2004 PROGRAM OF SESSIONS
1. Walking
Tour, arranged by the Women’s Caucus
for the Modern Languages/Midwest
Join the WCML in exploring
the trendy and historically significant University City Loop. Visit the city’s Walk of Fame, where 100
brass stars and plaques honor native sons and daughters. Pause at nightclubs like the Pageant and
Blueberry Hill, linger in specialty shops and markets, stay for dinner with the
Caucus, dine on your own at a café like Salvatore’s, take in an art film at the
recently renovated Tivoli theatre, or return to the hotel via Metrolink. The event is physically accessible to all and
free, save for the price of Metrolink tickets and whatever you care to splurge.
2. A Reading by Carl Phillips followed by
Nightcaps Reception, both sponsored by Left Bank Books
Carl Phillips is
the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Rest of Love (FSG, 2004). Other books include Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and
Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004) and a translation of Sophocles's Philoctetes (Oxford UP, 2003). A
finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle
Award, Phillips is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Kingsley
Tufts Poetry Award, an Award in Literature from the
A poet drawn to
the “human need, / to give to shapelessness / a form,” Phillips once wrote of
just such a moment: “And you turn. And /
on its axis—swift, / inexorable as luck—the dream, turning, / with you . . .” Professor of English and of African and
Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Phillips will be
inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences during the fall of
2004, when he will also inaugurate this year’s M/MLA convention and the
Nightcaps reception sponsored by Left Bank Books in his honor.
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER
5
You are invited to
attend the Book Exhibit,
Permanent Sections
3. Computer
Research
Topic: Technology and
Barrier-Free Environments
Chair: Tammy Berberi,
Secretary: Suzanne Blum
Malley,
1. “Design Experiment Research
Methodology: Promoting Barrier-Free Telecollaborative and Transdisciplinary
Research to Design and Develop Interactive IB-CALL Environments,” by Kimberly
A. MacDonald, OISE/Univ. of
2. “The Education of Lara Croft:
Computer Games and Simulations as Modern Teaching Tools,” by Monica Evans,
3. “Reshaping Access in the
Global/Technological Curriculum,” by Suzanne Blum Malley,
4. Modern
Literature A
Topic: The Trace of
History
Chair: Steven Matuszak,
Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Secretary: Susanna
Hoeness-Krupsaw,
Session A
1. “Reading Modernity’s Nostalgia in
Miller’s Obscenity,” by Brooke Groskopf, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2. “Ex-Post-Infancy in Walter
Benjamin,” by Julia Isabel Faisst,
3. “The Mediation of Historical Loss
Through Nostalgia in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead
Revisited,” by Laura Coffey,
Session B
1. “Re-defining Authenticity: D. M.
Thomas’s The White Hotel and
Holocaust Fiction,” by Taryn L. Okuma, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
2. “Lenin’s Head and Other Traces of
History In Recent Post-Communist European Cinema,” by Zoran Samardzija, Univ.
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
3. “Absent Images and History’s
Traces: Theorizing the Lost Fictional Photographs of Twentieth Century American
Novels,” by Zoe Trodd,
5. Shakespeare
and Shakespearean Criticism A
Chair: Janet Garrard-Willis,
Secretary: Hilary J.
Binda,,
Session A
Topic: Shakespeare and
Performance
1. “Performing the Eco-Speare, or
Environmental Shakespeare,” by Donald Hedrick, Kansas State Univ.
2. “‘This Thing of Darkness I
Acknowledge Mine’: Visual/Textual Alchemy and the Reconstruction of Artistic
‘Aura’ in Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s
Books,” by Lucian Ghita,
3. “The Performance of Language
Imperialism in Shakespeare’s Henry V,”
by Marcia Eppich-Harris,
4. “‘There’s more in’t than fair
visage’: Colorblind Casting in Contemporary Productions of Shakespeare,” by
Alix Claps,
Session B
Topic: Shakespeare and
Parenting
1. “Avenging the Father: Hamlet Again,”
by William P. Walsh,
2. “‘The Son, Compelled, Been Butcher
to the Sire’: Revenge and the Generational Conflict in Henry VI,” by Lea Luecking Frost,
3. “‘Bereft My Vital Powers’: Lord
Protector as Henry VI’s Failed
Zizekian Father,” by Janet Garrard-Willis,
4. “Parental Matters: The Case of Coriolanus,” by Deborah M. Scaggs,
6. Women's
Studies A
Topic: Passing Zones:
Women and Alternate Identities
Chair: Katherine Gantz,
Secretary: Janis
Breckenridge,
Session A
1.
“Passing as Countesses and (Beauty) Queens: Beauty and Class in Film
Adaptations of Shaw’s Pygmalion,” by
Susan J. Wolfe and Roberta Rude,
2.
“Performing Gender: Brecht and Woolf Revisited,” by Gabriela Stoicea,
3.
“The Color Purple as an
Economic Model: Discovering a Black, Lesbian, Feminist, Natural Capitalism,” by
Kelly Rawson,
4.
“’Buried Alive’: Passing and Notions of Identity in Stone Butch Blues,” by Cara Ogburn, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Session B
1. “Eighteenth-Century French
Transvestites: Women Writing the Male Epistolary Voice,” by Marijn S. Kaplan,
2.
“Finding ‘the
3.
“’Her Mourning is all Make-Believe’: Performing Widowhood,” by
4.
“The Significance of the Mulatto for the Theme of Passing in Francis
Harper’s Iola Leroy,” by Maria
Mikolchak, St. Cloud State Univ.
Associated
Organizations
7. Conseil
International d'Études Francophones
Topic: La francophonie
au feminin: les femmes vues par les femmes dans les litteratures francophones
Coordinator:
Secretary:
1. “Ecrire et lire la femme antillaise dans Juletane de Myriam Warner-Vieyra,” by Anne M. Francois,
2. “Textes réalistes et textes innovateurs : écriture et
représentation chez quatre écrivains camerounais,” by Béatrice M. Mulala,
3. “Regards féminins d’Assia Djebar: La femme sans sépulture,” by
4. “La femme africaine d’aujourd’hui face à la polygamie: ‘Une si
longue lettre’de Mariama Bâ,” by
Special Sessions
8. Don DeLillo
and Performance
Coordinator: Jesse
Kavadlo,
1. “American Aphasia: Performances in the Novels of Don
DeLillo,” by Elliott Riebman,
2. “Performing the Body in the Fiction of
Don DeLillo,” by Anne Longmuir, Glasgow Caledonian Univ.
3. “The Intruder and The Hostage: Performing Hospitality
in DeLillo’s The Body Artist,” by
Tyler Kessel, Univ. at
9. Empowerment
in Freshman Composition
Coordinator: Sarah
Smith-Robbins, Ball State Univ.
1. “‘We Thought, Because We Had Power, We Had Wisdom’:
Decentralizing the Power in the Freshman Composition Classroom,” by Sarah
Smith-Robbins and Shane Sullivan, Ball State Univ.
2. “Approximating Inside and Outside the Discourse: Roles
in the Composition Classroom,” Casey Gerhart and Ruth Wollersheim, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
10. German I:
Central European Monsters
Coordinators: Jenifer
Cushman, Univ. of
1. “The Central European Vampire in German Literature,” by
Heide Crawford,
2. “Killing the Habsburg Empire: Monstrous Aristocracy in
Gustav Meyrink’s Walpurgisnacht,” by
Amanda Boyd,
3. “Monstrosity and Central Europe in Silent German
Cinema,” by Tanya E. Kinsella, Virginia Polytechnic and
4. “Vampires as Readers of the Past: Elfriede Jelinek’s Krankheit oder Moderne Frauen,” by Ian
W. Wilson,
11. Irish Fiction:
Colonial and Postcolonial Moments: Colonial Fictions A (papers
available in advance)
Session A
Coordinator: Gill
Hunter,
1. “Marriage: The Act of Union in Castle Rackrent,” by Karen Remedios,
2. “William Carleton: Native
Informant and the Representation of Subalternity in Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry,” by Umme Al-wazedi,
3. “Stories, Sketches, Meanings: Book
Illustration in Carleton’s Traits and
Stories of the Irish Peasantry,” by Ellen M. Bayer,
4. “Ventriloquism, Metafictive
Historiography, and the Problem of Authoritative Voice in William Carleton’s The Squanders of Castle Squander,” by
Tony Russell,
Discussant: Shaun F. D. Hughes,
Session B
Coordinator: Karen
Remedios,
1. “Padraic Ó Conaire: The Horrors of
Exile,” by Gerald Maki,
2. “Exiles in Spotlights,” by Yilin
Liao,
3. “Politics and the Assault on
Essential Irish Traditions in The Valley
of the Squinting Windows,” by Thomas McHenry,
4.
