Friday March 28, 2003

7:30 - 8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast Dwinelle Lobby

8:00 - 9:30 am SESSION 5
PANEL A: Narrative Theory and the Homeric Inheritance
Chair: Katheryn Evans, University of California, Berkeley
(1) Robert S. Kawashima, University of California, Berkeley
“Memory, History, and Narrative Form”
(2) David Petrain, Harvard University
“Homer in Space: Topography as Narrative Strategy in Roman
Representations of the Trojan War”
(3) Charles Stocking, University of California, Los Angeles
“From Muthos to Myth: Narrative Scripts as a Mechanism of
Authority in the Homeric Poems and Beyond”

PANEL B: Fin de siecle, fin du globe: Time and Space in Late-
Victorian Romance
Chair: Leah Price, Harvard University
(1) Natalka Freeland, University of California, Irvine
“Histories of the Future: Evolution, Degeneration, and Victorian
Utopias”
(2) John Plotz, Brandeis University
“Nowhere’s Somewhere: Abhorring and Adoring in William
Morris”
(3) Aaron Matz, Yale University
“Terminal Satire and Jude the Obscure”

PANEL C: Forgetting, Acknowledging, Imagining
Chair: Kay Young, University of California, Santa Barbara
(1) Beth A. Boehm, University of Louisville
“Nostalgia to Amnesia: Charles Dickens, Marcus Clarke and
Narratives of Australia’s Convict Origins”
(2) Linda Raphael, George Washington University
“Acknowledging Injury: Fathers and Daughters in Austen and
James”
(3) Kay Young, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Imagining Another: Metamorphosis, Consciousness, and Daniel
Deronda”

PANEL D: Generic Encounters: When Narrative and
Nonnarrative Discourses Meet
Chair: Molly Clark Hillard, University of California, Davis
(1) Elizabeth Schirmer, New Mexico State University.
“Narrative as Oppositional Theology in the Testimony of William
Thorpe (c. 1410)”
(2) Marnin Young, University of California, Berkeley.
“Narration and Description in Nineteenth-Century Painting”
(3) Deborah A. Harter, Rice University.
“Hazards of the Frame: Narrative Portraits in Melville, Balzac,
and Flaubert”

PANEL E: History and/as Narrative in Postmodern Literature
Chair: Amy J. Elias, University of Tennessee
(1) Brian McHale, The Ohio State University
“Including History, After Pound: Postmodern Strategies of the
Historical Long Poem”
(2) Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University
“‘History and Heritage’ in Contemporary British Romances of
the Archive: Contextualizing the Uses of the Past”
(3) Amy J. Elias, University of Tennessee
“Paranoia, the Sublime, and the Theological Historical Sense in
Contemporary Fiction”

PANEL F: Alternative Narrative Forms: Case Reports, Illness
Narratives, and TV Ephemera
Chair: Anna Mollow, University of California, Berkeley
(1) Janis Caldwell, Wake Forest University
“Narrative, the Nineteenth-Century Medical Case Report, and
Middlemarch”
(2) Judy Z. Segal, University of British Columbia
“The Epideictic Rhetoric of Pathography”
(3) Amelie Hastie, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Television’s Textual Borders and Narrative Consumption”

PANEL G: Cine-Narratives: Displacement and the Other’s Narrative
Chair: Ifeona Fulani, New York University
(1) Negar Mottahedeh, Duke University
“The Foreign Films and Narrative Displacements”
(2) Ifeona Fulani, New York University
“Beloved: From Novel to Film”
(3) Amit S. Rai, Eugene Lang College, New School University
“The Traveling Spectacle”

PANEL H: Race and the “Human” Family in the Gene Age
Chair: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University
(1) Priscilla Wald, Duke University
“From Cell Lines to Story Lines: John Moore’s Spleen and the
Language of Bioslavery”
(2) Margaret Homans, Yale University
“Narratives of Adoption and Race”
(3) Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University
“Gen-X Eugenics: Brave New World and the Contemporary
Genetics of Race”

9:30 - 9:40 am coffee break

9:40 - 11:25 am Dwinelle 155
Plenary Session II
Introduction:
Seymour Chatman, Emeritus, Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative
Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Speaker:
Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative
Literature, Cornell University “Omniscience”

