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Recent Student Publications

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Delores Amorelli

  • “Yuppies, Cannibals, and Psychos: Constructed Identities in Contemporary Pulp Fictions.” Collisions and Elisons: A Symposium on Literature and Popular Culture (October 2005).

Clay Arnold

  • “Re-Imagining Rhetorical Invention.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (March 2006).
  • “Fishing with Canons: (Re)membering the Game of Authors and Classic Literature.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).

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Scott Balcerzak

  • “Finding the ‘Sanity Clause’ of Nonsensical Sense: Deleuzian Paradox in the Humor of the Marx Brothers.” The South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Convention (November 2005).
  • “Dickensian Orphan as Child Star: Freddie Bartholomew and the Commodity of Cute in MGM’s David Copperfield (1935).” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).

Wesley Beal

  • “Globalizing the Knowable Community: The Knowable Network in Ensemble Film.” The American Comparative Literature Association Meeting (March 2006).

Lyndsay Brown

  • “Slashing Celebrities, Slashing Theory: How Real Person Slash and Vids Lead to Deleuze/Lacan.” Console-ing Passions: An International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media & Feminism (April 2008).
  • “N_A & NrAged: When RPGs Go Fannish.” Video Games and The Alien / Other(April 2005).

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Ramona Caponegro

  • “Marginalized Even Among the Marginalized: Exonerated Death Row Inmates and Murder Victims’ Family Members Who Advocate for Forgiveness.” The Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention (Fall 2005).
  • ‘“Guideposts and Direction Boards’: Children’s Fiction about the Criminal Justice System.” The 5th Annual UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2005).
  • “A Starting Place: Teaching the Virtues of Social Justice through Children’s Literature.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).

Mindy Carzodo

  • “Empty Incantations and Rewritten Rituals: What if Francesca Lia Block Had Read Her Judith Butler?” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).

Kate Casey-Sawicki

  • “Showtime Synergy: The Nostalgic Reemergence of 1980s Girlhood.” Conference of The Popular Culture Association and The American Culture Association National Conference (March 2005).
  • “Teaching in the NWE: Electrate Students in the MOO.” The 15th Annual EGSA Conference: Merging Word and Image (February 2005).
  • “Ceiling Fans and Spray-Painted Couches: Hyperreality and Theatricality in Trading Spaces.” Conference of The Popular Culture Association and The American Culture Association National Conference (April 2004).

Laurel Czaikowski

  • “‘Creation is Equally Meaningless’: Nature and Civilization in Emily Brontë’s Poetry and Devoirs.” The 18/19th Century British Woman Writers Conference (March 2008).
  • “Limning the Margins: Identity, Politics and Art in Felicia Hemans’s Poetry” The Nineteenth Century Studies Conference (April 2008).
  • “Unsignified Women: (Lack of) A Place in Social Construction in The Wanderer.” The Burney Society’s Annual Meeting (Fall 2006).

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Brian Doan

  • “Baccarat Pack: Sinatra, Bond, and Cold War Cool.” Conference of The Popular Culture Association in the South and American Culture Association in the South (Spring 2003).

Eric Doise

  • “The Sadness of (Not) Seeing: Remembering the Holocaust in Everything Is Illuminated.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference (Fall 2007).

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Tof Eklund

  • “The Devil’s Tactics: Strategy Gaming and Evil.” Video Games and The Alien / Other(April 2005).
  • “Something Crawling in the ‘Gutter:’ Paneling and Extradiegetic Spaces in Sam Kieth’s Comics and Animation.” The University of Florida Comics Conference (October 2004).
  • “An (Under-)world of Darkness: Gender Performance and False Consciousness in the Transition from Live-Action Roleplay to Film.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference(October 2004).

Maryam El-Shall

  • “Modern Interpretations of the Hijab.” The 15th Annual Postcolonial and British Commonwealth Literature Conference (February 2006).
  • “The Effects of Colonialism on Arab, Muslim Identity.” The 14th Annual Postcolonial and British Commonwealth Literature Conference (Spring 2005).

