Cheryl Suzack (University of Toronto)

Simon Harel (Université de Montréal)

Nasrin Rahimieh (University of California, Irvine)

Doris Hambuch (United Arab Emirates University)

Jan Plug (University of Western Ontario)

Cristina Santos (Brock University)

Eleanor Ty (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Joshua Synenko (Trent University)

Kwok-kan Tam (Chair Professor and Dean of School of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University of Hong Kong),
“Art and Ideology in China’s Postsocialist Stage Productions of Ibsen’s Plays”
(Co-sponsored by CCLA, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto, and Department of English and Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University; co-organized by CCLA, CACLAS, and ACCUTE)

Bodily Processes – Cultural Techniques

Chair/Présidente: Monique Tschofen, Ryerson University

Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard, University of Toronto, “Eyes, Nose, Moustache, Stomach: Humour and Bodily Parts”

Monique Tschofen, Ryerson University, “Vision Prosthetics and Technological Frames: Seeing in the Canadian War Comic”

Stefanie Heine, University of Toronto, “Breathing Pauses from Ancient Rhetoric to the Beat Generation”

De l’ici à l’ailleurs : Diversité et interdisciplinarité dans la pratique de la littérature comparée

Chair/Président: Lambert Barthélémy, Université de Poitiers

Roswitha Böhm, Technische Universität Dresden, “Représentations esthétiques de la migration dans la littérature de l’extrême contemporain”

Lambert Barthélémy, Université de Poitiers, “Stalker: art, repas, narration”

Changing Representations of East Asian Women Stereotypes in Transnational Popular Culture

Chair/Présidente: Kaby Wing-sze Kung, Open University of Hong Kong

Chase Chun-lung Ma, Open University of Hong Kong, “Visual Manipulation of East Asian Women in American Pop Female Performances”

Kaby Wing-sze Kung, Open University of Hong Kong, “The Reconstruction of the Image of Chinese Female Immigrants in Full Moon in New York, Siao Yu and Finding Mr. Right“

New Media/New Methods: Comparative Literature on the Edge

Chair/Présidente: Andrea C. Valente, York University

Rasoul Aliakbari, University of Alberta, “What is Comparative Print Culture, and Why Should It Matter? A Critical Introduction Based on the Arabian Nights Bibliographies”

Andrea C. Valente, York University, “Shaking, Spinning and Entangling under Complexity Theories: A Case Study in Digital Autobiographies”

Guy Risko, Bard Early College, “New Formalism as/of Critique: On Serial Criticism and New Media”

Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler, University of Northern British Columbia, “Televisual Bricolage and Collaboration: Adapting Television Studies for Video Online Learning”

Defiant Bodies: Genders, Sexualities, and Literatures

Chair/Présidente: Tegan Zimmerman, Stephens College

Chia-sui (Tracy) Lee, Leiden University, “The Ethics of the Ghostly: A Ghost Medium in J. M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K”

Tegan Zimmerman, Stephens College, “Virtual Rape”

Daniel J. Sander, New York University, “Neo-Boys”

Jordana Greenblatt, University of Toronto, “The Apparatus, Both Literal and Theoretical: Pain, Pleasure, and the Circus Body Without Organs”

Comparing Fashion Tales of Travel and Translation

Chair/Président: Markus Reisenleitner, York University

Joshua Trichilo, York University, “From Nowhere to Elsewhere: Indonesian Punk Fashion’s Cultural Translation as Socio-political Mobilization”

Nathaniel Weiner, Wilfrid Laurier University, “Buying Japanese: Anglosphere Translations of Japanese Menswear Culture in Online Menswear Communities”

Jen Sweeney, Bard Early College, “Translating Fashion Across the Atlantic: French Fashion and the Fight Against U.S. Racism in the Interwar Period”

Markus Reisenleitner, York University, “Translating and Negotiating Latinidad in L.A.’s Fashion System”

Self-Translation/Auto-traduction

With /avec ACQL

Chair/Président: Joseph Pivato

Eva C. Karpinski, York University, “Self-Translation and/as Neuroplasticity: Re-examining Nancy Huston’s Losing North/Nord perdu and The Tale-Tellers/L’espèce fabulatrice.”

Elena Anna Spanguolo, University of Manchester, “Self-Translation: Giving Voice to a Hybrid Identity”

Tiziana Nannavecchia, University of Ottawa, “Impossible Monolingualism: Self-translation as a Way of Life in Antonio D’Alfonso’s Babel.”

