Conference of College Teachers of English

86th Annual Meeting – February 28 - March 2, 2019

Hosted by Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Thursday, February 28

2:00-5:00 p.m. Conference registration – El Dorado Restaurant

704 N 14th St., Kingsville, TX 78363

2:00-5:00 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting – El Dorado Restaurant

704 N 14th St., Kingsville, TX 78363

6:00-8:00 p.m. President’s Reception – El Dorado Restaurant

704 N 14th St., Kingsville, TX 78363

Friday, March 1

7:30-9:00 a.m. State of the Profession Breakfast

Room: MSUB, Grand Ballroom B
Speaker: Dr. James Bell
Northwestern Oklahoma State University
“Trickle Up and Trickle Down: Emerging (and Fully Emerged)
Forces at Play in the English Department

8:45-10:00 a.m. Break – MSUB 218

9:15-10:30 a.m. Session 1

Rhetoric 1
Room: MSUB 219B
Chair: Sara Hillin, Lamar University

Panel: “Teen Childbearing and Young Parenthood: Rearing, Rhetoric, and

Representation,”
Rochelle Gregory, North Central Texas College
Marc Azard, Collin College
Ann-Marie Lopez, McMurry University

Literature, Film, Pop Culture 1: Classics Revisited

Room: MSUB 219C
Chair: Shewanda Riley, Tarrant County College

“Philosophical and Bioethical Aspects in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,”

 Elizabeth Morales, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“A Prince and His Sword: Analyzing Arthas through an Arthurian Lens,”
Dylan Clark, Tarleton State University
“The Gospel According to Black Jesus,”
Shewanda Riley, Tarrant County College

Creative Writing 1: Poetry

Room: MSUB 219A
Chair: Joyce Tarpley, DCCCD – Mountain View

“Waiting for Amnesia,” Randall Compton, LeTourneau University

“60 from 60,” Sally Hannay, Schreiner University

10:30-10:45 a.m. Break – MSUB 218

10:45-12:00 p.m. Session 2

TCEA 1: Creative Poetry and Non-Fiction

Room: MSUB 219A
Chair: Jana Anderson, Lubbock Christian University

“Not Going to Plant City,”

Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University
“A Collection of Poems,”
Chuck Etheridge, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
“Small Acts of Fraud: Academic Imposters in Texas,”
Steve Sherwood, Texas Christian University

Literature, Film, Popular Culture 2: Gendered Readings

Room: MSUB 219B
Chair: Victoria Ramirez Gentry, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

“Eyes Wide Shut: Realism and Fantasy in Ian McEwen’s Atonement,”

Ashley Johnson, East Texas Baptist University
“Marital Life in Eden: Gender Dynamics of Eve and Adam Before the Fall,”
Jessica Day, Tarleton State University
“The Multiplicity of Women’s Identities in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History,”
Victoria Ramirez Gentry, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
12:15 – 1:00pm Professionalization Workshop for Graduate Students
Room: Javelina Dining Hall (upstairs room)
Chair: Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State University
Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay, Texas A&M-Kingsville
Lunch included for registered graduate students only (all others pay $9.00 for lunch)

12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own

1:30-2:45 p.m. Session 3
Rhetoric 2
Room: MSUB 219A
Chair: Lisette Blanco-Cerda, Tarrant County College -- NE

“Mother Language and English Vocabulary Learning in ESL Classes,”

Farrokh Farrokhzad, Coastal Bend College
“Borders and Bridges: Exploring Conceptual, Linguistic, and Cultural Borders in the
FYC Classroom,”
Melissa Nivens, Midwestern State University
“How and Why Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Struggle in School,”
Leigh Ann Cowan, St Mary’s University
“A Case Study on Writing Anxiety and Its Causes,”
Katherine Toy Miller, Angelo State University

Literature, Film, Popular Culture 3: Reading and Teaching Diverse Literature

Room: MSUB 219B
Chair: Ronna Privett, Lubbock Christian University

“Re-Shaping American Patriotism and Raising Consciousness in the “Ideal Soldier:” An

Examination of Military Students in the Multi-Ethnic Literature Classroom,”
Margaret E. Cantύ-Sanchez, St. Mary’s University
“The Many Faces of Austrian Literature,” Pamela S. Saur, Lamar University
“Toward an Anzaldúan Reading of Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night,“
Marcella Clinard, Texas Woman’s University
“Whitman, Race, and Culture through the Eyes of Langston Hughes and Allison Hedge
Coke,” Ronna Privett, Lubbock Christian University

2:45-3:00 p.m. Break – MSUB 218

3:00-4:15 p.m. Session 4
TCEA 2: Texas Storytellers: Authors, Photographers, and Musicians
Room: MSUB 219A
Chair: Melissa Nivens, Midwestern State University

“Finding the Line: Mapping Two Texas Novelists,”

Steve Weathers, Abilene Christian University
“The Dichotomous Nature of Folklore: A Scholarly Examination of a Few Folktales Told
to Me by My Parents,”
Lisette Blanco-Cerda, Tarrant County College – Northeast
“Lyle Lovett and the Deconstruction of Dichotomies,”
Greg Giddings, Midwestern State University
“Guy Reynolds: Exploring Texas Dichotomies,”
Mary Ann Taylor, Independent Scholar

