Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies

1st Annual Conference

February 7-8, 2020

University of North Carolina at Charlotte Center City

Charlotte, NC
 Welcome to the 1st Annual SEACS Conference

On behalf of the organizing committee, it is my pleasure to welcome you to Charlotte for the
inaugural conference of the Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies. The officers are
excited that you have come to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Center City to
present your research to your colleagues. This conference would not be possible without your
continuous support. You may have noticed that some things have changed. Last February the
officers decided that it was time for a fresh start. A lot of time and energy has been invested into
the founding of SEACS, a tax-exempt organization dedicated to scholarship in modern
languages and literature, including linguistics, pedagogy, and cultural studies. A regional
organization with an international scope, SEACS holds annual meetings in the Southeast that
draw participants from neighboring states and beyond. As a smaller non-profit organization,
SEACS strives to promote scholarly exploration in a collegial spirit. The organization is
dedicated to maintaining a strong community of educators, scholars, and graduate students and
to providing early professionalization opportunities for undergraduates. Thank you for being part
of this endeavor and we hope that you enjoy the conference and that you will join us again next
year.

Dr. Kai Werbeck

SEACS President, 2019-2020
Associate Professor of German
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to the Officers for their vital work on the program and conference planning:

Dr. Melissa Birkhofer, First Vice President

Angela Jakeway, Second Vice President
Dr. Kristin Kiely, Secretary/Treasurer
Dr. Paul Worley, Journal Editor
Dr. Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, Local Arrangements

We wish to express our gratitude to Dr. Paul A. Youngman, Associate Provost and Redenbaugh
Professor of German at Washington & Lee University, our keynote speaker.

We also would like to thank the chair, Dr. Michèle Bissière, and the faculty, students, and staff of
the Department of Languages and Culture Studies at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte for their support.

Presenters are encouraged to submit their work to Convergences, SEACS’s peer-reviewed

journal, for consideration. Email your manuscripts to Paul Worley for peer-review at
pmworley@email.wcu.edu, using “Convergences Submission” as the subject line. Details can
be found on the conference website, www.theSeacs.org.

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 Program Overview

Friday, February 7

Time/Location Room 806 Room 902 Room 906 Room 1105

12:00-4:00 pm Registration Lobby

Session I Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3 Panel 4

12:30-2:00 pm Gender Diversity: Film Studies Art and Literature Discourses on Social
Inclusive Language, (German) in Modern France Justice
Language Change, and and Beyond
Representation in the
Spanish-Speaking World

2:00-2:15 pm Coffee Break 9th Floor

Session II Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3 Panel 4

2:15-3:45 pm Translation World Literatures Rhetorics in and of Testing the Limits of
Appalachia Transfer in Freshman
Composition

Saturday, February 8
Time/Location Room 904 Room 905 Room 906 Room 1105
8:00-11:45 am Registration Lobby
Session I Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3 Panel 4
8:30-10:00 am New Approaches to Representations of Indigenous Horror Studies
Pedagogy I Female Agency in Literatures
German-speaking
Literature and Film
10:00-10:15 am Coffee Break 9th Floor
Session II Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3 Panel 4
10:15-11:45 am Reimagining North Spanish in the Face-to-Face Stylistics and Rhetoric I
Carolina Literatures Upstate of South versus Online
Carolina Learning of
Spanish
Language
12:00-1:30 pm Banquet and Keynote: Center City Atrium 2nd Floor
Session III Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3 Panel 4
1:45-3:15 pm Interdisciplinary Latinx New Approaches Cultural Studies Women and Gender
Studies in Pedagogy II

3:15-3:30 pm Coffee Break 9th Floor

Session IV Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3 Panel 4
3:30-5:00 pm Homage to Sandra Stylistics and US South: Life, Theater and Poetry
Cisneros Rhetoric II Death, and
Doubling
5:00-6:00 pm SEACS Business Meeting Room 904
All Welcome!

