Saturday Sessions

Session 9

Saturday, April 10, 8:30am-10:00am

9.01 St. Pierre: Representations of the Body in African-American Literature; Chair: Angela Francis, CUNY Graduate Center; “Returning to the Wound in Robbie McCauley’s Sally’s Rape and Suzan Lori Parks’ Venus”; Stacie McCormick, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Scarred Body in and of Audre Lorde’s Poetry”; Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; “Ellen Craft and P. T. Barnum: Re-presenting the Deceptive Black Female Body”; Karen Guendel, Boston University; “Circulating Black Bodies and ‘New Money’ in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”; Jon Dietrick, Babson College
9.02 Longueuil: Escritores hispanos de aquí y allá: polémicas y críticas del siglo XX; Chair: Antonella Calarota, Kean University; “Nuevas discusiones en torno a la escritura femenina actual en España”; Katica Urbanc, Wagner College; “Las cartas sobre la mesa: polémicas literarias en América Latina”; Margarita Sanchez, Wagner College; “En busca del ideal clásico o la escritura en contra de España: polémica acerca del estilo literario”; Pablo Pintado Casas, Kean University; “La sátira antimodernista en las revistas literarias en España e Hispano América”; Antonella Calarota, Kean University
9.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Literary Hostesses; Chair: Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Texas A&M University; “No Sanctuary: Sexuality and the Limits of Feminine Hospitality”; Sharon Desmond Paradiso, Endicott College; “From Salon to Stage: The Literary Hostess in Performance, Florine Stettheimer and Gertrude Stein”; Suzanne Zelazo, Ryerson University; “A Symbol of Home: The Englishwoman’s Place in Nineteenth Century India”; Ruth Prakasam, Atlantic Union College; “Fallen Angels: Mourning the Victorian Hostess in Forster and Woolf”; Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Texas A&M University
9.04 Verdun: Performing Democracy: Cultural Representations in the Spanish Transition; Chair: David Rodriguez-Solas, Concordia University; “Periodical Manifestations: Women Representing Culture and Claiming Public Space through Journalism”; Novia Pagone, University of Chicago; “(Dis)Assembling the Nation: Public Art and Political Memory in the Films of Pere Portabella”; Bryan Cameron, University of Pennsylvania; “Recuperación de la memoria histórica en la transición a la democracia. El caso de los maquis”; María Luisa Guardiola, Swarthmore College; “Memorias teatrales de un proceso: La torna (1977) y La torna de la torna (2005)”; David Rodríguez-Solás, Concordia University
9.05 Jacques Cartier: Resilience Narratives in Literature and Popular Culture; Chair: Susie O’Brien, McMaster University; “What a Surprise!: Understanding Resistance and Resilience in the Reading of Film Texts”; Kelly Hewson, Mount Royal College; Lee Easton, Mount Royal College; “Traumatic Scars: Narrativity, Resilience, Resistance, and Remains”; Shireen Patell, New York University; “A Resilience Narrative from Shawville, Québec: Adaptive Cycles and Social Change”; Lyndal Neelin, Carleton University; “On Grit and Grittiness: ‘Style’ and Future Implications of U.S. De-industrialization”; Tim Kaposy, George Mason University
9.06 Fundy: Technologies et acquisition du français: un potentiel pédagogique tangible? as (Roundtable); Chair: Marion Vergues, Université McGill-CEFA; “TICe et développement de la compétence scripturale en FLE: perceptions d’étudiants”; Françoise Bleys, Université de Sherbrooke; “Interaction socioculturelle: TICE, intégration sociale, adhésion linguistique”; Marie-Maude Cayouette, Université de Sherbrooke; “Approche Cybernautique et exploitation de ressources langagières en ligne”; Charles Elkabas, Université de Toronto-Mississauga; “Technologies et acquisition du français au niveau universitaire: réflexion épistémologique”; Djaouida Hamdani Kadri, Université du Québec à Montréal; “Est-ce que nos activités technopédagogiques font l’unanimité chez nos étudiants?”; Martine Peters, Université du Québec en Outaouais
9.07 Lachine: Considering the Reading of Films; Chair: Phillip Novak, Le Moyne College; “To Quote a Film”; Elif Sendur, SUNY Binghamton; “Spiked: Girl 6 and the Sport of Apparatus Demolition”; Joanne Klein, St. Mary’s College of Maryland; “About Face: Ethical Imagination and the Value of Reading Film”; Chelsea Martin, New York University; “Vision and Revision in Hitchcock’s Vertigo”; Phillip Novak, Le Moyne College
9.08 Lasalle: Downtown: Cityscapes in Post-Wall German Literature; Chair: Petra Fachinger, Queen’s University; “Berlin and the Fall of the Wall as Non-Event in Turkish-German Literature”; Margaret Littler, University of Manchester; “Crossing the Corporeal Boundaries of the City in Georg Klein’s Libidissi”; Stefanie Kullick, Queen’s University; “Josef Winkler’s Rome-novel Natura Morta”; Philip Broadbent, University of Texas; “Moscow, that’s all I know, Moscow: The Elusive City in Recent German Literature”; Petra Fachinger, Queen’s University
9.09 La Verriere: Spanish Theater and the Contemporary Memory Boom; Chair: Jerelyn Johnson, Fairfield University; “El teatro rivarsiano: Memoria y olvido en El heroe”; Ana-Maria Medina, University of Houston-Downtown; “El día que inventé tu nombre: construcción de una memoria nacional”; Nuria Ibáñez Quintana, University of North Florida; “Memoria, trauma y voces contra la barbarie en el teatro de Laila Ripoll”; Rossana Fialdini Zambrano, McGill University; Kathleen Sibbald, McGill University; “Terror y miseria en el primer franquismo: la memoria traumatizada de José Sanchis Sinisterra”; Jerelyn Johnson, Fairfield University
9.10 Salon C: Russian Poetry: The Silver Age; Chair: Françoise Rosset, Wheaton College; “Valerii Briusov’s ‘Coming Huns’ and the Creation of a Eurasian Identity”; Susanna Soojung Lim, University of Oregon-Clark Honors College; “The Collective in Gorodetsky’s Pre-Revolutionary Poetry: From Symbolism to Acmeism”; Steve Abrugar Ramos, Yale University; “Surpassing Symbolist Aesthetics: Tsvetaeva’s Image of Voloshin in the Early 1930s”; Alexandra Smith, University of Edinburgh; “‘At the Crossroads of Two Paths’: the Legacy of Vladislav Khodasevich’s Late Poetry”; Maria Khotimsky, Harvard University
9.11 Salon D: Teaching the Connections: Interdisciplinary Dialogue in the Classroom; Chair: Paul Almonte, St. Peter’s College; “‘Ada’s Terrible Muses’: Computational Thinking and the Humanities”; Tina Kelleher, Towson University; “Great Conversations: Interdisciplinary Writing and Learning in English 101 Honors”; Elaine Toia, SUNY-Rockland Community College; “When Arts & Sciences Becomes Arts & Letters: The Watering Down of an Interdisciplinary Model”; Peter Witkowsky, Mount Saint Mary College; “‘Let the Blood Be Seen’: Reading War and Genocide Through History and Literature”; Paul Almonte, St. Peter’s College
9.12 Salon E: Places, Faces, and Queer Spaces; Chair: Francisco R. Pérez, Midlands Technical College; “Another Look at Sex in Public Spaces: Daring Queerness in Lynn Shelton’s Humpday”; Jacqueline Foertsch, University of North Texas; “Urban Gayboy: Youth and the Queer City in David Levithan’s Boy Meets Boy”; Jes Battis, University of Regina; “Re-Assessing the Place of Popular American Gay Novels of the 1920s and early 1930s”; James Kelley, Mississippi State University-Meridian; “Going ‘Gracelessly/As Things Go’: The Queer Slummings of Mina Loy”; Brad Baumgartner, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
9.13 Salon F: Italian Short Story; Chair: Roberto Nicosia, Rutgers University; “Toward a Typology of the Cinquecento Novella-Romanzo”; Christopher Nissen, Northern Illinois University; “Galileo’s Short Stories”; Crystal Hall, University of Kansas; “San Giorgio in Casa Bronchi di C.E.Gadda”; Alberto Godioli, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa; “Re-writing the Fiaba: Italo Calvino and the Short Story Form”; Gretchen Busl, University of Notre Dame
9.14 Salon G: Food as Reality and Metaphor in 20th Century Italy (Roundtable); Chair: Daniela Bisello Antonucci, Princeton University; “Food and Culture Programs in Italy”; Sonia Massari, Siena University and Gustolab center for food and culture; “Culinary Art from Petronius and Apicius to Fellini”; Snjezana Smodlaka, Independent Scholar; “Milk and Blood: Nursing Capitalism in Pirandello’s ‘La Balia’”; Enrico Cesaretti, Univerity of Virginia; “Realta’ e metafora nella rappresentazione del cibo in Sentieri dei nidi di ragno”; Giusy Di Filippo, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “The Secret Language of Food in Clara Sereni’s Casalinghitudine”; Stacey Giufre, Harvard University
9.15 Salon H: Literature and Time; Chair: Thomas Herold, Harvard University; “Spuren einer phänomenologischen Zeitstruktur der Lyrik”; Iris Hennigfeld, McGill University; “Reframing Weimar Crisis through Apocalyptic Narrative in Hermann Broch’s The Sleepwalkers”; Sun-Young Kim, Kalamazoo College; “Time and Space in Literary Dialectics: Observations on Peter Weiss and Alexander Kluge”; Matthew Miller, Bowdoin College; “‘Zeit-Erzählen’ als werkkonstitutives Element bei Peter Kurzeck”; Maria Kuwilsky, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
9.16 St. Lambert: Advocating for a Good Cause: Building and Maintaining a Strong French Program (Roundtable); Chair: E. Nicole Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay; “Partnering with Professions: The French International Engineering Program at the U of Rhode Island.”; Lars Erickson, University of Rhode Island; “Course Development for the Undergraduate French Curriculum”; Elizabeth Knutson, United States Naval Academy; “Teaching French in Maine: Community Dynamics and Intergenerational Programming”; Chelsea Ray, University of Maine-Augusta; “Boosting Enrollment in the College French Program: The Benefits of Service Learning”; Evelyne M. Bornier, Southeastern Louisiana University; “Advocating for a Good Cause: Innovative Strategies for Creating a Thriving French Program”; E. Nicole Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
9.17 St. Michel: Les tropes artistiques: quelles nécessités textuelles?; Chairs: Veronique Labeille, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières/Lyon II; Érika Wicky, Université de Montréal; “Jeux spéculaires dans les récits contemporains”; Marcia Arbex, Université Fédérale de Minas Gerais; “Le bâtard comme métaphore du romancier dans Les Faux-Monnayeurs de Gide.”; Michel Lacroix, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières; “Le pictural dans l’écriture du récit de voyage de Gautier”; Evgénia Timoshenkova, Université de Toronto; “Déclenche: Captures photographiques de Pierre Michon”; Stéphane Inkel, Queen’s University
9.18 St. Leonard: Fiction Writers, 1960 to the Present, and Their Use of Fairy Tales; Chair: Charles Cullum, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania; “Encountering Being: Donald Barthelme’s Snow White and the Thought of Martin Heidegger”; Charles Cullum, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania; “When Words Do Not Avail: Judy Budnitz’s Posttraumatic Fairy Tale”; Philippe Codde, Ghent University; “‘In a Misty Land’: Fairy Tales, Alienation, and Reconcilation in A. S. Byatt’s Possession”; Linda Cullum, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania; “Cabinet des Fées, Cyber des Fées: Re-Coding the Commodified Fairy Tale”; Helen Pilinovsky, California State University-San Bernardino
9.19 St. Laurent: Women, Utopia and the Fantastic in 20th and 21st-century narratives; Chairs: Sharon Taylor, Washington and Jefferson College; Beatriz Trigo, Gettysburg College; “Reductio ad absurdum: Angela Carter’s Utopias”; Cristina Ionica, University of Western Ontario; “Fables for Tomorrow from Today in the Speculative Fiction of Doris Lessing and Margaret Atwood”; Virginia Tiger, Rutgers University-Newark; “Galician Literature and the Fantastic: Of History and Story-telling”; Beatriz Trigo, Gettysburg College; “When We Dead Awaken: Ingeborg Bachmann’s Utopian Re-vision in Malina (1971)”; Wern Mei Yong, Nanyang Technological University
9.20 Westmount: Thinking the Sacred Today; Chair: Sara Danièle Bélanger Michaud, Université de Montréal; “The Contemporary University: the Sacrilege of the Sacred”; Jane M. Wood, Park University; “The Sacred of Time: About the ‘Return’ and the ‘Fragmentation’ of the Sacred in René Char”; Bertrand Renaud, Université Paris-VII; “Virgins and Praying Mantis: Sacred, Feminity”; Mathilde Branthomme, Université de Montréal; “Simone Weil as Femina Sacra”; Sara Danièle Bélanger Michaud, Université de Montréal
9.21 Mont-Royal: Affect and Ethnic Literature; Chair: Susan Moynihan, University at Buffalo; “Echoing the Loudest Voice: Grace Paley’s Faith in the Future”; Tahneer Oksman, CUNY Graduate Center; “Olaudah Equiano’s Emotional Entertainment Value”; Karol Cooper, SUNY Oswego; “Killing Time: Violence, Affect, and Narrative Temporality in Richard Wright’s Native Son”; Jessica Metzler, Cornell University; “History in Abeyance: The ‘Floating World’ of Post-World War II Japanese America”; Susan Moynihan, University at Buffalo
9.22 Hampstead: Death Resentenced; Chair: Bianca Tredennick, SUNY Oneonta; “To Linger; or, the Positioning of Death in Shelley’s ‘Music, when soft voices die.’”; Janelle A. Schwartz, Loyola University-New Orleans; “Foreheads Branded with Death Sentences: Lewis, the Gothic, and Vitalistic Representation”; Jonathan Sadow, SUNY Oneonta; “Two Bodies: The Molding and Moldering of Grief in Tennyson’s In Memoriam.”; Meghan Davis, University of Southern California; “The Violent Deaths of Oliver Twist.”; Annette Federico, James Madison University
9.23 Frontenac: South Asia’s Orients; Chair: Suha Kudsieh, University of Toronto; “‘A World of Difference’: Travels in the Colonial Neighborhood”; Shobna Nijhawan, York University; “The So-Called Religion of the Gurkha: On the Creation of Others in the West Himalayas”; Arik Moran, University of Oxford; “Sikhs in South East Asia”; Anjali Gera Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
9.24 Cote-St. Luc: The Urban Pastoral in Contemporary American Fiction; Chair: Amanda Toronto, New York University; “Laurie Colwin’s Manhattan Pastorals”; Amanda Toronto, New York University; “The Dystopian Pastorals of Philip K. Dick”; Jonathan Cristol, Bard College; “Post-9/11 Pastoral in Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin and Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland”; Elizabeth Twitchell Antrim, Bard College
9.25 Le Portage: Perception and Nation in Early America; Chair: Andrea Knutson, Oakland University; “Moral Perceptions and the Formation of British America in Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography”; Robert Kaplan, Temple University; “Religious Perception from Edwards to Dickinson”; Jennifer Gurley, Le Moyne College; “Ralph Waldo Emerson’s ‘New Yet Unapproachable America’: In the Vicinity of Perception”; Andrea Knutson, Oakland University; “Constitutional Law: Conscience as Embodied Moral Perception in Thoreau’s Antislavery Essays”; Cristin Ellis, Johns Hopkins University

