Friday Sessions

Session 3

Friday, April 9, 8:30am-9:45am

3.01 St. Pierre: House Work: Masters and Servants in Post-Modern Culture; Chair: Ann McClellan, Plymouth State University; “Servants on the Screen: Work, Class, and Authority in TV and Film”; Ann McClellan, Plymouth State University; “Intercontinental Play: Rimini Protokoll and Performing the Master-Slave Dialectic”; Matthew Cornish, Yale University; “Satirical Reversals in Sam Selvon’s Representation of Master and Servant in Moses Ascending”; Rebecca Dyer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
3.02 Longueuil: Leon Edel and Henry James Biography; Chair: Greg W. Zacharias, Creighton University; “The Figure in Edel’s Carpet: Personal Myth in The Life of Henry James”; Danel Mark Fogel, University of Vermont; Rosemary Luttrell, University of Georgia; “‘Challenging the Witnesses’: Leon Edel’s Paradoxical Relation to the ‘New’ Biography”; Paul Fisher, Wellesley College; “Leon Edel on Cosmopolitanism in The Life of Henry James”; Anthony Louis Marasco, St. John International University, Vinovo
3.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Bridging the Gap Between Language and Content in the Foreign Language Class (Roundtable); Chairs: Cristina Abbona-Sneider, Brown University; Tania Convertini, University of Wisconsin; “L’utilizzo del portfolio come strategia e riflessione sull’apprendimento”; Fabiana Cecchini, Texas A&M University; “Language and Culture through Cinema and Literature in an Advanced Italian Class”; Chiara De Santi, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Literary Text and Hypertext in Teaching Italian as a Foreign Language”; Francesca Magnoni, National University of Ireland-Galway; “Teaching Language through Virtual Cultural Immersion”; Judy Raggi Moore, Emory University
3.04 Verdun: Canada and the Spanish-Speaking World; Chair: Adam Lifshey, Georgetown University; “Translation as a Vector for Literary Exchange between Latin America and Canada”; Hugh Hazelton, Concordia University; “Multilingualism in Latino-Canadian Writing: Lettres de Nootka by Alejandro Saravia”; Gabrielle Etcheverry, Carleton University
3.05 Jacques Cartier: Amnesia and Memory in Contemporary Spanish Cinema; Chair: Javier Venturi, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “El Sur un proceso de masculinización: De Adelaida García Morales a Víctor Erice”; Eva Paris-Huesca, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “The Politics of Amnesia in Albert Solé’s Bucarest, la memoria perdida (2008)”; Kathleen Korcheck, Central College; “La pólvora, el incienso, y el silencio en Los girasoles ciegos de José Luis Cuerda”; Javier Venturi, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
3.06 Fundy: Archives of Transgression / Transgressing the Archive; Chairs: Thomas Lornsen, University of New Brunswick-Fredericton; Thomas Krüger, University of Victoria; “Collecting Violence: Power and the Archive in Marcel Beyer’s Flughunde”; Christine McCrory, Washington University in St. Louis; “Normalizing Transgression--Narrating the RAF”; Karin Bauer, McGill University; “From the Ruins of Utopia: Peter Schneider’s Lenz as Personal Archive of Transgression”; Thomas Krüger, University of Victoria
3.07 St. Michel: Women and the Politics of the Vernacular; Chairs: Susannah Chewning, Union County College; Heike Bauer, University of London; “The Wooing Prayers in Nero A.xiv: Manuscript Composition and Textual Guidance”; Catherine Innes Parker, University of Prince Edward Island; “Feminist Literary History and Medieval Women’s Writing”; Diane Watt, University of Wales-Aberystwyth
3.08 Lasalle: The Adoption Memoir; Chair: Lindsay Davies, New York University; “The Adoptee’s Voice: From Passive Dispossession to Active Resistance”; Daniel Drennan, American University of Beirut; “River, Rain, Pool: Adoption and Maternity in Three Contemporary Spanish Texts”; Ryan Prout, Cardiff University; “Almost Originary: Tales of Adoption from China”; Lindsay Davies, New York University
3.09 Salon C: Analytic Philosophy and the Novel; Chair: Tim Mackin, Saint Michael’s College; “A Skeptic’s Progress from Kripke to Wittgenstein”; Jonathan Lee, University of California-Riverside; “Philosophical Destabilization and Indeterminacy in Iris Murdoch’s The Black Prince”; In Sang Ryu, Sungkyunkwan University; “Proper Names and the Pisan Cantos; or, Notes toward a New Economics of Elegy”; Tim Mackin, Saint Michael’s College
3.11 Salon D: Red, White and Blues for Mr. Charlie: Baldwin’s New Queer America; Chair: Donald Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University; “Telling and Retelling: Embracing James Baldwin’s Queer Prophetic Vision”; Danny Sexton, Borough of Manhattan Community College; “Did the ’60s Make Baldwin Too Black and Too Queer? The Politics and Critics of Blues for Mr. Char”; Cigdem Usekes, Western Connecticut State University; “Queering the Music Lesson in James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner”; Reginald Wilburn, University of New Hampshire
3.12 Salon E: Italian Literature: Renaissance to Humanism; Chair: Maryann Tebben, Bard College at Simon’s Rock; “Sperone Speroni e la questione della lingua for dummies”; Caterina Mongiat Farina, Colby College; “Obsession, Deception and Corruption in Machiavelli’s Mandragola”; Julia Cozzarelli, Ithaca College; “Il ruolo della donna nell’amicizia reale e ideale in età pre-moderna”; Paolo Pucci, University of Vermont
3.13 Salon F: German Masters Reloaded; Chair: Florence Feiereisen, Middlebury College; “Masters Reinterpreted: Goethe, the Grimms and Rammstein”; Mohamed Esa, McDaniel College; “Old Faces, New Places: Canonical Rejuvenation in German Studies”; Kyle Frackman, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Teaching Updates of the Old Masters: Between Plagiarism and Intertextuality”; Florence Feiereisen, Middlebury College
3.14 Salon G: From Nomad to Nobel Laureate: (Re-) Examining J.M.G. Le Clézio in 2010; Chair: Katharine Harrington, University of Maine-Fort Kent; “Teaching Le Clezio and His Forest of Paradoxes”; Keith Moser, Mississippi State University; “Witnessing our Shrinking Planet: Spatial Representation in Two Novels of J.M.G. Le Clezio”; Audrey O’Brien, Athabasca University; “Le Clezio’s ‘Mondo’: Teaching the Poetics of Nomadism”; Claire Schub, Tufts University
3.15 Salon H: Rethinking Feminist Language and Theory; Chair: Lynn O'Brien Hallstein, Boston University; “Maternity and Intersectionality: Being and Thinking Between as a Feminist Maternal Scholar”; Lynn O'Brien Hallstein, Boston University; “A Book is Not Book is Not Born, But Rather Becomes: The Second Sex As A Problem of Language”; Eme Crawford, University of South Carolina
3.16 St. Lambert: From the Favela to the Novela; Chair: Laurelann Porter, Scottsdale Community College; “Frogs and samba-exaltação: The allegorization of violence in Brazil in Manda Bala”; Hudson Moura, Simon Fraser University; “Violence in Brazilian soap operas”; Isabel Ferreira, Universidade Federal do Tocantins; “Hope in the Favelas”; Laurelann Porter, Scottsdale Community College
3.17 Lachine: Interlanguage Commmunication: Mishaps of Misunderstood Language; Chair: Myrna Santos, Nova Southeastern University; “In the Process: Interlanguage and Academic Writing in the First Year Composition Course”; James McDougall, American University of Kuwait; “Misnderstanding American English: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”; George R. Keidan, Hampton University; “Language Mishaps: Are we too complacent as we take misunderstanding English for granite?”; Myrna Santos, Nova Southeastern University
3.18 St. Leonard: The Future of Women’s Literature in Modernist Studies (Roundtable); Chair: Lauren Rosenblum, SUNY Stony Brook; “Breaking Out of Modernist Constellations”; Sandeep Parmar, New York University; “Alternative Modernist Traditions: Women Writers and Modernist Utopias”; Noreen O’Connor, King’s College; “Reading the Unreadable: Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage and Feminist Modernisms”; Laurel Harris, CUNY Graduate Center; “Recovering Modernist Lineage: Genevieve Taggard and Emily Dickinson”; Julia Lisella, Regis College
3.19 St. Laurent: Insular Identities and the Borders of Medieval Britain; Chair: Katherine Terrell, Hamilton College; “From Greater Britain to England: Of Arthur and Merlin and Historical Convergence”; Daniel Wollenberg, University of Pittsburgh; “Fluid Borders: Water in Gerald of Wales’s Itinerarium Cambriae”; Matthew Scribner, Queen’s University-Kingston; “ReOrienting Britain in Caxton’s Polychronicon”; Lauryn Mayer, Washington and Jefferson College
3.20 Mont-Royal: The Politics of the Western; Chair: Darren Millar, John Abbott College; “Built Ford Tough: John Ford and the Persistence of the American Western”; Art Redding, York University; “Spare the Revolver, Spoil the Child: Didacticism in the Novels of Max Brand”; Ian Boyd, University of Delaware; “Constructing Gender and Sexual Normativity in Tombstone”; Jae Jerkins, Florida State University
3.21 Mont-Royal: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American Masculinities; Chair: Michael Shaw, Fordham University; “Biting Back: Starving Men and Working Women in McTeague and Sister Carrie”; Lauren Navarro, Fordham University; “Visions of the ‘New Man’ in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Doctor Zay”; Emily Dolan, University of Connecticut; “‘Don’t tumble my dickey’: Competing Models of Masculinity in Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall”; Michael Shaw, Fordham University

