Symposium Program
EGSC Fall Symposium Draft Program
Keynote: 1130 - 12pm BMU 210
Session One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Panel One - Take a Look, It’s in a Book, It’s Modes of Literacy
BMU 208
Round Table Discussion
Moderator: Judith Rodby
Lauren Alpert
Christina Kraker
Erica Spangler
Panel Two - It’s a Bird, It’s a Jane, It’s Feminism
BMU 210
Moderator: Teresa Traver
Brianne Epley Missing the Voice of the Madwoman: Rethinking Bertha in Jane Eyre
Katharine Rosen- Freedom in Flight: The Importance of Bird Imagery in
Molina Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
Panel Three - I have a feeling we’re not in Tintern Abbey anymore:
Reflections on Modern Poetry
BMU 211
Moderator: Jeanne Clark
Sharon DeMeyer William Wordsworth in the 21st Century
Helen O’Brien “Become a Little Town at Dawn”: Attila József’s Reality
Carey Wilson Selection of Poems
Refreshments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:15 - 1:45pm BMU 210
Session Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Panel Four - Runnin’ Down a Dream: Illusions of the American Dream
BMU 208
Moderator: Matt Brown
Jeremy Gerrard The Pursuit of Happiness in 20th Century American Literature
Jenny Hamby The Malleable Nature of Identity: Burroughs' Naked Lunch and the Human Virus (CSU Stanislaus)
Panel Five - Houston, we have a problem: Social Action Across the Disciplines
BMU 210
Moderator: Geoff Baker
Jeff Jenkins The reproduction of the Klamath Basin: Landscape change and changing use values in the land of water
Sarah Doll Wuthering Heights through the Ages
Panel Six - Hasta la Vista, Baby: The New Woman and Female Identities
BMU 211
Moderator: Rob Davidson
Katie Hudson The Battle for Development in Sense and Sensibility and Legally Blonde
Victoria Proctor Keeping it Real: Issues of Self for Daisy Miller and Edna Pontellier
Session Three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:15pm - 4:15pm
Panel Seven - We’re not gonna take it : Pushing on Societal Categories
BMU 208
Moderator: John Traver
Grace Armstrong Out of Balance: The Overabundance or Lack of Freedom in Frankenstein and Lady Audley’s Secret and the Duality that Springs from It
Chase Chevallier Anger and Action in British Reform Society and Institutions: Looking Back at the Loneliness of the Not So Angry Long Distance Runner
Kate Williamson Gay and Lesbian Stereotypes in Cloud 9
Panel Eight - Is this the real life, is this just fantasy?: Aesthetics in the Novel
BMU 210
Moderator: Robert O’Brien
Mike Giuffrida Aesthetics: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Trevor Jackson Structure in Vladimir Nabokov’s The Original of Laura
(CSU Stanislaus)
Dessert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:15pm BMU 210