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Brooklyn College English Department
MA English and MA English Teacher Programs |
Annual Conference |
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Fifth Annual Graduate English Conference
Brooklyn College Library, Tanger Auditorium
April 28, 2012
Welcome (10:00 a.m.)
Doubles (10:30-11:50)
Moderator: Rummanu Yeasin, Brooklyn College
Andrea Kennedy Hart, Villanova University, “Bride and Bridegroom: Annie Hindle and the Rhetoric of Passing”
Christiane Struth, University of Giessen, “‘Alter ego et galore": Multiple Selves and the Poetics of Metarepresentational Self-Analysis in Christine Brooke-Rose's Autofictional Novel Remake”
Meredith Kooi, Emory University, “Autoimmune Doublings: The Surplus of Golyadkin and Helen”
Respondent: Prof. Geoffrey Minter, Brooklyn College
Luncheon, Boylan Hall 2315 (12:00-1:00)
Trauma (1:10-2:30)
Moderator: Elizabeth Rose, Brooklyn College
Aliza Shvarts, New York University, “How I learned to stop worrying and love the rape kit”
Emma Burris-Janssen, University of New Hampshire, “‘A Little More than Persuading’: Tess Durbeyfield’s Disenfranchised Trauma”
Michelle Gibbs, Brooklyn College, “Colonial Trauma of Dissociative Proportions in Dream on Monkey Mountain”
Respondent: Jessica Siegel
Structure (2:40-4:30)
Moderator: Mike Stop Continues, Brooklyn College
Samira Abdur-Rahman, Rutgers University, “Fragments of Self in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Autobiographical Writing”
Brittany Farmer, New York University, “Which Prize is Me?: Metaphor, Metonymy and the Identity Making Game in Philip Roth's Goodbye Columbus”
Michelle Magnero, Western Washington University, “Producing the Revolutionary Black Male Self in Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep”
Danielle Solomon, Hunter College, “Laura Mullen’s Murmur: Self-Reflective Detective Work”
Respondent: Joseph Entin
Keynote Address (4:40-6:00)
Speaker: Eileen Myles
Respondent: Prof. Matthew Burgess, Brooklyn College
Discussion with audience to follow
Previous Graduate Conference Information can be viewed here.
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