Sunday Sessions (10 April)

Session 17

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

17.01 Salon A: Calvino and the City: New Critical Perspectives (Roundtable); Chair: Letizia Modena, Villanova University; “Of Cities, Utopian and Invisible”; Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa; “Designing Invisible Cities: Utopian Architecture in Calvino’s Paris”; Letizia Modena, Villanova University; “Natural and Urban Order in Calvino’s Invisible Cities”; Maria Giulia Carone, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Calvino, the City, a Project for Students of Contemporary Italian Literature: The Word”; Simonetta Ferrini, Palazzi, Florence Association For International Education; “Calvino, the City, a Project for Students of Contemporary Italian Lit.: the Visual Interpretatation”; David Weiss, Palazzi, Florence Association For International Education; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
17.02 Conference B: Music Contingencies in Narrated Americas.; Chair: Enea Zaramella, Princeton University; “Some Problems of Popular Music and Political Subjectivity in Brazil and Cuba”; Dylon Robbins, Boston University; “Porno Para Ricardo: the Rhetoric of Obscenity in Music and Literature in Contemporary Cuba”; Paloma Duong, Columbia University; “Records and Recuerdos: Music as Memorial in Oscar Hijuelos’ The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love”; Njelle Hamilton, Brandeis University; “Listening to Fernando Ortiz’ Latin American Contrapunteo”; Enea Zaramella, Princeton University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
17.03 Conference C: Understanding Avatar, Part II: A Movie Made for the Masses; Chair: Aaron Tucker, Ryerson University; “The Machine in the Western: Avatar as the New Frontier Myth”; Mark Graham, Lehigh University; “Jake Sully and Judith Butler: The Disorienting Avatar as a Model for Understanding Self and Other”; Jennifer Miller, Valparaiso University; “Embodying Posthuman Network”; Seung-hoon Jeong, NYU Abu Dhabi; “Technological Malaise”; Jonathan Foltz, Princeton University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
17.04 Conference I: Representations of Women and War in 20th Century Italian Literature and Film; Chair: Deena Levy, Pennsylvania State University; “Sacrificio in vendita: Francesca Bertini e la Grande Guerra”; Georgina Torello, Universidad de la República-Montevideo; “Representations of Women and War in R. Rossellini’s Paisa’, and the Problem of Neorealism”; Umberto Mariani, Rutgers University; “Invisible Resistance: Alba de Céspedes, Dalla parte di lei, and the Second World War”; Valerie Mirshak, Duke University; “Testimony and the Representation of Women and War in Laudomia Bonanni’s La rappresaglia”; Caroline Lynch, University of Bristol; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
17.05 Salon B: The Specter of Degeneration in 19th Century Literature II; Chair: Rod Cooke, Columbia University; “Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan: The Christian Bestseller and Modern Decay”; Christiane Gannon, Johns Hopkins University; “Degenerate Music in Nineteenth-Century Literature”; James Kennaway, University of Durham; “Clara Collet and the Factory Girl: Degeneration in ‘Women’s Work’ and ‘Undercurrents’”; Gabrielle Mearns, Warwick University
17.06 Regency A: The Francophone African Intellectual II; Chair: Eloïse Brézault, New York University; “Cultural Markers in the Dusk of Tradition: Hélé Béji’s Metaphoric Landscaping of Tunisia’s Heritage”; C. Wakaba Futumura, Susquehanna University; “Marc Kojo Tovalou Houenou, Black Internationalism and the Threat of ‘Evolution Revolution’”; Lorelle Semley, Wesleyan University; “Souleymane Bachir Diagne: the Cheikh and the State(s)”; Christopher Hogarth, Wagner College
17.07 Regency B: Journeys of the Bicultural Self : Narrative Geographies from the Middle East (Roundtable); Chair: Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University; “Writing in the Shadow of Orientalism: Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun”; Suha Kudsieh, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “Transgressing Borders Between the Orient and Occident in Jamal Mahjoub’s Travelling with Djinns”; Yasemin Mohammad, Pennylvania State University; “Journeys and Journals of the Migrating Self from Northern Africa”; Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University; “The Melodrama of Postcolonial Politics and the Rushdie Affair”; Sheetal Majithia, New York University-Abu Dhabi
17.08 Regency C: Blowing Up America: Amiri Baraka’s Revolutionary Theatre; Chair: Donald Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University; “Hip-hop as the New/Old Form of Drama:Amiri Baraka and the One-Man Show”; Khalid Y. Long, Miami University; “Relocating the Revolution: Newark, NJ as Radical erformative Praxis”; Roseanne Alvarez, Brookdale Community College-CUNY; “The Avant-Garde Origins of Amiri Baraka’s Revolutionary Theatre”; Jimmy Fazzino, University of California-Santa Cruz; “Clay’s Revenge: On Black Neurosis, Art, and Murder”; La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Yale University
17.09 Regency D: Retellings: Literature as Literary Criticism II; Chair: Erika R. Williams, Emerson College; “The Appropriation of an Epic: Lucille Clifton and John Milton Retell Genesis”; Jessica L. Williams, St. John’s University; “Mythic Re-telling and Revision in the Literature of W. E. B. DuBois”; Erika R. Williams, Emerson College; “Seeing Double to See Clearly: Rereading Lorraine Hansberry through Clifford Odets”; Meredith M. Malburne-Wade, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Jewish and Postmodern Impulses to Retell in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral”; Liliana M. Naydan, Stony Brook University
