ACCUTE 2011 Conference Program

54th Annual Conference

Fredericton, UNB and St. Thomas University, May 28 - 31 2011

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ACCUTE 2011

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

 

Friday, May 27th


18:00 - 19:30
Literary Salon Alumni Memorial Building Lounge

 

Saturday, May 28th


9:00 - 12:00 ACCUTE Executive Meeting: Carleton 205

 

Session One: 9:15 - 10:30

1A - Translations - Carleton 204
Chair: Erin Wunker (Dalhousie U)

Lim, Amanda (U of Alberta)

Reading through Stephens through Carson through Mouré: Translating as Poetic Practice and Civic Engagement

Ganz, Shoshannah  and Stephanie McKenzie (Memorial U)

Fish and Brewis: Overlaps Between Storytelling in Newfoundland, Canada, and Jamaica

 

1B - Joint Session with North American Society for Studies in Romanticism (NASSR): Authorship during the Regency –

Carleton 256

Organizer: Anthony John Harding (U of Saskatchewan)

Lapp, Robert  (Mount Allison U)

Authorship in ‘Eighteen Hundred and Eleven’: An Integral Approach

Cove, Patricia (Dalhousie U)

‘As an Englishwoman, As a Writer’: National Exile, Gendered Authorship and the Reception of Frances Burney’s The Wanderer

Tetreault, Ronald (Dalhousie U)

Literary ‘Piracy’ Reconsidered: The Case for Galignani, Publishers.

 

1C - Down East - Carleton 255

Chair: Ross Leckie (UNB)

Butler, Heidi (UNB)

Rethinking Regionalism: Youth in Christy Ann Conlin’s Heave

Marshall, Susanne (Dalhousie U)

Goin’ Down the Road Again: Inter-Regional Migration in Contemporary Atlantic Fiction

Wyile, Herb (Acadia U)

Atlantic-Canadian Literature in the Neoliberal Order

 

 

Session Two: 10:45 - 12:00

 

2A - Graphically Speaking - Carleton 140

Chair:  Kathleen McConnell  (STU)

Hurley, Grant (UBC)

Seth and Canadian Archival Narrative

Pero, Allan (U of Western Ontario)

He Do the Crime in Different Voices: Martin Rowson’s The Waste Land

Willmott, Glenn (Queen’s U)

Modern Animalism: Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature

 

2B - Joint Session with North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) -  Negotiations in the Marketplace: The Book and the Family  - Carleton 104
Organizer: Mary Rimmer (UNB)
Day, Andrea  (U of Toronto)

'Works by Andrew Lang': Reading the Anthropological, Folkloric, and Commercial Paratexts of The Blue Fairy Book and The Arabian Nights Entertainments"

Hadfield, Dorothy (U of Guelph)

Controlling Mothers with Money: Bernard Shaw vs Janet Achurch

Simpson, Vicky (Dalhousie U)

Heroine-Homemakers for Hire: The Commodification of the Family in Lady Audley's Secret and East Lynne


2C -  Vagueness I - Carleton 256

Organizer: Peter Schwenger (U of Western Ontario)

Peacock, Laurel (U of California, Santa Cruz)

Clouds as Figures of Ontological and Affective Vagueness in Steve McCaffery’s Carnival and Lisa Robertson’s The Weather

Steffler, Margaret (Trent U)

Reading ‘Vagueness’ in the Lifewriting of Emily Carr and P.K. Page:  Embodying the Vague and Conveying the Ineffable


2D - Science Imagined | Literature Realized: Truth and Fiction in Canada - Carleton 204

Organizer: Marc Fortin (Queen’s U)
Goldman, Marlene (U of Toronto)

Science Re-imagined: Illness and Irony in the Representation of Alzheimer’s in Contemporary Canadian Fiction

Sugars, Cynthia (U of Ottawa)

The Evolutionary Sublime: Pre-Darwinian Historicity in Joan Thomas's Curiosity

Mason, Travis (Dalhousie U)

Speaking the “unspeakably momentous”: DC Scott’s Responses to Science

 

2E - Inside/Outside - Carleton 255

Chair: Jason Camlot (Concordia U)

Banting, Sarah (UBC)

Reading Across Distance in/and Canada: an Approach

Beardsworth, Adam (Algoma U)

