Important Information
Length of
Presentation: Each
presenter will have fifteen minutes for her or his paper. An additional fifteen
minutes is earmarked for questions after all presenters finish, at the
discretion of the session chair. This arrangement is based on a standard
panel of four presenters. Because of scheduling issues and last-minute
cancellations, some sessions have fewer than four presenters and can adjust the
time schedule accordingly. A page of text can be read in about two minutes;
generally speaking, therefore, seven or eight pages of text can be accommodated
in a fifteen-minute slot. Please pare longer papers to the
essentials.
Session
Chairs: Unless otherwise
noted, the first person named in each session will be the session chair. If
that person is not present, the next person will be chair and so on. It is the
chair’s duty to make sure that each presenter, starting with himself or
herself, does not run past the time allotment. The chair is asked to let the
presenter know when three minutes remain, and to call for concluding remarks at
the next-to-the-last minute. In order to keep the sessions running
smoothly and fairly, it is essential that the chair take this duty seriously.
Session
Etiquette: Experienced
presenters are frequently confronted with sparsely attended sessions,
especially at the start of day or after breaks. Please make an attempt to
attend sessions at this time. Also, please observe the golden rule when leaving
one session between presenters. Finally, assist colleagues, especially
junior ones, by sitting in on a session or two at random when nothing of
particular interest to you is offered.
Registration: It will naturally be assumed that anyone
not registered has not presented at the conference. That person’s name and
paper will be removed from the schedule posted on the archive portion of the
website.
Call for Papers for
Florida Studies Proceedings 2008
Is your paper on a Florida literary
topic? Submit it for consideration in the FCEA Florida Studies Proceedings,
published by Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge, UK. Manuscripts are due by
December 15. Specific manuscript requirements: 5-20 pages (single spaced);
Microsoft Word attachment; absolutely no spelling, grammar, punctuation, or
mechanical errors; template will be sent to you by e-mail upon request.
Questions? Contact Claudia
Slate, General Editor (cslate@flsouthern.edu).
Executive Editor, April Van
Camp.
Welcome!
We'd like to call your
attention to special features of this year's conference.
Plenary Speaker
Dr.
James H. Meredith, President of the International Hemingway Society and
Foundation, will offer his Plenary Address at 4:00 on Thursday, October 16, in
the Ybor Room (in HCC's Ybor Building). Please take advantage of this rare
opportunity.
Poetry and Music Open-Mic Event
On
Thursday, October 16, come read, play music, and/or listen from 7:00 p.m. until
9:00 p.m. The event will be held at the Don Vicente de Ybor Historic Inn, 1915
14th Street. A cash bar will be available. Scheduled performers: Erica Bernheim, Gregory
Byrd, Tony Esposito, Richard Gaspar, Lizbeth
Keiley, Rich McKee, Jeff Morgan, Brent Short, and K. V.
Wilt.
Musical
Performance
On
Thursday, October 16, Melodie Dickerson and Rex Willis of Manatee Community
College will discuss and perform excerpts from their musical In Ybor City
at 2:35 p.m. in the Ybor Room (in HCC's Ybor Building).
Dramatic
Performance
On
Friday, October 17, David McGinnis of Saint Leo University and four of his
theatre students will present "Transitions: Four One-Act Plays and Their
Evolution" at 10:35 a.m. in the Ybor Room (in HCC's Ybor Building).
Support
the FCEA's Future!
Undergraduate
Panels:
1.
Catherine Eskine, Florida Southern College, and four FSC students: Thursday,
9:00 a.m.
2.
David McGinnis, Saint Leo University, and four FSC theatre students: Friday,
10:35 a.m.
Graduate
Panels:
1.
Keith Cartwright, University of North Florida, and two UNF graduate students:
Thursday, 2:35 p.m.
2. Suzanna E. Henshon and Lori Cornelius, Florida Gulf
Coast University, with three FGCU graduate students: Friday, 10:35 a.m.
