Teaching Documents by Clare O’Brien
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This document is the outline of a conference, English Literature Through the Undergraduate Discip... more This document is the outline of a conference, English Literature Through the Undergraduate Disciplines. This conference is integrated into the Applied Intermediate Composition class structure to emphasize the audience, purpose, and tone of academic writing. With this conference, students practice professionalism in the field of academia, including collaborating with others, presenting findings, analyzing information, and interacting with sources. I also created a website for the class sections with students' academic bios and paper and panel abstracts, so that students may have evidence of their communication skills to include in future professional applications.
This conference was done in collaboration with another instructor and section, and the goal is to establish this as an annual department-wide event.
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American Association for Chinese Studies, University of California Los Angeles, 2023
Modern notions of translation are based on the understanding of an original text and a destinatio... more Modern notions of translation are based on the understanding of an original text and a destination language. The original is authoritative and therefore standardized through translations that seek to capture its essence "accurately." This paper presents an alternative idea to using Standard languages in translation, found in Amy Tan's essay, "Mother Tongue" (1990), and Michael Cooperson's Impostures (2020). To use Amy Tan's phrasing, both offer the idea of Englishes-a plurality of English languages used in such a way that it is clear no one is more correct than the other. With this perspective, translation may be expressed in ways beyond the Standard language to include other written and oral forms. One is therefore able to read the many originals of the text that could only exist in its future.
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American Association for Chinese Studies, University of Colorado, 2022
Examining the pre-Islamic Bedouins and Li Ang’s (李昂)’s The Lost
Garden (2014), this paper explor... more Examining the pre-Islamic Bedouins and Li Ang’s (李昂)’s The Lost
Garden (2014), this paper explores the natural environment as a place that preserves identity. In the mu’allaqat, or the hanging odes of pre-Islamic poetry, the desert landscape is a motif representing the Arabic past. The poem is therefore a preservation of memory and identity through the markings in the sand the old Bedouin camps that once lived there. The poet revisits these ruins in his words, and he laments about what has been lost to the natural progression of time and nomadic life. Similarly, in Li Ang’s The Lost Garden, the protagonist’s father Zhu Zhuyan attempts to preserve old traditions in his Lotus Garden. He constructs it as a safe haven inside a quickly developing nation, indulging in its creation and other passions until he drains the family’s wealth. Zhu Yinghong, his daughter, eventually attempts to reclaim the garden and to somehow return to what was lost to the past. In both the classical Arabic and contemporary Taiwanese traditions, natural elements represent the life of generations past.
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Mediterranean Seminar, University of Colorado, 2022
Completed the Mediterranean Seminar's Aljamiado Skills Workshop, taught by Dr. Nuria de Castilla.
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"Eat Your Words" Conference, University of Indiana, 2020
In the Lazarillo, bread is used divisively to maintain the poor’s poverty and to separate them f... more In the Lazarillo, bread is used divisively to maintain the poor’s poverty and to separate them from the rest of society. In this Erasmian text, instead of representing Christ's generous sacrifice, bread essentializes the comical tragedy of the orphan Lazarillo.
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Teaching Documents by Clare O’Brien
This conference was done in collaboration with another instructor and section, and the goal is to establish this as an annual department-wide event.
Talks by Clare O’Brien
Garden (2014), this paper explores the natural environment as a place that preserves identity. In the mu’allaqat, or the hanging odes of pre-Islamic poetry, the desert landscape is a motif representing the Arabic past. The poem is therefore a preservation of memory and identity through the markings in the sand the old Bedouin camps that once lived there. The poet revisits these ruins in his words, and he laments about what has been lost to the natural progression of time and nomadic life. Similarly, in Li Ang’s The Lost Garden, the protagonist’s father Zhu Zhuyan attempts to preserve old traditions in his Lotus Garden. He constructs it as a safe haven inside a quickly developing nation, indulging in its creation and other passions until he drains the family’s wealth. Zhu Yinghong, his daughter, eventually attempts to reclaim the garden and to somehow return to what was lost to the past. In both the classical Arabic and contemporary Taiwanese traditions, natural elements represent the life of generations past.
This conference was done in collaboration with another instructor and section, and the goal is to establish this as an annual department-wide event.
Garden (2014), this paper explores the natural environment as a place that preserves identity. In the mu’allaqat, or the hanging odes of pre-Islamic poetry, the desert landscape is a motif representing the Arabic past. The poem is therefore a preservation of memory and identity through the markings in the sand the old Bedouin camps that once lived there. The poet revisits these ruins in his words, and he laments about what has been lost to the natural progression of time and nomadic life. Similarly, in Li Ang’s The Lost Garden, the protagonist’s father Zhu Zhuyan attempts to preserve old traditions in his Lotus Garden. He constructs it as a safe haven inside a quickly developing nation, indulging in its creation and other passions until he drains the family’s wealth. Zhu Yinghong, his daughter, eventually attempts to reclaim the garden and to somehow return to what was lost to the past. In both the classical Arabic and contemporary Taiwanese traditions, natural elements represent the life of generations past.