Thursday Sessions (7 April)

Session 1

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

1.01 Regency A: Adapting Your Syllabus for Different Campuses (Workshop); Chair: Georgia Kreiger, Allegany College of Maryland; “Presenter”; Georgia Kreiger, Allegany College of Maryland; “Presenter”; Jon Hodge, Babson College; “Presenter”; M.L. Plochocki, Bronx Community College-CUNY; Sponsored by the CAITY Caucus; pre-registration required.
1.02 Regency B: Oltre la pizza, il Colosseo e il tiramisù (Workshop); Chair: Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Tufts University; “Media Writing and Speaking”; Alessandra Giglio, Università di Genova; Emanuela Cotroneo, Università di Genova; “Cinematography”; Elisabetta D’Amanda, Rochester Institute of Technology; Alessandro Cavalieri, Università di Genova; “Lexicon”; Barbara Alfano, Bennington College; Pre-registration required. Will begin at 11:00 a.m.; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
1.03 Regency C: Academic Publishing in the Next Decade: Negotiating Change, Seizing Opportunity (Workshop); Chair: Karen Alexander, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; “Modern Language Studies”; Laurence Roth, Susquehanna University; “University Libraries and Research”; Marianne Gaunt, Rutgers University; Heather Joseph, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition; “Publishers”; Leslie Mitchner, Rutgers University Press; “Lateral: A Journal of the Cultural Studies Association”; Patricia Clough; Randy Martin; Pre-registration required.

Session 2

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

2.01 Conference I: Didattica 2.0: Teaching Italian With a Web 2.0 Perspective; Chair: Alessandra Giglio, Università degli Studi di Genova; “‘Racconto L2.0’: esercitare la produzione scritta in Rete”; Alessandra Giglio, Università degli Studi di Genova; “Socialnetworking e didattica: Facebook & C. per apprendere e insegnare l’italiano L2”; Emanuela Cotroneo, Università degli Studi di Genova; “APRIL: An Online Learning Environment Devoted To Language Learning”; Francesco Scolastra, Università per Stranieri di Perugia; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
2.02 Conference B: Russian Representations of World War II (Seminar); Chair: Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers University; “Literary Character in Ginzburg and Grossman”; Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers University; “Resurrecting Young Soldiers: Contemporary Use (and Abuse) of Soviet Children’s Literature on WWII”; Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University; “The Screened Siege: The Lesser Known Cinematic Representations of the Battle of Leningrad (1941-44)”; Polina Barskova, Hampshire College; “War Fiction, War Heroes, ‘Embedded Writers’ and Eyewitness Accounts”; Angela Brintlinger, Ohio State University; “Soviet War Correspondents Confront the Nazi Genocide, 1941-1945”; Sam Casper, University of Pennsylvania; “A View from the Borderline: Post-Memories of World War II in Yurii Buida’s Prussian Bride”; Maria Khotimsky, Harvard University; “Memorial Practices of WWII in Russia: the Poiskoviki Movement”; Marlene Laruelle, Johns Hopkins University; “To Write a History of the Present: Historicism in Diaries of the Leningrad Blockade”; Alexis Peri, University of California-Berkeley; “Zoya Kosmodemianskaya between Sacrifice and Extermination”; Jonathan Brooks Platt, University of Pittsburgh; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
2.03 Conference C: Canada and the African Diasporic Literary Imaginary (Seminar); Chair: Laurie Lambert, New York University; “A Lack of Real Facts: Sir George, The Great White Computer, and Canada’s Black History”; Paul C. Hébert, University of Michigan; “North/Left: Canada and the Black Radical Tradition”; Laurie Lambert, New York University; “‘Ain’t they black!’: Negotiating Blackness and Borders in Canadian Young Adult Literature”; Zetta Elliott, Independent Scholar; “Fear of a Black Planet: Race, Nation, and Subversion and the Practice of Diaspora”; David Austin, John Abbott College; “Uprooting National Family Trees in Lawrence Hill’s Any Known Blood”; Sherry Johnson, Grand Valley State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
