Dwayne Coleman of UCA’s English department last week presented a paper at the Southeast Medieval Association Conference in Spartanburg, S.C. The paper was entitled “‘Lette Hym Seke Other Bookis’: Malory?s Use of Sources in the Composition Process.”
Also last week, at the 31st annual meeting of the West Viriginia University Conference on Film and Literature, Wayne Stengel of UCA’s English department presented the paper “Marlon Brando — The Last Laugh,” analyzing Brando’s entire film career, but concentrating on the excellence of his performance in his first film role in Fred Zinnemann’s “The Men,” as well as the greatness of his acting in the seldom seen, highly political film by Gilo Pontecorvo, “Burn.”
Hui Wu, associate professor of writing, last week served as a featured speaker at the national Conference on Feminisms and Rhetorics in Little Rock. Her speech, “Whose Feminism Is It: Behind Western Rejections of Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women’s Essays,” focused on the Chinese concept of “human” and pointed out that mainstream Western feminist theories built on gender binaries might put women in other cultures under study at stake due to the neglect of the specific cultural contexts where women live their material lives.