English 461/562: Literary Criticism

Senior Seminar

Fall Conference

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Ruffner 115

Beverages and light refreshments will be available during breaks

8:00-9:15

Reader Response

Sarah Barr: Reviving the Author: Intentionality and Interpretive Communities

Scott Gibson: How to Make Poe’s “The Raven” Speak

Katie Sloan: The Chick Lit Wars: New Argument, Old Debate

9:30-10:45

Feminism, Gender Studies, and Queer Theory

Heather Chapman: A Box inside a Box: Homosexuality in Young Adult Literature

Sarah Chapman: [Title of terrific presentation forthcoming]

Amy Minnix: Feminism(s) in The Starter Wife

11:00-12:15

Poststructuralism and Cultural Studies

Ashley Ayash: Deconstructing Doctor Who: Torchwood as L'enfant Terrible

Benjamin Patterson: W. E. B. Dubois and Spike Lee: Art as Politics in Do the Right Thing

Jobeth Cole: A Room of One’s Own?: Doris Lessing and the Inexorability of Interpellation

2:00-3:15

Feminism and Woolf

Courtney Crawford: Anxiety, Ambiguity, and Austen: Parody in Northanger Abbey

Carolyn Hinrichsen: Austen’s Mansfield Park: Rethinking Woolf’s Appraisal

Meghan Whiteaker: “I’ve got out at last”: Resisting Closure in Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”

3:30-5:00

New Historicism

Brandon Mitchell: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: The Masterpiece of a “Bloody Racist?”

Lindsay Lucci: Plato and Poetry: Three Renaissance Interpretations

Thomas Mayle: Chaucer, Anti-Clericalism, and The Canterbury Tales

Sam Yeomans: When Aesthetics meets Morality: Kant and Hawthorne