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Sigma Tau Delta Convention Schedule Please note that the program had to be sent to the printer. If there are any additional scheduling requests or conflicts, please notify the convention organizers at [email protected] and accommodations will be made on-site at the convention. Due to the large number of concurrent sessions, each session was assigned either a faculty moderator or a student chair to introduce presenters and facilitate audience discussion. ACT I: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 Opening Ceremony Wednesday, March 17 7:00-7:30 p.m. Regency EF Masters of Ceremony: William Johnson, Northern Illinois University (IL) & Robert Crafton, Slippery Rock University (PA) Attend the Opening Ceremony of the convention where you will get to meet and greet other STD chapters. You also will hear about the literary history of St. Louis, be informed of convention logistics, and listen to music from the Clayton High School jazz band! Li-Young Lee, Featured Speaker Wednesday, March 17 7:30-8:30 p.m. Regency EF NEHS Sponsored Speaker Note: Book signing in Regency EF Foyer to follow presentation Through the observation and translation of often unassuming and silent moments, the poetry of Li-Young Lee gives clear voice to the solemn and extraordinary beauty found within humanity. By employing hauntingly lyrical skill and astute poetic awareness, Lee allows silence, sound, form, and spirit to emerge brilliantly onto the page. His poetry reveals a dialogue between the eternal and the temporal, and accentuates the joys and sorrows of family, home, loss, exile, and love. In “The City In Which I love You,” the central long poem in his second collection, Li-Young Lee asks, “Is prayer, then, the proper attitude / for the mind that longs to be freely blown, / but which gets snagged on the barb / called world, that / tooth-ache, the actual?” Anyone who has seen him read will add that Lee is also one of the finest poetry readers alive. Rectangle Reading Forum Wednesday, March 17 8:30-10:00 p.m. Regency E Listen to readings from the Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, our annual journal of creative writing that publishes poetry, fiction, and creative non- fiction. Stories in Motion: A Dance Party Wednesday, March 17 10:00 p.m. Regency E Get your groove on at the first Sigma Tau Delta dance party hosted by the student leadership! Snacks will be served. Bring your own beverage. 1 ACT II: THURSDAY, MARCH 18 Student Leadership Workshop Thursday, March 18 9:00-11:00 p.m. Regency E Mastering Your Narrative: Stories of Leadership and Service Note: Workshop schedule is available at the back of the program. Chapter Sponsor Workshop Thursday, March 18 9:00-11:00 p.m. Regency E Mastering Your Narrative: Stories of Leadership and Service Lunch (on your own) Thursday, March 18 11:00-12:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions A, Thursday, March 18 A1. Critical Essay - Anglo-Saxon and Medieval British Literature Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Sterling 9 Moderator: Mary Bagley, Missouri Baptist University (MO) Lorry Cieri, University of Central Oklahoma (OK): “Transforming Sir Gawain: A Source Study Comparing the Characterization of Sir Gawain in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur” Jessica Egbert, Slippery Rock University (PA): “The Significance of Weapons and Failure of Hrunting in Beowulf” Jarrod Russell, Southern Arkansas University (AR): “The Role of Women in Early Anglo-Saxon Literature” George Fillinger, California Polytechnic University (CA): “The Boon of Reverence” Gina Dominick, Washington & Jefferson College (PA): “Testing the Sufficiency of the Scholastic Method in Piers Plowman (B Text)” A2. Critical Essay - Teaching Literature; Practices and Pedagogy Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Mills 3 Moderator: Beth DeMeo, Alvernia University (PA) Mary Lamb, Azusa Pacific University (CA): “Literary Theory in the Secondary Classroom” Krissa Goncher, Ohio Northern University (OH): “Fun with Shakespeare on Both Sides of the Desk” Jennifer Hefferan, Slippery Rock University (PA): “Down the Memory Hole: Rediscovering Christopher Columbus” Jayna Fox, Clarion University (PA): “The Illusion of Sovereignty and Education” Rachel Lee, Southeastern Louisiana University (LA): “Socratically Speaking” A3. Critical Essay - Restoration and/or 18th Century British Literature Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Sterling 6 Moderator: Jayne Higgins, Northern Illinois University, (IL) FolaShade Weems, Miles College (AL): “The Significance of the Albatross in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’” Kristen Burkett, Lee University (TN): “The Guilty Coquette” Laura Willis, Lee University (TN): “Reading Through the Wrong Prescription” Luke Heister, University of North Texas (TX): “Unimpeded Scientific Progress as Critiqued in Shadwell’s Virtuoso” A4. Original