Literary Eclectic XVI Graduate Student Conference: (Re)Generation

Join us for the revival of the Literary Eclectic Graduate Student Conference! The English Course Council welcomes you to join us for the Literary Eclectic XVI Graduate Student Conference on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at the University of Saskatchewan with keynote speaker Mark Allard-Will! In addition to the listed panel presentations, attendees will also have the choice to participate in a workshop guided by Mark Allard-Will, Canadian comic book and graphic novel author, or a guided tour of the University Archives and Special Collections. Panel One: (Re)Visiting Archives and Pedagogy Emily Zepick, University of Saskatchewan, Department of English “Authorized Canonicity: Diversifying Texts of the Romantic Period in Saskatchewan Classrooms” Alexander Stad, University of Saskatchewan, Department of English “A Personal Archive of Presence, Absence, and Relationality: Regeneration and Reconnection in NISHGA” Braedon Pauzé, University of British Columbia, Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies “(Re)cognizing William Gaddis’ The Recognitions: Found Poetry as a Creative and Pedagogic Process” Bailey Schaan, University of Alberta, Department of English and Film Studies “Private Fictions and Public Archives: Spaces of Embodied Belonging in Dionne Brand’s ‘Blossom, Priestess of Oya, Goddess of Winds, Storms, and Waterfalls’” Panel Two: (Re)Configuring our Senses Hind Atallah, University of Alberta, Department of Modern Languages & Cultural Studies “When the Sirat Gets Handrails: AI and the Collapse of Sacred Gaps” Dave Biddle, Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts “Artificial Intelligence (AI) is startled by its Own Shadow (OS)” Afya Ghumman, University of Regina, Department of English “Musical Nature in Shakespeare’s The Tempest” Panel Three: (Re)Examining the Margins Gideon Umezurike, University of Saskatchewan, Department of English “Infertility, the Reproductive Capitalocene, and the Gendered Production of Disability in Adebayo’s The Waiting Room” Dasha Guliak, University of Saskatchewan, Department of Political Studies (GENS Program) “Meowing in the Margins: Sexism and Speciesism in Margaret Atwood’s Angel Catbird” James Dobson, University of Saskatchewan, Interdisciplinary Studies “Charles Williams and the Cry of the 10th Aethyr” Paige Arden, University of British Columbia, Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies “‘Do you like to remember the bad things?’: Reimagining the Past in Elena Garro’s The Week of Colors” Panel Four: (Re)Imaginations Miguel Dela Pena, University of Saskatchewan, Department of English “‘We all go a little mad sometimes’: Robert Bloch’s Psycho and the Horror of Fidelity” Eunice-Grace Domingo, University of Saskatchewan, Department of English “Faint Glimmers Left Behind: Historical and Literary References in Kafka Asagiri and Sango Harukawa’s Bungou Stray Dogs (2015)” Parker McCormick, University of Regina, Department of English “(Re)imagining the Image: P.K. Page and the Ethics of (Re)presentation” Morgen Jahnke, University of Saskatchewan, Department of English (Creative Writing) “(Re)mixing Montaigne: The Poetics of Influence”