PARTICIPANTS AND PRESENTATION TITLES
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Meredith M. Bagley
Dept. of Communications, University of Washington
bagleym@u.washington.edu
Heroic Rhetoric in the Remembrance of Reggie White
Katie Boyer
Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Washington
boyerk@u.washington.edu
“I, too, am an Imagiste!”: Amy Lowell and the Construction of the Masculine Heroic
Fabrizio Cilento
Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Washington
cilentof@u.washington.edu
The Vision at Last
Sheryl Cunningham
Dept. of Communications, University of Washington
sherylc@u.washington.edu
Creating an American Hero: The Case of Jessica Lynch
Sima Daad
Department of Comparative Literature, University of Washington
simad@u.washington.edu
Rhetoric Against Rhetoric: Voice of Ethnicity in Langston Hugh’s “Let America Be America Again”
Maura Danforth
Dept. of English, University of Washington
maurad@u.washington.edu
Lunar Landscapes: The West as Tabula Rasa in Kenneth Burns’ Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Erica R. Edwards
Program in Literature, Duke University
ere2@duke.edu
Anti-Charismatic Charisma: Revisions of Heroic Leadership in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle
Lee Einhorn
Dept. of English, University of Washington
leinhorn@u.washington.edu
Heroism of Re(a)d
Kat Hankinson
khankins@ic.sunysb.edu
Living the Epic: Loaded Language and the Heroic Narrative in Charismatic Cults
Clayton Hanson
chansonuw@yahoo.com
“A Matter of Principle, That's What It Is": The Treatment of "Little" Czechs in the Works of Havel and Hrabal
Hans-Peder Hanson
University of Washington
hhanson@u.washington.edu
The Champions of Rhetoric: Nietzsche and the Sophists vs. Plato
Lizabeth Johnson
Department of History, University of Washington
aoife@u.washington.edu
Rhetoric and identity in thirteenth-century Wales: Gerald of Wales, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, and Welsh law
Stefan Kamola
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington
kamola@u.washington.edu
Telling to Live the Tale
Melanie Kill
Department of English, University of Washington
mkkill@u.washington.edu
Agency, Authenticity, and Authority: Writing a Social Agent
Kimberly Lamm
Dept. of English, University of Washington
klamm@u.washington.edu
“The Mother of Us All?”: Gertrude Stein’s Susan B. Anthony, Portraiture, and the Question of Feminist Heroines
Travis Landry
Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Washington
tcl@u.washington.edu
The Virtue of Pathos in Sophocles’ Oedipus the King
Nidesh Lawtoo
Department of Comparative Literatura, University of Washington
nidesh@u.washington.edu
Death of the Subject, Birth of Dialogue: Bakhtin and His French Reception
Sydney F. Lewis
English Department, University of Washington
syd_f@yahoo.com
You have seen how a [White] man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a [White] man: Narrative, Passing, and the Rhetoric of the Self-Made Man
Katy Masuga
Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Washington
masuga@u.washington.edu
Mirbeau and Bataille's Erotic Anti-Hero: The Role of Woman in Decadent Readings of the Occidental and Oriental
Anne McConnell
Department of Comparative Literature and Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder
Anne.Mcconnell@colorado.edu
The Heroic Failure of Orpheus: A Reading of the Central Essay in Maurice Blanchot’s The Space of Literature
William Mitchell
Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Washington
wcmitch@u.washington.edu
Terror and the Rhetoric of Integration in Y. B.’s Allah Superstar
Jeffrey Resta
Comparative Literature, University of Washington
jeffresta@earthlink.net
Believe It Or Not, I’m Walking On Air: Ideology and the Modern American Hero
Nicla Riverso Levander
Department of Comparative Literatura, University of Washington
riverso@u.washington.edu
Heroic Rhetoric in Roman Army. The Case of Agricola and Britons in “De vita Julii
Agricolae” by Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Helen Shin
Department of Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
helen_shin7@hotmail.com
The Function of Silence as a Communicative Strategy in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Natsume Soseki’s The Three Cornered World
Ethan Spanier
Department of History, University of Washington
espan@u.washington.edu
The Rhetorical Transformation of the “good farmer” in Ancient Rome
Puja Sahney
Dept. of English, Utah State University
psahney@english.usu.edu
Princess Veeravati: The Goddess of Virtue
Kelly S. Walsh
Dept. of Comparative Literatura, University of Washington
kswalsh@u.washington.edu
Intensities of Terminality: Thinking Theater through the Failed Revolution
Erica Weems
Department of French and Romance Philology, Columbia University
eww28@columbia.edu
Heroes, Anti-heroes and the Building of an Exemplary Society
Dru Anthony Williams
Department of Communication, University of Washington
druw@u.washington.edu
Staying Committed to the Mission: George W. Bush’s Performance in the 2004 Presidential Debates