Area Index

20th Century Sentimentalism 4.09

Adoption in Contemporary Literature and Culture 6.11

Affect and Periodization: Rethinking the Long 19th Century 3.05

African American Discourse on Democratic Identity and Freedom I 8.13

African American Discourse on Democratic Identity and Freedom II 11.14

American Fiction Reflecting Global Ecological Concerns 11.12

American Horror: Gothic Strategies in Ante-bellum Discourses 2.06

American Literary Tourism 9.01

American Literatures Special Event and Reception 16.04

Blowing Up America: Amiri Baraka’s Revolutionary Theatre 17.08

Brooklyn Poetics 9.12

Chicas, Nǚhái, Batang babae: Girlhood in Contemporary Ethnic American Literature 7.12

The Cold War as an American Cultural Dominant, 1945-1955 3.06

Crowd Forms in American Literature 7.14

Family Formations in Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature 14.14

The Family in Contemporary American Drama 7.13

Feeling Wrong: Postbellum Adaptations of Sentimental Literary Conventions 5.14

Fire and Rust Remembered: Legacies of the Urban Crisis in Contemporary Culture 13.04

Gender, Sexuality and New Perspectives in Asian American Literature and Film I 5.05

Geocritical New England 14.13

House and Home in 20th Century American Film and Literature 14.12

In Memory of Radio: Modernity, (Post) Metropolis, and American Writing 2.05

In the Wake of 9/11: American Texts in the Twenty-First Century I 11.01

In the Wake of 9/11: American Texts in the Twenty-First Century II 15.05

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur: American Paradox 8.14

Label Me Latina or Latino 8.12

‘Luminously indiscreet’: The Visibility and Vision of Gwendolyn Brooks 5.15

Mapping Success and Failure in American Literature 4.02

Naming and Framing: Identity Construction in Children’s Literature and Culture 8.04

New Jersey 5.12

No Longer Silent: Trauma in Contemporary Asian American (Korean) Literature 15.17

Pan-American Immigration Narratives 11.11

Physician/Pastor, Doctor/Divine: Intersections of American Religion and Medicine 14.15

A (Post)Secular Age: Protestant Epistemologies and the American Novel 12.11

Redeeming Modernity: Economy, Religion, and Literature in Modern America 4.05

Restaging Their/Our Lives: Performing Biography on the Contemporary Stage 18.03

Retellings: Literature as Literary Criticism II 17.09

‘Savages we call them’: Imagining the Native in Early American Literature 7.02

The Single Woman 9.21

Social Issues in American Drama 5.13

Space, Sexuality and New Perspectives in Asian American Literature and Film II 6.12

Suddenly Everyone Has a Cherokee Great-Grandmother: Teaching Native Literatures 12.22

The Text of the Body: Art, Technology, Slavery. and Empire in the 19th century 7.04

The Acknowledged Legislator: A Critical (Re)Assessment of Martín Espada 9.14

Thinking Comparatively in Contemporary Literature 8.10

Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson: Revisioning the American West 12.19

Transnational ‘Environmentalities’ in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature 4.01

Trends in 21st Century American Drama 10.03

Utopian Impulses: Hope, Futurity, and Change in American Literature 9.13

The Vicious Circle: The Days, Dames, and (K)nights of the Algonquin Round Table 13.01

