No one will be talking trash about this year’s excellent MA Conference!

See below for a schedule of events:

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

In President’s Conference Room 2, Rosenthal Library, 5th floor

9:30 – 10:00 Welcome and Coffee

10:00 – 10:15 Opening Remarks

– Professors Caroline Kyungah Hong and Bill Orchard (Directors of Graduate Studies in English)

– Frances Romano and Andriana Xenophontos (on behalf of the 2016 Graduate Conference Committee)

– Professor Steve Kruger (Chair of the English Dept.)

 

10:15 – 11:30 Panel 1: Impure Thoughts (and Bodies)

– Chair: Professor Siân Silyn Roberts

– Jessica A. Klett, “‘Have you got so far ben as that?’: Adolescent Mental Illness in Margaret Oliphant’s ‘The Library Window’”

– Beth Sherman, “‘In Your London, None are there who would not Know me for a Stranger’: Language, Fear and Non-Assimilation in Dracula”

– Andriana Xenophontos, “The Perpetual Funeral: Social Death and ‘Social Rejuvenation’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”

 

11:45 – 1:00 Panel 2: The Odd One In

– Chair: Professor Kevin Ferguson

– John Giunta, “Pull On Your Tights and Give Them Hell: The Latter-Day Works of Frank Miller”

– Magen Martinez, “Spinster-phobia: The Evolution of the Victorian Woman to the Almost Contemporary Woman”

– Paola Maria Rodriguez, “Entering at Dawn the Splendid Cities: Arthur Rimbaud’s Revolutionary Prose Poem and the Inheritance of Its Legacy by Charles Simic”

 

1:00 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 3:15 Panel 3: Outside, Near, and Beyond: Trashing Identities

– Chair: Professor Seo-Young Chu

– Brianna Jaye Doucet, “Abjection in the Home: The Redefined Locus of Power in Beloved and Mama Day”

– Frances Romano, “The Matter of the Text: Queerness, Identity, and Proximity in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home”

– Marina Vlahaki, “Breaking Boundaries: [Non]-Declarative Identities in Gilbert Hernandez’s Julio’s Day”

 

3:50 – 5:00 Panel 4: Breaking Genres

– Chair: Professor Gloria Fisk

– Mary Catherine Ford, “‘Good Country People’ Through the Lens of Jacques Lacan”

– Eric Hahn, “No Offense: American Values, Good Taste, and the 1980s Z Horror Film”

– Saidah Henderson, “My Brother’s Keeper?: Intertextual Lineage and Critique in the Novels of Richard Wright and James Baldwin”

– Amanda Torres, “Nineteenth-Century Femininity in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Dracula”

 

In the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Klapper Hall, 4th floor

5:30 – 6:30 Keynote Address: Professor Jordan Stein,

“The Feelings That Persist After History Ends”

Best Conference Paper Award Presentation

In Klapper Hall, 6th floor

6:30 – 7:00 Reception

We hope to see you there!