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SESSION 8     8:30 – 10:00

Session 8A     The Worlds of Charlotte Brontë
Location TBA

• Kristina Aikens, Tufts University. “Opiate Dreams and Drugged Domesticity in Charlotte Brontë's Vilette.”
• Maia McAleavey, Harvard University. “Marrying Mr. Rochester: The Reader's Bigamous Desire in Jane Eyre and Aurora Floyd."
• Helen H. Davis, CUNY Graduate Center. “'I seemed to possess two wives': The Professor's Implied Narrative.”

• Helmut W. Klassen, York University. “Mimetic Production: Narrative in the Context of the New Media Artwork."
• A. Brady Curlew, York University. “From Decoding to Recoding: Subversive Re-Directions of New Media Narratives.”
• Bruno Lessard, University of Montreal. “Beyond Cinematic Narrative? Artistic CD-ROMs and the Ghost-Image.”

• Shalyn Claggett, Vanderbilt University. “Science and Confessional Discourse in Harriet Martineau's Rejection of Theism.”
• Thatcher C. Carter, Riverside Community College. “Headline: Women with Cancer Subvert Narrative Structure.”
• Shaun Ramdin, University of Western Ontario. “Confessing the Law: Narrativizing and Normalizing the Act of Confession.”
• Jeannie Ludlow, Bowling Green State University. “'For Your Never Named Sake': Narratives of Pregnancy Loss and Abortion.”

• Andrew Adolph, Kent State University. “Straight Observation: Mollie Panter-Downe's Fall from Fiction.”
• Devon Hodges, George Mason University, and Janice Doane, Saint-Mary's College. “Gertrude Stein's Pleasing Writing.”
• Michelle Masse, Louisiana State University. “Elective Affinities: Genre, Authorial Identity, and Louisa May Alcott.”

• Henrik Scharfe, Aalborg University. “New: A Strategy for Comparing Narratologies of Different Cultural Origins.”
• Dane Johnson, San Francisco State University. “How to Read Like a Censor: Franco's Censors Reading and Reforming the Latin American 'Boom' Narrative.”
• Kofi Cambell, Wilfred Laurier University. “Narrating Poverty in the Language of Postcolonialism.”

• Frank Palmeri, University of Miami. “Evolution and Genealogy: The 'Nietzsche-Darwin Principle' and Foucault's Theory of History.”
• Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa. “The Allure of Origins: Genealogical Narration in Contemporary Canadian Memoirs.”
• Lucienne Loh, University of Wisconsin – Madison. “'Breathing English Air': Buried Legacies of Empire in W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn."

• Marzieh Hassantafaghodtari and Diane Watt, University of Ottawa. “Un/covering the Complexities of Hijab: Reflections on the Practices of Veiling/Not Veiling.”
• Elizabeth F. Evans, University of Wisconsin – Madison. “Maps and Tours: The Spatial Form in Woolf's The Years."
• Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University. “'A checker'd scene': The Mapping of History in Irish Topographical Poetry, 1770-1850.”

• Shannon Bilunas, University of Purdue – Calumet. “Shifting Eyes: Narrativity and the Voyeuristic Film.”
• Erin Edwards, University of California – Berkeley. “'Out of the "Gilded Cage': Between Sound and Image in The Birds."
• Eleanor Salatto, Sweet Briar College. “She's Not There: Vertigo and the Ghostly Feminine.”

Chair: Peter Gibian, McGill University.

• Kirsten MacLeod, University of Alberta. “Art for America's Sake: Aestheticism, Decadence, and the Making of American Culture in the Little Magazines of the 1980s.”
• Ana Rojas, Cornell University. “A Graven Image of Desire: The Quest for Decadence in The Awakening."
• Lisa Renfro, University of Nebraska – Lincoln. “Decadence and the Sick Self: The Case of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Yellow Wall-Paper."

