Sponsored by the
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery
and
Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Antlers Hilton Hotel
Colorado Springs, Colorado
March 13–15, 2008
 
Registration:
5:00 – 6:30 p.m., March 12 (Hotel Lobby)
8:30 – 5:00 p.m., March 13–15 (Conference Rooms)
 
Will Wright and Steven Kaplan, Organizers

Thursday, 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
coffee, tea, pastries
(at meeting rooms)
 
Thursday,  9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
 
                Session 1:  Explorations – Fremont
 
                                Moderator:
 
The Image of Outsiders in The Orange Tree by Carlos Fuentes
Majel Campbell, Pikes Peak Community College
               
Borges, Testimony in His Latest Poetry: Juan Lopez and John Ward
Ana Bausset Page, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Outsiders and the Horror: Kurtz’s Voice, Marlow’s Lie, and the Intended’s Enigma in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Richard W. Lemp, United States Air Force Academy
 
The Outsider Within: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Peter Conolly–Smith, City University of New York – Queens College
               
                Session 2:  Strategies – Carson
 
                                Moderator:
 
Selling the Pioneer: A Housing Development and the Myth of the West
James M. Bishop, United States Air Force Academy
 
The Blogger as Outsider: Technology as a Tactic to Get Inside the Media Establishment
Gene Burd, University of Texas
 
Pseudo–Democracy: The Majority as Outsiders
Wayne Busby, Pittsburg State University
 
The Academic Entrepreneur as Social Change Agent: Opportunist or Outsider?
Sherilyn Marrow, University of Northern Colorado
David Thomas, University of Northern Colorado
 
                Session 3:  Edges – Heritage A
 
                Moderator:  Karin Egloff, Western Kentucky University
 
Palestinian Americans as Outsiders in the U.S.: Naomi Shihab Nye and the Poetry of Isolation and Integration
Leon Raikes, Maine Maritime Academy
 
Mr. Pirzada’s Piece of the Pie
Brenda Craven, Fort Hays State University
               
Representations of Jews as Outcasts in Nazi Children’s Literature: Don't Trust Any Fox on the Green Pasture or Any Jew Taking an Oath: A picture book for young and old by Elvira Bauer
Angela Gulielmetti, University of Southern Maine
 
German Poets, Jewish Outsiders: Self–Images and Images of the Other in the Literature of German–Jewish Authors
Elisabeth Jütten, University of Tübingen
 
                Session 4:   Strangers in Strange Lands: Becoming the Outsider – Heritage B
 
                Moderator:  Stephynie Perkins, University of North Florida
 
The Patient as Outsider
Judy Sayre, University of North Florida
 
Crossing the Mason–Dixon Line: Southerners as Outsiders
Naeemah Clark, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
 
Communicating in an Unfamiliar Culture: American Study–Abroad Students as Outsiders
Dennis Stouse, Jacksonville University
Annmarie Kent Willette, Jacksonville University
 
Not–ready for Prime–time Players: College Students as Outsiders
Lori Boyer, Texas Tech University
 
 
BREAK
(coffee and tea)
 
 
Thursday,  11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
 
                Session 5:  Strains – Fremont
 
                Moderator:
 
When the World Doesn't Want You: Responses of Toni Morrison's Outsiders in The Bluest Eye
P. Diana Black, United States Air Force Academy
 
The Outsider by Richard Wright and The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello: “Second Life, Second Death”
Sylvie Camet, Appalachian State University
 
Pariahs in Toni Morrison’s Fiction: Catalysts for Change
Cindy Jones–Shoeman, Pueblo Community College
 
“Come Almost Home”: Border Crossings in Chang–rae Lee’s A Gesture Life
Joonok Huh, University of Northern Colorado
 
                Session 6: Mass Media Outsiders: The Ones Who Dared to Be Different or the Ones Everybody Loved to Hate – Carson
 
                Moderator:  Jen Mullen, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
The Fighting–Words Doctrine: The Life and Death of Outsider Alan Berg
Sam J. Lovato, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Lord Haw Haw: How Putting “on–airs” Got Him Killed
Richard Joyce, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
A Fall from Grace: Edward Bernays – Father of Contemporary Public Relations, Unethical Manipulator, or Both?
Jen Mullen, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Geraldine Julienne and Rita Skeeter: Journalists from Juvenile Literature That We Love to Hate
Leticia Steffen, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
O is for Othello, Oscar, and Outsider
Sam Ebersole, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Advertising Women and Mad Men: The Girls on the Inside
Patricia Orman, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
                Session 7:  People – Heritage A
               
                Moderator:  Andrea F. Trocha–Van Nort, United States Air Force Academy
 
‘Alienation Sublime’ in the Autobiographical Prose of Osip Mandelstam
Donald Loewen, Binghamton University (SUNY)
 
A Melancholy Exile: Elias Canetti’s English Notebooks
Mark Luprecht, University of Tennessee
 
Rhetoric, Identity, and the “Outsider”:  A Rhetorical Examination of Malcolm X and His Perceived Identity as an “Outsider”
Kelly C. Scott, University of Northern Colorado
 
‘Listen Up and I’ll Tell a Story’: Narrative Tropes and Limited Empathy in The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Nicholas Hetrick, Ohio State University
 
                Session 8:  Others – Heritage B
 
                Moderator: 
 
Don’t Categorize Me by Sexuality – Coming Out or Not: The Fragment Identity and Fear of Being Outcaste
Pin Chen, University of Northern Colorado
 
When Outsiders Are Insiders and Insiders Are Outsiders: Lessons from Holy Land Pilgrimage Narratives
Bea Spade, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Black Cowboys – A Shadow on the Trail
Pete Howard, University at Buffalo
 
Pariah and Savior –– the European Leper in the 12th and 13th Centuries
Martha Kennedy, San Diego State University/Cuyamaca College
 
 
LUNCH BREAK
(on your own)
Thursday,  2:15 – 4:00 p.m.
 
