Welcome to Louisville, Kentucky and

Society for the Study of Narrative Literature

Officers

President: Alison Booth, University of Virginia

First Vice President: Dorothy Hale, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Secretary-Treasurer: James Phelan, Ohio State University

Editor of Narrative: James Phelan, Ohio State University

Past President: Peter J. Rabinowitz, Hamilton College

Archivist: George Perkins

Electronic Communications: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University

Membership Committee Chair: Theodore O. Mason, Jr., Kenyon College

Conference Liaison: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Executive Council

Lynn Huffer, Rice University

Rick Livingston, Ohio State University

Emma Kafalenos, Washington University

Brian Richardson, University of Maryland

Alison Case, Williams College

Eleanor Kaufman, University of Virginia

Conference Sponsors

University of Louisville

Department of English

Office of the Provost

College of Arts and Sciences

College of Medicine

Commonwealth Center for the Study of Humanities and Society

Thomas R. Watson Endowment

Joseph Wittreich Endowment

Judith Bonnie Endowment

Thomas M. Sheehan Endowment

W. Paul and Lucille Caudill Little Lectureship Series

Program Committee

Beth A. Boehm

Thomas B. Byers

Alan Golding

Susan M. Griffin

Suzette Henke

Aaron Jaffe

Debra Journet

Sena Naslund

Glynis Ridley

Susan Ryan

Beth Willey

Conference Directors

Beth A. Boehm

Debra Journet

Conference Assistant Directors

Sonya Borton

Stephanie Owen Fleischer

Technology Experts

Matthew Crady

Clayton D. Fleischer

Aaron Toscano

English Graduate Organization Volunteers

Cynthia E. Britt

Jacqueline Brown

Kate Brown

Roxana Cazan

Sylvia Church

Alanna Frost

Jo Ann Griffin

J. P. Hanly

Anca Iancu

Daniel Keller

Julie Myatt

Iswari Pandey

Beth Powell

Stephen Neaderhiser

Carolyn Skinner

Stacy Taylor

Linda Torok

Special Thanks to

Susan M. Griffin, Chair of English

Blaine Hudson, Acting Dean of Arts and Sciences

Laura Schweitzer, Interim Dean, School of Medicine, Assoc. Vice President for Health Affairs

Shirley Willihnganz, Provost

Thomas B. Byers, Director of Commonwealth Center for the Study of Humanities and Society

OVERVIEW

(See end for an alphabetical list of presenters’ sessions)

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

9:00-4:00 Registration Room

10:00-11:30 Session 1 Room

1A Deviations Broadway B

1B Experimental Narrative in

Twentieth-Century American Fiction Broadway C

1C Metaphors and Tropes in Eighteenth-

Century American Fiction Broadway A

1D Narrative Practices in Christian Formation Jefferson

1E Narrative, Raced/Erased J. G. Brown

1F Regionalism and Its Discontents Louis XVI

1G You, Reader, Focus. Bluegrass

11:45-1:15 Session 2

2A Affective Currencies: Reading Feeling

in Nineteenth-Century Fiction Broadway C

2B Bodies, Extreme and In Extremis Broadway A

2C Minority Writing and Narrative J. G. Brown

2D Narrative Form and Sexual Politics Louis XVI

2E Open Cases: Postcoloniality,

Detective Fiction, and the

Epistemologies of Form Bluegrass

2F Performance as Medium and Metaphor Broadway B

2G The Russian Bildungsroman Jefferson

1:15-2:15 Break (Lunch)

2:30-4:00 Session 3

3A Contemporary Narratology I: Narrative

Inferences: Images and Conversations Broadway C

3B Agency and the Nineteenth-Century

British Novel Broadway A

3C A Woman’s Place?: Narrative Sightings

of Females and the Feminine Broadway B

3D Historical Fictions, Fictive Histories J. G. Brown

3E Narrative Specters and Spirits Louis XVI

3F Staging the Color-Line in Twentieth-

Century Fiction Bluegrass

3G The Architectural Uncanny in the

Fiction of Steven Millhauser: Narrative

and Liminal Space in Martin Dressler,

“The Barnum Museum,” and “Revenge.” Jefferson

5:00-6:30 PLENARY I: Barbara Stafford. 

"Recapturing the Complexity of Mimesis:

Mirrors and the Optical Technology of

Subjectivity." Co-sponsored by the J. B. Speed Art Museum and the Judith Bonnie Endowment. Speed Art Museum

Buses will leave the Brown Hotel for the Speed Art Museum (on the University of Louisville’s campus) at 4:15. A reception at the museum will follow Professor Stafford’s talk.

First-Time Attendees Dinner Groups (Sign-up in advance at registration desk)

FRIDAY, April 8

7:30-9:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00-9:30 Session 4

4A Telling Dissolution, Domination, and Decay Louis XVI

4B Reading Narrative Close Up Broadway C

4C Structure, Character, and Identity in

Role-Playing Game Narratives Broadway B

4D Imperial Ideologies and Ideologists Bluegrass

4E Uncanny Maneuvers Broadway A

4F Sensational Victorianism Gallery

4G Visuality and Non-Narrativity in German

Historical Representations in the Early

Nineteenth Century J. G. Brown

4H Women Talk/Men Talking Jefferson

9:45-11:30 Session 5

5A Bakhtin and the Novel: Chronotope and

Genre J. G. Brown

5B Metanarratives and Myths:

Constructions and Deconstructions Jefferson

5C “In the end, I. . .”: Teleology,

Action, Identity Broadway B

5D Narrative Genres: Postcolonial Histories Gallery

5E Re:Media Narratologia Broadway C

5F Teaching Narrative Theory:

Assembling the Texts Bluegrass

5G The Narrative Imagination in

Alternative Genres Louis XVI

5H Writing Race and Ethnicity in the USA Broadway A

12:00-1:00 Pedagogy Lunch Bluegrass

Box lunches will be available for those who reserved and paid for them. Please bring the ticket from your registration packet.

1:00-2:30 Session 6

6A J. M. Coetzee: Ambivalence and Paradox Louis XVI

6B Modernism in the Nursery: Narratives of

Aggression and Play J. G. Brown

6C Where the Action Is: Narrative and

Globalization/ Event/

Research Methodology Jefferson

6D Narrative Medicine: Empathy,

Proximity, and Instrumentality Broadway A

6E Narratives of Forgetting in

Contemporary Film Broadway B

6F Sense and Un-Ending: Reshaping the

Boundaries of Narrative Convention Bluegrass

6G Small.Time.Fiction Broadway C

6H Telepathy, Pathology, and Figuration

in and around James Gallery

2:45-4:15 Session 7

7A Contemporary Narratology II:

Narrators and Narration: Theoretical

Historical Perspectives Broadway A

7B Anna Karenina Jefferson

7C Creative Catastrophe: Nicholas

Mosley’s Narrative Aesthetics J. G. Brown

7D Telltale Signs: Detecting and Diagnosing Bluegrass

7E Keeping It Real: Narrating

Reality and the Realities of Narrative Broadway B

7F Myths, Fantasies, Fairy Tales:

Renarrating Women’s “Stories” Louis XVI

7G Narrative Sympathy, Narrative Ethics Broadway C

4:30-6:00 PLENARY II: Kathryn Montgomery. “Narrative Thinking.” Co-sponsored by Humanities and Arts and Medicine Lecture. W. Paul and Lucille Caudill Little Lectureship Series. School of Medicine, University of Louisville. Crystal Ballroom

6:00-8:00 Reception at the Brown Hotel

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

7:30-8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00-9:30 Session 8

8A A as in Austerlitz Jefferson

8B Alternative Temporal Vocabularies

in Nineteenth-Century Narrative Bluegrass

8C Bound, Unbound, Rebound: Twentieth-

Century American Bodies Gallery

8D Marx, Modernism, Postmodernism Broadway C

8E Narrating Reality Broadway A

8F Narrative, the Humanities, and

the Desire for Ethics Louis XVI

8G Temporality after Ricoeur J. G. Brown

8H The Technological and the Fantastic Broadway B

9:45-11:15 PLENARY III: Wai Chee Dimock.

“Temporal Hybrids: Epic, Novel, and the

Planet." Co-sponsored by the Thomas Sheehan Endowment. Crystal Ballroom

11:30-1:00 Session 9

9A Forming Narrative between

Modernism and Postmodernism Bluegrass

9B Materiality, Print Culture, and the

Marketplace Louis XVI

9C Narrative Fabrications: Time,

History, and Memory J. G. Brown

9D Reading Women’s Voices Jefferson

9E Scary Business: Gothic Economies

in Literature and Film Broadway B

9F Science and/as Story Broadway A

9G Theory of Mind and Narrative Broadway C

9H Under the Radar: Modernism’s

Narrative Strategies of Subversion Gallery

1:15-2:45 SSNL Business Lunch Crystal Ballroom

By reservation only. Please bring the ticket you’ll find behind your badge.

