10:00 a.m. Session Room 3130 Undergraduate Writing Awards Panel Moderated by Dianna Bellian Students share their award-winning essays from this year’s English Studies competitive pool of literary and cultural studies submissions. Student Conference Kathryn Miller: "What They Didn’t Realize about presented by Themselves” English undergraduate and [3rd Place Winner of the Undergraduate Cultural Diversity Essay Contest] graduate students Heather Lamb: “'Tyranny of the Commonplace:' Self-Doubt and Hatred through Asymmetry” [3rd Place Winner of the Undergraduate Literary Studies Essay Contest] April 9-10, 2015 My essay explores the relationship between creators, creations, and societal expectations. Society expects that that an individual's physical body should align with the psychological interior, which is the symmetric ideal. Individuals who do not fit this ideal, or those who are asymmetric, attempt to justify or rectify themselves through perfect creation; however, since creations are a reflection of the self, creators ultimately hate and become ashamed of their creations and themselves. Sarah Self: “Taking the Win” [2nd Place Winner of the Cultural Diversity Essay Contest] This essay is about the importance of community, especially for international students. I look through the lens of a Super Bowl party attended by a variety of EIU students to discuss the Department of English 2 10:00 a.m. Session benefits of creating bonds and friendships between American Room 3140 & International students. I also show that there are a variety of ways to get involved with International students on campus. What to Expect When You're Teaching (and Beyond): English Language Arts Alumni/ Educator Roundtable Moderated by Dr. Melissa Ames Participants: Jaclyn Capps Andrew Crivilare Stephanie Gribbin Jen Hindes Abri Iwanski Darius Jutzi Madeline Nelson Kristin Runyon Join us as ELA alumni and local educators gather to discuss the directions that their education degrees have taken them. This engaging panel of participants includes both novice and expert teachers, educators working in diverse districts across the state and across the country, and graduates who have applied their degree to education-related posts in non-traditional and corporate settings. Topics of discussion will include student teaching, substitute teaching, the job market, mentoring young educators, and various challenges facing those in the field (e.g. the PARCC Assessment, EdTPA, Common Core). 3 4 10:00 a.m. Session 10:00 a.m. Session Room 3150 Room 3159 The Quotidian: Life, Love and Death Graduate Student Fiction Reading Moderated by T.j. Martinson Moderated by Terri Coleman Solomohn Ennis-Klyczek: "On the Road to London: Andrew McCue: "Airplane" Oliver Twist Encounters Coloured Britain" Hillary Fuller: "Most Children Want Marriage" Sean Towey: "Rocks" Kris Wilcox: "Love for Lord of the Rings" Gabrielle Knock: "Between Heaven and Hell and Heathens" Mariah Wallace: "The Fifth Stage" The graduate students in Creative Writing-Fiction will share This collection of memoirs, selected from Dr. Charlotte selections from their thesis projects. The presenters have Pence's Creative Nonfiction Writing Class (English 2001), published work in regional literary magazines, and have investigates the quotidian. Speaking on the improbability of received several of EIU's most prestigious writing awards. love and the sense of duty we feel toward those who love us, these essays are dark and joyful, departures and homecomings. These writers explore childhood and family in voices that are, at times, those of young children. However, all these works also reflect adult voices that draw deeper meaning from life altering experiences. Using lyrical language, these essays use strong imagery as they explore the day-to-day experiences that suddenly become about life and death. 5 6 10:00 a.m. Session 10:00 a.m. Session Room 3160 Room 3170 The Private Life of Narrative: Diaries, College Professional Writing Showcase Life, and Other "Things" Showcase Curators: Drs. Terri Fredrick & Angela Vietto [Undergraduate Research Panel I] Moderated by Dr. Melissa Caldwell This showcase features the work of past and current students who have taken professional writing courses. The showcase will include students' writing, design, and speaking work. Katelyn Hartke: "Ineluctable Modality of the Physical: The Repurposing of 'Things' in Ulysses" [Author of the Honorable Mention in the Undergraduate Women’s Studies Essay Contest] Kristen Webber: "Quentin at Harvard" Danielle Rogner: "The Hidden Diarist: Hybrid Form and Narrative Performance in Jane Eyre" Join us for an engaging panel as students who have recently completed their honors theses present from their final projects. 