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 Detailed Program

Friday, February 7

Session I - 12:30-2:00 pm

Panel 1: Room 806

Gender Diversity: Inclusive Language, Language Change, and Representation in the Spanish Speaking
World
Chair: Javier García León, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Inclusive Language and Language Change: The Case of Teaching Spanish in the USA”
Olga Padilla-Falto and Concepción Godev, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Inclusive Language in Mexico and Spain: Institutional Language Ideology”

Mirna García, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“The Discursive Construction of Trans Women in Colombian and Venezuelan Newspapers”

Javier García León, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Panel 2: Room 902

Film Studies (German)
Chair: Robert C. Reimer, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“West German Gothic Cinema: Repressed Horrors in Harald Reinl’s Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel”
Kai-Uwe Werbeck, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Love Is Never Happy: Observations on the Role of Food in the Films of R. W. Fassbinder”
Robert C. Reimer, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Wolfgang Herrndorf’s 2010 Novel Tschick (Why We Took the Car) and Fatih Akin’s 2006 Film Tschick”
Kirsten Krick-Aigner, Wofford College

Panel 3: Room 906

Art and Literature in Modern France and Beyond
Chair: Mary LaMarca, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Sounding Persia and India: Seventeenth-Century French Travelers and Inter-Imperiality”

Pascale Barthe, University of North Carolina Wilmington

“From Paris to New York: The French Influence on American Art, 1860s-1930s”
Emma Driggers, Francis Marion University

“Jean Cocteau: The Prince Frivole during the Occupation”

Mary LaMarca, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Still Hidden: Influences of the ‘Juste’s’ Historic Heterotopia Based on Space’s Agential Capacity”
Emma Cowen, University of North Carolina Wilmington

Panel 4: Room 1105

Discourses on Social Justice
Chair: Bianca Potrykus, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Who Gets the Prison Blues? A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the US-American and German Penal Systems and
Their Effects on Society”
Chelsea M. Silvia, East Carolina University

“Language Nutrition”
Ralf Thiede, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
 2:00-2:15 pm - Coffee Break, 9th Floor

Session II - 2:15-3:45 pm

Panel 1: Room 806

Translation
Chair: Christopher D. Mellinger, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Developing Ethics Standards for Translation in Global News: A Case Study”

Allison Braden, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Integrating MT into the Translation Classroom for Non-Language Majors”

Li Zhiying, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Translating Latin American Translation Studies: El Revés del Tapiz as a Case Study”
Christopher D. Mellinger, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Panel 2: Room 902

World Literatures
Chair: Albert Earle Gurganus, The Citadel

“Peter Handke and the School for Scandal”

Albert Earle Gurganus, The Citadel

“Modernizing Cannibalism: Coloniality, Consuming Identities, and Modernity in China”

Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai, The Citadel

“A Bakhtinian Reading of Chuck Palahniuk’s Adjustment Day”

David McCracken, Coker University

Panel 3: Room 906

Rhetorics in and of Appalachia
Chair: Paul M. Worley, Western Carolina University

“Corpse Birds and Cooling Boards: Appalachian Death Ways in Ron Rash’s Short Stories”
Randi Adams, Independent Scholar

“The Economic Implications of Unclear Rhetoric for an Appalachian Forest Community”

Kevin Jenson, Western Carolina University

“American Obsession with Firearms and the Rhetoric of Fear: A Cultural Studies Approach to Deep-Seated
Anxieties Surrounding Liberty”
Aaron Toscano, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Panel 4: Room 1105

Testing the Limits of Transfer in Freshman Composition
Chair: AmyLea Clemons, Francis Marion University

“‘Minimally Adequate Education’ and the Inadequacies of Transfer Research”

AmyLea Clemons, Francis Marion University

“What can a YouTuber Teach us about Ethos? Markiplier as Online Ethos”

CJ Boone, Francis Marion University

"What Makes Markiplier Tick: Breaking down the Rhetorical Situation of the YouTube Giant"
Graham Copes, Francis Marion University

“Using and Critiquing Pathos with Markiplier”

Ethan King, Francis Marion University

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 Saturday, February 8

Session I - 8:30-10:00 am

Panel 1: Room 904

New Approaches in Pedagogy I
Chair: Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Using Flipped Learning 3.0 to Promote Cross-Cultural Critical Thinking in a Beginning German College Course”
Birgit A. Jensen and Chelsea M. Silvia, East Carolina University

“Creating an Active Learning Classroom: YouTube Subtitling in German Translation Classes--an Experiment”
Anabel Aliaga-Buchenau, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Panel 2: Room 905

Representations of Female Agency in German-Speaking Literature and Film
Chair: Susanne Gomoluch, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Death by German Woman in Karoline von Günderrode’s Hildgund and Zacharias Werner‘s Attila”
Amy Emm, The Citadel

“Reclaiming the Beautiful Soul: Friederike Unger’s Literary Agency”

Susanne Gomoluch, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Not Foreign Enough: Joy and the Academy”

