English Honors Symposium
GW ENGLISH DEPARTMENTAL HONORS SYMPOSIUM
Friday, May 2, 2008
Rome 771
1:00-4:30 pm
1:00 OPENING REMARKS
Professor Jonathan Gil Harris, Director of Undergraduate Studies
1:10-2:10 SESSION I. PERFORMING SEXUALITY & GENDER
Presiding: Professor Holly Dugan
- Lisa Francavilla, “Virgin, Mother, and Whore: Appropriating Female Bodily Agency in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying” (dir. Professor Evelyn Schreiber)
- Catlan McCurdy, “Investigating the Decline of Edna St. Vincent Millay Through Form and Gender” (dir. Professor David McAleavey and Professor Holly Dugan)
- Alex Frank, “Fantasy and Resistance in Sun Ra” (dir. Professor Gayle Wald)
- 2:10-2:15 Break
- 2:15-3:15 SESSION II. NARRATING ETHNICITY
Presiding: Professor Antonio López
- Sarah Whittemore, “The Importance of Being English: Anxiety of Englishness in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea” (dir. Professor Tara Wallace)
- Nada Shawish, “Writing Backwards: Translation, Time, and Identity in the Arab-American Memoir” (dir. Professor Patty Chu)
- Lizzie Wozobski, “Insider/Outsider: Reexamining Jewish Identity in Contemporary America” (dir. Professor Andrea Levine)
- 3:15-3:30 Refreshments
- 3:30-4:30 SESSION III. EARLY MODERN CROSSINGS
Presiding: Professor Jonathan Hsy
- Roxie Maisel, “Skeltonics: John Skelton and Presentism” (dir. Professor Kathleen Lawrence)
- Taylor Kate Brown, “Rihla: Translating Europe in 17th-Century Arabic Travel Narratives” (dir. Professor Jonathan Gil Harris)
- Chris Pugh, “The Whorish, the Objectified, and The Transgendered: Spenser’s Female Others and The Drive of Jouissance” (dir. Professor Patrick Cook)
All welcome