17.10 Regency E: Victorian Women Writers: Constructions of Masculinity II; Chair: Judith Pike, Salisbury University; “The Abduction of Aestheticism and the Queering of Masculinity in Middlemarch”; Michael F. Davis, Le Moyne College; “Young Men, Old Masculinity: Levy’s Romance of the Shop, New Woman, and the Atrophy of Men”; Michael Kramp, Lehigh University; “A New Kind of Hero: Re-imagining Masculinity in late-Victorian Britain”; Heidi Pierce, University of Delaware; “New Woman Writing and Dominant Constructs of Syphilitic Males”; Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Universität Siegen
17.11 Regency F: Europa y América Latina: de un lado a otro del mar en las polémicas del siglo XX; Chair: Antonella Calarota, Kean University; “Martín Adán y Ángel Guido en la genealogía del Barroco”; Marc Olivier Reid, St. Lawrence University; “Diálogo entre dos continentes:Estilística neobarroca, configuración del espacio en Concierto barroco”; Alina Peña Iguarán, Montclair State University; “La presencia de Leopardi en la poesía pre-modernista latino-americana”; Vincenzo Bollettino, Montclair State University; “Polémicas y controversias sobre el Modernismo en Ecuador”; Antonella Calarota, Kean University
17.12 Conference A: Imagining Communities: Cuban Women Poets of the Diaspora; Chair: Elena M. Martinez, Baruch College-CUNY; “‘La identidad nacional en La isla rota de Iraida Iturralde’.”; Antonio F. Cao, Hofstra University; “‘Cinco Poetas Cubanas de Nueva York’”; Mabel Cuesta, CUNY Graduate Center; “‘Identidad, Memoria y Erotismo en las Poetas Cubanas de la Diáspora’”; Ada Ortúzar Young, Drew University; “‘Pluralidades espaciales en la diaspora cubana: Poemas recientes de Lourdes Gil’”; Oneida Sanchez, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY
17.13 Conference G: Questioning Hybridity: Colonial Métissage, Postcolonialism, and Globalization; Chair: Amar Acheraiou, Independent Scholar; “New Peoples and their Literatures: The Development of Chicano/a and Métis Literature”; Danielle Lamb, University of Alberta; “‘The Resplendent Face of Death’: Skeletal Substitution in Dia de Muertos and the Calavera Tradition”; Joseph Lamperez, University of Rochester; “Engaging Hybrid Linguistic Legacies through a Post-colonial Theory of Communication as Echo”; Gabriela Alejandra Veronelli, SUNY Binghamton; “Rethinking Hybridity Theory: A Materialist Perspective”; Amar Acheraiou, Independent Scholar
17.14 Salon C: Zero World Literature II: Texts of the Outside; Chair: Alina Gharabegian, New Jersey City University; “Some Alien Sea: Deep Time and Dissipative Structures in McCarthy’s The Road”; Christopher Loots, Mercy College; “Writing as Dispossession: Enrique Vila-Matas and the Exercise of Writing”; Carolina Gómez-Montoya, University of Maryland; “Borowski’s ‘World of Stone’: The Concentration Camp in the World”; Andrea Harris, Mansfield University; “Theorizing De/territorialized,Transnational Subjectivity: Tawada’s Transparent, Indiscernible Coffin”; Laci Mattison, Florida State University
17.15 Conference E: Community in the Composition Classroom II: Literacies and Growth (Roundtable); Chair: Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology; “What Happens to ‘Community’ When Composition Goes Online?”; Guy Shebat, Youngstown State University; “Multiple Literacies, Multiple Communities: The Hybrid Composition Course”; Alyssa Colton, The College of St. Rose; “Interdisciplinary Learning Community: Academic,Professional, and Personal Growth through Composition”; Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University; “Researching Reading Communities Beyond the Creative Writing Workshop”; Janelle Adsit, SUNY Albany; “Forming Three Communities for Composition Writing Classes: Class, School, and Professional”; Chloe Yelena Miller, George Mason University
17.16 Conference F: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age: Literacy, Access, and Community (Roundtable); Chair: Lynn Reid, Brookdale Community College-CUNY; “Building Community Through Course Blogs”; Kellie Donovan-Condron, Babson College; “Composition in the Cloud: Switching from Linear to Modular Composition Techniques”; Joost Burgers, CUNY Graduate Center; “Assemblage Writing & 2.0 Pedagogy”; Gary Hink, University of Florida; “Techno-literacy: Benefits of Low and High-Stakes Media Environments in the Composition Classroom”; Christopher Salerno, William Paterson University; “Blogging Freshman Writing: Expanding the Concept of Audience”; Joshua Pederson, Boston University
17.17 Conference H: Death, Dying and Dislocation: Transnational Grief Literature (Roundtable); Chair: Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College; “‘In future we will not read backwards’: Hermeneutics in Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things”; Briana Brickley, CUNY Graduate Center; “Suffocated Voices, Buried Bodies in the Works of Leila Marouane”; Nevine El Nossery, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “‘Esperanza is died’: Dead Women Talking in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God”; Brian Norman, Loyola University Maryland; “Violent Death and Xicana Indi′gena Healing: Cherrie Moraga’s play Digging Up the Dirt”; Paula Straile-Costa, Ramapo College of New Jersey; “All the Colors of the Rainbow Could Not Save Helga Crane: Dislocation in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand”; Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College

