Philological Association of the Carolinas

41st Annual Conference

April 7-8, 2017

UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

 Welcome to the 41st Annual PAC Conference!
We are excited to once again host you at UNC Charlotte. Please enjoy
the presentations, the keynote address and lunch on Saturday and
Charlotte Uptown Nightlife on Friday evening.
I would like to thank the following for their wonderful work:
Dr. Amy Emm, First Vice President
Dr. Paul Worley, Second Vice President
Dr. Kristin Kiely, Secretary/Treasurer
Dr. David Cross, Editor Postscript

And a special thanks to

Dr. Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, Location Manager
at UNC Charlotte, who made this all run smoothly

The best part of PAC, I tell potential members, is the collegial, collaborative
atmosphere. Here, we can meet to share our projects in the early stages, give and
get advice across generations of scholars, and think about how our positioning here
in the Carolinas provides us unique perspectives on language, literature, and
culture. As scholars and teachers, we take this brief break at the end of the Spring
semester to take joy in our work and each other. With this mission in mind, I
welcome you all to Charlotte for two days of conversation and reflection.
Dr. Amy Lea Clemons, President

Presenters are encouraged to submit their work to Postscript, PACs

peer-reviewed journal, for consideration:
http://pacpostscript.org/

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 Overview of Program

Friday, 4/7/17 12:00 pm-5:00 pm

Location 901 902 905 Atrium, 1st and

2nd Floor
Registration Registration 1st
12:00-5:00 pm Floor
Session I: Panel 1: 19th Panel 2: Panel 3: MA
1:00-2:30 pm Century Lit Connections Fellows Panel
Beyond the
Classroom
Coffee Break 9th Floor
2:30-3:00pm

Session II: Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3: National

3:00-4:30 pm African Pedagogical perspectives on the
American Lit Strategies for Holocaust
Teaching and
Learning Milton

Saturday, 4/8/16 8:00 am -6:00 pm

Location 901 902 905 Atrium 1st and

2nd Floor
Registration Registration 1st
8:00 am -12:00 Floor
pm
Session I: Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3:
8:30-10:00 am Undergraduate Examining the Issues in
Panel A Pedagogical Autobiography
Art of the
Prolusion
Coffee Break 9th Floor
10:00-10:15
am

Session II: Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3:

10:15-11:45 Methodological Community- Rewriting the
Reflections based and Other; Remaking
Experiential the Self
Learning

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Lunch and Lunch and
Keynote Keynote
12:00-1:15 pm Atrium 2nd
Floor
Session III: Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3:
1:30-3:00 pm Rhetorical Syntax, People, Women
Strategies and Practice Envisioning
Women
3:00-3:30 pm 9th Floor
Coffee Break

Session IV: Panel 1: Panel 2: Panel 3:

3:30 pm-5:00 Contemporary Communication
pm US Lit and in Foreign
Film Language
Pedagogy
Business PAC Business
Meeting Meeting
5:00-6:00 pm

Detailed Program

Friday, 4/7/16

12:00-5:00pm Registration 1st Floor

Session I 1:00-2:30 pm

Panel 1: Center City 901

19th Century Literature
Chair: Catherine England, Francis Marion University

Moral Appetites in Elizabeth Gaskells Wives and Daughters

Catherine England, Francis Marion University

An example of Jeffersonian science in action: Alexander Wilsons American Ornithology

Laurence Machet, Bordeaux-Montaigne University

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Panel 2: Center City 902
Connections beyond the Classroom
Chair: Susanne Gomoluch, UNC Charlotte

How to build up a Real World Network by learning German

Angela Jakeway, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Lets Talk About Chalk: The Search for Useful Knowledge in a Rhetorical Ecology
Margaret V. Williams (Graduate Teaching Assistant) Western Carolina University

Pilgrimage, Place, Pedagogy

Alison Smith, The Citadel

Small Yet Big: Community-Engaged Learning at All Scales

Jennie S. Knight and Karen Spira, Guilford College

Panel 3: Center City 905

MA Fellows Panel: Translation Across Borders
Chair: Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau

Rebecca Grimsley

Patricia Furnish

Liane Huneycutt

Carina Schumann

Seirin Nagano

2:30-3:00pm Coffee Break

Session II 3:00-4:30 pm

Panel 1: Center City 901

African American Lit
Chair: Shawn Smolen-Morton, Francis Marion University

Charles Johnsons Philosophical Syncretism in Oxherding Tale

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Harish Chander, Shaw University

Listening to Trauma: The Literary Use of Jazz Music in Harlem Renaissance Texts
K. Isabella Coker, Brooklyn College

The New Negro Problem Film: 2011-2015

Shawn Smolen-Morton, Francis Marion University

Panel 2: Center City 902

Collaboration across Time and Space: Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching and Learning
Milton.
Chair: Mimi Fenton, Western Carolina University

"The MiltonMatch.Mentoring Program: Building a Community of Scholars"

Brandon French (Graduate Student), Dillon Jeffrey (Undergraduate Student) and Mimi Fenton,
Western Carolina University

"The Pandemonium Projects: Opening Textual Doors with the OED"

Carroll Varner (Graduate Student), Craig Hawley (Graduate Student) and Mimi Fenton, Western
Carolina University

"The Blind Leading the Blind: What Disability Teaches About Reading and Teaching"
Crystal Plemmons (Graduate Student) and Mimi Fenton, Western Carolina University

Panel 3: Center City 905

National perspectives on the Holocaust 70 years later
Chair: Nancy Nenno, College of Charleston

"Depiction of Auschwitz in Cinema over Time and Across Boundaries: A Comparison of Six
Films"
Robert C. Reimer, UNC Charlotte

"Postcards from the Past Narrative Techniques in Pawe Pawlikowskis Ida"

Susanne Gomoluch, UNC Charlotte

"The Holocaust Drama as Caper Movie: Hollywood Tropes in Wolfgang Murnbergers Mein
bester Feind"
Kai-Uwe Werbeck, UNC Charlotte

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 Saturday, 4/8/16

Session I: 8:30-10:00 am

Panel 1: Center City 901

Undergraduate Panel
Chair: Paul Worley, Western Carolina University
Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb: Miltons Archaic Cosmos in Paradise Lost
Savannah Bateman, (Undergraduate) Western Carolina University

Lucifer of the Orient: Evocation of the East in Paradise Lost

Nathan Parr, (Undergraduate) Western Carolina University

Reclaiming the Devil: Humanizing the Satanic Figure in Renaissance Literature

Mason A. Jones, (Undergraduate) Francis Marion University

Confidence or Counterfeit: Flappers in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Fiction

Margaret Riedy, (Undergraduate) Converse College

Panel 2: Center City 902

Profound Performance: Examining the Pedagogical Art of the Prolusion
Chair: Laura Davidson

"Examining the Prolusion: Pedagogical Merits and the Art of Oration"

Laura Davidson (Graduate student) Western Carolina University

"Light's Preeminence: Light is Preferable to Darkness"

Alex Foote (Graduate student) Western Carolina University

"Virtue Tested: Darkness is Preferable to Light"

Jason Huber (Graduate student) Western Carolina University

Panel 3: Center City 905

Issues in Autobiography
Chair: Amy Emm, The Citadel

"Translating B Traven's Land des Frhlings."

Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, UNC Charlotte

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Penal Labor and Constructions of Selfhood in the Kaiserreich
Birgit A. Jensen, East Carolina University

10:00-10:15 Coffee Break

Session II: 10:15-11:45

Panel 1: Center City 901

Methodological Reflections
Chair: Angela Jakeway

Teaching and Learning in El maestro de Mrius Moll

Sandra Watts, UNC Charlotte

"The Esthetics of Entrainment: Cognitive Literary Theory"

Ralf Thiede, UNC Charlotte

Researching Spanish Graphic Novels: Interviews as Method

Kristin Kiely, Francis Marion University

Panel 2: Center City 902

Community-based and Experiential Learning
Chair: Paul Worley, Western Carolina University

