GENRES AND HISTORICITY: Text, Cotext, Context English Department, University of Bucharest, 3-5 June, 2010—Literature and Cultural Studies Section THURSDAY, 3 June, 2010 19.00 REGISTRATION AND OPENING RECEPTION (Casa Oamenilor de Ştiinţă, Piaţa Lahovari) FRIDAY, 4 June, 2010 ROOM BRITISH STUDIES MARK TWAIN ROOM AMERICAN STUDIES TIME (1ST floor front) (1ST floor left) (1ST floor right)  9:00-13:30 REGISTRATION (Lobby) 9:30-11:00 CHAIR: Ioana Zirra CHAIR: James Brown East-European Cultural Space from Post- University of Bucharest University of Bucharest Communism to Post-E.U. Accession: Transatlantic Elena-Iuliana Bindileu, University of Bucharest Irene Huhulea, University of Manchester, UK Perspectives and History in the Making* How Far Can You Go when undermining religious Reinventing Canonical Children’s Literature: Harry CHAIR: Rodica Mihăilă discourse? David Lodge’s Parodic Novel and the Potter and Twilight in the Fan Fiction Genre University of Bucharest Catholic Church Eliana Ionoaia, University of Bucharest Roxana Oltean, University of Bucharest Daniela Oancea, University of Bucharest The Evolution of Modern Fantasy from Disrepute to Transcribing Eastern-European Identity in a Questioning the limits of the novel in Julian New Heights Transatlantic Perspective. Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters Cristina-Georgiana Voicu, Al. I. Cuza University, Iaşi, Diana Benea, University of Bucharest Alina Roşcan, Carol I National Defense University, Romania “A Mirror of Calamities and Extraordinary Changes”: Romania Esotericism as Discourse of Alterity in Jean Rhys’s An American History of Eastern European Literature . Reconstructing the Past by Means of Subjectivity Wide Sargasso Sea Oana Surugiu, Al. I. Cuza University, Iaşi, Romania and Fictionality in Love, etc Exporting Romanian Literature: The Case of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Nostalgia in the USA. Silvia Osman, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest Pushing at the Boundaries of Convention * This event is part of the CNCSIS-UEFISCSU Grant no. 205/ 1st of October 2007, project code 1000, PNII – IDEI, project director Prof. dr. Rodica Mihăilă. 11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson Room, Basement) 11:30-12:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Mihaela Irimia, University of Bucharest Of Angels, Novels and Historicity (Mark Twain Room) FRIDAY, 4 June, 2010 (continued)

ROOM BRITISH STUDIES MARK TWAIN ROOM AMERICAN STUDIES TIME (1ST floor front) (1ST floor left) (1ST floor right)  12:30-13:30 CHAIR: Maria-Ana Tupan CHAIR: Monica Bottez East-European Cultural Space from Post-Communism to University of Bucharest University of Bucharest Post-E.U. Accession (continuing) Mustafa Kırca, Niğde University, Turkey Monica Bottez, University of Bucharest CHAIR: Dana Mihăilescu Generic Signals and the Parodic Discourse Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women—an Episodic University of Bucharest Maria-Ana TupanUniversity of Bucharest Novel or a Cycle of Short Stories? Cristina-Georgiana Voicu, Al. I. Cuza University, Iaşi, The Emancipation/Degradation of the Senior Ioana Zirra, University of Bucharest Romania Branch Genres and Historical Forms of the Literary From Colonial Power to Neoliberal Europe Imagination Today Milena Jivcovici, University of Bucharest U.S. Policy Towards Former Yugoslavia: The Use of Coercive Force: Reasons and Results