Session 10

Saturday, April 10, 10:15am-11:30am

10.01 St. Pierre: Physical and Mental Diseases: Plague and Hypochondria in Italian Literature; Chair: Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross; “Illness Between Stigma and Stemma in Gesualo Bufalino’s ‘La diceria dell’untore’”; Charles Klopp, Ohio State University; “Cesare Pavese: il gesto estremo tra scrittura e vita”; Anita Virga, University of Connecticut; “Let it bleed: Petrarch’s Lyrics Pouring out of a Wounded Body”; Isabella Bertoletti, Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY
10.02 Longueuil: Queer Transformations: From Page to Screen (and Back); Chair: Elizabeth McClure, University of Maryland-College Park; “Bringing Carmen to Dakar: On the Question of Homosexuality in Africa”; Dirk Naguschewski, Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung; “Highsmith and Minghella: When Adaptation Turns into an Aesthetic Disputation”; Ihsen Hachaichi, Université de Montréal; “Men Gone Wild: Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde”; Jennifer Beauvais, Université de Montréal
10.04 Verdun: Rethinking Home: Representations of Male Domesticity; Chair: Caroline Nichols, College of William and Mary; “‘A True Home Relish’: Masculine Domesticity as Self-Nurture”; Maura D’Amore, St. Michael’s College; “Twain’s Cave Men”; Debra MacComb, University of West Georgia; “Domesticity on the Imperial Frontier”; Caroline Nichols, College of William and Mary
10.05 Jacques Cartier: The Sociability of Print; Chair: Andrew Piper, McGill University; “Drama in the Parlour: C.M Wieland’s Shakespeare”; Jane Curran, Dalhousie University; “From Stage to Page: Salon Performance and Print Culture Around 1800”; Mary Helen Dupree, Georgetown University; “Transitional Figures: The Ballad and the Socialization of Intermedial Encounter”; Andrew Piper, McGill University
10.06 Fundy: Nature in Italian Literature and Film; Chair: Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey; “Pirandello’s Natural World: Its Interpretation and Re-interpretation in Paolo and Vittorio Taviani”; Christopher Concolino, San Francisco State University; “Landscapes of Alienation in Italian Literature and Film”; Giovanna Faleschini-Lerner, Franklin & Marshall College; “La natura madre e matrigna nelle novelle di Pirandello”; Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey
10.07 Lachine: El espacio en el cine del siglo XXI; Chair: Alexander Waid, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; “La subversión de los espacios, los espacios de la subversión: El baño del Papa (2007)”; Elizabeth Rivero, U.S. Coast Guard Academy; “Not-So-Minimal Stories: Carlos Sorin’s Argentina, 2002”; Christopher Donahue, Bloomsburg University; “Sacrificial Ritual Spaces in Pan’s Labyrinth (2007)”; Alexander Waid, U.S. Coast Guard Academy
10.08 Lasalle: Violence & Passion in 20th Century Irish Literature & Film; Chair: Gavin Keulks, Western Oregon University; “Violence and History in Marina Carr’s On Raftery’s Hill and By the Bog of Cats”; Daniel Shea, Mount Saint Mary College; “Disintegration, Damage and Desire: Kirsten Sheridan’s Disco Pigs”; Claire Bracken, Union College; “Critical Mass: Violence, Passion, and the Irish Political Grotesque”; Gavin Keulks, Western Oregon University
10.09 La Verriere: The Personal Narrative in Political Times (Creative); Chair: Page Delano, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Self and Other in Mizrahi and Palestinian Diaspora Narratives”; Joyce Zonana, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Floods and Re-collection”; Lynn Byrd, Virginia State University; “Driving to the Terminal”; Jane Wood, Park University; “Respondent”; Page Delano, Borough of Manhattan Community College - CUNY
10.10 Salon C: Don Quixote: Perspectives on the Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes (Roundtable); Chair: Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College; “Found in Translation: Cervantes, Language and Textual Transformation”; Bryan Brazeau, New York University; “No Art of Worldly Wisdom: Positivists and Con Men in Cervantes”; Carolyn Lukens-Olson, St. Michael’s College; “Los paradigmas intelectuales y las formaciones ideológicas del Quijote”; Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College
10.11 Salon D: A Global Stage: Dramatizing the Non-Hispanic in Spanish Peninsular Theatre; Chair: John Gabriele, College of Wooster; “La importancia de la memoria en Variaciones sobre Rosa Parks de Itziar Pascual”; Carolyn Harris, Western Michigan University; “Banderitas americanas: la mirada global de J. López Mozo en Bajo los rascacielos”; Eileen Doll, Loyola University of New Orleans; “The Destruction of the Twin Towers in Luis Miguel González Cruz’s Playback”; Candyde Leonard, Wake Forest University
10.12 Salon E: Navigating the Academic Nexus (Roundtable); Chair: Johanna Rossi Wagner, Rutgers University; “1st Participant”; Dorsía Smith Silva, University of Puerto Rico; “2nd Participant”; Allison Fraiberg, University of Redlands; “3rd Participant”; Mark John Isola, Wentworth Institute of Technology; “4th Participant”; Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College
10.13 Salon F: The Politics of Our Shared Learning Space (Roundtable); Chair: Jennifer Keating-Miller, Carnegie Mellon University; “University Inhibition of Political Teaching of Literature”; David Bleich, University of Rochester; “Certitude: An Exploration of Secularity and Fundamentalism in the American University Classroom”; Colin MacCabe, University of Pittsburgh; “Community Writing Groups: The Political Potency of Literacy”; Jennifer Keating-Miller, Carnegie Mellon University
10.14 Salon G: Italian Contemporary Poetry; Chair: Matteo Benassi, Rutgers University; “‘Il viaggio a Cefalonia’ di Luigi Ballerini”; Cristina Villa, University of Southern California; “Davide Rondoni and Tommaso Lisa: Video Screens, Consumerism and Scenes of Seeing.”; Gregory Pell, Hofstra University; “Corpi e corporalita’ in alcuni poeti contemporanei”; Matteo Benassi, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
10.15 Salon H: Female Authors and Images of Femininity: From the Weimar to the Berlin Republic; Chair: Esther Bauer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; “Irmgard Keun’s Gilgi, eine von uns (1931) and the Pedagogy of Public Debate”; Adi King, Ohio University; “The Gender of Political Agency in Post-Wende Family Narratives”; Jennifer Cameron, Columbia University; “The Breaking of Taboos in Women’s Writing: Novels by Charlotte Roche and Claudia Schreiber”; Elke Nicolai, Hunter College-CUNY
10.16 St. Lambert: Recent Trends in Sub-Saharan Francophone Literature and Criticism; Chair: Christopher Hogarth, Wagner College; “The Sociological Subtext of African Tales in Aminata Sow Fall’s L’Ex-père de la nation”; Medoune Guèye, Virginia Tech; “New Trends in Malian Francophone Literature”; Alioune Sow, University of Florida; “Une saison africaine de Fatoumata Fathy Sidibé L’émancipation à travers le prisme de l’immi”; Ada Giusti, Montana State University-Bozeman
10.17 St. Michel: La lettre pose-t-elle de nouveaux enjeux en littérature?; Chair: Frédérique Donovan, Boston University; “La lettre et ses traces dans les romans et autofictions de l’amour et de la rupture .”; Sabine Kraenker, Université de Helsinki; Ulla Tuomarla, Université de Helsinki; “Le carrefour du genre occidental et de l’identité orientale dans Lettre morte de Linda Lê.”; Rosie Harrington, Louisiana State University; “La lettre ou la reprise dans l’oeuvre de Pascale Roze à l’aube de ce nouveau millénaire.”; Frédérique Donovan, Boston University
10.18 St. Leonard: Masculinities in Recent Francophone Literature: 1900-present.; Chair: Edith Biegler Vandervoort, Chapman University; “Post-masculinité: femme remède, femme polyandre chez Ahmadou Kourouma et Baenga Bolya”; Mouhamédoul A. Niang, Colby College; “Identité nationale et sexualités marginales dans Partir de Tahar Ben Jelloun”; Nadra Hebouche, SUNY Buffalo; “Exploring Images of Masculinity: Work and Self in Le Canon des Gobelins by Daniel Poliquin”; Julia Morris-von Luczenbacher, University of Ottawa
10.19 St. Laurent: Original Poetry and Teaching the Creative Writing Process (Roundtable); Chair: Perry Nicholas, Erie Community College North-SUNY; “From Personal Experience and Observation to Poem”; Ralph Carlson, Azusa Pacific University; “Taking Words Seriously”; Ken Fifer, Pennsylvania State University-Berks; “From Garret to Classroom: Bridging the Gap Between Writing and Teaching”; Judith Sanders, Shady Side Academy; “New Freedom in Form”; Jennifer Campbell, Erie Community College North-SUNY
10.20 Westmount: The Cultures of Literature and Composition: Revisiting the Relationship (Roundtable); Chair: Grace Wetzel, University of South Carolina; “Intimate Enemies, Competing Cultures, or Partners?”; Betsy Bowen, Fairfield University; Sally O’Driscoll, Fairfield University; “Constrained Writing in the Composition Classroom”; Adam Katz, Quinnipiac University; “Negative Capability in the Writing Classroom”; Aaron Ritzenberg, Yale University; “The Best of Both Worlds: Using Literature Effectively in the Composition Classroom”; Jo Angela Edwins, Francis Marion University; Dollie Newhouse, Francis Marion University
10.21 Mont-Royal: Religious Argumentation in Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century; Chair: Fiore Sireci, The New School; “The Good Woman: Religious Resignation or Resistance?”; Kathleen McDonald, Norwich University; “Religious Argumentation in Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”; Fiore Sireci, The New School
10.22 Hampstead: Lessons in Sympathy in 19th-century British Literature; Chair: Kate Faber Oestreich, Ohio State University; “Loss and the Loveliness of Jane Eyre”; Kate Brown, SUNY Buffalo; “Poetic Injustice”; Lesley Goodman, Harvard University; “Rosamond and the Reader: On Sympathy and Selfhood in George Eliot’s Middlemarch”; Beth Tressler, Boston College
10.23 Cote-St. Luc: New Perspectives on Martin R. Delany; Chair: Elizabeth Pittman, George Washington University; “Martin Delany’s Transnational Archaeology”; Iain Bernhoft, Boston University; “Cosmopolitan Blackness: Delany, Kant, and the Strange Unmaking of Identity”; Ainsworth Clarke, University of Illinois-Chicago; “‘In tones most affecting’: The Sounds of Collectivity in Martin Delany’s Blake”; Elizabeth Pittman, George Washington University
10.24 Outremount: Writing Across the Medicine Line: Confinement and Freedom in Native Literature; Chair: Ashley C. Hall, Sonoma State University; “The Trickster Author: Resisting Absorption in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and Flight”; Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Crossing the Line: Pushing the Limits of Historicity in the Prose Works of James Welch”; Chris G. Hall, Humboldt State University; “Narrating Across the Medicine Line”; James J. Donahue, SUNY Potsdam
10.25 Frontenac: The Silent Figure in Literature, Film and Culture; Chair: Berkeley Kaite, McGill University; “The Silence of Rodney King in Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992”; Heidi Bollinger, University of Rochester; “Silence as Salvation: Hearing the Ineffable in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”; Erica Fischer, University of South Carolina; “The Paradoxical Power of Silence: Miss Amelia, the Production and Negation of Queer Discursive Space”; Renée Hoogland, Wayne State University
10.26 Salon B: Exhibit Talk: (Creative); Chairs: Sarah Lightman, University of Glasgow; Michael Kaminer

