Keynote Speaker: Judith "Jack" Halberstam
Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at the
University of Southern California
8:00pm - Keene Faculty Center
Note: All conference events will be held in Dauer 215 except for the keynote address, which will be in the Keene Faculty Center.
Thursday 10/27:
Panel #1: (9:00-10:30am)
Title: Digital Media Communities and the Building of Alternative Knowledge Structures
Laurie Taylor - "Game Studies Connecting the World at Large: An Academic and Activist Use of the Blogosphere" (University of Florida)
Phil Sandifer - "What Do You Do With a Complete Idiot: Terminal Stupidity and Wikipedia" (University of Florida)
Zach Whalen - "Scholarly Fandom: Configuring Expertise in Online Fan Communities" (University of Florida)
Cathlena Martin - "Wiki Politics in the Classroom" (University of Florida)
Moderator: Phil Sandifer (University of Florida
Panel # 2: (10:45am-12:00pm)
Title: Is There a Conspiracy Afoot?: Theorizing, Marketing, and the Politics of Consumption
Wesley Beal - "Toward a Positive Critique in (Conspiracy) Theory"
(University of Florida)
Stephen Giddens - "Very Special Punk Rock Episodes: Occasional Pedagogy on TV"
(University of Florida)
Aaron Talbot - "Marketing the Myth: Male Intimacy and the Horatio Alger Archive"
(University of Florida)
Joel Adams - "M4M4M: A Queer Aesthetics for the All-American (Modernist) Man, 1913-1943"
(University of Florida)
Moderator: Melissa Mellon
(University of Florida)
LUNCH: 12:00-1:15pm
Panel #3: (1:30-3:00pm)Title: Resistance, Rhetoric, and Readers: Navigating the Politics of Pedagogy, Theory, and Practice
Ramona Caponegro - "'Guideposts and Direction Boards': Children's Fiction about the Criminal Justice System" (University of Florida)
Melissa Mellon - "Creating Consciousness: Studying Narratives of American Captivity in an Age of Terror" (University of Florida)
Carol Steen - "Resistance Theories and Pedagogic Practices" (University of Florida)
Jessica Burstrem - "A Feminist Approach to Mothering Boys" (University of Florida)
Moderator: Angela Schlein (University of Florida)
Panel #4: Roundtable (3:15-5:00pm)
Title: Women, Activism, and the Academy
Dr. Kim Emery (English Department)
Dr. Stephanie Evans (Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research)
Angelique Nixon (President of the BGSO, English Department)
Dr. Trysh Travis (Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research)
Moderator: Denise Guidry
(University of Florida)
**Everyone is invited to attend a bonus department event after the conference Thursday evening (6:00 pm):
A reception for the "75 Years of Blondie: 1930-2005" exhibit.
Speakers include Dr. Donald Ault, of our English Department, Dr. Robert Shaddy, the chair of Special Collections and Area Studies in the library, and Stephanie Boluk, exhibit curator and current English graduate.
The reception will take place on the 2nd floor of the Smathers Library next to the Special Collections room.
Friday 10/28:
Panel#1: (9:00-10:30am)
Moderator: Scott Balcerzak
(University of Florida)
Panel # 2: (10:45am-12:00pm)
LUNCH: 12:00-1:15pm Panel #3: (1:30-3:00pm)
Panel #4: (3:15-4:45pm)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: (8:00pm)
Keene Faculty Center
Title: Rethinking Functions, Forms, and Phallacies
Ericka Parra - "Trans-passing the Subaltern Agency: The Salvadoran Maria Teresa Tula
and the Bolivian Domitila Barrios de Chungara"
(University of Florida)
Ericka Ghersi - "Feminist Thought and Feminist Politics in Peru: Leman Poetry During
the Eighties and Nineties"
(University of Florida)
Regina Martin - "Being 'Not Whole': Lacan's Economy of Desire and the Eighteenth- Century Woman" (University of Florida)
Title: Theory, Translation, and Aesthetics: Critical Concerns About Language
Allen Hemmat - "Hermeneutics of Translation and Interpretation of Culturally Distant Texts"
(Central Michigan University)
Christy McDaniel - "(The Happy) Sublimation of the Political in Theoretical Discourse"
(ECPI College of Technology)
Aniruddha Mukhopadhyay - "Cognition and Creativity in Wordsworth's 'Daffodils': An
Indian Perspective"
(University of Florida)
Moderator: Joanna Shearer
(University of Florida)
Title: Where is the Agency?: Postmodern Politics and Polemical Literary Signs and Cultural Icons
Lindsey Collins - "Postmodern Activism and the Community: The Engaged Individual of
Jamaica Kincaid's Autobiography of My Mother"
(University of Florida)
Simone Sessolo - "The 'N-Word' as Ironic Social Signifier in O'Connor's The Artificial
Nigger"
(University of Kansas)
Erica Nooney - "Dead Silence: Cultural Theory, Graphic Design History, and the Silence
of the Swastika"
(Kansas State University)
Moderator: Clay Arnold
(University of Florida)
Title: Puttin' it to the Patriarchy: Somatic Politics and Perverse Pop Culture
Maria Golstova - "Lil' Kim - The Queen of Feminist Deconstruction"
(University of Northern Iowa)
Emily King - "Indigestible Colonization: Bordo and the Politics of Food (Ingestion) in
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions"
(Tufts University)
Lyndsay Brown - "Queer Loose Ends: 'Sorority Boys' and the Failure of the
Heteronormative Narrative"
(University of Florida)
Amy Amorelli - "Pulp goes Pop: Literary Terrorism and the War Against Activist
Rhetoric"
(University of Florida)
Moderator: Andrea Wood
(University of Florida)
Judith "Jack" Halberstam - "Notes on Failure"
(Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at the
University of Southern California)
***Reception to follow keynote***
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