The 2026 English Graduate Symposium will be hosted on Friday, May 8th, from 9:15 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. in HG 1010. This annual conference brings together graduate scholars from across the School of Humanities for a series of interdisciplinary, interactive, interesting panels and discussions. The conference's keynote speaker, Dr. Christopher Seiji Berardino, Assistant Professor of English at UC Riverside, whose theory of "Multitude Modernism" inspired this year's theme: Multitudes.
Please RSVP to the closing reception by Friday, May 1st.
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Opening Remarks: Jonathan Alexander - 9:15 a.m. Panel I: Textual Collectives - 9:30 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. Moderated by Prof Jonathan Alexander Mishal Imaan Syed: "Phillis Wheatley in Conversation with Honoree Jeffers and Other Theorists: Voicing, Performance, and Historicized Negotiations of Liberty in Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" Beka Castro: "Margery's 'Comfortable' Heart: Textual Sanctuary in the Book of Margery Kempe" Holden d'Evegnee: "'Latent within a Vast Energy-Broth': Empathic Necromancy in the Archive of George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo" Panel II: Knowledge Systems- 11:00 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. Moderated by Prof Andre Keiji Kunigami Fer de la Cruz: "The 'More Than One, but Less Than Many' Approach to Reading Today's First-Nation Literatures of Abya Yala" Martin Vela: "Timeline Bells and Languages" Kelin Sophia Tham: ''A Burmese Girl's Record of Apocalyptic Travels: Illegibility, Lacuna, and Workshop as Performance" Lunch (provided for participants) - 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in HG 1002 Panel III: Narrative Logics - 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Moderated by Prof Theodore Martin Lucy Fang: "H.T. Tsiang's Modalities of Labor and Value" Rafael Alejandro Herrera De La Cruz: "Violence as Pedagogy: How Narrative Produces the Multitude" Trevor Redd Smith: "Marathon, Mouselook, and Cybernetic Multitudes" R. M. Corbin: "'Possibilities Nevertheless Proliferate': The Televisual Aesthetic in the Early Short Fiction of Donald Barthelme" Keynote - 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Dr. Christopher Seiji Berardino (UC Riverside): "Towards a 'Multitude Modernism': Coalescence, Recovery, and Revolutionary Romanticism in H.T. Tsiang's Union Square" Closing Reception - 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. |