Program
EGSC Twelfth Annual Fall Symposium
November 7, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. in PAC 134
•••Welcome - Dr. Robert Davidson
Keynote Address - Beth Spencer
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Session 1 - 7:00 p.m.
American Women Writers • PAC 116
Moderator: Dr. Tracy Butts
Danielle Astengo - ‘Figures under a Doom’: Betrayal in Katherine Anne Porter’s Flowering Judas and Other Stories
Athena Murphy - The Genius and the She-Devil: Contrasting Characters in Katherine Anne Porter’s ‘TheMartyr’
Janette Allen – The Women of The Sagebrush School
The Solace of Memory • PAC 144
Moderator: Dr. Jeanne E. Clark
Kris Wheat - The Touch of His Hand
Marissa Garcia - Five Stages of Grief
Carly Caumiant - Letters to My Fathers
Lisa Berman - History Test
Interplays • PAC 134
Moderator: Dr. Kim Jaxon
Jarret Krone – A Discussion of Dualities: Identity in a Digital Age and the Architecture of Learning
Jon McCallum – Photo-poem-ography: Towards a Consummate Commingling of Words and Images
Cliff Benjamin - The Idylls
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Refreshments will be served at 8:00 p.m. in PAC 132
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Session 2 - 8:30 p.m.
Negotiations in American Literature • PAC 134
Moderator: Dr. Matt Brown
Jessica Young – Time-Space Discontinuum: The Function of Spatial and Temporal Existence in Kate Chopin’s ‘Madame Pelagie’
Victoria Proctor – Natural Virtue and Equality in Kate Chopin’s Bayou Folk
Chase Chevallier – Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged: The Morality of Violence, Judgment, and Hypocrisy in Blood Meridian: Or Evening Redness in the West
British Myths of Culture and Class • PAC 116
Moderator: Dr. John Traver
Brittany DeLacy – Decoding the Classics in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Steve Florian – The Commerce of Virtue in Joseph Andrews
Michael Fitzpatrick – The Dissatisfying Moral “Victory”: Moral Indictment and Unfulfilled Rhetoric in Sidney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl
Storytelling: The Art of Change • PAC 144
Moderator: Dr. Rob Davidson
Dani Weast – Broken
Sabrina Derr - The Fortuneteller
Marty Salgado - Vacancy
Poetic Inspirations, Images, and Improv • PAC 112
Moderator: Dr. Jeanne E. Clark
Nathan Collins - The Foothills: A Collection of Northern California Poems
Stephen Barry – Fair Winds
Charles Walker – Rust
Rosa Scoma - Sunny Side of Hell
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