In celebration of her retirement—and four decades of scholarship and teaching at UCI—the School of Humanities and Department of Comparative Literature is pleased to announce a Symposium for Gabriele Schwab.
Saturday, June 1, 2024 | 9:45 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Humanities Gateway 1010
Schwab’s students and colleagues, past and present, will share talks on Schwab’s scholarly corpus, reflections on her teaching and mentorship, and creative presentations inspired by her work. A light breakfast, lunch, and an evening reception will be provided.
Please RSVP (and share your thoughts and ephemera about Gabriele Schwab) here.
Symposium Schedule
9:45-10:15 a.m.
Coffee and Light Breakfast
10:15-10:30 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Tamara Beauchamp
10:30-11:15 a.m.
Comparative Literature, Anthropology, and the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies
- Liron Mor | Tom Boellstorff | Kamal Sadiq
11:15-11:45 a.m.
Reflections on Teaching and Mentorship I
- Andrew Tonkovich | Holli Levitsky | Travis Tanner
11:45-12:30 p.m.
Scholarly Excursions I
- Mrinalini Chakravorty | Transitions
- Robert Barrett | “Making contact with otherness”: Pedagogy and the Transitional Space of Science Fiction
12:15-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00-1:40 p.m.
Scholarly Excursions II
- Gwen Pare | Trans/Species/Baroque: Conversations with Gabriele Schwab, past, present, and future
- Gregg Lambert | The Smallest Woman in the World
1:40-2:45 p.m.
Creative Interlude
- Clara McLean | Poems
- James Yamada | Fiction
- Christine Dianne Guiyangco | Lost Unnamable End
2:45-3:00 p.m.
Break
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Reflections on Teaching and Mentorship II
- Leila Neti | Mariam Lam
- Open time for spontaneous contributions from symposium attendees facilitated by Jon-David Settell
4:00-4:45 p.m.
Forty Years at UCI
- Gabriele Schwab
4:45-6:00 p.m.
Reception
This event has been generously sponsored by the School of Humanities and the Department of Comparative Literature. Questions? Please contact Tamara Beauchamp (tbeaucha@uci.edu).
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Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature Gabriele Schwab first came to UCI in 1983 as a Visiting Professor and joined the School of Humanities as ladder-rank faculty member in 1986. She has held joint faculty appointments in the departments of Anthropology, English, European Languages and Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies and has taught in the Humanities Core Program and at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Among her many awards, she has received Heisenberg and Guggenheim Fellowships. Her many field-traversing publications include Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times (Columbia UP, 2023), Radioactive Ghosts: On Nuclear Ecologies (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), Imaginary Ethnographies: Literature, Culture, Subjectivity (Columbia UP, 2012), Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma (Columbia UP, 2010), The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language (Indiana UP, 1996), and Subjects Without Selves (Harvard UP, 1994). She has taught and mentored countless undergraduate and graduate students at UCI.