Trish Van Bolderen, University of Ottawa, “Is Nancy Huston a Canadian Self-translator?”

Book Launch: Robert Kroetsch: Essays on His Works, ed. Nicole Markotic

From Here to There: Contemporary Literature and Cinema and the 21st Century Refugee Experience

Chair/Président: Colman Hogan, Ryerson University

Colman Hogan, Ryerson University, “To Will Oneself a Refugee – Asli Erdogan’s City in a Crimson Cloak”

Hudson Moura, Ryerson University, “Time of Displacement: Refugees in Cinema”

The “Middleness” of Middle Eastern Cultural Production: Mediation, Ambiguity, In-Betweenness

Chair/Président: Walid El Khachab, York University

May Telmissany, University of Ottawa, “From the Great North to Palestine: The Nomadic Tribe in Majdi El Omari’s Standstill”

Walid El Khachab, York University, “God and Man in the Middle(ness) of the Painting: Performing In-betweeness as Locus of the Sacred”

Traversing Genre, Geography, Media: Canada to Dominican Republic to the Wonderful Land of Oz

Chair/Présidente: Doris Hambuch, United Arab Emirates University

Stephen A. Cruikshank, University of Alberta, “From the Mic to the Pen: The Transition of Canadian Singers to Writers”

Doris Hambuch, United Arab Emirates University, “Daughters Here and There in ¡Yo! by Julia Alvarez and That Other Me by Maha Gargash”

Elena Siemens, University of Alberta, “Oz to Vogue: The Ruby Slippers Across Time, Space and Media”

Sex and Sexuality

Chair/Présidente: Jessica Tsui-yan Li, York University

Shlomo Gleibman, York University, “‘Text’ Model of Desire in Yeshiva Narratives: Between Queer Religiosity and Queer Secularity”

Christine Nguyen, York University, “How to Read ‘Love’ in the Time of Fanfiction, Fanart, and Social Media: Examining Yaoi and Boy-Love Manga”

Katie Fry, University of Toronto, “Word, Image, and Gender: A Comparison of Ezra Pound’s ‘Yeux Glauques’ and Adrienne Rich’s ‘Love in the Museum'”

Jessica Tsui-yan Li, York University, “Surrogacy and Agency in Yi Shu’s Fiction”

ROUNDTABLE: Revisiting and Renewing Critique

Chair/Présidente: Monique Tschofen, Ryerson University

Monique Tschofen, Ryerson University

Dan Browne, Ryerson University

Nataleah Hunter-Young, Ryerson University

Lai-Tze Fan, Concordia University

Diverse Dialogues on Cinema I: Terrains of Gender

Chair/Présidente: Irene Sywenky, University of Alberta

Irene Sywenky, University of Alberta, “Re-drawing Global Modernities: Limits of Terror and Spaces of Excess in the New Horror Cinema of Eastern Europe”

Asma Sayed, MacEwan University, “Embodying Nationalism: Mothers and Maternal in Indian Cinema”

Elli Dehnavi, University of Alberta, “Blurred Borders of Girlhood: Representations of Girls in Iranian Films”

Cristina Santos, Brock University, “Sacrificial Heroines: Revisioning Girl Warriors in Young Adult Fiction and Film”

Comparative Modernisms

Chair/Présidente: Terry Siu-han Yip, Hong Kong Baptist University

Lauren Beard, University of Toronto, “Nachträglichkeit in Ulysses”

Terry Siu-han Yip, Hong Kong Baptist University, “The Shaping of the Modern Self in Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature”

Shengqin Cai, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, “Confession and Reflection in The Master of Petersburg: A Comparative Study of the Intertextuality Based on Coetzee’s and Dostoevsky’s Novels”

Within and Beyond Nations

Chair/Président: Prathna Lor, University of Toronto

Alexandre Desbiens-Brassard, Western University, “Secret Origins: The Birth of Superman and Tintin as National Icons”

Cristina Caracchini, University of Western Ontario, “Influences, Sources and “Air du Temps”: The Case of Bonheur d’Occasion by Gabrielle Roy”

Prathna Lor, University of Toronto, “Conjunctive Circumstance: Chance, Tragedy, and the Weather in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For“

