March 5-7, 2009

REGISTRATION

AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center

Thursday, March 5, 2:00 pm–5:00 pm, Salons AB
Friday, March 6, 8:00 am–12:00 pm, Meeting Level One (M1) Lobby
Saturday, March 7, 8:00 am–10:00 am, Meeting Level One (M1) Lobby

PROGRAM
(Last modified: February 26, 2009)

THURSDAY, MARCH 5

2:00–5:00 pm CCTE Executive Council Meeting

Room: Classroom 107

3:00–5:00 pm CCTE Pre-Convention Workshops

• Harry Ransom Center Seminar
• Computers and Technology Seminar
• Writing Centers Seminar
Participants meet in Salon A at 2:45 pm

6:00–8:00 pm President’s Reception

Room: Salons AB—Cash Bar
Host: Jerry Bradley, CCTE President, Lamar University
Entertainment: The Ransom Notes
Sponsored by Bedford/St. Martin’s

FRIDAY, MARCH 6

7:15–8:45 am State of the Profession Breakfast

Room: Salon D
Chair: Carol Reposa, CCTE Past President, San Antonio College
Topic: “Internet Presence in Training, Teaching, and Scholarship: Is the Pen Mightier than the Byte?”
Panelists: Sunny Jiang Schultz, Lee College
Suanna Davis, Lone Star College–Kingwood

9 am–5 pm Coffee and Light Fare
in Conferee Break Area

Sponsored by Pearson Education

9:00–10:20 am Friday First Session

Rhetoric Session I: Composition Pedagogy

Room: Classroom 101
Chair: Diana Cardenas, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi

“Teaching Composition at the ‘Harvard on the Guadalupe’: The History of Writing and Social Contexts at Victoria College,” Jennifer Marciniak, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi
“Let Students Speak: The Use of Oral Prospectus in Written Composition,” Michael Dooley, Tarleton State University
“In Media Res: A Study in Rhetorical Damage Control in First-Year Composition,” Sara Pace, Lamar University

Literature I: 19th Century American Literature

Room: Classroom 102
Chair: Linda Ferreira-Buckley, University of Texas at Austin

“The Trickster Figures in Charles Chesnutt’s ‘The Goophered Grapevine,’” Mary Ann Taylor, Mountain View College
“American Masculinities, Geoffrey Crayon, and Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book,” Jessica Cullison, Sam Houston State University
“Notions on Marriage: Homosocial Behaviors, Bisexual Desires and Spinsterhood as Intellectual and Artistic Genius in Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Happy Women’ and Diana and Persis,” Jessica Daigle Vidrine, Texas Tech University

Creative Writing I: Poetry

Room: Classroom 103
Chair: TBA

“Poems about Spiders and Art,” Jerry Hamby, Lee College
“So Beautiful. . . So Deadly” and other poems, Linda Cook, McClennan Community College

Literature II: Film and Literature

Room: Classroom 104
Chair: Arch Mayfield, Wayland Baptist University

“Ancient Greek Literature and Contemporary American Movies: the Politics of Adaptation,” Mallory Young, Tarleton State University
“Born Free: The Polycultural Animal in Madagascar,” Christopher Estep, Independent Scholar
“Thinking through Sentimental Appeals: Strategies for Teaching Critical Analysis of Genocide Films,” Lena Khor, University of Texas at Austin

10:30–11:50 am Friday Second Session

Rhetoric Session II: Digital Media and Composition

Room: Classroom 101
Chair: Steve Weathers, Abilene Christian University

“Translating the Writing Process for Struggling Students,” Andrea Saathoff, University of Texas at Austin
“From Broadcasting to Podcasting: The Translation of Writing Instruction Technologies,” Jamie Jesson, University of Texas at Austin
“Translating the Writing Process through Podcasts,” Paige Normand, University of Texas at Austin

Literature III: British Literature

Room: Classroom 102
Chair: Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University

“The Infancies of Love’s Labor’s Lost,” Maurice Hunt, Baylor University
“Milton and the Fall of Manhood,” Kenneth Hawley, Lubbock Christian University
“The Influence and Significance of Poetic Languages in Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry and Vico’s ‘Origin-Based History,’” Rochelle Gregory, North Central Texas College

