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Making Literature Conference - February 2009
Making Literature
Taylor University
Undergraduate Conference
On Literature and Writing
February 19-21, 2009
Thursday, February 19th
8:00 a.m.-----5:00 p.m.
Registration
Smith-Hermanson Music Building
Butz-Carruth Recital Hall Foyer
9:15 a.m.----10:45 a.m.
Keynote Address
Gregory Wolfe
"The Tragic Sense of Life: On the Loss and Recovery of Hope"
Smith-Hermanson Music Building
Butz-Carruth Recital Hall
11:00 a.m.-noon
Student Sessions I.
A. Ayers Alumni Memorial Building 215
Moderator: Laura McGrath Taylor University
Lincoln Stannard LeTourneau University
"A Journey of Self-Actualization: A Psychological Perspective on Barfield's This Ever Diverse Pair"
Allison Barlow Taylor University
"Love as Proof of Raskolnikov's Humanity"
Kelsey Warren Taylor University
"Medea and Notes from Underground: Cycles of Insecurity, Violence, and Spite"
B. Reade Center 240
Moderator: Brandon Fitzsimmons Taylor University
Hannah Grindrod Houghton College
Fiction
"Convalescence"
Kate Strong Gordon College
Poetry Reading
"Like Mephibosheth," "Lunette's lunettes," "Seer," "Latterday Psalm"
Valerie Prescott Taylor University
Fiction
"The Hour of Lead"
1:00 p.m.----2:00 p.m
Student Sessions II.
A. Ayers Alumni Memorial Building 215
Moderator: Laura McGrath Taylor University
Megan Culbertson Taylor University
"The Fairest of her Daughters Eve"
Kirstie Rheinheimer Taylor University
"Establishing Truth and Biographical Parallels in
Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave, A True History
By Aphra Behn"
B. Reade Center 240
Moderator: Ben Glynn Taylor University
Samantha Stevens Taylor University
Fiction
"Mania to Misery"
Hannah Steensma Houghton College
Fiction
"One Flight Home"
Arkor Kolubah Houghton College
Essay
"Primitive: First, Original, Connected"
2:15 p.m.----3:15 p.m.
Student Sessions III.
A. Ayers Alumni Memorial Building 215
Moderator: Lindsay Snider Taylor University
Lauren McCambridge Indiana Wesleyan University
Creative Non-Fiction
"Tight"
Bethany Limpach Indiana Wesleyan University
Creative Non-Fiction
"Moving On"
Cara Strickland Taylor University
Fiction
"The Other Woman"
B. Reade Center 240
Moderator: Paul VanDemark Taylor University
Gretchen Hoffman Taylor University
"The Importance of Being Earnest: Would a Rose
By Any Other Name Smell as Sweet?"
Ben Glynn Taylor University
"Hardy's Contradiction in Tess of the D'Urbervilles"
Paige Rudolph Taylor University
"Victorian and Modernist Dilemmas: Woolf's To the Lighthouse"
3:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Refreshments
Butz-Carruth Recital Hall Foyer
4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Public Reading
Valerie Sayers
Smith-Hermanson Music Building
Butz-Carruth Recital Hall
6:30 p. m.--7:30 p.m.
Parnassus Release Party
KSAC
8:15 p.m.
IFC Concert (Tickets at the door $3.00)
"The Dare Devil Christopher Wright"
And
"Cedarwell"
Student Union
Friday, February 20th
8:00 a.m.---5:00 p.m.
Registration
Smith-Hermanson Music Building
Butz-Carruth Recital Hall Foyer
8:30 a.m.---9:30 a.m.
Student Sessions IV.
A. Ayers Alumni Memorial Building 215
Parnassus Readings
Winners from Taylor University's Literary Magazine
B. Reade Center 240
Moderator: Catherine Barnett Taylor University
Jenna McCullough Taylor University
"Keats: The ‘Sensational' Poet, His Letters & Odes"
Janelle Jenkins Taylor University
"Jonathan Swift: Ireland's Reluctant Champion?"
