2015 Annual Conference
Transforming Knowledge/Transforming Discourse: Trans Through Writing
Eighth Annual Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference
Friday, May 8, 2015
Occidental and International lounges, Student Center
10–10:15 a.m.
Welcome
10:15–11:45 a.m.
Session I
- Bradley Nelson, Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center, "Yunior's Pharmacy: Writing as a Recipe for Transgression"
- Katherine Contess, Brooklyn College, "Transformation or Transference? History and Memory in Wajda's Katyn"
- Kelly Roberts, Brooklyn College, "Should I say we? 'Transpersonal' Subjectivity in Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric"
Noon–1 p.m.
Luncheon
1–2 p.m.
Session II
- Issam Aldowkat, Indiana University-Pennsylvania, "The Hungry Earth, and the Dramatization of the Apartheid Regime in South Africa"
- Anwar Uhuru, St. John's University, "Blackness Transferred: A Critical Explication of Steve Biko's Ontology"
2–3:30 p.m.
Session III
- Allison Greer, The College of New Jersey: "(Trans)Formed Places and (Re)Claimed Spaces in the Transgender Road Movie"
- Dan Dufournaud, York University (Toronto): "I'm Jewish because . . .': Ginsberg's Redefinition of the Constitutive Categories of Identity"
- Jacob Chandler, Brooklyn College: "We Are What We Walk Between: David Foster Wallace's Radical Realism and the Aesthetic of Trans-Finitude"
3:30–5 p.m.
Keynote Presentation and Discussion
- Michelle Ann Stephens, "Trans-Caribbeanity and Transforming American Studies"
Keynote speaker Michelle Ann Stephens is associate professor of English and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. The author of Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914 to 1962, and Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer (both published by Duke University Press), Stephens is also a member of the editorial collective of the Radical History Review.
