Thursday Sessions

Session 1

Thursday, April 8, 2:15pm-4:15pm

1.01 St. Pierre: Global Cinemas (Seminar); Chair: Matthias Piccolruaz Konzett, University of New Hampshire; “Towards Defining Global Cinema: Genre, Casting and Spectatorship in Contemporary Global Cinema”; Matt Konzett, University of New Hampshire; “Border Crossings in Chinese Cinema”; Greta Aiyu Niu, University of Rochester; “Surviving to Oneself after Tiananmen: Wang Xiaoshuai’s Frozen (1996)”; Erick Bordeleau, McGill University; “Negating the Other: Post-WWII American Cinema and Hollywood’s Global Hegemony”; Delia Konzett, University of New Hampshire; “The Host vs. Cloverfield”; Homay King, Bryn Mawr; “Traveling Aesthetics and Globalization in Contemporary African Cinema”; Sheila Petty, University of Regina; “Envisioning Globalization in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis”; Annette Magid, Erie Community College-SUNY; “Pirates of the Carib/Aden”; Ed Wiltse, Nazareth College
1.02 Longueuil: Displacement, Dispossession, and Uprootedness (Seminar); Chair: Trisha Brady, SUNY Buffalo; “Philanthropic Noblewomen and ‘Rescued’ African Children in French Narratives of Dispossession”; Lise Schreier, Fordham University; “Narrating the Indian-Canadian Diaspora”; Paul Barrett, Queen’s University; “No Relations: Dispossessed and Deformed Bodies in D.Y. Bechard’s Vandal Love”; Veronique Dorais, University of Calgary; “Catastrophe, Collective Memory, and Belonging in Palestinian Personal Account Literature”; Trisha Brady, SUNY Buffalo; “The Limitations of Bearing Witness in Toni Morrison’s Beloved”; Martha Searcey, New York University
1.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Recasting the Role: Older Women in Memoir and Drama (Seminar); Chair: Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College of Blauvelt; “Rachel Crothers and the ‘charm of a woman at the height of her development’”; Lesley Broder, Kingsborough Community College; “Anarchy as Personal Philosophy: Emma Goldman’s Optimism”; Virginia Costello, Stonybrook-SUNY; “Gran/Ecology: Maxine Kumin on Community and Creativity”; Bill Waddell, St. John Fisher College; “She’s Research!: Examining the ‘Wound of Age’”; Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology; “‘not covered in the residue of others’: Resilience in Lynn Nottage’s Ruined”; Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College of Blauvelt
1.04 Verdun: Memory and Violence in Iberian Literatures and Cultures (Seminar); Chair: María José Olaciregui, Universidad del País Vasco; “Las fisuras de la nación en la narrativa vasca actual”; María José Olaciregui, Universidad del País Vasco; “Journey to the Underworld: Memory, Forgiveness, and Vengeance in No vuelvas by Suso de Toro”; Eugenia R. Romero, Ohio State University; “Memory and Violence in Mercè Rodoreda’s La mort i la primavera”; Kathryn Everly, Syracuse University; “Diarios de paz en tiempos de guerra: la representación de la violencia en textos autobiográficos”; Xavier Pla, Universitat de Girona; “Staging Trauma: The Allegory of Individual (Re)Telling”; Laureano Corces, Fairleigh Dickinson University
1.05 Jacques Cartier: Mujeres afro-descendientes en Latino América (Seminar); Chair: Lucia Ortiz, Regis College; “Acuarela del Brasil: matices de una sociedad—de la pigmentrocracia hacia la democracia”; Percio Castro, Dayton University; “Lolia Pomare Myles, puente entre la palabra antigua y la nueva”; Ana Mercedes Patino, Bucknell University; “Del erotismo doméstico al erotismo cósmico en la poesía de Maria de los Ángeles Popov”; María Mercedes Jaramillo, Fitchburg State College and Asociación de Colombianistas; “Géneros que reivindican el Chocó: Goyo y el rap afrocolombiano”; Diana Rodríguez Quevedo, University of Toronto; “Voces negras en la narrativa cubana de entre siglos (XX y XXI)”; Silvia María Valero, University of Montreal; “Luz María Martínez Montiel, embajadora del renacimiento africano en Latinoamérica y México”; Angelica Silva, DeSales University
