ALONE TOGETHER

March 10, 2025

Queens College English MA Program

March 10

1:00 – 6:45 PM

Presidential Conference Room 1 (RO-527)

Conference

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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”

6:15 to 6:45 pm
Reception

Klapper Hall, 6th Floor

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7:00 pm
Edwidge Danticat Reading and Discussion

LeFrak Concert Hall

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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

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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.