Conference Schedule
New Directions Graduate Conference 2019
New Directions Graduate Conference 2019
Friday, April 5
2:15-3:30 pm: SESSION ONE
1. PANEL: EVOLUTIONS IN FICTION--Modern Languages 413
Chair: Kayla Chronister
Grace Chen, “Evolutionary Regression and Feminine Power in H. Rider Haggard’s She”
Gloria McMillan, “H.G. Wells, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and the SF Ghetto”
Angie Brown, “Annihilation: The American Adam and Climate Change”
3:45-4:45 pm: SESSION TWO
2. PANEL: REMAPPING LITERATURE--ILC 117
Chair: Sarah Wilhoit
Mary Rosenberry, “Accidental Meaning: Examining Texts within Three of Elizabeth Bishop’s Travel Poems”
Jennifer K. Roberts, “Next Time, Just Remember the Story: Weaving Space and Modernizing Traditions to Heal Dis-ease in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony”
3. PANEL: NAVIGATING VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS SELFHOOD--ILC 129
Chair: Laura Retersdorf
Timothy Terhaar, "Troubled Water: The Self and Despair in Kierkegaard and Kosinski.”
Nicole Crevar, “To Believe or Not to Believe--That is Richard’s (Quest)ion”
5:30-6:30 pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY DR. ZACHARY HUTCHINS
--Modern Languages 311
Saturday, April 6
9:00-9:30am: COFFEE
9:30-10:00am: INTERPRETING SHAKESPEARE: TWO PERFORMANCES--Modern Languages 312
Cole Potwardowski, Prince Hal's Monologue(s) from Henry IV, Part I
Emily Frances Gates, Katherina's Speech from The Taming of the Shrew and Kiss Me,Kate
10:15-11:15am: SESSION THREE
4. PANEL: MAINSTREAM MOVEMENTS--Modern Languages 312
Chair: Catherine Fakler
Sam Merson, “Personal and Societal Progress in Tabletop Role-Playing Games”
Lindsay Rabalais, “Rupi Kaur, Fanfiction, and the Accessibility of Literature”
5. PANEL: COMMUNICATING CONSCIOUSNESS--Modern Languages 314
Chair: Christopher Christiansen
Lourdes Carrico, “A New Mind for an Old Society: Practicum in the application of a new unified field theory of consciousness, identity and communication for human rights theory and practice”
11:30-12:45pm: SESSION FOUR
6. PANEL: TRANSFORMING AESTHETIC BOUNDARIES--Modern Languages 312
Chair: Tim Salzer
Thomas Koenig, “The High Priests of Dionysus and Apollo: Exploring Nietzsche’s Aesthetics Through the Work of Two Artists”
Nathaniel Harrison, The Changing Sin of Adaptation: Fidelity and Adaptation in Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’s Sin City”
7. PANEL: TECHNOLOGY’S GENEALOGIES--Modern Languages 314
Chair: Kathleen Kryger
Lucy Kirkman, “On the Line and In the Air: Female Voices in 20th Century Communication Technology”
Amy Takabori, “The Genre Evolution of ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ Tweets”
Sydney Sullivan, "Solution to What? Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable and the Question of Technology"
12:45-2:00pm: LUNCH BREAK
2:00-3:15pm: SESSION FIVE
8. PANEL: REASSESSING EARLY MODERN LITERATURE--Modern Languages 303
Chair: Daniel Kasper
JoJene Mills, “Lamenting ‘That Perfidious Bark’ in ‘Lycidas’”
Alexander Johnson, “What if John Donne Died During his Illness of 1623?”
Mattius Rischard, “Networking Problem Plays: Bringing Quantitative Science to Shakespeare”
3:30-5:00: FUTURE PAST REVISITED: A READING AND DISCUSSION OF POETRY IN PROCESS--Modern Languages 311
Featuring: William Stanier, Raquel Gutierrez, Matisse Rosen, Kou Sugita, William F. Clark, and Gabriel Dozal
5:30-6:30pm: KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY DR. PATRICIA FUMERTON
--Modern Languages 311
7:00-9:00pm: RECEPTION WITH APPETIZERS--THE DUTCH EATERY AND REFUGE
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