Topic: "The Bible as a Literary Classic"
Dr. Leland
Ryken, Wheaton College
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2009
Concurrent Sessions 1: 8:00-9:15
am
Location: MCAC Museum Theater
Topic: Rhetoric and Christian Learning Chair: Bethany
Getz, Baylor University
“John Henry Newman on Faith, Reason, and Rhetoric”
Dwight Lindley, University of Dallas
“Augustine, Modernity, and the Recovery of True
Education”
Brad Green, Union University
Location:
Hinton H300
Topic: Mark Twain Chair: Constantina Michalos, Houston Baptist
University
“Rot, Slush, and Flapdoodle: Rhetorical Conflict and
Human Uncertainty in the Work of Mark Twain"
Margy Thomas, Baylor University
“Huckleberry Finn: A Mirror and a Puzzle”
Katie Condra, Abilene Christian University
“The News and the Nature of Truth”
Christina Lluzada, Baylor University
Location: Hinton H301
Topic: Medieval Vision and Devotion Chair: Amanda
Beck, Baylor University
“Saf by Ryght? Merit and Grace in Pearl and Bernard”
Elisabeth Wolfe, Independent Scholar
“’Listeth of my drem to lere’: Can Chaucer’s House of
Fame Engage a Postsecular Christian Poetics?”
Karen Youmans, Oklahoma Baptist Univeristy
“Verbal Excess and Theology in Julian of Norwich”
Kevin West, Stephen F. Austin State U
Concurrent Sessions 2: 9:30-10:45 am
Location: MCAC Museum Theater
Topic: Legend and Myth Chair: Evan
Getz, Houston Baptist University
“Spenser's Fairy Land and the Fallen World”
Benjamin Myers, Oklahoma Baptist University
"Legend and History Have Met and Fused":
J.R.R.Tolkien, Christopher Dawson, Owen Barfield, and the Problem of
History”
Philip Mitchell, Dallas Baptist University
Location: Hinton H300
Topic: Wrestling with Catholicism Chair:Andrew Armond, Oklahoma Baptist University
“What Bell Left Out: Moss, Catholicism, and Charity in No
Country for Old Men”
J. Cameron Moore, Baylor University
“Confession as Rebellion in Sabato's The Tunnel”
Amanda Beck, Baylor University
“Joyce’s Use of Religious Allusion in Ulysses”
Dana McMichael, Abilene Christian University
Location: Hinton H301
Topic: Calvinism and Grace Chair: TBA
“Negotiating Desire and Grace in Julia Palmer’s Centuries”
Erin Breaux, Louisiana State University
“A Journey Toward Grace: Jane Turner’s Conversion
Narrative”
Beverly McCullough, University of Mary Washington
Concurrent Sessions 3: 11:00-12:15 pm
Location: Hinton H300
Topic: Shakespeare Chair: Jeffrey
Green, Houston Baptist University
“Hamlet visits the Bible Belt: Will the Academy Return
the Welcome Mat?”
Chad Chisholm, UT Arlington
“Shakespeare’s Feminized Friar”
Constantina Michalos, Houston Baptist University
Location: MCAC Museum Theater
Topic: Christian Epic: Milton and Dante Chair:
Peter Epps, Belhaven College
"The Form of the Cross: Milton's Chiastic
Soteriology”
Jeffrey Bilbro, Baylor University
"No Longer 'Pawning His Honest Laughter': Dante's
Restorative Work of Comedy."