Lauren Ermel

  • “Problematizing the Visible and Non-Visible in Boccaccio’s Decameron and Pasolini’s Famous Recreation.” The 2006 Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association (SEMA) (October 2006).
  • “Anchored in Tradition?: The Cinematic Refashioning of the Anchoress.” The Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (December 2005).

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Sean Fenty

  • “Why Old School is ‘Cool’: A Brief Analysis of Classic Video Game Nostalgia.” Playing the Past: Nostalgia in Video Games and Electronic Literature (March 2005).
  • “Pardon the Interruption: Interjections, Commentary, and Secret Messages in Jhonen Vasquez’s Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee.” The University of Florida Comics Conference (October 2004).
  • “Fear and Loathing in Raccoon City: Interactivity, Emotions, and Narrative in Survivor Horror Video Games.” Narr@tive: Digital Storytelling (April 2004).
  • “Underneath the Information Superhighway: Webcomics as a New Digital Underground.” The University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels(Spring 2003).
  • “A Tale of Two Pleasures: Interactivity and Narrative in Computer Games.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (Spring 2002).
  • “The Untold Story of the Tenth Art: Exploring Animation and the Remediation of Comics in The Last Express.” The Will Eisner Symposium (Spring 2002).

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Stephen Giddens

  • “I Hate the 80s: Repossessing a Pedagogical Counter-Space in California.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).

Nicholas Guest-Jelley

  • “The Way of Cynicism: Chaplin‘s Bodily Philosophy.” The Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (March 2008).

Denise Guidry

  • “The ‘Authentic,’ Classed Cajun: Conflations of Language, Class, Culture.” Cultural Confluences, the South Central Modern Language Association (Fall 2004).
  • “Atlantic Upheaval: Building Acadian and Cajun Identities.” “Creating Identity and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1492–1888 (September 2004).

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Lisa Hager

  • “What Little Girls Are Really Made Of: The Powerpuff Girls, Citizenship, and Quantum Mechanics.” The University of Florida Comics Conference (October 2004).
  • “What Little Girls Are Really Made Of: Powerpuff Girls and the Crisis of Citizenship.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (Spring 2003).
  • “Not Quite a New Woman: The Workings of Sensation Fiction and New Woman Discourse in Ouida’s Princess Napraxine.” Victorian Legacies: Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States Conference (Fall 2003).
  • “What Little Girls are Really Made of: The Powerpuff Girls, Citizenship, and Quantum Mechanics.” Cultivating Knowledges: Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research 25th Anniversary Symposium (Fall 2002).
  • “The Sleeper Has Awakened: Feminine Desire and Subjectivity in Ouida’s Princess Napraxine.” Evolving Domains of Knowledge and Representation: 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Conference (Spring 2002).
  • “Monstrous Mixing: Body and Text in/of Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (Spring 2002).
  • “The Land that Time Forgot: The Role of Norway in the Construction of Feminine Subjectivity in George Egerton’s ‘The Regeneration of Two.’” Nineteenth Century Studies Association 22nd Annual Conference: Looking Forward, Looking Back (Spring 2002).
  • “‘And Still I Rise’: Unearthing Woman in George Egerton’s ‘An Ebb Tide.’” Midwest Modern Language Association Conference (Fall 2000).
  • “Getting in Touch With the Feminine Side: The Male Body and Blindness in Charles Kingsley’s Westward Ho!” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies: Centers and Peripheries. (Spring 2000).

Trena Houp

  • “Webcomics as a Response to Bill Watterson.” The University of Florida Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels (Spring 2003).
  • “Pressing and Stressing Boundaries: Bill Watterson.” The Will Eisner Symposium(Spring 2002).
  • “Studying Comics: An Examination of Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (Spring 2002).

Leeann D. Hunter

  • “Sexualizing the (Re)Production of the Laboring Woman: The Paradigm Shift from the Victorian to the Modern.” British Association for Victorian Studies Conference (September 2005).
  • “Lily Briscoe’s Painting: Absence as Vision in /To the Lighthouse/.” Women’s History Network Conference (September 2005).
  • “Dismantling the Happy Valley: The Masochistic Laborer and the Sublime in /Rasselas/.” GSC Forum at the University of Florida (April 2005).
  • “Retexturing the Novel: Alternative Narrative Strategies in Women’s Multiethnic Literature.” SUNY Stony Brook at Manhattan Conference (February 2004).
  • “A Modernist’s Reality: Six Internal Voices Commune in Virginia Woolf’s /The Waves/.” New York College English Association Conference (October 2003).
  • “The Subversive Imagination and Illiteracy of Dickens’s Female Protagonists.” British Association for Victorian Studies Conference (September 2003).
  • “Cubist Painting, Cubist Writing: Unpackaging Unseen Realities.” Saint Louis University International Conference (June 2003).
  • “Phenomenology, the Imagination, and the Gendered Sentence: A Critical Analysis of Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Poetics.” Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM) (March 2003).

Kyeong Hwangbo

  • “Toward Subject Relations Theory: The Narrative (Re)construction of the Subaltern Self in Psychoanalytic and Multicultural Dialogues.” Narrative: An International Conference (Spring 2002).
  • “Writing Back and Confronting ‘the Uncanny’ of the M/Other’s Trauma: Jean Rhys’s Narrative Recovery of the Colonized Female Self in Wide Sargasso Sea.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference (Spring 2002).
  • “The Unclaimed History of the Holocaust: Trauma and Emotion in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Enemies, A Love Story.” Annual Conference on Psychoanalysis and Social Change (Fall 2002).
  • “Trauma and Narrative: The Broken Narrative of the Self in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” The 18th International Conference on Literature and Psychology (Spring 2001).
  • “Reconfiguring Trauma and Memory: Women Survivors and the Ethics of Testimony in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Women.” The National American Women Writers of Color Conference (Fall 2001).

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Yun Jo

  • Invited screening and talk on her film “Family Project: House of a Father.” University of Minnesota Consortium for the Study of the Asias (March 2008).

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Bharati Kasibhatla

  • “Citizens, Domestics, and Terrorists: Resistant Cartographies in Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing.” Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) (August 2007).
  • “Erasures in the Production of the Nation State: A Reading of Mahasweta Devi’s ‘Douloti the Bountiful’.” The 4th International Conference of the United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (USACLALS) (October 2006).
  • “Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh: Politics of Migrancy and the portrayal of Feminist Struggles in Bombay.” The Fifth Annual South Asian Literary Association Conference: “Transnationalism and its Discontents” (December 2004).
  • “S. P. E. W. /spew, or, Hermione Spews a Badge.” Nimbus 2003: A Harry Potter Symposium (July 2003).

Cari Keebaugh

  • “The Cask of Amontilla-D’Oh! and Other Comic Fantasies: Parodies of Poe and the Use of the Gothic in Youth Culture” The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (March 2008).
  • “Ogres are Like Onions: Performatives, Multi-Layered Messages, and the Captive Audience of Children’s Films.” The UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (Fall 2006).
  • “Searching for Meaning from Dragons: Bettelheim’s Beauty and the Beast in Patricia C. Wrede’s Searching for Dragons.” Fantastic Genres II: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Children’s Literatures (October 2006).
  • “From Page to Paragraph: Adaptations of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” The 4th Annual UF Comics Conference (February 2006).
  • “Slinker and Stinker: The Latent Psychological Effects of Gollum/Smeagol from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.” The 27th Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association Conference (February 2006).
  • “The Many Sides of Hank: Modifications, Adjustments, and Adaptations of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” The New Voices Conference (October 2005).

Carolyn A. Kelley

  • “Feminisms and Jouissance: Missed and Mixed Messages in Jane Campion’s Holy Smoke.” Feminism(s) and Film Symposium (April 2007).
  • “Aubrey Beardsley and the (Funny) Femme Fatale.” Fin De Siècle Seminar Series, sponsored by the Faculty of English Language and Literature, The University of Oxford (June 2007).
  • “The Poetry of the Poisoned Mushroom: Ginsberg, Corso, Waldman and the Atomic Bomb.” The Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Annual Conference (February 2006).

