PROGRAM OF SESSIONS
THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9
1. President’s
Forum: “How I Learned to Love the Low,” organized
by MMLA President Kevin J. H. Dettmar
8:00-9:30 p.m. (Parlor B)
Mary Ellen Lamb,
Southern
Janet Lyon,
Penn State Univ.
David Chinitz,
Mary Ellen Lamb
is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her most
recent book, The Popular Culture of
Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson (Routledge, 2006), explores traces of fairy
tales and other fictions circulating in an oral culture shared among women and
children, as they once shaped the narrative act of canonical Renaissance texts.
Janet Lyon
is Associate Professor of English at
David Chinitz
is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago. His book T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide (U
of Chicago P, 2003) heralded a reassessment of Eliot's complex relationship to
the popular culture of his day. Chinitz is currently at work on a study of
Langston Hughes, authenticity, and compromise.
2. Nightcaps Cash Bar
9:30-10:30 p.m. (Parlor B)
celebrating the opening of
the convention and the evening’s forum
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER
10
You are invited to
attend the Book Exhibit, 8:00-6:30
p.m. (Monroe Ballroom)
Permanent Sections
3. French III: Issues in French Studies (papers available in advance)
8:30-10:00 a.m. (LaSalle 5)
Topic:
Nation, Identity, and Culture
Chair:
Pascale Perraudin,
1. “Learning to Love Your Country:
The Chanson de Roland and French National Identity,” by Stephanie Lohse,
Discussant:
2. “Culture and National Identity:
The Case of Jean-Paul Sartre,” by
Discussant: Pascale Perraudin,
3. “Creating Mediterranean Models of
Identity in
Discussant: Stephanie Lohse,
4. “Of GMOs and McDomination: What’s
At Steak in the Contemporary French/American Conflicts Over Food,” by Jennifer
Willging, Ohio State Univ.
Discussant: Pascale Perraudin,
4. Illustrated Texts A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Parlor A)
Topic:
Between High and Low: Exploring the Boundaries
of the Illustrated Text
Chair:
Keri Berg, Indiana State Univ.
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Parlor A)
Subtopic: Between High and Low:
Exploring the Boundaries of the Illustrated Text
1. “Reformed Rakes and Feminine
Fathers: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple and the Male Sentimental Reader,” by
Spencer Keralis,
2. “From High to Low: The Dissemination of the Illustrated Rubáiyát in
3. “Flexible Design: The Multiple Target Audiences for Edward
Gorey’s Picture Books,” by Rohanna Green,
4. “Text, Illustration, Class and
Culture in the ‘New Yorker,’” by Richard Corey,
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Parlor A)
Subtopic: The Illustrated Text and
the Highs and Lows of History
5. “Ideological Illustrations: The
Case of Description de l’Egypte,” by Maha Baddar,
6. “Ambivalent Visibility and the
Politics of Internment in Citizen 13660,”
by Jessica Knight,
7. “Visualizing an Iranian Girlhood
in Auto/graphics: Marjane Satrapi’s
8. “Narratives of Fallibility and
Desperation: The Vestigial Superhero in the Graphic Novels of Chris Ware and
Paul Hornschemeier,” by David Olsen,
5. Irish
Studies
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Topic: Alcohol
and Irish Identity
Chair: Rob
Doggett, SUNY, Coll. at Geneseo
Secretary: Tom
Zelman, Coll. of St. Scholastica
1. “‘Just
You Try It On’: Pub Culture and Intoxicated Rhetoric in James Joyce’s Ulysses,” by Scott Rogers,
2. “‘No
point in drinkin’ out of the bottle, huh?’: Masculinity and Disability in Irish
Film,” by Kelly J. S. McGovern,
3. “W. B.
Yeats and a Series of (Unfortunate) Drinking Songs,” by Rob Doggett, SUNY,
Geneseo
6. Luso-Brazilian A
8:30-1:30 p.m. (
Topic:
Lusophone Modernism(s)
Chair:
Rebecca L. Jones-Kellogg, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:
Talía Guzmán-González, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Subtopic: Luso-Brazilian Modernisms
1. “Almada Negreiros e Mário de Sá-Carneiro:
Dois retratos de masculinidade na literature modernista portuguesa,” by Talía
Guzmán-González, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
2. “A educação do estóico, o Livro
do desassossego e o conceito de Deus,” by Jara Ríos Rodriguez, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison
3. “Guimarães Rosa: Saber, poder e
modernidade,” by Renato de Souza Alvim,
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Subtopic: Brazilian Modernisms
4. “Modernity and Tradition in Mário
de Andrade’s Early Work: An Aesthetics of Rupture Preserving Myths of National
Identity,” by
5. “Modern, Postmodern, or
Postcolonial?: Oswald de Andrade’s Antropofagia
and the Politics of Labeling,” by Antonio Luciano de Andrade Tosta,
6. “The Deadly Sin of Consumption:
Luis Fernando Verissimo’s O Clube dos
Anjos,” by Rebecca Jones-Kellogg, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Session
C
12:00-1:30 p.m. (
Subtopic:
Lusophone Postmodernisms
7.
“Plotting the Land of the Day Before: Saramago and the Shifting Shapes of
Portugal’s European Future,” by Luís Madureira, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
8.
“Questions of Alterity in O Esplendor de
Portugal de António Lobo Antunes,” by Denise Saive, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison
9.
“Women’s Poetry in
10.
“Erotic Borders: The Circus of Corporal Consumption and La Raza in Iracema and Caballero,” by Lily Martinez,
7. Multicultural Literature in the Classroom: Politics
and Pedagogy (papers available in advance)
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Parlor E)
Topic:
The Language(s) of Multiculturalism
Chair:
Keith Alan Sprouse, Hampden-Sydney Coll.
Secretary:
Alpana Sharma, Wright State Univ.
1. “Multilingualism and the Study of
Ethnic Literary Texts,” by Maria Assif,
2. “Historia de España = Història d’Espanya:
Teaching Spanish Identity in Catalán,” by Emmy Adel Smith,
3. “Tio Conejo, Brer Rabbit’s Venezuelan
Cousin: From Badman to Culture Hero,” by
8. Religion
and Literature A
8:30-11:45 a.m.; 2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Topic: The
Half-Life of Religious Thinking
Chair: Douglas
Harrison, Florida Gulf Coast Univ.
Secretary: W.
David Hall, Centre Coll.
Session
A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Subtopic:
Pre-20th Century
1. “Gerard
Manley Hopkins and Wallace Stevens: From Faith to Fiction,” by Doug Hattaway,
Florida State Univ.
2. “The
Quest for a Secular ‘
3. “An
Unorthodox Interpretation of Faith: Sins of the Fathers & Erasmus’ Enchiridion Militis Christiani in L’Heptaméron,” by Aubri
4. “Democratic Legitimacy and the Shapes of Religious Self Realization:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Wells Brown on ‘Higher
Law,’” by Judith Mulcahy,
Session
B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Subtopic:
Early to Mid-20th Century
5.
"Jesus in
6.
“Shantih, shantih, shantih: Global Consciousness in ‘The Waste Land,’” by Sarah
Turner,
7.
“Christ and Bacchus: Comedy and the Half-Life of Religious Thinking in C.S.
Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia,” by
Samuel Joeckel, Palm Beach Atlantic Univ.
8.
“Religious Reimaginings in D.H. Lawrence's Apocalypse,”
by Jenny Lee, Northwestern Univ.
9.
“James Baldwin: A Guide for Uncovering Judeo-Christian Principles in
Contemporary American Literature,” by Francine L. Allen, Kennesaw State Univ.
Session
C
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Parlor C)
Subtopic:
Late 20th Century to Present
10. “Passionate
Priests: Religious Life and Moral Redefinition in the Novels of Iris
Murdoch,” by Matthew Shaw, Ball State Univ.
11.
“Tobias Wolff’s ‘In the Garden of the North American Martyrs’: A Lesson in How
to Resurrect a Dead Religious Genre,” by Anita Helmbold, Taylor Univ. Coll.,
12.
“Grace in a Hail of Bullets: Habits of Calvinist Thought in True Crime Cinema,”
by Meredith Neuman,
13.
“The Re-Gendered Magnificat of Rachel Ingalls’ ‘Blessed Art Thou,’” by Kathleen
Marks,
Associated
Organizations
9. Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest II-A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (
Topic: Women in
Rock: Gettin’ High, Lookin’ Low
Coordinator: Patricia Rudden,
Session
A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
1.
“Ferron and Eastern Religious Traditions: High Culture in Lesbian Music,” by
Susan Booker Morris, Ferris State Univ.
2. “It
wasn't revolution...but it was something: The DIY Aesthetics and Body Politics
of Kathleen Hanna and Sadie Benning,” by Michael Dwyer,
3.
“‘You’re Lookin’ Just A Little Too Hard at Me’: Jennifer Lopez and the ‘Get Right’
Gaze,” by Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent Univ., England
4. “Reclamation:
Female Artists Cover the Beatles,” by Donna Parsons,
Session
B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
5.
“Brown Sugar—Dipping Low, Aiming High: The Imagery of Black Women in Rock,” by
Laina Dawes, Independent Scholar
6.
“Grrrls with Gibsons: Deterritorializing the Rock Milieu,” by Chloe Williams,
7.
“High/Low Hat Box: Archiving the Girl Groups,” by Lauren Onkey, Ball State
Univ.
8.
“Moving On Up: Laura Nyro at the Ballet,” by Patricia S. Rudden,
Special Sessions
10. The Animal Other in Texts of Discovery and Encounter
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Stacy Hoult,
1. “A New Voyage Around the World: The Animal Encounters of William
Dampier, Pirate Naturalist,” by Elissa De Falco,
2. “‘The Falcon Devoured Its Nest’:
Animals in Poetic Responses to the Conquest of the
3. “Ethical Re-imagination in J.M. Coetzee’s
Fiction,” by J.P. Song, Marygrove Coll.
4. “Monkey Business: Discovering the Animal in Master
Richard’s Bestiary of Love,” by Molly
McQuade,
11. Collecting and Collectors in American Literatures
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Parlor D)
Moderator:
Mary Titus,
1. “Cliff-Dwelling in the
2. “Sacred Objects: Collecting Gender
in The Virgin Suicides,” by Elise A
Martucci,
3. “One After the Other: Moth
Collecting in A Girl of the Limberlost,”
by Beth Nardella,
4. “JFK and ‘Faux Jackie’ Go Shopping
at Sotheby’s: Collecting People/Things in the Fiction of Robert Olen Butler,”
by Mary Titus, St. Olaf Coll.
