Saturday Afternoon Sessions (Convention 2012)

Session 13: 1:30pm - 3:00pm

13.01 Unsympathetic Bonds: Postbellum Definitions of Connection after Sentimentalism: Chair: Michael Cadwallader, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “The Sentimental Social Reformer in American Realism”; Esther Arnold, University of Rochester; “‘Like Lava in a Coffee Cup’: Howells, Martí and the Haymarket Affair”; Michael Collins, University of Nottingham; “The Sympathetic Body in William Dean Howells’s 1890s Social Novels”; Nicholas Van Kley, Brandeis University; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
13.02 20th Century Irish Women Writers I: Chair: Elizabeth Foley O’Connor, Marist College; “The Real New Woman: The Politics of Female Friendship in Somerville and Ross’s ‘The Silver Fox’”; Anne Jamison, University of Ulster; “Orientalism and Feminism in the Plays of Eva Gore-Booth”; Kate Tomkie, Boston College; “‘You Ought to Take up Writing’: Women, Space, and Expectation in Mary Lavin’s Fiction”; Daniel Shea, Mount Saint Mary College; “Bloody Writing: The Politics of Pain in Margaretta D’Arcy’s Tell Them Everything”; Amy Washburn, Kingsborough Community College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
13.03 African American Women in Rochester: Chair: Jennifer Sieck, George Washington University; “Navigation and Morality in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”; Allison Siehnel, University at Buffalo-SUNY; “The Heroism of ‘General Moses’ (Tubman)--As Confirmed by Family”; Juanita Hayes, Albany State University; “Performance, Portraits and Prose: Self-representations of African American Women in Rochester”; Jennifer Sieck, George Washington University; “Female, African American, and Deaf: Rochesterians Reflect on Black Deaf Culture in the City”; Nikki Brown, University of New Orleans; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
13.04 Approaches to Adventure in the Late 19th Century: Chair: Rebekah Greene, University of Rhode Island; “‘Adventures in Skin’: Elizabeth Hornby’s Mid-nineteenth Century Travels in South America”; Ann C. Colley, Buffalo State College; “Conrad’s Lord Jim, Adventure, and the Threat of New Media”; Patrick Belk, University of Tulsa; “‘[A] romance of all things’: Personhood, Property, and Pride in Stevenson’s Kidnapped”; Rebekah Greene, University of Rhode Island; “‘Brazen Images’: Kipling’s ‘The Man Who Would Be King,’ Newspaper Heroism, and Parody”; Andrea Rehn, Whittier College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
13.05 Avatars of Apocalypse in Latin American and Iberian Cultures: Chair: Antonio Cordoba, Connecticut College; “Creating a Culture of Fear: The Expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain and Apocalyptic Discourse”; Kathleen Bartels, Catholic University of America; “Animal Sacrifice and Ecological Catastrophe in Federico García Lorca’s Poeta en NuevaYork”; Anna Hiller, Kansas State University; “Laboratorios de lo sagrado: visiones del Apocalipsis en la novela experimental última”; Daniel García-Donoso, Yale University; “The Fictionalization of the Dystopian Experience in the Contemporary Brazilian Narrative”; Luana Barossi, University of São Paulo; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
13.06 Portfolios and Other E-Stories: Chair: Fabiana Cecchini, Texas A&M University; “The Portfolio Practice in the Italian Curriculum: Introduction”; Fabiana Cecchini, Texas A&M University; “Digital Portfolios and Other E-tools for Alternative Assessment in the Italian Language Curriculum”; Cristina Abbona-Sneider, Brown University; “Student Portfolios in the First Two Semesters of Italian”; Chiara De Santi, SUNY Fredonia; “E-Story in the Classroom: New Approach of a Communicative Learning”; Elda Buonanno Foley, Iona College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
13.07 Representing Illness: Fiction’s Sick Bodies: Chair: Rita Bode, Trent University; “Insane Plotting: Class, Health, and Legitimacy in Wilkie Collins’s Woman in White”; Maria L. Plochocki, Medgar Evers College-CUNY; “Colonial Contagions: Labor, Sickness, and Scars in The Clever Woman of the Family”; Amanda Waugh, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “A Tale of Two Bodies: Illness and Aging in The Wide, Wide World and The Scarlet Letter”; Melissa R. Kowalski, Lehigh University; “Euthanasia: Acts of Mercy in Fiction”; Elsa Nettels, William and Mary College; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
13.08 Daughters of The Woman Warrior: Fighter Girls in American Literature: Chair: Karen Li Miller, Trinity College; “The Book Thief’s Liesel Meminger, Narrative Warrior”; Katie Peel, University of North Carolina-Wilmington; “A Woman Warrior of the Borderlands: Nepantla in Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus”; Abigail Manzella, Yeshiva University; “‘A New Kind of Freedom’: Warrior Daughters in Young Adult Fiction”; Sara Hosey, Nassau Community College; “Reader, I Slept With Him: Jane Eyre and Defending Sensuality in Mary Gordon’s Final Payments”; Jennie-Rebecca Falcetta, Sacred Heart University; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
13.09 Continuities in English Literature between the Norman Conquest and Reformation: Chair: Pamela Longo, University of Connecticut; “The Use of ‘Harpour’ and ‘Menstrel’ in Sir Orfeo”; Patrick Butler, University of Connecticut; “Insurgent Paganism in the Body Revenant”; Jerry Denno, Nazareth College; “Ecocriticism, Grendel, and the Green Knight: Monstrosity and Ecocriticism across the Norman Divide”; Heide Estes, Monmouth University; “Pagan and Christian Continuities: Ritual, Ascendancy and Decadence from Bede to The Gawain-Poet”; David Pecan, SUNY Nassau Community College; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
