Session Index

Session 1

Thursday, April 7, 11:30AM - 2:00PM

1.01 Adapting Your Syllabus for Different Campuses (Workshop) Regency A

1.02 Oltre la pizza, il Colosseo e il tiramisù (Workshop) Regency B

1.03 Academic Publishing in the Next Decade: Negotiating Change, Seizing Opportunity (Workshop) Regency C

Session 2

Thursday, April 7, 2:15PM - 4:15PM

2.01 Didattica 2.0: Teaching Italian With a Web 2.0 Perspective Conference I

2.02 Russian Representations of World War II (Seminar) Conference B

2.03 Canada and the African Diasporic Literary Imaginary (Seminar) Conference C

2.04 Memory of Borders, Borders of Memory: Life Writing at a Distance (Seminar) Salon A

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

2.06 American Horror: Gothic Strategies in Ante-bellum Discourses (Seminar) Salon D

2.07 Amateur Performance in the Long Nineteenth Century (Seminar) Conference G

2.08 Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature (Seminar) Regency D

2.09 Relire les ‘Classiques’ Africains Francophones (Seminar) Regency E

2.10 Traveling in and out of Italy (Seminar) Regency F

2.11 Fra parola e immagine: (ri)scritture umanistiche (Seminar) Brunswick A

2.12 The Intellectual as a Public Figure in 20th Century Latin America (Seminar) Brunswick B

2.13 Comparative Approaches to Early Modern Spanish and British Drama (Seminar) Brunswick C

2.14 Separation as Condition and as Solution (Seminar) Brunswick D

2.15 Routes of Memory: Remapping Trauma Studies (Seminar) Salon B

Session 3

Thursday, April 7, 4:30PM - 6:00PM

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

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

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

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

3.05 Affect and Periodization: Rethinking the Long 19th Century Conference A

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

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

3.08 Women Writers and the Historical Novel in Canada Regency D

3.09 Poetry and the Academy (Roundtable) Regency E

3.10 The Complexity and Originality of Camus’s Writings Regency F

3.11 Cultural and Political Dislocation and Reorientation in United Germany I Regency A

3.12 Human Rights in the Italian Theatre Brunswick B

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

3.14 The Genre of the Self Portrait in Hispanic Poetry Brunswick D

3.15 Persons and Things: a Roundtable in Memorial to Barbara Johnson (Roundtable) Salon B

3.16 Globalization and the Americas: Challenging Categories of Literary Production Conference D

3.17 British Area Special Event Alexander Library

Session 4

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

4.01 Transnational ‘Environmentalities’ in Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literature Conference A

4.02 Mapping Success and Failure in American Literature Salon A

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

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

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

4.06 Contemporary Female Playwrights in France Conference I

4.07 Figuring Diversity in the Cultural Imaginary I Salon B

4.08 Best Practices in Online Teaching: Language and Literature Courses (Roundtable) Conference D

4.09 20th Century Sentimentalism Conference G

4.10 East European Literatures: Thinking Change, Conceiving Futures (Roundtable) Salon C

4.11 New Approaches to Early Modern Historical Drama I Conference JK

4.12 Secrets and Surveillance in the Victorian Novel Conference E

4.13 The Languages of James Joyce Conference F

4.14 Approaching New Latin American Writing Room 248

4.15 Not Just Another ‘F’ Word: Reviewing and Renewing Feminist Writing Pedagogies (Roundtable) Brunswick A

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

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

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

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

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

4.21 Rethinking Second & Third Wave Feminisms (Roundtable) Regency C

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

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

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

4.25 Samuel Beckett and Bilingualism I Boardroom

Session 5

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

5.01 Duly Noted: Approaches to Paratext Conference A

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

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

5.04 Contemporary Women’s Novels: The Changing Story? Conference B