“Good Fences: Care and Reconciliation in Irish Modernism,” by Gill
Hunter,
Discussant: Shaun F. D. Hughes,
12. Mediterranean
Memories: Crossings and Migrations in Contemporary Peninsular Culture
Coordinator: Tabea
Alexa Linhard,
1. “When the Party is Over: Beach Communities, Industrial
Modernization, and the Transformation of Narrative Technique in Juan
Goytisolo’s Fin de Fiesta,” by
Eugenia Afinoguénova,
2. “Crossing the
3. “Notes from a Corrupting Sea: Rewriting Sepharad in
Contemporary
Discussant: Joseph Schraibman,
13. Theatre!
Coordinator: Karlyn Crowley,
1. “Killing the Snake: Performing
Subtexts in Terrance McNally’s Lips
Together, Teeth Apart,” by Kevin McSweeney, Illinois State Univ.
2. “I Have Taught Others All My Life,
Now My Body Teaches Me about Cancer: A Reading of Margaret Edson’s Wit,” by Catalina Florina Florescu,
3. “Engendering Violence on the
Stage: Toward an Ethics of Cruelty in Contemporary American Performance,” by
Sara L. Warner,
4. “Performing Urban Renewal: The
Spectacular Economy of Chicago Theatre,” by Aaron Krall, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
14. They Might be
Monsters: Law, Gender, and Sympathy in Dickens’ Bleak House, Dombey and Son,
and Oliver Twist
Coordinator: Erin
Chamberlain,
1. “Performing Progress: Chancery and the Art of
Injustice in Bleak House,” by Erin
Chamberlain,
2. “Mr. Dombey and Mr. Carker: Vampirism and Homosocial
Relationships in Dickens’ Dombey and Son,”
by Kristi Embry,
3. “The Monstrous Reader: Schadenfreude and the Crowd in Oliver Twist,” by April Toadvine,
15. West Meets
East: The Literature and Culture of
Coordinator: Barbara
Lounsberry,
1. “Love Laws and Their
Transgressions: Sexuality, Power, and Madness in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things,” by Katarzyna
Rozanska,
2. “Arundhati Roy and Peter Gabel:
Adopting Spontaneity, Breaking with Social Convention,” by Ted Duitsman,
16. Women and Fictional
Historiography
Coordinator: Lynette
Felber,
1. “History as ‘Mere Fiction’ in
Catharine Sedgwick’s The Linwoods,”
by Jeffrey Insko,
2. “Rehabilitating Aphra Behn in
Nineteenth-Century
3. “Wealhtheow Mapelode: Speaking
Herself into the Anglo-Saxon Literary-Historical Record,” by Dana Oswald, Ohio
State Univ.
4. “The Fair Jewess and the Less
Interesting Rowena: Race, Femininity, and History in Ivanhoe,” by Jennifer Camden, The Ohio State Univ.
Permanent Sections
17. Canadian
Literature
Topic: Canadian
Autobiographical Novels
Chair: Numsiri
Kunakemakorn,
Secretary: Deena Rymhs,
Queen’s Univ.
1. “Canadian Autobiographical Novels:
Robert Kroetsch’s Badlands,” by
Duncan Lucas,
2. Interrogating the Representation
and Interpretation of Historical Narrative in Alice Munro’s ‘A Wilderness
Station,’” by Paul Galante,
18. Luso-Brazilian
Topic:
Dimensions in Diversity: Identity,
Race and Gender in
Chair: Elizabeth
Fonseca,
1. “Discovering the Self: Issues of Identity and
Gender in Isabel Câmara’s Play “Two Women,” by Elizabeth Fonseca, Southern
Illinois Univ. Edwardsville
2. “Contemporary Bahian Theatre: Exploring Race and
Gender in the Theatre of Salvador,
3. Isabel Câmara,
19. Modern
Literature B
(see session
20. Shakespeare and
Shakespearean Criticism B
(see session
21. Women's Studies
B
(see session
Special Sessions
22. African
American Rhetoric as Transformative Performance in Literary Discourse
Coordinator: Anne
Herbert, Bradley Univ.
1. “Resisting Romantic Realism: Martin Delaney’s Discourses of Empowerment
and Empire,” by Julie Husband,
2. “From Communism to Cultural
Studies: The Reception of Richard Wright’s Native
Son,” by Philip Goldstein,
3. “Albert Murray Brings It On Home:
Revisioning Black Modernism in Train
Whistle Guitar,” by Michael Borshuk, Texas Tech Univ.
4. “Missing the Mark:
Disidentification in Percival Everett’s Erasure,”
by Jamie Calhoun,
23. Editing Roles:
Performing Upon the Publishing Stage
Coordinator: John T.
Ikeda Franklin, Pittsburg State Univ.
Roundtable and audience discussion:
Participant 1. John T. Ikeda
Franklin, Pittsburg State Univ.
Participant 2. Celia Patterson,
Pittsburg State Univ.
Participant 3. Lizanne Minerva
Franklin, Pittsburg State Univ.
Participant 4. Blair Croan, Pittsburg
State Univ.
Participant 5. Stephen E. Meats, Pittsburg State Univ.
24. Fabricating the
Body
Coordinator: Elizabeth
Klaver, Southern
1. “Dorothy Hamill and Middle-aged
Romeos: Performing and Maintaining the Able Body,” by Linda Seidel, Truman
State Univ.
2. “Surgically Modified Performance:
The Altered Body in Reality TV,” by Natalie Wilson, San Diego State Univ.
3. “The (Dead) Body as Text: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and the
Performance of Close
25. Improving
Writing Proficiency in Modern Language Classes
Coordinators: Myriam
Krepps, Pittsburg State Univ. and Edmée Fernández, Pittsburg State Univ.
1. “Using
2. “Writing to Learn in French Composition Classes,” by
Myriam Krepps, Pittsburg State Univ.
3. “What Modern Language Writing Teaches WAC,” by
Kathleen De Grave, Pittsburg State Univ.
26. Iconoclastic
Performances, Disguised Subjects
Coordinator: Chris Bell,
1. “The Erotic as Theater in Sade and
Guibert,” by Clara Orban,
2. “Masking the Emptiness in the
Literary Performances of Dickinson and Melville,” by Michael Kearns,
3. “Practised Effects and Good
Frauds: Faith Performances in The
Damnation of Theron Ware,” by Kristina Hochwender,
4. “‘Here’s to Plain Speaking’:
Performing Performance in Film Noir,” by
Joanne Marie Stoddard,
27. Irish Fiction:
Colonial and Postcolonial Moments: Postcolonial Fictions B (papers
available in advance)
(see session
28. Looking
Backward: Edwardians, Moderns, and the 19th Century A
Coordinator: Kevin R.
Swafford, Bradley Univ.
Session
A
1. “In the Shadow of Dickens: George
Gissing’s Modernism,” by Kevin R. Swafford, Bradley Univ.
2. “Recovering Rupert Brooke,” by
James Najarian,
3. “Tradition and the Individual’s
Trauma: Influence as Recovery in T. S. Eliot,” by Richard Badenhausen,
Session B
1. “Equating One’s Chosen Predicates
with One’s Identity: The Failure of
Clarissa Dalloway’s Victorian ‘Self,’” by Shannon Forbes,
2. “Modernity in the Looking
Glass: Mirrored Doubles in Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre,” by Max Despain,
3. “‘A Struggle Between Two
Temperaments’: Victorian Will, Edwardian Imagination, and Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son (1907),” by Cathrine O.
Frank,
4. “Jubilee Redux: Modern Memory and the Post-War World in
Lytton Strachey’s Queen Victoria,” by
John Benjamin Murphy,
29. New Directions
in Hispanic Crime Fiction
Coordinator: Renée
Craig-Odders, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
1. “Shades of Green: The Police Procedural in
2. “‘Exiting the margins(?)’: A
Lesbian Feminist Reading of Javier Otaola’s Brocheta
de Carne (2003),” by Jacqueline Ann Collins,
3. “Even and Odd: The Numbers Game in Poe, Borges and Volpi,” by Marcella Paul,
4. “Mapping Urban Violence,” by Glen
S. Close, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
30. Queer Studies:
Aspects of Homosexuality in Contemporary French Literature and Cinema
Coordinator: Flavia
Vernescu,
1. “Métamorphoses du désir: la quête de soi et de
l’autre dans Le corps lesbien de Monique Wittig,” by Flavia Vernescu,
Discussant:
2. “‘Faux amis’: False Friends and Deceptive Cognates in
the Works of Herve Guibert,” by Thomas J.D. Armbrecht,
Discussant:
Flavia Vernescu,
3. “Straightening The
Closet: Queerness as Performance in Francis Veber’s Le Placard,” by
Discussant:
Thomas J.D. Armbrecht,
31. The Saws in the
Sagas: Proverbiality in Old Norse (papers available in advance)
Coordinator: Tom
Shippey,
1. “The Crafty Creator of Grettis saga, and His Sophisticated Use
of Proverbs,” by Graham Johnson, Emporia State Univ.
