BODIES
OF
WORK
MARCH 2 - 4 2017
USM EGO Graduate Conference
WHEN /
MARCH 2-4, 2017
WHERE /
The University of Southern Mississippi
ABOUT THE EVENT /
The University of Southern Mississippi prides itself on its inclusivity, particularly in the humanities. We are a diverse population with continually growing roots in the community of Hattiesburg, MS. The English Graduate Organization (EGO) and C4W, the graduate student organization in the Center for Writers, are hosting Bodies of Work: The Human Body in Various Forms, a conference to showcase critical and creative scholarly work. The topic of the body allows for a broad range of inquiry and conversation between many communities, from athletes to sociologists to grandparents to artists. The main objective of the conference is to be both organized by and inclusive of all types of bodies and disciplines. We want all participants and audience members to feel included to the best of our ability, and intend to utilize facilities, equipment, and language that accommodates everyone.
Planned events include a plenary address from Dr. Lee Rozelle, a reading and keynote address by Beth Ann Fennelly, a reading and Q&A by Jeannine Hall Gailey, and a creative reading by members of the Center for Writers.
Thank you to our Sponsors!
© 2016 by EGO & C4W
Conference Events Map
Thursday, March 2, 2017
5:30 - 8:00 PM
The Thirsty Hippo
Conference Kick-Off
Join us at the Thirsty Hippo, located at 309 McLeod Street in Downtown Hattiesburg, for "How do We Control 'Dangerous' Bodies?," an interdisciplinary talk from the Fleshed Out: The Body Politic series.
Following the talk, Dr. Brandi George will read a selection of her book-length poem title Faun to kick off the Bodies at Work Conference!
Friday, March 3, 2017
9:00 - 10:15 AM
RC Union Room H
D&D and Disability Roundtable
Mary Stephens (The University of Southern Mississippi), Todd Osborne (The University of Southern Mississippi), Ben Mitchell (Independent Scholar). Moderator: Mary Stephens.
10:30 - 11:45 AM
RC Union Room C
The Mind and Body
A special presentation and demonstration by Courtney Chunn and Jaime Ray, owners of the local yoga studio Greenhouse Yoga. Moderator: Emily Martin.
10:30 - 11:45 AM
RC Union Room H
The Body in American Culture
Kristin Teston’s “Get in Formation: Beyonce's Bodies of Resistance” (The University of Mississippi). Mary Beth Wolverton’s “Eugenics and the Female in Tobacco Road” (The University of Southern Mississippi). Rachel Bryan “‘All That Hurricane Rage of Joy’: The Redemptive Power of Jouissance in Toni Morrison’s Sula” (Tulane University). Moderator: Todd Gray.
12:45 - 2:00 PM
RC Union Room C
Conjure Through the Physical Body
Christopher Peace “Conjurer as Transhumanist” (Jackson State University). Ogochukwu Ngwudike “The Body as the Ultimate Sacrifice” (Jackson State University). Nedrick J. Patrick “The Reciprocity of Silence: Creating the Necessary Foundation for the Art of Conjure” (Jackson State University). Moderator: Rebecca Holder
12:45 - 2:00 PM
RC Union Room H
2:15 - 3:30 PM
RC Union Room C
Saturday, March 4, 2017
Conference Schedule
Exploring the Body Through Bioarcheology
Hadley Fuller (The University of Southern Mississippi). Kristi Carnahan (The University of Southern Mississippi). Moderator: Jennifer Roy.
Creative Writers
Stephanie Harris reads fiction (The University of Southern Mississippi). Sara Lewis reads fiction (The University of Southern Mississippi). Stephanie Phillips reads fiction (The University of Southern Mississippi). Jillian Etheridge reads fiction (The University of Southern Mississippi). Moderator: Mary Ryan Karnes.
2:15 - 3:30 PM
RC Union Room H
International Food and Culture
Randy Gonzales “The Body of Carlito: Peter Bacho’s Cebu as an American Reception of Filipino Crucifixions” (The University of Louisiana at Lafayette). Tomaz Cunningham “Trimming Off the Fat: Food and French Patriotism in Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif” (Jackson State University). Zachary Williams “Bloody Mouth, Bloody Hands: Kinship Systems and Dreamwork in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian” (The University of Southern Mississippi). Moderator: Charles Hunter Joplin.
4:15 - 5:30 PM
Liberal Arts Building (LAB) Room 203
Jeannine Hall Gailey Reading and Q&A
Featured speaker Jeannine Hall Gailey (former Poet Laureate of Redmond, WA) reads a selection of her poetry via Skype and answers questions. Moderator: Thomas Holmes.
