8:00 – 9:00 AM: Registration and Breakfast (2nd Floor Foyer)
9:00 – 10:15: Session One
Panel A: Cinematic Inversions
Moderator: Arielle LaBrecque - TWS 3132
• “‘So It Doesn’t Matter, Does It?’: Queering Film Noir and Cold War Masculinity in Otto Preminger’s Advise and Consent” – Ian Funk, George Washington University
• “The Perfect Scream: The Lineage of Perverse Masculinities in Brian De Palma’s ‘Blow Out’” – Tyler S. Talbott, University of Maryland
• “A Disrupting Scream in a Postmodern Nightmare: Ironic Self-awareness in Wes Craven’s Horror Films” – Brandon West, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Panel B: Subverting Gender
Moderator: Trent McDonald - TWS 3136
• “The (Per)Versification of Emily Dickinson” – Gerard Holmes, University of Maryland
• “Telling Perversion: Oskar Panizza’s A Scandal at the Convent” – Anja Ketterl, University of Maryland
• “She was really the man she pretended to be”: Gender Fluidity and Transgenderism in Folk Narratives – Psyche Z. Ready, George Mason
10:30 – 11:45 AM: Session Two
Panel A: Mythic Morbidity
Moderator: Kayla Harr - TWS 3134
• “Spectacular Necrophilia: The Significance of Zenocrate’s Corpse in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine Part II” – Megan Bruening, Lehigh University
• “How to Kill a Sphinx” – Stephen Rojcewicz, University of Maryland
• “A Sideways Confrontation of Death: Narcissus and Knowledge in Brenda Hillman’s Death Tractates” – Noa Saunders, University of Maryland
Panel B: Narrative Schisms
Moderator: John Macintosh - TWS 3136
• “Neither Story nor Discourse: Implied Narrative in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go” – William Gonch, University of Maryland
• “‘The Map is Not the Territory’: Globalization and Narrative Space in Jonathan Lethem’s Amnesia Moon” – Daniel Kason, University of Maryland
• “A Pervert’s Take on Data Visualization: Reviewing ‘the Sound of Sense’ of Robert Frost” – Setsuko Yokoyama, University of Maryland
12:00 – 1:00 PM: Lunch (2nd Floor Foyer)
1:15 – 2:30 PM: Session Three
Panel A: Corrupted Consumption
Moderator: Elise Auvil - TWS 3136
• “Joan of Arc and the Construction of Violence Against Women in Militant British Suffragette Discourse” – Danielle Griffin, University of Maryland
• “‘we’ll speak our minds, amidst our meat’: Jonson’s Perverted Palate” – Justine DeCamillis, University of Maryland
• “Perverting the Genre: Pie Near Woman vs. Ree Drummond, the Pioneer Woman” – Jennifer Oskin, James Madison University
Panel B: Nonhumans and Hybrids
Moderator: Rob Wakeman - TWS 3132
• “The Back Door into Medical School: Abjection and the Perverse in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God” – Andrew Dykstal, University of Virginia
• “Chaste daughters and weeping dogs: narratives of animality in Dame Sirith” – Danielle Allor, Rutgers
• “The Generic Perversions of David Mitchell and the Latourian Network” – Trent McDonald, University of Maryland
2:45 – 4:00 PM: Session Four
Panel A: Social Ills
Moderator: Justin Thompson - TWS 3134
• “Cosmopression: A Closed Mind in an Open City” – Sara Faradji, University of Maryland
• “Alternative Idyll: Tennyson, Cosmopolitanism, and ‘The Last Tournament’” – John Schulz, University of Maryland
• “Perversions of Beauty in Cleopatra’s Coin Portraits” – Gabriela Vlahovici-Jones, University of Maryland
Panel B: Wills, Ways and Means
Moderator: Shaun Russell - TWS 3132
• “Political Feeling and the Poetics of Volition in Titus Andronicus” – Jeff Griswold, University of Maryland
• “The only Fault she was guilty of, was Self-Will”: Eliza Haywood’s Critique of Individualism in The Rash Resolve” – Garth Libhart,
University of Maryland
• “Censorship as Perversion in Japanese Modernist Fiction: Tanizaki’s ‘The Censor’” – David Potsubay, West Virginia University
Panel C: Original Deviations
Moderator: Noa Saunders - TWS 3136
• “Sometimes I’m Don Draper” – Ariel Jicha, University of Maryland
• “The Fiction of Memory: ‘The Mockingbird Syndrome’ and the Southern Writer” – Anne Price, University of Maryland
• “Anti-Odyssey” – Czander Tan, Virginia Tech
5:45– 7:00 PM: Reception (2nd Floor Foyer)