Session Index

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American

20th Century Soldier Narratives: the Intersection of Fiction & Non-fiction 3.10

Activist, Feminist, and Writer: Examining the Legacy of Maria W. Stewart 4.09

Activist Poetry / Poetic Activism 5.11

Affect and Technology: Connecting America at the Turn of the Century 10.07

American Literature and War 3.06

American Trans-Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century: Germany and America 5.02

American Working-Class Literature I 13.03

American Working-Class Literature II 17.09

Antebellum American Print Culture and the Aesthetics of Consumption 11.11

Art and Nineteenth-Century American Literature 14.08

Asian American Literature: The Voice of Southeast Asian Diaspora 5.14

Barbaric Bards: Melville and Whitman in the Nineteenth Century 8.11

The "Breaking of Style" in Postmodern Poetry 4.11

Capturing Conflict: Reconciling the Mimetic and the Aesthetic in Multimedia Representations of the Civil War 12.04

Changing Images of the Businessman Through Literature 11.09

The Child and the New Republic 14.10

Connections and Community: Reinhabitory Principles in Bioregionalism and Literary Field Studies 8.06

Cool Writings: Theorizing Coolness in Twentieth-Century Literature 17.11

The Child and the New Republic 14.10

Cribs: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Home 13.08

Early African-American Literature and the Archive: American Literatures Event 13.09

"Echo and Origin": Critical Approaches to Native American Literature 11.13
"The Face that Moves in My Mirror": Turning Rage Inside Out in American Literature and Culture 5.06

Food for Thought: Literary Impact of Food on British Culture, Gender, and Ethnicity 4.22

From Suicide to Sublimation: Boston Poets 1950-2000 6.11

Ghostly Men in Asian American Women's Narratives 6.10

Heidegger in America 1.10

Historical Memory in American Protest Literature 7.10

Historicizing Memory / Remembering History I 2.10

The History of the Book and Early American Literature 12.14

In Stitches: Violence and American Humor 13.14

Jewish American Literature: Identity and Generations 4.13

Julia Alvarez and Junot D�az: Contemporary Dominican American Writers 17.18

Literature and Design in Twentieth-Century America 3.04

The Literature of 9/11 1.01

*Lolita* at 50 8.12
Love and Marriage in Howells's Fiction 9.18
Lydia Maria Child: Overlooked Heroine of Social Reform 2.09

Making Race in Modern America 9.03

Methods of Literary Ecology in American Literature: The Constitution of Place 1.09
Milton in America 8.10
Modernism and Madness 5.10

Money and Economic Exchange in American Drama 14.13

Native American Literature 8.02

New Approaches to Phillis Wheatley 14.11

The New Woman: Art & Politics 13.05

Nineteenth-Century Native American Literatures 7.13

(Not) Toeing the Hearing Line: Constructions of Deafness in American Culture 4.02

Off the Road: The Wayside in American Literature 7.19  

Paul Bowles Reconsidered 10.05

(Post)Colonial Readings of Native American Literature 6.13
PostFeminist American Masculinity: Backlash and New Frontiers 16.06

The Posthumous Works Of Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright 10.11
A Reading By Poets Living In New England 8.09
Reclaiming the Comic Book Canon 9.04
Revisiting (Re)Memory: Re-evaluating Trauma, Nostalgia, and Cultural Memory in Contemporary Multiethnic Literature 9.06
"Should I Stay or Should I Go?": Metaphors of Motion in Contemporary American Women's Poetry 5.09
'The simple fact of having lasted': America's Poet Elders 7.11

'To the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet': Food and Identity in Early American Travel Writing 10.22

