Conference of College Teachers of English

87th Annual Meeting — March 5 - March 7, 2020

Hosted by College County — McKinney

Thursday, March 5

2.00-5.00pm Executive Committee Meeting

CHEC Board Room

2.00-5.00pm Conference Registration

CHEC Atrium

6.00-8.00pm President’s Reception

Conference Registration
San Miguel Grill
506 W. University Dr
McKinney, TX. 75069

Friday, March 6

7.30-9.00am State of the Profession Breakfast

Room: CHEC Board Room
Speaker: Dr Julie Christenson, TCU

9.15-10.30am Session 1

Rhetoric 1
Room: CHEC 106
“Can We Teach Grammar Without Diagrams? And Should We?”
Mary Rist, St. Edwards
“The Semester Story: Using Composition Theory for a More Posthumanist
Literature Assessment,” Sarah Shelton, UT Arlington
“How to Be a Cool Teacher: Pop Culture in the Composition Classroom,”
Lisa Jackson, Mountain View Community College

Literature, Film, Pop Culture 1

Room CHEC 110
“America’s Sweethearts: Representation of the Serial Killer in
Popular Culture,” Alyssa Compton, UT Arlington
“Football and Mountain-Climbing: Contrasting Sports in Jack Kerouac’s
Novels,” Pamela Saur, Lamar University
“Who Put This Song On?: How Playing it Safe Norms the Conservative
White Experience,” Ronnie Stephens, Tarrant County College
“Surviving Nostalgia in David gordon Green’s Halloween,”
Cody Parish, Midwestern State University
Creative Writing 1: Creative Mix
Room: CHEC 114
“75 Playwriting Lessons I’ve Learned So Far,”
Adam Brandner, Independent Scholar
From 60 from 60 (poetry collection),
Sally Hannah, Schreiner University
“A Ride Not Taken,”
Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University

10.45-12.00pm Session 2

Rhetoric 2
Room: CHEC 106
“Country Music: An Unlikely Source for Feminist Activism,”
Melissa Nivens, Midwestern State University
“Sexual and Derogatory Animal Epithets for Women,”
Jessica Day, Tarleton State University
“Feminist Care Ethics in the Writing About Writing Co-Req
Classroom,” Dalel Sera, College of the Mainland

Literature, Film, Pop Culture 2

Room: CHEC 110
“Feasts, Freaks, and Famine: Examining the Complex Relationship Between
Food and the Identity of Self and Other in Beowulf,”
Dylan Clark, Tarleton State University
“Torn Between Desire: Economics and Eroticism in Daniel Defoe’s Roxana,”
William Brannon, Collin College
“ ’To mourn the dying day’: Nostalgia and the Poetics of Dante’s Purgatory,”
Price McMurray, Texas Wesleyan University

TCEA Panel 1 Texas Women: Authors and Artists

Room: CHEC 114
“Sandra Scofield and the Heroism of Working Class Women,”
Greg Giddings, Midwestern State University
“Ebony Stewart: Transforming Lived Experiences into Award Winning
Literature,” Ronnie Stephens, Tarrant County College
“Georgia O’Keefe: Texas Transition,”
Katherine Toy Miller, Angelo State University
“Bloody Belle: Claire Danvers, Morganville Vampires, as a Modern
Southern Belle,” Tabatha Rhodes, Brazosport College

12.00-1.30pm Lunch on your own

1.30-2.45pm Session 3

Rhetoric 3
Room: CHEC 106
“”Insights and Ironies: Teaching a Fully Online Nature Writing Course,”
Steve Sherwood, Texas Christian University
“Quality Matters to Whom? The Gradual Loss of Academic Freedom
in Teaching Online Courses,”
Diane Grote, Austin Community College - Eastview
“Sokal Squared and “The Great Piano Scam”: Engaging Students in
Discussions about Ethics in Research and Source Use,”
Sara Hillin, Lamar University

Literature, Film, Pop Culture 3

Room: CHEC 110
“Adventures in Post-Critical Reading,”
Jessica Zbeida, McLennan Community College
“Reading and Teaching Whiteness: A Critical Race Reading of
Pam Durban’s Soon,”
Marcella Clinard, Texas Woman’s University
“What I Learned About Teaching From Forty Years of Re-Reading
Jane Austen,”
Joyce Kerr Tarpley, Mountain View College
“There Be Dinos: Tracing Paleontological Fossils to Literary Dragons,”
Meg Oldman, Tarleton State University

Creative Writing II: Prose and Poems

Room: CHEC 114
“In Search of My Lon-Lost Father,”
Andrea DaSilva, Texas A&M University - Kingsville
“Blank Sonnets,”
Kevin M. Clay, Mountain View College
“You’re Probably Wrong,”
Chip Hannah, Schreiner College