3:00-4:45 Session 10

10A All in Your Head: Omniscience, Embodiment,

and Character in the Nineteenth Century Broadway C

10B Contemporary Narratology III:

Form and Technique: Ideological

and Cognitive Perspectives Broadway A

10C From White Power Structure to

Black Narrative Identities: Introducing

the Radical-Static Narrative Form Louis XVI

10D The Master’s Voice: Jamesian Talk J. G. Brown

10E On Suffering, Brooding, and

Getting Ill Bluegrass

10F Refiguring Postcolonialism Broadway B

10G Rewriting the Romance: Violence

in Contemporary Women’s Narratives Gallery

5:00-6:30 PLENARY IV: Terry Castle.  "The Talk

Formerly Known as 'i-Pod, Therefore I

Am.'" Co-sponsored by the Joseph Wittreich Endowment. Crystal Ballroom

SUNDAY, APRIL 10

8:00-9:30 Session 11

11A Cultural Narratives I Broadway B

11B Masculinity and Violence Broadway A

11C Getting Personal, Going Postal:

Diaries, Letters, and the Post Office J. G. Brown

11D Jane Austen’s Narrative Strategies:

Discourse, Characterization, and Narration

in Austen’s Novels and Their

Film Representations Louis XVI

11E Narrative Strategies in Holocaust Writing:

The Question of Generations Bluegrass

11F Negotiating Resistance Gallery

11G Shaking Up Theory Jefferson

9:45-11:15 Session 12

12A Agency, Identity, and Politics

in Nineteenth-Century England Louis XVI

12C Narrative Theory: Ctrl, Alt, Shift Broadway B

12D On the Borders of the Human Gallery

12E Other People’s Property Broadway C

12F Telling (at) the Limits Jefferson

12G Time, Space, and the Colony J. G. Brown

12H “What’s God’s Story?”: The

(American) Politics of Telling

Tales about God Broadway A

11:30-1:00 Session 13

13A Always Ahistoricize!:

Rethinking Queer Narrative J. G. Brown

13B American Power and

Narratives of Violence Broadway A

13C Bildungsromans, Paradigms,

Exempla Louis XVI

13D Cultural Narratives II Broadway B

13E Landscapes: Domestic and

Sublime, Voices and Views Broadway C

13F Of Women, Men, and Others:

Discourses of Gender Jefferson

13G Queer Eye for Narratolog(u)y Bluegrass

Meeting rooms at the Brown Hotel on the Second and Third Floors.

Meeting rooms at the Brown Hotel on the Sixteenth Floor.

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

Session 1 10:00-11:30

Session 1A: Deviations

BROADWAY B

Chair: Anne-Laure Tissut, François Rabelais University, Tours, France.

• Aaron Jaffe, University of Louisville. “Affirming the Consequent, Denying the Antecedent: Walter Benjamin and Nonsequitur.”
• Aaron Smith, Université de Tours. “Detour and Deviation in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis.”
• Judith Roof, Michigan State University. “Tributaries.”

Session 1B: Experimental Narrative in Twentieth-Century American Fiction

BROADWAY C

Chair: Alan Golding, University of Louisville.

• Kirk Boyle, University of Cincinnati. “Out of the Blue: Escaping ‘Art as Institution’ in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves”
• Daniel Punday, Purdue University, Calumet. “Donald Barthelme’s Collage Narrativity.”
• Joshua Kavaloski, University of South Carolina. “Resistance to Unidirectional Linearity in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying”

Session 1C: Metaphors and Tropes in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

BROADWAY A

Chair: Glynis Ridley, University of Louisville.

• Scott MacKenzie, Davidson College. “An Englishwoman’s Poorhouse is Her Castle: Poverty and the Romance of the Forest.”
• Ivan Kreilkamp, Indiana University. “The Animal as Minor Character: Pompey the Little and Flush.”
• Jarmila Mildorf, University of Stuttgart. “An Exploration of Narrative Fascination or Why is Jane Eyre ever so popular?”

Session 1D: Narrative in Practices of Christian Formation

JEFFERSON

Chair: Liberty Stewart, Emory University.

• Liberty Stewart, Emory University. “From Late-Antique Biography to the Lives of Christian Saints: The Cooption of Narrative for Use in Christian Formation.”
• Michelle Voss Roberts, Emory University. “The Stories Women Tell: Narrative as Spiritual, Disciplinary, and Authorizing Practice in Medieval Women’s Writings.”
• Melissa Johnston-Barrett, Emory University. “Narrative and Dialogic Form in Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Christmas Eve: A Dialogue.”

Session 1E: Narrative, Raced/Erased

J. G. BROWN

Chair: Joanna Wolfe, University of Louisville.

· Ray Hsu, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Zora Neale Hurston: Ethnography, Visuality, and the Object of Culture.”

· Karen Chandler, University of Louisville. “Losing and Getting (a) Home: Africans’ Assimilation in Recent Children’s Narratives.”

· Kristianne Kalata, Duquesne University. “’These disgusting stories . . . are the life itself here’: Performativity and Politics in Fanny Kemble’s Georgian Journal.”

Session 1F: Regionalism and Its Discontents

LOUIS XVI

Chair: Ben Slote, Allegheny College.

· James Weaver, Ohio State University. “’A Shadow of What Might be Told’: Narrating and Negotiating Community in Caroline Kirkland’s A New Home—Who’ll Follow?”

· Laura Quinn, Allegheny College. “Narrows and Marrows: Ann Petry’s New England Narratives.”

· Ben Slote, Allegheny College. “Floating in the Backwater: Academic Novels and the Problem of the Local.”

Session 1G: You, Reader, Focus.

BLUEGRASS

Chair: Tamara Yohannes, University of Louisville.

• David FitzSimmons, Ashland University. “Guidelines for Marking Shifts in Focalization and the Interpretative Payoffs.”
• Jennifer Gregory, New Mexico State University. “The Shape of Things: Structure and Reader Identity in Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler.”

Session 2 11:45-1:15

Session 2A: Affective Currencies: Reading Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

BROADWAY C

Chair: Stacy Carson Hubbard, SUNY, Buffalo.

• Rachel Ablow, University of Rochester. “George Eliot’s Sacrifice.”
• Theo Davis, Williams College. “Common Knowledge: Scottish Associationism and the Theory of American Literary Nationalism.”
• Stacy Carson Hubbard, SUNY, Buffalo. “Working and Working Through: Compensation and Mourning in Emerson’s Essays and Louisa May Alcott’s Work: A Story of Experience.”

Session 2B: Bodies Extreme and In Extremis

BROADWAY A

Chair: Dana E. Nichols, University of Louisville.

• Eva Kuttenberg, Penn State University, Erie. “Thomas Bernhard’s Aesthetics of Extremes in Korrektur.”
• Jong-Im Lee, University of Wisconsin, Madison. “An Epic for the Marginalized: Allegory, Fetishism, and Narrative Repetition in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood.”
• Ruth Linn, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel. “Escaping Auschwitz and the Politics of Memory.”

Session 2C: Minority Writing and Narrative

J. G. BROWN

Chair: Sue Kim, University of Alabama, Birmingham.

• Sue Kim, University of Alabama, Birmingham. “The Subject of Minority Writing.”
• Una Chung, Hunter College, CUNY. “Accelerating Asian American Representations.”
• Kim Bartel, Rutgers. “Kant’s Narrative of Hope at the Nadir of History: Du Bois on Progress and Pragmatism.”
• Marta Rivera Paczynska, Tufts University. “Minority Writing and the Autobiographical Narrative Voice.”

Session 2D: Narrative Form and Sexual Politics

LOUIS XVI

Chair: David Anderson, University of Louisville.

• Margaret Mitchell, State University of West Georgia. “Policing the Whirlpool: Gissing, Gender, and Narrative.”
• Martin Hipsky, Ohio Wesleyan University. “Low-Brow Primitivism: Women’s Romance and British Empire.”
• Lee Erwin, Independent Scholar. “Antifascism and Narrative in Women’s Novels of the 1930’s.”
• Kecia McBride, Ball State University. “’The Oblique and the Torturous’: Silence and Power in Edith Wharton’s The Reef and Evelyn Scott’s The Narrow House.”

Session 2E: Open Cases: Postcoloniality, Detective Fiction, and the Epistemologies of Form

BLUEGRASS

Co-Chairs: Nels Pearson and Marc Singer, Tennessee State University.

• Jason Herbeck, Bowling Green State University. “Authoring a Crime: Hidden Testimony in Raphaël Confiant’s Le Meurtre du Samedi-Gloria.”
• Chris Raczkowski, Indiana University. “Black Skins, White Looks: Frantz Fanon and Chester Himes’s Harlem Cycle.”
• Andrew Strombeck, University of California, Davis. “Hacking Imperialism: Neuromancer as Postcolonial Detective Novel.”

Session 2F: Performance as Medium and Metaphor

BROADWAY B

Chair: Dennis Hall, University of Louisville.

