INDEX OF
SESSIONS
Walking Tour of the
University City Loop, arranged by the Women’s Caucus for the Modern
Languages/Midwest, Thurs.,
Reading by Carl Phillips and Nightcaps,
arranged by Left Bank Books, Thurs.,
President’s Forum on
“Performance”: Staged Reading of Marty Martin’s Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein, arranged by 2004
M/MLA President Ann C. Hall, Fri.,
President’s Screening: Scenes
from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet,
arranged by 2004 M/MLA President Ann C. Hall and Prison Performing Arts, Sat., 6:15-7:45
p.m. (Regency Ballroom B), preceded
by “Performing Prison,” Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m. (Regency Ballroom B) 172
Professionalizing Workshops
“Choosing
Administration,”
moderated by Kathleen Diffley, Fri.,
“Integrating
Technology in the Classroom,” moderated by Vincent Casaregola, Sat.,
“Reading Literature: The NEA’s Survey of Literary Reading in
Receptions
President’s Reception, Fri.,
Members’ Reception, Sat.,
Permanent Sections
African American Literature A, B, & C, Sat.,
American Literature I: Literature to
1870, Sat.,
American Literature II: Literature After 1870, Fri.,
Applied Linguistics, Sun.,
“Art What Thou Eat”: Food in Literature, Art, and Culture, Sat.,
Canadian Literature, Fri.,
Children's Literature, Fri.,
Comparative Literature,
Sat.,
Computer Research, Fri.,
Creative Writing I: Poetry,
Sat.,
Creative Writing II:
Prose, Sat.,
Drama A, B, & C, Fri.,
English I: English Literature Before 1800, Sat.,
English II: English Literature 1800-1900 A, B, C, & D, Sat.,
English III: English Literature After 1900, Sun.,
Film I, Sat.,
Film II, Fri.,
French I, Sun.,
French II, Fri.,
French III, Sat.,
Gender
Studies, Male, Fri.,
History of Critical Reception, Sat.,
Illustrated Texts, Sat.,
Irish Studies, Fri., 2:
Linguistics, Sat.,
Literary
Criticism, Fri.,
Luso-Brazilian, Fri.,
Modern Literature A & B, Fri.,
Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: Politics and
Pedagogy, Sun.,
Old and Middle English Literature and Language, Fri.,
Peace Literature and Pedagogy, Fri.,
Popular Culture, Sat.,
Religion and Literature A & B, Sat.,
Science and Fiction, Sun., 10:
Science and Literature,
Sat.,
Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism A & B, Fri.,
Short Story A & B, Sun.,
Spanish I: Peninsular Literature Before 1700, Fri.,
Spanish II: Peninsular Literature After 1700, Sat.,
Spanish III: Latin American Literature A & B, Fri.,
Spanish Cultural Studies, Fri., 2:
Teaching Writing in College, Sat.,
Travel Writing/Writing Travel, Sat.,
Women in Literature A & B, Sat., 2:
Women's Studies A & B, Fri.,
Writing Across the Curriculum, Fri.,
Young Adult Literature,
Fri.,
Associated Organizations
American Dialect Society A & B, Sat., 2:
Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas, Sat.,
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Sun., 10:
Conseil International d'Études Francophones, Fri.,
Henry James Society, Sat.,
Society for Critical Exchange A & B, Sat., 2:
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature I, Sat.,
Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature II, Sat.,
Women in French, Sat.,
Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest I-A & I-B, Sat.,
Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest II, Fri.,
Special Sessions
18th and 19th Century British Literature and Performance, Fri.,
Academic Performances, Fri., 2:
African American Rhetoric as Transformative Performance in
Literary Discourse, Fri.,
Afro-Hispanic Drama, Sat.,
The Afterlife of Chaucer,
Sun.,
AIDS in/and Film A &
B, Fri.,
Anarchism and Literature,
Sun., 10:
Animals and the Exotic in Literature A & B, Sun.,
Anton Chekhov: Afterlives,
Sat.,
Are Generalists Mere Performers?, Fri.,
The Asian Diaspora in
Bernhard Schlink’s The
Reader: Performing Past Upon Present,
Sun.,
Between the Cracks of Real and Virtual Time: Choreographing
Literature Instruction On-the-Ground and On-Line, Fri.,
Biblical Intertextuality: Commentary, Criticism, and
Interpretation, Fri.,
Critical Approaches to Literary Performance, Sun.,
Crossing Borders, Finding Identities, Sun.,
Desiring Women, Fri.,
The Digital Performance of Texts, Sat.,
Don DeLillo and Performance, Fri.,
Editing Roles: Performing Upon the Publishing Stage, Fri.,
Empowerment in Freshman Composition, Fri.,
English 442: The Modern American Novel – Multiculturalism:
Course Title or Teaching Strategy?, Sun.,
Espectaculo!, Fri.,
Ethical Forms: Experimental Poetry, Ethics, and Culture, Fri.,
Expanding Perspectives on Performance in a World Languages
Context, Sun.,
Fabricating the Body, Fri.,
Facing the Jungle: Censorship and Working Class Literature, Sat.,
