Schedule of Events

8:00 - 8:45 Registration and Breakfast

Golden Eagle Ballroom

8:45 - 9:00 Welcome Address

Dr. Hema Chari, Graduate Student

Association Advisor

9:00 - 10:45 Session One (details) Music Building

· Redrawing and Redefining Identities: Gender, Class, and Sexuality

· Language and Racial Identity: Negotiating the (Multi)Ethnic Self

· The Cinematic Gaze: Genres, Adaptation, and Myth

· How To Read New Narratives: Redefinitions of Meaning

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:00 Dr. Harryette Mullen - Keynote Address

Golden Eagle Ballroom

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

Golden Eagle Ballroom

1:00 - 2:45 Session Two (details) Music Building

· Poetry and Poetics: Creative Writers Reading Their Works

· Reflections on Feudal Justice, Fate, and Temperament

· Democracy, Empowerment, and Literacy

· Heidegger, Freud, Fanon, and Foucault: Entering the Discourse

2:45 - 3:00 Break

3:00 - 4:45 Session Three (details) Music Building

· Nature, Passion, and Creation: Bridging the Sentiments ofthe 18th and 19th Centuries

· Women, Love, and Matrimony: Issues of Agency

· Imperialism, Language, and Colonial Fantasies

4:45 Reception

Music Department Courtyard

Session One: 9:00 - 10:45 (back to top)

Redrawing and Redefining Identities: Gender, Class, and Sexuality

Moderator: Edahrline Salas                                                 Music 109

·       Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus: Fevvers' Subversive Laughter

Andrea Quaid ( California State University , Los Angeles )

·       Gender Redefined In The Story of An African Farm

Dominga Estrada ( California State University , East Bay )

·       Negotiating Patriarchies and Colonial Desires: The Problem of Female Authorship in J.M. Coetzee's Foe

Jessica Magallanes ( California State University , Los Angeles )

·       The Assertion of True Womanhood: Sexuality, Intellect and Identity in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women

Lindsay Nemetz ( California State University , Los Angeles )

The Cinematic Gaze: Genres, Adaptation, and Myth

Moderator: Hasmik Barsamian                                       Music 110

·       The Maltese Example: Gambits and Discoveries

Matt Bernstein ( California State University , Northridge)

·       Mad Market: Commodification of Ophelia through Madness in Three Film Adaptations

D. Star Costello ( California State University , Los Angeles )

·       Thomas Berger's Little Big Man: Deconstructing Hollywood's American Western Mythology

Ryan Bacchia ( California State University , Sacramento )

Nature, Passion, and Creation: Bridging the Sentiments of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Moderator: Amy Tahani                                                                           Music 113

·       Frankenstein: The Creation of a Delinquent Scientist

Miguel Ramon ( California State University , Los Angeles )

·       In Defense of Passion

Catherine Cooper ( California State University , Los Angeles )

·       Fictional French Foliage: Gardens in St. Pierre 's Paul and Virginia and Hugo's Les Misérables

Kristen Dedeaux ( California State University , Chico )

How To Read New Narratives: Redefinitions of Meaning

Moderator: Rosemarie Banich                                        Music 114

·       Unreadable Type: The Individual as Text in Poe's "The Man of the Crowd"

Shane Billings ( California State University , Hayward )

·       Beauty, Influence, James Wright and B.H. Fairchild

Andrew Huffine ( California State University , Los Angeles )

·       H.D. and Frost in the Underworld

Susan Johnson ( California State University , Fullerton )

Session Two: 1:00 - 2:45 (back to top)

Poetry and Poetics: Creative Writers Reading Their Works

Moderator: Lindsay Nemetz Music 109

· Deca(thexis)

Jeffrey Neale ( California State University , Los Angeles )

· Concrete Fields

Michael Whitlow ( California State University , Los Angeles )

· Organisms

Otis Bardwell ( California State University , Los Angeles )

Reflections on Feudal Justice, Fate, and Temperament

Moderator: Amanda Ryan-Romo Music 110

· Chasing the Evasive Beast: The Problem with Hunting in Malory's Morte Darthur

D. B. Emerson ( California State University , Long Beach )

· Son and Shadow: Mordred's Place within Malory's Morte Darthur

Kara Larson ( California State University , Long Beach )

· Dysfunctional Humours: Palomydes' Melancholy in Malory's Morte D'Arthur

Molly Mraz ( California State University , Long Beach )

· Using Language: Hieronimo's Search for Justice

Teresa Brandt ( California State University , East Bay )

Democracy, Empowerment, and Literacy

Moderator: Lise Buranen Music 113

· A Call to Action: Embedding Critical Literacy in Functional Literacy

Meghan Chen ( California State University , Los Angeles )

· Shared Meaning

Suzanne Kroeze ( California State University , San Jose )

· What's a Man to Do? Melville's Delineation of Citizenship and Responsibility in America

Jim Coleman ( California State University , Los Angeles )

· "Ah, humanity!": A Sentimental Critique of Capitalism in Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall, Louisa May Alcott's Work, & Herman Melville's "Bartleby the

Scrivener" and "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids"

Joseph Vasquez ( California State University , Los Angeles )

Imperialism, Language, and Colonial Fantasies

Moderator: Andrea Quaid Music 114

· Excavation or Stratification?: The Use of Palimpsest in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh

Christopher Rager ( California State University , Los Angeles )

· The Exotic Fantasy Realized: Colonialist Rhetoric in Travel Advertisements

Christina Grunkemeyer ( California State University , Fullerton )

· Alice and That Confounded Language of Imperialism

Steven Avalos ( California State University , Los Angeles )

· Second Star to the Right and Straight Through to Another Colony: Peter Pan as an Imperialist Text

Shana Scherzer ( California State University , Los Angeles )

Session Three: 3:00 - 4:45 (back to top)

Language and Racial Identity: Negotiating the (Multi)Ethnic Self

Moderator: Lorraine Sfeir Music 109

· A Dream Deferred: An Exploration of the Absence of Values in Nella Larson's Passing

Lisa Fox ( California State University , Los Angeles )

· "We Cannot Eat Lies": Implicit Warnings in Black Elk Speaks

Sean Smith ( California State University , Long Beach )

· Small And Selfish: The Moral Choice Of The Narrator In James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography Of An Ex-Coloured Man

Megan McNamara ( California State University , Los Angeles )

· The Role of Mestizaje in Julia Alvarez' How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents

Carlos Centeno ( California State University , Fullerton )

Women, Love, and Matrimony: Issues of Agency

Moderator: Jessica Magallanes Music 110

· "The Marriage of True Minds": Cunningham's Representation of Love in The Hours

Hasmik Barsamian ( California State University , Los Angeles )

· Abjection and Agency in Rebecca West's "Indissoluble Matrimony"

E. Brookes Little ( California State University , Long Beach )

· Women Emerging from Behind Bars: Female Space in the American Realist Short Story

Steven Shane ( California State University , Long Beach )

Heidegger, Freud, Fanon, and Foucault: Entering the Discourse

Moderator: Kathleen Klompien Music 113

· "A Sense Sublime": Explicating Authentic Self in William Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"

Sacha Moore ( California State University , Fullerton )

· Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Professional Ambition

Melanie Hernandez ( California State University , Dominguez Hills)

· I, Plurality, Reflection in a Colonial Mirror: An ~~Essentialist~~ Examination of Psychoexistential Complex Theory

Shilita Montez ( California State University , Long Beach )

· The Continuity of Foucault's Discontinuity: Doing Things with Foucault versus Doing Useful Things with Foucault

Chad Tsuyuki ( California State University , Long Beach )

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Significations 2005

· Gender Redefined In The Story of An African Farm

· In Defense of Passion

· Unreadable Type: The Individual as Text in Poe's "The Man of the Crowd"

· Shared Meaning

· Alice and That Confounded Language of Imperialism

· Women Emerging from Behind Bars: Female Space in the American Realist Short Story