2016 Annual Conference
Writing as Activism
Ninth Annual Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference
Friday, May 6, 2016
10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Student Center
I. Writing as Global Political Engagement
- Noah Alexander Flora, Rutgers University, "'That the World Is Not a Good Place Even': World Literature, Human Rights, and the Figure of the Child Soldier"
- Steven Neal, Brooklyn College, "John Hagee's Activism: Islamophobia, Texas, Evangelical Christianity, and Israel"
- Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, CUNY Graduate Center, "Excavating State Archives: Counter-historiography as a Practice of Freedom"
II. Interventions: Graphic, Poetic, Narrative
- Dan Squizzero, Northeastern University, "Satirizing Wilson: Italy's Comedic Right Wing Response to the President at Versailles"
- Adam Ahlgrim, Carnegie Mellon University, "The Heart of the Matter: Melancholia, Compassion and Perpetual Inhumanity"
- Eric Wentz, Indiana University – Pennsylvania, "'Posterity is smiling on our knees convicting us of folly': The Rhetoric of Children and Faith in Barrett Browning's 'Casa Guidi Windows'"
- Andriana Xenophontos, Queens College, "Masking Race: Hiding Asian American Identity in Mainstream Comics"
III. Ambivalent Reading, Paradoxical Work
- Katie Contess, Brooklyn College, "Debt, Imperialism, and Social Interdependence in Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman"
- Esther Ritiau, Brooklyn College, "Haunting the Hunter: Postcolonial Guilt in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's House of Glass"
- Steven Herran, "Recalling Jesus: Messianic Performance in Ngugi's Matigari"
Keynote Address
- Carmen Kynard, Associate Professor of English, John Jay College (CUNY)