12. Constructing American Community
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Parlor B)
Moderator:
Charles Andrews,
1. “Negotiating Privacy in
Aristocratic Spheres: Commodities, Sentiments, and the Politics of Dinner in The Age of Innocence,” by Melissa Asher
Daniels, Northwestern Univ.
2. “The Music of Willa Cather,” by
Monica Lott,
3. “Abraham Lincoln as
‘Satirist-Satirized,’” by Todd Thompson,
13. Corpus Juris: Literature, Embodiment, and the Law
8:30-10:00 a.m. (LaSalle 1)
Moderator:
Nicholas Williams,
1. “She Do the Police in Different
Voices: Law, Publicity, and Ventriloquism in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland,” by Jon Blandford, Indiana Univ.
Bloomington
2. “A Liberal Inheritance: Biology,
Property, and the Limits of the Possessive Individual,” by
3. “Controlling the Student Body: D.
H. Lawrence, Educational Law, and Violence Against the Individual,” by Rod
14. Crazy Cats Crying: Re-presentations of High/Low
Culture in Film
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Alice Haisman,
1. “Doubled Exposure: Mary Pickford's
Stella Maris and Little Lord Fauntleroy,” by JoAnne Ruvoli,
2. “Social Realism, Bollywood Style:
Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Devdas and
the Indian Diaspora,” by Carrie Lynn Messenger,
3. “War Melodrama and Guy Maddin's
‘Archangel,’” by James Pate,
4. “The Vulnerable Metaphor: Guy
Madden’s Saddest Music in the World
and Aesthetics of Prosthetics,” by Alice Haisman,
15. Dominant Culture and the Education of Women A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Parlor C, Parlor D)
Moderator:
Julia C. Paulk,
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Parlor C)
1. “A Cultural ‘Abnormality’:
Christine de Pizan, a Self-educated Single Mom in Medieval France,” by Dorothée
Mertz-Weigel,
2. “Obligation and Giftedness in Mary
Astell and Damaris Masham,” by Joanne E. Myers,
3. “The Founder’s Work in
Progress: Mary Lyon’s Mt. Holyoke Female
Seminary,” by Beatrice Jacobson, St. Ambrose Univ.
4. “In Their
Discussant: Julia C. Paulk,
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Parlor D)
5. “‘Uglification and Derision’: Educational Reform in Victorian Women’s
Fantasy Literature,” by Carolyn Sigler,
6. “The Culture of Female Education
in the
7. “Susan LaFlesche Picotte and
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin: Negotiating Expectations,” by Sarah Jayne Kaufmann,
8. “Teaching Manners: Nella Larson
and the Education of Black Women,” by Eurie Dahn,
Discussant: Julia C. Paulk,
16. Monsters High and Low A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (
Moderator:
Jesse Kavadlo,
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
1. “Monstrosity and Gender:
Representations of the New Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture,”
by Mitchell R. Lewis,
2. “Dracula Just Ain't Doin' It for
Me Anymore: Modern Monsters and the Cathartic Response,” by Calista Vinyard,
San Jose State Univ.
3. “Keeping Monsters Bound: Frankenstein
and the Disguise of Miscegenation,” by Penelope G. Quade,
4. “Enlightenment Monsters and Serial
Killers,” by Elizabeth Klaver, Southern
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
5. “Vampires as Metaphors for the
Posthuman,” by Susan J. Wolfe and Lee Ann Roripaugh,
6. “An American Werewolf in
7. “The Audience is Being
Beaten: Monstrous Sound, Masochism, and the Horror Film,” by Lisa
Schmidt, Univ. of Texas-Austin
8. “War on Terror: Amending Monsters
after 9/11,” by Jesse Kavadlo,
17. Sacred Spaces and Symbolic Systems
8:30-10:00 a.m. (LaSalle 3)
Moderator:
Nancy Dayton, Taylor Univ.
1. “Lines in Church: A Study of Poetry and American
Protestantism,” by Mary M. Brown, Indiana Wesleyan Univ.
2. “The Low Will Be Made High: Sacramental Symbolism in Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm,” by Colleen Warren,
Taylor Univ.
3. “Doubting Passions: Louise Erdrich’s Conversation with Willa
Cather,” by Nancy Dayton, Taylor Univ.
18. Spanish American Prose: Taboo becomes Art: Eroticism
and Pornography
8:30-10:00 a.m. (LaSalle 2)
Moderator:
Giancarla Di Laura, Emporia State Univ.
1. “Transgresión y Tabú en las obras
de Mempo Giardinelli,” by Jean Marie Murphy, Rockford Coll.
2. “Voyeurismo y erotismo en El paraíso en la otra esquina de Mario Vargas Llosa,” by Rocío Ferreira,
3. “Entre la lealtad y el estupro: la
imagen perversa de una dictadura en La
fiesta
4. “Homosexualidad y bisexualidad en El huracán lleva tu nombre de Jaime
Bayly,” by Giancarla Di Laura, Emporia State Univ.
19. Theorizing Beyond High/Low
8:30-10:00 a.m. (LaSalle 4)
Moderator:
Mark M. Freed, Central Michigan Univ.
1. “Avant-Garde v. Popular Culture:
Programs of Social Critique,” by
2. “Agency, Accountability, and the
Critique of ‘High’Culture,” by Stephen Gennaro,
3. “The Concept of the State in
Frankfurt and
4. “Toward Cultural Agency: Beyond
Negative High Culture,” by Nicole Sushka, Central Michigan Univ.
20. Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Gina M. Merys,
1. “The Beginning of the End: The ‘Revival’ of
Rhetoric-contra-Composition,” by Paul Lynch,
2. “Toward a Trickle-Down Theory of
Deconstruction in Composition,” by Tim Laquintano, Univ.of Wisconsin-Madison
3. “Memory as Composition: Monastic
Rhetoric, Cognitive Science, and Imageword,” by John Paul Walter,
21. Trading Spaces: Methods of Exchange in Romantic and
Victorian Literature
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Martin Fashbaugh,
1. “Genre Conflict, Marital Strife,
and the Production of Middle-Class Culture in James Meredith's Modern Love,” by Martin Fashbaugh,
2. “Verses as Low Commodity vs.
Verses as High Culture: Keats Struggle with the Cultural Value of his Poetry
Against its Monetary Value,” by William Peck,
3. “Servants, Space, and the Face of
Class in Victorian Fiction,” by Erin Chamberlain,
4. “Modeling Sites of Cultural
Hybridity in Maria Edgeworth’s Ennui,”
by Oana Chivoiu,
22. Watching the Detectives
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Andrew Higl,
1. “’Is There Any Up or Down Left?’:
Noir and Existentialism,” by William Brevda, Central Michigan Univ.
2. “The Diversification of Argentine
Detective Fiction,” by Glen S. Close, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
3. “Prince Hamlet, Please Meet Mr.
Philip Marlowe: English Renaissance Revenge Drama and Contemporary Mystery
Fiction,” by Chikako D.
Permanent Sections
23. Illustrated Texts B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Parlor A)
(see Session #4 - 8:30 a.m., Friday)
24. Luso-Brazilian B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
(see Session #6 - 8:30 a.m., Friday)
25. Media
Studies
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Parlor B)
Topic: Old Books,
New Media: Using Technology to Teach
Pre-1900 Texts
Chair: Elizabeth
Coker,
Secretary: Megan Moser,
1. “Rummaging
Through Digital Archives: Experimenting with
the Techne of Literary Research,” by Liz Hutter,
2. “Literary
Puritans and M. Knight Shayamalan’s The
Village,” John David Miles,
3. “Pointing
Fingers in
4. “Clickerizing
Jane Eyre,” by Amy Sansbury Manning,
26. Religion
and Literature B
10:15-11:45 a.m.
(
(see Session #8 - 8:30 a.m., Friday)
27. Travel Writing/Writing Travel
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Topic:
Open Topic
Chair:
Joshua Grasso, East Central Univ.
Secretary:
Zach Weir,
1. “‘To Wheel In Among Them Worse
Manners Than Their Own’: Domestic Travel in Fielding’s The Journal of a Voyage to
2. “‘Work alone will civilize him’:
Trollope’s
3. “The Emergence of a Global
Consciousness in The Narrative of Arthur
Gordon Pym,” by Cory Ledoux,
4. “Panic in the Streets: Henry
James’ Urban Travel Writing,” by Jennifer Minnen, Bard Coll.
5. “Derrida, Counterpath and
Travelogue,” by Christopher Washington,
Associated
Organizations
28. Association
for the Study of Literature and Environment
10:15-11:45 a.m. (LaSalle 2)
Topic: Reconciliation
in Environmental Writing
Coordinator: Thomas
Dean,
1.
“Towards a Culture of Life: Nostalgia and Reconciliation in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation,” by Jennifer K.
Ladino,
2.
“Lamentation and Restoration:
Reconciling with the Loss of the Prairie in
3.
“Here and There: The Reconciliation of the Poetic Self with Non-human World in
Chinese Tang Dynasty Farewell Poems,” by Haihong Yang,
4. “Justifying the Primodial Passion:
A Comparative Reading of the Ecological Consciousness of William
Wordsworth’s ‘…Tintern Abbey’ and Ogaga Ifowodo’s The Oil Lamp,” by Senayon S. Olaoluwa, Univ. of the
Witwatersrand,
29. Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest II-B
10:15-11:45 a.m.
(
(see Session #9 - 8:30 a.m., Friday)
Special Sessions
30. Authorizing High and Low: Categorical Collapse
and/against Literature
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Moderator:
John Kerkering,
1. “Witnessing the Witness: The Civil War
Poetry of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman,” by Leif Eckstrom,
2. “The Lost Work of Longfellow,” by
Brad Fruhauff,
3. “Nature's Eccentricities and Possible
Impossibilities: The Popularization of Science in the British Victorian Novel,” by Kandice Gingrich,
4. “Racial and Sexual Fluidity in the
Works of Sui Sin Far and Nella Larsen,” by Emily Wiser,
31. Contemporary Irish Literature
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Chair:
1. “‘A Kind of Aural Atlas’: Poetics
of Ornamentation and Mapping Mediacy,” by Cameron Bushnell,
2. “Digging Into the Past: The
Materials of Memory and Jennifer Johnston's This
is Not a Novel and Grace and Truth,”
by Gill Hunter,
3. “Intergenerational Conflict and
‘Popular’ Nationalisms in John Banville,” by Aine McGlynn,
4. “‘Starving, Freezing, and Weeping
Hysterically': Cultural Mediation in Ripley Bogle,” by
32. Dominant Culture and
the Education of Women B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Parlor D)
(see Session #15 - 8:30 a.m., Friday)
33. Free Speech and
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Parlor C)
Moderator:
Karen Holleran
1. “Soapboxing with Kenneth Rexroth,”
by Allan Johnston,
2, “Scholar-Tramps and Hobo
Philosophers: Identity Politics and Social Change in the Progressive Era,” by
John Allen,
3. “
34. Mexican Women Writers: The Perpetual Revolution
10:15-11:45 a.m.
