Tennessee Philological Association - 2018Meeting
All events take place on the Tennessee Technological University campus as designated by building and room assignment.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
5:00 p.m.: Executive Committee Meeting
5:30-7:00: Registration – Henderson Hall 320
7:00-9:00 p.m.: Thursday Evening Session
Section A: World War I – Henderson Hall 304B
Moderator:
Emery, Taylor, “100 Years Later: The Irony and Validity of Carl Sandberg’s ‘Grass’”
Rideout, Jennifer, “The Russian Influenza as Extended Metaphor in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent”
Ten Minute Break
Sawyers, Amanda, “The Cry of Doomed Youth: An Examination of Reaction and Trauma
Through the Poetry of Wilfred Owen and Seigfried Sassoon”
Pigg, Daniel, F., “Wilfred Owen’s Poetry of World War I: Critiquing the Masculine Myth
of War”
Friday, February 23, 2018
7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.: Registration – Henderson 320
8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Business Meeting
9:15-11:15 a.m.: Friday Morning Session
Section B: World Literature – Henderson 305
Moderator:
Phillip, Jooly, “Time, Space and the Spiritual in Naguib Mahfouz’s Palace Walk”
Hartsell, Bradley, “The Gaps in Mankell’s Cultural Reflection”
Null, Linda, “Accessorizing the Primrose Household: Aspirational Art as Satire in The
Vicar of Wakefield”
Ten Minute Break
Han, John, “Profit, Fools, and War: Contemporary Anti-War Haiku in English”
McQuail, Josephine, “Wake in Peace: The Psychomacias of Blake and Joyce”
Hart, Sherry Alusow, “The Wordsworth/Coleridge War: A Blakean Prescription of Friendship”
Section C: British Literature – Henderson 307A
Moderator:
Barton, Kelci, “The Lost Property Cupboard in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Kate Atkinson’s
Behind the Scenes at the Museum”
Rehyansky, Katherine Heinrichs, “Tell, Don’t Show: The Upside-Down Novelistic
Technique of Alain de Botton”
Shafer, Philip, “Rebuilding the Magical World of Harry Potter Brick by Brick: LEGO Games
As Literary and Filmic Adaptations”
Ten Minute Break
Brooks, Quenton, “Chivalric Themes in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales”
Major, David, “Beowulf’s After-Action Reports: Revising the Death of Hondscio”
Canter, Zachary A., “The Battle for Hamlet: T.S. Eliot’s Mature Assessment”
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.: Friday Mid-day Session
Section D: Military Industrial Complex – Henderson 305
Moderator:
Bond, Matthew “Would You Like a War?: Barthelme’s Snow White and the American
Military-Industrial Complex”
Ten Minute Break
Shafer, Jennifer, “Taking One for the Team: How Baseball Represents Both Racial Oppression
And Activism in Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play”
Gray, Barbara Lee, “Language: Waging War and Peace”
Section E: Gothic – Henderson 307A
Moderator:
Curtis, David, “”Philip Freneau’s Gothic Revolution”
Haney, Sharon, “Writhing, Malice, and Convulsions: Possession in The Scarlet Letter”
Ten Minute Break
Kreibel, Brandi, “The Use of Art in Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe”
Thompson, Jeff, “Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at 200 and Dan Curtis’s Frankenstein at 45”
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.: Friday Afternoon Session
Section F: American Literature –Henderson 305
Moderator:
Timbs, Adam, “Humanism as Taboo: Tracing the Inhuman Landscapes of Robinson Jeffers’
And James Dickey’s Poetry”
Austin, Joy, “Warring Words and Actions in the Fiction of William Faulkner”
Blaylock, Sidney, “American Made: Turn of the Century Advances in Transportation
Technology and Edith Wharton’s Fiction”
Ten Minute Break
Absher, Hannah, Coping with the Loss of Humanity: A Trauma-Theory Informed Reading of Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet
Ensor, Allison, “Huck and Tom Once More: Tim Champlin’s Sequel to Twain’s Classic
Novels”
McCrotty, Micah, “The Homeplace: Jim Wayne Miller’s Poetic Use of the Image of the
House”
Section G: The Vietnam War – Henderson Hall 307A
Moderator:
Christmas, Kyle, “Heteroglossia and New Journalism in Tim O’Brien’s Going AfterCacciato.”
