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Identity and Materialism: Reading the Space between Persons and Things APRIL 10, 2015 FRIDAY 8:30-9:00

Chad Thomas Daddy, you can lie back now : Memory, Spatiality, and Incestuous Themes in Sylvia Plath s

Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex 10:30-11:50 STRUCTURES OF CONSUMPTION Dr.

Hole: An Analysis of the Structure of Space and Things, Mathematical Thinking, and the Subconscious

2 Identity and Materialism: Reading the Space between Persons and Things APRIL 10, 2015 FRIDAY 8:30-9:00 Coffee and light refreshments 9:00-10:20 THE SPACE OF GENDER Dr. Chad Thomas Daddy, you can lie back now : Memory, Spatiality, and Incestuous Themes in Sylvia Plath s Daddy Maggie the Cat and Her Hot Tin Roof Lost in the Middle: Cal(lie) s Never-Ending Search for Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex 10:30-11:50 STRUCTURES OF CONSUMPTION Dr. Ryan Weber Make(ing) It Real : A Proposed Dialogue with Commercial Beverage Slogans Down the Rabbit Hole: An Analysis of the Structure of Space and Things, Mathematical Thinking, and the Subconscious Mind in Alice in Wonderland Shame on Your Greed: A Genealogy of Misers and Hoarders from the Nineteenth Century to the Present 11:50-1:00 Lunch provided by Sitar Indian Cuisine

3 1:00-2:00 PERFORMING THE POLITICS OF SEX Dr. Alanna Frost Queer, Sanitized, Erased: Problematic Portrayals of Weimar-Era Homosexuality in 1970s Theatre and Film Performing Masculinity in Song of Solomon and Fight Club Critique and Collapse of the Victorian Gender Spheres in C. Rossetti s Goblin Market and D.G. Rossetti s Jenny 2:30-3:50 NETWORKS AND ASSEMBLAGES Dr. Eric Smith Here s the Thing: Place and Displacement in Aravind Adiga s Last Man in the Tower WE ARE WHAT WE WALK BETWEEN : David Foster Wallace s Radical Realism and the Aesthetic of Trans-Finitude The Character of Currency in Timon of Athens 4:00-5:30 PUBLICATION WORKSHOP Dr. Priscilla Wald, Duke University APRIL 11, 2015 SATURDAY 7:30-8:00 Coffee and light refreshments 8:00-9:20 SCIENCE FICTION/FICTIONAL SCIENCE Dr. Chad Thomas Overwriting the Globe : Planetarity and the Project of Postcolonial Science Fiction in Vandana Singh s The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet

4 Eros and Erosion: Bodied Tensions in Italo Calvino s Cosmicomics Ray Bradbury, Mary Shelley, and Technological Fiction 9:30-10:50 OBJECTIFYING LIFE Dr. Joe Conway Objectification and Self-Possession in Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth A malign star kept him : Body Commodification and Individual World Building Cormac McCarthy s Child of God What Happens Inside the Picture?: Alice s Adventures in Wonderland and the Cottingley Fairies 9:30-10:50 IN MEMORIAM Dr. Alanna Frost Sharing the Burden of Memory in Virginia Woolf and Charles Williams Picture This!: Hawthorne and Nineteenth-Century Post-Mortem Photography Remembering Everyone: The Failures of National Memorials in The Submission 11:00-12:20 THE SLAVE S BODIES Dr. Angela Balla The Image of a King: The Hyperreal in Aphra Behn s Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave Sincere Curiosity about Otherness in Uncle Tom s Cabin From Given to Indeterminate: The Social Life of an Interesting Object

5 11:00-12:20 SOVEREIGN BODIES Dr. Joey Taylor Sovereignty and King Lear Barren Bodies, Fruitful Sages: A Look at Thorgunna, Naomi, and Alyson The Birde and the Brede : Demonstrating Sovereignty through the Hunt in The Avowyng of Arthur 12:20-2:00 Lunch 2:00-3:20 BODIES FOR SALE Dr. Joe Conway Unsettling Monkey Business in The House of the Seven Gables You re One of Them : Interpellation, Identification, and Interpretation in Kazuo Ishiguro s Never Let Me Go Brains and Brawn: A Battle for Identity and the Autonomy of Athletes 2:00-3:20 NOVEL OBJECTS Dr. Angela Balla Materialistic Men: Manors, Muslin, and Mares in Austen s Northanger Abbey Throwing Bewick s Birds: The Physical Presence of Books in Brontë s Novels Enclosure and escape in Jane Eyre

6 3:30-4:50 (IL)LOGICS OF RACE Dr. Joey Taylor New Material Corporeality: Network Agency and the Logic of the Slave Racial Typology and the Pseudosciences in Uncle Tom s Cabin Let It Resound : An Analysis of the Usage of the Cry/Shout in Healing the African-American Community 3:30-4:50 WESTERN SUBJECTS/WESTERN OBJECTS Dr. Eric Smith All a man could do is play a mas : The Western Movie Hero as Fisheye s Failed Carnival in Earl Lovelace s The Dragon Can t Dance The Building and Tumbling Worlds : Steinbeck s Nomadic Selfhood in The Grapes of Wrath Individualism and The People : Objectivity and Movement of Force in Norris The Octopus 5:30-7:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dr. Priscilla Wald Strange Life: Replicant Humanity in the Age of the Anthropocene 7:30-10:00 Cocktail Hour and hors d oeuvres reception

Attempt TWO questions from the elective you have studied

2017 HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION English Extension 1 General Instructions Reading time 5 minutes Working time 2 hours Write using black pen Total marks: 50 Attempt TWO questions from the elective