Saturday, April 12

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Session 8      Saturday, April 12   8:30-10:00 a.m.

8.01 Niagara Room

Revisiting Asian American Women's 'Articulate Silences' 

Sponsored by the Women's Caucus

Chair: Susan Moynihan, SUNY Buffalo

• "Unnamed Loss: The Subject without Proper Name in The Gangster We Are All Looking For" 

Yasuko Kase, SUNY Buffalo

• "Integrated Silence and Communication in Nora Keller's Comfort Woman" 

Amy Nishimura, University of Hawai`i West O`ahu

• "The 'Silent' Images in a Counter-Epic" 

Xiwen Mai, University of Michigan

• "Articulations of the Body in Japanese American Women's Post-Internment Narratives" 

Susan Muchshima Moynihan, SUNY Buffalo

8.02 Regency A

Performing Authenticity: Women, Country Music, and Media 

Chair: Molly Brost, Bowling Green State University

• "The Discursive Cohesion of 'Reba'" 

Carol Wical, The University of Queensland

• "Colliding Stars: Negotiating Identities in Coal Miner's Daughter and Sweet Dreams" 

Jesse Schlotterbeck, University of Iowa

• "Reese, June, and Walk the Line: The Authentic 'Woman Behind the Man'" 

Molly Brost, Bowling Green State University

• "Lubbock? Or Leave It? Place, Space, and Home in Country Music" 

Jada Watson, University of Ottawa

8.03 Franklin Room

Exceptional Dicks: The Ethics and Ethos of American Tough Guys I

Chair: Tim Bryant, University at Buffalo

• "Blue-Collar Masculinity in Eric Kripke's Supernatural" 

Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University

• "The Prince and the Private Eye: Virtù and Fortuna in Dashiell Hammett" 

Doug Torgerson, Traill College, Trent University

• "'My secret and savage desire': Exceptionally Gendered Bodies" 

Susan B. McGee, SUNY Binghamton

• "'Just when I think I've got you figured out: Heroism and Masculinity in Joss Whedon's 'Firefly'" 

Dana Symons, Buffalo State College

 

8.04 Regency C

Deviants and Monsters in Literature and the Arts 

Chair: Adriana Spahr, Grant MacEwan College

• "A Three-Eyed Monster: The Picture of the Photographer in World Literature" 

Joanna Madloch, Montclair State University

• "There's Always Some Killing You Got to Do Around the Farm': The Monstrous Hillbilly in Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" 

Patrick F. Walter, SUNY Buffalo

• "Modernity/Monstrosity: On Madame Koto's (Gendered) Body and Figuring the Nation in Ben Okri's The Famished Road" 

Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, New York University

• "The Monstrous Feminine in Alejandro Sawa's La mujer de todo el mundo (Everybody's Woman)" 

Eva Copeland, Dickinson College

 

8.05 Grand C

(Re)viewing Time and Space in the Latin American City 

Chair: Diana Rodríguez Quevedo, University of Toronto

• "¡Yo no juego con zambos!: la raza como principio de jerarquización espacial en la Lima de Julio Ramón Ribeyro" 

Diana Vela, SUNY Buffalo

• "Negotiating the Public and the Private in 'Havana Noir' (2007)" 

Hilda Chacón, Nazareth College

• "Aserción del deseo sexual en los intersticios de la urbe: 'Santa Lucía', de Pablo Simonetti" 

Andrea Parada, SUNY Brockport

• "La ciudad fragmentada: representaciones espaciales y sociales de la ciudad en la película 'Rojo amanecer' (1989) de Jorge Fons" 

Laura Arribas, SUNY Buffalo

8.06 Regency B

The Bildungsroman: Limitations, Evaluations, Reinventions II 

Chair: Len Cagle, Lycoming College

• "A Rent in the Master Narrative: The Bildungsroman from the 18th Century to the Present" 

Hope L. Russell, SUNY Buffalo

• "The Dissolution of Gendered Plots in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and its Impact on Contemporary Criticism of the Bildungsroman" 

Lisa Downward, City University of New York

• "Framed Reality: Bild and Bildung in Adalbert Stifter's Nachsommer" 

Silke Brodersen, Harvard University

• "The Critique of the Bildungsroman with Lacan" 

Eun Ju Suh, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

8.07 Grand E

Old Postmodernists and New Realists: American Contemporary Novel after 1990 

Chair: Damjana Mraovic-O'Hare, Pennsylvania State University

• "History and the Postmodern in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange" 

Jennifer D. Ryan, Buffalo State College

• "David Markson and the End of Irony" 

Kathleen Hulley, New York University

• "'I might have been devising my own newsreel': Race, Film and History in Don DeLillo's Underworld" 

Greg Pierrot, Pennsylvania State University

• "The Troublesome, Beautiful Past: American Postmodern Fiction" 

Damjana Mraovic-O'Hare, Pennsylvania State University

 

8.08 Grand B

Readers in American Fiction 

Chair: Elsa Nettels, College of Willilam and Mary

• "Desire and Design:Negotiating the Real Reader Through Representations in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple" 

Karen E. Waldron, College of the Atlantic

• "I Think It's A Arrygory': Learning to read Rightly in Louisa May Alcott's Little Men" 

Anne Bruder, University of North Carolina

• "Reading George Eliot:: Middlemarch Stories in American Fiction" 

Rita Bode, Trent University

• "You Are What You Read: Thea Kronborg and Undine Spragg" 

Julie Olin-Ammentorp, LeMoyne College

8.09 Grand F 

From Monstrous Eve to Black Madonna: Religion and the Search in Literature by Women 

Chair: Allyson Hyland, Bridgewater State College

• "The Double Other: Redeeming the Marginalized 'Obeah Woman' in Marie Elena John's Unburnable" 

Carol Bailey, Rhode Island College.

• "The Wisdom of Anne Bradstreet: Eschewing Eve and Emulating Elizabeth" 

Zach Hutchins, University of North Carolina

• "Journey and Solace: A Brief Survey of Religious Imagery in Women's Literature" 

Allyson Hyland, Bridgewater State College

• "The Use of Religion in 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'" 

Fiore Sireci, The New School

8.10 Grand G

Modern Italian Poetry 

Chair: Laura Baffoni Licata, Tufts University

• "Il lavoro oscuro di Adriano Spatola:alcune considerazioni nel ventennale della morte." 

Beppe Cavatorta, University of Arizona

• "'Cecca bislacca fa la vacca stracca'. I 'conati' poetici di Carlo Emilio Gadda." 

Maria Roncalli Di Montorio, Indiana University

• "Il problema della (auto)refenzialita' e la lirica italiana del Novecento".

Corrado Federici, Brock University

• "Avviamento verso una prosa lirica nel discorso poetico dell'ultimo Montale." 

