Friday Sessions

February 27

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Session 3

Friday, February 27 8:30-10:00 a.m.

3.01 Lexington Room
Films of Terrorism
Chair: Rebecca Romanow, University of Rhode Island
"Constructing Memory of the 9/11 Hijackers Through Film" Henrike Lehnguth, University of Maryland
"Terrorism in Film: Explosive Sexualities: Nationalism and Terror in The Bubble" Colleen Jankovic, University of Pittsburgh
"Terrorism on the Indian Screen: Changing Attitudes, Cinematic Depictions and Audience Responses" Priyanjali Sen, New York University
3.02 Berkshire Room
Early Hispanic Culture in New York City
Chair: Regina Galasso, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
"Peripheral Modernisms: New York, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Hispanic World" Evelyn Scaramella, Yale University
"In the Shadow of Coatlicue: Caso, Covarrubias and Mexican Art at the MoMA (1940)" Ann DeLe?n, University of Alberta
"Voces y lugares de encuentro: Jos? Hierro y su cuaderno de Nueva York" Elena Rebollo-Cort?s, Kalamazoo College
3.03 Duxbury Room
More Than Adaptation: Asking the Big Questions about Film, Narrative, and Disciplines
Chair: Stephen Swanson, Penn State-Erie
"Image, Medium, and Intro English" Abigail Salerno, Trinity College
"The Mirror, the Lamp, the Toilet Seat, and the Castle Window: Models of Authorship in Classical Screenwriting" Rob Appleford, University of Alberta
"In Search of Lost Techniques: Recent Adaptations and Appropriations of Proust in Comics and Film" Jason Frank, Youngstown State University
3.04 Dedham Room
Literature and Design in Twentieth-Century America
Chair: Julia Faisst, Harvard University
"Frank O'Hara, James Baldwin and Postwar Design: From Bauhaus to Our House" Monika Gehlawat, University of Southern Mississippi
"Architecture in the Land of the Two-Minute Clock: Richard Price's Clockers and Modernist Public Housing" Patrick Gallagher, New York University
"Design Parables in Pinocchio in Venice" Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design
3.05 Sturbridge Room
Comparative Literature: Pedagogy and Curriculum Building
Chair: Belen Atienza, Clark University
"Reading, Writing, and Teaching Across Cultures" Jane Hale, Brandeis University
"Comparative Comedy: Where Are Race, Class, and Gender in Comedy?" Juan G. Ramos, University of Massachusetts
"Who Pulls the Strings? Team-Teaching and Comparative Literature" Alice Valentine, Clark University
3.06 Suite 625
American Literature and War
Chair: Beth Jensen, Georgia Perimeter College
"'A sprig with its flower I break': Peace and Reconciliation in Whitman's Drum-Taps" Beth Jensen, Georgia Perimeter College
"'The House-top': Melville's Poem of Force" Gary Grieve-Carlson, Lebanon Valley College
"'You Must Be On Your Guard Where You Look': Addressing the Wound in Whitman's Specimen Days and Crane's 'An Episode of War'" Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY Graduate Center
3.07 Plymouth Room
American Suffrage Literature: Fostering a Field
Chair: Angela Mills, Brock University
"Revolting Women: American Suffrage Literature and Public Censure" Maggie Rehm, University of Pittsburgh
"From Pulpit to Platform: The Rhetoric of American Women Suffrage Plays" Elaine Brousseau, Providence College
"'Give us a vote and we will cook / The better for a wide outlook': The Suffrage Community Cookbook" Jane Greenway Carr, New York University
3.08 Concord Room
Inhabiting Worlds - Drama Pedagogy in Foreign Language Instruction
Chair: Susanne Even, Indiana University
"Teaching Literature and Culture By Focusing on Character Development" Lynn Kutch, Kutztown University
"Inter-Acting with a Text: Using Theater Pedagogy to Enhance Reading Activities" Marda Rose, Indiana University
"The Play within the Play within the Classroom" Janet Shier, University of Michigan Residential College
3.09 Ballroom B
The Presence of Absence: Coming to Terms with the Holocaust in Contemporary European Literature
Chairs: Emmanuelle Vanborre, Gordon College and Gregor Thuswaldner, Gordon College
"Spiritual Exercises After the End of Spirit: The Ethics of Blanchot's L'?criture du d?sastre" Anthony Abiragi, Virginia Tech
"The Implicated Author and the Court of History-William Styron's Sophie's Choice" Peter Becker, Harvard University
"Von einem Absoluten zu einem anderen Celan und Blanchot: 'Sprich als letzter, sag deinen Spruch'" Thibaut Chaix-Bryan, Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III
3.10 Cambridge Room
20th Century Soldier Narratives: the Intersection of Fiction & Non-fiction
Chair: Stacy Nistendirk, Bridgewater State College
"Dramatizing (Non)Fiction: Embedded Journalists Write the New War Memoirs" Charity Fox, The George Washington University
"What does it mean to tell a true war story?:Epistemological Lessons and Limits in Tim O'Brien's The Things they Carried" Joseph Ramsey, Fisher College
"Fact Meets Fiction in Jarhead" Zivah Perel, Queensborough Community College
3.11 Suite 1025
Imagination, the Commons, and Enclosures
Chair: Irmak Ertuna, Binghamton University
"Precarity, or the Innovation of Poverty" Vern Walker, Borough of Manhattan Community College
"Sovereign Fictions: Agambenian Exception and Stevens's Politics of Imagination" Caroline Gelmi, Tufts University
"Hive Minds: Value, Commons,Imagination" Max Haiven, McMaster University
3.12 Ballroom
A Dreams and Their Scientific Appropriations
Chair: Nicole Calian, University of Washington
"Nachtwandler der Aufkl?rung" Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, National University of Ireland-Galway
"A Tyrant's Dream. Literary Transformation of 18th-Century Theory on Dreams in Schiller's The Robbers (1783)" Martin Blawid, Universita degli Studi di Cagliari
"Tr?ume, Symbole und Visionen der Seele I" Grazia Pulvirenti, Universit? degli Studi di Catania and Renata Gambino, Universit? degli Studi di Catania
3.14 Rockport Room
Dangerous Pedagogy and Alternative Literacies in the 19th-Century English Novel
Chair: Eric Lorentzen, University of Mary Washington
"'Here are the stutterings': Book-Learning and Resistance in Dickens" Eric Lorentzen, University of Mary Washington
"Learning from the Tullivers' Mistakes: Narrative and Teaching in The Mill on the Floss" Jessica Kent, Boston University
"The Angry Crowd and the Insensible Poet: Education of the Feelings in Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke" Katharine Wrobel, York University
3.15 Ipswich Room
Reading a Poem Aloud
Chair: Debra San, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
"To Hear and See 'A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal'" Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, Harvard University
"Ambiguous Gifts: MacNeice and Empson in Conversation" Christopher Ricks, Boston University
"Time to, like a Hurt Crab, Stand" Marcia Karp, Boston University
3.16 Suite 1525
Pining for Nature: Representations of Nature in Early Modern Texts
Chairs: Jennifer Forsyth, Kutztown University and Elizabeth Gruber, Lock Haven University
"The Socio-Political Dichotomy of the Natural World Represented in Sidney's The Lady of May" Jennifer Noel Tabor, Northampton Community College
"Shakespeare, Birds, and Human Nature" Karoline Szatek, Curry College
"Pastoral in Nature? Resource Exploitation in Peele's The Old Wives' Tale and other Early Modern Texts" Jennifer Forsyth, Kutztown University
3.17Quincy Room
Teaching and Learning Literature: The (Im)Possibilities
Chair: Ellen C. Carillo, University of Connecticut
"The 'Basic Writing' Classroom as a Site of Criticism, or What's So 'Basic' about Being a Critic?" Ryan D. Smith, University of Pittsburgh
"The Disaster of Learning Literature" Alan Clinton, University of Miami
"Judgment Day: Evaluating the Teaching and Learning of Literature" Ellen C. Carillo, University of Connecticut
3.18 Chatham Room
Seditious Fairy Tales of 17th Century France
Chair: Bertrand Landry, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Un exemple de pr?ciosit? libertine : le cas de Mlle de La Force (1650?-1724)" Sophie Raynard-Leroy, SUNY Stony Brook
"Entre les cochons princiers et les poissons royaux: divergences entre la politique sociale et litt?raire de Mmes d'Aulnoy et de Murat" Charlotte Trinquet-Balak, University of Central Florida
"Parodying Perrault: Narrative Strategies of Mme D'Aulnoy" Paul Scott, University of Kansas
3.19 Nantucket Room
Table Talk: Perspectives on Food in Medieval Italian Literature
Chair: Christiana Purdy, Yale University
"Predators of the Heart: Nobility, Eroticism, and Changing Food Practices in the Tale of Federico degli Alberighi (Decameron V, ix)" Dario Del Puppo, Trinity College and Salvatore Musumeci, University of Sioux Falls
"The Prescriptive Potency of Food in Michele Savonarola's De Regimine Pregnantium" Martin Marafioti, Pace University
"Deprivation and Fullness: the Dietetic Dialectics of Catherine of Siena" Lisa Vitale, Southern Connecticut State University
3.20 Suite 1925
Chronicle into History: Authors and Texts Between Past and Present
Chair: Giovanni Spani, Bowdoin College
"Communal Conflicts in Italian Chronicles and Annals" Federico Canaccini, Uninettuno-University Of Rome
"History and the Saints: James of Voragine as Historian" Stefano Mula, Middlebury College
"Tra libri, libelli e libri di conti: mercanti e cronache nella Toscana del Trecento" Giovanni Spani, Bowdoin College
3.21 Marquis Room
Projections of Peronism in Latin American Literature
Chair: Marcelo Coddou, Drew University
"Peron y Evita a traves de Tomas Eloy Martinez" Silvia Belen-Ramos, Fairleigh Dickinson University
"La escatologia peronista" Luis Intersimone, Indiana University
"Peron: el nacional populismo como fiesta" Oscar Ariel Cabezas, Concordia College

Session 4

Friday, February 27, 10:00-11:30 a.m.

