Welcome to the
3rd annual Quebec
Universities English
Undergraduate
Conference!
This is your guide to navigate
the events of the QUEUC
weekend. The theme for this
year’s conference is ‘From
Darwin to the Beatles:
Narratives of Evolution and
Revolution.’ We hope that you
enjoy your stay in the beautiful
Eastern Townships.
Panels on Friday, February 24th
Cleghorn
Session A: 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
Sites of Struggle in Decolonized Racial Identity
Jessika Deschenes (Laval): “Charles Chesnutt’s Subversion
of Plantation Stereotypes”
Jason Michael Beland (Laval): “A Morality Story Founded
on the Characteristics of Oral Tradition and Fairy Tales:
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”
Sabrina Penon-Meunier (U de M): “Crime, Self-development, and the Nigerian Romance”
QUEUC 2012 Schedule
When and where to find all events for QUEUC weekend.
Please refer to panel details inside brochure for listings of
presenters and session locations.
Friday, February 24th
01:00 pm – Registration (Cleghorn)
02:00 pm – Panels: Session A
03:30 pm – Panels: Session B
05:00 pm – Registration (Cleghorn)
05:30 pm – Dinner (Cleghorn)
07:00 pm – Mock Trial (The Gait)
09:00 pm – The Gait
Saturday, February 25th
08:30 am – Registration and Breakfast (Cleghorn)
09:30 am – Welcome Address (Cleghorn)
10:00 am – Panels: Session 1
11:30 am – Panels: Session 2
12:45 pm – Lunch
01:45 pm – Panels: Session 3
03:15 pm – Panels: Session 4
05:00pm – Wine & Cheese (Adam’s Dining Room)
06:00 pm – Dinner (Dewhurst Dining Hall)
09:00 pm – Poetry Slam (The Lion)
2012
From Darwin to The Beatles
Session B: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Colonial Identities: Negotiation and Reconciliation
Alexandre Gayk-Lemay (Laval): “Negotiation of Harassment and Attainment of Equality in the Narratives of Frederick Douglass’s and Harriet Jacobs’s Lives”
Delan Hamasoor (York): “Ex Pede Dolorem: Cross-Cultural Exchange and Representation in V.S. Naipaul’s ‘One out
of Many’”
Kristy Benz (Bishop’s): “Spaces of Resistance: Xuela as
the Third Space in The Autobiography of My Mother”
Laurel Rogers (UBC): “Natives, Interlopers, and the
Rightful Inheritors: Colonial and Postcolonial Tensions in
Stargate: Atlantis”
Dr Riddell and QUEUC would like to thank:
VP Academic Michael Childs, Dean of Arts and
Sciences Benoit Bacon, and the Office of
University Advancement.
Quebec Universities English Undergraduate Conference
Cleghorn
Session 1: 10:00 am – 11:15 am
Experiments in Genre: Prose, Narratives, and Identity
Gillian Massel (McGill): “Hybrid Genres: Re-conceptualizing
19th Century Realism in George Elliot’s Silas Marner and
Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles”
Denise St. Pierre (Bishop’s): “From Aqaba to ‘The Voice of the
Guns’: Musical Symbolism and the Evolution of Identity in David
Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia”
Nora Karailieva (U de M): “The Defamiliarization of Life in
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road”
Session 2: 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Psychological States: Behaviour, Adaptation and Fragmentation
Anne-Marie Dorais (U de M): “The Emergence of Animal
Instincts: A Means of Adaptation in the Post Apocalyptic Narrative”
Tiffany Morris (Dalhousie): “Numinous Machine: The Psychological and Emotional Status of Roy Batty in Blade Runner
(1982)”
Kathleen MacDougall (Concordia): “Lolita and Lacan’s Mirror
Stage”
Alexei Fraser (UBC): “Fragmentation of the Human Psyche in
King Lear”
Session 3: 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Evolutions in Language and Technology
Michael Saunders (Concordia): “Evolution and its Temporal
Discontents: Metaphysical, geologic, and technological time as
evolutionary processes in Don Delillo’s Point Omega”
Kayla Piecaitis (Concordia): “Concerning the rift between nature and mankind in Michael Ondaatje’s The Dainty Monsters”