Session 18

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

18.01 Salon A: Affects and Spaces in Latin American Cinema, Performance and Literature (Seminar); Chairs: Valeria Garrote, Rutgers University; Irene Depetris Chauvin, Cornell University; “Participation, Affect and the Body: Lygia Clark”; Susan Best, University of New South Wales; “Ditches, Dumps, and Dungeons: Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls, and Queer Cuba”; Mark DeStephano, Saint Peter’s College; “Esa distancia que afecta: Representaciones de la comunidad boliviana en el Nuevo Cine Argentino”; Irene Depetris Chauvin, Cornell University; “La estrategia de la alegria y los multi espacios performativos en España y Argentina de la post-dic”; Valeria Garrote, Rutgers University; “Abject Spaces: The Hinterland in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Amulet”; Stacey Balkan, Bergen Community College; “At the Scene of Writing: Diamela Eltit’s Lumpérica’”; Paloma Yannakakis, Cornell University; “Capitalism and Religion...and the Brain: Mapping Affect in Contemporary Mexican Cinema”; Christopher Nielsen, University of Pittsburgh; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
18.02 Conference B: Representing the City in Italian Modernity (Seminar); Chair: Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University; “The Vegetative Metamorphosis: Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Metaphorical Representation of the City”; Marja Härmänmaa, University of Helsinki; “De Chirico/De Sica: Pictorial Influences in the Urban Landscape of Bicycle Thieves”; Roberto Vezzani, University of Michigan; “On the Fringes of the Modern City: Rome in Monicelli, Pasolini and Fellini”; Giorgio Melloni, University of Delaware; “The City-Stage and the Web of History: Bertolucci’s La strategia del ragno”; Cristina Della Coletta, University of Virginia; “Il poeta e la città. Milano nella poesia italiana del Novecento”; Alfredo Luzi, Università di Macerata; “Narrare sulle macerie: Napoli e la narrativa della città occupata”; Vincenzo Pascale, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
18.03 Conference C: Restaging Their/Our Lives: Performing Biography on the Contemporary Stage (Seminar); Chair: Susan Gilmore, Central Connecticut State University; “Postmemory and the Black Body in Ralph Lemon’s ‘Come Home Charley Patton’”; Kajsa Henry, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Mirroring a Life: Cathartic Space and The Space Inside”; Cara Gargano, Long Island University-C.W. Post; “Dust Tracks to Rainbows: Performing ZORA/Performing (Auto)Biography”; Yvonne Singh, Theater ATL/International; “Staging ‘Poetic Facts’: Documenting Biography Through Embodiment in Still/Here”; Ariel Nereson, University of Pittsburgh; “‘History is About to Crack Wide Open’: Revisionist Biography in Angels in America”; Cory Elizabeth Nelson, Brandeis University; “‘Everybody likes me better dead’: Restaging Anne Frank through Rinne Groff’s Compulsion”; Susan Gilmore, Central Connecticut State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
18.04 Conference I: Detective Fiction and Other Genres: Friends or Foes? (Seminar); Chair: Maria Plochocki, Bronx Community College-CUNY; “Planning Deaths is Not Natural to Me: Myth, Ritual, and Violence in Hammett, Kurosawa, and Leone”; Michael Cerliano, University of Notre Dame; “Chandler: Before and After Hollywood”; David Leight, Reading Area Community College; “The Gaming Detective: Sherlock Holmes and the Implementation of GUI in BBC One’s Sherlock”; Rebecca Jackson, Georgia State University; “Extending the Boundaries of Detective Fiction: Esau, Poe and T.C. Boyle’s Talk Talk”; Trish Verrone, Caldwell College; “Dark Humor, Gender, and Constructions of the Villain in Detective Fiction”; Christine Berzsenyi, Pennsylvania State University-Wilkes-Barre; “‘Mysterious things well examined’: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a Gothic Supernatural Detective”; Peter Conolly-Smith, Queens College-CUNY; “Contemporary African Detective Fiction: James Bond Look-Alikes”; Karen Ferreira-Meyers, University of Swaziland; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
18.05 Salon B: Critical Discourses: Early Modern Spanish Literary Women II; Chair: Deborah Compte, The College of New Jersey; “Teresa de Ávila: The Politics of Communion”; Virginia Gutierrez Berner, Hamilton College; “Las cartas familiares de mujeres nobles en el Siglo de Oro. Estudio de un corpus textual inédito”; Patricia Marín Cepeda, University of Cincinnati; “Shame in Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer: Subverting the Dominant Discourse”; Jaclyn Cohen, Johns Hopkins University; “Harpies as Heroes?: Female Representation in Las harpías en Madrid”; Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester
18.06 Regency A: Feeling In Common: Cultivating Sympathy in the Writings of George Eliot (Seminar); Chairs: Meghan Freeman, Tulane University; David Sweeney Coombs, Cornell University; “‘And Now We Will Listen to What They Are Talking About’: Eliot’s Narrators and Community Chatter”; Louetta Hurst, Rutgers University; “‘A Study of Provincial Life’: Irony, Picturesque, and the View from Dorothea’s Window”; Kerri E. Hunt, University of Chicago; “How to Hear a Squirrel’s Heartbeat: Spinoza, Sympathy and Nature”; James Arnett, Graduate Center-CUNY; “Translation, Authorship, and the Movement of Minds in Daniel Deronda”; Jennifer Raterman, Rutgers University; “‘A Difficult Kind of Shorthand’: Artful Sympathy in George Eliot’s Middlemarch”; Meghan A. Freeman, Tulane University; “National Unconsciousness in Daniel Deronda”; David Sweeney Coombs, Cornell University
18.07 Regency B: The Immortal Fairy Tale: Re-writings and Re-visions (Seminar); Chair: Cristina Santos, Brock University; “One Bite from the Apple and Things Get Grimm: Generic Shifts in Stories of Eve and Snow White”; Natalie Pendergast, University of Toronto; “Fairy Tale Dualities: Representations of the Widow as Good Mother or Evil Mother-in-Law”; Sarah Rangaratnam, Brock University; “Moonlit Mirrors: Signification and Subjectivity in Angela Carter’s ‘Wolf-Alice’”; Kristine Jennings, Binghamton University; “‘Have You Seen My Childhood?’: Michael Jackson, J.M. Barrie, and Peter Pan”; Jennifer Mary Woolston, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; “The Fairest of All: Snow White and Gendered Power”; Elizabeth Law, Rutgers University-Newark; “A Reading From Disenchanted: A Grrrl’s Guide To Surviving Happily Ever After”; Deborah Hauser, Independent Scholar
