Friday Afternoon Sessions (16 March)

Session 7: 1:15pm - 2:45pm

7.01 Apocalyptic Projections in Sci-Fi and Fantasy Literature for 2012 and Beyond I: Chair: Annette M. Magid, SUNY Erie Community College; “Mainstreaming Marxism: Death Race as Critique of Apocalyptic Capitalism”; Nowell Marshall, Rider University; “Beyond Erasure: African American Women Writing Themselves into the Post Apocalypse”; Kinitra D. Brooks, University of Texas-San Antonio; “Getting the Doomsday We Deserve: 2012, Climate Change, Neoliberalism and Apocalyptic Blockbusters”; Julian Cornell, New York University; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
7.02 Teaching with Dialects, Sociolects, and other Non-Standard Language Varieties: Chair: Joerg Meindl, Lebanon Valley College; “Low German in High German Teacher Training: Listening Comprehension Strategies and Empathy”; Susanne Even, Indiana University; “Dialects and Slang in Learning Russian Through Literature and Film”; Alfia Rakova, Dartmouth College; “Bavarian for Beginners: The Movie Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot in the German Classroom”; Florence Feiereisen, Middlebury College; “De-Centering the Power of Standard English in Classroom”; Tuli Chatterji, St John’s University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
7.03 American ‘Anglophone’ Authors: Toward Postcolonial Inclusivity: Chairs: Margaret Finn, Temple University; Katherine Henry, Temple University; “Samson Occom, Phillis Wheatley, and the Politics of ‘American Anglophone’”; Katherine Henry, Temple University; “Romancing Wilderness, American Identity, and the Multicultural Mapmaking of Captain John Smith”; Pavlina Radia, Nipissing University; “Sons of the Land, Stewards of Empire: Postcolonial Hawthorne and Melville”; Margaret Finn, Temple University; “Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Hope Leslie: Shaping American Literature and Roles for American Women”; Lynn Embick-Morris, Salem State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
7.04 Best Practices: Teaching German Literature on the Undergraduate Level II: Chair: Kyle Frackman, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Thinking Outside the Canon: Moritz Netenjakob’s Macho Man as a Global Citizen”; Adi King, Ohio University; “Medienfusionen: Gedichte und Bilder - Gedichte visualisieren”; Wilfried Wittstruck, Universität Vechta; “Zaimoğlu’s German: Working with Linguistic and Cultural Crossroads in the Foreign Language Classroom”; Silja Weber, Indiana University-Bloomington; “The Student-Centered Approach - Abstract Conferences in the German Literature Classroom”; Anja Wieden, SUNY New Paltz; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
7.05 The Monstrous City: Chairs: Joseph Lamperez, University of Rochester; Alexandra McGhee, University of Rochester; “London Exposé, 2012: Opening Urban Spaces in Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere through Benjamin”; Pamela Wolpert, University of Michigan; “‘Some steel-souled machine-room’: Henry James’s The American Scene and the Consuming City”; Steven Nardi, Medgar Evers College-CUNY; “The City of Whose Dreams? Urban Redevelopment as a Nightmare of Control in Alex Proyas’ Dark City”; Rowena Clarke, Boston College; “‘A Tale of Two (or Three) Cities’: Co-Existing Cities and Liminal Space in The City and the City”; Berit Michel, University of Duisburg-Essen; Multimedia Session: Overhead Projector; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
7.06 Speechifying Women: Multi-Pronged Legacy from the Rochester Circle: Chair: Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College of Blauvelt; “Amy Post’s Health Network and Radical Social Reform”; Sarah Berry, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; “‘Right is of no sex’: F. Douglass’ Views on Women’s Rights and the Abolitionist Movement”; Nilgün Anadolu-Okur, Temple University; “Ritual Dance as a Form of Expression and Identity for Seneca Iroquois Women”; James Reitter, Dominican College of Blauvelt; “Moving through the Tableaux: Images of Equality in ‘at homes’ and on the Platform’”; Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College of Blauvelt; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
7.07 The Role of the African-American Body in Twentieth-Century American Drama: Chair: Jenna Clark Embrey, Harvard University; “Circulating Black Bodies and ‘New Money’ in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”; Jon Dietrick, Babson College; “The Problem of ‘Blackpain’: Historical Trauma in the Plays of George C. Wolfe”; Cory Nelson, Brandeis University; “Mourning ‘thuh great black hole’: Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play”; Claire Gleitman, Ithaca College; “Women in the Crooked Room: Stereotypes/Progress in the American Repertory Theater’s Porgy and Bess”; Jenna Clark Embrey, Harvard University; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
7.08 Encyclopedic Fictions of 21st-Century American Literature: Chair: Stephen Hock, Virginia Wesleyan College; “Remaking Your Map: Form & the Global Encyclopedic Novel”; Russell Backman, University of California-Davis; “Freedom (2010) as Literary Assemblage and Database Novel”; Gary Hink, University of Florida; “The Paradox of the Encyclopedic Novel”; David Letzler, CUNY Graduate Center; “Encyclopedic Horror as Gateway Drug: Bringing Big Books into the Introductory Classroom”; Gavin Pate, Virginia Wesleyan College; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