(
Moderator:
Héctor García,
1. “La (r)evolución de la figura
femenina en obras selectas de Ángeles Mastretta,” by Olivia Yánez,
2. “Entre las hebras
3. “La reivindicación de ´El Centauro
del Norte´ en los relatos de Nellie Campobello,” Héctor García, Loyola Univ.
Chicago
4. “Modelos de mujer fin de siglo en
Jiron de mundo de María Enriqueta,” by Elena Grau Lleveria,
35. Monsters High and Low B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
(see Session #16 - 8:30 a.m., Friday)
36. Montaigne’s Highs and Lows: Discourse, Body and Text
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Parlor E)
Moderator:
Dorothy Stegman, Ball State Univ.
1. “Style and Law in Montaigne and
Seneca,” by William Wycislo, Ball State Univ.
2. “Montaigne’s Lowly Details:
Alimentary Paradox and the Essays,”
by Dorothy Stegman, Ball State Univ.
3. “Montaigne and the Sophists,” by
Eric MacPhail, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
37. New Directions in Cather Criticism
10:15-11:45 a.m. (LaSalle 3)
Moderator:
Guy Reynolds, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
1. “The ‘Meat-ax’ on the
Desktop: A Digital Edition of Cather's
Early Journalism,” by Andrew Jewell, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
2. “Cather and McClure’s: The Writer as Editor,” by Guy Reynolds, Univ. of
Nebraska-Lincoln
3. “Writing into Celebrity: Cather
& the Mary Baker Eddy Biography,” by Michael Schueth, Univ. of
Nebraska-Lincoln
38. Renaissance Literature and Culture: Re-Thinking the
Renaissance Lyric
10:15-11:45 a.m. (LaSalle 1)
Moderator:
Kimball Smith
1. “Re-thinking Shakespeare’s
Sonnets,” by Kimball Smith, Kansas State Univ.
2. “The ‘Other’ Voice in the
Renaissance Lyric Tradition,” by
3. “Semiotic Experimentation in
Donne’s Songs and Sonets,” by
Alexandra M. Block,
4. “Introspective Ingenuity: Process
of Introspection from Medieval Love Lyrics to Renaissance Sonnets,” by Laura L.
Wright,
39. Rethinking Pop Culture in
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Moderator:
Kerstin Barndt,
1. “Longing and Belonging: Desire and
Social Relations in
2. “
3. “Jazz World.
4. “Melodrama, Crisis, and the
(Gender) Politics of Decisionism,” by Kerstin Barndt,
40. Sub- and Countercultural Capital: Containing the
Margin
10:15-11:45 a.m. (LaSalle 4)
Moderator:
Mathias Nilges,
1. “Dead Reckoning Class
Consciousness in Romero’s Land of the
Dead,” by Harvey Partica,
2. “How Unique and Beautiful
Snowflakes Became Cogs in the Machine—Fight
Club’s Project Mayhem and the Containment of Dissent,” by Justin A. Joyce,
3. “The Story of a Fucking: Vicious
Eroticism in E.L.Doctorow’s Book of Daniel,”
by Eric Dean Rasmussen,
4. “Countercultural Capital and the
Need for an Authentic Gimmick—Examining the Politics of Contemporary American
Studies,” by Mathias Nilges,
41. Talk of the Town, Gossip, News, and Secrets
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Moderator:
Paula J. Reiter, Mount Mary Coll.
1. “Exposing One Another: Gossip and
the Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere,” by Kimberly Baldus, Univ. of
Missouri-St. Louis
Discussant: Grace Pollock,
2. “A School for Scandal; or, Scandal
as Public Pedagogy in the Eighteenth Century and Today,” by Grace Pollock,
Discussant: Kristi Siegel, Mount Mary
Coll.
3. “Losing Esther: Narrative and
Gossip in Dickens’ Bleak House,” by
Paula Reiter, Mount Mary Coll.
Discussant: Kimberly Baldus, Univ. of
Missouri-St. Louis
4. “Gossip As an Art Form: Ernest
Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast and Toni
Morrison’s The Bluest Eye,” by Kristi
Siegel, Mount Mary Coll.
Discussant: Paula Reiter, Mount Mary Coll.
42. Teaching Cultural History in the Foreign Language
Classroom
10:15-11:45 a.m. (LaSalle 5)
Moderator:
James W. Jones, Central Michigan Univ.
1. “Is There a ‘Certain Idea of
2. “The Margin to the Center:
Retelling German Cultural History and ‘Minorities,’” by James W. Jones, Central
Michigan Univ.
3. “Centuries in 21 Countries:
Challenges of a One-Semester Latin American Civilization Course,” by
Permanent Sections
43. American Literature II: Literature After 1870
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. (
Topic:
Embodiment and Location
Chair:
Bill Albertini
1. “Habitats and Humanity in Walt
Whitman's Specimen Days,” by Tony
Mick, Johns Hopkins Univ.
2. “Phantoms, Snakebites, and the
City: Excavating Syphilis in Democratic
Vistas and Home to Harlem,” by
Amy Rubens,
3. “The Role of Oscar Zeta Acosta’s
Brown Body in The Autobiography of a
Brown Buffalo,” by Heather Alumbaugh, Coll. of Mount Saint Vincent
4. “Borders of Body and Geography:
Transnational Movement and Illness,” by Bill Albertini, Bowling Green State
Univ.
44. Creative Writing I: Poetry
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. (Parlor D)
Chair:
Stephanie Powell Watts
Secretary:
Bob Watts,
1. “Turns about a Point,” by Anna
Leahy, North Central Coll..
2. “Poems,” by Sarah J. Den Boer,
3. “Selected Poems,” by David Pink,
45. Luso-Brazilian C
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. (
(see Session #6 - 8:30 a.m., Friday)
Special Sessions
46. Is High Culture Possible? (papers available in advance)
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. (LaSalle 4)
Moderator:
Maria Polski,
1. “Postmodernism and Syncretism:
Deconstructing High Culture,” by
2. “Teaching Literature to the Animaniacs Generation,” by Ellen
McManus,
3. “The Law of Non-Destruction and
Accumulation of Culture by Yuri Rozhdestvensky,” by Maria Polski,
47. Proficiency in Language Use and Skills Initiative
(PLUS Initiative) at the
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. (LaSalle 5)
Moderator:
Roger Pieroni,
1. “A Department Chair’s
Perspective,” by Roger Pieroni,
2. “Using Fulbright Foreign Language
Teaching Assistants (FLTAs) to Enhance Language Instruction,” by John Meredig,
3. “Steps in Developing the PLUS
Initiative: Assessment, Research and Articulation,” by Chris Mohn,
4. “Issues in Developing a Foreign
Language Program by an Instructor: The Case of a Japanese Language Program,” by
Yoshiko Nagaoka,
48. Queer Studies: Self-Revealing, Exile, and Coming Out
in 20th-Century French Literature and Cinema
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. (
Moderator:
Flavia Vernescu,
1. “‘Un effort, non seulement de
sincérité, mais aussi d’exactitude :’
Sexuality and Self-representation in Marguerite Yourcenar’s Early
Works,” by Thomas J.D. Armbrecht, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant: Flavia Vernescu,
2. “L’exil et l’amour qui ose dire
son nom dans la littérature lesbienne française contemporaine,” by Flavia
Vernescu,
Discussant: Thomas J.D. Armbrecht,
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
3. “La figure homosexuelle dans les
films d’Olivier Ducastel et Jacques Martineau,” by Florian Grandena,
Discussant : Thomas J.D. Armbrecht, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison
49. Reception Studies
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. (Parlor B)
Moderator:
Genevieve West, Ferris State Univ.
1. “Elevated Readers and the
Antebellum Reception of Melville’s Short Fiction,” by James L. Machor, Kansas
State Univ.
2. “Twain, Liberal Realism, and Huckleberry Finn,” by Philip Goldstein,
3. “Read Like a Victorian: Three Dimensions of Affect in Charles
Dickens’s Little Dorrit,” by Derrick
R. Spires,
50. Sharing Cultures
12:00 noon-1:30 p.m. (LaSalle 1)
Moderator:
Brendan Riley,
1. George Bailey,
2. Thoko Batyi, Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan Univ.
3. Rose Blouin,
4. Suzanne Blum-Malley,
5. Amy Hawkins,
6. Ncedisa Mayeko, Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan Univ.
7. Elize Naude, Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan Univ.
8. Brendan Riley,
9. John Ruiters, Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan Univ.
10. Stephanie Shonekan,
Permanent
Sections
51. Peace Literature and Pedagogy A
12:30-3:45 p.m. (
Topic: Literature, Torture, and Human Rights
Chair: Chae-Pyong Song, Marygrove Coll.
Secretary: Lisette Gibson Díaz,
Session A
12:30-2:00 p.m. (
1. “‘Barbarous acts which have
outraged the conscience’: Human Rights and 20th-century American Literature,”
by Katy Ryan,
2. “Imagining a Better World: Truth,
Justice and Terror,” by Allan R. Cook, Marygrove Coll.
3. “. . . Paved with good intentions:
Re-presenting torture and disappearance in Omar Rivabella’s Requiem for a Woman’s Soul,” by Heidi
ÓNuanáin,
4. “Auto/Biography and The Lure of
Forensics,” by Theresa A. Kulbaga,
Discussant: Jennifer Wenzel,
Session B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
5. “The Whole Pack of Us: Torture Victims’ Vengeance in Shakespeare and
Shelley,” by Robert Long Foreman,
6. “Understanding Torture
through Kafka’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’” by Matthew Bissell,
7. “‘With
the water of my tears’: How Parents and Children Respond to War and Torture in
8.
