Program
2010 PROGRAMME:
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Registration: 8am - 9pm (Arts, 3rd Floor Foyer)
Opening
Remarks and Welcome Address
9am-9:30am (Arts 318)
Tom Allen, Department of English Graduate Studies Supervisor Paul Graves,
Department of English Graduate Student Association President Nick Milne
and Jessica Brichta, Conference Organizing Committee Representatives
Panel
1: Reading Women
9:30am - 11:00am (Arts 318)
Amber Hastings (University of Ottawa) Escaping the Superficiality of Materialistic
Fantasy: Catherine's Choice in Northanger Abbey
Wai Hung Tom Ue (McGill University) Narrative and the Remembrance of Pain
in Jane Austen's Persuasion
Kja Isaacson (University of Ottawa) Freeing Emma Bovary: Rewriting the
Reading Heroine in The Doctor's Wife
Coffee Break: 11:00 - 11:15 (Arts, 3rd Floor, Glenn Clever Room)
Panel
2: Women Fighting Back
11:15am - 12:45pm (Arts 318)
Sarah Poffenroth (University of Ottawa) "I Resisted All the Way":
Resistance and Liberty in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
Lai-Tze Fan (Wilfrid Laurier University) Chrysalid: The Repression and
Escape of Desire in Charlotte Brontë's Vilette
Hannah Kilpatrick (University of Ottawa) Anger Management in Evelina
Lunch: 12:45 - 2:00 (Arts, 3rd Floor, Glenn Clever Room)
Panel
3: On the Road
2:00pm - 3:30pm (Arts 509)
Danielle Barkley (McGill University) Coming and Going in Arthur Hugh Clough's
Amours de Voyage
Leif Schenstead-Harris (University of Saskatchewan) Between Proper Names:
The Generic Escape of Kinglake's Eothen
Coffee Break: 3:30pm - 3:45pm (Arts, 3rd Floor, Glenn Clever Room)
Panel
4: Undergraduate Panel
3:45pm - 5:15pm (Arts 509)
Stephanie Smith (University of Ottawa) Escaping the Male Gaze in Charlotte
Brontë's Jane Eyre
Natalie Greenberg (Oberlin College, Oberlin OH) Narrative Structure in
Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and Jackson's Patchwork Girl
Rebecca Greenberg (Binghamton University, NY) The Neuroscience of the
Romance Novel and its Effect on Women's Desire
Wine & Cheese Event: 5:15pm-7:30pm (Café Nostalgica)
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Registration: 9am - 10am (Arts, 3rd Floor Foyer)
Keynote
Speaker
10:00am - 11:00am (Arts 509)
Dr. Lauren Gillingham (University of Ottawa)
Shocks to the System: Sensational Modernity in Bleak House
Coffee Break: 11am: - 11:15am (Arts, 3rd Floor, Glenn Clever Room)
Panel
5: The Early 20th Century
11:15am - 12:45pm (Arts 509)
Damian Tarnopolsky (University of Toronto) Loving: Henry Green's Escapism
Ayesha Malik (SUNY, Buffalo) Escape as a Form of Resistance in Joyce's
Dubliners
Lunch: 12:45pm - 1:45pm (Arts, 3rd Floor, Glenn Clever Room)
Panel
6: Women and Romance
1:45pm - 3:15pm (Arts 509)
Jasmine Elliott (University of Windsor) Romantic Heroine as Antifeminist
Prophet: Consequences of Escape in the Twilight Saga
Kristen Renzi (Indiana University Bloomington) Escaping Sex?: Charting
Fantasies (and Failures) of Escape in Sherwood Anderson's "The Man
Who Became a Woman"
Jessica Brichta (University of Ottawa) Lessons Learned while Running from
Reality: Charlotte Lennox's Social Critique in The Female Quixote
Coffee Break 3:15 - 3:30 (Arts, 3rd Floor, Glenn Clever Room)
Panel
7: Modern Times
3:30pm - 5:00pm (Arts 509)
Tasha Ausman (University of Ottawa) "Releasing the Imagination"
of Students: Reading Rushdie's Midnight's Children as Liberatory Praxis
Yuri Forbes-Petrovich (Wilfrid Laurier University) Patterns of Escapism
in House of Leaves and Being and Nothingness
Corrie Shoemaker (University of Waterloo) Obsession with Possession: Control,
Ownership and Release in A.S. Byatt's Possession
Coffee Break: 5:00pm - 5:15pm (Arts, 3rd Floor, Glenn Clever Room)
Panel
8: Shakespeare
5:15pm -6 :30pm (Arts 509)
Lindsay Yakimyshyn (Queen's University) "His meanest garment":
Fetishizing Objects and Plotting Violation in Cymbeline
Lynne Schneider (Binghamton University) The Port of Mars: Escape into
Bloodless Battle in Shakespeare's The Life of Henry the Fifth
Closing Remarks: 6:30pm - 6:45pm
Acknowledgments and Thanks
The English
Department:
Professor Lauren Gillingham
Professor Frans De Bruyn
Professor Tom Allen
Professor Irene Makaryk
Murielle Brazeau, Nadine Mayhew, and Diane Corcoran
Last Year’s
Conference Organizers:
Danny Gorny and Neal Hacker
The Proposal
Vetting Committee:
Jordan Berard, Sue Bowness, and A.T. Siraki
The Conference
Organizers:
Nick Milne, Keith Friedlander, Jessica Brichta, Kja Isaacson, Mike Webster,
and Joel Sparks
Additional
Volunteers and Panel Chairs:
Paul Graves, Ashly Dyck, Matt Kennedy, Megan Taylor, Hannah Kilpatrick,
and Jennifer Hunter
We gratefully
acknowledge the support of our University of Ottawa sponsors:
The Department of English
The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies The Faculty of Arts The
University of Ottawa Libraries The English Graduate Students’ Association
Thank you
for your help and support. Without you, this conference would not have
been possible.