Diverse Dialogues on Cinema II: History, Politics and Popular Culture

Chair/Présidente: Khatereh Sheibani, York University

Zaira Zarza, University of Alberta, “Because It Matters: Social Justice Documentary Practice by Cuban Women Filmmakers”

Pascal Michelberger, Brock University, “The Horror of the Spanish Civil War: Álex de la Iglesia’s The Last Circus”

Khatereh Sheibani, York University, “The Aesthetics of Femininity and Motherhood in Iranian Cinema (1965-1978)”

(Un)familiar Spaces and Places

Chair/Présidente: Susan Ingram, York University

Raluca Cernahoschi, Bates College, “Mountain Magic: Winter Games and the Construction of Transylvanian Space”

Jason Wang, York University, “Urban Walking: Re-configuring the Metropolis on Foot in Post-9/11 Fiction”

Aleksandra Bida, Ryerson University,

“Haunted by Nostalgia: Diverse Homes and Domesticities in Comics and Television”

Susan Ingram, York University, “Party Like it’s 1948: Vancouver’s Peripheral Awakenings”

Transgressive Figures: Knights, Terrorists, Monsters

Chair/Présidente: Catharine Xiaowen Xu, Syracuse University

Mustapha Hamil, University of Windsor, “Filmic Representation of Terror: Issues and Challenges”

Belinda Yan Wang, University of Alberta, “Daggers in the Hands of Women: Subversive Female Knight-errant in Taiping Guangji”

Forrest Johnson, York University, “Euripides’ Cyborg: Intersections of Monstrous Traditions in Feminist Thought”

Catharine Xiaowen Xu, Syracuse University, “Marvellous Transgression: The Assassin in Word and Image”

Translation/Transculture

Chair/Présidente: Kar Yue Chan, The Open University of Hong Kong

Ming Ming Du, York University, “Pound’s Cathay and Zhu’s Shakespeare Plays: Great Works that Bridge Gaps between East and West”

Lisandra Sousa, The King’s University, “Oswald de Andrade’s Portuguese Language-as-Translation and the Double-Consciousness of the Nation”

Kar Yue Chan, The Open University of Hong Kong, “Chinese Women’s Poetic Identities: Across Temporal and Cultural Boundaries through Translation”

Aiora Jaka, l’Université du Pays Basque, “L’importance de la traduction dans la ‘Nouvelle chanson basque'”

Traversing Media

Chair/Présidente: Iris Bruce, McMaster University

Iris Bruce, McMaster University, “Kafka Far and Wide”

David Mongor-Lizarrabengoa, Western University, “Bakhtin’s Theories of Common Language and Dialogism in Fargo”

Christine Albert, Université de Montréal, “Le romanesque comme catégorie transmédiatique : des « romans romanesques » au cinéma”

Jing Xu, York University, “Xiao Hong’s Literary Imagination of Harbin Versus the Filmic Imagination of Xiao Hong in Harbin”

ROUNDTABLE: Digital Spatial Ecologies: Geolocating the Layers of History and Memory in New Media

Chair/Président: Markus Reisenleitner, York University

Jill Didur and Lai-Tze Fan, Concordia University

Agata Mergler, York University

Markus Reisenleitner, York University

Joshua Synenko, Trent University

Mark Terry, York University

In the Press

Chair/Présidente: Xueqing Xu, York University

Amy Steinepreis, University of Oxford, “Disruption of the New(s): Echoes of Journalism’s Evolution in Contemporary Australian and Francophone Literature”

Xueqing Xu, York University, “Sun Yat-sen and the Chee Kung Tong in Canada: Reading The Chinese Times (1907-1992) of Vancouver”

Esther R. Berry, Ryerson University, “The Politics of ‘Pigtails’: Chinese Hair Imports in the Intertextual Media of Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Popular Canadian and American Periodicals”

Jennifer Quist, University of Alberta, “Vivisections in the Laboratory of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Analyzing Twenty-five Years of the Swedish Academy’s Written Praise of Its Laureates”

Paradoxes of Desire and Rejection

Chair/Président: Kevin Wilson, TELUQ

Jeannine M. Pitas, University of Dubuque, “Attempts to Eat Beauty: Desire and Denial in Simone Weil and Marosa di Giorgio”

Haiyan Xie, University of Alberta, “Narrating China: Yan Lianke’s Humanistic Concerns and the Politics of his Mythorealism”