2.04 Salon A: Memory of Borders, Borders of Memory: Life Writing at a Distance (Seminar); Chair: Mary Goodwin, National Taiwan Normal University; “The Initial Border of Knowledge: Leonora Carrington’s Journey to and from Down Below”; Charlotte Latham, CUNY Graduate Center; “Reality/Anti-Reality and Morality/Anti-Morality in WWI and WWII Memoirs”; Travis Martin, Eastern Kentucky University; “Remembering the War, Rewriting the Past: Vu Ngoc Phan’s Nhung Nam Thang Ay (1987)”; Chi Thuc Ha, University of California-Berkeley; “Mapping Memory and Placing Fictions of Place in Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon”; Joel Simundich, Brown University; “Returning to Memories, Memories of Return: Geography and Place in K.S. Maniam’s The Return”; Nimmi Agnes Jayathurai, University of Houston; “Life Writing in the Diaspora: Former Soldiers – Identity, Nationalism, Belief, and Belonging”; Nanette Norris, Royal Military College-St. Jean; “Mother Ireland, Edna O’Brien’s Eccentric Memoir”; Kathryn Kleypas, American University of Kuwait; “New Frontiers/New Women: Finding Freedom in Travel and Writing”; Laura Christie, University for the Creative Arts; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
2.05 Conference A: In Memory of Radio: Modernity, (Post) Metropolis, and American Writing (Seminar); Chairs: Michael Antonucci, Keene State College; Garin Cycholl, University of Chicago; “1940’s Apartment-Dwelling Anxiety in ‘Rear Window’ and ‘The Enormous Radio’”; Christi Clancy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; “’Bring Me Red Demented Rooms’: Poetry in Urban Spaces”; Yasmine Shamma, Oxford University; “Urban Waste Lands and the Commons”; Christopher Schmidt, City University of New York; “By Way of Introduction/ By Way of Response”; Michael Antonucci, Keene State College; Garin Cycholl, Univeristy of Chicago; “Ghost of Madame Rhubarb (Performing Identity in America’s Second Tier Cities)”; Lea Graham, Marist College
2.06 Salon D: American Horror: Gothic Strategies in Ante-bellum Discourses (Seminar); Chairs: Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Villanova University; Katherine Henry, Temple University; “The Specter of Haiti and Other Caribbean Ghosts”; Katie Bray, University of Virginia; “Charles Brockden Brown’s Ormond and the Haitian Revolution”; Ja Yun Choi, Rutgers University; “Linda Brent as a Radcliffean Heroine in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”; Saundra Liggins, SUNY Fredonia; “Displacement Anxiety: Poe’s Red Death and Native American Removal”; Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Villanova University; “A. J. Duganne’s Knights of the Seal: The Maniac as Figure of Reform Horrors”; Lisa M. Hermsen, Rochester Institute of Technology; “The Asylum and the Domestic Ideal in Fanny Fern’s Ruth Hall”; Christy Webb, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Sheppard Lee and the Nightmare of Incorporation”; Katherine Henry, Temple University
2.07 Conference G: Amateur Performance in the Long Nineteenth Century (Seminar); Chair: Mary Isbell, University of Connecticut; “Art by Heart: Public Recitation in the Long Nineteenth Century”; Jane S. Gabin, Frisch School; “The Economics of Widowhood in Nineteenth-Century Amateur Drama”; Eileen Curley, Marist College; “Cultural Memory and the Amateur Stage”; Debra Goodman, SUNY Buffalo; “Fairy Tale Home Theatricals: Manipulating Space, Bodies, and Morals”; Ann Mazur, University of Virginia; “German American Workers’ Theatre in New York’s Lower East Side in the 1890s”; George Panaghi, CUNY Graduate Center; “Cooperation, Parody, and Subversion in Minstrel Shows by Women in the 1890s”; Thomas Recchio, University of Connecticut; “Indians in the Cabinet: Native Impersonation and Nineteenth-Century Spiritualist Performance”; Robert C. Thompson, University of Maryland; “‘Entirely Free of Any Amateurishness’: The Women’s Dramatic Club of University College”; Robin C. Whittaker, University of Toronto-Scarborough
