THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM

Friends and family are welcome. Come for any part or all of the day.

Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m.

Professor Sean Keilen Director, Literature Undergraduate Program

Panel One: Creative Writing

9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Moderator: Professor Micah Perks

Mary Miki Arlen, La chanson de Lancelot (et Roland)

Rosa Scupine, How should I remember my grandfather?

Tomas Tedsesco, You ask, “who lives in you?”

Amanda Vong, Body of Water

Holly Voorsanger, Speculative Memoir: Love or Drug?

Panel Two: Literature and Empire

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon

Moderator: Professor Martin Devecka

Aspen Adams, Inescapable Pasts: Screen Memories and Sublimation in the Nuclear Age

Ryan McElroy, Nuclear Savage’s Questionable Heart: Replicated Genocidal Imagery in a White Savior Narrative

Jessica Parra Moya, Reclamando y Desmantelando La Figura De La Malinche Con Las Herramientas Del Patrón

LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE PRIZES-12:00 – 12:45 p.m.

Professor Carla Freccero Chair, Literature Department

* FREE * LUNCH BUFFET

Panel Three: Literature and Other Arts

12:45 – 1:45 p.m.

Moderator: Professor H. Marshall Leicester, Jr.

Emily Caballero, Kyle Baker’s Nat Turner: Guttered White Violence in the Shadows of Death

Zoe Hildebrand, Theory of The Influencer

Daniel Sachs, Rules of the Boys’ Club: Postmodern Horror Films and the Allegory of the Female Director

Panel Four: Encounters with the Novel

2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Moderator: Professor Chris Connery

Luan Gondim de Alencastro, Complacency in the Absurd: A Study of Metatextuality in As Memorias Postumas de Bras Cubas

Maxwell Shukuya, Emptiness and the Contemporary Novel Under Neoliberalism

Emanuel Trujillo, Finding Adan

Panel Five: Shakespeare’s Late Plays

3:15 – 4:00 p.m.

Moderator: Professor Sean Keilen

Stephanie Bolduc, Forgiveness and Control in The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest

Cynthia Gonzalez, Anger and Forgiveness in The Tempest and Cymbeline

Concluding Remarks 4:00 p.m.

 

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