Australasian Association for Literature Literature and Affect Conference Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne Wednesday 2 July Registration from 1:30pm Welcome 2pm Session 1: 2:30-4pm McMahon Ball Theatre North Lecture Theatre South Lecture Theatre Panel 1 Postcolonial Affect: Chair: Kim L. Worthington R. Benedito Ferrao Whiteness is a Feeling: Indo-Portuguese Colonization and the Affective Archive of Skin Jessica Gildersleeve The Best of All Possible Worlds?: Cultures of Emotion in Christos Tsiolkas's The Slap and Barracuda Panel 2 Maternal Affect: Chair: Laura Saxton Elizabeth Towl “Hi thole this ded for thine sake”: Explaining the Atonement in Two Middle English Devotional Texts Daniel Hourigan Coraline, Psychoanalysis, and the Other Mother Katie Hansord Emotion and Critical Distance in Emily Manning’s The Balance of Pain Panel 3 Affective Fallacies: Chair: Joe Hughes Niklas Fischer Narrative, Empathy, and the Limits of Understanding: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and J.M. Coetzee’s The Life and Times of Michael K Penelope Hone Physiological Acoustics and Literary Form: the Nineteenth-Century “Affective Turn” Ilona Urquhart ‘Deceit, to the point of diabolism’: The Danger of Humbert’s Narration in Lolita Afternoon Tea: 4-4:30pm Session 2: 4:30-6pm
McMahon Ball Theatre North Lecture Theatre South Lecture Theatre Panel 4 Beckett’s Affects: Chair: Anthony Uhlmann Paul Rae Woe is Me: The Prompts of Happy Days Russell Smith Benevolence, Eroticism and the Sentimental Encounter: Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey and Samuel Beckett’s The Calmative Corey Wakeling Hypnosis by Theatrical Temporality in Samuel Beckett's Theatrical Trilogy Not I / Footfalls / Rockaby Panel 5 Trauma: Chair: Ned Curthoys Simone Drichel Traumatic Narcissism and the Postcolonial “Politics of Relationality” Dvir Abramovich The Holocaust Affect on the Israeli Literary Aesthetic: A Torturous Relationship Sarah Richardson ‘Phoebe “Never Gets Over Anything” Gloeckner’: Trauma and Productive Shame in two Comics Panel 6 Feeling Victorian: Chair: Penelope Hone Scarlet Luk Middlemarch's Narrator and the Ladies Jenny Kohn Feelings, Identification, and Difference: the Politics of Victorian Novel Form Helen Groth Automated Affects: Experimental Late Victorian Narrative Forms Keynote: Heather Love The Salt of the World: Desire and Description in Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt 6-7pm Cocktail Reception: 7-9pm Thursday 3 July Session 4: 9-10:30am McMahon Ball Theatre North Lecture Theatre South Lecture Theatre Lecture Theatre C Panel 7 The Hounds of Panel 8 The Speaking Panel 9 Popular Fiction: Panel 10 American Poetics:
Love: Chair: Grace Moore Rowena Lennox Head of a Dog Susan Pyke The Circling Bush Lisa Smithies Writing DNA: How Does Human Behavioural Biology Influence Creative Writing? Body: Chair: Sarah Balkin Stephanie Trigg 'A glance of brightness': Facial Expression and Emotion in Jane Austen Sean Barry Great Talkers on Little Matters: Prolixity and the Grounds of Character in Byron, Scott, and Austen Joe Hughes Time, Form and Desire: The Representation of Action in Fanny Hill Chair: Leigh McLennon Patricia J. Smith "Popsies" and Pussy Galore: James Bond, the Profumo Affair, and the Zeitgeist of 1963 Daniel Beddgood Utopian Desire and the Problems of Posthuman Affect Nicholas Cowley Weirdly Reading Desire, Frustration, and the Pulp Audience in H.P. Lovecraft Chair: Bridget Vincent Lindsay Tuggle “Phantoms of Countless Lost”: Amputation and Affect in Walt Whitman’s War Prose Sean Pryor Mina Loy's Bliss: Affect and Form Gavin Smith “The Emotion of Having a Thought” – Poetry as an Embodied Experience: From Robert Frost to Antonio Damasio Morning Tea: 10:30-10:50am Session 5: 10:50-12:20pm Panel 11 Material Sympathy: Chair: Judith Barbour Sarah Comyn The Woollen Coat: Panel 12 Monster Lady: Chair: Susan Pyke Gabrielle Kristjanson Panel 13 Ecocritical Feeling and Literature: Chair: Stephen Harris Grace Moore Alert, but not Panel 14 Medieval and Early Modern Desire and Cognition: Chair: Helen Hickey Tekla Bude Math, Affect, and
