Friday Sessions

Session 4

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

4.01 Conference A: Transnational ‘Environmentalities’ in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature; Chair: Margaret L. Finn, Temple University; “From Emerson to Muir: The ‘Over-Soul’ in Our National Parks”; Dewey W. Hall, California State Polytechnic University; “Can’t Exist 100 Years Hence: New Transatlantic Ecocriticism in the Literature of The Great Eastern”; Paul Fisher, Wellesley College; “Ecofeminism and Convergent Colonial/Native American Subjectivity in Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie”; Margaret Finn, Temple University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
4.02 Salon A: Mapping Success and Failure in American Literature; Chair: Lisette Schillig, Lock Haven University; “The Inscription of Failure: The Fate of Documents in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man”; David M. Ball, Dickinson College; “Proceed With Caution: The Perilous Road to Success in Anderson’s ‘The Egg’”; Robert Wauhkonen, Lesley University; “Failure and Defiance: Jack Kerouac and American Hobo Culture”; Lisette Schillig, Lock Haven University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
4.03 Salon D: Representations of Dante’s Inferno in the Visual Arts and in Literature; Chair: Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross; “Raccontare l’indicibile: echi della Commedia nelle architetture commemorative della Shoah”; Alessandro Ravera, Università di Genova; “Il Danteum di Terragni”; Gianluca Porcile, Università di Genova; “Temporal Conflation & Artistic Representations of Reading and Death in the 19th Century Imaginary”; Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Berkeley University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
4.04 Conference B: Seeing Texts and Speaking Images: Visual-Verbal Dialogues in Modernity; Chair: Mary V. Marchand, Goucher College; “To Paint and Write in Abstract: Severo Sarduy’s Visual and Verbal Imaginary”; Mayte G. Harbison, University of Illinois-Chicago; “Imaging the Invasion: Czechoslovak and Soviet Photojournalism during the 1968 Invasion”; Julia Friday, SUNY New Paltz; “Text and Image in Partnership: Narrative Intersections in Jeff Smith’s Bone”; Emily Lauer, Hunter College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
4.05 Conference C: Redeeming Modernity: Economy, Religion, and Literature in Modern America; Chair: Andrew Ball, Purdue University; “King David Redux: Louis Zukofsky’s Thanks to the Dictionary and the Instability of Intertextuality”; Mathias Svalina, Metropolitan State College of Denver; “Saint Chic: Gertrude Stein and the Marketing of Americans”; Jennifer H. Williams, Calvin College; “Eliot’s Beliefs about Belief”; Craig Woelfel, University of Notre Dame; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
4.06 Conference I: Contemporary Female Playwrights in France; Chairs: Sofia Varino, Stony Brook University; Elizabeth Lindley, Cambridge University; “Le couteau dans la plaie: Théâtre témoignage, théâtre thérapie dans Trames de Gerty Dambury”; Maria-Luisa Ruiz, Medgar Evers College; “Desire of the Other in the Theater According to Hélène Cixous”; Sofia Varino, Stony Brook University; “Re-Producing Feminine Virtue: Adapting Madame de Genlis for the Contemporary French Stage”; Gillian Pierce, Boston University
4.07 Salon B: Figuring Diversity in the Cultural Imaginary I; Chair: Elizabeth Cherniak, Brock University; “Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth: a Transcolonial Letter to the Heart of Migrant Identity”; Licínia Pereira, University of Coimbra; “Anorexia in Temporal Drag”; Megan Milks, University of Illinois-Chicago; “Men (Self) Interpreting Disability in Jimenez’s The Waterdance and Lodge’s Deaf Sentence”; Elizabeth Cherniak, Brock University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
4.08 Conference D: Best Practices in Online Teaching: Language and Literature Courses (Roundtable); Chair: Chelsea Ray, University of Maine-Augusta; “Best Practices in Teaching Literature Online: Innovative Strategies That Work”; E. Nicole Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Blended and Online Models for the Teaching of Italian”; Daria Valentini, Stonehill College; “Design Choices for Online Language: Online Portuguese at UMass Amherst”; Cecília Rodrigues, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “In the Classroom, Blended, or Online? Teaching Languages in the 21st Century”; Chelsea Ray, University of Maine-Augusta; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
4.09 Conference G: 20th Century Sentimentalism; Chair: Jenn Williamson, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Ironic Sentimentalism/Sentimental Irony: The Aesthetic Ambiguity of Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady”; Stephanie Byttebier, Boston University; “‘Grimly sentimental’: Djuna Barnes reads Little Eva”; Julie Taylor, University of Oxford; “Medical Transparency as Sentimental Literature: Susanna Kaysen’s The Camera My Mother Gave Me”; Patricia Ploesch, Western Governors University
4.10 Salon C: East European Literatures: Thinking Change, Conceiving Futures (Roundtable); Chair: Mihaela Harper, University of Rhode Island; “Bonjour Ostesse: ‘Left-Overs’ and ‘Easthetics’ in Michael Schorr’s Schröders wunderbare Welt”; Annemarie Fischer, Binghamton University; “‘BOMZH’ of the Leningrad Underground: The Legacy of Oleg Grigoriev”; Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University; “Movements of Anomie: ‘Naturally Novel’ with Georgi Gospodinov”; Mihaela Harper, University of Rhode Island; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
4.11 Conference JK: New Approaches to Early Modern Historical Drama I; Chair: Miles Taylor, Le Moyne College; “James IV and the Problem of Historical Romance”; Miles Taylor, Le Moyne College; “The North-South Divide and Chorographical Representations in the Elizabethan History Plays”; Jaecheol Kim, University at Buffalo; “With Usurper’s Name: Sovereignty, Subversion, and Gender in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam”; Christopher Kempf, Rutgers University
4.12 Conference E: Secrets and Surveillance in the Victorian Novel; Chair: Karina Everett, Fordham University; “Secrets Above Stairs: The Upper Servant in Jane Eyre”; Karina Everett, Fordham University; “‘[L]ooking into things’: Secrets and Secret Keepers in Anthony Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right”; Rebekah Greene, University of Rhode Island; “Spaces of Cultural Surveillance: The Museum and Library in Eliot’s Novels”; Anne Terrill, Rutgers University
4.13 Conference F: The Languages of James Joyce; Chairs: Salvatore Pappalardo, Rutgers University; Maria Kager, Rutgers University; “Hellenic Polysemy: Joyce’s Multivalent Appropriations and Deployments”; Barry Spence, University of Massachusetts Amherst; “Joyce and Chinese: ‘above giddiness’?”; Clifford Mak, University of Pennsylvania; “Joyce and Benjamin: Translating into the Wake”; Vaclav Paris, University of Pennsylvania
4.14 Room 248: Approaching New Latin American Writing; Chair: Bernabé Mendoza, San Francisco State University; “The Discourse of the Master as the Plane of Subversion”; Michael Swacha, Georgetown University; “Bending the Rules: Literature and National Identity in Haiti and the Dominican Republic”; Jamee Indigo Eriksen, Mills College; “Readers in Search of an Author: Discerning Angst and Identity in Bolaño’s Detectives”; Bernabé Mendoza, San Francisco State University
4.15 Brunswick A: Not Just Another ‘F’ Word: Reviewing and Renewing Feminist Writing Pedagogies (Roundtable); Chair: Patricia D. Pytleski, Kutztown University; “Gender Bias in the Composition Classroom”; Patricia D. Pytleski, Kutztown University; “Under the Radar: Using Feminist Pedagogical Methods to Facilitate Peer Workshops”; Cathleen Rhodes, Old Dominion University; “Gender-Based Arguments, Hitchens and Feminist Pedagogy”; Charlotte Lucy Latham, CUNY Graduate Center
4.16 Brunswick B: J.M.G. Le Clézio: Un écrivain engagé?; Chair: Keith Moser, Mississippi State University; “« Rien d’autre que la liberté » : Oppression, Revolt and Hope in the Œuvre of J.M.G. Le Clézio”; Amy Cartal-Falk, Lycoming College; “Le Clézio’s De-centered Humanism and Cosmic Engagement : Posing Questions in an Age of Suspicion”; Keith Moser, Mississippi State University; “Vie animale, vie humaine : même cause, même combat selon J-M Le Clézio dans ‘’Pawana.’’”; Karim Simpore, St. Lawrence University
4.17 Brunswick C: ‘Nationalism-with-a-big-N’ in German Historical Fiction of the Long 19th Century; Chair: Diane Liu, Brown University; “Revisiting the Past: History, Hospitality, and Nationalism in Fontane’s Der Stechlin”; Nathan Magnusson, University of Washington; “Through the Liberal Looking Glass: 19th-Century German History in Hermann Sudermann’s Katzensteg”; Jason Doerre, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Imperial Vision and the Battle over the Borderlands in Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben”; Diane Liu, Brown University
4.18 Brunswick D: Corporeality: Italian Literary Bodies of the XX and XXI Centuries; Chair: Gregory Pell, Hofstra University; “The Flesh Made Word: Futurist Poetics and the Cybernetic Subject”; Anthony Martire, University of California-Berkeley; “Enif Robert as ‘Womb Speaker’ in Un ventre di donna (1919): the Female Subject within Futurism”; Tristana Rorandelli, Sarah Lawrence College; “Igiaba Scego’s Bodies: Oltre Babilonia”; Vivian Gerrand, University of Melbourne
4.19 Regency A: Prove It On Me: Ambivalent Lesbian Representation in the Harlem Renaissance; Chair: Phillip Zapkin, University of Vermont; “‘With all its agony and rare delights’: Lesbian Erotics in the Poetry of Angelina Weld Grimké”; Ellen McWhorter, Merrimack College; “Living the Lie: Miscegenation and Lesbian Desire in Nella Larsen’s Passing”; Megan Payne, University of West Georgia; “Critically Passing: How Nella Larsen’s Passing Passed Before Queer Theory”; Phillip Zapkin, University of Vermont
4.20 Regency B: Ficcion, Intriga y Fantasma. Novela historica vs narrativa testimonial; Chair: Pablo Pintado-Casas, Kean University; “Historias presentes en la España canovista”; Susana Liso, Kean University; “Re-Examinando el Referente Histórico–Narrativo del Siglo de Oro en la obra de Arturo Perez-Reverte”; Alejandro De La Pava, University of South Florida; “Voces fantasmas en la narrativa testimonial de Javier Marias”; Pablo Pintado-Casas, Kean University
4.21 Regency C: Rethinking Second & Third Wave Feminisms (Roundtable); Chair: D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Boston University; “Hateful Violent Bitches: Valerie Solanas in the Third Wave”; Anna Ioanes, University of Virginia; “The Seduction of Generations: Feminist Critical Desire and the Stakes of Generational Feminism”; Jen McDaneld, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Matrophobia and the Wave Metaphor: Purging Mother Blame”; D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Boston University
4.22 Regency D: Disordered Narratives: Psychological Illness in Women’s Life Writing; Chair: Georgia Kreiger, Allegany College of Maryland; “Mind and Metaphor: Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind and Figurative Expressions of Disorder”; Kerri Linden, City University of New York; “Agony’s Contest”; James MdAdams, Villanova University; “First-Person Omniscient: The Necessity of the Fictive in Lauren Slater’s Welcome to My Country”; Georgia Kreiger, Allegany College of Maryland
4.23 Regency E: The Devil Comes in Many Genders: Depictions of the Diabolical in Literature; Chairs: Maureen Moynihan, SUNY Buffalo; Cynthia Jones, SUNY Buffalo; “A Woman Possessed: How Emilia Pardo Bazán’s ’Possession’ Raised Hell in Her Day”; Wan Sonya Tang, Yale University; “Seventh-Day Adventism, Milton’s Satan, and Jamaica Kincaid’s Flat World”; Ian Bickford, Bard High School Early College; “Demonic Representations of Women in the Works of the French Aoman Author Rachilde”; Cynthia Jones, SUNY Buffalo
4.24 Regency F: Misteri di carta: il Giallo Italiano oltre la letteratura di genere; Chair: Andrea Pera, Independent Scholar; “La detective story come ricostruzione territoriale in Carlo Lucarelli”; Andrea Pera, Independent Scholar; “Contemporary Italian female sleuths in the novels of Bucciarelli, Venezia and Verasani”; Antonella Antonelli, University of Oregon; “Commissario Montalbano’s contemporaneity in light of Agamben’s theory on the ‘Contemporaneo’”; Giulio Mario Bonacucina, University Of Oregon
4.25 Boardroom: Samuel Beckett and Bilingualism I; Chair: Marie Berne, City University-Hong Kong; “Listening to the Outer Voice: Translation and ‘mise en ondes’ in Samuel Beckett”; Lea Sinoimeri, University of Le Havre; “Poetics of Bilingualism in Beckett’s Œuvre”; Nadia Louar, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; “Joyce, Beckett, and the Politics of Multilingualism”; Michelle McSwiggan Kelly, Fordham University

