English 700 Colloquium Schedule
(AU 07)
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papers.
First Day (Wednesday, November 28,
11:30 - 1:18)
Panel I:
Postmodernism, Feminism, Ethnicity, and Sexuality
Catherine Hart, "The Politics of the
Postmodern in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters"
Candice Pipes, "Womanism: A Critical
Framework for African Women's Literature"
Dylan Canter, "Queering the Story,
Redefining the Self: Chicano/a narrative in Felicia Luna Lemus's Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties"
Jenna Guimaraes, "Queer Politics in
Alexander Chee's Edinburgh:
How Plato and Sappho Shape a 21st-century Novel"
Panel II:
Questions of Identity: Performance, Discourse, and Narrative
Jennifer Herman, "Shewing, Sight, and
Understanding: Gender Performance and a Feminized Christian Literacy in
Julian of Norwich's Revelation of
Love"
Eliabeth Brewer, "The Revolutionary
Revenger: Foucauldian Approaches to the Revenger in The Spanish Tragedy and The Revenger's Tragedy"
Joy Futrell, "Séance as
Ritual:
Effects of Extended Liminality on American Spiritualism"
Cassie Patterson, "Formal
Narratology, Contextual Narratology, and Folklore: An Integrative
Approach to Appalachian Identity in Harriette Simpson Arnow's 'The Goat
Who Was a Cow'"
Second Day (Friday, November 30, 9:30
- 11:18)
Panel III:
Perspectives on Joyce's Dubliners
Ann Burgoyne, "Assertion and
Subjugation: The Representation of Mothers in James Joyce's Dubliners"
Nancy Stewart, "Controlling One's
Narratives: James Duffy's Absence in 'A Painful Case'"
Jeff Tibbett, "A Question of
Reliability: The Narrators of Joyce's Dubliners"
Emily Hooper, "Masculine Mothers:
Gender Performance in Joyce's 'A Mother' and 'The Boarding House'"
Panel IV: 19th-Century American
Literature and Culture: Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville
Karin Hooks, "Foucauldian
Perspectives on Frederick Douglass: Power and Subversion in the
Mid-19th-Century Black Press"
Lauren Clark, "Scarlet and Silence:
Imperial Anxieties in Hawthorne's The
Scarlet Letter"
Lindsay Martin, "'Valuable
Statistics' or Superstitious Mysteries: Ishmael's
Narration and Ideology in Moby-Dick"
Zachary Vance, "Transformation of a
Classical Figure: Reading Captain Ahab as an Epic Figure within a
Democratic Society"