BREAKING BARRIERS
SESSIONS X, XI & XII
SESSIONS X, XI & XII
| SESSION X: AMERICAN CULTURE AND PEDAGOGY. Henson Center 1114, 9:30 - 11:00 am Session Chair: Jessie Smith, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| The Pedagogy of Diversity: A Not So "Common Language." Maribel Molyneaux, La Salle University, Pennsylvania Maribel Molyneaux earned her Ph.D. in Victorian literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. She taught at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania until accepting a position in the La Salle University English Department in 1990. She became Assistant Chair in 1996 and has been Coordinator of La Salle's Freshman Year Experience Program since 1995. Her teaching and scholarly interests have widened considerably to include literary theory and multicultural literature, especially Native-American, African-American, and Hispanic-American literature, as well as anything Victorian. |
| SESSION XI: LITERATURE IN SPANISH. Henson Center 1116, 9:30 - 11:00 am Session Chair: Luciano Picanco, Davidson College |
| Una Vision Alterna Ante La Dicotamia Mitica: La Hibridacion De Penelope
Y Las Sirenas. Maureen Tobin Stanley, Michigan State University Maureen Tobin Stanley is writing her dissertation on Mythic Rewriting in the words of four Spanish women authors: Laforet, Tusquets, Roig and Garcia Morales. She has published an article on Garcia Morales in the University's graduate student periodical, TROPOS (1996) and has presented at the following conferences: Asociacion de Literatura Femenina (twice), South Atlantic MLA, University of Michigan Foaker Conference, International Congress on Medieval Studies, "Poesis of Politics and Politics of Poesis" (University of Missouri), Michigan State University Research Recognition Day, and Brown Graduate Student Conference. Click here to view Paper |
| Allegory of Devouring Passion (Alegoria de la Pasion Devoradora). Maria Dolores Bollo-Panadero, Davidson College, North Carolina Maria Dolores-Panadero received her B.A. from the University of Seville in Arabic and Islamic Studies. She received her M.A. from Michigan State University in Spanish Language and Literature. Bollo-Panadero is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on Medieval Spanish Literature. |
| El Tema Del Peregrinaje En Libro De Apolonio. Randal P. Garza, Michigan State University Randal Garza is a doctoral candidate in Medieval Spanish Language and Literature. At Michigan State University he completed a B.A. in Spanish and a B.A. in Social Science in 1991, and an M.A. in Spanish Language and Literature in 1994. In addition to teaching undergraduate Spanish throughout his graduate studies at Michigan State, he also served as the Assistant Editor of Celestinesca, a Medieval Spanish literary journal. He has presented and published on various topics related to Spanish literature as well as Computer Assisted Language Learning. His research currently involves the influences of disease in Spanish literature and art. |
| SESSION XII: TRANSITION IN THE ARTS. Henson Center 2126, 9:30 - 11:00 am Session Chair: Susan Harrington, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Lesbian Paradigm in Mary Dorcey. Paula Pratt, Al Akhawayn University Having taught Composition for 18 years in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland, Dr. Pratt earned a Ph.D. from the Union Institute, Cincinnati, in 1992. Her research has focused on contemporary Irish women poets, and she is editing Even As We Speak, an anthology of this body of work. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in writing and literature at the only English- language university in Morocco, Al Akhawayn. Her current focus of research is Irish lesbian and bisexual writing, and lesbianism. Click here to view Abstract |
| Lesbianism Examined in "Long Time Since Yesterday" by P.J. Gibson Hammett Worthington-Smith, Albright College, Pennsylvania Hammett Worthington-Smith is an emertitus professor of English language and literature at Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania. He is a scholar with presentations at the Modern Language Association, College Language Association, Christianity and Literature Conference , Middle Atlantic Writers Association, among others. His publications appear in College English, African American Review, Christianity and Literature, and Vital Speech of Today, among others. Click here to view Abstract |
| Tahar Ben Jelloun's Bergere Berbere. Anita Alkhas, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Anita Alkhas is currently teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has also has taught at Indiana University-Bloomington and Michigan State University, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in French Literature. Her interest in Tahar Ben Jelloun's bi-cultural protagonist in "Les Yeux Baisses" is heightened by her own status as a dual national (Iranian-American). In her dissertation, "Living Art: Baudelaire and Duchany," she explores the affinities between these two key figures of modernism and post-modernism. |
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