You Are Here Conference Creighton

02/08/2020

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“You Are Here” Conference held at Creighton University. Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment. March 20-21, 2020

02/08/2020

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An Interdisciplinary Conference on Place, Space, and Embodiment

02/08/2020

Our second keynote is Dr. Stacey Waite.

"Stacey Waite is a poet, educator, and scholar originally from Long Island, New York. Earning a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing in 2002 and a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011, Waite is now Associate Professor and Graduate Chair in the English Department at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. Waite has published four collections of poems: Choke (winner of the 2004 Frank O'Hara Prize in Poetry), Love Poem to Androgyny (winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Chapbook Competition), the lake has no saint (winner of the 2008 Snowbound Prize in Poetry) and Butch Geography (Tupelo Press, 2013). Waite’s most recent scholarly book, Teaching Q***r, was published with the University of Pittsburgh Press in May of 2017. Waite’s books are taught at over fifty colleges and universities in Creative Writing, Composition, and Gender Studies programs.
Waite has offered teaching and writing workshops, lectures, and diversity trainings in gender multiplicity and support for q***r youth in local high schools and colleges all over the country. Also the editor of Ways of Reading, a composition textbook, Waite is an accomplished scholar of composition, pedagogy, and community writing. Recent essays have appeared in Literacy in Composition Studies, Peitho, and College Composition and Communication.
Waite is also a Senior Poetry Editor for Tupelo Quarterly. Waite’s scholarship is also widely reviewed, most recently in Rhetoric Society Quarterly, College English, and Literacy in Composition Studies."
(https://www.staceywaite.com/rooms)

Stacey Waite is a poet, educator, and scholar originally from Long Island, New York. Earning a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing in 2002 and a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011, Waite is now Associate Professor and Graduate Chair in the English Departmen...

02/08/2020

Let us present to you our First keynote, Dr. Manu Samriti Chander, an associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark. He holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University in English, a M.F.A. from the university of Michigan in Creative Writing, a A.M. from Brown University in English and a Ph.D. from Brown University in English. He specializes in world literature, British Romanticism, postcolonialism and literary theory. In his book, Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century, he ““proceeds the conviction that it is high time for the academy in general and scholars of European Romanticism in particular to acknowledge the extensive international impact of Romantic poetry.” He also edited a short fiction collection by Egbert Martin, a Guyanese author from the 19th century. He is currently working on another project called The Collected Works of Egbert Martin with the support of a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant. He won many awards including: the Academy of American Poets Prize from the University of Michigan in Fall 2000, and in 2019 he won: the MLA Humanities in Five Public Engagement Prize. He is currently teaching the following courses: Romantic Period, Romanticism and the Politics of the Aesthetic, the Nineteenth-Century Novel: Nation and Empire, Global Romanticism, Introduction to Global Literatures, Cosmopolitanism, Literature and Controversy, Foundations of Literary Study and Introduction to Graduate Literary Study

02/08/2020

What is You Are Here Conference about ?

At the root of every critical discussion are questions of space, place, and location. Place holds a particular importance in understanding society and the social relations within it. Interrogating the importance of this “ever-shifting social geometry of power and signification” (Massey 1994) that is the ‘spatial,’ “You Are Here” is a conference dedicated to exploring the implications of space and place on the people within them.
“You Are Here” welcomes papers, proposed panels, roundtables, poster sessions, and other session formats from students and scholars at all stages of their careers and in various disciplines. These include but are certainly not limited to: literature, rhetorical criticism, pedagogical studies, medical humanities, sociology, anthropology, theology, history, law, political science, and fine arts.
Our first keynote is Dr. Manu Samriti Chander, an Associate Professor in English at Rutgers University - Newark.
Our second keynote is Dr. Stacey Waite, an Associate Professor in English at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
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11/22/2019

Come on the 20th and 21st of March to this amazing interdisciplinary conference on time, place and embodiment. It's open to everyone, undergraduates and graduates alike. We will have some fun panels and are pleased to welcome Professor Manu Samriti Chander and Professor Karen Tei Yamash*ta as our two keynotes.