International Conference on Narrative: April 20 - 2

The International Conference on Narrative will be held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from April 18 – 22, 2018.

Professor Lindsay Holmgren invites the Desautels Community to attend the Panels and Talks hosted at the Desautels Faculty of Management.

Please note that the plenary engagements are closed to the public due to limited seating in Moyse Hall.

1. The Limits of Realism

Location: 245
Moderator: Audrey Jaffe, University of Toronto

Presentations:

• Theatricality and the Un-narrated in Jane Austen
  Marcie Frank, Concordia University
• The Ends of Romance and the End of Realism
  Scott Black, University of Utah
• What Fiction Means to Oscar Wilde
  Aaron Kunin, Pomona College

2. Race and Justice: The Need for Narrative

Location: 423
Moderator: Rita Charon, Columbia University
Chair: Craig Irvine, Columbia University

Presentations:

• Narrative Methods of Combatting Racism
  Maura Spiegel, Columbia University
• Critical Race Studies in Health Worlds: A Narrative Outcomes Study
  Edgar Rivera-Colon, Columbia University
• African American Literature and Health: Not Just Words But Bodies
  Aaron Oforlea, Washington State University

3. Contemporary Possibilities

Location: 360
Moderator: Cody Jones, The University of Chicago

Presentations:

• When is a Character? Draft, Variants, and Versions of Storyworlds
  John Young, Marshall University
• Poker Fictions: Possible Worlds and the Twenty-First Century Poker Novel
  Paul Wake, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Science Studies and Novel Theory in Michelle Tea’s Black Wave
  Ezra Feldman, Williams College
• Slapstick Bed Tricks: The Structure of Pornographic Humor in Fran Ross’ Oreo
  Rebecca Clark, University of California, Berkeley

4. Television Narrators

Location: 340
Moderator: Josie Barth, McGill University

Presentations:

• “You’ve Just Crossed Over”: Metafictional Narration and “Diegetic Bleed” in The Twilight Zone
  Josie Barth, McGill University
• My So-Called Voice: Direct Address and Indirect Critiques
  Jennifer Gillan, Bentley University
• “Letters pop out of a white background and turn red”: Audio Description as Narration in Netflix’s Daredevil
  Eric Powell, Concordia University
• Netflix Narrators
  Casey McCormick, McGill University

5. Retellings

Location: 210
Moderator: Dorothy Bray, McGill University

Presentations:

• Neo-Victorian Asias
  Jane Hu, University of California, Berkeley
• Race and “Real England” in the Medieval Narratives of Kazuo Ishiguro and Paul Kingsnorth
  Cynthia Quarrie, Concordia University
• Archive as Theme and Structure in Contemporary Digital Fanfiction
  Suzanne Black, University of Edinburgh
• Retelling One’s Story Across Media: Migratory Self-Adaptation and Instantiations of the Migrant Selves in Marjane Satrapi and Atiq Rahimi
  Nafiseh Mousavi, Linnaeus University

6. Narrative Medicine: Ethics, Fictionality, Experientiality

Location: 179
Moderator: Lasse Gammelgaard, Aarhus University

Presentations:

• Chaos Narrative and Experientiality in Graphic Memoirs about Mental Illness
  Lasse Gammelgaard, Aarnus University
• Joyce’s “A Painful Case” in a Narrative Medicine Class: Body, Text, Dialogic Encounter
  Laura Karttunen, University of Tampere
• Narrative Ethics in the Medical School Classroom: Reading Richard Selzer’s “Brute”
  Megan Milota, University Medical Center Utrecht
• The Fictions of Illness Narratives: Understanding Fictionality in Mom’s Cancer
  Antonio Ferraro, The Ohio State University

7. Unnatural Narratives I

Location: 178
Moderator: Brian Richardson, University of Maryland

Presentations:

• Unnatural Narratives in Contemporary Chinese and American Fiction
  Nie Bao-yu, The Ohio State University
• Neither Natural Nor Unnatural: A New Kind of Storyworld in Ian McEwan’s Nutshell
  Hyesu Park, Bellevue College
• Unnatural Alice: Or, What is Unnatural About Nonsense and What is Nonsensical About the Unnatural
  Francesca Arnavas, University of York
• Unnatural Narrative, Unnatural Fictionality: A Discussion on New Avant-Garde Fiction in China
  Changcai Wang, Southwest Jiaotong University

8. On Writing

Location: 310
Moderator: Taylor M. Polites, Wilkes University

Presentations:

• Marked Deck: Patterns of Mind, Language, and Layout in Graham Rawle’s The Card
  Mikko Keskinen, University of Jyvaskyla
• Anality of Narrative: Renee Gladman’s Lines
  Prathna Lor, University of Toronto
• Revitalizing Franz Stanzel’s Narratology for Craft Prescription
  Anthony Kapolka, Wilkes University

9. Are Reality and Fiction Really Worlds Apart? Fictionality, Ontology, and Narrative Text-Worlds

Location: 410
Moderator: Nathan Frederickson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Presentations:

• Understanding Narrative Through Text World Theory
  Joanna Gavins, University of Sheffield
• “More than we can imagine”: Ontological Blurrings in and Between Lance Olsen’s Theories of Forgetting and There’s No Place Like Time
  Alison Gibbons, Sheffield Hallam University
• Refugee Narratives (In)accessibility and Bordered Text Worlds in the Novel Ohrfeige (Slap) by Abbas Khider
  Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona
• Narrativizing Holidays: Ontology and Creativity in the Pages of Holiday Accommodation Guestbooks
  Sara Whiteley, University of Sheffield

10. (De)forming the Russian Novel

Location: 410
Moderator: Deborah Martinsen, Columbia University

Presentations:

• Dostoevsky’s Endings
  Greta Matzner-Gore, University of Southern California
• Dostoevsky and the (Missing) Marriage Plot
  Anna Berman, McGill University
• Discourse and Closure in the Frame Technology of Nikolai Leskov
  Tom Roberts, Smith College