MIFLC 2024: Schedule of Events
MIFLC 2024: Conference Sessions Detail
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Registration: 11:00-5:00pm, Culp Center (Light snacks, coffee, & water)
First Session: 12:00-1:30pm
Culp Room 303
Global Encounters with Appalachia: Italian and Czech in Appalachia (Chair:Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University)
Might Have Saved a Generation': The ‘Hard Labor’ of Cesare Pavese and William Arrowsmith
Ted Olson, East Tennessee State University
Retexting Bluegrass Songs In Global Contexts
Lee Bidgood, East Tennessee State University
Diane Gilliam’s Kettle Bottom: Language and Isolation in a Kentucky Mining Community
Thomas Alan Holmes, East Tennessee University
Culp Room 304
Film and Theater Studies I: Latin American Film (Chair: Adrienne Erazo, Appalachian State University)
Kinship and Resistance in the film Prayers for the Stolen (2021)
Dorian Lee Jackson, Kennesaw State University
Narcotráfico y religiosidad en María, llena eres de gracia (2004)
Sabrina Laroussi, Virginia Military Institute
Culp Room 210
Francophone Studies I: Gender and Sexuality in French Cultural Productions (Chair: Alan Watts, Kennesaw State University)
Clair-obscur: Shadows, Light and Lesbian Identity in the Poetry of Renée Vivien
Kayla Burrell, Furman University
The things we refuse to see: ugliness as feminist praxis in Ah! Nana bande-dessinée
magazine (1976 -1978)
Pauline Maison-Dessemme, University of Minnesota
Revisiting the Saints: Uncovering Queerness in Medieval Christian Hagiography through
French and Queer Lexicons
Lucas Biscan-White, Radford University
Culp Room 311
Hispanic Studies I: There’s No Place Like Home: Women Working in Spaces of Violence
in Contemporary Latin American Cultural Production (Chair: Andrea Smith, Shenandoah University)
Working for the Widows: Reproductive Labor in Las viudas de los jueves
Andrea Smith, Shenandoah University
Going South: Structural Violence and the Heritage of Settler Capitalism in Two Contemporary
Chilean Novels
Eunice Rojas, Furman University
Under Her Direction: Female Directors Tackle Disappearances/Abductions in Five Mexican
Films (2020-2022)
Patricia Reagan, Randolph-Macon College
Second Session: 2:00-3:30pm
Culp Room 210
Film and Theater Studies II: Social Critique in Film and Literature (Chair: Katrina Heil, East Tennessee State University)
The Tensions of Translation: Love and Subjectivity in Story of a Three-Day Pass
Matt Holtmeier, East Tennessee State University
“not a comedy, probably not a western:” translation and the transnational in La Collera
del Vento
Chelsea Wessels, East Tennessee State University
Antigone in Madrid
Katrina Heil, East Tennessee State University & John Heil, Trinity
University (Retired)
Culp Room 311
World Language Pedagogy I: Approaches to Translation and Translation Pedagogy (Chair: Melissa Birkhofer, Appalachian State University)
Translating Testimony: Counter-narratives and ‘desordenes’ in the La Relación de la
Tama of 1600
Melissa Birkhofer, Appalachian State University & Paul Worley, Appalachian
State University
Teaching Poetry through Translation
Clare Sullivan, University of Louisville
Translating Mexican Heartbreak Lottery: A Poetry of Witness and Chronicle
Jeremy Paden, Transylvania Univeristy
Culp Room 304
Francophone Studies II: Writing Selves and Collectives in North African Literature (Chair: Mallory Nischan, East Tennessee State Univeristy)
“Cette Femme: Gisèle Halimi’s Rewritten Warrior Woman in La Kahina”
Mallory Nischan, East Tennessee State University
“Making Algerian Art: Formal Expressions of the Self, Nation, State, and Market in
Ahlem Mosteghanemi’s Memory in the Flesh"
Matthew Brauer, University of Tennessee—Knoxville
“Sympathy in Storytelling: Entendez-vous dans les montagnes . . . by Maïssa Bey”
Karen Buntin, University of Tennessee—Knoxville
Culp Room 303
Hispanic Studies II: Ways of Killing Women (and that one Trans Boy): Gender Identity
and Gendered Violence in 21st-Century Argentinian Novels (Chair: Leslie Kaiura, University of Alabama – Huntsville)
The Limits of Women’s Solidarity: Erased Identities in Claudia Piñeiro’s El Tiempo de las Moscas
Leslie Kaiura, University of Alabama – Huntsville
Male Gaze and Metafictional Femicide in Guillermo Martínez’s La muerte lenta de Luciana B.
