Saturday Sessions

Session 10

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

10.01 Salon A: Transnational Genres in 18th Century German Literature; Chairs: Astrid Weigert, Georgetown University; Ashleigh Stall, Georgetown University; “Autofictional Intertexts in Rousseau’s Émile and Wieland’s Agathon”; Andrea Speltz, Queen’s University-Kingston; “The Consequences of Delayed Reception: On Montesquieu’s Persian Letters in Germany”; Russell Bucher, University of California-Berkeley; “Displaying the Natural World in 18th Century Travel Writing”; Stefanie Ohnesorg, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
10.02 Salon D: Experimentation in Latin American Film; Chair: Christopher Donahue, Bloomsburg University; “La muralla verde: When Green Means Don’t Go”; Christopher Donahue, Bloomsburg University; “Sujetos sociales como armas para la globalización: Dependencia sexual.”; Sara Provenzale, Ohio State University; “Radical Experimentation in Cuban Independent Cinema: The Molina Effect.”; Ruth Goldberg, SUNY Empire State College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
10.03 Conference B: Trends in 21st Century American Drama; Chair: Pamela Monaco, Brandman University; “Working the Private/Public Spaces of Theatrical Performance and Experience”; Lynda Goldstein, Pennsylvania State University-Wilkes-Barre; “Curtains Rise on Regional Theatre”; Pamela Monaco, Brandman University; “Eyes Across the Seas: American Political Plays of the 21st Century”; Donald Kehne, Brandman University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
10.04 Conference C: Wandering Women: Female Itinerancy on Film; Chair: Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Wandering Female Eye: Uncertainty and the Gaze in Andrea Arnold’s Red Road”; Paul Gleed, Dickinson College; “Intermezzos: Gendered Wanderings”; Ela Przybylo, University of Alberta; “Wanda’s Wandering”; Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY Graduate Center; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
10.05 Conference I: New Trends in Teaching Italian with Technologies; Chairs: Antonella Ansani, Queensborough Community College-CUNY; Giulia Guarnieri, Bronx Community College-CUNY; “Teaching Italian Using the Eportfolio Platform”; Giulia Guarnieri, Bronx Community College-CUNY; “‘Parliamo!’ Technology for the Italian Conversation Class”; Julia Cozzarelli, Ithaca College; “Love and Technology in the Third Year Italian Class”; Mary Ann Carolan, Fairfield University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
10.06 Salon B: Queer Counterpublic; Chair: Grace Sikorski, Anne Arundel Community College; “De/Reconstructing Gender: Technology of Transmasculinity in Loren Cameron’s Queer Counterpublic”; Grace Sikorski, Anne Arundel Community College; “‘HIV Monsters’: Criminal HIV Transmission and Counterpublic Health”; Greg Tomso, University of West Florida; “Queer Oppositional Politics: ‘Coming Out’ as Narrative Failure”; Shadee Malaklou, University of California-Irvine; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
10.07 Conference D: Getting to Advanced Low: Preparation for the Oral Proficiency Interview; Chair: Mirta Barrea-Marlys, Monmouth University; “Developing an Oral Language Competency Examination (OLCE) at Norfolk State University”; Sasha Johnson-Coleman, Norfolk State University; “Testing Proficiency-Based instruction: the Greatest Challenge for the Foreign Language Curriculum”; Angelo Rodriguez, Kutztown University; “Preparation for the Oral Proficiency Interview”; Mirta Barrea-Marlys, Monmouth University; Gisela Cordero-Cinko, Monmouth University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
10.08 Conference G: Behind the Lens: Immigration and Globalization in Spanish Contemporary Film; Chair: Javier Venturi, Elms College; “Representaciones de la mujer inmigrante latinoamericana en el cine español contemporáneo”; Eva Paris-Huesca, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “España y Latinoamérica: el reencuentro en la era de la globalización en el filme Qué tan lejos”; Javier Venturi, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Inmigración en femenino: de nosotras a otras”; Barbara Zecchi, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
10.09 Conference A: Italian Media Socialization. Between Private, Public and On-line Narratives (Seminar); Chair: Sonia Massari, Siena University; “Online Music Listening and Consumption and the Re-definition of Personal Identities in our Modernity”; Marco Bracci, Florence University; “The Ashes of Narrative: Italy in Blogs and Pieces”; Sabrina Ovan, Scripps College; “Facebook, Twitter and Shakespeare: A (R)evolution”; Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
10.10 Salon C: Women and Wilderness: Ecofeminism in Early American Literature; Chair: Ashley Bourne, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College; “Mary Conant’s Counternarrative in Lydia Maria Child’s Hobomok”; Sean Carswell, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; “Spinsters and Sea Widows: Women, Wilderness and Identity in Sarah Orne Jewett’s Deephaven”; Michelle Pacht, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY; “Dangers in the Wilderness and in Women in Catherine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie”; Megan Bergeron, University of Louisiana-Lafayette; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
10.11 Conference JK: Drag, Dress and Disguise in Eighteenth-Century Novels; Chair: Ula Lukszo, SUNY Stony Brook; “The Female Cross-Dresser Domesticated?: Hannah Snell, Charlotte Charke and Moll Flanders Revisited”; Ula Lukszo, SUNY Stony Brook; “‘Making Free with the Sacerdotal Habit’ in Sarah Scott’s A Journey Through Every Stage of Life”; Tina Van Kley, Brandeis University; “The Bride Stripped Bare: Dress and Undress in Defoe’s Roxana”; Emily West, McMaster University
10.12 Conference E: Melting-Pots and Mosaics: Paris and Montréal in Francophone Literature; Chair: Pascale De Souza, George Mason University; “Paris et Montréal: terres d’accueil ou terres d’exil?”; Samia Spencer, Auburn University; “Babel à Montréal : ces nomades qui « tropicalisent » la planète”; Isabelle Choquet, Denison University; “Gendered Parisian scapes in Rebelle by Fatou Keita and Les Pieds Sales by Edem Awumey”; Pascale De Souza, George Mason University
10.13 Boardroom: Rafik Schami - The Poet and Storyteller; Chair: Mohamed Esa, McDaniel College; “Rafik Schami’s Catastrophic Entwicklungsroman”; Bryan Aja, University of Washington; “Under the Influence: Men and their Female Mentors in the Works of Rafik Schami”; Holly Brining, University of Texas-Austin; “The Healing Powers of Storytelling in Rafik Schami’s ‘Erzähler der Nacht’”; Mohamed Esa, McDaniel College
10.14 Room 248: Problem Based Learning: Strategies, Struggles, and Successes (Roundtable); Chair: Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island; “PBL in the Humanities”; Steven Canaday, Anne Arundel Community College; “PBL and Student Narratives”; Judith McCarthy, DeVry University; “PBL in English and Women’s Studies”; Suzanne Spoor, Anne Arundel Community College
10.15 Brunswick A: Authority and Uncertainty in Poetic Language and Practice; Chairs: Andrea Scott, Princeton University; Stephen Donatelli, Princeton University; “Resisting the Posture of Mastery: What the Unsaid Asserts”; Leah Souffrant, City University of New York; “Celia’s L. Z. ‘Mask’: Readerly Authority in Louis Zukofsky’s A”; Tim Wood, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Hybrids Absorbed in Hybrid Literature: Wallace Stevens between Reality and Conceptual Art”; Robert Reginio, Alfred University
10.16 Brunswick B: Post/Colonial Nostalgia in South Asian Literature; Chair: Suha Kudsieh, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “Reconstructing the National Imaginary: Nostalgia in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column”; Amrita Ghosh, Drew University; “‘Geography Fabulous:’ Conrad and Ghosh”; Padmini Mongia, Franklin and Marshall College; “Nostalgia and British Women: Reading Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist”; Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya, Drew University
10.17 Brunswick C: ‘Only the Difficult Stimulates’: The Interplay of Opacities in Caribbean Lit; Chair: Christopher Winks, Queens College-CUNY; “Nation and the Other in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”; Ana Baez, University of Illinois-Chicago; “Preservation Through Disappearance: David Dabydeen’s Poetry of Negation”; Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University; “A Labyrinth Before Dying: Lorenzo García Vega’s Neo-Baroque Poetics”; Christopher Winks, Queens College-CUNY
10.18 Brunswick D: The Criminal Underworld in Medieval Literature; Chairs: Pamela Longo, University of Connecticut; Jeremy DeAngelo, University of Connecticut; “Crime and Justice in Gregory of Tours’s Life of the Fathers”; Cecilia Bonnor, Fordham University; “Sacred Comedy and the Fabliaux”; Sarah Elliott Novacich, Yale University; “‘But lat me be a felow’: Outlaw Justice in Robin Hood and the Monk”; Dana Symons, Buffalo State College
10.19 Regency A: Women Writers and Psychoanalysis; Chair: Kristina Marie Darling, University of Missouri-St. Louis; “Poet as Embryo: Narcisstic Iconoclasm in the Later Poetry of Sylvia Plath”; Tamkin Hussain, Binghamton University; “H.D., Freud, and the Dream Lexicon of Trilogy”; Kelly MacPhail, Université de Montréal; “Narrating Analysis: H.D.’s Challenges to Freud in Tribute to Freud”; Kaitlyn Pinder, McGill University
10.20 Regency B: Performing Knowledge; Chair: Sean Patrick Barry, Rutgers University; “Bodies of Knowledge, Bodies of Desire: The Tutor in Eighteenth-Century Fiction”; Cecilia Feilla, Marymount Manhattan College; “Performing Non-knowledge: Wesley, Witnessing and the Assurance Debate”; Nick Valvo, University of California-Davis; “Lyric Mindedness and the Romantic Pedant”; John L. Savarese, Rutgers University; Sean Patrick Barry, Rutgers University
10.21 Regency C: Writing Assessment Inside and Outside the English Department (Roundtable); Chair: Greg Barnhisel, Duquesne University; “Walking the Assessment Report Tightrope”; Laurie McMillan, Marywood University; “Rubrics and Reflection: Portfolio Evaluation and Program Assessment”; Megan Jewell, Case Western Reserve University; “Inside or Outside the English Department: Political/Procedural Resistance to Performance Assessments”; Anthony Petruzzi, University of Massachusetts-Boston; “Learning Communities and Process Pedagogy”; Greg Barnhisel, Duquesne University
10.22 Regency D: 1861-2011: Reflecting on Italian Unification in Literature and Cinema (Roundtable); Chair: Chiara De Santi, SUNY Fredonia; “Il concetto di patria nelle Confessioni di un Italiano di Ippolito Nievo”; Chiara De Santi, SUNY Fredonia; “The Fight for Independence in Boito and Visconti’s Senso”; Cristina Villa, University of Southern California; “Il motivo dell’unificazione nel cinema dei fratelli Taviani”; Federica Colleoni, James Madison University; “Cinema, National Identity, and Gender Roles a Hundred Years from National Unification”; Yuri Guaiana, Università degli Studi di Milano
10.23 Regency E: Complicated Space: Reading the Transnational Text (Roundtable); Chair: Elaine Savory, New School University; “Transnational Israel/Palestine: The Case of David Grossman”; Anna Bernard, University of York; “Complicated Space: Reading the Transnational Text”; Binita Mehta, Manhattanville College; “The Transnational Tauchnitz: Detteritolizing British Literature”; Maureen Gallagher, University of Massachussetts-Amherst; “The Argentinian Literary Tradition”; Carolina Gómez-Montoya, University of Maryland
10.24 Regency F: The Outsider Within: Women as Contingent Faculty in the Academy (Roundtable); Chair: Rhonda Filipan, Kent State University; “Academic Capitalism and Generic Engineering”; Karen Cardozo, Mount Holyoke College; “Women as Contingent Faculty: Realites and Myth of Part-time Work”; Kelliann Flores, SUNY Stony Brook; “Women Enjoy a Silver Lining in Contingent-Faculty Opportunities”; Cynthia Henderson, College of Lake County; “What Century is This? Nineteenth-Century Women in Today’s Academia”; Mary Ann Tobin, Triton College
10.25 Conference F: Early Italian Literature: Text Within Its Material Context; Chair: Jelena Todorovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “How to Read a Medieval Text: A Case Study”; Jelena Todorovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “The Italian Translations of Dante’s Monarchia in Florentine Fifteenth-century Manuscripts”; Beatrice Arduini, Tulane University; “Textual Reinterpretations of Medieval Lay Piety After the Council of Trent”; Anne Schuchman, City University of New York
10.26 Conference H: Concepts of Identity in Post-colonial African Culture; Chair: Orquidea Ribeiro, Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro; “Suleiman Cassamo: the Power of Enunciation of the Dead in Mozambique”; Luis Goncalves, Princeton University; “Palavra e identidade em Mia Couto”; Fernando Moreira, UTAD; “Colonial and Post-Colonial Identities in Lusophone African Culture”; Orquidea Ribeiro, UTAD

