Saturday Sessions
February 28
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Session 9
Saturday, February 28, 8:30-10:00
- 9.01 Lexington Room
- Monstruos y
monstruosidades; espacios alternativos en la literatura y las
artes
- Chair: Adriana Spahr,
Grant Macewan College
- "'El sue�o de la raz�n (produce monstruos)': Buero Vallejo
y Goya"
Bieke De Loore, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- "La condesa sangrienta: Fact Stranger than
Fiction?"
Cristina Santos, Brock University
- "Giovanna Rivero's 'Contraluna':Meeting The Monstrous Lilith
Through The Fantastic"
Veronica Saunero-Ward, New Mexico Highlands University
- "Mordiscos tr�gicos: infancia y aberraci�n en la escritura
de Andr�s Caicedo"
Karina Miller, California State University-San Marcos
- 9.02 Berkshire Room
- The Survivor Story in
Contemporary Literature and Culture
- Chair: Cornelius Collins,
Rutgers University
- "Gotta Move: Survival, Refuge, and Escape in Toni Morrison's Paradise"
Sean Grattan, The Graduate Center-CUNY
- "The Audacious Language of Birahima, Child
Soldier"
Maria Moreno, Brown University
- "Mortifying the Spirit: The Memory of the Camp in Hellblazer"
Katharine Polak, University of Cincinnati
- "Boy in White: Violence and Stylization in the Post-September
11th Novel"
Rachel Greenwald Smith, Boston University
- 9.03 Duxbury Room
- Making Race in Modern
America
- Past President's
Session
- Chair: Matt Lessig, SUNY
Cortland
- "Cartooning on the Color Line: Chicago Defender's Famous
Cartoonist Leslie Rogers and the People We Can Get Along Without"
Paul Farber, University of Michigan
- "Mongrel Virginia: Ellen Glasgow's Barren Ground and
the Curse of Tenancy"
Matt Lessig, SUNY Cortland
- "'Don't play no blues': Race, Music, and Mourning in
Faulkner's Sanctuary"
Erich Nunn, University of Virginia
- "Black and White, Unite and Fight!: Migration, Race, and
Working-Class Fiction"
Erin Royston Battat, Harvard University
- 9.04 Dedham Room
- Reclaiming the Comic Book
Canon
- Chair: A. David Lewis,
Boston University
- "Batman as Commodity"
Laurelann Porter, Scottsdale Community Colege
- "Top Ten References: Allusion and the
Canon"
Charles Henebry, Boston University
- "The State of the Readership: The Comics Creator, Scholars,
and the Minicomics Underground"
Adam Staffaroni, Center for Cartoon Studies
- "Comics in Academia: Developing Academic Research Databases
of Comic Strips, Comic Books, and Graphic Novels"
Greg Urquhart, Alexander Street Press
- 9.05 Sturbridge Room
- Modernism, Collections,
and Cultural Identity
- Chair: Shayna Skarf,
Brandeis University
- "From Clutter to Muddle: E. M. Forster and the Modernist
Revision of Victorian Narrative"
Leslie Simon, Boston University
- "Wallace Stevens's Essays and Diaries on the Significance of
Collecting Artifacts"
Raina Kostova, Jacksonville State University
- "Collecting Images: Science and Fiction in early German
Film"
Isa Murdock-Hinrichs, University of California, San Diego
- "'A Series Originating in and Repeated to Infinity': Ulysses,
List-Making, and the Ethics of an Unbound Form"
Rebecca Strauss, University of Virginia
- 9.06 Suite 625
- Revisiting (Re)Memory:
Re-evaluating Trauma, Nostalgia, and Cultural Memory in Contemporary
Multiethnic Literature
- Chair: Shari Evans,
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
- "The Quest for Cultural Memory in the Poetry of Rita
Dove"
Sally Michael, 6 October University
- "'If I Allow Myself to Listen': Slavery and Historiograhy in
David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident"
Nicole L.B. Furlonge, Lawrenceville School
- "Remixing Memory: Paul Miller's Rebirth of a Nation"
Margaret Toth, Manhattan College
- "Spectral Space: Memory, Loss, and Community in the Poetry of
Brenda Marie Osbey"
Shari Evans, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
- 9.07 Plymouth Room
- Lost (and found) in
Translation
- Chair: Maureen O.
Gallagher, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- "Infinite Optimism: Friedrich J. Bertuch's Pioneering
Translation (1775-77) of Don Quixote"
Candace Beutell Gardner, Independent Scholar
- "�bersetzungsgeschichte als Beitrag zur
Rezeptionsgeschichte? The Case of Wilhelm Raabe"
Michael Ritterson, Gettysburg College
- "Cultural Translation and the Foreign in Language"
Maria S. Grewe, Columbia University
- 9.08 Concord Room
- From Communicative Skills
to Critical Analysis: Teaching and Learning Italian Culture in
Bridge-level Courses
- Chair: Patricia Di Silvio,
Tufts University
- "Teaching Contemporary Italy: Trame, a New Reader for
Bridge-Level Courses"
Cristina Abbona-Sneider, Brown University and Cristina Pausini,
Wellesley College
- "Teaching Italian Language and Culture Through Filmic
Texts"
Elisabetta D'Amanda, Rochester Institute of Technology
- "Intermediate Italian: New Directions for an Effective Course
Syllabus"
Patricia Di Silvio, Tufts University
- "The Introduction of L2 Gestures to Learners of Italian:
Approaches and Experiences"
Giuliana Salvato, University of Windsor, Canada
- 9.09 Ballroom B
- Caribbean Poetry:
Tradition, Innovation and Gender (Roundtable)
- Sponsored by the Women's
Caucus
- Chair: Elaine Savory, New
School University
- "Derek Walcott's Engendering Puns"
Emily Taylor Merriman, San Francisco State University
- "Their Brother's Keeper: A Masculine Caribbean Aesthetic in
the Poetry of Kwame Dawes and Geoffrey Philp"
Lisa Day-Lindsey, Eastern Kentucky University
- "From Mothers to Muses and Back Again: Woman as Love Object
in Kamau Brathwaite's Poetry"
Rachel Mordecai, Amherst College
- "Mother, Mother Tongue, Muse: Gender in the Work of Kamau
Brathwaite and NourbeSe Philip"
Kristen Mahlis, California State University-Chico
- "A World of Strong Women: Lorna Goodison's Poetry and Poetic
Memoir"
Elaine Savory, New School University
- 9.10 Cambridge Room
- Taking $tock of Women and
Commodities in British and American Literature
- Chair: Sophie Lavin, SUNY
Stony Brook
- "Commodity Girls and Working Women: Contrasts and Connections
in Charlotte Bront�'s Jane Eyre"
Meta Plotnik, SUNY Nassau Community College
- "Women and the Economy in The Life and Adventures of
Michael Armstrong, Factory Boy"
Elizabeth Starr, Westfield State College
- "Women as Commodities in Margaret Atwood's Novels"
Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island
- "Taking $tock of Women and Commodities in Contemporary Black
British Literature"
Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook
- 9.11 Suite 1025
- Assessing Writing in
English Programs: Theory Meets Practice
- Chair: Anne Doyle,
Bridgewater State College
- "Assessing Writing in English Programs: Theory Meets
Practice"
Tricia Serviss, Syracuse University
- "Writing Assessment and/as Disciplinary Formation in
Composition"
Adam Katz, Quinnipiac University
- "Assessing Student Writing in the Transfer Process: The
CONNECT Writing Project"
Evelyn Pezzulich, Bridgewater State College and Patricia White,
Univeristy of Massachusetts-Darthmouth
- "Adding Rhetorical Situation to Assessment"
Anne Doyle, Bridgewater State College
- 9.12 Ballroom A
- Pathology and Modernity:
Medical Discourse and its Fictions
- Chairs: Charlotte Rogers,
Yale University and Masha Mimran, Princeton University
- "Similia similibus curantur: Literary Remedies to
Moral Maladies in Fin-de-Siecle France"
Francois Proulx, Harvard University
- "Finding Hy-Brazil: Eugenics and Modernism in the
Pacific"
Susan Carson, Queensland University of Technology
- "Diagnosing African Psychoanalysis: J.C. Carothers and The
Mind of Man in Africa"
Clare Counihan, Nazareth College
- "Fictionalizing Pathology: Scientific Discourse &
Ideology in Rahel Sanzara's Das verlorene Kind"
Sophie Boyer, Bishop's University
- 9.13 Marlborough Room
- The Sublime Today
- Chair: Gillian Pierce,
Boston University
- "Bloom's Definition of the Sublime"
William Quirk, St. Mary's College of Maryland
- "The Power of the Sublime Dimension of 9/11"
Marie-Christine Clemente, Cambridge University
- "Ekphrasis and Sublimity in the Absence of
Witness"
Mihaela Harper, University of Rhode Island
- "Terror and the Sublime: Kantian Aesthetics and the
Postmodern Mediascape"
Gillian Pierce, Boston University
- 9.14 Rockport Room
- Travel Literature and the
Pursuit of Discovery
- Chair: Giulia Guarnieri,
The City University of New York
- "The Space and Place of Discovery in Robinson Crusoe"
Jason H. Pearl, Florida International University
- "L'immagine rinascimentale dell'islam tra convivenza e
bestialit�"
Paolo Pucci, University of Vermont
- "Viaggi di Parnaso, Theoretical Practice in Early Modern
Italian Literature"
Maneesha Patel, Independent Scholar
- "Ojetti e Giacosa tra ammirazione e rifiuto del mito
americano"
Emanuele Occhipinti, Drew University
- 9.15 Ipswich Room
- Sexology, Emancipation and
Literature
- Chair: Robert Tobin, Clark
University
- "Fritz Geron Pernauhm's 'Ercole Tomei' (1900) and the
Rhetoric of Sexual Emancipation"
Yvonne Ivory, University of South Carolina
- "Between Emancipation and Repression: Homosexuality in Robert
Musil's 'The Confusions of Young Toerless' (1906)"
Darren Ilett, Michigan State University
- "Literature, Social Reform and the 'New Woman'
Writer"
Helga Thorson, University of Victoria
- "Culture and Eugenics in Magnus Hirschfeld's 'World Journey
of a Sexologist' (1933)"
Veronika Fuechtner Fuechtner, Dartmouth College
- 9.16 Suite 1525
- Playing Games with the
Sacred: Post-secular Perspectives in Postmodernist Fiction
- Chair: Magdalena
Maczynska, Marymount Manhattan College
- "The Turn to Religion in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of
Lot 49 and Oscar Hijuelos's Mr. Ives' Christmas"
Brian Ingraffia, Calvin College
- "Religious Language in Contemporary Post-secular
Fiction"
Magdalena Maczynska, Marymount Manhattan College
- "Confessions of an Atheist Mysogynist: The Curious Case
of A Maggot"
Michelle Buchberger, Franklin University
- "Thomas Pynchon and the Act of Authorial Kenosis"
Mark Quinn, University College Dublin
- 9.17 Quincy Room
- Evil in Contemporary
French and Francophone Literature?