1.06 Fundy: Past and Present on the Screen: History and Society in Italian Film (Seminar); Chair: Chiara De Santi, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Storia e ideologia in Vincere di Marco Bellocchio”; Roberta Garziano, McGill University; “History and Society through Literary Marginals in Ettore Scola”; Giorgio Melloni, SUNY New Paltz; “Allegories of Italian Communism in Visconti’s White Nights”; Brendan Hennessey, University of California-Los Angeles; “Raccontare e fabbricare il ‘68 e il ‘77 nel cinema italiano”; Simone Castaldi, Hofstra University; “L’altra faccia della storia in Buongiorno, notte di Marco Bellocchio”; Fabiana Cecchini, Texas A&M University; “Words on the Screen: Sorrentino’s Il Divo and the Evocation of History”; Kyle M. Hall, Harvard University; “Garbage Displacement and the Globalization of Crime in Garrone’s Gomorra”; Simona Bondavalli, Vassar College; “Garrone, Tornatore, Tullio Giordana: The Ambivalent Realisms of Italian Immigration”; Vetri Nathan, University of Denver
1.07 Lachine: Behind the Spanish Lens: Stars and Sexualities in Contemporary Spanish Film (Seminar); Chair: Monica Leoni, University of Waterloo; “Mujeres inmigrantes en el cine del siglo XXI: Reconstrucción de la identidad nacional en España”; Esther A. Daganzo-Cantens, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania; “Masculinities in Construction: Intimate Foreignness in El traje and Flores de otro mundo”; Lennie Coleman, University of Miami; “Between Two Loves: Manolo Escobar and the Real Spanish Transition”; Mary Hartson, Oakland University; “Representaciones negativas de mujeres del caribe hispano en el cine español reciente”; Cristina Carrasco, Nazareth College; “La subordinación de la identidad en La mala educación de Pedro Almodóvar”; Luis Mora, University of North Florida
1.08 Lasalle: New Directions in Detective Fiction (Seminar); Chair: Maria Plochocki, University of Baltimore; “Einstein’s Fabric of Spacetime: On the Edge of Coincidence in Rebecca Stott’s Ghostwalk”; Dorothy Roberts, Independent Scholar; “R. M. Morris’s The Gentle Ax: Dostoyevsky’s Pyotr Petrovich a Century Later”; Carmen Burton, Palm Beach Community College; “Persistent Popularity: The Evolution of the Children’s Mystery Story”; Mary Willingham, Mercer University; “Detecting Ontologies: Poe’s The Purloined Letter and Heidegger’s The Age of the World Picture”; Greg Sevik, Binghamton University; “Falsifying the World of Detective Fiction: Reading Padura’s Las cuatro estaciones as a Palimpsest”; Mélissa Gélinas, York University-Glendon; Alejandro Zamora, York University-Glendon; “Inherited Patterns and Innovative Structures: The Case of Forensic Crime Narration”; Elisabeth Balss-Brehm, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; “The Detective’s Moral Dilemma in Contemporary Italian Detective Fiction”; Susan Briziarelli, Adelphi University; “Reconsidering and Restructuring Genre Conventions in No Country for Old Men”; John Brown Spiers, University of Georgia; “An Attempt to Bring Realism into Detective Fiction: A Traditional Chinese Detective Fiction Case Stu”; Lavinia Benedetti, Tsinghua University; “Low Down and Dirty: Junk Fiction in the Cultural Mind”; Daniel Facchinetti, University of Rhode Island
