2011-2012 | 2010-2011 | 2009-2010 | 2008-2009 | 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005
The Graduate Colloquium offers graduate students an opportunity to discuss a work-in-progress with faculty and graduate students from different disciplines. By long-standing practice, colloquium presenters provide a draft of their current research, which is made available to members of the Glasscock Center listserv. Each colloquium begins with the presenter’s short (10-15 minute) exposition of the project, after which the floor is open for comments and queries. The format is by design informal, conversational, and interdisciplinary.
Academic Year 2011-2012
Spring 2012
Wednesday, 1 February 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Stephanie Wheeler | Department of English
“Gagability: What Can Lady Gaga Teach Us About Disability Studies?”
Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Laura Leigh Morris | Department of English
“Moving Toward Novelistic Discourse: Robert Greene’s Pandosto as Forward-looking Narrative”
Wednesday, 7 March 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Anastasia Pankau | Department of Anthropology
“Cohesion and Conflict: A Study”
Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Paul Strietelmeier | Department of History
“Explaining the Horror of the Revolutionary Moment: The Spring Riots of 1791 in Western France and the Patterns of Violence in France, 1500-1800”
Fall 2011
21 September 2011
Alma Villanueva | English
“Toward a Polycultural Feminist Discourse: Queering Transnational Blackness and Muslimness”
5 October 2011
Ji Nang Kim | English
“Testifying Female Bodies: Trauma, Narrative, and Historical Haunting in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman (1997)”
2 November 2011
Ana C. George | Hispanic Studies
“The Construction of National Identity in Rosa María Britton's The Common Casket”
16 November 2011
T.J. Kasperbauer | Philosophy
“Leibniz's Use of Teleology and Distinct Ideas in Scientific Classification”
Spring 2012
1 February 2012
Stephanie Wheeler | Department of English
“Gagability: What Can Lady Gaga Teach Us About Disability Studies?”
22 February 2012
Laura Leigh Morris | Department of English
“Moving Toward Novelistic Discourse: Robert Greene’s Pandosto as Forward-looking Narrative”
7 March 2012
Anastasia Pankau | Department of Anthropology
“Cohesion and Conflict: A Study”
28 March 2012
Paul Strietelmeier | Department of History
“Explaining the Horror of the Revolutionary Moment: The Spring Riots of 1791 in Western France and the Patterns of Violence in France, 1500-1800”
Academic Year 2010-2011
Spring 2011
27 January 2011
Anton Kabeshkin | Philosophy
"Self-knowledge of Our Own Actions"
10 March 2011
Laura Perrings | English
"Vulgar or Virtuous? The Female Amateur Detective/Angel of the Household in Sensation Novels"
31 March 2011
Vahid Vahdat Zad | Architecture
“The Perception of Modernity – A Study on the Description of Western Architecture and Urbanism in Persian Travelogues of the 19th Century”
14 April 2011
Chad Scott | Sociology
“Marital Name Change from the Perspective of Newly Married Same-Sex Couples”
Fall 2010
16 September 2010
Ross Colebrook | Philosophy
"Moral Societies Are Sometimes "Icky": A Social Intuitionist Framework for Pluralism"
7 October 2010
Marcos Julian Del Hierro | English
"808s and Queer: Hip-Hop, The Down-Low, and Kanye West’s Dandy-Aesthetic"
21 October 2010
J. Kelton Williams | Teaching, Learning, and Culture
"Creating Social Citizens: Influences on Citizenship Education in Progressive Educational Thought"
4 November 2010
Elizabeth Talafuse | English
"'Are you a good witch or a bad witch?': The Development and Framing of the Literary Teen Witch"
Academic Year 2009-2010
Spring 2010
25 February 2010
Matthew Davis | English
"The Play's the Thing: Cultural Influence, Propaganda, and the Digby Mary Magdalene"
11 March 2010
Kyle Mox | English
"Modernist Melancholia and the Salome Fairy Tale in Strindberg, Wilde, and Ibsen"
25 March 2010
Jessica Ray Herzogenrath | History
"Authenticity and Ethnicity: Folk Dance, Americanization, and the Immigrant Body in the early Twentieth Century"
22 April 2010
Richa Dhanju | Anthropology
"Partnering for the poor? Mission Convergence as an urban poverty management strategy in Delhi."
