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Each year, our Master’s Students share their research with fellow students and faculty at the annual MA Colloquium. This engaging student-organized event is a capstone to the MA program, a forum for showcasing papers presented at conferences throughout the year, and a place to preview ongoing Master’s research.

MA Colloquium
Friday, 7 August 2026
1:00-3:30PM
2017 Dunton Tower

Panel One – 1:00PM to 2:00PM

Reading Postcolonially: Structures and Technologies moderated by Maya Chorney
Madeleine Vigneron: “Belonging Elsewhere: Critical Science-Fictionality and the Diasporic Subject”
Mekyle Ali Qadir: “Locating Cultural Bias in LLMs
through Contrapuntal Reading”

Coffee/Snack Break: 2:00PM to 2:30PM

Panel Two – 2:30PM to 3:30 PM

New Methods, New Mediations moderated by Erica Raley
Ashley Menard: “Feeling Fact: Digital Silhouettes and the Mediation of Truth in Contemporary Speculative Fiction”
Jude Klaassen: “Bog-poetics through Field Work at the Mer Bleue”

MA Colloquium 2025
Friday, June 6, 2025
10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
DT 2017

Panel One: 1:00PM to 2:30PM

From Elizabeth I to Today: Representation, Archives, and Accessibility

Nathan Dalglish:“The Chaste Virgin: Elizabeth I’s Poeticized Image”
Erica Raley:“In The Dream House as Education, Archive, Subject of Censorship”
Jeremy Raymond:“Big Data, Ghosts, & Speculative Fiction: Virtual Reality as a Digital Archive”

Break: 2:30PM t0 2:45PM

Panel Two: 2:45PM to 3:45 PM

Theorizing from Lived Experience: The Mental Health and Academic Crises

Sean Muncaster:“Surviving the Machinery of Isolation: Necessary Surrender in Tao Lin’s Taipei”
Maya Chorney: “Un-Settled, Unproductive, Undisciplined: Thoughts on Academia”

MA Colloquium 2023
Monday, July 31, 2023
1 – 3:45 p.m.
DT 2017

Program:
9:50 – 10:00 am – Opening remarks

10:00 – 11:00am: Panel 1 – Science & Technology

Presenters:
Colin Sostar
Erica Pierre-Pierre
Spencer Clermont

11:00 am – 11:20 am First coffee break

11:30am – 12:30pm: Panel 2 – Migration, Settler Colonialism, and (Neo)colonial Exploitation

Presenters:
Sam Bean
Maia Corsame

12:30 pm – 1:20 pm Second coffee break

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm: Panel 3 – Popular Culture & Poetry

Presenters:
Jaclyn Legge
Meg Collins

MA Colloquium 2019
Wednesday, July 3rd
2 – 6 PM
Gordon Wood Lounge

2:00-2:05 PM
OPENING REMARKS

2:05-3:25 PM
PANEL 1 (Chaired by Alanna Gray)

Ruth Truong: “The Value of Author Paratexts for Exploring Claudia Rankine’s
Interdisciplinary Approach to Racism in Citizen: An American Lyric”

Geoff Bates: “Hybrid City, Hybrid Self: Representations of Urban Space in Delhi Calm,
Corridor, and Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir”

Sara Adams: “The Economy and Ecology of Dirt and Human Waste in Henry Mayhew’s
London Labour and the London Poor”

Deanna Young: “Translating the Old English Poem ‘Soul and Body II’”

3:25-3:35 PM
BREAK

3:35-4:55 PM
PANEL 2 (Chaired by Geoff Bates)

Meghan Tibbits: “Working for No Money: Aid Slavery and Debt-Peonage in Renzo
Martens’s Enjoy Poverty Episode III”

Simon Turner: “Speech in Action: (Mis)communication and Achieving Desire in E. M.
Forster’s Maurice”

Kelli Knox: “From Me, To You & Back Again: Generosity, Self-Interest, and The
Community in Thomas Deloney’s Jack of Newbury”

Rebecca Campagna: “Robert Burns’ Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect: Rubbing
Elbows and the Hidden Figures of the 1787 Edinburgh Edition’s Subscription List”

4:55-5:00 PM
CLOSING REMARKS

5:00-6:00 PM
RECEPTION