Schedule for the 2013 Making Literature Conference
By Taylor English Department Published: Feb 27, 2013M a k i n g L i t e r a t u r e
an undergraduate conference on literature and writing
February 28 – March 2, 2013
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28
8:00-5:00 Registration (Smith-Hermanson Music Center: Recital Hall Foyer)
10:30-10:45 Welcome (Smith-Hermanson Music Center: Recital Hall)
11:00-11:45 Student Sessions I
A. Identities (Modelle Metcalf Visual Arts Center, Room 002)
Moderator: Alex Moore
Diana Meakem (Taylor University)
“Identity and Paternity as Autobiography in Evelina”
Kate Dwyer (Huntington University)
“Reconstructing Identities: Community in A Lesson Before Dying”
B. Genders (Reade Memorial Liberal Arts Center, Room 240)
Moderator: Ruthie Totheroh
Jessica Kincaid (Malone University)
“Heroine, Villainess or Feminist?: The Depiction of Jean Muir in Louisa May
Alcott’s ‘Behind a Mask’”
Joelle Kriebel (Huntington University)
“‘To die like a man’: The Reevaluation of Historical Messages of Manhood in A
Lesson Before Dying”
12:00 Lunch (Arthur L. Hodson Commons)
1:15-2:15 Student Sessions II
A. The Virtuous, the Good (Metcalf Center, Room 002)
Moderator: Jody Ford
Katy Kanas (Taylor University)
“Female Virtues in Captivity Narratives: Hannah Dustan and Charlotte
Temple”
Roberta Fultz (Bethel University)
“What Makes Goodness Good?: Exploring Faith through Children of the Alley
and The Brothers Karamazov”
B. Unfamiliar Territory: Nonfiction and Fiction (Reade Center, Room 240)
Moderator: Lydia Gosnell
Chelsea O’Donnell (Wheaton College)
“Damned Implications”
Sara Ellingsworth (Bethel University)
“Coming to Terms”
Diana Meakem (Taylor University)
“As the Water Flows”
2:30-3:30 Student Sessions III
A. Adaptations (Metcalf Center, Room 002)
Moderator: Nic Segraves
Abigail Stocker (Bethel University)
“Text as Shaper of Worship: ‘O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing’”
Jacqueline Ristola (Calvin College)
“The Bride of Frankenstein: Adaptation and Mutability”
Tom Speelman (Calvin College)
“The Beautiful Irene Adler of Changing Memory”
B. Spaces, Shapes, Designs (Reade Center, Room 240)
Moderator: Rebecca Scales
Linnea White (Bethel University)
“‘What to Sight and Smell Was Sweet’: Flowers and Gardening in Paradise
Lost”
Katharine Chisolm (Taylor University)
“The Circle of Life, Loss, and Love in Wordsworth’s ‘Surprised by Joy’ and Austen’s Persuasion”
Elise Vadnais (Wheaton College)
“The Psychology of Interior Design in The House of Mirth”
3:30-4:00 Refreshments
(Euler Science Complex: Legacy Lounge—2nd floor, east end of building)
4:00-5:30 Parnassus release party, with Parnassus award winners’ readings
(Euler Science Complex: Legacy Lounge—2nd floor, east end of building)
6:00 Dinner (Arthur L. Hodson Commons)
7:30 Keynote address: Hal Bush (Smith-Hermanson Music Center: Recital Hall)
FRIDAY, MARCH 1
8:00-5:00 Registration (Smith-Hermanson Music Center: Recital Hall Foyer)
8:30-9:30 Student Sessions IV
A. Society and Morality (Reade Center, Room 241)
Moderator: Abi Carter
Kelley Scupham (Trinity International University)
“Bleak House: Social Justice and Moral Responsibility”
Adam Corbin (Wheaton College)
“A Crisis of Conscience: Sympathetic Revelation in Huckleberry Finn”
Samantha Reynolds (Wittenberg University)
“Homo ex Machina: Machinery and the Transformation of Migrant Farmers
in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath”
B. Juxtapositions (Reade Center, Room 240)
Moderator: Nate Burdette
Anna Linhardt (Mt. Vernon Nazarene University)
“Fact or Fiction: A Comparative Analysis of As You Like It and Life of Pi”
Jody Ford (Taylor University)
“Moll Flanders and Fantomina: Eighteenth-Century Female Voices”
Kara Heiniger (Taylor University)
“Loss and Gain in ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ and ‘Lamia’”
10:00-10:50 Chapel: Bret Lott (Rediger Chapel/Auditorium)
11:00-11:45 Student Sessions V
A. Beauty, Truth, Love: Nonfiction (Metcalf Center, Room 002)
Moderator: Katharine Chisolm
Alex Moore (Taylor University)
“Those Who Remain”
Adrienne Stout (Wittenberg University)
“Encounters with Love or Something”
Jeremy Paul (Taylor University)
“Love You. Love You Too”
B. Familiar Territory: Nonfiction and Fiction (Reade Center, Room 240)
Moderator: Emily Perschbacher
Grace Mitchell (Indiana Wesleyan University)
“An Introduction to My Homeland and Me”
Taylor Burmeister (Wittenberg University)
“Snoozle”
Brita Crouse (Taylor University)
“Judgment Day”
12:00 Lunch (Arthur L. Hodson Commons)
1:15-2:15 Student Sessions VI
A. Short Stories (Reade Center, Room 240)
Moderator: Suzy Ensch
Colin Payton (Wittenberg University)
“A Night and Withdrawal” and “A Young Man Named Fish”
Chandler Birch (Taylor University)
“The Bottles”
B. Short Poems (Metcalf Center, Room 002)
Moderator: Kara Heiniger
Brita Crouse (Taylor University)
“Ready or Not,” “Snowfall,” and “On a Hazy Afternoon”
Trenton Heille (Calvin College)
“Traverse,” “Poem for Paul,2012,”“Suburban Crusoe,” “Dream176,”
“In the Straw,” “Territory,” “Dance a Jig”
Brandon Pytel (Wittenberg University)
“circling god [parts 1 and 2],” “Navy Pier,” “talk to me,” “The End of an Afternoon,” “Ars Poetica”)
Nick Rassi (Indiana Wesleyan University)
“Empty Bottles of Sky,” “A Heaven Without Me,” “with Urgency but not
with Haste,” “Everyone lives but no one knows how,” “Private Education,” “Confessions”
2:30-3:30 Student Sessions VII
A. Reading Psychoanalytically (Metcalf Center, Room 002)
Moderator: Katy Kanas
Stephanie Edens (Olivet Nazarene University)
“Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy?: Marlow's Mental Journey into
the Heart of Darkness.”
