BREAKING BARRIERS
SESSIONS IV, V & VI
SESSIONS IV, V & VI
| SESSION IV: WORKSHOP Henson Center 1112, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Session Chair: Jeanne Harmon, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Judge Ye Not! Marjorie Peoples-McDonald, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Presently an English and Teacher Education Instructor at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Marjorie Peoples-McDonald earned her BA and MA degrees from Hampton University in Language Arts and Literature with a French minor. Having taught in the Virginia and California schools and universities since 1971, she has presented enlightening, educational workshops in Lake Tahoe, Sacramento, San Francisco and the Tidewater area. From the countless, positive responses by parents/community, students, educators and administrators, she truly "makes a difference" in reshaping attitudes and restructuring approaches to the learning process. |
| SESSION V: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE. Henson Center 1114, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Session Chair: Wilton Rose, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Breaking Barriers Between Folksingers and Literature: Brown, Gellert and the Voice of the Black Folk. Tom Marvin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Tom Marvin is assistant professor of English and American Studies at Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis. He received his B.A. from McGill University and his M.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is an avid fan of traditional music and interested in the intersection of music and literature. |
| Dubois and the American Racial Reformation. Donte' Cornish, University of Maryland Eastern Shore Donte' Cornish, a native of Maryland's Eastern Shore, attended secondary school in Northern Virginia. Its diverse culture is responsible for his love of higher education and many valuable experiences at George Mason University. He received a B.A. in English Literature at The University of Virginia. His recent return to the Eastern Shore means enjoying his roots; religion and baseball continue to be a source of strength, inspiration and pleasure. Cornish is a member of Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Quantico, Maryland. He is currently envisioning a way to wed the elements of his faith and his love of literature. Cornish plans to enter a Ph.D. program and turn that vision into a dissertation. |
| Speaking Herself into Existence: "Our Nig" as Alternative History. Koritha Mitchell, University of Maryland College Park Koritha Mitchell is a second-year M.A. student at the University of Maryland College Park. She plans to focus on American Women's Literature ranging roughly from 1865-1920, with a focus on postbellum attitudes and the change in focus to Women's Suffrage. She did her undergraduate work at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, with a major in English Composition. Click here to view Abstract |
| SESSION VI. BRITISH AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE. Henson Center 2126, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Session Chair: Susan Harrington, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Breaking Barriers of Weather: Cross-Cultural Analyses of Novels
about Mexico by Three British Authors. Phyllis Herrin De Obregon, Universitad Autonoma de Queretaro Phyllis Herrin De Obregon holds a B.A. in English from Texas Tech University and a M.A. in Linguistics from Ohio University. She has lived in Mexico for thirty years where she has taught English as a Foreign Language at various levels. For the last eleven years, she has been the coordinator of a pioneer B.A. program for ESL teachers and translators. Presently, she teaches Language, Linguistics, and Literature in the program. |
| Racial Dynamics and Politics in V.S. Naipaul's "The Mimic Men." Robert M. Greenberg, Temple University, Philadelphia Robert M. Greenberg (Ph.D., English, CUNY 1978) is the Acting Dean of the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University in Philadelphia. He is the author of a cultural and historical study of major nineteenth-century American writers entitled "Splintered Worlds: Fragmentation and the Ideal of Diversity in the Work of Emerson, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson" (Northeastern, 1993). He has also published widely on the African American poet Robert Hyden and the Caribbean writer Claude McKay. Greenberg is writing a book now on literature that arises from multiple cultural streams in situations of post-immigration, expatriation, exile, cosmopolitanism, and travel. The paper on Naipaul is adapted from this work-in-progress. |
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