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Submissions from 2023
Marilyn Monroe, Murderess: How a Femme Fatale Role Shaped Monroe's Star Persona, Amanda Konkle
Submissions from 2022
Writing as Perceiving: Defamiliarization, Normalization and Juxtaposition, Laura Valeri
A Story Walks into a Bar, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2021
Media in the Wake of COVID and the Uprisings, Kendra R. Parker
‘The Portrait Was a Black Madonna’: Octavia E. Butler, Politics of Representation, and the Black Church, Kendra R. Parker
“The Portrait was a Black Madonna”: Octavia E. Butler, Politics of Representation, and the Black Church, Kendra R. Parker
The Parable of the Sower: An Octavia E. Butler Book Discussion, Kendra R. Parker and Kristen Lillvis
Submissions from 2020
African American Journeys to 2020, Kendra R. Parker
To be Black, female, and immigrant—oh, the horror!: The Vampire Queen in Richard Wenk’s Vamp, Kendra R. Parker
Abolition in American Literature: A Nation Removes Its Shackles—Frederick Douglass, David Walker, and Harriet Jacobs, Kendra R. Parker
‘...in the fresh young darkness close together ’:Teaching Redefining Realness, Kendra R. Parker
I Studied My History; I Studied My Past: Culture, Gender, and Race in Beyoncé’s Homecoming, Kendra R. Parker
Submissions from 2019
Harnessing the Shadows: Ghosts, Vampires, and Undying Relationships to Our Past, Kendra R. Parker
Her Bondage and Her Freedom? Roxane Gay’s Hunger as Kin to Emancipatory Narratives, Kendra R. Parker
Submissions from 2018
‘Stupidly good’: A Classical Context for Milton’s Satan, Christopher P. Baker
The Seven Deadly Sins of Social Media, Carol P. Jamison
Spanglish and the Evolution of English, Carol Parrish Jamison
Marilyn Monroe, Murderess, Amanda Konkle
Postfeminism the Musical: The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Amanda Konkle
Submissions from 2017
Volpone as Hobbesian Comedy, Christopher P. Baker
The Art of Losing: Reflections on Reading and Teaching, Re-Visioning and Regeneration, Helen E. Howells
'Old Tales Are Like Old Friends': Reimagining and Retelling in Westeros, Carol P. Jamison
Teaching Westeros: Medievalism, Medieval Studies, and George R. R. Martin, Carol P. Jamison
COLA Dean’s List celebration: Guest Speaker, Prof.Carol Parrish Jamison, Carol Parrish Jamison
Sigma Tau Delta induction, Carol Parrish Jamison
Postfeminism the Musical: The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Amanda Konkle
Tablets and Research Assignments: Increased Access or a Waste of Time?, Amanda Konkle
Submissions from 2016
Moral Malaise and Parable-form in Tolstoy’s ‘The Death of Ivan Ilych’, Christopher P. Baker
Satanic Sprinkling: Liturgical Parody in Milton’s Prose, Christopher P. Baker
“To ordain wisely in this world of evil”: King Lear, Cymbeline, and Shakespeare’s Utopian / Dystopian Vision of Britain, Christopher P. Baker
Women in Windows in Victorian Literature, Helen E. Howells
Writing and (Re)Action: RTTP and Composition, Helen E. Howells
Peaceweaving Women in Westeros, Carol P. Jamison
An Unacceptable Suggestive Flavor’: Marilyn Monroe’s Films, Class, and the Weakening of the Hollywood Production Code, Amanda Konkle
Submissions from 2015
The Chivalric Code of Westeros, Carol P. Jamison
Submissions from 2014
Satan’s Aspersions, Christopher P. Baker
Beyond Don as Dorian: Fin de Siecle, Mad Men, & Aesthetics, Helen E. Howells
Beyond Don as Dorian: Fin de Siecle, Mad Men, and Aesthetics, Helen E. Howells
From Notecards to Evernote, From JStor to Google, From Indirect Sources to Tinyurls: The Composite Nature of Research in the 21st Century, Helen E. Howells
“Refreshing Transformations: Turnings Students’ Annoying Lemons into Instructional Lemonade.” Co-presented with Nancy Remler, Helen E. Howells
Books to Watch Out For: Gender and Sexual Minority Literature for Young People, Caren Town, Trina Smith, Laura E. Agnich, Dina Walker-Devose, and Scott A. Beck
Submissions from 2013
Servile Copulation in Milton’s Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Christopher P. Baker
Using Savannah as Text, Helen E. Howells
Submissions from 2012
A Trip with the Strange Woman: Dutchman as Proverbial Spiritual Journey, Christopher P. Baker
Interdisciplinary Teaching, Helen E. Howells
WAC + Undergraduate Research=Student Success, Helen E. Howells
Why all the Hate? The Dark Side of Mommy Blogging, Helen E. Howells