Nancy Nenno, College of Charleston

Panel 3: Room 906

Indigenous Literatures
Chair: Paul M. Worley, Western Carolina University

“Voices of Fiction: Native Style”

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Independent Scholar

“A New Rashomon: Narration and Form in Gerald Vizenor’s Hiroshima Bugi”

Michael Redman, Western Carolina University

“Tribal Reporting: The Power of Being Small”

Jonah Lossiah, Cherokee One Feather

“In the Words of the Real People: Multilanguaging and Decolonization in Robert Conley’s War Woman”
Paul M. Worley, Western Carolina University

Panel 4: Room 1105

Horror Studies
Chair: Aaron Toscano, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Creative Writing, the Genre of Horror, and Story Logic: Applying Catherine Brady's Craft Theory to Brian
Evenson's Song for the Unraveling of the World”
Crystal Ellwood, Cumberland University

“‘Life, uh, Finds a Way;’ The Artists’ Voice in The Overstory as Humanity’s Key to Survival in a World that Belongs
to the Trees and its Presence in Apocalyptic Horror”
Diana New, Western Carolina University

“Monster Movies, Inner Theatres, and Current Politics”

Mark Pizzato, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

10:00-10:15 am - Coffee Break, 9th Floor

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 Session II - 10:15-11:45 am

Panel 1: Room 904

Reimagining North Carolina Literatures
Chair: Paul M. Worley, Western Carolina University

“Multilanguaging Approaches to North Carolina Literatures”

Paul M. Worley, Western Carolina University

Student presentations on Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Juan Pardo, and Omar Ibn Said
Katelynn Brown, Jennifer Escalera Lara, and Melissa Rogers, Western Carolina
University

Panel 2: Room 905

Spanish in the Upstate of South Carolina
Chair: Christopher D. Mellinger, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Resilience in Spanish Speakers in the Upstate of South Carolina”

Erik Ortiz, Furman University

“Second Language Anxiety in Spanish Speakers in the Upstate of South Carolina”

Daria Acosta-Rua, Furman University

“Attitudes toward Bilingualism from Spanish Speakers in the Upstate of South Carolina”
Stephanie Knouse, Furman University

Panel 3: Room 906

Face-to-Face versus Online Learning of Spanish Language
Chair: Luis Fernando Mejia Diaz, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Adapting the Communicative Method to Serve Diverse Student Needs”

Allison Braden, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Diverse Types of Students with Different Learner Types in the Spanish Classroom”
Luis Fernando Mejia Diaz, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Analyze the Oral Proficiency of Face to Face Students versus Online Learning at the Introductory Level”
Maria Ramos-Perozo, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Experiences Moving from One Course Style to Another”

Nashaly Ruiz-Gonzalez, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Panel 4: Room 1105

Stylistics and Rhetoric I
Chair: Kristin A. Kiely, Francis Marion University

“What is Truth?: Exploring Truth in the Justice System”

Alissa Perske, Western Carolina University

“C&C and Fandom Squee: The Language, Purpose, and Effect of Reader Commentary on Works of Fan-Written
Fiction”
Jordan Frederick, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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 Banquet and Keynote Address

“Digital Transformation and Higher Education”

Dr. Paul A. Youngman

Associate Provost and Redenbaugh Professor of German
Washington and Lee University

Center City Atrium

12:00-1:30 pm

In her newest book, The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare
Students for a World in Flux, Cathy Davidson points out that Mosaic 1.0, essentially the
beginning of the Internet, has been around since 1993, begging the question what have we, in
the academy, done in the face of this digital transformation. Fresh off of a Fulbright Senior
Leadership Fellowship on digital transformation, Professor Youngman will discuss the series of
deep and coordinated culture, workforce, and technology shifts that make up this digital
transformation, and ponder their impact on our accepted educational and operational models.

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 Session III - 1:45 - 3:15 pm

Panel 1: Room 904

Interdisciplinary Latinx Studies
Chair: Melissa Birkhofer, Western Carolina University

“Interdisciplinary Pedagogies and Latinx Studies”

Melissa Birkhofer, Western Carolina University

“Depiction of Latinx Communities in Media”

Madison Worley, Western Carolina University

“Latinas/os in Higher Education”

Leslie Mendez-Solis, Western Carolina University

“Afro-Latina Diaspora: The Amazing Nitty Scott”

