Schedule

EGAD Conference 2012 Panel Assignments * All presentations are on Friday, April 13th * Linguistics 1 (8:00-9:15) 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-South Korea Film 1 (8:00-9:15) Marilyn Lewis, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Land of the Free and Home of the Apes: Planet of the Apes Charles Hamilton, Texas A&M University-Commerce The Graduate: Its All About Choices Jarrod Bolin, Texas A&M University-Commerce Blockbucking: How Attack of the Block Bucks Trends of White Privilege Literature 6 (8-9:15) 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!

Literature 1 (8-9:15) 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 What Shadrack Was All About: A Black Soldiers Enlistment to Enlightenment Through Violence in Toni Morrisons Sula Ashlie M. Contos, University of Texas at Tyler Nomina Nuda Tenemus: Jonathan Safran Foer, Finding Meaning within Empty Names or (re) Construction of Deconstruction. CLiC Roundtable (8-9:15 AM) Dr. Shannon Carter et al. Texas A&M University-Commerce Remixing Rural Texas: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable For the past few months, panelists have been working with Shannon Carter (PI) to develop a prototype for for responsible citation practices drawing together remix culture and archival research. Funded in part by the NEH, this project includes two components: (1) a handful of videos remixed almost entirely from archival materials and (2) a data source annotation framework that features the original context of all associated source materials, as well as relevant geographical and temporal features. Speaker 1 will introduce the project and the goals, then demonstrate the project to open discuss that follows. Speakers 2-? will offer reflections on their experiences

with and contributions to RRT from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: political science, film studies, RTV, rhetoric and composition, and archival sciences. Our goals in this roundtable are to introduce the project and explore with audience members its interdisciplinary potential. Creative Writing 1 (9:30-10:45) Choi Yeseul, Ewha Womens University, South Korea A Picnic 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 Film 2 (9:30-10:45) Angela Kennedy, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Calling All Gleeks: Technological Transactions Through Television Shaun Clarkson, Texas State University-San Marcos The Holocaust Framed and Renamed: Two Narrative Strategies to Remembering Michelle Pirkle, Texas A&M University-Commerce Forget the SkiesWatch the Children! Uncanny Child to Marvelous Other in Village of the Damned Composition and Rhetoric 1 (9:30-10:45) 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 Literature 2 (9:30-10:45) 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 Linguistics 2 (9:30-10:45) 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 Literature 3 (12:45-2) 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 Womans University An Exploration of Identity in Mrs. Dalloway Using Althussers Cultural Interpellation and Kantian Philosophy Robin Reid, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) THE TWO HOBBITS: Pre-and Post-LOTR Literature 4 (12:45-2) 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 Linguistics 3 (12:45-2) Sergio Pizziconi, Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Motivational Cube and Teaching Style Square: Total Cognitive Response (ToCoRe) as an UnCartesian 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 Roundtable 1 (12:45-2) Re-Imagining Akira Kurosawas Dreams: A Roundtable Discussion Discussion Facilitator: Michelle Pirkle

(awaiting a list of participants) Linguistics 4 (3:30-4:45) 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 Robin Anne Reid, Texas A&M University-Commerce Grocer, Burglar, Thief and/or Hero: The Grammars of Bilbo Baggins Siruo Li, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chinese Taoist Borrowings in Oxford English Dictonary Composition and Rhetoric 3 (3:30-4:45) 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 Literature 5 (3:30-4:45) Charles A. Stephens, Jr., Texas A&M University-Commerce (Chair) Mark Millars Wanted and the Construction of White Male Masculinity Amidst a Shit-Load 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 Linguistics 5 (3:30-4:45) Michelle Lockhart (Chair) et al. Texas Womens UniversityIs Everything Bigger-and Better in Texas? A Study on the Business of Consuming and Producing Locally Grown Food.