Dr. Deborah Jenson(Duke University)Dr. Massimo Riva(Brown ......Department of Romance Studies, The Graduate School, Graduate and Professional Student Federation (GPSF), College of

23rd ANNUAL

CAROLINA CONFERENCE

FOR ROMANCE STUDIES

March 30 to April 1, 2017

Keynote

Speakers:Dr. Deborah Jenson

(Duke University)

Dr. Massimo Riva

(Brown University)

Invited

Artist: Greg Lindquist

23ndAnnualCarolinaConferenceforRomanceStudies

ConferenceCoordinators:

JordanBessette,WendyCombs,SamKrieg,ColleenMcAlister,GiulianoMigliori,EmmaMonroy,

MarthaMoreno,AngelaRitter

SpecialRecognitionisgivenforthesupportof:

DepartmentofRomanceStudies,TheGraduateSchool,GraduateandProfessionalStudentFederation(GPSF),CollegeofArtsandSciences,AfricanStudiesCenter,MedievalandEarlyModernStudies,DepartmentofArt,CenterfortheStudyoftheMiddleEastandMuslimCivilizations,InstitutefortheStudyoftheAmericas,ReligiousStudiesDepartment,OfficeofUndergraduateResearch,Centerfor

GlobalInitiatives

The2017ConferenceCommitteethanksthefollowingindividualsfortheirinvaluablehelp:

LoganBrackett,JenniferWashington,ShavonCarey,FedericoLuisetti,EllenWelch,LuciaBinotti,GregMonroy,

andTheGraduateRomanceAssociation,particularlythesupportofAlessiaMartini,HollySims,andElenaCasey.

Wealsothankallpanelchairs,participants,andthegraduatestudentsandfaculty

oftheDepartmentofRomanceStudiesfortheirwillinghelp.

2017CCRScoverdesignbyGregMonroy

SpecialPresentationsatthe2017CCRS

Thursday,March30th,4:30–6:00pm:DeborahJensonKeynoteAddress:

“DisabilityStudiesandMarcelProust:TheNeurastheniaKey”

Friday,March31st,5:00–6:30pm:GregLindquistInvitedArtist:

"Paint/ingasacriticaltoolforsocialchange"

Saturday,April1st,4:15–5:45pm:

MassimoRivaDorothyFordWileyVisitingProfessor

KeynoteAddress:“ItalianShadows:ForaGenealogyofVirtualRealityinthe

EighteenthandNineteenthCentury”

Thursday,March30,2017

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Thursday,March30,201712:00pm-4:00pm

Registration(Room3411,CarolinaUnion)Coffeeavailableuntil3:30pm

2:00pm WelcomeAddress(ToyLounge,DeyHall)Remarksgivenby:• EmmaMonroy,Ph.D.StudentinFrench,UNC-ChapelHill • FedericoLuisetti,ChairoftheDepartmentofRomanceStudies

2:30pm-4:00pm

1.1WritingaNewPrescriptionforLiteraryandCulturalStudies.Chair:DorotheaHeitsch (Room3407,CarolinaUnion) • “DisabilityasinstrumentforfemininesubversioninthenovelSeeingRedbyLinaMeruane.”EtnaAvalos,UNCChapelHill

• “AnOverviewofCognitiveDisabilityAesthetics(VisualCultureinSpain).”BenjaminFraser,EastCarolinaUniversity

• “TheResistancetoDiagnosis:Autism,Neurodiversity,Life-Writing.”VivienneOrchard,UniversityofSouthampton,UK

1.2DiagnosingPedagogy:ScienceandTechnologyintheClassroom.Chair:GlynisCowell(Room3409,CarolinaUnion)• “DevelopingInterculturalIdentitythroughSLAviae-PortfoliosinAdvancedIntermediateSpanish.”CarrieBramletandMarinaEscámezBallesta,UniversityofVirginia

• “TechnologyAgainstHumanityintheClassroom.”RebeccaWeissman,UniversityofSouthCarolina

• “CollegeprofessorsdiscussinternationalstudentimpactonthelearningdynamicsofSTEMclassrooms:Howdonon-nativespeakersandwriterscollaborate,competeandcontribute?”BarbaraAbendschein,UniversityofMemphis

4:30pm-6:00pm

Keynoteaddress(ToyLounge,DeyHall)“DisabilityStudiesandMarcelProust:TheNeurastheniaKey.”DeborahJenson,DukeUniversity

6:30pm-8:30pm

WelcomeSocial(Imbibe,108HendersonSt.,ChapelHill)ParticipantsareinvitedtoaninformalreceptionatImbibe.Lighthorsd’oeuvresprovided,guestsarewelcometopurchasebeveragesoradditionalfood.

