Reading Identity 2014: Panel Program
Session A) 10:00-11:15
Room 6-232
Narrative Forms
 Justin Monahan (MacEwan) - One Step at a Time: Sequential Realization of Unity in
the Structure of E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India
 Keith Jackson (MacEwan) - Shallow As A Pop-Up Book with All The Depth of a
Mirror: Sensical Narration As Literary Criticism in Chaucer's Dream Visions
 Nicolle Pilon (MacEwan) - Reflected Consciousness: Resonances of Truth in Poe’s
“Tell-Tale Heart”
 Katie King (MacEwan) - Romance as Fantasy and Reality in L.M. Montgomery’s The
Blue Castle and Emily’s Quest
Room 6-238
Modes of Expression: Music & Poetry
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Keighlagh Donovan (MacEwan) - A Word’s Worth: An Analysis of William
Wordsworth’s Implementation of the “Real Language of Man” and the Poetical Value
of the Expression of Pure Emotion
Jessica Barratt (MacEwan) - “Do You Compose the Music? Or Does the Music
Compose You?”: Music and Context in Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues and Burgess’
Mozart and the Wolf Gang
Eric T. Behr (MacEwan) - “Something Inaudible”: Roland Barthes’ Concept of
Listening and Literary Music
COFFEE
Session B) 11:30-12:45
Room 6-232
Animal Identities
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Kristina Vyskocil (MacEwan) - Woman Gone Wild: Dominant Female Sexuality as Fantasy
in Marian Engel’s Bear
Lynnea Ness (MacEwan) - A Bear-Bones Book, A Bare-Bones Bear: The Bear as a
Tool in Lou’s Journey of Self-Discovery in Marian Engel’s Bear
Tomas Boudreau (Mount Royal) - The Animal That Traces, Deceives, and Dies: The
Politics of Becoming Animal and the Animot between Deleuze and Derrida
Room 6-238
Constructing Identities in Fiction
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Jessica Stambaugh (UofA-Augustana) - Finding the Past, Finding the Future: History
and Identity in Possession
Celia Shea (MacEwan) - Seeing Double: The Dichotomous Nature of Seeing and
Visualizing in Mrs Dalloway
Jessica Johns (MacEwan) - “The Problem of Pride: Lucy’s Fall in Gendered Narnia”
Continued 
Room 6-252
Gendered Identities
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Mattia Jones (MacEwan) - The Great Women of Gatsby
Matatha Barr (Mount Royal) - Freedom by Chains: How Essentialism Does More To
Free Us
Caroline Ford (UofA) - Cleo's Walk: Transportation and Transition in Cleo from 5 to
7
Willow White (MacEwan) - Cowboys and Gang-Bangers: Constructions of Gender in
Otto Preminger’s River of No Return and Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V
LUNCH
Session C) 1:45-3:00
Room 6-232
Morality and Society in Fiction
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Elisia Snyder (MacEwan) - “A State of Affairs so Little in Harmony”: Daisy Miller as
a Cautionary Tale of Social and Moral Regression into the Hobbesian State of Human
Nature
 Yasmine Alhiane (MacEwan) - The Clash of Moralities in Henry Fielding’s Tom
Jones
 Dorothy Hermary (MacEwan) - Children’s Substance Abuse within Contemporary
Canadian Literature: Mirroring Reality in Our Prose
 Emily Olsen (MacEwan) - Futility of the 1920s: An Exploration of Ambition and
Identity in The Great Gatsby
Room 6-238
Identity, Memory, and Loss
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Kyle Kinaschuk (Mount Royal) - “I Could (not) Forget Thee Once”: On the
(Im)possible Work of Mourning in William Wordsworth’s “Maternal Grief”
Charles Carlson (MacEwan) - The Final Transition: Delmore Schwartz, Blade
Runner, Star Trek and Heidegger’s Existentialism
Samantha Fitzner (UofA) -“Because Memory is For Living”: Subjectivity and the
Mnemonic Supplement in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror
Nirupama Raghavan (Red Deer College) - Listen, Synch, Repeat: Muted Group
Theory in “Midnight”
Room 6-252
Cultural Hybridities
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Brittany Lehman (UofA-Augustana) - Scavenging for Identity: Pauline Becoming
Leopolda in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks
Jordan Carter (MacEwan) - Goat Songs: Ritual and Alcohol in Eugene O'Neill's Long
Day’s Journey into Night and Sam Shepherd's Buried Child
Deborah Ramkhelawan (UofA) - Rebel, Redeemer, and Representative: Louis Riel
and the Discourse of Race, Religion and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Canadian
National Identity
Lauren L. Cross (Mount Royal) - “Toronto’s Black Diaspora”: Essentialist and
Fragmented Identities in Austin Clarke’s More
COFFEE
Creative Panel 3:15-4:45
Room 6-214
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The Roaring Still Wind – short story (Rebecca Lafond, MacEwan)
Iridescence & Impositions and The Wounding Beauty of a Winter Morning – two
poems (Chris Hosker, MacEwan)
Larva – short story (Levi Binnema, U of Alberta)
Faceless – short story (Ashley Griffin, MacEwan)
The Existential Stress of Vending Machines and Cravings—two poems (Elisia
Snyder, MacEwan)
Both Very Thick and Very Thin – creative nonfiction (Justin Monahan, MacEwan)