Transatlantic Decadence 13.22

The Transnational of National(ist) Discourse in Asian/American Literature 12.16

Twentieth-century American War Narratives: Trauma and Representation 16.09

Wretched Refuge? The Postmodern Immigrant Novel 7.01

Writing the Region: Readings from Writers Rooted in Place 6.09

British

At Home and Abroad: Hospitality and the Nineteenth-Century British Subject 13.15

Body Building: Empire, Gender and Disability in Victorian Literature 12.17

A Clean Home is a Happy One: Victorian Depictions of Home Sanitation 8.14

Colonial and Postcolonial *Bildungsroman* 7.16

Comedy and Violence in the Fiction of Charles Dickens 10.14

Contemporary British Masculinities 7.14

Constructions of English Renaissance Comedy 1.07

Contemporary Scottish Fiction 10.09
Cultivating Sympathy: Embodiment in George Eliot's Realist Aesthetic 8.07

Dangerous Pedagogy and Alternative Literacies in the 19th-Century English Novel 3.14

Disabling Texts/Enabling Culture 11.02

Ever Since Beckett 16.13

Gothic Excess 12.10
Jane Austen and the Contemporary World 13.11
Kings and Kingship in Medieval Literature 6.06
Kings and Kingship in Medieval Literature II 8.16
Laughing Matters: Gender and Humor in 20th-Century Literature 14.14
Literary Portrayals of the Poor: From Criminal to Child 11.15
The Medieval English Anchoritic Tradition 11.14
Modernism, Collections, and Cultural Identity 9.05
Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: Debtors and Creditors in Literature 10.15
New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Literary Studies 8.22
New Studies in Early Modern Book History 4.05
"New Views of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The Rhetoric of Mary Wollstonecraft" 11.22
Pining for Nature: Representations of Nature in Early Modern Texts 3.16
Playing Games with the Sacred: Post-secular Perspectives in Postmodernist Fiction 9.16
The Politics of Prizing: 40 Years of Booker Fiction, Culture, and Criticism 10.13
The Presence of Absence: Coming to Terms with the Holocaust in Contemporary European Literature 3.09
Reading a Poem Aloud 3.15
Realism and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century 6.14
Reading Genre in Pullman's *His Dark Materials* 11.10
Romantic Education 14.15
Samuel Beckett and His Legacy 13.06
Sexual Betrayal in Shakespeare 2.07
Shakespeare,Language and Translation: An Inquiry into National Identity in the Global Context 5.16
Social Justice, Religion, and Violence in the Works of William Blake 17.14
The Uses and Legacies of Harold Bloom 6.20
Victorian Fathers 14.01
Victorians and Their Relation to the Unconscious 17.13
Victorians Down Under 12.15
The Victorians in the New Millennium 2.04
We Love the '80s: Nostalgia and Empire in Contemporary British Culture 10.04
Where do we go from Here? Bront� Studies in the Twenty-First Century 5.15
Women and the City in Early Twentieth Century Fiction 7.15
Women Cultural Producers and the Politics of the Aesthetic in the Interwar Period 16.05

Wordsworth, Social Responsibility, and Pedagogy 11.07

Canadian

Beyond *Green Gables* 7.09
Canadian Literature and the Literary Prize Market 6.22
Literatures of Montreal 7.03
Writing on the (Eastern) Edge: Atlantic Canadian Literature 5.22

Caribbean

Caribbean Poetry: Tradition, Innovation and Gender 9.09
Cuban Revolutionary Literature and the Literature of the Cuban Revolution 13.18
Frantz Fanon's legacy 8.04
Laughter's Reason: The Comic in Caribbean Literatures 1.02

Comparative Literature

Body Traffic: Contained Mobility and (Trans)Migrations in Cinema and Literature since 2000 8.01
The City as a Place of Exile 17.08
Commerce in Colonial Literatures: Avarice or Opportunity? 10.02
Comparative Literature: Pedagogy and Curriculum Building 3.05
The Continuing Challenges of N�gritude 11.01
Crazy Women: Healing Post-Trauma 14.05
Dulce et Decorum Est?: Twentieth Century Poetry of War 13.02
Dylan, Cohen, Young: North American Song as International Literature 6.01
The Epistolary Novel in World Literature 8.18
The Ethics of Translation 7.18
Narrating Multiple Modernities 2.16
Original Poetry 5.20
Pathology and Modernity: Medical Discourse and its Fictions 9.12
Remembering History/ Historicizing Memory II 4.10
Representing the 21st Century City: City as Text 14.04
(Re) Theorizing Revolution: Radical Culture in the Contemporary Period 14.12
Speaking Our Stories: Cross-Cultural Orality 4.08
The Survivor Story in Contemporary Literature and Culture 9.02
Transnational Modernism 8.13 The Sublime Today 9.13
Women Writing Trauma 1.16
Writing The Adventure: The Rhetoric of Peril in Travel Literature 12.02