Session 11

Saturday, April 10, 11:45am-1:15pm

11.01 St. Pierre: Gay Representations in Film: A New, More Androgynous, Nationalist Imaginary?; Chair: Nigel Joseph, University of Western Ontario; “Heroic Gay Characters in Popular Film: Documentary, Domesticity and Sacrifice”; Christopher Pullen, Bournemouth University; “Un-closeted Celluloid Nationalism: Queer Identity, Nationalism, Transnationalism, Race and Film”; Maurice Tracy, St. Louis University; “TransAmerica and the Imagining of American Transgender”; Andre Cavalcante, University of Michigan
11.02 Longueuil: Gender and Expression in Chinese Literature; Chair: Xiaorong Li, University of California-Santa Barbara; “Using a Thorn to Dig Out a Thorn: Tao Shan’s Buddhist Perspectives on Gender”; Chris Byrne, McGill University; “Filiality and the Female Body in Vernacular Stories from the End of the Ming”; Maria Franca Sibau, Harvard University; “Reality in Imagination: Xi Peilan’s Song Lyrics on Flower-and-Bird Paintings”; Wanming Wang, McGill University; “Cross-Cultural Vision and ‘New’ Women: Reading Shan Shili’s Poems on Travel”; Yanning Wang, Florida State University
11.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Border Crossing Poetry (Creative); Chair: Mary Buchinger Bodwell, MCPHS; “Presenter 1”; Barbara Fischer, The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center; “Presenter 2”; Bernadette Ginestet-Levine/Malke, Independent Scholar; “Presenter 3”; Anne Keefe, Rutgers University; “Presenter 4”; Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Kennesaw State University; “Presenter 5”; William Kupinse, University of Puget Sound; “Presenter 6”; Roberta Hatcher, University of Pittsburgh
11.04 Verdun: Post-Colonial Theory Featured Speaker; Chair: Barbara Mabee, Oakland University; “The Incredible Disappearing Slave: Slavery and Visibility in 19th Century Jamaican Landscapes”; Charmaine Nelson, McGill University
11.05 Jacques Cartier: Comparative Futurism; Chairs: Paola Sica, Connecticut College; Eric Robertson, Royal Holloway-University of London; “Legacy of Futurism in Surrealism: Fragmentation toward Unity”; Nathalie Fouyer, Graduate Center-CUNY; “Futurist and Surrealist Contested Cityscapes in the 1920s”; Laura Chiesa, Buffalo University; “The Bearers of Fire: Futurist Ethos of Modernity in Finland in the 1920s”; Marja Härmänmaa, University of Helsinki; “The Hallucination of the Machine? Futurism and Combat in the Imagery of CRW Nevinson and G Severini”; Jonathan Black, Kingston University
11.06 Fundy: Cultural Memory and Diversity in Postunification Discourses; Chair: Elke Segelcke, Illinois State University; “Remembering Stasi Victimization: Jeder schweigt von etwas anderem”; Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Gettysburg College; “Transforming Identities: Tracing the (Post-) Socialist Spaces of Berlin-Hellersdorf”; Svea Braeunert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; “Depiction of Male Trauma in Transnational Women’s Writing”; Lynda K. Nyota, Duke University; “‘Erzählen ohne Zentrum’: Zafer Şenocak’s Postmodern Search for Heimat”; Anna E. Zimmer, Georgetown University
11.07 Lachine: Lying With the Truth: Harrower, Nabokov, and Shanley Blink!; Chair: Cathy Fagan, Nassau Community College; “Nabokov’s Lolita: Unreliable Narration/Multiple Perceptions of Plot”; Jen Ghastin, San Jose State University; “The Pedophile as Anti-Hero: Humbert Humbert in Lolita and Ray in Blackbird”; Ann Tabachnikov, Nassau Community College; “Varieties of Response: The Controversial Text and Its Sub-Texts”; David Rampton, University of Ottawa; “Lying With the Truth: Manipulations in Blackbird and Doubt”; Cathy Fagan, Nassau Community College
11.08 Lasalle: Popular Culture Area Event; Chair: Jennifer Harris, Mount Allison University; “Queer Content in Context”; Mariko Tamaki; “Co-Sponsored with LGBTQ Caucus”
11.09 La Verriere: Ghostly Women & Apparitional Lesbians; Chair: Ula Lukszo, SUNY Stony Brook; “Protestant or Predator?: Miss Clack in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone”; Margaret Wright, SUNY Stony Brook; “The Apparitional Lesbian or Apparitions to Lesbians”; Nephie J. Christodoulides, University of Cyprus; “Invisible Gifts: Reclaiming Queerness in Rebecca Brown’s AIDS Narrative”; Marty Fink, The Graduate Center-CUNY; “Who Will You Become?: Renee Montoya and the Apparitional Lesbian in Superhero Comics”; Karen K. Burrows, University of Sussex
11.10 Salon C: Teatro contemporáneo español visto desde EE.UU.: José Ramón Fernández; Chair: Enrique Ruiz-Fornells, University of Alabama; “Patología de una renovación teatral: Para quemar la memoria de J.R. Fernández”; John Gabriele, The College of Wooster; “The Sea Gull and Long Day’s Journey into Night: Intertextuality in J.R. Fernández’s Nina”; Linda Materna, Rider University; “Respondent”; José Ramón Fernández; “Sesión patrocinada por el Ministerio de Cultura de España”
11.11 Salon D: Multiculturalism and Globalism in the Millennial Classroom; Chair: Kathleen Maloney, St. Mary’s University; “Global Autobiography: Writing Class, Consumerism, Whiteness”; Sara Biggs Chaney, Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric; “One Track Minds: Using Issues of Power and Class to Unify Students”; Numsiri Kunakemakorn, Utah Valley University; “We Are Finally Talking About Class, Just Not Like We Expected”; Holly J. McBee, Dickinson State University; “Multiculturalism and Diversity Defined by Local Conditions”; Kathleen Maloney, St. Mary’s University
11.12 Salon E: La poesia italiana del XX secolo.; Chair: Laura Baffoni Licata, Tufts University; “Una poetessa abruzzese: Nicoletta Di Gregorio”; Cinzia Donatelli Noble, Brigham Young University; “Camillo Pennati: il paesaggio in parole”; Antonello Borra, University of Vermont; “L’inganno delle parole nella poesia di Amelia Rosselli”; Federica Santini, Kennesaw State University; “Impegno storico e civile nella lirica luziana”; Laura Baffoni Licata, Tufts University
11.13 Salon F: Her Story: Telling Stories of French and Francophone Women’s Lives; Chair: E. Nicole Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay; “Chahdortt Djavann: un pont entre deux rives”; Samia Spencer, Auburn University; “Gisèle Pineau dans la ‘geôle noire’ de la mémoire”; Gisèle Loriot-Raymer, Northern Kentucky University; “Werewere Liking: Memory, Interrupted”; Karen Bouwer, University of San Francisco; “The ‘dead mother’”; Jutta Fortin, University of Saint-Etienne
11.14 Salon G: The Boundaries of Québec in Contemporary Immigrant Fiction; Chair: Oana Sabo, University of Southern California; “Circumventing Literary Categories in Contemporary Québécois Fiction”; Oana Sabo, University of Southern California; “L’écriture migrante du Québec: La littérature québécoise est-elle une littérature-monde?”; Catherine Khordoc, Carleton University; “Dany Laferrière: de la théorie à la pratique”; Annik Doquire Kerszberg, Lock Haven University; “Transcending Race and Place in Dany Laferrière’s Je suis un écrivain japonais”; Jay Ketner, SUNY Plattsburgh
11.15 Salon H: Redefining Masculinity in 20th-Century British Popular Fiction and Culture; Chair: Tonya Moutray McArthur, The Sage Colleges; “Driven to Cheat: Masculinity and the Decline of Empire”; Clarissa Wallace, Trinity College-Dublin; “‘A Minority of One’: Glen Duncan’s Loser Lit”; Daniel Lukes, New York University; “Bryan in Wonderland: Talbot’s Alice in Sunderland and Masculinity Through the Looking Glass”; Christine M. Doran, SUNY-Potsdam; “Finding Lost Boys: Peter Pan and Colonial Adventure Fiction”; Tonya Moutray McArthur, The Sage Colleges
11.16 St. Lambert: American Collaborations; Chair: Jason Haslam, Dalhousie University; “Elizabeth Bishop in the Confessional Mode: Writing with Robert Lowell”; Kamila Janiszewska, Cornell University; “Resonant Relations: Cu-bop and the Politics of ‘Speaking African’ Together”; Amor Kohli, DePaul University; “‘Let’s put on a show!’: The Politics of Collaboration in the American Film Musical”; Joel Faflak, University of Western Ontario; “Response”; Jason Haslam, Dalhousie University
11.17 St. Michel: The Aesthetics of Social Problem Literature; Chair: Elizabeth Starr, Westfield State College; “Repurposed Forms for New Forms of Argument: Disraeli’s Adaptation of the Historical Novel in Sybil”; Leslie Barnes, New York University; “Aesthetic Absorption in the Social Problem Novel”; Elisha Cohn, Johns Hopkins University; “Urban Print Culture and the Making of the English Working-Class Author in Alton Locke”; Elizabeth Starr, Westfield State College; “Free Union Aesthetics: How Jude the Obscure (Ad)dresses the Late-Victorian Marital Reform Movement”; Kate Faber Oestreich, Coastal Carolina University
11.18 Westmount: Translation and Identity: Transforming the Personal Toward the National/Global (Roundtable); Chairs: Kristine Doll, Salem State College; Miriam Margala, University of Rochester; “Translation, Cultural Literacy and Globalization”; Anne Malena, University of Alberta; “Recreation of an Empathetic Reading Experience Through Translation”; Nil Ozcelik, Independent Scholar; “Building Bridges Across Feminist Translation and Feminist Sociolinguistics”; Emek Ergun, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; “Translation and Identity: The Text and Beyond”; Maria Brucato; “Translation and the Loss of Identity”; Michael Deere, Salem State College; “Translation as Transformative Experience”; Kristine Doll, Salem State College

