THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8
1. President’s Forum: “Strangers in
a
8:00-9:30
p.m. (Bush)
1. “PostFeminism
and the Invention of OprahRealism,” by Dale
Bauer,
2. “Realism
in/and the Postcolonial Novel,” Sangeeta
Ray,
3. “WWJD (What
Would Jakobson Do?),” by Brian McHale,
Ohio State Univ.
2. Nightcaps Cash
Bar
9:30-10:30
p.m. (Bush)
celebrating
the opening of the convention and the evening’s forum
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER
9
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Refreshments (Whitehall
Room)
You are invited to
attend the Book Exhibit, 8:00-6:30 p.m.
(Whitehall Room)
Permanent Sections
3. History
of Critical Reception A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Wade, Bush)
Topic:
Media and Reception
Chair:
Melanie Brown, St. Norbert Coll.
Secretary:
Michelle Taylor,
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Wade)
1. “A
Taste for the Well-Read Life,” by Yung-Hsing Wu,
2.
“Burney’s Invisible Hand: Economies of Information in Cecilia,” by Lee Kahan, Indiana Univ. South Bend
3.
“Iconic Images Unite!: Rethinking the Importance of Images and the Impact of
Mass Media on Meaning-Making,” by Lauren Glenn, Texas A&M Univ.-Commerce
4.
“Audiences Meet Africa: Popular Cinema as Site of Western Hegemonic Meaning
Making,” by Kristine Kotecki,
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Bush)
1. “Turn up the Volume (and the
Feeling): Television, Postmodernism, and Affect,” by Melissa Ames, Wayne State
Univ.
2. “Writing in Time Now:
Benjamin and Textual Response to New Media,” by Devin Fromm, Independent
Scholar
3. “(Re)Creating the Truth: The
Public Intellectual’s Role in the Truth and Reconciliation Process,” by Belinda
Walzer,
4. “The Plath Mystique,” by Jennifer Sommer Hoffman,
4. Luso-Brazilian
A
Topic:
Problematizing the Real / Realism
Chair:
Talía Guzmán-González, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison
8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (Humphrey)
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Humphrey)
Subtopic:
Adaptations of Realism
1. “Apocalyptic
Imagination and Dynamics of Abjection in Contemporary Brazilian Literature:
André Sant’Anna’s Work,” by Angela Maria Dias, Universidade Federal Fluminense,
2. “Memorial de Maria Moura de
Rachel de Queiroz: Do romance à telenovela,” by
3. “Machado
de Assis,
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Humphrey)
Subtopic:
Dialogues in Lusophone Realism
4. “Eca, um
fofoqueiro? A fofoca no Crime do Padre
Amaro,” by Marcelo Moreschi, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara
5. “British
Influences on Portuguese Realism: O
Ultimato Inglês in Eça de Queirós, Guiomar Torresão and Guerra Junqueiro,”
by Rebecca Jones-Kellogg, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
6. “The
Quest for Manhood in Eça de Queirós’s A
Ilustre Casa de Ramires,” by Gina Reis, Univ. of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
7. “O privado, o público e a cidade
em Eça de Queirós e Machado de Assis,” by Talía Guzmán-González, Univ. of
Wisconsin-Madison
Session C
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Humphrey)
Subtopic:
Forms of Realism in Nineteenth-Century
8. “Da
borboleta à lagarta: Uma questão da agência feminina transitória em três
romances de José de Alencar,” by Carolina Castellanos,
9. “Machado
de Assis’ Oliveira Twist: Translation
and the Making of a Novelist,” by Yv Maciel,
10. “A desconfortável vocação e a armadilha de Kierkegaard: O
artista e a esterilidade em dois contos de Machado de Assis,” by Nicola
Gavioli, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara
5. Popular
Culture A
8:30-11:45
a.m. (Case)
Topic:
Poetry & Popular Culture
Chair:
Mike Chasar,
Session A
8:30-10:00
a.m. (Case)
Subtopic:
The Nineteenth Century
1. “
2.
“Scrapping Modernism: The Turn-of-the-Century Scrapbook as Model for the Modern
Quoting Poem,” by Bartholomew Brinkman,
3.
“Programmng Poetry: Visualizations in the Poetess Archive Database,” by Laura
Mandell,
Session
B
10:15-11:45
a.m. (Case)
Subtopic: Poetry & Popular Culture: The Twentieth Century
4. “A
Popular Paradise: The Blind Epic Poet
5. “Minimal
Pop: A Postwar Poetics,” by Andrew Fitch,
6.
“Poets and the Peace Movement,” by Philip Metres, John Carroll Univ.
7.
“Pulp Poetry,” by Brad Ricca, Case Western Reserve Univ.
6. Shakespeare
and Shakespearean Criticism
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Topic:
Shakespeare and Disability Studies
Chair:
David Wood,
Secretary:
Charles DelDotto,
1.
“What about Blood?: Humoral Body Theory in Elizabethan Drama,” by Cyndi
Headley,
2.
“‘Caesar Hath The Falling Sickness’: Epilepsy and Disability in the
Renaissance,” by Allison P. Hobgood,
3.
“‘The Lying’st Knave In Christendom’: Vagrancy, Charity, and the Development of
Disability in the False Miracle of St. Alban’s,” by Lindsey Row-Heyveld,
4.
“‘Red-hot with drinking’: Alcoholism and Insurrection in Shakespearean Drama,”
by David Wood, Northern Michigan Univ.
7. Spanish
II: Peninsular Literature After 1700
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Van Aken)
Topic:
Open Topic
Chair:
Malcolm Alan Compitello,
1.
“Resistencia Literaria en Unamuno y Mañas,” by Brian M. Cole,
2.
“Short Story Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War,” by Kalen Oswald,
3.
“Hombre y Maternidad en Nada,” by Sally Perret,
Associated
Organizations
8. American
Dialect Society A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Stouffer)
Topic:
Language Variation and Change in
Coordinator:
Susan M. Burt, Illinois State Univ.
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Stouffer)
1.
“Dude, This Is Hella Cool: The Syntax and Semantics of ‘Hella,’” by Jennifer
Alexander, Northwestern Univ.
2.
“Definitions of AAVE in Lay Discourse,” by Judith Bündgens-Kosten,
3.
“Investigating Gender-Specific Pragmatics in Televised Interviews,” by Tamara
M. Constant, Southern Illinois Univ. at Carbondale, and A. Lou Coyne, Southern
Illinois Univ. at Carbondale
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Stouffer)
4. “The
Low Back Merger in the
5. “Navajo
English,” by Charlotte Schaengold,
9. Henry
James Society
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Severance)
Topic:
Henry James as the Artful Traveler
Coordinator:
Peter Rawlings, Univ. of the West of
1. “A
Visitable Past: “The Aspern Papers” and the Strange Proximity of Heritage,” by
Matthew H. Anderson, SUNY
2.
“Henry James’s Deathbed Forays,” by Susan E. Gunter, Westminster Coll.
3.