13.10 Re-Assessing the ‘Crisis of Masculinity’ in American Culture and in the Academy (Roundtable): Chair: Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Still Feeling Stiffed?: Some Introductory Remarks On the ‘Crisis of Masculinity’”; Andrew Schopp, SUNY Nassau Community College; “From Crisis of Masculinity to Gender Legitimation Crisis”; Harry Brod, University of Northern Iowa; “Bromance and Man Caves: Preserving Masculinity in a Room of His Own”; Emily Churilla, Stony Brook University; “Hollywood Masculine Crises 20 Years after ‘The Year of Living Sensitively’”; Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Pause, Black Masculinity in Crisis”; Donavan L. Ramon, Rutgers University; “Reaffirming Hegemonic Masculinity through Death of a Salesman”; Grant Williams, University of Pittsburgh; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
13.11 Incorporating Civic Education in the Classroom and Beyond (Roundtable): Chair: Dorsia Smith Silva, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras; “Beginning Civic Engagement: Classroom Conversations in an Interdisciplinary Environment”; Paul Almonte, St. Peter’s College; “Writing for Civic Engagement—Case Study Boston”; Elizabeth Parfitt, Emerson College; “Stories of Work: Class, Community and Culture in Contemporary Literature”; Michele Fazio, University of North Carolina-Pembroke; “Calling for Social Activism at the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras”; Dorsía Smith Silva, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras; “Civic Engagement Using Non-Fiction in a Human Communication Graduate Program”; Godfrey Steele, University of the West Indies-St. Augustine; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
13.12 Virgin Envy: Chair: Cristina Santos, Brock University; “The Impossibility of Virginity”; Elizabeth Law, Independent Scholar; “‘Will the Real Virgin Please Stand Up?’ Locating Agency in Virginity in Postcolonial India”; Aswini Sivaraman, New York University; “A Feast of the Virginal Signified: Alejandra Pizarnik’s ‘Bloody Countess’”; Jeannine Pitas, University of Toronto; “Lady of Perpetual Virginity: Jessica’s Presence in True Blood”; Janice Zehentbauer, University of Western Ontario; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
13.13 Translating Resistance Literature: Chair: Riham Alhossary, Binghamton University; “Translating Palestinian Resistance Literature”; Riham Alhossary, Binghamton University; “Symbols of Resistance: Ancient Greek Myth in Albanian Lyric Poetry”; Adam Goldwyn, Uppsala University; “The Merits of Translating Resistance Literature”; Anne Saunders, College of Charleston; “The Case of Czechoslovakia in August 1968: Translation on the Barricades”; Julia Friday, SUNY New Paltz; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
13.14 Word Made Flesh, Flesh Made Word: Narratives of Pain, Pained Narratives: Chair: Tali Zechory, Harvard University; “Picturing Pain and Pleasure in Annie Ernaux’s L’Usage de la photo”; Lisa Connell, University of West Georgia; “A Linguistic Plethora of Words in the Pained Universe of Love”; Rafika Merini, SUNY Buffalo State; “Writing Gobseck”; Sasha Santee, Yale University; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar
13.15 Postmodern Mythology II: Rewriting Myth in 20th and 21st cent. French Literature: Chair: Antoine Philippe, University of Puerto Rico; “Maurice Blanchot, Orphée démystificateur”; Antoine Philippe, University of Puerto Rico; “Le road novel québécois contemporain: entre les archétypes du nomade et du sédentaire”; Pierre-Paul Ferland, Université Laval; “Mythologie et théorie littéraire dans l’œuvre de J. R. Léveillé et d’Andrée Christensen”; Julia Hains, Université Laval; Cascade Room C; Add to calendar
13.16 Can I Still Touch You? Contemporary Italian Poetry and Poets (Roundtable): Chair: Matteo Benassi, Rutgers University; “The Concealment of the Sick Body in Milo De Angelis’ Poetry”; Patrizio Ceccagnoli, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Paradosso Terrestre”; Francesco Ciabattoni, Georgetown University; “Tre Poetesse”; Mimmo Cangiano, Duke University; “The Full Bodied Verses of Contemporary Poets”; Marco Gargiulo, University of Bergen; “A Touchy Subject: the Body in Contemporary Poetry”; Matteo Benassi, Rutgers University; Cascade Room D; Add to calendar
13.17 Emergent Theories of Life Writing: Chair: Kathryn L. Kleypas, American University of Kuwait; “Reading the Other/Reading Ourselves: Empathy, Alterity, and the (Post)modern Criminal Memoir”; Kate Birdsall, Michigan State University; “Triumph without an Ending: Reading HIV Memoir through Disability Studies and Black Feminist Thought”; Allyson Day, Ohio State University; “I the People: Toward a Political Theory of Autobiography”; Nolan Bennett, Cornell University; “Affect and the Displacement of the Autobiographical Subject”; Susan Muchshima Moynihan, SUNY Buffalo; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom B; Add to calendar
13.18 (Con)Figurations of Citizenship in Caribbean Literature: Chair: Rachel L. Mordecai, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Performing Space: The Lived-Imagined Borders of Caribbean Literature”; Marika Preziuso, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities; “Articulating Haitian Citizenship: Ethnography and the U.S. Occupation in the Work of Jean Price-Mars”; Imani D. Owens, Columbia University; “Imagining a Royal We: Black Loyalism as Critique of Nationalism in the Watchman of Jamaica”; Alpen Razi, University of Toronto; “Does ‘Black British’ Actually Exist? Caribbean Citizenship in Caryl Phillips’ In the Falling Snow”; Malachi McIntosh, University of Warwick; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C; Add to calendar