Composition

The Idea of the Composition: Digitizing Writing Instruction 5.08
Philosophy as Advanced Composition 11.16
Service Learning: Connecting Composition and Community 4.03

Film

City Scene: Boston and Film 7.04
Film. Flanerie. Phantasmagoria. 16.03
Films of Terrorism 3.01
Genre Trouble: The Role of Genre in 20th and 21st Century Film and Fiction 1.12
International Cinema in the 21st Century 12.01
More Than Adaptation: Asking the Big Questions about Film, Narrative, and Disciplines 3.03

French

The Cinemas from the Maghreb 4.17
Contemporary Women's Writing in French: Feminist Responses to the Literary Canon 6.07
Crime and Violence in 18th Century French Literature 11.17
Europe at the turn of the 19th century: universal or national? 14.09
Evil in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature? 9.17
Francophone Women Travelers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 12.06
French in America: Then and Now 16.15
Maghrebian and Arab Woman Authors 5.17
Masculinities in Recent Francophone Literature: 1950-present 8.17
Medicine in Literature 6.17
Pascal's *Pens�es* and Literature 16.12
Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching French: Successful Courses and Strong Programs 11.06
Performing Artifice: Acts of Transgression in Decadent Literature 17.15
Reconfiguring Boundaries: Shaping the Self in 20th Century French and Francophone Literature 1.13
Rethinking the French Major: What Undergraduate Curriculum for the 21st Century 10.16
Sc�nographie des cinq sens dans le texte romanesque (XIXe-XXe si�cles) 17.12
Seditious Fairy Tales of 17th Century France 3.18
Sex and Gender in Medieval French Literature 7.06
Simone de Beauvoir, Mai 68 et la cause des femmes : les ambigu�t�s de la litt�rature et du militantisme 10.17
Urban Paris: Representations of the City in French and Francophone Texts 5.03
What We Wish We Had Known: Early Career Advice from Seasoned French Faculty 14.18
Women's Autobiography in French: Towards a Plural Self? 2.01
Women's Autobiography in French: Towards a Plural Self 4.18
Writing (North) America in French 2.13

Gay / Lesbian

Boston Marriages: 'New Women' and Relationships, from Henry James to David Mamet 6.19
Narratives of Passing in Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Literature 8.15
Provisional Bliss: Same Sex Relationships in Twentieth Century Literature 10.18
Rescue Me Not: Backward (Pre)modern, Queer Negativities 14.16
Sexology, Emancipation and Literature 9.15
Teaching LGBT literature in the 21st century classroom 13.16

German

Boundaries in Flux: Travel Literature in the Age of Globalization 6.12
Confrontations: German Music in Context 14.06
Das Tier im Mittelpunkt: Animals, literature, and modernity 1.14
Dreams and their scientific appropriations 3.12
E.T.A. Hoffmann in Berlin 10.10
Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Reading Resolution in German Literature and Culture 16.16
Gender and Genre in 18th and 19th Century German Literature 4.12
Humorous Strategies in Post-Unification German Literature and Film 10.12
Jewish-German Dialogue Reconsidered 11.03
Literary Translation in Praxis 11.12
The Location and Dislocation of Swiss Literature 5.12
Lost (and found) in Translation 9.07
New Perspectives on Anna Seghers 2.14
Post-Feminism in German Literature 5.18
Remembering the Past: German History in Post-Wende Film and Literature 14.03
Text and Image in German Literature I 13.12
Text and Image in German Literature II 17.06
Tragedy and the Tragic around 1800 7.12