“Scenes of Intimacy: Henry James and the Literary Experience of
4. “The
necessity of exile: the creation of meaning through absence in the later novels
of Henry James,” by Claude Willan,
10. Women's
Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest I-A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Holden)
Topic:
Women in Rock, Pop, Jazz and Rap: What you Know
to be Real: Women’s Music, Women’s Reality
Coordinator:
Patricia S. Rudden,
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Holden)
1. “Staging
Motherhood: Liz Phair, Tori Amos and the Maternal Sublime,” by John McCombe,
2.
“Rage, Women and Rock: Mapping the Trajectory of the Female [Rock] Star and her
Art of Rage and Performance in Contenporary Music,” by Courtney Young, Independent
Scholar
3. “A
Little Bit Country or a Little Bit Rock ‘n’ Roll: Locating the Performance
Style of the
4. “Not
Ready to Make Nice: The
Session B
10:15-11:45
(Holden)
5.
“‘Testimony’ in Context: Women’s Music and Romantic Poetry,” by Susan Booker
Morris, Ferris State Univ.
6.
“‘When You Walked into the Room You Had Everybody’s Eyes on You’: RuPaul and
the Disciplining Politics of ‘Gender,’” by Chris Bell, Nottingham Trent Univ.
7.
“‘Time To Design a Woman’: Laura Nyro’s Rhetoric of the Real,” by Patricia S.
Rudden, New York City Coll. of Technology/CUNY
Special
Sessions
11. Approaches
to Teaching Early African American Poetry (1700-1900)
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Owens)
Moderator:
Anne Herbert, Bradley Univ.
1. “Multimedia Website Instruction and Early African
American Poetry (1700-1900),” by Heather Buchanan-Gueringer, Wayne State Univ.
2. “Using Computers and Group Collaboration to Explore
the American Aeneas in an
Introductory African American Literature Classroom,” by Anne Herbert, Bradley
Univ.
12.
8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (Rockefeller)
Session
A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Rockefeller)
Moderator:
Adryan Glasgow,
1.
“‘Our Bodies Belong to Us Alone’: The Body and Female Subjectivity in Autobiography of My Mother and Mamzelle Dragonfly,” by Jennifer
Backman,
2.
“Stereotypes in Maryse Condé’s Who Slashed
Celanire’s Throat?,” by Kim Bowman,
3.
“Voiced Histories,” by Ekeama Goddard,
4.
“‘You / Have to Dress the Part’: Clothing Masculine Identities in Trinidadian
Fiction,” by Mark Leahy,
Discussant:
Shaun F. D. Hughes,
Session
B
10:15-11:45
a.m. (Rockefeller)
Moderator:
Jennifer Backman,
5. “The
Oral Aesthetic and the Ethics of Narrative Desire in Erna Brodber’s
6. “Of
Historicity and Healing: Haitian Stories and Memories,” by Sybil Durand,
7. “The
Character of Memory: Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding
the Ghosts and Edwidge Danticat’s The
Dew Breakers,” by Jason Lotz,
8. “Unreadability and the Redemption of History in Erna
Brodber’s
Discussant:
Shaun F. D. Hughes,
Session
C
12:00-1:30
p.m. (Rockefeller)
Moderator:
Ekeama Goddard,
9. “‘It’s Not, Well, It’s Not Good, It’s Not Nice, You Know’:
Society’s Imposition of Stability through Language and Labels, in Shani
Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night,” by
Buffy Turner,
10. “Standard Language or Creole?: Language Issues in ” Shani
Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night,” by
Kinga Volkán-Kascó,
11. “Language and Identity in Contemporary Caribbean
Literature: Implications for Language Policy and Planning,” by Ann-Marie
Simmonds,
12. “Return of the Monstrous Daughter: Gothic Scapegoating in
Maryse Condé’s Who Slashed Celanire’s
Throat?”, by Amna Al Ahbabi,
Discussant: Shaun F. D. Hughes,
13. The
Credibility of Realisms
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Michael Kearns,
1. “Post-Historical
Poetic Reality in Materialism and My Life,” by Michael Kearns,
2.
“Talismans and Transformation: the Credibility of Magical Realism,” by Pat
Aakhus,
3.
“Hybrid Realities in Amy Tan’s Saving
Fish from Drowning,” by Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw,
4.
“Lessons from an Ontological Illusion: How Links in Hypertext Create the Realer
than Real in Michael Joyce’s afternoon, a
story and Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork
Girl,” by Dominic Micer,
14. Fabricating
the Body I-A: Representations of the Body in American Literature and Culture
8:30-11:45 a.m. (
Moderator:
Cammie Sublette, Univ. of Arkansas-Fort Smith
Session
A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Topic:
Gender and the Body
1.
“Pregnant Forms: Narrative Structure in Contemporary Women’s Memoirs,” by Robin
Paula Silbergleid, Michigan State Univ.
2. “The
Body and Its Double,” by
3.
“Guilt, It Does a Body Good: Christian Fitness Books and the Obese American
Woman,” by Cammie M. Sublette, Univ. of Arkansas-Fort Smith
Session
B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Topic: Colonizing Bodies
4. “Collision
in the Desert: The Body and Cross-Cultural Desire in The Sheltering Sky,” by
5. “The
Aura of Colonial Nostalgia: The Representation of George Mallory’s Body by
Contemporary American Mountain Climbers,” by Christopher M. Sutch, George Mason
Univ.
6.
“Poisoned Female Bodies in Ana Castillo’s So
Far from God,” by Andrea Campbell, Washington State Univ.
7.
“Bloody Bodies: Slave Labor, Automated Labor, and Cyborg Slaves,” by Keridiana
Chez, CUNY
15. The Ideal
and the Real: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Domesticity
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Willey)
Moderator:
Amy Cummins, Fort Hays State Univ.
1. “‘To
hemstitch the Doctor’s ruffles’: Domestic Values in Stowe's The Minister's Wooing,” by Amy Cummins,
Fort Hays State Univ.
2.
“Shipwreck and Male Sympathy in ‘Life in the Iron Mills,’” by Shawn Thomson,
3.
“Domesticity as the Ideal: Mary Jane Holmes’s ‘New Woman’ in The Merivale Banks,” by Lee Ann Westman,
16. The Marxist
Literary Group: Literary Realisms – Contemporary Historical Materialist
Approaches A
8:30-11:45 a.m. (Shuckers)
Moderator:
Mathias Nilges,
Session A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Shuckers)
1. “Hungry
Realism: Style and Subjecthood in Meridel Le Sueur’s The Girl,” by Amy Gentry,
2. “‘This
Land is My Land’: Materialism, Propinquity, and Proper Names in the 1930s,” by
Peter Franks Univ. of Illinois at
3.
“‘Feel and smell and taste the crime of slavery until you abominate it’: The
Historiographical, Sentimental ‘Social Realism’ of Guy Endore,” by Joe G.
Ramsey,
4. “The
Cult of Immediacy,” by Justin Evans,
Session B
10:15-11:45
a.m. (Shuckers)
5. “‘The
Terror of the Unforeseen’: Philip Roth’s The
Plot Against America, Georgs Lukacs’ The
Historical Novel, and Historiographic Metafiction,” by Tara McGann,
6.
