Thursday Sessions (15 March)

Session 1: 11:30am - 2:00pm

1.01 Shaping Your Academic Career and Entering the Job Market (Workshop): Chair: Barry Spence, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Shaping Your Academic Career and Entering the Job Market”; Greg Semenza, University of Connecticut; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
1.02 World of the Small Press (Workshop): Chair: Bill Waddell, St. John Fisher College; “Presentation”; Peter Conners, BOA Editions; “Presentation”; Ted Pelton, Starcherone Books; “Presentation”; Chad Post, Open Letter Books; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
1.03 Pedagogy and Technology Workshop (Workshop): Chair: Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island; “Engaging Students: Problem-based Learning and Teaching with Technology”; Jenn Brandt, University of Rhode Island; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar

Session 2: 2:15pm - 4:15pm

2.01 Not Quite Six Feet Under: How Not to Perform a Funeral in American Texts (Seminar): Chair: Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology; “Unsatisfactory Gravestones and the Case of Foster’s Coquette”; Jennifer Harris, Mount Allison University; “‘Out of Ashes’: Cotton Mather’s Body-less Resurrection of Sir William Phips”; April Phillips, Purdue University; “Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Morbid Reunion, Transcendent Acceptance, and Lifelong Grief”; Sara Murphy, University of Rhode Island; “Open Graves and False Gravestones: Problematic Mourning in The Little Giant of Aberdeen County”; Ann V. Bliss, Texas A&M University-San Antonio; “Death in Hollywood: Waugh, Black Comedy, and the Corpse”; Ian Scott Todd, Tufts University; “‘As buried as it can get’: Self-funerals and the Violence of Space in Deliverance”; Jenny LeRoy, Graduate Center-CUNY; “Upturned Faces, Second Bases, and Dead Spaces: Stuart Dybek Reads Stephen Crane”; Frank Fury, Monmouth University; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
2.02 Telling Tales Out of School: Community-Based Writing Programs (Workshop): Chair: Bill Waddell, St. John Fisher College; “Telling Tales Out of School”; Joe Flaherty, Writers & Books; Steve Huff, Writers & Books; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
2.03 Love and Society in Giovanni Boccaccio: Comedy, Elegy, Tragedy (Seminar): Chairs: Michael Papio, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Jelena Todorovic, University of Wisconsin-Madison; “Conflicts and Accommodations: Love in the Erotic Novellas of Boccaccio’s Decameron”; Angela Porcarelli, Emory University; “Boccaccio as a Scribal Editor: Book Concept, Language Innovation, Cultural Intermediation”; Michelangelo Zaccarello, Università degli Studi di Verona; “Women’s Wiles: Boccaccio and Contemporary Misogynist Tales”; Olivia Holmes, Binghamton University; “Objectification and Social Criticism in the Decameron”; Lily Glasner, Bar-Ilan University; “«Il Porcile di Venere»: Amore e vituperium nel sogno del Corbaccio”; Rossana Perri, Université de Lausanne; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room C; Add to calendar
2.04 Re-visioning: New Looks for New Versions (Seminar): Chair: Emily Lauer, SUNY Suffolk County Community College; “The Narrative Mechanics of Reboots: What Fans Notice and Why”; Heather Urbanski, Central Connecticut State University; “Where We Have Gone Before: Mimicry and Repeated Imagery in Star Trek”; Balaka Basu, CUNY Graduate Center; “From Gothic to Gritty: Cinematic Representations of the Batman Universe”; Marc Napolitano, United States Military Academy; “DC-Who?: Diverging Discourses in the Creation of a New ‘Universe’”; Lauren Baggett, Concordia University; “Babe or Badass: Transformers, Arcee, and Re-Envisioning the Female Warrior”; Audrey DeLong, SUNY Suffolk County Community College; “En Pointe or Off-Base: Rebooting Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes”; Jaime Warburton, Ithaca College; “The Continuing Relevance of Dr. Moreau”; Susan Austin, Landmark College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
