Your Department, CSU, Chico
Panel Schedule
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Session 1 11:00-12:00
Panel 1 Room 210
Zombies, Housewives and Drag Queens—Oh My!: Alternative American Personas
Moderator: Dr. John Traver
“Background or Foreground?: Critical Aspects of Social and Economic Status in ABC’s Desperate Housewives”
Jake Boone, California State University, Chico
“Representation in Paris is Burning”
Megan Vrolijk, San Francisco State University
“Cannibals, Zombies, and Other Post-Apocalyptic Monsters”
Karl Becker, California State University, Chico
Panel 2 Room 116
From Myth to Modern: Re-Visioning Social Hierarchies
Moderator: Dr. Matt Brown
“Myth and Murder”
Tanya Kieselbach, California State University, Chico
“And All the Pieces Matter: An Analysis of the Effects of the Serial Form in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and David Simon’s The Wire”
Ryan Aiello, California State University, Chico
“Finding the Woman in the Wallpaper: Exploring Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ Through the Lens of Queer Theory”
Rachelanne Smith, Sacramento State University
Panel 3 Room 112
Let’s Talk Comp: A Roundtable Discussion on Composition Theory
Moderator: Dr. Tom Fox
Kelly Candelaria
California State University, Chico
Christina Kraker
California State University, Chico
Kathleen McWhinney
California State University, Chico
Lauren Alpert
California State University, Chico
Session 2 12:10-1:10
Panel 1 Room 116
Cross-Cultural Exile: Defining Place and Identity
Moderator: Dr. Geoff Baker
“Transubstantiation, Host Desecration and Mis-Placement as Metaphor in The Croxton Play of the Sacrament”
Josie Schoel, San Jose State University
“The Theme of Exile in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon”
Elizabeth Grace Armstrong, California State University, Chico
“Twin Love: Indian Identities in a Postcolonial World”
Lauren Alpert, California State University, Chico
Panel 2 Room 210
Re-Visioning the “Other” In Narrative Film
Moderator: Dr. Lynn Houston
“Total Wipeout: The Process of Orientalism in the Narrative of American Surf Films”
Anastasia Pahules, San Francisco State University
“Subjectivity, Knowledge and Metaphor in Roman Polanski’s Chinatown”
Stephan Boman, San Francisco State University
“The Politics of the Self and Other in Ousmane Sembeme’s Novel and Film “Xala”
Jesse Ataide, San Francisco State University
Panel 3 Room 112
Creative Writing: Re-Visioning Narration in Fiction & Creative Non-Fiction
Moderator: Dr. Paul Eggers
“Brief Interviews With Obscene Women”
Jen White, California State University, Chico
“Baby’s First Haircut”
Sarah Knowlton, California State University, Chico
“Problems”
Corey Gruber, California State University, Chico
Lunch 1:10-1:40
Session 3 1:45-2:45
Panel 1 Room 116
A Southern Theme: An American Contradiction
Moderator: Dr. Tracy Butts
“An Old Way, a New Light: Edward P. Jones’ Slavery Narrative Beyond History, Beyond Race”
Erica Spangler, California State University, Chico
“The Politics of Pudd’nhead Wilson: Getting the Joke and Passing It On
Jeremy Gerrard, California State University, Chico
“Meta-Bildungsroman: Attaining the Narrative of Existence in William Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses”
Jason Simmons, California State University, Chico
Panel 2 Room 210
The Gray Areas of Environment and Gender in Media
Moderator: Dr. Lynn Houston
“Rethink: Recycling”
Nhu Huynh, California State University, Chico
“Identifying Space in Sara Gomez’s De Cierta Manera”
Tess Ariane Saunders, San Francisco State University
“Re-visioning Gender Narratives in Contemporary Film: The Form and Function of Multiple Masculinities in the Bromance”
J. A. Masko, San Francisco State University
Panel 3 Room 112
Subversive Females: Finding Power in the Victorian Era
Moderator: Dr. Teresa Traver
“Happiness and the Reformatory Girl”
Janis Barnett, California State University, Chico
“Tears as a Source of Female Power: Vanity Fair”
Brianne Epley, California State University, Chico
“Gender as Performance in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair”
Lacey Saborido, California State University, Chico
Session 4 2:55-3:55
Panel 1 Room 116
An Exploration of Sexualities Across the Genres
Moderator: Dr. Teresa Traver
“A Crossed Hero: Henry Fielding’s The Female Husband as a Romantic Narrative”
Lauren Minkel, San Jose State University
“The Risk of Liminal Desire as Sexual Agency: A Neo-Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subversion of Victorian Heteronormative Ethics in Oscar Wilde’s Salome”
Alden Wood, San Francisco State University
“‘What Should I Resent?: The Function of Dialogue in T. S. Eliot’s Poetry”
Erik Olsen, San Jose State University
Panel 2 Room 210
Fictional Narratives: Re-Visioning Structure
Moderator: Dr. Matt Brown
“When Form Mirrors Content: Characterization in the Postmodern Short Story”
Nicole Hughes, San Jose State University
“Ethan Frome: Malicious Elements in a Hostile Environment”
Jillian Tustin, California State University, Chico
“Funny Papers and Feminism: Re-Visioning the Double-Masculine Gaze of Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb”
Hart Perez, San Francisco State University
Panel 3 Room 112
Creative Writing: Re-Visioning Narration in Poetry
Moderator: Lisa Trombley
Kurt Wooden
California State University, Chico
Lisa Trombley
California State University, Chico
Sharon DeMeyer
California State University, Chico
Joshua Fuentes-Smith
California State University, Chico
Panel 4 Room 134
Beyond Leisure: Traversing Environmental Disciplines
Moderator: Dr. Harriet Spiegel
“A Big, Fruitful Week’: Reconstructing John Muir’s Feather River Excursion”
Will Lombardi, California State University, Chico
“Cultural Relativism, Tradition, and Authenticity in Practice: A Modern Reapplication”
James Brill, California State University, Chico
“In Boliva”
Jeffery S. Jenkins, California State University, Chico