INDEX OF SESSIONS

 

Special Events

 

Walking Tour of the University City Loop, arranged by the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest, Thurs., 4:30 p.m., hotel lobby’s Whispering Arch  1

 

Reading by Carl Phillips and Nightcaps, arranged by Left Bank Books, Thurs., 8:00-10:00 p.m., Regency Ballroom B  2

 

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., 6:30-8:00 p.m., Regency Ballroom B  86

 

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

 

Open Mic, sponsored by the Creative Writing Session, Sat., 8:00-10:00 p.m., Frisco  173

 

Film Screening: The Sixth Sense, Sat., 9:00-11:00 p.m., Regency Ballroom B  174

 

Professionalizing Workshops

“Choosing Administration,” moderated by Kathleen Diffley, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Regency Ballroom A 68

“Integrating Technology in the Classroom,” moderated by Vincent Casaregola, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Regency Ballroom A  87

Reading Literature: The NEA’s Survey of Literary Reading in America,” moderated by Ann C. Hall, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Regency Ballroom A  103

 

 

Receptions

 

President’s Reception, Fri., 5:15-6:15 p.m., Regency Ballroom C  85

 

Members’ Reception, Sat., 5:15-6:15 p.m., Regency Ballroom C  171

 

 

Permanent Sections

 

African American Literature A, B, & C, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., 2:15-5:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom A  104, 138, 154

 

American Literature I: Literature to 1870, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom B  105

 

American Literature II: Literature After 1870, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom B  34

 

Applied Linguistics, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom D  175

 

“Art What Thou Eat”: Food in Literature, Art, and Culture, Sat., 10:15 a.m.-11:45 a.m., Missouri Pacific  106

 

Canadian Literature, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Knickerbocker  17

 

Children's Literature, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Wabash Cannonball  51

 

Comparative Literature, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom B  139

 

Computer Research, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Regency Ballroom A  3

 

Creative Writing I: Poetry, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Regency Ballroom A  121

 

Creative Writing II: Prose, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom C  155

 

Drama A, B, & C, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Burlington Route; Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Colorado Eagle  35, 69, 107

 

English I: English Literature Before 1800, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom C  122

 

English II: English Literature 1800-1900 A, B, C, & D, Sat., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Frisco, 2:15-5:30 p.m., Jeffersonian  88, 108, 140, 156

 

English III: English Literature After 1900, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom A  192

 

Film I, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Wabash Cannonball  157

 

Film II, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Wabash Cannonball  41

 

French I, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Regency Ballroom B  193

 

French II, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Frisco  70

 

French III, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom D  141

 

Gender Studies, Male, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom A  42

 

History of Critical Reception, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom C  89

 

Illustrated Texts, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Burlington Route  142

 

Irish Studies, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Missouri Pacific  52

 

Linguistics, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Knickerbocker  90

 

Literary Criticism, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom D  36

 

Luso-Brazilian, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Regency Ballroom B  18

 

Modern Literature A & B, Fri., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Illinois Central  4, 19

 

Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: Politics and Pedagogy, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Midnight Special  176

 

Old and Middle English Literature and Language, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Missouri Pacific  71

 

Peace Literature and Pedagogy, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Texas Special  72

 

Popular Culture, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Frisco  143

 

Religion and Literature A & B, Sat., 10:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Burlington Route, Wabash Cannonball  109, 123

 

Science and Fiction, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Burlington Route  194

 

Science and Literature, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., New York Central  91

 

Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism A & B, Fri., 8:30-11:45 a.m., New York Central  5, 20

 

Short Story A & B, Sun., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Regency Ballroom A  177, 195

 

Spanish I: Peninsular Literature Before 1700, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Texas Special  37

 

Spanish II: Peninsular Literature After 1700, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Wabash Cannonball  92

 

Spanish III: Latin American Literature A & B, Fri., 12:30-3:45 p.m., Jeffersonian  43, 53

 

Spanish Cultural Studies, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom D  54

 

Teaching Writing in College, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Knickerbocker  110

 

Travel Writing/Writing Travel, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom D  111

 

Women in Literature A & B, Sat., 2:15-5:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom E, Grand Ballroom B  144, 158

 

Women's Studies A & B, Fri., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Jeffersonian  6, 21

 

Writing Across the Curriculum, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Regency Ballroom A  44

 

Young Adult Literature, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Knickerbocker  73

 

 

Associated Organizations

 

American Dialect Society A & B, Sat., 2:15-5:30 p.m., Colorado Eagle  145, 159

 

Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Texas Special  112

 

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Illinois Central  197

 

Conseil International d'Études Francophones, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom B  7

