Sunday Sessions

March 1

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Session 16

Sunday, March 1, 8:30-10:30

16.01 Lexington Room
Postfeminism and the Future(s) of Feminist Film and Media Studies (Seminar)
Chair: Marcelline Block, Princeton University
"The Stepford Wives: Changing Representations of Women in Film" Melanie Wait, University of Auckland
"Bodies in Motion: an Outline of Post-Feminist Film Theory" M. Hunter Vaughan, Washington University
"Postfeminist Performance and the 'Reality' of Romance on A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila" Maria San Filippo, Wellesley College
"Here's to not Being Fake': Real Housewives and the Construction of Reality TV's Postfeminist Heroine" Jenn Brandt, University of Rhode Island
"Enchanted: Disney's Post-feminist Princess" St�phanie Larrieux, Clark University
"Female Visions: Postfeminism and Postmodern Feminism in Contemporary Film and Television" Lisa French, RMIT University
"Do You See What I See?: Postfeminism and Colorblind Racism in the Perfect Stranger" Ann Kennedy, University of Maine-Farmington
"Year of the Women?: The Return of the Female Ensemble Film in 2008" Suzanne Leonard, Simmons College
"Surf Safe, Wear Red: Girls, Sex, and Danger in Hard Candy" Sarah E.S. Sinwell, Northeastern University
"Reviving Cinderella: Postfeminist Deployments of the Cinderella Narrative in Contemporary US Cinema" Rosalind Sibielski, Bowling Green State University
Respondent: St�phanie Genz, Edge Hill University
16.02 Berkshire Room
Modern Italian Fantastic Fiction (Seminar)
Chair: Amelia Moser, Columbia University
"Percorsi del fantastico nella cultura magnetica dell'Italia post-unitaria" Morena Corradi, Queens College-CUNY
"Dino Buzzati's Fantastic Realism" Margherita Pampinella-Cropper, Towson University
"Atomiche all'italiana: Il tema della catastrofe nucleare nella fantascienza italiana d'autore (1950-1978)" Stefano Lazzarin, Universit� Jean-Monnet-Saint-�tienne
"Theory and Praxis of the Fantastic in the Works of Anna Maria Ortese" Amelia Moser, Columbia University
"The Fantastic in the Early Novels of Valerio Evangelisti" Kathryn St. Ours, Goucher College
16.03 Duxbury Room
Film. Flanerie. Phantasmagoria. (Seminar)
Chair: Graeme Gilloch, Lancaster University (UK)
"The Phantasmagoric City: Berlin in Early German Cinema" Nora Gortcheva, Yale University
"The City Symphonies of Ruttmann and Vertov: Cinema Eye as Flaneur" Heidi Faletti, Buffalo State College
"A Stroll in the Garden: The Image of the Flaneur in Albert and David Maysles' Grey Gardens" Anna Panszczyk, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"The Phantasmatic Body in the Cinema of Jim Jarmusch and Wong Kar Wai" Matthias Konzett, University of New Hampshire
"Havana, Cuba / Cuba, Havana: A Walk through the Country" Cecelia Burke Lawless, Cornell University
"A Winter's Tale: Still Lives in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Uzak" Graeme Gilloch, Lancaster University (UK)
16.04 Dedham Room
Italian Cities and Their Identities.
