VCU Symposium Calendar and Archive

Richard Fine
"Who Owns What Writers Write?

American Authors and Intellectual Property"
(September)

Gary Sange
"Originality and Imitation:

The Dynamics of Poetry"
(October)

Walter Coppedge
"Robinson Crusoe in Hollywood"
(November)

Spring 1997

Elisabeth Kuhn
"Cross-Cultural Challenges for German Women Professors
in the United States Classroom"
(February)

George Longest
"The Green Gate of Genius: Charles F. Gillette
and the Changing Face of Virginia"
(March)

Fall 1996

Bill Griffin
"Teaching Shakespeare: A Report"
(September)

Patricia Perry
"Beyond Naming Writing: Freirian Conscientization

in the College Composition Classroom"
(October)

Carmen Gillespie

"(Re)member the Present: African-American Narratives

at the Cross-roads"
(November)

Spring 1996

Bryant Mangum

"A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald:

A Work in Progress"
(February)

"Making the Invisible Visible: What We Can Learn

From Afican Popular Writing"
(March)

Greg Donovan

"Poetry as Fiction—What Will Suffice?"
(April)

"The Modern Griselda"
(September)

Marguerite Harkness

"Engendering the Apocalypse:

Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse"
(October)

James Kinney

"Joel Chandler Harris and the New South Movement:

'Free Joe' and the Race Issue"
(November)

"'Imaginary Jews': Elizabeth Stern's Autobiography as Amnesia"
(February)

Tom DeHaven

"Don't Change Anything / Change Everything:

Adapting Fiction to Film"
(March)

Catherine Ingrassia

"Text, Lies and the Marketplace: Eliza Haywood and the Literary Marketplace at Mid-Century"
(April)

"How to Write Someone Else's Book"
(September)

"Everything Happened in the 1590's; or

Ventriloquizing the Homeless and Women in Early Modern England"
(October)

Nick Sharp
"Rhetoric of the Jacobean Court (1603-1625)"
(November)

	VCU ENGLISH DEPARTMENT FACULTY SYMPOSIUM CALENDAR & ARCHIVE Previous Presentations February 24: Elizabeth Cooper, "Native and Non-Native Hypertext" March 24: Nicholas Frankel "The Meaning of Margin: White Space and Disagreement in Whistler's 'The Gentle Art of Making Enemies'" April 21: Terry Hummer "The Boundaries of Poetry: Contemporary American Poetics and the New Regionalism" Fall 1998 Richard Priebe "Interpretation and Misinterpretation of African Literature in the American Classroom" (September) Marita Golden "Autobiography as Mirror and Shadow: The Seductions of the Self" (October) Bill Griffin "Good Students Reading Shakespeare" (November) Spring 1998 John Pendergast "Language Acquisition and Shakespeare's Early Comedies" (February) Larry Laban "Of True Greatness: An Inquiry into the Rhetoric of Henry Fielding, as Illustrated in the Characterization of the Hero" (March) Ann Woodlief "Creating a (Virtual) Interpretive Community" (April) Fall 1997 Richard Fine "Who Owns What Writers Write? American Authors and Intellectual Property" (September) Gary Sange "Originality and Imitation: The Dynamics of Poetry" (October) Walter Coppedge "Robinson Crusoe in Hollywood" (November)
	Spring 1997 Elisabeth Kuhn "Cross-Cultural Challenges for German Women Professors in the United States Classroom" (February) George Longest "The Green Gate of Genius: Charles F. Gillette and the Changing Face of Virginia" (March) David Latané "Some Intertextual Instances" (April)
	Fall 1996 Bill Griffin "Teaching Shakespeare: A Report" (September) Patricia Perry "Beyond Naming Writing: Freirian Conscientization in the College Composition Classroom" (October) Carmen Gillespie "(Re)member the Present: African-American Narratives at the Cross-roads" (November)

	Spring 1996 Bryant Mangum "A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Work in Progress" (February)
	Richard Priebe "Making the Invisible Visible: What We Can Learn From Afican Popular Writing" (March) Greg Donovan "Poetry as Fiction—What Will Suffice?" (April)
	Fall 1995 Charlotte Morse "The Modern Griselda" (September) Marguerite Harkness "Engendering the Apocalypse: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse" (October) James Kinney "Joel Chandler Harris and the New South Movement: 'Free Joe' and the Race Issue" (November)
	Spring 1995 Laura Browder "'Imaginary Jews': Elizabeth Stern's Autobiography as Amnesia" (February) Tom DeHaven "Don't Change Anything / Change Everything: Adapting Fiction to Film" (March) Catherine Ingrassia "Text, Lies and the Marketplace: Eliza Haywood and the Literary Marketplace at Mid-Century" (April)

	Fall 1994 Maurice Duke "How to Write Someone Else's Book" (September) Boyd Berry "Everything Happened in the 1590's; or Ventriloquizing the Homeless and Women in Early Modern England" (October) Nick Sharp "Rhetoric of the Jacobean Court (1603-1625)" (November)

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