Sunday Sessions (18 March)

Session 17: 8:30am - 10:00am

17.01 Literature, Trauma, and Healing: Refusing to Silence the Discourse II: Chair: Rachel N. Spear, University of North Carolina-Wilmington; “Let Seizing Truths Lie: Witnessing Factions in Lauren Slater’s Lying”; Eden Wales Freedman, University of New Hampshire; “‘A Million Porcupines Screaming in the Dark’: Teaching Traumatic Texts with an ‘Ethics of Care’”; Tara Hyland-Russell, St. Mary’s University College; “Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking: Healing as Process, Healing as Product?”; Elizabeth Stone, Fordham College at Lincoln Center; “Saving Self and Others in Telling: Stories, Survivor Rhetoric, and Social Change”; Rachel N. Spear, University of North Carolina-Wilmington; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
17.02 Sex, Blood, and Hybridity: The Discourse of Racial Anxiety in Antebellum Writing: Chair: Rebecca Williams, CUNY Graduate Center; “An ‘insatiable brass throat’: The (Im)materiality of Voice in Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends”; Diego Millan, Tufts University; “‘It Tells a Story to the Eye’: Photography and Visualizations of Racial Anxiety”; Julia Munro, Georgia Institute of Technology; “The Metaphysics of Miscegenation: Identity and Alterity in Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym”; Donald Rodrigues, University of Rhode Island; “Negrophobia: Rogers, Douglass, Cartwright, and the ‘Color’ of Blood”; Rebecca Williams, Graduate Center-CUNY; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
17.03 Sexuality and Spirituality in Eighteenth-century German Literature: Chair: Eleanor ter Horst, Clarion University; “Subversion of Gender Norms and Queer Spirituality in German-speaking Colonial Pennsylvania”; Rick Chamberlin, Lebanon Valley College; “Sacher-Masoch’s Fictional Intercourse with the Female Leader of a Russian Old Believer Sect”; Stephanie Weismann, Universität Wien; “Concepts of Femininity in the Spiritual Autobiography of Johanna Eleonora Petersen”; Sophie Alexander, Columbia University; “Conversion through Seduction: Christoph Martin Wieland’s Geschichte des Agathon”; Peter Erickson, University of Chicago; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
17.04 Transnational Negotiation in the Cross-cultural Remake: Chair: Gohar Siddiqui, Syracuse University; “‘Identify the Market and Serve It What It Likes’: Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Comes to America”; Branden Buehler, University of Southern California; “Blood Spatter and Trickledown: Let Me In and the Limits of Neoliberal Pop Culture”; Guy Witzel, SUNY Buffalo; “Time Travel Romance Across Cultures: Il Mare (Lee Hyun-Seung) and The Lake House (Alejandro Agresti)”; Sooyoung Chung, Independent Scholar; “Comedy in the Transnational Remake: Bollywood, Queerness, and Tarun Mansukhani’s Dostana”; Gohar Siddiqui, Syracuse University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
17.05 New Approaches to the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery II: Chair: Veronica T. Watson, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; “‘Intolerable Invisibility’ of Whiteness: Morrison’s A Mercy and the Literature of White Exposure”; Veronica T. Watson, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; “The Property of Self: Embodiment and Possession in Valerie Martin’s Property”; Jennifer L. Gorman, Duquesne University; “(Re)Viewing the Promiseland in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes”; Sherry Johnson, Grand Valley State University; “Voices, Construction and Documentation: NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!, a Contemporary Slave Narrative”; James McCorkle, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
17.06 Politics of Theatre: Challenging Authority, Defying Conventions (Seminar): Chair: Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University; “Il ruolo urbano dell’edificio teatrale nella Genova del XIX e XX secolo”; Gian Luca Porcile, Independent Scholar; “From ‘The Lady Is For Discarding’ to the ‘Lord Who Should Be’: Fo’s Journey to the Berlusconi Era”; Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University; “A-Political Politics: Language, Bodies, and ‘Sicilianess’ in the Theatre of Emma Dante”; Francesca Spedalieri, Ohio State University; “Authority and Festa in Verdi’s Traviata”; Michela Ronzani, Brown University; “Italian Expressionism: Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero (1944-1948)”; Emily Bell, University of Florida; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
