Faculty & Graduate Conference Appearances and Presentations October 2015

Assistant Professor of English Sarah L. Townsend organized the 2015 American Conference for Irish Studies Western Regional meeting (ACIS-West) October 16-17 in Rapid City, South Dakota. The conference theme, "Ireland: Memory and Monument," explored acts of memory and commemoration in Irish literature, history, politics, and culture. Keynote speakers included David C. Lloyd (Distinguished Professor of English at UC Riverside), Eamonn Wall (poet and essayist, Smurfit Professor of English at the University of Missouri, St. Louis), and Myles Dungan (RTE presenter and instructor at City Colleges Dublin). The conference concluded with a performance of the play Fionnuala by award-winning actor and playwright Donal O'Kelly (Director, Benbo Productions), as well as a discussion between Irish and Lakota artists, activists, and scholars about multinational oil production and the preservation of indigenous environments and communities. At the conclusion of the conference, Townsend was named Treasurer of the organization.

Sarah L. Townsend. "Waiting in Anatolia: Beckett, Ceylan, and the Procedural Body." American Conference for Irish Studies, Western Region. . Rapid City, SD: October 17.

Julie Williams. "Waist High in the West: A Study of a Wheelchair Perspective." Western Literature Association. University of Nevada, Reno. Reno, NV: October 14-18, 2015.

Megan Malcom-Morgan. "Modernism's 'Other:' D.H. Lawrence in Mexico.." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association . . Santa Fe, NM: October 10, 2015.

Julie Williams. "Gender Expression in the American West: Femininity is in the Eye of the Beholder." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. . Santa Fe, NM: October 8-10, 2015.

Faculty & Graduate Conference Appearances and Presentations since Spring 2014

Anita Obermeier. "Birth and Birth Control in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales." Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Science, Magic, and Technology. University of London. London, UK: July 10-11, 2015.

Anita Obermeier. "Merlin, the Clown, and the Queer in Rowley’s The Birth of Merlin." 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies,. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI: May 14-17, 2015.

Anita Obermeier. "Teaching Provençal Lyrics and the Cathars." 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI: May 14-17, 2015.

Kelly J. Hunnings. "Patronage, Poetic Identity, and Domestic Tensions: Jane Wiseman and Mary Leapor, 1717-1746." Feminist Research Institute (FRI) Lecture Series . Univ. of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: April 2015.

Anita Obermeier. “Medieval Empress Cunegund’s Sterility as Disability and Magic in 21st-Century German Historical Fiction." Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific. University of Nevada-Reno. Reno, NV: April 10-11, 2015.

Kelly J. Hunnings. "Mary Robinson, Collaborative Writing, and Genres of Women's Autobiography." America Society of Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS). . Los Angeles, CA: March 2015.

Presented with Leslie Morrison, PhD

Julie Williams. "One Voice is Not Enough to Tell a Story: Writing as Community Creation in Native American Women's Fiction." Native American Literature Symposium. . Isleta, NM: March 12-14, 2015.

Julie Williams. "Access to Nature for Students with Disabilities." Center for Teaching Excellence Success in the Classroom Conference. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: February 19, 2015.

Julie Williams. "Trans-Atlantic Artistry in Blue Ravens, Hungry Generations, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk." American Indian Studies Association. . Albuquerque, NM: February 5-6, 2015.

Julie Williams. "Preparing for Take-Off: Learning to Fly in Graduate School." Modern Language Association. Canada. Vancouver, BC: January 8-11, 2015.

Kelly J. Hunnings. "Solitude and Isolation: John Clare's Struggle for Childhood Familiarity." Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA). . San Diego, CA: May 2014.

Anita Obermeier. “’Torn between Two Lovers’: Formalism, Feminism, and Other Isms in Teaching the Pan-European Medieval Lyrics." 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI: May 8-11, 2014.

Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances in Fall 2013

September

Jonathan Davis-Secord. "Exploitation of Compound Frequency in Old English Style." Studies in the History of the English Language. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT: September 26-28, 2013.

October

Lisa Myers. "Music Theory and Performance in the Middle English Breton Lay Sir Orfeo." Southeastern Medieval Association. Appalachian State University. Boone, NC: October 3-5, 2013.

