2023 Conference Program

2023 Conference Schedule

Schedule At-A-Glance

Main events will take place at the OSU Wes Watkins Center (see map)

Friday, April 28	Description	Location
5:30 PM	Registration Table Open + Light Refreshments	1st floor Registration Area
6:00 PM	Opening Remarks	Auditorium
6:15 PM	Plenary Speaker - Jack Halberstam	Auditorium
7:45 PM	Closing and Grad Student Social	The Garage

Saturday, April 29	Description	Location
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Registration Table Open	1st floor Registration Area
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Breakfast	1st floor Registration Area
8:30 AM - 9:55 AM	Concurrent Panels and Presentations	Auditorium/101/108/109/209
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM	Morning Break - Coffee	1st floor Registration Area
10:30 AM - 11:55 PM	Concurrent Panels and Presentations	Auditorium/101/108/109/209
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Lunch Break	1st floor Registration Area
1:00 PM - 2:25 PM	Concurrent Panels and Presentations	Auditorium/101/108/109/209
2:30 PM - 2:55 PM	Afternoon Break - Coffee	1st floor Registration Area
3:00 PM - 4:25 PM	Concurrent Panels and Presentations	Auditorium/101/108/109/209
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM	Awards/Recognition Ceremony & Closing Remarks	Auditorium

Plenary

Jack

Halberstam

Evening of

Friday, April 28

Refreshments start at 5:30PM

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Saturday Panels Location: Auditorium

Panel 1	Title: ChatGPT & Artificial Intelligence: Its Momentum & Potential Impacts on the Humanities	View Bios and Abstract
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM	Moderator: Shishir Budha, Oklahoma State University
	Panelists: Rosemary Avance, Heather Steward, Richard Sylvestre
Panel 2	Title: The City and its Cancer: Critical Inquiries into Transportation Inequity, Neoliberal Design, and Community-oriented Solutions	View Bios and Abstract
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Moderator: Jackson Seeberg
	Panelists: Daniel Andrade Amaral, Kevin Kourakos, Robert Redmon
Panel 3	Title: Relations between Early Pirates and Non-Europeans	View Bios and Abstract
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Moderator: Richard Frohock
	Panelists: Victoria Warren, Jodi Tarbet, Jackson Dillingham, Katie Ditchkus, Katie Leigh
Panel 4	Title: Generative Pedagogies in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies: Teaching during times of trouble	View Bios and Abstract
2:15PM - 3:15 PM	Moderator: Corinne Schwarz
	Panelists: Reanae McNeal, Kathy Essmiller, Jessica Turcat, Megan Ruby
Panel 5	Title: Mending and Breaking the Self: The Ethics of Writing Real	View Bios and Abstract
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	Moderator: Sarah Beth Childers
	Panelists: Mark Difruscio, Sophie Ezzell, Kaila Lancaster

Session 1 - Presentations

Time: 8:30AM - 8:55AM

Location	Title: Uptake of Suggestions in Online Synchronous Writing Center Sessions	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Olga Muranova & Svetlana Koltovskaia
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics
Location	Title: Queer Rendezvous: The evolution of "queer" in and out of Rhetoric and Composition	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Richard Sylvestre
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: The Limits of Reconciliation in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Autumn Finley
	Strands: Literature
Location	Title: The Repair of Ruses: Depression, Individualism, and the Biopolitics of Postcritique	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Daniel Andrade Amaral
	Strands: Interdisciplinary Studies, Literature

Time: 9:00AM - 9:25AM

Location	Title: Technology-mediated corrective feedback in teaching L2 writing skills	View Bio and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Tara Shankar Sinha
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics
Location	Title: Theorizing Composition as a Social Ecology: Enhancing the Visibilities and Viabilities of Second Language Acquisition Students in a Writing Center	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Tristan Graney
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics; Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: Katherine Parr: A Complicated Legacy that Inspired a Complicated Queen	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Ashlyn Bradford
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Literature
Location	Title: Building Assemblages and Disordering Individuals: Architecture, Nature, and Language as Material Forces in Manhattan Transfer	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Haley Reed
	Strands: Interdisciplinary Studies, Literature

Time: 9:30AM - 9:55AM

Location	Title: Developing Artificial Intelligence to Support Writing for Publication Purposes	View Bios and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Steph Link & Robert Redmon
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics
Location	Title: Mending Home & Academia: A Bilingual, First-Year Composition Instructor Writes a Literacy Narrative	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Nataly Dickson
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: Liminal Ladies	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Claire Litchfield
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Literature
Location	Title: Crossing borders: The potential of cosmopolitan mending	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Don C. Murray
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Interdisciplinary Studies