“‘Back To Heaven’: Teaching Poetry and Fiction by Writers Who Have Been
Tortured and/or Killed,” by Daniel Godston,
Discussant:
Jennifer Wenzel,
52. Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism
12:30-2:00 p.m. (LaSalle 3)
Topic:
After Highbrow/
Lowbrow: Shakespearean Cultural Capital
Chair:
Heidi Kathleen Kim, Northwestern Univ.
Secretary:
David H. Wood, Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse
1. “The Carriacou Shakespeare Mas:
Theorizing Commonplace Literacy in Middle-brow Culture,” by Craig Dionne,
Eastern Michigan Univ.
2. “Othello: Perfect for a Minstrel,” by Craig Patrick Carroll,
3. “Mass-Marketing Tragedies: Pocket
Books’ 1939 Shakespeare Edition and the American Cultural Marketplace,” by
Heidi Kim, Northwestern Univ.
4. “Against ‘Original Practices’
Performance: Reifying Renaissance Drama at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre,
53. Spanish II: Peninsular Literature After 1700
12:30-2:00 p.m. (
Topic:
Basque Critical Studies
Chair:
Justin Crumbaugh,
Secretary:
Carlos Jerez-Farrán, Notre Dame Univ.
1. “May We Rest in Peace: Basque
Funerals of Utopia: The Case of Julio Medem and Bernardo Atxaga,”
by Annabel Martín,
2. “Are We All (Still) Miguel Ángel
Blanco?: Prosopopeia and the Symbolic Labor of Victims,” by
Justin
Crumbaugh,
3. “Monstruos, prótesis y
vacíos identitarios en Vicente Ameztoy,” by
Txetxu Aguado, Dartmouth Coll.
4.
“Cassocks on Scooters: The Serious Game of Parody in Basque Popular Culture,”
by Jacqueline Urla,
Discussant: Luis Sáenz de Viguera
Erkiaga, Mount Holyoke Coll.
54. Spanish III-A: Latin American Literature
12:30-3:45 p.m. (
Topic: Open Topic
Chair: Graciela N. V. Corvalán, Webster Univ.
Secretary: Esther Santana, Northeastern
Session
A
12:30-2:00 p.m. (
1. “Corin Tellado: Fenomeno cultural
y monstruo editorial,” by Alicia Andreu, Middlebury Coll.
2. “Beyond Postmodernism: McOndo,
Edmundo Soldan and the Spanish American Social Novel in the Age of
Globalization,” by Helene de Fays, Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
3. “The Ethical Impulse of Roberto
Arlt's Aguafuertes espannolas,” by
Todd S. Garth, U.S. Naval Academy
4. “Resisting Globalization
Hollywood-style in the Argentina Chaco,” by Carolina Rocha,
Session B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
5. “Doris Moromisato: The
Metamorphosis of Self Through Feminist Discourse,” by Debbie DiStefano,
Southeast Missouri State Univ.
6. “A treinta años
7. “Toward a Nomad Poetry: Identity
and Language in David Huerta and Coral Bracho,” by Juan C.
Fernandez-Iglesías, Winona State Univ.
8. “Written on the Body: Illness,
Pain and Visionary Asceticism in Madre Castillo’s Su vida,” by Faith Harden,
55. Writing across the Curriculum
12:30-2:00 p.m. (Parlor A)
Topic:
Service Learning: Writing for/about the
Community
Chair:
Joseph A. Barda, Robert Morris Coll.
1. “From the Academy to the Community
and Back Again, or, From the Paper to the Pavement,” by Beth Edelstein,
2. “Tellers of Tales: Constructing
the Life Stories of the Elderly in ENG 340: Gender and Autobiography,” by
Carolyn Perry,
3. “Meeting the ‘Monster,’
Literature, and Social Engagement: Reading Frankenstein,
Encouraging Critical Thought about ‘Difference’ and Service Learning the
Composition Classroom,” by Helen Doss, City Colleges of Chicago/Malcolm X Coll.
Special Sessions
56. AIDS in Literature
12:30-2:00 p.m. (
Moderator:
Donald P. Gagnon, Western Connecticut State
Univ.
1. “‘We Do Not Talk About Such Things
Here’: My Life (So Far) as an HIV-Positive,” by Chris Bell,
2. “In the Urban and Rural Places:
Where Boys Experience HIV/AIDS in 1990s Hollywood Cinema,” by Edward
Chamberlain,
3. “Poetics and Politics of Space in
Latin American AIDS Literature,” by
4. “The Ethics of Sexual Perception:
Spatial Approaches to Representation of AIDS,” by Jennifer Mitchell, City
57. “Betwixt and Between”: Intersections of Modernism and
the Middlebrow A
12:30-3:45 p.m. (Parlor C, Parlor D)
Moderator: Jayne E. Waterman,
Session A
12:30-2:00 p.m. (Parlor C)
1. “Modernism vs. the Middlebrow at
the New Yorker,” by Richard Corey,
2. “The Race of the Middleman:
Culture and Advertising in Ezra Pound’s Exile,”
by Dominic Williams,
3. “Middlebrow Parody and the Rise of
Modernism,” by Sarah Davison, St. Anne’s Coll.,
Session B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Parlor D)
4. “‘Improper’ Middlebrow: Modernist
Apathy to Psychoanalytic Discourse in Post-War Fiction,” by George M. Johnson,
Thompson Rivers Univ.,
5. “Middlebrows in Bloomsbury: Rose
Macaulay and E. M. Delafield on Modernism’s ‘Great Divide,’” by Melissa
Sullivan,
6. “Middlebrow/Modernist? Placing the
Detective Novels of Dorothy L. Sayers,” by Esme Miskimmin,
7. “Elizabeth Bowen’s Arched Brow:
Middlebrow Writing and Fragmented Meaning in The Last September,” by Brook Miller, Univ. of Minnesota-Morris
58. Graphic Novels A
12:30-3:45 p.m. (Parlor E)
Moderator:
Rick Iadonisi, Grand Valley State Univ.
Session A
12:30-2:00 p.m. (Parlor E)
1. “Of Mice and Men: Collaboration, Post-Memory, and Working
through in Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale,” by Janice Morris,
2. “Framing History,” by Angela
Szczepaniak,
3. “Trauma, History, and September
11: Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers as Visual
Witnessing,” by Laura L. Beadling,
4. “Reading Joe Sacco’s ‘comics
journalism’: Trauma, Word, and Image,”
by Laura Di Prete,
Session B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Parlor E)
5. “‘The World Doesn’t Make Sense Unless
You Force It To’: Frank Miller’s Dark
Knight and Reaganite Entertainment,” by Thomas Grochowski, Seton Hall Univ.
6. “Neither Texian nor Mexican: Otherness and Identity in Jack Jackson’s Los Tejanos,” by Richard Iadonisi, Grand
Valley State Univ.
59. The Marxist Literary Group: High/Low Cultural Critique
A
12:30-5:30 p.m. (
Moderator:
Mathias Nilges,
Session A
12:30-2:00 p.m. (
1. “A Dialogue between Ground Zero
and the American Prison System in Spike Lee's 25th Hour,’ by Carl Wesley Sims,
2. “High Stakes Irony and Armchair
Gamblers: A Figurative Account of Televised Poker,” by Justin A. Joyce, Univ.
of
3. “‘I am not a Magical Realist!’:
Latinos, Latin Americans, Neo-Liberalism and the Left,’” by Emilio Sauri,
4. “‘Savage Sympathy’:Animal
Representations of Class Consciousness in 20th Century Literature,” by Harvey
Partica,
Session B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
1. “Smashing Broadcast: BitTorrent
and the Dismantling of Consensus,” by Megan Bygness,
2. “The Search for the Lost
Father—Post-Fordism and Melancholia in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower,” by Mathias Nilges,
2. “The Entertainment Unconscious:
Relative Entertainment Value and Immaterial Labor,” by Don Hedrick, Kansas
State Univ.
Respondent: Madhu Dubey,
Session C
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
1. “Against Usury: Pound's “Canto
XLV” and
2. “American Ideology and Ideology as
Such in American WWI Poetry,” by Tim Dayton, Kansas State Univ.
3. “Conspicuous in Its Absence: The
Modernist Novel and the Laboring Subject,” by Jamie Owen Daniel, UPI Local 4100
4. “Complexity and the Dialectic,” by
Nicholas Brown,
60. Poetry in the Cyber Age
12:30-2:00 p.m. (LaSalle 2)
Moderator:
Russell W. Brickey,
1. “Tenor and Vehicle in the Cyber
Age: Metaphor and Macromedia Flash,” by Iris Dunkle, Case Western Reserve Univ.
2. “Getting a Read on a Virtual
Community: The Case of AsininePoetry.Com,” by Richie Narvaez, Pace Univ.
3. “Feminism and Hypertext Poetry:
Some Possibilities and Problems,” by Meagan Evans, Texas State Univ.
4. “Hypertext and the Poetic Line,”
by Neal Gill,
61. Ragged
12:30-3:45 p.m. (
Moderator:
Kevin R. Swafford, Bradley Univ.
Session A
12:30-2:00 p.m. (
1. “Jack the Writer,” by Matthew
Levay,
2. “The Progress of Crime?” by
Kristie Allen,
3. “
Session B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
4. “The Bloody Spindle: Penny
Dreadfuls and the Newgate Novel in the Construction of Nineteenth-Century
British Middle/Working Class Literacy,” by
5. “Picking Up a Crust,” by Nicholas
Parker,
6. “Grop[ing] in the darkness:
Frederick William Robinson’s tales of female crime and imprisonment,” by Anne
Schwan,
62. The Resistant Female Body
12:30-2:00 p.m. (
Moderator:
Dianna C. Niebylski,
1. “No Men Needed Here:
Female-Centered Resistance to Violence,” by Shelia Collins,
2. “Women in The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo,” by Sarah A.
Miller,
3. “Bodies that Matter are Bodies
that Have Matter: The Grotesque Body in 1980’s Soviet Women’s Short Stories,”
by Jessica Wienhold,
Permanent Sections
63. African American Literature II-A
2:15-5:30 p.m. (
Topic:
The African American Literary Canon: Rationale
and Function, Pros and Cons
Chair:
Chris Bell,
Secretary:
Melissa Asher Daniels, Northwestern Univ.