2. “Proverbial Speech and Proverbious
Speakers in Hrafnkels saga,” by Tom
Shippey,
3. “Speak No Evil, See No Evil:
Speech Acts, Fate and the Quarrel of the Queens in the Nibelungenlied, Völsunga saga, and
Gisla saga,” by Eric Bryan,
Discussant: Paul Acker,
32. Singing,
Dancing, Suppressing: Cultural Boundaries/Cultural Conflicts in the Classic
Coordinator: Vincent
Casaregola,
1. “See
2. “Female Object, Female
Voice: Fashioning the Feminine in Singing in the Rain,” by Victoria
Carlson-Casaregola, Cor
3. “Cultural Intersections of Truth: The King and I and Representing the Other,” by Gina Merys Mahaffey,
4. “Not ‘Always Fair Weather’:
War, Music, and Class Boundaries in the 1955 musical, Always Fair Weather,” by Patrick J. Mannix, David N. Myers Univ.
33. Teaching
Theater and Performance in the Romance Languages Department
10:
Coordinator: Encarnación
Juárez-Almendros,
1. “The Italian Theater Workshop:
Proficiency, Performance, Perceptions,” by Colleen Ryan-Scheutz,
2. “Introducing Performance into the
Teaching of Spanish Comedia,” by
Encarnación Juárez-Almendros,
3. “From Page to Stage: Creating
Undergraduate Production of Classical Theater,” by Kelly Kingsbury and Paul
McDowell,
4. “Bridging the Gap: Performance in
a 200-level French class,” by Louis MacKenzie, Univ. of Notre Dame
Permanent Sections
34. American
Literature II: Literature After 1870
Topic: From the
Spiritual to Religious: American Literature From 1870 to the Present
Chair: Karlyn Crowley,
Secretary: Michael
Millner,
1. “Agnes in Drag: Gender and
Religious Performance in Louise Erdrich's The
Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse,” by Elizabeth Toohey,
2. “God in the Barrio: Latino
Theology in the Puerto Rican Novel,” by Bridget Kevane, Montana State Univ.
3. “The Gender of Lowbrow: Women and
Contemporary New Age Life Writing,” by Karlyn Crowley,
4. “Post-Secular Queer: Conversion
Narrative and Contemporary Queer Fiction,” by Norman W. Jones, Ohio State
Univ.-Mansfield
35. Drama A
Topic: Gendered
Performance
Chair: Mardia Bishop,
Kennesaw State Univ.
Secretary: Craig N.
Owens,
Session A
1. “As American as Apple Pie: Sarah
Pogson’s Melodrama The Female Enthusiast,”
by Susan A. Patterson, Texas A&M Univ.
2. “Wicked Legs and Naughty Bosoms:
Adah Isaacs Menken in Light of Mid-nineteenth-century Notions of Sexuality,” by
Mardia J. Bishop, Kennesaw State Univ.
3. “Jean Kerr: Performing
Perfection,” by Katherine E. Egerton,
Session B
1.
“Cocked and Ready,” by Craig N. Owens,
2. “Queering Faith: Homosexuality and
the Sacred in Fire and
3. “Prima Donna as Object of Desire
and Derision: Francis Leon’s Performances of Gender and Race on the Late
Minstrel Stage,” by Heather May,
Session C
1. “Mid Riffs: Noel Coward’s Comedy
of Openings,” by Christopher Wixson, Eastern Illinois Univ.
2. “An Ear for an Eye: Constructing
Gendered Bodies in Radio Adaptations of Classical Tragedies,” by Natalie
Papoutsis,
3. “Fraternity and Homosocial
Behaviour in Pinter,” by Mark Batty,
36. Literary
Criticism
Topic: Creative
Nonfiction and Literary Criticism
Chair: Mickey Hess,
1. “Constructions of the Self: The Monologic and Dialogic Autobiography,” by
Tatiana Kuzmic,
2. “Schema Theory Uncovers the
Creative Non-Fiction Quality of Literary Criticism,” by Kellie Roblin, Grand
Valley State Univ.
37. Spanish I:
Peninsular Literature Before 1700
Topic: Open Topic
Chair: Deborah Skolnik,
Secretary: Kerry Wilks,
Wichita State Univ.
1. “Érase que se era. . .: Sancho
Panza y la tradición oral,” by Nicole Bach,
2. “The Duality of Passion and
Suffering in Francisco de Quevedo’s Poetry,” by Yonsoo Kim,
3. “Jonah’s Whale and Converso
Redemption in the Guzmán de Alfarache II,”
by Deborah Skolnik,
Special Sessions
38. I’m on the
Classroom Stage: Movement and Performance
Coordinator: Janet
Alsup,
1. “Descriptive Bodies: Textual
Interpretations of Characterization,” by Jeanne Muzzillo,
2. “The Reader’s the Thing: Theatre
as Literacy in the English Class,” by Lisa Schade Eckert,
3. “Teaching as Performance:
Personified Action,” by Janet Alsup,
Discussant: Jill P. May,
39. Looking
Backward: Edwardians, Moderns, and the 19th Century B
(see session #28 -
40. New Scholarship
on the Black Arts Movement
Coordinator: Matthew
Calihman,
1. “Shared Cultural Spaces: The Black, Chicano, and Puerto
Rican Arts Movements in
2. “‘Poets of Action’: The Black Artists’
Group of
3. “Communication and Self Defense: A
History of Drum and Spear Press,” by Seth Markle,
4. “Literary Critic Stephen Henderson: The Construction of
a Cultural Institute at
Permanent
Sections
41. Film II
Topic: Films Matter
Chair: David M. Jones,
Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Secretary: Stacy
Thompson, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
1. “‘They only see what they want to
see’: Trick Endings and Jouissance in Shyamalan's Sixth Sense,” by Michael LeBlanc,
Discussant:
David M. Jones, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
2. “All an Illusion: Performance
as Spectacle and Refutation in David Lynch's
Discussant:
Stacy Thompson, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
3. “Regional Matters: The
Construction of the State of
Discussant:
Stacy Thompson, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
4. “Can I Check Your Bags? (The
Fantasy of the World’s End in Peter Greenaway’s The Tulse Luper Suitcases),” by Stacy Thompson, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Discussant:
David M. Jones, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
42. Gender Studies,
Male
Topic: Modernism and
Masculine Vision
Chair: Christopher T.
Raczkowski,
Secretary: Steven
Canaday,
1. “Performance Anxiety: Masculine
Failure in Sam Shepard’s One-Act Plays,” by Steven Canaday,
2. “Henry Green's Event Horizon,” by
Aaron Jaffe,
3. “Modernism, Masculinity, and
(Gendered) Vision: W.B. Yeats’s and Augusta Gregory’s Cathleen ni
Houlihan,” by Robert
Doggett, SUNY Potsdam
4. “Masculinity and Murder in Postwar
43. Spanish III:
Latin American Literature A
Topic: Open Topic
Chair: Walli Ann
Wisniewski,
Secretary: Debbie Lee-DiStefano,
Southeast Missouri State Univ.
Session A
1. “Pedro Páramo
2. “Women, Passion, and Film: A New
Feminist Perspective in Lovesick by
Ángeles Mastretta,” by Olivia Yáñez,
3. “Profane Hagiography vs. the
Revolutionary Child: The Portrayal of Pancho Villa in Nellie Campobello’s Prose
and Jack Conway’s ¡Viva Villa!” by
4. “Brecht in the
Session B
1. “Access Denied:
2. “Truth in Fiction: Rereading Latin
American Dictatorships,” by Walli Ann Wisniewski,
3. “The Skylark and the Scorpion:
Giovanni Quessep and the Politics of Poetry in
4. “The Subordinating of Science in
the Poetry of Ernesto Cardenal,” by Tom Boerigter,
44. Writing Across
the Curriculum
Topic: Writing and
Technology
Chair: Joseph A. Barda,
Secretary: Chuck Lewis,
1. “From Directed Learning to
Discovery Learning in the Technologically-Enhanced Classroom,” by Brenda
Boudreau,
2. “WAC Assignments,” by Rachel G.
Wall, Georgia State Univ.
3. “Enabling Legitimate Peripheral
Participation in the Electronic Classroom,” by Christopher Leslie,
4. “Promoting WAC through Customized
Text Publication,” by Joseph A. Barda,
Special Sessions
45. 18th and 19th
Century British Literature and Performance
Coordinator: Susan
Stiritz,
1. “Hogarth’s Bookishness: Narrative
Art Performing as Visual Book in Eighteenth-Century England, by Crystal B.
