Panel Area Index

The Adoption Memoir 3.08

African American Autobiography & the Archives: Teaching Students to Be Scholars 7.21

‘Ah Got De Law in My Mouth’: Black Women Writing Justice 5.20

The American Aesthetic of Marilynne Robinson 4.10

American Collaborations 11.16

American Drama as Political Discourse 12.25

CAITY Reception and Business Meeting 8.24

Capital in Crisis 14.23

The Changing Shape of the Suburb in Recent Fiction and Film 13.26

Chaos in Tranquility: Humor in American Life Writing 4.23

The Coming of Age Stories of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison 4.20

Delineating the Contemporary in American Literature 7.22

Down the Highway, Down the Tracks/Poetics, Geography and Location 1.18

Ecocriticism and Contemporary American Literature 16.03

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American Masculinities 3.21

Female Absence and Expressions of Black Masculinity 8.25

Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form: Buddhism and American Poetry 14.19

Formal Progress? American Poetry 1890-1933 12.26

Four Dimensions: Spatio-Temporal Shifts Reflected in 19th-Century Literature 16.17

Henry James’s Children 7.12

Illness, Wellness and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing 13.25

In-betweenness in Adolescent Literature 7.23

Individual and Collective Memory in Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Literature 8.22

James and the Women 4.24

Leon Edel and Henry James Biography 3.02

Leon Edel and Henry James Scholarship 6.23

Looking Back on Activism and American Literature of the Twentieth Century 6.25

Lying With the Truth: Harrower, Nabokov, and Shanley Blink! 11.07

‘Making Her Meaning Known’: New Scholarship about Audre Lorde 6.24

Modernism, Poetry, and Faith 5.23

‘Mother of everyone’: The Art and Legacy of Muriel Rukeyser 13.05

NeMLA Diversity Committee Forum 8.19

New Formalism, Aesthetics, and American Literary Studies 1.20

New Perspectives on Martin R. Delany 10.23

Perception and Nation in Early America 9.25

Performing Race in American Literature and Culture 17.15

Poetics and Worldview: The Poet as Cultural Critic 14.22

The Politics of the Western 3.20

(Re)Writing Anaïs Nin and Her Diaries 12.24

Re-Approaching the ‘Patriarch’ in Asian North American Literature 8.14

Re-reading American Romance: Text, Context, Meta-text 17.16

Reception and Business Meeting for Anglophone Literatures 15.03

Reconsidering Consolation in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Elegiac Writing 13.24

Representations of the Body in African-American Literature 9.01

Rethinking Home: Representations of Male Domesticity 10.04

Rethinking Narrative in Contemporary Poetry 17.03

Romancing America: Authorship, National Identity, and the Writing of Historical 8.21

Serializing Fiction I 2.17

Serializing Fiction II 5.22

Teaching Early Native American Literature 7.24

Terrified White Masculinity in Twentieth-Century American Literature 5.24

Theorizing Compassion: Activism and Global Citizenship in Alice Walker 14.09

‘Theres nothing so sensible as sensual inundation’: Mary Oliver’s Poetics 7.26

‘This world only my body remembered’: Women Writing Nature, Nation and Self 2.18

Turning Their Backs on the Land: American Literature at the Waterline 5.25

Unearthing Ephemera: Retrieving the Extra-Poetic Work of 20th-C American Poets 8.20

The Urban Pastoral in Contemporary American Fiction 9.24

Urban Places: The Literary Ecology of American Cities 1.19

The Visualizing Gift: Description and Material Culture in the Novel 2.07

With Great Pleasure: Sentimentality in Early African-American Literature 13.23

Writing Across the Medicine Line: Confinement and Freedom in Native Literature 10.24

The Aesthetics of Social Problem Literature 11.17

Affect and Ethnic Literature 9.21

Death Resentenced 9.22

The Future of Women’s Literature in Modernist Studies 3.18

Importance of Studying Oscar [Wilde]: His Plays, Stories, Letters, and Lectures 4.09

Insular Identities and the Borders of Medieval Britain 3.19

Jane Austen and the Contemporary World: Continuing the Conversation 13.22

Lessons in Sympathy in 19th-century British Literature 10.22

‘Limits of Language’: From Experimentation to Ethics in a Modern World 14.08

The Margins of the Logos: Children in 19th Century English Literature 13.20

The Marketplace in/and Twentieth-Century Literature 4.22

The Multicultural Middle Ages 12.04

Negotiating History, Memory, and Trauma in New South African Literature 13.21

Our Present Time and Self-Made Misery: Anti-Industrialism in Tolkien’s Fiction 14.20

