Monstrous Maternity Sessions at NeMLA 2014

An interesting mix here:

NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
3-6 APRIL 2014

Thursday Afternoon Sessions

3.02 Monstrous Maternity I: Mothers as Monsters
Chair: Aubrey Mishou, United States Naval Academy
“Of Monsters and Moms”
Gina MacKenzie, Holy Family University
“Voldemort’s Mother: How an Excess of Female Desire (Still) Creates a Monster”
Jessica Gray, Wright State University
“Trading the Apron for the Purse: Economic Freedom and Monstrous Mothers in French Literature”
Blandine Mitaut, Shippensburg University
“Mad Men’s Betty Draper, Fan Reaction, and Twenty-First Century Anxiety about Motherhood”
Caroline J. Smith, The George Washington University


Saturday Afternoon Sessions

15.07 Monstrous Maternity II: Monsters as Mothers
Chair: Alexandra Lykissas, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“Monstrous Birth, Absent Mother: Monstrosity’s ‘Material’ Source in Early Modern Popular Print”
Julianne Mentzer, University of St Andrews
“Whose Child is This? Victor Frankenstein’s Monstrous Maternity”
Alexandra Lykissas, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“Reconciling Daenerys Targaryen with the Mother of Dragons in A Song of Ice and Fire”
Hillary Ash, Kent State University
“‘You’re a beast!’: The ‘Good Mother’ as Monster in Disney/Pixar’s Brave”
Jeanna Kadlec, Brandeis University