Session 11

Saturday, April 9, 10:00AM - 11:30AM

11.01 Salon A: In the Wake of 9/11: American Texts in the Twenty-First Century I; Chair: Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Transcendent Trauma: The Conflation of the Personal and the Political in Representations of 9/11”; Lucy Bond, University of London; “‘Partial Inventory of Airborne Debris’: Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation”; Barbara Fischer, Hudson Valley Writers’ Center; “‘It was my curse to look unruined in my ruins’: Unreality and Dispossession in Chronic City”; Jonathan McKay, Queen’s University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
11.02 Salon D: Center and Periphery: Representing Spanishness in Contemporary Literature; Chair: Eugenia Romero, Ohio State University; “The Double Discourse of Identity in Cuestión de amor propio by Carmé Riera”; Eugenia Romero, Ohio State University; “Local and global Identities: Vicente Ameztoy and Suso de Toro”; Txetxu Aguado, Dartmouth College; “La nación o sus heterónimos. Ciudadanía, imaginación nacional y nuevas poetas gallegas (circa 2002)”; Germán Labrador Méndez, Princeton University; “¿España o África? Inmigrantes africanos y su búsqueda de integración”; Esther Daganzo-Cantens, East Stroudsburg University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
11.03 Conference B: World Literature / Global Empathy; Chair: Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State University; “Injury, Responsibility and Reparation in Eichmann in Jerusalem and Waiting for the Barbarians”; Kelly Rich, University of Pennsylvania; “‘The Storyteller’: Dave Eggers and the Literature of Human Rights”; Kelly Adams, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Network Consciousness in the Multi-Plot Novel”; Liz Maynes-Aminzade, Harvard University; “Overcoming the Fear of the Unknown: Empathy in Contemporary Picturebooks”; Lesley Clement, Lakehead University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
11.04 Conference C: Homosexual Women in Italian Literature, Cinema and Other Media; Chair: Erika Papagni, University of Toronto; “Sappho’s Circle: Intertextuality and Eroticism in Lyrics by Patrizia Cavalli”; Kristi Grimes, Saint Joseph’s University; “Le origini del fumetto lesbico italiano: il fumetto soft porno italiano degli anni Settanta”; Helena Velena, Independent Scholar; “La viola di mare. Una storia di amore tra donne nella Sicilia di inizio Novecento”; Marianna Orsi, Indiana University; “L’uovo fuori dal cavagno: a tu per tu con Margherita Giacobino”; Erika Papagni, University of Toronto; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
11.05 Conference I: Booting the ‘Boot’: Teaching Contemporary Italy with Technology; Chair: Cristina Abbona-Sneider, Brown University; “Strategies for Using Authentic Audio and Audiovisual Materials to Teach Interpretative Communication”; Elda Buonanno, Iona College; “Il portfolio nel curriculum d’italiano: e’ uno strumento efficace?”; Fabiana Cecchini, Texas A&M University; “iMovie Story Time: Collaborative Digital Research in the Second-Year Curriculum”; Erica Moretti, Brown University; “L’italiano attraverso l’uso di blogs e podcasts”; Cristina Pausini, Tufts University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
11.06 Salon B: Displaced Communities; Chairs: Esteban Loustaunau, Assumption College; Lauren Shaw, Elmira College; “Habana Abierta and Madrid as Middle Ground”; Lauren Shaw, Elmira College; “Negative Insurrection: The Presence and Politics of the Displaced in Arguedas’ Los ríos profundos”; Samuel Jaffee, University of California-Irvine; “A Brazilian Community: Brazilians in Astoria, Queens”; Melissa Castillo-Garsow, Fordham University; “‘Siempre vamos a ser ecuatorianos:’ Testimonios of Displacement and the Limits of Integration”; Esteban Loustaunau, Assumption College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
11.07 Conference D: Serial Narratives and Temporality; Chair: Toni Pape, Université de Montréal; “‘Make It Repeatable’: Postmodern Seriality and the Repetition of What Is Yet to Come”; Stephen Hock, Virginia Wesleyan College; “Serial Historiography: Toward an Ethics of Irreducible Elements in Narrative Histories”; Ben Bolling, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Aging at the Speed of Plot: The X-Men and Chronology”; Will Duffy, SUNY Buffalo; “Temporalities on Collision Course: Time, Knowledge and Temporal Critique in Damages”; Toni Pape, Université de Montréal; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
11.08 Conference G: Narrating Queer Histories (Roundtable); Chair: Marty Fink, Concordia University; “Choreographing a Queer Counter Narrative of Collective History in Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen”; Rachid Belghiti, Univesité de Montréal; “Ghosts, Nomads, and Other Useful Transients: Histories of Feeling in the Structures of Queer Art”; Erin Silver, McGill University; “How to Have Realism in an Epidemic: The Strategic Rewriting of AIDS”; Megan Paslawski, The Graduate Center-CUNY; “Collecting Queer Histories: AIDS, Oral History and Intergenerationality”; Svetlana Kitto, Columbia University; “Video Archiving and the Charm of Self Determined Histories: A Tale of the Future Anterior”; Johnny Nawracaj, Concordia University; “Latex Legacies: Narrating Histories of Safe(r) Sex”; Marty Fink, Concordia University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
11.09 Conference A: Twentieth-Century Blake; Chair: Jon Gagas, Temple University; “William Blake’s Milton, Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis, and the End of the Epic Narrative”; Geoff Klock, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Ghostly Language and Liminal Experience: William Blake, Patti Smith, and New York Punk of the ‘70s”; Richard Tayson, Graduate Center-CUNY; “Blake’s Prophecy and the Appropriation of Vision as Madness in Lovecraft’s Horror”; Scott Offutt, Washington State University; “‘Ambiguous and all but improbable’: Marianne Moore, Blake, and Observations”; Sumita Chakraborty, Independent Scholar; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
11.10 Salon C: Manipulative Forewords: Authors’ Imposed Agenda in Prefaces; Chair: Sophie Raynard, SUNY Stony Brook; “Brouillage énonciatif et dispersion narrative : l’avant-texte au XVIIIe siècle”; Zeina Hakim, Tufts University; “Laclos’ Liaisons Dangereuses as a Cultural Icon”; Rafika Merini, Buffalo State College; “‘Aux armes rhétoriques, citoyens!’ ou Les ‘Mémoires de Suzon, Sœur du portier des Chartreux’”; Caroline Jumel, Oakland University; “The Poetics of Early Contes de fées or The Conteuses’ Marketing Strategies in their Paratexts”; Sophie Raynard, SUNY Stony Brook; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
11.11 Conference JK: Pan-American Immigration Narratives; Chair: Beth Smith, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Re-imagining Return: Revisiting Sites of Trauma in the Work of Edwidge Danticat and Junot Diaz”; Jill Richardson, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Science Fiction and Fantasy as Meta-Narrative in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”; Joy Sanchez, University of South Florida; “Writing the Transnational Scholarship Boy: Gender, Education, and Intellect in Diaz and Aguilera”; Jennifer Rudolph, Connecticut College; “Silence and Speech in Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker”; Maria Bellamy, College of Staten Island-CUNY
11.12 Conference E: American Fiction Reflecting Global Ecological Concerns; Chair: Linda Byrd-Cook, Sam Houston State University; “Art, Fantasy, Madness: Reconstructing Nature in the Postmodern and Chester’s The Exquisite Corpse”; Rebekah Taylor, Augusta State University; “Bloodlands: Environmental Violence in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy”; Colin Clarke, Suffolk County Community College; “The Big End: William Gibson and the Ecology of Cool”; Jennifer Dellner, Ocean County College; “Bringing Down the Mountains: Appalachian Writers Expose Environmental Catastrophe”; Linda Byrd-Cook, Sam Houston State University
11.13 Boardroom: Best Practices in Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies (Roundtable); Chair: Susan Stewart-Steinberg, Brown University; “I’m Not a Feminist, But’: Building on Non-Traditional Students’ Awareness of Injustice”; Sara Hosey, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Best Practices in Women & Gender Studies at Rutgers University”; Harriet Davidson, Rutgers University; “Reviewing the Roles of Women’s Studies at HBCU Campuses”; Merry Byrd, Virginia State University; “Best Practices at Pembroke Center, Brown University”; Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Brown University; “Duke Women’s Studies: What We Do and How We Do It”; Ranjana Khanna, Duke University; Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus
11.14 Room 248: African American Discourse on Democratic Identity and Freedom II; Chair: Jorge L. Serrano, Montclair State University; “Democratic Sensibilities in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Invisible Man”; Kei Okajima, SUNY Buffalo; “Re-Bodying Democratic Identity in Baldwin’s Another Country”; Tara Wood, Rutgers University; “The Invisible President: Ralph Ellison and Democratic Practice”; Colin D. Loughran, University of Toronto; “The African American Civilizationist Posture as Contentious Democratic Identity”; Jorge Serrano, Montclair State University
11.15 Brunswick A: Neomedievalism; Chair: Daniel Lukes, New York University; “Vilem Flusser: Neo-Medievalism and the Techno-Image”; Christopher Vitale, Pratt Institute; “The Real & Ideal: 19th-Century Neo-Medievalism & Victorian Steampunk”; Tina Kelleher, Towson University; “Wandering Histories: Mrs. Dalloway and Romance”; Hannah Sikorski, Brown University; “The Meaning of Martyrdom in T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral”; Krystyna Michael, City University of New York
11.16 Brunswick B: Religion in the Shelley Circle; Chair: L. Adam Mekler, Morgan State University; “Prophecy and Materiality in Shelley’s Queen Mab”; Greg Ellerman, Rutgers University; “Father God, Devil God: Disorganizing Religion in Shelley’s The Cenci”; Andrew Keener, North Carolina State University; “Biblical Apocalypse in Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound”; Jane Kim, Cornell University; “‘a sad jar of atoms’: Aspects of Religious and Political Skepticism in Byron and Some Contemporaries”; Michael Williams, University of South Africa
11.17 Brunswick C: Victorian Women Writers: Constructions of Masculinity I; Chair: Kristin Le Veness, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Louis Moore’s Diary: The Private Spaces of Masculinity in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley”; Elizabeth Gargano, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; “‘I’d make such a pet of him, if he were mine’: the Domestication of Men in Wuthering Heights”; Julia Gingerich, Queen’s University; “‘Men are made of the queerest dregs’: The Male Sickroom in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley”; Kate Lawson, University of Waterloo; “Bronzed Masculinity in Jane Eyre, Shirley and Charlotte Brontë’s Juvenilia”; Judith Pike, Salisbury University
11.18 Brunswick D: Fractured Identities and Transgressive Practices in the Fin-de-Siècle Novel; Chair: Bryan Cameron, University of Pennsylvania; “Malevolent Female Sexuality and Masculine Literary Creativity in Catulle Mendès”; Sharon Larson, Brown University; “Dressed to Kill: Fashion and Femininity in Edmond de Goncourt’s Chérie”; Sara Phenix, University of Pennsylvania; “Stillborn Texts: Competing Pregnancies in Leopoldo Alas’ Su único hijo”; Bryan Cameron, University of Pennsylvania; “Oscar Wilde, Paul Bourget: Citational Passions”; François Proulx, Harvard University
11.19 Regency A: Surplus Formulations in Detection Fiction; Chair: Jessica Datema, Bergen Community College; “Work & Play: Minimalism and Excess in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy”; Michael Jan, Temple University; “On the subject of Guilt: Roger Zelazney’s ‘Home is the Hangman’ & Melanie Klein”; Bryan Conn, Case Western Reserve University; “Hard-Boiled Work in Haruki Murakami”; Jessica Datema, Bergen Community College; “‘Neither Fish Nor Flesh’; The Multiple Instabilities of Donna Andrews’ Turing Hopper”; Lauryn Mayer, Washington and Jefferson College
11.20 Regency B: Les enjeux du « je » en jeu dans la littérature francophone; Chair: Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University; “Camille Laurens: Private Eye/I”; Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University; “Looking in, Looking out, Looking around: ‘Je-Jeux’ of Rochefort and Condé”; Pamela Paine, Auburn University; “La dédoublement du « je » dans Le mangeur de Ying Chen”; Valérie Thiery Hastings, SUNY Buffalo; “Florence Delay’s Trois Désobéissances: a Mother’s Insights?”; Jane Evans, University of Texas-El Paso
11.21 Regency C: Images of Eastern Europe in Recent German Literature and Film; Chair: Pia Banzhaf, Queen’s University; “Frozen Memories: Annett Groeschner’s Moskauer Eis”; David Hartwig, University of New Mexico; “Nostalgia or Resentment? Russian Jews, Russian Germans, and the Soviet Past”; Anna Rodzevich, University of Toronto; “Modes of the Past in Zsuzsa Bank’s Der Schwimmer”; Andreea Mascan, Cornell University; “West Meets East in Sebald’s Austerlitz”; Nicole Burgoyne, Harvard University
11.22 Regency D: Il ‘900 sommerso italiano; Chair: Alessandro Cavalieri, Università degli Studi di Genova; “Juan Rodolfo Wilcock: autoemarginazione e coraggio di trattare ‘ciò di cui in Italia non si parla’”; Rosaria Mangiavillano, University of Georgia; “Nino Palumbo e il mondo dei non protagonisti”; Daniela Bisello Antonucci, Princeton University; “Out of One Skin and into Another: Censorship, Canonization, and La Pelle”; Marisa Escolar, University of California-Berkeley; “‘Sommerso’ as submerged and as forgotten: Parise’s I movimenti remoti”; Gregory M. Pell, Hofstra University
11.23 Regency E: Transnational Women’s Writing in 20th-century Europe; Chair: Chelsea Ray, University of Maine-Augusta; “Transnational Vanguards: Race, Revolution, and Rebellion in the Work of Nancy Cunard, 1920-1939”; Evelyn Scaramella, Manhattan College; “Transnationalités nothombiennes ou l’écriture métèque d’Amélie”; Frédérique Chevillot, University of Denver; “A Door Slammed on Eden’: Djuna Barnes’ The Antiphon and Violating Religiosity”; Margaret Sullivan, Georgia Southern University; “Feeling Utopic: Empathy and Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitanism”; Anthony Teets, SUNY Stony Brook
11.24 Regency F: Planetary Lyricism in Modern Chinese Poetry; Chairs: Jiayan Mi, The College of New Jersey; Nicholas Kaldis, SUNY Binghamton; “Allergy, Eulogy, and Ecocritical Poetics: Lin Huiyin and Modern Beijing”; Weijie Song, Rutgers University; “Looking through the Dust: Chen Jingrong’s Poetic Dystopia in 1940s Shanghai”; Liansu Meng, University of Connecticut; “The Universe of ‘Without’: Duo Duo and a New Poetics of Post-Nature”; Yibing Huang, Connecticut College; “The Ec(h)o between Iron and Litchi Trees: Geo-Identity, Zheng Xiaoqiong’s Migrant Poetry”; Haomin Gong, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
11.25 Conference F: Contemporary Fiction from the Middle East; Chair: Sally Gomaa, Salve Regina University; “Teaching Arab Women Novelists: Traps and Tributes”; Sally Gomaa, Salve Regina University; “Women, the Veil and Islam: Teaching Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love”; Adrienne Major, Landmark College; “Responsible Citizens of the World: Teaching Orhan Pamuk’s Snow for the Core Curriculum”; Stephen Trainor, Salve Regina University; “What Went Wrong? Authenticity, the Discourse of Failure, and the Contemporary Arabic Novel”; Waiel Abdelwahed, Temple University
11.26 Conference H: Willa Cather: Themes and Narrative Techniques; Chair: Elsa Nettels, College of William and Mary; “‘When friends marry, they are safe’: Rereading Marriage in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!”; Jana Tigchelaar, University of Kansas; “Untold Stories in Cather’s The Professor’s House and Wharton’s The Age of Innocence”; Julie Olin-Ammentorp, Le Moyne College; “Within and Without: Visual Destabilization in The Great Gatsby and The Professor’s House”; Genie Giaimo, Northeastern University; “Willa Cather and the Aesthetics of Progressivism”; Jesse Raber, Harvard University