Publishers'
Tables
Pearson,
Bedford, and McGraw-Hill are here. Look for their representatives in the lobby
area of the Hampton and in the entrance to the Ybor Building.
Thursday
Afternoon Reception
FCEA
hosts a reception from 5:30 to 6:30 on Thursday, October 16, at the Don Vicente
de Ybor Historic Inn, 1915 14th Street. Light hors d'oeuvres and soft drinks
will be provided, and a cash bar will be available. Tickets are $20 and will
also cover the closing luncheon on Friday (see below).
Closing
Luncheon
FCEA's
final event will take place at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, October 17, at the Don
Vicente de Ybor Historic Inn, 1915 14th Street. Introductory remarks by April
Van Camp (President of FCEA), Arthur F. Kirk, Jr. (President of Saint Leo
University), and Shawn Robinson (President of HCC–Ybor) will be followed by a
Cuban buffet, with soft drinks provided. A cash bar will be available. Tickets
are $20 and also cover the Thursday afternoon reception (see above). After
lunch, the featured guest speaker is Dr. Peter Meinke, widely regarded as the finest
poet in Florida.
Florida
College English Association
Faces of Florida
Co-sponsored
by Saint Leo University
and
Hillsborough Community College–Ybor City Campus
Ybor
City Hampton Inn and Suites
Ybor
City, Florida
October
15–17, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 7:00 P.M.
Executive Board Meeting April Van
Camp, President
Thursday, October 16 Hampton Inn and Suites
8:00-5:00
Registration Lobby
Area of Hampton Inn
FCEA Authors’ Display
Table
Publishers’ Displays
Sessions
Thursday, October 16
9:00-10:15
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 313
Pedagogy
Panel Discussion: Creating a
Jewish Archive: Service Learning, General Education, and Interdisciplinary
Studies
Catherine Eskine, Florida
Southern College, with three FSC undergraduate students:
Wil Posey
Krystal Caldwell
Jenna Rice
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 309
Pedagogy
Panel Discussion: Facing the
Future: Making the Message Fit the Medium
E. Stone Shiflet, Capella
University
James H. Meredith, President
of the International Hemingway Society and Foundation
Kathleen K. Robinson, Eckerd
College
Thursday, October 16
9:00-10:15
Hampton Inn Columbia Room
Classic Florida
Literature
Jane Anderson Jones, Manatee
Community College–Venice
Edith Pope: St. Augustine
Novelist
Maurice O'Sullivan, Rollins
College
Coming of Age in Antebellum Florida: George Morton and
the Young Marooners
Carole Policy, Palm Beach
Community College
Florida Plantation Culture
and the Antebellum Bildungsroman in Caroline Hentz's Marcus Warland
Thursday, October 16
9:00-10:15
Hampton Inn Clarkson Room
Creative Writing
Patrick Crerand, Saint Leo
University
Lizbeth Keiley, Lynn
University
Susan M. Nugent, Santa Fe
Community College
Thursday, October 16
10:35-11:50
Hampton Inn Columbia Room
Florida History
Deborah L. Bauer, University
of Central Florida
Chasing the Faces of
Florida's Colonial Ladies: Assembling Primary Source Material for the Study of
Women's History in British Florida, 1763-1784
Nancy Dale, South Florida
Community and Edison College
Wild Florida as Told by the
Pioneer "Cow Hunters and Huntresses" Who Lived It
Claudia Slate, Florida
Southern College
Wish You Weren't Here:
African American Portrayal in Vintage Florida Postcards
Thursday, October 16
10:35-11:50
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 313
Florida's Environment
Larry Byrne, Barry
University
Fighting the Good Fight on
All Fronts: Carl Hiaasen and the Rhetoric of Ecocriticism
Rita Ciresi, University of
South Florida
The Author as Meteorologist:
The Role of Big Weather in Florida Fiction
Susan Fallows, University of
Central Florida
Braving the Mosquitos:
English Composition Curriculum and Place-Based Learning in Central Florida
Thursday, October 16
10:35-11:50
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 309
Florida Culture
Session Chair: Carole Policy, Palm Beach Community College
J. Lee Campbell, Valdosta