11:25 - 11:35 am coffee break

11:35 am - 1:05 pm SESSION 6
PANEL A: Modernism and Demobilization: Soldiers at Home
Chair: Sarah Cole, Columbia University
(1) Anna M. Jones, University of Central Florida
“‘This is the saddest story I have ever heard’: Modernism’s
Melancholia and the Loss of the Domestic in Ford Madox Ford’s
The Good Soldier”
(2) Douglas Mao, Cornell University
“Wilde, Wilde West: Beauty, Bildung, and The Return of the
Soldier”
(3) Sarah Cole, Columbia University
“Violence and Narrative: Some Modernist Strategies”

PANEL B: Narrative and the Date
Chair: Kate E. Brown, Emory University
(1) Deborah Elise White, Emory University
“Terrible Years: The Spectre of the Date and the Narrative of
Revolution”
(2) Rebecca Steinitz, Ohio Wesleyan University
“Weblogs, Narrative, and Reading”
(3) Kate E. Brown, Emory University
“The Absurd Satisfactions of the Calendar”

PANEL C: Violence, Trauma, and Shame: The Transgressive
Origins of Women’s Fiction
Chair: Minrose C. Gwin, Purdue University
(1) Minrose C. Gwin, Purdue University
“Trauma and the Failure of Departure in Toni Morrison’s The
Bluest Eye”
(2) Julie Rivkin, Connecticut College
“‘A Woman is Being Beaten’: Violence and Performativity in
Alice Munro’s Fiction”
(3) Patricia Moran, University of California, Davis
“‘Why should I have felt shame then?’: Sexual Trauma and
Shame Affect in Virginia Woolf’s The Years”

PANEL D: Lesbian Intersectionalities: Sexuality, Ethnicity,
Race, and Narrative Form
Chair: Jane Garrity, University of Colorado, Boulder
(1) Jane Garrity, University of Colorado, Boulder
“‘The most normal abnormal’: Britain’s Interwar Lesbian”
(2) Kate McCullough, Cornell University
“‘The country is foreign even to itself’: Ethnicity, Sexuality, and
Narrative Form in Marusya Bociurkiw’s The Woman who Loved
Airports”
(3) Frann Michel, Willamette University
“Cheryl Dunye’s Feature Films: The Prison-House of
Narrative?”

PANEL E: Bodies/Subjects in Pain: Speaking Through Disability,
Post-Colonial, and Incest Narratives
Chair: Brenda Daly, Iowa State University
(1) Diane Price Herndl, Iowa State University
“Loving the Hated Body: Discrimination, Disability, and Hate
Speech in theGarrett Case”
(2) Laura Winkiel, Iowa State University
“Reading the Postcolonial Archive: Geomorphology in Ondaatje’s
The English Patient”
(3) Brenda Daly, Iowa State University
“(No) Picture (of) This: Body Work in Janice Williamson’s
Memoir Crybaby!”

PANEL F: Narrative Excess
Chair: Judith Holland Sarnecki, Lawrence University
(1) Cecilia Konchar Farr, College of St. Catherine
“Can this Novel Be Saved? When Literature Meets Oprah on
Daytime TV”
(2) Timothy Spurgin, Lawrence University
“From Bertrand Russell to Jane Russell: Excess and Decline in
Narratives of Celebrity”
(3) Judith Holland Sarnecki, Lawrence University
“The Ethics of Narrative Excess or The Trouble with Tall Tales”
Respondent: Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College

PANEL G: Virtually Human: Digitized Subjects and Popular Culture
Chair: Nicole Asaro, University California Berkeley
(1) Leland Monk, Boston University
“The Human in Shrek”
(2) Livia Monnet, Université de Montréal
“Haunted Topologies, or Invasion of the Movie Snatchers:
Mimesis, Melancholia and the New Uncanny in Final Fantasy:
The Spirits Within”
(3) John Johnston, Emory University
“Permutation City: Artificial Life and Non-Narratable
Difference”

PANEL H: Zeroing Narratology: A Panel to Celebrate J. Hillis
Miller on His Retirement
Chair: Dianne F. Sadoff, Miami University
(1) J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine
“Zero”
(2) John McGowan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Much Ado About Nothing”
(3) Dianne F. Sadoff, Miami University
“Stories of O”

1:05 - 1:50 pm Lunch Wheeler 213
“Teaching Narrative Theory: An Open Discussion”
Facilitators:
Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College
Theodore O. Mason, Kenyon College

Please come and share classroom techniques you use to teach narrative theory, or how you use narrative theory to help students get the most out of novels, short stories, and film. How do you
convey the idea of points of view—whether narrator’s slant or character’s filter (focalization)? Of free indirect discourse? Of dissonant first person narration? Of unreliable narrators? What
are your favorite examples to illustrate these and other concepts? What classroom or out-of-classroom exercises do you assign to help students understand the import of these concepts? Bring
any handouts of definitions, assignments, and/or passages you are willing to share. This discussion is meant to be as concrete and pedagogically-oriented as possible. Brief interventions will allow the maximum number of participants.

