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SESSION 12     8:30 – 10:00

Session 12A     Constructions in/of Austen
Location TBA

• Elaine Auyoung, Harvard University. “Between the Lines: Narrating a Space for the Reader in Pride and Prejudice."
• N.K. (Nina) Leacock, University of West Georgie. “'The Daemon of the Piece': Craft and Chance in Mansfield Park."
• Sarah Raff, Pomona College. “The Seduction of Didacticism in Austen.”

• Pedro Ponce, St-Lawrence University. “Creative Narratology: A Preliminary Pedagogy.”
• Alicita Rodriguez, Western State College of Colorado. “Using Grading Rubrics to Evaluate the Short Story.”
• Daniel Alexander, Belmont University. “Time and Long Fiction: Narrative Theory and Novel-Writing Pedagogy.”

• Matthew G. Stratton, University of Michigan – Flint. “Making it News: Public Irony and Aesthetic Politics in U.S.A."
• Aaron M. McKain, Ohio State University. “The 'Dean Scream' Didn't Happen.”
• John C. Hartsock, State University of New York at Cortland. “'It Was a Dark and Stormy Night': Narrative Storytelling Returns to the Front Page.”

• Joseph Janangelo, Loyola College Chicago. “God May Not Be the Only One in the Details: Recognizing the Many Paratexts Involved in Restoring A Star is Born."
• Craig Dequetteville, Carleton University. “Narrative, Gender and Race in AEW Mason's The Four Feathers: A Pedagogical Proposal.”
• Daniel Punday, Purdue University – Calumet. “Unfilmed Films.”

Chair: Beth Boem, University of Louisville.

• Beth Boem, University of Louisville. “Ian McEwan's 'Cheatin' Art': Atonement as Postmodern Metafiction or Old-Fashioned Doubling-Dealing Cheat?”
• Sigi Jottkandt, University of Ghent. “'Mildly Entertaining Hypotheses of the Present Moment': Ian McEwan's First Love, Last Rites."
• Linda Raphael, George Washington University Medical College. “'Saturday's' Child Is…?: Ian McEwan's Representation of the Daughter's Role.”
• Jamal En-Nehas, Sultan Qaboos University. “Postmodern Reflections on Travel and Narrativity.”

• Nancy B.C. Peled, University of Haifa and Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel. “'Left hand erasing': Narratives Duplicity and Doubling in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin."
• Alisa K. Braithwaite, Harvard University. “The Reinvention of Migration in Anglophone Caribbean Women's Narrative.”
• Robin Cohen, Texas State University. “Say the Magic Words: Narrative as Creative Force in Native American Literature.”

• Jennifer Rose White, Columbia University. “'The Old World Dawning New in Me': The 'Nature' of Memory in Linda Hogan's Fiction and Poetry.”
• Cindy Schnebly, University of Houston – Victoria. “In Search of a Main Character: Narrative Instability in Coetzee's Slow Man."
• John Young, Marshall University. “Ethics as Narrative in Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello."
• Dianne George, Carleton University. “'A Fine Balance': The Ethical Responsibility of the Reader.”

• Paul Plisiewicz, University of South Carolina. “Olfaction and Subversion: Epistemological Domains and Postcolonial Discourse in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children."
• Elizabeth Anker, University of Virginia. “'Fanaticism and Bombs': Narratives of Violence and Terror in Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown."
• Eric Berlatsky, Florida Atlantic University. “'New Events Stories Complexities': Narration and its Leftovers in the Final Chapter of Midnight's Children."
• Paul McCormick, Ohio State University. “Divine Omniscience in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses."

• Emma Smith, University of Leeds. “A poetics of translation? The Narrative Function of the Translator in Nicole Brossard's Fiction.”
• Heta Pyrhonen, University of Helsinki. “To Eat the Fruit Means to Leave the Garden: Jeanette Winterson's Gospel of Love.”
• Susan Fraiman, University of Virginia. “A Woman Around the House: Domesticity after Divorce.”

