"I want to take my stand on the shifting margins of cultural
displacement--that confounds any profound or 'authentic' sense of a 'national'
culture or an 'organic' intellectual--and ask what the function of a
committed theoretical perspective might be, once the cultural and
historical hybridity of the postcolonial world is taken as the paradigmatic
place of departure."
--Homi K. Bhabha, "The Commitment to Theory"
Conference
Schedule:
8-8:30
Registration and breakfast refreshments on 3rd Floor of Plumb Hall
8:30-9 Welcome
speech by ESU President Kay Schallenkamp, PH309.
9-10:30 Block
A: 4 panels
10:45 - 12:15 Block B: 4 panels
12:15 - 1:15 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Keynote Lecture by Dr. T.V. Reed. Science Hall 72
2:45 - 4:15 Block C: 3 panels
4:30 - 6 Block D:
3 panels
6:15-7:15 Dinner in the
Skyline Dining Room
7:15-7:30
Awards and Thanks
7:30-8:30 Keynote
Lecture by Dr. Noel Sturgeon, Skyline
9 - 4am Reception at Dr. Holcomb’s house
9 – 10:30;
BLOCK A
Room PH310
“DIRECT FROM THE OLD
WORLD: EUROPEAN LITERATURES”: Chair: Jack Hutchens
“Crucifying the Hermaphrodite: House of Day, House of Night as Queer
Text”
Jack J. Hutchens, Emporia
State University
"Catherine Morland:
The Anti-Gothic Heroine"
Spring Harris, Pittsburg
State University
“Our State is Strange: Genre
Classification and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
Mindy Trenary,
Kansas State
University
“Checking Levels: Matching and Reconciling the
Spiritual and Cultural
Climate
in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney”
Justin Kosec, Luther Seminary, St. Paul,
MN
Room PH312
“ASIAN-AMERICAN WOMEN
WRITERS: NAMELESS ORGANIC INTELLECTUALS OF THE MARGINS”: Chair: Oana Pusca
“Part of My Blood: How European-Asian American Women Writers
Challenge Racial Essentialism”
Sara Studebaker, Smith
College
“The
Different Silences in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan”
Lauren Gantz, Emporia,
State University
“Asian American Writers: Becoming
Intellectuals: reArticulation and reEstablishment
of a New Can(Non)/Can(n)on”
Oana Pusca, Emporia State
University
Room PH 303
“BLACK
DISCOURSE/WHITE RHETORIC”: Chair: Natalie S. Roxburgh
“White Blindness”
By Stacey Phillips, University
of Texas – Pan American
“Constitution and Christianity: the
Evolution of Douglass's Rhetoric”
Natalie S. Roxburgh,
Creighton University
“Queer African American Male
Identity in Romance in Marseille”
Alina Ababei, Emporia State
University
PH308
“DECONSTRUCTING
FREEDOM FRIES: FRENCH STUDIES”: Chair: Ruxandra Radulescu
“Duras:
Camel, Lion, Child.”
Matthew Lexow,
Emporia State
University
"The New Woman”
Lyssa Bandel, Emporia State
University
“The Purloined Letter at the Court
of France: La Princesse de Cleves
and the Empty Speech of the Lacanian Other”
Ruxandra Radulescu, Emporia
State University
10:45 – 12:15; BLOCK B
Room PH312
ELIZABETHAN STUDIES:
A: Chair: Jennifer Sackhoff
"Reclaiming the Garden and
Empowering the Sphere”
Jennifer Sackhoff,
Emporia State
University
“A Queen with Male Organs: Gendered
Rhetoric in Elizabeth Tudor’s Speeches”
Tim Bogner,
Kansas State
University
“Bookending the
Enlightenment: Order, Disorder, and Agency in Iris Murdoch and John Milton”
Jonathan Lamb
Room PH310
“WHAT A WONDERFUL
WORLD: BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE”: Chair:
Gary Holcomb
"Disabled Bodies and a
Fragmented Real: Bowling for Columbine
Through the Lenses of Davis and Baudrillard"
Katie Egging, Emporia State
University
“Bowling for Columbine – A “’repossessed commodity’”
Roxana Galusca,
Emporia State
Univeristy
“Bowling for Dollars”
Rebecca James, Emporia
State University
Room PH312
“ARTICULATING GLOBAL
IDENTITIES IN POPULAR CULTURE: SPORTS, MUSIC AND FILM”: Chair: Agnieszka Tuszyńska
"'N
Sync, the Branded Pop Stars”
Matthew
Webber, Kansas State
University
“Outside-In: Looking at Adorno and Horkheimer’s Culture
Industry through the Eyes of a 24 Year Old Punk.”
