Harvard English Fall Graduate Symposium

“Genre and Generativity ”

November 6–7, 2025

Thursday, November 6 | Emerson 105 (Emerson Hall)

5:30-7:00 p.m., Keynote Address: Dixa Ramírez-D’Oleo (Brown)

Friday, November 7| Thompson Room (Barker Center)

Coffee and Refreshments, 9:30 a.m. 

10:15–11:30 a.m., Panel 1: Translation and Trans-temporalities 

Ben Gregson, “Synchronicities and Chronology in Glissant and Keane”

Sarah Liu, “Thomas Hardy, Zhou Shoujuan, and (Non)translation: Toward a Paradigm of Translational Genres”

Respondent: Eunice Lee, PhD Candidate 

Lunch, 11:30 a.m. –12:30 p.m.

12:30–2:00 p.m., Panel 2: Reconstruction and Regeneration 

Anna Suh,  "Saintly Skins: Regeneration, Body, and Hagiography in The Life of Christina the Astonishing"

Ilya Nemirovsky,  “‘Double Consciousness’ and the Madness of Self-Narrativization in The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man” 

Respondent: Jordan Taliha McDonald, PhD Candidate in English, secondary field in History of Science

2:30–4:00 p.m., Panel 3: Generativity, Representation, and the Real 

Sage Doane, "'Communicator or Creator?' The ‘Similetic’ Presentations and Representations of Paradiso"

Ronny Litvack-Katzman, “Spectres of Affect: Fictionality and Feeling in Early English Realism”

Respondent: Victoria Florio Pipas, PhD Candidate in English 

4:30–6 p.m., Reception 

Please join us for a reception in the English Department following the conference!

Organized by Jordan Taliha McDonald,

 Lead Coordinator of the Graduate Colloquia, 2025