Fall 2009
3 September 2009
Paul Lee | History
“Lewis and Clark through Jefferson's Eyes”
17 September 2009
Anne-Marie Womack | English
“‘No Man’s Land’”: Cross-Gender Identification in Veterans’ Narratives of the Vietnam War"
1 October 2009
Anthony Pepitone | Philosophy
”Conceptions of the Highest Good: From Rational Theology to Radical Theology"
15 October 2009
Blake Whitaker | History
“Creating a Mythical Nation: Pioneer Literature and the Myth of Rhodesian Exceptionalism"
29 October 2009
Michael J. Beilfuss | English
"'Use it well': Progress, Reciprocal Ownership, and the Environment in Go Down, Moses”
12 November 2009
Joon Hyung Park | English
"From Transcendental Subjective Vision to Political Idealism: The Panorama in Nineteenth-Century American Literature”
Academic Year 2008-2009
Spring 2009
27 January 2009
Brian Russell Franklin | History
"Religion and Empire: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the American Revolution"
24 February 2009
Robert F. Carley | Sociology
"Culture and Need: A Theoretical Exploration of the Structure and Agency Debate under the Auspices of the Sociology of Power, the International New Left, and Western Marxism"
24 March 2009
Kimberly Cox | English
"Unconventional Homemaking: Recycling and Consuming the Things of Home"
14 April 2009
Sonya Sawyer Fritz | English
"'One Always Comes to a Wood': Figuring the Visual Spaces of the Garden and Beyond in Victorian Children's Literature"
24 April 2009
Brian Franklin | History
"Religion and Empire: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the American Revolution"
Academic Year 2007-2008
Spring 2008
31 January 2008
Michael Doron | History
"The End of the Disinterested Profession: The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Union Corruption Scandals of the 1950s"
6 March 2008
Jesse L. Rester | English
"Political Skin: Reading the Maria/Hel Complex in Fritz Lang's Metropolis"
27 March 2008
Jared Peatman | History
"Gettysburg Remembers the Address, 1913"
24 April 2008
Gina Opdycke | English
"'A Share in the Execution': Text and Image in Romantic Period Graphic Satire"
Fall 2007
11 September 2007
Nicole McDaniel | English
"'The Remnant is the Whole': Collage, Serial Self-Representation, and Recovering Fragments in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée
20 September 2007
Zach Schaefer | Communication
"A Discursive Analysis of Dirty Work: Performing Humorous Scripts"
25 October 2007
Víctor E. Agosto Roldán | Hispanic Studies
"E-Poetry: Beyond the Paper and the Pen"
15 November 2007
Leslie Gautreaux Edwards | English
"D.H. Lawrence and Masculine Domesticity"
Academic Year 2006-2007
Spring 2007
25 January 2007
Anja Schwalen | Comparative Literature
"Mysticism, Reformation Thought and Female Subjectivity in Marguerite de Navarre and Aemilia Lanyer"
15 February 2007
Christopher Garrett | English
"Divine Breathings: Meditational Prose in Seventeenth-Century England"
8 March 2007
Tracey Hayes | History
"Strangers Amongst Us: German, Jewish and Polish Relations During German Occupation, 1915-1918"
12 April 2007
Christopher Sparks | Anthropology
“Wrestling with Ssireum: Korean Traditional Sport Versus Globalization"
Fall 2006
13 September 2006
Emily Hoeflinger | English
"Holy Space: Salvationist Female Open-Air Preachers as Feminist Prototype"
6 October 2006
Naho Maruyama | Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences
"Chinese American in China: Ethnicity and Belonging"
27 October 2006
Diane Rolnick | Hispanic Studies
"The Mode of Self-Expression in Dreaming in Cuban and Almost a Woman"
9 November 2006
Masha Shukovic | Communication
"Hysterectomies and Gender Identity Among Serbian Women"
Academic Year 2005-2006
Spring 2006
9 February 2006
Miranda Green-Barteet | English
"The Women, the Orangutan, and Dupin: Gender, Race and Reason in Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
23 March 2006
David Wiens | Philosophy
"Liberty and Capability"
13 April 2006
Roger Reeves | English
"Dual Citizenship: African-American Subjectivity in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust"
Fall 2005
15 September 2005
J. Michael Jones | Philosophy
"Science and Religion: An Historical Field Guide"
13 October 2005
Carol Simmons | History
"School Desegregation in Bryan, Texas"
17 November 2005
Chris Sparks | Anthropology
"Inside, Outisde, Upside-Down: Understanding Social Networks in Context"
1 December 2005
Sarah Peters | English
"'Submitting to Another Way to Talk': Fantastical and Metaphorical Rape in Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples"
Academic Year 2004-2005
Spring 2005
2 February 2005
Sonya Sawyer | English
“Not Any Man but a Gentleman: Maria Edgeworth's Constructions of English/Irish Masculinity and Cultural Identity in Ennui"
3 March 2005
Pearce Creasman | Anthropology
"Forest Management Practices in Early America: 1500-1820"
21 March 2005
Jungsik Park | English
"The Formation and Re-Emergence of the 'Conversation' Format in the Novels of Daniel Defoe and the later 'New Journalists'"
21 April 2005
Helga Kocurek | Philosophy
"The World is Messy"
Fall 2004
15 September 2004
Kevin C. Motl | History
"The Politics of John Barleycorn: Businessmen and Brewers in Progressive-Era Texas"
21 October 2004
Ilan Mitchell-Smith | English
"Between Mars and Venus: Gender as Balance in Later Medieval English Romances”
5 November 2004
Upali Nanda | Architecture
"Sensthetics: From Disconnect to Dialogue in Design"