Saturday Morning Sessions (17 March)

Session 10: 8:30am - 10:00am

10.01 Old and New Trends in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Chair: Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico; “Salvatores’ Nirvana: Between Spaghetti-Sci-Fi and Auteurism”; Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico; “Gender Roles and Masculinity in Ozpetek’s Le fate ignoranti”; Renato Ventura, University of Dayton; “Italian Cinema: The Dawn of a Renaissance”; Paola Lorenzi, Pepperdine University; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
10.02 The Idea of Revolution in French and Francophone Literature: Chair: Peter Vantine, Saint Michael’s College; “If They Had Understood L’Education Sentimentale: Print Culture and Revolutionary Failures”; Dominica Chang, Lawrence University; “Le Théâtre de la Révolution de Romain Rolland: une lecture fataliste du concept de révolution”; Marion Denizot, Université Rennes 2; “La révolution, de la réalité au mythe littéraire? Trois oeuvres maghrébines post-révolutionnaires”; Jihane Tbini, Université de Kairouan; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
10.03 L’encre et l’écran à l’oeuvre - Paper and Screen: the Inter-Art Work II: Chairs: Catherine Chartrand-Laporte, Université de Montréal; Karine Abadie, Université de Montréal; “From Epic to Erratic: a Comparative Essay on Frank Miller’s Sin City and 300”; Luiz Guilherme Couto-Pereira, Universidade de São Paulo; “L’adaptation: échanges syntaxiques entre cinéma, bande dessinée, roman”; Alexandre Widendaële, Université de Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée; “Sacha Guitry: Le film d’un tricheur. Pour une typologie des voix narratives au cinéma”; Jean-Marc Limoges, Université Laval; “Polyphonie textuelle et visuelle: la trilogie marseillaise de Marcel Pagnol”; Karine Abadie, Université de Montréal; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
10.04 A voce alta: i ‘migranti’ descrivono gli ‘italiani’ II: Chair: Piera Carroli, Australian National University; “La valigia dello straniero”; Anna Cafaro, Bard College NY; “‘Porto il velo adoro Queen’: Escaping existential conditioning beyond national and cultural borders”; Piera Carroli, Australian National University; “Threshold poetics: paradox and parallax in immigrant writing”; Peter Carravetta, SUNY Stony Brook; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
10.05 Childless Women in French Literature and Film I: Chair: Natalie Edwards, Wagner College; “‘Une femme qui n’a pas d’enfants, c’est un monstre’: Childless Women in Place Vendôme (1998)”; Marcelline Block, Princeton University; “The Rejection of Motherhood in François Ozon’s Le Refuge”; Natalie Edwards, Wagner College; “Le refus de la maternité dans les romans de Jacqueline Harpman”; Sylvie Vanbaelen, Butler University; “Childfree: une autre forme d’accomplissement”; Edith Vallée, Independent Scholar; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
10.06 Italian Language, Literature, and Culture via Creative Projects (Roundtable): Chair: Chiara De Santi, SUNY Fredonia; “Teaching Italian Language and Culture through the Arts”; Diane Biunno, Villanova University; “Content-Based Instruction and Creative Communicative Activities”; Lorraine Denman, University of Pittsburgh; “Paratextuality and Music in Italian Language Classes”; Chiara De Santi, SUNY Fredonia; “Creatività, lingua e cultura: Le interviste impossibili”; Anthony Mollica, University of Toronto-Mississauga; “Creative and Collaborative Strategies for the Large Format Class”; Federico Pacchioni, University of Connecticut; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
10.07 Cultural Capital or Capitalist Culture? An Economic Turn in American Studies: Chairs: John Havard, University of Rochester; Russell Sbriglia, University of Rochester; “The Panic of 1837 and the Birth of Domestic Economy”; Christopher Cowley, SUNY Buffalo; “On (Not) Reading Money in Antebellum Fiction”; Joseph Conway, University of Alabama-Huntsville; “‘Inside Doesn’t Matter’: American Psycho, Mary Gaitskill, and American Neoliberalism”; Ryan Brooks, University of Illinois-Chicago; “Dialectic and Days of Awe: Charting a Course Beyond Neoliberalism and Globalization”; Maureen Curtin, SUNY Oswego; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
10.08 Speculative Literature from the African Diaspora: Creating Heroes and Heroines: Chair: Dierdre Powell, Anne Arundel Community College; “Rewritten: Politics of Resistance in Nnedi Okorafor’s Who Fears Death”; Joshua Burnett, Florida State University; “Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower: Queer ‘New Stories’ of the Fourth Dimension of Citizenship”; Kirin Wachter-Grene, University of Washington; “Contemporary African American Women’s Vampire Fiction: Constructing ‘Plots of Power’”; Marie Loeffler, University of Leipzig; “The Unreliable Heroine: Fledgling’s Shori as Octavia Butler’s Most Problematic Protagonist”; Florian Bast, University of Leipzig; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
