Southwest English Graduate Symposium – Program (download in PDF)

Friday, February 29

            4pm     Room TBD     Faculty Roundtable - Sustainability and the Academy

with:

• Marjorie Baldwin, Business School               
• Paul Hirt, Department of History                  
• Peter Goggin, Department of English           

            6pm     Room TBD     Sonoran Prize & Readings                             

Saturday, March 1

8:30am – 4pm Registration in LL316                       

                                                                       
9am Panels

Room A          Transgressing the West       
Moderator: Nicole Pfannenstiel                     
                                               

• Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, University of California, San Diego      
• The Vicissitudes of a Genre: The Stakes of Orientalist Aesthetics in Travel Narratives

• Jeremy Broyles, Northern Arizona University
• Diamond in the Rough: White Imaginings and Stereotypes of Arab People in Disney’s Aladdin

Room B          Language, Style, and the Poetics of Transmission
Moderator:                 
                                               

• Samuel Lofland, Arizona State University    
• Protecting the Untouchable: An examination on existing protections and possible solutions to the current inadequate protections afforded to Oral Stories

• James Gunter, Brigham Young University    
• American Linguistic Independence and the Limits of Plain Style: A Stylistic Analysis of Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation

• Evelyn Steiner Sánchez, Arizona State University    
• Overt and Covert Theological Transmissions Presented in Cleanness with Emphasis on the Story of Belshazzar’s Feast and the Sacred Vessels

Room C          Hypertext and Intertext: Recasting the Master Narrative I         
Moderator:                 
                                               

• Alyssa Herzog, University of Pittsburgh       
• “The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator:” Authorial Anxiety in Jane Eyre’s Self-Referential Quotations

• Shawn Moore, California State University, Long Beach      
• Learning to Read Chaucer Through Digital Bodies

• Valerie Fazel, Arizona State University        
• Much Ado About YouTube: Shakespeare Films, Fans and Vlogs

10:30am Panels

Room A          To (Un)Make the Pain: The Language and Empathy of Suffering I     
Moderator: Will Bolton                     
                                               

• Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent University       
• Our Responsibility Was Not Just to Mourn Him: Reflections on Pain Borne of Loss

• Amy Parziale, University of Arizona 
• Reading Pain: How Levinas Intervenes in a World without Empathy

Room B          The Immigrant Writer as Creator of Identity       
Moderator: Michael Pfister                
                                               

• Jeremy Redlich, University of British Columbia       
• Body Optics and Skin Signs: Technology and the Body in Transformation in the Works of Yoko Tawada

• Suchismita Banerjee, Wright State University          
• Redefining Immigration Identity: A close study of Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine

Room C          Theatre and the (Re)Invention of Communications and Communities  
Moderator:                 
                                               

• Danielle Rainwater, Arizona State University           
• Audience and Author Participation in the Creation and Reception of Renaissance Plays

• Laura Pyle, Loyola U. Chicago         
• ‘And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both’: Gendered Language in a Sex-Reversed Romeo and Juliet

Room D          Creating a Cultural Identity           
Moderator: Sharon Bengoa                
                                               

• Stephanie Maroney, Arizona State University          
• Curry Powder: Constructing Identity in the Empire

• Brigette Thompson, Central European University     
• Making Themselves at Home: Expatriate Women and Spaces of Belonging in Budapest

            LUNCH                                                        

1pm Panels     

Room A          To (Un)Make the Pain: The Language and Empathy of Suffering II    
Moderator: Richard Newhauser                    
                                               

• Catherine Zusky, University of California, Santa Barbara    
• Filling the Void: The Visual Rhetoric of Pain in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

• Stacey V. Santoro-Murphy, Indiana University of Pennsylvania     
• Jane Kenyon's Otherwise: Writing the Collection, Capturing the Pain

Room B          Theories of Composition and Pedagogy    
Moderator: Erik Johnson                   
                                               

• Jerry Lee, California State University, Long Beach  
• Malappropriating Postmodern Theory: Racism and the Composition Classroom

