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62nd Annual ACCUTE Conference

1-4 June 2019 Vancouver, British Columbia

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2019 ACCUTE Board of Directors

Jennifer Andrews, President Elizabeth Effinger, Vice President Manina Jones, Outgoing President Laura K. Davis, Colleges Representative Lee Easton, Committee for Professional Concerns Chair Ann Gagné, Contract Academic Faculty Representative Nevena Martinović, Graduate Student Caucus President Mark McCutcheon, Priestley Prize Committee Chair Allan Pero, ESC Editor Peter Sinnema, CACE President ACCUTE Office Staff Vicky Simpson, Coordinator Contact: [email protected]

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Table of Contents

President’s Welcome ............................................................................. 4

Acronyms ............................................................................................... 6

UBC, Campus Map Detail ....................................................................... 7

Member Safety ...................................................................................... 8

Plenary Speaker: Jasbir K. Puar ............................................................ 10

Plenary Speaker: David Chariandy ........................................................ 11

PROGRAM

SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST, 2019

8:30-10:00 am ....................................................................................... 12

ACCUTE Board Meeting ............................................................... 12

10:30-12:00 pm .................................................................................... 12

LUNCH 12:00-1:30 pm .......................................................................... 15

1:30-3:00 pm ........................................................................................ 16

3:30-5:00 pm ........................................................................................ 20

Plenary: Jasbir K. Puar, “Spatial Debilities: Slow Life and Carceral Capitalism in Palestine” ................................................ 20

SATURDAY EVENING ............................................................................. 20

ESC Bash 21

Grad Pub Night ............................................................................ 21

SUNDAY, JUNE 2ND, 2019

8:30-10:00 am ....................................................................................... 21

10:30-12:00 pm .................................................................................... 24

LUNCH 12:00-1:30pm ........................................................................... 27

ACCUTE Campus Reps Meeting ................................................... 27

ACCUTE Grad Caucus Meeting .................................................... 27

1:30-3:00 pm ........................................................................................ 28

3:30-5:00 pm ........................................................................................ 31

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Plenary: David Chariandy, “Theory” ............................................ 32

SUNDAY EVENING ................................................................................. 32

Dinner for ACCUTE Board and Plenary Speakers ......................... 32

MONDAY, JUNE 3RD, 2019

8:30-10:00 am ....................................................................................... 33

Keynote Address: David Palumbo-Liu, “Ethics Before Comparison” ...................................................................................... 39

LUNCH 12:00-1:30 pm .......................................................................... 39

CAF Meeting ................................................................................ 39

1:30-3:00 pm ........................................................................................ 40

4:00-6:30 pm ........................................................................................ 43

ACCUTE Annual General Meeting ................................................ 43

ACCUTE Celebration of Research ................................................ 43

MONDAY EVENING ............................................................................... 43

ACCUTE Dance Party .................................................................... 43

TUESDAY, JUNE 4TH, 2019

8:30-10:00 am ....................................................................................... 44

10:30-12:00 pm .................................................................................... 47

LUNCH 12:00-1:30 pm .......................................................................... 50

ACCUTE Wrap-up Board Meeting ................................................ 50

1:30-3:00 pm ........................................................................................ 51

3:30-5:00 pm ........................................................................................ 51

TUESDAY EVENING ............................................................................... 51

Christianity and Literature Study Group (CLSG) .................................... 52

Sponsors 56

Donors 68

Annual General Meeting Agenda ......................................................... 70

Minutes of the 2018 ACCUTE Annual General Meeting ......................... 72

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President’s Welcome

As the current president, I am absolutely thrilled to welcome you to the 62nd annual ACCUTE conference at the University of

British Columbia’s Vancouver campus! I invite you to take a close look at our amazing program of events from June 1st to 4th and urge you to consult the Best Practices guides for Beginners, Chairs, and Presenters to get ready for an action-packed conference (https://accute.ca/accute-conference/best-practices-for-presenters-and-chairs). I still remember with great fondness my first time presenting a paper at the yearly ACCUTE conference, way back in 1996, when I was a naïve and wide-eyed MA student; that initial experience of intellectual stimulation, deep friendship, and supportive community has kept me coming back for over twenty years. Our annual conference provides a place to meet, test out and share ideas, and nurture our academic and personal selves. We may spend the days hard at work but we do have fun, so don’t miss the Celebration of Research along with the fabulous and famous ACCUTE Dance Party where scholars let loose under the strobe lights!

-Jen Andrews Thank you to the Aid for Interdisciplinary Sessions Fund and the International Keynote Speakers Fund for their support of our plenary

sessions, so collegially shared with CACLALS. A special thanks to Mariam Pirhabi and Henghameh Saroukhani for working so closely and effectively with our ACCUTE office! We are also appreciative of CCLA’s efforts to partner with us on a joint session. ACCUTE is lucky to have Katja Thieme as our UBC Local Area Coordinator. We also owe a special thank you to Laura Moss, a

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longtime ACCUTE member and this year’s Academic Convenor of Congress for helping us secure a fantastic venue for our Dance Party! Our appreciation goes out to our dedicated Board members, and the members of the Priestly and Graduate Student Essay Prize Committees who have been reading speedily in order to get things ready for our Celebration of Research. Our Gold, Silver, and Bronze Sponsors are also owed a heartfelt thank you for their support. Most importantly, ACCUTE is made possible by the hard work, creativity, and dedication of our Office Coordinator, Vicky Simpson and our VP, Liz Effinger, who have worked tirelessly on this conference—I am incredibly grateful and lucky to have you onboard!

Territorial Acknowledgment Welcome to the University of British Columbia. The UBC campuses and operations are located

on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Musqueam people (Point Grey campus), the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh (pronounced slay-wah-tooth) peoples (Downtown Vancouver campus), and the Syilx (pronounced see-yil-x) Okanagan people (Okanagan campus).

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Acronyms

Meetings BSP: ACCUTE Board-Sponsored Panel GP: General Panel JSP: Joint-Sponsored Panel MOP: Member-Organized Panel Associations CAAS Canadian Association for American Studies CACE Canadian Association of Chairs of English CACLALS Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies CAF Contract Academic Faculty CASDW Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse & Writing CCLA Canadian Comparative Literature Association CLSG Christianity and Literature Study Group CPC Committee for Professional Concerns CSDH/SCHN Canadian Society for Digital Humanities ESC English Studies in Canada GSC Graduate Student Caucus IGA International Gothic Association ILSA Indigenous Literary Studies Association NASSR North American Society for the Study of Romanticism NAVSA North American Victorian Studies Association VSAO Victorian Studies Association of Ontario Buildings BUCH Buchanan Building, 1866 Main Mall, UBC CHEM 2036 Main Mall, UBC Congress Hub (Expo, Registration Desk, Info Centre, etc.), AMS Nest Building, 6133 University Boulevard, UBC Koerner’s Pub 6371 Crescent Road, UBC First Nations Longhouse 1985 West Mall, UBC NEST AMS Nest Building, 6133 University Boulevard, UBC Wolf and Hound 3617 West Broadway, Vancouver UCLL The Leon and Thea Koerner University Centre, 6331 Crescent Road, UBC

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UBC, Campus Map Detail Please visit maps.ubc.ca for a larger map of campus.

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Member Safety ACCUTE believes that all members of our association have the right to be part of a community that is free from any form of Sexual Violence, including Sexual Harassment and Assault. We are committed to ensuring the safety of all conference presenters and attendees. Please note that the Federation has a Congress Code of Conduct that all participants must adhere to, at both on- and off-campus events and venues. It is posted at https://www.congress2019.ca/congress-code-conduct. The ACCUTE Office, currently based at the University of New Brunswick, draws on our institutional policy to clearly define terminology. Sexual harassment and assault are defined as following:

conduct of a sexual nature such as, but not limited to, verbal abuse or threats of a sexual nature, unwelcome sexual invitations or requests, demands for sexual favours, or repeated innuendos or taunting about a person’s body, appearance, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

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Resources to respond to and report sexual violence during our time at UBC

Emergency: 911 UBC Campus Security: 604-822-2222 UBC Campus Security Online Non-Emergency Incident Reporting System: https://ealert.security.ubc.ca/D3SOC/ealert/default.aspx Vancouver Police Department: 311 or 604-717-3321 (for non-emergency police situations, where the immediate dispatch of a vehicle and officers is not required). WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre: 1-877-392-7583 (free 24-hour crisis and information line, offers hospital accompaniment for those seeking medical attention from the Sexual Assault Team at Vancouver General Hospital) Federation of the Social Sciences and Humanities: [email protected].

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Plenary Speaker: Jasbir K. Puar “Spatial Debilities: Slow Life and Carceral

Capitalism in Palestine” 3:30 pm, Saturday, June 1st, 2019

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Jasbir K. Puar is Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her most recent book is The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017), published with Duke University

Press in the series ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise that she co-edits with Mel Chen. Puar is the author of award-winning Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007), which has been re-issued in an expanded version for its 10th anniversary (December 2017). She also writes for The Guardian, Huffington Post, Art India, The Feminist Review, Bully Bloggers, Jadaliyya, and Oh! Industry. Puar’s major awards include a 2018 Fellowship from the Palestinian American Research Council, and the 2013-14 Society for the Humanities Fellowship at Cornell University. She received the 2013 Modern Languages Association Gay Lesbian/Queer Caucus Michael Lynch Award for her years of scholar-activist work. In January 2013 she was honored with the Robert Sutherland Visitorship at Queen’s University, awarded to “a notable individual with expertise in race relations.” In 2017 Puar’s article “Bodies with New Organs: Becoming Trans, Becoming Disabled” (Social Text #124) was awarded the MLA’s Gay Lesbian/Queer Caucus’s Crompton-Noll Prize for Best LGBTQ Studies Article.

1 Co-sponsored by CACLALS. Support for this session was provided by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick.

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Plenary Speaker: David Chariandy

“Theory”2 3:30 pm, Sunday, June 2nd, 2019

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David Chariandy is a Professor in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University and a well-known scholar in the fields of Black, Canadian, and Caribbean literatures. Chariandy teaches contemporary literature, especially Black, Canadian, and Caribbean prose forms. He also teaches creative writing and cultural

studies. His first novel entitled Soucouyant was nominated for eleven literary awards and prizes. It was longlisted for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the 2008 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the 2007 Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction, the 2008 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book of Canada and the Caribbean, the 2008 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the 2008 City of Toronto Book Award, the 2008 ReLit Award for fiction, and the 2007 Books in Canada First Novel Award. His second novel entitled Brother was longlisted for Canada Reads and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, named on eight year-end Canadian ‘Best Books’ lists, and won the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His latest work of creative non-fiction is entitled I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter. He is the recipient of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. Originally from Scarborough, Ontario, Chariandy was trained at Carleton University (BA and MA) and York University (PhD).

