La Última Letra of The University of Alabama
welcomes you to the third annual
Alabama Modern Language Conference
March 1st – 2nd, 2013
“Redefining Borders: Bridging the Gap Between Languages, Literatures and Cultures”
Ferguson Center, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
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Welcome to the Third Annual
Alabama Modern Language Conference
Organizing Committee:
Betsy Brooks
Sandrine Hope
Ann Marie Moore
Tom Moore
Seth Roberts
Special thank you to:
Dr. Ana Corbalán, Dr. Alicia Cipria, Dr. Isabelle Drewelow, Dr. Rasma Lazda,
Dr. Thomas Fox, Dr. Douglas Lightfoot, Dr. Carmen Mayer-Robin,
Dr. Michael Picone, Dr. William Worden, Dr. Metka Zupancic
Modern Languages and Classics Staff:
Rachel Caver, Cindy Davis
Sponsors:
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Modern Languages and Classics
La última letra
Department of English
New College
The Graduate School
Ferguson Center
Capstone International
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Presentation Schedule
Friday 1 March
8:00am – 9:00am: Registration, Breakfast, Opening Remarks
Ferguson Center 322, Heritage Room
9:00am – 10:30am: Panel Session 1
1. Negociaciones de identidad a través de la música en el cine de América Latina
Ferguson Center 309
Chair: Dr. Álvaro Baquero-Pecino
Betsy A. Brooks The University of Alabama
“La música: una forma individual y colectiva de identificación, memoria, y rebelión
en Voces inocentes (2004) de Luis Mandoki”
Kayla Watson, Virginia Tech
“Symbolic/Linguistic Boundaries: Music and Musicality in Claudia Llosa’s Madeinusa
and La teta asustada”
2. German Literature
Ferguson Center 313
Chair: Dr. Doug Lightfoot, The University of Alabama
Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni, The University of Alabama
“Fremdheitskonstruktion im Parzival: Eine Betrachtung anhand Wolfams Darstellung
von Belakane”
Lesya Dennis, The University of Alabama
“Wladimir Kaminer as a great model of successful integration into German society”
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3. Overcoming Borders in the Language Classroom
Ferguson Center 312
Chair: Dr. Barbara Godorecci, The University of Alabama
Claire Mitchell, The University of Alabama
“Crossing borders when acquiring a second language”
Amanda Stevens, The University of Alabama
“From the Trailer Park to the Ivory Tower: Working-Class Resistance in the First-Year
Composition Classroom”
10:30am – 10:45am: Coffee Break
Fergson Center 322, Heritage Room
10:45am – 12:15pm: Panel session 2
4. Reflexiones de la marginalidad y el trauma en la literatura española de la posguerra
Ferguson Center 309
Chair: Dr. William Worden, The University of Alabama
Sarah Langcuster, The University of Alabama
“Lo grotesco y la animalización de personas marginalizadas en la literatura española de la
posguerra”
Seth Roberts, The University of Alabama
“Madrid a ritmo de bolero: la función de la música en Te trataré como a una reina (1983)
de Rosa Montero y Salsa (2002) de Clara Obligado”
Tara Trent, The University of Alabama
“Trayectoria traumática en el protagonista de Tiempo de silencio”
5. Les valeurs dans la litérature
Ferguson Center 313
Chair: Dani Peterson, The University of Alabama
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Chelsea Hennessy, University of Memphis
“L’honneur comme monnaie d’échange dans Le Cid”
Ademolawa Michael Adedipe, University of Mississippi
“La condition de la femme étrangère dans Ourika de Madame de Duras et Adolphe de
Benjamin Constant”
Mathieu Perrot, University of Mary Washington
“Re-thinking the Line: Lines and Borders in Langston Hughes’ and Aimé Césaire’s
Poetry”
6. Spanish and English in the U.S.: Examining the Effects of Languages in Contact
Ferguson Center 312
Chair: Dr. Erin O’Rourke, The University of Alabama
Mariana Stoyanova, University of Georgia
“La adquisición del verbo gustar por principiantes avanzados y estudiantes intermedios
de español como L2: Semejanzas y diferencias”
Brianne Kobeck, Union University
“Anglicized Spanish in the Beginning Spanish Classroom”
Daniel J. Smith, Clemson University
“Grammatical Changes and Shifts resulting from Spanish and English in contact in the
U.S.”
