Please join us for Day 1 of the senior comps symposium.
Schedule of presenters for Thursday, January 23
2:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Hanna White: The Untenable Molly Bloom: The Female Voice in James Joyce’s Ulysses
Peter Coulson: Perspective, Other Minds, and Shared Emotions in To the Lighthouse
Ella Morner-Ritt: “Don’t wait to be hunted to hide”: Imperative Mood and Character Destitution in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy
3:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Jessica Leslie: Song of Solomon: Lexical Tension and the Domestic Space in Relation to Identity
Margery Wilson: “This Something”: Musical Transcendence in Song of Solomon
Christian Kline: Discursive and Physical Violence: A Non-Allegorical Approach to Blood Meridian
5:00 PM – 6:15 PM
Spencer Whaley: The Enactment of the Ecstatic in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
Grace Metos: Queer Futurity for Healing and Hope in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night
Samuel Hajduk: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as Colonialist Propaganda
