GSEA Spring 2023 Conference

Friday, March 31, 2023
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Hybrid (CSU 201, 204, 238)

The Minnesota State University, Mankato GSEA students are excited to announce the Inclusive Resilience: Graduate Scholars Conference 2023. The hybrid conference will take place on Friday, March 31.

In the spirit of inclusion, this conference is open to graduate students in all tracks within the English Department (Creative Writing, Literature, Composition, TESOL, English Education, Film, Humanities, and Technical Communication), and to both in-person and distance students. Faculty members and undergraduate students in English are also welcome.

INCLUSIVE RESILIENCE: GRADUATE SCHOLARS CONFERENCE 2023

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE:

8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.	Coffee and Networking	CSU 238
9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.	Opening Plenary Session (Robyn Katona, 2022 MFA Alum)	CSU 238
9:30 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.	Breakout Session 1 (1A and 1B)	CSU 204, 201
11:00 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.	Breakout Session 2 (2A and 2B)	CSU 204, 201
12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.	Luncheon Plenary Session (Michael Torres, Creative Writing Professor) + the Book Launch (Sam Kamara)	CSU 238
2:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.	Breakout Session 3 (3A and 3B)	CSU 204, 201
3:30 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.	Breakout Session 4 (4A and 4B)	CSU 204, 201
5:00 p.m. to 5:20	Closing Plenary Session (Glen Poupore, TESOL Professor)	CSU 238
5:20 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.	Raffle & Closing Remarks (the GSEA Team Thanks Everyone)	CSU 238

BREAKOUT SESSION SCHEDULE:

1A and 1B: 9:30 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.

1A: Learner/Instructor: Graduate Student Perspectives on Inclusive Pedagogy (80 minutes total) (all 1A presentations in CSU 204)

Alex French, Al Hosman, Mercedes Sempé, and Grace Kranz: “How Can We Make This Work?: Writing Teacher Professionalization from the Perspective of the Graduate Students” — mixed-program focus (15-minute presentation + five-minute Q&A = 20 minutes total) (9:30 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.)
Raisa Akhter Trisha: “The writing center tutors’ perspectives on their preparation to work with first-year writing students” (oral capstone defense) — MA in TESOL (20 to 25-minute presentation + five to ten minutes of Q&A = 30 minutes total) (9:50 a.m. to 10:20 a.m.)
Benjamin Grabowska: “Check & Adjust: A Discourse Analysis” (oral capstone defense) — MA in TESOL (20 to 25-minute presentation + five to ten minutes of Q&A = 30 minutes total) (10:20 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.)

1B: Place and Belonging: Celebrating Diversity and Unique Perspectives and Experiences (60 minutes total—concurrent with 1A) (all 1B presentations in CSU 201)

Pritika Pradhan: “The Transient—A Novel Excerpt” (a thesis reading) — MFA in Creative Writing (20 to 25-minute reading + five to ten minutes of Q&A = 30 minutes total) (9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.)
Cordis Paldano: “An International Student’s Perspective on American Culture: Challenges, Revelations, and Inclusivity” (a thesis reading) — MFA in Creative Writing (20 to 25-minute reading + five to ten minutes of Q&A = 30 minutes total) (10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.)

2A and 2B: 11:00 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

2A: Implied Advocacy: Achieving Educational Equity through Student Engagement (80 minutes total) (all 2A presentations in CSU 204)

Norwin Akther Koly: “The Role of Gender in Study Abroad: A Case Study of Bangladeshi Students Studying at a Midwest University in the US” (oral capstone defense) — MA in TESOL (20 to 25-minute presentation + five to ten minutes of Q&A = 30 minutes total) (11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.)
Jenny Hughes: “Leading by Example—Refusing to be ‘Othered’” — MFA in Creative Writing (15-minute presentation + five-minute Q&A = 20 minutes total) (11:30 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.)
Nazanin Kamalisarvestani: “L2 writer engagement with the teacher and peer feedback via Google docs” (oral capstone defense) — MA in TESOL (20 to 25-minute presentation + five to ten minutes of Q&A = 30 minutes total) (11:50 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.)

2B: Open Heart, Open Mind: Resilience in Relationships (60 minutes total—concurrent with 2A) (all 2B presentations in CSU 201)

Ailee Slater: “A Fiction Reading of ‘Letter from Your Boss’ — A Short Story” — MFA in Creative Writing (15-minute reading + five-minute Q&A = 20 minutes total) (11:00 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.)
Annie Lindenberg: “A Fiction Reading of ‘Memories from Before’ — A Short Story” — MFA in Creative Writing (15-minute reading + five-minute Q&A = 20 minutes total) (11:20 a.m. to 11:40 a.m.)
Nicole Payne: “A Creative Reading of ‘Rapunzel’ and Other Poems” — Undergraduate Psychology Major and Creative Writing Minor (15-minute reading + five-minute Q&A = 20 minutes total) (11:40 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.)