Association for the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Wayne State University. Detroit, MI: October 3-6, 2013.
W. Oliver Baker. "Meth, Rural Whiteness, and the Ozarks: Neoliberalism and the Great Recession in Winter’s Bone."
Ann D’Orazio. "Save Our City: Transmetropolitan and the Antihero Citizen."
Stephanie Spong. "'Affection Would Be Revolution Enough': Public Eroticism and the Re-Imagined Love Lyric in Bruce Andrews' Designated Heartbeat."

Western Literature Association. Berkeley, CA: October 9-12, 2013.
Erin Murrah-Mandril. "Preserving the Ghosts of the Alamo: Adina de Zavala's History and Legends."
Melina Vizcaino-Alemán. "Critical Regionalism and The West: Intersections of Architecture and Literature in the Southwest."
Julie Williams. "Western Writing and Wheelchairs: Embodiment and Ability in Women's Writing about Place."

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Vancouver, WA. October 9-13, 2013.
Doaa Omran. "(Re) Defining Islamic Terrorism: A Middle Eastern Perspective."
Erin Woltkamp. "Performing the Discourse of Power: Breaking Away From the Madwoman in the Attic Through Discursive Tactics in Villette."

Natasha Jones. "Social Justice as Technical Communication Pedagogy." Council for Programs on Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). Cincinnati, OH: October 2013.

November

Daoine Bachran. "Being (post)Human: Mechanization, Militarization, and Human Rights in Chicana/o Science Fiction." American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington D.C.: November 21, 2013.

Kathleen Washburn. "Modern American Indian Literature: Early Twentieth-Century Texts and Contexts." The Newberry Library Colloquium. Chicago, IL: November 13, 2013.

Francesca Tuoni presents at Medieval Academy at UCLA

Francesca Tuoni, PhD student in Medieval Literature, received a travel bursary award from the

prestigious Medieval Academy of America for the paper "Arabisms and Hospitallers: A Plausible Pathway into Middle English" that she presented at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy at UCLA, April 10-12, 2014.

ALS at the MLA

It was another strong showing of American Literary Studies faculty and graduate students at the 2014 MLA in Chicago.

New doctoral student, Amy Gore, presented “Indigenizing the Gothic Novel: Harold Johnson’s Backtrack and Its Uncanny Conventions” at the Native Voices in Genre Fiction panel, and she also presided over a session on the American Indian Gothic. The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures arranged both panels.

Oliver Baker, a second year doctoral student, presented “Dispossession and Instability: The Free Labor Market and Southern Anxieties in John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta” at the Native South panel organized by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Katie Walkiewicz, who earned her MA in English and UNM and is now completing her PhD at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was also on the panel.

Dr. Kathleen Washburn presented “After 1893: Writing Indigenous Chicago in the Early Twentieth Century” at the Native Literary Chicago panel arranged by the Division on American Indian Literatures.

Dr. Jesse Alemán served as a panelist on a round-table session titled “Rethinking Postbellum Literary History.” He also completed his three-year term on the Advisory Council of the American Literature Section and started his elected seat on the MLA’s Delegate Assembly.

Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances in Summer 2013

June
14th International Willa Cather Summer Seminar, Flagstaff, AZ. June 16-22, 2013.
Julie Williams. “Capturing the Southwest: Willa Cather as Talented Tourist.”

Valerie Kinsey attended the Historiography Seminar at the Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute. Lawrence, KS. June 3-9, 2013.

July
Mythcon 44. East Lansing, MI. July 12-15, 2013.
Megan B. Abrahamson. “JRR Tolkien, Fanfiction, and ‘the Freedom of the Reader.’”

Conference of Writing Program Administrators, Savannah, GA, July 18-21, 2013.
Cristyn Elder. “Diversity Task Force Speaking Out Strand: WPA, Non-Tenure Track, and Untenured WPAs.”
Cristyn Elder. “Navigating the Tensions between WPA Work and the Expectations for Tenure and Promotion in the First Year.”
Christine Garcia, Genevieve Garcia de Mueller, Brian Hendrickson, Matthew Tougas, The Intellectual Work of Civic Engagement: An Unauthorized Autobiography
Brian Hendrickson, DTF SPEAKING OUT STRAND: WPA-GO Diversity Task Force
Brian Hendrickson, Genesea Carter, Inside the Campus Interview: An Interactive Roundtable Discussion

International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Biennial Conference. Dublin, Ireland. July 29-August 2, 2013.
Jonathan Davis-Secord. “Sequences and Intellectual Identity at Winchester.”

Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri. Presented “Current Research Topics in ESL/EFL Contexts” at Maha Sarakam University, Thailand on July 7, 2013.

August
Greg Martin:  “Curriculum Innovations in the Combined BA/MD Program,” Chairs and Directors Retreat, University of New Mexico, August 14, 2013.

Megan Abrahamson receives Alexi Kondratiev Award

Megan Abrahamson received the Alexi Kondratiev Award for the Best Student Paper Presented at Mythcon, the Annual Conference of the Mythopoeic Society, for her essay "JRR Tolkien, Fanfiction, and 'The Freedom of the Reader.'" Her paper was subsequently also solicited for publication for the Fall/Winter 2013 issue of Mythlore.

Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances for May 2013

48th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. May 9-12, 2013.
Helen Damico. “Shade and Substance: Emma of Normandy in Eleventh-Century Documents.”
Jonathan Davis-Secord. “The Rhythmic Identity of Ælfric and Winchester.”
Jonathan Davis-Secord organized “The Benedictine Reform in Anglo-Saxon England.”
Anita Obermeier organized of four TEAMS sessions on teaching the Middle Ages:
   “Taking It Public: Programming, Pedagogy, and Outreach: A Roundtable”
   “Teaching Medieval Jews: A Roundtable”
   “Teaching the Medieval Survey”
   “Teaching the Black Death”
Nicholas Schwartz. “Wulfstan and the Old English Boethius: A (Partial) Reconsideration of the Textual Transmission of the ‘Three Orders’ in Anglo-Saxon England.” UNM Institute for Medieval Studies Graduate Student Prize Winner.
Nicholas Schwartz. Panelist in “Taking It Public: Programming, Pedagogy, and Outreach: A Roundtable”

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Lawrence, KS. May 28-June1, 2013.
Julie Williams. “This Land Belongs to All of Us: Disabilities Access and the Need for Nature.”

Greg Martin: Bosque Preparatory School: Commencement Address, May 24, 2013
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Ballard Branch. Seattle, WA. May 1, 2013.
Feature and Interview. Stories for Boys. KING5 TV Morning News Hour.  Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Interview. Stories for Boys. NPR: KUOW’s Weekday Interview with Marcie Sillman. Seattle, WA. May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. North Seattle Community College. Seattle, WA.  May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Capitol Hill Branch.  Seattle, WA.  May 2, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Columbia Branch Seattle, WA.  May 3, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Greenwood Branch.  Seattle, WA.  May 4, 2013.
“Stories for Boys: Book-It Repertory Theatre Staged Readings.” Seattle Reads. Seattle, WA. May 4, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Southwest Branch. Seattle, WA.  May 5, 2013.
Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Northeast Branch. Seattle, WA.  May 5, 2013.
Interview.  Stories for Boys. PBS:  Well Read.  Seattle, WA. May 6, 2013.

Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances for April 2013

British Women’s Writers Conference. Albuquerque, NM. April 4-6, 2013.
Erin Woltkamp. “The Diaries of Anne Lister: Authenticating the Individual Through Epistolary.”
Carolyn Woodward. “Jenny Collier and Anna Maria Garthwaite: Imagining The Cry as a Beautiful Silk Gown.”
Carolyn Woodward. Keynote Introduction for Devoney Looser.

American Comparative Literature Association. University of Toronto. April 4-7, 2013.
Justin Brock. “The Critical Voices from Joyous Gard: The Homosocial and the Feminine in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur.”

Eaton/Science Fiction Researchers Association of America Conference. Riverside, CA. April 11-14, 2013.
Daoine Bachran. “Beyond Black and White: North American Ethnic Science Fictions.”