3.00-4.15pm Session 4

Rhetoric 4
Room: CHEC 106
“Enhancing Students’ Writing Skills through Individualized
Objective-focused Instruction,”
Gary Wilson, Collin College - Frisco
“Focused Feedback: The Use of Single-point Rubrics in
Developmental Writing,”
Tabatha Rhodes, Brazosport College
“Figurehead Rhetorics, Adoption Laws, and Progress by
Persuasion,”
Brian Fehler, Texas Woman’s University
Literature, Film, Pop Culture 4
Room: CHEC 110
“ ‘Supped Full with Horrors’: The Concave Mirror of Dystopia and
Shakespeare’s Macbeth,”
Ryan Farrar, Collin College
“Unveiling the Painted: Poetry with W. Somerset Maugham’s
The Painted Veil,”
Maximillien Vis, UT of the Permian Basin
“Merlin as King-Maker: Nationalism in Arthurian Legend,”
Ashley Johnson, UT Arlington

TCEA Panel 2 Texas Women: Activists and Civic Leaders

Room: CHEC 114
“Soil and Soul” and “Texas Myths I Have Known,”
M.C. Downs, Texas A&M - Kingsville and
Trudi Beckman, UT Arlington
“Dr Louis Cowan: Exploring the Feminist or the Feminine?”
Mary Ann Taylor, Mountain View College
“The Wichita Woman: Weighing the Woke in the Archives,”
Caitlin McNeely, Midwestern State University
“Uncovering Activism in the Archives: Exploring the Files of
DFW LGTBQIA+ Activist Edra Bogle,”
Emily Ramser, Texas Woman’s University

4.30-5.45pm President’s Forum and CCTE General Business

Meeting
Room: CHEC Board Room
Speaker: Dr Claudia MacMillan, Director of the Cowan Center
at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture

Friday evening dinner on your own

Saturday, March 7

7.30-8.45am TCEA Breakfast and Business Meeting

Room: CHEC Board Room
Speaker: Dr. T.J. Geiger, Baylor University

9.00-10.15am Session 5

Rhetoric 5
Room: CHEC 106
“In Defense of Cicero’s Rhetorical Canon of Delivery,”
Sean Sutherlin, Collin College
“Hip Hop Rhetoric in Light of Ancient Rhetorical Historiography,”
Robert Tinajero, University of North Texas at Dallas
“Vir Bonus, Hortensia: A Good Woman Speaking Well in Ancient Rome,”
Margaret Williams, Texas Woman’s University
“World Rhetorics, Neoplatonism, and Analogy: The Importance of Averroes,
Avicenna, and Al-Farabi,”
Charles Etheridge, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Literature, Film, Pop Culture 5

Room: CHEC 110
“She Never Had a Chance: The Life of Maggie, a Girl of the Streets,”
Paula Kent, Texas State Technical College
“ ‘Bad Bitches’: The Changing Discourse on Femininity Featuring Beyonce’
and Lizzo,”
Christi Cook, Weatherford College
“Elle es Latinx: A Rhetorical Invervention of Latina Representation
in Media,”
Victoria Ramirez Gentry, UT San Antonio
“ ‘Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?’: Breaking Down the Women
of Oz,”
Ashley Olliff, Tarleton State University

TCEA Panel 3 Texas Women: Latina Voices

Room: CHEC 114
“A Latina Companion to Shakespeare: Apparitions of La Llorona in Hamlet
and Othello,”
Yvette Chairez, UT San Antonio
“Compassion and Female Solidarity as Transformative in Summer of
the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall,”
Kathleen Powell Hagood, Howard Payne University
“Latina Woman for Hire: Reasonable Offers Considered,”
Diane Whitley Wrote, Austin Community College

10.30-11.45am Session 6

Literature, Film, Pop Culture 6

Room: CHEC 106
“ ‘A scavenger’s ravenous heart’: Exploring the Flaneur in Cosmopolis & Ulysses,”
Salena Parker, Collin College
“ ‘Remove This Inconsistency from the Character of the American People:
Anti-Slavery Discourse in Colonial America,”
Kay Mizell, Collin College
“The Significance of the Rose in “La Belle et la Bete”,”
Meagan Person, Tarleton State University
“Rhetorical Presence of “The Fork Versus “The Petrified Woman”,”
Cate Murray, TCCD - Northeast

Roundtable: Writing for Grades 10-12

Room: CHEC 110
Panelists TBA

TCEA Panel 4 Texas Women: Creative Prose

Room: CHEC 114
“Adventures in Road Rage,”
Steve Sherwood, Texas Christian University
“Brothers,”
Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State University
“Diverse Creative Nonfiction,”
Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University

12.00-2.00pm CCTE Awards Luncheon

Room: CHEC Board Room
Speaker: TBA