                Session 9:  Military – Fremont
 
                Moderator: Donald Anderson, United States Air Force Academy
 
Soldier as Isolato
Donald Anderson, United States Air Force Academy
 
Colby Buzzell’s My War: An Outsider’s Voice from Inside Iraq
Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy
 
Captain Vere as Outsider and Insider: Military Leadership in Billy Budd, Sailor
Byron Calhoun, United States Air Force Academy
 
A Memorial to Forgetting: Chipping Away Everything That Isn’t Hero
Elizabeth B. Mathias, United States Air Force Academy
 
                Session 10:  France – Carson
                               
                Moderator:  Sixto E. Torres, Metropolitan State College of Denver
 
Waiting for Odette: Romantic Longing and Religious Exile in Swann’s Way
Todd Edmondson, University of Louisville
 
The Abject Language of Exile in Vietnamese Francophone Fiction
Lise–Hélène Smith, California State Polytechnic University – Pomona
 
The “Suddenly Stupid” Syndrome: Eccentric Quests for Conformity in Martin Page’s Fiction
Christelle Rolland, Pomona College
 
The Image of the Outsider in the Contemporary French and Francophone Novel
Lucille Roy–Hewitson, Creighton University
 
                Session 11:  Culture – Heritage A
 
                Moderator:  Stephynie Perkins, University of North Florida
                               
Cultural Diversity, the Internet, and the Idea of the Outsider
Jonathan Carlyon, Colorado State University
 
The Stigma of Single: Singlism in the 21st Century and Finding the Happily Ever After
Diane Matuschka, University of North Florida
 
Culture: Shaping Perception and Values
Wayne Busby, Pittsburg State University
 
Beowulf: Dead Whale or Rock Star?
Karen Emanuelson, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
                Session 12:  Pressures – Heritage B
 
                Moderator:  William W. Holland, Georgia State University
 
Outside In: Conspiracy Theory as Cultural Artifact
Chase Pielak, Claremont Graduate University
 
Consigned to the Legal Shadows: The Material Witness in American Law
Karen N. Youngblood, Cameron University
 
Turned Inside(er)–Out(sider): Finding Middle Ground in a Rural–Urban Rift
Donna Evans, Washington State University
 
Environmentalists as Ultimate Outsiders
Marc Pratarelli, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
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Thursday,  4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
 
                Session 13:  Differences – Fremont 
 
                Moderator:
 
Russia as Outsider: Nikolai Danilevsky on European Hostility and Russian Difference
Stephen M. Woodburn, Southwestern College
 
The European Public Sphere and Russian National Identity in N. Karamzin’s Letters of a Russian Traveler
Baktygul Aliev, McGill University
 
Czeslaw Milosz as a ‘multiple exile,’ 1951–2004
Joanna Mazurska, Vanderbilt University
 
Image of the Outsider: A Case Exploration of the Business Relationships between the Central Asian Country Kazakhstan and the Global Economic Community
Michael W. Wakefield, Colorado State University – Pueblo
Arman Zhumazhanov, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
                Session 14:   Dominant Voices: Media’s Role in the Construction and Perpetuation of the Outsider – Carson
 
                                Moderator:  Kelly C. Scott, University of Northern Colorado
 
Examining Contemporary Families from a “Sunday–Night Sensationalist” Lens: “Just How Desperate Are Housewives, Brothers, and Sisters?”
Sherilyn Marrow, University of Northern Colorado
Cheryl Pawlowski, University of Northern Colorado 
Rhetorical Models: Assessing the Adequacy of One’s Vocabulary
Lin Allen, University of Northern Colorado 
 
A Look at History:  Malcolm X Battles Dr. King… According to Whom?             
Kelly C. Scott, University of Northern Colorado 
 
Identity as an Outsider:  A Rhetorical Analysis of Skateboard and Snowboard Companies’ Websites
Carrie West, University of Northern Colorado 
 
Falling Down: The Shared Experience of Road Rage
Schuyler Wessels, University of Northern Colorado 
 
Facebook and What It Takes To Be an “In–group” Member
Gina Lichte, University of Northern Colorado
 
                Session 15:  From Margin to Mainstream: The Female Gaze in American Literature – Heritage A
  
                Moderator:  Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, University of Colorado – Colorado Springs
 
A “High Time Woman”: “Classing Off” and the Problem of “a Woman’s Work” in Their Eyes Were Watching God
K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama
 
Gaze as Monstrous Prerogative: Robin Vote’s Role in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood
Bonnie Whitener, University of Alabama
 
Amy Lowell as Outsider “On–Looker”: The Power of the Poetic Gaze
Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, University of Colorado – Colorado Springs
 
Sylvia Beach and the Business of Literary Modernism
Jill Pruett, University of Alabama – Birmingham
 
                Session 16:  Crossed Wires – Heritage B
                                 
                Moderator:  Brent M. Foster, California State University – Fullerton
 
Crossed Wires
Brent M. Foster, California State University – Fullerton
[A slice–of–life documentary about a female–to–male (FTM) transsexual, mother of two, living in Manitou Springs Colorado. Her past, present and future is chronicled while exploring her plight as a societal outcast. 50 min. with Q&A following.]
 
