CCL Schedule

REGISTRATION
LIGHT SNACK PROVIDED
President’s Dining Room, Prince Conference Center

WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
President’s Dining Room, Prince Conference Center

CONCURRENT PANELS: SESSION 1

Panel 1A: Flannery O’Connor and the “Other”: Negotiating Difference in O’Connor’s Fiction
Hickory A
Chair: Nancy Hull, Calvin College
• Brittney Winters, Grand Valley State University
“God’s Chosen People: African Americans in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Artificial Nigger’”
• Jennifer Furner, Grand Valley State University
“A Leg to Stand On: The Godlike Figure in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Good Country People’”
• April Best, Grand Valley State University
“Mr. Guizac: Savior and Judge in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Displaced Person’”

Panel 1B: Magic, Machines, and Miracles: Doubt and Belief in Fantasy and Science-Fiction
Hickory B
Chair: Otto Selles, Calvin College
• Beverly Katt, Lincoln University
“Fantasy and Faith: The Connected Themes in Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet”
• David Landrum, Calvin College, Grand Valley State University
“Peace Like A River: Religion, Magic Realism, and Public Response”
• Jennifer Miller, Valparaiso University
“Hearing the Voice of God: The Function of the Fantastic in Shusako Endo’s and Mary Doria Russell’s Novels of Mission Work”

Panel 1C: Stories That Preach: Faith Claims in Fiction
Dogwood
Chair: Jennifer Williams, Calvin College
• Wiebke Omnus, Keimyung University
“Preaching Fiction: Attacking Heresy through Story”
• Christina Bieber Lake, Wheaton College
“The Lure of Transhumanism vs. the Balm in Gilead: Marilynne Robinson on the Good Life”
• Dwight Lindley, Hillsdale College
“Liberalism and Mythopoesis in George Eliot”

Panel 1D: Seeking After Holiness: Three Case Studies from British Literature
DeVos 150
Chair: Sarina Gruver Moore, Calvin College
• Charles Bressler, Indiana Wesleyan University
“Wording into Righteousness: Tolkien’s Methodology for Creating His Hero in The Hobbit”
• Chris Willerton, Abilene Christian University
“The Troubled Seeker in the Detective Novels of Ian Rankin”
• Katherine Calloway, Valparaiso University
“The Storybook of Nature: John Ray’s The Wisdom of God”

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COFFEE AND TEA PROVIDED
President’s Dining Room, Prince Conference Center

CONCURRENT PANELS: SESSION 2

Panel 2A: The Trace of Suffering and Grace in World Literatures, I
Hickory A
Chair: John Netland, Union University
• David Rozema, University of Nebraska at Kearney
“The First Circle and the Second Government: Solzhenitsyn on Literature and Freedom”
• Susan Scaff, San Jose State University
“Loss and Spiritual Restoration in Henning Mankell’s Italian Shoes”
• Miho Nonaka, Wheaton College
“Reaction to God’s Silence, East and West: Endo Shusaku’s Novel in Different Cultural Contexts”

Panel 2B: Sacramental Sensibilities in Contemporary Fictions
Hickory B
Chair: Roy Anker, Calvin College
• Marie Balsley Taylor, Purdue University
“An Ojibwe-Catholic Sacrament: The Significance of Baptism in the Novels of Louise Erdrich”
• J. Cameron Moore, Baylor University
“Catherine McKenna’s Eucharistic Art: Transubstantiation, Form, and Music in Bernard MacLaverty’s Grace Notes”
• Rachel Luckenbill, Duquesne University
“Confession and Community in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior”

Panel 2C: The Literature of Published Prayer
Dogwood
Chair: George Harper, Calvin College
• Adam Marshall, Baylor University
“‘To Ask Right Things Rightly’: The Prayer-Texts of John Donne”
• John Cox, Hope College
“The Language of Prayer in Shakespeare’s Plays”
• Wendy Weaver, Mount Mary College
“From Exposé to Confession: The Public Life of Abortion Poems”

Panel 2D: Unrepentant Christian Pedagogy?
DeVos 150
Chair: Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University
• Martin Batts, LeTourneau University
“Recovering the Public Life of Literature: A Pedagogical Proposal”
• John Blair, Texas State University
“Teaching Around Belief: Balance, Disclaimers, and Confession in the Large Literature Classroom”
• Robby Prenkert and Timothy Erdel, Bethel College
“Bringing Life to the Text and the Text to Life: Case Studies from the Literature Classroom as Confessional Space”

Panel 2E: Struggling Toward a Profession of Faith: Three Case Studies from British Literature
DeVos 160
Chair: Sarina Gruver Moore, Calvin College
• Sue Sorenson, Canadian Mennonite University
“What Charles Dickens Never Said About the Christian Life”
• Devin Brown, Asbury University
“The Hobbit: An ‘Essentially’ Christian Story”
• Beth Bevis, Indiana University
“Narrating the Conscience: Dissent and Explanation in North and South”

CONCURRENT PANELS: SESSION 3

Panel 3A: Language and Imagination: Undergraduate Track I
Hickory A
Chair: Andrea Kortenhoven, Calvin College
• Kathryn Mogk, Pepperdine University
“Swallowing the Golden Pill: The Integral Christianity of Narnia”
• Samantha Vanderberg, Calvin College
“Habits of Mind: The Intersection of New Media and Academic Writing”
• Taylor Osborn, Calvin College
“Iconic Motivation of V2 Subordinate Clauses in German: Suggestions for Future Research”