8:00 - 10:00 PM
T-Bones Records & Cafe
C4W Reading Series
USM’s C4W presents a reading from undergraduate poets Madison Etheridge and Hiba Tahir and graduate fiction writers Mary Ryan Karnes and Garrett Ashley.
Sigma Tau Delta - Undergraduate Perspectives on the Body
Lauren Duke (The University of Southern Mississippi). Anastasia Walrod (The University of Southern Mississippi). Madison Clarke (The University of Southern Mississippi). Moderator: Mary Stephens.
9:00 - 10:15 AM
RC Union Room C
9:00 - 10:15 AM
RC Union Room H
Creative Writers
Charlee Meiners reads poetry (The University of Southern Mississippi). Thomas Holmes reads poetry and flash fiction (Redactions: Poetry & Poetics). Garrett Ashley reads fiction (The University of Southern Mississippi). Diana Emmons reads creative non-fiction (The University of Louisiana at Lafayette). Moderator: Renée Michelle Bailey.
Bodies Across Other Disciplines
Emily Wright “Dancing Christian: Narrative, Embodied Action, Choreography in American Evangelical Concert Dance” (Belhaven University). Nadjah McLaurin “Involvement in Sport and Recreational Activities and Holistic Well-Being in Adults with Mobility Impairments” (The University of Southern Mississippi). Christian Bushardt “Consumer Brand Identification & Disidentification” (Louisiana Tech University). Tucker Adkins “‘a pillar Pluckt’: Ministers and Dead Bodies in Colonial New England” (Florida State University). Moderator: Justin Greer.
10:30 - 11:45 AM
RC Union Room C
The Body in Romantic Literature
Bryana Fern “Means of Sympathy in Frankenstein: a Synthesis of Mary Shelley’s Novel and Danny Boyle’s National Theatre Live Production” (The University of Southern Mississippi). Charles Hunter Joplin “The Gallows, the Crown, and the Font: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Poetical Essay” and the Necessity of Revolution” (The University of Southern Mississippi). Crystal Veronie “‘I am faultering, sinking on my way’: Sara Coleridge’s Poems as Illness Narrative” (The University of Southern Mississippi). Todd Osborne “‘Why is this so, ah God! why is this so?’: Obsession, Repetition, and the Disabled Body in the Poetry of Charles Lamb” (The University of Southern Mississippi). Moderator: Mary Beth Wolverton.
10:30 - 11:45 AM
RC Union Room H
Bodies Across Genres
Lauren Rackley “Queer Becoming: The Queer Body/Archive in Rosa Montero’s Tears in Rain” (Louisiana State University). Claire Manes “Listening to the Wounded Body” (The University of Louisiana at Lafayette). Chloe Felterman “The Monster Within: A Visualization of the Unconscious in A Monster Calls” (The University of Southern Mississippi). Charlee Meiners "'So vain was his endeavor': A Defense of Wordsworth's Portrayal of Disability in 'Simon Lee'" (The University of Southern Mississippi). Moderator: Crystal Veronie.
12:45 - 2:00 PM
RC Union Room C
Creative Writers
Nick Rupert reads fiction (The University of Southern Mississippi). Brooke Larson reads creative non-fiction (The University of Louisiana at Lafayette). Katrina Byrd reads plays (Mississippi University for Women). Tanya Mason Smith reads fiction (The University of Southern Mississippi). Moderator: Matthew Schmidt.
12:45 - 2:00 PM
RC Union Room H
Victorian Views of the Body
Molly Porter “Nancy as Performer in Dickens’s Oliver Twist” (Louisiana State University). Rachael Counselman “No Longer Sensational: The Woman or The Book?” (University of Mobile). Olivia Bushardt “Indissoluble Hegemony: Class Criticism in Rebecca West’s The Sentinel” (The University of Southern Mississippi). Moderator: Bryana Fern.
2:15 - 3:30 PM
RC Union Room C
Once Upon a Body: Physical Transgression in Fairy Tales Roundtable
Matthew Schmidt (The University of Southern Mississippi). John Riccio reads poetry (The University of Southern Mississippi). Jennifer Roy “Gather the Bones: Transforming Death in “Pepelyouga” and “The Juniper Tree” (The University of Southern Mississippi). Moderator: Andrew Gretes.
2:15 - 3:30 PM
RC Union Room H
The American Zombiescape
Lee Rozelle “American Zombiescape” (University of Montevallo). Moderator: Mary Stephens.
3:45 - 5:00 PM
RC Union Room C
Keynote Speaker
Mississippi Poet Laureate Beth Ann Fennelly reads poetry, fiction, and non-fiction and signs books (University of Mississippi). Moderators: Emily Stanback and Tom Holmes. This event is sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Hattiesburg Arts Council. Oddfellows Gallery is located at 119 East Front Street in Downtown Hattiesburg.