CEA 2017 Final Program

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ISLANDS
College English Association
48th Annual Conference
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
March 30–April 1, 2017
College English Association

An Association of Teacher-Scholars since 1939
Executive Director
Juliet Emanuel, Borough of Manhattan
Community College, CUNY
Associate Director and Treasurer
National Coordinator of Affiliates
Scott Borders, Anderson University
Linda Di Desidero, Marine Corps University
President
Technology Director
Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University
Steve Brahlek, Palm Beach State College
First Vice President & Program Chair
Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian College Board of Directors
Corey Andrews, Youngstown State University
Second Vice President Margaret Barrow, Borough of Manhattan Community
Carolyn Kyler, Washington & Jefferson College College/CUNY
Richard Gaughran, James Madison University
Immediate Past President
Jill Kroeger-Kinkade, University of Southern Indiana
Coretta Pittman, Baylor University
Lee Anna Maynard, Augusta University
Editor, CEA Critic Elizabeth Monske, Northern Michigan University
Jeraldine Kraver, University of Northern Arundhati Sanyal, Seton Hall University
Colorado Staci Stone, Murray State University
Monica Weis SSJ, Nazareth College
Editor, CEA Forum and Webmaster
Jamie McDaniel, Pittsburg State University Program Design
Erin N. Bistline, Ashland University
Historian
Joseph Pestino, Nazareth College
2017 Special Topics Chairs and Program Committee Members
Jerry Alexander, Presbyterian College Carolyn Kyler, Washington and Jefferson College
Corey Andrews, Youngstown State University Karen Lentz Madison, Univ. of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Elaine Andrews, Penn State-Shenango Jamie McDaniel, Pittsburg State University
Laura Barrio-Vilar, Univ. of Arkansas-Little Rock Danielle Nielsen, Murray State University
Elizabeth Battles, Texas Wesleyan University Carol Osborne, Coastal Carolina University
Erin N. Bistline, Ashland University Emily Jane Pucker, Univ, of Alabama
Scott Borders, Anderson University Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State University
Amanda Brahlek, McNeese State University Katrina Quinn, Slippery Rock University
Steve Brahlek, Palm Beach State College Taylor Roosevelt, Independent Scholar
Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State University Arundhati Sanyal, Seton Hall University
William Daniels II, Eastern Michigan University Lynne Simpson, Presbyterian College
Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University Margaret Smith, Ball State University
Linda Di Desidero, Marine Corps University Staci Stone, Murray State University
Marina Favila, James Madison University Andrea Trocha-Van Nort, United States Air Force
Grace Foster, Georgetown University Academy
Richard Gaughran, James Madison University Joseph Ward, Pasco-Hernando State College
Robin Hammerman, Stevens Institute of Technology Joseph Viera, Nazareth College
Luke Iantorno, Texas Tech University Craig Warren, Penn State-Erie,Behrend College
Jeraldine Kraver, Univ. of Northern Colorado Monica Weis SSJ, Nazareth College
Jill Kroeger-Kinkade, Univ. of Southern Indiana
Table of Contents
CEA on the Web ...............................................................................................i
Invitation from the President ...........................................................................ii
Call For Papers, CEA 2018 .............................................................................iii
CEA Awards and Honors .................................................................................v
Program Overview By Day & Time ...............................................................vi
Program Overview By Topic ..........................................................................x
Conference Program
Thursday, March 30 .........................................................................................1
Friday, March 31 ............................................................................................11
Saturday, April 1 ............................................................................................25
CEA Presidents, Executive Directors, and Treasurers ...................................37
Index ..............................................................................................................38
Maps of Hotel Conference Rooms .................................................................40
CEA on the Web
To join the College English Association or to find out more information about our
organization, publications, and annual conference, please see the CEA website at
cea-web.org.
Email address for general queries or to contact an officer | [email protected]
Get short, timely messages from CEA via Twitter | twitter.com/CEAtweet
Connect with CEA on Facebook | www.facebook.com/CollegeEnglishAssociation
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An Invitation from the President
Welcome, all of you, to Hilton Head Island for the 48th Annual Conference of the
College English Association. On this island we are, but not stranded; indeed, all of us, all
of you, have created this program, an archipelago. We have come a long way.
