Schedule EGAD Conference Session 1 (8:00-9:15) Friday
Linguistics 1 (Innovations A) Shigehito Menjo, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) The Acquisition of Consonant Timing Control by Japanese Language Learners So Young Lee, Ewha Womans University-South Korea The Analysis of Korean Speakers Responses to Yes/No Questions in English Hyunji Cho, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea The Effect of the Korea Native Language on the Acquisition of English Articles Literature 6 (Traditions) Bill Lancaster, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Behavior as a Medium of Exchange in Steinbecks Cannery Row Courtney Patrick, Texas Womans University Hard to Believe I was Ever That Young Whelp: Memory and Presence in Krapps Last Tape Terrence Sowers, Texas A&M University-Commerce My Mother is a Fish! CliC Roundtable (Innovations B) Remixing Rural Texas: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable Film 1 (Conference A) Marilyn Lewis, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Land of the Free and Home of the Apes: Planet of the Apes Shaun Clarkson, Texas State University-San Marcos The Holocaust Framed and Renamed: Two Narrative Strategies to Remembering Charles Hamilton, Texas A&M University-Commerce The Graduate: Its All About Choices Literature 1 (Conference B)
Mary Couzelis, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) The Future is Pale: Race in Contemporary Adult Dystopian Novels Setbyol Moon, Ewha Womans University, South Korea Slave. Free. I last.Building New Epic in Toni Morrisons A Mery
Session 2 (9:30-10:45) Friday
Creative Writing (Traditions) Vince Liberato, Texas A&M University-Commerce TBD J.D. Isip, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Deep Topography: A Poem Sequence Allen Dillman, Texas A&M University-Commerce RED Linguistics 2 (Innovations A) Audrey Adams, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) LOLd!! (Linguistics of Online discourse): An Analysis of Humor Markers in ComputerMediated Communication John A. Pierce, Texas A&M University-Commerce The First Language Bias and Discourse Coherence in Evaluating the Writing of EFL Students Julie Bouchard, Texas A&M University-Commerce Canadian French Speakers of English as a Second Language Prosodic Orientation in Problem Solving Tasks: Preliminary Investigation Composition and Rhetoric (Innovations B) Amanda McCain, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Writing Principles Inside and Outside of the Classroom: Video Games and Composition Carey Gable, Texas A&M University-Commerce How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombCreating a Pop Pedagogy Lami C. Adama, Texas A&M University-Commerce Reawakening Socratic Method in Modern Composition Instruction Film 2 (Conference A)
Angela Kennedy, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Calling All Gleeks: Technological Transactions Through Television Jarrod Bolin, Texas A&M University-Commerce Blockbucking: How Attack of the Block Bucks Trends of White Privilege Michelle Pirkle, Texas A&M University-Commerce Forget the SkiesWatch the Children! Uncanny Child to Marvelous Other in Village of the Damned Literature 2 (Conference B) Alyse Sheridan, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Institutional Norms and the Gothic in the Short Stories of John Steinbeck Sean Ferrier-Watson, Texas A&M University-Commerce Poes Transcendental Gothic Megan Carey, Texas A&M University-Commerce The Power of Gender: Gothic Role Reversal in Anne Rices Queen of the Damned
Session 3 (12:45-2) Friday
Literature 3 (Traditions) Moorea Coker, Texas A&M University-Commerce Class, Ass, and Marriage: Its a Social Thing: The Gendering of Power in Shakespeares Comedies Terri L. Nugent, Texas A&M University-Commerce An Exploration of Identity in Mrs. Dalloway Using Althussers Cultural Interpellation and Kantian Philosophy Linguistics 3 (Innovations A) Sergio Pizziconi, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Motivational Cube and Teaching Style Square: Total Cognitive Response (ToCoRe) as an Un-Cartesian Approach to Language Teaching/Learning Factoring Hmoud Alotaibi, Texas A&M University-Commerce Thesis Statement in English Argumentative Essays by Arab Students Before and After a Workshop on Writing: A Case Study of Contrastive Rhetoric Laura Di Ferrante, Texas A&M University-Commerce Campioni del mondo! Campioni del mondo! Campioni del mondo! Movies, Literature,
