Panel Schedule: Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium
8:00 – 8:30 am: Registration
8:30 – 9:45 am: Literature and Fanatical Ideas
Chair: Osborne Wiggins, University of Louisville (Philosophy Department)
Williamson, Brandi. “Playing by the Rules Their Forefathers Created – Racial Enlightenment and Social Order in A Lesson Before Dying and Burning Angel.” Middle Tennessee State University
Hays, Sara. “Sola Fide–The Essential Protestantism of Stoker’s Dracula.” Belmont University
Killian, Jeremy. “Faulkner on Descartes–The Sound and Fury and the Mind-Body Problem.” University of Louisville
9:45 – 11:00 am: Creative Fanaticism
Chair: Annette Allen, University of Louisville (Humanities Department)
Stamp, Anna. “Eulogy.” University of Louisville
Batts, Diane. [TBA]. University of Louisville
Katie Wagner. [TBA]. University of Louisville
11:00 am – 12:15 pm: Keynote Address
Chair: Dr. Andrew Rabin, University of Louisville (English Department)
Dr. Scott Nokes, “Professor Awesome vs. the Nazis: Mythic Transference and Fanaticism.” Troy University
12:30 – 1:30 pm: LUNCH
(Location: Ekstrom, 254)
1:30 – 2:45 pm: Social Conditioning Through Medieval and Modern Texts
Chair: Dr. Blake Beattie, University of Louisville (History Department)
Sheehan, Kendra. “The Japanese Cultural Obsession as Glimpsed in Modern Day Media.” University of Louisville
Basso, Vincent. “Mythologizing the Subject–The Labor of Media and the Appropriation of Descent.” University of New Mexico
Harper, Leslie. “Performing Masculinity andProving Womanhood–The Role of Gender in The Clerk’s Tale.” University of Louisville
2:45 – 4:00 pm: Fandom and Identity
Chair: Dr. Matthew Biberman, University of Louisville (English Department)
Howard, Shannon. “Closeted Bullies, Closeted Fans–The Marginalized Online Communities Who Reread and Redeem Glee’s Dave Karofsky.” University of Louisville
Tanner, Jane. “March Madness–Certifiable Insanity or Issue of Identity.” University of Louisville
Bogard, Megan. “A Faith Without Reflection–Tillich and Protestant Church Architecture.” University of Louisville
4:00 – 5:15 pm: Retaliations Against The Status Quo
Chair: Dr. Mike Hagan, University of Louisville (Humanities Department)
Bache, Lee Anne. “Negotiating an Emerging Celebrity Culture–Eliza Lynn Linton and the Decline of Anonymous Publication in Fin de Siècle Britain.” Indiana University
Gardner, Chad. “Radical Ecology and the Herd-Abstract.” Florida State University
Clarkson, Shaun. “Fanatical Israel in The Counter Life and Operation Shylock.” Texas State University
