International Conference on Narrative: April 19 - 4

The International Conference on Narrative will be held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from April 18 – 22, 2018.

Professor Lindsay Holmgren invites the Desautels Community to attend the Panels and Talks hosted at the Desautels Faculty of Management.

Please note that the plenary engagements are closed to the public due to limited seating in Moyse Hall.

1. Sociality and Affectivity in Narrative Contexts

Location: 151
Moderator: Donald Wehrs, Auburn University

Presentations:

• Sociality and Affect in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul
  Thomas Blake, Monroe Community College
• More Than a Feeling: Shelley’s Affects
  Joel Robert Faflak, University of Western Ontario
• Social Cues
  Audrey Jaffe, University of Toronto
• Human Prehistory in Oral Storytelling in Light of Sociality’s Evolutionary Prehistory
  Donald Wehrs, Auburn University

2. Cultural Narratives I

Location: 422
Moderator: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky

Presentations:

• Contesting Napoleon: Cultural Narrative and Ekphrastic Refusal
  Mary Louise Kete, University of Vermont
• Joseph O’Neil’s Netherland: The Cultural Fantasy Work of Neoliberalism
  Donald Pease, Dartmouth College
• The Public Sphere in the Disinformation Age
  Timothy Melley, Miami University

3. Mimetic, Thematic, Synthetic

Location: 410
Moderator: Kelly Marsh, Mississippi State University

Presentations:

• Rearranging the Furniture: The Synthetic, Mimetic, and Thematic Aspects in Rhetorical Narratology
  Matthew Clark, York University
• Narrative as Rhetoric and the MTS Model
  James Phelan, The Ohio State University

4. Creative Classroom Strategies for Teaching Narrative Theory

Location: 210
Moderator: Jody Rosen, New York City College of Technology

Roundtable Participants:

• Jody Rosen, New York City College of Technology
• Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY
• Joanne Freed, Oakland University
• Zoltan Varga, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

5. Core Concepts in Critical Race Narratology

Location: 210
Moderator: James Donahue, State University of New York, Potsdam

Presentations:

• Focalization and the Ideological Construction of Race
  Shaun Morgan, Tennessee Wesleyan University
• Voice and Racialization
  Claudia Breger, Columbia University
• Whose Story is This Anyway?
  Jennifer Ann Ho, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Navigating Race in Storyworlds
  Deborah Noel, University of Vermont

6. Seriality

Location: 245
Moderator: Monique Morgan, Indiana University

Presentations:

• Previously On...The Iliad: A Field Report on Epic Episodes
  Lynn Kozak, McGill University
• It Is Happening Again: Twin Peaks, Seriality, and the Failures of Nostalgia
  Anne Moore, Tufts University

7. Thinking with Narrative in David Foster Wallace

Location: 310
Moderator: Yonina Hoffman, The Ohio State University

Presentations:

• Problems of Wallace’s Poetics: Comedy, Voice, and Visuality in Broom of the System
  Yonina Hoffman,The Ohio State University
• Listen: Wallace’s Short Story Endings and the Narration of Silence
  Jeffrey Severs, University of British Columbia
• Thinking with David Foster Wallace: A Cognitive Reading of “Mister Squishy”
  Christopher White, Governors State University
• Complex Plots: Representations of Emergence in Godel, Escher, Bach, and Infinite Jest
  Toon Staes, University of Antwerp

8.  Wander, Decenter, Transform

Location: 178
Moderator: Katharine Streip, Concordia University

Presentations:

• The Possibility of Stories: Things We Learn from Talking Birds
  Kara Wittman, Pomona College
• Beat Narrative and Posthumanism
  Katharine Streip, Concordia University
• Intertextuality and Metanarrative Discourse in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s The Man from the West (1927)
  Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington University
• Narrating Epic: Dante’s and Milton’s Transformation of the Classical Epic
  Deseree Cipollone, McGill University

9. Practices of Narrative Reading and Writing from the 4e Perspective

Location: 245
Moderator: Karin Kukkonen, University of Oslo

Presentations:

• Attachment, Narratives, and the Understanding of Self and Others
  Camilla Chams, University of Oslo
• Re-thinking Narratives: Composing Images into Poems Within Late Eighteenth-Century Women’s Novels
  Yasemin Hacioglu, University of Oslo
• Enacting “the Embodied Reader”
  Kaisa Kortekallio, University of Helsinki

10. The Politics of LatinX-Women

Location: 360
Moderator: Frederick Luis Aldama, The Ohio State University

Presentations:

• Visions of X-treme Niñas: Monstrosity, Citizenship, and Girlhood in Marvel’s “Logan”
  Danielle Orozco, The Ohio State University
• My Spanish is Way Better When I’m Pissed Off: Tensions Between Puerto Rican and American Identities in La Borinqueña and Paths
  Nicole Pizarro, The Ohio State University
• Hola! Superhero ExploraDora: Commodification of Dora the Explorer and Friends: Into the City! And Loss of Latina Empowerment
  Cristina Rivera, The Ohio State University
• Cultural Crowdsourcing: America Chavez, Laura Kinney, and Fandom’s Minority Narratives
  Erica Massey, Southern Methodist University