13:30-14:30 LUNCH (Emerson Room, Basement) 14:30-15:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Michael Hattaway, University of Sheffield, UK Houses in the English Novel: Modernisms, Ekphrases, and Thresholds (Mark Twain Room) 15:30-17:00 CHAIR: Eric Gilder East-European Cultural Space from Post-Communism to Lucian Blaga University, Sibiu, Romania Post-E.U. Accession (continuing) Raluca Aron, University of Bucharest CHAIR: Maria Sabina Draga Alexandru The contamination of genres – The case of the University of Bucharest political discourse and the utopia Liviu Andreescu, Spiru Haret University, Bucharest Eric Gilder & Mervyn Hagger, Lucian Blaga University, Notes on Communist Spies / Collaborators, Secret Sibiu, Romania & The John Lilburne Research Institute Archives, and the American / Romanian Culture Wars Text, Cotext, Context: The Rouge Rendering of Rodica Mihăilă, University of Bucharest “Piracy” as a Vexed Legal Construct Over Time and Reconstructing the Academy: The Post-Cold War Place Expansion of American Studies in Eastern Europe Irina David, Academy of Economic Sciences, Bucharest The American ‘Other’: Romanian Perspectives Elena-Adriana Dancu, University of Bucharest Eastern European Diasporic Writing: Domnica Rădulescu’s Train to Trieste and Vesna Goldsworthy’s Chernobyl Strawberries Adriana Bulz, Military Technical Academy, Bucharest Ideological Load and Critical Compromise: Mihnea Gheorghiu’s Response to Eugene O’Neill’s Works FRIDAY, 4 June, 2010 (continued)

ROOM BRITISH STUDIES MARK TWAIN ROOM AMERICAN STUDIES TIME (1ST floor front) (1ST floor left) (1ST floor right)  17:00-17:30 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson Room, Basement) 17:30-19:00 CHAIR: Frank W. Brevik East-European Cultural Space from Post-Communism to LaGrange College, USA Post-E.U. Accession (continuing) Estella Ciobanu, Ovidius University, Constanţa, CHAIR: Roxana Oltean Romania University of Bucharest Unthinking Genre in Modern Scholarship of Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, University of Bucharest Medieval Drama, or Who Is Afraid of Historicising From Surrealism to Transatlanticism: Genre as Process Generic Limit(ation)s? in Ruxandra Cesareanu’s Poetry Frank W. Brevik, LaGrange College, USA Teodora Oprescu, Academy of Economic Sciences, Teaching Text versus American-Adamic Context: Bucharest The New World Tempest as Multicultural Orthodoxy 21st Century Romanian Diasporic Views on Living with Monica Oancă, University of Bucharest and through Technology in America Richard II—from Chronicle to Drama Raluca Oproiu, University of Bucharest Nicolae-Andrei Popa, University of Bucharest A Pilgrim through Mortal Blood: Rewriting the Vampire Canonical approaches to Shakespeare: Samuel in Doina Ruşti’s Zogru Taylor Coleridge and Samuel Johnson Ilinca Diaconu, University of Bucharest Western World and Communist Past. The Poems of Radu Vancu. Mihaela Paraschivescu, University of Bucharest An Inquiry into the Romanian and American Critique of Mircea Eliade’s Political Stance Dana Mihăilescu, University of Bucharest Frames of Life and the Will to Memory through the Lenses of Exile: Eastern European – U.S. Encounters in Norman Manea’s Vizuina SATURDAY, 5 June, 2010

ROOM BRITISH STUDIES AMERICAN STUDIES ROOM 6 TIME (1ST floor front) (1ST floor right) (1ST floor right)  9:00-11:30 REGISTRATION (Lobby) 9:30-11:00 CHAIR: Irina Pană CHAIR: Radu Surdulescu University of Bucharest University of Bucharest Carla Harryman, Eastern Michigan University, USA Elena-Carmen Bobocescu, University of Bucharest The Short Decade Extended: Periodization and An Apocryphal Autobiograhy: The Last Testament of Resistance to Temporal Framing in a Multi- Oscar Wilde Authored Autobiography Adriana Bulz, Military Technical Academy, Bucharest Cristina Nicolaescu, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian Mihnea Gheorghiu’s Contribution to the Reception of University, Bucharest Eugene O’Neill in Romania, in the Context of the Work Theory as a Distinct Genre in Literary Studies of the Romanian Critic Roxana Tohaneanu-Shields, University of Reading, UK Andrei Guruianu, Binghamton University, USA Means and Ends in Conceptual Art Charles Simic and Nichita Stănescu: The Systematic Construction of a Poetic Cosmos (or the Preservation of What is Possible)