• Cheryl Wilson, University of Delaware. “Dance as Narrative Structure in George Eliot’s Adam Bede.”
• Brian Tucker, Wabash College. “Performing Boredom in Fontane’s Effi Briest.”
• Joseph Janangelo, Loyola University, Chicago. “Narrative to Narrative: Assigning Meaning to The Judy Garland Show.”
• Steve Feffer, Western Michigan University. “’Seven Storytellers in the Neighborhood’: The Break as Narrative Form in Hip-Hop Theatre.”

Session 2G: The Russian Bildungsroman

JEFFERSON

Chair: Kate Holland, Yale University.

• Kate Holland, Yale University. “The Configurations of Narrative Temporality and Bildung in The Brothers Karamazov.”
• Ilya Kliger, Yale University. “Tolstoy’s Dissolution of the Bildungsroman: Parallel Plotting in Anna Karenina.”
• Lina Steiner, University of Chicago. “Plural Visions and Partial Insights: The Novels of Ivan Turgenev.”

Session 3 2:30-4:00

Session 3A: Contemporary Narratology I: Narrative Inferences: Images and Conversations

BROADWAY C

Chair: Emma Kafalenos, Washington University, St. Louis.

· Jan Baetens, University of Leuven, Belgium. “Why are Photographs More Narrative than Movies?”

· Tamar Yacobi, Tel Aviv University. “The Narrativity of Ekphrastic Perception.”

· Meir Sternberg, Tel Aviv University. “The World from the Addressee’s Viewpoint: Hearing Revisited.”

Session 3B: Agency and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

BROADWAY A

Chair: Harry Shaw, Cornell University.

• Harry Shaw, Cornell University. “Narrative Tropes in Trollope.”
• Hina Nazar, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “Ethics, Agency, and Intersubjectivity.”
• David Thomas, George Washington University. “Faith, Agency, and Law in Victorian British Indian: W. D. Arnold’s Oakfield in Habermasian Light.”

Session 3C: A Woman’s Place?: Narrative Sightings of Females and the Feminine

BROADWAY B

Chair: Stephanie Owen Fleischer, University of Louisville.

· Lorri Nandrea, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Pt. “Home Maintenance: Narrating the Quotidian in Robinson Crusoe and Mary Barton.”

· Eileen Cleere, Southwestern University. “Homeland Security: Political Economy, Domestic Economy, and Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife.”

· Carolyn Skinner, University of Louisville. “Narrative Arguments for Women Doctors in the Nineteenth Century: Daughters of Aesculapius.”

Session 3D: Historical Fictions, Fictive Histories

J. G. BROWN

Chair: Nancy Henry, SUNY, Binghamton.

• Eric L. Berlatsky, Florida Atlantic University. “’A Knife Blade Called Now’: History, Narrative and Reality in Graham Swift’s Waterland.”
• Kurt Koenigsberger, Case Western Reserve University. “The Heart of England: Narrative Middles and the Shape of the Nation.”
• Ruth Mack, SUNY, Buffalo. “Magic between Narratives: Enlightenment Literary Historicism.”
• Mark Maslan, University of California, Santa Barbara. “Narrative Technique and Collective History in Phillip Roth’s Operation Shylock.”

Session 3E: Narrative Specters and Spirits

LOUIS XVI

Chair: Karen C. Hadley, University of Louisville.

• Gary Johnson, University of Findlay. “The Metamorphosis: Kafka’s Narrative and the Transformation of Allegory.”
• Laura Thiemann Scales, Harvard University. “Joseph Smith’s Self-Possessing Prophecy.”

Session 3F: Staging the Color-line in Twentieth-Century Fiction

BLUEGRASS

Chair: Karen Kopelson, University of Louisville.

• Shane Vogel, Indiana University. “The Scene of Harlem Cabaret.”
• Kimberly Coates, Bowling Green State University. “Sick with the Color of Mother: The Role of the Iridescent ‘Negress’ and the Incandescent Invert in H.D.’s ‘HERmione.’”
• Milos Zatkalik, University of Arts, Belgrade. “Regressing to The Heart of Darkness.”

Session 3G: The Architectural Uncanny in the Fiction of Steven Millhauser: Narrative and the Liminal Space in Martin Dressler, “The Barnum Museum,” and “Revenge.”

JEFFERSON

Chair: Danielle Alexander, Belmont University.

• Alicita Rodriguez, Western State College. “The Architectural Uncanny as Baroque Reason in Steven Millhauser’s Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer.”
• Pedro Ponce, St. Lawrence University. “Architecture and ‘The Barnum Museum.’”
• Danielle Alexander, Belmont University. “Cohabitation: Steven Millhauser’s ‘Revenge’ and the Uncanny House.”

5:00-6:30 Speed Art Museum

PLENARY I: Barbara Stafford.

"Recapturing the Complexity of Mimesis:

Mirrors and the Optical Technology of Subjectivity."

Co-sponsored by the J. B. Speed Art Museum and the Judith P. Bonnie Endowment.

Presentation and reception following will be held at the J. B. Speed Art Museum at the University of Louisville. Buses transporting participants will leave the hotel at 4:15.

First-Time Attendees Dinner Groups will meet following the reception at the Speed Museum.

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Session 4 8:00-9:30

Session 4A: Telling Dissolution, Domination, and Decay

LOUIS XVI

Chair: Eric Heyne, University of Alaska.

• Philippe Carrard, University of Vermont. “Dead Man Talking: Narratives from Beyond the Grave.”
• Elizabeth Evans, University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Narrating Urban Modernity and the Dissolution of Boundaries in Woolf’s Night and Day.”
• Matthew Badura, Temple University. “Ivy Compton-Burnett’s Dialogue Novels.”

Session 4B: Reading Narrative Close Up

BROADWAY C

Chair: Kathleen Fleming, Western Connecticut State University.

• Matthew DelConte, LeMoyne College. “Simultaneous Present-Tense Narration and the Absentee Narratee.”
• James Randolph (Randy) Fromm, SUNY, Oswego. “Circles of Confusion / Planes of Focus: Toward a Theory of Narrative Depth of Field.”
• Hans Löfgren, Goteberg University. “In Medias Res: Elements of a Narrative Spacetime Grammar.”

Session 4C: Structure, Character, and Identity in Role-Playing Game Narratives

BROADWAY B

Chair: Jennifer Cover, North Carolina State University.

• Jennifer Cover, North Carolina State University. “Stories in Motion: Theorizing Role-Playing Games as Narrative.”
• Ken Nozaki Lacy, New York University. “Manifesting Gendered Identity through Narrative Context.”

Session 4D: Imperial Ideologies and Ideologists

BLUEGRASS

Chair: Antje Anderson, Hastings College.

· Rebecca Karni, UCLA. “Ethically Reading Ishiguro’s Ethics of Distance.”

· Diana Gander Ostrander, University of Minnesota. “The Novel as Sacred Space: Indian Narratology in William Delafield Arnold’s Oakfield: Fellowship in the East.”

· Julie Barst, Purdue University. “Transporting Ideology: Narrative and Colonial Space.”

Session 4E: Uncanny Maneuvers

BROADWAY A

Chair: Annette Allen, University of Louisville.

• Victoria de Zwaan, Trent University. “’A hoax of exceptional quality’: Haunted Houses, Obsessed Narrators, and the Confessions of a High-Maintenance Reader.”
• Jennifer White, Columbia University. “Gravity’s Rainbow: How to Become a ‘Sentient Rockster.’”
• Doug Payne, SUNY, Albany. “’Write the Other Way’: Posthumous Narration in The Lovely Bones.”

Session 4F: Sensational Victorianism

GALLERY

Chair: Mary Pinkerton, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater.

• Tamar Heller, University of Cincinnati. “Rhoda Broughton Reads Charlotte Brontë: Not Wisely but Too Well, Literary Revision, and Victorian Women’s Sensation Fiction.”
• Lindsey Faber, University of Cincinnati. “Cometh Up as a Writer: Narrative Strategies in Rhoda Broughton’s Cometh Up as a Flower.”
• Debra Gettelman, Harvard University. “Sensation, Reflection, and Victorian Criticism.”

Session 4G: Visuality and Non-Narrativity in German Historical Representations in the Early Nineteenth Century

J. G. BROWN

Co-Chairs: Stephen Jaeger, University of Manitoba and Kathrin Maurer, University of Arizona.

· Stephen Jaeger, University of Manitoba. “German Romantic Historiography and Its Impossible Quest for the Grand Narrative.”

· Catherine Grimm, Albion College. “Telling Stories: Self-Representation and Narrative Structure in the Early Works of Bettine von Arnim.”

· Kathrin Maurer, University of Arizona. “The Panorama of History: Visuality in Leopold von Ranken’s Historiography.”

Session 4H: Women Talk / Men Talking

JEFFERSON

Chair: Sonya Borton, University of Louisville.

• Scott Simpkins, University of North Texas. “Now You Are Talking: Gender and Coalition Building through Narrative.”
• Sue-Im Lee, Temple University. “Solitary Community in David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress.”

Session 5 9:45-11:30

Session 5A: Bakhtin and the Novel: Chronotope and Genre

J. G. BROWN

Chair: Lynda Zwinger, University of Arizona.

