Friday March 2

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Session 2       Friday, April 11      8:30-10:00 a.m.

2.01 Niagara Room

The Secret (And Not so Secret) Origins of Comic Books 

Chair: William Duffy, Classics, University at Buffalo

• "Building the Perfect Superhero: Eugenics , Science and America-Themed Superheroes" 

Cord Scott, Loyola University (Chicago)

• "Treading on the Shroud: Martin Rowson's Graphic Novel Version of Tristram Shandy" 

Leann Davis Alspaugh, Independent Scholar

• "Batman in the Victorian Tradition" 

Raymond O'Meara, Brookdale Community College

• "Father Nelson H. Baker: A Holy Man in the Comics" 

Heather Hartel, Independent Scholar

2.02 Regency A

Exposition, Exhibition: Theories of Display 

Chair: Christian Flaugh, SUNY-Buffalo

• "Questions of Contemporary Identity through Exhibition and Display: Documenta 12 and Ai Weiwei's Fairytale" 

Erica Pastore, SUNY Buffalo

• "Bodies on Display, Baroque Moral Pornography?" 

David Castillo, SUNY Buffalo

• "Freak Movement: Disability, Display, and the Problem of Circulation" 

Tyler Bradway, Rutgers University

• "In the Flesh: Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds and the Cultural Politics of the Dead on Display" 

Kris Vander Lugt, Iowa State University

2.03 Franklin Room

Prescribing Gender in Medicine and Narrative (Roundtable)

 Chair: Marcelline Block, Princeton University

• "*Sissi, l'impératrice rebelle* : Anorexia, Trauma, and the Early Talking Cure" 

Marcelline Block, Princeton University

• "Bodies in Motion: Medical Innovation or the Replication of the Androcentric Medical Model?" 

Daniel Farr, College of St. Rose

• "Sympathy, the Nurse, and Female Power in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree" 

Rebecca Garden, SUNY Upstate Medical University

• "Diet Books M(ale) D(octor)s" 

Vivian Halloran, Indiana University

• "From 'Nightingales' to 'Grey's Anatomy': Changing Representations of Women Nurses and Women Doctors in American Prime-Time Television Series (1989-2008)" 

Anne Hudson Jones, The University of Texas Medical Branch

• "Not Fatal, but Freakish: Male Body Image and the Clinical Gaze in 'My Mammogram'" 

Angela Laflen, Marist College

2.04 Regency C

Latin American Cinema: Identity and Nation 

Chair: Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt, Rider University

• "Man's Wolf to Man: Queer Negotiations in Gustavo Postiglione's 'El asadito'" 

Raúl A. Galoppe, Montclair State University

• "El pícaro porteño en 'Nueve reinas'" 

Hernán J. Fontanet, Rider University

• "Identidades del desarraigo en 'La primera noche'" 

Diana Rodriguez Quevedo, University of Toronto

2.05 Grand E

Becoming Indigenous: The Aesthetics of Place and Community in Twentieth-Century American Literature 

Chairs: Benjamin Priest, University at Buffalo and and Josh Weinstein, Virginia Wesleyan College

• "Global Horses and Posthuman Indians" 

Brandon Fastman, University of California-Santa Barbara

• "Becoming Indigenous: The Place-Based Aesthetics of Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain and Helen Hunt Jackson's Bits of Travel at Home" 

Benjamin Priest, University at Buffalo

• "Native and Nation: Gary Snyder's Indigenous Poetry" 

Emily Hegarty, SUNY Nassau Community College

• "Indigenous Landscapes in Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams" 

Josh Weinstein, Virginia Wesleyan College

2.06 Regency B

Violence in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist I 

Chair: Pascale LaFountain, Harvard University

• "Murder and Other Dastardly Deeds in Kleist's Novellas" 

Kim Fordham, Augustana Campus, University of Alberta

• "Schlagt ihn tot! Das Weltgericht/Fragt euch nach den Gruenden nicht!' - Heinrich von Kleist as Poet of War" 

Martina Lüke, University of Connecticut

• "Epistemologies of War: Kleist, Clausewitz, Tolstoy" 

Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Harvard University

• "Gegen Bilder, gegen Menschen, gegen Schiller: Der Dreiklang der Gewalt in Kleists 'Die heilige Caecilie oder die Gewalt der Musik'" 

Torsten Hoffmann, University of Goettingen

2.07 Grand C

Italian Literature: Renaissance to Humanism 

Chair: Maryann Tebben, Bard College-Simon's Rock

• "An Unpublished 16th-century Poem in the Petrarchan Style on the Flyleaf of a 1528 Edition of the Petrarch's Sonnetti, Canzoni and Trionfi" 

Patricia Erskine-Hill, Baylor University

• "Torre il Libero Arbitrio': Literary Texts Debating Free Will, & Other 'Heresies' in the Mid-Cinquecento" 

Elizabeth Pallitto, Fatih University-Istanbul

• "Insatiable Desire: from Calandrino to the 'Candelaio'" 

Julia Cozzarelli, Ithaca College

• "Giulia da Gazuolo, A Renaissance Heroine" 

Antonella Ansani, Queensborough Community College-CUNY

2.08 Grand B

Literature of New York 

Chair: Sabrina Fuchs-Abrams, SUNY Empire State College

• "A Bulwark Against the Modernity of New York: The Mutual Delusion of Ghosts and Love as Conservative Self-Defense in James' The Jolly Corner" 

Jon Readey, University of Virginia

• "The City as Perpetual Motion Machine in Dos Passos' 'Manhattan Transfer'" 

Heidi Bollinger, University of Rochester

• "Dorothy Parker's Satire of the New York Literary Left'" 

Sabrina Fuchs-Abrams, SUNY Empire State College

• "Lorde, de Prima, and New York: Women's Urban Identity Formation'" 

Kirsten Ortega, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs

2.09 Grand F

Black Writers and the Left 

Chair: Kristin Moriah, McGill University

• "Thirties Performance Revising Harlem Renaissance Poetry: Langston Hughes' Don't You Want to Be Free?" 

Michael Rozendal, University of San Francisco

• "Kulaks and Commissars and Robesons': Ann Petry's The Narrows and Cold War Radicalism" 

Robin Lucy, Eastern Michigan University

• "The two races, it seems, 'understand each other': George Schulyer's Southern Tour and Documentary Representation" 

Richard Hancuff, George Washington University

• "Outside the Groove of History: Time, History and Ideology in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" 

Kristin Moriah, McGill University

2.10 Grand G

Alice Munro in the 1980s 

Chair: Tracy Ware, Queen's University

• "Chaddeleys and Flemings': Thinking Twice About Regret" 

Tracy Ware, Queen's University

• "'There weren't places like this then': Late-Life Identity and Technological Change in 'Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Kidd'" 

Sara Jamieson, Carleton University

• "'A Reality You Can Hardly Bear': Anti-Detection in 'Fits'" 

Marilyn Rose, Brock University

• "The Way the Skin of the Moment Can Break Open': Reading 'White Dump'" 

Robert Thacker, St. Lawrence University

2.11 Seneca Room

The Ethics of Power: Feminism in the Composition Classroom 

Chair: Christy I. Wenger, Lehigh University

• "Storied Arguments: Moving Students from the Rational Arguer to the Personal Voice" 

Christy I. Wenger, Lehigh University

• "Antagonistic Authoritarian and/ or Expressionistic Nurturer: The Contrasting Roles of Female Composition Instructors" 

Patricia Pytleski, Kutztown University

• "Beyond the Male Gaze: The Search for Female Perspective in Film and Writing" 

Sara E. McCown, University of Pittsburgh

• "Feminism and Writing: Who Wants To Talk About That?" 