1:50 - 3:20 pm SESSION 7
PANEL A: What Comes After Postmodernism? Contemporary Fiction Now
Chair: Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri, Columbia
(1) Caren Irr, Brandeis University
“Amputated Slave Bodies in Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love”
(2) Timothy Melley, Miami University
“Trauma, Memory, and the Reimagining of History in Tim
O’Brien”
(3) Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri, Columbia
“Ruth Ozeki, Agribusiness, and the Internal International”
Respondent: Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University

PANEL B: Contemporary Poetry and/not Narrative
Chair: Michael Kearns, University of Southern Indiana
(1) Jane Hedley, Bryn Mawr College
“Lyric Poetry’s Estrangement from Narrative”
(2) Laura Wadenpfuhl, New Jersey City University
“The Hungarian Sonnet Sequence as Memoir: George Szirtes’s
‘The Looking-Glass Dictionary’”
(3) Michael Kearns, University of Southern Indiana
“Emergent Narrative in Language Writing”

PANEL C: Masculine Narratives/Narrating Masculinity
Chair: Todd Onderdonk, University of Texas at Austin
(1) Todd Onderdonk, University of Texas at Austin
“Behold the Man: Constructing Modernism’s Masculine Truth”
(2) Pearl James, Davidson College
“Narrating Loss in Fitzgerald and Ford”
(3) Dejan Kuzmanovic, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
“Male Shahrazad: Homoerotic Seduction and Ego Maintenance
in Bram Stoker’s Dracula”

PANEL D: Creating Public Memory: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Chair: Yvonne Cardenas, University of California, Davis
(1) Greg Mullins, The Evergreen State College
“Truth, Reconciliation and Literary Narratives of Human Right”
(2) Meg Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley
“Stitching Together the Story of the Past: Post-Apartheid
Fiction and the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission”
(3) Patrick Deer, New York University
“Healing the State: Truth Commissions and the Return to Narrative”

PANEL E: Natural Science and Nationhood: The Ecology of American Identity
Chair: Ron Loewinsohn, University of California, Berkeley
(1) Ruth Salvaggio, Purdue University
“Rhizomes and Graftings, Ecology and Narrative, Jamaica
Kincaid’s My Garden (Book)”
(2) Colleen E. Terrell, University of California, Los Angeles
“‘Paragraph by Paragraph’: Narrative Science in Crevecoeur’s
Letters from an American Farmer”
(3) Serge Paul, Universite de Bordeaux 3
“Partially Buried Narrative: Robert Smithson and the Scriptural
Landscape”

PANEL F: Revealed Consciousness (Transparent Minds)
Chair: Brynne M. Gray, University of California, Davis
(1) Ned Schantz, University of Southern California
“Beyond Reading: Telepathy and Shadow of a Doubt”
(2) Athena Vrettos, Case Western Reserve University
“Crowded Minds: Our Mutual Friend and Victorian Theories of
Mental Space”
(3) Michael Newman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Real Faces, Fictional Minds: Acting, Character, and Psychology
in Cinema”

PANEL G: Rethinking Characterization: Novel, Painting, Film
Chair: Alex Woloch, Stanford University
(1) Sean O’Sullivan, Clemson University
“David, Dickens, Hitchcock: The Portrait and the Plot”
(2) Karla Oeler, Emory University
“The Scene of Murder in Novel and Film: Tableau and Montage”
(3) Alex Woloch, Stanford University
“Bruegel’s Formal Realism: The Implied Person Between
Reference and Structure”

ROUNDTABLE H: Editing the Theory and History of the Novel: Anthologies, Encyclopedias, Collective Histories
Roundtable Sponsored by the Stanford Center for the Study of the Novel.
Chair: Seymour Chatman, University of California, Berkeley
(1) Franco Moretti, Stanford University
Il Romanzo (2001-02)
(2) Michael McKeon, Rutgers University
Theory of the Novel (2000)
(3) Paul Schellinger, Independent Writer, Editor, and Publishing Consultant
The Encyclopedia of the Novel (1998)
(4) Dorothy J. Hale, University of California, Berkeley
The Novel: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism, 1900-2000
(forthcoming)