Ecological Anarchy: Rene Char, John Thompson, and the Poetics of Catastrophe


12:00 - 13:00 Sessional Caucus Lunch - Carleton 217

12:00 - 13:15 Christianity and Literature Study Group: Milton, Pope, and Wordsworth  -- Carleton 256

13:15 - 14:35 Joint Plenary Speaker with CACLALS: Ian Baucom “From Bare Life to Species-Being: Postcolonial Studies in the Age of Natural Science”  - Tilley 102

 

Session Three: 14:45 - 16:00

 

3A - Graeme Gibson: “Echoes of a Working Eden” - McLaggan 53

Chair: Noreen Golfman  
Comment: Janice Wright-Cheney and Tammy Armstrong

 

3B - The Digital World - Carleton 255

Chair: Michael O’Driscoll (U of Alberta)

Haiven, Max (Mount Saint Vincent U)

Metaphoric Wealth: Global Finance with a Difference

Pattinson, T.A. (Wilfrid Laurier U)

No Copyright, only Copyduties: Copying as Social Emancipation

Gray, Brenna Clarke (Douglas College)

Learning (and making mistakes) in Public: The Pedagogy of Using Wikipedia in the classroom


3C - Being Specific in Early Modernism - Carleton 256
Chair: Kevin Pask (Concordia U)

Bom, Irene Grace (Queen’s U)

“Life of Metals,” “Fugitive Slave,” “Secret and Swift Messenger”:  Mercury and the Medium of Print

van Schaik, Kasia Juno (U of Toronto)

Mouths, Lips, Curious Habits: Bodily Thresholds in The Roaring Girl and Twelfth Night

 

3D - Empire, Settlement, and Early Canadian Literature - Carleton 204

Organizers: Andrea Cabajsky (U de Moncton), Janice Fiamengo (U of Ottawa), Thomas Hodd (U de Moncton)

Ferguson, Jade (U of Guelph)

Killing Time in T.C. Haliburton’s The Clockmaker and Southwestern Humor

Bentley, D.M.R. (U of Western Ontario)

The Picturesque Aesthetic of the “Settler Revolution”

 

3E - Edwardian Expectations - Carleton 104

Chair: John Miller (Concordia U)

Bettle, Madison (U of Western Ontario)

Unrealistic Expectations: Boyhood in Imperialist Adventure Fiction

Libin, Mark (U of Manitoba)

"We've Seen to the Very End": Sinthomosexuality in E.M. Forster's Howards End

Lyons, Graham (Simon Fraser U)

The Dialectical “penknife” of Memory: Glimpsing the Historical Self in Katherine Mansfield’s Late Fiction

 

3F - Joint session with the Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS) Panel:  Representing Imprisonment in U.S. Culture and Literature - Carleton 140
Organizer: Dana Medoro (U of Manitoba)
Haslam, Jason (Dalhousie U)

Rereading Gaol: The Terror of the Happy Prison

Demers, Jason (U of Toronto)

To “Speak Themselves:” Michel Foucault and the Prison-Information Complex

Harris, Jennifer (Mount Allison U)

The Madwoman in Hawthorne’s Attic: Clifford and The House of the Seven Gables

 

   

Session Four: 16:15 - 17:30


4A -Committee for Professional Concerns “The Corporate University” - Carleton 104

Chair: Kit Dobson (Mount Royal U)
Rob Zacharias (U of Guelph)
Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie U)
Neta Gordon (Brock U)

 

4B- Tasting, Dreaming, Touching: Contemporary Memoir - Carleton 204

Chair: Mark Jarman (UNB)

Tunzelmann, Morgan (U of Waterloo)

Touch and the Surgical Embrace in Pauline Chen’s Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality

de Jong, Sarah (U of Toronto)

Dreaming for Real? Theorizing the Dream in Contemporary Canadian Memoir

 

4C -  Victorian Mothers and Others - Carleton 256

Chair: Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie U)

Scholes, Judith (UBC)

Ethos and the Victorian Poetess in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Poetry

Rigg, Patricia (Acadia U)

The Aesthetics of Autobiography and Familial Love: The Confessional Sonnet Sequences of George Eliot and Augusta Webster

 

4D - Early Canadian Encounters - Carleton 255

Chair:

Janes, Daniela (U of Toronto)