2.05 Italy and its Discontents: Memory and Fiction of the 1943-1948 Transition (Seminar): Chair: Franco Baldasso, New York University; “Crises of History, Crises of Memory: Italian Military Captivity in Africa during WWII”; Elena Bellina, University of Rochester; “Renato Guttuso’s Gott Mit Uns: Considerations on Reality, Testimony, and Representation”; Nicola Lucchi, New York University; “‘Quei bravi ragazzi delle Panzerdivision’: Curzio Malaparte, War Correspondent on the Eastern Front”; Franco Baldasso, New York University; “Anni difficili per Anni difficili di Luigi Zampa (1948)”; Maria Letizia Bellocchio, Rutgers University; “Rome, Open City: Compassionate Involvement and Women’s Individuality”; Simonetta Milli Konewko, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; “Elsa Morante e la seconda guerra mondiale”; Margherita Ganeri, Università della Calabria; “Historical Sorrow and Existential Revisionism in Carlo Mazzantini’s L’ultimo repubblichino”; Giuseppe Tosi, Georgetown University; “Ignazio Silone: Dopo l’esilio e, infine, la Repubblica”; Patricia Peterle, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
2.06 Representation, Secular Violence, and the Politics of South Asian Community (Seminar): Chair: Raji Singh Soni, Queen’s University; “World Bank Literature as a Mode of Production Critique of Late Capitalism”; Abdullah M. Al-Dagamseh, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; “‘Migritude’ and the Poetics of Rights”; Sailaja Krishnamurti, York University; “The Living Dead: Chronoschisms and the Depiction of Conflict”; Arun Nedra Rodrigo, York University; “‘Rememory’ in South Asian Communities: A Critical Enquiry into Amu and Firaaq”; Mantra Roy, University of Washington; “Borderland Spaces and Subjects in Ramchand Pakistani”; Humaira Saeed, University of Manchester; “Accountabilities: Transnational Social Justice Activism and the 1984 Anti-Sikh Pogroms”; Raji Singh Soni, Queen’s University; “History’s F(r)ictions: Re-Imagining Air India in Fiction”; Jennifer Gustar, University of British Columbia; “Representation, Secular Violence, and the Politics of South Asian Community: Respondent’s Views”; Asha Varadharajan, Queen’s University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
2.07 Dissecting the Lower Sensorium: Smell, Taste, and Touch in the Renaissance (Seminar): Chairs: Christopher Madson, University at Buffalo; Colleen Kennedy, Ohio State University; “‘Youth’s Rank Lustiness’: Smell and Sexuality in Donne’s Elegies”; Eileen Baker, Stony Brook University; “Sense of Smell in Shakespeare’s Sonnets”; Hiroyasu Fujisawa, Kinki University; “‘The surgeon is / As we’: The Intimacy of the Lower Senses in John Donne’s Poetry”; Jillian Logan, University of South Dakota; “Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Tongue-Kissing: Tactility and the Kiss”; Pablo Maurette, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “‘Wanton bliss and wicked joy’: Circular Fantasies and Erotic Knowledge in The Faerie Queene”; Jessica Tooker, Indiana University; “Bodies, Tears, and ‘Warm Life-Blood’: Tracing the Metaphysical Heart in Marvell’s Tactile Imagery”; Victoria Muñoz, Ohio State University; “‘I am Taster: commending each dish to thy Palate’: Taste and Senses in Early Modern Cookeries”; Sarah Peters Kernan, Ohio State University; “Feeling the Sacred Body: Sensory Experience and Religious Poetry in 17th c. England”; Christopher Madson, University at Buffalo; “Fee Fi Fo Fum, Identifying the Smell of an Englishman in Shakespeare’s Second Henriad”; Colleen Kennedy, Ohio State University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
2.08 The ‘Return of the Repressed’: From Modernism to Post(?)Modernism (Seminar): Chairs: Jamie Carr, Niagara University; Andrea Yates, University of Rhode Island; “‘Worth being born for’: Death and Return of the Author-Genius in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake”; Emily Bitto, University of Melbourne; “Fearing (and Adoring) Virginia Woolf: Bridging Modernism and Postmodernism in McEwan’s Atonement”; Patrick Thomas Henry, Rutgers University-Newark; “‘The profound madness of Photography’: Trauma Theory and Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida”; Rachel Boccio, University of Rhode Island; “The Monster Inside”; Andrea Yates, University of Rhode Island; “Mourning Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man”; Jamie Carr, Niagara University; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