                Session 17:  Variations – Jackson
 
                Moderator:
 
The Intentional Outcast: Outsiders as Having Elite Status in Youth Counter–culture
Michaela Sakamoto, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
ELL Students: The Outsiders in Our “Public” Schools
Lisa M. Moberly, Colorado State University – Pueblo


Are Unions Increasingly Becoming Outsiders?
Amanda Swanson, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
 
DINNER BREAK
(on your own)
 

 
PLENARY ADDRESS
The Learning Center
8:00 – 9:30 pm
 
 
[to be announced]
 
 
 
Reception to follow

Friday, 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
coffee and tea
(at meeting rooms)
 
 
Friday,  9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
 
                Session 18:  Insights – Fremont
 
                Moderator:  Andrey Reznikov, Black Hills State University
 
Death Drive: The Ins and Outs of Jorge Portilla, Philosopher
Carlos Alberto Sanchez, San Jose State University
 
The Outsider at the Core: The Bourgeois Poet as Embedded Sovereign
Harald Zils, State University of New York – Binghamton
 
On Georg Simmel’s "Excurse on the Stranger"
Darrell Arnold, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Individual Fragmentation: The Outsider and Dystopian Fiction
Dana Solomon, University of California – Santa Barbara
 
               
               
                Session 19:  Pilgrim, Emigrant, Immigrant: The Outsider in German Culture – Carson
 
                Moderator:  Carl Pletsch, University of Colorado – Denver
 
The Pilgrim as Outsider: The Travels and Adventures of the German Picaro in H. J. J.
Grimmelshausen’s Simplicissimus
Ralph W. Buechler, University of Nevada – Las Vegas
 
Election Campaign 2008: The Criminal Juvenile as the Ultimate Outsider
Gerd Steckel, University of Idaho – Moscow
 
Normal Outsiders: The New Face of German Turks in the Movies of Fatih Akin
Andreas Michel, Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology
 
                Session 20:  Challenges – Heritage A
 
                Moderator:  Mark Luprecht, University of Tennessee
 
Another Kind of Theater: The Outsider as Self and in Character
Halley Cohen, American University
 
The Outsider in the Theater of José Martín Recuerda: The Nonconformist as Social Critic
Sixto E. Torres, Metropolitan State College of Denver
 
Necessary Failure: Percy Bysshe Shelley and Antonin Artaud’s Explorations of Revolution through the Dramatization of The Cenci
Chad Stewart, University of Alabama – Birmingham
 
Ending the Insider/Outsider Class Divide: Marxist Revolution in Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music
Lindsey Ayres, Wichita State University
 
                Session 21:   Outsiders of Health: Social, Economic, and Personal – Heritage B
 
                Moderator:  Daniel Poole, University of Utah
 
Cholera in Iraq: Structural Violence Pushing People to the Outside of a Healthy Society
Daniel Poole, University of Utah
 
Economic Transitions in East Europe between 1990 and 2004
Cihan Bozkus, University of Utah


The Impact of Work Characteristics on Employee Health
Jonathan Westover, University of Utah
 
               
 
 
 
                Session 22:  Encounters – Jackson
 
                Moderator:
 
The Rhetorical Power of the Outsider Stance: More, Wyatt, Gascoigne, and the Dilemma of the Renaissance Humanist Courtier
William E. Sheidley, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Fairy Tale and/or Homosexual Fantasy
Harold Neemann, University of Wyoming
 
Eroding Gentility and Thomas Otway’s Outsiders: The Exclusion Crisis Plays
Andrea F. Trocha–Van Nort, United States Air Force Academy
 
Tradesmen, Traitors, Pirates, and Prostitutes: Depictions of the Flemish in Middle English Literature
Sara M. B. Schwamb, Saint Louis University
 
 
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(coffee and tea)
 
 
 
Friday,  11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
 
                Session 23:  Outriders and Trailblazers:  Non–traditional Women in PhD Programs – Fremont
 
                Moderator:  Charlene Fix, Columbus College of Art and Design
                               
                                Catherine Hardy, Art Academy of Cincinnati
Sue V. Lape, Columbus State Community College
Jan E. Schmittauer, Ohio University – Chillicothe
 
                Session 24:  Issues – Carson
 
                Moderator:  Martha Kennedy, San Diego State University/Cuyamaca College
 
The Black Hand in Colorado
Betty Alt, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Redeeming the Outsider: The Rise of the Homeless Movement in Atlanta, Georgia
William W. Holland, Georgia State University
               
The Effect of Childbearing on Mortality: A Historical Analysis of How Number of Children Affected Utah Women's Longevity
Daniel Poole, University of Utah
 
 
Context and Contours of Race, Immigrant Status, and Perceived Life Satisfaction amongst Black West Indian College Professors in the U.S.
Ian Sakura–Lemessy, Albany State University
Nekehia Quashie, University of Utah
Donna–May Sakura–Lemessy, Albany State University
 
