2006 Southwest Graduate English Symposium
Symposium Schedule
Many abstracts of the papers on the schedule can be found listed in alphabetical order on the "Abstracts" page"
(Re)Markable Identities: Confronting, Conflating, and Corrupting Cultural Discourses
Friday, February 24 th
6:00pm Sonoran Prize Presentations and Readings at Bison Witches
Saturday, February 25 th
Panels will be held on the second floor of the Language and Literature (LL) Building on the ASU campus.
8:30am Registration and Breakfast in LL316
9am
LL268 – Borders of Belief: Issues of Spirit and Text
Nick Hart, Arizona State University, “Foucault & the Pulpit: A Textual Analysis of the Homily and Power”
Cara Snider, University of New Hampshire, “Typology of the Despised: Language of Inclusion and Restoration in the Writings of Samson Occom”
Mahlika Hopwood, Arizona State University, “Song and Silence: Hildegard’s Musical Theology and Augustian Vision Theory”
Moderator: Ginny Pannabecker, Arizona State University
LL270 – Broken Bodies 1: Disability Discourse in Academia
Tracey Colvin, University of Maryland, College Park, “Disabling the Canon”
Sharon Gallagher, University of East London, “Peer mentoring groups as spaces for creatively exploring ways of re-conceptualizing the self”
Moderator: Cindi Calhoun, Arizona State University
10:15am
LL268 – Composition, Commodity, and Emergent Technology
Peter J. Wegner, Arizona State University, “Computer-aided Visualizations of Poems, Narratives, and Essays in Writing Education and Invention”
Paul Walker, Arizona State University, “The Economics of Writing: Composition’s Exchange Value In and Out of the University”
James Palazzolo, Arizona State University, “Investigations in Non-Traditional Research Tools & Methods”
Moderator: Sherry Rankins-Robertson,
LL270 – Decrypting Codes of Silence: Strategies in Literature for Speaking from Margins
Malreddy Pavan Kumar, University of Saskatchewan, “From Minor Literature to Post-literature: The Poetics of defeatism in the work of Franz Kafka”
Nicole Garrett, St. John's University, "A Voice in the U.S.: Lo Real Marvilloso in Chicano Literature"
Cambria Stamper-Santana, Arizona State University , “ Women Working in the U.S. , Mexico , and on the Borders: Literature and Potential for Organizing Labor.”
Moderator: Micheal Sean Bolton, Arizona State University
LL272 – Broken Bodies 2: Disability in Literature
Megan Monserez, University of Maryland, “(Dis)abling Desire, Desiring Disability: Jake Barnes’ World-Making in The Sun Also Rises”
Katherine Skipsey, University of Saskatchewan, “Sick Roles: Temporary Invalidities in the Courtship Narratives of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice”
Edith Miller and Julianne Albiero-Walton, East Stroudsburg University, “The Perception of Disability as Evil in Western Literature from Shakespeare to Dan Brown”
Moderator: Sarah Dean, Arizona State University
11:30am
LL268 – After Empire: (Post)Colonial Schisms
Carol Mejia-LaPerle, Arizona State University, “,The Glorious empire of the Turkes, the present terror of the world’: Turkish Cruelty in Robert Greene’s Selimus, Emperor of the Turks
Meghan Maguire Dahn, University of Connecticut, “Learning Their Lessons: Derek Walcott and Nicole Awai Consider the Caribbean”
Adrienne DuVall, University of Oregon, “Colonial Refashioning in The Female American”
Moderator: Stacey Jackson, Arizona State University
LL270 – Alternative Rhetoric(s): Contesting and Transcending Ideological Borders
Chris Vassett, Arizona State University, “Economies of Resistance and Release: Considering the Nature of TA Rhetoric”
Natalie Martinez, Arizona State University, “Borders as a Post-Modern Rhetorical Theory”
Nicole Graham, Arizona State University, “Conspiracy Rhetoric: An Introduction to Negotiated Identity”
Moderator: Chris Vassett, Arizona State University
LL272 – Identity, Revolution, and the Discourse of Resistance
John Hsiao, Cal-State Long Beach, “Searching for an Identity: A Chinese American Hybridity in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior”
