2012 Conference Program - HERA - Humanities Education and Research Association




					2012 Conference March 8-10, 2012 - Salt Lake City, Utah C R O S S R O A D S Conference Headquarters - Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown 2012 Conference Program Wednesday, March 7th 3:00 pm HERA Board Meeting Thursday, March 8th - 9:00 to 10:15 am Room A: Pedagogical Crossroads Colleen Coughlin (chair) Davenport University Shakespeare or Snookie? Beethoven or Bieber? Cezanne or Cameron: Education or Entercation Victoria Ramirez and Stephanie Heath Weber State University Acting Out in English Class: a Case for Teaching Literature Using Performance Studies Room B: European Crossroads Britney Broyles (chair) University of Louisville A Moral Crossroads: Bloodlust of the Victorian Masses in Crime Fiction Donald Metz University of Cincinnati Victorian Women at the Crossroads Room C: North American Crossroads Lee Ann Westman (chair) University of Texas at El Paso Domestic Fiction Goes West and East: Mary Jane Homes and Literary Tourism Erin McCoy University of Louisville Trading the Fiddle for the Drum: U.S. Voices and Choices Regarding the Vietnam War Cottonwood Room: Theoretical Crossroads Ronald Richardson (chair) San Francisco State University Narrative Madness: Understanding is Making Up Stories about Chaos Sara Northerner Western Kentucky University The Photograph as Historical Discourse Thursday, March 8th - 10:30 to 11:45 am Room A: Pedagogical Crossroads Therese Tomaszek (chair) Davenport University Transformative or Incremental? A Framework for Establishing the Engaged Campus through Service-Learning Alma Bennett Emory University Teaching the Nobel Prizes: An Interdisciplinary Nexus of Genius, History, and Controversy Room B: European Crossroads Stephen Husarik (chair) University of Arkansas- Fort Smith Beethoven at the Crossroads: A Preliminary Version of "Grosse Fuge, Opus 133" Tiffany Hutabarat University of Louisville Modeling Behavior: Fashioning British Identity in Eighteenth-Century English Travel Literature Room C: North American Crossroads Craig Westman (chair) University of Texas at El Paso Gaming Oral Narratives: The Junction Between Native American Literature and Contemporary Video Games Annette Allen University of Louisville Photography: Remembrance or Resistance Cottonwood Room: Pedagogical Crossroads Phoebe Reeves (chair) Frederic Krome Gregory Loving University of California- Clermont Learning Across the Curriculum: A Non-hierarchical Approach Thursday, March 8th - Lunch break 12:00 to 1:00 pm Sessions Resume 1:15 to 2:30 pm Room A: European Crossroads Brian Armstrong Augusta State University Dostoevsky's Critical Crossroads Rachael Hammond Shenandoah University From Tennyson to Duchamp: Ulysses Blind, Bone, and Bold Room B: Pedagogical Crossroads Sherrie Barr (chair) Michigan State University Connected Knowing- Connected Dancing: Finding Home Megan Dailey, Tricia Gordon, Ricky Price, Kaity Sinke Room C: North American Crossroads Joana Owens (chair) Jacksonville University Teaching Woody Allen's Shadows and Fog in a Survey Course on Modernism in the Humanities Emily Petersen Weber State University Flinging "Dirt" in Penn Warren's All the King's Men Tim Green St. Edward's University Shock Studies: Literature and the Social Mess Cottonwood Room: Theoretical Crossroads Viola Lasmana (chair) University of Southern California Singing the Body Electric: Technologies of Communication and Representation Gray Fisher University of Southern California Skin, Clothing, Tent: The Vulnerable Body in the Occupy Movement Ali Sperling University of Southern California "Taking Up" Space: Embodiment in Public Political and Social Practice Thursday, March 8th - 2:45 to 4:00 pm Room A: European Crossroads Geoffrey Green (chair) San Francisco State University Freud and Korngold at the Crossroads of the Psyche: Freud's "Remembering, Repeating, and Working-through" (1914) and "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917) as Represented in Korngold's Die Tote Stadt (1920) Electra Fielding Weber State University Moros i Cristians and the Iberian Early Modern Text: Performance and Mimesis of the Orientalized Other Room B: North American Crossroads Craig Westman (chair) University of Texas at El Paso Gaming Oral Narratives: The Junction Between Native American Literature and Contemporary Video Games Jasie Stokes University