Registration and Breakfast: 8:30 - 9:00 am, DCC Lobby

Session One: 9:00 - 10: 30 am

WIRING LITERATURE: Trayes A
Chair: Mike Rubenstein, Dept. of English, Rutgers University

Mark Canada, Dept. of English, Theatre, and Languages, University of North Carolina at Pembroke (mark.canada@uncp.edu; http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada)
"Teaching Literature Online: A New Twist on Student-Centered Learning"

Richard Wisneski, Dept. of English, University of Michigan, Flint (wisneski@pilot.msu.edu)
"Brave New World Wide Web Bibliographies: Reconsidering the Research Project in Literature Courses"

Timothy J. Viator, Dept. of English, Rowan University (viator@rowan.edu)
"Using WebCT in 'U.S. Literature of Latino/a Peoples'"

BRINGING THE OTHER ARTS INTO THE LITERATURE CLASSROOM: Trayes B
Chair: Betsy Keller, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Rutgers University

Joseph Acquisto, Dept. of French, Yale University (joseph.acquisto@yale.edu)
"Teaching Poetry via Music"

Michael Robertson, Dept. of English, The College of New Jersey (mroberts@tcnj.edu)
"Visual Approaches to Teaching Literature"

GETTING TAUGHT TO TEACH: GRADUATE STUDENTS: Room A
Chair: Donna Paparella, Dept. of English, Rutgers University

Malinda Williams, Dept. of English, California State University, Chico 
"Teaching Literature as a Master's Student: Graduate Student Training and Experience at California State University, Chico"

Margo Persin, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (persin@rci.rutgers.edu)
"Approaches to the Teaching of Hispanic Literature"

WORLD AND ETHNIC LITERATURES IN CONTEXT: Room B
Chair: Tanya Agathocleous, Dept. of English, Rutgers University

Brinda Charry, Dept. of English, Syracuse University (brindacharry@hotmail.com)
"Other English(es): Teaching English Literature in the Post-Colonial Classroom"

Lori Burlingame, Dept. of English, Eastern Michigan University (Lori.Burlingame@emich.edu)
"Teaching a Unit on Oral Traditional Literatures in a Native American Literature Survey Course"

Cathy Parrish, Dept. of English, Rowan University; Kathy Kilpatrick, Dept. of English, Rowan University
"World Literature: Teaching Multicultural/Global Literature to Non-Majors"
 

MEDICAL NARRATIVES/NARRATING MEDICINE: Room C (CHANGE: new chair)
Chair: Open

Laura Callanan, Dept. of English, Mount Holyoke College
"Plague Narratives and the Fostering of Academic Dialogue: A Case Study in Interdisciplinarity"

 Martin Gliserman, Dept. of English, Rutgers University and Editor, American Imago
"TeXtRays: Novel Anatomy"
 

Frank Madden
Professor and Chair of English, SUNY Westchester Community College
Chair, Ad-hoc Committee on Teaching, Modern Language Association

MAKING LITERATURE (REALLY) MATTER
Most students taking literature courses in this country are not English or Literature majors. As a profession, however, we have never done a very good job of introducing these "gen ed" students to either the literary experience or the study of literature. In his presentation, Madden argues that our failure to connect these students with literature has had a major impact on the public attitude toward literature in particular--and funding for the arts and humanities in general. He insists that only by engaging and involving students differently in these courses will we change public perceptions of what we do and help people outside the academy understand why literature and literary study "really" matter. 

Lunch: 11:45 am - 1:00 pm, Trayes B

Session Two: 1:00 - 2:30 pm

TECHNOLOGY FOR FOREIGN LITERATURES: Trayes A
Chair: Shannyn Horton, Dept. of French, Rutgers University

Christine Tyma DeGrado, Dept. of Spanish, Swarthmore College (cdegrad1@swarthmore.edu; http://lang.swarthmore.edu/faculty/Espanol_11/pantalla_1.htm)
(incorporating the work of MarÌa Luisa Guardiola, Dept. of Spanish,
Swarthmore College)
"A Website for 'Introduction to Spanish Literature'"

Maria DiFrancesco, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures (mcd2@acsu.buffalo.edu); Heidi Lechner, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures (lechner@acsu.buffalo.edu); Lisa Countryman, Dept. of Comparative Literature (lac27@acsu.buffalo.edu); Donald T. McGuire, Jr., College of Arts and Sciences (dmcguire@acsu.buffalo.edu); Maureen Jameson, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures (jameson@acsu.buffalo.edu), University at Buffalo (http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss)
"The LiTgloss Project"