Kevin Wilson, TELUQ, “The Sacrificial Narrator: Scapegoating and Mimetic Desire in A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)”

Politics, Resistance and Activisms

Chair/Présidente: Concetta Principe, York University

Concetta Principe, York University, “An Interdisciplinary Comparison of the Messianic in MacEwen’s T. E. Lawrence Poems and Robbins’ and Blanton’s Insurrectionist Manifesto”

Irina Sadovina, University of Toronto, “Comparativity and Anti-Rape Discourse in Russia and North America”

John Nyman, Western University, “Duplicitous Citations: The Diverse Politics of Appropriation Literature”

Comparative Easts and Wests

Chair/Président: Paul D. Morris, Université de Saint-Boniface

Paul D. Morris, Université de Saint-Boniface, “Comparative Literature and the Challenge of Diversity”

Wang Xiaoyan, Xi’an International Studies University, “A Comparative Study of Cheng Zhongshi and Alice Munro: Through the Humanistic Lens”

Paul Bleton, Université Téluq, “C’est écrit en quelle langue?”

The Spiritual and the Supernatural

Chair/Présidente: Jing Xu, University of Posts and Telecommunications

Jing Xu and Tong Zhou, University of Posts and Telecommunications, “The Development of a Buddhist Theme in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Divisadero”

Yuan Zhang, University of Alberta, “Lin Yutang’s Traveling Daoism in Moment in Peking”

Miguel Nenevé, UNIR, “South American Magic as a Counter-discourse to European ‘Scientific’ Knowledge in Pauline Melville´s ‘The Parrot and Descartes'”

Politics, Trauma and Resistance

Chair/Président: Pietro Giordan, York University

Pietro Giordan, York University, “Dystopia and Amnesia in Wang Xiaobo’s Novel The Future World: Some Remarks”

Yiwen Liu, Simon Fraser University, “Cultural Imaginings in the Globalizing World”

Guan Beibei, Harbin Institute of Technology, “Benjamin’s Reading of Baudelaire: An Example of Cross-Temporal Reading”

Katelyn Dykstra, University of Manitoba, “What Can Trauma Theory Do for Intersex?: An Approach to Intersex Life-Writing”

Autobiography Life Writing

Chair/Présidente: Carrie Bettel, York University

Charles Reeve, OCAD University, “Symptoms of Sincerity: Art, Autobiography and the Conception of the Self”

Safaneh Mohaghegh, Neyshabouri University of Alberta, “Reading Alaviyyeh Kermani’s Journal of Hajj, the Holy Shrines, and the Naseri Court: Bargaining with Patriarchy through Life Writing”

Carrie Bettel, York University, “‘Immigrant in My Own Land’: Sayed Kashua and the Struggles of Finding the Authority to Represent a Culture”

Myer Siemiatycki, Ryerson University, “‘We, Polish Jews’: The Troubled Poetry, Identities and Legacy of Julian Tuwim, 1894-1953”

Cosmopolitan Influences: Art and Travel

Chair/Président: Albert Braz, University of Alberta

Songyun Zheng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, “Diasporic and Exile: Deromanticized Cosmopolitanism in Zadie Smith’s Swing Time and Chi Zijian’s Goodnight, Rose”

Carlos Fuentes, McGill University, “Between Cosmopolitanism and Decadence: The Dilettante in Henry James’ The Ambassadors and Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks”

Albert Braz, University of Alberta, “Tropical Escapes: Canadian Travellers, Latin America, and Sex”

Female Identities

Chair/Présidente: Pouneh Saeedi, University of Toronto

Eliziane Navarro and Elizabete Sampaio, UNEMAT (Brazil), “Two Women and a Destiny: Female Characters in Clarice Lispector and Maria Judite De Carvalho”

Valentin Duquet, Syracuse University, “La femme noire âgée dans le roman francophone: Entre mouroir et miroir”

Xie Qun, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, “Female Identity and Moral Dilemma in A Doll’s Eyes”

Pouneh Saeedi, University of Toronto, “Winnie Verloc, A Case of Female Malady in The Secret Agent“

ROUNDTABLE: Teaching, Interdisciplinarity, Technology, and Experimentation Beyond the Classroom

Chair/Président: Kat Sark, University of Victoria

Kathryn Franklin, York University

Kat Sark, University of Victoria

Peter Schweppe, McGill University

Joshua Synenko, Trent University