Session 4

Friday, April 9, 10:00am-11:30am

4.01 St. Pierre: The World is Not Flat: Body Traffic across the Global Village; Chair: Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University; “Translated Women: Systems Clashes in Andrea Staka’s Fräulein and Yugo Divas”; Helga Druxes, Williams College; “Italian Immigration and Diasporic European Identity”; Jean-Frederic Hunnuy, Bennington College; “Engagement and Othering in Transnational Writing”; Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Florida State University; “Cinematic Border Zones of Thwarted Desire in Lichter and Sleep Dealer”; Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University
4.02 Longueuil: Literary Motherhood in the New World; Chair: Kate Caccavaio, Michigan State University; “Ecology as Maternity: The Landscapes as a Child in Unca Eliza Winfield’s The Female America”; Johannes Burgers, The Graduate School CUNY; “Recalling Nellie: Communal Mothering in Ansa’s Baby of the Family”; Amber Estlund, Georgia State University; “Suzanne Jacob’s L’Obeissance: A Testimony of Maternal Resistance to the Paternal Order”; Aubrey Kubiak, SUNY Buffalo; “‘This Thing I Call My Mother’: (Un)Mothering in Jamaica Kincaid’s Texts”; Dorsia Smith, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
4.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Technology, Migrations and Displacements in the Portuguese-Speaking Spaces; Chair: Luis Goncalves, Columbia University; “Portugal’s Case vis-à-vis Edward Said’s Orientalism”; José I. Suárez, University of Northern Colorado; “Cyberliterature in Portuguese and the Canon”; Luana Barossi, Universidade de São Paulo; “Portugal à janela of Adelaide Vilela, a literary proof about the Lusitanian emigration to Canada”; “‘What is she, a gypsy?’ The Portuguese Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora”; Tiffany Austin, Saint Louis University
4.04 Verdun: Rethinking Modernism, Rethinking the Child: Modernist Experiments in Childland; Chair: Michelle Phillips, Rutgers University; “Subjective Deformation: Expressionism and the Modernist Child”; Timothy Vincent, Duquesne University; “The Child of Modernism: Redefining Romantic Subjectivity”; Galia Benziman, Tel Aviv University and the Open University; “Gertrude Stein, Nonsense, and To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays”; Eric Rettberg, University of Virginia; “Innocence Loosed: The Turning of the Child in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw”; Michelle Phillips, Rutgers University
4.05 Jacques Cartier: Playing Web 2.0: Intertextuality, Narrative and Identity in New Media; Chair: Cathie LeBlanc, Plymouth State University; “Playing Social: Why Some FaceBook Games Work and Others Don’t”; Cathie LeBlanc, Plymouth State University; “Collector/Compositor: Playing with Narrative Forms”; Elise Takehana, University of Florida; “Digital Ghettos: Rendering (Post?) Blackness in social media”; Lisa Woolfork, University of Virginia; “Community, Rebellion and the Reinforcement of Authority in @AcimanandRensin’s Twitterature”; Pamela Ingleton, McMaster University
4.06 Fundy: Pictures of an Exhibition: Museums and Collections in Literature and Media; Chair: Edward Wesp, Western New England College; “Leopold Bloom at the Museum’s Gate: Personal and Institutional Collection Practices in Ulysses”; Julia Panko, University of California-Santa Barbara; “‘Things people pay to see’: The Stigmatization of Waxwork in Mystery of the Wax Museum”; Margaret Owens, Nipissing University; “DuBois’s Eye: Romantic and Radical Vision of Modern Art in W.E.B. DuBois’s Dark Princess”; Courtney Baker, Connecticut College; “The Faun’s Ear: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Museum as Medium”; Edward Wesp, Western New England College
4.07 Lachine: No Turning Back: Distance Education in 2010; Chair: Emily Hegarty, Nassau Community College-SUNY; “Closing the Distance: Primary Sources for Online Learning”; Christina Benson, City of New York Archives; “Distance Learning and the Digital Commons”; Minette Estevez, Nassau Community College-SUNY; “Surveillance and Privacy in Online Learning”; Emily Hegarty, Nassau Community College-SUNY; “Difficult Discourse in Distance Education”; Shelly Jansen, SUNY-Binghamton
4.08 Lasalle: Communal Modernisms; Chair: Emily M. Hinnov, Bowling Green State University-Firelands; “Communal Poetics, Sorrow Songs, and Lola Ridge’s ‘The Ghetto’ and Other Poems”; Michelle B. Gaffey, Duquesne University; “Mass Media, Technik and Authors/Readers: Amauta and the Creation of an Avant-Garde Intelligentsia”; Mauricio A. Castillo, Columbia University; “From Alienation to Coven: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Utopian Modernism”; Noreen T. O’Connor, King’s College; “Cooperative or Co-opted Communication?: Understanding Bertolt Brecht’s Radio Plays”; Melissa L. Dinsman, University of Notre Dame
4.09 Salon C: Importance of Studying Oscar [Wilde]: His Plays, Stories, Letters, and Lectures; Chair: Annette M. Magid, Erie Community College-SUNY; “Souls, Secrets, and Stars: Oscar Wilde and H. G. Wells, the Fin de Siėcle Observers”; Sema E. Ege, University of Ankara; “A Letter from Prison and in Chains: Oscar Wilde and the Importance of Intellectual Labor”; Christian Gerzso, New York University; “Cultivating Wildean Ethics Among Engineering Students at Military College”; Heather Evans, Royal Military College of Canada; “Consumer-Modernism: Mrs. Erlynne and Lord Goring as Well-Dressed Philosophers of Art”; Paul L. Fortunato, University of Houston-Downtown
4.10 La Verriere: The American Aesthetic of Marilynne Robinson; Chair: Jane Wood, Park University; “Marilynne Robinson and Processes of Memory”; Karen L. Levenback, Monastery at St. Sepulchre; “Epistemology, Aesthetics, and the Essays of Marilynne Robinson”; Seth Studer, Tufts University; “Trying to Say What is True: Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and the In/expressibility of the Numinous”; Andrew J. Ploeg, University of Rhode Island; “‘Sacred Beauty’: the Aesthetic of Grace”; Wiebke Omnus, Keimyung University
4.11 Salon D: El cine y la literatura en la formación de la identidad nacional hispánica II; Chair: Enrique Garcia, Middlebury College; “Del franquismo al barroco: catolicismo e identidad”; Jesús Pérez Magallón, McGill University; “La literatura cubana del siglo XIX y el proceso de construcción de la identidad nacional hispánica”; Jose María Aguilera Manzano, University of Cantabria; “El proyecto nacional en la novela histórica argentina de finales del siglo XX y principios del XXI”; Wojciech Tokarz, St Francis Xavier University; “La construcción del proyecto identitario nacional en la prensa romántica española”; Marta Manrique Gómez, Middlebury College
4.12 Salon E: Breaking Atoms: Reading Hip Hop as Literature; Chair: Tim Strode, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Stay Trappin’: Gender Politics of Rapper T.I.”; Regina Barnett, Florida State University; “The Guilty Conscience of Rap? Dialog as a Main Principle of Hip Hop”; Philipp Marquardt, Brown University; “Grand Messages, Big Ideas, and Reverse Archeology: Some Close Readings of Hip Hop Lyrics”; Timothy Wood, SUNY Nassau Community College
4.13 Salon F: Outside from Within: The German Literary Outsider; Chair: Thomas Buckley, Saint Joseph’s University; “Life as Art: Rahel Varnhagen’s Radicalization of the Romantic Tradition”; Julia Goesser, Trinity College; “Gottfried Benn: from ‘Inner Emigration’ to Absolute Prose”; Joshua Dittrich, University of Toronto-Mississauga; “The Yellow Rose of Norway: Hans Henny Jahnn’s Perrudja”; Harry Roddy, Jr., University of South Alabama; “Punk Aesthetics and Space in Rainald Goetz’ Irre”; Cyrus Shahan, Colby College
4.14 Salon G: Translation and the Transnational Past; Chair: Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College; “‘Es sey eitel Arabisch’: Translation in 16th-Century ‘German’ War Treaties”; Patrick Brugh, Washington University in St. Louis; “Translating the Caribbean World: English Drama on the German Stage”; Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College; “Translation and Literary Criticism in the Works of Dorothea Veit-Schlegel”; Astrid Weigert, Georgetown University
4.15 Salon H: Empowering Silence; Chairs: Audrey Brunetaux, Colby College; Valerie Dionne, Colby College; “Parole et écriture: Impossibilités et paradoxes dans Le Très Haut de Maurice Blanchot”; Emmanuelle Vanborre, Gordon College; “Les échos du silence dans l’œuvre de Samuel Beckett”; Natalia Laranjinha, New York University; “Silence, Noise and Vision in A la recherche du temps perdu”; Miriam Heywood, University College London; “Entre dire et montrer: le concept kierkegaardien de communication indirecte”; Sebastian Husch, University of Pau
4.16 St. Lambert: Les pratiques scripturales de la migrance littéraire I; Chairs: Catherine Khordoc, Carleton University; Marianne Bessy, Furman University; “‘Dire l’ailleurs autrement’: un enjeu pour l’écrivain migrant”; Christiane Albert, Université de Pau et des pays d’Adour; “Pratiques du ‘border writing’ dans l’écriture migrante au Québec”; Stéphanie Bellemare-Page, Université du Québec à Montréal; “Poétique de l’ ‘effaçonnement’ de l’écrivain italo-luxembourgeois Jean Portante”; Jeanne Glesener, Université du Luxembourg
4.17 St. Michel: The City as a Space of Exile; Chair: Agnieszka Gutthy, Southeastern Louisiana University; “Subterranean Worlds: Urban Redevelopment, Queer Spaces, and John Rechy’s City of Night”; Thomas Heise, McGill University; “‘This happened and that happened...’: Spatial Narratives and Urban Thresholds in Jean Rhys’ Paris”; Sarah Cornish, Fordham University; “‘Metropolitan Migrants’ after the Apocalypse: Urban Indiós in the Postmodern City”; Stacey Balkan, Bergen Community College; “A Tale of Two Cities in the Poetry of Adam Zagajewski”; Agnieszka Gutthy, Southeastern Louisiana University
4.18 St. Leonard: Film and Philosophy; Chair: Hunter Vaughan, Washington University in St. Louis; “Two Sides of the Same Ocean: Contemporary Film Philosophy in France and the United States”; Hunter Vaughan, Washington University in St. Louis; “A Phenomenological Approach to Dada Films: Where Two Lies Make One Truth”; Nathalie Fouyer, City University of New York; “Rethinking Authenticity in Film Analysis”; William C. Pamerleau, University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg; “Philosophy of the Natural World in Film: An Eco-Existential Look at Baraka”; Chris Baratta, Binghamton University
4.19 St. Laurent: Fictional Histories/Historical Fictions: Renaissance Historical Fiction; Chair: Elizabeth Ketner, SUNY Plattsburgh; “Shared History: Lope deVega’s Radical Proposition”; Madera Allan, Lawrence University; “Not Penshurst: Distributio, Enclosure, and Negative Cartography”; Daniel Brayton, Middlebury College; “Dramatizing Queenship in Mulcaster’s The Queenes Maiesties Passage and Heywood's If You Know Not Me”; Jessica Riddell, Bishop’s University; “History and Genre in Marguerite de Navarre’s Twenty First Tale of Heptameron”; Elizabeth Ketner, SUNY Plattsburgh
4.20 Westmount: The Coming of Age Stories of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison; Chair: Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University; “Shattered Psyches: Ellison’s Flying Home as Trauma Writing”; Josephine McQuail, Tennessee Technological University; “Coming of Age and the Inefficacy of Conversion in Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain”; Andrew Connoly, Carleton University; “Ellison, Beautiful Men, and the Revolutionary Gaze”; Tyler T. Schmidt, Lehman College-CUNY; “Youth, Race and Alienation in Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin”; Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University
4.21 Mont-Royal: Teaching Shakespeare; Chair: Roberta Milliken, Shawnee State University; “Educating the Prince of Denmark Then and Now: A Freshman Seminar”; Alberto Cacicedo, Albright College; “Promoting Empathy in the Galillee Through the Performance of Romeo and Juliet”; Lynn Timna, Bar Ilan University and The Arab Academic College; “Teaching the ‘New-Found Methods’ in Shakespeare’s Experimental Comedies”; Aaron Shapiro, Boston University; “Demythologizing Shakespeare in the Age of ‘senseless speaking’ Or the Clash of Clichés”; Jamal En-Nehas, Sultan Qaboos University
4.22 Hampstead: The Marketplace in/and Twentieth-Century Literature; Chair: Steven Canaday, Anne Arundel Community College; “Yeats and the Marketplace: Cultural Patronage, the Lane Gallery, and Responsibilities”; Rob Doggett, SUNY Geneseo; “Irish Poets, Learn Your Trade: Thomas Kinsella between First Programme and Second Coming”; Greg Londe, Princeton University; “Writing the Self for Money: Edith Wharton and Gendering the Market”; Joyce Goggin, University of Amsterdam; “Stealing Milk: Race and the Marketplace in John Fante’s Ask the Dust”; Matthew Elliott, Emmanuel College
4.23 Cote-St. Luc: Chaos in Tranquility: Humor in American Life Writing; Chair: Christopher Stuart, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; “Confessional Crumb: Robert Crumb’s Autobiographical Comics and the Confessional Poets”; Edward Shannon, Ramapo College of New Jersey; “Eggers’s Humor in Memoir: Destructive or Instructive?”; Alison Sperling, San Francisco State University; “‘The Only Truthful Way to Tell a Sad Story’: Humor in the ‘Life Writing’ of Foer and Eggers”; Victoria Bryan, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; “‘Fun in a Man-of-war’: Autobiographical Tension in Melville’s ‘White-Jacket’”; Brad Johnson, Doane College
4.24 Outremount: James and the Women; Chair: Rita Bode, Trent University; “Revising the Role of the Cosmopolitan Woman Traveler: Daisy Miller to Ellen Olenska”; Peter Gibian, McGill University; “Regaining Lost Youth in Novels by James and Cather”; Elsa Nettels, College of William and Mary; “Review or Revision? Henry James, George Eliot and the Moment of Daniel Deronda”; Amanda Adams, Temple University; “Sartorial Sociality: Fashioning Friendships in James and Wharton”; Heath Sledge, University of North Carolina
4.25 Le Portage: Spirits Rapping: Spiritualism in Anglo-American Fiction; Chair: Michael Cadwallader, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Ghosting Touch, Queering Tactility, and Renegotiating Sexuality in Teleny”; Ann Gagné, University of Western Ontario; “Dark Spirits: Race, Class, Gender and Spiritualism in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction”; Ann Kordas, Johnson and Wales University; “The Spirit of Labor: Mesmerism and Manufacturing Americans in Phelps’s The Silent Partner”; Rebecca Soares, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “The Predictive Imagination in Edward Bellamy’s ‘The Medium’s Story’”; Jamie Pietruska, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
4.26 Frontenac: Indigenous Literatures of Native North America; Chair: Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State College; “‘What would John Wayne do?’: Ethnocriticism, Stereotype, and the West”; Rebekah Greene, University of Rhode Island; “Re-telling the Story of Identity in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water”; Jamie Calhoun, Pennsylvania State University; “Talking is the Best Medicine?:Trauma, Testimony & Healing in Robinson, Highway and Van Camp”; Robyn Green, Carleton University