13.19 Assigning and Responding to the Personal in Composition Classes (Roundtable): Chair: Georgia Kreiger, Allegany College of Maryland; “The Essentiality of Personal Writing and Its Connection to Academic Discourse in Composition Classes”; Patricia Pytleski, Kutztown University; “Waiting for Superman: Validating the Personal and the Pedagogical”; Kathleen Crosby, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Digital Pedagogy for Composition and ‘Signature Style’ in Electracy”; Gary Hink, University of Florida; “Using Trauma-Informed Principles to Reduce Risk When Assigning and Responding to the Personal”; Janice Carello, University at Buffalo; “Invisible ‘I’: The Co-production of Student Experience and Writing on Violence”; Hannah Dickinson, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Hyatt Grand Ballroom A; Add to calendar
13.20 Between the Beats: Listening to the Soundscapes of the Black Diaspora: Chair: John Hyland, SUNY Buffalo; “Mecca Flats: Making Sound and Space in Jeremy Love’s Bayou, Vol.1”; Hershini Bhana Young, SUNY Buffalo; “The Blues as Atlantic Practice in Una Marson’s The Moth and the Star”; John Hyland, SUNY Buffalo; “‘We Have Come B(l)ack’: Free Jazz Aesthetics, Africa, and Postcoloniality”; Robert MaClean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; “The Sonic Rememory of Sampling and Black Women’s Eroticism/Eroticization”; Janessa Daniels, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Regency A; Add to calendar
13.21 The Antipoetry of Nicanor Parra and Its Legacy: Chair: Marlene Gottlieb, Manhattan College; “Parra Held for Questioning”; Patricio Lerzundi, Lehman College-CUNY; “Nicanor Parra ¿Antipoeta?”; David Barreto, University of Pennsylvania; “Against Misogyny? Erica Jong Answers Back to Nicanor Parra”; Oscar Sarmiento, SUNY Potsdam; “La aportación de Nicanor Parra a la poesía hispanoamericana contemporánea”; Marlene Gottlieb, Manhattan College; Hyatt Regency B; Add to calendar
13.22 Re-Thinking German Romanticism II: Chair: Susan Gustafson, University of Rochester; “Is Obesity Noumenal? The Fat Footnote in Schiller’s ‘Ueber Anmut und Wuerde’”; Gail Hart, University of California-Irvine; “Die Liebe des Künstlers - eine genderorientierte Lektüre der Figur Kreislers in Hoffmanns Kater Murr”; Giulia Ferro Milone, University of Verona; “Journaling the Mystic, the Hysteric and Frankenstein: A New Genre of Late German Romanticism”; Christine Dombrowski, Southern Connecticut State University; Hyatt Regency C; Add to calendar
13.23 Writing Queerly: Chair: Jessica Lewis-Turner, Temple University; “‘…the gap never closes’: Parataxis and Affect in a Selection of Jeanette Winterson’s Novels”; Rachel A. Kaufman, Binghamton University; “Is the Rectum a Mirror? Palindromes of Queer Utopian Time in Works by John Greyson and Miranda July”; Stephanie Clare, Rutgers University; “Guts: On Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser and a Poetics of Masochism”; Trisha Low, New York University; “‘Reader, I won’t marry him’: Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John and the Meta-critique of Romance Plots”; Modhumita Roy, Tufts University; Cascade Room E; Add to calendar
13.24 ‘Of Queen’s Gardens’: Victorian Ecofeminism: Chair: Margaret S. Kennedy, Stony Brook University; “Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and the (un)Natural Woman”; Rebekah Taylor, Kent State University; “‘The Ache of Modernism’: Victorian Women and Industrialized Farmlands”; Jonah Mitropoulos, City University of New York; “Eliot’s Animal-Girls”; Danielle Coriale, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Dirt, Darkness & Displacement: Elizabeth Gaskell and the Ecological Thought”; Elise Mitchell, University of Quebec-Chicoutimi; Cascade Room F; Add to calendar

Session 14: 3:15pm - 4:30pm

14.01 Transformations of Fairy Tales on Film: Chair: Rebecca Crisafulli, University of Chicago; “When Women Look: Re-vision and the Gaze in The Company of Wolves”; Wernmei Yong Ade, Nanyang Technological University; “Snarled: ‘Rapunzel’ and the Monstrous Return in Disney’s Tangled (2010)”; Abigail Heiniger, Wayne State University; “Re-viewing Race and Gender: ‘The Red Shoes’ (1845), The Red Shoes (1948), Center Stage (2000)”; Rebecca Crisafulli, University of Chicago; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
14.02 Intellectual Spars and Rival Texts in 20th Century African-American Literature: Chair: Timothy Griffiths, Brooklyn College-CUNY; “Of Necessity Peculiar? George Schuyler’s Rejection of the New Negro’s Black Aesthetic”; Annie Anderson, Peirce College; “Dilapidated Façades of a Progressive Nature: August Wilson’s Rejection of Double-Consciousness”; Chanae Bazemore, Hunter College-CUNY; “Invisible Women: Race, Gender, and Sociology in Postwar African American Fiction”; Mollie Godfrey, Bates College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
14.03 The Work of Nancy Huston (Roundtable): Chair: Natalie Edwards, Wagner College; “Motherhood and Creation in Nancy Huston’s Non-fiction”; Ann-Sofie Persson, University of Linkoping; “Replication and/of the Artist, or ‘un artiste peut en cacher un autre’”; David Powell, Hofstra University; “L’ethos intellectuel dans les essais de Nancy Huston”; Claudia Almeida, State University of Rio de Janeiro; “The Questioning of Nostalgia in Nancy Huston’s L’empreinte de l’ange”; Natalie Edwards, Wagner College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