7 8 10:00 a.m. Session 11:00 a.m. Session Room 3609 Room 3130 "Revising/Re-voicing Robinson Crusoe in J.M. The Construction of Gender (& Gendered Coetzee's Foe" Communication Practices) in Literature & Moderated by Sierra Falk Popular Culture Moderated by Dr. Melissa Ames Hannah Gay: "Dividing Nostalgia in Foe and Robinson Crusoe" Elizabeth Romang: "From Sex in the City's Carrie to Tim Castellari: "Foe as Robinson Crusoe's Precursor" Girls's Hannah: Narcissism in the Modern Female Television Narrative" Ben Cravens: "The Inevitable Bias of Perspective: Desire and the Unspoken Word in Foe" Kyle Workman: "Think Like a Woman, Act Like a Man: Clichés and Stereotypes of Gender and Dialogue in What Women Want and Sex and the City" This panel looks at two novels: Daniel Defoe's Robinson Dana Mayfield: "How Hollywood Films (from Mulan to Crusoe, a colonial adventure story that is firmly ensconced in the Mona Lisa Smile) Instruct Women to become Proper canon of British literature, the other, J.M. Coetzee's 20th Wives" century revision, Foe, a narrative that foregrounds the perspectives suppressed with in the earlier 17th century novel. Regan Cunningham: "The Bell Jar: How Storytelling These papers pit these novels against each other in ways that Conveys a Gender Social Issue" produce a holistic sense of the colonial experience—the Lisa Rhodes: "Self-Actualization and Challenging Gender conflict and the complicity, the violence and the exchanges it Stereotypes in Kiki's Delivery Service" involves—and it is this particular conjunction that we will come to understand as the postcolonial. Gretchen Neal: "Between Vocal and Voiceless: Communication and Silence in Laurie Halse Anderson's Young Adult Novels" Dana Gilbertsen: "The Problematic Censorship of (the unabridged version of) The Diary of Anne Frank due to Sexual Themes" Join us as students from English 3903: Women, Literature, and Language deliver fast-paced, visually 9 10 11:00 a.m. Session provocative five-minute presentations in the Ignite Presenta- Room 3140 tion Format. See how students applied the course focus on gendered communication practices and feminist/female stylis- tics to projects in their individual disciplines (Communication Resources for Primary Sources and Informational Studies, Education, English, and Psychology), resulting in Texts: A Professional Development Workshop for presentations that analyze an array of texts across time, genre, Current & Future Educators and media. Workshop Leader: Kristin Runyon Adding an informational text or primary source to a lesson plan sounds easy, but a random search of the Internet often provides little help. This presentation will provide participants with numerous resources to assist in finding the perfect text, illustration, historical document, or current event to pair with any English lesson. 11 12 11:00 a.m. Session 11:00 a.m. Session Room 3150 Room 3159 Harlem Renaissance Panel I: Writers in Context Harlem Renaissance Panel II: Poster Moderated by Dr. Fern Kory Presentations Moderated by Terri Coleman Georgia Danos: "Separate but 'Equal'" This presentation discusses the treatment of blacks and whites Tyler Noel: "Meeting Expectations: Authorship in the in public schools, public places, and public transportation in Harlem Renaissance" the North and South during the 1900s-1930s. This presentation focuses on a couple of key authors during the Harlem Renaissance and what they had to do in order to reach the status they did. This poster looks at aspects of Md. Alamgir Hossain: "Revisiting the Past: Nostalgia in identity and the facades these authors created to continue Harlem Renaissance Poetry" writing and representing their race. Although Harlem was considered a heaven for the African-Americans in the 1920s, the Harlem poets often cast a wistful glance at their past home. This presentation will show Bonnie Morton: "Seeing the Whole Picture: Illustrations how their nostalgia was caused by their diaspora position, and of the Harlem Renaissance" how differently they revisited their past in poetry. The illustrations in the 1926 anthology The New Negro are often overlooked. This poster will shed light on the artist behind the illustrations and explain how Aaron Douglas's work Kimberly Manthei: "Fighting Two Battles: Women allows us to better understand the Harlem Renaissance. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance" When people think about the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes or Countee Cullen are typically the first names that Becca Gervais: "The Use of Colors in Harlem Renais- come to mind. People may not know or study works by writers sance Literature" such as Zora Neal Hurston or poets Helene Johnson, or This poster will display connections and explanations of how Georgia Douglas Johnson. This presentation discusses women Harlem Renaissance authors used