Friday, March 30, 2012

April Meeting




The April meeting will be held in JR 319 on April 18.


We will be discussing the upcoming elections, workshops and and of course we will hold our monthly 50/50 raffle!

















FOR AGSE Executive Board
2012-2013



If you are interested in running for a position, please email us at agse201011@gmail.com and let us know which position along with a short bio, campaign announcement and photo and we will place your info on the AGSE blog. Thanks.

See you all in April. Meanwhile have a great Spring Break!!!

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

March Meeting Highlights



Thank You!
AGSE extends a warm thank you to all those who helped make the conference this past week a great success. All the hard work and team values have paid off!







An especially SWEET thanks to Warren B. Ditch Jr. (Corri's papa) for his generous donation of chocolate covered macadamia nuts all the way from Hawaii! We all thank you warmly. Melissa Filbeck has started a thank you card so be sure to stop her and sign your name.







T-Shirts

If you pre-ordered T-shirts be sure to pick them up. If you didn't pre-order, don't worry! Email us or stop one of the officers to ask about them. All shirts are American Apparel brand and ONLY $20! Shirt sizes currently range from Small to Large.



Elections

Election time for the 2012-2013 officers is approaching. Elections will take place at the end of April so start thinking about which position you would like to run for. As always, feel free to contact any of us for details about our specific duties and experiences this past year.

COMING SOON:

An Evening with Dr. James Kincaid














"The Path to the PhD" with our own Dr. Ranita Chatterjee







50/50 Raffle Winner

Margeaux Gamboa-Wong

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Spring Academic Conference “Shattering”




Saturday March 3, 2012
CSUN USU Flintridge Room

Order of Events

9:00 - 9:30 am
Sign-in and Registration for Presenters
Breakfast and AGSE President’s Welcome Remarks

Session One 9:40-10:40 am

Panel 1: Shattering the Cultural Mirror
Location: Lake View Terrace Room D
Moderator: Dr. Nathaniel Mills
Sidney Jones
“Post-Structuralism: The Prime Enemy of Western Tradition”
Nina Moon Ahn
“‘The Comfort Woman’s Child: The Transgressive Power of War, Colonialism and Sexual Violence”
Eric Dinsmore
“Mercy in the Advent of America’s Capitalism: How Jacob Vaark Represents the Birth of the American Slave Master”

Panel 2: Shattering the Binds of the Corset

Location: Burbank Room
Moderator: Dr. Danielle Spratt
Corri Ditch
“Mary Robinson’s Walsingham: Camouflaging Wollstonecraftian Thetic Ruptures with Ventriloquism”
Daniella Soleimani
“Education, Wealth, and Principle in 18th Century Literature by British Female Writers”
Norma Aceves
“Body Politics: The Feminine Degeneration in Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya”

Panel 3: Queered Bodies, Shattered Frames
Location: Pasadena Room
Moderator: Professor Nicole Warwick
Miguel Noh
“The Shattering of Sexuality within Lines of Poetry”
Elizabeth Gumm
“Play with Gender and Violent play: Chuck Palahniuk’s Use of the Body”
Tania Dominguez
“Shattering the Gender Binary through the Hermaphroditic Body”

Session Two 10:50-11:50 am

Panel 1: Shattering of the “I”
Location: Burbank Room
Moderator: Dr. Ranita Chatterjee
Margeaux Gamboa-Wong
“Searching for the ‘In-Between’: Ambivalent Identities and the Third Space in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand
Dylan Altman
“Which Who am I?”
Hannah Jorgenson
“The Aesthetics of Self-Destruction”

Panel 2: Stitching Shattered Monsters
Location: Pasadena Room
Moderator: Dr. Dorothy Clark
Sean Pessin
“The Multiple Menard”
Sherece Usher
“The Shattered Self in Dorian Gray and Dr. Jekyll”
Masha Grigoryan
“The Monster in the Mirror”

Panel 3: The Composition of Shattered Genres
Location: Lake View Terrace Room D
Moderator: Dr. Irene Clark
Yoshira Macias
“Higher Education Awakes Political Activism within the Sleeping Giant”
Stephan Topf
“How Influenza is Made”
Hudit Simonyan
“Circling Stories”


~ DELICIOUS LUNCH BREAK 12-1pm ~

Session Three 1:10-2:10pm

Panel 1: Shattering Generic Conventions
Location: Burbank Room
Moderator: Dr. Anne Kellenberger
Alejandra Lucero
“Breaking Walls”
Elizabeth Jurgensen
“Red Gospel: Christianity, communism, and the Intersection of ‘Faith and Works’ in the Life and Literature of Grace Lumpkin”
Fatema Baldiwala
“Kasab Wound in the Ticking of History”

Panel 2: Shattering Logic
Location: Lake View Terrace Room D
Moderator: Dr. Katharine Haake
Rolando Rubalcava
“5th and Broadway”
Melissa Filbeck
“Barbarian Hearts: Guilt and the Sympathetic Oppressor in the Works of J.M. Coetzee”
Christopher Rosas
“The Irrevocable and Insatiable Trajectory of the (Lacanian) Real of Desire: A Cross-Examination of the Sexuality-Shattering in McQueen’s Shame and Von Trier’s Melancholia”

Panel 3: Synaptic Shattering

Location: Pasadena Room
Moderator: Dr. Sharon Klein
Michelle Mutti
“Shatter the Sound, the Signs, and the Space!: The Simultaneous Subversion and Compliance of Logic in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books”
Marina Mularz
“Suburban War”
Jenny Melgar
“Michel Foucault and Deconstructing Disabilities”

Session Four 2:20-3:20 pm

Panel 1: Shattering the Absolute
Location: Pasadena Room
Moderator: Dr. Charles Hatfield
Holly Batty
“Shattering Truth: J.M. Coetzee and the Sympathetic Imagination”
Jon Beadle
“Details of the Night I Climbed Storke Tower”
Trista Payte
“The World is a Text: Disassembling Western ‘Truths’ in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water”

Panel 2: Shattering the Straight
Location: Lake View Terrace Room D
Moderator: Dr. Sandra Stanley
Jennifer Avila
“A Guy Don’t Talk About Those Things--Talking About Homosociality and Manhood in Oliver Mayer’s Blade to the Heat”
Malachi Mojica
“The Travesty of Gender Roles and Love in a Consumerist Society”
Alice Kolandjian
“Masculinity and Femininity: The Fight Against the Suburbs”

Panel 3: Shattering Humanity, Unleashing the Nightmare
Location: Burbank Room
Moderator: Dr. Ian Barnard
Lorie Hamalian
“Swans and Prawns: Monster Metamorphoses in Aronofsky’s Black Swan and Blomkamp’s District 9”
Kelly Moreno
“Metempsychosis”
Gina Lawrence
"Zombies in Limbo: Science's Rhetorical Resuscitation of Life after Death"

3:30-3:40 pm
AGSE President’s Closing Remarks


3:40-5:00 pm

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Julie Carlson


Dr. Carlson’s exciting keynote talk “Shattered Dreams: Books and Friends in post 1790’s Literary Culture” is part of a book-length project on famous fallings-out between friends in post-1790’s British radical culture. Julie Carlson is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her central interests include: British Romanticism; early nineteenth-century British theater; the Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley family; and theories of race and sexuality. She is the author of England's First Family of Writers: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley; In the Theatre of Romanticism: Coleridge, Nationalism, Women; guest editor of Domestic/Tragedy (South Atlantic Quarterly) and various articles on romantic drama and theater. A book that Dr. Carlson recently co-edited with Elisabeth Weber, Speaking about Torture, will be out from Fordham University Press this spring.