3A and 3B: 2:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.

3A: Innovative Narrative Forms: Rethinking the Role of Storytelling as an Art (80 minutes total) (all 3A presentations in CSU 204)

Adelia Gregory: “The Form-Theme Connection: Innovative Fictional Forms and a Cross-Disciplinary Examination of Counterhegemonic Theory and Praxis” with a writing workshop — MFA in Creative Writing and MA in Literature and English Studies (25-minute presentation with a creative workshop + five-minute Q&A = 30 minutes total) (2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.)
Caleb Kaneakua: “The Shape of Water: Del Toro’s Strange and Beautiful Romance” — Undergraduate Film Major (15-minute presentation + five-minute Q&A = 20 minutes total) (2:30 p.m. to 2:50 p.m.)
Rachael Buckallew: “The Communal Nature of Language: Ecopoetics” with a writing workshop — MA in Literature and English Studies (25-minute presentation with a creative workshop + five-minute Q&A = 30 minutes total) (2:50 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.)

3B: Culture and Grading: New Approaches to the Multilingual Classroom (80 minutes total—concurrent with 3A) (all 3B presentations in CSU 201)

Mercedes Sempé: “Teachers’ beliefs and practices on the teaching of culture in the EFL Argentinian Secondary School Classroom: A Case Study” (a thesis presentation) — MA in TESOL (20 to 25-minute presentation + five to ten minutes of Q&A = 30 minutes total) (2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.)
Al Hosman: “‘My work doesn’t need to be perfect as long as the effort is there’: A Case Study of Multilingual Student Perceptions of Labor-Based Grading Contracts in the First-Year Writing Classroom” (a thesis presentation) — MA in TESOL (20 to 25-minute presentation + five to ten minutes of Q&A = 30 minutes total) (2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.)
Kalpana Shrestha: “Navigating English Medium Instructions Practices in Multilingual Classrooms: Discourse and Challenges” — MA in TESOL (15-minute presentation + five-minute Q&A = 20 minutes total) (3:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.)

4A and 4B: 3:30 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.

4A: Dance and Literature: Self-Expression as Promoting Inclusivity (80 minutes total) (all 4A presentations in CSU 204)

Aditi Bheda: “A Mixed Method Comparison: Instruction in an Undergraduate Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Contemporary Dance Class” — MS in Experiential Education (20 to 25-minute presentation + five to ten minutes of Q&A = 30 minutes total) (3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.)
Rhiannon Farr: “The Autonomy of What is Ours” — MA in Literature and English Studies (15-minute presentation + five-minute Q&A = 20 minutes total) (4:00 p.m. to 4:20 p.m.)
Amanda Fetters: “Hot Stuff the Little Devil: Lynda Barry’s Monstrously Feminist Avatars in Making Comics” — MA in Literature and Composition (15-minute Zoom presentation + five-minute Q&A = 20 minutes total) (4:20 p.m. to 4:40 p.m.)

4B: Overcoming Communication Barriers: Effective Cross-Cultural Multilingualism (80 minutes total—concurrent with 4A) (all 4B presentations in CSU 201)

Raby Dieng: “Senegalese English Teachers’ Views and Practices Towards the Teaching of Listening Skills” (oral capstone defense) — MA in TESOL (20 to 25-minute presentation + five to ten minutes of Q&A = 30 minutes total) (3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.)
Prilia Nareswari: “A Study of Compliments and Compliment Responses Among Japanese Learners of English” — MA in TESOL (15-minute presentation + five-minute Q&A = 20 minutes total) (4:00 p.m. to 4:20 p.m.)
Leyvi Hinojosa: “High School Spanish Speaking English Learners’ Preference Between the Use of English-Only and Translanguaging Instruction in a Pre-Intermediate EL Classroom” (oral capstone defense) — MA in TESOL (20 to 25-minute presentation + five to ten minutes of Q&A = 30 minutes total) (4:20 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.)

CONNECT WITH GSEA

GSEA Instagram: grad_scholars_english_Minnesota State Mankato
GSEA Discord
Join GSEA

Contact

Dr. Abigail Bakke, GSEA Faculty Advisor
abigail.bakke@mnsu.edu