From the Fringes:
Transtoryation as Stories in Movement

Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Dr. Charles A. Sankey Chamber

Virtual Time: 11:00am – 11:25am
In-person Time: 11:30am – 1:30pm

Featuring presentations by the 2023 Master of Arts in English Language & Literature Candidates

Ron McCallum

Magical currency: representations of labour, wealth and class in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Abbey Dobbin

“Nursery fears made flesh and sinew”: The work of Story, Embodied Intelligence, and Feminine Transformation in Retellings of “Beauty and the Beast”

Shae Adamson

The Trouble-less and Traumatized: Slow Resurgence and Slow Pedagogy in Bewilderments’s Quotidian Storying

Sunday Ogbonnaya

Neocolonial Violence and Ecological Trauma in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were (2021)

Samia

The Metamorphosis of Empowerment to Enslavement: A Nonconsensual Conflation of Bodies and Identities of a YA Female Hero

Friday Okpo

Petroviolence and Postcolonial Health in Habila’s Oil on Water

Noor ul Ain

Trains to Nowhere: Movement, Mobility & Motherhood in Moor (2015)