Program 55
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Session I: 8-9:30 am (UTC 3-4:30 pm)
Panel 1: Intersectional Identity in the Novel
Moderator: Dr. Pravina Cooper, California State University, Long Beach
I. Intersectionality of class, race and gender in Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe
Marietta Kosma, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University
2. Identities of the Periphery and Indeterminate Selves: The Pursuit of Stability in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Manasvini Rai, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India
3. Freaks, Feasts, and Farce: Bakhtin’s Grotesque Realism and American Racial Harmony in Frank Ross’ Oreo
Casey Manogue, California State University, Long Beach
4. Heathcliff: The Byronic Misfit
Farhat Binte Alam, Independent scholar
Panel 2: National Identity
Moderator: Dr. Kathryn Chew, California State University, Long Beach
I. Defining Cypriot Literature: Connections and Departures from Regional Affiliations in the Eastern Mediterranean
Dr. Daniele Nunziata, University of Oxford
2. A Personality under Construction: Black Milk and Conflicting Identities
Hediye Özkan, Aksaray University, Turkey
3. Writing in the Other’s language in a multicultural and multilingual society: Reflections on In the Shade of the Jujube Tree by Jeries Tannous
Dr. Athar Haj Yahya, Beit Berl College, Israel
4. The Politics of Accommodation: Hinduisation and Negotiations around the Performance of the Hook Swinging (Charak) Festival
Subhankar Dutta, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Session II: 9:30-11 am (UTC 4:30-6 pm)
Panel 3: Affective Outcasts: Christa Wolf and Friedrich Nietzsche
Moderator: Taylor Espinoza, California State University, Long Beach
I. Christa Wolf and Friedrich Nietzsche: Prolegomena to an Odd Couple
Dr. Robert Blankenship, California State University, Long Beach
2. ‘Outcast’ is a State of Mind: The Subjectivity of East German Passports and Other State Documents in Christa Wolf’s City of Angels
Hailey Fulcomer, California State University, Long Beach
3. Casting In/Casting Out: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Truth and the Creation of Fringe Groups Through Rhetoric
Kathleen Moriarty, California State University, Long Beach
4. Weaponized Love: The Priest as Mainstream Outsider in Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals
Luke Beller, Johns Hopkins University
Panel 4: Exiles, Wanderers, and Refugees
Moderator: Tess Morales, California State University, Long Beach
I. ‘Join the Community of Losers’: Lucette Lagnado’s Search for Belonging
Ichrak Issaoui, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, France
2. The Author and his Character as Political Exiles and Freedom Fighters: To Win Being Hunted Down
Dr. Lidiia Romanenko, Mariupol State University, Ukraine
Dr. Natalia Marakhovska, Mariupol State University, Ukraine
Denys Marakhovskyi, Mariupol State University, Ukraine
3. Common Flâneurs of the Crisis Era. Wandering Outcasts on the Margins of City Life During the Time of Economic Decay
Dr. Olga Szmidt, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
4. Challenging the Bias of the Refugee as “Other”: Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains
Rilee Mello, California State University, Long Beach
Session III: 11 am-12:30 pm (UTC 6-7:30 pm)
Panel 5: 18th-century Libertines: Outcasts or Cosmopolitans in Literary Texts?