- Chair: Scott Powers,
University of Mary Washington
- "Is Kindly just Kinky? The Originality of Evil in Les
Bienveillantes by Jonathan Littel"
Nadia Louar, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- "L'enfance dans le r�cit de g�nocide: cas de L'A�n� des
orphelins"
Mamadou Wattara, Rutgers University
- "'Who Knows What Evil Lurks�?': Unmasking the Perpetrator
in Recent Occitan Fiction - from Parisian Imperialism to
21st-Century Globalization"
Stanley F. Levine, University of South Carolina, Aiken
- "Paradoxical Evil in Novels by Am�lie Nothomb"
Beth Gale, Clark University
- 9.18 Chatham Room
- Love and Marriage in
Howells's Fiction
- Chair: Elsa Nettels,
College of William and Mary
- "Love on a Slant: Howells explores the slippery slope of
marriage in Victorian America"
Maureen McGowan, Independent Scholar
- "Marriage and the Woman Artist: Howells and
Cather"
Julie Olin-Ammentorp, LeMoyne College
- "She was never equal to him': Gendered Readings of Marriage
in Howells's Fiction"
Rita Bode, Trent University
- "Should They Marry? Conflicting Voices in Howells's
Fiction"
Elsa Nettels, College of William and Mary
- 9.19 Nantucket Room
- 19th c. Italian Prose:
Nation, Language and Literary Ideals
- Chair: Mark Epstein,
Princeton University
- "The English Women of the Browning Circle and their Influence
on Nineteenth-Century Italian Culture"
Brittany Asaro, UCLA
- "Language and Identity in Alfieri's Vita"
Elena Borelli, Rutgers University
- "Roman experimental versus 'romanzo
d'esperimento':Nineteenth-Century Literary Experimentations in a
National Context"
Maria Grazia Lolla, Harvard University
- 9.20 Suite 1925
- Fragmenting the Self
- Chair: Deborah Amberson,
University of Florida
- "Vivisecting the Criminal Body: Lombrosian Spectres in Carlo
Lucarelli's Fiction"
Elena Past, Wayne State University
- "Misplacing the Self: Identity on the Move in Francesca
Duranti's Left-Handed Dreams"
Barbara Alfano, Bennington College
- "Reading Memory: Brain Damage and Selfhood in Umberto Eco's The
Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana"
Sarah Birge, Pennsylvania State University
- "A Subjectivity of Tiers, Tears and Tatters in Federigo
Tozzi"
Deborah Amberson, University of Florida
- 9.21 Marquis Room
- Fins-de-siecle: Narrative
Form in the Victorian and Postmodern Serial
- Chair: Anne Moore, Tufts
University
- "An Office We Can Live With: American Series, British
Serial"
Brian Artese, Georgia State University
- "Rendering a 'Dickensian Aspect': The Literary Geography of
HBO's 'The Wire'"
Jay Marietta, University of Southern California
- "Forms of Addiction: Deadwood, Sensation Fiction, and
the Figure of the Female Drug Addict"
Kristina Aikens, Tufts University
- "Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:
Fin-de-siecle Comics and the Millennium"
Clifford Marks, University of Wyoming
- 9.22 Marblehead Room
- Innovative Approaches to
Teaching Canonical Works
- Chair: Janet S. Wolf, SUNY
College at Cortland
- "Literary Justice in Seventeenth-Century France: Corneille's
Le Cid and Horace through Mock Trials"
Helene E. Bilis, Wellesley College
- "Boswell as Dramatist: the Theatrical Nature of His Account
of his Interviews with Voltaire"
Colby H. Kullman, The University of Mississippi
- "...the More You Eat the Worse It Gets: Playing with Waiting
for Godot"
Michael Johnson, Buffalo State College
- "Notes from Underground and Run, Pecola, Run: Two Underused
Approaches to Teaching The Bluest Eye"
Elizabeth T. Hayes, Le Moyne College
Session 10
Saturday, February 28, 10:15-11:30 a.m.
- 10.01 Lexington Room
- Teaching English to
Non-Majors (Roundtable)
- Chair: Julie Strongson,
Anne Arundel Community College
- "Making Rhetoric Relate: Using Film Documentaries in the
Composition Classroom"
Susanna Kelly Engbers, Kendall College of Art and Design and
Kathleen Vandenberg, Boston University
- "The Interdisciplinary Learning Community as a Key to
Engaging Non-English Majors in the Composition Classroom"
Terry Novak, Johnson and Wales University and Eileen Medeiros,
Johnson and Wales University
- "Reaching Non-Majors in the Lit Classroom Using Problem-Based
Learning"
Steven B. Canaday, Anne Arundel Community College
- "From Resistance to Re-Vision: Demystifying the Academic
Writing Process for Non-Majors"
Wendy Hayden, Hunter College
- 10.02 Berkshire Room
- Commerce
in Colonial Literatures: Avarice or Opportunity?
- Chair:
Sara Lehman, Fordham University
- "The Lowly Offices of Lofty Empire: Commercial Clerks in the
Fiction of Eric Walrond"
James Davis, Brooklyn College - CUNY
- "German Merchants, American Speculators, Jewish
Crooks-Nationalism and trade in Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben"
Christine Achinger, University of Warwick
- "Jungian Archetypes and 'Merchant Stigma' in Colonial Spanish
American Literature"
Sara Lehman, Fordham University
- 10.03 Duxbury Room
- Graphic Narrative:
Innovation & Adaptation
- Chair: Jeffrey Gibson,
Wesley College
- "Immediate and Painful: How Guido Crepax's Venus in Furs
Performs Antonin Artaud's Concept of Cruelty"
Lian Amaris, Colorado College
- "'I try to push people's faces into their own lives':
Translating Identity in American Splendor"
Maria Sgroi, The University of Hawaii-Manoa
- "Readers Most Wanted: Satire, Criticism, and the Hollywood
Adaptation of Wanted"
Nico Dicecco, McMaster University
- 10.04 Dedham Room
- We Love the '80s:
Nostalgia and Empire in Contemporary British Culture
- Chair: Ann McClellan,
Plymouth State University
- "Fretting about Nationalism in Chariots of Fire."
