Thursday, April 29
9:15–10:00 Matt Scribner
“A Presentation on Disguise in Thirteenth-Century Romance… Or So It Seems”
10:00–10:45 Brett Roscoe
“Prolegomena to the Study of Emotion in Old Icelandic Literature: Problems and Possibilities”
10:45–11:30 Kimi Hamada
“ ‘Desiring Comfort, Desiring Coziness’: Recuperations and Intersections of Diaspora and Nostalgia Theory
11:30–1:30 LUNCH BREAK
1:30–2:15 Fraser Hawkins
“Reading the 2010 World Cup: Fictions of Development in and around the Cape Town Stadium”
2:15–3:00 Jelena Marelj
“Intueor ergo sum: Plotinus, Cognition, and Descartes’ Cogito”
3:00–3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:15–4:00 Laura Kinderman
“The Symmetry of Uncertainty: Aporia in Romantic Musipoetics”
4:00–4:45 Andrew McKendry
“A ‘Sober, Useful, and Industrious’ People: Trade and Nonconformity in Seventeenth-Century England”
Friday, April 30
9:30–10:15 Marc Foley
“The Hurting Chime: Addiction, Allegory, Inertia”
10:15–11:00 Dale Tracy
“Breathy Dialogues, Bleeding Dyes: Compassion in Proxy Witness Poetry”
11:00–11:45 Laura McGavin
“Medical Diagnostics and Literary Close Reading”
11:45–12:45 LUNCH BREAK
12:45–1:30 Jess Roberts
“ ‘Save the Children’: Child Soldiers, Life Narrative, and Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone”
1:30–2:15 Leslie Stobbart
“Dismantling the Bomb: Trauma and Articulation in Contemporary War Fiction”
2:15–3:00 MaryAnne Laurico
“Violent Biopolitikin’ and Metabolised Ecologies: The (Non)Human-As-Resource, Biotechnology’s Agency, and Aesthetic Activisms”
3:00–4:00 Reception: English lounge, all welcome
Thursday, April 30
10:00 – 10:45 Cara Fabre
Stigma and Subjectivity: Plotting Poverty in Canadian Literature
10:45 – 11:30 Marc Fortin
Everything is Connected?: Mind/Body, Nature/Culture,and the Missing
Link
11:30 – 12:15 Kate Hallemeier
Cosmopolitanism and Sympathy
12:15 – 12:45 LUNCH BREAK
12:45 – 1:30 Jaime Denike
Writing Narrators
1:30 – 2:15 Don Bourne
“To the Reader”: Paratext in Gulliver’s Travels
2:15 – 3:00 Ben Bakhtiarynia
Are Ethics and Aesthetics One?: The Ancient Quarrel Renewed
Friday, May 1
10:00 – 10:45 Aaron Mauro
“The Sphinx Must Solve Her Own Riddle”: The Metaphors of
History in the Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
10:45 – 11:30 Dan Pinsent
e. e. cummings’ EIMI: Giving an Account of Is/Self
11:30 – 12:15 Stephen Guy
You’re So Mean, Mary McCarthy
12:15 – 12:45 LUNCH BREAK
12:45 – 1:30 Darren Springer
“The Fleshy Matrix”: Antebellum America and the Body in
Robert Montgomery Bird’s Sheppard Lee
1:30 – 2:15 Jon Gaboury
The Enthusiasts: John Brown, John Wilkes Booth, and the Number One
2:15 – 4:00 Reception English Lounge, all welcome
WEDNESDAY, April 30
10:00 – 10:45 Emmy Anglin
"For I am the Lord's News-Writer:" Madness and Confinement in the Poems
of Christopher Smart and Allen Ginsberg
10:45 – 11:30 Jordan Smith
Making Time: Sham Ruins and Fragments of the 18th Century
12:15 – 12:45 LUNCH BREAK
12:45 – 1:30 Paul Saunders
Ecocriticism and the Nature of Modernist Ecology
1:30 – 2:15 Payal Taneja
Evolutionary Zoontologies: Origin of Care among the Species
2:15 – 3:00 Emily Bruusgaard
Silk and Sexuality
THURSDAY, May 1
10:00 – 10:45 Raji Singh Soni
Comparative Ascetics: Syncretism, Secularism, and the Politics of Doing
Without
10:45 – 11:30 Allison Smith
“A plea, a petition, a kind of prayer”: Intersections of
the sacred and the erotic in Nick Cave's love songs
11:30 – 12:15 Daniel Moore
"Like dull narcotics, numbing pain": Mourning, Consolation, and
Sedatives
12:15 – 12:45 LUNCH BREAK
12:45 – 1:30 Jon McKay
“Who, among you, deserves eternal life?": Authorship, Sexuality
and Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island
1:30 – 2:15 Tim McIntyre
From Ethics to Phenomenology: Derrida, Levinas, and the Ethical Turn in
Literary Criticism
2:15 – 3:00 Jeremy DeChavez
The Unbearable Enlightenment of Becoming: Modernity, Transition, and
the Southeast Asian Novel
3:30 Reception Grad Club upstairs, all welcome
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday April 30, May 1 & 2 Watson Hall 517
MONDAY, April 30
10:00 - 11:00 Matt Strohack
"I Say to You that I am Dead!": Economies of Death in the Literature
of Horror
11:00 - 12:00 Shalini Khan
Imperial Science: Inoculations and Bacterial ‘others’ in
Edgar Mittelholzer’s My Bones and My Flute
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Paul Barrett
The problems of being human: Dionne Brand's Liquid Sublimity
2:00 - 3:00 Dheepa Sivakumaran
Tensions, Ambiguities and Paradoxes in Contemporary North American
Trauma Narratives
TUESDAY, May 1
10:00 - 11:00 Linda Quirk
Too Transgressive for Can. Lit.: Sara Jeannette Duncan's A Social
Departure: How Orthodocia and I Went Round the World By Ourselves
11:00 - 12:00 Marieke Kalkhove
Fetishizing the Foreigner: The Colonial Uncanny in Forster’s A
Passage to India and Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses
Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 Breanne Oryschak
This Talk Has 30 Minutes: Canadian-ness and Satire on CBC television.
