2017 Annual Conference
Movement and (Im)mobility: Writing as Cartography
10th Annual Brooklyn College Graduate English Conference
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Penthouse, seventh floor, Student Center
10–10:30 a.m.
Coffee, Tea, and Welcome
10:30–noon
Session I: Gender and (Im)Mobility
- Dilara O'Neil, The New School, "The Body With Bad Organs"
- Joseph Romano, Brooklyn College, "Anagogical Griselda: Mystical Ascent through Paradoxical Assent"
- Catherine Elliott, University of Massachusetts Amherst, "A Woman Will Have Her Will: Mastering Time, Economic Exchange, and National Identity in William Haughton's Englishmen for My Money"
Noon–1 p.m.
Luncheon
1–2:30 p.m.
Session II: Fugitivity and Subjectivity
- Hallie Rene Gleasman, Hunter College, "Frederick Douglass' The Heroic Slave"
- Peter Conroy, Yale University, "Torture and Flight: William Godwin's Negative Ethics"
- Cara Fitzgerald, Hunter College, "Tailoring Landscapes: The Racial Logic of National Geographies in Behind the Scenes; Or, Thirty Years a Slave & Four Years in the White House"
2:30–4 p.m.
Session III: History, Identity, and Urban Space
- Steven Herran, CUNY Graduate Center, "Urban Outfitters: Religious Ideology and Urban Geographies"
- Esther Ritiau, Brooklyn College, "Denizenship, Deportation, and Death: Notions of Belonging in Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones"
- Bud-Erdene Gankhuyag, Columbia University, "Freedom to Forget: The Shops at Tanforan, Japanese Internment, and American Territoriality"
4–4:15 p.m.
Refreshments
4:15–5:30 p.m.
Keynote Presentation
- Professor Rachel Adams, Columbia University, "Mapping Dependency: Narratives of Giving and Receiving Care"