Session 5

Friday, April 9, 11:45am-1:15pm

5.01 St. Pierre: A Bridge Too Far: Bisexuality in Contemporary Culture; Chair: Paolo Pucci, University of Vermont; “Fantastic Traces of the Unsaid: The Apparitional Caveman in Radclyffe Hall’s Miss Ogilvy Finds H”; Audrey Fessler, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; “Alternative Sexuality in Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics”; Farzad Mozafarzadeh, University of Iowa; “A Screen Too Small: Intertextual Bisexuality on (and off) Television”; Elizabeth Lundberg, University of Iowa; “Media Responses and Categorization of Bisexuality in Brazilian Movies”; Ines Shaw, Nassau Community College
5.02 Longueuil: Whose Africa?: Representations of Africa in African and Diasporic Literatures I; Chair: John Hyland, SUNY Buffalo; “Renewing Myth in Three African Movies: Yeelen, Moolaade, and Max and Mona”; Elaine Marshall, Barton College; “‘Fresh Names’: The African Imaginary of Turner and A Harlot’s Progress”; Nicole Matos, College of DuPage; “‘The Idea of Africa’: Not out there but from-it-in-the-World”; Anjali Prabhu, Wellesley College; “Remapping the History of the African Horn: Violent Cartographies in Nuruddin Farah’s Maps”; Minna Niemi, SUNY Buffalo
5.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: The Library in German Literature; Chair: Regine Heberlein, Princeton University--Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library; “Leihbibliothek and Palmenbibliothek: Private Libraries in Hoffmann and Tieck”; Len Cagle, Lycoming College; “Alternative Archives: Heinrich von Kleist’s Library of Deviance”; Thomas Lornsen, The University of New Brunswick; “Living by the Book: Libraries, Exile & Community in the 20th Century”; Tracy Graves, Washington University in St. Louis; “‘Wo einen das Lesen in den Wahnsinn treiben kann’: Approaching Buchhaim”; Regine Heberlein, Princeton University
5.04 Verdun: The Internet as a Contestatory Medium in Latin America; Chair: Hilda Chacon, Nazareth College; “Civilización y barbarie 2.0”; Donetta Hines, McGill University; “Ciberespacio como campo para la denuncia: los asesinatos de Juárez”; María Matz, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; “La otra Cuba secreta: Las grietas virtuales del socialismo”; Omar Granados, Emory University; “Cyber Citizen Organization via The Internet: Contestatory Experiences in Latin America”; Hilda Chacón, Nazareth College
5.05 Jacques Cartier: Shifting Boundaries of Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood in Italian Film; Chair: Tania Convertini, Indiana University; “A Child’s Tragedy: Matteo Garrone’s Totò”; Inga Pierson, Colgate University; “Who is the Cinematic Child/Who is the Cinematic Monster?: Gabriele Salvatore’s Io Non ho paura”; Hans Staats, Stony Brook University; “Da criature a òmmini: percorsi di formazione mafiosa in Certi bambini e Gomorra”; Lara Santoro, Rutgers University; “In the Name of the Father: The Drama of Adolescence in Salvatore’s Come dio comanda”; Michela Meschini, University of Macerata
5.06 Fundy: Interviews & Literature: Self-Commentary, Self-Presentation and Narrative Form; Chairs: Gundela Hachmann, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge; Torsten Hoffmann, University of Goettingen; “‘Art is an excuse to have a dialogue’ - Interviews in Literatur und performativen Künsten”; Ute Cathrin Gröbel, Ludwig Maximilian University; “Stefan Heym im Interview”; John Heath, University of Vienna; “‘Deutscher Kulturträger’: The Self-Portraiture of Blixa Bargeld”; Mirko M. Hall, Converse College-Spartanburg; “The Interview as Novel: ‘Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren’ by Wolf Haas”; Matthias Schaffrick, Westphalian Wilhelms University
5.07 Lachine: Film: Poetics versus Theory; Chair: Randall Spinks, Nassau Community College; “Toward a Semiotics of Poetry and Film: Meaning-Making and Extra-Linguistic Signification”; Bill Scalia, St. Mary’s Seminary and University; “Biopoetics: The Evolution of Desire in Il Postino”; David Randall, Bloomsburg University; “Film Poetics (with a capital P)”; Johannes Schade, Johns Hopkins University; “Reading Hitchcock’s Vertigo against Participatory Economics: A Thought Experiment”; Randall Spinks, Nassau Community College
5.08 Lasalle: Women Writing Spanish American Revolution(s); Chair: Sophie M. Lavoie, University of New Brunswick; “Cuban Women See the Cuban Revolution, 1959-2009”; Catharina Vallejo, Concordia University; “Prejuicios de género, actitudes machistas y discursos patriarcales en un testimonio peruano”; Lady Rojas Benavente, Concordia University; “Killer Women in the Revolution: Nora Astorga and Gioconda Belli’s ‘La mujer habitada’”; Alicia Muñoz, Macalester College; “La creación del mito del combatiente revolucionario en la narrativa de escritoras sandinistas”; Sophie M. Lavoie, University of New Brunswick-Fredericton
5.09 Salon C: Classic and Contemporary American Girl Lit: Place & Space; Chair: Susan Ingalls Lewis, SUNY New Paltz; “The Motel as Half-Way House in Marjory Hall’s Romance at Courtesy Bend”; Cara Rodway, King’s College London; “Before Nancy Drew: Girls to the Rescue in World War I”; Susan Ingalls Lewis, SUNY New Paltz; “Girls Bite Back: Fanfiction Resistance to Twilight”; Monica Swindle, University of Missouri-Saint Louis; “Big Mouths, Freaks, and Empowered Geeks: Joyce Carole Oates, The ‘New Girl,’ and the”; Jessica McCort, Duquesne University
5.10 La Verriere: La narrativa de la dictadura en Latinoamerica; Chair: Adriana Rosman-Askot, The College of New Jersey; “Spatial Ontologies of Disappearance in Tomas Eloy Martinez’s ‘La novela de Perón’”; Karen Elizabeth Bishop, Harvard University; “The Counter-Discourse of Luis Alberto Molina in Manuel Puig’s ‘El beso de la mujer araña’”; Erin Redmond, Alfred University; “El tango como herramienta ideológica subversiva en la literatura argentina”; Rafaela Fiore Urizar, Catholic University of America; “Maternity, Massacre and Memory: Women under Dictatorship”; Adriana Rosman-Askot, The College of New Jersey
5.11 Salon D: Slumming It: Metatextual Bleeding Between “Literature” and Popular Media; Chair: Angela Szczepaniak, SUNY Buffalo; “Embodied Textuality: Shelley Jackson’s Skin and Authorial Inscription”; Ron Sweeney, SUNY Buffalo; “Piercing the Corporate Veil: David Foster Wallace and Popular Culture”; Mario Trono, Mount Royal University; “House of Leaves and the Horrors of Genre Slumming”; Daniel Tripp, Frostburg State University; “Blood in the Gutter: Detecting the Image in Art Spiegelman’s ‘Ace Hole, Midget Detective’”; Angela Szczepaniak, SUNY Buffalo
5.12 Salon E: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Canonical Works; Chair: Janet S. Wolf, SUNY Cortland; “‘Anchor Works’: Teaching Gilgamesh to Teach Reading”; Thomas Kealy, Colby Sawyer College; “Oliver Goldsmith’s Return to a Traditional Comic Formula in She Stoops to Conquer”; Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi; “Textual Variation Opens the Door to Early Modern Dramatic Texts”; Michael Basile, New Jersey City University; “Paying Attention to the Word and Attention to the Action: Shakespeare in the College Classroom”; Maureen McDonnell, Eastern Connecticut State University
5.13 Salon F: Italian Women Writers and Autobiography; Chair: Ioana Raluca Larco, University of Kentucky; “Gender roles and gender identity in Fine d’anno by Paola Drigo”; Ioana Raluca Larco, University of Kentucky; “Tra romanzo, biografia e autobiografia: il rapporto padre-figlia in Artemisia di Anna Banti”; Chiara De Santi, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Still Life: Chronotopic self-portraits in Rosetta Loy’s La parola ebreo”; Chiara Ferrari, New York University; “La Frantumaglia: Elena Ferrante’s Fragmented Self”; Elda Buonanno Foley, Iona College
