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SESSION 4     8:30 – 10:00

Session 4A     Practices of Representation
Location TBA

• Alissa Overend, University of Alberta. “Narrative Writing/Writing Narrative: Exploring Practices of Representation.”
• Marianne Wolff Lunderholt, University of Denmark. “Narratology and Non-Fiction.”
• Maria Makela, University of Tampere. “Possible Minds: Constructing—and Reading—Another Consciousness as Fiction.”
• Lorna Martens, University of Virginia. “The Representation of the Passions in Wieland's Agathon."

• Robert F. Scott, Ohio Northern University. “It's a Small World After all: Assessing the Contemporary Campus Novel.”
• Shannon McRae, Mohawk College. “'I'm a Canadian Fraud': Representations of the Profession in Canadian College Writing.”
• J. Russell Perkin, Saint-Mary's University. “'The real thing'?: Henry James as a Fictional Character in Colm Toibin's The Master and David Lodge's Author, Author.”

• Rekha Rosha, Northeastern University. “Mediator, Manager, Uncle: Race and Managerial Capitalism in Uncle Tom's Cabin."
• Aaron Ritzenberg, Brandeis University. “Managing Sentimentalism in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
• Nicole Aljoe, University of Utah. “Managing Pre-history: Africanizing US Imperialism in Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self."

Chair: Stephen Arata, University of Virginia.

• Urmila Seshagiri, University of Tennessee. “'A race that will have no successor': The Good Soldier and the Discontinuities of Modernity.”
• Jay Dickson, Reed College. “The Burial of the Undead: Mourning, Melancholia, and the Fin-de-siècle Gothic Narrative.”
• Alisa Schoenbach, University of Tennessee. “James's Ghostly Institutions: Secondary Social Effects in The American Scene."

• Brian Olszewski, Michigan State University. “Running in the Family's Regenerative Narrative Discourse.”
• Neil Brooks, University of Western Ontario. “'My heart really goes out to me': Solipsistic Irony, the Rachel Papers, and the Postmodern Coming of Age Novel.”
• Caroline Giordano, University of Michigan. “Narrative Distance and Character Development in Gissing's Born in Exile.”
• Birte Christ, University of Freiburg. “Opposite Sides of Main Street? Dorothy Canfield's The Brimming Cup (1920) and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street (1920) as Modern Domestic Novels.”

• Annjeanette Weise, University of Colorado. “Challenging the Order: Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book and the Tensions of Society.”
• Claudia Breger, Indiana University. “Beyond Postmodernist Self-Reflexivity: Theatrical Narrative in Recent German Film.”
• Paul Cohen, Texas State University. “Portraiture and Iconoclasm in Recent Fiction.”

• Elizabeth C. Miller, University of Michigan. “Word of Mouth: Oral and Print Narrative in William Morris's News from Nowhere."
• Ryan M. Claycomb, West Virginia University. “Monologue as Dialogue: Sequential Communal Voice and Oral History Performance.”
• James J. Mischler III and Rebecca L. Damron, Oklahoma State University. “Conceptual Blending and Personal Oral Narrative: The Role of Prosodic Evaluation Devices.”

• Sol Goldberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “A Narrative in Educational Failures: The Structure of Heidegger's Interpretation of the Cave Allegory.”
• Jacqueline Jay, University of Chicago. “A Box in a Box in a Box: Framing Devices and Liminality in Ancient Egyptian Tales.”
• Sharon Diane Nell, Loyola College in Maryland. “Narrative and Performativity: Madeleine de Scudery's Histoire de Sapho."

• Michael Butter, University of Bonn. “(Re-)Positioning Alternate Histories: A Postmodern Subgenre of the Historical Novel.”
• Brian Tucker, Wabash College. “The Narrative Experience of Tim in Uew Johnson's Anniversaries."
• Sylvia Soderlind, Queen's University. “Fascism, Allegory, and the Quest for Narrative Transparency.”

SESSION 5     10:30 – 12:00

Session 5A     Contemporary Novelistic Constructions
Location TBA

• Derek C. Maus, SUNY College of Potsdam. “The Metamythic Narrative of Colson Whitehead's John Henry Days."
• Tanya Y. Kam, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. “Mediating Identity: Comic Confusion and Cultural Prophecy in Persepolis."
• Kenneth A. Bruffee, Brooklyn College. “Conrad's Influence on Modern Heroic-Quest Fiction: Structural Innovation and Thematic Range in Elegiac Romance.”