Iana Konstantinova, University of Alabama – Huntsville
Health Access, Gender, and Justice in Claudia Piñeiro’s Catedrales
Katherine Ostrom, University of Alabama – Huntsville
Third Session: 4:00-5:30pm
East Tennessee Room, (Culp Room 272)
Special Session: Poetry in Translation I - World Languages (Chair: Isabel Gómez Sobrino, East Tennessee State University)
Lucas Biscan-White, Radford University
Beatrix Brockman, Austin Peay State University
Haley Buckles, East Tennessee State University
Kayla Burrell, Furman University
Thomas Alan Holmes, East Tennessee State University
Felipe Fiuza, East Tennessee State University
Culp Room 311
World Language Pedagogy II: Online Teaching (Chair: Renata Creekmur, Kennesaw State University)
Leveraging Asynchronous Learning in World Language Education
Renata Creekmur, Kennesaw University
Innovations in Teaching Intermediate Spanish: Harnessing AI for Interactive Learning
in Online Asynchronous Courses
Graham Ignizio, Metropolitan State University - Denver
Enhancing Language Learning Through Feedback: A Comparative Study of Error Correction
Strategies of Online Homework Platforms
Mariana Stone, University of North Georgia
Culp Room 304
Hispanic Studies III: Themes of Migration and Transformation in Literature (Chair: Leonor Taiano, Carson-Newman University)
l caruso, la vendetta y la animalización: Ecos del verismo italiano en En la Sangre de Eugenio Cambaceres
Leonor Taiano, Carson-Newman University
Noches lúgubres (1789), de José Cadalso: nunca nada está perdido, ni siquiera la amistad
José Sarzi Amade, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
The Mythology of Migration: Dreams versus Work in Jorge Volpi’s Las elegidas
Adrienne Erazo, Appalachian State University
Bud Frank Theater: Gilbreath Hall
Film Screening: Muxe: The Language of Art and Culture – The Documentary, a film by Mexican Artist Hugo Ximello-Salido
Wine and Cheese Reception: 7:00-8:30pm
Wilder Room, Carnegie Hotel
Please join us to celebrate the opening of MIFLC 2024! Wine, refreshments, and light snacks provided.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Registration: 8:00am-5:00pm, Culp Center (Light snacks, coffee, & water)
Fourth Session: 9:00-11:00am
Culp Room 210
Hispanic Studies IV: Contemporary Media and Society (Chair: Mónica Botta, Washington and Lee University)
El presidente (2019) by César Aira: Recurring themes touching contemporary Argentine society in
the new millennium
Jason Youngkeit, Claflin University
Ecos quijotescos en La que se avecina
María del Carmen Caña Jimenez, Virginia Tech
Censura y teatro: reglamentando la actividad teatral en el virreinato del Río de la
Plata
Mónica Botta, Washington and Lee University
Desmitificando la masculinidad: la presencia del sujeto queer y la homofobia en Temporada de huracanes (2017) de Fernanda Melchor
Gerardo Ruz, Miles College
Culp Room 219
Hispanic Studies V: Documenting History in Film, Literature, and Journalism (Chair: Jaime Salinas, University of North Geogia)
“On a Journey”: Traveling Memory in Hija del camino
Kyle Thomson, Queens University of Charlotte
El cine documental boliviano y la crisis de la verdad histórica/Bolivian documentary
cinema and the crisis of historical truth
Jaime Salinas, University of North Georgia
El trauma y la conexión transnacional a través del retorno en Benjamín se fue a la guerra por Carlos Orlando Pardo
Yenisei Montes de Oca, James Madison University
Culp Room 311
World Language Pedagogy III: Techniques (Chair: Ismenia de Souza, United States Air Force Academy)
Netflix and Chat: Incorporating Streaming Series into Conversation Classes
Julee Tate, Berry College
Rethinking Grammar: Teaching Spanish through a Student Film Festival
Alan Watts, Kennesaw State University
Unveiling the Nexus between Emotional Intelligence and Foreign Language Acquisition:
A Comprehensive Examination
Ismenia de Souza, United States Air Force Academy
Organizing a Video Skit Presentation Contest for the Foreign Language Classroom
Junko Tezuka Arnold, East Tennessee State University
Break: 11:00am-1:00pm (Meal ticket for Culp Dining provided)
Fifth Session: 1:00-3:00pm
Culp Room 311
Roundtable: Literary Translation – Theory, Praxis, Pedagogy (Chair: Daniel Westover, East Tennessee State University)
Translation and Materiality
Josh Reid, East Tennessee State University
Translation and Trends in Classical Reception
Rachel Mazzara, East Tennessee State University
The Linguistic Reality in the Process of Translating Contemporary Poetry
Isabel Gómez Sobrino, East Tennessee State University
Transcreations and Concrete Poets
Felipe Fiuza, East Tennessee State University
Translation as Motor to the Creation of Planetary Modernism(s)
Matthew Fehskens, East Tennessee State University
Culp Room 303
Hispanic and Lusophone Studies: Studies in Spanish and Portuguese Poetry (Chair: Mahan Ellison, Furman University)
