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English Dept. Participates in Graduate Forum/IdeaFest at the U.

March 27, 2008 by English

The English Department continues its tradition of strong participation in the Graduate Forum for Research and Creative Work and in IdeaFest. You're welcome to attend, to hear about the projects students at the U. have been working on. This year, the following panels feature participants from English: 

Tuesday, April 1:

Session 2a (Womens/Family Studies): 10:30 – 11:30a.m. ID Weeks 2nd Floor West: Anne Rosenbaum, A Historical and Anecdotal Survey of Services Available to Survivors of Domestic Violence in Southeastern South Dakota. Heidi Moline, American Indian Young Adults: Beliefs and Perceptions of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.

Session 3b (Literature): 1:30 – 2:45p.m. Delzell 110: Sarah Garelik, Marriage After Trauma: Mapping Out Relations of Equality in Jane Eyre. Sayaka Kanade, Running a Railroad through the Narrative of Frank Norris’s The Octopus. Kendra Roozing, A Second look at Woland. Carly Dearborn, Frankenstein and Dangerous Parenting.    

Session 4b (Literature): 3:00 – 4:15p.m. Delzell 110: Catherine Beem, In Bed with Christina of Markyate: Gendered Constructions of Chastity. Paula Burns, “You’re Either In or You’re Out:” Mastering Space in Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s Eleven.” Janet Davison (Nordgren), The Gospel of Lucas Jackson: "Cool Hand Luke" as a Christ Figure. Brian Twenter, The Importance of Place in the Work of Joseph M. Marshall III.

Roundtable
Event:  A Roundtable on Environmental Sustainability: Visions and
Positions, Local and Global  4:30-6:00p.m. Farber Hall
Felicia Barnes, Chris Berry, Zachary Crago, Ryan Cwach, Frank Leibfarth, Amy Worthington, Drew Price, Rachel Delaney
Moderator: Dr. Chris Ervin

Wednesday, April 2:

Session 5a (Literature and Philosophy): 9:00-10:30a.m.  ID Weeks 2nd Floor West: DT Kofoed, Jabberwocky., Chris Vondracek, The Emergence of Postmodernism in Lawrence Welk's Christmas Specials., Cheryl Walstrom, Cyborg Solution: A Marxist-Feminist Examination of Joan D. Vinge's, The Snow Queen

Session 5b (Education): 9:00-10:30a.m. Delzell 110, Phil Block, Avatars of Exclusion: The Online Writing Center as Barrier.

Session 7c Panel – VLProper-ganda:  a Creative Reading  2:00-3:30p.m. ID Weeks Library Lounge. Readers to be determined
Special featured reading: Annie Christain, Tall as You are Tall Between Them
Moderator:  Marcella Remund