Word Association Talks

The Word Association Talks are a series of informal, lunch-time presentations of current research and creative endeavor by faculty or students from the English and Writing Studies departments.

The talks are presentations destined for conferences, or pieces of articles in process, or recent work already presented or published but unknown to most colleagues.

Please feel free to bring your lunch.

All talks are scheduled to begin at noon.

Fall 2015 Schedule

When	Presenter	Topic	Where
Thursday, October 15, noon	Chongwon Park and Dan Turner	“A Hell of a Day: English Binominal Constructions”	Kirby Studemt Cemter 333
Wednesday, November 4, noon	Josh Bernstein	"The Wounded Ghouls Project"	Kirby Student Center 268

Fall 2014 Schedule

When	Presenter	Topic	Where
Wed., October 8	Chongwon Park and Dan Turner	“When Richard met CG redux: English Copy Raising”	KPlz 302
Wed., November 12	John Schwetman	"The Dystopian Present: Recolonizing America in Paolo Bacigalupi’s Shipbreaker and The Drowned Cities"	KPlz 302
Wed., December 3	Rob Wittig	"An Evolution in Electronic Literature"	KPlz 302

Fall 2013/Spring 2014 Schedule

When	Presenter	Topic	Where
Thursday, Dec 12	Chongwon Park and Dan Turner	“When Richard met CG: English Copy-Raising Constructions”	KPlz 302
Wednesday, February 5	Burke Scarborough	“What Is Summer (Really) For?: Examining Youth Summer Learning and Development Beyond the 'Summer Slide,'"	LSBE 265
Tuesday, March 11	Krista Twu	"Translating Boethius: Literary and Critical Issues"	KPlz 302
Wednesday, April 16	Kathryn Van Wert	"J. M. Coetzee on the Dangers of Skepticism"	KPlz 302

Spring 2013 Schedule

When	Presenter	Topic	Where
Thursday, February 7	Eun Joo Kim	"Layered Screens and Texts: Representations of the Korean Language in Contemporary American Film and Television"	KPlz 302
Wednesday, February 20	Simon Kress	"'Butcher, Publican, Baker, Bard': The Problem of Poetic Labor in Postwar Britain"	Humanities 490
Thursday, March 28	Chongwon Park and Dan Turner	"Merge and Move: Their Formalization and Parameterization"	KPlz 302
Thursday, April 25	Merry Rendahl	"Writing Empathy into Advanced Writing for Engineering: Hersey, the Yangtze, and Empathic Design"	KPlz 302

Fall 2012 Schedule

When	Presenter	Topic	Where
Wednesday, September 26	Rachel Wolford	"Understanding Rhetorical Agency's Shifting Forms by Talking with Women Farmland Owners"	KPlz 302
Monday, October 29	Paul Cannan	The Passionate Pilgrim, Edmond Malone, and the Making of Shakespeare's Poetic Canon	KPlz 302
Wednesday, November 28	Lisa Horton	“Recombinant Metaphors: Uses of Language and Medieval Interdisciplinarity in Pearl,"	KPlz 302

Spring 2012 Schedule

When	Presenter	Topic	Where
Wednesday, February 22 at noon	Marty Bock	"Conrad's Framing of Disease"	KPlz 302
Thursday, March 22 at noon	Will Salmon	“Who Said That? And the General Problem of How to Handle Your Obiter Dicta"	KPlz 302
Thursday, April26 at noon	Krista Twu	“Profession and Vocation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales"	KPlz 302

Fall 2011 Schedule

When	Presenter	Topic	Where
Tuesday, Oct 4 at noon	John Schwetman	Zombies and apocalyptic film and literature	KPlz 302
Tuesday, Nov.1 at noon	Chongwon Park and Nabil Cheikh	Jabberwocky: let us learn parts of speech!	KPlz 302
Wednesday, Dec. 7 at noon	David Beard	Utopian Memories: On the Rhetoric of Steampunk	KPlz 302

Spring 2011 Schedule

When	Presenter	Topic	Where
Thursday 1/27	Marty Sozansky		KPlz 302
Tuesday 3/8	Chris Julin and Catherine Winter		KPlz 302
Tuesday 4/19	Rochelle Zuck		KPlz 302

Fall 2009/Spring 2010 Schedule

When	Presenter	Topic	Where
Thursday, 11/19/09	Chongwon Park	Obligatory Adjuncts in English Middle Constructions	KPlz 302
Wednesday 2/3/10	Avesa Rockwell	Writing Centers as Models	KPlz 302
Monday 3/8/10	John Hatcher	Rethinking Anonymous Comments on News Web Sites	KPlz 302
Wednesday 4/28/10	Kate Basham	poetry	KPlz 302

Fall 2008/Spring 2009 Schedule

When	Presenter	Topic	Where
Monday 10/27/08 noon	Evan Brier	"Stories of the Novel's Demise in the 1980s: The Case of Less Than Zero"	Kirby Student Center 311
Thursday 12/4/08 noon	David Beard	Ethics of the Ear: Listening as a Technology of the Self	Kirby Student Center 311
Tues 1/27/09 noon	Hilary Kowino	The Place of Origins, Roots, and Sources in African Literature	Kirby Student Center 311
Mon 3/2/09 noon	Susan Perala Dewey	The Lake Superior Writing Project: Supporting the Teaching of Writing from Pre-K to PhDs,"	Kirby Plaza 302
Tues 4/21/09 noon	Juli Parrish	“How to Read Fan Fiction (and Still Respect Yourself in the Morning)"	Kirby Plaza 302