Program
for English 700 Graduate Colloquium
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Thursday, November 30
Panel I: The
Medieval Period to the 18th Century: Feminist Approaches
Gabriel Vicencio, “The Mysterious
Made Innocuous: Using Simone de Beauvoir to Explore Gender Construction
in The Squire’s Tale”
Erika Claire Strandjord, “Prophetic
Play as Feminist Author/ity: The Rhetoric of Vision in Aemilia Lanyer’s
Salve Deus Rex Judæorum”
Jeffrey Tinley, “Building Rooms of
Resistance: Demythologizing and Demystifying the Lover and Beloved in
Mary Wroth’s Love Sonnets”
Juliann Reineke, “Becoming a Woman in
Frances Burney’s Evelina:
Female Sociality and the Construction of Gender Identity”
Panel II:
Approaches to Narrative and Identity
Geordie Hamilton, “Consciousness of
Family: Reading Chesnutt’s The
Marrow of Tradition as Historical Fiction”
John Acker, “Fervid Conceptions:
Narrating Revelation in Wieland"
Josh Gass, “‘Conceal’d and Discover’d’: Reading Contradiction in Moll Flanders”
Friday, December 1
Panel III:
Postcolonial Theory, Postmodernism, and Neomarxism: Implications for
Literary and Rhetorical Analysis
Gina Gemmel, “Can the Non-Subaltern
Speak? Ethnic Identity and Literary Impersonation”
Lizzie Nixon, “Past the First Post:
Postcolonial Historiographic Metafiction in Catherine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie”
David Deutsch, “Re-connecting Music
in Howards End: Forster’s
Aesthetics of Inclusion”
Jessica Clements, “Engagement Ring
Advertisements: A Case Study of Debt and the Rhetoric of Need and Want”
Panel IV: Desire, Interpretation,
Genre: At the Interface between Text and Context
Joe Hess, “Freudian Approaches to the
‘Circe’ Episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses”
Michele Wilbert, “Llorando por Tu
Amor: Thwarted Expectation and Disruption of Audience Desire in David
Lynch’s Mulholland Drive”
Dennis Wilson Wise, “McEwan’s Atonement and Todorov’s Fantastic:
Rethinking Genre from the Standpoint of Reader Response”
Emerson Lowell, “Uncanny Freaks,
Marvelous Clowns: Ontologies of the Other in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus”