At Face Value: Re-thinking Surfaces

Date:
May 31, 2013

Keynotes:
Rachel Lee (UCLA)
Daniel Tiffany (USC)

Schedule:

8:45-9:00 Breakfast/coffee (Humanities 193)

9:00-10:30 Panel I

Written on the Body: Fashion, Faces, and Ink (Humanities 193)

• Lynn Cowles (UT Austin) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it “Outfitting and Outwitting: Scriblerian Satire on Materialist Metaphysics”
• Roger Maioli (Johns Hopkins) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Henry Fielding and the Knowledge of the Characters of Men”
• Matt Oches (UMich) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “‘A hideous object to look upon’: The Tattooed Body in Typee”
• Craig Messner (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , respondent

The Boundaries of the Surface (Humanities 348)

• Anita Law (Stanford) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Sedgwick’s Politics of Inclusion”
• Gabe Mehlman (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , "Jewett and the Depths of Late Local Color"
• Eric Newman (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , respondent

10:30-12:00 Panel II

Surface and Site: Literature and the Local (Humanities 193)

• Mark Russell Gallagher (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “The Gothic Surface of ‘The Apple-Tree Table’”
• Tyleen Kelly (Berkeley) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Labyrinth or Laboratory: A Cross Between Darwin and Melville”
• Jake Lang (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , respondent

Sense and Symbol: Interior Geographies (Humanities 248)

• Dan Couch (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “The Sensuality of Political Change in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History”
• Katie Fleishman (Berkeley) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “‘So You May Think of a Rock Pool’: Reading Surface & Symbol in Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man”
• Julia Hansen (UMich) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Surface Depth: Reading James Gates Percival’s ‘The Coral Grove’”
• Alex Zobel (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , respondent

12:00-1:00 Keynote I

Daniel Tiffany, USC: “Poetry and Kitsch: A Secret History” (Humanities 193)

1:00-2:00 Lunch (Humanities 193)

2:00-3:30 Panel III

When Scandals Surface: The Gendering of Trash (Humanities 193)

• Angelina Del Balzo (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , "The Part of a Woman: Performing Authenticity in the Memoirs of Constantia Phillips and Laetitia Pilkington"
• Cailey Hall (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Quixotic Communities: Fanfiction and Fifty Shades of Grey”
• Lisa Mendelman (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Sentimental Surfaces: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as Sentimental Novel”
• Alex Hernandez (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , respondent

Reading (Sur)faces: Physiognomy and Character (Humanities 348)

• Matthew John Phillips (Rutgers) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Superficial Dickens: Flat Characters and Social Representativeness”
• Josh Weiner (Berkeley) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “The Surface Bonds: Fops, Rakes, and the Genesis of Aesthetic Detachment”
• Lindsay Wilhelm (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Romantic Narcissism and Female Sexual Desire in Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya, or the Moor”
• Samantha Sommers (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , respondent

3:30-5:00 Panel IV

Seeing Surfaces: Visuality and Visual Media (Humanities 193)

• Jason (Jace) Bartulis (UChicago) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Photography, Theatricality and the Art of the Obvious: Towards a Reading of Flannery O’Connor’s Modernist Graces”
• Zach Cheney (U of Oregon) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Defaced Identities, Deferred Anxieties, and Deflective Façades in North By Northwest”
• Sarah Sussman (UT Austin) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “The Kaleidoscopic Aesthetics of Herman Melville's Pierre”
• Jacquelyn Ardam (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , respondent

Poetic Genealogies: Bodies in Time (Humanities 348)

• Mark Bauer (Berkeley) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Lyric Divisions: Reconciling the Past Tense with Lyric Presence”
• Rebecca Hill (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “Framing the Mystical: Bishop’s Lyric of Containment”
• Sarah Nance (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , “The Embodied Feminine: Women’s Time, Women’s Bodies, and the Question of Late Style”
• Kim Hedlin (UCLA) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , respondent

5:00-6:00 Keynote II

Rachel Lee, UCLA: “Pussy Ballistics and Peristaltic Feminism” (Humanities 193)

7:00-9:00 Dinner for Keynotes and Participants (optional, RSVP required)