Conference "To Be Continued:"The Novel and Forms of Narrative Continuation
“To Be Continued”: The Novel and Forms of Narrative Continuation
Conference Schedule
Friday, Feb 17
9:15 Welcome
9:30-11:00 Panel I
Chair: Florian Sedlmeier (Ruhr University Bochum)
Frank Kelleter (Freie Universität Berlin), Fake Publics are Real Too: On Judith Sargent Murray’s The Gleaner (1792–1798)
MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), Clotels; or, The Revisioning/Reprinting Continuations of the President’s Daughter
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Panel II
Chair: Frank Kelleter (Freie Universität Berlin)
Andreas Mahler (Freie Universität Berlin), Continuation and the Novel. Open Context and the Problem of Closure
Deidre Lynch (Harvard University), Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book. The Seasons Quartet and Seriality in an Electronic Age
12:45-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:45 Panel III
Chair: MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (University of Würzburg)
Florian Sedlmeier (Ruhr University Bochum), Parody and Caricature. Tabitha Gilman Tenney
Ulla Haselstein (Freie Universität Berlin), Parody of Parody. Twain and Coover
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Panel IV
Chair: Birte Wege (Freie Universität Berlin)
Tobias Annamalay Jochum (Freie Universität Berlin), B. Traven’s Gerard Gales Cycle in the Americas: Serialized Polemics, Translation, and the Writer’s Hustle
Sabine Sielke (University of Bonn), Insistence, Seriality, Memory. Echoes of Gertrude Stein in Popular Culture
19:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, Feb 18
9:30-11:00 Panel V
Birte Wege (Freie Universität Berlin), Robot Reboots
Birgit Spengler (University of Wuppertal), Intertextual Chronotopes
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Panel VI
James Dorson (LMU Munich), Business Fiction and the Project Form
Jeremy Rosen (University of Utah), The Genre Turn and Immersion in Fictional Worlds
12:45-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Panel VII
Julie Dickson (Freie Universität Berlin), "How Life Delivers and Delivers": Constructing Coherence in the Themed Short Story Collection
Andrew Gross (University of Göttingen), After the End. The Post-Pandemic Narrative of the Apocalypse
15:30 Concluding Remarks
19:00 Conference Dinner