Friday,March31,2017

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Friday,March31,20178:00am-3:45pm

Registration(Room3411,CarolinaUnion)Coffeeavailableuntil3:30pm

8:30am-10:00am

1.1HumanBodiesandtheNaturalWorld:InterspeciesEncountersin20th&21stCenturyLiteratureandFilm.Chair:KelliHolt(Room3407,CarolinaUnion)• ”Eco-feminisminArráncamelavidabyÁngelesMastretta.”AshleyW.Carter,GeorgiaSouthernUniversity

• “BestialPerspectives:Bodies,Signs,andtheDevelopmentofHuman-AnimalRelationshipsinUnviejoqueleíanovelasdeamorand“MeutioIauaretê.”LauraColaneri,UniversityofChicago

• “NatureinAgingandAginginNaturewithBeauvoirandVarda.”TessaNunn,DukeUniversity

1.2Science(Fictions)ofRace.Chair:EmiliodelValleEscalante(Room3409,CarolinaUnion)• “Neo-RacisminThreeMid-20thCenturyFrenchScienceFictionNovels.”RuyBurgos-Lovece.UNCChapelHill

• “CarnivalinVigàta:LaughterandSubversioninCamilleri’sIlnipotedelNegus.”AngeloCastagnino,UniversityofDenver

• “Everything’ssoextreme”:LiminalspacesandracialsubjugationinAchyObejas’s“Polaroids.”RachelNorman,UNCChapelHill

10:15am-11:45am

2.1BeyondHuman:InvestigatingConsciousnessintheDigitalAge.Chair:FrancescoBratos(Room3407,CarolinaUnion)• “VirtualEcosystemsandBiopoliticsoftheCyborgBodyin‘Hyper-Reality.’”KateBundy,UniversityofGeorgia

• “ConsciousnessandtheMultiverseinthePoetryofDavidRosenmann-Taub.”KennethGorfkle,UNCChapelHill

• “Humanity’sEssence:ThestruggleforidentityamongemergingAIinUnamunoandMontero”.StevenMills,BuenaVistaUniversity

• “PosthumanismattheServiceofBioethics.”CarolineMosser,UtahStateUniversity

Friday,March31,2017

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10:15am-11:45am

2.2CognitionStudiesintheRealmofAffect,Magic,andSpirits.Chair:MartaNúñezPouzols(Room3409,CarolinaUnion)• “GarcíaMárquezandtheReclamationofMagicalThinking.”DonnaGessell,UniversityofNorthGeorgia

• “TheHauntedHousesandOtherHorrors.TheInfluenceofBalzaconHenryJames'TheGhostlyRental.”VivianaPezzullo,FloridaAtlanticUniversity

• “ACognitiveApproachtoSinister,VeryShortFictioninCasademuñecas.”R.TylerGabbard,PurdueUniversity

11:45am-1:15pm

Lunchbreak

1:15pm-2:45pm

3.1TheScienceofSubversion:GenderUndertheMicroscope.Chair:AlejandraMárquez(Room3407,CarolinaUnion) • “Frominnocentboytoassassin:Masculinity,inversionandtransformationinSinNombre.”AlyssaBedrosian,UNCGreensboro

• “ArticulatingAndrogyny:IntersexauthorshipinL’HistoiredelaMarquise-MarquisdeBanneville.”DavidB.Gill,UNCChapelHill

• “WhenProstitutesDream.”CourtneyHewitt,UNCChapelHill 3.2NavigatingNeurosesandHysteria.Chair:ElenaCasey(Room3409,CarolinaUnion)• “DrawingtheLinebetweenLoveandRealityinElsilenciodelassirenasbyAdelaidaGarcíaMorales.”FriedaH.Blackwell,BaylorUniversity

• “Hawthorne’sHystericalHeroes.”CatherineMainland,NorthCarolinaStateUniversity

• “Chiaretta/ChiarezzainSaba'sIlCanzoniere.”MatteoVenieri,BostonCollege

Friday,March31,2017

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3:00pm-4:30pm

4.1AnAestheticsofSustainability:ApproachestoAnti-EcocideNarrativesandPoeticsintheHispanicWorld.Chair:AlbertoLópezMartín (Room3407,CarolinaUnion) • “PassionoftheHunt:WomenandNatureasPreyinAnaLydiaVega’s‘PasióndeHistoria.’”JenniferE.Irish,FloridaStateUniversity

