Thursday, March 5th, 9-10:00pm

Our first forum for Spring 2009 will be held Thursday, March 5th, from 9:00-10:00pm. Kara Donnelly and Kathryn Bullerdick will be presenting. Papers to be posted shortly.

Kathryn Bullerdick: “On Criticism and Form–Branding and the Online Critic”
Kara Donnelly: “(Im)possible Speech: Misreading the Body in The Woman Who Walked into Doors”

About Kathryn:

Kathryn is an MA candidate. She graduated from Indiana University with a BA in English and Comparative Literature in May 2005. Kathryn studies successful and failed attempts at communicating plans for metropolitan development, thereby analyzing how we discuss and study walking, shopping, crime, service, pollution, traffic, civic ceremony, and housing. For instance, what is the impact of changing demographic, spatial, economic and environmental practices on discussion and representation? How are urban, suburban and rural space represented differently? And how does urbanization change notions of status, gender and race in the modern, post-modern and contemporary city? Housing is a topic of special interest: specifically, the tall apartment houses built by Robert Moses under New York City’s urban renewal program. Kathryn maintains a recently launched professional blog, A Soapbox for this Inexact Science: http://bullerdick.wordpress.com

About Kara:

Kara is a first year MA candidate. She graduated from Wellesley College in 2006 and began at NYU after two years as a middle school teacher with Teach For America. She is interested in contemporary Irish novels, post-colonial theory, vernacular literature, and other more ill-defined areas. She also harbors a passion for murder mysteries, especially those related to horse racing, but has yet to find a way to fit them into her academic pursuits. She lives in Brooklyn and spends much of her spare time playing Ultimate Frisbee.