Laura Baffoni Licata, Tufts University

8.11 Seneca Room

Speaking the Story: Orality and Fiction 

Chair: Trinna S. Frever, University of Michigan

• "Luis Bernardo Honwana's Mozambican Short Stories: Thinking and Speaking in the Ways of Orality" 

Maria de Vasconcelos, Borough of Manhattan Community College

• "A Difficult Equilibrium': Oral Testimony in Post-Apartheid South African Literature" 

Sarah Pett, Rhodes University

• "Serving the Story: Class, Gender, Race, and the 'Double Voice' in Two Canadian Short Stories" 

Laurie Kruk, Nipissing University

• "The Speakin' Place' and 'Story Tellin' Time': Orality and Social Justice in Alice Childress' *Like One of the Family*" 

Trinna S. Frever, University of Michigan

8.12 Delaware A

Italian Theatre 

Chair: Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University

• "La poetica degli scacchi di Bernardino Pino da Cagli" 

Petra Wirth, University of Arizona

• "From La Mancha, to Siena, to the New World: Girolamo Gigli's Tragicomedies and Metatheatrical Librettos" 

Chiara Frenquellucci, Harvard University

• "Trovarsi' sul palcoscenico della vita: parola e gesto di una maschera pirandelliana" 

Marilena De Chiara, Universidad Pompeu Fabra

• "The Commedia dell'arte as a Source of Renewal in Twentieth-Century Spanish Theatre: Benavente and Lorca" 

Antonio Cao, Hofstra University

8.13 Boardroom

Poetics of Return 

Chair: Lauryl Tucker, Ithaca College

• "'Again, the pyramid of skulls': H.D.'s Trilogy, Remembrance and the Lost Atlantis" 

Jason Coats, University of Virginia

• "Lawson Inada's Poetry of Defiance and the Journey to Tule Lake" 

Jeff Gibbons, U.S. Military Academy

• "'Much besides your life depends on it': The Triangulated Silences of the Closet in Bidart, Ashbery and Merrill" 

Christopher Bock, Lesley College

• "'Repeat, repeat, repeat, revise, revise, revise': Elizabeth Bishop and the Female Elegy" 

Alexandra Socarides, University of Missouri-Columbia

8.14 Conference Ctr. Rm J 8:00 a.m.--10:00 a.m.

Home and Away:Strolling in and Around Orhan Pamuk's Literary Landscapes (Seminar) 

Chair: Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University

• "Murder T(he)y Wrote: Heteroglossic Sprees and Wandering Viewpoints in Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red" 

Barish Ali & Caroline Hagood, Buffalo State College

• "Metafictional Journeys and the Idea of Loss in Yeni hayat" 

Sule Okuroglu, SUNY Buffalo

• "Reclaiming History in Orhan Pamuk's My Name is Red" 

Banu Ozel, SUNY Buffalo

• "Strolling in Istanbul: Orhan Pamuk;s Flaneur" 

Hande Tekdemir, University of Southern California

• "Pamuk and His English Translators" 

Michael McGaha, Pomona College

• "Imagination and Retrospect in the City: Orhan Pamuk" 

Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University

8.15 Ellicott Room

Addiction and 20th Century American Literature 

Chair: Crystal Gorham Doss, University at Buffalo

• "Narcodollars' and the American Dream in Less Than Zero and Bright Lights, Big City" 

Allan G. Borst, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign

• "His Society: John Berryman and Addiction" 

Colin Clarke, Suffolk County Community College

• "The Addict's Revolt: Drug Use and Anti-Capitalism in Nelson Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm" 

Nate Mills, University of Michigan

• "'Put a Mississippian in Alcohol and You Have a Gentleman': Alcohol and William Faulkner's  Sanctuary" 

Crystal Gorham Doss, University at Buffalo

8.16 Delaware B

Hawthorne and the Ethical 

Chair: Sean Kelly, University at Buffalo

• "Movement/Contact: The Kinetic Dimension of Ethical Relations in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Fiction" 

Kevin Pelletier, University of Richmond

• "Young Goodman Brown' and the Critical Ethics of Hawthorne's Psychological Romance" 

Joseph Church, SUNY Binghamton

• "Moral Machines: Hawthorne and Technological Allegory" 

Leigh Ann Litwiller Berte, Spring Hill College

• "Hawthorne and the Obscene: Radical Otherness and 'The Minister's Black Veil'" 

Sean Kelly, University at Buffalo

8.17 Conference Ctr. Room K

Reconsidering Early Modern Women's Chastity, Silence, and Obedience 

Chair: Jessica C. Murphy, University of California-Santa Barbara

• "Elizabeth Cary's Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in The Tragedy of Mariam" 

Cristina León Alfar, Hunter College

• "Venus' Nuns: Hero, Helen and the Psychology of Renaissance Chastity" 

Paul Gleed, SUNY Binghamton

• "'Her Head is Cut Off': Middleton's Widows and their Division from Virtue" 

Nathaniel Leonard, University of Massachusetts

• "Advice to the Ladies of London: Broadside Ballads and Feminine Virtue" 

Jessica C. Murphy, University of California-Santa Barbara

8.18 Delaware C

Exile in German Literature 

Chair: Elke Nicolai, Hunter College

• "Crossing the Ocean: Ottilie Assing's Radical Journalism in the US" 

Traci O' Brien, Auburn University

• "unter Nr. 14923 als Mitglied geführt': Erich Kästners Inneres Exil als Exil?" 

Eckhard Kuhn-Osius, Hunter College

• "Sequential Exile by German-Jewish Writers of Eastern European Origin: Mascha Kaleko and H.W.Katz" 

Karina von Tippelskirch, Syracuse University

• "Exil als aufgezwungene Lebensform: Die Autorinnen Erika Mann und Grete Weil" 

Elke Nicolai, Hunter College

8.19 Suite 1

8.20 Suite 2

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Session 9     Saturday, April 12   10:15-11:45 a.m.

9.01 Niagara Room

Exceptional Dicks: The Ethics and Ethos of American Tough Guys II

Chair: Dana Symons, Buffalo State College

• "Essential Quint" 

Martin Northrop, Fordham University

• "Neither Tarnished nor Afraid: The Effect of Reverse Discourse in The Closer" 

Mary Bush, University of North Texas

• "Zane Grey's Lassiter: The Mormon-killer as a Latter-day Knight Errant" 

Kathryn Inskeep, Drew University

• "Paladin Plays the Field: 1950s Television, American Masculinity, and the New Episodic Sexualization of the Private Sphere" 

Erin Lee Mock, CUNY Graduate Center

9.02 Regency A

The Unmastered Past: (Auto)biography, Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School 

Chair: Graeme Gilloch, Lancaster University

• "Modernity, Personality and the Spiritual Life of Our Time: Siegfried Kracauer reads Georg Simmel" 

Graeme Gilloch, Lancaster University

• "Lowenthal and Kracauer on biography: consumption and redemption" 

Jack Nye, Lancaster University

• "Taste and Touch in Benjamin's Berlin Memoirs" 

Henry Sussman, SUNY Buffalo

• "Assembling Mary Pullen for a Cry" 

Allen Shelton, Buffalo State College

9.03 Franklin Room

The Sense of Space: Rural and Urban Intersections in Iberia and Latin America 

Chair: Colleen Culleton, University at Buffalo

• "Urban Terroir: Barcelona's Market System" 

Robert Davidson, University of Toronto

• "Selling Catalonia: Envisioning the Rural and Building the Nation" 

Colleen Culleton, University at Buffalo

• "The Latin American Plaza as Palimpsest" 

Michael Dowdy, Hunter College

• "Rural/Urban Boundaries and the Modern South American Nation" 

Justin Read, University at Buffalo

9.04 Regency C

H.D., Beyond Imagism 

Chair: William Waddell, St. John Fisher College

• "Standing in the Place of the Other: H.D.'s Imagism and Sequences of Erasure" 

Bret Keeling, Northeastern University

• "'The festival opens as before': Quiet Adoration in H.D.'s Trilogy" 

Kelly MacPhail, Universite de Montreal

• "Multisensual Projection in H.D.'s Trilogy" 

Suzanne Zelazo, York University

• "Beyond *Sea Garden*: Hermes and the Rose" 

Nephie Christodoulides, University of Cyprus

9.05 Grand C

(Re)viewing Time and Space in the Latin American City 

Chair: Rita Palacios, University of Toronto

• "A Space of Dialogue Between Past and Present" 

Erica Miller Yozell, Moravian College

• "Historia y tango en el mundo ficcional de Tomás Eloy Martínez" 

Z. Nelly Martínez, McGill University

• "El vuelo de la Reina Tomás Eloy Martínez. Cuerpo herido de mujer, más allá de los cuentos de hadas" 

