Paying Attention: A Celebration of Dan Gunn and the Practice of Close Reading
Friday, October 14, 2022
Emery Community Arts Center
University of Maine Farmington
Schedule of Events:
8:45 Welcome
9:00-10:15 Session 1
*Adèle St. Pierre (The Moses Brown School), “The beauty of words and the power of grammar in J.M.G. LeClézio’s ‘Mondo’”
*Christine Darrohn (University of Maine Farmington), “Lingering: A Close Reading of Katherine Mansfield”
*Astra Pierson (Goddard College) “Poe and the Domestication of the Sublime”
*Erangee Kumarage, “Burning the Master’s House: Feminist and Colonial Agency in Jane Eyre”
10:15-11:30 Session 2
*Noelle Dubay (University of Maine Farmington), “Killing the Man Who Can’t be Killed: Reading the Sentence of Gullah Jack”
*Kristen Case (University of Maine Farmington), “English 181: A History”
*Stephen Grandchamp (University of Maine Farmington) “Close Reading Video Games: Digital Explorations Inspired by Dan Gunn”
*Caro Pirri (University of Pittsburgh), “Shakespeare and Marginalia”(via Zoom)
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
1:00-2:15 Lunch
2:30-3:45–Session 3
*Ian Davis (Princeton University), “Sociability in The Ambassadors.”
*Shanee Stepakoff (University of Rhode Island), “Hiding in Plain Sight: Judaeophobia in Swift’s Portrayal of the Yahoos in Gulliver’s Travels”
*Misty Krueger (University of Maine Farmington), “Adapting Austen in the 2020s: Close Reading or not Close Enough?”
3:45-5:00 Session 4
*Jeffrey Thomson (University of Maine Farmington), “Stop Making Sense”
*Doug Rawlings (University of Maine Farmington), “Mon Dieu! On Watching Dan Gunn Hard at Work.”
*Jonathan Cohen (University of Maine Farmington), “Continuing the Conversation”
*Steven Pane (University of Maine Farmington), Frédéric Chopin, Barcarolle in F sharp minor
*Jayne Decker (University of Maine Farmington), “The Stuff of Dreams and Magic: Directing Shakespeare with Dan Gunn”
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