1.09 La Verriere: Medieval Italian Literary Culture: In Memory of Michelangelo Picone (Seminar); Chair: Margherita Pampinella-Cropper, Towson University; “Personification in Dante Alighieri’s Vita Nuova: Experimenting by Embracing Tradition”; Brittany Asaro, University of California-Los Angeles; “Myrrha: Incestuous Passion and Political Transgression (Inferno 30)”; Margherita Pampinella-Cropper, Towson University; “Dante and the Sources of the Exempla in Purgatorio 10-28”; Enrico Minardi, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Exile and the Canzone in Dante’s Eden: The Case of ‘Tre Donne’”; Laurence Hooper, University of Notre Dame; “Petrarch’s Chain of Glory: RVF 119 and the ‘Secretum’”; James F. McMenamin, Dickinson College; “‘Lectura Petrarce’: ‘Intertextual Connections’ between RVF 40 and the first letter of the Familiares”; Roberta Antognini, Vassar College; “Traces of Ancient Greek Romances in the Second Day of the Decameron”; Mauro Sassi, McGill University; “Fiddling While Rome Burns: Tyranny in Fourteenth-Century Florence”; Heather Stein, Johns Hopkins University
1.10 Salon C: 900 sommerso (Seminar); Chair: Andrea Carosso, University of Genova; “Il Delfini furioso: per la ricostituzione di un canone novecentesco sperimentale”; Beppe Cavatorta, University of Arizona; “Camilla Salvago Raggi: Her Family Lexicon”; Shirley Smith, Skidmore College; “Filippo Betto: sommerso tra i sommersi”; Sciltian Gastaldi, University of Toronto; “Coazione a sperimentare: il neoavanguardismo di Gian Pio Torricelli”; Riccardo Boglione, Società Dante Alighieri di Montevideo; “Enif Robert’s ‘Un ventre di donna’ (1919): Reclaiming the Futurist Female Voice”; Tristana Rorandelli, Sarah Lawrence College; “Carletto Mazzucchetti: un caso di ‘damnatio memoriae’”; Giovanni Migliara, UNED Madrid
1.11 Salon D: Leggere e (ri) scrivere in epoca umanistica: esegesi e libertas dicendi (Seminar); Chair: Roberta Ricci, Bryn Mawr College; “Le Adnotationes in Horatium di Alessandro Piccolomini: finalità e strategie di lettura”; Eugenio Refini, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa; “Dalla glosula scolastica alla filologia umanistica: lectura et imitatio”; Roberta Ricci, Bryn Mawr College; “Esempi di riscrittura nelle Collettanee in morte dell’Aquilano”; Alessio Bologna, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milano; “Per una nuova edizione del commento di Francesco da Buti all’Inferno. Note sul Ms. Nap. XIII C 1”; Claudia Tardelli, Cambridge University; “On the description of Africa and on Remarkable Matters set down by Giovan Lioni Africano”; Dennis McAuliffe, Bryn Mawr College; “Roma come un testo: Restauro testuale e restauro culturale nel De Virgilii Culice di Pietro Bembo”; Sandro La Barbera, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa
1.12 Salon E: Architecture and Literature (Seminar); Chair: Julia Weber, Yale University; “The Space of Fiction: Plotting an Architectural Program”; Louise Pelletier, Université du Québec à Montréal; “Between Interiors and Exteriors. Windows and Aspects in Goethe and Hoffmann”; Anh Nguyen, Johns Hopkins University; “Biedermeier Haunts: Uncanny Architecture in Jeremias Gotthelf’s Die schwarze Spinne”; Nathan Magnusson, University of Washington; “The Lady Vanished: Narrative Vaults in Stifter’s Turmaline”; Nicola Behrmann, New York University; “The Architecture of Waiting in W.G. Sebald’s Novel Austerlitz”; Wiebke Amthor, Freie Universität Berlin; “Autobiographical Spaces, Architectures of the Self: Georges Perec’s Strolls”; Regine Straetling, Freie Universität Berlin; “Literature between Space and Place: Bourdieu’s Rules of Art and Jelinek’s Raum”; Uta Degner, Universität Salzburg; “Textual Monuments and Ruined Poems”; Evi Zemanek, Universität Erlangen