Adam Smith’s Sympathetic Economy Stephanie Russo Importing French Fashions: Mary Robinson, Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution Cruel Desire: Narcissism and the Female Predator Laura Saxton ‘God, I Hate Her’: Affect in Representations of Anne Boleyn as Stepmother Fiona Gregory Feelings on Display: Representations of the Actress and Mental Illness Alarmed: Emotion, Place and Anticipated Disaster in John Kinsella’s Bushfire Approaching Tom Bristow Affective Points of Contact: Bioregional Biography in Alice Oswald's Sleepwalk on the Seven (2009) Tom Ford Can Literature Feel Green? Mystical Theology: Desire and the Language of God Antonina Harbus Cognitive Processing and Emotion in Literary Responses to Poetry John Severn Menippean Discourse and Same-Sex Desire in John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed Lunch: 12:20-1.15pm Keynote: Sharon Marcus Celebrity 2.0: The Case of Marina Abramovic 1.15-2.15pm Afternoon Tea: 2:15–2:45pm Session 6: 2:45-4:15pm Panel 15 Queer Affect: Chair: Jonathon Zapasnik Angela Hesson Panel 16 Dead Performance: Chair: Corey Wakeling Mary Luckhurst Panel 17 Spectacular Bodies, High and Low Affect: Chair: Elena Benthaus Jen Craig Overlooking the Panel 18 Literature and the Passions: Chair: James Phillips R. A. Goodrich Wollstonecraft,
Keynote 11-12pm: Gillian Russell Master Betty’s Accents: Affect, Celebrity and the Irish Voice on the Romantic Stage around 1800 Lunch: 12-12:45pm Session 9: 12:45-2.15pm Panel 27 Avatars, Affect, and Agency: Chair: Angela Ndalianis Justin Clemens Avatar Degree Zero: An Introduction Robbie Fordyce Positioning the Videogame Avatar: Perspective, Affect, Investment Luke van Ryn Dwarf Fortress: Homestead and Laboratory Panel 28 Politics and Emotion: Chair: Clara Tuite Emily Direen Anxious Vessels: Unruly Affect and the Figure of the Child in Post-9/11 Fiction Ling Toong The Great Singaporean Divide: The Dialectics of Absenting Affect in the Works of Catherine Lim Aaron Humphrey Emotion, Anonymity and Affect in Asylum Seeker Comics Panel 29 Memory: Chair: Victoria Reeve Sasha Morrell “Memoryless” Mourning: The Dark Daughters of Herman Melville’s Pierre and The Encantadas Zoe Thomas The Siren Song of Affect: Nostalgia as a Vessel for Autobiographical Practice Stephen Harris ‘Landscape Memoir’: Ecopoetic Affect and Literary Politics Panel 30 Shame, Guilt and Repentance: the Ethics of Regret in Contemporary World Literature: Chair: Jessica Gildersleeve Kim L. Worthington Confronting a Forgotten Past: Shame, Guilt and Blame in Jaspreet Singh’s Helium (2013) James Meffan J.M. Coetzee Is Bad at Sex Celina Bortolotti Telling Whispers: Emotions, Secrets and Identity in Las historias secretas de Marta Veneranda/The Forbidden Stories of Marta Veneranda (1997)
Session 10: 2:15-3:45pm Panel 31 Gothic: Chair: Sarah Comyn Francesca Kavanagh Fast Cars and Classic Literature: Innocent and Guilty Pleasures in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga Ashleigh Pyke ‘Subjects of thought furnish not sufficient employment in solitude’: Gothic Sociability, Eighteenth-Century Reading and the Affective Turn Leigh McLennon Burial, Language and Postcolonial Trauma: Reading Gothic Melancholia in Last of the Mohicans Panel 32 Queer Reading: Chair: Patricia J. Smith Peta Mayer Recovering Affect, Sensuality and the Backwards Turn by Staging the Performance of the Aesthete in Anita Brookner’s A Misalliance (1986) Anna Westbrook Relational Jouissance and the Erotics of Reading Queerly, or: “Something Like Orgasm Accompanied By Crying”? Jonathon Zapasnik The Event of Sexuality: (Un)Reading Eric Michaels’ Unbecoming Panel 33 Twentieth Century Novel: Chair: Tyne Sumner Tamlyn Avery Disaffected Youth: Consumerism and the Early “Waning of Affect” in the American Bildungsroman Kate Montague Tragic Affect and the Postwar American Novel Anthony Uhlmann Intertextuality and the Sense of Truth in Coetzee’s Dusklands Panel 34 Roundtable on Affect, Critical Reading, and the Embodied Self: Chair: Antonina Harbus Melissa Raine Affect, Critical Reading and the Embodied Self Helen Hickey The Authority of Tears Michael Richardson The Indeterminacy of Affect Afternoon Tea: 3:45-4:15pm Closing Roundtable: Heather Love, Sharon Marcus & Gillian Russell 4:15-5:15pm Drinks at Tsubu