4.01 Lexington Room
Reconstructing The Classics: Studies Of Early-Modern Adaptations For Contemporary Audiences
Chair: Sonia Perez-Villanueva, Williams College
"Putting it On: Lope de Vega's Lo fingido verdadero, Metatheatre in the Theatre" Alexander Samson, University College-London
"The Devil Looks after his Own: The Persistence of the Baroque in Spanish Cinema" Luis Guadano, Weber State University
"Los misteriosos caminos del canon o El maestro de danzar en Rusia" Veronika Ryjik, Franklin & Marshall College
"Beautiful Suffering: Violence against Women from Early-Modern Spain to Contemporary Cinema" Sonia Perez-Villanueva, Williams College
4.02 Berkshire Room
(Not) Toeing the Hearing Line: Constructions of Deafness in American Culture
Chair: Pamela Kincheloe, Rochester Institute of Technology
"The Silent Partner and Deafness: A Story of Three Women" Karen E. Waldron, College of the Atlantic
"From Witness to Navigator" Donna McDonald, University of Queensland
"Incarnate Word: The Politics and Poetics of Embodied Language in Sherwood Anderson" Rebecca Sanchez, University of Buffalo
"Sweet Nothings: Cochlear Implant Narratives and the Sentimental Tradition" Pamela Kincheloe, RIT
Respondent: St?phanie Genz
4.03 Duxbury Room
Service Learning: Connecting Composition and Community
Chair: Grace Wetzel, University of South Carolina
"Understanding Our Institutions/Valuing Our Community Partners: Lessons from Service-Learning in Community Literacy" Betsy Bowen, Fairfield University
"Telling War Stories" Mike Warren, West Point
"Composition and Community: The Value of Multiple Perspectives in Community Service-driven Composition Courses" Brooke Comer, The American University-Cairo
"Re-envisioning the Connections: Composition and Service Learning" Linda Driskill, Rice University
4.04 Dedham Room
History, Memory, and Cultural Discourses in Spain
Chair: Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco, University of Cincinnati
"Mapping the Nation in Contemporary Basque Literature" Mar?a Jos? Olaciregui, University of Nevada-Reno
"Writing, Past, and Memory from the Periphery: The Galician Case" Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco, University of Cincinnati
"Public Everyday Space as a Platform for Memory Politics" Megan Saltzman, Grinnel College
"Remembering History through Eduardo Mendoza and Almudena Grandes" Jerelyn Johnson, Fairfield University
4.05 Sturbridge Room
New Studies in Early Modern Book History
Chair: Peter Berek, Mount Holyoke College
"Dramatic Printing from the Shop of Thomas Harper" Matteo Pangallo, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"'A Sect that which no age ever understood': Mercuries, Hawkers, and the Early London Book Trade" Andrew Kranzman, Michigan State University
"People of the Book: Book Production as Spiritual Practice at Little Gidding" Regina Walton, Boston University
"The Travelogues and Cosmographies of Penshurst Place: Familial Ownership of Travel Books in Early Modern England" Philip Palmer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
4.06 Suite 625
Queer Presences: Homosexuality, Homoeroticism and Homophobia in Italian Literature and Cinema
Chair: Eugenio Bolongaro, McGill University
"The Homosexual as a Necessary Martyr in Contemporary Italian Cinema" Stefano Muneroni, University of Pittsburgh
"Negated Identities: Henry Furst's Simun" George R. Talbot, University of Hull
"Purchased Bodies, Simulated Fantasies: Same-Sex Toursim in Aldo Busi's Sodomia in corpo 11" Chris Atwood, University of California-Berkeley
"Queer Absences?: The Representation of Non-Normative Sexualities in Contemporary Italian Cinema" Nicola Giacomo Ibba, University College-London
4.07 Plymouth Room
"Vergangenheitsbew?ltigung Italian Style?"
Chair: Gabrielle Popoff, University of Kentucky
"Monumental Memories: the Architectural Heritage of Fascism in Postwar Italy" Joshua Arthurs, George Mason University
"'Fascinating' Fascism in Andrea Camilleri's La presa di Macall?" Natasha Chang, Middlebury College
"Erasing Dubbing: Listening to the Soundtrack of Fascism" Antonella Sisto, Brown University
"Between Myth and History on Italy's Forgotten Islands" Valerie McGuire, New York University
4.08 Concord Room
Speaking Our Stories: Cross-Cultural Orality
Chair: Trinna S. Frever, University of Michigan-Flint
"'Anancy Mek It': The Trickster Spider from Oral to Written Media" Njelle Hamilton, Brandeis University
"'Shadows of Presence': Orality, Experiential Memory, and Colonial Trauma in The Journals of Knudd Rasmussen" Bruno Cornellier, Concordia University, Qu?bec
"Oraliture in Translation: the Case of Patrick Chamoiseau and Earl Lovelace" Claire J. Bisdorff, University of Cambridge
"Dance Me Outside and Around and Around: Orality, Print, and Visuality in a Contemporary Canadian Adaptation" Trinna S. Frever, University of Michigan-Flint
4.09 Ballroom B
Activist, Feminist, and Writer: Examining the Legacy of Maria W. Stewart
Chair: Fran Lassiter, Montgomery County Community College
"From Maria W. Stewart to Lauryn Hill: The Female Jeremiad" Anne Showalter, The George Washington University
"Laying the Cornerstone: Maria Stewart, Maria Davis, and Prudence Crandall" Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University
"Maria as Moses: Reconsidering Maria Stewart's Writings through the Lens of Exodus" Rhondda Thomas, Clemson State University
"A Journey to Equality: From Maria Stewart to Barack Obama" Fran Lassiter, Montgomery County Community College
4.10 Cambridge Room
Remembering History/ Historicizing Memory II
Chair: Amy Schmidt, University of Arkansas
"Fragmented or Unifying Voices: Multigenerational Memories, Shifting Narration, and Ethnic American Fiction" Benjamin Railton, Fitchburg State College
"Absalom, Absalom and the Memory of History" Alicia Bleuer, University of Chicago
"On the Battlefield for My Lord: Troubling Traditional Civil Rights Discourse in Melba Beals' Warriors Don't Cry" Angela Ards, Southern Methodist University
"'Time: Now': Revolutionary Re-membering in the Black Arts Movement and Sonia Sanchez's Malcolm/Man Don't Live Here No Mo' and Sister Son/ji" Roseanne Alvarez, Brookdale Community College
4.11 Suite 1025
The "Breaking of Style" in Postmodern Poetry
Chair: Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology
"Frank Bidart's Broken Sonnets" Meg Tyler, Boston University
"He Do the Chamber of Commerce in Different Voices: Campbell McGrath's Florida Poems" William Waddell, St. John Fisher College
"Tan Lin's Non-Sequitur Satire of the Avant-Garde" Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
"Breaking to Make: The Poetic Innovations of Thomas Fink" Judith Halden-Sullivan, Millersville University of Pennsylvania
