English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities
Fall Conference
English in the Digital Age: Developments in Language, Literacy, and Literature
October 14 and 15, 2011 Kehr Union Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Friday, October 14, 2011
Registration and Beverages, 10:30 a.m. Session 1: Friday, 11:00-12:15 p.m.
Panel A: Multimodal Creation as Political Critique in the Teaching of Writing Room 409 Panel Chair: Kristina Fennelly, Bloomsburg University Re-Designing Steichens The Great Family of Man as Politicized Art, Kuhio Walters, West Chester University Harsh Beauty, Fragmentation, Metamorphosis: Aesthetic Arguments in the Collaboration of Romare Bearden and Russell Goings, Gretchen Dietz, West Chester University We Dont Need No Thought Control: Self-authorization, Bricolage, and Garageband as Critical Pedagogy, Devon Kehler, West Chester University Panel B Technology and Institutional Support Room 410 Panel Chair: Michael Martin, Bloomsburg University Enterprise Content Management in Academic Contexts: Negotiating Institutional Support by Defining Institutional Clients, Jason Stuart, Slippery Rock University Solving the Website Problem: Implementing a Distributed Website Architecture for Academic Departments in 2011, Mike Downing, Kutztown University Hybrid: New Technology Empowering Old Methods in the Composition Classroom, Derik Robertson and Thane Clark, Brigham Young UniversityIdaho Panel C New Media and Literary Expression Room 343 Panel Chair: Stephanie Schlitz, Bloomsburg University Twittering about Twittering from the Circus of the Dead: Joe Hills Social Media Experiment, Matthew Holman, Indiana University of Pennsylvania The GIF Economy: Digital Cinephilia and the Animated GIF, Anthony C. Bleach, Kutztown University What Hollywood Liberals? Thank You for Smoking, Thank You for Smoking and the Commodification of a Conservative Text, Mark Decker, Bloomsburg University
Ballroom Lobby
Session 2: Friday, 12:25-1:40 p.m.
Panel A: Creative Writing Panel Chair: Randy Koch, Bloomsburg University In Rewind Mode, Memoir, Margo Wilson, California University of Pennsylvania Eterniday, Young Adult Fiction, John Barrett, Bloomsburg University The Midlife Crisis of Captain Invincible, Fiction, Neil Connelly, Shippensburg University
Room 409
Panel B: Digital Teaching Techniques I Room 410 Panel Chair: Ted Roggenbuck, Bloomsburg University DE for Dummies: What English Instructors Need to Know When Getting Started in Online Education, Christopher M. Kuipers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Exploring Brainstorming, Peer Review, and Collaborative Revision in a Digital Age, Kristina Fennelly, Bloomsburg University Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Literature and Writing: Collaborative Digital Bibliographies, Ellen Moll, University of Maryland Panel C: Political Critique and Colonialism in Literature Room 343 Panel Chair: Ekema Agbaw, Bloomsburg University The Tragedy of History in Michael Thelwells The Harder They Come, S. Michael McCully, Bloomsburg University Authority and Rebellion in Shakespeares The Tempest, Edward T. Washington, Mansfield University Under the Thousand Stars: Ivorian Miracles in Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubreries Aya Novels, Cynthia Leenerts, East Stroudsburg University
Session 3: Friday, 1:55-3:10 p.m.
