Program 46
46th Annual Comparative Literature Conference
The Comic Spirit in the Modern Age
California State University, Long Beach
April 13-14, 2011
Conference Schedule
Wednesday April 13th, 2011
11 am Session #1
Subversive Humor, Humorous Subversions
12:30 pm Session #2
Deciphering Cultural Comedy
2 pm Plenary Talk -- Judy Carter
4 pm Performance #1 -- Interrobang
5 pm Session #3
Spreading Laughter One Toga at a Time:
Ancient and Modern Satire
Thursday April 14th, 2011
11 am Session #4
Drawing Funny: Critique of the Popular
12:30 pm Session #5
No Laughing Matter: Risks & Contexts
2 pm Plenary Talk -- Ray Lacoste
3 pm Reception
4 pm Performance #2 -- Interrobang
5 pm Session #6
Comedy in Cine-Motion
Wednesday, April 13th, 2011
11 am Session #1 (Anatol Center)
Subversive Humor, Humorous Subversions
Moderated by Devin O'Neill, CSULB
"Whistling Past the Graveyard: Feminist Discourse and Gallows Humor"
Autumn Furnish, San Jose State University
"Intrinsic Violence of Laughter"
Trevor Fehrman, SFSU
"Faulkner's Perverse Joke: A Rose For Emily"
Boak Ferris, CSULB
12:30 pm Session #2 (Anatol Center)
Deciphering Cultural Comedy
Moderated by Katie McLoone, CSULB
"Laughter in Confinement: Joie de Vivre, Blackness and Violence"
Kara Hunt, UC Irvine
"Ask a Mexican"
Alexandra Jaffe, CSULB
"L'Humoriste: King of Québec's Pop Culture"
Jean-Jacques Jura, CSULB
Plenary Speaker
"Find Your Funny"
Judy Carter
2 pm Anatol Center
Introduction by Omar Zahzah, CSULB
4 pm Performance #1 (Anatol Center)
Interrobang, UCSD
Introduction by Devin O'Neill, CSULB
5 pm Session #3 (Anatol Center)
Spreading Laughter One Toga at a Time: Ancient and Modern Satire
Moderated by Kathryn Chew, CSULB
"Born From Laughter: The Inhabitants of the Satirical Dimension"
Sarah McGinnis, CSULB
"'I've been looking for a girl like you': Groucho Marx and Juvenal on Women"
Kevin Call, CSULB
"Answering Authority: Dialogues of Extraordinary Leaders Through the Eyes of the Common Man"
Reanna Galindo, CSULB
"Finding The Funny In Food"
Edgar Martinez, CSULB
"Juvenal, Comedy and Women: Oh, My!"
Alexandra Kane, CSULB
"From Aristophanes to SNL: The Satire of Politics"
Erin Yarborough, CSULB
"Coactae Imperio Sexus: From Juvenal To the Juvenile ("Family Guy")"
Irene Chaiharnswadi, CSULB
"Viras Feminosque Invertens: Sex and Sensibility"
Zachary Vaccaro, CSULB
Thursday, April 14, 2011
11 am Session #4 (Anatol Center)
Drawing Funny: Critique of the Popular
Moderated by Nhora Serrano, CSULB
"Do Metanarratives Kill Innocent Children? Postmodernity and Laughter in South Park's Stanley Cup"
Enrico Vettore, CSULB
"Wile E. Coyote, Acme, and the Development of Comic Paradox"
Stephen Fleck, CSULB
12:30 pm Session #5 (Anatol Center)
No Laughing Matter: Risks & Contexts
Moderated by Cheryl Goldstein, CSULB
"Curatorial Laughter"
Edith Doove, University of Plymouth, UK
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Humor In Poetry"
Patty Seyburn, CSULB
Plenary Speaker
"The Comic Spirit: Trivial But Dangerous"
Ray Lacoste
2 pm Karl Anatol Center
Introduction by Omar Zahzah, CSULB
3 pm Reception (Anatol Patio)
4 pm Performance #2 (Anatol Center)
Interrobang, UCSD
Introduction by Mary Sotnick, CSULB
5 pm Session #6 (Anatol Center)
Comedy in Cine-Motion
Film Screening
Jordan Smith, CSULB
Special Thanks to:
Associated Students, Inc.
Myriam Joseph
Penelope Houston
Gretchen Dinger
Jordan Smith
Dean Gerry Riposa
The College of Liberal Arts
Organized by:
Omar Zahzah, President of Associated Students of Comparative Literature (ASCL)
Mary Sotnick, Vice-President of ASCL
Devin O'Neill, Secretary of ASCL
Dr. Nhora Serrano, Faculty Advisor of ASCL
Department of Comparative World Literature and Classics
