2009 Kemp Symposium

Monday, April 20, 2009

Coffee Service will be available in the Combs 3rd Floor Hallway

10:00 – 10:50 a.m.

002 Combs Hall – Boys, Men, Performance
Chair: Professor Warren Rochelle

• Sarah Oliver, “Why British Men are Better Than American Boys: An
  Introspective Look at Two Relationships”
• Benjamin Brishcar, Annastasia Snyder, Patrick Whalen, Stephanie Williams,
  Alyssa Johnson, Cheryl Fishback, Justin Toney, “Literature in
  Performance” (or “so you think you can slam”)

214 Combs Hall – Eighteenth-Century Jumble: Cross-Dressing, Genocide, Power, and the Epic
Chair: Professor Marie McAllister

• Fumika Ueta, ” Cross-dressing and Disguise: Finding Identity in Mary Davys’
  The Reformed Coquet”
• Jennifer Beville, “Genocide and Eugenics in Gulliver’s Travels”
• Erin Lemelin, “The Implications of the Strategies for Power over Women in Mary
  Davys’s The Reform’d Coquet”
• Brandon Perdue, “’Let Thy Angels Guide Her Home’: Penelope Aubin’s Christian
  Epic”

11:00 – 11:50 a.m.

111 Combs Hall – Webcomics: New Horizons for Graphic Narrative
Chair: Professor Zach Whalen

• Brandon Perdue, Laura Dorsey and Kris Chester, “Marion’s Knight: Uncreating a
  Webcomic”
• Michelle Labbé, Stephanie Williams, Alyssa Johnson and David Kennedy , “In
  Libris”

12:00 – 12:50 p.m.

237 Combs – Game Studies
Chair: Professor Zach Whalen

• Cari Kreidinger, “Video Games and the Avatar”
• Rachel Blier, “Zelda: The Legend”

1:00 – 1:50

114 Combs Hall – Eloquence from Beyond the Grave and Around the World
Chair: Professor Anand Rao

• Jason McCormack – “From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg, Ruminations on
  Lincoln’s Rhetoric”
• Eric Barnaba – “How to Survive When the Dead Rise”
• Alaha Ahrar – “Introduction to the Poetry of Afghanistan”

139 Combs Hall – Driving to Driver: Reconstructing a Tornado’s Destruction of
One Virginia Town
Chair: Professor Michael McCarthy

• Presented by students from Magazine Feature Writing: Kwaku Aning, Patricia
  Callahan, Molly Driggers, Michelle Eichenberg, Kristin Kelleher, Justin
  Toney

237 Combs Hall – Gender and Conversation
Chair: Professor Teresa Kennedy

• Jacqueline Kane, Cari Kreidinger, Jenna McKee, Julia Thaken, Fumika Ueta

2:00 – 2:50 p.m.

Chair: Professor Mary Rigsby
114 Combs Hall – Language, Emotion, Style, and Gender

• John Schell, “Risky Narrators: Women and Language in Salman Rushdie’s
  Shame”
• Ellen Ferrante, “The Search for Happiness: John Keats and “Ode on Indolence””
  Justin Toney, “Crusoe and Journalism”
• Cheryl Fishback, “Penelope Aubin and Mary Davys Struggle to Create a Strong
  Female Protagonist”

139 Combs Hall – Student Diversity on Campus: A Documentary
Chair: Professor Anand Rao

• The students of FSEM 100: Documentary Film and Its Rhetoric
  Students will present their work on a documentary about student diversity at
  UMW, including their preparation, production, and the debut of the documentary.

3:00 – 3:50 p.m.

001 Combs Hall – Finding MoJo
Chair: Professor Mara Scanlon

• Everett Bartlett, “Ezra Pound and the American Voice”
• Clare O’Brien, “Native American Poetry Interpretations and its Place in the
  Modernist Era”
• Natalie Sayth, “Crossing Boundaries or Crossing the Line?: Layers of Hokku in
  the Little Magazine”

322 Combs Hall – The Maltese Narrative: The Stuff That Stories Are Made Of
Chair: Professor Colin Rafferty
A showcase of creative storytelling work from three students, through traditional prose, photography, and film.

• Presented by Rachel Rocklin, Dresden Glover and Serena Epstein

4:00 – 5:00

139 Combs Hall – Kemp Symposium Keynote Address
Welcome and Introductions: Dr. Terry Kennedy, Department Chair
Keynote Speaker: Professor Antonio Barrenechea
“Conquistadors, Monsters, and Maps: Moby-Dick in a New World Context”

The ELS Department Picnic will follow the keynote address in 1201 William Street

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Coffee Service will be available in the Combs 3rd Floor Hallway

9:30 – 10:45 a.m.