Reconciling the “Transhistorical” Woman and the Canadian Modernist Writer in Sime’s Sister Woman and Beynon’s Aleta Day

Devereux, Cecily (U of Alberta)

Maud Allan’s Exotic Alterity: Orientalizing Whiteness in “The Vision of Salome”

Authers, Benjamin (U of Alberta)

Writing Sam Steele: Adventure, Law, and National Character in Early-Twentieth-Century North America


4E - Editing Modernism in Canada Roundtable/Joint Session with ACQL - Singer 151
Sharpe, Emily Robins (Pennsylvania State U)
Kondusky, E.M. (STU)
Beardsworth, Adam, and Michael DiSanto (Algoma U)
Steffler, Margaret (Trent U) and Mavis Reimer (U of Winnipeg)
Fahey, Alicia (Trent U)
Mason, Dancy and Katherine Shwetz (Dalhousie U)

17:30 - 19:30  CLSG: Canadian Literature - Carleton 204


17:30 - 19:00 The UNBash (English Studies in Canada Party)  - Grad House 676 Windsor St.


18:00 - 19:30 Literary Salon - Alumni Memorial Building Lounge

 

 

Sunday May 29th

 

9:00 - 10:15 Plenary Speaker: Katie Trumpener “Modernism in the Nursery, Modernism in the Park: Picturing Early Childhood in London and Paris” - Carleton 106

 

Session Five: 10:45 - 12:00

 

5A - Sleepwalking - Carleton 104

Chair: Andre Furlani (Concordia U)

Taylor, Gaye (U of Ottawa)

Making Despair Convincing?: Vagrant Aesthetics/Defiant Ethics in Brenda Coultas’ "The Bowery Project”

Cole, Richard (U of Alberta)

“Equalizing Night”: Nocturnal Ashbery and the Urban Lyric



5B - Joint Session with the Canadian Society of Medievalists (CSM) - The Once and Future Time: Medievalisms in Literature, Film and Culture - Carleton 256
Organizer: Elizabeth Edwards (U of King’s College)
Hodd, Thomas (U de Moncton)

Frank Parker Day‟s “ilke worthy knight”: Rockbound as Neo-Medieval Romance

Meredith-Lobay, Megan (Oxford U)

Gaming in the Medieval: A Study of Virtual Medievalisms.

Khomenko, Natalia (York U)

“Incredible, impossible, foolish, impious, and blasphemous matters”: Reginald Scot Does the Middle Ages

 

5C - Shifting Queers - Carleton 204

Chair: Craig Patterson (Humber)

Bermingham, Clare (U of Waterloo)

Affect(ing) Moments: Examining Lesbian Short Fiction in Cold War America

Evans, Lynne (Dalhousie U)

“Without me he died last Summer”: The Queer Power of Maternal Masochism in Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer

Hurley, Natasha (U of Alberta)  

Little Trannies’ Little Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale

 

5D - Pop Arts - Carleton 140

Chair: Steven Bruhm (U of Western Ontario)

Trimble, Sarah (McMaster U)

Reanimating the Rust Belt:  Undead Space and Youth in HBO's "The Wire"

McCutcheon, Mark A. (Athabasca U)  

The Function of DJing at the Present Time: Appropriation as Criticism   

McConnell, Kathleen (STU)

The Monstrously Vacant Bella Swan

 

5E - Self Illusion - Carleton 255

Chair: Marlene Goldman (U of Toronto)

Toron, Alison (UNB)

Staging the Self: Humour and Autobiography in Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder

Bowen, Deborah (Redeemer University College)

‘Here and Not Not-There’: Margaret Avison’s prose

Hardwick, Jennifer (Queen’s U)

“A normal American adolescence”: Translating Childhood in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation


5F - Joint Session with the Committee for Professional Concerns “Situating Sessionals”  - Carleton 139
Chair: Alessandra Capperdoni (Simon Fraser U)
Veronica Austen (St Jerome’s U)
Adam Beardsworth (Algoma U)

12:00 - 13:30  CLSG: Theory - Carleton 256

12:00 - 13:30 Campus Reps Lunch  Carleton 217

12:00 - 13:30 ESC Editorial Advisory Board Meeting Carleton 205

 

Session Six: 13:30 - 14:45

 