14.04 Encyclopedic Breath and Modernity in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Roundtable): Chair: Erika Papagni, University of Toronto; “Il rapporto tra ‘La Querelle des Femmes’ e ‘La Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes’ nel primo 600”; Filippo Salvatore, Concordia University; “Eustache de Refuge: a Polymath in All Matters Concerning Human Behavior”; Chris Cooper, McGill University; “The Roots of Modernity and Movable Types or McLuhan and the Fallacy of Postmodernism”; Francesco Guardiani, University of Toronto; “‘Paragone de gli’ingegni antichi e moderni’ Tassoni’s Contribution to the Birth of Modernity”; Erika Papagni, University of Toronto; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
14.05 The Female Body, Gender, and Identity in 21st Century Latin America: Chair: Mia Romano, Rutgers University; “When Exports and Diasporas Collide: La Reina del Sur and the Melodrama of Mexican Nationalism”; Laura M. Herbert, University of Michigan; “Unlikely Mirror: The Cyborgization of Yzur and the Female Body(ies) in Pubis angelical”; J. Indigo Eriksen, San Francisco State University; “Bodies in Excess: Alternative Femininity in Vapor by Julieta García González”; Mia Romano, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
14.06 Italian Narratives on the Net: Between Private, Public and Social Communication (Roundtable): Chair: Sonia Massari, Siena University; “We Are What We Don’t Eat: Social Networks and Web Narratives about Food”; Sonia Massari, University of Siena; “Call Centeredness: Narratives of the Cognitariat”; Sabrina Ovan, Scripps College; “‘Zappata Romana’ e l’Urbanistica Spontanea”; Stan Mathews, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
14.07 Translating the Margins: Chairs: Annette Levine, Ithaca College; James McCutcheon, Niagara University; “Establishing Quebec Culture in an Anglophone Continent”; Steffani Scheer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “An Unheard Voice in the English-Speaking World: Translating ‘L’hora violeta’ by Montserrat Roig”; James McCutcheon, Niagara University; “Challenging Censorship in Aída Bortnik’s Short Stories”; Annette Levine, Ithaca College; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
14.08 Gender, Literary Tourism, and Autobiography: Dialectics and Discrepancies: Chair: Jane Wood, Park University; “‘World War I, Travel and the American Landscape: Hemingway, Cather, and Modern Art’”; Jane Wood, Park University; “Tradition, Gender and Experiment: Imagining Self and Home in Brooks’s Report from Part One”; Samira Abdur-Rahman, Rutgers University; “Urban Prisms and Walkaway Women: Interdimensional Memoirs of Mid-Century New Yorkers”; Maureen Kentoff, George Washington University; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
14.09 Framing the Black Arts Movement: Chair: Bill Waddell, St. John Fisher College; “Before the Black Arts Movement: The Umbra Workshops and the Formulation of the Black Aesthetic”; Jean-Philippe Marcoux, Universite Laval; “Between Protest and Revolution: Ambiguity as Meaning in Amiri Baraka’s The Slave”; Karl Hartshorn, Clark University; “Revolutionary Artistry: Post-Integration Black Women Remake the Bildungsroman”; Regina Hamilton, Georgetown University; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
14.10 Reading Love and Violence in Victorian Literature: Chair: Robert Lougy, Pennsylvania State University-University Park; “From Romance to Reform: Love as Social Mover in the Victorian Novel”; Raluca Musat, William Paterson University; “‘Is not this a strange, a brutal thing?’: Love and Violence in The Odd Women”; Cara Weber, John Hopkins University; “Bursts of Violence and the Loss of Self-Control in George Eliot”; Patrick Fessenbecker, Johns Hopkins University; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
14.11 Conductive Wire: The Experience of Emotion in Cinema and Literature: Chair: Nathalie Fouyer, CUNY Graduate Center; “Forsyth’s Light Touch: Intensified Empathy and Diffused Conflict at the Climax of Local Hero”; Mary E. McDermott, West Chester University; “Media and Melancholia: Notes on David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest”; Alex Blazer, Georgia College & State University; “The Overflow of Emotions in Lars Von Trier’s Cinema”; Natalia Laranjinha, University of Algarve-CIAC; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
14.12 Aldous Huxley: Fifty Years After: Chair: Bill Harrison, SUNY Geneseo; “Huxley and British Disenchantment in After Many A Summer (1939)”; Megan Faragher, University at Buffalo; “Unfastening the Malthusian belt: Biopolitical Chronotropes in Aldous Huxley and Alexander Laing”; Rachel Ann Walsh, St. Bonaventure University; “Aldous Huxley and Michel de Certeau: Intellectuals, Scientists, Mystics”; Owen Coggins, Independent Scholar; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
14.13 Early Modern History Wars II: Chair: Daniel Franke, University of Rochester; “The Conscience of Subjects and Kings: On Forgetfulness as Political Necessity in Henry V”; Ian Maness, Queen’s University; “Gossip and Historical Narrative in Henry VIII”; Jennifer Holl, CUNY Graduate Center; “‘That Bloody Strain’: Refashioning the Plantagenet Past in Edward III”; Daniel Franke, University of Rochester; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
14.14 Postcolonial and Animal Studies: Chair: Carine Mardorossian, University at Buffalo; “‘Those Mysterious Things That Are Called Men’: Rudyard Kipling’s Colonialism in The Jungle Book”; Chamutal Noimann, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY; “Going to the Dogs: Human and Dog Relationships in Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf”; Heather Dodge, Manhattan College; “Property Rights, Self-Possession and Animality in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace”; Rebecca Saunders, Illinois State University; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar
14.15 The Cinematic Risorgimento: Hagiographies and Revisions (Roundtable): Chair: Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico; “Risorgimento e questione meridionale nel cinema di Germi”; Simone Castaldi, Hofstra University; “Qui si fa l’Italia o si muore!’ 1860 di Alessandro Blasetti tra storia e propaganda”; Daniele Fioretti, Miami University; “Garibaldi’s Invisibility as Authoritarian Presence in Alessandro Blasetti 1860”; Andrea Righi, Colorado College; “Reflections upon the Cinematic Risorgimento”; Fulvio Orsitto, California State University-Chico; Cascade Room C; Add to calendar
14.16 New Perspectives on French Modernism: Chair: Mark Andrew Hall, Ithaca College; “The Butterfly Effect: Reverdy and the Poetic Imagination”; Mark Andrew Hall, Ithaca College; “The Death of Marcel: (Re)thinking the (Post)modern in Barthes through Proust”; Sarah E. Kruse, University of Rhode Island; “Death in Abeyance: Maurice Blanchot, Modernist Novelist”; Jacob Schott, University of Rochester; “The Accidental Avant-Guardist: Raymond Roussel and the Politics of Canonization”; Ryan Ruby, York College-CUNY; Cascade Room D; Add to calendar
14.17 Feminism and the New German Cinema: Chair: Jennifer L Creech, University of Rochester; “On Drawing the Gaze: Showgirls in Fassbinder’s Lola and Sternberg’s Der blaue Engel”; Jaclyn R. Kurash, Allegheny College; “Repetition as Structure in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Lili Marleen”; Joshua Bonilla, University of Chicago; “The Divided Subject: Helke Sander’s The All-Round Reduced Personality (ReDuPers)”; Jennifer Creech, University of Rochester; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom B; Add to calendar
14.18 An Exploration of Puppet Power (Creative): Chair: Pia Banzhaf, Queen’s University at Kingston; “Italian Puppeteering: A Tradition Living across Media”; Federico Pacchioni, University of Connecticut; “Retellings of Pinocchio: Cutting the Strings”; Georgia Panteli, University College of London; “Pinochio’s Power: The Puzzle of Perception in Puppet Performances”; Pia Banzhaf, Queen’s University at Kingston; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C; Add to calendar
14.19 Caribbean Now: Nation, Transnation, Postcolony? (Roundtable): Chair: Elaine Savory, New School University; “The Concept and Practice of a Transnational Cuban Literature”; Christopher Winks, Queen’s College-CUNY; “From the Growing Distance’: Citizenship, Nostalgia, and Jamaica’s Postcolonial Moment”; Rachel Mordecai, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “The Transnational and Cultural Creolization in Glissant, Walcott and Diaz”; Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College; Hyatt Grand Ballroom A; Add to calendar
14.20 Women’s & Gender Studies Film Screening (Special Event): Chair: Sophie Lavin; “White Scripts and Black Supermen”; Derek McGrath, SUNY Stony Brook; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Regency A; Add to calendar
14.21 Pre-20th Century German Women Writers as Agents of Cultural Transfer: Chairs: Astrid Weigert, Georgetown University; Claudia Winkler, Georgetown University; “Adele Schopenhauer’s Travel Guide to Florence as a Means of German-Italian Cultural Transfer”; Anja Peters, Royal Holloway-University of London; “Reporting on Race: Journalist Ottilie Assing on Frederick Douglass and Slavery in the U.S.”; Traci O’Brien, Auburn University; “The Theatre of Education: German Women Writers Respond to Madame de Genlis, 1794-1800”; Mary Helen Dupree, Georgetown University; “Friederike Brun’s Literary Mediating Efforts between German and Danish Culture”; Anne Wallen, University of Minnesota; Hyatt Regency B; Add to calendar
14.22 Latin American Theatrical Works: A Voice for Social Change?: Chair: Maria R. Matz, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; “Theater and Politics.”; Maria Matz, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; “Mirada reconstructora de la historia argentina en ‘Esa extraña forma de pasión’ de Torres Molina”; Eduardo Cabrera, Millikin University; “Cuerpo, espacio y lenguaje en Los siameses de Griselda Gambaro”; Clara Mengolini, Vanderbilt University; Hyatt Regency C; Add to calendar
14.23 Slow Down or Download?: Fostering Engagement in the Age of Instant Everything: Chair: Laura Collins, Binghamton University; “Accommodation to the Everyday or Critical Engagement?: Challenging New Media Advocacy”; John Charles Goshert, Utah Valley University; “Thinking Outside the (Techno-)Box: Yeah, There’s an App for That”; Karen Schramm, Delaware Valley College; “Approaching Equilibrium: New Media and the Tried and True”; Anthony T. Sovak, Farmingdale State College; Cascade Room E; Add to calendar
14.24 Keeping Poetry Relevant for the 21st Century Community College Student (Roundtable): Chair: Jennifer Campbell, Erie Community College; “Performance Poetry in the Writing or Literature Classroom: Opening Space for Experimentation”; Melissa Tombro, Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY; “Creatively Engaging the Non-English Major with ‘Poem Tricks’”; Mary Lannon, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Getting Community College Writers Into the Community”; Perry Nicholas, Erie Community College; “Who Is That Masked Writer?: Bringing Literature Alive”; Joyce Kessel, Villa Maria College; Cascade Room F; Add to calendar

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

15.01 Teaching French Popular Culture (Roundtable): Chair: Skye Paine, SUNY Brockport; “Choose Your (French) President”; David Powell, Hofstra University; “Allier l’apprentissage linguistique et culturel”; Aurelie Van de Wiele, Hamilton College; “Teaching French Rap and Popular Music”; Skye Paine, SUNY Brockport; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