Willa Cather: Themes and Narrative Techniques 11.26

William Carlos Williams and the Meaning of the Local 6.01

Women and Wilderness: Ecofeminism in Early American Literature 10.10

19th Century British Studies Special Event 13.09

African Modernisms, African Modernities 7.15

Amateur Performance in the Long Nineteenth Century 2.07

Arthurian Avatars: The King Arthur Myth from Medieval to Modern Times 8.02

Between Genres, Between Disciplines 13.23

British and Anglophone Literatures Speaker 16.09

British Area Special Event 3.17

Contemporary Theatre in South Africa 13.08

Creativity and Imagination at the Fin De Siècle (1870-1910) 14.24

The Criminal Underworld in Medieval Literature 10.18

Dickens in 2012: Preparing for Boz’s Bicentennial 9.04

Dracula and Beyond: The Evolution of the Vampire 7.16

Drag, Dress and Disguise in Eighteenth-Century Novels 10.11

Facing In-Yer-Face Drama 12.21

Feeling In Common: Cultivating Sympathy in the Writings of George Eliot 18.06

From Here to Modernity: New Perspectives on Sensation Fiction 8.01

‘I am born’: The Characters of Charles Dickens 7.01

Intellectual and Manual Labor in Early Modern England 18.13

John Milton and the History of the Book 6.03

The Languages of James Joyce 4.13

Magic and Modernism 5.17

Marvell, History, Theory 5.18

Midnight’s Children: Thirty Years Later 14.17

Mothers of the Novel: Engendering Self as Woman in the Eighteenth Century 9.15

Muriel Spark: Before, During and After The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 14.16

‘My dwelling place among you’: Faith and Landscape in the Middle Ages 14.01

Narrative is the Essence of History: The History of the Historical Novel 9.22

Neomedievalism 11.15

New Approaches to Early Modern Historical Drama I 4.11

New Approaches to Early Modern Historical Drama II: Religion & The History Play 6.14

The New William Golding 6.13

Performing Knowledge 10.20

‘Quit the road to ill-being’: Nineteenth-Century Ecocriticism 8.15

Re-tellings: Literature as Literary Criticism I 15.16

Religion in the Shelley Circle 11.16

Renaissance Trauma 9.11

Samuel Beckett and Bilingualism I 4.25

Samuel Beckett and Bilingualism II 6.04

Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature 2.08

Secrets and Surveillance in the Victorian Novel 4.12

Shakespearean Adaptations and Appropriations 14.10

The Specter of Degeneration in 19th Century Literature II 17.05

‘The record of bitter moments’: Prison Writing as a Genre I 3.07

‘The record of bitter moments’: Prison Writing as a Genre II 5.19

Theorizing the Victorian Novel 5.16

Transnational Ireland: The Celtic Tiger and Beyond 13.03

Twentieth-Century Blake 11.09

Urban Spaces and Contact Zones in 20th Century Literature 15.10

Victorian Bodies and Machines 6.02

Victorian Women Writers: Constructions of Masculinity I 11.17

Victorian Women Writers: Constructions of Masculinity II 17.10

Wilde Family Values 14.06

Personal and Social Myth-making in the Work of Margaret Atwood 6.15

Women Writers and the Historical Novel in Canada 3.08

Aesthetics and Politics of Literary Multilingualism 12.09

Approaching New Latin American Writing 4.14

Duly Noted: Approaches to Paratext 5.01

The Fin de Siècle and the Idea of ‘End’ and Degeneration 14.18

Fractured Identities and Transgressive Practices in the Fin-de-Siècle Novel 11.18

The Immortal Fairy Tale: Re-writings and Re-visions 18.07

Literary Dress: Fashioning the Fictional Self 13.02

Programs in Peril 9.19

Revolutionary Terror 8.16

The Space of Memory 7.17

The Specter of Degeneration in 19th Century Literature I 15.18

Transnational Literatures Special Event and Reception 16.05

Unreliability as a Narrative Trope in Postcolonial Literature 13.11

Captions, Slogans, and Stares (Oh, My!): Image as Argument in College Writing 9.09

Community in the Composition Classroom II: Literacies and Growth 17.15

‘Community’ in Composition Instruction I 12.23

Leading Lines: Social Networking as Impetus for Scholarly Formation 7.09

Not Just Another ‘F’ Word: Reviewing and Renewing Feminist Writing Pedagogies 4.15