12:15pm – 2:00pm: Lunch on your own
2:00pm – 3:30pm: Panel session 3
7. Constructions of Identity and Multi/Transnationalism in 20th Century Poetry and Prose
Ferguson Center 309
Chair: Dr. Sarah Moody, The University of Alabama
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Jessica Porter, The University of Alabama
“Rhythm and Blues: Langston Hughes and the Spirit of Cuba Libre”
Carolyn Bradley, University of Florida
“Jorge Luis Borges and Mary Caponegro: Avant-garde Aestheticism Across
Hemispheres, Across Generations”
Antonio-Sajid López, University of Florida
“Between here and there…TRYING TO STAY SOMEWHERE”: El Nuyorican Poets
Café y su aportación a la construcción de una identidad puertorriqueña en los Estados
Unidos”
8. Les arts et les frontières
Ferguson Center 313
Chair: Dr. Carmen Mayer-Robin, The University of Alabama
Parfait Bonkoungou, University of Louisiana-Lafayette
“La territorialisation figurative de l’espace dans le cinéma africain”
Daniel Bowman, Virginia Tech
“Musical poetry: Debussy and Symbolism”
Muriel Berthou Crestey
“Temporal borders, spatial boundaries”
9. Bridging the Gap between Linguistic Theories: Papers from the University of Alabama’s
New College Fall 2012 Seminar on Symbolic vs. Connectionist Processing
Ferguson Center 312
Chair: Dr. Tom Sawallis
Sean Stalley, The University of Alabama
“Recasting Linguistic Universals in Light of Modern Cognitive Science”
Andrew Tuck, The University of Alabama
“SLA and Associated Errors: A Comparison of Symbolic and Connectionist Views”
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Amelia Brock, The University of Alabama
“The Old Dog and Its Tricks: Adult Second Language Aquisition and the Critical Period
Hypothesis”
Jason Arterburn, The University of Alabama
“Distributional Learning and Connectionist Model of First Language Acquisition”
3:30pm – 4:00pm: Coffee Break
Ferguson Center, Heritage Room
4:00pm: Keynote Address
Ferguson Center, Heritage Room
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Deveny
Title: “Crossing Borders and Hispanic Cinema”
Thomas Deveny earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is
professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at McDaniel College in Westminster,
Maryland. He is author of numerous articles on Spanish literature and Hispanic film. His books
include Cain on Screen: Contemporary Spanish Cinema; Contemporary Spanish Film from
Fiction; Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema; and his translation of Adelaida García
Morales’s The South/Bene. He loves to teach all levels of Spanish language, literature, and
culture, as well as Great Works of the Western World.
6:30pm: Social Event
Dr. Picone’s (map and directions in the back of the program)
Saturday 2 March
8:00am – 9:00am: Registration, Breakfast
Ferguson Center 322, Heritage Room
9:00am – 10:30am: Panel session 5
10. Narratives of Exile in Caribbean and U.S. Latino Literatures
Ferguson Center 309
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Chair: Dr. Karina Vázquez, The University of Alabama
Dani Peterson, The University of Alabama
“Borderline Personalities: Women and the Nation in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God”
Alexandra Gonzenbach, University of Miami
“El abyecto y el exiliado en El mundo alucinante de Reinaldo Arenas”
Forrest Blackbourn, The University of Alabama
“This Is How You Find Me: Narrative Confessions of Sex, Love, and Loss in Junot
Díaz’s This Is How You Lose Her”
11. Litérature francophone du 20è siècle
Ferguson Center 313
Chair: Dr. Jean-Luc Robin, The University of Alabama
Leonard Ares, The University of Alabama
“Une spécificité du parler québécois dans la littérature québécoise”
Joel Meredith, University of Delaware
“Identifying with Alterity: An Act of Solidarity or Misrepresentation?”