15.02 Translation Theory: Chair: Anna Strowe, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “The Case for Intralingual-Intertemporal Translation”; Hilla Karas, Tel Aviv University; “Radical Invisibility”; Letitia Henville, University of Toronto; “Parallel Approaches in Diaspora and Translation Studies: Rethinking Authenticity and Fidelity”; Erin Riddle, Binghamton University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
15.03 Middlebrow and Alternative Modernisms: Chair: Kathryn Klein, SUNY Stony Brook; “From the Boxing Ring to the Catwalk: Djuna Barnes’s Performative Journalism”; Kathryn Smorul, West Virginia University; “Marginal and Middlebrow: Lesbians and Intertextuality in Barnes and Hall”; Meghan Fox, SUNY Stony Brook; “‘One Could Become Accustomed to Murdering’: Stein, Hammett, and the Making of Hard-Boiled Modernism”; Matthew Vaughn, University of Tulsa; “Rory’s Mononcle: Inventing the Lesbian in Compton Mackenzie’s Extraordinary Women”; Kathryn Klein, SUNY Stony Brook; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
15.04 Shakespeare at the Opera: Chair: Joshua Cohen, Massachusetts College of Art and Design; “Opera Without Words: Linguistic Music in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet”; Seth Herbst, Harvard University; “Gender and Property in Operatic Restoration Tempests”; Amanda Weldy Boyd, University of Southern California; “The Okavango Macbeth: The Nature of ‘The Natural’ in a Baboon Opera”; Jamie Neal, Wake Forest University; “A Document in Madness: Writing Insanity in Hamlet”; Nicholas Rego, University of Virginia; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
15.05 Italy: Identity and Nation-State. Risorgimento Origins and Current Debates.: Chairs: Mark Epstein, Princeton University; Morena Corradi, Queens College-CUNY; “The Southern Question Goes North: Rocco e i suoi fratelli”; Gloria Monti, California State University-Fullerton; “The New Italian Nation-State in the Writing of Achille Bizzoni”; Morena Corradi, Queens College-CUNY; “Before Identitarianism: Pasolini and the Erasure of History”; Mark Epstein, Princeton University; “La quarta Italia del Terzo Millennio: il nuovo federalismo italiano”; Filippo Salvatore, Concordia University; Multimedia Session: TV/VCR-DVD; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
15.06 New Approaches in Teaching Foreign Languages (Roundtable): Chair: Kate Kagan, Russell Sage College; “Seeing Language - Teaching American Sign Language and Culture”; Stefanie Lewis, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Using Technology to Teach Foreign Languages and Literature”; Kate Kagan, Russell Sage College; “Integración del Service-Learning en español en una comunidad bilingüe inglés-francés de Canadá”; Cynthia Potvin, Université de Moncton; “The Role of Contextualized Grammar in Proficiency-based Instruction and OPI Assessment”; Angelo Rodríguez, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania; “Motivation among American Students in the Foreign Language Classroom”; Cori Shea, St. John Fisher College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
15.07 Gender and Sexuality in Asian-American Fiction: Chair: Naomi Edwards, SUNY Stony Brook; “The Transnational Self and Gender in Contemporary Asian American Fiction”; Michelle Balaev, Wake Forest University; “Spies, Pilots, and Other Odd Observers: Defining the Masculine in the Novels of Chang-rae Lee”; David Humphries, Queensborough Community College; “Nurturing Post-modern Angst and the Maternal Body in Philip Kan Gotanda”; L. Bailey McDaniel, Oakland University; “Imposed Invisibilities: Racial Melancholia and Queer Diaspora in The Book of Salt”; Naomi Edwards, SUNY Stony Brook; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
15.08 New Approaches to the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery I: Chair: Maria Rice Bellamy, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “‘These Careful Words’: Textual Remains and Reader Responsibility in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy”; Maria Rice Bellamy, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “‘Difficult Forms of Knowing’: M. Nourbese Phillips’ Zong! and the Ethics of Representation”; Veronica Austen, St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo; “A Long View of Mat Johnson and Poe’s Pyms”; Jonathan Hartmann, University of New Haven; “Turning Slavery on its Head: Bernadine Evaristo’s Blonde Roots and The Emperor’s Babe”; Tracey L. Walters, SUNY Stony Brook; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
15.09 Ecospirituality in Twentieth Century Poetry: Chair: Kelly MacPhail, McGill University; “Ecospiritual Imagery and Artifice: Glittering Streams of Poetic Coping in Yeats’ ‘The Tower’”; Kate Dunning, Case Western Reserve University; “‘Wilderness of the Broken World’: Paradise and Progress in Edwin Muir’s Poetry”; Kelly MacPhail, McGill University; “Flowers Offered to the Buddha: Charting a Lineage of North American Buddhist Ecopoetics”; Clare Emily Clifford, Birmingham-Southern College; “Water Bodies, Salmon People: Bioregional Spirituality in Sherman Alexie’s Poetry”; Chad Wriglesworth, St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
15.10 The Catholic Imagination in Modern Literature I: Chair: Stephen Trainor, Salve Regina University; “Conversion and Subversion in the Catholic Imagination of Walker Percy and Colm Toibin”; Maryanne Felter, Cayuga Community College; Kristopher Willumsen, Wheeling Jesuit University; “‘Is the shipwrack then a harvest?’ Ron Hansen’s Exiles and the Journey Home”; June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University; “Why Is Ignatius so Hungry?”; Jane Bethune, Salve Regina University; “‘Evil be thou my good’: Brighton Rock’s Pinkie (and other religiously dangerous delinquents)”; Lindsay Davies, New York University; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