3:20 - 3:30 pm coffee break

3:30 - 5:00 pm SESSION 8
PANEL A: Queer Domesticities
Chair: Carolyn Dever, Vanderbilt University
(1) Hilary Schor, University of Southern California
“Lost in Bluebeard’s Castle: Realism, Romance and the Law in
the Victorian Marriage Plot”
(2) Carolyn Dever, Vanderbilt University
“The Un-Marriage Plot: Trollope’s Queer Domesticity”
(3) Denis Flannery, University of Leeds
“The Appalling Mrs. Luna: Sibling Love and the Narration of
Queer Subjectivity in Henry James’s The Bostonians”

PANEL B: American Social Realism and the Reinvention of Narrative Conventions
Chair: Miriam Thaggert, University of California, Berkeley
(1) Kimberli M. Stafford, University of Iowa
“Bending Lyric into Narrative: American Indian Poetry and Peter
Blue Cloud’s ‘Brief History (June-December 1994)’”
(2) Paul Young, University of Missouri
“A World to Perceive: Seeing City Rhythms in Crane’s Maggie”
(3) Peter West, University of Wyoming
“The Rhetoric of Narrativity in Antebellum Literature”

PANEL C: Bakhtin and Ancient Narrative
Chair: Bracht Branham, Emory University
(1) Ahuvia Kahane, Northwestern University
“Bakhtin and Ancient Epic”
(2) Francis Dunn, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Narrative, Responsibility, Realism”
(3) Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University
“Herodotus, Bakhtin, and Aphoristic Consciousness”

PANEL D: The End of Empire and Post-National Narrativity
Chair: Antje Schaum Anderson, Hastings College
(1) Rick Livingston, The Ohio State University
“Moments of Cubism: Narratives, the Novel and the Feeling for
Global Form”
(2) Jules Law, Northwestern University
“Fluid Narratives: Mapping and de-Mapping Empire in
Dracula”
(3) Jean Jacques Weber, University Center Luxembourg
“The Ideology of Form in the Work of David Dabydeen, Sam
Selvon and Michelle Cliff”

PANEL E: Narrative Theory: New Contributions
Chair: Harry E. Shaw, Cornell University
(1) Harry E. Shaw, Cornell University
“Why Won’t Our Critical Terms Stay Put? The Example of the
Narratee”
(2) Oana Panaite, Johns Hopkins University
“Stories of Oblivion, Narratives of Memory: The Double Identity
of Fiction”
(3) Ben Highmore, University of the West of England
“Narrative and Everday Life in the work of Michel de Certeau”

PANEL F: Nostalgia and its Narrative Deployments
Chair: Slavica Naumovska, University of California, Berkeley
(1) Dominick Tracy, University of California, Davis
“‘Women, Children, and Fires’: National Sentiment and
Inflammatory Sympathy in Charles Kickham’s Knocknagow”
(2) Ingrid Geerken, Harvard University
“Mortal Regret and Genealogical Passion in Hardy’s The
Pursuit of the Well Beloved (1892) and The Well Beloved
(1987)”
(3) John J. Su, Marquette University
“‘Once I would have gone back … But Not Any longer’:
Nostalgia and Narrative Ethics in Wide Sargasso Sea”

PANEL G: (Anti-)Social Form
Chair: Lee Edelman, Tufts University
(1) Judith Brown, Brown University
“Katherine Mansfield’s Fatal Glamour”
(2) Lee Edelman, Tufts University
“The Trouble With a Friend Like Harry Potter”
(3) Mary Ann O’Farrell, Texas A&M University
“Gangster Manners”

PANEL H: Contemporary Narratology II: Universality and Variability
Chair: Brian McHale, The Ohio State University
(1) Richard Walsh, University of York
“The Relevance of Fictions”
(2) William Nelles, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
“Where is the Narrator?: Forms and Functions of ‘Localization’”
(3) Meir Sternberg, Tel Aviv University
“Point of View and Reported Discourse: Between Universality
and Variability”

5:00 - 5:10 pm coffee break

5:10 - 6:55 pm Dwinelle 155
Plenary Session III
Introduction: Carol J. Clover, Class of 1936 Professor of Rhetoric and
Scandinavian, University of California, Berkeley
Speaker: Elaine Scarry, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics
and the General Theory of Value, Department of
English, Harvard University
“The Counter Factual in Life and Literature”

7:00 - 9:00 pm Reception
Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar
All Welcome!
The Faculty Club