Marcelo Coddou, Drew University

• "Ethnosexual Frontiers of a Maya City: The Case of Luis de Lión's 'El tiempo principia en Xibalbá'" 

Rita Palacios, University of Toronto

9.06 Regency B

The Bildungsroman: Limitations, Evaluations, Reinventions 

Chair: Thomas Herold, Harvard University

• "Children of Their Times: On the Formation of a Generational Consciousness in the Bildungsroman around 1830" 

Tobias Boes, University of Notre Dame

• "Bildungsroman to Be Remembered" 

Shih Yen Huang, Center for Humanities Research at the National Science Council, Taiwan

• "Pataphysical Discourse in the German Bildungsroman" 

Christian Anderson, University of California-Davis

• "A Dubious Profession: W.G. Sebald's 'Schwindel, Gefühle' and the Fiction of Becoming a Writer" 

Sol Peleaz, SUNY Buffalo

9.07 Grand E

The Image of America in Italian Culture and Literature 

Chair: Vincenzo Bollettino, Montclair State University

• "America in Maria Corti's 'Voci Dal Nordest''" 

Paul Whitehill, Raritan Valley Community Collete

• "Mario Puzo and John Steinbeck:Mass Movement, Social Transformation and the Vision of America'" 

Galo Vaca Acevedo, William Paterson University

• "Pavese's America and the Problem of Italian Identity'" 

Juliet Nusbaum, Columbia University

• "The Vision of America in Pietro DiDonato's 'Christ in Concrete''" 

Vincenzo Bollettino, Montclair State University

9.08 Grand B

Readers in American Fiction 

Chair: Julie Olin-Ammentorp, LeMoyne College

• "Reading and/or Community: Imaginary Friends, Moral Monsters, and the Ideologies of Common Reading" 

Peter Powers, Messiah College

• "'She was a great reader of romances': Readers in The Coquette" 

Jessica Wells Cantiello, CUNY Graduate Center

• "'Go then, my little book:' 'The Pilgrim's Progress as Gendered Quest in Alcott's Little Women" 

Ashley Reed, University of North Carolina

• "Restoring a Damaged Self-Identity: Reading as a Way of Self-Empowerment in Alice Walker's The Color Purple" 

Ya-hui Irenna Chang, Texas Tech University

9.09 Grand F

Defining, Appreciating, and Critiquing 'Mommy Lit' (Roundtable) 

Chair: Nicole Willey, Kent State University-Tuscarawas

• "Katharine DeBrecht's *Help! Mom!* Series, the Politicization of Mommy Lit, and the 'Adulteration' of Narratives for Children" 

Michelle Ann Abate, Hollins University

• "Writing and Publishing 'Mommy Lit': One Writer's Experience" 

Sarah Bilston, Trinity College

• "Survival Skills: Drowning in Advice to Academic Moms" 

Justine Dymond, University of Massachusetts

• "The Motherhood Memoir and the New Momism: Biting the Hand that Feeds You" 

Andrea O'Reilly, York University

• "What is Mommy Lit? Intersections of Motherhood, Feminism and Chick Lit" 

Leah Souffrant, City University of New York

9.10 Grand G

Surfaces of Inscription: Embodiment in City and Text 

Chair: Domenic Beneventi, Université de Sherbrooke

• "Urban Bodies, Urban Violence" 

Jennie Lightweis-Goff, University of Rochester

• "Living in the Unregulated Zone: Environmental Politics in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl" 

Cheryl Lousley, Wilfrid Laurier University

• "Poor Neighbours: Literary Ghettos as Knowable Communities" 

Roxanne Rimstead, Université de Sherbrooke

• "'Keep Your Coins, I Want Change': The Uncanniness of the Homeless Body" 

Domenic Beneventi, Université de Sherbrooke

9.11 Seneca Room

Ruined Endings and Exit Strategies in Narrative Literature 

Chair: Abbes Maazaoui, Lincoln University

• "The Life of Character and the Life Span of the Novel" 

Jacob Hovind, Emory University

• "Writing the Apocalypse in the Second Nuclear Age: The End in Lydia Millet's Oh Pure and Radiant Heart" 

Molly Wallace, Queen's University

• "Impossible Ending: Reading as an Encounter in Anil's Ghost" 

JaeEun Yoo, Rutgers University

• "[L]et all things end': Repetition, Closure and Endings in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine Plays" 

Mathew Martin, Brock University

9.12 Delaware A

Postcolonial Drama and Theatre 

Chair: Kyounghye Kwon, The Ohio State University

• "Wole Soyinka's Drama: Searching for a Post-colonial National Identity" 

Mahmoud Shalaby, Loughborough University

• "Writing Irish Identity in Friel's Translations and The Home Place" 

Dennis A. McGlothin, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

• "The Revivified Voice of Sartje Baartman: Silenced as the Venus Hottentot, Given Voice in Suzan-Lori Parks' Postcolonial Drama Venus" 

Sharon M. Brubaker, Drexel University

• "Indigenous (Post)colonial Theatre and the Absurd Body" 

Kyounghye Kwon, The Ohio State University

9.13 Boardroom

Reading Terror, Writing Counterviolence 

Chairs: Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard, College of the Holy Cross and Joel Westerdale, Smith College

• "Reading the Terrorist Call: The Violence and Manifestos of 'Michael Kohlhaas'" 

Jeff Champlin, New York University

• "Speaking and Writing as Defense Strategies: Literary 'Fürsprecher'" 

Doreen Densky, Johns Hopkins University

• "Reading the Visuality of Violence in DeLillo's Underworld" 

William Quirk, St. Mary's College of Maryland

• Commentary 

Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard, College of the Holy Cross

9.14 Conference Ctr. Rm J

Rethinking the Survey Course 

Chair: Robin DeRosa, Plymouth State University

• "The Self-Deconstructing Canon: Teaching the Classics without Perpetuating Hegemony" 

Randy Laist, University of Connecticut

• "The Subvey: Rethinking the American Literature Survey for the Small College" 

Joshua D. Bellin, La Roche College

• "A Community in Conflict(s): American Lit I as the Evolution of the Anthology" 

Roseanne Alvarez & Carl Calendar, Brookdale Community College

• "Questioning and Expanding the Canon with Internet Resources" 

Bridget M. Marshall, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

9.15 Ellicott Room

American Working-Class Literature: Gender, Bodies, and Performance 

Chair: Matt Lessig, SUNY Cortland

• "Living was an ache': The Bodily Impact of Dressing Down" 

Rachel Collins, Syracuse University

• "The Man in the Family': Staging Gender in Waiting for Lefty and American Social Protest Theatre" 

Maria Brandt, Monroe Community College

• "'All the world a-cryen': Women Writing Proletariat Fiction" 

Jenn Williamson, University of North Carolina

• "'A Hearth of her Own for them All': Economic Autonomy in Cold War Working Class Women's Literature" 

Elizabeth Simoneau, Emory University

9.16 Delaware B

Queer Theory and Becoming 

Chair: Mikko Tuhkanen, East Carolina University

• "Stein und Zeit" 

E. L. McCallum, Michigan State University

• "What Child Is This? A Queer-of-Color Iconographic Intervention" 

Vincent Stephens, Syracuse University

• "The Temporal Politics of Intersex" 

Jana Funke, University of Edinburgh

• "Lesbianism, Dialectics, and Resistive Strategy in Monique Wittig's The Straight Mind" 

Sarah Hamblin, Michigan State University

9.17 Conference Ctr. Room K

Symptomatic Aesthetics: Medical Discourses and Literary Representations 

Chairs: Masha Mimran and Marcelline Block, Princeton University

• "'I, too, saw God through the mud': Frommian Necrophilia/Biophilia in Wilfred Owen"

