[Englecturers] (dis)junctions 2005
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Fri Apr 8 00:00:13 PDT 2005
(DIS)JUNCTIONS 2005
Hello Everyone:
As a former co-chair of (dis)junctions (with Cara Cardinale in 2003), I am
proud to announce yet another year of this graduate conference. It is being
run by Jenni Keys and Tina Stavropoulos this year, and with a whole lot of
sacrifice and effort put into this, we can be sure to see a great conference
because of their attention to detail. Beth Ptalis will be serving great
food in the morning (at 8am), great food during the day and a wonderful
buffet at night after Judith Halberstam gives her keynote, 'Dude, Where's My
Theory? The Politics of Knowledge in the Age of Stupidity'. Susan Kozel
will be on hand as part of the globel_interface Mellon workshop the
following day. Professor Toby Miller will be present on Saturday to give a
lecture. Also, there will be another showing of independent and avant-garde
films for CINtax to round things out.
Sounds like a riot? For more information, check their snazzy website at
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/
Sincerely,
Matthew Snyder
PREVIEW FOR FRIDAY|
Friday, April 8
8:00-9:00 Opening Remarks: Dr. Katherine Kinney, English Department Chair
9:00-9:20 Registration & Check In
9:30-10:50
Representation and Presence of Absence
Moderator: Sharon Tohline
Magdalene Frye "Blindness and Invitation: Textual Movement and the Mourning
of Woman" Marshall University
Elizabeth Lurie "Semiotic Sadness: Ruth's Failure to Individuate in
Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping" California State University, Stanislaus
Christy Russell "The Presence of Absence: Representation, Abjection and
Mobilization in the Photography of David Wojnarowicz" University of
California, Riverside
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Moderator: Ryan Randall
Kelan Koning & Rita Hermann "Code" California State University, Northridge
Tom Dobrowolsky "Painted Walls" University of Washington
Elizabeth Spies "Advertising Stigmatas" University of California, Riverside
African-American Literature from Diaspora to the Harlem Renaissance (1)
Moderator: Dr. Vorris Nunley
Valerie Solar "Love and Politics: Sutton Griggs's Imperium in Imperio"
University of California, Riverside
Jack Beckham II "The Function of Doubles in Sutton Griggs's Imperium in
Imperio" University of California, Riverside
Davina Padgett "Ideological Boundaries: The Limits of Reality in The Marrow
of Tradition" California State University, San Bernardino
The Asian-American Body in Action Films
Moderator: Merry Mariano
Phil Yu "The Importance of Being Bruce: From Superhero to Stereotype in
American Popular Culture" University of Southern California
Tom Galaraga "Current Representations of Asian-Americans Betray the
Demographic They Attempt to Address" University of Southern California
Robin H. Kim "The Films of Ang Lee" Courtuald Institute of Art
MMORPGs: At the Boundaries of the Virtual
Moderator: Beth Ptalis
Robert Buerkle "Shifty 'I's': Multiple Selves and Modes of Identification in
MMOGs" University of Southern California
Joshua Call "City of Actors: Performing Identity in On-Line Gaming"
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Christine Cruz-Boone "A World of Gender War: A Textual Analysis of MMORPG
World of WarCraft" California State University, Northridge
Demystifying the Creation of the Novel
Moderator: Vrunda Sahay
Zachary Sifuentes "Created Chemistries: William S. Burroughs and the Textual
Opiate" University of Miami
Scott Drake "
Text Reading Text Reading Text
: Locating Authority in Lot 49
and Gravity's Rainbow" Simon Fraser University
Sacha Moore "'Written words could tell him who he was': Authorial
Authenticity in Don DeLillo's Mao II" California State University, Fullerton
Love Unbound: Postcolonial
Moderator: Jenni Keys
Farah Moosa "Transgressing Love Laws: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small
Things and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake" Simon Fraser University
Mariam Durrani "Love, Deceit and Devastation in Moth Smoke" University of
New Mexico
Delores Amorelli "'How Much Land Does a Woman Need?: Land(e)scapes in
Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and The Handmaid's Tale" University of South
Florida
11:00-12:20
Sexuality Will Not Be Put Aside
Moderator: Dr. George Haggerty