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

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

5.07 Made in Spain: The Almodóvar Phenomenon Salon B

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

5.09 Articulating the Human and its Others Conference G

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

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

5.12 New Jersey Conference E

5.13 Social Issues in American Drama Boardroom

5.14 Feeling Wrong: Postbellum Adaptations of Sentimental Literary Conventions Room 248

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

5.16 Theorizing the Victorian Novel Brunswick B

5.17 Magic and Modernism Brunswick C

5.18 Marvell, History, Theory Brunswick D

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

5.20 Environmentalism in the Realm of Science-Fiction and Fantasy Regency B

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

5.22 Suddenness (Plötzlichkeit) and Literature Regency D

5.23 Thinking (of) Women in the Italian Renaissance Regency E

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

5.25 Literature and the Experience of Ecstasy Conference F

Session 6

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

6.01 William Carlos Williams and the Meaning of the Local Conference A

6.02 Victorian Bodies and Machines Salon A

6.03 John Milton and the History of the Book Salon D

6.04 Samuel Beckett and Bilingualism II Conference B

6.05 Russian Dissident Art and Writing in the Soviet Union Conference C

6.06 Figuring Diversity in the Cultural Imaginary II Conference I

6.07 The Films of Kathryn Bigelow Salon B

6.08 Reading German Girls Conference D

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

6.10 Reshaping the Italian American Identity Salon C

6.11 Adoption in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Roundtable) Conference JK

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

6.13 The New William Golding Boardroom

6.14 New Approaches to Early Modern Historical Drama II: Religion & The History Play Room 248

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

6.17 Petrarch, Petrarchism and Beyond Brunswick C

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

6.19 LGBTQ Studies and Pedagogy (Roundtable) Regency A

6.20 When Motherhood Studies Meets Other Disciplines Regency B

6.21 Donors and Helpers: Masculinity in Contemporary Fairy Tales Regency C

6.22 Advancing Gender Equality (Roundtable) Regency D

6.23 Experiments in Hybrid Essay (Creative) Regency E

6.24 Teaching Content through French and Francophone Film (Roundtable) Regency F

6.25 Rethinking Teaching in Lean Times (Roundtable) Conference F

6.26 Body and the Politics of Resistance in the 21st century Latin American Narrative (Roundtable) Conference H

Session 7

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

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

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

7.03 Collecting in German Literature and Culture Salon D

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

7.05 Transposing the Arts Conference C

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

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

7.08 Ecocritical Activisms and Activist Ecologies Conference D

7.09 Leading Lines: Social Networking as Impetus for Scholarly Formation (Roundtable) Conference G

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

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

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

7.13 The Family in Contemporary American Drama Boardroom

7.14 Crowd Forms in American Literature Room 248

7.15 African Modernisms, African Modernities Brunswick A

7.16 Dracula and Beyond: The Evolution of the Vampire Brunswick B

7.17 The Space of Memory Brunswick C

7.18 Representations of Disability in Literature and Culture Brunswick D

7.19 Visceral Subjects: Exploring Bodies, Exploring Knowledges Regency A

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

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

7.22 Russian 20th-Century Poetry in New Contexts Regency D

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

7.24 Global Magical Realisms and Speculative Fiction Regency F

7.25 The American Short Story Cycle: A Gendered Genre? Conference F

7.26 Teaching Translation in the 21st Century (Roundtable) Conference H

Session 8

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

8.01 From Here to Modernity: New Perspectives on Sensation Fiction Conference A

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

8.03 German Romanticism and the Revolution in Science Salon D