SESSION 9     10:30 – 12:00

Session 9A     Spectacles of Women
Location TBA

• Tom Carmichael, University of Western Ontario. “Narrating the Spectacle of Productivity: Margaret Bourke-White, Fortune, Life, and Photojournalism.”
• Bruce Tucker, University of Windsor. “Spectacle, Abu Graib and the New Imperialism: Narrating Lynndie England.”
• Jamie Barlowe, University of Toledo. “'When Women Rule!': Narrative Strategies in Silent Film.”

• Louis Suarez-Potts, Independent scholar. “Mark Twain's Narratives of Governmentality.”
• Andy Doolen, University of Kentucky. “War and Historical Narration in James Fennimore Cooper's The Spy and The Last of the Mohicans."
• Jason Haslam, Dalhousie University. “The Pit, the Pendulum, the Prison, and the Terrorized Populace.”

• Milo Zatkalik, University of Arts Belgrade. “Polyphonic Narrative Revisited.”
• Derek S. Foster, Wilfred Laurier University. “Narrativizing a Neighborhood, or the Attempted Gentrification of the Imagination.”
• Klisala Harrison, York University. “Musical Narrative and Community in Vancouver, Canada's Downtown Eastside.”

• Sarah Copland, University of Toronto. “'The "Seeing As' Trope in Chiang Yee's Silent Traveller Narratives.”
• Eleanor Ty, Wilfred Laurier University. “Discarding Old Familial, Ethical, and Corporate Myths: Recent Narratives by Hiromi Goto and Ruth Ozeki.”
• Mark Jerng, Harvard University. “Narrating the Transnational Family: Gish Jen's The Love Wife and Other Adoption Stories.”
• Christine Hong, University of California – Berkeley. “Through the 'Broken Glass': The Shattered 'Mirror of Nostalgia' and Exilic Narration in Contemporary Post-Colonial Literature.”

Chair: Eric Hayot, University of Arizona.

• Rebecca L. Walkowitz, University of Wisconsin – Madison. “Comparison Literature.”
• Janis McLarren Caldwell, University of California – Santa Barbara. “Narrating Pictures: Victorian Ekphrastic Poetry and the Ethics of Comparison.”
• Caroline Levine, University of Wisconsin – Madison. “Then and Now: Wilkie Collins' Ethical Comparisons.”

• Monique R. Morgan, McGill University. “Singular Events: Narrative Patterns and Scientific Reasoning in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein."
• Peter Jaros, Northwestern University. “The Physiognomic Turn: Johann Caspar Lavater and the Temporality of Character.”
• Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario. “Narrative as Justice: Godwin's Caleb Williams."

• Laura Wiebe Taylor, Brock University. “Music of Disaster: Apocalypse Fascination and Dystopian Imagination in the Narrative of Heavy Metal.”
• Lindsey Banco, Queen's University. “The Death of the Counterculture: Drugs and Tourism in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."
• Robert McAlear, University of Wisconsin – Madison. “Techniques of Near Future Propaganda Narratives: Closing off Alternative Ideologies in London's The Iron Heel and MacDonald's The Turner Diaries."
• Courtney Hopf, University of California – Davis. “The Divorce Plot: White Noise and the Family as Anti-Narrative.”

• Tammy Clewell, Kent State University. “Private Grief, Social Grievance: Hood, the Closet, and the Politics of Silence.”
• Madelyn Detloff, Miami University of Ohio. “Living in 'Energetic Space': Jeanette Winterson's Bodies and Pleasures.”
• Ralph M. Berry, Florida State University. “Nightwood and Private Language.”
• Renee C. Hoogland, Radboud University Nijmegen. “Affective Narratives: Bodies, Literature, and De/constructions of Gender.”

• Jacqueline Stodnick, University of Texas – Arlington. “Reading the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles as Formulary.”
• Rebecca Stephenson, University of Louisiana – Munroe. “Style vs. Substance: The Form and Narrative of Hermeneutic Latin.”
• Renee R. Trilling, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champagne. “Narrative Tension: Fragmentation and Unity in Anglo-Saxon Hagiography.”

