CRITICAL PAPER TITLES 2013 Elizabeth Arnold To the Wild: Exploring Female Wilderness Memoirs Andrew Bennett Deprivation and Apprehension in Yannis Ritsos, Linda Gregg, and Jack Gilbert Sidney Brammer Balancing the Explicit with the Poetic: Narrative Description and the Young Female Voice in Female-Authored Fiction Melinda Brown Gone With The Wind and the Great American Novel: Why Readers Give a Damn Libre Cory Love, Land, and Language: An Erotics of Place Kari Fisher Stanislav Fritz Speculative Realism: The Merging of Postmodernism and Magical Realism in the Post-Information Age Nancy Geyer Form & Forum: Essaying for Change Journey Herbeck Using Politics in Literature Tia Hudson A Sacramental and Incarnational Reading of the Poetry of William Stafford Meghan McClure Fancy & Facts in Poetry: An Argument for Scientific Research in Poetry Carrie Mesrobian Sex in Young Adult Literature: Choices and Consequences Deborah Moderow Animals and Memoir: A Clarifying Gaze Nancy Tsapralis Alchemy: Ways of Knowing in Creative Nonfiction Wendy Willis Subversion by Blackberry, Aided by Potato: How Food & Poetry Keep it Real Takayuki Yamamoto Images and Nonlinear Narrative Structure in Ann Beattie’s “Like Glass” and “Janus” 2012 Nancy Boutilier From Metaphor to Meta-Fork: Tine Traveling with the Poetics of Thylias Moss Mandy Clark Dark Writing in Short Fiction: Margaret Atwood, Mary Gaitskill, and Joyce Carol Oates Barb DeGrote Voicing the Unsaid: Using Narrative Therapy Techniques as a Tool for Revision in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Matt Holloway Doug Peacock and the Natural World: The Relationship of Craft, Philosophy and place in Grizzly Years—In Search of the American Wilderness Ann Hursey Small Change—The Poet in the World: Poems to Handmade Things Karen Irwin Finding the "I" in First Person Narration: A Personal Discovery of Finding Voice through Memory Karl Lehman On Character And Negotiation: An Informal Exploration of the Literary Effects of Postmodernism .Robin Farrar Maass Little Social Commonwealths to Small Virtual Worlds: 200 Years of Reading the Novel of Manners Mishele Maron Literary Container: The Deft Handling of Personal Trauma in Memoir Joel Phillips Me and Bobby McKee: My Awareness of Story Values and their Positive and Negative Charges Judith Pulman The Elegy Unmasked: Four Modern Comic Elegists Struggle with Their Dead, Their Narcissism, and Their Tradition Christine Robbins The Space Between the Stars: Charles Wright and Language of the Unseen Rebeccca Saxton Examples of Myth and Mythic Structure Usage in 21st Century Prose and Poetry Chris Wilson Simpkins Amazon and Grape, Tapajós and Orange, Bishop and Rukeyser Bill Sommer The Creation of a Believable Fictional World: Selected Techniques of Artifice in Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda Cindy Stewart-Rinier The World You Have to Live in is the World You Have Made: Eco- Politics in Frederico Garcia Lorca’s Poet in New York and Linda Gregerson’s Magnetic North Theresa Taylor Changing Masks: The Unsympathetic Protagonist’s Point of View 2011 John Engler In the Structure is the Meaning: Mapping Scene-Recycling in Tim O’Brien Maddaline Enns Songlines, Salmon, and The Singularity of Bones: How Our Attachment To Landscape Poses Us in Place Ben Hale The Claim-Making Animal: The Use and Misuse of Claims in Fiction Lisa Ohlen Harris A Grammar of Timelessness Jennifer Lauck Memoir & Me: An Evolution Linda Martin Naming This World: How Pattiann Rogers Participates in Creation Gerry McFarland The Open Space of The Imagination: The Poetic Moment and the Black Mountain Poets Kristina Moriconi If You Build It: The Common Ground of Architect and Writer Emily Murphy Memories, Moments, Scenes: Fragmented Memoirs on Trauma Patrick O’Callahan Theodore Roethke and the Art of Madness Rebekah Robinson The Writer’s Unmentionables: A Study of Recurring Images and Themes Liz Shine Making Meaningful Fiction Gretchen Stahlman Rider To Writer: Composing a Bicycle Narrative Natalie Tilghman Finding A Voice: First Person Narration in Young Adult Literature and Coming-Of-Age Adult Fiction Justin Wadland Blood And Documentation: Cormac Mccarthy, Hampton Sides, and the Frontiers of History and Truth Juniper White Nouns And Succinct Poems Ezra Whitman Throwing Books Instead of Spears: The Alexie-Treuer Skirmish Over Market Share 2010 Theresa Bakker A Sort of Crusade: Walking through Literary Non-Fiction Rachel Ballard Boats Against the Current: Nostalgia in Three Twentieth Century American Novels Christina Collins Misdirection: The Manipulation of Form and Genre in Evan S. Connell’s Points for a Compass Rose Rick Dakan This Is Not a Book: Transmedia Triumphs and Tropes Kate Carroll deGutes From Telling to Telling: Questions of Truth, Honesty, and Factual Integrity in Nonfiction Kathryn