2009 Annual Conference
Under the Influence: Politics and the Currency of Literature
Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference
April 18, 2009
Woody Tanger Auditorium, Brooklyn College Library
10:10–11:10 a.m.
Session 1
- Moderator: Risa Shoup, Brooklyn College
- Osvaldo Oyola, Brooklyn College, "Fearful Symmetry: Influence and the Superhero Comic Book Tradition in Alan Moore's Watchmen"
- Jarad Krywicki, Brooklyn College, "The Floating Subject: Illusions of Influence and Independence in Moby-Dick"
- Geri Lawson, California State University at Long Beach: "'An anthem, shredded into discord in its last few notes': The Dark Knight Returns as Eighties Noir and Utopian Subversion"
11:20 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Session 2
- Moderator: Steve D'Amato, Brooklyn College
- Andrew Dunn, Brooklyn College, "Observing Watt: Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Psychotic Utterances"
- Michael DiBerardino, Brooklyn College: "Dangerous Supplements, Strange Influences: The Crying of Lot 49 and the Pharmakon"
- Ivan Ortiz, Princeton University: "Confessional Resistance: Rehashing De Quincey's Opium-Style"
12:20–1:50 p.m.
Lunch Break
Buffet and "Meet our Doctoral Students" event involving Ryan Dobran, Melissa Sande, Osvaldo Oyola, Ryan Everitt, and others.
2–3 p.m.
Session 3
- Moderator: Ryan Everitt, CUNY Graduate Center
- Ryan Dobran, Brooklyn College, "Philological Poetics: A Study of Reference in Pound and Prynne"
- Donald Brown, Brooklyn College: "Impressionism Along the Shores of Balbec: The Practice of Impressionism in Proust's In Search of Lost Time"
- Justin Katko, Brown University: "The Suggestion of J.H. Prynne in the Idiom of Edward Dorn's 'Night Letter'"
3:10–4:10 p.m.
Session 4
- Moderator: Emily Workman, Brooklyn College
- Derek McGrath, SUNY Stony Brook: "'Shrinking from My Father': Disguises and Dickens's Darwinism in Our Mutual Friend"
- Jozeph Herceg, Brooklyn College: "Exploring The Ballard/Amis Connection: Anxious Violence and Suicide in Crash and London Fields"
- Glyn Salton-Cox, Yale University: "The Lukácsian inheritance: An Overlooked Influence on Two Forgotten British Writers"
4:20–6 p.m.
Keynote Presentation
Simon Critchley, Chair of Philosophy, The New School, "Mystical Anarchism"
Panel Discussion:
- Simon Critchley, The New School
- Kathleen Haley, Brooklyn College
- Mark Patkowski, Brooklyn College
Under the Influence was organized by: Steve D'Amato, Clare Callahan, James Davis, Mike Dell'Aquila, Michael DiBerardino, Ryan Dobran, Joseph Entin, Jarad Kriwicki, Nicola Masciandaro, Mark Patkowski, Risa Shoup, and Emily Workman.