7.09 Victorian Energy Crises: Chair: Jessica Kuskey, Syracuse University; “‘In the Glare of Gas’: Private Illuminations and Technologies of Light in Great Expectations”; Elizabeth Gargano, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; “Unmanliness in Motion: The Kinetics of Masculinity in Trollope’s Cousin Henry”; David Kaplin, SUNY Fredonia; “Closed Systems: Victorian Energy Discourse and Entropic Narrative in H. Rider Haggard’s She”; Julie Camarda, Rutgers University; “Energy in the Age of Entropy: Perpetual Motion, Energy Physics, and The Coming Race”; Jessica Kuskey, Syracuse University; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
7.10 Spiritualist Manifestos: Writing the Seance: Chair: Anne DeLong, Kutztown University; “Florence Marryat’s Strange Transfiguration of the Spiritualist Agenda”; Anne DeLong, Kutztown University; “Affect Without Walls: Spiritualism, Domesticity, and Theories of Emotional Development”; Andrew Banghart, Case Western Reserve University; “Unveiling the Veiled Prophetess: The Self-Made Myth and Artistic Mediums of Marie Corelli”; Alyssa Straight, Miami University of Ohio; “James’ The Bostonians: A ‘Bird’s Eye’ View of Spiritualism, Feminism, and Gender Performativity”; Carissa Pokorny-Golden, Kutztown University; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
7.11 Object Lessons: The Thingly Realm in Modern Literature: Chair: Kathryn Van Wert, University of Rochester; “Things at the Center: Fetishism and Composition in The Spoils of Poynton”; Edward Howell, Temple University; “Beckett and Speculative Realism”; Thomas Manganaro, Duke University; “Collage Stories and Catalogs: The Imaginative Power of ‘Things’ in Isolation”; Nicole Sierra, University of Oxford; “Lifeless Bodies, Animating Words: The Status of the Body in Hanif Kureishi’s The Body”; Mareike Stanitzke, Tufts University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
7.12 Postmodernism in Russia: Image and Word: Chair: Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University; “From Artists To Cultural Workers’ Collective: Chto Delat? And The Politicization Of Art Practice”; Corina Apostol, Rutgers University; “Textual Barriers Linguistic Strategies for Evolving the New Soviet Man”; Clint Buhler, Ohio State University; “Confronting the ‘New’ Russia in Post-Soviet Baltic Theatre”; Jeff Johnson, Brevard Community College; “‘The End of the Mit’ki’: Vladimir Shinkarev’s 2010 Reassessment of Postmodernism”; Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
7.13 Nonfiction Fictions: Chairs: Gillian Paku, SUNY Geneseo; Laura Thiemann Scales, Stonehill College; “Locating Fiction in Eighteenth Century Anonymous Authorship”; Gillian Paku, SUNY Geneseo; “‘A beautiful line of communication’ The Fiction of Transatlantic Travel in the Nineteenth Century”; Laura Bell, University of Rochester; “Visionary Nonfictions: Authorship in Spiritualist Narratives”; Laura Thiemann Scales, Stonehill College; “Laboratory of the Living Dead: Molecular Science as Gothic Fiction”; Colin Milburn, University of California-Davis; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
7.14 Vision of Love and Womanhood in Latin-American Writers: Chair: María Cristina Campos Fuentes, DeSales University; “‘Amo a mi síntoma más que a mí misma’: el símbolo del padre en Delirio de Laura Restrepo”; Euisuk Kim, University of West Georgia; “Levedad femenina en la poesía de Octavio Paz”; María Cristina Campos Fuentes, DeSales University; “¿De qué amor se trata? Mujer, amor y deseo en la poesía de Claribel Alegría”; Andrea Parada, SUNY College-Brockport; “Poemas contemporáneos. Amor y muerte en Estrategias del deseo de Cristina Peri Rossi”; Parizad Dejbord-Sawan, University of Akron; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar
7.15 Technological Response in the Hispanic Avant-gardes (1920s-1930s): Chair: Ramiro Armas Austria, University of Toronto; “The Distracted Scripts of Modernity: Stenographic Subjectivity in Felisberto Hernández”; Camille J. Sutton, Vanderbilt University; “Las ciudades del estridentismo”; Carla Zurián de la Fuente, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia; “Sospecha de la tecnología: Las vanguardias como palimpsesto en la obra de Roberto Bolaño”; Ángel M. Díaz Miranda, Emory University; “La ciudad ultraísta”; Claudio Palomares Salas, University of Toronto; Cascade Room C; Add to calendar
7.16 Marriage, Motherhood, and Modernity: Spanish Women’s Narratives (1900-1936): Chair: Rebecca Bender, Pennsylvania State University; “Entre el arte y la maternidad: La Quimera de Emilia Pardo Bazán”; Francisco Plata, St. John Fisher College; “Marriage and the Price of Women’s ‘Freedom’ in Concha Espina’s La esfinge maragata”; Antonia Delgado-Poust, University of Mary Washington; “The Female Traveler: Interpreting Marriage and the Grand Tour in Carmen de Burgos’s ‘El perseguidor’”; Cristina Percoco, University of Pennsylvania; “The Economics of Motherhood in Margarita Nelken’s La trampa del arenal”; Rebecca Bender, Pennsylvania State University; Cascade Room D; Add to calendar
7.17 Rethinking Early Modern Italian Literature: The Hybrid Narrative of Love: Chair: Cecilia Maier-Kapoor, Pace University; “Love Madness: Between Medicine and Literature”; Monica Calabritto, Hunter College-CUNY; “‘Contra Ficinum’: Anti-Platonic Love, Sex and ‘ragion di stato’ in Ferrante Pallavicino’s Novels”; Paolo Fasoli, Hunter College-CUNY; “Defining Love in Lucrezia Marinella’s Amore Innamorato ed Impazzato.”; Janet E. Gomez, Johns Hopkins University; “‘Concordia discors’: Celestial Beauty and Erotic Love in Francesco da Diacceto’s De amore.”; Cecilia Maier-Kapoor, Pace University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom B; Add to calendar
