ACLA 2006 Annual Meeting: The Human and Its Others

This seminar invites papers on the Faustian trope throughout world literature, in particular the concept of the human and its relation to knowledge, immortality, and magic. Papers may include analyses of canonical versions of the Faust story (Christopher Marlowe, Goethe, Thomas Mann) as well as non-canonical and interdisciplinary approaches.

Friday, March 24

Sarah McGaughey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Expanding Horizons for Humanity: The Story of Faust and Architecture”
Lorna Fitzsimmons, California State University, Dominguez Hills
“Faust and Cinema”
Robert Singer, CUNY
“Lost in Cinema: Forgotten Faust Films”
Andrew Allport, University of Southern California
“Faust Poems: Faustus, Faustian, Fausterlitz…”

Saturday, March 25

Aurora Mackey, University of South Florida
“Nabokov’s Humbert: An American Faust?”
Karen Rae Keck, Texas Tech University
“Humanizing the Atom: The Blegdamsvej Faust”
Leslie Ormandy, Clark College Washington
“Intellectual heights and Moral Depths: The Damning of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus”
Sara Causey, Northeastern University
“Faust in the Movies”

Affiliated Seminar(s):

• Faust Legend and the Human, Part I