Kristina Fennelly, Lehigh University

2.12 Delaware A

Francophone Caribbean Writing 

Chair: Timothy Gerhard, SUNY Cortland

• "Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal and Francophone Studies Today" 

Timothy M. Gerhard, SUNY Cortland

• "Just Joking: Humor, Self-Representation and Social Critique in Antillean Fiction" 

Nicole Simek, Whitman College

• "Between Beethoven and Boubous: Cultural Alienation in Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane" 

Leah Lyons, Middle Tennessee State University

• "Pointe-à-Pitre-Paris: Aller simple et/ou Aller(s)-Retour(s) ?" 

Stephanie Silvestre, Northwestern University

2.13 Boardroom

Genius in the Nineteenth Century 

Chair: Kelly Ross, The University of North Carolina

• "Nat Turner and the 'Criminal Genius'" 

Erin Forbes, Princeton University

• "An Unprincipled Man of Genius': Poe's Dupin as a Model of Genius" 

Kelly Ross, The University of North Carolina

• "Owning Genius: Collecting the Outstanding in the Early Fiction of Henry James" 

Natasha Alvandi Hunt, University of Southern California

• Respondent: Gustavus T. Stadler, Haverford College

2.14 Conference Ctr. Rm J

The New Orthodoxy: Religion in Contemporary Jewish American Literature 

Chair: Amanda Toronto, New York University

• "Shades of Anti-Semitism: The Laurentians and the Catskills as Litmus Tests for Acceptance" 

Karen E. H. Skinazi, University of Alberta

• "Rebbes Daughters: The New Chosen" 

Nora Rubel, University of Rochester

• "Ideology and Tradition: Orthodoxy in Jewish American Fiction" 

Ezra Cappell, University of Texas-El Paso

• "Work and the Religious Imagination in Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls and Intuition" 

Amanda R. Toronto, New York University

2.15 Ellicott Room

Sanctity and Power in Medieval English Literature 

Chair: Erin Mullally, Le Moyne College

• "Miracles and the Body in Old English Female Saints' Legends" 

Kelli Carr, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto

• "Patient Griselda: Suffering, Power, and the Sacred Feminine in Chaucer's Family Romances" 

Kerri Bowen, Tufts University

• "Encounters with Power: Margery Kempe and the Path to 'Sainthood'" 

Lyn Blanchfield, Onodaga Community College

• "By Edward's Staff: St. Wulfstan against the Normans" 

Erin Mullally, Le Moyne College

2.16 Delaware B

Living Form/Textual Form 

Chair: Dorian Stuber, Hendrix College

• "Richard Wright and the Chicago School" 

Tim Mackin, Saint Michael's College

• "The Composite Order' of/in James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers" 

Mark Burns, Brigham Young University

• "Ethics of the Animal in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction" 

Michael D'Arcy, Laurentian University

• "The Form of the Essay: Reflections on Adorno's 'Essay as Form'" 

Marianne Tettlebaum, Hendrix College

2.17 Conference Ctr. Room K

The Irish Body and Modernism 

Chair: Austin Riede, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• "Whose `Cloacal Obsession'?: James Joyce, H.G. Wells and Colonial Obscenity" 

Brian Matzke, University of Michigan

• "Lovely 'Packages': Female Commodification in James Joyce and Kate O'Brien" 

Elizabeth Foley O'Connor, Fordham University

• "A Bloody Rose and a Lonely Impulse: The Body Politics of Yeats's 'Wasteful Virtue'" 

Austin Riede, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• "Strange pains': The Aching Irish Body in Samuel Beckett's Fiction" 

Sarah Gray, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2.18 Delaware C

Italian Literature and Translation 

Chair: Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College

• "Per un teatro tragico italiano in rima: Baretti traduttore di Racine" 

Francesca Savoia, University of Pittsburgh

• "A Labor of Love and Other Things: Translating Paola Masino's Nascita e morte della massaia" 

Marella Feltrin-Morris, Ithaca College

• "I tre bravi: Seventeenth-Century Thugs or Clever People? Mis-translating Dario Fo and Pirandello for the Stage" 

Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University

• "Beppe Severgnini alla conquista del West" 

Francesca Paduano, Marist College

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Session 3      Friday, April 11   10:15-11:30 a.m.

3.01 Niagara Room

Prescribing Gender in Medicine and Narrative 

Chair: Angela Laflen, Marist College

• "Surgical Stories, Gendered Telling: Cosmetic Surgery through the Perspective of Patient and Surgeon" 

Rachel Hurst, York University

• "Flights of the Inarticulable: Locating Gender in Shamanic Healing Ceremonies" 

Peter Ford, Michigan State University

• "The Diseasing Female Healer: Francisco Delicado's Infectious Lozana andaluza* 

Meghan McInnis-Domínguez, University of Delaware

• "Out of Control: Implications of Hysteria and Mysticism in La Regenta" 

Sarah Thomas, New York University

• "Mad Women: Representing Feminism and Psychiatry in The Brood, A Question of Silence, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day" 

Sameena Usmani, Ursinus College

• "Writing to Heal: The War Stories of Ellen N. La Motte" 

Lea Williams, Norwich University

3.02 Regency A

Interrogating the Natural, a Society for Critical Exchange Session 

Chair: Scott DeShong, Quinebaug Valley Community College

• "Losing the Mountain and Getting Back to Nature: Narratives of Loss, Retreat, and Reclamation in Mountaintop Removal Discourse" 

Leah Bayens, University of Kentucky

• "Canonizing Place: The Creation of Walden Pond" 

Kurt A. R. Moellering, Northeastern University

• "Emily Dickinson, the Birds and the Bees" 

Kristen Gallagher, City University of New York

3.03 Franklin Room

Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and My Fair Lady 

Chair: Ted Price, Montclair State University

• "The Chocolate Creams in Pygmalion" 

David Satran, Temple University

• "Pygmalion: A Japanese Personal Approach: Eliza in Tokyo" 

Akemi Tanaka, Soka University

• "Does Henry Higgins Marry Eliza Though GBS Says She Doesn't?" 

Ted Price, Montclair State University

3.04 Regency C

Canceled

3.05 Grand E

Catalan Studies in the US 

Chair: Eva Juarros-Daussa, SUNY Buffalo

• "The Language of Memory: Writting in Catalan in the US" 

Roser Caminals-Heath, Hood College

• "Introducing Catalan Culture: a Successful Attempt at The Ohio State University" 

Monica Fuertes-Arboix, Coe College

• "Studying Catalan Literature and Culture at Cornell: a Personal Experience" 

Jennifer Duprey, New York University

3.06 Regency B

On the road again' - The Sociable Highway between France and Germany 

Chairs: Martina G. Lüke and Barbara van Feggelen, University of Connecticut

• "The Talk of the Town from Paris to Berlin: Salonières and their Social Spaces in the Eighteenth Century" 

Barbara van Feggelen, University of Connecticut

• "'Die Insel im Rhein': Heinrich Heine as Literary Diplomat between France and Germany" 

Pascale Niehe LaFountain, Harvard University

• "Fantastic Vision in Der Sandmann and La Morte Amoureus" 

Thomas Fleishman, Harvard University

3.07 Grand C

Sensual and Intellectual Experiences: Food in Italian Literature and Cinema (Roundtable) 

Chair: Daniela Bisello Antonucci, Princeton University

• "La polenta e` un piatto molto poetico: a literary portrait of polenta" 

Maryann Tebben, Bard College-Simon's Rock

• "Il cibo reale, fiabesco e metaforico nel Pentamerone di Basile" 

Snezjana Smodlaka, Independent Scholar

• "Primo Levi and the notion of hunger" 

Daniela Bisello Antonucci, Princeton University

• "A dialectical return to the origins via gastronomic metaphors in Moravia's Two Women" 