Session 5

Friday, April 8, 10:00AM - 11:30AM

5.01 Conference A: Duly Noted: Approaches to Paratext; Chair: Anna Strowe, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Learned Texts/Texts for Learning: Paratexts in St. Gall Stiftsbibliothek 1395”; Brandon W. Hawk, University of Connecticut; “Kierkegaard’s Silent Sibyl: The Haunted Epigraph and Epilogue of Fear and Trembling”; Lori Yamato, Graduate Center-CUNY; “Musical Notes: The Book Score as Paratext”; Justin St. Clair, University of South Alabama; “Are We Reading the Same Text?: Paratextual Differences between the Codex and E-Book Readers”; Christopher Doody, Trent University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
5.02 Salon A: Russian Poetry: Golden Age to Silver Age, and Beyond; Chair: Francoise Rosset, Wheaton College; “Acmeist Mythopoetics: Nikolai Gumilev, Viacheslav Ivanov, and ‘Eidolology’”; Emily Wang, Princeton University; “Catabasis as Cultural Renaissance in Mandelstam”; Tom Dolack, Wheaton College; “Soviet Jewish Women Writers on Russia, and Jewish Identity: Hanna Levina, Olga Ziv, Yulia Neiman”; Rina Lapidus, Bar-Ilan University; “The Legacy of Koz’ma Prutkov in the Leningrad Avant-Garde”; Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
5.03 Salon D: Word, Image, and Contemporary Lyric Voice(s); Chair: Anne Keefe, Rutgers University; “Writing the Body: The Emerging ‘Voice’ in Sylvia Plath’s Ekphrastic Poetry”; Morani Kornberg-Weiss, SUNY Buffalo; “The Ecstatic Ekphrasis of Anne Carson’s Decreation”; Caroline Miller, University of Michigan; “Decreation: The Reality of Language”; Sarah Kruse, University of Rhode Island; “Lyric ‘I’/Eye: Seeing the Subject in Contemporary Ekphrasis”; Anne Keefe, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
5.04 Conference B: Contemporary Women’s Novels: The Changing Story?; Chair: Karen E. Waldron, College of the Atlantic; “Fragmented Bodies and Fragmented Narratives: The Transnational Black Woman’s Novel”; Donavan L. Ramon, Rutgers University; “Female Domestics and Employers in Transnational Women’s Fiction: Mona Simpson and Thrity Umrigar”; Ambreen Hai, Smith College; “Urban Narratives of Murderous Rage: Natsuo Kirino’s Out and Real World”; Barbara E. Thornbury, Temple University; “Graphic Ecriture: Gender and Magic Iconography in Kari”; Pia Mukherji, Independent Scholar; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
5.05 Conference C: Gender, Sexuality and New Perspectives in Asian American Literature and Film I; Chair: Kavita Daiya, George Washington University; “Romancing the ‘Desi Girl’: Masculinity and Performance in South Asian Diasporic Film and Culture”; Rajiv Menon, New York University; “Coming Out and Saving Face: Queering Asian American Romantic Comedy”; Caroline Kyungah Hong, Queens College-CUNY; “‘Living Things’: Ecological Spaces and the Discourse of the Body in The Coffin Tree”; Leslie Allison, Temple University; “Gender, Sexuality, and U.S. Empire in Cultural Productions of the Vietnam War”; Emily Cheng, Montclair State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
5.06 Conference I: The Other French Cinema(s) of the 1930s; Chairs: Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Bilkent University; Bénédicte Lebéhot, Rutgers University; “The Other Cinephilia: Popular Film Journals of the 1930s”; Leila Wimmer, London Metropolitan University; “Beyond the Colonial: Exoticist Fiction Cinema in 1930s France”; Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Bilkent University; “‘Singing Talkies’ of the 1930s: From Stage to Screens”; Bénédicte Lebéhot, Rutgers University; “Des titres ‘parlants’: étude lexicométrique des titres de films des années 1930”; Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly, College of Staten Island-CUNY; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
5.07 Salon B: Made in Spain: The Almodóvar Phenomenon; Chairs: Maria R. Matz, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Carole Salmon, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; “¿Qué se cocina en la filmografía almodovariana?”; Maria R. Matz, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; “Reading the Religious in Almodóvar”; Elizabeth Scarlett, SUNY Buffalo; “Equally Authentic: Illness and Disability in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar”; Candace Skibba, Carnegie Mellon University; “I am every woman: Roles and Representations of Family Dynamics”; Carole Salmon, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
5.08 Conference D: German Cultural and Political Dislocation and Reorientation in United Germany II; Chair: Axel Hildebrandt, Moravian College; “East Germany Before and After 1989: Christoph Hein’s and Ingo Schulze’s Critique of Unification”; Axel Hildebrandt, Moravian College; “Behind the Veneer of Unification: Sexism, Ageism, and Humanism as ‘Alltag’ in ‘Sommer Vorm Balkon’”; Katie Yankura, Georgetown University; “Vergangenheitskonservierung in Wolfgang Becker’s ‘Good Bye Lenin’”; Mareen Fuchs, Rutgers University; “The Federal Ministry of Defense White Papers (1985-1994): The German Soldier in Transition”; Kevin Richards, Ohio State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
5.09 Conference G: Articulating the Human and its Others; Chairs: Scott DeShong, Quinebaug Valley Community College; Seo-Young Chu, Queens College-CUNY; “The Detention of Ethnic Stereotypes in the Uncanny Valley”; Seo-Young Chu, Queens College-CUNY; “‘We pair off!’: Sexual Reification and Human Extinction in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy”; Joy Cranshaw, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “The Longing to be Written in Michel Houellebecq’s Futuristic Novels”; Emmanuel Buzay, University of Connecticut; “Exhausting the Exhaustive List: Legalistic and Novelistic Readings of Human Rights”; Sunny Xiang, University of California-Berkeley; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
5.10 Salon C: Defining Society: Representations of Food in Italian Literature and Culture; Chair: Daniele De Feo, Rutgers University; “On Voraciousness: Aldo Palazzeschi’s Interrogatorio della Contessa Maria”; Enrico Cesaretti, University of Virginia; “Tomato Revolution in Italy”; Nicoletta Serenata, Ohio State University; “From Fascist Ideals to Consumer Appeals: Negotiating the Significance of Food Stuffs in Mass Media”; Diana Garvin, Cornell University; “Cibo e cultura in Italia: vecchie abitudini e nuove tradizioni.”; Sonia Massari, Siena University; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
5.11 Conference JK: The Loudest Voice: Contemporary Jewish American Women’s Literature; Chair: Tahneer Oksman, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Yente, The Mame and the JAP in Aline Kominsky-Crumb’s Graphic Imagination”; Federica K. Clementi, University of South Carolina; “Ancestors, History, Social Justice: The Jewish Poems of Maxine Kumin and Linda Pastan”; Lois Rubin, Pennsylvania State University-New Kensington; “‘What living things have to come up with to survive’: Vapnyar’s Construction of Competing Realities”; Miriam Brown Spiers, University of Georgia; “Feminist Dybbuks: Spirit Possession in Jewish Women’s Writing”; Agi Legutko, Columbia University; Multimedia Session: Overhead Projector
5.12 Conference E: New Jersey; Chair: Marlene Clark, City College of New York-CUNY; “Looking Homeward: Jersey-Bound in Philip Roth’s Zuckerman Unbound”; David Jarraway, University of Ottawa; “Making History Bearable: Lynda Hull and Reading Newark”; Sean Singer, Rutgers University-Newark; “Stephen Crane’s Situation: Literary Journalism and the Creation of the ‘Jersey Shore’”; James Van Wyck, Fordham University; “Labor’s Love Lost: William Carlos Williams’ ‘Paterson--The Strike’”; Marlene Clark, City College of New York-CUNY
