INDEX OF SESSIONS--2006 M/MLA CONVENTION

 

Special Events

President’s Forum: “How I Learned to Love the Low,” Thurs., 8:00-9:30 p.m., Parlor B    

Nightcaps Cash Bar, Thurs., 9:30-11:00 p.m., Parlor B    

 

President’s Studio: David R. Shumway talks with Anthony DeCurtis, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Dearborn 3    

 

President’s Keynote Address, Michael Bérubé, “Professors at Work,” Fri., 6:30-8:00 p.m., Adams Ballroom    

 

The M/MLA at the Newberry Library, Sat., 8:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., The Newberry Library    

 

Pinter Society One-Act Plays: Harold Pinter's Landscape and Tristan Tzara's The Gas Heart, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Adams Ballroom   

 

A Walking Tour, arranged by the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Langauges/Midwest, 6:30 p.m., Main Lobby of the Palmer House Hilton     

 

Open Mic, hosted by the Creative Writing Section, Sat. 8:00-10:00 p.m., Parlor A    

 

Film Screening: A Night at the Opera, Sat. 9:00-11:00 p.m., Parlor D    

 

Professionalizing Workshops

“Teaching across Disciplines: Theories and Practice of Interdisciplinarity,” Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Clark 5    
“Publishing in Academic Venues,” Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 5    
“Bridging the Gap: Transitions between Academic and Nonacademic Careers,” Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 5      

 

Receptions

 

President’s Reception, Fri., 5:15-6:15 p.m., Monroe Ballroom      

 

Members’ Reception, Sat., 5:15-6:15 p.m., Monroe Ballroom    

 

Permanent Sections

African American Literature I, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., LaSalle 4

African American Literature II A & B, Fri., 2:15-5:30 p.m., Clark 7

American Literature I: Literature to 1870, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 9

American Literature II: Literature After 1870, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Clark 7

Applied Linguistics, Sat., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Sandburg 8

“Art What Thou Eat”: Food in Literature, Art, and Culture A, B & C, Sat., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Clark 5; 2:15-3:45 p.m., Dearborn 2

Bibliography and Textual Studies A & B, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Parlor A; 4:00-5:30 p.m., Parlor E

Canadian Literature, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Dearborn 1

Children's Literature, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Parlor E

Comparative Literature, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., LaSalle 1

Creative Writing I: Poetry, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Parlor D

Creative Writing II: Prose, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., LaSalle 4

Drama A & B, Fri., 2:15-5:30 p.m., LaSalle 2

English I: English Literature Before 1800 A & B, Sun., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Dearborn 2

English II: English Literature 1800-1900 A, B, C & D, Sat., 8:30-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 3; 2:15-3:45 p.m., LaSalle 2; 4:00-5:30 p.m., LaSalle 5

English III: English Literature After 1900, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., LaSalle 3

Film I, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Parlor A

Film II, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Parlor D

French I, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., LaSalle 3

French II A & B, Sat., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Dearborn 3

French III: Issues in French Studies, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 5

Gender Studies, Male, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Parlor A

Illustrated Texts A & B, Fri., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Parlor A

International Francophone Studies, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 4

Irish Studies, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 7

Italian I A & B, Sat., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Parlor C

Italian II, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Parlor B

Italian III A & B, Sat., 2:15-5:30 p.m., Parlor D

Linguistics, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Parlor C

Literary Criticism I, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Dearborn 1

Literary Criticism II, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Dearborn 2

Luso-Brazilian A, B & C, Fri., 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Clark 4

Media Studies, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor B

Modern Literature A & B, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Dearborn 1; 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 1

Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: Politics and Pedagogy, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor E

Native American Literature, Sat., 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., The Newberry Library (Please note different time and location.)

Old and Middle English Literature and Language, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor A

Peace Literature and Pedagogy A & B, Fri., 12:30-3:45 p.m., Clark 10

Popular Culture, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Parlor C

Reception Theory, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Parlor D

Religion and Literature A, B & C, Fri., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Dearborn 1; 2:15-3:45 p.m., Parlor C

Science and Fiction, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 1

Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., LaSalle 3

Short Story, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Dearborn 1

Spanish I: Peninsular Literature Before 1700 A & B, Sat., 12:30-3:45 p.m., LaSalle 5

Spanish II: Peninsular Literature After 1700, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Dearborn 3

Spanish III: Latin American Literature A & B, Fri., 12:30-3:45 p.m., Clark 9

Spanish IV: Literary Theory and Hispanic Criticism, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Dearborn 2

Spanish Cultural Studies, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., LaSalle 2

Teaching Writing in College, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Parlor B

Travel Writing/Writing Travel, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 5

Women in Literature, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Clark 3

Women's Studies A & B, Sat., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Parlor D

Writing across the Curriculum, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Parlor A