Lindsay Davies, New York University
- "Empire, Friendship, Conservatism, and Class: Filmic
Nostalgia and the Aesthetics of Conflict in Thatcher's
England"
Sejal Sutaria, Monmouth University
- "Hungry Like the Wolf: Consuming Empire in Duran Duran's
1980s Music Videos"
Ann McClellan, Plymouth State University
- 10.05 Sturbridge Room
- Paul Bowles
Reconsidered
- Chair: Andrew Martino,
Southern New Hampshire University
- "Forgive us our Trespasses: Bowles and the Gesture of
Hospitality"
Andrew Martino, Southern New Hampshire University
- "Ways to Tell Tales: Bowles's American Words and Blaufuk's
Portuguese Pictures"
Herminia Sol, Polythecnic Institute of Tomar
- "Paul Bowles and the Road to Smara"
Michael Cotsell, University of Delaware
- 10.06 Suite 625
- New Psychological
Approaches to Literature
- Chair: Mary-Catherine
Harrison, University of Detroit-Mercy
- "How to Hold a Wallpaper Bird: A Cognitive Approach to
Imagination"
Elaine Auyoung, Harvard University
- "'She Smells Like a Broom': Clumsy Similes and Narrative
Voice"
Jennifer Harding, Washington and Jefferson College
- "How Narrative Relationships Overcome Empathic
Bias"
Mary-Catherine Harrison, University of Detroit-Mercy
- 10.07 Plymouth Room
- Affect and Technology:
Connecting America at the Turn of the Century
- Chairs: Justin
Rogers-Cooper, The Graduate Center-CUNY and Dan Wuebben, The Graduate
Center-CUNY
- "The Technologies of William Vaughn Moody's 'An Ode in the
Time of Hesitation'"
Lydia Fash, Brandeis University
- "Sound Blindness: Race and Mechanical Reproducibility in the
Phonographic Age"
Brian Hochman, Harvard University
- "Electric Affects and Arthur Stringer's Wire
Thrillers"
Dan Wuebben, The Graduate Center-CUNY
- 10.08 Concord Room
- Oral Narrative: Exploring
Possibilities for the Italian Classroom
- Chair: Sabina Perrino, The
Catholic University of America
- "Sociolinguistic Diversity through Italian Oral
Narrative"
Sabina Perrino, The Catholic University of America
- "Storia e storie: Bringing Oral History into the
Intermediate Language Classroom"
Daniela Viale, Wesleyan University
- "Passato e presente attraverso le testimonianze dei
protagonisti"
Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Tufts University
- 10.09 Ballroom B
- Contemporary Scottish
Fiction
- Chair: Robert Morace,
Daemen College
- "Devolutionary War Fiction: A. L. Kennedy's Day"
Peter Clandfield, Nipissing University
- "Duncan McLean and the Broken Home/Land"
Eric Hertz, Siena College
- "Scotland Unbound"
Robert Morace, Daemen College
- 10.10 Cambridge Room
- E.T.A. Hoffmann in
Berlin
- Chair: Len Cagle, Lycoming
College
- "E.T.A. Hoffmann's Poetics of the Little Monster"
Jan Niklas Howe, Freie Universit�t Berlin
- "Two Windows in Hoffmann's Berlin"
Len Cagle, Lycoming College
- "Hoffmann's Modern Visual Culture: Des Vetters Eckfenster
and Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics"
Sarah McGaughey, Dickinson College
- 10.11 Suite 1025
- The Posthumous Works Of
Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright
- Past Executive Director's
Session
- Chair: Josephine McQuail,
Tennessee Technological University
- "Reading Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth as a
Countermonument"
Russell Nurick, University of Massachusetts
- "Richard Wright's Posthumous Critical Reception in
France"
Claire Schub, Tufts University
- "The Achievement of Richard Wright's A Father's Law"
Josephine McQuail, Tennessee Technological University
- 10.12 Ballroom
- A Humorous Strategies in
Post-Unification German Literature and Film
- Chair: Barbara Mabee,
Oakland University
- "Recent Trends in Twenty-First Century Eastern German
Satire"
Jill E. Twark, East Carolina University
- "Laughter and Disbelief in Post-Wall German Literature: Jakob
Hein's 'Antrag auf st�ndige Ausreise' (2007)"
Anne Hector, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
- "The Body and the Grotesque in German Post-Reunification
Literature"
Garbine Iztueta, Universidad del Pais Vasco
- 10.13 Marlborough Room
- The Politics of Prizing:
40 Years of Booker Fiction, Culture, and Criticism
- Chairs: Raji Singh Soni,
Queens University and Deb Travis, Brooklyn College-CUNY
- "Celebrating Mistranslation: The Booker Prize and a Theory of
Comparative Literature in a Postcolonial Age"
Christopher Holmes, Brown University
- "The Inheritance of Dust: The Dystopic Polis from Ruth Prawer
Jhabvala to Anita and Kiran Desai"
Hilary Thompson, Bowdoin College
- "The Booker Prize and Violence"
Tara Needham, SUNY Albany
- 10.14 Rockport Room
- Comedy and Violence in the
Fiction of Charles Dickens
- Chair: Robert Lougy,
Pennsylvania State University
- "The Golden Dustman as Villain and Voice of Reason:
Enlightenment Comedy in Our Mutual Friend"
Janet Wolf, SUNY College at Cortland
- "Verdict Overturned: Pip Not Guilty"
Judith Sanders, Shady Side Academy
- "Blood and Laughter: Violence and Comedy in Dickens's
Readings"
John Anderson, Emerson College
- 10.15 Ipswich Room
- Neither a Borrower nor a
Lender Be: Debtors and Creditors in Literature
- Chair: Daniel Salerno,
Boston University
- "'Who Do We Shoot': Debtors, Creditors, and the Grapes of
Wrath"
Jon Dyen, Boston University
- "The Paradox of the Faustian Bargain, Approaching Abjection
in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus"
Galen Tan, Tufts University
- "Socrates in Newgate: The Experience of Debtor's Prison in
Fielding's Jonathan Wild"
Stephen Trainor, Salve Regina University
- 10.16 Suite 1525
- Rethinking the French
Major: What Undergraduate Curriculum for the 21st Century
(Roundtable)
- Chair: Natalie Edwards,
Wagner College
- "Response to the MLA Recommendations for Language
Curricula"
Natalie Edwards, Wagner College
- "French Studies: Curricular Challenges for the New
Millennium"
Pratima Prasad, University of Massachusetts-Boston
- "Rethinking the French Curriculum"
Ada Giusti, Montana State University-Bozeman
- "Integrating Language into the Comparative Literature Program
at a Small Liberal Arts College"
Christopher Hogarth, Wagner College
- 10.17 Quincy Room
- Simone de Beauvoir, Mai 68
et la cause des femmes: les ambigu�t�s de la litt�rature et du
militantisme
- Chair: Maria Luisa Ruiz,
Medgar Evers College-CUNY
- "Ambiguity and Control in Simone de Beauvoir's
Fiction"
Alison Holland, University of Northumbria
- "Simone de Beauvoir and Women's Rights in the 1960's: La
femme rompue Controversy"
Debra Popkin, Baruch College-CUNY
- "Ambigu�t�s et techniques du d�doublement des espaces
d'�criture"
Maria-Luisa Ruiz, Medgar Evers College-CUNY
- 10.18 Chatham Room
- Provisional Bliss: Same
Sex Relationships in Twentieth Century Literature
- Chair: Heather Levy,
Western Connecticut State University
- "Caverns of Mastery: Homoerotic Spaces in Woolf's Jacob's
Room and Baldwin's Giovanni's Room"
Eileen Barrett, California State University at East Bay
- "'Between Knowing and Not Knowing': Queer Readers in
Katherine Mansfield's Fiction"
Brian Pietras, Bennington College
- "Rushes: The Creation of the Unreal Reality of the
Passion According to John Rechy"
Francisco Perez, Midlands Technical College,
- 10.19 Nantucket Room
- Il giallo italiano dal
secondo dopoguerra ai giorni nostri
- Chair: Andrea Pera,
Independent Scholar
- "Untraditionally traditional: Simone Sarasso's Confine di
Stato"
David Sharp, The Graduate Center-CUNY
- "The Influence of the Media on Carlo Lucarelli's Crime
Fiction: from Intertextuality to Visual Writing"
Lucia Rinaldi, University College-London
- "Whodunit? Victim(s) and Perpetrator(s) in Massimo Carlotto
and Michele Soavi's Arrivederci Amore, Ciao"
Virginia Agostinelli, University of Washington
- 10.20 Suite 1925
- Religion in Nineteenth
&Twentieth Century Italian Literature
- Chair: Umberto Mariani,
Rurgers University
- "Franco Ferrucci's The Life of God (as Told by
Himself)"
Rebekah Hamilton, The University of Texas Pan American
- "The Catholic Church in Italian Society hrough the Novels of
Sebastiano Vassalli"
Meriel Tulante, Philadelphia University
- "De Andre's La buona novella"
Metello Mugnai, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- 10.21 Marquis Room
- Contemporary Spanish
Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Political Acts and Social
Conscience
- Chair: Candyce Leonard,
Wake Forest University
- "Zahra y Aisha': el compromiso social de Antonia
Bueno"
Lourdes Bueno, Austin College
- "The Gaze of the Dying Child in 'La Ni�a Tumbada' by Antonia
Bueno and 'Entrev�as' by Yolanda Pall�n"
Paola Kersch, Univ of Rochester
- Fantasmas y recuerdos de la Rep�blica en �Ay
Carmela!"
Juan de Urda, SUNY Fredonia
- 10.22 Marblehead Room
- 'To the hungry soul every
bitter thing is sweet': Food and Identity in Early American Travel
Writing
- Chair: Tim Strode, Nassau
Community College
- "'Too Full a Taste of Comfort': Taste, Eating, and Identity
in the Travel Journals of Thomas Jefferson"
Lauren Klein, The Graduate Center-CUNY
- "Grotesque Appetites: Sarah Kemble Knight and the
Construction of Class in Early America"
Mary McAleer Balkun, Seton Hall University
- "Pork, Milk, and Rum: William Byrd II and the State of North
Carolina Noses"
Amanda Rivers, Guilford Technical Community College
Session 11
Saturday, February 28, 11:45-1:00
- 11.01 Lexington Room
- The Continuing Challenges
of N�gritude
- Chair: Christopher Winks,
Queens College-CUNY
- "Aim� C�saire's Legacy: N�gritude and the Ideology of
Third World Revolution"
John Maerhofer, Queens College-CUNY
- "Chambac�: Symbol of Black Resistance in Afro-Colombian
Literature"
Lucia Ortiz, Regis College
- "Brandishing the Resin Torch: L�on-Gontran Damas's Maroon
Poetics"
Christopher Winks, Queens College-CUNY
- 11.02 Berkshire Room
- Disabling Texts/Enabling
Culture
- Chair: Ken Monteith,
LaGuardia Community College-CUNY
- "The Phantom Limb as National Symbol: The Red Hand of
Ulster"
Ken Monteith, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY
- "The Wound, the Other, and the Face of
Citizenship"
Andrew Dicus, The Graduate Center-CUNY
- "Sick Culture: Illness and Stature in American
Society"
J. Elizabeth Clark, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY
- 11.03 Duxbury Room
- Jewish-German Dialogue
Reconsidered
- Chair: Sabine von Mering,
Brandeis University
- "W�re es sch�n? Es w�re sch�n!: Rudolf Herrnstadt's Press
of Progress"
Michele Ricci Bell, Union College
- "Brothers & Strangers: Exploring the Comic Family Feud in
Dani Levy's 'Alles auf Zucker!'"
Jill Suzanne Smith, Bowdoin College
- "The Problem of Inter-Generational Discourse in Todays
Israeli and German Cinema - a Dialogue of Cultures beyond Religion
and History?"
Ariane Huml, Universitaet Freiburg and Karen Frankenstein, Freie
Universitaet-Berlin
- 11.04 Dedham Room
- From Paper to Screen and
Vice Versa
- Chair: Philip Balma,
University of Connecticut
- "Agnese e Johnny al cinema. Riscritture cinematografiche di
alcuni testi resistenziali"
Beppe Cavatorta, University of Arizona
- "From Autobiography to Film, from Film to Fiction: The
'Collaboration' between Bruck and Pontecorvo"
Philip Balma, University of Connecticut
- "I giardini dei Finzi-Contini: Bassani e De Sica a
confronto"
Simone Dubrovic, Kenyon College
- 11.05 Sturbridge Room
- Neil Gaiman:
Intertextuality and Influences
- Chair: Grace Wetzel,
University of South Carolina
- "Every Creator is a Trickster: Understanding the Web of Neil
Gaiman's Anansi Boys"
Nancy D. Tolson, Mitchell College
- "Sewer Rats and Subterranean Space in Neil Gaiman's
Neverwhere and Thomas Pynchon's V."