Session 12

Saturday, April 9, 11:45AM - 1:00PM

12.01 Salon A: Cyber Aesthetics: Communication, Literature and Digital Reproducibility; Chair: Brandi Saturley, SUNY Stony Brook; “The Copyright and Trademark: Piracy, Artist Rights, and the New Semiological Culture”; Patricia Ana Marquez, Brooklyn College-CUNY; “Meta-Linking: Self-Reflexivity of Reader, Writer, and Digital Medium in Geoff Ryman’s 253”; Lai-Tze Fan; “Digitalizing Pocahontas?: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace in Hollywood Film and Postcolonial Fiction”; Sonja Georgi, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
12.02 Salon D: Connecting Language and Literature: Standards-Based Instruction in Higher Ed. (Roundtable); Chair: Karen Hess de Sanchez, Rutgers University; “Connecting Language and Literature: Standards-Based Instruction in Higher Ed.”; Karen Sanchez, Rutgers University; “The Case for Standards-Based Instruction in Higher Education”; Cheri Quinlin, New Jersey Department of Education; “Moving Toward Standards-Based Instruction in Higher Education”; Marion Yudow, Rutgers University; Myriam Alami, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
12.03 Conference B: Transnational Relations: Sexuality and Body Traffic across the Global Village; Chair: Helga Druxes, Williams College; “Laughter and Writing: Atwood’s and Levine’s Approaches to Sex Trafficking Narratives”; Susan Hall, Cameron University; “Displaced Sexualities: Cinematic Latina American Migrants and the Politics of Consent”; Juan Ramos, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Internet Marriage and the Postcolonial Female Subject in Ducat’s Film ‘Nordsud’”; Helga Druxes, Williams College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
12.04 Conference C: New Media and the Asian Diaspora; Chair: Swan Kim, University of Virginia; “The Strategy of ‘Sincerity’: Asian American YouTube Celebrities and Youth Culture”; Yasuko Kase, University of Buffalo; “Domestic Workers Falling:’ Bangladeshi Maids, Feminist Blogs, and Transnational Feminism”; Katsuri Ray, San Francisco State University; “Politics of Discreetness in Online Korean Diasporic Women Communities”; Swan Kim, University of Virginia; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
12.05 Conference I: Futurism and Science; Chairs: Paola Sica, Connecticut College; Marja Härmänmaa, University of Helsinki; “Futurism: Beyond the Concept of Modernolatria”; Antonio Saccoccio, Independent Scholar; “Unresolved Identities: The Impact of Science on Futurist Representations”; Paola Sica, Connecticut College; “Violent Electric Moons: Futurism, Orphism and the Cosmographic Imagination”; Eric Robertson, University of London; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
12.06 Salon B: Post-National and Trans-National Italian Cinema; Chair: Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico; “Il viaggio in Italia di Bernardo Bertolucci: Io ballo da sola”; Simone Dubrovic, Kenyon College; “Christ Stopped at Eboli... Did Cinema Go Further? Southerness in Contemporary Italian Cinema”; Chiara Ferrari, California State University-Chico; “Mapping The Borders. An Overview Of Transnational Film Practice In Contemporary Italian Cinema”; Roberta Tabanelli, University of Missouri; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
12.07 Conference D: The Performative City: Contemporary Spanish Urban Culture; Chairs: Molly Palmer, Rutgers University; Candace Plunkett, Rutgers University; “Siete vírgenes and Urban Youth Culture in Seville”; Catherine Simpson, University of Richmond; “Geografía y simbología fascista: procesos de naturalización y segregación en la sociedad madrileña”; José Antonio Losada Montero, Graduate Center-CUNY; “BarcelDones: Barcelona According to Maria-Mercè Marçal and Montserrat Roig”; Melissa McCarron, SUNY Albany; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
12.08 Conference G: Trauma and Memory in Literature and Film of Latin America; Chair: Adriana Rosman-Askot, The College of New Jersey; “La memoria como prisión en El secreto de sus ojos”; Nereida Segura-Rico, The College of New Rochelle; “El tiempo que no muere El pasado de Alans Pauls, una narrativa del trauma”; Alvaro Fernández, Queens College-CUNY; “I Remember Trujillo / Trujillo en Mis Memorias”; Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle, The College of New Jersey; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
12.09 Conference A: Aesthetics and Politics of Literary Multilingualism; Chair: Paola Gambarota, Rutgers University; “Foreignness and Hybridity in the Macaronic Works of Teofilo Folengo”; Massimo Scalabrini, Indiana University-Bloomington; “Modernist Multilingualism: Babel Revisited”; Maria Kager, Rutgers University; “Laila Wadia’s Immigrant Novel Amiche per la pelle and Trieste’s Multilingual Environment”; Teresa Fiore, Montclair State University
12.10 Salon C: Housewives of Millennial Television; Chair: Katja Hawlitschka, Ocean County College; “Hardly Homemakers, Not Always Wives: The Housewives of Reality Television”; Katja Hawlitschka, Ocean County College; Siobhan Kelly, Rutgers Preparatory School; “Not Even Just a Housewife: Mad Men and the Decentralizing of Post War Housewives”; Rita M. Jones, Lehigh University; “The Housewife as Extreme Subject”; Mario Trono, Mount Royal University; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
12.11 Conference JK: A (Post)Secular Age: Protestant Epistemologies and the American Novel; Chairs: Kathleen Howard, Rutgers University; John Thomas, Rutgers University; “Evangelical Socialism in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle”; Eoin Cannon, Harvard University; “Steinbeck’s To a God Unknown and the Puritan Tradition”; Susan Austin, Landmark College; “The Prairie and the Prayer: Nation Building and Prophetic Time in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead”; Jessica Hurley, University of Pennsylvania
12.12 Conference E: Central European Authors; Chair: Emily Hall, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; “The Absurd and Unbearable Lightness: Intertexuality in the Philosophies of Camus and Kundera”; Dan Jones, Independent Scholar; “Literary Nomads in Euroland: Collapsing Cultural Identities in Contemporary Baltic/Finnish Theatre”; Jeff Johnson, Brevard Community College; “One Man’s Trash: Cultural Obliteration in Too Loud a Solitude”; Emily Hall, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
12.13 Boardroom: Women and Gender Studies Caucus Business Meeting; Chair: Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College; “Discussion of current and future programs; nominations”
12.14 Room 248: Towards a Continuum of Language, Culture, Literature in Undergraduate German; Chair: Eckhard Kuhn-Osius, Hunter College-CUNY; “Language Acquisition in Upper-division Literature Courses. Strategies for Success”; Lisa Anderson, Hunter College-CUNY; “Guidelines for Future Professionals. Graduate Training in Assessment for Foreign Language Faculty”; Tracy O’Brien, Auburn University; “Language Teaching as a Higher-Order-Thinking Activity”; Eckhard Kuhn-Osius, Hunter College-CUNY
12.15 Brunswick A: Anna Maria Ortese: la passione della scrittura (Roundtable); Chair: Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University; “La scrittura celeste: Anna Maria Ortese tra modernismo e (post)modernità”; Flora Ghezzo, Columbia University; “‘La mia preferenza è sempre per le Sue novelle’: Anna Maria Ortese as Reader of Massimo Bontempelli”; Amelia Moser, Bard College; “L’esperienza della metropoli nei ‘reportage’ di Anna Maria Ortese”; Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University
12.16 Brunswick B: Dante’s Journey to God. Spiritual Poetics in the Divine Comedy; Chair: Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University; “The Impenetrable Song”; Francesco Ciabattoni, Georgetown University; “Descensus in humano. Il viaggio di Dante tra ascesi al divino e discesa del divino.”; Susanna Barsella, Fordham University; “Roman Law and the Rhetoric of the Soul”; Lorenzo Valterza, University of Pennsylvania
12.17 Brunswick C: LGBTQ Identities in Latin America; Chair: Rick J. Santos, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Homoculture as Strategy of Desire: Contemporary Studies”; Wilton Garcia, Universidade Bras Cubas; “Margarita Esta Linda la Mar”; Kelliann Flores, SUNY Stony Brook; “Using the Canon to teach Gay and Lesbian Literature”; Rick J. Santos, SUNY Nassau Community College
12.18 Brunswick D: Women, Love, and Eroticism in Latin American Poetry; Chair: María Cristina Campos Fuentes, DeSales University; “Entre Foucault y Sartre: La poesía erótica-existencial de Aurora Arias”; Jorge Rosario-Velez, Long Island University-C.W. Post; “Alma Rubens/José Manuel Poveda: The Mask Behind the Man”; Kathrin Theumer, University of California-Santa Barbara; “Erotismo en ‘Ninfomanía’ y ‘En el filo del gozo’ de Rosario Castellanos”; María Cristina Campos Fuentes, DeSales University
12.19 Regency A: Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson: Revisioning the American West; Chair: Jane Wood, Park University; “Alternative Spaces in Toni Morrison’s Paradise”; Mary Paniccia Carden, Edinboro University; “Disintegrating Language and Transgressing Linguistic Boundaries in Toni Morrison’s Metafiction”; Silvia Ammary Ammary, John Cabot University-Rome; “The Affirmation of Inwardness and the Limits of Autonomy in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead”; Alexander Engebretson, City University of New York
12.20 Regency B: Traditional and Modern Medicine in Caribbean Literature; Chair: Elaine Savory, New School University; “Doubling, Healing and Gender in Caribbean Women’s Writings”; Carine Mardorossian, SUNY Buffalo; “‘But it’s wolfie gives us birth’: Sex, Monsters, Hurt and Healing in Nalo Hopkinson’s Work”; Rachel Mordecai, University of Massachussetts-Amherst; “‘The Way Between: Healing, Community and Performance in Anglophone Caribbean Literature”; Elaine Savory, New School University
12.21 Regency C: Facing In-Yer-Face Drama; Chair: Sean Bartley, Harvard University; “Translating In-Yer-Face to 2010: Martin McDonagh’s A Behanding in Spokane”; Marianne Peracchio DiQuattro, University of Notre Dame; “American Family in Contemporary Drama”; Nelson Barre, Villanova University; “Bloodied Light: The Cinema of Martin McDonagh”; Marshall Botvinick, Harvard University
12.22 Regency D: Suddenly Everyone Has a Cherokee Great-Grandmother: Teaching Native Literatures (Roundtable); Chair: Justine Dymond, Springfield College; “Teaching Native American Literature”; Joseph Coulombe, Rowan University; “‘Why Are You Taking This Course?’: Teaching Native American Literature in a Gen Ed Curriculum”; Justine Dymond, Springfield College; “In Search of our Cherokee Grandmothers’ Gardens: Anglo Appropriations of Native Roots”; Drew Lopenzina, Sam Houston State University; “Native American Influence on Oral Interpretation of Literature”; Annette Magid, SUNY Erie Community College
12.23 Regency E: ‘Community’ in Composition Instruction I (Roundtable); Chair: Maria Plochocki, Bronx Community College-CUNY; “A Dialogic View in Creating a Transparent and Visible Writing Community”; Fei Wang, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Practical Writing and the Needs of Two Neglected Student Populations”; Joe Lemrow, Southwestern Michigan College; “Composition and Incarceration: Redefining ‘Community’ in the Writing Classroom”; Jason Stupp, West Virginia University; “Re-Thinking Discourse: How are we to Break the Binaries?”; Tuli Chatterji, St. John’s University
12.24 Regency F: Rethinking Motherhood in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature (Roundtable); Chair: Natalie Edwards, Wagner College; “Revolutionary Women: Motherhood Revisited and Reconceptualized by Three Francophone Women Writers”; Simone Alexander, Seton Hall University; “Bad Mothers: Justine Lévy’s Le Rendez-vous and Calixthe Beyala’s Le Roman de Pauline”; Beth Gale, Clarke University; “Cruel Mothers in La Belle Bête by Marie-Claire Blais and Le Torrent by Anne Hébert”; Rebecca Linz, Sarah Lawrence College; “Motherless Women in 21st Century French Literature”; Natalie Edwards, Wagner College
12.25 Conference F: Arabic Studies: Challenges and Successes (Roundtable); Chair: Lora Lunt, SUNY Potsdam; “Challenges and Successes: Curriculum,Committees, and Texts”; Lora Lunt, SUNY Potsdam; “Technology in Teaching Communicative Competence”; Camelia Suleiman, Bryn Mawr College; “Curriculum and Pedagogy”; Brahim el Guabli, Swarthmore College; “Arabic in Undergraduate Research”; Céline Philibert, SUNY Potsdam
12.26 Conference H: Female Friendship in Local Color Fiction; Chair: Gail Keating, Pennsylvania State University-Worthington Scranton; “I’ll Never Eat My Honey: Mortgages, Healthcare, and Female Camaraderie in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman”; Doug Metzger, University of California-Davis; “Female Friendship in the Works, Times and Life of Sarah Orne Jewett”; Gayle Smith, Independent Scholar; “When Writers Are Friends: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Semi-Colon Writing Group”; Suzanne Harper, Pennsylvania State University-Worthington Scranton

