All events will take place at the Student Center of Central Connecticut State University except for the Thursday evening banquet, which will be held on campus in the Constitution Room, Memorial Hall. For collegial, practical, and culinary reasons, we strongly recommend that you attend the Thursday night banquet!

For directions on campus, please see our campus map.

One PRE-Conference Event:

Professor Isabelle Gadoin from Université Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle, "William Morris, a Persian Artist? The (Re)Discovery of Oriental Art by Victorian Artists." Tuesday, March 27, 3:00-4:00 pm, Marcus White Living Room (2nd Floor Marcus White)

One POST-Conference Event:

Professor Pascal Bataillard from Université Lumière-Lyon II, France, "James Joyce’s Ethicacy." Wednesday, April 4, 3:00-4:00 pm, Marcus White Living Room (2nd Floor Marcus White)

Final Schedule of Events (updated 3/26/07):

Thursday, March 29, 2007 

7:45-8:45: Breakfast and Registration. Alumni Hall (Student Center)

8:45-9:00: Welcome. Alumni Hall

Dr. Carl Lovitt, Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs

Dr. Mary Anne Nunn, Acting Chair, English Department

Dr. Laurence Petit, English Department 

9:00-10:00: Keynote Address. Alumni Hall

Professor Karen Jacobs (University of Colorado at Boulder) 

10:00-10:30: Morning break. Alumni Hall 

10:30-12:00: Session I  

Panel A: Ekphrasis. Sprague Room

Chair: Héliane Ventura (Université d’Orléans, France)

James D’Agostino (Southeast Missouri State University): “Ekphrasis as Expulsion”

James Brown (University of Kansas): “’Gemeistert dar mit worten’: Ekphrasis and Visualization Strategies in the Illustrated Wigalois Manuscripts“

Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès (Université Lille II, France): “’No More Wavering’: The Ideological Role of Ekphrasis in Scott's Waverley” 

Panel B: Aesthetics and Semiotics I. Philbrick Room

Chair: Liliane Louvel (Université de Poitiers, France)

Mark Dahlquist (The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): “Iconoclasm and the Ut Pictura Poesis tradition in Elizabethan England”

Norma Bouchard (University of Connecticut, Storrs): “Umberto Eco and Images: Between Iconophobia and Iconophilia”

Letizia Modena (Villanova University, PA): “A ‘Vegetation of Disembodied Signs’: Italo Calvino’s Iconotextual Cityscapes”

Lucy Stone McNeece (The University of Connecticut): “An Oriental Mirror: Signs and Images in Pre/Postmodern Culture” 

Panel C: Text and Image in Art. Carlton Room

Chair: June Bisantz (ECSU)

Claudine Armand (Université Nancy II, France): “Disrupting the Visual: Lorna Simpson’s Handling of Words and Images”

Benjamin Harvey (Mississipi State University): “Nature into Art into Criticism: On the Origin and Use of a Cézanne Dictum”

Susan Frances Jones (Caldwell College, New Jersey): “Trilingual Inscriptions in Eyckian Narratives and Portraits”

Conor Creaney (New York University): “Paralytic Animation: The Fate of Walter Potter's Cock Robin” 

Panel D: Text and Image in Film. Camp Room

Chair: Burlin Barr (CCSU)

Laura Holzman (Philadelphia Museum of Art): “Words Gone Wild! Politicized Aesthetics in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”

Karen Ritzenhof (CCSU): “Haneke’s Cache: The Fading Art of Video”

Kim Knowles (University of Edinburgh, UK): “Reading the Cinema: Text as Image in the Films of Hollis Frampton and Peter Rose”

Tomasz Michalak (UBC, Vancouver BC, Canada): “The Music of Imagery: Cliché and Archetypes in J.L.Godard’s Notre Musique” 

Panel E: Literary Illustrations. Clock Tower Room

Chair: Stuart Barnett (CCSU)

Kirsty Bell (Mount Allison University, Canada): “The Painter and the Illustrator in Gabrielle Roy’s The Hidden Mountain”

David Spector (CCSU): “The Pre-illustration of Jane Eyre’

Susan Gilmore (CCSU): “Rounding the Word: Picturing Gertrude Stein’s The World is Round” 

Panel F: Mapping the World. Blue and White Room

Chair: Karen Jacobs (UC-Boulder)

Matthew Ciscel (CCSU): “Big Deal: Code, Script, and Image in Moldovan Signage”

D’Arcy Dornan (CCSU): “Tourism Geographies: Virtual Travels through xts and Images”

