2006 Conference of the INDIANA COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION

Those Who Teach, Do:

Negotiating teaching, scholarship, and creative work

Indiana University East

Friday, September 29, 2005

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Information about Indiana University East:

Ø For your convenience, follow the signs leading to the Whitewater Hall parking lot. Registration, lunch, and the keynote address will be in Whitewater Hall.

Ø The Indiana University East campus is a smoke-free campus.

Ø Driving Directions to I.U. East

o From I-70
Take exit 151A (U.S. 27 south). At the second stoplight, you will see the entrance to campus on your left. Turn left and follow the road to campus.

o From U.S. 27
Approximately half a mile south of I-70 you will see the entrance to campus on the east side of the street. Turn east and follow the road back to campus.

Ø Accommodations

o Please see the last page of this program for a list of local accommodations.

Ø Additional information

o Please see the Indiana University East website for more information on I.U.East, Richmond, Indiana, and a map of the campus: www.iue.edu


Program

8:00 – 8:30: Registration and refreshments

Community Room, Whitewater Hall

8:30 – 8:45: Welcoming Remarks

Community Room, Whitewater Hall

8:45 – 10:00: Session I

Textuality and Texture: Employing Literature in the Classroom

Room:

Moderator: Linda Hanson

1. Matt Smith, University of St. Francis. “Teaching the Trojan War: Negotiating Student Expectations in a General Education Mythology Course.”

2. Ann Steed Carver, Purdue University North Central. “Time and Timelessness: Dreams in Richard III.

3. Rachel Baumgardner, Ball State University. “The Measure of a Man: Sut Lovingood, Disestablishment, and the Hypocrisy of Gendered Polarity.”

Synthesizing Disciplines and Personality: When a Teacher’s Worlds Happily Collide

Room:

Moderator: Laurel Smith

1. Jean A. Wagner, University of Southern Indiana. “‘Show Me the Money!’: Making the Impractical, Practical.”

2. Larry F. Gries, University of Southern Indiana. “Sharing the Happy Coincidence of Vocation and Avocation.”

3. Tonya Northenor, University of Southern Indiana. “Live and Learn: Creativity in the Composition Classroom.”

10:00 – 10:15: Break

10:15 – 11:30: Session II

Professional Experience Program: Student Teachers Teaching Students

Room:

Moderator: Margaret Thomas Evans

Panel presentation by students enrolled in the Indiana University East Professional Experience Program (PEP), an intensive program which prepares qualified undergraduates to teach first-year composition.

What we talk about when we talk about writing

Room:

Moderator: Katharine Ings

1. Lisa A. Baird, Purdue University North Central. “Ethos in Creative Nonfiction: A Rhetorical Analysis of Contemporary Writers of Creative Nonfiction.”

2. Dagny Boebel, Manchester College. “Those Who Teach, Travel.”

3. Susan Yanos, Ministry of Writing Program, Earlham School of Religion. “Those Female Scribblers: A Woman Writer Teaches Women Writers.”

11:30 – 11:45: Break


11:45 – 12:45: Lunch

Lunch

Room: Community Room

12:45 – 1:00: Break

1:00 – 2:15 Keynote Address

Keynote Address:

Room: Whitewater Hall W132

Keynote Speaker: Maurice Manning
Maurice Manning is the author of Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, published in Spring 2001 by Yale University Press and recipient of the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, selected by W. S. Merwin. Manning's second collection of poetry, A Companion For Owls: Being The Commonplace Book Of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, &c, was published in Fall 2004 by Harcourt. Manning’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Washington Square, Green Mountains Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Wind, Hunger Mountains, Black Warrior Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. He has held a fellowship at The Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown. Currently, Maurice Manning teaches at Indiana University in the M.F.A. Program in creative writing.

Following the keynote address, Maurice Manning will be available to sign copies of his books.

2:15 – 2:30: Break

2:30 – 3:45: Session III

Cutting Edge Tools: Research and Popular Media in the Classroom

Room:

Moderator: Beate Gilliar

1. Fred Johnson, Ball State University. “Help Me Find It: Teaching Research as a ‘Long Tail’ Conversation.”

2. Rick Marshall, University of Indianapolis and Toni. J. Morris, University of Indianapolis on the use of popular media (television, film, popular music) as a tool to lead students into literature.

A Celebration of the Written Word

Room:

Moderator: Susan Yanos

1. T. J. Rivard, Mary Fell, Beth Slattery: Faculty in the Creative Writing program at Indiana University East read from their work.

2. Students from the Ministry of Writing Program at Earlham College read from their work.

3:45 – 4:00: Break

4:00 – 5:30: Closing Reception

Art Gallery, Whitewater Hall

With open mic readings by ICEA faculty and students

Announcements of reading and presentation awards


Lodging in the Richmond, Indiana, area

Comfort Inn
912 Mendelson Drive
Richmond, IN 47374
(765) 935-4766
(800) 221-2222

Holiday Inn Conference Center
5501 National Road East
Richmond, IN 47374
(765) 966-7511
(800) 548-2473

Lees Inn & Suites
6030 National Road East
Richmond, IN 47374
(765) 966-6559
(800) 733-5337

Lantz House Inn
214 West Main Street
Centerville, IN 47330
(765) 855-2936

Lynndale House Bed and Breakfast
1828 East Main Street
Richmond, Indiana 47374
800-750-0721
765-965-1651

Martha E. Parry Bed and Breakfast
2039 East Main Street
Richmond, IN 47374

(765) 966-8972
(800) 966-8972

Philip W. Smith Bed and Breakfast
2039 East Main Street
Richmond, IN 47374
(765) 966-8972
(800) 966-8972


ICEA Registration / Membership

Print and mail to the conference coordinator by September 15:

Jean Harper

Assistant Professor of English

Indiana University East

2325 Chester Boulevard

Richmond, Indiana 47374

Please make checks payable to Indiana University East.

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Payment enclosed:

_______ $45 membership + registration (by September 15th)

_______ $55 membership + registration (after September 15th)

_______ $25 graduate student membership + registration

_______ $25 membership only

_______ $21 graduate student membership only