Silvia Stoyanova, Princeton University

3.08 Grand B

American Cannibal: Empire and Embodiment from 1840-1940 

Chair: Kathryn Dolan, UC Santa Barbara

• "Me Cosmopolitan, You Cannibal': Tarzan of the Apes, Race, and the Ethics of Cultural Appropriation" 

Jason Haslam, Dalhousie University

• "A Disturbingly Hearty Meal: Race, Consumerism, and Cannibalism in Chesnutt's 'Dave's Neckliss'" 

Kristin Sanner, Mansfield University

• "Cannibal? Who is not a Cannibal?': Critiques of US Expansion in Melville's Omoo" 

Kathryn Dolan, UC Santa Barbara

3.09 Grand F

Navigating the Fictional World of Toni Morrison 

Chair: Rose Ure Mezu, Morgan State University

• "Quest for a Proper Unity of Eros and Agape in One Reality of Love: True Love in Morrison's Fiction" 

Rose Ure Mezu, Morgan State University

• "Psychological Struggle and Pursuit of Survival in The Bluest Eye"

Paul Mukundi, Morgan State University

• "Black Woman as Bitch and Nest-Builder: the Trope of Counterinsurgency in Song of Solomon" 

Sandra Staton-Taiwo, Pennsylvania State University-York

 

3.10 Grand G

Northern Exposure: Canadians Writing the U.S.A 

Chair: Rachel Spear, Louisiana State University

• "Michael Helm's In the Place of Last Things: 'Errant Causes' and the Quiet, Violent Adventure of America" 

Ian J. MacRae, University of Toronto

• "Bonjour New England: Quebecers on The Road" 

Itai Nartzizenfield Sneh, John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY

3.11 Seneca Room

Italian Feminisms and Women Writers 

Chair: Carol Lazzaro-Weis, University of Missouri-Columbia

• "Divenire altro che se stessi: Uprooting and Regrounding in the Poetry of Amelia Rosselli" 

Nicoleta Ghisas, John Hopkins University

• "Challenging the Canon:La rappresaglia di Laudomia Bonanni" 

Sara Teardo, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

• "Quali femminismi per la gioa di Modestà:l'arte della gioia di Goliarda Sapienza" 

Maria-Teresa Maenza-Vanderboegh, Creighton University

3.12 Delaware A

Francophone Maghrebian Literature 

Chair: Tamara El-Hoss, Brock University

• "Métissage textuel chez Abdelkébir Khatibi et Assia Djebar" 

Névine El Nossery, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• "Ma terre est un corps blessé'. Nina Bouraoui et l'inconstance de l'invariant de l'être." 

Mia Panisse, Université d'Abo Akademi

• "From Intolerance to 'Inséparabe': Depictions of Muslim-Jewish Relations in Three Contemporary Francophone North African Jewish Women's Narratives." 

Julie D. Strongson, Anne Arundel Community College

3.13 Boardroom

Poetic Justice: Radical Women and the Language of Community 

Chair: Susannah Bartlow, University at Buffalo

• "The Arithmetics of Loyalty: Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Poetic Justice" 

Susannah Bartlow, University at Buffalo

• "Anna Julia Cooper: Radical Reformer and Educator" 

Shelby L. Crosby, D'Youville College

• "Forward into Light': The Coalitional Politics of Suffrage Literature" 

Maggie A. Rehm, University of Pittsburgh

3.14 Conference Ctr. Rm J

Elbert and Alice Hubbard and The Roycroft Experiment: Socialism in A Capitalist Context 

Chairs: Maryanne Felter and Dan Schultz, Cayuga Community College

• "Socialist Strain(s): Alice Hubbard's Political Thought" 

Angela Mills, Brock University

• "Elbert Hubbard's 'A Message to Garcia' and Historical Memories of the Spanish-Cuban-American War" 

Lisa Jarvinen, LaSalle University

• "Elbert Hubbard's Borrowed Genius" 

Annette Magid, Erie Community College

3.15 Ellicott Room

Medieval Outlaws 

Chair: Susannah Mary Chewning, Union County College

• "The Outlaw's Fatal Embrace: Revisiting 'The Pardoner's Tale'" 

Anthony John Adams, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

• "The Force Registered in Language Appropriated by A Jewish Victim" 

Rosa Alvarez Perez, Independent Scholar

• "Redeeming the Religious Outlaw in Late Medieval England" 

Michelle M. Sauer, Minot State University

3.16 Delaware B

Queer Miscegenations 

Chair: Reginald A. Wilburn, University of New Hampshire

• "The Terror of Love: Race and Sex in James Baldwin's Another Country" 

Bryan M. Conn, Johns Hopkins University

• "Unhinging Fixity': Queer 'Jungle Fever' and Disidentification in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing" 

Tatiana Margitic, University of North Carolina

• "Sexual Violence in James Baldwin's Another Country" 

Philip Longo, Rutgers University

3.17 Conference Ctr. Room K

James Joyce and the Body 

Chair: Liz Foley, Fordham University

• "'James Joyce and Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold: The Biomechanics of 'Nausicaa' '" 

Andrea L. Yates, University of Rhode Island

• "Erectile Dysfunctionality in Ulysses: 'The Prudent Member' and Colonial Discourse" 

Ronan Crowley, SUNY Buffalo

• "A Languid Floating Flower: Impotency and the Frustrated Means of Production in James Joyce's Ulysses" 

Lena Tashjian, Bread Loaf School of English

3.18 Delaware C

North African Francophone Theater: an ignored plea for freedom 

Chair: David Delamatta, Universite de la Sorbonne-Paris IV, France

• "The song of freedom/ Le chant de la liberté in Le Baptême Chacaliste (1987) by Abdelatif Laâbi" 

Larbi Touaf, University Mohamed I Ojuda

• "Staging the Algerian Civil War: Slimane Benaïssa's quest for artistic freedom" 

Alexandra Gueydan, Yale Univeristy

• "Les défits des dramaturges tunisiens: le cri de libération de l' être chez Fadhel Jaïbi et de Jalila Baccar" 

David Delamatta, Universite de la Sorbonne-Paris IV

3.19 Executive Room

 

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Session 4     Friday, April 11 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

4.01 Niagara Room

Reel Mobsters / Fictional Gangsters in Literature, Film and Television 

Chair: Paul Galante, Lafayette College

• "Violence, Identity and the Irish Gangster in Road to Perdition" 

Wendy Galgan, CUNY Graduate Center/St. Francis College

• "Is Tony Soprano A Typical American?: Compulsive Sexual Transgression and the Real" 

Bradley Kaye, SUNY Binghamton

• "Losing My Religion: Criminality and Catholic Guilt in Scorsese's The Departed" 

Leonard Wil Scheibel, Northern Illinois University

• "An All-American Gangster Family: Analyzing the home and the family in Ridley Scott's American Gangster" 

Isolde Vanhee, The Institute for Higher Education in the Sciences and the Arts-Ghent

4.02 Regency A

Rethinking the Vanguard: Aesthetic and Political Positions in the Postmodern Debate 

Chair: John Maerhofer, Queens College-CUNY

• "Late Capitalism and the Historical Context of the Neo-Avant-Garde" 

John Maerhofer, Queens College-CUNY

• "Avant-garde Eruption, Vanguard Containment" 

Irmak Ertuna, SUNY- Binghamton

• "Capitalism and the Post-Human Body: One Russian Performance Group's Spliced Identity Perspective on yhe Modernist Lyric 'I'" 

Eireene Nealand, University of California-Santa Cruz

• "Avant-Garde Postmodernist Literature: Appropriation, Collaboration, and Intermedia, Within the Interfaces of the Page" 

Gregory Lattanzio, Wayne State University

4.03 Franklin Room

From Paper to Screen and Vice Versa 

Chair: Daniela De Pau, Drexel University

• "Cesare Pavese and Film Noir: A Case of Convergent Sensibilities" 