 

Henry James Society, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom B  93

 

Society for Critical Exchange A & B, Sat., 2:15-5:30 p.m., Illinois Central  146, 160

 

Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature I, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Regency Ballroom B  94

 

Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature II, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Regency Ballroom B  113

 

Women in French, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom C  114

 

Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest I-A & I-B, Sat., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Illinois Central  95, 115

 

Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest II, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Wabash Cannonball  74

 

 

Special Sessions

 

18th and 19th Century British Literature and Performance, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Missouri Pacific  45

 

Academic Performances, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom A  55

 

African American Rhetoric as Transformative Performance in Literary Discourse, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Texas Special  22

 

Afro-Hispanic Drama, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom D  130

 

The Afterlife of Chaucer, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Jeffersonian  198

 

AIDS in/and Film A & B, Fri., 2:15-5:30 p.m., Illinois Central  56, 75

 

Anarchism and Literature, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Texas Special  199

 

Animals and the Exotic in Literature A & B, Sun., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom C  179, 200

 

Anton Chekhov: Afterlives, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Illinois Central  131

 

Are Generalists Mere Performers?, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom E  57

 

The Asian Diaspora in Latin America, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Jeffersonian  116

 

Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader: Performing Past Upon Present, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Colorado Eagle  201

 

Between the Cracks of Real and Virtual Time: Choreographing Literature Instruction On-the-Ground and On-Line, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom D  76

 

Biblical Intertextuality: Commentary, Criticism, and Interpretation, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom C  46

 

Critical Approaches to Literary Performance, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Knickerbocker  180

 

Crossing Borders, Finding Identities, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Frisco  181

 

Desiring Women, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Knickerbocker  58

 

The Digital Performance of Texts, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom D  161

 

Don DeLillo and Performance, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom A  8

 

Editing Roles: Performing Upon the Publishing Stage, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom C  23

 

Empowerment in Freshman Composition, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Knickerbocker  9

 

English 442: The Modern American Novel – Multiculturalism: Course Title or Teaching Strategy?, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Midnight Special  202

 

Espectaculo!, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom E  77

 

Ethical Forms: Experimental Poetry, Ethics, and Culture, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Regency Ballroom A  59

 

Expanding Perspectives on Performance in a World Languages Context, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Missouri Pacific  182

 

Fabricating the Body, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Wabash Cannonball  24

 

Facing the Jungle: Censorship and Working Class Literature, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Colorado Eagle  96

 

Flannery O’Connor: Performing Doubt, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Regency Ballroom B  47

 

Forms of Performance in Herman Melville’s Pierre, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Texas Special  97

 

From the Newberry Library: Native American Intellectual Performance, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Frisco  162

 

Gender and Medieval Film, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Missouri Pacific  98

 

German I: Central European Monsters, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Texas Special  10

 

German II: German Poetry, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Colorado Eagle  124

 

Iconoclastic Performances, Disguised Subjects, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom E  26

 

I’m on the Classroom Stage: Movement and Performance, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Knickerbocker  38

 

Improving Writing Proficiency in Modern Language Classes, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Missouri Pacific  25

 

In the Club: Writing Pregnancy and Motherhood, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Regency Ballroom B  60

 

The Intellectual as Performer, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom A  132

 

Irish Fiction: Colonial and Postcolonial Moments: Colonial Fictions A & B, Fri., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom D  11, 27

Is the ‘It’ in ‘Make It New’ Victorianism?, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom B  61

 

Jazz and Blues Sessions in American Literature, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Wabash Cannonball  203

 

King Arthur Conquers Europe, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom C  62

 

Language in the Academy, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom C  78

 

Literature of the Cinema: Novels into Film, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom E  163

 

Looking Backward: Edwardians, Moderns, and the` 19th Century A & B, Fri., 10:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Frisco  28, 39

 

Magicians, Jugglers Swindlers?: Interpretations of Magic, Natural Philosophy and the Occult in Renaissance Literature, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom D  204

 

Masked Confessions: The Modernist Genesis of the Confessional Poem, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Texas Special  183

 

Mediterranean Memories: Crossings and Migrations in Contemporary Peninsular Culture, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Burlington Route  12

 

Memory and Trauma in Postcolonial Writing, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom D  99

 

Midwestern Drama, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Regency Ballroom B  79

 

Mise en spectacle sexuelle et textuelle du corps, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Regency Ballroom B  184

 

Mixed Mediation: German Postwar Film, Documentary Images and the Problematic Past, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Wabash Cannonball  147

 

Modern Drama and the Culture of War, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., New York Central  205

 

Modern Fiction and Performance, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Regency Ballroom A  164

