Tuesday 15 July 2008

After-Conference Post


The organizers would like to thank all the students who participated in the conference for their time and effort to make this event a stimulating and enjoyable experience for everybody involved.


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Wednesday 2 July 2008

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This undergraduate conference is designed to give students of both British and American literature and culture an opportunity to present their own research papers to an audience of peers. We will investigate how literary works on both sides of the Atlantic engage in the competing discourses of Enlightenment and create the Gothic as a cultural embodiment or fantasy of otherness, transgression, and excess.

Students of all levels are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to engage in challenging discussions of their peers' scholarly work.

This conference is open to all students.


Contact:


Dorothea Schuller

Seminar für Englische Philolgie

Abteilung für Englische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft

E-Mail: Dorothea.Schuller@phil.uni-goettingen.de


Stephanie Sommerfeld

Seminar für Englische Philologie

Abteilung für Nordamerikastudien

E-Mail: Stephanie.Sommerfeld@phil.uni-goettingen.de



Program

Friday, July 4

5:30 p.m. Opening of Conference

6:00-7:15 p.m.
Panel 1: Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland

Chair: Barbara Pögl
  • Isabel Nagel: "Clara's Insanity and the Question of 'Whodunit': A Reply to James R. Russo"
  • Julia Naue: "Radicals and Rebels: The Male Members of the Wieland Family"
  • Sandra Krull: "Carwin: A Gothic Villain?"
Break

7:35-8:25 p.m.
Panel 2: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Chair: Marjana Grgic
  • Matthias Gram: "The Motif of the Doppelgänger in Frankenstein"
  • Maren Michels: "Frankenstein and the Birth of Science Fiction"
8:30 p.m.
Gothic Film

Screening of Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931)

Saturday, July 5

10 a.m. Welcome

10:15-11:30 a.m.
Panel 1: Gender Trouble

Chair: Stefanie Schroer
  • Marjana Grgic: "Opposing Identities: 'Femme Fragile' vs. 'Woman of Sense'"
  • Alissa Jahn: "Angel and Eve: Clara’s Self-Contradictory Identity“
  • Annemarie Peiser: "Catharine and Clara: Republican Mother vs. Male Double"
Coffee Break

11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Panel 2: Religion, Worship, and Transcendence

Chair: Jens Kania
  • Antonina Sanchez: "Anti-Catholicism in M.G. Lewis's The Monk"
  • Susanna Thomas: "The Power of the Sublime in Wieland"
  • Anna Rohde-Brandenburger: "The Temple: A Place of Transformation“
Lunch: 1:00- 2:15 p.m.

2:15-3:05 p.m.
Panel 3: Ambiguity and Hesitation in Wieland

Chair: Marjana Grgic
  • Christina Huwald: "Clara’s Epistemological Crisis"
  • Adrian Bruhns: "A Structural Approach to the Fantastic in Wieland"
Coffee Break

3:20- 4:35 p.m.
Panel 4: Charles Brockden Brown’s American Gothic

Chair: Stefanie Schroer
  • Insa Mahlstedt:"The Abject in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland"
  • Carolin Callauch:"The Republican Community in Mettingen"
  • Gina Ziebell:"The Burden of an Inherited Sin –The Paternal Past in Wieland"
Coffee Break

4:50-5:40 p.m.
Panel 5: Edgar Allan Poe

Chair: Barbara Pögl
  • Anna Poppen: "The Quest for Knowledge in Wieland and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'"
  • Tim Schwarz: "Self-Reflexivity in 'William Wilson' and Wieland"
Break

5:55-6:45 p.m.
Panel 6: Contemporary Gothic

Chair: Stefanie Schroer
  • Cathrin Cronjäger:"Sarah Waters's Affinity: A Contemporary (Lesbian) Gothic Novel"
  • Jens Kania: "'Bela Lugosi's Dead' –The Birth of the Gothic Subculture"
Closing Remarks

The program can be downloaded as pdf file from the website of the English Department at the University of Göttingen.

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