Mis/Appropriation: University of Oxford English Postgraduate Conference

9.00-9.30 Registration and Breakfast

9.30-10.30 Opening Plenary: Professor David Lawton, , ‘(Mis)Appropriation, Culture, Blasphemy’

10.30-12.00 I

Session a *Media and the Politics of (Mis)Representation* Chair: Stephanie Yorke	Session b *Misappropriation and the Literary Past* Chair: Aditi Nafde	Session c *Transformation and Transmission of Identity* Chair: Nisha Minocha
Graeme Abernethy (UCL): ‘“Studied in his Death”: Representations of the Assassination of Malcolm X’	Roselyn Farren (Brandeis): ‘Abdiel’s Allusions to Esther: Was Milton of the Devil’s Party After All?’	Joanna Rzepa (UCL): ‘Silencing Friday: ‘Re-appropriation of Identity in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe and Angela Carter’s “Master”’
Adam Putz (Warwick): ‘Home Rule and House Rules: Cultural Politics, Editorial Policy, and the Shakespeares of Irish Political Cartoons, 1886-88’	Edward Sugden (Oxford): ‘Turning Time into Space: Charles Olson’s Misappropriation of Herman Merville’	Megan Murray-Pepper (KCL): '“extraordinary gifts, miracles, transformations, cruelties”: Janet Frame and forms of Shakesperean Fairytale’
Michael Molan (Oxford), ‘Hill, Arnold, and Literary History’	Suzanne Leedham (Reading): ‘(Mis)appropriating the Past: Theft in Historical Literature’	Venus Chiu Ying Tsang (Oxford): ‘Transmission of Memory across Generations: The Citizenship Paper in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men.’

Session a

Media and the Politics of (Mis)Representation

Chair: Stephanie Yorke

Session b

Misappropriation and the Literary Past

Chair: Aditi Nafde

Session c

Transformation and Transmission of Identity

Chair: Nisha Minocha

Graeme Abernethy (UCL): ‘“Studied in his Death”: Representations of the Assassination of Malcolm X’

Roselyn Farren (Brandeis): ‘Abdiel’s Allusions to Esther: Was Milton of the Devil’s Party After All?’

Joanna Rzepa (UCL): ‘Silencing Friday: ‘Re-appropriation of Identity in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe and Angela Carter’s “Master”’

Adam Putz (Warwick): ‘Home Rule and House Rules: Cultural Politics, Editorial Policy, and the Shakespeares of Irish Political Cartoons, 1886-88’

Edward Sugden (Oxford): ‘Turning Time into Space: Charles Olson’s Misappropriation of Herman Merville’

Megan Murray-Pepper (KCL): '“extraordinary gifts, miracles, transformations, cruelties”: Janet Frame and forms of Shakesperean Fairytale’

Michael Molan (Oxford), ‘Hill, Arnold, and Literary History’

Suzanne Leedham (Reading): ‘(Mis)appropriating the Past: Theft in Historical Literature’

Venus Chiu Ying Tsang (Oxford): ‘Transmission of Memory across Generations: The Citizenship Paper in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men.’

12.00-12.20 Coffee and Tea

12.20-13.20 Faculty Panel: ‘Impact’ with Professor Elleke Boehmer, Professor Laura Marcus, and Dr Rebecca Bullard

13.20-14.10 Lunch

14.10-15.10 II

Session a *Thieving Authors* Chair: Michael Molan	Session b *Appropriative Poetics in the Twentieth-Century* Chair: Alys Moody	Session c *Appropriation in the Digital Age* Chair: Peter Auger	Session d *Theories of Appropriation* Chair: Venus Chiu Ying Tsang
Yvonne McGivern (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘A case of appropriation? Is Forrest Reid “Sadie”?’	Stephen Ross (Oxford): ‘“Nimble Centre, Circumference Elastic”: Ronald Johnson’s Creative Appropriations’	Tyler Shores (Oxford): ‘The Boundaries of Literary Copyright: Questions of (De)Materiality in the Digital Age’	Emre Barca (Haliç University): ‘Derrida and the Question of Life/Work in Proper Reading’
Bethany Layne (Leeds): ‘An Act of Treachery to Private Relations’?: Vernon Lee, Emma Tennant, and the Appropriative Act’	Rona Cran (UCL):‘Donc le poète est vraiment voleur de feu’: Frank O’Hara and the Poetics of Love and Theft’	Erin Greer (Oxford): ‘Author 2.0: Online Paratext and the Birth of the Author – Neighbour’	Stephanie Yorke (Oxford): ‘A Confusion of Symptoms: A Survey of the Appropriation of the Disabled Body in Literary Theory and Discourse’

Session a

Thieving Authors

Chair: Michael Molan

Session b

Appropriative Poetics in the Twentieth-Century

Chair: Alys Moody

Session c

Appropriation in the Digital Age

Chair: Peter Auger

Session d

Theories of Appropriation

Chair: Venus Chiu Ying Tsang

Yvonne McGivern (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘A case of appropriation? Is Forrest Reid “Sadie”?’

