The Texas A&M English Department and English Graduate Student Association would like to invite you to a series of events and panels at our 2012 Graduate Student Conference. Please contact Liz Grumbach at egrumbac@tamu.edu if you have any questions.
“Retrofitting English Studies: When Diversity Becomes an Afterthought”
April 14-15 2012
EGSA Graduate Conference Schedule
10:00-10:40 Poetics, Community, and Embodiment (Blocker 202)
Sarah Hart- "Elegiac Rhetorics in Communities of Mourning"
Katy Harclerode (LeTourneau University)- “Freeing the Perhaps: Decoupling Language
and Embodiment in Student Poetics”
10:50-11:45 Challenging Authority: Literature, Genre, and Rhetorical Warfare (Blocker 202)
Shawna McDermott- “Girls on Fire: Gender, Authority and the Female Child-Warrior”
Melissa Elston- "Can the Old West be Digitally Retrofitted? The Troublesome Topoi of
Red Dead Redemption"
Ayde Enriquez-Loya “Rhetorical Warfare of Silence and Recovery: Enacting Rhetorics
of Survivance in 18th Century Literature”
11:45-12:50 Lunch served in (Blocker 203)
1:00-2:10 Digital Humanities Roundtable (Blocker 202)
Liz Grumbach
Tess Habbestad
Shawn Moore
Dr. Amy Earhart
2:20-3:15 Crossing Borders and Disciplinary Divides, or What Food Can Teach Us About
Making Meaning (Blocker 202)
Marcos del Hierro: "Hungry Hungry Hip Hop: Embodied Rhetorical Practices in Game
Theory and Gangsta Hippos"
Casie Cobos: "Kneading Maza: The Food Our Bodies Crave, the Chican@ Rhetorics We
Make"
Victor del Hierro: "Reproducing the Product: Ordinary Food with Extraordinary Love"
3:30-5:00 KEYNOTE (Blocker 457)
Jay Domage "Steep Steps, Retrofit and Universal Design: Spaces, Economies, and
Pedagogies of Disability in Higher Education."
SUNDAY
10-11am Breakfast and Creating Accessible Pedagogies Workshop with Jay Dolmage
(Blocker 203)
11:10-12:20 Stories from Beyond the Creative Divide (Blocker 202)
Ryan Neighbors- “Easy Rider”
Laura Morris- “The Dance”
Amber Foster- Traveler Lost
Catalina Bartlett- In the Shadow of the Red Rock
12:20-1:20 Lunch (on your own)
1:30-2:40 Theory and Practice: Challenging the Rhetorics of Exclusion (Blocker 202)
Garrett Nichols- “The Quiet Country Closet: Reconstructing a Discourse for Closeted
Rural Experiences”
Alma Villanueva- "Embodied Rhetorics: Exploring A Non-Objective, Non-Normative
Approach"
Stephanie Wheeler- "Rejecting Standardization: Toward a Disability Model of English
Studies"
Bryan Tarpley- “Something Rather Than Nothing: Toward the Reparative Dimension of
Post-Colonial Studies”
2:50-4:00 Time, Dance, and Invasive Species: Challenging the Scope of Rhetorical Inquiry
(University of Michigan, presenting via Skype). (Blocker 202)
Donnie Johnson Sackey: "Building a Cultural Rhetorical History of Invasive Species"
Gabriela Raquel Ríos: "Dancing With Your Breath, or How Rarámuri Dance Traditions
Challenge Ableism in Embodied Rhetorics"
Jennifer Sano-Franchini: "Time, Technology, and The Mediated Body: Rhetorics of East
Asian Blepharoplasty in Online Video
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