10:00 a.m.---10:50 a.m.
Chapel/Rediger Chapel
Nate Hulfish, Speaker and Pastor
Circle of Hope, Camden, NJ
11:00 a.m.-noon
Student Sessions V
A. Ayers Alumni Memorial Building 215
Moderator: Kimberly Reneau Taylor University
Austin Givens Indiana Wesleyan University
Creative Non-Fiction
"Ink Dance"
Steve Etheridge Taylor University
Fiction
"What's Left Unsaid"
Adam Marshall Malone University
Poetry
B. Reade Center 240
Moderator: Jenna McCullough Taylor University
Brandon Fitzsimmons Taylor University
"Symptoms of Misperception: An Explication of the Sexual Dementia Prominent in the Victorian Male"
Nate Antiel Taylor University
"The Epistemology of Quentin Compson"
1:00 p.m.---2:00 p.m.
Students Sessions VI
A. Modelle Metcalf Visual Arts Center 002
Moderator: Allison Barlow Taylor University
Catherine Barnett Taylor University
" ‘Thou Man of Clay': Humanity in Hawthorne's ‘The Birth-mark'"
Nichole Barr Indiana Wesleyan University
"Robert Graves: Obsession with the Past"
B. Ayers Alumni Memorial Building 215
Moderator: Valerie Prescott Taylor University
Jason Aprill Indiana Wesleyan University
Creative Non-Fiction
"The 700 Club"
Sarah Fife Indiana Wesleyan University
Creative Non-Fiction
"Staring into the Sun"
Riane Berendt Indiana Wesleyan University
Creative Non-Fiction
"Sight"
C. Reade Center 240
Moderator: Ben Mattice Taylor University
Yer Kong Bethel University
Fiction
"Tough Love"
Travis Matteson Indiana Wesleyan University
Creative Non-Fiction
"Via Crucis"
Mary Nolen Indiana Wesleyan University
Creative Non-Fiction
"Clover'
2:15 p.m.---3:15 p.m.
Student Sessions VII
A. Modelle Metcalf Visual Arts Center 002
Moderator: Jenny Walton Taylor University
Adam Golder Taylor University
Fiction
"A Slow Death"
Jessica Martini Taylor University
Fiction
"An Evening at the Tupenny Srtingendo"
Amy Oakley Malone University
Poetry
B. Ayers Alumni Memorial Building 215
Moderator: Kristina Garvelink Taylor University
Rebecca Thomas Indiana Wesleyan University
Creative Non-Fiction
"All Things"
Caitlynn Lowe Huntington University
Creative Non-Fiction
"The Last Two Fries"
Katherine Burrows Houghton College
Non-Fiction
"The American Dream of Success"
Amy Nickerson Taylor University
Creative Non-Fiction
"How I Met Africa", "The View from Behind", "Roman Images"
3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Refreshments
Butz-Carruth Recital Hall Foyer
5:00 p.m.
Keynote Address
Gregory Wolfe
"Divine Comedy: Irony as the Handmaiden of Faith"
Smith-Hermanson Music Building
Butz-Carruth Recital Hall
6:30 p.m.
Banquet
Student Awards
Kimberly Irvine Creative Writing Award
Phillip Schrum Analytical Paper Award
Hodson Dining Commons
Alspaugh Room
8:00 p.m.
The Crucible (Tickets at the door $6.00)
Mitchell Theatre
Saturday, February 21st
9:00 a.m.---10:00 a.m.
A. Ayers Alumni Memorial Building 214
Poetry Workshop
Del Doughty Huntington University
*Limited to 20 students: Registration Required
B. Ayers Alumni Memorial Building 215
Fiction Workshop
Lori Huth Houghton College
*Limited to 20 students: Registration Required
10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
A. Ayers Alumni Memorial Building 214
Editing Undergraduate Literary Magazines
B. Ayers Alumni Memorial Building 215
Graduate School Workshop