2.08 Regency D: Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature (Seminar); Chairs: Arka Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University; Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania; “The Illusory Nothing of Endon’s Affence”; Richard Marshall, London University; “Beckett’s Watt, Potentiality, and Allegorical Exhaustion”; Sean Ward, Duke University; “Bataille and Beckett: From the Impossible to Unknowing”; Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania; “‘Cease to Exist in Order to Be’: Worstward Ho between Badiou and Deleuze”; Christopher Langlois, University of Western Ontario; “The Space of a Door: Mourning, Memory, Madness, Beckett”; Peter Steeves, DePaul University; “Samuel Beckett’s Drama: a Philosophical Theatre between Denial and Philosophy in Action”; Matthieu Protin, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle; “‘Profounds of Mind’: Thinking the Thought in Thought and Beckett’s Locus of Stirrings”; Arka Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University; “Derrida Beckettian specter”; James Martell, University of Notre Dame
2.09 Regency E: Relire les ‘Classiques’ Africains Francophones (Seminar); Chairs: Moussa Sow, The College of New Jersey; Boubakary Diakité, Franklin and Marshall College; “Le roman africain ou la marche des enfants terribles”; Boubakary Diakité, Franklin and Marshall College; “Nedjma de Kateb Yacine: un classique algérien et universel”; Nabil Boudraa, Oregon State University; “Sly Intertextuality in Ô Pays, mon beau peuple:Turning French on itself”; Annabel L. Kim, Yale University; “Relecture de Le docker noir et Ô pays mon beau peuple, un demi-siècle après”; Anoumou Amekudji, Central Michigan University; “Idéologies et quête identitaire : Les fondements de la littérature africaine”; Marc Adoux Papé, St. John Fisher College; “L’aventure ambiguë ou de l’anthropologie de l’Europe”; Moussa Sow, The College of New Jersey
2.10 Regency F: Traveling in and out of Italy (Seminar); Chair: Emanuele Occhipinti, Drew University; “Sguardi opachi di Calvino viaggiatore in Unione Sovietica”; Chiara De Santi, SUNY Fredonia; “Ennio Flaiano: Observations of the Traveler and Outsider”; Cynthia Hillman, University of Chicago; “Quando l’altra vive in un harem: l’orientalismo di Cristina Belgioioso Trivulzio”; Cristiana Furlan, Bishop’s University; “Dodeskaden: il viaggio nel teatro di Marco Paolini”; Cristina Perissinotto, University of Ottawa; “Constructing America by Writing about Italy”; Carla Simonini, Youngstown State University; “Picturesque Travel and its Discontents in Post-Unification Italy”; Maria Grazia Lolla, Harvard University
2.11 Brunswick A: Fra parola e immagine: (ri)scritture umanistiche (Seminar); Chair: Roberta Ricci, Bryn Mawr College; “Aristotele (in) volgare tra Umanesimo e Rinascimento”; Eugenio Refini, University of Warwick; “Umanesimo moderno oltre i confini: trasmissione manoscritta e Poggio Bracciolini”; Roberta Ricci, Bryn Mawr College; “Autori che correggono (a mano) e citano (a memoria) altri autori. Le glosse di Boccaccio al Culex”; Sandro La Barbera, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa; “Utilizzo delle fonti classiche e rapporti con la tradizione esegetica anteriore nel Commento butiano”; Claudia Tardelli, Cambridge University; “Un veneziano a Messina, Pietro Bembo e Costantino Lascaris”; Roberto Nicosia, Rutgers University; “A Conversation with Medical ‘Auctores’ in Savonarola’s De Regimine Pregnantium”; Martin Marafioti, Pace University
2.12 Brunswick B: The Intellectual as a Public Figure in 20th Century Latin America (Seminar); Chair: Cristóbal Cardemil Krause, Rutgers University; “The Writer-Intellectual in the Battlefield of the Boom”; María Laura Bocaz, University of Mary Washington; “Gabriela Mistral y la intelectualidad norteamericana: sus orígenes y su trascendencia”; Claudia Cabello Hutt, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; “The Emergence of a New Intelligentsia: Politics of Socialism and Indigenismo in 1920s Latin America”; Mauricio Castillo Díaz, Columbia University; “Masculinidad y performance identitario en El Encuentro de Escritores de la Universidad de Concepción”; Ana Figueroa, Pennsylvania State University-Lehigh Valley; “Convergencia cultural en el papel del escritor: el caso de Miguel Ángel Asturias”; Carlos Mejía Suárez, University of Iowa; “‘El poder de creación es uno solo’: creación política y estética en textos de José Carlos Mariátegui”; Brais Outes, Yale University; “Más allá de la ficción: el legado intelectual de Reinaldo Arenas”; Francisco Soto, College of Staten Island