                Session 25:  Movies – Heritage A
 
                Moderator:
 
Pink Like Me: Pleasantville
Kristin Sánchez Carter, Vassar College
 
The Outsider’s Ability to Create Change
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Identity, Self, and Other in Film
David W. Overbey, Bellarmine University
 
The Outsider in Movies: The Dark Hero
Cheryl Pawlowski, University of Northern Colorado
 
Diane Matuschka, University of North Florida
 
                Session 26:   Tensions – Heritage B
                 
Moderator:  Donna Evans, Washington State University
               
The Ins and Outs of Religious Belief: The Use of Cognitive Linguistics’ Container Schema in the Struggle between Orthodoxy and Heresy
William H. Huseman, University of Oklahoma
 
The Dialectical Dilemma of the Outsider in Social Interaction
Barbara M. Montgomery, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Nihonjin–rashii: Exploring Notions of Otherness in Contemporary Japanese Print Advertising Campaigns
Octavia Graham, University of Pittsburgh
 
Anti–Proverbs: Outsiders’ Look at Traditional Wisdom
Andrey Reznikov, Black Hills State University
 
                Session 27:  Sisyphean Dreams: Marginalized Characters in Literature and Film – Jackson
 
                Moderator:  Patty Cooke, Wichita State University
 
Marx Madness: Ideology of Sport in Hoop Dreams
Robert M. Rowan, Wichita State University
 
 
The Men of Mode: An Intertextual Exploration of Wealth, Power, and Influence
Andy Jones, Wichita State University
 
“Only a Blue Horse and Dawn”: Federico García Lorca as Perpetual Outsider
Patty Cooke, Wichita State University
 
Postmodern Identities: Defining the Outsider in Stephen Jonas’s Poetry
Sloan Davis, Wichita State University
 
LUNCH BREAK
(on your own)
 
Friday,  2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
 
                Session 28:   Popular Culture – Fremont
 
                Moderator:
 
Creating a Reality: Survivor and the Creation of the Other,
Courtney P. Davids, Southern Illinois University – Carbondale
 
The Image of the Outsider in The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's View of Human Nature II
Leslie Feldman, Hofstra University
 
Supernatural: Good and Evil on the American Road
Natalie M. Stevens, University of Northern Colorado
 
The Furry Misconception
Derrick Vigil, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
                Session 29:   Efforts – Carson
 
                Moderator:  Sue V. Lape, Columbus State Community College
 
The Underperforming Asian? Laotian Student Literacy in Small–Town Kansas
Dixie Woodburn, Winfield (KS) City Schools
 
The College Composition Student: Academic Insider or Outsider?
Katherine Frank, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
The Rescuer as Outsider
M. J. Gallant, Rowan University
 
Reframing Resilience: Rhetoric of Social Heroism as Voiced by Elderly Hurricane Katrina Survivors
Sherilyn Marrow, University of Northern Colorado
Nancy J. Karlin, University of Northern Colorado
Susan Collins, University of Northern Colorado
Ann Bentz, University of Northern Colorado
Brad Goldschmidt, University of Northern Colorado
 
                Session 30:  Youth – Heritage ASession 26:Language, Politics, and Class ‑ Heritage Atc \l3 "Session 26:Language, Politics, and Class ‑ Heritage A
 
                Moderator:
 
Skateboarding as the Inside Track for Outsiders: A Qualitative Review of a Community Skateboarding Program as Positive Youth Development
John Kyle Busing, Aims Community College
Carrie L West, University of Northern Colorado
 
“Lads” Serving Time: Family Relationships and Isolation of Young Adult British Prisoners
Rachel Eddington, University of Utah
 
Moral Revaluation: An Ethnographic Focus on Juveniles by Way of an Assessment of Scrooge's Encounter with Marley's Ghost
Milton L. Butts, Jr., University of Massachusetts Boston
 
Living in Some Other Place: Outsider in High Sky Summer
Haoyue Zhang, Southern Illinois University – Carbondale
 
                Session 31:  Visions – Heritage BSession 27:Modernism and its Discontents: Commodification and Class Identity ‑ Heritage Btc \l3 "Session 27:Modernism and its Discontents: Commodification and Class Identity ‑ Heritage B
 
                Moderator:
 
                Medieval Monstrosity, the Hand, and Modern Myth
Karen Aschenbrenner, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
 
Turning Outside–In: Visual Art and Boundaries
Amy Lueen Cornish, Pikes Peak Community College
 
The Ultimate Insider as the Ultimate Outsider: St. Joseph the Jew in Late Medieval Art, Theology, and Society
Leslie Ann Blacksberg, Eastern Kentucky University
 
Outside Artists Ahead of Their Time: Creative Elitism and the Theory of the Avant–garde
Roy Sonnema, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
                Session 32:   Natives – JacksonSession 27:Modernism and its Discontents: Commodification and Class Identity ‑ Heritage Btc \l3 "Session 27:Modernism and its Discontents: Commodification and Class Identity ‑ Heritage B
 
Moderator:  Brenda Craven, Fort Hays State University
               
Revising the Children’s Literature Canon to Include Multicultural Texts: A Case Study in American Native Literature
Meghan E. Whitfield, University of Arkansas – Little Rock
 