• “AffectasLimit:JorgeRiechmann’sEcopoeticsagainstPostmodernCapitalism.”AlbertoLópezMartín,DavidsonCollege

• “AmazoniaDoomed:CommodificationofSpeciesasaWayofEnvironmentalSalvation.”DiegoMejía-Prado,FloridaStateUniversity

• “TheImportanceofBioculturalHeritageinUnderstandingtheDynamicsoftheAmazonJungle.”JuliánNaranjo-Montoya,UniversidadNacionaldeColombia

4.2Machines,Technology,andSpacesofViolence.Chair:AliciaRivero(Room3409,CarolinaUnion)• “Literarymachines.Crossingtwentiethcentury’sviolencewithMarinettiandCéline.”GiorgiaBordoni,UNCChapelHill

• “ItalianCinemaandtheImmigrationintheNordest.”DanielaCunicoDalPra,UNCCharlotte

• “RomanianTransatlanticExchanges:Memoirs,DigitalCommunication,andMediaManipulation.”LetitiaGuran,NorthCarolinaA&T

5:00pm-6:30pm

Specialpresentation(AcklandArtMuseum,101S.ColumbiaSt.,ChapelHill)"Paint/ingasacriticaltoolforsocialchange".GregLindquist,invitedartist.

6:30pm-8:30pm

EveningSocial(AcklandArtMuseum)ParticipantsareinvitedtoaninformalgatheringattheAcklandMuseum.Lighthorsd’oeuvresanddrinksprovided.

Saturday,April1,2017

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Saturday,April1,20179:30am-3:45pm

Registration(Room3411,CarolinaUnion)Coffeeavailableuntil3:30pm

10:15am-11:45am

1.1TeachingSpanishLiteratureinaDigitalEcosystem:TheCaseoftheIntrotoEarlyModernSpanishLiterature.Chair:LuciaBinotti(Room3407,CarolinaUnion)RoundtablediscussionwithCristinaNieto,CrissyHartman,RachelLempp,ChrisNowak,JoanaEhrisman,andJoceJaimes1.2ApplyingScientificMethodstoLiterature.Chair:MauryBruhn(Room3409,CarolinaUnion)• “SeeingandBelieving?Natural,Unnatural,andAstronomicalRhetoricinPrimoLevi’s‘SidereusNuncius.’”CaterinaAgostini,RutgersUniversity

• “ApsychopathologicalreadingofÉmileZola.”JakeWarner,UniversityofAlabama

• “TheScienceofReading:AttheCrossroadsofPhilologyandInterpretation.”KristjanHannesson,UNCChapelHill

11:45am-12:45pm

Lunchbreak

12:45pm-2:15pm

2.1LiteraryApproachesto20th&21stCenturyTraumaandMemoryStudies.Chair:GregSeveryn(Room3407,CarolinaUnion)• “ReconstructingTraumaNarrativesofthe‘GuerraSucia’inArgentina:TheExperimentalWorksofLuisaValenzuelaandGracielaSacco.”ParkerBrookie,UNCChapelHill

• "ExaminingTraumaWritingasPresentedinAntesqueanochezcabyReinaldoArenas."RossEllison,UNCChapelHill

• “SensingthePast:MemoryandObjectsoftheSpanishCivilWarinElclubdelamemoriabyEvaDíazPérez.”RichardHenricksen,OhioStateUniversity

• “RuinsandtheRuinationofthe‘I’:APhenomenologyofTraumainVolverásaRegiónbyJuanBenet.”NiallAlexanderPeach,PurdueUniversity

Saturday,April1,2017

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12:45pm-2:15pm

2.2ThePursuitof(Forbidden)KnowledgeintheMedievalAge.Chair:HollySims(Room3409,CarolinaUnion)• “DiagnosingtheDemonicandtheDivineintheMemorialeofAngeladaFoligno.”MichaelJ.Clark,UNCChapelHill

• “TheContinuum:BattleandTournamentSpacesintheBaladrodelSabioMerlin(1498).”JosefaCondedeLindquist,UNCChapelHill

• “RepresentationsofAstrologersinthemesterdeclerecía.”KatieKalivoda,UNCChapelHill

