The first Lynchburg College Graduate English Conference, which offers graduate students the opportunity to present their work in a format resembling that of a professional academic conference, will be Saturday, May 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Awards will be given for the best creative and scholarly work.
The complete schedule is as follows:
8:30-9 a.m.
Light Breakfast Refreshments (Schewel 231)
9-10:15 a.m.
Panel I: Heroes, Slaves, and Places (Schewel 209)
Michael Mitchell Jr., The Archetypal Hero in Coal Black Horse
Rebecca McGowan, "This Ole Genre: Plantation Literature of Virginia"
Jeremy Bryant, "Place in Contemporary Creative Nonfiction"
Casey Clabough, "Excerpt from ‘The Skeleton Woman'"
Panel II: Renaissance Revisited (Schewel 208)
Maria Masci, "A Young Maid in the Early Renaissance: A Reconstruction of Jane from ‘Phillip Sparrow'"
Stacy Cook and Taranee Tabaian, "Editing John Skelton's Magnificence"
Robin Bates, "Brewing Rebellion: Shakespeare's Use of the Alehouse and Religious Dissent in Twelfth Night"
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Panel III: Women Eating, Laughing, Lusting (Schewel 209)
Marni Fogelson-Teel, "Recipes for Change: Rethinking Women's Roles and Rules in the Kitchen in Like Water for Chocolate and Chocolat"
Laura Clements, "We Thought You Would Be Funnier (and Other Atrocious Lies): Laurie Notaro's Humorous Approach for Coping with Life"
Jess Quinlan, "Out of Hyacinth and Apple-Boughs: Sappho's Aphrodite Myth and the Bisexual Anima"
Beth Savage, "Female Appetites, Foreign Mothers, and Fantasy Women in William Congreve's The Way of the World"
Panel IV: Muses of the Burg (Schewel 208)
Bruce Bays, "Vernon"
Maggie Beyer, "Poems"
Graham Warwick, "Human Resources"
Laura Long, "Selected Poems from Imagine a Door"
Noon-1 p.m.
Awards Presentation and Plenary Address by Steven Knepper (Schewel 231)