See full details at http://www.accute.ca/2011programme.html

1E - Down East

Butler, Heidi (UNB)

Rethinking Regionalism: Youth in Christy Ann Conlin’s Heave

2A - Graphically Speaking

Willmott, Glenn (Queen’s U)

Modern Animalism: Habitats of Scarcity and Wealth in Comics and Literature

3E - Edwardian Expectations

Bettle, Madison (U of Western Ontario)

Unrealistic Expectations: Boyhood in Imperialist Adventure Fiction

4E - Shifting Queers

Hurley, Natasha (U of Alberta)

Little Trannies’ Little Mermaid: A Shape-Shifting Tale

5B - Joint Session with the Canadian Society of Medievalists - The Once and Future Time: Medievalisms in Literature, Film and Culture

Meredith-Lobay, Megan (Oxford U)

Gaming in the Medieval: A Study of Virtual Medievalisms

5C - Joint Session with North American Victorian Studies Association - Negotiations in the Marketplace: The Book and the Family

Andrea Day (U of Toronto)

“Works by Andrew Lang”: Reading the Anthropological, Folkloric, and Commercial Paratexts of The Blue Fairy Book and The Arabian Nights Entertainments

5D - Pop Arts

Trimble, Sarah (McMaster U)

Reanimating the Rust Belt:  Undead Space and Youth in HBO's The Wire

McCutcheon, Mark A. (Athabasca U)

The Function of DJing at the Present Time: Appropriation as Criticism 

McConnell, Kathleen (St. Thomas U)

The Monstrously Vacant Bella Swan

5E - Self Illusion

Hardwick, Jennifer (Queen’s U)

“A normal American adolescence”: Translating Childhood in Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation

6D - Sexology and Literature II

Robinson, Laura (Royal Military College of Canada)

“Almost a man’s voice”: Revising Sexology in L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Windy Poplars

8B - Mennonites, Myth and Moose

Veldstra, Carolyn (McMaster U)

Cynicism and Humour in Miriam Toews' A Complicated Kindness

8C - Joint session with Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada Session: Victorian Failures

Robertson, Christine (U of Toronto)

“’The Gates of Learning’ shut with a clang”: Rudyard Kipling’s Kim as failed school story

9B - First Nations Redux

Fabre, Cara (Queen’s U)

“There’s a treatment centre where the residential school used to be”: Communal Resistance to Colonial Confinements in Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach

Olesen, Jan (Trent U)

One More Time in Cree: Resisting Colonial Culture in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen and Jean de Lery’s History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil

Belghiti, Rachid (U de Montréal)

Dance and the Re-writing of History: Edward Said's After the Last Sky and Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen

11B - Joint Session with the Bibliographical Society of Canada and Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture: The Place of Books

Eastwood, Alexander (U of Toronto)

A Fantastic Failure: Displaced Nationalism and the Intralingual Translation of Harry Potter