108th Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Philological Association ...

108 th Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Philological
Association, Knoxville
Thursday Evening, February 21, 2013
5:00 p.m. Executive Committee Dinner - GSBC
5:30-7:00 p.m. Registration - Mezzanine
All sections and meetings below will take place in designated hotel meeting spaces.
7:00 p.m.
Section A: Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century
Chair: Dr. Linda Null, Tennessee Technological University
Location: Sequoyah I
Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, Tennessee State University [ jthompson@Tnstate.edu]: "In
Remembrance: Memory and Pre-Romanticism in Pope's 'Eloisa to Abelard'"
Dr. Thomas Alan Holmes, East Tennessee State University [holmest@mail.etsu.edu]:
“The Older Woman as Comic Type in Sheridan’s The Rivals, The School for
Scandal, and The Critic”
Ten-Minute Break
Dr. Linda Null, Tennessee Technological University [LNull@tntech.edu]: “Fanny Price
as Re-Former in Mansfield Park”
Friday Morning, February 22, 2013
7:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration - Mezzanine
8:30-9:30 a.m. Business Meeting – Sequoyah III
9:45 a.m.-noon Sections B-D
Section B: Nineteenth-Century Continental Literature
Chair: Dr. Thomas Alan Holmes, East Tennessee State University
Location: Sequoyah I

Dr. Katherine Rehyansky, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
[katyr47@comcast.net]: “Galeotto Fu 'l Libro e Chi lo Scrisse: Literature as
Corrupting Influence in Madame Bovary”
Dr. Robert Stanley, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga [Robert-
Stanley@mocs.utc.edu]: “The Theme of Religion and Sanctity in Two of Gustave
Flaubert’s Trois Contes (1877)”
Dr. Sharon Alusow Hart, Appalachian State University [pisces2129@msn.com]:
“Staging Reality: Chekhov's Shift from Short Story to Drama”
Ten-Minute Break
Mr. Eric Hunt, East Tennessee State University [huntej@mail.etsu.edu]: “The
Superfluous Prophet: an Archetype of Post-Modernity”
Ms. Laura Simpson, East Tennessee State University [simpsonl@goldmail.etsu.edu]:
“‘The Atmosphere Here is Harmful’: Violence, Deceit and a Tainted Nostalgia in
Turgenev’s ‘First Love’”
Ms. Emily Smith, East Tennessee State University [smitheg1@goldmail.etsu.edu]:
“Superfluous or Animated? Exploring the ‘Superfluous Man’ tradition in
Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment”
Section C: African-American Literature
Chair: Mr. Johnny Jones, Austin Peay State University
Location: Sequoyah II
Ms. Elizabeth Grace Allen, University of Memphis [egallen@memphis.edu]: “Pleased to
have it so”: Agency and Power in Pauline Hopkins’s Contending Forces
Ms. Sharon Bandy, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga [flip0306@bellsouth.net]: “ “
“‘You don’t see what we don’t see’: Stasis and Tableaux in Ernest Gaines’s A
Gathering of Old Men”
Ten-Minute Break
Ms. Naykishia Head, Tennessee State University [ndarby@Tnstate.edu]: "A Woman’s
Touch: A Look at Female Intimacy in Passing and The Women of Brewster
Place"
Mr. Johnny L. Jones, Austin Peay State University [jonesjl@apsu.edu]: Toomer’s Cane
Section D: New Perspectives of Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

Chair: Dr. Charla White-Major, Austin Peay State University
Location: Sequoyah III
Ms. Julie S. Capouch, Austin Peay State University [ JCAPOUCH@MY.APSU.EDU]:
“More than a Novelist: The Poetic Side of Herman Melville”
Ms. Theresa B. Dezellem, Austin Peay State University [mdezellemt@apsu.edu]: “Finite
and Infinite Spaces of Solitude in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson”
Mr. Salah B. Hussein, Austin Peay State University [SHUSSEIN@MY.APSU.EDU]:
“Emily Dickinson and Her Mysterious ‘Preceptor’”
Ten-Minute Break
Ms. Shauna Thompson, Austin Peay State University
[STHOMPSON30@MY.APSU.EDU]: “Emily Dickinson’s Poetry through the Lens
of ‘The Poetic Principle’”
Ms. Erin Young, Austin Peay State University [EYOUNG10@MY.APSU.EDU]: “Walt
Whitman’s ‘I Sing the Body Electric’”
Friday Afternoon, February 22, 2013
2:00-4:00 p.m., Sections E-G
Section E: American Literature, American Culture
Chair: Dr. Allison Rash Ensor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Location: Sequoyah I
Dr. Allison Rash Ensor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville [aensor@utk.edu]:
"Abingdon to Asheville and Back: Charles Dudley Warner Tours Appalachia On
Horseback, 1884."
Dr. John Parker, Lipscomb University [ johnparker22@comcast.net]: “The Bustle in the
House: Filming Mark Twain’s Hartford Mansion”
Ten-Minute Break
Mr. Elijah Carnley, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga [elijahcarnley@gmail.com]:
“Spiritual Incapability: Christian Resonance in Jack London’s ‘In a Far Country’”
Ms. Sara Keel, Lee University [skeel@leeuniversity.edu]: “New Standards and New
Watches: the Crisis of Modernization in Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily’”