Writing Assessment Inside and Outside the English Department 10.21

Experiments in Hybrid Essay 6.23

MLS Writers’ and Editors’ Reception 16.02

Poetry and the Academy 3.09

Quotation and Originality 15.19

Affects and Spaces in Latin American Cinema, Performance and Literature 18.01

Cinema and Demos 9.05

Concepts of Identity in Post-colonial African Culture 10.26

Constructing ‘Brazilian-ness’ through Cinematic Manipulations 15.06

Cultural Studies and Film Screening (7:30pm) 16.08

Cultural Studies and Film Special Event 13.05

Detective Fiction and Other Genres: Friends or Foes? 18.04

Environmentalism in the Realm of Science-Fiction and Fantasy 5.20

Experimentation in Latin American Film 10.02

Figuring Diversity in the Cultural Imaginary I 4.07

Figuring Diversity in the Cultural Imaginary II 6.06

The Films of Kathryn Bigelow 6.07

Housewives of Millennial Television 12.10

Immersions: Breaching Reality through Play 14.07

Italian ‘Famiglia’ Representations in Cinema and Television 14.02

Made in Spain: The Almodóvar Phenomenon 5.07

New Media and the Asian Diaspora 12.04

The Other French Cinema(s) of the 1930s 5.06

Reading the Postcolonial Other in Contemporary Film 15.08

Representations of Disability in Literature and Culture 7.18

Reshaping the Italian American Identity 6.10

Surplus Formulations in Detection Fiction 11.19

Transnational Relations: Sexuality and Body Traffic across the Global Village 12.03

Understanding Avatar, Part I: ‘I See You’ 14.19

Understanding Avatar, Part II: A Movie Made for the Masses 17.03

Visceral Subjects: Exploring Bodies, Exploring Knowledges 7.19

Wandering Women: Female Itinerancy on Film 10.04

What a ‘Man’’s Gotta Do: (Re)Defining Duty in Post-Feminist Action Films 18.10

The Arabo-Islamic Traditions in Literature in French 15.20

The Complexity and Originality of Camus’s Writings 3.10

Contemporary Female Playwrights in France 4.06

Exploration of Senses in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography 8.17

The Francophone African Intellectual I 13.22

The Francophone African Intellectual II 17.06

Identité nationale dans le roman francophone contemporain 14.11

J.M.G. Le Clézio: Un écrivain engagé? 4.16

Les enjeux du « je » en jeu dans la littérature francophone 11.20

Love and Friendship in French and Francophone Women’s Fiction and Film 7.10

Manipulative Forewords: Authors’ Imposed Agenda in Prefaces 11.10

Melting-Pots and Mosaics: Paris and Montréal in Francophone Literature 10.12

Postmodern French Literature 8.18

Relire les ‘Classiques’ Africains Francophones 2.09

Rethinking Motherhood in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature 12.24

Seventeenth-Century French Writers’ Ideas, Philosophy, and Beliefs 5.21

Teaching Content through French and Francophone Film 6.24

Transposing the Arts 7.05

What is France? Ideology, Politics and Utopia in Early Modern French Literature 14.20

Collecting in German Literature and Culture 7.03

Cultural and Political Dislocation and Reorientation in United Germany I 3.11

Eighteenth-Century Hierarchies 14.03

Fatih Akin and His Films 13.06

German Cultural and Political Dislocation and Reorientation in United Germany II 5.08

German Language and Literature Area Speaker and Reception 16.03

German Romanticism and the Revolution in Science 8.03

Herta Müller: Perspectives on the Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature 14.25

Hybrid Identities: Second Generation Immigrants (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) 9.02

Images of Eastern Europe in Recent German Literature and Film 11.21

Images of Eastern Europe in Recent German Literature and Film I 7.20

Magic and Mechanics – Trends in Recent German Young Adult Fiction 15.11

‘Nationalism-with-a-big-N’ in German Historical Fiction of the Long 19th Century 4.17

Rafik Schami - The Poet and Storyteller 10.13

Rap Music’s Sophisticated Dialogues with Society 15.01

Reading German Girls 6.08

The Spatial Turn in Literary Theory I 15.07

Suddenness (Plötzlichkeit) and Literature 5.22

Towards a Continuum of Language, Culture, Literature in Undergraduate German 12.14

Transnational Genres in 18th Century German Literature 10.01

Ventures into the Unknown: Literary and Cinematic Representation of City Spaces 13.10