5.13 Boardroom: Social Issues in American Drama; Chair: Cigdem Usekes, Western Connecticut State University; “Maternal Discord in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”; Suzanne Winkel, Arizona State University; “The Enemy Among Us: Queering Public Spaces in Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out”; Donald Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University; “Compulsory Masculinity in Eugene O’Neill’s Hairy Ape, Anna Christie, and The Iceman Cometh”; Lindsay Steuber, The College of New Jersey; “(Un)Popularity of Slavery Plays: Aiken’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Hansberry’s The Drinking Gourd”; Cigdem Usekes, Western Connecticut State University
5.14 Room 248: Feeling Wrong: Postbellum Adaptations of Sentimental Literary Conventions; Chair: Michael Cadwallader, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Writing Immigrant Aid: Sentimental Rhetoric and Progressive Reform Literature”; Laura Fisher, New York University; “Against Eloquence: Elizabeth Stoddard’s Anti-Social Style”; Marissa Gemma, Stanford University; “The Con in Convention: Gender Performance and Female Agency in Alcott’s Behind a Mask”; Mary Ellen Iatropoulos, SUNY New Paltz; “The Bible as Doorstop: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Rewriting of Spiritualism”; Michael Cadwallader, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
5.15 Brunswick A: ‘Luminously indiscreet’: The Visibility and Vision of Gwendolyn Brooks; Chair: William Waddell, St. John Fisher College; “‘The Step of Iron Feet’: The Power of Form in Gwendolyn Brooks’s World War II Poetry”; Rachel Edford, University of Oregon; “Sweetness, Shame, and Sheen: Subjectivity and the Syllable in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Annie Allen”; Jason Hoppe, Johns Hopkins University; “‘There were lives in the buildings’: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Black Aesthetic of the Domestic”; Courtney Thorsson, University of Oregon; “Epic Revisions: Brooks’s ‘In the Mecca’ and Our Understanding of the Civil Rights Movement”; Laura Pfeffer, Arizona State University
5.16 Brunswick B: Theorizing the Victorian Novel; Chair: Robert Lougy, Pennsylvania State University; “Paper Waste: Bleak House’s Rubbish Theory”; Patrick Chappell, Rutgers University; “‘Rent...to its centre’: The Railrway as Bataillean Monument in Middlemarch and Dombey and Son”; Megan Elizabeth Reid, Ohio State University; “Althusserian Readings: Political Portraits in Villette and Middlemarch”; Eric Lorentzen, University of Mary Washington; “Hareton Earnshaw and the Shadow of Idiocy: Disability and Domestic Disorder in Wuthering Heights”; Emily Baldys, Pennsylvania State University
5.17 Brunswick C: Magic and Modernism; Chair: Noreen O’Connor, King’s College; “The New ‘Rough Beast’ of Modernism in W.B. Yeats’s ‘The Second Coming’”; Stuart Hirschberg, Rutgers University; “Religious Exit Narratives and Reservoirs of Mysticism in de Beauvoir’s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”; Kaila Brown, Duke University; “Natural Magic and the Irish Origins of Conradian Impressionism in The Nigger of the Narcissus”; T. J. Boynton, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign; “Ernest Hemingway’s Use of Luck in For Whom the Bell Tolls”; Mary Beth Gallagher, Morgan State University
5.18 Brunswick D: Marvell, History, Theory; Chairs: Philip Mirabelli, Lehman College-CUNY; Jeffrey Cassvan, Queens College-CUNY; “Impaled by ‘this tyrannic Soul’: Marvell, Sexual Re-Formation and Reading Backwards”; Philip Mirabelli, Lehman College-CUNY; “Annihilatory Poetics: Literary Theory, Literary History and Marvell’s ‘The Garden’”; Jeffrey Cassvan, Queens College-CUNY; “Re-Imagining the Pathetic Fallacy: Marvelous Transactions in ‘Upon Appleton House’”; Michael Niemczyk, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Negotiating the ‘I’ in the Post-war Origin Myths of Marvell and Eliot”; Laura Nowocin, Miami University
5.19 Regency A: ‘The record of bitter moments’: Prison Writing as a Genre II; Chair: Chris Barrett, Harvard University; “Big House Birdman and Jailhouse Lawyer: Stroud and Chessman, Productive Prison Writers and Laborers”; Nathaniel Heggins Bryant, University of Pittsburgh; “Guarded Speech: Language Poets, the Black Panthers, and the Remaking of American Literary History”; Ramsey Scott, Brooklyn College-CUNY; “‘Unspeakable Thoughts, Unspoken’: Morrison’s Beloved and the Narration of Women Prisoners’ Abuse”; Patrick Alexander, Duke University; “‘All roads are turning into prison roads’: Genre in C.D. Wright’s One Big Self”; Michael Leong, Rutgers University
5.20 Regency B: Environmentalism in the Realm of Science-Fiction and Fantasy; Chair: Chris Baratta, Binghamton University; “‘Standpoint of Dreams’: Utopia and Dystopia in Starhawk’s Fifth Sacred Thing”; Stephanie Wade, Rowan University; “The Secret Life of The Death of Iron”; Frederick Waage, East Tennessee State University; “Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction: An Ecofeminist Critique of Corporate Capitalism”; Sean Murray, St. John’s University; “Imagining Sustainability: Speculative Environmentalism in The Windup Girl”; Keira Hambrick, University of Nevada-Reno
5.21 Regency C: Seventeenth-Century French Writers’ Ideas, Philosophy, and Beliefs; Chair: Stephane Natan, Rider University; “‘Se faire v(al)oir’: The Rhetoric of Being Seen”; Leonard Marsh, La Salle University; “La Pensée de Montaigne chez Madame de Sévigné”; Catherine Daniélou, University of Alabama-Birmingham; “Misogyny or Feminism? Cartesianism in Mme de Pringy’s Les Différents Caractères de l’amour”; Karen Santos Da Silva, Barnard College; “Dévot/Faux Dévot: The Politics and Aesthetics of Religion in the Affaire du Tartuffe (1664-69)”; Megan McMullan, University of California-Davis
5.22 Regency D: Suddenness (Plötzlichkeit) and Literature; Chair: Thomas Herold, Harvard University; “The Narratology of Suddenness in Kleist and Musil”; Thomas Herold, Harvard University; “Enthrallment and Epiphany: Eichendorff’s Poetics of Temporal Compression”; Brian Tucker, Wabash College; “‘Schlimmstmögliche Wendung:’ Dürrenmatt’s Paradox”; Olivia Gabor-Peirce, Western Michigan University; “‘And now for something completely different’: sanfte Plötzlichkeit in literarischen Wende-Diskursen”; John Heath, Universität Wien
5.23 Regency E: Thinking (of) Women in the Italian Renaissance; Chair: Maryann Tebben, Bard College-Simon’s Rock; “The Private and Public Life of Women in the Renaissance”; Elena Grianti-Schechter, College of New Jersey; “Iacopo Filippo Foresti and the Fifteenth Century Debate on Female Oratory”; Valerie Hoagland, New York University; “‘Bella, ricca e infiammata’: Becoming a Woman in Sixteenth-Century Venice”; Caterina Mongiat Farina, DePaul University; “The Hope and the Longing: Female Space as Literary Space in Gaspara Stampa’s Canzoniere”; Olimpia Pelosi, SUNY Albany
5.24 Regency F: Crossing Borders and Performing Gender on the Spanish-Speaking Stage; Chair: Maria DiFrancesco, Ithaca College; “Gambaro’s A Mother by Profession As a Cultural Agent of Lesbian Identity’s Recognition”; María Olivares-Henríquez, Catholic University of America; “Re-inscribing the feminine: Antonia Bueno Mingallon’s Zahra”; Lynn Purkey, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga; “Acting within Acting: The De(Evolution) of Gender Role-Playing”; Dawn Slack, Kutztown University; “Staging Latina Boricua-ness: Crossing Invisible Borders, Intersecting the Imaginary Homeland”; Rose McEwen, SUNY Geneseo
5.25 Conference F: Literature and the Experience of Ecstasy; Chairs: Mathilde Branthomme, University of Western Ontario; Sara Danièle Bélanger Michaud, Université de Montréal; “His Master’s Voice: Musical Ecstasy”; Jason D’Aoust, University of Western Ontario; “The Ecstasy of Impossible Knowledge: Conveyed Transcendence in Hinton’s New Era of Thought”; Benoît Faucher, Université de Montréal; “Translation of the Self as Dramatization in Literary Soulworks”; Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud, Université de Montréal; “Acedia or the Impossible Ecstasy”; Mathilde Branthomme, University of Western Ontario