American Indian Double–Consciousness: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Concept Translated in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Tiffany Brown Anderson, Ohio State University
 
 
Mystics and Mothers – The Woman in Contemporary Native American Literature
Pete Howard, University at Buffalo
 
                The Questionnaire of the Relaciones Geográficas: Its Structure and Objectives
John López, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
 
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Friday,  4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
 
                Session 33:  Gender – Fremont
 
                Moderator:
 
Woman Suffrage Advocates as Political Outsiders: Sexist Attitudes as Exemplified by the Editors and Management of the New York Times from 1867 to 1920
Philip R. Schmidt, Southwestern College
 
Woman as “Other,” “The Second Sex,” and “Outsider”: As Perceived in Her Writings
Judith Martinez, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
The Changing Nature of Gender in the Workplace: A Cross–National Comparative Analysis of Gender Differences in Job Quality Characteristics and Perceived Job Satisfaction
Jonathan H. Westover, University of Utah
 
Gabrielle Roy and the Images of Women
Mac Thompson, Wichita State University
 
                Session 34:  Contexts – Carson
 
                Moderator:
 
The Man Who Wasn't There: Richard Nixon as the Insider Outsider
Boyd Littrell, University of Nebraska – Omaha
 
Fabricating Reality: Are We All Outsiders?
Raphael Sassower, University of Colorado – Colorado Springs
 
Another Man’s Freedom Fighter? Discursive Elements in the Construction of the Image of a Terrorist
Brian Wolf, University of Idaho
 
Italians as Outsiders: The Sopranos and Other Imagery
Stanley Aronowitz, City University of New York – Graduate Center
                               
               
                Session 35:  Complexities – Heritage A
 
                Moderator:
 
The Moralist Voyeur – Baudelaire Out and About in the City
Marius Conceatu, Pomona College
 
Horror in the Consciousness of a Nation: An Investigation of Phobic Pressure Points in Germany and in the United States through the Perspective of the Horror Story (Horror im Bewusstsein einer Nation: eine Untersuchung der Angst–Druckstellen in Deutschland und in den USA durch die Perspektive der Gruselgeschichte)
Mike Bendorf, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
 
Revolution from the Outside: The Avant–garde in Heaven and Hell
Gregory M. Dandeles, United States Air Force Academy
               
Galatea 2.2: Taking the Turing Test to Task
Graceanne Hatt, Wichita State University
 
                Session 36:  Film I – Heritage B
 
                Moderator:  Kristin Sánchez Carter, Vassar College
 
The Lives of Outsiders: Who Watches Us as We Watch the Watchers
John S. Turner, II, Goucher College
 
When Everyone Is Other: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others
Liesl Allingham, Virginia Polytechnic & State University
 
Thrice Outsiders: Fassbinder’s Film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Richard Rundell, New Mexico State University
 
Carving Out a Space for an Outsider Aesthetic: Transgression as Satire in Strangers with Candy
Charles Soukup, University of Northern Colorado
Christina Foust, Denver University
 
                Session 37:  Don Quixote and Metafiction as Outsider (I) – Jackson
 
                Moderator:  Eric Kartchner, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
An Investigation of Self–Conscious Fiction Through a Comparative Study of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote and Robert Altman’s The Player
Shawn M. Vidmar, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Parallels between Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and Cervantes’s Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Theia Bravo, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
 
The Misery of Writing
Marilyn Ladd, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
The Wise Fool: Outsiders on the Inside in Don Quixote and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night–time
Eric J. Kartchner, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
 
DINNER BREAK
(on your own)
 

 
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The Learning Center
8:00 – 9:30 p.m.
 
 
Outsiders and Insiders
 
Stanley Aronowitz
City University of New York – Graduate Center
 
 
Author:
The Knowledge Factory:
Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning
How Class Works: Power and Social Movement
The Last Good Job in America:
Work and Education in the New Global Technoculture
 
 
 
Reception to follow

Saturday, 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
coffee and tea
(at meeting rooms)
 
 
Saturday,  9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
 
                Session 38:  Germany – Fremont
               
Moderator:
 
‘Kultur,’ Ideology, and the Erasure of Self in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities
William Lansing Brown, Mesa State College
 
Klaus Mann: An Outsider in His Time
Michel Mallet, McGill University
 
“People Like Us Are a Thorn in the Side of the World”: Images of the Outsider in the Writings by Ernst Kreuder
Alexander E. Pichugin, University of Pennsylvania
 
Constipation, Bodily Fluids, and Madness: Goethe’s Werther as Hypochondriac
Edward T. Potter, Mississippi State University
 
                Session 39:  Novels – Carson
 
                Moderator:
               
Wanderers on the Road: Moral Inversion in the Works of Cormac McCarthy
Sandy L. Hudock, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
Fire and Ice: Children on the Road
Elizabeth Mlotkiewiez, Wichita State University
 
Outside Inside in Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter and Two Short Stories
Michael D. Reed, University of Texas – Pan American
 
The Elf–Child and the Gentle Boy: The Child as Outsider in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and “The Gentle Boy”
Leilani Serafin, California State University – Los Angeles
 
                Session 40:   Struggles – Heritage A
 
                Moderator:  Krzysztof Kulawik, Central Michigan University
               
Displacement as Routine Existence or Looking for Love in All the Available Places
Nancy Caronia, State University of New York – Brockport
 
