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.
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
After-Conference Post
Wednesday, 2 July 2008
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[Click image to enlarge.]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:
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?"
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"
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"
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“
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"
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"
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"
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"
The program can be downloaded as pdf file from the website of the English Department at the University of Göttingen.
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