Friday, June 4, 2010
Room G 614 (6th floor, Building G)
– 9:30 – Plenary by Magdalena Zapedowska (Poznan, Poland et Amherst, USA): “Domestic Spaces in Emily Dickinson: From “My Father’s House” to “Dwelling in Possibility””
– 11:00 – Break
Moderator – Claire BAZIN (Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense)
– 11:30 – Ekaterina Zykova (Institute of World Literature – Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow): “Private space is open to chivalrous deeds and heroic feelings (S.H.Burney’s The Romance of Private Life)”
– 12:00 – Lauren Elkin (Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot/CUNY Graduate Center): “‘A View from Elsewhere’: Elizabeth Bowen’s Feminist Poetics of Location”
– 12:30 – lunch
– 2pm – Alice Braun (Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense) : « This community of the insane » : the orphic motif in the psychiatric hospital novels of Janet Frame
– 2:30 – Juliana Lopoukhine (Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense) : « ‘They Were Like Beetles Clinging to the Railings’: the Feminine Aesthetics of the City in Jean Rhys »
– 3pm – Break
– 3:30 – Raja Wardi (Université de la Manouba, Tunis): “Construction and Deconstruction of Gender in the Major Plays of Caryl Churchill”
– 4pm – Helen Mundler (Université Paris 12) : “War Crimes for the Home by Liz Jensen: towards a redefinition of a woman’s place”
– 4:30 – Eleanor Stewart-Tanguy (Université d’Avignon) : “Offending Women: the Suffragettes inside Holloway Prison in Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s “Her Naked Skin” (2008)”
Saturday, June 5
Room G 614 (6th floor, Building G)
Moderator – Marie-Claude PERRIN-CHENOUR (Université Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense)
– 9:30 – Brigitte Zaugg (Université Paul Verlaine-Metz): “The Invalid in the Bedroom: Variations on the Madwoman in the Attic in Short Fiction by Ellen Glasgow, Edith Wharton and Kate Chopin”
– 10:00 – Amy D. Wells (Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand II): “Djuna Barnes’s Private Public(ized) Jokes: Ryder as Feminist Chaucerian Revision”
– 10:30 – Emeline Jouve (Université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail): “The Angel in the House: The Woman Poet in Susan Glaspell’s Alison’s House (1930)”
– 11:00 – Break
– 11:30 – Isabelle Van Peteghem-Tréard (CPGE Angers) : « Rebecca Cox Jackson and the Shaker Community. Second Sex and Community Vision »
– 12:00 – Gérald Préher (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin) : « Southern Women’s Space in Marilee : Three Stories by Elizabeth Spencer »
– 12:30 – Lunch
– 2pm – Helen Chupin (Université de Paris-Dauphine) : « Fleeing the Public Space in Anne Tyler, her texts and her craft »
– 2:30 – Stéphanie Brochon-Durrans (Université Bordeaux III) : « Good and Bad Women in Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips: the Car as a space of Liberation? »
– 3pm Break
– 3:30 – Nicoleta Alexoae Zagni (Université de Paris VII): « “Listening and Telling My Own Stories I am Moving Home”: Scriptural Space in Among the White Moon Faces by Shirley Geok-lin Lim »
– 4pm – Frédérique Spill (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) : « ‘Soapstone counters and cherry cupboards’: Domestic Space and Identity in ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ (2008) by Jhumpa Lahiri »