Traci Klass

  • “‘Writing’ England’s Wrongs: Grace Aguilar and the Re-Education of a Mis-Educated People.” 35th Annual Association for Jewish Studies Conference (December 2003).

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Ellen Joy Letostak

  • “Sexual Shakespeare: The ‘Boob Tube’ Remediated.” Shakespeare Association of America Conference (March 2008).
  • “Tracking Shakespeare with TiVo®.” Shakespeare Association of America (April 2006).
  • “‘To be, or not to be’: Barrymore, Carradine, and the Dialectical Complexity of the Shakespearean Actor.” Southwest Texas Conference of The Popular Culture Association and The American Culture Association (February 2005).

Jung-Hwa Lee

  • “‘I Would Tell a Familiar Story’: Narrating Home in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker.” The 34th Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Conference (February 2006).

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Rochelle Mabry

  • “‘Like a Woman… Like a Little Girl’: The Meg Ryan Comedies as New ‘New Romance.’” Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Spring 2003).
  • “‘What the Kitchen Maid Sees Through the Keyhole’: A Walk through The Philadelphia Story.” Conference of The Popular Culture Association in the South and American Culture Association in the South (Fall 2001).

Jaimy Mann

  • “‘Some Make-Believe Must Be Where Women Strive’: Michael Field’s Trilogy of Plays The World at Auction, Race of Leaves, and Julia Domna.” North American Victorian Studies Association (October 2005).
  • “Performing Art and Audience: Fine Artist Takashi Murakami’s First Children’s Picture Book KebaKeba.” Children’s Literature Association Conference (June 2005).
  • “‘Pornography’ and ‘Cuteness’ as Post War Trauma in Contemporary Japanese Culture: Fine Artist Takashi Murakami’s First Children’s Picture Book KebaKeba.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).

Velina Manolova

  • “Beyond the Homosocial: Transnational Sexuality in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlemand Banjo.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference (April 2008).

Cathlena Martin

  • “Integrated Media: Race and Gender in Children’s Video Games.” South Central Modern Language Association Conference (SCMLA) (Fall 2007).
  • “Culture of Comics: The Sol and Penny Davidson Big Little Books Special Collection at the University of Florida.” PCA/ACA National Conference (April 2006).
  • “Goose: The Creation of a Picture Book through Comics Influence.” The University of Florida Comics Conference (October 2004).
  • “Digitized Borders of Neverland: Video Games Revisions and Boundary Crossings of Peter Pan.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).
  • “Hollywood’s Glam: Celebrity-Authored Children’s Literature.” The President’s Inaugural Research Symposium at the University of Florida (September 2004).
  • “Pamela’s Virtue: Education and Influence in Richardson’s Pamela Novels.’” UF Graduate and Professional Student Forum (Spring 2003).
  • “Postmodern Piglets: A Look at Marginalization in The Three Little Pigs.” The Fifth Biennial Conference on Modern Critical Approaches to Children’s Literature (Spring 2003).

Melissa Mellon

  • “The Probable, the Possible, and a Mission Impossible: Reader Expectation and Narrative Elasticity in Hope Leslie.” The Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, 1750–1850 (March 2006).
  • “Creating Consciousness: Studying Narratives of American Captivity in an Age of Terror” at “Theory, Activism, Creativity: Navigating Textual Politics.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2005).
  • “Establishing Aesthetic (Im)Possibility: Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Maternity, and the “Ideological Slavery.” of the Nineteenth-Century Cult of Domesticity.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).
  • “The Fictional ‘Dark Woman’: Religion and Ethnicity in the Reproduction of English and American ‘Nation’.” Creating Identity and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1492–1888” (September 2004).

Brian Meredith

  • “On Plaid Panels and Sequential Brogue: Grant Morrison and Eddie Campbell.” The University of Florida Comics Conference (October 2004).

Charles H. Meyer

  • “Sad Sack and Sad Jack: The Crises of Americanism.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (Spring 2003).

Josh Miller

  • “The Paradox of Dostoevsky’s Positively Good Idiot.” The 2005 Conference of the Florida College English Association (November 2005).

