M.A. COLLOQUIUM
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS:
Time: Panel title:
Reading how we read: Strategies for interpreting textual structure
2:30-2:50 Jonathan Armoza. Plotting in Reverse: “Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots” and “Bartleby, the Scrivener."
2:50-3:10 Mitchell Brown. Tragedy in Justice: Consequences and Potentialities.
3:10-3:20 QUESTIONS
The Novel and the Nation: Political and artistic identities in postcolonial and diasporic literature
3:20-3:40 Robyn Clarke. Fragmented Families in the Aftermath of the Second World War: Alliances and Collaboration in Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness.
3:40-4:00 Adriane Epprecht. Dreaming Zimbabwe or 'How to Swallow History': Feminism, Nationalism and the Diaspora of Yvonne Vera's Nehanda.
4:00-4:10 QUESTIONS
4:10-4:20 BREAK
Affect, emotion, and the human psyche
4:20-4:40 Morgan Gagnon. The Affect of Affects.
4:40-5:00 Shirley Shen-Shih Yeh. “That Intense and Pure Elevation of Soul”: Shakespeare and Gothic Romanticism.
5:00-5:10 QUESTIONS
Mechanizing the Body
5:10-5:30 Kevin Droz. Burdens and Playthings: Children, Toys, and Play in Elizabeth Bowen’s The House in Paris.
5:30-5:50 Jennifer Yida Pan. Epistemological Technology and Sexuality in D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
5:50-6:00 QUESTIONS
6:00-7:00 RECEPTION