17.07 Ecospirituality and American Social Change: Chair: Chad Wriglesworth, St. Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo; “Deep Wading with the Water Deepening: Hemingway and Ecospirituality”; Christopher Loots, Mercy College; “Field Cries of the Spirit: Eco-embodiment in George Wylie Henderson’s Ollie Miss”; Christin M. Taylor, University of Maryland; “A Refuge not So Far From God: Ana Castillo and Terry Tempest Williams’ Spiritual Ecologies”; Kim Bowers, University of Saint Francis; “A Vision of Sustainable Grace: Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow”; Lucas J. Sheaffer, Temple University; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
17.08 The Catholic Imagination in Literature II: Chair: Jane Bethune, Salve Regina University; “Redefining Catholicism: God and Sin in Desolation Angels”; Erin Rodino, Marist College; “Josef Pieper in Harmony with Modernist Philosophical Thought in T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’”; Eric Matthew Bledsoe, Florida State University; “Muriel Spark’s Modernist Catholicism and the Structure of Authorship”; Jacob Hovind, Towson University; “Inscape, Haecceity, Poetry: Hopkins, Scotus, and the Paradox of the Singular”; Greg Sevik, Binghamton University; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
17.09 Filming Shakespeare(s) I: Chair: Phillip Zapkin, West Virginia University; “‘He was a bum…He was a beautiful bum’: Mimetic Rivalry and the Scapegoating of Falstaff”; Colin Cox, King College; “Radford’s Shylock: A Contemporary Recasting”; Dani Walsh, University of Vermont; “Anything Girls Can Do, Boys Can Do Better: Twelfth Night and She’s the Man”; Trisha Jo Haber, Dixie State College of Utah; “‘When no man was his own’: inter-dramatic doubling in The Tempest”; Erin Weinberg, Queen’s University; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
17.10 Writing Canadian Cities II: Chair: Brandon McFarlane, University of Toronto; “Beyond the Multiculture: Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For”; Joanne Leow, University of Toronto; “Sinclair Ross’ Sodom-on-the St. Lawrence: Auguries of Homophobia and Homoeroticism.”; Nat Hardy, Savannah State University; “Revised Vancouver”; Elena Siemens, University of Alberta; “The Crisis of Economic Nationalism and Douglas Durkin’s The Magpie”; Brandon McFarlane, University of Toronto; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room K; Add to calendar
17.11 Issues in Diversity in Teaching: The Arabic Model (Roundtable): Chair: Lora Lunt, SUNY Potsdam; “Pros and Cons of Teaching Dialects and Immersion Challenges”; Brahim El Gualbi, Swarthmore College; “Fostering Fluency and Cultural Diversity through Social Networking, and Literacy with the Web”; Nassera Khalida Boumghar, Plattsburgh State University; “Issues in Teaching Arabic Pronunciation in American Schools: Challenges and Rewards”; Ghassan Husseinali, George Mason University; “The Challenges in Teaching Advanced Reading and Writing in Arabic”; Mbarek Sryfi, University of Pennsylvania; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
17.12 Masculinity in Superhero Comic Books and Films II: Chair: Nathaniel Doherty, SUNY Stony Brook; “From Superman to Spider-Man, From Masculinity to Manhood”; Harry Brod, University of Northern Iowa; “Sonic Windows into the Psyche of the Comic Book Superhero in Superman and Batman Begins”; Daniel Robinson, SUNY Buffalo; “Holding out for a Hero: Gender and the Hero in Gaiman’s The Sandman”; Georgia Natishan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; “The Mask I Cling To, The Life That I Cannot Let Go: Nite Owl’s Crisis of Identity in Watchmen”; Katy Kress, Old Dominion University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
17.13 All About Eve: Representations of Eve in Contemporary French Fiction: Chair: Elizabeth Berglund Hall, Ithaca College; “Le péché social dans Moderato Cantabile”; Dany Jacob, SUNY Buffalo; “Garden of Destruction: Female Abjection and Vengeance in Ananda Devi’s Ève de ses décombres”; Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University; “Interrupting Eve: The Disruptive Discourse of Hélène Cixous’s Mother”; Elizabeth Berglund Hall, Ithaca College; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