Stephen Ross (Oxford): ‘“Nimble Centre, Circumference Elastic”: Ronald Johnson’s Creative Appropriations’

Tyler Shores (Oxford): ‘The Boundaries of Literary Copyright: Questions of (De)Materiality in the Digital Age’

Emre Barca (Haliç University): ‘Derrida and the Question of Life/Work in Proper Reading’

Bethany Layne (Leeds): ‘An Act of Treachery to Private Relations’?: Vernon Lee, Emma Tennant, and the Appropriative Act’

Rona Cran (UCL):‘Donc le poète est vraiment voleur de feu’: Frank O’Hara and the Poetics of Love and Theft’

Erin Greer (Oxford): ‘Author 2.0: Online Paratext and the Birth of the Author – Neighbour’

Stephanie Yorke (Oxford): ‘A Confusion of Symptoms: A Survey of the Appropriation of the Disabled Body in Literary Theory and Discourse’

15.10-16.10 III

Session a *Textual Ownership* Chair: Kate Welch	Session b *The Ethics of Appropriation* Chair: Tyler Shores	Session c *Ideas of Fiction and Pretence on the Renaissance Stage* Chair: Harriet Archer	Session d *Expatriate (Mis)Appropriations* Chair: Alison Lutton
Peter Auger (Oxford): ‘recycling Titlepage Borders in Jacobean panegyric’	Samira Nadkarni (Aberdeen): ‘The Encounter of Reading: Historicity, Prophecy and Ethics’	Rhema Hokama (Oxford): ‘Spectators on Stage: Fiction-Making and the Theatrical Self in King Lear’	Hannah Sikstrom (Oxford): ‘The (In)Appropriate Appropriation of Idleness in the Diaries of an “Idle Woman”’
Heather Stone (Oxford): ‘“Debtors to me for verses”: Gifting, Selling and Textual Ownership in Keats’s Poetry and Letters’	Patricia Pericic (KCL): ‘The Problem of “Alterity” and Molly’s Ethical Response to Truth and Lying in Ulysses’	Ellie Decamp (Oxford): ‘Sham Materiality in Midas: The Absent Beard in the Subplot’	Jenny Glennon (Oxford): ‘Parasites at The Ritz: Edith Wharton’s Jazz Age Americans in Europe’

Session a

Textual Ownership

Chair: Kate Welch

Session b

The Ethics of Appropriation

Chair: Tyler Shores

Session c

Ideas of Fiction and Pretence on the Renaissance Stage

Chair: Harriet Archer

Session d

Expatriate (Mis)Appropriations

Chair: Alison Lutton

Peter Auger (Oxford): ‘recycling Titlepage Borders in Jacobean panegyric’

Samira Nadkarni (Aberdeen): ‘The Encounter of Reading: Historicity, Prophecy and Ethics’

Rhema Hokama (Oxford): ‘Spectators on Stage: Fiction-Making and the Theatrical Self in King Lear’

Hannah Sikstrom (Oxford): ‘The (In)Appropriate Appropriation of Idleness in the Diaries of an “Idle Woman”’

Heather Stone (Oxford): ‘“Debtors to me for verses”: Gifting, Selling and Textual Ownership in Keats’s Poetry and Letters’

Patricia Pericic (KCL): ‘The Problem of “Alterity” and Molly’s Ethical Response to Truth and Lying in Ulysses’

Ellie Decamp (Oxford): ‘Sham Materiality in Midas: The Absent Beard in the Subplot’

Jenny Glennon (Oxford): ‘Parasites at The Ritz: Edith Wharton’s Jazz Age Americans in Europe’

16.10-16.40 Coffee and Tea

16.40-17.40 IV

Session a *Performative Appropriations* Chair: Bronwyn Johnston	Session b *The Uses and Abuses of the Material Text* Chair: Stephen Ross	Session c *Sublimation of Desire and the Literary Creative Act* Chair: Oren Goldschmidt	Session d *Appropriative Readership in Victorian Literature* Chair: Charlotta Salmi
Edwina Penge (Oxford): ‘The Audience who “Censure by Contagion”: “Appropriated” Audience Response – Considering the Cognitive Properties of Groups Through Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair’	Nisha Manocha (Oxford): ‘Empire, Epistemology, and the Document in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness’	Allan Johnson (Leeds): ‘Misprision and Desire in Twentieth-Century Readings of Literary Influence’	Tom Ue (McGill): ‘Witches and Mythmaking: Victorian Gothicism in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native and “The Withered Arm”’
Hannah August (KCL): ‘Active Readers: Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Commonplace Books’	Tom Birkett (Oxford): ‘Misappropriations of the Runic Script in Medieval and Modern Contexts’	Justin Tackett (Oxford): ‘Appropriating Sexual Transfiguration: The Notebooks and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins’	Ruth Schuldiner (Oxford): ‘Impoliteness and Fictionality in Victorian Fiction: the Reader's Appropriation of Anti-narratable Content’

Session a

Performative Appropriations

Chair: Bronwyn Johnston

Session b

The Uses and Abuses of the Material Text

Chair: Stephen Ross

Session c

Sublimation of Desire and the Literary Creative Act

Chair: Oren Goldschmidt

Session d

Appropriative Readership in Victorian Literature

Chair: Charlotta Salmi

Edwina Penge (Oxford): ‘The Audience who “Censure by Contagion”: “Appropriated” Audience Response – Considering the Cognitive Properties of Groups Through Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair’

Nisha Manocha (Oxford): ‘Empire, Epistemology, and the Document in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness’

Allan Johnson (Leeds): ‘Misprision and Desire in Twentieth-Century Readings of Literary Influence’

Tom Ue (McGill): ‘Witches and Mythmaking: Victorian Gothicism in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native and “The Withered Arm”’

Hannah August (KCL): ‘Active Readers: Dramatic Extracts in Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Commonplace Books’

Tom Birkett (Oxford): ‘Misappropriations of the Runic Script in Medieval and Modern Contexts’

Justin Tackett (Oxford): ‘Appropriating Sexual Transfiguration: The Notebooks and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins’

Ruth Schuldiner (Oxford): ‘Impoliteness and Fictionality in Victorian Fiction: the Reader's Appropriation of Anti-narratable Content’

17.45-18.45 Closing Plenary: Philip Pullman in conversation with Hermione Lee

18.45-20.15 Pub

20.15 Dinner