Conference Schedule.
February 13, 2009
Listed below is the two-day schedule of events for (Media)tions: Translating the Body Politic. Please note that all room numbers are located in Susquehanna Hall.
Friday – February 27th, 2009
Welcome — 1:30PM (room 2117)
Coffee, registration, meet and greet
Session 1 — 2:00-3:15PM
Panel A (room 1121): Rhetoric in Circulation: Tracing the Paths of Discourse in the Public Sphere
Heather Brown (Maryland, English) – “Creating Spaces for Abortion Trauma: Genre, Testimony, and the World Wide Web”
K. Martin Camper (Maryland, English) – “Prayer and Place: Creating Sacred Places in Virtual Spaces”
Lindsay Dunne (Maryland, English) – “Public Cure/Counterpublic Cause: the Rhetoric of Environmental Hazard in the Breast Cancer Awareness Movement(s)”
Bryan Snyder (Maryland, Undergraduate, English) – “When Political Parties Change: an Examination of Changing Moral Structure in American Politics”
Panel B (room 1117): Visualizing the Body
Patricia Fancher (Georgetown University, English) – “Life through the Lens: Cyborg Subjectivity and Cinematic Hybridity”
Maria Gigante (Maryland, English) - “The Separation of Art and Text: Fitting Frontispieces into Early Modern Science”
Amy Karp (Maryland, English) – “Life and Death in the Liminal: Jenny Schecter’s Jewish Matters and The L Word“
Naliyah Kaya (George Mason University, Sociology) – “A New Deal for New Orleans: H.R. 4048: Gulf Coast Civic Works Act”
Session 2 — 3:30-4:45PM
Panel C (room 1121): Mediating Science: The Rhetoric of Scientific Discourse
Michelle Lang Boswell (Maryland, English) – “The Question of an Exclamation: Feynman’s Style in Six Easy Pieces“
Daniel J. DioGuardi (Maryland, English) – “‘Where Phenomena Tend to Collide’: Anzaldúa, Individuation, and (Sub)conscious (Border) Spaces”
Nathan Kelber (Maryland, English) – “From Archimedes to Robinson: The Rhetoric of the Infinitesimal”
Katherine Young (Maryland, English) – “Mary Anning’s Monster: Literature, Spectacle, and the Plesiosaur”
Panel D (room 1117): Pyrrhic Victories: Attempts to Narrativize the Unsayable of War
Lew Gleich (Maryland, English) – “Narrating the Simulacrum of War: Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Courtney Angela Brkic’s Stillness“
James Hodapp (Maryland, English) – “Making the Present Livable: Positionality and the Unsayable in David Grossman’s See Under: Love and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried“
Porter Olsen (Maryland, English) – “Interruption War Interpretation: Arresting Narratives in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Seiffert’s The Dark Room“
Keynote — 5:00PM (room 1120)
Dr. Jonathan Gil Harris, Associate Professor of English, George Washington University
Mock Turtle Reading Series — 7:00PM
A reading by Maryland MFA students at Wonderland Ballroom in Columbia Heights, Washington, DC
Continental breakfast and coffee
Panel E (room 1117): Witnessing Mediation
Alexis Chema (Georgetown University, English) – “Coleridge’s Epistemology of the Sickbed”
D. Seth Horton (Maryland, English) – “When We Pigs Awaken”
Jeremy Metz (Maryland, Comparative Literature) - “When the experience of trauma is mediated by a complicit witness: Instabilities in literary witness positions and their implications for the ethical reader”
Laina Saul (George Mason University, Cultural Studies) – “Djamila Boupacha, Terrorist/Victim/Sign: Becoming Human Through Torture, Discourse and at the Boundaries of the Nation-State”
Panel F (room 1119): Technology, Abolitionism, and the Nineteenth Century Body Politic
Meaghan Fritz (Georgetown University, English) – “Uncle Tom Mania and the Body Politic”
Stacy Nall (Georgetown University, English) – “A Government of Future Citizens: Race, Gender and the Child in The Anti-Slavery Alphabet“
Cheryl Spinner -(Georgetown University, English) – “Competing Electricities: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionism and the Politics of ‘It’”
Sarah Workman (Georgetown University, English) – “Self-Shaping and World-Making: Angelina Grimké Weld’s Performances of Suffering”
Keynote — 11:30AM (room 1120)
Dr. Zita Nunes, Associate Professor of English and Director of Comparative Literature, University of Maryland
Lunch — 12:30-1:30PM (room 1121)
Join your colleagues for a catered lunch from Lebanese Taverna
Session 4 — 1:45-3:00PM
Panel G (room 1119): Poetry and (National) Identity
Lisa Kirch (Maryland, English) – “Pain and Potential within a Female Minstrel’s Song; The Triumph of Voice in Matilda Betham’s ‘The Lay of Marie’”
Rob Wakeman (Maryland, English) – “So Little Forgetting: The Robert Burns Memorial in Albany, N.Y.”
Amy Washburn (Maryland, Women’s Studies) – “Representing the ‘Real’ IRA: The Use of ‘Shout-outs’ in Eavan Boland’s ‘A Cynic at Kilmainham Gaol’ and Roseleen Walsh’s ‘On Commedagh Hill’ as a Form of Irish Republican Remembrance”
Jennifer Williams (Maryland, English) – “A Courtly Love for the Twenty-First Century: Cyrus Cassell’s More Than Peace and Cypresses“