Fifth Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop. Albuquerque, NM. April 12-13, 2013.
Laura Perlichek. “It's a Man-Eat-Man World: The Postcolonial Implication of Cannibalism in Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho”

Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association. Denver, CO. April 12-13, 2013.
Lisa Myers. “Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Representation of a Pagan Landscape.”

34th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH, April 19-20, 2013.

Nicholas Schwartz, "Wulfstan and the Three Orders in Anglo-Saxon England."

American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. April 27-May 1, 2013.
J. V. Jeffery, D. Hoover, and M.  Han. “Lexical Variation in Highly and Poorly Rated US Secondary Students’ Writing: Implications for the Common Core Writing Standards.”

Greg Martin. “Publishing Your Work and the Writing Process,” UNM School of Medicine: Medical Education Scholars Group. Albuquerque, NM. April 11, 2013.

Greg Martin. Reading and Discussion. Stories for Boys. Depaul University. Chicago, IL. April 25, 2013.

Ann D'Orazio wins Medieval Studies Best Graduate Student Paper Prize!

Ann D'Orazio is the winner of the 2013 Institute for Medieval Studies Best Graduate Student Paper Prize. Her paper, "How to Read a Saint: Agatha and Interpretation" is going to be presented at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies in 2014. This joint award between UNM's Institute for Medieval Studies and Western Michigan University's Medieval Institute covers travel and conference costs for the recipient.

Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances for March 2013

   American Association for Applied Linguistics, Dallas, TX. March 16-19, 2013.
Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri. “Expressing emotions through writing in Thai and English.”
J. V. Jeffery and P. K. Matsuda. “Examining conceptions of voice: An analysis of writing teachers’ constructs and processes.”

   Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV. March 13-16, 2013.
Andrew Bourelle and Tiffany Bourelle. “Digital Environments, Public Writing, and Student Needs: Using Instructional Assistants to Facilitate Learning in Online Classes.”
Genesea Carter. “You Want Me to Write What? Encouraging Working-Class Student Voices through Discourse Analysis.”
Pisarn Bee Chamcharatsri. “Expressing emotions through narrative: Second language writing perspectives.”
Bethany Davila. “What's Identity Got to Do With It?: Instructors' Talk About Writing and Identity.”
Cristyn Elder. “WPA-GO: A Model for the CWPA Diversity Project?”
Brian Hendrickson. “A Public Affair: The Intermediate Expository Writing Course as Community Writing Center Practicum.”
Mellisa Huffman. “Getting on the Same Page: Using an Ethnolinguistically-Informed Heuristic Within Collaborative Writing Situations.”
Lindsey Ives. Panel Participant. “’Basic’ Writers, ‘Multilingual’ Writers, and ‘Mainstream’ Writers: the Contested Terms of Transitional Writing from the Student Perspective.”
J. V. Jeffery. “Rethinking secondary-postsecondary writing transitions in a time of Common Core Standards: What FYC instructors need to know about new high school writing standards.”
Anna V. Knutson. “Digital Bridges: Negotiating Metacognition in a Digital Lanscape.”
Charles Paine. Panel Participant. “The CWPA Diversity Project.”
Todd Ruecker. Panel Participant. “The Public Work Ahead of WPAs: Developing Effective Programs for Linguistically Diverse Students and Multilingual Writers in Transition: Improving Cross-Institutional Agreements and Collaborations.”

   TESOL International Convention & English Language Expo. Dallas, TX. March 22, 2013.
Cristyn Elder. “Implementing the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing with Multilingual Writers.”
J. V. Jeffery and P. K. Matsuda.”Voice in secondary and postsecondary rubrics.”

   Medieval Association of the Pacific. University of San Diego. March 21-23, 2013.
Megan Abrahamson. “Sir Gary-Stu”: Le Morte D’Arthur as Malory’s Self-Insert Fan-Fiction.”
Justin Brock. “A Dual Remedy for the Chaos of Babel: Examining John Trevisa’s Dialogue Between a Lord and a Clerk On Translation and Late Medieval English Vernacular Culture.”
Justin Brock. Session Chair. Medieval Manuscript Studies.
Emilee Howland-Davis. “Morgan le Fey: Sister, Savior, Sorceress.”
Anita Obermeier. “Henry II’s and Cunegund’s Sanctity: Chastity or Disability?”
Anita Obermeier. Session Chair. Saints and Mystics.
Anita Obermeier presided over the entire conference as president of MAP.
Doaa Omran. “The Correspondences of Princess Wallāda bint al-Mustakfī: a Medieval Harlot, Muse and Poet.”