Veronica Belafi (Concordia): “Retroviral Retro-Quoting in Pontypool Changes Everything”
Session 4: 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Representation of Humanity in Hyperreality
Isaac Macdougall (Dalhousie): “Holy Bat-Simulacra! We’re
Surrounded by the Hyperreal!: Miller’s Incorporation of Baudrillard’s Theories”
Emily Quail (York): “The Discontents of Ballard’s Civilization:
A Freudian Analysis of J.G. Ballard’s Televisual Society”
Alexis Chouan (Bishop’s): “The Apocalypse of the Hyperreal: A
Cultural Critique of 9/11 as an Apocalyptic Spectacle”
Panels on Saturday, February 25th
Old Library
Session 1: 10:00 am – 11:15 am
The Power of Performance: Language, Politics, and Feminism in Theatre
Fanny Dvorkin (Concordia): “Destroyed Talking: Verbal Violence in J.M. Synge’s Playboy of the Western World”
Alexandra Lee (Concordia): “The Hegelian Lordship of Lear in
Shakespeare’s King Lear”
Zoë Erwin Longstaff (McGill): “Feminist Tragedy: The ‘Real’
and Surreal In Sarah Kane’s Blasted and Caryl Churchill’s Top
Girls”
Emily St-Aubin (Bishop’s): “I Am Not an Emotional Creature:
A Critique of Eve Ensler’s Latest Work”
Session 2: 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
The Female Gaze: Reifying Gender
Bethan Chalke (Bishop’s): “Windows to the Soul: Duessa’s
Gaze in Edmund Spenser’s ‘The Faerie Queene’”
Drew Simpson (Concordia): “Exceeding the Mark: The Masculine Gaze and Ekphrastic Rebellion in Robert Browning’s ‘My
Last Duchess’”
Laura Yaternick (Bishop’s): “Dude Comedy Revisited: How
Bridesmaids Reshapes Hollywood Comedy”
Session 3: 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Fraudulent Couples: Marriage and its Discontents
Alexandra Pope (Bishop’s): “A Bird Of Paradise And A Steely
Arctic Thing: Incompatibility Between Gerald Crich And Gudrun
Brangwen In D.H Lawrence’s Women In Love”
Zoe Costanzo (Bishop’s): “The Fall of Hierarchy in Browning’s
‘My Last Duchess’”
Jessica Marchand (Concordia): “Dead Traditions and Broken
Conventions”
Katharine Dempsey (Concordia): “Conventional Duplicity:
John Gay’s use of ‘Double Capacity’ in The Beggar’s Opera”
Session 4: 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Resisting and Reinforcing Heteronormativity
Emily LeDuc (McMaster): “Fleeting Femininities: Allegories of
Female Independence in Alice Munro’s Runaway”
Danielle Bird (Concordia): “‘I won’t live without her’: the (Re)
Writing of Kinship and Female-Centric Spaces in Rossetti’s
‘Goblin Market’ and Collins’ The Woman in White”
Steve Eldon Kerr (McGill): “Ovid’s Limited Revolution of Gender: The Importance of Feminine Affirmation within a Masculine
Discourse”
Freddie Jean (Sherbrooke): “The Madwoman in the Attic and
the Reification of Men in Surfacing”
McGreer 100
Session 1: 10:00 am – 11:15 am
Religion, Art and Social Revolution
Jeffrey Araujo (McGill): “Unitarian Christianity and New
England in the Early Nineteenth Century”
Matthew Baggetta (York): “Anatomy of an Ethos: From Enlightenment to Postmodernity”
Natasha Chernier (Concordia): “Freud, Joyce, and the Behaviour of Water”
Session 2: 11:30 am – 12:45 pm
Idealizations and Disillusionment in 20th Century Literature
Caroline Wong (Mount Allison): “‘A Priest of Eternal Imagination:’ Art as Evolved Religion in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the
Artist as a Young Man”
Olivia Lifman (McGill): T. S. Eliot’s “wrestle / With words and
meanings”
Kathleen Keller (Laval): “War Trauma in D.H. Lawrence’s
Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway”
Session 3: 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Canadian Journeys: Inter and Extratextuality
Catherine Lacharite Mueller (Sherbrooke): “In European
Skin: Canadian Historical Fiction as the New Epic”
Andrea Matthews (Concorida): “Robert Kroetsch: A Journey
through Narrative”
Adam Young (Bishop’s): “Emerging Authors on CBC’s Canada
Reads”