Conference of College Teachers of English

87th Annual Meeting – March 5 - March 7, 2020

Hosted by Collin College – McKinney

Thursday, March 5

2:00-5:00 p.m. Executive Committee Meeting

CHEC Board Room 139

2:00-5:00 p.m. Conference Registration

CHEC Atrium

5:30-7:30 p.m. Conference Registration

San Miguel

5:30-7:30 p.m. President’s Reception

San Miguel
506 W University Dr
McKinney, Texas 75069
972.548.2345

Friday, March 6

7:30-9:00 a.m. State of the Profession Breakfast

Room: CHEC Board Room 139
Speaker: Dr Julie Christenson, TCU Rare Books Librarian

8:45-10:00 a.m. Light Refreshments in Atrium

9:15-10:30 a.m. Session 1

Rhetoric 1
Room: CHEC 106
Chair: Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State University

“Can We Teach Grammar Without Diagrams? And Should We?”

Mary Rist, St. Edwards University
“The Semester Story: Using Composition Theory for a More Posthumanist Literature
Assessment,” Sarah Shelton, University of Texas at Arlington
“How to Be a Cool Teacher: Pop Culture in the Composition Classroom,”
Lisa Jackson, Mountain View Community College
Literature, Film, Pop Culture 1
Room: CHEC 110
Chair: Lisette Blanco-Cerda, TCCD – Northeast

“Merlin as King-Maker: Nationalism in Arthurian Legend,”

Ashley Johnson, University of Texas at Arlington
“Who Put This Song On?: How Playing it Safe Norms the Conservative White
Experience,” Ronnie Stephens, Tarrant County College
“Surviving Nostalgia in David Gordon Green’s Halloween,”
Cody Parish, Midwestern State University

Creative Writing 1: Creative Mix

Room: CHEC 114
Chair: M. C. Downs, Texas A&M University – Kingsville

From 60 from 60 (poetry collection),

Sally Hannay, Schreiner University
“A Ride Not Taken,”
Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University

10:45-12:00 p.m. Session 2

Rhetoric 2
Room: CHEC 106
Chair: Mary Ann Taylor, Mountain View College

“Country Music: An Unlikely Source for Feminist Activism,”

Melissa Nivens, Midwestern State University
“Sexual and Derogatory Animal Epithets for Women,”
Jessica Day, Tarleton State University
“Feminist Care Ethics in the Writing About Writing Co-Req Classroom,”
Dalel Serda, College of the Mainland

Literature, Film, Pop Culture 2

Room: CHEC 110
Chair: Pam Rollins, University of Texas at Arlington

“Feasts, Freaks, and Famine: Examining the Complex Relationship Between

Food and the Identity of Self and Other in Beowulf,”
Dylan Clark, Tarleton State University
“Torn Between Desire: Economics and Eroticism in Daniel Defoe’s Roxana,”
William Brannon, Collin College
“ ‘Remove This Inconsistency from the Character of the American People’: Anti-
Slavery Discourse in Colonial America,”
 Kay Mizell, Collin College

TCEA Panel 1 Texas Women: Authors and Artists

Room: CHEC 114
Chair: Rochelle Gregory, North Central Texas College

“Sandra Scofield and the Heroism of Working Class Women,”

Greg Giddings, Midwestern State University
“Ebony Stewart: Transforming Lived Experiences into Award Winning Literature,”
Ronnie Stephens, Tarrant County College
“Georgia O’Keefe: Texas Transition,”
Katherine Toy Miller, Angelo State University
“Bloody Belle: Claire Danvers, Morganville Vampires, as a Modern Southern Belle,”
Tabatha Rhodes, Brazosport College

12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own

1:30-2:45 p.m. Session 3

Rhetoric 3
Room: CHEC 106
Chair: Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State University

“Insights and Ironies: Teaching a Fully Online Nature Writing Course,”

Steve Sherwood, Texas Christian University
“Sokal Squared and “The Great Piano Scam”: Engaging Students in Discussions
about Ethics in Research and Source Use,”
Sara Hillin, Lamar University
“Focused Feedback: The Use of Single-point Rubrics in Developmental Writing,”
Tabatha Rhodes, Brazosport College

Literature, Film, Pop Culture 3

Room: CHEC 110
Chair: Sherry Rankin, Abilene Christian University

“Adventures in Post-Critical Reading,”

Jessica H. Zbeida, McLennan Community College
“Reading and Teaching Whiteness: A Critical Race Reading of Pam Durban’s Soon,”
Marcella Clinard, Texas Woman’s University
“There Be Dinos: Tracing Paleontological Fossils to Literary Dragons,”
Meg Oldman, Tarleton State University
Creative Writing II: Prose and Poems
Room: CHEC 114
Chair: Trudi Beckman, University of Texas at Arlington

“In Search of My Long-Lost Father,”

Andrea DaSilva, Texas A&M University – Kingsville
“Blank Sonnets,”
Kevin M. Clay, Mountain View College
“You’re Probably Wrong,”
Chip Hannay, Schreiner College

2:45-3:00 p.m. Light Refreshments in Atrium

3:00-4:15 p.m. Session 4

Literature, Film, Pop Culture 4

Room: CHEC 110
Chair: Sherry Rankin, Abilene Christian University

“ ‘Supped Full with Horrors’: The Concave Mirror of Dystopia and Shakespeare’s
Macbeth,” Ryan Farrar, Collin College
“Unveiling the Painted: Poetry with W. Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil,”
Maximillien Vis, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
“The Significance of the Rose in “La Belle et la Bête”,“
Meagan Person, Tarleton State University

