The Tenth Annual Red River Conference on World Literature
April 20- 22, 2007
North Dakota State University
Fargo North Dakota
Conference Program
All sessions will be held in the Alumni Center. Room assignments will be made at a later date.
Please click on session titles for links to abstracts.
8:00-8:30 Registration / Coffee and Muffins - Alumni Center Atrium
8:30-10:30 : Session One - Alumni Center – Reimers
Language/Text/Ideology: Reframing the Canon
Session Moderator: Carlos Hawley, North Dakota State University
Kemal Silay (Indiana University): “Metapoetic Definitions, Defenses, and Refusals of the Canon: Ottoman Voices on Ottoman Poetry”
Mark William Brown (Jamestown College, North Dakota): “’What’s Left of Me To-day’: Robert Bridges, Elizabeth Daryush, and The Oxford Book of English Verse”
Maria Carone (Ripon College, Wisconsin): “Breaking the Canon: The Phenomenology of Love in Cavalcanti’s Canzone Donna me prega”
Fran Meuser (Oakland University, Michigan): “Mythic Cycles in Comentarios reales de los Inca of the Inca, Garcilaso de la Vega”
10:30- 10:45: Break : Coffee and Muffins - Alumni Center Atrium
10:45-12:15 : Session Two - Alumni Center – Reimers
Session Moderator: Gary Totten, North Dakota State University
Stephen Disrud (University of Nebraska): “The Sun Also Sets: Henry Miller’s Modernist Flipside”
Mirko Hall (University of North Dakota): “Romanticization: An Incomplete Project”
Roland Finger (Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota): “Leftist Sentiments: Stowe and Political Self-Critique”
12:15-1:45: Lunch - Alumni Center Atrium
1:45-4:00 : Session Three - Alumni Center – Reimers
Session Moderator: Stephen Disrud, University of Nebraska
Stephanie Grollman (North Dakota State University): “An Outsider Turned Inside Out? The ‘Other’ in Christoph Hein’s Novel Landnahme”
Patrick Tonks (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): François Paré: Toward a New Criticism of the Margin, By the Margin”
Carolyn Baker (Mayville State University, North Dakota): “Hermeneutics in Human Tragedy: Bibliomancy, British Israelism, and Millenarism in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year”
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Saturday, 21 April 2007
8:30 - 9:00 : Registration - Coffee and Rolls - Alumni Center Atrium
9:00-11:00 : Session Four - Alumni Center - Reimers
Voices in a Visual/Textual Commons
Session Moderator: R. S. Krishnan, North Dakota State University
Elizabeth Mason (Case Western Reserve University, Ohio): “The Aesthetics of Media and the Aesthetic of Filth in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born”
Lopamudra Basu (University of Wisconsin-Stout): “Crossing Cultures/Crossing Genres” The Re-invention of the Graphic Novel as Hybrid Memoir in Persepolis”
Gustav Arnold and Barbara Hauser (University of North Dakota): “Sara Suleri’s Rhetoric of Change: Culinary Customs and Political Discourse”
9:00-11:00 : Session Four A - Alumni Center – Klefstad Room
FLARR I
(Special Session)
Foreign Language Association of the Red River)
9:00-9:15 Welcome, Moment of Silence, Announcements
Elena Atitsogbui (Concordia College) : "Long Live Russian"
Richard Stanley (Concordia College) : "Culture in the Stars: Signs of the Zodiac in Language Courses"
John Hall (Minnesota State University, Moorhead) : "Some Basic Theoretical and Practical Considerations for an Eclectic Approach to the Teaching of Languages, Part III"
11:00-12:00 : Lunch - Alumni Center Atrium
12:00 - 2:00 : Session Five - Alumni Center - Reimers
Recovering/Discovering/Uncovering Voices
Session Moderator: Mitzi Brunsdale, Mayville State University
Cristina Sánchez-Conejero (University of North Texas): “Dulce dueño by Emilia Pardo Bazán: A Non-Canonical and Postmodern Novel”
Surapeepan Chatraporn (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok): “Bad Girls, Food and Female Position in Contemporary World Literature Bestsellers”
Cynthia Deike (University of Alaska, Anchorage): “Jess Walter’s The Zero: A Novel and Neo-canonicity”
1:00 - 1:30 : Session Five A - Alumni Center – Klefstad Room
FLARR Foreign Language Association of the Red River
2:00 - 2:15 : Break: Coffee and Cookies - Alumni Center Atrium
2:15-4:15 : Session Six - Alumni Center : Reimers
Language and/or Literary Borderlands
Session Moderator: Muriel Brown, North Dakota University
Pallavi Rastogi (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge): “Essop’s Fables: Indian-Black Relationships in South Africa”
Senayon S. Olaoluwa (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa): “From Simplicity to Performance: The Place of the Second Generation Anglophone Poets”
Katherine Stevenson (Jamestown College, North Dakota): “A Canon in the Making: The Literature of French Polynesia”
4:15 - 7:00: Open dinner
7:00 p.m. Keynote Session
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Sunday, 22 April 2007
8:00 - 8:30 : Coffee, Bagels and Fruit - Alumni Center Atrium
8:30 - 10:30 : Session Seven - Alumni Center : Reimers
Pitching Pedagogy: World Literature and the Canon
Session Moderator: Andrew Trump, North Dakota State University
Jonathan Steinwand (Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota): “The Tourist and the Canon”
Rachel McCoppin (University of Minnesota, Crookston): “Creating World Literature: Teaching a Loose Canon in World Literature by Incorporating Service Learning”
Mitzi Brunsdale (Mayville State University, North Dakota): “The Role of the Western Canon in U.S. Undergraduate Education: Withering or Blooming?”
Julie Barak (Mesa State College, Colorado): “Interpreting Non-western Literature in Western Classrooms”
10:30-10:45: Break: Coffee, Bagels & Fruit - Alumni Center Atrium
10:45 - 12:45 : Session Eight - Alumni Center : Reimers
Gender, Genre and Resistance: No (Wo)Man’s Land)
Session Moderator: Gwen Stickney, North Dakota State University
Christine Grossman (Central Lakes College, Minnesota): “In the Absence of Women: Male-Male (Dis)Connections in Strangers on a Train and The Zoo Story
Gay Rawson (Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota): “Writings on the Margins: French Feminism Revisited in the 21 st Century”
Jacqueline Alvarez-Ogbesor (University of Minnesota, Morris): “La escritura conventual en Lima de finales del siglo XVII: Ursula de Jesús y la emergencia de una voz afroperuana subversiva”