“Post-Fordist Pastoral: Realism and the End of the Pocket Utopia in the Novels
of Kim Stanley Robinson,” by Mathias Nilges,
7.
“‘But what is the history of
17. Realism and
Postmodernism
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Bush)
Moderator:
Pamela L. Caughie,
1. “Jonathan Coe’s The
Windshaw Legacy or This Is Not a Postmodern Novel,” by Véronique
Alexandre, Univ. de Caen Basse-Normandie
2.
“Postmodernism and the Search for Truth in The Things They Carried,” by Julie
Aronson,
3.
“Realism, Bureaucracy, and the Emergence of the Postmodern in Mary McCarthy’s
Literary Criticism,” by Robert Henn,
18. Realism in
Women’s Writing
8:30-10:00 a.m. (
Moderator:
Nuala Archer, Cleveland State Univ.
1.
“Allusions of Slender: Yiddish Women’s Poetry in the Interwar Period,” by Linda
Long-Van Brocklyn, The Ohio State Univ.
2.
“Revisiting the New Woman: Critiques of Progressive Feminism in Anzia
Yezierska’s Early Fiction,” by Charlotte Rich, Eastern Kentucky Univ.
3.
“Modernism, Visual Art and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’” by William Snyder, Saint Vincent
Coll.
19. Toni
Morrison and
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Blossom)
Moderator:
Peter Kvidera, John Carroll Univ.
1.
“Pilate’s Ghost: ‘If it was their father, he wouldn’t hurt them, would he?’,”
by Lindsey Stephans, John Carroll Univ.
2. “Exile,
Community, and Knowledge in Toni Morrison’s Tar
Baby,” by Mark Sample, George Mason Univ.
3. “‘I
have sung all the songs there are’: Questioning Third World Cosmology in Sula,” by Chris Roark, John Carroll
Univ.
20. Understanding
the Educational Effectiveness of a Department in Terms of Student Learning
Outcomes: Foreign Languages at the
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Brush)
Moderator:
Roger Pieroni,
1. “The
Foreign Language Program Evaluation Project at the
2. “The
LFPEP at the
3.
“Identifying Student Achievement Indicators and Designing Tools and Procedures
to Gather and Evaluate Them,” by Antonio Grau Sempere,
Permanent Sections
21. American
Literature I: Literature to 1870
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Topic:
The Politics of Recovery: Nineteenth-Century
African American Women Novelists
Chair:
Rebecca Saulsbury,
1. “Star
Wars: Recovery, Reception and Revisioning Nineteenth-Century African American
Women’s Literary History,” by Veta Tucker, Grand Valley State Univ.
2. “Does
Being First Justify Canonization?” by Linda Peterson, Univ. of Nebraska-Omaha
3. “Reconstructing
Black Womanhood in Hannah Crafts’ The
Bondwoman’s Narrative and Julia Collins’ The Curse of Caste,” by Michelle Taylor,
4.
“Negotiating and Re-visioning the Southern Domestic Novel: Hannah Crafts’ The Bondwoman’s Narrative and Caroline
Hentz’s The Planter’s Northern Bride,”
by Rebecca R. Saulsbury, Florida Southern Coll.
22. History of
Critical Reception B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Bush)
(see
Session #3 – 8:30 a.m., Friday)
23. Luso-Brazilian
B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Humphrey)
(see
Session #4 – 8:30 a.m., Friday)
24. Popular
Culture B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Case)
(see
Session #5 – 8:30 a.m., Friday)
25. Travel
Writing/Writing Travel A
10:15 a.m.-1:30 p.m. (
Topic:
Open Topic
Chair:
Zach Weir,
Secretary:
Leah Wahlin,
Session A
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
1.
“‘Would there ever again come to him such cause for migration?’: Middle-Class
Cosmopolitanism and Catholic Emancipation in Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux,” by Briana O’Riordan McCoy,
2.
“Slavery in Flora Tristan’s Travel Narrative, Peregrinations of a Pariah,” by Julia C. Paulk,
3.
“Imperiled Englishness: Praise and Rejection in Thomas Coryate’s letters from
Session B
12:00-1:30 p.m. (
4.
“Minor Movements: Anne Clifford, Aemilia Lanyer and the Travels of Early Modern
Women,” by Leah Wahlin,
5.
“‘They run away, forwards’: A. L. Kennedy’s On
Bullfighting and Sympathies of Death,” by Zach Weir,
Associated
Organizations
26. American
Dialect Society B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Stouffer)
(see
Session #8 – 8:30 a.m., Friday)
27. Women's
Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest I-B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Holden)
(see
Session #10 – 8:30 a.m., Friday)
Special
Sessions
28. Afro-Caribbean
Identity: Space, Culture, and Literature
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Blossom)
Moderator:
Mamadou Badiane, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
1.
“Negrismo and Negritude in the
2.
“From Music to Text and Back Again: Movement and Subjectivity in Afro-Cuban
music and Contemporary Cuban Literature,” by Kathleen Costello, St. John Fisher
Coll.
3. “The
Corruption of Slaves into Tyrants:
4. “Ellos
por allá, nosotros por aquí: Race, Nation, and Genocide in the
29. Body
Language in Ashkenaz: Corporeality in Yiddish Poetry
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Severance)
Moderator:
Colleen McCallum-Bonar, The Ohio State Univ.
1.
“Fragments in Fire: Yiddish Encounters with Body Post-Khurbn,” by Kevin M. Herzner, Ohio State Univ.
2.
“Black Beauty? African American Bodies in Yiddish Poetry,” by Colleen
McCallum-Bonar, Ohio State Univ.
3.
“Grains of Truth: Women as Wheat and Men as
4.
“Allusions of Slender: Yiddish Women’s Poetry in the Interwar Period,” by Linda
Long-Van Brocklyn, Ohio State Univ.
30.
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Rockefeller)
(see
Session #12 – 8:30 a.m., Friday)
31. Children in
Adult Literature: Let Their Voices Be Heard
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Brush)
Moderator:
Laurie Cannady, Lock Haven Univ. of
1. “Bub
Gone Bad: (Re)Visioning Childhood in Ann Petry’s The Street,” by Laurie Cannady, Lock Haven Univ.
2. “Zinaida
Gippius’s and M. Night Shyamalan’s Women out of Water: (A)sexualizing the Girl
Within,” by Lauri Chose, St. Francis Univ.
3.
“‘Not Always the Cheerfullest and Happiest Creature in the World:’ Childhood
and Embodiment in Susan Warner’s The
Wide, Wide World,” by Dax Jennings,
4. “Resisting
an Easy Reading/Constructing a Better Reader: An Adolescent Activist in Helen
María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus?,”
by Courtney Novosat,
32. Fabricating
the Body I-B: Representations of the Body in American Literature and Culture
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
(see
Session #14 – 8:30 a.m., Friday)
33. Is She For
Real? Women and Science Fiction
10:15-11:45 a.m.