10.09 ‘Sifting the April sunlight for clues’: The Poetry of John Ashbery: Chair: Barbara Fischer, The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center; “Square Doctrines, Queer Uncles: Looking Back from Ashbery’s Tennis Court Oath to Auden’s Orators”; Rachel Galvin, Princeton University; “‘Ghosts which have run mad in the subways’: Ashbery, George Oppen, and ‘A Language of New York’”; Tom Jesse, Texas Christian University; “‘Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is’: A Reading of Ashbery’s Some Trees”; Zac Schnier, University of Ottawa; “‘Borne on shoulders, at last’: Sympathy in Ashbery’s Early Poetry”; Timothy A. DeJong, University of Western Ontario; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
10.10 Technologies of Memory in Twentieth Century British Fiction: Chair: Alexander Moffett, Providence College; “The Materiality and Textuality of Memory in Ian McEwan’s Saturday”; Michele Braun, Mount Royal University; “Feminist Subjectivity and Objective Recording: Film Memory in Dorothy Richardson and Doris Lessing”; Laurel Harris, Queensborough Community College; “Proleptic Prosthetic: The Subversion of Touristic Memory in British Fiction”; Alexander Moffett, Providence College; “Mapping Intimacy through Narrative Memory in Mrs Dalloway”; Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Northeastern University; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
10.11 Masculinity and Consumerism: Chair: Mary Hartson, Oakland University; “‘All the Virgin Eyes in the World’: Mina Loy, Consumer Spectacle and the Dis-empowered Flaneur”; Dancy Mason, Dalhousie University; “The End(s) of Comedy: Bachelors, Banquets and Bellies in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing”; Jordan Windholz, Fordham University; “A Masculine Mystique: Jay Gatsby, Don Draper, and the Illusion of the American Dream”; Molly McCourt, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; “Voracious Vampires and Other Monsters: The Terror Genre in Spanish Cinema of the ‘Transición’”; Mary Hartson, Oakland University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
10.12 Australian and New Zealand Bildungsromans: Chair: Lisa Vandenbossche, University of Rochester; “‘Transformative Theriomorphism’: Indigenous Ecocriticism in Doris Pilkington’s Rabbit-Proof Fence”; Madison Bettle, University of Western Ontario; “Symbolic Systems and Individuation in Witi Ihimaera’s The Matriarch and The Dream Swimmer”; Yanwei Tan, University of Otago; “Australian Memoir as Bildungsroman: Coming of Age in Romulus, My Father and After Romulus”; Eva Rueschmann, Hampshire College; “Matilda’s Pip”; Rita Bode, Trent University; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
10.13 Memory, Received Wisdom, and Religion in Early Modern and 18th-Century Europe: Chair: Jason Gulya, Rutgers University; “Redeeming the Ordinary, Redeeming the Past: Providence Gone Amok in Wordsworth’s Michael”; Bea Sanford Russell, Princeton University; “The Power of Man and the Absent or Ineffectual God in Tamburlaine”; Sarah Maitland, University of Rhode Island; “Animal Dreams: Psychosis and Symbiosis in Arden of Faversham”; Elizabeth Gruber, Lock Haven University; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
10.14 Apocalyptic Projections in Sci-Fi and Fantasy Literature for 2012 and Beyond II: Chair: Julian Cornell, New York University; “Doctor Who, I Presume?: Hearts of Darkness and Postcolonial Paradoxes in Doctor Who”; Diana Adesola Mafe, Denison University; “God and Machine: What it means to be Human in Deus Ex: Human Revolution”; Phillip Trad, California State University Fullerton; “Apocalyptic Fictions and Invasive Metaphors: Them!, Machete and the End of the World”; Santiago Quintero, Vanderbilt University; “Modern Myths and the Commercialization of the Apocalypse: Jack Kirby’s New Gods”; Phillip G. Payne, St. Bonaventure University; Paul J. Spaeth, St. Bonaventure University; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar
10.15 Re-presenting (dis)Ability II: Chair: Evan Chaloupka, University of Akron; “Erasing Endometriosis: Disability and Invisibility in Endometriosis Self-Help Literature”; Cara Jones, Louisiana State University; “The Adipose Complex: Fat and Gossip”; Christine Yao, Cornell University; “A ‘Marriage in Miniature’: Tom Thumb’s America at War”; Jean Franzino, University of Virginia; “Identity and Sexual Politics in Francophone Sub-Saharan Cinema: A Focus on Female Genital Mutilation”; Meryem Fati, Kansas University; Cascade Room C; Add to calendar