2:00 - 3:00 Jason Bourget
What You Hold In Your Hands Is More Than A Book": Situating the
sexual in Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions
WEDNESDAY, May 2
10:00 - 11:00 Roula Salam
Re-Inviting Guests for More than Just Coffee: The Dregs of Memory at
the Borders in the Lebanese Post-War Novel
11:00 - 12:00 Ryan Porter
New Hamburg and its Grandstand: a Community's Loss, a Community's
Strength, a Community's Nostalgia
NB: There will be a light lunch reception at the Grad Club after the
last presentation on Wednesday.
Everyone is welcome.
Monday, Tuesday May 1 & 2 Watson Hall 517
MONDAY, May 1
9:00 - 10:00 Elisabeth Oliver
“Beauty unmans me”: Aesthetic Decoration in American
Literary Culture, 1880–1910
10:10 - 11:10 Kiley Kapuscinski
The Limits of Labour: Intersecting the Prostitute and the Female
Proletariat in Progressive Era American Fiction
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Ian Johnston
Dangerous Pleasire: The Story of O, Lesbian S/M, and the
Articulation of Submissive Desire
Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Heather Joyce
Coming to Terms: Real-izing 9/11
2:40 - 3:40 Craig Smith
American Catastrophe (?): Refiguring the Holocaust in America
TUESDAY, May 2
10:00 - 11:00 Caitlin Charman
“It’s a primitive island”: CBC’s Canada
Reads and the marketing of Frank Parker Day’s Rockbound
11:15 - 12:15 Ryan Melsom
Generation X and the Dance of Unstable Irony
NB: There will be a light lunch reception at the Grad Club after the
last presentation on Tuesday.
Everyone is welcome.
Special Topics Presentations, 2005
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday May 2, 3 & 5 Watson Hall 517
MONDAY, May 2 10-11
10:00 - 11:00 Rosa Barker
Magic Realism: Decolonizing the Literary Imagination
11:15 - 12:15 Heather Emmens
"Cham Swells and Sham Swells:" Male Impersonation in Postmodern
Victorian Fiction
Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 Jennifer Esmail
Flying Words and Fixed Bodies: Theories of American Sign Language
and its Poetry
2:30-3:30 Brandon Alakas
Abbot John's Dream and Brother William's Apostasy: Monastic Reading
Practices and Scholastic Literary Tradition in John Whethamstede's
Registers
TUESDAY, May 3
10-11 Lindsey Banco
"Trafficking in Snobbery: Drugs and the Contemporary Anti-Tourist
Novel"
11:15-12:15 Dana Olwan
"Split Affinities? Arab Women between Feminist and Nationalist
Discourses"
Lunch
1:15-2:15 Jason Boulet
"He Flung Himself Upon the Divan and Wrote Perversely Off in All
Directions:" Going A Rebours in Nineteenth-Century Literature
2:30-3:30 Veronica Blackbourn
"Ein urgemütliches Völkchen, or The Original Good-Natured
Little Race:" Austrian National Identity in the Postwar Volksstück
THURSDAY, May 5
9:30-10:30 Kirsten Martin
"Botanic Muse!": Poetic Science in Erasmus Darwin's "The Loves of
the Plants"
10:40-11:40 Shannon Smith
"Having feasted my eyes with one more look": Consumption,
Masculinity and the Medical Gaze in Victorian Fiction
12:00-1:00 Cheryl Cundell
The Disorder of Things: Empiricism and the Cartographic Enterprise,
or, the Observations of Samuel Hearne and Alexander Mackenzie
NB: There will be a light lunch reception at the Grad Club after the
last presentation on Thursday.
Everyone is welcome.
The Welcome Week 2010 Schedule for new and returning grad students is now online.
For those new to the Queen's University English Department grad program and to the city of Kingston. A list of Frequently Asked Questions about the grad program and finding your way around Kingston.