Thursday, May 17, 2018
Humanities 1, Room 210
Opening Remarks
9:30 a.m.
Deanna Shemek Chair, Literature Department
Panel One: New Fables
9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Moderator: Christopher Chen
Benjamin Bird, Thomas and the Sun
Morgan Corona, Don’t Pick Corn Before It’s Ripe
Daniel Sánchez, Poems
Rafael Angel Solorzano, Meat Your Maker
Panel Two: Literatura latinoamericana contemporánea
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Moderator: Jorge Aladro Font
Yves Augustin, Homo/Masculi/Nation
Leonardo Chelin, Representación exótica de la gastronomía amazónica en la literatura turística
Rosa Sánchez, Immigración en la literatura: Un proceso que marca la vida de los que se quedan atrás
* FREE * LUNCH BUFFET 12:00 – 12:45 p.m.
Panel Three: Ariosto and No End!
12:45 – 1:45 p.m.
Moderator: Martin Devecka
Holly Chen, Love, Desire, and Madness
Elli Levin, Guerrierx: Beyond the Gender Binary in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
Natalie Wollenweber, Brandimarte’s Death: Choices, War, and the Epic
Panel Four: Borders/Boundaries
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Moderator: A. Hunter Bivens
Vanessa De La Rosa, Emmi and Ali—the Product of a Nation
Jessica Ness, The Enigma of Avowal: Writing and Representation in the Colonial Context
Paul Sulpice, A New Esperpento: Translating Luces de Bohemia
Panel Five: Collective Report from a Virtual Reality Utopia
3:15 – 4:15 p.m.
Moderator: Kimberly J. Lau
Group Presentation:
Steve Alvarez, Darah Haimovitz, Brendon Hannaford,
Alejandra Martinez, Christian Miley, Jessica Moreno
Closing Remarks
4:15 p.m.
Hunter Bivens Director, Literature Undergraduate Program Committee