Section F: Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature
Chair: Dr. Mickey Wadia, Austin Peay State University
Location: Sequoyah II
Dr. Arden Jensen, Lee University [ajensen@leeuniversity.edu]: “Symbolism in
Departures: Reading Japanese Imagery”
Dr. Margaret Payne, Freed-Hardeman University [mpayne@fhu.edu]: “Moons, Mirrors,
and Little Men: Layers of Reality in Murakami’s 1Q84 and Maguire’s Mirror
Mirror”
Dr. Mickey Wadia, Austin Peay State University [WADIAM@apsu.edu]: “‘Call me Frog’:
Magical Realism, Surrealism, and Postmodernism in Haruki Murakami’s Honey
Pie and Super-Frog Saves Tokyo”
Section G: Masculine and Feminine
Chair: Dr. Daniel Pigg, University of Tennessee, Martin
Location: Sequoyah III
Dr. David Major, Austin Peay State University [majord@apsu.edu]: “Taking the Shine
off the Shining Prince: Narrative Subversion in The Tale of Genji”
Dr. Catherine Mainland, North Carolina State University [cmmainla@ncsu.edu]: “The
Bruce: A Propagandist’s Handbook”
Dr. Daniel Pigg, University of Tennessee, Martin [danielp@utm.edu]: “The Psychology
of Masculine Virtue in Chrếtien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide”
Ten-Minute Break
Ms. Catherine Childress, East Tennessee State University
[childress@goldmail.etsu.edu]: “I’m Too Sexy for my Book: Reconstructing
Women’s Sexuality in the Victorian Novel”
Ms. Linsey Ewing, Austin Peay State University [LEWING1@MY.APSU.EDU]:
“Victorian Orphans”
Friday Evening, February 22, 2013
5:00 p.m. Reception, Location: Hiwasee
6:15 p.m. Banquet, Location: Hiwasee

Program
Dr. Charla White-Major, Austin Peay State University, Presiding
Introduction: Dr. Sharon Alusow-Hart, Appalachian State University
Presidential Address: “Emerson’s Heroic Scholar”
Saturday Morning, February 23, 2013
7:45-10:00 a.m. Registration
8:30-9:30 a.m. Business Meeting – Sequoyah III
9:45-noon Sections H-j
Section H: Twentieth-Century American Literature
Chair: Dr. Katherine Rehyansky, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Location: Sequoyah I
Ms. Khristeena Lute, Middle Tennessee State University [khristeenalute@gmail.com]:
“One Is the Loneliest Number: Individualism in Community in Percy’s The
Moviegoer and Ford’s Independence Day”
Ms. Alexie McPherson, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga [rtd874@mocs.utc.edu]:
“The Martian Chronicles Versus Time”
Dr. S. Jill Powers, Fisk University [spowers@fisk.edu]: “The Balm of Catharsis and the
Morality of Horror”
Ten-Minute Break
Mr. David St. John, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga [David-
StJohn@mocs.utc.edu]: “Chasing the Noble Rider: Wallace Stevens’s Poetics of
Nobility in ‘The Auroras of Autumn’”
Ms. Nina E. Thurman, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga [redcnstnc7@aol.com]:
“Tragic Laughter: Kurt Vonnegut’s Use of Humor as a Device of Deconstruction
in Slaughterhouse-5”
Ms. Sara West, East Tennessee State University [westse@goldmail.etsu.edu]: “The
Culture Divide: A Rationalization of Behavior in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita”

Section I: Twentieth-Century British Literature
Chair: Dr. David Major, Austin Peay State University
Location: Sequoyah II
Ms. Linda Jane Cofield [lindajane84@gmail.com]: “Mrs. Dalloway: A Tragedy”
Ms. Kelsy Holliday, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga [kelsy.holliday@gmail.com]:
"Unlocking Truth: Narrative Mode in The Razor’s Edge"
Ten-Minute Break
Mr. Xavier Jasso, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga [xjasso00@gmail.com]: “The
Scobie Complex: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Graham Greene’s The Heart of
the Matter”
Ms. Natasha Snyder, East Tennessee State University [snydern@goldmail.etsu.edu]:
“Regeneration of Gender Roles: Reshaping Outmoded Models through the Chaos
of War”
Section J: Contemporary Global Literature
Chair: Dr. John McLaughlin, Freed-Hardeman University
Location: Sequoyah III
Ms. Renee Ramsey, Austin Peay State University [RRAMSEY6@MY.APSU.EDU]: “A
Foil, a Foe, a Frenemy: Drama’s Antagonists”
Dr. Mark Baumgartner, East Tennessee State University
[BAUMGARTNERM@mail.etsu.edu]: “Narrow Tunnels and Altered States:
Figures of American Violence in Georges Simenon’s Feux Rouges”
Ms. Julie Boehm, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
[julie.anne.boehm@gmail.com]: “A Hegelian Search for Female Identity in Anita
Desai’s Clear Light of Day”
Ten-Minute Break
Dr. Christopher Coulter, Lee University [ccoulter@leeuniversity.edu]: “Defiance and
Gallows Humor in Ricardo Piglia’s Artificial Respiration”
Dr. John McLaughlin, Freed-Hardeman University [jmclaughlin@fhu.edu]: “Spiritual
Feasts: Memory, Myth, and Communion in Lee and Dinesen”