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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