Young Adult Literature, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor E

Associated Organizations

American Dialect Society A & B, Sat., 12:30-3:45 p.m., LaSalle 1

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 2

The Harold Pinter Society A & B, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Clark 3

Henry James Society, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Clark 9

Medieval Association of the Midwest A & B, Sat., 12:30-3:45 p.m., Parlor C

Society for Critical Exchange A & B, Sat., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Clark 7

Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature I, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Clark 7

Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature II, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 7

Women in French I, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 4

Women in French II, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 1

Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest I: Enacting our Feminist Pedagogy, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., LaSalle 3

Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest II: Women in Rock A & B, Fri., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Dearborn 3

Special Sessions

AIDS in Literature, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Dearborn 2

American Cultural Studies, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 3

The Animal Other in Texts of Discovery and Encounter, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 5

The Art of Social Protest and Commemoration, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Parlor E

Authorizing High and Low: Categorical Collapse and/against Literature, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 3

“Betwixt and Between”: Intersections of Modernism and the Middlebrow A & B, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m, Parlor C, 2:15-3:45 p.m., Parlor D

Beyond Historicism: Antebellum Fiction Out of Place, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 9

The Bloomsbury Group: Materials and Materialism, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor B

Body, Authority, and Identity in Hispanic Narrative, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Parlor E

But Can It Work for Us?: Faculty-Student Collaborative Research in the Humanities, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 3

Collecting and Collectors in American Literatures, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor D

Collecting Culture, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Dearborn 3A

Community and the Postmodern Self, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 4

Constructing American Community, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor B

Contemporary Irish Literature, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 7

Corpus Juris: Literature, Embodiment, and the Law, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 1

Cover Me: Writers Covering Rock Songs, Musicians Covering Literature, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Clark 7

Crazy Cats Crying: Re-presentations of High/Low Culture in Film, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Dearborn 2

Critical and Classroom Perspectives on High and Low Culture, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 10

Critical Humor: Theorizing the Politics of Satire, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 10

The Cultures of Nineteenth-Century Writing, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Dearborn 1

Disability in African Fiction, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 3

Domesticities, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 1

Dominant Culture and the Education of Women A & B, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor C; 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor D

The Empire on Big Screen and Small, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor B

Epifanias y madurez: escritoras hispanicas en desafio, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Dearborn 1

España y Latinoamérica: Tres manifestaciones decimonónicas de la cultura popular, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 9

The Ethos of Harry Potter: Art, Influence, Delight, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., LaSalle 1

Evolving American Interiorities, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Clark 4

Expanding German Studies through Interdisciplinary Offerings and/or English Speaking Study Abroad Courses in Germany, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., LaSalle 5

Experimental Poetics in Contemporary Chicago: Poetry and Theory, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Sandburg 8

Filmic Adaptation, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor B

Folklore in American Literature, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Parlor B

Food in Film and Literature: Transcendence of the Quotidian, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 4

Free Speech and Chicago, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor C

From Bildung to Reformpädagogik: Cultivating Self and Nation A & B, Sat., 12:30-3:45 p.m., Clark 1

From the Newberry: Representing Indians: Indigenous Peoples and U.S. Popular Culture, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., The Newberry Library (Please note different location.)

Geo-Graphing Modernism, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., LaSalle 3

German I: German Literature, Art, and Film: POP Goes the Canon! A & B, Sat., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Clark 10

German II: German Poetry, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., LaSalle 5

Gothic & Graphic, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Dearborn 1

Graphic Novels A & B, Fri., 12:30-3:45 p.m., Parlor E

Graphic Novels in the Literature Classroom, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 10

Henry James and Women Writers, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 9

High Brow / Low Brow: James, Woolf and their Audiences, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 2

High Carver, Low Carver, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 1

Highbrow and Low-down: The Novels of Ishmael Reed, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 1

High Stakes / Lowbrow: Early Modern Texts and Medieval Fantasies in Pop Culture and Film: Co-Sponsored: JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory and BABEL Working Group, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Parlor A

Historical Genre Fiction, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 3

Identity in 20th-Century American Literature A & B, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor C; Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor D

In Memory of Octavia E. Butler: Teaching Butler’s Fiction, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., LaSalle 3

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Hispanic Film, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor A

Is High Culture Possible?, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., LaSalle 4

Laughing to Keep from Crying: Performance and Racial Identity in the Works of Richard Pryor, Dave Chappelle, and Sherman Alexie, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Dearborn 2

Literature of the Cinema A & B, Sat., 12:30-3:45 p.m., Dearborn 3

Literatures in English, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 3

Ludic Literature: Serious Play in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Clark 4

Manipulations of Low Culture: Masterpieces of High Culture A & B, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 2; 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 5

The Marxist Literary Group: High/Low Cultural Critique A, B & C, Fri., 12:30-5:30 p.m., Clark 1

Memory, Forgetting, and Commodification: Revisiting the Relations of Culture and Politics, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Dearborn 2

Mexican Fiction and Cuban Poetry, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Dearborn 1