Session 12

Saturday, April 10, 1:30pm-3:00pm

12.01 St. Pierre: Re-Defining / Re-Mapping Queer Identities (Roundtable); Chairs: Elia Eliev, Geneva University of Art and Design; Daniel Barney, Geneva University of Art and Design; “Double lives, rebellious selves: rehearsing queer for the everyday.”; Caroline Smith, University of Greenwich; “The Wound that Cries Out: Performance and Trauma in Kara Walkers’s Black Silhouetes”; Laura Goldblatt, University of Virginia; “Queer Cartographies: Mapping Sexuality in Diaspora in Happy Together”; Elizabeth Reich, Rutgers University; “The Dialectics of Feminism and Queerness in a Neoliberalist World. René Pollesch’s Plays”; Franziska Bergmann, University of Tuebingen; “Radical Slush: Complicating Queer Identity and Space Signification Through Performative Intervention”; Zoe Casino, Roving Party Machine; Jess Lee, Roving Party Machine
12.02 Longueuil: National Identities in Twentieth Century Women’s Writing; Chair: Ann Marie Alfonso-Forero, University of Miami; “‘Suspended Between Lives, Suspended Between Destinations’: Mother, Nation, and Identity”; Kara Jacobi, University of Miami; “‘consumption has no pity’: O’Brien’s The Country Girls and Gender”; Sarah Gray, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign; “Subversive Orientalism: Marianne Moore with Jose Garcia Villa”; Merton Lee, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign; “Monsters of Canadian Multiculturalism: Suzette Mayr’s Venous Hum”; Andrea Beverly, Université de Montréal
12.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Beyond Traduttore/Traditore: Translation from/into Italian across the Centuries; Chair: Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College; “‘Non istà bene, in buona teologia’: Due traduzioni (auto)censurate del Paradiso perduto”; Matteo Brera, University of Edinburgh; “Tradurre il parto di un cervello bilingue: The Sentimental Mother di Giuseppe Baretti”; Francesca Savoia, University of Pittsburgh; “The Curious Case of the Italian Spoon River Anthology”; Jonathan Hiller, University of California-Santa Barbara; “Translating Theory into Practice: Milena Agus in the Anglophone (Australian) Context”; Brigid Maher, La Trobe University
12.04 Verdun: The Multicultural Middle Ages; Chair: Erin Mullally, Le Moyne College; “Genealogies of Home”; Matthew Vernon, Yale University; “Chaucer’s ‘Alocen’: Ibn al-Haytham and The Squire’s Tale”; Charles Archer, University of York; “Visualizing Linguistic Difference: Presentation of Alphabets in Mandeville’s Travels”; Kara McShane, University of Rochester; “The Unifying Power of Medieval Narrative: Using le Roman de Melusine to Describe James V’s Scott”; Giovanna Guidicini, University of Edinburgh
12.05 Jacques Cartier: Whose Africa?: Representations of Africa in African and Diasporic Literatures II; Chairs: Minna Niemi, SUNY Buffalo; John Hyland, SUNY Buffalo; “Theorizing Arab North Africa: Roles and Responsibilities of the Diaspora”; Tanja Stampfl, University of the Incarnate Word; “The New Interpreters: Parodic Reversals in Helon Habila’s Measuring Time”; Kerry Vincent, Acadia University; “‘A Traditionally Shaped Woman’: Alimentary Imagery in Morality for Beautiful Girls”; Jennifer Backman, Purdue University; “Developmentalism, Negritude and the Postcolonial Human in La Vie sur Terre”; Sarah Hamblin, Michigan State University
12.06 Fundy: Teaching The Story of the Stone as World Literature; Chair: I-Hsien Wu, New School University; “Performing Love: Drama and Romance in The Story of the Stone”; I-Hsien Wu, The New School University; “Death by Novel: Medicine and The Story of the Stone”; Andrew Schonebaum, Bard College; “Stone’s New Clothes: ‘Red Chamber’ Films in Modern Costume, or How to Estrange Exoticism”; Ling Hon Lam, Vanderbilt University; “Teaching Philosophy in The Story of the Stone”; Mark Ferrara, SUNY Oneonta
12.07 Lachine: New Media, New Narrative: Technological Effects on Student Writing (Roundtable); Chair: Kim Flugmacher Ballerini, SUNY Nassau Community College; “It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Mixtapes, Rock Band, and 21st Century Composition.”; Robert Lazaroff, SUNY Nassau Community College; “‘He Not Busy Being Born is Busy Dying’: Flickr and the Creation of the Shared Personal Narrative”; Kim Flugmacher Ballerini, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Revising in(to) New Media: Expanded Strategies for New Audiences”; Sara Biggs Chaney, Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric; “Teaching Composition in a Web 2.0 World with Blogs, Wikis, and Google Docs”; Paul Carson, Hofstra University; “Assemblage Writing as 2.0 Praxis”; Gary Hink, University of Florida
12.08 Lasalle: Intrangers: les écrivains beurs des origines à nos jours; Chair: Ilaria Vitali, Bologna University; “L’invention de l’auteur beur: Mehdi Charef, Azouz Begag et Farida Belghoul”; Kathryn Kleppinger, New York University; “Du roman beur au roman urbain: de L’Intégration de Begag à Désintégration de Djouder”; Stève Puig, City University of New York; “L’écriture et l’auteurisme dans Sur ma ligne de Rachid Djaïdani”; Laura Reeck, Allegheny College; “Une nouvelle perception de la ‘francéité’ dans l’œuvre de F. Guène et de M. Razane”; Mireille Le Breton, Nazareth College
12.09 La Verriere: Images of Prophecy: Dystopian and Apocalyptic Graphic Novels; Chair: Joshua Cohen, Massachusetts College of Art and Design; “Images of Inhumanity, Crime and Dystopia in Frank Miller’s Sin City”; Arianna Casali, Sapienza-Universita di Roma; “Zombie Apocalypse: The Rise of the Undead in Graphic Novels”; Antonio Leiva, Universite de Bourgogne; “Remaking the World in His Image: The Ubermensch in the Work of Alan Moore”; Charles Henebry, Boston University; “The Hero and the Political: Visions of the Future in Frank Miller’s Dark Knight”; Michael Berman, Brock University
12.10 Salon C: The Ethical Turn to Literature; Chair: Tyler Bradway, Rutgers University; “Figures of Disintegration: Theodor Adorno’s Aesthetics of Nonviolence”; Matthew C. Borushko, Stonehill College; “Jeanette Winterson, Ethics, and Literature as ‘Energetic Space’”; Tyler Bradway, Rutgers University; “Forms of Narration and the Ethics of Interpretation: The Challenge of The Good Soldier”; Jason Eversman, University of Virginia; “Oneself as a Poet: The Ethics of Self-hood and the Aesthetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins”; Summer J. Star, University of California-Santa Barbara
12.11 Salon D: Controversy as Art and Political (In)Correctness in Latin America; Chair: Juan G. Ramos, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Controversial Aesthetics and Subversive Politics in the Music of Calle 13”; Juan G. Ramos, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Masculinity (and Mexican National Identity) is a Joke: Carlos Cuarón’s Rudo y Cursi Take a Jab”; María Gabriela Álvarez, Stony Brook University; “El Parlache: The Brutal Poetics of the Disposable in Víctor Gaviria’s Cinema and Testimonio”; Luisa María Quintero, Wayne State University; “Decadencia e individualismo en Fernando Vallejo”; Juanita Aristizábal, Yale University
12.12 Salon E: Ideology and Popular Culture in the Spanish Avant-Garde; Chairs: Jason Parker, Vanderbilt University; Leslie Harkema, Boston University; “The Spanish Avant Garde and Popular Culture: Intersections of Ideology and Critique”; Leslie Harkema, Boston University; Jason Thomas Parker, Vanderbilt University; “Moving to the Margins: Azorín and the 1930 Staging of Angelita”; Carey Kasten, Fordham University; “García Lorca y Manuel Machado. Visiones del Cante H(J)ondo”; Carolina Castillo Larrea, Boston University; “Putting the ‘Popular’ into the ‘People’: Staging the Community in Four Modernist Plays”; Loredana Comparone, Cornell University