Matthew Raese,
Kansas State
University
“Eastern Girls, Western Boys: The
Representation of the East-European Woman in Birthday Girl”
Agnieszka
Tuszyńska, Emporia
State University
Room PH303
“DREAMS, NIHILISM,
AND FAREWELLS: US LITERATURES”: Chair: Peter Mathews
“The Verge of Nihilism in Sherman Alexie’s The Lone
Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven: The
Importance of Storytelling”
Jessica Wierzbinski,
Wichita State
University
“A Dream Deferred: Community within
Gloria Naylor’s Brewster
Place”
Suzann M. Pool, Kansas
State University
“A Farewell to Goodbyes:
Reconciling the Past in Cheever's 'Goodbye, My
Brother'"
Peter Mathews, Creighton
University
Lunch: 12:15
– 1:15
1:30 to 2:30, Keynote Lecture by Dr. T.V. Reed, Science Hall 72
"But Will
the Revolution Be Cybercast?: The WTO 'Battle in
Seattle,' New Media and
the Cultural Study of Social Movements"
2:45-4:15; BLOCK C
Room PH310
“SAID’S LEGACY:
AFRO-HISPANISM, NATIONALISM, GENDER, & ORIENTALISM”: Chair: Roxana Galusca
“Nationalism and Gender: The
Legitimization of the Gaze in Pardes”
Krishna Manavalli, Michigan
State University
“Said’s Orientalism Versus Bernard Lewis’s Orientalism”
Asaad Al_Saleh, Emporia
State Univeristy
“The African Contribution to
Hispanic American Culture: An Overlooked Element Beset with Discrimination”
Kristin DeHaven,
Emporia State
University
Room PH308
ELIZABETHAN STUDIES:
B: Chair: Susan Kendrick
“The Drama of the Deer: Rowe's
First Biography of Shakespeare and the Creation of England's
National Poet”
Christine Knaack,
Kansas State
University
“Existential Power, Freedom, and
Angst within Hamlet and Macbeth”
Trevor Hoag, Emporia
State University
“A More Productive Interpretation: Derek
Jarman’s The Tempest as a Calm
in the Storm”
Elizabeth Westmoreland, Kansas
State University
Room PH303
“LOST HIGHWAYS:
EMPIRE AND GLOBALIZATION”: Chair: Chris Fox
"Refusing Work, Refusing
TV"
Nathan Hall, Emporia
State University
"Virtual
Power: The Ontology of Creativity in Hardt and Negri's Empire"
Taylor Hammer, Emporia
State University
“The Quasi-Elitist
Faux-Cosmopolitanism of the Cultural Landscape of 119th and Interstate-35”
Jared Larson, Olathe,
Kansas
“Against Hardt and Negri: The Problematic
Space of Religion in Empire”
Chris Fox, Emporia
State University
4:30 – 6; BLOCK D
Room PH312
“FEMINISM, POSTMODERNISM, AND MARY”: Chair: Katie Egging
“The Resolutions of
a Non-couple: An Analysis of the Relationship between Feminism and
Deconstruction”
Melinda Mejia, University
of Texas Pan-American
“Broadening How We Consider Mary
Magdalene”
Sarah Rice, Emporia
State University
“Putting Faith in Buffy, A New
Approach to the Monstrous Double”
Nasrina Williams, Kansas
State University
Room PH310
“CLEANING OUT THE
CLOSET: THEORECTICALLY EMANCIPATING
HUMAN SEXUALITY”: Chair: Sandra Cox
"Fear and Loathing in Thebes: An Examination of Sexuality in Sophocles’
Oedipal Plays"
Sandra M. Cox, Emporia
State University
“Lewd Developments: The Eroto-Politics
of the Homoerotic Image in the 20th Century United
States”
Milton W. Wendland,
University of Kansas
"Whisper To
The Orchid: Writing Sacred, Erotic Haiku."
Deborah Jane Rasa, Vanderbilt
Divinity School
Room PH303
“GANGSTERS AND
CULTURAL STUDIES: UNDERSTANDING POPULAR CULTURE THROUGH QUENTIN TARANTIO”:
Chair: Nathan Hall
“Jules, Jackie and Me: How Quentin
Tarantino Tries to Make it Acceptable for White
Audiences to Gain Entrance into African-American Culture by any Means
Necessary”
Saul Heide,
Kansas State
University
“The Cyborg
Samurai: Rhizomatico-Feminist Rumenations
over Kill Bill’s Attempt
to Overcome Patriarchal Networks”
Ruxandra Radulescu, Nathan Hall, & Jack Hutchens, Emporia
State University
"Trauma, Violence, and
Animated Origins in Quentin Tarantino's
Kill
Bill Volume 1"
Barrett Bowlin,
Kansas State
University
6:15
– 7:15, Dinner in the Skyline Dining Room
7:15 – 7:30, awards and thanks
7:30 – 8:30 Keynote Lecture by Dr. Noel Sturgeon,
Skyline Room
"Green Family Values: Environmentalism in Popular
Culture"
Please join
us for a reception at Dr. Gary Holcomb’s home, 1628 West
St.
Sunday,
11:00 –
1:30pm, Brunch at the Skyline Room. $15.
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