"My Best Day: Marketing (an) Identity (ies) Online in and Attention Economy"
Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, 10/19/12.
"Trading with Martyrs: The Rhetoric of Passion and the Moral Economies of First Year Composition."
Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, 10/19/12.
"I Don't Need This Class: Economies of Transfer and Perceptions of Value in First Year Composition."
Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY, 10/19/12.
Spring 2012 Conference Presentations
Allyson McNitt
"Gawain in Space: The Weddynge of Syr Gawain and Dame Ragnelle."
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
Breeman Ainsworth
"Translatio Studii and the Fables of Marie de France."
47th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 5/11/12.
Jason D. Lubinski
"The Monk's view of a Masculine Queen in Chaucer's The Monk's Tale."
Medieval and Renaissance Forum - Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, 4/20/12.
Lynette M. Leidner
"This Place I Call Home: Regionalism as Poetic Survivance in Carter Revard, E.A. Mares, and Kimberly L. Becker."
Native American Literature Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, 3/30/12.
Shannon Toll
"Cultural Mediation Through Captivity in Charlotte Lennox's Euphemia."
Native American Literature Symposium, Albuquerque, NM 3/30/12.
Waleila Carey
"Weaving Generations Together Through Language and Oral Traditions."
Native American Literature Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, 3/30/12.
Brian Hudson
"Interspecies Activism in William Sanders' 'At Ten Wolf Lake'."
Native American Literature Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, 3/30/12.
Heidi M. Silcox
"Who is Responsible for Evil? Mirroring Shame in Shelley's Cenci."
The Center for Women's and Gender Studies Nineteenth Annual Graduate Student Conference, The University of Texas at Austin, 3/29/12.
Sarah Hanks
"Inventing Authorship."
Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO, 3/22/12.
Amanda Rook
"A Network of Relationships: Applying Ecocomposition to the Online Activist Frontier."
Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO, 3/22/12.
J. Michael Rifenburg
"(Dis)placing Collegiate Football Players: Challenges of Incorporating Student-Athletes in the Writing Classroom."
Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO, 3/22/12.
Shannon Madden
"Gateways for Critical Pedagogy: A Disability Studies Perspective on the Multimodal Classroom."
Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO, 3/22/12.
Spring 2010 Conference Presentations
Lady Branham
"Placing Ethos"
Rhetoric Society of America, Minneapolis, MN
R. Michelle Lee
"Everything Dead is New Again: Irish Identity & Necrophilious
Character in Stoker's The Snake's Pass"
American Conference for Irish Studies, Penn State University, State
College, PA
Michael Rifenburg
"Gaming and Writing: Children's Communicative Practices Via
Nintendo DS"
Computers and Writing, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Ashley Walker
"Opposing Improvement as a Model of Resistance: Fanny Price
Asserts Herself in Mansfield
Park"
Bristish Women Writers Conference, Texas A&M, College Station, Texas
Rachel Constance Jackson
"Red State Remix: Filling in the Margins of Local Rhetorical
Space"
Conference on College Composition & Communication, Louisville, KY
Brian K. Hudson
"Companion Species in Momaday's The Ancient Child"
Native American Literature Symposium, Albuquerque, NM
Paul Mitchell
"'Is That You, Really?': Queer Gazes and Strange Spaces in Dorthy
Arzner's Christopher Strong
and Craig's Wife"
11th Annual Women's and Gender History Symposium, University of
Illinois, Champaign - Urbana, IL
Nancy El Gendy
"From Separateness to Inclusiveness: Appropriation as a Mode of Healing
in Yahya Hakki's The Lamp of
Umm and Hashim and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony"
2010 Native American Literature Symposium, Alburquerque, NM
Paul Mitchell
"The Bride Wore Pants: Palimpsestic Perspecformativity in Sylvia Scerlett and The Bride Wore Red"
"Spanking and Poetry": A Conference on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, CUNY,
Manhattan, NY
Nancy El Gendy
"Sympathetic Relationships in Mary
Shelley's Matilda"
15th Annual Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric,
University of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
Nancy El Gendy
"Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee:
A
Trickster
Narrative"
Southwest / Texas Popular & American Cultural Associations 30th
Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM
John Mark Hart
"Re-mediating 'Happyness': Will Smith, Horntio Alzer, and the Politics
of American Dreaming"
2010 Southwest / Texas Popular & American Studies Association,
Albuquerque, NM
Evan Chambers
"Re-opening
Dictée: Allowing for Multiplicity in Interpretations of Colonial Christianity"
Southwest / Texas Popular Culture & American Culture Association
Conference, Albuquerque, NM
Nathan Shank
"Translation and Transcription: Metafictional Trans-Mission in Theresa
Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée"
Southwest / Popular Culture & American Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM
Anna Gurley
"Literary Democracy and Social Network Sites: A Brief Research Overview"
SWTXPCA Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM
Wong Chong Haxie Géraldine
"Conceptual Poetry: Art or Commodity"
Southwest / Texas Popular & American Culture Associations,
Albuquerque, NM
Fall 2009 Conference Presentations
Daniel Darvey
"Modernism and the Gothic Sublime"
MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA
Amanda Klinger
"Disturbing the Domestic: Urban
Alienation and Commodity Culture in Mary Shelley's Lodore"
Romanticism and the City: 2009
International Conference on Romanticism, New York City, NY
Orit Rabkin
"Making Room for the Private Diary of
Anne Schlezinger"
Society for the Study of American Women
Writers, Philadelphia, PA
Brian K. Hudson
"The Question of the Animal in Relation
to Shaw's "Heartbreak House"
International Shaw Society, Washington
D.C.
