Some highlights from the papers delivered by graduate students at the annual English department symposium at Rutgers University: "Roland Barthes and the World of the Wrestling Anus"; "Kissing a Negress in the Dark: Lesbian Subjectivity and Colonial Discourse in Woolf's Orlando"; "Of Muscles and Men: The Laboring Body as Self-(Re)Presentation in The Blithedale Romance."

Questioned about the "politically correct" overtone to his paper on wrestling, Yonatan Touval said, "The fact that wrestling is a $1.5 billion industry suggests the subject is not trivial and ridiculous."

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