A Graduate Student conference exploring the relationship between Hybridity and Irish Literature
March 29-31, 2012
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Friday
8:30 – 9:45 Panel Sessions
Panel A: The Bildungsroman (Chair: Chris VandenBossche) [Room 100-104]
Shan-Yun Huang (University of Notre Dame):
‘’Of Artists and Butchers: Irish Bildungsroman and its Discontents’’
Shahriyar Mansouri (University of Glasgow):
‘’Hybridity and ’Meta-Nationalism’ in the Modernist Irish Bildungsroman’’
Kara Lee Donnelly (University of Notre Dame):
‘’A Portrait of the Artist and the Postcolonial Bildungsroman’’
Panel B: Domestic Spaces (Chair: Lauren Rich) [Room 112-114]
Caleb Caldwell (University of Virginia):
’’’Carrying cloth’: Fabric, Language and the Hybrid Domestic Space in Eavan Boland’s Poetry’’
Libe García Zarranz (University of Alberta):
’’Deviant Populations and Globalized Surveillance in Emma Donoghue’s Room: Towards a New Cross-Border Ethic’’
Panel C: Touring Europe (Chair: Simone Hamrick) [Room 200]
Michelle Lyons (University of Connecticut):
’’Hybrid Owenson: Subjugated Ireland in Lady Morgan’s Italy’’
Annie Jansen (Michigan State University):
’’Fetishized Foreigners: Ireland Abroad in Ita Daly’s ‘Aimez-vous Colette?‘’’
Carly J. Dunn (Indiana University of Pennsylvania):
’’’A Pattern Which Suited Her Perfectly’: Hybridity in Deirdre Madden’s Novels’’
Panel D: Mr. Yeats (Chair: Susan Harris) [Room 202]
Kristina Persenaire (Grand Rapids Community College):
’’The ‘The’: Leda’s Orgasm and Her Conception of a New Irish Identity’’
Heather Brown (Kent State University):
’’’The hand that loves to scatter’: Hybridity in W.B. Yeats’s Postcolonial Revisionist Cúchulainn’’
Rose Daum (Saint Louis University):
’’’Eating her wild heart’: Complicating Yeats’s Hybrid Aesthetic’’
Panel E: Irish Language and the Nation (Chair: Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh) [Auditorium]
Ronan Doherty (University of Notre Dame):
’’Bastard Child or Hybrid Whizz-Kid: Irish Language Film in the 21st Century’’
Ana M. Jimenez-Moreno (University of Notre Dame):
’’The Myth of Humpty Dumpty: Stephen and Bloom’s Negotiations with Colonization and Language’’
Caitriona Moloney (Bradley University):
‘’James Joyce as Druidy Druid: Bloom’s Day as Ancient Irish Wooing Tale"
9:45 – 10:00 Tea and Coffee Break
10:00 – 11:15 Panel Sessions
Panel A: Leopold Bloom, Cosmopolitan (Chair: Shan-Yun Huang) [Room 100-104]
Michael E. Beebe (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee):
’’Leopold Bloom’s Municipal Funeral Tram: Ulysses and the Public Imagination of the Modern Irish State’’
Flicka Small (University College Cork):
’’The Multiple Facets of Leopold Bloom’’
Bryan Yazell (University of California, Davis):
’’Bloom and the Orientation of National Space in ’Cyclops’’’
Panel B: Folktales and Contemporary Literature (Chair: Diarmuid Ó Giolláin) [Room 112-114]
Barbara Hillers (Harvard University):
’’An Fear Nár Chodail Néal: The Trans-cultural Adventures of ‘The Man who Never Slept’’’
Brenna Everson (Luther College):
‘’Connections Between Women: Emma Donoghue’s Modern Adaptations of Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales’’
Jacqui Weeks (University of Notre Dame)
‘’Redefining Magic: Emma Donoghue and the Irish ’Fairy’ Tale Tradition’’
Panel C: Interpreting Ireland (Chair: Gretchen Busl) [Room 200]
Keeran Murphy (New York University):
“Money, Modernity, and National Identity in Ireland and Korea: Castle Rackrent, ‘’The Wings,’’ and Peace Under Heaven’’
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Emily Somers (Simon Fraser University):
‘’Translating Fairies: Irish Studies Societies and the Birth of Japanese Modernism’’
Panel D: Comparative Ulysses (Chair: Denise Ayo) [Room 202]
Regina Gesicki (University of Notre Dame):
‘’The Odyssey of Magical Realism: From Joyce’s to Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude’’
