English 461/562: Senior Seminar

Literary Criticism

Fall Conference

December 3, 2005

Ruffner 103

Beverages and light refreshments will be available during breaks

Panel 1
8:15-9:30

1. Erin Bero--Mirrors and Metaphors: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”
2. Sherri Scruggs--Charlotte Perkins Gilman's “The Yellow Wallpaper” in the Eyes of Gilbert, Gubar, and Woolf
3. Bonnie Pen--Virginia Woolf on Jane Austen: An Impersonal Artist?

Panel 2
9:45-11:00


1. Meredith Carr--Choosing to Mother: Reclaiming and Celebrating the Domestic Domain in Feminist Writings
2. Susan South--Deconstructing Nikki Giovanni
3. Dan Steele--Literature and Culture: The Rise of "New Journalism"

Panel 3
11:15-12:30
 

1. Paula Neri--Polarization in/And Harry Potter :  A New-Historical Approach
2. Kelly Weimer--William Wordsworth and Henry David Thoreau: Two Philosophies of Romanticism
3. Holly Roop--William Blake and Joseph Priestly: Science and Religion in the Late-Eighteenth Century

Panel 4
2:00-3:15

1. Adam Linthicum--Video Games as Cultural Texts
2. Frances Stubbs--“Man Up, Bro”: The Decline of the Bildungsroman and Male Rite of Passage in Contemporary American Literature
3. Tracy Agnew--Longinus and the Relationship Between Text and Reader

Panel 5
3:30-4:45

1.Mary Morrison--The Social Influence of Dance
2. Bobbi Thibo--John Milton and Samuel Johnson: Characterization in Paradise Lost
3. Krystal Mays--The Multiple Endings of Big Fish: How Will Your Story End?

Panel 6
5:00-6:15
 

1. Daniel Trump--Contradiction is Key: Charles Bukowski
2. Christopher Green-- Kurt Wimmer's Equilibrium: A Response to Plato
3. Adrianne Johnson--Interpretive Communities and the Bible