Conference Panels
UPCOMING PANELS
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900
February 2009
Margaret Atwood Society Panel
Chair: Tomoko Kuribayashi
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Carol Osborne, ”Saving Graces: Narrative Designs in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake“
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Nancy Peled, “Wicked Woman Writing: Narrator as Witch in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin“
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PREVIOUS PANELS
Modern Language Association Convention
December 2008
The Door and Other Atwoodian Spaces
Organizers: Deborah Rosenthal and Tomoko Kuribayashi
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Ted Sheckels, “Spaces of Retreat: Temporary Respites in Atwood’s Threatening World”
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Earl Ingersoll, “Doors and Other Spaces in Atwood”
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Lynda Hall, ‘”born with mortality’s hook in us”: Atwood’s The Door on the Thresholds of Life”
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Paul Huebener, “Dark Stories: Poet-Audience Relations and the Journey Underground in The Door”
Modern Myths and Popular Culture in Atwood’s Works
Organizers: Karma Waltonen and Denise Du Vernay
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Jenni G. Halpin, “Distressed Distribution in “Encounters with the Element Man”
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Lorraine York, “I’ve Broken the Sound Barrier”: Margaret Atwood’s Literary Celebrity and Popular Culture”
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Sharon R. Wilson, “Magical Realism in Atwood’s The Blind Assassin”
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Eric Aronoff, “We’re Hard-Wired for Dreams”: Mythology, Biology, and the Human in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”
Modern Language Association Convention
December 2007
Atwood’s Recent Shorter Fiction
Organizers: Sharon Wilson and Lisa Weckerle
Presiding: Lisa Weckerle
- Kiley Kapuscinski, “Writing the Wrong: Ethical Responses to Female Violence in the Mythic Minifiction of Margaret Atwood”
- Camille Harris, “‘Who Are We Now?’: Societal Constructions in Margaret Atwood’s The Tent”
- Karma Waltonen, “‘Your Tent Is Made of Paper’: Self-Reflexive Writing in The Tent”
- Alice Rachel Ridout, “The Relation between Time and Space in Margaret Atwood’s Moral Disorder”
Atwood as a Poet
Organizers: Karma Waltonen and Debby Rosenthal
- Marilyn J. Rose, “Tender (Though Far from Toothless): Margaret Atwood on Love”
- Tomoko Kuribayashi, “‘Consider the Body’: Remaking the Myth of Female Sexuality in Margaret Atwood’s Recent Poems”
- H. Louise Davis, “Atwood, Ambiguous, and Accusatory: Circe/Mud Poems and ‘The Bog Man’ as Models for Ecofeminist Fiction”
Modern Language Association Convention
December 2006
Myth and Intertextuality in the Works of Margaret Atwood
Presiding: Deborah Rosenthal and Lisa Weckerle
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Sharon R. Wilson, “The Crone Creator Goddess in Atwood’s The Penelopiad“
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Earl G. Ingersoll, “Myth in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad“
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Hilde Staels, “The Penelopiad: Atwood’s Parodic and Burlesque Transformation of the Penelope Myth”
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Lauren J. Lacey, “Unmaking Myth in The Penelopiad“
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Tomoko Kuribayashi, “Margaret Atwood’s Myth Remaking in Recent Poems and The Penelopiad“
Performing Atwood
Presiding: Jennifer M. Hoofard and Tomoko Kuribayashi
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Deborah Phelps, “Misconceiving Atwood: The Edible Woman in Performance”
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Lisa Weckerle, “Multiple Identities: A One-Woman Show of the Writing of Margaret Atwood”
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Gilya Hodos and Eileen Strempel “(In)Habitation: Settings of Margaret Atwood Poems by Women Composers”
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference
February 2006
Margaret Atwood Society Panel
Organizer: Cynthia Kuhn
Presiding: Debrah Raschke
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Elizabeth J. Fleitz, “Troubling Gender: Rethinking the Disordered Body in Atwood’s The Edible Woman”
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Cathia Jenainati, “Narratives of Aging and Melancholia: Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel and Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin”
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Debrah Raschke, “’Shock and Awe’: Machiavellian Politics in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride”
Modern Language Association Convention
December 2005
Teaching Margaret Atwood’s Works
Presiding: Jennifer M. Hoofard