Changes and Challenges (Seminar) Chair: Sonia Massari, Siena University
"Florence Seen from American Eyes: Off Line And On-Line Communication" Carlotta Bizzarri, Florence University
"Evil Spaces: 1970s Murder Mystery Aesthetic" Sabrina Ovan, University of Minnesota Minneapolis
"Italian Cities: Identity and Design" Sandra Battistel, Design Studies Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
"Urban Identity: citta' nuove e citta' abbandonate" Filippo Losacco
"Echi dal sud: l'Italia tra sacro e profano" Francesca Capone, Luiss Guido Carli University
"L'identita' della citta' italiana vista dai suoi registi" Guadagno Gianfilippo, University Roma
"Narrating Italian Cities between the 2nd and 3rd Millennium" Andrea Pera, Independent Scholar
16.05 Sturbridge Room
Women Cultural Producers and the Politics of the Aesthetic in the Interwar Period (Seminar)
Chair: Laurel Harris, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"Female Gentlemen: Middlebrow Cultural Producers and the Politics of Modern Gender" Melissa Schaub, University of North Carolina-Pembroke
"Aesthetics and Progressive Ideology in Winifred Holtby's Mandoa, Mandoa!" Charlotte Nunes, University of Texas-Austin
"Divided Modernists: Aesthetics and Gender in Virginia Woolf's and H.D.'s Writings on Cinema and in Borderline" Polina Kroik, University of California-Irvine
"Photographs, Frames, and Vanity Fair: Jean Rhys's Quartet and Voyage in the Dark" Lauren Rosenblum, SUNY Stony Brook
"Family Material: Bodily Others and Textual Selves in Mina Loy's Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose" Jessica Lawson, University of Iowa
"Aestheticist Revision and Modernism: Vernon Lee's Satan the Waster and the Problem of Realism" Laurel Harris, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"Against the Grain: Interwar Fashion and the Aesthetics of Modernity" Annemarie Strassel, Yale University
16.06 Suite 625
PostFeminist American Masculinity: Backlash and New Frontiers (Seminar)
Chair: Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College
"'The Spectral Phallus: Defining Masculinity in a Postfeminist Era" Ben Brabon, Edge Hill University
"Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and American Liberalism's Manly Men" J. Peter Siriprakorn, The University of Chicago
"Italian American Masculinity: Vulnerable Sons and Maternal Power" Michele Fazio, SUNY Stony Brook
"Masculine Ennui & Quality TV: Responding to Feminism in Mad Men and The Sopranos" Jennifer Clark, Fordham University
"Sexually Suspect: Feminized Male Bodies" Brenda Boudreau, McKendree College
"When Men Become Superbad Boys: American Masculinity and the 'Apatow Factory'" Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College
"From Dirty to Darling: Clint Eastwood's Widowers and Postfeminist Masculinity" Amy Woodworth, Temple University
"Happy Trails: Bruce Willis and the Home-Front Hero" Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College
Respondent: David Greven, Connecticut College
16.07 Plymouth Room
Queer Ecocriticism and Theory (Seminar)
Chair: Robert Azzarello, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"Queering Ecocritical Temporality" Rebekah Sheldon, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"'The Fairies' Song': Waste and Queer Nature in John Ashbery's The Vermont Notebook" Chris Schmidt, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"A Report Card on Queer Ecocriticism" Simon Estok, Sungkyunkwan University
"Under the Queer White Mulberry Tree" Nora Neill, Kalamazoo Valley Community College
16.08 Concord Room
Official Writing as Text (Seminar)
Chair: Hannah Gurman, Barnard College
"The Central Paradox of Bureaucratic Writing" Matthew Sussman, Harvard University
"Paterson's Pamphlet and the Writing of Tropical Medicine" Alvan Ikoku, Columbia University
"Hermeneutics, Forensics, Economics: Forging Value(s) From Documented Need" Ebony Coletu, Stanford University
"Speech as Narrative: George W. Bush and the Case for Iraq" Kara Miller, Babson College
"Reading French Otherwise: The Ordonnance of Villers-Cotter�ts" Kathryn Chenoweth, Brown University