Chair: Aaron Worth, Brandeis University.

• Kelly McGuire, Emmanuel College. “The Man of Action: Masculinity as Legitimizing Narrative in the War in Iraq.”
• Joel Silverman, University of Texas at Austin. “A Manly Defense: Morris Ernst, Birth Control and the Forging of a New Masculine Sensibility.”
• David Bottorff, Brandeis University. “'Stand it like a man': Negotiating Masculinity and Commerce in Deadwood."

• Dawn Moore, Carleton University. “'For the good of your baby': Women, Drug Use and the (Re)Personified Fetus.”
• Charlene Elliott, Carleton University. “On Governance, Obesity and the Narrative of the Failed Citizen.”
• Sheryl N. Hamilton, Carleton University. “Nostalgic Personality: Narratives of the Persons Case.”

• George Butte, Colorado College. “Henry James and Deep Intersubjectivity: Th/reading the Chiasmus of Consciousnesses.”
• Claire Garcia, Colorado College. “Becoming an 'Other': 'Old Men' from the New World Encountering 'New Women' in the Old.”
• Sheila Teahan, Michigan State University. “The Great Good Figure: Narrative on a Grand Scale.”

• Anne Goldenberg, University of Quebec. “'Blogging' and 'Wikiiing', Public Intimacy and Collective Auto-Production: Toward New Writing of Communities.”
• Alison Harvey, Concordia University. “Playing Stories: Narrative in Video Game Theory.”
• Katrina Peddle, Concordia University. “Feminist Narratives of Illness Online: A Critical Challenge to the Medical Gaze?”
• Eric Champagne, University of Quebec. “The Eye Behind the 'I':Self-Narrativization and Seduction.”

• Katherine Weese, Hampden-Sydney College. “Toni Morrison and Restorative Justice: Beloved and Jazz as Victim-Offender Narratives.”
• Shirley (Holly) A. Stave, Northwestern State University. “In a Mirror Dimly: The Limitations of Love in Toni Morrison's Love."
• Jean Wyatt, Occidental College. “Broken Time: Morrison's Wrinkled Temporality in Love."
• Catherine Romagnolo, Lebanon Valley College. “Where to Begin[?]: Circularity and Feminist Narrative Beginnings in Toni Morrison's Fiction.”

• A. Michael Matin, Warren Wilson College. “British Peace Literature, the Liberal Party, and Pre-1914 Militarism.”
• Bette London, University of Rochester. “Dead Poets Society: World War I and the Resurrection of Posthumous Authorship.”
• Claire Buck, Wheaton College. “Racialized Spaces in British Memoirs of the 1914-1918 World War.”

• Jakob Lothe, University of Oslo. “Responding to World War and Judeocide: Narrative Strategies in the Work of W.G. Sebald.”
• Erin McGlothlin, Washington University – St. Louis. “Narrative Transgression in Contemporary German-Jewish Holocaust Literature.”
• Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth University. “Story, Discourse, Reference: Distinguishing Among Genres of Second Generation Holocaust Writing.”

• Joshua J. Masters, University of West Georgia. “The Symbol of the Book in the Narration of Exploration.”
• Doris Wolf, University of Winnipeg. “The Politics of Spectacle in Tom King's Green Grass, Running Water."
• Gerd Bayer, University of Erlangen. “Ocean Life and the Scientific Discourse: Gunesekera's Reef as Post-Colonial Resistance.”
• Pekka Tammi, University of Tampere. “Exploring Terra Incognita.”

The Legacy of Wayne C. Booth

Chair: James Phelan, Ohio State University.

• Dorothy J. Hale, University of California – Berkeley. “Attendent Intentions: Reading with Booth's Concept of the Implied Author.”
• Peter J. Rabinowitz, Hamilton College. “Sometimes a Cucumber is Just a Cucumber: The Rhetoric of Reference.”
• Harry Shaw, Cornell University. "Reading as Experience v. Reading as Dialogue."
• David H. Richter, CUNY Graduate Center. “Keeping Company with Double Dealing: The Ethics of Films that Cheat.”

Rinaldo Walcott, Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto.

“Multicultural and Creole Contemporaries: Postcolonial Artists and Postcolonial Cities.”