of Louisville A Miracle of Rare Device: Exploring the Paradoxical Significance of the Ice Palace in Literature and Film Room C : Theoretical Crossroads David Hatch (chair) University of South Carolina Samuel Beckett and Gothic Tropes Robert Neblett Washington University in St. Louis Mixing Memory and Desire: Adaptation Theory and Deborah Brevoort's The Women of Lockerbie and Blue Moon Over Memphis Thursday, March 8th - 4:15 to 5:30 pm Room A: Pedagogical Crossroads Sara Kapadia (chair) Claremont Graduate University Examining Communication and Creativity in the Early Years of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Specialists and Artists Ruth Osorio Monterey Peninsula College The Research Paper at the Crossroads: Remixing Research and Academic Writing through Creation and Awareness Clary Loisel University of Montana The University of Montana's Global Leadership Initiative via Human Rights Issues in Latin American Literature and Film Room B: European Crossroads Marcia Green (chair) Executive Director, HERA Morality at the Crossroads: Verdi's Operatic Fusion of Music and Drama in Macbeth Steven Nordstrom Brigham Young University At the intersection of poetry and song in late-sixteenth century Paris: Philippe de Monte's "Sonetz de Pierre de Ronsard" (1575) Alden Wood San Francisco State University Radical Intersections: The Rise of Atonal Music and The Invisible Committee's The Coming Insurrection Room C: North American Crossroads Samuele Pardini (chair) Elon University Images of Italian Americans in African American Literature in the Time of Jim Crow Lauren Derby University of Houston Contemporary American Indian Poetry: Protest and Pain as Language Cottonwood Room: Gender Crossroads Wynn Yarbrough (chair) University of the District of Columbia Sisters Are Doing it Themselves: Representations of the Feminine in African-American Children's Poetry Roseanne Gatto St. John's University Building Steam Engines: Mining the Archives and Locating a Crossroad between the Women of Radcliffe and George Pierce Baker at the Turn of the Century Melanie Hinton University of Utah Gazing at the Body Politic: Woman's place in The Wanderer's Britain Thursday, March 8th - 5:30 to 6:30 pm Room B: Creative Crossroads Wynn Yarbrough University of the District of Columbia A Boy's Dream-- Poetry Reading Mikel Vause Weber State University At the Edge of Things Thursday, March 8th at 7:00 pm Tabernacle Choir rehearsal, free to the public, in The Tabernacle on Temple Square Friday, March 9th 9:00 to 10:15 am Room A: Pedagogical Crossroads Ronald Weber (chair) University of Texas at El Paso The Grand Tour American Style Renee Schlueter Kirkwood Community College Pilgrims at the Crossroads: Reading Thomas Hardy's "At the Tomb of Cestius" in the Protestant Cemetery Margaret Musgrove University of Central Oklahoma Pedagogy of Teaching Rome: Thoughts on Teaching a Humanities Course in Ancient Roman Culture Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen University of Central Oklahoma Lost in the Pio Clementino Museum: Interpretation and Teaching Room B: European Crossroads Doré Ripley (chair) California State University- East Bay/Diablo Valley College Intellectual Crossroads: The Masculine Minds of Courtly Women in Shakespeare's Romances Amy Lofgreen Brigham Young University Milton's Paradise Lost and Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Comparison Stephani Pierce San Francisco State University Adventure and Salty Old Pirates: The "Disneyfied" Afterlife of Treasure Island Room C: North American/Asian Crossroads Sarita Cannon (chair) San Francisco State University Split Communities, Split Selves in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Honey Rue David Cosca San Francisco State University Is Hell a Pretty Place? A White-Supremacist Eden in Toni Morrison's Beloved Brandon Harwood University of Louisville Enterable Art: Observers Becoming Participants Through Japanese Gardens, Poetry and Ink Drawing Friday, March 9th - 10:30 am to 11:45 am Room A: Pedagogical Crossroads Continuation of previous session on Rome Room B: Latin American Crossroads Paul Guajardo (chair) University of Houston Crossroads at the Border: Immigration as Rite-of-Passage Virginia da Costa West Chester University Service Learning Abroad: The Street Children Program in Quito, Ecuador Room C: North American Crossroads Doug Cox (chair) Colorado Mesa University