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 Th�ophile 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: �Ren� 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”