Eberhart The Language of Northernness: An Examination of the Coexistence of Experience and the Primitive Andrea Henchey Magical Letters and Inescapable Rhythms: Poetry, Meaning, & Sound Patterns Kristin Henry The Literature of Absence Cathy James Writing from Voice: Voice as a Narrative Tool in the Works of Thom Jones and Brock Clarke Michael Johnsen The Relativity of Time in Literature and Science Lisa Johnson Animals as Literary Devices Loretta Long Disarming Voices In Ann Pancake’s Strange As This Weather Has Been Julie McElroy-Brown Freedom and Fear: Women Write the Wilderness (Selected Works, 1879 – 2008) Lois Rosen Fierce Bloom: Female Protagonist-Narrators Coming of Age Shannon Smith Toward a Poetry of Compassion Tandy Tillinghast Re-Seeing with Compassionate Eyes: How Grotesque and Surreal Detail Shape Meaning in Fiction Heather Weber Shorelines and Lilypads: The interplay of Past and Present Narratives and Verb Tense in Modern Memoir 2009 Noah Ashenhurst Hearing Voices: Characterization, Temporal Perspective, and Poetry Through Four Narrative Voices in All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren Barrie Jean Borich Making it Real: Forays into the Art of Creative Nonfiction Bill Capossere Mapmakers And Guides: Navigating The World Of Popular Science Patricia Craig Jhumpa & Me & the Temple Virgins at Ripple Creek Barbara Finkelstein Agha Shahid Ali, 1949-2001: A Life in Poetry: an Appreciation Casey Fuller I Am Vertical : The Creation Of Self In The Poetry Of Sylvia Plath Eric Gnezda Keeping the Gift in Motion: Connections Between Performer/Audience and Writer/Reader Jaimie Hays (Harter) “Floating Islands”: An Exploration of Cultural Identity and the “Tyranny of the Mean” in Three Food Memoirs Erin Hollowell Eve Back in the Garden: Five Contemporary Women Poets’ Relationships with Nature Lita A. Kurth Time Travel: Temporal Transitions in Selected Twentieth-Century Works of Fiction Julie Johnson Riddle Stepping from the Shadow of the Cowboy Myth: An Exploration of Why Women Raised in the Northern Rocky Mountain Region Bond with the Land, Break from the Land, and Write about the Land Tina Schumann The Here and the Gone: On the Representation of Absence and the Ephemeral in Modern Poetry Judith L. Shadford The Permeable Membrane: An Idiosyncratic Approach to the Elusive Border between Genre and Literature, As Practiced by Writers of Mystery and Detective Fiction Kristy Webster Ordinary Magic: The Roots and Wings of Magical Realism 2008 Amy Andrews The Cartographers: Maps of the Post Quantum Consciousness Drawn by Contemporary Essayists Dorothy Barnett Writing the Remembered: An Exploration of the Necessity of Fiction in Selected Works of Memoir Elea Carey Intimate Knowledge: Adultery’s Effects in Short Fiction Eric Carlin Double Castings (a look at the work of Lola Haskins) Barbara Halpern Politics into Art: An Application of Charles Baxter’s Defamiliarization to Six Political Novels Jill Johnson Flannery O’Connor—With Comedy, Tragedy, and Justice for All April Lawson Life For Art, and Art For Life: Spinster Piano Teachers In The Work of Chopin, Welty, and Sandor Buzz Mauro “A Technique of a Technique”: Expanding the Powers of First-Person Narration Jean McDonough Liminality and Dissent of Consciousness: A Feminist View of Contemporary Women’s Memoir Joanna McNaney The Landscape of Home: Exploring Place in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Nonfiction Kathi Rivers-Shannon Writing from the Landscape of the Soul Hilary Schaper Gathering Thoughts: How to Structure an Essay Collection Anita Sullivan The Formality Of The Free: An Approach To The Craft Of Poetry Sandra Swinburne The Last Good Obsession: Reading and Writing a Self Cameron Walker The Not-So-Big Novel: How Thinking Like an Architect Can Help a Writer Tarn Wilson The Space Between Contradictions: An Examination of Meaning and Knowledge in Creative Nonfiction 2007 Kelli Russell Agodon Including Laughter: The Use of Humor by Contemporary Women Poets Jay Bates Strange Grace: On the Fiction of John Updike, and the Defamiliarization of Faith Boyd Benson Luck, Music, Receptivity and Madness: The Roles of the Arbitrary and the Image in Modern Poetry Nancy Canyon Swimming Backwards: A Look at Technique in Virginia Woolf Julie Case Voicing Place Jennifer Culkin What Lies Between Kathleen Flenniken Between the Lines: The Letters Of Moore, Stevens, And Bishop Glenda Henderson Margaret Maron’s Deborah Knott: Why Critics and Readers Love Her Kathryn Humes Art Heals: How Humor and a Full Kind of Seeing in Memoir Save Us Adrian Koesters A Tangible Inheritance: The Expression Of The Incarnate in Poetry from Donne To Levertov And Wilbur Margie Lukas Older Women In Contemporary Fiction: Characterization and Archetypes Therese Mancevski Trigger Happy: Composing Poems Generated