12.13 Salon F: Publishing an Edited Collection of Essays (Roundtable); Chair: Suha Kudsieh, Trent University/University of Toronto; “How to Ensure that Edited Collections are Properly Valued by Tenure and Promotion Committees”; Barbara Ching, The University of Memphis; “Balancing Acts: Writing Proposals and Calls For Papers”; Kathryn L. Kleypas, American University of Kuwait; “Demystifying the Process of Edited Collections: Sharing Publishing Experiences Through Mentoring”; Rachel Ritterbusch, Shepherd University; Marcelline Block, Princeton University; “The Aftermath of Readers’ Reports: Responding, Revising, & Resubmitting”; Jennifer Harris, Mount Allison University; “Five Things I Wish I had Known Before Starting on that Collection”; Deborah C. Bowen, Redeemer University College
12.14 Salon G: (Auto)biographical Features in Post-Unification Literature I; Chair: Barbara Mabee, Oakland University; “A Different Kind of Emancipation: Autobiography and Gender in the Context of Unification”; Elizabeth Mittman, Michigan State University; “Autobiography as Palimpsest in Helga Schütz’s Novels”; Silke von der Emde, Vassar College; “Ich bin es, der sein Leben wagt, der scheiternd schreibt”; Christine Cosentino, Rutgers University; “Stefan Heym’s Rediscovery of his Jewish Roots”; Reinhard Zachau, University of the South
12.15 Salon H: Literature as the Locus of Questioning and Evolution in French Caribbean Writing; Chair: Emmanuelle Vanborre, Gordon College; “Writing from the Mind and Speaking from the Heart in Gisèle Pineau’s Fleur de Barberie”; Adam John, Albright College; “Undermining Negritude in Maryse Condé’s En attendant le bonheur”; Roxanna Curto, Illinois State University; “Rewriting the Rhizome: A Geo-Textual Exploration of Diasporic Identity in Condé’s Traversée”; Olivia Donaldson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Tactiques de représentation du silence dans les romans postcoloniaux des Antilles francophones”; Alessandro Corio, University of Bologna and University of Strasbourg
12.16 St. Lambert: The Enlightenment Philosophical Ethos: Persuasion and Literary Self-Fashioning; Chairs: Isabelle Monette, Johns Hopkins University; Hanna Roman, Johns Hopkins University; “To Dress or to Disappear: Fashion in the Post-Rousseauan Female Memoir”; Helen Tolson Dunn, University of Virginia; “Rousseau: The Eighteenth-Century Abélard”; Yasser Derwiche Djazaerly, Sam Houston State University; “Voltaire’s Apple: Strategy and Manipulation of Newton’s Philosophy and Vulgarization of Science”; Arianne Margolin, University of Colorado-Boulder
12.17 St. Michel: Poetry with Questions; Chair: Scott Minar, Ohio University Lancaster; “Mark Jarman: Questioning the Divine”; Beverly Schneller, Millersville University of Pennsylvania; “The Poem as Question: Equivocal Subject Matter in Poems of 9/11”; Roi Tartakovsky, Tel Aviv University; “Breaking Formal and Thematic Conventions in Forough Farrokhzad’s Late Poetry”; Ellie Pourbohloul, Washington University in St. Louis
12.18 St. Leonard: Literary Histories: Early Modern England’s Historical Fiction Tradition; Chair: Kevin Dunn, Tufts University; “Re-Imagining History in Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, or ‘All is True’(ish)”; Allison Schaeffer, Georgetown University; “Secretary to the Dead: Samuel Daniel and Antiquarian Poetics”; Kevin Dunn, Tufts University; “Re-Imagining Historical Women in Margaret Cavendish’s Closet Drama”; Jaime McGrane, Queen’s University; “Nothing But Apprehension: Margaret Cavendish and the Fantasy of History”; Brent Dawson, Emory University
12.19 St. Laurent: Male Femininity in Twentieth Century Literature of the Americas; Chair: Harry Thomas, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “The Erotics of Passivity in Another Country”; Brandon Gordon, University of California-Irvine; “The (Re)Construction of the Masculine in M. Butterfly and Kiss of the Spider Woman”; Bernabe Mendoza, San Francisco State University; “Effeminate Melancholia and 20th Century Canadian Literature”; Andrew Buzny, McMaster University; “Tough Mothers”; Danielle Glassmeyer, Bradley University
12.20 Westmount: Ecocriticism and Canada II: (Re)Imagining Space, Place, and People; Chair: Leslie Stobbart, Queen’s University; “‘What a Bastard Country You Live in, Sir’: People and Place in Newfoundland Literature”; Paul Chafe, Ryerson University; “Garbage, Community and the ‘Nuisance Grounds’ in the Work of Miriam Toews and Margaret Laurence”; Leslie Stobbart, Queen’s University; “Eating Vancouver: The Natural Urban”; Georg Drennig, University of Vienna; “‘Til Green Became the Total Spectrum’: Identities, Landscape and P.K. Page’s Brazilian Poetry”; Emily Ballantyne, Trent University
12.21 Mont-Royal: The Politics of Meat in the Nineteenth Century Novel; Chair: Maggie Berg, Queen’s University; “‘The grunting and squeaking of pigs’: Animals, Workers and Meat in the Victorian Novel”; Sarah Henderson, University of Toronto; “‘Such a Pretty Taste’: Carnivorous Desire and Sexual Politics in The Pickwick Papers”; Kimberly Stern, Duke University; “‘Doing nothing... but eat, drink, and grow fat’: Meat, Alcohol, and Patriarchy in Jane Austen.”; Barbara Seeber, Brock University; “Nationality and Vivisection in Villette”; Maggie Berg, Queen’s University
12.22 Hampstead: Zadie Smith: After the First Decade; Chair: Philip Tew, Brunel University; “Zadie Smith and English Traditions”; Philip Tew, Brunel University; “Reflections on the Smith—Wood Debate”; Joe Brooker, Brikbeck College, University of London; “Zadie Smith and Oedipal humanism / Smith’s relationship to posthumanism”; Bradley W. Buchanan, California State University Sacramento; “Zadie Smith and Religion”; Magdalena Maczynska, Marymount Manhattan College
12.24 Outremount: (Re)Writing Anaïs Nin and Her Diaries; Chair: Rachel N. Spear, Louisiana State University; “Watching Anaïs on Her Daring Trapeze”; Tristine Rainer, Center for Autobiographic Studies; “Alchemy and Astrology in Anaïs Nin’s Unexpurgated Journals”; Susan Dulaney, Georgia State University; “The Nin Lover: A Critical Phenomenon”; Sarah B. Burghauser, California Institute of the Arts; “‘He delivered me of my opium’: Anaïs Nin, Otto Rank and the Journal”; Ruth Charnock, University of Sussex
12.25 Le Portage: American Drama as Political Discourse; Chairs: Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College; Rick DesRochers, Long Island University-CW Post; “Staging the ‘Victories’ of Uncle Tom’s Cabin: The Antebellum Politics of a Happy Ending”; Sarah Ingle, University of Virginia; “’Who Are You Going to Believe? Me or Your Own Eyes?’ The Marx Brothers and Rancière”; Rick DesRochers, Long Island University-CW Post; “Jeffrey Sweet’s The Value of Names: Blacklisting on Trial”; Elizabeth Fifer, Lehigh University; “The Whole World if I Can: Meta-TextualPolitical Discourse in David Greenspan’s Old Comedy”; Jason Fitzgerald, Yale School of Drama
12.26 Frontenac: Formal Progress? American Poetry 1890-1933; Chair: Erin Kappeler, Tufts University; “Edwin Arlington Robinson, the Sonnet, and Christian Modernity”; Jonathan Fedors, University of Pennsylvania; “Lyrics vs. Lyric: A Confrontation of Music, Performance and Poetry in Sterling Brown’s ‘Ma Rainey’”; Matthew Gilbert, Stony Brook University; “The Body in the Text: Sherwood Anderson’s Experimental Language”; Rebecca Sánchez, Rochester Institute of Technology; “‘Now this is the strange part’: Stephen Crane’s Figures of Address”; Caroline Gelmi, Tufts University

