International Conference on Narrative: April 20 - 2
The International Conference on Narrative will be held at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from April 18 – 22, 2018.
Professor Lindsay Holmgren invites the Desautels Community to attend the Panels and Talks hosted at the Desautels Faculty of Management.
Please note that the plenary engagements are closed to the public due to limited seating in Moyse Hall.
1. The Limits of Realism
Location: 245
Moderator: Audrey Jaffe, University of Toronto
Presentations:
- Theatricality and the Un-narrated in Jane Austen
Marcie Frank, Concordia University - The Ends of Romance and the End of Realism
Scott Black, University of Utah - What Fiction Means to Oscar Wilde
Aaron Kunin, Pomona College
2. Race and Justice: The Need for Narrative
Location: 423
Moderator: Rita Charon, Columbia University
Chair: Craig Irvine, Columbia University
Presentations:
- Narrative Methods of Combatting Racism
Maura Spiegel, Columbia University - Critical Race Studies in Health Worlds: A Narrative Outcomes Study
Edgar Rivera-Colon, Columbia University - African American Literature and Health: Not Just Words But Bodies
Aaron Oforlea, Washington State University
3. Contemporary Possibilities
Location: 360
Moderator: Cody Jones, The University of Chicago
Presentations:
- When is a Character? Draft, Variants, and Versions of Storyworlds
John Young, Marshall University - Poker Fictions: Possible Worlds and the Twenty-First Century Poker Novel
Paul Wake, Manchester Metropolitan University - Science Studies and Novel Theory in Michelle Tea’s Black Wave
Ezra Feldman, Williams College - Slapstick Bed Tricks: The Structure of Pornographic Humor in Fran Ross’ Oreo
Rebecca Clark, University of California, Berkeley
4. Television Narrators
Location: 340
Moderator: Josie Barth, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ
Presentations:
- “You’ve Just Crossed Over”: Metafictional Narration and “Diegetic Bleed” in The Twilight Zone
Josie Barth, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ - My So-Called Voice: Direct Address and Indirect Critiques
Jennifer Gillan, Bentley University - “Letters pop out of a white background and turn red”: Audio Description as Narration in Netflix’s Daredevil
Eric Powell, Concordia University - Netflix Narrators
Casey McCormick, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ
5. Retellings
Location: 210
Moderator: Dorothy Bray, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ
Presentations:
- Neo-Victorian Asias
Jane Hu, University of California, Berkeley - Race and “Real England” in the Medieval Narratives of Kazuo Ishiguro and Paul Kingsnorth
Cynthia Quarrie, Concordia University - Archive as Theme and Structure in Contemporary Digital Fanfiction
Suzanne Black, University of Edinburgh - Retelling One’s Story Across Media: Migratory Self-Adaptation and Instantiations of the Migrant Selves in Marjane Satrapi and Atiq Rahimi
Nafiseh Mousavi, Linnaeus University
6. Narrative Medicine: Ethics, Fictionality, Experientiality
Location: 179
Moderator: Lasse Gammelgaard, Aarhus University
Presentations:
- Chaos Narrative and Experientiality in Graphic Memoirs about Mental Illness
Lasse Gammelgaard, Aarnus University - Joyce’s “A Painful Case” in a Narrative Medicine Class: Body, Text, Dialogic Encounter
Laura Karttunen, University of Tampere - Narrative Ethics in the Medical School Classroom: Reading Richard Selzer’s “Brute”
Megan Milota, University Medical Center Utrecht - The Fictions of Illness Narratives: Understanding Fictionality in Mom’s Cancer
Antonio Ferraro, The Ohio State University
7. Unnatural Narratives I
Location: 178
Moderator: Brian Richardson, University of Maryland
Presentations:
- Unnatural Narratives in Contemporary Chinese and American Fiction
Nie Bao-yu, The Ohio State University - Neither Natural Nor Unnatural: A New Kind of Storyworld in Ian McEwan’s Nutshell
Hyesu Park, Bellevue College - Unnatural Alice: Or, What is Unnatural About Nonsense and What is Nonsensical About the Unnatural
Francesca Arnavas, University of York - Unnatural Narrative, Unnatural Fictionality: A Discussion on New Avant-Garde Fiction in China
Changcai Wang, Southwest Jiaotong University
8. On Writing
Location: 310
Moderator: Taylor M. Polites, Wilkes University
Presentations:
- Marked Deck: Patterns of Mind, Language, and Layout in Graham Rawle’s The Card
Mikko Keskinen, University of Jyvaskyla - Anality of Narrative: Renee Gladman’s Lines
Prathna Lor, University of Toronto - Revitalizing Franz Stanzel’s Narratology for Craft Prescription
Anthony Kapolka, Wilkes University
9. Are Reality and Fiction Really Worlds Apart? Fictionality, Ontology, and Narrative Text-Worlds
Location: 410
Moderator: Nathan Frederickson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Presentations:
- Understanding Narrative Through Text World Theory
Joanna Gavins, University of Sheffield - “More than we can imagine”: Ontological Blurrings in and Between Lance Olsen’s Theories of Forgetting and There’s No Place Like Time
Alison Gibbons, Sheffield Hallam University - Refugee Narratives (In)accessibility and Bordered Text Worlds in the Novel Ohrfeige (Slap) by Abbas Khider
Chantelle Warner, University of Arizona - Narrativizing Holidays: Ontology and Creativity in the Pages of Holiday Accommodation Guestbooks
Sara Whiteley, University of Sheffield
10. (De)forming the Russian Novel
Location: 410
Moderator: Deborah Martinsen, Columbia University
Presentations:
- Dostoevsky’s Endings
Greta Matzner-Gore, University of Southern California - Dostoevsky and the (Missing) Marriage Plot
Anna Berman, Ď㽶ĘÓƵ - Discourse and Closure in the Frame Technology of Nikolai Leskov
Tom Roberts, Smith College