2009 Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric offers 'Hybridity: Intersections of history, identity and technology'

Friday Feb. 26, 9:30 a.m.

Saturday, Feb. 27, 10:30 a.m.
UAA/APU Consortium Library, Third Floor

This conference will present two keynote speakers.

On Friday, Feb. 26 at 9:30 a.m., Dr. Christopher Keep from the University of Wester Ontario will speak. Dr. Keep specializes in Victorian studies, cultural studies, gender theory and technologies of writing. Several of his recent publications include Institutional Memory: History, Disciplinarity and Victorian Studies; Growing Intimate with Monsters: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and the Gothic Nature of Hypertext; and Technology and Information: Accelerating Developments.

On Saturday, Feb. 27 at 10:30 a.m. Dr. Deborah Brandt will speak. Dr. Brandt, from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, specializes in mass literacy studies, as well as diversity, equity, and access in literacy learning. She is the author of Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers, Readers and Texts; Literacy in American Lives; and Literacy and Learning: Reading, Writing and Society.

The conference includes a call for papers. Organized by the Department of English graduate students at UAA, the 15th annual Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric welcomes proposals in literary studies, composition/rhetoric, linguistics, history, and other related fields. This year's conference explores hybridity constructed within overlapping intersections of history, identity and technology.

Download a PDF registration form at the Pacific Rim Literary Conference Web site.