Panel Area/Subject Index
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of panels.
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information in the program.
American
Addiction and 20th Century American Literature 8.15
African-American Environmental Writing 8.10
American Cannibal: Empire and Embodiment from 1840-1940 3.08
American Working-Class Literature: Borders and Boundaries 12.15
American Working-Class Literature: Gender, Bodies, and Performance 9.15
Antebellum at Sea: United States Maritime Narratives and
Constructions of Modernity 6.14
Becoming Indigenous: The Aesthetics of Place and Community in
Twentieth-Century American Literature 2.05
Black Writers and the Left 2.09
Claiming Space in Edith Wharton's Novels 13.04
Complicating the Avant-Garde: 20th Century Women Writers 4.09
Critical Approaches to Native American Literature 4.08
Doctors, Patients and Medical Treatments in 19th-Century American
Women's Writing 4.17
Elbert and Alice Hubbard and the Roycroft experiment:socialism in a
capitalist context 3.14
Ecofeminism in American Literature 11.10
Early Native American Literature 13.10
Food for Thought: Literary Views of the Impact of Food on Culture,
Gender, and Ethnicity 12.09
From the Country to the City: Literary Ecology in American Realism
and Naturalism 6.15
Genius in the Nineteenth Century 2.13
George Oppen Centenary Panel 4.13
Hawthorne and the Ethical 8.16
H.D., Beyond Imagism 9.04
Justice and the Big Bad Man: Perspectives on Individual
Responsibility 12.02
Literature of New York 2.08
The Many Masks of Louisa May Alcott 14.05
Navigating the Fictional
World of Toni Morrison 3.09
New Approaches to Mark Twain 16.05
New Approaches to William Wells Brown I 11.17
New Approaches to William Wells Brown II 13.17
The New Orthodoxy: Religion in Contemporary Jewish American
Literature 2.14
Old Postmodernists and New Realists: American Contemporary Novel
after 1990 8.07
Only By Dreaming or Writing: Joan Didion's The Year of Magical
Thinking 13.16
Poets of the Niagara Region 6.13
Queer Miscegenations 3.16
Race and Literature in the United States 10.10
Readers in American Fiction 8.08
Readers in American Fiction 9.08
(Re)Call and Response: Memory in Contemporary African American
Fiction 5.14
Representing Trauma: American Redemption Stories and Lost Cause
Narratives (Seminar) 1.05
Scientific Influences on Women's Religious Movements 13.08
Shifting Notions of Turn-of-the-Century American Lyric 12.13
So It Goes: The Legacy of Kurt Vonnegut 7.16
Sovereignty, Signifyin(g), and Cultural Pluralism in Native American
Literature 9.18
Spaces of Subjectivity: Geography, Gender, and Identity in 20th
Century American Women's Fiction 6.11
Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day' 9.20
Time in U.S. Literature 12.10
Transcribed Performance: 20th/21st Century Talk Poetry 11.11
Traveling Bodies: The Physical Experience of Dislocation in American
Literature 12.08
(Un)Safe as Houses: Architecture and the Unhomely in American Fiction
6.08
Walking the Line: The Boundary in the Early American Literary
Imagination 9.19
What's Love Got to Do With It? Marriage in Contemporary American
Literature 13.11
Top
Canadian
Alice Munro in the 1980s 2.10
The Canadian Bestseller 7.10
Fictions of Female Adolescence 1880-1930 4.10
Fictions of Female Adolescence I 6.10
Northern Exposure: Canadians Writing the U.S.A 3.10
Surfaces of Inscription: Embodiment in City and Text 9.10
Top
Caribbean
Caribbean Literature and Gender: Issues in Criticism and Theory in
the New Century (Roundtable) 5.11
Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican Women Writers 11.05
The New Caribbean Diaspora 4.11
Top
Comparative Literature
The Answering Word': Poetry and Bakhtinian Theory 13.13
A Contemporary Look at the Manifesto from Symbolism to Surrealism 5.08
Conversion and Writing in Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Song 5.12
Culinary Considerations in Relationships and Family 16.01
Deviants and Monsters in Literature and the Arts 6.05
Deviants and Monsters in Literature and the Arts II 8.04
Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Forms 7.14
The Ethics of Interdisciplinary Research: Comparative Literature 7.18
German Soundscapes of Modernity 13.02
Lanuguage of Italian Cities: Space and Time (Seminar) 15.08
The Politics of Global Modernism: Revisiting Colonial Modernity
(Seminar) 1.01
Prescribing Gender in Medicine and Narrative (Roundtable) 2.03
Rethinking the Vanguard: Aesthetic and Political Positions in the
Postmodern Debate 4.02
Reading Virtues and Vices in 18th Century Literature
4.14
Remembrance and Dismemberment: Modernist and Postmodernist Revisions 4.16
Ruined Endings and Exit Strategies in Narrative Literature 9.11
Speaking in Borrowed Tongues: An Investigation of Appropriative
Literature 7.13
Symptomatic Aesthetics: Medical Discourses and Literary
Representations 9.17
Trans-cultural Influences, Interpretations, and Encounters: The
