Friday, April 1, 2016 (Honors College)

 

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.: Check in 

 

3 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.: Violence, Crime, and Language (B 111)

• Facilitator: Scott Peeples

• Jennifer Martin, Title Forthcoming

• Trevor Meyer, "On the Oneness of Violence and the Necessity of Coercion"

• Amber Lee, "Truth, Lies, and Transgression"

• Jessica Junqueira, "Language, Lying, and Lawbreaking in Shakespeare"

• Victoria Chandler, "Hybridity of Soldiers and Machines in a Farewell to Arms"

• Alexander Steele, "Violent Humanism within Three Ishiguro Novels"

• Travis Mullen, "John Milton and Literary Villains"

 

3 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.: Histories and Landscapes (B 119)

• Facilitator: Leon Jackson

• Shelby Heathcoat, "Natural Savagery: Edgar Huntly and Ecocriticism"

• James Edge, Editorializing History and the Illusion of American Imperialism in Kenneth Goldsmith's "World Trade Center"

• Sam Lackey, "The Many Voyages of the "Great Western Land Pirate": John A. Murrell's Transnational Banditry"

• Matt Gassan, "'The Raw Materials of Civilization": Technology and New Colonialism in Mosquito Coast"

• Greg Deinert, Title Forthcoming

• Kristen Wright, Title Forthcoming

• Joshua Dunn, "Creative Design|Social Preservation: A Spatial Analysis of Gentrification in The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' Logan Circle"

 

5:00 - 6:30: Keynote Speaker, John Muckelbauer (USC) (B 110)

 

Saturday, April 2, 2016 (Honors College)

 

10 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.: Gender and Identity Constructions (B 119)

• Facilitator: TBA

• Katherine Upton, "Belles as Brigands: Criminal Acts as Social Heroism in the Post-Bellum South"

• Raemia Escott, "'Aphra Behn's The Rover: Restoration Men as Diabolical Crooks"

• Tommy Cody, "Dualism, Gnosticism and Down South Cartesian Epistemology: Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor and the Split of the Southern Psyche"

• Erin Frink, "Dangerous Women: Female Crime and Subversion in the Sensation Novel"

• Lee A. Flamand, "Dangerous Declensions: Genre and the Construction of Criminal Personalities"

• Hannah Huber, "Sleeplessness and Overdose in Edith Wharton's House of Mirth"
   

11:45 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Keynote Speaker, Eli Jelly-Shapiro (USC) (B 110)

 

1:15 p.m. - 2 p.m.: Lunch

 

2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Sensory Perceptions (B 111)

• Facilitator: Eli Jelly-Shapiro

• Dibakar Pal, "Of Violence, Culture & War: Whispering"

• Bernhard Winkler, "Spirals of Evil: Transgressive Aesthetics in Heinrich von Kleist's Der Findling"

• Miranda Miller, "Sherlock Holmes in the 21st Century: Exploring Diversity in Modern Television Adaptations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes"

• Joseph Giunta, "The Rise of Quentin Tarantino: Normalizing Societal Violence"

• Joe Hendryx, "American Garbage Poetry and the Limitations of the Ethical Imperative"

• Adam Padgett, "Rediscovering an Imitation Pedagogy in the Social Turn"

• Kelly Wheeler, "'Aiding and Abetting" Image Crimes"

 

2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Race (B 112)

• Facilitator: Gretchen Woertendyke

• Natalia Rossi, "Hansberry v. Lee and a Raisin in the Sun"

• Hannah McIntosh, "Speaking for the Silenced"

• Alex Howerton, Blu's Hanging and Asian American Community"

• Lauren Bradley, "Confronting the Issues of Race and Violence"

• Brianna Cornelius, "The Criminalization of African-American English in the U.S." 

• Sarah Jane Huskey, "Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction"

• Ben Harley, "Monsters and Anti-Nigger Machines: A Sound Project"

 

3:45 - 5:15 Faculty Roundtable (B 110)

• Anne Gulick, USC (Literature)

• Susan Courtney, USC (Film & Media Studies)

• Brian Glavey, USC (Literature)

• Bob Brinkmeyer, USC (Literature)

• Don Doyle, USC (History)

 

 

5:30 - 7:00: Keynote Speaker, Scott Peeples (CofC) (B 110)
"Sensational Justice: Abortion, the Death Penalty, and the City Mystery Novel"

 

7:30: Reception