Writing Surveillance: Transcultural Perspectives 9.16

1861-2011: Reflecting on Italian Unification in Literature and Cinema 10.22

Anna Maria Ortese: la passione della scrittura 12.15

Booting the ‘Boot’: Teaching Contemporary Italy with Technology 11.05

Calvino and the City: New Critical Perspectives 17.01

Corporeality: Italian Literary Bodies of the XX and XXI Centuries 4.18

Dante’s Journey to God. Spiritual Poetics in the Divine Comedy 12.16

Defining Society: Representations of Food in Italian Literature and Culture 5.10

Didattica 2.0: Teaching Italian With a Web 2.0 Perspective 2.01

Early Italian Literature: Text Within Its Material Context 10.25

The EcoGothic in Italian Literature and Culture 9.17

Fashion and Costume as Mirrors of Society and Time 9.23

Fra parola e immagine: (ri)scritture umanistiche 2.11

From Cavour to Berlusconi: 150 Years of Italian History in Cinema 7.07

Futurism and Science 12.05

Guido Cavalcanti and His Legacy 8.19

Homosexual Women in Italian Literature, Cinema and Other Media 11.04

Human Rights in the Italian Theatre 3.12

Il ‘900 sommerso italiano 11.22

Il Caso Saviano 14.26

Il cortometraggio italiano nel terzo millennio. Stili, tendenze, prospettive 7.06

‘Il sentimento del contrario’: l’Umorismo nella Letteratura Italiana 8.05

Islam in Contemporary Italy 8.20

Italian and Anglo-American Literature: A Dialogue through Translation 3.04

Italian Area Special Event and Reception 16.06

Italian Media Socialization. Between Private, Public and On-line Narratives 10.09

Italy in WWII and the Transition to Democracy: Memory, Fiction, Histories 18.12

Italy’s 150th. Norms, Forms and Storms (and Some…Stress): from 1861 to WWI 6.18

L’Altro Tasso: A Discussion of Tasso’s ‘Not-So-Minor’ Works 15.22

Literature and the Arts: An Exemplar of Multicultural Understanding 13.07

Migrant Writers: New Frontiers in Contemporary Italian Literature 15.03

Misteri di carta: il Giallo Italiano oltre la letteratura di genere 4.24

Narratives by and about Migrants in Italy: Literature, Cinema, and Discourse 14.08

New Trends in Teaching Italian with Technologies 10.05

Oltre la pizza, il Colosseo e il tiramisù 1.02

Petrarch, Petrarchism and Beyond 6.17

Popular Italian Cinema: from Ubalda to Er Monnezza 9.24

Post-National and Trans-National Italian Cinema 12.06

Representations of Dante’s Inferno in the Visual Arts and in Literature 4.03

Representations of Women and War in 20th Century Italian Literature and Film 17.04

Representing the City in Italian Modernity 18.02

Something Old, New, Borrowed, True: Italian Literature from ‘900 to Present 13.13

Thinking (of) Women in the Italian Renaissance 5.23

Traveling in and out of Italy 2.10

Twentieth-Century Italian Lyrical Landscape 15.21

‘Voglio morire’: Suicide in Italian Literature of the XIX and XX Centuries 8.21

Writing and Screening Images of Men: Masculinities in Italian Studies 14.21

Writing the Self: Italian Women Autobiography 13.12

LGBTQ Identities in Latin America 12.17

LGBTQ Studies and Pedagogy 6.19

Narrating Queer Histories 11.08

Prove It On Me: Ambivalent Lesbian Representation in the Harlem Renaissance 4.19

Queer Counterpublic 10.06

Queer Space(s) in the German-Speaking World 13.14

(Re)Imagining Expatriates: Queer Transnationalisms in American Literature 7.21

Artistic Adventures: Introducing the Visual Arts in the XXI Century Classroom 6.09

Best Practices in Online Teaching: Language and Literature Courses 4.08

Connecting Language and Literature: Standards-Based Instruction in Higher Ed. 12.02

The Future of Open Content Education is Now: Social Learning and Scholarship 3.01

