Rose, Lee's first book of poems (BOA Editions Ltd., 1986) was awarded New York University's Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award. The City in Which I Love You, his second collection, was The Academy of Poets' Lamont Poetry Selection of 1990.
Lee is the 1995 recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts poetry fellowship.
Major funding for this conference has been provided by the College of St. Francis Office of Undergraduate Programs.
8 a.m. - 9 a.m.
Registration and Coffee Moser Performing Arts Center
Studio Theater
9 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Plenary Session Moser Center Auditorium
The World of Li-Young Lee: Reading With Commentary
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Coffee Studio Theater
10:30 a.m. - Noon
Sessions 1-5
Session 1
Room N221
The Canterbury Tales: Gender Issues
Chair: Amy Nichols - College of St. Francis
"Me Arcite, You Emelye: Masculine Stereotype
and Chaucer's Knight's Tale"
Jason Ellis - Bradley University
"Sexuality and the Balance of Power in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales"
Sarah Zumdahl - Illinois Wesleyan University
"A Feminist Critique of Chaucer's Miller's Tale"
Darcy Smith- Bradley University
Session 2
Room N219
Shakespeare
Chair: Joanne E. Staudacher - Cardinal Stritch College
"Mau's Attempt to Gain Power in The Merchant of Venice
and Love's Labor's Lost"
Jennifer L. Murphy - Southern Illinois University
" 'Intemperate Kingdom': Looking at Shakespeare's Prince Hal
with a Sense of Humours"
Suzanne Terpstra Looyenga - Trinity Christian College
"Harry at Harfleur: Gender Roles and the Character of the King"
Rebecca J. Brackmann - Illinois Wesleyan University
Session 3
Room N225
Women Writers I
Chair: Betty Joy - Calumet College of St. Joseph
"Pride and Prejudice: Social Position and Sensibility"
Sally Zimmerle - Trinity Christian College
"Dinah's Gospel of Submission in Adam Bede"
Lisa Watson - Olivet Nazarene University
"Zora Neale Hurston's Social Reformation through
Their Eyes were Watching God"
Mary Dillinger - Olivet Nazarene University
Session 4
Room N218
Virginia Woolf
Chair: Denice Rosene - Southern Illinois University
"Mrs. Dalloway: Textual Self-Referentiality
as a Means of Achieving the Past"
Leslie Thomas - Vassar College
"Dissolving the Malignant Axis of Patriarchy, Fascism,
and Imperialism in Three Guineas and The Waves"
Stephen Deng - Northwestern University
" 'From the Particular to the General' in The Years:
Virginia Woolf's Anti-Heroic Novel"
Lise M. Schlosser - Northern Illinois University
Session 5
Room N211
American Literature
Chair: Aaron Krall - College of St. Francis
"Hawthorne's Everyman: Young Goodman Brown"
Tim Gilberg - Illinois College
"As She Lay Dying: Addie Bundren and the Family She Leaves Behind"
Roberta L. S. Carlson - Aurora University
"Innocence to Skepticism, Hope to Cynicism,
and Commitment to Survivalism: Vietnam War Memoirs"
Cindy Lindemulder - Trinity Christian College
Noon -1 p.m.