10.16 City Mouse, Country Mouse: Shifting Pedagogies in the Composition Classroom (Roundtable): Chair: Christine Atkins, Corning Community College-SUNY; “Composition Borderlands: Teaching Developmental Writing in the Urban Community College Margins”; Ravyn Wilson-Bernard, Community College of Philadelphia; “Borough Mouse: Pedagogies of Teaching Urban Community College Students”; Beth Counihan, Queensborough Community College-CUNY; “‘What Are We Doing When Devastation Becomes A ‘Text’?’: First Year Writing and Post-Katrina”; Judith Kemerait Livingston, Columbus State University; “From Pavement to Pastures: A Place for Composition”; Megan Burke Witzleben, Fordham University; “From DC to Tennessee to Boston: Cities, Soybean Festivals, Situated Students and the ‘Spatial Turn’”; Kathleen Vandenberg, Boston University; “Farmers, Gardeners, and Consumers: Teaching about Food in Rural Pennsylania”; Andrea Harris, Mansfield University; Cascade Room D; Add to calendar
10.17 Oriental Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century German Literature and Culture: Chair: Daniela Richter, Central Michigan University; “Peripheral Visions: Contrasting Approaches to the Exotic East in Fontane and Hofmannsthal”; Robert Lemon, University of Oklahoma; “Imagined Masculinities in Ida von Hahn-Hahn’s ‘Orientalischen Briefen’”; Stefanie Ohnesorg, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; “Spiegelungen des Fremden in der deutschen ‘National’-Literatur”; Hamid Tafazoli, University of Washington; “Writing the West by Dreaming the East: Representation of the Orient by German Women Travel Writers”; Ulrike Brisson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom B; Add to calendar
10.18 The Writing of This Work is This Work (Creative): Chair: Tim Wood, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Waxing Poetic: Using Collaboration to Fuse 21st-Century Identities and Experiences”; Elizabeth Cantwell, University of Southern California; Fox Henry Frazier, University of Southern California; “Apostrophes, Odes, Ekphrasis, Oh My!”; Amy King, SUNY Nassau Community College; Ana Bozicevic, CUNY Graduate Center; “Landscape/Landscrape: A Postcard Project”; Stacy Cartledge, Delaware County Community College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C; Add to calendar
10.19 América Latina escondida: descubriendo a autores y países olvidados I: Chair: Antonella Calarota, Kean University; “Memoria y trauma en Asalto al paraíso y Cuentos de muerte y resurrección.”; Raquel Castro, University of Arkansas; “Ocultismo y judaísmo en la poesía de Elías David Curiel.”; Pedro Vizoso, Hastings College; “Entre pongos y metáforas. Estética y subjetividad en Surumi de Jesús Lara”; Diego Mattos Vazualdo, Saint Michael’s College; “Escritores ecuatorianos del siglo XX: ¿quijotescos y heróicos?”; Antonella Calarota, Kean University; Hyatt Grand Ballroom A; Add to calendar
10.20 Representing Identity and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Spain: Chair: Ryan Prendergast, University of Rochester; “Identifying Power and the Perfect Caballero in Fifteenth-Century Spain”; Amy Austin, University of Texas-Arlington; “Shekhinah, Lilith and Kabbalah in La Celestina: The Goodness of Evil”; Anjela María Mescall, Hamilton College; “Who Are You and Why Are You Here? Representing the Moriscos in Sixteenth-Century Catechism”; Jason Busic, St. Michael’s College; “Celestina’s Spawn: The Demonization of the Exotic Other in La hija de Celestina”; Electra G. Fielding, Weber State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Regency A; Add to calendar
10.21 ‘Labyrinths of Passion’: Eroticism in Spanish Golden Age Comedia: Chair: Esther Fernández, Cornell University; “Erotic Adaptation in Guillén de Castro’s El curioso impertinente”; Greg Baum, University of Chicago; “King, Conscience, and the Monstrous Other in Calderon’s Amor, honor, y poder”; Ali Shehzad Zaidi, SUNY Canton; “Lope de Vega’s Garden of Love”; Ronna Feit, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Placeres prohibidos: el erotismo en La gran sultana de Miguel de Cervantes”; Melissa Figueroa, Cornell University; Hyatt Regency B; Add to calendar
10.22 Contemporary Black-British Writing: Chair: Dorothea Smartt, Sable LitMag; “Provincial Interludes: Exploring Regional Black British Women’s Poetry”; Sheree Mack, Open University; “The 21st Century African Migration Novel”; Koye Oyedeji, SOAS University of London; “The Saga Prize: Developing the Genre of Black British Literature”; Kadija George, Sable Litmag; “She do...in Different Voices: Accents, Dialects & Poly-vocal English in Andrea Levy’s Small Island”; Modhumita Roy, Tufts University; Cascade Room F; Add to calendar