6A - Melodrama — Affect — Social Networks: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Cultural Studies - Carleton 204
Organizer: Dawn Morgan (STU); Chair: Russell Hunt (STU)
Ahern, Stephen (Acadia U)

Nothing More Than Feelings? Historicizing the “Affective Turn” in Current Cultural Analysis

Allin, Leslie (U of Guelph)

“Learn to be rogue so well as white man”: Indigenous Strategic Complicity and Ideological Resistance to Colonial Representation in Eighteenth-Century Sierra Leone

 

6B - The Radical Nineteenth Century - Carleton 104

Chair: Lisa Vargo (U of Saskatchewan)

Ribkoff, Fred (Kwantlen Polytechnic)

Blake’s Choral Healing Song: Oothoon’s Self-Willed Sporagmos and Tragic Anagnorisis in “Visions of the Daughters of Albion”

Keen, Paul (Carleton U)

Shelley on the Assembly Line

Bolus-Reichert, Christine (U of Toronto)

Erotic, Violent, and Wild: Romance Phenomenology in William Morris's The Water of the Wondrous Isles

 

6C - What’s In A Name? - Carleton 256

Chair: Dean Irvine

Jessup, Heather (U of Toronto)

Mystification and Mask: Canadian Heteronyms, Hoaxes and Literary Impersonations

Wunker, Erin (Dalhousie U)

Collapsible Commons: Rita Wong, Sina Queyras, Marie Clements and the Production of Canadian Culture

Ryan, Laurel (U of Toronto)

Fakes, Forgeries, and Imitations: Iterations of the Medieval in Robertson Davies’ Cornish Trilogy

 

 

6D - Sexology and Literature II -  Carleton 139

Organizer: Terry Goldie (York U)
King, Frederick D. (U of Western Ontario)

Love, Sexology, and Pornographic Didacticism in Teleny

Robinson, Laura (Royal Military College)

“Almost a man’s voice”: Revising Sexology in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Windy Poplars

Bryce, Thom (York U)

Injecting the Queer Addict: Liminality and Aesthetics and Nina Arsenault



6E - Reading and Writing Science in Canadian Poetry - Carleton 140
Organizer: Janine Rogers (Mount Allison U)
Jernigan, Amanda (McMaster U)

“O ponder on / This sum”: Richard Outram’s Arithmetic

Querengesser, Neil (Concordia University College of Alberta)

“God in his blank spaces”: Quantum Theology in Tim Lilburn’s Names of God

Hickey, David (U of Western Ontario)

Weather Wisdom: Meteorology and the Poetry of Margaret Avison

 

6F - English Studies in Canada Round Table "Face/Book/Net/Work: Social Networking and the Humanities." - Carleton 255
Organizers: Cecily Devereux and Michael O'Driscoll  (U of Alberta)

Aimee Morrison (U of Waterloo)
Marc Fortin (Queen's U)
Diana Brydon (U of Manitoba)
Max Haiven (Mount St. Vincent U)
Megan Meredith-Lobay (Oxford U)



Session Seven: 15:00 - 16:30

7A - Joint Session with The International Gothic Association  (IGA)- The Gothic and Animal - Carleton 139
Organizer: Karen MacFarlane (Mount St. Vincent U)
Effinger, Elizabeth (U of Western Ontario)

Sour Milk and Suckling Puppies: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Gothic Deathbed

Scanlon, Taylor (UBC Okanagan)

The Werewolf in True Blood; Southern Gothic, the Grotesque and the Human/Animal Divide

Hurley, Natasha  (U of Alberta)

Gothic Animality and The Spoils of Childhood: Peter Pan and The Child Thief

 

7B - Sexology and Literature I -  Carleton 255

Organizer: Terry Goldie (York U)
Capperdoni, Alessandra (Simon Fraser U)

Bodies of Desire: Sexology and Queergenders in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness

Facundo, Angela (York U)

A Tempest in a Test Tube”: The Status of Scientia Sexualis in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

Greenway, Jeremy (U of Western Ontario)

“The Word that had so Many Meanings”: Considerations of Miss Ogilvy’s Inversion

 

7C - Infectious Interest - Carleton 140

Chair: Diana Austin (UNB)

Pladek, Brittany (U of Toronto)

