2014 International Conference on Narrative

From Thursday, March 27, to Saturday, March 29, Clark University's Department of English, the Higgins School of Humanities, and the Dean of the College will be co-hosting the 2014 International Conference on Narrative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The conference will feature professors and students from all over the world presenting papers on questions of narrative in various media through many different theoretical lenses.

Three Clark professors will be chairs of panels at the conference: Professors Esther Jones, Lisa Kasmer, and Betsy Huang. Professor Jones will head a panel on the issue of “Narrative Ethics & the Intersectional Body,” featuring presentations of papers by Clark MA students Bella Che, Stephanie Grace, Nadia Gul, Natalie Kruse, and Ayesha Sindhu. Professor Kasmer will lead the panel “Gothic Narratives & Cultural Subversions,” in which she will present her own paper, “Traumatic Subjects: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Cultural Memory.” And finally, Professor Huang will be heading two panels: “Partial Minds & Cognitive Estrangement” and “International Epistolary Forms & Networks,” the latter of which will feature a presentation from Clark PhD research assistant Melike Sayoglu.  

If you have a chance, take a ride to MIT and support your Clark colleagues, teachers, and friends!