Jason M. Demeter, University of Akron

• "Madness and Medicine in The Vortex: Racial Degeneration and the Colombian Body Politic" 

Charlotte Rogers

• "Bodily Discourse and Heteronormative Conclusion: Herculine Barbin and The Well of Loneliness" 

Sheila Liming, Carnegie Mellon University

• "Le caractère contagieux de l'hysterie dans Nana comme reflet des craintes de la societe de l'epoque" 

Severine Meunier, Harvard University

9.18 Delaware C

Sovereignty, Signifyin(g), and Cultural Pluralism in Native American Literature 

Chair: Benjamin Carson, Bridgewater State College

• "E Pluribus Unum?: Hybridity, Sovereignty, and Pluralism in Native American Literary Nationalism" 

Chris Taylor, Carnegie Mellon University

• "On the Lower Frequencies: Signifyin(g) in Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream" 

Clare Callahan, City University of New York

• "Point Assinika and Border Spaces" 

James Donahue, SUNY College at Potsdam

• "Indian Territory Pastoral: Cultural Confluence in Alexander Posey's Nature Poems" 

Matthew Wynn Sivils, Westminster College

9.19 Executive Room

Walking the Line: The Boundary in the Early American Literary Imagination 

Chair: Timothy Strode, Nassau Community College

• "The Dirty and Difficult Part of Our Business': Reading the Landscape in William Byrd's *History of the Line*" 

James M. Greene, West Virginia University

• "The New Republic's Two Frontiers: Edgar Huntly and the Postcolonial Gothic" 

Jason Richards, SUNY Brockport

• "Figuratively Surveying National Space: The Western Frontier and the Ocean in J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer" 

Jennifer Schell, Wichita State University

• "Paradiso Terrestra: The Early American Landscape in Herman Melville's Centennial Epic, Clarel" 

Tim Clayton Wood, Nassau Community College

9.20 Buffalo Room

Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day' 

Chairs: Christopher Leise Plattsburgh State University and Jeffrey Severs, Wake Forest University

• "Transnational Politics in Pynchon's Against the Day'" 

Joseph Conte, University at Buffalo

• "Binocular Disparity: On Pynchon's Panoramic Paradigm in Against the Day'" 

Justin St.Clair, University of South Alabama

• "The Changes They Are A-Timin': The Anachronism of Modernity in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Bob Dylan's Modern Times'" 

Adam Lifshey, Georgetown University

• "Against the Day and 'The Eternally-Adolescent Male Mind' of Thomas Pynchon'" 

Stephen Hock, Virginia Wesleyan College

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Session 10     Saturday, April 12    12:00-1:30

10.01 Niagara Room

• To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence 

Sunil, Iyangar, National Endowment for the Arts

Moderator: Robert Lougy, Pennsylvania State University

10.02 Regency A

• Ecocritical Section Sponsored Session 

• "Our Energy Future: Addressing Global Climate Change on our Campuses and in our Homes" 

Walter Simpson, SUNY Buffalo 

Moderator: Anthony Lioi, The Julliard School

 

10.03 Franklin Room

Behind the Spanish Lens: Stars and Sexualities in Contemporary Spanish Film Featured Spanish Section Session

Chair: Monica Leoni, University of Waterloo

• "Repair at the Site of Trauma and Socio-Political Oppression in Laberinto del Fauno" 

Paola M. Kersch, SUNY at Buffalo

• "La representación del miedo en Te doy mis ojos (2003) de Icíar Bollaín" 

Cristina Carrasco, Nazareth College

• "At the Crossroads: Fiction and Reality in V. Érice's The Spirit of the Beehive and G. del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth" 

Mercedes Rowinsky-Geurts, Wilfrid Laurier University

10.04 Regency C

A Crisis in Numbers? Attracting Undergraduate Students to French Programs (Roundtable) Featured French Section Session

Chair: Natalie Edwards, Wagner College

• "The BA in French, Don't Leave URI Without It!" 

Alain-Philippe Durand, University of Rhode Island

• "Filling in the Gaps:Attracting and Retaining Non-traditional Students of French through Innovative Technology" 

Chelsea Ray, University of Maine at Augusta

• "Creative Strategies for Building French Programs" 

E. Nicole Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

• "The Impact of Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Experiences on the French Program at Albright College" 

Adam John, Albright College

• "Linking French and Education Programs" 

Corinne Beauquis, University of Toronto Scarborough

• "Building (and Sustaining) the French Major In The Small Liberal Arts College" 

Natalie Edwards, Wagner College

10.05 Grand C

Popular Culture Section Special Event, Co-Sponsored by LGBTQ Caucus

• "Black Sex"

Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto

10.06 Regency B

The Image of America in German-speaking Europe Featured German Section Session 

Chair: Eric Klaus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

• "Savage and Free: Shaping the Myth of America in German Drama to 1800" 

Sabine Macris Klein, Westfield State College

• "The Construction of Old Europe's New Identity in Gabriele Reuter's Der Amerikaner" 

Christiane Arndt, Queen's University

• "Max Schmeling as 'American': Boxing and Cultural Identity in the Weimar Republic" 

Jon Hughes, University of London

• "Alexander Osang's New York City: Reportage and Fiction between Two Worlds" 

Thomas S. Hansen, Wellesley College

10.07 Grand E

Italian Urban Landscapes in the XX Century (and in the Future) Featured Italian Section Session

Chair: Samuel Ghelli, Kean University

• "Roma Capitale. Fra antico e moderno, scenario ideale per la generazione che si affaccia al Novecento" 

Samuel Ghelli, Kean University

• "Trieste - tristezze di Saba" 

Larco Ioana Raluca, Gettysburg College

• "Roma citta' teatro: da quinta storica a narrativa del presente" 

Giuseppe Tosi, Georgetown University

10.08 Grand B

Postcolonial Section Roundtable: Diaspora and Transnational Directions in the 21st Century

Chair: Carine Mardorossian, University at Buffalo 

• Gita Rajan, Fairfield University 
• Hershini Bhana Young, University at Buffalo 
• Elaine Savory, The New School
• Discussants: Christopher Winks, Queen's College-CUNY Hyacinth Simpson, Ryersen University

10.09 Grand F

• First Last Words: A Reading by Christine Hume and Christina Milletti 

Christine Hume, Eastern Michigan Univerity Christina Milletti, SUNY Buffalo

10.10 Grand G 

Race and Literature in the United States Featured American Section Session 

Chair: Carlos Hiraldo, LaGuardia Community College

• "Claiming:' White Ambition, Multiracial Identity, and the New Racial Passing" 

Meredith McCarroll, University of Tenessee

• "Fran Ross's Oreo: Black on the Outside, Jewish on the Inside" 

Miriam Jaffe-Foger, Rutgers University

• "Gerald and Thomas: The Subtext within the Text in Down These Mean Streets" 

Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco, University of Cincinnati

• "Ceremonial Sex" 

  Chris Sabatelli, Independent Scholar

10.11 Seneca Room

Negotiating the Academic Job Market (Roundtable) 

Sponsored by the Graduate Student Caucus

Chair: Gabriele Eichmanns, University of Washington

• Elizabeth Abele, Nassau Community College
• Helga Druxes, Williams College
• Jason Haslam, Dalhousie University
• Katja Hawlitschka, Ocean County College

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Session 11     Saturday, April 12    1:45-3:00 p.m.