The Encroaching Outsider: Imperialism and Colonization in El capitán de los dormidos
Alegría Ribadeneira, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
The Outsider as Catalyst: Marginality, Truth, and Violence in Three Novels by Laura Restrepo
Maria G. Akrabova, Wichita State University
 
The Indigenous Identity in the Works of Enrique López Albújar
Cristina Rowley, SUNY College at Geneseo
               
                Session 41:  Conflicts – Heritage B
 
                Moderator:
 
Ship of Dreams, Ship of Fools: The Resilience of an Image of Disaster
Ian Gomme, Colorado State University – Pueblo
Outsider Wannabes at War
James Cook, United States Air Force Academy
 
John Dickinson and the Politics of Treason in Early America
Matthew Harris, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
“The watchword . . . was ‘Cleanliness’”: Americans as Endangered Outsiders in the Age of Empire, 1898–1920
Bobby A. Wintermute, Queens College – City University of New York
 
BREAK
 (coffee and tea)
 
Saturday,  11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
 
                Session 42:  Confronting the Other in German Missionary Literature – Fremont
 
                Moderator:  Cindy Brewer, Brigham Young University
 
The Plight of the Indian Woman in the Works of Rosa Kühnle–Degeler
Kristin Braun, Brigham Young University
 
Werkzeuge Gottes: An Analysis of the Disadvantages of Christian Missionaries in the German African Colonies as Suggested in Hanna Christaller’s Novel Leibeigen
Michael Young, Brigham Young University
 
The First Genocide: Thoughts of a German Christian Missionary on the “Superiority Complex” of the German People
Aaron Hunsaker, Brigham Young University
 
Colonialism, Missionary Literature, and Marginalization of the Other in Relation to Our Black Compatriots in German South–West Africa by Hedwig Irle (1911)
Dane Whipple, Brigham Young University
 
                Session 43:  Film II – Carson
 
                Moderator:
 
Yes, We DO NEED Another Hero! The Evolution of the Outsider from Hero to Religious Icon in the Mad Max Film Trilogy
Vivian Aytes Thomlinson, Cameron University
 
The Outsider as Misanthrope, Monster, and Messiah
Ronald Mules
 
Icons of the Outsider: The Hit Man
Janina Ciezadlo, Columbia College – Chicago
 
Understanding the Image of the Outsider in Film/Fiction: An A “Depp”t Analysis
Judi Crowe, Millikin University
 
                Session 44:  Tattoos – Heritage A
 
                                Moderator:  Thomas G. Endres, University of Northern Colorado
 
I Am Who I Am, and Other Tattoo Tales   
Thomas G. Endres, University of Northern Colorado
 
                Session 45:  Outsiders of Modernity – Heritage B
 
                Moderator:  Carl Pletsch, University of Colorado – Denver
 
Modernity’s Outsiders
Hazem Salem, University of Denver
 
The State as Perpetual Outsider of Civil Order in Early Modern Political Thinkers’ Mind: The Comparison of Hobbes, Locke, and Spinoza
Chiung–Chiu Huang, University of Denver
 
Outside and Beyond Modernity: Takeuchi Yoshimi’s Notion of Subjectivity
Yi–tsui Tseng, University of Denver
 
                Session 46:  Contrasts – Jackson
 
                                Moderator:  Graceanne Hatt, Wichita State University
 
The Asian American Detective in American Popular Culture
                Calvin McMillin, University of California – Santa Cruz
 
The Image of the Outsider: Nietzsche's "Der tolle Mensch" and Lu Xun's "Kuang Ren Ri Ji”
Aili Zheng, University of North Texas
 
From Picaro to Private Eye: The Outsider’s Literary Mutations as Anti–Hero from 16th–Century Rogue to 20th–Century Hard–Boiled/NOIR Detective
Hugh J. Ingrasci, DePaul University
 
LUNCH BREAK
(on your own)
 
Saturday,  2:15 – 3:45 p.m.
               
                Session 47:  Perspectives – Fremont 
 
                Moderator:
 
The Scientist as Outsider: Climate Change Experts Marginalized by Government Officials
Kim Raikes, Maine Maritime Academy
 
Being an Outsider When You Are an Insider
Dan W. Forsyth, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
 
J. Harlan Bretz – A Geologist “Outsider”
Stephen Boss, University of Wyoming
 
Outsiders as Flawed Chemical Processors
John Sumser, California State University – Stanislaus
               
                Session 48:  Outsiders to the Canon: Transgression and Authorship in Texts by German Women – Carson
 
                Moderator:  Rob McFarland, Brigham Young University
 
Revelation and Authorship in the Works of the Mystic Poetess Hadewijch von Brabant
J. Christian Straubhaar, Brigham Young University
 
Crossing More than the Street: Johanna Lankau’s Dresdener Spaziergänge and the Walking Woman as Outsider
Bess Hayes, Brigham Young University
 
Outsiders to Their Own Heritage: Art, History, and Austrian National Identity in the Works of Ann Tizia Leitich
Dan Jacobs, Brigham Young University
 
Women Venturing Outside: The Travel Journals of Elisa von der Recke
Kelsey Kindt Ross, Brigham Young University
 
                Session 49:  Challenges – Heritage A
 
                Moderator:
 
