From Charles Dickens and the Star Wars epic, to The Sopranos, Orange is the New Black, and the Serial podcast, seriality’s iteration of installments, gaps, sequences, and seasons has drawn audiences into storyworlds both vast and intimate.  "The New Seriality Studies" looks at the past, present, and future of serial storytelling across media, periods, and disciplines.  Three panels explore periodicals, novels, television, comics, film, and music in light of the cross-genre play of seriality’s formal, spatial, temporal, material, and social effects. The closing roundtable, moderated by Sharon Marcus (Columbia), features discussion with A.O. Scott (film critic, The New York Times), Julie Snyder (co-creator and executive producer, the Serial podcast), and Lev Grossman (book critic, TIME, and author of the Magicians trilogy). 

Panel Participants: Emily Bloom (Columbia), Jared Gardner (Ohio State),Lauren M. E. Goodlad (Illinois), Linda Hughes (Texas Christian), Amy King(St. John's), Rob King (Columbia), Kathleen Loock (Freie University, Berlin),Sharon Marcus (Columbia), Helena Michie (Rice), Sean O’Sullivan (Ohio State), James Braxton Peterson (Lehigh), Michael Szalay (UC Irvine), Robyn Warhol (Ohio State)

• 9:00am9:30am
  Opening Remarks: Lauren M.E. Goodlad "Seriality Studies Now"
• 9:30am11:00am
  Panel 1

  Jared Gardner (Ohio State): "Graphic Entanglement and the Serial Spacetime of Comics"
  Helena Michie (Rice) and Robyn Warhol (Ohio State): "Synchronic Reading"

  • Participant

    Jared Gardner

    Ohio State University

  • Participant

    Helena Michie

    Rice University

  • Participant

    Robyn Warhol

    Ohio State University

  • Moderator

    Emily Bloom

    Columbia University

• 11:00am11:15am
  Break
• 11:15am12:45pm
  Panel 2

  Michael Szalay (UC Irvine): “The Sopranos and Allegory"
  Sean O’Sullivan (Ohio State): “Serial Cross-Hatching and the Television Season”

  • Participant

    Michael Szalay

    University of California, Irvine

  • Participant

    Sean O’Sullivan

    The Ohio State University

  • Moderator

    Amy King

    St. John's Unviersity

• 1:00pm2:00pm
  Lunch
• 2:00pm4:00pm
  Panel 3

  Kathleen Loock (Freie University, Berlin: “Remakes, Sequels & Co.: Hollywood’s Love Affair with Serial Modes of Storytelling”
  James Braxton Peterson (Lehigh): “Surreal Seriality in the Semiotic Imagination of Lupe Fiasco”
  Linda Hughes (Texas Christian): “The Longue Durée of Serial Print Cultures”

  • Participant

    Kathleen Loock

    Freie Universität Berlin

  • Participant

    James Peterson

    Lehigh University

  • Participant

    Linda Hughes

    Texas Christian University

  • Moderator

    Rob King

    Columbia University

• 4:00pm4:15pm
  Break
• 4:15pm
  Creative Roundtable

  • Moderator

    Sharon Marcus

    Columbia University

  • Participant

    A.O. Scott

    The New York Times

  • Participant

    Julie Snyder

    Serial Podcast

  • Participant

    Lev Grossman

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