State University, and Debra L. Jacobs, University of South Florida
"Sinks, snakes, caves
w/ water": Floridian Imagery in the Poetry of Jim Morrison
C. R. Junkins, Polk Community
College
Colonial Showcase Lagoon:
The Architecture of the Colonized/Colonizer in Walt Disney World's EPCOT Theme
Park
Roberta Proctor, Palm Beach
Community College–Lake Worth
Stephen Foster and the
Politics of Song
Kyle D. Stedman, University
of South Florida
"Blogging Florida's
Reputations"
Thursday, October 16
1:00-2:15
Hampton Inn Clarkson Room
World Literature
Deborah McLeod, University
of South Florida
Disturbing the Silence: The
Impressions of Sound in Conrad's The Secret Agent
Sam Goldstein, Daytona Beach
Community College
Identity in Twelfth Night
Lillian Schanfield, Barry
University
Translation as an Act of
Rescue: The Case of Yiddish Literature
Thursday, October 16
1:00-2:15
Hampton Inn Columbia Room
The African American
Experience
Ben Brotemarkle, Brevard
Community College and the Florida Historical Society
African American Faces of
Central Florida
Salena Coller, American
InterContinental University
The Faces of Racism: Jim
Crow in Florida
Mary Corliss and Dorothy
Dobbins, Bethune-Cookman University
A Free Man's Dream: The Rise
and Fall of a Community
Valerie E. Kasper, Saint Leo
University
Pinellas County's First
Black Family
Thursday, October 16
1:00-2:15
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 313
Classic Florida
Literature
Steve Brahlek, Palm Beach
Community College–Lake Worth
Fact and Fiction: Cracker
Characters in Florida
Douglas Ford, Manatee
Community College
Contested Definitions of
Blackness in Charles W. Chestnutt's "The Goophered Grapevine"
Anna Lillios, University of
Central Florida
The Origins of Zora Neale
Hurston's Race Consciousness
Thursday, October 16
1:00-2:15
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 309
Florida Culture
John R. Barberet, Polk
Community College
The Tanned and the Burned:
Cultural Constructions of Faces in the Sun
R. Adam Pridemore,
University of South Florida
Grotesque Florida: The Role
of the Carnivalesque in Alfonso Cuaron's Film Adaptation of Great
Expectations
Roberta Proctor, Palm Beach
Community College–Lake Worth
Back to Bok: The Origins of
a Tower, a Pulitzer, and the World's First Million-Subscriber Magazine
Thursday, October 16
2:35-3:50
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 313
American Literature
Gregory Byrd, St. Petersburg
College
Inner and Outer Landscapes
in "Big Two-Hearted River" and "A Way You'll Never Be"
Melissa K. Jones, University
of South Florida
Reaching Ngàje Ngài:
Acceptance, Redemption, and Salvation in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
Julia Rawa, Saint Petersburg
College
Modern Landscapes, Modern
Labyrinths: Wallace Stevens and Ways of Escape
Michael Strand, University
of North Florida
Poet of the Sea: Donald
Justice's Aesthetic Destabilization of Western Tension
Hampton Inn Columbia Room
American Literature
Panel: Performance from
Florida's Circum-Caribbean Zones
Keith Cartwright, University
of North Florida, with two UNF graduate students
Keith Cartwright: Performing
the Limbo Gateway: Ana Mendieta in Florida
Sonia Melissa Zamot:
Crackerspanic? Crackers Panic: An Exploration of Disconnected Contact Zones in
the Works of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Sara Olsen: General Jorge
Biassou Acting as a Site of Contact
Thursday, October 16
2:35-3:50
HCC–Ybor Ybor Building:
Ybor Room
Musical Performance
Musical Panel: In Ybor
City: The Development of a Musical, with Excerpted Scenes and Songs
Melodie Dickerson, Manatee
Community College
Rex Willis, Manatee
Community College
Thursday, October
16
4:00-4:45
HCC–Ybor Ybor
Building: Ybor Room
Plenary Session
James H. Meredith,
President of the International Hemingway Society and Foundation
Thursday
Afternoon Reception
5:30-6:30,
Don
Vicente de Ybor Historic Inn, 1915 14th Street
Light
hors d'oeuvres and soft drinks will be provided, and a cash bar will be available.
