At 10 a.m. CST today (March 13), we received word from Briarwood Writer's Alliance, the booking agent for W. P. Kinsella, that Mr. Kinsella was stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border in Vancouver early this morning and not allowed to enter. He has therefore had to cancel his appearance in Joliet. Our sincere apologies to all those looking forward to his talks. We share your disappointment. However, at this very late date, we are fortunate to have Phillip Lopate to take his place. Mr. Lopate is one of America's foremost essayists, author of two novels, two books of poetry, a personal account of his teaching experiences, and three essay collections--most recently Portrait of My Body (1996).
University of St. Francis
Twelfth Annual
Undergraduate
Conference on
English
Language
and
Literature
March 14-15. 2003
featured speaker
W. P. Kinsella
Best known for his baseball writing, W.P. Kinsella has published
more than 25 books, including his eight collections (115 stories total)
told in the voice of Silas Ermineskin. His novel Shoeless Joe, the most
honored novel in Canadian history, was turned into the Academy Award-nominated
movie Field of Dreams. His book Dance Me Outside has also been
made into a feature-length movie, along with "Lieberman in Love," a story in Red
Wolf, Red Wolf, which won the Academy Award for Best Short Feature in
1996. Kinsella’s most recent books are The Secret of the Northern
Lights, The Winter Helen Dropped By, Magic Time and If
Wishes Were Horses, the last of which along with Shoeless Joe and The
Iowa Baseball Confederacy forms a trilogy. He is at present working on a
screenplay and a novel of magic realism, Butterfly Winter.
Kinsella is the winner of The Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor for his book The
Fencepost Chronicles. He has been a distinguished alumni lecturer at the
University of Iowa, and holds honorary degrees from Laurentian University and
the University of Victoria. Kinsella lives in Chiilwack, B.C.
Friday, March 14, 2003
5:00 p.m.—7:30 p.m.
Registration
Moser Performing Arts Center
6:00-7:30 p.m.
Room N-221
SESSION I: BRITISH LITERATURE: MEDIEVAL LITERATURE I
Chair: Roberta Riel, University of St. Francis
"The Messianic Beowulf"
Kristen LeFever, Elizabethtown
College
"Religious Symbolism in the Middle English Pearl"
Julia Copeland, University of
St. Francis
"’Of his diete mesurable was he’: An Essay on Chaucer’s
Use of Food and the Four Humours in the General Prologue of the Canterbury
Tales"
Cristeana Bastian,
Dominican University
N-219
SESSION II: TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE I
Chair: Amy Ingalls, University of St. Francis
"A Comparison of Narrative Styles in Eliot, Joyce, and Woolf"
Tyler Ryan, Trinity
Christian College
"D. H. Lawrence as Snake Charmer"
Ashley Locke, Illinois
Wesleyan University
"United in "Pure Substance": Yeats’s Poetic of Androgyny
in the Later Poems"
Erin Joy Morrow,
University of St. Francis
8
p.m.
Auditorium
Reading with Commentary
"A FIELD OF DREAMS: The Fiction World of W. P. Kinsella"
Reception and book signing in Studio Theatre following the
reading.
Saturday, March 15, 2003
8 a.m.—9 a.m.
Registration
Moser Performing Arts Center
Coffee
Studio Theater
9 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Auditorium
Plenary Address by W. P.
Kinsella
Auditorium
"W. P. Kinsella, Storyteller; or, Everything I Needed to Know about Life
I Learned from My Uncle Calhoun"
10:15-10:30 a.m.
Coffee
Studio Theater
10:30-12:30
Room N-221
SESSION III: FEMALE CHARACTERS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
Chair: Aimée Miller, University of St. Francis
"A Reconsideration of the Lady’s Role in Sir Gawain and
the Green Knight"
Christine M. Mojica,
SUNY—Brockport
"The Role of Morgan le Fay in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Dojna Corsine, University of
St. Francis
"Custance as God in The Man of Law’s Tale"
Gabe Oppenheim,
Dominican University
"A Defense of Chaucer’s Criseyde"
Amy Walsh, University of
St. Francis
N-219
SESSION IV: SHAKESPEARE
Chair: Lena R. Vauters, University of St. Francis
"Feste’s Criticism of the Courtier Tradition in Shakespeare’s
Twelfth Night"
Erin Knobloch. Eureka
College
"’To plume up my will’: An Examination of Iago’s
Motivations in Shakespeare’s Othello"
Amanda Bohne, Dominican
University
"Foul and Fair: An Examination of Shakespeare’s A
Midsummer Night’s Dream and Marlowe’s The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus"
Jennifer Lawrence,
Calumet College of St. Joseph
"The Slow Poisoning of Hamlet"
Colleen H. Robbins,
Lewis University
SESSION V: TWENTIETH-CENTURY FICTION
Chair: Margarita A. Almanza, University of St. Francis
"Paradox and Contemporary Influences in Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness"
Megan Minarich,
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Connecting the Dots and Filling the Gaps: Narrative
Techniques in Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means and Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway"
Sara DeBoer, Trinity
Christian College
"Gravity Amidst Levity in the Novels of Philip Roth"
Robert M. Mello, Jr.,
Simmons College
"Fabricating Reality: O’Brien’s The Things They Carried"
Michael Henderson,
University of St. Francis
N-225
SESSION VI: MODERN WORLD LITERATURE
Chair: Andrew Bendler, College of DuPage
"The Haze Mother-Daughter Dyad in Nabokov’s Lolita"
Kelly Badgley, Eureka
College
"Death in Venice: A Gay Man’s Novella?"
