BREAKING BARRIERS
SESSIONS XV, XVI, XVII & XVIII
SESSIONS XV, XVI, XVII & XVIII
| SESSION XV: LITERATURE IN SPANISH AND FRENCH. Henson Center 2126, 2:00 - 3:30 pm Session Chair: Luciano Picanco, Davidson College |
| In Praise of the Palate: Food, Friendship and The Collapse of Domestic
Spaces. Habib Zanzana, University of Scranton Habib Zanzana is originally from Algeria. He obtained his Ph.D. at Indiana University, Bloomington, with a specialization in French and in Golden Age Spanish Literature. He has published on women's spiritual autobiographies, female picaresque, metafiction in Golden Age Literature, and on Francophone African Literature. Zanzana is currently a professor of Spanish and French at the University of Scranton. |
| Axtlan: Una Indentidad de Memorias, Hechos Y Textos. Jose Yanez del Pozo, Catholic University of America Jose del Pozo is studying for his Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature. He received his M.A. in Modern Languages and Literatures from George Mason University in 1995, his B.A. in Social Anthropology from PUCE, Ecuador in 1985 and his B.A. in Applied Linguistics in Quechua, PUCE in 1978. He is a professor of Spanish, Quechua, Methodology and Sociolinguistics and a researcher in Bilingual Education, Oral History and Indigenous Literatures. |
| Le Corps Qui Se Decouvre. Lucia Florido, Indiana University Lucia Florido received her Ph.D. at Michigan State University. Her dissertation was entitled "La Litterature du Regard au Siecle des Lumieres." She received her Master's in French Language and Literature at Michigan State University. In addition, she also received a Master's in Francophone Literatures from the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has also been Assistant and Facilitator to CLEAR (Center for Language Learning Research), helping with the instruction of CALL (Computer Aided Language Learning) techniques at Michigan State University and Assistant to the French Coordinator at Michigan State University. |
| SESSION XVI: POTPOURRI. Henson Center 2126, 2:00-3:30 pm Session Chair: Michael McCabe, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Legitimizing Inequality By Arguing to Win. Cayo Gamber, George Washington University Cayo Gamber is an Assistant Professor at George Washington University. |
| Black Female Leadership and Group Neurosis: Withdrawal of the Mammy. Cheryl Bowers and Rhonda Jeter, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Cheryl Bowers received a BA degree in History from Mount Holyoke College and a M.S. degree in Psychological Services from the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Scientific and Professional Psychology. Her research interests include racial identity, black female leadership, and correlates of empathy. |
| Multicultural Counseling. Joy Adams, Upper Shore Private Industry Council Joy Adams has been employed by the Upper Shore Private Industry Council for over four years. As training counselor for this federally-funded program, Ms. Adams is responsible for recruiting program participants, determining eligibility, providing resume and job preparation services, as well as monitoring academic progress. Aside from her job as a training, Ms. Adams is an on-call Evening Advising Specialist for Chesapeake College and is a member of the college's Multi cultural Advisory Committee. She is also an advisor for Uhuru, Chesapeake College's Minority Student Union. In this capacity, she works with the Multicultural Retention Coordinator in planning events designed to educate and enlighten the student population. |
| SESSION XVII: MAKING IT NEW: PEDAGOGY. Henson Center 1114, 2:00-3:30 pm Session Chair: Connie Williams-Whittington, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Breaking Barriers to Make It New. Stephen Myslinski, Salve Regina University Assistant Professor Myslinski has taught English in public and private secondary and colleges both in the United States and abroad for more than thirty years. Since 1988, he has also served as a consultant for the Educational Testing Service as a grader for the Advanced Placement (AP) Examination in English Language and Composition, the Graduate Management Assessment Test (GMAT), and, most recently, the SAT II Writing Test. A specialist in Modern British Literature, his 1995 dissertation concentrates on the novels of Anglo-Welsh novelist Richard Hughes (1900-1976). |
| Delivering More, Expecting More: Technology to Improve Traditional
Courses. Janet E. Gardner, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Janet Gardner is an assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. Her specialties include contemporary drama, writing, and the use of computer technology in the study and teaching of English. |
| Online Discussion of Race & Ethnicity: Using Technology to Break Down
Barriers. Joann B. Paoletti, University of Maryland College Park. An Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies, Jo Paoletti has been at the University of Maryland College Park since 1976. A specialist in consumer culture, she has expertise in the history of children's clothing, gender studies, and quantitative methods for humanities research, and has published extensively on these subjects. She has been recognized as an outstanding teacher and has been awarded five competitive campus instructional improvement grants, including a grant that supported the creation of Virtual Greenbelt, an on-line platform for collaborative research and teaching. Since 1994, she has transformed all nine of her undergraduate courses through the use of Internet technology, beginning with the use of a class listserv and expanding into Web-based readings, the use of real-time and asynchronous chat, and online student projects. In summer 1997 and Winter term 1998, she offered UMCP's first completely online course, AMST 418 P (Electronic Publication and Exhibition in American Studies). |
| SESSION XVIII: ART AND ARTISTIC EXPRESSION. Henson Center 1112, 2:00 - 3:30 pm Session Chair: Michel Chistophe, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Seeing the Elephant: Using a Comparative Iconographic System in Visual
Art. Joseph Davis, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Joseph Davis received a B.M.E. degree in music with a double major in visual art at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas in 1976. At Memphis State University, he received Masters degrees in Piano Performance and Music History, then went on to work on a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance as well as work on a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design and Painting. Since the early 1990's, he has been teaching graphic design and publication design in the Telecommunications area of the Department of English and Modern Languages at UMES, as well as producing graphics, both traditional print and web oriented, for that department as well as others on campus. He is currently showing his mixed media artwork at the Finer Side Gallery in Salisbury, Maryland and has shown in group and solo shows in Washington, DC; Baltimore, Annapolis, Rockville and Salisbury, MD; Richmond, VA; Chicago, IL; Memphis, TN; Fort Worth, TX; Little Rock, AR; etc. and has been chosen as one of the artists to be included in the "ROADMAP" show which will open at Maryland Art Place in October 1998. Davis is also on the Fine Art/Media panel of the Maryland State Arts Council. Click here to view Abstract |
| Back to New Frontiers: Nostos and Nekya in Max Frisch's Literary
Imagination. Frederick A. Lubich, Old Dominion University Frederick Lubich received his college education at the Universities of Stuttgart, Newcastle, Heidelberg, (Staatsexamen in German and English, 1977), Cornell University (M.A. in American Studies, 1978), University of California, Santa Barbara (Ph.D. in German, 1983). Lubich was an employee at Brown University (1983-84, Visiting Professor), Haverford/Bryn Mawr Colleges (1992-93, Associate Professor), Rutgers University (1993-1997, Associate Professor), Old Dominion University (1997-present, Professor). His publications consist of books on Thomas Mann (1986), Max Frisch (1990), and thirty scholarly articles on German and European Literature and culture of the 19th and 20th century. |
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