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)
September 23, 2016 Friday
9:00am - 9:30am EDT
9:30am - 11:00am EDT
Jared Gardner (Ohio State): "Graphic Entanglement and the Serial Spacetime of Comics" Helena Michie (Rice) and Robyn Warhol (Ohio State): "Synchronic Reading"
Jared Gardner
Professor of English & Film Studies
Ohio State University
Helena Michie
Professor of English, Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor in Humanities
Rice University
Robyn Warhol
Interim Chair and Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor
Ohio State University
11:00am - 11:15am EDT
11:15am - 12:45pm EDT
Michael Szalay (UC Irvine): “The Sopranos and Allegory" Sean O’Sullivan (Ohio State): “Serial Cross-Hatching and the Television Season”
Michael Szalay
Director, Culture, Law, and Capital Center, & Chair, English Department
University of California, Irvine
Sean O'Sullivan
Associate Professor, Department of English
The Ohio State University
Amy King
Associate Professor, English
St. John's Unviersity
1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
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”
Kathleen Loock
Post-doctoral Research Associate, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Linda Hughes
Addie Levy Professor of Literature
Texas Christian University
Rob King
Associate Professor of Film
Columbia University
4:00pm - 4:15pm EDT
4:15pm EDT
Sharon Marcus
Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Anthony Oliver Scott
Film Critic
The New York Times
Julie Snyder
Executive Producer
Serial Podcast
Lev Grossman
Book Critic, TIME Magazine, and Author, The Magicians
TIME