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South Central Modern Language Association 72nd Annual Conference October 31 - November 3, 2015 Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee SCMLA CONFERENCE PROGRAM A PDF version of this program is available on our website: www.southcentralmla.org South Central Modern Language Association University of Oklahoma 332 Cate Center Drive, Room 481 Norman, OK 73019-6410 Phone: (405) 325-6011 Fax: (405) 325-3720 Email: [email protected] Web: www.southcentralmla.org 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2015 Executive Committee ……………………………………………………………………. 3 Special Thanks ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Conference Hosts …………………………………………………………………………………… 5 Friends of SCMLA …………………………………………………………………………………… 6 Sustaining Departmental Members ……………………………………………………….. 7 SCMLA Life and Honorary Members ………………………………………………………. 8 Schedule of Events ………………………………………………………………………………… 9 Summary of Conference by Session Type …………………………………………….. 10 Conference Program ……………………………………………………………………………. 19 Grants, Awards and Prizes …………………………………………………………………….71 Grant and Prize Winners ……………………………………………………………………… 73 2016 SCMLA Deadlines ……………………………………………………………………….. 74 2 SCMLA 2015 Executive Committee Jeanne Gillespie, President University of Southern Mississippi [email protected] Melissa Bailar, Past President Rice University [email protected] Julie Chappell, Vice President Tarleton State University [email protected] Emily D. Johnson, Executive Director University of Oklahoma [email protected] Richard J. Golsan, Editor (2013-2017) South Central Review Texas A&M University - College Station [email protected] Lynn Alexander, English (2015-2017) University of Tennessee-Martin [email protected] Stuart McClintock, French (2014-2016) Midwestern State University [email protected] Jacob Ivan Eidt, German (2013-2015) University of Dallas [email protected] Michael Ward, Russian and Less-Commonly-Taught Languages (2015-2017) Trinity University-San Antonio [email protected] Jeffrey Oxford, Spanish (2015-2017) Midwestern State University [email protected] Sylvia Morin, At-Large (2014-2016) University of Tennessee-Martin [email protected] Genaro Pérez, At-Large (2013-2015) Texas Tech University [email protected] Daniel Traber, American Literature (2014-2016) Texas A&M University-Galveston [email protected] 3 The South Central MLA wishes to thank the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma for their continuing support 4 SCMLA WISHES TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 2015 CONFERENCE TBA SPECIAL THANKS TO: TBA 5 THANK YOU, FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION Your generous support is greatly appreciated Platinum Debra D. Andrist Gold Frieda Blackwell John G. Morris Silver Lynn Alexander Melissa Bailar Vernon Miles Charles Wukasch 6 2015 SUSTAINING DEPARTMENTAL MEMBERS Midwestern State University Department of Foreign Languages University of Texas – Austin Department of Germanic Studies 7 SCMLA LIFE MEMBERS James E. Barcus William M. Felsher Paul A. Parrish Thomas Bonner, Jr. John I. Fischer Janet Pérez Joe R. Christopher Benjamin F. Fisher Panthea Reid Richard H. Costa Carl Hammer, Jr. Louis Charles Stagg Maria Duke dos Santos William Kibler Huling E. Ussery Melvin R. Mason SCMLA HONORARY MEMBERS Andrei Codrescu Ede Hilton-Lowe Michael Mewshaw Ellen Douglas Ernest J. Gaines Miller Williams William R. Ferris Nicolás Kanellos Yevgeny Yevtushenko 8 SEVENTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 3, 2015 NASHVILLE MARRIOTT AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE SOUND AND STORY: The Rhythms of Languages SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. EC Meeting Parthenon A 3:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Registration and Exhibits Parthenon pre-function 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Job Seekers Workshop Parthenon A 5:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Poets’ Corner Parthenon B SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration and Exhibits Parthenon pre-function 8:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Pi Delta Phi Meeting Suite TBA 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. SCDAFL Workshop Parthenon A 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Keynote Address Parthenon ABC 7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Presidential Reception Crescent Room MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Women’s Caucus Restaurant followed by Breakfast Suite TBA 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration and Exhibits Parthenon pre-function 9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Connected Academics Parthenon A 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Business Meeting Parthenon ABC 8:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. SCMLA Social Crescent Room TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. SCCEA Breakfast Restaurant followed by Suite TBA 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration and Exhibits Parthenon pre-function 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Business Meeting Parthenon ABC 9 SUMMARY OF CONFERENCE PROGRAM BY SESSION TYPE ALLIED SESSIONS Asociacion de Literatura Sunday, November 1 Parthenon A Femenina Hispanica 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Conference on Christianity Monday, November 2 Acorn B and Literature – Session 1 