TCEA Panel 2 Texas Women: Activists and Civic Leaders

Room: CHEC 114
Chair: Rochelle Gregory, North Central Texas College

“Soil and Soul” and “Texas Myths I Have Known,”

M.C. Downs, Texas A&M – Kingsville and
Trudi Beckman, University of Texas at Arlington
“Dr Louise Cowan: Exploring the Feminist or the Feminine?”
Mary Ann Taylor, Mountain View College
“The Wichita Woman: Weighing the Woke in the Archives,”
Caitlin McNeely, Midwestern State University
“Uncovering Activism in the Archives: Exploring the Files of DFW LGTBQIA+
Activist Edra Bogle,”
Emily Ramser, Texas Woman’s University

4:30-5.45 p.m. President’s Forum and CCTE General Business Meeting

Room: CHEC Board Room 139
 Speaker: Dr Claudia MacMillan, Director of the Cowan Center
at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture

Friday evening dinner on your own

Saturday, March 7

7:30-8:45 a.m. TCEA Breakfast and Business Meeting

Room: CHEC Board Room 139
Speaker: Dr T.J. Geiger, Baylor University
“She Spoke with Authority: Science Education, Texas Baptist
Evolution Controversies, and Progressive-Era Professor Lula Pace”

9:00-10:15 a.m. Session 5

Rhetoric 4
Room: CHEC 106
Chair: Jackie Hoermann-Elliott, Texas Woman’s University

“In Defense of Cicero’s Rhetorical Canon of Delivery,”

Sean Sutherlin, Collin College
“Hip Hop Rhetoric in Light of Ancient Rhetorical Historiography,”
Robert Tinajero, University of North Texas at Dallas
“Vir Bonus, Hortensia: A Good Woman Speaking Well in Ancient Rome,”
Margaret Williams, Texas Woman’s University
“World Rhetorics, Neoplatonism, and Analogy: The Importance of Averroes,
Avicenna, and Al-Farabi,”
Charles Etheridge, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi

Literature, Film, Pop Culture 5

Room: CHEC 110
Chair: Lisette Blanco-Cerda, TCCD – Northeast

“She Never Had a Chance: The Life of Maggie, a Girl of the Streets,”
Paula Kent, Texas State Technical College
“ ‘Bad Bitches:’ The Changing Discourse on Femininity Featuring Beyoncé and Lizzo,”
Christi Cook, Weatherford College
“Ella es Latinx: A Rhetorical Intervention of Latina Representation in Media,”
Victoria Ramirez Gentry, University of Texas at San Antonio
“ ‘Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?’: Breaking Down the Women of Oz,”
Ashley Olliff, Tarleton State University

TCEA Panel 3 Texas Women: Latina Voices

Room: CHEC 114
Chair: Melissa Nivens, Midwestern State University

“A Latina Companion to Shakespeare: Apparitions of La Llorona in Hamlet and Othello,”

Yvette Chairez, University of Texas at San Antonio
“Compassion and Female Solidarity as Transformative in Summer of the Mariposas by
Guadalupe Garcia McCall,”
Kathleen Powell Hagood, Howard Payne University

10:15-10:30 a.m. Light Refreshments in Atrium

10:30-11:45 a.m. Session 6

Literature, Film, Pop Culture 6

Room: CHEC 106
Chair: Pam Rollins, University of Texas at Arlington

“ ‘A scavenger’s ravenous heart’: Exploring the Flâneur in Cosmopolis & Ulysses,”

Salena Parker, Collin College
“Football and Mountain-Climbing: Contrasting Sports in Jack Kerouac’s Novels,”
Pamela Saur, Lamar University
“Rhetorical Presence of The Fork Versus “The Petrified Woman”,”
Cate Murray, TCCD - Northeast

Roundtable: Writing for Grades 10-12

Room: CHEC 110
Moderator: Mary Ann Taylor, Mountain View College
Panelists: Alfonso Greenidge, Jonathan York, Holly Hammond, Angie Cook,
Lynn Hunter

TCEA Panel 4 Texas Women: Creative Prose

Room: CHEC 114
Chair: Melissa Nivens, Midwestern State University

“Adventures in Road Rage,”

Steve Sherwood, Texas Christian University
“Brothers,”
Moumin Quazi, Tarleton State University
“Diverse Creative Nonfiction,”
Jeffrey DeLotto, Texas Wesleyan University

12:00-2:00 p.m. CCTE Awards Luncheon

Room: CHEC Board Room 139
Speaker: Dr. Desirée Henderson, University of Texas at Arlington
“Teaching Diaries: Materials, Methods, & Making”
Special Thanks
Collin College
Dr Melinda McBee, Collin College
Dr Michelle Buggs, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs,
Collin College McKinney Campus

Acknowledgments
CCTE President: Mary Ann Taylor, Mountain View College
Secretary/Treasurer: Trudi Beckman, University of Texas at Arlington
Past President: Beth Battles, Texas Wesleyan University
Local Arrangements: Melinda McBee, Collin College
Marc Azard, Collin College
Rochelle Gregory, North Central Texas College