PLENARY     1:30 – 3:00
Location TBA

Janice Radway, Frances Fox Professor in Humanities, Duke University.

“Bridget Jones, Girls' Zines and the Problem of the Future: Gender, Narrative, and Subjectivity in the Nineties.”

COFFEE BREAK     3:00 – 3:30

SESSION 10     3:30 – 5:00

Session 10A     Narratives Within Narratives
Location TBA

• Ellen Peel, San Francisco State University. “Protean Metaphor in Narrative.”
• Peter Malachy Ryan, Ryerson University. “Narrative Networks: In Theory and Practice.”
• Jared Gardner, Ohio State University. “Graphic/Narrative.”

Chair: Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg.

• Gunther Martens and Benjamin Biebuyck, Ghent University. “Con-figuration in Narrative: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives for the Study of Tropes at the Intersection of Rhetoric and Narratology.”
• Mike Hanne, University of Auckland. “The Narrative: Metaphor Nexus.”
• Michael Kimmel, University of Vienna. “'Metaphor Mesh' and Other Ways of Reconstructing Narrative Plot Comprehension by Combining Image Schemas.”
• Jan Alber, University of Freiburg. “Film Narratives and Metaphor.”

• Colin Milburn, University of California – Davis. “Biotechnologies of the Wounded Body: Posthuman Gothic.”
• Ned Schantz, McGill University. “Turing vs. Voight-Kampff: The Test as Posthuman Genre.”
• Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University. “'My Scientific Training Spoiled It': Consciousness and Scientific Narration.”
• Laura Thiemann Scales, Harvard University. “The Undiscovered Country: Pauline Hopkins and the Science of the Irrational.”

• Mark Garrett Cooper, Florida State University. “Interpretive Expertise and the Gendered Division of Labor: The Case of Universal Women Directors, 1912-1918.”
• Barry Faulk, Florida State University. “Professional and Aesthetic Authority in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway."
• John Marx, University of Richmond. “City Police and Private Eye.”
• Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University. “The Literariness of Women's Labor.”

• Alan Nadel, Renssalaer Polytechnique Institute. “How George Bush Knows: Representation, Intelligence, and the New Disney World Order.”
• Pricilla Wald, Duke University. “Outbreak Narrative: Fiction, Film, and the Discourse of Global Health.”
• Hortense Spillers, Cornell University. “To Promote the General Welfare: Reading the Constitution.”
• Donald Pease, Dartmouth College. “The Extraterritorializing Effects of Foundational National Narratives.”

• Anna Lidstone, University of Toronto. “Time as Linear: Narrative Theory Tells Itself a Story.”
• Gary Johnson, University of Findlay. “Between a Sordid Past and the Gnomic Present: The Ethics of Temporality in L-F Celine.”
• Christopher Beard, Brock University. “'Wrong in time': The Reverse Chronological Narrative of Martin Amis' Time's Arrow."

• Carrie Wasinger, Northwestern University. “Fantasies of Socialization: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Literary Fairy Tale.”
• Michael D. Lewis, University of Virginia. “Narratives of North and South."
• Nils Ivan Claussen, University of Regina. “Romancing Manchester: Class, Gender and the Conflicting Genres of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South."

• L. Buell Wisner, University of Tennessee. “Omniscient Narration and Dickens' Bleak Shadow in Joyce's Wandering Rocks."
• Kerry Higgins Wendt, Emory University. “Between Workshop Material and Framing Piece: The Epigraphic Character in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."
• Elicia Clements, York University. “'Booked Passage': Spatial Agency in James Joyce's Eveline."

• Antje Anderson, Hastings College. “'A Better Class of Novels?': Connecting Nineteenth-Century British and German Theories of the Novel.”
• Jesse Rosenthal, Columbia University. “Moral Sense and the Sense of Narrative: Hard Times."
• Timothy S. Hayes, University of North Caroline – Chapel Hill. “Heteroglossia of Darkness: Self-Narrative, the Saving Illusion and Marlow's Bahktinian Consciousness.”