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Conference on Christianity Tuesday, November 3 Parthenon E and Literature – Session 2 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. The Eudora Welty Society Saturday, October 31 Parthenon C 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Flannery O’Connor Society Sunday, November 1 Parthenon C 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. International Courtly Monday, November 2 Parthenon C Literature Society 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Society for Critical Exchange: Tuesday, November 3 Parthenon C Jewish Literature and Film in 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. the Americas South Central Association of Saturday, October 31 Parthenon A Departments of Foreign 5:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Language and Departments of English South Central College English Tuesday, November 3 Parthenon C Association: American 9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Literature and Popular Culture Women in French Tuesday, November 3 Parthenon C 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. CREATIVE WRITING Creative Writing – Creative Sunday, November 1 Acorn C Nonfiction 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Creative Writing – Poetry – Sunday, November 1 Acorn C Session 1 9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Creative Writing – Poetry – Monday, November 2 Acorn C Session 2 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Creative Writing – Poetry – Monday, November 2 Acorn C Session 3 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Creative Writing – The Short Sunday, November 1 Acorn C Story –Session 1 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. 10 Creative Writing – The Short Sunday, November 1 Acorn C Story –Session 2 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Creative Writing – The Short Monday, November 2 Acorn C Story –Session 3 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Creative Writing – The Short Monday, November 2 Acorn C Story –Session 4 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. ENGLISH American Literature I: Sunday, November 1 Acorn A Literature Before 1900 – 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Session 1 American Literature I: Sunday, November 1 Acorn A Literature Before 1900 – 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Session 2 American Literature I: Monday, November 2 Acorn A Literature Before 1900 – 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Session 3 American Literature I: Monday, November 2 Acorn A Literature Before 1900 – 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Session 4 American Literature II: Monday, November 2 Acorn A Literature After 1900 – 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Session 1 American Literature II: Sunday, November 1 Parthenon E Literature After 1900 – 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Session 2 American Literature II: Monday, November 2 Parthenon E Literature After 1900 – 9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Session 3 English I: Old and Middle Monday, November 2 Acorn B English 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. English II: Renaissance Monday, November 2 Parthenon B Literature excluding Drama – 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Session 1 English II: Renaissance Tuesday, November 3 Parthenon B Literature excluding Drama – 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. Session 2 English III: Restoration & Monday, November 2 Parthenon B Eighteenth Century – Session 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. 1 English III: Restoration & Tuesday, November 3 Acorn B Eighteenth Century – Session 9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. 2 11 English IV: Nineteenth Century Monday, November 2 Parthenon B British Literature – Session 1 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. English IV: Nineteenth Century Sunday, November 1 Acorn B British Literature – Session 2 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. English V: Twentieth Century Sunday, November 1 Parthenon B British Literature 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. English VI: General Linguistics Sunday, November 1 Parthenon B 9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. Freshman English and English Sunday, November 1 Parthenon B Composition 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Irish Literature Saturday, October 31 Parthenon D 5:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Regional Fictional Writers Sunday, November 1 Acorn A 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Renaissance Drama – Session Sunday, November 1 Acorn A 1 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Renaissance Drama – Session Monday, November 2 Acorn A 2 1:15 a.m. – 2:45 p.m. Rhetoric Monday, November 2 Acorn B 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Southern Literature – Session Monday, November 2 Parthenon E 1 4:45 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. Southern Literature – Session Tuesday, November 3 Parthenon E 2 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Southwestern American Saturday, October 31 Parthenon E Literature 5:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Technical Writing – Session 1 Saturday, October 31 Parthenon B 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Technical Writing – Session 2 Sunday, November 1 Parthenon B 4:45 p.m.