10.23 Into and Out of Italian: Translation and Literature: Chair: Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College; “‘Poscia, più che ‘l dolor, poté ‘l digiuno’: Translation and Interpretation in Inferno XXXIII”; Julia Cozzarelli, Ithaca College; “Jonathan Galassi’s Translation of Giacomo Leopardi’s Canti: Lost and Found in Translation”; Corrado Federici, Brock University; “Italian Translation Trends in the Early 1900s: Conrad’s Almayer’s Folly in Lorenzo Gigli’s Version”; Valeria Petrocchi, Istituto Universitario ‘Carlo Bo’; Cascade Room E; Add to calendar

Session 11: 10:15am - 11:30am

11.01 Navigating Department Politics (Roundtable): Chair: Bryan Brazeau, New York University; “Sound Counsel: The Rewards of a Good Adviser/Advisee Relationship in Graduate School”; Jessica Tooker, Indiana University; “Navigating the Rocky Road to the Ph.D.”; Elizabeth Foley O’Connor, Marist College; “Innovative Methods for Improving Departmental Culture and Intellectual Community”; Bryan Brazeau, New York University; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
11.02 Feminist Revisions of the Sacred: Chair: Jill Neziri, Fordham University; “‘Bitches. More like Witches’: Masculinity and the Sacred Feminine in Mama Day and Paradise”; Rebecca Albright, Independent scholar; “The Goddess and her Owl: The Feminist Power of Sacred Names in H.D.’s Letters and Tribute to Freud”; Allison Snelgrove, University of Montreal; “‘A Terrible Beauty:’ Caitlin R. Kiernan’s Feminist Re-Visioning/Re- Envisioning of the Sacred”; Jaime Weida, Borough of Manhattan Community College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
11.03 Riding Beyond the Purple Sage: the 21st Century American Western: Chair: James Donahue, SUNY Potsdam; “Steam Meets West: Film, Genre, and Hybrid Frontiers”; Kara Andersen, Brooklyn College-CUNY; “Masculinities and/at the Frontier: A Critical Reading of the Film Adaptations of True Grit”; Ahu Tanrisever, Free University Berlin; “‘If the law fails to do so’: True Grit and the Post-9/11 Western”; Duncan Clegg, York University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
11.04 Beyond the Descriptive: Empirical Study of Methods in Writing Instruction: Chairs: Kristen Nielsen, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Terri Suico, Boston University; “Peer Evaluation and Self Assessment: A Comparative Study of Effectiveness in Composition Instruction”; Kristen Nielsen, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Terri Suico, Boston University; “Using Stasis as a Reading and Writing Problem-solving Strategy with College Freshmen”; Wayne Slater, University of Maryland; “The Hypermediated Fractures in the Contact Zone”; Jessie Blackburn, University of Pittsburgh-Bradford; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
11.05 Levinas and Criticism: Chair: Scott DeShong, Quinebaug Valley Community College; “What’s the time, Mr. Wolf?: Time, Child and Traces in Mark Herman’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”; Wee Kiat Goh, Nanyang Technological University; “Revealing ‘Apocalypse’: Emmanuel Levinas and the Rhetoric of ‘The End’”; Amanda Wicks, Louisiana State University; “Writing: Ethics of the Impossible Irresponsibility (Escape)”; Rossitsa Borkowski, Sofia University-St. Kliment Okhridski; A Society for Critical Exchange Session; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
11.06 Dalle Brigate Rosse a Bin Laden: Terrorism in Italian (Film) History: Chair: Chiara Ferrari, California State University-Chico; “Depiction of Terrorism in Marco Tullio Giordana”; Shirley Smith, Skidmore College; “Fra Erinni ed Estia: rappresentazioni della donna terrorista nei film italiani sugli Anni di Piombo”; Sciltian Gastaldi, University of Toronto; “AnotherCorleone.com: (New) Media Activism against the Mafia”; Anthony Fragola, University of North Carolina-Greensboro; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
11.07 The Literary Response to War – What Is It Worth?: Chair: Jeffery Blanchard, Drew University; “Can A Simple Act of Imagination End War?: Perspectives of Hope in Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows”; Justine Dymond, Springfield College; “Weapon of Choice: Joseph Heller and the Business of War in Catch-22”; Jennifer Chancellor, CUNY Graduate Center; “Sunder the Body to Heal the Spirit”; Judith Britt-McNeely, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
11.08 Contemporary Fiction and the Digital Age: Chair: Amanda Lang, University of Rochester; “Fiction in an Age of Artifice: Jennifer Egan’s New Sincerity”; Adam Kelly, Harvard University; “Fans and Lovers: Taste and Digital Intimacies in Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked”; Eden Osucha, Bates College; “Too Much Information: Privacy and the Self in the Digital Age”; Stephen Brauer, St. John Fisher College; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
