WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON?
What are you working on? The EGSS is holding a Graduate English Colloquium that will offer graduate students (returning and incoming) and faculty the opportunity to answer this question in a 10-minute presentation, using a maximum of 3 slides. The goal is to share information about new and ongoing research in the department. Incoming students are particularly encouraged to attend.
ABOUT THE COLLOQUIUM
The event will run from 10 am to 1 pm on Thursday, September 18, 2014 in CLE C109. Please join us for all or part of the event. We’ll have coffee and snacks throughout the morning.
Please direct any questions about the colloquium to Caroline (winterc[at]uvic[dot]ca) or Lawrence (le89[at]uvic[dot]ca).
PROGRAM
10:00 Welcome from moderator Alex Bunten-Walberg
10:10 Faye Campbell: Material Mispronunciation and Play in Third World Cinema
10:20 Yan (Amy) Tang: From Geometry to Topology: Space, the Subject and the Second World War in Samuel Beckett’s Murphy and Molloy
10:30 Q&A
10:45 Break
10:55 Lawrence Evalyn: Searching for the Female Gothic in Ann Tracy’s Index
11:05 Alyssa Currie: “What Hand Dare Seize the Fire?”: William Blake’s Poetry and the Promotion of Animal Welfare
11:15 Q&A
11:30 Break
11:40 Caroline Winter: Drawing Between the Lines: Hugh Thomson’s Illustrated Pride and Prejudice
11:50 Bassam Chiblak: The Nerves are the Gentleman: The Impact of the Sensational Sixties on the Illustrated Novels of The Cornhill
12:00 Christopher Douglas: Christian Postmodernism
12:10 Q&A
12:25 Wrap-up
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