Richard Hornsey (University of the West of England, Bristol, UK): “The Romance of the A to Z: Image, Text and Fantasy in the Mapping of 1930s London » 

Nancy Pedri (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada): “Mapping the World as it Intersects with Self” 

12:30-2:00: Lunch break. Alumni Hall 

2:00-3:30: Session II 

Panel A: Icons of Suffering I. Philbrick Room

Chair: Aimee Pozorski (CCSU)

Christa Baiada (City University of New York): “Body, Text and Image in Tatana Kellner’s Fifty Years of Silence”

Elizabeth Rosen (Lafayette College, PA): "The Shape of Trauma: Two 9/11 Narratives"

Pascal Bataillard (Université Lumière-Lyon II): “The Silence of Images: Traces and Effacement in the French Graphic Novel Adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud A Solitude” 

Panel B: Photographic Evidence. Carlton Room

Chair: Vivian Martin (CCSU)

Kimberly Ivancovich (Pennsylvania State University): “The Power of Sight: Photojournalism in the Algerian War”

Heidi Hartwig (CCSU): “Auden and Isherwood’s Journey to a War: Documentary in Sonnet, Prose, and Image”

James Hewitson (University of Tennessee): “Interpreting Photographic Evidence: FSA Photography and Constructions of History” 

Panel C: Text and Image in Fiction I. Sprague Room

Chair: Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès (Université Lille II, France)

Maha Meraay (CCSU): “When Text and Image Collide: Generating Chaos in Penelope Lively’s The Photograph and W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants”

Pascale Tollance-DiPaola (Université Lille III, France): “’A Story in Geometric Shapes’: the Blurring of Text and Image in ‘The Kiss’ by Angela Carter”

Zoë Sadokierski (The University of Technology, Sydney, Australia): “Word and Image in Contemporary Fiction: The Integration of Graphic Elements as a Literary Device” 

Panel D: Ekphrastic Poetry. Camp Room

Chair: Susan Gilmore (CCSU)

Matthew Munich (Kingswood-Oxford, CT): "Ekphrasis as Agon in Homer, Virgil and Ovid"

Ravi Shankar (CCSU): “Formal Conjuration and Semantic Modes of Seeing: A Performance of Ekphrastic Poetry”

David Cappella (CCSU): “A Rendez-vous with Torture: Poems based on Botero’s Abu Ghraib Series” 

Panel E: Literary Elements in the Italian Cinema of the 1990s. Clock Tower Room

Chair: Carmela Pesca (CCSU)

Fulvio Orsitto (University of Connecticut): “Niccolò Ammaniti and Marco Risi. Between Adaptation and Re-Creation”

Renato Ventura (University of Connecticut): “La Sicilia che non c’è: Nostos and its Representation in Tornatore and Consolo”

Giovanni Spani (Trinity College): “Petrarchan Elements in Gabriele Salvatores” 

Panel F: Picturing the World. Blue and White Room

Chair: Elizabeth Anderman (UC-Boulder)

Gustavo Mejia (CCSU): “From Images to Words: Domination and Resistance of the Aztecs”

Catherine Labio (Yale University): “Text and Image in The Great Mirror of Folly”

J’Lyn Chapman (University of Denver): “Genuine Madness: The Use of the Photograph in Georges Didi-Huberman’s The Invention of Hysteria” 

3:30-4:00: Afternoon Break. Alumni Hall 

4:00-5:30: Session III 

Panel A: Literature and Film I. Philbrick Room

Chair: Melissa Mentzer (CCSU)

Pierre Floquet (ENSEIRB, Université de Bordeaux, France): “From Remake to Remote: Tex Avery’s Fairy Tales”

Dehra Scott (Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland): “‘Shots In The Dark’: Photo-Cinematic Aspects of André Malraux’s La Condition humaine”

Stéphane Vanderhaeghe (Université Lille III, France): “The Real & the Reel: Images of Time in Robert Coover’s Work” 

Panel B: Text and Image in German Literature.  Carlton Room

Michael Meyer (Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany)

Joana Konova (University of Illinois at Chicago): “Tableaux Vivants or Nature Morte: On Descriptions of Tableaux in Goethe’s Elective Affinities”

Rasma Lazda-Cazers (The University of Alabama): “Probing the Limits of Visual Representation: Reflections of Walther von der Vogelweide’s Poetry in the Art of Anselm Kiefer”

Emilie Sitzia (University of Canterbury, New Zealand): “Goethe’s Faust: Illustrated – Adjusted” 

Panel C: Drama and Performance. Camp Room

Chair: Eric Leonidas (CCSU)

