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2008 Ropes Graduate Colloquium

Representing Violence: Literature & Visual Cultures

Current graduate students of the Department of English will present papers at the Colloquium. All events will be held in room 427 of the Engineering Research Center.

March 14: 2:00-5:00 pm

Session I:

2:00-2:20 pm     Ashleigh Hardin: Flammable Subjects:

                          Human Subjectivity Post-9/11

2:20-2:40 pm     Natalie Mc Fadden: (Untitled)

2:40-3:00 pm     Kevin Haynes: The Role of Novels and Country Music

                         in the Fight Against Terrorism: An Economic Analysis

                         of Post-9-11 Government Spending

3:00-3:20 pm    Amy Knueven: The Ethics of Representation:

                         Depicting Torture in the Arts and the Media

3:20-3:40 pm    Q&A

Session II:        

3:40-4:00 pm    Molly Gaudry: Water, Whales, and War: Liberty

                         and Diaspora in Anthony Doerr’s “The Caretaker”

4:00-4:20 pm    MaryKatherine Ramsey: “They love with such

                         a sacrifice”: Questioning the Role of Mothers as

                         Victims, Monsters, and Sites of Safety

4:20-4:40 pm    Mary Jo Tewes: Creating Progressive White

                         Protagonists: Barbara Kingsolver's

                         The Poisonwood Bible

4:40-5:00 pm    Q&A

 

March 15: 8:00 am-5:00 pm

Session III:

9:00-9:20 am      Jillian Black: Dystopia and Disaster Capitalism: The

                           Foreseeable Future

9:20-9:40 am      Nick Chua: (Be)coming Home: Reinterpreting the

                           Embodiment of Home in the Postmodern Nostos

9:40-10:00 am     Jamie Poissant: With Eyes and Blinds Shut: Violence

                           and the Role of the Privileged Witness in the         

                           Stories of Deborah Eisenberg

10:00-10:20 am  Christian Moody: George Saunders Meets Arendt,

                           Klein, Mirzoeff, Goldberg, and Calvino

10:20-10:40 am  Q&A

Session IV:

10:40-11:00 am   Scott Hales: Masking Violence through Language in

                            Joseph O’Connor’s Redemption Falls

11:00-11:20 am   Walt Bosse: “Like a bird of prey”: Visions of Death

                            and the Embedded American Artist

11:20-11:40 am   Soren Palmer: Transitions of Violence in

                            The King of New York

11:40-12:00 pm    Neely Mc Laughlin: The Ethics of Readerly Tears

12:00-12:20 pm   Q&A

Lunch Recess:    12:20-1:20 pm

Session V:

1:20-1:40 pm        Sarah Vogt: Displacing Reality: The Use of Torture

                             on ABC's Lost

1:40-2:00 pm        Caki Wilkinson: Reading Graffiti: Transgression and

                             the Politics of Public Space

2:00-2:20 pm        Bo Mc Guire: Shocked, Bound, Beaten and Gagged:

                             Gay Sex as Torture

2:20-2:40 pm        Seth Hudson: Die Hard Post 9/11

2:40-3:00 pm        Q&A

Session VI:

3:00-3:20 pm        Rebecca Landy: The Abuse of Women’s Rights:

                             The Veil of Violence against Women in the Post-

                             9/11 World

3:20-3:40 pm        Elizabeth Harmon: Engendering the Nation-State:

                             The Masculine and the Maternal in post-9/11

                             Rhetoric

3:40-4:00 pm        Linda Torok: Osama Plays with our Emotions: First

                             World Audiences between Hubris and Failed

                             Catharsis

4:00-4:40 pm        Final Q&A