Christopher Concolino, San Francisco State University

• "Preferisco il rumore del mare' come risposta a 'Cuore': romanzo di ormazione e pensiero meridiano" 

Elisabetta D'Amanda, Middlebury College

• "La dimensione onirica in 'Il tè nel deserto'" 

Daniela De Pau, Drexel University

• "Ammaniti e Salvatores: scrittura e regia a confronto in 'Io non ho paura'" 

Tania Convertini, University of Wisconsin-Madison

4.04 Regency C

Cinematic Representations of the Former East Bloc, 2001-Present 

Chair: Alexandar Mihailovic, Hofstra University

 

•  "The Stasi after Ostalgie: Trends in Filmic Representations of the German Democratic Republic" 

Jason Doerre, Bowling Green State University

• "The Subversion of an Authoritarian Other in The Lives of Others" 

Jessica Datema, Bergen Community College

• "Colonizing the West: Good Bye, Lenin and the Re-invention of History" 

Gabriele Eichmanns, University of Washington

•  "The Romance of Cloning in Putin's Russia: Ilya Krzhazhanovsky's 4" 

Alexandar Mihailovic,Hofstra University

 

4.05 Grand E

Contemporary Queer Urban Voices in Brazil

Chair: Rick J. Santos, Hood College

• "Corpo queer e cultura digital: estudos contemporâneos" 

Wilton Garcia, Universidade Braz Cubas-UBC

• "Órfãs de um meme? antologias lésbicas contemporâneas" 

Isis Costa McElroy, Arizona State University

• "Queering the Investigation: Queer Victims and Straight Detectives" 

Rick J. Santos, Hood College

• "Dani y Gabi se van de vacaciones: las imágenes de lo brasileño en la narrativa rioplatense contemporánea" 

Eduardo Muslip, Arizona State University

 

4.06 Regency B

Violence in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist II 

Chair: Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Harvard University

• "Sprachgewalt und täterschaftlicher Relativismus: Zur Leerstelle der Tatfunktion in Kleists 'Findling'" 

Hans Lind, Yale University

• "Ist dies das Rosenfest das du versprachst?' - The Violence of Misspeaking in Kleist's Penthesilea" 

Kari Driscoll, Columbia University

• "The Sublime in Heinrich von Kleist's 'Empfindungen vor Friedrichs Seelandschaft' and Heiner Mueller's 'Bildbeschreibung'" 

Thomas Herold, Harvard University

4.07 Grand C

Italian Literature: From The Twentieth Century Into The New Millennium 

Chair: Giovanni Migliara, James Madison University

• "Sebastiano Vassalli and the Italian National Character through History" 

Meriel Tulante, Philadelphia University

• "Tra pulp e avanguardia: realismo nella narrativa italiana degli anni Novanta" 

Simone Castaldi, Hofstra University

• "Il lavoro snobilita l'uomo: note sulla narrativa di Giovanni Accardo e Federico Platania" 

Paolo Chirumbolo, McMaster University

• "To Do or Not To Do: The Role of the Intellectual in G.Tomasi di Lampedusa and V. Consolo" 

Giovanni Migliara, James Madison University

4.08 Grand B

Critical Approaches to Native American Literature 

Chair: Ashley Hall, University of California, Davis

• "Something for the Pain: Wayne Keon's Pan-Indian Spirituality and the Poetics of 'Medicine Power'" 

Nancy Kang, Syracuse University

• "Language and Landscape: Contextual Specificity in the Study of Native American Literature" 

Chris Hall, Humboldt State University

• "We Aren't the Only Creatures, or the Most Likely to Succeed: Joy Harjo's Reconciliation with Lyric Subjectivity" 

Jesse Lee Curran, SUNY Stoneybrook

• "Spirituality and Worldview in James Welch's Fools Crow" 

Charles Hall, Nevada City Instructional Services

4.09 Grand F

Complicating the Avant-Garde: 20th Century Women Writers 

Chair: Stephanie Farrar, University at Buffalo

• "Towards a New History: The Poetic Protest and New Avant-Garde in Susan Howe And Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Writing" 

Stephanie Farrar, University at Buffalo

• "'Once it was illegal for we to testify. Now all we do is testify' :Harryette Mullen's *Sleeping With the Dictionary* and Race in/for L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Writing" 

Amy Robbins, Hunter College-CUNY

• "Local Experiments: Stein, Moore, Hejinian, Howe and the Making of Place" 

Margaret Konkol, University at Buffalo

• "The Alarming Dictionary of Reformist Love: Form and Experiment in Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day" 

Julia Bloch, University of Pennsylvania

4.10 Grand G

Fictions of Female Adolescence 1880-1930 

Chair: Rita Bode, Trent University

• "Polly Pepper Pulled to Pieces Or, The 'I want Polly!' Syndrome in Margaret Sidney's Five Little Peppers Series" 

Christiane Farnan, Siena College

• "'But am I talking too much?': The Talking Cure at Work in Fin-de-Siecle Children's Literature*" 

Kabi Hartman, Franklin and Marshall College

• "'Dazzlingly Clever' and Not Quite 'Angelically Good': Feminist Narrative Ethics in Anne of Green Gables" 

Mary Jeanette Moran, College of Staten Island-CUNY

• "*Better Dead Than Wed?: Marriage in the New Girl Fiction of L. T. Meade*" 

Helen Bittel, Marywood University

4.11 Seneca Room

The New Caribbean Diaspora 

Chair: Carine Mardorossian, University at Buffalo

• "From Over and Away: Caribbean Writers and Migration" 

Elaine Savory, The New School

• "Roots, Routes, and Returns: Literary Journeys Back to the Caribbean" 

Tuire Valkeakari, Providence College

• "The Accent of Displacement: Exile, Race and Class in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" 

Kathryn Caccavaio, Michigan State University

• "'Make them good yet keep them bad': Nourbese Philip's Poetry of Dissent'" 

Kristen Mahlis, California State University-Chico

4.12 Delaware A

Gendered Migrations in French and Francophone Literature 

Chair: Christopher Hogarth, Wagner College

• "Negotiating Newness: Female Migrants in a Francophone and Anglophone Novel" 

Christopher Hogarth, Wagner College

• "Paule Constant's Gendered Rewriting of Migrancy" 

Natalie Edwards, Wagner College

• "Speak White: Female Language and Identity in Migrant Québécois literature" 

Eileen McEwan, Muhlenberg College

• "Telling Migrant Stories, Telling History: Narrative Memory and the Experience of Dislocation in Régine Robin's La Québécoite" 

Oana Sabo, University of Southern California

4.13 Boardroom

George Oppen Centenary Panel 

Chair: Andrew Rippeon, SUNY Buffalo

• "Wars to Come are for You': What Whitman Leaves to Oppen" 

Zack Finch, SUNY Buffalo

• "'The Meaning of Forever': George Oppen, Albert Camus and the Poetics of Crisis" 

Eric Hoffman, Independent Scholar

• "Writing the Disaster: The Persistence of Lyric and The Struggle for Modernism in Oppen and Palmer" 

Patrick Pritchett, Harvard University

• "'It seems necessarily true that I did not read those sentences': Oppen's Heidegger and the Refusal to Arrive" 

Andrew Rippeon, SUNY Buffalo

4.14 Conference Ctr. Rm J

Reading Virtues and Vices in 18th Century Literature 

Chair: Konstanze V. Baron, University of Konstanz

• "To Weep or Not to Weep: Tears and the Ethical Reader in Diderot's 'Eloge de Richardson'" 

Cecilia A. Feilla, Marymount Manhattan College

• "When Literature Shapes Freethinkers: The Case of Sade and His Readers" 