Kadesh Minter

  • “The ‘Jewess’ is an English Protestant?: Intersections of Female and Jewish Identity in Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington.” The Midwestern Modern Language Association (November 2004).
  • “Frances Burney and Her Eighteenth-Century Reviewers.” The Burney Society Conference in Los Angeles (October 2004).

Sean Morey

  • “Technical Writing and the MOO: Possibilities for ‘Writing’ Communities.” Fifty-Seventh Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (March 2006).
  • “Ecosee: Toward a Visual Rhetoric and Composition of Nature.” Fifty-Seventh Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (March 2006).

Paromita Mukherjee

  • “‘Immortal Longings’: Transitional Identities in the Uncanny Stories of Elizabeth Bowen.” College English Association’s 39th Annual Conference (March 2008).
  • “Fairy Tale for Grown-ups: A Tool for Social and Political Inquiry.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).

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Robin Nicks

  • “‘Us Against the World’: The Pimp as Hero in American Popular Culture.” Annual Conference of the Western Social Science Association (Spring 2003).

Angelique V. Nixon

  • “‘We have something to teach the world’: Erna Brodber’s Blackspace, Building Community, and Educo-tourism.” The 11th Conference of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars May (2008).
  • “Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Transversality,’ and the Production of History: Subterranean Convergence in The Arrivants.” The Caribbean Literary Symposium (April 2005).

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Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar

  • “Haram in the Harem: Narratives of Muslim Domesticity in India, Algeria, and Pakistan.” An invited talk for North Carolina State University’s English Department (Fall 2007).
  • “Low Stakes Writing and Speaking: Using Everyday Tasks to Boost Student Abilities.” On the Road to Sustainable Excellence: Communicating Across the Curriculum (2005).

Jeffry Allen Rice

  • “From Collaborative to Collective Writing: Producing Knowledge through Web 2.0 Technical Writing Environments.” Received the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference’s James F. Lufkin Award for Best Conference Paper (July 2008).
  • “Discursively Produced Realites or, How Rational-Critical Discourse was Formed.” The 2006 “Rethinking Marxism” Conference (October 2006).
  • “Grounding Agency in/through/for a Revolutionary Pedagogy.” Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago (March 2006).
  • “The Political Signifier: Truth, Lies, and Ideological Discourse.” Annual Convention of The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (November 2005).
  • “Bird in the Bush: Kerouac, Aesthetic Representation and Jazz History.” Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (Spring 2005).
  • “To Be Seen, Not Heard: The Impossibility of Historical Representation Amidst Ideological Fantasy in Ken Burns’ Jazz.” Beyond the Frame: Transcending Borders in Cinema Conference (October 2004).

John Ronan

  • “The Caricatural Comic Strip: Progress and Effects.” The University of Florida Comics Conference (October 2004).

James Royal

  • “The Ideology of Control in Watchmen.” The University of Florida Comics Conference(October 2004).

Craig Rinne

  • “The Cinematic Sketch Aesthetic: Bazin, Rivette, Rossellini.” Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (Spring 2003).
  • “Wielding the Six-Gun of Diversity, Hollywood Rides to the Nation’s Rescue: The American Film Western, 1989–1995.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (Spring 2003).

Amy Robinson

  • “Who Needs Prince Charming, Anyway?: A Different Kind of Happily-Ever-After in Johnson’s The Fountains: A Fairy Tale.” The North East Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS) Conference (Fall 2005).
  • “Traveling Beyond the Pale in Sydney Owenson’s The Wild Irish Girl.” The 11th Annual International Conference on Romanticism (ICR) (October 2004).

Reagan Ross

  • “The Beautiful and the Psychotic: Dissecting the American Image in American Beautyand American Psycho.” Rethinking Marxism Conference (November 2003).
  • “A Postmodern (Popular) Aesthetic: The Didactic and the Political and Bulworth.” Society for Cinema Studies Conference (Spring 2002).

Michael Rowley

  • “The Class Border and Complicating State Form: Several Implications of Border Studies for Revolutionary Space Theory.” Rethinking Marxism Conference (November 2003).

