Ethics - Widener University

American and Canadian Literature | Rhythms 3
U. S. / Canadian Relationships
Moderator:
Presenters:
Robert Hoskins, James Madison University
Julie O’Connor, Michigan State University, “Creation by Disruption:
Regionalist Approaches to Contemporary Canadian and American
Literature”
Philip Egan, Western Michigan University, “The ‘Juliet’ Stories of Runaway:
The Latest Chapters in the Mother-Daughter Wars of Alice Munro”
Sean Chadwell, Texas A & M International University, “‘Some Things You
Howl’: Polyphony and Narrative Empathy in The Thin Place”
Composition and Rhetoric 11 | Salon 821
Encountering the “Other”
Moderator:
Presenters:
Larry Gries, University of Southern Indiana
Marjory Payne, Nazareth College of Rochester, “A Vision of Empathy and
Ethics in the Freshman English Syllabus”
Anne Matthews, Millikin University, “Autoethnographies and Ethics: First-
Year Writing Students, Identity and Action”
Kedra James, Kansas State University, “The War Against Wal-Mart: The
‘Devil’ In Our Community”
Mary Rist, St. Edwards University, “Visual Rhetoric and Viewer Empathy in
News Photographs: Putting Demonstration Before Theory in Writing
Classrooms”
12.30–2
Diversity Luncheon | Waterbury Ballroom (2nd floor)
Empathy and Ethics: Teaching at a New Orleans HBCU after Katrina
Keynote Speaker: Violet Harrington Bryan, Xavier University
Professor of English, Bryan has published The Myth of New Orleans in Literature:
Dialogues of Race and Gender (1993) as well as shorter articles for a variety of
volumes: an article on the drama and fiction of Ghanaian writer Ama Ata
Aidoo in Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in
Black Women’s Literature (2006); a literary biography of Lorenzo Thomas and an
entry on African American Poetry Collectives for the Encyclopedia of American
Poetry (2005); an analysis of New Orleans writer, Marcus Christian for Creole:
The History and Legacy of Louisiana’s Free People of Color (2000);and a discussion
of the 20th century African American literary community in Literary New
Orleans in the Modern World, (1998). Her essays have appeared in journals such as
WarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, the Xavier Review, and the CLA
Journal. In her talk, Dr. Bryan discusses how students and teachers at Xavier
University continue to show in their teaching and learning the major effects
that Hurricane Katrina has had on their lives.
Note: Admission is by Ticket Only.
Friday, April 13 12.30-2 p.m. 23