Session A
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
1. “‘I stood all the while
listening’: Reframing Trauma in William Wells Brown’s Narrative of the Life of William W. Brown,” by Stephen Lucasi,
2. “Worrying Canons, Conventions and
Comedy: Charles Johnson’s Modernist Revision of the Slave Narrative in The Oxherding Tale,” by Kristen Proehl,
Coll. of William and Mary
3. “‘The American Dream—and Black
Man’s Nightmare’: Remaking America in Raymond Andrews’s Fiction,” by Meghan Lydon,
Independent Scholar
4. “Publishing Blackness: Multiracial
Writers and the Publication of Identity,” by Justin Ponder, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Session B
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
4. “Reinventing the Canon: The
Politics of Anthologizing African American Literature,” by Sharon Lynette
Jones, Wright State Univ.
5. “Toni Morrison and the Serviceable
Image of White Americans,” by Dan Colson,
6. “Power Dynamics in African
American Theater,” by Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon,
7. “Educating Blaque: Obtaining a
Ph.D. in African American Literature within American English Departments,” by
Ellesia A. Blaque, Wayne State Univ.
64. Bibliography and Textual Studies A
2:15-5:30 p.m. (Parlor A, Parlor E)
Topic:
Early Modern Authorship
Chair:
Stacy Erickson,
Secretary:
Jessica DeSpain,
Session A
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Parlor A)
1. “Shared Authorship: The Plays of
Richard Burbage,” by Christopher Holmes,
2. “‘Diuers faults commited by the printer’?: Errata Lists as Evidence
of Authorial Presence in the Early Modern Printing House,” by Elizabeth
Hutcheon,
3. “‘As the Author of the Booke’:
Mary Wroth’s Entry Into the Print Marketplace,” by Stacy Erickson,
Session B
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Parlor E)
4. “‘But the Page of Prowess’: The
Metempsychosis of Early Modern Authorship in Nashe’s Anti-Harvey Satire,” by
Sean Michael Morris,
5. “Appropriating John
Donne: The 1633 and 1635 Printed Editions of Donne’s Poetry,” by Marilyn
Claire Ford,
6. “‘The Marke of Praise’: Donne and
Jonson,” Barbara Mather Cobb, Murray State Univ.
7. “Anne Finch, Countess of
Winchilsea’s ‘Defense of Poesie,’” by Fiona Murphy,
65. Canadian Literature (papers available in advance)
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Topic:
Post-colonialism or Diaspora? Whither Cultural Influence?
Chair:
Duncan Lucas,
Secretary:
Adele Holoch,
1. “‘This Land is My Land at Long
Last’: Questioning Canada’s Postcolonialism through Plainsong and Green Grass,
Running Water,” by Adele Holoch,
2. “Denaturalizing Canadian
Citizenship: Souvankham Thammavongosa’s Small
Arguments,” by Christine Kim,
3. “Re/placing Native Canadian
Citizenship: Reading Thomas King’s Stories in Relation to the Multicultural
Nation,” by Linda Rodenburg,
66. Drama A
2:15-5:30 p.m. (LaSalle 2)
Topic: Dismemberment
in Drama / Dismemberment of Drama
Chair: Lance
Norman, Michigan State Univ.
Secretary: Ann
Hall, Ohio Dominican Univ.
Session
A
2:15-3:45 p.m. (LaSalle 2)
1. “Dissecting Opposition: The Romantic Dialectic on its Last Legs in
Zacharias Werner and Heinrich von Kleist,” by Amy Emm,
2. “From
Ibsen to Kane: Baby Steps Towards a
Modern Theory of Dramatic Dismemberment,” by Lance Norman, Michigan State Univ.
3.
“Statues, Jars, and other Stored Treasures,” by Johanna Frank,
Session
B
4:00-5:30 p.m. (LaSalle 2)
5.
“Split the Difference: Third Legs and Incest in Later-Twentieth-Century Irish
Drama,” by Kristina Quynn, Michigan State Univ.
6.
“ReDismemberment,” by Craig N. Owens,
7.
“DisRememberment,” by Judith Roof, Michigan State Univ.
67. Literary
Criticism II
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Topic:
After Theory: Literary Criticism and High/Low
Culture
Chair:
Mickey Hess,
1. “Carnivalesque Literature and
Modern Television Satires: How Ridicule Promotes Intellectualism in Young
Adults,” by Jessica Elliott,
2. “Paranoia Strikes Deep: Why
the Government Has Been Out to Get Primetime TV Viewers since 1993,” by Mike
Smith, Daymar Coll.
3. “Tramp Sensibility: Camp, ‘Trash,’
and the Afterlife of Showgirls,” by
Nick Salvato,
4. “Exploration of Works Published in
Installments: Charles Dickens's The
Pickwick Papers vs. Jerry Seinfeld's ‘Seinfeld,’” by Jody Parsons,
Northeastern
68. Peace
Literature and Pedagogy B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
(see Session #51 - 12:30, Friday)
69. Religion
and Literature C
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Parlor C)
(see Session #8 - 8:30, Friday)
70. Spanish
III-B: Latin American Literature
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
(see Session #54 - 12:30, Friday)
71. Women in Literature
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Topic:
Marrying High and Low from
Chair:
Karlyn Crowley, St. Norbert Coll.
Secretary:
Deirdre Egan,
1. “‘In Some Country of Our Own’: The Fantasy of a Miscegenated
Nation,” by Alice Rutkowski, SUNY
Geneseo
2. “Publicizing Eleanor Porter’s Boy Book,” by Amy Blair,
3. “Soul Work: Oprah
and the Black New Age,” Karlyn Crowley,
Special Sessions
72. “Betwixt and Between”:
Intersections of Modernism and the Middlebrow
B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Parlor D)
(see Session #57 - 12:30, Friday)
73. The Ethos of Harry
Potter: Art, Influence, Delight
2:15-3:45 p.m. (LaSalle 1)
Moderator:
Anne Hiebert Alton, Central Michigan Univ.
1. “Candy, Books, and Broomsticks:
Consuming (in) Harry Potter,” by
Gretchen Papazian, Central Michigan Univ.
2. “Composing a Wizard/Revealing a
Culture: A Rhetorical Analysis of the
Struggle for Ethos in Harry Potter,”
by Rochelle Harris, Cnetral Michigan Univ.
3. “Do You Believe in Magic?:
Considering Power, Agency, and Wizardry in the Harry Potter Novels,” by Susan Larkin, Central
4. “Mere Entertainment or Art for the Ages?: The Genius of Harry Potter,” by Anne Hiebert Alton,
Central Michigan Univ.
74. Expanding German Studies through Interdisciplinary
Offerings and/or English Speaking Study Abroad Courses in
2:15-3:45 p.m. (LaSalle 5)
Moderator:
Monika Hohbein-Deegen, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Oshkosh
1. “The German LTL at the
2. “Found in Translation: Bringing Interdisciplinary and Career
Prospects to the Foreign Language Curriculum,” by Susanne Lenné Jones, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
3. “The Advantages and Disadvantages
of Being Undisciplined: Interdisciplinary Programs and Experiential Learning
Abroad,” by Todd Herzog,
4. “Teaching East German History
Abroad: Interdisciplinary Learning in
75. Geo-Graphing Modernism
2:15-3:45 p.m. (LaSalle 3)
Moderator:
Desmond Harding, Central Michigan Univ.
1. “True Places: Mapping Lived
Experience in Modernism,” by Robert T. Tally Jr., Texas State Univ.
2. “Cognitive Mapping Musil’s
3. “‘
Discussant: Desmond Harding, Central
Michigan Univ.
76. Graphic Novels B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Parlor E)
(see Session #58 - 12:30, Friday)
77. Ludic Literature: Serious Play in the 20th and 21st
Centuries
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Moderator:
Alison James,
1. “‘There are no jokes in this
book’: Mark Haddon, Poodlecide, and the Risky Humor of Disability,” by Sheryl
Stevenson,
2. “Composition of Cecilia Vicuña's Instan,” by Kelly Austin,
3. “The Paradelle, Play, and the Work
of Wit,” by Michael Theune, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
4. “Pataphysics and Parody,” by
Alison James,
78. The Marxist Literary
Group: High/Low Cultural Critique B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
(see Session #59 - 12:30, Friday)
79. A Paradoxical Appeal: the Novel as “Common” Aesthetics
2:15-3:45 p.m. (LaSalle 4)
Moderator:
Carrie Wadman,
1. “The De-Legitimization of Newly
Enfranchised Female Readers:
2. “Novel Phenomena: Gothic
‘Straw-men’ and the Quest for Canonical Legitimacy,” by Carrie Wadman, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
3. “(Form)ulating a New Genre: Tim
O’Brien’s Composite Novels,” by Adam Ochonicky, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
4. “Defragmenting the body of text:
The Postmodern Appeal of Milorad Pavić's Dictionary of the Khazars,” by Tatjana Aleksic,
80. Popular Persuasions: The Rhetorics of Identity in Pop
Culture
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Parlor B)
Moderator:
1. “Everything Right is Wrong Again:
They Might Be Giants, Their Fans, and Exclusionary Rhetoric,” by Robert C. Lagueux, Columbia Coll.
Chicago
2. “The Signifyin’ Frybread: The
Complex Issue of Samples in Native Hip Hop,” by Alan Lechusza,
3. “I Promise You’ll Turn Out Normal:
Identity in Teen Chick Lit,” by Jennifer Pugh, Kent State Univ.
4. “Embodying Conclusions: The
Enthymematic Construction of Female Subjectivity in Popular Women’s Magazines,”
by
81. Ragged
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
(see Session #61 - 12:30, Friday)
82. The Simpsons and Popular Culture as Postmodern Authors
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Moderator:
Deborah C. Foote,
1. “‘I Can’t Define It, But I Know It
When I See It’: Pop Legal Culture,” by Amy Lea Booth,
2. “Homer’s Homers: Baseball and
Corporate Culture in The Simpsons,”
Bill Savage,
3. “‘That’s Why Pencils Have
Erasers’: Reality and Popular Culture in The
Simpsons,” by Deborah C. Foote, Columbia Coll. Chicago
Special Event
83. President’s Studio: David
R. Shumway talks with Anthony DeCurtis,
arranged by 2006 M/MLA President
Kevin J. H. Dettmar
4:00-5:30 p.m.
(
Anthony
DeCurtis
is a freelance music writer based in
David
Shumway is
Professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies at
Permanent Sections
84. African American
Literature II-B
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
(see Session #63 - Friday, 2:15)
85. Bibliography and
Textual Studies B
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Parlor E)
(see Session #64 - Friday, 2:15)
86. Comparative Literature
4:00-5:30 p.m. (LaSalle 1)
Topic:
The Future/Ends of Narrative/Theory
Chair:
Mark Pettus, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Secretary:
Thom Dancer, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
1. “Competing and Cooperating
Predictions in Wells’s Time Machine,” by Jesse Wolfe,
Univ., Stanislaus
2. “Narrating and Mobilizing a Utopian
Political Science in Francis Bacon’s The New Atlantis,” by Kate
Merz, Univ. of
3.