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

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

8.06 Reflections on Lusophone Literatures and Cultures Conference I

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

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

8.09 Teaching Culture of Less-Commonly Taught Languages Conference G

8.10 Thinking Comparatively in Contemporary Literature Salon C

8.11 Diversity, Identity, and Graduate School (Roundtable) Conference JK

8.12 Label Me Latina or Latino Conference E

8.13 African American Discourse on Democratic Identity and Freedom I Boardroom

8.14 J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur: American Paradox Room 248

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

8.16 Revolutionary Terror Brunswick B

8.17 Exploration of Senses in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography Brunswick C

8.18 Postmodern French Literature Brunswick D

8.19 Guido Cavalcanti and His Legacy Regency A

8.20 Islam in Contemporary Italy Regency B

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

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

8.23 Methodologies of Science and Literature (Roundtable) Regency E

8.24 Literary Landscapes: Representation and Imagination Regency F

8.25 Theorizing Mobility in Transnational Literature Conference F

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

8.27 Flânerie and the Rise of the Modern Urban Woman J and J Business Center

Session 9

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

9.01 American Literary Tourism Conference A

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

9.03 Issues on Ecology in Latin American Literature and Culture Salon D

9.04 Dickens in 2012: Preparing for Boz’s Bicentennial Conference B

9.05 Cinema and Demos Conference C

9.06 Narrated Objects: Literature and Material Culture in the Americas Conference I

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

9.08 Posthumanism, Biopower, and Modern and Contemporary War (Roundtable) Conference D

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

9.10 Rethinking the Postmodern Monster Salon C

9.11 Renaissance Trauma Conference JK

9.12 Brooklyn Poetics Conference E

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

9.14 The Acknowledged Legislator: A Critical (Re)Assessment of Martín Espada Room 248

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

9.16 Writing Surveillance: Transcultural Perspectives Brunswick B

9.17 The EcoGothic in Italian Literature and Culture Brunswick C

9.18 Literary Darwinism and Social Justice Brunswick D

9.19 Programs in Peril (Roundtable) Regency A

9.20 Translation: The ‘Next Big Thing’ to Revitalize the Humanities? (Roundtable) Regency B

9.21 The Single Woman (Roundtable) Regency C

9.22 Narrative is the Essence of History: The History of the Historical Novel (Roundtable) Conference F

9.23 Fashion and Costume as Mirrors of Society and Time (Roundtable) Conference H

9.24 Popular Italian Cinema: from Ubalda to Er Monnezza (Roundtable) J and J Business Center

Session 10

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

10.01 Transnational Genres in 18th Century German Literature Salon A

10.02 Experimentation in Latin American Film Salon D

10.03 Trends in 21st Century American Drama Conference B

10.04 Wandering Women: Female Itinerancy on Film Conference C

10.05 New Trends in Teaching Italian with Technologies Conference I

10.06 Queer Counterpublic Salon B

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

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

10.09 Italian Media Socialization. Between Private, Public and On-line Narratives (Seminar) Conference A

10.10 Women and Wilderness: Ecofeminism in Early American Literature Salon C

10.11 Drag, Dress and Disguise in Eighteenth-Century Novels Conference JK

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

10.13 Rafik Schami - The Poet and Storyteller Boardroom

10.14 Problem Based Learning: Strategies, Struggles, and Successes (Roundtable) Room 248

10.15 Authority and Uncertainty in Poetic Language and Practice Brunswick A

10.16 Post/Colonial Nostalgia in South Asian Literature Brunswick B

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

10.18 The Criminal Underworld in Medieval Literature Brunswick D

10.19 Women Writers and Psychoanalysis Regency A

10.20 Performing Knowledge Regency B

10.21 Writing Assessment Inside and Outside the English Department (Roundtable) Regency C

10.22 1861-2011: Reflecting on Italian Unification in Literature and Cinema (Roundtable) Regency D