'A Power Like One of Nature's': The Medical Genius of William Wordsworth and John Gregory

Manfredi, Carla (Queen’s U)

"The Iconography of Infection"

Lapointe, Annette (U of Manitoba)

Cyborg Pathology: Infection, Pollution, and Material  Femininity in Tesseracts

 

 

7D - Shakespearean Tragedy - Carleton 204

Chair: Jim Ellis (U of Calgary)

Martin, Randall (UNB)

The Ecology of Shakespearean Tragedy

Morris, Blair (McGill U)

Macbeth and Blasphemy

Zouidi, Nizar (U de Montreal)

Visions: Images of the Dead in Shakespeare's Hamlet

 

7E - Žižek’s The Ticklish Subject: Subjectivization and its Vicissitudes - Carleton 256

Organizer: Richard Lane (Vancouver Island U)

Atkinson, Andrew Peter (Wilfrid Laurier U)

Žižek and Materialist Theology: A Guide to the Post-Secular Literary-scape

Pero, Allan (U of Western Ontario)

Charged by an Asymptotic Curve: Zizek, Lacan, Badiou and the Gravity of Love

Wennekers, Mary Eileen (U of Western Ontario)

Zizek, Hegel, Lacan: Realism, The Logic of Subjectivity and The Split Between The Eye and the Gaze

 

7F – Heading Home – Carleton 255

Chair: Veronica Austen (St Jerome’s U)

Zacharias, Robert (U of Guelph)

Worlds Within or In Between Worlds? Returning Home in the fiction of Neil Bissoondath and M.G. Vassanji

Giovannone, Aaron (U of Calgary)

Voyages Home: Performance, Travel, and Ethnicity in Mary di Michele’s Poetry

Sprout, Frances (Vancouver Island U)

The Man from California, The Girl from Anacortes: Boat Imagery and Regional-Transnational Identity in West Coast Writing


17:30 - 19:30 CLSG - Carleton 204

17:00 - 19:00 President’s Reception

 

Monday May 30th

 

8:00 - 9:00 CPC Breakfast - Carleton 205

 

Session Eight: 9:00 - 10:15

 

8A - Joint Session with Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (CSRS): Donne and Censorship - Carleton 204    NB: This session starts at 8:45.
Organizer: Ronald Huebert (Dalhousie U)
Bom, Irene Grace (Queen’s U)

“I can say nothing”: The Bound Word in Donne’ s Letters

Ursell, Michael (U of California, Santa Cruz)

John Donne’s Conventionality and the Constraints of Community

Lepage, John  (Vancouver Island U)

“Let Me Arrest Thy Thoughts”: The Proper Name and Donne’s The Progress of the Soul

 

 

 

 

8B - Mennonites, Myth and Moose - Carleton 104

Chair: Philip Mingay (King’s University College Edmonton)

Veldstra, Carolyn (McMaster U)

Cynicism and Humour in Miriam Toews' A Complicated Kindness

Miller, Geordie (Dalhousie U)

Reframing Anne Carson’s Classicism: The Difference Stesichoros Makes

Austen, Veronica (St. Jerome’s U)

Roy Kiyooka’s Blameless Hero and the Pursuit of the “Genuine Multi-Cultural Aesthetic” in The Artist and the Moose

 

8C - Joint Session with Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada Session (VSAWC): Victorian Failures - Carleton 140

Organizer: Kristen Guest (U of Northern BC)
Paxton, Amanda (York U)

Good Brides Gone Bad: The Victorian Bride of Christ as Spiritual Failure

Robertson, Christine (U of Toronto)

“The Gates of Learning’ shut with a clang”: Rudyard Kipling’s Kim as Failed School Story

Hadfield, Dorothy (U of Guelph)

The Dramatic Failure of Janet Achurch

 

8D - Cancelled (Ryan moved to 6C)

 

 

8E - Vagueness II - Carleton 256

Chair: Laurel Peacock (U of California, Santa Cruz)

Organizer: Peter Schwenger (U of Western Ontario)

Furlani, Andre (Concordia U)

“To put it vaguely”: Waiting for Godot and Philosophical Investigations

Fraser, Graham (Mount St. Vincent U)

“Haze Sole Certitude”: Beckett’s Late Vaguenings

Plug, Jan (U of Western Ontario)

Modest Imprecision

 

Session Nine: 10:30 - 12:00

 

9A - J Joint Session with Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies (CSRS): The Shifting Shape of Literary History in the Early Modern Period - Carleton 204

Organizer: Judith Herz (Concordia U)
Pask, Kevin  (Concordia U)

Is Literary History a Renaissance Genre?