Session 6

Friday, April 8, 11:45AM - 1:00PM

6.01 Conference A: William Carlos Williams and the Meaning of the Local; Chair: Paul Cappucci, Georgian Court University; “The Body: The Universal Local in the Poetry of Williams”; Karen Guendel, Boston University; “‘What Maximum has to do with Gloucester...[?]’: Comparing Williams’ and Olson’s Use of the Local”; John Woznicki, Holy Family University; “Williams and Local Ecology: An Ecopoetics for the Modern Period”; Daniel Burke, Marquette University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
6.02 Salon A: Victorian Bodies and Machines; Chair: Jessica Kuskey, Syracuse University; “‘That Tyrant Power’: Steam Engines and Mechanized Labor in the Factory Question”; Jessica Kuskey, Syracuse University; “‘Mangled’ and ‘Ground through’: Consuming and Producing the Worker’s Body in Chartist Texts”; Amber Cobb Vazquez, George Washington University; “Woven Together: Silas Marner’s ‘Mechanical Relations’ and Van Gogh’s Weavers of Brabant”; Rebecca Rainof, The Catholic University of America; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
6.03 Salon D: John Milton and the History of the Book; Chair: Thomas Fulton, Rutgers University; “An Author out of Control?: Milton in the Early Modern Book Trade”; Stephen Dobranski, Georgia State University; “‘Annotations (Provenance)--17th Century’: Cataloguing the History of the Book”; Kathryn James, Yale University; “Wayfaring and the Material Text”; Lauren Devitt, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
6.04 Conference B: Samuel Beckett and Bilingualism II; Chair: Nadia Louar, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; “Towards a Language of Paradise: Comparing Beckett’s Vision Of Language With Dante’s and Joyce’s”; Davide Crosada, Sapienza-University of Rome; “Deux langues pour en faire une, irrémédiablement idiote”; Marie Berne, City University-Hong Kong; “L’intraduisible et l’intraduit dans la trilogie de Samuel Beckett”; Lily Robert-Foley, Université of Paris VIII-St. Denis; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
6.05 Conference C: Russian Dissident Art and Writing in the Soviet Union; Chair: Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University; “A Life Lived With Artists: Assessing Value in Leonid Talochkin’s Collection of Nonconformist Gifts”; Donna Oliver, Beloit College; “We were born to make fairy tales come true: Reinterpreting Political Texts in ‘Dissident’ Soviet Art”; Mary A. Nicholas, Lehigh University; “Life Between Two Panels The Nomadic Lifestyle of Soviet Dissident Artists”; Clint Buhler, Ohio State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
6.06 Conference I: Figuring Diversity in the Cultural Imaginary II; Chair: Megan Milks, University of Illinois-Chicago; “Performative Femininity of Bleeding Bodies in Mexican Literature”; Mia Romano, Rutgers University; “Black Feminist Thought: Finding One’s Voice and Home Within Male Dominated Pan-Africanism”; Stephanie R. Dickerson, University of Buffalo; “Stars in Heaven: México and Méconnaissance in Carlos Reygada’s Batalla en el cielo”; Elena Lahr-Vivaz, Swarthmore College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
6.07 Salon B: The Films of Kathryn Bigelow; Chair: Marcelline Block, Princeton University; “Kathryn Bigelow and Semiotext(e)”; Marcelline Block, Princeton University; “The Seduction of Blood”; Jerry Piven, Case Western Reserve University; “Vampires and the Crisis of Masculinity in Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark”; Jeremi Szaniawski, Yale University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
6.08 Conference D: Reading German Girls; Chair: Maureen O. Gallagher, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Young Domestic Cosmopolitans: Girls and Travel in Brigitte Augusti’s An fremdem Herd Series”; Magdalen Stanley Majors, Washington University in St. Louis; “The ‘Woman Question’ in German Girls’ Literature of the First World War”; Jennifer Redmann, Franklin and Marshall College; “Girlhood as a Construct of Confined Space and Defined Medium”; Julia Feldhaus, Saint Anselm College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
6.09 Conference G: Artistic Adventures: Introducing the Visual Arts in the XXI Century Classroom; Chairs: Margarita Sánchez, Wagner College; Katica Urbanc, Wagner College; “The Art of Musing: Case Studies of the Artistic Journeys of Teachers of French”; Christelle Palpacuer, Rutgers University; “Voices from the Margins: Art and Society in the Spanish Composition Classroom”; Margarita Sanchez, Wagner College; Katica Urbanc, Wagner College; “Competencia comunicativa en el nivel inicial: una actividad con ‘La Cabina’ de Antonio Mercero”; Guadalupe Ruiz Fajardo, Columbia University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
6.10 Salon C: Reshaping the Italian American Identity; Chair: Arianna Fognani, Rutgers University; “Genetic Genealogy at the Borders of Italian American Identity”; John Giordano, Union Institute and University; “Ethnicity, Nostalgia, Affirmation: The Rhetoric of Italian-American Identity”; Michael Buonanno, State College of Florida-Manatee/Sarasota; “Parallel Journeys into Identity Updating: Italians and Italian Americans Meeting Halfway”; Giovanna Miceli-Jeffries, University of Wisconsin; “Street feste and the Formation of Italian-American Identity in Little Italy, New York”; Amanda Bracco, Independent scholar; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
6.11 Conference JK: Adoption in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Roundtable); Chair: Nicole Furlonge, Stuart Country Day School; “The Collapse of the Reunion Fantasy in Daniel Clowes’ Wilson: An Adoption Counter Narrative”; Genie Giaimo, Northeastern University; “What is for others nature/is for us culture: Constructions of Adoption on Heroes”; Nicole Furlonge, Stuart Country Day School; “International Adoption in Children’s Picture Books”; Jacki Fitzpatrick, Texas Tech University; Erin Kostina-Ritchey, Texas Tech University
6.12 Conference E: Space, Sexuality and New Perspectives in Asian American Literature and Film II; Chair: Emily Cheng, Montclair State University; “Space in the American Imaginary: Maintaining the ‘Good Order’ in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Cheat”; Brad Freeman, Ohio State University; “Revisiting ‘Suspect Places’: Queer Residents of I Hotel, Queer Paternities of Asian America”; Chris Eng, The Graduate Center-CUNY; “Queer Subjectivity, Ex-isle and Belonging in Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy”; Marilena Zackheos, George Washington University
6.13 Boardroom: The New William Golding; Chairs: Nick Parker, Babson College; Virginia Tiger, Rutgers University-Newark; “The Once and Only William Golding”; Virginia Tiger, Rutgers University-Newark; “William Golding’s Tortured Wartime Being”; Nick Parker, Babson College; “William Golding and Doris Lessing: Victims of Pre-Destination”; Sema Ege, University of Ankara
6.14 Room 248: New Approaches to Early Modern Historical Drama II: Religion & The History Play; Chair: Maura Brady, Le Moyne College; “You Can’t Burn the Koran Onstage: Marlowe’s Tamburlaine Meets the 21st Century”; Emma Perry, Boston College; “The Jewes Tragedy and the Reception of Jewish History in Restoration England”; Vanita Neelakanta, Rider University; “The Weird Sisters’ Nature, from Holinshed’s History to Macbeth’s Mystery”; James Macdonald, Yale University
6.15 Brunswick A: Personal and Social Myth-making in the Work of Margaret Atwood; Chair: Mary F. Lannon, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Cult(ure) in Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction”; Rachel Graf, University of Washington; “Biblical Myth in Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction: From The Handmaid’s Tale to The Year of the Flood”; Cristina Elgue de Martini, National University of Córdoba; “Failings of the Social Mythology of Capitalism: From ‘The Age of Lead’ to The Year of the Flood”; Mirian Carballo, National University of Córdoba
6.17 Brunswick C: Petrarch, Petrarchism and Beyond; Chair: James McMenamin, Dickinson College; “Medusan Petrarch: Poetics, Commentary, and the questione della lingua”; Francis R. Hittinger, Columbia University; “‘Sorda hija del mar’: Song and Silence in Luis de Góngora’s Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea”; Antonio Cordoba, Harvard University; “Petrarch, Tansillo, and Bruno: a History of Poetic Frenzies”; Alessio Lerro, Rutgers University
6.18 Brunswick D: Italy’s 150th. Norms, Forms and Storms (and Some…Stress): from 1861 to WWI; Chair: Mark Epstein, Princeton University; “Il cimitero di Praga: Epistemic Implications Between Lies and Realities”; Raffaele De Benedictis, Wayne State University; “L’oriente nella pubblicistica democratica post-unitaria”; Morena Corradi, Queens College-CUNY; “Utopia and Risorgimento”; Mark Epstein, Princeton University
6.19 Regency A: LGBTQ Studies and Pedagogy (Roundtable); Chair: Rick J. Santos, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Re-thinking Aesthetics and Politics in LGBTQ Courses”; Rick J. Santos, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Teaching LGBTQ Outside LGBTQ-specific Courses”; Pepa Anastasio, Hofstra University; “Bridging the Gap Between Expectations and Reality in Same-Sex Equality”; Sterling Edward, Independent Scholar
6.20 Regency B: When Motherhood Studies Meets Other Disciplines; Chair: D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Boston University; “At the Nexus of Modernism and Motherhood:Interpreting Literary Modernism Through a Maternal Lens”; Elizabeth Podnieks, Ryerson University; “The Demonization of the Spinster in Modernity”; Theresa Desmond, Stony Brook University; “Mothering and Communicating: When Motherhood Studies Meets Communication Studies”; D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Boston University
6.21 Regency C: Donors and Helpers: Masculinity in Contemporary Fairy Tales; Chair: Susan Redington Bobby, Wesley College; “Prince Charming was a Godmother: The Construction of Authority in Fairy Tales and Fantasy”; Helen Pilinovsky, California State University-San Bernardino; “Postmodern Androgyny, Gender Equality and the Heroine: Angela Carter’s Literary Freedom”; Andrew Borneman, Independent Scholar; “Pushing the Witch into the Oven: A Marxist-Feminist Review of the Perennial Revision of Fairytales”; Matthew J. Gallagher, Independent Scholar
6.22 Regency D: Advancing Gender Equality (Roundtable); Chair: Ines Shaw, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Gothic Stages in Lesbian Love Letters”; Christa Schneider, CUNY Graduate Center; “Lisbeth Salander: The Dragon Tattoo, the Male Gaze, and the Voyeuristic Reader’”; Jaime Weida, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Capitu: Agency, Bisexuality, and Gender (In)Equality”; Ines Shaw, SUNY Nassau Community College
6.23 Regency E: Experiments in Hybrid Essay (Creative); Chair: Sarah B. Burghauser, Writer; “In Defense of the Bodice Ripper: How A Stint in County Lockup Sparked my Affair with Romance Novels”; Josephine Yu, Florida State University; “Was This about People Dying? Intergenerational Reflection on Lesbians and the AIDS Crisis”; Svetlana Kitto, Columbia University; “Dickinson is Poetry is Ecology is Love: Practicing the Ecopoetic Project”; Jesse Curran, Stony Brook University; “The Heart of Distance: A Meditation”; Pramila Venkateswaran, SUNY Nassau Community College
6.24 Regency F: Teaching Content through French and Francophone Film (Roundtable); Chair: Katharine Harrington, Plymouth State University; “Teaching Culture, History, and Language with Yamina Benguigui’s Inch’Allah Dimanche”; Audra Merfeld-Langston, Missouri University of Science & Technology; “Comment étudier Entre les murs : un plan de cours pour les niveaux intermédiaire et avancé”; Barbara Petrosky, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; “The Film Trailer Project”; Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly, College of Staten Island; Valeria Belmonti, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “Approaches to teaching issues in French health care through two contemporary French films”; Katharine Harrington, Plymouth State University
6.25 Conference F: Rethinking Teaching in Lean Times (Roundtable); Chair: Steven Canaday, Anne Arundel Community College; “The First-Year Seminar: A Recession-Proof Program?”; Matthew Elliott, Emmanuel College; “Student-Led Conversation Hours at the College of New Jersey: Meeting New Challenges”; Tulia Jimenez-Vergara, College of New Jersey; David Stillman, College of New Jersey; “Freeware’s Siren Song--Making Literary Analysis Irresistible to Students, Faculty, & Administrators”; Kate Faber Oestreich, Coastal Carolina University; “Possibilities and Pitfalls of Using Digital Technologies in the English Classroom”; Rob Doggett, SUNY Geneseo
6.26 Conference H: Body and the Politics of Resistance in the 21st century Latin American Narrative (Roundtable); Chair: Elena Valdez, Rutgers University; “The Bodies of the Women of Juarez”; Diana Aldrete, SUNY Albany; “La irrupción del cuerpo indígena en el espacio hegemónico latinoamericano”; Diego Mattos Vazualdo, Saint Michael’s College; “Violencia y animalización en la narrativa cubana contemporánea”; Laura Redruello, Manhattan College; “Cuerpos en venta: el turismo sexual en la narrativa contemporánea del Caribe hispano”; Elena Valdez, Rutgers University; “Diamela Eltit’s Lumpérica: L. Iluminada as the Angel of the Perhaps”; Carolina Díaz Zapata, Rutgers University

