Sunday, April 13

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Session 14     Sunday, April 13   8:30-10:00

14.01 Niagara Room

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

Chair: Amy Hubbell, Kansas State University

• "Narratives of the self in bande dessinée" 

Ann Miller, Leicester University

• "Le photobiographique aujourd'hui" 

Floriane Place-Verghnes, University of Manchester

• "Text, Image and Event: Object as 'Témoin' in Sophie Calle's Histoires vraies" 

Ariel Bardi, Université de Paris 8

• "Here She is Not: Identifying through the Absence of Presence in Breton's Nadja" 

Jospehine Mariea, SUNY Buffalo

14.02 Grand E

New Paths for an Ancient Game: Italian Poetry in the Last 30 Years 

Chair: Matteo Benassi, University of Dayton

• "La parola innamorata , 1976-1978 : appunti per una lettura amorosa" 

Ernesto Livorni, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

• "Morte di una 'Beatrice' nella Beltà. Un percorso del femminile da Baudelaire alla 'visione' di Andrea Zanzotto." 

Tecla Gaio, CUNY

• "Le mani di Alda Merini: la poesia dentro il corpo sociale." 

Chiara De Santi, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• "Le paroel restano pietre': appunti sulla poesia d Mario Santagostini" 

Matteo Benassi, University of Dayton

14.03 Grand B

Woolf and War 

Chair: Jane Wood, Park University

• "Round the Mulberry Tree . . .Again: Apparatuses of War and Peace in Three Guineas" 

Megan Faragher, SUNY Buffalo

• "Woolf, Colonial Violence, and Whig Historiography in Between the Acts" 

Janice Ho, Cornell University

• "What else can a gnat on a blade of grass do?: Thinking of War, Writing of Peace--Three Guineas and Virginia Woolf" 

Lolly Ockerstrom, Park University

• "Literary and public memorials: Jacob's Room and the Unknown Warrior" 

Joanna Scutts, Columbia University

14.04 Grand F

Unified Country - Divided Memory? Representations of the Past in Contemporary German Fiction 

Chairs: Anne Hector, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Kerstin Mueller, Connecticut College

• "Unification and East German Political Cabaret'" 

Michele Ricci Bell, Union College

• "Politics as Trauma in the Works of Duve, Franck, and Parei'" 

Alexandra Merley Hill, University of Massachusetts

• "Memories in the Wenderoman" 

Anne Hector, University of Massachusetts

14.05 Grand G

The Many Masks of Louisa May Alcott 

Chair: Grace Wetzel, University of South Carolina

• "Louisa May Alcott and the Nineteenth-Century Cult of Sensation" 

Helena Maragou, The American College of Greece

• "Alcott on the Couch: Sensation and Sentimental (Non)Sense" 

John Dolis, Penn State University-Scranton

• "The Art of Relationships: Queerness, Gender Confusion, and Artistic Production in Louisa May Alcott's Moods and Little Women" 

Jennifer Clark, University of Southern California

• "'Fooling with the Audience' in A Modern Mephistopheles" 

Karah E. Rempe, University of North Carolina

14.06 Regency C

Senses and Counter-senses in Theatre 

Chair: Ramiro Armas Austria, University of Toronto

• "Scene and Obscene: The Intermingling of Stages in the Plays of Mario Vargas Llosa" 

Ilka Kressner, University at Albany

• "Funciones discursivas de la musica, el lenguaje y el silencio en El Alcade de Zalamea de Calderon de la Barca" 

Martha Batiz Zuk, University of Toronto

• "Un borron de la luz pura': La mirada en La Estrella de Sevilla" 

Ramiro Armas Austria, University of Toronto

• "The Challenges of Tunisian Theater: Insights into Innovations and its Creative Esthetics" 

David N. Delamatta, Universite de la Sorbone Paris IV

14.07 Regency B

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

Chair: Todd Avery, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

• "''I must build a name and a fortune for myself': Charles Brockden Brown as Godwinian Social Critic'" 

Todd Barosky, CUNY Graduate Center

• "Sunny or Gloomy Memories: Donald Macleod, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Narrating the Highland Clearances" 

Daniel Brown, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• "The Fiction of John Fowles: Comparing England and America" 

Michelle Buchberger, Franklin University

• "The Figure of the Witch as a Mask of Resistance in the Transatlantic Experience" 

Isabel Caldeira, University of Coimbra

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Session 15    Sunday, April 13   9:30-11:30

15.08 Regency A

Language of Italian Cities: Space and Time (Seminar) 

Chair: Sonia Massari, Siena University

• "Venezia aedificanda est: Pars costruens della polemologia architettonica futurista" 

Patrizio Ceccagnoli, Columbia University

• "Citta' nuove, citta' abbandonate" 

Filippo Losacco, NY Architecture

• "La città nel cinema: i Pieni e i Vuoti" 

Gianfillipo Guadagno, University La Terza Rome

• "La citta': pentagramma di suoni. Con la collaborazione di Andrea Parente" 

Francesca Capone, Universita' Luiss Guido Carli Rome

• "Narrazioni nella citta'. Un design in movimento." 

Sonia Massari, University of Siena

• "La città Post-Industriale italiana." 