18.08 Regency C: The Spatial Turn in Literary Theory II (Seminar); Chair: Julia Weber, Freie Universität Berlin; “The Body in the Mirror: Henri Lefebvre and George Saiko on Subjectivity and Metropolitan Space”; Petia Parpoulova, University of Washington; “Relational and Dynamic Concepts of Space in (Literary) Theory and Contemporary Literature”; Anna Beck, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen; “Konjunktionen. Zu politischen und textuellen Zwischenräumen”; Thomas Wild, Vanderbilt University; “Spatialities in/of Narration in Boccacio’s The Decameron”; Wiebke Amthor, Freie University Berlin; “Heideggerian Placeholder: The Aporetic Uncanny in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills”; Karen Elizabeth Bishop, Rutgers University; “Displacement: Ophelia’s Double-Grave”; Nicola Behrmann, Rutgers University
18.09 Regency D: Legal Fictions (Seminar); Chair: Carrie Hyde, Rutgers University; “Darky Damsels and Cheeky Wenches: Black Ladyhood as a Legal Fiction”; Courtney Marshall, University of New Hampshire; “Imperium and Dominium: A Jurisprudential Approach to the Segregation Narrative”; Trinyan Mariano, Rutgers University; “Reopening the Case of Bigger Thomas: Neurolaw and Agency in Native Son”; Andrew Yerkes, Nanyang Technological University; “‘Dynamite Talk’: William Dean Howells, Literary Realism and the Legal Theory of Constructive Crime”; Jesse Schwartz, CUNY Graduate Center; “Legal Fictions & Corporate Culpability in Kafka’s The Castle”; Matthew Birkhold, Princeton University; “‘cujus est solum...’: The Power, Peril, and Promise of Story in Sedgwick’s A New-England Tale”; Melissa Lingle-Martin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
18.10 Regency E: What a ‘Man’’s Gotta Do: (Re)Defining Duty in Post-Feminist Action Films (Seminar); Chair: Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College; “‘A man [or woman] must have a code’: Heroes and Anti-Heroes in ‘The Wire’”; Susan Redington Bobby, Wesley College; “When Eleven Year-Olds Kick-Ass: Hit-Girl As Role Model Or Victim?”; Keith Friedlander, University of Ottawa; “Motherhood and Alien: A Look at the Post-Feminist Action Hero as Essentially Female”; Bronwen Durocher, Fordham University; “The Bourne Refusal: Changing the Rules of the Game”; Mary T. Hartson, Oakland University; “‘I Won’t Feel a Thing’: Ironic Masculinity in Joss Whedon’s ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’”; Derek S. McGrath, SUNY Stony Brook; “Fashioning Failure: Neoliberal Economies of Masculinity in ‘Miami Vice,’ 1986/2006”; Michael Litwack, Brown University
18.11 Regency F: Uncovering the Tradition of Vitalism in 20th Century Literature (Seminar); Chairs: Philip Longo, Rutgers University; Octavio Gonzales, Rutgers University; “Acker’s Empire as Deleuzian Assemblage”; Gary Hink, University of Florida; “Bergsonian Vitalism in Nikos Kazantzaki’s The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel”; Alexander Ruggeri, New York University; “‘Into the pure present’: Immersion and Escape in Cortázar’s Hopscotch”; Lara Rodriguez, CUNY Graduate Center; “Vitalism in the French Symbolist Theatre”; Patrick Robinson, University of Toronto; “‘I Love Everything That Flows’: Henry Miller’s Ecstatic Aesthetic”; Ben Maki, New York University; “Synesthetic Vitalism in a Resonant Harlem”; May Peckham, Washington University in St. Louis
18.12 Conference A: Italy in WWII and the Transition to Democracy: Memory, Fiction, Histories (Seminar); Chair: Franco Baldasso, New York University; “Fossoli di Carpi: from Deportation Camp to Catholic Orphanage”; Alexis Herr, Clark University; “Italian Jews and the ‘Good Italian’”; Anna Koch, New York University; “La Resistenza per Alessandro Blasetti. Il neorealismo eterodosso di ‘Un giorno nella vita.’”; Luca Zamparini, Kingsborough Community College-CUNY; “History, Identity and Responsibility in Elio Vittorini’s Literary Projects”; Piero Garofalo, University of New Hampshire; “Elsa Morante, la donna e la guerra”; Margherita Ganeri, Università della Calabria; “‘Il volo delle quaglie’: The Transition from Fascism in Sebastiano Vassalli’s Writing”; Meriel Tulante, Philadelphia University; “Sister War: Mapping Representations of Saint Francis of Assisi in the Aftermath of WWII”; Amanda Minervini, Brown University; “‘Radio Clandestina’: memoria e storia nel teatro di Ascanio Celestini”; Chiara Montanari, University of Chicago
18.13 Conference G: Intellectual and Manual Labor in Early Modern England (Seminar); Chairs: Sandra Logan, Michigan State University; David Morrow, College of Saint Rose; “‘What strength I have’s mine own’: The Tempest and Renaissance Discourses on Labour”; Subhankar Battacharya, Jadavpur University; “The Division of Labor in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great”; Benjamin Bertram, University of Southern Maine; “Crossing the Threshold: Aemilia Lanyer and the Labor/Leisure of Writing”; Rachel Greenberg, Canisius College; “‘Famine and no other hath slain me’: Grappling with Early Modern Labor and Food Relationships”; Emily Gruber, Boston University; “Crafting the State: Homo Faber and the Antipolitical in Coriolanus”; Theodore Kaouk, University of Maryland; “Legal Labor in the Laborers Law: Assistant’s Court Justice in Bartholomew Fair”; Neal Klomp, Michigan State University; “The Matter of Milton’s Early Dialectics: The Division of Labor in L’Allegro and Il Penseroso”; Sarah Linwick, University of Michigan; “Intellectual and Manual Labor in Elizabethan Colonialist Discourse”; David Morrow, College of Saint Rose; “Hand and Head: Manual Labor as Rational Proficiency”; Sandra Logan, Michigan State University
18.14 Salon C: Vertientes de la literatura fantástica en Hispanoamérica (Seminar); Chairs: Mara Garcia, Brigham Young University; Veronica Saunero-Ward, New Mexico Highlands University; “Lo monstruoso cotidiano en cuentos de Amparo Dávila”; Sergio Figueroa, Universidad de Guadalajara; “Parodia y fantasía en la narrativa de Myriam Bustos Arratia”; Marina Martin, St. John’s University; “Juana Manuela Gorriti o los límites imprecisos de Historia y Fantasía”; Marie Escalante, University of Pennsylvania; “La nueva literatura fantástica de Samanta Schweblin”; Alicia Mercado-Harvey, University of Florida; “El lenguaje fantástico y Tukzón de Giovanna Rivero”; Verónica Saunero-Ward, New Mexico Highlands University; “El despertar femenino y el encuentro con lo inadmisible en la cuentística de Elena Garro”; Mara García, Brigham Young University; “La violencia fantástica en Alicia Kozameh y Nora Strejilevish”; Victoria Cox, Appalachian State University

