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THE NEW YORK COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION

2012 Conference:

Literature and the Arts

Villa Maria College Buffalo, New York

October 12 - October 13, 2012

Eric Gansworth (Onondaga) is Lowery Writer·in·Residence at Canisius College in Buffalo. NY. His books include EXTRA

INDIANS (American Book Award, NAIBA Trade Book of the

Year) , and MENDING SKINS (PEN Oakland Award). His collection of poems and paintings, A HALF·LlFE OF CARDIO·

PULMONARY FUNCTION, was Number 3 on the National

Book Critics Circle's "Good Reads" List in 2008. His written work has appeared in KENYON REVIEW, BOSTON REVIEW,

SHENANDOAH, POETRY INTERNATIONAL, THIRD COAST,

PROVINCETOWN ARTS, among other periodicals and has

been widely anthologized. His tenth book, IF I EVER GET OUT

OF HERE, a Young Adult novel, will be published in 2013.

Friday, October 12, 2012 •

Saturday, Octot!

4:00·6:00 PM Registration Foyer, Main Building 8:30-10:00 AM Regi.~

'" 4:00-5:00 PM Board Meeting M&T Conference Room. 8:30·9:30 Breakfast

Main Building 8:30-9:15 Round . J

5:00·6:00 PM Reception Student Center Social Hall for Gradua"ll

6:00·7:00 PM Dinner Student Center Social Hall 9:30·10:45 Conel

A1 . Sound and Sense;

7:30-8:30 PM Reading Eric Gansworth Moderator: Matthew G~

1.) Paul Dowling, -Many things in Lampedusa's

Donna Yaeger, ~Matinees·:

Timothy Collint The Old From Aesthetics

Foyer, Main Building

M&T Conference Room. Main Building

rudent Center Social Hall

,udent Center Social Hall

Eric Gansworth

Saturday, October 13,2012•

8:30-10:00 AM Registration Foyer. Main Building .- 8:30-9:30 Breakfast Foyer, Main Building

6:30-9:16 Round Table Discussion Room 101, Main Building for Graduate Students

"Teaching at a Small Col/ege"

9:30-10:45 Concurrent Sessions A

Ai . Sound and Sense: Music as Art Room 101 , Main Building

Moderator: Matthew Giordano, Villa Maria College

1.) Paul Dowling, Canlsius College "Many things are not made explicit·: Musical Choruses in Lampedusa's The Leopard

Donna Yaeger, Buffalo State College "Matinttes": Merrill, Music, Myth

Timothy Collins, Buffalo State College The Ofd From the New: Formal Readings of Rap Aesthetics

A2. Pedagogy in the Arts Room 20 1, Main Building

Moderator: Juliet Emanuel, CUNY

2.) Jennifer Campbell , Erie Community College Keeping Poetry and the Arts Relevant for the 21.st Century College Student

Mary Ann Janda, Utica College Thinking in Pictures: Visual Literacy and the Writing Classroom

Emily Ryan ~Radder, Medaille College A Tale of Two Novels: USing Literary Worlcs and Accompanying Films as Self-Guided Instruction in Developmental Reading

Joyce Kessel , Villa Maria College Poetry That Worl<s : Prompts, Exercises, and Ideas

A3. Dynamic Architectures of Text Room 103, Main Building

Moderator: Deborah VanderBilt, St. John Fisher College

Leslie Nickerson, University at Buffalo Manly Affec(ta)tion: Costume Design and the (Re) fashioning of Masculinity ;n Sidney's Arcadia

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James Murp~ Poetry in and the

Charlie The Troubled l Garcia Marqt4

Heidi walla~ Speaking the the Dump~

10:45-11 :00 Refreshl

11 :00-12:15

B1. St. Bonaventure Literature and Complex Subjed

Moderator: John

Olog V. Bych~ Can Uterature Do Recent the Commona~

Artistic MArliR?

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James Murphy. Niagara County Community College Poetry in Solid Form: The American Transcendentalists and the Architecture and Writings of Louis Sullivan

Charlie Wesley, Oaemen College The Troubled Structures of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Heidi Wallace, Buffalo State College Speaking the Truth: Wallace Stevens and "The Man on the Dump·

10 : 45~11 : 00 Refres hment Break Foyer, Main Building

11 :00-12:15 Concurrent Sessions B

B1 . Sl Bonaventure University's Interdisciplinary Course in Literature and the Arts : Strategic Approaches to a Complex Subject Room 201, Main Building

Moderator: John Mulryan, St. Bonaventure University

Oleg V. Bychkov, St. Bonaventure University Can Uteroture and the Arts be Taught Together? What Do Recent Advances in the Life Sciences Tell Us About the Commonalities o( Aesthetic Mechanisms Across Artistic Media?

Sandra Mulryan, 5t. Bonaventure University Improving Student Perception of the Arls by Utilizing the Categories of Subject MaHer, Form, Content, and Participation.

