Round-Table Discussion Groups
Each quarter, the CLTC sponsors one or two evening round
table discussion groups where graduate students and faculty
meet to discuss papers. Papers discussed during these meeting
usually are in their final stages and will be either presented
at a conference or published in a journal. If you are interested
in submitting your paper for discussion, please email it to
Beth Wynstra(Graduate
Research Assistant).
Spring 2008
Monday, May 5th
5:00-7:00 p.m.
Theater/Dance Seminar Room (2517)
Jennifer Caldwell, Theater and Dance, "Wigs, Props, and 'Authentic'
Voice: Navigating the Historiography of World War II Soldier
Shows."
Elizabeth Lagresa, Comparative Literature, "Imaginary Women:
Helen and the Rebirth of the Errant Wife/Mother Archetype
in the Twentieth Century."
Allison Schifani, Comparative Literature, "Mobile Technology:
The Institute for Applied Autonomy and Resistance in the City."
Lily Wong, Comparative Literature, "Interpenetrating Temporalities:
The Death of a Prostitute in a Time of Globalism."
Winter 2008
Monday, 10th March 2008, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Theater/Dance
Seminar Room
Xiao Che, Theater, "Call from the Depth of History
-- Searching for Roots in 'Sangshuping Chronicles.'"
Brandon Fastman, English, "Global Horses and
Posthuman Indians: A Promiscuous Reading of Black Elk Speaks."
David Platzer, Comparative Literature, "Onitsha
Market Literature and Nollywood; Hybrid Histories and Global
Forms."
Liberty Stanvage, English, "The Power of the
Fixed Text?: Competing Functions, The Struggle for Authority,
and the Nature of Textuality in the York Register."
Monday, 4th February 2008, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Theater/Dance
Seminar Room
Ryan Boyd (English) "Wear Your Sombrero: Wallace
Stevens' Intuitive Poetics."
Judith Hicks (English) "Losing Terror in Familiarity:
Affect, Community and Flourishing in Mary Austin's The Land
of Little Rain."
Tracy Jamison Wood (Classics) "'The Best Imitation
of Myself': Helen and her Artistic Streak."
Jessica Murphy (English) "'Of the sicke virgin':
Britomart and the Man in the Mirror."
Fall 2007
Tuesday, 4th December 2007, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Theater/Dance Seminar Room
Colin Carman (English Department) "In the Eye
of Sane Philosophy": Percy Shelley, Homophobia, England in
1810.”
Susan Cook (English) “The Other of Incorporation:
Sadomasochism and the Colonial Scene."
Sören Hammerschmidt (English) "A Life in Transit:
Travel, Maternity, and the Progress of Civilisation in Mary
Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written during a Short Residence."
Tuesday, 6 November 2007, 5:00-7:00 pm, in
Theater and Dance Seminar Room
Christina Cheng (Comparative Literature) "Barbadian
Culture Through the Memory of Food in Austin Clarke's 'Bakes'
and 'Smoked Ham Hocks with Lima Beans'"
Jessica O'Keefe (Theater and Dance) "Transgender Theatre:
Rethinking Essentialism"
Spring 2007
2007 Spring Roundtable 2:
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 6-8pm, in South Hall 2635.
Kim Knight (English) "Looking
Over One's Shoulder: Nineteenth-Century Secters in Twentieth
Century Contexts"
Torsten Sannar (Dramatic Arts)
"Appropriating Brecht in the African Postcolony: Soyinka's
Opera Wonyosi and the Junction Avenue Theatre Company's Love,
Crime, and Johannesburg"
Marthine Satris (English) "Paper
Spaces and Spatial Places"
Tracy Jamison (Classics): "Euripides'
Elegiac Helen"
Winter 2007
2007 Winter Roundtable 2:
Monday, 5 March 2007, 5-7pm, in (location to be confirmed).
Brandon Fastman (English) "Animal Documentary: A War
On Terror"
Carol Fischer (Dramatic Arts) "Trans-Absurdism: The
Transculturating of Absurdism in Griselda Gambaro’s Drama"
James Fujitani (French) "Pierre de Ronsard and the Humanization
of Inspiration"
Rachel Mann (English): "'Let me know my fate': Mary
Crawford as (Anti)Heroine of Mansfield Park"
2007 Winter Roundtable 1:
Monday, 5 February 2007 5-7pm, in Old Gym 101C.