McMillan, Scott, “‘If Your Eyes Could Cut Through That Black Stone’:
Bruce Springsteen and the Aftermath of the Vietnam War”
Ten Minute Break
Moonshower, Candie, “The Things They Carried: Multi-Thematic, Multi-Genre and Multi-Modal”
Tompkins, Jessica, “Living Casualties of War: A Closer Look at Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried”
Campbell, Jenna, “The Soldierly Code: War Trauma and Coping in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried “
4:15-5:00 p.m. Special Panels
Section H: “Let’s CHAT: Collaboration and Higher Order Applications of Technology for English Language Arts Instruction” - Henderson 305
Convener:
Lee University – Panel members include Dr. Donna Summerlin, Assistant Chair, Department of Language and Literature; Dr. Delia Price, Assistant Professor of Education. Department of Health, Exercise Science and Secondary Education; Stacey Wielfaert, high school English teacher, Walker Valley High School; Audri Wood, middle school English teacher, Tennessee Christian Preparatory School; Ashley Hardaway, Library/Media Specialist.
Section I: “The Wild Beyond: Peace, Protest and Poetics” - Henderson 307A
Convener: Chelsea Mathes, Tennessee Technological University
Tennessee Technological University – Panel members include Becca Klaver, Mari Ramler, Andrew Smith (Faculty)
Friday - 5:00 p.m.: Reception
6:00-p.m.-until (?) : TPA banquet and evening program, including president’s address – Arden Jensen: “Propaganda, Pity, and Nostalgia: Japanese Attitudes
Toward the Pacific War in Anime”
Saturday, February 24, 2018
8:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m.: Registration
8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.: Business Meeting
9:15-11:15 a.m.: Saturday Morning Session
Section J : Feminist and Cultural - Henderson 305
Moderator:
Anderson, Elizabeth, “Gender Switch or New Woman? Trib’s Tribulations and Realism in
Alcott’s Hospital Sketches”
Grisham, Joanna, “Memory Is a Cemetery:” Death and Duty in Natasha Trethewey’sNative
Guard”
Alexander, Lynn, “Lillie Devereaux Blake and the War for Suffrage
Ten Minute Break
Payne, Margaret, “The Domestic Language of Peace and War: Gender and Rhetoric in
Addam’sPeace and Bread in the Time of War and Well’s Southern Horrors:
Lynch Law in All Its Phases”
Snapp, Lacy, “Joy Harjo’s Desire for Compassionate Thinking and the Preservation of Nature in
“When the World as We Knew It Ended”
Holmes, Thomas Alan, “Howells’s “Editha”: Jingoism, Femininity, and American War Fever”
Section K: Beyond the Canon – Henderson 307A
Moderator:
Boyd, Hannah, “Replacing the Father: Challenging Patriarchy in Pat Barkers Regneration”
Minatel, Russell Evans, “Puny Humans: Using Reader Response Theory, New
Historicism, and The Incredible Hulk to Illuminate Humanity’s Unhealthy Love
Affair with Violence and War”
McNew, Tyler, “Carmilla’s Penetrating Fangs: Anxious Patriarchal Masculinities at War with
The Monstrous Female Other”
Ten Minute Break
Gilliland, Erin, “The Manic Pixie Dream Girl in Hector Tobar’s ‘Secret Stream’”
Franks, Rob, “The Leftovers as Postsecular Narrative” Freed-Hardiman Univ.
Shawen, Edgar McD., “Magical Realism in Two Elephant Tales by Patricia Highsmith and
Haruki Murakami”