Session 13

Saturday, April 9, 1:15PM - 2:45PM

13.01 Salon A: The Vicious Circle: The Days, Dames, and (K)nights of the Algonquin Round Table; Chair: Cathy Fagan, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Staging An Escape With Parker & Benchley: Middlebrow Theatricality & the Rejection of Domesticity”; Catherine Keyser, University of South Carolina; “Dorothy Parker & the Women’s Satirical Tradition”; Elyse Graham, Yale University; “Working Heartbreakingly Hard: Edna Ferber’s Writing Work Ethic”; Paul Gagliardi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; “The Absurdity of Modernity: The Modernist Impulse in Robert Benchley’s Humor Writing”; Yair Solan, CUNY Graduate Center; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
13.02 Salon D: Literary Dress: Fashioning the Fictional Self; Chairs: Heath Sledge, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Helen Dunn, University of Virginia; “Fashioning the Self in Wharton’s The Age of Innocence”; Maya Higashi Wakana, Ritsumeikan University; “‘Now She’s All Hats and Ideas’: Fashioning the Suffrage Movement in Ann Veronica”; Amy Montz, University of Southern Indiana; “The Dandy’s Subversive Practices in Mid-19th-Century France: Eugène Sue’s Vicomte de Saint-Remy”; Nigel Lezama, University of Toronto; “‘All the Pretty Things’: Fashioned Reading in Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women”; Jill Spivey, Cornell University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
13.03 Conference B: Transnational Ireland: The Celtic Tiger and Beyond; Chair: Daniel Shea, Mount Saint Mary College; “Theatre as an Artifact of Change: A Cluster Analysis of Conor McPherson’s Shining City”; C. Austin HIll, Ohio State University; “The State of Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Theatre: Victoria Beckham Jackets and Empty Bank Accounts”; Kate Kennon, Independent Scholar; “Queer Spaces in The First Verse”; Emily McCann, University of Florida; “Between the Local and the Global: The Synecdochic Imagination and Transnational Irish Identity”; Shirley Wong, New York University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
13.04 Conference C: Fire and Rust Remembered: Legacies of the Urban Crisis in Contemporary Culture; Chairs: Patrick W. Gallagher, New York University; Carlo Rotella, Boston College; “The Myth of the Organic and the Right to the City in Fictions of the Postindustrial United States”; Patrick W. Gallagher, New York University; “The Slums of New York: Poverty Tourism and ‘South Bronx Surreal’ in DeLillo’s Underworld”; Thomas Heise, McGill University; “Chicago’s Ordinary Image: The BIA archives and Indigeneity in Photographs”; Megan Tusler, University of Chicago; “The Absence of Absence: Detroit Ruin Photography and the ‘Tragedy’ of White Flight”; Jesse Costantino, University of California-Berkeley; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
13.05 Conference I: Cultural Studies and Film Special Event; Chair: Johanna Rossi Wagner; “Beauty Matters”; Deborah Willis, Tisch School of the Arts at NYC; Co-Sponsored by the Spanish/Portuguese Area; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
13.06 Salon B: Fatih Akin and His Films; Chair: Ingrid Zeller, Northwestern University; “Migrating Identities in Fatih Akin’s Gegen die Wand and Auf der anderen Seite”; Tessa Lee, Wheaton College; “The ‘Dead Spaces’ of Fatih Akin’s Diasporic Cinema”; Vuslat Demirkoparan, University of Irvine; “Alternative Turkish Contexts in Contemporary German Literature and Film”; Hulya Yilmaz, Pennsylvania State University; “New German Cinema on the Edge of Europe”; Sunka Simon, Swarthmore College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
13.07 Conference D: Literature and the Arts: An Exemplar of Multicultural Understanding; Chair: Marco Cerocchi, La Salle University; “Monteverdi’s Madrigal ‘Zephyr Returns’, an Exemplar of Musical Petrarchism”; Marco Cerocchi, La Salle University; “Adapting Pirandello’s Short Stories: The Cinematic Allure of Melodrama”; Lisa Sarti, City University of New York; “Between Literature & Cinema, Italy & the United States: Representations of Class in Pavese’s Work”; Marie Kokubo, University of Bologna; “Poesia 3D! Parole e Materia in Ugo Carrega.”; Riccardo Boglione, Società Dante Alighieri-Montevideo; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
13.08 Conference G: Contemporary Theatre in South Africa; Chair: Suzanne Kaebnick, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Memory, Performance and/as Restitution in District Six, Cape Town”; Nadia Davids, University of London; “Searching for the South African Musical in Jock of the Bushveld”; Adam Levin, University of Witwatersrand; “‘Everybody’s Free’: Izintandane Zodlame and the ‘New South Africa’”; Joseph Napolitano, New York University; “The Voice of the Land in Onwueme’s What Mama Said and Maponya’s The Hungry Earth’”; Sandra Joy Russel, Central Michigan University
13.09 Conference F: 19th Century British Studies Special Event (Special Event); Chair: Kristin Le Veness, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Victorian Studies Going Forward”; Ann Humpherys, Lehman College-CUNY; Event sponsored by NeMLA 19th Century British Studies Group
13.10 Salon C: Ventures into the Unknown: Literary and Cinematic Representation of City Spaces; Chairs: Katrin Polak-Springer, Rutgers University; Simona Sivkoff, Rutgers University; “Die Tokyoter Theorie des Glücks - promises of happiness”; Rebecca Hügler, Queen’s University; “Trakl and the City: Benjamin, Trauma, and the Aesthetics of Corporeality”; Greg Sevik, Binghamton University; “Revitalizing Memory through Natural Destruction: W.G. Sebald’s City Sites and Spaces”; Audrey Golden, University of Virginia; “W(h)ines and Spirits – Flânerie in German Film”; Yvonne Franke, University of Pittsburgh; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
13.11 Conference JK: Unreliability as a Narrative Trope in Postcolonial Literature; Chair: Sohinee Roy, West Virginia University; “Irony and Irreverence: Bernard Dadie and the Postcolonial Travel Narrative”; Nicole Cesare, Temple University; “Narrative and Postcolonial Instabilities in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger”; Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College; “Truth and Desire from an Unreliable Narrator in David’s Story”; Cynthia Lytle, Universitat de Barcelona; “Exploiting Unreliability: The Decolonizing Child in Indian Fiction”; Dibyadyuti Roy, West Virginia University
13.12 Conference E: Writing the Self: Italian Women Autobiography; Chair: Ioana Raluca Larco, University of Kentucky; “Finding Her Place in Tradition: Ada Negri’s Stella mattutina”; Susan Amatangelo, College of the Holy Cross; “I segreti reconditi di Menzogna e sortilegio. Il paradosso del mentitore e la malia della finzione”; Francesco Chillemi, Rutgers University; “(Anti)feminism in Neera’s Una giovinezza del secolo XIX”; Ioana Raluca Larco, University of Kentucky
13.13 Regency E: Something Old, New, Borrowed, True: Italian Literature from ‘900 to Present; Chair: Giovanni Migliara, U.N.E.D. University of Madrid; “Exoticism in the age of terrorism, Italy, 1970-1976”; Rosetta Caponetto, Auburn University; “Recurring themes: borrowings or universal myths? The double in Italian literature.”; Cristina Oddone, Universita’ di Genova; “Rossana Campo. Non fidatevi del rosa.”; Paola Pettinotti, Universita’ di Genova; “Giorgio Faletti: mysteries and secrets behind a true success.”; Giovanni Migliara, U.N.E.D. University of Madrid
13.14 Regency F: Queer Space(s) in the German-Speaking World; Chair: Yvonne Ivory, University of South Carolina; “Containing the Queer in Stifter’s Brigitta”; Rebecca Elaine Steele, University of Wyoming; “A Room for those of the Third Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Community in Aimée Duc’s Sind es Frauen”; Joshua R. Hawkins, University of Michigan; “(De)Criminal(ized) Identities: Schnitzler’s Der grüne Kakadu and Queer Revolutionary Space”; Japhet Johnstone, University of Washington; “‘The physical space … blossoms’: Locating Queer Subjectivity in the Quays’ Institute Benjamenta”; Darren Ilett, Michigan State University
13.15 Brunswick A: Publishing Articles in Academic Journals (Roundtable); Chair: Suha Kudsieh, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Article”; Laurence Roth, Susquehanna University; “NeMLA Italian Studies: New Perspectives for Italian and Italian Studies in the XXI century”; Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey; “From Rejection to Acceptance: The Nebulous State of Revision”; Rita Bode, Trent University; “Revise and Resubmit or How Reviewing Manuscripts Changed my Writing”; Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College
13.16 Brunswick B: The Art of Villainy: Machiavelli and the Creation of the Fictional Villain; Chair: John Cameron, Dalhousie University; “Macbeth as Dramatization of an Anti-Machiavellian Polity and Sensibility”; Robert Carballo, Millersville University; “Iago and Anton Chigurh as Machiavellian Villains”; Jim Cody, Brookdale Community College-CUNY; “On the road to villainy or The Villainous Journey”; Zac Brown, East Carolina University; “Machiavel or Machiavelli? Niccolo Machiavelli on the Early Modern Stage”; John Cameron, Dalhousie University
13.17 Brunswick C: The Classic Figure: Women in the Ancient World; Chair: Shelly Jansen, SUNY Binghamton; “Inara, Pughat, and Jael: The Deceptive Female Warrior Motif in the Ancient Near Eastern Literature”; Jun Kim, Graduate Theological Union; “Brauron and the Cult of Artemis: Women, Sacred Space and the Athenian Polis”; Leslie Feldballe, University of Buffalo; “The Female Players in The Indian Classical Plays of Kalidasa”; Jayshree Singh, Bhupal Nobles Post-Graduate Girls’ College; “Kassandra: Heroine, Not Victim”; Dawn Saliba, SUNY Binghamton
13.18 Brunswick D: Representations of Gendered Transnational Identity in Contemporary Literature; Chair: Kirsten Ortega, Univesrity of Colorado; “Madwoman in the Diaspora: War, Displacement, and Female Subjectivity in Asian-American Fiction”; Naomi Edwards, Stony Brook University; “Writing Home: Gender, Language, Hybridity and the Construction of Identity in Julia Alvarez’s Yo!”; Gabriela Alvarez, Stony Brook University; “‘It frightens me, too’: Transnational Womanhood in Mukherjee’s Jasmine”; Bill Waddell, St. John Fisher College; “The Silent Task of Building Worlds: Reader Performativity in Alvarez, Ferre, and Valenzuela”; Minerva Ahumada Torres, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY
13.19 Regency A: Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing; Chair: Susan Alice Fischer, Medgar Evers College-CUNY; “Winsome Pinnock’s Leave Taking”; Meenakshi Ponnuswami, Bucknell University; “War Stories: Andrea Levy’s Small Island”; Eileen Barrett, California State University-East Bay; “Is Zadie Smith the Post-Racial Writer of her Generation?”; Tracey L. Walters, SUNY Stony Brook; “Black, British and Female: Shifting Identities in Postwar Fiction”; Susan Alice Fischer, Medgar Evers College-CUNY
13.20 Regency B: Traditional, Alternative and Successful Approaches through Academe (Roundtable); Chair: Barry Spence, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “‘From the Academy to Citizenship Diplomacy in Ecuador’”; Esther Cuesta, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “The PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies: Opportunities and Challenges Along the Career Path”; John Giordano, Union Institute and University; “An Unexpected Journey: Landing and Loving the Community College Teaching Job”; Mary Lannon, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Selling Yourself Outside Academia - Without Selling Yourself Short”; Elizabeth Cherniak, Brock University; “Just Visiting”; Emily Hinnov, Southern New Hampshire University; “CVs: Standing out and Tailoring in a Competitive Job Market”; Laurie A. Massery, St. Ambrose University
13.21 Regency C: El mundo literario de Maite Carranza: Homenaje a la escritora y su obra; Chair: Enrique Ruiz-Fornells, University of Alabama; “Response and Reading”; Maite Carranza; “Maite Carranza y su literatura de compromiso social”; Ana Corbalán, University of Alabama; “Maite Carranza: ‘La guerra de las brujas’”; Cristina Casado, Washington College; Sponsored by the Ministerio de Cultura de España
13.22 Regency D: The Francophone African Intellectual I; Chair: Christopher Hogarth, Wagner College; “Identité réelle et fantasmée dans Loin de mon père de Véronique Tadjo”; Eloïse Brézault, New York University; “Does Africa Need a New ‘Negritude?’ African Identity, Negritude, and New Formations”; Vernita Burrell, Fordham University; “The Female Francophone African Intellectual”; Natalie Edwards, Wagner College
13.23 Conference A: Between Genres, Between Disciplines; Chair: John L. Savarese, Rutgers University; “’As In a Most Clear Glasse’: Performing Anatomy Knowledge in Early Modern England”; Jillian Logan, University of South Dakota; “Narrative and Epistemology: Context, Time, and Knowing”; Steven Wandler, Harvard University; “‘A Nutshell in an Iliad’: Inversions of Learning in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub”; Katie Lanning, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Vampiric Narration in Strindberg’s Black Banners and The Ghost Sonata”; Sarah Balkin, Rutgers University