5.14 Salon G: Madness in Women’s French and Francophone Fiction; Chair: Leah Tolbert Lyons, Middle Tennessee State University; “Madness and Maternity in Mariama Bâ’s Un Chant écarlate”; Leah Tolbert Lyons, Middle Tennessee State University; “The Rise of the Female Assassin in Ananda Devi’s Ève de ses décombres”; Julie Huntington, Marymount Manhattan College; “Repression, Rebellion and Madness in Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Haitian Trilogy Amour. Colère. Folie.”; Debra Popkin, Baruch College-CUNY; “Women’s Stories of History and Madness in Marie-Célie Agnant’s Le Livre d’Emma”; Roseanna Dufault, Ohio Northern University
5.15 Salon H: Seventeenth-Century French Writers’ Lives; Chair: Stéphane Natan, Rider University; “Quand la préciosité flirte avec le libertinage: l’exemple des conteuses des années 1690”; Sophie Raynard-Leroy, State University of New York-Stony Brook; “Des ‘hommes amphibies’? Molière, Furetière, Racine and Anti-bourgeois Writing”; Olivier Delers, University of Richmond; “À la rencontre de Blaise Pascal”; Stéphane Natan, Rider University; “Pascal et ses affaires de cœur”; María Cristina Campos Fuentes, DeSales University
5.16 St. Lambert: Transformations of Antiquity in the Long Eighteenth Century; Chair: Ulrike Wagner, Columbia University; “Revolutions in Borrowed Clothes? The Invention of Winckelmann and the Ancient-Modern Divide”; Katherine Harloe, University of Reading; “On Moral Grounds: The Roman Villa and the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle”; Amanda Weldy, University of Southern California; “Tacitus and the Archetype”; Theodore Weaver, Rutgers University; “Relocating the Divine Spirit: Translations of Hebrew Poetry and Cultural Transformations”; Ulrike Wagner, Columbia University
5.17 St. Michel: Queering the Caribbean: Toward Open Discussion of Queerness in Caribbean Writing; Chair: Rachel Mordecai, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Queering the Mixed-Race Body in Nalo Hopkinson’s The Salt Roads”; Jasmine Mitchell, University of Minnesota; “Queer Interventions from the Hispanic Caribbean”; Elena Valdez, Rutgers University; “‘Le Sexe Fendu’ in Maryse Condé’s Célanire Cou-Coupé”; Carine Mardorossian, University at Buffalo; “(Queer) Sex and the Jamaican Citizen: Patricia Powell’s A Small Gathering of Bones”; Rachel Mordecai, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
5.18 St. Leonard: Margaret Atwood and Canada: Interventions, Influences, Interconnections; Chair: Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island; “She’s Canadian? Reading and Teaching Margaret Atwood in the United States.”; Karma Waltonen, University of California-Davis; “Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman and the Rise of the Canadian Academic Novel”; Poonam Bajwa, University of Ottawa; “‘Man and His Electrifying Environment’: Atwood’s Parody of Marshall McLuhan”; Medrie Purdham, University of Regina; “Atwood and the Language Question”; Heidi Arsenault, Cornell University
5.19 St. Laurent: ‘Pillars of Witness’: Brontë Literature as Commentary; Chair: Kristin Le Veness, Nassau Community College; “‘Hush! Hush!’ Nelly Dean: Servants, Secrets, and Suffering in Wuthering Heights”; Nancy Von Rosk, Mount Saint Mary College; “Epistolary Witness: Nelly & Mrs. Heathcliff’s Letter”; Judith Pike, Salisbury University; “‘Me they could not see’: Invisible Witnessing in Villette”; Anna Lepine, John Abbott College; “Bearing Witness: Faith, Feminism, and Anne Bronte”; Kristin Le Veness, Nassau Community College
5.20 Westmount: ‘Ah Got De Law in My Mouth’: Black Women Writing Justice; Chair: Courtney Marshall, University of New Hampshire; “Zora Neale Hurston and The American Courts: In Fiction and Life”; Pearlie Peters, Rider University; “Marriage, Race and the Law in Antebellum America: Iola Leroy’s Awakening”; Terry Novak, Johnson and Wales University; “In the Absence of Law and Justice”; Nancy Marder, Chicago-Kent College of Law; “Land-theft and Lawsuits: The Case of Elleanor Eldridge in Antebellum Rhode Island”; Joycelyn Moody, University of Texas-San Antonio
5.21 Mont-Royal: To Give or Not To Give: The Ethics of Nineteenth-Century Charity; Chair: Leslie Graff, University of Memphis; “Carlyle, Gaskell and the Captives of Industry”; Keith Friedlander, University of Ottawa; “Embattled Idealism and the Failure of Charity in Gissing’s Slum Novels”; Jennifer Conary, DePaul University; “Selfless Self-interest: Jane Addams’s Rejection of Charity”; Michael Cadwallader, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “The Geography of Doing Good: The Conflict Between the Civilizing Mission and Domestic Charity”; Leslie Graff, University of Memphis
5.22 Hampstead: Serializing Fiction II; Chair: Adam Seth Lowenstein, University of California-Los Angeles; “‘Such variety and yet such harmony’: The Serial Aesthetic of The Ambassadors”; Adam Seth Lowenstein, University of California-Los Angeles; “Figures of Disfigurement: Harper’s Graphic Illustrations and Stephen Crane”; Adam T. Sonstegard, Cleveland State University; “The Paradox of Race after Transatlantic Emancipation: Illustrated Versions of Pudd’nhead Wilson”; Joy Bracewell, University of Georgia; “Serialization, Illustration and Sensation: The Woman in White and Lady Audley’s Secret"”; Elizabeth Anderman, University of Colorado-Boulder
5.23 Cote-St. Luc: Modernism, Poetry, and Faith; Chairs: Kelly C. MacPhail, Université de Montréal; Johanna Skibsrud, Université de Montréal; “Faith in the Object, Faith in Words: Marianne Moore’s Poetic Service”; Vanessa Robinson, University of Toronto; “‘The Thinnest Possible Surface’: Generative Opacity in George Oppen’s Politics and Poetics”; Johanna Skibsrud, Université de Montréal; “‘Beyond this present knowing’: Wallace Stevens’ Poetry of Faith”; Kelly C. MacPhail, Université de Montréal; “Hart Crane’s ‘Lifted Altars’: Modernism, Mysticism, and Rhetoric”; Troy Thibodeaux, New York University
5.24 Outremount: Terrified White Masculinity in Twentieth-Century American Literature; Chair: Sharon Desmond Paradiso, Endicott College; “The Death of the Race: White Masculinity and White Noise”; Katherine Broad, CUNY Graduate Center; “Disaster Capitalism and Economic Shock Therapy in Bret Easton Ellis’s Glamorama”; Charlotte Quinney, Bowling Green State University; “Disorganization Man: Anti-Oedipal Terror in the 1950s”; Andrew Strombeck, Wright State University; “Terrified of Gayness: White Masculinity and William S. Burroughs’ Representation of William Lee”; Chris Vanderwees, Carleton University
5.25 Le Portage: Turning Their Backs on the Land: American Literature at the Waterline; Chair: Colin Clarke, SUNY Suffolk Community College; “On Bringing Oneself from America to Britain: Phillis Wheatley’s ‘A Farewell to America’”; Paula Loscocco, Lehman College-CUNY; “Between Land and Sea: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Exorcism of the Great Dismal Swamp in Dred”; Lenora Warren, New York University; “Compensating for Lost Freedom in My Antonia: Jim Burden’s Lark down by the Riverside”; Richard Hancuff, Misericordia University; “The End(s) of The Road: Literature at the Outer Banks of Humanity”; John Levi Barnard, Boston University
5.26 Frontenac: Overreachers & Machiavels: The Works of Christopher Marlowe; Chair: Nathaniel Leonard, University of Massachusetts; “Proud Corrupters: Sodomy and Regicide in Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II”; Cathy Esterman, Univeristy of Massachusetts; “Objects of War: The Shields in Marlowe’s Edward II”; Susan Harlan, Wake Forest University; “‘Whose Summum Bonum is in Belly Cheer’: Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the Performance of Faith”; Nathaniel Leonard, Univeristy of Massachusetts