• Jakob Lothe, University of Oslo. “Aspects of Narrative and Genre in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz.”
• Brian Olszewski, Michigan State University. “Revisiting the Chronotope: Inverted and Cyclical Spaces.”
• Stacy Burton, University of Nevada, Reno. “Collapsing Certainties: Bakhtin and the Postmodern Bildungsroman.”

Session 5B: Metanarratives and Myths: Constructions and Deconstructions

JEFFERSON

Chair: Alex E. Blazer, University of Louisville.

• Kelley Wagers, SUNY, Buffalo. “Gertrude Stein’s ‘Constitutional Contradictions.’”
• Carol Mason, UNLV. “The Terror and the Glamour: Recycling Hillbilly Bodies in War Narratives.”
• Benzi Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong. “Multi-world Narrative: A Study of Amy Tan’s Fiction.”

Session 5C: “In the end, I . . .”: Teleology, Action, and Identity

BROADWAY B

Chair: Peter Rawlings, University of the West of England.

• Victoria Alexander, Dactyl Foundation for the Arts and Humanities. “James’s Pragmatic Theory.”
• Will Burger, RAU in Johannesburg, South Africa. “Fiction and Identity Construction: Observations on Plots of Self-Narratives.”
• Ruth Johnston, Pace University. “Narrative Transformations of the Joke-Work and the Construction of Jewish Postmodern Identity.”
• Robert Affeldt, University of Texas, Pan American. “Mixing Space: The Politics of Personal Narratives.”

Session 5D: Narrative Genres, Postcolonial Histories

GALLERY

Chair: Bronwyn T. Williams, University of Louisville.

• Cheryl Hall Duffus, University of Mississippi. “Stories of Their Own: Autobiographical Modes in the Fiction of Two Female French West Indian Novelists.”
• Magali Michael, Duquesne University. “History via Multiple Narrative Forms: Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms.”
• Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Borders, Bodies, and Migration: Narrating Violation in Shauna Singh Baldwin and Edwidge Danticat.”

Session 5E: Re:Media Narratologia

BROADWAY C

Chair: Daniel Keller, University of Louisville.

• Burcu Bakioglu, Indiana University. “Novel in the Age of New Media.”
• March Rosenbluth, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “The Tiny Plot Thickens: The Role of Fate in Online Collaborative Narrative.”
• Cynthia L. Selfe, Michigan Technological University. “Video Games, Narrative Theory, and Aggressive Behavior: An Exploration of Cause, Effect, and Responsibility.”

Session 5F: Teaching Narrative Theory: Assembling the Texts

BLUEGRASS

Chair: Brian Richardson, University of Maryland.

• H. Porter Abbott, UC, Santa Barbara. “Introducing Narrative Theory: Inclusions and Exclusions.”
• Suzanne Keen, Washington and Lee University. “Narrative Theory inside the Novel Syllabus.”
• Brian Richardson, University of Maryland. “The Other Narrative Theory.”
• Jesse Matz, Kenyon College. “Teaching Time.”

Session 5G: The Narrative Imagination in Alternative Genres

LOUIS XVI

Chair: Erika Lin, University of Louisville.

• Richard Walsh, University of York. “Narrative Media and the Narrative Imagination.”
• Kelly Marsh, Mississippi State University. “Living Beyond the Life Story in the Plays of Marina Carr.”
• Kevin Piper, University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Paths, Pansies, and the Narrative Plots of Stanzas in Meditation.”

Session 5H: Writing Race and Ethnicity in the USA

BROADWAY A

Chair: Susan Ryan, University of Louisville.

• Joseph Bates, University of Cincinnati. “The Truth, Mainly: Race, Voice, and the Politics of Performance in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
• Julia Kim, New York University. “Writing in the Narrator: The Ethnic American Narrator.”
• Derik Smith, Arcadia University. “Facing Race in the Desert of the Real: Escapism and the Post-9/11 Hollywood Narrative.”

Session 6 1:00-2:30

Session 6A: J. M. Coetzee: Ambivalence and Paradox

LOUIS XVI

Chair: James Holm, University of Houston, Victoria.

• Elizabeth Anker, University of Virginia. “The Ambivalences of Narrating the Human in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.”
• Julie O’Leary, Ohio State University. “Silent Voice: J. M. Coetzee’s Boyhood and the South African Colonial Situation.”
• Tisha Turk, University of Wisconsin, Madison. “In the Canon’s Mouth: Narration and Silence in Roxana, Robinson Crusoe, and Foe.”

Session 6B: Modernism in the Nursery: Narratives of Aggression and Play

J. G. BROWN

Chair: Jay Dickson, Reed College.

• Jay Dickson, Reed College. “Modernist Precocity.”
• Margaret Bruzelius, Smith College. “Two Steps Backward: The Voyage Out and the Tradition of Adventure.”
• Rishona Zimring, Lewis and Clark College. “Modernism at Play.”

Session 6C: Where the Action Is: Narrative and Globalization / Event / Research Methodology

JEFFERSON

Chair: Peter Rawlings, University of the West of England.

• Theodore Schatzki, University of Kentucky. “Teleology and Temporality: Against the Narrativity of Action.”

• Wesley Houp, University of Kentucky. “Transforming Possibilities: Applying Narrative Theory in Community-Based Literacy Research.”
• John Pier, Université Francois Rabelais, Tours. “Narrativity between Prospection and Retrospection.”

Session 6D: Narrative Medicine: Empathy, Proximity, and Instrumentality

BROADWAY A

Chair: Tara McGann, Columbia University.

• Lisa J Schnell, University of Vermont. “Space to Heal: Illness and Narrative.”
• Craig Irvine, Columbia University. “The Other Side of Silence: Narrative, Empathy, and the Other.”
• Maura Spiegel, Columbia University. “Narrative, Empathy, Proximity.”

Session 6E: Narratives of Forgetting in Contemporary Film

BROADWAY B

Chair: Joseph Jeon, University of San Diego.

• Joseph Jeon, University of San Diego. “To Fall Outside of History: Decontextualization and Scenes of Waking in Recent Forgetting Films.”
• Benjamin Widiss, Princeton University. “Nowhere Fast: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, La Jetee, and Time Travel.”
• Charles Tung, Seattle University. “’Any Curious Remainder’: On Retemporalizing the Specious Present.”

Session 6F: Sense and Un-Ending: Reshaping the Boundaries of Narrative Convention

BLUEGRASS

Chair: Wendy Moffat, Dickinson College.

• Wendy Moffat, Dickinson College. “’Morgan’s greatest novel is his life’: Creating the Posthumous Queer Forster.”
• Anne Moore, University of Vermont. “Traumatic Un-Ending: The Marriage Plot as Traumatic Metaphor in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette.”
• Robyn Warhol, University of Vermont. “’I Quit Such Odious Subjects’: Jane Austen and the Unnarratable.”

Session 6G: Small.Time.Fiction

BROADWAY C

Chair: Paul Griner, University of Louisville.

• Eric Heyne, University of Alaska. “’A Bruised, Cartoonish Quality’: Cosmopolis as DeLilloan Limit Case.”
• Marc Singer, Tennessee State University. “Patterns of Compulsion: Repetition and Labor in the Modernist Short Story Sequence.”

Session 6H: Telepathy, Pathology, and Figuration in and around James

GALLERY

Chair: Steve Jobe, Hanover College.

• Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University. “Telepathy in James and Faulkner.”
• Sheila Teahan, Michigan State University. “Turning the Screw of Figuration.”
• Michael Mirabile, Reed College. “Pathological Readings, Curative Stories: The Exemplary Cases of James’s The Sacred Fount and Ford’s A Call.”

Session 7 2:45-4:15

Session 7A: Contemporary Narratology II: Narrators and Narration: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

BROADWAY A

Chair: James Phelan, Ohio State University.

• Jonathan Culler, Cornell University. “Alternatives to Omniscience.”
• Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania. “Revisiting the Narrator.”
• Monika Fludernik, University of Freiburg, Germany. “Middle English Narrative from a Narratological Viewpoint.”

Session 7B: Anna Karenina

JEFFERSON

Chair: Robin Feuer Miller, Brandeis University.

• Deborah Martinsen, Columbia University. “Love and Toothache in Anna Karenina.”
• Marcia A. Morris, Georgetown University. “Itinerant Barbaras and the Interplay of Dialogue and Narrative in Anna Karenina.”
• Gina Kovarsky, Virginia Commonwealth University. “The Surplus of Life in Anna Karenina.”

Session 7C: Creative Catastrophe: Nicholas Mosley’s Narrative Aesthetics

J. G. BROWN

Chair: Robert Caserio, Penn State University.

• Robert Caserio, Penn State University. “Inventing God: Catastrophe Romance.”
• Ralph M. Berry, Florida State University. “Narrating Presentness in Hopeful Monsters.”
• Allen Dunn, University of Tennessee. “Mosley’s Account of Human Agency in a World of Unintended Consequences.”
• Alan Singer, Temple University. “Mosley’s Narratives in Relation to the Novel of Ideas.”