Session 14

Saturday, April 9, 3:00PM - 4:30PM

14.01 Salon A: ‘My dwelling place among you’: Faith and Landscape in the Middle Ages; Chair: Erin Mullally, Le Moyne College; “Symbolic Deserts: The Cistercians in Yorkshire”; Danielle Bradley, Rutgers University; “Pilgrims, Poetry and the Passion of Christ: M.147 in the Pierpont Morgan Library”; Jessica Savage, Princeton University; “The Ash and the Thorn: The Garden in the Vitae of St. Kenelm”; Erin Mullally, Le Moyne College; “Saints and the City: Landscape and Renewal in the South English Legendary”; Pamela Longo, University of Connecticut; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
14.02 Salon D: Italian ‘Famiglia’ Representations in Cinema and Television; Chairs: Francesco Pascuzzi, Rutgers University; Letizia Bellocchio, Rutgers University; “Two (Precious) Women”; Patricia Richards, Kenyon College; “The Dissemination of Family Values: Three Italian-American Generations in The Sopranos”; Erin Rodino, Independent Scholar; “Le Famiglie Amorali di Visconti”; Letizia Bellocchio, Rutgers University; “‘Meglio fascista che frocio’: Orienting the National Family, Disorienting Relations”; Christopher Atwood, University of California-Berkeley; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
14.03 Conference B: Eighteenth-Century Hierarchies; Chair: Eleanor ter Horst, Clarion University; “Ottilie’s Echo: Hierarchies of Seeing and Hearing in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften”; Mary Helen Dupree, Georgetown University; “The Reversal of Gender Relations in Lenz’s Hofmeister”; Maria Giulia Carone, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Female Space as Mirror Place: Amalia as Gendered Metaphor in Schiller’s Die Räuber”; Benjamin Nickl, Georgetown University; “If Lessing’s the father, is there a mother? Essayistic Writing and Women Authors in the 18th Cent.”; Jessica Riviere, Vanderbilt University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
14.04 Conference C: I See What You Say: Exploring Intersections of the Visual and the Literary; Chair: Geoff Bender, University of Rochester; “Moving Stepwise through Poems and Photographs”; Melissa Feuerstein, Independent Scholar; “Bodies of Evidence: Wharton and the Science of Connoisseurship”; Mary V. Marchand, Goucher College; “Hopeful Perchings and Stressful Suspensions: Emily Dickinson and Joseph Cornell”; Dominique Zino, CUNY Graduate Center; “Cooper, Cole, and the Composite Order of Elite Nationality”; Geoff Bender, University of Rochester; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
14.05 Conference I: Classical Women in Modern Literature and Media; Chairs: Krishni Burns, SUNY Buffalo; William Duffy, SUNY Buffalo; “Helen, Warrior Princess: Reimagining Helen as a Feminist Role Model in Young Adult Literature”; Krishni Burns, SUNY Buffalo; “Desiring the Siren in Ellison and Woolf”; Amy Smith, Lamar University; “Heroes and Amazons in Y: the last man”; Luiz Guilherme, Universidade de São Paulo; “Penelope’s tears: metamythological compositions in Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad”; Vassiliki Kotini, American University in Cairo; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
14.06 Salon B: Wilde Family Values; Chair: Margaret D. Stetz, University of Delaware; “Wily William: A Study of William Robert Wills Wilde”; Annette Magid, SUNY Erie Community College; “Laments for the Potato: Lady Wilde’s Fantastic Histories”; Patrick R. O’Malley, Georgetown University; “The Importance of Being Related: The Writings of Lady Jane, Constance, and Oscar Wilde”; Loretta Clayton, Macon State College; “The Other’s Other: Contemporary Depictions of Constance Holland”; B. J. Robinson, North Georgia College & State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
14.07 Conference D: Immersions: Breaching Reality through Play; Chair: Evan Torner, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Jungian Theory and Immersive Role-Playing Games”; Sarah Lynne Bowman, University of Texas-Dallas; “A Game about Killing: Role-Playing in the Liminal Spaces of Social Network Games”; Eric Newsom, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; “Role-Playing Communities, Cultures of Play, and the Discourse of Immersion”; William White, Pennsylvania State University; “First Person Audience and Social Alibi as Tools of Horror in Freeform Role-Playing Games”; Markus Montola, University of Tampere; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
14.08 Conference G: Narratives by and about Migrants in Italy: Literature, Cinema, and Discourse; Chair: Sabina Perrino, University of Michigan; “‘Extracomunitari’ in Northern Italy: Oral Narratives about Immigrants in Veneto”; Sabina Perrino, University of Michigan; “Constructing an Anti-Immigrant Public Opinion in the Italian Media”; Valentina Pagliai, American University; “Scrittrici latino-americane in un’Italia moderna”; Amaryllis Rodriguez-Mojica, University of Michigan; “Parole sul palcoscenico: la narrativa orale di Y. Jaralla”; Kombola Ramadhani Mussa, Reading University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
14.09 Conference A: Feminist Alternative Media in the Long 1970s; Chairs: Karen Alexander, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; Agatha Beins, Rutgers University; “Pat Parker and Ntozake Shange’s Shameless Hussy Chapbooks”; Heidi E. Morse, University of California-Santa Cruz; “A Case Study of Feminism and Filmmaking in the 1970s: Women Make Movies as a Production Collective”; Kristen Fallica, University of Pittsburgh; “Making Space for Feminist Erotica”; Margo Hobbs Thompson, Muhlenberg College; “The Audio Archives of the Second Wave and the Oral Culture of the Women’s Movement”; Voichita Nachescu, Raritan Valley Community College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
14.10 Salon C: Shakespearean Adaptations and Appropriations (Roundtable); Chair: Pamela Monaco, Brandman University; “Using the Graphic Novel Version of Hamlet in the English Composition Classroom”; Sharon Brubaker, Drexel University; “Bieber and the Bard: Representations of Shakespeare in Tween Culture”; Louise Geddes, Dominican College; “The Shakespeare Industry in Slings and Arrows”; Beth Seltzer, Temple University; “Playing at Hamlet: The Presniakov Brothers’ Izobrazhaia Zhertvu”; Shari Perkins, City University of New York; “William Shakspeare: Proud American”; Emily Gruber, Boston University; “Technology and Textuality in Contemporary Representations of Hamlet”; Richard Schumaker, University of Maryland-University College; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
14.11 Conference JK: Identité nationale dans le roman francophone contemporain; Chairs: Nadra Hebouche, University at Buffalo; Valerie Hastings, University at Buffalo; “(Re)penser l’identité nationale: l’écriture Queer dans le roman francophone marocain”; Olivier Le Blond, University at Buffalo; “The Stranger at Home: Re-imagining the Nation”; Jimia Boutouba, Santa Clara University; “Writing the Nation to Come: Representations of the Algerian Family in Civil War Narratives”; Lucie Knight, Franklin and Marshall College
14.12 Conference E: House and Home in 20th Century American Film and Literature; Chair: Megan Hamilton, Brandeis University; “This Is a Total Clustercuss for Everybody: Fantastic Mr Fox & the American Dream of Home Ownership”; Kara Lynn Andersen, Brooklyn College-CUNY; “Spaces of Seduction: Mobile Domesticity and the House in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road”; Kimberly O’Dell Cox, Texas A&M University; “‘I Have Painted Little Hearts on Everything’: Sylvia Plath and the Creation of Domestic Space”; Caolan Madden, Rutgers University; “Homes within Homes: Private Fallout Shelters and the Mythology of Ideal Domesticity in 1950s America”; Rebecca Devers, New York City College of Technology-CUNY
14.13 Boardroom: Geocritical New England; Chair: Rachel Collins, Arcadia University; “Creating Identities and Boundaries Within Liminal Space”; Mehgan Sobel, Seton Hall University; “Ruins in the Wilderness and the Historizing Sense”; John Hay, Columbia University; “Shattering Geographical Stereotypes: Harriet Ann Wilson’s New England”; Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University; “Spatial Authenticity and Edith Wharton’s ‘derelict mountain villages of New England’”; Rachel Collins, Arcadia University