7.18 Horror in Romance-Language Cinemas: Chairs: Elizabeth Scarlett, SUNY Buffalo; Stephen Hessel, University of Missouri-Columbia; “Religion and the Gothic in the Films of Alejandro Amenábar”; Elizabeth Scarlett, SUNY Buffalo; “El laberinto del fauno: Deconstructing Fascist Spain and the Catholic Church”; Alexander Waid, United States Coast Guard Academy; “The Empty Zone, Temporality, and Woman in La Jetée”; Keiko Ogata, SUNY Buffalo; “Response”; Stephen Hessel, University of Missouri-Columbia; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C; Add to calendar
7.19 The Ambiguous Prose Poem (Creative): Chair: Catherine Dent, Susquehanna University; “Out of Line: Edginess in Prose Poems”; Noel Sloboda, Pennsylvania State University-York; “Neither Light nor Verse: Humor and Prose Poetry”; Jaime Warburton, Ithaca College; “Some Words, a Moment of Air”; G. E. Schwartz, Independent Scholar; “Opening of My Mind to the Possibility of the Unconscious”; Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University; “A Prose Is a Prose Is a Prose”; Joseph Scapellato, Susquehanna University; “Verse, Prose and Vertigo: Crossing Common-Rooted Parallel Roads in the Slot of Meanwhile”; Rossitsa Borkowski, Sofia University; Hyatt Grand Ballroom A; Add to calendar
7.21 Francophone Languages and Literatures Special Event (Special Event): Chair: Moussa Sow, The College of New Jersey; “Reading of Madah-Sartre”; Alek Toumi; Hyatt Regency B; Add to calendar
7.22 Poetic Voices in Modern Italian Literature: Chair: Laura Baffoni Licata, Tufts University; “Il poeta che ‘si stremava su un colore’: Vittorio Sereni tra l’assenza e la coscienza del fare”; Stefano Giannini, Syracuse University; “Inedia ed eliminazione della volonta’ creativa in ‘Viola di morte’ di Tommasi Landolfi”; Federica Santini, Kennesaw State University; “Il secolo del ‘classicismo lirico moderno’”; Damiano Frasca, Independent Scholar; “La componente religiosa nell’opera di Mario Luzi”; Laura Baffoni Licata, Tufts University; Hyatt Regency C; Add to calendar
7.23 Women and Spirituality: Ministries: Chair: Dolores DeLuise, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Shamanism and ‘Vagina-Friendly’ Spirituality in ‘True Blood’”; Christine Sanders, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “Women in the Megachurches”; Christyne A. Berzsenyi, Pennsylvania State University; “‘Cradled in the Arms of Coatlicue’: Gloria Anzaldua and the Poet-as-Shaman”; Jill M. Neziri, Fordham University; “‘Curandera’ or ‘Bruja’: Paganism vs. Catholicism in Rudolfo Anayo’s ‘Bless Me, Ultima’”; Agnes Cardoni, Marywood University; Hyatt Regency A; Add to calendar
7.24 Storytelling and Identity: Chairs: Kate Caccavaio, Michigan State University; Lisa Casper, University at Buffalo; “Telling It Like It Could Never Be: Robinson Crusoe in Beirut”; Maya Kesrouany, American University of Sharjah; “Visual Storytelling Using American Sign Language”; Stefanie Lewis, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Storytelling to Explore Cultural Characteristics in Developmental Reading and Writing Courses”; Lisa Casper, University at Buffalo; Cascade Room F; Add to calendar

Session 8: 3:00pm - 4:30pm

8.01 Best Practices in Women’s & Gender Studies Programs (Roundtable): Chair: Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College of Blauvelt; “From Women’s Studies to Gender Studies: The Shift and its Results”; Carine Mardorossian, SUNY Buffalo; “Cut is the New C-Word: Maintaining a WGS Program in a Budget-Conscious Climate”; Lisa Day, Eastern Kentucky University; “That Key Feminist Buzzword, ‘Collaboration’, Springs to Mind”; Maureen Fadem, Kingsborough Community College-CUNY; “Starting a Gender and Women’s Studies Minor in 2012: Pathways”; Clare Emily Clifford, Birmingham-Southern College; “Intersectionalities of Theory and Community: Student Groups and Community Partnerships”; Merry Byrd, Virginia State University; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
8.02 Art and American Literature: Informing Perceptions: Chair: Sean Kelly, Wilkes University; “‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ As Modern Art”; William Snyder, Saint Vincent College; “Color and Movement in Gertrude Stein’s ‘Still Lives’”; Trisha Brady, Misericordia University; “Futurism and E.E. Cummings: Paintings, Poetry and Motion”; Silvia Ammary, John Cabot University; “White Noise and the Supermarket Aesthetic”; Andrew Christensen, Boston University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
8.03 Graphic Literature in the German Studies Classroom: Chair: Lynn Marie Kutch, Kutztown University; “The Graphic Novel as Bridge Text in Intermediate and Upper-Intermediate German Classes”; Elizabeth Bridges, Rhodes College; “Assessing the Value of Individual German Graphic Novels for Supporting Language Acquisition”; Lynn Marie Kutch, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania; “Flix’s Da War Mal Was in the Intermediate German Classroom”; Jessica Riviere, Vanderbilt University; “Peer Meter’s Gift: Graphic Literature in a German Conversation and Composition Course”; Jeanette Clausen, University of Arkansas-Little Rock; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