Lake, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
2. “Sensibility and Performance in
Felicia Hemans’s ‘Properzia Rossi’ and ‘To My Own Portrait,’” by Theresa Adams,
3. “Buying Realism in East Lynne(s):
Sensation Fiction and Victorian Spectatorship,” by Ann-Marie Dunbar,
46. Biblical
Intertextuality: Commentary, Criticism, and Interpretation
Coordinator: Ori
Weisberg,
1. “Pastoral Fratricide: Bible and
Biography in
2. “Justifying the Ways of
Christ-as-Imagination to Man: Blake’s Doubled Psyche,” by S. A. Stepanek,
3. Fiction and Prophecy in Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter: An
Intertextual Jeremiad,” by Patricia Simonson, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
4.
“Perfecting Flesh:
N. Powell, O.P.,
47. Flannery
O’Connor: Performing Doubt
Coordinators: Avis
Hewitt, Grand Valley State Univ. and William Neal,
1. “Stopped by Doubt: Flannery O’Connor’s Abandonment of
Why Do the Heathen Rage?” by Virginia
Wray,
2. “Misfit Bodies and Errant Gender:
Interrogations of the Corporeal in O’Connor’s Fiction,” by Natalie Wilson, San Diego State Univ.
3. “‘A Very Hot Story at the Last Minute’:
Flannery O’Connor’s Feckless Fifties Female,” by Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State Univ.
4. “Doubt as the Essential Element: Mark
Fortune in ‘A View of the Woods,’” by Benjamin Torbert, Mississippi State Univ.
48. Performance in
Else Lasker-Schüler
Coordinator: Inca
Rumold,
1. “Figurative Language, Figures of Thought, and
Performative Figurations in E. Lasker-Schüler,” by Markus Hallensleben,
2. “Performing Her/Self: Else
Lasker-Schüler on Stage in ‘Ichundich,’” by Sonja Hedgepeth, Middle Tennessee
State Univ.
3. “Representation of the Stranger in Lasker-Schüler’s
Dramatic Work,” by Helga Kraft,
4. “Performance, Defamiliarization, Reconciliation in E.
Lasker-Schüler’s Arthur Aronymus,” by
Inca M. Rumold,
Discussant: Rainer Rumold,
Northwestern Univ.
49. Social
Redemption of Undefaced Gods
Coordinators: Lisa
Marie Byrd,
1. “The Failure of the Divided and Unconnected Christ to
Regain
2. “Branded Speech in Byron’s Cain,” by Christy A. Porter, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
3. “A Defense of Rakishness,”
50. Violence and
Trauma in Anglophone and Francophone Postcolonial Literature
Coordinator: Pascale
Perraudin,
1. “An Injury to All: Toward a Theory of the Similitude,”
by Mathias Nilges,
2. “Writing Violence: Exploring the Power of
Representation,” by Pascale Perraudin,
3. “Looking Both Ways at Once: Documenting Civil Strife in
Charles Enonchong’s The Nigerian-Biafran
War Parts I, II & III,” by Joya F. Uraizee,
4. “Violence and Trauma as a Path to Grace?: J.M.
Coetzee’s Disgrace,” by Chae-Pyong
Song,
Permanent Sections
51. Children's
Literature
Topic: Children's
Literature and Film: Representations and Adaptations
Chair: Anne Triba
Dittrick,
1. “Harry Potter from Page to Screen:
An Audience Re-Imagined,” by Erin S. Bales, Illinois State Univ.
2. “Henson’s Labyrinth: An Articulation
of Sendak’s Outside Over There,” by Sonya
Sawyer, Texas A&M Univ.
3. “Visual Literacy: What We Can Learn from The Wizard of Oz,” by Anne Triba Dittrick,
52. Irish Studies
Topic: Women Writers
Chair: Rosemary E.
Johnsen, Michigan State Univ.
Secretary: Mary Burke,
1. “Representations of the Silent
Other: Eavan Boland and the Female Poet,” by Elizabeth Bensen-Barber, Southern
2. “Eavan Boland and the Ceres Myth:
Light, Love, and Loss,” by Thomas W. Zelman,
3. “‘Another Mode of Narrative’: Contemporary
Irish Minority Women's Writing as a Counter to the Irish Literary Canon,” by
Mary Burke,
53. Spanish III:
Latin American Literature B
(see session #43 -
54. Spanish Cultural
Studies
Topic: Whose Culture is
it Anyway?
Chair: Malcolm Alan
Compitello,
1. “La cultura X
2. “Imagining the Interval: Belén
Gopegui’s La escala de los mapas,
Bergson, and the Production of Mental and Cartographic Space,” by Benjamin
Fraser,
3. “Marketing Subversion/Subverting
Marketing in Contemporary
Special Sessions
55. Academic
Performances
Coordinator: Peter
Rawlings, Univ. of the West of
1. “Academic Feeling,” by Jeffrey J.
Williams, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
2.
“The Campus Novel in Drag: 20th Century Women Writers Performing
Academia,” by Ann McClellan,
3. “What Does an Academic Perform?”,
by Sharon O’Dair,
56. AIDS in/and
Film A
Coordinator: Chris
Bell,
Session A
1. “The Cinema of the Fabulous:
Re-Visioning AIDS and Angels in
2. “‘There Is No Zion Save Where You
Are!’: AIDS and National (De)Construction in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America,” by Tamara Slankard,
SUNY Stony Brook
3. “‘Gay Cancer’: AIDS in Commercial
American Film,” by Alix Claps,
Session B
1. “AIDS and Documentaries: A College
Teacher’s Reflections,” by Roger S. Platizky,
2. “Jeanne, Felix and AIDS:
Representation of AIDS in the Films of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau,”
by Florian Grandena,
3. “Attacking Foreign Bodies: AIDS
and Racism in Film,” by Daniel A. MacLeay, Southeast Missouri State Univ.
57. Are Generalists
Mere Performers?
Coordinator: Ken Egan,
Jr.,
1. “Is There a Text in this Class I Haven’t Taught?” by
Kevin Henderson,
2. “Generalism on the Tenure Track,” by Randall Fuller,
3. “Mocking Cultural Theory: Learning to
Say What Matters in Ways that Matter,” by Peter Meidlinger,
4. “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
the Range,” by Ken
Egan Jr.,
58. Desiring Women
Coordinator: Barbara
Baumgartner,
1. “Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in
Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse,” by Barbara Baumgartner,
2. “The Language of Saints:
Resistance in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette,”
by Susan Stiritz,
3. “Managing Female Desire ‘Behind the Scenes’: Elizabeth Keckley’s
‘Secret History of Mrs.
59. Ethical Forms:
Experimental Poetry, Ethics, and Culture
Coordinator: Rebecca
Walsh,
1. “‘Word of Welcome’: Formally Innovative Poetry and the
Ethics of Hospitality,” by Tiffany Eberle Kriner, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
2. “Taking Chances: ‘Poethical’ Risk and Reader
Acknowledgment in the Writings of John Cage and Joan Retallack,” by Mark Cantrell,
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
3. “‘A Wholly Unnatural Inclusiveness’: Ethics and Form
in the Work of Claudia Keelan and Brenda Hillman,” by William Stobb,
60. In the Club:
Writing Pregnancy and Motherhood (papers available in advance)
Coordinator: Kristine
Swenson, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla
1. “Motherhood in the Lives and Works
of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,” by Kathleen Drowne, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla
2. “Feminism and Technologies of
Pregnancy,” by Kristine Swenson, Univ. of Missouri-Rolla
3. “Labor and Delivery, a
4. “Response,” by Elizabeth Cummins,
Univ. of Missouri-Rolla
61. Is the ‘It’ in
‘Make It New’ Victorianism?
Coordinator: Linda
Pratt, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. “Metaphor at the Fin de Siecle: Yeats’s Altering Eye,” by Linda Pratt, Univ.
of Nebraska-Lincoln
2. “Victorian Beauty, Modernist Aesthetics, and Evelyn
Waugh’s Indictments,” by Laura White, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
3. “
62. King Arthur
Conquers
Coordinator: Tom
Shippey,
1. “‘The Greatest Prophecy of All
Time’: the Grail in Robert de Boron’s Arthurian Cycle,” by Sara Schwamb,
2. “Kingship in Old Norse Arthurian
Literature,” by Johanna Bradley,
3. “The Role of Sir Kay in Later
Arthurian Tradition,” by Laura Reinert,
Discussant: Jennifer Arch,
63. The Nineteenth-Century
Literature of Nursing
Coordinator: Jane E.