Flannery O’Connor: Performing Doubt, Fri.,
Forms of Performance in Herman Melville’s
From the Newberry Library: Native American Intellectual
Performance, Sat.,
Gender and Medieval Film,
Sat.,
German I: Central European Monsters, Fri.,
German II: German Poetry,
Sat.,
Iconoclastic Performances, Disguised Subjects, Fri.,
I’m on the Classroom Stage: Movement and Performance, Fri.,
Improving Writing Proficiency in Modern Language Classes, Fri.,
In the Club: Writing Pregnancy and Motherhood, Fri.,
The Intellectual as Performer, Sat.,
Irish Fiction: Colonial and Postcolonial Moments: Colonial
Fictions A & B, Fri.,
Is the ‘It’ in ‘Make It New’ Victorianism?, Fri.,
Jazz and Blues Sessions in American Literature, Sun.,
King Arthur Conquers
Language in the Academy,
Fri.,
Literature of the Cinema: Novels into Film, Sat.,
Looking Backward: Edwardians, Moderns, and the` 19th Century A & B, Fri.,
Magicians, Jugglers Swindlers?: Interpretations of Magic,
Natural Philosophy and the Occult in Renaissance Literature, Sun., 10:
Masked Confessions: The Modernist Genesis of the Confessional
Poem, Sun.,
Mediterranean Memories: Crossings and Migrations in
Contemporary Peninsular Culture, Fri.,
Memory and Trauma in Postcolonial Writing, Sat.,
Midwestern Drama, Fri.,
Mise en spectacle sexuelle et textuelle du corps, Sun.,
Mixed Mediation: German Postwar Film, Documentary Images and
the Problematic Past, Sat.,
Modern Drama and the Culture of War, Sun., 10:
Modern Fiction and Performance, Sat.,
Moving On / Coming Out: GLBT Film Journeys, Sat.,
Navigating among Perilous Texts: Yuri Rozhdestvensky and the American
Scene, Sun.,
New Directions in Hispanic Crime Fiction, Fri.,
New Scholarship on the Black Arts Movement, Fri.,
The Nineteenth-Century Literature of Nursing, Fri., 2:
The Other Side of the Canon: Women and Gender in the
Popular Imagination of Nineteenth-Century Spain, Sat.,
Parisian Tableaux of the 19th Century and Beyond, Sat.,
Performance, Identity, and Grief, Fri., 2:
Performance in Else Lasker-Schüler, Fri.,
Performance in Three Cultures: Literary, Popular and Folk, Sat.,
Performance Studies and Medieval Literature and Folklore, Sat.,
The Performative Aspects of the Confessional Hemingway,
Sun.,
Performative Cultures: Functions and Tropes in African
American Literature, Sun.,
Performing Cultural Reality in the Classroom, Sat.,
Performing Culture:
Performing Cultures, Sun.,
Performing Lives 1485-1558,
Sun.,
Performing (Midwestern) History on Site, Fri.,
Performing Prison, Sat.,
Performing the Asian American Body, Fri.,
Performing the Renaissance Imagination, Sat.,
Performing the Visual: Absent Referents, Swimming Through
Popular Fiction and Social Types, Sat.,
Post-World War II American Regionalism, Sat.,
Queer Studies: Aspects of Homosexuality in Contemporary
French Literature and Cinema, Fri.,
Race, History, and Early
Reading the Other
Religious Faith in the Academy, Sun.,
Renaissance Literature and Culture: Writing the Elizabethan
World, Fri.,
Representations of Space in Contemporary French and
Francophone Literature and Cinema, Fri., 2:
Representing the Middle Ages in Film, Sat.,
The Roving Eye: Women in Reality Television, Sat.,
The Saws in the Sagas: Proverbiality in Old Norse, Fri.,
Settings and Sets: Landscapes and Cityscapes in Austrian
Literature, Sun.,
Sex and the
Singing, Dancing, Suppressing: Cultural Boundaries/Cultural
Conflicts in the Classic
Social Redemption of Undefaced Gods, Fri.,
Steinbeck: Contemporary Interventions, Sat.,
Suburban Estrangement A & B, Sat., 2:
Talking with Our Mouths Full: The Rhetoric and Textuality of
Food, Fri.,
Teaching Theater and Performance in the Romance Languages
Department, Fri., 10:
Theatre!, Fri.,
Theatre! Theatre!, Fri.,
Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom, Sat.,
They Might be Monsters: Law, Gender, and Sympathy in Dickens’
Bleak House, Dombey and Son, and Oliver
Twist, Fri.,
The Treasures of Little
Unpacking the L-Word: Lesbian Representation in Contemporary
Popular Culture A & B, Sat.,
Violence and Trauma in Anglophone and Francophone
Postcolonial Literature, Fri.,
Voice, Sat.,
Voices of the
Walter J. Ong for the 21st Century A, B, & C, Sat.,
12:30-5:30 p.m., Frisco, Knickerbocker, New York Central 137, 152, 170
West Meets East: The Literature and Culture of
What’s Research Got To Do With It: Intersections of Academic
Work and Intercultural Communication, Sat.,
Women and Fictional Historiography, Fri.,
The Work We Do: Connecting Research and the Undergraduate
Classroom A & B, Sun.,
Writing Dixie: Problems of Textual Disunion after
Meetings
Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest
Business Meeting, Sat.,