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson Room, Basement) 11:30-12:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Anthony Maynard Kemp, University of Southern California, USA “The Miller’s Tale” as Integrative Genre (Mark Twain Room) 12:30-13:30 CHAIR: Richard Witt CHAIR: Octavian Roske University of Bucharest University of Bucharest Richard Witt, University of Bucharest Octavian Roske, University of Bucharest The Split Infinite in Sickness and in Health: Text, Context and The Limits of Ideology: James Henry Continuity of a Discontinuity Hammond and the Defense of Slavery in South Irina Pană, University of Bucharest Carolina The Spectacle of History in Shakespeare’s Utopias Mihai Stroe, University of Bucharest The Titanic Atom: E. A. Poe’s Romantic Cosmology in Eureka 13:30-14:30 LUNCH (Emerson Room, Basement) 14:30-15:30 PLENARY DEBATE: Writing Literary Histories Principal speaker: Rodica Mihăilă, University of Bucharest (Mark Twain Room) SATURDAY, 5 June, 2010 (continued)

ROOM BRITISH STUDIES AMERICAN STUDIES ROOM 6 TIME (1ST floor front) (1ST floor right) (1ST floor right)  15:30-17:00 CHAIR: James Brown CHAIR: Anca Peiu Literary Translation as Genre: University of Bucharest University of Bucharest Between Creation and Betrayal James Brown, University of Bucharest Anca Peiu, University of Bucharest Wokshop of the Masters Programme in Translation of Bonnie Braes, Bells and Brownies: Embedded (The Sign of) Money in Love, Life and (American) the Contemporary Literary Text, University of Bucharest Verses in English and Scottish Legends of the Literature CHAIR: Lidia Vianu Supernatural José Manuel Estévez-Saá, University of A Coruña, Spain University of Bucharest Iuliana Tănase, University of Bucharest James Joyce Casts His Shadow over Contemporary Oana Avornicesei, The Literary Translation of the The Borderlines of Utopia Irish Writers Inherently Non-literary Genre of the Diary—a Step in Cristian Ştefan Vîjea, University of Bucharest Nicoleta Stanca, Ovidius University, Constanţa, the Endless Chain of Semiosis Metamorphoses of the Covenanters in Scottish Romania Daniela Călinescu, Drama Translation: Negociating Historical Fiction Revival and Contemporary Versions of Irish Pastoral Between Forms of Paronomasia in Romanian and Poetry: W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney their Existing/Non-existing Equivalents in English; Mircea M. Ionescu's Casanova’s Breaker Elena Cigăreanu, Malcolm Bradbury and David Lodge— Two Approaches to the Campus Novel Iulian Arabagiu & Mădălina Moţ, Difficulties in translating irony in Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal 17:00-17:30 COFFEE BREAK (Emerson Room, Basement)

17:30-19:00 CHAIR: Martin Potter CHAIR: Chris Tănăsescu Literary Translation as Genre(continuing) University of Bucharest University of Bucharest CHAIR: Lidia Vianu Camelia Anghel, Romanian-American University, Oana Cogeanu, Al. I. Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania University of Bucharest Bucharest Texting Africa: Richard Wright’s Black Power and Alexandra Mărginean, The House and the Workplace Versatile Genres: Travel Writing as ‘Comedy’ Maya Angelou’s All God’s Children Need Traveling Between Stereotypical Imagery and Re-contextualized Martin Potter, University of Bucharest Shoes Meaning in Graham Swift’s Character Identity David Jones’ The Anathemata as Modern Epic Raluca Oproiu, University of Bucharest Construction Alina Elena Roşca, Petroleum and Gas University of Writing What Haunts You: Shirley Jackson’s Female Lidia Vianu, The Unfaithful Translator and the Boring Ploieşti, Romania Gothic and the Tranquilized Fifties Text Harold Pinter’s Plays—The Dramatic Text and its Chris Tănăsescu, University of Bucharest (De)stabilising Approach to Context Self Cotext, Tradition’s Context, and the Texture of Communities in Contemporary US Poetry

20.00 CLOSING DINNER (Il Saraceno Restaurant, Str. Toamnei 85)