and Culture Interfaced: Teaching Colloquialisms and Folklore in the Second Language Classroom Composition and Rhetoric 2 (Innovations B) Melissa Nivens, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Dual Credit: A Legitimate Path to Higher Education Erika Johnson, Texas Womans University The Basic Writing of Communion Jennifer Collar, Texas A&M University-Commerce The TAKS Test: A Literacy Sponsor That Affects Student Writing Kristen McClure, Cerritos College, California Breaking Boundaries: Teaching to the Basic Skills Student Profile Film Roundtable 1 (Conference A) Re-Imagining Akira Kurosawas Dreams: A Roundtable Discussion Discussion Facilitator: Michelle Pirkle Alexandra Pirkle, Texas A&M University-Commerce Rachel Cantrell, Texas A&M University-Commerce Margaret Pea, Texas A&M University-Commerce Jarrod Bolin, Texas A&M University-Commerce Jennifer Jones, Texas A&M University-Commerce Jeanne Davis, Texas A&M University-Commerce Sean Kennedy, Texas A&M University-Commerce Alesa McGregor, Texas A&M University-Commerce Literature 4 (Conference B) Allie Miller, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) No Girls Allowed?: Pratchetts Nation as the Anti-Boys Adventure Club Khimen Cooper, Texas A&M University-Commerce The (Dead) Elephant (or Pig) in the Room: An Exposire of Cultural Ideologies Found in Pete and Pickles and Dear Mili C. Anne Phifer, Texas A&M University-Commerce Girl on Fire: Representations of Feminist Rebellion in Dystopia
Session 4 (3:30-4:45) Friday
Linguistics 5 (Traditions) Michelle Lockhart (Chair) et al. Texas Womens University Is Everything Bigger-and Better in Texas? A Study on the Business of Consuming and Producing Locally Grown Food. Linguistics 4 (Innovations A) Roberta Vassallo, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Do You Speak Eat-alian? Lisa Ranson, Texas A&M University-Commerce A Comparative Analysis of Automotive Technical Manuals Siruo Li, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chinese Taoist Borrowings in Oxford English Dictionary Composition and Rhetoric 3 (Innovations B) Stephen Whitley, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Selling Dominion: Post-Colonial Theory and the Rhetoric of Capitalism Ashok Bhusal, Texas Womans University Nepalese Traditional Product Approach and US Process Approach: A Comparative Study of Pedagogies Danielle Brownsberger Sturgeon, Texas A&M University-Commerce Writing on the Subject of Autism: Identity Politics and the Authors of Autistic Ethos Film Roundtable 2 (Conference A) Studying and Teaching the 60s on Film: What We Learned as Students and Faculty Discussion Facilitator: Jarrod Bolin Eric Gruver, History, Texas A&M University-Commerce Gerald Duchovnay, English and Film Studies, Texas A&M University-Commerce Sara Diaz, Texas A&M University-Commerce Ella Harper, Texas A&M University-Commerce Hayley Hasik, Texas A&M University-Commerce Chuck Hamilton, Northeast Texas Community College Angela Kennedy, Texas A&M University-Commerce Literature 5 (Conference B)
Charles A. Stephens, Jr., Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Mark Millars Wanted and the Construction of White Male Masculinity Amidst a ShitLoad of Empathy Michael Baker, Texas A&M University-Commerce Star Spangled Panties: A Feminist Perspective on Wonder Woman Rachel NM Cantrell, Texas A&M University-Commerce Blood and Dominance: Portrayals of Sexuality within Matsuri Hinos Vampire Knight Manga Series Erin L. Bullok, Texas A&M University-Commerce For the Sake of Revolutionizing the World: The Positive Utilization of Sex and Sexuality in the Adolescent Manga and Anime, Revolutionary Girl Utena
Keynote Addresses (Friday)
The keynote addresses will take place in Conference Room C Roberta Seelinger Trites (11 am-12pm) A String Connecting All of Your Stories: Conceptual Blending in Jay Ashers Thirteen Reasons Why Jay Telotte (2:15pm-3:15pm) Robot Monster and the Watchable . . . Terrible Cult Film Sara Cushing Weigle (5pm-6pm) Issues in automated scoring of writing for English language learners