Session 7D: Telltale Signs: Detecting and Diagnosing

BLUEGRASS

Chair: Marjorie Schnader, Cornell University.

• Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv University. “Open Endings in Detective Fiction: The Cases of Himes and Berkeley.”
• Haiqing Sun, Texas Southern University. “The Genre and the ‘Classical’: Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles and Garciá Márquez’s Chronicle of an Announced Death.”
• Terry Holt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Distinction, Diagnosis, and Narrative Ethics.”

Session 7E: Keeping It Real: Narrating Reality and the Realities of Narrative

BROADWAY B

Chair: Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky University.

• Aaron Worth, Berklee College of Music. “Real World London: Victorian Documentary and Narrative Form.”
• Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky University. “Did She Come?: Narrative and the ‘Real Orgasm’ from Lady Chatterley’s Lover to Cosmopolitan.”
• Kelly McGuire, Emmanuel College. “’I am not I, pity the tale of me’: Narrative Encounters with the Real in Filmic Depictions of 9/11.”

Session 7F: Myths, Fantasies, Fairy Tales: Renarrating Women’s Stories

LOUIS XVI

Chair: Cynthia E. Britt, University of Louisville.

• Brian Finney, California State University. “Angela Carter’s Narrative on Narration: Nights at the Circus.”
• Heta Pyrhonen, University of Helsinki. “Angela Carter and the Interruption of Myth as a Model of Intertextuality.”
• Britton J. Haeuser, Georgetown University. “Cinderella: Three Narrative Lives.”

Session 7G: Narrative Sympathy, Narrative Ethics

BROADWAY C

Chair: Andrew Doolen, University of Kentucky.

• Antje Anderson, Hastings College. “Engaging the Unsympathetic Reader: Trollope’s Castle Richmond, the Irish Famine, and the British Audience.”
• Colene Bentley, University of Maryland, Baltimore Co. “Conscientious Foresight.”
• Jesse Rosenthal, Columbia University. “Pip’s Choices: Autonomy, Ethics, and Narrative Desire.”
• Patricia Matthew, Montclair State University. “The Lessons of Black Bodies in Maria Edgeworth and Amelia Opie.”

4:30-6:00 Crystal Ballroom

PLENARY II: Kathryn Montgomery

"Narrative Thinking"

Co-sponsored by Humanities and Arts and Medicine Lecture. W. Paul and Lucille Caudill Little Lectureship Series. School of Medicine, University of Louisville.

6:00-8:00

Conference Reception at the Brown Hotel

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

Session 8 8:00-9:30

Session 8A: A as in Austerlitz

JEFFERSON

Chair: Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri, Columbia.

• Eleanor Kaufman, UCLA. “Sebald’s Austerlitz, a Story of Trains and Moths.”
• Andres Nader, University of Rochester. “Narrating Another’s Life: Strategies for Remembering and Forgetting.”
• Brad Prager, University of Missouri, Columbia. “Theresienstadt: Document and Narrative.”

Session 8B: Alternative Temporal Vocabularies in Nineteenth-Century Narrative

BLUEGRASS

Chair: Amy King, St. John’s University.

• Amy King, St. John’s University. “Stillness: Mary Mitford, Gilbert White, and Jane Austen.”
• Amanpal Garcha, Ohio State University. “Delay: Indecision and Freedom in Emma.”
• Nicholas Dames, Columbia University. “Recurrence: Organizing Temporal Form in Eliot and Wagner.”

Session 8C: Bound, Unbound, Rebound: Twentieth-Century American Bodies

GALLERY

Chair: Michael Kearns, University of Southern Indiana.

• Erin Edwards, University of California, Berkeley. “The Psychic Life of Tropes: Tropological Bodies and the Subject in Nightwood.”
• Judith Brown, Indiana University, Bloomington. “Gatsby’s Body and the Violence of Glamour.”
• Andrea Newlyn, Ohio State University. “’I’m Not a Fucking Drag Queen’ and ‘She Think She White!’: Narrativizing the Gendered and Raced Body.”
• Jeannie Ludlow, Bowling Green State University. “Erasing the Doctor’s Body: Abortion Politics and Embodied Feminist Theory.”

Session 8D: Marx, Modernism, Postmodernism

BROADWAY C

Chair: Avak Hasratian, Brown University.

• Paula Geyh, Yeshiva University. “The Capitalism of Things and the Capitalism of Signs: Narratives of Desire in Dreiser and Dos Passos.”
• Daniel Mrozowski, University of Michigan. “Between Two Abandoned Worlds: Marxist Critique through Editorial Selection in Two Editions of Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children.”
• Jeffrey Menne, Vanderbilt University. “A Marxist Postmodernist: The Self-Canceling Critic.”

Session 8E: Narrating Reality

BROADWAY A

Chair: Jamie Barlowe, University of Toledo.

• Jamie Barlowe, University of Toledo. “Scripting Reality: The Construction of Character and Narrator in Reality TV.”
• Priscilla Walton, Carleton University. “Fictive Realities or Real Fictions?: Narrativizing Jessica Lynch.”
• Carol Colatrella, Georgia Institute of Technology. “Faculty Realities: Narrativizing Careers.”

Session 8F: Narrative, the Humanities, and the Desire for Ethics

LOUIS XVI

Chair: Lynne Huffer, Rice University.

• Lynne Huffer, Rice University. “Beyond Redemption: Ethics in the Corporate University.”
• Scott Derrick, Rice University. “White Global Criticism, Displacement, and the Problem of Justice.”
• Carol Quillen, Rice University. “Writing for Pleasure, Telling the Truth.”

Session 8G: Temporality after Ricoeur

J. G. BROWN

Chair: John Pier, François Rabelais University, Tours, France.

• Rosemary Huisman, University of Sydney. “Narrative Temporalities: Different Understandings of Time from Oral to Postmodern Practices and Theories.”
• Michaela Peroutkova, Ohio State University. “Mental and Literary Worlds of Germans and Czechs in Case of Expulsion.”

Session 8H: The Technological and the Fantastic

BROADWAY B

Chair:

• Julie Flynn, Drew University. “’And You Can Sing Along’: Crossing the Border between Television Serial Narrative and the Internet.”
• Rob McAlear, University of Wisconsin, Madison. “The Narrative Turn: Re-conceiving the Fantastic in ‘The Turn of the Screw.’”
• Marjorie Rhine, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. “Madame Mina as Communication Cyborg in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.”

9:45-11:15 Crystal Ballroom

PLENARY III: Wai Chee Dimock.

“Temporal Hybrids: Epic, Novel, and the Planet"

Co-sponsored by the Thomas M. Sheehan Endowment

Session 9 11:30-1:00

Session 9A: Forming Narrative between Modernism and Postmodernism

BLUEGRASS

Chair: Elizabeth Evans, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

• Mitchum Huehls, College Misericordia. “Knowing Time: Nabokov, Genre Splicing and Temporal Whiplash.”
• Mark Pedretti, University of California, Berkeley. “’Mortal Tedium’: Narrating Boredom in Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy.”
• Matthew Wilkens, Duke University. “Doris Lessing and the Problems of Encyclopedism.”

Session 9B: Materiality, Print Culture, and the Marketplace

LOUIS XVI

Chair: Bernard Duyfhuizen, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

• Claudia Stokes, Trinity University. “Telling the Story of American Literature: The Anthology as Narrative.”
• Kathryn Crowther, Emory University. “Material
  Words: Victorian Textuality and Narrative.”
• Peter H. West, University of Wyoming. “Narrativity and Reality in Hawthorne’s America.”

Session 9C: Narrative Fabrications: Time, History, and Memory

J. G. BROWN

Chair: Peter Rawlings, University of the West of England.

• Peter Rawlings, University of the West of England. “Henry James and the ‘Dark Backward and Abysm of Time.’”
• Mariadele Boccardi, University of the West of England. “Narrative Conspiracies and Historical Machinations: Fiction’s Masterplot in Lawrence Norfolk’s Lemprière’s Dictionary.”
• Sarah Robertson, University of the West of England. “Disremembering: Mediating the Past in Jayne Anne Phillips’s ‘Bess.’”

Session 9D: Reading Women’s Voices

JEFFERSON

Chair: Caroline Levine, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

• Jung Choi. Harvard University. “Authority, Authenticity, and Authorship in The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong.”
• Suzanne Gauch, Temple University. “Scheherazade Confronts the Media: ReNarrating Feminist Islam.”
• Lindsay Wright, University of Virginia. “Performing ‘The Princess’: Tennyson, L. T. Meade and the Drama of the Girl’s School.”

Session 9E: Scary Business: Gothic Economies in Literature and Film

BROADWAY B

Chair: Hilary Schor, University of Southern California

• Hilary Schor, University of Southern California. “The Haunting of Maggie Verver: Curious Commodities in The Golden Bowl.”
• Gordon Bigelow, Rhodes College. “Seeing Things: Value and the Senses in Sheridan le Fanu.”
• Ned Schantz, McGill University. “The Godfather Has Mail.”

