ALONE TOGETHER
March 10, 2025
Queens College English MA Program
Conference Schedule
March 10, 2025
1:00 to 2:30 pm
Alone in the City
Chair: Professor Cliff Mak
E. Marvin Brown
“Financial Nihilism— An Action Research Project. Generation Z Grapples Alone Against the Great Inflation and The Bubble of Everything”
Raveena Nabi
“Helga Crane: Trauma in Isolation”
Elle Schwetz
“Tying Strings Together: Increasing Solidarity by Placing Lived Experiences in Dialogue”
Louise Linh Tran
“Chasing Connection, Finding Loneliness”
2:45 to 4:15 pm
The Desire to Connect
Chair: Professor Caroline Hong
Enid Brain
“‘Simply Seen Her’: Transfemme Isolation and Community in Nevada and Glamour Boutique”
Adriana Fischetti
“The Invisible Woman”
Kaitlynn Lee
“Longing and Belonging: Breaking Boundaries in Bishakh Som’s Spellbound”
Nina Thomas
“Speculative Spheres: Racial and Sexual Identity in Bishakh Som’s Spellbound”
4:30 to 6:00 pm
Interiors and Confinements
Chair: Professor Sawyer Kemp
Kayla Baur
“Upstairs / Downstairs”
Boguslaw Mitrega
“Yearning for a Path Not Often Taken: The Politics of Narrative Form in Anuk Arudpragasam’s A Passage North”
Jennifer Olson
“The Dream Life of Comics: Dreams, Rehabilitation, and Art in Asterios Polyp”
Gabrielle Sarrubbo
“This Woman’s Work: Guðrun’s Vengeance and Place of Women in the Elder Edda”
7:00 pm
Edwidge Danticat Reading and Discussion
LeFrak Concert Hall
Edwidge Danticat
The theme for this year’s annual Queens College English MA conference is inspired by Edwidge Danticat’s recent essay collection, We’re Alone (2024). Learn more.
A reading by Danticat, co-sponsored by Writers at Queens and the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, will be the culminating event for this year’s conference. The Q&A will be facilitated by Nadia Misir.
7:00 PM • LeFrak Concert Hall • Campus map
Contact
If you have any questions about the day’s event, please contact the conference organizers at [email protected].
For more information about the Queens College English MA program, please visit the program webpage.