"Writing Systems: Richard Yates, Remington Rand, and the Univac" Brian Rajski, UC Irvine
"Reading Bureaucratic Culture: A Merchant's Honor and the Tsarist Police" Sergei Antonov, Columbia University
"Clearer than Truth?: NSC-68, Literary Criticism, and the Question of Ambiguity" Ichiro Takayoshi, Tufts University
"Anecdote and Allegory in Health Policy Documents" Amy Moran, Princeton University
16.09 Suite 1025
Twentieth-Century American War Narratives: Trauma and Representation (Seminar)
Chair: Trisha Brady, SUNY Buffalo
"H.D.'s Trilogy and the Task of the Poet: Hatching Butterflies from 'Little Boxes' of Trauma" Trisha Brady, SUNY Buffalo
"Something to Think About': Negotiating Loss in A Farewell to Arms" Maria Brandt, Monroe Community College
"Simulated War/Simulated Trauma" William Chad Stanley, Wilkes University
"Return to Trauma (Reading Michael S. Harper's 'Debridement' against post-Vietnam US Military Actions)" Michael Antonucci, Keene State College
"'Only to be Loved': Domestic Trauma and the Fantasy of Repair in Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods" Jenny James, Columbia University
16.10 Cambridge Room
Masculinidad y Machismo en la Narrativa Latinoamericana (Seminar)
Chair: Ana Figueroa, Penn State University, Lehigh Valley
"Turismo y masculinidad en un cuentos de Ana Lidia" Juanita Aristizabal, Yale University
"Vivir en var�n: masculinidad y hegemon�a en la literatura puertorrique�a" Elena Martinez, Baruch College-CUNY
"Machismo and Masculinity in a work of Puig 'The Betrayalof Rita Hayworth'" Rona Lee Maughan, Weber State University University
"Masculinidad y Machismo en la Narrativa Latinoamericana: Jos� Arcadio Buend�a Iguar�n: texto cr�ptico carnal" Arlene Ovalle-Child, Boston University
"Gender and genre reversals in Garc�a M�rquez' 'La mujer que llegaba a las seis'" Rodney Rodriguez, Manhattan College
"Haunting Icons of Masculinity in The Angel of Sodom by Alfonso Hern�ndez Cat�" Elena Valdez, Rutgers University
16.11 Rockport Room
Literary Futurism 2009: The Dead Are (Not) Always Right (Seminar)
Chair: Patrizio Ceccagnoli, Columbia University
"Necrophilia and Prosopopoeia of Matter in Marinetti's Writing" Patrizio Ceccagnoli, Columbia University
"Vanni Scheiwiller editore futurista" Nicola Di Nino, Columbia University
"'L'artista briccone' in Mafarka il Futurista" Lodovica Guidarelli, University of Wisconsin
"Il ritratto del nemico: Marinetti e la rappresentazione del 'passatismo'" H�rm�nmaa H�rm�nmaa, University of Helsinki
"Enif Robert as 'womb speaker' in Un ventre di donna: redefining the female subject within Futurism" Tristana Rorandelli, Sarah Lawrence College
16.12 Ipswich Room
Pascal's Pens�es and Literature
Chair: Mar�a Cristina Campos Fuentes, DeSales University
"Les Pens�es de Pascal et la litt�rature" St�phane Natan, Rider University
"Pens�es de Pascal en Unamuno" Mar�a Cristina Campos Fuentes, DeSales University
"Pascal s�ducteur: les Pens�es � la lumi�re des �crits kierkegaardiens" Sebastian H�sch, Universit�t Basel
"L'influence des Pens�es de Pascal sur la morale de Dauphine de Sartre, marquise de Robiac (1634-1685)" Catherine Dani�lou, University of Alabama-Birmingham
16.13 Quincy Room
Ever Since Beckett (Seminar)
Chair: Paul Shields, Assumption College
"Beckett's Company and Nothomb's Cosm�tique de l'ennemi: Inner Voices in Comparison" Arianna Casali, "Sapienza" Universit� di Roma
"Worstward Ho: An Office Memo for Beckett's Legacy" Lance Duerfahrd, Purdue University
"� and other precipitates: 'Bend It Like Beckett'" Carla Taban, Independent Scholar
"The Art of Krapp in Krapp's Last Tape" Cheryl Alison, Tufts University
"The Dream of Water in a Time of Words: Samuel Beckett and JM Coetzee" Ria Banerjee, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"'Will this never finish?': Samuel Beckett and Cormac McCarthy" Paul Shields, Assumption College and Geoffrey Stacks, University of Denver
16.14 Suite 1525
Contemporary Connections in Spanish and Latin American Theater
Chair: Daria Cohen, Rider University
