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A- 1 The Blues and Literary FormThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 210
Chair: Ben Wetherbee, University of Louisville
Jonathan McGregor, Washington University in St. Louis“Playing off the Same Song Sheet:
Cane, Gospel Blues, and Writing Improvisation”
Allison P. Palumbo, University of Kentucky“Recovering from 'Blindyitis':Where Black Becomes White and Whites Get the Blues in August Wilson”
Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology“Fenton Johnson's Early Modernist Blues”
A- 2 Post Secular Readings: Theological or Transcendent Impulses in Modern and Contemporary LiteratureThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 209
Chair: Julien Carriere, Bellarmine University
Jose Fernandez, Western Illinois University“The Morality of the Strong: Evolutionary Theory and Financial Speculation in Norris's
The Pit and London's
Burning Daylight”
Ashley Kunsa, Duquesne University“Recuperating the Meta-narrative: Postmodern Grace and Commodity Culture in George Saunders's
Pastoralia”
Claudia Skutar, University of Cincinnati“Mary Oliver's Quest for the Sublime”
A- 3 Contemporary U.S. Culture and American Political PowerThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 207
Chair: Jeffrey A. Sartain, University of Houston-Victoria
Skip Willman, University of South Dakota“Between the 'Theater of Paranoia' and the 'Cinema of Cynicism': The Secret History of the CIA in Norman Mailer's
Harlot's Ghost”
Jeffrey A. Sartain, University of Houston-Victoria“Days Gone By: Robert Kirkman's Re-envisioned Western,
The Walking Dead”
Charles Hatten, Bellarmine University“Paradoxes of Moralism and Community in Jonathan Franzen's
Freedom”
A- 4 Go WestThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 224
Chair: Katherine Toy Miller, University of Nevada
Charlie Bertsch, Arizona State University“From Hard-Boiled to Fried: Capturing California in the 1960s”
Scott Hales, University of Cincinnati“Contemporary Mormon…what?: Directions of Mormon Fiction in the Twenty-First Century”
Rebekah Dement Farmer, University of Louisville“West's Conception of the Culture Industry: Simulation versus Substance”
A- 5 Translation, Collaboration and the Grounds of the ContemporaryThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 220
Chair: William Day, University of Louisville
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Yale University“
this slow sinking into the forehead of a stranger: Experimental Translation and the Mapping of Influence”
Sara Watson, Chatham University“Translating the Myth: Contemporizing Sappho”
Anna Vitale, University of Wisconsin-Madison“The Sign Says Closed: Defining the Limits of Language and the Collective in
The Wide Road”
A- 6 The Poetics of WarThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 222
Chair: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Indiana University - Purdue University at Columbus
Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Indiana University-Purdue University at Columbus“Interpellating and Performing Bodies that Matter: Amy Lowell's Poetic Body Politic”
Matthew Price, Pennsylvania State University“The Walls Do Not Fall: Blitzed London and Spatial Order in H.D.'s
Trilogy”
Douglas Higbee, University of South Carolina, Aiken“The Grammar of Experience: Brian Turner's
Here, Bullet and the Soldier-Poet Tradition”
A- 7 Assessing the Contemporary in US American PoetryThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 216
Chair: Alan Golding, University of Louisville
Adam Katz, SUNY Buffalo“Metaphor in Flarf, Flarf in Metaphor”
Calvin Pennix, Chapman University“Challenging Literacy, Expanding Conceptualism: Why is Only Conceptual Writing Conceptual Writing?”
A- 8 Modernist GendersThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 216
Chair: Brian Holcomb, Michigan State University
Matthew Mosher, New York University“The More Things Change: Gender Ambiguity and Normative Sexuality in Ford Madox Ford's
Ladies Whose Bright Eyes”
Brian Holcomb, Michigan State University“Dorothy Parker's Mobile Women”
Kerry Hughes, West Virginia University“Tortured Voices: The Women of T.S. Eliot”
A- 9 Uncanny Conceptions: Literary and Biology Production in Jean RhysThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 106
Chair: Robert Volpicelli, Penn State University
Jonathan Goldman, New York Institute of Technology“Infamous Daughter of an Infamous Mother: James Joyce in Jean Rhys”
Caitlin Newcomer, Florida State University“No Jesus, No Mother: Conceiving the Ruins of the Female Body in Jean Rhys'
Good Morning, Midnight”
A- 10 Reading after Simon CritchleyThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Aaron Jaffe, University of Louisville
Seth Morton, Rice University“On How to Live Finally: Some Notes on Ending, Transmission, and Cryptology in Critchley and McCarthy”
David M. Robinson, Oregon State University“Simon Critchley, Wallace Stevens, and the 'Failure' of Poetry”
Aleksandra Hernandez, University of Toronto“Phenomenology and the Irrational in Wallace Stevens' Later Poems”
A- 11 Great Outdoorsmen?: Race, Masculinity, and Relations to LandThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 109
Chair: David Ross Anderson, University of Louisville
David Anderson, University of Louisville“The Wild Garden: Recovering African American Environmental History in Marilyn Nelson's
Carver: A Life in Poems”
Rosemary Haskell, Elon University“Ecocriticism, Virgil, and J.M. Coetzee's Georgic World in
Life & Times of Michael K.”
