This panel explores the role of death, nostalgia, translation, and politics within the novel. Panelists navigate everything from death to the ways in which we negotiate our own identity through language, with an emphasis on how the novel can facilitate our understanding of these difficult and varied topics.
Presentations
The Theme of Death In Arden's The Bear and the Nightingale
Presenters
Catherine Vish
Michael Chabon’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh; or, A Map for Nostalgia as Historiography
Presenters
Jeremy Christensen
Teaching the 9/11 Novel in the Time of Trump
Presenters
Edward Rooney
Gained in Translation: Negotiating Chronotopic Identity Within the Works of Rick Riordan
Presenters
Benjamin David Bishop
Session chairs
Sarah Creel
