2013 EGO Colloquium Poster and Schedule

Memory

Please join us for the 2013 English Graduate Organization Colloquium on the theme of Memory.

This year’s keynote address will be:

“The Novelist as Prophet: Memory in Don Delillo’s Falling Man”

Given by Daniel Shank Cruz of Westminster College

The Colloquium will also feature panels, roundtables, creative writing readings, and a plenary session of WVU faculty.

Saturday 13 Apr. 2013

8:30AM-5PM

Colson Hall (Registration outside 130)

West Virginia University English Graduate Organization

2013 Graduate Colloquium

Sat. 13 Apr. 2013

Memory

8:30-8:45: Meet & Greet, Coffee Time

8:45-9: Welcome & Official Opening of Colloquium, Colson 130

9-10:20: First Session

Colson 130—Something that Stands Still: A Creative Writing Panel of Collected Memories

            Moderator—Sadie Shorr-Parks

• Christina Seymour, West Virginia University
• Rebecca Childers, West Virginia University
• Morgan O’Grady, West Virginia University
• Sadie Shorr-Parks, West Virginia University

Colson G06—(Traumatic) Encounters

            Moderator—Crystal Harper

• Amanda Bailey, West Virginia University —“Ghosts from the Past: Memory-making and the Sensual Experience”
• Mallory Findlay, Georgetown University—“Bearing Witness: Trauma and Narration in Melmoth the Wanderer”
• Shaunté Montgomery, Howard University—“‘Look Closely on His [or Her] Body’: The Cycle of Trauma in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant”

Colson 223—Prosem Roundtable

            Moderator—Ryan Fletcher

10:30-11:30: Plenary Session, Colson 130

• John Jones
• Jim Harms
• Sarah Neville
• Lowell Duckert
• Kevin Oderman
• Catherine Gouge

11:30-1: Lunch Break, Morgantown

1-2:20: Second Session

Colson 130—Literary Memory

            Moderator—Valerie Surrett

• Ryan Fletcher, West Virginia University—“‘O Cursed Folk of Herodes al Newe’: Navigating the Anti-Semitism of Chaucer’s Prioress”
• Jeff Yeager, West Virginia University—“‘The Horses Share a Common Soul’: Myth, Identity, & Deep Ecology in John Steinbeck’s To a God Unknown & Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses”

Colson G06— Carried Countenances: Issues of Identity and Memory in the Work of Charles Dickens

            Moderator: Dominique Bruno

• Phillip Zapkin, West Virginia University—“‘Rewriting His Destiny’: Jack Maggs, Competing Writers, and Narrative Discourse”
• Dominique Bruno, West Virginia University—“‘As if I was your Doll or Puppet’: Ventriloquism and Identity in Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend”

• Kayla Kreuger McKinney, West Virginia University—“In that bony light: Museum and Marriage Networks in Our Mutual Friend”

Colson G18—Rhetoric and Style

            Moderator—Bonnie Thibodeau

• Andi Stout, West Virginia University—“Couch Burners Serving Pineapple Upside-down Cake: Talking about Disruption in the Composition Classroom”
• Amanda Berardi, Carnegie Mellon University—“Deconstructing the Urban Frontier: An Analysis of the Role of Media Discourse in the Revitalization of Braddock, Pennsylvania”
• Nita Shippy, West Virginia University—“Styling Your Space: The Influence of Cognitive Spaces on Style-Shifting”
• Jay Kirby, West Virginia University—“As We Think: Examining Memory in Electronically Mediated Work”

2:30-3:30: Keynote Address, Colson 130

• Daniel Shank Cruz, Westminster College—“The Novelist as Prophet: Memory in Don Delillo’s Falling Man”

3:40-5: Session Three

Colson 130—Film

            Moderator—Ryan Fletcher

• Autumn Athey, West Virginia University—“Black Power and Patriarchy in Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood”
• Maureen Pearson, Howard University—“‘The Exceptional Negro’: Phrenology and Cultural Memory in Django Unchained”
• Yvonne Hammond, West Virginia University—“‘Get Some’: Fact-Finding, History, and Waiting for Someday in Jarhead, Stuff Happens, & Generation Kill”

Colson G06—Creative Writing

            Moderator—Kelly Sundberg

• Jesse Kalvitis, West Virginia University
• Rebecca Thomas, West Virginia University
• Rebecca Doverspike, West Virginia University

Colson G18— The Novel Novel: Form, Discourse, and the Emergence of the Early Novel

            Moderator—Harrington Weihl

• Will Van Camp, Independent Scholar—“The Silent Language of Love: Silence and Satire in Oroonoko”
• Whitney Sandin, West Virginia University—“(Re)Defining the Novel: From Fantomina to Pamela”
• Harrington Weihl, West Virginia University—“The Shift from Epistolary to Gothic Novels in Colonial North America”

Colson 223—Recalling the Surveys: Various Approaches to Teaching the Literature Survey Course, Roundtable

·        Andrea Bebell, West Virginia University

• Jessica Queener, West Virginia University
• Teresa Pershing, West Virginia University
• Kate Ridinger, West Virginia University