Nathaniel Nelson (Wheaton College)
“Dreams and Disillusionment in This Side of Paradise”
Erin Coggin (Calvin College)
“When Words Are Not Enough: Expressing Trauma through Image in
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
B. Questioning Nature and Culture (Reade Center, Room 240)
Moderator: Diana Meakem
Nate Burdette (Taylor University)
“Questioning Cyclical Nature’s Trustworthiness in Coleridge and Shelley”
Corrie Baker (Calvin College)
“Say Goodbye to Your Old Self: The Poisonwood Bible and the Negative
Effect of the Normative”
Trevor Brown (Wittenberg University)
“‘The Monster’: John Steinbeck’s Attack on Capitalism”
3:30-4:00 Refreshments (Smith-Hermanson Music Center: Recital Hall Foyer)
4:00-5:00 Reading: Susanna Childress (Metcalf Center, Room 002)
5:30 Dinner (Arthur L. Hodson Commons)
7:00 Keynote address: Bret Lott (Smith-Hermanson Music Center: Recital Hall)
Conference awards will also be announced.
SATURDAY, MARCH 2
9:30 Refreshments (Smith-Hermanson Music Center: Recital Hall Foyer)
10:15-11:30 A Panel of Creative and Scholarly Editors: An Insider’s Look at Publishing
(Metcalf Center, Room 002)
Want to learn how to get published in magazines and journals? Or what goes into the production of a book? Come listen to professional editors. And bring your questions!
PANELISTS
Brad Fruhauff is Editor-in-Chief of Relief Journal. He holds a PhD in English from Loyola University Chicago and teaches English at Trinity International University in Deerfield, IL.
Marci Whiteman Johnson teaches at Valparaiso University, where she serves as Poetry Editor for The Cresset. She is also the Poetry Editor for WordFarm Press. Her own first collection of poems won the Powder Horn Prize and will be published by Sage Hill Press.
Beth Bevis is a graduate of Seattle Pacific University, where she later served as Program Coordinator for the SPU MFA program in creative writing. She is currently a doctoral student
at IU Bloomington, where she is Managing Editor of Victorian Studies.
11:45 Lunch (Arthur L. Hodson Commons)
1:00-2:30 Closing Event: A Reading by Bret Lott (Smith-Hermanson Music Center: Recital Hall)
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Bret Lott is the bestselling author of twelve books, most recently the novel Ancient Highway; other books include the story collection The Difference Between Women and Men, the nonfiction book Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer’s Life, and the novels Jewel, an Oprah Book Club pick, and A Song I Knew by Heart. His work has appeared in The Yale Review, The New York Times, The Georgia Review, and in dozens of anthologies. Born in Los Angeles, he received his BA in English from Cal State Long Beach in 1981, and his MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1984, where he studied under James Baldwin. From 1986 to 2004 he was writer-in-residence and professor of English at The College of Charleston, leaving to take the position of editor and director of the journal The Southern Review at Louisiana State University. In the fall of 2007, he returned to The College of Charleston and the job he most loves: teaching. He has been named Fulbright Senior American Scholar and has served as writer-in- residence to Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Israel. He has also spoken on Flannery O’Connor at The White House and been appointed a member of the National Council on the Arts.
Hal Bush began teaching English at Saint Louis University in 1998. Currently he is working on two new book projects: the first is a cultural history of parental grief in the lives of key figures in 19th- and 20th-century America, tentatively entitled Continuing Bonds; the second is about the intersections of spirituality and literature in a post 9/11 world. He is also a regular contributor to Christian Century, Books & Culture, The Cresset, and other popular publications. He is the author of Lincoln in His Own Time, Mark Twain and the Spiritual Crisis of His Age, and American Declarations: Rebellion and Repentance in American Cultural History.
Susanna Childress holds a Master’s from The University of Texas at Austin and a PhD from Florida State University. Her first book, Jagged with Love, was awarded the Brittingham Prize in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin and the Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She has received an AWP Intro Journals Award, the National Career Award in Poetry from the National Society of Arts and Letters, and a Lilly post- doctoral fellowship. She is an adjunct Assistant Professor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. She is the author of the poetry collections Entering the House of Awe (2011) and Jagged with Love (2005). Her poems have been featured in The Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, and Missouri Review. Her short stories have appeared in Gargoyle, Ruminate, and her reviews in Books & Culture, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Southeast Review.
