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SESSION 1     11:00 – 12:30

Contemporary Narratology Session I: Narration
Location TBA

Chair: Emma Kafalenos, Washington University – St. Louis.

• Jan Baetens, University of Leuven. “Narrative Speed: Some Reflections on K. Hume's Article in Narrative, May 2005.”
• Jonathan Culler, Cornell University. “Telepathy vs. Omniscience.”
• Henrik Skov Nielsen, University of Aarhus. “Indeterminacy and Potentiality in Written Narrative.”

SESSION 2     12:30 – 2:00

Session 2A     Lacan and Subjectivity
Location TBA

• Matthew Clark, York University. “Language, Literature and Self.”
• Royal S. Brown, University of New York. “Poe Revisited: The Purloined Letter and Lacanian Myth.”
• Eleanor Kaufman, UCLA. “The Name of the Husband.”

• Melanie H. Ross, US Merchant Marine Academy. “The Art of Feeling in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady.”
• Melba Cuddy-Keane, University of Toronto. “William James and the Human Work of Particularity.”
• Susan M. Griffin, University of Louisville. “Jamesian Noir: Black & White & In Color.”
• Ruth Hoberman, Eastern Illinois University. “James's The Outcry: Making an Audience for Art.”

• Carlen Lavigne, McGill University. “Primetime Propaganda and the Politics of CSI.”
• Lauren Byler, Tufts University. “'The stake is not the power': Narratives of the Un-slayable in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
• Robyn Diner, Concordia University. “White Trash…in Canada? The Trailer Park Boys, Stink Mitt and Narratives of Canadian Poverty.”
• Yves Laberge, University of Laval. “Narrating Reality Television in French-Canada.”

• Arnaud Schmitt, University of Bordeaux. “Making the Case for Self-Narration Against Autofiction.”
• Julie Flynn, Drew University. “We Owe it to Each Other to Tell Stories: Neil Gaiman and Narratives of Creation.”
• Matthew Badura, Temple University. “'I'm scared about how sappy this will look in print': Hideous Talk by David Foster Wallace.”

Chair: Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky.

• Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky. “The Novel as a Cognitive Experiment.”
• H. Porter Abbott, University of California – Santa Barbara. “'Fail better': The Advantages of Incompetence Reconsidered.”
• Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University. “Narrative Gnashings in Zadie Smith's White Teeth.”

Chair: Alison Booth, University of Virginia.

• Heather Morton, University of Virginia. “"Shall we forgive him?': Alice and the Man Who Plotted Her.”
• Sarah Heidt, Kenyon College. “'We are going to work together': Plotting Spouses and the Writing of Hardy's Life.”
• Kate Nash, University of Virginia. “Intermental Thinking and Gendered Reading: John Cowper Powy's Glastonbury Romance.”

Chair: Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University.

• Eric J. Bulson, Columbia University. “Modernism, Disorientation, and the City.”
• Marcia A. Morris, Georgetown University. “Stairways to Heaven?: Balconies, Carriages and Stairways and Liminality in Belyi's Petersburg.”
• Peter Rollberg, George Washington University. “Fathers and Terrorists: The Shadow of Dostoevski's Devils in Belyi's Petersburg.”
• Deborah A. Martinson, Columbia University. “Myth and Metapoetics in Belyi's Petersburg.”

• Bessie Goldberg, York University. “Passing Where? Space and Directionality in Nella Larsen's Passing."
• Laura Quinn, Allegheny College. “Ann Petry's The Street and Gunnar Myrdal's An American."
• Navneet Sethi, Jawaharlal Nehru. “Touching the Color of Land: The Sounds of Spaces in Cane."

• Sidonie Smith, University of Michigan. “Victims, Perpetrators, Beneficiaries: Human Rights, Storytelling, and the Position of Witness.”
• Vanessa Raney, Southern Connecticut State University. “Crossing Genres to Frame the Same Major Trauma: Four Pairs of Shifting WW2 Holocaust Narratives in 1st Person, Real and Imaginary.”
• Nouri Gana, Queen's University. “The Refugee Camp Narrative: Elias Khoury's Gates of the City and the Trauma of the Lebanese Civil War.”