Scott E. Craver, St. Bonaventure Univers ity Dionysos: Inter-disciplinary God of Wine and Art and Literature

82. The Artist and the Poet Room 103. Main Building

Moderator: Jim Scannett, Utica College

Monica Weis , Nazareth College The Art of Attentiveness: Lessons from Thomas Merlon

Tom O'Malley, Canlsius College Charles Burchfield: Painting the Journal

Scott Minar. Ohio University, Lancaster The Painter Poets: Charles Simic and Mark Strand

B3. Literature and Art on the Stage and Screen Room 101 , Main Building

Moderator: Elizabeth Battaglia, Villa Maria College

Laura Lucci, University of Toronto

Pirandelfo 's Humor and the Intersection of Translation and Dramaturgy

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Chelsea Horne, Recognizing the Eat, Pray, Love

Ed Taylor, Buffalo • So Much to Unlea~ Classroom Explora~ View

Mary Jane Masiull~ A Jakobsian App~ Les Miserables

12:30-1 :15 Lunch

1 :30·2:45 Concurr81

C1. Thinking in Pictures

Moderator: Deborah Vandal

Michelle Mazur, Transubstantiation Ekphraslic Art:

Lisa Wiley MasIOW.i From the Canvas to Non-English Majors

niverslty \rts by Utilizing the :entent,

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Chelsea Horne, Binghamton University Recognizing the Cognitive Power of Visual Imagery in Eat . Pray, Love

), Ed Taylor, Buffalo State College and Canisius College •So Much to Unlearn": Using -L&da and the Swan~ in Classroom Exploration of Critical Thinking and POint of View

Mary Jane Maslulionis, Buffalo State College A Jakobsian Approach to Fifm Adaptations of Hugo 's Les Miserables

12:30-1 :15 Lunch Student Center

1 :30·2:45 Concurrent Sessions C

C1. Thinking in Pictures Room 201, Main Building

Moderator: Deborah VanderBilt, 51. John Fisher College

Michelle Mazur, Buffalo State College Transubstantiation of Avant-garde Literature and Ekphrastic Art: Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso

lisa Wiley Moslow, Erie Community College From the Canvas to the Page: Ekphrastic Poetry for Non-English Majors

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Kandace Brill Lombart, Independent Scholar Ruth Stone's Poetry fIIustrated by Phoebe Stone: The Art of Mother and Daughter Collaboration.

C2. Victorian Adaptations Room 103. Main Building

Moderator: Juliet Emanuel, CUNY

Amanda Lagoe, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Firelight (1997): Adapting the Victorian Governess for Neo- Victon'sn Film

Elizabeth Battaglia, Villa Maria College Dame Gabriel and Christina RosseN;,' The Union of Word and Image in ~Goblin Marl<et~

Jim Scannell , Utica College What Sort ofArt Do Empires Produce?: Robert Browning's Critique of British Colonialism

Lauren Matz, St, Bonaventure University Alice's Adventures in the 21$1 Century World of Animation Software

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~-\5' The Spiritual RealoJ

Scott O'Neil, - -1 "And the Child,." the LORD":

Christine Bochel Thomas Merton 's

Monica EdwardJ "Muleity in unity;l Works of Samuel

John Marvin, Stevens and "The Motive

2:45·3:00 Refreshment

,3:004:15 Concul'1

01 . Female Icons and

Moderator: Joyce Kessel.~

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indent Scholar ( ~. The Spiritual Realm of Art and Literature Room 101. iy Phoebe Stone: Main BUilding Collaboration.

Moderator: Matthew Giordano, Villa Maria College

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Scott O'Neil, University of Rochester "And the Children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD": Medieval Judicial Tropes and the Characteri­zation of Pilete in the York Cycle

Christine Bochen, Nazareth College Thomas Merton's Very Brief Foray into Script Writing

Monica Edwards, Sl Bonaventure University "Muleity in Unity": Franciscan Aesthetic Theory in the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

John Marvin, Independent Scholar Stevens and Nietzsche Do the Twist: Exhilaration in -The Motive for Metaphor"

2:45·3:00 Refreshment Break Foyer, Main Building

3:00-4:15 Concurrent Sessions D

01 . Female Icons and Rituals in literature and Art Room 101. Main Building

Moderator: Joyce Kessel. Villa Maria College

1.) Roberta Milliken, Shawnee State University Depicting Judith: The Construction of a Heroic Warrior Woman

Judith Phagan, St. Joseph's College Prayer, Poetry and Oppression: ExplOring Borderlands in Leslie Marmon Sitko's Ceremony

Cathleen McLoughlin, Marymount Manhattan College The City of l adies

~Film as Literature Room 103, Main Build ing

Moderator: Juliet Emanuel , CUNY

Johanna Fisher, Canislus College A Novella ;n Film: Artistic and Mythic Parallels in Mann's and Visconti's Death in Venice

Megan Szymkowicz. St. Bonaventure University From the Page to the Slage: Restructuring The W oman in White

Travis Matteson, University at Buffalo Godard's Typewriter

Daniel Singleton, st. John Fisher College Borrowed Originality in Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt

03. Poetics of

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State University !lCtion of a Heroic

a College ')n: Exploring n Silko 's Ceremony

Imount Manhattan

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:ollege ~ Mythic Parallels in in Venice

naventure University IRestructuring

, at Buffalo

=Isher College Luc Godard's Contempt

03. Poetics of Translation Room 201 , Main Building

Moderator: Matthew Giordano, Villa Maria College

Adrian Versteegh, New York University Still Ufe with Failure: The Poetics of 'Light Writing ' in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure

Frank Riga, Canisius College The Leopard's Pictured Hero: Garibaldi's (mage as Historiography

Ian Stapley, Niagara County Community College Reading Without Knowing the Language: Rabbit Man of Bon Echo

Megan Hartline, St. Bonaventure University Negative Capability in Pride and Prejudice: Austen. Keats, and Mr. Darcy

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