The OSU Colloquium on Consciousness, Intelligent Activity, Interiority, and Emotion in 20th-century British Fiction

(Click here for a page containing abstracts of all the colloquium papers.)

Panel I: Mind and Emotion in Joyce and Beckett (Monday, March 7, 9:30 – 10:20)


1.    Stacey Clemence, “Aesthetics in Disguise: A Portrait of of the Knowledge Argument”

2.    Danielle LaVaque-Manty, “Interrupting Make-Believe: Narrators’ Roles in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy and Watt”

3.    Eric Parrish, “Behaviorist Narration in Beckett’s Murphy"

Panel II: Consciousness and Narration in Woolf (Monday, March 7, 10:25 – 11:18)

1.    Heather Kirn, “‘She Felt Herself Everywhere’: Representations of the Upward-Spiraling Collective Consciousness in Mrs Dalloway

2.    Elizabeth Marsch, “A Mind of One’s Own: Narration and Influence in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

3.    Allison Fisher, “Narrative Presence, Ascription, and Representations of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald’s ‘Miss Ella’”

Panel III: Fictional Minds: Extensions, Extrapolations, Reworkings (Monday, March 7, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., DE 447)

1.    Maureen Traverse, “Object of Affection: Disembodied Consciousness as a Means of Understanding Human Identity”

2.    Jolie Lewis, “Butterfly Theory”

3.    Doug Watson, “What Is It Like? An Academic Farce”

Panel IV: Postmodern Minds: Aspects of Interiority in Rhys, Amis, and McEwan (Wednesday, March 9, 9:30 – 11:18)

1.    Miranda S. Miller, “‘There is always the other side, always’: Searching for the Emotional Other in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

2.    Ann Godfrey, “Consciousness and Identity: The Social Mind and Intersubjectivity in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

3.    Nicholas Vanover, “(Dis)connected Dots: ‘Metaspection’ and Consciousness in Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow

4.    Julie O’Leary, “Theory of Minds: Focalization, Folk Psychology, and Ian McEwan’s Atonement