Conference Program: Tuesday, November 27, 4:30-7:00 pm, AQ 6106

All are welcome

Panel I: Retheorizing Authorship in the 21st Century
4:30-5:10

Garrett Peck, “Authorship in the 21st Century: Digitalization and the Creative Commons Movement”

Scott Marsden, “Fictional realities: Authorship and Textual Production in the Comic Book Form”

Panel II: Medieval Women, Victorian Readers
5:15-6:00

Stacey Krause, “Female Readership, the Anchoritic Life, and the Acrene Wisse”

Cristy Thomson, “'Emotional Transportation' and Troublesome 'Brain Work': The Impact of the Gothic and Sensation Novel on The Female Reader”

Alison Hurlburt, “Household Wares: Dickens and the Periodical Consumer”

**short break**

III. Marketing Print in the 21st Century
6:00-6:30

Emily Gordon, “Christian Living or Selling Spirituality?: Negotiating commodification in recent religious publishing”

Dave Gaertner, “Guided By Serifs: The Hidden Ideology of Fonts in Western Newspapers”

III. Controversies of New Media
6:30-7:00

Thor Polukoshko, “Edit this Paper: Truth, Reliability, and Wikipedia”

Larry Perras, “‘Talk to Me’: Email, IMing, and the New Orality”

Reception
7:00-8:30