• Nicholas Behm, Arizona State University     
• Whiteness, Whiteness Everywhere: How Three First-Year Composition Guides to Writing Communicate and Build a Community of Whiteness

• Wanda Synstelien, Southwest Minnesota State University  
• Can Learning Styles Create More Effective Peer Editing Groups?  A Qualitative Experiment

Room C          The Task of the Translator in the Globalized World       
Moderator: Bina Mehta                     
                                               

• Maria O'Connell, Texas Tech University       
• Lost in Translation: Communication, Incommensurability, and Culture

• R.S. Krishnan, North Dakota State University         
• The Metaphorics of the Global Imaginary: Representation, Resistance, and Immigrant Identity

• David Clarke, Sam Houston University        
• Bollywood: Shaped By and Shaping Indian Communities

2:30pm Panels

Room A          (Re)Viewing Women, Femininity, and Feminism 
Moderator: Elizabeth Lowry             
                                               

• Brian Psiropoulos, University of Oregon       
• Transformation Island: Sex, Pain, and Power in Wonder Woman

• Ginger Hanson, Arizona State University     
• In Defense of Darwinism: A Feminist-Friendly Reading of Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution

• Alicia Wise, Arizona State University           
• (Re)Imagining Fairy Tales in Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons

Room B          Ethics and Virtue     
Moderator: Nicole Khoury                
                                               

• Evelyn Gonzalez, California State University, Stanislaus     
• Remaining Virtuous in a Corruptible World during Eighteenth Century Gothic

• Christopher Hooper, Arizona State University          
• Articulation of Ethic in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

Room C          Hypertext and Intertext: Recasting the Master Narrative II       
Moderator:                 
                                               

• Denna Iammarino, Marquette University      
• From Surface to Kernel: Towards Marlow’s Narrative Intentions in Heart of Darkness

• Dale Pattison, Arizona State University        
• Empty Texts: A Study of the Architextual Uncanny in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves

• Sean Bolton, Arizona State University          
• “Forcible dislocation of personality”: Pynchon's Narrative of Possession in V.

Room D          War and the (Re)Invention of Communications and Communities
Moderator:                 
                                               

• Patrick Jagoda, Duke University       
• The Terror Network: Communication and Transgression in an Era of Electronic Warfare

• Elizabeth Ott, Arizona State University        
• The Memory of War in Clea Koff's The Bone Woman and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost

• Cambria Stamper, Arizona State University  
• Love My Rifle More Than You:  Sexuality, Sexual Assault, and the Epistemology of Ignorance in Representations of Women in the US Military

4pm Panels

Room A          Synthesis and "Trans-" Discourses
Moderator: Joe Lockard                    
                                               

• Samuel Lofland, Arizona State University    
• Who is an “Indian?”: Statutorily synthesizing the definition of “Indian” across the United States Code

• Bradford Gyori, Arizona State University    
• Bridging the Ivory Towers: Creating Effective Transdisciplinary Discourses

• Lisa Summers, Sonoma State University       
• The Sonic Poetry of Globalization and the Three Gorges Dam

Room B          Translation in Literature     
Moderator: Karen Chang                   
                                               

• Daniel E. Burke, Marquette University         
• Lost – and Pound – in Translation: EP’s Chinese Translative Voice

• Matt Wharton, University of Missouri-Columbia      
• Finding Antiphon’s Court: Recognizing and Comprehending Idiomatic Language in Greek Oratory

Room C          Demystifying Stigma: The Dilemma of Difference           
Moderator:                 
                                               

• Luke A. Oines, Montana State University    
• Fictional Trauma Narratives and the Reification of Difference

• Barkuzar Dubbati, George Washington State University      
• Western Media’s Stigmatization of Muslims as the Temporal Other

• Nina Sabolik, Arizona State University         
• Internal Balkanisms in Maria Todorova's Imagining the Balkans

6pm              Keynote Address        William Proctor Williams                   

7:30pm         Keynote Dinner @ Bamboo Club