Insult to Injury: Transgender / Translucent
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The Department of English seeks to provide all university students with the skills of effective communication and critical thinking, as well as imparting knowledge of literature, creative writing, linguistics, speech and technical communication to students within and outside of the department.
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The Department of English and Speech was formed in 1939 from the merger of the Department of English and the Department of Public Speaking. In 1971 its name changed to the Department of English.
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1939-present
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- Department of English and Speech (1939-1971)
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- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (parent college)
- Department of English (predecessor, 1898-1939)
- Department of Public Speaking (predecessor, 1898-1939)
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The Symposium provides undergraduates from all academic disciplines with an opportunity to share their research with the university community and other guests through conference-style oral presentations. The Symposium represents part of a larger effort of Iowa State University to enhance, support, and celebrate undergraduate research activity.
Though coordinated by the University Honors Program, all undergraduate students are eligible and encouraged to participate in the Symposium. Undergraduates conducting research but not yet ready to present their work are encouraged to attend the Symposium to learn about the presentation process and students not currently involved in research are encouraged to attend the Symposium to learn about the broad range of undergraduate research activities that are taking place at ISU.
The first Symposium was held in April 2007. The 39 students who presented research and their mentors collectively represented all of ISU's Colleges: Agriculture and Life Sciences, Business, Design, Engineering, Human Sciences, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, and the Graduate College. The event has grown to regularly include more than 100 students presenting on topics that span the broad range of disciplines studied at ISU.
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In one story, a pathetic (?) drag queen, on her quest to transition to the body she was meant to be born into, slays no dragons and marries no princes. She survives a subway ambush only to sustain facial injury at work. Why read this? Read on. In another, a bereft woman dances her way into culinary oblivion, serving up plates… of herself. Why? These two fictional works question the concept of victory. While the characters in the stories may initially be seen as victims, a closer reading excavates the phoenix within the rubble of their lives. The literary pieces offer audiences a way of slipping into another’s emotions and mind frames without tethering them permanently to a life that isn’t their own. However, once enveloped within the story, the readers can see that even to the characters themselves, the world as an unkind place might actually be an opportunity for acknowledging alternative ways of being. Read. Resist. Resonate.