(Chair: Adrian Del Caro, Dept. of Germanic/Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Jennifer McBryan, Rutgers University: Dragging around Your Double: Gaugin, Gilgamesh and the Journey to the Heart of the Forest
Michele Speitz, University of Colorado, Boulder: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic: Mobility across the Boundaries of Modernity
Mariana Hagstrom, Colorado State University: Transverting the Fantasy: Ritual Performances at Maria Lionza’s Sacred Mountain
Jennifer Popple, University of Colorado, Boulder: Subverting the Subversive: Medea as Ritual of Reversal
The Passage from One Language to Another (#1)
(British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library)
(Chair: Ed Rivers, Dept. of English)
Olga Volkova, University of Indiana: Zhukovsky’s First Translation of Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Or Rogovin, University of Washington: From Yiddish Homes to English Streets: Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep
Rita Safariants, Yale University: Writing Across Languages: Codeswitching in Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada
Theodore Graham, University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee: The Rehabilitation of Oedipus: Sophocles in London and New York
The (Trans)Formative Journey (#1)
(Atlas 200, 2nd Floor Atlas Building)
(Chair: Katherine Eggert, Dept. of English)
Anna S. Larsen, Brigham Young University: Transforming the Self: Journeying through Purgatory in The Pylgremage of the Sowle
Dale Loepp, University of California, Berkeley: Transforming King, Kingdom and Cult: A Literary Reading of Solomon’s Journey to Gibeon in the Book of Chronicles
Daria Samokhina, Stanford University: Chess Game, and Spatial Dislocations in Chrétien de Troye’s Romance Erec et Enide
Amanda Holden, University of Colorado, Boulder: Trading Revels for Questions: The Tempest in Restoration Theatre
Movement in, through, and out of Time
(UMC 381, 3rd Floor University Memorial Center)
(Chair: Peter Elmore, Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese)
William Corvey, University of Colorado, Boulder: Ordering the Abstract: Movement and Making in Clarice Lispector’s A paixão Segundo G.H.
Martin Rosenstock, University of California, Santa Barbara: Rendezvous with Halley’s Comet: Ernst Jünger’s Voyage through the Twentieth Century
Kseniya Fedorova, University of Colorado, Boulder: Processuality and Real Time Passages in Multimedia Performance
11:00-12:20: Session Two
Metapherein and the Traversal of Tropes
(Mable Van Duzee Room, N424B, 4th Floor Norlin Library)
(Chair: Paul Gordon, Dept. of Comparative Literature/Humanities)
Lauren Klein, City University of New York: Revisiting Mary Shelley’s North Pole: Frankenstein and the Rhetoric of Arctic Exploration
Joel Morris, Northwestern University: Kafka’s Mountain Excursions
Christina Mengert, University of Denver: Requited Love: The Trope of the Beloved from Sappho to Swensen
The (Trans)Formative Journey (#2)
(Old Main 1B85, Basement of Old Main)
(Chair: Peter Elmore, Dept. of Spanish/Portuguese)
Philippe Brand, University of Colorado, Boulder: “Crossing Over” in Lydie Salvayre’s Passage à l’ennemie
Irene Koyada, University of Miami: The Transformative Journey as a Message from the Grave
A Veritable Inquiry: Literature and the Quest for Truth (#1)
(UMC 381, 3rd Floor University Memorial Center)
(Chair: Arnab Chakladar, Dept. of Comparative Literature/Humanities)
Lindsay Thomas, University of Colorado, Boulder: Constructing/Remembering the Past: Social Memory in Adam Bede
Alexander Brookes, Yale University: Lies, Lies, or Truth without Context: Daniil Kharma’s Blue Notebook No. 10
The Passage from One Language to Another (#2)
(British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library)
(Chair: Ed Rivers, Dept. of English)
Donna Stockton, University of Colorado, Boulder: Translating Dialect—Translating Identity in Det sjuende møte by Herbjørg Wassmo
Paul Saieg, University of Colorado, Boulder: Ceci n’est pas une traduction
Annick Lauper, The Johns Hopkins University: Modernity at Stake in Works of Translation: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Benjamin
12:20-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:30: Session Three
The (Trans)Formative Journey (#3)
(Atlas 200, 2nd Floor Atlas Building)
(Chair: Jill Heydt-Stevenson, Depts. of Comparative Literature/Humanities and English)
Penny Cole, University of Colorado, Boulder: The Painful Past, the Uncertain Future: The Journey to the Beginning in Twentieth Century Japanese Plays
Jan Kueveler, Columbia University: Spaces of Globalization: Christian Kracht’s Expurgatory Travels
