Ethics - Widener University

Composition and Rhetoric 1 | Salon 820
Fixing Inconsistencies
Moderator:
Presenters:
Marjory Payne, Nazareth College of Rochester
Jean A. Wagner, University of Southern Indiana, ““Show Me the Money!’:
Making the Impractical Practical”
Larry Gries, University of Southern Indiana, “Synthesizing Disciplines and
Personality: When a Teacher’s Worlds Happily Collide”
African American Literature 1 | Salon 821
Language as Power
Moderator:
Presenters:
Terrence Tucker, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Willie J. Harrell, Jr., Kent State University, “The ‘Glorious Fabric of
Collected Wisdom, Our Noble Constitution’: African-American
Appropriation of the Founding Fathers’ Rhetoric through Jeremiadic
Discourse”
Andrea K. Frankwitz, Gordon College, “William and Ellen Craft’s Rhetorical
Journey of a Thousand Miles to Liberty”
Juanita Hayes, Florida A&M University, “Chimerical Empowerment: A
Conjured Motif (The Conjure Woman)
New York CEA 1 | Salon 824
Literature and Law
Sponsored by the NY-CEA
Moderator:
Presenters:
Scott Whiddon, Transylvania University
Scott Whiddon, Transylvania University, “‘Don’t Serve Time--Make Time
Serve You’--The Rhetorics of Empathy as seen in The Angolite”
Daniel Mason, Mansfield University, “A Fatal Flaw? or Why Do Private
Detectives Have No Friends?”
Latino/a Literature 1 | Salon 828
Politics of Space and Gender
Moderator:
Presenters:
Fernando Benavidez, Texas Tech University
Wendy Braun, Louisiana State University, “Race, Gender, and Sexual
Encounters in Dominican-American Literature: Julia Alvarez’s How the
García Girls Lost Their Accents and Junot Díaz’s Drown”
Lorna Pérez, State University of New York, Buffalo, “Space of Memory,
Houses of Alienation: Community and the Urban / Suburban Divide in
Judith Ortiz Cofer”
Women’s Connection 1 | Cornet Room
Truth, Trauma, and Female Memoir
Moderator:
Presenters:
Allyson Whipple, Case Western Reserve University
Kristie Camacho, Everest College, “Princess or Property? Female Trauma and
Testimony in Graciela Limon’s Song of the Hummingbird and Susan Straight’s
A Million Nightingales”
Erin Breaux, Louisiana State University, “Writing Trauma and Healing: Meena
Alexander’s Fault Lines”
Allyson Whipple, Case Western Reserve University, “‘I’ll Tell You No Lies’:
Mary McCarthy and an Ethical Approach to Memoir”
Thursday, April 12 8-9.15