“Being Fragmented in-the-world: (Un)concealing Heidegger's Ethical Blind,” by
Jason Cohen, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
4.
“Reviewing the Kiss in Early Modernist Critical Writings: It’s Nothing New,” by
Sophia Estante, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
87. Drama B
4:00-5:30 p.m. (LaSalle 2)
(see Session #66 - Friday, 2:15)
88. Popular Culture
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Parlor C)
Topic:
Activism and Pop Culture
Chair:
Ezekiel Jarvis, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Secretary:
Kate Casey-Sawicki,
1. “Prophecy, Crucifixion, and
Resurrection: The Gospel of Appalachian Icon, Jim Webb,” by Scott Goebel,
Northern
2. “Hank Hardy Unruh and the Golden
Phallus: Dispelling the Fatigue of Media Compassion,” by Kate Casey-Sawicki,
3. “Why Liberal Activists Need to Be Promiscuous,” Ezekiel Jarvis,
Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
89. Reception Theory
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Parlor D)
Topic:
The Uses of
Chair:
Cecilia Konchar Farr, Coll. of St. Catherine
1. “The Jane Austen Book Club,” by
Brandy Foster, Wright State Univ.
2. “21st and Sentiment: Writing at
the Intersection of Desire and the Neo-Uplift Novels in Contemporary African
American Women’s Writing,” by Michelle Taylor, Miami Univ., Ohio
3. “Consuming Passions: The
Burma-Shave Poems and Poetic Justice,” by Mike Chasar,
4. “‘Little pile of them in a
tool-box’: eBay and the Re-Emergence of the Little Blue Books, 1919-1978,” by
Melanie Brown,
Associated Organizations
90. Women in French I
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
Topic:
Love, Death, and Women’s Lives in French and
Francophone Texts
Coordinator:
Judith Holland Sarnecki,
1. “Death Defines Her:
Representations of the Widow in Early Modern French Literature,” by Kathleen M.
Llewellyn,
2. “‘The Look of Love’: Scopophilia
and the Undoing of Gender in Lettres
d’une Péruvienne,” by Madeleine Craig,
3. “Esther et Judith, les deux amazones juives prédestinées dans le théâtre
français du XVIe et du XVIIe siècle,” by Maria
Papapetrou Miller, Université de Chypre
4. “Reproducing Death in Les
Rougon-Macquart,” by Susie Hennessy,
Special Sessions
91. Critical Humor: Theorizing the Politics of Satire
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
Moderator:
Lindsey Simms,
1. “Militant Irony on the Periphery
of Capitalism: The Politics of Satire in José Rizal’s El filibusterismo,” by Andy Opitz,
2. “Satire and Nonsynchronism in
African Literature,” by Lindsey Simms,
3. “
92. España y Latinoamérica: Tres manifestaciones
decimonónicas de la cultura popular
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
Moderator:
Marcela E. Brusa,
1. “Epistemological Regimes of Modernity:
The Urban and the Rural in Poe and Azorín,” by Alrick Knight, Loyola
Univ. Chicago
2. “Elementos de la Cultura Popular
en Fray Gerundio de Modesto Lafuente:
Otra manera de criticar la realidad,” by Mónica Fuertes Arboix, Ohio State
Univ.
3. “Dos Visiones Culinarias de Nación
y Comunidad: Juana Manuela Gorriti (1816-1892) y Emilia Pardo Bazán
(1851-1921),” by Marcela E. Brusa, Loyola Univ. Chicago
Discussant (for all): Susana Cavallo,
Loyola Univ. Chicago
93. Folklore in American Literature
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Parlor B)
Moderator:
Genevieve West, Ferris State Univ., and Reinhold
Hill, Ferris State Univ.
1. “Family Tales: Genres of Folklore
in Lee Smith’s Fiction,” by Reinhold Hill, Ferris State Univ.
2. “The White Tiger Mythology:
Reincarnated Chinese Folk Heroine in The
Woman Warrior,” by Lan Dong,
3. “The Folklore of Urban Migration
in the Short Stories of Zora Neale Hurston,” by Genevieve West, Ferris State
Univ.
94. German II: German Poetry
4:00-5:30 p.m. (LaSalle 5)
Moderator:
Jefford Vahlbusch, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
1. “Bertolt Brecht and the
Insufficiency of Irony,” by K. Scott Baker, Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City
2. “Poets on Poetry: Anna Mitgutsch, Kerstin Hensel, and Evelyn
Schlag Reading Christine Lavant,” by Geoffrey C. Howes, Bowling Green State
Univ.
3. “What's Fresh in Contemporary
German Poetry: A Look at two Movers and Shakers,” by Amy Kepple Strawser,
Otterbein Coll.
4. “On the Place of Poetry in the
Undergraduate Curriculum,” by Jefford Vahlbusch, Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
95. In Memory of Octavia E. Butler: Teaching
4:00-5:30 p.m. (LaSalle 3)
Moderator:
Laura L. Beadling,
1. “From Kindred to the Parables:
Altering the Landscape of the African
American Literary Canon,” by Sandra Y. Govan, Univ. of North Carolina-Charlotte
2. “What's Black about This?: Teaching
Octavia Butler in African American Literature Courses,” by Conseula Francis,
Coll. of
3. “‘To Touch Solid Evidence’ –
Implicated in the Past by Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred,” by David LaCroix,
96. Laughing to Keep from Crying: Performance and Racial
Identity in the Works of Richard
Pryor, Dave Chappelle, and
4:00-5:30 p.m.
(
Moderator:
Katherine Hyunmi Lee, Indiana State Univ.
1. “Forgivable Blackness: Richard
Pryor and the Performance of Black Masculinity,” by Todd Lawrence, Univ.of St.
Thomas
2. “’When Keeping It Real Goes
Wrong’: Racial Politics and Performativity on Chappelle’s Show,” by Katherine H. Lee, Indiana State Univ.
3. “Humor and Indian Consciousness in
Slam Poetry Performance,” by Jackie McGrath, Coll. of DuPage
97. The Marxist Literary
Group: High/Low Cultural Critique C
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
(see Session #59 - Friday, 12:30)
98. Printing Women: Representation and Popular Female
Authorship
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Parlor A)
Moderator:
Mollie Sandock,
1. “Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Pink and White Tyranny of Authorship,”
by Martin T. Buinicki,
2.
“Visual Reception: Popular Women
Writers and Early Victorian Print Culture,” by
Sara R. Danger,
3. “The New Woman Novel in the
Marketplace: The Effects of Publishing Format on Reception in the 1890s,” by
Troy J. Bassett,
4. “She and I: Relating the Present
through the Past in Rene Steinke's Holy
Skirts, by Allison Schuette-Hoffman,
99. Reading Recent Alice Munro: Female Perspectives on
Aging
4:00-5:30 p.m.
(
Moderator:
Tomoko Kuribayashi, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point
1. “Little Brides, Old Hags:
Formulating Female Maturity in Alice Munro’s
Fiction,” by Sara Jamieson,
2. “Chance and Powers: Modes of
Retrospect in Alice Munro’s Runaway
Stories,” by
3. “In Search of Her Daughter: The
Demeter/Persephone Myth in Alice Munro’s Recent Fiction,” by Tomoko
Kuribayashi, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
100. Red Line to Black Belt,
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
Moderator: Garin Cycholl,
Participants:
Jeffery Renard Allen,
Michael A. Antonucci,
Duriel E. Harris, St. Lawrence Univ.
Hermine Pinson, Coll. of William and
Mary
Reggie Young,
101. Vagrancy and Criminality in Literature
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
Moderator: Anupam Basu, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
1. “You Really Feel Duped?: Criminal
Legitimacy in James Frey’s A Million
Little Pieces,” by Joseph P. Fisher, George Washington Univ.
2. “Vagrant Woman as Automatic
Criminal: Class and Gender in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping,” by Sarah Pemelton, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2. “Vagrancy and Self-Help in Whitman
and Twain,” by Matt Sandler,
3. “‘loitering lusks and lazy
lorels’: Vagrancy and Labour in Early Modern Rogue Pamphlets,” by Anupam Basu,
102. We are (Still) the Victorians: What is Progress,
Anyway?
4:00-5:30 p.m. (LaSalle 4)
Moderator:
Rebecca A. Carron,
1. “Hardy: Nescience Reaffirmed,” by
Jhoanna Infante,
2. “We are (Still) the
Victorians: What is Progress, Anyway?”
by Rebecca A. Carron,
3. “The Anglo-Eastern Dialogues of
Urquhart and Blunt,” by
103. President’s Reception
5:15-6:15 p.m. (
Complimentary wine and
hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, hosted by 2006 President Kevin J. H. Dettmar,
Southern Illinois Univ.-Carbondale
104 . President’s Keynote
Address
6:30-8:00 p.m. (
Michael Bérubé, “Professors
at Work”
Michael Bérubé
is Paterno Family Professor of Literature at
You are invited to
attend the Book Exhibit, 8:00-6:30
p.m. (Monroe Ballroom)
Special Event
105. The M/MLA at the Newberry
Library (
A complimentary breakfast will be provided at
the Newberry Library from 8:00-8:30 a.m.
From the Newberry: Representing Indians: Indigenous Peoples and
8:30-10:00 a.m. (The
Newberry Library)
Moderator: Lori
Muntz,
1.
“Self-Representation and Film/Digital Media:
American Indian People Behind the Camera,” by Miranda Brady,
Pennsylvania State Univ.
2. “Representing
the Misunderstood: Ambivalent Acculturation and
Contested Ownership in Fanny Kelly's Indian Captivity Narrative,” by
Jennifer McGovern,
A tour of the Newberry
Library will be given between 10:30 and 11:00 a.m.
Native American Literature
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (The Newberry Library)
Topic: Traditional
Stories / Literary Stories
Chair: Janet
LaBrie, Univ. of Wisconsin-Waukesha
Secretary: Margaret
Rozga, Univ. of Wisconsin-Waukesha
1.
“Dancing the Gap? Cinema and American
Indian Autobiography,” by Gina Caison,
2.
“Coyote Writes a Novel: Thomas King’s
3.