If you are new to CEA, I hope you will come to share the fondness and respect I feel
for this professional organization. I recall years ago as an ABD candidate on the market
for the first time, checking my mailbox in the English Department of Florida State
University, finding that my placement file and follow-up correspondence sent to Texas
Tech for a visiting lectureship had gotten all the way to Houston before being stamped
“insufficient postage” and returned to me undelivered.
This was two days after the deadline had passed. The department chair passed by at
that moment, saw my dilemma, had a secretary make out a new envelope with enough
postage, brought me into his office, and called the department head at Tech to explain
the situation. He then had me call my directing professor, whose roommate from Chapel
Hill was an English professor at Texas Tech. I taught at Texas Tech for the next three
years. My dissertation director was George Mills Harper (1975-76 CEA President), my
department chair Fred Standley (1987-88 CEA President, longtime CEA Historian). That
is who we are.
Also, please take advantage of the breadth and diversity on the program at CEA.
Composition and rhetoric; British, American, world, Native American, African-American
literatures; children’s literature and graphic novels; film studies and disability studies;
creative and technical writing; service learning and academic leadership sessions;
graduate student concerns and many other areas are on the program. You may spend
the day in your special interest or develop new avenues to invigorate your teaching and
scholarship.
And I can’t omit mentioning our open-mike reading Friday night. Think about that poem
or short-short fiction piece you brought to work on, that piece you have wanted to try out
on appreciative listeners—come help us keep Friday night on the books.
Finally, as President, I am tremendously grateful for our indefatigable Program Chair,
Lynne Simpson, for organizing and governing this group of islands we call the 48th
Conference of the College English Association. Please enjoy and enrich yourselves and
others.
Jeffrey DeLotto
CEA President, 2016-2017
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Call for Papers, CEA 2018 |
49th Annual Conference | April 5-7, 2018 | St. Petersburg, Florida
"And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form'd…."
--Walt Whitman
Submit proposals online at www.cea-web.org, beginning August 15, 2017.
Submission deadline: November 1, 2017
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge crosses Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg, called the Sunshine City in
honor of its Guinness Record for most consecutive days of sunshine (768). St. Petersburg is home
to historic neighborhoods, distinguished museums, contemporary galleries, and a wide variety of
dining, entertainment and shopping venues.
St. Petersburg is also home to the College English Association’s 2018 national conference, where
we invite you to join us at our annual meeting to explore the many bridges that connect places, texts,
communities, words, and ideas.
CEA invites proposals from academics in all areas of literature, language, film, composition,
pedagogy, and creative, professional, and technical writing. We are especially interested in
presentations that build bridges between and among texts, disciplines, people, cultures, media,
languages, and generations.
For your proposal you might consider:
• Bridges between disciplines, languages, or generations
• Bridges between races, classes, cultures, regions, genders, or sexualities
• Cultural or ideological bridges in literary, scholarly, or theoretical works
• The bridge as construct, form, metaphor, motif, or icon
• Connections between text and images or sound
• Bridges between theory and practice, reading and writing, writer and audience
• Building bridges between teaching and scholarship; faculty and administrators;
professors and students
• Bridges as physical artifacts and symbols of industry and technology
• Digital humanities as a bridge between worlds
• What bridges connect, support, and pass over
General Program
In addition to our conference theme, we also welcome proposals in any and all of the areas English
and writing departments encompass. We also solicit papers on all areas that influence our lives as
academics as well as those that address the profession broadly.
Online Submissions
Proposals should be submitted electronically through our conference management database housed
at the following web address: http://www.cea-web.org.
Electronic submissions open August 15 and close on November 1, 2017. Proposals should be
between 250 and 500 words in length and should include a title. Please note that only one proposal
may be submitted per participant. Notifications of proposal status will be sent in early December.