Morning Break: 10:00AM - 10:25AM

Session 2 - Presentations

Time: 10:30AM - 10:55AM

Location	Title: What's So Funny? An Imagined Conversation with Native Humorists	View Bio and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Aaron Whitestar
	Strands: Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: Expanding Writing Pedagogy with Digital Playlists and Hiphop Rhetorics	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Clarissa McIntire
	Strands: Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: Nuclear Violence in Iep Jāltok	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Farah Taha
	Strands: Literature
Location	Title: Devaluing Authenticity: An Insurrection against Traditional Value Designations	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Sheyuan Wang
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Literature

Time: 11:00AM - 11:25AM

Location	Title: Reservation Dogs and the Mending of Sacred Ties	View Bio and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Russell Webb
	Strands: Screen Studies, Literature
Location	Title: Coalition building in the age of anti-social media: What AOC and Deep Canvassing can teach us about Rhetorical Listening	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Bryan Jones
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Location	Title: Expectations Regarding Happiness in the Assemblies of God Church	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Breanna Beaty
	Strands: Interdisciplinary Studies, Literature
Location	Title: Liberation Through Literacy and Double-Narration: Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Marisa Pesina
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Literature

Time: 11:30AM - 11:55AM

Location	Title: The Native Way: Normalizing Tribal Traditions in Reservation Dogs	View Bio and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Jacob Hicks
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Literature
Location	Title: To Respond or Not to Respond? Microaggressions and Double-Binds	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Heather Stewart
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity
Location	Title: “My Good Gal Sings the Dust Pneumony Blues”: Mending Women and Ecology in The Grapes of Wrath and Whose Names Are Unknown	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Hanna Perry
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Literature
Location	Title: On Staying or Leaving: A Graduate Chorus	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Roseanna Recchia
	Strands: Creative Writing; Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity

Lunch Break: 12:00PM - 1:00PM

Session 3 - Presentations

Time: 1:00PM - 1:25PM

Location	Title: Film as Rehabilitation: Reception Studies and Carceral Institutions	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Tara Jo Lenertz
	Strands: Screen Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies
Location	Title: Health Justice for LGBTQ Black Women	View Bios and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Imani Mwema
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Interdisciplinary Studies
Location	Title: Tornado Poetry	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Stephanie Miller
	Strands: Literature

Location	Title: Reclaiming Black Women’s Health and Healing Journey	View Bios and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenters: Vanessa Oliphant, Marqua Harris, Reanae McNeal
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Interdisciplinary Studies

Time: 1:30PM - 1:55PM

Location	Title: The Chain: Poverty, Abuse, and Wildlife in Oklahoma	View Bio and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Rachele Salvini
	Strands: Creative Writing; Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity
Location	Title: Die Hard: The Kinder and Gentler Hard Body in Transitional Conservatism	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Danny Dobbs
	Strands: Screen Studies
Location	Title: Health Justice for LGBTQ Black Women	View Bio and Abstract
209 - Seminar Room	Presenter: Imani Mwema
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity, Interdisciplinary Studies
Location	Title: Galadriel’s Successor: Female Leadership in Tolkien	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Madelynn Lee
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Literature

Time: 2:00PM - 2:25PM

Location	Title: Lethal Conversations	View Bio and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Aimee Parkison
	Strands: Creative Writing; Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity
Location	Title: Chasing the Rabbit: A closer look at two American Tricksters	View Bio and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Noelle Buffo
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Literature

Afternoon Break: 2:30PM - 2:55PM

Session 4 - Presentations

Time: 3:00PM - 3:25PM

Location	Title: It's What's Left Unsaid: Looking Into Layli Long Soldier's Craft	View Bio and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Allyn Bernkopf
	Strands: Creative Writing, Literature
Location	Title: Wait until I finish laughing: An analysis of an Egyptian meme family	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Tiegan Willoughby
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics

Time: 3:30PM - 3:55PM

Location	Title: Listen to Her Speak: Reawakening Pocahontas and Maxine Hong Kingston’s No Name Woman through Intergenerational Storytelling	View Bio and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Katelen Cowger
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Literature
Location	Title: How Soon is "Too Soon"?: Tragedy-Based Jokes, Psychological Distance, and The Rhetoric of "Too Soon"	View Bio and Abstract
109 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenter: Stephen Haning
	Strands: Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies

Time: 4:00PM - 4:25PM

Location	Title: Leaving the Earth Raped and Scarred: Gendered Environmental Warfare in Vietnam	View Bio and Abstract
108 - Executive Seminar Room	Presenters: Claire Tillis-Miller
	Strands: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Equity; Literature
Location	Title: Contesting Spaces: An analysis of the prepositional phrases ‘v/na Ukraine’ and ‘iz/s Ukraine’ in Russian Twitter discourse	View Bios and Abstract
101 - Legacy Room	Presenter: Fran Junnier & Galina Shleykina
	Strands: Linguistics/TESOL/Applied Linguistics

Closing Ceremony: 4:30PM - 5:30PM

Auditorium

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