8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
Session One
9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
Panel One
Stephen Rojcewicz - “Terrible Vowels”: Walcott, Brathwaite, and the Sounds of Caribbean History
Collin Lam - Embodied Revolt: The Fugue and Negative Capability
Shanna Charles - Following Lines and Singing the Blues in James Baldwin's Go Tell It On the Mountain
Panel Two
Sarah L. Bonnie - Departures from Narratives of Purity: Erdrich and Shakur Write Back to Racist Educ ation
Abbey A. Morgan - So Will My Page Be Colored That I Write?: Identity Politics and Black Millennial Writers
Alica Russell - The Chained and the Unchained: Marginalization as Resistance in 12 Years a Slave and Django Unchained
Session Two 10:25 a.m.-11:40 a.m.
Panel One - Poetry Reading
Caroline Noble Whitbeck - From 101 End-Time Recipes
M.K. Foster - De(Parting): Selected Poems Exploring Spaces Between Things Real and Imagined
Tyler Goldman - Exitus in dubio est: Translation as Departure
Ruth Elizabeth Morris - Falling Out of Sky: Departures in Space and Time
Panel Two
Sarah Abdul Razak - Female Resistance in "The Legend of Sigh"
Brandon M. Boudreault - Identities in Erasure: History, Voice and Silence in Susan Howe’s The Liberties
Katherine Lashley - Divergent Sexuality
Panel Three
Matthew Gasda - Bolano and his Precursors
Sara Faradji - Journeys to the Middle: An Analysis of Liminality within 20th Century Middle Eastern Literature and Scholarship
Tyler Shine - Traveling Through: The Migratory Aesthetics of La Noire de... and Touki Bouki
Lunch 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Session Three 1:00 p.m.-2:35 p.m.
Panel One
Nick Slaughter - The Corporate Laboratory as Space of Exception in George Saunders's "Escape from Spiderhead"
Nathaniel Underland - Re-versing the Stream of Consciousness: Henry Green's Pseudo-Behaviorist Aesthetics
Jeffrey B. Griswold - Macbeth’s Thick Night: the Political Ecology of a Dark Scotland
Kathryn Kaczmarek - Transmedia Narratives as Knowledge Production: Creating an Alternate Reality Game to Inspire Scientific Thinking in Teenagers
Panel Two
Talia Chicherio - Postmodern Mythologies, from Ancient Rome to the New World
William Gonch - Pym, Pym, and Form in Antarctic Adventure Narratives
Brian Davis - Periodizing the Present: Poetics and Historicism of Contemporary Fiction
Collier Cobb IV - Time and the Nation in Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
Panel Three
Belinda Waller-Peterson - The Uterus as an Object of Desire in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton
Jenna Tobin - Post Cognitive Regicide in Joyce's Araby: Exploring Burst Identities in Liminal Space
Cameron Mozafari - I Gotta Feeling: Historical Arguments for Emotional Appeals
Tamar LeRoy - Becoming Fear and "Valor's minion": War Trauma and "Perpetrators and Victims" in Macbeth
Plenary Panel: "Departures Across Disciplines" 2:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Session Four 4:30 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Panel One - Fiction Reading
Carissa Halston - From "The Daughter"
Keke Kusumaatmadja - From Stranger Years
Carlea Holl-Jensen - "Lakeview"
Panel Two
Hillary Roegelein - Emily Dickinson’s Poems, Letters, and Envelopes: An Epistolary Poetics
Christopher Allen Varlack - Deconstructing the "Confederate Romance" Transcending Zip Coonery in Walter White's Fire in the Flint
Tim Bruno - Denmark Vesey, Delany's Blake, and Black “Loose Talk”
Panel Three
Cheryl A. Emerson - Migratory Texts: Chus Pato/Erin Moure's Secession/Insecession: Mutant Territories and the Language of Prosthesis
Daniel Nelson - Commonplace Departures: The "Speculative Poetics" of Allen Grossman
M.K. Foster - unlocking the door that unlocks the mountain: Analyzing Stanzaic Form in the Poems of Frank Bidart
Dinner 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Breakfast & Registration