2011 URI Conference Program - URI Graduate Student Conference

G r a d u a t e C o n f e r e n c e
URI2011
SCHEDULE
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Registration Opens with Continental Breakfast
Hoffmann Room
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Plenary Address by Professor Martha Elena Rojas,
University of Rhode Island
Introduction by Sara Murphy, PhD Candidate
Room 305
9:30 - 10:45 a.m. Session I
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
Hoffmann Room
11:00 - 12:15 p.m. Session II
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch On Your Own
1:15 - 2:30 p.m. Session III
2:30 - 2:45 p.m. Coffee Break
Hoffmann Room
2:45 - 4:00 p.m. Session IV
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Closing Reception
University Club
“On Industry: Literary Occupation in the Early Republic”
Dr. Martha Elena Rojas is an Assistant Professor of English at
University of Rhode Island. She teaches Early American,
Antebellum, and maritime U.S. literature and culture, and is
currently at work on a book manuscript entitled Diplomatic
Letters: Becoming a Nation Among Nations.
Keynote Address by Professor Timothy Brennan,
University of Minnesota
Introduction by Benjamin D. Hagen, PhD Candidate
Agnes G. Doody Auditorium
“Homiletic Realism and Imperial Form”
Dr. Timothy Brennan is a Professor of English, Cultural Studies
& Comparative Literature, and American Studies at The
University of Minnesota where he works on the relationship
between comparative literature, world literature, and global
English. His most recent books include Secular Devotion:
Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz (2008), Wars of Position: The
Cultural Politics of Left and Right (2006), and At Home in the
World: Cosmopolitanism Now (1997).
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