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The International Conference on Narrative will be held at 麻豆AV in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from April 18 鈥� 22, 2018.

Professor Lindsay Holmgren invites the Desautels Community to attend the Panels and Talks hosted at the Desautels Faculty of Management.

Please note that the plenary engagements are closed to the public due to limited seating in Moyse Hall.

1. To Honor Mieke Bal: The 2018 Wayne C. Booth Award Panel

Location: 151
Moderator: Brian McHale, The Ohio State University

Presentations:

• Quoting Caravaggio: Mieke Bal鈥檚 Return to/of the Baroque
  Walter Moser, University of Ottawa
• Instrumental Narratives, Instrumental Narratology
  Maria M盲kel盲, University of Tampere / Aarhus University
• Mieke Bal: Reading Biblical Narrative Otherwise
  David Richter, CUNY
• An Eye for Detail Like No Other: Mieke Bal as a Close Reader
  Esther Peeren, University of Amsterdam

2. Cultural Narratives II

Location: 422
Moderator: Donald Pease, Dartmouth College

Presentations:

• The Fugitive and Rodney King: How Black Bodies Matter in American Urban Space
  Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky
• The Voting Rights Act Without Tears
  Jennie Kassanoff, Columbia University
• Questions for Psychoanalysis and Race
  Hortense Spillers, Vanderbilt University

3. Forms of Address in Austen

Location: 423
Moderator: Mary Ann O鈥橣arell, Texas A & M University

Presentations:

• Ideational Mimetics: The Narrator鈥檚 Cruelty as an Address to the Reader in Austen鈥檚 Persuasion
  David Sigler, University of Calgary
• Of Elizabeth and Lizzie: A Novel, a Web Series, and the Question of Direct Address
  Mary Ann O鈥橣arrell, Texas A & M University
• Rapport with Jane: Social Effects of Austen鈥檚 Indirect Style
  Elaine Auyoung, University of Minnesota
• Jane Austen鈥檚 Figurative Language
  Joe Bray, University of Sheffield

4. Narrative Possibilities in Serial TV

Location: 410
Moderator: Jason Mittell, Middlebury College

Presentations:

• Narrative Comprehension in The Wire
  Nathan Richards, The Ohio State University
• Defining Metafiction in the Age of Multiplicity
  Evan Van Tassell, The Ohio State University
• You Win or You Die: Generic Conflict and Narrative Destiny in Game of Thrones
  Drew Sweet, The Ohio State University

5. Space

Location: 360
Moderator: Ned Schantz, 麻豆AV

Presentations:

• Interiors in Novels as Social Criticism: A Gateway to Readers鈥� Empathy
  Ellen Beyaert, Ghent University
• Home is Where the Narrative Is: Hitchcock and the Apartment Plot
  John Bruns, College of Charleston
• Incarnations, Communications, and One Exquisite Corpse: What Architectural Portals From Chartres鈥� Cathedral, Rockefeller Center, and the Minnesota State Crime Lab Reveal
  Connie Fletcher, Loyola University Chicago
• Traveling the 鈥淕reat Outdoors鈥�: Narration, Space, and the Absolute in Margaret Fuller鈥檚 Summer on the Lakes, in 1843
  Ridvan Askin, University of Basel

6. Race

Location: 310
Moderator: Hema Chari, California State University, Los Angeles

Presentations:

• Laughing At or With the Black Clown? Laughter as Narrative Tool in Roschdy Zem鈥檚 Chocolat
  Hanna Laruelle, University of Pennsylvania
• Grace Quek鈥檚 Monstrous Sexuality: Ambiguity and Victimhood in Gough Lewis鈥� Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
  Bonnie Opliger, The Ohio State University
• Enigma and Ethics: Unknowing Narrators and Reader Responsibility in Helen Oyeyemi鈥檚 Boy, Snow, Bird
  Jean Wyatt, Occidental College

7. Conrad and the Postcolonial Subject

Location: 245
Moderator: Daniel Hannah, Lakehead University

Presentations:

• Interstiti al Masculinity in 狈辞蝉迟谤辞尘辞鈥檚 Queer Geographies
  Daniel Hannah, Lakehead University
• Missing in Action: retakes, voice-overs and (im)propaganda in Joseph Conrad鈥檚 鈥楾he Unlighted Coast鈥�
  Kate Burling, University of CapeTown
• Mimetic Shame: Reflections of Postcolonial Subjects Across the Postcolonial Novel
  Gillian Bright, University of Toronto

8. (What) Is a Victorian Character?

Location: 210
Moderator: Tara MacDonald, University of Idaho

Presentations:

• The Body of a Character
  Trisha Banerjee, Harvard University
• Narrative Authority in Austen鈥檚 Persuasion
  Jessica Kane, Michigan State University
• Referring to No One in Pride and Prejudice
  Rebecca Ehrhardt, University of Southern California
• 鈥淲hirled on through all these phases of my life鈥�: Character and Space in Elizabeth Gaskell鈥檚 North and South
  Corinna Schroeder, University of Southern California

9. Realism and Its Discontents

Location: 179
Moderator: Marcie Frank, Concordia University

Presentations:

• Early, Contemporary, Recent: Discussions on Realist Narratives
  Bohumil Fort, Masaryk University
• Information and the Novel: Margaret Drabble鈥檚 The Radiant Way
  Carol Colatrella, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Mystery begets mystery: Machado鈥檚 Humbug, or, How to read a thing that is not
  Marcelo Pen, University of S茫o Paolo
• Mimetic-Didactic Narratives: Realism and Rhetoric in Environmental Fiction
  Markku Lehtimaki, University of Eastern Finland

10. Situated Minds

Location: 340
Moderator: Frederick Luis Aldama, The Ohio State University
Respondent: Yanna Popova, Oxford University

Presentations:

• Queering Minds in Video Games: Narrative Interfaces and Representations
  Cody Mejeur, Michigan State University
• Situating Dracula鈥檚 Permeable Minds
  Sandra Beals, Michigan State University
• Modeling the Mind of the modern Girl: Stream of Consciousness in Jean Rhys鈥� Good Morning, Midnight
  Valentina Roman, University of Michigan