Overreachers & Machiavels: The Works of Christopher Marlowe 5.26

‘Pillars of Witness’: Brontë Literature as Commentary 5.19

The Politics of Meat in the Nineteenth Century Novel 12.21

Psychoanalysis and Early Modern English Tragedy 6.22

Redefining Masculinity in 20th-Century British Popular Fiction and Culture 11.15

Religious Argumentation in Women’s Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century 10.21

Rethinking Modernism, Rethinking the Child: Modernist Experiments in Childland 4.04

Rhetoric, Rights, and Transatlantic Modernist Fiction 14.21

Shakespeare and the Environment 6.21

Shakespeare’s Cougars 7.20

Teaching Shakespeare 4.21

To Give or Not To Give: The Ethics of Nineteenth-Century Charity 5.21

Travelling Genre, Geopolitical Space, and Reception, 1775-1830 2.16

Uncovering the Irish Woman in Early 20th Century Fiction 7.19

Violence & Passion in 20th Century Irish Literature & Film 10.08

William Blake and His Influence 8.07

William Blake in Conversation 13.09

William Hogarth: Interpretation and Influence 6.05

Women and the Politics of the Vernacular 3.07

Zadie Smith: After the First Decade 12.22

Zadie Smith: After the First Decade II 17.14

The Boundaries of Québec in Contemporary Immigrant Fiction 11.14

Ecocriticism and Canada I: Queer Nature, (Non)Human Geography, and Biotechnology 6.20

Ecocriticism and Canada II: (Re)Imagining Space, Place, and People 12.20

French-Canadian Literatures Outside Quebec 1.17

Indigenous Literatures of Native North America 4.26

Literary Montreals 14.07

Margaret Atwood and Canada: Interventions, Influences, Interconnections 5.18

Montreal Poets 14.24

Queering the Caribbean: Toward Open Discussion of Queerness in Caribbean Writing 5.17

(Re-) Writing Caribbean History Through Literature 13.19

Beckett’s Letters 1.16

Canada and the Spanish-Speaking World 3.04

The City as a Space of Exile 4.17

Communal Modernisms 4.08

Comparative Postcolonialities 16.16

Dante meets MTV: Studying Medieval Literature in a Post-Medieval Context 14.06

Displacement, Dispossession, and Uprootedness 1.02

Fiction Writers, 1960 to the Present, and Their Use of Fairy Tales 9.18

Fictional Histories/Historical Fictions: Renaissance Historical Fiction 4.19

Figuring out Fascism 7.17

French and German Exile Writers: Dialogues 17.07

Literary Histories: Early Modern England’s Historical Fiction Tradition 12.18

Male Femininity in Twentieth Century Literature of the Americas 12.19

Mysticism, Epiphany, and Enunciation Narratives 2.02

No More ‘Happily Ever After’? : Rewriting Fairy Tales in the Postmodern 13.02

Poetry with Questions 12.17

Postcolonial Ecologies 7.18

Seeing Things: Dreams, Visions and Hallucinations 8.06

Shakespeare, Language and Translation: An Inquiry into National Identity 2.06

Textual Refigurations: Rewriting Old Texts into New Contexts 17.01

Thinking the Sacred Today 9.20

Transformations of Antiquity in the Long Eighteenth Century 5.16

Translation and Human Rights 14.18

Translation and Translingualism 2.15

Whose Africa?: Representations of Africa in African and Diasporic Literatures I 5.02

Whose Africa?: Representations of Africa in African and Diasporic Literatures II 12.05

Women, Utopia and the Fantastic in 20th and 21st-century narratives 9.19

The World is Not Flat: Body Traffic across the Global Village 4.01

Black Modernisms: Harlem Renaissance, Negrismo, Negritude 6.19

Creative Writing in the Composition Classroom 1.15

The Cultures of Literature and Composition: Revisiting the Relationship 10.20

If We’re Writing about Writing, Then What Kind of Writing Do We Assign? 6.18

New Media, New Narrative: Technological Effects on Student Writing 12.07

Re-Imagining First-Year Composition 7.07

Responding to Representations of Trauma in Student Essays in College Writing 6.12

Teaching the Connections: Interdisciplinary Dialogue in the Classroom II 14.17

Border Crossing Poetry 11.03

Original Poetry and Teaching the Creative Writing Process 10.19

The Personal Narrative in Political Times 10.09

Cinema and the Narrative 13.18

Cinematic Representation of Immigration, Spaces and Identities 2.05

Considering the Reading of Films 9.07

El espacio en el cine del siglo XXI 10.07

Film and Philosophy 4.18

Film: Poetics versus Theory 5.07

From the Favela to the Novela 3.16

Global Cinemas 1.01

Lost Pasts/Broken Futures: Forgetting as Narrative Crisis in Film 6.01

Representations of the Working-Class in Film 6.02

Advocating for a Good Cause: Building and Maintaining a Strong French Program 9.16

