Saturday, March 8, 8:00 - 7:30 PM, Tawes Fine Arts Building
8:00-9:00 AM: Registration and Breakfast - 2nd Floor Foyer
9:00-10:15 AM - SESSION 1: Queer Ecologies and Landscapes - Moderator: Rachel Vorona - Room 3132
1. “Reading Objects: Titus Andronicus and the Ethics of Knowledge,” Jeffrey Griswold,
UMD
2. “The Water We Breathe” Haylie Swenson,
George Washington University
3. “Object as Subject: Decentering the Human in H.D.’s Sea Garden,” Rhiannon Basile,
Rutgers University, Newark
10:25-11:40 AM - SESSION 2: Transgressive Subjectivities and Interrogating the Self - Moderator: Tim Bruno - Room 3132
1. “Outplacement, Biographical Learning, and the Rhetorical Work of English Studies: A Personal-Professional Narrative,” Oliver Brearey,
UMD
2. “Mirror, Mirror: The Bluest ‘I’ and the Construction of Pecola’s Subjectivity,” Hannah Dow,
Loyola Marymount University
3. “Disabilities and Demigods: Failed Transgressions in Hopkinson’s Sister Mine,” Collier Cobb,
UMD
11:45 AM-1:00 PM: LUNCH/MFA READINGS - Moderator: Tim DeMay - 2nd Floor Foyer/Room 2115
1. “Coming of Age” and “N’Djamena, Meaning We Will Rest,” Aaron Brown,
UMD
2. “Sanction” and “Translucency,” Noa Saunders,
UMD
3. “Banksy,” Radford Skudrna,
UMD
1:10-2:40 PM - PLENARY PANEL: Zones of Trespass - Moderator: Dr. Scott Trudell - Art/Sociology Bldg. Room 2203
1. “Selfhood and the Crisis of Property,” Dr. Sharada Balachandran Orihuela,
UMD
2. “Trespassing in Middle English Drama: The Slaughter of the Innocents as Test Case,” Dr. Theresa Coletti,
UMD
3. “Those Who Trespass Against: Prison (Writing) Networks, Cordon Sanitaire, and the Imbrication of Space and Identity,” Dr. Christopher Hazlett,
UMD
2:50-4:05 PM: SESSION 3
A. Queer Representations - Moderator: John Macintosh - Room 3132
1. “Trespassing Heterotopias: the (Visual) Politics of Queer Selfies and Internet Cultures,” Helis Sikk,
College of William and Mary
2. "No Longer Trespassing: Welcoming Alison Bechdel and Fun Home into Mainstream Publishing Markets," Ruth Elizabeth Morris,
UMD
3. “Native Exile: Queerness, Coming of Age, and ‘Thirdspace’ in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy,” Kelley Grashoff,
George Washington University
B. Trespassing in the Political Sphere - Moderator: Jamison Kantor - Room 3136
1. “Revisiting Those ‘Unspeakable Things’: Socio-Political Resistance and Cultural Reformation in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Clotel; or the President’s Daughter,” Christopher Varlack,
Morgan State University
2. “Josephine Herbst and the Transgressive Nature of Reproductive Modernism,” Liz DePriest,
UMD
3. “The [Girl] Power of Capitalism: Appropriations of a Subversive Feminist Movement,” Cassie Clark,
George Washington University
4:15-5:30 PM: Session 4
A. After/Life - Moderator: Molly Marotta - Room 3132
1. “Cultures of the Dead: Anonymity and Structures of Feeling in Gray’s Elegy,” Jonathan C. Williams,
UMD
2. “Destruction and Reconstitution: The Body as a Book in John Donne,” Stephen Rojcewicz,
UMD
3. “Living Trespass: Metaphysical Exchange on the Border of Life and Death,” Kayla Harr,
UMD
B. Violence Without Bounds - Moderator: Emily Perez - Room 3136
1. “Sexual Violence in the Mbembean Postcolony: The Grounded Flight of En-Zombied Resistance in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory,” Sarah Bonnie,
UMD
2. “Familiar Monsters: Feuds, Fratricide, and Failure in Beowulf,” Jennifer Ross,
UMD
3. “Trespassing on Trauma: What Makes Some Concentration Camp Narratives More Popular Than Others,” Nicole Sybesma,
Rutgers University
5:45-7:30 PM: RECEPTION/MFA READINGS - Moderator: Tim DeMay - 2nd Floor Foyer/Room 2115
1. “Manhunt,” Emily Banks,
UMD
2. “Transubstantiation,” Ruth Elizabeth Morris,
UMD
3. “Fig Leaf” and “Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara,” Will Faragason,
UMD