"Theatre at the Margins: Lorca's El p�blico or the Necessity of Theatre" Loredana Comparone, Cornell University
"Staging Gender in Contemporary Spanish Drama" Laureano Corces, Fairleigh Dickinson University
"Las m�scaras de Moctezuma y Cort�s y el tiempo c�clico en Todos los gatos son pardos" Jill Blackstone, Boston University
"La persistencia: una tragedia contempor�nea de Griselda Gambaro" Ludmilla Kapschutschenko Schmitt, Rider University
16.15 Suite 1925
French in America: Then and Now (Seminar)
Chair: Jane Koustas, Brock University
"La ventriloquie: vecteur de transformation culturelle ou bien retour au m�me" Eloise Bri�re, SUNY Albany
"Acadian ou qu�b�cois: Moncton 1971" Stamos Metzidakis, Washington University
"Le Qu�bec: une petite et une longue histoire" St�phanie Walsh, Ryerson
"L'art de Gabrielle Roy: Cet �t� qui chantait" Myrna Delson-Karan, St. John's University
"Mettre le texte en fran�ais: quels choix pour quelles �poques" Laurence Arrighi, Universit� de Moncton
16.16 Nantucket Room
Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Reading Resolution in German Literature and Culture (Seminar)
Chair: Jill Scott, Queen's University
"Kleist and the (Im)Possibility of Reconciliation" Jean Wilson, McMaster University
"'Ich kann mich mit den W�lfen vers�hnen, mit den Menschen nicht': Ambiguous Victimhood in Das Buch Franza" Andrea Speltz, Queen's University
"Forgive the Unforgivable: Legacies of Simon Wiesenthal's Die Sonnenblume" Peter Banki, New York University
"Resuscitating the Silenced, or W.G. Sebald's Die Ringe des Saturn" Martin Blumenthal-Barby, Rice University
"A Poetics of Truth and Reconciliation: Examining Literary Responses to Gross Violations of Human Rights" Jack Schuler, Denison University and Leo Riegert, Kenyon College
"Forgiveness after 9/11? Katharina Hacker's Die Habenichtse and Pia Frankenberg's Nora" Jill Scott, Queen's University
16.17 Chatham Room
Transforming Spaces: The Manipulation of Public and Private Spaces in 19th-Century Women's Literature
Chair: Miranda Green-Barteet, Texas A&M University
"Domesticity, Consumerism, and Restoring the Nation: A Look at Catherine Beecher's Domestic Manuals" Linda Chandler, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY
"Narrative and Interstitial Spaces in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" Miranda Green-Barteet, Texas A&M University
"Faded Leaves: Textual Artifacts and Transformed Spaces in the Works of Two Women Writers" Christina Healey, University of New Hampshire
"Domesticity and Community in Victorian Suburbia" Sarah Bilston, Trinity College

Session 17

Sunday, March 1, 10:45-12:15

17.01 Lexington Room
Behind the Spanish Lens: Stars and Sexualities in Contemporary Spanish Film
Chair: Monica Leoni, University of Waterloo
"Desarticulaci�n del dominio patriarcal en Volver (2006) de Pedro Almod�var" Hilda Chac�n, Nazareth College
"Facing Almod�var's Vision of Spanish Contemporary Society: Men, Women, and Everything in Between" Mar�a Matz and Carole Samson, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
"El nacionalismo vasco re-visitado: Una lectura queer de Pasajes" Mar�a Yazmina Moreno-Florido, Chicago State University
"Barcelona de cine" Cristina Carrasco, Nazareth College
17.02 Berkshire Room
Tensions and Conflicts in Italian Theatre
Chair: Anna G. Cafaro, Boston College
"La creazione e l'esperienza dell'avanguardia in 'Questa sera si recita a soggetto'" Julie Allen, Boston College
"Tensioni sociali attraverso il linguaggio pirandelliano" Carmen Merolla, Boston College
"Ridare la parola a un silenzio primordiale: Maraini and Morante's Feminist Mythic Revisionism" Kristina F. Bigdeli, University of California
"Il teatro canzone di Giorgio Gaber e Sandro Luporini negli anni Settanta" Lucia Ghezzi, The Fashion Institute of Technology
17.03 Duxbury Room
Postcolonial Italy
Chair: Christopher Hogarth, Wagner College
"Italiani, colonizzatori brava gente" Cristiana Furlan, McGill University
"The City as Text: Tientsin Italian Concession in China" Shirley Smith, Skidmore College
