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