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Submitting electronically involves creating a user ID, then using that ID to log in – this time to a
welcome page. A link then will be provided for submitting your proposal under one (or two) of the
following appropriate topic areas:
Academic Administration Leadership / African-American Literature /American Literature: Early,
19th Century, 20th and 21st Century / Assessment and/or Learning Outcomes / Book History
and Textual Criticism / British Literature: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval; 16th and 17th Century;
Restoration and 18th Century; 19th Century, 20th and 21st Century / Byron Society of America
(BSA) / Caribbean Literature / Children’s and Adolescent Literature / Composition and Rhetoric:
Practice or Theory / Creative Writing: fiction and poetry or non‐fiction / Disability Studies / Film
and Literature / Film Studies / Grammar and Linguistics / Graphic Novels / The Healing Arts and
Literature / Hispanic, Latino/a, and Chicano/a Literature / Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Literature /
Literary Theory / Thomas Merton (ITMS) / Multicultural and World Literature / Native American
Literature / Peace Studies / Pedagogy / Pedagogy: Diversity in the English Curriculum / Pedagogy:
Service Learning / Pedagogy: Metacognition, Action Learning, and Supportive Technologies
/ Pedagogy: Universal Design / Popular Culture / Post-Colonial Literature / The Profession /
Religion and Literature / Romance Literature / Southern Literature and Studies / Teacher Education
/ Technical Communication (ATTW) / Transatlantic Literature / Travel and Literature / War and/or
Trauma and Literature / Women’s Connection, Women’s literature, and WGST
Important Additional Information
• A-V equipment and any form of special accommodation must be requested at the time
of proposal submission. CEA can provide DVD players, overhead projectors, data
projectors, and CD/cassette players, but not computers or Internet access.
• If you have attended CEA before and are willing to serve as a session moderator for a
panel other than your own, please indicate so on your submission.
• If you are submitting a pre-formed panel with multiple participants, kindly create a
user ID for each proposed participant.
• To preserve time for discussion, CEA limits all presentations to 15 minutes.
• No person may make more than one presentation at the conference.
• Presentations must be made in person at the conference venue. Neither proxy nor
“virtual” (skyping, etc.) presentations are permitted.
• Papers must be presented in English.
• CEA is unable to sponsor or fund travel or underwrite participant costs.
A Special Invitation to Graduate Students
Graduate students are encouraged to submit their conference presentation for the CEA Outstanding
Graduate Student Paper Award, which carries a small prize. Information on how to submit that paper
will be sent to accepted panelists after the membership deadline. Those who wish to participate are
asked to identify themselves as graduate students in their proposals to facilitate the award process.
Join the College English Association
All presenters must join CEA by the first of January 2018 to appear on the program. To join or to
find out more information about the organization and conference, please see the CEA website at
www.cea-web.org.
Connect with CEA
• via Email: [email protected]
• via Facebook: www. Facebook.com/College EnglishAssociation
• via Twitter: twitter.com/CEAtweet
Have Questions or Comments?
Contact Carolyn Kyler at [email protected]. (Please put “Program Chair” in the Subject line.)
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CEA Awards and Honors
We are now accepting nominations for the following awards to be presented at CEA 2018:
• Fred L. Standley Lifetime Service Award: Recognizes extraordinary and sustained service to
the Association and the profession.
• Joe D. Thomas CEA Distinguished Service Award: Recognizes service to CEA 8contributions
to the organization over a period of time (through committee work, service as an elected officer,
and other projects).
• CEA Professional Achievement Award: Recognizes an Association member who has signally
contributed to teaching and scholarship at the college level.
• Robert Hacke Scholar-Teacher Award: A $550 grant is awarded to an outstanding junior CEA
member for work on a project involving scholarship or pedagogy related to English Studies.
• The James R. (Dick) Bennett Award for Literature and Peace: A prize of $250 may
be awarded annually for a paper or project that contributes significantly, through action or
understanding, to the prospect of living in harmony with the Earth and humankind.
• The Karen Lentz Madison Award for Scholarship: an annual award for a presentation at our
annual conference by an adjunct or contingent faculty member who contributes significantly to
the corpus studiorum in English.