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Philip Sandifer

  • “Player ε (episilon): Performing the Medial Object.” Video Games and The Alien / Other (April 2005).

Sarah Schiff

  • “Sanctifying Touch: Grace as Physical Contact in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction.” Revelations: Flannery O’Connor, the Visionary and the Vernacular (Fall 2003).
  • “A Crisis in Faith: Immortality in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (Spring 2003).

Horacio Sierra

  • “Queer Virgins Celebrating Catholicism’s Opportunities in Measure for Measure.” The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting (Spring 2008).
  • “Queering Poe’s ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’: Codes and Closets in Antebellum America.” The 18th Annual Stony Brook University Graduate Student Conference (February 2006).
  • “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Modernism, Southern Progressivism, and The Saturday Evening Post.” The Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Popular Culture Association in the South Conference (October 2005).
  • “Out of the Closet in Early Modern England: Margaret Cavendish’s Gender Politics and Lesbian Explorations.” The 14th Annual Medieval, Renaissance, & Baroque  Interdisciplinary Symposium (February 2005).
  • “Depictions of Spain, Spaniards, & the Spanish New World: Religious and Ethnic Othering, Xenophobia, and the Black Legend in British & American Children’s Literature.” The 14th Annual British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference (February 2005).

Matt Snyder

  • “Who Dares (to Embellish) Wins (the Book Contract): Examining Bravo Two Zero and The One That Got Away in Light of Societal Expectations of the Returning Soldier’s Tale.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (Fall 2006).

Carol Steen

  • “Pedagogy of Sense: Choragraphy as Affective Reasoning.” The Fifty-Seventh Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (March 2006).

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Catherine Tosenberger

  • “Depraved Desires: V.C. Andrews and the Adolescent Incest Plot.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).

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Zach Whalen

  • “An Archaeology of the Videogame Image.” The Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference (March 2008).
  • “Bodies and/as/of Evidence: CSI: Dark Motives and Uncanny Doubles.” The Popular Culture Association in the South and the American Popular Culture Association in the South Conference (October 2005).
  • “ Reading as Cryptography: The Role of Encoding and Decoding in Digital Print Culture” Elective Affinities IAWIS/AIERTI 7th International Conference on Word & Image Studies (September 2005).
  • “Playing with the Past: Structural Pastiche and Visual Nostalgia in XIII and Viewtiful Joe.” The University of Florida Comics Conference (October 2004).
  • “The Silence of the Hills: Video Game Music, Diegesis, and the Poetics of Empty Space.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).
  • “Survival Horror Stories: Musical/Aural/Psychological Landscapes.” Narr@tive: Digital Storytelling (April 2004).
  • “House of Leaves and Digital Ontology.” The 14th Annual KSU Cultural Studies Conference: Visual Culture: Image, Icon, and Ideology (March 2004).
  • “Play Me a Story: Music and Narrative in Video Games.” UF Graduate and Professional Student Forum (Spring 2003).

Roger Whitson

  • “William Blake: Dead Man.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism’s Conference: Deviance and Defiance (August 2005).
  • “Affecting the Divine Body: Biopolitics Between Blake and Spinoza.” The University of Florida Marxist Reading Group Conference (March 2005).
  • “Fearful Visibility: Symmetry, Prophecy and Citation in Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ and Moore’s Watchmen.” The University of Florida Comics Conference (October 2004).
  • “Allegory Beyond Measure: Vegitative Materialism in William Blake’s ‘A Vision of the Last Judgement.’” Rethinking Marxism Conference (November 2003).

Andrea Wood

  • “Radicalizing Romance: Women, Girls, and the Queer Erotics of Boy-Love Manga.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (October 2004).
  • “‘Straight’ Women, Queer Texts: Boy-Love Manga and the Threat of Desiring Differently.” Tufts University Conference: Conjuring Difference (October 2004).
  • “The Ambivalent Desire for Essence: Gender Mythologies, Unstable Bodies, and Feminist Crises in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve.” UF-EGO Interdisciplinary Conference (Spring 2003).