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

17.01 Salon A

Calvino and the City: New Critical Perspectives (Roundtable)

Chair: Letizia Modena, Villanova University

“Of Cities, Utopian and Invisible”

Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa

“Designing Invisible Cities: Utopian Architecture in Calvino’s Paris”

Letizia Modena, Villanova University

“Natural and Urban Order in Calvino’s Invisible Cities”

Maria Giulia Carone, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Calvino, the City, a Project for Students of Contemporary Italian Literature: The Word”

Simonetta Ferrini, Palazzi, Florence Association For International Education

“Calvino, the City, a Project for Students of Contemporary Italian Lit.: the Visual Interpretatation”

David Weiss, Palazzi, Florence Association For International Education

Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers

17.02 Conference B

Music Contingencies in Narrated Americas.

Chair: Enea Zaramella, Princeton University

“Some Problems of Popular Music and Political Subjectivity in Brazil and Cuba”

Dylon Robbins, Boston University

“Porno Para Ricardo: the Rhetoric of Obscenity in Music and Literature in Contemporary Cuba”

Paloma Duong, Columbia University

“Records and Recuerdos: Music as Memorial in Oscar Hijuelos’ The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love”

Njelle Hamilton, Brandeis University

“Listening to Fernando Ortiz’ Latin American Contrapunteo”

Enea Zaramella, Princeton University

Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers

17.03 Conference C

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

Chair: Aaron Tucker, Ryerson University

“The Machine in the Western: Avatar as the New Frontier Myth”

Mark Graham, Lehigh University

“Jake Sully and Judith Butler: The Disorienting Avatar as a Model for Understanding Self and Other”

Jennifer Miller, Valparaiso University

“Embodying Posthuman Network”

Seung-hoon Jeong, NYU Abu Dhabi

“Technological Malaise”

Jonathan Foltz, Princeton University

Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers

17.04 Conference I

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

Chair: Deena Levy, Pennsylvania State University

“Sacrificio in vendita: Francesca Bertini e la Grande Guerra”

Georgina Torello, Universidad de la República-Montevideo

“Representations of Women and War in R. Rossellini’s Paisa’, and the Problem of Neorealism”

Umberto Mariani, Rutgers University

“Invisible Resistance: Alba de Céspedes, Dalla parte di lei, and the Second World War”

Valerie Mirshak, Duke University

“Testimony and the Representation of Women and War in Laudomia Bonanni’s La rappresaglia”

Caroline Lynch, University of Bristol

Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers

17.05 Salon B

The Specter of Degeneration in 19th Century Literature II

Chair: Rod Cooke, Columbia University

“Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan: The Christian Bestseller and Modern Decay”

Christiane Gannon, Johns Hopkins University

“Degenerate Music in Nineteenth-Century Literature”

James Kennaway, University of Durham

“Clara Collet and the Factory Girl: Degeneration in ‘Women’s Work’ and ‘Undercurrents’”

Gabrielle Mearns, Warwick University

17.06 Regency A

The Francophone African Intellectual II

Chair: Eloïse Brézault, New York University

“Cultural Markers in the Dusk of Tradition: Hélé Béji’s Metaphoric Landscaping of Tunisia’s Heritage”

C. Wakaba Futumura, Susquehanna University

“Marc Kojo Tovalou Houenou, Black Internationalism and the Threat of ‘Evolution Revolution’”

Lorelle Semley, Wesleyan University

“Souleymane Bachir Diagne: the Cheikh and the State(s)”

Christopher Hogarth, Wagner College

17.07 Regency B

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

Chair: Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University

“Writing in the Shadow of Orientalism: Ahdaf Soueif’s In the Eye of the Sun”

Suha Kudsieh, College of Staten Island-CUNY

“Transgressing Borders Between the Orient and Occident in Jamal Mahjoub’s Travelling with Djinns”

Yasemin Mohammad, Pennylvania State University

“Journeys and Journals of the Migrating Self from Northern Africa”

Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University

“The Melodrama of Postcolonial Politics and the Rushdie Affair”

Sheetal Majithia, New York University-Abu Dhabi

17.08 Regency C

Blowing Up America: Amiri Baraka’s Revolutionary Theatre

Chair: Donald Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University

“Hip-hop as the New/Old Form of Drama:Amiri Baraka and the One-Man Show”

Khalid Y. Long, Miami University

“Relocating the Revolution: Newark, NJ as Radical erformative Praxis”

Roseanne Alvarez, Brookdale Community College-CUNY

“The Avant-Garde Origins of Amiri Baraka’s Revolutionary Theatre”

Jimmy Fazzino, University of California-Santa Cruz

“Clay’s Revenge: On Black Neurosis, Art, and Murder”

La Marr Jurelle Bruce, Yale University

17.09 Regency D

Retellings: Literature as Literary Criticism II

Chair: Erika R. Williams, Emerson College

“The Appropriation of an Epic: Lucille Clifton and John Milton Retell Genesis”

Jessica L. Williams, St. John’s University

“Mythic Re-telling and Revision in the Literature of W. E. B. DuBois”

Erika R. Williams, Emerson College

“Seeing Double to See Clearly: Rereading Lorraine Hansberry through Clifford Odets”

Meredith M. Malburne-Wade, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

“Jewish and Postmodern Impulses to Retell in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral”

Liliana M. Naydan, Stony Brook University

17.10 Regency E

Victorian Women Writers: Constructions of Masculinity II

Chair: Judith Pike, Salisbury University

“The Abduction of Aestheticism and the Queering of Masculinity in Middlemarch”