Sophie Delahaye, University of Kansas

• "The 'Triumphing of the Wicked': The Book of Job in Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa'" 

Claudia Stumpf, Tufts University

• "Misreading as Seduction in Henry McKenzie's 'The Man of Feeling'" 

Rachel C. Lee, University of Rochester

4.15 Ellicott Room

Immigration, Culture, and Ethnicity in Spanish Peninsular Literature and Film 

Chair: Maria DiFrancesco, Ithaca College

• "Immigration Films: (Re)constructing Conventions of Visibility in Contemporary Spain'" 

Maria Van Liew, West Chester University

• "Transnational Sex: Consumer Culture and Trafficking Democracy in Juan Bonilla's Los principes nubios" 

Maryanne Leone, Assumption College

• "Playing the same roles: Immigrants and Spaniards in Spanish film" 

Luis Guadaño, St. Olaf College

• "The 'otherness' in the Configuration of a National Identity in the Film Pricesas by Fernando León de Aranoa" 

Esther Daganzo-Cantens, Florida International University

4.16 Delaware B

Remembrance and Dismemberment: Modernist and Postmodernist Revisions 

Chair: Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology

• "The Prophetic Function in Conrad's Under Western Eyes" 

Peter Mathews, Centenary College of New Jersey

• "Ekphrastic Phantoms in Postmodernism: Adam Thorpe's Still" 

Ece Aykol, The Graduate Center-CUNY

• "Pierre Menard Rewrites Don Quixote: Originality and the Author Figure in Cervantes's Masterpiece" 

Maria Plochocki, Bergen Community College

• "Impossible Revisions: Elements of Immediate Recollection in Francis Stuart's Black List, Section H" 

Jason R. Marley, SUNY Buffalo

4.17 Conference Ctr. Room K

Doctors, Patients and Medical Treatments in 19th-Century American Women's Writing 

Chair: Georgia Kreiger, Allegany College of Maryland

• "Illness and Community: The Story of a True 'Daughter of Affliction'" 

Robin L. Cadwallader, Saint Francis University

• "'How well one had to be--to be ill!': Discursive Doctor-Patient Relationships in The Diary of Alice James" 

Shawna Rushford-Spence, Miami University of Ohio

• "Reversing Gender and Patient/Doctor Roles in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Doctor Zay" 

Margaret Jay Jessee, University of Arizona

• "The 'Whir--Whir' of Wellness: Health as Productivity in Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall" 

Georgia Kreiger, Allegany College of Maryland

4.18 Delaware C

Bridging the Generational Divide: Early Victorian Feminism 

Chair: Kristin Le Veness, Nassau Community College

• "The Geography of Islands, Forests, and Clouds: Early Feminist Dwellings in the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning" 

Dolores DeLuise, BMCC-CUNY

• "Maria Smith Abdy and the Poetry of Self-Reflexivity or Will the Real Mrs. Abdy Step Forward?" 

Virginia B. Hromulak, Nassau Community College

• "Ursula Halifax, Gentlewoman" 

Kiran Mascarenhas, CUNY Graduate Center

• "Travel Writing: Finding a Space For Proto-Feminism" 

Kendall McClellan, SUNY Binghamton

4.19 Executive Room

Political Rhetoric: Discourses of Liberal, Radical, and Deliberative Democracy 

Chair: Arabella Lyon, University at Buffalo

• "Polemic and Ideological Impasse: The Case of Terry Tempest Williams" 

Jill Swiencicki, Ph.D., California State University-Chico

• "The Spectacular Abject of the State" 

Simón V. Trujillo, University of Washington

• "Democratic Blindness, Democratic Seeing: Jose Saramago's Confrontation with Parliamentary Democracy" 

Kyle Fetter, SUNY-Buffalo

• "Deliberation and the First Amendment"

Arabella Lyon, SUNY Buffalo

 

 

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Session 5     Friday, April 11  	1:30-2:45 p.m.

5.01 Niagara Room

Multimodal Composition: Writing and the Internet in Composition Classes 

Chair: Alex Reid, SUNY Cortland

• "Visualizing Disciplinary Patterns: Distant Reading Methods and Composition Studies" 

Derek Mueller, Syracuse University

• "New Adventures in Multi-Modal Literacy at Kent State University, Salem Campus" 

Jennifer A Swartz, Kent State University-Salem

• "Networked Composition and Public Pedagogy" 

Alex Reid, SUNY Cortland

5.02 Regency A

Textual/Visual Selves: Photography, Art and Performance in French Autobiography 

Chair: Natalie Edwards, Wagner College

• "Georges Perec, Photography and the Problem of Memory." 

Peter Wagstaff, University of Bath

• "Viewing the Past through a Nostalgeric Lens: Pied-Noir Photo-documentaries" 

Amy Hubbell, Kansas State University

• "Photography As Autobiography's Beyond" 

Veronique Montemont, University of Nancy

5.03 Franklin Room

Progress or Novelty Act? Transgendered Images on Television (Roundtable) 

Chair: Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College

• "Gender Boot Camp: Trans Images on Reality TV" 

Joelle Ruby Ryan, Bowling Green State University

• "Granny and Zoe: How Watching 'All My Children Has Improved My Grandmother's Perception of Queer Identity" 

Mary Shearman, Simon Fraser University

• "Transgender Animated: The Mysterious Case of 'The Venture Brothers'" 

Hillary Fogerty, Mercyhurst College

• "Ally McBeal's Dancing MTF" 

Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College

5.04 Regency C

Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 

Chair: Nathanael O'Reilly, Western Michigan University

• "Post-colonial Purgatory: Carver-style Reconciliations in Ray Lawrence's Jindabyne" 

Alice Healy, University of South Australia

• "Thick With Coded Testaments': Representations of Postcolonial Space in Janette Turner Hospital's Oyster" 

Nicholas Dunlop, University of Birmingham

• "Acknowledging the Native's Humanity: Points of Contact between Colonial Subjects in David Malouf's The Great World and Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda" 

Aparna Mujumdar, Northeastern University

5.05 Grand E

Se habla español allí: Hispanophone Literature Outside Latin America and Spain 

Chair: Adam Lifshey, Georgetown University

• "Visions of Nueva York in Juan Ramón Jiménez's Diario" 

Catharine E. Wall, Claremont McKenna College

• "Los poetas hispano-filipinos: una extemporánea fe en el Modernismo" 

Manuel Garcia-Castellon, University of New Orleans

• "Exploring the female ethnographic voice in Ekomo" 

Mercedes López Rodríguez, Georgetown University

5.06 Regency B

Was gibt's zu essen? - Culinary Explorations of German Culture 

Chair: Laurie Taylor, University of Massachusetts

• "Schnapps, Pubs and Berlinâ's Gritty Side in Remarqueâ's Drei Kammeraden" 

Scott Seeger, Western Kentucky University

• "Am Kochtopf wird der Krieg gewonnen: Food and Cooking in WWII Diaries" 

Maureen Gallagher, University of Massachusetts

• "The Taste of Past and Future: Representing Continuity and Rupture in Cold War German Cookbooks" 

Alice Weinreb, University of Michigan

5.07 Grand C

La natura nella letteratura italiana 

Chair: Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey

• "Gianni Celati: per un visione dell'in-immaginabile" 

Anna Maria Chierici, University of Toronto

• "Elsa Morante's Madri Snaturate in Late XX Century Italian Society" 

Giuseppina Mecchia, University of Pittsburgh

• "L'uomo dopo Auschwitz: umanita' e natura in Primo Levi" 

Simona Wright, The College of New Jersey

5.08 Grand B

A Contemporary Look at the Manifesto from Symbolism to Surrealism 

Chair: Monica Duchnowski, Rutgers University

• "The Symbolist Manifesto of Jean Moréas and the Modernist Treatise from Decadence to Surrealism" 