8.04 Christopher Marlowe in Performance: Chair: Louise Geddes, Adelphi University; “‘Waxen Wings’: Designing Continuities in Doctor Faustus”; Claire Eager, University of Virginia; “Collective Violence, Communal Affect: Marlowe’s Massacre at Paris in Performance”; Robin Hizme, CUNY Graduate Center; “Adapting The Jew of Malta for the Screen: Blackmail, Conspiracy and Betrayal”; Douglas Morse, The New School for Public Engagement; “(Un)forgettable Faces: The Recognized and Hidden in Doctor Faustus”; Megan Selinger, University of Western Ontario; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
8.05 Literature and the Environment in Transnational Space: Chair: Elaine Savory, New School University; “Takers and Leavers: The Socratic Method, Environmental Studies, and the Novel Ishmael”; Ian Drake, Montclair State University; “Botanical Transnationalism in the Work of Lydia Maria Child”; Mary Kuhn, Boston University; “Environment and Politics in Frankétienne’s Mélovivi ou le piége”; Lena Taub, University of Buffalo; “‘The Environment’s Relation to Human Health in Caribbean Literature’”; Elaine Savory, The New School; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
8.06 Pedagogy versus Curriculum in the Evolving Literature Classroom (Roundtable): Chair: Diana Polley, Southern New Hampshire University; “‘Where’s the Text?’”; Diana Polley, Southern New Hampshire University; “The Value of Collaborative Learning”; Kimberly Engber, Wichita State University; “Reading Emerson Pragmatically”; Andrea Knutson, Oakland University; “What’s the Point?: Reconsidering the Objective of Literary Appreciation”; Laurel Harris, Queensborough Community College; “A Header Off the Tightrope: Balancing Skills and Coverage”; Tanya Radford, Dominican College; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
8.07 The Radical Langston Hughes: Chairs: Sarah Ehlers, University of Michigan; Jim O’Loughlin, University of Northern Iowa; “A Note from Spain: Women Activists and the Epistolary Poetics of Langston Hughes”; Anne Donlon, CUNY Graduate Center; “What Happens to a Wet Dream Deferred? TB and the Seagoing Body in Hughes’s Early Poetry”; Shane Hunter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; “Obstacle and Model: Christianity in Hughes’s 1930s Poetry”; Jim O’Loughlin, University of Northern Iowa; “Langston Hughes’s ‘America’ in the Dialect Poetry of Immigrant Proletarian Writers”; Lauren Silber, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
8.08 9-11 Culture in the Commemorative Year II: Chair: Catherine Altmaier, Florida State University; “‘When the Towers Fell’: A Palimpsest for September 11th”; Kathleen Crosby, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Documenting/Evading the Tragic: Photography, History in Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”; Brittany Hirth, University of Rhode Island; “The ‘Ugly Feelings’ of Post-9/11 Literature”; Catherine Altmaier, Florida State University; “Rethinking the National Catastrophe Narrative: Betrayal and Reconciliation in Alexie’s Flight”; Lydia R. Cooper, Creighton University; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
8.09 Chicano/a Literature: Chair: Bernabe Mendoza, San Francisco State University; “Bodies of Evidence: The Politics of Invisible Labor in Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus”; Christina Lam, SUNY Stony Brook; “State Authority and Subjugation: A Reading of Space and Movement in Viramontes’ Dogs”; Lorna L. Perez, Buffalo State College; “‘Yemaya blew that wire fence down’: Yoruba Orishas in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Work”; Li Yun Alvarado, Fordham University; “‘Good-bye Big Man,’ Hello Bursting Hands: Juan Felipe Herrera’s Poetics of Reconciliation”; Michael Dowdy, Hunter College-CUNY; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
8.10 Body, Gender and Embodiment in the Long 18th Century: Chair: Ula Klein, SUNY Stony Brook; “The Transformation of the Eighteenth-Century Woman: From Classical to Grotesque Beauty”; Angela Braselmann, SUNY New Paltz College; “Telling Tales on the Frontier: Bodies, Boundaries and the End(s) of Identity”; J. David Macey, Jr, University of Central Oklahoma; “The Abjection of Female Sexuality in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa”; Kristine Jennings, Binghamton University; “Handling Bodies: Manual Conduct in the English Novel”; Kimberly Cox, SUNY Stony Brook; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
8.11 Corporeal Borderlands: Food Narratives and the Female Body I: Chair: Kristi Castleberry, University of Rochester; “Breaking the Cane: Food, Trauma, and Healing in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory”; Destiny Birdsong, Vanderbilt University; “Tea for Two and Turkey for None: Kitchen Intimacy in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Hell-Heaven’”; Elizabeth Hopwood, Northeastern University; “It’s Not Easy Eating Green: The Hermeneutics of Feminine Consumption in Perceval of Galles”; Leila K. Norako, University of Rochester; “Setting Liberty’s Table”; Terre Ryan, Loyola University Maryland; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
8.12 Realism Regained: The New Romanian Cinema and its Dissemination: Chair: Rodica Ieta, SUNY Oswego; “From Image to Sign: Lucian Pintilie’s Reenactment and Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective”; Maria Ionita, Ryerson University; “The Weight and Lightness of Realism--a Romanian Perspective”; Rodica Ieta, SUNY Oswego; “The Dilemma of Cultural Encounters: New Identities in Romanian Cinema”; Lenutsa Giukin, SUNY Oswego; “Redemption and the Real: Cinematic Portraits of the Secret Police in Romania and the GDR”; Ramona Uritescu-Lombard, University of Michigan; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
