Scholars Day and Literary Festival

The Newman University English Department presents the 13th Annual Literary Festival & Scholars Day

"Lands of Unlikeness: Mysterious Landscapes in Literature"

Literary Festival 2012 announcement and call for papers:
Lit Fest 2012

Scholars Day 2012 announcement and call for abstracts:
Call for abstracts 2012

THURSDAY, MARCH 29

7 - 9 p.m.
Scott Cairns Keynote Reading
(Jabara Blackbox Theatre)

Scott Cairns is the author of Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven, Compass of Affection, The Sacred Place, and many other books. He teaches modern and contemporary American literature and creative writing at the University of Missouri. Cairns is an accomplished poet whose writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Books & Culture, and Image. He was recently named a Guggenheim Fellow.

FRIDAY, MARCH 30

9 a.m. - 3 p.m. panels and presentations located in Dugan Conference Rooms A/B (West) and C (East) unless otherwise noted. 3-10 p.m. performances and presentations located in the Jabara Blackbox Theatre unless otherwise noted. Poster presentations featured on hourly rotation in the Macias Gathering Space—Friday only. Please note that some presentations run concurrently.

9 a.m.
Communication Panel
· Annie Lessard, "Understanding Loss Through Disney; Pixar's UP"
· Yamir Lozada, "Armageddon: Culture Adaptation"

Panel on Z.Z. Packer's short story, "Brownies"
· Haley Dotson, "Brownies of a Different Recipe"
· Danielle Cobb, "Everyone Has Their Own Battle to Fight"
· Jessica Sponsel, "For No Real Reason: A Study of Brownies"

10 a.m.
Panel on Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" from The Things They Carried
· Wendy Le, "The Depth of a True War Story"
· Linda Halley, "White Lies and Honesty"
· Kaylyn Slama, "What All is True?"
· Shaughnessy Stockemer, "The Unbelievable Truth: An Analysis of 'How to Tell a True War Story'"

Panel on Arthurian Literature
· Jessica Bratcher, "Arthur and the Fantastic"
· Rebekah Baldridge, "The Questing Beast and Questing for Chivalry"
· Megan Birdsey, "Something About Beards"

11 a.m.
Ethnography
· Chelsea "C.L." Smet, "Faithfully—Christmas at St. Anthony's Family Shelter"
· Cynthia Barragan, "Ode to the Lights on St. Paul"
· Caitlyn Maksymiak, "Carpe Diem at Christ the King School"

Literature
· Jasmine Turner, "A Progression of Pearl's Development in The Scarlet Letter"
· Rebecca Jenek, "The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Faith"
· Lisa Johnson, "Internet and Society"

12 p.m. Lunch Break

1 p.m.
Batman
· Cliff Kissling, "The Balancing Game"
· Keaton Dugan, "Power and Responsibility"
· Michael Sine, "The Argument of the Anti-Hero"
· Kelsey Gates, "Batman: A Different Kind of Superhero"

Myth
· Benjamin Snider, "The Human Story"
· Amanda Love, "The Meaning of Myth"
· Victoria Kunhardt, Myth Essay

2 p.m.
Place
· Sara Crow, "An Excerpt from Revenge of the Bride: The Memoirs of a Man-Made Woman"
· Heather Peterson, "Reading Carol: Gender Bias and Power Struggle"
· Don Hufford, "The Novels of W.E.B. Du Bois as Bildungsroman"

Land
· Jeff Kilgore, "Land and Literature: Connecting with Kansas Kids"
· Jakub Voboril, "Plato: This Is Sparta"
· Timothy Ashton, "The Road to Perfection: An Early 20th Century Literary Vision of a Spanish Society and Landscape in Ruins"

Scott Cairns
Master Class
(Roths Alumni Reception Area)

3 - 10 p.m. performances and presentations located in the Jabara Blackbox Theatre unless otherwise noted.

3 p.m.
Clare Vanderpool, Reading from Moon Over Manifest
Newman alumna Vanderpool is the 2011 recipient of the prestigious Newbery Medal for her first published novel.

4 p.m.
· Rebekah Baldridge, "Excerpt from Superposition," winner of the Dell Award for undergraduate excellence in science fiction and fantasy writing.
· Annie Lessard, "Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party;' Isn't Life Fetching?"

5 - 7 p.m.
Opening reception for installation artist Elissa Ann Cox, "Above and Beneath" (Steckline Gallery, De Mattias Fine Arts Center)

6 p.m. Dinner Break

7 p.m.
Bryan D. Dietrich
A Reading from The Monstrance

8 p.m.
Mike Austin
"This Monster Cannot Die": The Cognitive Problem of Narrative Closure

SATURDAY, MARCH 31

9 a.m.
Panel on Wendy Cope's poem "Lonely Hearts"
· Valerie Beach, "I'm Lonely"
· Nicole Myers, "Desperate and Single"
· Pam Regehr, "Foolish Hearts"

10 a.m.
Panel on Edna St. Vincent Millay's sonnet "I will put Chaos into fourteen lines"
· Maggie O'Neal, "Who is Chaos?"
· Angela McDaneld, "Bringing Order out of Chaos"
· Iris Rutiaga, "Inner Chaos"
· Lorenzo Serna, "The Shapeless Shape"

Short Stories in Progress
· Shawn Craver, "The Cares of this Old World"
· Blair Horner, "Confluences"
· Rachel Lynch, "Shift"
· Paul Manning, "Siren Song"

11 a.m.
The Gothic
· Linzi Allan, "Female Complicity"
· T.J. Manion, "Fall of the House of Leaves"
· Christine Barragree, "Supernatural Suspense: Exploring the Sublime in Castle of Otronto"
· Meagan Brandt, "What Haunting Houses Lie Here?"

Dr. Doom
· Paul Manning, "Revised Raven"
· Anna Kimrey, "A True Story"
· Carla Lee, "Poem"

12 p.m. Lunch Break

1 p.m.
Myth
· Philip Pham, "The Myth In Us All"
· Jake Gaul, "My Definition of Myth"
· Courtney Dold, "Myth Defined"
· Jerry Jones, "The Power of Myth"

Myth
· Jacob Barnes, "The Mythology of Myth"
· Sara Ast, "The Ins and Outs of Myth"
· Haley Hungate, "The Truth Behind Myth"

2 p.m.
Literature
· Garrett Jeter, "Escaping the Shadows: Plato's Allegory of the Cave in Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables"
· Sarah Peterson, "Prominent Theological Themes of Jane Eyre."
· Rhyanna Brunner, "From Hecatommithi to Othello: The Development of Isolation"

3 - 10 p.m. performances and presentations located in the Jabara Blackbox Theatre unless otherwise noted.

3 p.m.
David Baxter, Tess Rohleder, Carole Pracht
"Delving Into Mystery: A Performance"

4 p.m.
Rinaldo's Disaster
A Staged reading of a short play adapted from the second day/second story of Boccaccio's Decameron, by Mark Taylor Mannette. Cast: Miguel Torres, Blake Boswell, Yamir Lozada, Zaul Covarrubias, Pancho Fields, Jesse Gray, Zoe Burke, Megan Birdsey. The reading will be followed by a short discussion of the work.

5 p.m.
Sloppy Joe Improv Troupe Performance