A13: Displacing Desire – Globally

Seminar Leader: Kristi Krumnow, University of South Carolina

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Bangor

Paul Fox, Zayed University: “No Model Portrait: Posing and the Affect(ed) in The Picture of Dorian Gray”

Jennifer Burns Levin, University of California  - Irvine: “What the ‘Chotic Mischmasch Potpourri’ Said: Editing Sexual and Textual Excess from The Waste Land”

Carrie A. Prettiman, Cedar Crest College: “Woman’s Wander/lust: Desire as Displacement in the Early Modern Female Picaresque”

Carole Slade, Columbia University: “Empire Begins at Home: Alonso Quijano in La Mancha”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Bangor

Millay Hyatt, University of Southern California and Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin: “The Utopian Displacements of Deleuze and Guattari”

Sue Lovell, Griffith University – Nathan: “Exploring Liberatory Desire at Work in the Life and Literature of Janette Turner Hospital”

Kerith Edwards, Pennsylvania State University: “George Sand’s “Le Chien et La Fleur Sacrée”: Leroux, Asia, Buddhism, and Education”

Eugene Katsov, Catholic University of Leuven: “The Mechanism of Death through Three of Freud’s Speculative Texts”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Bangor

Jiwei Xiao, Rutgers University: “Passion for Life’s Details - Desire, Female Fantasy, and Traumatic Past in Zhang Ailing’s Fiction”

Jeanne Garane, University of South Carolina – Columbia: “The Mother, the Village, and the Ancestor: Alienation and the ‘Return to Origins’ in Ken Bugul’s Autobiographical Works”

Philip Goldstein, University of Delaware: “Sex, Gender, and People of Color: The Feminist Postmarxism of Judith Butler”

Claire Leich-Galland, City University of New York, BMCC: “‘In the Loneliness of the Cottonfields’: Bernard-Marie Koltes’ Metaphysical Play on Desire”