“Detecting Indian Style: Writing beyond the Clues in Native
American Mystery Fiction,” by Janet LaBrie, Univ. of Wisconsin-Waukesha
4. “Will the Real Black Hawk Please Stand Up?” by Margaret
Rozga,
For a mini-conference held in the Midwest’s premier
destination for scholars, two of the convention’s annual sessions will meet
just up State Street at the Newberry Library, one of the world’s leading
repositories of a broad range of books and manuscripts relating to the
civilizations of Western Europe and the Americas.
The morning’s first session, featuring research
completed in the library’s archives, will examine the dynamic between
co-optation and strategic adaptation in popular genres that help to create
alternative public spheres. The second
session will then consider what happens when Native Americans shift from
traditional oral story-telling practices to written narratives in various
literary styles.
Mid-morning, a tour of the library’s
generous holdings will be of particular interest to those anticipating
proposals for the short-term Newberry fellowship open in January to M/MLA
members only. See pg. 8 for directions.
Thanks to the Newberry Library for hosting, the
D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History for collaborating, and Lori
Muntz and Laurie Arnold, Interim Director of the
Permanent Sections
106. Applied Linguistics A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Sandburg 8)
Topic:
Globalization and Language Teaching/Learning
Chair:
Kashama Mulamba, Olivet Nazarene Univ.
Session
A
8:30-10:00
a.m. (Sandburg 8)
1. “The Global Use of So, And,
and But in Academic Lectures,” by
Zarina Othman,
2. “Globalization and Global Literacy
Benefits in World Language Education: A Window from
Session
B
10:15-11:45
a.m. (Sandburg 8)
Subtopic:
Teletandem:
1. “Theoretical Foundations of the
Teletandem Brazil Project,” by Maria Luisa Vasallo, Liceo Clássico Marco
Foscarino,
2. “A Global Experience in Foreign
Language Education: The Case of Portuguese and Spanish Languages,” by Ana Mariza
Benedetti, São Paulo State Univ.,
3. “Teletandem: Practices and Experiences
in Foreign Language Education beyond Classroom Walls,” by Daniela Nogueira
de Moraes Garcia, São Paulo State Univ.,
4. “Teletandem in Action: Linguistic
and Cultural Expectations and Practices in the Interactions between
North-American and Brazilian Students,” by Ana Clotilde Thomé-Williams,
107. “Art What Thou Eat”: Food in Literature, Art, and
Culture A (papers available in advance)
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Clark 5), 2:15-3:45 p.m.
(
Topic:
Open Topic
Chair:
David Schoonover
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
1. “Eat Me! Food as a Consuming Force
in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf,” by Leah Kind, Northern
2. “‘The Good Breast’: Women as
Food-Givers in Victorian and 21st-Century Culture,” by Laura Fasick, Minnesota
State Univ. Moorhead
3. “Food for Art’s Sake: The Culinary
Writings of Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1896),” by Janet Tanke,
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
4. “‘Unlimited Quantities of M-M-M
Food’: The Modern Artist as Cannibal in the Postwar American Novel,” by
Michelle E. Moore, Coll. of DuPage
5. “Allez Cuisine!: Constructions and Deconstructions of Gender on the
Food Network,” by Cara Ogburn, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
6. “The Ghostliness of Bread: The
Hidden Drama of Baking in Pynchon's Mason
& Dixon,” by Geoffrey Stacks,
Session C
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
7. “Eating Satirically: Food in the
1996 Film Adaptations of Jane Austen's Emma,”
by Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch, Northwestern Univ.
8. “Food for Thought: Power and
Foodways in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were
Watching God,” by Emily Yu, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
9. “Eat Me: Rage and Rebellion in
Rosario Castellanos’ ‘Cooking Lesson,’” by Lynne F. Margolies,
108. English II-A: English Literature 1800-1900
8:30-11:45 a.m. (LaSalle 3), 2:15-3:45 (LaSalle
2), 4:00-5:30 p.m. (LaSalle 5)
Topic:
British Border Crossing: Romantic and Victorian
(Inter)Textuality and the Destabilization of Boundaries
Chair:
Cynthia Van Sickle,
Secretary:
Jeannie Britton,
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (LaSalle 3)
Subtopic: Aesthetic and General
Boundaries (and Spaces)
1. “Misbehaving Prose,” by Sarah
Massey-Warren,
2. “‘Vivid as Spectres’: The Shattered Window of
3. “Cordons of Protection: The
Boundaries of Viewership in Middlemarch
and Villette,” by Meghan A. Freeman,
4. “Revolutionary Aesthetics:
Perception in Alice Meynell’s ‘The Woman in Grey’ and Walter Pater’s
‘Diaphaneitè,’” by Margaret Rennix,
Discussant: Megan Early Alter,
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (LaSalle 3)
Subtopic: Boundaries of Nation and
Empire
5. “‘Drawn Almost into Frightful
Neighborhood’:
6. “The Hour and the Man: Harriet Martineau’s Historical Romance and
the Domestication of Toussaint L’Ouverture,” by Kristen Mahlis, California
State Univ.,
7. “The Empire, The Orient, and the
American West: Transatlantic Anxieties in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘A Study in
Scarlet,’” by Lauren De Beer, Centre Coll.
8. “Race to the Altar: Philip Meadows
Taylor’s Guarded Optimism,” by Veda Khulpateea,
Discussant: Nicholas Parker,
Session
C
2:15-3:45 p.m. (LaSalle 2)
Subtopic:
Boundaries of Gender
9.
“Man’s Brain and Woman’s Heart: Ambiguity and Androgyny in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” by Jessica Notgrass,
10.
“‘The Catastrophe of a Female Philosopher’ Gender and Genre Transgressions of
Mary Wollstonecraft,” by Diane Sager,
11.
“Sarah Grand’s Politics: Working toward a Single Moral Standard,” by Danielle
Nielson, Case Western Reserve Univ.
12. “Border Patrol: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Amy Levy's ‘Run to
Death,’” by Jessica Walsh, Harper Coll.
Discussant: Jane V. Rago,
Session D
4:00-5:30 p.m. (LaSalle 5)
Subtopic: Urban and Social Boundaries
13. “City in the Jungle:
14. “Hunting for Boundaries in
15. “Destabilizing Class Boundaries:
Mesmerism, Middle-Class Mores, and Eugenics in Trilby,” by Laura Vorachek,
Discussant: Beth Torgerson, Eastern
109. French II-A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (
Topic:
Voice, Voices, Voicings in Literature of French
Expression
Chair:
Kristine Butler, Univ. of Wisconsin-River Falls
Secretary:
Florian Vauleon, The Ohio State Univ.
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
1. “Franc-araber ou farabe: Voix hybrides dans les films
francophones du
2. “Killing to the Beat: Lyrical and
Sound Affects in Baise-moi,” by
Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State Univ.
3. “‘Ma vie a fait un virage sur un
dix sous (‘My life turned on a dime’) and other
surprising English idioms in Durocher and Paquin's Et si on se retrouv@it,” by John Secor, Morehead State Univ.
4. “Voice in Calixthe Beyala’s ‘C’est
le soleil qui m’a brulée,’” by Marcel Khombe Mangwanda,
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
5. “Are You There, Reader? It’s Me,
an Object: The Poetic Voice of Francis
Ponge’s Le Parti pris des choses,” by
Catherine Gaughan,
6. Voix marginales, voix hybrides:
les essais critiques d’Assia Djebar et l’écriture cinématographique de Yasmina
Benguigui,” by
7. “Rousseau and Yoga: Rousseau,
Philosopher of the East,” by Guillemette Johnston,
110. Italian I-A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Parlor C)
Chair:
Veena Carlson,
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Parlor C)
Subtopic:
Medieval/Renaissance
1. “L’ottavo capitolo dell’Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta: modelli
classici e vocazione narrativa in lagrimevole
stilo,” by Chiara Sbordoni, Univ. di Roma, La
2. “Mary as Storyteller: The Laments
of the Virgin at the Foot of the Cross,” by Emanuela Zanotti Carney,
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Parlor C)
Subopic: Medieval/Renaissance
4. “Giovanni della Casa’s Unfinished
‘Canzoniere,’” by Jacob Blakesley,
111. Modern Literature A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Dearborn 1, LaSalle
1)
Topic:
Staging the City in Modern Literature
Chair:
Aaron Krall, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Secretary:
Valerie L. Guyant, Northern
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
1. “‘Step High, Stoop Low, Leave Your
Dignity Outside’: The Importance of
2. “‘Here is a Scene for You’:
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Urban Theater,” by Michael Clune,
3. “The Modern Blues in Langston
Hughes's Not Without Laughter,” by
Dennis Chester, California State Univ.,
4. “‘Tall and sprawling centers of
steel and stone’: Richard Wright’s Cityscapes,” by Kristina Bobo,
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (LaSalle 1)
5. “‘Only as Simulacrum’: Landmarks
& Location in Greenberg’s Three Days
of Rain,” by Chris Westgate, Skagit Valley Coll.
6. “Stumbling onto a Stage: The
Situationist Dérive and the
7. “Staging Female Identity in the
8. “Central Cities, Peripheral
Matters: Uneven Geographical Development in Frank Norris’s The Pit and Theodore Dreiser’s Jennie
Gerhardt,” by Mark Vega,
112. Women's Studies A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Parlor D)
Topic:
Reinterpreting Familial Bliss: Portraits of the
Subversive Family in Women’s Literature
Chair:
Rebbecca Pittenger,
Secretary:
Janis Breckenridge, Hiram Coll.
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Parlor D)
1. “Subverting Pinochet’s Gender
Regime: Reinterpreting Familial Bliss in Diamela Eltit’s El cuarto mundo,” by Rebecca M. Pittenger,
2. “A Loss of Words: Claiming Margins
through Chora in Marcela Serrano’s Para que no me olvides,” by Stephanie
Pearce-Gonzales,
3. “Angélica Gorodischer’s ‘Camera
Obscura’: A Portrait of Female Rebellions,” by Dawn Slack, Kutztown Univ. of
Pennsylvania
4. “Global Family Paradigms Under
Construction: Sirena Selena vestida de
pena and the Case of Puerto Rico,” by
Irune del Río Gabiola,
Discussant: Janis Breckenridge, Hiram
Coll.