8.13 Memory and Migration in Spain: Chair: Eugenia Romero, Ohio State University; “Poetic Migrations, Embattled Memories: Spanish Poets on the Brink of a New World”; Tatjana Gajic, University of Illinois-Chicago; “Ndongo y Zamora: las memorias de dos exiliados en España”; Juan De Urda, SUNY Fredonia; “De Bagdad a Lisboa, encuentros y desencuentros en La vida antes de marzo de M. Gutiérrez Aragón”; Fátima Serra, Salem State University; “‘Idas y venidas:’ The Void of Emigration in Galicia’s Everyday Life”; Eugenia Romero, Ohio State University; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
8.14 (Dis)covering Identity: Marginalized Citizens during Times of Transition: Chairs: Jill Gonzalez, Boston University; Safiya Maouelainin, Johns Hopkins University; “Identidad morisca en la Contradicción de los catorce artículos de la fe cristiana de Ibrahim Taybili”; Lisette Balabarca, Siena College; “El arte como definidor de identidades marginales urbanas: el esclavo negro en la Sevilla del s. XVII”; Antonio M. Rueda, Tulane University; “Reading the Liminal Space of Pregnant Bodies in Nieves García Benito’s Por la vía de Tarifa”; Maria DiFrancesco, Ithaca College; “El cuerpo porro: De-semanticizing the Body in the Movida Madrileña”; Vanessa Ceia, New York University; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar
8.15 Libre Acceso: Disability Studies and Hispanic Literature: Chair: Beth Jörgensen, University of Rochester; “The Desire to Be Different: Juan José Millán’s Dos mujeres en Praga”; Candace Skibba, Carnegie Mellon University; “‘Lo que yo quiero es oír el tambor’: Sense and Sound in Juan Rulfo’s ‘Macario’”; Susan Antebi, University of Toronto; “Disability in Mayra Montero’s Son de almendra”; Sarah Miller Boelts, Normandale Community College; “Subject to Pain: The Self under Siege in María Luisa Puga’s Diario del dolor”; Beth Jörgensen, University of Rochester; Cascade Room C; Add to calendar
8.16 (Re) presenting War in Spanish 21st Century Narrative: Chair: Antonio Martin-Ledesma, University of Pennsylvania; “Más allá de la batalla: el conflicto bosnio en las letras españolas de entresiglo”; Maria Montoya, St. Joseph’s College; “Fiction, Memory, and the Aftermath of War: Cercas’s Soldados de Salamina and La velocidad de la luz”; Nicole Mombell, Saint Michael’s College; “Possibility of an Island: Belén Gopegui, Cuba and the Leftist Discourse in Contemporary Spain”; Vicent Moreno, Indiana University; “Redressing Star Wars: Global War in Contemporary Spanish Narrative”; Antonio Martin-Ledesma, University of Pennsylvania; Cascade Room D; Add to calendar
8.17 Dimmi come parli e ti dirò chi sei: Italian Language(s) and Community: Chair: Caterina Mongiat Farina, DePaul University; “‘This Book I Shall Call Vade mecum’: Small Books and Early Modern Italian Language Learning”; Andrew Keener, North Carolina State University; “The ‘Talk Market’ in Pirandello’s Self-Translation of Il berretto a sonagli”; Valentina Fulginiti, University of Toronto; “Language Policy and Identity. The ‘questione delle lingue’ in Sardinia”; Marco Gargiulo, Universitetet i Bergen; “Italiano/lingua italiana dei segni. Identità e italiano come L2 nella comunità sorda nordamericana”; Elisabetta D’Amanda, Rochester Institute of Technology; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom B; Add to calendar
8.18 From Xena to the Powerpuff Girls: The Gender Politics of the Female Action Hero: Chair: Emily Schusterbauer, Indiana University-Bloomington; “Woman as Evolution: The Feminist Promise of the Resident Evil Film Series”; Andrea Harris, Wright State University; “Clarice Starling and Her Mothers and Sisters: Female Heroism in The Silence of the Lambs”; “‘The Heroine’s Journey’: Feminist Narratology within Popular Anime and Role-Playng Games”; Catherine Bailey, Western Michigan University; “From Superhero to Superhero-Survivor: Questioning Superheroic Strength as a Feminist Virtue”; Emily Schusterbauer, Indiana University-Bloomington; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C; Add to calendar
8.19 Narrating Women’s Lives, Labeling Women’s Narratives (Creative): Chair: Mary Lannon, SUNY Nassau Community College; “In Her Father’s Study: Narrating the Daughter Discovering Porn”; Cynthia Cravens, University of Illinois-Chicago; “How’d that Station Wagon Get in There? Making Waves: Reading Fiction, Owning Feminist Influences”; Mary Lannon, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Women Narrating Women: Chick Lit and the Art of Strategic Self-Positioning”; Elizabeth Gargano, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; “The Unlikely, Ill-Fated, Yet Very Probable Love Story of Betty and Asad”; Leila Nadir, University of Rochester; “Transcending the Narrative of Forgiveness: Jubilee and the Defiled Woman.”; Catherine Dent, Susquehanna University; Hyatt Grand Ballroom A; Add to calendar
8.20 Creative Writing and the Teaching of Literature (Roundtable): Chair: Mihaela Moscaliuc, Drew University; “Creativity and the Beginner’s Mind: Teaching Buddhism and Poetry”; Jesse Lee Curran, SUNY Stony Brook; “Creativity and Dante’s Inferno”; Michael Modarelli, Walsh University; “The Ekphrastic Classroom: Creative Writing Exercises for the Students of Modern Literature”; Michael Broek, Brookdale Community College; “Creative Possibilities in the Literature Classroom”; Noel Sloboda, Pennsylvania State University-York; “Reading through Writing: Creative Writing in the Literature Classroom”; Bernard Quetchenbach, Montana State University-Billings; Hyatt Regency A; Add to calendar
