Thursday, September 28th
 

5:30-7:00

Registration  BSB Room 101 Rotunda

6:30-7:00

Worship  BSB Room 200

7:15-8:30 

Plenary Speaker: David K. Naugle, Dallas Baptist University  BSB Room 100

"'Who made, who marr'd, and who has ransom'd man': Worldview and the Work of William Cowper"
Welcome and Introduction:  Royce Money, President, Abilene Christian University 

8:45-10:00

Live from Abilene: The Proceedings of the Trilateral Poetry Commission  WPC Atrium

Join us as distinguished poets Jill Baumgaertner, Anna Stepanek, and Paul Willis read from their work. Cheesecake and coffee. Book-signing afterwards. 

Friday, September 29th 

8:00-9:00

Registration BSB Room 101 Rotunda

9:00-10:15 

The Inklings and their Influences (Chair: Mark R. Hall, Oral Roberts University)               BSB Room 103

• Jenny Haak, Indiana University School of Medicine: "The Fiction of C. S. Lewis: The Unique Efficacy of Imagined Words"
• Elizabeth Robinson, Texas A & M University: "Subverting Subversion: The Spiritual Role of Tale and Song in George MacDonald's Phantastes"
  
• Elizabeth Adams-Eilers, Temple University: "The 'Great Experiment': Women as  Images of Affirmation in Charles Williams' Descent into Hell (1945) and All Hallows' Eve (1945)"

The Transcendent Hidden and Revealed: American Literature I (Chair: Scott Lamascus, Oklahoma Christian University) BSB Room 120

• Caryn Cox, Oklahoma Christian University: "Passover Motifs in Marilynne Robinson's  Gilead"
  
• Keith E. Gogan, Oral Roberts University: "A 'Hidden God' in Annie Dillard"
• Lindsay Taylor, Northwestern College: "Manifesting Perichoresis: Brother Fowles in The Poisonwood Bible"
  

Classical Rhetoric and Faith (Chair: Cole Bennett, Abilene Christian University)          BSB Room 128

• Gary H. Wilson, Texas Woman's University: "Appreciating Paul's Rhetorical Paradigms in I Thessalonians: A Short Course for the College Compositioner"
• Mark Haas, Geneva College: "Beyond the Ancient Divides: A Christian-Theistic Grounding for Rhetoric"
• William M. Hagen, Oklahoma Baptist University: "What Has the Psalmist to Do with Homer?"
  

10:15-10:30 

Break  BSB Room 101 Rotunda

10:30-12:00 

Sacramental Visions: Blake and Dickens (Chair: Brent Gibson, University of Mary- Hardin Baylor) BSB Room 103

• Amy Frazier, University of Texas at Brownsville: "Sexual Imagery and the Fallen Nature of Man in William Blake's 'A Poison Tree'"
• Teresa Gibson, University of Texas at Brownsville: "Negative Morality of the Church as a Theme in William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
• Abigail Lundelius, University of South Carolina: "The Dickensian Sacrament"

World/Comparative Literature (Chair: Rhonda Collier, Abilene Christian University) BSB Room 120

• Laura Barge, Mississippi State University at Meridian: "Using Bakhtin's Strategies to Discover Ethical Voices in Russian Literature"
• Bryan Kirby, Oklahoma Baptist University: "Meaning from Purpose: Stewardship of Language and an Austrian Ethical Imperative"
• Michael G. Ditmore, Pepperdine University: "'A Loud Voice to My Inner Ear': Entanglements and Transformations of Language and Time in Augustine's Confessions"
• Sinda Vanderpool, Baylor University: "A Look at the Miroir (Marguerite de Navarre, 1531-33): A French Princess Establishes her Literary Identity, Launches a Reform and Inflames Religious Tensions"

Creative Writing: Poetry I (Chair: Alan Berecka, Del Mar College) BSB Room 113

• David Craig, Franciscan University of Steubenville
• Eric Potter, Grove City College

Keeping Connections Among Christian Teachers and Scholars (Chair: Chris Willerton, Abilene Christian University) BSB Room 128

• Mark R. Hall, Oral Roberts University: "Memberships and Fellowship: How We Stay in Touch"
• Jamie Dessart, Waynesburg University, and Brad Gambill, John Brown University: "The Word in the English Classroom: A Best-Practices Collection on Faith Integration"
• Chris Willerton, Abilene Christian University: "Inscription Resources: Online Swap-Shop for Teaching and Study Materials" 
  