11.09 What Ever Happened to Irish Modernism?: Chair: Robert Reginio, Alfred University; “‘Carrying cloth’: Fabric, Language and the Domestic in Eavan Boland’s Poetry”; Caleb Caldwell, University of Virginia; “Textual Voices of Irish History in Trevor Joyce’s Trem Neul”; Marthine Satris, University of California-Santa Barbara; “How East Meets West: The Outcry and Capital Accounts of Trevor Joyce”; G.E. Schwartz, Independent Scholar; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
11.10 New Victorian Biogenres: Writing Nineteenth-Century Lives in the Twenty-First: Chair: Paul Fisher, Wellesley College; “Ruined Women: Rereading Biographical Interpretations of George Eliot and Hetty Sorrel”; Kathryn M. Harrison, Georgia State University; “Inventing a Contemporary Meaning of a Lived Life: Edith Wharton Biography for the Young Reader”; Maria Strääf, Linköping University; “‘Boston’s Precinema Star’: Isabella Stewart Gardner as Biographical and Biofictional Subject”; Paul Fisher, Wellesley College; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
11.11 ‘You’ve got She-Mail!’: Drag and Discursive Limits in ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’: Chairs: Diana Aldrete, University at Albany; Melissa McCarron, University at Albany; “Discursive Identity Construction of Drag Queens on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’”; Christopher Perrello, Syracuse University; “‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ as Meta-Reality Television”; Nicholas de Villiers, University of North Florida; “Politics of the Performative in ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’: Operatic Strategies and Dragging Reality TV”; Melissa McCarron, University at Albany; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
11.12 Early Modern History Wars I: Remembering and Forgetting the Past in Shakespeare: Chair: Jonathan Baldo, University of Rochester; “The Romance of Time in Cymbeline”; Hilary Binda, Tufts University; “‘Great Caesar’s Ghost’: History Dis-membered and Re-membered in Julius Caesar”; Joshua Cohen, Massachusetts College of Art and Design; “Political Histories and Family Trees: (Re)collecting the Past in Cymbeline”; Julia Gingerich, Queen’s University; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
11.13 The Seafarers -- Victims or Heroes?: Chair: Nicole Zeftel, City University of New York; “Conrad’s Sea and Ship as Paradigms of Paradoxical Unities”; Malgorzata Stanek, University of Surrey; “The Changing Psychology at Sea: Melville’s Moby Dick and Conrad’s ‘Typhoon’”; Rabia Nesrin Er, Nigde University; “‘Crusoes’ in Shakespeare, Swift, Melville, Darwin, Twain, Conrad and Wells- ‘Crusoe’ or Not?”; Sema Ege, Ankara University; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
11.14 Novel as Threat, Novel as Therapy: Chair: Jessica Tanner, Harvard University; “Patho(s)genesis and the Problem of the Novel”; Tali Zechory, Harvard University; “Le dernier jour d’un condamné: ‘Un livre qui rend malade’”; Briana Lewis, Allegheny College; “Gide’s Writing A(n)esthetics”; Jessica Tanner, Harvard University; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar
11.15 L’écriture du corps dans le roman francophone: Chair: Moussa Sow, The College of New Jersey; “L’écriture du corps dans l’oeuvre de Fatou Diome”; Moussa Sow, The College of New Jersey; “Le corps du peul: ses usages et ses habiletés dans les romans de Cheikh Hamidou Kane”; El Hadji Malick Ndiaye, Columbia University; “Vers une sécularisation et une défétichisation du corps féminin dans le roman francophone”; Mouhamedoul Niang, Colby College; “Expressions Corporelles et Frontières culturelles dans l’oeuvre de Fatou Diome”; Samantha Zimbler, The College of New Jersey; Cascade Room C; Add to calendar
11.17 Changing Narratives: Film and Literature in Contemporary Germany II: Chair: Jill Twark, East Carolina University; “The Wessi as Picaro in Uwe Timm’s Post-Wall Novel Johannisnacht”; Deborah Janson, West Virginia University; “The Past [Re-]mastered? New European Visions and Evil Old Songs in Fatih Akin’s Berlin Republic”; David Wildermuth, Shippensburg University; “Heimatsehnsucht: Rammstein and the Search for Cultural Identity”; Juliane Schicker, Pennsylvania State University; Nicholas Henry, Pennsylvania State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom B; Add to calendar