11.01 Niagara Room

Service-Learning and Community Involvement in Composition Classes 

Chair: John Suarez, SUNY Cortland

• "Service-Learning in the Composition Classroom" 

Laurie Cella, Shippensburg University

• "Untying the Noose: 'Oyate' and Community Service Writing" 

Elizabeth Kelley, SUNY Buffalo

• "Emotion: The Logic Behind Service-Learning in the Composition Classroom" 

John Suarez, SUNY Cortland

11.02 Regency A

Film and German Victimhood 

Chair: Kai Artur Diers, Williams College

• "The Vacillations of Victimhood: Wolfgang Staudte's Rotation (1949) and the Nazi Perpetrator as Victim" 

Jaimey Fisher, University of California-Davis

• "From Baroque Beauty to Landscapes of Rubble: The Use of Iconic Images in the TV-film Dresden and the German Victim Discourse" 

Susanne Vees-Gulani, Case Western Reserve University

• "Competion or Coexistence? Victim Narratives in Frank Wisbar's Nacht fiel ueber Gotenhafen" 

Kai Artur Diers, Williams College

11.03 Franklin Room

Moliere, Past and Present 

Chair: Thomas P. Finn, Ohio Northern University

• "Self-Seduction in Molière's Tartuffe and Don Juan, and Ivo van Hove's production of *The Misanthrope*" 

Rick DesRochers, Long Island University-CW Post

• "La folle querelle ou La critique d'Andromaque: A Lost Text by Molière?" 

Maryann Tebben, Bard College-Simon's Rock

• "Molière's Raisonneurs : The Pessimism of a Comic Playwright" 

Thomas P. Finn, Ohio Northern University

 

11.04 Regency C

21st Century French and Francophone Film 

Chair: Lisa Weiss, Vanderbilt University

• "A Morbid Eroticism: The Dark Connotations of Sexual Desire in Contemporary French Cinema" 

Hunter Vaughan, Oxford University

• "Gaz Bar Blues: A Changing Québec in a Changing World" 

Katharine Harrington, University of Maine-Fort Kent

• "Resisting Censorship: Cinematic Representations of France's Repressed Histories" 

Lisa Weiss, Vanderbilt University

11.05 Grand C

Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican Women Writers 

Chair: Elena M. Martínez, Baruch College-CUNY

• "Identidad y nación en Nuestra Señora de la noche de Mayra Santos Febres" 

Elena M. Martínez, Baruch College-CUNY

• "Consuming Economics in Angie Cruz's Let it Rain Coffee" 

Susan Méndez, University of Scranton

• "Innovación temática en la narrativa de dos escritoras dominicanas contemporáneas" 

María Morán, City College of New York-CUNY

11.06 Regency B

German Soundscapes of Postmodernity 

Chair: Florence Feiereisen, Middlebury College

• "The Sound of the 'Ghetto:' Representations of 'German Spaces' in Rap and Hip-Hop" 

Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

• "Utopian Transcendence or Elusive Ambivalence? Politics and the Electronic Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen" 

Evan Torner, University of Massachusetts

• "Archiving the Scream: Mapping the German Wartime Soundscape in Marcel Beyer's Flughunde" 

Danny Bowles, Harvard University

11.07 Grand E

Culture, Meaning, Truth: The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Italy (Roundtable) 

Chair: Eugenio Bolongaro, McGill University

• "Out of the Laboratory: From Autonomia to Immaterial Labour" 

Sabrina Ovan, University of Minnesota

• "Intellectual Labour in Post-Fordism: Rethinking a Marxist Approach" 

Mark Epstein, Rider University

• "Intellettuali (o meno?) allo scoperto: i casi Fallaci e Severgnini" 

Francesca Paduano, Marist College

• "Roberto Saviano and Marco Tullio Giordana: The New Engaged Intellectual in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema" 

Anna Paparcone, Cornell University

11.08 Grand B

Narcissism, Masochism, and Contemporary Hollywood Masculinity 

Chair: David Greven, Connecticut College

• "The Failure of 'the primordial prophylactic against fear' and the Travesty of Masculinity in David Mamet's House of Games" 

Elizabeth Hubbard, Fordham University

• "Heterosexual Male Masochism and the Deadly Woman in Contemporary Crime Films/Neo-noirs" 

Alessandra Ofelia Catanea, University Roma Tre

• "Male Echoes and Movie Narcissists: The Double Protagonist Film" 

David Greven, Connecticut College

 

 

11.09 Grand F

Critical Nostalgia 

Chair: Lisa Hinrichsen, Boston University

• "(N)ostalgia: Embodiment and Critical Memory" 

Kevin L. Ferguson, Rutgers University

• "Nostalgia, Hauntology, and Specters of Marx" 

Michael Mayne, University of Florida

• "This is Then: Melodrama, Nostalgia, and the Body in Performance" 

James M. Cherry, Wabash College

11.10 Grand G

Ecofeminism in American Literature 

Chair: Andrea Campbell, Washington State University

• "An Inconvenient Alliance: Women, Nature and Science" 

Lourdes Arciniega, University of Calgary

• "Ecological Vitality and Rejuvenating the Predatory Impulse: An Exploration of Animal and Human Agency in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer" 

Christine Battista, Binghamton University

• "Nowhere, Virginia': Location and Liminality in Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" 

Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Texas A&M University

11.11 Seneca Room

Transcribed Performance: 20th/21st Century Talk Poetry 

Chairs: Jon Cotner, SUNY Buffalo and Andy Fitch, CUNY Graduate Center

• "Reading Listening to David Antin's Talk Poems" 

Sarah Campbell, SUNY Buffalo

• "Transcription's Muse" 

Chris Schmidt, CUNY Graduate Center

• "Performative Introspection: Adrienne Rich's 1970s Poems" 

Sally Sevcik, Rutgers University

11.12 Delaware A

The Interplay of Literature, Music and the Visual Arts during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 

Chair: Marco Cerocchi, La Salle University

• "Morality in Renaissance Writings: The Case of Leonardo da Vinci." 

Filomena Calabrese, University of Toronto

• "Alcuni aspetti poetici e sensuali della produzione letterario-musicale di Angelo Poliziano." 

Marco Cerocchi, La Salle University

• "Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini's amantes amentes: tragicomedy in the Historia de duobus amantibus" 

Julie Van Peteghem, Columbia University

 

11.13 Boardroom

The Poetics of Place: Region and Nation in Medieval British Literature 

Chair: Randy Schiff, SUNY Buffalo

• "Englishing and Nationalism in William Caxton's Eracles" 

Suha Kudsieh, Trent University

• "'Inward Continuities': Myth, Memory, and Medievalism in Basil Bunting and David Jones." 

Richard J. Owens, SUNY Buffalo

• "'In duabus quasi divisam insulis': Imagining Scotland's Borders in the Middle Ages." 