PAST PROGRAMME
Friday June 12, 2009
Panel
1: The Past and Constructions of Racial Identity
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
"I Have
Stolen Their Souls:" Post-Memory and the Creative Exhumation of the
Holocaust in Bernice Eisenstein's I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors.
Jordan Berard (uOttawa)
Ancestral
Ascendancy: The Irish Palatines 300 Years On.
Ruth Bradley-St-Cyr (uOttawa)
First Nations
History in Canada and Robert Kroetch's "Stone Hammer Poem."
Heather Atkinson (uOttawa)
Panel
2: Fact, Fiction, and the Past
11:45AM - 1:15PM
"All
This I would Have Seen": The Collected Works of Billy the Kid as
a History of (his) Legend.
Morgan Vanek (University of Toronto)
Biographia
Literaria Famae, or, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Writings on Fame and Literary
Fame.
Stephen Potts (McGill)
"We
Let People Make Up Their Own Minds": Rock History as Interpretive
Space in Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People.
Kelley Kawano (CUNY)
Lunch Break
Panel
3: Memory and Judgement
2:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Robertson
Davies' Final Novel: Buried By Critics, Exhumed by Anti-Ageist Elixir.
Patricia Life (uOttawa)
Interpreting
Involuntary Memory as Narrative Musicality in Marcel Proust's Swann's
Way.
Jessica Roberts (Queen's)
Ressurecting
the Ex: Absence and Presence in Hardy's "The Voice" and "The
Going."
Jennifer Pangman (McGill)
Walking Corpus:
The Preternatural Vocabulary of Identity in Alden Nowlan's Correspondence
and Works.
Shakti Brazier-Tompkins (University of Saskatchewan)
Keynote
Address-Day One - 4PM
"The Dead Lady Talks to Me: Drawing the Line between Fact and Fiction."
Elizabeth Logan Harris - CUNY
Saturday June 13, 2009
Panel
4: Memory and Mythology
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Coyote as
God of the Gaps: The Irreducability of the Gothic in Gail Anderson Dargatz's
The Cure for Death By Lightning.
Bradley Roote (uOttawa)
Cthonic Imagery
in Richard II and Renaissance Theatre.
Cory Sampson (uOttawa)
"No
Littering in the Church Please": The Inadequacy of Redemption in
Susan Howatch's The Heartbreaker.
Adriana Hetram (Queen's)
Panel
5: Bodies Politick
11:45AM - 1:15PM
"Y'crammed
ful of cloutes and of bones": Saints' Lives after Death.
Erica Leighton (UWO)
The Last
Saxon King: Harold's Literary Afterlives and the Heroics of Death
Felicity Maxwell (uOttawa)
Pre-Raphaelite
Pamlimpsest: William Morris and the Reconfiguring of Medieval England.
Miles Tittle (uOttawa)
LUNCH BREAK
Panel
6: ZOMBIES!
2:00PM - 3:30PM
The Exhumation
of the Canon in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Heather Touet (University of Saskatchewan)
Policing
Embodiment: Body Worlds and Spectacular Surveillance.
Lisa Molnar (McMaster)
Spooks of
Biopower: The Uncanny Carnivalesque of Zombie Walks.
Simon Orpana (McMaster)
Keynote
Address - Day 2
"Exhumation and Authentication: Passion Relics in Crusading Contexts."
Dr. Siobhain Bly-Calkin - Carleton University