Color Copy: Woolf’s Parody “The Mark on the Wall” Deconstructs “The Yellow Wallpaper”
K. E. Woodville, Wichita State University
 
The Cross–Dresser as Agent of Disruption and Change: Examples from Recent Chilean Experimental Narrative
Krzysztof Kulawik, Central Michigan University
 
Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation: The Marginalized "Other" in the Works of Federico Garcia Lorca
Ron Rapin, Oakland University
 
Shredding the Lavender Pants: Hyper–Masculinity and Atomic Anxiety in The Incredible Hulk
Thomas C. Donaldson, University at Albany
 
               
 
 
                Session 50:  Don Quixote and Metafiction as Outsider (II) – Heritage B
 
                Moderator:
 
Jodi Mathison, Colorado State University – Pueblo
Rosina Chaparro, Colorado State University – Pueblo
Renee Tryon, Colorado State University – Pueblo
Cheryl G. Purnell
 
 
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Saturday,  4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
 
                Session 51:  Fissures – Fremont
 
                Moderator:
 
Sinister Menace or Guardian of Truth, Justice, and the American Way: The Image of the Outsider Librarian in the Media
Robert Monge, University of South Dakota
 
Sweeney Todd: ‘Demon Barber’ Outsider as Darling of Broadway, Hollywood – and Western Popular Culture
Scott Whited, Colorado State University – Pueblo
 
The “Claiming” of Bondage: Sadomasochism and Popular Culture
Katherine Riedel, University of Buffalo
Amanda Ocasio, University of Buffalo
               
                Session 52:  Exclusion, Faux–Feminism, Sex, and Revenge: Filming the Social Outside –Carson
 
                Moderator:  Robert Poulos, Wichita State University
 
Return to Paradise: Eight Days to Find The Courage to Be
Jodie M. Liedke, Wichita State University
 
Why Does Mona Lisa Smile?: Deconstructing the Faux–Feminist Film
Anna Caroline Harris, Wichita State University
 
The Margins of Sexuality: Implication and Self–Modified Perspective in Y Tu Mamá También
Robert Poulos, Wichita State University
 
Kill ‘Em All: Tourner, Tarantino, and the Vengeance Paradox
Kyle Little, Wichita State University
               
               
 
 
                Session 53:  Women – Heritage A
 
                Moderator:  Michael D. Reed, University of Texas – Pan American
 
The Social Construction of the Female Body Image in Taiwan and in the United States
Yen–I Lee, University of Northern Colorado
 
Grendelsmere as a Vagina Dentata: Grendel’s Mother and the Fear of Women’s Power
Linda Marshall, Wichita State University
 
Reconstructing Identities of Turkish Women in the German–Turkish Cinema
Antonella Cassia, University of Arizona
 
An Image of an Outsider: The Symbolic Converge Analysis of Hou Hsaiao–Hsien’s Movie: The Time of Love
ShengChin Hsu, University of Northern Colorado (National Hualien University of Education)


Index
 (moderators and discussants in parenthesis)
 