8.21 Ecocritical Approaches to Francophone Literatures II: Chair: Marnie Sullivan, Mercyhurst College; “An Ecological Identity: Poetics, Nature, and Identity in L’esclave vieil homme et le molosse”; Nathan Germain, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Identity, Naturescape and Antonine Maillet”; Douglas Boudreau, Mercyhurst College; “Urban Ecology in Jean Rolin’s La Clôture”; Laura Call, Pennsylvania State University; “Ecocriticism in the French Literary Classroom”; Roland Racevskis, University of Iowa; Hyatt Regency B; Add to calendar
8.22 A voce alta: i ‘migranti’ descrivono gli ‘italiani’ I: Chair: Martina Di Florio Gula, University of Connecticut; “La Bella Confusione: The ‘Italian Case’ of Contemporary Immigrant Literature”; Vetri Nathan, University of Massachusetts; “Through the Postcolonial Looking Glass: New Italian Literary Voices”; Johanna Rossi Wagner, Pennsylvania State University; “Alterita` e soggettivita` autentica: gli italiani faccia a faccia con gli scrittori migranti”; Fabiana Viglione, University of Connecticut; “Speaking from the Margin: the Romanian Case in Italian Migrant Literature”; Renata Redford, University of California; Hyatt Regency C; Add to calendar
8.23 Must We Forget to Forgive? Analyzing Forgiveness in Literature: Chair: Shelly Jansen, Rochester Institute of Technology; “Writing Wrongs: The Transformational Potential of Literature”; Roger Kurtz, SUNY College-Brockport; “Reconciliation with Lost Memories: Challenge of Forgiveness in Contemporary Narratives of Slavery”; Kimiko Hiranuma, University of Tsukuba; “Gone But Not Forgotten: Posthumous Media as Apology and the Ethic of Forgiveness”; Joshua Korn, California State University-Fullerton; “Forgiveness, Debt, and the Reciprocity Norm in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov”; Svetlana Rukhelman, Harvard University; Cascade Room E; Add to calendar
8.24 A Question of Education: Victorian Expectations, Practices, and Transformations: Chair: Kristin Le Veness, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Literary Nunneries: Women’s Education, Sterility, and Detachment in the Late Nineteenth Century”; Marisa Palacios Knox, University of California-Berkeley; “‘You ask rather too many questions’: Co-Opting the Catechistic Method in Jane Eyre”; Eric G. Lorentzen, University of Mary Washington; “Narrative Punishment and the New Woman: Masochism and Education in Thomas Hardy”; Kristin C. Ross, Troy University-Dothan; “Beyond the Scrip, or Vitalism in Victorian Pedagogy: Meredith and Butler”; Anastassiya Andrianova, Queens College-CUNY; Cascade Room F; Add to calendar

Session 9: 4:45pm - 6:15pm

9.01 Freedom’s Issue: The Enlightenment, Scientific Racism, and Chattel Slavery: Chair: LaRose Parris, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY; “Resurrecting Egypt: Nineteenth-Century Abolitionists’ Historical Challenge to Chattel Slavery”; LaRose Parris, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY; “C.L.R. James’ Challenge to the Enlightenment Tradition”; Scott Henkel, SUNY Binghamton University; “Writing the Slave’s Humanity: Frederick Douglass and the ‘Fourth of July’”; Lynn Casmier-Paz, University of Central Florida; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
9.02 Migraciones y desplazamientos en el cine latinoamericano (1990-2011): Chairs: Marie-Eve Monette, McGill University; Maria Adelaida Escobar-Trujillo, McGill University; “Resistencia y adaptación en Ni de aquí, ni de allá”; Mariana Pineda-Dawe, Université de Montréal; “Entre mundos distintos: las conquistas por los ojos de Icíar Bollaín”; Jean M. Janecki, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; “La violencia siempre viene del sur: una visión estadounidense de las maras en Sin nombre”; Marie-Eve Monette, McGill University; “Robando espacios o abriendo puertas: migraciones femeninas en Amador y Princesas de Aranoa”; Maria Adelaida Escobar-Trujillo, McGill University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
9.03 Negotiating the Changing Nature of Academia (Roundtable): Chair: J. Indigo Eriksen, San Francisco State University; “Of Two Minds: Negotiating the Historically Corporate University Model”; Terry Novak, Johnson & Wales University; “Can the Decline of Tenure Set Us Free? For-Profit Colleges, Web Courses and The Contract Professor”; Devan Bissonette, University of Phoenix; “The Growth in the Italian Language Program at the ASU Downtown Campus”; Antonella Dell’Anna, Arizona State University; “American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education”; Kathryn L. Kleypas, American University of Kuwait; “Improving Contingent Faculty Positions in Academia”; Josephine A. McQuail, Tennessee Technological University; “The Best Minds of My Generation Under and Unemployed: The ‘Business’ of Learning”; Nat Hardy, Savannah State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
9.04 Passing, Past, Present: Chairs: Lisa Brundage, CUNY Graduate Center; Tracyann Williams, The New School; “Interrogating the Margins of Power in Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda”; Tracyann Williams, The New School; “Becoming Other: Racial and Gender Performativity in the Art of Cindy Sherman and Nikki S. Lee”; Dinah Holtzman, Eastman School of Music; “Ghostly Matters: Spiritualism, Race and Passing in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood”; Sheri Weinstein, Kingsborough Community College-CUNY; “Black Swan: Passing for What, Again?”; Lisa Brundage, CUNY Graduate Center; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