Michael F. Davis, Le Moyne College

“Young Men, Old Masculinity: Levy’s Romance of the Shop, New Woman, and the Atrophy of Men”

Michael Kramp, Lehigh University

“A New Kind of Hero: Re-imagining Masculinity in late-Victorian Britain”

Heidi Pierce, University of Delaware

“New Woman Writing and Dominant Constructs of Syphilitic Males”

Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Universität Siegen

17.11 Regency F

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

Chair: Antonella Calarota, Kean University

“Martín Adán y Ángel Guido en la genealogía del Barroco”

Marc Olivier Reid, St. Lawrence University

“Diálogo entre dos continentes:Estilística neobarroca, configuración del espacio en Concierto barroco”

Alina Peña Iguarán, Montclair State University

“La presencia de Leopardi en la poesía pre-modernista latino-americana”

Vincenzo Bollettino, Montclair State University

“Polémicas y controversias sobre el Modernismo en Ecuador”

Antonella Calarota, Kean University

17.12 Conference A

Imagining Communities: Cuban Women Poets of the Diaspora

Chair: Elena M. Martinez, Baruch College-CUNY

“‘La identidad nacional en La isla rota de Iraida Iturralde’.”

Antonio F. Cao, Hofstra University

“‘Cinco Poetas Cubanas de Nueva York’”

Mabel Cuesta, CUNY Graduate Center

“‘Identidad, Memoria y Erotismo en las Poetas Cubanas de la Diáspora’”

Ada Ortúzar Young, Drew University

“‘Pluralidades espaciales en la diaspora cubana: Poemas recientes de Lourdes Gil’”

Oneida Sanchez, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY

17.13 Conference G

Questioning Hybridity: Colonial Métissage, Postcolonialism, and Globalization

Chair: Amar Acheraiou, Independent Scholar

“New Peoples and their Literatures: The Development of Chicano/a and Métis Literature”

Danielle Lamb, University of Alberta

“‘The Resplendent Face of Death’: Skeletal Substitution in Dia de Muertos and the Calavera Tradition”

Joseph Lamperez, University of Rochester

“Engaging Hybrid Linguistic Legacies through a Post-colonial Theory of Communication as Echo”

Gabriela Alejandra Veronelli, SUNY Binghamton

“Rethinking Hybridity Theory: A Materialist Perspective”

Amar Acheraiou, Independent Scholar

17.14 Salon C

Zero World Literature II: Texts of the Outside

Chair: Alina Gharabegian, New Jersey City University

“Some Alien Sea: Deep Time and Dissipative Structures in McCarthy’s The Road”

Christopher Loots, Mercy College

“Writing as Dispossession: Enrique Vila-Matas and the Exercise of Writing”

Carolina Gómez-Montoya, University of Maryland

“Borowski’s ‘World of Stone’: The Concentration Camp in the World”

Andrea Harris, Mansfield University

“Theorizing De/territorialized,Transnational Subjectivity: Tawada’s Transparent, Indiscernible Coffin”

Laci Mattison, Florida State University

17.15 Conference E

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

Chair: Deborah Sinnreich-Levi, Stevens Institute of Technology

“What Happens to ‘Community’ When Composition Goes Online?”

Guy Shebat, Youngstown State University

“Multiple Literacies, Multiple Communities: The Hybrid Composition Course”

Alyssa Colton, The College of St. Rose

“Interdisciplinary Learning Community: Academic,Professional, and Personal Growth through Composition”

Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University

“Researching Reading Communities Beyond the Creative Writing Workshop”

Janelle Adsit, SUNY Albany

“Forming Three Communities for Composition Writing Classes: Class, School, and Professional”

Chloe Yelena Miller, George Mason University

17.16 Conference F

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

Chair: Lynn Reid, Brookdale Community College-CUNY

“Building Community Through Course Blogs”

Kellie Donovan-Condron, Babson College

“Composition in the Cloud: Switching from Linear to Modular Composition Techniques”

Joost Burgers, CUNY Graduate Center

“Assemblage Writing & 2.0 Pedagogy”

Gary Hink, University of Florida

“Techno-literacy: Benefits of Low and High-Stakes Media Environments in the Composition Classroom”

Christopher Salerno, William Paterson University

“Blogging Freshman Writing: Expanding the Concept of Audience”

Joshua Pederson, Boston University

17.17 Conference H

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

Chair: Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College

“‘In future we will not read backwards’: Hermeneutics in Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things”

Briana Brickley, CUNY Graduate Center

“Suffocated Voices, Buried Bodies in the Works of Leila Marouane”

Nevine El Nossery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“‘Esperanza is died’: Dead Women Talking in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God”

Brian Norman, Loyola University Maryland

“Violent Death and Xicana Indi′gena Healing: Cherrie Moraga’s play Digging Up the Dirt”

Paula Straile-Costa, Ramapo College of New Jersey

“All the Colors of the Rainbow Could Not Save Helga Crane: Dislocation in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand”

Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College

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

18.01 Salon A

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

Chairs: Valeria Garrote, Rutgers University; Irene Depetris Chauvin, Cornell University

“Participation, Affect and the Body: Lygia Clark”

Susan Best, University of New South Wales

“Ditches, Dumps, and Dungeons: Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls, and Queer Cuba”

Mark DeStephano, Saint Peter’s College

“Esa distancia que afecta: Representaciones de la comunidad boliviana en el Nuevo Cine Argentino”

Irene Depetris Chauvin, Cornell University

“La estrategia de la alegria y los multi espacios performativos en España y Argentina de la post-dic”

Valeria Garrote, Rutgers University

“Abject Spaces: The Hinterland in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Amulet”

Stacey Balkan, Bergen Community College

“At the Scene of Writing: Diamela Eltit’s Lumpérica’”

Paloma Yannakakis, Cornell University

“Capitalism and Religion...and the Brain: Mapping Affect in Contemporary Mexican Cinema”

Christopher Nielsen, University of Pittsburgh

Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers

18.02 Conference B

Representing the City in Italian Modernity (Seminar)

