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Conferences and Awards If you know of information that should be listed here and isn't, please contact us. October 2009
Katy Leedy, “‘Many books my life’: The Challenge of Accuracy in Art Spiegelman’s Maus” at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Detroit, Michigan, held October 30 to November 1, 2009. Kristina Persenaire, “The Wisdom of Bumper Stickers: ‘Celebrate Diversity’ vs. ‘One World, One Love; The Ramifications of an Ideological Paradigm Shift from the Universal to the Specific” at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Detroit, Michigan, held October 30 to November 1, 2009. Patrick Prominski, “The Problem with Faith: Autism and Its Consequences in Hope Leslie” at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Detroit, Michigan, held October 30 to November 1, 2009. Patrick is also serving as the Nineteenth Century American Popular Culture area chair for the MPCA. The following students presented paper's at the Shakespeare Connects conference held at Grand Valley October 2-3, 2009:
June 2009 Rebecca Black was the recipient of the "Outstanding People for Education" award. This program is county-wide in Allegan and is run through the school board. Nominations for the award were made by peers and community members. She was one of three people nominated from her district. Michelle Sanchez, presenting about research and interviews assessing the efficacy of current strategies in the writing center when working with international students. East Central Writing Centers Association Conference at Purdue University, held April 3-4, 2009. February 2009 Patrick Prominski, "Tradition and Technology:The Struggle of Oratory from James Joyce's 'Aeolus' to Robert Kendall's 'Faith'" at the Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 in Louisville, Kentucky, held February 19-21, 2009. Katy Leedy, "Resisting Colonization: Peacocks and Poles in Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person'" at the Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900 in Louisville, Kentucky, held February 19-21, 2009. November 2008 Mandy DeWilde was awarded the Graduate Dean's Citation for Excellence in the Major (English). Megan Lockard was awarded a Presidential Research Grant for her thesis on Maria Edgeworth. Denise Galloway, Lauren Hoffman, and Patrick Prominski were recipients of Scholarly Travel Grants. October 2008 Ann Hayward, "From Mourning to Morning: Love and Grief in 'A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy's Day, Being the Shortest Day'" at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 24, 2008. Patrick Prominski, "This is not not a game: Ulysses as Hypertext Fiction" at the Midwest Popular Culture Conference in Cincinnati, OH, held October 3-5, 2008. September 2008 Robyn Brodie, Mandy DeWilde, Connolly Jenkins, Eric Serna and Barb Yates have all obtained positions as adjunct instructors at Muskegon Community College. Sean Mackey and Dave Settle are adjunct instructors at Grand Rapids Community College. August 2008 The following students presented papers at the T. S. Eliot Conference "Art, Culture, and Religion," co-sponsored by Grand Valley State University and The Russell Kirk Center, held August 14-16, 2008:
May 2008 David Settle presented his paper, "St. Clair Flats and the American Dream" at the SSML Conference at Michigan State University, which was held May 8th-10th, 2008. February 2008 Patrick Prominski gave a presentation titled "The Miraculous Deliverance and Daring Escape: Women, Captivity Narratives and the American Novel" at Siena Heights University. The program traced the captivity narrative from the early American Republic through the nineteenth century. Special focus was placed on the contributions of Jean Lowry, Maria Kittle (Ann Eliza Bleecker) and Hannah Duston. The white/Native American relationships in the fiction of authors Catherine Maria Sedgwick, James Fenimore Cooper and Lydia Maria Child were also discussed. November 2007 |TOP| David Settle will be chairing a session at the NCTE conference entitled, "Research on Social Contexts and Languages" in New York on November 16. October 2007 David Settle presented his paper, "Experiencing Joy Through the Pursuit of Passion," at the MCEA conference in Dearborn, MI on Friday, October 12. September 2007 Chad Cripe presented his paper "The Perfect (Eco)Critic: Exploring T.S. Eliot's Ecological Poetics" at the T. S. Eliot Society Conference in St. Louis. May 2007 Sheridan Steelman presented her paper "Mirror Images in E.E. Cummings' Poetry" at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston. March and April 2007 Chris Triezenberg presented her paper, "Voicing the Unvoiceable: Tracing Rage in Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind" at the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters Annual Meeting at Ferris State University on March 9th, 2007. Chris also presented the paper at the Popular Culture/American Culture Association's Annual Conference held in Boston, April 3-8. Chad Cripe presented his paper, "Down on Their Luck: (Mis)Representations of Lower Class Gambling in the Victorian Novel at the Northeast Modern Language Association's Annual Conference in March. October 2006 |TOP| Chad Cripe presented his paper, "'Nobody F**** With The Jesus': The Big Lebowski's Critique of Pat-Robertson-Evangelicalism" at the Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference. October 2006: Participants In the Flannery O'Connor Conference
March 2006: Flannery O'Connor and Other Georgia Writers
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