9.05 Noncombatant Wartime Trauma: Chair: Natalie Carter, George Washington University; “The Perilous Nature of Nurture: Trauma and the Literary Civil War Nurse”; Sarah Traphagen, University of Florida; “Home/Front? Experiencing War in the ‘Domestic’ Sphere of the Second World War”; Ravenel Richardson, University of St. Andrews; “Seeing Action, Seizing Authority: Cather, Stein, and Gellhorn Write War”; Kimberly Dougherty, University of New Hampshire; “Snap-Shots of Hell: Representations of Trauma in Donald Marguiles’ Time Stands Still”; Richard A. Bryan, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
9.06 Beyond Isherwood’s Camera: Images of Interwar Berlin in Literature and Film: Chair: Sarah Cornish, Fordham University; “Basil Bunting in Berlin: Sexuality and Capitalism in ‘Aus Dem Zweiten Reich’”; Austin Riede, North Georgia College and State University; “From Moving Pictures to Many Pictures – Berlin as Film and Comic Strip”; Nicole Grewling, Washington College; “National Socialism through the Looking-Glass”; Kenneth Ligda, Stanford University; “Urbicide and the Third landscape in Isherwood and Wim Wenders”; Sarah Cornish, Fordham University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
9.07 Word and Image in African-American Literature: Chair: Rachel Boccio, University of Rhode Island; “‘An Eye-Glass and a Pair of Light Kid Gloves’: Black Dandyism and The Garies and Their Friends”; Molly Hildebrand, Tufts University; “‘A Spray of Pine Needles Dipped in Western Gold’: Jean Toomer’s Visual Poetics”; Rebecca Sanchez, Rochester Institute of Technology; “Understanding the Harlem Renaissance: ‘Rehabilitating the Race’ Through Image and Text”; Owen Brady, Clarkson University; “Reading the Two Maps of ‘The Known World’ in Edward P. Jones”; Maria Seger, University of Connecticut; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
9.08 The Worlds of V.S. Naipaul: Chair: Dorsía Smith Silva, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras; “V.S. Naipaul’s Landscape as Historical Palimpsest”; Stanka Radovic, University of Toronto-Mississauga; “An Other Epistemology: V.S. Naipaul’s A Way in the World”; J. Vijay Maharaj, University of the West Indies-St. Augustine; “Illuminating the Darkness: V.S. Naipaul and the Comparative Spaces of Writing and Home”; Andrew Martino, Southern New Hampshire University; “A Case of Naipaulexity: V.S. Naipaul’s Visions of Africa in ‘In a Free State’”; Dorsía Smith Silva, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
9.09 Transatlantic Race and Gender Crossings: Transvestitisms and the Carnivalesque: Chair: Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College; “Transforming Customs Into Costumes: Imaginary Men in the Antebellum South”; Emmeline Gros, Université de Versailles St Quentin en Yvelines; “Marriage Masquerade: Gender and Genre Trouble in Detective Dime Novel Weddings”; Pamela Bedore, University of Connecticut; “Performing Indigeneity: American Indians in 18th-Century British Culture”; Tonya Moutray, Russell Sage College; “‘Chung Ling--’ Who?: Global Masquerades of the White Magician, Missionary, and Child”; Karen Li Miller, Trinity College; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
9.10 Machos, Maricones, y Mucho Mas: Re-thinking Latino Masculinities: Chair: Rick J. Santos, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Punks, Pansies and Pariguayos: Alternate Masculinities and Subcultures in Junot Diaz’s Oscar Wao”; Christine Fernandez, University of California-Santa Barbara; “My Life with ‘Male Boobs’: Latino Masculinities, Gynecomastia Surgery and the Posthuman”; Juan Pablo Rivera, Westfield State University; “Mourning Maricones”; Jonathan A. Allan, University of Toronto; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
9.11 Re-presenting (dis)Ability I: Chair: Sara Hosey, SUNY Nassau College; “Educating the Neurotypicals: Autism Spectrum Disorder in Mainstream and User-generated Media”; Jeremy Sarachan, St. John Fisher College; “Cuir & Chrome: Theorizing the Immobile Body”; Cara Gargano, Long Island University-CW Post; “Grendle Eats Freire! Proposing A Pedagogy of ‘Aesthetic Nervousness’”; Darcy Mullen, SUNY Albany; “‘That damn looney’: Liberating Benjy and his Narrative with Autism and a Slipper”; Evan Chaloupka, University of Akron; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
9.12 The Mountain in Film, Multimedia and Graphic Art: Chair: John Heath, Universität Wien; “Representing the Alps, Building the Alps: The Construction of an Alpine Erschließung, c. 1885-1914.”; Ben Anderson, University of Gloucestershire; “Safety, Security and Mountain Images”; Doris Hallama, Universität Innsbruck; “Collisions of Modernities on the Mountain: Gender Trouble in Bergfilme”; Ingeborg Majer-O’Sickey, Binghamton University; “Kunstpiste: the Virtual Ski Hut and Linguistic Engineering”; John Heath, Universität Wien; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
9.13 Social and Cultural Renegotiations in the Portuguese-Speaking World: Chair: Luis Gonçalves, Princeton University; “Ilhéu da Contenda: Para uma representação sociocultural de Cabo Verde dos anos 50”; Orquídea Ribeiro, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro; “Negociações Culturais Pós-Revolução: Três casos na Literatura Portuguesa Contemporânea”; António Igrejas, United States Military Academy at West Point; “‘Ó Mar de Túrbidas Vagas’, de Henrique Teixeira de Sousa: uma história de regressos”; Fernando Moreira, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal; “Hercules of the Revolution: Carving the Portuguese-American Epic Narrative”; Luis Gonçalves, Princeton University; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