Au Croisement: la fermentation intellectuelle dans la littérature maghrébine 7.16

Between Present and Past: Nostalgia in Francophone Literature I 13.15

Between Present and Past: Nostalgia in Francophone Literature II 17.12

The Church and Secularization in 20- and 21st-Century French and Québécois Lit 14.16

Elles réécrivent leur H/histoire(s) entre le particulier et le collectif 8.17

Empowering Silence 4.15

The Enlightenment Philosophical Ethos: Persuasion and Literary Self-Fashioning 12.16

From Nomad to Nobel Laureate: (Re-) Examining J.M.G. Le Clézio in 2010 3.14

Fun and Games in Medieval France 6.17

Her Story: Telling Stories of French and Francophone Women’s Lives 11.13

Intrangers: les écrivains beurs des origines à nos jours 12.08

Judging Women: Law, Literature and Female Guilt 2.14

La lettre pose-t-elle de nouveaux enjeux en littérature? 10.17

Le cinéma français contemporain 7.01

Les pratiques scripturales de la migrance littéraire I 4.16

Les pratiques scripturales de la migrance littéraire II 6.08

Les tropes artistiques: quelles nécessités textuelles? 9.17

Literature as the Locus of Questioning and Evolution in French Caribbean Writing 12.15

Littératures en langue française: quoi de neuf? 8.18

Madness in Women’s French and Francophone Fiction 5.14

Maghrebian and Arabic Literature: Resisting or Embracing Modernism? 14.15

Masculinities in Recent Francophone Literature: 1900-present. 10.18

Places of Transformation and Connection in Postcolonial Francophone Writers 16.07

Rebelles, mécréantes et criminelles dans la littérature francophone 13.16

Rebelles, mécréantes et criminelles dans la littérature francophone II 17.13

Recent Trends in Sub-Saharan Francophone Literature and Criticism 10.16

Recent Trends in Sub-Saharan Francophone Literature and Criticism II 14.14

Rethinking Feminist Language and Theory 3.15

Scénographie romanesque de la maladie et de la mort au XIXe et XXe 1.14

Seventeenth-Century French Writers’ Lives 5.15

Technologies et acquisition du français: un potentiel pédagogique tangible? as 9.06

War in French Literature 13.17

A Bridge Too Far: Bisexuality in Contemporary Culture 5.01

Double Agencies: Parsing Dissent between LGBTQ Studies and Queer Theory 6.13

Ghostly Women & Apparitional Lesbians 11.09

Ghostly Women and Apparitional Lesbians II 17.09

Places, Faces, and Queer Spaces 9.12

Queer Transformations: From Page to Screen (and Back) 10.02

Red, White and Blues for Mr. Charlie: Baldwin’s New Queer America 3.11

Architecture and Literature 1.12

Archives of Transgression / Transgressing the Archive 3.06

(Auto)biographical Features in Post-Unification Literature I 12.14

(Auto)biographical Features in Post-Unification Literature II 17.11

Beyond Girls in Uniform & Death in Venice: Questioning a Queer German Canon 7.14

The Body in German Realism and Naturalism 1.13

Contemporary Jewish-German Authors 14.13

Cultural Memory and Diversity in Postunification Discourses 11.06

Downtown: Cityscapes in Post-Wall German Literature 9.08

Exhibiting Capital(s): Berlin and Beyond 16.06

Female Authors and Images of Femininity: From the Weimar to the Berlin Republic 10.15

Gender and Performance in 18th-century German Literature 6.09

German Area Special Event 15.02

German Masters Reloaded 3.13

Interviews & Literature: Self-Commentary, Self-Presentation and Narrative Form 5.06

The Library in German Literature 5.03

Literary production of non-territorial german-speaking writers 16.15

Literature and Time 9.15

Outside from Within: The German Literary Outsider 4.13

Rewriting and Reinventing the American West in German Culture 8.09

Satirical Aesthetics and Subtexts in Contemporary German Literature and Film 7.15

The Sociability of Print 10.05

Space and Subjectivity in German-language Modernist Literature 2.13

Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust - in English or in German? 14.05

