PhD3 Colloquium
The PhD3 Colloquium 2023 will take place on Wednesday 6 December in Ferrier 408, beginning at 9:15 AM. All faculty, instructors, and graduate students in English are welcome to attend. Students in the PhD3 cohort will present their research-in-progress, stemming from their Compulsory Research Project, and there will be time for questions after each presentation. Lunch will be provided. For the speakers and topics, please see the schedule below/attached. We hope to see as many people as possible at this important annual event in the research life of our department.
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9:15AMArrival and Welcome
9:30|Taylor Rousselle
“The End of Reason, is Truth: The End of Fancy, is Fiction”: Hermaphroditic Utopias and Proto-Feminist Idealism in Margaret Cavendish’s Closet Dramas
10:00 |Emily McConkey
Women Reading Ovid: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Metamorphoses
10:30| Martin Breul
Outside the Garrison: Canadian Short Fiction in the German Democratic Republic
11:00| Richard Joseph
Criticism, Novels, and Ambition in Contemporary Anglo-American Literature
11:30|Lunch, Ferrier 410
12:30 PM|Cath Marceau
Punk Manifestoes in 1980s–1990s America: A Case Study of Straight Edge Lyrics
1:00| Charlotte Frank
Tactics of Obliquity in Female Life Writing: A Comparative Analysis of Four Contemporary Writers
1:30| Sainico Ningthoujam
(Re)Imagining the Past: Narrating Life from Peripheries
2:00|Iris Pintiuta
A Portal Towards Excess: The Bath in Trans Cinema