Session 7

Friday, April 8, 1:15PM - 2:45PM

7.01 Conference A: ‘I am born’: The Characters of Charles Dickens; Chair: Wm Moeck, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Mr. Barkis’s Novel”; Jonathan Farina, Seton Hall University; “Passion, Patience, Igonorance, and Want in Bunyan and Dickens”; Chamutal Noimann, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Forgetting the ‘Instructive Monomaniac’: Dickens and the Moral Tale”; Patrick C. Fleming, University of Virginia; “More is Better: Eighteenth-Century Character Books and Dickens”; Carolyn Lesjak, Simon Fraser University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
7.02 Salon A: ‘Savages we call them’: Imagining the Native in Early American Literature; Chair: Sean Kelly, Wilkes University; “From Warrior Days to Specimen Daze”; Tony McGowan, United States Military Academy; “A Necessary Evil: ‘The Indian’ in Post-Revolutionary Children’s Literature”; Emily Donaldson Field, Boston University; “The Return of Rip: (Native) American Mythos, Historical Identity and Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle’”; Sean Kelly, Wilkes University; “Longfellow’s Native American Prescriptions in the 1850s: Engagement and Elision”; Jeffrey Hotz, East Stroudsburg University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
7.03 Salon D: Collecting in German Literature and Culture; Chairs: Regine Heberlein, Princeton University; Len Cagle, Lycoming College; “Collecting Charlotte von Mahlsdorf: ‘I Am My Own Wife’ and the Politics of Nostalgia”; Cameron Williams, University of Florida; “Finding Oneself in the Lives of Others: W. Kempowski’s Collection as Atonement and Rectification”; Diane Bielicki, Brock University; “‘Und wo sind denn eure Dichter’: Archival Appraisal and Cultural Memory”; Regine Heberlein, Princeton University; “Cultural Collections: Yoko Tawada and the Challenges of Communication”; Eric Klaus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
7.04 Conference B: The Text of the Body: Art, Technology, Slavery. and Empire in the 19th century; Chair: Joy Bracewell, University of Georgia; “Racial Profiling: Black Silhouette Artists and the Role of Silhouette in 19th-century Visual Culture”; Janet Neary, Hunter College; “The Claims of the Negro Aesthetically Considered”; Sarah Blackwood, Pace University; “Antebellum Black Readers, Self-Representation, and Transatlantic Reprinting”; Marianne Holohan, Duquesne University; “‘White Silence’: The Greek Slave and Transatlantic Discourses of Nationalism”; Joy Bracewell, University of Georgia; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
7.05 Conference C: Transposing the Arts; Chairs: Anamaria Banu, Catholic University of America; Anna Bachman Barter, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Painting Paris: Louis-Sébastien Mercier and the Tableau de Paris”; Orlaith Creedon, Middlebury College; “Hermann Hesse’s Recapitulation: Reflecting on Musical Ekphrasis in 19th-century German Literature”; Shelley Hay, Susquehanna University; “Imaging Music: Victor Hugo’s Orientales”; Karen Quandt, Princeton University; “6+1=7, or 6=7? - Early French Cinema at the Intersection of the Arts”; Hunter Vaughan, Washington University in St. Louis; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
7.06 Conference I: Il cortometraggio italiano nel terzo millennio. Stili, tendenze, prospettive; Chair: Cristiano Palozzi, Genova Film Festival; “Il cortometraggio italiano nel terzo millennio. Stili, tendenze, prospettive”; Antonella Sica, Genova Film Festival; Cristiano Palozzi, Genova Film Festival; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
7.07 Salon B: From Cavour to Berlusconi: 150 Years of Italian History in Cinema; Chair: Chiara De Santi, SUNY Fredonia; “Bronte and the Retelling of the Risorgimento”; Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico; “Sacco e Vanzetti e Giordano Bruno di Montaldo come displacements cinematografici”; Federica Colleoni, James Madison University; “La Shoah e l’elaborazione del lutto nel cinema italiano”; Cristina Villa, University of Southern California; “Italia ‘61: The Public Use of History in Movies and TV Shows”; Yuri Guaiana, Università degli Studi di Milano; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
7.08 Conference D: Ecocritical Activisms and Activist Ecologies; Chairs: MaryAnne Laurico, Queen’s University; Georg Drennig, University of Vienna; “Anti-Nuclear Activism, Ecofeminism and Nuclear Films”; Heidi Hutner, SUNY Stony Brook; “Gallant Gardens: Japanese American Internment, EJ and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange”; Chiyo Crawford, Tufts University; “The Social Utilities of Ecocriticism and Agrarianism”; Zackary Vernon, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Belonging and Dispossession: Ecocriticism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide”; Shakti Jaising, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
7.09 Conference G: Leading Lines: Social Networking as Impetus for Scholarly Formation (Roundtable); Chair: Kim Flugmacher Ballerini, SUNY Nassau Community College; “An Early Supporter of Online Interaction in the Classroom Turns Skeptical”; Kevin La Grandeur, New York Institute of Technology; “Social Networking with the Antisocial: Teaching with Twitter at a Community College”; Emily Hegarty, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Academic Writing as Social Networking and a Composition Fan Page”; Matt Newcomb, SUNY New Paltz; “ScholarBook: Creating a Community of Student-Scholars on Facebook”; Charles Henebry, Boston University; “The Newness of Social Networking”; John Gallagher, Quinsigamond Community College; “Online Photography, Composition, and the Creation of a Shared Narrative”; Kim Ballerini, SUNY Nassau Community College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
7.10 Salon C: Love and Friendship in French and Francophone Women’s Fiction and Film; Chair: Debra Popkin, Baruch College-CUNY; “Amitié, amour et amitié amoureuse chez Mme de Graffigny”; S. Pascale Dewey, Kutztown University; “Simone de Beauvoir and Friendship: ‘une raison d’agir, une raison de parler’”; Beverly Evans, SUNY Geneseo; “Female Friendship in Yamina Benguigui’s Inch Allah dimanche”; Theresa Varney Kennedy, Baylor University; “Friends, Wives and Mothers in Diane Kurys’s film ‘Entre Nous’”; Debra Popkin, Baruch College-CUNY; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
7.11 Conference JK: El español como lengua extranjera (E/LE): Tropiezos en el proceso de adquisición; Chair: Konstantina Bekiou, Montclair State University; “Los efectos de la segunda lengua en la adquisición de una tercera lengua”; Cynthia Potvin, Université de Moncton; “Vacilaciones y repeticiones en E/LE ¿Indicadores de dificultad en procesar los pasados aspectuales?”; Lourdes Díaz-Rodríguez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; “The Role of L1 Transfer and Functional Categories in L2 Subjunctive Acquisition”; Laurie A. Massery, St. Ambrose University; “Reinterpretaciones aspectuales en Español L2: pretérito vs impefecto. Aportaciones helénicas.”; Konstantina Bekiou, Montclair State University; Multimedia Session: Overhead Projector
7.12 Conference E: Chicas, Nǚhái, Batang babae: Girlhood in Contemporary Ethnic American Literature; Chair: Christa Baiada, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “The Power of Mothers and Sisters: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz”; Damjana Mraović-O’Hare, Pennsylvania State University; “The Danger Zone: Representations of Working-Class Girls’ Sexuality by Cisneros and Allison”; Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Goucher College; “Loving the Unloveable Body in Yamanaka’s Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre and Name Me Nobody”; Christa Baiada, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Girlhood, beauty, and aesthetic idealism in Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation”; Siuhong Van, Wilfrid Laurier University
7.13 Boardroom: The Family in Contemporary American Drama; Chair: Elizabeth Fifer, Lehigh University; “Topdog/Underdog and the Subversion of Family Values”; Patrick Maley, College of New Jersey; “The End of Nostalgia in Contemporary American Drama: Tracey Letts and David Mamet”; Sean Flannery, Immaculata University; “The Uniqueness of August Wilson’s Fences”; Agnes Cardoni, Marywood University; “The Extinction of the Contemporary American Family in Nicky Silver’s Pterodactyls”; AJ Knox, Tufts University
7.14 Room 248: Crowd Forms in American Literature; Chair: Phillip Mahoney, Temple University; “Whitman’s Multitudes and the Question of Populism”; Donald Pease, Dartmouth University; “Immunized Against the Language of Self: Individual, Community and Crowd in Don DeLillo’s Fiction”; Paula Martin, University of Cordoba; “Silver Euphoria, Sanity Fair Crowds, and the State of War in Mark Twains Roughing It”; Justin Rogers-Cooper, CUNY Graduate Center; “God Will Give You a Hannibal: Mob Action in David Walker’s Appeal and Martin Delany’s Blake”; Gordon Fraser, University of Connecticut
7.15 Brunswick A: African Modernisms, African Modernities; Chairs: Megan Cole Paustian, Rutgers University; Mark DiGiacomo, Rutgers University; “Cassava and Cassavetes: Kojo Laing’s Transnational Vision”; Mark DiGiacomo, Rutgers University; “Belatedness and Beginnings: J.M. Coetzee and the Modernist Historical Consciousness”; Jonathan Feinberg, University of Pittsburgh; “Primitivism and Modernism in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm”; Jade Munslow Ong, University of Manchester; “Wole Soyinka and Modern Criticism”; Mahmoud Shalaby, University of Edinburgh
7.16 Brunswick B: Dracula and Beyond: The Evolution of the Vampire; Chair: Anne DeLong, Kutztown University; “Love Lies Bleeding: The Politics of the Vampire Romance”; Anne DeLong, Kutztown University; “Disseminating the Vampire: Penny Dreadful Publishing in the 1840’s”; Curt Herr, Kutztown University; “Consumptive Desire & Bella Swan’s Transition to Vampire Mother in Stephanie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn”; Lucinda Rasmussen, University of Alberta; “Fatal Mimicry: Vampires Were (Always Already) Postmodern”; Nick Melczarek, Salisbury University
7.17 Brunswick C: The Space of Memory; Chairs: Yu-MIn (Claire) Chen, Indiana University-Bloomington; Roxana L. Cazan, Indiana University-Bloomington; “When They Do Not Remember: Desire and Memory in Jin Ping Mei”; Junjie Luo, Dickinson College; “Nationalism and Women’s Dissidence in Dubravka Ugresic’s novel, The Ministry of Pain”; Roxana L. Cazan, Indiana University-Bloomington; “Nostalgia, Parapraxis, and Novelistic Form in Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day”; Alex Moffett, Providence College; “The Fall of the Pagoda: the Shadow of the Haunting Past”; Yu-Min (Claire) Chen, Indiana Universty-Bloomington
7.18 Brunswick D: Representations of Disability in Literature and Culture; Chair: Sara Hosey, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Blindness: Holding Saramago Accountable”; Valerie Hyatt, Stony Brook University; “A Part of the World, Not Apart from it: Representations of Conjoined Twins in Contemporary Fiction”; Sherri Foster, University of Sussex; “Striking the Sun: Defending Ahab’s Megalomania from a Disability Perspective”; Brendan Costello, CIty College of New York-CUNY; “Kinship: House M.D. as a Descendant of Richard III?”; Gina M. Altavilla, California State University-San Marcos
7.19 Regency A: Visceral Subjects: Exploring Bodies, Exploring Knowledges; Chair: Caroline Godart, Rutgers University; “Pratique Mouvement: Cosmopolitan Ethics and Visceral Epistemology in Senghor and Mnouchkine”; Jodie Barker, Rutgers University; “Novel Inoculations: Reading and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century America”; Katherine Gaudet, University of Chicago; “Cinema and the Curious Body: Lucrecia Martel’s La Niña santa”; Caroline Godart, Rutgers University; “Must We Burn Freud?”; Sand Avidar-Walzer, Princeton University
7.20 Regency B: Images of Eastern Europe in Recent German Literature and Film I; Chair: Petra Fachinger, Queen’s University; “Re-Imagining the Balkans: Former Yugoslavia in Recent German-Language Literature”; Maria Mayr, Memorial University; “Paprika, Puszta, Palinka? Das Ungarnbild in der Gegenwartsliteratur”; Marc Weiland, Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle; “Voyageur or Voyeur? Juli Zeh’s Die Stille ist ein Geraeusch”; Pia Banzhaf, Queen’s University; “Love after the Wars”; Petra Fachinger, Queen’s University
7.21 Regency C: (Re)Imagining Expatriates: Queer Transnationalisms in American Literature; Chair: Paul Fisher, Wellesley College; “Hemingway’s Prototransgender Longings”; Laura Grappo, Dickinson College; “Djuna Barnes’s Queer Tactics: Style and Resistance in Nightwood”; Ben De Witte, Rutgers University; “Assimilation and Melancholy Queerness in Junot Diaz and ZZ Packer”; Dorothy Stringer, Temple University; “‘Tired of Not Having a Home’: Transnational Queerness on Stage”; Liamar Durán-Almarza, University of Oviedo
7.22 Regency D: Russian 20th-Century Poetry in New Contexts; Chair: Alexandra Smith, University of Edinburgh; “Folklore Sources and ‘Folk’ Creativity in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Poèma ‘Tsar’-Devitsa’.”; Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College; “Dedication as Self-Portraiture (Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva)”; Olga Peters Hasty, Princeton University; “Painting with Words: Tsvetaeva on Goethe’s ‘Der Erlkönig’ (1782).”; Alexandra Smith, University of Edinburgh; “Ilia Zdanevich’s Poetic of the Letter and the Parisian Avant-Garde.”; Jonathan Baillehache, Rutgers University
7.23 Regency E: Manifestations of Madness and Love in 19th and 20th Century Spanish Literature; Chair: Marta Manrique Gómez, Middlebury College; “El triunfo del amor sobre la tiranía clerical en Pepita Jiménez”; David Ross Gerlinbg, Sam Houston State University; “Locas de deseo: identidad y subversión femenina en el diecinueve”; María Luisa Guardiola, Swarthmore College; “Love and Lunacy in Juan Goytisolo’s Duelo en El Paraiso”; Emily Eaton, Cornell University; “Hacia un análisis del amor y la locura en Tristana y La Regenta”; Marta Manrique Gómez, Middlebury College
7.24 Regency F: Global Magical Realisms and Speculative Fiction; Chairs: Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College; Karen Li Miller, University of Connecticut; “De-Familiarizing Globalization: ‘Uncanny’ Speculative Aesthetics of Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange”; Sharon Tran, University of California-Los Angeles; “Making Friends with Ghosts: Andre Brink and Magic Realism in Imaginings of Sand”; Sohinee Roy, West Virginia University; “‘So you want to be a Trans-fo-ma?’: Myths and the Monkey King in Asian American Young Adult Texts”; Karen Li Miller, University of Connecticut; “Changing Wor(l)ds: Edouard Glissant’s Caribbean Discourse and Junot Diaz’s Oscar Wao”; Daniel Scott, Rhode Island College
7.25 Conference F: The American Short Story Cycle: A Gendered Genre?; Chair: Lisa Day-Lindsey, Eastern Kentucky University; “‘Spinsterly Realism’: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s The Whole Family”; Kamila Janiszewska, Cornell University; “Sherwood Anderson’s ‘Adventures’ in Gender in Winesburg, Ohio”; David Humphries, Queensborough Community College-CUNY; “‘The rest of the time he stayed on the sofa’: Raymond Carver’s Men and PTSD in Cathedral”; Katie Yandrick-Mansberry, Eastern Kentucky University; “E Unum Pluribus: The State of Gender in the American Short Story Cycle”; Lisa Day-Lindsey, Eastern Kentucky University
7.26 Conference H: Teaching Translation in the 21st Century (Roundtable); Chair: Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College; “Developing Technological and Instrumental Competences for Translation: A Wired Translation Classroom”; Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo, Rutgers University; “Online Delivery of Translation Studies”; Josep Dávila-Montes, University of Texas-Brownsville; “Between Canada and Cuba: Teaching Translation as Engagement”; María Constanza Guzmán, Glendon College-York University; Lyse Hébert, Glendon College-York University; “Collective Translation at LaGuardia”; Kristen Gallagher, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY; “Translation for the Graduate and Undergraduate Creative Writer”; Roger Sedarat, Queens College-CUNY

