Scholarly Publications

Keith Owen. “Say It Ain’t So or History à la The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” West Texas Historical Association Yearbook 81 (2005): 102-112.
---. Book review of The Man from the Rio Grande: A Biography of Harry Love, Leader of the California Rangers Who Tracked Down Joaquin Murrieta.  By William B. Secrest. West Texas Historical Yearbook 82.

Kregg Fehr. “Red Traces,” in Tales of Texoma. Midwestern State University Press, 2006.

Kenneth Hawley. with Kevin Kiernan, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Alex Dekhtyar, Dorothy Carr Porter, Sandeep Bodapati, and Ionut Emil Iacob, “The ARCHway Project: Architecture for Research in Computing for Humanities through Research, Teaching, and Learning.” Literary and Linguistic Computing 20.1 (2005): 69-88. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/Suppl/69?ijkey=a2FHqg7XTTULMJz&keytype=ref

Ronna Privett. “The Western Woman and the Cowboy Hero: Power and Stoicism in the Western Landscape.” CCTE Studies 70 (2005): 81-89.

Scholarly Conferences

Keith Owen. Presented paper on incorrect history. Scholars Colloquium, Lubbock Christian University, Lubbock, Texas, March 2006.

Susan Blassingame. Chaired Panel, Intersections of Faith and Learning in the Freshman Classroom. ACU Inscription Conference/Christianity and Literature. Fall 2007.
---. Attended Conference of College Teachers of English (Texas). Fall 2007.
---. Presented “The Academic Novel as Region.” College English Association National Conference. Fall 2006.

Jim Bullock. Co-Chaired LCU Scholars Colloquium. March 2007.
---. Co-Chaired LCU Scholars Colloquium. March 2006.
---. Co-Hosted Great Plains Honors Council Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. March 2007.
---. Presented “Identifying the Adversary in the ‘Terrible Sonnets’ of Gerard Manley Hopkins.” Conference of College Teachers of English, College Station, Texas. March 2007.

Tim Byars. Attended American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. 2006.
---. Attended Evangelical Theological Society Annual Meeting and Served as Discussant for the Church and State section. 2006.
---. Presented paper concerning the American founders and religion. LCU Scholars Colloquium. March 2006.

Carole Carroll. Attended IID (Institute for Interfaith Dialogue) Conference at OU and met the Ambassador to Pakistan. October 2006.
---. Invited to present at IID conference in London in the fall of 2007.

Kregg Fehr. Presented paper. LCU Scholars Colloquium. March 2006.
---. Presented paper. West Texas Historical Association. 2006.

Kenneth Hawley. “Them’s Fightin’ Words: Text and Violence in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”  LCU Scholars Colloquium. Lubbock, TX: March 2007.
---. “Personal Reflections and Biblical Echoes in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney.” Conference of College Teachers of English. College Station, TX: March 2007.
---. “Trends in Student Writing: Reading, Thinking, and Researching.” Region 17. Flex Your TEKS: Secondary Social Studies, ELA. July 2006.
---. “Seamus Heaney’s Biblical Echoes.” LCU Scholars Colloquium. March 2006.
---. “Humanities Computing, Electronic Editing, and the Pedagogy of Scholarship.” LCU Scholars Colloquium. Lubbock, TX: March 2006.

Deborah Klein. Essay Contest Judge. LCU Scholars Colloquium. Lubbock, TX. March 2007.
---. "The Rocks Cry Out: Muslim and Christian Writers in the 2001 Jos Crisis." Panel: The Next Christendom and African Literature. The 122nd MLA Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA. December 2006.
---. "Eyes of the Mind, Eyes of the Heart." Session 16: Multicultural Literature. Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature/Inscription. Abilene, TX. September 2006.

Ronna Privett. “Playing ‘Strip Botticelli’: The Quest for Meaning in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.” Literature V: American Literature, European Influences. Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE). College Station, Texas. March 2007.
---. “The Western Woman and the Cowboy Hero: Power and Stoicism in the Western Landscape.” Literature and Teaching Literature V: “Gender and Literature.” Conference of College Teachers of English. Waco, Texas.  March 2005.

Michael Whitley. Served as Panel Moderator. Phi-Alpha-Theta Presentations. West Texas Historical Association Annual Meeting. 2006.
---. Presented paper on Truman’s 1948 national health plan, with original research from the Truman Presidential Library. LCU Scholars Colloquium. March 2006.
---. Chaired Panel. Learning/technology. LCU Scholars Colloquium. March 2006.
---. Presented paper. Media Demonstration of the Truth within the “Myth of Texas History.” West Texas Historical Association Annual Meeting. 2005.

Study Abroad

Keith Owen. Group leader on a tour of Greece with 27 people, 2005.
---. Group leader on a tour of Italy with 103 people, 2006.

Jim Bullock. Tour Leader, Grand Tour of Italy, EF Educational Tours. Led 103 people on a 10-day tour of Italy and co-taught a course on the Italian Renaissance for the spring semester. March 2006.
---. Tour Co-Coordinator, An Irish Odyssey, Casterbridge Tours. July 2007.

Carole Carroll. Tour of Turkey. May 2006