Events
Cosponsors
- Project Narrative, The Ohio State University
- The Paul Scholar Funds, University of Illinois, Urbana
Organizers
- Lauren M.E. Goodlad (Illinois)
- Sean O'Sullivan (Ohio State)
Notes
- Free and open to the public
- No registration necessary
- First come, first seated
From Charles Dickens and the Star Wars epic, to The Sopranos, Orange is the New Black, and the Serial podcast, seriality’s iteration of installments, gaps, sequences, and seasons has drawn audiences into storyworlds both vast and intimate. "The New Seriality Studies" looks at the past, present, and future of serial storytelling across media, periods, and disciplines. Three panels explore periodicals, novels, television, comics, film, and music in light of the cross-genre play of seriality’s formal, spatial, temporal, material, and social effects. The closing roundtable, moderated by Sharon Marcus (Columbia), features discussion with A.O. Scott (film critic, The New York Times), Julie Snyder (co-creator and executive producer, the Serial podcast), and Lev Grossman (book critic, TIME, and author of the Magicians trilogy).
Panel Participants: Emily Bloom (Columbia), Jared Gardner (Ohio State), Lauren M. E. Goodlad (Illinois), Linda Hughes (Texas Christian), Amy King (St. John's), Rob King (Columbia), Kathleen Loock (Freie University, Berlin), Sharon Marcus (Columbia), Helena Michie (Rice), Sean O’Sullivan (Ohio State), James Braxton Peterson (Lehigh), Michael Szalay (UC Irvine), Robyn Warhol (Ohio State)
Schedule:
Opening Remarks
9:00-9:30am
Lauren M.E. Goodlad (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): "Seriality Studies Now"
9:30-11:00am
Panel 1
Moderator: Emily Bloom (Columbia University)
Jared Gardner (Ohio State): "Graphic Entanglement and the Serial Spacetime of Comics"
Helena Michie (Rice) and Robyn Warhol (Ohio State): "Synchronic Reading"
11:00-11:15am
Break
11:15am-12:45pm
Panel 2
Moderator: Amy King (St. John’s University)
Michael Szalay (UC Irvine): “The Sopranos and Allegory"
Sean O’Sullivan (Ohio State): “Serial Cross-Hatching and the Television Season”
1:00-2:00pm
Lunch
2:00-4:00pm
Panel 3
Moderator: Rob King (Columbia University)
Kathleen Loock (Freie University, Berlin): “Remakes, Sequels & Co.: Hollywood’s Love Affair with Serial Modes of Storytelling”
James Braxton Peterson (Lehigh): “Surreal Seriality in the Semiotic Imagination of Lupe Fiasco”
Linda Hughes (Texas Christian): “The Longue Durée of Serial Print Cultures”
4:00-4:15pm
Break
4:15pm
Creative Roundtable
Moderator: Sharon Marcus (Columbia University)
A.O. Scott (The New York Times)
Julie Snyder (Serial Podcast)
Lev Grossman (TIME)
Program
time9:00am - 9:30am EDT
Opening Remarks: Lauren M.E. Goodlad "Seriality Studies Now"
time9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Panel 1
Jared Gardner (Ohio State): "Graphic Entanglement and the Serial Spacetime of Comics" Helena Michie (Rice) and Robyn Warhol (Ohio State): "Synchronic Reading"
Participant
Jared Gardner
Professor of English & Film Studies
Ohio State University
Participant
Helena Michie
Professor of English, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor in Humanities
Rice University
Participant
Robyn Warhol
Interim Chair and Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor
Ohio State University
Moderator
time11:00am - 11:15am EDT
Break
time11:15am - 12:45pm EDT
Panel 2
Michael Szalay (UC Irvine): “The Sopranos and Allegory" Sean O’Sullivan (Ohio State): “Serial Cross-Hatching and the Television Season”
Participant
Michael Szalay
Director, Culture, Law, and Capital Center, & Chair, English Department
University of California, Irvine
Participant
Sean O'Sullivan
Associate Professor, Department of English
The Ohio State University
Moderator
Amy King
Associate Professor, English
St. John's Unviersity
time1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Lunch
time2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
Panel 3
Kathleen Loock (Freie University, Berlin: “Remakes, Sequels & Co.: Hollywood’s Love Affair with Serial Modes of Storytelling” James Braxton Peterson (Lehigh): “Surreal Seriality in the Semiotic Imagination of Lupe Fiasco” Linda Hughes (Texas Christian): “The Longue Durée of Serial Print Cultures”
Participant
Kathleen Loock
Post-doctoral Research Associate, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Participant
Linda Hughes
Addie Levy Professor of Literature
Texas Christian University
Participant
Rob King
Associate Professor of Film
Columbia University
Moderator
time4:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
Break
time4:15pm EDT
Creative Roundtable
Moderator
Sharon Marcus
Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Participant
Anthony Oliver Scott
Film Critic
The New York Times
Participant
Julie Snyder
Executive Producer
Serial Podcast
Participant
Lev Grossman
Book Critic, TIME Magazine, and Author, The Magicians
TIME
Participants
- Moderator Emily Bloom Lecturer, Department of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University
- Jared Gardner Professor of English & Film Studies Ohio State University
- Lauren M.E. Goodlad Kathryn Paul Professional Scholar, English and Criticism & Interpretive Theory University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Lev Grossman Book Critic, TIME Magazine, and Author, The Magicians TIME
- Linda Hughes Addie Levy Professor of Literature Texas Christian University
- Moderator Amy King Associate Professor, English St. John's University
- Moderator Rob King Associate Professor of Film Columbia University
- Kathleen Loock Postdoctoral Research Associate, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies Freie Universität Berlin
- Moderator Sharon Marcus Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University
- Helena Michie Professor of English,Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor in Humanities Rice University
- Sean O'Sullivan Associate Professor, Department of English The Ohio State University
- James Peterson Associate Professor of English, Director of Africana Studies Lehigh University
- A.O. Scott Film Critic The New York Times
- Julie Snyder Executive Producer Serial Podcast
- Michael Szalay Director, Culture, Law, and Capital Center, & Chair, English Department University of California, Irvine
- Robyn Warhol Interim Chair and Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor Ohio State University
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