Schedule of Events - California State University, Los Angeles
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<strong>Schedule</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Events</strong><br />
8:00 – 8:45 Registration and Breakfast<br />
Golden Eagle Ballroom<br />
8:45 – 9:00 Welcome Address<br />
Dr. Hema Chari, Graduate Student<br />
Association Advisor<br />
9:00 – 10:30 Session One Music Building<br />
� Canons and Communities: American Ethnic and<br />
Diasporic Literatures<br />
� Anxious Relations: Mothers and Children<br />
� Innovations in Composition Pedagogy<br />
� Imagination, Language, and Power: Ways <strong>of</strong> Reading<br />
/ Ways <strong>of</strong> Knowing<br />
10:30-10:40 Break<br />
10:40-11:45 Dr. John Sutherland - Keynote Address<br />
Golden Eagle Ballroom<br />
11:45 – 12:50 Lunch<br />
Golden Eagle Ballroom<br />
1:00 – 2:30 Session Two Music Building<br />
� Secularisms and Fundamentalisms<br />
� (Dis)Embodiments: Race, Nation, Law<br />
� The Muse: Creative Writing Panel<br />
� In Search <strong>of</strong> Marginality: American Writers in the<br />
Twentieth Century<br />
2:30 – 2:40 Break<br />
2:45 – 4:15 Session Three Music Building<br />
� Feminisms and the Female Body<br />
� Imperialist Imperatives: Colonialism and Essentialism<br />
� Hemingway and Fitzgerald: Reading Twentieth-<br />
Century American Writers<br />
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Welcome student participants, faculty, and guests to<br />
Significations: The 12 th Annual CSU Graduate Student<br />
Conference. The conference continues to be a success due to<br />
the generous and spirited intellectual exchange, good will, and<br />
enthusiasm <strong>of</strong> the participants. With participants from campuses<br />
across <strong>California</strong>, the Conference Committee also hopes to<br />
encourage ongoing peer collaboration and broader research<br />
possibilities. Your participation and commitment are very much<br />
appreciated and vital to continuing this worthwhile CSU tradition.<br />
Special Thanks<br />
Dr. John Sutherland, Keynote Speaker<br />
Dr. Hema Chari, Faculty Advisor<br />
Dr. John Cleman, English Department Chair<br />
Dr. James M. Rosser, President <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong><br />
Dr. Herman D. Lujan, Provost <strong>of</strong> the <strong>University</strong><br />
Dr. Terry L. Allison, Dean, College <strong>of</strong> Arts & Letters<br />
Dr. Jose Galvan, Dean, Graduate Studies & Research<br />
Dr. Alan Muchlinski, Associate Dean, Graduate Studies & Research<br />
Terry Flores, Yolanda Galvan, Jeanne Gee, and Johnny Trieu,<br />
Our Incredibly Wonderful Staff<br />
All English Department Faculty, Students, and Staff<br />
The Submission Review Committee<br />
Faculty:<br />
Dr. Betty Bamberg, Dr. Mary Bush, Dr. Michael Calabrese, Dr. Hema<br />
Chari, Dr. Mel Donalson, Dr. Marilyn Elkins, Dr. Jim Garrett, Dr. Maria<br />
Karafilis, Dr. Jun Liu, Dr. Caroline McManus, Dr. Ruben Quintero<br />
Graduate Students:<br />
Claudine Aguilar, Thorin Alexander, Monica Baltazar, Jim Coleman,<br />
Harry Conley, Jenny Hicks, Matt Khitikian, Jessica Magallanes, Andrew<br />
Montana, Mark Morris, Lisa Nava, Tom Pinkel, Leilani Serafin<br />
Our Sponsors<br />
The English Department, The College <strong>of</strong> Arts and Letters,<br />
Golden Eagle Hospitality, Associated Students Incorporated,<br />
Campus Reprographics, <strong>University</strong> Writing Center,<br />
CSULA Instructionally Related Activities Grant<br />
Graduate Student Association<br />
Monica Baltazar, Jim Coleman, Harry Conley, Jenny Hicks, Matt<br />
Khitikian, Jessica Magallanes, Andrew Montana, Mark Morris, Lisa<br />
Nava, Tom Pinkel, Leilani Serafin
Session One: 9:00 -10:30<br />
Canons and Communities: American Ethnic and Diasporic<br />
Literatures<br />
Moderator: Harry Conley Music 109<br />
� Angeleno Haitians: Staying Connected to a Culture<br />
Monica Baltazar (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� The Illogic <strong>of</strong> the American Canon that Segregates Ethnic<br />
Literature<br />
Jessie Chen (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� Charlie Chan, Hero Detective: A Rebuttal to the Assertion the<br />
Fictional Character is a Negative Image to the Asian Male<br />
Community Within Popular Culture During the 20 th Century<br />
Richard-Edward de Vere (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>,<br />
Northridge)<br />
� Hector Tobar’s Diasporic Illustration <strong>of</strong> Central Americans<br />
Jessica Cristo (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
Anxious Relations: Mothers and Children<br />
Moderator: Andrew Montana Music 110<br />
� Impertinent Miracles: The Occult Mother and E. Nesbit’s<br />
Reclamation <strong>of</strong> “She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed”<br />
Elizabeth Lowry (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� The Loud Silence <strong>of</strong> Girls in American Girl<br />
Kate Rowe (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Northridge)<br />
� Eternizing the Child: Peter and Wendy and Anxiety Over<br />
Endings<br />
Leilani Serafin (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
Innovations in Composition Pedagogy<br />
Moderator: Jenny Hicks Music 113<br />
� Building Bridges in the Honors/AP Achievement Gap: Theory,<br />
Research, and Policy<br />
Debra Chan (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� Writing Center Practice: Composition, Pedagogy, and<br />
Qualitative Assessment<br />
Jessica Magallanes (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� A-Journaling We Go: A Quick Review <strong>of</strong> the Use <strong>of</strong> Journals in<br />