4.12 Ballroom A
Gender and Genre in 18th and 19th Century German Literature
Chair: Astrid Weigert, Department of German, Georgetown University
"Gender and Genre in Goethe's Werther" Robyn Schiffman, Fairleigh Dickinson University
"Gendered Authorship and Agency in Late Romantic Female Vitae" Christine Rapp Dombrowski, University of New Haven
"Indecent Exposures--Bettine von Arnim and the Epistolary Genre" Catherine Grimm, Albion College
4.13 Marlborough Room
Jewish American Literature: Identity and Generations
Chair: Melissa Mentzer, Central Connecticut State University
"Educating Hunger: Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and Vivian Gornick's Fierce Attachments" Tahneer Oksman, City University of New York
"Being Jewish Being American: Assimilation and Exclusion in the English Fiction of Abraham Cahan" Joshua Vaughan, California State University-Long Beach
"'The Terrified Smile' of Elie Wiesel's Narrative Imagination" Dana Mihailescu, University of Bucharest
"Tallitot and Memory: Trans-Generational Symbols in Jonathan Rosen's Joy Comes in the Morning" Melissa Mentzer, Central Connecticut State University
4.14 Rockport Room
Death in Contemporary Life Writing
Chair: Georgia Kreiger, Allegany College of Maryland
"The Sacrifice at the Funeral: On The Work of Mourning" Adrian Acu, SUNY Buffalo
"I Returned to Describe to You My Death: Testimony in Holocaust Survivors' Autobiographies" Deborah Lee Prescott, Palm Beach Atlantic University
"Troubling the Script: Death, Autothanatography, and Sociomedical Uptake" Tasia Hane-Devore, Case Western Reserve University
"Grief and Documentation in Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and David Rieff's Swimming in a Sea of Death" Georgia Kreiger, Allegany College of Maryland
4.15 Ipswich Room
The Future of Text & Image in the Literary Sphere
Chair: Ofra Amihay, New York University
"William Burroughs in Living Collage" Elise Takehana, University of Florida
"Heterochronic Visions: Imag(in)ing History and the Present" Heike Polster, University of Memphis
"'In reality, as we know, everything being always quite different': Image, Text, Autobiography" Scott Henkle, Graduate Center-CUNY
"Out of Site: Photography, writing and displacement in Leslie Scalapino's photo-texts" Magnus Bremmer, Stockholm University
4.16 Suite 1525
Self-Writing: Genred Interventions (Roundtable)
Chair: Kiran Mascarenhas, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"Reading Spivak" Kiran Mascarenhas, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"Theorizing Occasional Writing as Life Writing" John O'Brien, University of Leeds
"'Gypsy Scholars' in the Age of Transnational (Cultural) Capital" Szidonia Haragos, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"PRETEND IT'S FICTION: Reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and A Million Little Pieces" Allison Rittmayer, Bucknell University
"Snatchers of the Imagined Body: Controlling Self-Representation in the Internet Age" Jason Frank, Youngstown State University
"Writing the Lives of Vanishing Others" Sherally Munshi, Columbia University
4.17 Quincy Room
The Cinemas from the Maghreb
Past President's Session
Chair: C?line Philibert, SUNY Potsdam
"Realism as an Aesthetic Feature in Maghrebi Films" Zakaria Fatih, University of Maryland-Baltimore Country
"Femmes d'images et Images de femmes: parcours f?minins et culture visuelle au Maghreb" Jimia Boutouba, Central Connecticut State University
"Le regard cin?matographique sur la femme au Maghreb" C?line Philibert, SUNY Potsdam
"Facing In, Facing Out: Spaces of Contestation in Maghrebi-French Film" Claudia Esposito, University of Massachusetts-Boston
4.18 Chatham Room
Women's Autobiography in French: Towards a Plural Self
Chair: Alexandra Gueydan, Swarthmore College
"Pour une lecture transbiographique de l'?uvre de Monique Bosco" Catherine Khordoc, Carleton University
"Les masques de l'?criture : brouillage r?f?rentiel et dissimulation dans La confession anonyme de Suzanne Lilar" Carmen Nedelcu, Universit? de Montr?al
"Constructions m?diatiques et autobiographiques de l'identit?: 'Am?lie Nothomb est un homme dangereux'" Mark Lee, Mount Allison University
"Pluralit? et fragmentation dans Gar?on manqu? de Nina Bouraoui" Ann-Sofie Persson, Link?ping University
4.19 Nantucket Room
Dante and Medieval Literature
Chair: Julia Cozzarelli, Ithaca College
"The Power of Love in Dante's 'Inferno'" Victoria Tillson, Harvard University
"Chiaroscuro: Dante's Shadow" Melinda Cro, University of Georgia
"The Order of Preachers and Domenico Cavalca in St. Catherine of Siena's 'Dialogo della divina provvidenza'" Kerra Gazerro Hanson, Wheaton College
"Division and Fragmentation in Petrach's 'Canzoniere'" James McMenamin, Harvard University
4.20 Suite 1925
Intersections between Orality and Postcolonial Theory
Chair: Pamela Haji, Pace University
"Carnival Tongues: Towards an Understanding of Phoebe Palmer's Emancapatory Rhetoric" John Branscum, University of Cincinnati
"Orality and Orientalism: A Western Narrative" Samaa Gamei, University of Rhode Island
"Beyond the Optic: Listening to the Phonotext in the Black Transnation" John Hyland, SUNY Buffalo
"Hamlet Retold: An Oral and Postcolonial Perspective on Drama, Storytelling, and Narrative Authority" Maria Plochocki, Bergen Community College
4.21 Marquis Room
In Word or Deed: Global Women's Unauthorized Modes of Communication
Chair: Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College of Blauvelt
"Taking Center Stage: Mary Wroth's Negotiations of Acceptable Femininity in Love's Victory" Rebecca Smith, University of Texas-San Antonio
"Prisoners, Preachers, and Mothers: Defending Quaker Beliefs and Women's Voices in Katherine Evans and Sarah Cheevers' Short Relation of Cruel Sufferings" Andrea Fabrizio, Hostos Community College-CUNY
"Abstaining From Suffrage: Alternative Forms of Progressive Protest in Richmond, Virginia" Maureen Minard, George Mason University
"Negativity and the Tyranny of the Sayable: Susan Glaspell's 'Trifles'" Aegyung Noh, Inha University
4.22 Marblehead Room
Food for Thought: Literary Impact of Food on British Culture, Gender, and Ethnicity
Chair: Annette M. Magid, Erie Community College
"Perusing the Menu: the Gendered Politics of Dining" Jane M. Wood, Park University
"Stuffed with Otherness: Curry and Gender in W. M. Thackeray's Vanity Fair" Michael Parrish Lee, McGill University
"A Saint in the Marketplace: Mystical Catholicism in Goblin Market" Suzanne Daly, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"A Taste of Wilde: Food Issues in Works of Oscar Wilde" Annette M. Magid, Erie Community College