15.11 Literature, Trauma, and Healing: Refusing to Silence the Discourse I: Chair: Ami Blue, Michigan State University; “To Teach, To Write, To Heal: The Complicated Role of Educator Within and Beyond Sapphire’s Push”; Cassandra D’Alessio Blandford, University of Louisville; “Sharing the Unspeakable: Transforming Trauma Through Lifewriting”; Irene E. Karpiak, University of Oklahoma; “Skills and Scars: Teaching the Personal Essay to Student Veterans”; Travis L. Martin, University of Kentucky; “Healing in Literature about Place and Home: Hurricane Katrina Survivors Write the Way Home”; Carrie Jo Coaplen, Morehead State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
15.12 Canadian Short Stories: Chair: Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island; “The Artist as Community in Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women”; Ryan Porter, Algonquin College; “With the one-way wind: Childhood, Knowledge and Landscape in Canadian Women’s Short Stories’”; Veronica Barnsley, University of Manchester; “Margaret Atwood’s experiments in ’Dancing Girls, Surfacing’ and ’Bodily Harm’”; Louisa MacKay-Demerjian, Quincy College; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
15.13 Digital Dreaming: Reading YouTube: Chair: Randy Laist, Goodwin College; “(Not) Asking, (Not) Telling: A U.S. Military Man Comes Out on YouTube”; Gene Melton, North Carolina State University; “On the Stage: Presenting Myself, Presenting My Goods, Presenting My Girlfriend”; Alexander Schwinghammer, Bauhaus-University Weimar; “On the Implausible Traces of YouTube in Borges”; Rhona Trauvitch, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Dreams Come True Bitches! Anticipating an Adolescent Future ‘In the Heights’”; Dan Dinero, New York University; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
15.14 Femmes et résistance pendant la pénétration coloniale: instinct cosmogonique: Chair: Karim Simpore, St. Lawrence University; “Femmes et résistance coloniale: Le Mythe de Yénnéga à travers Boukary Koutou”; Karim Simpore, St. Lawrence University; “Femmes et résistance: l’affirmation d’un moi féminin chez Sembene Ousmane”; Martine Boumtje, Southern Arkansas University; “L’entre-deux: naissance du futur chez les romancières africaines postcoloniales”; Isaac Joslin, St. Lawrence University; “Les chants populaires des femmes comme formes de résistance au pouvoir colonial en pays bamum”; Syprien Christian Zogo Tsanga, Université Laval/Canada; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar
15.15 Immaginario Mediterraneo. From Mare Nostrum to Liquid Border: Chair: Renato Ventura, University of Dayton; “Sicilian Cuntu: between Berber Imayazen’s Storytelling and the Heritage of Troubadour Song”; Melanie Zefferino, University of Warwick; “Mediterraneo: Teatro oltre il teatro Recitazione e struttura della personalità dell’attore”; Angelisa Marroccia, Consorzio Universitario per la Formazione Turistica Internazionale; “Cibo, sogno e specchio della ‘mediterraneità’”; Paola Pettinotti, Independent Scholar; “Southern Cinema and Southern Thinking: Cassano’s Utopian Vision in Italian Film”; Chiara Ferrari, California State University-Chico; Cascade Room C; Add to calendar
15.16 Approaching the Archives of Gay Liberation (Roundtable): Chair: Megan Paslawski, CUNY Graduate Center; “What’s a Boi to Do?: Novel Forms of Sexual Alienation in the New City”; Nicholas Gamso, CUNY Graduate Center; “‘Hey World!’: The Political Rage of John Rechy’s Sexual Outlawry”; John Goshert, Utah Valley University; “Who is the Author of Gay Liberation?: Collective Organizing and Writing in the GLF”; Stephen Vider, Harvard University; “Institutionalization: Michael Rumaker from His Black Mountain Days to Now”; Megan Paslawski, CUNY Graduate Center; “Claiming the Archive, Taking the Future”; Gardenia Flores, Independent Scholar; Cascade Room D; Add to calendar
15.17 Narrating Europe’s (Dis)integration in Literature, Cinema, and Speech: Chair: Sabina Perrino, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; “Searching for (Dis)harmony”; Gregory Kohler, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; “Italian (Dis)integration: Dialect, Revitalization, and Citizenship in Veneto”; Sabina Perrino, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; “‘Real Democracy’: Attempting a Radically Moderate Identity in Syntagma Square”; Stacey Krueger, Northeastern Illinois University; Nicholas Georgopoulos, Northeastern Illinois University; “Refugees of the Upper West Side: Oral Narratives of German Jews after 1938”; Abby Orenstein, Temple University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom B; Add to calendar
15.18 New Approaches to Genre Studies in DEFA Film: Chair: Reinhild Steingrover, University of Rochester; “Betting on Genre: the Cold War Scandal of Spielbank Affaire (Arthur Pohl, 1956)”; Stefan Soldovieri, University of Toronto; “Adventures in Stagnation: Gottfried Kolditz’s Unfilmed Project Zimtpiraten (1983)”; Evan Torner, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Gender, Power, Building(s): Die Architekten, Sommer vom Balkon, and Eine flexible Frau”; Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Queen’s University; “Panel Commentator”; Angelica Fenner, University of Toronto; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C; Add to calendar
