This is the schedule for the Practical Criticism Midwest Conference.
1:00-1:15 Conference Opening, Introductory Remarks
1:15-2:15 Panel 1 Constructing Narratives
Abdullah Hasan “Excavation and Narration: the Reclamation of
‘Indianness’ in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks”
Robert Maakestad “My Grandparents Smell Awesome”
Adi Angel “Finding Ford[ester]: Examining the Fact and
Fiction Behind Henry Ford through Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America and E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime”
2:15-3:15 Panel 2
Language and Alterity
Christina Hostetler “The forecast of the political race through
examining metaphors”
Alyssa Schweigert “No One Can Speak for Them: A Rhetorical
Analysis of the Lakota Ghost Shirt Repatriation”
Robert Hunt “Meticulous Constructions of Asian American
Masculinity and Representations of Abjection in John Okada’s No-No Boy”
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:30 Panel
3 Canons and Margins
Carrie Duke “Thoreau and the Tactics of Poverty”
Lark Hovey “The Effects of Exposure on L2 Concord and
Non-Concord Existential There”
Carie King “Reaching Higher, Achieving More’: A Symbol of
the Discursive Formation of Indiana Higher Education”
4:30-5:30 Panel
4 Constructions of Masculinity
Claire Lenviel “Food and Female Consumption: Cognitive
Metaphors in Ellis’ American Psycho”
Miria Waldrop “My
Little Pony: Friendship is Magic—(Re)Constructions of Gender in the Media”
Craig Schmidt “Orlando: A Problematic Masculine Model”
5:30-5:40 Break
5:40-6:15 Keynote address—Dr. Vicki Anderson, Concordia
University
6:15 Closing Remarks, Best Paper Award
6:30 Wine and Cheese Reception, Doggerel Competition