Danielle Lafrance (Comparative Literature) "Fronteriza Identity
in
Leonor Villegas and Jovita Gonzalez"
Martin Rosenstock (German Department) "Rendezvous with Halley’s
Comet – Ernst Jünger’s Voyage through the Twentieth
Century"
Haley O'neil (Spanish Department) "Primitivism, Insularism,
and the
Revision of Cubanidad in Virgilio Pinera's La isla en peso"
Eric Martinsen (English Department) "Haunted Histories and
Global
Futures in Morales and Ghosh"
Fall 2006
2006 Fall Roundtable 2: Thursday,
30 November 2006, 5-7pm, in South Hall 2635.
Anne Marcoline (Comparative Literature) "Valéry's
_My Faust_: Staging Conflicts"
Judith A. Hicks (English) "Losing Neverland: The Homes that
Colonized Women Imagine from Homer's Calypso to Rhys' Antoinette"
Xiao Che (Dramatic Arts) "Dionysus: The Ambiguous God"
Mac Oliver (English) "Gates & Leaves: Plotting the Dead
in Absalom, Absalom! In Light of the Aeneid"
2006 Fall Roundtable 1: Wednesday,
1 November 2006, 5-7pm, in Phelps 6309.
Simone Chess (English)
"Where’s your Jonson?: Male to Female Crossdressing in
Ben Jonson’s 'Epicoene' and 'The Devil is an Ass'"
Nanette Pawelek (Comparative Literature)
"Remediation and Abuses of Memory: Mein Kampf, from Orality
to National Epic"
Edward (Mac) Test (English)
"The Tempest and The Newfoundland Cod Fishery"
Maggie Sloan (English)
"'Come, listen to my plaintive ditty': the Rhetoric of Sentiment,
Sensibility, and Abolition in Amelia Opie's 'Black Man's Lament'
and Adeline Mowbray"
Winter 2006
Roundtable 2: March 13th,
2006, 3-5PM (South Hall 2635)
Tracy Jamison (Classics)
"(Fe)Male Dionysus: the False Dichotomy of Gender in Euripidean
Theatre"
Douglas Hong (English)
"Paying Offences: Intersections in the Political Experiences
Of Native-and Japanese-Americans in the 1940s and 1950s"
Beth Wynstra (Dramatic Arts)
"The Living Theatre: Directing Against the Revolution"
Susan Cook (English)
"'…no true home…': Displacement, Nationality,
and Lucy Snowe’s Villette"
Roundtable 1: February 27th,
2006, 4-6PM (South Hall 2635)
Nathan Henne (Comp Lit)
"Filtering K’iche’ Poetics: Anthropology
and the Popol Vuh as Literature"
Laura Miller (English)
"Public Tears for the 'Already written' Mind in Pope's
'Eloisa to Abelard'"
Lisa Swanstrom (Comp Lit)
"SoftBot, Knowbot, WebBot, or No-bot? How the Robot Lost
Its Body in the Age of Information"
Ben Shockey (English)
"Architecture, Space, and the Production of Gay Subjectivity
in Alan Hollinghurst's The Swimming-Pool Library"
Fall 2005
Roundtable 2: November 28th,
2005, 4-6PM (South Hall 2635)
Suk-Young Kim (Dramatic Art)
"Springtime for Kim Il-sung in Pyongyang: Pyongyang on
Stage, Pyongyang as Stage"
Jeremy Douglass (English)
"Benchmark Fiction: A Framework for Comparative New Media
Studies"
Jessica Elise O'Keefe (Dramatic Art)
"Transgender Perspectives: Exposing Heteronormativity
as a Construct through Alternative Family and Coming of Age
Narratives"
Sarah McLemore (English)
"Dynamite Terror and the Textual Landscape of London"
Roundtable 1: October 17th,
2005, 4-6PM (South Hall 2635)
Billy Hall (English)
"The Specter of Eighteen-Century Aesthetics in Paul de
Man’s Haunting of Theory"
Kieran Murphy (Comparative Literature)
"Magnetic Realism: The Influence of Animal Magnetism
and
Somnambulism in Balzac's La Comédie Humaine"
Heidi Brevik (French - Brown Univ.)
"C'est Pourri de Chic: The Fashion of Modernity in Emile
Zola's Nana"
David Roh (English)
"Benjamin’s Aura in the 21st Century: The Printing
Press, Copyright Law, and the Death of Creativity"
Participants from past Round-Tables
Glenna Berry-Horton (Portuguese)
"Two Unreliable and Outrageous Narrators"
Elizabeth Freudenthal (English)
"Beyond Irony: A Negative Space of Identity"
Chris K. Lee (Comparative Literature)
"Patterns of Childhood as a Novel Invested in
the Double Movement of Owning and Disowning the Past (and
the Present)"
Kris McAbee (English)
"Self-Substantial Fuel: Reflections of Narcissus and
Echo in William Shakespeare’s Sonnets"
Randall Pogorzelski (Comparative Literature)
"A Failure to Communicate in Aeneid Six"
Jenna Reinbold (Religious Studies)
"The Free Individual and Fundamentalist Islam"
Ronald Smith (Dramatic Arts)
"Rehearsing for Revolution in Taiwan: Is Augusto Boal
a Magical Realist?"
Jacob Berman (English)
"Captive Identity: Images of Barbary and Ante Bellum
American Identity Politics"
Julianne Cordero (Religious Studies)
"The Gathering of Traditions: The Reciprocal Alliance
of History, Ecology, Health, and Community among the Contemporary
Chumash"
Didier Maleuvre (French & Italian)
"Against Culture: A Moral Portrait of Relativism"
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