Daniel Peterman, Cal-State Long Beach, “So You Say We Need a Revolution? Whatever …: An Exploration of Giorgio Agamben’s Whatever Singularity”
Dev Bose, Cal-State Long Beach, “Dominant Discourses and the Re-establishment of Grand Narratives in Foucaldian Theory”
Moderator: John Hsiao, Cal-State Long Beach
LL274 – Broken Bodies 3: Female Identity and Disability
Pauline Eyre, University of Manchester , “Christa Reinig's Extraordinary Journey: the Problem of Expressing A Disabled Self”Deborah Fratz, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, “title – Harriet Martineau”
Chris Leary, University of Sheffield, “‘I am who the world and I have never seen before.’ Transforming the post-mastectomy body in Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals”
Moderator: Robin Gilliam, Arizona State University
12:30-2pmLunch
2pm
LL268 – Popular Culture Invades the Academy
Barbara Nelson, Arizona State University, “Pedagogical Approaches to a Postmodern Puzzle: Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair”
Wende Frost, Arizona State University, “Frak, Frell, and Tanj – Layered Restricted Codes in Future Fictional Environments”
Carrie Wadman, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee , “‘High’ Art vs. ‘Low’ Art: a Novel Phenomenon for Over Two Hundred Years”
Moderator: Cindi Calhoun, Arizona State University
LL270 – The Postmodern Author
Tom Hong Do, Cal-State Long Beach, “Moving Towards Social-Expressivism”
Janice Morris, Simon Fraser University, “Collapsing the Borders of Singular Authorship: Collaboration and the Dialogic Imagination in Life Lived Like a Story”
Paula Collucci, Central Washington University, “Virginia Woolf’s Postmodern Pioneering”
Moderator: Kelly Adams, Arizona State University
LL272 – Constructing Discourses of Social Gender
Hannah Cheloha, Arizona State University, “Male and Female Collecting in the Light of Socialized Gender”
Micheal Callaway, Arizona State University, “Laughing at Lakoff: Subversive Language of Female Comics”
Hedra Bledsoe, Arizona State University, “Connection, Conditioning, and Confrontation: Women and Web Hyphen-based Technologies”
Moderator: Hannah Cheloha, Arizona State University
LL274– (In)Visibilities: Homosexuality in the Media I
Joelle Ruby Ryan, Bowling Green State University , “The Televised Transvestite (TV TV’s): Image of Gender Diversity on Television”
Heather Collette VanDeraa, Pasadena City College , “Fashioning Lesbia Archetypes in The L Word”
Vernon Shetley, Wellesley College , “Does She of Doesn’t She: The Hairdresser Test and Epistemology of Gaydar in The L Word”
Moderator: Stacey Jackson, Arizona State University
3:15pm
LL268 – Cultural Crossings: Borders and Boundaries in Art and Artifact
Sharon Chappell, Arizona State University, “Artistic Code Switching in a Collaged Artist Book: Embodied Acts of Border Identity”
Lucia Dura, University of Texas El Paso, “A Room of One’s Own in Nepantla: Exploring Marginality Through Circles and Rhetoric”
Drew Chappell, Arizona State University, “A Museum in a Book: Teaching History and Culture Through Artifact”
Moderator: Stephanie Serrano, Arizona State University
LL270 – Women Unerased: Gender Issues in Literature
Bina Mehta, Arizona State University, “Sainthood versus Culture: Exploring Contradictory Ideals in Middlemarch”
Jennifer Wilson, University of California, Davis, “The Liminality of Androgyny: The Importance of Constantinople in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando”
Doug Spencer, University of California, Berkeley, “Finding a Feminist Voice in Christa Wolf’s What Remains and Divided Heaven”
Moderator: Rosemarie Dombrowski, Arizona State University
LL272 – Crisis, Collapse, and Confusion: Issues in Identity (De)Construction
Nicholas N. Behm, Arizona State University, “Critical Race Studies and the Personal Essay”
Justin De Senso, Arizona State University , “The Fallacy of Identity: How Theories and Ideas about Identity Ignore the Chaotic Nature of Reality”