12:00-1:30 

Plenary Speaker: Jill Baumgaertner, Wheaton College: "'Sudden in a shaft of sunlight': Poetry as a Leap outside the Self"  Hilton Room

Introduction: Nancy Shankle, Chair, Department of English, Abilene Christian University

Meal hosted by College of Arts and Sciences, Abilene Christian University 

1:45-3:00 

Intersections: Modern and Postmodern British Literature (Chair:  Larry Fink, Hardin-Simmons University) BSB Room 128

• Guy Story Brown, Lubbock Christian University: "Sweeney Among the Nightingales"
• Lynne Walhout Hinojosa, Baylor University: "Modern and Postmodern British Fiction and the Failure of Language: What the Christian Reader Might Learn"
• Robert Haselwander, University of Missouri at Kansas City: "The Wit of Wilde"
  

• Traci S. Thompson, Hardin-Simmons University: "Struggling Saints:  The Women of Jean Stafford's Fiction"
• Frederick Rankin McFadden, Jr., Coppin State University: "A Brotherhood of Kairos: The Surrogate Shift from the Pre-1950s Absent Father"
• Nicole Amare, University of South Alabama, and Alan D. Manning, Brigham Young University: "Twain's Satirical Mormon Sympathies in Roughing It"

• Lauren Smelser, Abilene Christian University: "The Eternal Conversation of Epistemological Criticism: A Theory of Hope"
• Joe Christopher, Tarleton State University: "C.S. Lewis's Approach to Science Fiction Aesthetics"
• Mark R. Hall, Oral Roberts University, "Intertextuality as a Literary Critical Framework for Interpreting Poetry: The Juxtaposition of George Herbert's 'Love III' and Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'The Windhover'"

• Mark Love, Abilene Christian University
• Mark Hamilton, Abilene Christian University
• Frederick Aquino, Abilene Christian University
  

3:00-3:15 

Break  BSB Room 101 Rotunda

3:15-4:30 

Film/Pop Culture (Chair: Larry Van Meter, York College) BSB Room 120 

• Mikee Delony, Abilene Christian University: "The Search for the Ultimate Hero in Contemporary Epic Films"
• Frederick Rankin McFadden, Jr., Coppin State University: "The Popularity of Hell"
• Raymond Legg, Bryan College: "The Object of Their Affection"
  

Creative Writing: Nonfiction (Chair: Patty Kirk, John Brown University) BSB Room 113

• Jane Holwerda, Dodge City Community College
• Patty Kirk, John Brown University
• Steve Weathers, Abilene Christian University

Keeping the Faith in the Academy (Chair: Bill Rankin, Abilene Christian University) BSB Room 103

• Melissa Linville, Hardin-Simmons University: "A Journey to Self-Awareness: Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy"
• Jessica Goudeau, University of Texas, Austin: "'A Good Christian is Hard to Find': Flannery, Faith, and Life in the Academy"
• Andrew Langford, University of Texas, Austin: "Echoes of a Call to Faithfulness: Isaiah 40:3-5 Resounding in Antiquity and the Modern Classroom"

4:30-4:45 

Break  BSB Room 101 Rotunda

4:45-6:00 

Pedagogical Workshop: Freshman Composition (Chair: Gail Nash, Oklahoma Christian University) BSB Room 113

• Nancy Hull, Calvin College
• Chandra Lewis-Qualls, Abilene Christian University
• Deb Williams, Abilene Christian University
  

Pedagogical Workshop: Wading in Water:  Teaching Creative Writing at the Christian University (Chair: Cole Thompson, McMurry University) BSB Room 103

• Paul Willis, Westmont College
• Anna Stepanek, Wheaton College
• Al Haley, Abilene Christian University

Pedagogical Workshop: Active Learning in the Classroom (Chair: Vickie Smith, Abilene Christian University) BSB Room 120

• Joy Lynn Hailey Reed, University of Texas at Dallas
• Steven Moore, Abilene Christian University
• Patricia Hernandez, Abilene Christian University
• Phil Vardiman, Abilene Christian University
  

This session co-sponsored by the Adams Center for Teaching Excellence, Abilene Christian University

Panel: Theologically Informed Theory (Chair: Bill Rankin, Abilene Christian University) BSB Room 128