Mexican Women Writers: The Perpetual Revolution, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Dearborn 2

Modernist Cultures, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 2

Monsters High and Low A & B, Fri., 8:30-11:45 a.m., Clark 10

Montaigne’s Highs and Lows: Discourse, Body and Text, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor E

Music Makes the People Come Together: Popular Music and Literature A & B, Sat., 12:30-3:45 p.m., Clark 10

New Directions in Cather Criticism, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 3

On the Lower Frequencies: Invisible Man and the Power of Popular Culture, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., LaSalle 4

One Ring: Wagner in the 21st Century, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor D

The Other’s Other: Western Women Writing the Orient, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 7

A Paradoxical Appeal: the Novel as “Common” Aesthetics, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., LaSalle 4

The Perils of Popular Writing, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 5

Poetry in the Cyber Age, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., LaSalle 2

The Poor and the Working Poor, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 1

The Popular in the Age of Shakespeare, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor E

Popular Persuasions: The Rhetorics of Identity in Pop Culture, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Parlor B

A Popular Reconstruction: Imagining Reunion in Post-Civil War American Literature A & B, Sat., 8:30-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 4

Printing Women: Representation and Popular Female Authorship, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Parlor A

Proficiency in Language Use and Skills Initiative (PLUS Initiative) at the Univ. of Evansville: A Small Department’s Strategies to Improve Student Language Proficiency, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., LaSalle 5

Queer Studies: Self-Revealing, Exile, and Coming Out in 20th-Century French Literature and Cinema, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Dearborn 1

Ragged London: The Spectacle of Crime and Degeneracy in the Victorian Capital A & B, Fri., 12:30-3:45 p.m., Clark 5

Reading Japan, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 7

Reading and Misreading the Popular, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 4

Reading Recent Alice Munro: Female Perspectives on Aging, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Dearborn 1

Recasting the Past: Modernizing Poetics and the Classical, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor A

Reception Studies, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Parlor B

Red Line to Black Belt, Mississippi to the Magnificent Mile: A Roundtable on the Poetry of Sterling Plumpp, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 5

Religious Narratives and American Identity, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 4

Remapping the género negro, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 4

Renaissance Literature and Culture: Re-Thinking the Renaissance Lyric, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 1

The Representation of Silence and the Silencing of Representation in Brazilian Cultural Production, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor E

The Resistant Female Body, Fri., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Clark 3

Rethinking Multicultural Education in a Post 9/11 Moment, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Dearborn 3

Rethinking Pop Culture in Weimar Germany, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 1

Rock & Commodity Culture, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Dearborn 2

Rock Music and Cultural Criticism, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Dearborn 2

Sacred Spaces and Symbolic Systems, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 3

The Secret Place: Creating Alternative Spaces in the Arts, Sat., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 4

Sexual Politics, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor C

Shakespeare’s Sisters: Women Writers and Stationers in Early Modern England, Sat., 12:00 noon-2:00 p.m., LaSalle 2

Sharing Cultures, Fri., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., LaSalle 1

The Simpsons and Popular Culture as Postmodern Authors, Fri., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Dearborn 3

Sonic Spectacles: From Event to Text, Sat., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Dearborn 2

South American Writing, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 5

Spanish American Prose: Taboo becomes Art: Eroticism and Pornography, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 2

Sub- and Countercultural Capital: Containing the Margin, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 4

Talk of the Town, Gossip, News, and Secrets, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 9

Teaching Cultural History in the Foreign Language Classroom, Fri., 10:15-11:45 a.m., LaSalle 5

Technology and the Literature and Writing Classrooms A & B, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Parlor A; 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor B

Theorizing Beyond High/Low, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., LaSalle 4

Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 1

Trading Spaces: Methods of Exchange in Romantic and Victorian Literature, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 9

“Trash” TV, Sat., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 3

Truth in Genre: Great Expectations in Contemporary Memoir, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 10

Vagrancy and Criminality in Literature, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., Clark 3

Vernacular and High Culture in Early Modern England, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Parlor E

Watching the Detectives, Fri., 8:30-10:00 a.m., Clark 3

We are (Still) the Victorians: What is Progress, Anyway?, Fri., 4:00-5:30 p.m., LaSalle 4

West African Fiction A, B & C, Sat., 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Clark 9

“The Whole Hollow Gleamed with the White”: Whiteness and Gender in American Fiction, Sat., 12:30-2:00 p.m., Clark 4

Women's Search for Social, Spiritual and Sexual Liberation: a Cross-Cultural View, Sun., 8:30-10:00 a.m, Clark 1

Writing Contemporary Evil, Sat., 2:15-3:45 p.m., Parlor B

Writing the Lesbian Text, Sun., 10:15-11:45 a.m., Clark 1


Meetings

The Pinter Society Business Meeting, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Clark 3

Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest Business Meeting, Sat., 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Dearborn 3A