2 A footnote. 3 Co-sponsored by CACLALS. Support for this session was provided by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Toronto Press Journals, and English Studies in Canada.

Saturday, June 1st, 2019

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PROGRAM

SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST, 2019 SESSION ONE 8:30-10:00 am ACCUTE Board Meeting

BUCH D325 BREAK ONE 10:00-10:30 am MORNING BEVERAGES outside BUCH B141

SESSION TWO 10:30-12:00 pm GP: Fractured Narratives Chair: Vikki Visvis BUCH B141 Shoilee Khan, York University, “How to Be a Hero:

Documents of Torture in Fractured Narratives” Rachel Windsor, Western University, “In/Visible

Distress: Queer Trauma in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home”

Celiese Lypka, University of Calgary, “‘I look Straight Into His Eyes . . . For the Last Time’: Rereading Intimacy in Jean Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight”

BSP: CACE, Questions of Conduct: Social Media, Publicity, and the Department


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Chair: Jacqueline Jenkins BUCH B209 Siân Echard, University of British Columbia Andre Furlani, Concordia University Brenda Austin-Smith, University of Manitoba Peter Sinnema, University of Alberta MOP: Presentist, Historical, and Unveiled Identities from Beowulf to the 18thC Chair: Mark Kaethler BUCH B210 Diana Jones, York University, “’I’ll be the custom

breaker’: Unveiling Resistance in The Duchess of Malfi and The Tragedy of Mariam in the MeToo Era”

Jamie Paris, Corpus Christi College, “Overcoming White Fragility While Teaching Whiteness in Early Modern Drama”

Cameron McFarlane, Nipissing University, “Restoration Now? The Case of the Actress”

MOP: Call and Response-ability: Black Art and the Politics of Relation Chairs: Winfried Siemerling and Karina Vernon

BUCH B211 Joanne Leow, University of Saskatchewan, “Speaking of

‘Scar-bro’ in Saskatoon: Relationality through Pedagogy and Critique in David Chariandy’s Brother”

Lucia Lorenzi, McMaster University, “‘Incurable. And heavy, like freight’: Citation as Relation as Liberation in Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk and Theory”

Tavleen Purewal, University of Toronto, “Stand Still in/with Black: BlackLivesMatter-Toronto at PRIDE 2016”


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Paul Watkins, Vancouver Island University, “Mashups of Relation: The Co-Creative Politics of Jazz in the Poetry of Dionne Brand and the Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat”

GP: Political Bodies on Film Chair: Jo Devereux BUCH B218 Mark Simpson and Michael O'Driscoll, English and Film

Studies, University of Alberta, “The Hands of Marwencol”

Sheheryar Sheikh, University of Saskatchewan, “‘Sometimes I Feel Like I’m God’: Multivalent Moralities of the New Bollywood Noir”

Janet MacArthur, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, "’That marionette had to pull its own strings’: Unsettling Claude Lanzmann”

Dylan Bateman, University of British Columbia, “Resisting Man and Racial Capitalism from the Human-Animal Borderlands in Riley's Sorry to Bother You”

GP: Health Rhetoric and the Medical Imagination Chair: Stephanie Butler BUCH B303 Loren Gaudet, University of British Columbia, “Pieties of

Preparedness in Two Cancer Awareness Campaigns”

Kate Stanley, Western University, “Varieties of American Pragmatism: William James and Alcoholics Anonymous”

Sara Press, University of British Columbia, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, “The Cultivation of Whiteness in Canada: Reading Non-Normative Bodies in the Literary and Medical Imagination”


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GP: Asian Canadian Identities Chair: Guy Beauregard BUCH B309 Lindsay Diehl, University of British Columbia, Okanagan,

“Embodied Racialized Performance and Poetic Form: Mixed-Race Subjectivity in Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill”

Rachel Wong, York University, “Literary Asiancy: Literary Activism, Agency, and Asian Canadian Literature”

Jane Boyes, Dalhousie University, “Performing Cultural and Digital Hybridity in High Muck a Muck”

GP: The Blood Runs Cold Chair: Nicola Nixon BUCH B318 Alyce Soulodre, Queen's University, “‘A goddess! […] – a

pearl of the pantheon! A demon! – out of the very heart of hell!’: Monstrous Enchantment in Richard Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon”

Nahmi Lee, Western University, “Haunting Rooms: Charles Dickens’s Physical Spectres”

Charles Ledbetter, University of Tubingen, “Performing the Human: Trans Perspectives on Medical Science in Vampire Fiction”

LUNCH 12:00-1:30 pm Book Launch, Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries, edited by Gregory Betts and Christian Bok, Sponsored by WLU Press Lunch provided BUCH B209 Book Launch, Turn This World Inside Out by Naava Smolash Refreshments provided BUCH B211 Moderator: David Chariandy


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Naava Smolash Ruby Smith Diaz Serena Bhandar Aravinda Ananda ESC Board Meeting Lunch provided BUCH D325 CLSG: Textual Voices: Heard and Seen (12:15-1:30 pm) Chair: Tina Trigg BUCH B141 Roxanne Harde, University of Alberta, “`God is a

wild old dog’: Patty Griffin & Emmylou Harris, Stumbling into Grace”

Ken Jacobsen, Grenfell - Memorial, “Lost Books and Secret Chords: Hermeneutics and Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary David Novels”

Natasha Duquette, Tyndale, “The World through the Eyes of Jane Austen’s Clergymen-Heroes”

SESSION THREE 1:30-3:00 pm GP: Hegemonic Masculinity Chair: Andrew French BUCH B141 Jesyka Traynor, Queen's University, “‘I was trying not to

be a lot of types of guys back then’: Hegemonic Masculinity and Selfhood in The Antagonist”

Roxanne Harde, University of Alberta, “’What a tragedy you’ve been for everyone’: Writing the Rapist in YA Acquaintance Rape Novels”


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Nathan Richards-Velinou, McGill University, “’Something Wanting’: 18th-Century Economies of Castration and the Paradox of the Eunuch Performer”

JSP: NASSR: England in 1819 in 2019: Romantic Historicism 20 Years On Chairs: Miranda Burgess and Alexander Dick

BUCH B209 George Grinnell, University of British Columbia,

Okanagan, “Romanticizing Purpose Then and Now” Paul Keen, Carleton University, “Imagining What We

Know: Romanticism in a Utilitarian Age” Nathan TeBokkel, University of British Columbia,

“Watering Down Thick Description: Historicist Modelling and Percy Bysshe Shelley”

BSP: Copyright Issues for Literary Scholars Chair: Mark McCutcheon BUCH B210 James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University, “Copyright

and the State: A Polemic on Reading as Theft” Mark McCutcheon, Athabasca University, “Who owns

copyright in what you publish?” Meera Nair, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology,

“An exploration of copyright paratexts—from Margaret Atwood to Paul Zukofsky”

MOP: The Topography of Medieval Fantasy Chair: Richard Angelo Bergen BUCH B211 Roxanne Hearn, Wilfrid Laurier University, “’Floris and

Blancheflour’: The Deceptive Masquerade in 13th Century Middle English Romance Literature”


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Gillian Nangreave, Western University, “Topographies of Textual Authority from Chaucer’s ‘An ABC’ to ‘The House of Fame’”

Mark Buchanan, York University, “Representations of the City in Canadian Fantasy Literature”

GP: Black Art and Its Politics Chair: Nicola Nixon BUCH B218 Kailin Wright, St. Francis Xavier University, “The Future

Stops Here: Black Art and the Resistance of White Futurism in Canadian Drama”

Robyn Peers, University of Waterloo, “Serializing Blackness: The Creation of Ethical Witnesses in The Book of Emma and Angélique”

Sarah Olutola, Ottawa University, “Those that Fly: Michaela De Prince and the Transnational Politics of Rescue”

GP: Cultural Memory and the Task of Remembering Chair: Sara Press BUCH B303 Olivia Ingram, Simon Fraser University, “Utilitarian

Carries Out Ideas: How Public Monuments and Archival Media Shaped the Cultural Memory of Simon Fraser”

Robert Zacharias, York University, “At the Shrine of Robert Service: On Literary Tourism in Canada”

Scott Herder, University of Toronto, “Novels about the Great Depression and the Legacy of Protest”

GP: Eat Your Words Chair: Misao Dean BUCH B309 Samantha Dewaele, Lakehead University, “Gardens and

Apocalyptic Survival in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood”


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Shelley Boyd and Nathalie Cooke, Kwantlen Polytechnic University and McGill University, “Canadian Literary Fare”

Ian Moy, University of Saskatchewan, “Swinging Doors and Bitter Ginger: The Hyphen and Food in Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill”

GP: Monsters, Ghosts, Zombies, and Vampires Chair: Karin Beeler BUCH B318 Shawn Hamm, Queen's University, “Galvanism or Good

Old Fashioned Brain Surgery: Unpacking the 19th-Century Rise of the Modern Zombie”

Natalie Steenbergh, Eastern Michigan University, “Old Trope in a New Closet: Gothic Monstrosities in the Modern Era, From Jekyll and Hyde to the Babadook”

Krista Collier-Jarvis, Dalhousie University, “Zombies Dine with a View: Utopic Spaces and American Exceptionalism in Post-9/11 Zombie Films”

ESC Roundtable, “Catastrophe and Its Discontents” Chair: Allan Pero BUCH B208 Julia Wright, Dalhousie University David Janzen, University of Waterloo Leif Schenstead-Harris, Concordia University S. Trimble, University of Toronto Sara Rozenberg, York University CanLit and Canadian Literature Roundtable Chair: Nicholas Bradley BUCH B313 Lily Cho, York University Karina Vernon, University of Toronto, Scarborough Carrie Dawson, Dalhousie University Gillian Roberts, University of Nottingham


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Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa BREAK 2 3:00-3:30 pm

SESSION FOUR 3:30-5:00 pm Plenary: Jasbir K. Puar, “Spatial Debilities: Slow Life and Carceral Capitalism in Palestine”4 Open event, refreshments provided Chair: Mariam Pirbhai BUCH A101 BREAK 3 5:00-6:30 pm CLSG: Further Up, Further In: Seeking the Human in Contemporary Literature (5-6:30 pm) Chair: Greg Maillet BUCH B141 Ian Gibson, University of Waterloo, “Cormac McCarthy,

Marilynne Robinson, and the Meaning of Fate” Scott Masson, Tyndale, “Mere Humanity: C.S. Lewis &

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Rejoinder to the Myth of Human Progress”

Greg Maillet, Crandall University, “Defending C.S. Lewis’ Portrayal of Susan through Theological Aesthetics”

SATURDAY EVENING

4 Co-sponsored by CACLALS. Support for this session was provided by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick.