Grace Wetzel, University of South Carolina
- "American Gods: The Road Movie"
Georg Drennig, University of Vienna
- 11.06 Suite 625
- Pedagogical Strategies for
Teaching French: Successful Courses and Strong Programs
(Roundtable)
- Chair: Chelsea Ray,
University of Maine-Augusta
- "Fostering Study Abroad and Strengthening French Programs:
Benefits of the Multicultural French Classroom"
Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, Angelo State University
- "French for Travel for Adults: La Route Continue"
Kandace Lombart, Empire State College
- "Successful Teaching Techniques: Creating a Fun and Engaging
Environment in French Classes"
Louissa Abdelghany, Simmons College
- "Creative Final Projects in French 101: Building a Community
of Learners to Increase Student Retention"
Chelsea Ray, University of Maine-Augusta
- 11.07 Plymouth Room
- Wordsworth, Social
Responsibility, and Pedagogy
- Chair: Lolly Ockerstrom,
Park University
- "Wordsworth's Poetics of Social Responsibility: Sympathetic
Chains in 'The Ruined Cottage'"
Kyoung-Min Han, Ohio University
- "Sparking Positive Change: Wordsworth's 'Alice Fell' as a
Visionary Text"
Timothy Ruppert, Duquesne University
- "Teaching Narratives of Empathy and Social Responsibility in
'Lyrical Ballads'"
Todd O. Williams, Kutztown University
- 11.08 Concord Room
- Sexuality in/and the 3d
World
- Chair: Andrew Schopp, SUNY
Nassau Community College
- "Fear and Loathing in Second Life: Gender in the Online
Community"
Cathie LeBlanc, Plymouth State University
- "3D Gay Villa: Is there a Tenant in the Villa?"
Mark John Isola, Wentworth Institute of Technology
- "Rewritten by the Victors: Sexual Documentary in a 3D
World"
Susannah Boyle, Independent Scholar
- 11.09 Ballroom B
- Changing Images of the
Businessman Through Literature
- Chair: Christa Mahalik,
Quinnipiac University
- "Flem Snopes, Business Artist"
Sharon Desmond Paradiso, Endicott College
- "Capitalist Satire from Melville to Gaddis"
Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Fredonia
- "Underworld and Enterprise: The Shadowy Image of the
Businessman"
Christa Mahalik, Quinnipiac University
- 11.10 Cambridge Room
- Reading
Genre in Pullman's His Dark Materials
- Chair:
Shelley King, Queen's University
- "Eden, Babel and a garden in Oxford: The symbolic geography
of His Dark Materials"
Heather Cyr, Queen's University
- "The Devil's Parties: Regency Romance and the Byronic Hero in
His Dark Materials"
Balaka Basu, The Graduate Center-CUNY
- "True Lies: Lyra as Epic Trickster in His Dark Materials"
Shelley King, Queen's University,
- 11.11 Suite 1025
- Antebellum American Print
Culture and the Aesthetics of Consumption
- Chair: Dean Casale, Kean
University
- "Blood, Sweat, Tears: The Rise of Crime Literature in
Antebellum America"
Ashley Bourne, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
- "Print Culture and American Eloquence: Practical Rhetoric in
Response to Literary Production and Ownership"
Roger Thompson, Virginia Military Institute
- "The Wide, Wide World, Antebellum Print Cultureand
Middle-Class Consumption: Challenges to Refining American
Homes"
Laura Smith, University of New Hampshire
- 11.12 Ballroom
- A Literary Translation in
Praxis (Creative Session)
- Chair: Maureen O.
Gallagher, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
- "Poems in An/Other Tongue: On Translating Dragica Rajcic's
"Brocken" Poetry"
Erika M. Nelson, Union College
- "Dutch, Deutsch and English: A.F.Th. van der Heijden's Het
leven uit een dag"
Bradley Holtman, Mansfield University
- "Letters to Georges: Elias and Veza Canetti's Correspondence
with Georges Canetti, 1933-1959"
David Dollenmayer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- 11.13 Marlborough Room
- "Echo and
Origin": Critical Approaches to Native American Literature
- Chair: Ashley Hall,
University of California-Davis
- "The Fictionality of Literature in David Treuer's Native
American Fiction and The Translation of Dr. Apelles"
Brigitte Fielder, Cornell University
- "Appropriation and Cultural Integrity: James Welch's Fools
Crow"
Charles Hall, Nevada City Instructional Services
- "Textual Space: A Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's Storyteller"
Tracy Riley, The Graduate Center-CUNY
- 11.14 Rockport Room
- The Medieval English
Anchoritic Tradition
- Chair: Susannah Chewning,
Union County College
- "Julian of Norwich and the Healing of Suffering"
Nancy Enright, Seton Hall University
- "Latin and the Rhetoric of Enclosure in the Ancrene Wisse"
Sean Northrup, University of Connecticut
- "Enclosure and the Body of Christ"
Susannah Chewning, Union County College
- 11.15 Ipswich Room
- Literary Portrayals of the
Poor: From Criminal to Child
- Past President's
Session
- Chair: Annette Benert,
Moravian College
- "Reading Criminals"
Ruth Baldwin, University of California-Berkeley
- "Dickens's Innocents Who Aren't Ignorant: An Investigation of
Children in the Bleakest of Houses"
Kristen Carlson, Trinity College
- "True Lies: Storytelling and Redemption in Dorothy Allison's Two
or Three Things I Know for Sure"
Samantha Tieu, California State University-East Bay
- 11.16 Suite 1525
- Philosophy as Advanced
Composition
- Chair: Justin Hayes,
Quinnipiac University
- "The Pedagogical Turn: Composition at the End of
Philosophy"
Justin Hayes, Quinnipiac University
- "Copernican Revolutions in Science Writing"
Laura Estep, Auburn University
- "Composing Knowledge"
Valerie Smith, Quinnipiac University
- 11.17 Quincy Room
- Crime and Violence in 18th
Century French Literature
- Chair: Fr�d�rique
Donovan, Boston University
- "R�tif de la Bretonne, crime and retribution in the urban
jungle"
Peter Wagstaff, University of Bath, U.K.
- "'Marchez sur elle, ce n'est qu'un cadavre' ou le plaisir
secret de voir d�crire le mal dans La Religieuse"
Zeina Hakim, Tufts University
- "The Philosophical Glorification of Crime in
Eighteenth-Century France"
Faycal Falaky, Tulane University
- 11.18 Chatham Room
- Sensual and Intellectual
Experiences: Food in Italian Literature (Roundtable)
- Chair: Daniela Bisello
Antonucci, Princeton University
- "The Significance of Food in 'Lo Cunto de li
Cunti'"
Carmela Scala, St. John's University
- "Il pane verde � la soluzione? Ricerca del cibo negli
scritti di Nino Palumbo"
Daniela Bisello Antonucci, Princeton University
- "Tra piacere e sapere: l'esperienza gustativa e i fantasmi
d'incorporazione nel 'Sotto il sole giaguaro' di Italo
Calvino"
Hanna Albertson, Rhodes College, Memphis
- 11.19 Nantucket Room
- Italian Avant-Garde
- Chair: Paola Sica,
Connecticut College
- "Looking Back at 'Le donne del postdomani'"
Jamie Richards, University of Oregon
- "100 Years of Art and Technology: Contemporary Art in Light
of Italian Futurism"
Allison Cooper, Colby College
- "Indigestible Fictions: Hunger, Infanticide and Gender in
Paola Masino's Fame and Massimo Bontempelli's La fame"
Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia
- 11.20 Suite 1925
- Nature in Italian
Literature and Cinema
- Chair: Emanuele
Occhipinti, Drew University
- "Calvino, Leopardi, and Galileo's 'book' of
Nature"
Franco Gallippi, McMaster University
- "Ecological perspectives in Italo Calvino's
narrative"
Giulia Guarnieri, Bronx Community College-CUNY
- "La natura e lo spazio reali e fiabeschi nel Pentamerone
di G.B.Basile"
Snjezana Smodlaka, Independent Scholar
- 11.21 Marquis Room
- Cultural Encounters in
Cervantes' Don Quixote (Roundtable)
- Chair: Joan Cammarata,
Manhattan College
- "Discourses of History and the Quixote"
Sarah Beckjord, Boston College
- "Confronting and Controlling Difference in Don Quixote
and Early Modern Spain"
Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester
- "Espacio para un libro: el Quijote de
Avellaneda"
Reyes Coll-Tellechea, University of Massachusetts-Boston
- "Quixotic Dystopias: Deviation and Return in the Social
Discourse of Don Quixote, I"
William Clamurro, Emporia State University
- 11.22 Marblehead Room
- "New Views of A
Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The Rhetoric of Mary
Wollstonecraft"
- Chair: Fiore Sireci, The
New School
- "Dis-Orienting the Seraglio: Mary Wollstonecraft, Women's
Education, and Literary History"
Samara Anne Cahill, University of Notre Dame
- "Revisiting Millicent Garrett Fawcett's Revision of Mary
Wollstonecraft"
Mary Ann Tobin, Triton College
- "The Uses of Religion in Mary Wollstonecraft A Vindication
of the Rights of Woman"
Fiore Sireci, The New School
Session 12
Saturday, February 28, 1:15-2:45 p.m.