2.13 Brunswick C: Comparative Approaches to Early Modern Spanish and British Drama (Seminar); Chair: Esther Fernandez, Sarah Lawrence College; “Elizabeth I on the Spanish Stage: Antonio Coello’s El Conde de Sex”; Eduardo Olid Guerrero, Muhlenberg College; “Clavileño and Drake’s Ship: Intertextuality and Piratical Translation in Calderón and Dryden”; Gregory Baum, University of Chicago; “Gazing into the Poets’ Corner: Playwrights and their Clients in Early Modern Spain and England”; Alejandro Garcia-Reidy, Duke University; “The Trajectory of Authorship of a Lost Play: Cervantes, Shakespeare, and ....”; Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College; “Broken Embraces: Calderón de la Barca’s La Cisma de Inglaterra and Anglo-Spanish Dynastic Politics”; George Vahamikos, Duke University; “La dama boba y La fierecilla domada: ¿Horror o humor?”; Esther Fernandez, Sarah Lawrence College; “Shattered Voices: The Limits of the Self in the Tragicomedy of Lope de Vega and Shakespeare”; Elizabeth Lagresa, Harvard University
2.14 Brunswick D: Separation as Condition and as Solution (Seminar); Chair: Aryeh Amihay, Princeton University; “Conscientious Separation: The Geography of Draft Resistance in WWI”; Jeremy Kessler, Yale University; “Of Mice and Walls: Representations of the Holocaust and the Berlin Wall in ‘Comix’”; Ofra Amihay, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; “Encounters and the Metaphorics of Disease in Cesaire’s Notebook of a Return to the Native Land”; Kym Weed, University of Maryland; “Dogs of Distanced Villages: Israeli-Palestinian Separation and Human Agency in Gertz’s Al daat atzmo”; Renana Keydar, Stanford University; “A Beach of Their Own: Gender-Segregated Beaches in Israel”; Shayna Weiss, New York University; “Women’s Space in Men’s World: Architecture of Feminine Monasteries”; Ligia Nunes, Independent Scholar
2.15 Salon B: Routes of Memory: Remapping Trauma Studies (Seminar); Chair: Rachel Walsh, Stony Brook University; “Memory, Experience, and the Place of Fiction: Georges Perec’s Writings about His Childhood”; Noam Scheindlin, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY; “‘Este país es el paraíso’: Negotiating Costa Rica in Rovinski’s Cuento judíos de mi tierra”; Louis Segura, Rutgers University; “Holocaust Impiety”; Matthew Boswell, University of Salford; “Beyond the Trial: Acting out and Working through the Soviet Trauma”; Sergey Toymentsev, Rutgers University; “The Future of Testimony”; Antony Rowland, University of Salford; “Being a Dog: Deogratias, Torturers, and the Empathetic Impulse”; Katharine Polak, University of Cincinnati

Session 3

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

3.01 Conference I: The Future of Open Content Education is Now: Social Learning and Scholarship; Chair: Andrés Villagrá, Pace University; “Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Women: an Open Content Project”; Lyn Blanchfield, SUNY Oswego; Rala Diakité, Fitchburg State University; “Social Learning and Scholarship in Open Education”; Andrés Villagrá, Pace University; “Collaborative Analysis in a Literature Class”; Zhanna Yablokova, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided)
3.02 Conference B: Not Through My Skin: Sexuality and the Female Body in East-Central European Film; Chair: Lilla Tőke, Rochester Institute of Technology; “‘Through Hardships to the Stars:’ Women Protagonists in Nicolae Margineanu’s Schimb Valutar (2008)”; Alice Bardan, University of Southern California; “From Communist Poland to the 70s Euro Pudding: Walerian Borowczyk’s Story of Sin”; Aga Skrodzka-Bates, Clemson University; “The Biopolitics of Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days”; Eva Cermanova, University of Aberdeen; “Political Resistance and the Female Body in the Communist Comedies of Eastern Europe”; Lilla Tőke, Rochester Institute of Technology; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
