ConCordia English graduatE Colloquium

The SincereST form of FlaTTery

ConCordia EnglishgraduatE Colloquium

All events will take place in the Friends of the Library Room, located in LB-361 of Concordia University’s J.W. McConnell Building, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W., unless otherwise specified. Friday, marCh 17

pm — Registration and coffeepm — Welcome addresspm — The One That Imitates, Famously pm — Break pm — The One That Takes & Transformspm — Breakpm — Creative Nightpm — Afterparty at Reggies 1455 De Maisonneuve W., H-231.

saturday, marCh 18

Am — Breakfast provided by colloquiumAm — The One That Navigates the Fanfiction ArchiveAm — BreakAm — The One That Deconstructs the Gazepm — Lunch provided by colloquiumpm — The One That Has Agency as the Final Bosspm — Breakpm — The One That Decolonizes our Words and Bodiespm — Breakpm — Keynote address Dr. Hannah McGregorpm — Closing remarks and wine & cheese reception

Colloquium CommittEEAlex Custodio JessiCA tuCkermArie-Christine lAvoie sAeed AfzAlvAnessA CAnnizzAro

FaCulty advisordr. kAtherine mcleod

The members of the Concordia English Graduate Colloquium committee would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the following individuals for making this year’s conference and inaugural publication possible through their support:

ekAterini tsimiklis (editor)

emily Wilson (editor)

kAtheryne morrissette (editor)

dr. Andre furlAni

dr. dAnielle BoBker

dr. dArren Wershler

Beth Crevier

Bonnie-JeAn CAmpBell

shAron frAnk

Thank you to our panelists, moderators, and guests.

The Concordia English Graduate Colloquium committee gratefully acknowledges the funding of the Student Association for Graduates in English (SAGE), the Graduate Student Association (GSA), the Concordia Council on Student Life (CCSL), the Concordia University Alumni Association (CUAA), and the Department of English at Concordia University. It is thanks to these organizations’ generous contributions that we can offer a conference open to the public and free of registration fees.

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welcome addressdr. kAtherine mcleod

Panel 1: the one thAt imitAtes, fAmously moderAtor: kAtheryne morrisette

Carlos Fuentes (McGill)Between Protestantism and Atheism: Religious Thought and The Influence of Edmund Spenser on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Poetry

Mark Sardella (Ryerson)Friendly Glue: How Photoplay Created Community

Emily Watlington (MIT) Love, by the Book: On Clichés and Affect in Sophie Calle’s Double Game

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Panel 2: the one thAt tAkes And trAnsformsmoderAtor: dr. mAnish shArmA

Colleen Gaspirc (Concordia)Game of Clones: Authorship, Ownership, and the World ’s Most-Pirated TV Show

Marie-Christine Lavoie (Concordia)Sexuality and Religion in the 2007 Film Adaptation of Beowulf

Jessica Tucker (Concordia)Pamela 2.0: Public and Private in the Digital Age

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creative nighthost: Alex Custodio

afterParty at reggies$1 Cover, loCAted At 1455 de mAisonneuve W., h-231.

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Breakfast provided By the Colloquium to All

Panel 3: the one thAt nAviGAtes the fAnfiCtion ArChivemoderAtor: dr. Jesse ArseneAult

Madelaine Caritas Longman (Concordia) In Defence of Happy Endings

Danna Petersen-Deeprose (McGill)The Heat is On: Gender in Omegaverse Fanfiction

Morgan Bimm (York)An Imperfect Archive: Reimagining Feminist Fan Writing Practices

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Panel 4: the one thAt deConstruCts the GAze moderAtor: emily Wilson

Ashley Lanni (Concordia) Finding Yourself in Slash: How Gender Performance Evolves in a Female-Centric Space

Alex Custodio (Concordia) “She Started Out as Such an Ugly Duckling”: The Transmogrification of Female Royalty in Children’s Animated Films

Eileen Mary Holowka (Concordia)The Post and the Grab: The Invisible Labour of Feminist Instagram Artists

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Panel 5: the one thAt hAs AGenCy As the finAl BossmoderAtor: CArolyn JonG

Saeed Afzal (Concordia)Copy/Paste/Play: Amateur Games as Appropriation Art

Benjamin Gattet (Concordia)Who’s Telling the Story? A Study of the Video Game Perceiving Narrator Through Kentucky Route Zero.

Marika Brown (Carleton)#SavePepe: The Political and Social Mobilizations of Internet Memes

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Panel 6: the one thAt deColonizes our Words And BodiesmoderAtor: dr. susAn CAhill

Ariane Legault (Concordia)Gertrude Stein, The Vichy Paradox

Laura Giuliani (UQAM)The Spectre of Colonialism: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea as a Satire of Imperialism

Katheryne Morrissette (Concordia)Joyce Would Love the Internet: The Adaptation and Decolonization of the English Language in “The Oxen of the Sun”

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keynote address dr. hAnnAh mcGreGor

closing remarks andwine & cheese recePtion

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hAnnAh mcGreGor is an Assistant Professor in Publishing at Simon Fraser University. Her research and teaching interests address the histories and futures of print culture and new media in Canada, with a focus on Canadian middlebrow magazines, and podcasting as both self-publishing and public pedagogy.

CreAtive niGht is an interdisciplinary evening that features readings of prose, poetry, and fanfiction alongside performances through music, dance and knitting. Our lineup includes Jessica Bebenek, Lily Chang, Sarah Christina Ganzon, Katherine McLeod & Lucie Trudelle, Michael Perry, Sabrina Reeves, and David Fleming.