When East meets West: Representations of Germans & Eastern Europeans 12.08

Women Writers and 'Culture is Politics' 6.18

Italian

19th c. Italian Prose: Nation, Language and Literary Ideals 9.19
1969-2009: Do you remember Italy? Autunno Caldo, Piazza Fontana and their aftermath 13.01
Best New Practices in the Teaching of Italian: Language, Culture, and Technology 12.03
Beyond the Commedia: Italian Theatre, Adaptations, and Opera Through the Centuries 2.15
Chronicle into History: Authors and Texts Between Past and Present 3.20
Dante and Medieval Literature 4.19
Does Truth Matter?: The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Italy 2.11
Fellino the Filmmaker, the Painter and the Poet 5.01
Food and Eating: Ecofeminist Perspectives in 19th-Century Italian and European Literature 12.11
Fragmenting the Self 9.20
From Communicative Skills to Critical Analysis: Teaching and Learning Italian Culture in Bridge-level Courses 9.08
From Paper to Screen and Vice Versa 11.04
Il giallo italiano dal secondo dopoguerra ai giorni nostri 10.19
In the thirtieth Anniversary of *Il Boccalone* : Reflections on the literary Work of Enrico Palandri 14.19
Italian Avant-Garde 11.19
Italian cities and their identities. Changes and challenges. 16.04
Italian Contemporary Poetry 7.07
Italian Literature and Translation 13.19
Italian Literature: From The Twentieth Century Into The New Millennium 1.04
Italian Literature: Renaissance to Humanism 14.17
Italian Short Story 8.20
Italian Urban Landscape in the XX Century Italian Literature 13.20
Italian Women Writers and Autobiography 5.07
Latino American Poetic Artifacts, from 19th to 21st Century 6.04
Literary Futurism 2009: The Dead Are (Not) Always Right 16.11
Male in Progress. Re-defining Masculinities in Italian Studies 14.20
Mediterraneismi nel cinema italiano 6.03
Modern Italian Fantastic Fiction 16.02
Modern Italian Poetry 8.19
Nature in Italian Literature and Cinema 11.20
Oral Narrative: Exploring Possibilities for the Italian Classroom 10.08
Parole al confine/Words on Border 1.05
Past and Present on the Screen: History and Society through the Images of the Italian Filmmakers 2.08
Primo Levi between Testimony and Literature 1.15
Postcolonial Italy 17.03
Queer Presences: Homosexuality, Homoeroticism and Homophobia in Italian Literature and Cinema 4.06

Queering Sicily 5.19

Religion in Nineteenth &Twentieth Century Italian Literature 10.20
Sensual and Intellectual Experiences: Food in Italian Literature 11.18
Table Talk: Perspectives on Food in Medieval Italian Literature 3.19
Tensions and Conflicts in Italian Theatre 17.02
"Vergangenheitsbew�ltigung Italian Style?" 4.07
Vis Imaginativa: Theories of the Imagination in Italian Literature 7.20
What the Children Are Telling Us: Their Stories on Screen 7.08

Pedagogy

Assessing Writing in English Programs: Theory Meets Practice 9.11
The Big Idea: [Re]Visionary Perspectives on the Writing Classroom 13.10
Inhabiting Worlds - Drama Pedagogy in Foreign Language Instruction 3.08
Innovative Approaches to Teaching Canonical Works 9.22
Multimedia Modules: Doing Less with More 8.08
The "Person" in the 21st Century: Personal/Writing in the Contemporary Composition Classroom 7.02
The Role of Music in Foreign Language Instruction 1.08
Summer Reading for First Year Students 6.16
Teaching and Learning Literature: The (Im)Possibilities 3.17
Teaching English to Non-Majors 10.01

Thinking Outside the Box: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Foreign Language Teaching 5.05

