Women's Studies Program 13th Annual Conference

Women and Creativity IX, March 22-24, 2007   Sponsored by the MU Women’s Studies Program Office of the Provost Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences Department of English   Quick Links to Sessions Thursday, March 22, 2007 Session 1: In Pursuit of Happiness: Mrs. Dalloway and the Problem of Identity Session 2: Eighteenth-Century Receptions/Perceptions of Women Session 3: Women of Color and Feminine “Otherness” Session 4: Women and the Visual Arts Session 5: Creativity and Alternative Constructions of the Female Self Session 6: Women, Narrative, and the Victorian Literary Marketplace Thursday 3:15 – 5:00 Poetry/Fiction Reading Friday, March 23, 2007 Session 7: Voices of Discontent: Femininity, Power, and Domesticity in Four British Works Session 8: Representations and Images of Women in Film Session 9: Women, Architecture, and the Metaphoric Creation of Female Space Session 10: Women and Dance Friday 3:30 – 5:00 Keynote Address: Judith Wilt, Boston College Saturday, March 24, 2007 Session 11: Writing, Religion, and Images of the Self Session 12: Authorial and Textual Ambiguity: Constructions of the Female Voice Session 13: The Brontës and Creativity / Writing the Gendered Narrative Session 14: Institutionalized Oppression and Voices of Resistance Thursday, March 22, 2007 Sessions 1- 2 9:00 – 10:30   Session 1: In Pursuit of Happiness: Mrs. Dalloway and the Problem of Identity Raynor Conference Room A Gina Covelli, Lakeland College Peter Walsh’s Struggle with Masculinity in Mrs. Dalloway Tabitha Kniest, Lakeland College The Battle Inside Peter Walsh Jodie Liedke, Lakeland College Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: Censoring, Marriage, and Female Identity Moderator: Meg Albrinck   Session 2:  Eighteenth-Century Receptions/Perceptions of Women Raynor Conference Room C Magdalen McKinley, Marquette University The News Versus the Novel: Female Virtue in Eighteenth-Century America Carol Klees-Starks, Marquette University The Rake's Progress: Austen's Genteel Criticism of Social Excess in Regency England Jennifer Willacker, Marquette University The Epistolary Form:  A Danger to Women or an Effective Means of Promoting Morality? Emily Blaser, Marquette University Trapped by Polite Rhetoric: The Coquette and the Breakdown of Epistolary Communication Moderator: S. Margaret McCann   Sessions 3 – 4 10:45 – 12:15   Session 3: Representations of Feminine “Otherness” Raynor Conference Room A Aesha Adams-Roberts, Marquette University “Honor Thy Mother”: Black Women’s Preaching as Othermothering Donna Decker Schuster, Marquette University Gender as Rhetorical Location in Woolf's Orlando Moderator: Emily Blaser Session 4: Women and the Visual Arts Raynor Conference Room C Annemarie Sawkins, Marquette University “You are not fit to rule” : Representations of Women by Honoré Daumier Carrie McGath, Independent Scholar Shock, Awe, and Everything in Between: The Dolls of Hans Bellmer Presenter, West Chester University Contemplation and Pleasure: The Resin Reliefs of Florence Pierce Moderator: Tenille Nowak   Sessions 5 – 6 1:30 – 3:00   Session 5: Creativity and Alternative Constructions of the Female Self Raynor Conference Room A Brooke Lenz, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota Fact and Fiction: The Metafictional Standpoint Methodology of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit William Lofdahl, Marquette University Monstrous Marginality:  Sexing the Cherry as a Contra-Straight Novel Moderator:  Carol Klees-Starks   Session 6: Women, Narrative, and the Victorian Literary Marketplace Raynor Conference Room C Tarah Demant, Washington University in St. Louis To be a “Literary Artist”: The Anxiety of Creative Achievement in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s “Miss Grief” Albert C. Sears, Silver Lake College Revising the Sensation Novel: Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Taken at the Flood Elizabeth K. Haller, Kent State University Women as Prisoners of the Victorian Ideal Trudy Lewis, University of Missouri – Columbia A Sister’s Institution: The Lowell Offering as a Site of Female Re-Invention Moderator:  Rebecca Parker Fedewa Thursday 3:15 – 5:00 Poetry/Fiction Reading Raynor Conference Room C   Martha Modena Vertreace-Doody, Kennedy-King College Selected Poetry Irena Praitis, California State University, Fullerton Poetry Reading from her new book Branches Trudy Lewis, University of Missouri-Columbia and St. Lawrence University Historical Fiction Reading: “Window Gems: A Factory Girls’ Library” Carrie McGath Poetry Reading from her book Small Murders Debra Brenegan, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Reading of her short story "The Last Triangle" Moderator: S. Vida Muse   RECEPTION TO FOLLOW IN RAYNOR CONFERENCE LOBBY   Friday, March 23, 2007 Sessions 7 – 8 9:00 – 10:30   Session 7: Voices of Discontent: Femininity, Power, and Domesticity in Four British Works Raynor Conference Room A Lisieux Huelman, Saint Louis University “Sorrow, Affectation, and Stupidity”: Silence in Frances Burney’s Cecilia Sarah Schwab, Saint Louis University How to be a Good Wife; or Manners, Morals, and Marriage in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda Lisa DePauw Fischer, Saint Louis University “Singing in their chains”: Subjectivity and the Domestic in Felicia Hemans’s Records of Woman Lynn M. Linder, Saint Louis University Marian’s Last Word: (Re)Constructing a Theory of Indirect Power in Victorian England Moderator: Amy Raduege Session 8: Representations and Images of Women in Film Raynor Conference Room C Sarah Nestor, University of Indianapolis Re-imagining the Bennets: Feature Film, Joe Wright and Pride and Prejudice Rev. Katie Low, Texas Christian University Satan’s Seductress: The Female Body in American Occult/Apocalyptic Films on the Eve of the Millennium Diane Long Hoeveler, Marquette University Anima Sola: The Tortured Female Body in Gothika Wendy Weaver and Nancy Metzger, Marquette University Living Under Domestic Cover: Deconstructing Domesticity in Mr. & Mrs. Smith Moderator: Mark Zunac   Session 9 10:45 – 12:15 Session 9: Women, Architecture, and the Metaphoric Creation of Female Space Raynor Conference Room A Ann Sobiech Munson, Iowa State University Mrs. Armstrong’s Room Lisa Kohlmeier, Claremont Graduate University The Creative Spaces of Alice Paul and Regina Anderson Andrews Lisa Isaacson, Zayed University Exercise Rooms: A Poetics of Fitness TreaAndrea M. Russworm, University of Chicago Dancing as Destruction/Dancing as Production in Imitation of Life, A Raisin in the Sun, and Black Girl Moderator: Jodi Melamed   Session 10 1:30 – 3:00 Session 10: Women and the Act of Writing Raynor Conference Room A Linda M. Lewis, Bethany College Augusta Webster’s “A Castwaway” as a Failure of the Rhetoric of Confession Brian Gogan, Marquette University Composing Complicity: Rhetoric and Revolt in Joyce Carol Oates’s “You Must Remember This” Megan Buckley, National University of Ireland, Galway The “Art Poems” of Eva Bourke Elif Oztabak Avci, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Patriarchies and Artistic Creativity: An Analysis of A.S. Byatt’s “Art Work” Moderator: Christine Colón   Friday 3:30 – 5:00 Keynote Address Raynor Conference Rooms   Judith Wilt, Boston College   Women Writing Towards Death: Reflections on Marylynn Robinson’s Gilead, Mary Gordon’s Pearl, and Joan Didion’s Magical Thinking   Reception to follow in Raynor Conference Center Lobby Saturday, March 24, 2007   Sessions 11-12 9:15– 10:45 Session 11: Writing, Religion, and Images of the Self Raynor Conference Room A Karin Kohlmeier, City University of New York A Mirror for the Self: The Role of the Audience in Mary McCarthy’s Autobiographical Works Anne Schafer, University of St. Thomas A (New) New Woman: Continuing Feminist Utopian Vision in Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow and Children of God Denna Iammarino, Marquette University Reading for Possession: Travel and Objectification in Edith Wharton's The Reef Sue Orenstein, Muhlenberg College And a Woman Shall Lead Them: Time, Art, Identity and Consciousness in The Body Artist Moderator: Donna Schuster   Session 12: Authorial and Textual Ambiguity: Constructions of the Female Voice Raynor Conference C Tenille Nowak, Marquette University Regina Maria Roche’s “Horrid” Novel: Reflections of Clermont in Austen’s Northanger Abbey  Colleen Willenbring, Marquette University Harriet Martineau and the Problems of Poverty in 19c Literature and Culture Christine A. Colón, Wheaton College Dorothy L. Sayers and the “Feminist” Mystery Novel Moderator: Dan Burke   Session 13 11:00 – 12:30 Session 13: The Brontës and Creativity / Writing the Gendered Narrative Raynor Conference Center A Angela Spentzaki Silva, University of Nevada - Las Vegas Extracting Wholesome Medicines from Wuthering Heights S. Margaret A. McCann Win, Lose, or Draw: The Dilemma of the Female Artist According to Anne and Charlotte Brontë Amy Schoofs-Rahne, Marquette University A Picture Squares a Thousand Words: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Graphic Novel Moderator: Brian Gogan   Session 14 1:30 – 3:00 Session 14: Institutionalized Oppression and Voices of Resistance Raynor Conference Center A Chris T. Schulenburg, University of Wisconsin Cecilia Valdés and the “Institutionalization” of Creole Control in Cuba Marketta Laurila, Tennessee Tech University Disintegration of the Female Self in the Work of Marta Traba Phil Christman, Marquette University Autobiography and Dissent in the Essays of Carol Bly Mark Zunac, Marquette University Gender Transgressions and National Identity in Patrick McCabe’s Breakfast on Pluto Moderator: Presenter, West Chester University   Special thanks to Dennis Higgins William Lofdahl Michael T. Martin Mark Zunac