Katherine Terrell, Hamilton College

11.14 Conference Ctr. Rm J

John Milton at 400 

Chairs: William Moeck, Nassau Community College and Danielle St. Hilaire, Quinnipiac University

• "Interrogative, Declarative and Persuasive Modes of Speech in Adam and Eve's Marital Discourse" 

Rebekah Keaton, Niagra Community College

• "Birth-day of Heav'n and Earth': Creation Old and New in Raphael's Hexaemeral Narrative" 

Russell M. Hillier, Selwyn College, Cambridge University

• "Say First What Cause': Satan, Eve, and the Reasons for the Fall" 

Danielle St. Hilaire, Quinnipiac University

11.15 Ellicott Room

Visionary Poetics and British Romanticism 

Chair: Timothy Ruppert, Duquesne University

• "Visionary and Ethical Discourses in Coleridge's 'France: An Ode'" 

Vincent Bissonette, CUNY Graduate Center

• "Visionaries and Sceptics: Tom Paine and Some Later Romantic Writers" 

Michael Williams, University of South Africa

• "Mary Shelley's Apocalyptic Imagination in Frankenstein and The Last Man" 

Mikyung Park, SUNY Buffalo

11.16 Delaware B

What Hath Angels Wrought? Queer Drama Beyond the Millennium 

Chair: Donald Gagnon, Western Connecticut State University

• "(Miss)-Constructing Identity in I Am My Own Wife" 

Myra Salcedo, University of Texas at Arlington

• "Staging Stages: Shifting Ground in Post-Milennial Drama" 

Christa Mahalik, Western Connecticut State University

• "The Father as Mothering Figure in Cheryl L. West's Before It Hits Home "

Reginald A. Wilburn, University of New Hampshire

 

11.17 Conference Ctr. Room K

New Approaches to William Wells Brown I 

Chair: M. Clay Hooper, University at Buffalo

• "Remapping the South: William Wells Brown's My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People" 

John Ernest, West Virginia University

• "Excavating Cato: The Implicit Conversation Behind a Character's Name and Deeds in The Escape" 

Robert Oscar Lopez, Canisius College

• "Rethinking William Wells Brown: Citizenship, Empathy and Resistance in Clotel" 

Jane Greenway Carr, New York University

11.18 Delaware C

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Session 12     Saturday, April 12   3:15-4:45 p.m.

12.01 Niagara Room

First Impressions in Victorian Literature 

Chair: Christy Rieger, Mercyhurst College

• "First Impressions and the Professional Man in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" 

Christy Rieger, Mercyhurst College

• "The Power of Seeing Without Thinking: Uncanny First Impressions in Dombey and Son" 

David Kaplin, Lawrence University

• "Is It As Plain As the Nose on Your Face?: Victorian Approaches to Physiognomy" 

Sarah Lennox, Clark University

• "Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Images of Jane Morris and the Hoarding of First Impressions" 

Amy Bingaman, Bowling Green State University

12.02 Regency A

Justice and the Big Bad Man: Perspectives on Individual Responsibility 

Chair: Chad Cripe, Grand Valley State University

• "We Could Kill Everyone': Social Theory in Boondock Saints" 

Matthew Anger, Grand Valley State University

• "V for Vendetta: Fear and the Specter Left in its Wake" 

Thomas Jordan, Binghamton University

• "The Plan of Superman: Fighting the Government in Action Comics #1" 

Brad Ricca, Case Western Reserve University

• "Finding and Fighting for Justice in Sin City" 

Chad B. Cripe, Grand Valley State University

12.03 Franklin

Reverse Immigration/Immigration inversee 

Chair: Helene Sicard-Cowan, McGill University

• "Immigration au passe: Les Temps qui changent d'Andre Techine" 

Faycal Falaki, New York University

• "L'immigration inversee dans 2103, Le Retour de l'elephant, et l'expression de la crise" 

Kawthar Ayed, Universite d'Aix-en-Provende

• "Mimicry, Margins, and Migration: On Reverse Immigration in Amoussou's Africa paradis and Waberi's Aux Etats-Unis d'Afrique" 

Cora Monroe, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez

• "L'immigration croisee dans Vingt nuits et un jour de pluie de Lam Le" 

Helene Sicard-Cowan, McGill University

12.04 Regency C

Queer Presences: Homosexuality, Homoeroticism, and Homophobia in Italian Literature and Cinema (Seminar)

Chair: Erika Papagni, University of Toronto

 

• "Male Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Florence"

Clorinda Donato, California State University at Long Beach

• "Da Vinci's Code" 

Rolando Jorif, Borough of Manhattan Community College

• "Deviations and Desires: The Films of Ferzan Ozpetek" 

Gabrielle E. Popoff, Columbia University

• "Angeli da un'ala soltanto di Sciltian Gastaldi" 

Erika Papagni, University of Toronto

12.05 Grand C

Early Modern Spanish and Colonial Latin American Identities: Literary and Historical Representations 

Chair: Felipe Ruan, Brock University

• "La refutación del discurso anti-incaico de Toledo en la Ynstruçion de Titu Cusi Yupanqui'" 

Valérie Benoist, Grinnell College

• "The Spanish Body Under Siege in the Early Modern History Play: Cervantes' Numancia, Lope's El asalto de Mastrique, and Calderon's El sitio de Breda'" 

Tracy Crowe-Morey, Brock University

• "Racial Difference and Moriscos: From the Old World to the New'" 

Mark Groundland, Tennessee Tech University

• "Imagining Spanish Identity From the Outside: Medicine and the Notion of 'Spanishness' in Turkey and the New World'" 

Meghan McInnis-Domínguez, University of Delaware

12.06 Regency B

German-German Problems: Continuities and Discontinuities in Post-unification Germany 

Chair: Barbara Mabee, Oakland University

• "The Problem of Multicultural Identity in Emine Özdamar's 'Mutterzunge'" 

Hang-Sun Kim, Harvard University

• "The Temporality of Race and Disease in Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss' 'Zurück auf los'" 

Kyle E. Frackman, University of Massachusetts

• "Der weibliche Ketzer heißt Hexe': Feminist Appropriation of the Witch in Women's Writings before and after the Wende" 

Qinna Shen, Yale University

• "Jakob Heins 'Herr Jensen steigt aus': Aussteiger, Sonderling, Exzentriker, Irrsinniger?" 

Christine Cosentino, Rutgers University

12.07 Grand E

The Short Story or Novella in Italy from Boccaccio to the Present 

Chair: Andrea Pera, University Of Genoa

• "Ricordi figurativi nei racconti di Piero Chiara" 

Andrea Mirabile, Vanderbilt University

• "A Quick Trip to Doom: Two Gothic Short Stories by Camillo Boito and Iginio Ugo Tarchetti" 

Amelia Moser, Columbia University

• "Denaro, rapporti sociali ed economia della novella nelle Cene di A. Grazzini" 

Roberto Nicosia, Rutgers University

• "Quasi com'uno specchio appo i minori: figure di nobili ne Il novellino" 

Andrea Pera, University of Genoa

12.08 Grand B

Traveling Bodies: The Physical Experience of Dislocation in American Literature 

Chair: Alexa Weik, University of California-San Diego

• "An act of life': Intimate Formalism in Henry James's The American Scene" 

Michael Schmidt, Wayne State University

• "Into the 21st Century: Travel and body politics in Barry Lopez's Resistance" 

Anne Reynès-Delobel, Université de Provence

• "The Same Bodies Everywhere': Returning to Post-genocide Rwanda in Murambi, the Book of Bones" 

Shashi Thandra, Wayne State University

• "Strange Environments: Dislocation and the Cosmopolitan Experience in Paul Bowles's Let It Come Down" 

Alexa Weik, University of California-San Diego

12.09 Grand F

Food for Thought: Literary Views of the Impact of Food on Culture, Gender, and Ethnicity 

Chair: Annette M. Magid, SUNY Erie Community College

• "Dining Well: Food, Identity, and Women's Travel Narratives" 

Jane M. Wood, Park University

• "Hungering for Home: Food Preparation, Food Consumption, and the Construction of an Holistic Self in Andrew Pham's Memoir, Catfish and Mandala" 

William Dalessio, University of Connecticut

• "Filling Stomachs, Filling Voids: Food Images and Loss in Contemporary Ethnic American Texts" 

Deborah Israel, University of Central Oklahoma

• "Eat the Veal" 

Joshua Butts, University of Cincinnati

12.10 Grand G

Time in U.S. Literature 

Chair: Aimee Woznick, University of California-Santa Barbara

• "Changing by Enchantment': Washington Irving, Supernatural Time, and Supernational Historiography" 

Michelle R. Sizemore, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• "Historical Fictions and Fictional Histories: Twain's Temporal Play" 

Aimee Woznick, University of California-Santa Barbara

• "Today History Moves by Bombing Planes: Ralph Ellison and the Problem of Progressive History" 

