2012 Annual Conference
The Shifting Self: Radical Transfigurations
Fifth Annual Graduate English Conference
Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
April 28, 2012
10 a.m.
Welcome
10:30–11:50 a.m.
Doubles
- 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: Professor Geoffrey Minter, Brooklyn College
Noon–1 p.m.
Luncheon
2315 Boylan Hall
1:10–2:30 p.m.
Trauma
- 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
2:40–4:30 p.m.
Structure
- 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
4:40–6 p.m.
Keynote Address
- Speaker: Eileen Myles
- Respondent: Professor Matthew Burgess, Brooklyn College
Discussion with audience to follow.
