Saturday, October 1st
8:20 - 8:50
SWCCL BUSINESS MEETING
9:00 - 10:15
FIRST SESSION
SESSION 1A
Reading Sacred Texts
Chair: Karen Youmans
Travis Frampton
Hardin-Simmons University
Dueling Discourses: Spinoza's Contribution to Biblical
Interpretation, Literary Criticism, and Scientific Methodology
Carole Logan Carroll
Lubbock Christian University
Creating A Questioning Faith in the Literature Classroom
Chris Holland
Hardin-Simmons University
Inciting Ethics: Entrapment Rhetoric in Amos's
Oracles Against the Nations
SESSION 1B
Milton and Modernity:
Artful Intersections Between Past and Present
Chair: Ginger Stelle
Caitlin Washburn
Baylor University
Bob Dylan's Miltonic Pursuit of Moral Truth
Erika Smith
Baylor University
Paradise Lost and The Phantom of the Opera (2004):
Countering the Post-Modern Uncertainty of Good and Evil
Caroline Barta
Baylor University
Sacramental Gender in Fight Club (1999) and Paradise Lost
SESSION 1C
British Poetry Through the Centuries
Chair: Ben Myers
Andrea Ortlieb
University of Alberta
Achieving Theorized Transcendence: Donne's "Holy Sonnet XVII"
as an Experiential Sequel to "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
JB201
Mark Hall
Oral Roberts University
Poet in Transition: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the
Changing Victorian World
JB208
JB206
JB200
Aaron Thurow
University of Texas
Let Me Not to Marriage Admit: The Curious Case of
Sacramental Marriage in Shakespeare's Sonnets
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