Ellis, James  (U of Calgary)

Children of the Revolution: History after Theory

Stevens, Paul  (U of Toronto)

             Literary Studies and 'the Turn to' Religion: Milton Reading Badiou

 

   

 

9B - First Nations Redux - Carleton 256

Chair: Renate Eigenbrod (U of Manitoba)

Fabre, Cara (Queen’s U)

‘There’s a treatment centre where the residential school used to be’: Communal Resistance to Colonial Confinements in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach

Olesen, Jan (Trent U)

One More Time in Cree: Resisting Colonial Culture in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen and Jean de Lery’s History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil

Belghiti, Rachid (U de Montréal)

Dance and the Re-writing of History:  Edward Said's After the Last Sky and Tomson Highway's Kiss of the  Fur Queen

 

9C - Joint Session with North American Society for Studies in Romanticism (NASSR): Romanticism and Genre - Carleton 140
Organizer: Julia M. Wright (Dalhousie U)
Shakespeare, David  (U of Waterloo)

The Interrupted Wedding Ceremony in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian

DeVito, Jeremy (Dalhousie U)

”It's Alive; It's ALIVE!”: The Popular Revisioning of Shelley's Frankenstein Myth

McCutcheon, Mark A.  (Athabasca U)

The Cento Genre and Intellectual Property in Romantic Literary Production


9D - Joint Session with the Margaret Atwood Society: Margaret Atwood and the Body - Carleton 255
Organizer: Karen MacFarlane (Mount St Vincent U)
Huber, Jess (Memorial U)

’Having a Body is Not Altogether Serious’: Limitless Corporeality in Margaret Atwood’s Short Fiction

Staveley, Helene  (Memorial U)

Margaret Atwood’s Blind Assassin and Alias Grace: Power and the Writing Body

 

9E - Word Worlds - Carleton 104

Chair: Natasha Hurley (U of  Alberta)

O'Driscoll, Michael (U of Alberta)

Engaged in What? Derrida's Gage and the Humanities to Come

Dueck, Nathan (St. Mary's University College)

Reading ‘dirty words’ in Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers

Stone, Marjorie (Dalhousie U)

Globalizing Neo-Victorian Studies:  Exploring the  Postcolonial/Victorian Interface

 

12:00 - 13:30 CLSG: The Religious Horizons of Post-1945 British Fiction - Carleton 256

 

12:00 - 13:30 Graduate Caucus Lunch  - Carleton 217

 

Session Ten: 13:30 - 14:45

 

10A - Science in the Seventeenth Century - Carleton 104

Chair: John LePage (Vancouver Island U)

Patel, Fatima Ebrahim (U of Western Ontario)

Islamic Science and Its Influence in Paradise Lost

Webster, Erin (U of Toronto)

“To smallest forms reduc’d thir shapes immense”: Milton’s Pandæmonium and the Infinitesimal Calculus   

Thauvette, Chantelle (McMaster U)

Female Gynaecological Speech and its Pornographic Responses in Seventeenth-Century Print

 

 

10B - Mainly Metropolitan - Carleton 255

Chair: Sarah Banting (UBC)

Furlani, Andre (Concordia U)

Recent Canadian Streetwalking

McFarlane, Brandon (U of Toronto)

Historical Monument of the Canadian Federation

 

10C - Victorian Strangers and Estrangements - Carleton 217

Chair: Mary Rimmer (UNB)

MacDonald, Brad (McGill U)

‘Of Anything, or of Nothing’: The Bohemian Artist in George Gissing's The Emancipated

Huffels, Natalie (McGill U/Marianopolis College)

Dangerous Retellings: Traumatic History and the Imprisoned Psyche in A Tale of Two Cities

 

10D – Troubling Gender - Carleton 204

Chair: Nicola Nixon (Concordia U)

Griffith, Jane (York U)

“Who Listens to the Stories Wives Tell?”:  The Competing Narratives of Gendered Pueblo Water

