Conference Schedule

Friday 10:00-10:55am:

Black Embodied Practice

Moderator: Diana Proenza

“Girl, please stop talking”: Turning Out, Talking Back, and Other Black Women Rhetorical Practices of The View -- Erin Green (University of Maryland, College Park)

"Is it Fun?": Black Gay Artists Defining Playful Theory -- Kathryn Casey (George Mason University)

Reverend Pedro J. Pietri & Blackpentecostal Aesthetic -- Vallerie Matos (CUNY Graduate Center)

Friday 11:00-11:55am:

Studies in Writing Pedagogy

Moderator: Lexi Walston

Text Diversity in First-Year Composition: Preparing Instructors to Support and Defend Diverse Mentor Texts -- Destinee Harper (West Virginia University)

A Moving Practice: How the Writing Workshop Can Mobilize Black Rhetorical Devices -- Chy Sprauve (CUNY Graduate Center)

Tracing Decolonial Methods in Rhetoric and Composition -- Charles McMartin (University of Arizona)

Friday 12:00-12:55pm:

Finding Futurity

Moderator: Nat McGartland

Playing the New Sincerity: Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding and the Shifting Tradition of the Wasteland Narrative -- Jacob Reese (Syracuse University)

Drowning, Swimming, and Sailing: Alternatives to National Narrative in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer -- Jonathan Reyes (University of Maryland, College Park)

After the Credit Scroll: Nier Automata and Playful Endings, Playful Future -- Joshua McGarry (University of Maryland, College Park)

Friday 1:00-1:55pm:

Keynote Speech

Moderater: Nat McGartland

AI in the Archives: Data, Intentionality, and the Algorithmic Arts -- Kari Kraus (University of Maryland, College Park)

Saturday 10:00-10:55am:

Rhetorics and Policies of Mental Health

Moderator: Rachel Stroup

Executive Summary for Mental Health and Mental Illness Policy in Alabama -- Kendall Criswell (University of Alabama)

Writing Hope: A Rhetorical Analysis of Two NEDA Forums -- Jenny Horton (Wake Forest University)

Saturday 11:00-11:55am:

Historical Memory

Moderator: Dylan Lewis

Reparation and Reparative Reading in John Okada’s No-No Boy -- Da Som Lee (University of Maryland, College Park)

The Rebuilding of Home After London’s Great Plague and Fire -- Allen Loomis (Binghamtom University)

History, Disinterred: Autobiography as Historical (Re)vision in Joy Harjo’s “New Orleans” -- Elizabeth Dinneny (University of Maryland, College Park)

Saturday 12:00-12:55pm:

Environmental Decoloniality

Moderator: Erin Green

The Question of Nature in Miguel Angel Asturias’ Viento Fuerte/Strong Wind --

Fernando Duran (University of Maryland, College Park)

“Not an unforeseen event”: Black Swans, Climate Justice, and Building a Narrative of Aboriginal Resistance in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book -- MacKenzie Guthrie (University of Maryland, College Park)

“Passing” Politics: Decolonizing Reconciliations of Indigeneity and Queer Identities -- Darcey Allred (Illinois State University)

Saturday 1:00-1:55pm:

Trauma and Recovery

Moderator: Dominique Joe

In Arcadia: Poems from Recovery -- AJ White (Binghamton University)

Ghostly Anticipation: A Reading of Layers of Fear Through Affect Theory -- Hannah Trammel (Independent Scholar)

Assembling Uncharted Futures, Speculative Approaches in Octavia Butler’s Kindred -- Marietta Kosma (University of Oxford)