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Shuli Barzilai, “Atwood in the Classroom: Looking Back, Looking Forward”
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Tomoko Kuribayashi, “Teaching Margaret Atwood’s Poems Along with Sylvia Plath’s”
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Marie I. Lovrod, “Teaching Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in the Context of Transnational Feminisms”
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Lynne Bruckner, “Surfacing in the Ecofeminist Classroom”
Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Presiding: Dunja M. Mohr
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Karma Waltonen, “Beyond Didacticism: The Relations between the Personal and the Political in Oryx and Crake”
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Deborah Rosenthal, “’Here and Not Here’: Fragmentation in the Absence and Presence of Maternal and Romantic Bonding in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”
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Alice Rachel Ridout, “Tragic Triangles: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and The Blind Assassin”
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Tara Johnson, “Locating Sources of Knowledge and Truth in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference
February 2005
Margaret Atwood Society Panel
Organizers: Karen Macfarlane and Cynthia Kuhn
Presiding: Sally A. Jacobsen
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Karma Waltonen, “Transgressing Through Humor in Oryx and Crake.”
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Ian Williams, “Or What: Voicing Irony in Morning in the Burned House.”
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Sue Sorensen, “‘Death by Landscape’: Atwood’s Revision of Wordsworth’s Lucy Poems.
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Sally A. Jacobsen, “Fishy Food, Global Business and Atwood’s Postmodern High Jinks in Oryx and Crake.”
Modern Language Association Convention
December 2004
Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Visions
Presiding: Joy Arbor
Sharon R. Wilson, “Dr. Frankenstein in Oryx and Crake“
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Debrah Raschke, “The Temptation to Apocalypse in Atwood’s The Robber Bride“
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Dunja M. Mohr, “‘The Rag Ends of Language’: The Poetic Discourse of Survival in Atwood’s Future Visions”
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Deborah Phelps, “Apocalyptic Canada: The Nationalist Lessons of Susanna Moodie.
Margaret Atwood and the Craft of Narrativity
Presiding: Lynda Hall
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Sally A. Jacobsen, “The Blind Assassin: Negotiating with the Canadian Postmodern.”
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Earl G. Ingersoll, “Margaret Atwood as Narrative Innovator: The Handmaid’s Tale.”
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Theodore F. Sheckels, “Critic as Storyteller: Margaret Atwood’s Use of Narrative in Survival and Second Words.”
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Radmila Nastic, “Narrating Alterity in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.”
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference
February 2004
Sleight-of-Hand: Transgressive Strategies in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction
Presiding: Shuli Barzilai
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Sally Jacobsen, “Negotiating with the Dead in The Blind Assassin“
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Susan Hoeness-Krupsaw, “Snowman goes Windigo: Ironic Reversals in Oryx and Crake“
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Shuli Barzilai, “Gothic Fractures in Lady Oracle“
Modern Language Association Convention
December 2003
Margaret Atwood and the Environment
Presiding: Charlotte Templin and Karen Macfarlane
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Holly Blackford, “The Ecological Movement of the Female Body in Surfacing“
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Susan Fisher, “‘The Faces of Animals’: Margaret Atwood and the Animal Story”
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Patricia Merivale, “Oryx and Crake: The Unhinging of the Ecological Imagination”
Margaret Atwood’s Multiple Bodies
Presiding: Phyllis Perrakis and Joy Arbor
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Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic, “Margaret Atwood’s Problem Bodies”
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Jennifer Hoofard, “‘It Is Her Body, Silent / and Fingerless, Writing This Poem’: Margaret Atwood’s “Notes toward a Poem That Can Never Be Written”
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Laura Wright, “National Photographic: Embodying the Animal in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing“
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Steven Bruhm, “Lepers Leaping, Ladies Dancing: Aesthetics and Kinesthetics in Margaret Atwood”