Session 5

Friday, February 27, 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

5.01 Lexington Room
Fellini the Filmmaker, the Painter and the Poet (Roundtable)
Chair: Ted Price and Vincenzo Bollettino, Montclair State University
"'Look, It's Jesus': The Truth about Fellini's La Dolce Vita" Ted Price, Montclair State University
"Symbolic Connective Bridges in Fellini's La Dolce Vita and Amarcord" Vincenzo Bollettino, Montclair State University
"From La Dolce Vita to 8 1/2: A Special Quartet for Fellini" Paolo Cerrato, Independent Scholar (United Nations)
"The Artist as God in Fellini's 8 1/2" Jeff Johnson, Brevard Community College
"Grotesquely Bildungsroman: La Dolce Vita" Andrea Malaguti, Columbia University
"Casanova's Doll" Margaret Owens, Nipissing University
5.02 Berkshire Room
American Trans-Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century: Germany and America
Chair: Joy Bracewell, University of Georgia
"Female American Transcendentalists and Male German Romanticists: A Tricky Mix" Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, Northern Michigan University
"Cultural Renewal through the Spectacle of the Past: Madame de Sta?l's De l'Allemagne in New England" Ulrike Wagner, Columbia University
"The Case of Transatlantic Confluence and the Utility of Goethe in William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline" Diana Barraza, University of Edinburgh
"Truth and Poetry: Emma Lazarus's Alide and the Fictions of Romance" Joy Bracewell, University of Georgia
5.03 Duxbury Room
Urban Paris: Representations of the City in French and Francophone Texts
Chair: Lisa Weiss, Vanderbilt University
"Re-membering Parisian Urban Space: The Archives of La Goutte d'Or" Mary Ellen Wolf, New Mexico State University
"Splendeur et d?cadence: la repr?sentation de la ville dans Une Liaison Parisienne" Eva Pich-Ponce, Universit? de Valencia
"Les avatars litt?raires de la banlieue parisienne" Ilaria Vitali, Universit? de Bologne
"Shifting Sands: Urban Space and National Identity in C?dric Klapisch's Peut-?tre" Jehanne-Marie Gavarini, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
5.04 Dedham Room
Literary Modernism and Modern Art: Intersections of Creativity
Chair: Jane Wood, Park University
"From Sympathy to Empathy: Robert Vischer's Einf?hlung and Early Modernism" Timothy Vincent, Duquesne University
"La Prose du Transsib?rien and the Visual Arts Context of the Modern Artists' Book" Ren?e Silverman, Florida International University
"Palimpsest, Pastiche, and Pastel: Writing War in Stein, Picasso, H.D., and Dove" Lolly Ockerstrom, Park University
"Literary Cubism in The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying" Noreen O'Connor, King's College
5.05 Sturbridge Room
Thinking Outside the Box: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Foreign Language Teaching (Roundtable)
Chair: Katharine Harrington, University of Maine-Fort Kent
"Three Weeks in Berlin, Potsdam and Dresden: An Interdisciplinary Experiment in Teaching Modern History and Culture" Len Cagle, Lycoming College
"Teaching Foreign Languages and the Environment" Eleanor ter Horst, Clarion University
"The Digital Writing Project: Interdisciplinary Writing Assignments in the Foreign Language Curriculum" Jane Sokolosky, Brown University
"Ways to Wiki: Creative Enhancements for your Foreign Language Curriculum" Audra Merfeld-Langston, Missouri University of Science and Technology
"Spanish Immersion in the U.S." Tina Ware, Oklahoma Christian University
"French for Nurses: Real Life Applications of a Second or Heritage Language" Katharine Harrington, University of Maine-Fort Kent
5.06 Suite 625
"The Face that Moves in My Mirror": Turning Rage Inside Out in American Literature and Culture
Chair: Susan Gilmore, Central Connecticut State University
"Realism's Racial Gaze and Stephen Crane's 'The Monster': A Lacanian Reading" Sheldon George, Simmons College
"'Spitting at the Firing Squad': Severance and Dependence Shape Gwendolyn Brooks' New World Woman" Alifair Skebe, SUNY University at Albany
"'Why I Hated White Women': Ana Castillo's Letters" Yolanda Flores, University of Vermont
"'I'm your baby': 'Hideous Progeny' in Patrica Smith's 'Skinhead' and Sylvia Plath's 'Lady Lazarus'" Susan Gilmore, Central Connecticut State University
5.07 Plymouth Room
Italian Women Writers and Autobiography
Chair: Ioana Raluca Larco, DePauw University
"Looking Back at the Father: Distance and Renegotiation in Clara Sereni's Autobiographical Narratives" Giulia Po, The City University of New York
"Le lettere d'amore di Veronica Franco tra 'fiction' e realta" Fabiana Cecchini, Rice University
"Implications of the Maternal in Ada Gobetti's 'Diario Partigiano'" Deena Levy, Rutgers University
"Shifting Perspectives, Recasting Memories in Clara Sereni's Recycled Life Stories" Giovanna Miceli-Jeffries, University of Wisconsin
"La costruzione dell'identita' letteraria nel 'Porto di Toledo' di Anna Maria Ortese" Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University
5.08 Concord Room
The Idea of the Composition: Digitizing Writing Instruction
Chair: Ethna Dempsey Lay, Hofstra University
"Crop That: Using Photoshop to Move from Analysis to Design" Laura J. Davies, Syracuse University
"MySpace or MySpace?" John Gallagher, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"Framing Success: Digital Photography in the Composition Classroom" Kim Flugmacher Ballerini, Nassau Community College
"Cheat.com: Plagiarism, Technology, and the End(s) of Education" Frank Gaughan, Hofstra University
5.09 Ballroom B
"Should I Stay or Should I Go?": Metaphors of Motion in Contemporary American Women's Poetry
Chair: Wendy Galgan, St. Francis College
"Sylvia Plath's Motion toward Stillness: A Misreading of T. S. Eliot's Artistic 'Surrender'" Kathleen D'Angelo, University of Maryland
"'what it means to move': Locating Ourselves with Adrienne Rich" Jeannette Riley, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
"Moving In and Stepping Out: Gwendolyn Brooks's Children at Mid-Century" Michelle Phillips, Rutgers University
"'I wake to walk here, / walk to learn my bounds': Metaphors of Motion in Women's Poetry" Wendy Galgan, St. Francis College
5.10 Cambridge Room
Modernism and Madness
Chair: Nephie Christodoulides, University of Cyprus
"'Zelda Enlightened, Burning Behind the Bars of Her Madness': Modern Women's Madness Narratives" Luke Ferretter, Baylor University
"'The Lady Will Pay': Madness and Atavism in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood" Kelly MacPhail, Universit? de Montr?al
"My Illness Saved Me: Virginia Woolf and the Uses of Madness" Jennifer Spitzer, New York University
"'Strapped to the Table and Dancing': Institutionalized Madness in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" Andrea Sciacca, Marist College
5.11 Suite 1025