11.18 Developing and Improving Spanish Oral Proficiency at the College Level: Chair: Graziela Rondon-Pari, SUNY College-Brockport; “El recurso al enfoque por tareas para una mejora de la competencia oral”; Cynthia Potvin, Université de Moncton; “The Role of Contextualized Grammar in Proficiency-Based Instruction and OPI Assessment”; Angelo Rodríguez, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania; “Correlación entre el dominio gramatical del idioma inglés y competencia oral en español”; Graziela Rondón-Pari, SUNY College-Brockport; Roberto Camps, SUNY College-Brockport; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C; Add to calendar
11.19 Beyond Ugly: Poetics of Repugnance and Eschatology since Romanticism: Chair: Brais Outes-Leon, Yale University; “‘Towards an Aesthetics of Repugnance: Ugliness and Blasphemy in Pablo de Rokha’s Los gemidos’”; Brais Outes-Leon, Yale University; “¡Aquí yace la esperanza!: Redefinition and Renovation of National Identity”; Susana Liso, Missouri Southern State University; “Fears of Fluidity: Maupassant’s Abject Landscapes”; Nicky Agate, New York University; Hyatt Grand Ballroom A; Add to calendar
11.20 The Making of the Child Murderess in German Literature, Film, and Culture: Chairs: Ina Sammler, University of Maryland; Alexandra Hagen, Grinnell College; “Murderous Child’s Play or a Mother’s Easy Targets”; Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard, College of the Holy Cross; “The Forced Disappearance of Child Murderesses in GDR Literature and their Resurrection after 1990”; Ina Sammler, University of Maryland-College Park; “(En-)Gendered Crime in Contemporary German Television”; Alexandra Hagen, Grinnell College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Regency A; Add to calendar
11.21 Literature of the Arab World in North Africa: Chair: Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin State University; “Renegotiating Cultural and Patriachal Laws According to Farah’s Ebla and El Saadawi’s Firdaus”; Blessing Diala-Ogamba, Coppin State University; “Romance, Politics, and Women’s Roles in the 19th Century British Imperialism in Egypt”; Eunita Ochola, Coppin State University; “The Woman Lives by the Nile: Women Scarification as Salvific Force in Saadawi’s God Dies by the Nile”; Paul Mukundi, Morgan State University; Hyatt Regency B; Add to calendar
11.22 Representations of Femininities and Masculinities in Translation: Chair: Marko Miletich, Hunter College-CUNY; “Gender Matters: Translating Cristina Peri Rossi’s El museo de los esfuerzos inútiles”; Gorica Majstorovich, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey; “Masculinity, Homosexuality and Post-Soviet Identity: Translating ‘Gay’ Literature in Russia”; Brian James Baer, Kent State University; “Intersection Between History of Ideas and Translation Historiography: Feminism in Telugu Context”; Rajkumar Eligedi, English and Foreign Languages University-Hyderabad; Hyatt Regency C; Add to calendar
11.23 ‘Si Sta Alzando la Canzone Popolare!’: Popular Music in Contemporary Italy: Chair: Sabrina Ovan, Scripps College; “Intertextual Cantautori: the Case of Francesco de Gregori”; Francesco Ciabattoni, Georgetown University; “Area Liquida: musica in movimento”; Nicholas Ciuferri, Galway University; “La bella che è prigioniera: l’invenzione della tradizione nelle colonne sonore.”; Alessandro Ravera, Università di Genova; Cascade Room E; Add to calendar
11.24 Arabic Theatre: The Voice of Social Issues and Performing Politics: Chairs: David Delamatta, Université Sorbonne Paris IV; Mahmoud M Shalaby, University of Edinburgh; “Tunisian Theater: the Ethos, Pathos and Logos of the ‘Arab Spring’”; David Delamatta, Université Sorbonne Paris IV; “The Intellectual Dilemma in Ṣalāḥ Abd al-Ṣabūr’s Drama”; Mahmoud Shalaby, University of Edinburgh; “The Role of Dramatic Dialogue in Saad Allāh Wannūs’ Political Drama”; Amany Mohamed Fahim Hafez, Helwan University; Cascade Room F; Add to calendar
11.25 Women’s & Gender Studies Caucus Board Meeting (Special Event): Chair: Kirsten Bartholomew-Ortega, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; Hyatt Carson Room; Add to calendar

Session 12: 11:45am - 1:15pm

12.01 Publishing the First Monograph (Roundtable): Chair: Suha Kudsieh, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “When Publication Delays Serve a Higher Order”; Angelica Fenner, University of Toronto; “Turning the Dissertation into a Book”; Carine Mardorossian, SUNY Buffalo; “Full Court Press”; Arthur Redding, York University; “Making Luck Happen”; Tim Scheie, University of Rochester; “Persist and Publish: The Perils and Rewards of Publishing the First Book”; Eleanor ter Horst, Clarion University; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
