Thursday, April 7, 2011

Spring Conference Keynote Speaker

The Associated Graduate Students in English invite you to attend:

“How Free Is Free Speech?”
By Professor Susan Jarratt
Date: Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Time: 12:30- 2:00pm
Location: Thousand Oaks Room,
University Student Union



Professor Susan Jarratt is currently professor and chair of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine where she served as Campus Writing Coordinator from 2001-07. Her interests include Ancient Greek and Roman rhetoric, contemporary rhetoric, political discourse, student writing, and writing pedagogies in universities and public contexts. She is currently working on a book about the significance of space and the imperial relationship in ancient Greco-Roman rhetoric. Additionally, she is collaborating with Andrea Lunsford, Robert Hariman, LuMing Mao, and Jacqueline Jones Royster in editing the Norton Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing.

Sponsored By: The Associated Graduate Students in English, Associated Students, and The Distinguished Visitor Speakers Program

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Spring Conference Order Of Events

“Upon A Precipice”
April 16th, 2011

8:00am-8:45
Check-in & Breakfast
Reseda Room

8:45am-10:00am
Session I

Yellow Brick Road
“ LOST GIRLS and the Deconstruction of Childhood: How the Graphic Novel Acts as Feminist Agency”,
Billie Jo Mason
“If You Weren’t in That Chair: Moving Away From Binary Representations of Disability”
Loretta McCormick
“swarm 4 warm 2 morrows”,
Ruben Mendoza
Moderator: Vania Sciolini
Santa Susana Room

CounterBound
“Interpreting Marie de France’s Lais: A Genre Theory Approach”,
Linda Olson
“The Second Coming Genocide: The Iranian Regime’s Revisioning of the Holocaust”,
August Samie
“Re-Examining the Re-Examination of Nationhood in Henry V”,
Timothy Foran
Moderator: Dr. Sandra Stanley
Agoura Room

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“British Empire Upon a Precipice: The Balance of Power in Stoker’s Dracula”,
Kathryn Christolear
Heidi Morton
“The Socio-Economic Effect: How the 18th Century English Novel Dropped the ‘Reality TV’ Bomb”,
Cynthie Cuno
Moderator: Dr. Michael Bryson
Ventura Room

20/20?
“Someone To Look Out For: Supplementing the Role of the Father in the Film Stand By Me”,
Jeff Klepper
“Dangers of the Condescending Narrator: Brandon Sanderson’s Questionable Attempt at Young Adult Fiction in the Alcatraz Series”,
Alissa McGowan
“Forever Young: Vampires, Young Love, and Identity in Stephanie Meyer's Twilight Saga”,
Jessica Glick (Presented by Mary Griffith)
Moderator: TBA
Thousand Oaks Room

10:15am-11:30am
Session II

Classic Moves
“Generation 1.5 Now Meets Platonic Theory”,
Isai Orozco and Derek Firl
“Ambiguity as an Asset: Teaching Style trough Cicero’s Three Levels”,
Margaret O’Rourke
“An Application of Stasis Theory and Its Implications for the Modern College-Comp Class”, Patricia do Carmo and Jennie Criddle
Moderator: Dr. Irene Clark
Santa Susana Room

Adjusting the Lens
“Dialogical Energy in Tristam Shandy and the 18C English Novel”,
Margeaux Aegel Gamboa-Wong
“On the Precipice of Freedom: Richardson, Fielding, and Defoe”,
Corri Ditch
“The Gothic Novel: Breaking Social Boundaries”,
Lesley Blake
Moderator: Nicole Warwick
Agoura Room

Architext
“ Postmodern Condition, Androids, and Dreams”,
Alexey Y. Dornin
“Architecture of a Maze: Traversing the Labyrinth in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves”, Jonathan Holt
“A Trail of Blood and Slime: Metaphor in A.S. Byatt’s ‘The Thing in the Forest’”,
Stephanie Fuller
Moderator: Dr. Leilani Hall
Thousand Oaks Room

Student Centered Learning
“Applied Linguistics: A Composition Teacher’s Edge”,
Michelle Mutti
“What’s in a Prompt?”,
Jada Augustine
“Engaging Students: A Study of Contract Grades and New Literacies in the Freshman Composition Class”,
Kristin Cornelius
Moderator: Professor Kathy Leslie
Ventura Room

11:45am-12:15pm
LUNCH

12:30pm-2:00pm
Keynote Address
“How Free is Free Speech” by Professor Susan Jarratt
Thousand Oaks Room

2:15pm-3:30pm
Session III

Construction Zone
“Subverting the Scene or Conforming to the Cuff? BDSM, Queering Gender, and Subverting Heterosexism”,
Rachel Jordan
“’Ala al-Din and the Magic Lamp: ‘The Other Bisexuality’ and the Root of Power”
Norma Aceves
“Now That’s a Hole: Looking at Instances of the Gaze in Asterios Polyp”,’
Sean Pessin
Moderator: Dr. Ian Barnard
Santa Susana Room

Launching Out of Space
Jessica Morrill
“On the Brink: The Deferral of Apocalypse and the Progress of the figure of the Romantic Novelist in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man”,
Cesar Soto
“Creatures of the Moment: (Un)makingsof the Combinatory Subject in William Dean Howell’s A Hazard of New Fortunes”,
Jazmin Delgado
Moderator: Dr. Ranita Chatterjee
Ventura Room

Born Identity
“Radical Subtext: The Problems and Promise of Slash Fanfiction”,
Rebecca Lawson
“A Funny Kind of English(man): Humor and the Blurring of Ethnic Boundaries in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia”,
Elizabeth Jurgensen
Karmen Gei Sets Carmen Jones Free,
Kiese Lovette Vita
Moderator: Dr. Martin Pousson
Agoura Room

3:45pm-5:00pm
Session IV

Permission to Speak
“Land of the…”
Mary Griffith
“Emancipation from Below: Disrupting the Mansfield Myth”,
Richard A Thomas
“The Trouble with Tradition in South African Xhosa Culture”,
Naomi Carrington
Moderator: TBA
Thousand Oaks Room

Social Promiscuity
“Nip/Tuck: Male Characters Caught in a Bad Bromance”,
Diana Shamiryan
“The Sketch-Book and Moulin Rouge: Defying Contemporary Convention”,
Yollotl Lopez
“It Came Straight Outta Compton: Hip Hop’s Black Power Movement”,
Christopher Bell
Moderator: Dr. Jackie Stallcup
Santa Susana Room

Original Textures
“Apertures to Apogees: The Cultural and Historical Contributions to the Development of Intermedia Writing”, Sean McIntyre
“A Thriving Publishing Industry in the Digital Age”,
John Garcia
“Intertextual Generic Memories: An Analysis of Genre in Christian Dogma”,
Tiffany Wampler
Moderator: Dr. Robert Lopez
Ventura Room