17.14 Childhood and Adolescence in Contemporary Women’s Autobiographies in French: Chair: Anna Rocca, Salem State University; “Narrating Algerian Childhoods: Assia Djebar, Leïla Sebbar and Nina Bouraoui”; Ann-Sofie Persson, University of Linköping; “Acts of Transgression in Nathalie Sarraute’s Enfance and Marguerite Duras’s L’Amant”; Carrie Landfried, Franklin & Marshall College; “Losing Maman and Assuming Motherhood: Mauvaise fille by Justine Lévy”; Jane Evans, University of Texas-El Paso; “Nina Bouraoui and the Empowerment of Ageing”; Anna Rocca, Salem State University; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar
17.15 The Notion of Friendship in Dante and Medieval Italian Writers II: Chair: Francesco Caruso, Johns Hopkins University; “Patrons as Friends: Dante and Cangrande”; Elizabeth Coggeshall, Stanford University; “Friendship by Hearsay in Purgatorio XXII”; Brittany Asaro, University of California-Los Angeles; “To Love and Be Loved: Friendship and Petrarch’s Vernacular Works”; Elizabeth Anderson, Independent scholar; Cascade Room C; Add to calendar
17.16 20th Century Irish Women Writers II: Chair: Betsy Woerner, University of Rochester; “Kate O’Brien, ‘Avant-Gardisme,’ and the Anxiety of Influence”; Elizabeth Foley O’Connor, Marist College; “Northern Irish Women Writers O’Riordan, Madden and Devlin: Ruination, Exile and Retreat”; Tara Harney-Mahajan, University of Connecticut; “Remaking the Past in Jennifer Johnston’s The Invisible Worm and The Illusionist”; Mara Reisman, Northern Arizona University; “The Persistence of Place in Marina Carr’s Midlands Plays”; Frederick Waage, East Tennessee State University; Cascade Room D; Add to calendar
17.17 América Latina escondida: descubriendo a autores y países olvidados II: Chair: Mario Valero, Kean University; “Buscando la nación en la Amazonía peruana- el caso de Hildebrando Fuentes a principios del siglo XX”; Cristobal Cardemil Krause, Rutgers University; “Chacota de Caínes”; Francisco Villena, Iona College; “Gioconda Belli’s Literary Vision of Reconciliation between Indigenous and Sandinista”; Courtney Polidori, The College of New Jersey; “Saudades de Brasil: utopias de la modernizacion”; Mario Valero, Kean University; Cascade Room E; Add to calendar
17.18 Cognitive Approaches to Literature II: Chair: Linda Martin, Boston College; “Cognitive Approaches to Ethnic American Literature: Pitfalls and Possibilities”; James Donahue, SUNY; “The Pleasure of the Intertext: Analogy as the Core of Adaptation”; Megan Tarquinio, Northeastern University; “The Dark Places of Psychology: Consciousness Theory in The Waves”; Linda Martin, Boston College; “Language and Cognition in Joyce’s Ulysses”; Barry Spence, University of Massachusetts; Cascade Room F; Add to calendar

Session 18: 10:15am - 12:15pm

18.01 Upstate New York and Early African American Expression (Seminar): Chair: Jonathan Senchyne, Cornell University; “William Allen, Mary King, and Upstate New York Fugitivity”; Brigitte Fielder, Cornell University; “Two Views of Frederick Douglass and the Importance of Rochester, New York”; Hugh Egan, Ithaca College; “A Free Soil Jeremiad: James M. Whitfield’s Environmental Antislavery Poetics”; James Finley, University of New Hampshire; “Reading Hearts Not Books: Affective Literacy and Public Sentiment in Early African American Writing”; Tara Bynum, Towson University; “Buffalo’s Bloodhound: Early African American Literature and the Ghost of Millard Fillmore”; Nicholas Mohlmann, Purdue University; “Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass’ Self-constructions and the Equal Rights Movement, 1868-70”; Julie Husband, University of Northern Iowa; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
18.02 Methodologies of Amateur Theatre Studies (Seminar): Chairs: Mary Isbell, University of Connecticut-Storrs; Robin C. Whittaker, St. Thomas University; “Limelight in the Parlor: An Inquiry into Theatre Technology for Parlor Theatricals”; Eileen Curley, Marist College; “‘Getting Up’ a Play: Children and At-home Theatricals in Victorian England”; Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, University of Toronto; “The Aesthetics of Amateur Theatricals: Private Performances of the Public Repertoire”; Mary Isbell, University of Connecticut-Storrs; “Defending the Archive: Amateur Theatre in New South Wales Regional Communities 1945-1970”; Janet McGaw, University of Sydney; “A Sustainable Livelihoods Framework and the Regina Little Theatre”; Ian McWilliams, University of Regina; “Daly’s Debutantes: Amateur Performers on the Professional Stage”; Sharon Reid, University of Toronto; “Processes of Theatrical Reconstruction: Revisiting Herman Voaden’s Hill-land in Modern Production”; Grace Smith, University of Toronto; “Beyond the Bars: A Theory of Prison Theatre Production”; Jean Trounstine, Middlesex Community College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
