All are invited to a one-day symposium, “Literary Space Time,” sponsored by the English Department, on Friday, April 14.
All sessions will take place in Ellis 113. Coffee and welcoming remarks begin at 8:30 a.m., followed by three panels, a roundtable discussion, and a keynote address.
The symposium is a collaboration between two graduate seminars, Dr. Mary Kate Hurley’s ENG 5310: Narrative Time and World Building, and Dr. Brian McAllister’s ENG 5370: Spatial Theory and Contemporary Poetics. The students in these courses will present papers with topics ranging from “Moments of Time in ‘Beowulf’” to “the Topos of War Poetry.”
The symposium will conclude with a keynote, “A Hoardfull of Plunder: The Paradoxical Materiality of Loss in ‘Beowulf,’ given by Dr. Denis Ferhatović of Connecticut College.
Schedule of Events
8:30-9 a.m. Coffee and Welcome
9-10:30 a.m. In & Out of Control: Polychronic and Spatial Discourses
- Featuring Gregory Tolliver, Megan Smith, Sam Ross, and Ed Burns
- Moderator: Aaron Babcock
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Derrida, Mourning, & Totality Across Literary Violence, Emotions, and Relationships
- Featuring Emily Kramer, Micah McCrary, Alaina Duncan, and Devan Murphy
- Moderator: Tanner Sebastian
12:30-2 p.m. Lunch break
2-3:30 p.m. Anxious Encounters & Porous Borders
- Featuring Jeffery McCambridge, Angie Mazakis, Christine Adams, and Regina Yoong
- Moderator: Susanna Hempstead
3:45-5:15 p.m. Temporality, Topos, & the Spatial Sound: A Roundtable
- Featuring Nitin Luthra, Hugh Martin, Jen Reeher, and Daniel Spencer
- Moderator: Sarah Minor
5:30-6:45 p.m. Keynote
- “A Hoardfull of Plunder: The Paradoxical Materiality of Loss in ‘Beowulf’”
- Dr. Denis Ferhatović, Connecticut College
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