BREAKING BARRIERS THURSDAY, October 8th SESSIONS I, II & III

CONCURRENT SESSIONS
SESSION I: FEMINISM, FILM AND LITERATURE. Henson Center 1112, 11:00 - 12:15 pm Session Chair: Dr. Richard Keenan, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Breaking Barriers: Portrait of a Lady, From Novel to Film. Susan Harrington, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Dr. Susan Harrington has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore since 1996. Her fields of interest are Interdisciplinary and Multicultural Studies, Women's Studies, Post-Colonial Literature, Twentieth Century British Literature, Literature and Film, and Technical Writing. She received her B.A. from Vassar College, her M.A. and M.Phil. from Simmons College, and in 1995, her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland College Park. Her publications include articles on the novels of Martin Amis, "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje, and the works of Siegfried Sassoon, Maxine Kumin and Alfred Kazin. Click here to view Paper
Hawthorne's Attitude toward Women. Karen Sullivan Sanders, Prince Georges Community College Karen Sullivan Sanders attended Loretto Heights College in Colorado, graduated from the University of Colorado in Boulder. She received a Master of Arts & Literature degree from the University of Maryland College Park, in 1993. In addition, she has taught at Prince Georges Community College since the fall of 1994.
Feminine Self-Realization in Mexican Literature. Lee-Ann Laffey Terzian, Elmhurst College, Illinois Lee-Ann Laffey Terzian received her Ph.D. from Indiana University with a specialization in Mexican Literature. She has published numerous articles on contemporary Mexican Literature as well as the Literature of Spain. Her publications deal with authors ranging form Cervantes to the 20th century Mexican author Angeles Mastretta.
SESSION II: STUDENT PANEL I Henson Center 1114, 11:00 am - 12:15 pm Session Chair: Joel Roache, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Dr. Joel Roache holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of a biography, published by Oxford University Press, of the American poet Richard Eberhart. He has also written essays on literary figures as diverse as Geoffrey Chaucer, T. S. Eliot and Richard Wright. He is probably best known as the author of "Confessions of a Househusband," originally published in Ms. magazine and widely reprinted. He has won the annual UMES "People's Choice" award for teaching three times. He is also a former President of the Higher Education Council of Maryland and was an ex officio member of the Board of Directors of the Maryland State Teachers Association. Black Artists and White Mountains: Ethnic Identity and Universal Values Aswad Jones, Sean Stubblefield and Skai Shadow, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
SESSION III: AFRICAN LANGUAGE & LITERATURE, AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE. Henson Center 2126, 10:45 am - 12:15 pm Session Chair: Mignon Anderson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
What is in a Name: Irony as a Narrative Strategy in Chinua Achebe's "No Longer At Ease." Clement Abiaziem Okafor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Dr. Clement Okafor was formerly chair of the Department of English, University of Nigeria, Nsukka- Nigeria. Educated at Harvard University, he was recently visiting scholar at the Folklore Institute of Indiana University. Among his publications are "The Banished Child: A Study of Tonga Oral Literature" (British Folklore Society, 1983) and "Parabolic Decoding: Teaching J.P. Clark's Song of a Goat in a Global Classroom Environment" in Women's Studies Quarterly.
Toward a Center of Excellence for African Languages and Culture at UMES. Chester Hedgepeth, University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Dr. Hedgepeth received his B.A. at Blackburn College; M.A. at Wesleyan University; and his ED.D. at Harvard University. Dr. Hedgepeth has taught at Macalester College, Virginia Union University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. He has completed four books and several journal articles, and was also the editor of the Maryland Review from 1986 to 1996. In addition, since 1992 he has been the Director of the African Language Project. His forthcoming book is "Fifty African-American Social Reformers" (ALA). Hedgepeth was also voted distinguished alumnus at Blackburn College and honored at Harvard University's 350th anniversary.