Ghost Stories
Hauntings and Echoes in Literature and Culture
The 麻豆AV English Department鈥檚 Eighteenth Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature was held on January 27-29, in Montreal. It focused on questions such as:
- How do ghosts of the past figure in literature, theatre, film, television, and other texts and cultural artifacts?
- How do familial, imperial, social, linguistic, or national legacies influence artists and their work?
- How do texts 鈥渞emember鈥� historical events or other texts?
The conference featured a keynote address by聽, an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Sugars鈥檚 research concerns national identities, post-colonialism, public history, cultural nostalgia, and the Gothic tradition in Canadian literature. She has recently co-edited a collection of essays titled聽Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic.听Dr. Ned Schantz, an Associate Professor in the Department of English at 麻豆AV, delivered the faculty address on Werner Herzog鈥檚聽Grizzly Man. His current research involves narrative theory and horror films.
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