M. A. Conference
Spring 2008

English Department
Washington State University

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Tony Dell'Ario
"Identity Creation in Halo 3"

 

Brent Fujioka
"From Fu Manchu to Hideki Tojo:
Politics and the Changing Asian Enemy in American Superhero Comic Books of the Golden Age"

 

Tim Hetland
"Politics, Spectacle, and the Torture Porn Horror Film"

 

Steve Holmes
"The Writer's Progress:
The Economies of the Black Presencein David Dabydeen's A Harlot's Progress

 

Amy McDougall
"The Wolf on Wall Street:
A Pedagogy of Responsiveness When Students Buy the Literacy Myth"

 

Emily Moore
"The Skinny of It, Or, How I Stopped Worrying and
Learned to Love Food"

 

Andy Orr
"The Lure of Content:
A Talk about Teaching English 101"

 

Clark Rice
"Writing the Other Way:
Contemporary Aesthetics and Reception of Melville's Moby Dick

 

Rachael Shapiro
"MySpace: Site for Alternative Discourse and Dissent"

 

Dorothy Worden
"The Available Means of Composing:
Writing Process, Rhetoric, and the Teaching of Composition"