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“The Poles and the North Pole: The role of icy

no man's land in the struggle for Polish
autonomy, 1800-1900,”
Anna Gielas
“Seelow Heights- A Method of Countering the
Russian Way of War,”
Walker Gargagliano
Chair: Cassy Burleson
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022
10:30AM Flipping the Script: 21st Century
8:00AM Registration & Light Breakfast
Representations of the Vietnam War
Texas Ballroom
Through Memes
Space Room
8:30AM Welcome Message from ASAT President
- Dr. Sean Ferrier-Watson Mia Moody-Ramirez
Lia Hood
9:00AM Chicanx Voices in Art & Culture
Chair: Lia Hood, McNair Scholar
Space Room
Topics in American History
“The Soldado Razo Comes Home,”
Autonomy Room
Cindy D. Alvarez
“‘Shun Profane and Idle Babblings”: Gossip as
“Imperceptible Changes: Examining American
a Counter Narrative for Women in Chicanx
Society’s Perception of German Immigrants
Literature,”
After 1865,”
Yatron Cassandra
Charles Marks
Chair: Sean Ferrier-Watson
“Lincoln America has Ignored,”
Darnell Bolton
American Influences on European History &
Chair: JD Isip
Culture
Autonomy Room
Topics in Popular Culture, Diversity, &
Literature
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Texas Ballroom Michael Schueth, Collin College

Sean Ferrier-Watson, Collin College
“Collaborative World-Building in Tabletop Mindy Tomlin, Collin College
Role-Playing Games: Hope for the Future,” Chair: Sean Ferrier-Watson
Alaya Swann
“Creating a Space for Black People and Black 2:45PM Topics in Managing Land & Spaces
Studies,” Space Room
Frederick Gooding
Chair: Alaya Swann “The Relationship between Roads and
Cityspace,”
12:00PM Lunch (courtesy of Collin College) Hunter Davis
Provided for volunteers, presenters, and “Indigenous Futures: The Management and
registered attendees Control of Indigenous Lands, Culture, and
Texas Ballroom Spirituality Through the Post-Enlightenment
Secularization of Space and Place, and its
12:30PM Keynote Address Impact on Environmental Issues,”
Texas Ballroom Maureen Trussell
Chair: Maureen Trussell

Creative Writing: Short Stories

Autonomy Room

Dr. Paul Levi Bryant “Rabbit Run,”

“The Mute Rhetoric of Space” John Schulze
“Bend in the River,”
1:30PM The Quest for Scholarly Excellence: How Sean Ferrier-Watson
Running an Undergraduate Research Poetry, Jackson Woodruff
Journal Teaches Writing, Responsibility, and Another Story About my Dead Mother, or Son
Independence (featured panel) of the Spider, JD Isip
Texas Ballroom Chair: John Schulze
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[End for Wednesday] 10:30AM Anne Richards, Mae Jackson & Barbara
Jordan: Sassy Women and the Fallout
Space Room

Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022 Mia Moody-Ramirez

Cassy Burleson
8:00AM Registration & Light Breakfast/Coffee Chair: Cassy Burleson
Ballroom
YA & Children’s Literature
9:00AM Horror in Popular Culture Autonomy Room
Space Room
“Red Hair and Freckles: Girls, Autonomy, and
“Scary Alphabets and Other Frightening Books Non-Conformity in Early 1900's Children's
for Babies and Toddlers,” Literature,”
Sean Ferrier-Watson Karen Glebe
“Monsters Toward Conocimiento: Anzaldúan “‘May the odds be ever in your favor’:
Horror in Jordan Peele’s Us,” Serialization and the language of Western
Cameron Henderson resistance in Southeast Asia,”
Chair: Sean Ferrier-Watson Julie Grandjean (via video recording)
Chair: Claire Landes
Topics in Texas History
Autonomy Room Rhetoric & Pedagogy
Texas Ballroom
“No Safe Space: The Fires of White Supremacy
in North Texas,” “Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality: An
Kyle Wilkison Investigation into Virtual Space and Collegiate
“At Home, At War: Policing Women's Sexuality Pedagogy,” Jenny Warren & Whitney Pisani
in Texas, 1890-1920,” “The First-Year Writing Classroom as Affective
Anh Adams Place,” Jacob Weston
Chair: Kyle Wilkison Chair: Jenny Warren
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12:00PM Lunch Break! Exploring Literary Borders