Shadi Neimneh
"Transgressive Texts/Bodies: J.M.
Coetzee's 'Postmodern' Corpus"
Postcolonial Actualities: Past and
Present, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Matthew Davis
"'In the Light of History and
Experience':
Charles Chesnutt, The
Colonel's Dream and the Problems of Audience"
Reception Studies Society Conference
2009, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Spring 2009 Conference Presentations
Steven B Sexton
"Misappropriations, Search for Identity,
and Nationalistic Tendencies: A Critical Reading of Mixed Blood Messages"
Native American and Ingidenous Studies
Conference, Minneapolis, MN
Fall 2008 Conference
Presentations
Alexandria
Lockett
"Hidden in the Backwaters"
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association), Louisville, KY
Kristina
Booker
"Nationalism
and
Social
performance in the
Paris Diary of Frances Anne Crewe"
Midwest ASECS, Skirvin Hotel, Oklahoma City, OK
Brian K Hudson
"Emptiness and
Yeatsian Noh: Japanese
Buddhist Poetics in 'At the Hawk's Well'"
American Conference for Irish Studies, Albequerque, NM
Amanda Klinger
"Labor of Love: Production and Consuption in Keat's 'Isabella, or
The Pot of Basil'"
2008 Internation Conference on Romanticism, Oakland University,
Rochester, MI
Lynn
C. Lewis
"Composing
Among
Time
Zones: Fast Times at
Speed Culture High"
2008 Thomas R. Watson Conference, Louisville, KY
Paul
Mitchell
"'Minding'
and
the
Modern Man; Soul vs.
Science in C.S. Lewis' That
Hideous Strength"
Conference on Christianity and Literature, Oklahoma Baptist University,
Shawnee, OK
Michael
Snyder
"'I Feel Like a Spring Lamb': What Clay Shaw's Literary Life
Reveals"
John F Kennedy: History, Memory, Legacy; University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks, ND
[Research - Herlihy and Purdy Collections]
University of Delaware Library Special Collections, Newark, DE
Spring
2008
Graduate
Student
Conference Presentations
Elizabeth Bear
“The
Guarded
Spaces
and
Gender Relations: Woman in the Nineteenth Century”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New Orleans, Louisiana
Lisa
Blankenship
“Righteous
Rhetoric:
The
Roots
of 19th Century U.S. Women’s Activism”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New Orleans, Louisiana
Geneva
Canino
“Fandom
Writ
Large:
Fanfiction
Writing Communities on Livejournal.com”
27th
Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Culture
Associations, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Michael
Charlton
“Invisible
TV:
Television,
Identify,
and Student Writing”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New Orleans, Louisiana
Wendi
Jewell
“The
Linguistic
Construction
of
Racial Identity in the Game World”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New Orleans, Louisiana
Lynn
Lewis
“Speed
Frame
Display:
Snakes
on a Plane, the Internet, and the Framing of
Samuel L. Jackson”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New Orleans, Louisiana
Lynn
Lewis
“Waiting
for
a
Hero
in the Age of Speed Spectacle”
Rhetoric
Society
of
America,
Seattle, Washington
Alexandria
Lockett
“Identi-Kits:
Visualizing
Cultural
Assumptions
and Writer Agency”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New Orleans
Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
“Ethical Memory: Documentary Long Poems of
Working-Class Communities” and “Reading from Work is Love Made Visible”
How Class Works 2008 Conference, State University of
New York, Stony Brook
Michael Snyder
“‘Brilliant,
Beautiful, Terrifying’: Queer Desire in the Work of
Midnight
Cowboy author James Leo Herlihy and James Purdy, 1955-1971,”
San Francisco: American Literature
Association, May 2008.
“James
Purdy’s
Indian Fathers and Lovers”
Native
American and Indigenous Studies Meeting, Athens, Georgia: April 2008.