Creative Writing 2: Short Story

Room: MSUB 219B
Chair: TBD

“Broken Pieces” and “Crossword Puzzles,” Stan Coppinger, LeTourneau University

“Going Another Way,” Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University
“The Gospel According to Tiffani,” Paul McCann, Delmar College

Special Session: Publication Workshop

Room: MSUB 219C
Chair: Dr Lynée Gaillet, Georgia State University
Writing articles for publication should not be daunting. This workshop will help you to
find success in getting your work published with practical and tested ideas like writing
about activities and research you are already doing, targeting the right journal, querying
journal editors, finding CFPs and special issues that match your specific interest, and
turning conference presentations into journal articles.

4:30-5:45 p.m. President’s Forum

and CCTE General Business Meeting
Room: MSUB 219C
Speaker: Dr Lynée Gaillet, Distinguished University Professor
Georgia State University
“Everyday Archives: Changing Scholarly Conversations”

Friday evening dinner on your own

Saturday, March 2
7:30-8:45 a.m. TCEA Breakfast
Room: MSUB, Grand Ballroom B
Speaker: John Riherd
Mystery novelist
Book signing following

9:00-10 :15 a.m. Session 5

Rhetoric 3
Room: MSUB 219A
Chair: Sherry Rankin, Abilene Christian University

“Using Fiction to Teach Writing,”

Mary Lynn Dodson, Amarillo College
“Finding Pedagogical Peace in Co-Requisite Curriculum Models,”
Jared Ince, North Central Texas College
“Utopia, Revisited in the Classroom: The Effectiveness of a Student-Led, Care Theory-
Based Approach,”
Diane Whitley Grote, Austin Community College - Eastview

Literature, Film, Popular Culture 4: Screen and Culture

Room: 219B
Chair: Price McMurray, Texas Wesleyan University

“Maleficent’s Redemption,”
Meagan Person, Tarleton State University
“Wicked Woman: Feminism’s Influence on the Wicked Witch of the West,”
Ashley Olliff, Tarleton State University
“Dante at the Movies: How Strange Was the Medieval World?,”
Price McMurray, Texas Wesleyan University

TCEA 3: Panel: Towards an Aesthetics of South Texas Women Writings:

Negotiating Dichotomies
Room: MSUB 219C
Chair: Susan Roberson, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

“The Neplantla Poetics of Jovita Gonzalez,”

Joshua Thompson, Raymondville Early College High School
“Removing the Dichotomy of English and Spanish in Texas: Spanglish as a Third
Space Location, Language, and Cultural Experience in Texas,”
Jody Marin, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“The Dichotomy of Agnes Grimm and Her Transgressive Tales of Reality in
South Texas,” Craig A. Meyer, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“The South Texas Gender Dichotomy in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh’s
Caballero,” Stephanie Salazar-Amaro, Del-Mar College, Corpus Christi
Joshua Thompson, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Coming of Age on the Borderlands and a Feminist Aesthetics,”
Susan Roberson, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

10:15-10:30 a.m. Break – MSUB 218

10:30-11:45 a.m. Session 6

Literature, Film, Popular Culture 5: Texas Authors

Room: MSUB 219A
Chair: Annette Cole, Tarrant County College - Northeast

“Sandra Scofield’s Plain Seeing: A Plain Great Novel,”

Greg Giddings, Midwestern State University
“Truth is the First Casualty: An Examination of Borders of Reality Between Truth and
Perception in Katherine Anne Porter’s Noon Wine,”
Annette Cole, Tarrant County College – Northeast

TCEA 4: Literature and Pedagogy: Becoming/Discovering the Idealist

Room: MSUB 219B
Chair: Jana Anderson, Lubbock Christian University

“In the Face of Remediation Reform in Texas: It is More Than Becoming Brazos,”
Juanita Luna Lawhn, San Antonio College
“Edsel Blues: An Overhaul of Methodology,”
Diane E. Whitley Grote, Austin Community College
“Joyce Carol Oates, Connie, and the Discovery of the Whole,”
Charles Popp, Lamar University
“Maria Irene Fornes’ ‘The Conduct of Life’: A Response to Emersonian
Idealist Thought,”
Cathy Downs, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

12:00-2:00 p.m. CCTE Awards Luncheon

 Room: MSUB, Grand Ballroom B
Speaker: Octavio Quintanilla
Poet Laureate, San Antonio
Our Lady of the Lake University
Book signing following

Special Thanks
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Dr Dolores Guerrero, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Michelle Johnson-Vela, Chair, Department of Language and Literature
Dr Terisa Riley, Senior VP of Fiscal & Student Affairs
University Police Department
Alison Troutman, Pearson Education Representative

Acknowledgments
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
President: Beth Battles, Texas Wesleyan University
Secretary/Treasurer: Trudi Beckman, UT Arlington
Past President: Melinda McBee, Collin County College
Local Arrangements: Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay,
Texas A&M University-Kingsville