Elizabeth Stone, Western Carolina University

Panel 2: Room 905

New Approaches in Pedagogy II
Chair: Mónica Rodríguez-Castro, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Perspectives on Facilitating English Language Learning among Immigrant and Refugee Children: The Role of
Social Connectedness”
Afra Mahmood and Christopher D. Mellinger, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Literature Course on Hispanic Women Writers: Student Perceptions of Writing-intensive Assignments using a
Partially Flipped and Active Learning Pedagogy”
Paloma Fernández Sánchez and Mónica Rodríguez-Castro, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Experiential Classroom Learning for College German Majors”

Angela Jakeway, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Panel 3: Room 906

Cultural Studies
Chair: Kai-Uwe Werbeck, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Die Disbelieved Mujer: The Cassandra Effect in International Horror Films”

Kristin A. Kiely, Francis Marion University

“Some Kind of Madness: Millennial Crises in Spanish Films Made Abroad (2014-2019)”
Hugo Pascual Bordón, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“It All Comes Down to Sex: Metaphorical Animalization in Reggaeton Discourse”

María José Hellín García, The Citadel

Panel 4: Room 1105

Women and Gender
Chair: June Hadden Hobbs, Gardner-Webb University

“Sally and Paige: The Daughter’s Identity in Mad Men and The Americans”
Alison M. Walsh, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Flipping the Binaries of Women in Contemporary Television”

Samantha Wilkie, Gardner-Webb University

“The Historiography of Barbie”

Callie West, Gardner-Webb University

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“Negotiation and Negation: The Mystery Behind Feminine Modes of Discourse”
Kristen Vann, Western Carolina University

Session IV - 3:30 - 5:00 pm

Panel 1: Room 904

Homage to Sandra Cisneros: Latinx Learning Community Presentations
Chair: Melissa Birkhofer, Western Carolina University

“Latinx Studies Learning Community through the Works of Sandra Cisneros”

Melissa Birkhofer, Western Carolina University

“The Women of Mango Street”

Yailyn Zuniga, Western Carolina University

“Names and Naming in The House on Mango Street”

Valentina Nieto, Western Carolina University

“Stereotypes and Sexism in The House on Mango Street”

Annalise Cox, Western Carolina University

“Gender Roles and Tradition in Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street”

Isabella Lopez, Western Carolina University

Panel 2: Room 905

Stylistics and Rhetoric II
Chair: Jason Huber, Western Carolina University

“How to Tend to Reality: An Argument for Shared Metaphor”

Jason Huber, Western Carolina University

“Words of Enchantment: Rhetoric and Magic”

John Falter, Independent Scholar

“Tell Them A Story: Using Storytelling in the College Classroom to Encourage Engagement, Effective
Codeswitching, and Authentic Voice in Academic Narrative Writing”
Raven M. Gadsden, Winthrop University

Panel 3: Room 906

US South: Life, Death, and Doubling
Chair: June Hadden Hobbs, Gardner-Webb University

“Public Interpretation of Private Spaces: The Nineteenth-Century Dressing Room in Charleston, South Carolina”
Caroline Cashion, Research Assistant and Historical Interpreter, Charleston Museum

“From the Double Personae to the Divided Self: The True Genius of Sutton E. Griggs as a Novelist”
Harish Chander, Shaw University

“The Poetics of Cemeteries”

June Hadden Hobbs, Gardner-Webb University

Panel 4: Room 1105

Theater and Poetry
Chair: Eric Hyman, Fayetteville State University

“The (In)Famous Liar Paradox”

Eric Hyman, Fayetteville State University
“‘The Scene MOSCO’: Creating Eastern Europe for Early Modern English Audiences”
Katja Pilhuj, The Citadel

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“Angry Young Men, Revisited: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Finding Forrester”
Sara Oswald, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke

SEACS Business Meeting, 5-6 pm

Room 904
All are welcome! Help SEACS grow!

The Southeastern Association of Cultural

Studies (SEACS) is dedicated to the

scholarship in modern languages and literature, including linguistics, pedagogy, and cultural studies. A regional
organization with an international scope, SEACS holds annual meetings in North or South Carolina that draw
participants from neighboring states and beyond. As a smaller organization, SECAS strives to promote scholarly
exploration in a collegial spirit. The organization is dedicated to maintaining a strong community of educators,
scholars, and graduate students and to providing early professionalization opportunities for undergraduates.
The Southeastern Association of Cultural Studies is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. SEACS works to
provide an academic community in which members from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and life experiences
know that they will be equally valued and respected.

Convergences is the peer-reviewed publication of SEACS.

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