- 12.01 Lexington Room
- International Cinema in
the 21st Century
- Chair: Hunter Vaughan,
Washington University
- "'Leitmotif': Cinema, Propaganda, and the Production of the
Global, National and Regional"
Ying Xiao, New York University
- "French Terroir(s) and Globalization, Three Approaches: Mondovino,
Ma Mondialisation and Profils Paysans"
Audrey Evrard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- "Veiled Feminisms: The Women of Rachida"
Shannon Harry, Ohio University
- "Fantasizing the Globalized Other: Postcolonial Melancholia
in Do^le'"
Sheila Petty, University of Regina
- 12.02 Berkshire Room
- Writing The Adventure: The
Rhetoric of Peril in Travel Literature
- Chair: Ulrike Brisson,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- "A Suffragette's Errand in the Desert"
Hager Weslati, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster
University,
- "Deadly Wanderlust: Travel and Homelessness in Andreas
Kollender's Vor der W�ste"
Nicole Grewling, Shippenburg University
- "Body Consciousness and Peril in Eric Hansen's Stranger in
the Forest"
Russ Pottle, Regis College
- "Grace under Pressure? The Poetics of Distress"
Bernard Schweizer, Long Island University
- 12.03 Duxbury Room
- Best New Practices in the
Teaching of Italian: Language, Culture, and Technology
- Chair: Antonella Ansani,
Queensborough Community College-CUNY
- "Teaching Italian in the Blackboard Environment"
Antonella Ansani, Queensborough Community College-CUNY
- "Insegnare lingua e cultura italiana attraverso il cibo:
l'esperienza Gustolab"
Sonia Massari, Universita' di Firenze
- "'Video Clips' per la conoscenza pratica e l'ampliamento
della lingua italiana contemporanea"
Anna Iacovella, Yale University
- "Finestre aperte sul mondo: lo studio dell'italiano
attraverso il web"
Maria Luisa Graziano, Saint Peter's College
- 12.04 Dedham Room
- Capturing Conflict:
Reconciling the Mimetic and the Aesthetic in Multimedia Representations
of the Civil War
- Chair: Michael
Cadwallader, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- "'Ghastly Souvenir': Material and Narrative Strategies of
Re-membering a Nation Divided"
Susan Scheckel, SUNY Stony Brook
- "A Faltering Claim to National Existence: Hawthorne and
Wartime Aesthetics"
Edward Wesp, Western New England College
- "The Civil War in Stereo"
E. Godbey, Iowa State University
- "The Woman from Quarles' Mill: Writing Conflict into
Gardner's Images of the War"
Michael Cadwallader, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- 12.05 Sturbridge Room
- The Maternal Wall and
Strategies of Resistance and Empowerment for Mothers in Academe
(Roundtable)
- Chair: Andrea O'Reilly,
York University
- "Academic Mothers and the Power of Story"
Rita Bode, Trent University
- "Knowing When to Pretend and When to Refuse: Exploring the
Complex Struggle of Pretending and Refusing to be an Ideal Academic
Worker"
Lynn O'Brien Hallstein, Boston University
- "Family Matters in the Academy"
Andrea Herrera O'Reilly, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
- "What? A Baby After Becoming Full Professor?"
Leesa Streifler, University of Regina
- "A Stay-At-Home Professor: Being a Mother and a Distance
Education Academic"
Gina Wong-Wylie, Athabasca University
- 12.06 Suite 625
- Francophone Women
Travelers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Chair: Margaret McColley,
College of William and Mary
- "'Portraits of the Earth': The Early Geographies of Alexandra
David-N�el"
Janet Beizer, Harvard University
- "When the Mountain is Called Himalaya: Alexandra
David-N�el's Environmental Ethics"
Margaret McColley, College of William and Mary
- "India through the Writings of Francophone Women
Travelers"
Corinne Fran�ois-Den�ve, University of Liverpool
- "Freedoms Front? Simone T�ry and the Spanish Civil
War"
Martin Hurcombe, University of Bristol
- 12.07 Plymouth Room
- Transcending Boundaries: The Novels of Elif Safak
-
Chair: Michael McGaha, Pomona College
- "Urban Claustrophobia: A Reading of Familial Interaction in The
Bastard of Istanbul"
Can Aksoy, University of California-Santa
Barbara
- "Istanbulite Women and Turkish Nationalism in Elif Shafak's The
Bastard of Istanbul"
Ayse Bulamur, University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- "Sing, O Djinn! Violence, Memory, and Narrative in The Bastard
of Istanbul"
Perin Gurel, Yale University
- "Transferring the Untransferable: Justice, Community, and
Dialogue in Elif Shafak"
Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University
- 12.08 Concord Room
- When East Meets West: Representations of Germans
& Eastern Europeans
- Chair: Jill Suzanne Smith, Bowdoin College
- "Knocking on Europe's Doors: Migrants and 'New Europeans' in the
Works of Wladimir Kaminer and Dimitre Dinev"
Boryana Dobreva,
University of Pittsburgh
- "Paratactic Geography: The Functions of the 'East' in Judith
Hermann's Diesseits der Oder"
Kaisa Kaakinen, Cornell University
- "Eastern Brides: Power, Gender, and European Integration in
Contemporary Romanian Cinema"
Mihaela Petrescu, Hobart and William
Smith Colleges
- "Transnational Paranoia and Chernobyl in Recent German
Cinema"
Jaimey Fischer, University of California-Davis
- 12.09 Ballroom B
- Poetry Reading
- Todd Hearon, Phillips Exeter Academy
- Maggie Dietz, Boston University
- 12.10 Cambridge Room
- Gothic Excess
- Chair: Claudia Stumpf, Tufts
University
- "Killing Language: High Modernist Traces As Gothic Excess"
Rebecca Peters-Golden, Indiana University
- "The More the (un)Merrier; or, Gothic Excess in Caleb
Williams"
Kellie Donovan, Tufts University
- "Exceeding the Mental Sciences in Edward Bulwer Lytton's A
Strange Story"
Fiona Coll, University of Toronto
- "Going Underground: Slavery and the Gothic Playground of Mammoth
Cave"
Peter West, Adelphi University
- 12.11 Suite 1025
- Food and Eating: Ecofeminist Perspectives in
19th-Century Italian and European Literature
- Chair: David Del Principe,
Montclair State University
- "Descriptive Discourse in Matilde Serao's Early Works: A
Gastronomic Portrayal of Turn-of-the-Century Naples"
Daria
Valentini, Stonehill College
- "Tra penuria ed eccesso: il cibo e i ventri di Matilde Serao e
di �mile Zola"
Marisa Ruccolo, University of Toronto
- "Food, Blood, Body and Knowledge from Frankenstein to
Dracula"
Maria Parrino, I.M.S. Fogazzaro Vicenza and University of
Padova
- "Food and (Not) Eating: The Cases of Fosca and Pinocchio"
David Del Principe, Montclair State University
- 12.12 Ballroom A
- Building Blocks of the Curriculum Vitae (Roundtable)
-
Sponsored by the Graduate Student Caucus
- Chair: Johanna Rossi Wagner,
Rutgers University
- Sara Quay, Endicott College
- Carine Mardorossian, University at Buffalo
- Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology
- Bill Waddell, St. John Fisher College
- Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, University of Colorado
- 12.14 Rockport Room
- The History of the Book and Early American
Literature
- Chair: Paul Erickson, American Antiquarian Society
- "Anne Bradstreet's 'Raggs' and the Gendering of Paper"
Jonathan Senchyne, Cornell University
- "How to Sell a Book: Judith Sargent Murray and the Publication
of The Gleaner"
Mary Rose Kasraie, AmericanIntercontinental
University
- "Grace and the Life in Use in the Autobiography of Thomas
Shepard and Robinson Crusoe"
Kathleen Howard, Rutgers University
- Comment: Meredith Neuman, Clark University
- 12.15 Ipswich Room
- Victorians Down Under
- Chair: Christie Harner,
Northwestern University
- "'Coding' Caldigate: The Vagaries of English-Australian
Law"
Christie Harner, Northwestern University
- "Imperial Gothic: The Last of the Tasmanians and The Island of
Doctor Moreau"
Theodora Goss, Boston University
- "Transporting Spatial Understanding: Reading the Railway as a
Marker of Space"
Lesley Hawkes, Queensland University of Technology
- "Pages from the Past: Australia and the Narrative Form of Bigamy
Novels"
Maia McAleavey, Harvard University
- 12.16 Suite 1525
- The Transnational of National(ist) Discourse in
Asian/American Literature
- Chair: Susan Moynihan, SUNY Buffalo
- "'Rootless and Floating People': Multiply Located Transnational
Identities in Shani Mootoo's Short Fiction"
Lavina D. Shankar,
Bates College
- "Oneiric Imagination: Nature and Artiface in Karen Tei
Yamashita's Fiction"
Min Hyoung Song, Boston College
- "Nations, Transnations of Schizophrenia in Hualing Nieh's Novel
Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China"
Swan Kim, University of
Virginia
- "Affect, History, and Transnational Affiliations of Asian
American Literature"
Susan Moynihan, SUNY Buffalo
- 12.17 Quincy Room
- Body Building: Empire, Gender and Disability in
Victorian Literature
- Chair: Elizabeth Anderman, University of
Colorado-Boulder
- "Bodies in Perfect Symmetry: 19th-Century Technology, Empire,
and Colonization in Anthony Trollope's The Fixed Period"
Keridiana
Chez, The Graduate Center-CUNY
- "Spasmodic Bodies and Disorderly Empires: A Victorian Poetics of
Disability"
Crystal Bendicks, Wabash College
- "'A poor deformed creatur': Deformity as Feminine Weakness in
The Mill on the Floss"
Kathleen McGinty, Baylor University
- "Deformity, Race, and Reproduction in Dinah Craik's Olive
(1850)"
Sarah Salih, University of Toronto
- 12.19 Nantucket Room
- "The Gay Brown Beret Suite: Queer and Chicano, Sexuality and
Ethnicity--Bedfellows, an Intimate Pillow Talk"
- Popular Culture Event Co-Sponsored by the GLBTQ
Caucus
- Rigoberto
Gonazalez, Rutgers University
- 12.20 Suite 1925
- Towards a True Avant-Garde Poetics
- Chair: Michael S.