Traveling through the Dark: Intersections Between the Individual and Community in Recent American Road Poems Andrew Vogel Kutztown University Singing the Open Road: Walt Whitman and the American Road Poem Brent Kubasta Rollins College Subliminatin North by Northwest Cottonwood Room: Philosophical Crossroads Krista Rodin (chair) Northern Arizona University Compassion through the Image of the Virgin/Mother: A Comparative look at Mary and Tara Daniel Carroll University of Idaho The Reflection of Medieval Philosophy in the Structure of Ninth-Century Organum Kip Smilie St. Gregory's University Irving Babbitt's New Humanism: Education and the "Civil War in the Cave" Friday, March 9th - Lunch break - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Sessions resume - 1:15 to 2:30 pm Room A: Pedagogical Crossroads Alex Caldiero (chair) Utah Valley University To Become Human is an Art Margaret Sass Boise State University Using Social Media Tools for Service Learning Burke Sorenson Utah Valley University Digital Humanities: What's all the Buzz About? Room B: North American Crossroads Chris Perry (chair) San Francisco State University The Poet as Art Critic: Charles Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams, and the Formation of a Modern Aesthetic Daniel Manchester Travelling Time: Tenets of The Road Echoed in the Temporal Shifts of Contemporary American Poetry Amy Thrash San Francisco State University Hagar's Daughter, Or, A Tale of Passing and Plotting Room C: Classical Crossroads Edmund Cueva (chair) University of Houston - Downtown The Harlem Renaissance and the Graeco-Roman Classics Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers University of Alabama Helen of Troy: At the Crossroads Between Ancient Patriarchy and Modern Feminism Friday, March 9th - 2:45 to 4:00 pm Room A: Pedagogical Crossroads Carin Mayo (chair) University of Alabama at Birmingham Culturomics-Should the N-gram Determine the Corpus of Literature for Educators? Julie Paz Utah Valley University Teaching Creativity in the Classroom Hui Wang Sun Yat-Sen University Didactic Changes in the Classroom for Medical Students Room B: Pedagogical Crossroads Laura Gelfand (chair), Alexa Sand, Rachel Middleman, and David Wall Utah State University The Politics and Poetics of Visual Literacy Room C: African Crossroads Thokozani Khuzwayo (khuzwayot@ukzn.ac.za) (chair) University of KwaZulu Natal Handling Conflict during Apartheid: Insight from Long Walk to Freedom Brittany Sheldon Indiana University Living at a Cultural Crossroads: Wall Painting by Women in Northern Ghana Cottonwood Room: Theological Crossroads Kimberli M. Stafford (chair) Utah Valley University Indigenous Aesthetics and Sacred Space: Figurations of Landscape in Contemporary American Indian Poetry Kim Abunuwara Utah Valley University Absent or Unrecognizable: Divine Representation in Modern Theatre Steve Hall Utah Valley University The Mystical Source and Purpose of Michael Jackson's Artistry Friday, March 9th - 4:15 to 5:30 pm Room A: Pedagogical Crossroads Kim Abunuwara (chair), Aaron Herbert, Alex Strasburg, Addyson Reynolds Utah Valley University The Value of Humanities: Student Views Room B: Terpsichorean Crossroads Debra Sowell (chair) Southern Virginia University At the Crossroads of Literature and Dance: Balletic Versions of Ivanhoe in the Nineteenth Century Susannah Keita and Rosario Lionudakis Grand Canyon University Applications of the Dunham Technique in Jazz Dance Holly Handman-Lopez Oberlin College Esther Dischereit's Dülmen Holocaust Memorial: Choreographing the Invisible Room C: Theatrical Crossroads Melanie Dreyer-Lude (chair) Cornell University The Psychophysics of Character Creation in Bilingual Performance Rita Anderson Texas State University Fusing the Postmodern and Gothic to Rebirth Sam Shephard's Buried Child as the New Frankenstein Cottonwood Room: Middle Eastern Crossroads Hallie Franks (chair) New York University Sailing the Symposium: Mosaics and Metaphor at Eretria Kirsti Ringger Brigham Young University Understanding Differing Conceptions of The Sublime through Considering Latin West (Kantian-masculine) and Orthodox East (Phenomenological-feminine) Church Architecture and Decoration Friday, March 9th - 7:00 pm Plenary Session Sheila Blair of Boston College East Meets West in Iran Under the Mongols Professor Blair teaches about all aspects of Islamic art from the seventh