2.09 Revisiting Clarice Lispector 2012 (Seminar): Chair: Sofia Varino, SUNY Stony Brook; “La desconstrucción de la identidad femenina en Clarice Lispector”; Marianella Collette, Ryerson University; “The Impossibility to Avoid Change – Language and Body in Clarice Lispector’s ‘A Mensagem’”; Raquel Morais, Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa; “Macabéia: a dissonância repentista no acorde imaginário do Nordeste”; Michele Nascimento-Kettner, CUNY Graduate Center; “Paralysis and Transformation: The Writing of Potentiality in Two Short Stories by Clarice Lispector”; Romina Pistacchio, New York University; “La sublimación del pecado: un estudio de los paralelismos entre Clarice Lispector y Georges Bataille”; Alonso Varo Varo, Vanderbilt University; “Rethinking Lispector’s Jewishness in The Passion According to G.H. and The Hour of the Star”; Raelene Wyse, New York University; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
2.10 La renovación de la identidad nacional en la novela histórica latinoamericana (Seminar): Chair: Silvia Belen-Ramos, Fairleigh Dickinson University; “Andrés Rivera: Una relectura de la Historia”; Alberto Ameal-Perez, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; “Revisionismo feminista en la saga de los Osorio de Cristina Bajo”; Silvia Belen-Ramos, Fairleigh Dickinson University; “Re-Imagining the Conquest and Colony in Recent Chilean Narrative”; Kate Quinn, National University of Ireland-Galway; “Espacios conquistados en El país de la canela”; Alejandra Olarte, SUNY Albany; “Autobiografía y novela histórica: Juana M. Gorriti en Juanamanuela mucha mujer de Martha Mercader”; Viviana Rigo de Alonso, Middlebury College; “De la ficción a la realidad: El discurso autobiográfico en Carmela de Amalia Decker Márquez”; Willy Muñoz, Kent State University; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
2.11 Nuclear Criticism and the ‘Exploding Word’ (Seminar): Chair: Michael Blouin, Michigan State University; “Hippie Mysticism, Zen Visions, and the Poetical Diffusion of the Nuclear Crisis”; Morgan Shipley, Michigan State University; “Reason, Power, and the Nuclear: The Reason Fetish and Inevitability of Progress”; Ellen Moll, University of Maryland; “Letter Bomb Redux: A Conversation with Peter Schwenger”; Rhiannon Rogstad, University of Western Ontario; “‘Literature has always belonged to the nuclear epoch’? Nuclear Criticism’s Fabulous Textuality”; Bradley Fest, University of Pittsburgh; “Time Bombs: Theories of History in the Nuclear Age”; Rebecca Evans, Duke University; “Repress, Reuse, Recycle: Fallout in the Age of Terror”; Aaron DeRosa, Purdue University; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
2.12 Representations of the Wound in French and Francophone Literature (Seminar): Chairs: Ian Thomas Fleishman, Harvard University; Kathryn Rose, Harvard University; “Victor Hugo’s Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné: Writing Towards Incompleteness”; Deirdre Sennott, Gettysburg College; “The Literary Wound on Trial: The Censorship of Charles Baudelaire”; Ian Thomas Fleishman, Harvard University; “‘Un vide solide qui ne cessait de me perpétuer’: Figuring the wound in Genet, Beckett, and Cixous”; Joanne Brueton, University College London; “Putting our Hands in the Wounds of Christ: Michel Tournier’s Les Météores”; Melissa Panek, Catholic University of America; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar

Session 3: 4:30pm - 6:00pm

3.01 American Exceptionalism After the Exception (Roundtable): Chairs: John Michael, University of Rochester; Ezra Tawil, University of Rochester; “The Transformational Grammar of American Exceptionalism”; Donald Pease, Dartmouth College; “In Defense of American Exceptionalism”; Kenneth Dauber, SUNY Buffalo; “American Exceptionalism and the Limits of Global Governance”; T. Gregory Garvey, SUNY College-Brockport; “Transnational Exceptionalism: The Future of an Illusion?”; John Michael, University of Rochester; “Different in Degree or in Kind?”; Ezra Tawil, University of Rochester; “Ethnicity as Commodity: Multiculturalism and American Exceptionalism in Mona in the Promised Land”; Lucy Littler, Rollins College; Highland Room A; Add to calendar
3.02 Evil Children in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Chair: Karen J. Renner, Northern Arizona University; “The Evil of Reproductive Futurity in Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour”; Jill E. Anderson, Middle Tennessee State University; “Monsters and Children in the Films of Tobe Hooper”; Kendall R. Phillips, Syracuse University; “Nature v. Nurture: The Bad Seed and Mid-Twentieth-Century Juvenile Delinquency”; Mariah Adin, SUNY Albany; “Judging a Book by Its Cover: Paperback Art, Evil Children, and the 1980s Horror Industry”; Karen J. Renner, Northern Arizona University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided); Highland Room B; Add to calendar