the Classroom<br />
Lynne Osborne (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
Imagination, Language, and Power: Ways <strong>of</strong> Reading / Ways <strong>of</strong><br />
Knowing<br />
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Session Two: 1:00 – 2:30<br />
Secularisms and Fundamentalisms<br />
Moderator: Ximena Hernandez Music 109<br />
� Immigration and Violence in the Modern City<br />
Iris Aceves (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� A Fundamental Fragmentation: The Hybridity <strong>of</strong> Fundamentalism(s)<br />
in Hanif Kureishi’s The Black Album<br />
Matt Khitikian (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� Through the Past Darkly: Reading Satanic Verses after 9/11<br />
Andrew Montana (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
(Dis)Embodiments: Race, Nation, Law<br />
Moderator: Leilani Serafin Music 110<br />
� Frederick Douglass’s Heroic Vision <strong>of</strong> Higher Law<br />
Rosemarie Banich (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� The Power <strong>of</strong> Rhetoric in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland<br />
Mark Morris (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Guise <strong>of</strong> Sentimentality<br />
Julie Meloni (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, San Jose)<br />
The Muse: Creative Writing Panel<br />
Moderator: Jasper Cross Music 113<br />
� Contrition<br />
Harry Conley (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� Smile: How I Learned to Avoid the Bougainvillea Blues<br />
Dublin Galyean (<strong>California</strong> Poly <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� Walking<br />
Jenny Hicks (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� and Then, She Spoke<br />
Lisa Nava (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� Rolling Down the Road<br />
Kerry West (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
In Search <strong>of</strong> Marginality: American Writers in the Twentieth Century<br />
Moderator: Thorin Alexander Music 114<br />
� The Garden: Where Past, Present and Future Meet in the Plays <strong>of</strong><br />
August Wilson<br />
Carrie Arcos (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� Revolution and Reconciliation in August Wilson’s Jitney<br />
Jade Ellis (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� Language as the Vehicle <strong>of</strong> Transition in Boyle’s Process<br />
Kevin McCabe (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
Session Three: 2:40– 4:10<br />
Feminisms and the Female Body<br />
Moderator: Kerry West Music 109<br />
� Feminism, Fetish, and Fashion<br />
Alexandra Dimakos (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Northridge)<br />
� Transnational Brides and the Commodification <strong>of</strong> “Ideal<br />
Womanhood”: Gender, Nationalism, and the Politics <strong>of</strong><br />
Bollywood Cinema in the 90’s<br />
Saira Paulouse (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, San Francisco)<br />
� Living Happily Ever After, or the Image <strong>of</strong> the Princess in<br />
American Society<br />
Teresa Weseloh (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, San Marcos)<br />
� The Womanhood <strong>of</strong> Dame Julian: Creating Devotional and<br />
Theological Meaning Through the Feminine<br />
Katy Wright (<strong>California</strong> Poly <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, San Luis Obispo)<br />
Imperialist Imperatives: Colonialism and Essentialism<br />
Moderator: Iris Aceves Music 110<br />
� Colonizing Caliban<br />
Thorin Alexander (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� Darkness and Light, Illusion and Reality, in Joseph Conrad’s<br />
Heart <strong>of</strong> Darkness<br />
Jennifer Avila (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� A Curtain O’er the World: Geological Satire in “Caliban Upon<br />
Setebos”<br />
Thomas Pinkel (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
Reading Twentieth-Century American Writers<br />
Moderator: Mark Morris Music 113<br />
� Hemingway’s Bull: The Allegorical Representation <strong>of</strong><br />
Bullfighting in The Sun Also Rises<br />
Claudine Aguilar (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night, and Raising the Bar <strong>of</strong> Success<br />
to Ensure Failure<br />
Jim Coleman (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� The Fact About Memoir is Fiction: Hemingway’s Construction<br />
<strong>of</strong> the “Truest Sentence” in A Moveable Feast<br />
Jessica Correll (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
Moderator: Hasmik Barsamian Music 114<br />
� “At the Violet Hour”: The Applicability <strong>of</strong> Northrop Frye’s<br />
Theories to an Analysis <strong>of</strong> T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land<br />
Larrah Feliciano (<strong>California</strong> Poly <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, San Luis<br />
Obispo)<br />
� The Text: A Metacognitive Approach to Authorship and<br />
Authority<br />
Amber Norwood (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Northridge)<br />
� Naming: The Language <strong>of</strong> Power in Jane Austen’s<br />
Northanger Abbey<br />
Isabela Tobias (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)<br />
� The Value <strong>of</strong> the Creative Free Play <strong>of</strong> the Imagination in<br />
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and William Wordsworth’s<br />
“Ode: Intimations <strong>of</strong> Immortality”<br />
Reena Trivedi (<strong>California</strong> <strong>State</strong> <strong>University</strong>, <strong>Los</strong> <strong>Angeles</strong>)