Joy in Exile: Beauty and Identity in the Poetry of Juan Gil-Albert
Mahan Ellison, Furman University & Joseph Kosak, Furman University
The Mountains of our Broken Dreams: The Diachronic Evolution of Love in the Dystopian
World of António Ladeira’s We are Unhappy / Somos Infelizes
Robert Simon, Kennesaw State University
Aura perdida: la poesía fantasmal de Ricardo Jaimes Freyre
Charles Moore, Gardener-Webb University
Culp Room 219
Linguistics: Linguistics (Chair: David Korfhagen, East Tennessee State University)
Pragmatic Functions of Emoji among L2 Learners
Mariche Bayonas, University of North Carolina – Greensboro & Emilia
Alonso-Marks, Ohio University
Contrastive Study of Igbo and German Consonants
Chika Ezeudo, Nnamdi Azikiwe University & Justice Adioha, Sheffield
Hallam University
English in the linguistic landscape in the San Jose region of Costa Rica (A paper including research conducted by Valeria Mendez)
Katherine Honea, Austin Peay University
A diachronic study of gendered body language in French-language children’s literature
David Korfhagen, East Tennessee State University & Theresa McGarry,
East Tennessee State University
Culp Room 210
Francophone Studies III: Philosophy and French Literature (Chair: Jérémy Labbé, East Tennessee State University)
Madeleine de Scudéry’s Care Ethics and Multispecies Kinship in Histoire de deux caméléons
Kara Russell, East Tennessee State University
A Kantian Interpretation of Émile Zola’s “comme si”
Eddy Troy, Western Washington University
L' écopoétique de la ville et de la campagne dans Maria Chapdelaine de Louis Hémon
Emmanuel Kayembe, University of Southern Maine
Playing games with the rules of the world and respecting them: Dandyism in Sartre
and Camus’ work
Jérémy Labbé, East Tennessee State University
Break: 3:00-3:30 (Light snacks, coffee, & water)
Sixth Session: 3:30-5:30
East Tennessee Room, (Culp Room 272)
Special Session: Poetry in Translation II – Spanish-English (Chair: Isabel Gómez Sobrino, East Tennessee State University)
Richard Boada, Lane College
Isabel Gómez Sobrino, East Tennessee State University
AQ Hanna, East Tennessee State University
Jeremy Paden, Transylvania University
Alexander Selimov, University of Delaware
Clare Sullivan, University of Louisville
Paul Worley, Appalachian State University
Culp Room 219
Francophone Studies IV: Identifying the Other in Francophone African and Caribbean
Literature (Chair: Mohamed Kamara, Washington and Lee University)
Polygamie et Union Mixte dans l’oeuvre Juletane de Myriam Warner-Vieja
Viviane Koua, Auburn Univeristy
Altérité et identité : les représentations de l’autre dans Le ventre de l’Atlantique
de Fatou Diome
Amevi Bocco, Tennessee Wesleyan University
Visible Invisibility: Redefinition of Women’s Identity in Francophone literature
Amina Saidou, James Madison University
“The Family is Gone, Long Live the Family: Children and the Quest for Belonging in
Times of Violence”
Mohamed Kamara, Washington and Lee University
Culp Room 210
World Language Pedagogy V: Materials and Professional Development (Chair: Rodica Frimu, University of Tennessee-Knoxville)
Register in Recent French Textbooks: Negation and Interrogation
Rodica Frimu, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Useful Notes for Publication Success from an MLA Field Bibliographer
Mark Groundland, Tennessee Tech University
Uso de textos literarios y otras propuestas didácticas para la integración sociocultural
e intercultural en la enseñanza de ELE a nivel K-16
Ana Cecilia Lara, University of North Carolina - Pembroke
Critical Reflective Practice as a Tool for Vertical Alignment Across K-16 World Language
Education
Liv Detwiler, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Culp Room 311
Queer Studies: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in the Arts (Chair: Damon Reed, University of Florida)
“So What If People are Uncomfortable!” Black Bodies and a Queer’s Quest to Break Down
the HIV/AIDS Close
Andia Augustín-Billy, Centenary College of Louisiana
The Queerness of Goodbye: Exploring Vocal Materiality and Reception in Asian Boys
Love TV Series
Bradley Fugate, East Tennessee State University
Theorizing a Queer Fascism in the Arts and Culture of the Third Reich
Damon Reed, University of Florida
Keynote and Banquet: 6:00-8:00
Culp Ballroom (Room 316)
(Full meal and non-alcoholic beverages for those who selected to attend banquet during registrations)
Keynote Address: “How to Read a Cookbook: Unveiling Cultural, Historical, and Social Narratives Behind Recipes and Authorial Voices”
María Paz Moreno: poet, essayist, and literary critic
Dr. Moreno is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
at the University of Cincinnati. She holds a Licenciatura in Spanish Philology from
the Universidad de Alicante and a Ph.D. In Spanish Literature from Ohio State University.
