2017 Not Reading Conference Schedule (.docx)
2017 Conference: Not Reading
Schedule of Events
Day 1: Thursday, 2 November 2017
Franke Institute for the Humanities, Regenstein Library S-118, 1100 E 57th Street
1:30 p.m — Check-in begins; coffee and refreshments available
2:30-3:30 p.m. — Poetics of unreadability
Chair: Jennifer Scappettone (Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Chicago)
“Not Poetic: Stories and Poems in North America, 1979 to the present”
Chris Schlegel, Ph.D. Student in English, Harvard University
“Dot Dot Dot: Carl Andre’s Punctuation-Based Poetry”
Jeff Paul, M.A. Student in Art History, Columbia University
“‘The Art Part’: Ulises Carrión at the Margin
M. Bettendorf, Ph.D. Student, Graduate Center at the City University of New York
3:45-4:45 p.m. — Reading beyond critique
Chair: Jean-Thomas Tremblay (Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Chicago)
“‘Who Has Time to Read?’: Towards a Post-Critical Canon that Does Something”
Philip Choong, Ph.D. Student in English, Indiana University
“Reading as Real Sensuous Activity”
Sebastiaan Boersma, M.A. Student in English, University of British Columbia
“Creative Reparativity, Creative Suspicion: Reading Reading with Barnes and Yezierska”
Aaron Stone, Ph.D. Student in English, University of Michigan
5:00-6:30 p.m. — Keynote address
“Reading, Not Reading, and the Tangible Humanities”
Amy Hungerford, Bird White Housum Professor of English, Professor of American Studies, and Dean of the Humanities Division, Yale University
6:30-7:30 p.m. — Reception
7:45 p.m. — Pub night for graduate students
Day 2: Friday, 3 November 2017
Franke Institute for the Humanities, Regenstein Library S-118, 1100 E 57th Street
8:30 a.m. — Coffee and breakfast available
9:00-10:00 a.m. — Deliberate Not Reading: Authorial Omissions and Strategic Illegibility
Chair: Ellen MacKay (Associate Professor of English and Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago)
“Reading Between Cultural Lines: Authorial Omissions in Blackout Poetry”
Chelsea K. Barnard, M.A. Student in Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas
“Not Reading Capital”
Max Maller, Independent Scholar
“Writing in Secret: Unreadability as Political Strategy in Daniil Kharms”
Dylan Bassett, Ph.D. Student in Literature and Creative Writing, University of California – Santa Cruz
10:15-11:15 a.m. — Cultural capital, canonicity, reception
Chair: Lauren Jackson (Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Chicago)
“‘An Insuperable Confusion’: Reception and (mis)Reading of Richard Wright’s Native Son”
Paul Shaw,Stony Brook University
“What Are We Not Reading? Goodreads.com and the Non-Academic Reader”
Ula Rutkowska, Ph.D. Student in English, Brown University
“Reading Ad Nauseam: Similar Plots, the Same Morality”
Debojoy Chanda, Ph.D. Candidate in English (Literary Studies), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. — Faculty roundtable: “What Does ‘Not Reading’ Mean to You?”
Chair: Christopher Taylor (Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago)
Marcy Dinius (Associate Professor of English, DePaul University)
Harris Feinsod (Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University)
Megan Heffernan (Assistant Professor and Director of Combined BA/MA in English Program, DePaul University)
Patrick Jagoda (Associate Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
12:45-1:30 p.m. — Lunch
1:45-3:00 p.m. — Words unseen: Orality and the sonic
Chair: Jim Chandler (Barbara E. & Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor of English, University of Chicago)
“The Music of ‘Not Reading’: The Chronometric Tradition of Old English Metrics”
David O’Neil, Ph.D. Candidate in English Language and Linguistics, Purdue University
“‘To Stale’t a Little More’: Coriolanus and the Fable of the Belly”
Shaun Russell, Ph.D. Student in English, The Ohio State University
“The Hunt for the Oral Tradition”
Mark Doerksen, Ph.D. Student in English, University of Saskatchewan
“The Semiotics of the Diasporic Self in Rehearsal: The Abandoned Baobab and Queen Pokou”
Kara Pernicano, M.A. Student in Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Cincinnati
3:15-4:30 p.m. — Remediation
Chair: Steven Maye (Ph.D. Candidate in English, University of Chicago)
“Relaying Un-read Ramayanas”
Sumedha Chakravarthy, M.A. Student in Comparative Literature, University of London
“Reading Beyond the Printed Page: Comics and Their Supplements Online”
Michael Grifka, Ph.D. Student in English, The Ohio State University
“The Clergyman in Love: Jane Austen and the Journal of William Bagshaw Stevens”
Thomas Leonard-Roy, Ph.D. Student in English, Harvard University
“Who’s Afraid of Photography?: Jacques Derrida, Biography, and the Photographic Image”
Eliot D’Silva, Ph.D. Student in English, UC Berkeley
4:30-4:50 p.m. — Relocate to performance venue
Performance Penthouse (Room 901), Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E 60th Street
5:00-7:00 p.m. — Performance event and reception