Session 13

Saturday, April 10, 3:15pm-4:45pm

13.01 St. Pierre: Dictatorship and the Novel: A Transatlantic Comparison; Chair: Julia Riordan-Goncalves, Monmouth University; “Recovering Gendered Identities: Laforet’s Nada and Diaz’s Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao”; Patricia Lapolla Swier, Wake Forest University; “Mitificación de las víctimas de la dictadura: Las 13 Rosas y Las hermanas Mirabal”; Ana Corbalán, University of Alabama; “Breaking the Silence in Respiración artificial and Reivindicación del Conde don Julián”; Julia Riordan-Goncalves, Monmouth University; “Hunger and the Repression of the National Body in Chile and Catalonia”; Irene Gómez Castellano, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
13.02 Longueuil: No More ‘Happily Ever After’? : Rewriting Fairy Tales in the Postmodern; Chair: Jonathan Allan, University of Toronto; “Feminism(s) and Cinderellas: Contemporary Rescriptings by Carter, Sexton and Broumas”; Ashley Riggs, Ecole de Traduction et d’Interprétation, Université de Genève; “‘Bed of Roses (?)’: Beauty and the Beast and Its Post/Modern Rewritings”; Funda Basak Baskan, Middle East Technical University; “Happy Villains in Neil Gaiman’s Fairy Tales”; Ana Oancea, Columbia University; “A Literary Patchwork: Re-Woven Fairytales in Monique Wittig's Les Guérrières”; Natalie Pendergast, University of Toronto
13.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Luis de Góngora’s Legacy in Modern Hispanic Literature; Chair: Salvatore Poeta, Villanova University; “Luis de Góngora y Federico García Lorca”; Antonio F. Cao, Hofstra University; “Góngora, Picasso and the Generation of 27”; Rodney Rodríguez, Manhattan College; “Don Luis de Góngora como visión de la libertad en la obra de Rubén Darío”; María Arias-Zelidón, Temple University; “La imagen infinita: Lezama Lima y Luis de Góngora”; Tatiana Ripoll-Páez, Rosemont College
13.04 Verdun: La novela gráfica: formas alternativas de narrar; Chair: Carlos Badessich, University of St. Thomas; “Las técnicas narrativas en Fueye, una novela gráfica”; Susana Sandmann, Augsburg College; “La narrativa visual en novelas gráficas de Paco Roca”; Carlos Badessich, University of St. Thomas; “Realidad y ciencia ficción en la historieta sudamericana: El caso de El eternauta y Rupay”; Lisette Balabarca, Colby College; “Leyendo e imaginando la historia: La ficción gráfica de Julio Cortázar”; León Berdichevsky, University of Toronto
13.05 Jacques Cartier: ‘Mother of everyone’: The Art and Legacy of Muriel Rukeyser; Chair: William Waddell, St. John Fisher College; “Exploring Muriel Rukeyser’s Liturgical Poetics”; Dara Barnat, Tel Aviv University; “Muriel Rukeyser’s Scientific Imagination”; Stefania Heim, CUNY Graduate Center; “Canons and Masks: Forgetting Muriel Rukeyser”; Laura Passin, Northwestern University; “A Possible Kind of Imagination: Intuiting Reality through the Poetry of Muriel Rukeyser”; Aisha Ravindran, American University of Ras al Khaimah
13.06 Fundy: Italian Urban Landscape and Identities. (Roundtable); Chair: Sonia Massari, Siena University; “At home in Italy: Identities in the Italian houses”; Gianfilippo Guadagno, Independent Scholar; “Italian Cities and children’s perspectives”; Carlotta Bizzarri, University of Florence; “L’evoluzione dell’idea di spazio pubblico dagli anni ‘60 a oggi”; Alessandro Ravera, University of Genova; “Genova e i grattacieli: un caso unico nel panorama italiano.”; Gianluca Porcile, University of Genova; “I dintorni di Milano. Brevi annotazioni su un frammento verghiano passato inosservato.”; Elisabetta Nelsen, San Francisco State University
13.07 Lachine: Teaching Italian Culture I; Chair: Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Tufts University; “Unlocking Italian Culture for Students of Italian 1”; Barbara Alfano, Bennington College; “Il caso Gomorra nella didattica dell’insegnamento della lingua e della cultura italiana”; Alessandro Cavalieri, Università di Genova; “Italian Language: A Mirror of a Country Identity”; Samuel Ghelli, York College-The City University of New Yok; “A Truly Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Italian Culture”; Colclough Sanders, Wagner College
13.08 Lasalle: Best New Practices in Teaching Italian with Technology; Chair: Giulia Guarnieri, Bronx Community College-CUNY; “Teaching with Technology: The Integration of Culture and Language in the Italian Classroom”; Antonella Ansani, Queensborough Community College-CUNY; “The Impact of Podcasting for Language Learners”; Giulia Guarnieri, Bronx Community College-CUNY; “Videogames for Language Learning”; Andrea Carosso, University of Genova; “L’italiano al computer: analisi dei corsi di lingua italiana per stranieri”; Alessandra Giglio, University of Genova
13.09 La Verriere: William Blake in Conversation; Chair: Laura Rutland, Gannon University; “Blake and the Cultural Resurrections of Milton”; Jerry Weng, Yale University; “Seeing ‘thro... not with the eye’: How William Blake Taught Samuel Palmer’s ‘Artful Brain’”; Kate Attkisson, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Imagining Resistance in a Postmodern World: William Blake, Jean Baudrillard and The Matrix”; Robert M. Kachur, McDaniel College; “The Structure of Prophetic Vision in Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience”; Jon Gagas, Temple University
13.10 Salon C: Literary Studies and the Affective Turn (Roundtable); Chair: Rachel Greenwald Smith, Boston University; “Connecting Schools of Affect: A Point of Intersection Between Silvan Tomkins and Post-Marxism”; Justin Rogers-Cooper, CUNY Graduate Center; “Affect Theory and Imagining the Cosmopolitan Subject”; Katherine Hallemeier, Queen’s University; “Reification and Revulsion: Affect, Language, Marxism”; Zach Samalin, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Affect of Language, the Language of Affect”; Seth Perlow, Cornell University; “The Economics of Affect”; Jeffrey Nealon, Pennsylvania State University
13.11 Salon D: Latin American Women’s Writing and the Fantastic; Chairs: Verónica Saunero-Ward, New Mexico Highlands University; Mara Lucy García, Brigham Young University; “Cristina Rivera Garza y Giovanna Rivero: Dos semblantes latinoamericanos del fantástico femenino”; Verónica Saunero Ward, New Mexico Highlands University; “El cyberpunk feminino latinoamericano: ¿cómo jugar entre consolas y paradigmas patriarcales?”; Juan Ignacio Munoz-Zapata, University of Western Ontario; “Amparo Dávila: la flor maldita de la literatura fantástica mexicana”; Sergio Guillermo Figueroa Buenrostro, Universidad de Guadalajara; “El despertar femenino y la búsqueda de espacios inadmisibles en María Soledad Quiroga y Elena G”; Mara Lucy García, Brigham Young University
13.12 Salon E: Completely LOST: Going Back to TV’s Most Elusive Island; Chair: Randy Laist, Gateway Community College; “‘We’re Going to Need to Watch that Again’: LOST as Metafiction”; Brian Chapell, Catholic University of America; “LOST, Time, and Technology: Digital Video Recording as a Tool for Genre Subversion”; Samantha NeCamp, University of Louisville; “No Woman is an Island: Heroes, Heroines, and Power in the Gendered World of LOST”; Tarah Brookfield, Wilfrid Laurier University; “LOST in Layers: Complexity and History in Television”; Sven Weber, Bauhaus University of Weimar
13.13 Salon F: Women and Politics in Swiss German Film and Literature; Chairs: Richard R. Ruppel, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; Margrit Zinggeler, Eastern Michigan University; “Politicized Fiction or Fictionalized Politics: Verena Stefan, Laure Wyss and Margrit Schriber”; Richard Ruppel, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; “Myths as Myths of Resistance: Gertrud Leutenegger”; Arnd Bohm, Carleton University; “Schweizer Geschichte in Frauenhand”; Marcela Pozarkova, University of Alberta; “Hybrid Identities in Narratives by Second Generation Female Swiss Writers”; Margrit Zinggeler, Eastern Michigan University
