Literary Eclectic XVI (liteclectic2026)
Project by group liteclectic
About
The Literary Eclectic is a graduate student conference hosted in alternating years by the University of Saskatchewan Department of English and the University of Regina Department of English and Creative Writing.
See the full program for Lit Eclectic XVI below.
Literary Eclectic XVI Program
October 17, 2026
University of Saskatchewan, Department of English
ARTS 263
8:00 - 8:50 Registration
9:00 - 9:15
English Department Welcome, Dr. Yin Liu (Department Head)
English Course Council Welcome, Rachel Neubuhr Torres (ECC President)
9:15 - 10:00 Keynote Address, Mark Allard-Will
10:00 - 10:15 BREAK
10:15 - 11:15 Panel 1 - (Re)Visiting Archives and Pedagogy
Chair: Dr. Kandice Sharren, University of Saskatchewan
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’”
11:15 - 11:30 BREAK
11:30 - 12:15 Panel 2 - (Re)Configuring Our Senses
Chair: Rachel Neubuhr Torres, University of Saskatchewan
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”
12:30 - 1:30 LUNCH
Original visual art presentation and showcase from graphic novel Siegfried: Dragon Slayer, Illustrated by USask English PhD Candidate Jasmine Redford
1:30 - 2:30 Workshop with Mark Allard-Will / Tour of Rare Books Collection
2:30 - 2:45 BREAK
3:00 - 4:00 Panel 3 - (Re)Examining the Margins
Chair: Dr. Jay Rajiva, University of Saskatchewan
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”
4:00 - 4:15 BREAK
4:15 - 5:15 Panel 4 - (Re)Imaginations
Chair: Dr. Jes Battis, University of Regina
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”
5:15 - 5:30 Closing Remarks, Rachel Neubuhr Torres
6:30 Onwards Wrap-Up Party (Location TBD)
