Panels (updated)

Animals and Anthropomorphism
  1. Jessica Campbell. “‘Finding You Can Change’: Re-Visions of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Through King Kong.”
  2. Zaren White. “‘Obtuse and furry’: The Anthropomorphic Goblin Men of Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market.’”
  3. Jessica Porter. “'None Escape': Wells, Moreau, and the Dilemma of Sin”

The Fantastic as a Contemporary “Green World”
  1. K.C. Hingley. “Hollywood Attacks! Conservative Family Values in War of the Worlds.”
  2. Keli Rowley. “Fantasy Worlds as Metaphors for the Chaos of Reality in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Phantom Tollbooth.”
  3. Tessa Mellas. “Disease in the Land of the Magically Real: The Illness Narrative Transposed.”

Representing Identity
  1. Erin Dunbar. “The Ugly Fantasy: The Disfigured Vampire as a Model of the Contemporary Bisexual.”
  2. Rachael Cate. “Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood: Post-feminism, Symbolic Logic and the Re-mythologization of the Real.”
  3. Laura van Dyke. “‘With no eyes on her’: The Fairy Melusine and Self-Constructed Identity in A.S. Byatt’s Possession.”

Ethics, Morality, and the Fantastic
  1. Gaelan Gilbert. “Fantasia, Memoria, Prudentia: Dante’s Virtuous Art of Figurative Narrative in the Purgatorio.”
  2. Elisa Bursten. “The Love of Beautiful Things.”
  3. Thaddeus Tsohantaridis.“Liminal Spaces and Numinous Faces in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament.”

The Fantastic Genre
  1. Andrew Bricker. “The Spectrum of Deception: Walpole’s Castle of Otranto.”
  2. Mary Eileen Wennekers. “Genre, Noncorrespondency, and the Fantastic Real: The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
  3. Luke Maynard. “‘The Fickle Pensioners of Morpheus’ Train’: the Gothic Schism and the Roots of Fantasy.”

The Public Fantastic: Theatre, Politics, and the Technological World
  1. Robert Bisnoff. “Mythology and Border-crossing in Greek history - The Contemporary Application of Thucydidean Leadership.”
  2. Brian Mosher. “Out of the Machine: an Ex-amination of Plurality in the Hybrid.”
  3. Jessica Riley. “Play Development Dramaturgy and the Fantastic in Judith Thompson’s White Biting Dog.”
  4. Leah Ellingwood. “Dracula and the Technology of the Fantastic.”

Rethinking Mythology
  1. Max Olesen. “Ambiguous Gods: Mythology and Immigration in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods."
  2. Amy Bright. “‘Can you imagine an infinite tree?’: Crossing Mythologies in Michael Chabon’s Summerland.”
  3. Nicole Brandsma. “‘Grandma’s Nanabush’: The Culture-specific Trickster in Drew Hayden Taylor’s Motorcycles & Sweetgrass.”

The Fantastic as a Component of the Real
  1. Shannon Minifie. “Postmodern Fiction, Postcolonial Aims: The ‘contestatory function’ of Salman Rushdie’s ‘Magic Realism.’”
  2. Casey Stepaniuk. “Feminist, Queer, and Science Fiction Politics in Samuel R. Delany’s Trouble on Triton.”
  3. Thomas Stuart. “Masques of Perception: (Re)solving the Fantastic in Fowles’ The Magus.”


Creative Writing Panels


Worlds of Fantasy
  1. Ryan Fink. “Alamut.”
  2. Amy Bright. “Open and Close.”
  3. Luke Maynard. Chapter One of The Secret Crown.

Language of Fantasy
  1. Madison Bettle. “Hindsight” and “Run Down.”
  2. Michael Volek. “HC.SVNT.DRACONES.”
  3. Nicholas Zacharewicz. Excerpt from “Drithiaf – A Dish Wash Epic” (ll. 1264-1371).
Childbirth, Death, and Family
  1. Tessa Mellas. Excerpt from “Beanstalk.”
  2. Rachelle Cruz. "Aswang at the World's Greatest Fair."
  3. Jon Flieger. "You are Among Monsters (and Unreliable Narrators)."
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