Mary Seliger, University of California, Santa Barbara: (Trans)Formative Journeys of Race and Rights: Dialogues Trans Literature and Jurisprudence in John Okada’s No-No Boy and Korematsu v. United States
A Veritable Inquiry: Literature and the Quest for Truth (#2)
(UMC 381, 3rd Floor, University Memorial Center)
(Chair: Mark Leiderman, Dept. of Germanic/Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Eric Schuck, University of Colorado, Boulder: The Brothers Karamazov: Ideology as Action
Joseph Muszynski, University of Denver: Traversing Psychic Boundaries in Literature
Literal and Figurative Wanderings in the Literature of Exile
(British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library)
(Chair: Jeffrey Cox, Depts. of Comparative Literature/Humanities and English)
Yass Alizadeh, University of Connecticut: Raft o Raft o Raft: The Problem of Exile in Persian Literature and Folktales
Maya Kesrouany, Emory University: Exiled from Itself: The Odyssey in tr. and the Construction of an Arabic Narrative Poetics
Gretchen Elizabeth Kellough, Northwestern University: Community of the Exiled or the Loss of the Mother
Petra Landfester, University of Colorado, Boulder: Reality and Fiction: Exile as a Necessity to Change Literature in Ransmayr’s The Last World
Gender Journeys (#1)
(Old Main 1B85, Basement of Old Main)
(Chair: Karen Jacobs, Dept. of English)
Nancy Barry, The Johns Hopkins University: Demeter’s Journey in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Withdrawal and Return or Something More
Naomi Baldinger, University of California, Los Angeles: Toujours l’alterité: Reappropriation of Otherness in Bessora’s 53 cm
3:30-4:00: Coffee Break and Book Display
(British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library)
4:00-5:15 Keynote Address
Daniel Schwarz, Cornell University
The Odyssean Reader
(British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library)
5:30: Reception
(Burnt Toast Restaurant, Boulder)
Saturday, February 24, 2007
8:00-8:50 Breakfast
(British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library)
9:00-10:45: Session One
Allegorical Journeys in the Classical Epic
(HUMN 190, 1st Floor Humanities Building)
(Chair: Peter Knox, Dept. of Classics)
Ariel Ross, Emory University: In the Land of Dead Genres: The Novel as Epic Hero in Bakhtin’s “Epic and Novel”
Alexander Fobes, University of Colorado, Boulder: Spelunking Plato’s Allegory (from the Hills of Yoknapatawpha)
Rachel K. Eisendrath, University of Chicago: To Enter the World of the Story: Odysseus’s Shifting Relation to Stories about His Past
The Creative Process and the Rendering of Artistic Experience
(British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library)
(Chair: Claire Farago, Dept. of Art/Art History)
Christoph Schaub, Emory University: Negotiating Artistic Production: Travel Narratives in Derek Walcott’s Omeros and Christoph Ransmayr’s Die Letzte Welt
Naomi Beeman, Emory University: Writing with One’s Foot: In Memory of Robert Walser
Alina Van Nelson, University of Colorado, Boulder: The Artistic Vocation in Marie Redonnet’s Diego
Dheepa Sundaram, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: The Writer’s Gaze: A Post-Colonial Journey through the English Landscape in V.S. Naipaul’s The Enigma of Arrival
Nostalgia and the Voyage Home (#1)
(HUMN 135, 1st Floor Humanities Building)
(Chair: Davide Stimilli, Depts. of Comparative Literature/Humanities and Germanic/Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Richmond Eustis, Louisiana State University: The Lost Garden: Nostalgia and Narrative Patterns in Historical Renderings of Al-Andalus
Ricardo Gil Soeiro, University of Lisbon: Literature and Homecoming: George Steiner and the Voyage after the Fall
Leah Culligan-Flack, Northwestern University: Longing for Homer: Mandelstam’s Modernist Odyssey
I-Ju Ruby Chen, State University of New York, Stony Brook: The Other (Is)land and the Voyage Home
Travel and the Widening of Perspectives (#1)
(HUMN 125, 1st Floor Humanities Building)
(Chair: Jill Heydt-Stevenson, Depts. of Comparative Literature/Humanities and English)
Steve Pinkerton, University of Colorado, Boulder: The Voyage Out and the Journey Home: The Politics of Odyssean Modernism
Andrew Opitz, University of Minnesota: Literary Pirates and the Rise of Modern Satire: Free-Bootery and Militant Irony in an Era of Primitive Accumulation
Yuliya Tkachuk, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Destination Not Found: Rhizomatic Ways of Constructing Contemporary Self in the Cross-Cultural Journey of J.S. Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated
11:00-12:20 Session Two
“Is Our Discipline Still Alive?” The Path of Comparative Literature
(HUMN 190, 1st Floor Humanities Building)