century to modern times. She offers surveys on Islamic art, architecture, and urbanism, as well as research seminars on the Silk Road, the Islamic book, and the arts of the object. Her research is equally broad: she has written or co-written 15 books, including several international award winners, and more than 200 articles in journals, encyclopedias, colloquia, and festschriften. Several of her books were written with her husband and co-holder of the Calderwood Chair, Jonathan Bloom, with whom she served as artistic consultant to the three-hour documentary Islam: Empire of Faith, shown nationally on PBS. She is currently working on a monograph on text and image in medieval Iranian art, a two-hour documentary for PBS on the arts of Islam, and a 2013 exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Islamic art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. *Reception Buffet following the lecture* Saturday, March 10th 9:00 - 10:15 am Room A: Theoretical Crossroads in Adaptation Carl Sederholm (chair) Brigham Young University Jonathan Smith Brigham Young University Adaptation Theory and Frankenstein Inna Bell Brigham Young University The Theory of Adaptation: Adapting the Fairy Tale "Hans My Hedgehog" into a Short Film Jacob Lee Brigham Young University Rashomon: Adaptation as Redemptive Possibility Room B: Edenic Crossroads Amy Lofgreen (chair) Brigham Young University Anna Daines Brigham Young University The Herstory of Eden: Recreating Eve Through Herland and Mormon Doctrine Shannon Kelly Brigham Young University Paradise Reexamined: the Redeeming Female in Adam Bede Rachel Davison Brigham Young University The Forbidden Fruit: Knowledge as Power and Captivity in Frankenstein Room C: Classical Crossroads Roger Macfarlane (chair) Brigham Young University Retrospection: Hitchcock's treatment of Cocteau and the Orpheus Myth (Vertigo 1958) Keith Fairbank Brigham Young University Christopher Nolan's Orpheus: Vergil and Cocteau in Inception Christian Axelgard Brigham Young University Ulysses Everett McGill: An Existential Odysseus Cottonwood Room: Art Historical Crossroads Heather Jensen (chair) Brigham Young University Allison Mays Brigham Young University Karl Friedrich Schinkel: The Gendering of Politics Breezy Taggart Brigham Young University Psychiatrics and Madness: Social Perception of the Insane Seen in Esther Bubley's Photographs Trenton Olsen Brigham Young University From Icon to Academy: Visual Art in the Establishment of Russian National Identity From the Pre- to Post-Petrine period Saturday, March 10th - 10:30 to 11:45 am Room A: Theoretical Crossroads in Adaptation Carl Sederholm (chair) Brigham Young University The Vexing Power of Perverseness: Approaching Heavy Metal Adaptations of Poe Jaime Davis Brigham Young University Peter Bogdanovich's Target: Adapting Horror for a Modern Audience Ruth Covington Brigham Young University "Button, Button" and "The Box": A Case study in Adaptation Theory Room B: Pedagogical Crossroads Sherena Huntsman (chair) University of Utah Promoting Diversity in Composition Sasha Mullally University of New Brunswick Adventures in the Virtual Past: Team-Teaching Digital Humanities in the Undergraduate History Curriculum Elden Golden Union Institute and University Group Creativity Across Time Room C: Theatrical Crossroads Rebecca Fairbank (chair) Brigham Young University Pauline Viardot: Rewriting the Performing Woman in George Sand's Consuelo Maggie Hoyt Brigham Young University The Necessity of Madness Michael Call Brigham Young University Divine Sarah in the City of the Saints: Bernhardt Plays Salt Lake Cottonwood Room: Classical Crossroads Dustin Simmons (chair) Brigham Young University The Locus Amoenus as a Voice of Discontent: The Reception of Homeric Landscape in Roman Imperial Epic Amy Merkley Brigham Young University Going the Distance: Themes of Madness, Atonement, and the Tragic Hero in Disney's Hercules Andrew Wells Brigham Young University Arthur Golding and Ted Hughes: The Moralizers of Ovid's Metamorphoses Saturday, March 10th - Closing Luncheon - 12:00 to 2:00 pm BYU Museum of Art, Islamic art exhibit 2:00 pm Charter bus leaves for Provo Islamic art exhibit 6:00 pm Charter bus departs Provo for return to Marriott Hotel For more information contact: Michael Call at michael_Call@byu.edu or Marcia Green at mgreen@sfsu.edu.
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