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8:45 Registration begins
light breakfast served
9:30 First Panel Sessions
The Present(s) of Reading (Merkert 129): moderator David Tennant
Ann Aspell, University of Vermont 'Blind Mouth': Christopher Logue's Adaptations of Homer's Iliad for the Page
Emily Spear, University of Rochester Keeping the Hours with a Dead Sound: Time and Suffering in The Waste Land
James Deys, Binghamton University Releasing the Positive Potentialities of Roquentin's Ontological and Aesthetic Solution in La Nausée
Tim Jackson, Boston University Reading Aemilia Lanyer and Edna St. Vincent Millay through Anthologies
Fear, Politics and the Body (Murray Room): moderator Nirmal Trivedi
Shannon Payne, UMass Amherst Transcendent Sex: Humanizing the (Fictional) Homeless Body
Randy Laist, University of Connecticut Toxic Spectacle/Infected Spectator: Sunsets in Don DeLillo's White Noise
Melissa Dennihy, Binghamton University A New Kind of Cure: The Diseased Female Body's Exposure of the Illusory and the Invisible
Thomas Jordan, Binghamton University V for Vendetta: Fear and the Specter Left in its Wake
New Ideas in Pedagogy (Merkert 130): moderator Jason Kerr
Christopher Dibiase, Boston College Going Public: Exceeding the Center/Margin Binary in Writing Center Studies
Kathryn Conner Bennett, Boston College Theorizing a Pedagogy of Public Writing for College Composition
Narrative Prognoses (Merkert 127): moderator Matthew Heitzman
Steven Wandler, Boston University Luck in Narrative, Luck as Narrative
Viviane Boileau, Concordia University Writing Fever: the Case of Ormond
Christopher Wallis, Boston College Reawakening Natural Awairness: Environmentalism in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
11:00 Second Panel Sessions
The Anxious Body of the 18th Century (Merkert 127): moderator Alyssa Connell
Sarah Cornish, Fordham University 'Sprunking' in the Glass: Effeminacy, National Masculinity, Abjection, and the Poet in the Eighteenth Century
Danielle Spratt, Fordham University The Scientifically Market Body: Deformity and Emasculation in the New Scientific Tradition
Megan Burke, Fordham University Pregnancy in Poetry: Two Different Tendencies in Eighteenth Century Verse
Melissa Whalen, Fordham University Pain and Poetry: A Plea for Sympathy in Eighteenth-Century Poetic Discourse
The Exploratory Potential of Modernist Narrative (Merkert 129): moderator Nikhil Gupta
Daniel Ryan Morse, Temple University The Gramophone Effect Effect: (Mal)function in Woolf's Between the Acts
Meghan Marie Hammond, NYU Buried Alive: Narrative Potential and Mass Grave Sites in Alberto Méndez's "First Defeat (1939)" and El Valle de los Caídos
Elisa Segnini, University of Toronto "The average reader and the pleasure of reading in Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler
Zack Finch, SUNY Buffalo Caliban's Gait: Transgressive Grammars of American Exploratory Writing
The Invisible Feminine? (Merkert 130): moderator Beth Tressler
Minjeong Kim, SUNY Binghamton Love in the Time of Imperialism
Elizabeth Foley, Fordham University The Flâneuse Set Free: Women and Scopic Power in Woolf, Joyce and Rhys
Colleen Martell, Lehigh University Tongues on Fire: Rerouting Feminist Speech
Junghan Choi, SUNY at Stony Brook No Name, No Class, No Identity: Female Orphans that Threaten Victorian Families
Lunch
1:00 Third Panel Sessions
New Readings in Object Studies (Merkert 130): moderator Patrick Moran
Patrick Moran, Boston College An Obsession with Plenitude: The Aesthetics of Hoarding in Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Howard Martin, Boston College More than Glass': Transparent Boundaries, Reflection, and Photography in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon
Dathalinn O'Dea, Boston College All Our Human Boundaries Overrun: (Dis)Embodiment & the Construction of Subjectivity in Housekeeping
The Cosmetic Female Body (Merkert 127): moderator Lori Bennett
Erin Kappeler, Tufts University Cutting Words: The Invisibility of María Cristina Mena's Marriage by Miracle
Jess Landis, UMass Amherst 'I Am Not to His Manners': Problematizing Bodily Conversion in The Merchant of Venice
Kellie Deys, Binghamton University Barbie's (R)Evolution?" Bratz Dolls, the Rhetoric of Democracy, and a 'Passion for Fashion'
Gina Mazzocco, Boston College Hybridity: The Path to Feminine Power
Post-Colonial Silences (Merkert 129): moderator Gene Gorman
Justine Cadet, Simmons College The Role of South African Protest Fiction: A New Historicist/Post-Colonial Critical Approach to Njabulo S. Ndebele's Death of a Son
Jaclyn Partyka, UMass Boston Abel's Ambiguity: Nontraditional Voice in Momaday's House Made of Dawn
Darcy Mullen, University of Rochester Era, Area and Error: Spaces Far From Caution in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
2:15 Coffee and Tea break
3:00 Keynote Address by Prof. Bill Brown, University of Chicago
4:00 Response and discussion led by Professor Laura Tanner, Boston College