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ESC Bash 5:30-7:30 pm Koerner’s Pub, UBC Open to all ACCUTE members, refreshments provided.

Grad Pub Night 6:00-8:00 pm Wolf and Hound Graduate students are invited to mingle and meet other students from across the country at the Wolf and Hound Pub. Appetizers provided.

SUNDAY, JUNE 2ND, 2019

MORNING BEVERAGES outside BUCH B141 SESSION ONE 8:30-10:00 am GP: Stretching the Stage Chair: Nathan Richards-Velinou BUCH B141 Robert Laurella, University of Oxford, “Theatrical

Heredities: The Modern Legacies of Victorian Drama”

Brad Jackson, The University of British Columbia, "’Who's There?’: Cognitive Poetics, Multimodality, and Staged Narratology”

Courtney Church, Western University,“’Nothing is Left to Tell’: The Soundless Voice in Samuel Beckett’s Ohio Impromptu”

GP: As Far as the Nineteenth-Century Eye Can See Chair: Peter Sinnema BUCH B208

Sunday, June 2nd, 2019

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Don LePan, Broadview Press, “’A Sensation All Over England’: The Impact of Photographs on Fundraising for Famine Relief”

Christopher Keep, Western University, “Life on Mars?: Hélène Smith, Clairvoyance, and Empire”

Valerie Buck, Brigham Young University, H.B. Lee Library, “Sorting through the Confusion: Misattribution of Victorian Women Authors Proliferating in the Digital World”

JSP: CAAS 1, The Ghostly Presence in American Literature Chair: Rita Bode BUCH B209 Mohammad Sharifi, Western University, “Possessed

Texts, Convulsive Bodies, and the Haunting Gaze – The Case of Naked Lunch”

Graham Fraser, Mount Saint Vincent University, “’A Shape to Fill a Lack’: Phantomogenic Speech in ‘As I Lay Dying’”

Paul Ohler, Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversitY, “Gothic Mystery and Women's History in The Lady’s Maid’s Bell and Kerfol”

JSP: NAVSA 1, Victorian Impacts Chair: Margaret Linley BUCH B210 Fiona Coll, SUNY Oswego; Department of English and

Creative Writing, “Morgan Robertson’s Relative Velocities”

Alison Hedley, McGill University, “Charting Krakatoa: Late-Victorian Weather Journalism”

Anna MacDonald, University of British Columbia, “Bodies of Water: Gaskell’s Fallen Women and the Thames”


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BSP: #MeToo Part 2 Chair: Jennifer Andrews BUCH B211 Rebecca Salazar, University of New Brunswick, “Cut

Tongues: Writing though CanLit, #MeToo, and Titus Andronicus”

Lucia Lorenzi, McMaster University, "Unwelcome and Distressing: Repetition, #MeToo, and Archival Trauma"

MOP: Subversive Intimacies, Unsettling Encounters 1 Chair: Nicole Birch-Bayley BUCH B218 Ryan Fitzpatrick, University of Toronto, Scarborough,

“Encounter, Engagement, Intimacy: Alone with Fred Wah on the Hiking Trail in ‘Dead in My Tracks: Wildcat Creek Utaniki’”

Kelly McDevitt, Queen's University, “Women, Robots, and Masculine Anxiety: New Technological Intimacies in Inter-War Science Fiction”

Mehnaz Tabassum, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, “Loving the Brown Body: A Study of the Portrayal of Intimacy in South Asian Characters in Popular North American Sitcoms”

GP: The Lyric “I” Chair: Carmen Faye Mathes BUCH B303 Kevin McNeilly, University of British Columbia, “Elise

Partridge, a Posthumous Poetics” Andrew French, University of British Columbia, “Book of

Lacking: Leonard Cohen and the Longed-For-Object of Love”

Kristina Getz, York University, “The (Im)Possibilities of the Mother-Writer: The Paradoxical Maternal Poetry of Dorothy Livesay”


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Bronwyn Malloy, University of British Columbia, “’Tuned every ear towards a tiny lengthening of light’: Weak Hope in John K. Samson’s Winter Wheat”

GP: Innovative Pedagogies 1 Chair: Elizabeth McIntosh BUCH B309 Rhiannon Don, Nipissing University, “Something More

Sacred: Indigenization, Creative Non-Fiction, and First-Year Writing”

Karen Manarin, Mount Royal University, “A Conversation about Paraphrasing (and Patchwriting)”

J. Andrew Deman, University of Waterloo, St. Jerome's Campus, "’Please Don't Make Me Count Things’: Teaching Mixed Methods Research Design in the Humanities”

BREAK ONE 10:00-10:30 am SESSION TWO 10:30-12:00 pm GP: Acting Out Chair: Shawn Hamm BUCH B141 Kaitlyn Reid, Queen's University, “Working the System:

Jane Austen's Best (Shakespearean) Performers” Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta, "’Be a little

crazy; astonish me’: Carol Shields's Improvisations in Dressing up for the Carnival”

Steven Greenwood, McGill University, “Folktale Morphology and Improv”

GP: Sound and Silence


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Chair: David Janzen BUCH B208 Alexandrine Lacelle, Queen's University, “Impossible

Silences: Spectral Sounds in Jean Toomer’s Cane” Vikki Visvis, University of Toronto, “Interwar Machine-

Age Consciousness: The Theremin’s Sound as Historical Discourse and Liminal Space in Sean Michaels’s Us Conductors”

Elizabeth Effinger, University of New Brunswick, “Singing at the Edge of the Anthropocene: John Clare's Avian Poetics”

JSP: CAAS 2, Contemporary Criminalities and Neo-Noir Cultures Chair: Art Redding BUCH B209 Bradley Clissold, Memorial University, “Globalizing

Noirs: Outing Out from Its Noir Pseudo-Outsiderness”

Geordie Miller, Mount Allison University, “’Another Fact,’ Another Struggle, Another Defeat: David Peace’s The Damn Utd as Neo-Noir”

Mario Trono, Mount Royal University, “The Night Moves of Eco-Noir: Essaying Dark Ecology”

JSP: NAVSA 2, Victorian Wild Things Chair: Margaret Linley BUCH B210 Jennifer Scott, Simon Fraser University, “Wild and Free

(Market Capitalism): The (Non) Representation of Indigenous Peoples in John Galt’s North American Corpus”

Krista Lysack, King's University College at Western University, “Emily Brontë’s Wild Weather”

Janice Niemann, University of Victoria, “Gardens Gone Wild: Shrubberies, Deviance, and the Nineteenth-Century Marriage Plot”


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BSP: GSC Encouraging Collaboration and Solidarity Amongst Grad Students5 Chair: Nevena Martinović BUCH B211 Thomas Stuart, Western University, “Balancing

Friendship with Scholarship: Collaboration in the Humanities”

Caroline Winter, University of Victoria, “Building Graduate Student Communities within Departments and Scholarly Associations”

Meghan Burry, Queen's University, “Pedagogy as Narrative: Social and Professional Harmony Amongst Graduate Students and Faculty”

Emily Rothwell, Carleton University, “Stitching Hopeful Threads: Possibilities from Conscious and Creative Collaboration”

MOP: Subversive Intimacies, Unsettling Encounters 2 Chair: Kelly McDevitt BUCH B218 Nicole Birch-Bayley, University of Toronto, “An

Unexpected Intimacy: Queering the Nation and “the two solitudes thing” in Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers and Zoe Whittall’s Bottle Rocket Hearts” �

Christine Campana, Western University, “’Oowaah that feels good on my gills’: Intimacies with Water in Leanne Simpson’s Islands of Decolonial Love”

Helen Pinsent, Dalhousie University, “’But Maybe Everyone’s a Little Bit Ugly’: Abjection and Intimacy in Swiss Army Man”

5 Sponsored by the Department of English, Western University


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GP: Feminist Adaptations: Petticoats to Pixels Chair: Lauren Fournier BUCH B303 Karin Beeler, University of Northern British Columbia,

“Fragments of Youth: Adult Mediation of Girlhood in the Television Adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects”

Benjamin Lefebvre, Wilfrid Laurier University, “New Gileads: Margaret Atwood on Screen”

Heather Cyr, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, “Petticoats and Pastiche: Reflective and Radical Re-imaginings of Genre in Regency Fantasy”

GP: Innovative Pedagogies 2 Chair: Ann Gagné BUCH B309 Brandon McFarlane, Sheridan College, “The Creative

Humanities: How a Collaboration with a Theatre Festival is Producing New Forms of Humanities Research”

Anderson Araujo, University of British Columbia, “Wordly Local: Creating a Department of Languages and World Literatures in the Okanagan”

Michelle Miller, OCAD University, “’I Really Needed a Content Warning’: Difficult Knowledge and Student Resistance”

LUNCH 12:00-1:30pm ACCUTE Campus Reps Meeting Lunch provided BUCH B310 ACCUTE Grad Caucus Meeting Lunch provided BUCH D319


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CLSG: Classroom Circles of Conversation (12:15-1:30 pm) Chair: Deborah Bowen BUCH B141 Melanie East, University of Toronto, “Reading the Hafis-

Goethe Memorial: Envisioning a Posture of Humility in the Christian Classroom”

Jocelyn Williams, St. Mary’s, AB, and Daniel Melvill Jones, St. Mary’s, AB, “Border-Stalking: The Possibilities of Catholic Literature for a Pluralistic Age”

Tina Trigg, King’s, “Cultivating Ways of Seeing: Reading Atwood's Alias Grace and The Edible Woman”

SESSION THREE 1:30-3:00 pm GP: Telling Tales: Video Games, Film, and Transmedia Stories Chair: Caroline Winter BUCH B141 Anne Claret, University of British Columbia, Okanagan,

“An Urban Morality Tale: Pessimistic Takes on Urbanity in Telltale Games’ The Wolf Among Us and Bill Willingham’s Fables”

Melissa Emily Brennan, Wilfrid Laurier University, “Absorbed by the Adaptation: Evolving Narratives Through Transmedia Storytelling in Paul Feig’s A Simple Favor”

Shannon Smyrl and Mark Wallin, Thompson Rivers University, “The Citizen/Consumer Slip: Media Literacy in Egger's novel The Circle and James Ponsoldt's film The Circle”

GP: Confrontations with the More-than-Human


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Chair: Kelly McDevitt BUCH B208 Britt MacKenzie-Dale, University of New Brunswick,

“Most Strange Things Come from the Woods: Reading the Canadian EcoGothic in Emily Carroll’s Through the Woods and Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie”

Scott Russell, University of British Columbia, “Dark Waters: Scale Critique at the Ends of the Human in John Langan's ‘The Fisherman’”

Leah Wafler, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, “Intimate Violence: Animal Resistance in John Vaillant's The Tiger”

MOP: Bad Deleuze! Bad Lacan! Chairs: Ryan Fitzpatrick and Deanna Fong

BUCH B209 Clint Burnham, Simon Fraser University, “Long Soldier

without Deleuze or Lacan without Myrick? Both Please!”