14.14 Room 248: Family Formations in Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature; Chair: Melissa Dennihy, Graduate Center-CUNY; “‘Up Over the Downstairs Kitchen’: Toni Morrison’s Domestics”; Sarah Mahurin, Yale University; “Unnatural Families, Unnatural Citizens: Illegitimacy and National Belonging in Bharati Mukherjee”; Sailaja Sastry, Columbia University; “Language Brokering in Practice: Translation Events in Nicholasa Mohr’s Nilda”; Steven Alvarez, Queens College-CUNY; “(Re)Placing Family: Transnational Models of Mothering in Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory”; Michelle Ramlagan, University of Miami
14.15 Brunswick A: Physician/Pastor, Doctor/Divine: Intersections of American Religion and Medicine; Chairs: Ashley Reed, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Kelly Bezio, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Doctoring Body and Soul in the Work of Augusta Jane Evans”; Ashley Reed, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Being Friendly With Our Friends: Pastor and Physician in the Literature of Alcoholics Anonymous”; Jared Lobdell, Harrisburg Area Community College; “Reconfiguring the Religious Confessional in Alfred Kinsey’s Correspondence”; Emily Schusterbauer, Indiana University-Bloomington; “Tibetan Medicine and Buddhist Doctoring in Richard Selzer’s ‘The Surgeon as Priest’”; Clare Emily Clifford, Birmingham Southern College
14.16 Brunswick B: Muriel Spark: Before, During and After The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; Chair: Beverly Schneller, Millersville University; “Miss Brodie’s Creme de la Creme: Authoritarianism, Feminism, and Pedagogy”; Judy Suh, Duquesne University; “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and the Problem of Being a Mere Person”; Joshua Rothman, Harvard University; “Have you Considered the Possibility of Mass Hysteria?: Absent Mortality in Memento Mori”; Lewis MacLeod, Trent University; “Mastering the Others: Muriel Spark’s Scottish Demons”; Monica Germana, University of Westminster
14.17 Brunswick C: Midnight’s Children: Thirty Years Later; Chair: Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Time Without Partitions: Resetting the Clocks of Midnight’s Children”; Adam Barrows, Carleton University; “Midnight’s Children: A History of Unpopular Ideas”; Kiran Mascarenhas, CUNY Graduate Center; “Midnight’s Children after Rushdie”; Anthony C. Alessandrini, Kingsborough Community College-CUNY; “Magically Real Midnight’s Children”; Andrew Bruso, SUNY New Paltz
14.18 Brunswick D: The Fin de Siècle and the Idea of ‘End’ and Degeneration; Chair: Marja Harmanmaa, University of Helsinki; “Weird Science: The Queer Gothic Scientist of the Fin-de-Siècle”; Mark De Cicco, George Washington University; “A Candle in the Night: Thingness in Rilke’s The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge”; Ria Banerjee, City University of New York; “Fantasies of Jewish De- and Regeneration in Thomas Mann and Theodor Herzl”; Annie Falk, Columbia University; “Changing perceptions of Jewish Degeneracy”; Joost Burgers, CUNY Graduate Center
14.19 Regency A: Understanding Avatar, Part I: ‘I See You’; Chair: Ellen Grabiner, Simmons College; “Wake Up! Watch It! Yaa!: Competing Cognivist Metaphors in Cameron’s Avatar”; Chris Dilworth, Universite de Montreal; “Did You See That? James Cameron’s Avatar and the Practices of Looking”; Ellen Grabiner, Simmons College; “Seeing Beyond Humans in James Cameron’s Avatar: For an Audience of Machines”; Aaron Tucker, Ryerson University; “For Women, Pleasures of Avatar Dearly Bought”; Jennifer Nesbitt, Pennsylvania State University-York
14.20 Regency B: What is France? Ideology, Politics and Utopia in Early Modern French Literature; Chair: Paul Creamer, East Stroudsburg University; “Des Etats de Bretagne à la Révolte du ‘papier timbré’ (1675). Continuités et discontinuités...”; El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, Columbia University; “François Rabelais: la langue au service de la nation”; Gerard A. Beck, George Mason University; “Geography and Narrative: The Nouvelle and Nation Building in Early Modern France”; Jenny Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Frenchness and Foreignness in Les Lais de Marie de France”; Paul Creamer, East Stroudsburg University
14.21 Regency C: Writing and Screening Images of Men: Masculinities in Italian Studies; Chair: Renato Ventura, University of Dayton; “Vitaliano Brancati: Irony and Hegemonic Masculinity”; Renato Ventura, University of Dayton; “The Centrality of Body and the Re-negotiated Masculinity in Marco Mancassola’s Narrative”; Sciltian Gastaldi, University of Toronto; “Dante’s Forese: Constructing Masculinity in and beyond the Commedia”; Sara Diaz, New York University; “Queer Identity under Mussolini’s Regime: Historical Testimony of Discrimination”; Anna Giannetti, University of Oregon
14.22 Regency D: Critical Discourses: Early Modern Spanish Literary Women; Chair: Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College; “La ‘Marcela’ de Cervantes y la ‘Marcela’ de Lope frente a frente: dos voces feministas discrepantes”; Salvatore Poeta, Villanova University; “Cognitive Theory and Hagiography in Angela de Azevedo’s Drama”; Barbara Simerka, Queens College-CUNY; “La ficcionalización de Juana de Austria en La hija de Carlos V”; María del Carmen Saen de Casas, Lehman College-CUNY; “Female Royals in Jerónimo de Barrionuevo’s Avisos”; Deborah Compte, The College of New Jersey
14.23 Regency E: Investigating the Scope of Persian/Iranian Literatures; Chair: Richard Newman, SUNY Nassau Community College; “From Inside the Walls of Evin Prison: Contemporary Iranian Prison Narratives”; Daniel Grassian, Nevada State College; “Beyond the Persian Letter: Translating the Literary Spirit of Iran”; Roger Sedarat, Queens College-CUNY; “Imagining ‘Iranianness’ Across a Millennium: National Idenitity and the Abuse of Persian Literature”; Alexander Jabbari, University of California-Irvine; “Iranian Writers’ Responses to the Iran-Iraq War”; Kaveh Bassiri, University of Arkansas
14.24 Regency F: Creativity and Imagination at the Fin De Siècle (1870-1910) (Roundtable); Chairs: Lizzie Harris McCormick, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY; Rachel O’Connell, New York University; “Media Intoxication, Memory, and Du Maurier”; Susan Zieger, University of California-Riverside; “Hysterical Performers and Pathologised Spectators”; Elsa Richardson, University of London; “Education and the Imagination at the Fin De Siècle”; Christiane Gannon, Johns Hopkins University; “Aestheticism and Theories of Creativity”; Rachel O’Connell, New York University; “The Malady of Reverie: Onanism and Imagination”; Lizzie McCormick, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY
14.25 Conference F: Herta Müller: Perspectives on the Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature (Roundtable); Chair: Maria S. Grewe, John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY; “The Fragmentation and Hybridization of Deutschtum in Herta Müller’s ‘Dorfchronik’”; Anca L. Holden, University of Georgia; “How Magic is Herta Müller’s Macondo? Reflections on Real and Imaginary Places”; Monika Moyrer, Colby College; “The Body as Palimpsest in Herta Müller, Dieter Schlesak and Irina Liebmann”; Helga Druxes, Williams College; “Wie viel Sprachkunst verträgt die Darstellung des Schreckens? Überlegungen zu Müllers Atemschaukel”; Eva Kormann, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie; “Realism in Fiction and the Fabrication of Truth”; Maria Grewe, John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY
14.26 Conference H: Il Caso Saviano (Roundtable); Chair: Samuel Ghelli, York College-CUNY; “Perché Saviano?”; Samuel Ghelli, York College-CUNY; “Saviano scrittore”; Margherita Ganeri, Università della Calabria; “I luoghi di Gomorra”; Anita Virga, University of Connecticut; “Lo scrittore coinvolto: per una letteratura engagé oggi”; Raffaello Palumbo, University of Chicago; “Saviano, Garrone, Gomorra”; Fabrizio Cilento, Messiah College; “Gomorra senza il caso Gomorra”; Alessandro Cavalieri, Univeristà di Genova