(Van Aken)
Moderator:
Alayne Peterson, Univ. of Wisconsin-Fon du Lac
1. “I’d
Rather Be a Dwarf than a Ship: Violent Re-Configurations in Disability Studies
and Cyberspace,” by Laurie Carlson,
2.
“Seven of Nine: Toward a Neo-Feminist Construct of Sexuality and Cybernetics in
Star Trek Voyager’s Borg Drone,” by
Susan H. Young, LaGuardia Community Coll./CUNY
3. “Queer(ed)
Love: Desire, Sex and Taboo in Octavia Butler's Fiction,” by Connor J. Trebra,
California State Univ.,
4.
“Women in SF: Performance IS Power,” by Robert Lively,
34. The Marxist
Literary Group: Literary Realisms – Contemporary Historical Materialist
Approaches B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Shuckers)
(see
Session #16 – 8:30 a.m., Friday)
35. Narrative
Theory Today: Prospects and Problems
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Wade)
Moderator:
David Herman, Ohio State Univ.
1.
“Toward a Theory of Narrative Acts,” by Frederick Aldama, Ohio State Univ.
2.
“Surprise Endings: Form, Ethics, Aesthetics,” by James Phelan, Ohio State Univ.
3.
“Beginning to Think about Narrative in Poetry,” by Brian McHale, Ohio State
Univ.
4.
“Narrative Theory and the Intentional Stance,” by David Herman, Ohio State
Univ.
36. Reality
Checks and Balances: Thriving Through Collaboration
10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Moderator:
Eileen Quinlan, Notre Dame Coll., and Celeste
Wiggins, Ursuline Coll.
Christine
De Vinne, Ursuline Coll.
Amy
Kesegich, Notre Dame Coll.
Frederick
Wright, Ursuline Coll.
Lynn D.
Zimmerman, Notre Dame Coll.
Tony
Zupancic, Notre Dame Coll.
37. Rethinking
the Lower Middle Class
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Willey)
Moderator:
Todd Kuchta, Western Michigan Univ.
1. “Rethinking
Shame and the Lower Middle Class: From Exile to Sociability in George Gissing,”
by Richard Higgins,
2.
“Virginia Woolf and the Masculine Lower Middle Class,” by Kim Shirkhani,
3. “The
Bovex Englishman: Masculinity, Nation, and the Lower Middle Class in George
Orwell’s Keep the Aspidistra Flying,”
by Praseeda Gopinath, SUNY Binghamton
Permanent Sections
38. Bibliography
and Textual Studies
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Wade)
Topic:
Transatlantic Studies and the Book
Chair:
Jessica DeSpain,
Secretary:
Erin Mann,
1.
“Looking into a Speaking Mirror: Politics, Interpretation, and the English
Translation of One Hundred Years of
Solitude,” by Allison Fagan,
2.
“Realism’s War of Independence: William Dean Howells and the English Novel
Tradition,” by Sarah Kennedy, Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick
3.
“Equally Elite: British Class Consciousness and the Canonization of Whitman’s Democratic Vistas,” by Jessica DeSpain,
39. Luso-Brazilian
C
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Humphrey)
(see
Session #4 – 8:30 a.m., Friday)
40. Travel
Writing/Writing Travel B
12:00-1:30 p.m. (
(see
Session #25 – 10:15 a.m., Friday)
41. Writing
across the Curriculum
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Brush)
Topic:
Assessment and Writing across the Curriculum
Chair:
Marianne Cotugno,
1. “Writing
and Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes and the WAC/WID Program at the
2. “‘But it
works for them!’: WAC Assessment and the Necessity for Localization,” by
Brittany Cottrill, Elizabeth Fleitz, and Abbey Kanzig, Bowling Green State
Univ.
3. “Assessing
Literacy of the Word and the Idea: Writing and Information Across the
Curriculum,” by Michael W. Young, La Roche Coll.
4. “When a
College is WAC-Less: How Writing Center Work Can Support Writing Across the
Curriculum and Writing Assessment,” by Pam Whitfield, Rochester Community and
Technical Coll.
Special
Sessions
42.
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Rockefeller)
(see
Session #12 – 8:30 a.m., Friday)
43. Critical
Spaces in Contemporary Spanish Fiction (papers available in advance)
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Van Aken)
Moderator:
Susan Larson,
1.
“Rafael Chirbes and the Art of Rent,” by Malcolm A. Compitello,
2.
“Tierra ingrata: Spaces of Resistance in Goytisolo's Don Julian,” by Nathan
Richardson, Bowling Green State Univ.
3.
“Espacio y (pos)modernidad en las novelas detectivescas de Manuel Vázquez
Montalbán,” by Michelle Dumais,
44. Mobilities:
The Literary/Cinematic Text as Machine
12:00-1:30 p.m. (
Moderator:
Benjamin Fraser and Steven Spalding, Chistopher
Newport Univ.
1.
“Traveling at the Speed of Sight: Machines of Vision in Zola and Proust,” by
Steven Spalding, Christopher Newport Univ.
2. “The
Production of Space: Juan Benet’s Volverás
a Región as Deleuzian Literary Machine,” by Benjamin Fraser, Christopher
Newport Univ.
3.
“From Structure to the Logic of Sense: Passing Time in Michel Butor and Gilles
Deleuze,” by Giuseppina Mecchia,
45. Psychoanalytic
Perspectives on Literary Realism
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Shuckers)
Moderator:
Loretta G. Woodard, Marygrove Coll.
1.
“Anticipating the Fetish in the Frank Norris and Sherwood Anderson,” by Richard
Gienopie,
2. “War
as Ultimate Reality: Mystical Visions of the Nation’s Future in May Sinclair’s The Tree of Heaven,” by Cory
Hutchinson-Reuss,
3.
“This Woman’s Work: Re-Reading the Comtesse de Ségur,” by Rosemary Peters, Louisiana
State Univ.
4.
“Uncanny Realism: Revisiting Magic Realism in Anna Seghers’ ‘The Outing of the
Dead Girls,’” by Jessica Wienhold,
46. ‘Realisms’
in recent German post-wall cinema
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Case)
Moderator:
Andrea Reimann,
1. “The
2. “The
False Villain: Time in the Movie/Video Game Lola
rennt,” by Liz Frye,
3. “Das Leben der Anderen:
4.
“Re-formulations of Realism in Recent German Cinema: Reading Yüksel Yavuz and
Thomas Arslan’s Films with Bazin and Kracauer,” by Andrea Reimann,
Permanent
Sections
47. African
American Literature A
12:30-5:30 p.m. (Blossom)
Topic:
Teaching Toni Morrison
Chair:
Melissa Daniels, Northwestern Univ.
Secretary:
Session
A
12:30-2:00 p.m. (Blossom)
1. “Exploring
Without Erasing: Staying True to Morrison’s Vision,” by
2. “Toni
Morrison: Teaching Difference,” by Delores DeLuise, Borough of
3. “Teaching
Toni Morrison in the Middle East,” by Ihab M. Freiz,
Session
B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Blossom)
4.
