At 3:30 on 10/23, Daphne Brooks will present a talk entitled “Bring the Pain: Post-Soul Memory, Neo-Soul Affect and Lauryn Hill in the Black Public Sphere” as part of the 2009-2010 DeRoy Lecture Series. Brooks is an associate professor of English and African-American Studies at Princeton University where she teaches courses on African-American literature and culture, performance studies, critical gender studies, and popular music culture. She is the author of two books: Bodies in Dissent: Performing Race, Gender, and Nation in the Trans-Atlantic Imaginary (Duke UP, 2006), winner of the Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African-American Performance from ASTR, and Jeff Buckley’s Grace (New York: Continuum, 2005). She is the editor of The Great Escapes: The Narratives of William Wells Brown, Henry Box Brown, and William Craft, and The Performing Arts volume of The Black Experience in the Western Hemisphere Series. Brooks is currently also a contributing writer to The Nation where she has published articles on Beyonce and Amy Winehouse. She is currently working on a new book entitled Subterranean Blues: Black Feminist Musicial Subcultures from the Minstrelsy to the Post-Hip Hop Era (Harvard UP, forthcoming).
Professors Ellen Barton and Richard Marback will deliver a talk entitled “The Bodies of the Urban Public” as part of the Humanities Center Fall Symposium on “Representation of Health and Disease in the City” Friday, November 6. The conference runs from 9 AM until 5 PM at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center. Professors Barton and Marback’s presentation is scheduled from 1:55 until 2:20.
Two of the program’s graduate students will present talks at the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (November 5-8, 2009). As part of the panel “Decoding Use: Broken and Failed, Localized and Expansive,” Jared Grogan will deliver a talk entitled “Garbage, Gospel, and Gold: Decoding User Inputs in Climate Modeling” and Kimberly Lacey will deliver a talk entitled “Decoding Kryptos and the Failure of Human/Machine Interaction.”
As part of the DeRoy Lecture Series, Charles Altieri will give a talk entitled “Why Modernist Claims for Autonomy Matter” on Friday, April 10, at 3 PM, in the English Department Seminar Room (10302, 5057 Woodward). Charles Altieri teaches in the English Department of the University of California, Berkeley. This privilege has allowed him to write several book, the most recent of which are The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetic of the Affects (Cornell UP, 2004) and The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After (Blackwell, 2006). He is working on a book on Wallace Stevens and a sequel to The Particulars.
Several members of the WSU Rhetoric/Composition program will be presenting talks at the 2009 Computers & Writing Conference (June 18-21, Davis, CA):
On July 18, PhD Candidate Jill Morris will present a talk entitled “Jack Black and Mos Def Meet…My Classroom” as part of the panel Visual Rhetorics, Digital Videos, and Composition Pedagogies.
On July 19, the panel Archives and “Digital Antiquity” will feature multiple Wayniacs: PhD candidate Kim Lacey (Viva Whenever: Suspended and Expanded Bodies in Time”); Professor Jeff Pruchnic (”Blue Clouds, Green Futures”); and PhD Candidate Mike McGinnis (”ASCII to ASCII, DOS to DOS: Notes Toward a Digital Antiquity”).
On July 20, PhD candidate Mary Karcher will present a talk entitled “Hansel and Gretel in Cyberspace: Following Breadcrumbs in a Forest of Hypertext” as part of the panel Audiences and Surveillance: Who is Watching? Who is Reading?
Mike Ristich will represent the program at the 2009 meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (March 26-29 at Harvard), delivering a talk entitled “The Limitations of the ‘New International’” on March 28. Mike will be joined by fellow Wayniacs Professor Barrett Watten (”Sampling ‘Fachsprachen’: Ulf Stolterfoht’s ‘Lingos’ as Region of Practice” on March 28), Victor Figueroa (”Deconstructing Trujillo: Junot Diaz’s Delimma in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” on March 28), and Kristine Danielson (Charles Reznikoff’s Holocaust: The Form of Memory and the Phenomenology of Violence” on March 28).
PhD candidate Hilary Ward will represent the WSU rhet/comp program at the 2009 Conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. She will present a talk on March 11 as part of the panel “Codes, Links, Extensions & the Politics of Information Management.”
As part of the DeRoy Lecture Series, Eugene Thacker will give a talk entitled “After Life” on Friday, March 6, at 3 PM, in the English Department Seminar Room (10302, 5057 Woodward). Eugene Thacker is the author of Biomedia (University of Minnesota, 2004), The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture (MIT, 2005) and co-author with Alexander Galloway of The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (University of Minnesota, 2007). He co-edits the book series “Anonymous Theory,” and has previously collaborated with RSG (Radical Software Group), Biotech Hobbyist, and Fakeshop. Thacker is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, & Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
