College English Association
Middle Atlantic Group
Spring Conference
Saturday, March 11, 2006
Montgomery College
Rockville, MD
Transformations
Pedagogy
Theory/Praxis
Critical Theory
“The Institution”
Assessment
Literary Canon
Technology
Registration 9:00-9:30 am
Location—Lobby Theater Arts Arena
Session I: 9:30-10:50 a.m.
A. Transformations in Literary Scholarship ~HU 129
Panel Chair: Leela Kapai, Prince George’s Community College
“The Literary Within the Magical and Vice Versa”
Maria Kranidis, Suffolk County Community College
“The Same But Different; Different But the Same: Strategies of Cure and Enjoyment in Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism”
Alexander Howe, University of the District of Columbia
“George Gissing: The Natural World in Human Time”
Lewis D. Moore, University of the District of Columbia
B. Transformative Allusions in Joyce’s Ulysses ~ TA 107
Panel Chair: Joseph Sendry, The Catholic University of America
“The Man in Tarnkappe”
Sandra Hiortdahl, The Catholic University of America
“The Yellow Flower: Another Omphalos”
Leah Krynicky, The Catholic University of America
“Shakespearian Allusions in Joyce’s Ulysses”
Sean Lewis, The Catholic University of America
C. Transforming Processes~TA 108
Panel Chair: Elizabeth Benton, Montgomery College
“Methods of Employing Improv Comedy Exercises to Improve the Writing Experience”
Rob Hudson, Towson University
“The Poet and the Scholar”
Holly T. Sneeringer, Towson University
“Transforming Stylistic Agency in Students’ Technical Writing: A Process Approach:
Linda DiDesidero, Prince George’s Community College
PLENARY SESSION 11:00-12:00
Theater Arts Arena
Introductory Remarks: Dr. David Kaloustian, President, CEA-MAG
Welcoming Remarks: Dean Carolyn Terry
Keynote Address: Dr. Jeanne Fahnestock, University of Maryland
Business Meeting to follow
LUNCH: 12:00-1:20 p.m.
Theater Arts Arena
Session II: 1:30-2:50 pm
A. Critical Transformations ~TA 210
Panel Chair: Swift Dickison, Montgomery College-Rockville
“Rough Crossing: Developing a Transatlantic Literature Curriculum”
Mary Anne Lutz, Frostburg State University
“Defending the Criminal Justice System in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
L. Adam Mekler, Morgan State University
“The Aesthetics of Theodicy in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Pope’s Essay on Man”
David Kaloustian, Bowie State University
B. Workshop: Compassionate Teaching: Transforming Ourselves, Transforming Our Classrooms~ TA 107
Michael Eckert, Montgomery College
C. Collaboration Transformations ~ TA 108
Panel Chair: Abbey Spero, Montgomery College-Germantown
“Collaborations in the Contact Zone: Librarians, Faculty, Students, and Literacies”
Randi Gray Kristensen, The George Washington University
Laura E. Maldonado, The George Washington University
Dolsy Smith, The George Washington University
“Brain Power: The Role of the Affective Domain in the English Classroom”
Kimberly McFetridge, Delaware Technical and Community College
Alison Randall, Delaware Technical and Community College
D. Linguistic and Cultural Variation ~ TA 211
Panel Chair: Linda K. Brown, Morgan State University and Baltimore County Schools
“Multicultural Education Seen Through the Eyes of Sylvia Ashton-Warner and bell hooks”
Beth Edelstein, Towson University
Amanda Gates, Towson University
“Language Variation in Students’ Essays”
Milford A. Jeremiah, Morgan State University
“Say Something Beautiful: How a Student’s First Language Can Enrich Standard Compositional Technique”
Lisa Schamess, Montgomery College
Session III: 3:00 pm- 4:20 pm
A. Diversifying the Canon ~TA 107
Panel Chair: Effie Siegel, Montgomery College-Rockville
“Creating Accurate Perspectives of Life and Culture in American Literature: Bearing Witness to the Fruits of Black Women’s Labors”
Damaris Hill,Towson University
“Finding the Blessing: Representations of Black Girls and Women in African American Young Adult Literature”
Melvette Melvin Davis, The Penn State Univesity
“Contemporary Literary and Folk Images of Black Mothers”
Lena Ampadu, Towson University
B. Transformations in Meaning~ TA 210
Panel Chair: Michael Manson, American Univeristy
“Images and War: Photographs Don’t Lie, or Do They?”
Irene Klosko, Holy Family University
“The Transformation of Paradigm: From Aristotle to Kuhn and Back Again”
Charlie Ewers, Frostburg State University
“Transformations of Meaning Through Intertextual Play”
Gerald L. Phillips, Towson University
C. Developments in Pedagogy~ TA 211
Panel Chair: Pam Tcherkassky, Montgomery College-Rockville
“Computers and the Transformation of Pedagogy, Composition/Rhetoric, and Literature”
Sam Doku, University of the District of Columbia
“Assessing Assessment: How Assessment Encourages Continuous Improvement in Online Courses”
Helene Krauthamer, University of the District of Columbia
“Information Technology in the Classroom: What Students Want and How we Give it to Them”
Dorothy Phaire, University of the District of Columbia
Officers of CEA-MAG
President: David Kaloustian
Vice President: L. Adam Mekler
Treasurer: Helene Krauthamer
Secretary: Linda DiDesidero
Corresponding Secretary: Pamela Ward
CEA-MAGazine Editor: Virginia Carruthers
Liaison to National: Mike Eckert
Executive Council
Virginia Carruthers
Linda DiDesidero
Mike Eckert
Charlie Ewers
Clement Goddard
Michele Hardy
Milford Jeremiah
David Kaloustian
Leela Kapai
Helene Krauthamer
L. Adam Mekler
Julia Romano
Valerie Sedlak
Pamela Ward
Program Committee
Linda DiDesidero, Chair
Charlie Ewers
Helene Krauthamer
Site Chair
Mike Eckert
Program Production
Linda DiDesidero
David Kaloustian
L. Adam Mekler
The College English Association – Middle Atlantic Group would like to thank the Department of English and the Humanities Area at Montgomery College for hosting this conference.
CEA-MAG also thanks Pearson Publishing for its generous support.