Session 6

Friday, April 9, 1:30pm-2:45pm

6.01 St. Pierre: Lost Pasts/Broken Futures: Forgetting as Narrative Crisis in Film; Chair: Thomas Knauer, SUNY IT; “The Viewer as Detective: The Quest for Truth in Memento and Mémoires affectives”; Rachel Ritterbusch, Shepherd University; “‘Forces at Work Beyond Our Understanding’: M. Night Shyamalan’s Forgotten Happening”; Lisa Day-Lindsey, Eastern Kentucky University; “‘I might do it again if it’s in me’: Forgetting Unremembered Criminality in Film Noir”; Marlisa Santos, Nova Southeastern University
6.02 Longueuil: Representations of the Working-Class in Film (Seminar); Chair: Michelle Tokarczyk, Goucher College; “Compulsive Patterns of Materialistic Pursuit in Stroheim’s Greed”; Heidi E. Faletti, Buffalo State College; “Depicting Gender: The Embodiment of the Working-Class in American Film”; Angelique Medvesky, Florida State College; “Imagined Solidarity across Races in Frozen River and Gran Torino”; Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Goucher College
6.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Identity, Resistance and Challenges to the Center in Portuguese-speaking Africa; Chair: José Suárez, University of Northern Colorado; “Rising Like a Phoenix from the Ashes: Idea(l)s of Nation and Nation-Building in the Works of Abdulai”; Joseph Abraham Levi, University of Hong Kong; “Luandino Vieira and Uanhenga Xitu – Resistance and Cultural Identity”; Orquídea Ribeiro, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro; “From Eça to Agualusa: The end of Lusotropicalism”; Luis Gonçalves, Columbia University
6.04 Verdun: Homosexual Women in Italian Literature, Cinema and Other Media II (Roundtable); Chair: Marianna Orsi, Pisa; “Alterità dell’alterità: La rappresentazione lesbica nei romanzi di Igiaba Scego”; Piera Carroli, Australian National University; “Ambigue femme fatale nel cinema italiano”; Cristina Villa, University of Southern California; “Il primo saggio in lingua italiana sulla letteratura lesbica: ‘Orgoglio e privilegio’”; Erika Papagni, University of Toronto; “Curiosità sul fumetto lesbico italiano”; Susanna Scrivo
6.05 Jacques Cartier: William Hogarth: Interpretation and Influence; Chairs: Sara Schotland, Georgetown University; Cecilia Feilla, Marymount Manhattan College; “Engraving Taste: Hogarth’s Early Satires on Theatre and Their Rhetorical Parallelism to Pantomime”; Aubrey Bowser, Independent Scholar; “‘Howgarth’s Witty Chissel’: Hogarth’s Frontispieces For Tristam Shandy”; Leann Davis Alspaugh, Independent Scholar; “Hogarth and Fielding: Transcending the Limits of Genre”; Sara Schotland, University of Maryland
6.06 Fundy: The Giallo Italiano from 1945 to the Present; Chair: Andrea Pera, Independent Scholar; “La Torino ‘nera’ di Fruttero e Lucentini fra poliziesco e best-seller di qualità”; Roberto Risso, Università di Torino; “La Genova di Bacci Pagano, dai caruggi alle creuze”; Paola Pettinotti, Independent Scholar; “Salvo Montalbano: un alter ego politico di Andrea Camilleri?”; Andrea Pera, Independent Scholar
6.07 Lachine: Multilingual Texts in the FL Classroom; Chairs: Susanne Even, Indiana University; David Delamatta, Lord Fairfax Community College; “Linguistic Polygamy as a Teachable Moment”; Jörg Meindl, Lebanon Valley College; “The Holocaust in the Classroom: Bridging the Linguistic Divide”; Adam Sacks, Brown University; “Against Clichés: The Challenge of Multilingualism”; Markus Wilczek, Harvard University
6.08 Lasalle: Les pratiques scripturales de la migrance littéraire II; Chair: Marianne Bessy, Furman University; “Hétérolinguisme et écriture fragmentaire: ‘pratiques signifiantes’ de l’écriture migrante”; Simona Emilia Pruteanu, University of Western Ontario; “Hybridité linguistique et culturelle dans les écritures migrantes au Québec”; Carmen Mata Barreiro, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; “Lettres parisiennes. Pratiques épistolaires de la migrance chez Nancy Huston et Leïla Sebbar”; Ann-Sofie Persson, Linköping University
6.09 Salon C: Gender and Performance in 18th-century German Literature; Chairs: Astrid Weigert, Georgetown University; Anna Zimmer, Georgetown University; “Gendered Performance in Goethe’s Römische Elegien”; Eleanor ter Horst, Clarion University; “Heinrich von Kleist’s ‘The Marquise von O…’ and the Exhibition of Sincerity”; Daniel Nolan, Northwestern University; “The Queer Consequences of Staging Charlotte von Stein’s Dido”; Caroline Weist, University of Pennsylvania
6.10 La Verriere: Re(In)vision of Africa in Contemporary Spanish Texts; Chair: Victoria Ketz, Iona College; “Encounters with Simbad: Poetic Visions of African Others in Jurado’s ‘La muchacha del mar rojo’”; Debra Faszer-McMahon, Seton Hill University; “La novela y la piel negras: Race and Justice in Abasolo’s ‘El color de los muertos’”; Shanna Lino, York University; “Sexual Politics and Race in Mayoral’s ‘La belleza del ébano’”; Victoria L. Ketz, Iona College
6.11 Salon D: The Dramatic Monologue in Hispanic Poetry; Chair: Marlene Gottlieb, Manhattan College; “Toc-toc, ¿Quién es? Blancanieves, al revés”; Maria Elsy Cardona, St. Louis University; “Monólogo interior y reflexión metapoética en la poesía de Aurora Luque”; Josefa Alvarez, LeMoyne College; “El monólogo dramático en la antipoesía de NIcanor Parra”; Marlene Gottlieb, Manhattan College
6.12 Salon E: Responding to Representations of Trauma in Student Essays in College Writing (Roundtable); Chair: Jeanie Tietjen, Massachusetts Bay Community College; “The Challenges and Opportunities of Responding to Representations of Trauma in Ugandan Classrooms”; Lorelei Blackburn, Michigan State University; “No Response Necessary?: The Ethics of Traumatic Narrative in the Composition Classroom”; Melissa Caldwell, Eastern Illinois University; “Not ‘If’ but ‘When’: Preparing for Traumatic Narrative in the First-Year College Composition”; Jessica Lee, University of Arizona; “Why I came to College: Trauma as Motivation in the College Composition Classroom”; Faye Spencer Maor, Florida A&M University; “Writing on Air: Giving Voice to Traditionally Silenced Populations with Amherst Writers and Artists”; Matt Walsh, Massachusetts Bay Community College
6.13 Salon F: Double Agencies: Parsing Dissent between LGBTQ Studies and Queer Theory; Chair: Raji Singh Soni, Queen’s University-Kingston; “Queer Dissidence and the Ends of Discipline”; Raji Singh Soni, Queen’s University-Kingston; “Love/Die Neighbor: The Political Uses of Queer Love in the Age of Late Capitalism”; Jeremy De Chavez, Queen’s University-Kingston; “Like a Faggot from the Ashes: Allegiance, Agency, and Questions of Citizenship”; William C. Harris, Shippensburg University
6.14 Salon G: Pier Vittorio Tondelli: 30 Years After Altri libertini (Roundtable); Chair: Sciltian Gastaldi, University of Toronto; “Journeying as Self-Knowledge in Tondelli’s Altri libertini and Camere separate”; Stefano Muneroni, University of Alberta; “Tondelli e i generi letterari”; Enrico Minardi, Truman State University; “Tondelli, nel trentesimo anno di Altri libertini”; Sciltian Gastaldi, University of Toronto
6.15 Salon H: Literature and Cinema of the Fascist Period; Chairs: Cristiana Furlan, Bishop’s University; Daria Valentini, Stonehill University; “Luigi Chiarelli: The Wavering Fascist”; Maeve Egan, National University of Ireland; “Belle e dannate”; Maria Elena D’Amelio, State University of New York-Stony Brook; “Fictionalizing the City of Romeo and Juliet: Hollywood Movie Industry and the Refashioning of Verona”; Maria D’Annibale, University of Pittsburgh
6.16 St. Lambert: Translating German-Language Literature (Creative); Chair: Maureen Gallagher, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “The Translator’s Silence”; David Dollenmayer, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; “Translating Lou Andreas-Salomé’s The Devil and His Grandmother”; Kristine Jennings, Binghamton University; “Translating Tzveta Sofronieva’s Eine Hand Voll Wasser”; Chantal Wright, Mount Allison University
6.17 St. Michel: Fun and Games in Medieval France; Chair: Paul Creamer, East Stroudsburg University; “Fun and Games in the Conte du Graal”; Paul Creamer, East Stroudsburg University; “La Poésie des Goliards: Humour, Vulgarité et Didactique”; Charles-Louis Morand Métivier, University of Pittsburgh; “Play and Deep Play in the Fabliaux”; Michael Johnson, University of Texas-Austin
6.18 St. Leonard: If We’re Writing about Writing, Then What Kind of Writing Do We Assign?; Chair: Heather Urbanski, Central Connecticut State University; “The In-Class Data Set: Inquiry Papers Using Students’ Own Writing About Writing”; Heather Urbanski, Central Connecticut State University; “Feeling Bodies: The Theory and Practice of Embodied Writing”; Christy Wenger, Lehigh University; “Student Writing as Disciplinary Space”; Adam Katz, Quinnipiac University
6.19 St. Laurent: Black Modernisms: Harlem Renaissance, Negrismo, Negritude; Chair: Christopher Winks, Queens College-CUNY; “Transnational Harlem: Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Claude McKay’s ‘Home to Harlem’”; Karsten H. Piep, Union Institute & University; “Young, Black, and Modern: ‘Fire!’, Modernism, and the Harlem Renaissance”; Sara Rutkowski, The Graduate Center-CUNY; “From Black Internationalism to Anti-Fascism: Langston Hughes and Rafael Alberti in Mexico City”; Evelyn Scaramella, Yale University
6.20 Westmount: Ecocriticism and Canada I: Queer Nature, (Non)Human Geography, and Biotechnology; Chair: MaryAnne Laurico, Queen’s University; “Emily Carr’s Animals”; Laura McGavin, Queen’s University; “Rocking Cosmopolitanism: Don McKay, Strike/Slip, and the Implications of Geology”; Jesse Patrick Ferguson, University of New Brunswick; “Biotechnology and the Humanities: Poetic DNA and Christian Bök’s ‘The Xenotext Experiment’”; MaryAnne Laurico, Queen’s University
6.21 Mont-Royal: Shakespeare and the Environment; Chair: Miles Taylor, Le Moyne College; “‘Like to a tenement or pelting farm’: Richard II and Stewardship”; Miles Taylor, Le Moyne College; “Timon of Walden”; Todd Borlik, Bloomsburg University; “‘I to the world am like a drop of water’: The Agency of Water in Shakespearean Comedy”; Jean-Francois Bernard, Université de Montréal
6.22 Hampstead: Psychoanalysis and Early Modern English Tragedy; Chair: Mathew Martin, Brock University; “Oedipus, Hamlet, and Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage: Beyond the Pleasure Principle”; Mathew Martin, Brock University; “‘The first voice was not his’: The Law of the Mother in Middleton’s Maiden’s Tragedy”; Erin Julian, McMaster University; “Beyond Proto-Psychoanalysis: Reading Romeo and Juliet through Freud and Vives”; Mauricio Martinez, University of Guelph
6.23 Cote-St. Luc: Leon Edel and Henry James Scholarship; Chair: Pierre A. Walker, Salem State College; “Leon Edel’s Transcriptions of Henry James Letters in the Tintner Binders”; Greg W. Zacharias, Creighton University; “Seeing James through his Editors”; Megan Homberg, Boston College; “Leon Edel’s Les Années dramatiques and the Pressure of Poetry on Poetics”; Peter Rawlings, University of the West of England
6.24 Outremount: ‘Making Her Meaning Known’: New Scholarship about Audre Lorde; Chair: Kirsten Ortega, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; “Refusing Otherness: Rejecting the Colonizing Gaze in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Audre Lorde's Zami”; Shana Scudder, North Carolina State University; “Gay, Black, and Other-ed: ‘Erotic Autonomy’ in Gay African-American Literature”; Jeannette M. E. Lee, Hampshire College; “Seboulisa and Me: Audre Lorde and Feminist Spirituality”; Sharon L. Barnes, University of Toledo
6.25 Le Portage: Looking Back on Activism and American Literature of the Twentieth Century; Chairs: Clare Callahan, Duke University; Sarah Brown, CUNY Graduate Center; “How Do You Spell ‘Modernity?’: Oppen and the Enchantment of Ideology”; David Collins, SUNY Buffalo; “‘What my heart not my mouth has uttered’: Edwin Rolfe and the Body Politic”; Ellen McWhorter, Merrimack College; “(Re)relevance and Social Activism: Don DeLillo on the Subject of Terror”; Phil Swenson, Georgetown College
6.26 Frontenac: If the Lion Could Speak: The Animal Story in North American Literature; Chair: Vincent Guihan, Carleton University; “What it Means to Have Sex With a Bear: Animal Representation in Marian Engel’s Bear”; Jaime Denike, Queen’s University; “Bear Naked: Undressing Marian Engel”; Collett Tracey, Carleton University; “Wild Ethics: How to Know Others in Helen Humphreys’ Wild Dogs”; Jessica Carey, McMaster University