1.13 Salon F: The Body in German Realism and Naturalism (Seminar); Chair: Christiane Arndt, Queen’s University; “It’s a Cruel World: Representations of the Marginalized in the Works of Hermann Sudermann”; Jason Doerre, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Reification, Absolute Surplus, and the Perverse Sublime in Stifter’s Proto-Benjaminian Stadtbilder”; Joseph Metz, University of Utah; “Bodies torn in Two: Pregnancy and Birth Imagery in Gabriele Reuter’s Tränenhaus”; Daniela Richter, Central Michigan University; “Jeremias Gotthelf’s Die schwarze Spinne – a Tale of Biblical and Realistic Corporeal Imagery”; Josef Schmidt, McGill University; “Identity Formation and the Female Body in Gabriele Reuter’s Aus guter Familie”; Andrea Speltz, Queen’s University; “‘Lenkt die Kunst nicht so am Draht!’ The Marionette as Motive and Narratological Figure”; Ulrike Küchler, Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen; “(De-)Mystification: Wilhelm Raabe’s Zum Wilden Mann”; Christiane Arndt, Queen’s University
1.14 Salon G: Scénographie romanesque de la maladie et de la mort au XIXe et XXe (Seminar); Chair: Clarisse Couturier-Garcia, Université Michel de Montaigne; “Mathésis ‘littérature putride’ et/ou scopophilie dans Nana d”; Pascale Deway, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania; “Scénographie d’une fin de race, thanatologie de la littérature (J. Lorrain)”; Morgane Leray, Université Michel de Montaigne; “Boris Vian et Chloé, la dame au nénuphar”; Candice Nicolas, Bucknell University; “La fièvre textuelle chez H. Guibert”; Morgane Cadieu, Cornell University; “Ecrire ou la mort traitement romanesque et diaristique de la mort chez Yves Navarre”; Sylvie Lannegrand, National University of Ireland-Galway; “Réflexions sur la transformation progressive d’un être aimé par la maladie d’Alzheimer”; Gérard Danou, Paris VII Diderot et Cergy-Pontoise; “Ecriture de l’anorexie: crier son mal, crier sa mort”; Karin Bernfeld, Paris VII
1.15 Salon H: Creative Writing in the Composition Classroom (Seminar); Chair: Brooke Comer, American University in Cairo; “Grammar and Play: Creative Writing as a Constructivist Inquiry”; Justin Hayes, Quinnipiac University; “Creative Writing in the Business Writing Classroom”; Jon Ramsey, University of California-Santa Barbara; “‘Can we use ‘I’ in our papers?’: The Role of First Person in First-Year Composition”; Elaine Farrugia, Ithaca College; “On Not Taking The Idea of a Man Cut Into Pieces and Just Writing It: Fiction, Memoir, Graphic Novel”; Scott Henkle, City University of New York; “Children’s Literature in Composition Classes: From Analysis to Deconstruction to Argument”; Yasmine Motawy, American University in Cairo; “Performative Identities and the Embellished Text: From Personal Narratives to Argumentative Essays”; Sheldon George, Simmons College; “Juicing the Tongue”; Jill Hinckley, Landmark College
1.16 St. Lambert: Beckett’s Letters (Seminar); Chairs: Carla Taban, University of Toronto; S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University; “Murphy in the Letters: Character, Text and End”; Arka Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University Kolkata; “Beckett’s ‘Mistake’ in Waiting for Godot”; Robert Cohen, University of California-Irvine; “Letters to his American Publisher: The Business of Being Beckett”; S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University; “The Battle for the Illocutionary and the Proliferation of Meaning in The Letters of Samuel Beckett”; Jennifer M. Jeffers, Cleveland State University; “Beckett’s Irish Habitus”; Sean Kennedy, Saint Mary’s University; “Fragments of a Treaty on Aesthetics Never to be Written: Beckett’s Artistic Ideas in his Letters”; Matthieu Protin, Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle; “‘To Buckle the Wheel of [the] Poem’: Tropes for Writing in Beckett’s Works and Letters”; Carla Taban, University of Toronto