Session 9F: Science and/as Story

BROADWAY A

Chair: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University.

• Anne Zahlan, Eastern Illinois University. “Epistemological Panic in Nawal El Saadawi’s Searching.”
• Kay Young, University of California, Santa Barbara. “The Aesthetics of Elegance.”
• Anthony O’Keeffe, Bellarmine University. “Exclusionary Narrative: Writing the Life of/out of Science.”

Session 9G: Theory of Mind and Narrative

BROADWAY C

Chair: Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky.

• Uri Margolin, University of Alberta. “Aspects of Mental Simulation in Literary Narrative.”
• Alan Palmer, Independent Scholar. “Not Just the Mind Inside the Skull.”
• Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky. “How is Reading a Detective Novel Similar to Lifting Weights at the Gym.”

Session 9H: Under the Radar: Modernism’s Narrative Strategies of Subversion

GALLERY

Chair: Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

• Sean Latham, University of Tulsa. “Sex, Lies, and Novels: Modernism and the roman-à-clef.”
• Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. “Winning the Battle, Losing the War.”
• Ann Ardis, University of Delaware. “Modernism in The New Age: Promoting/Protesting an Emergent Aesthetic.”

1:15-2:45 Crystal Ballroom

Business Lunch

By reservation only.

Please bring ticket from your registration packet.

Session 10 3:00-4:45

Session 10A: All in Your Head: Omniscience, Embodiment, and Character in the Nineteenth Century

BROADWAY C

Chair: Mary I. Rosner, University of Louisville.

• William Nelles, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. “Omniscience for Atheists: or, Jane Austen’s Three Mile Island.”
• Nina Leacock, University of West Georgia. “Skepticism, Proof, and Persuasion: Embodied Consciousness and Austen’s Narrative Technique.”
• Shalyn Claggett, Vanderbilt University. “The Science of Character: Narrative Implications in the Phrenological Works of George Combe.”

Session 10B: Contemporary Narratology III: Form and Technique: Ideological and Cognitive Perspectives

BROADWAY A

Chair: Brian McHale, Ohio State University.

• Catherine Romagnolo, Lebanon Valley College. “Back to the Beginning[s]: A Feminist Reconsideration.”
• David Herman, Ohio State University. “Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive Revolution.”
• Teresa Bridgeman, University of Bristol. “Thinking Ahead: A Cognitive Approach to Prolepsis.”

Session 10C: From White Power Structure to Black Narrative Identities: Introducing the Radical-Static Narrative Form

LOUIS XVI

Chair: Gary Norris, University of Denver.

• Lindsay Christopher, University of Denver. “Representin’ the Revolution, You Suckas!: The Story of Black Identity Politics in Aaron McGruder’s The Boondocks.”
• Ashley Argyle, University of Denver. “Revising Old Narratives and Selves: The Work of Wise Women in Toni Morrison’s Novels.”
• Gary Norris, University of Denver. “On the Ir-radical Satirical Form: Blacking-up White Narrative in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.”

Session 10D: The Master’s Voice: Jamesian Talk

J. G. BROWN

Chair: Susan M. Griffin, University of Louisville.

• Brian Artese, Agnes Scott College. “American Soliloquy, European Testimony: Overhearing Henry James.”
• Melanie Ross, United States Merchant Marine Academy. “’See here - see here!': The Sight and Sound of Writing in James's 'In The Cage.'”
• Dana Ringuette, Eastern Illinois University. “The Story in Henry James’s Essays on American Speech and Manners.”
• Julie Rivkin, Connecticut College. “The Ghostly Alibis of Heterosexuality in James’s Late Fiction.”

Session 10E: On Suffering, Brooding, and Getting Ill

BLUEGRASS

Chair: Karen Kopelson, University of Louisville.

• Laurie Langbauer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “’Most of All Beware This Boy’: The Narrative Ethics of Childhood Suffering.”
• Miriam Marty Clark, Auburn University. “Illness and Knowledge in Adrienne Rich’s Late Poetry.”

Session 10F: Refiguring Postcolonialism

BROADAY B

Chair: Aaron Jaffe, University of Louisville.

• John J. Su, Marquette University. “The Enigma of Ethics: Retrospection in the Writings of V. S. Naipaul.”
• Mark Wollaeger, Vanderbilt University. “Conrad or Joyce?”

Session 10G: Rewriting the Romance: Violence in Contemporary Women’s Narratives

GALLERY

Chair: Susan Strehle, Binghamton University.

• Suzette Henke, University of Louisville. “Oedipus Meets Sacher-Masoch: Kathy Acker’s Postmodern Parody.”
• Donette Francis, Binghamton University. “Fractured Bodies: Domestic Violence in Elizabeth Nunez’s Bruised.”
• Mary Paniccia Carden, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. “Impossible Heterosexuality: Love and Violence in Toni Morrison’s Paradise.”
• Susan Strehle, Binghamton University. "Ruptured home and homeland: Puerto Rican Legacies in Rosario Ferre's House on the Lagoon."

5:00-6:30 Crystal Ballroom

PLENARY IV: Terry Castle.

"The Talk Formerly Known as 'i-Pod, Therefore I Am'"

Co-sponsored by the Joseph Wittreich Endowment.

SUNDAY, APRIL 10

Session 11 8:00-9:30

Session 11A: Cultural Narratives I

BROADWAY B

Chair: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

• Donald Pease, Dartmouth College. “The Extraterritorializing Effects of Foundational National Narratives.”
• Dorothy Hale, University of California, Berkeley. “Virginia Woolf’s Theory of the Novel.”

Session 11B: Masculinity and Violence

BROADWAY A

Chair: Warren Rosenberg, Wabash College.

• Judith Sarnecki, Lawrence University. “Aryan Attraction: The Strange Case of Jean Cocteau.”
• Charles Hatten, Bellarmine University. “Gender Redefinition, Regression, and Masculine Violence in Tom Perrotta’s Little Children.”

Session 11C: Getting Personal, Going Postal: Diaries, Letters, and the Post Office

J. G. BROWN

Chair: Hollis Robbins, Millsaps College.

• Eileen Gillooly, Columbia University. “Felicities and Fears: Nineteenth-Century Parental Narratives.”
• Gerd Bayer, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. “Deceptive Narratives: On Truth and the Epistolary Voice.”
• Hollis Robbins, Millsaps College. “Toward a Theory of Postal Narrative.”

Session 11D: Jane Austen’s Narrative Strategies: Discourse, Characterization and Narration in Austen’s Novels and Their Film Representations

LOUIS XVI

Chair: Stacey Floyd, University of Kentucky.

• Stacey Floyd, University of Kentucky. “Narrative Voice, Power and Presence: Just What is Austen Doing with Fanny Price?”
• Christopher Reese, University of Kentucky. “Who Said What?: Teaching Free Indirect Discourse in the Novels of Jane Austen to Undergraduates.”
• Colleen Glenn, University of Kentucky. “From Average Joes to Romantic Heroes: The Transformations of Jane Austen’s Male Characters Onscreen.”

Session 11E: Narrative Strategies in Holocaust Writing: The Question of Generations

BLUEGRASS

Chair: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College.

• Irene Kacandes and Jennifer Goransson, Dartmouth College. “Producing Generationally-Inflected Holocaust Writing.”
• Erin McGlothlin, Washington University. “’When Time Stands Still’: Narrative Organization and Traumatic Immediacy in Art Spiegelman’s Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers.”
• Gary Weissman, University of Cincinnati. “Holocaust Generations and Beyond.”

Session 11G: Negotiating Resistance

GALLERY

Chair: E. L. McCallum, Michigan State University.

• Laura Green, Northeastern University. “Narrative Identification and Disaffection in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy.”
• Lois Cucullu, University of Minnesota. “Molly’s Insomnia and the Temporality of Modernist Desire.”
• E. L. McCallum, Michigan State University. “’Emotion Has Taken Me Over’: Narrative Process in The Making of Americans.”

Session 11H: Shaking Up Theory

JEFFERSON

Chair: Jane Thrailkill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

• Jane Thrailkill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Exciting Emotions.”
• Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. “Consummatory Experience.”

Session 12 9:45-11:15

Session 12A: Agency, Identity, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century England

LOUIS XVI

Chair: Jacqueline Brown, University of Louisville.

• Pamela K. Gilbert, University of Florida. “History and Chartist Epic.”
• Dino Felluga, Purdue University. “Lord Byron, George Eliot, Michael McKeon.”
• Mark Allison, University of California, Berkeley. “’We Shall Die in the Wilderness’: Matthew Arnold and the Victorian Problem of Agency.”

Session 12C: Narrative Theory: Ctrl, Alt, Shift

BROADWAY B

Chair: Beth A. Boehm, University of Louisville.

• Sidonie Smith, University of Michigan, and Julia Watson, Ohio State University. “Autobiography and Metalepsis: Facing the Bind, Refacing the Dead.”
• James Phelan, Ohio State University. “Is It Any Good?: Evaluation Within a Rhetorical Theory of Narrative.”
• Margaret Homans, Yale University. “Stories of Adoption: Narrating Origins.”

