FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22^nd 2008

registration 3:00pm-5:00pm
Lynn BusinessCenter (LBC): foyer
Welcoming remarks: Dr.Yves-Antoine Clemmen

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 5:00 PM Rinker Auditorium

Isabel Franc (aka Lola Van Guardia)
“From Tragedy to Parody: Lesbian Literature in the Contemporary Spanish Nation”

introduction by Dr. Nancy Vosburg

Reception: faculty lounge Carleton Union Building: 6:00 PM

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23^rd , 2008

sessions 1-3: 9:00-10:00

Session 1: Discontents in French Cinema: LBC, room 220
Chair : Yves-Antoine Clemmen (Stetson University)

· Karin Egloff (Western Kentucky University)
Les [a]mantes pas du tout religieuses dans Baise-moi de Virginie Despentes

· Lenuta Giukin (SUNY Oswego)
Representations of the Modern City and Its Discontents in French Cinema

Session 2: German Literature in the East and Far from the West: LBC, room 221
Chair : Elisabeth Poeter (Stetson University)

· Rado Pribic (Lafayette College, PA):
The Background to Daniela Dahn’s Publication of In guter Verfassung (In Good Shape, 1999)

· Gudrun Brokoph (St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York)
Friedrich Bergammer: Dichter im Exil

Session 3: Spanish Political/Religious Imaginaries: Góngora and Zorilla: LBC, room 222
Chair : Robert Sitler (Stetson University)

• Diane Chaffee-Sorace (Loyola College, Baltimore)
  Góngora’s “En una fortaleza preso queda”: A Landscape of Political Allegory
• Miguel Ángel De Feo (Grambling State University)
  San Juan Tenorio, comediante y mártir: Don Juan Tenorio de José Zorrilla y la negación del mito
  
  

SESSIONS 4-6: 10:15-11:30

Session 4: French Margins: LBC, room 220
Chair : Eliane Dalmolin (University of Connecticut)

• Eliane Dalmolin (University of Connecticut)
  Living in the Margins

• Roger Celestin (University of Connecticut)
  Metabolizing the Margins?
• Anne Mairesse (University of San Franscisco)
  "Mothers beyond the Limits in French literature and Cinema."

Session 5: Where the Wild Things Are: Exotic Imagery in German Literature & Film: LBC, room 221
Chair : Margit Grieb (University of South Florida)

• Mary Pollock (Stetson University)
  “Kafka’s Ape and Coetzee’s Novelist: The Articulation of the Inarticulate Subject.”
• Will Lehman (University of Florida)
  "’Bear-ly’" German: Werner Herzog's Troubled Relationship to Heimat, Nature, and Germanness.”
  
  

Session 6: The Lost City, the Lost Steps, the Lost Past: LBC, room 222
Chair : Ana Eire (Stetson University)

• Gabriel I. Barreneche (Rollins College)
  Cabrera Infante’s Final Punch Line: Choteo and Humor in The Lost City
• Jessica Burke (Hamilton College)
  “Pasos acompañados: Seeking self through relations with the female ‘other’”
  
  

sessions 7-9: 11:45-12:45

Session 7: "Vera Feyder": LBC, room 220
Chair : Patricia Lancaster (Rollins College)

• Patricia Lancaster (Rollins College)
  Vera Feyder’s Ô Humanité

• Maggie Dunn (Rollins College)
  Vera Feyder’s Ô Humanité as a Composite Novel
  
  

Session 8: Latin American Genre and Gender: LBC, room 221
Chair : Mario Aldana (Stetson University)

• Ericka Ghersi (Stetson University)
  "Textualización del debate feminista latinoamericano en Blanca Varela y Carmen Ollé"
• Alicia Mercado-Harvey (University of South Florida)
  La cuentística del Cono Sur después de McOndo

Session 9: Navigating the Reefs: The Classic Modern Classroom Environment

LBC, room 222
Chair : Will Lehman (University of Florida)

• Ava Chitwood (University of South Florida) & Margit Grieb (University of South Florida)
  ”Reeling Them In: Attracting Freshmen to Language Programs”
• Eleni Manolaraki (University of South Florida)
  ”Marine Imagery in the Letters of Younger Seneca”
  
  

sessions 10-12: 2:00-3:00

Session 10: XVIII^th century French Cultural Studies LBC, room 220

Chair: Mario Aldana (Stetson University)

• Delphine Fernandez-Nurdin (University of Kansas)
  “The Quest of Happiness in the Eighteenth Century, France.”
• Richard Ferland (Stetson university)
  They are dancing on his grave

Session 11: Barcelona Biased: LBC, room 221
Chair : Nancy Vosburg (Stetson University)

• Melissa A. Stewart (Western Kentucky University)
  “Teresa Solana’s Detective Fiction: Innovating within a Catalan Tradition”
• Margaret Frohlich (Dickinson College)
  "Exposing the Dialectic of Center and Margin: Isabel Franc´s Use of Humor in Con Pedigree."

Session 12: Russian Literature: LBC, room 222
Chair : Michael Denner (Stetson University)

• Tatyana Novikov (University of Nebraska-Omaha)
  Russian Literature in Emigration: V. Voinovich
• Nina Efimov (Florida State University)
  Vasily Aksenov’s “Moskva Kva-Kva”as a Literary Response to Yury Trifonov’s “The House on the Embankment”
  
  

sessions 13-14: 3:15-4:30

Session 13: Writing the outsider, writing sexuality in French literature: LBC, room 220
Chair : Karin Egloff (Western Kentucky University)

• Lucille Roy-Hewitson, (Creighton University, Omaha)
  «L'image de l'étranger dans la littérature française et francophone contemporaine».
• Allison Roark (Louisiana State University)
  Ele savoit assez de letres : The Dame du Lac’s Writing
• Alfred G. Fralin (Washington and Lee University) Christiane Szeps (James Madison University)
  Adolescent Homosexuality and Bisexuality in Sartre’s L’Enfance d’un chef, Montherlant’s Les Garçons, Bouraoui’s Poupée Bella and Djian’s Impuretés : Modes of Discourse

Session 14: Linguistics, Applied linguistics: LBC, room 221
Chair : David Dysart (Stetson University)

• Irena Galloway (Florida State University)
  “The Communicative Methods of Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language at the Beginner’s Level”
• Stefan Huber (University of South Florida)
  From Comment to Topic
• Zena S. Kasaya (Egerton University, Kenya)
  “Externally motivated language change: lexical borrowing in Luwanga”