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2 0 1 3 Discourses on the Self (4.614) Moderator: Dr. Andy Amato (UT Dallas) M. Lance Lusk (UT Dallas) – “‘Here Let Us Stand’: An Investigation of the Chorus in T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the CathedralDessie Sanders (UT Dallas) – “African American Identity and Womanism” Ashlie Contos (UT Tyler) – “I Just Want To Believe: Modern Myths and the DoubleBlind of Metamodernism” Discovering the Individual in the Virtual (JO 4.122) Moderator: Dr. Frank DuFour (UT Dallas) Alexander Swaim (UT Dallas) – Paper title TBA Janet Montealvo (UT Dallas) – “Perceiving Reality and Identity in Computer Simulations” Mona Kasra (UT Dallas) – “The Power and Politics of Digital, Networked Images” Creative Writing Workshop with Desmond Egan (JO Performance Hall) prior registration required “Incontestably the most brilliant of all the writers who have taken workshops in Irish literary festivals, poet Desmond Egan's commitment to his students is legendary and his improvisational skills have power to stun the budding writer…” The Irish Literary Supplement (USA) 4:45 pm – Concurrent Sessions The City in Context (JO 3.516) Moderator: Dr. Nils Roemer (UT Dallas) Sahalie Hashim (UT Dallas) – “Dallas Morning News: Subtle Champion of White SuperiorityAmal Shafek (UT Dallas) – “Desert Cities” Jill Johnson (UT Dallas) – “Reviewing the Waters of Babylon and Zion” Jessica Miller (UT Dallas) – “Colorful TranslationsShifting Paradigms in Contemporary Humanist Education (JO 4.614) Moderator: Dr. Andy Amato (UT Dallas) Finney Premkumar (Azusa Pacific U) – “Reengaging the Academy: The Humanities as an Unarticulated Constituent and the Emergence of a Truly Interdisciplinary Perspective” John Radcliff (UT Dallas) – “Blended Learning – A Different Perspective” Karen Doore (UT Dallas) – “"Exploring ATEC / EMAC International Collaboration Relationships Through Visualizations” Literature Across Time and Space (4.122) Moderator: Dr. Clay Reynolds (UT Dallas) Mike Schraeder (UT Dallas) – “The Chicken Coop Stratagem: A Screenplay” Adam Cheney (UT Dallas) – “The Zamboni Tautology” Anjanette Shake (UT Dallas) – “The Drama of the Commonplace: A Critical Analysis of Anton Chekhov’s Influence on Horton Foote” Melinda Creech (Baylor U) – “Slow Walking Texas” 6:00 pm – Closing Remarks (Jonsson Performance Hall) Desmond Egan has published twentythree collections of poetry; two of prose and two translations of Greek plays. He is a fulltime writer living and working near Newbridge in County Kildare, Ireland. Egan's poem, PEACE was adopted as part of a celebration of Peace for the Millennium and was translated into thirtyfive languages. Egan is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival. Collections of his poetry, in translation, have appeared in book form in France (5); Germany (2); Japan; China; Italy (4); Greece; Netherlands; Poland; Luxembourg; Croatia; Spain; Czech Republic (2); Hungary; Russia; Bulgaria all, in duallanguage format. A documentary on Egan was filmed in 2007: Desmond Egan: Through the Eyes of a Poet. “A major Irish poet, his poems represent an enormous advance. I know of nothing quite like them: it makes me think we have moved a generation beyond even the accomplishment of Heaney.” Hugh Kenner SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS FRIDAY MARCH 22 & SATURDAY MARCH 23, 2013 interdisciplinary re/media/tion RESEARCH • ART • WRITING GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM Thank you for joining us at the fifth annual RAW: Research, Art, Writing Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium. This year’s conference features new and exciting work from graduate students from the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as students from other institutions. The keynote speaker is the acclaimed Irish poet Desmond Egan, who will also lead a writing workshop. In addition to the keynote and workshop, we have 58 presenters on 18 panels. For 2013, we have extended the conference to Friday night and have added a call for art. We offer Mr. Egan and all our guests a warm welcome and our thanks for traveling to Dallas to speak to us about the future of the humanities. This event is made possible by the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as the Graduate Student Association Executive Board and the RAW Committee. We would like to especially thank the Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities, Dr. Dennis Kratz; the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, Dr. Michael Wilson; and the staff in the A&H department: Alice Salazar, Karen Trousdale, Michelle Lemon, Lisa Lyles, and Beth Young. We also want to thank our faculty moderators, who gave their guidance as students prepared for the conference and their time to facilitate our panels today. On behalf of the GSA Executive Board and the RAW Committee, thank you all for your support and attendance at RAW 2013. Courtney Dombroski GSA VicePresident and RAW Committee Chair KEEP IN TOUCH WITH TWITTER HASHTAG #RAWCONF, @UTDGSA, FACEBOOK.COM/UTDGSA, OR AT UTDGSA.COM/RAW