Cristyn Elder, Dan Cryer, Beth Davila, Lindsey Ives, and Charles Paine. “Creating and Assessing Locally-Responsive Student Learning Outcomes.” New Mexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference, Albuquerque, NM. March 1, 2013.

Natasha Jones. “Re-imagining Technical Communication as Activism.” Association for Teachers of Technical Writing, Las Vegas, NV. March 13, 2012.

Faculty and Graduate Student February 2013 Appearances

South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Austin, TX. Feb. 21-23, 2013.

Calinda Shely. “An Ailing Body Politic: Gouty Gentlemen as Cultural Metaphor in Sarah Fielding’s The Countess of Dellwyn and Smollett’s The Adventures of Roderick Random.”

Carolyn Woodward “Jenny and the Silk Weavers.”

Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, Albuquerque. Feb. 13-16, 2013.

Daoine Bachran. “From Recovery to Discovery: American Ethnic Science Fiction and (Re)inventing the Future.”

Vincent Basso. “The Devil, My Friend: Milton’s Satan as Anti-hero in Modern Comics.”

Ann D’Orazio. “Ancient Warriors, Insular Hands, and Monster Fights.”

Nichole Neff Gauntt. “Shark Representation in Nineteenth-Century Texts: into the Belly of the Beast.”

Scarlett Higgins. Session Chair. Poetry and Poetics (Critical)

Scarlett Higgins. “The Blaze and the Tyger: Vatic Poetry and Apocalyptic History in George Oppen’s Late Work.”

Matt Hofer. “‘Single / Notes / Sung’: Larry Eigner's Equilibria at the Margins.”

Monica Kowal. “Beyond the Hypothetical: Putting the “Real” in Real-World Application with Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Writing.”

Joe Serio. “Is What You See What You Get? Flip Wilson and the Civil Rights Movement.”

Stephanie Spong. “Should There Arise Any Objection to Candidness”: The Censor and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s Globalized Body.”

Diane Thiel. Session Chair. Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction)

Diane Thiel. “Poetry and Translation.”

Sharon Warner. “Not Too Long, Not Too Short, but Just Right: The Novella Workshop.”

Julie Williams. “Discourses of Hygiene and Homemaking in “Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home.”

Greg Martin:
Interview and podcast. Late Night Library, Portland, OR. Feb 11, 2013.
Reading from Stories for Boys. Portland State University, Portland, OR.12 Feb 12, 2013.
Reading from Stories for Boys. Barnes & Noble, Bend, OR. Feb 8, 2013.

Carmen Nocentelli. “Empires of Love: Race, Sexuality, and the European-Asian Encounter.” School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM. Feb 20, 2013.

Emilee Howland-Davis wins the Medieval Association of the Pacific's Benton Prize

Emilee Howland-Davis wins the Medieval Association of the Pacific's Benton Prize for her paper, "Morgan le Fay: Sister, Savior, Sorceress," delivered at MAP's Annual Meeting at the University of San Diego, March 2013. The prize is a competitively awarded travel grant for graduate students.

Faculty December 2012 and January 2013 Appearances

December 2012

Greg Martin. Interview and Appearance about Stories for Boys, KASA Fox’s New Mexico Style hosted by Nikki Stanzione. Dec 21.

Greg Martin. Book signing for Stories for Boys. Barnes and Noble, Coronado Center, Albuquerque, NM. Dec 22.

January 2013

Modern Language Association, Boston, Massachusetts, Jan 3-6.

   Jesse Alemán. “Bodies that Don’t Matter: Tracing Race in the US Latino/a Nineteenth Century.”

   Feroza Jussawalla. "Seaming Sisterhood: South Asian Muslim Women in London.”

   Feroza Jussawalla. "Inhospitable Homes: Diasporic Realism in Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Monica Ali's Brick Lane.”