12.02 Writing Canadian Cities I: Chair: Petra Fachinger, Queen’s University; “Re-imagining Trauma: Montreal under Siege in Michel Basilieres’ Black Bird”; Domenic Beneventi, University of Sherbrooke; “Transnationalism in Reverse: Toronto, Globality, and What We All Long For”; Carl Watts, Queen’s University; “‘At the Heart of the Dream of the New World’: The Contemporary Urban Poetics of Windsor, Ontario”; Matthew Zantingh, McMaster University; “Homelessness, Identity, and Citizenship in Contemporary Canadian Urban Fiction”; Petra Fachinger, Queen’s University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
12.03 Fattore ‘motivazione’ (Boosting Students’ Motivation) (Roundtable): Chair: Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Wellesley College; “Persuading Students into Motivation: Italian Culture through Commercials”; Barbara Alfano, Bennington College; “PowerPoint with Animation: An Interactive Way of Integrating Grammar and Culture”; Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Wellesley College; “Framing Italian Culture and Language Through the Rhetoric of Cinema”; Elisabetta D’Amanda, Rochester Institute of Technology; “Boosting Students’ Motivation With Digital Storytelling”; Cristina Pausini, Tufts University; Session in English; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
12.04 Revenge of the Queers: Ethics and the Politics of Resentment: Chair: Emily King, Tufts University; “Tongues Untied: Ethics, Narrativity, and the Butlerian Self”; Chuck Williamson, Ohio State University; “Disabled Futures of the Queer World: Islas, Moraga, Edelman, Butler”; Megan Obourn, SUNY College-Brockport; “Sloppy Seconds: Re-imagining the Temporality of Queer Revenge”; James Mulder, Tufts University; “Ethically Queer: Resolving the Vengeance of Queer Identity Construction”; Brenden O’Donnell, Brandeis University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
12.05 Image and Language: Godard and the Problem of Expression: Chair: Elif Sendur, Binghamton University; “Words as Destabilized Signifiers in Godard’s Vivre sa Vie and Made in U.S.A.”; Heidi E Faletti, SUNY Buffalo; “Like an Echo of Themselves: The Act of Reading in Film”; John Cameron, Dalhousie University; “Godard and Nineteenth-century Aesthetics”; Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Duke University; “Two or Three Things that Might Be Said about Godard”; Elif Sendur, Binghamton University; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
12.06 Products of Imperialism? Commodities in Literature after 1945: Chair: Jennifer Nesbitt, Pennsylvania State University-York; “Consumer Culture and Migration in Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven”; Kate Caccavaio, Michigan State University; “Inside Out: Commodity Culture Across Imperial Lines in Armah and DeLillo”; Mike Piero, John Carroll University; “The Female Flâneur in 1950s Chinatown”; Melissa Phruksachart, CUNY Graduate Center; “Autobiographies as Postcolonial Commodities in the Philippines after the Second World War”; Concepcion R. Lagos, University of Asia and the Pacific; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
12.07 Novel (App)lications: New Media in English and the Humanities (Special Event): Chair: Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College; “The Future of Reading: Blurring Boundaries between ‘Readers’ and ‘Writers’”; Rik Hunter, St. John Fisher College; “New Wine in Old Bottles: Fanfiction and Literary Traditions”; Lisa Jadwin, St. John Fisher College; “Film and Media Studies and the Digital Moment”; Sharon Willis, University of Rochester; “New Media and the Fate of Reading”; John Michael, University of Rochester; Sponsored by the American Literatures Area.; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
12.08 Filming Shakespeare(s) II: Chair: Brendan Aucoin, University of Vermont; “Hamlet: Director, Editor, Filmmaker”; Brendan Aucoin, University of Vermont; “Timelines: Temporal Representations in Three Film Versions of King Lear”; Phillip Zapkin, West Virginia University; “Hell-Hound, Revisited: The Richard IIIs of Richard Loncraine and William Shakespeare”; Alexis M. Butzner, Fordham University; “Reading Shakespearean Sexualities Backward: Julie Taymor’s Filmic Appropriations of Vengeful Fema”; Poonperm Paitayawat, University of London; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
12.09 Defining and Reshaping Francophone Africa through Literature: The Age of Updates: Chair: Kodjo Adabra, SUNY Geneseo; “Littérature et l’impasse politique en Afrique: l’écriture engagée, la voie par excellence du salut?”; Amevi Bocco, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; “Defining Francophone Africa through the Comic Book La Vie de Pahé”; Binita Mehta, Manhattanville College; “Effets de la tentative journalistique de Mongo Béti pour une redéfinition de l’Afrique francophone”; Kodjo Adabra, SUNY Geneseo; “War and Loss of Innocence in Redonnet’s L’accord de paix and Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé”; Donna Wilkerson-Barker, SUNY Brockport; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