SESSION 3     2:30 – 4:00

Session 3A     Narrative (Re)Cognition
Location TBA

• Hans Lofgren, Goteborg University. “Narratology Beyond Cognition.”
• Barry Stampfl, San Diego State University. “Narrative as Critique: Trauma Theory and Two Short Stories by Todd Hasak-Lowy.”
• Matti Hyvarinen, University of Tampere. “Beyond Narrative?”

• Ashley Byock, Northwestern University. “'Strange wanderings' and 'Nameless wonderings': Narrativity and Indeterminacy in Melville's Pierre.”
• Christine Nadir, Columbia University. “The Language of Madness and the Name of Death: Narrative and Economy in Willa Cather's Environmental Ethics.”
• Avak Hasratian, Brown University. “Secret Histories, Open Secrets, and the (De)formation of Community.”
• Michael Rozendal, University of San Francisco. “Proletarian Narratives, Poetics of Social Necessity: William Carlos Williams' Radical Short Fiction.”

• Julie Rak, University of Alberta. “The Methodological Challenge of Genre: Reading Auto/biography for Mass Markets.”
• Matthew C. Garrett, Stanford University. “Episodic Poetics in Early US Political Autobiography.”
• Benjamin Joseph Bishop, University of California – Irvine. “Flaubert's Deformative.”

• Rachel Ablow, University of Rochester. “George Eliot's Bad Subjects.”
• Lorri Nandrea, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. “Lookers, Loungers, and Loiterers in Hardy's Fiction.”
• Laura Green, Northeastern University. “Ambivalence and Identification: Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out.”

• Hilary P. Dannenberg, University of Bayreuth. “Post-Colonial Narrative Strategies in Anglophone Fiction.”
• Brian Richardson, University of Maryland. “'We' Narration and Its Theory.”
• Emma Kafalenos, Washington University at St-Louis. “Focalization as Characterization: Cortazar's Bestiary.”

• Scott R. MacKenzie, Davidson College. “The Castle of Eden: Terence Malick's Inverted Gothic.”
• Deanna Kreisel, Warren Wilson College. “'My Iraqi ass map': Somatic Geographies in Three Kings.”
• Corinn Columpar, University of Toronto. “Time Travel and Epistemological Crisis in Shane Carruth's Primer.”

• Christopher B. Wood, New York University. “Twisting Ariadne's Thread: Two Late Sixteenth-Century Fictional Debates on the Ariadne-Abandonment Motif.”
• Joanna Luft, University of Windsor. “The Narrator-Dreamer-Lover Persona: Repetition and Ambiguity in Le roman de la rose.”
• Kathleen A. Loysen, Montclair State University. “Reader Reception Theory and the Sixteenth-Century French Tale Collection.”

• Moira Eileen Phillips, Osgoode Hall Law School. “Brave New World: The Use of Burkean Rhetoric in Legal Narratives.”
• Miriam Marty Clark, Auburn University. “'Motive' and Contemporary Fiction: An Argument for Kenneth Burke's Usefulness.”
• Jung Ah Kim, Columbia University. “Narrative Performativity of the Autobiographical Writing Act.”

• Marnin Young, Texas Christian University. “Narration and Time in Edouard Manet's Execution of Maximillian."
• Perin Emel Yavuz, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. “Emerging Narrative in Narrative Art.”
• Silvia Oliveira, Purdue University. “The Narrative Bond in Twentieth-Century Painting: Reflections on the Work of Paula Rego.”

Antoine Grumbach, Facultè d'Architecture, University of Paris. “Jewish Space: Shelters, Thresholds, and Limits.”

RECEPTION      6:00 – 7:30
Location TBA

NEWCOMERS DINNER     7:30 – 9:00
Location TBA