Lee Vasquez
A Writing Teacher’s Commitment to Native Writers:
Negotiating Institutional and Pedagogical Challenges
Conference on College Composition and Communication,
New Orleans
Emily Windahl
“A
Physician
Knows
it
All: The construction of Gender and Sickness in
Harriot Hunt’s Glances and Glimpses”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New Orleans, Louisiana
Katie Wyre
Identi-Kits: Visualizing Cultural Assumptions and
Writer Agency in the Composition Classroom
Conference on College Composition and Communication,
New Orleans
Daren
Young
“Towards
a
Rhetorical
Theory
of Hypertextual Pastiche”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New Orleans, LA
Ieva Zumbake-Larchey
“Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Friends or Foes”
2008 Purdue University 9th Annual
Graduate Interdisciplinary Symposium, West Lafayette, Indiana
Fall
2007
Graduate
Student
Conference Presentations
Daniel Darvay
“Joseph
Conrad’s
Gothic
Politics”
South
Central
Modern
Language
Association Conference, Memphis, Tennessee
Orit
Rabkin
“Anzia
Yerzierska
Salome
of
the Tenements & John Dewey’s Democracy:
Conversations with the American”
Association
for
Jewish
Studies
Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michael
Snyder
“Plangent Pepper’s Native Hearts Club
Band: An Oklahoman
Indian Jazz Vision.”
Native American
Symposium. Southeastern Oklahoma State University, November 2007.
“Homosocial Desire and Homosexual Panic in Robert
Coover’s The Public Burning.”
Textual Nationalism(s): History,
Community, Identity [University of Oklahoma SAGES
Conference]: Norman, OK, October
2007.
“‘‘Original
Stock’ in America’: James Purdy’s Native American Desire.”
Textual Nationalism(s): History,
Community, Identity. [University of Oklahoma SAGES Conference]: Norman,
OK, October
2007.
Spring
2007 Graduate Student Conference Presentations
Lisa
Blankenship
“Teaching
Audience
Through
Collaborative
Web Design”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New York City
Kevin
Caliendo
“The
Emendation
of
Patristic
Theology in Gower”
Mid-American
Medieval Association XXXI, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri
Kristin
Culver
“Transcripted
Norms:
Replaying
Gender
Binaries in The L Word”
16th
Annual Cultural Studies Conference, Kansas State University
Daniel
Darvay
“Gothic
Espionage
in
Joseph
Conrad’s Under Western Eyes”
Louisville
Conference
on
Literature
and Culture since 1900, University of
Louisville
Wendi
Jewell
“Transversing
the
Blogosphere:
Bringing
Journals into the 21st Century”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New York
Lynn
Lewis
“Chasing
Them
Down,
Binding
Them Fast: Student Identity Wrapped Tight on the Web”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New York
Jeanetta
Calhoun
Mish
“The
Land
Speaks:
Native
American Voices in Susan Howe’s Singularities”
35th
Annual 20th Century Literature and Culture Conference,
Louisville, Kentucky
Jeanetta
Calhoun
Mish
“Queering
Martin
Eden:
Class
and the Closet”
2007
Popular
Culture
Association,
Boston, Massachusetts
Michael
Snyder
“Original
Stock
in
America:
James Purdy’s Native American Desire”
American
Literature
Association
National
Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
“Gerald’s
Game:
Radical
Singularity
and
Postmodern Subjectivity in Vizenor’s Ojibwe Memoir.”
Indigenous
Studies
Meeting. Norman,
OK, May 2007
Lee
Vasquez
“Re-presenting
Hegemony,
Re-imagining
Student
Identities”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New York
Daren Young
“Visual
Rhetoric
as
Techne
in the Composition Classroom”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New York
Justin
Young
“It
Isn’t
OurSpace:
The
Logic of Online Social Networks and Communication”
Conference
on
College
Composition
and Communication, New York
Recent Publications
Michael
Snyder
“From Orion
to the Postindian:
Vizenor’s Movement
Towards
Postmodern
Theory.”
Across Cultures/Across
Borders:
Canadian
Aboriginal and Native American Literatures.
Paul
DePasquale, Renate Eigenbrod, and
Emma
LaRocque, Eds.
Ontario,
Canada:
Broadview
Press,
2009.
“‘He Certainly Didn’t Want Anyone to Know that He Was
Queer’:
Chal Windzer’s Sexuality and the
Struggle for
Identity in
John Joseph Mathews’
Sundown.” SAIL:
Studies in
American Indian Literatures 20.1 (2008):
52-96.
“Crises
of
Masculinity:
Homosocial
Desire and
Homosexual Panic in the Critical Cold War Narratives of Mailer and
Coover.” Critique: Studies in
Contemporary Fiction 48.3 (Spring 2007): 250-277.
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