Abby Palko (University of Notre Dame):
‘’Echoings in the Empire: Joyce’s and Walcott’s Omeros’’
Qingyuan Jiang (University of Notre Dame):
‘’The Chinese Ulysses in the Hibernian Metropolis: Chiang Yee’s The Silent Traveller in Dublin’‘
Panel E: Seminar and Discussion with Richard Berengarten (University of Cambridge) (Interlocutor: John Dillon) [Auditorium]
“English Poetry as International Discourse”
11:15 – 11:30 Tea and Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:45 Plenary: Clair Wills (Queen Mary, University of London) (Introduction by Lindsay Haney) [Auditorium]
’’‘Turning a Shade Darker’: Hybridity, Race and Population’’
12:45 – 2:15 Lunch (Provided) [Central Dining Area, Lower Level]
2:15 – 3:30 Panel Sessions
Panel A: On the Future of Irish Studies Round Table (Chair: Spurgeon Thompson) [Room 100-104]
Spurgeon Thompson (New York University)-
Nathan Wallace (Ohio State University)
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Katie Kane (University of Montana)
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Katie Conrad (University of Kansas)
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Heather Edwards (Ohio University)
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Michael Malouf (George Mason University)
Panel B: Hybridity in Practice – Creative Writing at ND (Chair: Carina Finn) [Room 112-114]
Trish Connolly-
Betsy Cornwell
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Carina Finn
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Ji Yoon Lee
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Seth Oelbaum
3:45 – 5:30 Panel Sessions (Extended Length)
Panel A: Northern Ireland and Cultural Memory (Chair: Ailbhe Darcy) [Room 100-104]
Leigh Elion (University of Wisconson – Madison):
‘’Public Art and Palimpsestic Memory in Post-Accord Northern Ireland’’
Jenny Howell (University of Texas at Austin):
‘’The Truth Revealed: History and Hybridity in Two Bloody Sunday Dramas’’
Yvonne Garrett (New York University):
‘’Caught in the Crossfire: Structures of Hybridity in the Work of Ciaran Carson’’
Panel B: Exiles and Emigrations (Chair: Aedín Clements) [Room 112-114]
George N. Asimos (Villanova University):
‘’Toy Guns: Agency, Performativity and Resignation in Pádraic Ó Conaire’s Exile’’
Ailbhe McDaid (University of Otago):
’’’Resident Aliens’: The Irish-American Consciousness of New Irish Poets Eamon Grennan, Eamonn Wall and Greg Delanty’’
Andrew Kalaidjian (University of California, Santa Barbara):
‘’Tending to Hybridity: The Popular Science Writings of John Lighton Synge’’
Jeremy Magnan (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee):
‘’Representations of the Irish Traveler in Horror,’ or ‘Travelers, Miscegeny, and Cows, Oh My!’’
Panel C: Racial Profilling and the Politics of Self-Portraiture: Double-Consciousness, Disaffection, and Desire in African-American and Irish Writing (Chair: Mary Ann Ryan) [Room 200]
Marguerita Grey-Ben (Chicago State University):
’’The Problems of Portraiture: Documenting the Primitive in the Writings of Zora Neale Hurston and John M. Synge’’
Anthony Bishop (Chicago State University):
‘’The Janus Effect: Exploring Double-Consciousness in the Works of James Joyce and James Baldwin’’
Jasmine Thurmond (Chicago State University):
’’’Mash Ups,’ ‘’Mericans,’ and Masochism: The Politics of Desire in Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon’’
April Gibson (Chicago State University):
‘’Shedding the Shadows of Our Skins: Ourselves Alone and at Home in African-American and Irish Women’s Poetry’’
Panel D: Sovereignty and Emerging Literary Capital (Chair: Peter McQuillan) [Room 202]
Emily Ransom (University of Notre Dame):
‘’Printing Reform and Rebellion in Sixteenth-Century Dublin’’
Brian James Stone (Southern Illinois University – Carbondale):
‘’Early Irish Theories of Discourse’’
Wes Hamrick (University of Notre Dame):