   Feroza Jussawalla. Session Organizer: Crossing Borders, Finding Homes; Fragmented Lives, Hybridity, and the Politics of Identity in South Asian Muslim Women's Writing

Greg Martin. A Conversation about Stories for Boys. Utah Public Radio: Access Utah hosted by Tom Williams. Jan 3.

The 21st annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference will be held April 4-6 in Albuquerque

The English Department is pleased to announce that the 21st annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference will be held April 4-6, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency downtown.

UNM faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend panel sessions of their choosing free of charge, and the plenary panel and keynotes are open to the public. Anyone wishing to take part in the conference receptions should register at www.2013bwwc.com, where a complete program of events may also be found.

Hildegard of Bingen Celebration (March 25, 6:30, SUB Ballroom B)

The Medieval Studies Student Association in partnership with the Feminist Research Institute invites you to attend a night of celebration for the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179).

This remarkable woman produced numerous theological and visionary works, as well as medical treatises and musical compositions. Hildegard's life and works have seen an increase in both academic and popular attention as indicated by recent published biographies, recordings of her music, and the 2011 film Vision. All events during this program are free and open to the public. The program is as follows:

Monday, March 25th (SUB Ballroom B)

6:30 PM
Wardene Crowley, "The Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen: Cosmic Tree, Cosmic Healing, and Cosmic Symphony"
Anita Obermeier, "Hildegard of Bingen's Gemstone Medicine"

7:30 PM
Reception

8:00 PM
Cantores Festivi, Music of Hildegard and Contemporaries



Tuesday, March 26th (Humanities 108)

7:00 PM
Movie Presentation - Vision: From the Life of Hildegard of Bingen (2011)
Limited Seating, Please RSVP to mssa@unm.edu
Please join us for an evening of discussion, music, and reflection.

Faculty and Graduate Student November 2012 Appearances

Jesse Alemán. “Rebel: The Screening of Loreta Janeta Velazquez.” American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Nov 15-18.

Jesse Alemán. “Days of the (Un)Dead: Vampires, Zombies, and Other Horrifying Forms of Chicano/a Identity in Film.” El Centro de la Raza Brown Bag Series, University of New Mexico. November.

Marissa Greenberg. “Neuvomexicano Shakespeare: The Case of The Merchant of Santa Fe.” American Society for Theatre Research, Nashville, TN. November 1-4.

Natalie Kubasek. “Teatro on the Border: Re-Figuring Teatro Campesino as Transnational Avant-Garde.” Midwest Modern Language Association, Cincinnati OH. November 8-11.

Greg Martin. Readings from Stories for Boys. University of New Mexico. November 8.

Kathleen Washburn. “Lili’uokalani's Indigenous Modernity.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Research Triangle Park, NM. November 11.

Julie Williams. “Access for All? The New Nature Writing of Lucia Perillo,” Western Literature Association, Lubbock TX. November 7-10.

October Blog

Our Graduate students and Faculty have been very busy this past Autumn. Please see below for a brief list of their accomplishments.

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Boulder, CO. October 11-13
Katherine Alexander. Session Chair, The Brontë Sisters
Katherine Alexander. “Catherine Earnshaw's Unexpected Gift? Love, Possession, and Dispossession on the Moors.”
Annarose Fitzgerald. “Gentle Jesus and the Sauce Tureen: Naming the Divine in Mina Loy’s ‘Ova’ Poems.”
Marcella Garvey. “Marriage and the Crisis of Faith in Emily Brontë’s WutheringHeights.”
Feroza Framji Jussawalla. Session Chair, Comparative and Non-Western Critical Approaches to Non-European Literatures
Doaa Abdel Hamid Omran Mohamed. “Occidentalism as Ambivalence: A Modern Understanding of Islam.”
Erin Woltkamp. “Subversive Gestures: Hands as Tools for Rebellion in Anne Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Julie Williams. “Home Sweet (Dirty) Home: Discourses of Disease in Native American Boarding School Literature.”
Ying Xu. “A Chinese Serpent Prince or a Chinese Empress: Transculturation and Wong Chin Foo's Reconstruction of Chinese Women in Late Nineteenth-Century America.”