Shupak, Gregory (U of Guelph)

“Are these actual men?”: Masculinity and Class in Raymond Carver's Fiction

Baetz, Joel (Trent U)

The Feminine Touch: Jessie Georgina Sime’s Canada Chaps and Other War Stories

 

 

10E - Brute Trauma - Carleton 140

Chair: Eli MacLaren (Carleton U)

Arseneault, Jesse (McMaster U)

Brute Colonialism: The Question of the Animal in Robinson Crusoe

Lomanowska, Jessica Antonio (U of Waterloo)

“The Trauma of Animal Sacrifice”: Necro-Narratives and the Re-Production of Being in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals, Yann Martel’s Beatrice & Virgil, and Sue Coe’s Dead Meat”;  or, “You Don’t Win Friends with Salad”

Austin, Diana (UNB)

Public Violence, Private Li(v)es: Contemporary Trauma in Pat Barker’s Double Vision

 

10F - Martial Arts - Carleton 256

Chair: Cecily Devereux (U of Alberta)

Campbell, Rebecca (U of Western Ontario)

Queenston Heights, Sarah Curzon and Canadian Dominion a mare usque ad mare

McCready, A.L. (McMaster U)

The Everyday Lived Culture of Canadian Militarism: Yellow Ribbons, Red Fridays and the Highway of Heroes

DiSanto, Michael John (Algoma U)

Joseph Conrad’s Afterlife in Timothy Findley’s The Wars


15:00 - 16:30 Plenary Speaker Steven Bruhm “The Counterfeit Child” - Carleton 106

16:30 - 17:30  ACCUTE General Meeting - Carleton 106

17:30 - 19:30
Christianity and Literature Study Group: Victorian - Carleton 204

18:00 - 19:30  Literary Salon Alumni Memorial Building Lounge

19:00 ACCUTE Wine and Cheese/Dance  Boom! Nightclub, 474 Queen St.

 

Tuesday May 31st

 

Session Eleven:  9:00 - 10:15

 

11A - Joint Session with the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA): Jan Zwicky and Lyric Philosophy - Carleton 104
Organizer: Warren Heiti (Dalhousie U)
MacDonald, Tanis (Wilfrid Laurier U)

“What is Not Self‟: Jan Zwicky, Simone Weil, and the Resonance of Decreation

Goulet, Clare (Mount St. Vincent U)

A necessary tension: extra-/ordinary epistemologies in metaphoric and scientific discovery

Sinclair, Sue (U of Toronto)

Lyric, Beauty, Mortality

 

11B - Joint Session with the Bibliographical Society of Canada (BSC) and Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture (CASBC): The Place of Books - Carleton 256
Organizer: Eli MacLaren (Carleton U)
Fladd, Nadine (U of Western Ontario)

Empire State of Mind: Mavis Gallant's Challenge to New Yorker Readers

Eastwood, Alexander (U of Toronto)

A Fantastic Failure: Displaced Nationalism and the Intralingual Translation of Harry Potter

McLeod, Steven (Carleton U)

Printing Cree, For the Nation

 

11C - The Aesthetics of Illness - Carleton 255

Chair: Jennifer Andrews (UNB)

Button, Chris (UNB)

Illness and Ghosting as Historiographic Devices in John Steffler's The Afterlife of George Cartwright

Busse, Cassel (McMaster U)

Who is a Victim? Considering Difference and Accountability in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night

Venema, Kathleen (U of Winnipeg)

Mourning the Mother: Alzheimer’s Narratives and The Aesthetics of Grievous Loss


11D – Joint Session with Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP) – Commotions: Geographies of Migration and Young People’s Cultures - Carleton 204

Organizer: Louise Saldanha (Grande Prairie Regional College)

Mason, Derrit (U of Alberta)

Queer Youth, Mobility, and the Narratives of It Gets Better

Moruzi, Kristine (U of Alberta)

Settling in the Colonies: Periodicals and the Construction of Colonial Girlhood

Verrall, Krys (York U) and Lisa Wyndels

Waiting for my Children: Children's Culture and the Problem of Absence

 

   

Session Twelve: 10:30 - 12:00

 

12A - The Fiddlehead and Its Cultural Contexts - Carleton 104

Organizer: Ross Leckie (UNB)

Armstrong, Tammy (UNB)

