Kidding Around:  The Child in Film and Media

An Interdisciplinary Conference
September 26 - 27, 2008

Conference Committe Members

Alexander Howe, Committee Chair, is an Americanist whose research interests include the American Renaissance, Detective Fiction, Psychoanalysis, and Film.  He is the author of It Didn't Mean Anything:  A Psychoanalytic Reading of Detective Fiction (McFarland 2008).

Deirdre Evans-Pritchard works to develop digital media and arts as an integral, progressive aspect of higher education.  Her projects have included: DC Meets Delhi Film Festival (2007), documentaries for A&E and The Learning Channel, and Urban Folk Fashion, a Smithsonian exhibition. She was a two-time Fulbright Scholar in Communications in Lebanon and a long term faculty member of the University of Southern California’s Center for Visual Anthropology.

Clement Goddard, Visiting Assistant Professor (Librarian) in the Learning Resources Division. Goddard has been part of the LRD for 20yrs. Goddard has also been an adjunct professor in English Department.  He counts, among his many interests, children's literature and the use of film as a teaching tool.

Sandra Jowers-Barber is an assistant professor of history. She teaches courses in United States and African American history and African American women. Sandra received both her doctorate in US History and her MA in Public History from Howard University in Washington, DC. Contact her by email at sjowers@udc.edu.

Wynn Yarbrough teaches literature and composition. He has published articles on Rudyard Kipling, Langston Hughes, and teaching nonfiction composition.  Poems, reviews, interviews and articles have appeared in The Potomac Review, Branches Quarterly, the Pedestal Magazine, Poetry Midwest, and others.  He has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won the Louisiana College Composition Poetry Prize in 2005. His chapbook, Creatures of Love, is forthcoming from Southern Hum Press in the beginning of 2008.

William Hanff (Media Director, Writer, Educator)is Assistant Professor of Mass Media at the University of the District of Columbia. In his professional capacity, William specializes in non-profit communications and ‘inside-the-beltway’ style productions – keeping a light-hearted irony in an otherwise serious realm. William remains active in theatre and documentary film production, and draws upon theatricality in all of his productions.