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The Annex Interjects

So, it’s conference time again…

This is the schedule for our English department conference at Monmouth tomorrow:

9:30am

  • Opening remarks by Dr. Lisa Vetere
  • Introduction of keynote speaker by William Patrick Wend

10am-10:45am

  • Keynote by Dr. Kristin Bluemel “Inventing Intermodernism”

11am-Noon

  • Rich Price “The Compelling Pain: An Examination of Mark Twain’s The Mysterious Stranger and Guiding Readers Through its Pitfalls”
  • Kelly Lorelli-Smith “Does Hamlet Hate Women?”

Noon to 1pm

  • Break for refreshments, etc

1pm-2pm

  • Dr. Liora Brosh “The Victorian Novel and Film”
  • Dr. Heide Estes “Ecocriticism & Beowulf”

2:10pm-3:10pm

  • Debra Pachucki “From ‘Charisma’ to ‘Cultism’: The Rhetorical Dangers of Messianic Language as Symbolic Action”
  • Jack Kelnhofer “Cyber-plagiarism in Higher Education”

3:20pm-4:20pm

  • Dr. Sejal Sutaria “I Remember When”: Affection, Malcontent, and Imperial Ambivalence for the Empire in the Indian Civil Service”
  • Dr. David Tietge “the Conclusion to Rational Rhetoric”

4:30pm-530pm

  • William Patrick Wend & Toni Magyar “What Is A Text? A Political History Of Texts From Gutenberg To Electronic Literature & Beyond”
  • Sue Stever “The Liminal Landscape of the Misfit in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’”

5:30pm-6pm

  • An open forum for graduate students to discuss their research and the MA thesis process hosted by Christopher Hankenson & Jana Phelps

& for good measure I’m going to go ahead and post the preliminary notes of my portion of my collaborative presentation in the graduate work section…

Here we go…

Once I explore this further, I will begin posting on my thesis research on 19th century American writer Elizabeth Stoddard, other graduate work, conferences and presentations, poetry, fiction, etc.