• Joy Langford, Abilene Christian University
• Lauren Dowdy, Abilene Christian University
• Lauren Smelser, Abilene Christian University
  

6:30-7:15 

Dinner (ticket required) WPC Atrium

7:15-8:30 

Plenary Speaker:  David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor University: "Love, Loops and Linear Journeys: The Significance of Masterplots"  WPC Recital Hall

Introduction: Dwayne VanRheenen, Provost, Abilene Christian University 

8:45-10:00 

ACU Jazz Ensemble  WPC Atrium

 C. S. Lewis Slide Show: Larry Fink, Hardin-Simmons University: "Nature and the Imaginative Life of C. S. Lewis--A Photographic Essay"

Saturday, September 30th

7:30-9:00 

SWCCL Breakfast and Business Meeting (Meeting begins at 8:00 a.m.) East Dining Hall

9:00-10:15 

Paradise Lost and the Architecture of Creation (Chair: Melody Trowell, University of North Texas) BSB Room 113

• Larry E. Fink, Hardin-Simmons University: "Satan's Edifice Complex in Paradise Lost"
• William Epperson, Oral Roberts University: "'Made Vocal by My Song': The Vocation of the Adamic Priesthood"
• George W. Walton, Abilene Christian University: "In Search of the Hero in Milton's Heroic Poem"

Multicultural Literature (Chair: Nancy Shankle, Abilene Christian University)              BSB Room 120

• Deborah Klein, Oklahoma Christian University: "Eyes of the Mind, Eyes of the Heart"
• Rhonda Collier, Abilene Christian University: "Teaching to Transgress: Teaching Multi-Cultural Themes in a Sometimes Mono-Cultural Classroom"
• Vickie Smith, Abilene Christian University: "Alice Walker's 'The Welcome Table': Teaching the Table Turned"
  

Intersections of Faith and Learning in the Freshman Classroom (Chair: Susan Blassingame, Lubbock Christian University) BSB Room103

• Mark Hass, Geneva College: "Worldview and Writing"
• Keith A. Waddle, Hardin-Simmons University: "Adapting Jewish Rhetorical Tradition in the Christian Writing Class"
• Carole Carroll, Lubbock Christian University: "Controversy, Christian Education, and the Use of Film in the Composition Classroom"
  

Creative Writing, Poetry II (Chair: Shelly Sanders, Abilene Christian University)            BSB Room 128

• Angela O'Donnell, Fordham University
• John Jenkinson, Butler Community College
  

10:15-10:30 

Break  BSB Room 321

10:30-11:45 

Moral Exempla in British Literature (Chair:  Mikee Delony, Abilene Christian University) BSB Room 113

• Karen Youmans, Oklahoma Baptist University: "Chaucer's Staged Readings of Exemplary Literature"
• Larry A. Van Meter, York College: "Teaching Beowulf in the Christian College"
• Jill Kriegel, Florida Atlantic University: "Do As I Say, Or As I Do?  The Same Christian Lesson via Differing Examples: Teaching Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet"
  

Contemporary Rhetoric, Politics, and Christian Citizenship (Chair: Chuck Anderson, University of Arkansas at Little Rock) BSB Room 120

• John Beitler, University of Michigan: "Constitutive Rhetoric as Rhetorical Prompt: Analyzing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report"
• Thomas Allbaugh, Azusa Pacific University: "Of Christ and Culture: Integrating Faith Traditions through Constructions of Reason and Revelation"
• Keith A. Waddle, Hardin-Simmons University: "Pascal as a Model for a Christian Rhetoric in a Postmodern World"
  

Panel: The Future of Literature and Composition Online (Chair: Kyle Dickson, Abilene Christian University) BSB Room 103

• Gary Tandy, Cascade College: "From Comma Usage to Narnia: Reflections of a Reluctant Convert to Online Teaching"
• Katherine Nelson-Born, Columbia Southern University: "GlobalWebWriting.com: Web-enabled Writing Exercises that Work (but Feel like Fun)"
• Laura Carroll, Abilene Christian University: "Service Learning from Afar? Implementing SL in the Online Classroom"
  

12:00-1:30 

Lunch: Panel with Plenary Speakers  Hilton Room 

Moderator: Bill Rankin, Abilene Christian University

Concluding Comments: Nancy Shankle, Chair, Department of English, Abilene Christian University

Meal hosted by Office of the Provost, Abilene Christian University