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 Sacr�e�: 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