Activist Poetry / Poetic Activism
Chair: Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
"Then there were none: Sonia Sanchez and the Poetry of [Re]membering People with AIDS" Audrey Kerr, Southern Connecticut State University
"Home is Where the Hatred Is: Ambivalences of Belonging in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson" Amor Kohli, DePaul University
"I Bees Tha Bloc: The Politics of Baltimore City in Word and Form" Adrienne Carthon, Morgan State University
"'Looking for Trouble': The Politics of Persian Poetry" Roger Sedarat, Queens College-CUNY
5.12 Ballroom A
The Location and Dislocation of Swiss Literature
Chair: Margrit Zinggeler, Eastern Michigan University
"'Tod in Persien': Annemarie Schwarzenbachs orientalisch-koloniale Naturwahrnehmung als lesbisch-schweizerisch-hybrider Schreibraum" Ute Bettray, University of Connecticut
"'Pater incerta est' - Hybridity and Heritage in Martin R. Dean's 'Meine V?ter'" Romey Sabalius, San Jos? State University
"Acceptance in Dislocation?: Milena Moser's 'Bananenf??e'" Richard Ruppel, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
"Die Verortung in der neuen deutschen Schweizer Literatur" Margrit Zinggeler, Eastern Michigan University
5.13 Marlborough Room
Imaginarios colectivos: ciudades, sujetos y fronteras
Chair: Elena M. Mart?nez, Baruch College-CUNY
"Espacio urbano, convivencia y crisis en La villa de C?sar Aira" D?nisa Bonacic, Simmons College
"El imaginario colectivo cubano y la literatura de los noventa" Mabel Cuesta, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"Public, Private, Political and Profane: Power in the Entrepreneurial City" Jane Marcus-Delgado, College of Staten Island-CUNY
"De la 'Ciudad de los Reyes' a la 'Ciudad de las Raza': segregaci?n racial en la literatura urbana" Diana Vela, SUNY Buffalo
5.14 Rockport Room
Asian American Literature: The Voice of Southeast Asian Diaspora
Chair: Brian Guan-rong Chen, Laurentian University at Georgian College
"Paper Dragons and Fairy Dust: Traumatic Past and Ethereal Present in Jana Monji's 'Kim'" Robin Field, King's College
"The Spectral Brother of the Vietnamese Diaspora: A Voice that Bridges Absence and Present" Catherine Nguyen, UCLA
"The American Gaze: Condemnation and Hope in the Poetry of Janice Mirikitani" Dustin Morris, University of Central Oklahoma
"Walking and Wandering as a Diasporic Experience" Brian Guan-rong Chen, Laurentian University at Georgian College
5.15 Ipswich Room
Where Do We go from Here? Bront? Studies in the Twenty-First Century
Chair: Kristin Le Veness, Nassau Community College
"The Sexual Politics of Meat in the Bront?s' Lives and Works" Maggie Berg, Queen's University
"Another Jane Eyre?!: Diane Setterfield's The Thirteenth Tale and the Pleasures of Intertexuality" Beth Torgerson, Eastern Washington University
"Redefining Masculinity in the Bront?s: A Case Study of Fathers, Sons and Husbands in Wuthering Heights" Judith Pike, Salisbury University
"Reforming Motherhood: Anne Bront?'s Radical Vision" Kristin Le Veness, Nassau Community College
5.16 Suite 1525
Shakespeare, Language and Translation: An Inquiry into National Identity in the Global Context
Chair: Gillian Kendall, Smith College
"The Bard, the Bible, and the British Empire: Rudyard Kipling's 'Proofs of Holy Writ'" Clare Costley Kingoo, University of Connecticut
"A Hero in a Tug-of-War: Russian Othello" Angela Shpolberg, Independent Researcher
"What Bloody Text is This? Macbeth, Adaptation, and the Production of National Identity" Elizabeth Gruber, Lock Haven University
"Shakespeare and Language: An Inquiry into National Identity" Marie Blackman, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
5.17 Quincy Room
Maghrebian and Arab Woman Authors
Chair: David Delamatta, Universite Sorbonne-Paris IV
"Writing the Price of Liberation in Moroccan Literature" Angela Phillips, Warren Wilson College
"Deux regards sur l'histoire sacr?e : Loin de M?dine d'Assia Djebar et Fin d'un monde d'Anissa Boumedi?ne" Hanan Elsayed, Rutgers University
"Un regard sur les dramaturges tunisiennes: A quoi pouvons-nous nous attendre d'elles?" David Delamatta, Universite Sorbonne-Paris IV
"Dying with Pride: Nawal el Saadawi's Woman at Point Zero" Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin State University
5.18 Chatham Room
Post-Feminism in German Literature
Chair: Elke Nicolai, Hunter College-CUNY
"'Viele Leute finden das drin, was sie suchen': Leonie Swanns postmoderner Schafskrimi" Eckhard Kuhn-Osius, Hunter College
"Post-feminist Pornography? Post-feminist Pathography? Charlotte Roche's Novel Feuchtgebiete" Claudia Liebrand, Universitaet zu Koeln
"Feuchtgebiete : Neue Gebiete? A Critical Look at How Charlotte Roche Forges New Ground" Cary Einberger, Michigan State University
"Emma - ein Naturkind? Claudia Schreibers Roman Emmas Glueck" Elke Nicolai, Hunter College-CUNY
5.19 Nantucket Room
Queering Sicily
Chair: Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
"Alfredo Ormando: A Sicilian Martyr in Cyberspace" Amy Boylan, The University of New Hampshire
"When the Lupara Shoots Blanks: Sexuality under Fire" Piero Garofalo, The University of New Hampshire
"Kinsey in Sicily" Elizabeth Leake, Rutgers University
"Kinsey in Sicily" Dana Renga, The Ohio State University
5.20 Suite 1925
Original Poetry (Creative Session)
Chair: Adam Lifshey, Georgetown University
Alexander Waid, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Noel Sloboda, Penn State York
Lesle Lewis, Landmark College
Jennifer Campbell, Erie Community College
Perry S. Nicholas, Erie Community College
Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Goucher College
5.21 Marquis Room
Remembrance of Things Past: Memory as Theatrical Convention in Contemporary Spanish Drama
Chair: John Gabriele, The College of Wooster
"Memory and the Inner Journey in Itziar Pascual's Theater" Carolyn Harris, Western Michigan University
"Electra-Babel, rememoraci?n esc?nica de un viaje de reencuentro" Nuria Ib??ez, University of North Florida
"Forgetting the American Dream in Playback and Underground by Miguel Gonz?lez Cruz" Candyce Leonard, Wake Forest University
"Memoria y fantas?a de la Guerra Civil Espa?ola en el teatro de Juan Mayorga" Alison Guzm?n, Wheaton College
5.22 Marblehead Room
Writing on the (Eastern) Edge: Atlantic Canadian Literature
Chair: Paul Chafe, Memorial University
"Adjusting the Margin: Post-Fordism and Folk Archetypes in Atlantic-Canadian Literature" Herb Wyile, Acadia University
"'Never Going Back Again': Recent Maritime Fiction and the Absence of Nostalgia" David Creelman, University of New Brunswick
"Homecomings and Goings: Ephemeral Spaces in the Fiction of Lisa Moore" Tracy Whalen, University of Winnipeg
"Kenneth Harvey and the Anxiety of Ancestry" Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa

Session 6

Friday, February 22, 1:30-2:45 p.m.