Schultz, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis
1. “Pragmatic Compassion: Whitman’s
Civil War Nursing,” by Robert Leigh Davis,
2. “‘Getting the Bodies of My Boys in
Order’: Gender Construction and the Nursing Narrative in Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches,” by Laura Laffrado,
Western Washington Univ.-Bellingham
3. “La Muse L’Amuse: Developing a
Rhetoric of Care in Poetry about Nursing,” by Jane E. Schultz, Indiana
Univ.-Purdue Univ.-Indianapolis
64. Performance,
Identity, and Grief
2:
Coordinator: Iris Smith
Fischer,
1. “‘Let Us Never Forget’: The Role of the Naudet
Brothers’ 9/11 in Creating Public
Memory,” by Shelley Manis,
2. “(Per)forming the Healthy Subject: Grief, Writing,
Healing, and Discourse,” by Ami Marie Sommariva,
3. “‘Abject Idealism’ as Ungrieved Loss in Recent
65. Performing
(Midwestern) History on Site
Coordinator: Lisa West
1. “Lincoln-Douglas and the Radium
Girls: (Re) Enacting and (Re) Dressing Up Local Histories,” by Gregory Carter Mitchell,
2. “
3. “Cahokia Mounds Display and
Nineteenth Century Illustrations of the Mound-Builders,” by Lisa West
Discussant: Lisa West
66. Renaissance
Literature and Culture: Writing the Elizabethan World
Coordinator: Kimball
Smith, Kansas State Univ.
1. “Matter of just Memory: Mapping Culture in Spenser’s Faerie Queene,” by Kimball Smith, Kansas
State Univ.
2. “‘One and the same patterne’ or ‘sundrie liberties’?:
Tudor Centralization and Gentry Visions of Local Order in Lambarde’s Perambulation of Kent,” by John Adrian,
3. “‘A Paradise Inhabited with Devils’: The Representation
of Italianita and
4. “Reformulating the ‘Elizabethan Underworld’: Railingest
Knaves, Desperate Ruffians, and the Anonymous Arden of Faversham,” by Maya Mathur, Univ. at
67. Representations
of Space in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature and Cinema
Coordinator: Flavia
Vernescu,
1. “Représentations de l’espace dans Le corps lesbien de Monique Wittig,” by Flavia Vernescu,
Discussant:
Thomas J. D. Armbrecht, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
2. “Trancher l’espace: représentations urbaines chez Beti, Condé et Chamoiseau,” by Adriana
Golumbeanu, The Ohio State Univ.
Discussant:
Flavia Vernescu,
3. “You Can’t Go Home Again: Space as Meta-narrative in
Post-Colonial Fiction,” by Thomas J. D. Armbrecht, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant:
Adriana Golumbeanu, Ohio State Univ.
Workshop Session
68. Workshop I:
Choosing Administration
Moderator: Kathleen Diffley,
1. Stephen Watt, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
2. Patrick O’Donnell, Professor and Chair, Department of English, Michigan
State Univ.
3. Ann C. Hall, Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies, Co-Director of the
Honors Program, former Division Head, Ohio Dominican Univ.
Permanent Sections
69. Drama B
(see session #35 -
70. French II
Topic: Pleasurable
Connections
Chair: E. Nicole Meyer,
Univ. of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Secretary: Jennifer J. Willging,
Ohio State Univ.
1. “Reproducing Pleasure in Sophie
Cottin’s Claire d’Albe,” by Matthew
Russell,
2. “‘Simone gazed at the absurdity…’
–The Engendered Poetics of Vision in Georges Bataille’s Histoire de l’oeil,” by Christopher B. Wachal,
3. “Guilty Pleasures: Jean Renoir’s La Regle du jeu and
4. “L’Inspecteur Ali ou le plaisir de
l’enquete,” by Monique Manopoulos,
71. Old and Middle
English Literature and Language
Topic: Teaching Old and
Middle English Literature and Language
Chair: John Paul
Walter,
Secretary: Eric Bryan,
1. “The Literature That Never Was:
Teaching the Fragmentary Nature of Middle English Literature,” by Glenn A.
Steinberg,
2. “‘Gladly wolde he lerne’: Teaching
Undergraduates Middle English,” by Jennifer N. Brown,
3. “Teaching Medieval Conduct Books:
Chaucer’s ‘The Clerk's Tale’and Le
Menagier de Paris,” by Christine M. Rose, Portland State Univ.
72. Peace
Literature and Pedagogy (papers available in advance)
Topic: Documentary
Chair: Keith Alan
Sprouse,
Secretary: Kelli Lyon Johnson,
1. “Picturing the Horror:
Observations on the Ethics of Documentary Photography,” by Keith Alan Sprouse,
Discussant:
Kimberly Nance, Illinois State Univ.
2. “The Problem of Goodness in
Documentary Writing: Tracy Kidder’s Mountains
Beyond Mountains,” by Kimberly Nance, Illinois State Univ.
Discussant:
Keith Alan Sprouse,
3. “Sensing Sound: Verfremdung Effects in
Discussant:
Joanne Marie Stoddard,
4. “Brechtian Commemoration:
Documentary Theater and the Death of Matthew Shepard,” by Joanne Marie Stoddard,
Discussant:
Claire Deal,
73. Young Adult
Literature
Topic: The Subversive
and the Pseudo-Subversive in Adolescent Literature
Chair: Chris McGee,
Longwood State Univ.
Secretary: Melody
Green, Illinois State Univ.
1. “Subversion or Perversion?:
Depictions of Interracialism in Crutcher's Whale
Talk,” by Laurie Barth Walczak, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2. “My Name is My Password:
Authorship and Agency in Nancy Drew,”
by Sara C. Berrey,
3. “Pulling Baudelaire Out of a Hat:
Allusions and Illusions in A Series of
Unfortunate Events,” by Mary Bush,
Associated Organizations
74. Women's Caucus
for the Modern Languages/Midwest II
Topic: Enacting our
Feminist Pedagogies
Coordinator: Linda S.
Coleman, Eastern
1. “PedaGrrl: Third Wave Feminist
Professors and Their Pedagogy,” by Amber R. Clifford, Central Missouri State
Univ., and Sarah Rasmusson,
2. “Feminist Publishing as Feminist
Pedagogy,” by the Feminist Teacher Editorial Collective: Monica Barron, Truman
State Univ., Gail Cohee, Brown Univ., and Theresa Kemp, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire
3. “Meeting Resistance with
Engagement: Introducing First-year Students to Gender and Difference in the
Composition Classroom,” by Patricia Gott, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Special Sessions
75. AIDS in/and
Film B
(see session #56 -
76. Between the
Cracks of Real and Virtual Time: Choreographing Literature Instruction
On-the-Ground and On-Line
Coordinator: Sara F. Cordell,
1. “The Once and the Future?: Teaching Arthurian
Literature On-line and In Class,” by Karen Moranski,
2. “Teaching a Humanities Course Online and Face to Face,”
by Rosina Neginsky,
3. “Before an Audience of Their Peers? Online English Majors and the Gaze,” by Sara F.
Cordell,
Discussant: James Ottery,
77. Espectaculo!
Coordinator: Walli Ann Wisniewski,
1. “Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz,
Serafina de Cristo, and the Performance of Female Intellectual Alliance in the
Convent,” by Stephanie Kirk,
2. “Performing Shadow and Light in
the Sacramental Plays of Calderón,” by William R. Cummins,
3. “Apuntes sobre el arte dramático
en el Perú Colonial: Función y praxis,” by Giancarla Di Laura,
78. Language in the
Academy
Coordinator: Thomas
Chase,
1. “Culture, Language, and Literacy in Academic
Communities,” by Christopher Schroeder, Northeastern
2. “Discourse Specificity and Discourse Community in the
Context of Academic Literacy,” by Emmanuel Aito,
3. “Analogy, Lexis, and Obscurantism,” Thomas Chase,
79. Midwestern
Drama
Coordinator: Christopher
Wixson, Eastern
1. “Vegetable Magnetism: F. Scott
Fitzgerald’s The Vegetable and the
2. “Heart of Darkness: Imagining
Chicago as
3. “Glaspell, Crothers, and the Rise
of Dramatic Feminism,” by David Radavich, Eastern
80. Performing the
Asian American Body
Coordinator: Victor
Mendoza,
1. “Performing Anna May Wong: Asian American Female
Sexuality on Stage and Screen,” by Angela Laflen,
2. “Performing the Foreigner: The Asian American as Con
Artist in Mamet’s The Spanish Prisoner,”
by Michael LeBlanc,
3. “Raising the Mango,” by Angela Balcita,
4. “Performing Revolution: Yellow Power and the
Reconstitution of the Asian American Body Politic,” by Rychetta N. Watkins,
81. Sex and the
Coordinator: Erin V.
