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J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: Theoretical, Literary & Cultural

  • "No Metaphors, No “Happening Adjectives,” No New Line Breaks: Black Milk and Tory Dent’s Oppositional Witness," CUNY Conference on Contemporary Poetry, New York, New York (3-6 November 2005)
  • "The Second Space: Allende, Valenzuela, and Negotiating Home," Vernacular: The International Colloquium for Vernacular, Hispanic and Folkloric Studies, Puebla, Mexico (25-29 October 2005)
  • "Citizen Cancer: "Nationless" Women in a Sick World," 2005 Women & Society Conference, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York (23-24 September 2005)
  • "The International Impact of HIV/AIDS," Queer CUNY V, LaGuardia Community College (5 May 2004)
  • “Poesída: Deseo, Sexualidad y Sida en la Poesía Panlatina” Vernacular: The International Colloquium for Vernacular, Hispanic and Folkloric Studies, Puebla, Mexico (8-11 October 2003)
  • "Evidentiary Boundaries: The Censorship of Demetria Martínez," Fifth Conference of the Americas,Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico (17-21 October 2001)
  • "Policing, Politicizing and Poeticizing the Virgin/Whore Split: Women and AIDS in American Society," Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Women's Studies Conference, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia (March 2001)
  • "Women Who Must: Tory Dent and River Huston," Session Chair for "Post-Protease AIDS Literature" and Presenter, Northeastern Modern Language Association, Hartford, Connecticut (March 2001)
  • "Traveling Light: Demetria Martínez and the Price of Nomadism in Latina Literature," Eighth National American Women Writers of Color Conference, Salisbury State University, Ocean City, Maryland (October 1999)
  • "Thresholds of Conflict: Marginilization and Resistance in Cisneros' House on Mango Street and Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus," Seventh Annual National American Women Writers of Color Conference, Salisbury State University, Ocean City, Maryland (October 1997)
  • "When the Picture's Exposed: Rigoberta Menchú and the Negative Spirit Of Place," The Spirit of Place in Contemporary European and Latin American Literature Conference, Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania (April 1997)
  • "Caught In a Net of Purpose, Forché, Eliot: Poetics, Politics and War," American Culture Association Conference, Literature and Politics Division, San Antonio, Texas (March 1997)
  • "Carolyn Forché: Political Poet," Writing By Degrees: The National Graduate Creative Writing Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York (March 1997)
  • "Translated Women: The Political Voice of Everyday Experience," National Graduate Women's Conference, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania (March 1996)
  • "Whitman's Cathedrals and Lawrence's Skyscrapers: An Encounter with the Sacred," International Conference on the Sacred and the Profane, West Georgia College, Atlanta, Georgia (October 1995)

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