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The 2017 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will be held at Ryerson University from May 27 to June 2. Here is a list of faculty and students from English Language and Literature who are participating. To see lists of Congress presentations from previous years, see our Past Congress Presentations page.
| Name | Title | Society/Group | Date/Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Becky Anderson | Sound and Space: Connecting to Memory and Remembering Trauma in Madeline Thien’s Certainty | ACCUTE | May 27, 1:45 p.m. | Victoria 508 |
| Becky Anderson | Photographing Loss: Exploring the Ocular Record in Madeline Thien’s Certainty | ACQL | May 27, 8:30 a.m. | Victoria 503 |
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Veronica Austen |
The Ghost of Roy Kiyooka | ACQL | May 27, 1:30 p.m. |
Victoria 503 |
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Veronica Austen |
The Presence of Absence: Visual Hauntings in Canadian Literature / La présence de l’absence: les hantises visuellesdans la littérature canadienne (panel org.) | ACQL | May 27, 8:30 a.m. | Victoria 503 |
| Betsy Brey | Fact and/or Fiction?: VR Storytelling and Cognitive Narratology | CGSA | June 1, 10:45 a.m. | TRSM 2-147 |
| Bruce Dadey | From Usability to UX: Visual Rhetoric, Comics, and Technical Communication | CSSR | June 1, 1:30 p.m. | OAK 218 |
| Andrew Deman | Wee Little Lotus-Eaters: The Fallacy of Academic Expiration | ACCUTE | May 30, 10:30 a.m. | SLC 450 |
| Evelyn Deshane | Blonde Beauties and GIs: Transgender Surgery's Military Root | ACCUTE | May 29, 10:30 a.m. | Victoria 301 |
| Evelyn Deshane | ESC Roundtable: Transitions (panelist) | ACCUTE | May 27, 1:45 p.m. | Victoria 101 |
| Danielle Deveau | Counting Culture: A Roundtable on Methods in Media and Cultural Studies | CCA | May 30, 8:30 a.m. | RCC 227 |
| Fraser Easton | Austen's War on Edgeworth: Economic Psychology in Emma and Ennui | ACCUTE | May 30, 8:45 a.m. | Victoria 500 |
| Judy Ehrentraut | This is Not Your Body: The Synchronization of Affect in Virtual Reality Gaming | CGSA | June 1, 10:45 a.m. | TRSM 2-147 |
| Stephen Fernandez | Rendering Digital Lives: Approaching Social Media Through "Critical Making" | CCA | May 31, noon | KHS 51 |
| Stephen Fernandez | Mobilizing Access in Makerspaces: Crip Performances and Collaborative Making in the Classroom | CDSA | May 31, 1:00 p.m. | TBA |
| Julie Funk | Pace-taker: Getting To The Heart Of Our Digital Anxieties | CCA | May 31, 1:45 p.m. | RCC 202 |
| Sara Gallagher | "Down Here in Paradise": Fictional Accounts of the Exoduster Movement | ACCUTE | May 27, 10:30 a.m. | TBA |
| Kyle Gerber | "On Earth as it is in Heaven": Transitive Action and Sacramental Participation in The Lord's Prayer | CATA | May 28, 3:00 p.m. | Victoria 206 |
| Kyle Gerber | “On Earth as it is in Heaven”: Transitive Action in The Lord’s Prayer | CSSR | June 1, 8:45 a.m. | OAK 218 |
| Kyle Gerber | Refusing Remembrance in Rudy Wiebe's Come Back | ACQL | May 28, 9:00 a.m. | Victoria 110 |
| Kenneth Graham | The Language of Blessing in King Lear | CSRS | May 27, 1:45 p.m. | Victoria 608 |
| Randy Harris | A Neurocognitive Ontology of Rhetorical Figures | CSSR | June 1, 8:45 a.m. | OAK 218 |
| Megan Honsberger | Mindflux: Application of Micro Digital Abstinence | CCA | May 31, 1:45 p.m. | RCC 202 |
| Monique Kampherm | "Liberals Lead:" The Rhetorical Influence of CBC's Aggregate Polling Data on Voters in the 2015 Canadian National Election | CSSR | May 30, 4:00 p.m. | OAK 218 |
| Norm Klassen | Language and the Paradox of Nature and Grace: Spiritual Warfare in That Hideous Strength | CLSG | May 27, 12:15 p.m. | Victoria 505 |
| Alysia Kolentsis | Shakespeare’s Grammar | CSRS | May 27, 1:45 p.m. | Victoria 608 |
| Jason Lajoie | Gayming On the Grid: Playing through the Ludic Technology of Grindr | CGSA | June 2, 1:30 p.m. | TRSM 1-149 |
| Victoria Lamont | Popular Westerns: Towards a Feminist Genealogy | ACCUTE | May 27, 8:45 a.m. | Victoria 101 |
| Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher | Data as the Commons: Rearticulating the Commons through Civic and Citizen Science [with B. Mehlenbacher] | CASDW | May 27, 10:00 a.m. | LIB 72 |
| Phil Miletic | Tender Vibrations: The Vibrational Nexus of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons | ACCUTE | May 28, 8:45 a.m. | Victoria 303 |
| Phil Miletic | MREs and Affective Citizenships [written with Keely Cronin] |
BSC | May 30, 4:00 p.m. | KHE-Kerr East 321C |
| Devon Moriarty | Viral Vaccines: Proposed Policy and the Rhetoric of Redditors' Response | CSSR | June 1, 2:00 p.m. | OAK 218 |
| Devon Moriarty | Rhetorical Inoculation: Proposed Vaccine Legislation and the Rhetoric of Public Distrust | CASDW | May 27, 10:00 a.m. | LIB 72 |
| Patricia Ofili | Apartheid Legal Screens and Nelson Mandela's Luminescence | CSSR | May 30, 3:00 p.m. | OAK 218 |
| Marcel O'Gorman | Making Non-Users - Hands on Experiments in Digital Moderation (panel org.) | CCA | May 31, 1:45 p.m. | RCC 202 |
| Marcel O'Gorman | Writing with a Soldering Iron | CCA | May 31, 1:45 p.m. | RCC 202 |
| Meghan Riley | "Hear[ing] the dead" and "remember[ing] the past": Ways of Knowing in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl and Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death | CAAS | May 27, 10:30 a.m. | Victoria 204 |
| Saeed Sabzian | The Aesthetics of Disability Poetry: Interrogating the Mainstream Poetics | CDSA | June 1, 9:30 a.m. | SHE Room D |
| Sylvia Terzian | Reconciliation, Rebirth and Return: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Exile in Dmitri Nasrallah’s Niko | ACQL | May 28, 9:00 a.m. | Victoria 106 |
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Masa Torbica |
The Presence of Absence: Visual Hauntings in Canadian Literature / La présence de l’absence: les hantises visuellesdans la littérature canadienne (panel org.) | ACQL | May 27, 8:30 a.m. | Victoria 503 |
| Masa Torbica | AlieNation: Performing Canada as “New Canadian” Poets (A creative session & poetry reading) | ACQL | May 27, 4:00 p.m. | Victoria 210 |
| Masa Torbica | Repurposing white noise: Considering the decolonizing affordances of found poetry in Shane Rhodes’ X: Poems and Anti-Poems | ACQL | May 28, 9:00 a.m. | Victoria 106 |
| Caitlin Woodcock | Basketcase | CCA | May 31, 1:45 p.m. | RCC 202 |