V21 Collective at Society for Novel Studies: drinks, panels, seminars

Exploring theory of the novel in comparative frames is a central vector for V21. Join us in Pittsburgh at the Society for Novel Studies, 13-14 May. We welcome all conference-goers and area friends and foes to help us kick things off with drinks Thursday evening, 12 May, 8pm-10pm at Fuel & Fuddle (basement room reserved).

Affiliate panels include:

A4: Partiality, Local Forms, and World Literature
Chair: Nancy Armstrong, Duke University
1. Ayelet Ben-Yishai, University of Haifa, “The Thrill of Emergency”
2. Nathan Hensley, Georgetown University, “Drone Form”
3. Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins University, “Flight, Form, & the Metonymic Ideal: A Theory of the Southern African Novel”

B7: Reading Contemporary Fiction: Ali Smith’s How to Be Both (SEMINAR)
Chair: John Plotz, Brandeis University, and Deidre Lynch, Harvard University
1. Katarzyna Bartoszynska, Monmouth College
2. Beth Blum, University of Pennsylvania
3. Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard University
4. Amy J. Elias, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
5. Penny Fielding, University of Edinburgh
6. Annie Galvin, University of Virginia
7. Joshua Gang, University of California, Berkeley
8. Christian Howard, University of Virginia
9. Emily Hyde, Rowan University
10. Phil Joseph, University of Colorado Denver
11. Kylie Korsnack, Vanderbilt University
12. Ivan Kreilkamp, Indiana University
13. Cara Lewis, Indiana University Northwest
14. Miranda McLeod, Rutgers University
15. Daniel Aureliano Newman, University of Toronto
16. Hilary Schor, University of Southern California
17. Vanessa Smith, University of Sydney
18. Katie Trumpener, Yale University
19. Timothy Wientzen, Skidmore College
20. Daniel Wright, University of Toronto
21. David Young, Duquesne University

C4: The New (Post-) Humanisms and the Problem of Genre
Chair: Elizabeth Anker, Cornell University
1. Molly Clark Hillard, Seattle University, “Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: Bildungsroman and the
Transplanted Victorian Novel”
2. David James, Queen Mary University of London, “Post-Apolcapytpic Solace: Description as Redress”
3. Kent Puckett, University of California, Berkeley, “A Thing of the Past”: Why Narratology Needed the Novel”
4. Mark Sussman, Hunter College-CUNY, “The Correlationist’s Dilemma”

C6: Populations and World Literature
Chair: Chris Holmes, Ithaca College
1. Audrey Jaffe, University of Toronto, “The Novel Against Population”
2. David Kurnick, Rutgers University, “Circumnavigations of the People: Galdós and the Poetics of Population”
3. Hannah Rogers, Duke University, “Small Worlds: Population Distribution and Networks in Cloud Atlas”
4. Emily Steinlight, University of Pennsylvania, “The Descent of Genre”

D4: Presentism and Pastism
Chair: Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
1. Tanya Agathocleous, Hunter College, “In the Present of No Future”
2. Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan University, “Shivering Life”
3. Anna Kornbluh, University of Illinois-Chicago, “Thinking Space Presently”
4. Ben Parker, Brown University, “’TIme Regained’ Is Not a Historicism”

D5: Reading Contemporary Fiction: Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend (SEMINAR)
Chair: Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard University, and Caroline Levine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1. Ria Banerjee, Guttman Community College-CUNY
2. Lisa Fluet, College of the Holy Cross
3. Annie Galvin, University of Virginia
4. Eugenia Jenkins, McMaster University
5. Gabriele Lazarri, Rutgers University
6. Caroline Levine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
7. Linda Liu, Stanford University
8. Deidre Shauna Lynch, Harvard University
9. H. Kalpana Rao, Pondicherry University
10. Rachel Greenwald Smith, Saint Louis University