Getting to Advanced Low: Preparation for the Oral Proficiency Interview 10.07

Problem Based Learning: Strategies, Struggles, and Successes 10.14

(Re)Teaching the Spanish Classics: Integrating Technology, the Web, and Film 15.04

Rethinking Teaching in Lean Times 6.25

Teaching Translation in the 21st Century 7.26

Teaching Writing in the Digital Age: Literacy, Access, and Community 17.16

Academic Publishing in the Next Decade: Negotiating Change, Seizing Opportunity 1.03

Adapting Your Syllabus for Different Campuses 1.01

Diversity, Identity, and Graduate School 8.11

Graduate Student Caucus Board and Membership Meeting 16.07

Publishing Articles in Academic Journals 13.15

Traditional, Alternative and Successful Approaches through Academe 13.20

Translation: The ‘Next Big Thing’ to Revitalize the Humanities? 9.20

Who Will Advocate for Our Part-Time Faculty? 15.12

East European Literatures: Thinking Change, Conceiving Futures 4.10

Not Through My Skin: Sexuality and the Female Body in East-Central European Film 3.02

Russian 20th-Century Poetry in New Contexts 7.22

Russian Dissident Art and Writing in the Soviet Union 6.05

Russian Poetry: Golden Age to Silver Age, and Beyond 5.02

Russian Representations of World War II 2.02

2001-2011: Terror and Trauma on the Post-9/11 Spanish Stage 8.22

Anti-Hero and Victims in the Spanish Theatre of the 21st Century 15.23

Behind the Lens: Immigration and Globalization in Spanish Contemporary Film 10.08

Body and the Politics of Resistance in the 21st century Latin American Narrative 6.26

Center and Periphery: Representing Spanishness in Contemporary Literature 11.02

Comparative Approaches to Early Modern Spanish and British Drama 2.13

Critical Discourses: Early Modern Spanish Literary Women 14.22

Critical Discourses: Early Modern Spanish Literary Women II 18.05

Crossing Borders and Performing Gender on the Spanish-Speaking Stage 5.24

Cyberspace and Literature in Latin America: What Does The Future Entail? 3.03

Displaced Communities 11.06

El español como lengua extranjera (E/LE): Tropiezos en el proceso de adquisición 7.11

El mundo literario de Maite Carranza: Homenaje a la escritora y su obra 13.21

Europa y América Latina: de un lado a otro del mar en las polémicas del siglo XX 17.11

Ficcion, Intriga y Fantasma. Novela historica vs narrativa testimonial 4.20

The Genre of the Self Portrait in Hispanic Poetry 3.14

Imagining Communities: Cuban Women Poets of the Diaspora 17.12

The Intellectual as a Public Figure in 20th Century Latin America 2.12

Issues on Ecology in Latin American Literature and Culture 9.03

Manifestations of Madness and Love in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Literature 7.23

Paradigmas de sexualidad en la escritura (re)escritura de los cuentos de hadas 15.13

The Performative City: Contemporary Spanish Urban Culture 12.07

Reflections on Lusophone Literatures and Cultures 8.06

Trauma and Memory in Literature and Film of Latin America 12.08

Vertientes de la literatura fantástica en Hispanoamérica 18.14

Witnessing Women’s Transnational Migration in Hispanic Narrative and Film 15.14

Women, Love, and Eroticism in Latin American Poetry 12.18

Articulating the Human and its Others 5.09

Authority and Uncertainty in Poetic Language and Practice 10.15

Cyber Aesthetics: Communication, Literature and Digital Reproducibility 12.01

Ecocritical Activisms and Activist Ecologies 7.08

I See What You Say: Exploring Intersections of the Visual and the Literary 14.04

Legal Fictions 18.09

Literary Darwinism and Social Justice 9.18

Literary Landscapes: Representation and Imagination 8.24

Literature and the Experience of Ecstasy 5.25

Medical Visions of Modernism 15.26

Methodologies of Science and Literature 8.23

Persons and Things: a Roundtable in Memorial to Barbara Johnson 3.15

Posthumanism, Biopower, and Modern and Contemporary War 9.08

Questioning Hybridity: Colonial Métissage, Postcolonialism, and Globalization 17.13

Rethinking the Postmodern Monster 9.10

Routes of Memory: Remapping Trauma Studies 2.15

Seeing Texts and Speaking Images: Visual-Verbal Dialogues in Modernity 4.04

Separation as Condition and as Solution 2.14

Serial Narratives and Temporality 11.07

The Spatial Turn in Literary Theory II 18.08

Uncovering the Tradition of Vitalism in 20th Century Literature 18.11

Word, Image, and Contemporary Lyric Voice(s) 5.03

The Art of Villainy: Machiavelli and the Creation of the Fictional Villain 13.16

Canada and the African Diasporic Literary Imaginary 2.03

Central European Authors 12.12

Complicated Space: Reading the Transnational Text 10.23

Global Magical Realisms and Speculative Fiction 7.24

Globalization and the Americas: Challenging Categories of Literary Production 3.16

Intersections of language and culture: Sprachgemisch, métissage & code-switching 8.07

Journeys of the Bicultural Self : Narrative Geographies from the Middle East 17.07

Memory of Borders, Borders of Memory: Life Writing at a Distance 2.04

Modernism, Modernity, and Politics: Face-off or Interface? 15.25

Music Contingencies in Narrated Americas. 17.02

Narrated Objects: Literature and Material Culture in the Americas 9.06

‘Only the Difficult Stimulates’: The Interplay of Opacities in Caribbean Lit 10.17

Post/Colonial Nostalgia in South Asian Literature 10.16

Theorizing Mobility in Transnational Literature 8.25

Traditional and Modern Medicine in Caribbean Literature 12.20

What is ‘World Literature’? 15.09

World Literature / Global Empathy 11.03

Zero World Literature I: Theories of the Outside 15.24

Advancing Gender Equality 6.22

The American Short Story Cycle: A Gendered Genre? 7.25

Best Practices in Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies 11.13

The Classic Figure: Women in the Ancient World 13.17

Classical Women in Modern Literature and Media 14.05

Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing 13.19

Contemporary Women’s Novels: The Changing Story? 5.04

Death, Dying and Dislocation: Transnational Grief Literature 17.17

The Devil Comes in Many Genders: Depictions of the Diabolical in Literature 4.23

Disordered Narratives: Psychological Illness in Women’s Life Writing 4.22

Donors and Helpers: Masculinity in Contemporary Fairy Tales 6.21

Female Friendship in Local Color Fiction 12.26

The Female Player in European Fiction (1780-1900): Gender Issues 3.13

Feminist Alternative Media in the Long 1970s 14.09

Flânerie and the Rise of the Modern Urban Woman 8.27

Interdisciplinary Studies and Women Modernists 15.02

The Loudest Voice: Contemporary Jewish American Women’s Literature 5.11

Narrating the Public Self: YouTube, Facebook, and Contemporary Feminism 8.08

The Outsider Within: Women as Contingent Faculty in the Academy 10.24

The Power of Marginal Spaces in the Works of Carmen Martin Gaite 8.26

Representations of Gendered Transnational Identity in Contemporary Literature 13.18

Rethinking Second & Third Wave Feminisms 4.21

Transnational Women’s Writing in 20th-century Europe 11.23

We’re plotting our evil, feminist agenda: Women’s Documentaries 9.07

When Motherhood Studies Meets Other Disciplines 6.20

Women and Gender Studies Caucus Business Meeting 12.13

Women Writers and Psychoanalysis 10.19

Women’s & Gender Studies Caucus Special Event and Reception 16.01

Arabic Studies: Challenges and Successes 12.25

Contemporary Fiction from the Middle East 11.25

Investigating the Scope of Persian/Iranian Literatures 14.23

Planetary Lyricism in Modern Chinese Poetry 11.24

Teaching Culture of Less-Commonly Taught Languages 8.09

Zero World Literature II: Texts of the Outside 17.14