"Italian (Post)colonialities" Norma Bouchard, University of Connecticut
"Recent Trends in Italo-African Literature" Christopher Hogarth, Wagner College
17.05 Sturbridge Room
Globalizing Ecocriticism
Chair: Nicole Merola, Rhode Island School of Design
"Hula Hands in Transnational Lands: The Global Impact of Sustainability in Colonial Contexts" Diana Leong, University of Hawaii-Manoa
"'We All Live in Bhopal'?: On the Rhetorical Uses of 'Global' Risk" Molly Wallace, Queen's University
"Critiquing Emplacement: Domestic Space and Patricia Grace's Baby No-Eyes" David Stentiford, University of Nevada, Reno
"Discourses of Nation and National Ecopoetics: Case Studies" Young- Hyun Lee, Sungkyunkwan University and Simon Estok, Sungkyunkwan University
17.06 Suite 625
Text and Image in German Literature II
Chair: Silke Brodersen, Wellesley College
"'Organische Isolation':Physiology and the Textual Production of Images in Robert Musil" Brett Martz, University of Virginia
"From Text to Sculpture to Photograph: The Pergamon Altar, Aesthetic Engagement and the Politics of Media" Tracy Graves, Washington University
"Promises of the Afterlife: Reading Sebald's Photographs" Wayne Stables, Trinity College (Dublin)
"Literary Film-Theory: Thomas Lehr's Nabokov's Katze" Justice Kraus, Lewis and Clark College
17.08 Concord Room
The City as a Place of Exile
Chair: Agnieszka Gutthy, Southeastern Louisiana University
"It's Istanbul, It's not Constantinople: Modern-Day Istanbul in the Exile's Imagination and Identity" Margarit Tadevosyan, St. John's University
"City of Clowns: The City as a Performative Space in the Prose of Daniel Alarcon and Junot Diaz" Stacey Kimberly Balkan, Bergen Community College
"The Emigr� and the Host City: Three World War II Encounters" Christine Ann Evans, Lesley College
"Polish Paris throughout History" Agnieszka Gutthy, Southeastern Louisiana University
17.09 Suite
1025 American Working-Class Literature II
Chair: Tracy Riley, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"A Class of Readers Hitherto Beyond the Reach of Thoughtful Men: Using Conspiracy Narratives to Speak to Working Classes" Alex Beringer, University of Michigan
"Revolution, Revolution: Yaddo and the Making of American Proletarian Literature" Ben Alexander, Queens College-CUNY
"Modernist Anti-Collectivities: Representations of Labor in William Faulkner's The Hamlet" Daniel Markowicz, Carnegie Mellon University
"'He didn't care what kind of tent it was': Rugged Consumerism in McCarthy's No Country for Old Men" Raymond Malewitz, Yale University
17.10 Cambridge Room
Perspectives on Women and Myth
Chair: Dolores DeLuise, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
"Noah's Archive" Sarah Novacich, Yale University
"The Goddess in War: Athena and the American Women's Army Corps in WWII" Page Delano, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
"Sapphic Expression in Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan' and HD's 'Leda'" Catherine Clark, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"Eliding and Mythologizing Women in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Fifth Book of Peace" Miriam Brown, University of Georgia
17.11 Rockport Room
Cool Writings: Theorizing Coolness in Twentieth-Century Literature
Chair: Alex Moffett, Providence College
"Socialist of the Emotions": Revising Coolness in the Memoirs of the Beat Women" Jill Anderson, University of Mississippi
"Strength Against Itself: Toward a Theory of 20th Century Cool" Joseph Kraus, University of Scranton
"From Resistance to Assimilation: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Theorizing Coolness in Literature" Alex Moffett, Providence College
"Postcolonial Laws of Cool: Affective Community and the Formation of Black British Coolness in Zadie Smith's White Teeth" E. Kim Stone, SUNY Cortland
17.12 Ipswich Room
Sc�nographie des cinq sens dans le texte romanesque (XIXe-XXe si�cles)
Chair: Jean-Fran�ois Richer, University of Calgary
