English 700 Colloquium Schedule (AU 07)


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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"