Lauren Fournier, University of Toronto, “Auto-Theory and the Feminist Politics of Disclosure: Outing Bad Behaviour in Theory”

Danielle LaFrance, Simon Fraser University, “On Aftermaths”

JSP: VSAO, Victorian Fun, Amusement, and Delight Chair: Emily Rothwell BUCH B210 Alicia Alves, Queen's University, “Deconstruction and

Delight: Hybridity and Play in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses”

Julianna Will, York University, “Wilde Boys Who Won't Leave Neverland: Classical Myth and Victorian


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Manhood in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Peter Pan”

Marion Grant, Ryerson University, “Fin-de-Siècle Print, Performance, and Politics: The Cultural Impact of Ellen Terry”

GP: The Body: Aging, Becoming, Unbinding Chair: Manina Jones BUCH B211 Nevena Martinović, Queen's University, “Teaching Age

Studies in the Eighteenth Century” Elizabeth Dizon, Mount Royal University, “Hybridizing

Bodies: From Birth to Embodiment in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis”

Samantha Dawdy, York University, “’The Centre of the Outside’: Unbinding the Neo-Liberal Body in Lisa Moore’s February”

GP: Energy Futures Chair: Peter Sinnema BUCH B218 Brent Ryan Bellamy, Trent University, “World Reduction

and Fuel: Reading for Energy” Jason Haslam, Dalhousie University, “The Roads Must

Unroll: Heinlein, Delany, and Weird Energies of Language”

Carolyn Veldstra, Independent Scholar, “Palliative Thinking for Climate Change”

GP: War and Peace: Writing Resistance Chair: Stephanie Butler BUCH B303 Emily Bruusgaard, Trent University, “Taking a Stand:

Pacifism and the Prairie Woman” Shandell Houlden, McMaster University, “War Dog:

Ontologies of War, Militarization, and the Storytelling of Canine Kin-Aesthetics”


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Skylet Yu, University of British Columbia, “Songs Worth a Million Words: Songs of Resistance in the Face of State-led Violence”

GP: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Chair: Concetta Principe BUCH B309 Willow White, McGill University, “Tracing a Literary

Tradition of Women in Comedy from Aphra Behn to Tina Fey”

Nicola Nixon, Concordia University, “The Comedian as the Letter D: Dickinson as the Comedienne”

Sharon Engbrecht, University of British Columbia, “Gendering, Sexuality, and the Künstlerroman: Self-Witnessing towards Female Identity and Love in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic”

JSP: CSDH/SCHN: Where Do Interdisciplinary Researchers Fit? A Roundtable6 UCLL 103 Chair: Lai-Tze Fan Aimée Morrison, University of Waterloo Lourdes Arciniega, St. Mary's University Leif Schenstead-Harris, Concordia Alison Hedley, McGill University Maya Hey, Concordia University Jason Lajoie, University of Waterloo BREAK TWO 3:00-3:30 pm SESSION FOUR 3:30-5:00 pm

6 Support for this session was provided by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.


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Plenary: David Chariandy, “Theory”78 Open event, refreshments provided Chair: Jennifer Andrews BUCH A101 BREAK 3 5:00-6:30 pm CLSG: Poetry Reading (5-6:30 pm)

Room 300, Corpus Christi College Host: Connie Braun, with Tina Trigg and Katherine

Quinsey Featuring: Susan McCaslin and Tim Lilburn

SUNDAY EVENING Dinner for ACCUTE Board and Plenary Speakers (7-10:00 pm) NUBA CLSG: Annual Dinner (7-9:00 pm)

Sylvia Hotel, 1154 Gilford Street

MONDAY, JUNE 3RD, 2019 MORNING BEVERAGES outside BUCH B141 SESSION ONE

7 A footnote. 8 Co-sponsored by CACLALS. Support for this session was provided by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Toronto Press Journals, and English Studies in Canada.

Monday, June 3rd, 2019

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8:30-10:00 am GP: Print Culture 1 Chair: Benjamin Lefebvre BUCH B141 Laura Davis, Red Deer College, “Canadian Writing and

Publishing on the Rise: Jack McClelland in the 1960s”

Robert Lecker, McGill University, “Literary Agencies and the Representation of Canadian Authors: A Historical Perspective”

Jacob Bermel, York University, “Insurrectionary Poetics in the Kootenay School of Writing, 1984-2014”

Janey Dodd, University of British Columbia, “Tracing Circles: Epistolary Practice and the Intimate Archive of the New Narrative Movement”

GP: A Victorian Woman’s Work is Never Done Chair: Alyce Souldre BUCH B208 Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge, University of

Victoria, “Birthing Sensation: Childbirth in Ellen Wood’s 1860s Fiction”

Matthew Dunleavy, York University, “Erasing Women’s Labour: Neglecting Female Reformers in the Slum Fiction of Besant, Harkness, and Morrison”

Benedick Turner, St. Joseph's College, New York, “Mina Murray and Abraham Van Helsing: The Monstrous Professionals in Dracula”

JSP: CLSG, The Inklings’ Circles of Conversation Chairs: Monika Hilder and Stephen Dunning

BUCH B209 Greg Maillet, Crandall University, “Defences of the

Human: C.S. Lewis’ The Abolition of Man and John Paul II’s Redemptor Hominis”


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Katharine Bubel, Trinity Western University, “Holy Fear, Libido Dominandi and Loving Vision: Stances to the World in Lewis’s Till We Have Faces”

Mervyn Nicholson, Thompson Rivers University, “Owen Barfield and the Archeology of Imagination”

JSP: IGA, Gothic Exchanges and Economies 1 Chair: Jason Haslam BUCH B210 Jodey Castricano, University of British Columbia, “The

Remains of the Day: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary and the Emptying of Indigenous Lands”

Alicia Edwards, Manchester Metropolian University, “Most Haunted Exchanges: Heritage, Absent-History and the Case of Ordsall Hall”

Diana Samu-Visser, University of Western Ontario, “’But where, and how, and when did you come by it?’: Donation, Theft, and Contemporary Cadaveric Economies”

Caroline Winter, University of Victoria, “Frankenstein Economies and Gothic Economics, 1818–2018”

MOP: Accessibility in the Classroom Chair: Ann Gagné BUCH B211 Laurie McNeill and Kristi Carey, University of British

Columbia, “Frameworks of Accessibility: Academic Integrity Curriculum and Institutional Codes of Power”

Jennifer Williams and Heather Cyr, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, “At-Risk Learners, Flexible Solutions: First-Year English Writing Labs”

GP: Life is a Highway Chair: Brent Bellamy BUCH B218


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Vanessa Nunes, University of Manitoba, “Brazil and Canada in Lesley Krueger’s Hemispheric Novel Drink the Sky”

Emily Howe, York University, “Beyond ‘Terra Nullius’: How the Canadian Road Narrative Reinterprets the ‘Wildness’ of the Canadian Landscape”

Leif Schenstead-Harris, Concordia, “Toward the Arctic Humanities in Canada”

GP: Diversity and Inclusion Chair: Maggie Ward BUCH B303 Bethany Langmaid, University of New Brunswick,

“Longing for (In)visibility on One’s Own Terms in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For”

Umama Jutt, University of Windsor, “Marginalization in Award-Winning Canadian Novels: Is Integration Even Possible?”

Collin Campbell, Memorial University of Newfoundland, “Queer Computations: Digital Humanities, the Database, and the Canadian Western”

Max Dickeson, University of Alberta, Department of English and Film Studies, “Text Shaped by Sight: The Persistence of Seeing and the Visibility of Meaning-Making in the Transcription of Comics for the Blind”

GP: Theories Abound Chair: Lee Easton BUCH B309 Christopher Giannakopoulos, University of Waterloo,

“The (In)accessible Archive: Freud, Paterson, and the Mnemic Signifier”

Concetta Principe, Trent University, “Bad Theory or Bad Theorist?”


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Steven Defehr, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, “Shifting Contexts: How Does Context Affect Meaning in Desolation Angels?”

BREAK ONE 10:00-10:30 am SESSION TWO 10:30-12:00 pm GP: Print Culture 2 Chair: Robert Lecker BUCH B141 Sandra Tomc, University of British Columbia, “Edgar

Allan Poe: ‘The Enemies List’” Jordan Bolay, University of Calgary, “’The Archive

Evolved into a New and Distorted Form’: Spectrality, Sentient Data, and Archival Corruption in Robert Charles Wilson’s Darwinia”

Andrew Connolly, University of British Columbia, “Branding the New Age of Shirley Maclaine”

GP: Women’s Authorship Chair: Lauren Fournier BUCH B208 Patricia Rigg, Acadia University, “‘Thus am I mine own

prison’: Christina Rossetti, Baudelaire, and Wild Thoughts of a Victorian Flâneuse in ‘The Thread of Life’ and ‘Later Life’”

Carmen Faye Mathes, University of Central Florida, Orlando, “Reading Around Charlotte Smith”

Andre Furlani, Concordia University, “The Anxiety of Confluence: Marianne Moore's Mentoring of Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath”

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Chair: Ann Gagné BUCH B209 Elizabeth McIntosh, Durham College, “New Teams, New

Strategies: Building Communities of Practice in Higher Education”

Leif Schenstead-Harris, Concordia University, “Precarious Development and Policy Blindness: On the Courage of Convictions”

Ann Gagné, Durham College, “Pedagogy and Precarity: Designing and Delivering with (Un)Certainty”

JSP: IGA, Gothic Exchanges and Economies 2 Chair: Krista Collier-Jarvis BUCH B210 Lise Gaston, University of California, Berkeley,

“Radcliffe’s Gothic Transports: Exchange Value and the Marriage Plot”

Donna Palmateer Pennee, Western University, “Symbolic and Political Economies in Sara Jeannette Duncan's The Imperialist”

Jack Zapotochny, York University, “The Convergence of 'Alarming Paths:' Charting Gothic Horror and Terror in Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya”

Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa, “Monstrous Origins: Atwood, Pachter, and the Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein”

MOP: Choose Your Own Adventure Chair: Nora Foster Stovel BUCH B211 Arash Hajbabaee, University of Windsor, “The Effects of

Video-Games' Ludic Systems on their Narrative” Adam Bowes, Western University, “’You will be brave.

