Program for the Day

Our schedule for the day! (March 6, 2009)

Click on the names of panelists to see their abstracts and bios

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.  Registration & Breakfast C205

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.            Session One

Session 1A, Room C201: Romantic Projections

Moderator: Emily Stanback

Ihsen Hachaichi: “The Poetics of the Self in Wordsworth and Ricoeur”

Shawn Rice: “Nautical Nihilism: Metaethical Construction in Percy Shelley’s ‘Alastor’”

Anne McCarthy: “‘That Willing Suspension’: Nineteenth-Century Poetics and Kant’s Sublime Projection”

Session 1B, Room C202: Projections of Childhood

Moderator: Nichole Stanford

Jason Schneiderman: “An Absent Boy: Projected and Protected Desire in Michael Lowenthal’s Avoidance and Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw”

Jill Belli: “Producing Utopia: The Marketing of Possibility”

Han-Ying Liu: “The Myth of Eternal Childhood and Eden in The Snow Queen”

Session 1C, Room C203: Nonsense!

Moderator: Margaret Galvan

Karinne Keithley: “Astral Potatoes: A Technique for the Anti-psychological Projection of Lowest Vegetables into Cosmic Space in Sibyl Kempson’s Potatoes of August”

Veronica Alfano: “Rapt and Half-Wrapt: Projecting Landscape in Hopkins and Hardy”

David Letzler: “Stevens’ Projection of Nonsense”

Session 1D, Room C204: The Body and Its Parts

Moderator: Robert Machado

Rainer J. Hanshe: “Nietzsche’s Synaesthetic Epistemology: The Restitution of the Holistic Human”

Angela Francis: “Obsessive Love, Projection, and the Body in Written on the Body and The Stillest Day”

Anne Keefe: “Projecting the Body: Ekphrasis and the Uncanny Pose”

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.          Session Two

Session 2A, Room C201: Death, Desire, Absence

Moderator: Kate Broad

Joshua Schneiderman: “The Divided Self: John Ashbery’s ‘The Skaters’”

Molly Pulda: “Portrait of a Secret: Projections of Sexuality in Two Illustrated Memoirs”

Alison Powell: “‘Where Herself Herself Beheld’: Reflection and Re(conception) in ‘Venus and Adonis’”

Session 2B, Room C202: Presenting the Uncanny Family

Moderator: Caroline Conoly

Bradley Freeman: “‘Embrace the Amnesia’: (Re)Writing Dominican History In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

Louisa Yates: “Missing Parties: Projecting Lesbian Desire in Sarah Waters’ Affinity”

Hiaw Khim Tan: “The Melancholy Faces of Birth”

Session 2C, Room C203: Poetry and the Presence and Absence of Gayness

Moderator: Lindsey Freer

Paul Holchak: “Stoic Idiom and Philomelen Silence in Shakespeare’s Sonnets”

Toshiaki Komura: “Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘Crusoe in England’: Intertextual Projection in Modern Elegy”

David Fine: “‘Upon His Anvelt Up and Doun’: Projecting Masculinity in the Book of the Duchess”

Session 2D, Room C204: Postcolonial Projections

Moderator: Lily Saint

Laura Nee: “Projecting Welsh Identity in Niall Griffiths’ Stump”

Joshua Prescott: “In-Between Self and Other: Space, Sexuality, and Subversion in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night”

Ines Mzali: “National Specters and the Reincarnation of Violence in Zimbabwe”

11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.            Lunch on Your Own

1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.  Session Three

Session 3A, Room C201: Projecting Other Worlds

Moderator: Yuki Watanabe

Renee McGarry: “Transforming the Elite: Masking in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States”

Kim Wickham: “The Uncannily Unreal in Akutagawa’s The Hell Screen (Jigokuhen)”

Grant Wythoff: “Projecting Martian Photography”

Session 3B, Room C202: Apocalypse Sometime

Moderator: Jill Belli

Bradley Fest: “The Eco-Jeremiad: Projecting Crises of the ‘Moment’”