Transatlantic Experience 12.19
Trans-cultural Influences, Interpretations, and Encounters: The
Transatlantic Experience II14.07
Travel Writing and The Politics of Travel 6.01
What Work Is, Or Was: Twentieth Century Poetry of Work 7.01
Top
Composition
Multimodal Composition: Writing and the Internet in Composition
Classes 5.01
Service-Learning and Community Involvement in Composition Classes 11.01
Top
English / British
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and My Fair Lady 3.03
Bridging the Generational Divide: Early Victorian Feminism 4.18
Contemporary British Masculinities 6.19
Ethics After Deconstruction: The Moral Turn in Contemporary British
Fiction 12.14
The Fiction of Charles Dickens 7.16
First Impressions in Victorian Literature 12.01
The Irish Body and Modernism 2.17
J.R.R.Tolkien/C.S. Lewis 5.15
James Joyce and the Body 3.17
John Milton at 400 11.14
Literature and Contract in the 18th Century 12.18
Medieval Outlaws 3.15
Medieval Space 5.17
More Than Decoration: Domestic Objects in the Victorian Novel 6.18
The Neighbor in Literature 7.15
The Poetics of Place: Region and Nation in Medieval British
Literature 11.13
Poetics of Return 8.13
Politics and Gender in William Blake' 13.06
Postcolonial Drama and Theatre 9.12
Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 5.04
Reconsidering Early Modern Women's Chastity, Silence, and Obedience
8.17
Reconsidering Early Modern Women's Chastity, Silence, and Obedience
II 12.17
Sanctity and Power in Medieval English Literature 2.15
Shakespeare in the Eighteenth-Century: 'He was not of an age, but for
all time' (and use) 6.17
Stuart Drama and Its Discontents 13.14
Tough Love: Violence and Desire in Victorian Poetry 5.09
Twenty-First Century British and Irish Playwrights: Exorcising Demons
and Redefining Theatrical Sensibilities 12.20
Victorian Illustration 16.03
Visionary Poetics and British Romanticism 11.15
Top
Film
Cinematic Representations of the Former East Bloc, 2001-Present 3.04
Cinematic Representations of the Former East Bloc, 2001-Present 4.04
David Lynch's Hollywood (Roundtable) 7.03
I Liked the Book Better: Adapting Literary Text to American Film
(Roundtable) 7.09
The Image of the Prostitute in Film and Popular Culture (Roundtable)
5.19
Narcissism, Masochism, and Contemporary Hollywood Masculinity 11.08
Orphic Cinema 13.03
Top
French
21st Century French and Francophone Film 11.04
21st Century French and Francophone Film II 13.12
Artful Narrations: Impact of Visual Arts on Narrative 7.12
A Crisis in Numbers? Attracting Undergraduate Students to French
Programs (Roundtable) 10.04
Francophone Canadian Writing 12.12
Francophone Caribbean Writing 2.12
Francophone Maghrebian Literature 3.12
Gendered Migrations in French and Francophone Literature 4.12
Moliere, Past and Present 11.03
North African Francophone Theater: an ignored plea for freedom 3.18
Poétique de la maison dans le roman français du XIXe siècle 16.06
Reverse Immigration/Immigration inversee 12.03
Textual/Visual Selves: Photography, Art and Performance in French
Autobiography 5.02
Textual/Visual Selves: Photography, Art and Performance in French
Autobiography II 14.01
Women and War in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Literature
6.12
Top
Gay / Lesbian
Contemporary Queer Urban Voices in Brazil 4.05
From the Lesbian Continuum 6.16
Progress or Novelty Act? Transgendered Images on Television
(Roundtable) 5.03
Queer Nature (Seminar) 1.02
Queer Theory and Becoming 9.16
(Re)Constructing Queer Pedadgogy 5.16
What Hath Angels Wrought? Queer Drama Beyond the Millennium 11.16
Top
German
Being There First: A Topos in 19th Century German Exploration
(Roundtable) 1.04
The Bildungsroman: Limitations, Evaluations, Reinventions 9.06
The Bildungsroman: Limitations, Evaluations, Reinventions II 8.06
Education, Indoctrination, or Just Plain Fun? Deconstructing Popular
Children and Youth Literature 7.06
Exile in German Literature 8.18
Film and German Victimhood 11.02
German-German Problems: Continuities and Discontinuities in
Post-unification Germany 12.06
German-German Problems: Continuities and Discontinuities in
Post-unification Germany II 16.04
German Soundscapes of Postmodernity 11.06
History and Memory: Post-1945 Trauma Revisited in Literary Texts 6.06
The Image of America in German-speaking Europe 10.06
On the road again' - The Sociable Highway between France and Germany
3.06
Reading Terror, Writing Counterviolence 9.13
Unified Country - Divided Memory? Representations of the Past in
Contemporary German Fiction 14.04
Violence in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist I 2.06
Violence in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist II 4.06
Was gibt's zu essen? - Culinary Explorations of German Culture 5.06
Top
Italian
19th Century Italian Prose: Nation, Language And Literary Ideals
13.07
Chronicle into History: Authors and Texts Between Past and Present.
