Two Steps Forward,
Three Steps Back:
the ENGL 680 Spring CONference
(wherein literary research methods are simulated, stimulated, undermined, overthrown,
explicated, illuminated, de-luminated, and generally ridiculed)
Tuesday,
April 22, 2014
4
pm
Colson
Hall, 130
4:00 – 4:20 Plenary
Session
Introduced by ?
· Sarah
Neville: “The History Book on the Shelf is Always Repeating Itself: Collation,
Cruzes, and Spandex in Abba’s ‘Waterloo’”
4:20
– 4:40 Losing Your Fruits: Wayward
Epistemologies in 20th and 21st Century
Texts
Chaired
by Rachel Hoag
· Sara
Kearns ~ “Revising Bedlam: Sexton and Plath in a Psychiatric Treatment Setting”
· Victoria
Dickman-Burnett ~ “Trapped in the Bananastand: Arrested Development as a Rewriting of Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit”
4:40
– 5:00 Pulling Her Hare: Transgressive
Accelerations in Modern Mass Culture
Chaired
by Natalie Carpini
· Meagan
Szekely ~ “Swift Studies: Quick Queries about a Rapid Relationship” (Taylor
Swift)
· Jonas
Oliver ~ “Write of the Lepus: Lagomorphic Violence in Heinrich Hoffmann’s Slovenly Peter and Beyond”
5:00
– 5:20 Restriction and Release:
Reconceptualizing Captivity Within and Without the Academy
Chaired
by Jonas Oliver
· Tatiana
Robinson ~ Tying the Knot: Princesses and Bondage
in the Films of Disney
· Rachel
Hoag ~ “Me-search” and Therap “e-cards”: Creating
Online Mental Health Spaces for Graduate Students
5:20
– 5:40 Peniary Session
Introduced
by Meagan Szekely
· Natalie
Carpini ~ “The Penicule of Their Existence: Penis Graffiti as Evidence of
Increased Literacy”
6pm Adjourn to the Black Bear: All
Welcome!
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