Steve Petersheim, Baylor University
“God Gives Away a Booby-Trapped Bride”
Bethel University, St. Paul, MN
Location: Hinton H301
Topic: C. S. Lewis and
Philosophy
Chair: Russell
Hemati, Houston Baptist University
“C. S. Lewis’s Eschatological Debt to Plato”
Andy Bramsen, University of Notre Dame
“Pascal & Puddleglum, Boethius & Beowulf in The
Silver Chair and Grendel”
Larry E. Fink, Hardin-Simmons University
“Postmodern reading of a protagonist Orual’s writing in
C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces”
Kyoko Yuasa, Hokkaido University, Japan
Lunch: 12:15-1:45 pm
Plenary Session: 2:00-3:00 pm
Location: Dillon II
Topic: “The Aesthetics of Incarnation: A Christian Response to
Postmodernism”
Dr. Louis Markos,
Houston Baptist University
Concurrent Sessions 4: 3:15-4:30 pm
Location: Hinton H301
Topic: The Mystery of Grace Chair:
Philip Mitchell, Dallas Baptist University
“The Mystery of Creation and Elizabeth Jennings”
Danielle Williams, Baylor University
“Squinting at the Ways of God in Detective Fiction”
Chris Willerton, Abilene Christian University
"The Five Keys to a Happy Family"
Lawrence J. Clark, Houston Baptist University
Location: Hinton H300
Topic: Spirited Women
Chair: Rebecca
Dowden, Houston Baptist University
“Ruth Pitter, War Poet”
Joe R. Christopher, Tarleton State University
“Grace Under Fire: Women of Virtue or Women of Grace”
Amy Frazier, UT Brownsville
Location: MCAC Museum Theater
Topic: Intertextuality and Literary Theory Chair: Steve
Petersheim, Baylor University
“A ‘Touching’ Psalm in Richardson’s Pamela”
Bethany Getz, Baylor University
“Jesus Christ Parable: A Barthesian Analysis”
Zachary Beck, Baylor University
“Taste and See That the Lord is Good’: The
Intertextuality of the Poetry of George Herbert and the
Seventeenth-Century Meditative Tradition”
Mark Hall, Oral Roberts University
Break: 4:30-5:00 pm
Banquet and Keynote Address: 5:00-6:45 pm
Location: Dillon II
Topic: “Rhetoric and Dialectic in Paradise Lost” Phillip
Donnelly, Baylor University
Reception for The Trojan Women: 7:00 pm
The Trojan Women performance: 7:30
pm
Location: MCAC Dunham Theater
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2008
Business Meeting: 8:00-9:00 am
Location: Honors College
Concurrent Sessions 5: 9:15-10:30 am
Location: UAC 130
Topic: Towards a Christian Aesthetics: the Novel Chair: J.
Matthew Boyleston, Houston Baptist University
“Biblical Language in Edward Jones' The Known World”
Laura Dawkins, Murray State University
“And the Word Became Flesh: Logos and Hope in Early
Yoknapatawpha Novels”
Stephen Barnes, Daugavpils University, Latvia
“The Aesthetics and Ethics of Language in Joyce’s Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man”
Lynne Hinojosa, Baylor University
Location: UAC 222
Topic: Calvinist Poetics Chair:
Zachary Beck, Baylor University
“Calvin, Sidney, and Reformed Poetics
Leland Ryken, Wheaton College
“Lucy Hutchinson and the Poetics of Reformed
Scholasticism”
Evan Getz, Houston Baptist University
“ ‘Thish-yer comes of trust’n to Providence’: Mark
Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and the Reaction to Calvinism in American
Literature”
Mark Buechsel, St. Francis University, Fort Wayne
Location: UAC 150
Topic: Grace Concealed Chair:TBA
“Sacramentalisim in Tobias Wolff: Infusing Grace into
the Everyday”
Anita Helmbold, The King’s University College
“Grace Concealed in Spofford’s Circumstance”
Mimosa Stephenson, UT Brownsville
Concurrent Sessions 6: 10:45-12:00 pm
Location: UAC 130
Topic: Fantastic Poetry and Fiction Chair: Geoffrey
Reiter, Baylor University
“Lovecraft’s Fungi and the Legitimacy of the Sonnet”
Peter Epps, Belhaven College
“Hope That Can But Hark: Looking for God in the Dark
Seas of William Hope Hodgson’s Poetry”
Geoffrey Reiter, Baylor University
“Presentations of Christianity in Popular Speculative
Fiction”
Suanna Davis, Houston Baptist University
Location: UAC 222
Topic: Towards a Christian Aesthetics Chair: Jeffrey
Bilbro, Baylor University
“The Relationship of Atheism and Apophasis in Philip
Larkin and R. S. Thomas”
Andrew Armond, Oklahoma Baptist University
“Music and Free Will : W. H. Auden’s Christian
Aesthetics
Stephen Schuler, University of Mobile
“Reading Grammar Religiously”
J. Matthew Boyleston, Houston Baptist University
Location: UAC 150
Topic: Decadent Spirituality: Dwindling Faith, Then and Now Chair: Lawrence
Clark, Houston Baptist University
“On the Notion of Miracle in George Eliot”
John Mazaheri, Auburn University
“For the Sake of Faith”
Anton Smith, University of Southern California
