Schedule of Events - California State University, Los Angeles

Schedule of Events
8:00 – 8:45 Registration and Breakfast
Golden Eagle Ballroom
8:45 – 9:00 Welcome Address
Dr. Hema Chari, Graduate Student
Association Advisor
9:00 – 10:30 Session One Music Building
� Canons and Communities: American Ethnic and
Diasporic Literatures
� Anxious Relations: Mothers and Children
� Innovations in Composition Pedagogy
� Imagination, Language, and Power: Ways of Reading
/ Ways of Knowing
10:30-10:40 Break
10:40-11:45 Dr. John Sutherland - Keynote Address
Golden Eagle Ballroom
11:45 – 12:50 Lunch
Golden Eagle Ballroom
1:00 – 2:30 Session Two Music Building
� Secularisms and Fundamentalisms
� (Dis)Embodiments: Race, Nation, Law
� The Muse: Creative Writing Panel
� In Search of Marginality: American Writers in the
Twentieth Century
2:30 – 2:40 Break
2:45 – 4:15 Session Three Music Building
� Feminisms and the Female Body
� Imperialist Imperatives: Colonialism and Essentialism
� Hemingway and Fitzgerald: Reading Twentieth-
Century American Writers
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Welcome student participants, faculty, and guests to
Significations: The 12 th Annual CSU Graduate Student
Conference. The conference continues to be a success due to
the generous and spirited intellectual exchange, good will, and
enthusiasm of the participants. With participants from campuses
across California, the Conference Committee also hopes to
encourage ongoing peer collaboration and broader research
possibilities. Your participation and commitment are very much
appreciated and vital to continuing this worthwhile CSU tradition.
Special Thanks
Dr. John Sutherland, Keynote Speaker
Dr. Hema Chari, Faculty Advisor
Dr. John Cleman, English Department Chair
Dr. James M. Rosser, President of the University
Dr. Herman D. Lujan, Provost of the University
Dr. Terry L. Allison, Dean, College of Arts & Letters
Dr. Jose Galvan, Dean, Graduate Studies & Research
Dr. Alan Muchlinski, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies & Research
Terry Flores, Yolanda Galvan, Jeanne Gee, and Johnny Trieu,
Our Incredibly Wonderful Staff
All English Department Faculty, Students, and Staff
The Submission Review Committee
Faculty:
Dr. Betty Bamberg, Dr. Mary Bush, Dr. Michael Calabrese, Dr. Hema
Chari, Dr. Mel Donalson, Dr. Marilyn Elkins, Dr. Jim Garrett, Dr. Maria
Karafilis, Dr. Jun Liu, Dr. Caroline McManus, Dr. Ruben Quintero
Graduate Students:
Claudine Aguilar, Thorin Alexander, Monica Baltazar, Jim Coleman,
Harry Conley, Jenny Hicks, Matt Khitikian, Jessica Magallanes, Andrew
Montana, Mark Morris, Lisa Nava, Tom Pinkel, Leilani Serafin
Our Sponsors
The English Department, The College of Arts and Letters,
Golden Eagle Hospitality, Associated Students Incorporated,
Campus Reprographics, University Writing Center,
CSULA Instructionally Related Activities Grant
Graduate Student Association
Monica Baltazar, Jim Coleman, Harry Conley, Jenny Hicks, Matt
Khitikian, Jessica Magallanes, Andrew Montana, Mark Morris, Lisa
Nava, Tom Pinkel, Leilani Serafin

Session One: 9:00 -10:30
Canons and Communities: American Ethnic and Diasporic
Literatures
Moderator: Harry Conley Music 109
� Angeleno Haitians: Staying Connected to a Culture
Monica Baltazar (California State University, Los Angeles)
� The Illogic of the American Canon that Segregates Ethnic
Literature
Jessie Chen (California State University, Los Angeles)
� Charlie Chan, Hero Detective: A Rebuttal to the Assertion the
Fictional Character is a Negative Image to the Asian Male
Community Within Popular Culture During the 20 th Century
Richard-Edward de Vere (California State University,
Northridge)
� Hector Tobar’s Diasporic Illustration of Central Americans
Jessica Cristo (California State University, Los Angeles)
Anxious Relations: Mothers and Children
Moderator: Andrew Montana Music 110
� Impertinent Miracles: The Occult Mother and E. Nesbit’s
Reclamation of “She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed”
Elizabeth Lowry (California State University, Los Angeles)
� The Loud Silence of Girls in American Girl
Kate Rowe (California State University, Northridge)
� Eternizing the Child: Peter and Wendy and Anxiety Over
Endings
Leilani Serafin (California State University, Los Angeles)
Innovations in Composition Pedagogy
Moderator: Jenny Hicks Music 113
� Building Bridges in the Honors/AP Achievement Gap: Theory,
Research, and Policy
Debra Chan (California State University, Los Angeles)
� Writing Center Practice: Composition, Pedagogy, and
Qualitative Assessment
