Masking and Unmasking
An Interdisciplinary Conference for Graduate Students
Department of Romance Studies
Duke University
September 12-13, 2008
Conference Schedule
Friday, Sept. 12, 2008
Morning Session
9:00-9:45: Breakfast & Registration, Women`s
Studies Parlor 1
9:30: Opening Remarks by the Planning
Committee
9:45-11:00: (Women`s Studies Parlor 1 and
2)
Gender
Moderator: Anne O`Neil-Henry
Respondent: Valeria Finucci
Women`s Studies Parlor 1
Emily Rose Cranford, University of North Carolina, Problems Posed by the Masking and
Unmasking of Gender in Hélisenne de Crenne`s Angoisses douloureuses qui procèdent
d`amours.
Martin Repinecz, Duke University, `Legate le braccia, i piedi e il collo` :
Bondage in the Orlando Furioso.
The Body
Moderator: Isabel Torres
Respondent: Meg Greer
Women`s Studies Parlor 2
Brooke McGowan, Cambridge University, The Hymen and the Veil: Queering Jacques
Derrida.
Ryan Schmitz, University of Texas, The Body`s Betrayal of the
Dissimulated Self in Cervantes`s Novelas
ejemplares.
11:00-12:30: (Women`s Studies Parlor 1 and
2)
Acquisition of Knowledge
Moderator: Alejandra Rodriguez-Villar
Respondent: Deb Reisinger
Women`s Studies Parlor 1
Layla AbdelRahmin, University of Montreal, Revealing and
Concealing: Architecture and Knowledge in Children`s Books.
Reginald Patterson, Duke University, This is Not a Boat, There is no Carnival:
The Pedagogy of the Guadeloupean Anti-Carnival.
The Mask of Racial Equality
Moderator: Lesley
Curtis
Respondent: Nathan
Hensley
Women`s Studies Parlor 2
Ronni Armstead, Duke University, Race, Class and Gender Identities and the
Ongoing Transformation of New Orleans.
Aude Dieudé, Duke University, Diaspora Experiences in Caryl Phillips`s
Foreigners and Paul Gilroy`s Black Britain: A Photographic History.
12:45-1:45: Lunch
Afternoon Session
2:00-3:30:
History and Narrative
Moderator: Rachel Valladolid
Respondent: David Bell
Women`s Studies Parlor 1
Eleanor Vanden Heuvel, The Johns Hopkins University, The Mask of Historical Fiction: Anna
Banti`s Artemisia.
Solomon Burnette, North Carolina Central University, Caribbean Slave Revolts: Islamic
Insurgencies Unmasked.
Bridget Pupillo, The Johns Hopkins University, Veiled Truth: Word as Mask in Paradiso XXXIII and the Kitab al-Mi`raj.
3:30-4:00: Break
4:00-6:00:
Keynote Address
Moderator: Lesley Curtis
Respondent: Laurent Dubois
Women`s Studies Parlor 1
Professor Trevor Burnard, University of
Warwick
Intimate Strangers: The Multiple Masks of
Slavery in Jamaica and Berbice, 1750-1823.
7:30: Please join us for
drinks and heavy hors d`oeuvres at the George`s Garage on 9th Street
in Durham.
Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008
Morning Session
9:00-10:00: Breakfast
10:00-11:30:
Biography: Narrating the Personal
Moderator: Dana Chirila
Respondent: Roberto Dainotto
Women`s Studies Parlor 1
Vanessa Dorriot, Duke University, L`Histoire s`écrit: Assia Djebar and the
Ethics of Autofiction.
Eglantine Colon, Duke University, Writing the Self in Fiction: When There
is Nothing under the Masks.
Claudia Gisselle Salazar, New York University, Masking Truth,
Unmasking Fiction in the Autobiographical Writing of José María Arguedas and
Rosa Montero.
11:45-1:00: Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:00-2:30: (Women`s Studies Parlors 1 and
2)
Visuality and Performance
Moderator: Reginald Patterson
Respondent: Esther
Gabara
Women`s Studies Parlor 1
David Gregory, University of Notre Dame, Crafting a Cracked Subjectivity:
Multiplicities in Adaptation and Lucía y el sexo.
Yun Zhu, University of South Carolina, Masking and Unmasking in Beijing Opera.
National Identity
Moderator: Erin Laureano
Respondent: Walter Mignolo
Women`s Studies Parlor 2
Kelle Keating, University of Texas, `Malamalangue`: The Struggle between
Nationalist and Pluralist Identities in Québec.
Rebecca Ingram, Duke University, A Spanish Culinary Canon?: Pardo Bazán`s
Spanish National Cuisine after 1898.
2:30-3:00: Break
3:00-4:30:
Genre and Identity in the 19th Century
Text
Moderator: Aaron Castroverde
Respondent: Stephanie Sieburth
Women`s Studies Parlor 1
Eva Yampolsky, Emory University, Fragmentation of Identity in the Works of
Guy de Maupassant.
Zachary Erwin, Duke University, Unmasking Masculinities in Emilia Pardo
Bazán`s Rural Sequel Novels.
Anne O`Neil-Henry, Duke University, Un récit vif, piquant, animé: Reading the
Literary Guidebook in July Monarchy Paris.
5:00-9:00: You are invited
to the Romance Studies fall party to be held at the Greystone Inn.