1.17 St. Michel: French-Canadian Literatures Outside Quebec (Seminar); Chair: Andrea Cabajsky, Universite de Moncton; “Acadian Mobility and Identity: Travel in France Daigle and Hermenegilde Chiasson”; Melissa LeBlanc, University of Western Ontario; “J’ai deux cultures de trop: la langue acadienne comme outil de revendication identitaire”; Nicole Boudreau, University of Kansas; “Jean-Marc Dalpe: La litterature franco-ontarienne ‘en bonne forme’”; Ben Trudel, University of Western Ontario; “Aigre douceur de Marc Prescott”; Elise Lepage, Collège Universitaire Saint Boniface; “Les contraintes creatrices dans l’oeuvre de France Daigle: deplacement, depassement”; Penelope Cormier, McGill University; “History and Community in Les portes tournantes and Fall On Your Knees”; Andrea Cabajsky, Universite de Moncton; “Hédi Bouraoui and His Legacy in Francophone Ontario”; Elizabeth Dahab, California State University-Long Beach
1.18 St. Leonard: Down the Highway, Down the Tracks/Poetics, Geography and Location (Seminar); Chairs: Michael Antonucci, Keene State College; Garin Cycholl, University of Chicago; “Here Is Where…: Delays, (Re)Plays & Smartalecky Geographies of the Long Canadian Prairie Poem”; Lea Graham, Marist College; “Bent to the Map: Epic and Locality in Contemporary Poetries of the Americas”; Garin Cycholl, University of Chicago; “Blues Geographies/Blues Poetics”; Sterling D. Plumpp, University of Illinois-Chicago; “‘That Most Excellent Invention, America’ (Geography & Identity in Wartime Poetry by Muriel Rukey”; Matt Darling, Gannon University; “Terra Incognita: ‘The Outermost Reach of the World’ in Charles Olson’s Maximus”; Jason Starnes, Simon Fraser; “How(e) to do Things with Names: The Violence of Naming and Mapping in Susan Howe’s ‘Thorow’”; Melissa Dalgleish, York University; “‘Sittin’ On Top of the World’: A Cosideration of Blues Space &Time in Black Poetry”; Michael A. Antonucci, Keene State College
1.19 St. Laurent: Urban Places: The Literary Ecology of American Cities (Seminar); Chair: Karen Waldron, College of the Atlantic; “‘In the heart of the city, they lie’: The Question of Hearts in Longfellow’s Evangeline”; Joshua Bartlett, University at Albany; “Hawthorne as Urban Ecologist”; Robert Friedman, New Jersey Institute of Technology; “Pastoralizing Manhattan: The Ecological Imagination of Harlem Shadows”; Jennifer Chang, University of Virginia; “Jurgis, Carrie, and the Myth of the Small Town”; William Daniel Fenton, Fordham University; “Ecocriticism and the Tradition of Social Mapping in Urban Literature”; Eoin Francis Cannon, Harvard University; “In Search of Mama’s Garden in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun”; Kristina Wright, Tufts University; “Urban Ecology in Gary Snyder’s ‘Three Worlds, Three Realms, Six Roads’”; Joshua A. Weinstein, Virginia Wesleyan College; “Urban Literary Ecology and the Limits of Interactivity in Gary Snyder”; Jill Gatlin, New England Conservatory of Music; “Karen Tei Yamashita’s The Tropic of Orange: An Ecology of L.A.”; Jessica Maucione, Gonzaga University