Panel 3B: The Trace of Suffering and Grace in World Literatures, II
Hickory B
Chair: Henry Baron, Calvin College
• John Netland, Union University
“Past and Present in Endo’s Silence”
• Susan Crampton-Frenchik, Pennsylvania State University at Fayette
“Writing and Witnessing: Inscribing Feminine Identity through Public Testimony in the Works of Maryse Condé and Myriam Warner-Vieyra”
• Susan VanZanten, Seattle Pacific University
“Headstrong Historians: Adichie’s New Story”

Panel 3C: Universal Parables and Indispensable Allegories
Dogwood
Chair: Marlys Admiraal, Calvin College
• Sherilyn Schneekluth, Concordia University
“Virgilian Intertextuality in Narnia: C. S. Lewis’s Lost Aeneid and The Dawn Treader”
• Christina Boyles, Baylor University
“Many Speakers, One Tale: Analyzing the Role of Parables in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road”
• Nathan Kilpatrick, Baylor University
“‘There’s Always a Mean Old Wolf in Grandma’s Bed, and a Worm Inside the Apple’: Historical Fiction and the Interrogation of Public Virtue in Ron Hansen’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford”

Panel 3D: The Word, Re-worded: Creative License and the Biblical Original
DeVos 130
Chair: Lisa Bouma-Garvelink, Kuyper College
• Emily Zimbrick-Rogers, independent scholar
“Wading into Many Waters: Gender, Identity, and Theology in Madeleine L’Engle’s Biblical Fiction”
• David Urban, Calvin College
“Nora’s Desire for Christ-like Love in Ibsen’s A Doll House”
• Tiffany Kriner, Wheaton College
“‘lines of living light’: Frances Ellen Watkin’s Popular and Political Poetry”

Panel 3E: Keeping No Bad Faith: The Role of Literature in Troubled Times
DeVos 240
Chair:
• Kent Shaw, West Virginia State University
“Tradition Versus Practical Faith in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated”
• Julie Ooms, Baylor University
“‘A Great Artist or a Great Soldier’: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Creation of the Public Self in the Era of War”
• Ivo Soljan, Grand Valley State University
“‘Where the honey and gall are mix’d…’: Some English Renaissance Quarrels Over the Public Life and Functions of Literature” 

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COFFEE AND TEA PROVIDED
Fireside Room, Prince Conference Center

WORSHIP SERVICE WITH LUCI SHAW
Chapel

CONCURRENT PANELS: SESSION 4

Panel 4A: Narrative and Identity: Undergraduate Track II
Hickory A
Chair:
• Jake Schepers, Calvin College
“‘Instead of the cave?’: A Charitable Audience for Berryman’s The Dream Songs”
• Stephanie Binion, Taylor University
“Carrying Bones: Identity, Narrative, and Metanarrative in Country of My Skull and Song of Solomon”
• David Greendonner, Calvin College
“Developing ‘Fame’: Milton’s Meditations through Lycidas”

Panel 4B: The Trace of Suffering and Grace in World Literatures, III
Hickory B
Chair: James Vanden Bosch, Calvin College
• Keith Palka, Central Michigan University
“Georges Bernanos, Novelist and Essayist, Bears Witness to His Times: Two Works Sparked by the Spanish Civil War”
• Steve VanDerWeele, Calvin College
“‘A Felicitous Life Between Parentheses of Disaster’: The Witness of Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)”

Panel 4C: Marilynne Robinson: A Belief that Dares
Dogwood
Chair: Jennifer Holberg, Calvin College
• Janella Moy, St. Louis University
“Writing as Remedy: John Ames’ Spiritual Journal”
• Linda McCullough Moore, independent scholar
“Presence of Mind: An Examination of Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson”
• Erin DuBois, Philadelphia Bible University
“Marilynne Robinsons’s Housekeeping: Daring Beyond Dickinson”

Panel 4D: Religious Didacticism and its Discontents
DeVos 150
Chair: Maryann Walters, Calvin College
• Ben Lockerd, Grand Valley State University
“Eliot and Dawson on Church and Culture”
• Deborah Bowen, Redeemer University College
“John Terpstra: Navigating the Troubled Boat of Faith”
• Neely McLaughlin, University of Cincinnati
“Examining the Treatment of Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives Relating to Race and Christianity”

FESTIVAL OF FAITH AND WRITING SESSION
“WHERE THE SERVANTS DWELL” WITH GARY SCHMIDT
Van Noord Arena, Spoelhof Fieldhouse

FESTIVAL OF FAITH AND WRITING SESSION
“HOW TO READ POETRY DEVOTIONALLY” WITH SUSAN VANZANTEN
Swets Choral Room, Covenant Fine Arts Center

FESTIVAL OF FAITH AND WRITING SESSION
“ILLUMINATING GRACE: MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S FICTION AND FAITH”
President’s Board Room, Prince Conference Center
• Linda McCullough Moore, independent scholar
“At Home with Marilynne Robinson”
• Laura Schutz, independent scholar
“‘A Weight of Light’: Beauty and Being in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead”

FESTIVAL OF FAITH AND WRITING SESSION
“WRITERS AND THE BUSINESS OF CREATIVITY” BY WALTER WANGERIN
Auditorium, Covenant Fine Arts Center

A LUNCH WITH MARILYNNE ROBINSON
A TICKET IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS EVENT.
President’s Board Room, Prince Conference Center

FESTIVAL OF FAITH AND WRITING SESSION
“BIBLE DOODLES,” AN ARTIST’S RECEPTION AND SIGNING WITH CRAIG THOMPSON
Center Art Gallery, Covenant Fine Arts Center