Emily Gustafson, University of Memphis
“Escape from the bourgeois fishbowl: destiny and hope in The Elegance of the
Hedgehog”
12. Spanish Phonetics
Ferguson Center 312
Chair: Dr. Alicia Cipria, The University of Alabama
Branton Baird, The University of Alabama
“A Comparison of the Phonetic Working Memory of L1 Spanish and L1 English
Speakers”
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Paul J. Coats, University of South Carolina
“Identificando la diversidad: La percepción de las oclusivas iniciales de palabra del
español por hablantes nativos del coreano”
Timothy Alford, The University of Alabama
“A new phoneme is created: Rendering Motu in the Roman alphabet”
10:30am – 10:45am: Coffee Break
Ferguson Center 322, Heritage Room
10:45am – 12:15pm: Panel session 6
13. Representaciones de la marginalidad en el cine contemporáneo español
Ferguson Center 309
Chair: Dr. Ana Corbalán, The University of Alabama
Valencia Tamper, The University of Alabama
“Aquí no estás en la selva”: Los estereotipos y la marginalidad en Princesas (2005) y
Flores de otro mundo (1999)”
Toloo Riazi, The University of Alabama
“Una frontera llamada la inmigración: Análisis de la presencia de los Otros en el cine
español”
Jessica D. Jacob, The University of Alabama
“Marginalidad en el cine español y francés: Paralelismo entre las películas Barrio de
Fernando León de Aranoa y La Haine de Mathieu Kassovitz”
14. Writing the Other: Questions of Identity and Representation in Latin American Literature
Ferguson Center 312
Chair: Dr. Connie Janiga-Perkins, The University of Alabama
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Ashley Saunders, University of Memphis
“El cruce de fronteras sociales: Una exploración de las diferencias entre dos figuras del
siglo 16”
Andrew M. Corley, The University of South Carolina
“Sexualities in José Donoso’s Posthumous Novel The Lizard’s Tale (2007)”
15. Open Topics: Representations of Ethnicity, Otherness and Migration
Ferguson Center 313
Chair: Maurizio Godorecci, The University of Alabama
Benjamin Crawford, The University of Alabama
“Mimetic Removal of Native Americans in Freneau”
Carl F. Miller, The University of Alabama
“Apocalypse Without Borders: The Dialectic of Migration in Cormac McCarthy’s The
Road”
12:15pm – 1:45pm: Catered Luncheon
Ferguson Center 322, Heritage Room
2:00pm – 3:30pm: Panel session 7
16. Construcciones de violencia, marginalidad y género en la literatura y poesía
latinoamericana
Ferguson Center 312
Chair: Katie Riley, The University of Alabama
Dr. Gregory Robinson, Emporia State University
“Redesigning the Themes of Violence, Marginality and Exclusion in the Central
American Narrative”
Kaare Bivin-Pederson, University of Memphis
“Sexual Violence Against Historicity”
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Elizabeth Grassmann, The University of Alabama
“La inversión de papeles de género en La cautiva por Esteban Echeverría: ¿Un mensaje
feminista o una afirmación del patriarcado?”
17. Open Topics: Linguistic and Cultural Perspectives on Language
Ferguson Center 313
Chair: Dr. Isabelle Drewelow, The University of Alabama
Litong Chen, Ohio State University
“Reconsidering the borders among varieties of Chinese: a case study in Shaoguan
Prefecture, southern China”
Dr. Suliman Albeshri, Qassim University
“Arabic language in international organization”
Michael Kay Nishida Allred, The University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Home for the Holidays: Autoethnography and Defining the Border between Home and
Mainstream Languages and Cultures”
Safia Diarra, Ball State University
“Describing African American and Caucasian criminals on Fox news: a comparison of
word choice”
18. Cuestiones de género en el cine y la literatura de América latina y la España
contemporánea
Ferguson Center 309
Chair: Forrest Blackbourn, The University of Alabama
Kathryn Kori Myers, The University of Alabama
“Nosotras nos comemos: la antropofagia en La hija del caníbal”
Jessica Hubickey, The University of Alabama
“La mujer inmigrante marginalizada en la novela y el cine español contemporáneo”
William Lake, Georgia State University
“Queering doña Inés: La reformulación de las normas genéricas peruanas en Madeinusa
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Map to Dr. Picone’s house:
18-B Country Club Hills
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
Directions from the University (via Google maps):
1. From the University, turn left onto Jack Warner Pkwy NE (go 1.7 miles)
2. Continue onto Martin Luther King Jr Blvd (go 0.3 miles)
3. Turn right onto 6th St (go 0.3 miles)
4. 6th St turns slightly right and becomes Country Club Dr. (go 420 ft.)
5. Turn left to stay on Country Club Dr. (go 0.1 miles)
6. Take the 2nd right onto E Cir/Country Club Hills (go 69 ft.)
7. Destination will be on the right.
