Saturday, March 8
Tango Rooms 3 & 4, 7th Floor
Continental breakfast, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor
Friday, March 7
Tango Rooms 3 & 4, 7th Floor
Late registration; early registrants pick up materials, Tango 3 hallway, 7th floor
11:00 - 11:20 Lisa Green & Tracy Conner, U of Massachusetts-Amherst
Rhetorical Markers in Developing African American English-Speaking Girls' Language
11:20 - 11:40 Elaine Richardson, Ohio State U
Gender Ideologies in Hip Hop Feminism and Performances of Black Womanhood
11:40 - 12:00 H. Samy Alim, U of California-Los Angeles
"We Just Doin Our Sista Thang": Styling African American Women's Language
12:05 - 12:35 Discussion
12:35 - 02:30 Lunch break
AAWL and Self, Family, and Community Identity
Chair: Marcheta Evans, University of Texas at San Antonio
09:00 - 09:20 Jessica DeCuir-Gunby, N Carolina State U, & Adrienne Dixson, Ohio State U
From Jezebels to Nappy Headed Hos: African American Women, Language and Identity
09:20 - 09:40 Alicia Beckford-Wassink, U of Washington
Growing up with Two "Black Languages". Kinship and Attitudes toward Jamaican Creole and African American English
09:40 - 10:00 Peggy Jones, U of Nebraska-Omaha My Mother Tongue: A Linguistic Autoethnography
10:05 - 10:35 Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Morning snack break, Skyline Atrium, 7th Floor
02:30 - 02:50 Iyabo Osiapem, College of William & Mary
Language and Identity among Black Bermudean Women
02:50 - 03:10 Jennifer Bloomquist, Gettysburg College
“People Say I Speak Proper, but Girl, I'm Ghetto! ” Regional Dialect Use and Adaptation by
African American Women in Pennsylvania's Lower Susquehanna Valley
03:10 - 03:30 Shelome Gooden, U of Pittsburgh
Authentically Black, Bona Fide Pittsburgher: A Prosodic Description of African American Women's Speech in Pittsburgh
03:35 - 04:05 Discussion
04:00 - 04:30 Afternoon snack break, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor
04:30 pm – 06:05 pm •
04:30 - 04:50 Christine Mallinson, U of Maryland-Baltimore County
“The Way I Can Speak for Myself”: The Social and Linguistic Context of Interviews with African American Girls in Washington, D.C.
04:50 - 05:10 Anne Charity, College of William & Mary and Renée Price, St. Catherine's School
Variation in African American Secondary School Girls' Language and Education
05:10 - 05:30 Angela Rickford, San Jose State U
Six Deep Teaching Strategies for Engaging Struggling K-12 Students in Literary and Literacy Development ”
05:35 - 06:05 Discussion
06:05 Adjourn for the day
07:00- 09:00 Continental breakfast, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor
08:00- 12:45 Late Registration; early registrants pick up materials, Tango 3 hallway, 7th floor
08:00- 05:00 Book exhibit, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor
08:25- 08:35 Opening remarks, Michael Jennings,
UTSA President of Black Faculty and Staff Association
AAWL Representations in Literature and Film
Chair: Norma Cantú, University of Texas at San Antonio
08:35- 08:55 Joycelyn Moody, U of Texas-San Antonio
Black Intimacy and White Interlocution in 19th-Century
Mediated Love Letters
08:55- 09:15 Calaya Reid, Clark Atlanta U/U of Georgia
From Bitch to Baby:Struggles Dealing with AAWL and Character Dialogue in Take Her Man
09:15- 09:35 Grisel Acosta, U of Texas-San Antonio
Silencio Reál: Silences and Voices in Afro-Latina Language in “I Am Cuba”
and “Anne B. Real”
09:35- 09:55 Tani Sanchez, U of Arizona
Discourses of the Black Female Messiah in Contemporary Film
10:00- 10:35 Discussion
10:30- 11:00 Morning snack break, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor
02:30- 02:50 Arthur Spears, City University of New York
Theorizing AAWL: Toward a Theory of Grammar and Use
02:50- 03:10 Terry Meier, Wheelock College
Stand Up and Speak Out: “Oppositional Talk” in the Discourse of African American Girls
03:10- 03:30 Denise Troutman, Michigan State U
Signifying and Black Woman's “Place”
03:30- 03:50 John R. Rickford and Mackenzie Price, Stanford U
Girls II Women: Foxy Boston and Tinky Gates Revisited
03:55- 04:30 Discussion
04:30- 05:00 Afternoon snack break, Skyline Atrium, 7th floor
11:00- 11:20 Lanita Jacobs-Huey, U of Southern California
Talking about (and Beyond) Hair: Negotiating Expertise and “Realness” in Black Women's Hair Care
11:20- 11:40 Angela Kortenhoven, Calvin College/Stanford U
Pentecostal Women Testifyin
11:40- 12:00 Charles DeBose, California State U-Eastbay
Church Lady Talk: African American Female Language in/and the Church
12:05- 12:35 Discussion
12:35- 02:30 Lunch Break
05:00- 06:05 Speakers: All conference presenters
Conference speakers will field questions from audience members (PBS format)
06:05- 06:15 Closing Remarks