BORDERLINES
A Graduate Conference at the University of Maryland
Program for Friday, March 11, 2011
4:00-5:30 PM MFA Reading and Reception (Faculty Lounge, Tawes Hall)
Join us as the following MFA students share their work:
Catherine Bayly: 1. “A Bent Arm at 27” 2. “Total Lunar Eclipse” 3. “The Last of the Season”
Kim Calder: 1. “Burning Down the House” 2. “Mother’s Work” 3. “Train Scene.” Aditya Desai: “More Jaggery”
Thomas Earles: “Little Pomerania”
Jen Dempsey: “Five Hundred Crows and Captions”
Michael Gossett:: 1. “Condition” and 2. “In Memoriam M.H.H.”
Jocelyn Heath: TBA
Tim Jerome: “Joey Piccoletti and the Sickness”
Julia Leverone: 1. “Route 1A North” 2. “The Orchard” 3. “December Storm” 4. “Horseshoe River”
Jackie Orlando: “The Order of Things”
Adam Pellegrini: “Landscape and Nonplace”
Mary Lynn Reed: “Residue”
Allison Wyss: A Very Short Excerpt from a Short Story Entitled “Boobman”
This event is co-hosted by Film Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Program for Saturday, March 12, 2011
Reading Across Digital Borders - 3250 Tawes Hall
Moderator: Aaron Dinin
Amanda Visconti, “Digital Dos Passos: Re-Imagining the Digital Text," University of Maryland College Park
Nathan Kelber, "The Borders of Media: Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair," University of Maryland College Park
Porter Olsen, "Unnatural Worlds: Reading Virtual Geographies," University of Maryland College Park
John Robert Ladd, "There’s an App for That: Modernity at Large and in Your Pocket," Georgetown University
Social Justice, Government, and Individual Authority
Moderator: Jamison Kantor
Kim Calder, “Of ‘Horses’ and Horror: Dialectic of Enlightenment and ‘A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms,’” University of Maryland College Park
Peyton Joyce, "Blurring the Borders of History: Representing Herero Genocide in Thomas Pynchon's V," George Washington University
Andy Black, "The Border Patrol of Politeness: Anti-Methodist Literature and 'Giddy Mob,'" University of Maryland College Park
Rebecca Borden, "Reexamining 1914: Wartime texts and the 'myth' of Modernist Rupture," University of Maryland College Park
10:45-12:15 pm Session 2
The Boundaries of American Identity - 3250 Tawes Hall
Moderator: Tasos Lazarides
Christy DeSanctis, "Inspecting the Borders of Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don," University of Maryland College Park
Sarah Sillin, "Cosmopolitan Marriage and Maria Amparo de Ruiz Burton," University of Maryland College Park
Elizabeth Choy, "Puerto Rico's Borderland Status, the Mainland Passage, and Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican," University of Maryland College Park
The Borders of Knowledge: Epistemology and Science - 3252 Tawes Hall
Moderator: Michelle Boswell
Adam Neff, "Recognizing the Limits of Authority: Book III of Gulliver’s Travels and the Political Consequences of Epistemological Presumption,” University of Maryland College Park
Nancy Stewart, "Old Narrative Modes for New Minds: Rereading Beckett's Molloy," University of Maryland College Park
Kisa Lape, "A Page a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Dr. John Moore's Career Change and the Humanities Cultural Capital,” University of Maryland College Park
12:15-1:15 pm Lunch
1:30-3:00 Session 3
Delusions of Gender: Boundaries of Propriety and Modern Identity
Formation - 3250 Tawes Hall
Moderator: Liz DePriest
Sarah McAfoose, "Persephone Pursued: The Plight of the Willful Female in Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Somerville and Ross's The Real Charlotte," Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Deborah Daley, "The Space of the New Woman in Amy Levy's The Romance of the Shop," University of Virginia
Paul Cote, "Faded Boundaries, Delusional Hearts, and Improperly Spelled-Kats: New Identities in ‘Krazy Kat,’" University of Maryland College Park
Kimberly Clarke, "South Asian Masculinity in the West: Finding (In)Visibility in Progressive Spaces," George Washington University
New Writing Frontiers: Website Design, Classroom Blogs, and Creative Composition - 3252 Tawes Hall
Moderator: Martin Camper
Heather Lindenman, "Creative Composition: Writing from the Inside Out," University of Maryland College Park
Cameron Mozafari, "Personal Blogs in Classroom Contexts: The Problem of Genre Uptake,” University of Maryland College Park
Danny Synk, “Code Memories: Genre and Interfacial Rhetoric on the Web,” University of Maryland College Park
3:15-4:45 Session 4
Remapping World Literature and Art - 3250 Tawes Hall
Moderator: Kara Morillo
Yookyoung Choi, "A Postethnic Perspective in Nikki S. Lee's 'Projects,'" (Art History) University of Maryland College Park
Emily Yoon Perez, "From the Inside Looking In: Toni Morrison and Rewriting Heart of Darkness," University of Maryland College Park
Shanna Charles, "Hybridity in Claude McKay's Banana Bottom: Transcending Dichotomy," University of Maryland College Park
Briana Brickley, “Rhizomes of Resistance: Biopower/Biopolitics at the Margins of World Literature,” City University of New York
(Un)Stable Borders: The Limits of Genre - 3252 Tawes Hall
Moderator: Kelly Singleton
Navid Hassanzadeh, "Autonomy in Benjamin and Shamloo," Georgetown University
Mary Sweeney, "Discoveries in L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E: The Possibilities of Between in Lyn Hejinian's A Border Comedy," American University
Tawnya Ravy, "Bordering: Similarity and Almost Being in Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence," George Washington University
Rachel Leah Jablon, "Between History and Imagination: The Case of Yizkor Books," (Comparative Literature) University of Maryland College Park
5:00-6:30 Keynote - Ulrich Recital Hall
David Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University
6:30 Reception and Best Paper Award - 2nd Floor of Tawes Hall