SESSION 11     5:15 – 6:45

Session 11A     Female Writers and Characterizations in British Fiction
Location TBA

• Jules Law, Northwestern University. “Transparent Narrative: The Case of Daniel Deronda."
• Elizabeth Bridgham, Providence College. “Sketchy Characters: The Aesthetics of Narrative Control in Pride and Prejudice."
• Anna Udden, Stockholm University. “The Boundaries of Fiction: Verisimilar Effects in Jane Austen's Emma."

• Ruth Page, University of Central England. “Feminist Narratology, Reader Response and Hypertext Narratives.”
• Joyce Goggin, University of Amsterdam. "Corpus Simsi and Narratives of the Body.”
• Friederike von Schwerin-High. “Towards an Ethics of Alterity: Selves and Others in Selected Twentieth-Century Novels and Philosophical Texts.”

• Jennifer Burwell, Ryerson University. “The Unobserving 'I': Quantum Mechanics and Contemporary Discourse.”
• James R. (Randy) Fromm, Independent scholar. “The Role of Narrative in (mis)Communication among 'Case-Based Reasoning Machines'."
• Tina Y. Choi, York University. “Germ Theory and Counter-Narrative in 19th-Century Britain.”

• Robin E. Field, University of Virginia. “(Re)Writing the Body: Representing Rape in The Women of Brewster Place.”
• Sondra Guttman, Ithaca College. “When Beauty is the Beast: The Rape Trope in Depression-Era Popular Culture.”
• Laura Di Prete, University of South Carolina. “Metaphor and Metamorphosis: The Body in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina.”

• Karen E. Westman, Kansas State University. “The Other Great War: World War II and English National Identity.”
• Philippe Carrard, Dartmouth College. “September 1939: Beginnings, Historical Narrative, and the Outbreak of World War II.”
• Mary Anne Schofield, Villanova University. “'Of course, I can': Preserving the War in Women's Writings, 1939-1945.”

• Judylyn S. Ryan, Ohio Wesleyan University. “Feminist Narratology and Black Women's Cinema.”
• Ruth D. Johnston, Pace University. “The Construction of Whiteness in Birth of a Nation and The Jazz Singer."
• Alice Maurice, University of Toronto. “Who Wears the Pants?: Narrative and Spectacle in Swing Time and Tales of Manhattan."

• Jean S. Mason, Ryerson University. “Image, Word, Allegory and Story: The Tuberculosis Narrative of Dr. Norman Bethune.”
• Michael H. Epp, Trent University. “Narrative American Commemoration: Marietta Holley's Fictional Representations of the St. Louis Exposition and the Chicago World's Fair.”
• Jonathan Readey, University of Virginia. “Memorialization in the First and Third Worlds: Narrating National Characters Through National Monuments.”
• Laura Callanan, Duquesne University. “Traumatic Artifacts: Representing and Repairing the Damaged Self in Nightwood and White Olaender."

• Gert Buelens, University of Ghent. “Henry James and the (Un)Canny American Scene.”
• Ruben De Baerdemaeker, University of Ghent. "The Wind in the Critic's Sails: Henry James and the Ethics of Narrative in Non-fiction."
• Peter Rawlings, University of West England. “Perspectivism and the Empirical Tradition in Henry James's The Ambassadors."

• Victoria M. Arthur, Washington State University. “The 'Imagined Narrative' of Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess."
• Patricia A. Matthew, Montclair State University. “'Would he have been happier?': Patriarchy and Ambition in Mary Shelley's Valperga."
• Gillian Prowse, Harvard University. “'To own it, therefore, would have been telling a lie': Samuel Johnson and the Ethics of Ghost Writing.”
• Jeannie Britton, University of Chicago. “Resisting Narrative: MacKenzie, Rousseau, and the Sentimental Novel.”

DANCE     9:00 – Midnight
Location TBA