SAMLA
UF English Department will be well-represented this weekend in Atlanta at the
- South Atlantic Modern Language Association
81st Annual Convention; 06–08 November 2009
Atlanta, GA
In lieu of page, SAMLA site only offers the Program in Word document form (.doc) — converted to PDF here.
I’m presenting during “Special Panel on Digital Pedagogy.” Plan to attend several sessions on Friday, while I’m in audience for Jimmy Newlin’s talk during “The Current and The Emergent” panel.
Gators venturing up I-75 not for the SEC Championship:
- Lisa Dusenberry: “The Handheld Sleuth: Mystery Series, HerInteractive, and the Nintendo
DS” - Jonathan Glover: “Modernity, Genocide, and the Politics of Memorialization: Hotel Rwanda and Africa’s World War”
- Cortney Grubbs: “Exorcizing the Closet: Confessions of Trauma and Witnessing Publics in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak
- Gary Hink: “2.0 Pedagogy? Literature Course as Social Network”
- Trisha Kannan: “‘I had no Cause to be awake’: Dickinson’s Pursuit of Happiness in Fascicle 30″
- Melissa Mellon: “Between Life and Art: ‘Benito Cereno’ and the Continuing Question of Human Rights”
- James Newlin: “What’s Happening?: Horror Films, Surrealism, and the New French Extremity”
- Craig Smith: “Behind the Mask, In Front of the Mirror: Reflections of Bert Williams in Caryl Phillips’ Dancing in the Dark”
- Katharine Westaway: ” ‘A Noble Pursuit’: Genre and Social Justice