Panel A: Identity and Place in Literature Room 409 Panel Chair: Todd Borlik, Bloomsburg University I Finally Made up My Mind that I Would . . . Let the World Take Me for What It Would: Racializing the Myth of the Self-Made Man in The Autobiography of the Ex-Colored Man, Andrew Sargent, West Chester University The Universal Flesh: Place, Disability, and Literary Ecology, Matthew J. C. Cella, Shippensburg University Christina Rossetti and Place, Todd O. Williams, Kutztown University Panel B Digital Teaching Techniques II Panel Chair: Ted Roggenbuck, Bloomsburg University Aurality and Writing: The Affordances of Voice, Moe Folk, Kutztown University Practical, Real-life English Assignments in a Digital Age, Tim Hibsman, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Visual Introductions to Print-Based Assignments, Anne Dyer Stuart, Bloomsburg University Room 410
Panel C Gender and Identity in Literature Room 343 Panel Chair: Kristina Fennelly, Bloomsburg University The Image of Woman and a Gendered Counter-Narrative in Tayeb Salihs Season of Migration to the North, Nancy Al-Doghmi, Indiana University of Pennyslvania Strikers at the Ball: Dancing as Activism in American Strike Novels, Laurie Cella, Shippensburg University Modernism and Contemporary Arab Fiction: James Joyce and Somaya Ramadan, Kim McKay, East Stroudsburg University
Session 4: Friday, 3:25 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Panel A Digital Teaching Techniques III Room 409 Panel Chair: Ted Roggenbuck, Bloomsburg University Artistic Impulse and Argumentative Writing in Web and Real Space, Elisabet Takehana, LIM College Charting Our Digital Peripheries: The Frontiers of Digital Humanities Pedagogy and Its Unlikely Pioneers, Andrew Vogel, Kutztown University Interrogating the Matrix: Teaching about Virtual Realities through Literary Study and Immersion in an Online Community, Robert Fletcher, West Chester University Panel B Research in the Digital Age Room 410 Panel Chair: Mark Decker, Bloomsburg University Shakespeares Falstaff and the Pennsylvania Cobhams, Martha Rogus, Gannon University Annotation and its Hypertexts: On the Consequences and Rhetorical Possibilities of the Digital Footnote, Ian Maness, Queens University Panel C PASSHE Outstanding English Majors Room 343 Panel Chair: Charles Babcock, Bloomsburg University Bella Swan: Leading Lady or Damsel in Distress, Kelsey Hughes-Blaum, Bloomsburg University Sham Civilization: Condemnation of Southern Gentility in Huck Finn, Cody Morgan, East Stroudsburg University "Bridging Cultures, Bridging Nations: The Brooklyn Bridge in the Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Hart Crane," Rebeckah Wright, Mansfield University
Conference Dinner, 5:00-6:45 p.m.
For those who registered for this meal in advance.
Kehr Union Ballroom 3
Keynote Address, 7:00 -8:00 p.m
Kehr Union Ballrooms 1 and 2
What Do Scholars Want? Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Registration and Continental Breakfast, 8:30 a.m. Session 4: Saturday, 9:00-10-15 a.m.
Panel A Digital Teaching Strategies for the Literature Classroom Room 409 Panel Chair: Tina Entzminger, Bloomsburg University Supplementing Papers and Exams with Student Digital Projects in Our Literature Classes, Peter Schmidt, Swarthmore College Creating an Online Introductory Literature Course to Address the Needs of the Twenty-First Century, Tiffani B. Fenstermaker, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Draculas Hypertext: Transgression, Transfusion, and New Life for the Text, Melanie Kisthardt, Immaculata University Panel B Overcoming Obstacles in Language Panel Chair: Mark Choman, Luzerne County Community College Mmm-m-my Sp-sp-speech Impediment, Nickki Campbell, Slippery Rock University Multi-Media Response to Student Writing, Jeff Sommers, West Chester University Panel C PASSHE English Department Chairs Meeting Room 410
Ballroom Lobby
Room 343
Session 5: Saturday 10:25-11:40 a.m.