18.03 Reimagining Peer Review in the Composition Classroom (Seminar): Chair: Stephanie André, Central Oregon Community College; “Closing the Loop: Turning Peer Review into Peer Collaboration”; Michael Cadwallader, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Establishing the Genre of Peer Review to Create New Rhetorical Knowledge”; Elizabeth Parfitt, Emerson College; “From Page to Stage and Back Again: The Folger Shakespeare Philosophy in the Composition Classroom”; Scott O’Neil, University of Rochester; “An Audience of One’s Peers: Peer Review in the Computer-mediated Classroom”; Phoebe Jackson, William Paterson University; “Resistant Readers and Collaborative Writers in Composition Courses’ Peer Review Routines”; Burke Scarbrough, University of Rochester; “Maximizing Engaged Response: Face-to-face and Virtual Peer Review”; Lesley Broder, Kingsborough Community College-CUNY; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
18.04 Transnational Literatures, Gender, and State Power (Seminar): Chair: Joan Conwell, East Carolina University; “This is Chaos: A Miraculous Awakening of a Nation upon Being Inspired by the Film Arts”; Lamya Ramadan, Prince Sultan University College for Women; “Repression, Resistance, and Reconciliation in the Texts of African Women Activists”; Courtney L. Thompson, Dickinson College; “Queer Citizens and Quiet Men: Interrogating Masculinity in Films of War, Occupation and Genocide”; Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, Kingsborough Community College-CUNY; “The Specter of Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migration in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup”; Neelofer Qadir, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Gender Violence as Translation: Lessons on Transnational Literature in Suyin’s And the Rain My Drink”; Fiona Lee, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Transnational and the Subversive: Three Women Writers of the Americas”; Gema Ortega, Saint Xavier University; “Brave New Worlds: Gender and Racial Protocols in Andrea Lee’s Transnational Fiction”; Laura C. Williams, University of Maryland-College Park; “Reframing God Dies by the Nile: Feminist Writing, Social Consciousness and the Egyptian Revolution”; Morani Kornberg-Weiss, SUNY Buffalo; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
18.05 Diagnosis Violence: American Novelists’ Search for Causes (Seminar): Chair: Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College; “Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!: Violence and Modernist Aesthetics”; Jordan Hobson, Georgia State University; “Cormac McCarthy’s American West, MacIntyre’s Modernity, and the Tragic Origins of Violence”; Benjamin Mangrum, University of North Carolina; “Consigning the Frontier in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West”; Theo Finigan, University of Alberta; “‘The Curse and the Doom of the New World’: Locating Junot Díaz’s fukú in American Literary History”; Benjamin Railton, Fitchburg State University; “Environmental Anxieties: American Violence, Entertainment, and the Ecology of Infinite Jest”; Tara Leederman, California State University-Fullerton; “Children of Sadistic Men: Contemporary Violence in Donald Barthelme’s and Kathy Acker’s Fiction”; Cristina Ionica, University of Western Ontario; “The Spoils of War: Psychological, Physical and Environmental Violence in J. Robert Lennon’s Castle”; Nicole Merola, Rhode Island School of Design; “Shahrazadian Gesture in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent and Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land”; Mazen Naous, College of Wooster; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
18.06 Homosexual Women in Italian Literature, Cinema and other Media (Seminar): Chair: Erika Papagni, University of Toronto; “Breaking the Code: Lesbian Existence in Dacia Maraini’s ‘Donna in Guerra’ and ‘Lettere a Marina’”; Maria Morelli, University of Leicester; “Xq28 Gene Gay: Futuro ed evoluzione dell’umanità. Impatto sociologico e altre implicazioni”; Anna Rita Forcione, Università La Sapienza; “Censura-Fantasma nei cartoni animati”; Katia Radaelli, University of Toronto; “Sexual Diversity in Organizational Settings: Across Space and Time”; Chris Cooper, McGill University; “Omosessualità femminile nei Media”; Erika Papagni, University of Toronto; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
