BREAKING BARRIERS
SESSIONS VII, VIII & IX
SESSIONS VII, VIII & IX
| SESSION VII: THE INTERNET, BIOLOGY AND MARGINALITY. Henson Center 1112, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Session Chair: Clement Okafor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Literature on the Internet: Past/Future. Henry James Butler, University of Florida After graduating from the University of Florida in 1980, Henry James Butler returned to his previous career in journalism. He left journalism to work as a computer consultant specializing in print/media issues, after computerizing the editorial operations of the last two newspapers he worked on. Butler taught English Composition and Computer Sciences at City College for eight years and has recently returned to the University of Florida for additional graduate education. |
| Lengthy Manes and Scrambled Brains: Signs of Undiagnosed Attention
Deficit Disorder in the Works and Lives of Charlotte Bronte, Emily
Dickinson and other Nineteenth-Century Female Authors. Sherry L. Rosenthal, Community College of Southern Nevada Sherry L. Rosenthal received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California at San Diego. She is an English instructor at the Community College of Southern Nevada and the Associate Editor of RED ROCK REVIEW. She has also published short fiction, poetry, book reviews, articles and essays. Sherry Rosenthal is currently in the process of working on 19th and 20th century female writers with Attention Deficit Disorders. |
| SESSION VIII: LITERATURE IN FRENCH. Henson Center 1114, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Session Chair: Michel Christophe, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Religion, Science et 'Frictions' Autour de
l'Encyclopedie. Isabelle Cassagne, Michigan State University Isabelle Cassagne spent seven years at Michigan State University as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for first and second year French Language classes. She was the editor of the graduate student journal TROPOS for four years during that time. Cassagne became interested in genre studies and Diderot in 1995. Since then, she has been working towards her Ph.D. under the guidance of Professor Herbert Joseph at Michigan State University. Isabelle Cassagne was recently hired by the University of North Texas-Denton for the tenure track position of Assistant Professor of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Literature. Her research interests are in Eighteenth Century Literature, Diderot, the problematics of literary genres, the "conte," the relationship between language and knowledge, and the relationship between reality and fiction. |
| La Representation de la France Dans Chemin-d'Ecole De Patrick
Chamoiseau. Carol Borne, Michigan State University Carol Borne is a Ph.D. candidate in French Language and Literature at Michigan State University and currently working on Ph.D. dissertation on Caribbean Literature. She has a Bachelor's degree in Anglo-American Culture from the University La Sorbonne, Paris, and a Master's degree in International Business, La Sorbonne. With Cassagne, Borne is the co-editor of TROPOS, the Graduate Students Journal at Michigan State University and also the president of the Caribbean Students Association. |
| Entre La Proposition et L'Evidence: La Literature Du Devenir
Creole. Luciano Campos Picanco, Davidson College, North Carolina Luciano Campos Picanco has an M.A. in Francophone Literatures from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, an M.A. in French Languages and Literatures from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. in French Languages and Literatures from Michigan State University. Picanco wrote his dissertation on the evolution of Martiniquan Literature in the 20th century. He is currently working at Davidson College, North Carolina. |
| SESSION IX: MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM. Henson Center 2126, 3:15- 4:45 pm Session Chair: Susan Harrington, University of Maryland Eastern Shore |
| Elmer Rice: Modernist Stylistic Innovations. Kimberly May Jew, Hofstra University Kimberly May Jew has recently completed her Ph.D. in Educational Theatre at New York University. She in an instructor of theatre at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. Her specializations include modern dramatic literature and history, American theatre and world drama. |
| The French Theatre of the Absurd in Children's Literature. Anne Cirella-Urrutia, University of Texas Anne Cirella-Urrutia earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas, Austin in May 1998. Her dissertation, entitled "Avant-Gardism in Children's Theater: The Use of Absurdist Techniques by Anglophone Children's Playwrights," argues for an extension of the study of the avant-garde to theater for youth. Anne Cirella-Urrutia has taught French and a comparative literature course on African-American and Post-Colonial African/Caribbean writers in English and French. She has also worked as a writing consultant at the Undergraduate Writing Center at the University of Texas. Anne Cirella-Urrutia has presented her research on the history of avant-garde drama in the U.S., France and Germany extensively. An article "Absurdist Trends in Children's Theatre" will be published by editor Meena Khorana this winter in a special issue of Bookbird: World of Children's Books devoted to children's theater. She will chair a special session devoted to historical children's literature at the SCMLA Annual Convention to be held in New Orleans, LA in November. Click here to view Abstract |
| Genre Appropriation and Gender: The Female-Authored Picaresque. Helena Eriksson Wahlstrom, U C Gavle Helena Wahlstrom received her BA in English and Comparative Literature from Uppsala University (Sweden) in 1991. During her graduate studies she spent 1993/94 as a Fulbright Grantee and Visiting Fellow at Harvard. In 1997 she received her Ph.D. in American Literature from Uppsala University. Her doctoral thesis, "Husbands, Lovers, and Dreamlovers: Masculinity and Female Desire in Women's Novels of the 1970s" (1997, available from Almquist & Wiksell, Stockholm) focuses on multiple males and the functions of female sexual desire in a number of popular texts by women. A reworked chapter from the thesis, titled "Phallic and Nonphallic Lovers," appears in Moulding Masculinities Vol. 1 (Ashgate, 1998). Wahlstrom has taught at Uppsala University and Midsweden University, and currently works as a lecturer in American literature at U C Gavle, where she also teaches oral and written communication. Her project in progress is a study of representations of masculinity in Faulkner's texts. |
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