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Parlor D)
5. “Unfathering the Family: Tips on
Matrilinear Reorganization from Angela Carter and Zadie Smith,” by Sheryl
Stevenson,
6. “‘I can change, but only up to a
certain point’: Reconstructing the Family with a Female Head in Tómas Gutiérrez
Alea’s Hasta Cierto Punto,” by Naomi
P. Wood,
7. “Post-family?: (Un)mothering the
Nation in Claudia Hernández’s Mediodía de
frontera,” by Steve Buttes,
8. “Witches? Transsexual Performance
of Becoming a Man: Discussing East German Sex Change Stories,” by Qinna Shen,
Discussant: Janis Breckenridge, Hiram
Coll.
113. Young Adult Literature
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Parlor E)
Topic:
Underage Sex: Sexuality in Young Adult
Literature
Chair:
Laurie Barth Walczak, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Secretary:
1. “Judy Blume, Sonya Sones, and the
Domestication of Pornography in YA Literature,” by Barbara Duffey,
2. “Shay’a’chern’ equals Homosexual: Cognitive Estrangement in Mercedes
Lackey’s ‘The Last Herald-Mage,’” by Sally VanDenburg, Illinois State Univ.
3. “Cat Calls and Fist Fights:
Exploitation of Female and LGBT Sexuality in Contemporary American Young Adult
Novels,” by Laurie Barth Walczak, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Associated Organizations
114. Society for
Critical Exchange A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (
Topic: The
Interactivity of Literature: Abducting the Interactive: Literary Work as a
Communicational Artifact
Coordinator: Natalija
Grgorinic, Case Western Reserve Univ. and Ognjen Raden, Case Western Reserve
Univ.
Session
A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
1.
“‘Anxiety of Inactivity,’ or the Notion of Interactivity in a Broader Literary
Context,” by William Quirk,
2. “Nathan Zuckerman and
Narrative Interactivity,” by Daniel Anderson, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Session B
10:00-11:45 a.m. (
3. “Navigating the Gap: the Audience's Role in Interactive Digital
Narratives,” Jeff Ritchie,
4. “Between the Aleph and the Mandala: Touring
5. “From Hyperlink to Hyperchain
Gang: Interactivity as a Surrogate for Collaboration,” by Natalija Grgorinic,
Case Western Reserve Univ. and Ognjen Raden, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Special Sessions
115. Domesticities
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Robin Silbergleid, Michigan State Univ.
1. “‘Donna Reed would never have
forgotten the rolls’: Utopian/Dystopian Mother-Daughter Relationships in Gilmore Girls and Thirteen,” by Michelle Parke, Michigan State Univ.
2. “Dismantling the Domestic: The
Postcolonial Child in the Late 1990s,” by Sara Maurer,
3. “Domesticated? Hip Mamas, Fly
Ladies, and the New Angels in the House,” by Robin Silbergleid, Michigan State
Univ.
116. Session
cancelled
117. German I-A: German Literature, Art, and Film: POP Goes
the Canon!
8:30-11:45 a.m. (
Moderator:
Jenifer Cushman, Coll. of
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Subtopic: Written Texts and Film
Texts
Moderator: Isolde Mueller, St. Cloud
State Univ.
1. “Sorcerer’s Apprentice: From Lucian through Goethe to Walt Disney,”
by Min Zhou, Roger Williams Univ.
2. “The Golem in Meyrink and
Wegener,” by Jenifer Cushman, Coll. of
3. “Der Himmel über
4. “Niels Mueller’s The Assassination of Richard Nixon and
its Adaptation of Georg Buechner’s Woyzeck,”
by Inga Meier, SUNY Stony Brook
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Subtopic: Other Texts
Moderator: Jenifer Cushman, Coll. of
1. “Nach dem Film ist vor dem
Film. National Identity and Soccer in
German Film and Music,” by Rebecca Raham,
2. “Sadomasochistic Eroticism as
Narrative Fetish in Bernhard Schlink’s The
Reader,” by Andrea Powell Jenkins, Ball State Univ.
3. “Modern Classics: Rammestein’s
Music and German Canonical Texts and Classical Music,” by Martina Lüke,
118. Manipulations of Low Culture: Masterpieces of High Culture
A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (LaSalle 2, LaSalle 5)
Moderator:
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (LaSalle 2)
1. “A Long Conversation,” by Trudi
Witonsky, Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater
2. “Defying Boundaries by Mastering
the ‘High’ and ‘Low’: Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlings Series as Political
Intervention,” by Jane Davis, Iowa State Univ.
3. “Advocating the Personal,”
4. “Summer Knights: Myth and the
Medieval Hero in American Baseball Literature,” by Adam Kotlarczyk, Northern
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (LaSalle 5)
5. “A Literary Folk Tale: George Sand’s La Petite Fadette,” by Marcy Farrell, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
6. “‘Low’ Literature as a Gateway to
the Canon: Adaptations of Shakespeare for Children,” by Karley K. Adney,
Northern
7. “Corporeal Aesthetics in Arthur
Symons’s Theatrical Criticism,” by Megan Early Alter,
119. Memory, Forgetting, and Commodification: Revisiting
the Relations of Culture and Politics (papers available in
advance)
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Paige Sweet,
1. “The ‘Forgetive’: Towards An
Ethics of Seeing,” by Matt Hadley,
2. “Cultural Memory, Grief, and
Filmic Representations of 9/11,” by Nick Muntean, Univ. of Texas-Austin
3. “Vaseline and Hands: Browning,
Genet, Hegel, and the Spontaneous Labor of the Anecdote,” by Matthias Rudolf,
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
4. “Edith Wharton’s Time-Blurred
Substances: Memory and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in The Age of Innocence,” by Joshua Kotzin, Marist Coll.
120. The Poor and the Working Poor
8:30-10:00 a.m. (LaSalle 1)
Moderator:
Julia Barrett,
1. “Lower than Low: The
Commodification and Exploitation of the Lower Class in American Popular
Culture,” by John Allen,
2. “T-a-y-l-o-r vs. T-a-i-l-o-r: The
Tailors’ Strike of 1850 and the Textual Politics of the New-York Tribune,” by Ben Fagan,
3. “‘Why Do They Always Send the
Poor?’: Anti-War Themes in Contemporary Rock,” by Amy Kepple Strawser,
Otterbein Coll.
121. A Popular Reconstruction: Imagining
8:30-11:45 a .m. (LaSalle 4)
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (LaSalle 4)
Moderator: Kathleen Diffley,
1. “Reconstruction ‘By the Roadside’:
Walt Whitman’s Poetic (Re)Awakening,” by Martin T. Buinicki,
2. “‘Not But the Prologue’: The Slave
Past and Wedded Future in Four Romances of Reconstruction,” by Don
Dingledine, Univ. of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
3. “Culture of Community in Iola Leroy,” by Kay Theisen, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Oshkosh
4. “Faulkner and the Rhetoric of
Reconstruction and Redemption in the New South,” by Trisha M. Brady, SUNY
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (LaSalle 4)
Moderator: Don Dingeldine, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Oshkosh
5. “Silent Screams and Bloodless
Battles in Whitman’s Drum-Taps Poems:
A Poetry of Reconciliation,” by Beth Jensen, Georgia Perimeter Coll.
6. “Playing Crusoe on Jackson Island:
A Return to the Trope of the Crusoe-Friday Friendship in the Face of the Failed
Reconstruction in Mark Twain’s The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” by Shawn Thomson, The Univ. of Texas-Pan
American
7. “Reunion and Apocalypse,” by Kevin
Pelletier, SUNY
8. “Alternatives to Brotherhood in
Post-Civil War Narratives of National Reconciliation,” by Matthew R. Davis,
Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
122. Remapping the género
negro
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Renée Craig-Odders, Univ. of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point
1. “Méndez at the Crossroads: The Detective Fiction of Francisco González
Ledesma,” by Renée Craig-Odders, Univ.
of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
2. “Contesting patriarchy: Spanish lesbian
feminist crime fiction,” by Jacky Collins,
3. “‘Lo más difícil de un libro es
hacer humor
4. “The Criminal as Electron: Physics
and Detection in Jorge Volpi’s En busca de Klingsor,” by Marcie Paul,
St. Norbert’s Coll.
123. South American Writing
8:30-10:00 a.m. (LaSalle 5)
Moderator:
Marcela E. Brusa,
1. “Melitón Reventós in the Cuban
Court of King Sugar: The Role of the Asturian Butler in Cirilo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés (1839),” by Jorge Abril Sánchez,
2. “Dibujos divinos: Iconografía de
un místico colonial,” by Andy Reynolds,
3. “Cuentame mi madre,” by Rafaela
Fiore,
124. Technology and the Literature and Writing Classrooms A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Parlor A, Parlor B)
Moderator:
Jon S. Mann,
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Parlor A)
1. “Communication in the Online
Literature Classroom,” by Salome C. Nnoromele, Eastern
2. “Cultural Studies and the
Engineer,” by Krishna Barua, Indian Institute of Technology
3. “Connecting the Dots: Digital
Video Composition, Embodiment, and the Non Thesis-Driven
Argument,” by Elizabeth Burow-Flak,
4. “Teaching With Technology: Using
Online Virtual
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Parlor B)
5. “Creating a Classroom Archive with
the Tablet PC,” by Marianne Cotugno,
6. “Collaboration and
Computers: Using New and Traditional Pedagogical Tools to Encourage Collaborative
Learning,” by Ann V. Bliss,
7. “‘And not having to think is
boring’: Teaching Steven Johnson's Everything
Bad Is Good for You,” by Amy Cummins, Fort Hays State Univ.
8. “Televisual Spectacle and the MOO:
Reimagining the Event,” by Katherine Casey-Sawicki,
125. “Trash” TV
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Stephanie Allen,
1. “Adaptación inadaptada: la
narrative de Benito Pérez Galdós in Desperate
Housewives,” by Adela Borrallo-Solis, Georgetown Coll.
2. “From Nostalgia to Snark: The Age
of Commentary,” by Erin Foster,
3. “Buffy Summers: Wisdom in the
Popular Fantastic,” by Alison Heney,
126. West African Fiction A (papers available in advance)
8:30-1:30 p.m. (
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Karen Remedios,
1. “From Other to Etcetera:
Rethinking Postcolonial Discourse on African Subjectivity,” by Gilmer Cook,
2. “How African is African Literature?” by Nada Fadda,
3. “Nouveau Voice: African
Experiences in a Worldwide Language,” by Francis Tobienne,
4. “W(h)ither the Politics of
Postcolonial Literature? Intersections
Between Achebe’s Study of National Politics and Aesthetics,” by Namrata Mitra,