Alessio Ferraro, Italian Research Portal - Ministry of University and Research

15.09 Boardroom

Song and Social Change (Seminar) 

Chair: Lauren Shaw, Mount Saint Mary College

• "Trova and the poetry of possibility" 

Lauren Shaw, Mount Saint Mary College

• "Las letras del desencanto. La canción de protesta argentina en la post-dictadura" 

Silvia Belén-Ramos, Fairleigh Dickinson University

• "Violeta Parra. La nueva canción-la nueva trova chilena nacen de una violeta" 

Ana Figueroa, Princeton University

• "Pisa con garbo:el performance del cuplé en la modernidad hispanohablante"

 María Anastasio, Hofstra University

• "Manu Chao presente: the politics of music, the poetics of social change" 

Mario Boido, University of Waterloo

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Session 16    Sunday, April 13   10:15-11:45

16.01 Niagara Room

Culinary Considerations in Relationships and Family 

Chair: Heather Thompson-Gillis, The Ohio State University

• "Royal French Foods for Thought: Circa 1400s France" 

Kandace Brill Lombart, SUNY Empire State College

• "Sensual Imagery in Calvino's the Nonexistant Knight: Inside Agilulf's Kitchen and Bedroom" 

Elizabeth Hopwood, Salem State College

• "Saloons, Sex, and the Deviant Bachelor in Franklin Evans and Ten Nights in a Bar-Room" 

Heather Thompson-Gillis, The Ohio State University

16.02 Grand E

Chronicle into History: Authors and Texts Between Past and Present. 

Chair: Giovanni Spani, Middlebury College

• "La "cronaca del mercante": riflessioni sullo sviluppo della storiografia toscana del Trecento" 

Giovanni Spani, Middlebury College

• ""Non novella ma historia": Invenzione and Cronaca at Odds in the Italian Novella" 

Christopher Nissen, Northern Illinois University

• "Incorporating the Colonial Narrative into National History: Rosalia Pianavia Vivaldi Bossiner's Tre Anni in Eritrea" 

Erica Moretti, Brown University

• "From Historical Documentation to Fictional Narrative: The Case of Edith Bruck" 

Philip Balma, University of Notre Dame

16.03 Grand B

Victorian Illustration 

Chair: Elizabeth Anderman, Independent Scholar

• "Bodies of Evidence: Illustrated British Editions of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin" 

Joy Johnson, University of Georgia

• "Sensational Images: the Impact of Illustration Across the Atlantic in The Woman in White and Lady Audley's Secret" 

Elizabeth Anderman, Independent Scholar

• "We Thought We Knew You: The Refashioning of 'Mr Verdant Green' in Britain and America, 1853-1910" 

Janice Hart, London College of Communication, University of the Arts

• "Thackeray, The Newcomes, and the Art of Sentiment" 

Melissa S. Jenkins, Harvard University

16.04 Grand F

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

Chair: Kyle E. Frackman, University of Massachusetts

• "Good Stasi/Bad Stasi? Wiedergutmachung and Vergangenheitsbewältigung in 'Das Leben der Anderen'" 

Jennifer Creech, University of Rochester

• "Jürgen Fuchs' Post-unification Texts as Confrontation with the Stasi and Trauma" 

Barbara Mabee, Oakland University

• "Unified Germany and Turkey's EU Accession Aspirations" 

David Colclasure, Monterey Institute of International Studies

16.05 Grand G

New Approaches to Mark Twain 

Chair: Jason Haslam, Dalhousie University

• "On Not Lighting Out for the Territory in 1885: Southwest Meets West in Twain's 'Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians'" 

Brooks E. Hefner, CUNY Graduate Center

• "'Bury My Heart in Recent History': Mark Twain's 'Hellfire Hotchkiss,' the Massacre at Wounded Knee, and the Dime Western Formula'" 

Michelle Ann Abate, Hollins University

• "From Imperial Play to Imperial Slaughter: Mark Twain, Civilization, and Identity in The Innocents Abroad and Following the Equator'" 

Sara Kakazu, SUNY Buffalo

• "Ground 'Actually Pressed by the Feet of the Saviour': Mark Twain as Holy Land Pilgrim'" 

Brooke Sherrard, Florida State University

16.06 Recency C

Poétique de la maison dans le roman français du XIXe siècle 

Chair: Jean-François Richer, University of Calgary

• "Prolégomènes pour une topolecture de l'espace romanesque" 

Jean-François Richer, University of Calgary

• "Écrire une solitude impossible : récit de chambre chez Huysmans" 

Mathilde Branthomme, Université de Montréal

• "La Maison à l'image du corps : la prodigalité de la chair et de l'argent dans le roman Nana d'Émile Zola" 

Marianne Guerra, University of Calgary

• "Housing Differences: (De)signing Space in 'la maison à Monsieur Grandet'" 

Leonard Marsh, Le Moyne College

16.07 Regency B

So It Goes: The Legacy of Kurt Vonnegut 

Chair: Elizabeth Abele, SUNY Nassau Community College

• "Slaughterhouse-Five or Kurt Vonnegut's Anti-Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Christianity" 

Adam Meehan, San Diego State University

• "Vonnegut's Existential Approach to a Deterministic World: The Function of Writing in Hocus Pocus and Timequake" 

Marybeth Davis, Liberty University

• "Somewhere in There was Springtime': Hope for Humanity in Vonnegut, DeLillo, and McCarthy" 

Christopher S. Glover, Long Beach City College