13.14 Salon G: Traveling and Yet Standing Still? - Travel in the Age of Globalization; Chairs: Gabriele Eichmanns, Carnegie Mellon University; Dagmar Jaeger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; “Destination ‘I’: Travel in Judith Hermann’s ‘Nichts als Gespenster’”; Esther Bauer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; “Missed Opportunities for Discovery in Daniel Kehlmann’s ‘Die Vermessung der Welt’”; Nicole Grewling, Shippensburg University; “‘Clash of Cultures’ in Zaimoglu’s Work ‘Rom intensiv’”; Svetlana Gordon, Ohio State University; “Nature, Culture, and Art in Ransmayr’s ‘Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis’”; Jennifer Magro Algarotti, Ohio State University
13.15 Salon H: Between Present and Past: Nostalgia in Francophone Literature I; Chair: Magali Compan, College of William and Mary; “Albert Camus: ‘Nostalg(ér)ies’ d’hier et d’aujourd’hui”; Alek Toumi, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; “Rewriting Ruins: Deconstructing the ‘Nostalgeric’ Attachment to the Homeland”; Amy Hubbell, Kansas State University; “Sur ma mère de Tahar Ben Jelloun: une expérience de la nostalgie”; Mena Marotta, Università di Salerno and University of Maryland
13.16 St. Lambert: Rebelles, mécréantes et criminelles dans la littérature francophone; Chair: Colette Trout, Usinus College; “Joyce Mansour: Surrealism’s Anti-Muse”; MaryLaura Papalas, East Carolina University; “Textual Transgressions in Calixthe Belaya’s Femme nue femme noire”; Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University; “Je t’aime, je te tue: les criminelles nothombiennes”; Frédérique Chevillot, University of Denver; “Femme[s] au pluriel et criminelles: Baise-moi de Virginie Despentes”; Nadia Louar, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
13.17 St. Michel: War in French Literature; Chairs: Lison Baselis-Bitoun, Harvard University; Philippa Kim, CUNY Manhattan; “Animal Symbolism in the Prophecies of the Sibyl: two short texts concerning the Hundred Years War”; Julien Abed, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne; “Que charongnes, que morts, ou visages affreux – The Huguenot Wars in Agrippa d’Aubigné”; Kjerstin Aukrust, University of Oslo; “« Comme si cela ne cessait jamais » : visions de la guerre dans l’œuvre de Claude Simon”; Aude Michard, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III; “La guerre civile, hier et aujourd’hui”; Lison Baselis-Bitoun, Harvard University
13.18 St. Leonard: Cinema and the Narrative (Roundtable); Chairs: Vincenzo Bollettino, Montclair State University; Jeffrey Johnson, Brevard Community College; “Time and Realism in Pasolini’s Greek Tragedies”; Barry Spence, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Leaving the Wardrobe Behind: Modern Adaptation of French Literary Classics”; Catherine Webster, University of Central Oklahoma; “Understanding Oscar Wilde’s Works in the Arab World through Adaptive Film Techniques”; Lamya Ramadan, Prince Sultan University-Riyadh; “The Poetics of Neo-Realism in Fellini’s ‘La Strada’”; Paul Whitehill, William Paterson University; “Narrative Devices in Fellini’s ‘Amarcord’”; Vincenzo Bollettino, Montclair State University
13.19 St. Laurent: (Re-) Writing Caribbean History Through Literature; Chair: Charlotte Rogers, Hamilton College; “El diálogo entre Historia y Ficcion en La casa de la laguna: subversión y reescritura del pasado”; Giada Biasetti, Iowa State University; “Gossip as History: Cabrera Infante’s Private Public Narratives”; Ana Rodríguez Navas, Princeton University; “A Queer, Anti-Colonial Historiography: Manuel Ramos Otero’s ‘La otra isla de Puerto Rico’”; Selma Feliciano Arroyo, University of Pennsylvania; “Nations in Exile: Feminism, Dislocation and the Death of the Patriarch in Rosario Ferré”; Lorna Perez, Buffalo State College
13.20 Westmount: The Margins of the Logos: Children in 19th Century English Literature; Chair: Alexander Bove, Ohio Northern University; “By An Evolutionist: Infantile Language and Paternal Desire in In Memoriam”; Anna Barton, Keele University; “‘A Child’s Cry Caught His Ear’: Children Witnessing to the Unspeakable in Mary Barton”; Lauren Cameron, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Size Changes and Self in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”; Veronica Schanoes, Queens College-CUNY; “Following Alice/Following Tenniel”; Emily Lauer, CUNY Graduate Center
13.21 Mont-Royal: Negotiating History, Memory, and Trauma in New South African Literature; Chair: Amanda Carr, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Re-Inscribing the Memory of the Struggle”; Monica Popescu, McGill University; “Dog Eat Dog: The Professional Turn in the New South African Novel”; Timothy Johns, Murray State University; “Beyond a National Elegy: Ingrid de Kok and the Borders of Bodies”; Amanda Carr, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “‘Is not the truth the truth?’: Reconciling Truths in the Fiction and Memoirs of Gillian Slovo”; Modhumita Roy, Tufts University
13.22 Hampstead: Jane Austen and the Contemporary World: Continuing the Conversation (Roundtable); Chair: Pat Elliott, Regis College; “Teaching Austen and Popular Culture Inside and Outside the English Department: How and Why”; Juliette Wells, Manhattanville College; “Why Austen, Why the 1990s?”; Lauren Byler, Tufts University; “Meeting Jane Austen”; Andrea Cabus, Temple University; “Lost in the Austen Industry; or, one teacher’s devious plan to lure students back to the texts”; Siobhan Kelly, Rutgers Preparatory School; “Pictures of Perfection Make Me Sick and Wicked: Jane Austen as Unwilling Paragon”; Nancy Cantwell, Daemen College; “The Evolution of an Industry: Historical Trends in Austen Adaptation”; Elizabeth Seltzer, Temple University
13.23 Cote-St. Luc: With Great Pleasure: Sentimentality in Early African-American Literature; Chair: Tara Bynum, Towson University; “Wheatley’s Pictorial Eulogy”; Michael Chaney, Dartmouth College; “Slave Insurrection and Sentimentalism in David Walker’s Appeal and Nat Turner’s Confession”; Kevin Pelletier, University of Richmond; “Form and Economy in A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa”; Bryan Sinche, University of Hartford; “Equiano’s Interesting Narrative and the Magic of Secular Sentiments”; Charles Walls, Bard College
13.24 Outremount: Reconsidering Consolation in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Elegiac Writing; Chair: Daniel Moore, Queen’s University; “‘The Mirrored Continent’: Agha Shahid Ali’s Transnational Consolation”; Anna Ioanes, University of Virginia; “‘A Pristine Space Apart’: The Inescapable Consolatory Impulse in Contemporary American Poetry”; Jo Edwins, Francis Marion University; “Elegy, Commemoration and the Deferral of Consolation: Three War Poems”; Joanna Scutts, Columbia University; “Camp Consolations: Frank O’Hara’s James Dean Elegies”; Chad Bennett, Cornell University
13.25 Le Portage: Illness, Wellness and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing; Chair: Georgia Kreiger, Allegany College of Maryland; “Alcoholism as Racial Disease and Frances Harper’s Temperate Creoles”; Carole Lynn Stewart, University of Maryland-Baltimore County; “Alice James and Margaret Ann Cleaves: Reflections on Embodied Energies, Illness, and Writing”; Anne Golomb Hoffman, Fordham University; “Changing Definitions of Health in the Writing of Mary Gove Nichols and Charlotte Perkins Gilman”; Donna Kessler-Eng, Bronx Community College-CUNY; “The Yellow Nightingale: Complexion Altering Diseases and the Medical Rhetoric of Mary Seacole”; Cheryl Spinner, Georgetown University
13.26 Frontenac: The Changing Shape of the Suburb in Recent Fiction and Film; Chair: Kathy Knapp, University of Connecticut; “Moving Out: Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections and the Future of Suburbia”; Keith Wilhite, Duke University; “Good Fences, Charming Gates: Ethnicity, Family, and the Suburbs in a Novel by Alicia Erian”; Beth Buhot Runquist, Duquesne; “Suburban Homes in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Michael Chabon’s Kavalier and Clay”; Rachel Hartman, SUNY Stony Brook; “‘Architecture of Lost Promise and Death’: The Suburban Home in Richard Ford’s Bascombe Trilogy”; Katja Kohler-Golly, Universität des Saarlandes