Transcending the Binaries: Re-conceptualizing Heimat and Fremde 8.16

Translating German-Language Literature 6.16

Translation and the Transnational Past 4.14

Traveling and Yet Standing Still? - Travel in the Age of Globalization 13.14

Walter Benjamin and Memory 17.10

Women and Politics in Swiss German Film and Literature 13.13

900 sommerso 1.10

19th c. Italian Writing: National History, Literary Genres and Linguistic Norms 16.14

Alla Ricerca di Nuove Identità nel Teatro Italiano Contemporaneo 2.11

Best New Practices in Teaching Italian with Technology 13.08

Beyond Traduttore/Traditore: Translation from/into Italian across the Centuries 12.03

Bridging the Gap Between Language and Content in the Foreign Language Class 3.03

Comparative Futurism 11.05

Contemporary Italian Cinema 14.02

Food as Reality and Metaphor in 20th Century Italy 9.14

The Giallo Italiano from 1945 to the Present 6.06

Homosexual Women in Italian Literature, Cinema and Other Media I 2.04

Homosexual Women in Italian Literature, Cinema and Other Media II 6.04

The Interplay of Literature, Music, Theater, Cinema and the Visual Arts 8.05

Italian Contemporary Poetry 10.14

Italian Language Area Business Meeting 15.05

Italian Literature: From The Twentieth Century Into The New Millennium 16.01

Italian Literature: Renaissance to Humanism 3.12

Italian Political Theatre from the Renaissance to the XXI Century 16.13

Italian Short Story 9.13

Italian Urban Landscape and Identities. 13.06

Italian Women Writers and Autobiography 5.13

La poesia italiana del XX secolo. 11.12

Language, Literature, and Culture in Italy’s New ‘Multiculturalism’ 17.05

Leggere e (ri) scrivere in epoca umanistica: esegesi e libertas dicendi 1.11

Literature and Cinema of the Fascist Period 6.15

Male in Progress Re-defining Masculinities in Italian Studies. 16.12

Medieval Italian Literary Culture: In Memory of Michelangelo Picone 1.09

The Myth of Rome 7.03

Nature in Italian Literature and Film 10.06

Past and Present on the Screen: History and Society in Italian Film 1.06

Physical and Mental Diseases: Plague and Hypochondria in Italian Literature 10.01

Pier Vittorio Tondelli: 30 Years After Altri libertini 6.14

Primo Levi’s Works Between Testimony and Literature 2.12

Shifting Boundaries of Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood in Italian Film 5.05

Teaching Italian Culture I 13.07

Teaching Italian Culture II 17.08

Travel-Writing from its Origins to the Present 14.12

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Canonical Works 5.12

Interlanguage Commmunication: Mishaps of Misunderstood Language 3.17

Methods for Teaching and Improving Conversation in the Second Language 7.13

Multiculturalism and Globalism in the Millennial Classroom 11.11

Multilingual Texts in the FL Classroom 6.07

No Turning Back: Distance Education in 2010 4.07

The Politics of Our Shared Learning Space 10.13

The Publishing Revolution: Creating Textbook Content with Web 2.0 Tools 8.04

Teaching the Connections: Interdisciplinary Dialogue in the Classroom 9.11

Technical/ Professional Writing for Undergraduates 8.23

Translation and Pedagogy 8.15

‘Why Do They Hate Us?’: Teaching 9/11 Literature 16.05

Writing Faculties: Intersections of Creativity and Pedagogy 2.10

Breaking Atoms: Reading Hip Hop as Literature 4.12

Completely LOST: Going Back to TV’s Most Elusive Island 13.12

Cultural Studies and Film Screening (7:30pm) 15.04

Exhibit Talk: 10.26

Gay Representations in Film: A New, More Androgynous, Nationalist Imaginary? 11.01

House Work: Masters and Servants in Post-Modern Culture 3.01

Images of Prophecy: Dystopian and Apocalyptic Graphic Novels 12.09

Inking the Self: Autobiography in Comics 16.04

New Directions in Detective Fiction 1.08

Our Monsters, Ourselves 8.02

Pictures of an Exhibition: Museums and Collections in Literature and Media 4.06

Playing Web 2.0: Intertextuality, Narrative and Identity in New Media 4.05

Popular Culture Area Event 11.08

Postmodern Tourism 17.04

The Power of Images: The Ethics and Efficacy of Photography 7.08

Resilience Narratives in Literature and Popular Culture 9.05

Rethinking Quality TV 14.01

The Silent Figure in Literature, Film and Culture 10.25

Slumming It: Metatextual Bleeding Between “Literature” and Popular Media 5.11

Spirits Rapping: Spiritualism in Anglo-American Fiction 4.25

Graduate Caucus Business Meeting 15.06

Navigating the Academic Nexus 10.12

The Practice and Purposes of Book Reviewing 2.09

Publishing an Edited Collection of Essays 12.13

The Role of Non-Tenure Track Faculty in the Academy 7.25

After the Berlin Wall: Rethinking Contemporary Russian and East European Writing 7.11