What are your expectations?: Steps Towards a Public Literature in the Classroom
Paul Worley, Western Carolina University

"Expert to Novice: Experiential Learning in the Writing-Intensive Classroom"

Melissa Birkhofer, Western Carolina University

"Community- Based Learning in a Language Classroom"

Eileen Anderson, Duke University

"Engaging with the Latino Community through Photography: A Spanish Class with an
Ethnographic Component"
Graciela Vidal, Duke University

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Panel 3: Center City 905
Rewriting the Other; Remaking the Self
Chair: Kai Werbeck, UNC Charlotte

Zoe Becks Rewriting of Rapunzel: Including Contemporary Literature and Multicultural

Studies in the German Language and Literature Classroom.
Kirsten Krick-Aigner, Wofford College.

Return or Resurrection? Zombie Discourse in Christian Petzold's Phoenix (2014),

Nancy P. Nenno, College of Charleston

Lunch and Keynote Address

12:00-1:15
Atrium, 2nd Floor

Themis Kaniklidou
UNC Charlotte
Hellenic American University
Storied Ironies of the Wall:
A Language and Translation Perspective

In the wake of an ongoing refugee crisis the augmented tensions that have emerged are
evidenced in the language used for the creation of Walls and fences in the US and Europe.
Working with a multilingual corpus of examples from US, German, Greek and French media, I
trace the different episodes of construction of physical and symbolic borders. Ultimately, I
argue that articulations of borders in US and Europe exhibit symmetries and compatibilities
traceable through language and translation

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Session III: 1:30-3:00 pm

Panel 1: Center City 901

Rhetorical Strategies
Chair: AmyLea Clemons, Francis Marion University

Memeing Our National Traumas: Rhetorical Strategies of America: The Final Season and
2016's Dumpster Fire
AmyLea Clemmons, Francis Marion University

Blind Prose and the Decay of the Protected Majority: William Burroughs, George Will, and the
Cut-Up Method
Michael, (Graduate Student)Western Carolina University

"Analyzing Global Communication: Implicit Oppression Within the World Health

Organizations Webpage On Female Genital Cutting"
Joshua Taylor, (Graduate Student) Western Carolina University

Panel 2: Center City 902

Syntax, People, and Practice
Chair: Eric Hyman

Double Modals?
Eric Hyman, Fayetteville State University

Syntax and People: How Amos Tutuolas English Was Shaped by His People
Timothy Ajani, Fayetteville State University

Student Tracking of Syntactical and Lexical Errors in Composition Writing in Intermediate and
Advanced Level Spanish Courses
Lenora Hayes, Fayetteville State University

New Twist on Old Tales: Listening Comprehension through Authentic Folk Stories
Timothy Buckner, Fayetteville State University

Panel 3: Center City 905

Women Envisioning Women
Chair: Alison Smith, The Citadel

Valentine Hugo and Surrealist Design.

Marylaura Papalas, East Carolina University.

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Women and Work in 19th-Century German Novels for Women
Katya Skow, The Citadel

Ding Ling and Womens Issues in Early 20th Century Chinese Literature
Hongbing Zhang, Fayetteville State University

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

Session 4: 3:30-5:00 pm

Panel 1: Center City 901

Contemporary US Lit and Film
Chair: Anita Rose, Converse College

Study of American Literary Characters Through a Transnational Lens

Tracey Gruver, (Graduate Student) Western Carolina University

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Chuck Palahniuks Romance

David McCracken, Coker College

A Dandy for our New (Old) Time: M. Gustav of The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alan Watts, Kennesaw State University

Panel 2: Center City 902

Communication in Foreign Language Pedagogy
Chair: Katya Skow

Enhancing JFL Learners Oral Communication Through Debate in Classroom Contexts

Fumie Kato, UNC Charlotte

The Second Languages Impact on the First

Abdallah AlShuli (Graduate Student), UNC Charlotte

Integrated Performance Assessments: An Innovative Curricular Approach to Foster College

Students Communicative Proficiency in the Target Language.
Laura Levi Altstaedter and Magali Krosl, East Carolina University

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