The 3rd Annual
Arlington Humanities Colloquium

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Schedule of Events:

8:00- 8:30 Registration, Preston Hall- second floor: Breakfast- Rm 200 PH

8:30- 8:50 Introduction- Dr. Susan Hekman Rm 210 PH


9:00- 10:15 Session A

A1: Contact Zones and Domination - Rm 302 PH

Melinda Zepeda (Our Lady of the Lake University)
Chicano Lessons: The Clash of Culture's Ethos and Its Influence in Works by Sandra Cisneros and Lorna Dee Cervantes

Anita Moreno (Our Lady of the Lake University)
Viramontes' The Moths: Establishing a Voice

Robin Robinson (UTA)
Accommodation to Domination: Demise of the Tejano Elite in the Lower Rio Grande


A2: Linguistic Realities: The Ambiguity of Faulkner's Literary Voice - Rm 202 PH

Billie Hara (Southern Methodist University)
Could It Be Madness This Voice? or, Perhaps Faulkner's South-- Schizophrenia in As I Lay Dying

Andrea Rohlfs Wright (Texas Christian University)
"Protection" of Gender Roles Through Language in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Susan Webb Layne (Texas Christian University)
In Search of William Faulkner: Constructing the Author of The Sound and the Fury


A3: Metamorphoses of Text and Self - Rm 207 PH

Collin Gifford Brooke (UTA)
After the Cyborg(y): Hypertextual Bodies and the Rhetoric of Technology

Sherrin Roberts (UTA)
The Electronic Labyrinth of Borges: Considerations in Moving Literature to Hyperspace

Michelle Vardeman (Southern Methodist University)
The Emergence of Self in Jane Campion's The Piano


A4: Ca(u)se Studies: The Present State of Invention - Rm 210 PH

John Gooch (Texas Tech University)
Peter Ramus' Influence on Pedagogical Philosophy in Composition Classrooms

Byron Hawk (UTA)
A Ca(u)se for Invention: Bitzer's "Rhetorical Situation" as/and Classical Topoi

Charles Heinemann (UTA)
Plagarism (Fear of the Collaborative Act)


A5: Underwriting Patriarchy - Rm 307 PH

Elizabeth Currey (UTA)
Gender Issues in the Persecution of Witches

Susan Ramskill (UTA)
Into the Words: Misogynist Allegory and Subtext in Steven Sondheim-James Lapine's Into the Woods

Dyane Fowler (UTA)
Dishwater Images in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye


10:30- 11:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS College Hall

Timothy Luke
Museum Pieces: The Politics of Aesthetics and Knowledge at the Museum

11:30- 12:45 LUNCH Rm- 300 PH


12:45- 2:00 Session B

B1: Representing Space/Bodies - Rm 307 PH

Kathleen Lipovski (Indiana University)
Cross-Dressing the Biography: Clothing Lives in Virginia Wolf's Orlando

Bobby Miller (UTA)
Dennett's Deconstruction of the Humanities: Can There Be a Pattern Without a Pattern-Maker?

Thomas Mical (Georgia Institute of Technology)
The Eternal Recurrence of Architectural Memory


B2: Fear, Guilt, Anxiety - Rm 302

Irene Stratakis (University of South Florida)
Surrealist Invention in the Case of Joseph K.

Stacy Fussell (UTA)
Rhetorical Topoi and the Fear of Two Revolutionary Ideas, Dr. Jekyll's and Sigmund Freud's

Trudi Muro (UTA)
"Come into My Parlor," said Renfield to the Fly


B3: "The Human Barnyard": MOOs, Hicks, and Discourse of Politics - Rm 202

David Rieder (UTA)
Problematizing Solutions Subsequent to A Rape in Cyberspace

Dani Day (UTA)
Hickonics and the Scientific Method

Catherine Simpson (University of Texas at Dallas)
"One Easy Prohibition": Milton, Feminist Criticism, and the Lost Paradise


B4: Strategizing Stories - Rm 207 PH

Beth Brunk (UTA)
The Conversion Narrative as Social Criticism: Victorian Novels Hard Times and The Water Babies

Linda Jackson (UTA)
Vizenor's Bearheart: Resisting Masks of Otherness

Susan Hoffman
Bellowing for the Compson's: Benjy as the Personified Unconscious in The Sound and The Fury


B5: Explicating Rhetorics of Production and Knowledge - Rm 210 PH

Kia Richmond (Texas A&M University - Commerce)
Expressing the Need to be a Humanist

Carla Kittinger and Stacia Dunn Neely (Texas Christian University)
Isocratean Rhetoric and the Paideia of Education: Validating the Need for Praxis Through an Analysis of What is Appropriate

John Krajicek (Texas A&M University)
Making the World of the Maker: the Rhetoric of Aristotle's Poetics


2:15-3:30 Session C

C1: Signifying the Masses - Rm 202 PH

Jane Dare (UTA)
Blue Jeans as a Semiotic Sign

Thaddeus Meyer (University of North Texas)
Analytic Signs and Cultural Index in the Age of Mass Culture