Obermueller,
1. “‘The real or fancied wrongs of their lot’: Sex and
Social Reform in Victorian Writing about Urban Working Women,” by Sandra Hill, Eastern Kentucky Univ.
2. “Female Flaneur or Female Emigrant?: Urban Wanderers in
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Lizzie Leigh,” by
Erin V. Obermueller,
3. “‘Criminal Intimacies’: Rough Trade and Queer Space in
Sins of the Cities of the Plain,” by
L. Anne Delgado,
Discussant: Caroline Reitz,
82. Talking with
Our Mouths Full: The Rhetoric and Textuality of Food
Coordinator: Brian
Brost, Central Missouri State Univ.
1. “‘Food Will Win the War’: Food and Social Control in
World War I Propaganda,” by Celia Kingsbury, Central Missouri State Univ.
2. “Ingesting Modernity: Culinary Writing and Utopia in19th Century France,” by Daniel
Sipe, Iowa State Univ.
3. “Frugal Consumers: Domesticity and Social Control in British Cookery and Household
Management Books,” by Theresa Adams,
4. “The Language of Food,” by Brian Brost, Central
Missouri State Univ.
83. Theatre!
Theatre!
Coordinator: Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State
Univ.
1. “Farquhar’s Theory of Comedy,” by
Elisabeth J. Heard,
2. “Collaborative Interpretation in
Gertrude Stein’s Four Saints in Three
Acts,” by John Reep,
3. “Performativity and the Discourse
of Identity in Harold Pinter’s One for
the Road and Mountain Language,”
by Anthony Santirojprapai,
84. The Treasures
of Little
Coordinator: Kevin J.
H. Dettmar, Southern
1. “The Self-Censorship of Lady
Gregory’s Translations,” by Karen B. Golightly, Southern Illinois Univ.
Carbondale
2. “‘Imperfections in a Perfect Day’:
The Status of Book and Text in Ulysses,”
by Matthew Walker Paproth, Southern
3. “Black Sun and Red Eisenglass: The
Literary Correspondence of Harry Crosby and Kay Boyle,” by Robert Pratte,
Southern
4. “‘Inside’: The Prison Poetry of
Edwin J. Becker,” by David Leitner, Southern
85. President’s
Reception
Complimentary wine and
hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, hosted by 2004 President Ann C. Hall, Ohio Dominican Univ.
86. Staged
Reading, arranged by 2004 M/MLA
President Ann C. Hall, Ohio Dominican Univ.
Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein
Written by Marty Martin
Performed by Katherine
Burkman
Directed by Jane Cottrell
Set on the eve of Gertrude
Stein’s eviction from the famed studio at 27 rue de Fleurus, this imaginary
monologue brings to life, often in Stein’s own words, the major modern artists
and writers that Stein and companion Alice B. Toklas nurtured during the
1920s. Meet Dali, Hemingway, Picasso,
Matisse, and Isadora Duncan. Discover
Stein’s cubist style of writing, which broke boundaries for all writers and
made her one of the 20th century’s true pioneers.
Katherine Burkman is
Professor Emerita at
You are invited to
attend the Book Exhibit,
Workshop Session
87. Workshop II: Integrating
Technology in the Classroom
Moderator: Vincent Casaregola,
1. “Teaching Writing
with Blackboard,” by Jeffrey McIntire-Strasburg,
2. “Creating a Web Bibliography,” by Janice McIntire-Strasburg,
3. “Teaching a Webquest,” by Sandy Gambill,
Permanent Sections
88. English II:
English Literature 1800-1900 A
Topic: Maladies,
Madness, Miracles, Monsters, and Medicine: Representations of the Body in
Victorian Culture
Chair: Beth E.
Torgerson,
Secretary: Jane V.
Session A
Subtopic: Disease,
Dissection, and the Victorian Body
1. “Women of the Scalpel: A Feminist
Dissection of the Provincial in George Eliot’s Middlemarch,” by Elizabeth H. Graham,
2. “The Case for Smallpox in
Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond,”
by Carolyn Jacobson,
3. “‘Strange Afflictions’: Illness,
Medicine, and Narrative Structure in Dickens’s Bleak House,” by Nicki Buscemi,
Discussant: Barbara Tilley,
Session B
Subtopic: Madness, the
Mind, and Victorian Psychology
1. “The Manipulations of Lady Audley:
Appearance and Insanity in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret,” by Stacey Kikendall,
2. “Vampires, Ghosts, and the Disease
of Dis/Possession in
3. “Pathological Perception in
Dickens’s Bleak House,” by Jennifer
Judge,
Discussant: Jane V.
Session C
Subtopic: Deviant/Normal
Bodies at Home
1. “‘Dirty and Degenerate’ Tramps and
‘Pure-blooded’ Romanies: Conflicting Images of the Itinerant Body in Victorian
Britain and
2. “Murder and Morality: The Case of
Thomas Neill Cream,” by Beth Ptalis,
3. “Criminalized Pathology: The
Limits of Representation in Oscar Wilde’s De
Profundis,” by Elizabeth S. Anker,
Discussant: Cynthia M. Van Sickle,
Wayne State Univ.
Session D
Subtopic: Issues of
Empire and Bodies Abroad
1. “Sending the Fallen Woman to the
Frontier: Female Emigration in 19th
Century British Fiction,” by Cynthia M. VanSickle, Wayne State Univ.
2. “Cutaneous Matters: Early Nineteenth-Century
Physiologies of Race and the British Frontier,” by Robert Grant, Institute of
Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies,
3. “Enticement in the Parlor:
Pleasure, Pain, and English Self-Fashioning in Literary Annuals of the 1830’s,”
by Kelly Hulander,
Discussant: Barbara Tilley,
89. History of
Critical Reception
Topic: Critical
Reception in Non-Western Culture(s)
Chair: Christopher M. Travis,
Secretary: Jonathan
Gross,
1. “Eastern Verse and African Subjects as Read by Thomas Jefferson,” by
Jonathan Gross,
2. “Fals(e/ified)
3. “Towards an Anthology of Latin American Ecological Poetry: Important
Theoretical Questions Posed by Reception Studies,” by Christopher M. Travis,
90. Linguistics
Topic: Issues in Language
and Linguistics
Chair: Julie S. Amberg,
Secretary: Deborah
Vause,
1. “‘Hey Baby, What’s Your Sign?’: A
Systemic Examination of Sign-based Infant Protolanguage,” by Derek Irwin,
2. “‘Ideality in Reality’: Dialect
and Subtle Characterization in William Dean Howells’ A Hazard of New Fortunes,” by Rachel G. Wall, Georgia State Univ.
3. “Recognizing Students’ Language:
Rap and PC in the Classroom,” by Julie S. Amberg and Deborah J. Vause,
91. Science and
Literature
Topic: Science and the
Literary Imagination
Chair: James Wynn,
Secretary: Elizabeth L.
Throesch,
1. “What's Love Got to Do with It? A.R. Ammons, Leslie Scalapino and Chaotic
Poetics,” by Jocelyn Emerson,
2. “New Paradigms, New Spaces: Nineteenth-Century Non-Euclidean Geometry and
Charles Howard Hinton’s Fourth Dimension,” by Elizabeth L. Throesch,
3. “Science Begotten: H.G. Wells,
Evolution, and Fantasia,” by James Wynn,
4. “The Threatened Limit: Technology
and the Abject,” by Jillian J. Sayre,
92. Spanish II:
Peninsular Literature After 1700
Topic: Nation, Region,
and Identity
Chair: Susan Larson,
1. “Rafael Chirbes and the Question
of Scale,” by Malcolm Alan Compitello,
2. “From Periphery to Center: Basque
Gastronomy as a Cultural Signifier,” by Yeon-Soo Kim,
3. “‘Were I to Cut Its Wings’:
Montage and the Basque Rural Imaginary in La
pelota vasca,” by Justin Crumbaugh,
4. “Gabriel Alomar’s Catalan
Nationalism and Futurist Commitment,” by David W. Bird,
Associated Organizations
93. Henry James
Society
Topic: Possessing James
Coordinator: Larry T.
Shillock,
1. “A Tenant in the House of Fiction: G. K. Chesterton’s Attempt
to Evict Henry James from British Culture,” by
2. “‘I Engage Myself to You Forever’: The Rise and Fall of
Merton Densher’s Predatory Sexuality,” by Audrey Raden, City Univ.
of New York (CUNY)
3. “Ghostly Possession/Possessing the Ghost in James’s ‘The
Altar of the Dead,’” by Melissa McLeod, Georgia State Univ.
4. “The Possession and Self Possession of James’s Heroines,” by
Rebecca Bowman,
Discussant: Larry T. Shillock,
94. Society for the
Study of Midwestern Literature I
Topic:
Coordinator: David D.
Anderson, Michigan State Univ.
