Ethics - Widener University

Pedagogy 9 | Salon 824
Successes and Failures with the Special Needs Student
Moderator:
Presenters:
Gloria Shafaee-Moghadam, United States Naval Station, Newport
Alison Reynolds, Midwestern State University, “Mea Culpa: A Teacher
Negotiates Disability in the Writing Classroom”
Christopher Nank, Beacon College, “Teaching Longer Literary Works to
Students with Learning Disabilities”
Gail Wood Miller, Berkeley College, “Understanding the Student with
Learning Differencies”
Composition and Rhetoric 13 | Roux Bistro 1/2
Defining Empathy in Composition Classrooms
Moderator:
Presenters:
Tom Bowers, Northern Kentucky University
Dana Kinzy, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, “A Pedagogy of Empathy:
Negotiating Shifting Worldviews in the Writing Classroom”
Dominic Micer, University of Southern Indiana, “Not Empathy, But
Sympathy: Rethinking the Work of Writing in the 21st Century”
Jee Eun Kim, University of Southern Mississippi, “Provincial Citizens with
Global Power?: Global Awareness and Empathy in Freshman Composition
Classes”
Anne Caswell Klein, Princeton University, “‘I know what I mean in my head’:
Empathy and Indwelling in the College Composition Classroom”
3.15–3.30 Beverage Break
Sponsored by Wendell Aycock, CEA President, 2002-2003 | Lagniappe
3.30–4.45 Session 11
African Caribbean Literature 4 | Salon 816
Diasporic Subjectivities
Moderator:
Presenters:
Peter Ramos, Buffalo State College
Tiffany Adams, University of Georgia, “Committed to Community: Erna
Brodber’s Louisiana as a Inter-National Text”
Anita Rosenblithe, Raritan Valley Community College, “Pan-Africanism and
Activism in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven”
Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama, “Re(Moving)/Remembering
Mary Prince: Gender, Labor, and the Formation of ‘Authenticity’ in Afro-
Caribbean Women’s Migration Narratives”
20th Century American Literature 8 | Salon 820
The Cosmos, the Earth, and the Environment
Moderator:
Presenters:
Stone Shiflet, Northcentral University
Keith Huneycutt, Florida Southern Unversity, “Empathy for the Devil:
Judging Mister Watson in Peter Matthiessen’s Bone by Bone”
Steve Brahlek, Palm Beach Community College, “Ladder or Gauntlet:
Ecocritical Perspective of Conflict in Rawlings’s ‘Jacob’s Ladder’”
Joseph Pestino, Nazareth College of Rochester, “The Struggle with Cosmic
Faux Empathy: Paul West’s Tea with Osiris”
26 Friday, April 13 3.30-4.45 p.m.