Adam Johns, University of Pittsburgh

• "Mankind's Queerest Laboratory': Richard Wright and the Speed of Decolonization" 

Mikko Tuhkanen, East Carolina University

12.11 Seneca Room

Ghosts in the Looking Glass: The Women We Carry 

Chair: Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College of Blauvelt

• "'Twisted into nonsense':Returning Through the Looking Glass" 

Lisa Perdigao, Florida Institute of Technology

• "Performing Famous Women" 

Sally Ann Drucker, Nassau Community College

• "The Guise & the Gaze: Joan of Arc as Everywoman in the 1910's" 

Ellen Dolgin, Dominican College of Blauvelt

• "A Woman with Air Conditioning on Her Mind is More than Eye Candy: Exploring Monroe's Dual Image in The Seven Year Itch"

Elaine Wood, Bucknell University

 

12.12 Delaware A

Francophone Canadian Writing 

Chair: Jane Koustas, Brock University

• "The Enigma of Spirituality in Michel Tremblay's Works" 

Ruth Antosh, SUNY Fredonia

• "Re-writing the Sisterhood: Life and Art in Marie Laberge's Charlotte ma soeur" 

Cara Garagano, Long Island University

• "Place à la sorcellerie et aux travesties" 

Stéphanie Walsh Matthews, Ryerson University

• "The Solidarity of Independence : Transnationality in the Writings of Hubert Acquin and Pierre Vallieres" 

  Julie-Francoise Kruidenier, University of Pennsylvania

12.13 Boardroom

Shifting Notions of Turn-of-the-Century American Lyric 

Chair: Elissa Zellinger, University of North Carolina

• "William Vaughn Moody: Landscape as Memory in a Fallen World" 

James McDougall, American University of Kuwait

• "Writing the Body in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass" 

Justin Parks, SUNY Buffalo

• "'And There's a Barrel That I Didn't Fill': Contestations of Work in Robert Frost" 

Benjamin Rogerson, University of North Carolina

• "'Always Human When He Talked': Reading E.A. Robinson and Lyric" 

Elissa Zellinger, University of North Carolina

12.14 Conference Ctr. Rm J

Ethics After Deconstruction: The Moral Turn in Contemporary British Fiction 

Chair: Jeffrey Roessner, Mercyhurst College

• "The Failure of Imagination: Narrative and Ethics in the Fiction of Ian McEwan" 

David Tenenbaum, Eastern Kentucky University

• "The Fragile Necropolis: Post-Secular Ethics in Contemporary London Fiction" 

Magdalena Maczynska, Marymount Manhattan College

• "Love at the End of Postmodernism in Martin Amis and Julian Barnes" 

Erich Hertz, Siena College

• "Ian McEwan's Atonement and the Ends of History" 

Jeffrey Roessner, Mercyhurst College

12.15 Ellicott Room

American Working-Class Literature: Borders and Boundaries 

Chair: Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Goucher College

• "Struggle and Voice: What Makes a Text Working Class" 

Janet Zandy, Rochester Institute of Technology

• "Working-Class, Poverty-Class: Toward Definition and Reconciliation" 

Michelle M. Tokarczyk, Goucher College

• "Antebellum Fiction on the (Class) Borderline: The Case of T. S. Arthur" 

Peter C. Molin, United States Military Academy

• "Tillie Olsen's *Yonnondio*: Toward a Poetics of Working-Class Spaces" 

Tracy Riley, The Graduate Center-CUNY

12.16 Delaware B

Documentary Fact vs. Fiction: Memoir, the Testimonio, and the Testimonial Novel 

Chair: Kimberly Eaton, Rutgers University

• "Truthful Lies: The Paradoxical Relationship between Truth and Lies in Charlotte Delbo's Holocaust Memoir Auschwitz and After" 

Brandy Opse-Weber, University of St. Thomas

• "'Personal Tunneling' in *Running in the Family*: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Historiographic Identity" 

Matthew Bolton, Ohio State University

• "Disturbed Horizon: Division and Conflation of Historical and Literary Events in Naguib Mahfouz's 'The Day the Leader was Killed'" 

Lauren Shufran, San Francisco State University

• "Issues of Genre and Narrative Form: The Testimonial Novel and Blurred Identity" 

Kimberly Eaton, Rutgers University

12.17 Conference Ctr. Room K

Reconsidering Early Modern Women's Chastity, Silence, and Obedience II 

Chair: Elisa Oh, Boston University

• "Shakespeare's Aural Insurgents" 

Keith M. Botelho, Kennesaw State University

• "'My Heart Was Puffed Up With Pride': Spectacle, Silence, and Authority in The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont" 

Andrea Fabrizio, CUNY Graduate Center

• "Embodied Ideals in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama" 

Jennifer Forsyth, Kutztown University

• "In/authentic Femininity: Viola and Epicoene's Intentional Silences" 

Elisa Oh, Boston University

12.18 Delaware C

Literature and Contract in the 18th Century 

Chairs: Trevor Speller and Peter DeGabriele, SUNY Buffalo

• "Fielding's Justices on Trial: Public and Private in Literature and Law" 

Melissa Bloom, St. John Fisher College

• "Lady Credit and a 'Lady Lately Arriv'd from Bengal': Negotiating Credit, Contract, and Empire in Eliza Haywood's Cleomelia" 

Katherine Gillen, University of New Hampshire

• "William Godwin's political protest: Caleb Williams and the emergence of a post-feudal subject" 

Jessica Sellountos, Emory University

• "'When a woman says No': Consent, Contract and the Enabling Prurience of Clarissa" 

Nigel Leo Joseph, University of Western Ontario

12.19 Executive Room

Trans-cultural Influences, Interpretations, and Encounters: The Transatlantic Experience 

Chair: Philip Tew, Brunel University

• "Walt Whitman and the Great Exhibition: Quintessential Anglophilia?" 

Philip Tew, Brunel University

• "Permutations: Literature, Science, and Culture in Arnold, Huxley, and John Burroughs." 

Todd Avery, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

• "Reinventing Father Clement: Anglo-American Fiction and the Catholic Question." 

Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, SUNY Brockport

• "Westward/Worstward Ho: Post-Devolution Scottish Fiction's Ambivalence towards America." 

Robert Morace, Daemen College

12.20  Buffalo Room

Twenty-First Century British and Irish Playwrights: Exorcising Demons and Redefining Theatrical Sensibilities 

Chair: Jayanti Tamm, Ocean County College

• "Abjection and Sacrifice in Sarah Kane's Blasted" 

Jordan L. Green, SUNY Buffalo

• "In Relation Inside: The Social Dynamics of Prison Plays by McGuinness, Fugard, and Genet" 

Elizabeth Fifer, Lehigh University

• "'In-Yer-Face' Behind the Proscenium: The Disappearing Phenomenological Efficacy of a Broadway-Bound Lieutenant of Inishmore" 

Lindsay Adamson Livingston, CUNY Graduate Center

• "Brutal Brilliance: An Examination of Gender Roles, Sexuality, and Violence in Martin McDonagh's Leenane Trilogy" 

Jayanti Tamm, Ocean County College

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Session 13     Saturday, April 12   5:00-6:15 p.m. (Please note that session 13.4, 13.11, 13.15, 13.16 end at 6:30 p.m.)

