Ritson Hall, Alington House, 4 North Bailey, Durham
5.30pm – 6.30pm Early Bird Registration, wine and nibbles
6.30 pm – 8.00pm Dance response to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
Readings by Durham University poets
8.30pm Informal delegates’ meal at ASK
(Unit 4 Walkergate, Durham)
(Unit 4 Walkergate, Durham)
Saturday 10 September
ES228, ES229 and ES230
Earth Sciences Rooms, University of Durham Science Labs
9.00am – 9.30am Registration, tea and coffee (ES228)
9.30am – 10.50am Panel 1: Staging the Past (ES229)
Thom Addinall-Biddulph (Durham)
Washington in Real Life: Rewriting the First President in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon
Soad Nigm (Newcastle)
“There is no Stoppage, and Never Can be Stoppage”: Walt Whitman and America’s Imperialist Identity
Catherine Charlwood (Independent)
“An Almost National American Poet”: Inauguration Poetry, Robert Frost and Memory as Performance
9.30am – 10.50am Panel 2: The Self in Society (ES230)
Robbie Moore (Cambridge)
“A Lounging Generation”: Long Legs, Modern Architecture, and Jamesian Cosmopolitanism
Rob Lederer (Edinburgh)
Archiving Identity in the Endangered Domestic Spaces of E. L Doctorow’s Homer and Langley and Paul Auster’s Sunset Park
10.50am – 12.10pm Panel 3: Constructing the American Subject (ES229)
Fraser Mann (York St. John)
Tim O’Brien and the Nature of Vietnam Truth
Mark Sandy (Durham)
“Fiery Particle”: Keats’ Romantic Self-Presences in the Writings of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ben Robbins (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Faulkner and Marcuse: The Erotic Identities Between Literature and Film
10.50am – 12.10pm Panel 4: American Mythologies (ES230)
Camilla Dubini (UCL)
Self-Creation in Marianna de Marco Torgovnick’s Crossing Ocean Parkway
Richard Maguire (King’s College/Arcadia)
Witnesses against Our Vanishing: David Wojnarowicz’s Mythopoeia
M. Cooper Harriss (Virginia Tech)
On the Pseudobiblical: The Rhetoric of Biblical Rhetoric and the Construction of African-American Identity
12.10pm – 1.00pm Lunch (ES228)
1.00pm – 2.20pm Panel 5: Narratives of Belonging and Exclusion (ES229)
Roaa Ali (Birmingham)
Arab-American Playwrights and the Confrontation of Stereotype
Xavier Marco del Pont (Royal Holloway)
“We will never run out of you people”: Marginalised Selves and the Repellence of the Other in Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice
Ery Shin (Oxford)
Kristevan Abjection in Djuna Barnes: Silence, Babble, Narcissism, Animality
1.00pm – 2.20pm Panel 6: Dissecting the American Aesthetic (ES230)
Michael Heitkemper-Yates (Edinburgh)
Toward the Threshold of Experience: Metafiction, Modal Theory and the High Ironic Mode
Nicola Strazzanti (Universitá degli Studi di Catania)
The Mechanics of Discursive Identity: Translingual Practices in Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing
Maxwell Minckler (Durham)
Unself, Undress and Unfinish: The Possibilities of Absence in James Tate’s Poetics
2.20pm – 3.40pm Panel 7: Poetry and Performance (ES229)
Adam Crothers (Cambridge)
“You can’t escape form. Belie / ve me”: Identifying the Offensive in Demske, Muldoon and Seidel
Peter Maber (Cambridge)
Performing the Self and the World in the Poetry of Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman and Sylvia Plath
3.40pm – 4.10pm Tea and coffee (ES228)
4.10pm – 5.40pm Keynote lecture from John Beck, Newcastle University
(ES229)
(ES229)
This lecture will be followed by a round table discussion drawing together the symposium's main themes.