Session 12D: On the Borders of the Human

GALLERY

Chair: Jules Law, Northwestern University.

• Jules Law, Northwestern University. “I am not I: Late Victorian Alter Egos.”
• Deanna Kreisel, Warren Wilson College. “Animal Hybridity and Victorian Psychology.”
• Athena Vrettos, Case Western Reserve University. “Reverie and Recollection: Late-Victorian Narratives of Disembodied Memory.”

Session 12E: Other People’s Property

BROADWAY C

Chair: Aviva Briefel, Bowdoin College.

• Aviva Briefel, Bowdoin College. “Free Stuff!: Shopping with Zombies.”
• Elizabeth Ford, Wellesley College. “’Okay if I talk?’: Dialogue and Difference in Narratives of Insurrection.”
• Sianne Ngai, Stanford University. “From’Telegraph Girl’ to Cable Guy: Stranger-Intimacy and the Aesthetics of Expertise in the Modern Narrative of Manners.”

Session 12F: Telling (at) the Limits

JEFFERSON

Chair: Jo Ann Griffin, University of Louisville.

• Mina Zdravkovic, Boston University. “Narrating After Postmodernism: W. G. Sebald’s The Emigrants and a New Way of Telling.”
• Monique Morgan, McGill University. “Caleb Williams and the Limits of Reading Unreliability.”
• Rivka Swenson, University of Virginia. “The Illegitimate Genre in Tom Jones.”

Session 12G: Time, Space, and the Colony

J. G. BROWN

Chair: Iswari Pandey, University of Louisville.

• Cindy Schnebly, University of Houston, Victoria. “Anticipating the Future/Explaining the Past: Paul Scott’s Staying On.”
• Meegan Kennedy, Florida State University. “Realism as a Masquerade: India as Curiosity in Kim.”
• Timothy Hayes, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Imperial Place vs. Global Space: Landscaping the Self in Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly.”

Session 12H: “What’s God’s Story?”: The (American) Politics of Telling Tales about God

BROADWAY A

Chair: Haein Park, Valparaiso University.

• David Hall, Centre College. “Who’s Left Behind?: Christian Apocalypticism in Contemporary Culture Debates.”
• Elmer Almachar, University of California, San Diego. “Abraham as Witness: Providential Narratives in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address.”
• Glenn Whitehouse, Florida Gulf Coast University. “Making God Safe for Democracy: The Politics of the Moses Movie.”

Session 13 11:30-1:00

Session 13A: Always Ahistoricize!: Rethinking Queer Narrative

J. G. BROWN

Chair: Scott Herring, Penn State University.

• Scott Herring, Penn State University. “Michael Meads and the Spectacle of Sexual Immaturity.”
• Michael Cobb, University of Toronto. “Lonely: The Religion of Solitary Feeling.”
• Travis Foster, University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs: Mourning without Freud.”

Session 13B: American Power and Narratives of Violence

BROADWAY A

Chair: Brad Prager, University of Missouri, Columbia.

• Stanley Corkin, University of Cincinnati. “Imperialist Nostalgia and the Road to Vietnam: Ride the High Country and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”
• Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri, Columbia. “Desert Planet: Frank Herbert’s Dune, the Kennedy Administration, and the War on Terror.”

Session 13C: Bildungsromans, Paradigms, Exempla

LOUIS XVI

Chair: Michael Goldberg, Kentucky Country Day.

• Åke Bergvall, University of Karlstad, Sweden. “Theory and Example in Augustine’s Confessions and the Narrative Strategies of Western Fiction.”
• Tobias Boes, Yale University. “Dedalus’ Flight: The Bildungsroman and Modernist Citizenship.”
• Elena Pnevmonidou, University of Victoria, British Columbia. “Narration as Initiation: Novalis’ Heinrich von Ofterdingen as a Romantic Creation Myth.”

Session 13D: Cultural Narratives II

BROADWAY B

Chair: Donald Pease, Dartmouth College.

• Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. “Sammy Davis, Jr. in The Mission: Integration, and the Cold War Adult West(ern).”
• Theodore Mason, Kenyon College. “When Anthony Hopkins Passes for . . . Anthony Hopkins: Narrating Race in the Shadow of the Iraq War.”
• Hortense Spillers, Cornell University. “Democracy in America: Notes of a Native Daughter Two Centuries On.”

Session 13E: Landscapes: Domestic and Sublime, Voices and Views

BROADWAY C

Chair: Annette Allen, University of Louisville.

• Michal Ginsburg, Northwestern University. “Before Domesticity: Narrative and Family in The Vicar of Wakefield.”
• Alison Booth, University of Virginia. “Narrative Voice and Gendered Communities in ‘Homes and Haunts.’”
• Laura Mooneyham White, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. “Producing the Sublime through Narrative: Thomas Cole’s ‘The Ox-bow,’ Victorian Panoramas, and Coleridge’s ‘This Lime Tree Bower My Prison.’”

Session 13F: Of Women, Men, and Others: Discourses of Gender

JEFFERSON

Chair: Nancy Theriot, University of Louisville.

• Janet Carey Eldred, University of Kentucky. “Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?, or The Early New Yorker as Woman’s Magazine.”
• Jennifer Parchesky, Arizona State University. “Narrating the Homefront: Domesticating WWII in Radio Soap Opera.”
• Linda Raphael, George Washington University. “What Is in the Middle?: Middlesex and the Father/Daughter-Son Relationship.”

Session 13G: Queer Eye for Narratolog(u)y

BLUEGRASS

Chair: Dennis Allen, West Virginia University.

• Garrett Eisler, New York University. “’Hideous Words’: Dorian Gray, Alan Campbell and What Passes between Them: An Examination of the Implications of a Mysterious Note in Oscar Wilde’s Only Novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.”
• Susan Fraiman, University of Virginia. “Shelter Writing: Reparative Domesticity from Crusoe to Queer Eye.”
• Eric Keenaghan, State University of New York, Albany. “Read in Black: Dehumanization in Queer Theory and Faulkner’s Racialized Storytelling.”

