Event
MA Research Colloquium
Friday, April 19, 2024 09:30to15:30
Arts Building
Arts 230 / Arts 350, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0G5, CA
The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) warmly welcomes you to attend this year鈥檚 MA research colloquium, set to take place on Friday, April 19 in ARTS 230. Please see the attached poster below agenda for more details on the panels and presentations.
You are welcome to join us for some coffee and snacks from 9:30 until the start of the first panel at 10:00. Lunch will be provided, with vegan options, from 12:45-13:45 in ARTS 350.
Program
Cross-Cultural Re-Imaginings in Literature and Theatre (10:00 - 11:30)
- Jennifer Hua: 鈥淎 Comparative Analysis of Male Theatrical Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England and Tokugawa Japan鈥�
- Julia Bifulco: 鈥淭he Influence of Ovid on Christina Rossetti's 鈥橤oblin Market鈥�"
- Brittany Buscio: 鈥淭he (Mis)use of Dante Alighieri in Promoting and Countering Italian Colonial Violence鈥�
- Hannah Link: 鈥淩esurrecting Revolution: Performing the Radical Past in the 20th Century鈥�
Reading the Contemporary World: Bodies, Affect, and Reception (11:30 - 12:30)
- Georgi de Rham: 鈥淢oving Waters: Atmosphere, Affect, and Agency in Contemporary North American Poetry鈥�
- Jasper Sattentau: 鈥淐onsecrating Adichie and Bulawayo: The Mechanisms of Literary Prestige鈥�
- Yuhne Cui: "Intimate Wounds: Embodied Trauma in Contemporary Black Fictions"
Marginal Identities: Countering Literary (Mis)Representations (14:00 - 15:30)
- Sam Fisch: 鈥淧atient-Doctor Encounters in Doctor Novels from 1900-1950鈥�
- Aamna Rashid: 鈥溾�楧eformito-Mania鈥� and the Colonial Other: Questions of
- Colonial Debility in Wilkie Collins鈥檚 The Moonstone and VictorianmExhibitions鈥�
- Cal Smith: 鈥淒efamiliarizing the Self-On-Page in Julie Doucet鈥檚 Dirty Plotte鈥�
- Violette Drouin: 鈥淧lace and the Formation of Acadian Literature and Culture鈥