Friday, September 16
Locations TBA
9:30-10:30 Informal coffee/Greetings
10:30-10:45 Introductory Remarks by William Egginton, GRLL Chair
11:00-12:30 Session 1: Literary Mano A Mano
Chair: Nina Tolksdorf
Émile Lévesque-Jalbert (Miami University) In Search of the Polemos: Sartre and Blanchot
Charles Akwen (University of Lagos)
Self versus Selves: Negotiating Nigerian Poetry through the Act of Conflicting and Conflating Influences
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Session 2: Religion and Textual Conflicts in Early Modern Age
Chair: Francesco Brenna
Hannah Bormann (Catholic University) Authorial (Self-)Correction: Lucy Hutchinson, Genesis Epic, and Regret
Ian Q. Rogers (Johns Hopkins University) Untransliterating Historia: Don Quixote, Hostility, and Crypto-Islamic Textual Production in XVI c. Castile
2:45-3:45 Roundtable
Chair: Jena Whitaker
Sarah Yahyaoui (CUNY) and Olivia Tapiero Three Times in Olivia Tapiero’s Career: Les murs, Espaces and Phototaxie
4:00-5:30 Keynote 1 Gilman 132
Nathalie Hester (University of Oregon) Anatomy of an Epic Battle in Baroque Italy: Poetry, Politics, and the Americas
Saturday, September 17
All events will take place in Gilman 132.
9:00-9:30 Coffee and breakfast
9:30-11:00 Session 3: Text as Radical Critic
Chair: Marcus Heim
Cae Joseph-Masséna (University of Maryland) Censuring Censorship: The Troubled Writing of the Feminine in Love by Marie Vieux Chauvet and La main dans le sac by Violette Leduc
Jacob Levi (Johns Hopkins University) Rameau’s Nephew and the Enduring Criticism of Philosophy
Daniel Hengel (CUNY Graduate Center) The Unnamable: And the Art of Resistance
Adam Schoene (Cornell University) Diderot’s Silent Fermentation
11:15-12:15 Session 4: Author vs. Readers in American Literature
Chair: Beatrice Variolo
Leah Becker (New York University)
Does Melville Hate You? Questioning Dispossession versus Subversion in Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Amanda Bailey (West Virginia University) Author vs. Reader: The Metafictional Battlegrounds of The Garden of Eden and Pale Fire
12:15-1:15 Lunch Break
1:15-3:15 Session 5: Authors vs. Themselves
Chair: Alberto Zuliani
Paolo Frascà (University of Toronto)
Coming Out (of the Drawer): Umberto Saba’s Self-Censorial Letters
Tatiana Nuñez (CUNY Graduate Center)
Textual Self-Antagonism in Rousseau’s Confessions
Richard LeBlanc (Cornell University)
Antagonism and Orientalism in Nerval’s Aurélia
Mushira Habib (University of Maine): “Kaiser Haq’s English Poetry: Published in the Streets of Dhaka”
3:30-5:00 Keynote 2
Stanley Fish (Cardozo Law School): “Count It and They Will Come: The Promise of the Digital Humanities”
5:00-5:30 Closing remarks by Alyssa Falcone and Troy Tower