Session 15

Saturday, April 9, 4:45PM - 6:15PM

15.01 Salon A: Rap Music’s Sophisticated Dialogues with Society; Chairs: Lynn Marie Kutch, Kutztown University; Philipp Marquardt, University Tuebingen; “The Political Body and Collective Imagery in Haj-to: Hip Hop and Politics in Post-War-Bosnia”; Andrej Murašov, Ludwig-Maximilians-University; “It Ain’t Trickin’ if You Got It: Artifacts of Originality and Authenticity in Rap Music”; Brandi Saturley, Stony Brook University; “The Social Scope of Moroccan Hip-Hop”; Yuval Orr, University of Pennsylvania; “Weil sich Leute das reinziehn:German Rap Music’s Dialogue as Social Involvement”; Philipp Marquardt, University Tuebingen; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
15.02 Salon D: Interdisciplinary Studies and Women Modernists; Chair: Laurel Harris, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Virtual and the Real: Sound Cinema and the Women Writers of Close Up”; Laurel Harris, CUNY Graduate Center; “Teaching Modernism through the Phantasmic Mother: Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Käsebier”; Emily Hinnov, Southern New Hampshire University; “Navigating Sexology: Bryher, Havelock Ellis, and the Adventure of Sex”; Jana Funke, University of Exeter; “The Work of Art in the Age of Gertrude Stein”; Lauren Rosenblum, SUNY Stony Brook; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
15.03 Conference B: Migrant Writers: New Frontiers in Contemporary Italian Literature; Chair: Giusy Di Filippo, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Voci Migranti: Nostalgia del paese natale: Per un’analisi del romanzo La Straniera di Y. Tawfik”; Lidia Ciccone, University of Alabama; “Is Amedeo Italian? Defining National Identity in the Wake of the Migrant Presence in Amara Lhakous”; Grace Russo Bullaro, Lehman College-CUNY; “Hi(story) and Female Bodies in Oltre Babilonia by Igiaba Scego”; Giusy Di Filippo, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
15.04 Conference C: (Re)Teaching the Spanish Classics: Integrating Technology, the Web, and Film (Roundtable); Chair: Mirta Barrea-Marlys, Monmouth University; “The Importance of Video in the Process of Teaching the Spanish Language and Literature”; Ekaterina Kagan, Russell Sage College; “Unlocking Meaning: The Comprehensive Digital Glossary of Golden Age Spanish Literature”; Nuria Alonso Garcia, Providence College; Alison Caplan, Providence College; “Don Quixote: The Book, The Myth, and The Image in the 21st Century Classroom”; Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
15.05 Conference I: In the Wake of 9/11: American Texts in the Twenty-First Century II; Chair: Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology; “Interrogating Criminal Minds: Post-9/11 Popular Culture”; Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College; “‘They Captured Osama Bin Laden’: The Exceptionalist Utopia in A Disorder Peculiar to the Country”; Lee Ann Glowzenski, Duquesne University; “The Visitor: Self-Actualization, Globalization and the Ghost of 9-11”; Elizabeth Toohey, Principia College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
15.06 Salon B: Constructing ‘Brazilian-ness’ through Cinematic Manipulations; Chair: Laurelann Porter, Arizona State University; “Espaços (des)Imaginados: Articulando o Sertão Glauberiano com a Favela Contemporânea”; Daniel F. Silva, Brown University; “The Expendable Brazilian: Racial Elitism and Tropes in Tropa de Elite”; Laurelann Porter, Arizona State University; “O Morro (The Hill): Problems in Representation of the Favela in Brazilian Cinema”; Daniel Perlin, Independent Scholar; “The Representation of Brazil-Ness in Its Foundation and throughout Its History”; Eufrida da Silva, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
15.07 Conference D: The Spatial Turn in Literary Theory I; Chair: Nicola Behrmann, Rutgers University; “‘Come on let’s have a swing’: The Semantics of Space and (E)motion in Fontane’s Effi Briest”; Julia Weber, Freie Universitaet Berlin; “The narrative voice and the spatial turn in Maurice Blanchot’s fictional work”; Arthur Cools, University of Antwerp; “Locating the Aleph: Spatiality in the House on Garay Street”; Bill Richardson, National University of Ireland-Galway; “A Spatial Re-turn – Peter Eisenman´s Theory of Affects and the Concept of Textual Architecture”; Regine Hess, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
15.08 Conference G: Reading the Postcolonial Other in Contemporary Film (Roundtable); Chairs: Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook; Tracey Walters, SUNY Stony Brook; “Americano, or, A (Self-) Portrait of Migration & Exile in the Americas”; Miléna Santoro, Georgetown University; “Precious Commodities and (In)Human Capital: Representations of Child Soldiers in Blood Diamond”; Jessica Roberts, Queen’s University; “A Black Girl in Paris: Silence & Submission in Ousmane Sembene’s Black Girl”; Tracey Walters, SUNY Stony Brook; “Reading Deepa Mehta’s Water Post-Slumdog”; Laura Wright, Western Carolina University; “Coming-of-Age and Cultural Revolution in Persepolis”; Rachel Graf, University of Washington; “Irish Redemption in John Sayles’ The Secret of Roan Inish”; Sophie Lavin, SUNY Stony Brook; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
15.09 Conference A: What is ‘World Literature’?; Chair: Deepika Marya, University of Southern Maine; “Postcoloniality, Class Struggle and the Politics of ‘World Literature’”; John W Maerhofer; “Are Literatures of the World the same as World lLterature?”; Tanja Stampfl, University of the Incarnate Word; “Revisting the ‘World’ and ‘Literature’”; Tuli Chatterji, St. John’s University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
15.10 Salon C: Urban Spaces and Contact Zones in 20th Century Literature; Chair: Sarah Cornish, Fordham University; “Fifth Avenue Sensibilities: Henry James, Class Anxiety and the Aesthetics of Zoning”; Tara Foley, Fordham University; “Vertical Terror: Architectural Innovation and Masculine Anxiety in Nathanael West and Faith Baldwin”; Sarah Cornish, Fordham University; “In the Trap Streets: Mapping Ideologies of Information in the Novels of China Miéville”; Noam Cohen, Independent Scholar; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
15.11 Conference JK: Magic and Mechanics – Trends in Recent German Young Adult Fiction; Chair: Stefanie Kullick, Queen’s University; “Gender and Space Constructions in the Literary World of Isabel Abedi”; Jana Mikota, University of Siegen; “Museums in Literature for Children and Young People: Places of Cultural Memory as Narrative Settings”; Sabine Planka, University of Siegen; “Learning Disabilities in Andreas Steinhöfel’s Rico und Oskar-novels”; Stefanie Kullick, Queen’s University
15.12 Conference E: Who Will Advocate for Our Part-Time Faculty? (Roundtable); Chair: Cyndy Henderson, College of Lake County; “Before the Law: Higher Education Under Question”; Angelo Liberta, Independent Scholar; “From Separation to Integration: Part-Time and Full-Time Faculty and Higher Education Institutions”; Rhonda Filipan, Kent State University; “Sustaining and Enhancing Part-Time Faculty Motivation”; Valerie Mannix, Waterford Institute of Technology
15.13 Boardroom: Paradigmas de sexualidad en la escritura (re)escritura de los cuentos de hadas; Chairs: Adriana Spahr, Grant MacEwan University; Cristina Santos, Brock University; “Myth and Fairy Tale in Luisa Valenzuela’s ‘Proceso a la virgen’”; Cristina Santos, Brock University; “Papá está loco: histeria y política en ‘El padre de Blancanieves’ de Belen Gopegui”; Antonio Martin-Ledesma, University of Pennsylvania; “El regalo de Pandora: sexualidad y mito en’La bella durmiente’ de Rosario Ferré”; Adriana Spahr, Grant MacEwan University; “La Revolucion Sexual en los Cuentos Infantiles de Laura Devetach, Ema Wolf y Graciela Cabal”; Silvia Belen-Ramos, Fairleigh Dickinson University
15.14 Room 248: Witnessing Women’s Transnational Migration in Hispanic Narrative and Film; Chair: Danny Barreto, Vassar College; “Working-Through Arrested Moments in Escudé i Gallès’s Memoria fotográfica and Pascual’s Varadas”; María DiFrancesco, Ithaca College; “Redefiniciones de la identidad nacional española en el cine de inmigración reciente”; Cristina Carrasco, Nazareth College; “Transnational Women Subjects in Two Spanish Films: Princesas and Agua con sal”; Cristina Guijarro-Cazorla, Oberlin College