Moderator: Dr. Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach
I. Pleasure in Discourse: Cosmopolitan Performance in Crébillon’s Strayings of the Heart and Mind, or Memoirs of M. de Meilcour (Les Egarements du coeur et de l’esprit)
Isabelle Kelman, California State University, Long Beach
2. The Evolution of the Libertine Subject: From Dom Juan to Madame de Merteuil
Laetitia Chance, California State University, Long Beach
3. The West’s Favorite Outlier: Giacomo Casanova
Dr. Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach
Panel 6: Social Injustice
Moderator: Kelsey Bright, California State University, Long Beach
I. Where is Grandma? Outcasting the grandmother figure from Palestinian adaptations of the fairytale Red Riding Hood
Loaay Wattad, Tel Aviv University, Israel
2. A Sociological Perspective on the Elderly in the Fairytale Realm
Viana Ly, California State University, Long Beach
3. Vacuumizing the Dalit Identity: Upper-caste writers and the bubble of representation in Indian novels
Uday Khanna, University of Delhi, India
4. CFIDS: Bearing Witness to Collective Suffering
Zadie Baker, California State University, Long Beach
Session IV: 12:30 pm -2 pm (UTC 7:30-9 pm)
Panel 7: Alienation in Rock and Roll
Moderator: Dr. David Shafer, California State University, Long Beach
I. A Real Texas Maverick: Roky Erickson
Dr. Pascal Dupuy, Université de Rouen, France
2. A Good Chord on a Bad Guitar – Los Angeles Punk in the Late 70s
Kjehl Johansen, Commissioner, Los Angeles County Superior Court
3. David Berman and a World of Phonies
Dr. David Shafer, California State University, Long Beach
Panel 8: Afrofuturism
Moderator: Dr. Katherine McLoone, California State University, Long Beach
I. We Gave You Life: Afrofuturism and Quare Identity in Janelle Monáe’s Dirty Computer
Malika Rahim, California State University, Long Beach
2. Afrofuturism: The Subgenre of Science Fiction That Embraces Black Identity and Experience
Bianca Lopez Mendez, California State University, Long Beach
3. Digital Necromancy: Hegemony and Counter-Conduct in Soundcloud Rap
Ryan Prewitt, Saint Louis University, Missouri
4. Fertility Does Not Equate Womanhood: The Conflicting Perspectives of Conceiving in Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca
Jessica Garcia, California State University, Long Beach
Session V: 2-3:30 pm (UTC 9-10:30 pm)
Panel 9: Outcasts in German Literature 1: The Outcast Novella and its Cast of … Outcasts
Moderator: Xochitl San Vicente, California State University, Long Beach
I. The Legacy of Schiller’s “unloved” Novellas: Early Gothic Trash and its Canonical Progeny
Dr. Jeffrey L. High, California State University, Long Beach
2. The Outsider as Leader: Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas and AMC’s The Terror
Natalie Martz, California State University, Long Beach
3. The German Novella and De-Colonialization: Stefan Zweig’s Der Amokläufer and Kleist’s Die Verlobung in St. Domingo
Elaine Chen, Harvard University
Panel 10: Outliers in Contemporary Narratives
Moderator: Levon Parseghian, California State University, Long Beach
I. Uncovering the Margin / Silencing the Abject: The Ottoman Armenian Drama on the Contemporary Turkish Stage
Şeyda Nur Yıldırım, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey
2. Taoist Texts in Contemporary US Culture
Dr. Brian Glaser, Chapman University
3. Uday Prakash: An Outlier in Indian Literature
Dr. Subhas Yadav, University of Hyderabad, India
4. Coloniality in Late Twentieth-Century Arabic Prison Narrative
Ayah Wakkad, University of Kansas
Session VI: 3:30-5 pm (UTC 10:30 pm – 12 am)
Plenary Talk
Moderator: Dr. Crystal Yin Lie, California State University, Long Beach
After almost 100 days: Race, Disability, and A Head
Dr. Therí Pickens, Bates College
Session VII: 5-7 pm (UTC 12 am-2 am)
Moderator: Dr. Kathryn Chew, California State University, Long Beach
screening of Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
Dr. Stephen Cooper, California State University, Long Beach
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Session VIII: 8-9:30 am (UTC 3-4:30 pm)