3.03 ‘Fun with a Purpose’: Children’s Magazines as Periodical Pedagogy I: Chair: Patrick Cox, Rutgers University; “Sibling Pedagogy: Brother-Sister Love in 19th-Century American Children’s Periodicals”; Emily VanDette, SUNY Fredonia; “‘For Minnie’s own sake we decline’: Oliver Optic and the Young Women of Our Boys and Girls”; Mikki (Dawn Michelle) Smith, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign; “Teaching by Doing: Interactive Games as Pedagogy in St. Nicholas Magazine”; Brian William Sturm, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; “Periodical Pedagogy in Highlights for Children”; Patrick Cox, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room C; Add to calendar
3.04 Visual Era: Cyberspace, Graphic Novels and Political Cartoons in Latin America: Chair: Hilda Chacon, Nazareth College; “Politics as Seen by Nieves: A Woman’s Graphic Journey through Colombia’s Politics”; Maria Elsy Cardona, Saint Louis University; “Cartografía del ciberespacio en la narrativa mexicana”; Hernán M. García, Wayne State University; “Convergencias mediáticas e hiperrealidad literaria en Otras palabras de Rafael R. Valcárcel”; José Enrique Navarro, University of Texas-Austin; “Cyberspace and Citizens’ Civil Action at the US-Mexican Border”; Hilda Chacón, Nazareth College; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room D; Add to calendar
3.05 Dreamscapes Projected: The Oneiric in Italian Film Culture: Chairs: Francesco Pascuzzi, Rutgers University; Bryan Cracchiolo, SUNY New Paltz; “The Nightmarish in Dario Argento”; Sandra Waters, Texas Christian University; “Bellocchio, Fagioli ed il Cinema dell’Inconscio”; Alessandro De Stefanis, University of Virginia; “Re-Envisioning the Past: Ferzan Özpetek’s Subversive Muses”; Bryan Cracchiolo, SUNY New Paltz; “Crafting Dreams, Selling Dreams: Tornatore’s L’Uomo Delle Stelle and Visconti’s Bellissima”; Lara Santoro, Rutgers University; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room H; Add to calendar
3.06 ‘With all the rub-a-dub of agitation’: Teaching Suffrage Literature (Roundtable): Chair: David Leight, Reading Area Community College; “Agitating the Past: Exploring Suffragism through Creative Drama Methods”; Joy Bracewell, University of Georgia; Heidy Barger, Piedmont College; “Teaching Treacherous Texts: Suffrage Literature in the Classroom”; Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia; “Narrative and Propaganda: Teaching the Call for Women’s Rights”; Amy Easton-Flake, Brandeis University; “Teaching Suffrage, Cinema, and Women’s Literature”; Amy Shore, SUNY Oswego; “The Uprising of 20,000 and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire”; Stephanie Smith, University of Florida; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room F; Add to calendar
3.07 The Ph.D. in Creative Writing or a Creative Writer with a Literature Ph.D.? (Roundtable): Chair: Scott Henkle, CUNY Graduate Center; “The Stifled Writer and the Ph.D.”; Silas Dent Zobal, Susquehanna University; “Without Contraries Is No Progression: The Benefits of Split Attention”; Jonathan Crimmins, University of Washington; “Negotiating Disciplinary Constraints”; Louis Bury, New York University; “Duplicitous Credentials: Terminal Degree Velocity in the Academy”; Nat Hardy, Savannah State University; “Professionalizing Creative Work as a Lit Ph.D. Student: Networking within Small Press Communities”; Kristina Marie Darling, SUNY Buffalo; Highland Room J; Add to calendar
3.08 The Gothic Aesthetic: Chair: Kellie Donovan Condron, Babson College; “The Nonhuman Taste of Bram Stoker’s Narrative”; David Del Principe, Montclair State University; “‘I once more tasked my understanding and my senses’: Sensual Stimuli in Charles Brockden Brown”; Emily Petermann, University of Göttingen; “Haptic Gothicism: Slime and the Category of Property”; Daniel Fineman, Occidental College; “The Beat Goes On: Popular Music, Nostalgia, and Terror in The Shining and Christine”; Alissa Burger, SUNY Delhi; Highland Room E; Add to calendar