“Teaching Toni Morrison’s Love Trilogy,” by Deborah James,
5.
“‘How Having Sixteen Answers Means Having None’: Jadine, Son, and the Critical
Debate Surrounding Tar Baby,” by
Natalie Kalich,
6.
“Women’s Ways in Toni Morrison’s Novels,” by
Session
C
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Blossom)
7. “Parts of the Whole: Reading Hegemony in Toni
Morrison's Tar Baby,” by
Julia Kaziewicz, Coll. of William & Mary
8.
“Jadine’s Search for Authentic Self in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby,” by Faith Bennett, Loyola Univ. Chicago
9.
“Missing the Living and Dead: Mourning, Memory and Healing in Morrison’s Sula and Sweet Honey in the Rock,” by TJ
Geiger II, Texas Women’s Univ.
48. “Art What
Thou Eat”: Food in Literature, Art, and Culture
12:30-2:00 p.m. (Severance)
Topic:
Open Topic
Chair:
Lynne Flora Margolies,
1. “The
Comfort Zones: Eating, Drinking and Coming Out in Gay Film,” by Daniel Macleay,
Southeast Missouri State Univ.
2.
“Lard Wars: Selling Americanization in a Cookbook.” by Jill Nussel, Indiana
Univ./Perdue Univ. Fort Wayne (IPFW)
3. “Vernacular
ThoughtL Organic Grains and Dialogic Tendencies,” by Andrew Fitch,
4. “A Study
of German Immigrant Women Saloonkeepers in
5. “The
Inheritance of Loss,” by William Hemminger,
49. Canadian
Literature A
12:30-5:30 p.m. (Stouffer)
Topic: The Canadian Nation(s)
Chair:
Adele Holoch,
Session
A
12:30-2:00
p.m. (Stouffer)
Subtopic:
A
Canadian Canon?: Canadian Voices, Canadian Traditions
1. “Moving
Foreword: Finding the ‘Return’ Story in Mordecai Richler’s The Street,” by Nicola A. Faieta,
2. “A Widened Earth, a
Better Earth: Canadian Identity Within the International Brigades in Hugh
Garner and Ted Allan's Spanish Civil War Writings,” by Emily Sharpe, The Pennsylvania State Univ.
3. “Unbridgeable
Divides: Canadian Infrastructure and Immigration in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion,” by Adele
Holoch,
Session
B
2:15-3:45
p.m. (Stouffer)
Subtopic:
Native Identities
5. “Where
Is Her/e?: Métissaged In(ter)vention in Lee Maracle’s I Am Woman,” by Bennett Yu-Hsiang Fu, National Taiwan Univ.
6. “Creating
Native Borders: Poetics of Cheryl Savageau and Connie Fife,” by Julie O’Connor,
Michigan State Univ.
7. “Redefining
Literal and Literary Borders: Thomas King’s Green
Grass, Running Water,” by Jonathan Wilson, Eastern New Mexico Univ.
Session
C
4:00-5:30
p.m. (Stouffer)
Subtopic:
Quebecois Identities
8. “‘What
does it mean to be a real Québécois?’ The place of the cultural Other in
Québécois cultural identity,” by Annica
Schjött-Voneche,
9. “‘Form and Content in
Discourse are One’: Structural Dialogism and the Representation of the Canadian
Nation in Mavis
Gallant’s Home Truths,” by Margo
Gouley,
50. Drama A
12:30-5:30 p.m. (Garfield, Holden)
Topic:
Displacing the Stage: What Makes Theatre?
Chair:
Ann C. Hall, Ohio Dominican Univ.
Secretary:
Judith Roof, Michigan State Univ.
Session A
12:30-2:00 p.m. (
1. “This Story Has More Other Hands Than a Hindu God:
Mathematical Theatre and the Subversion of Indeterminate History,” by Lance
Norman, Michigan State Univ.
2.
“‘Artistic Policy’: British Renaissance Milton on the Spanish Nineteenth-century
Stage,” by Angelica Duran,
3.
“Dramatized Advice Literature and the Politics of Eighteenth-century
Domesticity,” by John Pruitt, Univ. of Wisconsin-Rock County
4.
“Constructing the Nation: Theatre in the Eighteenth Century,” by Salita
Seibert, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Session B
2:15-3:45
p.m. (Holden)
5. “Spacing Out: Beckett’s Eleutheria
and Pinter’s Dumb Waiter, by Ann C.
Hall, Ohio Dominican Univ.
6.
“Queer Politics: Staging Gender Identity and Homoerotic Desire in Twelfth
Night and Cloud 9,” by Ann Trotter, Ohio
Dominican Univ.
7.
“Recursive Absence: Voice and the Notion of a Play,” by Judith Roof, Michigan
State Univ.
8. “The Pillowman and
Representations of Violence in Contemporary Theatre,” by Jonathan LaGuardia,
John Carroll Univ.
Session C
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Holden)
9. “Technology, History, and Postmodernism in Howard Breton’s HID: Hess is Dead,” by Keith Peacock,
10. “Angels in
11. “Reconstituting the Real: Verbatim Theatre's Response to the
War on Terror,” by Jonathan Steiner, John Carroll Univ.
12. “Theatre:
Cauldron for the Heroic Society,” by Jason Knight, Independent Scholar
Special
Sessions
51. Altered
States: The Pharmakon and the Real in
Literature and Culture
12:30-2:00 p.m. (Willey)
Moderator:
Erin Felicia Labbie, Bowling Green State Univ.
1. “‘We
are all wired into a survival trip
now’: Hallucinogenic Salvation in Fear
and Loathing in
2. “The
Pardoner’s Prescription of the Relic: Writing History and the Pharmakon,” by Chris Taylor, Bowling
Green State Univ.
3. “The
Sign of the Needle: Sherlock Holmes as Rational Addict,” by Devin Fromm,
Independent Scholar
4.
“Kathy Acker’s Panic Prose and Emancipatory Stupidity,” by Ellen E. Berry,
Bowling Green State Univ.
52. Gender
Studies and Women’s Realities A
12:30-2:00 p.m. (Holden); 2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Session
A
12:30-2:00 p.m. (Holden)
Moderator:
Margaretmary Daley, Case Western Reserve Univ.
1.
“Speaking of Love and Politics: Olive Schreiner’s Fiction of Courtship on an
African Farm,” by Kristine Kelly, Case Western Reserve Univ.
2. “Women’s
Realities and the Arab ‘Other’ in Africa,” by Cheryl Toman,
3.
“Like us?: Emirati women reading Joyce’s ‘Araby’ and ‘Eveline’,” by Michael
Lynch,
4. “A
Simulation of Truth: Reconciling Gender in the Media,” by Erin Holliday-Karre,
Session
B
2:15-3:45
p.m. (
Moderator:
Jacqueline Nanfito, Case Western Reserve Univ.
5.