Heidi Faletti, Buffalo State College

• "Mina Loy's 'Feminist Manifesto': A Response to Masculinist Manifestos from Yeats to Marinetti" 

Monica Duchnowski, Rutgers University

• "Time and Tradition: the Avant-Garde, Fascism, and Contemporary Theory" 

Jamie Carr, Niagara University

5.09 Grand F

Tough Love: Violence and Desire in Victorian Poetry 

Chair: Robert Lougy, Pennsylvania State University

• "After-Images of Desire: Visual-Verbal Connections in Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market'" 

Catherine Zusky, University of Califonia at Santa Barbara

• "'Superflux of Pain': Swinburne's Melancholic Sado-Masochism'" 

Thomas Steffler, University of Ottawa

• "'Listen Again Now': the Violent Pleasures of Verse in Swinburne's Lesbia Brandon'" 

Christine Leja, Columbia University

5.10 Grand G

Fan Fiction as Narrative Exegesis 

Chair: Julie Flynn, Independent Scholar

• "There Should Be Fic for That': Interpretive Strategies in Fan Fiction" 

Julie Flynn, Independent Scholar

• "Taking Fan Fiction 'Where No One Has Gone Before': How Digital Media Has Allowed 'Star Trek: New Voyages' to Continue the Five Year Mission" 

Heather Urbanski, Lehigh University

• "Poaching on His Own Property: Reading Buffy the Vampire Slayer's 'Season Eight' as Fan Fiction" 

Anne Moore, Tufts University

• "A Spell to Reawaken the Dead: Fan Fiction as a Means to Resurrection in the Harry Potter Fandom" 

Angela B. Fulk, Buffalo State College

5.11 Seneca Room

Caribbean Literature and Gender: Issues in Criticism and Theory in the New Century (Roundtable) 

Chair: Elaine Savory, New School University

• "Sex, Power and Subversion: 'Faces and Asses'and the Case of Reinaldo Arenas" 

Christopher Winks, Queen's College-CUNY

• "Mothertongue: Caribbean Literature, Orality and the Body in Indigenous Culture" 

Hyacinth Simpson, Ryersen University

• "Gender, Violence, Colonialism: The Nexus of Domestic Violence in Caribbean Fictions" 

Carine M. Mardorossian, University of Buffalo

• "Gender and Diaspora: Themes not Forms in Caribbean Literature?" 

Elaine Savory, New School University

5.12 Delaware A

Conversion and Writing in Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Song 

Chair: Scott Powers, The University of Mary Washington

• "An American Psalter: Lament, Doxology, and the Conversion of Allegories in T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane" 

Raji Singh Soni, Queen's University-Kingston

• "Hail, horrors, hail': Nick Cave's Reconfiguration of Paradise Lost" 

Allison Smith, Queen's University-Kingston

• "Poem After the Seven Last Words: the Converted Poetics of Mark Strand in Man and Camel" 

Scott Minar, Ohio University

5.13 Boardroom

Fashioning Feminine Identity in Early Modern Spain 

Chair: Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College

• "Originality, *Imitatio* and Logos: Teresa de Avila as a Sixteenth-Century Mystic" 

Virginia Gutierrez Berner, SUNY Buffalo

• "The Quest for Feminine Liberation and Autonomy in María de Zayas' Novelas amorosas" 

Mirta Barrea-Marlys, Monmouth University

• "Love, Liberty and the Quest for Happiness in María de Zayas" 

Monica Leoni, University of Waterloo

5.14 Conference Ctr. Rm J

(Re)Call and Response: Memory in Contemporary African American Fiction 

Chair: Eva Tettenborn, Penn State-Worthington/Scranton

• "Ou libere? Are you free?: The Threat of Inscription in Reconstructing African American Communal Memory" 

Erin Huskey, Valdosta State University

• "Songs and Laments: Irony in Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem" 

Robin DeRosa, Plymouth State University

• "Living History in Toni Morrison's Paradise" 

Kathleen Howard, Rutgers University

5.15 Ellicott Room

J.R.R.Tolkien/C.S. Lewis 

Chair: William Mistichelli, Penn State-Abington

• "Cleaning Up After War: Tolkien and Peace" 

S. Russell Wood, Hampden-Sydney College

• "The Unnamed Providence of Middle Earth" 

Devin Brown, Asbury College

• "Transformed Images: The Design Of Till We Have Faces" 

William J. Mistichelli, Penn State-Abington

5.16 Delaware B

(Re)Constructing Queer Pedagogy 

Chair: Nowell Marshall, University of California-Riverside

• "Reflecting on the Queer Graduate Seminar: Theory, Experience, Praxis" 

Nowell Marshall, University of California-Riverside

• "Queer(ing) in the Social Classroom" 

Daniel Farr, College of Saint Rose

5.17 Conference Ctr. Room K

Medieval Space 

Chair: Christopher Roman, Kent State University-Tuscarawas

• "Closing in on Criseyde: Re-interpreting Woman and Text in Enclosed Spaces in Troilus and Criseyde" 

Pamela L. Longo, University of Connecticut

• "Women's Disourse and the Use of Space in the Pearl-poet" 

Chrisopher Roman, Kent State-Tuscarawas

5.18 Delaware C

Theater, Literature, Poetry,... 

Chair: Anna G. Cafaro, Boston College

• "L'improvvisazione e la complessita' nel processo creativo" 

Anna G. Cafaro, Boston College

• "Il deserto dei tartari di D. Buzzati: un luogo scenico" 

Domenico De Luca, Liceo Scientifico da Vinci

• "The Puppet Master's Impotence: Marionette, che Passione!... and the Crippling of Society" 

Mary Ann Mastrolia, Rutgers University

5.19 Executive Room

The Image of the Prostitute in Film and Popular Culture (Roundtable) 

Chairs: Ted Price and Vincenzo Bollettino, Montclair State University

• "Cuckolds and Whores: The Troy Legend: The Key to the Meaning of Shakespeare's Tragedies" 

Ted Price, Montclair State University

• "Prostitution in Joe May's 'Asphalt 27'" 

Martina G. Lüke, University of Connecticut

• "The Reified Whore: Innocence, Corruption, and the Allegorical Image of Latin American National Identity in Ruy Guerra's 'Erendira'" 

Jeff Johnson, Brevard Community College

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Session 6     Friday, April 11 	3:00-4:30 p.m.

6.01 Niagara Room

Travel Writing and The Politics of Travel 

Chair: Ulrike Brisson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• "Brief Encounters in Nowhere and the Bad Lands; A Political Lonely Planet" 

Darcy Mullen, SUNY Albany

• "A Short Walk Through Afghanistan: Orientalism and its Discontents in Recent Travel Literature" 

Mark Graham, Lehigh University

• "The Politics of Ecotourism: Emergence of Political Structures in a Postmodern World" 

Martha Rogus, Edinboro University

6.02 Regency A

Teaching Italian and Italian Culture 

Chair: Emanuele Occhipinti, Drew University

• "Prosa, pittura e cinematografia in un corso di terzo anno incentrato sulla figura di Carlo Levi e sulla questione meridionale" 

Daniela Bartalesi-Graf, Tufts University

• "Fostering Intercultural Competence in Foreign Language Classes: a Unit Sample in Italian" 

Lucia Ghezzi, University of Toronto

• "Teaching Italian Online and the Natural Approach: Issues and Practices." 

Giulia Guarnieri, The City University of New York

• "Momenti di storia italiana: gli anni del terrorismo." 