15.19 Best Practices for Professional Development and Support of Contingent Faculty (Roundtable): Chair: Rhonda Filipan, Kent State University; “Creating Choices: Looking at the Long-term Effects of Professional Development”; Laura Davies, Le Moyne College; “Report from MLA’s Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession + TT Faculty and NTT Rights”; Janet Casey, Skidmore College; “Mentoring Programs and Resources for Adjunct Faculty”; Maria Plochocki, Medgar Evers College-CUNY; “Workplace Environment for Part-time Faculty”; Jeanette Jeneault, Syracuse University; “Effective Practices to Welcome, Inform and Support Contingent Faculty”; Beverly Evans, SUNY Geneseo; Hyatt Grand Ballroom A; Add to calendar
15.20 Masculinity in Superhero Comic Books and Films I: Chair: Derek McGrath, SUNY Stony Brook; “A Real Leap: Luke Cage and the Post-Civil Rights Evolution of Black Masculinity”; Jonathan Gray, John Jay College-CUNY; “Adonis as a Superhero: How Comic Books and Movies Affect Male Body Image”; William Tunningley, Sam Houston State University; “Blasphemous Masculinities: Postmodern Parodic Relationships in The Venture Brothers”; Nathaniel Doherty, SUNY Stony Brook; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Regency A; Add to calendar
15.21 Federico García Lorca after 75 Years: His Unfinished and Unedited Works: Chair: Salvatore Poeta, Villanova University; “La interrelación entre El público y Comedia sin título de Federico García Lorca”; Antonio F. Cao, Hofstra University; “Federico García Lorca y su teatro de juventud: en búsqueda de la expresión poética perfecta”; Tatiana Ripoll-Paez, Rosemont College; “El diwan: agua, cuerpo y voz de Granada: la muerte como presagio estético”; Alana Álvarez, Vanderbilt University; “Federico García Lorca: ¿novelista-cuentista frustrado?”; Salvatore Poeta, Villanova University; Hyatt Regency B; Add to calendar
15.22 The Negotiation of Feminine Identity in the Early Modern Spanish World (Roundtable): Chair: Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College; “The Many Faces of the Pícara: Constructing the ‘Putidoncella’ in La pícara Justina”; Electra Gamón Fielding, Weber State University; “Butch Femme/Femme Butch: the Trial of Eleno/a de Céspedes and Its Postmodern Consequences”; Stephen Hessel, University of Missouri-Columbia; “María de Zayas’s Poetry within Its Poetic and Feminine Traditions”; Elena Gutiérrez, Catholic University of America; “Queen Isabel de Borbón: Reading Gender and Authority in Three Calderonian Plays”; Carmela V. Mattza, Wesleyan University; “Transnational Supremacy and the Iberian Woman”; Joan F. Cammarata, Manhattan College; Hyatt Regency C; Add to calendar
15.23 The Notion of Friendship in Dante and Medieval Italian Writers I: Chair: Francesco Ciabattoni, Georgetown University; “La nozione di amicizia: evoluzione e confronto tra Guittone d’Arezzo e Dante”; Beatrice Arduini, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “‘Perché i son tal vicino’: Friendship Travestied in the Ugolino Episode (Inferno XXXIII)”; James Chiampi, University of California-Irvine; “Dante and the Mystical Concept of Friendship”; Sandra Debenedetti Stow, Bar-Ilan University; Cascade Room E; Add to calendar
15.24 Cognitive Approaches to Literature I: Chair: Barry Spence, University of Massachusetts; “Experiential Realism and Sterne’s Tristram Shandy”; Torleif Persson, Rutgers University; “Cognitive Queer: (Re)presenting Sexuality and Narrative Structure in Hawthorne and Poe”; Joseph Connolly, Indiana University; “Complicating Established Conceptions of A Priori Knowledge: Powers, DeLillo, and Shteyngart”; Stacey Balkan, Bergen Community College; “Breaking Down Pictures, Creating New Worlds: Creativity and Cognition in Contemporary Italian Poetry”; Eloisa Morra, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa; Cascade Room F; Add to calendar

Session 16: 6:30pm - 8:00pm

16.01 British and Anglophone Special Event (Special Event): Chair: Suha Kudsieh, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “Falling in Love with a Dead Man: WWI, Memory, and the Travels of Charles Sorley”; Bette London, University of Rochester; Following talk, there will be a co-sponsored reception with American Literature Area.; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom B; Add to calendar
16.02 Italian Language and Literatures Film Screening (Special Event): Chair: Giovanni Spani, Holy Cross; “Detour De Seta”; Salvia Cuccia; Q&A and reception will follow screening.; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Grand Ballroom C; Add to calendar
16.03 Cultural Studies & Film Special Event (Special Event): Chair: Margarita Vargas, SUNY Buffalo; “‘Ciudad Juárez From a Mother’s Perspective: Gender and Fiction Film’”; Josefina Mata, Irregular Me: Film and Video Production Company; Co-Sponsored by Diversity Program. Reception will follow presentation.; Multimedia Session: TV/DVD; Hyatt Grand Ballroom A; Add to calendar
16.04 Women’s & Gender Studies Speaker (Special Event): Chair: Kirsten Ortega, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs; “The Gospel According to Toni Morrison”; Stephanie Li, University of Rochester; Event will be followed by a reception.; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Regency A; Add to calendar
16.05 German Area Special Event: Poetry and Translation with Uljana Wolf (Special Event): Chair: Astrid Weigert, Georgetown University; Hyatt Regency B; Add to calendar
16.06 Comparative Languages Event (Special Event): Chair: Chris Hogarth, Wagner College; “Are There Universal Aesthetic Categories? The Case of the Sublime”; Robert Doran; The talk will be followed by the joint reception of the Comparative Languages and Francophone Areas.; Hyatt Grand Ballroom G; Add to calendar
16.07 CAITY Caucus Business Meeting & Reception (Special Event): Chair: Maria Plochocki, Medgar Evers College; Hyatt Carson Room; Add to calendar