Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Student-Faculty Colloquium

Fall 2009 - Spring 2010

Organized by Ryan Barnhart, Elena D'Amelio, and Briana Martino, Graduate Students, Department of CLCS

Sponsored by CLCS, with support from the Humanities Institute and the GSO.

Spring 2010 Colloquium

12:45pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Sean Connolly, Visiting Professor, CLCS
"Fetishism, or Facing the Other"

Marta Yatsenko, 2nd Year Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature
"Bulgakov's Margarite: An Adultress, A Muse, A Witch"

12:45pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, March 3, 2010
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Ken Wishnia, CLCS Alum
"Researching and Writing the Historical Novel"

David Blake, 2nd Year Ph.D. Candidate, Musicology
"Timbre as Differentiation in Indie Pop"

12:45pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, April 7, 2010
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Jacqueline Reich, Associate Professor, CLCS
"Slave to Master: The Racial Metamorphosis of Maciste in Italian Silent Cinema"

Laine Nooney, 3rd year Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Studies
"All I Want for Christmas: Joe Lando and the Vicissitudes of Fandom"

Fall 2009 Colloquium

12:45pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Patrice Nganang, Associate Professor, CLCS
"What is an island? Sir Halford John Mackinder and the Origins of Geoanalysis"

Claire Burrows, 4th Year PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature
"The Graphic Memoir: A cartoonist's self-portrait"

12:45pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, November 18, 2009
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

Sue Bottigheimer, Lecturer, CLCS
"Imps, Fairies, and Fairy Tales"

I-Te Rita Sung, 3rd Year PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature
"Audrey Hepburn and Otono-Kawaii (Adult-cutesy): Style of the Child-Woman in Japanese OL (Office Lady) Fashion Magazines"

12:45pm - 2:00pm, Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The Humanities Institute, Room 1009

E. Ann Kaplan, Professor, English and CLCS
"Unfashionable Age: Clothing the Older Woman's Body on Screen with Reference to Mitchell's The Mother and Dayan's Cet-Amour-La"

Kristin Hole, 3rd Year Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Studies
"Does Dress Tell the Nation's Story: Fashion and the Politics of History in the Films of R.W. Fassbinder"

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