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UC Hosts N.Y. College English Association Conference

Poet April Barnard to Keynote

Written By Katie Gleitsmann '12, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica, NY (09/24/2011) - Utica College will host the New York College English Association’s (NYCEA) Fall 2011 conference, Literature and Feeling, Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1.

James Scannell, associate professor of English and a board member of the NYCEA, said the conference alternates between upstate and downstate New York every year. Since this year the conference would be upstate, he recommended Utica College as the perfect choice.

“The way literature draws one in using emotion was always a big feature of my reading life and hence motivated my choice of a profession in literature,” he said. “So, I can't wait to hear what a diverse range of scholars have to say about the role of emotion in teaching and enjoying literature.”

They expect about 35 presenters and 50 attendees total at the conference with topics ranging from contemporary teen fiction like the “Hunger Games” series to emotion in composition or creative writing classrooms to emotion in literature from early American to 21st-century Chicano literature.

Most of the presenters come from New York, Scannell said, but there will be scholars there from Mississippi, Connecticut, Ohio and Texas.

This year’s keynote speaker is April Bernard, a New England poet who has won several awards including the 1989 Walt Whitman Award for her first book, Blackbird Bye Bye, and a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship.

She will read selections from her latest volume, Romanticism, along with some of her other poetry on Friday at 7:30 p.m.
Scannell is happy to continue the tradition of the conference because it is smaller, more supportive and more cordial than larger conferences.

“The notion that those who teach and love literature only get together once or twice a year in huge gatherings seems counterproductive,” he said. “The more small gatherings of lovers of literature there are like this one, the better, I believe.”

For more information, contact Scannell at jscannell@utica.edu, or visit the NYCEA website at http:// www.nycea.org/New_York_College_English_Association/Welcome.html.