Dane Barca "The Hot Hand Seeking to Repress What Would Master Him: Whitman,
Mutual Masturbatory Metaphysics" University of California, Riverside
Nicole McFarlane "Discourse on the Down Low" North Carolina Agricultural and
Technical State University
Kim Palmore "Fears, Jeers, and Queers: Homosexuality in Film Constructed for
the Male Gaze" University of California, Riverside
African-American Writers and the Gaze
Moderator: Zina Rodriguez
Courtney Johnson "Black Lesbian Spectatorship in Cheryl Dunye's Stranger
Inside" University of California, Los Angeles
Danna Voth "Including Gender in Diasporic and Postcolonial Interrogations of
Home" California State University, Fullerton
Emily Anderson "Dangerous Looks and Visual Pleasure: The Gaze in Nella
Larsen's Quicksand and Passing" University of California, Riverside
Gothic Literature and Sexuality
Moderator: Christy Russell
Cindy Murillo "Haunted Spaces and Powerful Places: Reconfiguring the
Dopplegänger in Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya" University of New Mexico
Johanna Wagner "Excessive Homosocial Desire, Homosexual Panic, and Violence
in Bram Stoker's Dracula" Arizona State University
Heather Latimer "(En)countering Abjection: The Abortion and (Re)creation of
Frankenstein's Female Monster" Simon Fraser University
Pamela Paulson "Thrashing Tess" California State University, San Marcos
The Asian-American Body Beyond the Action Film
Moderator: Merry Mariano
January Lim "Clothes Make the (Wo)man: Race, Gender, and Desire in M.
Butterfly" University of Alberta
Anjali Asrani "Bend it Like Beckham: A Critical Film Analysis of South Asian
Diasporic Subjectivities and Neocolonial Uses of Multiculturalism" San
Francisco State University
Mary Song "Hiroshima mon amour: An Untellable Tale?" University of
California, Riverside
The Designer Nation
Moderator: Helen Lovejoy
Andrew Edward Rosenblum "Left-Wing Individualism in America: Matthiessen and
the Example of Thoreau" University of California, Los Angeles
Jennifer Liddell "'The Suppressed Farce:' Mark Twain's Social Pessimism in
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins" California State
University, Fullerton
Melissa Couchon "Americanized Beauty: Hairstule and Skin Color in
Hemingway's Garden of Eden" UNC-Chapel Hill
Kotaro Nagasaki "Re-Discovering of America: Mark Twain and Imperialism"
Tokiwa University, Japan
Alternative Landscapes
Moderator: Tina Stavropoulos
Steven & Maja Teref "Novica Tadic" Columbia College, Chicago and Truman
College
Elizabeth Boyne "'There is Nothing but Song': The Poetry of David Mura and
its Relation to the Silent History of Japanese American Internment"
University of St. Thomas
Anjali Nerlekar "The Pi-dog or the Black Horse: Choices in Mumbai's
Postcolony"
Lauren A. Rule "Colonialism's Repressed Return in Filmic Form: Locating
Miscegenation's Ghosts in the Gaps of Postcolonial Memory" Emory University
Guns and Gals
Moderator: : Matthew Snyder
Sharon Tohline "Angel in the Shell: Finding Victorian Women in Contemporary
Film" University of California, Riverside
Giuliano Bettanin "Objectification vs. Hybridity: Body and Gender in Mamoru
Oshii's Ghost in the Shell" Universit degli Studi di Padova (Italy)
Kim Bowers "Tap Dancing into our Hearts: Analyzing the Popularity of
Chicago's Female Killers" University of Texas, Arlington
12:20-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:20
Hybridity and Anticolonial Writing
Moderator: Katy Webber
Dino Buenviaje "Literature as Anti-Colonialism: Comparing Chinua Achebe with
Jose Rizal" University of California, Riverside
Marco Katz "Forgive the Stain of my Blood on this Land" Humboldt State
University
Yumi Kinoshita "Politics of Hybridity: Embracing the American
Neo-Imperialism" University of California, Santa Barbara
Conspiracy, Time Travel, and Schizophrenia
Moderator: : Jeremy Kaye
Daniel Peterman "Structure and Schizophrenia: A Rhizomatic Exploration
of Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum" California State University, Long
Beach
Matt Bernstein "The Carnivalesque in the Works of Vonnegut" California State
University, Northridge
Scott Ross "General Relativity, Existentialism, and Vonnegut's
Slaughterhouse Five" Brigham Young University
Victoria(n)'s Secrets
Moderator: Dr. Susan Zieger
Susan Obarski "Skirting an 'Obscene Libel' in Late Victorian England:
Beardsley, Zola, and Wilde's Salome" University of California, Riverside
Joshua Rafael Rodriguez "Indiscretions of a Streetwalker: The Closet and
Homosexual Panic in Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde"
University of California, Riverside
Jenni Keys "Unveiling Miss Wade: Raging Against the Victorian Machine"
University of California, Riverside
Dictee (1)
Moderator: Sheila Bare
Sheila Bare "(Re)Membering Mother/(Re)Narrating Myth: Mother, Memory and
Resistance in Cha's Dictee" University of California, Riverside
Beatriz Calder "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee: The Voice of Silence"
Universidad de Leon
Michelle Wester "The Nine Mother's of Dictee" Claremont Graduate University
History and African-American Literature
Moderator: Kody Lightfoot
Ainsworth Clarke "DuBois's Historiography, or, Autobiography in the Plural
Form" Cornell University
Erica R. Edwards "Re-Visions of Exodus: Toni Morrison's Paradise" Duke
University
Daniel Vollaro "A New Life for Frederick Douglass' Slave Narrative: Breaking
Free of the Historicist Trap" Georgia State University
Keeping Poetic Records
Moderator: Richard Hishmeh
Elizabeth Spies "Advertising Stigmatas" University of California, Riverside
Helen Lovejoy "'The room with the staring windows will again closet you':
Containment and Subversion of Female Spaces in Cold War Sestinas by Women"
University of California, Riverside
Brigid Aileen Milligan "Hindsight is 20/20: Judith Wright as a cultural
historian of Aborginal Memory" New York University
Politicized Aesthetics
Moderator: Valerie Solar
Michael Lopez "Prompting the Prompt"
Jo Scott-Coe "'Course Contents' from essay collection, Doing Athena in
Different Voices" University of California, Riverside
Alegra Marcel Bartzat "Poems on the Book" San Diego State University
Sharon Tohline "A Mighty Genius of Construction: Locating Subjective
Permanence in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair" University of California,
Riverside
3:30-4:50
Literature and Justice
Moderator: Jasmine Payne
Jennifer Krusinger Martin "Wild Thyme, Wild Justice, and Wild Art: William
Blake's Relationship with Rational Justice and Artistic Modes of Production"
Northeastern University
Alastair Hunt "The Rhetoric of Species" University of Oregon
Computing Sexuality
Moderator: Jack Beckham II
Brad Borevitz "Sexing the Machine" University of California, San Diego
Zabet Patterson "Sex Art and Surveillance: Thinking Online Pornography"
Kelly Cooper "Sexuality and Consumerism: Towards an Ethics of Pornography"
George Washington University
City Spaces: Remapping the City
Moderator: Dr. John Ganim
Veronica Kirk-Clausen "Palimpsestic San Francisco" University of California,
Santa Cruz
Kelly Minerva "Redefining London's Space in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic
Verses" University of Toronto
Elizabeth Spies "Paris, Urbanism, and the Landscape of the Mapped Body"
University of California, Riverside
Dictee (2)
Moderator: Mary Song
Christina Diaz "Your Womanhood is your Refuge" California State University,
Northridge
Helen Ditouras "'Textual Condition(s)': Material Texts and Interpretive
Strategies in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee" Wayne State University
Sung Hee Yook "The Traumatic Memory of Postcolonial Subjects: Theresa Hak
Kyung Cha's Dictee and Nora Keller's Comfort Women" Graduate Center, City
University of New York
Creative Works
Moderator: Hank Scotch
Debra van Hulsteyn "Victorianism, The Passenger Pigeon, and Human Action"
California State University, Sacramento
Tara Prescott "Sestinas and Selected Poems" Claremont Graduate University
Elizabeth Venable "Irish Dancing in Color: Racial and Ethnic Relations in
American Irish Dancing Culture" University of California, Riverside
Connie Suddath "Snowflakes" California State University, Sacramento
Pleasure and Theoretical (Mis)reading
Moderator: Dr. Carole-Ann Tyler
Elissa Weeks "Composition, Rhetoric and Jouissance" University of
California, Riverside
Matthew James Vechinski "Pleasure of the Text or the Desire for the Work?:
Blanchot and Barthes on Reading" University of Washington, Seattle
Crystal Brownell "Gender and Desire in Wide Sargasso Sea and The Lover" San
Diego State University
5:00-6:00 Keynote Speaker: Judith Halberstam (Humanities 400/University
Theater)
6:00 Reception (Humanities 2211)
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