And you will learn’: Horizon: Zero Dawn and Video Game Settler Colonial Cacophony”


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Toben Racicot, University of Waterloo, “Trauma and Demogorgons: Analyzing Dungeons & Dragons in Stranger Things”

GP: Indigenous Literatures: Forms and Futures Chair: Marisa Lewis BUCH B218 William Giles, Alberta University of the Arts,

“Square[Dance] Peg in a Round[Dance] Hole: Notes on the Poetics of Settler Presentism and Indigenous Futurities in works by Jordan Abel, Louise Bernice Halfe, and Joshua Whitehead”

Nana Asante, Mount Royal University, “Moving Beyond Culturalist Readings: Nationhood in Indigenous Literary Criticism”

GP: Imagining Reconciliation Chair: Lee Easton BUCH B303 Joey Takeda, University of British Columbia, “Unsettling

Geologic Vision” Jonathan Nash, University of Victoria, “Beyond

Canadian Settler Colonial Time: Apology, Healing and Progress in Canada’s Shared History”

Maggie Ward, McMaster University, "‘We Have Stuff Enough in Us to Get Better’: Health, Healing, and Reconciliation in Tracey Lindberg's Birdie”

GP: Reading the Early Moderns: Between Bodies and Lines Chair: Nevena Martinović BUCH B309 Miriam Helmers, University of British Columbia, “’Nay

by Saint Jamy’: The Epistle of James as Intertext in The Taming of the Shrew”


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Miriam Jones, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, “Reading Between the Lines of Early Modern Copy-Books”

Keynote Address: David Palumbo-Liu, “Ethics Before Comparison”9 Chair: Joshua Synenko CHEM B250

LUNCH 12:00-1:30 pm Book Launch, The Creation of iGiselle, edited by Nora Foster Stovel, Sponsored by the University of Alberta Press Lunch provided BUCH B211 CAF Meeting Lunch provided BUCH D319 CLSG: Plenary (12:15-1:30 pm) Holly Faith Nelson, “What Seventeenth- and Early

Eighteenth-Century Literature Has to Teach Us About Living in a Polarized Age”

Chair: Katherine Quinsey BUCH B141

9 Co-sponsored by CACLALS and CCLA. Support for this session was provided by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.


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SESSION THREE 1:30-3:00 pm GP: Enacting Hybridity Chair: Jennifer Komorowski BUCH B141 Moberley Luger, University of British Columbia, “Word

Processing as Witnessing in Rob Fitterman’s ‘This Window Makes me Feel’”

Stephen Guy, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, “Avant Garde Optimism in Enrique Vila-Matas’ Illogic of Kassel”

Phillip Grayson, Tennessee State University, “On the Dead and Defunct: ee cummings' line breaks”

GP: Fashioning the Fin-de-Siècle Chair: Alyce Soulodre BUCH B208 Haythem Bastawy, Leeds Trinity University, “Indolent

Orient: Two Halts in the Desert” Andrew LiVecchi, Western University, “Romance and

Atavistic Medievalism in H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines”

Nicholas L. Beauchesne, University of Alberta, “‘Bring[ing] Light to the Hidden Things of Darkness’: The Occulted Proto-Modernism of H.P. Blavatsky and Mabel Collins’s Lucifer”

JSP: CCLA 2A, Poetics, Ideas, Structures: Situating the Poetic Object Chair: Julia Polyck-O’Neill BUCH B209 Jessica MacEachern, Université de Montréal, “Daring

Ontology: Becoming-Lovers of Erín Moure’s Citizen Trilogy”


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Gregory Betts, Brock University/University College Dublin, “Out of Time, Intime: Reverse Eschatology in bpNichol’s Transcolonial Modernism”

Joel Katelnikoff, University of Alberta, “Christian Bök Remixed: ‘whatever lives must also write’”

MOP: Bullshit Academic Jobs (Roundtable) Chairs: Geordie Miller and Leif Schenstead-Harris

BUCH B210 William Giles, Alberta University of the Arts, “Re-

imagining The Raft of the Medusa: How to Survive without Eating your Friends”

Letitia Henville, University of British Columbia Arts Co-op, and Claire Battershill, Simon Fraser University, “Puppets are the Anti-Bullshit: Enriching Literary Research through Knowledge Exchange”

Michael Minor, University of Manitoba, “From Contract, to Post Doc, to Service Instructor: Disarticulation and Competing Bullshit Jobs”

GP: Gothic Nationality Chair: Peter Sinnema BUCH B211 Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University, “‘Prepared by

Terror’: Irish Gothic and Shakespeare’s The Tempest”

Michael Brisbois, MacEwan University, “A Violent Memory: Historiography and Social Geography in Phil Rickman’s Merrily Watkins Series”

Elizabeth Macaluso, Binghamton University, “The Power of Uncertainty: Social and Cultural Conflict in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle”

GP: The Politics of Writing Chair: Jacob Bermel BUCH B218


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Mitchell Gauvin, York University, “Against ‘Progressive Lit’: Bruce Andrews and Writing as Resistance”

Nicholas Tan, Simon Fraser University, “’A modified and thus negated possibility’: The Disappointed Intimacies of ‘Non- Revolution’ in Juliana Spahr’s Poem ‘It’s All Good, It’s All Fucked’”

Torin McLachlan, University of British Columbia, “Theatre of Exhaustion: Feminism and Nihilism in Nelly Arcan's Burqa of Skin”

GP: Redrawing Canadian/American Relations Chair: Manina Jones BUCH B303 Shelley Hulan, University of Waterloo, “Bridesmaids

Revisited, or Canadians and Race in the Neverending Story of Royal Happiness”

Brenna Clarke Gray, Douglas College, “From Reluctant Nationalist Superteam to Movie of the Week to Captain Marvel’s Back-Up Band: The (De)volution of Alpha Flight”

Jennifer Andrews, University of New Brunswick, “Playing The Odds: Fleeing to Canada”

GP: I’m the Pudding in the Proof: Early Modern Food Chair: Kaitlyn Reid BUCH B309 Erin Akerman, Western University, “‘[H]ave they had

spiritual appetites?’: Taste, Satiety, and Social Care in Anna Trapnel’s The Cry of a Stone”

Lyn Bennett, Dalhousie University, “Writing Remedies: The Manuscript Notebooks of Dr. William James Almon and Sarah Creighton Wilkins”

Edith Snook, University of New Brunswick, “Jonathan Odell's Recipes in the Atlantic World”

BREAK TWO 3:00-4:00 pm


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Book Launch, Refuse: CanLit in Ruins, co-edited by Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, and Erin Wunker Sponsored by Studies in Canadian Literature Refreshments provided BUCH B313

SESSION FOUR 4:00-6:30 pm ACCUTE Annual General Meeting (4-5:30 pm) Everyone welcome! BUCH B313 ACCUTE Celebration of Research (5:30-6:30 pm) Bar and refreshments provided BUCH B313 CLSG: Disability, Identity, and Narrative (5-6:30 pm) Chair: Tina Trigg BUCH B141 Monika Hilder, Trinity Western, “Battling the Darkness:

Imagery of Mental Illness and Wellness in C. S. Lewis’s Writings”

Bettina Stumm, Corpus Christi, “Facing the Broken Body: Reading Life Narratives of Illness and Disability”

Philip Mingay, King’s, “Shoebox in the Attic: Colonialism and Autoethnography”

MONDAY EVENING ACCUTE Dance Party (8:30-midnight) The NEST

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

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TUESDAY, JUNE 4TH, 2019 MORNING BEVERAGES outside BUCH B141

SESSION ONE 8:30-10:00 am GP: Tidal Visions Chair: Brent Bellamy BUCH B141 Heather Latimer, University of British Columbia,

Okanagan, “The Ecology of Reproduction in Marianne Apostolide’s Deep Salt Water”

Gabrielle Mills, Dalhousie University, “Intertidal Affects: Cycles of Mourning and Hope in Sue Goyette’s Ocean”

Cecilia Stuart, University of Toronto, “Failing Better: Salt Fish Girl, the Limits of Language, and Wonder as Remedy”

GP: Modernist Designs Chair: Allan Pero BUCH B208 Asma Khaliq, University of Waterloo, “Mythic Design of

The Waste Land” Rohan Ghatage, University of Toronto, “The Limits of

Ethnography in Gertrude Stein’s ‘Melanctha’” Megan Solberg, University of Saskatchewan, "’For God's

sake watch out for your film-mind’: Manipulating People and Places through Abject Selfhood in Rhys’s Good Morning, Midnight”

JSP: CCLA 1, Beyond Good: Reading a Toronto of the Urban Imaginary


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Chairs: Lee Frew and Kathryn Franklin BUCH B209 Stephanie Butler, Ryerson University, “‘Thank-You,

Canada!’: Anglo-Torontonian Women’s Care-Giving during World War II”

Misao Dean, University of Victoria, “Habitat Recovery: The Don Valley as a setting for Alissa York’s Fauna”

Sebastian Johnston-Lindsay, Trent University, “White Places, Black Faces and Be/Longing in Dionne Brand’s Toronto”

MOP: New Monstrosities 1, Hybrids and Transgressions Chair: Alicia Alves BUCH B211 Michael Cameron, Dalhousie University, “‘They had kept

too much of their human form’: The Problem of Posthuman Empathy in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine”

Jo Devereux, Western University, “Female Monstrosity: Darwin, Linley Sambourne, and ‘Mr. Punch’s Designs After Nature’”

Colleen McDonell, University of Toronto, “The Spectral Class: Female Servants and Supernatural Insight in Victorian Ghost Stories”

GP: Questions of Futurity Chair: Anne Claret BUCH B218 Jaclyn Reed, Western University , “’One Time and

Another Become the Same Time’: Temporal Disruptions in Jeanette Winterson’s The Gap of Time”

Sara Rozenberg, York University, “The End or the Beginning: Reading Apocalypse and Futurity in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu”


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Rusaba Alam, University of British Columbia, “Future Perfect: Solidarities at the End of the Earth in Larissa Lai's The Tiger Flu and Wayde Compton's The Outer Harbour”

Natalie Boldt, University of Victoria, “Speculations on Margaret Atwood's 'Maddaddam' Trilogy”

GP: Redefining Communities Chair: Laura K. Davis BUCH B303 Dana Patrascu-Kingsley, York University and Ryerson

University, “‘Things are Good Now’: Refugee Narratives in Canada”

Sarah Rose, University of Chicago, “White Hostiles in the Red Atlantic: Movement and Illegible Communities in Vizenor’s Bearheart”

Ruth Panofsky, Ryerson University, “The Spice Box, Old and New: Defining the Field of Canadian Jewish Writing”

Jacquelyn Deighton, Dalhousie University, "’All we get is a whippoorwill’: Reading Gwethalyn Graham's Earth or High Heaven in the Wake of 2018”

GP: Religious Studies Chair: Nicholas Beauchesne BUCH B309 Adrian Knapp, Saint Mary's University, “Curiosity,

Religion and Self in A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, An African Prince, As related by himself”

Christina Wiendels, McMaster University, "‘Substantially expressed’: The Son/Language as 'Mediator' Between God and Humanity in John Milton's Paradise Lost”