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Discourses  on  the  Self  (4.614)  Moderator:  Dr.  Andy  Amato  (UT  Dallas)  M.  Lance  Lusk  (UT  Dallas)  –  “‘Here  Let  Us  Stand’:  An  Investigation  of  the  Chorus  in  T.S.  Eliot’s  Murder  in  the  Cathedral”  Dessie  Sanders  (UT  Dallas)  –  “African  American  Identity  and  Womanism”  Ashlie  Contos  (UT  Tyler)  –  “I  Just  Want  To  Believe:  Modern  Myths  and  the  Double-­‐Blind  of  Metamodernism”  

Discovering  the  Individual  in  the  Virtual  (JO  4.122)  Moderator:  Dr.  Frank  DuFour  (UT  Dallas)  Alexander  Swaim  (UT  Dallas)  –  Paper  title  TBA  Janet  Montealvo  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Perceiving  Reality  and  Identity  in  Computer  Simulations”  Mona  Kasra  (UT  Dallas)  –  “The  Power  and  Politics  of  Digital,  Networked  Images”  

Creative  Writing  Workshop  with  Desmond  Egan  (JO  Performance  Hall)  prior  registration  required  

“Incontestably  the  most  brilliant  of  all  the  writers  who  have  taken  workshops  in  Irish  literary  festivals,  poet  Desmond  Egan's  commitment  to  his  students  is  legendary  and  his  improvisational  skills  have  power  to  stun  the  budding  writer…”  

-­‐-­‐  The  Irish  Literary  Supplement  (USA)  

4:45  pm  –  Concurrent  Sessions  The  City  in  Context  (JO  3.516)  

Moderator:  Dr.  Nils  Roemer  (UT  Dallas)  Sahalie  Hashim  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Dallas  Morning  News:  Subtle  Champion  of  White  Superiority”  Amal  Shafek  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Desert  Cities”  Jill  Johnson  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Reviewing  the  Waters  of  Babylon  and  Zion”  Jessica  Miller  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Colorful  Translations”  

Shifting  Paradigms  in  Contemporary  Humanist  Education  (JO  4.614)  Moderator:  Dr.  Andy  Amato  (UT  Dallas)  Finney  Premkumar  (Azusa  Pacific  U)  –  “Re-­‐engaging  the  Academy:  The  Humanities  as  an  Unarticulated  Constituent  and  the  Emergence  of  a  Truly  Interdisciplinary  Perspective”  John  Radcliff  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Blended  Learning  –  A  Different  Perspective”  Karen  Doore  (UT  Dallas)  –  “"Exploring  ATEC  /  EMAC  International  Collaboration  Relationships  Through  Visualizations”  

Literature  Across  Time  and  Space  (4.122)  Moderator:  Dr.  Clay  Reynolds  (UT  Dallas)  Mike  Schraeder  (UT  Dallas)  –  “The  Chicken  Coop  Stratagem:  A  Screenplay”  Adam  Cheney  (UT  Dallas)  –  “The  Zamboni  Tautology”  Anjanette  Shake  (UT  Dallas)  –  “The  Drama  of  the  Commonplace:  A  Critical  Analysis  of  Anton  Chekhov’s  Influence  on  Horton  Foote”  Melinda  Creech  (Baylor  U)  –  “Slow  Walking  Texas”  