Lunch Moes and President's Rooms
1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Sessions 6 - 10
Session 6
Room N221
The Canterbury Tales: Critical Approaches
Chair: Katie Pope - Cardinal Stritch College
"Psychoanalytic Criticism and Chaucer's Pardoner"
Silas Dancey - Bradley University
"A Psychoanalytical Critical Approach to Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale"
Elizabeth A. Corley - Bradley University
"Male and Female Modes of Ordering in the Canterbury Tales"
Nicole Buscemi - Illinois Wesleyan University
"Contracts and Class Consciousness in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale"
David Moore - Bradley University
Session 7
Room N219
Drama and Film
Chair: Brian Mulhollon - Cardinal Stritch College
"Tragicomedy As an Expression of the Human Condition
in The Changeling"
Helen Dorsey - Calumet College of St. Joseph
"The Other-in-Law: A Reading of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya"
C. N. Owens - De Pauw University
"The Creator and the Created in Greenaway's The Belly of an Architect"
Mary Russell - College of St. Francis
"Consumer Society in Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife
and Her Lover"
Jill Pellegrini - College of St. Francis
Session 8
Room N225
Women Writers II
Chair: Aimee Lanoue - College of St. Francis
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wall-Paper'
and Louisa May Alcott's 'A Whisper in the Dark':
An Exploration into the Battle of 19th-Century Identities"
Emily Curtler - Skidmore College
"Wandering Women: Roles and Reasoning in Victorian Roving"
Heidi Boeck - Trinity Christian College
"May Cannan Wedderburn's Poetry: A Response to WWI"
Tracy L. Pettitt - MacMurray College
"Women in the Fifties: A Look into Their Literature"
Carla Madsen - Southern Illinois University
Session 9
Room N218
18th-Century Writers
Chair: Lisa Ghilardi - Olivet Nazarene University
"Pope's and Johnson's Prefaces
to the Works of Shakespeare: A Comparison"
Gabriella Gruder-Poni - Yale University
"Crusoe: Lamb or Shepherd, Disciple or Prophet"
Tayyaba Sadiq - Knox College
"Removed from All Wickedness: Sexuality and Robinson Crusoe"
Erin Cochran - Knox College
"The Insufficiency of Religion As a Form of Private Sensibility:
An Inter-Art Study of William Hogarth and Henry Fielding"
Matthew J. Vander Laan - Trinity Christian College
Session 10
Room N211
Minority Writers and Issues
Chair: Jeff Falk - Aurora University
"Decision-Making and the Code of Honor in Oroonoko"
Rebecca J. Schlomann - Knox College
"The Setting Out, The Going On, The Closing In:
N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain and The Names"
Brent A. Borchelt - Eureka College
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Concerns of Literary Innovation
and Social Protest"
E. J. Serrano - Calumet College of St. Joseph
"Malinche, Llorona, y Brujas: Chicanisma Manifests"
Dominic Saucedo - Carleton College
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Coffee Studio Theatre
3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Sessions 11-15
Session 11
Room N221
Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Chair: Lisa Jones - College of St. Francis
"Liberal or Literal: The Task of Translating Beowulf"
Lisa R. Williams - Eureka College
"Wel Koude He Blowe and Sowne: Musical Symbolism
in Chaucer's Miller's Tale"
Catherine Webb - Illinois Wesleyan University
"Modes of Resistance by Penelope Rich as Stella
in Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophil and Stella"
Megan Munson - Bryn Mawr College
Session 12
Room N219
Language, Graffiti, and Censorship
Chair: Shawn Trusty - College of St. Francis
"Language Loss: Natural Selection or Forced Extinction"
Michelle L. Mitchell - Aurora University
"Words of the prophets...Written on the walls"
Jamie Leigh Jones - Furman University
"Rhetoric, Censorship, and Language in America
at the End of the Twentieth Century: A Panel"
D. R. Hoppe, Erin Meyer, and Jesse Ruth - Cardinal Stritch College
Session 13
Room N225
The Female in Literature
Chair: Kirstin Eidenbach - Knox College
"Did Jane Really Have a Choice?"
Nita Danko - Calumet College of St. Joseph
"Correlation Between D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow
and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Paula Gebhardt - Olivet Nazarene University
"A Bound Society"
Amanda Fortini - Harvard University
Session 14
Room N218
The English Romantics
Chair: Sarah Stevens - Bradley University
"The Question of Perception in
Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion"
Teri Thompson - College of St. Francis
"Wordsworth and Walcott: Imagination, Identity, and History
in The Prelude and Another Life
Timothy Stanish - Hamilton College
"Dominance and Drapery: Unveiling the Male Romantic Lamp"
Brett A. Withers - DePaul University
Session 15
Room N211
Modern English Literature
Chair: Amy Deal - Cardinal Stritch College
"W. B. Yeats and the Occult"
Mary Wood - Aurora University
"Peering into the Heart of Darkness"
Brett H. Bending - Aurora University
"Consciousness and Eliot's Influence on Shakespeare"
Elizabeth Otto - Bradley University
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Reception Studio Theatre
Directions
The College 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 Wicox Street one block to the College 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 Wicox Street one block to the College of St. Francis.