To make a nomination, please contact Juliet Emanuel or Jeffrey DeLotto at [email protected].
Please put Awards in the subject line. Members are encouraged to self-nominate. To nominate for the
Bennett Award, please contact Karen Lentz Madison ([email protected]).
CEA also presents the following honors (chosen from a pool of all eligible submissions; there is no
need to nominate essays for these awards):
• Robert A. Miller Memorial Prize: Honors the best essay and writer of that essay to appear in a
CEA publication during the preceding year.
• Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award: Honors the best paper by a graduate student
presented at the conference; includes a modest cash award.
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Program Overview by Day and Time
Thursday, March 30
7.30am–5.30pm | Registration ..............................................................Ballrooms Foyer
8.00am–5.00pm | Book Exhibit .............................................................Ballrooms Foyer
9.30–10.45 | Session 1
African American Literature 1| Diaspora, Displacement, Cultural Refuge, and Voice ......Ballroom A
American Literature: 19th Century 1 | Early American Literature and Emerson ..............Ballroom B
Composition and Rhetoric 1 | Alternative Approaches that Engage Learning Transfer ....Ballroom D
Creative Writing: Non-Fiction 1 | Island as Destination and Point of Departure ..............Ballroom E
Grammar and Linguistics 1| Grammar Isles in the Classroom ...........................................Ballroom F
Literary Theory 1| An Archipelago of Theoretical Approaches .........................................Ballroom G
Learning Outcomes 1 | Assessment in the Ever-Changing College Environment ............Ballroom H
Pedagogy 2| Living on the Bridge: Challenges in Creating an Interdisciplinary Journal ....Ballroom I
Popular Culture 1| Bob Dylan and the English Teachers ................................................Captain Jacks
Teacher Education 1| Writing Program Archipelago: Bridging Programmatic Goals ............Carolina
Travel Literature 1 | Islands of Adventure and Self-Discovery .............................................Palmetto
War and Literature 3 | War and Literature 3 .......................................................................Ballroom C
10.45–11.00 | Beverage Break
Sponsored by Florida College English Association ....................................................Ballrooms Foyer
11.00–12.15 | Session 2
African American Literature 2 | Education, Cultural Identity, and Race ..........................Ballroom A
American Literature: 19th Century 2 | Edgar Allan Poe ...................................................Ballroom B
British Literature 1 | Islands of Alterity: Voices from the British Isles .............................Ballroom C
Composition and Rhetoric 2 | Self-Regulated Learning in the Writing Classroom ..........Ballroom D
Creative Writing: Non-Fiction 2 | Creative Nonfiction as Islands and Causeways ...........Ballroom E
Grammar and Linguistics 2 | Linguistics in the Classroom ................................................Ballroom F
Literary Theory 2 | Theory and Literature ...........................................................................Ballrom G
Learning Outcomes 2 | Stranded on the Island of General Education Assessment ...........Ballroom H
Pedagogy 3 | Teaching Persona: Making the Abstract Tangible in Online Classrooms ......Ballroom I
Pedagogy 4 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Literature ...............................Captain Jacks
Popular Culture 2 | Superman, The Hungry Tide, and Strandbeest .......................................Carolina
Travel Literature 2 | Seeking Self in Nonfiction Travel Writing and Poetry. ..........................Palmetto
12.15–1.30 | CEA Recognition Luncheon ......................................................Sabal Palm
By Invitation
1.30–2.45 | Session 3
Academic Administration 1 | Islands in the Academy ......................................................Ballroom A
African American Literature 3 | African-American Experience and Popular Culture .......Ballroom B
British Literature: 16th and 17th Century 2 | Politics and Place........................................ Ballroom D
Composition and Rhetoric 3 | Academic Literacy as Mainland .......................................Ballroom E
Composition and Rhetoric 4 | First-Year Writing in the English Department ....................Ballroom F
Creative Writing: Non-Fiction 3 | Creative Nonfiction as Islands of Refuge ...................Ballroom G
Learning Outcomes 3| Creative Means of Assessment ........................................................Ballroom I