Hennessey, University of Cincinnati
- "Towards a True Avant-Garde Poetics"
Michael S. Hennessey,
University of Cincinnati / University of Pennsylvania
- "Refusing to Give up the Obsession: Ginsberg's 'America' in the
Classroom"
Cynthia Arrieu-King, The Richard Stockton College of New
Jersey
- "Archival Poetics: Reconsidering the Gertrude Stein Papers"
Erin Kappeler, Tufts University
- "'Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself': Wallace
Stevens' Unexpectedly Avant-Garde Gesture"
Emily Lambeth-Climaco,
St. Louis University
- 12.21 Marquis Room
- El Mundo Literario de Jer�nimo L�pez Mozo:
Homenaje al escritor y su obra
- Chair: Enrique Ruiz-Fornells, University
of Alabama
- "Jer�nimo L�pez Mozo: radiograf�a de una dramaturgia
desafiadora"
John P. Gabriele, The College of Wooster
- "El tiempo sint�tico de Jer�nimo L�pez Mozo"
Eileen
Doll, Loyola University-New Orleans
- Response: Jer�nimo L�pez Mozo,
Session 13
Saturday, February 28, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
- 13.01 Lexington Room
- 1969-2009: Do You Remember Italy? Autunno Caldo,
Piazza Fontana and Their Aftermath
- Chair: Giuseppina Mecchia, University
of Pittsburgh
- "Boccalone and Altri Libertini: Two Different Approaches
Reflecting Italy in the Seventies"
Sciltian Gastaldi, University of
Toronto
- "Nanni Balestrini Then and Now"
Giuseppina Mecchia,
University of Pittsburgh
- "Forgetting vs. Witnessing in the Case of Alberto Pinelli"
Marco Codebo, Long Island University
- "'Don't Tell me About Revolutions': Sergio Leone's Duck, You
Sucker!"
John Cameron, Dalhousie University
- 13.02 Berkshire Room
- Dulce et Decorum Est?: Twentieth Century Poetry
of War
- Chair: Andrew Mulvania, Washington & Jefferson College
- "Hunger in Ivor Gurney's War Poetry"
Georgina Willms,
University of Exeter
- "Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, and Geoffrey Hill's The Triumph
of Love"
Stewart Cole, University of Toronto
- "Anti-Suburbanism and the Vietnam War: James Dickey's 'The
Firebombing'"
Peter Monacell, University of Missouri-Columbia
- "Ivor Gurney and the Prosody of Trauma"
Andrew Mulvania,
Washington & Jefferson College
- 13.03 Duxbury Room
- American Working-Class Literature I
- Past
President's Session
- Chair: Michelle Tokarczyk, Goucher College
- "Facing Work: Occupational Insecurity in Antebellum Portrait
Photography"
Jane Van Slembrouck, Fordham University
- "The Working Man's Form: Gendered and Generic Appropriations in
London's The Sea-Wolf"
Matthew Brophy, Binghamton University
- "Gender Inversion and Domestic Proletarianism in Steinbeck's The
Grapes of Wrath"
Jenn Williamson, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
- "Imagined Communities: The Epic Labor Poetry of Chris Llewellyn
and Diane Gilliam Fisher"
Michelle Tokarczyk, Goucher College
- 13.04 Dedham Room
- S(t)imulated Realities
- Chair: Robin DeRosa,
Plymouth State University
- "Transgressive Simulation: The Mobility of Violent Reality in
Extreme Championship Wrestling"
Benjamin Hagen, University of Rhode
Island
- "Nazis and Nazi Costumes: The State of Evil in Hyperreal
Ethics"
Brian Johnson, UMass-Amherst
- "'Nirvana-Lite': Simulated Games of Identity in Lucia
Etxebarria's 'Courtney and I' and 'A Story of Love Like Any Other'"
Virginia Newhall Rademacher, Babson College
- "The New Reality of Fame"
Liz Appel, Yale University
- 13.05 Sturbridge Room
- The New Woman: Art & Politics
- Chair: Carol
DeBoer-Langworthy, Brown University
- "Uncoupling Neith Boyce: Radicalism, Contradictions, and
Conflict in The Bond"
Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, Brown University
- "Filming the New Woman in the Progressive Era"
Joan Dagle, Rhode Island College
- "Was Georgia O'Keeffe a Feminist? Feminism, New Womanhood, and
Historical Memory"
Linda M. Grasso, York College and The Graduate
Center-CUNY
- "Waiting for My Twentieth-Century Girl: Edna Ferber's Feminist
Unbecoming"
Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts-Boston
- 13.06 Suite 625
- Samuel Beckett and His Legacy
- Chair: Carla Taban,
Independent Scholar
- "From Ontological Disdain to Revolutionary Anger: Samuel Beckett
and Harold Pinter"
Cristina Ionica, University of Western Ontario
- "The Self and Forgiveness in Beckett, James, and O'Neill"
David Palmer, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
- "'On the brink of a better earth': Beckett, Setting, and
Cosmopolitics"
Nels Pearson, Fairfield University
- "Irony and Nostalgia in Beckett's Heirs or the Journals of Many
Melancholics"
Pascale Sardin, Bordeaux University
- 13.07 Plymouth Room
- Contemporary Women Artists and Social Movements
in Spanish America
- Chairs: Ilka Kressner, University at Albany and
Sophie Lavoie, University of New Brunswick
- "El teatro como terapia colectiva"
Mar�a Mercedes
Jaramillo, Fitchburg State College
- "Abjection expos� in Marjorie Agos�n's Secrets in the Sand:
The Young Women of Ju�rez"
Diana Aldrete, University at Albany
- "Distorsiones socio-culturales en Kandela"
Clelia
Rodr�guez, University of Toronto
- "�Patria o Muerte! Literature and Political Activism in the
Sandinista Period: Nicaraguan Writer Gioconda Belli"
Sophie Lavoie,
University of New Brunswick
- 13.08 Concord Room
- Cribs: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century
American Home
- Chair: Sarah Holmes, New England Institute of Technology
- "Interior Designs: Charles Hammond Gibson and the Museum that
Dare Not Speak Its Name"
Todd Gernes, Stonehill College
- "Of Models and Myths: The 1959 American National Exhibition and
the American Home"
Marie Drews, Whitworth University
- "Empowering Domesticity: Super Mom and the Post-Feminist Happy
Housewife Heroine"
Laura D'Amore, Boston University
- "'Longing and Not Belonging': Home and Identity in Contemporary
Native Art Practice"
Elizabeth Kalbfleisch, University of Rochester
- 13.09 Ballroom B
- Early African-American Literature and the Archive:
American Literatures Event (present)
- Chair: Paul Erickson, American
Antiquarian Society
- "Rethinking the Early Black Atlantic Canon"
Jeannine
DeLombard, University of Toronto
- "The Stranger in New Orleans: Poetry and Persona in 19th-Century
Francophone Print Culture"
Lloyd Pratt, Michigan State University
- "Salvation in Black and White: 19th-Century Children and
Narratives of Redemption"
Lois Brown, Mount Holyoke College
- 13.10 Cambridge Room
- The Big Idea: [Re]Visionary Perspectives on the
Writing Classroom (Roundtable)
- Chair: Dean DeFino, Iona College
- "Big Ideas, Clear Expression"
Matt Longabucco, New York
University
- "Get Out of their Way: Helping Students to Focus, Assess, and
Refine"
Nicole Wallack, Columbia University
- "Crafting Focused Freewriting Prompts"
Carley Moore, New
York University
- "Looking for Trouble: Teaching Students to Develop
Problems"
Catherine Savini, Columbia University
- "Altered States and Big Ideas"
Dean DeFino, Iona College
- 13.11 Suite 1025
- Jane Austen and the Contemporary World
- Chair: Pat
Elliott, Regis College
- "Why Mary Crawford? Why Now? Mary Crawford/Myself: Fanny Price
as the 'Properly Improper' Heroine"
Amy Bass, Simmons College
- "WWJD? 'Oh My!': Or, What Would Jane (Austen) Do?"