1.20 Mont-Royal: New Formalism, Aesthetics, and American Literary Studies (Seminar); Chair: Dustin Hannum, University of Rochester; “Form After Adorno”; Erich Hertz, Siena College; “A Look Back at the Scholarship-Criticism Debate”; David Letzler, Graduate Center-CUNY; “Theodore Dreiser, the Immanence of Form, and American Literary Studies”; Ezra Nielsen, Rutgers University; “Overflow and the Politics of the Turn-of-the-Century American Novel”; Jason Potts, Saint Francis Xavier University; “Aesthetic Formalism, the Form of Artworks and Formalist Criticism”; Jonathan Loesberg, American University

Session 2

Thursday, April 8, 4:30pm-6:00pm

2.01 St. Pierre: El cine y la literatura en la formación de la identidad nacional hispánica I; Chair: Marta Manrique Gomez, Middlebury College; “Carnal Landscapes in Contemporary Latin American Film”; Amanda Holmes, McGill University; “On the Rise of Television in Recent Argentine Film”; James Cisneros, Université de Montréal; “Humberto Sola’s Cecilia: Abolitionist Propaganda and its Role in Cuban and Spanish Nationalism”; Enrique Garcia, Middlebury College; “La construcción maniqueísta de identidad española bajo la óptica cinematográfica de Raza”; Maria Adelaida Escobar Trujillo, McGill University
2.02 Longueuil: Mysticism, Epiphany, and Enunciation Narratives; Chair: Jessica Datema, Bergen Community College; “Multicultural literary images in Les Amants de Tolede of Villers de l’Isle-Adam”; Graciela Perez, Pepperdine University; “Wife, Lover, Victim, Saviour: Sati and the Religious Space of Feminine Agency in Sidney Owenson”; Margaret Herrick, University of Toronto; “Strange Sympathy: The Encounter of Classical Iranian Poetry's Joseph, and Kafka's Joseph K”; Roya Kowsary, Bergen Community College; “God in Dogville: Hospitality as ‘Irreconcilable and Indissociable’”; Jessica Datema, Bergen Community College
2.03 Pointes-aux-Trembles: Classic and Contemporary American Girl Lit: Girls’ Worlds; Chair: Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook; “Plowing the Empty Vessel in My Antonia”; Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook; “Fighting the Fairy Tale: Jane Eyre and the American YAL Novel”; MicKenzie Fasteland, University of Michigan; “Scout as Social Critic: Sympathy, Tomboyhood and ‘the Dispossessed’ in To Kill a Mockingbird”; Kristen Proehl, College of William and Mary; “Medieval Girl Heroes in the Speculative Fiction of Tamora Pierce”; Lisette Gibson, Capital University
2.04 Verdun: Homosexual Women in Italian Literature, Cinema and Other Media I; Chair: Erika Papagni, University of Toronto; “Omosessualità femminile nella letteratura italiana dal XII al XVI secolo”; Marianna Orsi, Università di Pisa; “Lyric Expressions of Female Homosexuality in Patrizia Cavalli’s ‘Sempre aperto teatro’”; Kristen Grimes, Saint Joseph’s University; “‘Nuvole e Arcobaleni’: il fumetto lesbico italiano”; Susanna Scrivo; “‘Principesse Azzurre’: a major impact on Italian consciousness”; Erika Papagni, University of Toronto
2.05 Jacques Cartier: Cinematic Representation of Immigration, Spaces and Identities; Chairs: Carole Salmon, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Maria Matz, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; “Ellis Island on Screen: Crialese’s Golden Door (2005)”; Alexandre Tylski, University of Toulouse; “Displacement, Dislocation, Distribution: The Pieds-Noirs in French Cinema”; Jean Xavier Brager, Louisiana State University; “Paris-Metropolis: A Nurturing City for Immigrants?”; Carole Salmon, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; “The Invisible Metropolis in Coline Serreau’s Chaos and Stephen Frears’s Dirty Pretty Things”; Nicoleta Bazgan, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