Session 8

Friday, April 8, 3:00PM - 4:30PM

8.01 Conference A: From Here to Modernity: New Perspectives on Sensation Fiction; Chairs: Adrienne Munich, SUNY Stony Brook; Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook; “Locked Rooms: Sensation and the Poetics of Space”; Nicholas Daly, University College-Dublin; “Sensation and the Female Gentleman: From The Moonstone to Dorothy L. Sayers”; Melissa Schaub, University of North Carolina-Pembroke; “How to Write a Sensation Novel in 2011”; Winifred Hughes, Princeton Research Forum; “The Sensational New Woman”; Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
8.02 Salon A: Arthurian Avatars: The King Arthur Myth from Medieval to Modern Times; Chair: Joshua Cohen, Massachusetts College of Art and Design; “The Doomed Idealism of Arthurian Legend”; Katherine Foret, Stony Brook University; “The Arthurian Myth as Equalizing Strategy in Postumo Envirginiado”; Nahir Otano, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Merlin’s Prophecies Realized: King James I as Avatar of King Arthur”; Margaret Downs-Gamble, United States Military Academy; “‘Out of Measure’: A Study of the Tradition and Evolution of Guinevere”; Evelyn Brown, Miami University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
8.03 Salon D: German Romanticism and the Revolution in Science; Chair: Christa Spreizer, Queens College-CUNY; “Evidencing the Soul: The Fusion of Romantic Medicine and Spirituality”; Christine Dombrowski, Southern Connecticut State University; “Novalis and Hahnemann: Approaching Homeopathy through German Romanticism”; Alice Kuzniar, University of Waterloo; “(Scientific) Objectivity in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Des Vetters Eckfenster und Meister Floh”; Silke Brodersen, Tufts University; “Nathanael the Hapless Consumer: Capitalism and Modern Medicine in ETA Hoffmann’s ‘The Sandman’”; Christa Spreizer, Queens College-CUNY; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
8.04 Conference B: Naming and Framing: Identity Construction in Children’s Literature and Culture; Chair: Julie Cassidy, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Naming and Identity Invention in Black Women’s Poetry for Children”; Kirsten Ortega, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; “Which Powerpuff Girl Are You?: Unsettling Identity Types and Redefining Conventional Girlhood”; Lisa Hager, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha; “Being Branded, Being One’s Self: Katniss Everdeen”; Julie Cassidy, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “‘They call me Ryter now’: Reclaiming the Space between Childhood and Adulthood”; Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
8.05 Conference C: ‘Il sentimento del contrario’: l’Umorismo nella Letteratura Italiana; Chair: Martina Di Florio Gula, University of Connecticut; “Umorismo vs Buffo: Il Codice di Perela`”; Mimmo Cangiano, Duke University; “La disperazione ha sempre nella bocca un sorriso. Tragico e risibile in Giacomo Leopardi”; Giulia Santi, Universita` del Salento-Lecce; “Guido, nessuno e centomila: Identity Crisis in Fellini’s 8 1/2”; Victoria Tillson, Elon University; “Machiavelli historico, comico et tragico”; Martina Di Florio Gula, University of Connecticut; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
8.06 Conference I: Reflections on Lusophone Literatures and Cultures; Chair: Cristina Santos, Brock University; “A luta contra o esquecimento do artista:R Coração dos Outros em O triste fim de Policarpo Quaremsa”; Carolina Castellanos, Dickinson College; “‘Pseudo-Luso’ Space: Joyce Carol Oates and the Portuguese Pretense”; Cristina Baptista, Fordham University; “The Forgotten Kids - Transgressing Social Boundaries in Los Olvidados and Capitães de Areia”; Eduardo Viana da Silva, University of California-Santa Barbara; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
8.07 Salon B: Intersections of language and culture: Sprachgemisch, métissage & code-switching; Chair: Susanne Even, Indiana University; “Colonization, Alienation, and Counter-Histories: Louise Bernice Halfe’s ‘Blue Marrow’”; Maude Lapierre, University of Montréal; “Bilingual Theater: Determining Authenticity and Significance of Language Levels and Changes”; David Delamatta, Lord Fairfax Community College; “Loss of Code-Switching as Sign of Social Change in Works by Theodor Fontane and Thomas Mann”; Jörg Meindl, Lebanon Valley College; “Post-Punk, Subversive Consumerism, and Anti-Racism: Thomas Meinecke and Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle”; Cyrus Shahan, Colby College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
8.08 Conference D: Narrating the Public Self: YouTube, Facebook, and Contemporary Feminism; Chair: Rebecca Williams, The Graduate Center-CUNY; “Surfing Fourth Wave Feminism on the Internet”; Lise Esdaile, Graduate Center-CUNY; “Pan-Arab Feminism 2.0? From Transnational Advocacy Campaigns to Leila’s Collective Blogging”; Susana Galan, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; “Feminism in the Time of Tumblr”; Kara Jesella, New York University; “The Practice of Social Engagement: Facebook ‘Likes’ Feminism”; Rebecca Williams, Graduate Center-CUNY; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
8.09 Conference G: Teaching Culture of Less-Commonly Taught Languages; Chair: Sunil Kumar Bhatt, National University of Singapore; “Culture Instruction through Three Communicative Modes in a JFL Curriculum”; Yasufumi Iwasaki, Carnegie Mellon University; “Understanding Korean Culture through its Key Conceptual Words”; Keumsil Kim Yoon, William Paterson University; Bruce Williams, William Paterson University; “Honorific Forms in Hindi”; Sunil Kumar Bhatt, National University of Singapore; “Teaching Grammatical Content through the Study of Culture”; Ousseina Alidou, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
8.10 Salon C: Thinking Comparatively in Contemporary Literature; Chair: Cornelius Collins, Rutgers University; “Comparing Realisms: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats”; Alison Shonkwiler, University of Pennsylvania; “Hiroshima and Auschwitz: The Postwar Period and Nonfiction Comics”; Hillary Chute, University of Chicago; “A Kaleidoscope of the Female Poet: Visual and Paratextual Approaches to Sylvia Plath’s Editions”; Elena Rebollo-Cortés, University of Extremadura; “What Must Soon Take Place?: Literary and Non-Literary Apocalyptic Prophecy in the Globalization Era”; Cornelius Collins, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
8.11 Conference JK: Diversity, Identity, and Graduate School (Roundtable); Chair: Maureen O. Gallagher, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Chaotic, Precarious, and Delicate Balancing Acts: How to Do it All, and Your Dissertation!”; MaryAnne Laurico, Queen’s University; “Striking a Balance Through Mentoring”; Donavan L. Ramon, Rutgers University; “Multiple Discourses and Identities: Balancing the Conflicting Roles of the Non-Trad Graduate Student”; Carissa Pokorny-Golden, Kutztown University; “‘The Things of This World’: Balancing Caregiving and Academic Life”; Liz Reilly, Rutgers University; Sponsored by the Graduate Student Caucus; Multimedia Session: Overhead Projector
8.12 Conference E: Label Me Latina or Latino; Chair: Kathryn Quinn-Sanchez, Georgian Court University; “Leaving the Latino Behind? Representations of Pan-Latino in ’Ugly Betty’ and ’Modern Family’”; Rosa Soto, William Paterson University; “Full Act of Naming: Neologisms and Fractured Identities in AmeRcan & A Nuyo-Futurist Manifestiny”; Li Yun Alvarado, Fordham University; “A ‘New World’ Dictator’s Dystopia and Pagina en Blanco”; Pamela Rader, Georgian Court University; “La Malinche Nueva: Rewriting the Archetype in Chicano Literature”; Emma Mackie, Clark University
8.13 Boardroom: African American Discourse on Democratic Identity and Freedom I; Chair: Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University; “Democratic Impulses, Undemocratic Conditions: Frederick Douglass and Rewriting”; Whitney Trump, Stanford University; “‘The Real Will of the People’: Baldwin, the Individual, and Society”; Richard Hancuff, Misericordia University; “(Re) Claiming the Dirt: Frederick Douglass’ Democratic Agrarian Vision”; Leah Bayens, University of Kentucky; “Activism, Democracy and Social Reform in Douglass, Wright, Ellison and Baldwin”; Danielle K. Lee, St. John’s University
