International Conference on Narrative: April 20 - 3

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. Margins Transforming Centers in 21st Century Televisual Storyworlds

Location: 151
Moderator: Frederick Aldama, The Ohio State University

Presentations:

• What Comes After Complex TV?
  Jason Mittell, Middlebury College
• Anatomy of the Cold Open
  Sean O’Sullivan, The Ohio State University
• Webisodes as Alt-Storyworld Space for Latinx Subjects
  Frederick Aldama, The Ohio State University

2. Dangers of Fictionality

Location: 422
Moderator: Maria Mäkelä, University of Tampere / Aarhus University

Presentations:

• A History of the Dangers of Fictionality from Lucian to Kurl-on Mattresses
  Simona Gjerlevsen, Aarhus Universit
• Hazardous Fictionalized Encounters: Borat, The Ambassador and Yes Men
  Louise Jacobsen, Aalborg University
• Dangers of Autofiction
  Stefan Kjerkegaard, Aarhus University
• Fake News as Satire and as Deception
  Henrik Nielsen, Aarhus University

3. Narrative Theory and Contemporary Environments

Location: 423
Moderator: Erin James, University of Idaho

Presentations:

• Fuzzy Spatialization in the Anthropocene
  Erin James, University of Idaho
• Of Ice and Octopi: Nature Poetry and Unnatural Narrative
  Brian McAllister, The Ohio State University
• Medeas of the Bayou in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
  Ned Schaumberg, University of Washington
• Slippery and Frayed: Observing Spaces of Contact in the Work of Mohsin Hamid
  J. Caity Swanson, Stony Brook University

4. The Fast and The Slow Panel I

Location: 178
Moderator: Lars Bernaerts, Ghent University

Presentations:

• The Speed of Plot: Narrative Acceleration and Deceleration
  Karin Kukkonen, University of Oslo
• Self-Reflection as Speed in John Barth’s On With the Story
  Merja Polvinen, University of Helsinki
• Slow Reading, Slow Violence: Description and Cognitive Ecology
  David Rodriguez, Stony Brook University

5. Music and Narrative

Location: 179
Moderator: Anna Lewton-Brain, McGill University

Presentations:

• Shifting Focalization and Musical Form in James Joyce’s Ulysses
  Alison Cummins, The Ohio State University
• Proust’s Musical Narrative
  Katherine Elkins, Kenyon College
• Sourcing Story: Broken Narrative Time in Alice Munro’s “Friend of My Youth” and Tan Dun’s “Ghost Opera”
  Alex Creighton, Harvard University
• “Everybody tests the membrane/ but no one pushes through”: Theorizing Lyric Narration in John Darnielle’s Body of Song
  Bronwyn Malloy, University of British Columbia

6.Thinking about Austen Thinking

Location: 210
Moderator: Wendy Jones, Independent Scholar

Presentations:

• Austen’s Catherine Morland: Savvy Sexual Strategist
  Beth Lau, California State University, Long Beach
• Does Austen’s Mind Have a Tune?
  Alison Case, Williams College
• Jane Austen and the Therapeutic Power of Narrative
  Wendy Jones, Independent Scholar

7. Narrative at Large

Location: 310
Moderator: Cynthia Quarrie, Concordia University

Presentations:

• The Role of Narrative in the Social Construction of Risk: Crime in Mexico as a Case Study (2004-2012)
  Gonzalo Soltero, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• The Narrative that Wasn’t: What Passes for Discourse in the Age of Trump
  Emily Anderson, Knox College
• Murder She Narrated: Female Narration in True Crime
  Ashleigh Hardin, University of Saint Francis
• An Argument for Narrative Truthiness: Tim O’Brien and Using Complex Narrative to Counter Fake News
  Annjeanette Wiese, University of Colorado, Boulder

8. Queer/ Trans Citizenship

Location: 340
Moderator: Roberto Benedicto, McGill University

Presentations:

• Henry James’ The Bostonians and the Narrative Structure of Queer Political Time
  Will Clark, University of California, LA
• She was sick when she loved you: Queer Temporality in Cold War America
  Courtney Jacobs, University of Oklahoma
• In/Exclusion Zone: Queer Narrative Liminality and Hypothetical Focalization in The Last of Us: Left Behind
  Jordan Clapper, Brandeis University
• Reclaiming My Narrative: The Transgender Revolution in Paul Preciado’s Testo Junkie.
  Gillian Mozer, University of Miami

9. Resisting the Boundaries of Autobiography: Counter-Narration in Novels, Comics, and Stand-Up Comedy

Location: 360
Moderator: Theresa Rojas, Modesto College

Presentations:

• Re-imagining the Self in Roth’s The Plot Against America
  Howard Sklar, University of Helsinki
• Johnny Legs and the Biblical Piñata  of Locusts: John Leguizamo’s Ghetto Klown as Graphic Pathography
  Theresa Rojas, Modesto College
• Countering the Homonormative Narrative: Manu Nna Takes on Netflix México
  Doug Bush, Converse College

10. Modernism and Modernist Poetics

Location: 410
Moderator: Allan Hepburn, McGill University

Presentations:

• Narrative Invisibility in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine and The Invisible Man
  Andrew Ade, Westminster College
• Gothic as a Fictional Mode in Hispanic Modernist Novels
  Alexandra Bazhenova-Sorokina, National Research University Higher School of Economics
• Non-Contemporaneity: Uncreative Practices with Narratological Consequences
  Teemu Ikonen, University of Tampere
• Modernism’s Posthumous Queer Temporalities
  Jody Medd, Carleton University