COFFEE BREAK     3:00 – 3:30

SESSION 6     3:30 – 5:00

Session 6A     Popular Narratives
Location TBA

• Laura Mooneyham White, University of Nebraska – Lincoln. “Predicting the End of Harry Potter.”
• Neil Gerlach, Carleton University. “Narrating Armageddon: The Search for Ontological Security in the End Times.”
• Candida Rifkind, University of Winnipeg. “Renfrew of the Royal Mounted: Serial Seductions and the Making of Modern Canada.”

• Brian Greenspan, Carleton University. “Songlines in the Streets: Story Mapping with Itinerant Hypertext.”
• Roy Caldwell, St. Lawrence University. “'Le Cyber Poulpe': New Forms of Authorship for a Cybernetic Age.”
• Elouise R. Oyzon, Rochester Institute of Technology. “Blogs: A First Person Narrative in Real Time.”

• Jason J. Siegel, University of Wisconsin – Madison. “Paranormal Paralipsis: Ghost Writing and the Ghost Reader of Transparent Things."
• Allan Hepburn, McGill University. “Details.”
• Dana Dragunoiu, Carleton University. “Homo ludis, homo faber: Vladimir Nabokov and George Plekhanov.”

• Lorna Hutchison, McGill University. “Confounded Agency in Narratives of the Grotesque.”
• Carolyn Vallenga Berman, The New School. “Jamaica Kincaid's Fetal Narrative and Unborn Reader.”
• Damjana Mraovic, University of Tennessee. “Instability of Motherhood: Aspects of Physical Connection with Children in The Handmaid's Tale and The Fifth Child.”
• Joseph Hogan and Rebecca Hogan, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. “Twinship and Dual Narrative in Wagner and Spiro's Divided Minds.”

• Margaret E. Mitchell, University of West Georgia. “'To defy her very self': Narrating Beauty in Dickens.”
• Erwin Rosinberg, Princeton University. “Love Beyond Fate: The Lyrical Counterplot in Hardy's Jude the Obscure."
• Jennifer Conary, University of Southern California. “'My sister, thou hast read too many plays': Quixotic Plots in Daniel Deronda.”
• Elaine Pigeon, University of Montreal. “Marlowe's Misogyny: Spinning Tales of 'Chance'.”

• Magali Cornier Michael, Duquesne University. “Hybrid Forms in Diana Abu-Jaber's Crescent."
• Sandra Singer, Guelph University. “The Narrative Transformation of George and Rue by George Elliott Clarke.”
• Julie Rivkin, Connecticut College. “Doing Things with Vegetables, or De-Familiarizing Consumption in Lara Vapynar's Broccoli.”

• Anne MacLennon, York University. “Recovering Memories of Canadian Radio.”
• Radha O'Meara, University of Melbourne. “Beyond Closure: For a Multifaceted Approach to Serial Narrative Form.”
• Edward Maloney, Georgetown University. “Footnotes in Fiction: A Study of Artificial Paratexts in Fictional Narratives.”

• Katherine Collin, Yale University. “Suspense and the Body: Barthes, Maupassant and Barbey.”
• Darren Ilett, University of Chicago. “Reconsidering Barthes's Writerly Text: The Code of Contingency in Ermine Sevgi Ozdamar's The Courtyard Mirror."
• Whitney Braun, UCLA. “'Plays of Signification': An Examination of the Space of the Author-Function in Foucault's "What is an Author?”

• Per Hansen, University of Southern Denmark. “The Unreliable Narrator Reconsidered Once Again.”
• Martine Motard-Noar, McDaniel College. “La Dynamique d'engendrement du texte romanesque chez Jean Echonoz: de la Deconstruction loufoque au defi strategique.”
• David FitzSimmons, Ashland University. “Moving Beyond 'I Say/She Says': 'Voice Features' and Why They Matter.”
• Brigitte Rath, Ludwig-Maximillians – University of Munich. “Sketching the Narrative Schema.”

Contemporary Narratology Session II: Intersections
Location TBA

Chair: Brian McHale, Ohio State University.

• Alan Palmer, Independent scholar. “Dispositions.”
• Dan Shen, Peking (Beijing) University. “Some Reflections on Postclassical Narratologies.”
• James Phelan, Ohio State University. “Rhetorical Aesthetics: After Wayne C. Booth.”