A17: Hybrid Forms

Seminar Leader: Olivia Maciel Edelman, University of Chicago

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Crowne Plaza Room 161

Carl Fisher, California State University – Long Beach: “Comedy and Postcoloniality: The Empire Laughs Back”

Catalina Florina Florescu, Purdue University: “Back into the Chrysalis: Desperately Seeking Meaning - A Comparative Approach  of Luigi Pirandello’s Henry IV and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape”

Ingeborg Hoestery, Indiana University – Bloomington: “Pastiche as Cultural Memory”

Bettina Brandt, Montclair State University: “Title To Be Announced”

Sean Conrey, Purdue University: “Poetic Intimacy and the Art of Context”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Crowne Plaza Room 161

Carole Viers, University of California – Los Angeles: “(Un)Limited Art: Translation, Sex and the Labyrinth in Mark Danielewski’s House of Leaves”

Alberto Galindo, Princeton University: “Knots in Space: José González and the 1965 Blackout”

Promita Chatterji, University of California – Berkeley: “Translating Visuality: Language, Vision and the Exotic in Théophile Gautier’s Le Roman de la momie”

Alan Clinton, Georgia Institute of Technology: “How to Write Some of Your Books: Avant-Garde Magicians and Random Generation”

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Crowne Plaza Room 161

Shun-liang Chao, University of Maryland: “René Magritte: A Poetic Adventure in the Unconscious”

Jordan Smith, University of California – Los Angeles: “A Portrait of the Artist as Jabberwocky Superfly: The Aesthetics of Hybridity and the Narratology of Hip Hop”

Olivia Maciel Edelman, University of Chicago: “Vapor of Glass, Iridescent Blue: Painting in Two Poems by Xavier Villaurrutia”

Stephanie M. Hilger, College of the Holy Cross: “Epistolarity, Publicity, and Sensibility: Julie de Krüdener’s Valérie”