Panel 11: Digital Turns in Art and Literature
Moderator: Dr. Pravina Cooper, California State University, Long Beach
I. Reimagining the Canon: A Comparative Study of Digital Art
Ms. Mridula Sharma, University of Delhi, India
2. Unveiling the marginals: A study of the Danmei novel Mo Dao Zu Shi as an outlier in literature
Sreelakshmi P S, Maharaja’s College Autonomous, India
3. From Typewriters to Twitter: What is Digital Media’s Impact on Modern English Literature?
Mariam Sahar, California State University, Long Beach
4. Blacksad and Get Out: How Organizations Built on Social Injustice and Hatred are Able to Thrive
Brandon Virgo, California State University, Long Beach
Panel 12: Art and Marginalized Voices
Moderator: Xochitl San Vicente, California State University, Long Beach
I. Artists and their place in the system of naïve and outsider art
Andrey Khilchenko, Rostov Regional Youth Society Movement, Russia
2. A space for one’s own. Affective archives in literature and art
Magdalena Płotała, University of Silesia, Poland
3. Provincial Trash as Mythical Artifact: The Poetics of Discarded Matter in the Works of Bruno Schulz
Aleksandra Katarzyna Stokowiec, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
4. A Literary Untouchable and the Forgotten Surrealist
Camilo Villanueva, Murray State University, Kentucky
Session IX: 9:30-11 am (UTC 4:30-6 pm)
Panel 13: War, Destruction, and Dystopia
Moderator: Leila Gonzalez, California State University, Long Beach
I. The Archetypal Dystopian Outlier in John Wyndham’s Works
Hannah Elizabeth Mathew, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
2. Debating Distance: Modernity, Abstraction, and Conformity in Phil Klay’s Short Fiction
Dr. Trevor Jackson, Modesto Junior College
3. Vulnerability, Precarity, and Absurdism: Parallels between Camus’ The Plague, Soderbergh’s Contagion, and COVID-19
Jerald Kin Lara, California State University, Long Beach
4. The Role of Trauma in Relationships in Augusten Burrough’s Running With Scissors and Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You
Emily Clark, California State University, Long Beach
Panel 14: Life Writing and Identity
Moderator: Adriana Concepcion, California State University, Long Beach
I. Erasing Erasure: Writing the Self in Terese Marie Mailhot’s Heart Berries
Sharon Mugg, University of Kansas
2. Outcastes of Literature: A Study of Biographies of Indian Subaltern Women
Dr. Rashimi Attri, Aligarh Muslim University, India
3. A Dalit woman reads and acts: A critique
Aatika Singh, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
4. How Literature Breaks the Medical Gaze in Rita Charon’s “To Render the Lives of Patients”
David Bonilla Carcamo, California State University, Long Beach
Session X: 11-12:30 pm (UTC 6-7:30 pm)
Panel 15: Cultural Studies
Moderator: Dr. Vlatka Velčić, California State University, Long Beach
I. The Gothic: A Genre of Outcasts and Outliers
Megan Pierce, California State University, Long Beach
2. Outcasts in Literature and Media: From Moss’ “Exile” to Persona 4 and its Golden Animation
Eugene Shin, California State University, Long Beach
3. Exploring Outcast Identity Through Fantasy: Angels in America and The Archive of Alternative Endings
Madalyn Spangler, California State University, Long Beach
4. The Tribulations of Widows and Child Marriage as Shown by Nepali Films
Obeid Uddin, California State University, Long Beach
Panel 16: Beyond Capes and Cowls: Comics Canons and Retconning
Moderator: Amy Desuza-Riehm, California State University, Long Beach
Roundtable discussion with industry experts:
Ezra Clay Daniels
Corinna Bechko
Hector Navarro
Sam Humphries
Session XI: 12:30-2 pm UTC 7:30-9 pm)
Panel 17: Lamentations in Music
Moderator: Letitia Deon, California State University, Long Beach
I. Lawanen Kurdish “Lamentations”
Dr. Amir Sharifi, California State University, Long Beach
Dr. Ali Ashouri, San Diego State University
2. Misinterpretation of Bluebeard’s Castle
Michael Valentekovic, California State University, Long Beach
3. Lovers’ Anthem—How One Folkloric Adaptation Divides the Caucasus
Houman Hazad, California State University, Long Beach
