Conference Schedule
Bridges and Borders | April 23rd, 2021
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Welcome / Check-In | 8:30am - 9:00am EST
Zoom Room 1 LinkSession A | 9:00am - 10:10am EST
A1- Borders of Race & Nation
Chair: Dr. Doug Coulson
Zoom Room 1 LinkShaymaa AlQahs
Stateless Kuwaiti Asylum Applicants and UK Law
Aditi Behl
Of Magical Doors and Illusionary Borders: Studying the Metaphor of Doors in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West
Simran Dhingra
Displacement, Insurgency and the “Other”: Study of Siddhartha Deb’s The Point of Return
Rebecca Johnston
Crossing Borders of Marginalization Post World War One
A2- The Nature of Nation in the Long Eighteenth-Century
Chair: Dr. Jon Klancher
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Sarah Hancock
Craig Stamm
Katie Stallsmith
Session B | 10:20am - 11:30am EST
B1- Gender, Queerness, and Sexuality
Chair: Dr. Stephanie Larson
Zoom Room 1 LinkJeana Moody
Words as Barbs: Borders Created through Gendered Language
Cody Januszko
White Coats and Closets: Queer Identities in Young Medical Professionals
Lede E Miki Pohshna
Sexuality from the Margin: Understand Queer Sexuality in Northeast India through its Absence on the Mainstream Discourse
Matthew Helm
‘Orgasm of Nostalgia’: Narrative and Sexual Desire in Aleksandar Hemon's Nowhere Man”
B2- Genre and Disciplinary Borders
Chair: Dr. Jeff Williams
Zoom Room 2 LinkEmma Jones
The Language of Science Fiction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Sarah Ghazali
Reinforced Perimeters: Border-Making and The Critical Tradition of The Campus Novel Genre
Andrew Ash
Transcending Borders and Boundaries: The Creation of New Cultural Forms in the Extraordinary Use of Language
Session C | 11:40am - 12:50pm EST
C1-Women and the Borders of Identity
Chair: Dr. Koel Banerjee
Zoom Room 1 LinkLaura McCann
‘Infertility Does Not Discriminate’: Bridging Racial Disparity Through Infertility Narratives
Moulina Bhattacharya
The Partition: Threshold to the Psycho-cultural Shift of Women’s Question in Late Colonial Bengal
Bettina Hindes
Female Veteran Memoirs: Reclaiming Our Narratives and Ourselves
Catherine Evans
Belonging, Identity, and the Female Body as a Bridge in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names
C2- (De)coloniality, Indigeneity, and Empire
Chair: Dr. Stephen Wittek
Zoom Room 2 LinkNicole Tanquary
Consuming the Maya: Choco-Story Uxmal as Neocolonial Performance
Timothy Maton
Surveying Dominion in Settler Colonial Canada, 1843-1870
Baron Glanvill
Stasis, Negation, and Defiance: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s "Tambudzai and Nyasha Trilogy"
Alex Helberg
Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Foodways, and Political Imagination in the Work of Winona LaDuke
Session D | 1:00pm - 2:10pm EST
D1- Representing Borders in Contemporary Media
Chair: Dr. Kathy Newman
Zoom Room 1 LinkBenjamin Williams
Transmitting Aural Borders: Racialized Sounds, Automobility, and Criminality in "Calling All Cars"
Edgar Ulloa
The Narco-Orientalist Aesthetics in Mexican Cinema and Television
Jess Derr
“Women Don’t Buy Suitcases”: Unpacking Liminality and Gender in Mad Men
Mohammad Bagher Shabanpour Parisa Sadat Hosseini
Heterotopia, Liminality, and Reality in Tornatore's A Pure Formality
D2- Borders and Intersectionality
Chair: Dr. Andreea Ritivoi
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Julie Kidder
Narrative, Recognition, and Intersectionalities of the Self
Marietta Kosma
Liminality and the Space Between Borders in Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe
Nisha Shanmugaraj
The Identity Borders of Indian American Women
Session E | 2:20pm - 3:30pm EST
E1- Bridges and Borders Project Showcases
Chair: Dr. David Kaufer
Zoom Room 1 LinkDr. Candi S. Carter Olson and Dr. Tracy Everbach
Testing Tolerance: Addressing Controversy in the Journalism and Mass Communication Classroom
Rebecca Maatta and Thora Brylowe
Bridging Disciplines: Students in English & Health Sciences Design a Gallery Exhibit
Elizabeth Laughlin
The Dreamer
Madeline Davids
Translation, Trauma, and the Boundaries of Identity within the German Language
E2- Redefining and Crossing Borders
Chair: Dr. James Wynn
Zoom Room 2 LinkArko Dasgupta
The Indian Abroad: Gandhi's Years in South Africa
Reid Dempsey
Monolingualism a la Ranchero: Passing the Border in American Sensationalist Fiction
S Sara Abbas
The Sufi Shrine as Border and Bridge
Clark Fennimore
Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Border to be Crossed on Chatting Sites
Session F | 3:40pm - 4:50pm EST
F1- Mobility, Immobility, and Narrative
Chair: Dr. Marian Aguiar
Pearl Nielsen
Gendered Mobility and Body Commodities in Martínez’s The Beast: Spatial Traversal and Subjectivity within Prostitution
Mauve Perle Tahat
Deep Ecology in Carceral Literature of Witness: Psychogeography of Bordered Lives
Anindita Shome
Interweaving of Lives, Borders and Histories in Indian Diaspora Fiction: An Interpretation of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
Sunjay Mathuria
Spatial Violence & Everyday Borders in Cites of Conflict: Literary Representations of Border Narratives and Traumascapes in Anna Burns’s Milkman
F2- Language Teaching, Language Learning
Chair: Dr. Joanna Wolfe
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Mariya Ivanova
L2 Oral Proficiency: Variables within the Study Abroad Context
Maryam Jamali and Donny Garcia
Dual Enrollment First Year Writing Courses and the Valuing of Translingualism
Devon Renfroe
Language as a Bridge or a Border: The Language Learning Experience of Guest English Teachers in Korea
F3- Bridging and Troubling Boundaries in the Study and Teaching of Writing
Chair: Dr. Linda Flower
Zoom Room 3 LinkHannah Ringler
Emily Dejeu
Michael Laudenbach
Beth Walter
