English Graduate Student Organization Conference
The Sixth Annual English Graduate Student Organization Conference
Friday, March 27, 2009
Room 206, Student Center
The English Graduate Student Organization is pleased to announce the sixth annual EGSO literary conference.
2009 Conference Schedule
Welcome: 8:30-9:00
Location: Student Center 206
Come greet guests and prospective students. Coffee and donuts are provided for conference attendees.
Session I: 9:00-10:15
The Printed Landscape: Literature and Place
Location: Student Center 206
Chair: Abby Tripp
1. Devjani Roy, "Burney's Georgic Vision in Evelina"
2. Amantha Harmon, “Parlors as Prisons: The Entrapment of Alice Vavasor”
3. Leah Bayens, “Cultivating Narrative Tracks and Trails: American Industrial Agriculture’s Literary Footprints”
Session II: 10:30-11:45
Politics, History, and the Bonds of Masculinity
Location: Student Center 206
Chair: Mary Clai Jones
1. Drew Heverin, “The Will to Self-Realization: Edward II's Renunciation of the Father's Image”
2. Megan Charley, "The Inanimate Beloved: Homosociality and the Bonds of Pornography in Generation Kill"
3. Andy Johnson, “The Civil War Simulacrum and the Performance of History”
Lunch: 11:45-12:30
Student Center 249
Lunch is free for conference participants, English graduate students, and English faculty and staff
Lunch includes chicken fingers, assorted appetizers, and the traditional delicacy, chocolate-covered strawberries.
Keynote Speaker Session: 12:30-1:20
Student Center 206
Tom Marksbury
Senior Lecturer, University of Kentucky Department of English
"I Done Told You My Anecdote": Documenting Hollywood
Introduction: Heather Chacón
Session III: 1:30-2:45
Reading 19th Century America
Location: Student Center 206
Chair: Amanda Morris
1. Abby Tripp, “‘The Educating Advantages of Christian Republican Society’: The Case Against Catholic Women’s Academies in Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
2. Morgan Richardson, “ ‘And yet I felt it in me where it burnt’: The Presence of Aurora Leigh in the Poems of Emily Dickinson”
3. Scotty Adkins, “Letters from the Jug: a Reading of Mark Twain's ‘No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger’”
4. Amy Wheeler, “‘Astra Castra’ : Casting Light on Harriet Prescott Spofford's ‘The Amber Gods’”
Session IV: 3:00-4:15
Cultural Capital in Daniel Deronda
Location: Student Center 206
Chair: Lisa Schroot
1. Heather Chacón, “‘Sugar from Serpents’ Skins: Moral Hazard and Capitalistic Venture in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda”
2. Mary Clai Jones, “Victorian Mirrors: The Metamorphosis of Gwendolen Harleth”
3. Rebecca Beach, "Gwendolen Harleth's Self-Fashioning Portraits"
4. J. Seth Lee, “‘He Wished to Do Without Mentioning the Money: Catherine, Klesmer, and the Economics of Marriage in Daniel Deronda”
The Forming Canon : British Literary Heritage
Location: Student Center 249
Chair: Megan Charley
1. Bill Newsome, “‘Like the Formal Vice’: Richard III as a Comic Shakespearean Vice"
2. Sarah Schuetze, “Collecting Clarissa: The Culture of Curiosity in Clarissa”
3. Lis Meyer, "'if read rightly': A Defense of Ruskin's Gothic Aesthetic"
4. Craig Slaven, “The Costa Book Awards: Buying Back into an Appreciation of Poetry in Britain”