12.10 Italian Literature: From the Twentieth Century into the New Millennium: Chair: Giovanni Migliara, UNED University of Madrid; “‘La creatura più alta del regno vivente’: Natura e umanità in Acciaio di Silvia Avallone”; Caterina Mongiat Farina, DePaul University; “La verità… Rovesciata di Antonio Tabucchi”; Nicoletta Serenata, Ohio State University; “Il narratore Umberto Eco”; Giovanni Migliara, UNED Madrid; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
12.11 Rethinking the World: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century French Writers: Chair: Stephane Natan, Rider University; “Whose Discourse Is This? Revealing the Universal Embedded in the Novels of Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni”; Karen Santos Da Silva, Barnard College; “Les Femmes écrivains au Grand Siècle et l’affranchissement de la vieillesse”; Catherine Daniélou, University of Alabama-Birmingham; “Isabelle de Charrière, Rousseau, and the Question of Women’s Education”; Susanne Rossbach, Saint Anselm College; “Writer/Reader’s New Perspectives in XVIIIth-century France”; Caroline Jumel, Oakland University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
12.12 Teaching Literary Studies in the Women’s and Gender Studies Classroom (Roundtable): Chairs: Heather Hewett, SUNY New Paltz; Deborah Uman, St. John Fisher College; “Creative Literature and the Field of Women’s and Gender Studies”; Heather Hewett, SUNY New Paltz; “Little Women to Riot Grrrl: Reading Women and Gender Studies”; Barbara LeSavoy, SUNY College-Brockport; “Women’s Voices: Engaging with Notions of Difference in Indigenous Narrative Forms and Experiences”; Jebaroja Singh, St. John Fisher College; “Critical Pedagogy and Historical Representations of Violence Against Women”; Suzanne Rintoul, Kwantlen Polytechnic University; “Between Disciplines: A Literary Scholar Teaching Social Science Students in the WGS Classroom”; Clare Counihan, Nazareth College; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
12.13 El mundo literario de Ana Rossetti: Homenaje a la escritora y su obra (Special Event): Chair: Enrique Ruiz-Fornells, University of Alabama; “El cuerpo mutilado: violencia y terror en la poesía de Ana Rossetti”; Jill Robbins, University of Texas-Austin; “Ana Rossetti: una mirada retrospectiva”; Martha LaFollette Miller, University of North Carolina-Charlotte; “Respondent”; Ana Rossetti, Author; Spanish Language & Literatures Event, sponsored by the Spanish Cultural Ministry; Hyatt Regency C; Add to calendar
12.14 African-American Scholars Special Event (Creative): Chair: Donavan Ramon, Rutgers University; “Reading from Sweet Solitude”; Leonard Slade, SUNY Albany; Hyatt Grand Ballroom A; Add to calendar
12.15 Telling Tales Out of School (Special Event): Chair: Bill Waddell, St. John Fisher College; “Reading”; M.J. Iuppa, St. John Fisher College; “Reading”; Sarah Freligh, St. John Fisher College; “Reading”; B.K. Fischer, Hudson Valley Writers Center; “Reading”; Steve Huff, Writers & Books; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C; Add to calendar
12.16 Das Neuschreiben der Vergangenheit: Counterfactual History in German Literature: Chair: Kathleen Singles, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich; “Alternate Histories and Forking Paths: Multiple Napoleons in Dieter Kühn’s N”; Kathleen Singles, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich; “Fact and Fiction in Brussig’s Helden wie wir and Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee”; Maaike Van Liefde, Ghent University; “Counter-Histories in Alexander Kluge‘s Recent Literary Works”; Katrin Polak-Springer, Rutgers University; “Remembering Benno: Literary Commemoration in Uwe Timm’s Der Freund und der Fremde”; Pete Schweppe, McGill University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom B; Add to calendar
12.17 New Approaches to Old Texts: Studying Medieval and Early Modern Women and Gender: Chairs: Lyn Blanchfield, SUNY Oswego; Rala Diakite, Fitchburg State University; “Written and Spoken Authority in the Paston Women’s Letters”; Alexandra Verini, Fordham University; “Countess and Wife: The Changing Perception of Female Power and Office in 11th-c. Norman Charters”; Charlotte Cartwright, SUNY Oswego; “Sprung from God’s Womb: A Feminine Metaphor for Angels’ and Humans’ Heavenly Origin”; Alessandra Molinari, Università degli Studi ‘Carlo Bo’; “Julian of Norwich: How a Female Voice Can Create an Embodied Text”; Elizabeth Cantwell, University of Southern California; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar