The Body in North American Literature and
Culture
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Institute of English Studies, University of Lodz
Conference organized by The United Students Society (Department of
American Literature and Culture, Institute of English Studies, University of
Lodz)
8.15-8.45 registration
8.45-9 Conference opening – room 105
9-10.15 The Body and Its Sexuality (chair: K.
Majer) – room 105
Magdalena Ładuniuk (UMCS), “Nature Never
Deceives Us; It Is Always We Who Deceive
Ourselves.” Sexuality, Nature and Culture in Alice
Munro’s “Vandals.”
9-10.15 The Body in Film (chair: N.
Czarnecka-Pałka) – room 303A
Katarzyna Bresler (UŁ), Motion Picture
Association of America’s attitude towards
displays of nudity in the films released in the
USA
Magdalena Róg (UAM), “Obscenity is a cleansing Mgr Justyna Fruzińska (UŁ), The Body Politics
process”: The language of the body in Henry in Walt Disney Post-1989 Films
Miller’s Tropic of Cancer
Ludmiła Janion (UW), “But who does live?” The
Mgr Monika Kocot (UŁ), The Cult of the Phallus Cyborg as a Tool for the Reinterpretation of
Carnality, Sexuality, and Mortality in American
in James Douglas Morrison’s “Lament”
Postmodernism.
10.15-10.30 break
10.30-11.30 Keynote lecture - room 105:
dr Małgorzata Myk (UŁ), “For the heavy life and soaking fears are remedies gliding with
ferocious gestures”: A Few Thoughts on the Body in Experimental Women’s Writing (chair: J.
Fruzińska)
11.30-11.45 break
11.45-13.30 Gendered Bodies (chair: M. Myk) – 11.45-13 The Body of the Other (chair: M.
room 105
Kocot) – room 303A
Jan Michelle Andres, MA (UŁ), The Voice of “A Agnieszka Podruczna (UŚ), My Body Is a
Girl Like I”: Containment in Howard Hawk’s Cage… Mimicry and Colonization of the Body in
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Nisi Shawl's “Deep End”
Mgr Nina Czarnecka-Pałka (UŁ), Female Body as Katarzyna
Raczyńska
(UAM),
Othered
Edible Commodity and Inedible Pollutant in corporeality – maternal, queer and racial bodies
Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy
in Ann Marie MacDonald’s Fall on your knees
Mgr Marta Olasik (UW), Glamorous Bodies vs. Mgr Anna-Maria Horowska (UŁ), Familiar
Reality of the (Un)Gendered: Reflections on Shapes of the Other or How Human Mind
Identity Politics and the Role of Queer Perspective Imagines Alien Bodies
as Based on Lesbian TV Series The L Word
Magdalena Gnieciak (UMCS), The ageing body
Mgr Tomasz Fisiak (UŁ), David Cronenberg’s and mind in Margaret Atwood’s short stories.
The Brood: the Monstrous Mother and the horror
of the female body
13.30-15 lunch
15-16.45 The Body and Self-image (chair: T. 15-16.45 The Body’s Beauty
Fisiak) – room 303A
Szuster) – room 105
(chair: M.
Mgr Małgorzata Olsza (UAM), Between the Mgr Anna Kurowicka (UW) Alternative Paths to
Immortality in Mary Rosenblum's Chimera: A
subject and the object: Chris Burden's body art.
Feminist Take on Embodiment in Postcyberpunk.
Dorota Wawrzyniak (UŁ / University of
Flensburg), Body, language and identity – a Zuza Kiełczykowska (UŁ), The tyranny of
meditation on metamorphoses in Yann Martel’s beauty: esthetics of the body in the Uglies series
Self
by Scott Westerfeld
Julia Szuster (UŁ), Examining the body of Patrick Ewelina Szychowska (UŁ), Ideal Men, Ideal
Women. Notes on the correspondence between
Bateman of American Psycho.
the body and soul as presented in Northern
Natalia Malek (UW), To imagine a hideous bitch. American art.
The vulnerable and grotesque body in Elizabeth
Bishop’s “Pink Dog”
16.45-17 break
17-17.50 The Body and Its Media (chair: J. 17-17.50 Embodiments of Memory (chair: K.
Fruzińska) – room 303A
Majer) – room 105
Zuzanna Ludwa (UAM), Dressing up the body of
the text: The role of paratextual means in the
perception of novels on the example of Philip
Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint
Lola Arellano-Weddleton (Smith College /
University of Warsaw), The Disembodiment of
Mourning and Memory within Holocaust Lieux
de Mémoire
Katarzyna Kamińska (UŁ, Goldsmith University), Jakub Ciesielczyk (UAM) “Wonderful! To study
The body as a new literary medium in Don history as if it were a body”: The image of the
head and the discourse of history in Anil’s Ghost
DeLillo’s The Body Artist
by Michael Ondaatje
17.50-18 conference closing – room 105