Regional Graduate Student Literature Conference Schedule
BORDER(LESS) IDENTITIES
MARCH 30, 2013
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY, MANHATTAN
K-STATE STUDENT UNION
FLINT HILLS ROOM
(PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE)
8:00-8:45 Breakfast & Welcome
8:45-10:00
Panel I: LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, POWER
Moderator: Sam Owen, KSU
Alicia Beeson, KSU |
The Importance of Names in Anne of Green Gables
Caitlin Ray, UNO
Creating Identity through Spectacular Performance: The Education of Evelina in Fanny Burney’s Novel
Courtney E. Ress, KSU
Grappling with Linguistic Authorial Identity in Chaucer’s House of Fame
Laura Thacker, KSU
The Power of Naming in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt
10:15-11:30
Panel II: FIGURING THE FEMALE BODY
Moderator: Melissa Hammond, KSU
Darin Graber, UCB
H.M.S. Orlando: English Empire and the Metamorphosing Body of Orlando
Aaron Graham, UWYO
As a Tapestry, “Hemmed in” but Coming Undone at the Seams: Marry Rowlandson’s Weaving of Parallel Traumatic Narratives in The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
Katie Marie Osborn, CSU
Rewriting Daphne and Strephon: Elizabeth Hands Trespasses Pastoral
Casey Wynhoff, UNC
Naturalizing the Body: The Landscape of Female Bodies in Forster’s A Passage to India
11:30-12:30
Box Lunch
12:30-2:00: Seminars
2:15-3:30 Panel III: LITERARY AND CULTURAL BORDERS
Moderator: Sam Killmyer, KSU
Jen Moran, ESU
The Four Ds in Erich Hackl’s Farewell, Sidonia
Daniel Todd, KSU
Teaching “Spanishness”: Children’s Literature under Franco
Erica Trabold, UNO
Borders Between Academic Writing and Creative Nonfiction: Dangerous Definitions
Wawan Yulianto, U of A
Trespassing Ethnic and Generic Borders as an Activism
3:45-5:00
Panel IV: NEW LINES OF RESISTANCE
Moderator: Kate Nygren, KSU
Samantha Chesters, UNO
“hooks and concepts and shit”: Bomani Armah’s Satire of White Normative Culture in “Read a Book”
Brian McCarty, KSU
'Careful, It Bites': The Imprint of Power on the 'New Flesh' in David Cronenberg's Videodrome
Melissa Prescott, KSU
A New Black American Narrative?: The Intersections of Native and African American Characters in Toni Morrison’s “Pre- and Post-Racial” A Mercy
James Vnuk,UNO
Shut the &%$! Up, Donny: Silencing Talk, Gender, and Sexuality in The Big Lebowski