Pedagogy 5 | Teaching Literature on a Cultural Island ..................................................Captain Jacks
Pedagogy 6 | Technology’s Intersection with Pedagogies .....................................................Carolina
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2.45–3.00 | Beverage Break
Sponsored by Michigan College English Association ................................................Ballrooms Foyer
3.00–4.15 | Session 4
Academic Administration 2| Land Ho: Finding Higher Ground in Higher Education ......Ballroom A
African American Literature 4 | Islands of Protest ............................................................Ballroom B
American Literature: 19th Century 6 | American Islands ................................................. Ballroom C
British Literature: 16th and 17th Century 3 | Pedagogy and Persuasion ...........................Ballroom D
Composition and Rhetoric 5 | Writing Classes as Bridges to Information Literacy .........Ballroom E
Composition and Rhetoric 6| Design: Linking the Islands, Linking the Disciplines .........Ballroom F
Grammar and Linguistics 3 | Tech Island: ATTW at CEA ................................................Ballroom G
Hispanic/Latino(a)/Chicano(a) Literature 1| Islands in U.S. Latino/a Literary Culture ...Ballroom H
Pedagogy 7 | Lost in Translation: Students’ Travails on the Isle of Academe ....................Ballroom I
Pedagogy 8 | Meanings, Actions, Reflections: (Re) Framing the English Major ..........Captain Jacks
Popular Culture 3 | Bikes, Games, and Music: Teaching and Reading Unique Texts ...........Carolina
Women's Connection 1 | Misogyny and Resistance ...............................................................Palmetto
5.00–6.00 | Plenary Session .............................................................................Ballroom J
6.15–8.00 | President’s Reception .............................................................Basshead Deck
Friday, March 31
7.00–8.00 | CEA and CEA Affiliates Officers Breakfast ...............Conroy's Restaurant
7.30am–4.50pm | Registration ...............................................................Ballrooms Foyer
8.00-5.00pm | Book Exhibit ...................................................................Ballrooms Foyer
8.00–9.15 | Session 5
American Literature: 19th Century 5| Slavery, Revolt, and Abolition ...............................Ballroom A
British Literature: 16th and 17th Century 4 | Spirituality, Sanctuary, and Scholarship ....Ballroom B
Caribbean Literature 1 | V.S. Naipaul ................................................................................Ballroom C
Children's and Adolescent Literature 1| Encouraging Diversity ........................................Ballroom D
Composition and Rhetoric 7 | The Role of Emotion in Rhetorical Strategy .....................Ballroom E
Film and Literature 1| Crossing Gulfs: Examining the “Other” in Literature and Film ....Ballroom G
Pedagogy 9 | The Creative Arts in the Classroom .............................................................Ballroom H
Pedagogy and Diversity 5 | Islands Among Ourselves: Affinity Groups & Reading ....... Ballroom F P
Pedagogy and Metacognition 1|Pedagogies of Engagement and Classroom Community ..Ballroom I
Popular Culture 4| Bridge to the Mainland? Academics Who Hunt ...............................Captain Jacks
The Profession 1| The English Department Promoting Civic and Global Learning ..............Carolina
Women's Connection 2 | Singular Authors / Singular Works .................................................Palmetto
9.15–9.30 | Beverage Break
Sponsored by Texas College English Association .....................................................Ballrooms Foyer
9.30–10.45 | Session 6 |
African American Literature 5 | Gwendolyn Brooks and Gloria Naylor ..........................Ballroom A
British Literature: 18th Century 1 | Islands and Nature in the 18th Century ....................Ballroom B
Creative Writing 2| Pirates Among Us ...........................................................................Captain Jacks
Film and Literature 2 | New Heroes, New Escapes...and Zombies ...................................Ballroom E
Pedagogy 10| Teaching Students With Efficacy and Where They Are ...............................Ballroom F
Pedagogy 17 | Islands ........................................................................................................Ballroom D
Pedagogy and Metacognition 2| Composition, Online Writing, and Writing Centers .......Ballroom G
Popular Culture 5| Theories and Practices of American Popular Culture ..........................Ballroom H
The Profession 2| Navigating the Contingent Faculty Experience ......................................Ballroom I