Index

Abbott, H. Porter, 5F

Ablow, Rachel, 2A

Affeldt, Robert, 5C

Alexander, Danielle, 3G

Alexander, Victoria, 5C

Allen, Annette, 4E, 13E

Allen, Dennis, 13G

Allison, Mark, 12A

Almachar, Elmer, 12H

Anderson, Antje, 4D, 7G

Anderson, David, 2D

Anker, Elizabeth, 6A

Ardis, Ann, 9H

Argyle, Ashley, 10C

Artese, Brian, 10D

Badura, Matthew, 4C

Baetens, Jan, 3A

Bakioglu, Burcu , 5E

Barlowe, Jamie, 8E

Barst, Julie, 4D

Bartel, Kim, 2C

Bates, Joseph, 5H

Bayer, Gerd, 11C

Bentley, Colene, 7G

Bergvall, Åke, 13C

Berlatsky, Eric L., 3D

Berry, Ralph M., 7C

Bigelow, Gordon, 9E

Blazer, Alex E., 5B

Boccardi, Mariadele, 9C

Boehm, Beth, 12C

Boes, Tobias, 13C

Booth, Alison, 13E

Borton, Sonya, 4H

Boyle, Kirk, 1B

Bridgeman, Teresa, 10B

Briefel, Aviva, 12E

Britt, Cynthia E., 7F

Brown, Jacqueline, 12A

Brown, Judith, 8C

Bruzelius, Margaret, 6B

Burger, Will, 5C

Burton, Stacy, 5A

Carrard, Philippe, 4A

Caserio, Robert, 7C

Castle, Terry, Plenary IV

Chandler, Karen, 1E

Choi, Jung, 9D

Christopher, Lindsay, 10C

Chung, Una, 2C

Claggett, Shalyn, 10A

Clark, Miriam Marty, 10E

Clayton, Jay, 9F

Cleere, Eileen, 3C

Coates, Kimberly, 3F

Cobb, Michael, 13A

Colatrella, Carol, 8E

Corkin, Stanley, 13B

Cover, Jennifer, 4C

Crowther, Kathryn, 9B

Cucullu, Lois, 11G

Culler, Jonathan, 7A

Dames, Nicholas, 8B

Davis, Theo, 2A

de Zwaan, Victoria, 4E

DelConte, Matthew, 4B

Derrick, Scott, 8F

Dettmar, Kevin J. H., 9H

Dickson, Jay, 6B

Dimock, Wai Chee, Plenary III

Doolen, Andrew, 7G

Duffus, Cheryl Hall, 5D

Dunn, Allen, 7C

Duyfhuizen, Bernard, 9B

Edwards, Erin, 8C

Eisler, Garrett, 13G

Eldred, Janet Carey, 13F

Erwin, Lee, 2D

Evans, Elizabeth, 4A, 9A

Faber, Lindsey, 4F

Feffer, Steve, 2F

Felluga, Dino, 12A

Finney, Brian, 7F

FitzSimmons, David, 1G

Fleischer, Stephanie Owen, 3C

Fleming, Kathleen, 4B

Floyd, Stacey, 11D

Fludernik, Monika, 7A

Flynn, Julie, 8H

Ford, Elizabeth, 12E

Foster, Travis, 13A

Fraiman, Susan, 13G

Francis, Donette, 10G

Friedman, Susan Stanford, 5D

Fromm, James Randolph, 4B

Garcha, Amanpal, 8B

Gauch, Suzanne, 9D

Gettelman, Debra, 4F

Geyh, Paula, 8D

Gilbert, Pamela K., 12A

Gillooly, Eileen, 11C

Ginsburg, Michal, 13E

Glenn, Colleen, 11D

Goldberg, Michael, 13C

Golding, Alan, 1B

Goransson, Jennifer, 11E

Green, Laura, 11G

Gregory, Jennifer, 1G

Griffin, Jo Ann, 12F

Griffin, Susan M., 10D

Grimm, Catherine, 4G

Griner, Paul, 6G

Haeuser, Britton J., 7F

Hale, Dorothy, 11A

Hall, David, 12H

Hall, Dennis, 2F

Hasratian, Avak, 8D

Hatten, Charles, 11B

Hayes, Timothy, 12G

Heller, Tamar, 4F

Henke, Suzette, 10G

Henry, Nancy, 3D

Herbeck, Jason, 2E

Herman, David, 10B

Herring, Scott, 13A

Heyne, Eric, 4A, 6G

Hipsky, Martin, 2D

Hoberek, Andrew, 8A, 13B

Holland, Kate, 2G

Holm, James, 6A

Holmgren, Lindsay, 6H

Holt, Terry, 7D

Homans, Margaret, 12C

Houp, Wesley, 6C

Hsu, Ray, 1E

Hubbard, Stacy Carson, 2A

Huehls, Mitchum, 9A

Huffer, Lynne, 8F

Huisman, Rosemary, 8G

Irvine, Craig, 6D

Jaeger, Stephan, 4G

Jaffe, Aaron, 1A, 10F

Janangelo, Joseph, 2F

Jeon, Joseph, 6E

Jobe, Steve, 6H

Johnson, Gary Chase, 3E

Johnston, Ruth, 5C

Johnston-Barrett, Melissa, 1D

Kacandes, Irene, 11E

Kafalenos, Emma, 3A

Kalata, Kristianne, 1E

Karni, Rebecca, 4D

Kaufman, Eleanor, 8A

Kavaloski, Joshua, 1B

Kearns, Michael , 8C

Keen, Suzanne, 5F

Keenaghan, Eric, 13G

Keller, Daniel, 5E

Kennedy, Meegan, 12G

Kim, Julia, 5H

Kim, Sue, 2C

King, Amy, 8B

Kliger, Ilya, 2G

Koenigsberger, Kurt, 3D

Kopelson, Karen, 3F, 10E

Kovarsky, Gina, 7B

Kreilkamp, Ivan, 1C

Kreisel, Deanna, 12D

Krouse, Tonya, 7E

Kuttenberg, Eva, 2B

Lacy, Ken Nozaki, 4C

Langbauer, Laurie, 10E

Latham, Sean, 9H

Law, Jules, 12D

Leacock, Nina, 10A

Lee, Sue-Im, 4H

Lee, Jong-Im, 2B

Levine, Caroline, 9D

Lin, Erika T., 5G

Linn, Ruth, 2B

Löfgren, Hans, 4B

Lothe, Jakob, 5A

Ludlow, Jeannie, 8C

Mack, Ruth, 3D

MacKenzie, Scott, 1C

Margolin, Uri, 9G

Marsh, Kelly, 5G

Martinsen, Deborah, 7B

Maslan, Mark, 3D

Mason, Carol, 5B

Mason, Theodore, 13D

Matthew, Patricia, 7G

Matz, Jesse, 5F

Maurer, Kathrin, 4G

McAlear, Rob, 8H

McBride, Kecia, 2D

McCallum, E. L., 11G

McGann, Tara, 6D

McGlothlin, Erin, 11E

McGuire, Kelly, 7E

McHale, Brian, 10C

Menne, Jeffrey, 8D

Michael, Magali , 5D

Mildorf, Jarmila , 1C

Miller, Robin Feuer, 7B

Mirabile, Michael, 6H

Mitchell, Margaret, 2D

Moffat, Wendy, 6F

Montgomery, Kathryn, Plenary II

Moore, Anne, 6F

Morgan, Monique, 12F

Morris, Marcia A., 7B

Mrozowski, Daniel, 8D

Nadel, Alan, 11A, 13D

Nader, Andres, 8A

Nandrea, Lorri, 3C

Nazar, Hina, 3B

Nelles, William, 10A

Newlyn, Andrea, 8C

Ngai, Sianne, 12E

Nichols, Dana E., 2B

Norris, Gary, 10C

O’Keeffe, Anthony, 9F

O’Leary, Julie, 6A

Olszewski, Brian, 5A

Ostrander, Diana Gander, 4D

Paczynska, Marta Rivera 2C

Palmer, Alan, 9G

Pandey, Iswari, 12G

Paniccia Carden, Mary, 10G

Parchesky, Jennifer, 13F

Park, Haein, 12H

Payne, Doug, 4E

Pearson, Nels, 2E

Pease, Donald, 11A, 13D

Pedretti, Mark, 9A

Peroutkova, Michaela, 8G

Phelan, James, 12C, 7A

Pier, John, 6C, 8G

Pinkerton, Mary, 4F

Piper, Kevin, 5G

Pnevmonidou, Elena, 13C

Ponce, Pedro, 3G

Prager, Brad, 8A, 13B

Prince, Gerald, 7A

Punday, Daniel, 1B

Pyrhonen, Heta, 7F

Quillen, Carol, 8F

Quinn, Jeanne Follansbee, 11H

Quinn, Laura, 1F

Raczkowski, Chris, 2E

Raphael, Linda, 13F

Rawlings, Peter, 5C, 6C, 9C

Reese, Christopher, 11D

Rhine, Marjorie, 8H

Richardson, Brian, 5F

Ridley, Glynis, 1C

Ringuette, Dana, 10D

Rivkin, Julie, 10D

Robbins, Hollis, 11C

Roberts, Michelle Voss, 1D

Robertson, Sarah, 9C

Rodriguez, Alicita, 3G

Romagnolo, Catherine, 10B

Roof, Judith, 1A

Rosenberg, Warren, 11B

Rosenbluth, March, 5E

Rosenthal, Jesse, 7G

Rosner, Mary I., 10A

Ross, Melanie, 10D
Ryan, Susan, 5H

Sarnecki, Judith, 11B

Scales, Laura Thiemann, 3E

Schantz, Ned, 9E

Schatzki, Theodore, 6C

Schnader, Marjorie, 7D

Schnebly, Cindy, 12G

Schnell, Lisa J., 6D

Schor, Hilary, 9E

Segal, Eyal, 7D

Selfe, Cynthia, 5E

Shaw, Harry, 3B

Simpkins, Scott, 4H

Singer, Alan, 7C

Singer, Marc, 2E, 6G

Skinner, Carolyn, 3C

Slote, Ben, 1F

Smith, Sidonie, 12C

Smith, Derik, 5H

Smith, Aaron, 1A

Spiegel, Maura, 6D

Spillers, Hortense, 13D

Stafford, Barbara, Plenary I

Steiner, Linda, 2G

Sternberg, Meir, 3A

Stewart, Liberty, 1D

Stokes, Claudia, 9B

Strehle, Susan, 10G

Strombeck, Andrew, 2E

Su, John J., 10F

Sun, Haiqing, 7D

Swenson, Rivka, 12F

Teahan, Sheila, 6H

Theriot, Nancy, 13F

Thomas, David, 3B

Thrailkill, Jane, 11H

Tissut, Anne-Laure, 1A

Tucker, Brian, 2F

Tung, Charles, 6E

Turk, Tisha, 6A

Vogel, Shane, 3F

Vrettos, Athena, 12D

Wagers, Kelley, 5B

Walsh, Richard, 5G

Walton, Priscilla, 8E

Warhol, Robyn, 6F

Watson, Julia, 12C

Weaver, James, 1F

Weissman, Gary, 11E

West, Peter H. 9B

White, Jennifer, 4E

White, Laura Mooneyham, 13E

Whitehouse, Glenn, 12H

Widiss, Benjamin, 6E

Wilkens, Matthew, 9A

Williams, Bronwyn T., 5D

Wilson, Cheryl, 2F

Wolfe, Joanna, 1E

Wollaeger, Mark, 10F

Worth, Aaron, 7E

Wright, Lindsay, 9D

Yacobi, Tamar, 3A

Yohannes, Tamara, 1G

Young, Kay, 9F

Zahlan, Anne, 9F

Zatkalik, Milos, 3F

Zdravkovic, Mina, 12F

Zhang, Benzi, 5B

Zimring, Rishona, 6B

Zunshine, Lisa, 9G

Zwinger, Lynda, 5A

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