10.23 Complicated Space: Reading the Transnational Text (Roundtable) Regency E

10.24 The Outsider Within: Women as Contingent Faculty in the Academy (Roundtable) Regency F

10.25 Early Italian Literature: Text Within Its Material Context Conference F

10.26 Concepts of Identity in Post-colonial African Culture Conference H

Session 11

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

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

11.02 Center and Periphery: Representing Spanishness in Contemporary Literature Salon D

11.03 World Literature / Global Empathy Conference B

11.04 Homosexual Women in Italian Literature, Cinema and Other Media Conference C

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

11.06 Displaced Communities Salon B

11.07 Serial Narratives and Temporality Conference D

11.08 Narrating Queer Histories (Roundtable) Conference G

11.09 Twentieth-Century Blake Conference A

11.10 Manipulative Forewords: Authors’ Imposed Agenda in Prefaces Salon C

11.11 Pan-American Immigration Narratives Conference JK

11.12 American Fiction Reflecting Global Ecological Concerns Conference E

11.13 Best Practices in Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies (Roundtable) Boardroom

11.14 African American Discourse on Democratic Identity and Freedom II Room 248

11.15 Neomedievalism Brunswick A

11.16 Religion in the Shelley Circle Brunswick B

11.17 Victorian Women Writers: Constructions of Masculinity I Brunswick C

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

11.19 Surplus Formulations in Detection Fiction Regency A

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

11.21 Images of Eastern Europe in Recent German Literature and Film Regency C

11.22 Il ‘900 sommerso italiano Regency D

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

11.24 Planetary Lyricism in Modern Chinese Poetry Regency F

11.25 Contemporary Fiction from the Middle East Conference F

11.26 Willa Cather: Themes and Narrative Techniques Conference H

Session 12

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

12.01 Cyber Aesthetics: Communication, Literature and Digital Reproducibility Salon A

12.02 Connecting Language and Literature: Standards-Based Instruction in Higher Ed. (Roundtable) Salon D

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

12.04 New Media and the Asian Diaspora Conference C

12.05 Futurism and Science Conference I

12.06 Post-National and Trans-National Italian Cinema Salon B

12.07 The Performative City: Contemporary Spanish Urban Culture Conference D

12.08 Trauma and Memory in Literature and Film of Latin America Conference G

12.09 Aesthetics and Politics of Literary Multilingualism Conference A

12.10 Housewives of Millennial Television Salon C

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

12.12 Central European Authors Conference E

12.13 Women and Gender Studies Caucus Business Meeting Boardroom

12.14 Towards a Continuum of Language, Culture, Literature in Undergraduate German Room 248

12.15 Anna Maria Ortese: la passione della scrittura (Roundtable) Brunswick A

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

12.17 LGBTQ Identities in Latin America Brunswick C

12.18 Women, Love, and Eroticism in Latin American Poetry Brunswick D

12.19 Toni Morrison and Marilynne Robinson: Revisioning the American West Regency A

12.20 Traditional and Modern Medicine in Caribbean Literature Regency B

12.21 Facing In-Yer-Face Drama Regency C

12.22 Suddenly Everyone Has a Cherokee Great-Grandmother: Teaching Native Literatures (Roundtable) Regency D

12.23 ‘Community’ in Composition Instruction I (Roundtable) Regency E

12.24 Rethinking Motherhood in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature (Roundtable) Regency F

12.25 Arabic Studies: Challenges and Successes (Roundtable) Conference F

12.26 Female Friendship in Local Color Fiction Conference H

Session 13

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

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

13.02 Literary Dress: Fashioning the Fictional Self Salon D

13.03 Transnational Ireland: The Celtic Tiger and Beyond Conference B

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

13.05 Cultural Studies and Film Special Event Conference I

13.06 Fatih Akin and His Films Salon B

13.07 Literature and the Arts: An Exemplar of Multicultural Understanding Conference D

13.08 Contemporary Theatre in South Africa Conference G

13.09 19th Century British Studies Special Event (Special Event) Conference F

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

13.11 Unreliability as a Narrative Trope in Postcolonial Literature Conference JK

13.12 Writing the Self: Italian Women Autobiography Conference E

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

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

13.15 Publishing Articles in Academic Journals (Roundtable) Brunswick A

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

13.17 The Classic Figure: Women in the Ancient World Brunswick C

13.18 Representations of Gendered Transnational Identity in Contemporary Literature Brunswick D

13.19 Contemporary Black British Women’s Writing Regency A

13.20 Traditional, Alternative and Successful Approaches through Academe (Roundtable) Regency B

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

13.22 The Francophone African Intellectual I Regency D

13.23 Between Genres, Between Disciplines Conference A

Session 14

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

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

14.02 Italian ‘Famiglia’ Representations in Cinema and Television Salon D

14.03 Eighteenth-Century Hierarchies Conference B

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

14.05 Classical Women in Modern Literature and Media Conference I

14.06 Wilde Family Values Salon B

14.07 Immersions: Breaching Reality through Play Conference D

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

14.09 Feminist Alternative Media in the Long 1970s Conference A

14.10 Shakespearean Adaptations and Appropriations (Roundtable) Salon C

14.11 Identité nationale dans le roman francophone contemporain Conference JK

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

14.13 Geocritical New England Boardroom

14.14 Family Formations in Contemporary Multiethnic American Literature Room 248

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

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

14.17 Midnight’s Children: Thirty Years Later Brunswick C

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

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

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

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

14.22 Critical Discourses: Early Modern Spanish Literary Women Regency D

14.23 Investigating the Scope of Persian/Iranian Literatures Regency E

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

14.25 Herta Müller: Perspectives on the Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature (Roundtable) Conference F