Her research focuses on Spanish contemporary poetry, women's writing, and the cultural
importance of gastronomical literature, in particular cookbooks. She is the author
of landmark works on the writer Juan Gil-Albert, among them El culturalismo en la poesía de Juan Gil-Albert (2000), the edition of his complete poetry with Editorial Pre-Textos (2004), and the edited volume Cartas a Juan Gil-Albert. Epistolario selecto(2016), and the anthology Concha Zardoya, Antología poética (2008). In the area of Spanish food studies, she is the author of De la página al plato. El libro de cocina en España (2012), and Madrid: A Culinary History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), and edited the monographic issue of Cincinnati Romance Review Writing About Food: Culinary Literature in the Hispanic
World (2012), considered by critics to be groundbreaking studies on the topic of Spanish
food studies. She has published ten books of poetry and has been included in a number
of anthologies. Her most recent poetry books are Amiga del monstruo (Renacimiento, 2020) and The Belly of an Iguana/El vientre de las iguanas (Valparaíso Eds., 2021). More info about her publications can be found at https://www.mariapazmoreno.com/.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Seventh Session: 9:00-10:30am
Culp Room 210
Hispanic Studies VI: Identity in Hispanic Narrative and Television (Chair: Vinodh Venkatesh, Virginia Tech)
En agosto nos vemos: Freud entre las metáforas
Rafael Hernández, Converse University
Small-Screen Superheroes in Mexico: The Case of Blue Demon
Vinodh Venkatesh, Virginia Tech
Culp Room 303
Hispanic Studies VII: Latinx and Latin American Sociopolitical Reality: Insights from
Reinaldo Arenas, Mexican Popular Culture, and T.R. Ybarra's Global Perspective (Chair: Angela Willis, Queens University of Charlotte)
Dissident Portraits of a Marielito in Exile: Reinaldo Arenas’s Literary Reflections
of an Outsider Residing in New York
Angela Willis, Queens University of Charlotte
El que no tranza, no avanza: Participación y denuncia de la corrupción en México a
través del corrupcionario, canciones y dichos populares mexicanos
José Adrián Badillo Carlos, Queens University of Charlotte
East Tennessee Room, (Culp Room 272)
World Language Pedagogy V: Writing and Storytelling (Chair: Raquel Chiquillo, University of Houston – Downtown)
Voicing Midwestern Spanish Heritage Language Learners’ Identity through Writing
Laura Valentin-Rivera, Asbury University
Challenges in Teaching Creative Writing and Literary Translation of Poetry: A Comparative
Approach
Alexander Selimov, University of Delaware
Creating Story Maps with ArcGIS to Explore Afro-Latino Heritage and Culture
Raquel Chiquillo, University of Houston - Downtown
Culp Room 304
Francophone Studies V: Film Adaptations of French [Hi]stories (Chair: Rachel Krantz, Shepherd University)
Adapting Madame Bovary: Beyond the Fidelity Imperative
Rachel Krantz, Shepherd University
Elocution and Execution: Going Over the Top on the Western Front in Great War Films
Shane Emplaincourt, University of North Georgia
Culp Room 311
World Art and Literature: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Art and Literature (Chair: David Graber, University of North Carolina – Wilmington)
Florida’s Bambi: Contested Landscape in Depictions of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ The
Yearling
Errol Nelson, Harn Museum of Art
Prioritizing the Arts in the ‘National Life’ in Western Europe
David Graber, University of North Carolina – Wilmington
Break: 10:30-11:00am (Light snacks, coffee, & water)
MIFLC Review Info Session: 11:00am-12:00pm
Culp Room 311
Informational Session on Publishing with MIFLC Review: Learn more about transforming
your conference paper into a peer-reviewed journal article in MIFLC Review.
Andrea Smith, Shenandoah University, Editor
Eunice Rojas, Shenandoah University, Managing Associate Editor
MIFLC Business Meeting: 12:00-1:00pm
Culp Room 311
Open to all conference participants