Nothing New Under the Sun? Novelty, Game-Changing, and Genre-Breaking
Conference Program October
28-29, 2011 (Questions can be sent to ufl.ego@gmail.com)
Friday, October 28
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9:00-10:15
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Redefining the Generic Boundaries of
Alterity and Nationhood
Moderator:
Matt Snyder
Christopher
Garland, “This is (Not) Jamaica: National Allegory and Garfield Ellis’ For
Nothing At All”
Dr.
Phil Wegner, "W.E.B. Du Bois's
Universal History: Crisis and Generic Innovation in John Brown (1909)"
Randi
Gill-Sadler, “‘Playing Santa’: Mimicry and Imperial Nostalgia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” | Pugh
210
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10:30-11:45
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Experimentation and Transformation in
Children’s Texts
Panel Organized by the Children’s
Culture Reading Group
Moderator: Emily
Murphy
Michele
Lee, “Manifestations of Jo March in Modern Japanese Shoujo Culture”
NaToya
Faughnder, “Moving Pictures”
Casey
Wilson, “Paper Books and Virtual Towns: Transtexts and Online Community”
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Pugh
210
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11:45-1:15
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Lunch Break
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1:30-2:45
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Uploading and Upgrading Visual Rhetoric
Moderator: Rebekah
Fitzsimmons
Asmaa
Ghonim, “Judge a Book by its Cover”
Melissa
Bianchi, “Game-Changing Technologies:
Reexamining Radiography through Mortal Kombat”
Dave Stahl, “Understanding
Webcomics: How the Internet Can Liberate Sequential Art”
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Pugh
210
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3:00-4:15
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Old / New Approaches to Technology and
the Classroom
Moderator: Asmaa
Ghonim
Caroline
Stone, “Electronic Materiality: Considering the Position of Old New Media”
Sam
Hamilton, “Rearranging the Desks: Digital Hush Harbors and the Classroom”
Anish
Dave, “Stoicism, Marcus Aurelius, and
Facebook: Cultivating Social Accountability in Our Writing Students”
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Pugh
210
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4:30-5:45
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Digital Humanities and Pedagogy
Roundtable
Sam Hamiltom,
Caroline Stone, John Tinnell, Gary Hink, and
Laurie Gries.
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Pugh
210
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Saturday, October 29
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9:00-10:15
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Novel Poetics
Moderator: Sam
Hamilton
Andrew
Donovan, “Gnoetry and the Age: Describing Poetic Collaboration Between Human
and Machine”
Lee
Surma, “The Sonnet Form of Kiss Me
Deadly”
David
Lawrimore, “‘He Blurs the Camera-Glass:’ Modernist Aesthetics v. Popular
Front Politics in Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘The Book of the Dead’”
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Pugh
210
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10:30-11:45
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Violence, Comedy, and Shattering
Expectations of Genre
Moderator: Joseph
Weakland
Andrea
Krafft, “‘Shrikean’ Style in Miss
Lonelyhearts: New Comic Possibilities for Modernism”
Leah DiNatale,
“Domestic Violence Isn’t Funny: Reimaging Genre and Narrative Structure in
William
Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew”
Lisa
Cunningham, “Vicious Nymphettes: Violent Child-Bodies in Contemporary Cinema”
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Pugh
210
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11:45-12:45
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Lunch Break
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1:00-2:15
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Dimensionality: Exploring Cinematic
Space
Panel Organized by the Graduate Film
Studies Group
Moderator: Caroline
Stone
Allison
Rittmayer, "Through a Familiar Maze: The Distortion of Banal Spaces in
Scenes of Torture"
Peter
Gitto, "Towards a Theory of Cinematic Space: Anthony Vidler’s Warped
Space, Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad, and Roberto
Rossellini’s Voyage in Italy,"
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Pugh
210
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2:30-3:45
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Reimagining Speculative Worlds: Novel
Approaches to Science Fiction
Moderator: Andrea
Krafft
Joseph
Weakland, “‘The Machine in the Ghost’: Rereading William Gibson’s Neuromancer”
Amanda
Yazdani, “Chekov Across Media- To Go, Boldly”
Shaun
Duke, “Escaping Apartheid: The Speculative Renaissance in South Africa”
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Pugh
210
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4:00-5:15
