2014 Annual Conference
The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted: People, Print, & Power
Seventh Annual Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference
April 25, 2014
State Lounge, fifth floor, Student Center
10–11:30 a.m.
Panel 1: Literature & Revolution
- Amelie Daigle, Boston College, "Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and the Role of Language in Post-Revolutionary India"
- Amanda Wochele, Brooklyn College, "Musicality, Folk, and Nonsense Literature in Irish Revolutionary Song and Story"
- Jennifer Caroccio, Brooklyn College, "Graphic T[ext]s: Language and Medium in Ilan Stavans' Latino USA: A Cartoon History"
- Chair: Jacob Chandler, Brooklyn College
11:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
Panel 2: Art/New York
- Ryan Purcell, Rutgers University, "5Pointz and 'Independent Revolutionary Art': An Inquiry into Urban Public Art as Social Protest"
- Bradley Nelson, Brooklyn College, "Bartleby, Occupy Wall Street, and Queer Orientation"
- Conor Tomás Reed, CUNY Graduate Center, "Invisible Man's Boomerang Time and Street-Fighting Tactics"
- Chair: Alessandra Dyer, Brooklyn College
1–2 p.m.
Luncheon
2:30–4 p.m.
Panel 3: The Nineteenth Century
- Aaron Jaffe, The New School, "From Critiquing Power to Powerful Critique: Marx among the Discursive Strategies of the Young Hegelians"
- Stephanie Adams, Brooklyn College, "Subversive Alcott"
- Michael Bowen, New York University, "The Psyché of the Bourgeoisie: Full-Length Mirrors and the Revolution in Self-Imaging in Early 19th-Century France"
- Chair: Jason Hoelzel, Brooklyn College
4 p.m.
Keynote Presentation
- Professor Barbara Foley, Rutgers University (Newark), "Literature, Revolution, and the Politics of the Left"