1. “Tennessee Williams’s
2. “The Potter’s Wheel: Feminist Artistic Collaboration in
3. “What Harriet Monroe Learned and
Didn’t Learn from William Marion Reedy,” by Marilyn J. Atlas,
4. “Sherwood Anderson and the
River—The Canessedosharie, That Is,” by David D. Anderson, Michigan State Univ.
95. Women's Caucus
for the Modern Languages/Midwest I-A
Topic: Women in Rock
Session A
Coordinator: Marla Jaksch, Pennsylvania State Univ.
1. “Children
to be Grandmother For”: Laura Nyro’s Daughters and Granddaughters,” by Patricia
Rudden, New York City College of Technology
2. “‘It’s
Just Not Phair!’: Chameleon-Like Performances by Liz Phair,” by John Lennon and
Anthony C. Bleach,
3. “‘All Is
Full of Desire’: Pushing Body Boundaries and Satiating Subjects in Bjork’s
Music Videos,” by H. Louise Davis, Michigan State Univ.
Session B
Coordinator: Janet LaBrie, Univ. of Wisconsin-Waukesha
1. “Dreaming
of Home: Poetry, Politics, and the Dixie Chicks,” by Kim Bowers,
2. “Venus
Xtravaganza: The Bearer or Maker of Meaning?” by Katarzyna Rozanska,
3. “The
Masquerade Is the Only Mask We’ve Got,” by Abigail Gardner,
4. “Achieving
Special Sessions
96. Facing The
Jungle: Censorship and Working Class Literature
Coordinator: Kathleen
De Grave, Pittsburg State Univ.
1. “Censoring Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle—the Second Time Around,” by Earl Lee, Pittsburg State
Univ.
2. “Editing the Jungle Out of The Jungle,” by Kathleen De Grave, Pittsburg State Univ.
3. “The Literary Influence of The Appeal to Reason on Working Class Literature,” by Randy
Roberts, Pittsburg State Univ.
4. “Speaking for the Working Class: Dickens and Hardy
Muted,” by Susan Carlson, Pittsburg State Univ.
97. Forms of
Performance in Herman Melville’s
Coordinator: Jeffory A.
Clymer,
1. “‘For not in words can it be spoken’: Musical
Performance and The Musical Subversions of Linguistic Failure in Herman
Melville’s
2. “Psychological Landscape and the Search for Truth in
Herman Melville’s
3. “Melville’s Inalienable Properties,” by Jeffory A. Clymer,
98. Gender and
Medieval Film
Coordinator: Kristin
Bovaird-Abbo,
1. “Reimagining the Frēoðuwebbe: The Role of
the Feminine in Baker’s Beowulf and
McTiernan’s The Thirteenth Warrior,”
by Jennifer Floray Balke,
2. “Dressed to Chill: Castle Couture in the Cinematic
Middle Ages,” by Becky Miller,
3. “Constructing Control & Gendering Power: Enclosure,
Freedom, and Female Agency in Chris Newby’s Anchoress,”
by Michelle M. Sauer, Minot State Univ.
99. Memory and
Trauma in Postcolonial Writing
Coordinator: Kathleen
W. Smith,
1. “Community Identity Formation in
Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness,” by
Erica Still,
2. “Remembering the Future: Joginder
Paul, Kamila Shamsie and the Kartographies of
3. “‘Memory and Story’: Edwidge
Danticat and Relational Narrative,” by Beth Martin Birky,
Discussant: Kathleen W. Smith,
100. Moving On / Coming Out: GLBT Film Journeys
Coordinator: Daniel A.
MacLeay, Southeast Missouri State Univ.
1. “Abracadabra! You’re a Lesbian: Sex and Magick in Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” by Michelle Parke, Michigan State Univ.
2. “Masochism in Gay Media Representation: The Role of O Fantsma in Reductionist Film,” by
Gregory Carter Mitchell,
3. “Identities in Ducastel and
Martineau’s Drôle de Félix,” by
Florian Grandena, Nottingham Trent Univ.
4. “Carousel,” by
101. Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom
Coordinator: Gina Merys
Mahaffey,
1. “The Evolution of Eco-Composition:
Interdependent Pedagogy and Theory,” by Kaye Adkins,
2. “A New Learning Environment:
Writing in TOPIC/ICON,” by
3. “Theory vs. Practice: Formative
Assessment in the Composition Classroom,” by Trudi Witonsky and Kevin Smith,
Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater
4. “Composition in the Public Sphere:
Writing Instruction and the Buffy
Syndrome,” by Cynthia L. Jeney,
102. Voices of the
Coordinator: Kelli A.
Larson,
1. “‘Why don’t you get acquainted
with your race?’: ‘The Bookshelf,’ The
Forgotten Readers of Chicago, and The Making of Black Middlebrow Culture in the
1920s,” by Zoe Trodd,
2. “White Blackness: Albinism
and the Reconstruction of Race,” by Vida A. Robertson,
3. “Surviving the Taint of
Plagiarism: Nella Larsen’s ‘Sanctuary’ and Sheila Kaye-Smith’s ‘Mrs.
Adis,’” by Kelli A. Larson,
4. “Braithwaite and the American
Anthologies: An Ironic Omission?” by Michael Modarelli,
Workshop Session
103. Workshop III: Reading Literature: The NEA’s
Survey of Literary
Moderator: Ann C. Hall, Ohio Dominican Univ.
1. “
2. “Response,” by Thomas Chase,
3. “Response,” by Phillip H. Round,
4. “Response,” by Jane Henderson, Book Editor,
Permanent Sections
104. African American Literature A
Topic: African American
Rhetoric & Literature
Chair: Anne Herbert,
Bradley Univ.
Secretary: Chris Bell,
Session A
1. “Parody, Transgression, and Racial
Performance in Percival Everett’s Erasure,”
by Sterling Bland,
2. “Re-Writing History: The
Postmodern Question in Ishmael Reed’s and Yusef Komunyakaa’s Poetry,” by Roxana
Galusca, Emporia State Univ.
3. “Black Rhetoric as a Weapon in
Toni Morrison’s
4. “Failed Utopias and the Creation
of Paradise: Paradise as Allegory for
Black Aesthetic and Black Feminist Movements,” by Shuba Venugopal, Kutztown
Session B
1. “Epic Trickster, Epic Trippin’(g),
and Trash Talkin’ Runners: Or, He Does the African Epics and Black Sports in
Two Voice,” by Gregory Rutledge, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
2. “A ‘Feather-Bed Resistance’ at Play:
Satire, The ‘Hustle’ and Performances of Black Masculinity,” by Tanji Gilliam,
3. “‘The Blues Playingest Dog You
Ever Heard Of ’: Bluesy Blues, Jazzy Jazz, and Black Rhetorical Traditions in
the (Children’s) Literature of Walter Dean Myers,” by Carmen Kynard,
Discussant: Keith Gilyard,
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Session C
1. “Corporeal Construction to
Vernacular Vocalization: Black Body and Voice in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave and
Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure Woman,”
by Lindgren Johnson,
2. “Race and Trope: Frances Harper
and the Abolitionists,” by Rebecca Entel, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
3. “Jessie Fauset, Race, and the Promise
of the Middle Class,” by Jean Forst,
4. “Signifying Revisions: The
Centrality of Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
in African American Artistic Imagination,” by Joy Asekun,
105. American Literature I: Literature to 1870
Topic: The Art of
Disguise: Deception, Fakery, and Imposture in American Literature and Culture
Chair: Heidi L. Kolk,
Secretary: Michelle L.
Taylor,
1. “Lying and Public Life: The Case
of P. T. Barnum and the Indians,” by Bonnie Carr, Wake Forest Univ.
2. “Eating Disguises: Food and Class
in Early American Novels,” by Mark McWilliams,
3. “Anarcharsis Cloots, Racial
Impersonation, and the Problem of the ‘Profest Democrat’ in Modern Chivalry,” by Charles Martin,
Central Missouri State Univ.
4. “Sentiment and the Passing Soldier
in Sarah Emma Edmonds’ Civil War Memoir,” by Rebecca Entel, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison
106. “Art What Thou Eat”: Food in Literature, Art, and
Culture (papers available in advance)
Topic: Open Topic
Chair: David
Schoonover,
1. “Queer Food—Gender, Film, and
Sexuality,” by Anne Bower and Thomas Piontek, Ohio State Univ.
2. “Got Milk?: Homogenization and
Multi-Cultural Consumption,” by Natalie Wilson, San Diego State Univ.
