2007 Conference Committee

For General Inquiries, please contact:
Nancy Van Styvendale [nancyv(at)ualberta.ca]

For Web Site Inquiries, please contact:
Aloys Fleischmann [aloys(at)ualberta.ca]

For Artists' Gala Inquiries, please contact:
Christopher Grignard [grignard(at)ualberta.ca]

Co-Chairs:

Aloys Fleischmann
[aloys(at)ualberta.ca]

Aloys Fleischmann is a doctoral student at the University of Alberta. His dissertation examines the intersection of literary satire and law in a North American Aboriginal context. He has written for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, and has an article, "Beyond Cynical Laughter?: The Rhetorical Function of Comedy in Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11," under production for Mosaic.

Nancy Van Styvendale
[nancyv(at)ualberta.ca]

Nancy Van Styvendale is a PhD student at the University of Alberta who specializes in Native North American literatures and theories of subject formation. She has published articles on indigenous writing from both North America and Palestine, and she has served as editorial assistant on a special issue of Ariel: A Review of International English Literature entitled "Law, Literature, Postcoloniality."

Finance Officer:

Anne James
[anne1(at)ualberta.ca]

Anne James is a first-year doctoral student at the University of Alberta. Her research interests focus on seventeenth-century British literature, particularly Donne and Milton, as well as the reception of seventeenth-century texts in the eighteenth century. She is preparing a thesis proposal entitled "Reading and Remembering: Gunpowder Plot Literature in Seventeenth-Century England."

Committee Members:

Christopher Grignard
[grignard(at)ualberta.ca]

Christopher Grignard is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in a Joint PhD program between the departments of English & Drama at the University of Alberta. His dissertation, "Our—Gay Home—Town: A Canadian Gay Male Theatre Project" looks at five prominent Canadian gay male playwrights and their staging of their hometowns. His first full-length play The Orchard Drive premiered in Edmonton and Kelowna in 2005. He recently reprised his role as Nanabush in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters for Edmonton’s 25th Annual International Fringe Festival.

Laura Schechter
[lms3(at)ualberta.ca]

Laura Schechter is a PhD student in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include early modern travel and exploration literature, as well as texts from the period that are written by or focus on women. She enjoys work that is interdisciplinary and her dissertation will analyze early modern representations of Amazon communities.

Cody McCarroll
[cmcarroll(at)ualberta.ca]

Cody McCarroll is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. His dissertation studies discourses that mobilize the smallholder trope (generally a small landholder) at once to naturalize the institution of private property and to condemn smallholding as a primitive mode of production. This rhetorical strategy is traced from Classical political economy to its re-emergence in North America in both literary contexts and public vernacular.

Michael O'Driscoll
[michael.odriscoll(at)ualberta.ca]

Michael O'Driscoll, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of English at the University of Alberta, has co-organized three conferences in the past three years: Archiving Modernism (2003), Legacies of Theory (2004), and Absence and the Other (2005). He is Associate Editor of ESC: English Studies in Canada, has published various articles on critical theory and poetics, is co-editor of After Poststructuralism: Writing the Intellectual History of Theory (2002), co-author of A Bibliography of Black Sparrow Press (2003), and is co-editor of ESC's special issue on The Event of the Archive (2004).

Webmaster:

Orion Ussner Kidder
[okidder(at)ualberta.ca]

Orion Ussner Kidder, doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Film Studies, is working on his dissertation, "Telling Stories About Story Telling: The Metacomics of Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Warren Ellis." He specialises in comics, fantasy/science fiction, posthumanism/cyberculture, American popular entertainment, and does a little bit of film.