From Assistant Professor Amanda Emerson (edited for the blog):


University of South Dakota faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students will be presenting work Saturday at the Women's Research, Scholarship, & Creative Activities Conference, "Choices Women Make." As you can see from the list below, the English Department is well-represented. In addition to presentations by our own, the conference also features scholarship in Political Science, Social Welfare, Media Studies, Psychology, and Cultural Studies. Presenters will be arriving from England, New York, Georgia, and Oklahoma to take part.

Please feel free to join us for the reception, Friday evening, 5:30 to 7:00 at the W.H. Over Museum. There will be food, drink, and live jazz. Plus, the reception is free. For more info on the conference and the schedule: http://www.usd.edu/wmst/Conference.cfm


8:30 - 9:45 Panels

Malene Little, "Short Stories, Long Legacy: The Social Effects of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Short Fiction." Graduate Student, English, University of South Dakota

Brian Twenter, "Elements of Survival in the Writing of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn." Ph.D. Student, English, University of South Dakota



1:00 - 2:15 Panels

Rebecca Flynn, "Isolde's Choice: The Maternal Bond and the Religious Vows of a Medieval Anchoress." Adjunct Faculty, Sioux Falls University/University of South Dakota

Sayaka Kanade, "Suspended Between Sign and Symbol: Feminine Subjectivity in Anne Bradstreet and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz." Graduate Student, English, University of South Dakota

Meg Mordhorst, "Body Image and Gender Roles in Bonnie Jo Campbell's 'The Sudden Development of Debra Dupuis.'" Undergraduate Student, English, University of South Dakota

Carrie Gonsor, "The Growth and Decline of Job's Daughters International." English, Undergraduate Student, University of South Dakota, SD

Jeremy Christensen, "Secular Religion at the End of Time: Food, The Word, and Sacrifice in the Works of Fannie Flagg" Instructor, English, Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell, SD

Nathan Hitchcock, "Women and the Wildman: Feminist Response to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement" Graduate Student, Liberal Studies, University of South Dakota, SD



4:15 - 5:30 Panels

Marcella Remund, Instructor, English, University of South Dakota

Lee Roripaugh, Associate Professor, English, University of South Dakota

Melanie Wood, Instructor, English, University of South Dakota

Delia Druley, "The Colonization of the Female Spirit: Worker and Management Ideology in the Maquilas of Mexico and Nicaragua." Undergraduate Student, Political Science & Spanish, University of South Dakota

Courtney Huse-Wika, "M/Other: Fractured 'I's' and Decentered Maternal Bodies in Confessionalist Poetry." Graduate Student, English, University of South Dakota

Staci Thota, "Performing Identity: Motherhood in Mary Rowlandson's A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson." Graduate Student, English, University of South Dakota

Janet Davison Nordgren, "Some Day You'll be Sorry." Ph.D. Student, English, University of South Dakota

Jan Fischer, "Susanna Rowson's Slaves in Algiers: Playing Politics." Graduate Student, English, University of South Dakota

Annie Christain, "Everyone Is." [poetry reading] Ph.D. student, English, University of South Dakota

Marcia Kear, "Dinah, Dinah." [short-fiction reading] Graduate Student, English, University of South Dakota

Lynda Letona, [poetry reading] Graduate Student, English, University of South Dakota
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