2026 COLT Graduate Student Essay Presentations

Please join us on Tuesday, May 19, 12:15 pm and Wednesday, May 20, 3:30 pm, Dartmouth Hall 105.

Please join us on Tuesday, May 19, 12:15 pm and Wednesday, May 20, 3:30 pm, Dartmouth Hall 105. All are welcome. Please see the schedule below.

Tuesday, May 19, 12:15 pm

                                    Dartmouth Hall 105

Welcome: Roopika Risam

Panel 1: Unsettled Pasts

Moderator: Kristina L. Shea

Marta Hulievska

Imagining the Commune: Khvylovy’s Transcendencies in My Self (Romantica) 

Yi (Yuuki) You

Phantomized Report, Folded Archives: The Paperwork of Denial in Postwar Japan

Mallory Wooldridge

Tracing Vergangenheitsbewältgung - A Tradition of Dealing with the Past

Questions & Answers & 10 minute break

Panel 2: Human, All Too Human

Moderator: Dominick B. Philip

Peter T. Domokos

“And Friends, They May Think It's a Movement:” Grotesque Geometry as a System of Humanism in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and István Örkény’s One-minute Stories and Tóték

Yazi Zheng

Vision, Voice, and Touch: a Posthumanist Approach to History in Han Kang’s We Do Not Part
 

Clarissa Melendez

Wood Lands: Reconciling the Forest as a Site of National Memory in Germany and Italy

Questions & Answers
 

Wednesday, May 20, 3:30

Dartmouth Hall 105

Welcome: Roopika Risam

Panel 3: Negotiating National Narratives

Moderator: Mallory Wooldridge

Yu Yan

Honor, Decorum, and Unity: Translating Le Cid (1637) in Caroline England 

Dominick B. Philip

kör göze parmak: embodiment, sensation and phenomenology in Gegen die Wand (2004)

Questions & Answers & 10 minute break 

Panel 4: Sexual/Textual Forms: Unruly Feminisms 

Moderator: Peter T. Domokos

Kristina L. Shea

Revolution in Epic Poetry: On the Work of Ursula K. Le Guin and Lisa Robertson 

Jocilynn Colombo

“Embodied Horror: Women and Medical Authority in Video Games”

Wenyu Zeng

Before Any “Making”: The Materiality of Language in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Work

Questions & Answers