Submissions from 2011
Adrienne Rich’s ‘Diving into the Wreck, Helen E. Howells
Beyond Bob Dylan: Composition and Literature in the Classroom, Helen E. Howells
Willa Cather’s ‘Paul’s Case, Helen E. Howells
Submissions from 2010
‘Greedily she engorg’d: Eve’s Satanic Sacrament.’, Christopher P. Baker
Kairos and the Rhetoric of Mommy Blogs in the 21st Century, Helen E. Howells
Rocking the Cradle and Rocking the Boat: The Complicated Community of ‘Mommy Blogs, Helen E. Howells
Working/Mothers: Mommy Blogs and Separate Spheres, Helen E. Howells
Submissions from 2009
A New Testament Analogue for the Porter Scene in Macbeth, Christopher P. Baker
Submissions from 2008
I think my wife be honest and I think she is not”: Othello’s Tragic (K)nots, Christopher P. Baker
Re-Presenting the Rhetoric of Retention and the Work of First-Year Composition: Learning to Revise as a WPA, Helen E. Howells
Southern Homes: Resistance, Curiosity, and Empowerment, Helen E. Howells
Grail Imagery in the Harry Potter Series, Carol P. Jamison
The ‘New’ Seven Deadly Sins, Carol P. Jamison
Submissions from 2007
Cordelia as Lady of Wisdom, Christopher P. Baker
King Lear and the Theology of the Grotesque, Christopher P. Baker
Literacy as Linchpin: Centering Composition in the Learning Community, Helen E. Howells
When Politics and Pedagogy Collide: The Identity of First-Year Composition and the Rhetoric of Retention, Helen E. Howells
Gower’s Shaping of the Constance Plot: An Exemplum Contra Envy, Carol P. Jamison
Fostering Interdisciplinary Connections for SoTL, Trent W. Maurer, Melissa Lickteig, Starla McCollum, and Caren Town
Submissions from 2006
“Teaching While the Students Aren’t Looking: Using Subversive Instruction to Facilitate Empowered Learning.” Co-presented with Nancy Remler and Jack Simmons, Helen E. Howells
The Play and Meaning of Courtoisie in Romanz de un Chivaler et de sa Dame et de un Clerk, Carol P. Jamison
Submissions from 2005
Elizabethan Flies: Variations on a Poetic Trope, Christopher P. Baker
The Dionysian Motif in D. H. Lawrence’s ‘The Odor of Chrysanthemums.’, Christopher P. Baker
AASCU Graduation Rates Outcomes Report. Co-presented with AASCU/USG Task Force, Helen E. Howells
AASCU/USG/AASU and Retention. Co-presented with Greg Anderson and Michael Price, Helen E. Howells
Creating Common Ground: Integrating the Learning Community, Helen E. Howells
Producing the Prince of Publishing: Charlotte Bronte and George Smith, Helen E. Howells
Spaces and Faces of Teaching at AASU, Helen E. Howells
The Heart of the Matter: Collaboration and the Learning Community, Helen E. Howells
The Savannah Read, Helen E. Howells
Harry Potter and the Chivalric Code of Conduct, Carol P. Jamison
King Breaking and King Making Women in Beowulf and Volsungasaga, Carol P. Jamison
Submissions from 2004
“Desperately Seeking Shakespeare,” presented as part of “Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend,”a traveling exhibition sponsored by the ALA, NEH, and Newberry Library, Christopher P. Baker
Boredom, Helen E. Howells
“No Red Pen Required.” Co-presented with Andi Beth Mincer, Physical Therapy, Helen E. Howells
Reading Gloria Anzaldua, Helen E. Howells
The Hidden "R" in NWP: Using Writing Strategies to Teach Reading, Helen E. Howells
The Regents’ Test, Helen E. Howells
Submissions from 2003
Volpone: Jonson’s Dantean Comedy, Christopher P. Baker
Developing the Writing Program Website: A Case Study in Collaborative Teaching. Co- presented with Nancy Luke, Faculty Support, Helen E. Howells
Just Write, Helen E. Howells
Learning the Teacher and Enlightening the Fire Chiefs: Teaching Composition Downtown, Helen E. Howells
Literature and the Writing Process, Helen E. Howells
Reading the Word/World in First-Year Composition, Helen E. Howells
Writing Reminders, Helen E. Howells
King Arthur Online and through the Ages. Teaching Arthurian Literature, Carol P. Jamison
Submissions from 2002
“Romeo’s Flies and Donne’s ‘The Flea, Christopher P. Baker
Becoming Professionals: From Composition Candidates to Colleagues, Helen E. Howells
Just Write, Helen E. Howells
Rhythms of Growth: Making Transitions in Site Leadership, Helen E. Howells
Finding Female Voices in the Fabliaux, Carol P. Jamison
The Germanic Peaceweaver as Exile, Carol P. Jamison
Wolves and Peaceweavers: Wulf and Eadwacer Revisited, Carol P. Jamison
