Friday, October 21, 2016
8:00am Registration Opens
Welcome to the Conference: Good Morning and Housekeeping
Joint Conference Co-Chairs:
Kate Lutes, Coordinator, Macomb Center Campus Reading and Writing Studio
Leah Bublitz, Coordinator, Macomb South Campus Reading and Writing Studio
Brett Griffiths, Director, Macomb Reading and Writing Studios
MCEA Welcoming Remarks
Conference Co-Chairs:
Cheryl Caesar, Michigan State University
Curtis VanDonkelaar, Michigan State University
9:00am–10:15am Concurrent Sessions A
K-307 Women’s Voices in Memoir –Creative Reading and Panel Discussion
Moderator: Ed Demerly, Henry Ford College (emeritus)
Nancy Owen Nelson, Henry Ford College
Mary Assel, Henry Ford College (retired)
Melissa Grunow, Madonna University
K-311 People, Places, Participations I Administrations and Organizations
Moderator: Cheryl Caesar, Michigan State University
A Servant Leadership Model from Herman Hesse’s Journey to the East to Balance Innovation and Tradition within Organizations–David Settle, Grand Rapids Community College
Little Paris: The Writing Center as Literary Hub–Tom Zimmerman, Washtenaw Community College
Faculty/Staff Intergroup Dialogues: Expanding Innovative Pedagogical and Personal Capacity–Irene Lietz, Carlow University
10:15am -10:30am Break
10:30am – 11:45am Concurrent Sessions B
K-307 Music and Memory Creative Reading
Moderator: Nancy Owen Nelson, Henry Ford College
Innovative Brain Training: Awakening Silenced Neural Networks (Poetry and Creative Nonfiction)–Joanna White, Central Michigan University
Excerpt from the novel Everything Empty Is Broken–Curtis VanDonkelaar, Michigan State University
K-311 People, Places, Participations II– Writing and Teaching
Moderator: Cheryl Caesar, Michigan State University
How Students Can Incorporate a Sense of Space in Their Writing Using Our State of Michigan–Carol Weatherford, Kalamazoo Valley Community College
Academic Service Learning in Professional Writing Classes: Fresh Perspectives on Traditional Assignments–Melissa Lewis, Davenport University
K-315 Personalizing the Standard: Approaches to Writing and First-Year Composition Teaching
Moderator: Loretta Woodard, Marygrove College
Kimberly Tweedale, Michigan Technological University
Silke Feltz, Michigan Technological University
Emily Simmons, Michigan Technological University
11:45am -12:00pm Break
12:00pm-1:15pm Lunch and Keynote Address
Welcoming Remarks
Janet Heller, President of the Michigan College English Association
Introduction of Dr. James Jacobs–Brett Griffiths, Director, Macomb Reading and Writing Studios
Welcome to the College and Introduction to the Keynote Address by Dr. James Jacobs, President, Macomb Community College
Keynote Address–M. L. Liebler, Poet and Professor, Wayne State University
1:15pm -1:30pm Break
1:30pm – 2:45pm Concurrent Sessions C
K- 307 Recent Multicultural Literature for Children Literature
Moderator: Janet Ruth Heller, MCEA President
The Importance of Multicultural Picture Books for Children–Brynne Barnes, Macomb Community College
Children’s Books about Poverty and Homelessness–Jennifer Burd, Jackson College
Recent Multicultural Books for Children about Jews and People of Color–Janet Ruth Heller, MCEA President
K-311 Infinity and Reflection Creative Reading
Poetry and Fiction
Moderator: Curtis VanDonkelaar, Michigan State University
Poetry Selections from Infinite Collisions–Melissa Lewis, Davenport University
Alicia and the Magic Mirror (Fiction)–Gonzalo Munévar, Lawrence Technological University
2:45pm – 3:00pm Break
3:00pm – 4:15pm Concurrent Sessions D
K-307 Implementing Multimodal Expression in the Classroom Writing and Teaching
Moderator: Loretta Woodard, Marygrove College
Laura Soldner, Northern Michigan University
Anne Okonowski, Northern Michigan University
Sarah Davis, Northern Michigan University
K-311 Temporality and Infinity Literature
Moderator: Ed Demerly, Henry Ford College (emeritus)
God’s Rhetoric of Command: An Analysis of the Style of the Decalogue–Phillip Arrington, Eastern Michigan University
Supporting Our Tropes: Witchcraft and the War on Terrorism–Bernie Miller, Eastern Michigan University
Space and the Ethics of ‘Great Time’ in John Edgar Wideman’s Fatheralong–Joel Wendland, Grand Valley State University
Borges’ Influence on García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude–Gonzalo Munévar, Lawrence Technological University
4:30pm -5:00pm MCEA Business Meeting