6.01 Lexington Room
Dylan, Cohen, Young: North American Song as International Literature
Chair: Adam Lifshey, Georgetown University
"Bob Dylan, Transnational Song & Dance Man" David Gaines, Southwestern University
"The Whole Wide World Which People Say Is Round: The Universal through the Global in Bob Dylan's Art" Nina Goss, University of Washington
"'She Might Be in Tangier': Bob Dylan's Pursuit of the Literary" Nick D. Smart, The College of New Rochelle
6.02 Berkshire Room
Identity Interrupted: The Dislocations of Exile
Chair: Adriana Rosman-Askot, The College of New Jersey
"Automodelando la identidad cultural: representacion, memoria y resistencia en Cenas da vida minuscula, de Moacyr Scliar" Raul Verduzco, Yale University
"Compromiso y ambivalencias en representaciones del exilio en la narrativa de Isabel Allende y Damiela Eltit" Myriam Martel, Ryerson University, Canada
"Fernando Vallejo: fetiche y retorica del exilio" Alberto Medina, Columbia University
"Writing the 'unhomely': Jose Donoso and Sylvia Molloy" Adriana Rosman-Askot, The College of New Jersey
6.03 Duxbury Room
Mediterraneismi nel cinema italiano
Chair: Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico
"Redefining the Mediterranean through New Frontiers: the Case of Apulia" Flavia Laviosa, Wellesley College
"Napoli, citta' occidentale, e la sua rappresentazione nei film Certi bambini e Gomorra" Javier Venturi, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"Rispecchiamenti mediterranei in Io, l'Altro di Mohsen Melliti" Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico
6.04 Dedham Room
Latino American Poetic Artifacts, from 19th to 21st Century (Roundtable)
Chair: Hern?n Fontanet, Rider University
"Questioning the Role of the Author Through Encrypted Flash Language, Wap-Lyric Billboards, and Cyber-Based Poetic Tele-Interventions" Hern?n Fontanet, Rider University
"The Antipoetic Cannon of Nicanor Parra" Marlene Gottlieb, Manhattan College
"Sarduy and the Poem-Object" Rolando P?rez, Hunter College
"Metaphor in Traditional Spanish Language Riddles" Andrea Varricchio, West Chester University
6.05 Sturbridge Room
Why Literature Matters
Chair: Anna Sims Bartel, Bates College
"In Light of Metaphor: Poetry and Environmental Humility" Deborah Bowen, Redeemer University College
"Why Literature Matters, and How" Anna Sims Bartel, Bates College
"Literary Translation as Linguistic Rescue" Lucia Prada-Gonzalez, University of Massachussetts
"Problems of Interpretation: Experience, Literature and Community" Keith Morton, Providence College
6.06 Suite 625
Kings and Kingship in Medieval Literature I
Chair: Erin Mullally, Le Moyne College
"The Arthur of the Norse" Sarah Baccianti, Lincoln College, Oxford
"The Politics of Arthur: Malory's Apocalyptic Vision" Joshua Fullman, University of Edinbourgh
"The King's Providence and the Prophet's 'Spoilers'" Rachel Kapelle, Brandeis University
6.07 Plymouth Room
Contemporary Women's Writing in French: Feminist Responses to the Literary Canon
Chair: Chelsea Ray, University of Maine at Augusta
"Maryse Cond?: Writing Outside of Literary Theory" Emmanuelle Vanborre, Gordon College
"Nothomb Fait la Guerre aux Canons Litt?raires" Fr?d?rique Chevillot, University of Denver
"Assia Djebar's Nulle part dans la maison de mon p?re: When Vertigo Becomes a Scream" Anna Rocca, Salem State College
"Ideological Collaboration: Literary Depictions of Natalie Clifford Barney's 'Academy of Women'" Chelsea Ray, University of Maine-Augusta
6.08 Concord Room
Archival Work and Scholarly Capital
Chairs: Mathew Martin, Brock University and Angela Mills, Brock University
"'So It Was Just a Story': DNA as a New Though Insufficient Narrative in Gates's African American Lives" Derek McGrath, Stony Brook University
"Surfing for Fragments: Cataloguing Medieval Manuscripts with the Internet" Jeanne Krochalis, Pennsylvania State University
"Projecting Diff'erence: An Archive of Representation in the Production Photos of O'Neill's Diff'rent" Les Hunter, SUNY Stony Brook
6.09 Ballroom B
Writing the Region: Readings from Writers Rooted in Place (Creative Session)
Chair: Jerry Wemple, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
"Fussings from the Rust Belt" Karen Weyant, Jamestown Community College
"Pennsylvania Farms and Towns" James Najarian, Boston College
"Cityscapes" Amita Gautier, Washington University
"Disappearances: An Excerpt" Christine Flanagan, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
6.10 Cambridge Room
Ghostly Men in Asian American Women's Narratives
Chair: Yasuko Kase, SUNY Buffalo
"Apparitions of Radical Fathers: The Political and the Model Minority Discourse in Lan Cao's Monkey Bridge" Mijeong Park, California State University-Northridge
"'Typical Americans': Asian American Men in the Writings of Gish Jen" William Dalessio, University of Connecticut
"Conjuring Ghostly Men: Patricidal Tendencies in Asian American Women's Narratives" Yasuko Kase, SUNY Buffalo
6.11 Suite 1025
From Suicide to Sublimation: Boston Poets 1950-2000
Chair: Christopher Bock, Lesley University
"'Terrible Lyrics': Confessional Poetry and Embarrassment" Chantal Victoria Johnson, New York University
"Robert Lowell: Making Space for Women in History" Janella D. Moy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
"Bedrock, Erosion, and Form: Jorie Graham and Wittgenstein" Ben Leubner, Northeastern University
6.12 Marlborough Room
Boundaries in Flux: Travel Literature in the Age of Globalization
Chair: Dagmar Jaeger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Das rastlose Konsumieren von Hieroglyphen-Gaga-Stempeln in Christian Krachts Der gelbe Bleistift" Gabriele Eichmanns, Carnegie Mellon University
"Littoral Drifts. Walking and Writing on LSD in W.G.Sebalds The Rings of Saturn" Jason Groves, Yale University
"Poetik der Fremde in der Reiseliteratur von Zafer Senocak und Michael Roes" Elke Segelcke, Illinois State University
6.13 Rockport Room
(Post)Colonial Readings of Native American Literature
Chair: Danica Miller (Formerly Sterud), Fordham University
"Das Kapital on the Fairy-Tale Shelf: Postmodernism and Politics in Almanac of the Dead" Madeleine Monson-Rosen, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Jukebox in the Powwow Tavern: Sherman Alexie's Reservation Realism" George Piggford, Stonehill College
"Colonialism and Community in Greg Sarris' Pomo Neighborhood" David Rice, The College of Saint Rose
"Mourning Dove's Cogewea: Mixed Blood and Colonial Identity" Danica Miller, Fordham University
6.14 Ipswich Room
Realism and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century
Chair: Srdjan Smajic, Furman University
"The Spirits of Wessex: Superstition and the Supernatural in the Novels of Thomas Hardy" Margaret Rennix, Harvard University
"Realistic Supernaturalism in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins" Morgan Fritz, Indiana University
"'Proofs of So Wild a Story': Writing the (Un)Real in Dracula" Bianca Tredennick, SUNY Oneonta
6.15 Ballroom A
Leaps of Faith: Mania Meets Modernity
Chair: Stephen Gallagher, Independent Scholar
"Br?nnhilde, Billy Budd, and the Aesthetics of Redemption" Minou Arjomand, Columbia University
"Fight Club: Religion of the Future" Stephanie McQueen, Trinity College
"The Suicide Bomber and the Leap of Faith" Stephen Gallagher, Independent Scholar
6.16 Suite 1525
Summer Reading for First Year Students (Roundtable)
Chairs: Mary Buchinger Bodwell, MCPHS and Carol-Ann Farkas, MCPHS
"Intended Connections and Unintended Consequences: First-Year Students Reacting to a 'Common' Reading" Paul Almonte, St. Peter's College
"'Chick Lit' and 'Pollyannas':What We've Learned from Book Selection Debates" Laura Sloan Patterson, Seton Hill University
"An Embarrassment of Riches: Strategies for Summer Reading Selection" Beth Gale, Clark University
"Summer Reading: For What? For Whom?" Carol-Ann Farkas, MCPHS
"NSU's First First-Year Summer Reading Program: Dinner with Dubus" Marlisa Santos, Nova Southeastern University
6.17 Quincy Room
Medicine in Literature
Chairs: Philippa Kim, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY and Lison Baselis-Bitoun, Harvard University
"Corps en pi?ces : du blason au livre d'anatomie" Lison Baselis-Bitoun, Harvard University
"M?lancolie et m?decine au dix-septi?me si?cle : soins du corps, soins de l'esprit?" Bernadette H?fer, The Ohio State University
"Transplanted Identity : Maurice Renard's Docteur Lerne, sous-dieu" Elaine Despr?s, Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al
6.18 Chatham Room
Women Writers and 'Culture is Politics'
Chair: Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard, College of the Holy Cross
"Rebelling against Conformity-The Female Characters in Reventlow's Der Geldkomplex and Von Paul zu Pedro" Eva Sattelmayer, Queens University
"No Privacy: Erika Mann's indictment of 'Culture is Politcs' in School for Barbarians" Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard, College of the Holy Cross
"The politics of Poetry, the Poetry of Politics. The Case of Margarete Susman" Anke Gilleir, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
6.19 Nantucket Room
Boston Marriages: "New Women" and Relationships, from Henry James to David Mamet
Chair: Donald Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University
"Queer Relations: The Boston Marriage in Henry James's The Bostonians" Kathryn Klein, SUNY Stony Brook
"Angels, Outcasts, and Happily Ever After: Boston Marriages in Angels in America" Heather Gunnoud, Western Connecticut State University
"German-American Freedom Fighter, Abolitionist and Early Feminist: M. F. Anneke and her Boston Marriages" Ritta Jo Horsley, University of Massachusetts-Boston
6.20 Suite 1925
The Uses and Legacies of Harold Bloom
Chair: Christopher Jackson, University of Virginia
"Strong Poetry: Richard Rorty's Misreading of Harold Bloom" Matthew Borushko, Boston University
"From Anxiety to Knowledge: The Gnosticisms of Harold Bloom" Joshua Pederson, Marymount Manhattan College
"How to Read Harold Bloom and Why" Benjamin D. Carson, Bridgewater State College
6.21 Marquis Room
Feminine Discourse in Early Modern Spain
Past President's Session
Chair: Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College
"Bridging the Gap between the Enchantments and Disenchantments of Mar?a de Zayas y Sotomayor" Mirta Barrea-Marlys, Monmouth University
"Female Representations in Jer?nimo de Barrionuevo's Avisos" Deborah Compte, The College of New Jersey
"Agredismo in New Spain: A Contestation of the Criollo?" Anna Nogar, University of New Mexico
6.22 Marblehead Room
Canadian Literature and the Literary Prize Market
Chair: Andrea Cabajsky, Universite de Moncton
"The Governor-General's Literary Awards and the Matter of 'Value' in Canadian Literary Prize Competitions" Thomas Hodd, University of Guelph-Humber
"The Colony of Unrequited Esteem: Newfoundland Novels and the Shortlist" Paul Chafe, Wilfrid Laurier University-Brantford
"History in Postmodernity: Acadian Literature in the Awards Market" Andrea Cabajsky, Universit? de Moncton