Trauma 1| Narratology and Trauma ........................................................................................Carolina
Women's Connection 3| Space, Place, and Wheels .................................................................Palmetto
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10.45–11.00 | Beverage Break
Sponsored by College English Association--Mid-Atlantic Group ..............................Ballrooms Foyer
11.00–12.15 | Session 7
American Literature: 20th and 21st Century 1| Past, Present, and Future ........................Ballroom A
British Literature: 18th Century 2| Humans: Their Language and Lives as Islands .........Ballroom B
Caribbean Literature 3 | Metaphors in Caribbean Fiction . ................................................Ballroom C
Composition and Rhetoric 9 | Innovation and Technology in the Writing Classroom .....Ballroom D
Creative Writing 3 | Islands, Islands, Everywhere ............................................................Ballroom E
Film and Literature 3 | Prisons of Place, Prisons of Mind .................................................Ballroom F
Pedagogy 11 | Bridging the Divide: Helping Students Succeed .......................................Ballroom G
Pedagogy and Metacognition 3| Metacognitive Course Curricula ....................................Ballroom H
Popular Culture 6 | Islands and Metaphors .........................................................................Ballroom I
The Profession 3 | The Last Island?: Contemplating the Career's End .........................Captain Jacks
Trauma 2 | War, Literature, and Trauma .................................................................................Carolina
Women's Connection 4 | Women in Nineteenth-Century American Culture .........................Palmetto

12.30-2.00 | Diversity Luncheon .....................................................................Sabal Palm
Preregistration Required
2.00–3.15 | Session 8
American Literature: 20th and 21st Century 2| Canonical American Authors .................Ballroom A
British Literature: 19th Century 1 | Dickens and His Influence ........................................Ballroom B
Caribbean Literature 4 | Empowerment in the Caribbean . ................................................Ballroom C
Composition and Rhetoric 10 | Building Connectivity and Belonging in the Classroom.. Ballroom D
Film Studies 1 | Women on/in Film ....................................................................................Ballroom F
Pedagogy 12 | Finding Connections Among the Student Islands .....................................Ballroom G
Pedagogy and Metacognition 4 | Metacognitive Mappings: Active, Applied Learning ....Ballroom H
The Profession 4 | Islands and Archipelagos: Topographies of English Studies .................Ballroom I
Post-Colonial Literature 1 | Politics, Language, and Identity ........................................Captain Jacks
War and Literature 1 | War and Literature 1 ...........................................................................Carolina
Women's Connection 5 | Gender Expressions and Repression in American Literature .........Palmetto
3.15–3.30 | Beverage Break
Sponsored by Pennsylvania College English Association .....................................................................
3.30–4.45 | Session 9
American Literature: 20th and 21st Century 3| Movement and Metaphor ........................Ballroom A
British Literature: Medieval 1 | Love and Gentilesse in Chaucer and Marie de France ...Ballroom B
British Literature: 19th Century 2 | Island-Hopping with Women Novelists ...................Ballroom C
Composition and Rhetoric 11| Writing Comprehension in and out of the Classroom ......Ballroom D
Creative Writing 5 | Nature, Wreckage, and Islands of Loss ............................................ Ballroom E
Film Studies 2 | (De)Constructing Narrative and Identity in Literature and Film .............Ballroom F
Pedagogy 13 | Exploring the Seas of the Literature Classroom ........................................Ballroom G
Pedagogy and Metacognition 5 | Game Pedagogy in the English Classroom ..................Ballroom H
The Profession 5 | Building Bridges in the Profession ..................................................Captain Jacks
Post-Colonial Literature 2 | The Challenges of Identity, Oppression, and Connection ..........Carolina
War and Literature 2 | War and Literature 2 ............................................................................Palmetto
5.00–5.50 | Open Business Meeting ................................................................Ballroom J
6.00-7.00 | Graduate Student Reception .................................................Basshead Deck
Preregistration Required
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