15.16 Brunswick B: Re-tellings: Literature as Literary Criticism I; Chair: Rita Bode, Trent University; “A Wider River: Narrative Reconfiguration in Nancy Rawles’s My Jim”; Betina Entzminger, Bloomsburg University; “Primary Secondary Literature: Reanimated Classics”; Ina Bergmann, University of Wuerzburg; “‘Howling, Shrieking, Laughing the Wild Wind Passes:’ The Tempest in Wide Sargasso Sea”; Jennifer Gilchrist, Hunter College; “Rewriting Literature, Revising History: Arthur Miller and Maryse Condé on Tituba of Salem”; Suzanne Hopcroft, Yale University
15.17 Brunswick C: No Longer Silent: Trauma in Contemporary Asian American (Korean) Literature; Chair: Jina Lee, SUNY Orange Community College; “‘I could not know what I was doing’: Reflexive Trauma in Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life”; Robin Field, King’s College; “Testifying Diasporic Bodies: Trauma, Narrative, and History in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman”; Ji Nang Kim, Texas A&M University; “‘A Nothingness Capable of Damage’: Trauma, Identity and Alterity in The Foreign Student”; JaeEun Yoo, Rutgers University; “Silence and Trauma in Korean American Literature: The Limits of Western Literary Theory”; Jina Lee, SUNY Orange Community College
15.18 Brunswick D: The Specter of Degeneration in 19th Century Literature I; Chair: Ana Oancea, Columbia University; “Bacteriology and Degeneration”; Jens Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen; “Barrès from ‘Degenerate’ to anti-Dreyfusard”; Rod Cooke, Columbia University; “Art Nouveau, Fantastic Stories, and the Preservation of an Ideal Feminine”; Rebecca Crisafulli, University of Chicago; “The Inventor’s Degeneration in Robida’s Futuristic Fiction”; Ana Oancea, Columbia University
15.19 Regency A: Quotation and Originality (Creative); Chair: Catherine Dent, Susquehanna University; “On It Just Being Research, Really, And Endless Hours Of Work: Originality and Influence”; Scott Henkle, CUNY Graduate Center; “from The Philosophy of Decomposition / Re-composition as Explanation: A Poe and Stein Mash-Up”; Michael Leong, Rutgers University; “‘Immature Poets Borrow: Mature Poets Steal’: The Archeology of Originality”; Silas Zobal, Susquehanna University; “The Days Down Here: Art and Ethics in the Basement of Fiction”; Jacob White, Johnson State College
15.20 Regency B: The Arabo-Islamic Traditions in Literature in French; Chair: Hanan Elsayed, Occidental College; “Memories of El Andaluz: The Impact of the Poetry of Arab Spain upon the Medieval French Alba”; Deborah Gruber, Graduate Center-CUNY; “Un nouveau seuil ? Edmond Jabès, Georges Henein and the Arabic Poetic Tradition”; Yasser Elhariry, New York University; “Recueillement terrestre et pré-révélation divine dans L’Homme du Livre de Driss Chraïbi”; Hanan Elsayed, Occidental College; “Mythical Historiographies and Fictional Identities in Boudjedra’s La prise de Gibraltar”; Fayçal Falaky, Tulane University
15.21 Regency C: Twentieth-Century Italian Lyrical Landscape; Chair: Laura Baffoni Licata, Tufts University; “La voce assente:Alfredo Giuliani e l’accrescimento della vitalita’ attraverso la poesia sperimentale”; Federica Santini, Kennesaw State University; “Esperienza vissuta e scrittura nella poesia di Giorgio Bassani”; Alfredo Luzi, Universita’ di Macerata; “Modern Science, Metaphysics,and the Quotidian in the Poetry of Luciano Erba and Eugenio Montale”; Corrado Federici, Brock University; “A. Pozzi: una intensa voce poetica femminile nel quadro della cultura italiana degli Anni ‘30”; Laura Baffoni Licata, Tufts University
15.22 Regency D: L’Altro Tasso: A Discussion of Tasso’s ‘Not-So-Minor’ Works (Seminar); Chair: Bryan Brazeau, New York University; “Tasso’s ‘Il messaggiero’ Within the Context of Marsilio Ficino’s Neoplatonism”; Ceciila Kapoor, Johns Hopkins University; “Le rime disperse di Torquato Tasso fra tradizione e leggenda”; Massimo Castellozzi, Florida State University; “Strategie di scrittura e percorsi di invenzione nel manoscritto della Gerusalemme conquistata”; Claudio Gigante, Université Libre de Bruxelles; “The Death of the Nightingale: The Gerusalemme Conquistata and the Overcoming of the Tragic”; Bryan Brazeau, New York University
15.23 Regency E: Anti-Hero and Victims in the Spanish Theatre of the 21st Century; Chair: Rossana Fialdini Zambrano, McGill University; “The Geography of the Hero: Creating the Border in Order to Erase It”; Laureano Corces, Fairleigh Dickinson University; “The Drawbacks of Utopias in Mayorga’s Paz Perpetua”; Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University; “Victims that Become Heroes”; Kay Sibbald, McGill University; “De héroes y víctimas: Caídos del cielo de Paloma Pedrero”; Rossana Fialdini Zambrano, McGill University
15.24 Regency F: Zero World Literature I: Theories of the Outside; Chair: Jason Mohaghegh, New Jersey City University; “The Writing of Delirium: The Works of Reinaldo Arenas”; Dejan Lukic, Reed College; “In and Out: Minor Literature and Nomadicism”; May Telmissany, University of Ottawa; “The Jester’s Walk: Explorations of Absurdity, Amnesia, and Apolitics in Sufi Texts”; Seema Golestaneh, Columbia University; “Sick Flowers of Secrecy and Shade: New Dimensions of the Elegy”; Alina Gharabegian, New Jersey City University
15.25 Conference F: Modernism, Modernity, and Politics: Face-off or Interface?; Chair: Sri Mukherjee, Harvard University; “Cameras, Fragments, Cosmopolitans: Modernist Legacies in Early Isherwood”; Suzanne Black, SUNY Oneonta; “Redefining Modernism and Modernity: Rabindranath Tagore’s Literary-Political Intervention”; Sri Mukherjee, Harvard University; “History, Myth and the Aesthetics of Fascism in Modernist Fiction”; Daniel Shea, Mount Saint Mary College; “Marginalized Modernisms East and West: Comparing the May Fourth Movement and the Harlem Renaissance”; Sara Rutkowski, Hunter College-CUNY
15.26 Conference H: Medical Visions of Modernism; Chairs: Maureen Chun, Princeton University; Masha Mimran, Princeton University; “Literary Dis-ease: Beckett, Medicine, and Modernity”; Hugh Culik, Macomb Community College; “Confronting Resistance: Unraveling the Freud-Lawrence Complex”; Jennifer Meredith Spitzer, New York University; “Canguilhem as Modernist”; Anthony Abiragi, University of Colorado-Boulder; “The Medicalization of Childbirth and the Empowerment of Pain in Mina Loy’s ‘Parturition’”; Lisa Angelella, University of Houston

Session 16

Saturday, April 9, 6:30PM - 7:45PM

16.01 Conference A: Women’s & Gender Studies Caucus Special Event and Reception (Special Event); Chair: Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College; “Stand, Fight and Persevere: One Woman’s Journey Beyond Barriers”; Sharon Jimenez
16.02 Regency B: MLS Writers’ and Editors’ Reception; Chair: Laurence Roth, Susquehanna University; “Fellowship and discussion of future NeMLA and MLS programs”
16.03 Regency C: German Language and Literature Area Speaker and Reception (Special Event); Chair: Birgit Tautz, Bowdoin College; “Michael Saur: neue deutsche Texte aus New York”; Michael Saur; In cooperation with Goethe Institute-New York City
16.04 Regency D: American Literatures Special Event and Reception; Chairs: Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College; Rick Santos, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Caribbean Transvestism: Accompanied by Readings from Sirena Selena vestida de pena”; Mayra Santos-Febres, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras; Co-Sponsored by the LGBTQ Caucus.
16.05 Regency E: Transnational Literatures Special Event and Reception; Chair: Moussa Sow, The College of New Jersey; “Muhammad Iqbal: an Islamic Philosophy of Elan Vital”; Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University; Co-Sponsored by the Francophone and Comparative Languages Areas
16.06 Regency F: Italian Area Special Event and Reception; Chair: Daniela Antonucci, Princeton University; “Italicità: identità, linguaggi e aggregazioni nel mondo piatto”; Piero Bassetti, Globus et Locus; “I media italici”; Niccolo d’Aquino, Globus et Locus; “Italicity at Work”; Maddalena Tirabassi, Globus et Locus; Italian Area Business Meeting to proceed Globus et Locus presentation. Reception to follow.
16.07 Salon B: Graduate Student Caucus Board and Membership Meeting (Special Event); Chair: Esther Cuesta, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Discussion of current and future programs; nominations”
16.08 Salon A: Cultural Studies and Film Screening (7:30pm); Chair: Johanna Rossi Wagner, Pennsylvania State University; “A Filha: a film by Solveig Nordlund”; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
16.09 Regency A: British and Anglophone Literatures Speaker (Special Event); Chair: Carine Mardorossian, SUNY Buffalo; “’Brit Born Bajan’: Contemporary Black British Women’s Poetry”; Dorothea Smartt