Mary-Antoinette Smith, Seattle University
- "Oh, Grow Up!: Reading (and) the Girl in Jane Austen"
Lauren Byler, Tufts University
- "Jane Austen, Agony Aunt"
Juliette Wells, Manhattanville
College
- 13.12 Ballroom A
- Text and Image in German Literature I
- Chair: Silke
Brodersen, Wellesley College
- "The 'Mirror of Fools': Fiction and the Re-Signification of
Reality in Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools"
Jacob Haubenreich,
University of California-Berkeley
- "Das 'lebendige Bild' der Literatur: E.T.A. Hoffmann an der
Schnittstelle von Bildtheologie und Kunstphilosophie"
Tan Waelchli,
University of Chicago
- "Learning to See Like a Writer: Literature and Visuality in the
Work of Paul Heyse"
Lydia Butt, New York University
- "Und nichts ist gering und �berfl�ssig:' Image and Trope in
Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge"
Jeffrey Champlin, New
York University
- 13.13 Marlborough Room
- Censorship and Creativity in Hispanic
Literature
- Chair: Jane H Bethune, Salve Regina University
- "The Public Self in the Literary Creation of Martin Luis
Guzman"
Nicholas Goodbody, Williams College
- "Jorge Enrique Adoum, poeta comprometido"
Jose Raul Guzman,
Wheaton College
- "La fama de Buero Vallejo frente a los censores"
Erik
Ladner, Central College
- "Imposibilismo vs posibilismo"
Jane H Bethune, Salve Regina
University
- 13.14 Rockport Room
- In Stitches: Violence and American Humor
- Chair:
Ryan Wepler, Brandeis University
- "Reductio Ad Absurdum: Absurdity and Violence in the Satiric
Fiction of the Harlem Renaissance"
Julia Hans, University of
Massachusetts,-Amherst
- "Mirthless Laughter in The Day of the Locust"
Mark Sussman,
City University of New York
- "A Coat of Arms: Puns in Bret Easton Ellis's American
Psycho"
C. Namwali Serpell, University of California-Berkeley
- "Violence, Humour, and Emersonian Impersonality in James Tate's
Poetry" Anna Smaill, University College-London
- 13.15 Ipswich Room
- At Home and Abroad: Hospitality and the
Nineteenth-Century British Subject
- Chair: Cynthia Williams, Tufts
University
- "Hospitable Exchanges in Gaskell's Cranford and the Great
Exhibition"
Anna E. Clark, Columbia University
- "A Stranger to His Own Home: Enoch Arden as Cursed
Cosmopolite"
John McBratney, John Carroll University
- "'A World's Delight': Hybridity and Hospitality in George Du
Maurier's Trilby"
Kimberly J. Stern, Duke University
- "The Twisting of the Rope: Hospitality, Community and
Nationalism in the Irish Literary Revival"
Lara Whelan, Berry
College
- 13.16 Suite 1525
- Teaching LGBT Literature in the 21st Century
Classroom
- Chair: Rick J. Santos, SUNY Nassau Community College
- "Gender Chaos: Using Transgender Literature and Gender Theory in
the Writing Classroom"
Nicole Myers, University of Rhode Island
- "Queer Eye for the Straight Students: Teaching Literature in the
21st Century"
Lisa Day-Lindsey, Eastern Kentucky University
- "Articulating a Diverse Queer Curriculum: The Role of Latino and
Latin American Texts"
Luciano Martinez, Swarthmore College
- Respondent: Pepa Anastasio, Hofstra University
- 13.17 Quincy Room
- Women Transforming Modernism
- Chair: Catherine
Keyser, University of South Carolina
- "'If I Name Names With Them': Gertrude Stein, Gossip, and Queer
Authorship"
Chad Bennett, Cornell University
- "The New Body of H.D.'s Helen in Egypt"
Julia Bloch,
University of Pennsylvania
- "Tongues Untied: The Strategic Use of Dialect in Zora Neale
Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and Gertrude Stein's
'Melanctha'"
Maria Kager, Rutgers University
- "The Provocation of Style: Fashion in the Fiction of Jessie
Fauset"
Elizabeth Sheehan, University of Virginia
- 13.18 Chatham Room
- Cuban Revolutionary Literature and the Literature
of the Cuban Revolution
- Chair: Francisco Soto, College of Staten
Island-CUNY
- "Antonio Jos� Ponte: espacios expresivos ante el per�odo
especial"
Ada Ort�zar-Young, Drew University
- "Post-Memory in the Work of Ana Men�dez and Alberto Rey"
Isabel Alvarez-Borland, College of the Holy Cross
- "'Inheriting Exile': Cuban-American Writers in Diaspora"
Andrea O'Reilly-Herrera, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
- "The Padilla Affair Reconsidered: Censorship and the
Totalitarian State"
Diana Alvarez-Amell, Seton Hall University
- 13.19 Nantucket Room
- Italian Literature and Translation
- Chair:
Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College
- "Translation and Antifascism: Rethinking Vittorini's
Conversazione in Sicilia"
Marisa Escolar, University of
California-Berkeley
- "Fair Verona in Fair Veronese: Giuseppe Barni's Dialect
Translation of Romeo and Juliet"
Anna Strowe, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst
- "'The Grace of That Nonchalant Ease': Translation as
Sprezzatura"
Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College
- 13.20 Suite 1925
- Italian Urban Landscape in the XX Century Italian
Literature
- Chair: Samuel Ghelli, York College-CUNY
- "Com'� strano innamorarsi a Milano: la citt� come luogo
dell'assenza in Un amore di Dino Buzzati"
Giuseppe Tosi, Georgetown
University
- "At the Borders of Dream and Reality: The Urban Landscape of
Trieste in Giuliana Morandini's Caff� Specchi"
Meriel Tulante,
Philadelphia University
- "Claudio Magris, Trieste e la cultura triestina"
Giulio
Bonacucina, University of Oregon
- "La Roma di Tozzi"
Samuel Ghelli, York College-CUNY
- 13.21 Sturbridge Room
- Alternative Ethics, A Society for Critical
Exchange Session
- Chair: Scott DeShong, Quinebaug Valley Community
College
- "The Animality of Presence: Redefining Ethics in the Context of
AIDS"
Marie McDonough, University of Chicago
- "Resisting the Urge: Shameful Failures and Failing Ethics"
Emily Churilla, SUNY Stony Brook
- Deconstructive Ethics in Culture and Action
Ana Luszczynska, Florida
International University
- 13.22 Marblehead Room
- Transatlantic Decadence
- Chair: Emily Orlando,
Fairfield University
- "The Return of the Repressed: Poe's Place in the Transatlantic
Transmission of American Decadence"
Peter Gibian, McGill University
- "The Notorious Oscar Wilde and the Neglected Edgar Saltus"
Amanda M. Caleb, University of Tennessee
- "The Comrade and the Happy Few: Wharton's Initiation into the
Pederastic Tradition"
Sharon K. Califano, Shortridge Academy
- "The Degeneration of Desire: Fatal Allure in Wilde's Salom�
and
Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire"
Heather L. Braun, Macon State
College
Session 14
Saturday, February 28, 4:45-6:15 p.m.
- 14.01 Lexington Room
- Victorian Fathers
- Chair: Natalie McKnight,
Boston University
- "Paternal Death and Elision in Charles Dickens's Bleak
House"
Monica Young-Zook, Macon State College
- "'Bless me, Father': Religion and the Victorian Good Girl"
Meoghan Cronin, Saint Anselm College
- "Victorian Fathers on Film"
Regina Hansen, Boston
University
- "Out of My Father's Library: George Meredith and the Conduct of
Fatherhood"
Melissa Jenkins, Wake Forest University
- 14.02 Berkshire Room
- Works of New African Writers
- Chair: Walter
Collins, University of South Carolina-Lancaster
- "Resisting the Feminine: Desire and Concealment in Zo� Wicomb's
David's Story"
Allison Carr, University of Cincinnati
- "Binyavanga Wainaina and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor: Creating Futures
for a New Generation of African Writers"
Jonathan Fitzgerald,
Gordon College
- "Things Falling Apart --Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Uwem
Akpan"
Mary Jane Androne, Albright College
- 14.03 Duxbury Room
- Remembering the Past: German History in Post-Wende
Film and Literature
- Chair: Kerstin Mueller, Connecticut College
- "The Witness, Credibility and the Construction of the Female
Perpetrator"
Judith Keilbach, Utrecht University
- "New Approaches to the Holocaust Taboo: Malte Ludin and Robin
Thalheim"
Sabine von Mering, Brandeis University
- "Opa Was a Nazi: Family Memory in Recent German Literature and
Film"
Kerstin Mueller, Connecticut College
- 14.04 Dedham Room
- Representing the 21st Century City: City as Text
-
Chair: Martha Kuhlman, Bryant University
- "Mapping the Lost City: Cartography the Construction of a New
Urban Identity"
Andrew Wasserman, SUNY Stony Brook
- "Painting the City with Light: A Revolution for the Rest of
Us"
Justin Langlois, University of Windsor
- "New 'Your' City: Artists and Urban Space in Providence"
Martha Kuhlman, Bryant University
- 14.05 Sturbridge Room
- Crazy Women: Healing Post-Trauma
- Chair: Rachel
N. Spear, Louisiana State University
- "Moving On by Going Back: Spatial Figuration of Trauma and
Recovery in Susan J. Brison's Aftermath"
Marta Bladek, The Graduate
Center-CUNY
- "When Illness Organizes a Narrative: Exploring Cheney's Manic: A
Memoir"
Lori Lyn Greenstone, California State University-San Marcos
- "Re-Visioning the Pain and Revising the Future: African American
Women Writing Their Way to Healing"
Tamika L. Carey, Syracuse
University
- "More than Words: Writing the Wound"
Rachel N. Spear,
Louisiana State University
- 14.06 Suite 625
- Confrontations: German Music in Context
- Chairs: Evan
Torner, University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Juliette Brungs,
University of Minnesota
- "E.T.A. Hoffmann's Beethoven Review: Autonomy and Linguistic
Automation within a New Public Sphere"
Jeffrey Lloyd, University of
Michigan
- "Hans Werner Henze's Musical Activism: 'Ein langsamer Marsch
durch die Institutionen' or a Failed Revolution?"
Zvi Gilboa,
Indiana University
- "Illogical Tones: Music Aesthetics and Madness in Hoffmann,
Tieck and B�chner"
Katherine Hirt, University of Washington
- 14.07 Plymouth Room
- Do We Still Believe the Humanities Can Transform
Students' Lives? (Roundtable)
- Chair: Christine Evans, Lesley College
- "Seeing America from Europe: European History and American
Values"
Jason Cavallari, Boston College
- "Regarding Literature and Trauma"
Jeanie Tietjen,
Independent Scholar
- "Yes, Study in the Humanities Does Transform Students--But Let's
Not Take All the Credit"
Robert Wauhkonen, Lesley College
- "Visual Culture and Lessons of Life in the Age of Doubt"
Sunanda Sanyal, Art Institute of Boston
- 14.08 Concord Room
- Art and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
-
Chair: Sean Kelly, Wilkes University
- "Illustrating Art: (En)Gendering a New Literary Genre"
Cynthia Patterson, University of South Florida Polytechnic
- "Apocalyptic Iconography in Nineteenth-Century US Culture"
Kevin Pelletier, University of Richmond
- "Dead Woman Walking: Beauty and Death in Turn-of-the-Century
Women's Literature"
Sarah Schwab, SUNY Fredonia
- "The Art of Sympathy: Hawthorne and the Pre-Raphaelites"
Sean Kelly, Wilkes University
- 14.09 Ballroom B
- Europe at the Turn of the 19th Century: Universal or
National?