• “ASorcerer’sTale:ANecromanceratWork.”PaulLarson,BaylorUniversity

2:30pm-4:00pm

3.1"Oh,thePlacesYou'llGo:"ScientificDiscoveryintheNineteenthCentury.Chair:JessicaTanner(Room3407,CarolinaUnion) • “Diagnosing(Racein)Anthropology:Science,Literature,andRaceinLate-Nineteenth-CenturyFrance.”BastienCraipain,UniversityofChicago

• “RacializedIllnesses,SpatializedRemedies:VisionsofSlaveryandMedicinein19th-CenturyBrazil.”IsabelaFraga,UniversityofChicago

• “Scientificdiscoveryandthefantasticimaginationin19thcenturyFrance.”LizTrueman,UniversityofSheffield,UK

3.2WhatOurEyesTellUs:ScientificApproachestoFilmStudies.Chair:KateGood(Room3409,CarolinaUnion) • “ChromaticSignifiersastheVehicletoConstructtheHeroicFigureinSelma.”Yu-SuChen,UNCChapelHill

• “AuroraasallegoryofthedeathoftheSpanishRepublicinElviajedeCarol(Carol´sJourney).”AmaiaValparis,UNCChapelHill

• “Short-circuitingeros:diegeticdecompositionandvisualhyper-reflexivityinBaise-Moi(2000)-Diagnosing‘trauma’inFrench‘extreme’cinema.”JosephWhite,OhioStateUniversity

4:15pm-5:45pm

Keynoteaddress(ToyLounge,DeyHall)“ItalianShadows:ForaGenealogyofVirtualRealityintheEighteenthandNineteenthCentury.”MassimoRiva,DorothyFordWileyVisitingProfessor,BrownUniversity.

6:00pm-9:00pm

ClosingBanquet(KiposGreekTaverna,431W.FranklinSt.,ChapelHill)Participantsholdingbanquetticketsareinvitedtoattend.

INDEXNamePage#Abendschein,Barbara...................................1Agostini,Caterina............................................5Avalos,Etna.......................................................1Bedrosian,Alyssa............................................3Binotti,Lucia.....................................................5Blackwell,FriedaH.........................................3Bordoni,Giorgia...............................................4Bratos,Francesco............................................2Bramlet,Carrie.................................................1Brookie,Parker................................................5Bruhn,Maury....................................................5Bundy,Kate........................................................2Burgos-Lovece,Ruy........................................2Carter,AshleyW..............................................2Casey,Elena.......................................................3Castagnino,Angelo.........................................2Chen,Yu-Su........................................................6Clark,MichaelJ.................................................6Colaneri,Laura.................................................2CondedeLindquist,Josefa..........................6Cowell,Glynis....................................................1Craipain,Bastien.............................................6CunicoDalPra,Daniela................................4DelValleEscalante,Emilio..........................2Ellison,Ross.......................................................5Ehrisman,Joana...............................................5EscámezBallesta,Marina............................1Fraga,Isabela....................................................6Fraser,Benjamin.............................................1Gabbard,R.Tyler.............................................3Gessell,Donna..................................................3Gill,DavidB........................................................3Gorfkle,Kenneth..............................................2Good,Kate..........................................................6Guran,Letitia.....................................................4Hannesson,Kristjan.......................................5Hartman,Crissy...............................................5

Heitsch,Dorothea...........................................1Henricksen,Richard.......................................5Hewitt,Courtney.............................................3Holt,Kelli............................................................2Irish,JenniferE................................................4Jaimes,Joce........................................................5Jenson,Deborah................................................1Kalivoda,Katie..................................................6Larson,Paul.......................................................6Lempp,Rachel..................................................5Linquist,Greg....................................................4LópezMartín,Alberto...................................4Luisetti,Federico.............................................1Mainland,Catherine.......................................3Márquez,Alejandra........................................3Mejía-Prado,Diego.........................................4Mills,Steven.......................................................5Mosser,Caroline..............................................2Naranjo-Montoya,Julián..............................4Nieto,Cristina...................................................5Norman,Rachel................................................2Nowak,Chris.....................................................5Nunn,Tessa.......................................................2NúñezPouzols,Marta....................................3Orchard,Vivienne...........................................1Peach,NiallAlexander..................................5Pezzullo,Viviana..............................................3Riva,Massimo...................................................6Rivero,Alicia.....................................................4Severyn,Greg....................................................5Sims,Holly...........................................................6Tanner,Jessica..................................................6Trueman,Liz.....................................................6Valparis,Amaia................................................6Venieri,Matteo.................................................3Warner,Jake......................................................5Weissman,Rebecca........................................1White,Joseph....................................................6

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