College English Association

College English Association – Middle Atlantic Group
Spring Conference
Friday, March 12, 2004
Montgomery College
20020 Observation Drive
Germantown, MD 20876-4098

Roadmaps to Writing and Literature

To guide us through the sometimes tortuous terrains of writing and literature, we will consider roadmaps to enrich and enlighten our study of both disciplines. Both writing and literature continue to be worthy of sustained research and study that help to map the journey for establishing their place, presence, and paradigms within the academy.

Literature and . . . The new aestheticism The canon Critical theories Film Race, class, and gender The teaching of Writing Technology Orality Other disciplines

Writing and . . . Best practices Assessment Rhetoric Grammar Speaking Linguistics Technology Service Learning Writing Across the Curriculum

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CEA-MAG CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Montgomery College-Germantown
March 12, 2004

Registration 9:00-9:30 am
HS Building Lobby –1st floor near Room 161

Session I: 9:30-10:50 a.m.

A. Technology & Writing:
HT Building,  Room 205 (Computer Lab)

“Psyched-out”: Using Technology in a Pilot Writing in the Disciplines Project:
Panel Chairs:  Helene Krauthamer and Mark Siegel, University of the District of Columbia:

Alice Sobsey “Does Keeping a Reflective Journal Help Students to Improve Their Writing,”  University of the District of Columbia

Pat George “Psyched-out: Dealing with Psychology Students in a Writing in the Disciplines Project,” University of the District of Columbia

Shakila Ali “Effectiveness of E-mail Tutoring and Virtual Chat Sessions,” University of the District of Columbia

Laurence Covington “Case Study: Teaching the Basic Writer who is Learning Disabled,” University of the District of Columbia

B. Critical Reading & Writing:
HS Building, Room 161

Panel Chair:  Leela Kapai, Prince Georges Community College

“Reading and Writing the Process Analysis Essay as Collaborative Discourse”
Linda DiDesidero, Capitol College

“Critical Reading of Non-Fiction Texts”
Linda K. Brown, Morgan State University & Baltimore County Schools

“A Fresh Eye on the Narrative Form”
Deborah Taylor, Montgomery College-Takoma Park

Plenary Session: 11-11:50 a.m.
HT Building, Room 113 (Globe Hall)

A. Welcome: Carolyn Terry, Instructional Dean and Lead Dean for English Montgomery College, Rockville

B.  Keynote Address:  Barbara Hurd, author of Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination;
Professor of English, Frostburg State, MD

C. Annual Business Meeting
Lena Ampadu, CEA-MAG President, Towson University

Lunch: 12-1:20 p.m.

Attendees may purchase a catered lunch for $8.00 in the college cafeteria.
Poetry Reading:  Jim Curran, Towson University

Session II: 1:30-2:50 p.m.

A. Revisiting Grammar:
HS Building, Room 171

Panel Chair:  Cheryl Brown, Towson University
“Revisiting Grammar Instruction”
Lauren DiPaula, Towson University
Christine Murphy, Towson University

B.  Theory & Text:
HS Building, Room 173

Panel Chair:  Abby Spero, Montgomery College, Germantown

“Stem-stressing Hopkins’s The Wreck of the Deutschland”
Michael Zeitler, Morgan State University

“Reading War; Learning Peace”
Mike Eckert, Montgomery College-Rockville

“Romantic Love, Convention, and Sexuality in George Gissing’s Fiction”
Lewis D. Moore, University of the District of Columbia

C. Writing: Purpose, Audience, and Language:
HS Building, Room 175

Panel Chair:  John Hare,  Montgomery College, Germantown

“Informal Registers in Students’ Essays”
Milford A. Jeremiah, Morgan State University

“Descriptive Process: Writing for Another”
Joanna Howard, Montgomery College-Rockville

“Purpose and Audience Revisited”
James Cook, Towson University

Session III: 3-4:20 p.m.

A. Writing Assessment:
HS Building, Room 171

Panel Chair:  Lena Ampadu, Towson University
“Roadmaps to Understanding Assessment in Writing”

“Understanding Assessment”
Linda Suskie, Towson University

“Making Plain the Language and Tools of Writing Assessment”
Lena Ampadu, Towson University

“Where Have all the Writers Gone? Assessing Writing or Silence Writers”
Cheryl A. Brown, Towson University

B. Readings in Fiction & Poetry:
HS Building, Room 173

Moderator:  Katherine Smith, Montgomery College, Germantown

Reads short fiction, “The Cigar Box.”
Elizabeth Huergo, Montgomery College-Rockville

Reads from his poetry.
Robert L. Giron, Montgomery College-Takoma Park

Reads from her poetry.
Brenda Walcott, Independent Scholar/Writer, Cambridge, Massachusetts

C. Literature & Aesthetics:
HS Building, Room 175

Panel Chair:  David Kaloustian, Bowie State University

“Art and Theme: An Examination of W. E. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk”
Ambrose Monye, Bowie State University

“The Subversiveness of the Aesthetics; or, Taking the Ideological High Road”
David Kaloustian, Bowie State University

“Umberto Eco, Martha Nussbaum, Theodor Adorno, and the Good Life”
Gerald L. Phillips, Towson University

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Thanks to the following publishers for financial support. Please visit their book exhibits near the registration table: 

• Allyn/Bacon/Longman
• Bedford/St. Martin’s
• Houghton Mifflin