Christianity and Literature Study Group
Conference Program 2010, Concordia University
(Allied organization, Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English)
Conference Chairs: Margo Swiss (York) and David A. Kent (Centennial College)
Key to Rooms
H – Henry F. Hall Building
LB – Library Building
Friday May 28
1. 6:00–7:30 p.m.: Modern and Contemporary
Location: LB 646
Chair: Greg Maillet (Crandall University)
Ken Jacobsen (Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial U.): “Prophetic Hermeneutics: Northrop Frye’s Imaginative Literalism”
Janice Fiamengo (Ottawa): “Julian Barnes on the Loss of God”
Saturday May 29
2. 12:00–1:30 p.m.: Medieval and Early Modern
Location: H 1145
Chair: Margo Swiss (York)
Matthew Brendan Scribner (Queen’s): “Female Epistemologies of Pain in the Towneley Buffeting and Scourging”
Katherine M. Quinsey (Windsor): “‘Charms strike the Sight, but Merit wins the Soul’: Constructions of Female Spirituality in the Early Poems of Pope”
3. 6:00–7:30 p.m.: Herrick and Wordsworth
Location: LB 646
Chair: David A. Kent (Centennial)
Abram Steen (Crandall University): “Poetry and Ritual Form: the Case of Robert Herrick”
Suzanne Stewart (St. Francis Xavier): “Child of Nature, Child of God: William Wordsworth and the Concept of Childhood Divinity”
Sunday May 30
4. 12:00–1:30 p.m.: Special Session on Canadian Literature in Memory of Barbara Pell
Location: H 1145
Chair: Janice Fiamengo (Ottawa)
D. M. R. Bentley (UWO):”Stephen Leacock’s Satire of the High Church:
Dean Drone and the ‘Beacon on the Hill’ in Sunshine Sketches of a Little
Town”
Christian Riegel (Regina): “Mourning and Memorial in Manawaka Fiction”
Greg Maillet (Crandall): “‘God Is’ in The Lost Highway and Mercy
Among the Children: Paradox, Peace, and the Existential Power of Christian Faith”
5. 6:00–7:30 p.m.: George Whalley: Poet and Scholar
Location: LB 646
Chair: Michael DiSanto (Algoma)
John Baxter (Dalhousie): “George Whalley and Shakespeare”
John Ferns (emeritus, McMaster): “War and Love in George Whalley’s ‘Battle Pattern’ and ‘Dunster’ ”
Trygve Bratteteig (ret., Toronto Public Library): “Multiple Forms of Navigation: A Validation”
Monday May 31
6. 12:00–1:30 p.m.: Canadian
Location: LB 646
Chair: D. M. R. Bentley (UWO)
Kathleen Patchell (Ottawa): “Glossolalia in Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God”
David A. Kent (Centennial): “Kathleen Coburn and Avison’s Winter Sun”
Neil Querengesser (Concordia University College of Alberta): “‘Genius Volcanic in the Interstices’: The Sacramental Poetry of Susan McCaslin”