Session 14

Saturday, April 10, 5:00pm-6:15pm

14.01 St. Pierre: Rethinking Quality TV; Chair: Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “Suburban Underbellies, Freak Shows, Stylized Historicism: Highs and Lows of Quality TV”; Katja Hawlitschka, Ocean County College; “All About Jacob: Reframing Reference in Lost”; Giancarlo Lombardi, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “Starting with the Speculum: The Feminism of Mad Men”; Leah Souffrant, Graduate Center-CUNY
14.02 Longueuil: Contemporary Italian Cinema; Chair: Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico; “‘La giusta distanza’: lo sguardo di Mazzacurati sulla nuova realtà italiana”; Daniela Bisello Antonucci, Princeton University; “Partisans and Terrorists: Metaphors of Violence in Recent Italian Cinema”; Chiara Ferrari, California State University-Chico; “Transnational Table: Food and Rituals in the Cinema of Ferzan Ozpeteck”; Laura Leonardo, University of Newcastle
14.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Illuminating the Everyday Imagination; Chair: Elaine Auyoung, Harvard University; “Fleeting Impressions: Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey as Psychological Fiction”; Adele Kudish, CUNY Graduate Center; “‘An Eye for Such Mysteries’: Thomas Hardy and the Art of Inference”; Elaine Auyoung, Harvard University; “Modernist Thinking Places: The Outhouse, the Tower, and the Trompe l’Oeil Library”; Liisa Stephenson, McGill University
14.04 Verdun: Spanish Golden Age Drama in Performance; Chair: Christopher Gascón, SUNY Cortland; “Dueling Dialogues: Exposing ‘Valor’ in Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer”; Megan Gibbons, Boston University; “Embodying Rape: Mirror Neurons and Performing Honor”; Catherine Connor, University of Vermont; “Las bizarrías de Belisa entre el enredo barroco y el minimalismo escénico”; Esther Fernández, Sarah Lawrence College; “Mimesis y Performance en Retrato de la Lozana andaluza”; Boris Corredor, Regis College
14.05 Jacques Cartier: Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust - in English or in German?; Chair: Natalie Eppelsheimer, Middlebury College; “Of Marches and Fugues: Teaching Celan’s ‘Deathfugue’ through ‘Lili Marleen’”; Russell Alt, Washington University in St. Louis; “Teaching the Holocaust in English at a Liberal Arts College”; Joseph W. Moser, Washington and Jefferson College; “Comic books and the Holocaust: Die Suche vs. Maus”; Natalie Eppelsheimer, Middlebury College
14.06 Fundy: Dante meets MTV: Studying Medieval Literature in a Post-Medieval Context (Roundtable); Chair: Anna Strowe, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Mapping Dante, Using GIS to Teach and Read Medieval Texts”; Louis I. Hamilton, Drew University; “The Play’s the Thing: How Experiential Learning and Community Involvement Engage the Modern Student”; Michelle Volz, Boston College; “Approaching Medieval Women: Accepting the Other throughout the Ages”; Nahir Otaño-Gracia, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Modern, Secular Rites and Practices as a Bridge for Understanding Medieval Christianity”; Rebecca Lartigue, Springfield College; “Dante’s Migration”; Matthew Vernon, Yale University
14.07 Lachine: Literary Montreals (Roundtable); Chair: Richard Cassidy, Université de Montréal; “Montreal Underground”; Domenic A. Beneventi, CELAT – UQAM; “Transgression and Liminality in/as Larry Tremblay’s Montreal”; Charles R. Batson, Union College; “Montréalittéraires: Learning to Read (in) Montreal”; Richard Cassidy, Université de Montréal
14.08 Lasalle: ‘Limits of Language’: From Experimentation to Ethics in a Modern World; Chair: Patrick Nugent, Brooklyn College-CUNY; “To Die is to Live: Assia Djebar’s Algerian White as a Living Inscription of Negation”; Karinne Keithley, CUNY Graduate Center; “Cubism as Relativism in the Work of Gertrude Stein”; Laurel Recker, University of California-Davis; “Samuel Beckett’s Essayistic Fiction as a Practice Of Ethical Self-Testing”; Jonathan S. Feinberg, University of Pittsburgh
14.09 La Verriere: Theorizing Compassion: Activism and Global Citizenship in Alice Walker; Chair: Andrew Price, Mount Union College; “Theorizing Compassion, Promoting Human Rights: Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy”; Andrew Price, Mount Union College; “Alice Walker, Code Pink, and the Politics of Palestinian Solidarity Movements”; Dana Olwan, Queen’s University; “Finding Our Fathers: Masculinity, Ambivalence & the Way of the ‘Two-Head’ in Alice Walker”; Michelle Collins-Sibley, Mount Union College
14.10 Salon C: Race and Narrative in Twentieth Century Literature; Chair: James Donahue, SUNY Potsdam; “The Double Consciousness of Barnum Kinsey: Ideological Whiteness in The Known World”; Lucy Littler, Florida State University; “Transnational Adoptees’ Narratives in Daughter from Danang and First Person Plural”; Jaehyun Jeong, Rutgers University; “The Emergence of Diasporic Subjectivity in Caryl Phillips’ Crossing the River and The Atlantic Sound”; Andrea Opitz, Stonehill College
14.11 Salon D: (En)Gendering Literary Translation; Chairs: Marko Miletich, Hunter College; Raul Galoppe, Montclair State University; “Reading Gender in Translation”; Marko Miletich, Hunter College; “Rosario Castellanos and the Translator as Insider/Foreigner”; Mariana Grajales, Binghamton University; “Victor/Victoria Revisited: Gender Crossings in Dave Dalton’s Adaptation of Don Gil”; Raul Galoppe, Montclair State University
14.12 Salon E: Travel-Writing from its Origins to the Present; Chair: Emanuele Occhipinti, Drew University; “Mapping the Feminist Travels of an Authentic Self in Sobrero’s Espatriata:da Torino ad Honolulu”; Andrea Caluori-Ramos, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Neyla di Kossi Komla-Ebri: ritornare per ritrovarsi”; Lorenza Stradiotti, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Svevo viaggiatore”; Emanuele Occhipinti, Drew University
14.13 Salon F: Contemporary Jewish-German Authors (Roundtable); Chair: Edith Biegler Vandervoort, Chapman University; “Maxim Biller: Location, Location, Location”; Jennifer Askey, Kansas State University; “The State of Discontent”; Adam J. Sacks, Brown University; “Repositioning the Holocaust: Edgar Hilsenrath’s Treatment of the Armenian Genocide”; George Griffin, University of Toronto
14.14 Salon G: Recent Trends in Sub-Saharan Francophone Literature and Criticism II; Chair: Natalie Edwards, Wagner College; “Specters of Decolonization: Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa in a Post-Cold War Frame”; Roberta Hatcher, University of Pittsburgh; “Two Authors in Search of a Publisher: Fatou Diome and Sokhna Benga”; Christopher Hogarth, Wagner College; “Gender and Generation in Aminata Sow Fall’s Work”; Natalie Edwards, Wagner College
14.15 Salon H: Maghrebian and Arabic Literature: Resisting or Embracing Modernism? (Roundtable); Chair: David Delamatta, Universtité Paris IV Sorbonne; “Modernité et résistance: aperçu des tendances et des thèmes dans le théâtre tunisien”; David Delamatta, Université Paris IV Sorbonne; “Can the Subaltern (North African) Woman be Represented by Male Writers?”; Mustapha Hamil, University of Windsor; “The Maghreb between the imperative of tradition and the challenge of modernity.”; Zakaria Fatih, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
14.16 Frontenac: The Church and Secularization in 20- and 21st-Century French and Québécois Lit; Chair: Scott Powers, University of Mary Washington; “Céline’s Anti-Semitism: A Case of Religious Conversion?”; Scott Powers, The University of Mary Washington; “Alina Reyes dans les parages de Lourdes”; Richard Spiteri, The University of Malta; “’Was Christ Gay?’: The Role of the Church in Vallée’s C.R.A.Z.Y.”; David A. Powell, Hofstra University
14.17 St. Michel: Teaching the Connections: Interdisciplinary Dialogue in the Classroom II; Chair: Nichole Stanford, CUNY-College of Staten Island; “Cultural Aspects and Etiquette in the Spanish for Business Classroom”; Maritza Bell-Corrales, Macon State College; “Four Kinds of Fun: Interdisciplinary Teaching and the Search for Context”; Jonathan Silverman, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; “The Dialogue Behind the Scenes: Case Studies of WAC/WID Flops”; Nichole Stanford, CUNY-College of Staten Island
14.18 St. Leonard: Translation and Human Rights; Chair: Rick J. Santos, SUNY-Nassau Community College; “Translating Silence: The Multilingual Position of the Witness”; Florence Dee Boodakian, SUNY-Nassau Community College; “Risisting Voices: Translation and Human Rights”; Rick J. Santos, SUNY-Nassau Community College; “What is the What: Untranslatable Testimony”; Erika Snyder, New York University; “Respondent”; Marilyn Gaddis-Rose, Binghamton University-SUNY
14.19 St. Laurent: Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form: Buddhism and American Poetry; Chair: Clare Emily Clifford, Birmingham Southern College; “Buddhist Tones in Wallace Stevens’s ‘Notes Towad a Supreme Fiction’”; George Weinschenk, Binghamton University; “Nothing Is Forever: Philip Zenshin Whalen’s Poem ‘Kozanji’ and The Kyoto Years 1966-1971”; Keith Kumasen Abbott, Naropa University; “More or Less Nirvana in the Poetry of Charles Wright”; Emily Taylor Merriman, San Francisco State University; “Not this me/not that me: Lucille Clifton’s Ten Oxherding Pictures and a Buddhist Approach to Self”; Adrienne McCormick, SUNY Fredonia
14.20 Westmount: Our Present Time and Self-Made Misery: Anti-Industrialism in Tolkien’s Fiction; Chair: Matt Dickerson, Middlebury College; “Eating Locally and Being Thankful in Tolkien’s Mythopoeic Agrarianism”; Matt Dickerson, Middlebury College; “The Middle Way of Middle-earth: Living With the Environment in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien”; Jean Marie Alger, University of Central Oklahoma
14.21 Mont-Royal: Rhetoric, Rights, and Transatlantic Modernist Fiction; Chair: Allison Crawford, University of Toronto; “e. e. cummings’ EIMI: Giving and Account of Is/Self”; Daniel Pinsent, Queen’s University; “Language That Goes ‘BOOM’: The Rhetoric of War and Human Rights in Early Comics”; Allison Crawford, University of Toronto
14.22 Hampstead: Poetics and Worldview: The Poet as Cultural Critic; Chair: Bob Lazaroff, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Understanding the New Black Poetry: Carolyn Rodgers and the Poetics of Black Arts”; Jennifer Ryan, Buffalo State College; “Whitman, Pound, Olson and the Poetics of Candour”; Michael Kindellan, University of Sussex; “Native Worldview and the Poetry of Gary Snyder”; Ashley Hall, Sonoma State University
14.23 Cote-St. Luc: Capital in Crisis; Chair: Alison Shonkwiler, Rutgers University-New Brunswick; “Care and Discipline, Welfare and Regulation: The Dysfunctional Family Memoir and the Economic Crisis”; Melissa Bender, University of California-Davis; “Capitalism and Resistance in Pynchon’s Against the Day”; Michelle Martin, Temple University; “Affect and Money: Regulating the Unwanted in The Sopranos”; Leigh Claire La Berge, University of Chicago
14.24 Irish Embassy Pub: Montreal Poets (Creative); Chair: Kelly C. MacPhail, Université de Montréal; “Kathryn Hall”; “Ian Orti”; “J.R. Carpenter”; “John Goldbach”; “Johanna Skibsrud”; “Ian Ferrier”

Session 15

Saturday, April 10, 6:30pm-7:45pm

15.01 Mont-Royal: Women’s Caucus Event; Chair: Elaine Savory, New School; “America Is Also a Québec Novel”; Madeleine Monette
15.02 Cote-St. Luc: German Area Special Event; Chair: Birgit Tautz; “Reading from Fremdschläfer and other recent works”; Verena Stefan
15.03 Verdun: Reception and Business Meeting for Anglophone Literatures; Chairs: Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College; Cecilia Feilla, Marymount Manhattan College; “Sponsored by the American Literature and British/Anglophone Literatures Areas”; “Members are invited to discuss the status and organization of Anglophone literatures at NEMLA”
15.04 Verdun: Cultural Studies and Film Screening (7:30pm); Chair: Jennifer Harris, Mount Allison University; “Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun”; California Newsreel; “Co-Sponsored by American Literatures and the Diversity Committee”
15.05 St. Lambert: Italian Language Area Business Meeting; Chair: Daniela Antonucci, Princeton University; “Reception following at the Instituto Italiano di Cultura-Montreal”
15.06 Frontenac: Graduate Caucus Business Meeting; Chair: Grace Wetzel, Univerity of South Carolina