2001 Faculty Fellows Conference

"Adults and Children at Play"

Keynote Speaker

Nancy Lieberman-Cline, Basketball Hall-of-Famer, Television Broadcaster for ESPN, and Former Head Coach of the Detroit Shcok (WNBA): Gender/Sex/Play: What Have Women Got to Do With It?

Faculty Fellow Presenters

Philip Abbott, Professor, Political Science: Utopians at Play

Abigail Butler, Assistant Professor, Music, with Vicki Lind, Assistant Professor, Music, University of Colorado at Boulder: A Child's Book of Madrigals: Songs, Games, and Dances of the Renaissance

Jorgelina Corbatta, Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures: Playing Games With the Reader: The Writings of Jorge Luis Borges

Anne Duggan, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures: Adults at Play: Les Chroniques du Samedi and the Production of Elite Subjects

Cynthia Erb, Director, Film Studies Program, Associate Professor, English, on behalf of Kirsten Thompson, Assistant Professor, English: At Play in the Field of Animation: the Fleischer Bros. Studio, 1915-1944

Sandra VanBurkleo, Associate Professor, History, on behalf of Edward M. Wise, Professor, Law: Play Forms in the Criminal Trial: A Comparative Study

Dissertation Fellow Presenters:

Joseph Helminski, Ph.D. Candidate, English: Rome in America: Anti-Catholicism and American Identity in Antebellum Literature

Jane Yamazaki, Ph.D. Candidate, Communication: A Nation Apologizes: A Rhetorical Study of Postwar Japanese Apologies for World War II