Thomas Rickert (UTA)
The New Science of Roland Barthes


C2: Inventing Identities - Rm 307 PH

Chris Murray (UTA)
Sapphos Womanly Rhetoric (Without Foucault)

Gavin Schultz (University of Houston - Clear Lake)
John Berryman's Sonnets: Redefining Identity to Fit Desire

John Price (University of Texas at Dallas)
An Approach to Literature Through Aesthetics: Revelations from the Association of Mask to the Texts of Moliere, Yeats, Eliot, O'neil, Chekov, and Pinter


C3: Methods of Understanding: Poetry and Narrative in the Classroom - Rm 302 PH

Corri Wells (UTA)
Necessarily Narrative: The Impossibility of Merely Factual Understanding

Mark Aune (Wayne State University)
"Weird. Very Different. Hard to Understand." The Effect of Poetry on Undergraduate Students in the Classroom


C4: Order from Chaos - Rm 207 PH

Mac McGinty (University of Houston - Clear Lake)
Ain't Necessarily So: The Cooperative Principle, Defamiliarization, and Choas Theory in the Usual Suspects by Bryan Singer

Margot Collins (University of North Texas)
The Necessity of Chaos in Emily Dickinson's I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died--

Laura Smith (University of Oklahoma)
Order Within Disorder: The Duality of Entropy in Coming Through Slaughter


C5: The Electric Word - Rm 210 PH

Stephen Kubick (UTA)
Striking Out: Hypertext, Agency, and Academic Empowerment

Mary Lynn Hyman (UTA)
Anonymity and the IRC

Lee Bradley and Tim Morris (UTA)
Relaying the Word


3:45- 5:00 Session D

D1: Film/Theory/Gender - Rm 202 PH

Robert Beuka (Louisiana State University)
Rewriting the Rules of the Road: Thelma and Louise and the Gendered Politics of Cinematic Representation

Amanda Robinson (UTA)
The Role of a Lifetime: Victorian Mothers in Contemporary American Film

Todd Garrard (UTA)
Star Wars as Epic


D2: Authorship and Artistry in America - Rm 302 PH

Cedric May (UTA)
Race Theory and Representation in Faulkner's Novels

Mark Noe (UTA)
(Dis)Embodied Voices: The Text as Temporal Space

Robert Robertson (UTA)
Echoes: Hearing the African-American Oral Narrative in 20th Century Black Literature


D3: Philosophy, Evil, and the 20th Century - Rm 307 PH

Joe Hinman (University of Texas at Dallas)
TBA

Roger Thompson (Texas Christian University)
Emerson and Tillich: The Problem of Evil Confronted and Reconciled

Lori Bradley Shrock (UTA)
Strange Bedfellows: The Similar Cultural Work of Religion and Pornography in 20th Century America


D4: Mythos as Representation - Rm 210 PH

Margaret Dwyer (UTA)
The Syncretic Impulse: Louis Owens' Use of Blended Mythologies and Autobiography in The Sharpest Sight

Rose Johnson (UTA)
Depoliticized Speech and Seamlessness in the Making of the Traviata Myth

Alex Dubinski (Arlington)
Keats, Diderot, Fragonard, and the Esthetics of Sacrifice


D5: The Contemporary Classroom - Rm 207 PH

Sara Orr (UTA)
The Return of Orality

Alan Taylor (UTA)
The Rhetoric of Flight: a Deleuzo-Guattarian Analysis of Student Attitudes in the Composition Classroom

Debi Reese (UTA)
Toward a Rhetoric of Androgynous Writing


7:30- 10:00 RECEPTION




Creative Writing Panels


A6: Images of Intimacy - Rm 204 PH (9:00- 10:15)

Tim Cloward (University of Texas at Dallas)
poetry: "The Windmills in West Texas" and "The Lantern"

Nia Kimbo

Kate Yarborough (University of Texas at Dallas)
short story: "The Catalyst"


B6: War Scenes: Let Sleeping Cats Lie? - Rm 204 PH (12:45- 2:00)

Tracy Miller (University of Texas at Dallas)
short story: "Machine-Gun Hands"

Virginia Howard (UTA)
poetry: "The Wall"

Helen King (UTA)
poetry: "The Space Between"

Umma Khan (UTA)
poetry: "Shadows Toss Across My Brow"

Trudi Muro (UTA)
poetry: "Ash Street"

Shawn Clements (UTA)
poetry: "Eggshell walls"


C6: Folk Songs and Fruit Salad - Rm 204 PH (2:15-3:30)

Virginia Howard (UTA)
poetry: "For Clara"

Umma Khan (UTA)
poetry: "A Friendship Moved"

Helen King (UTA)
poetry: "Offerings"

Julia Newman (UTA)
poetry: "Insomnia on the Sofa" and "Intolerance"

Elisha Faust (UTA)
poetry: "The bland neighbor" and "A Love Poem"

Rebekah Mercer (UTA)
short story: "Cantaloupe: Metaphor for a Marriage"