Modernist Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV. October 18-2
Matt Hofer. Panel Organizer, The New American Poetry and the West.
Matt Hofer. “ ‘Few / People are lost as I am’: Ed Dorn in the Great Basin-Plateau.” This work will also appear in his forthcoming expanded edition of Ed Dorn and Leroy Lucas's The Shoshoneans (UNM Press, fall 2013).
Matt Hofer. Panel Chair, Learning from Detroit.
Daniel Worden. Organizer of and Participant on the “Postmodern/Postwar: After the New Modernist Studies” Roundtable.

Greg Martin

Panel Discussion, The Lay of the Land: Memoir and Landscape; Readings from Stories for Boys. Montana Festival of the Book Missoula, MT. October 5.
Readings from Stories for Boys. Powell’s Books, Portland OR. October 11.
Readings from Stories for Boys with Kambri Crews; Workshop, Breaking the Conventions of Memoir: the Art of Speculation; Panel, One Big Happy Queer Family. Wordstock Book Festival, Portland, OR. October 13-14.
Readings from Stories for Boys. Village Books, Bellingham, WA. October 15.
Readings from Stories for Boys. Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA. October 16.
Readings from Stories for Boys in conjunction with UMOCA’s exhibit Battleground States. Utah Book Festival, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. October 17.

Jason Bengtson. “Digital Scavenger Hunt” and “Smart Links” Tech Expos, and “Are We Poised For a Digital Biblioclasm?” Round Table. South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association Conference, Lubbock, TX. October 13-17.

Justin Falk-Gee. “Deconstructing Differences in the Classroom.” The TYCA Southwest Conference, Las Cruces, NM. October 25-27.

Carmen Nocentelli. panel presentation, CL/CS Roundtable discussion, “What is Desire?” University of New Mexico. October 25.

Joe Serio. “Is What We See What We Get? Flip Wilson and the Civil Rights Movement.” 2nd Annual Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference: Mic Check: Resistance and Revolution, New York. October 26.

English 500 Presents A Mini-Conference of Graduate Student Work

Tuesday, Dec. 4, 12:30-1:45
Thursday, Dec. 6, 12:15-1:50

Please join us for a mini-conference of graduate student work featuring presentations by the graduate students enrolled in English 500. The conference will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 4, from 12:30-1:45, in Hum 324 (the Leon Howard Memorial Library) and on Thursday, Dec. 6, from 12:15-1:50, in the same location.

Tuesday, December 4 Hum 324—Leon Howard Memorial Library 12:30-1:45

Oliver Baker

PhD Student “Illicit Economies in the Ozarks: Challenges to Neo-Liberal Order in Winter’s Bone”

Annie D’Orazio

PhD Student “Ancient Warriors, Insular Hands, and Monster Fights”

Justin Falk-Gee

PhD Student “Language and Negotiation in the Basic Writing Classroom”

Thursday, December 6, 12:15-1:50 Hum 324—Leon Howard Memorial Library 12:15-1:50

Silvia Lu

MA Student “Deferring ‘Perfect Concord’: Proposals of Marriage and Novel Masculinities in Jane Eyre”

Leonard Martinez

MA Student “Robert G. Ingersoll: Forgotten American Polemic”

Nichole Neff

MA Student “Shark Representation in Nineteenth-Century Texts: Into the Belly of the Beast”

Erin Woltkamp

MA Student “Performing the Discourse of Power: Breaking Away from the Madwoman in the Attic through Gendered Language”

September Faculty Conference Presentations and Readings

David Dunaway: "The Roots of Route 66." Open Space Celebration of Route 66 (East Mountains).
David Dunaway: "What I Learned From Interviewing Musicians." Plenary Address, Oral History Association, Cleveland.

Aeron Hunt: "'Discharged Honorable': Old Soldiers and the Ties of Debt in Bleak House" at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Madison, Wisconsin.

Todd Ruecker: “L2 Students’ Stances and Identities in Graduate Peer Review Interactions” at the Symposium on Second Language Writing at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Daniel Worden: "Oil and Corporate Personhood: Form and Style in Ida Tarbell's The History of the Standard Oil Company" at Petrocultures: Oil, Energy, Culture Conferences at the University of Alberta.