2.06 Fundy: Shakespeare, Language and Translation: An Inquiry into National Identity (Seminar); Chair: Marie Blackman, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Translating Shakespeare Through Silence: Synetic Theater Silent Shakespeare”; Pamela Monaco, Brandman University; “Russian Hamlet and the Language of Subversion”; Yulia Ryzhik, Harvard University; “Shakespeare in Turkey: The Role of the Turkish State Theatre”; Iclal Vanwesenbeeck, State University of New York-Fredonia; “Languages and Nations in Shakespeare’s Plays”; Marie Blackman, University of Massachusetts
2.07 Lachine: The Visualizing Gift: Description and Material Culture in the Novel; Chair: Cecilia Macheski, CUNY LaGuardia CC; “An Ideal Alibi: Man Ray’s Photographs and Gertrude Stein’s Autobiographies”; Lauren Rosenblum, SUNY Stony Brook; “Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts and the Ubiquity of the Image”; Yair Solan, New York University; “The Fidelity of the Likeness’: Economics of Desire in Thomas Hardy and Kate Chopin”; Arielle Zibrak, Boston University; “The ‘Visualizing Gift’: Edith Wharton’s Cinematic Fiction”; Cecilia Macheski
2.08 Lasalle: Genre, Invention, and Modernity in Nineteenth Century Spain; Chair: Paula Sprague, Dartmouth College; “Wringing Life from the Dead: Rhetoric of the Nation in Eulogies of Miguel de Cervantes”; Megan Kelly, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign; “Entre el amor y la alienación: Albadas del siglo XIX”; Carlos Ramos, Wellesley College; “Maxi Rubín, the Pharmacist in Training in Fortunata y Jacinta”; M. Patricia Orozco, University of Mary Washington; “Parody, the Press, and Oppositional Identity”; Paula Sprague, Dartmouth College
2.09 Mont-Royal: The Practice and Purposes of Book Reviewing (Roundtable); Chair: Laurence Roth, Susquhanna University; “Book Reviewing: An Overview”; Gail Pool; “Scholarly Book Reviews: Who Writes Them and Why?”; Astrid Weigert, Georgetown University; “Surviving the Perfect Storm: Book Reviewing in the Twenty-Teens”; Cornel Bonca, California State University-Fullerton
2.10 Salon C: Writing Faculties: Intersections of Creativity and Pedagogy; Chair: Noel Sloboda, Pennsylvania State University-York; “Schooling Figures”; Noel Sloboda, Pennsylvania State University-York; “Poetry and Educational Experience: Dwelling in the Tensions of Wayman’s ‘Did I Miss Anything’”; David Lewkowich, McGill University; “Louis Dudek’s Radical Pedagogy: A Poundian Intervention in Canadian Literature”; Karis Shearer, McGill University; “The Teaching That Poetry Informs: Derrida’s Writing Through Ponge”; Michael Jarrett, Pennsylvania State University-York
2.11 Salon D: Alla Ricerca di Nuove Identità nel Teatro Italiano Contemporaneo; Chair: Anna G. Cafaro, Bard College; “La stranierità nascosta”; Anna G. Cafaro, Bard College; “Incontri interculturali nel Mediterraneo: INDA 2009”; Stefano Muneroni, University of Alberta; “Mitologia dell’ ‘altro’ nelle Terre del Silenzio”; Francesca Spedalieri, Ohio State University; “Il teatro di confine di Kenka Lekovich”; Gregoria Manzin, Swinburne University of Technology
2.12 Salon E: Primo Levi’s Works Between Testimony and Literature (Roundtable); Chair: Francesco Ciabattoni, Dalhousie University; “Primo Levi Mourns Auschwitz: ‘Lilít’”; James Chiampi, University of California-Irvine; “Sotto il segno del riso: aspetti comici e surreali ne ‘La tregua’ di Primo Levi”; Martina Di Florio Gula, University of Connecticut; “Angelica Farfalla and the Gorgon. Petrification of the world and metaphors of flight in Levi”; Franco Baldasso, New York University; “‘Attento, Pikolo, apri gli orecchi e la mente’: Listening to Primo Levi’s Holocaust Tale”; Elizabeth Scheiber, Rider University; “L’Altro mondo di Levi. Scienza e fantascienza nelle Storie Naturali”; Alfredo Luzi, Unversità di Macerata; “Primo Levi’s Caged Narrative”; Francesco Ciabattoni, Dalhousie University