18.07 Public Forms, Private Lives: Genre and Gender in Early Modern England (Seminar): Chairs: Timothy Zajac, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Stephanie Pietros, Fordham University; “Hobbes, Rakes, and Privacy: Laughter on the Restoration Stage”; Anthony Brano, Fordham University; “Friendship’s Throne: Sovereignty and Female Community in the Poetry of Katherine Philips”; Erin Casey, SUNY Albany; “The Heroic Cot: Anne Bradstreet’s Public Private Elegies”; Louisa Hall, University of Texas-Austin; “Public Persons, Private Deeds: Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and the Theory of Tragicomedy”; Christine Lee, Harvard University; “A Public Life Staged in Private: Anne Halkett’s Transformation of the Occasional Meditation”; Sara A. Murphy, Columbia University; “Intersections of the Performative/‘Public’ and Intimate/‘Private’: Lady Mary Wroth’s Household Drama”; Lindsay Yakimyshyn, University of Alberta; “Gender, Genre, and Empire in The Tragedy of Mariam”; Judy Park, Loyola Marymount University; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
18.08 Looking at the Past, Defining the Present: Colonial and Postcolonial Identities (Seminar): Chairs: Evelyn Scaramella, Manhattan College; Samira Hassa, Manhattan College; “Recovering the Ruins of al-Andalus: Sephardic and Arabic Identity in Modern Spanish Colonial Texts”; Evelyn Scaramella, Manhattan College; “Editing the City’s Text: Memory and National Identity in Post-colonial Moroccan Street Names”; Samira Hassa, Manhattan College; “Can Switzerland be Read (and Understood) Through a Postcolonial Lens?”; Jonathan Gosnell, Smith College; “Contested Identities in Contemporary France: Tati’s 50th Anniversary Commission”; Marie Lortie, University of Toronto; “Conjugating Slave Revolts with the Enlightenment in Spanish American Political Imagination”; Marc Olivier Reid, St. Lawrence University; “(Re)presentations in Indigenous Women’s Theatre”; Sarah MacKenzie, University of Ottawa; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
18.09 The Undead (Seminar): Chairs: Bianca Tredennick, SUNY Oneonta; Lindsay Bryde, Adelphi University; “Move Over Dracula; There’s a New Vamp in Town: Twilight and Adaptation”; Miranda Baird, Independent Scholar; “The Vampire Paradigm: Vampiric Corporeality in the Anglo-American Gothic Tradition from 1816-2011”; Ana-Gratiela Gal, University of Memphis; “Becoming-Vampire as Becoming-Image in HBO’s True Blood”; Kimberly Jackson, Florida Gulf Coast University; “‘The Return of the Undead Subject: From Philosophical Zombies to Kirkman’s The Walking Dead”; Mark Pedretti, Case Western Reserve University; “Two Visions of Undeath”; Connor Pitetti, Stony Brook University; “Isolation and Power in Vampire Novels: How Facebook Could Have Saved Them All”; Grace Siciliano, Adelphi University; “Picture Book for the Patriarchy: Locating the Queer Voice in The Walking Dead”; Jarred Wiehe, University of Connecticut; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
18.10 Food and the French (Seminar): Chair: Priya Wadhera, Adelphi University; “Cooking the Literary: the Japanese Salad in A la recherche du temps perdu”; Michael D. Becker, University of Rhode Island; “Starving the Novel: Theory and Practice in Sarraute’s L’ère du soupçon and Les fruits d’or”; Kathryn Rose, Harvard University; “‘Privés de repas du soir’: Meals and memories in Georges Perec’s W ou Le Souvenir d’Enfance”; Priya Wadhera, Adelphi University; “‘Manger, c’est le propre de l’homme’: François Rabelais et Amélie Nothomb”; Nancy Erickson, University of Southern Maine; “Anchovies, Bread, Couscous: the Gustatory Impulse in Pagnol and Kechiche”; Bruce Robinson, Independent Scholar; “Response”; Maryann Tebben, Bard College at Simon’s Rock; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
