BREAKING BARRIERS
SESSIONS XIII & XIV
SESSIONS XIII & XIV
| SESSION XIII: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE. Henson Center 1112, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm Session Chair: Clement Okafor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Booker T. Washington: The Ambiguity of Influence. Patricia F. Woodward, Florida Memorial College Patricia Woodward is currently an Assistant Professor at English and Director of the Honors Program at Florida Memorial College, an historically black institution in Miami, Florida. Her areas of interest are Comparative Literature, Latin American Literature and Poetry as a genre. She holds degrees from the University of Miami and Middlebury College. Click here to view Abstract & Paper |
| Deconstructing Fairy-Tale Icons in Toni Morrison's "Tar Baby"
and Rosa Montero's "Te tratare como a una reina." Mechelle Shan Doughty, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Mechelle Doughty is an A.B.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is writing her dissertation on "Deconstruction, Metafiction and Feminism: A Comparative Study of Rosa Montero's 'Tetratare como a una reina' and 'Bella y oscura,' and Toni Morrison's 'Bluest Eye' and 'Tar Baby.'" Her scholarly interests also include pedagogy, 19th and 20th century comparative literature, women writers, critical theory, and, particularly, 20th century African American, French and Peninsular Literatures. She has presented various conference papers. Her most recent, "The Interplay Between Fiction and Reality in Federico Garcia Lorca's 'La zapatera Prodigiosa,'" was presented at the 1998 Symposium on Peninsular Spanish Literature and Language at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Click here to view Abstract & Paper |
| Black Female as Religious Teacher in Black Drama. Della Dameron-Johnson, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Dr. Dameron-Johnson is presently an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, where she has served for the past twenty three years as the Director of Drama, mounting plays and teaching theatre and public speaking courses. She received her Ed.D. from the University of Maryland College Park in 1989, her M.A. in Theatre History and Criticism from the Northern Illinois University in 1973 and her B.S.E. from Lincoln University, Missouri in 1971. She is known for the plays she writes, directs, produces and sometimes acts in. Not only does she direct and produce plays at the University but also for other organizations, as well as for the drama ministry at The First Baptist Church of Salisbury, MD. She is also known as a prolific public speaker and gospel worship leader. Click here to view Abstract & Paper |
| SESSION XIV: POTPOURRI. Henson Center 1114, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm Session Chair: Joel Roache, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Idea of a Literary Canon. Earl Anderson, Cleveland State University Earl Anderson earned his Ph.D. in English at the University of Oregon (1970) and has been a member of the English faculty at Cleveland State University since that time. He has published over forty articles on medieval language and literature, and a book, "Cynewolf: Style, Structure and Theme in His Poetry" (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983). A new book, "A Grammar of Iconism", will appear in 1998 from FDUP. At present, he is working on a book on Folk-taxonomies in Early English. |
| Borders and Boundaries: Bharati Mukherjee and the Politics of
Identity. Pavinder Mehta, Wayne State University Pavinder Mehta is currently pursuing doctoral studies in the Department of English at Wayne State University. She received her undergraduate and graduate education from the University of Delhi, New Delhi (India) , where she received a B.A. in English, an M.A. in English and M.Phil. in English. She has always wanted to become a good teacher like her parents, both of whom were educators inspiring her to pursue her dreams. Literature became her passion in high school and motivation in her college years. After finishing her M.A., she started teaching in the Delhi University Affiliated College. Mehta worked as a lecturer from 1990 to 1994 and accompanied her husband to the USA in 1994. Her life in American has taught her so much more and has further inspired her to achieve more. Her current interests are studying ethnicity in multicultural America and the critical reception of immigrant literature. She hopes to write her dissertation on such issues as identity, race, nationality, class and gender, as dealt with by the immigrant writer. |
| Breaking Through Gender-Based Restrictions:: Town Matriarchs in Three
Novels by George Sand. Shawn Eilean Morrison, Michigan State University Shawn Morrison is a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University where she is currently the Methods Instructor for Secondary Foreign Language Education majors, a supervisor for student teachers, and the acting coordinator for the lower-division French courses. Her plans include further research on George Sand and research and publication in the area of teaching undergraduates how to read and appreciate literature. |
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