Candace Barrington (CCSU): “Tracing Court(ly) Conventions in Royal Texts of John Skelton’s Poetry”

Ariel Watson (Yale University): “Theatrical Ekphrasis: The Death of the Author in the Creation of the Art Object”

Alexa Garvoille (Yale University): “The Critical Eye”

Panel D: Experimentation and the “New Media”. Sprague Room

Chair: Katherine Sugg (CCSU)

Burlin Barr (CCSU): “No Parking between Signs: On Sadie Benning’s Flat is Beautiful”

Jamie Skye Bianco (Queens College, City University of New York): “Deferred Space, or Spacing (Print Media?) & Deferred Times, or Timing (Digital Media?)—Modes of Deferral and Movement in Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions (On- and Off-line?)

Rae Schipke (CCSU): “From Traditional Books to Paperback Computers:  Hypertext and Literature” 

Panel E: Knowing the World. Clock Tower Room

Chair: Matthew Ciscel (CCSU)

William Yousman (CCSU): “Text-based faculty and image-based students: Is there any hope?”

Joddy Murray (Washington State University, Tri-Cities): “Image, Neuroscience, and Non-Discursive Rhetoric”

Jacob Bodway (State University of New York at Buffalo): “The Order of Knowing: Discourse on Aesthetics and the Language of Vision” 

5:30-7:30: Reception at the Art Gallery Building (Maloney Hall / S.T. Chen Fine Arts Center)* 

7:30-10:30: Banquet. Constitution Room

Friday, March 30, 2007 

8:00-9:00: Breakfast. Alumni Hall 

9:00-10:00: Keynote Address. Alumni Hall

Professor Liliane Louvel (Université de Poitiers, France)

10:00-10:30: Morning break. Alumni Hall 

10:30-12:00: Session IV  

Panel A: Text and Image in Fiction II. Sprague Room

Brian Folker (CCSU)

Vivian Ralickas (University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada):”’The Picture in the House’: Lovecraft and the Pornographic Image”

Robert Machado (City University of New York): “‘The scene upon which he turned his back was one worth looking at’: Framed Pictures in Harold Frederic’s Illumination”

Héliane Ventura (Université d’Orléans, France): “The Stowaway in Alice Munro’s‘Runaway’: Optical Delusions and the Trickery of the Real” 

Panel B: Aesthetics and Semiotics II. Carlton Room

Chair: Steve Cohen (CCSU)

Pragyan Rath (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai): “The ‘eye’ and the ‘I’: Romantic, Modernist and Postmodernist Perspectives”

Mikko Pirinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): “Frames and Thresholds – The Title and the Concepts of Parergon and Paratext in Visual Art”

Frederick Wasser (Brooklyn College): “Indexical Images and Words in Historical Films”  

Panel C: W.G. Sebald. Philbrick Room

Chair: Laurence Petit (CCSU)

J’Lyn Chapman (University of Denver): “Nonnarrative Structure and Photographic Images in W. G. Sebald’s The Emigrants”

Sean McGlade (Drew University): “’Lots of Little Lies for One Big Truth’”: Ekphrasis and Memory in John Banville’s The Sea and W. G.  Sebald’s The Emigrants”

Isabelle Gadoin (Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France): “Mute Images? The Photography of Melancholy in W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn” 

Panel D: Text and Image in Poetry I. Blue and White Room

Chair: Ravi Shankar (CCSU)

G. Anthony Rosso (Southern Connecticut State University): “Re-reading Blake's ‘London’”

Magdelyn Hammond (University of Maryland, College Park): “’A Beautiful Book’: Ted Hughes, Leonard Baskin, and the Process of Verbal-Visual Collaboration”

Shobha Pawar (Sir Parshurambhau College, Pune University, India): “Space, Time and the Modernist Long Poem”  

Panel E: Surrealism and its Legacy. Camp Room

Chair: Paloma Lapuerta (CCSU)

Tahia Thaddeus Reynaga (Yale University): “The ‘Magic Bishop’ of Dada:  Hugo Ball and ‘The Inner Alchemy of the Word’”

Neli Koleva (Rice University): “Empty masks in living mirrors: The Legacy of René Magritte’s Non-Pipe Pipe”

Kim Gorus (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium): “Ekphrastic Elements in Peter Verhelsts Tonguecat: a Novel”

Anne Ullmo (Universite Lille III, France): “Surrealistic Lines in Rikki Ducornet’s Entering Fire” 

12:30-2:00: Lunch break. Alumni Hall 

2:00-3:30: Session V  

Panel A: Icons of Suffering II. Carlton Room

Chair: Stephanie Cherolis (CCSU)

Danielle DiGiacomo (Independent Scholar): “Images of Everyday Trauma: Using Found Footage in Péter Forgács’s Meanwhile, Somewhere (1940-1943)”

Kristen Leatherwood (Bob Jones University, SC): "Not Waving: the 'Higher Doodlings' of Stevie Smith"

Michelle Ty (The University of Texas at Austin): “Picturing Things I Know: Image, Text, and Trauma in Dorothy Allison” 

Panel B: Literature and Film II. Sprague Room

Chair: Karen Ritzenhoff (CCSU)

Justine Kemlo (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium): “Different Voices? Film and Text or Film as Text”

Victoria Surliuga (Texas Tech University): “Venetian Poetry in Federico Fellini's ‘Casanova’”

Pascal Bataillard (Université Lumière-Lyon II): “Digging Out ‘The Dead’: Rossellini's ‘Voyage in Italy’”  

Panel C: Text and Image in the Victorian Age. Philbrick Room

Chair: Isabelle Gadoin (Université Paris III- Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)

Taylor H. Loomis (CCSU): “Conjuring Paints: Painting and Typography in the Works of Wilkie Collins”

Francesca Tancini (Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy): “Walter Crane and the Renewal of Victorian Illustrated Albums: The Creation of a New Symbolic System”

Fanny Gillet (Université Toulouse II-Le Mirail, France): “’Shut from view’: Pre-Raphaelite painting and the invisible in Keats's ‘Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil’”

Elizabeth Anderman (UC-Boulder): “No Reality Here: Sensation Novels and Photography” 

Panel D: Text and Image in French Literature. Camp Room

Chair: Anne Ullmo (Université Lille III, France)

Emilie Sitzia (University of Canterbury, New Zealand): “Writing Painter - Painting Writer: Strategies of Pictorial Writing in 19^th Century Realist French Art Novels”

Catherine J. Lewis Theobald (City University of New York, College of Staten Island): “Imag(in)ing 'Julie': The Process of Portraiture in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse”

Nina Parish (University of Bath, UK): “Turning the Page on the Artists Book? Post-1960s Experimentation with Book Form in France” 

3:30-4:00: Afternoon Break. Alumni Hall 

4:00-5:30: Session VI 

Panel A: Text and Image in Poetry II. Carlton Room

Chair: David Cappella (CCSU)

Brian Folker (CCSU): “The Image of the Text: A Parenthetical Episode in Walt Whitman”

Emma Kimberley (The University of Leicester, UK): “Colour and Abstraction in Contemporary American Poetry”

Aimee Pozorski (CCSU): “’A charming picture’: Photographic Images of Holocaust Perpetrators”  

Panel B: A.S. Byatt. Sprague Room

Chair: Pascale Tollance-di Paola (Université Lille III, France)

Sarah Gardam (Drew University): “Sound Apples, Fair Flesh, and Sunlight: A.S. Byatt’s Feminist Critique of Matisse’s Depictions of Women”

Michael Meyer (Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany): “Gendering Intermediality: A. S. Byatt's Short Fiction”

Emilie Bourdarot (Université Paris VII, France): “The quest for the ‘thing itself’ in A. S. Byatt’s Still Life” 

Panel C: Autobiography, Identity, and Memory. Philbrick Room

Chair: Pascal Bataillard (Université Lumière-Lyon II, France)

Diya M. Abdo (Arab Open University, Jordan): “Narrating Little Fatima: A Picture is Worth 1001 Tales—‘Multiple Critique’ in Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood”

Rosa Saverino (University of Toronto, Canada): “Sophie Calle and The Autobiographical Subject as Object of Reminiscence”

Laurence Petit (CCSU): “Speak, Photographs? Visual Transparency and Verbal Opacity in Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory” 

Panel D: CCSU Students: Text and Image in British Fiction. Camp Room

Chair: Jackie Geller (CCSU)

Gregory Garcia (CCSU): “Images of the Yahoos in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels”

Barbara Vita (CCSU): “Ekphrasis in Peter Ackroyd’s English Music”

Brittany Hirth (CCSU): “Trauma and Gender Division in D.M. Thomas’s Pictures at an Exhibition” 

5:30-7:30: Reception. Alumni Hall 

7:30: Bus departs for hotel and then restaurant in West Hartford.  

8:00-11:00: Restaurant (The Shish Kebab House of Afghanistan, West Hartford) 

11:00: Bus departs from West Hartford.