SESSION 13     10:30 – 12:00

Session 13A     Cruelty, Pain and Loss
Location TBA

• Colene Bentley, Rice University. “Cruelty and Narratives of Improvement in Disgrace."
• Monique Tschofen, Ryerson University. “The Fiction of Affliction: 'Merely' Narrative Pleasures and the Rhetoric of Pain.”
• Dina Georgis, Queen's University. “Hearing the Better Story: Learning and the Aesthetics of Loss and Expulsion.”

• Margret Gunnarsdottir Champion, Gothenburg University. “The Ethical Chronotope in Modernist Prose: The Cases of D.H. Lawrence's St.Mawr and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own."
• Sarah Hardy, Hampden-Sydney College. “Orlando, Middlesex, and Narrative Crisis.”
• Mark Wollaeger, Vanderbilt University. “Articulating the Other: Lawrence 'n Injuns.”

• Anthony Fitzgerald Stewart, Dalhousie University. “State Mottos and Bingo: The Problem of the Unfair Game in Ralph Ellison and Percival Everett.”
• Sarah Relyea, Independent scholar. “Confessions of the Novel: Narrative Risk in Giovanni's Room."
• James N. Holm, Jr., University of Houston – Victoria. “Orchestrating Stories into Narrative Rhetoric: Structural Movement and Voice in Ernest J. Gaines' A Gathering of Old Men."

• John McGuigan, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. “From Quagmire to Epic: The Strange Cinematic Transformation of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down."
• Dina Smith, Drake University. “The Flashforward in Contemporary Cinema: A Look at Raising Arizona."
• Amy Woodbury, Tufts University. “Lynch-Is-at-the-Telephone: Answering the Call in Lost Highway."
• Scott Selisker, University of Virginia. “Baffling the Brainwashers: The Narrative Strategy of The Manchurian Candidate and a Structure of Public-Sphere Suspicion.”

• Cara Murray, CUNY Graduate Center. “Public Works and Private Lives: Engineering a Nation through Biography.”
• Anna Henchman, Harvard University. “Seeing Things as a Whole: Battle Scenes and the View from Somewhere in Tolstoy and Hardy.”
• Lawrence Switzky, Harvard University. “Only the Fate of the World: Bernard Shaw and the Grand Scale.”

• Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University. “Empathy and the Novel.”
• Scott Sundby, Washington and Lee University. “Invoking Empathy in Life and Death Decisions.”
• Molly Travis, Tulane University. “Beyond Empathy: The Question of Ethics in Post-Apartheid Novels of J.M. Coetzee and Sindiwe Magona.”

• Sarah Mesle, Northwestern University. “'Read Uncle Tom's Cabin Again': De-Narrating Autobiography in Mary Chestnut's Civil War."
• Jennifer Harris, Mount Allison University. “Resisting Readers: Elizabeth Whitman and the Cult of Revision.”
• Kelly A. Marsh, Mississippi State University. “Gender, Narrative, and the Inheritance Problem in The House of Mirth."

• Jim Hicks, Smith College. “So What if Nobody Wins?: Writing a War History for Bosnia-Hercegovina.”
• Anna Botta, Smith College. “War Stories for the Television Age: Juan Goytisolo's Narratives of the Sarajevo Siege.”
• Jaime A. Gonzales-Ocana, Independent scholar. “Ancient and Modern Narratives of War: The Classics and the War in Iraq.”

Contemporary Narratology Session III (Plenary): The Explicit and the Implicit
Location TBA

Chair: Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania.

• Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg. “Semantic Networking in Narrative.”
• Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell, University of St. Thomas. “Narrative Spectators Inside and Outside of the Picture in Archaic Athenian Vase Painting.”
• Robyn R. Warhol, University of Vermont. “Narrative Refusals: The Case of Dickens.”