“Betraying the Holy Wedlock: Imagining the Fate of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Charulata’
or ‘The Lonely Wife’,” by Suchismita Banerjee, Wright State Univ.
6.
“That Isn’t Everything: Angelica Gorodischer and Women’s Storytelling,” by
Jeanie Murphy, Rockford Coll.
7.
“Onscreen and Off: Constructing the Realities of the Public ‘New Woman’ in
1940s
8. “The
Production of Female Subjectivities in Contemporary
53. To
12:30-2:00 p.m. (Bush)
Moderator:
Patrick J. Mannix,
1.
“Prisoners of Metaphor: ‘Greatest Generation’ Narratives and The ‘War’ on
Terrorism,” by Patrick J. Mannix,
2.
“Searching for
3.
“Babylon 2004: Post 9-11
Permanent
Sections
54. African
American Literature B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Blossom)
(see
Session #47 – 12:30 p.m., Friday)
55. Canadian
Literature B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Stouffer)
(see
Session #49 – 12:30 p.m., Friday)
56. Drama B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Holden)
(see
Session #51 – 12:30, Friday)
57. Linguistics
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Owens)
Topic:
The Future of English: Locally and Globally
Chair:
Lilia Savova,
1. “The Current Reference to an
English-speaker in Spanish: A Politically Correct Perspective,” by Benjamin
Schmeiser, Illinois State Univ.
2. “The Future of English,” by Lilia
58. Media
Studies
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Brush)
Topic:
Realism Revised: Media Contexts for Realist
Praxis
Chair:
Terence Brunk,
1. “Virtual
and Real Museum Experiences: Considering the Realism of Online
2. “The
(More) Reliable Narrator: Two Women of New Journalism,” by Scott Artley,
3. “Writing
American Realities with Images: Examining the Ideology of ‘“Realism’ in
Documentary Photography and Film,” by Lauren Glenn, Texas A&M
Univ.-Commerce
59. Spanish
Cultural Studies
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Wade)
Topic:
Movement, Mapping, Metropolis:
Chair:
Rebecca Haidt, Ohio State Univ.
Secretary:
Stephen Vilaseca,
1. “Walking
with your brain: The construction of pedestrian imaginaries in
2.
“Gender and Movement in 19th-century
3. “
4.
“Envisioning
Associated
Organizations
60. Society for
the Study of Midwestern Literature I
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Shuckers)
Topic:
Coordinator:
David D. Anderson, Michigan State Univ., and Marilyn
J. Atlas,
1. “
2.
“Toni Morrison’s Eulogy for James Baldwin: Realism, Ambivalence, Fertility and
Writing the Stories One Needs to Read,” by Marilyn J. Atlas,
3.
”Music, Theater, and Performance in the Poetry of Herbert Woodward Martin,
Special
Sessions
61. BAM! POW!
ZAP! The Graphic Novel Meets Literature
in the “Gutter” A
2:15-5:30 p.m. (Case)
Moderator:
Angela Szczepaniak, SUNY
Session
A
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Case)
1.
“IM/PRISONERS: Language, Freedom and the Carceral in/of Gaiman’s The Sandman and
2. “
3.
“Bound for Greatness: The Role of the Collection in the Rise of the Graphic
Novel,” by Dustin Long,
4. “Graphic
Spaces: The Exploration of the Political Landscape by Lynd Ward and Brian
Wood,” by Dustin Kennedy, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Session
B
4:00-5:30
p.m. (Case)
5.
“Mice in the Gutter: Resisting Closure in Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale,” by Anthony Fulton, Southern Illinois
Univ. Carbondale
6.
“Splice,” by Ron Sweeney, SUNY
7.
“Agency in Grant Morrison’s Animal Man,”
by Dave Fiore,
8.
“Brick by Brick: Chris Ware’s Architecture of the Page,” by Angela Szczepaniak,
SUNY Buffalo
62. Classroom
Taboos: A Practical Exploration
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Van Aken)
Moderator:
Julie F. Aronson
1. “Say
It As Though You Mean It: Staging Classroom Controversy,” by Kate Egerton,
2.
“Confronting a Controversy: Race, Language, and Identity in the Composition
Classroom,” by Jason M. Demeter,
3. “‘I
can’t believe we read that!’ The Controversy-centered Syllabus,” by Linda
Long-Van Brocklyn, Ohio State Univ.
4.
“Film Studies: Success with Excess,” by Patrick L. McGuire,
63. Fabricating
the Body II-A: Representations of the Body in British Literature and Culture
2:15-5:30 p.m. (
Moderator:
Beth Torgerson, Eastern
Session A
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Subtopic:
Institutions and the Body: Law, Medicine,
Religion, and Language
1. “Widow
Control: Legal Constraints on the Female Body in George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda,” by Cynthia M. VanSickle,
2. “‘Little
fact and much imagination’: Harriet Martineau and the Mesmerized/Medicalized Body,”
by Beth E. Torgerson, Eastern Washington Univ.
3. “Taming
the Beast in the Name of the Father: The
Island of Dr. Moreau and Well’s Critique of Society’s Religious Molding,”
by Penelope Quade,
4.
“(Dis)embodiment of Trans Subjectivity and Queer(ed) Love: The Narrator in
Jeanette Winterson’s
Written on the Body,” by Deb Kuzawa,
Columbus State Community Coll.
Session B
4:00-5:30
p.m. (
Subtopic: Bodies In/Beyond the Text: Photography, Print Culture,
and Performance
5.
“Toiling for Their Pleasure: Hannah Cullwick, the House Servant Loophole
and the Challenges of the Idyllic Feminine Form,” by
6. “Punch and the Fabrication of the New
Woman’s Sporting Body,” by Tracy J. R. Collins,
7.
“‘How to knit again these broken limbs’: Shakespeare, Vesalius, and
the Fabric of the Imperial Body,” by Jennifer Feather, Case Western Reserve
Univ.
64. French
Masculinities
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Severance)
Moderator:
Todd W. Reeser,
1. “Approaches
to French Masculinities: An Introduction,” by Todd W. Reeser,
2. “Would
Sartre do Masculinity Studies?: Subjectivity, Progress, and Perpetuation,” by
Zach Moir,
3. “Problematic
Bourgeois Masculinity in Nineteenth-century
4. “Sade-omizing
Masculinity: Deconstructing the Gender Binary through the Sadian Sexual
Predator,” by Jennifer Lawrence,
65. Gender
Studies and Women’s Realities B
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
(see
Session #53 – 12:30 p.m., Friday)
66. Literature
AND Culture: German Studies, Discipline, and Method at
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Rockefeller)
Moderator:
Seth Howes and Jeffrey Luppes,
1. “Literature
AND Culture,” by Jeffrey Luppes and Seth Howes,
2. “The
‘Poetics’ of Diaspora: Negotiating Belonging in the Afro-German Context,”
by Ela Gezen and Joshua Hawkins,
3.
“Counter-textual Surplus: Text and Performance in Michael Thalheimer’s Lulu,” by Sara Jackson,
4.
