Presentations

Conference papers
  • Craps, Stef. “Jewish/Postcolonial Diasporas in the Work of Caryl Phillips.” To be presented at the “Metaphors of Diaspora in Contemporary UK Writing” Symposium, University of Alcalá, Spain, 5th November 2010.
  • Craps, Stef, and Gert Buelens. “Traumatic Mirrorings: Holocaust and Colonial Trauma in Michael Chabon’s The Final Solution.” To be presented at the 2010 ESSE Conference, Turin, Italy, 24th-28th August 2010.
  • Craps, Stef. "Holocaust Memory and the Critique of Violence in Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza." To be presented at the ACLA 2010 Annual Meeting: "Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms," New Orleans, USA, 1st-4th April 2010.
  • Craps, Stef. “Beyond Eurocentrism: Trauma Theory in the Global Age.” Presented on 5th March 2010 at the “Trauma: Intersections among Narrative, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis” Conference, George Washington University, Washington, USA, 4th-6th March 2010.
  • Craps, Stef. “Entangled Memories of the Holocaust and Partition in Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay.” Presented on 30th May 2009 at “Literature and the Memory of Catastrophe: A Symposium," Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB), Brussels, Belgium, 29th-30th May 2009.
  • Craps, Stef. “Entangled Memories of the Holocaust and Partition in Anita Desai’s Baumgartner’s Bombay.” Presented on 28th March 2009 at the ACLA 2009 Annual Meeting: “Global Languages, Local Cultures,” Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 26th-29th March 2009.
  • Craps, Stef. Response to Roger Sell’s paper “Trauma and the Ethics of Children’s Literature: Lynne Reid Banks’s Melusine: A Mystery (1988).” Delivered on 25th August 2008 at the 2008 ESSE Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 22nd-26th August 2008.
  • Craps, Stef. “Testimony, Ventriloquism, and Complicity in the Novels of Caryl Phillips.” Presented on 24th August 2008 at the 2008 ESSE Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 22nd-26th August 2008.
  • Craps, Stef. “Learning to Live with Ghosts: Postcolonial Haunting and Mid-Mourning in David Dabydeen’s Turner and Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts.” Presented on 9th November 2007 at the “Postcolonial Ghosts” Conference, Montpellier University, France, 8th-10th November 2007. read abstract>
  • Craps, Stef. “‘Only Not beyond Love’: Testimony, Subalternity, and the Famine in the Poetry of Eavan Boland.” Presented on 26th October 2007 at the “Irish Women Writers: National and European Contexts” Conference, Leuven University, Belgium, 24th-27th October 2007.
  • Craps, Stef. Response, special session “Trauma, Narrative and the Postcolonial” at the 2006 MLA convention, Philadelphia, USA, 27th-30th December 2006 (co-organized with Gert Buelens).
  • Craps, Stef. “Linking Legacies of Loss: Traumatic Histories and Cross-Cultural Empathy in Caryl Phillips’s Higher Ground and The Nature of Blood.” Presented on 2nd December 2006 at the “Caryl Phillips: 25 Years of Writing” Conference, University of Liège, Belgium, 1st-2nd December 2006.
  • Craps, Stef. “Beyond Recovery: Witnessing, Ethics, and Nationhood in the Poetry of Eavan Boland.” Presented on 14th July 2006 at the "Poetry and Politics" conference, University of Stirling, UK, 12th-16th July 2006. read abstract>
  • Craps, Stef. “Literature as Witness: Unforgetting History in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians.” Presented on 11th November 2005 at "The Future of Memory: An International Holocaust and Trauma Studies Conference," University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Salford, UK, 10th-12th November 2005.
  • Craps, Stef. "'Not a Moment of Terror but One of Strength': The Naudet Brothers’ 9/11 Documentary as an Exercise in Post-Traumatic Denial." Presented at "Cultural Memory: Workshop 9/11," Nijmegen University, the Netherlands, 13th May 2005.
  • Craps, Stef. "J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and the Ethics of Testimony." Presented on 23rd April 2005 at the "Rhetoric, Politics, Ethics" Conference, Ghent University, Belgium, 21st-23rd April 2005. read abstract>
  • Craps, Stef. “The Ethics of British Postmodern Realism.” Presented on 2nd December 2004 at the "Borders of Realism" Conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 1st-3rd December 2004. read abstract>
  • Craps, Stef. "Class Matters in Graham Swift's Last Orders." Presented at the "Literature and Class" Colloquium, Free University of Brussels (V.U.B.), Belgium, 22nd November 2001.
  • Craps, Stef. "The Politics of Working-Class Representation in Graham Swift's Last Orders." Presented on 8th July 2001 at the "Cultural Studies: Between Politics and Ethics" Conference, Bath Spa University College, UK, 6th-8th July 2001. read abstract>
  • Craps, Stef. "Gender Performativity in Woolf's Orlando." Presented on 17th September 2000 at the "Image into Identity" Conference, University of Hull, UK, 14th-17th September 2000. read abstract>
  • Craps, Stef. "Gender as Performance in Woolf's Orlando." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium, 13th November 1999.
Other presentations
  • Craps, Stef. “Postcolonial Witnessing: The Trauma of Empire, the Empire of Trauma.” Presented in the university seminar on Cultural Memory, Columbia University, USA, 9th March 2010.
  • Craps, Stef. Introduction to keynote address by Graham Swift at the Annual Conference of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education, University of Liège, Belgium, 8th December 2007.
  • Craps, Stef. "Wor(l)ds of Grief: Traumatic Memory and Literary Witnessing in Cross-Cultural Perspective." Presented at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, 11th October 2007.
  • Craps, Stef. "Wor(l)ds of Grief: Traumatic Memory and Literary Witnessing in Cross-Cultural Perspective." Presented in the English Department staff seminar programme, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 8th October 2007.
  • Craps, Stef. “J. M. Coetzee’s Foe.” Presented at the ‘Masterclass’ on the theatre production Robinson Crusoe, de vrouw en de neger, NTGent, Ghent, Belgium, 8th March 2006.
  • Craps, Stef. "From Narrative to Ethics in Graham Swift's Last Orders." Presented at the International Seminar (Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies in cooperation with University College London and Aarhus University) "Narrative, Literature, Media: Integration and Disintegration in an Era of Globalization," Aarhus University, Denmark, 18th-22nd June 2001.
  • Craps, Stef. "The Problematics of Historical Representation in the Work of Graham Swift." Presented at the International Seminar (Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies in cooperation with University College London and Aarhus University) "European Literature(s), World Literature(s), and Globalization," University of Leiden, the Netherlands, 19th-23rd June 2000.
  • Craps, Stef. "Salman Rushdie's Shame: 'Using the Past as a Means of Purchasing the Future.'" Presented at the Erasmus Intensive Seminar (European Literary Studies) "Culture and (Post-)Colonialism in European Literatures," Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 30th June-20th July 1997.