Akrabova, Maria G. – 40
Aliev, Baktygul – 13
Allen, Lin – 14
Allingham, Liesl – 36
Alt, Betty – 24
Anderson, Donald – 9, (9)
Anderson, Tiffany Brown – 32
Aronowitz, Stanley – 34, Friday: 8:00 p.m.
Arnold, Darrell – 18
Aschenbrenner, Karen – 31
Ayres, Lindsey – 20
Bendorf, Mike – 35
Bentz, Ann – 29
Bishop, James M. – 2
Black, P. Diana – 5
Blacksberg, Leslie Ann – 31
Boss, Stephen – 47
Boyer, Lori – 4
Bozkus, Cihan – 21
Braun, Kristin – 42
Bravo, Theia – 37
Brewer, Cindy – (42)
Brown, William Lansing – 38
Buechler, Ralph W. – 19
Burd, Gene – 2
Busby, Wayne – 2, 11
Busing, John Kyle – 30
Butts, Jr., Milton L. – 30
Calhoun, Byron – 9
Camet, Sylvie – 5
Campbell, Majel – 1
Carlyon, Jonathan – 11
Caronia, Nancy – 40
Carter, Kristin Sánchez – 25, (36)
Cassia, Antonella – 53
Chaparro, Rosina – 50
Chen, Pin – 8
Ciezadlo, Janina – 43
Clark, Naeemah – 4
Cohen, Halley – 20
Collins, Susan – 29
Conceatu, Marius – 35
Conolly–Smith, Peter – 1
Cook, James – 41
Cooke, Patty – 27, (27)
Cornish, Amy Lueen – 31
Craven, Brenda – 3, (32)
Crowe, Judi – 43
Dandeles, Gregory M. – 35
Davids, Courtney P. – 28
Davis, Sloan – 27
Donaldson, Thomas C. – 49
Ebersole, Sam – 6
Eddington, Rachel – 30
Edmondson, Todd – 10
Egloff, Karin – 3
Emanuelson, Karen – 11
Endres, Thomas G. – 44, (44)
Evans, Donna – 12, (26)
Feldman, Leslie – 28
Fix, Charlene – (23)
Forsyth, Dan W. – 47
Foster, Brent M. – 16, (16)
Foust, Christina – 36
Frank, Katherine – 29
Gallant, M. J. – 29
Goldschmidt, Brad – 29
Gomme, Ian – 41
Graham, Octavia – 26
Gulielmetti, Angela – 3
Hardy, Catherine – 23
Harris, Anna Caroline – 52
Harris, Matthew – 41
Hatt, Graceanne – 35, (46)
Hayes, Bess – 48
Hetrick, Nicholas – 7
Holland, William W. – 24, (12)
Howard, Pete – 8, 32
Hsu, ShengChin – 53
Huang, Chiung–Chiu – 45
Hudock, Sandy L. – 39
Huh, Joonok – 5
Hunsaker, Aaron – 42
Huseman, William H. – 26
Ingrasci, Hugh J. – 46
Jacobs, Dan – 48
Jones, Andy – 27
Jones–Shoeman, Cindy – 5
Joyce, Richard – 6
Jütten , Elisabeth – 3
Karlin, Nancy J. – 29
Kartchner, Eric J. – 37, (37)
Kennedy, Martha – 8, (24)
Kulawik, Krzysztof – 49, (40)
Ladd, Marilyn – 37
Lape, Sue V. – 23, (29)
Lee, Yen–I – 53
Lemp, Richard W. – 1
Lichte, Gina – 14
Liedke, Jodie M. – 52
Lingle, Brandon – 9
Little, Kyle – 52
Littrell, Boyd – 34
Loewen, Donald – 7
López, John – 32
Lovato, Sam J. – 6
Luprecht, Mark – 7, (20)
Mallet, Michel – 38
Marchant,  SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Rodney – 25
Marrow, Sherilyn – 2, 14, 29
Marshall, Linda – 53
Martinez, Judith – 33
Mathias, Elizabeth B. – 9
Mathison, Jodi – 50
Matuschka, Diane – 11, 25
Mazurska, Joanna – 13
McFarland, Rob – (48)
McMillin, Calvin – 46
Michel, Andreas – 19
Mlotkiewiez, Elizabeth – 39
Moberly, Lisa M. – 17
Monge, Robert – 51
Montgomery, Barbara M. – 26
Mules, Ronald – 43
Mullen, Jen – 6, (6)
Neemann, Harold – 22
Ocasio, Amanda – 51
Orman, Patricia – 6
Ortega, Kirsten Bartholomew – 15, (15)
Overbey, David W. – 25
Page, Ana Bausset – 1
Pawlowski, Cheryl – 14, 25
Perkins, Stephynie – 4, (11)
Pichugin, Alexander E. – 38
Pielak, Chase – 12
Pletsch, Carl – (19), (45)
Poole, Daniel – 21, 24, (21)
Potter, Edward T. – 38
Poulos, Robert – 52, (52)
Pratarelli, Marc E. – 12
Pruett, Jill – 15
Purnell, Cheryl G. – 50
Quashie, Nekehia – 24
Raikes, Kim – 47
Raikes, Leon – 3
Rapin, Ron – 49
Reed, Michael D. – 39, (53)
Reznikov, Andrey – 26, (18)
Ribadeneira, Alegría – 40
Riedel, Katherine – 51
Rolland, Christelle – 10
Ross, Kelsey Kindt – 48
Rowan, Robert M. – 27
Rowley, Cristina – 40
Roy–Hewitson, Lucille – 10
Rundell, Richard – 36
Sakamoto, Michaela – 17
Sakura–Lemessy, Donna–May – 24
Sakura–Lemessy, Ian – 24
Salem, Hazem – 45
Sanchez, Carlos Alberto – 18
Sassower, Raphael – 34
Sayre, Judy – 4
Schmidt, Philip R. – 33
Schmittauer, Jan E. – 23
Schwamb, Sara M. B. – 22
Scott, Kelly C. – 7, 14, (14)
Serafin, Leilani – 39
Sheidley, William E. – 22
Simmons, K. Merinda – 15
Smith, Lise–Hélène – 10
Solomon, Dana – 18
Sonnema, Roy – 31
Soukup, Charles – 36
Spade, Bea – 8
Steckel, Gerd – 19
Steffen, Leticia – 6
Stevens, Natalie M. – 28
Stewart, Chad – 20
Stouse, Dennis – 4
Straubhaar, J. Christian – 48
Sumser, John – 47
Swanson, Amanda – 17
Thomas, David – 2
Thomlinson, Vivian Aytes – 43
Thompson, Mac – 33
Torres, Sixto E. – 20, (10)
Trocha–Van Nort, Andrea F. – 22, (7)
Tseng, Yi–tsui – 45
Turner, John S., II, – 36
Tryon, Renee – 50
Vidmar, Shawn M. – 37
Vigil, Derrick – 28
Wakefield, Michael W. – 13
Wessels, Schuyler – 14
West, Carrie L. – 14, 30
Westover, Jonathan H. – 21, 33
Whipple, Dane – 42
Whited, Scott – 51
Whitener, Bonnie – 15
Whitfield, Meghan E. – 32
Willette, Annmarie Kent – 4
Wintermute, Bobby A. – 41
Wolf, Brian – 34
 
Woodburn, Dixie – 29
Woodburn, Stephen M. – 13
Woodville, K. E. – 49
Young, Michael – 42
Youngblood, Karen N. – 12
Zhang, Haoyue – 30
Zheng, Aili – 46
Zhumazhanov, Arman – 13
Zils, Harald – 18
 
 

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