6:00  pm  –  Closing  Remarks  (Jonsson  Performance  Hall)        Desmond  Egan  has  published  twenty-­‐three  collections  of  poetry;  two  of  prose  and  two  translations  of  Greek  plays.  He  is  a  full-­‐time  writer  living  and  working  near  Newbridge  in  County  Kildare,  Ireland.  Egan's  poem,  PEACE  was  adopted  as  part  of  a  celebration  of  Peace  for  the  Millennium  and  was  translated  into  thirty-­‐five  languages.  Egan  is  also  the  founder  and  Artistic  Director  of  the  Gerard  Manley  Hopkins  Festival.  Collections  of  his  poetry,   in  translation,  have  appeared  in  book  form  in  France  (5);  Germany  (2);  Japan;  China;  Italy  (4);  Greece;  Netherlands;   Poland;   Luxembourg;   Croatia;   Spain;   Czech  Republic   (2);   Hungary;   Russia;   Bulgaria   -­‐   all,   in   dual-­‐language  format.  A  documentary  on  Egan  was   filmed   in  2007:  Desmond  Egan:  Through  the  Eyes  of  a  Poet.      “A  major  Irish  poet,  his  poems  represent  an  enormous  advance.  I  know  of  nothing  quite  like  them:  it  makes  me  think  we  have  moved  a  generation  beyond  even  the  accomplishment  of  Heaney.”  -­‐-­‐Hugh  Kenner  

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RAW FR I D A Y , M A R C H 2 2 5:00  pm  –  Registration  (Jonsson  Performance  Hall)  

6:00  pm  –  Concurrent  Sessions    

How  Culture  is  Mediated  Through  Humanity  (JO  3.516)  Moderator:  Dr.  Maximillian  Schich  (UT  Dallas)  Valarie  Broderick  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Digital  Transformations”  Will  Broderick  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Gamifying  Culture”  Dax  Norman  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Dax  Norman,  Artist”    Shawn  Meyer  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Folk  Games”  

Translating  Humanity  (JO  4.614)  Moderator:  Dr.  Rainer  Schulte  (UT  Dallas)  Michele  Rosen  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Marguerite  Yourcenar  and  Basho  on  the  Road”  Shelby  Vincent  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Translating  Colonial  Memories  into  a  Post-­‐Apocalyptic  Future”  George  Henson  (UT  Dallas)  –  “HOMOcide:  The  Death  of  the  Latin  American  Gay  Subject  by  Translation”  

The  American  Legacy  in  Words  and  Music  (JO  4.122)  Moderator:  Dr.  Milton  Cohen  (UT  Dallas)  April  Collie  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Live  Music  vs.  Recorded  Music:  Emotion,  Memories,  and  the  Senses”  Rosalyn  Mack  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Wealth,  Privilege,  and  the  American  Dream  in  Richard  Wright’s  Native  Son”  Jay  Webb  (UT  Dallas)  –  “’Breaking  Bad’:  Transcending  Habit  in  Emerson”  Mark  Allen  Jenkins  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Worse  Places  Than  Zanesville,  Ohio”  

7:30  pm  –  Poetry  Reading  by  Desmond  Egan  (Jonsson  Performance  Hall)    Reception  following  (Jonsson  Performance  Hall  Lobby)    SA TURDA Y , M A RCH 23 8:30  am  –  Registration  (Jonsson  Performance  Hall)  

9:00  am  –  Opening  Remarks  (Jonsson  Performance  Hall) Associate  Dean  for  Graduate  Studies  at  the  University  of  Texas  at  Dallas:  Dr.  Michael  Wilson

Graduate  Student  Association  President:  Lora  Burnett Graduate  Student  Association  Vice  President  and  RAW  Committee  Chair:  Courtney  Dombroski

9:30  am  –  Concurrent  Sessions  British  Literature  Reimagined  (JO  3.516)  

Moderator:  Dr.  Timothy  Redman  (UT  Dallas)  Carroll  Savant  (UT  Dallas)  –  “’Whistle  While  You  Work’:  The  Construction  of  the  Myth  of  Englishness  through  the    

Working  Soundscapes  in  George  Eliot’s  Adam  Bede”  Matthew  Brumit  (U  of  Dallas)  –  “How  the  Card  Games  in  Pride  and  Prejudice  Teach  Us  About  Ourselves”  Jeremy  Larson  (Baylor  U)  –  “Decentering  a  Privileged  Patience”  

Portraiture,  Then  and  Now  (JO  4.614)  Moderator:  Dr.  Mark  Rosen  (UT  Dallas)  Margaret  DeBosier  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Every  Face  Tells  a  Story”  Debbie  DeWitte  (UT  Dallas)  –  “The  Portraits  of  Lytton  Strachey”  Peter  Wonica  (UT  Dallas)  –  “The  Avatar  as  a  Guide  Through  Adolescent  Identity  Exploration”  

Landscapes  in  Flux  (JO  4.122)  Moderator:  Dr.  Jessica  C.  Murphy  (UT  Dallas)  June  Owens  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Afterimages  and  Echoes:    Drawing  Parallels  between  the  Depression  and  the  Recession  in    

Rural  America”  Amanda  Ledwon  (UT  Dallas)  –  “If  Poetry  Were  a  Mix  Tape,  It  Would  Sound  Like  This:  The  Edited  Poetry  Of  1985  Mexico    

City”  Sean  Sutherlin  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Urbanism  and  the  Emergence  of  Science  Fiction”  

10:45  am  –  Concurrent  Sessions  Identity  Under  Analysis  (JO  3.516)  

Moderator:  Dr.  Betty  Wiesepape  (UT  Dallas)  Kristin  Huntley  (UT  Dallas)  –  “’A  Being  Next  to  Devil’:  Evil,  Motivation  and  Psychopathy  in  Shakespeare’s  Don  John  and    

Iago”  Shamim  Hunt  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Eros  and  Thanatos  in  Sex,  Lies,  and  Videotape”  Janet  Broihier  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Same  Difference?  Exoticism  and  Alterity  in  Twentieth-­‐Century  French  Culture”  

Memory  Remediated  Across  Time  and  Space  (JO  4.614)  Moderator:  Greg  Metz  (UT  Dallas)  Jennifer  Hudson  (UT  Dallas)  –  “The  Russians  Are  Coming!  American  Depictions  of  Russian  Settlers  in  Literature,  Film,  and  History”  Danielle  Georgio  (UT  Dallas)  –  “The  Ephemeral  Performance:  An  Art  World  Mythology    (Or,  “I  don’t  have  time  for  a  happening  right  now.”)  A  Case  Study—HARAKIRI:  To  Die  For  Performances”  Poe  Johnson  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Cultural  Memory  as  Fan  Ideology  in  the  Remediated  World”  

Systems  Failure:  Both  Real  and  Virtual  (JO  4.122)  Moderator:  Dr.  Theresa  Towner  (UT  Dallas)  Toni  Loftin  (UT  Dallas)  –  “In  the  Bowels  of  the  Beast:    El  METRO  as  Mediator  of  the  Megacity”  Kimberly  Nofal  (U  of  Florida)  –  “A  Critical  History  of  the  All-­‐Sided  Façade:  From  van  Doesburg  to  El  Lissitzky”    

12:00  pm  –  Lunch  (McDermott  Library  Suite  4.4)

1:00  pm  –  Keynote  Address  (Jonsson  Performance  Hall)

Desmond  Egan  

 2:15  pm  –  Concurrent  Sessions  

Art  and  the  Machine:  Ruminations  on  Relationships  (JO  3.516)  Moderator:  Dr.  Peter  Park  (UT  Dallas)  Erin  Naler  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Epic  [A]esthetics:  God’s,  Airplanes,  and  Spinning  Stages”  Isaac  Karth  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Ergodic  Agency”  

Representations  in  Magic  and  Medicine  (4.614)  Moderator:  Dr.  Richard  Brettell  (UT  Dallas)  Rebecca  Sader  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Lessons  from  a  Curandera”  Monica  Salazar  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Goya  and  the  World  of  Medicine”  Marina  Botros  Jenkins  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Witchcraft  Imagery”  

Spatial  Dislocations:  Finding  Yourself  Away  From  Home  (4.122)  Moderator:  Dr.  Dennis  Walsh  (UT  Dallas)  Ken  Morrow  (UT  Dallas)  –  “The  Defining  Power  of  the  Humanities  in  Tang  China:  How  the  Church  of  the  East  Experienced  the  Opening  and  Closing  of  Chinese  Identity”  Emeka  Ikebude  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Rise  of  the  Ruins:  The  Missing  Limbs  of  Digitally-­‐Reconstructed  Places”  Sarah  Valente  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Im  migration”  

3:30  pm  –  Concurrent  Sessions  

Gender  in  Motion:  The  Female  Identity  Under  Construction  (3.516)  Moderator:  Dr.  Emire  Muslu  (UT  Dallas)  Stacy  Chen  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Intertextual  Narrative  and  the  Action  Heroine:  Gazing  at  Lara  Croft:  Tomb  Raider  and  Resident  Evil”  Merry  Jett  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Mind  over  Matter:    Female  Philosophical  Idealists  and  Materialists  Reconstructing  Gender  in    

American  Thought  1875-­‐1925”  Elizabeth  Ranieri  (UT  Dallas)  –  “Helen  Corbitt:  A  New  American  Cook”  

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