English Comps Symposium – Saturday, May 11, 2019
BREAKFAST — Hallway of 2nd Laird — 9:00 AM
WELCOME — Nancy Cho, Department Chair — 9:25 AM
SESSION I 9:30-10:35 AM
A. Research I: Fiction and the Limits of Representation— Laird 212
Sarah Bobbe, “Martin Amis’s Representation of the Unrepresentable in Time’s Arrow”
Lizzy Lynn, “The Life-Affirming Potential of Storytelling in Philip Roth’s American Trilogy”
Chris Wortman, “Gass’ Theory of Metaphor in In the Heart of the Heart of the Country”
B. Colloquium: Transgression — Laird 206
Nathaniel Chew, Kate Johnson, Alex Mackiel, Galen Moller, Laura Smith,
Julia Truten, Annie Utzschneider, Elyse Wanzenried, Addison Williamson
C. Creative Projects: Disruptive Reading, Disruptive Writing — Laird 211
Cristian Hernandez, “(Non)Fiction”
James Smith, “A framework for reading queer and feminist picture books in K-3 settings”
Dylan Larson-Harsch, “Countercurse”
SESSION II 10:45-11:45 AM
A. Research II: The Stakes and Forms of Modernism — Laird 206
Julian Hast, “Subversion of Truth and Redemptive Power in Woolf’s Novels”
Kerrin Mulkern, “This Temporary Eclipse: Enjambment in H.D.’s Trilogy”
Mary Sears, “Resisting Victorian Mourning in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse”
B. The Story Tellers — Laird 211
Emily Bruell, “Pomegranate Seeds”
Ellie Grabowski, “On the Threshold: A Short Story Cycle”
Clara Finkelstein, “Crossed Her Heart”
C. Research III: Identity and the Literary Imagination — Laird 212
Anne Hackman, “Searching for a Japanese American Language in Nisei Daughter and No-No Boy”
Jennifer Chan, “Morality of Performance in Hamlet & Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”
Brynne Diggins, “Identity and Independence in the Novels of Krupabai Satthianadhan”
RECEPTION / LUNCH — Hallway of 2nd Laird — 11:45 AM-1:00 PM