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Learning: April
16-17, 2009
Darby Lewes is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania. She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1991 and has since published Dream Revisionaries: Women's Utopian Literature 1870-1920 (1995), Nudes From Nowhere: Utopian Sexual Landscapes (2000), three editions of A Portrait of the Student as a Young Wolf: Motivating Undergraduates (2002, 2003, 2007), as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. She has also edited three collections of essays, A Brighter Morn: The Shelley Circle's Utopian Project (2002), Autopoetica: Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-century British & American Fiction (2006) and Double Vision: 18th and 19th-century Literary Palimpsests (2008). She has won a number of awards for her scholarship and teaching, and speaks on student motivation at conferences and university workshops across the United States. Solo T. Dog is the Acting Director of Canine Studies at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania, where he also serves as LYCODOG!, the official football Special Teams tee retriever. He received his CDX degree from the American Kennel Club in 2006 and is currently finishing his UD degree. He plans on publishing his edition of The Norton Anthology of Doggerel and the critical biography Lassie: A Life in Film pending development of Microsoft Opposable Thumb 1.0. Portrait of the Student as a Young Wolf: Motivating Undergraduates Using a highly trained Service Dog, Darby Lewes shows how a lifetime of living with, breeding, showing, and training several breeds of dogs has influenced her career as an educator. This highly irreverent, interactive, and frequently unpredictable session is designed to help any teacher looking to develop students' enthusiasm, abilities, and confidence, and as an aid for anyone who is responsible for groups and teams. |
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