Shawna Flavell, Joliet
Junior College
"Novelistic Expressions of the Experiences of Women:
Defining Relationships in the Works of Enchi Fumiko and Yoshimoto Banana"
Kimberly Luesse, DePauw
University
"’After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town’: A Postcolonial Text"
Mary E. Roberts, Eureka
College
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Luncheon
Moes and President’s Rooms
1:45-3:15 p.m.
Room N-221
SESSION VII:
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE II
Chair: Nina Lennon, University of St. Francis
"Fire Imagery in Beowulf"
Anne Baublitz,
Elizabethtown College
"Chaucer the Creator, Not the Copier: Originality in the
Clerk’s Tale"
Kathlyn Drexler, New
Mexico State University
"Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde: An Examination of the
Anima Image and Its Relationship to Love"
Kevin Andrew Spicer,
University of St. Francis
N-219
SESSION VIII:
BRITISH RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
Chair: Jessica Bradley, University of St. Francis
"The Everlasting Appeal of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie
Queene"
Sandra Shimon, Dominican
University
"The Emotional Development of Isabella in Shakespeare’s Measure
for Measure"
Jamie Huber, Illinois
College
"Twelfth Night’s Maria: Is She Really Who We Think She
Is?"
Danielle Marcum, Eureka
College
N-218
SESSION IX: WOMEN WRITERS OF THE 18th AND 19th CENTURIES
Chair: Chansonette Bates, University of St. Francis
"What Is Good for the Goose Is Good for the Gander:
Foster’s Indictment of Male Gender Roles in The Coquette"
Donna M. Dechant,
University of Nebraska—Omaha
"Desire and Renunciation in Emily Dickinson’s 9th Fascicle"
Rachael Marusarz,
Illinois Wesleyan University
"Empowerment: Angelina Grimke’s Appeal to Christian Women
of the South"
Marisa J. Quinn, St.
Ambrose University
SESSION X: TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE
Chair: Michael Beckman, University of St. Francis
"Joyce’s The Dead: Music as a Catalyst towards Inner
Consciousness"
Julie Maker, Trinity
Christian College
"Narrative Voices in Muriel Spark and Virginia Woolf"
Joel Poortenga, Trinity
Christian College
"Peking Opera and the Communist Party"
Michael Morgan, DePauw
University
N-221
SESSION XI: MEDIEVAL LITERATURE III
Chair: Julie Cook, University of St. Francis
"Gawain Superstar: The Pentangle and Gawain’s Somewhat
Ideal Knighthood"
J. Nathan Matias,
Elizabethtown College
"Troilus’ Determinism in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde"
Craig Maloney,
University of St. Francis
"Chaucer and the Astrolabe: Looking at the Heavens,
Looking at the Time"
Connie Meyer, Texas
A&M—Commerce
"Chaucer’s Design in the Narrator of Troilus and
Criseyde": Teaching Earth’s Vanities and God’s Love through Involvement
and Confusion"
Kristen Weeks,
University of St. Francis
N-219
SESSION XII: NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
Chair: Amanda Welsh, University of St. Francis
"William Blake’s Mysticism in Vision of the Daughters of Albion"
Kathleen Whitgrove, University
of St. Francis
"DeQuincey’s Opium Habit: Drug Dreams, Life Dreams"
Tony Knight, Joliet
Junior College
"Artemis and Milkmaid: Hellenism and Ruskin in Hardy’s
Tess of the d’Urbervilles"
Sarah Ciaccia, Claremont
McKenna College
N-218
SESSION XIII: MODERN CULTURE
Chair: Jamie Albert, Columbia College
"The Urbs: Road Signs and Other Urban Scratchings"
Sandra Ho, University of
California at Los Angeles
"Redford’s Quiz Show: A Modern Tragedy?"
Haydyn Hollister,
University of St. Francis
"Free to Be . . . You and Me: Gender Issues in Literature
for Contemporary Women"
Katie MacLennan, St.
Ambrose University
"Instruments of Chinese Drama"
Stephanie A. Brown,
DePauw University
N-225
SESSION XIV: THEORY
Chair: John Sahs, Illinois State University
"Mikhail Bakhtin: Unifying Art and Life Through Love"
Thomas Fennema, Trinity
Christian College
"Syntactic Pedagogy: Emphasizing the Elements of
Successful Writing"
Eric Englert, University
of St. Francis
"The truth is boring, isn’t it’: A Theory of Memoir"
Amanda Horrigan,
University of St. Francis
5-6 p.m.