Chair: Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University

“The Vegetative Metamorphosis: Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Metaphorical Representation of the City”

Marja Härmänmaa, University of Helsinki

“De Chirico/De Sica: Pictorial Influences in the Urban Landscape of Bicycle Thieves”

Roberto Vezzani, University of Michigan

“On the Fringes of the Modern City: Rome in Monicelli, Pasolini and Fellini”

Giorgio Melloni, University of Delaware

“The City-Stage and the Web of History: Bertolucci’s La strategia del ragno”

Cristina Della Coletta, University of Virginia

“Il poeta e la città. Milano nella poesia italiana del Novecento”

Alfredo Luzi, Università di Macerata

“Narrare sulle macerie: Napoli e la narrativa della città occupata”

Vincenzo Pascale, Rutgers University

Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers

18.03 Conference C

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

Chair: Susan Gilmore, Central Connecticut State University

“Postmemory and the Black Body in Ralph Lemon’s ‘Come Home Charley Patton’”

Kajsa Henry, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

“Mirroring a Life: Cathartic Space and The Space Inside”

Cara Gargano, Long Island University-C.W. Post

“Dust Tracks to Rainbows: Performing ZORA/Performing (Auto)Biography”

Yvonne Singh, Theater ATL/International

“Staging ‘Poetic Facts’: Documenting Biography Through Embodiment in Still/Here”

Ariel Nereson, University of Pittsburgh

“‘History is About to Crack Wide Open’: Revisionist Biography in Angels in America”

Cory Elizabeth Nelson, Brandeis University

“‘Everybody likes me better dead’: Restaging Anne Frank through Rinne Groff’s Compulsion”

Susan Gilmore, Central Connecticut State University

Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers

18.04 Conference I

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

Chair: Maria Plochocki, Bronx Community College-CUNY

“Planning Deaths is Not Natural to Me: Myth, Ritual, and Violence in Hammett, Kurosawa, and Leone”

Michael Cerliano, University of Notre Dame

“Chandler: Before and After Hollywood”

David Leight, Reading Area Community College

“The Gaming Detective: Sherlock Holmes and the Implementation of GUI in BBC One’s Sherlock”

Rebecca Jackson, Georgia State University

“Extending the Boundaries of Detective Fiction: Esau, Poe and T.C. Boyle’s Talk Talk”

Trish Verrone, Caldwell College

“Dark Humor, Gender, and Constructions of the Villain in Detective Fiction”

Christine Berzsenyi, Pennsylvania State University-Wilkes-Barre

“‘Mysterious things well examined’: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a Gothic Supernatural Detective”

Peter Conolly-Smith, Queens College-CUNY

“Contemporary African Detective Fiction: James Bond Look-Alikes”

Karen Ferreira-Meyers, University of Swaziland

Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers

18.05 Salon B

Critical Discourses: Early Modern Spanish Literary Women II

Chair: Deborah Compte, The College of New Jersey

“Teresa de Ávila: The Politics of Communion”

Virginia Gutierrez Berner, Hamilton College

“Las cartas familiares de mujeres nobles en el Siglo de Oro. Estudio de un corpus textual inédito”

Patricia Marín Cepeda, University of Cincinnati

“Shame in Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer: Subverting the Dominant Discourse”

Jaclyn Cohen, Johns Hopkins University

“Harpies as Heroes?: Female Representation in Las harpías en Madrid”

Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester

18.06 Regency A

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

Chairs: Meghan Freeman, Tulane University; David Sweeney Coombs, Cornell University

“‘And Now We Will Listen to What They Are Talking About’: Eliot’s Narrators and Community Chatter”

Louetta Hurst, Rutgers University

“‘A Study of Provincial Life’: Irony, Picturesque, and the View from Dorothea’s Window”

Kerri E. Hunt, University of Chicago

“How to Hear a Squirrel’s Heartbeat: Spinoza, Sympathy and Nature”

James Arnett, Graduate Center-CUNY

“Translation, Authorship, and the Movement of Minds in Daniel Deronda”

Jennifer Raterman, Rutgers University

“‘A Difficult Kind of Shorthand’: Artful Sympathy in George Eliot’s Middlemarch”

Meghan A. Freeman, Tulane University

“National Unconsciousness in Daniel Deronda”

David Sweeney Coombs, Cornell University

18.07 Regency B

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

Chair: Cristina Santos, Brock University

“One Bite from the Apple and Things Get Grimm: Generic Shifts in Stories of Eve and Snow White”

Natalie Pendergast, University of Toronto

“Fairy Tale Dualities: Representations of the Widow as Good Mother or Evil Mother-in-Law”

Sarah Rangaratnam, Brock University

“Moonlit Mirrors: Signification and Subjectivity in Angela Carter’s ‘Wolf-Alice’”

Kristine Jennings, Binghamton University

“‘Have You Seen My Childhood?’: Michael Jackson, J.M. Barrie, and Peter Pan”

Jennifer Mary Woolston, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

“The Fairest of All: Snow White and Gendered Power”

Elizabeth Law, Rutgers University-Newark

“A Reading From Disenchanted: A Grrrl’s Guide To Surviving Happily Ever After”

Deborah Hauser, Independent Scholar

18.08 Regency C

The Spatial Turn in Literary Theory II (Seminar)

Chair: Julia Weber, Freie Universität Berlin

“The Body in the Mirror: Henri Lefebvre and George Saiko on Subjectivity and Metropolitan Space”

Petia Parpoulova, University of Washington

“Relational and Dynamic Concepts of Space in (Literary) Theory and Contemporary Literature”

Anna Beck, Justus-Liebig University of Giessen

“Konjunktionen. Zu politischen und textuellen Zwischenräumen”

Thomas Wild, Vanderbilt University

“Spatialities in/of Narration in Boccacio’s The Decameron”

Wiebke Amthor, Freie University Berlin

“Heideggerian Placeholder: The Aporetic Uncanny in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills”

Karen Elizabeth Bishop, Rutgers University

“Displacement: Ophelia’s Double-Grave”

