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ENGL 461/562: Fall 2009 Conference Saturday, 21 November 2009 Location: Blackwell Hall, Prince Edward Room Beverages and light refreshments will be available. |
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ENGL 461/562: Fall 2009 Conference Saturday, 21 November 2009 Location: Blackwell Hall, Prince Edward Room Beverages and light refreshments will be available. |
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Bodies that Matter, 8:00-9:00
Maggie Hodges
“Henrik Ibsen as Feminist?”
Katherine Sloan
“The Theme of ‘Woman’ in Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers”
Jen Jackson
“Homosocial Desire in Tagore’s Home and the World”
Perspectives on Passing, 9:10-10:10
Emily Wilke
“Interpretive Accounts for Ambiguity in Nella Larsen's Passing”
Samantha Upshaw
“Conscious and Unconscious Presentations of Interpellation in Nella Larsen’s Passing”
Jon Norcutt
“The Novel De-centered: Derrida in Nella Larsen’s Passing”
Reader Response and Cultural Studies, 10:20-11:20
Anni O’Dell
“The Surprising Origins of the Girl Next Door; or, When Lilli became Barbie”
Carey McCue
“Is Morgenstern Real?: Reading (and Re-reading)The Princess Bride”
Megan Flynn
“Connected by Contradictions: 21st-Century Vampires”
Studies in Dystopia, 11:30-12:30
Mattie Cover
“Totalitarianism and Psychoanalysis in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies”
Katy Stein
“Totalitarianism and the Reavers in Firefly and Serenity ”
Erica Gore
“Marxism and The Wizard of Oz”
Lunch Break
Freudian Connections, 1:40-2:40
Kelly Partner
“The Uncanny Clare Kendry”
Angela Sloan
“Identical Twins and the ‘Uncanny’ in Film”
Amisha Savalia
“Unwinding the ‘Uncanny’ in Philip Pullman’s Clockwork”
Structuralism and Poststructuralism, 2:50-3:50
Patrick Day
“Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde: A Structuralist View of the Wheel of Fortune in Medieval Literature”
Stephen Ownby
“Gender Bending in the Fabliaux: A Poststructuralist Analysis”
Michael Gills
“Kurt Vonnegut and the Limits of Poststructuralism”
Studies in Postmodernism, 4:00-5:00
Samantha Cash
“The Monstrosity in Motherhood: Rethinking the Grotesque in Joyce Carol Oates’ Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque”
Dylan Feathers
“The End of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried: A Beginning”
Troy Bishop
“Vigilante or Crusader?: Postmodern Superheroes in The Watchmen”
Between Fiction and Nonfiction, 5:10-5:50
Debbie Castrinos
“Virginia Woolf and Integrity”
Ginger Tinsley
“The ‘Uncanny’ in Capote’s In Cold Blood”
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