New Critics: Undergraduate Literature and Composition Conference
APRIL 21, 2012
Session One — 9:30 – 10:30
Panel A: Contemporary World Literature
Location: Butternut Room, Hunt Union (1st floor)
Chair: Eian Kantor (SUNY Oneonta)
Gabrielle Argo (SUNY Oneonta): “The Ego, the Id, and the Superego: Sigmund Freud’s Tripartite Model in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
Adam Kneeland (Houghton College): “Nature out of Kilter: The Australian Landscape in the Writings of Barbary Baynton and Henry Lawson.”
Megan Lavin (SUNY Oneonta): “Hybrid Children: Double Consciousness and the Roots of Pan-Africanism in Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions.”
Panel B: 19th-Century British Literature I
Location: Leatherstocking Room, Hunt Union (2nd floor)
Chair: Diana Moller (SUNY Oneonta)
Brittany Gubinski (SUNY Oneonta): “‘I Ask Only a Comfortable Home’: Austen’s Argument for a Successful Nineteenth-Century Marriage in Pride and Prejudice.”
Vittoria Rubino (Concordia College—NY): “New Historicism and Cultural Criticism: A Romantic Critique of the Enlightenment in Frankenstein.”
Stephanie Weaver (Mount Saint Mary College): “The Romantic and Romance in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.”
Session Two — 10:45 – 12:00
Panel C: 19th-Century British Literature II
Location: Butternut Room, Hunt Union (1st floor)
Chair: Heather Rutkowski (SUNY Oneonta)
Andrew Gitner (SUNY Oneonta): “The Lecturing Cowboy: The Influence of Southern Humor on Mark Twain.”
Christy Jaromack (SUNY Oneonta): “The Time Machine: A Future through Imperialist-Shaded Goggles.”
Lauren Reynolds (SUNY Oneonta): “‘Break Their Hearts and Have No Mercy’: Feminine Abuse in Dickens’s Great Expectations.”
Cailey Underhill (Cazenovia College): “Kingsley’s The Water Babies: Liberation through Transformation.”
Panel D: 20th-Century Literature and Film
Location: Leatherstocking Room, Hunt Union (2nd floor)
Chair: Stephanie Weaver (Mount Saint Mary College)
Emily Cohen (Skidmore College): “A Prostitute’s Protest: Claude McKay’s ‘A Midnight Woman to the Bobby.’”
Brian Hicks (St. Joseph’s College): “Mother Earth in Palahniuk’s Fight Club.”
Emily Ludolph (Vassar College): “American Second Acts: The Role of the Critic in Fitzgerald’s Authorial Legacy.”
Patrick Slutter (SUNY Oneonta): “Search for an Heir: The Paternal Relationships in Scorsese’s The Departed.”
Panel E: Irish Literature
Location: Catskill Room, Hunt Union (2nd floor)
Chair: Amanda Lowe (SUNY Oneonta)
Ben Horton (Skidmore College): “Comedy as Underdeveloped Tragedy in O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.”
Hannah Kinisky (SUNY Oneonta): “The Feminine ‘Yes’ in Ulysses.”
Chantal Le Blanc (SUNY Oswego): “The Social Reward of Risk: The Gamble of Joyce and His Female Characters in Dubliners.”
Lunch — 12:00pm – 1:20pm
Lunch Location: Le Café, Morris Hall (basement)
Session Three — 1:30pm – 2:45 pm
Panel F: Chaucer and Shakespeare
Location: Butternut Room, Hunt Union (1st floor)
Chair: Patrick Slutter (SUNY Oneonta)
Anna Marfleet (Hartwick College): “An Exercise in Gender Neutrality and Reversal in All’s Well That Ends Well.”
Diana Moller (SUNY Oneonta): “Usurping Common Conceptions of Power in King Lear.”
Tanya Poole (St. Joseph’s College): “Superiority in Marriage: Chaucer’s Societal Challenge through the Wife of Bath.”
Heather Rutkowski (SUNY Oneonta): “‘If the World Could Have Seen’t’: The Fantastic, the Fierce, and the Fairy in The Winter’s Tale.”
Panel G: 20th- and 21st-Century Literature
Location: Leatherstocking Room, Hunt Union (2nd floor)
Chair: Chantal Le Blanc (SUNY Oswego)
Kelsey Jones (SUNY Oneonta): “Nemerov’s ‘September, the First Day of School’: An Embodiment of New Criticism.”
L.R. Corcoran (City College of New York): “Making Room on the Bandstand: Frank O’Hara as Jazz Poet.”
Geethika Madhusudhanan (Dominican College): “Heroines Rise from Repression: Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies.”
Melissa Walsh (Saint Joseph’s College): “Intolerance Masked with Comedy: The Unspoken Truths of Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play.”
Panel H: Philosophy and Literature
Location: Catskill Room, Hunt Union (2nd floor)
Chair: Brian Hicks (St. Joseph’s College)
Gregory Bruno (St. Joseph’s College): “Gender as a Subjective Construct: An Existential Analysis of Chopin’s The Awakening.”
Eian Kantor (SUNY Oneonta): “Heroes of Solitude: A Comparative Look at Blakean and Nietzschean Thought.”
Caitlin Youngquist (Bard College): “Proust and Schopenhauer: A Literary Dissection of Aesthetic Contemplation.”
Session Four — 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Panel I: 17th- and 18th-Century Literature
Location: Butternut Room, Hunt Union (1st floor)
Chair: Andrew Gitner (SUNY Oneonta)
Tarin Bonvino (SUNY Oswego): “Sexual and Racial Passing: The Illusion of Choice in the Novels of Eliza Haywood and Charles Chesnutt.”
Amanda Lowe (SUNY Oneonta): “The Imperfect Disappointment: Gender Issues in the Poetry of Aphra Behn and John Wilmot.”
Kevin Massey (Dominican College): “The Enlightenment and Rosseau’s The Confessions.”
Panel J: Contemporary Issues
Location: Leatherstocking Room, Hunt Union (2nd floor)
Chair: Megan Lavin (SUNY Oneonta)
Eugenia Conaway (North Country Community College—Malone): “It Will Almost Work: Freirean Education.”
Annemarie Maurer (St. John Fisher College): “Power in Symbol, Destruction in Society: RTML Radio’s Hate Rhetoric in Rwanda.”
Randy Towne (North Country Community College): “Free Speech under Attack.”
Panel K: Early World Literature
Location: Catskill Room, Hunt Union (2nd floor)
Chair: L. R. Corcoran (City College of New York)
David Humphrey (Louisiana State University—Alexandria): “Analyzing Ovid: Debunking the Myths of the Self-Appointed Preceptor of Love.”
Anna Heaven Smith (Louisiana State University—Alexandria): “A Response to Poem 13 of Book 3 of Ovid’s The Amores.”
Frishta Yaqubie (Saint Joseph’s College): “Love in The Arabian Nights: The Transcendent, Silent Language of the Heart.”
Keynote Address: Mr. James Preller, children’s author, Class of 1983
4:15 – 5:30, Butternut Room, Hunt Union (1st floor)
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