Rebecca Porte: “The Late Sublime of Wallace Stevens”

Kirk Boyle: “Metaphors That Destroy Us: Projections of the Financial Crisis”

Session 3C, Room C203: Speculating on Sense-Making

Moderator: Tracy Riley

Elizabeth Brown: “Arrest the Machine: Exposing the Meaning-Making Apparatus in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s DICTEE”

Nikolina Knezevic: “The Signifying Junkie: (M)otherness and Autobiography in Tainted Love by Stewart Home”

Lavelle Porter: “When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong:  Racial Authenticity, Academia, and the Black Intellectual in Percival Everett’s Erasure”

Session 3D, Room C204: Victorian Projections

Moderator: Anne McCarthy

Jeanette Samyn: “Deferring a ‘New London’ in Dickens’ Bleak House”

Tina Dyer: “‘A Mile in English Shoes’: Dracula and the Myth of Modernity”

Brenton Thompson: “‘Truant Reading’: Walter Pater’s Imaginative Historicism”

2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.  Session Four

Session 4A, Room C201: Space, Place, Architecture, Race

Moderator: Angela Francis

Basak Candar: “The City as An Act of Memory: Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk”

Joseph Lamperez: “The Continued Resonance of Urban Space”

David Shepard: “Projecting History: Race and Mediation in Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves”

Session 4B, Room C202: Projections of Science Fiction

Moderator: Kate Broad

Margaret Galvan: “Empowering Feminist Fabulation: Drawing Together Genre Criticism Further Frees Female Form”

Ana Paulina Lee: “Corridor of Consumption: The Gaze of Modern-Day China through Hong Kong Cinema”

Vic Perry: “Projection and Counter-Projection In and Around Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle”

Session 4C, Room C203: Projections of the Self

Moderator: Carrie Shanafelt

Meaghan Brown: “The Shape of Anonymity: Projections of Authorship in Mary Astell’s Rhetoric”

Dominique Zino: “Drawing Conclusions: The Position of the Subject as Draftsman”

Nick Valvo: “Costuming the Historical Figure”

Session 4D, Room C204: Back to the Future

Moderator: Jessica Wells Cantiello

Lauren Sealy: “Looking Through ‘The Big End of the Telescope’:  Pandora Reading the Past and Seeing the Future in Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home”

Judd Staley: “The Projection of History in the Post-Cold War, Post-Postmodern American Novel”

Anthony Domestico: “Magic Lanterns and the Modernist Novel”

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Faculty Roundtable, Room 4406

Projection: Speculating on the Personal, the Political, and the Pedagogical

Moderators: Mia Chen and Leila Walker, ESA Conference Co-chairs

Faculty Speakers:

Ammiel Alcalay

Claire Bishop

Mario DiGangi

Talia Schaffer

Jerry Watts

Please join faculty from the English and Art History Departments at the CUNY Graduate Center as we discuss the importance of projection to ourselves, our politics, and our pedagogical perspective. Wine & cheese reception follows.

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.  Reception, Room 4406

Please join the day’s presenters for an informal gathering following the Faculty Roundtable.

6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.  Keynote Address, Elebash Recital Hall

Cosponsored by the Center for the Humanities

Kate Flint:

“Throwing Light On Darkness: Flash Photography and the Literary Imagination”

Kate Flint is Professor of English at Rutgers, and has published widely on the art and literature of the Victorian era and the early twentieth century. She has edited and introduced numerous books, including the Oxford World’s Classics editions of Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow, and Anthony Trollope’s Can You Forgive Her? , and is the author of The Woman Reader: 1837-1914 (Oxford UP, 1993), The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (Cambridge UP, 2000; recipient of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize of the British Academy), and the just-released The Transatlantic Indian: 1776-1930 (Princeton UP, 2008). Kate’s work has been tremendously influential within Victorian studies and has been hailed as a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, combining formidable research and theoretical acumen with an engaging writerly touch.