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University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Third Annual English Undergraduate Conference

March 29-30, 2012

Walter Library, 4th Floor

Schedule

Thursday March 29, 2012

9 - 9:45 am Continental Breakfast (free with registration) and Check In

9:45 am Welcome from Director of Undergraduate Studies Brian Goldberg

10 - 11 am Biting the Apple: Knowledge as Power . . . and Curse
Moderator: University Honors Program Adviser Kit Gordon
• David Bowar, “The Destructive Flowers of Knowledge”
• Ana Liard-Blanco, “The Power of Knowledge”
• Amber Petrik, “The Writing Similarities of William Blake and Virginia Woolf’”
• Mai Rose, “Between Two Worlds” (fiction)

11:15 am - 12:15 pm A Century in Masculinity: From Fear to Farce
Moderator: Adjunct Assistant Professor Tim Jones
• Laura Burnes, “The 'Femme' in Femme Fatale: Exploring the Characteristics of the 'Modern' Woman in Dracula"
• Martin Cech, “A John Wayne-ish Sense of Virility: The Representations and Cultural Implications of Masculinity in The Searchers and God of Carnage”
• Julie Herber, “Freddie's Girls to the Rescue” (fiction)
• Brian Olson, “Animal Wars” (fiction)

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch (free with registration)
Also: Everything You Wanted to Know About a Career in Publishing A Publishing Career Panel, with Jaime Starling (Consortium Book Sales and Distribution), Meghan Hanson (Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Paper Darts), Erik Anderson (Sales Manager at University of Minnesota Press), Marisa Atkinson (Marketing and Publicity Associate for Graywolf Press), Steve Woodward (Assistant Editor at Graywolf), Andrew Karre (Editorial Director for Carolrhoda and Darby Creek imprints, Lerner Publishing Group), and Rachel Holscher (Manager of Design and Publishing Services, Bookmobile). Moderated by Nita Barnett and Etta Berkland, English majors and University of Minnesota Press interns.

Also: Graduate School Information Panel Learn about applying to graduate school (and how you can improve your chances of getting in) with Lecturer Joe Hughes.

1:30 - 2:30 pm The Whole Divide: Fracture and the Dream of Union
Moderator: Associate Professor Lois Cucullu
• Etta Berkland, “ped. psych consult order: 5 y/o male, to be seen for depression” (creative nonfiction/fiction)
• Neal Padrta, “The Language of Love in 'Dream of the Rood'"
• Neil Strugnell, “A Cold Night on an Icy Bridge” (fiction)
• Lindsey Wente, "Lights of Home" (fiction)

2:45 - 3:45 pm But Seriously . . . Unsung Heroes
Moderator: Associate Professor Siobhan Craig
• Amelia Jerde, “Feminism Ignited by Violence”
• Echo Martin, “Brer Rabbit Takes Over Cartoons: The Secret History of America's Trickster”
• Matthew McGuire, “Seriously Funny: The Unfunniness of David Foster Wallace”
• Matthew Trevor, “Alas Poor Toby! Reclaiming Twelfth Night for that Most Critically Abhorred of Drunken Knights"

5:00 - 6:30 pm Getting Published as an Undergraduate
The staffs of Ivory Tower and Parachute talk about how undergraduate students can get creative work published and start making a name for themselves as writers. Learn about the missions of student publications, how to submit, and how to work with editors. Ivory Tower is the undergraduate literary magazine of the University of Minnesota, publishing student work; it is also a year-long class within English. Parachute is the literary magazine of the English major student group FUSE and seeks to build bridges between the University of Minnesota and its surrounding communities.

7 - 8:30 pm In the Second Person with guests John Jodzio and Brian Laidlaw
Moderator: Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program Julie Schumacher
• MFA alumnus and folksinger Brian Laidlaw performs. A poet, Laidlaw is also a faculty member teaching songwriting at McNally Smith College of Music and last year released the hybrid book/album Wolf Wolf Wolf.
• BA alumnus John Jodzio reads. Jodzio has published two collections of short stories, most recently Get In If You Want To Live with Paper Darts Press.
• Jennifer Snider, “Effects of the Second Person Pronoun: A Study of Margaret Atwood's 'Up'”
• Kaitlin Lange, “A Musing for You” (fiction)

 

Friday, March 30, 2012

9:30 am Continental Breakfast (free with registration) and Check In

10 - 11 am In/Sight: Imagining Others, Expanding Self
Moderator: Professor Paula Rabinowitz
• Jared Norberg, “sway” (fiction)
• Merisa Tomczak, “The Nature of Superficial Nostalgia in Cosmopolitan Art and Culture”
• Emily Trenholm, “The Inscape of the Eye in Hopkins and Woolf: A Closed Room or the Body's Opening Door?”
• Rebecca Yates, “'Call for Revolution' 'To My Sweetheart' 'The Fat Hippopotamus,' Or, Words Can Be Words Without Words”

11:15 am - 12:15 pm The Master's Tools: Use or Lose?
Moderator: PhD candidate Michael Phillips
• Amanda Brown, “The Renaming of the American Adam Through Gertrude Stein, Henry James, and Ralph Ellison”
• Erica Tasto, “Kings” (fiction)
• Jessica Wampler, “Underlying Patriarchal Control in Thelma & Louise”

12:30-1:30 pm Lunch (free with registration)
Also: What You Can Do With A Major in English A career panel of English BA graduates, including Anne Hunt, Environmental Consultant to St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, and David Couillard, law clerk.

Also: Graduate School Information Panel Learn about applying to graduate school (and how you can improve your chances of getting in) with Lecturer Joe Hughes.

1:30 - 2:30 pm Seeking Solace: Stories
Moderator: Lecturer Joe Hughes
• Anna Jo Miller, “Shattered Glass” (fiction)
• Joseph Regan, “A Happy Ending” (fiction)
• Amanda Van Haren, “The Rabbit” (fiction)

 

The English Undergraduate Conference is paid for in part by a generous grant from the Coca-Cola Academic Initiative.

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