THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Thursday, May 21, 2015 Humanities 1, Room 210 Opening Remarks 9:00 – 9:10 a.m. Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Director, Literature Undergraduate Program Panel One: Re-reading the Canon 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. Moderator: A. Hunter Bivens Joshua Orellana Monarchy, Democracy and Capitalism: Political Theory modeled in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick James Vitiello Translator’s Preface Matthew Wranovics Absent Exit/Live at the Fillmore West: Traffic in Franz Kafka’s Amerika Panel Two: Feminist Readings 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Moderator: Kimberly Lau Sophia Apt Camille Charette Mallory Chodos The Sadeian Fairy Tale Pornography: An Exploration Into A New Feminist Language Twelfth-Century Sexual Politics and the Nascent Romanz Assessing Monogamy in Angela Carter’s “Puss-in-Boots” and “The Company of Wolves” Panel Three: Anxious Imperialists: Vampires, Authors, Tourists 11:45 – 12:45 p.m. Moderator: Jessica Kuskey Tourism’s Turn to Face the Gauntlet Carlos Aguirre Reverse Colonization and the Evolution of Hypnotism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Overboard: Abandoning the Language of Oppression in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe Rory Gilson Grace Tierk LUNCH BUFFET 12:45 – 1:30 p.m. 1:20 – 1:30 p.m. Screening of Little Red Riding Hood, a short film directed by David Kaplan, 1997 Panel Four: Visual Culture 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Andrew Beckner Brooke Knisely Jennica Petersen Moderator: H. Marshall Leicester, Jr. The Dystopian Imagination Construction of Language through Conflation of Identity: Little Red Riding Hood’s Bisexual Approach to Breaking through Phallogocentrism The Narcissism of Caravaggio’s Narcissus; Where Is Echo In This Image? Panel Five: Madness! Senior Fiction Writers Read 2:45 – 4:00 p.m. Moderator: Micah Perks Taylor Backman The Nothing New Annie Hoggatt Rude Awakening Courtney Howard The Woman, The Skull, The Fig Josh Knoll Murphy’s Law Dorian Maffei Behind Closed Doors Edgardo Martinez That New Guy Over There Summer ParkerPerry What You Made Me Closing Remarks 4:00 p.m. Carla Freccero, Chair, Literature Department FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ALL ARE INVITED! For more information: Literature.ucsc.edu | (831) 459-4778 | [email protected]