Program

2021 Program TBD

 

2020 Program

Friday, March 27

8:30 – 9:00                          

Coffee

9:00 – 10:15                        

Panel 1: Translation, Linguistics, and Ekphrasis

Moderated by Dr. Angelica Duran

    • Elise Robbins, Purdue University
      • “They Need to See Me”: Reflexive Translation in Villeneuve’s Arrival
    • Narim Kim, Purdue University
      • Women’s Translated Literature and Transnational Feminism
    • Alyssa Fernandez, Purdue University
      • Ekphrasis for Engineers: Contemporary Ekphrasis in Manufacturing
    • Alya Ansari, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
      • Linguistics and Subtitles in Ray’s Shatranj ke Khilari

10:30 – 11:45                     

Keynote: Dr. Richard Sévère, Valparaiso University

11:45 – 1:00

Lunch

1:00 – 2:15                          

Panel 2: Disability, Medicine, and “Madness”

Moderated by Dr. Maren Linett

    • Jason Abad, Purdue University
      • Curating Neurodivergent Representation: The Epitextual Effect of #OwnVoices on Autistic-Authored YA Fiction
    • Caroline Jennings, Purdue University
      • The Theatre of Chronic Pain and Foucault’s Relationship to Medical Imaging Technology: Clinical Boundary Work and Kairotic Attunement of Patients’ Suffering
    • Alejandra Ortega, Purdue University
      • The Meaning of Survival: The Female Body and “Madness” in American McGee’s Alice and Alice: Madness Returns
    • Sebastian Williams, Purdue University
      • Contagious Colonizers: Empire and Illness in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and Melymbrosia

2:30 – 3:45                          

Panel 3: Politics from Past to Present

    • Gabriel Lonsberry, Purdue University
      • Ben Jonson’s Love Restored and the Boundaries of the Stuart Court Stage
    • Margaret Sheble, Purdue University
      • We Happy Few: A Modern Arthurian Wasteland
    • Vanessa Iacocca and Rachel Smith, Purdue University
      • Over-writing Marginalized Voices: Misguided Representations from Yeats’s Irish to Stockett’s African Americans
    • Tom Daniel, Purdue University
      • Towards an Ethics of New Materialism

4:00 – 5:15                          

Reading and Roundtable Discussion: “Homing Devices: On Writing in Diaspora”

    • Amina Khan, Purdue University
    • Daschielle Louis, Purdue University
    • Kate O’Donoghue, Purdue University

6:30                                       

Conference Social

Enjoy appetizers (provided by LITCO) and conversation at Nine Irish Brothers!

 

Saturday, March 28

9:00 – 9:15                       

Coffee

9:15 – 10:30 

Panel 4: Gender, Maternity, and Sexuality

    • Erika Gotfredson, Purdue University
      • Who is the female athlete? Polly Purdue and the Title IX Era at Purdue University
    • Tzu-Yu Liu, Purdue University
      • “It hadde be Grete Harme yef Thei hadde not Come To-geder”: Merlin and the Love that Cannot be Unrequited
    • Ane Caroline Ribeiro Costa, Purdue University
      • Motherhood and Mother-Daughter Relationships in the Diaspora
    • Muhammad Hassan Qadeer Butt, Purdue University
      • Religious and Queer Marginality in the Global South: A Comparative Study of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and This House of Clay and Water

10:45 – 12:00                    

Panel 5: Narrative Identity and Authorial Voice

Moderated by Dr. Manushag Powell

    • Dan Froid, Purdue University
      • Devilish Authorship and Anti-Conduct Books
    • Emily Pearson, Purdue University
      • Self-Gaze in Fleabag
    • Maggie Rebecca Myers, Purdue University
      • Performative Knighthood: Narratology, Ludology, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses
    • Luke T. Anderson, University of Southern Indiana
      • The Postcolonial Pedagogical and Performative in Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”

12:15 – 1:15             

“Life After Purdue” Workshop (Lunch Included)

Join us for a professionalization panel followed by a Q&A session featuring Purdue alumni.

    • Richard Sévère, Assoc. Professor, Valparaiso University
    • Molly Martin, Professor, University of Indianapolis
    • Barney Haney, Asst. Professor, University of Indianapolis
    • Andrea Pender, Director of Business Development, RLG Consulting Engineers

1:30 – 2:45

Panel 6A: Rethinking Race and Representation

    • Assia Guidoum, Indiana University–Bloomington
      • “Escapism and the Search for Meaning”
    • Allison Atkinson, Purdue University
      • Systemic Separation: Infrastructural Boundaries in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Artificial Nigger”
    • Ryan Lally, Indiana University–Bloomington
      • Working in the Territory: Dunbar’s Lowly Life and the Boundaries of Black Art
    • Jennie Baker, Northern Michigan University
      • Ways of Seeing White: Demystifying Africanist Experiences in Visual Art

Panel 6B: “Poetry, Gender, and Mid-Century Modernism: Bishop, Brooks, Plath, and Rich”

Moderated by Susan Wegener

    • Sarah Bahr, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
      • “Dying Is an Art”: Sylvia Plath’s Theatricality of Death
    • Shae Ramsey, IUPUI
      • The “Ordure from the Cream”: Hygiene and Race in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
    • Eden Rea-Hedrick, IUPUI
      • Images for Cocteau: Adrienne Rich Re-Visioning Orpheus
    • Conrad Triebold, IUPUI
      • “The World Is Too Much with Us”: From the Solitary to the Communal in Nature Poems by Frost and Bishop