English Department Research Symposium
5:30 Introduction
from the Honours Chair – Prof. Tom Mole
from DESA – Katherine Hannemann and Lauren Welsh
5:45 Panel 1 – The Possibilities of Language
Claire Caldwell
Linguistic Marginality and the Self in the Work of Dionne Brand, Daphne Marlatt, and Nicole Brossard
(Supervised by Nathalie Cooke)
Luke Neima
D. H. Lawrence and the Limits of Language
(Supervised by David Hensley)
Mahak Jain
"A Plunge into the Depths": Aime Cesaire, Virginia Woolf, and the Experience of Anguish
(Supervised by Tabitha Sparks)
6:15 Panel 2 – Women Writers in the 20th Century
Sheila Giffen
Complicity and Resistance in Women's Wartime Fiction: Woolf, Stein and HD Write WWII
(Supervised by Miranda Hickman)
Lauren Welsh
Persevering in Thinness: The Feminist Problem and Sylvia Plath’s Anorexic Aesthetic
(Supervised by Monique Morgan)
6:45 – 7:15 Break
7:15 Panel 3 – Contemporary Media and Cultural Space
Cosima Amelang
Are They Man Enough? Masculine Anxiety in the Films of Judd Apatow
(Supervised by Berkeley Kaite)
William Robinson
Gamer Artists: Why Video Games Demand Creative Collaboration
(Supervised by Trevor Ponech)
Leah Pires
Rooms with a View: Promoting Plurality in Museum Spaces
(Supervised by Ara Osterweil)
7:45 Panel 4 – Nationalism, Identity and Literature
Matthias Lalisse
J.M. Coetzee and the Intellectual
(Supervised by Monica Popescu)
Sophie Busby
The Alternative Politics of Etgar Keret and Samir El-Youssef in Gaza Blues
(Supervised by Yael Halevi-Wise)
Emily Dolmans
The Development of the Outlaw Hero: Robin Hood, Fielding's Jonathan Wild, and Hornung's A.J. Raffles
(Supervised by Dorothy Bray)
8:15 Panel 5 – Mentorship, Historical Influence and Cultural Memory
Eric Leinveer
Working with Captain Fiction: Gordon Lish's Influence on the work of Raymond Carver and Amy Hempel
(Supervised by Alanna Thain)
Katherine Hannemann
The Feminist Bildung: The Formative Years of HD, Mina Loy and Marianne Moore
(Supervised by Miranda Hickman)
Rosa Aiello
W. G. Sebald
(Supervised by David Hensley)