Graduate Student
Conference Presentations and Publications
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
"Empytiness 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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