Session 7

Friday, April 9, 3:00pm-4:30pm

7.01 St. Pierre: Le cinéma français contemporain; Chair: Céline Philibert, SUNY Potsdam; “Une famille formidable”; Annabelle Cone, Dartmouth College; “Lam Lê’s Intercultural and Haptic Cinema”; Hélène Sicard Cowan, Collège Dawson; “Renegotiating French Identity: the Algerian War in Contemporary Cinema”; Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, The City University of New York; “D’ ‘Un monde sans pitié’ à ‘Irrésistible’: le cinéma français contemporain”; Céline Philibert, SUNY Potsdam
7.02 Longueuil: Teaching Contemporary Fiction from the Middle East; Chair: Sally Gomaa, Salve Regina University; “God and Man at Kars: Francis Bacon and the Hidden Symmetries of Snow”; Stephen Trainor, Salve Regina University; “Violence and Mourning in Fadia Faqir’s The Cry of the Dove”; David Coury, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay; “Teaching Arab Literature in Translation”; Mustapha Hamil, University of Windsor; “The Economy of Translation in Naguib Mahfouz’s Children of the Alley”; Sally Gomaa, Salve Regina University
7.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: The Myth of Rome; Chair: Victoria Tillson, Harvard University; “Henry VII and the Dream of the Aetas Aurea”; Florence Russo, St. John’s University; “De Romani coeli qualitatibus: Arcadian Poetics and the Rise of Modern Climatology”; Mattia Begali, University of Madison-Wisconsin / Duke University; “The Myth of Rome in Contemporary She-Wolves”; Cristina Mazzoni, University of Vermont; “Rethinking Rome: Cinema and Myth after La dolce vita”; Victoria Tillson, Harvard University
7.04 Verdun: Historia y televisión en España; Chair: Teresa Herrera-De la Muela, Allegheny College; “Los Desastres de la Guerra, de la analogía histórica a la efeméride.”; Elena Cueto Asín, Bowdoin College; “RTVE como actor histórico: El día más difícil del Rey”; Francisca López, Bates College; “A Gleam of History in a Fictional TV Series: Remember When”; Elena de la Cuadra Colmenares, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; “La forja de un socialista: Mario Camus adapta a Arturo Barea”; Teresa Herrera-De la Muela, Allegheny College
7.05 Salon C: Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother: Theory and Narrative (Roundtable); Chairs: Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Boston University; Sandra Stanko, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; “Demeter on Strike: Fierce Motherhood on the Picket Line and the Playground”; Laurie Cellar, Shippensburg University; “In Search of an Academic ‘Wife’: Academic Moms, Domestic Chaos and the Quest”; Dana Shiller, Washington and Jefferson College; “Finding Point Balance: Personal Writing’s Role in the Academic Mother’s Work/Life Challenge”; Sandra Stanko, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; “The Conflict of the Tenure Clock and My Biological Clock”; Allison Sinanan, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey; “The Baffled Mother: Maternal Puzzlement in Narrative, in Pedagogy, in Academia”; Martha Satz, Southern Methodist University; “Basketball, Skating, and Scholarship: Or How to do Research from the Bench, the Rink, the Car”; Elizabeth Podnieks, Ryerson University; “Contract Faculty Mothers on the Track to Nowhere”; Linda Ennis, York University
7.06 Fundy: Art as Symptom? Yes!; Chair: Jason Berger, University of South Dakota; “Jorie Graham’s Passion for the Reel: The Lyric Subject as Symptom”; Sarah Ehlers, University of Michigan; “Casting Inversion: Freud’s Psychoanalysis and the Photographic Negative”; Ignaz Cassar, University of Leeds; “In Defense of Paranoid Interpretation: Žižek’s Autonomous Aesthetics”; Jason Berger, University of South Dakota; “‘A Gordian Shape of Dazzling Hue’: Assemblages of Color as Chromatic Symptoms in Bacon and Antonioni”; Yen-Chen Chuang, Soochow University
7.07 Lachine: Re-Imagining First-Year Composition (Roundtable); Chairs: Carol-Ann Farkas, MCPHS; Mary Buchinger Bodwell, MCPHS; “Portfolios, Phase 3: Making Portfolios Work in the FYW Classroom”; Cynthia Martin, James Madison University; “Writing About Writing (WAW) Reinvigorates First-Year Composition”; Laurie McMillan, Marywood University; “Kairos, Tension, and First-Year Composition”; Andrew Ogilvie, Loyola Marymount University; “Re-Imagining First-Year Composition at Western Connectictut State University”; Patrick Ryan, Western Connecticut State University; “Digital Writing in First-Year Composition”; Karen Weingarten, Queens College-CUNY
7.08 Lasalle: The Power of Images: The Ethics and Efficacy of Photography; Chair: Kelly Klingensmith, Western New England College; “Virginia Woolf on Not Regarding the Pain of Others”; Alexandra Neel, Loyola Marymount University; “Negotiating Trauma: The Use of Photography in Comics”; Davida Pines, Boston University; “Effectively Intense, Impossibly Bad Photographs in Autobiography”; Nancy Pedri, Memorial University of Newfoundland; “Giving Cameras to Kids: A Hesitant Turn in (Self-) Representation”; Kelly Klingensmith, Western New England College
7.09 Jacques Cartier: Screening Spanish American Revolutions; Chair: Ilka Kressner, SUNY Albany; “Exporting Pancho Villa: The Mexican Revolution and American Film”; Adela Pineda Franco, Boston University; “‘¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa!’ y ‘La ley de Herodes’: representaciones del fracaso revolucionario”; Krystell Guevara Barrales, Ottawa University; “Distorted Reflections of a Revolution: Carpentier’s and Solás’ ‘Siglos de las Luces’”; Ilka Kressner, SUNY Albany; “Propuestas ideoestéticas del nuevo cine venezolano”; Patricia Valladares-Ruiz, University of Cincinnati
7.10 La Verriere: Poesía y mujer; Chair: María Cristina Campos Fuentes, DeSales University; “‘¿Qué tendrá la princesa?’: Agustini’s Reinvention of the Modernista Feminine”; Sarah Moody, University of Alabama; “La poesía de Carmen Berenguer: Diferencia Chile Mujer”; Liliana Trevizán, SUNY Potsdam; “Nuevos arquetipos femeninos en la poesía de Claribel Alegría”; Andrea Parada, SUNY Brockport; “Maya Cu and the Advent of a Contemporary Maya Women’s Literature in Guatemala”; Rita M. Palacios, California State University-Long Beach
7.11 Salon D: After the Berlin Wall: Rethinking Contemporary Russian and East European Writing; Chair: Vitaly Chernetsky, Miami University; “Naming the Visible: Progress and Egress in Georgi Gospodinov’s Natural Novel”; Mihaela Harper, University of Rhode Island; “New Themes in Post-Soviet Baltic Theatre”; Jeff Johnson, Brevard Community College; “Transforming the Cognitive Map of Europe: Yuri Andrukhovych between Sisyphus and Sacher-Masoch”; Vitaly Chernetsky, Miami University
7.12 Salon E: Henry James’s Children; Chair: Elaine Pigeon, Concordia University; “Bad Blood: The Problem with Children in The Portrait of a Lady”; Tiffany Aldrich MacBain, University of Puget Sound; “An Aesthetic Education: Art and Childhood in ‘The Author of Beltraffio’”; Maeve Pearson, University of Exeter; “Straighteners and Seeing: Perception and Self-Cultivation in What Maisie Knew”; Glenn Clifton, University of Toronto; “Looking After Children: The Turn of the Screw and the Turn-of-the-Century Discourse on the Child”; Phillip Mahoney, Temple University
7.13 Salon F: Methods for Teaching and Improving Conversation in the Second Language (Roundtable); Chair: Tina Ware, Oklahoma Christian University; “Speed Spanish: Conversation Practice for All Language Levels”; Tina Ware, Oklahoma Christian University; “Teaching Moments: Maximizing Opportunities for Conversational Practice in a Heritage Language Area”; Katharine Harrington, University of Maine-Fort Kent; “Improving Oral Language Development Through Constructive Repetition Tasks in the Classroom”; Claudia Fernández, DePaul University; “The Student as Blogger: Expanding the Opportunities for Teaching Conversation”; Sylvia Rieger, McGill University; “Intermediate Spanish Literature Courses: Can we talk?”; Kathleen O’Donnell, Clarion University; “When Consensus is the Goal”; Gundela Hachmann, Louisiana State University
