Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media
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Keynote Speakers
David Bevington
Russ Castronovo

Conference Schedule 

We have allowed an hour and a half for each panel
(twenty minutes for each presenter, a fifteen-minute question-and-answer session, and passing time).

All panels will be held in the Holmes Student Center and Hotel.

Friday, 29 February 2008

                                                         A                                B                             C                               D        

1-2:30 p.m.

Argamon / Chung

Kordecki / Koskinen

Mehdizadeh

Early Modern (Re)Constructions of Gender
Chair: D. Phares
Dittman

Jardine

Moore

Simpkins

Blackness in America
Chair: K. Turner

Ingram

Tyler

Van Amerongen

The Operation of the Father Figure in Three Contemporary Utopias
Chair: S. Erickson

Adair

Barko

Hodnik

Outsiders Coming Home to America
Chair: A. Smith-Riel


1

2:30-4

Baab

Banerjee

Erickson

Postcolonialism Revisits the Classics
Chair: R. Self
Canavan

King

Smith-Reil

Women as Objects and the Complexities of their relationships in Fitzgerald, O’Connor, and Morrison
Chair: K. Gandal

Bosse

Ryan

Scott Wade

The Textual Music of Modernism
Chair: C. Barko


Beier

Ramert

Toms

Bibliographic Concerns in the Early Modern Travelogue
Chair: D. Gorman


2

4-5:30

Benson

Hatcher

Loynes

New Media and Civic Discourse
Chair: J. Reyman

Demske

DiSanto 

Wachal

Genderscapes
Chair: D. Swanson

Hooks

Pipes

Thomson-Gillis

The Politics of Racial Representation in Emancipation Era African American Publications
Chair: D. DeRosa

Bradford

Clancy

Schuetze

Commodification and Pollution in Postcolonial Morality
Chair: D. Sweet

3

5:30-7:00

Kingery

Knight

Theune

Interest and Motive in Textual Studies
Chair: D. Gorman

Damsz

Gemmel

R. Miller

Petrovic

Media Stories
Chair: C. Lindner

Inbody

Al-Ghalith


Nowocin


Phares

The Early Modern Female World
Chair: L. Schlosser

Guyant

Park

Phillips

Scott

Narratives of Gender Subversion
Chair: C. Blankenship

4                  

7:00

Kickoff Reception

Altgeld Hall

 

 

 

8:00                 

Russ Castronovo Keynote Address

Altgeld Hall

 

                                   

                                      

 

Saturday, 1 March 2008

                                                             A                                B                           C                             D

7-9:00 a.m.

Breakfast

Holmes Student Center, Room 305

 

 

 

9-10:30

Barnes

DiSanto

Macdonald

Shakespeare from Stage to Screen
Chair: A. Bennett

Elliot

Hageland

Peckham

Thirdspace: Redemption and Reconciliation
Chair: B. Peters

Fuchs

Traisnel

Valenti

Sagas of American War
Chair: R. Holtz


5

10:30-12:00

Farmer

Hipskind

McCollum

Conversations about Race
Chair: T. Ryan

Manakin

Al-Momani

Pennie

Contrastive Lexicology and Discourse Analysis
Chair: G. Aygen

Bajorek

Baxter

Woods

Facades and Performativity in Media Studies
Chair: M. Day

DiSanto

Haslem

Lambert

Shakespearean Contexts: the Theatre, the Street, the Critics 
Chair: D. Macdonald

6

12-1 p.m.

Lunch

Holmes Student Center, Room 305

 

 

 

1-2:30

Brittenham

Foland

Schooley

Politics in the Media
Chair: P. Eubanks

Etlinger

Jiang

Volkova

Indirect/In-Between Approaches to the Victorian Text
Chair: W. Baker

Fajardo

Jennings

Lockett

Mapping Africa/America
Chair: L. Kind

Gwinner

Sorgun

Turner

Space and Thirdspace
Chair: J. Giles

7

2:30-4

Bailey

Holland

Williams

The Early Modern Virgin/Whore Dynamic
Chair: I. Gomez-Vega

Brovelli

Kranz

Mills

Gender Directives of Medieval Romance
Chair: N. Clifton



Edwards

Hayes

Kolkey

The Political Romantics
Chair: J. Einboden



Johnston

Scheutze

Sears

Inversion, Reversion, Perversion: Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Chair: M. Van Wienen

8

4-5:30

Hendrickson

Klomp

Konkle

Thomas-Brashier

Royalty, the State, and Power in Shakespeare
Chair: C. Foland

Hipp

B. Miller

Rzepka

Stevenson

Taking a Second Look: Twentieth-Century Textual Hybridity
Chair: I. Gomez-Vega

Hatcher

Jonnes

Markle

Scott Wade

Family and Class Struggles in Modernism
Chair: J. V. Knapp

Cowgill

Lutz

Pickering

Taylor

Examination of Dominant Traits in Postmodern Literature
Chair: P. Petrovic

9

6:00

Dinner

Altgeld Hall

 


 

7:00

David Bevington Keynote Address

Altgeld Hall

 

 

 



The keynote speakers are sponsored in part by the Graduate Colloquium.
MCLLM is sponsored by the Graduate English Department of Northern Illinois University.