In Memoriam: William Labov

Presentations covered a wide variety of topics: motherhood and the border in Chicana literature, W. Somerset Maugham and his spiritual and cultural legacy in Andalusia and Spain, ecocritical and ecofeminist approximations towards poetry, women in space, the surveillance of black bodies in contemporary African American Literature, fairy tale narratives in modern fantasy literature, an examination of US Literature after 9/11, maternity, fertility and loss in contemporary memoir, Victorian retellings of courtly love, metamodern mythopeias as reconciliatory spaces, father-daughter incest and sexual waste in Heart Berries, and the identification of counter-hegemonic approaches to cultural diversity in Torontobased…