Michelle Disler, Ohio University , “Almost Blue”
Moderator: Susan Davis, Arizona State University
LL274– (In)Visibilities: Homosexuality in the Media II
Kyle Ashby, Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College at FAU, “Homosexual Bias Against Transgenders in Nip/Tuck”
Ryan Watson, University of Chicago , “Fans, Femmes, Butches, and Stars: Homosexual Desire, Fantasy, and Melodrama in Meeting of Two Queens ”
Moderator: Dawn Penich-Thacker, Arizona State University
4:30pm
LL268 – Visual Discourse: Identity Captured and Constructed on Film
Meghan Brinson, Arizona State University, “Sister Voyeurs: Reconstructing Identity from Film to Poetry”
Javier Urbina, University of California Los Angeles , “ Beyond Taking a Picture”
Moderator: Kirsti Cole, Arizona State University
LL270 – The Silenced and Othered Voices: Historical and Contemporary Contact Zones
Maha Baddar, University of Arizona, “The French Ambivalent Tradition”
Katia Vieira, University of Arizona, “A Reading of Langendonck’s Portrayal of Indigenous Women”
Aretha Calamity, University of Arizona, “American Indian Rhetorics: Communicating as Pan-Indian and as Traditional”
Kathryn Ortiz, University of Arizona, “Generation 1.5 Students in the College Composition Classroom: Crossing the Border into Safer Writing Spaces”
Moderator: Aretha Calamity, University of Arizona
LL272 – Broken Bodies 4: Individuality and Diversity in Disability
Niles Tomlinson, The George Washington University, “Who’s the Largest of the Small?: The Bigorexic Body in the Mirror of Empire”
Cindi Calhoun, Arizona State University, “De eso no se habla as Masquerade: Feminist Discourse and Disability Representation”
Leslie St. John, Purdue University, “The Buckeye Nut and the Tattoo: Explorations of the Body Bendable”
Moderator: Cindi Calhoun, Arizona State University
6pmFaculty Roundtable, Moderators: Dr. Hyaeweol Choi, Dept. of Languages and Literatures; Dr. Sharon Crowley, Dept. of English; and Dr. Kenneth Mossman, Dept. of Life Sciences
7pm Keynote Address by Sandy Stone
8pmDinner at Cafe Boa
Sunday, February 26 th
8:30 Breakfast and Check in in LL316
9am
LL268 – Restrictions and Transgressions in Shakespeare
Steve Anglin, Arizona State University, “Hamlet’s Telling Name Calling During Queen Elizabeth’s Reign”
Brian Partridge, Arizona State University, “Blood as Bond and Barrier”
Beverly Fournet, Arizona State University, “Deception in Much Ado”
Moderator: Penelope Krouse, Arizona State University
LL270 – Questioning Barriers: Reexamining the Literary Merit of Genre Fiction in Literature and Creative Writing
Joseph Hicks, University of Illinois, “Ours and Others: Genre Writing’s Place in the Canon Debate”
Kristy Ulibarri, University of Illinois, “Navigating Academic Hybridity: The Fan-Scholar’s Place in Academia”
Cynthia Cravens, University of Illinois, “The Canon of the Lurid and the Consumptions of Sex”
Jocelyn Eighan, University of Illinois, “Social Anxieties in Contemporary Science Fiction”
Moderator: Joseph Hicks, University of Illinois
10:15am
LL268 – Exploring Frontiers of Race and Gender in Literature
Kristen Estrella, Arizona State University, “The Inescapable State of Disgrace”
Jon Frosch, Arizona State University, “Race and Gender in ‘The Wife of His Youth’”
Moderator: Jennifer Santos, Arizona State University
LL270 – Holy Graphic Novels, Batman!: Exploring the Frontiers of Visual
Narratives
Sarah Dean , Arizona State University, “In Speaking Your Story, I Am Telling Mine: The Transitions Between Autobiography and Biography In Art Spiegelman’s MAUS I & II”
Patrick Thorpe, Arizona State University, “Character, Caricature and the Creation of Identity in Harvey Pekar's American Splendor”
Kristen Dittmar, Arizona State University, “Visual Narrative and the World Trade Center”
Moderator: Sarah Dean, Arizona State University
LL272 – Creative Writing Roundtable
Moderators: Matthew Gavin Frank, Molly Meneely, Katie Cortese, Elizabyth Hiscox, Douglas S. Jones