TCEA Special Session I: Texas Connections: Literature, Rhetoric, and Film

Room: Classroom 103
Chair: Christina Vick, Louisiana State University at Eunice

“Reading Two Bush Presidencies through Edna Ferber’s Giant,” Kathleen Mollick, Tarleton State University
“Where’s Your Horse: Hud and the Mythic Makeover of Horseman, Pass By,” Cliff Hudder, Lone Star College
“Worm Farms and Cotton Fields: Texas as Inspiration in Holt’s When Zachary Beaver Came to Town,” Joanna Johnson, The University of Texas at Arlington
“Cooking Up Stories: Food for Reading and Writing,” Peggy Kulesz, University of Texas at Arlington

Literature IV: British Literature

Room: Classroom 104
Chair: Linda Carroll, Texas Wesleyan University

“The Destructive Powers of Apathy,” Cannon Roberts, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
“‘Both Knowing and Not Knowing’: Trauma Narrative and Narrative Metaphor in D.M. Thomas’ The White Hotel,” Charlotte Nunes, University of Texas at Austin
“‘Showing Them the Money’: The Economic Way of Thinking in Literature,” Joyce Kerr-Tarpley, Mountain View College

Creative Writing II: Non-Fiction

Room: Classroom 107
Chair: Katherine D. Oldmixon, Huston-Tillotson University

“Glenn Hardaway,” Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University
“Committed to Memory,” Jessica Daigle Vidrine, Texas Tech University
“Benvenuto all’Italia,” Irma Ned Bailey, San Antonio College

11:50 am–1:15 pm Lunch on Your Own

1:15–2:35 pm Friday Third Session

Rhetoric Session III: Language and Literacies in Composition

Room: Classroom 101
Chair: Carol Johnson-Gerendas, Texas Wesleyan University

“Disconnected from the Digital Collective: The Role of Digital Literacies in Developmental Writing Courses,” Marc Azard, Texas Woman’s University
“Audible Accessibility: Counting (On) Academic Recording,” William Burdette, University of Texas at Austin
“We Bring in Freelance Designers When We’ve Exceeded Bandwidth: Creating and Maintaining Federations in Graphic Design,” Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas at Austin and Gail Bayeta, Austin Community College

Literature V: 20th Century American Literature

Room: Classroom 102
Chair: Pamela Saur, Lamar University

“‘All Color Left the World, [and] the Goldenness of Everything Was Like a Memory’: Myth and the Southern Tradition in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Wide Net,’” Melinda McBee, Grayson County College
“Women and the Failed Ideals of America,” Nancy Romig, Howard Payne University
“An Aesthetic of Theory: Kenneth Burke’s Rhetoric in ‘A River Runs Through It,’” Sarah Hart, Texas A&M University

Creative Writing III: The View Downtown—Stories from Austin Community College

Room: Classroom 103
Chair: Gail Folkins, Austin Community College

“The Demise of Alphonse Jeremiah Smithson’s Cathedral,” Wells Teague, Austin Community College
“When Leslie Got the Call,” Sidney Brammer, Austin Community College
“Dead Crickets,” Joe O’Connell, Austin Community College
“Prosperity Bank,” Gail Folkins, Austin Community College

Literature VI: Interweaving British and American Literature

Room: Classroom 104
Chair: Karen Priest, Lamar State College–Orange

Influence and Intertextuality: Rappaccini’s Daughter and Her Literary Progenitors,” Julie E. Hall, Sam Houston State University
“‘I Slept Like a Dead One’: Comparing Alex to Willy in Anthony’s Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange and Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman,” Ryan Farrar, Tarleton State University
“Anything You Can Do I Can Do Too: The Issue of Identity and Beauty as Seen in Classic Women’s Fiction and Chick Lit,” Paula Kent, Texas Woman’s University

2:45–4:15 pm President’s Forum

Room: Salons AB
Host: Jerry Bradley, CCTE President, Lamar University
Forum Topic: “Tales from the Other Side”
Panelists: Jerry Craven, West Texas A&M University / Lamar University / Baylor University
Robert Flynn, Trinity University

4:30–5:30 pm CCTE General Business Meeting

Room: Salons AB
Chair: Jerry Bradley, CCTE President, Lamar University

SATURDAY, MARCH 7

7:15–8:45 am Texas College English Association (TCEA) Breakfast

Room: Classroom 103
Chair: Mallory Young, Tarleton State University
Speaker: Mark Busby, Texas State University–San Marcos
Topic: “‘I Don’t Know But I Ain’t Lost”: Regional Studies in a Global World”

