2008 Annual Conference
Vernal Temporalities: Imagining the New in Literature
Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference
May 3, 2008
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
10:45–noon
Session 1: Bodies
- Moderator: Marie Rutkoski, Brooklyn College
- Laurynn Lowe, Brooklyn College, "The Necessity of the New in Richard II and Hamlet, or Making the Real by Way of Nothing"
- Steve D'Amato, Brooklyn College, "The Work of Milton's Alchemy: A Reexamination of Paradise Lost"
- Nairobi Walker, Hunter College (CUNY), "Apocalypse in Milton's Lycidas and Tennyson's In Memoriam"
Noon–1 p.m.
Lunch Break
1–2:15 p.m.
Session 2: Places
- Moderator: Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College
- Patrick Nugent, Brooklyn College, "Gifts for the Great Potluck: Metaphor and Form in Gary Snyder's Danger on Peaks"
- Risa Shoup, Brooklyn College, "a+b=c An Examination of Shirin Neshat's Adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur's Women Without Men"
- Brian Lane, Brooklyn College, "'Beyond the Jumna, All Is Conjecture': British Travel Writing in Afghanistan, 1783–1842"
2:20–3:35 p.m.
Session 3: Selves
- Moderator: Joseph Entin, Brooklyn College
- Jarad Krywicki, Brooklyn College, "A Cool Spring in a Well-Lit Summer"
- Yasser El Hariry, New York University, "The Gift of Newness in the Work of Stéphane Mallarme"
- Ryan Dobran, Brooklyn College: "Imagination and America: Autonomy and Unity in Cane and Spring and All"
3:35–4 p.m.
Break
4–5:45 p.m.
Keynote Presentation
Michael Stone-Richards, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, "Un nouveau temps du verbe être [a new time/tense for the verb to be]: Surrealist nature and the time of the subject in Prynne"
Panel Discussion
- Michael Stone-Richards
- James Davis, Brooklyn College
- Nicola Masciandaro, Brooklyn College
Vernal Temporalities was organized by: Steve D'Amato, James Davis, Ryan Dobran, Timothy Holland, Nicola Masciandaro, Mark Patkowski, Deb Travis, and Sally White.
