11th Annual English Honours Colloquium

Online Conference and Recorded Presentations
Wed, Feb 3 to Fri, Feb 5

https://conferences.usask.ca/enghons2021/

Live Webinar Discussion Panels
Fri, Feb 5
11:00 am to 2:30 pm

Tickets to the webinar panels are free, and available until Friday morning, 8 a.m. You can register for these online panels and get your tickets through Eventbrite here:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/english-honours-colloquium-tickets-138667384881

Please note: you will receive one email on Friday morning, providing you with four separate links to the four separate webinar panels.

As well, be sure to check out all the pre-recorded presentations, which are available on our conference site from Wed, Feb 3 to Friday, Feb 5.

For now, you can peruse the panels, paper topics and abstracts, and student bios here: https://conferences.usask.ca/enghons2021

Feb 5 Schedule

Wed, Feb 3 to Fri, Feb 5

Recorded presentations available on our Honours Colloquium conference website.

Fri, Feb 5 Schedule

11:00 - 11:35 AM

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

Dr. Ann Martin, Professor and Acting Undergraduate Chair, Department of English

PANEL 1: DELVING INTO DICKINSON

Moderator: Dr. Jenna Hunnef, Professor, Department of English

Doubt as an Integral Component of Faith in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

Mae McDonald

“Were I with thee”: The Distance between Desire and Love in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry

Ana Cristina Camacho

Emily Dickinson and Involuntary Invasions of Privacy: The Problem with Defining the “Outer – from the Inner”

Lauryn Andrew

“I was the slightest in the House”: Starvation, Smallness, and Self-Denial as Experiences of Anorexia in the Poems of Emily Dickinson

Megan Fairbairn

11:35 AM -12:00 PM

BREAK

12:00 PM -12:35 PM

PANEL 2: DUALLING LITERATURES; OR SOCIAL DIALOGUES IN LITERARY FORM

Moderator: Dr. Lisa Vargo, Professor, Department of English and Acting Head Department of Art and Art History

The Representation of Women in Fairy Tales from Marie de France to the Brothers Grimm

Chelsea Hill

Aemelia Lanyer, Ben Jonson, and the True Lineage of the English Country House Poem

Miguel Dela Pena

From Fear to Opportunity: The Napoleonic Wars in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda and Jane Austen’s Persuasion

Cara Schwartz

12:35-1:00 PM

BREAK

1:00-1:35 PM

PANEL 3: MEDIEVAL FEMINISMS

Moderator: Dr. Yin Liu, Professor, Department of English and Coordinator, CMRS

Dido to Dames: Classical Antagonists in The Book of the City of Ladies

Deklan Iris-Hoscheit

"Both Dragons and Doves”: Widows and Misogynistic Literary Archetypes in Dunbar’s Tretiis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue

Megan Gorsalitz

Girls Also Want to Have Fun: Female Pleasure and Sexuality in Boccaccio’s The Decameron and its Film Adaptation

Vici Herbison

The Modern Medieval Woman: Female Agency in Marie de France’s Lanval, The Two Lovers, Equitan, and Chaitivel

Radiance Harris

1:35-2:00 PM

BREAK

2:00-2:35 PM

ACCESSING AUTONOMY

Moderator: Dr. Kathleen James-Cavan, Professor, Department of English

“Gratification of an innocent Curiosity”: Resistance to Sexual Limitations on Women in Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina, or Love in a Maze

Cori Thorstad

Resisting Racialized Narratives: Nancy's Visceral Impression in William Faulkner's "That Evening Sun"

Dana Kasdorf

Academic Libraries, UX (User Experience), and the Need for Accessibility in Academia

Ashley Lekach

2:35 PM

CLOSING REMARKS

Dr. Brent Nelson, Head, Department of English