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Gary Kelly, University of Alberta, “Conflicting Bibles and Print Culture in the Romantic Onset of Modernity”

Sarah Wallace, University of New Brunswick, “’And also Much Cattle’: Rereading Apocalyptic Discourse and Alterity in The Double Hook through Allusions to Jonah”

JSP: ILSA, Community Formations, Intersectional Interventions, Trans-Poetics and Cultural Activisms Chairs: Mathieu Aubin and Lianne Moyes

BUCH B315 Gage Diabo, University of British Columbia, “Listening

and Speaking to Absence: Broken Dialogues and the Community in Porcupines and China Dolls”

Jennifer Komorowski, Western University, “Do We Have Feelings? Reclaiming Indigenous Women’s Affect Through Aesthetic Creation”

Julia Polyck-O'Neill, Brock University, “Re-Poetics in Language, Image, and Community: The Kootenay School of Writing, Photoconceptualism, and Vancouver”

BREAK ONE 10:00-10:30 am SESSION TWO 10:30-12:00 pm GP: Ecocriticism and Ecocrises: How to Respond Chair: Sheheryar Sheikh BUCH B141 David Janzen, University of Waterloo, “Narrating

Political Subjectivity and Climate Crisis” Kristine Kowalchuk, Northern Alberta Institute of

Technology, “Epistemologies of Flourishing: The


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Ecological Crisis and Deep Decolonization of the Classroom”

Elizabeth Gripping, Ambrose University, “Intimate Ecology: Ellen Meloy’s The Anthropology of Turquoise”

GP: Neoliberal Fictions and Fantasies Chair: Geordie Miller BUCH B208 Jorji (George) Temple, Simon Fraser University, “Love as

Working Technology: Neoliberalism and Her” S. Trimble, University of Toronto (Women and Gender

Studies Institute), “Bad Seeds: Demonic Children and Neoliberal Storytelling”

Kasim Husain, University of British Columbia, “This Empty Space Called Freedom: Suffering Agency in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret”

JSP: CCLA 2B, Poetics, Ideas, Structures: Situating the Poetic Object Chair: Ryan Fitzpatrick BUCH B209 Judith Scholes, University of British Columbia,

“Receiving Emily: Dickinson’s Epistolary Poetics” Mallory Smith, University of Calgary, “The Body Poetic:

Identity Politics and Embodied Concepts in the Work of Harryette Mullen”

Dominic Hardy, Université du Québec à Montréal, “For a ‘poetics of art’s histories’”

MOP: New Monstrosities 2, Vampire Bodies Chair: Alicia Alves BUCH B211 Sarah Karlson, University of Victoria, “Monstrous

Female Bodies: Victorian Anxiety and Prostitution in F.G. Loring's ‘The Tomb of Sarah’”


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Sarah ("Sally”) Luken, University of Cincinnati, “He eat not as others’: Modern Eating Disordered Culture and the Victorian Vampire”

Andrew Sargent, Western University, “Immortal Monstrosities: The Biopolitics of Judgment in Bram Stoker's Dracula”

GP: Race in America Chair: Sandra Tomc BUCH B218 Lizette Gerber, University of Saskatchewan,

“‘Indifference would be such a relief’: Racist Realities and the Desire for Transformation in Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom”

Craig Stensrud, University of British Columbia, “On the Politics and Pleasures of Hypocrisy: Irony's Edge in William Wells Brown's Clotel”

Sara Gallagher, University of Waterloo, “The Legacy of Reconstruction Women’s Writing: Pauline Hopkins and Revisionist Sentimentalism”

GP: Everything Your Heart Desires Chair: Liam Monaghan BUCH B303 Roger Farr, Capilano University, “Amorous

Comradeship” Claudia Grigg Edo, California Institute of the Arts,

“Illegible Desires” Deserae Gogel, University of British Columbia,

Okanagan, “Re-writing Feminism into Masculine Tradition in Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe and Hélène Cixous’ ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’”

GP: Transnational Relations Chair: Gregory Betts BUCH B309


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Marisa Lewis, University of Ottawa, “Model Orphans, Model Citizens: Transnational Adoption and Naturalization in Aimee Phan’s We Should Never Meet”

Mahdiyeh Ezzatikarami, Western University, “Persepolis and Human Rights”

Niyosha Keyzad, University of Toronto, “Minor Interlopers: Spatiality in Childhood Memoirs of the Iranian Diaspora”

MOP: Consumption and the Literary Cookbook Chair: Roxanne Harde BUCH B315 Ben Taylor, York University, “Packaging Modernism in

The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book” Janet Wesselius, University of Alberta, Augustana,

“Curiosity and Consumption in Alice Eats: A Wonderland Cookbook and Anne of Green Gables Cookbook”

LUNCH 12:00-1:30 pm ACCUTE Wrap-up Board Meeting BUCH D325 CLSG: Christian Ecocriticism (12:15-1:30 pm) Chair: Katherine Quinsey BUCH B141 Katharine Bubel, Trinity Western, “Merton, Lilburn, and

Zwicky: A Common Vision of Ecospiritual Wisdom” Deborah Bowen, Redeemer, “Listening to the Voice of

Creation” Ariel Little, Thompson Rivers, “Singing with the Stars

and the Farae: The Interconnectedness and


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Interdependence of Creation in L’Engle’s A Wind in the Door”

SESSION THREE 1:30-3:00 pm SESSION FOUR 3:30-5:00 pm ILSA: Vera Manuel Book Launch Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Vera Manuel, co-edited by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene Manuel 4-5:00 pm Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall, First Nations Longhouse

TUESDAY EVENING ILSA: 2nd Annual Indigenous Voices Awards 7-10:00 pm Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall,

First Nations Longhouse

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Christianity and Literature Study Group (CLSG)

Co-chairs:

Katherine Quinsey, University of Windsor, [email protected]

Tina Trigg, The King’s University, Edmonton, [email protected]

The CLSG has proudly been an

Allied Organization of ACCUTE since 1988.

CLSG is a non-profit organization with an annual conference at Congress. All funds collected are directed towards

conference events, literary readings, and member services/events.

For membership information and news, please visit us at:

christianityandliteraturestudygroup.wordpress.com

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Program June 1-4, 2019

All sessions are held in BUCH B141

unless indicated otherwise.

All ACCUTE members are cordially welcome to attend sessions of the CLSG.

Session 1: Saturday lunchtime (12:15-1:30 p.m.) Textual Voices: Heard and Seen Chair: Tina Trigg (King’s) Roxanne Harde (Alberta), “`God is a wild old dog’: Patty

Griffin & Emmylou Harris, Stumbling into Grace” Ken Jacobsen (Grenfell - Memorial), “Lost Books and

Secret Chords: Hermeneutics and Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary David Novels”

Natasha Duquette (Tyndale), “The World through the Eyes of Jane Austen’s Clergymen-Heroes”

Session 2: Saturday early evening (5.00-6.30 p.m.) Further Up, Further In: Seeking the Human in

Contemporary Literature Chair: Greg Maillet (Crandall) Ian Gibson (Waterloo), “Cormac McCarthy, Marilynne

Robinson, and the Meaning of Fate” Scott Masson (Tyndale), “Mere Humanity: C.S. Lewis &

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Rejoinder to the Myth of Human Progress”

Greg Maillet (Crandall), “Defending C.S. Lewis’ Portrayal of Susan through Theological Aesthetics”

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Session 3: Sunday lunchtime (12:15-1:30 pm) Classroom Circles of Conversation Chair: Deborah Bowen (Redeemer) Melanie East (Toronto), “Reading the Hafis-Goethe

Memorial: Envisioning a Posture of Humility in the Christian Classroom”

Jocelyn Williams (St. Mary’s, AB) and Daniel Melvill Jones (St. Mary’s, AB), “Border-Stalking: The Possibilities of Catholic Literature for a Pluralistic Age”

Tina Trigg (King’s), “Cultivating Ways of Seeing: Reading Atwood's Alias Grace and The Edible Woman

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Quinsey Featuring Susan McCaslin and Tim Lilburn

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Lewis’ The Abolition of Man and John Paul II’s Redemptor Hominis”

Katharine Bubel (Trinity Western), “Holy Fear, Libido Dominandi and Loving Vision: Stances to the World in Lewis’s Till We Have Faces”

Mervyn Nicholson (Thompson Rivers), “Owen Barfield and the Archeology of Imagination”

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Session 6: Monday lunchtime (12:15-1:30 p.m.) CLSG Plenary Speaker 2019 – Holly Faith Nelson

(Trinity Western) “What Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century

Literature Has to Teach Us About Living in a Polarized Age”

Chair: Katherine Quinsey (Windsor) Session 7: Monday early evening (5:00-6:30 p.m.) Disability, Identity, and Narrative Chair: Tina Trigg (King’s) Monika Hilder (Trinity Western), “Battling the Darkness:

Imagery of Mental Illness and Wellness in C. S. Lewis’s Writings”

Bettina Stumm (Corpus Christi), “Facing the Broken Body: Reading Life Narratives of Illness and Disability”

Philip Mingay (King’s), “Shoebox in the Attic: Colonialism and Autoethnography”

Session 8: Tuesday lunchtime (12:15-1:30 p.m.) Christian Ecocriticism Chair: Katherine Quinsey (Windsor) Katharine Bubel (Trinity Western), “Merton, Lilburn, and

Zwicky: A Common Vision of Ecospiritual Wisdom” Deborah Bowen (Redeemer), “Listening to the Voice of

Creation” Ariel Little (Thompson Rivers), “Singing with the Stars

and the Farae: The Interconnectedness and Interdependence of Creation in L’Engle’s A Wind in the Door”

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Annual General Meeting Agenda

University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus

Monday, June 3, 2019

4-5:30 pm

Buchanan B313

1. Approval of Agenda 2. Approval of Minutes (2018 AGM) 3. Matters Arising 4. President’s Report (Jennifer Andrews) 5. Vice President’s Report (Elizabeth Effinger) 6. Financial Report, including motion to approve

financial report (Elizabeth Effinger) 7. Report of Editor of ESC: English Studies in

Canada (Allan Pero) 8. Report of the Committee for Professional

Concerns (Lee Easton) 9. Report of the Contract Academic Faculty (CAF)

Representative (Ann Gagné) 10. Report of the Graduate Student Caucus

(Nevena Martinović) 11. Report of F. E. L. Priestley Prize Committee

(Mark McCutcheon) 12. Report of the Graduate Student Essay Prize

Committee (Jennifer Andrews) 13. Report of the President of the Canadian

Association of Chairs of English (CACE) (Peter Sinnema)

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14. Election/Confirmation of New Members to the ACCUTE Board of Directors (slate to come).

a. Incoming ACCUTE President (2020-2022)

b. Chair of Priestley Prize Committee c. Chair of Professional Concerns

Committee 15. Other Business 16. Motion to Adjourn

Minutes of the 2018 AGM

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Minutes of the 2018 ACCUTE Annual General Meeting

University of Regina

Riddell Centre, The Owl Monday, 28 May 2018

Three pre-meeting presentations:

1) SSHRC Representative presentation: Jing Yang

Mike O’Driscoll raised concerns about the equitable distribution of Canada Research Chair positions across the Tricouncils. He asked whether SSHRC and the other councils are enforcing that distribution; he wanted to make people in the room aware of the fact that institutions are not enforcing it.