Popular Culture

Biographical Spectacle: Theorizing Non-Literary Auto/Biography 2.03
Cheering for the Bad Guy: The Rise of the Anti-hero in Popular Culture 17.06
Death in Contemporary Life Writing 4.14
Fins-de-siecle: Narrative Form in the Victorian and Postmodern Serial 9.21
The Future of Text & Image in the Literary Sphere 4.15
Graphic Narrative: Innovation & Adaptation 10.03
History, Memoir, and Comics 8.05
Leaps of Faith: Mania Meets Modernity 6.15
"Lost" at NeMLA: Mapping TV's Most Elusive Island 17.16
Neil Gaiman: Intertextuality and Influences 11.05
Popular Culture Event 12.19
Self-Writing: Genred Interventions 4.16
Sexuality in/and the 3d World 11.08
S(t)imulated Realities 13.04
Travel Literature and the Pursuit of Discovery 9.14
The Writing Cure: Scripting the Self in Trauma Memoir 7.05
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Are All One: Historical Conflation in Film and Television. 8.03

Professional Development

Archival Work and Scholarly Capital 6.08
Building Blocks of the Curriculum Vitae 12.12
From Dissertations to Books 1.06
The Maternal Wall and Strategies of Resistance and Empowerment for Mothers in Academe 12.05
Why Literature Matters 6.05

Spanish / Portuguese

Behind the Spanish Lens: Stars and Sexualities in Contemporary Spanish Film 17.01
Censorship and Creativity in Hispanic Literature 13.13
Contemporary Connections in Spanish and Latin American Theater 16.14
Contemporary Spanish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Political Acts and Social Conscience 10.21
Contemporary Trends in Latin American Narrative 2.12
Contemporary Women Artists and Social Movements in Spanish America 13.07
Cultural Encounters in Cervantes' *Don Quixote* 11.21
Early Hispanic Culture in New York City 3.02
El Mundo Literario de Jer�nimo L�pez Mozo: Homenaje al escritor y su obra 12.21
Federico Garc�a Lorca, Poeta Eleg�aco 8.21
Feminine Discourse in Early Modern Spain 6.21
History, Memory, and Cultural Discourses in Spain 4.04
Identity Interrupted: The Dislocations of Exile 6.02
Imaginarios colectivos: ciudades, sujetos y fronteras 5.13
The Legacy of Roque Dalton within Contemporary Central American Culture and Politics 7.21
Masculinidad y Machismo en la Narrativa Latinoamericana 16.10
Monstruos y monstruosidades; espacios alternativos en la literatura y las artes 9.01
Projections of Peronism in Latin American Literature 3.21
Reconstructing The Classics: Studies Of Early-Modern Adaptations For Contemporary Audiences 4.01
Reading Spanish Poetry Today 14.21
Remembrance of Things Past: Memory as Theatrical Convention in Contemporary Spanish Drama 5.21
Replaying the Past: Representing the Early Modern in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Spain 2.05
Song & Social Change 1.03

Theory

Alternative Ethics, A Society for Critical Exchange Session 13.21
Do We Still Believe the Humanities Can Transform Students' Lives? 14.07
Globalizing Ecocriticism 17.05
Imagination, the Commons, and Enclosures 3.11
Intersections between Orality and Postcolonial Theory 4.20
Literary Modernism and Modern Art: Intersections of Creativity 5.04
New Psychological Approaches to Literature 10.06
Official Writing as Text 16.08
Queer Ecocriticism and Theory 16.07
Religion, the Secular, and Literary Studies 7.17
Towards a True Avant-Garde Poetics 12.20

Women's Studies

American Suffrage Literature: Fostering a Field 3.07
In Word or Deed: Global Women's Unauthorized Modes of Communication 4.21
Modernist Mothers 17.17
The Motherhood Memoir: Context and Creation 7.22
Perspectives on Women and Myth 17.10
Postfeminism and the Future(s) of Feminist Film and Media Studies 16.01
Taking $tock of Women and Commodities in British and American Literature 9.10
Transforming Spaces: The Manipulation of Public and Private Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Women's Literature 16.17
Women Transforming Modernism 13.17

World Literatures

Russian Poetry: Text and Context 2.02
Transcending Boundaries: The Novels of Elif Safak 12.07
Works of New African Writers 14.02