Tickets are $20 and will also cover the closing luncheon on Friday.
Thursday Night Poetry and Music Open-Mic Event
7:00-9:00, Don Vicente de Ybor Historic Inn, 1915 14th
Street
Scheduled
performers: Erica
Bernheim, Gregory Byrd, Tony Esposito, Richard Gaspar, Lizbeth Keiley, Rich McKee,
Jeff Morgan, Brent Short, and K. V. Wilt. A cash bar
will be available.
Friday Events
Friday, October 17
8:00-8:45
Hampton Inn Columbia Room
FCEA Business Meeting
Friday, October 17
9:00-10:15
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 109
Pedagogy
Roderick Hofer, Indian River
State College
The Bear Went Over the
Mountain: Paper Grading Considered, Again
Eric Mason, Nova
Southeastern University
The Wales Effect: Editing
the Ethics of Web 2.0
Megan McIntyre, University
of South Florida
Reintroducing Shakespeare:
Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Series as a Reintroduction of the Classics
Hampton Inn Columbia Room
Pedagogy
Panel: Transforming the Face
of English: The Curricular Endeavor at Florida Southern College
Keith Huneycutt, Florida
Southern College: Transforming the British Literature Curriculum
Claudia Slate, Florida
Southern College: Transforming the American Literature Curriculum
Catherine Eskin, Florida
Southern College: Service Learning in the New Curriculum
Rebecca Saulsbury, Florida
Southern College: Bringing in Global Studies: A Place in the New Curriculum?
Erica Bernheim, Florida
Southern College: The Writing Track and Developing Creative Writing
Friday, October 17
9:00-10:15
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 312
World Literature
Session Chair: Martha L. Reiner, Miami-Dade College
Maureen Goldstein, Lynn
University
Jane Eyre: The Controversial Conclusion
Jill C. Jones, Rollins
College
Having Your Pound Cake and
Eating It Too: Deconstructing Racial Identity in Cross Creek and Dust
Tracks on a Road
Friday, October 17
9:00-10:15
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 309
Classic Florida
Literature (English Romantic Influences)
Kathryn VanSpanckeren,
University of Tampa
Elizabeth Bishop's Florida:
Transatlantic Influences of Wordsworth and William Bartram
Elizabeth Winston,
University of Tampa
Zora Neale Hurston on
Coleridge's "Kubla Khan": Reclaiming the "Sacred River"
Friday, October 17
9:00-10:15
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 313
Modern Florida Literature
Panel Discussion: As Watson
Lies Dying: Peter Matthiessen's Southern Gothic Twists
Joseph Good, University of
South Florida
Patrick McGowan, University
of South Florida
Jessica McKee, University of
South Florida
Taylor Joy Mitchell,
University of South Florida
Friday, October 17
9:00-10:15
HCC–Ybor Ybor Building:
Ybor Room
American Literature
Panel Discussion: Pappa and
Goofo in the Sunshine State: How America's Great Modernists Created the Face of
Florida Today
E. Stone Shiflet, Capella
University
James H. Meredith, President
of the International Hemingway Society and Foundation
Kathleen K. Robinson, Eckerd
College
J'aime Sanders, University
of South Florida
Friday, October 17
10:35-11:50
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 109
Pedagogy
Cassandra Marie Allen, Palm
Beach Community College–Boca Raton
Environmental Literacy,
Community Involvement: The Possibilities and Constraints of Using Florida
Environmental Studies in First-Year Composition
Julia Mason, Florida
Atlantic University
"Don't Go!"
