The 46th Annual Comparative Literature Conference (Day 1): “The Comic Spirit in the Modern Age”
April 11, 2011All are welcome to attend the 46th Annual Comparative Literature Conference, which will be held in the Karl Anatol Center on Wednesday, April 13th and Thursday, April 14th.
Host: Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics
Day 1: Wednesday, April 13th
11:00 am Session #1: Subversive Humor, Humorous Subversions
Moderated by Devin O’Neill
–“Whistling Past the Graveyard: Feminist Discourse and Gallows Humor”
Autumn Furnish, San Jose State University
–“Intrinsic Violence of Laughter”
Trevor Fehrman, SFSU
–“Faulkner’s Perverse Joke: A Rose For Emily”
Boak Ferris, CSULB
12:30 pm Session #2: Deciphering Cultural Comedy
Moderated by Katie McLoone, CSULB
–“Laughter in Confinement: Joie de Vivre, Blackness and Violence”
Kara Hunt, UC Irvine
–“Ask a Mexican”
Alexandra Jaffe, CSULB
–“L’Humoriste: King of Québec’s Pop Culture”
Jean-Jacques Jura, CSULB
2:00 pm Plenary Speaker: Judy Carter’s “Find Your Funny”
Introduction by Omar Zahzah, CSULB
4:00 pm Performance #1: Interrobang, UCSD
Introduction by Devin O’Neill, CSULB
5:00 pm Session # 3: Spreading Laughter One Toga at a Time: Ancient and Modern Satire
Moderated by Kathryn Chew, CSULB
–“Born From Laughter: The Inhabitants of The Satirical Dimension”
Sarah McGinnis, CSULB
–“‘I’ve been looking for a girl like you’: Groucho Marx and Juvenal On Women”
Kevin Call, CSULB
–“Answering Authority: Dialogues of Extraordinary Leaders Through The Eyes of The
Common Man”
Reanna Galindo, CSULB
–“Finding The Funny In Food”
Edgar Martinez, CSULB
–“Juvenal, Comedy and Women: Oh, My! ”
Alexandra Kane, CSULB
–“From Aristophanes to SNL: The Satire of Politics”
Erin Yarborough, CSULB
–“Coactae Imperio Sexus: From Juvenal To The Juvenile (“Family Guy”) ”
Irene Chaiharnswadi, CSULB
–“Viras Feminosque Invertens: Sex and Sensibility”
Zachary Vaccaro, CSULB
The conference program is available on the Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics website: http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cla/departments/complit-classics/docs/46thcomicspiritprogram.pdf