(Chair: David Ferris, Dept. of Comparative Literature/Humanities)
Hannah Blanning, University of Colorado, Boulder: Translation and the Living Text in World Literature
Christian Haines, University of Minnesota: The End of the Journey, the Beginning of the World: Franco Moretti’s Journey towards a Utopia for Comparative Literature
Gender Journeys (#2)
(HUMN 125, 1st Floor Humanities Building)
(Chair: Jill Heydt-Stevenson, Depts. of Comparative Literature/Humanities and English)
John C. Leffel, University of Colorado, Boulder: “A Day Well Spent”: Austen’s Juvenilia and the Transgressive Journey
Ljudmila Labudović, University of Colorado, Boulder: Journeying of and through the Terrific Female: Female Identity in Blake’s Milton
Ambiguities and the Liminal Position
(British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library)
(Chair: Paul Gordon, Dept. of Comparative Literature/Humanities)
Brian C. Cooper, University of Colorado, Boulder: On the Day You Left, My Soul Began to Follow You in Secret: Transgressions of Gender and Genre in Zheng Guangzu’s Qiannü Loses Her Soul
Elizabeth Lyman, Brigham Young University: The Voices of Angel Island: Acts of Writing from the Liminal Position
Meghan Vicks, University of Colorado, Boulder: The Trickster’s Tracks; or, The Wandering Atom: A Literary Metaphor for Atomism
The (Trans)Formative Journey (#4)
(HUMN 135, 1st Floor Humanities Building)
(Chair: Eric White, Dept. of English)
Mélanie Giraud, The Johns Hopkins University: “La Chapelle des abîmes” in Julien Gracq’s The Castle of Argol: The Self and the Other
Erik Larsen, Brigham Young University: Transforming the Transformative: The Possibility of Journey in the Context of Modernity as Explored in Joyce’s Ulysses
Anne M. McGee, University of Michigan: Transformation and Travestismo Cultural in John Reed’s Insurgent Mexico
12:20-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:30 Session Three
Aperture and Closure
(HUMN 135, 1st Floor Humanities Building)
(Chair: David Ferris, Dept. of Comparative Literature/Humanities)
Jonathan Larner-Lewis, University of Colorado, Boulder: Postmortem Journeys: Emily Dickinson’s Autonoetic Poetics
Kelly Walsh, University of Washington: Faulkner and Beckett: The Endless Journeys of Mind
Chenwen Hong, University of Maryland: A Closure with an Aperture: An Eternal Pilgrimage in the Rings of Saturn
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, University of California, San Diego: Mediterranean Journeys: Transgressing Segregation in French Colonial Algeria in the 1930s
Paths toward Revelation, Apocalypse, Telos
(HUMN 125, 1st Floor Humanities Building)
(Chair: Jill Heydt-Stevenson, Depts. of Comparative Literature/Humanities and English)
Spencer Dew, The University of Chicago Divinity School: “Dream somehow of paradise”: Text as Journey and Kathy Acker’s Doubtful Utopia
Marques Redd, University of California, Berkeley: The Nile River and the Quest for Origins: Constructions of Egypt in Romanticism
Courtney Hopf, University of California, Davis: At Sea with D.H. Lawrence: 1921-1930
Travel and the Widening of Perspectives (#2)
(HUMN 190, 1st Floor Humanities Building)
(Chair: John Stevenson, Dept. of English)
María Sáiz, University of Colorado, Boulder: Miguel de Unamuno’s Travel Writing and the Concepts of Knowledge, Identity and Power
Emily M. Allen, Harvard University: Beyond Known Territory: The Untameable Other in Bellum Gallicum VI.21-28
David Rosenberg, University of California, Santa Barbara: The Tricolour Exorcist: Heinrich Heine’s Border Crossing between Germany and France
Nostalgia and the Voyage Home (#2)
(British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library)
(Chair: Davide Stimilli, Depts. of Comparative Literature/Humanities and Germanic/Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Michelle Slater, The Johns Hopkins University: Strangers at Home and Abroad? The Case of Irena in Kundera’s L’Ignorance
J’Lyn Chapman, University of Denver: The Walking Tour of Memory: Narrative and Photography in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants
Elizabeth Andrews McArthur, Columbia University: Odysseys towards No Place in Particular: Delayed Arrivals in Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled
Alyssa Pelish, University of Colorado, Boulder: Nostalgic Space in Nabokov’s Lolita
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break and Book Display
(British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library)
4:00-5:15 Plenary Lecture
Helmut Müller-Sievers, Northwestern University
Praeteritio. Figures of Exile and Return in Hélène Cixous’ Novel From Benjamin to Montaigne
(British Studies Room, 5th Floor Norlin Library)
