The Global Modernisms Initiatives Presents Modernisms: Crisis and Unity
A Graduate Student Colloquium
De-Centering Modernism — 2:30 pm-4:00pm
Denise Ayo “Are Women Outsiders?” Gender, Nation, and Form in Virginia Woolf and Mary Colum
Damiano Benvegnù Identity, Language, Landscape: Gian Mario Villalta and the New Dialect Poetry in Contemporary Italy
Gretchen Büsl The Displaced Modernism of Early Asian-American Novels
Modernist Spaces and the Discourse of Place — 4:15pm-5:45pm
Abigail Palko Escaping Adoption: Sylvia Wynter’s Novel of the Nation
Shan-Yun Huang Trains(portation) in Chung-Ming Huang’s Short Stories
Sean Mannion James Stephens’ The Insurrection of Dublin: Dublin as a Capital of Modernism
The Text and the Fragmented Self — 6:00pm-7:30pm
Loren Higbee Crisis and Fragmentation in the Poetry of Eliot and Pound
James Martell Modern Dialectics: on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory
Stephanie Pocock “I have become the sea’s craft”: Authorial Subjectivity in Walcott’s Omeros and Dabydeen’s “Turner”
Sponsored by the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the Ph.D. in Literature Program, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.