2011 St. John's English Graduate Conference

The conference will take place on Saturday, April 16 in St. Albert Hall B70 & B75.  This year's conference features an exciting mix of scholarly and creative writing panels.  Morning sessions take place from 9:15-12:00, while afternoon sessions take place from 1:00-3:45.  Lunch will be available at 12:00.

Please see the official schedule below.

8:30-9:00) Breakfast

9:15-10:30) Re-presenting the ‘Teaching of World Literature’ (B70)

Tuli Chatterji, “Re-visiting the Canon (Western Literature) with a ‘Difference’”

David Price, “Multidimensional and Multi-system Conversations: How Postmodern Discourse Opens the Door to Teaching 20th Century Modern World Literature”

Kumru Susel, “‘Translating’ World Literature”

Moderator: Dr. Dohra Ahmad

9:15-10:30) Deviant Strokes: (Re)visiting the ORIGINality of the 18^th-Century Novel  (B75)

Elizabeth Walsh, “‘The Scotch mope, as they call him’: Mr. McCartney as Proof of Evelina’s Worth”

Samantha Deliso, “‘Thus … has my Pamela turn’d these Lines’: The Roles of Spirituality and Poetry in the Subjection of Pamela”

Angie A. Lalla, “Aestheticizing Humor in Novel Form: Sporting the Comic and Relieving with Wit in Burney’s Evelina”

Moderator: Dr. Kathleen Lubey

10:45-12:00) Takin’ the Power Back: Applying Critical Race Theory to Education (B70)

Steve Netcoh, “Hip Hop, the Suburbs, and Critical Race Theory: Bridging the Gap from the ‘Burbs to Bell to Rap”

Radha Radkar, “Inclusive But (Un)equal: Equity as Technology for Institutional Racism in Educational Discourse”

Kathie Cheng, “The Passage of HB 2281: Are We in the Midst of Another Culture War?”

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Travis

10:45-12:00) George Eliot: Explorations in Realism (B75)

Erin Keane, “Red Deeps and Real World: George Eliot’s Use of the Wooded Space to Subvert Tradition”

Tara Bradway, “Speaking with Dorothea’s Voice: Languages of Art, Architecture, and Textuality in George Eliot’s Middlemarch”

Ed Marks, “A Journey through Genres: Dorothea Brooke’s Exit from the Epic”

Moderator: Dr. Gregory Maertz

12:00-1:00) Lunch

1:00-2:15) Re-Reading the ‘Discourse’ of Nationalism from a Theoretical and Historical Perspective (B70)

Tuli Chatterji, “‘Political Modernity’ as a non-Western Discourse”

Colin Elliott, “The Place of ‘Nationalism’ in Modern Historiography”

Babette Roth, “The Necessity of Silences in Historiography”

Moderators: Dr. Robert Fanuzzi and Dr. Susie Pak

1:00-2:15) The Evolution of George Eliot: A Deeper Look at the Writer’s Developing Forms and Techniques (B75)

Anna Sicari, “Exploration of Sympathy for Women in George Eliot: Adam Bede”

Meredith Leverich, “Socialization and Lack of Agency in The Mill on the Floss”

Leah McGuckin, “Fairytales for Grown-ups: Depictions of Calvinism and Consciousness in Silas Marner”

Moderator: Dr. Gregory Maertz

2:30-3:45) Re-imagining Femininity in British Literature, From the 17^th through the 19^th Century             ( B70)

Danielle Lee, “The Real Sycorax”

Callie DiSabato, “The Mechanical Pineapple of Femininity Rejected in Evelina”

Nevena Georgieva, “‘Yes, We Are Kin’: From Female Kinship to Conjugal Love in George Eliot’s Adam Bede”

Moderator: Dr. Nicole Rice

2:30-3:45) Creative Writing (B75)

Jordan Baum, “Essay on Running”

Sarah Goncalves, “Not My Story”

Steve Williams, “Stranded”

Moderator: Prof. Gabriel Brownstein