Tiziana Quattrone, Bergen Community College

6.03 Franklin Room

Writing on the Wall, Pictures on the Page: Word-and-Image Intersections in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture 

Chair: Catharine Wall, Claremont McKenna College

• "From Ship to Screen: Bringing Colonial Historiography to Life" 

Sara L. Lehman, Fordham University

• "La transferencia del dialogismo de Hans Staden en El entenado (1963) de Juan José Saer" 

Teresa Giménez, St. Joseph's University

• "Nature Inscribed: Pablo Neruda's Arte de pájaros" 

Mary Makris, University of Louisville

• "New Media in Contemporary Spanish Lesbian Erotica" 

Leticia Romo, Towson University and Elizabeth Gunn, The Colorado College

6.04 Regency C

The Middle Ages and Dante 

Chair: Julia Cozzarelli, Ithaca College

• "Medusa: The Emblem of 'Cupiditas' and the Sin of Heresy. A Re-Reading of the Infernal Decimo" 

Fiorentina Russo, St. John's University

• "Verso il cielo': Mystical Presence of Dante's Text in Krzysztof Kieslowski's 'Double Life of Veronique.'" 

Inna Rayevsky, Villanova University

• "L'una vegghiava a studio de la culla': Childhood and the Practices of Maternity in the 'Paradiso'" 

Kristen Renner Swann, Columbia University

• "Dante's Treatment of the Music of the Spheres" 

Francesco Ciabattoni, Dalhousie University

6.05 Grand E

Deviants and Monsters in Literature and the Arts 

Chair: Cristina Santos, Brock University

• "The Question of Female Monstrosity on Early Modern European Stage" 

Aurélie C. Capron, Fayetteville State University

• "Deviant Citizenry and Popular Fictions" 

Nancy Cushing, The Pennsylvania State University

• "From the Decadence to Generation X: Monstrosities, Transgressions and the Aesthetics of Disgust" 

Sarah Thalia Scheiner-Bobis, University of Cologne

• "Notes Towards a Southern Queer Male Grotesque" 

Harry Thomas, The University of North Carolina

6.06 Regency B

History and Memory: Post-1945 Trauma Revisited in Literary Texts' 

Chair: Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner, Saint Joseph's University

• "History, Memory, and Identity in the Contemporary German Family Novel'" 

Laurel Cohen-Pfister, Gettysburg College

• "Zur poetischen Umsetzung deutsch-jüdischer Erinnerungsgeschichte im Werk Barbara Honigmanns" 

Elke Segelcke, Illinois State University

• "Sebald's Use of Metaphor as a 'Deckerinnerung' in his Trauma Narratives'" 

Margarete Landwehr, West Chester University

• " 'Als wäre es mein eigenes Leben gewesen.' Constructing Family Narratives in Unified Germany: Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe and Stefan Wackwitz' Ein unsichtbares Land'" 

Jennifer Cameron, Columbia University

6.07 Grand C

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Canonical Works 

Chair: Janet Wolf, SUNY Cortland

• "A Confederacy of Dunces: Parallels in Spanish Renaissance Literature and History" 

Jane Bethune, Salve Regina University

• "Trying New Approaches to Kafka's The Trial" 

Michael Johnson, Buffalo State College

• "A Constructivist's Guide to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Pedagogy and Selections" 

Nikolas Bajorek, Slippery Rock University

• "Teaching Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif'': A Collaborative Learning Approach" 

Elizabeth Hayes, Le Moyne College

6.08 Grand B

(Un)Safe as Houses: Architecture and the Unhomely in American Fiction 

Chair: Jennifer Ryan, Buffalo State College

• "Turning the Ikea Tables: Fight Club and the Fetishized Product Called 'Home'" 

Ana Holguin, Michigan State University

• "Sutpen's Haunted Mansion: Race, Domesticity, and the Uncanny in Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!" 

Peter Ramos, Buffalo State College

• "Homemaking and Self-making in Walter Mosley's Fiction" 

Owen E. Brady, Clarkson University

• "Goin' Home': House-H(a)unting in the Later Joyce Carol Oates" 

David Jarraway, University of Ottawa

6.09 Grand F

Fascination and the History of Affect 

Chair: Larry Shillock, Wilson College

• "Naturally Fascinating: The Affect of Nature in Spinoza, Whitehead, and Deleuze" 

Matthew Frankel, University of Rhode Island

• "Amplified Words: Jeon Hye Rin Syndrome in South Korea" 

Juyoung Jin, Indiana University

• "This Is No Mere Fascination: Voice in Song Tells the Story of a Different Kind of Place" 

Lisa M. Nolan

• "Suspensions of Affection: Attention, Emotion and Make-Believe in Ludwig Tieck's Essay on the Marvelous in Shakespeare" 

Tim Albrecht, Columbia University

6.10 Grand G

Fictions of Female Adolescence I 

Chair: Laurie Ousley, Trocaire College

• "Little Wanderers' in Women's Fiction: Adoption, Family, and the Mid-Century 'Orphan Tale'" 

J. D. Thomas, Rutgers University

• "Growing Opposed to Industrial Capitalism: Susan and Anna Warner's Wych Hazel and The Gold of Chickaree" 

Laurie Ousley, Trocaire College

• "Working Girls: The 'New Woman' in Juvenile and Adult Fiction by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman" 

Ina Bergmann, Wuerzburg University

• "Bobbie, a Girl of Passion: Edith Nesbit's Feminism Explained" 

Chamutal Noimann, Hunter College-CUNY

6.11 Seneca Room

Spaces of Subjectivity: Geography, Gender, and Identity in 20th Century American Women's Fiction 

Chair: Shealeen Meaney, Russel Sage College

• "'This is what happens to women like you': The Naïve Tourist and the Body Politic in Atwood's Bodily Harm" 

Allison Craig, University at Albany

• "Remapping Foundational American Geographies: Leslie Marmon Silko's 'Gardens in the Dunes'" 

Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton College

• "Forging an Ecological Self: Salvaging Junk and Pine in Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood" 

Lisette Schillig, Lock Haven University

• "'I knew that even land was not stable': Re-territorializing Identity in American Women's Fiction" 

Shealeen Meaney, Russell Sage College

6.12 Delaware A

Women and War in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Literature 

Chair: Karen Sullivan, Queens College-CUNY

• "From Le Grand Cyrus to the Great Amazons: Gender Constructions in Writings of War by Early Modern French Women" 

Sophie Mariñez, CUNY Graduate Center

• "*La guerre en dentelle*: Stratégie narrative féministe dans Le Siège de Calais de Madame de Tencin" 

S. Pascale Vergereau-Dewey, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

• "Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses: A Contest between the Forces of Honor and Discretion and Vanity and Individualism " 

Rafika Merini, SUNY Buffalo

• "La guerre d'en bas: Olympe de Gouges's Warriors" 

Karen Sullivan, Queens College-CUNY

6.13 Boardroom

Poets of the Niagara Region (Reading) 

Chair: Jennifer Campbell, Erie Community College

• Jennifer Campbell, Erie Community College
• Perry S. Nicholas, Erie Community College
• Mathew Martin, Brock University
• Joyce Kessel, Villa Maria College
• Theresa Wyatt, Independent Scholar

6.14 Conference Ctr. Rm J

Antebellum at Sea: United States Maritime Narratives and Constructions of Modernity 

Chair: Jason Berger, University of Connecticut

• "Phillis Wheatley's Poetic Interventions: Engaging the Public Sphere and Exploring the 'floating azure'" 

Elizabeth Pittman, The George Washington University

• "Cross-Dressing and the Constitution: Sex in the City and on the High Seas in The Female Marine" 

Betsy Klimasmith, University of Massachusetts-Boston

• "Fantasies of the Common Sailor: Telling Yarns, or, Ned Myers Does not Exist" 

Jason Berger, University of Connecticut

• "P(l)aying Off The Old Wagon: Amateur Theatricals in White-Jacket" 

Mary Isbell, University of Connecticut

6.15 Ellicott Room

From the Country to the City: Literary Ecology in American Realism and Naturalism 

Chair: Karen Waldron, College of the Atlantic

• "Battlefield Rehabilitation or Imaginative Restoration: Ambrose Bierce's Ideologies of Nature and Civil War Battlefields" 

Robert Myers, Lock Haven University

• "The Mechanic and the Muse': Country and City in Walt Whitman's 'Song of the Exposition' and Realist Journalism" 

Maria Farland, Fordham University

• "James A. Herne's Subdivision, Shore Acres" 

Mark Hodin, Canisius College

• "Locating Cather: The Third Landscape of The Professor's House and The Song of the Lark" 

Julia Gregory, Independent Scholar

6.16 Delaware B

From the Lesbian Continuum 

Chair: Chelsea D. Ray, University of Maine-Augusta

• "From the Lesbian Continuum: The Female Artist in Anna Banti's Artemisia" 

Maria S. Grewe, Columbia University

• "The Wounding Muse: Charlotte Smith and the Politics of Female Friendship" 

Mark K. Fulk, SUNY Buffalo State College 

• "Transfixed Through and Through ': Female Quixotism and the Lesbian Continuum in the Early Republic" 

Lisa Day-Lindsey, Eastern Kentucky University

• "The Fiction of Autobiography: Natalie Clifford Barney's Unpublished Feminine Lovers or the Third Woman" 

Chelsea D. Ray, University of Maine-Augusta

6.17 Conference Ctr. Room K

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth-Century: 'He was not of an age, but for all time' (and use) 

Chair: Stephen Sweat, University of Arizona

• "Theatricality, Masculinity and Novel-Writing in the Late Eighteenth Century: Shakespearean Echoes in Godwin's Caleb Williams" 

Diana Koretsky, Bucknell University

• "Shakespeare on the Wall: John Boydell, Visual Culture, and the Problem of too Many Things" 

Thora Brylowe, Carnagie Mellon University

• "Chaos or Unity? -- Interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra and All for Love" 

Emily Stelzer, University of Dallas

• "A Sigh, A Tear, Macbeth, and King Lear: Shakespeare in the Sentimental Novel" 

Stephen Sweat, University of Arizona

6.18 Delaware C

More Than Decoration: Domestic Objects in the Victorian Novel 

Chair: Leslie Graff, University at Buffalo

• "Spelling the Gentlewoman: Mourning and Domestic Thrift in Frances Trollope's The Widow Barnaby" 

Christopher Noble, Azusa Pacific University

• "Drawing Room of Horrors: Domestic Nightmare in Wilkie Collins's Basil" 

Ariel Gunn, University of Florida

• "Fragmented Subjectivity in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend" 

Carrie McGrory, Boston University

• "Christina Light's Interior Design: Corruption in James's House of Fiction"

 Joellen Masters, Boston University

6.19 Executive Room

Contemporary British Masculinities 

Chair: Theodore Miller, Fordham University

• "'A strong unhindered moon': The Belated Englishman and the Trap of Domesticity" 

Praseeda Gopinath, SUNY Binghamton

• "Regarding Working Class Masculinity: The Filmic Gaze and Rebellion in Sillitoe's 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'" 

Laura White, SUNY Binghamton

• "Playing with fire: Transcending Masculinity in Pat Barker's 'Border Crossing'" 

Carolyn Broomhead, University of Manchester

• "Shades of Masculinity at the Edge of the Broken Family: Pat Barker's 'Blow Your House Down' and 'The Man Who Wasn't There'" 

James Arnett, CUNY Graduate Center

 

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Session 7      Friday, April 11     4:45-6:15 p.m.

7.01 Niagara Room

What Work Is, Or Was: Twentieth Century Poetry of Work 

Chair: Andrew Mulvania, Washington & Jefferson College

• "Frost, Labor and the Poetics of Love" 

Erica Levy-McAlpine, Yale University

• "Buildings Well Built: The Work Poems of Wendell Berry" 

Luke Schlueter, Independent Scholar

• "Philip Levine's Memories of Working Time" 

Scott Palmieri, Johnson&Wales University-Providence

• "What Work Is, Or Was: Nostalgic Representations of Work in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney and Philip Levine" 

Andrew Mulvania, Washington & Jefferson College

7.02 Regency A

Ecocriticism and/as Interdisciplinarity 

Sponsored by the Association of the Study of Literature and the Environment

Chair: Nicole Merola, Rhode Island School of Design

• "Mincing Words: From Place to Context" 

Andrew Fitch, CUNY Graduate Center and Jon Cotner, SUNY Buffalo

• "Nature on Display: Gardens, Galleries and the Greening of Curatorial Practices" 

Keri Cronin, Brock University

• "The Limits of Environmentalism in Winged Migration and March of the Penguins" 

Paula Willoquet-Maricondi, Marist University

• "Perfect Storms: Literature as Interlocutor for Environmental Ethics and Politics" 

Anthony Lioi, The Julliard School

7.03 Franklin Room

David Lynch's Hollywood (Roundtable) 

Chair: Daniel Burns, Elon University

• "Doubling, Bilocation, and the Fluid Personality in David Lynch's 'Sunshine Noir' Trilogy" 

Doug Grigsby, Independent Scholar

• "Shape-Shifting the Hollywood Ethos: Narrative Structure and the Moral Impulse in Lost Highway and Mulholland Dr." 

Jeff Johnson, Brevard Community College

• "No Escape from the Noir Aporia? The Fatal Fugues of Lost Highway" 

René Dietrich, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

• "The 'Club Silencio' Sequence and Lynch's Failing Interest in the Film Medium" 

Jonathan Ball, University of Calgary

• "Noir in Drag: The Queer Temporality of David Lynch's Mulholland Dr." 

Jennifer Pranolo, Yale University

• "A Woman in Trouble: David Lynch and the Hollywood Film Star" 

Dan Bashara, Northwestern University

7.04 Regency C

Mediterraneismi nel cinema italiano 

Chair: Fulvio Orsitto, University of Connecticut

• "Roberto Rossellini's Ambiguous Mediterranean" 

Enrico Vettore, California State University Long Beach

• "Percorsi mezziterranei nel cinema italiano contemporaneo" 

Fulvio Orsitto, University of Connecticut

• "Il corpo e la voce. Colonizzazione dell'individuo e processi di soggettivizzazione femminile nel cinema di Francesca Comencini" 

Andrea Righi, Cornell University

• "Sud e mascolinità nel cinema italiano degli anni '90" 

Renato Ventura, University of Connecticut

7.05 Grand E

Immigration, Culture, and Ethnicity in Spanish Peninsular Literature, Film and Other Popular Media' 

Chair: Maria Van Liew, West Chester University

• "The Hypocrisy of Loyalty in Carlos Molinero's Salvajes" 

Shanna Lino, University of Toronto

• "Cultural Encounters in Clara Janés's Diván del ópalo de fuego (O la leyenda de Layla y Machnún)" 

Debra Faszer-McMahon, Seton Hill University

• "Monteluz, recreación de la nueva sociedad española del siglo XXI" 

Alicia Arribas, Western Michigan University

• "Chinese Immigration in Spain: Tiger Imagery in La fuente amarilla"" 

Maria DiFrancesco, Ithaca College

7.06 Regency B

Education, Indoctrination, or Just Plain Fun? Deconstructing Popular Children and Youth Literature 

Chair: Ruxandra Marcu, Washington University

• "Seuss and The Republic: Children's Books as a Vehicle for Ideological Transmission" 

Chad Schneider, The Ohio State University

• "Intra-European Travel Accounts of the Spätaufklärung" 

Richard Apgar, University of North Carolina

• "Transforming a Tomboy: A Workbook. Literature for Girls in 19th Century Germany" 

Victoria Rust, Washington University

• "Ihr Jugendknospen der Menschheit!' E