111 Combs Hall – Analyzing EDHD Cases
Chair: Professor Mara Scanlon
Students will present some of their work from the ENGL 457P: Emily Dickinson
and H.D. seminar

• Presenters: Sam Krieg, Calli Lowery, Chelsea Newnam, Johannah O’Keefe,
  Natalie Sayth, Leighton Scott, Alison Servis, Nathan Strobel

11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

322 Combs Hall – Sex(y) Struggles and Power Plays
Chair: Professor Marie McAllister

• Hunter Ray, “Mary Davys’ The (Not So) Reform’d Coquet”
• Hope M. Bowers, “Sexuality in 18th Century Texts: Examining Amoranda and
  Pamela”
• Elizabeth Bodi, “Supporting Megalomania: The Island As Trigger In Robinson
  Crusoe”
• Justin Anderson, “The Homosocial Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”
  Karen Bird, “Isolation and Robinson Crusoe”

12:30 – 1:45 p.m.

002 Combs Hall – Language Acquisition: Child Disfluencies, Adult Reading
Chair: Professor Judith Parker

• Rebecca Cuba, Anne Longerbeam, Sylvia Sierra, “Case Study: Disfluencies
  in Natural Speech of 6-year-olds”
• Leslie Fannon, “The Transfer of Reading Skills from First to Second Language in
  Bilingual Adults”

003 Combs Hall – Blogging and Prophetic Voices
Chair: Professor James Harding
In this presentation, students from ENGL 375UU will show not only their
explorations of the works of Nietszche, Dostoyevsky and D. H. Lawrence, but
how the experience of the umwblog changed and enhanced that exploration.

• Natalie Sayth, Patrick Whalen, Benjamin Brishcar, Becca L’Heureux, Erin
  Dwyer, and John Schell.

111 Combs Hall – Rings and Power: Studies of Tolkein
Chair: Professor Warren Rochelle

• Kate Matta, “Dealing in Absolutes: Morality of the Heroes and Villains of Lord of
  the Rings and The Dark Tower”
• Kristofer A. Chester, “To Wear a Sword”

2:00 – 3:15 p.m.

003 Combs Hall – Bridging the Old South with the New: Contemporary Readings of
Faulkner’s Novels
Chair: Professor Gregory Stewart

• Mary-Kathryn Bywaters: “Opening the Gate: An Examination of Disability and
  Ableism in The Sound and the Fury”
• Ben Brishcar: “‘My Mother Was A Fish’: Performing Ritual and Death in As I
  Lay Dying”
• Elizabeth Nowrouz: “When Nothing is Real But the Ideal: Quentin Compson’s
  Perverted Morality”

111 Combs Hall – The Victorian and Modernist Novel
Chair: Professor Eric Lorentzen

• Hunter Ray, “Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Thomas Hardy’s Indictment of the Judeo-
  Christian Institution”
• Rachel Brackbill, “Tess: Hardy’s Call for Women’s Educational Reform”
• Natalie Sayth, “Getting off the Island: Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway as a Worst-Case
  Scenario Guide out of Isolation”

139 Combs Hall – The Online Literary Journal
Chair: Professor Claudia Emerson
Three groups of students from Professor Emerson’s Literary Journals class will
present the online literary journals they have created.

3:30-4:45

111 Combs Hall – Ethershop: Original Poetry by the Students of ENGL 304
Chair: Professor Claudia Emerson
Presenters: Brad Efford, Johannah O’Keefe, Leslie Fannon, Sam Johnston,
Chelsea Newnam, Jessica Eadie, Jules Thalen, Serena Epstein

322 Combs Hall – “Infinite Variety”: Gender Politics on the Early Modern Stage
Chair: Professor Maya Mathur

• Michelle Morrison, “Marlowe’s Aeneid: A Study of Dido, Queen of Carthage”
• Kate Hurd, “Memorable Females of Shakespeare: Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth”
• Jaclyn Connors, “Sexuality as Power in Measure for Measure”
• Emily Henry, “Comparative Study of Othello”
• Stephanie Mack, “Social Anxiety in The Pardoner’s Tale”

5:00 – 5:50 p.m.

139 Combs Hall —LIT Induction
The Taddesse Adera Memorial Address:
Professor Chris Foss, “Does Literature Matter?”

Reception to Follow Outside of 139 Combs Hall