipice”
April 16th, 2011

8:00am-8:45
Check-in & Breakfast
Reseda Room

8:45am-10:00am
Session I

Yellow Brick Road
“ LOST GIRLS and the Deconstruction of Childhood: How the Graphic Novel Acts as Feminist Agency”,
Billie Jo Mason
“If You Weren’t in That Chair: Moving Away From Binary Representations of Disability”
Loretta McCormick
“swarm 4 warm 2 morrows”,
Ruben Mendoza
Moderator: Vania Sciolini
Santa Susana Room

CounterBound
“Interpreting Marie de France’s Lais: A Genre Theory Approach”,
Linda Olson
“The Second Coming Genocide: The Iranian Regime’s Revisioning of the Holocaust”,
August Samie
“Re-Examining the Re-Examination of Nationhood in Henry V”,
Timothy Foran
Moderator: Dr. Sandra Stanley
Agoura Room

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“British Empire Upon a Precipice: The Balance of Power in Stoker’s Dracula”,
Kathryn Christolear
Heidi Morton
“The Socio-Economic Effect: How the 18th Century English Novel Dropped the ‘Reality TV’ Bomb”,
Cynthie Cuno
Moderator: Dr. Michael Bryson
Ventura Room

20/20?
“Someone To Look Out For: Supplementing the Role of the Father in the Film Stand By Me”,
Jeff Klepper
“Dangers of the Condescending Narrator: Brandon Sanderson’s Questionable Attempt at Young Adult Fiction in the Alcatraz Series”,
Alissa McGowan
“Forever Young: Vampires, Young Love, and Identity in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga”,
Jessica Glick (Presented by Mary Griffith)
Moderator: TBA
Thousand Oaks Room

10:15am-11:30am
Session II

Classic Moves
“Generation 1.5 Now Meets Platonic Theory”,
Isai Orozco and Derek Firl
“Ambiguity as an Asset: Teaching Style trough Cicero’s Three Levels”,
Margaret O’Rourke
“An Application of Stasis Theory and Its Implications for the Modern College-Comp Class”, Patricia do Carmo and Jennie Criddle
Moderator: Dr. Irene Clark
Santa Susana Room

Adjusting the Lens
“Dialogical Energy in Tristam Shandy and the 18C English Novel”,
Margeaux Aegel Gamboa-Wong
“On the Precipice of Freedom: Richardson, Fielding, and Defoe”,
Corri Ditch
“The Gothic Novel: Breaking Social Boundaries”,
Lesley Blake
Moderator: Nicole Warwick
Agoura Room

Architext
“ Postmodern Condition, Androids, and Dreams”,
Alexey Y. Dornin
“Architecture of a Maze: Traversing the Labyrinth in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves”, Jonathan Holt
“A Trail of Blood and Slime: Metaphor in A.S. Byatt’s ‘The Thing in the Forest’”,
Stephanie Fuller
Moderator: Dr. Leilani Hall
Thousand Oaks Room

Student Centered Learning
“Applied Linguistics: A Composition Teacher’s Edge”,
Michelle Mutti
“What’s in a Prompt?”,
Jada Augustine
“Engaging Students: A Study of Contract Grades and New Literacies in the Freshman Composition Class”,
Kristin Cornelius
Moderator: Professor Kathy Leslie
Ventura Room

11:45am-12:15pm
LUNCH

12:30pm-2:00pm
Keynote Address
“How Free is Free Speech” by Professor Susan Jarratt
Thousand Oaks Room

2:15pm-3:30pm
Session III

Construction Zone
“Subverting the Scene or Conforming to the Cuff? BDSM, Queering Gender, and Subverting Heterosexism”,
Rachel Jordan
“’Ala al-Din and the Magic Lamp: ‘The Other Bisexuality’ and the Root of Power”
Norma Aceves
“Now That’s a Hole: Looking at Instances of the Gaze in Asterios Polyp”,’
Sean Pessin
Moderator: Dr. Ian Barnard
Santa Susana Room

Launching Out of Space
Jessica Morrill
“On the Brink: The Deferral of Apocalypse and the Progress of the figure of the Romantic Novelist in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man”,
Cesar Soto
“Creatures of the Moment: (Un)makingsof the Combinatory Subject in William Dean Howell’s A Hazard of New Fortunes”,
Jazmin Delgado
Moderator: Dr. Ranita Chatterjee
Ventura Room

Born Identity
“Radical Subtext: The Problems and Promise of Slash Fanfiction”,
Rebecca Lawson
“A Funny Kind of English(man): Humor and the Blurring of Ethnic Boundaries in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia”,
Elizabeth Jurgensen
Karmen Gei Sets Carmen Jones Free,
Kiese Lovette Vita
Moderator: Dr. Martin Pousson
Agoura Room

3:45pm-5:00pm
Session IV

Permission to Speak
“Land of the…”
Mary Griffith
“Emancipation from Below: Disrupting the Mansfield Myth”,
Richard A Thomas
“The Trouble with Tradition in South African Xhosa Culture”,
Naomi Carrington
Moderator: TBA
Thousand Oaks Room

Social Promiscuity
“Nip/Tuck: Male Characters Caught in a Bad Bromance”,
Diana Shamiryan
“The Sketch-Book and Moulin Rouge: Defying Contemporary Convention”,
Yollotl Lopez
“It Came Straight Outta Compton: Hip Hop’s Black Power Movement”,
Christopher Bell
Moderator: Dr. Jackie Stallcup
Santa Susana Room

Original Textures
“Apertures to Apogees: The Cultural and Historical Contributions to the Development of Intermedia Writing”, Sean McIntyre
“A Thriving Publishing Industry in the Digital Age”,
John Garcia
“Intertextual Generic Memories: An Analysis of Genre in Christian Dogma”,
Tiffany Wampler
Moderator: Dr. Robert Lopez
Ventura Room

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