“Re-appraising the Overlooked: A Recovery of Siegfried Kracauer's
67. Realism and
the Old
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Humphrey)
Moderator:
Jeremy Wells, Southern
1.
“Nostalgical Realism: Postbellum Travelogues and Creole Discourses in the
Southern Plantation Romance,” by Jeffrey Stayton,
2.
“Cosmopolitan Subjectivity on the Modern
3. “Our
Old Kentucky Home: Chesnutt, Morrison, and the Passing of
68. Realism in
the Nineteenth Century
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Moderator:
Loretta G. Woodard, Marygrove Coll.
1.
“‘Not entirely cast off’:
2.
“Writing Against History: The Politics of the Poetic Real,” by Sonia Werner,
3. “Intimate
Realities: Constance Fenimore Woolson’s ‘East Angels and Victorian Love,’” by Geraldine Murphy, The City Coll., CUNY
69. Renaissance
Drama in Performance: Early Modern Realities, Modern Productions A
2:15-5:30 p.m. (
Session
A
2:15-3:45 p.m. (
Moderator:
Hillary Nunn,
1. “Enter
At a Window: Early Modern Staging and the Tragic Herione,” by Tara E. Lynn,
2. “The
Prostituted Nun: Staging Isabella in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure,” by Jennifer Sommer Hoffman,
3. “‘Romeo,
Romeo, Wherefore art thou Wielding that Crowbar?’:
4.
“‘That’s he that was Othello’: Racial Identity in Othello and O,” by
Vanessa Corredera,
Session
B
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
Moderator:
L. Monique Pittman, Andrews Univ.
5.
“‘Still methinks the Duchess haunts me’: Dangerous Disorder in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi,” by Kristin
Denslow, Western Michigan Univ.
6.
“Power and Fidelity: The Case of Alex Cox's The
Revenger's Tragedy,” by Claude Willan,
7. “HBO
Reads Shakespeare:
70. Trauma and
the American Revolution: Representing Rupture
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Willey)
Moderator:
Sean J. Kelly, SUNY
1. “The
Catastrophe of Revolution and the Abyss of American Exceptionalism in Charles
Brockden Brown’s Wieland,” by Trisha
Brady, SUNY Buffalo
2. “Sally Hemings, Slavery, and the National
Subject,” by Stephen Lucasi,
3.
“Gayle Rubin and Cooper’s The Spy:
War, Trauma, Rupture, and the ‘Traffic in Women’,” by Chris Lang,
4.
“Revolutionary Trauma and the Future of Democracy in Melville’s
71. Un-Trodden
Passages: Revising the Boundaries of Benjamin Studies
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Bush)
Moderator:
Scott L. Rogers,
1. “Walter
Benjamin: Critical Awareness and New Media Composition,” by Ryan Trauman,
2. “Literary
Criticism Materialized: Re-evaluating the Position of the Literary Critic
Through Walter Benjamin,” by Adam Robinson,
3.
“Encountering the Materialist Narrative: Walter Benjamin as Critical
Storyteller,” by Lynda Mercer,
4. “Situating
the Historical Material Self: Walter Benjamin in the Composition Classroom,” by
Scott Rogers,
Workshop
Session
72. Workshop I: Transitioning to Professional Life
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Bush)
Moderators: Jenifer S.
Cushman,
1. Amy Cummins, English Dept.,
Fort Hays State Univ.
2. Beth Muellner, German Dept., Coll. of
3. Martha Bohrer, English Dept.,
North Central Coll.
Permanent
Sections
73. African
American Literature C
4:00-5:30
p.m. (Blossom)
(see
Session #47 – 12:30 p.m., Friday)
74. Canadian
Literature C
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Stouffer)
(see Session #49 – 12:30
p.m., Friday)
75. Creative
Writing II: Prose
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Carnegie)
Chair:
Bob Watts,
Secretary: Stephanie Powell Watts,
1. Fiction by Charlie
Green,
2.
Fiction by Stephanie Powell
Watts,
3.
Fiction by Valerie Vogrin, Southern
76. Drama C
4:00-5:30 (Holden)
(see
Session #51 – 12:30 p.m., Friday)
77. Native
American Literature
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Willey)
Topic:
Story-Telling: Where, When, How, and Why
Chair:
Janet LaBrie, Univ. of Wisconsin-Waukesha
Secretary:
Margaret Rozga, Univ. of Wisconsin-Waukesha
1. “The
Stories Never Change because They Are Always Changing,” by Carol Lee
Saffioti-Hughes, Univ. of Wisconsin-Parkside
2. “Who Owns
the Stories?” by Victoria Brehm, Grand Valley State Univ.
3.
“Detecting Culture: Native American Mystery Fiction Tells All?,” Janet LaBrie,
Univ. of Wisconsin-Waukesha
78. Women in
Literature
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
Topic:
Traveling Women and Narrated Identities
Chair:
Deirdre Egan,
Secretary:
Laura Vorachek,
1. “Isabella
Bird and Mountain Jim: Fiction, Fact and the Narrated Self in A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains,”
by Christine DeVine,
2. “As
like two peas”: Isabella Bird and Constance Gordon Cumming, Rival
Globetrotteresses,” by May Caroline Chan, Coll. of Saint Rose
3. “Beret
Hansa and Elisabeth Koren on “the border of utter darkness”: Traveling Women
and the Claustrophobic Monstrosity of Landscape,” by Deirdre Egan, Saint
Norbert Coll.
Associated
Organizations
79. Women in
French
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Van Aken)
Topic:
La représentation des femmes dans des textes
français et/ou francophones du 19e siècle au présent: La femme en temps de
crise, la femme inaugurant le changement
Coordinator:
Hélène Brown, Principia Coll.
A notre
époque où la présence des femmes candidates ou élues à de hautes fonctions
socio-politiques inaugure des changements possibles dans divers pays du monde,
cette session se penchera sur la représentation littéraire des femmes comme
victimes révélatrices en temps de crise ou promotrices de changement, depuis le
19e siècle jusqu’au présent, sur les plans culturels, politiques et
littéraires.
1.
“L'identité féminine face aux ‘réalités’ politiques et culturelles :
Djebar, Duras, et Ernaux, ” by Anna Rosensweig,
2.
“Ourika, héroïne romantique, et Diouana, héroïne de la décolonisation
française, deux figures de l’aliénation chez Claire de Duras et Ousmane
Sembène, ” by Hélène Brown, Principia Coll.
3.
“Rompre le silence: La femme chagossienne dans Le Silence des Chagos de Shenaz Patel,” by Rohini Bannerjee, Saint
Mary’s Univ.
80. Society for
the Study of Midwestern Literature II
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Shuckers)
Topic:
Coordinator:
Marilyn J. Atlas,
1. “The
Beginning of a Midwest American Literature in the
2.
“Charles Waddell Chesnutt,
3. “An
Implicit and Explicit Analysis of Race and Region: Paul Laurence Dunbar’s
Special
Sessions
81. American
Cultural Studies
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Severance)
Moderator:
Elizabeth Klaver, Southern
1.