Postmodern Explorations of The Fiddlehead’s Cover Aesthetics

Creelman, David (UNB)

How the other half lives: Prose fiction in The Fiddlehead

Leckie, Ross (UNB)

The Fiddlehead and the Poetics of the Everyday: The Fifties and Sixties


12B - Archiving Turns in Canadian Poetics - Carleton 256
Organizers: Travis Mason (Dalhousie U) and Erin Wunker (Dalhousie U)
Ferguson, Jesse Patrick (Cape Breton U)

Trading Paper Space for Cyberspace: Online Poetry Reviewing in Canada

Dobson, Kit (Mount Royal U)

A Space for Poetics? The Literary Interview in Canada

McLeod, Katherine (U of Guelph)

Poetry On Air - CBC Radio Archives

 

12C - The Aesthetics, Artistry, and Poetics of Asian North American Literature - Carleton 140

Organizers: Professors J.Z.M Chen and Wei Li (Inner Mongolia University)
Capperdoni, Alessandra (Simon Fraser U)

“Untied Knot/s” : Memory and Poetic Form in Roy Kiyooka’s Writings

Beukema, Taryn (Queen’s U)

"Girls here, boys there": Gendered Responses to Trauma in Kerri Sakamoto's The Electrical Field

Li, Wei & John ZM Chen (Inner Mongolia U)

No “More Confusing than Confucius” (Wayson Choy): Towards an Intellectual Tradition of Peoples and Places in East Asian Canadian Literature


12D - Joint Session with Victorian Studies Association of Ontario (VSAO): The Tide that Binds:  Exploring the Victorian Coast - Carleton 255
Organizers: Constance Crompton (York/Ryerson U) & Fiona Coll (U of Toronto)
Beausaert, Rebecca (York U)

"Where the Bathers Love to Dip and the Rowers Go to Row": Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Female Tourists in Elora, Ontario, Canada

Malton, Sara (St. Mary’s U)

Rough Waters: Naval Impressment and Nineteenth-Century Cultural Memory

Stewart, Suzanne (Mount Allison U)                                                    

                  Seascape and Mindscape: Coleridge's 'Rime' and the Legacy of its      Illustrated Editions

12E - Joint Session with Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP) – Representations of Child Soldiers - Carleton 204
Organizer: Peter E. Cumming (York U)

Burrows, Brendan (U of Ottawa)

Saving Africa:  Looking through Ideological Representations of Child Soldiers in Blood Diamond (2006) and Ezra (2007)

Morrison, Kaelyn (U of Toronto)

Youth and (Non-)Culpability: The Importance of Age in African Child Soldier Narratives

Roberts, Jessica (Queen’s U)

Child Victims, Child Soldiers:  Western Intervention in Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone and Emmanuel Jal's War Child

 

12:00 - 13:15 CLSG: Whither literary theory? Insights from Contemporary Christian Thought - Carleton 256


12:00 - 13:00 Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP): Annual General Meeting / Brown Bag Lunch


13:30 - 15:00 CLSG: Contemporary - Carleton 256

 

2:00 – 3:40

Joint Session with Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP): Young People’s Cultures and Games, Gaming, and Play - Carleton 204

Organizer: Stuart Poyntz (Simon Fraser U)

Cowdy-Crawford, Cheryl (York U)

Urban Spaces and the Visual Poetics of Play in Two Canadian Graphic Novels for Children

Fisher, Stephanie (York U), Jennifer Jenson (York U), and Suzanne de Castell (Simon Fraser U)

Dynamic (Con)Texts: Close Readings of Girls' Gameplay

Grimes, Sara (U of Toronto)

Play, Create, Share: Support (and Enclosure) for Children's Creative, Collaborative Play within Commercial "UGC" Games

Hamer, Naomi (U of Winnipeg)

The Cross-Media Play Cultures of Tween Franchises: Theorizing Cross-Media Play as a Critical Literacy Practice

 

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Joint Session with Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP): Roundtable on “Theorizing Young People”  - Carleton 204

Organizer: Mavis Reimer (U of Winnipeg)

 

5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Joint Session with Association for Research in Cultures of Young People (ARCYP): Post-Roundtable Informal Reception - Carleton 204


18:00 - 19:30
Literary Salon Alumni Memorial Building Lounge