Friday, April 8, 2011
Session One (Panel 1) 9:15–10:00 AM
1. “Other”worldly Trappings Room 501
Steven Baleno: “Mysticism in Victorian Literature: A Comparison between the Child and the Orient”
Kristin Vermilya: “The Desolation of Slumber: Sleeping Beauty's Imprisonment by Fate”
Moderator: Katherine Kidd
Session Two (Panels 2–3) 10:15–11:15 AM
2. Promotion, Performance, and Power: Women’s Textual Identities Room 501
Evan Chen: “Stein Teaching Stein: Beyond Self-Promotion in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”
Joellyn Powers: “Elizabeth 1: The Duality of Gender”
Jazz Sexton: “Who Loves the Big Bad Wolf: Female Submission in Faerie Tales”
Moderator: Jennifer MacGregor
3. Irish Drama, Politics, and Cultural Identity Room 512
Kelly Lenhart: “From the Goddess Eiru to Cathleen Ni Houlihan: How the Personification of Ireland Affected the Irish People”
Heather Sellew: “'There have been many songs made for me': Cathleen ni Houlihan, Dracula, and the Motif of Sacrifice in Irish Literature”
Hayavadhan Thuppal: “An Isle Divided: Translations and the Irish Identity”
Moderator: Kate Sedon
Session Three (Panel 4) 11:30 AM–12:30 PM
4. Courtship and Marriage: The Brontës’ Social Critique through Literature Room 501
Katie Doyle: “Your Space or Mine? Navigating Desire in Agnes Grey”
Rebecca DePoe: “'That They May Be One As We Are One': Catholicism, Protestantism and the Duality of Reason versus Imagination in Charlotte Brontë‟s Villette”
Megan Roth: “Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Feminist Critique of the Female Position and Marriage Laws in Nineteenth-Century England”
Moderator: Jessica Isaac
Lunch, Room 512 12:30–1:15 PM
Session Four (Panels 5–6) 1:15–2:15 PM
5. Missing Persons: Horrific Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Literature Room 501
Casey Bieda: “Bodies, Dissection, and 'Materials'‟: The Influences of Radical Science and Body Snatching on the Conception of Frankenstein”
Derek Henson: “A Reflection on Dracula's Reflection: How Its Absence Reveals a Repressed Side of Human Nature”
Gabrielle Langmann: “Illness as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century England: Quarantine, Cancer, and the Embodied Experience of Illness in Wuthering Heights”
Moderator: Liam O'Loughlin
6. Emersonian Echoes in his Contemporaries, Heirs, and Forebears Room 512
Jon Markley: “Transcendental Travelers”
Mary Pappalardo: “The Enigma of Identity in Whitman's Leaves of Grass”
Jaclyn Bankert: “Rabbit Re-imagined: Subverting Historical Stereotypes in Updike‟s Rabbit Tetralogy”
Jeannette Schroeder: “Is Phillis Wheatley an Anti-Slavery Activist, an Auntie Thomasina, or Just an Anticipation of Emerson?”
Moderator: Kathleen Davies
Session Five (Panels 7–8) 2:30–3:30 PM
7. Who’s Got the Power? Narrators and Readers in Turn-of-the-Century Texts Room 501
Corey Florindi: “Who Said That? The Role of Narration (and Lack Thereof) in Dubliners”
Candice Hingley: “Childhood-as-Mystery in Turn of the Screw”
Sean Michael Hurley: “Control Masked as Anarchic Play in Peter Pan”
Moderator: Jonathan Gotsick
8. War Zones: Literary Spaces of Conflict Room 512
Anna Barry: “Questioning Meaning and Answering Nothing: Examining A Gate at the Stairs as a Post-9/11 American Social Novel”
Ashlee Kiel: “Closeness Drew Apart: Solipsism and Communication in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway”
Liam Sweeney: “Troilus and Cressida: The Commodified Woman and Her Relation to Brand Building”
Moderator: Dan Kubis
Session Six (Panel 9) 3:40–4:40 PM
9. Gender, Race, and Empire: The Power and Influence of the Fantastic Other Room 501
Theresa Zimmerman: “The Masculinization of Alice in Tim Burton‟s Alice in Wonderland”
Danielle Grimm: “The Role of Foreign Involvement in Rescuing an Endangered England from Imperialist Threat in Bram Stoker's Dracula”
Sarah Spaventa: “Supernatural versus Sociological: A Social Constructionist Analysis of Lord Voldemort's Rise to Power in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series”
Moderator: Kate Schaich
Session Seven (Panel 10) 4:45–5:45 PM
10. Social/Media: Gender, Class, and Aesthetics in Popular Culture Room 501
Christopher Comer: “Measuring Coffee Spoons: Temporality and the Aesthetics of Literary Modernism within Contemporary Film”
Hilary Penigar: “Girl Power, The Style Rookie, and the Possibility of Radical Girlhood Identities in Contemporary Culture”
MacKenzie See: “From Princess to Criminal: Social Class in The Breakfast Club”
Moderator: Michael DuPuis
Closing Remarks & Reception, Room 501 5:50 PM