2018 Annual Conference
The Paradox of the Other
Saturday, May 5, Occidental Lounge, fifth floor, Student Center
10–10:30 a.m.
Welcome
10:30–11:45 a.m.
Session I: Phenomenology
- RL Goldberg (Princeton University), "Insisting on Unintelligibility's Unintelligibility": Transgender, Touch, Ethics
- Jerry Lieblich (Brooklyn College), Reading Fables from a God's Eye View: Vision, Knowledge, and the Divine Other in Robert Henryson's "The Preaching of the Swallow"
- Leo Zausen (New School), Against the wall: assembling dissonance and the hostological other
Noon–1 p.m.
Luncheon
1–2:15 p.m.
Session II: Representation
- Maria Theresa Bulzone (Queens College), Gypsy Racism and the Victorian "Other" in the 19th-Century Gothic Novel
- Hermina Marcellin (Brooklyn College), The Audacity of Resistance: Combating the Effects of Colonization in The Poetry of Derek Walcott
- Valerie Guempel (Fordham University), Tony Stark and Super-Disability: The Negotiation of Disability and Superability in Superhero Comics
2:15–3:30 p.m.
Session III: Mediation
- Tenisha McDonald (Queens College), A Black Narrative Voice: Genre, Authorship, and Authenticity in The History of Mary Prince
- Filipa Calado (CUNY Graduate Center), Speculating upon Virginia Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall"
- Anthony Gomez III (New York University), Revisiting a Racial Frontier; On Understanding the Formation of Signification and Interethnic Struggle in John Ford's "The Searchers"
3:30–5 p.m.
Keynote Address: Linguistic Othering
- Professor Rebecca Sanchez, Fordham University English Department