Jessica Magallanes (California State University, Los Angeles)
� A-Journaling We Go: A Quick Review of the Use of Journals in
the Classroom
Lynne Osborne (California State University, Los Angeles)
Imagination, Language, and Power: Ways of Reading / Ways of
Knowing
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Session Two: 1:00 – 2:30
Secularisms and Fundamentalisms
Moderator: Ximena Hernandez Music 109
� Immigration and Violence in the Modern City
Iris Aceves (California State University, Los Angeles)
� A Fundamental Fragmentation: The Hybridity of Fundamentalism(s)
in Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album
Matt Khitikian (California State University, Los Angeles)
� Through the Past Darkly: Reading Satanic Verses after 9/11
Andrew Montana (California State University, Los Angeles)
(Dis)Embodiments: Race, Nation, Law
Moderator: Leilani Serafin Music 110
� Frederick Douglass’s Heroic Vision of Higher Law
Rosemarie Banich (California State University, Los Angeles)
� The Power of Rhetoric in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland
Mark Morris (California State University, Los Angeles)
� Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Guise of Sentimentality
Julie Meloni (California State University, San Jose)
The Muse: Creative Writing Panel
Moderator: Jasper Cross Music 113
� Contrition
Harry Conley (California State University, Los Angeles)
� Smile: How I Learned to Avoid the Bougainvillea Blues
Dublin Galyean (California Poly State University, Los Angeles)
� Walking
Jenny Hicks (California State University, Los Angeles)
� and Then, She Spoke
Lisa Nava (California State University, Los Angeles)
� Rolling Down the Road
Kerry West (California State University, Los Angeles)
In Search of Marginality: American Writers in the Twentieth Century
Moderator: Thorin Alexander Music 114
� The Garden: Where Past, Present and Future Meet in the Plays of
August Wilson
Carrie Arcos (California State University, Los Angeles)
� Revolution and Reconciliation in August Wilson’s Jitney
Jade Ellis (California State University, Los Angeles)
� Language as the Vehicle of Transition in Boyle’s Process
Kevin McCabe (California State University, Los Angeles)
Session Three: 2:40– 4:10
Feminisms and the Female Body
Moderator: Kerry West Music 109
� Feminism, Fetish, and Fashion
Alexandra Dimakos (California State University, Northridge)
� Transnational Brides and the Commodification of “Ideal
Womanhood”: Gender, Nationalism, and the Politics of
Bollywood Cinema in the 90’s
Saira Paulouse (California State University, San Francisco)
� Living Happily Ever After, or the Image of the Princess in
American Society
Teresa Weseloh (California State University, San Marcos)
� The Womanhood of Dame Julian: Creating Devotional and
Theological Meaning Through the Feminine
Katy Wright (California Poly State University, San Luis Obispo)
Imperialist Imperatives: Colonialism and Essentialism
Moderator: Iris Aceves Music 110
� Colonizing Caliban
Thorin Alexander (California State University, Los Angeles)
� Darkness and Light, Illusion and Reality, in Joseph Conrad’s
Heart of Darkness
Jennifer Avila (California State University, Los Angeles)
� A Curtain O’er the World: Geological Satire in “Caliban Upon
Setebos”
Thomas Pinkel (California State University, Los Angeles)
Reading Twentieth-Century American Writers
Moderator: Mark Morris Music 113
� Hemingway’s Bull: The Allegorical Representation of
Bullfighting in The Sun Also Rises
Claudine Aguilar (California State University, Los Angeles)
� Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night, and Raising the Bar of Success
to Ensure Failure
Jim Coleman (California State University, Los Angeles)
� The Fact About Memoir is Fiction: Hemingway’s Construction
of the “Truest Sentence” in A Moveable Feast
Jessica Correll (California State University, Los Angeles)
Moderator: Hasmik Barsamian Music 114
� “At the Violet Hour”: The Applicability of Northrop Frye’s
Theories to an Analysis of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Larrah Feliciano (California Poly State University, San Luis
Obispo)
� The Text: A Metacognitive Approach to Authorship and
Authority
Amber Norwood (California State University, Northridge)
� Naming: The Language of Power in Jane Austen’s
Northanger Abbey
Isabela Tobias (California State University, Los Angeles)
� The Value of the Creative Free Play of the Imagination in
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and William Wordsworth’s
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
Reena Trivedi (California State University, Los Angeles)