9:00–11:45 am Coffee and Light Fare in Conferee Break Area

Sponsored by Departments of English and Rhetoric & Writing
University of Texas at Austin

9:00–10:20 am Saturday First Session

Rhetoric Session IV: Composition Spaces

Room: Classroom 101
Chair: Mary Rist, St. Edward’s University

“Teaching Paragraphing, Punctuation, and Sentence Rhythm through the ‘Endless Paragraph’ Activity,” Drew M. Lowe, St. Edward’s University
“Using an ‘Affective Domain’ Writing Activity to Improve Students’ Performance in a Composition Class: An Experiment,” David Sabrio, Texas A&M University–Kingsville and Mitchel Burchfield, Southwest Texas Junior College
“Perspective Shifting as Rhetorical Analysis: Confronting Controversy and Multicultural Difference with Empathic Reasoning,” Zachary Dobbins, University of Texas at Austin

Literature VII: 20th Century Literature

Room: Classroom 102
Chair: Dale Priest, Lamar University

“Locating Good and Evil in Tolkien’s Geography,” Randy Compton, LeTourneau University
“Becoming Louis Begley,” Sheila Chase, Texas Woman’s University
“Bracketing Beauty: A Reading of and Response to Denis Donoghue,” Dustin D. Stewart, University of Texas at Austin

TCEA Special Session II: Texas Connections–Creative Writing

Room: Classroom 104
Chair: Steve Weathers, Abilene Christian University

“‘Two Visions of Magdalene’ and Other Poems,” Jessica Daigle Vidrine, Texas Tech University
“Medea in the Tropics”; “A Day’s Cruising,” Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University
“Memories of West Texas,” Suanna Davis, Lone Star College–Kingwood
“‘Another Ode to Autumn’ and Other Poems,” Carol Reposa, San Antonio College

Creative Writing IV: Fiction

Room: Classroom 107
Chair: Peggy P. Kulesz, University of Texas at Arlington

“Psychic Advisor,” Mary Ann Taylor, Mountain View College
“Lamentation for Twin Two,” Cannon Roberts, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
“Saint Margaret,” Brandy Yates, Texas Tech University
“Lace Maker,” M. C. Downs, Texas A&M University–Kingsville

10:30–11:50 am Saturday Second Session

Rhetoric Session V: Embracing the External in Composition

Room: Classroom 101
Chair: Gwen Whitehead, Lamar State College–Orange

“Developing an ‘I’ for Good Writing: Literary Journalism in the Freshman Composition Classroom,” Karyn L. Smith, Texas A&M University
“The Rhetoric of Dependency, Sex, and Work: Framing Women in News Print Headlines during the 1990’s Welfare Debate,” Carol Johnson-Gerendas, Texas Wesleyan University
“Rewriting Plagiarism: Confucianism and Patchwriting in the U. S. Composition Classroom,” Candice Chovanec Melzow, Texas A&M University

Literature VIII: World Literature

Room: Classroom 102
Chair: Pat Lonchar, University of the Incarnate Word

“The Use of the Familiar to Introduce Literature,” Suanna H. Davis, Lone Star College–Kingwood
“Literary Portraits of Professors: A Sampling,” Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
“The Ultimate Self-sacrifice of Unsung Heroes: Christian and Non-Christian Christ-like Figures,” Amy Frazier, University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

Creative Writing V: Poetry

Room: Classroom 107
Chair: Carrie Fountain, Austin Community College

“Tell,” “the bend in the river . . .,” “In August,” and others, Patrick Collins, Austin Community College
“train song,” “Daddy Long Legs,” “Crest,” and others, C. Prudence Arceneaux, Austin Community College
“Chipping Paint,” “En Route to Los Galapagos,” “Entre Guayaqil y Los Galapagos,” and others, W. Joe Hoppe, Austin Community College
“Restaurant Fire, Truth or Consequences,” “San Ysidro, Dona Ana County,” “The Configuration of the Coast,” and others, Carrie Fountain, Austin Community College

Creative Writing VI: Fiction

Room: Classroom 104
Chair: Joanna Johnson, University of Texas at Arlington

“The Complexity of Vision,” Cheryl Clements, Blinn College
“Dee Price,” Jim Sanderson, Lamar University
“Explosion,” Juanita Lawhn, San Antonio College

12:15–2:00 pm CCTE Luncheon

Room: Salons AB
Chair: Jerry Bradley, CCTE President, Lamar University
Speaker: Betty Sue Flowers, Director
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum