Practical  Criticism Midwest  Conference

 

February 8, 2008

 

Ball State University

 

Virginia Ball Center

 

 


8:15 – 8:45 a.m.

Coffee and Bagels

 

8:45 – 9:00 a.m.

            Welcome by Dr. Debbie Mix

 


9:00 – 10:15 a.m.

            Panel 1: The Body as (Sub)text

            Panel Chair:  Jill Leisgang

 

Jiena Sun (University of Indianapolis): The Role of Masquerades in Walsingham.

 

Ryan Stryffeler: Double-Bonded Construction: Gender and Otherness in Eighteenth-Century Dramatic Representations of Inkle and Yarico.

 

Kate Holterhoff (University of Cincinnati): Writing as a Therapy for Mental Illness in Michael Cunningham's "The Hours," and Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of Leaves."

 

Daniel Lewis: I saw him looking at me:  Male Bodies and the Corrective Medical Gaze in Le Fanu’s “Green Tea.”

 


10:30 – 11:45 a.m.

Panel 2:  (Sub)verting the Authoritative Text

            Panel Chair:  Rachel Baumgardner

 

Ahyicodae:  Beyond the Rose Colored Glass.

 

 

Xiaojing Cheng: What does a story really tell: The framing of news reports of a political incident in China and the U.S.

 

Alys Caviness-Gober: Hearing What’s Said: Understanding Denotation, Connotation, and Interpretation of Say Domain Words in the Written Discourse of Custody and Parenting Time Evaluations in U.S. Civil Courts.

 

Dave Miller: Exorcism by Commodity: Consumer Culture in Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost.”

 


12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.

            Lunch

 


12:45 p.m – 2:15 p.m.

Panel 3:  The Institutional (Sub)text

            Panel Chair:  Casey McArdle

 

Katy Kelly: English Evolution: A Brief Study of English Changes in Scripture Over the Ages.

 

Crystal Kidd: Education Redefined:  Examining UCC-21 Through an Isocratean View of Liberal Education.

 

Nicole Caswell: Writing and Style: Exploring the relationship between First Year Composition and personality types.

 

Yuanyuan Liao: The Professional Adjustment of ESL Teaching Assistants in College ESL Practicum:  Two Case Studies.

 

Corby Jaye Roberson: The Text and Subtext of Graduate School.

 


2:30 – 3:45 p.m.

Panel 4: Aesthetic (Sub)text

            Panel Chair:  Claire Lutkewitte

 

Casey McArdle: Theory and Practice: Romantic Rhetoric and the Artist.

 

Jill Leisgang: Reading between the Lines: Narrative Manipulation in Charlotte Bronte's Villette.

 

Belinda Wheeler (IUPUI): Resisting Categorization:  Lola Ridge's Socially Engaged Poetry.

 

Jessica Millis:  Taylor’s Stories.

 


4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

            Keynote Speaker: Dr. Désiré Baloubi

 

5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.

            Best Paper Award

Presented by Dr. Lauren Onkey

           

Closing Remarks by Dr. Kecia McBride

 

5:15 p.m.

            Wine and Cheese Reception

 

5:45 p.m.

Doggerel Contest: Dr. Robert Habich

 

 

Committee Members:

 

David DiSarro

 

Carolyn Jones

 

Rachel Baumgardner

 

Casey McArdle

 

Karen Neubauer

 

Claire Lutkewitte

 

Jill Leisgang

 

Angela Castro

 

Special Thanks To:

 

Dr. Mix

 

Dr. McBride

 

Dr. Onkey

 

Dr. Trimmer

 

Dr. Habich

 

Dr. Baloubi

 

The English Department

 

BSU Copy Center

 

BSU Catering

 

 


February 8, 2008

 

The English Department at Ball State University welcomes you to the 18th annual Practical Criticism Midwest Conference!

 

Practical Criticism Midwest is a department-wide intellectual show-and-tell, a chance for graduate students in the department, as well as students from other university graduate programs, to get involved with colleagues and to share professional presentations.  After all, encouraging one another to share ideas, current research, and recent writings is what graduate study is all about.

 

A conference such as this allows all of us to introduce others to what were thinking, to experience the research of our colleagues, and to facilitate crucial feedback on what we’ve done.

 

We hope you’ll enjoy your time at the Virginia Ball Center.

 

                        -The PCM Committee