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The Margaret Atwood Society |
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Modern Language Association Convention
Myth and Intertextuality in the Works of Margaret Atwood Thursday, 28 December 1:45-3:00 p.m., 304, Philadelphia Marriott · "The Crone Creator Goddess in Atwood's The Penelopiad," Sharon R. Wilson, Univ. of Northern Colorado · "Myth in Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad," Earl G. Ingersoll, State Univ. of New York, Brockport · "The Penelopiad: Atwood's Parodic and Burlesque Transformation of the Penelope Myth," Hilde Staels, Univ. of Leuven · "Unmaking Myth in The Penelopiad," Lauren J. Lacey, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick · "Margaret Atwood's Myth Remaking in Recent Poems and The Penelopiad," Tomoko Kuribayashi, Univ. of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Performing Atwood Saturday, 30 December 1:45-3:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Jennifer M. Hoofard, Univ. of California, Davis; Tomoko Kuribayashi, Univ. of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
· "Misconceiving Atwood: The Edible Woman in Performance," Deborah Phelps, Sam Houston State Univ. · "Multiple Identities: A One-Woman Show of the Writing of Margaret Atwood," Lisa Weckerle, Kutztown Univ. of Pennsylvania · "(In)Habitation: Settings of Margaret Atwood Poems by Women Composers," Gilya Hodos, Penn State Univ., Abington; Eileen Strempel, Syracuse Univ.
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference February 2006
Margaret Atwood Society Panel Organizer: Cynthia Kuhn (Metropolitan State College of Denver) Presiding: Debrah Raschke (Southeast Missouri State University)
· Elizabeth J. Fleitz (Bowling Green State University ): “Troubling Gender: Rethinking the Disordered Body in Atwood’s The Edible Woman” · Cathia Jenainati (University of Warwick): “Narratives of Aging and Melancholia: Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel and Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin” · Debrah Raschke (Southeast Missouri State University): “‘Shock and Awe’: Machiavellian Politics in Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride”
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference information
Modern Language Association Convention
Teaching Margaret Atwood’s Works
Presiding: Jennifer M. Hoofard, Univ. of California, Davis · Shuli Barzilai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): “Atwood in the Classroom: Looking Back, Looking Forward” · Tomoko Kuribayashi (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point): “Teaching Margaret Atwood’s Poems Along with Sylvia Plath’s” · Marie I. Lovrod (Mount Holyoke College): “Teaching Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in the Context of Transnational Feminisms” · Lynne Bruckner (Chatham College): “Surfacing in the Ecofeminist Classroom”
Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
Presiding: Dunja M. Mohr, Univ. of Erfurt · Karma Waltonen (University of California, Davis): “Beyond Didacticism: The Relations between the Personal and the Political in Oryx and Crake” · Deborah Rosenthal, (Massasoit Community College): “‘Here and Not Here’: Fragmentation in the Absence and Presence of Maternal and Romantic Bonding in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake” · Alice Rachel Ridout (University of Toronto): “Tragic Triangles: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and The Blind Assassin” · Tara Johnson (Ball State University), “Locating Sources of Knowlege and Truth in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference
Margaret Atwood Society Panel Organizers: Karen Macfarlane (Mount Saint Vincent University) and Cynthia Kuhn (Metropolitan State College of Denver) Presiding: Sally A. Jacobsen (Northern Kentucky University)
· Karma Waltonen (University of California, Davis): “Transgressing Through Humor in Oryx and Crake” · Ian Williams (University of Toronto): “Or What: Voicing Irony in Morning in the Burned House” · Sue Sorensen (University of Winnipeg): “‘Death by Landscape’: Atwood’s Revision of Wordsworth’s ‘Lucy’ Poems” · Sally A. Jacobsen (Northern Kentucky University), “Fishy Food, Global Business and Atwood’s Postmodern High Jinks in Oryx and Crake.”
Modern Language Association Convention
Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Visions Presiding: Joy Arbor (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
· Sharon R. Wilson (University of Northern Colorado): “Dr. Frankenstein in Oryx and Crake” · Debrah Raschke (Southeast Missouri State University): “The Temptation to Apocalypse in Atwood’s The Robber Bride” · Dunja M. Mohr (University of Erlangen): “‘The Rag Ends of Language’: The Poetic Discourse of Survival in Atwood’s Future Visions” · Deborah Phelps (Sam Houston State University): “Apocalyptic Canada: The Nationalist Lessons of Susanna Moodie”
Margaret Atwood and the Craft of Narrativity Presiding: Lynda Hall (University of Calgary)
· Sally A. Jacobsen (University of Northern Kentucky): “The Blind Assassin: Negotiating with the Canadian Postmodern.” · Earl G. Ingersoll (SUNY College at Brockport): “Margaret Atwood as Narrative Innovator: The Handmaid’s Tale.” · Theodore F. Sheckels (Randolph-Macon College): “Critic as Storyteller: Margaret Atwood’s Use of Narrative in Survival and Second Words.” · Radmila Nastic (Belgrade): “Narrating Alterity in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing.”
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference
Sleight-of-Hand: Transgressive Strategies in Margaret Atwood's Fiction
· Sally Jacobsen (Northern Kentucky University): "Negotiating with the Dead in The Blind Assassin" · Susan Hoeness-Krupsaw (University of Southern Indiana): "Snowman goes Windigo: Ironic Reversals in Oryx and Crake" · Shuli Barzilai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "Gothic Fractures in Lady Oracle"
Modern Language Association Convention
Margaret Atwood and the Environment · Holly Blackford (Rutgers University, Camden): "The Ecological Movement of the Female Body in Surfacing" · Susan Fisher (University College of the Fraser Valley): "'The Faces of Animals': Margaret Atwood and the Animal Story" · Patricia Merivale (University of British Columbia): "Oryx and Crake: The Unhinging of the Ecological Imagination" · Theodore Sheckels (Randolph-Macon College): "Escaping from Mapped Space: Margaret Atwood's Recent Novels"
Margaret Atwood's Multiple Bodies · Sally Chivers (Trent University) and Nicole Markotic (University of Calgary): "Margaret Atwood’s Problem Bodies" · Jennifer Hoofard (University of California, Davis): "'It Is Her Body, Silent / and Fingerless, Writing This Poem': Margaret Atwood’s ‘Notes toward a Poem That Can Never Be Written" · Laura Wright (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): "National Photographic: Embodying the Animal in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing" · Steven Bruhm (Mount Saint Vincent University): "Lepers Leaping, Ladies Dancing: Aesthetics and Kinesthetics in Margaret Atwood"
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