Russian Poetry: The Silver Age 9.10

Russian Women Writers: New Views 8.13

Amnesia and Memory in Contemporary Spanish Cinema 3.05

The Articulate Silence of Women Authors/Literary Subjects in Early Modern Spain 16.11

Behind the Spanish Lens: Stars and Sexualities in Contemporary Spanish Film 1.07

Contemporary Trends in Latin American Narrative 16.09

Controversy as Art and Political (In)Correctness in Latin America 12.11

Dictatorship and the Novel: A Transatlantic Comparison 13.01

Don Quixote: Perspectives on the Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes 10.10

The Dramatic Monologue in Hispanic Poetry 6.11

El cine y la literatura en la formación de la identidad nacional hispánica I 2.01

El cine y la literatura en la formación de la identidad nacional hispánica II 4.11

(En)Gendering Literary Translation 14.11

Envisioning the Spanish Empire 17.06

Escritores hispanos de aquí y allá: polémicas y críticas del siglo XX 9.02

Genre, Invention, and Modernity in Nineteenth Century Spain 2.08

A Global Stage: Dramatizing the Non-Hispanic in Spanish Peninsular Theatre 10.11

Historia y televisión en España 7.04

Ideology and Popular Culture in the Spanish Avant-Garde 12.12

Immigration Stories 8.12

The Internet as a Contestatory Medium in Latin America 5.04

La narrativa de la dictadura en Latinoamerica 5.10

La novela gráfica: formas alternativas de narrar 13.04

Latin American Women’s Writing and the Fantastic 13.11

Luis de Góngora’s Legacy in Modern Hispanic Literature 13.03

Memory and Violence in Iberian Literatures and Cultures 1.04

Mujeres afro-descendientes en Latino América 1.05

Narrativas de la memoria y la violencia política 16.10

Performing Democracy: Cultural Representations in the Spanish Transition 9.04

Poesía y mujer 7.10

Post-Imperial Encounters between Spain and Portugal and East Asia 16.08

Re(In)vision of Africa in Contemporary Spanish Texts 6.10

Screening Spanish American Revolutions 7.09

Spanish Golden Age Drama in Performance 14.04

Spanish Theater and the Contemporary Memory Boom 9.09

Teatro contemporáneo español visto desde EE.UU.: José Ramón Fernández 11.10

Un mundo al revés: la re-escritura de cuentos infantil 8.03

Women Writing Spanish American Revolution(s) 5.08

Analytic Philosophy and the Novel 3.09

Art as Symptom? Yes! 7.06

The Ethical Turn to Literature 12.10

The Ethical Turn to Literature II: Genre, the Reader, and the Political 16.02

If the Lion Could Speak: The Animal Story in North American Literature 6.26

Illuminating the Everyday Imagination 14.03

Literary Studies and the Affective Turn 13.10

Literature and Science: A Reciprocal Exchange? 8.10

Post-Colonial Theory Featured Speaker 11.04

Queer Ecocriticism and Literature 8.01

Race and Narrative in Twentieth Century Literature 14.10

Re-Defining / Re-Mapping Queer Identities 12.01

Seeking a Postmodern God: Figures of the Absent Center in Contemporary Writing 8.11

Translation and Identity: Transforming the Personal Toward the National/Global 11.18

Being and Thinking as an Academic Mother: Theory and Narrative 7.05

Classic and Contemporary American Girl Lit: Girls’ Worlds 2.03

Classic and Contemporary American Girl Lit: Place & Space 5.09

Literary Hostesses 9.03

Literary Motherhood in the New World 4.02

National Identities in Twentieth Century Women’s Writing 12.02

Recasting the Role: Older Women in Memoir and Drama 1.03

Traveling Alone: Women Migrating Across Cultures 17.02

Where Are We Now? The Evolution of Women’s, Gender and Feminist Studies 8.08

Women’s Caucus Event 15.01

Gender and Expression in Chinese Literature 11.02

Identity, Resistance and Challenges to the Center in Portuguese-speaking Africa 6.03

South Asia’s Orients 9.23

Teaching The Story of the Stone as World Literature 12.06

Teaching Contemporary Fiction from the Middle East 7.02

Technology, Migrations and Displacements in the Portuguese-Speaking Spaces 4.03