14.26 Il Caso Saviano (Roundtable) Conference H

Session 15

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

15.01 Rap Music’s Sophisticated Dialogues with Society Salon A

15.02 Interdisciplinary Studies and Women Modernists Salon D

15.03 Migrant Writers: New Frontiers in Contemporary Italian Literature Conference B

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

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

15.06 Constructing ‘Brazilian-ness’ through Cinematic Manipulations Salon B

15.07 The Spatial Turn in Literary Theory I Conference D

15.08 Reading the Postcolonial Other in Contemporary Film (Roundtable) Conference G

15.09 What is ‘World Literature’? Conference A

15.10 Urban Spaces and Contact Zones in 20th Century Literature Salon C

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

15.12 Who Will Advocate for Our Part-Time Faculty? (Roundtable) Conference E

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

15.14 Witnessing Women’s Transnational Migration in Hispanic Narrative and Film Room 248

15.16 Re-tellings: Literature as Literary Criticism I Brunswick B

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

15.18 The Specter of Degeneration in 19th Century Literature I Brunswick D

15.19 Quotation and Originality (Creative) Regency A

15.20 The Arabo-Islamic Traditions in Literature in French Regency B

15.21 Twentieth-Century Italian Lyrical Landscape Regency C

15.22 L’Altro Tasso: A Discussion of Tasso’s ‘Not-So-Minor’ Works (Seminar) Regency D

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

15.24 Zero World Literature I: Theories of the Outside Regency F

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

15.26 Medical Visions of Modernism Conference H

Session 16

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

16.01 Women’s & Gender Studies Caucus Special Event and Reception (Special Event) Conference A

16.02 MLS Writers’ and Editors’ Reception Regency B

16.03 German Language and Literature Area Speaker and Reception (Special Event) Regency C

16.04 American Literatures Special Event and Reception Regency D

16.05 Transnational Literatures Special Event and Reception Regency E

16.06 Italian Area Special Event and Reception Regency F

16.07 Graduate Student Caucus Board and Membership Meeting (Special Event) Salon B

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

16.09 British and Anglophone Literatures Speaker (Special Event) Regency A

Session 17

Sunday, April 10, 8:30AM - 9:45AM

17.01 Calvino and the City: New Critical Perspectives (Roundtable) Salon A

17.02 Music Contingencies in Narrated Americas. Conference B

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

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

17.05 The Specter of Degeneration in 19th Century Literature II Salon B

17.06 The Francophone African Intellectual II Regency A

17.07 Journeys of the Bicultural Self : Narrative Geographies from the Middle East (Roundtable) Regency B

17.08 Blowing Up America: Amiri Baraka’s Revolutionary Theatre Regency C

17.09 Retellings: Literature as Literary Criticism II Regency D

17.10 Victorian Women Writers: Constructions of Masculinity II Regency E

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

17.12 Imagining Communities: Cuban Women Poets of the Diaspora Conference A

17.13 Questioning Hybridity: Colonial Métissage, Postcolonialism, and Globalization Conference G

17.14 Zero World Literature II: Texts of the Outside Salon C

17.15 Community in the Composition Classroom II: Literacies and Growth (Roundtable) Conference E

17.16 Teaching Writing in the Digital Age: Literacy, Access, and Community (Roundtable) Conference F

17.17 Death, Dying and Dislocation: Transnational Grief Literature (Roundtable) Conference H

Session 18

Sunday, April 10, 10:15AM - 12:15PM

18.01 Affects and Spaces in Latin American Cinema, Performance and Literature (Seminar) Salon A

18.02 Representing the City in Italian Modernity (Seminar) Conference B

18.03 Restaging Their/Our Lives: Performing Biography on the Contemporary Stage (Seminar) Conference C

18.04 Detective Fiction and Other Genres: Friends or Foes? (Seminar) Conference I

18.05 Critical Discourses: Early Modern Spanish Literary Women II Salon B

18.06 Feeling In Common: Cultivating Sympathy in the Writings of George Eliot (Seminar) Regency A

18.07 The Immortal Fairy Tale: Re-writings and Re-visions (Seminar) Regency B

18.08 The Spatial Turn in Literary Theory II (Seminar) Regency C

18.09 Legal Fictions (Seminar) Regency D

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

18.11 Uncovering the Tradition of Vitalism in 20th Century Literature (Seminar) Regency F

18.12 Italy in WWII and the Transition to Democracy: Memory, Fiction, Histories (Seminar) Conference A

18.13 Intellectual and Manual Labor in Early Modern England (Seminar) Conference G

18.14 Vertientes de la literatura fantástica en Hispanoamérica (Seminar) Salon C