“Nomenclature” Conference Program

Announcing the program for “Nomenclature,” a Washington, D.C. graduate conference sponsored by the University of Maryland Department of English and Graduate Student Government, organized by the Graduate English Organization.

Program subject to change.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010:

11:30-12:30: Pre-Conference Professionalization Session
“Archives: From Research to Scholarship”

Panelists: Drs. Carla Peterson and Martha Nell Smith (University of Maryland)
Moderator: Nathan Kelber

12:30-:1:15PM: Registration and lunch

1:30-3:00PM: SESSION I

Panel A: “Modernist Categories and the Category of Modernism”
Room: Tawes Hall 3248

Moderator: Katie Stanutz (University of Maryland)

• Brooks Lampe (Catholic University of America), “Semiotics of Space: Spatial Relations in Robert Penn Warren’s Or Else.”
• Taylor Fayle (Catholic University of America), “Heidegger on Categoriality, Art, Modernism.”
• Kevin Rulo (Catholic University of America), “Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy of Mathematics, Modernist Aesthetics, and the Nomenclature of Modernism”
• Respondent: Dr. Peter Mallios (University of Maryland)

Panel B: “Articulating fin de millennium Faith and Spirituality”
Room: Tawes Hall 3252

Moderator: Joseph Kautzer (University of Maryland)

• Kyle Garton (University of Maryland), “The Failure of Naming in Don DeLillo’s Underworld“
• Martin Camper (University of Maryland), “Say it Again in Greek: Understanding the Persuasive Force of Isolated Greek Words in Sermons”
• Rajiv Kannan Menon (George Washington University), “‘But You Don’t Have a Tamil Accent’: Surnames and the Construction of Regional and Religious Difference in Aparna Sen’s Mr. and Mrs. Iyer“
• Respondent: Dr. Keguro Macharia (Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland)

3:15-4:45PM: SESSION II

Panel C: “Naming Literary Experience: Interrogating Fact and Fiction, Narrative and Description”
Room: Tawes Hall 3248

Moderator: Nancy Stewart (University of Maryland)

• Carolyn Ureña (University of Maryland), “Vampiric Fact-Checking: A Brief Semantic Analysis of Truth in Bram Stoker’s Dracula“
• Jennifer Williams (University of Maryland), “‘To Hold the Heart of Man’: Towards a Reconciliation of the Role of the Lyric in Narrative”
• Elizabeth DePriest (University of Maryland), “Not Real but Quite Artificial: The Fallibility of Theoretical Distinctions Between Description and Narration”
• Respondent: Dr. Brian Richardson (Professor of English, University of Maryland)

Panel D: “Naming Historical Phenomena: Constituting Past and Future”
Room: Tawes Hall 3252

Moderator: Anthony Punt (University of Maryland)

• Jeremy Metz (University of Maryland), “What if it were not named the Holocaust?”
• Marilyn Alexis Braxton (American University), “‘she knows the words’: The Black Female Articulation of Black Male Sexuality – a Post-Black Perspective”
• Leigha McReynolds (George Washington University), “Pirates or ‘Pirates’?: Sir James Brooke and the Natives of Sarawak”
• Respondent: Dr. Jonathan Auerbach (Professor of English, University of Maryland)

5:00-6:00PM: KEYNOTE LECTURE
Room: Tawes 1120, Ulrich Recital Hall

Dr. Kavita Daiya, Associate Professor of English at George Washington University
“Taxonomies of Violence”
Introduction: Rob Wakeman (University of Maryland)
Respondent: Porter Olsen (University of Maryland)

Reception to follow

SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2010

8:00-8:45AM: Registration and Breakfast, Tawes Lobby

9:00-10:30AM: SESSION III

Panel E: “What to Call It?: Names and Titles in Creative Writing”
Room: Tawes Hall 3248

A roundtable with MFA Students at the University of Maryland

Moderator: Justin Lohr
Panelists: Jacqueline Orlando, Jenna Nissan, Jocelyn Heath, and Tom Earles

Panel F: “By any other name would smell as sweet? Naming Incarnation”
Room: Tawes Hall 3252

Moderator: Maggie Ellen Fromm (University of Maryland)

• Courtney Connolly (University of Maryland), “ANGER Assuages Anger: Jane Anger’s Protection for Women“
• Amy L. Merritt (University of Maryland), “The Necessary Distinction between God’s Sons in Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained“
• Uchechi Okereke-Beshel (University of Maryland), “Versions of Royalty: Re-naming Oroonoko in Behn, Southerne and Bandele”
• Respondent: Dr. Jane Donawerth (Professor of English, University of Maryland)

10:45-12:15PM: SESSION IV

Panel G: “Flavor of the Month: Naming Women’s Poetry”
Room: Tawes Hall 3248

A roundtable session with MFA Students from the University of Maryland

Moderator: Kim O’Connor
Panelists: Jocelyn Heath, Shenandoah Sowash, Cherie Walsh, and Kate Young

Panel H: “Manifesting Everyday Experience”
Room: Tawes Hall 3252

Moderator: Michelle Boswell (University of Maryland)

• David Bietila (George Washington University), “Naming the Digital Landscape: Metadata, Circulation, and Institutional Epistemologies”
• Barry Dima (University of Maryland), “Smelling the Bright Cold: Benjy’s Synaesthesia“
• Lindsay Dunne (University of Maryland), “‘Coming to Pieces Like Old Rotted Cloth’: the Disintegrating Language of River Control in John McPhee’s ‘Atchafalaya’”
• Respondent: Dr. Michael Israel (Associate Professor of English, University of Maryland)

12:15-1:00PM: LUNCH
Room TBD

1:00-2:00PM: KEYNOTE LECTURE
Room: Tawes Hall 1100

Dr. Tita Chico, Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland
“Why Details Matter”
Introduction: Andrew Black (University of Maryland)
Respondent: Kim Calder (University of Maryland)

Reception to follow

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