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2019 Annual English Society at UF Conference "The Woman in the Attic: Women and Illness in Literature" | University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
On March 23rd, 2019, The English Society at UF will be hosting its 2nd annual conference, "The Woman in the Attic: Women and Illness in Literature," in Gainesville, Florida. Jaquelin will be delivering the conference's keynote address, "Monstrous Pathologies: Medicalizing the Monstrous Woman in the Female Gothic Tradition," at 1:10 in the Keene Faculty Center inside Dauer Hall on the University of Florida's main campus. |
Article: "This is My Becoming: Transformation, Hybridity, and Embracing the Monstrous in NBC's Hannibal" | UTQ (Winter 2018)
Jaquelin's article “This is My Becoming: Transformation, Hybridity, and Embracing the Monstrous in NBC’s Hannibal” has been published in a special issue of University of Toronto Quarterly (87.1) on Monster Studies. This article interrogates the postmodern desire for a reclamation of queer monstrosity by examining Hannibal, the NBC adaptation of Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter series, a recent television show that deals explicitly with queerness and evil and found critical success and a cult online fandom. Holding in mind that show runner Bryan Fuller himself referred to the show as a “werewolf story,” this article examines the ways in which the show uses the traditional trappings of werewolf narratives to craft a monster narrative that is both thoroughly postmodern and canonically queer. It also examines the show as a transformational adaptation and looks at character Will Graham not only as a literal hybrid figure but also as a meta-textual one. Accordingly, this article also analyze the show's fanatical fan following in the context of the reclamation of queer monstrosity and postmodern gothicism. DOI: 10.3138/utq.87.1.249 |
2018 UF Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels "ImageTech: Comics and Materiality" | University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
On April 6th-8th, 2018, UF will be hosting its 15th annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, "ImageTech: Comics and Materiality" in Gainesville, Florida. Jaquelin is serving as secretary for the conference's organization committee and will also be presenting a paper “’My One Cogged Circle Fits Into All Their Various Wheels:’ Biomechanical Imagetext in Matt Kish’s Moby-Dick in Pictures." Started in 2009 on his website One Drawing For Every Page of Moby-Dick and published in 2011 in hardcopy, Kish’s illustrations (one, as it says on the tin, for every page of Moby-Dick) reconfigure the settings and figures of Melville’s novel into psychedelic dreamscapes through found materials and twenty-first century pop culture aesthetics. Jaquelin's presentation seeks to place Kish’s work on Melville (both Moby-Dick and “Benito Cereno”) into conversation with 19th century imagetexts – shipboard journaling, scrimshaw, engravings – and the world of machines, industrial aesthetics, and print culture that gave birth to Melville’s finest works. Special attention will be paid to recurrent biomechanical motifs in Kish’s illustrations of Moby-Dick, including his use of found materials like repair manuals, engineering textbooks, and architectural schematics. Further, this paper will examine the ways in which Kish’s appreciation for the “alchemy” of analog print technologies and his use of these found materials as artifacts of a receding print culture provides a direct parallel with Melville’s unusual attention to obsolescence – the obsolescence of whaling and other 19th century industries dying, but not yet dead. |