3.03 Conference C: Cyberspace and Literature in Latin America: What Does The Future Entail?; Chair: Hilda Chacon, Nazareth College; “Ideological Effects of the Digital Apparatus; How Latin American Digital Poetry Controls my Mind”; Eduardo Ledesma, Harvard University; “Hernán Casciari’s Weblog de una mujer gorda: the Feuilleton Meets the Web”; Osvaldo Cleger, Lafayette College; “The Remediation of Cartography in Hybrid Narrative and Hypermedia Fiction from Latin America”; Jerónimo Arellano, Brandeis University; “Poesía digital/electrónica/cibernética en América Latina: de su tematización a la cibertextualidad”; Luis Correa-Díaz, University of Georgia; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
3.04 Salon A: Italian and Anglo-American Literature: A Dialogue through Translation; Chair: Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College; “The Allure of Cellini’s Vita: ‘Prima europeo che italiano’?”; Mary Sisler, Bryn Mawr College; “Le didascalie tradotte alla prova: G.B. Shaw e le versioni italiane dei Plays Pleasant e Unpleasant”; Stefano Boselli, Gettysburg College; “Amelia Rosselli’s Translations from Sylvia Plath”; Anna Aresi, Brown University; “Lost in Translation: Why Gian Burrasca Outlived Geordie Hackett”; Lisa Cesarani, New York University-Florence; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD
3.05 Conference A: Affect and Periodization: Rethinking the Long 19th Century; Chairs: Justin Rogers-Cooper, CUNY Graduate Center; Neil Meyer, CUNY Graduate Center; “A New Chronology? How Affect Reshapes Literary Periodization”; Neil Meyer, CUNY Graduate Center; “Uncle Tom’s Tenement and the Evolution of Affect in the Age of Darwin”; Kyla Schuller, Rutgers University; “Violence as Generic Revolution: The Civil War and Reconstruction-Era Local Color Literature”; Sarah Goldfarb, Rutgers University; “Ante- and Post-Bellum Sarcasm as Indicator for Men’s Emotional Orientation in Poe and Twain”; Derek McGrath, SUNY Stony Brook
3.06 Salon D: The Cold War as an American Cultural Dominant, 1945-1955; Chair: Michael Mayne, University of Florida; “‘a mighty and noble race’: Forbidden Planet, Technology, and Moral Authority”; Valerie M. Smith, Quinnipiac University; “The Ends of Revolution: Technology and Gender in Revolutionary Road”; Robert Seguin, Hartwick College; “Race, Consumption, and Affect in If He Hollers Let Him Go”; Erin M. Pryor Ackerman, Indiana University; “Cold War Structures of Feeling in Nelson Algren’s The Man With the Golden Arm and Chicago”; Jim Finnegan, Anne Arundel Community College
3.07 Conference G: ‘The record of bitter moments’: Prison Writing as a Genre I; Chair: Kristina Lucenko, Stony Brook University; “‘Written with the dying hand’: Tower of London in Early Modern England”; Anna Beskin, Fordham University; “Raleigh’s History of the World: Prison Writing as the Making of Space and Author”; Chris Barrett, Harvard University; “Spatial Containment and Questions of Faith: Seventeenth-Century Quaker Women in Prison”; Catie Gill, Loughborough University; “Extending Enthusiastic Rhetoric: Containment Poetry in Christopher Smart’s ‘My Cat Jeffrey’”; M. Virginia Brackett, Park University
3.08 Regency D: Women Writers and the Historical Novel in Canada; Chair: Andrea Cabajsky, Universite de Moncton; “(Un)Settling the Past and Present: Parallel Narratives in The Holding and A Map of Glass”; Erin Aspenlieder, McMaster University; “Witnessing Through the Imagination: Lillian Nattel’s The River Midnight”; Matthew Wilson, Pennsylvania State University; “Laure Conan and the Psychological Novel in Quebec”; Andrea Cabajsky, Universite de Moncton
3.09 Regency E: Poetry and the Academy (Roundtable); Chair: Noel Sloboda, Pennsylvania State University-York; “Poetry and the Academy: From the Chalkboard to the Page”; Noel Sloboda, Pennsylvania State University-York; “Telling the Tale of the Bronx and Its People: A Working-Class Critic Writes Working Class Poetry”; Michelle Tokarczyk, Goucher College; “The Difference Between Women and Meat: How the Female and the Animal Intersect in Poetry”; Christine Hamm, Drew University; “My Poetry, My Academy”; Kenneth Fifer, Pennsylvania State University-Berks; “Original Poetry from Father Dirt”; Mihaela Moscaliuc, Monmouth University; “Original Poetry and Commentary”; Kristina Darling, University of Missouri-St. Louis