“Searching for Subjectivity and Sexuality: Re-Speaking Desire Differently
in the Neo Postmodern-Feminist Moment,” by Melissa Ames, Wayne State Univ.
2.
“Reality—or Ideology—in
3.
“Gender Roles in Homosocial Societies: Mamet’s The Unit,” by Rachel Hawley, Southern Illinois Univ. Carbondale
82. BAM! POW!
ZAP! The Graphic Novel Meets Literature
in the “Gutter” B
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Case)
(see
Session #62 – 2:15 p.m., Friday)
83. Fabricating
the Body II-B: Representations of the Body in British Literature and Culture
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
(see
Session #64 – 2:15 p.m., Friday)
84. German Literature and Culture: Realism in Austrian
Culture and Film
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Brush)
Moderator: Joseph W. Moser, Washington and
1. “Die Verschmelzung von Realität
und Idylle in Ferdinand von Saars Die
Steinklopfer, ” by Enno Lohmeyer, Case Western Reserve Univ.
2. “‘Der 15. Juli:’ Politics of
Representation in Elias Canetti and Heimito von Doderer,” by Markus Hardtmann,
3. “Neo-Realism in Austrian Detective
Stories—In Fiction and Film,” by Jacqueline Vansant, Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn
85. Languages
of Architecture and the Architectonics of Language
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Owens)
Moderator:
Brian Macaskill, John Carroll Univ.
1. “Poetic Dwellings: Heidegger, Kafka, and Michael K,” by Eric P. Meljac,
2. “The
Problem of Space: Autobiography, the Body, and Roland Barthes by Roland
Barthes,” by Christopher Cottam, John Carroll Univ.
3. “Reconstructing the Frame: Elizabeth Costello as a passe-partout to The Lives of Animals,” by Anne Haney, Cleveland Plain Dealer
4. “The Computer and the Cartouche: Begetting the
Architecture of J. M. Coetzee’s Slow Man,” by Brian Macaskill,
John Carroll Univ.
86. The Mezuzah
and the Mestizaje: Jewish
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Rockefeller)
Moderator:
Lynne Flora Margolies,
1. “A
Garden of Literary Delights: Nepantla and Retrospection in the Works
of Angelina Muñiz-Huberman
2.
“Father and Sons: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction of Patriarchy in
Argentine Jewish Literature,” by Hazel Gold,
3. “Is
Jewishness Bercoming Mainstream in Contemporary Argentine Cinema?,” by
87. Renaissance
Drama in Performance: Early Modern Realities, Modern Productions B
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
(see
Session #70 – 2:15 p.m., Friday)
88. Teaching
Film and Literature Together
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Humphrey)
Moderator:
Laura L. Beadling
1.
“Blurring Boundaries: Fact, Fiction, Metafiction in Fight Club,” by Mica Gould, Grambling State Univ.
2.
“Pequots and Persians: Raising Students' Awareness of Racialized Violence in
3. “Using
Film to Teach Othello in the
Literature Classroom,” by Christine Hubbard,
4. “‘Teaching
Film and Literature Together’: the Two Tsotsis,”
by Anne Reef,
89. Testing
Narratology
4:00-5:30 p.m. (
Moderator:
Jeffrey J. Williams, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
1.
“Lost in Narration: Academic Discourse and the Function of Criticism,” by David
Cerniglia, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
2. “The
Master-Plot in the Public Sphere,” by Stephen T. Jordan, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
3.
“Story and Argument: Rhetorical Uses of Embedding and Focalization,” by Meaghan
O’Keefe, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
4.
“Storytelling Beasts?: The Question of Animal Focalization,” by Heather
Steffen, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Discussant:
Jeffrey J. Williams, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
90. Victorian
Aestheticism/Realism
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Wade)
Moderator:
Megan Early Alter,
1. “George
Eliot, G.H. Lewes, and Theatrical Mimesis,” by Megan Early Alter,
2. “Ruskin
and Wilde on realism: Evolutionary change in Idealist aesthetics,” by Michael
Helfand,
3.
“Realist vs. Modernist Form and their Reception in the Landscapes of Fernand
Khnopff,” by Andrew Marvick, Southern
4.
“Realizing the Unseen: Literary Story-Tellers of the Fin-de-Siecle,” by Anne
Stapleton,
91. President’s
Reception
5:15-6:15 p.m. (Whitehall Room)
Complimentary wine and
hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, hosted by 2007 President David R. Shumway
92 . President’s Keynote Address
6:30-8:00
p.m. (Bush)
Toril Moi, “Idealism/Modernism:
Wittgenstein’s Duck/Rabbit and Literary History”
Toril
Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature, Romance Studies,
Theater Studies and English at
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Refreshments (Whitehall Room)
You are invited to
attend the Book Exhibit, 8:00-6:30
p.m. (Whitehall Room)
Permanent
Sections
93. Children's
Literature
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Bush)
Topic:
Surburban Landscapes in Children’s and Young
Adult Literature
Chair:
Gwen Athene Tarbox, Western Michigan Univ.
1. “Curious
George Moves to the Suburbs: Urban Jungles and Suburban Idylls in the Curious
George Series,” by Daniel Greenstone,
2.
“‘Chinese, Japanese, what’s the difference?’:
Asian Americans and Suburbia in Lensey Namioka’s YA Fiction,” by Margaret D. Stetz,
94. English I:
English Literature Before 1800
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Shuckers)
Topic:
Medical Intersections
Chair:
Katherine Kickel,
1.
“Shakespeare and the Plague: The Language of Contagion and the Player-Physician
in Early Modern
2. “The
Natural History of Feeling: The ‘Experiment’ of Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads,” by Jhoanna Infante,
3.
“Imagining a Novel’s Life: Generation Theory in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones,” by Katherine Kickel,
4.
“From Satire to Bildungsroman: The Political and Literary Response to
Materialist Thinking in British Fiction,” Scott Nowka,
95. English
II-A: English Literature 1800-1900
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Holden); 10:15-11:45 a.m. (
Topic:
Fragments in Nineteenth-Century British
Literature and Culture
Chair:
Jeannie Britton,
Secretary:
Megan Early Alter,
Session
A
8:30-10:00 a.m. (Holden)
Subtopic: Forms of Fragmentation
1.
“Shakespeare in Pieces: Victorian Quotation Books and the National Poet,” by
Christopher Decker,
2. “The
Fragmentation of the Novel and the Work of the Critic,” by David Cerniglia,
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
3. “The
Romantic Essay as Fragment: Smith, Godwin, Wordsworth,” by Matthew Russell,
Session
B
10:15-11:45
a.m. (
Subtopic: Poetic Fragments and Poetic Wholes
4.
“That ‘Good Deal More’ Was Never Meant To Be ‘Recoverable’: Performing
Fragmentation in Kubla Khan,” by
Onita Vaz-Hooper, Davidson Coll.
5. “but
thou answerest only with Spring,” by Irene Hsiao,
6.
“Fragmentation in Tennyson's In Memoriam,”
by David Goslee,