2.13 Salon F: Space and Subjectivity in German-language Modernist Literature; Chair: Hang-Sun Kim, Harvard University; “Room for Monologue: Improvised Speech in the Prose of Franz Kafka and Robert Walser”; Paul Buchholz, Cornell University; “The Stereometry of Emotions: The Construction of the Inside in Musil’s ‘Die Vollendung der Liebe’”; Sonja Graeber-Magocsi, Harvard University; “Landscape Confessions in Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Prose”; Hang-Sun Kim, Harvard University; “Foreign Spaces and the German Imaginary”; Isa Murdock-Hinrichs, University of California-San Diego
2.14 Salon G: Judging Women: Law, Literature and Female Guilt; Chair: Helene Bilis, Wellesley College; “Representing Her Self: Memoir as Testimony in the Case of Marie-Sidonie de Courcelles”; Mary Christensen, State University of New York-New Paltz; “Cécile, Mme de Tourvel, and Mme de Merteuil’s Crimes”; Servanne Woodward, University of Western Ontario; “Framing the Witch: Jean Bodin’s Démonomanie des sorciers (1580)”; Christian Martin, Stonehill College; “Advocating for the Self in Diderot’s Religieuse (1784)”; Julia Abramson, University of Oklahoma
2.15 Salon H: Translation and Translingualism; Chair: Carine Mardorossian, University at Buffalo; “The Power of Translation and Adaptation in (Re)constructing Catalan Culture During Franco”; Marta Pasqual, Universitat de Girona; “‘A Forgotten Cemetery’: Reading the lost texts of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 in translation”; Jonathan McKay, Queen’s University-Kingston; “Translating Border Identities in María Novaro’s film El jardín del edén”; Margarita Vargas, University at Buffalo; “Chinese Translation of English Media about the Beijing 2008 Olympic”; Yang Zhang, Brock University
2.16 St. Lambert: Travelling Genre, Geopolitical Space, and Reception, 1775-1830; Chair: Steven Bellomy, University of South Carolina; “Reactionaries Abroad: Laborde, Chateaubriand, and Godefroy Flee France”; Caroline Sherman, Catholic University of America; “The Economy of Melancholy: Generic Circulation in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Short Residence in Sweden”; Tara McDonald, University of Toronto; “The Nationalist Ethics of Transatlantic Abolitionist Poetry”; Kendall McClellan, SUNY Binghamton; “The Travelling Faces and Confessional Spaces of Wieland”; Steven Bellomy, University of South Carolina
2.17 St. Michel: Serializing Fiction I; Chair: Elsa Nettels, College of William and Mary; “Romola in the Cornhill: Pictures and Text”; Rita Bode, Trent University; “Detective Time and the American Tale: Poe’s Serialization of Mary Roger’s Death”; Lydia Fash, Brandeis University; “‘After all my dear, tomorrow is another day!’ Seriality and Emancipation in Maupin’s Tales”; Toni Pape, Université de Montréal
2.18 St. Leonard: ‘This world only my body remembered’: Women Writing Nature, Nation and Self; Chair: Shealeen Meaney, Russell Sage College; “‘Nature with a Capital N’: Humour and Feminist Ecocriticism in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”; Alison Toron, University of New Brunswick; “‘It’s systems we always end up fighting’: Gender, Capitalism, and Wounding”; Allison Craig, SUNY Albany; “Hard and Humble Places: Wilderness and Weakness in Annie Proulx’s Regionalism”; Ryan Hediger, La Salle University; “‘Is one never to forget that it is not proper to wear gold beads with crape?’”; Shealeen Meaney, Russell Sage College