Panel A Teaching Developmental and At-Risk Students Room 409 Panel Chair: Colleeen Brown, Bloomsburg University Work vs. the New Humanities: Composing with Generation Were Fucked, Jimmy Guignard, Mansfield University Taking the ArtsPath: Integrating Art in First Year English, Lynn Shelly, Indiana University of Pennsylvania The Meaning Behind the Symbol: Incorporating Critical Reading and Writing Strategies in the Math Classroom, John E. Barrett and Elena Litvinova, Bloomsburg University
Panel B Teaching Online Classes Room 410 Panel Chair: Mike Downing, Kutztown University The Price of a Platform: Considering the Importance of an Online Pedagogy, Abigail Grant, Indiana University of Pennsylvania The Place of Writing in the Online Literature Class, Joshua Kotzin, Marist College A Jing is Worth a Thousand Words: Using Screencasting to Connect with Online Students, Shauna Gobble, Northampton Community College
Panel C PASSHE Outstanding English Majors Room 343 Panel Chair: Kelsey Hughes-Blaum, Bloomsburg University "Colonialism/Imperialism: Uncovering Cultural Ignorance and Illuminating Unawareness," Kristin Solanick, West Chester University From Reaction to Transgression: The Purposes of Camp Humor in Queer Culture, Jayda Coons, Shippensburg University "Into the Void: Digital Mapping and Exploration in Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves," Brett Kyle, Lock Haven University
Conference Luncheon, 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. ,
For Outstanding English Majors and those who registered for this meal in advance.
Ballroom 3
Featuring the presentation of PASSHE Outstanding English Major Awards and Luncheon Address by David Herrstrom: Spine and Spline Ratios |or| The Greatest of These is Chance: Remarks on the Making, the Machinery, and the Ingesting of Some Hypertext Poems Session 6: Saturday, 1:40-2:55
Panel A Digital Strategies for Secondary Education Room 409 Panel Chair: Mike Sherry, Bloomsburg University Canonical and Contemporary Literary Pairings Designed to Improve Student Comprehension, Ashley Pavill, West Chester University Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences: Managing and Interpreting Information with Technology, Michael Martin, Bloomsburg University Journaling with Moodle: Connecting Middle School and Secondary Education English Students, Carissa Pokorny-Golden, Kutztown University Panel B Virtual Reality Environments Panel Chair: Christina Francis, Bloomsburg University Exploring Best Practices in 'Second Life' Virtual World Adoption, Mark Choman, Luzerne County Community College The Actual Self and the Virtual Self, Martha Rogus, Gannon University
Room 410
Panel C EAPSU Representatives Meeting Room 343
Session 7: Saturday, 3:05-4:20
Panel A Technology in Literature Room 409 Panel Chair: Elisabet Takehana, LIM College Cutting Edge Victorian Writing Technologies in Bram Stokers Dracula, Anne Delong, Kutztown University From Print to Search: Swiftian Echoes in the Digital Age, William Chad Stanley and M. Anthony Kapolka III, Wilkes University Mysticism and Passive Obedience in The Journal of John Woolman: A Reading of Language for the Digital Age, Jeffrey Hotz, East Stroudsburg University Panel B Changing Literature in the Digital Age Room 410 Panel Chair: Cynthia Leenerts, East Stroudsburg University The Park Avenue Potato Peeler Guy, Master Legend and Changing Paradigms for Long-Form Literary Nonfiction in the Digital Age, Melissa Nurczynski, Kutztown University Patchwork Processes: Technologys Reinvention of Creative Writing and Reading, Lindsey Jancay, Cedar Crest College Cannibalizing the Heart of the Poem: Web 2.0 in the Late Age of Print, Rik Goldman, Chelsea School Challenging Literacy, Expanding Conceptualisms, Calvin Pennix, Chapman University Panel C PASSHE Outstanding English Majors Panel Chair: Margo Wilson, California University of Pennsylvania "The Ability to Dream," Sara Kirkpatrick, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Meat for the Meatless, Amanda Turnbull, Clarion University foamghast, Paul Cunningham, Slippery Rock University Room 343
Conference Organizing Committee: Betina Entzminger, Chair, Ferda Asya, Mark Decker, Michael Martin, Ted Roggenbuck, Stephanie Schlitz, and Michael Sherry Special thanks to Bloomsburg University College of Liberal Arts, Bloomsburg University English Department, and the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities.