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”