Admitted Student Day Scheduled for March
July 13, 2010
We are delighted to offer information regarding this year's Admitted Students Days, to be held 28-29 March 2008.
This event, designed specifically for applicants admitted or pre-admitted to the PhD program but open to all admitted students, offers an opportunity for prospective students to gain a sense of the department, the faculty, and their peers. You're welcome to attend all or a part of this event. And the Graduate Student Conference, fabulously organized by the Graduate English Organization, is open to all regardless of admission to one of our programs. Please find more specific information below, and please let us know -- by email to kchuh@umd.edu -- if you would like to join us for this occasion. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ADMITTED STUDENTS DAYS 28-29 March 2008 Schedule Friday, 28 March 2008 11:30am - Welcome to English Graduate Studies Graduate Studies Office Suite, 3119 Susquehanna Hall 12:00pm - Faculty and student lunch Graduate Studies Office Suite, 3119 Susquehanna Hall 2:00pm - Tour of Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) or attend first session of Text and Techne (see program, below) 4:00pm - Transatlantic 19th Century Studies Reading Group sponsored lecture by Professor Michael Moon, Susquehanna Hall (reception to follow) 6:30-8:30pm MFA Mock Turtle Reading Series, Washington, DC Dinner out in Washington, DC Text and Techne Technology, Literatures & Culture A Graduate Student Conference organized by the Graduate English Organization March 28-29, 2008 University of Maryland, College Park Featuring Keynote Addresses by Professors Jason Rudy and Matt Kirschenbaum, Friday, March 28 Opening Remarks 2:00 pm, Susquehanna Room 1119 Tasos Lazarides, M.A. Student, and Heather Brown, Ph.D. Student, Conference Committee Co-Chairs Panel I: Re-visioning Narrative, Genre, and Reception 2:00 to 3:30 pm, Susquehanna Room 1119 Chair: Schuyler Esprit, Ph.D. Candidate • Tom Geary, Ph.D. Student “Agency in the Hyperreal of the Digital World” • Chris Brown, Ph.D. Student “‘In the Name of Many Slaves’: The Right to Petition and the Beginning of the Black Literary Tradition” • Rachel Leah Jablon, Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature “The Internet, the Holocaust, and Virtual Jewish Communities” • Jody Lawton, Ph.D. Student “Topos and Techne: Viewing the Renaissance Manuscript Commonplace Book from the Perspective of the History of Rhetorical Theory” • Tanya Clement, Ph.D. Candidate “Changing the Modernist Canon Byte by Byte: Why Creating a Digital, Genetic Edition of Poetry of the Baroness Elsa von-Freytag-Loringhoven Matters” 19th Century Transatlantic Group Lecture Series 4:00 pm, Susquehanna Room 1119 Michael Moon, Professor, Emory University “Pulp Effect” Mock Turtle Reading 6:30 to 8:30 pm, The Wonderland Ballroom 1101 Kenyon Street, NW, Washington DC (Near the Green Line Metro Stop) Part of the MFA Mock Turtle Reading Series. UMD MFA students will read their original work. Saturday, March 29 Coffee and Light Breakfast 8:15 to 8:45 am, Susquehanna Room 1121 Keynote Speaker Jason Rudy, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park -- “Spasmodic Whitman: Transatlantic Poetic Materiality” 9:00 to 10:15 am, Susquehanna Room 1119 Introduction: Michelle Boswell, M.A./Ph.D. Student Panel II: Who We Are, Technically: Identity-formation, Agency and Technology 10:30 am to 12:00 noon, Susquehanna Room 1107 Chair: Alyson Doulos, Ph.D. Student • Jasmine Lellock, Ph.D. Student “Anatomy and Alchemy in Phineas Fletcher’s The Purple Island” • Greg Wilson, M.A./Ph.D. Student “The Ghosts of Milton” • Rebecca Wise, Undergraduate Student “‘Making Electricity from Dirt’: Memoir and Reality TV” • Corinne Viglietta, M.A./Ph.D. Candidate “‘But Who Was Gerty?’: Femininity, Modernity, and Consumer Subjectivity in the ‘Nausicaa’ Episode of Ulysses” Lunch 12:00 to 1:00 pm, Susquehanna Room 3118 Panel III: “How can we know the Dancer from the Dance?”: The Techne and Episteme of the Twentieth-Century Long Poem 1:15 to 2:45 pm, Susquehanna Room 1107 Chair: Hannah Baker, Lecturer • Julie Enszer, M.F.A. Student “Not Your Grandmother’s Sonnet Sequence: The Form and Function of Marilyn Hacker’s Love, Death, and the Changing of the Season” • Laura Leichum, M.F.A. Student “A Theory of Relativity: Learning to Write and Read Metonymically in H.D.’s ‘Helen in Egypt’” • Gerald Maa, M.F.A. Student “Atlantis Bound: Tracing Structures from Hart Crane’s ‘The Bridge’” Panel IV: The Medium and the Message 3:00 to 4:45 pm, Susquehanna Room 1119 Chair: Heather Brown, Ph.D. Student • Michelle Boswell, M.A./Ph.D. Student “What Poetry Taught a Physicist Who Knew It Was ‘Not Wise to Read Mathematics in November After One’s Fire is Out’” • Kenton Stalder, Undergraduate Student “Stage versus Page: Technology’s Resurrection of Poetic Voice” • Natalie Phillips, Ph.D. Student “Electronic Editors and (Critical and Theoretical) Work: A Comparative Reading of the Dickinson Electronic Archive and the Walt Whitman Archive” • Mirona Magearu, Ph.D. Student, Comparative Literature “Kinetic Collage and Ergodic Experience in Nelson’s Panhandle” Keynote Speaker Matthew Kirschenbaum, Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), University of Maryland, College Park -- “The Remaking of Reading” 5:00 to 6:15 pm, Susquehanna Room 1120 Introduction: Mirona Magearu, Ph.D. Student, Comparative Literature Closing Remarks 6:15 pm, Susquehanna Room 1120 Tasos Lazarides, M.A. Student, and Heather Brown, Ph.D. Student, Conference Committee Co-Chairs Post-Conference Gathering 6:30 pm, Cornerstone Grill and Loft 7325 Baltimore Avenue, College Park, MD The Conference Planning Committee would like to thank the following individuals: Kandice Chuh Matthew Kirschenbaum Jason Rudy Abby Mulhollen For more information on the University of Maryland, College Park, English Department or on the Graduate English Organization visit www.english.umd.edu.