Preparing Our Students for the Florida Economy
Betsy Nies, University of
North Florida
Exploring the Works of
Writers of Northeast Florida with Duval County's Public School Teachers
Charlotte Pressler, South
Florida Community College
Doing Primary Archival
Research with Honors Freshman English I Students at South Florida Community
College
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 312
Pedagogy
Panel Discussion:
De-Composition: Changing the Reality of Traditional Composition Classes
Danita Berg, University of
South Florida
Leah Cassorla, Florida State
University
Dianne Donnelly, University
of South Florida
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 309
Pedagogy
Panel Discussion: Facebook:
A Virtual Extension of the College Classroom?
Suzanna E. Henshon and Lori
Cornelius, Florida Gulf Coast University, with three FGCU graduate students:
Julianna Gerow
Conan Griffin
Joseph Higgins
Friday, October 17
10:35-11:50
Hampton Inn Columbia Room
Florida History
James Michael Denham,
Florida Southern College
William Pope DuVal: Florida
Founder and Frontier Bon Vivant
Yvonne Mangram McShay, Polk
Community College–Lakeland
MaVynee Betsch: American
Beach Lady's Journey Washes Away Richness
Carol Ann Moon and Doris Van
Campen, Saint Leo University
The Power of the Pen: A Look
at the "Invitation Letters" to Florida and Their Writers
Zeigler, Stephen,
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Tippen Davidson and East
Central Florida's Cultural Hub
Friday, October 17
10:35-11:50
HCC–Ybor Performing Arts
Building Room 313
Modern Florida Literature
Session Chair: Maxine Montgomery, Florida State University
Diane S. Baird, Palm Beach
Community College
Poor White Southerners:
Beyond the Stereotype
Laura S. Head, University of
South Florida
From Blackface to Black
Faces: The Mammy Figure in the Novels of Connie May Fowler
Martha L. Reiner, Miami-Dade
College
Traces of Dashiell Hammett
in Key Largo, 1934
Friday, October 17
10:35-11:50
HCC–Ybor Ybor Building:
Ybor Room
Dramatic Performance
Transitions: Four One-Act
Plays and Their Evolution
David McGinnis, Saint Leo University,
with four SLU theatre students:
Brittney Currie
Josh Smith
Jordan Coates
Caitlin Craft
Friday,
October 17
12:30-2:30
Closing
Luncheon
The Don Vicente de Ybor Historic Inn, 1915 14th Street
Introductory remarks by April
Van Camp (President of FCEA), Arthur F. Kirk, Jr. (President of Saint Leo
University), and Shawn Robinson (President of HCC–Ybor).
Lunch: Cuban
buffet, with soft drinks provided. A cash bar will be available. Tickets are
$20 and also cover the Thursday afternoon reception (see above).
After lunch: The featured
guest speaker is Dr. Peter Meinke, sponsored in part by Pearson Publishing. Dr.
Meinke is a remarkable poet, widely regarded as the finest in Florida.
Special Thanks
The FCEA would like to thank
the following individuals for their support of this conference:
Dr. Richard
Bryan, Dean of Arts & Sciences, Saint Leo University
Dr.
Maribeth Durst, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Saint Leo University
Ms. Barbara
Fara, Hampton Inn and Suites
Ms. Becky
Fox, Hampton Inn and Suites
Ms. Penny
Freeman, Executive Coordinator of Arts & Sciences, Saint Leo University
Mr. Roger
Hines, Saint Leo University Media Services
Dr. Arthur
F. Kirk, Jr., President, Saint Leo University
Ms. Kathleen McCarty, Saint Leo University Printing and
Duplicating
Dr. Peter Meinke, Eckerd College (retired)
Dr. James H. Meredith, President of the International
Hemingway Society and Foundation
Mr. John
Mouw, Saint Leo University Media Services
Ms. Vanessa Niezgodzki, the
Don Vicente de Ybor Historic Inn
Dr. Shawn
Robinson, President, Hillsborough Community College–Ybor Campus
Ms. Linda Rollason, Saint Leo University Printing and
Duplicating
Ms. Tessa Shiver
and Mr. Damon Shiver, the Don
Vicente de Ybor Historic Inn