7.14 Salon G: Beyond Girls in Uniform & Death in Venice: Questioning a Queer German Canon; Chair: Darren Ilett, Michigan State University; “Of Open Secrets and Citation: The Jahrhundertwende’s Queer German Canon”; Yvonne Ivory, University of South Carolina; “The Third Sex and Beyond: Ernst von Wolzogen”; Robert Tobin, Clark University; “Queer Desire, Militarism, and the Fate of Siri-Normann’s Fräulein Kadett”; Darren Ilett, Michigan State University; “Silence=Death in Venice: Klaus Mann’s Der fromme Tanz and the Assembly of a Real Queer Canon”; Rick Chamberlin, Lebanon Valley College
7.15 Salon H: Satirical Aesthetics and Subtexts in Contemporary German Literature and Film; Chair: Jill Twark, East Carolina University; “Irony and Subtext in Novels by the ‘Founder’ of Neue Deutsche Popliteratur, Christian Kracht”; Arnim Seelig, McGill University; “Satirical Signification in Texts by Thomas Brussig and Kerstin Hensel”; Garbiñe Iztueta, University of the Basque Country; “Postwall Picaresque Narratives by Brussig, Schulze, and Klonovsky”; Jill Twark, East Carolina University; “The Comic Book Humor of Sonnenallee”; Lynn Kutch, Kutztown University
7.16 St. Lambert: Au Croisement: la fermentation intellectuelle dans la littérature maghrébine; Chair: Lora Lunt, SUNY Potsdam; “East and West meet here: Maghrebi literature at the crossroads”; Zakaria Fatih, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; “Isabelle Eberhardt et les émancipations de l’espace-nouvelle chez Leïla Sebbar”; Chadia Chambers Samadi, CUNY; “Maghrébinité, entre binarité et éclatement: Meddeb et Khatibi”; Alaeddine Ben Abdallah, Université d’Ottawa
7.17 St. Michel: Figuring out Fascism; Chair: Marja Harmanmaa, University of Helsinki; “Giving Birth to the Future: Fascism, Dystopia, and Feminine Identity”; Lea Williams, Norwich University; “Fascist Discipline and the Death of Sexology: The Burning at the Stake of Magnus Hirschfeld”; Heike Bauer, University of London; “Western Seekers of a Decadent Age: Mary Butts’ Practice of Esoteric Disciplines”; Ravit H. David, University of Haifa; “Imagining the Fascist Occupation of Greece: Cinematic Constructions from 1965 to 1991”; Thomas Cragin, Muhlenberg College
7.18 St. Leonard: Postcolonial Ecologies; Chair: Elaine Savory, New School University; “Deforestation and the Yearning for Lost Landscapes in Caribbean Literatures”; Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, Vassar College; “Hawaiian Tourism and Indian Water Parks: Understanding Postcolonial Ecocriticism”; Nandita Ghosh, Farleigh Dickinson; “Urban Decay and Environmental Justice in Robinton Mistry’s ‘Such a Long Journey’”; Dana Mount, McMaster University; “Kamau Brathwaite’s Ecopoetic Reading of Barbados in the Frame of Development and Overdevelopment”; Elaine Savory, New School University
7.19 St. Laurent: Uncovering the Irish Woman in Early 20th Century Fiction; Chair: Elizabeth O’Connor, Fordham University; “Mad Language, Convention, and Myth-making in the works of Rachilde and George Egerton”; Ria Banerjee, CUNY Graduate Center; “‘Caught between Warring Factions’: Female Adolescence in The Last September”; Sara Gerend, Aurora University; “Irish Civil War Orphans: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September”; Seamus O’Malley, CUNY Graduate Center; “‘Packages’ or People: The Conflicted Representation of Women in Kate O’Brien’s Early Fiction”; Elizabeth Foley O’Connor, Fordham University
7.20 Westmount: Shakespeare’s Cougars; Chair: Marlene Clark, The City College of New York; “Titiana, Feminine Desire, and the Early Modern Cougar”; Emma Perry, Boston College; “‘She’s a Man Eater’: The Character of Tamora in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus”; Christa Mahalik, Quinnipiac University; “‘She Makes Hungry Where Most She Satisfies’: Cleopatra as Cougar”; Yvette Kisor, Ramapo College of New Jersey; “Gertrude’s Troublesome ‘Pounce’”; Marlene Clark, City College of New York-CUNY
7.21 Mont-Royal: African American Autobiography & the Archives: Teaching Students to Be Scholars; Chair: Rhondda Robinson Thomas, Clemson University; “Revising the Canon: Reconsidering Early Diasporic Narratives and the Diasporic Literary Tradition”; Fran L. Lassiter, Montgomery County Community College; “Big Dogs Eat the Little Dogs: Literary Archives and the Politics of Recovery and Recognition”; Elizabeth Simoneau, Emory University; “‘A simple story of service’?: Addressing Discrepancies between Autobiography & the Archives”; Rhondda Robinson Thomas, Clemson University; “Movement Widows and the Many Uses of Autobiography and the Archives”; Brenda Tindal, Emory University
7.22 Hampstead: Delineating the Contemporary in American Literature (Roundtable); Chair: Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Figure and Ground: Locating the Contemporary”; William Waddell, St. John Fisher College; “Zeitgeist: the Reader’s Digest version”; Allison Cummings, Southern New Hampshire University; “The New Mediality of Millenial American Prose”; Daniel Tripp, Frostburg State University; “Postethnic America?: Narrating Multigenerational Ethnic-American Identity in the Early 21st Century”; Ben Railton, Fitchburg State College; “A New Sincerity: Have We Moved Beyond the Postmodern?”; Kimberly Freeman, Northeastern University; “Contemporary American Literature: Literature(s) of Conflict?”; Matthew Hill, Coppin State University
7.23 Cote-St. Luc: In-betweenness in Adolescent Literature; Chair: Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology; “The In-Betweenness of Adolescence as Trauma”; Meg Woolbright, Siena College; “Psychotherapy as Potential Space in Young Adult Fiction”; Kabi Hartman, Franklin & Marshall College; “Ways to Get Between: Negative Dialectics in China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun”; Alan Rosiene, Florida Institute of Technology; “Navigating the Borderlands in Neil Gaiman’s Adolescent Literature”; Tara Parmiter, New York University
7.24 Outremount: Teaching Early Native American Literature; Chair: John Kucich, Bridgewater State College; “Interweaving Voices: Teaching Captivity from a Multidisciplinary Perspective”; Evelyn Navarre, SUNY Buffalo; “Thresholds of Change: Reconsidering Caleb Cheeshateaumauk’s ‘Honoratissimi Benefactores’”; Drew Lopenzina, Sam Houston State University; “The Christian Indians: Wrestling with Conversion in the Native American Literature Classroom”; Karen Waldron, College of the Atlantic; “Local Knowledge: The Pedagogy of Engagement and the Politics of Native Studies”; John Kucich, Bridgewater State College
7.25 Le Portage: The Role of Non-Tenure Track Faculty in the Academy (Roundtable); Chair: Mary Ann Tobin, Triton College; “Faculty Development Programs: A Key to Part-time Faculty Satisfaction?”; Rhonda S. Filipan, Kent State University; “Adjunct Peer Mentoring: Rewarding with Respect and Responsibility”; Cynthia Henderson, The College of Lake County; “Upstairs, Downstairs: The Adjunct ‘At-Home’ in the Academy”; Denise Witzig, Saint Mary’s College of California; “Service: A Way to Keep Your Sanity”; Elizabeth Anderman, University of Colorado-Boulder
7.26 Frontenac: ‘Theres nothing so sensible as sensual inundation’: Mary Oliver’s Poetics; Chair: Jeannette Riley, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; “Reading Mary Oliver into the ‘schoolhouse / of little words / thousands of words’”; Sheila Cordner, Boston University; “‘There Are A Lot of Mockingbirds In This Book’: Mary Oliver and the Academic’s Dilemma”; Sara Lundquist, University of Toledo; “Mary Oliver, the Tradition, and the Individual Student”; Don Reese, Brimmer and May; “Walking the Ground: Mary Oliver’s Poetics”; Jeannette Riley, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