"Henry de Montherlant, Gabriel Matzneff et Herv� Guibert : une sc�nographie des sens au service du d�sir, du plaisir et de la souffrance" Clarisse Couturier-Garcia, Universit� Michel de Montaigne
"Le passage de l'�coute au visuel : les soir�es de th��tre dans les romans (Balzac, Proust)" V�ronique Labeille, Universit� Lumi�re Lyon II
"'L'indistincte lamentation d'une vague d�tresse': Une analyse du son dans Madame Bovary" Chiara Sferrazza, Princeton University
"Mati�re picturale et ekphrasis : l'introduction du tactile dans les romans sur l'art du XIXe si�cle" �rika Wicky, Universit� de Montr�al
17.13 Quincy Room
Victorians and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Chair: Alexander Bove, SUNY Buffalo
"Considering Representability with George Eliot: Mimesis, 'Inward World', and Gaze in Daniel Deronda" Alexander Bove, SUNY Buffalo
"Depth Hunting: Arnold, Clough, and the Excavation of the Unconscious Mind" Gregory Tate, Linacre College, University of Oxford
"'Things, Within the Cold Rock Found': Suspended Animation in Charlotte Bront�'s Villette" Elisha Cohn, Johns Hopkins University
"Visual-Haptic, Embodied Railway Metaphors in Dickens's Dombey and Son and Our Mutual Friend" Kristen L. Corman, Massachusetts College of Art
17.14 Suite 1525
Social Justice, Religion, and Violence in the Works of William Blake
Chair: Laura Rutland, Gannon University
"From 'Prince of Peace' to 'horrent demon': Blake's Revolutionary Messiah" Peter Townshend, University of Pretoria
"The Radical Abolitionism of William Blake and the Transgressions of Transcendence" Edward Simon, Point Park University
"Social Justice, Violence, War and the Apocalyptic Vision in Blake" Rachel Billigheimer, McMaster University
"Blake, Christian Rhetoric and Revolution" Laura Rutland, Gannon University
17.15 Suite 1925
Performing Artifice: Acts of Transgression in Decadent Literature
Chair: Sandra Rogosic, Boston University and Adeline Soldin, Boston University
"Prose in Praise of Make-up: Aesthicizing Nature in � Rebours" Sandra Rogosic, Boston University
"Collecting the Self: Death, Desire and Narrative in Jean Lorrain's Monsieur de Phocas" Emma Bielecki, King's College London
"Decadent Prostitutes: The Dirty Duchess and the Gilded Goddess" Christina Chabrier, Eckerd College
"The Art of Performance: Dance and Decay in Rachilde's La Jongleuse" Adeline Soldin, Boston University
17.16 Nantucket Room
"Lost" at NeMLA: Mapping TV's Most Elusive Island
Chair: Randy Laist, University of Connecticut
"New Times, New Worlds, and New Tales: 'Lost' and The Tempest" Ryan Howe, University of Pittsburgh
"And Now a Word from the Dharma Initiative: The Importance of Things in 'Lost'" Katherine Elizabeth Williamson, Rhode Island College
"'Haven't You Heard? I'm Completely Useless': Applications of Feminist and Marxist Theory in 'Lost'" Jessica Ty Charlton, Penn State University
"Jacob Is Watching You: Panoptical Visions in 'Lost'" Giancarlo Lombardi, The Graduate Center-CUNY
17.17 Chatham Room
Modernist Mothers
Chair: Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Texas A&M University
"Subversion of the Maternal Role in Valle-Inclan's Corte de amor and El yermo de las almas" Victoria Ketz, Iona College
"Forward and Backward: Exile and Mothers in Voyage in the Dark" Kathryn Caccavaio, Michigan State University
"Mourning the Mourners: The Great War and Maternal Grief in Joyce and Woolf" Daniel Moore, Queen's University
"Unwilling Mothers" Meg Gillette, Augustana College
17.18 Marquis Room
Julia Alvarez and Junot D�az: Contemporary Dominican American Writers
Chair: Jessica Wells Cantiello, The Graduate Center-CUNY
"Dictating the Diaspora: Yunior, Intertextuality, and the Problem of Authenticity in Drown and Oscar Wao" Elena Machado S�ez, Florida Atlantic University
"Comic Book Realism: Dominican History in Junot D�az's Oscar Wao" Daniel Bautista, Lehman College-CUNY
"The Rhetoric of Italics: Textual Representations of Spanish in the Works of Julia Alvarez and Junot D�az" Allison E. Fagan, Loyola University-Chicago
"Latina/o Writers and Human Rights in Julia Alvarez and Junot D�az" Ricardo F. Vivancos P�rez, George Mason University