Session 7

Friday, February 27, 3:00-4:30 p.m.

7.01 Lexington Room
Wretched Refuge? The Postmodern Immigrant Novel
Chair: Jessica Datema, Bergen Community College
"Utopian Mediascapes in 21st Century U.S. Immigrant Fiction" Caren Irr, Brandeis University
"Paul Bowles and the Problem of Postmodernity within the Colonized World" Steve Weber, SUNY Albany
"Translocality in the new Post-American Immigrant Literature" Diane Krumrey, Bergen Community College
"The Road as Post-Apocalyptic Parable and Abject American Future Frontier" Jessica Datema, Bergen Community College
7.02 Berkshire Room
The "Person" in the 21st Century: Personal/Writing in the Contemporary Composition Classroom
Chair: Heather Urbanski, Central Connecticut State University
"The Writing Trap: Personal Interest and the Resistant Student Writer" Heather Urbanski, Central Connecticut State University
"The Personal is the Academic: Revealing Authorial Investments in Academic Discourse" Christy I. Wenger, Lehigh University
"Telling Mystories: Heuretics, the Personal, and Composition" Sarah A. Etlinger, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Moving Beyond Traditional Understandings of Personal Connection to Writing Topics" Pam Hollander, Nichols College
7.03 Duxbury Room
Literatures of Montreal
Chair: Kelly MacPhail, Universit? de Montr?al
"Celebrity Without Progeny? The Poetic Dialogue of Irving Layton and Leonard Cohen" Joel Deshaye, McGill University
"Haunting Montreal: Haitian Legacies Confronting Qu?b?cois Realities in G?rard ?tienne's Vous n'?tes pas seul" Jay Ketner, SUNY Plattsburgh
"Rewriting the Borders of Fiction, Community, Nation, and Subjectivity in the Work of Rawi Hage" Sylvia Terzian, Wilfrid Laurier University
"Reading and Writing the City: A 'Virtual' Walking Tour of Montreal" Richard Cassidy, Universit? de Montr?al
7.04 Dedham Room
City Scene: Boston and Film
Chair: Emily Hegarty, SUNY Nassau Community College
"Wow, Voyager: Proper Bostonians in the Movies" Tom Connolly, Suffolk University
"Blue-Collar Noir: Dennis Lehane's Boston" Margarette Connor, Fordham University
"George V. Higgins and Boston's Mean Streets" Erwin Ford, Albany State University
"Tight Shots: Conflict Set in Boston" Diana Wienbroer, SUNY Nassau Community College
7.05 Sturbridge Room
The Writing Cure: Scripting the Self in Trauma Memoir
Chair: Paul Rosa, SUNY Nassau Community College
"'Words are beyond us now': Trauma in Graphic Narrative" Paul Rosa, SUNY Nassau Community College
"'Crazy for This Democracy': Psychoanalytic Theory and African American Autopathography" Catherine Stewart, Cornell College
"Disabling Poststructuralism: Authority in Lauren Slater's Lying and Mental Illness Narrative" Martina Sciolino, University of Southern Mississippi
"Tattoos, Trauma, and the Inking Cure" Ami Blue, Eastern Kentucky University
7.06 Suite 625
Sex and Gender in Medieval French Literature
Chair: Anne Schotter, Wagner College
"Gender and Subjectivity in Le Lai de Narcisse " Sarah Ostendorf, New York University
"Girls will be Men: Gender in Old French Romance" Angela Weisl, Seton Hall University
"The Illuminated Conte du Graal Manuscripts as Gender-Coded Graphic Novels" Paul Creamer, East Stroudsburg University
7.07 Plymouth Room
Italian Contemporary Poetry
Chair: Matteo Benassi, University of Dayton
"Theater of Sickness: Recent Lyric Collections by Cavalli, D'Elia and Merini" Kristen Ina Grimes, Saint Joseph's University
"In margine agli Ultimi versi di Giovanni Raboni" Antonello Borra, University of Vermont
"La poetica del silenzio in 'Il rumore bianco' di Biancamaria Frabotta" oana Raluca Larco, DePauw University
"Milano e non solo: scenari e spazi nella poesia di Mario Santagostini" Matteo Benassi, University of Dayton
7.08 Concord Room
What the Children Are Telling Us: Their Stories on Screen
Chair: Tania Convertini, University of Wisconsin
"The Big Other in Marco Tullio Giordana's Quando sei nato non puoi pi? nasconderti" Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University
"The Archetypal Child and Cinematic History in Fellini and Benigni" Giacomo Striuli, Providence College
"Rossellini's Open City: the Orphan-Child and the Mythological Re-foundation of Rome" Lorenzo Borgotallo, Clemson University
"Da Ponticelli a Posillipo. La strada impervia di un affido in La Guerra di Mario di Antonio Capuano" Tania Convertini, University of Wisconsin
7.09 Ballroom B
Beyond Green Gables
Chair: Rita Bode, Trent University
"Taking the Country to the City: Redefining 'Home' in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of the Island" Kate Scarth, Memorial University
"Bonds of Sea and Land: The Prehensile Places of L. M. Montgomery's Fiction" Christiana R. Salah, University of Connecticut
"L. M. Montgomery and the Curious Child" Trisha Tucker, University of Southern California
"Anne Shirley and Ellen Montgomery: Imagining a Wider World" Anne Ramirez, Neumann College
7.10 Cambridge Room
Historical Memory in American Protest Literature
Chair: Zoe Trodd, Harvard University
"(Re)membering Revolution, Imagining Freedom: The Rhetorical Uses of the Haitian Revolution" Barbara Ceptus, University of California-Davis
"Christ, Du Bois, and a Transatlantic Texas" Hannah Wells, University of Pennsylvania
"'What took so long?' Historical Memory and the Integration of the Military" Maggi Morehouse, University of South Carolina-Aiken
"Historical Memory and Embodied Politics as Public Interventions in Amiri Baraka's Slave Ship" Elizabeth Pittman, The George Washington University
7.11 Suite 1025
"The simple fact of having lasted": America's Poet Elders
Chair: William Waddell, St. John Fisher College
"John Ashbery and the Everyday Elegy" Siobhan Phillips, Harvard University
"'This grief for which there is no cure': The Endurance of Ruth Stone" Kandace Lombart, Independent Scholar
"The Aging Age of Protest in American Poetry: Bly, Merwin, Snyder, and Rich" Emily Merriman, San Francisco State University
"'By the cold reflections of the dead': A Remembrance of Poets Passed" Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology
7.12 Ballroom A
Tragedy and the Tragic around 1800
Chairs: Pascale LaFountain, Harvard University and Jeffrey Champlin, New York University
"H?lderlin's Antigone. Tragic Excess of Love and Violence" Gert Hofmann, National University of Ireland
"Der Chor in der Ferne: Tragedy and the Public Song around 1800" Kristina Mendicino, Yale University
"Kl?nglichkeit und K?rperlichkeit als dramatische Kategorien in Friedrich Schiller's Kabale und Liebe" Bj?rn K?hnicke, Harvard University
"The Revolution will be Dramatized: Fate, Science, and Tragedy in Goethe's Die nat?rliche Tochter" Chadwick Smith, New York University
7.13 Marlborough Room
Nineteenth-Century Native American Literatures
Chair: Drew Lopenzina, Sam Houston State University
"Mohawk Legacies: Pauline Johnson and Brant's Memorial" Martha Viehmann, Independent Scholar
"In the Indian Archive: William Apess, Indian Nullification and Native American Rhetoric" John Kucich, Bridgewater State College
"Transformation and Resistance in the Works of Alexander Posey" Tereza Szeghi, Colby College
"'A Wandering Indian by the Name of Apess': Native Community in William Apess' Works" Drew Lopenzina, Sam Houston State University
7.14 Rockport Room
Contemporary British Masculinities
Chair: Theodore Miller, Fordham University
"The Bad Boys of Lad Lit: Tremors of Post-Feminism in the Work of Kingsley and Martin Amis" Gavin Keulks, Western Oregon University
"Harry Potter and the Enabling Anachronism" Rebecca Carpenter, McDaniel College
"Jimmy Rabbitte Sr., Irish Pubs, and the Waning of the Bachelor Group" Sean Flannery, Immaculata University
"Paternity, Authority, and Masculinity in Graham Swift's Shuttlecock and Waterland" Theodore Miller, Fordham University
7.15 Ipswich Room
Women and the City in Early Twentieth Century Fiction
Chair: Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, Fordham University
"From Window Shopping to Window Dressing: The Commodification of Women in Weimar Berlin" Nicole Shea, Mount Saint Mary College
"'Violent Explosion': The Production of Social Space in Mrs. Dalloway" Erin Kay Penner, Cornell University
"'Not that kind of Girl': Counter-Rhythms and Alternative Spaces in John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer" Sarah Cornish, Fordham University
"'Belonging to the Great Maddening City': Fl?nerie and Female Agency in Jean Rhys's 'Mannequin' and Quartet" Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, Fordham University
7.16 Suite 1525
Colonial and Postcolonial Bildungsroman
Chair: Sarah Gray, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Elizabeth Nunez's Beyond the Limbo Silence: A Novel of Transnational Development" Ann Marie Alfonso-Forero, University of Miami
"Postcolonial Childhood in South Africa: K. Sello Duiker's 13 Cents as Anti-Bildungsroman" Amanda Carr, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"Fissured Self and Female Agency in the Bildungsroman: Cracking India and The Inheritance of Loss" Nira Gupta-Casale, Kean University
"The Adolescent Immolation of Ireland's Butcher Boy" Sarah Gray, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
7.17 Quincy Room
Religion, the Secular, and Literary Studies
Chair: Sean Dempsey, Boston University
"Secular Investiture: Romanticism and Religion" Sean Dempsey, Boston University
"Faith, Second-Hand: Modernism and the God of the Other" David Sherman, Brandeis University
"Fundamentalist Art, Postmodern Irony" Paul Maltby, West Chester University
"'Evoke the forms': The Need for the Sacred in Cormac McCarthy's The Road" Randy Boyagoda, Ryerson University
7.18 Chatham Room
The Ethics of Translation (Roundtable)
Chair: Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College
"Reading Gender in Translation" Marko Miletich, Binghamton University
"Translation of the Queer Kind" Nadia Louar, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
"The Translator's Agency and Ethics" Mar?a Constanza Guzm?n, York University
"Ethics of Identity in the Teaching of Translation in Bilingual Settings" Jos? D?vila-Montes, The University of Texas at Brownsville
"Silence in Translation/Silencing Translation" Keith L. Johnson, Brigham Young University
7.19 Nantucket Room
Off the Road: The Wayside in American Literature
Chair: Colin Clarke, SUNY Suffolk Community College
"Class on the Wayside: Road and Off-Road Travel in Antebellum Humor Stories" Katharine A. Burnett, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville
"Scoping Out the Bar: Pynchon's Wayside as Virtual Structure" Stephen Lento, Temple University
"The Cultural Logic of Encampment in Kerouac and McCarthy" Tony McGowan, West Point
"Refuge on the Road to Nowhere: Hooverville and Weedpatch in The Grapes of Wrath" Alexandra Rahr, University of Toronto
7.20 Suite 1925
Vis Imaginativa: Theories of the Imagination in Italian Literature
Chair: Letizia Modena, Villanova University
"Vis Imaginativa, Mimesi Storica, Teoria Aristotelica: le Leggi del Racconto Epico Cinquecentesco" Roberta Ricci, Bryn Mawr College
"Leopardi's Ladder of the Imagination" Silvia Stoyanova, Princeton University
"Challenging Reality Through Imagination: Anna Maria Ortese's Reportage Il mare non bagna Napoli" Cosetta Seno Reed, University of Colorado-Boulder
"The Therapeutic Imagination: Calvino, Barthes, and the Curative Powers of Image-Making" Letizia Modena, Villanova University
7.21 Marquis Room
The Legacy of Roque Dalton within Contemporary Central American Culture and Politics
Chair: James Iffland, Boston University
"Roque Dalton and the Armed Struggle in Latin America" John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh
"Odiar a la patria de forma constructiva: Roque Dalton, Horacio Castellanos Moya y El Salvador de posguerra" Yansi P?rez, Wesleyan University
"La influencia de Roque Dalton en la producci?n literaria de Manlio Argueta y Horacio Castellanos Moya" Filem?n Zamora, St. Michael's College
"Pulling the Plug on 'Testimonio': Miguel M?rmol and the (Postmodern) Cultural Cold War" James Iffland, Boston University
7.22 Marblehead Room
The Motherhood Memoir: Context and Creation (Roundtable)
Chair: Nicole Willey, Kent State University-Tuscarawas
"Bio-Moms, Babas and Lesbian Dads: Re-envisioning Motherhood in the 21st Century" Lisa Federer, University of North Texas
"Becoming Equally Adults Together with Adult Offspring: Postmaternal Experiences" Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Brandeis University
"So NOT the Soccer Mom: Breaking Maternal Barriers and Codes" Terri Pantuso, University of Texas-San Antonio
"Modernist Momoirs: Origins of a Contemporary Phenomenon" Elizabeth Podnieks, Ryerson University
"Elizabeth Craven: Motherhood and Autobiography" Filiz Turhan-Swenson, Suffolk Community College

