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Georgia Philological Association / Schedule for GPA
Convention, 16-17 March, 2007
Georgia Philological Association
Fourth Annual Meeting
Brewton-Parker College, Mount Vernon, Georgia
April 3-4, 2009
Friday, April 3
Registration and Refreshments Morgan-Moses Math & Science Lobby
8-10 a.m.
All sessions will be held in the Herbert A. Saliba Memorial Chapel.
FIRST SESSION 9-10:15 a.m.
Norse Mythology and Anglo-Saxon Literature
“The Eye of Oðinn: Death and Poetry in Norse Mythology”
Timothy Hannon, U of Georgia
“A Monster Reconsidered: An Etymological Investigation of the Orcneas of Beowulf”
Phil Purser, Georgia State U
“Iúmonna Gléow Galdre Bewunden: Days of Yore and the Shaping of Anglo-Saxon Creative Imagination”
Joseph Leake, U of Georgia
SECOND SESSION 10:30-11:45 a.m.
Novels
“Don Chipote: A Minor Don Quixote”
Kevin Brown, U of Alabama
“Gender and Genre in Mickey Spillane’s Vengeance is Mine”
Heather Duerre Humann, U of Alabama
“On Writing ‘The Book of Love’: Nabokov’s Lolita and Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera as Self-Reflexive Metafictions”
David Buehrer, Valdosta State U
THIRD SESSION 12-12:45 p.m.
Dramatic Literature
“Exposing the Paradox: The Problems of the Label ‘Folk Drama’”
Amber Estlund, Georgia State U
“The Profanity of Auschwitz and the Restoration of the Sacred: A Process of Healing in George Tabori’s The Cannibals”
Catherine Riccio, U of Georgia
BUFFET LUNCHEON and PLENARY ADDRESS 1-2:30 p.m.
Address
“A Backward Glance over Some Main-Traveled and Less-Traveled Academic Roads”
Benjamin F. Fisher IV, Professor of English, U of Mississippi
FOURTH SESSION 2:45-4 p.m.
Medieval and Renaissance Literature
“The Dawning of a (Somewhat) New Devil: The All-too-human Dialogical and Diabolical Malefactor”
Will Abney, U of Georgia
“PC Wars: Revisiting The Taming of the Shrew”
Mary Hjelm, U of South Carolina Extended U
“Spenser’s Veue of Ireland, A Paradox: His Lesser Works and English Nationalism”
Kathleen DeMarco, Georgia Perimeter C
FIFTH SESSION 4:15-5:30 p.m.
Haunting Fiction’s House: Perspectives on Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House
“‘Whatever walked here, walked alone’: What is Haunting Shirley Jackson’s Hill House?”
Melanie R. Anderson, U of Mississippi
“‘Journeys end in lovers meeting’: Narrative in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House”
Lorraine Dubuisson, Middle Georgia College
“House of Leaves: A Postmodern Retelling of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House”
Lisa Kröger, U of Mississippi
SIXTH SESSION 5:45-6:30 p.m.
Poetics
“‘Yeats in the London spring half-spent, only the grand gift in his head’: Myth-Making, Loss, and the Search for an Alternative Poetics in John Berryman’s The Dream Songs”
Kristina Marie Darling, Washington U
“Figure and Substance: The Poetics of Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino”
Scott Wilkerson, Columbus State U
A list of evening dining options is provided in each attendee’s convention packet.
Saturday, April 4
Refreshments Morgan-Moses Math & Science Lobby
7:45-8:30 a.m.
SEVENTH SESSION 8:45-10 a.m.
Male Authors through Time: Jorge de Montemayor, Gabriel García Márquez, and Manuel Rivas. The Creation of the Feminine/Feminist Space
“What It Takes to be Queen: The Exaltation/Objectification of the Shepherdess in Spain’s Early-Modern Pastoral Romances”
Benjamin J. Nelson, U of South Carolina-Beaufort
“Memorias de mis putas tristes: Not the Whore Story”
James M. Griesse, U of South Carolina-Beaufort
“La creacíon del espacio femenino: En salvaje compañía, Ella, maldita alma y Las llamadas perdidas”
Ana-Maria Touza Medina, U of Houston
EIGHTH SESSION 10:15-11 a.m.
Grammar and Linguistics
“A Mere Dispute of Words: Webster and the Reformists”
Jenn Blair, U of Georgia
“Of Words and Their Plurals I Sing”
Matt Brown, Valdosta State U
NINTH SESSION 11:15-12:30 p.m.
Autobiographical Literary Studies
“Mary Rowlandson and Stockholm Syndrome”
Barbara Hunt, Columbus State U
“(Re)Inventing Origins: How the Migrant Autobiographer (Re)Imagines Homelands”
Shane Wilson, Valdosta State U
“Half of What I Know: The Autobiographical Impulse in Chris Offutt’s The Same River Twice”
Katherine Edwards, independent scholar, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
LUNCHEON BREAK 12:30-2 p.m.
TENTH SESSION 2:15-3:30 p.m.
History
“Oak and Stone and the Permanent Things: Some Reflections on Edmund Burke’s Becket”
Ian Crowe, Brewton-Parker C
“Paternalism in a Postbellum Kingdom: Patrick Hues Mell and the Ties That Bind”
Mary Waalkes, Brewton-Parker C
“Two Little Confederates: Dr. E. Merton Coulter and Robert Penn Warren”
Jeffery Wells, Georgia Military C
ELEVENTH SESSION 3:45-5 p.m.
English Literature
“Sentimental Hero or Sap? The Figure of Heartfree in Henry Fielding’s Jonathan Wild”
George Mosley, Brewton-Parker C
“Returning Humanity to Morality: Definitions of Morality in the Romantic Era”
Kathryn Royston, U of Georgia
“Matthew Arnold’s Medievalism, or a Harbinger of Modernism”
Warren Kelly, St. Andrew’s School, Boca Raton, Florida
TWELFTH SESSION 5:15-6:30 p.m.
Southern Literature
“ Hop, Skip, Jump: Adaptation from, Appropriation from, and Allusion to Edgar Allan Poe's ‘Hop-Frog’ in the films Fool's Fire and Masque of the Red Death ”
Gareth H. Jones, Brewton-Parker C
“Eudora Welty’s ‘Ida M’Toy’”
John Soward Bayne, independent scholar, Atlanta, Georgia
“Permanent Inversion: Flannery O’Connor’s Carnivalesque”
Shannon R. Finck, Georgia State U
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