3. “Rationing, Consumption, and
Morality in Muriel Spark’s Loitering with
Intent,” by Christina Cottrill,
107. Drama C
(see session #35 -12:00
108. English II: English Literature 1800-1900 B
(see session #88 -
109. Religion and Literature A
Topic: Literary
Intersections of Christianity with Other Religions
Chair: Alina
Gharabegian,
Secretary: Jay Twomey,
Session A
10:
1. “The ‘Jewess’ is an English
Protestant?: Intersections of Female and Jewish Identity in Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington,” by Kadesh L. Minter,
2. “Madonnas and Gypsies in
Nineteenth-Century British Poetry,” by Lance Wilder,
3. “Hijacking the Holocaust: Literary
Representation in A Simple Habana Melody,”
by Bridget Kevane, Montana State Univ.
Session B
1. “Where We Must Look for Help,” by
William A.
2. “‘Never the Less’—Art, Ritual,
Religion, and More in
3. “‘Tennyson’s ‘Demeter and
Persephone’: The Buried Dialogue,” by James C. Hatch,
4. “William James and the
Customization of Calvinism,” by Douglas R. Harrison,
110. Teaching Writing in College
Topic: The Use of Genre
Chair: Carol Kountz,
Grand Valley State Univ.
Secretary: Althea F.
Rhodes, Univ. of Arkansas-Fort Smith
1. “The Collage of Genres and
Self-Generated Writing: A Metacognitive Activity,” by James T. Davis, Jr., Georgia State Univ.
2. “Fantastic Freedom: Multigenre
Papers in the College Composition Course,” by Karley K. Adney, Northern
3. “Genre as Classroom Tool,” by
Althea F. Rhodes, Univ. of Arkansas-Fort Smith and Carol Kountz, Grand Valley
State Univ.
111. Travel Writing/Writing Travel
Topic: Open Topic
Chair: Susan Morgan,
Secretary: Eric
Goodman,
1. “‘Certainly the Most Notorious’:
Iddon, Newman, and Streatfeild on
2. “The Steiners of
3. “His and Hers Disguises:
4. “Eating
Associated Organizations
112. Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas
Topic: Performance
Coordinator: Lisa
Surwillo, Pennsylvania State Univ.,
1. “Questioning the Sexually Neutral
Subject: Recovering the Sexualities of Benito Pérez Galdós‚ s Benina and Doña
Juana,” by Timothy McGovern,
2. “Los niveles de teatralidad y performance en Miau,” by Kelly Sullivan,
3. “Illogical Pursuits: Galdós and the Order of the Text,” by Diane
Urey, Illinois State Univ.
113. Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature II
Topic: Midwestern
Writers and Midwestern Waters
Coordinator: Marilyn J.
Atlas,
1. “Navigating the Mainstream,” by
Margaret Rozga, Univ. of Wisconsin-Waukesha
2. “The River Myth in Sherwood
Anderson’s Works,” by Mark Buechsel,
3. “Exploring the
4. “Saving the Swamp and Beyond: Gene
Stratton-Porter as Conservationist,” by Mary DeJong Obuchowski, Central
Michigan Univ.
114. Women in French (papers
available in advance)
Topic: Women and War
Coordinator: Andrew
Sobanet,
1. “From Utopia to Dystopia: René Barjavel’s Ravage,” by Andrew Sobanet,
Discussant:
Lionel Cuillé, Webster Univ.
2. “Ly Thu Ho's Trilogy of
Novels: A Vietnamese Woman's View of the 1945-1976 Experience,” by Helynne
H. Hansen, Western State College of
Discussant:
Emily Thompson, Webster Univ.
3. “The Novels of Andrée Chedid,” by
Debbie Mann, Southern
Discussant:
Andrew Sobanet,
115. Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest I-B
Session B
(see session #95 -
Special Sessions
116. The
Asian Diaspora in
Coordinator: Debbie
Lee-DiStefano, Southeast Missouri State Univ.
1. “Pedro de Zulen and The Pro-Indigenist Movement,” by
Debbie Lee-DiStefano, Southeast Missouri State Univ.
2. “Mirrha-Catarina de
3. “Why and How to Include Cristina Garcia’s Monkey Hunting in the Spanish Curriculum
and Classroom,” by Sheridan Wigginton, Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis
117. Performing Cultural Reality in the Classroom
Coordinator: Meg Gunderson,
Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
1. “Triple Afflictions of
Ethnocentrism, Sexism, and Racism in Early American History,” by Yvonne
Johnson, Central Missouri State Univ.
2. “Confronting Disillusionment:
Inclusive Performance in the Classroom,” by Meg Gunderson, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
3. “Teaching in Drag: Performing
Gender in the Classroom,” by Emily Dotson Biggs,
4. “Why, What, and How: One
Perspective on Teaching Multicultural American Literature,” by Charlotte Rich,
Eastern
118. Representing the Middle Ages in Film
Coordinator: Becky
Miller,
1. “An Alternative Grail King: Lancelot in John Boorman’s Excalibur,” by Kristin Bovaird-Abbo,
2. “The Problems and Promises of Teaching Medieval
Literature Through Film,” by
3. “Becket:
Historical Context for The
119. Unpacking the L-Word: Lesbian Representation in
Contemporary Popular Culture A
Coordinator: M.
Catherine Jonet,
Session A
1. “That’s Not Me: Queer Performance’s
‘Troubling’ of the Desire for Authenticity in The L-Word,” by Erin Douglas,
2. “Lipstick and Lesbians: Visibility in The L-Word,” by Rebecca Beirne,
3. “Witches and Femmes: Packaging Lesbians for
Television,” by Susan J. Wolfe,
4. “Lesbians in Popular Culture: Not the ‘L-Word’
Anymore?” by Laura Anh Williams,
Session B
1. “Queerness and the Lesbian-Identified Man in The L-Word,” by Laura Beadling,
2. “Where The
L-Word meets the F Word: Random Acts and the Limits of Representation,” by
Sal Renshaw,
3. “Fabulousness as Fetish: Queer Politics in Sex and the City,” by Christina Turner,
4. “An Existential Look at The L-Word,” by
Permanent Sections
120. Session
cancelled
121. Creative Writing I
Topic: Poetry
Chair: Bob Watts,
Secretary: Stephanie
Powell Watts,
1. Poems by James Kimbrell, Florida
State Univ.
2. Poems by Walter Bargen, Univ. of
Missouri-Columbia
3. Poems by Shanda Hansma Blue
Easterday, Western Michigan Univ.
4. Poems by Thomas Benjamin Hawks,
122. English I: English Literature Before 1800
Topic: The Stages of
Play in Early Modern
Chair: Marissa
Greenberg,
1. “The Boredom of King James: The
Space of Early Modern
2. “‘Parallels in Beauty’s Brow’: The
Influence and Function of Lazzi in Shakespeare’s Comedies,” by Anna Racette,
3. “‘At our last encounter’: Playing at Ceremony on the Early Modern
English Stage,” Marissa Greenberg,
123. Religion and Literature B
(see session #109 -
Special Sessions
124. German II: German Poetry
Coordinators: Alicia
Carter,
1. “‘Misslungene Lehrgedichte’ in Henriette Davidis’ Beruf der Jungfrau or When Good Poetry
Refuses to be Good,” by Alicia Carter,
2. “Stefan George’s Radical Aestheticism,”
by Carsten
Strathausen, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
3. “The ‘Nature’ of Pleasure and its Social
Relevance: A Reading of Brecht’s Vom Schwimmen in Seen und Flüssen,” by
K. Scott Baker, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City
4. “A Comparative Introduction to the New German Poetry
Anthologies,” by Jefford B. Vahlbusch, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
125. The
Other Side of the Canon: Women and Gender in the
Popular Imagination of Nineteenth-Century
Coordinator:
1. “Adela Ginés y Ortiz, Physiognomy
and Popular Literature,” by Alicia Andreu,
2. “Text Versus Image: Competing
Media Representations of the Feminine in 19th-Century Popular Fiction,” by
Timothy McGovern,
3. “From Virtuous to Vicious: Popular
Constructs of Women in the Romancero
vulgar,” by Sandra Robertson,
Discussant:
126. Unpacking the L-Word: Lesbian Representation in Contemporary
Popular Culture B
(see session #119 -
127. Voice
Coordinator: Johanna
Frank,
1. “Voicing Desire: The
Representation of Women and Voice in Variations of Phantom of the Opera,” by Ann C. Hall, Ohio Dominican Univ.
2. “Bound Sound: Voice, Spectator,
Dramatic Presence,” by Johanna Frank,
3. “‘Am I As Much As Being Heard?’:
Projective Choreographies, Perceptive Cosmologies,” by Judith Roof, Michigan
State Univ.
128. What’s Research Got To Do With It?: Intersections of
Academic Work and Intercultural Communication
Coordinator:
Roundtable discussion:
1.
Discussant: Spenser Munson, Nebraska
Wesleyan Univ.
2.
Discussant: Nicole Green, Nebraska
Wesleyan Univ.
3.