18.11 Global Crisis’ Spain. Poetics and Imaginaries of Late Capitalism in Spain (Seminar): Chairs: Germán Labrador Méndez, Princeton University; Luis Moreno Caballud, University of Pennsylvania; “Llamada a una rebelión organizada: Belén Gopegui, ‘Acceso no autorizado’ y el 15-M”; Beatriz Celaya-Carrillo, Miami University; “La vida subprime. Cómo las ‘historias de vida’ son tecnologías de imaginación política (2007-2012)”; Germán Labrador Méndez, Princeton University; “Entre viejas y nuevas narrativas: crisis y políticas post-dialécticas en la España del 15M”; Ángel Luis Lara, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; “‘Espera is Waiting’. Markel Redondo’s Photography of Crisis”; Patricia Keller, Cornell University; “Formas de producción de sentido y comunidades discursivas en torno a la última crisis neoliberal”; Luis Moreno-Caballud, University of Pennsylvania; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
18.12 Insurrections et transgressions françaises et francophones (Seminar): Chairs: Jean-Frederic Hennuy, Bennington College; Cristina Johnston, Stirling University; “Communauté, mimétisme et transgression”; Florian Grandena, Université d’Ottawa; “A Lawless Believer in Law: Michel Houellebecq and Communism”; Gavin Bowd, University of St Andrews; “Révolution manquée ou en manque de révolution?”; Audrey Evrard, Drew University; “Children of the Revolution? Persepolis and the Female Body Politic”; Cristina Johnston, University of Stirling; “Nathalie Quintane: Des tomates à l’insurrection”; Jean-Frederic Hennuy, Bennington College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
18.13 Sujeto transatlántico y trauma: aproximaciones a la escritura del XVI y XVII (Seminar): Chairs: Francisco Lopez Martin, Denison University; Fernando Rodriguez Mansilla, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; “La carta de relación: trauma y saber”; Manuel Gómez, Iona College; “Voces de ultratumba. Los bálsamos del alma en la poesía de Garcilaso”; Andrés Gonzálbez, Pennsylvania State University; “Nueva España y el discurso misionero franciscano en la formación del sujeto trasatlántico”; Carmen Grace, College of Charleston; “El trauma de la traición: conjuras españolas contra los incas de Vilcabamba según Titu Cusi Yupanqui”; Beatriz C. Peña, Queens College-CUNY; “Entre dos orillas: Cabeza de Vaca y el encuentro con la otredad”; Francisco López-Martín, Denison University; “La sombra del padre y la lealtad caballeresca en la Relación de la descendencia de Garci Pérez”; Fernando Rodríguez-Mansilla, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
18.14 Beyond Writing Back to the Empire: Second Wave of African and Caribbean Writers (Seminar): Chair: Suha Kudsieh, College of Staten Island-CUNY; “Women as Witness to Postcolonial Dystopia in Petina Gappah – An Elegy for Easterly”; Chielozona Eze, Northeastern Illinois University; “Expanding the Creative Space of African Literature: Short Stories by 3rd Generation Nigerian Writers”; Thomas Martinek, University of Vienna; “French Classical Theatre Gets ‘Postcolonial’ in Linyekula’s Pour en finir avec Bérénice”; Domenica Newell-Amato, Eastern Illinois University; “Reconciling Senex & Puer: Martinican Identity Archetypes in Chamoiseau’s Chronicle of Seven Sorrows”; Allison P. Palumbo, University of Kentucky; “Subjunctive Historiography in the Poetry of Martín Espada”; David Vibert, SUNY College-Old Westbury; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar
18.15 Immigration, Travel, and Tourism in Middle Eastern Literatures (Seminar): Chair: Sally Gomaa, Salve Regina University; “‘Whose Country Is It Anyways?’ Searching for ‘Home’ in Arabic Women’s War Narratives”; Sally Gomaa, Salve Regina University; “Re-visioning Travel and Home: Writing across Time in Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love”; Eda Dedebas, University of Connecticut; “‘They is all of us’: Arab-American Landscapes in Khaled Mattawa’s Tocqueville”; Barish Ali, SUNY Buffalo State; Natalie Di Biase, SUNY Buffalo State; “Hanan Al-Shaykh’s Only in London: Latitudes of Exile, Alienation and Homecoming”; Mootacem Mhiri, Vassar College; “The Permanent Tourist, an Exile in His Own Land: Ka Returns to Kars”; Stephen Trainor, Salve Regina University; Cascade Room C; Add to calendar

Session 19: 12:45pm - 3:15pm

19.01 ‘Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of Intercultural Competence’ (Workshop): Chair: Sonia Massari, University of Florence; “Language, Drama and Cross-cultural Communication: Teaching Tools”; Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University; “Watching Movies to Pick Up Cross-cultural Communication: Tips and Tools”; Chiara Ferrari, California State University-Chico; “Food, Identity and Cross-cultural Spaces: Learning Tools”; Sonia Massari, University of Florence; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Hyatt Wilmorite Room; Add to calendar