8.14 Room 248: J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur: American Paradox; Chair: Tanya Radford, Dominican College; “Illusion and Disillusion in Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer”; Diana Polley, Southern New Hampshire University; “Frontier Revisions: Mongrels, Off-casts, and ‘the perfidy of beginnings’”; Craig Bernardini, Hostos Community College-CUNY; “‘carnivorous animals of a superior rank’: Crèvecoeur, Identity, and the American Grotesque”; Mary McAleer Balkun, Seton Hall University; “Caught in the Crossfire: The New York City Prison Letters of Crèvecoeur”; Drew Moore, United States Military Academy
8.15 Brunswick A: ‘Quit the road to ill-being’: Nineteenth-Century Ecocriticism; Chair: Margaret Wright, SUNY Stony Brook; “Redemptive Nature in Rossetti’s Goblin Market and Other Poems”; Todd O. Williams, Kutztown University; “‘Narrowed to These Dimensions’: The Expansion and Contraction of Mid-Victorian London”; Natasha Alvandi Hunt, University of Southern California; “Imperial Agriculture, Land Use, and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles”; Jessica Martell, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “‘Quitting the Road to Ill-Being’: The Nature/Culture Duel in the Victorian Novel”; Margaret Wright, SUNY Stony Brook
8.16 Brunswick B: Revolutionary Terror; Chair: Trisha Brady, Pennsylvania State University-Hazleton; “Hegel and Terror”; Trisha Brady, Pennsylvania State University-Hazleton; “Foundational Event or Historical Aberration? The French Debate on the Revolution 1940-1945”; Christine Evans, Lesley University; “Fear of Division, Terror of Unity: Danton and the Revolutionary Collectivity”; Julie Meyers, University of Chicago; “Business and Terror in Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities”; Lynn Shakinovsky, Wilfrid Laurier University
8.17 Brunswick C: Exploration of Senses in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography; Chair: Anna Rocca, Salem State University; “I Sleep Close to Her Body: Reading the Senses in North African Women’s Autobiography”; Lucy McNair, Medgar Evers College-CUNY; “Ex-Choriating the Self: Julia Kristeva on Sensation and Proprioception Through Abjection”; Severin Kitanov, Salem State University; “Movement and Emancipation in Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison de mon père”; Lisa Connell, University of West Georgia; “Senses, Sensibilities and Sensuality: the World of Nina Bouraoui”; Anna Rocca, Salem State University
8.18 Brunswick D: Postmodern French Literature; Chair: Melissa Panek, Catholic University of America; “Edmond Jabès, Gilles Deleuze, and the Textuality of Haecceity”; Andrew Ploeg, University of Rhode Island; “Post-Paranoia: On the nature of Paranoia in Postmodern Works”; Jean-Louis Hippolyte, Rutgers University-Camden; “Derrida et le 11 septembre: mysticisme postmoderne et terrorisme intellectuel”; Jean-Michel Heimonet, Catholic University of America; “The Postmodern Mythology of Michel Tournier”; Melissa Panek, Catholic University of America
8.19 Regency A: Guido Cavalcanti and His Legacy; Chair: Federica Anichini, College of New Jersey; “Paolo Del Rosso and His Fisica in Terza Rima”; Mauro Scarabelli, Scuola Normale Superiore; “Guido Cavalcanti and the Neapolitan Humanism”; Florence Bistagne, Université d’Avignon; “Cavalcantian Traces in Giacomo Leopardi’s Zibaldone”; Federica Anichini, College of New Jersey; “From Medusa to Matelda: Cavalcantian Poetics Redeemed”; Florence Russo, St. John’s University
8.20 Regency B: Islam in Contemporary Italy; Chair: Johanna Rossi Wagner, Pennsylvania State University; “The ‘Clash of Ignorance’ in post 9/11: Strategic Essentialism in Igiaba Scego’s Salsicce”; Simone Brioni, University of Warwick; “Pope Benedict XVI’s Regensburg Lecture: Islam and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ in the Italian Media”; Martina Ambrosini, University of Pisa; “Language and Muslim identity in Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a piazza Vittorio”; Bridget Pupillo, Johns Hopkins University; “Mapping Rome all’islamica. On Lakhous, Stereotype and the Hybrid Novel”; Walter Geerts, University of Antwerp
8.21 Regency C: ‘Voglio morire’: Suicide in Italian Literature of the XIX and XX Centuries; Chair: Anita Virga, University of Connecticut; “L’inspiegabile ‘qualche cosa’ che rende la vita insopportabile in Una vita di Svevo”; Maria Luisa Graziano, Saint Peter’s College; “Narciso allo specchio. :riflessi e il suicidio palazzeschiano”; Tiziano Cherubini, Rutgers University; “Per finire: Guido Morselli tra scrittura e vita”; Diego Bertelli, Yale University; “Death as a Performance: From Myth to Modernity”; Stacy Giufre, Harvard University
8.22 Regency D: 2001-2011: Terror and Trauma on the Post-9/11 Spanish Stage; Chair: Eileen Doll, Loyola University-New Orleans; “Women in War: Memory, Truth and Compassion in Babilonia by José Ramón Fernández”; Linda Materna, Rider University; “From Terrorism to Security: Juan Mayorga’s La paz perpetua as Universal Dilemma”; Jerelyn Johnson, Fairfield University; “Terror as Postmodern Performative Topos in Juan Mayorga’s Himmelweg”; John P Gabriele, College of Wooster; “El trauma del Otro: Once voces contra la barbarie del 11-M”; Eileen J Doll, Loyola University-New Orleans
8.23 Regency E: Methodologies of Science and Literature (Roundtable); Chair: Rebekah Sheldon, CUNY Graduate Center; “‘The Topography of Ignorance’: Science and Theory”; Robert Blaskiewicz, Georgia Institute of Technology; “An Unfashionable Manifesto: A Case for Philosophy of Science in Literary Studies”; Suzanne Black, SUNY College at Oneonta; “The Creative Knowledge of Literature - Four Approaches to Literature and Medicine”; Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen; “Affect, Phenomenology and Science Studies”; Rebekah Sheldon, CUNY Graduate Center
8.24 Regency F: Literary Landscapes: Representation and Imagination; Chair: Marilyn Rye, Fairleigh Dickinson University; “Thoreau’s Concord: Land Surveying and the Formation of Landscape”; Iuliu Ratiu, SUNY Albany; “The Iconic Landscape of Seasonal Cycles: Thoreau, Beston, Hubbell, Klinkenborg”; Marilyn Rye, Fairleigh Dickinson University; “Willa Cather’s Literary Ecology in O Pioneers!”; Karen Waldron, College of the Atlantic; “Drawing ‘Imaginary Lines’: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford and England’s Imagined Geographies”; Kai Hainer, University of Toronto
8.25 Conference F: Theorizing Mobility in Transnational Literature; Chairs: Penny Vlagopoulos, Texas A&M International University; Nicole Rizzuto, Oklahoma State University; “The Global Urban Errant: Mobility and Meaning in the Autofiction of Patrick Deville”; Steven Spalding, Christopher Newport University; “Movement and the Formation of the African Diaspora in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes”; Tuire Valkeakari, Providence College; “A Transnational Politics of Solidarity: Mobilities of Resistance in Ethnic American Literature”; Penny Vlagopoulos, Texas A&M International University; “Terraqueous Aesthetics and Limited Mobilities”; Nicole Rizzuto, Oklahoma State University
8.26 Conference H: The Power of Marginal Spaces in the Works of Carmen Martin Gaite; Chair: Elizabeth Huergo, Montgomery College; “Imagining Horizontality: Feminine Spatial Identity in El Cuarto de atras”; Michael Raguso, SUNY Buffalo; “Recovering Carmen Martin Gaite from the Margins of the Spanish Post-War Novel”; Julia Riordan-Goncalves, Monmouth University; “Laying Down the Map: Tracing Memory and Maternity through the City in Lo raro es vivir”; Amy Tibbitts, Beloit College; “Writing from The Back Room: Martin Gaite and the Shaping of a Writer’s Identity”; Elizabeth Huergo, Montgomery College
8.27 J and J Business Center: Flânerie and the Rise of the Modern Urban Woman; Chair: Elizabeth O’Connor, Fordham University; “Perambulating the Metropolis: Women, the City , and Walter Benjamin”; Elizabeth O’Connor, Fordham University; “Hope Mirrlees’ Paris: Borders and Resistance in the Modern Woman’s Epic”; Sandeep Parmar, New York University; “Paris and London: Where Sapphic Love Goes to Die”; Kathryn Klein, SUNY Stony Brook; “Flaneur in Wartime: Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day, Ireland and the Blitz”; Seamus O’Malley, CUNY Graduate Center

