Schedule

Conference Schedule


Thursday

1:00-2:00 Registration

2:00-2:30
Pre-Keynote Reception

2:30-3:50
Keynote Speaker: Hiromi Goto

4:00-5:20
Childbirth, Death, and Family Chair: Gaelan Gilbert
  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)."

6:00 GRAD HOUSE

Friday

8:00-9:00 Registration

9:00-10:20
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.”

11:00-12:20
Representing Identity Chair: Kylee-Anne Hingston
  1. Erin Dunbar. “The Ugly Fantasy: The Disfigured Vampire as a Model of the Contemporary Bisexual.”
  2. Laura van Dyke. “‘With no eyes on her’: The Fairy Melusine and Self-Constructed Identity in A.S. Byatt’s Possession.”

1:00-2:20
Rethinking Mythology Chair: Conrad Scott
  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.”

2:30-3:50
The Fantastic Genre Chair: Caley Ehnes
  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.”

4:00-5:20
Worlds of Fantasy Chair: Stephanie Keane
  1. Amy Bright. “Open and Close.”
  2. Ryan Fink. “Alamut.”
  3. Luke Maynard. Chapter One of The Secret Crown.

6:00 GRAD HOUSE

Saturday

9:30-10:50
Ethics, Morality, and the Fantastic Chair: Nicholas Zacharewicz
  1. Gaelan Gilbert. “Fantasia, Memoria, Prudentia: Dante’s Virtuous Art of Figurative Narrative in the Purgatorio.”
  2. Elisa Bursten. “‘The Love of Beautiful Things’: Mythology and Greed in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.”
  3. Thaddeus Tsohantaridis.“Liminal Spaces and Numinous Faces in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament.”

11:00-12:20
The Public Fantastic: Theatre, Politics, and the Technological World
Chair: Stephanie Keane
  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. Leah Ellingwood. “Dracula and the Technology of the Fantastic.”

1:00-2:20
Animals and Anthropomorphism Chair: David Oswald

  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. 3. Jessica Porter. “‘None Escape’: Wells, Moreau, and the Dilemma of Sin.”

2:30-3:50
The Fantastic as a Contemporary “Green World” Chair: Gaelan Gilbert
  1.  K.C. Hingley. “Hollywood Attacks! Conservative Family Values in War of the Worlds.”
  2. Tessa Mellas. “Disease in the Land of the Magically Real: The Illness Narrative Transposed.”

4:00-5:20
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).

6:00 GRAD HOUSE

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