13.01 Niagara Room

Writing and Teaching Poetry (Roundtable)

Chair: Carlos Hiraldo, LaGuardia Community College

• "Models, Rebellions, and Conversations in the Teaching of Poetry" 

Rebekah Keaton, Niagara County Community College

• "ThinkTanka: Evidence-Based Poetry Making in the Scottish Executive Room" 

James Roderick Burns, University of Oxford

• "A Reading of Prose Poems" 

Lesle Lewis, Landmark College

• "What Poets Can Teach: On Apprehension & Revision" 

Adam Penna, Suffolk County Community College

13.02 Regency A

German Soundscapes of Modernity 

Chair: Alexandra Merley Hill, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• "Ruhe ist die erste Bürgerpflicht: Theodor Lessing's Quest for Silence" 

John Goodyear, Queen Mary, University of London

• "The Sounds of the Alexanderplatz: Listening to Berlin in Two Media" 

Todd Heidt, University of Cincinnati

• "M: The Whistle of Mis-Reception" 

Michael P. Ryan, University of Pennsylvania

13.03 Franklin Room

Orphic Cinema 

Chair: Sean Desilets, Tulane University

• "Orphic motifs in Julian Schnabel's film adaptation of le Scaphandre et le papillon" 

Michael S. Henderson, Juniata College

• "Stan Brakhage and the Magic Moth" 

Dean DeFino, Iona College

• "Cocteau v. Orpheus" 

Sean Desilets, Tulane University

13.04 Regency C

Claiming Space in Edith Wharton's Novels 

Chair: Miranda Green-Barteet, Texas A&M University

• "A Studio of One's Own: Single Women and Romance in The Mother's Recompense" 

Jennifer Haytock, SUNY College at Brockport

• "Reclaiming A. B. Wenzell's Illustrated Spaces in The House of Mirth" 

Adam Sonstegard, Cleveland State University

• "Search for Home: Interstitial Spaces in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth" 

Miranda Green-Barteet, Texas A&M University

• "Female Voices and Isolationist Impulses: Creating and Controlling Space in Edith Wharton's The Old Maid" 

Amy Easton-Flake, Brandeis University

13.05 Grand C

Cervantes' Don Quixote: The Discourse of Culture and History (Roundtable) 

Chair: Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College

• "Moors and *Moriscos*: Two Exemplary Tales, Inclusion and Exclusion in Don Quijote" 

William H. Clamurro, Emporia State University

• "Disappearing Donkeys and the Running Joke" 

Stephen Hessel, SUNY Buffalo

• "How the Experts Have Brainwashed Us into Misunderstanding the Quijote" 

Tom Lathrop, University of Delaware

• "Tom Lathrop: A Cervantista for All Seasons" 

Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College

• "Introduction and presentation: 'Aquí se imprimen libros': Cervantine Studies in Honor of Tom Lathrop" 

Mark Groundland, Tennessee Tech University

13.06 Regency B

Politics and Gender in William Blake 

Chair: Rachel V. Billgheimer, McMaster University

• "Visionary and Voice: Blake on Order and Organized Religion'" 

Reggie C. Allison, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

• "Vision and Prophecy in William Blake" 

Rachel V. Billigheimer, McMaster University

• "'In Milky Fondness.....:' Motherhood and Sexuality in Blake and Wollstonecraft'" 

Laura E. Rutland, Gannon University

13.07 Grand E

19th Century Italian Prose: Nation, Language And Literary Ideals 

Chair: Mark Epstein, Rider University

• "I dilettosi inganni" 

Maria Luisa Graziano, Saint Peter's College

• "Domestic/Exotic: Two Female Writers of the Ottocento" 

Gabrielle Elissa Popoff, Columbia University

• "Infanzia e storia in Carlo Dossi" 

Mark Epstein, Rider University

13.08 Grand B

Scientific Influences on Women's Religious Movements 

Chair: Michael Cadwallader, University of North Carolina

• "'Matter Is Mortal Error': Mary Baker Eddy's Epistemology and Nineteenth-Century Science" 

Michael Cadwallader, University of North Carolina

• "Christian Scientists and Christian scientists: Medical Responses to the Teachings of Mary Baker Eddy" 

Monica Reed, Florida State University

• "Sentimentalism and Rationalism: Illness and Doctors in The Wide, Wide World and The Lamplighter" 

Kelly Bezio, University of North Carolina

13.09  

13.10 Grand G

Early Native American Literature 

Chair: Drew Lopenzina, Sam Houston State University

• "The Dialect of Outcry: William Apess and The Experiences of Five Christian Indians of the Pequot Tribe" 

Korey Jackson, University of Michigan

• "Writing Origins, Writing History: Personal Voice and Nation in David Cusick's Sketches of the Ancient History of the Six Nations" 

Jeffrey Hotz, East Stroudsburg University

• "The Stone Canoe: Locating Roots of Indigenous Tradition in the Writings of William Apess'" 

Drew Lopenzina, Sam Houston State University

13.11 Seneca Room

What's Love Got to Do With It? Marriage in Contemporary American Literature 

Chair: Kim Freeman, Northeastern University

• "Marriage, Family, and American Racial Politics in Toni Morrison's Love" 

Mary Paniccia Carden, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

• "Love, Desi Style: Anatomy of an Arranged Marriage in The Namesake" 

Rashna Richards, SUNY Brockport

• "Forth to betided lineaments': Poetry as Procreation in James Merrill's Matrimonial Verse" 

Siobhan Phillips, Yale University

• "Marriage in Ignorance: Revisioning Mystery in Wendell Berry's A Place on Earth" 

Jeffrey Bilbro, Baylor University

13.12 Delaware A

21st Century French and Francophone Film Chair: Hunter Vaughan, Oxford University

• "Hyènes: Dürrenmatt's Visit in Africa" 

Olivia G. Gabor-Peirce, Western Michigan University

• "Crime sans chatiment: La seduction spectaculaire du comportement antisocial" 

Vera A Klekovkina, University of Southern California

• "De l'immigration au regard vagabond : Bled number one dâ Ameur-Zamache (2006)." 

Karine Chevalier, Roehampton University

13.13 Boardroom

'The Answering Word': Poetry and Bakhtinian Theory 

Chair: Mara Scanlon, University of Mary Washington

• "The Dialogism of Penitential Poetry" 

Chad Engbers, Calvin College

• "Voices of the Gilded Age: Dialogism in Sousândrade's 'Inferno de Wall Street'" 

Jacob Nelson Wilkenfeld, University of North Carolina

• "M. M. Bakhtin, Stuart Hall, TV News, and Poetry as a Cultural Practice" 

James D. Sullivan, Illinois Central College

13.14 Conference Ctr. Rm J

Stuart Drama and Its Discontents 

Chair: Miles Taylor, Le Moyne College

• "Discontent with Sovereignty: Tyrant-tragedies" 

Iclal Cetin-Vanwesenbeeck, SUNY Fredonia

• "Re-shaping Fantasies: Predacious Desire and the Performance of Gender in The Changeling" 

Elizabeth Gruber, Lock Haven University

• "Dramatic Irony and The Roman Actor: The Problem of Audiences" 

Miles Taylor, Le Moyne College

13.15 Ellicott Room

'An Office of One's Own': Motherhood and Academic Labor (Roundtable) 

Chair: Justine Dymond, University of Massachusetts

• "Professional Mother or Professional and Mother: Women in Academe" 

Susan Bishop, Youngstown State University

• "What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Nice Place Like This? Being a Mother in the Academy" 

Andrea O'Reilly, York University

• "Making Adjustments, Finding Alternatives: Navigating Pregnancy and Motherhood in Graduate School and Beyond" 

Claire Schomp, University of Massachusetts

• "Body and Mind: Pregnancy and Motherhood, Twice, Before Tenure" 

Nicole L. Willey, Kent State University-Tuscarawas

• "Consuming Passions: Mothering and the Work of the Small Liberal Arts College" 

Dana Shiller, Washington & Jefferson College

• "Academic Mothers as Organic Intellectuals" 

Karen Cardozo, Amherst College