Drama/Screenplay Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Sterling 8 Moderator: Larry Dennis, Clarion University (PA) Rose Harness, Williams Baptist College (AR): “The Hottest, Awfulest, Most Exciting Summer Day” Celi Oliveto, Fairmont State University (WV): “Remembering Number 9” Lindsey Lacombe, Fitchburg State College (MA): “Pathos” A5. Critical Essay - 20th/21st Century British Literature Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Mills 1 Chair: Christopher Wike, Clarion University (PA) Julia Balacko, Washington & Jefferson College (PA): “West's Evadne as 'Other': Implications of a Supernatural Approach to Examining Indissoluble Matrimony” Lauren Roberts, Rockhurst University (MO): “The Waste Land: A Millennial Perspective” Randi Dockter, Minot State University (ND): “The Language Known as ‘Nadsat’” Sarah Fredericks, Auburn University, Montgomery (AL): “Sex, Soma, and Unhappiness; An Examination of the Principles of Hedonism in Brave New World” 2 A6. Creative Nonfiction Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Sterling 4 Moderator: John Pennington, St. Norbert College (WI) Anthony Malcore, St. Norbert College (WI): “Sacred Space: The Notes of a Transient” Mary Chuhinko, Saint Leo University (FL): “Running With The Flu” Bailey Thomas, Oklahoma Christian University (OK): “Romancing the Village Idiot” Tandra Haycraft, College of Notre Dame of Maryland (MD): “Clodhopper” A7. Critical Essay - 16th/17th Century British Literature Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Sterling 5 Chair: Jessica Bobango, Northwest Nazarene University (ID) Valerie Jackson, Lincoln University, Missouri (MO): “Paradise through the Eyes of Milton” Brenda De Leon, Texas A&M International University (TX): “Milton's Ideal Marriage” Emma Mackie, Westfield State College (MA): “An Imperfect Paradise Lost: Milton's Argument for the Necessity for Sin” Jennifer Doyle-Corn, Western Carolina University (NC): “(Mis)shaping History:Milton’s Nationalist Rhetoric in Observations Upon the Articles of Peace” A8. Original Fiction Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Sterling 7 Moderator: Jodi Radosh, Alvernia University (PA) Sketch Jenna, Thomas More College (KY): “You're not a Planet anymore” David Winn, Collin County Community College (TX): “Worth Every Penny” Jesse Huggins, Blue Mountain College (MS): “With These Hands” Sean Neuerburg, Southeastern Louisiana University (LA): “Winning” A9. Critical essay - World Literature Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Mills 2 Chair: Kenneth Marrott, Dixie State College (UT) Steve Kluge, University of Central Oklahoma (OK): “How the World Could Be” Evangeline Ciupek, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (TX): “How are you feeling?” Adrienne Masiello, Assumption College (MA): “Ahab's Wife vs. Moby-Dick: The Feminine Triumph over Patriarchal Abandonment” Hailey Schmidt, California State Polytechnic University (CA): “Agilulf’s Perfection, Calvino’s Criticism” Anna Lippard, Coker College (SC): “A Representation of the Enemy: How an Individual Insider is made an Enemy” A10. Critical Essay - 20th/21st Century American Literature Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Mills 4 Chair: Ashley Brossart, Minot State University (ND) Randi Gill-Sadler, Gardner-Webb University (NC): “Cliff's Creation of the Magnanimous Warrior” Lindsey Simmons, Missouri Valley College (MO): “Broadway or the Bowery: Analyzing Dreiser's American Dream in ‘Sister Carrie’” Sarah Wilson, University of North Texas (TX): “Breaching Anonymity: Eve's Repossession of Nature and Identity” Kristen Casabona, The College of New Jersey (NJ): “Beyond Personification: Analyzing 124 Bluestone in Beloved” Kaitlyn Dennis, Southwestern University (TX): “Being Stuck: Dehumanization in Don DeLillo's White Noise and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest” A11. Original Poetry Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Mills 5 Chair: Stephen Heiner, Rockhurst University (MO) Linnea Graffunder, Luther College (IA): “Cinnamon Love” Laura Hernandez, Oklahoma Christian University (OK): “Cameo Appearances” Stevie Fitzgerald, St. Edward's University (TX): “Breath to Death” Casey Sloan, University of Alabama (AL): “Body of Text” Robert Bruno, University of Arkansas, Little Rock (AR): “Black Girls in Retail” Ian Whitlow, Ouachita Baptist University (AR): “Disillusionment of a Keats in Converse” A12. Literary Potpourri Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50 p.m. Mills 7 Chair: Michal Roberson, Blue Mountain College (MS) Paige Davis, Tulane University (LA): “Silent Night of Death” Rachael Minus, Coker College (SC): “This Night, These Fallen Angels” Elishia Heiden, University of North Texas (TX): “Sharks and Minnows” Amy Jones, Northern Kentucky University (KY): “Heaven's Gate” Jillian Janflone, Saint Vincent College (PA): “Cords” 3 Lora Hawkins, Park University (MO): “Dawn to Dusk” A13. Critical Essay Thursday, March 18 12:30-1:50