Conference is open to students, faculty, and invited guests from Penn and other universities. The 5:00 Keynote is open to the public.
SCHEDULE
9:00–9:20a | Coffee and Remarks
9:20-10:50 | Session I
TECHNOLOGIES OF ADAPTATION
Moderator: Jason Zuzga, English, Penn
Jonathan Rey Lee, Comp Lit, UC, Riverside
Playing Media: Interactive Narrative in Lego Adaptations
Tara Mendola, Comp Lit, NYU
Tropophilia: Catachresis and Its Ab(uses) in Contemporary Literary-Critical Discourse
Mihaela Mihailova, Film, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale
From the Fairy Woods to the City Jungle: The Evolution of the Cartoon Pin-up Girl in Tex Avery’s Animated Shorts
11:00a–12:30p | Session II
SELF-WRITING
Moderator: Courtney Rydel, English, Penn
Nicole McCleese, English, Michigan State
Contemporaneous Adaptations: Masochistic Time in Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless
Katie Price, English, Penn
The Adaptations of Kenneth Goldsmith’s Fidget
Ben Tam, English, Cornell
From Memoirs to Case History: De-casing Daniel Paul Schreber
12:30-1:30p | Lunch
1:30–3:00p | Session III
ADAPTING VISUALITY
Moderator: Avram Alpert, Comparative Literature, Penn
Shana Cooperstein, Art History, Temple
Scientific Manipulations of Astronomical Photography
Monica Hahn, Art History, Temple
The Adaptable Image: Performance, Manners and Agency in Joshua Reynolds’s Portrait of Omai
Shana Klein, Art, Art History, University of New Mexico
The Fruits of Empire: A Study of Foreign Food in Nineteenth-Century American Still-Life Painting
3:15–4:45p | Session IV
TRANSLATIONS
Moderator: Claudia Consolati, Romance Languages, Penn
Christa DiMarco, Art History, Temple
Living in Paris: Van Gogh’s Adaptation of Signifying Modernist Ideals
Steve Dolph, Romance Languages, Penn
Edges of the Zone: Sawako Nakayasu’s Mouth: Eats Color
Rachel Epstein, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Penn
Japanese Poetry and the English Language
5:00–6:30 | Keynote
Rey Chow, Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature, Duke University
Documentary Realism Between Cultures