9.14 Women and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Writing: Chair: Georgia Kreiger, Allegany College of Maryland; “Life-Giving: Mrs.Todd’s Alternative Medicine in Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs”; Catherine Forsa, Case Western Reserve University; “A Country Doctor and Female Authority: Sarah Orne Jewett’s (Anxious) Influence(s)”; Karen Waldron, College of the Atlantic; “Which Do We Believe?: Counter Portrayals of the Lunatic Asylum at Utica”; Tonya Shepherd, Allegany College of Maryland; “A Healthy Mind in a Healthy (Womanly) Body: The Medical Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century America”; Carol-Ann Farkas, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar
9.15 Postmodern Fiction and Gender Equality: Chair: Ines Shaw, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Postmodernism and Gender Equality in Endoenca’s Enquanto Isso em Dom Casmurro”; Ines Shaw, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Postmodernist Rewriting of Fairy Tales and Gender Equity in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber”; Elisa Marchioro Stumpf, California State University-Chico; “How to Be the Best At Everything: The Gendering and Embodiment of Child Advice”; Barbara LeSavoy, SUNY College-Brockport; “Gendered Genres: Forms and Functions of Dalit Narrated Autobiographies”; Angkayarkan Vinayakaselvi, Bharathidasan University; Cascade Room C; Add to calendar
9.16 Maternal Hauntings: Feminine Spectral Identities in Asian-American Literature: Chair: Jenn Brandt, University of Rhode Island; “The Disquieting Muse: Negotiation of Loss and Memory in The Woman Warrior and The Joy Luck Club”; Yu-Min Chen, Indiana University-Bloomington; “Tragic Heroines in Asian American Literature”; Sarah Gardam, Temple University; “Mere Shadows Lingering’: Female Transcendence in the Works of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha”; Jenn Brandt, University of Rhode Island; Cascade Room D; Add to calendar
9.17 Genre, Nation, and the ‘International’ Western: Chair: Rebecca Saunders, Illinois State University; “Brigitte Bardot on the Open Range: French Westerns and the Limits of Genre”; Timothy Scheie, University of Rochester; “Comedy, Capitalism, and Kolaloka: Adapting the American West in Lemonade Joe (1964)”; Cynthia J. Miller, Emerson College; “West by Northeast: Are There Brazilian Westerns?”; Mike Phillips, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Sword and the Six-Shooter: Sukiyaki Western Django and the Universality of the Western”; A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Southern Polytechnic State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom B; Add to calendar
9.18 You Are What You Read: Fictional Readers of French Literature: Chair: Ana Oancea, Columbia University; “Extravagent Shepherds Reading French Pastoral: Sorel’s Celebration of Fiction”; Anne Theobald, Ithaca College; “Vicious Virtue: the Uses of Paul et Virginie in Nineteenth Century Literature”; Matthew Sandefer, Princeton University; “Ah, quelle dommage!: Somewhere Between Make-Believe and Unboundedness”; Daniel Irving, Binghamton University; “Sade as Source: Salo, Lost Girls and the Enactment of Literary Heritage”; Ana Oancea, Columbia University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C; Add to calendar
9.19 BOA Editions Showcase (Special Event): Chair: Bill Waddell, St. John Fisher College; “Reading”; Christopher Kennedy; “Reading”; Keetje Kuipers; “Reading”; Michael Waters; Hyatt Grand Ballroom A; Add to calendar
9.20 Migrant Writers: New Frontiers in Contemporary Italian Literature: Chair: Giusy Di Filippo, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Liminal Lives: Pap Khouma and Cristina Ali Farah and the Sense of Belonging”; Meriel Tulante, Philadelphia University; “Rappresentazione degli spazi ed estetica decoloniale negli scrittori migranti”; Anita Virga, University of Connecticut-Storrs; “Comic and Humor against Racism: Recent Immigrant Literature in Italy”; Rosa Giuliana Saavedra-Vanacore, Middlebury College; “La mappa dei ricordi in La mia casa è dove sono di Igiaba Scego”; Giusy Di Filippo, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Hyatt Regency A; Add to calendar
9.21 Postmodern Mythology I: Rewriting Myth in 20th- 21st Century French Literature: Chair: Melissa Panek, Catholic University of America; “Michel Butor et la Réécriture Parodique du Mythe du Labyrinthe”; Enrico Bolzoni, Université de Bologne; “Habel: D’une Ascendence Mythique à une Descendance Contemporaine”; Mounir Hammouda, Université Mohamed Khider de Biskra; “D’Achille à Zidane: imaginaires conflictuels franco-algériens”; Alexandra Gueydan, Swarthmore College; “La création artistique comme pensée mythique dans la condition postmoderne”; Anna Navrotskaya, Pennsylvania State University; Hyatt Regency B; Add to calendar
9.22 Leopardi Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Chair: Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey; “How Schopenhauer Illuminates Leopardi”; Frank Rosengarten, City University of New York; “‘Pensare la modernita’ attraverso Leopardi”; Giulia Santi, Universita’ dell’Insubria; “‘La negra cura’: Leopardi’s Concept of ‘Tedium’ in the Heideggerian Framework of Care”; Silvia Stoyanova, Princeton University; “Leopardi e l’islandese: i limiti della ragione”; Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey; Hyatt Regency C; Add to calendar