3.09 Portuguese Language and Literature Special Event (Special Event): Chair: Cristina Santos, Brock University; “Lives and Afterlives of Clarice Lispector”; Benjamin Moser, Independent Scholar; Multimedia Session: Media Projector and Screen (laptop not provided) w/speakers; Highland Room G; Add to calendar
3.10 ‘Crossing the dark sky of exile’: Vladimir Nabokov and the Issue of Exile: Chair: John Cameron, Dalhousie University; “The Enchanter: Nabokov and Happiness”; Lila Azam Zanganeh, Harvard University; “Nabokov’s Index Puzzle: Exile and the Quest for Transcendence in Speak, Memory”; Michael Garcia, Clarkson University; “Tied by His Own Twisted Heartstrings: Bend Sinister and the Refusal of Exile”; Adam Barrows, Carleton University; “The Exile Society of The Original of Laura (Dying is Fun)”; Yannicke Chupin, University of Franche-Comté; Highland Room K; Add to calendar
3.11 Ecocritical Approaches to Francophone Literatures I: Chair: Douglas Boudreau, Mercyhurst College; “Making Space for Slavery: Eco-Spatial Perspectives in (Post)colonial Caribbean Narratives”; Randolph R. Turnbull III, Florida State University; “Rootedness, a Troublesome Metaphor: Enracination, Eradication, and the Caribbean”; Christy Wampole, Princeton University; “An Eco-Critical Reading of J.-C. Rufin’s Le Parfum d’Adam”; Gilles Mossière, Mount Royal University; “The Environmental Text, à la francaise?”; Stephanie Posthumus, McGill University; Aqueduct Room AB; Add to calendar
3.12 Translating the Orient: On Rendering Oriental Texts into German: Chair: Petia Parpoulova, University of Washington; “Beyond the Surface of German Orientalism: Intellectual Practices and Sociology of Knowledge”; Bradley Herling, Marymount Manhattan College; “Literary Translation and Aesthetic Anthropology: Georg Forster’s Śakuntalā”; Madhuvanti Chintamani Karyekar, Indiana University-Bloomington; “On Action and Judgement in Zweig’s Reception of The Bhagavadgita”; Ashwin Manthripragada, University of California-Berkeley; Aqueduct Room CD; Add to calendar
3.13 Whip Me, Beat Me: The Representation of Violence against Women: Chair: Victoria Ketz, Iona College; “Back and Forth through the Looking Glass: Trauma, Youth and Aging in Sonia Coutinho’s O Caso Alice”; Erin Redmond, Alfred University; “Stories of the Dying and Tortured Females in Bueno’s La niña tumbada and Clua’s Skin in Flames”; Paola M. Kersch, D’Youville College; “Just Instincts: Woman’s Body and Rape in Maupassant’s Narrative”; Kalplata, English and Foreign Languages University-Hyderabad; “Black and Blue: Abuse and Torture in Mercè Rodoreda’s Works”; Victoria L. Ketz, Iona College; Cascade Room A; Add to calendar
3.14 The Ethnic and Racial Other in Scottish Writings: Chair: Bob Thomson, Deakin University; “On Kilts & Cannibals: The Lens of Scottish Identity in Stevenson’s South Pacific Writings”; Jeffrey Clayton, Lee College; “An Occluded Other: The Vanishing Dispossessed in Sir Walter Scott’s Three Jacobite Novels”; Bob Thomson, Deakin University; “Saladin and Tipu: The Depiction of Muslim Orientals in Sir Walter Scott’s Novels”; Suha Kudsieh, College of Staten Island-CUNY; Cascade Room B; Add to calendar
3.15 Issues of Mobility and Confinement in Women’s Literature I: Chairs: Abigail Aldrich, Lehigh University; Marie Molnar, Lehigh University; “The Uncertainty of the Sea: Shipwreck, Captivity, and Narrative Community in Wroth’s Urania”; Marie Molnar, Lehigh University; “Forward at Any Cost: Goethe and the Female Zombie-body in Victorian Women’s Literature”; Jennifer McCollum, Community College of Vermont; “Charting Puerto Rican Sexual Subjectivities in Erika Lopez’s Road Novels”; Marci Carrasquillo, Rowan University; “Trauma, Confinement, and Community in Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls...”; Abigail Aldrich, Lehigh University; Cascade Room C; Add to calendar
3.16 Gender in a Postnational Context I: Chair: Johanna Rossi Wagner, Pennsylvania State University; “Dreams of Autonomous Zones: Finding Alternatives to the Nation-State in Williams and Allende”; Julia Pompetti, University of Delaware; “Epistles in the Ether: Feminism and the Contemporary Novel”; Jennifer Smith, Concordia University; “Hannah Webster Foster’s Patriarchal Warnings”; Hannah Ruehl, East Tennessee State University; “Transatlantic Relations in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty”; Elizabeth Abele, Nassau Community College; Cascade Room D; Add to calendar