Session 8

Friday, February 27, 4:45-6:15 p.m.

8.01 Lexington Room
Body Traffic: Contained Mobility and (Trans)Migrations in Cinema and Literature since 2000
Chair: Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University
"The West Unveiled: Michael Winterbottom's In This World" Mark Graham, Lehigh University
"The Central Asian Guest Worker in the Comedy Series 'Our Russia' and Eduard Bagirov's Gastarbaiter" Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University
"Publicity and the Abject in Hanecke's Code Inconnu and Glawogger's Working Man' Death" Helga Druxes, Williams College
"Kino-Eye: Observing Bodies in Ulrich Seidl's Import Export" Jennifer Creech, University of Rochester
8.02 Berkshire Room
Native American Literature
Chair: Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State College
"James Welch's Fools Crow and the Limits of Monocultural Thinking" James Donahue, SUNY Potsdam
"Reading the Photographs in Louis Owens's I Hear the Train and Wendy Rose's Itch Like Crazy" Jennifer Lemberg, New York University
"The Only Good Indian: A Critique of Violent Atonement in David Treuer's The Hiawatha and Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer" Lydia Cooper, Monmouth College
"Healing Narratives: The Role of Diagnosis in Native American Literary Studies" Dustin Gray, University of Oklahoma
8.03 Duxbury Room
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Are All One: Historical Conflation in Film and Television
Chair: Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick, University at Albany
"Baseball and the Bomb: 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game's Vision of Past and Present" Rebecca Burditt, University of Rochester
"300: Democracy, Freedom, and the Barbarian Horde" Dan Gremmler, University at Albany
"The More Things Change: Buffy and Angel Enact a Modern-Day Sentimental Novel" Kathleen McDonald, Norwich University
"Back in the Good Old Days of 2008: Nostalgia for the Present in 'How I Met Your Mother'" en Michek, Tufts University
8.04 Dedham Room
Frantz Fanon's Legacy
Chair: Carine Mardorossian, University at Buffalo
"Fanon's Lessons Towards Building a Global Community" Dierdre Powell, Anne Arundel Community College
"The Wretched of the Earth-Again?" Roberta Hatcher, University of Pittsburgh
"Unveiling Fanon: Psychoanalysis, Gender Theory, and the Politics of Nationalism" Burleigh Hendrickson, Northeastern University
"Small Places, Then and Now: Frantz Fanon and Jamaica Kincaid" Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough Community College-CUNY
8.05 Sturbridge Room
History, Memoir, and Comics
Chair: Davida Pines, Boston University
"Terrors of the Real in Graphic Memoir" Michael Chaney, Dartmouth College
"Graphic Journeys: Figuring Americans Abroad in Thompson's Carnet de Voyage and Abel's La Perdida" Adrielle Mitchell, Nazareth College
"History and Graphics: (Re)Writing the Holocaust in Mendel's Daughter" Audrey Brunetaux, Colby College
"Graphic Representations of 9/11: Torres's American Widow and Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers" Davida Pines, Boston University
8.06 Suite 625
Connections and Community: Reinhabitory Principles in Bioregionalism and Literary Field Studies
Chair: Chris Hall, Humboldt State University
"The World Of Two Moons: A Bioregional Analysis of Wendy and Richard Pini's Elfquest" Rose Bazan, Humboldt State University
"Imagining Trauma: Merwin and Mining" William Conlogue, Marywood University
"'The Dreaming Memory of Land': Annie Dillard's An American Childhood and a Place-Based Writing Pedagogy" Christine Cusick, Seton Hill University
"Bioregionalism and Geopolitics in Gary Snyder's Danger on Peaks" Patrick Nugent, CUNY, Brooklyn College
8.07 Plymouth Room
Cultivating Sympathy: Embodiment in George Eliot's Realist Aesthetic
Chairs: Peter J. Capuano, University of Virginia and Genie Babb, University of Alaska, Anchorage
Reading Bodies in George Eliot's Fiction Elizabeth McClure, University of Delaware
"George Henry Lewes and the Physiology of Sympathy in Adam Bede" Genie Babb, University of Alaska Anchorage
"Weariness in George Eliot's Middlemarch: Ethics, Limits, and the Body" Alicia Christoff, Princeton University
"The Sacrality of Hands in Daniel Deronda" Peter J. Capuano, University of Virginia
8.08 Concord Room
Multimedia Modules: Doing Less with More
Chair: Brad Marshall, George Washington University
"Poetry and the Italian City" Helen McFie Simone, University of Pennsylvania
"Basic Russian Literacy through the Russian ABC" Katya Ites, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"Self-Reflective Writing, Critical Thinking and Professional Identity in the Spanish Language Classroom" Andr?s Villagr?, Pace University
"Mise en bouteille en cours: The Culture and Business of French Wine" Brad Marshall, George Washington University
8.09 Ballroom B
A Reading By Poets Living In New England (Creative Session)
Chair: Mary Buchinger Bodwell, MCPHS
Eve Rifkah, Worcester State College
Dolores Hayden, Yale University
Wally Swist, Independent Scholar
Jennifer Barber, Suffolk University
Martha Carlson-Bradley, Independent Scholar
8.10 Cambridge Room
Milton in America
Chair: Wm Moeck, SUNY Nassau Community College
"Milton Family Values" Wm Moeck, SUNY Nassau Community College
"'Look homeward, angel': Milton the American in Spite of Himself (Part Two)" Roy Flannagan, University of South Carolina
"Milton in American Periodicals" David Boocker, University of Nebraska
"Postcyberpunk Milton: John Milton and Neal Stephenson's 'Quicksilver'" Mary Elizabeth Lough, University of Connecticut
8.11 Suite 1025
Barbaric Bards: Melville and Whitman in the Nineteenth Century
Chair: Zachary Hutchins, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Lincoln and Ahab in Whitman's 'O Captain! My Captain!'" Zachary Hutchins, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Mourning with 'Ever-returning Spring': Codified and Correlated Grief in Moby-Dick and 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd'" George Gordon-Smith, Brigham Young University
"'Oh the Whaleman's Joys!': New Forms of Masculinity in Moby-Dick and Leaves of Grass" Jennifer Schell, Wichita State University
"Re-structuring Bodies in Leaves of Grass, Typee, White-Jacket and Moby-Dick" Krista Turner, The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
8.12 Ballroom A
Lolita at 50
Chair: Justin St.Clair, University of South Alabama
"Sidetrips and Tourist Traps: Lolita, Boredom, and the Anxieties of the Everyday" Ryan Clark, University of Iowa
"Lolita in the Labyrinth" Melina Gehring, University of Hamburg
"Listening to Lolita" Justin St.Clair, University of South Alabama
"Lolita and the Science of Sex" Keith Wilhite, Duke University
8.13 Marlborough Room
Transnational Modernism
Chair: Daniel Shea, Mount Saint Mary College
"Welsh Modernism's 'crisis of language'" Laura Wainwright, Cardiff University
"Joyce the American" Genevieve Abravanel, Franklin & Marshall College
"Parallel Campaigns: Negotiating Transnational Identities in Musil, Rhys, and Joyce" Andrea Yates, University of Rhode Island
"Beyond the Nation: Birobidzhan in the Jewish Imagination" Debra Caplan, Harvard University
8.14 Rockport Room
A Clean Home is a Happy One: Victorian Depictions of Home Sanitation
Chair: Leslie Graff, D'Youville College
"Keeping Clean in Captivity: Gender, Race and Cleanliness in the Captivity Narratives of Catherine Parr Traill and Theresa Delaney" Erin Whitmore, University of New Brunswick
"Clean Body and Soul: Housekeeping and Moral Decay in Adam Bede" Nancy Anne Marck, Daemen College
"Making Companions and Confidants of Your Servants: Domestic Manuals and the Problem of Housekeepers" Karina Jimenez Everett, Fordham University
"'The Desire of the Cleanly Housewife': Cleanliness in Marketing Campaigns for Wicker Furniture and Other Domestic Objects" Leslie Graff, D'Youville College
8.15 Ipswich Room
Narratives of Passing in Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Literature
Chair: Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology
"Experiencing Marginality in Jewett's 'The Foreigner'" Joseph Connolly, Boston College
"Cowboys, Pirates, and the Subversion of Gender: The Utopics of Passing in Burroughs' 'Red Night Trilogy'" Gerald Miller, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"On Being Black and/or Woman Enough: Race, Transgenderism, and Identity in Linda Villarosa's Passing for Black" Erika Williams, Emerson College
"Dead Women Talking: Passing, Death, and Sexuality in Randall Kenan's Let the Dead Bury Their Dead " Brian Norman, Loyola College in Maryland
8.16 Suite 1525
Kings and Kingship in Medieval Literature II
Chair: Mies Taylor, Le Moyne College
"Woman/Lord: Reworking the comitatus in 'Dream of the Rood' and 'Judith'" Christina Lewis, University of West Florida
"Featsing, Genre and the Ideal King in Havelok the Dane" Leigh Elion, Boston College
"Sitting on his Wife's Throne: The Challenging Role of the King Consort" Elena Woodacre, Bath Spa University
"William the Bastard: Anglo-Saxon Responses to their Conqueror" Erin Mullally, Le Moyne College
8.17 Quincy Room
Masculinities in Recent Francophone Literature: 1950-present
Chair: Edith B. Vandervoort, Antelope Valley College
"The Construction of Masculinity in Tahar Ben Jelloun's Fiction" Rita Nazami, SUNY Stonybrook
"Writing the Masculinities of War: Alg?rie roman, by Ren?-Nicolas Ehni" Jane Evans, University of Texas-El Paso
"The Bastard Narrative: Space for Nomadic Masculinity" Robert Fagley, University of Pittsburgh
"'Bawouf!': Marbles, (Role) Models, and Gender Identity" Ren?e Larrier, Rutgers University
8.18 Chatham Room
The Epistolary Novel in World Literature
Chair: Chiara Frenquellucci, Harvard University
"Miguel de Unamuno's La novela de don Sandalio, jugador de ajedrez" Alexander Waid, United States Coast Guard Academy
"On Female Epistolary Sensibility" Jung Choi, Hravard University
"Rejecting the Epistolary Woman: Ying Chen's Les lettres chinoises and the Modern Female Protagonist" Rosemary Harrington, Louisiana State University
"Getting the Message: Instant Messaging (IM) as epistolary form in Lauren Myracle's teen trilogy" Lesa Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University
8.19 Nantucket Room
Modern Italian Poetry
Chair: Laura Baffoni Licata, Tufts University
"L'Orfismo e la follia: literary correspondences between the poetry of Alda Merini and Dino Campana" Eleonora Buonocore, University of Notre Dame
"The Modern Mannerism of Giovanni Giudici" Thomas Peterson, University of Georgia
"Come cresce la poesia. L'epistolario Vittorio Sereni - Niccolo' Gallo" Stefano Giannini, Syracuse University
"'Vola alta, parola,?': la dimensione lirica del linguaggio all'interno del dinamismo poetico luziano" Laura Baffoni Licata, Tufts University
8.20 Suite 1925
Italian Short Story
Chair: Roberto Nicosia, Rutgers University
"Truth Relativism and Literary Pragmatism: Boccaccio and Rumi's 'Tale of the Three Faiths'" Bridget Pupillo, John Hopkins University
"La fine della cortesia nel 'Trecentonovelle' di F. Sacchetti" Aniello di Iorio, UCLA
"Dalla novella al Film: De Sica rilegge 'Il Viaggio' di Pirandello" Lisa Sarti, CUNY
8.21 Marquis Room
Federico Garc?a Lorca, Poeta Eleg?aco
Chair: Salvatore Poeta, Villanova University
"La eleg?a como elemento dram?tico en la trilog?a rural de Federico Garc?a Lorca" Antonio, F. Cao, Hofstra University
"La muerte como pretexto: motivos del romancero en la eleg?a de Federico Garc?a Lorca" Adriano Duque, Rider University
"Elementos eleg?acos y antieleg?acos en 'Llanto por Ignacio S?nchez Mej?as'" Marielos Arias-Zelid?n, Villanova University
"Federico Garc?a Lorca, poeta eleg?aco in?dito" Salvatore Poeta, Villanova University
8.22 Marblehead Room
New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies
Chair: Cecilia Feilla, Marymount Manhattan College
"Performing the Past: Cultural Memory in the Long Eighteenth Century" Dan Gustafson, Yale University
"Translating Chemistry into Personal and Communal Agency: The Friendship Poems of Katherine Philips" Alaina Hohnarth, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Apologies in Romanticism: Language and Representation in Rousseau and Jane Austen" Charles Carroll, CUNY Graduate Center
"Law and Literature: A New Direction for Teaching Eighteenth-Century Texts" Sara Schotland, Georgetown University