Program
What is the TAMUCC Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium?
About the Conference
TAMUCC's Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium offers graduate students the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Graduate students from all over the country travel to Corpus Christi to participate in the two day conference event. At each symposium, a key-note address is delivered by a distinguished visitor and faculty members from the department serve as respondents for the various paper sessions.
Writ Upon Ice
Accommodations & Map
Dear participants,
We are delighted you will be joining us.
Here are some details about logistics that may be helpful as you plan your trip to Corpus Christi.
The conference will begin with our keynote address on Thursday April 27 at 6pm.
and run the entire day on Friday April 28.
Travel
- If you are flying, the airport is Corpus Christi International Airport (CRP)
Please email us your fight details as soon as you have them as we have organized for some of our graduate students to pick you up and drive you back when you leave.
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- If you are driving, could you please confirm this with us? We will send details regarding parking and will secure guest parking permits.
Housing
Contact Us!
Dr. Lucy Sheehan
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 361.825.3793
Email: lucy.sheehan@tamucc.edu
Ph.D., Columbia University
Dr. Dale Pattison
Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 361-825-2418
Email: dale.pattison@tamucc.edu
Ph.D., Arizona State University
Bernadette Marie Flores
Graduate Teaching Assistant of Composition
Phone: 361. 825. 5979
Email: bflores3@islander.tamucc.edu
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
Dr. Sarah Salter
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Phone: 361.825.2834
Email: sarah.salter@tamucc.edu
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Committee
Graduate Student Representative
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Hester Blum
Dr. Hester Blum is an Associate Professor of English at Penn State University, where she teaches and writes about nineteenth-century American literature and about oceanic and polar studies. Her first book, The View from the Mast-Head: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives received the John Gardner Maritime Research Award. She has been a leading voice in the Humanities and is a founder and the current President of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and was the Associate Director of the Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
Blum's Presentation
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What forms of writing and recording practices are sustainable in the Arctic or Antarctica? Historical polar expeditions may have functioned as a mechanism for generating narratives, but in the anthropocene, writing on ice may be scarcely more legible than writing on water. Blum will discuss the texts produced by nineteenth-century Anglo-American polar expedition members while icebound, examining exchanges of letters and other forms of knowledge in the ecological spaces of the polar regions. Her talk on polar textual circulation also addresses the gendered history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, as well as the need for feminism in the archives.
- Could you please confirm whether you are interested in being hosted? We are working on securing free accommodations with graduate students who have extra space in their homes.
- If you would rather stay at a hotel, there are several located within walking distance of bus route 37, which will take you to campus. The local buses are clean, efficient, and many students and faculty use them to get to TAMUCC.
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You can find schedule for Route 37 here:
Accommodations (Closest to the University)
Comfort Suites
1814 Ennis Joslin Rd, Corpus Christi, TX 78412
(361) 991-7100
choicehotels.com
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There are also a number of hotels on Ocean Drive near downtown with access to the bay and the piers, such as the Holiday Inn Corpus Christi Downtown Marina or the Omni -- Corpus Christi Hotel.
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Tride, transportation service similar to Uber, may be useful for you if you prefer not to use public transportation. Please inform us if you are without a car and staying downtown.
Food
- We will provide pastries for the morning sessions and lunch on Friday during the conference.