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Contextual (Re)Visions of Children’s
Literatures
Panel Organized by the Children’s
Culture Reading Group
Moderator: Casey
Wilson
Rebekah
Fitzsimmons, “Intimate Text: Novelty
Through Typeface in Octavian Nothing
and The Knife of Never Letting Go”
Mariko
Turk, “Let’s Talk About Accessories!:
Rereading American Girl’s Accessorizing of History”
Kendra
Holmes, “Children's Literature: What's so Childish about it?: Broken Psyches,
Re-envisioned Identities, and Alternative-Histories in the Confinement of a
Children's Text”
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Pugh
210
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5:15-6:00
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Dinner Break |
| Keynote Address
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6:00-7:15
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Dr. Richard Flynn
(Georgia Southern University)
"My
Folk Revival: Childhood, Politics and Popular Music"
Richard Flynn is Professor of Literature at Georgia Southern University, where he teaches modern and contemporary poetry and children's and young adult literature. He is the author of a critical book, Randall Jarrell and the Lost World of Childhood (Georgia, 1990) and a book of poetry, The Age of Reason (Hawkhead Press, 1993). He has written extensively on children's poetry and adult's poetry that focuses on childhood, including essays on Gwendolyn Brooks, Muriel Rukeyser, June Jordan, Randall Jarrell and Elizabeth Bishop, among others. His work on children's literature includes his serving as editor of the Children's Literature Association Quarterly from 2004-2009. Recent essays include "The Fear of Poetry" in the Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature (2009), “Toward a Digital Poetics for Children” in the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (2010) "Culture" in Keywords for Children's Literature (2011), "The Bat-Poet: Poets, Children, and Readers in the Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature (2011) and a review essay on the work of Perry Nodelman in Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (2011).
Forthcoming work includes “Words in Air: Bishop, Lowell and the Aesthetics of Autobiographical Poetry” in Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st Century (Virginia, 2012) and “My Folk Revival: Childhood, Politics, and Popular Music” in Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: the Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood. Edited by James McGavran (Iowa 2012).
“My Folk Revival” is part of a creative/scholarly memoir in progress about the intersection of music, politics, youth and privilege in the late 1960s and early 1970s , which will be the subject of his address.
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Library
East 1A
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7:15-8:30
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Reception
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Library
East 1A |
Conference CFP
2011 University of
Florida English Graduate Organization Conference
October 28-29, 2011,
at the University of Florida Keynote Speaker: Richard Flynn (Georgia Southern University) Submissions are now CLOSED
The English Graduate
Organization of the University of Florida invites papers across disciplines
concerning the idea of novelty in literature, film, rhetoric or the production
of art. By interrogating the causes and effects of novelty in the life of an
artist, scholar or artistic movement, we hope to destabilize the boundaries
around the “old” and “new” and trace the lingering impact of these
game-changers across both time and disciplines.
In considering
novelty, we seek papers examining groundbreaking texts, new concepts of a
pre-existing text, the application of new media to traditional print texts, and
technological innovations in the creation and distribution of texts. Novelty
may also include revolutionary movements or groundbreaking use of specific
texts in theory, adaptation or collaborations. We also will consider novel uses
of technology that increase cultural circulation (such as viral videos or
alternative marketing), improve artistic quality, or even shift the
relationship between the human and non-human. The conference also invites
papers that discuss practical applications of the new to the old, such as
innovative pedagogical techniques like wikis or class blogs, or the
implementing of unorthodox genres into the classroom. Creative submissions
featuring the use of novel techniques or topics may also be considered.
We welcome abstracts
of up to 250 words along with contact information to ufl.ego@gmail.com
by Oct 1st, 2011. Please also indicate any a/v requirements (DVD player
and data projection available). Authors of accepted papers will be notified the
first week of October. For information on previous conferences, please refer to
our website at http://www.english.ufl.edu/ego.
University of Florida English Graduate
Organization || ufl.ego@gmail.com |
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