PCEA 2015 Conference Program
Tentative Schedule
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Board Meeting
Friday, October 2, 2015
Session 1, 9-10:15 a.m.
1.1
Teen Pregnancy, Urban Squalor, and Nature in 1870: Proto-Ecofeminist Homiletics in Phelps Hedged In
David von Schlichten, Seton Hill University
Lost Children, Lost Land: Complex Families and Their Relationship with Southern Landscape in William
Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
Max McKeon, Kutztown University
Robert Frost’s Pastoral: Uncommon Rural Labor and Common Connection
Robert Fillman, Lehigh University
1.2
Landscapes of Freedom: Nineteenth Century British Women Writers and the Polities of Intervention in
the Balkans and Elsewhere
Michael T Williamson, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Photographs and Memories: The Landscape of History in Graham Swift’s Out of This World
John Marsden, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Session 2, 10:30-11:45 a.m.
2.1 Speaking from Below the Surface
Criag Czury, Albright Colelge; Ruth Tonachel, Northern Tier Cultural Alliance; and Kimberly Glembosky,
author, historian, restauranteur
2.2: The Pedagogical Landscape in the 21st Century
Quite Lovely and Easy: Fostering an Inclusive Environment for First-Semester Students
Jackie Atkins, Penn State DuBois
Facilitating Academic Success and Increasing Retention for Students on the GI Bill
Chuck Dewald and Eileen Morgan, Penn State Hazelton
Virtual Reality as Teaching Tool: Exploring Slave Narratives in Digital Landscapes”
Sarah Heidebrink-Bruno, Lehigh University
2.3: Trails, Rails, and Tales: Narratives of Journeys and the Environment
Dharinee Deepak Kuvaida, Maura C. McGrath and Robert Crumling, University of Pittsburgh at
Johnstown
Response: Kristen L. Majocha,University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
12-2 p.m. Luncheon, General Membership Meeting,
Keynote Presented by Sarah Ciccini, Associate Director, Lackawanna Historical Society
Scranton’s Ethnic Landscape
Session 3, 2:30-3:45p.m.
3.1
How the South Texas Landscape Impacted the Evolvement of My “Chicanindio” Cultural Identity
Itzi Meztli, Slippery Rock University
Secrets of the Frozen Lake
Tim Hibsman, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
3.2: Fiction Reading
“Callahan’s Thanksgiving”
Michael Cox, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
“The Memory Bag”
Lynn Petko, Penn State Fayette
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Session 4, 9-10:15 a.m.
4.1: Is There Anybody Here? Students and Teachers Haunting the Classroom
Laurel J. Black, Nicole E. Bradley, and Samantha R. Jacobs
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
4.2: Poetry Reading
“I learn by going where I have to go”: Original Poems about Place
Antonio Vallone, Penn State DuBois
Below the Horizon: Explorations of Deep Waters and Rich Lands
Brent House, California University of Pennsylvania
4.3
An Excerpt from “Decent Stories of Sex and Damnation from Hard Coal Country”
Bim Angst, Penn State Schuylkill
Writers Making Miners Visible
Bill Conlogue, Marywood University
Poetry of Place and Witness
Craig Czury, Albright College
Session 5, 10:30-11:45 a.m.
5.1
A College Professor Goes Back to School
Michael Cox, University of Pittsburgh Johnstown
Voice from Libya: A Story of English Language Journey
Samah Elbelazi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Study/Teach Overseas: Writing Effective Fulbright Proposals
Gerald Siegel, York College of Pennsylvania