Session 8

Friday, April 9, 4:45pm-6:15pm

8.01 St. Pierre: Queer Ecocriticism and Literature (Roundtable); Chairs: Jill Anderson, University of Mississippi; Meg Holland, University of Pennsylvania; “The Nature of Ecoqueerdom”; Mike Perez, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; “Queering Medieval Natures”; Matthew Scribner, Queen’s University; “‘Not One to Manacle Nature’: Ecocritical Notes on Post-Transsexual Literature”; Nicole Seymour, University of Louisville; “Generative Motion: Queer Ecology as a Process of Becoming”; Sallie Anglin, University of Mississippi; “Queering the All-American Diet: The Queer Ecology of Ruth Ozeki’s Novels”; Laura Anh Williams, Purdue University
8.02 Longueuil: Our Monsters, Ourselves; Chair: Elizabeth Harris McCormick, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY; “Spectacle of the Dead: Situationist Vampires in True Blood”; James McLeod, University of Sydney; “‘Hideous Progeny’: Frankenstein, Gods and Monsters, Film Adaptation, and Portraits of Exile”; Julie Grossman, Le Moyne College; “Rethinking Vampire Technology: Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling and Monster Theory”; Heather Cyr, Queen’s University; “Infected Text: The Dissolution of the Individuated Subject in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ”; Simon Orpana, McMaster University
8.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Un mundo al revés: la re-escritura de cuentos infantil; Chair: Cristina Santos, Brock University; “A Question of Gender in Charles Perrault’s ‘Sleeping Beauty in the Wood’”; Edilene Ribeiro Batista, Universidade Federal do Tocantins; “Scherezada desenmascarada en la obra de Isabel Allende: La inversión de roles tradicionales”; Myriam Martel, Ryerson University; “Maria Elena Walsh y su aporte innovador a la literatura infantil argentina”; Silvia Belén-Ramos, Fairleigh Dickinson University; “Esta es la vida y Hades nos acompaña: la re-escritura de cuentos infantiles en Luisa Valenzuela”; Adriana Spahr, Grant MacEwan University
8.04 Verdun: The Publishing Revolution: Creating Textbook Content with Web 2.0 Tools; Chair: Andrés Villagrá, Pace University; “The Electronic Portfolio as Assessment Tool and More: The Drake University Model”; Marc Cadd, Drake University; “The Spanish Lounge de Pace University: A Content-Creation and Web 2.0 Initiative in Collaboration”; Andrés Villagrá, Pace University; “Web-Based Learning Environment: An Alternative to a Coursebook”; Marcin Kleban, Jagiellonian University; “Leaving the Publisher Out of the Loop-- Online German-Language Curriculum”; Louise Stoehr, Stephen F. Austin State University
8.05 Jacques Cartier: The Interplay of Literature, Music, Theater, Cinema and the Visual Arts; Chair: Marco Cerocchi, La Salle University; “Funzioni semantiche e metatestuali della musica nelle novelle del Decameron”; Marco Cerocchi, La Salle University; “Giuditta: personaggio biblico, letterario e pittorico”; Snjezana Smodlaka, Independent Scholar; “Still Figures: Neera’s ‘Fotografie matrimoniali’ and The Epistemology of Photography”; Silvia Valisa, Florida State University; “Madame Bovary sono io: ‘Resto Umano’ (1913) e l’audience femminile ai tempi del cinema muto”; Georgina Torello, Universidad de la República
8.06 Fundy: Seeing Things: Dreams, Visions and Hallucinations; Chair: Anna Strowe, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Seeing and Knowing in Pasolini’s Edipo Re and Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus”; Barry Spence, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “In-sight of Things: Analysis of the Relation between Subjectivity and Reality in His Master’s Voice”; Burcu Yasemin Seyben, Istanbul Bilgi University; “‘a deranged house is a pretty conceit’: Hallucinating Madness in The Haunting of Hill House”; Justine Lutzel, Bowling Green State University; “Afraid of the Dark: The Visionary Mind in Thomas Nashe’s Terrors of the Night”; Melissa M. Caldwell, Eastern Illinois University
8.07 Lachine: William Blake and His Influence; Chair: Josephine McQuail, Tennessee Technological University; “‘Voces Clamandae’: Bolcom’s Recreations of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience”; Madeleine Vala, University of Puerto Rico; “‘There’s Nothing In It’: Blake, Ekphrasis, and the Modern Music Video”; Jason T. Clemence, Tufts University; “A New Jerusalem in Spandex: Blakean Ideology and Alan Moore’s Superheroic Deconstructionism”; Jason Kolkey, Loyola University; “Blake and Yeats: Influence and Deviation”; Rachel Billigheimer
8.08 Lasalle: Where Are We Now? The Evolution of Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies (Roundtable); Chair: Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook; “I Remember Women's Studies Before There was Women's Studies: Watching Women's Studies Evolve”; Lynn O'Brien Hallstein, Boston University; “What Do Women Want? (R)Evolution and the Catholic Campus”; Denise Witzig, Saint Mary’s College of California; “Global Programs and Localized Responses: The Ordination of Women Priests in the Church of Ireland”; Christine O’Dowd-Smyth, Waterford Institute of Technology; “Forever Cross-Listed: Teaching Women’s Studies in other Departments”; Rita Bode, Trent University; “Past & Present: Women’s Studies”; Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island
8.09 Salon C: Rewriting and Reinventing the American West in German Culture; Chair: Maureen Gallagher, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “The GDR’s Imaginary Indians”; Petra Watzke, Washington University in St. Louis; “The Man, the Myth, the Cowboy King: The Adventures of Billy Jenkins”; Diane Liu, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Going Native? - ‘Indians’ in/and German Fantasies of the American West”; Stefanie Ohnesorg, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; “Land of Fantasy, Land of Fiction: Klara May’s America”; Maureen Gallagher, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
8.10 La Verriere: Literature and Science: A Reciprocal Exchange?; Chair: Rebekah Sheldon, Graduate Center-CUNY; “The Melancholy Science and the Science of Melancholy”; Derrick Gentry, Graduate Center-CUNY; “The Romance of Science and Time”; Hilary Binda, Tufts University School of the Museum of Fine Arts; “Ethology and Literary Ethics”; Daniel Wilson, Cornell University
8.11 Salon D: Seeking a Postmodern God: Figures of the Absent Center in Contemporary Writing; Chairs: Magdalena Maczynska, Marymount Manhattan College; Christopher Coffman, Boston University; “Postmodern Sacrality and Thomas Pynchon’s Recent Fiction”; Christopher Coffman, Boston University; “God Is the Voice that Says, ‘I am not here’: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man”; Linda Kauffman, University of Maryland; “I-I: Creating a Third Dialogic Category in Jewish American Literature”; Lily Corwin, Kutztown University; “‘Let’s be Other People’: Derrida’s Autoimmunity and the Novels of Leonard Cohen”; Adam Langton, University of Western Ontario
8.12 Salon E: Immigration Stories; Chair: Lauren Shaw, Elmira College; “Always Becoming: Immigrants Rethinking Place and Ethnicity through Storytelling”; Esteban Loustaunau, Assumption College; “Maya USA: Stories of Resistance from Indigenous Guatemalan Immigrants”; Eduardo Jiménez Mayo, Cornell University; “Global Migrations and Identity Constructions in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters”; Joseph Viera, Nazareth College; “When the Spirits Dance Mambo: African Tradition in the Puerto Rican Diaspora”; Michele Dávila Gonçalves, Salem State College
8.13 Salon F: Russian Women Writers: New Views; Chair: Diana Greene, Bobst Library, New York University; “Teaching Karolina Pavlova and Russian Literature”; Francoise Rosset, Wheaton College; “Contested Endings: Karolina Pavlova’s Tale ‘Razdel’ and the Alternative Literary Tradition”; Diana Greene, Bobst Library, New York University; “Everyday Fantastic: Nina Sadur and (en)Gendered Trauma”; Antje Postema, University of Chicago; “‘When in the night, I wait for her impatient...’: The Muse in the Poetry of Anna Akhmatova”; Nadezda Korcagina, University of Alberta
8.14 Salon G: Re-Approaching the ‘Patriarch’ in Asian North American Literature; Chair: Brian Guan-rong Chen, Laurentian University at Georgian College; “Race and the Corporeality of the Father in Asian American Fiction”; Hyo Kim, Medgar Evers College-CUNY; “Inscrutable Violence: Susan Choi’s A Person of Interest and Deviant Asian Masculinity”; Geoff Hamilton, Universty of Toronto-Mississauga; “Event and Writing: Justice, Mercy and an Ethics of Co-Existence in Joy Kogawa’s The Rain Ascends”; Shounan Hsu, National University of Tainan
8.15 Salon H: Translation and Pedagogy (Roundtable); Chair: Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College; “Student Perceptions of Translation and Composition Assignments”; Beatriz Pariente-Beltrán, Mount Holyoke College and University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “The Use of Translation in Language Classes at the Advanced Level”; Stéphanie Ravillon, Brown University; “Reconsidering the Traditional Pedagogical Process in Teaching Translation”; Kathryn Radford, McGill University; “At the Crossroads: A Seminar on Translation for Undergraduates at SUNY Potsdam”; Oscar Sarmiento, SUNY Potsdam; “Translation as Apprenticeship: The Translator’s Archive”; María Constanza Guzmán, York University
8.16 St. Lambert: Transcending the Binaries: Re-conceptualizing Heimat and Fremde (Roundtable); Chair: Maria S. Grewe, John Jay College-CUNY; “Heimatlose Grenzgänger? Von Multikultigelaber’ in Yadé Karas Cafe Cyprus und Selam Berlin”; Gabriele Eichmanns, Carnegie Mellon University; “On Binaries and Oppositions: An ‘interkulturelle Germanistik’ Approach to ‘Fremd’ and ‘Heimat’”; Maria S. Grewe, John Jay College-CUNY; “Subversive Instability – ‘Heimat’ and ‘Fremde’ in Shirin Kumm’s Novels”; Rebecca Hügler, Queen’s University; “The ‘Virtual Alsatian’: Transnational Identity in André Weckmann’s Literature”; Jörg Meindl, Lebanon Valley College
8.17 St. Michel: Elles réécrivent leur H/histoire(s) entre le particulier et le collectif; Chair: Nevine El Nossery, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Narrating a Plural Self: Collective Autobiography in Leila Sebbar’s Journal”; Alexandra Gueydan-Turek, Swarthmore College; “H/histoire(s) racontées par un « je/nous » féminin postcolonial”; Samira Farhoud, St. Thomas University; “La réécriture de l’Histoire au féminin: entre le témoignage et la fiction”; Nevine El Nossery, Universtiy of Wisconsin-Madison; “Discours romanesque et historicité signifiante : Aventure individuelle et destin collectif”; Siham Guettafi, Université Med Kheider Biskra
8.18 St. Leonard: Littératures en langue française: quoi de neuf?; Chair: Annik Doquire Kerszberg, Lock Haven University; “True Life: Jean Rolin on Globalization, Immigration, Multiculturalism, and Diasporic Identities”; Laura Call, Pennsylvania State University; “‘Nous n’avons pas le même pays’: Race and Identity in Recent Works by Marie Ndiaye”; Deborah Gaensbauer, Regis University; “Globalization, Multi-Culturalism and the Self in van Cauwelaert’s Novels”; Gérard Beck, George Mason University; “Barely There: Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Minimalist Autobiographical Writing”; Arcana Albright, Albright College
8.19 St. Laurent: NeMLA Diversity Committee Forum; Chairs: Donald Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University; Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University
8.20 Westmount: Unearthing Ephemera: Retrieving the Extra-Poetic Work of 20th-C American Poets; Chair: Lindsey Freer, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Letters are Poetry, Too: Edward Dorn and Amiri Baraka”; Claudia Pisano, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Age of Lead: Kenneth Koch, Frank O’Hara, and the Making of ‘Fresh Air’”; Josh Schneiderman, Hunter College; “‘Exploring’ ‘form’: Alice Notley’s Collage Artwork as Background for The Descent of Alette”; Lindsey Freer, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Poetics of RANDomness”; Seth Perlow, Cornell University
8.21 Mont-Royal: Romancing America: Authorship, National Identity, and the Writing of Historical; Chair: Sean Kelly, Wilkes University; “Irving and the ‘Spirit of Place’: American Mythos, History and Authorship in ‘Rip Van Winkle’”; Sean Kelly, Wilkes University; “The Transformation of the Author in Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland”; KiYoon Jang, Texas A&M University; “Hawthorne’s ‘Legends of the Province House’: Narrative Visibility and the National Politic”; Peter Zogas, University of Rochester; “Irving’s Sketch Book: Bachelorhood, Family Life, and National Identity”; John Dolis, Pennsylvania State University-Scranton
8.22 Hampstead: Individual and Collective Memory in Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Literature; Chair: Shari Evans, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; “Chaos and Loss of Women’s Collectivity in Kathy Acker’s Novels.”; Pamela June-Rodgers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; “‘Legends from Camp’: Lawson Inada and the Memory of Japanese American Internment”; Jeff Gibbons, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College; “Home Interrupted: Memory in Ana Menendez’s ‘Her Mother’s House’”; Ana Luszczynska, Florida International University; “Restor(y)ing the Self: Memory and Performance in Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report”; Shari Evans, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
8.23 Cote-St. Luc: Technical/ Professional Writing for Undergraduates (Roundtable); Chair: Maria Plochocki, University of Baltimore; “Pitching and Batting on the Creative Field: Ruling Exceptions in Technical Communication”; Sandra Staton-Taiwo, Pennsylvania State University-York; “Writing and Technology: Attitudes and Applications from Andhra Pradesh, India”; Robbie Clipper Sethi, Rider University; “Creating and Teaching the Professional Writing Program at Ohio Northern University”; Jonathan Pitts, Ohio Northern University; “Engaging Real World Issues: A Model for Teaching Required Undergraduate Business Writing Courses”; Adam Lloyd, University of Maryland-College Park; “Classroom as Corporation: A Concrete Approach to Teaching Professional Writing”; Michael Cadwallader, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
8.24 Le Portage: CAITY Reception and Business Meeting; Chair: Elizabeth Anderman, University of Colorado-Boulder
8.25 Frontenac: Female Absence and Expressions of Black Masculinity; Chair: Lynn R. Johnson, Dickinson College; “‘O give me my mother!’: Jermain W. Lougen, Masculinity, and Sentimental Separations”; Jenn Williamson, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Maternal Absence and Black Masculinity in Gloria Naylor’s ‘Miss Maple’s Blues’”; Elizabeth T. Hayes, Le Moyne College; “Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins: The Domesticated Detective”; Owen E. Brady, Clarkson University; “Constructions of Black Masculinity Within the Walled Spaces”; Debarati Biswas, The Graduate Center-CUNY