POETRY AND DRAMA IN TIME AND PLACE: Room A (CHANGE: James added from cancelled Shakepeare panel)
Chair: Vanessa Manhire, Dept. of English, Rutgers University

Lawrence K. Stanley, Director of Expository Writing, Brown University
"'The real language of men': Reading/Writing the English Romantics"

Aaron Prevots, Dept. of French Studies, Brown University (Aaron_Prevots@brown.edu)
"A Play for Voices: Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' in an ESL Setting"

Marisa James, Dept. of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
"Teaching the Bard to the Bored: Shakespeare from the Graphic Novel"

FROM FIRST READINGS TO SOCIAL READINGS: Room B
Chair: Jennifer French, Dept. of English, Rutgers University

Lori Walk, Dept. of English, Raritan Valley Community College
(lwalk@raritanval.edu)
"Moving Beyond Compare/Contrast: Teaching Students to Read Texts in Dialogue"

John Krapp, Dept. of English, Hofstra University (nucjjk@hofstra.edu)
"The What and How of First Readings"

Ann Dean, Dept. of English, University of Southern Maine (anndean@usm.maine.edu)
"'But We Read That in High School. . .': Challenging Students' Knowledge of Familiar Books"

SHAKESPEARE OFF THE PAGE:  Room C (CHANGE: panel cancelled)
 

SOCIAL SCIENCES/SOCIAL TEXTS: Trayes B (CHANGE: two panelists)
Chair: Tom Akbari, Dept. of English, Rutgers University

Anna Creadick, Dept. of English, Colgate University
"Reading and Writing in American Studies: Integrating Literature in the Interdisciplinary Classroom"

Tracyann F. Williams, Dept. of English, City University of New York Graduate Center (williamt@newschool.edu)
"When Literature Becomes a Social Science"

GENRE, THEORY, AND THE TEACHING OF THE CANON: Room A
Chair: Elin Diamond, Dept. of English, Rutgers University

Natalie Tarenko, Dept. of English, Texas Tech University (ntarenko@ttacs.ttu.edu)
"The Clerk in the Computer: Teaching Victorian Literature and/as Science Fiction"

Maria M. Andrade, Dept. of Comparative Literature, State University of New York, Stony Brook
"Using Theory in Introductory Literature Courses"

Sheree L. Meyer, Dept. of English, California State University, Sacramento (meyers@csus.edu)
"From Theory to Practice: Constructing Authority in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature"
 

WRITING LITERATURE IN THE CLASSROOM: Room B (CHANGE: two panelists)
Chair: Anthony Lioi, Dept. of English, Rutgers University

Joanna Smith Rakoff, Dept. of English, Baruch College 
"'I Walk the Line': Using Creative Writing in the Literature and Composition Classrooms"

Katherine Lynes, Dept. of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
(lynes@fas-english.rutgers.edu)
"Teaching The 'New Folk': When Students Write in the Folk Tradition"

FOREIGN LITERATURE MATTERS: Room C
Chair: Alessandro Vettori, Dept. of Italian, Rutgers University

Sharon Trachte, Dept. of Modern Languages, Elizabethtown College
"Privileging Student Reaction Using Reader-Response in the Foreign Literature Classroom"

Eric Loveland, Dept. of French, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
"Teaching Literature in a Foreign Language: A Graduate Student's Point of View"

Elke Nicolai, Dept. of German, Hunter College
"Why Teaching Foreign Languages and Literatures Still Makes Sense"
 

Dale Bauer
Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Kentucky

THE CRISIS OF THE CLASSROOM
Dale Bauer's talk will address the representations of teachers in the movies and in public discourse, specifically Dead Poets Society and movies as diverse as Copycat and Notting Hill. Based on these images, Bauer will discuss the idea of the classroom: is it a public sphere, open to democratic practices and radical social change? Or is the classroom an extension of academic freedom, an essentially privatized (and feminized) sphere geared to protect the radical individualism of the teacher, but not the students? She argues that the vulnerability of teachers in the ambiguous space of the classroom is part of the crisis of teaching literature today.

Reception: 5:30 - 6:30 pm, Trayes A
 

NOTE TO HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS: TLC is registered as a Professional Development Provider with the New Jersey Department of Education. High school teachers and educational services personnel will receive 6.5 hours of professional development credit. Please indicate, on your registration form, your desire to receive professional development documentation.