4. Critique of the Courtly Class in Ballad Analogues of the Clerk’s Tale
Orit Klein Vartsky, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Panel 18: Disability, Identity, and Representation
Moderator: Dr. Crystal Yin Lie, California State University, Long Beach
I. Resisting Legibility: Dyslexia in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Sparsholt Affair
Dr. Helena Gurfinkel, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
2. ‘Shit could get menacing’: Kanye West, Blackness, and Understanding Disability
Dr. Erin Lee Mock, University of West Georgia
3. The World Without Sound: A Quiet Place and the Resistance to the Artificial Insemination of Information
Dr. Shipra Tholia and Dr. Amar Singh, Banaras Hindu University, India
4. The vulnerable outcasts of Leros island: institutionalized mentally ill, political exiles and contemporary refugees in Simona Vinci’s La prima verità
Dr. Amanda Skamagka, University of Athens, Greece
Session XII: 2-3:30 pm (UTC 9-10:30 pm)
Workshop: How to think about Race, Gender, Class and Ability
Moderator: Dr. Crystal Yin Lie, California State University, Long Beach
Led by Dr. Therí Pickens, Bates College
Panel 19: Outcasts in Television and Film
Moderator: Dr. Katherine McLoone, California State University, Long Beach
I. Mixedness Comes of Age: Examining Multiracial Portrayals in Young Adult TV Shows
Dr. Marc Johnston Guerrero and Lisa Combs, The Ohio State University
2. Outliers, Outcasts, and Outsiders in Captain Marvel: The Emancipatory Function of Subversive Selfhood on the Margins of Public Memory
Dr. Jose Rodriguez, California State University, Long Beach
3. “You can’t sit with us!”: The high school social reject as Marxist hero in Hollywood teen movies
Ananya Ray, Jadavpur University, India
4. Two Levels of Outcasts in Movies: Joker and Happiness
Armando Gonzalez, California State University, Long Beach
Panel 20: Outcasts in German Literature 2: Flâneurs on the Outside, Looking In
Moderator: Dionne Agawu, Austrian Fulbright Exchange Teacher Program
I. Thomas Mann’s Runaways: The Anti-Flaneur and the Flight from the Life of Modernity
Courtney Yamagiwa, Austrian Fulbright Exchange Teacher Program
2. The Living Necropolis: Movement and Vampirism in Modern Cityscapes
Vlad Sirbu, University of California, Riverside
3. The Return of the Flaneur and the Birth of the Walking Simulator: Defining a Genre from the Peripheries of Play
Curtis Maughan, Vanderbilt University
Session XIII: 3:30-5 pm (UTC 10:30 pm- 12 am)
Panel 21: Gender and Society
Moderator: Dr. Elizabeth Dahab, California State University, Long Beach
I. The ‘In-Between Place’: Exile and Disrupted Gender Identities in the Novels by Tomás Eloy Martínez
Mariya Dzhyoyeva, University of Toronto, Canada
2. Others amongst the Outcasts: Food, Deprivation and the Politics of Care in Autobiographical Narratives by Dalit Women in the English Translation
Ms. Pratibha, Ph.D. Research Scholar, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Assistant Professor (English), Sharda University, India
3. Fiction isn’t Real but Women are: the Male Gaze in Fiction and Why it is a Problem
Isabella Arnett, California State University, Long Beach
4. “I know I can do this”: Personal Identity and Voice in Hans Abrahamsen’s let me tell you
Conner David McCain, composer and musician
Session XIV: 5-6:30 pm (UTC 12 am- 2 am)
Panel 22: Queer Narratives
Moderator: Trevor Teafatiller, California State University, Long Beach
I. Queering This, Queering That: Absence of Queer narratives in the syllabi of the Departments of Literary Studies in Indian Universities
Dipanwita Paul, Jadavpur University, India
2. Voicing the margin: Blogging as textual visibilization of Northeast India’s queer community
Lede E. Miki Pohshna, North Eastern Hill University, India
3. Genderqueer Rome: Analysing Depictions of Nonbinary and Transgender Characters in Ancient Roman Poetry
Gillian Duane, California State University, Long Beach
4. Hijras (Transgenders) as Outcasts and Outliers in Indian Society: An Analysis of Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps Around the Fire
Monika Kaushik and Suman Sigroha, Indian Institute of Technology