Reception
Studio Theater
All conferees are invited to attend the University of St. Francis Film Club showing of the film "Field of Dreams," starring Kevin Costner, at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium. Admission is free.
The University of St. Francis is located 45 minutes from Chicago. It is easily reached via I-55 (Stevenson Expressway), I-80 or I-355 (North-South Tollway).
The conference will be in the college’s main building, Tower Hall. Parking is located directly north of the building.
From O’Hare Airport - Take I-90 east to I-294 south to I-55 south. Exit Weber Road. Turn left (south) onto Weber Road. Take Weber Road to Plainfield Road. Turn left (east) onto Plainfield Road. Take Plainfield Road to Wilcox Street. Turn right (south) onto Wilcox Street. Continue on Wilcox Street one block to the University of St. Francis.
From Midway Airport - Take Cicero Avenue north to I-55 south. Exit Weber Road. Turn left (south) onto Weber Road. Take Weber Road to Plainfield Road. Turn left (east) onto Plainfield Road. Take Plainfield Road to Wilcox Street. Turn right (south) onto Wilcox Street. Continue on Wilcox Street one block to the University of St. Francis.
Hotel Accommodations
(Each of the following affords easy access to the University of St. Francis)
Comfort
Inn - 135 S. Larkin Ave.; 815 744-1770
Take I-80 to Larkin Avenue north (exit
130B); hotel is on left past second stoplight.
Rates: $50 (single or double room). Mention
USF ELL Conference at time of reservation. Hotel has indoor pool, hot tub and
complimentary continental breakfast. Call for reservations before March 1.
Holiday
Inn - 411 S. Larkin Ave.; 815 729-2000 or 800 465-4329
Take I-80 to Larkin Avenue north (exit
130B); turn left at first stoplight.
Rates: $62 (single or double room). Mention
USF ELL. Conference at time of reservation. Hotel offers fitness center and
complimentary breakfast. Call for reservations before Feb. 21.
Hotel Shuttle Service
Shuttle
service will be provided from the above hotels to the University of
St. Francis at the following approximate
times:
Friday, March
14 5 p.m., leave hotels
10 p.m., return
Saturday, March 15
7:45 a.m., leave hotels
6 p.m., return
Restaurants
Al’s
Steak House - 1990 W. Jefferson St. (corner of Jefferson and
Hammes); 815 725-2388
Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar - 2795
Plainfield Road;
815 254-9070
Aurelio’s Pizza - 1630 Essington Road; 815
729-2220
Bakers Square - 2211 W. Jefferson St.; 815
729-1513
David’s Pasta - 2006 W. Jefferson St.
(Marycrest Shopping Center);
815 744-5253
Lone Star Steakhouse - 2705Plainfield Road;
815 436-7600
Texas Roadhouse - 3151 Toni Lane; 815
577-9003
T.G.I. Friday's - 1078 Louis Joliet
Mall; 815 254-1882
Airport Limousine Service
Plainfield Limousine - 815 436-1713 - O’Hare or Midway to Joliet; $53 first person, $5 each additional person; $51 for return (5 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.); call at least eight days in advance.
Cox Livery Inc. - 815 741-0583 - O’Hare or Midway to Joliet; $53 first person, $5 each additional person (additional fee before 5 a.m. and after 10 p.m.). Call at least four days in advance.
The University of St. Francis is located 45 minutes from Chicago. It is easily reached via I-55 (Stevenson Expressway), I-80 or I-355 (North-South Tollway).
The conference will be in the college’s main building, Tower Hall. Parking is located directly north of the building.
From O’Hare Airport - Take I-90 east to I-294 south to I-55 south. Exit Weber Road. Turn left (south) onto Weber Road. Take Weber Road to Plainfield Road. Turn left (east) onto Plainfield Road. Take Plainfield Road to Wilcox Street. Turn right (south) onto Wilcox Street. Continue on Wilcox Street one block to the University of St. Francis.
From
Midway Airport - Take Cicero Avenue north to I-55 south. Exit Weber
Road. Turn left (south) onto Weber Road. Take Weber Road to
Plainfield Road. Turn left (east) onto Plainfield Road. Take
Plainfield Road to Wilcox Street. Turn right (south) onto Wilcox
Street. Continue on Wilcox Street one block to the University of St.
Francis.
Conferees are encouraged to preregister for the USF ELL Conference by completing the form below and mailing it with registration and luncheon fees to the University of St. Francis. You must preregister by March 7 to attend the ELL Luncheon. (The USF cafeteria will be open for those conferees not attending the conference luncheon.) Conferees may also register the day the conference begins.
Name: ____________________________________________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________________________________
Academic
Affiliation: _________________________________________________________
__Registration
fee $15 per person
$5 for high school
students with I.D.
__Buffet luncheon (meat and vegetarian
entrees)
$15 per person;
preregistration only.
Total enclosed ____
Make checks payable to the USF ELL Conference.
Mail to:
Dr.
Randy Chilton
ELL Conference
University of St. Francis
500 Wilcox St.
Joliet, IL 60435