Attendees and presenters are responsible for Autonomy Room
procuring their lunch on this date
“Anzaldúa’s Homophobia (Fear of Going
1:00PM Academic Publishing: Getting Published in Home) and “Third Space” Borderlands in Latinx
JASAT (featured panel) Diasporic Literature,”
Texas Ballroom Riley Michelle Davoren
“Oil and Water in Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth,”
John Schulze, Editor, Midwestern State Eytan Pol
University Chair: John Schulze
Sean Ferrier-Watson, Assistant Editor, Collin
College Topics on American Culture & Literature
Hector Weir, Book Review Editor, Wharton Space Room
County Junior College
Cassy Burleson, Poetry Editor, Baylor “Postcards from the Republic: Essays on
University America from Steinbeck, Baldwin, Didion, and
Chair: Sean Ferrier-Watson Klay,”
JD Isip
2:15PM Cormac McCarthy “The USS Callister and Digital Space,”
Texas Ballroom Andrew Aguirre
“A Ballad of Blithedale: Storytelling,
“Failed Relationships, Doomed Quests: Sex Embellishment, and Coverdale’s Autonomy in
Work and Domestic Spaces in Cormac The Blithedale Romance,”
McCarthy’s Cities of the Plain,” Lauren Ordner
William Brannon Chair: JD Isip
“Authorial Envy: Metafiction and Anxiety in
Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian,” (via Poetry Night! Thursday Evening Event
video recording) (Offsite at Wild Detectives, Bookstore & Bar, 314 W Eighth St., Dallas, TX)
Niall E. Walsh
Chair: William Brannon 7:00PM JD Isip, Collin College
Scott Yarbrough, Collin College
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Latoya Watkins, Collin College ‘Space to Listen: An Approach to Critical

Nathan Brown, Oklahoma University Listening, Hearing, and Being Heard,”
(headliner) Nancy Rosenberg England
Chair: Jeffrey Courtright

Issues in Community & Diversity

Autonomy Room

[End for Thursday] “Language Gaps and Social Change: Economic

Revitalization and the Shape of Community in
Friday, Nov. 4, 2022 Georgetown, Delaware,”
Albert Sung
8:00AM Registration & Light Breakfast/Coffee Chair: Lubna Javeed

9:00AM Topics in Latin-American Literature 10:30AM Forces: Collin College’s Literary & Arts
Space Room Journal (featured panel)
Texas Ballroom
“Cuentos de Camino: Towards a Narrative of
the Venezuelan Diaspora, Scott Yarbrough, Collin College
Hector Weir
“Anzaldúa and Autobiography: Borderlands and 11:30AM Lunch Break!
the Memorialized Child,” Attendees and presenters are responsible for
Olivia Trotter lunch on this date
Chair: Hector Weir
12:30PM ASAT Officers Meeting
Theory & Practice: Conceptualizing Spaces Texas Ballroom
Texas Ballroom
Officer Elections & Agenda Items
“Space, Freedom, and Existential Trust,” JASAT Updates
Jeffrey Courtright All ASAT members welcome!
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Acknowledgements & Special Thanks!

Dr. Neil Matkin, President, Collin College

Mr. Craig Leverette, Provost, Collin College-Frisco
Dr. Dawn Jo-Elle Richardson, Academic Dean, Collin College-
Frisco
Dr. Wendy Gunderson, Academic Dean, Collin College Higher
Education Center
Dr. Lupita Murillo Tinnen, Academic Dean, Collin College-
Plano
Mr. Aaron West, Professor of Music, Collin College-Frisco
Ms. Renee Long, Executive Assistant to Provost, Collin
College-Frisco
Ms. Ashley McGee, Assistant to the Dean, Collin College-
Frisco
Mr. Jonathan McAnally, Assistant Bursar, Collin College-
McKinney
Ms. Xuexin Jin, AR Coordinator, Collin College- Collin
College Higher Education Center
Diana Kollman, Coordinator Campus Facilities, Collin College
Higher Education Center
Ms. Jamie Parker, Makerspace Assistant Librarian, Collin
College-Frisco
Ms. Mindy Tomlin, Scholarly Communications Librarian,
Collin College-Plano

ASAT would like to extend our warmest thanks to the above

patrons for their support and planning for this year’s
conference.
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