- Chairs: Barbara van Feggelen, University of Connecticut and
Martina Luke, University of Connecticut
- "'Ecology' vs 'Politics', 'Solidarity' vs 'Society': A Search
For Community at the Turn of the 19th Century"
Iuliana Roxana
Vicovanu, Johns Hopkins University
- "The Transnational Imperative in Isabelle de Charri�re's Trois
femmes"
Elizabeth McCartney, University of Pennsylvania
- "The Universal Republic in Emile Zola's F�condit�"
Eduardo A. Febles, Simmons College
- "Transnational Identities in German Romanticism"
Martina
Luke, University of Connecticut
- 14.10 Cambridge Room
- The Child and the New Republic
- Past President's
Session
- Chair: Robin Bernstein, Harvard University
- "Stoicism, Sentiment and the Suffering Child in
Eighteenth-Century Captivity Narratives"
Anna Mae Duane, University
of Connecticut
- "Dead Voices, The Early Republic, and the Disembodied Child
Narrator"
Michael S. Martin, Temple University
- "Didacticism and Democracy in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte
Temple"
Holly Blackford, Rutgers University-Camden
- "Adopting a Nation, Losing a Son: Franklin's Conflicted
Kinship"
Carol Singley, Rutgers University-Camden
- 14.11 Suite 1025
- New Approaches to Phillis Wheatley
- Chair: Jason
Haslam, Dalhousie University
- "Phillis Wheatley's Poetry and the Trauma of the Atlantic Slave
Trade"
Bryan Conn, Johns Hopkins University
- "Phillis Wheatley's Critique of Sentiment in Antislavery
Writing"
Sarah Goldfarb, Rutgers University
- "Aprons and Pearls: Images of Phillis Wheatley"
Jennifer
Harris, Mount Allison University
- "'Pleasure Deep Down': The Erotic and New Birth in the Poems of
Phillis Wheatley"
Tara Bynum, Towson University
- 14.12 Ballroom A
- (Re) Theorizing Revolution: Radical Culture in the
Contemporary Period (Roundtable)
- Chair: John Maerhofer, Queens
College-CUNY
- "World Literature and Contemporary Fiction"
Walter Cohen,
Cornell University
- "Historical Materialism and the Question of Value"
Charles
Sumner, The University of Southern Mississippi
- "Wrongthink: Recoordinating the Aesthetics of Teenage Rebellion
from Politically Aloof Hedonism into Genuine Radicalism"
Ariel
Sheen, South Broward High School
- "Resistance literature: The personal is political"
Denise
Handlarski, York University
- 14.13 Marlborough Room
- Cheering for the Bad Guy: The Rise of the
Anti-hero in Popular Culture
- Chair: Raymond O'Meara, Brookdale Community
College
- "Bad Women and Dreadful Moms: The Case of 'Absolutely
Fabulous'"
Annabelle Cone, Dartmouth College
- "'You Complete Me': Training Day, Collateral, and the Masculine
Ideal"
J. Ken Stuckey, Bentley College
- "Antebellum Predecessors of the Anti-Hero"
Karen J. Renner,
University of Connecticut
- "De-monstrating Dracula: Stoker and the Victorian Villain"
Khristina Gonzalez, Brown University
- 14.14 Rockport Room
- Laughing Matters: Gender and Humor in
20th-Century Literature
- Chair: Lauryl Tucker, Ithaca College
- "'Showing you up or badly letting you down': Nuala Ni
Dhomhnaill's Destabilizing of Gender through Laughter"
Holly
Schaaf, Boston University
- "Wicked: Women's Humor and Social Contexts"
Ryan Wepler,
Brandeis University
- "Thank the actors, not the author': Pageantry, Narrative and
Comedy in Between the Acts"
Lauryl Tucker, Ithaca College
- 14.15 Ipswich Room
- Romantic Education
- Chair: Scott Krawczyk, Dept. of
English, West Point
- "'To him my tale I teach': Love of Man Leading to Love of Nature
in Lyrical Ballads"
Frank Duba, Millersville University
- "National Catechism: Juvenile Origins of Anna Letitia Barbauld's
'Sins of the Government, Sins of the Nation'"
Jennifer Krusinger
Martin, Northeastern University
- "'I had never seen such children': Representations of Child
Development in 'Fleetwood' and 'Maria'"
Katherine Gustafson,
University of Pennsylvania
- 14.16 Suite 1525
- Rescue Me Not: Backward (Pre)modern, Queer
Negativities
- Chair: Wan-Chuan Kao, The Graduate Center-CUNY
- "The ineffable language of the birds': Apophasis and the Queer
Writing of AIDS History in Goytisolo"
Kris Trujillo, University of
California-Berkeley
- "Blasting History: Benjaminian Windstorm and Rechy's City of
Night"
Yee-Hang Tam, Georgetown University
- "'What end is here to my complaint?': Tennyson's Materials of
Gay Memorialization"
Abigail Joseph, Columbia University
- "Moving Westward, Feeling Backward: Francis Parkman's The Oregon
Trail"
Christian Reed, University of California-Los Angeles
- 14.17 Quincy Room
- Italian Literature: Renaissance to Humanism
- Chair:
Maryann Tebben, Bard College at Simon's Rock
- "Constructing an Ideal Reality: Florentine Topography in Bruni's
Laudatio Florentinae Urbis"
Christine Petraglia, University of
Wisconsin-Madison
- "Le critiche al mito di Lucrezia nell'Orlando Furioso"
Paola Ugolini, New York University
- "Reputation and Ethical Patrimony in Sara Copio Sullam's
Manifesto dell'immortalit� dell'anima (1621)"
Lori Ultsch, Hofstra
University
- "Literary Fraud and Women's Poetry in the Italian
Renaissance"
Deborah Contrada, University of Iowa
- 14.18 Chatham Room
- What We Wish We Had Known: Early Career Advice
from Seasoned French Faculty (Roundtable)
- Chair: E. Nicole Meyer,
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
- "Life After the Dissertation: Finding the Job and Keeping
It"
Pratima Prasad, University of Massachusetts-Boston
- "Negotiating Tenure: How to Balance It All and Still Have
Balance"
E. Nicole Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
- "The Path to Tenure: Balancing Teaching, Scholarship, and
Service"
Debra Popkin, Baruch College-CUNY
- 14.19 Nantucket Room
- In the Thirtieth Anniversary of Il Boccalone:
Reflections on the Literary Work of Enrico Palandri
- Chair: Enrico
Minardi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- "Strategia narrativa e ricomposizione familiare in L'altra
sera"
Enrico Minardi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- "The struggling female voice in Palandri's work"
Monica
Francioso, University College-Dublin
- "Distanza geografica, distanza storica ne Le vie del ritorno di
Enrico Palandri"
Laura Benedetti, Georgetown University
- "Da Pier a Enrico: gli spazi di una letteratura
dell'emozione"
Eugenio Bolongaro, McGill University
- 14.20 Suite 1925
- Male in Progress. Re-defining Masculinities in
Italian Studies
- Chair: Renato Ventura, University of Connecticut
- "Framing the Fascist Man: Images of Virility in Italian Colonial
Cinema"
Rosetta Caponnetto, University of Connecticut
- "Virile Bodies: (Re)Forming the Italian Soldier"
Marisa
Giorgi, The Graduate Center-CUNY
- "Alla ricerca del lavoro (e del maschio) perduto: l'uomo
italiano in Liberi di G.M. Tavarelli e Giorni e nuvole di S.
Soldini"
Paolo Chirumbolo, Louisiana State University
- "La noia esistenziale del maschio siciliano nel Don Giovanni
Involontario di Vitaliano Brancati"
Renato Ventura, University of
Connecticut
- 14.21 Marquis Room 4:45pm-7:00pm
- Reading Spanish Poetry Today
- Spanish
Language Event
- Chair: Alan Smith, Boston University
- Graciela Baquero
- Jos� Luis Gallero
- Jos� Mar�a Parre�o
- Reception to follow reading, sponsored by
Boston University
- 14.22 Marblehead Room
- Money and Economic Exchange in American Drama
-
Chair: Jon Dietrick, Babson College
- "Blood Money and Bad Pennies: Monstrous Money in Sidney
Kingsley's Dead End"
Jon Dietrick, Babson College
- "Quid Pro Qu-Oleanna: David Mamet's Dramatization of the
Academic 'Marketplace'"
Frank P. Fury, Monmouth University
- "Communication as Ethics in David Mamet's Acting Theory"
Ryan Tvedt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- "Culture, Community, and Money in August Wilson's Plays"
Owen E. Brady, Clarkson University
Session 15
Saturday, February 28, 6:30-7:45 p.m.
Reception and no-host bar on 4th floor following Language Events
- 15.01 Ballroom
- "Caribbean Women and the
Black Radical Intellectual Tradition"
- A Women's Caucus Event
- Carol Boyce Davies, Cornell
University
- 15.02 Dedham Room
- "Yalta e la crisi degli
anni '70 in Italia / Yalta and the crisis in Italy in the '70s"
- Italian Language Event
-
Enrico Palandri
- 15.03 Sturbridge Room
- Special
Performance and Reading: Bina Sharif
- Comparative Literatures Event
- 15.04 Plymouth Room
- A Reading: Hansj�rg
Schertenleib
- German Language Event
- 15.05 Suite 625
- Writers' and Editors' Reception
- Hosted by Laurence
Roth, Susquehanna University
- Reception for creative writers and editors
working in creative writing programs and in English and Modern Language
departments. Sponsored by Modern Language Studies
- 15.06 Duxbury Room
- "What is French
Cinema?"
- French Language Event
- T. Jefferson Kline, Boston University