Nicola Behrmann, Rutgers University

18.09 Regency D

Legal Fictions (Seminar)

Chair: Carrie Hyde, Rutgers University

“Darky Damsels and Cheeky Wenches: Black Ladyhood as a Legal Fiction”

Courtney Marshall, University of New Hampshire

“Imperium and Dominium: A Jurisprudential Approach to the Segregation Narrative”

Trinyan Mariano, Rutgers University

“Reopening the Case of Bigger Thomas: Neurolaw and Agency in Native Son”

Andrew Yerkes, Nanyang Technological University

“‘Dynamite Talk’: William Dean Howells, Literary Realism and the Legal Theory of Constructive Crime”

Jesse Schwartz, CUNY Graduate Center

“Legal Fictions & Corporate Culpability in Kafka’s The Castle”

Matthew Birkhold, Princeton University

“‘cujus est solum...’: The Power, Peril, and Promise of Story in Sedgwick’s A New-England Tale”

Melissa Lingle-Martin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

18.10 Regency E

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

Chair: Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College

“‘A man [or woman] must have a code’: Heroes and Anti-Heroes in ‘The Wire’”

Susan Redington Bobby, Wesley College

“When Eleven Year-Olds Kick-Ass: Hit-Girl As Role Model Or Victim?”

Keith Friedlander, University of Ottawa

“Motherhood and Alien: A Look at the Post-Feminist Action Hero as Essentially Female”

Bronwen Durocher, Fordham University

“The Bourne Refusal: Changing the Rules of the Game”

Mary T. Hartson, Oakland University

“‘I Won’t Feel a Thing’: Ironic Masculinity in Joss Whedon’s ‘Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog’”

Derek S. McGrath, SUNY Stony Brook

“Fashioning Failure: Neoliberal Economies of Masculinity in ‘Miami Vice,’ 1986/2006”

Michael Litwack, Brown University

18.11 Regency F

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

Chairs: Philip Longo, Rutgers University; Octavio Gonzales, Rutgers University

“Acker’s Empire as Deleuzian Assemblage”

Gary Hink, University of Florida

“Bergsonian Vitalism in Nikos Kazantzaki’s The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel”

Alexander Ruggeri, New York University

“‘Into the pure present’: Immersion and Escape in Cortázar’s Hopscotch”

Lara Rodriguez, CUNY Graduate Center

“Vitalism in the French Symbolist Theatre”

Patrick Robinson, University of Toronto

“‘I Love Everything That Flows’: Henry Miller’s Ecstatic Aesthetic”

Ben Maki, New York University

“Synesthetic Vitalism in a Resonant Harlem”

May Peckham, Washington University in St. Louis

18.12 Conference A

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

Chair: Franco Baldasso, New York University

“Fossoli di Carpi: from Deportation Camp to Catholic Orphanage”

Alexis Herr, Clark University

“Italian Jews and the ‘Good Italian’”

Anna Koch, New York University

“La Resistenza per Alessandro Blasetti. Il neorealismo eterodosso di ‘Un giorno nella vita.’”

Luca Zamparini, Kingsborough Community College-CUNY

“History, Identity and Responsibility in Elio Vittorini’s Literary Projects”

Piero Garofalo, University of New Hampshire

“Elsa Morante, la donna e la guerra”

Margherita Ganeri, Università della Calabria

“‘Il volo delle quaglie’: The Transition from Fascism in Sebastiano Vassalli’s Writing”

Meriel Tulante, Philadelphia University

“Sister War: Mapping Representations of Saint Francis of Assisi in the Aftermath of WWII”

Amanda Minervini, Brown University

“‘Radio Clandestina’: memoria e storia nel teatro di Ascanio Celestini”

Chiara Montanari, University of Chicago

18.13 Conference G

Intellectual and Manual Labor in Early Modern England (Seminar)

Chairs: Sandra Logan, Michigan State University; David Morrow, College of Saint Rose

“‘What strength I have’s mine own’: The Tempest and Renaissance Discourses on Labour”

Subhankar Battacharya, Jadavpur University

“The Division of Labor in Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great”

Benjamin Bertram, University of Southern Maine

“Crossing the Threshold: Aemilia Lanyer and the Labor/Leisure of Writing”

Rachel Greenberg, Canisius College

“‘Famine and no other hath slain me’: Grappling with Early Modern Labor and Food Relationships”

Emily Gruber, Boston University

“Crafting the State: Homo Faber and the Antipolitical in Coriolanus”

Theodore Kaouk, University of Maryland

“Legal Labor in the Laborers Law: Assistant’s Court Justice in Bartholomew Fair”

Neal Klomp, Michigan State University

“The Matter of Milton’s Early Dialectics: The Division of Labor in L’Allegro and Il Penseroso”

Sarah Linwick, University of Michigan

“Intellectual and Manual Labor in Elizabethan Colonialist Discourse”

David Morrow, College of Saint Rose

“Hand and Head: Manual Labor as Rational Proficiency”

Sandra Logan, Michigan State University

18.14 Salon C

Vertientes de la literatura fantástica en Hispanoamérica (Seminar)

Chairs: Mara Garcia, Brigham Young University; Veronica Saunero-Ward, New Mexico Highlands University

“Lo monstruoso cotidiano en cuentos de Amparo Dávila”

Sergio Figueroa, Universidad de Guadalajara

“Parodia y fantasía en la narrativa de Myriam Bustos Arratia”

Marina Martin, St. John’s University

“Juana Manuela Gorriti o los límites imprecisos de Historia y Fantasía”

Marie Escalante, University of Pennsylvania

“La nueva literatura fantástica de Samanta Schweblin”

Alicia Mercado-Harvey, University of Florida

“El lenguaje fantástico y Tukzón de Giovanna Rivero”

Verónica Saunero-Ward, New Mexico Highlands University

“El despertar femenino y el encuentro con lo inadmisible en la cuentística de Elena Garro”

Mara García, Brigham Young University

“La violencia fantástica en Alicia Kozameh y Nora Strejilevish”

Victoria Cox, Appalachian State University

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