 

Moving On / Coming Out: GLBT Film Journeys, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom E  100

 

Navigating among Perilous Texts: Yuri Rozhdestvensky and the American Scene, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Knickerbocker  206

 

New Directions in Hispanic Crime Fiction, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Colorado Eagle  29

 

New Scholarship on the Black Arts Movement, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., New York Central  40

 

The Nineteenth-Century Literature of Nursing, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Texas Special  63

 

The Other Side of the Canon: Women and Gender in the Popular Imagination of Nineteenth-Century Spain, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Knickerbocker  125

 

Parisian Tableaux of the 19th Century and Beyond, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Knickerbocker  165

 

Performance, Identity, and Grief, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Burlington Route  64

 

Performance in Else Lasker-Schüler, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Colorado Eagle  48

 

Performance in Three Cultures: Literary, Popular and Folk, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., New York Central  148

 

Performance Studies and Medieval Literature and Folklore, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Burlington Route  166

 

The Performative Aspects of the Confessional Hemingway, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom A  185

 

Performative Cultures: Functions and Tropes in African American Literature, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Illinois Central  186

 

Performing Cultural Reality in the Classroom, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Wabash Cannonball  117

 

Performing Culture: Reading, Discussing, and Writing About Cultural Texts with First Year Composition Students, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Missouri Pacific  207

 

Performing Cultures, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., New York Central  187

 

Performing Lives 1485-1558, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Jeffersonian  188

 

Performing (Midwestern) History on Site, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., New York Central  65

 

Performing Prison, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Regency Ballroom B  167

 

Performing the Asian American Body, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Jeffersonian  80

 

Performing the Renaissance Imagination, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Jeffersonian  133

 

Performing the Visual: Absent Referents, Swimming Through Turkey, and the Rhetoric of Queering Comics, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Regency Ballroom A  149

 

Popular Fiction and Social Types, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Burlington Route  134

 

Post-World War II American Regionalism, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom B  135

 

Queer Studies: Aspects of Homosexuality in Contemporary French Literature and Cinema, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom B  30

 

Race, History, and Early America, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Texas Special  136

 

Reading the Other Washington Novel, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Frisco  208

 

Religious Faith in the Academy, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Burlington Route  189

 

Renaissance Literature and Culture: Writing the Elizabethan World, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Frisco  66

 

Representations of Space in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature and Cinema, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Colorado Eagle  67

 

Representing the Middle Ages in Film, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., New York Central  118

 

The Roving Eye: Women in Reality Television, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom C  150

 

The Saws in the Sagas: Proverbiality in Old Norse, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom A  31

 

Settings and Sets: Landscapes and Cityscapes in Austrian Literature, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Colorado Eagle  190

 

Sex and the Victorian City, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom B  81

 

Singing, Dancing, Suppressing: Cultural Boundaries/Cultural Conflicts in the Classic Hollywood Musical, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Regency Ballroom A  32

 

Social Redemption of Undefaced Gods, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom E  49

 

Steinbeck: Contemporary Interventions, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Texas Special  168

 

Suburban Estrangement A & B, Sat., 2:15-5:30 p.m., Missouri Pacific  151, 169

 

Talking with Our Mouths Full: The Rhetoric and Textuality of Food, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., New York Central  82

 

Teaching Theater and Performance in the Romance Languages Department, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Burlington Route  33

 

Theatre!, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Wabash Cannonball  13

 

Theatre! Theatre!, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom A  83

 

Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Burlington Route  101

 

They Might be Monsters: Law, Gender, and Sympathy in Dickens’ Bleak House, Dombey and Son, and Oliver Twist, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Frisco  14

 

The Treasures of Little Egypt: New Research from the Special Collections at Morris Library, Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Colorado Eagle  84

 

Unpacking the L-Word: Lesbian Representation in Contemporary Popular Culture A & B, Sat., 10:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Grand Ballroom E  119

 

Violence and Trauma in Anglophone and Francophone Postcolonial Literature, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Illinois Central  50

 

Voice, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., New York Central  127

 

Voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Jeffersonian  102

 

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 India Through Western Lens, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Missouri Pacific  15

 

What’s Research Got To Do With It: Intersections of Academic Work and Intercultural Communication, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Regency Ballroom B  128

 

Women and Fictional Historiography, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Grand Ballroom C  16

 

The Work We Do: Connecting Research and the Undergraduate Classroom A & B, Sun., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom B  191, 196

 

Writing Dixie: Problems of Textual Disunion after Fort Sumter, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Texas Special  153

 

 

Meetings

 

Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest Business Meeting, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m.., Midnight Special  129