In terms of the changes to scholarly journals, Mike recommended more support and guidance for institutions from SSHRC.

2) Presentation by Gabriel Miller, Executive Director of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Gabriel stressed that the Federation’s relationship with ACCUTE is extremely important and invited members to share our questions or concerns. He gave some background on the Federation and recognized Julia Wright, Laura Moss, Sonia Vanier.

Gabriel noted his admiration for the way ACCUTE operates, especially for its dynamic and interesting social media presence.

He remarked on the new ACCUTE conference app, and believes the dance party is the highlight of Congress.

Gabriel wanted to remind members that the Federation does the following:

a) Manages programs and services for the community; e.g scholarly lectures such as Big Thinking on the Hill, a lecture series on Parliament Hill that provides a chance to showcase the impact of what we do

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180 books per year. He invited members to him for application information.

c) Does policy and advocacy to promote the role of the humanities and social sciences. Articulating the full breadth of what we do is important as Ottawa has a tendency to take some of the contributions for granted.

d) Works with scholarly associations to organize Congress: the Federation working group invites recommendations to the board. Build on what you like and get rid of what you don’t.

3) Laura Moss, Academic Convenor for Congress 2019 at UBC

Congress will be held on the UBC Point Grey campus from June 1st to June 7th, a week later than it normally is.

The Congress theme is “Circles of Conversation.” There will be open space for dialogue, discussion, and debate. They’re interested in creating room for productive conversations among scholars and the public; UBC’s Congress will aim to provide a strong focus on the arts and creative critical engagements with the arts, including visual arts, theatre, and music.

Attention will be focused on building productive relationships with Indigenous communities.

The Congress Hub will be at The Nest, the new student union building. Strong efforts will be made to make Congress accessible and easy to navigate.

UBC will continue with the Big Thinking series (all of them will be artists – playwright, musician, photographer, filmmaker)

In addition to the Careers Hub, a Pedagogy Hub will be established, to create a teaching-focused space.

There will be family programming. Many options for activities and care will be available, and there will be a daily expedition to local places of interest.

Indigenous programming will include the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.

The “Women Deliver” conference will be held in Vancouver next year at the same time at Congress, which will make accommodation


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downtown hard to get. “Women Deliver” organizers are expecting a turnout of 6,000. Congress has reserved a very large block of rooms at UBC, which will be the most economical place to stay. Dorms and suites will be available, and food hours will be extended.

Remember that events can be designated as open, either to Congress delegates or the general public.

Official Meeting Begins:

Manina Jones calls the meeting to order. Manina read the territorial acknowledgment for the University of Regina.

I) Manina moved the approval of the 2018 AGM Agenda.

Seconder: Madeline Bassnett

All in favour.

II) Manina moved the approval of the 2017 AGM Minutes.

Seconder: Allan Pero

All in favour.

III) Matters Arising: There were no matters arising.

IV) President’s Report (Manina Jones)

Manina pointed out that it is the end of the Western Office’s term. She began with a thank you to Jason Haslam for attending the AGM of the Federation on behalf of the Executive.

Manina thanked Alicia Robinet for the day-to-day management, communication, and record-keeping for the ACCUTE office.

Manina outlined the many achievements of the ACCUTE Office over the last two years. ACCUTE oversaw the transfer of ESC from the U of Alberta to Western. Manina noted that the process was efficient and successful and thanked Mark Simpson and Mike O’Driscoll for the help with the transition.

The ACCUTE Office also consolidated the association’s accounting. Manina acknowledged Madeline Bassnett’s and Alicia Robinet’s work in managing the accounting and coordinating the transfer of bookkeeping to Famme and Co. Both ESC and ACCUTE will use the same bookkeeper.


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Besides keeping up with the quarterly newsletters, the ACCUTE Office has increased its social media presence on both Facebook and Twitter. The goal is to circulate information and dialogue about professional issues while also cultivating a sense of community across English departments nationwide.

The Office also revitalized the ACCUTE blog to circulate CFPs and job ads, and Manina reminded the attendees to “follow” the blog (and to tell their graduate students to follow it) in order to get an email indicating new posts.

Manina noted the various blog features over the last couple of years: a commentary on what we “make” in the humanities by Dale Tracy; a piece by Ruth St Cyr on ageism; a copyright review by Mark McCutcheon; a backgrounder piece on Canada Research Chairs put together by Mo Sharifi (ACCUTE RA); a piece by Brenna Clarke Gray on what colleges have to gain from joining ACCUTE; a discussion by Jessica Riddell’s undergrads on teaching innovations in community engaged learning and theatre; and a pre-panel discussion by Elan Paulson and Morgan Rooney on “redefining the English PhD” in advance of the ACCUTE Board-Sponsored Panel “Changing by Degrees.” Manina blogged about the new online scholarly journal The Conversation as one way of getting the work that we do out to the broader public.

This year the ACCUTE Office rescheduled the deadline for conference proposals to November 15, and provided an extended deadline for striking College faculty.

The Office streamlined the Congress vetting process.

Stuart Cheyne (ACCUTE RA) helped to update the vettors list; please get in touch by the ACCUTE email to be added to that list.

Nahmi Lee and Hanji Lee (ACCUTE RAs) and Madeline Bassnett spearheaded the creation of a Colleges List as a first step towards generating stronger relationships with community colleges. Brenna Clarke Grey and Ann Gagné were of tremendous help in putting together this list.

Manina thanked the ACCUTE Board for their work: Madeline Bassnett, Jennifer Andrews, Lee Easton, Allan Pero, Mark McCutcheon, Jackie Jenkins, Ross Bullen, Kala Hirtle, and Brenna Clarke Gray.


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The Board established the Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize. Manina reminded everyone to come to the Celebration of Research to see that announcement made.

The Board also formalized one of the Member-at-Large positions as a Colleges Rep position.

The Board formalized CAF funding for non-Congress travel. The Board CAF Rep has access to $1500 for the year they serve so that they can go to a conference that would be beneficial to our CAF colleagues and report back to ACCUTE.

The Board also formalized the process for populating the Committee for Professional Concerns (CPC), based on Veronica Austen’s suggestions as the CPC Chair in 2015-2017.

Congress travel for the incoming Office Coordinator was approved by the Board so that the incoming Coordinator has the opportunity to shadow the previous Coordinator at Congress.

The Board passed a document on ESC Principles and Procedures.

The Ad-Hoc committee is continuing work on the CAF checklist consultation. This work included a session at this year’s Congress.

Manina thanked the Board who served as the first-line vetting for conference proposals.

Manina outlined some Congress 2018 innovations:

The ACCUTE conference committee changed the schedule template to allow for 30 min breaks instead of 15 min breaks. This gives members a chance to talk to their colleagues and have time to get to the next panel. The committee contacted the parallel associations so we were on the same schedule.

The Office updated and posted some online Congress Guides: Best Practices for Chairs, Best Practices for Presenters, and this year we added the Beginner’s Guide to Attending ACCUTE.

The Office also introduced an ACCUTE conference app. Western MA graduate Vickery Pentz and Alicia Robinet experimented with the Guidebooks app, and feedback so far has been good.

The Western Office also instituted the graduate student research showcase where grad students can present a PowerPoint slide of their dissertation research. Manina noted that we need to teach our grad students about being better self-promoters.


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This year, ACCUTE welcomed new collaborators: Canadian Society for the Study of Religion for the Zarqa Nawaz plenary and the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing for a “jobs in writing” workshop. We also hosted a CanLit Guides launch with Canadian Literature.

The Office also created tshirts for $20 to contribute funds to the Grad Student Conference Paper Prize.

Manina thanked ACCUTE’s 2018 Local Arrangements Coordinator, Chris Bundock (U Regina) – he has been tremendously helpful in coordinating logistics, making contacts, and providing students for the welcome desk.

ACCUTE has also worked on advocacy during Western’s term. The Board approved a Statement on Sexual Harassment for the ACCUTE blog, and we’re one of the few scholarly associations to have done that. It’s a starting point for a larger conversation that we will continue to have.

ACCUTE lobbied Congress to develop a “Safe Campus” policy and a Code of Conduct. The Code of Conduct appears on the Congress website. ACCUTE would like Congress to develop a more comprehensive system for reporting if someone has an issue at Congress, but this is an important first step

Manina highlighted the risks of cyber bullying when promoting work in a public forum, and notes that Congress needs to recognize those risks and needs to advocate for members promoting their work. In response, Congress developed an FAQ on cyberbullying for the Congress website.

Brenna Clarke Gray was instrumental in helping ACCUTE put childcare on the Congress agenda.

V) Vice President’s Report (Madeline Bassnett)

Madeline explained that membership numbers went down this year because it’s a smaller conference, but we were prepared for it to go down: there were 550 members last year and 393 members this year. She is not worried about it.

Despite the drop, the proportional makeup of the membership remains similar, although the biggest drop was in graduate student membership, which again, was expected because of the location.


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There was also a drop in the number of Congress panels and in conference registrants (233 to 389 at Ryerson). Madeline reminded everyone that Ryerson was exceptional.

This conference gave more of an opportunity for conversation, intimate connections, etc.

Madeline asked for any questions on membership.

The Statement of Operations – Notice To Reader for ACCUTE and ESC – shows the financial records combined.


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ACCUTE has shifted the bookkeeping to Famme and Co. There will be a motion to approve the use of Famme and Co to do our NTR end of year accounting.

ACCUTE needed to consolidate the accounting. ESC and ACCUTE are now at Famme and Co, who have done fantastic work. Everything should run smoothly now.

Allan Pero informed us at the Board meeting that ESC is going to transfer $12 000 to ACCUTE accounts, which will help with membership shortfalls.

Last year, ACCUTE kept travel reimbursements under the $10 000 cap. This year we will be paying more for Board travel and presenter travel, but we’ve been keeping other conference expenses lower: the program was less expensive and we saved money on plenaries because one was a local speaker.

Madeline asked for any questions on the financials.

Moved: That the Financial Report for the fiscal year ending 30 June 2017 as presented at the 2018 ACCUTE AGM be received.

Manina noted that the Financial Report has already been approved by the Board so at the AGM membership we “receive” it and acknowledge their approval.

Mark McCutcheon confirmed that the Board approved the report.

All in favour: unanimous.


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Moved: That Famme & Co. Professional Corporation Chartered Accountants be appointed as ACCUTE’s public accountant to provide a Notice to Reader Statement for the fiscal year ending 30 June 2018.

Stephanie Oliver: Seconder

All in favour: Unanimous.

Madeline said it was a real privilege to work with Manina, Stephanie Oliver, Alicia Robinet, and is excited to turn the office over to the fantastic team of Jennifer Andrews and Liz Effinger.

VI) Report of Editor of ESC: English Studies in Canada (Allan Pero)

Allan reminded everyone that after a 15 year sojourn at the University of Alberta, ESC made the trek to London, Ontario at the end of June/mid-July. It’s been a year full of institutional set-up, learning, and the latest issue—a double issue—is just about to come out.

Allan thanked Mike, Mark, Laura Schecter, and Sylvia Vance for ongoing support and guiding the team.

Financial: The journal and the association are now using a chartered accountant at Famme and Co., Lynn Eidt, to prepare the returns, etc.

Allan is happy to report ESC is in good financial health. Subscription levels and royalty payments are robust.

For 2018, ESC is able to pledge $12 000 to ACCUTE for the ACCUTE travel fund. ESC had suspended that transfer until the journal was safely moved and housed at Western.

ESC has continued to use the Open Journal System – OJS – the journal management and publishing system through which ESC is run. This has been done at the University of Alberta libraries since 2007 free of charge. Staff are knowledgeable and helpful.

However, the journal received a new Memorandum of Understanding from the U of A libraries in February stating that all 46 journals managed by them need to become open access within 6 months. Right now ESC has a 6 month moving paywall, and the U of A library’s news caught ESC’s current team off-guard, as it did ESC’s former editors. ESC depends partly on royalty payments generated through agreements with aggregators for distribution of the journal.


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1) ESC is exploring its options: ESC could allow the U of A to re-negotiate agreements with aggregators in such a way that ESC’s revenue stream is protected even if it goes fully open access.

2) ESC could move out its editorial system to a platform other than the OJS platform. This would be labour-intensive, and would likely work through Western University’s library system.

3) ESC could make an argument to U of Alberta Libraries that ESC's current six-month moving paywall is sufficiently redolent of open access policies, and that they should continue to host ESC as they have in the past.

Allan noted that the resolution of this situation will likely require a vote from or at least a poll of the ACCUTE membership.

SSHRC Funding: on the 23 of May, Tim Wilson at SSHRC gave ESC an update on Aid to Scholarly Journals (ASJ) program. Competition for the program was last open in 2014, and funding from that round would normally have been due for a new competition in 2017. SSHRC, however, chose to extend by one year the funding offered to journals in 2014, and defer competition pending a program review. The maximum base grant--which ESC received--remains $30,000. ESC is already within the open access window now required for SSHRC funding and meets all other eligibility criteria. SSHRC is offering an extra $5000 for journals hosted on a Canadian not-for-profit digital platform, which OJS is. SSHRC is also offering an extra $5000 funding to implement a new social media and a website for the journal. The next deadline is 10 September 2018 – ESC will be applying for the maximum.

The ESC team will be deepening their knowledge of the journal’s operations this summer and will move into a new space in University College at Western University. ESC will also work to increase submissions and speed up issue assembly to align ESC’s publication more closely with the current calendar.

With the continued push for open-access publishing and the increasing prevalence of electronic reception and distribution of scholarly material, ACCUTE may wish to revisit the question of whether ESC should continue to publish in hard copy. Going to an online-only format would represent mailout savings of approximately $700 per issue, and might also entail savings on


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production costs and a reduction in the Journal Coordinators hours. Allan suggested that now would be a good time to consider the question.

Allan asked for questions.

Lily Cho: What’s the likelihood of option C for OJS?

Allan: we would make the argument that SSRHC itself recognizes a 6-12 month moving paywall for open access. U of A doesn’t really have much of a case. My hope would be they will see it our way. The former co-editor is prepared to press that issue as I am.

Allan thanked the membership.

VII) Report of the Committee for Professional Concerns (Lee Easton)

The CPC sponsored three panels at Congress; two were today.

1) A panel on potential revisions and updates to the document “Contract Academic Faculty in Canadian Departments of English: A Best-Practices Checklist”, which Manina mentioned. The CPC wants to keep it current with the kinds of concerns being raised in the four years since that document was created. CPC is working in conjunction with CACE and CAF.

2) CPC hosted a session in conjunction with the Contract Academic Faculty caucus on “Quit Lit.”

3) Lee made mention that the time for the third session, “#metoo and Academia” has changed – it will be at 8:30 am tomorrow. The panel came as a member suggestion.

Lee encouraged everyone to email him with panel suggestions for future Congresses. Lee is looking forward to Vancouver and thanks the committee for all the work.

Manina: There are lots of possibilities for alternative panel formats for professional issues panels. Some feedback has been that the traditional formal conference paper does not necessarily accommodate itself to the kind of work that is being done by College professors.

VIII) Report of the Contract Academic Faculty (CAF) Representative (Ross Bullen)


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This meeting marks the end of Ross’s two-year term. Ross offered thanks to Manina, Madeline, and the rest of the board, Jason Haslam, Erin Wunker (past CAF rep), and Coordinators Lynne Evans, Stephanie Oliver, and Alicia Robinet.

Ross noted that he presented on professional issues at several academic labour conferences. Ross thanked the Board for the funding approval for the CAF rep so those presentations and conference trips can happen.

Ross explained he has also organized and appeared on numerous panels here at ACCUTE and for other associations.

Just this morning CACE, CPC, and CAF had a really productive discussion and Ross wants to see that through. Ross noted that Erin Wunker and he started to create a social media presence, which has been a good way to have some continuity with CAF members, since they don’t have consistent membership from year to year. Currently it is a Facebook page. Ross reported that at the CAF lunch today they approved the nomination of the new CAF rep, Ann Gagné, from George Brown College and UTSC.

Motion: Lee motioned to extend the Annual General Meeting for 15 minutes.

Seconder: Jen Andrews.

Unanimous.

IX) Report of the Graduate Student Caucus (Kala Hirtle)

Kala reported that the GSC has reps from 30 institutions. As of right now, Lethbridge, Windsor, Memorial, Ottawa need a campus rep. Kala asked for help to get reps at these schools.

The GSC also conducts a survey: last year they had a few suggestions from members from the Grad Caucus to have both an off and online format. The GSC split it into 2 surveys – 1 that can be filled out by a department admin assistant and one by a dept Chair and they have been getting better feedback.

The GSC changed the deadline for the survey to late March / early April and they received more response.

There were three GSC events at Congress: a “meet and greet” pub night following the ESC bash, and there were fewer attendees than usual, perhaps because of the lower conference numbers in Regina.


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There was also a panel on Successful Sessionals, which was a roundtable on teaching. Kala thanked Alicia Robinet for help with this panel. Following this session, the GSC had their annual lunch meeting.

For Congress at UBC next year they have already touched base with two UBC graduate students who are helping to source locations for the events: thanks to Sharon Engbrecht and Bronwynn Malloy.

Kala thanked Nahmi Lee for tweeting on behalf of the GSC.

Kala announced Nevena Martinović (Queens) as incoming President, Nahmi Lee (Western) as incoming President-Elect, Lin Young (Queens) as incoming VP, and Tim McNeil (Calgary) as incoming Secretary.

She thanked Manina, Madeline, and Alicia for welcoming her back as the GSC President for an extra year. She has enjoyed serving. Kala thanked the GSC executive.

X) Report of F. E. L. Priestley Prize Committee (Mark McCutcheon)

Mark thanked the membership for voting him into the position last year. This is the first of two years.

He explained the composition of the Priestley Prize Committee: Mark served as Chair, plus Nat Hurley from U of Alberta (a past winner) and Ann Gagné from George Brown and University of Toronto also served. This committee was tasked with deciding the winner of the Priestley Prize for the best article published in ESC for that year. They also judged the inaugural ACCUTE Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize. They have selected winners, who will be announced at the Celebration of Research.

Manina: Thanked Mark for taking on the extra task of the Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize adjudication, and for being DJ at the dance.

XI) Report of the President of the Canadian Association of Chairs of English (CACE) (Jacqueline Jenkins)

Jacqueline reported that there were 24 registered participants at the annual CACE meeting, which is 1/3 lower than last year, but CACE had good representation from across the regions. There were four panels: Indigenizing English, Faculty Accommodations, English:


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Discipline in Decline?, and Creative Writing and English Departments.

CACE collaborated with CPC and CAF on a session designed to facilitate broad discussion on the existing ACCUTE checklist for hiring contract faculty.

CACE did something entirely new this year: they organized a pre-meeting workshop for incoming or new chairs, with 7 participants plus members of the CACE executive. Something similar will be organized for next year.

Report on elections: – President: Peter Sinnema (U Alberta); Vice President: Brenda Austin-Smith (U Manitoba); Secretary-Treasurer: André Furlani (Concordia); and Jacqueline will be staying on as Past President.

Jacqueline noted that it’s been a pleasure to fulfill this role.

XII) Election/Confirmation of New Members to the ACCUTE Board of Directors

a. Contract Academic Faculty Rep

The CAF caucus has elected Ann Gagné to serve as CAF rep for a 2-year term for 2018-20; no vote is necessary there because CAF nominates and confirms their own rep.

b. Member-at-Large, Colleges

Motion: the Chair nominates Laura Davis be acclaimed to the Board of Directors for a 2-year term from 2018-20.

Manina asked a vote to affirm enthusiasm for Laura’s position in that role. Unanimous.

Manina welcomed Elizabeth Effinger as VP.

XIII) Any Other Business

Julia Wright told members she is on the Board of the Federation. There has not been a representative from ACCUTE, so she asked members to put their thinking caps on and nominate someone who might be great on the Board.

Jennifer Andrews: As Incoming President, I want to thank Manina and Madeline.


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A lot of the work that happens at ACCUTE is unacknowledged work and this is a moment to say thank you.

To Manina: you continually focused on advocacy for our members, which has sent a really strong message.

The communications have been excellent: the app, the guide for beginners, the specificity of the kinds of things that were developed – these are great legacies, and we are extremely grateful that we’ve been asked to do this.

To Madeline – it’s been extremely complicated to finally get the finances in a safe and healthy place. I watched the group wrestle with this in the process of solving the challenge. Thank you for the coordination with room bookings and the conference logistics.

Jennifer presented Manina and Madeline with gifts of thanks from the Board and membership.

XIV) Motion to Adjourn

Jen makes the motion to adjourn

Jennifer Andrews: moved that the meeting be adjourned.

Seconder: Madeline Bassnett.

Unanimous.