16.02
Culture, Meaning, Truth: The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary
Italy (Roundtable) 11.07
From Paper to Screen and Vice Versa 4.03
The Image of America in Italian Culture and Literature 9.07
The Interplay of Literature, Music and the Visual Arts during the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance 11.12
Italian Feminisms and Women Writers 3.11
Italian Literature: From The Twentieth Century Into The New
Millennium 4.07
Italian Literature: Renaissance to Humanism 2.07
Italian Literature and Translation 2.18
Italian Theatre 8.12
Italian urban landscapes in the XX century ( and in the future) 10.07
Literary Relations Between Italy and Hispanic World: From
1927-Present 13.18
Mediterraneismi nel cinema italiano 7.04
The Middle Ages and Dante 6.04
Modern Italian Poetry 8.10
La natura nella letteratura italiana 5.07
New Paths for an Ancient Game: Italian Poetry in the Last 30 Years
14.02
Prescribing Gender in Medicine and Narrative 3.01
Queer Presences: Homosexuality, Homoeroticism, and Homophobia in
Italian Literature and Cinema 7.07
Queer Presences: Homosexuality, Homoeroticism, and Homophobia in
Italian Literature and Cinema II 12.04
(Re)viewing Time and Space in the Latin American City 9.05
Sensual and Intellectual Experiences: Food in Italian Literature and
Cinema (Roundtable) 3.07
The Short Story or Novella in Italy from Boccaccio to the Present
12.07
Theater, Literature, Poetry,... 5.18
Teaching Italian and Italian Culture 6.02
Top
Pedagogy
Innovative Approaches to Teaching Canonical Works 6.07
Navigating the Fictional World of Toni Morrison 11.08
Rethinking the Survey Course 9.14
Top
Popular Culture
Exceptional Dicks: The Ethics and Ethos of American Tough Guys 8.03
Exceptional Dicks: The Ethics and Ethos of American Tough Guys II 9.01
Exposition, Exhibition: Theories of Display 2.02
Fan Fiction as Narrative Exegesis 5.10
Performing Authenticity: Women, Country Music, and Media 8.02
Reel Mobsters / Fictional Gangsters in Literature, Film and
Television 4.01
The Secret (And Not so Secret) Origins of Comic Books 2.01
The Unmastered Past: (Auto)biography, Critical Theory and the
Frankfurt School 9.02
Top
Professional Development
Negotiating the Academic Job Market (Roundtable) 10.11
An Office of One's Own': Motherhood and Academic Labor (Roundtable)
13.15
Writing and Teaching Poetry 13.01
Top
Spanish / Portuguese
Behind the Spanish Lens: Stars and Sexualities in Contemporary
Spanish Film 10.03
Catalan Studies in the US 3.05
Cervantes' Don Quixote: The Discourse of Culture and History
(Roundtable) 13.05
Early Modern Spanish and Colonial Latin American Identities: Literary
and Historical Representations 12.05
Fashioning Feminine Identity in Early Modern Spain 5.13
Immigration, Culture, and Ethnicity in Spanish Peninsular Literature
and Film 4.15
Immigration, Culture, and Ethnicity in Spanish Peninsular Literature,
Film and Other Popular Media' 7.05
Latin American Cinema: Identity and Nation 2.04
(Re)viewing Time and Space in the Latin American City 8.05
Se habla español allí: Hispanophone Literature Outside Latin
America and Spain 5.05
The Sense of Space: Rural and Urban Intersections in Iberia and Latin
America 9.03
Senses and Counter-senses in Theatre 14.06
Song and Social Change (Seminar) 15.09
Writing on the Wall, Pictures on the Page: Word-and-Image
Intersections in Hispanic Literature and Visual Culture 6.03
Top
Theory
Critical Nostalgia 11.09
Documentary Fact vs. Fiction: Memoir, the Testimonio, and the
Testimonial Novel 12.16
Ecocriticism and/as Interdisciplinarity 7.02
Ethical Criticism After Barthes (Seminar) 1.03
Fascination and the History of Affect 6.09
Interrogating the Natural, a Society for Critical Exchange Session
3.02
Living Form/Textual Form 2.16
Political Rhetoric: Discourses of Liberal, Radical, and Deliberative
Democracy 4.19
Speaking the Story: Orality and Fiction 8.11
Top
Women's Studies
Defining, Appreciating, and Critiquing 'Mommy Lit' (Roundtable) 9.09
The Ethics of Power: Feminism in the Composition Classroom 2.11
From Monstrous Eve to Black Madonna: Religion and the Search in
Literature by Women 8.09
Ghosts in the looking glass: the women we carry 12.11
New Territories: Traditions of Women Writing in the early Atlantic
World 7.11
Poetic Justice: Radical Women and the Language of Community 3.13
Revisiting Asian American Women's 'Articulate Silences' 8.01
Woolf and War 14.03
Top
World Literatures
Home and Away:Strolling in and Around Orhan Pamuk's Literary
Landscapes (Seminar) 8.14