Session 9

Friday, April 8, 4:45PM - 6:15PM

9.01 Conference A: American Literary Tourism; Chair: Jennifer Harris, Mount Allison University; “A Good Home is Hard to Maintain: Authorial Intent and the Childhood Homes of Cather and O’Connor”; Jane M. Wood, Park University; “Mark Twain’s Birthplace Cabins: ‘Authentic’ Literary Shrines and Shams”; Hilary Iris Lowe, Drexel University; “‘Afoot with my vision’: Presence, Accessibility, and Tourism in the Digital Age”; Mara Scanlon, University of Mary Washington; “Pictorializing the Allure of Authors’ Homes: Surveying 19th and 20th-Century Literary Guides”; Susann Bishop, Independent Scholar; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
9.02 Salon A: Hybrid Identities: Second Generation Immigrants (Austria, Germany, Switzerland); Chair: Margrit Zinggeler, Eastern Michigan University; “Deutsch-türkische Hybriditätsformen in den Romanen von Hatice Akyün”; Gabriele Eichmanns, Carnegie Mellon University; “Humor as Response to Everyday Racism in Martin Hyun’s ‘Lautlos – ja. Sprachlos – nein’”; Suin Roberts, Indiana University; “Hybrid Identity in the Works of the Austrian Author Dimitre Dinev”; Richard R. Ruppel, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; “Hybrid Identities in Literature by ‘Secondas’ and ‘Secondos’ in Switzerland”; Margrit Zinggeler, Eastern Michigan University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
9.03 Salon D: Issues on Ecology in Latin American Literature and Culture; Chair: Jorge Marcone, Rutgers University; “Baqueanos y rastreadores: An Ecological Interpretation of the Guide in the novela de la selva”; Charlotte Rogers, Hamilton College; “An Ecosophical Reading of ‘Las palmeras detrás’ by Ronaldo Menéndez”; Andrea Casals Hill, Universidad Católica de Chile; “Ecologies of the 21st Century: Filming Environmental Justice in Latin America”; Jorge Marcone, Rutgers University; “Spanning the Abyss: Ecopoiesis of Landscape and Place in the Poetry of Juan L. Ortiz”; Mac Wilson, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
9.04 Conference B: Dickens in 2012: Preparing for Boz’s Bicentennial; Chair: Mary Ann Tobin, Triton College; “Dickens and Massachusetts: Untold Stories”; Diana C. Archibald, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; “‘I am in the theatrical profession myself’: Dickensian Performance in the Literature Classroom”; Marc Napolitano, United States Military Academy; “The Pedagogical Fallacy of Hard Times”; Katharyn Stober, University of North Texas; “Hard Times in the Classroom: A Pedagogy for Student Success?”; Mary Ann Tobin, Triton College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
9.05 Conference C: Cinema and Demos; Chair: Elif Sendur, Binghamton University; “Bending Ideologies, Educating the Masses: Cinema/Ideology/Criticism Revisited”; Elif Sendur, Binghamton University; “Post-National Cinemas: Knitting The Masses and Photographing Desire”; Walid El Khachab, University of Ottawa; “The End of the Bush Years and the Films of 2007: Powerlessness, Plague, and Politics”; Rebecca Fine Romanow, University of Rhode Island; “What Should Cinema Be? Film and Pedagogy in 1920s France”; Casiana Ionita, Columbia University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
9.06 Conference I: Narrated Objects: Literature and Material Culture in the Americas; Chair: Laura Gandolfi, Princeton University; “Objects as Belonging to Ontological Systems in Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Love-Lies-Bleeding”; Rebecca Rey, University of Western Australia; “Redefinition of the Subject-Object Relation in Juan José Saer”; Laura Gandolfi, Princeton University; “Reprise of a Dress: Ethnic Fashions and National Identity in Frida Kahlo and Rosario Castellanos”; Alba F. Aragón, Harvard University; “‘We’re hunting for fat’: Fight Club, Thing Theory and the Mythological West”; Raymond Malewitz, Yale University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
9.07 Salon B: We’re plotting our evil, feminist agenda: Women’s Documentaries; Chair: Magdalena Bogacka, CUNY Graduate Center; “Weeping Woman with a Camera: the Feminist Documentary Project of Guernica”; J. Ashley Foster, CUNY Graduate Center; “Capturing a Humoristic World – the Experience of Wartime Rape in Anonyma’s Eine Frau in Berlin”; Anja Wieden, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “When I feel like crying...: letters by Eugenie John Marlitt”; Christina Rosemeier Humphrey, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Under the Southern Gaze: Eudora Welty’s photographs of African American Women”; Magdalena Bogacka, CUNY Graduate Center; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
9.08 Conference D: Posthumanism, Biopower, and Modern and Contemporary War (Roundtable); Chair: Ryan Hediger, La Salle University; “Human-Animal vs. Human-Machine in Avatar”; Seung-hoon Jeong, New York University; “The Politics of Memory: Collective Memory in Waltz With Bashir”; Jamie Henthorn, Northern Virginia Community College; “Accounting for Necropower: Spectacularizing the Redaction in Wafaa Bilal’s Domestic Tension”; Rachel Ann Walsh, Stony Brook University; “On Violence and the State: Torture, Jouissance and the Stripping of Bare Life”; Michael Swacha, Georgetown University; “Dogs of War: Loving and Leaving the Canine Forces in Vietnam”; Ryan Hediger, La Salle University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
9.09 Conference G: Captions, Slogans, and Stares (Oh, My!): Image as Argument in College Writing (Roundtable); Chair: Peter Witkowsky, Mount Saint Mary College; “‘Essay #1’ Is Not a Title: Using Image to Enhance Argument in First-Year Writing Classes”; Lynne Bongiovanni, College of Mount Saint Vincent; “‘What Would You Want with a Rabbit?’: Arguing Gender and Sexuality through ‘The Rabbit of Seville’”; Bianca Tredennick, SUNY Oneonta; “Looking at Student Sketches and Campus Rooms to Encourage Critical Thinking”; Michelle B. Gaffey, Duquesne University; “Memorializing Discourse: Examining the Rhetoric of Memorials in First Year Composition Classes”; Jennifer A. Rich, Hofstra University; “Discovering Ancient Rhetoric Through Frank Warren’s PostSecret”; Elishia Heiden, University of North Texas; “Our President, the Monster: Graphic Political Arguments in the Composition Classroom”; Angela Francis, CUNY Graduate Center; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
9.10 Salon C: Rethinking the Postmodern Monster; Chair: Heather Cyr, Queen’s University; “Disembodying the Monstrous in Patrick Süskind’s Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”; Lauren Shufran, University of California-Santa Cruz; “The Monstrous, the Rational, and the Arcane: Re-reading Angela Carter’s ‘Lady of the House of Love’”; Jameela Dallis, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “The Gizmo Effect: ‘Japan Inc.’ and the American Nightmare”; Michael Blouin, Michigan State University; “The Inverted Multitude: Zombies, Collectivity, and Late Capitalism”; Jesse Ramirez, Yale University; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
9.11 Conference JK: Renaissance Trauma; Chair: Paul Rosa, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Trauma and Tragicomedy in The Tempest”; Patrick Cook, George Washington University; “The Critical Mourning of Prince Hamlet and John Donne”; Katherine Hallemeier, Queen’s University; “‘Second Hell’: Protestant Purgatories in The Spanish Tragedy”; Emily Vasiliauskas, Princeton University
9.12 Conference E: Brooklyn Poetics; Chair: Wendy Galgan, St. Francis College; “Whitman’s Divine Original Concrete: Brooklyn’s Bard as the Beautiful Minister of Mass Motion”; Ian Maloney, St. Francis College; “‘A word you could put to Brooklyn, NY’: Betty Smith’s Francie Nolan as Archetypal Brooklyn Poet”; Joyce Zonana, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “I Watch You Face to Face: Whitman’s ‘Crossing Brooklyn Ferry’ and Crane’s ‘To Brooklyn Bridge’”; Becca Klaver, Rutgers University; “Brooklyn Poetics”; Wendy Galgan, St. Francis College
9.13 Boardroom: Utopian Impulses: Hope, Futurity, and Change in American Literature; Chair: Katherine Broad, CUNY Graduate Center; “Utopian Media: Bellamy, Howells, and Nineteenth-Century News”; Kelley Kreitz, Brown University; “‘[A]n Empty Space where America Used to Be’: The Utopian Pessimism of Don DeLillo’s Falling Man”; Joanne Lipson Freed, University of Michigan; “Pitcairn Island as American Democratic Utopia: Charles Lenox Sargent’s The Life of Alexander Smith”; Talia Argondezzi, CUNY Graduate Center; “Something Similar to Utopia: Desire and Hope in James Baldwin’s Another Country”; Kimiko Hiranuma, University of Tsukuba
9.14 Room 248: The Acknowledged Legislator: A Critical (Re)Assessment of Martín Espada; Chair: Edward Carvalho, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; “Martín Espada: Resistance-Postmodern Poet”; Pauline Uchmanowicz, SUNY New Paltz; “‘The black braid of names’: Martín Espada’s Lyric Monuments to Resistance . . .”; Michael Dowdy, Hunter College-CUNY; “From the Inner-City to the Cotton Fields: Living and Working Conditions in Martín Espada’s Poetry”; Jeremy Larochelle, University of Mary Washington; “‘A Poetry like Ammunition’: Resistance and Subversion in the Work of Martín Espada”; Natasha Azank, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
9.15 Brunswick A: Mothers of the Novel: Engendering Self as Woman in the Eighteenth Century; Chair: Kristine Jennings, SUNY Binghamton; “‘It’s Alive!’: Women, Science, and the Creation of the Novel”; Karen Gevirtz, Seton Hall University; “Models for Female Behavior in Sheridan’s The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and Its Conclusions”; Nicole Garret, Stony Brook University; “Righting the Rightless in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman”; Devon Sherman, Rutgers University; “Establishing Comparative Gender in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda”; Dannie Chalk, Pennsylvania State University
9.16 Brunswick B: Writing Surveillance: Transcultural Perspectives; Chair: John Heath, Universität Wien; “Layers of Silence in Surveillance Society”; Karen Roy, University of British Columbia; “Spectres of Surveillance: State Security Files in Works by Hilbig and Banciu”; Sara Jones, University of Bristol; “Extending Surveillance Into The Body”; Gundela Hachmann, Louisiana State University; “In the Crosshairs of the Berlin Republic: Dissidence and Surveillance in Peltzer’s Teil der Lösung”; Markus Wiefarn, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
9.17 Brunswick C: The EcoGothic in Italian Literature and Culture; Chair: David Del Principe, Montclair State University; “Under the Phantom Sky: Longing for Ghosts, Surviving Disaster in Bambini Bonsai”; Rossella Carbotti, University of California-Berkeley; “A Model for the EcoGothic”; David Del Principe, Montclair State University; “Starved for Love: Body Re-Shaping in Matteo Garrone’s Primo Amore”; Francesco Pascuzzi, Rutgers University; “‘L’orrida magnificenza del luogo’: Antonio Fogazzaro’s Malombra”; Maria Parrino, University of Bristol
9.18 Brunswick D: Literary Darwinism and Social Justice; Chair: Todd Williams, Kutztown University; “Ethical Interventions in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man”; Lauren Cameron, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “‘Not White nor Black nor Red but Men’: Emotion, Ethics, and Equality in Darwin and Faulkner”; Deborah Bailin, University of Maryland; “Your Lying Eyes: Deceit and the Face in Darwin and Detective Fiction”; Elizabeth McAdams, University of Michigan; “Biopoetics and Storytelling: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller”; David Randall, Bloomsburg University
9.19 Regency A: Programs in Peril (Roundtable); Chair: Natalie Edwards, Wagner College; “Modern Language Association: Programs in Peril Study”; Rosemary Feal, Modern Language Association; “Respondent”; Stefanie Ohnesorg, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; “Respondent”; Natalie Pendergast, University of Toronto
9.20 Regency B: Translation: The ‘Next Big Thing’ to Revitalize the Humanities? (Roundtable); Chairs: Mary Sisler, Rutgers University; Thomas Stephens, Rutgers University; “Translation (Studies) in the Academy: Myth, Reality, and Tenure.”; Anna Strowe, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “On Translating English Poetry into English”; William Moeck, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Translation Studies: Vital for the Humanities”; Marko Miletich, Hunter College-CUNY; “Translation in the Humanities: The Practical Applications”; Thomas Stephens, Rutgers University
9.21 Regency C: The Single Woman (Roundtable); Chairs: Sarah Ensor, Cornell University; Kamila Janiszewska, Cornell University; “Scripting the Single Woman: The Early American Woman, Textuality, and Performance”; Kathleen Crosby, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “The Single Woman and Racial Stigma in Early African American Literature”; Andreá N. Williams, Ohio State University; “Benjamin’s Allegorical Types and the ‘Odd Woman’ in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature”; Corinne Martin, Ohio State University; “From Laura Wingfield to Joy-Hulga Hopewell: Stigmatyping the Disabled Single Woman”; Sara D. Schotland, University of Maryland; “Constructing Singleness in Dorothy Allison’s The Women Who Hate Me”; Ami Blue, Michigan State University; “‘New’ Single Women? Postfeminism and Enduring Cultural Fears of Singleness”; Anthea Taylor, University of Queensland
9.22 Conference F: Narrative is the Essence of History: The History of the Historical Novel (Roundtable); Chair: John Cameron, Dalhousie University; “Contemporary responses to the Traditional American Historical Novel”; Kate Kirwan, University College-Cork; “History, the Mother of Truth’: Historical Fact and Fiction in Borges’ Ficciones”; John Cameron, Dalhousie University; “The New Historical Fiction: Between Tradition and Innovation”; Ina Bergmann, University of Wuerzburg; “The Boundary between Fiction and History”; Michelle Buchberger, Franklin University; “L’Education Sentimentale: Passivity and Violence”; Rebecca Powers, Johns Hopkins University; “Cooper, Doctorow, and American Exceptionalism; or, Why We Love Historical Fiction”; James Donahue, SUNY Potsdam
9.23 Conference H: Fashion and Costume as Mirrors of Society and Time (Roundtable); Chair: Daniela Bisello Antonucci, Princeton University; “Dress in the late Medieval Period and Early Renassaince”; Elena Grianti-Schechter, College of New Jersey; “Fashioning la Serenissima: Costume and the Geographical Contours of Renassaince Venice”; Kristi Grimes, Saint Joseph’s University; “L’abbigliamento nei ritratti di Sofonisba Anguissola”; Snjezana Smodlaka, Independent Scholar; “La moda nel pensiero di Giacomo Leopardi: una retorica della modernita’”; Fabrizio Patriarca, Universita’ di Roma Tor Vergata; “Eros in kimono: Ceremonial Sequences in ‘Interno Berlinese’”; Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, Princeton University; “Italianness and the 1980’s”; Alessandro Giardino, McGill University
9.24 J and J Business Center: Popular Italian Cinema: from Ubalda to Er Monnezza (Roundtable); Chair: Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico; “Recycling Nostalgia: the Peplum and the Mimicry of Hollywood on the Tiber’s Films”; Maria Elena D’Amelio, SUNY Stony Brook; “I nipotini indesiderati. Echi pasoliniani dal decamerotico al cannibalico”; Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico; “Figure femminili nei B-movies italiani”; Giovanni Migliara, UNED-University of Madrid; “Figure maschili nei B-movies italiani”; Renato Ventura, University of Dayton; “Regionalismi nella commedia all’italiana di ieri e di oggi”; Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross; “Vanzina’s 2061: Re-make, Commedia povera, o semplicemente un film terribile?...Peggio ancora”; Gregory Pell, Hofstra University