3.10 Regency F: The Complexity and Originality of Camus’s Writings; Chair: Emmanuelle Vanborre, Gordon College; “Le bien et le mal d’écrire d’Albert Camus”; Jan Rigaud, Villanova University; “Camus, the Nouveau Roman and the Postmodern”; Edmund Smyth, Manchester Metropolitan University; “Camus’ Unknown Legacy: Or, ‘I’m having an existential crisis!’ Don’t you mean a Camusian crisis?”; Michael Y. Bennett, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; “Camus’ Absurd Protest: Resistance to Loss and Change”; Matthew Bowker, Medaille College
3.11 Regency A: Cultural and Political Dislocation and Reorientation in United Germany I; Chair: Barbara Mabee, Oakland University; “The Demands of Freedom as Reflected in Narratives of Ingo Schulze, Julia Schoch and Monika Maron”; Christine Cosentino-Dougherty, Rutgers University; “Renunciations and Dismantlings: Eastern German Visions of Spatiality and Selfhood After 1989”; Cristina Florea, Princeton University; “Writer’s Block, Midlife-Crisis, and Imaginary Travel: Steffen Mensching’s ‘Lustig’s Flucht’”; Barbara Mabee, Oakland University; “The Borders of Memory and Identity in ‘Crabwalk’”; Diane Krumrey, University of Bridgeport
3.12 Brunswick B: Human Rights in the Italian Theatre; Chair: Anna Cafaro, Bard College; “Dario D’Ambrosi and the Teatro del Patologico”; Maria Enrico, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Revolutionary Stages: Narrative Theater and Social Change”; Juliet F. Guzzetta, University of Michigan; “La donna nel teatro di Saverio La Ruina”; Anna Cafaro, Bard College
3.13 Regency B: The Female Player in European Fiction (1780-1900): Gender Issues; Chairs: Corinne François-Denève, Université Versailles Saint Quentin; Jean-Claude Yon, Université Versailles Saint Quentin; “Through A Glass Darkly: The Actress and The Morgue in Zola”; Stephanie Wooler, Harvard University; “Portrait de la cantatrice en jeune homme : d’Achille travesti à Consuelo”; François Lévy, UMR-LIRE; “De l’actrice fictionnelle à l’acteur réel : la féminité politique dans la littérature”; Ylva Lindberg, University of Jönköping; “Corinne is dead, long live Corinne : G. de Staël’s Improvisatrice and the ‘Corinne novel’”; Karen de Bruin, University of Rhode Island; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers
3.14 Brunswick D: The Genre of the Self Portrait in Hispanic Poetry; Chair: Marlene Gottlieb, Manhattan College; “Ética y estética en el ‘Retrato’ de Antonio Machado”; Nuria Morgado, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “Las autorepresentaciones del poeta moderno en la poesía de Raúl Zurita”; Marta López-Luaces, Montclair State University; “Severo Sarduy and the Self-Portrait of a Body in Poetry”; Rolando Pérez, Hunter College-CUNY; “El autorretrato en la poesía de Pablo Neruda”; Marlene Gottlieb, Manhattan College
3.15 Salon B: Persons and Things: a Roundtable in Memorial to Barbara Johnson (Roundtable); Chair: Charles Henebry, Boston University; “Queer Persons and Things: Using Barbara Johnson for Queer Theory”; Keja Valens, Salem State University; “The Word that Dare Not Speak Its Name: Love in Persons and Things”; Kathy Richman, University of the Pacific; “Using Nightwood’s Objects”; Claire Laville, Emory University; “From the Pursuit of Perfection to ‘Personal Branding’: On Treating Oneself like a Thing”; Lili Porten, Boston University; “The Property of Persons in Enlightenment Thought”; Natasha Lee, Princeton University; “Monuments and Memory”; Rebekah Greene, University of Rhode Island
3.16 Conference D: Globalization and the Americas: Challenging Categories of Literary Production; Chair: Michael Rio, University at Buffalo; “Negotiating Temporality to Reclaim/Re-Imagine a Space of Resistance in Yamashita’s I Hotel”; Frances Tran, Graduate Center-CUNY; “The Creolized Chronotope of the Americas”; Erica Johnson, Wagner College; “Globalization, Performance, and Affect in Lovelace’s The Dragon Can’t Dance”; Carolyn Malcom, Rutgers University; “Kamau Brathwaite Zea Mexican Diary: The Intercovery of Form and the Emergent/Re-Invented X/Self”; Michael Rio, University at Buffalo
3.17 Alexander Library: British Area Special Event; Chair: Cecilia Feilla; “Milton and the Cultures of Print:”; Thomas Fulton, Rutgers University; Lecture to accompany the exhibition at the Alexander Library