Benjamin Roberson, University of Louisville“The Earth Abideth: An Eco-critical Examination of Hemingway’s Modernism”
A- 12 T.S. Eliot I: The Other Arts (Organized by John Morgenstern, T.S. Eliot Society)Thursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 114
Chair: Andrew Karas,Yale University
Frances Dickey, University of Missouri“The Modern Lilith: D.G. Rossetti and T.S. Eliot”
John Morgenstern, Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd“'My Opinions on art…have modified radically': T.S. Eliot and Henri Matisse”
A- 13 Disgust, Value, and Whales in Nabokov's Fiction (organized by Marianne Cotugno, Nabokov Society)Thursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 117
Chair: Marianne Cotugno, Miami University
Marianne Cotugno, Miami University“Collecting
Lolita: Teaching Value to Undergraduates”
Mark Dunphy, Lindsey Wilson College“Getting the Melvillean Bends: The Sinister Bend of
Moby-Dick in
Bend Sinister”
Anastasia Tolstoy, University of Oxford“Sinning Against Taste: Vladimir Nabokov and the Aesthetics of Disgust”
A- 14 En contacto reel con la cultura guatemaltecaThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 217
Chair: Melissa Groenewold, University of Louisville
Melissa Groenewold, University of Louisville“Reel Guate: the Story of a university film festival and the Spanish student's (un)critical attachment to Simple Poor Guatemalans”
Clare Gervasi, University of Louisville“Very Important Problems of Cultural Othering in
V.I.P.: la otra casa”
Patrick Ridge, University of Louisville“La esperanza de un equipo durante la Guerra Civil Guatemalteca: un análisis de Hoy sí”
A- 15 Authors Reading Poetry and FictionThursday 1:30 PM − 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 202
Chair: Kiki Petrosino, University of Louisville
Becky A. De Oliveira, Andrews University“Execution Style”
Brian L. Jackson, University of Illinois Springfield“Poems”
Jessica Barksdale, Diable Valley College“Marco on the Beach”
Laura Donnelly, Western Michigan University“Poems”
B- 1 The Book of Mark (Danielewski): Reading House of LeavesThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 117
Chair: Nicole Seymour, University of Louisville
Andrew Howard, Central State University“The Role of Authorship in
House of Leaves”
Josh Womack, University of Montevallo“Red Dead Resurrection: The Birth of Necromancy in Red Letter Bibles and Its Rebirth in Danielewski's
House of Leaves”
Andrew Todd, John Carroll University“Undecidability and Reader Participation in
House of Leaves”
B- 2 Harlem Renaissance Critiques of American CultureThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 113
Chair: Jonathan Vincent, University of Louisville
James Berkey, Duke University“Archipelagic Harlem: Isa Glenn's
Heat”
Daniel Anderson, Dominican University“Escaping the Iron Cage: Sports, Art, and Performance in Claude McKay's Harlem”
B- 3 Incarcerating Culture: Law, Landscape, and Literature in Contemporary American Social ImaginationThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 119
Chair: Pat Clifford, Case Western Reserve University
Pat Clifford, Case Western Reserve University“Just Say No: Sentencing Reform in the Eighties and (Un)intentional Consequences”
Christopher Kolb, Spalding University“[Re-]Writing America: Mythology, Racism, and the Culture of Crack Cocaine”
Tyrone Williams, Xavier University“New Ganglands:
Lawyerland and
Copland”
B- 4 Discourses under Fire: Critiques of Medicine, Science, GardeningThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 122
Chair: Carolyn A. Durham, The College of Wooster
Lea M. Williams, Norwich University“Caring Without Compassion: Ellen N. La Motte's Tuberculosis Writings”
Melissa Zeiger, Dartmouth College“Give Pleasure a Bad Name: Jamaica Kincaid's Garden Politics”
Rodrigo Martini Paula, University of Louisville“Are We Cured All Right? Ironic Subversion of the Discourse of Medicine in
Return of a Soldier and
Clockwork Orange”
B- 5 Anglo-American Mongrels: Reading and Rereading Modernist WomenThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 121
Chair: Katherine Toy Miller, University of Nevada
Elizabeth Barnett, Vanderbilt University“Authorship as Authorization: The Case of Alice Corbin”
Cara L. Lewis, University of Virginia“Absolute Acts and Pure Dimensions: Mina Loy's Anti-Mongrel Aesthetics”
Brian L. Jackson, University of Illinois Springfield“Society's Garbage: 'Outcasting' and the Use of Modernist Looking in Mina Loy's
Compensations of Poverty”
B- 6 Post-Liberal, Post-Race, Post-Identity: Díaz, Mengestu, Paul Beatty, YamashitaThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 108
Chair: Jeffrey A. Sartain, University of Houston-Victoria
Jeffrey Gonzalez, Oberlin College“Curses and Inheritances: The Tragic View in Junot Diaz and Dinaw Mengestu”
Kyle R. King, The Pennsylvania State University“Karen Tei Yamashita's
Tropic of Orange as Fiction of Multitude”
B- 7 The Dialectics of Identification: Bakhtin and Cixous in Contemporary U.S. CultureThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 106
Chair: David Buehrer, Valdosta State University
Shannon Richter, Duquesne University“Live But Crippled: The Seductive Perils of Identification in Marie Irene Fornes'
Fefu and Her Friends”
Ken R. Hanssen, University of Nordland“They Rode On: Chronotopic Arrangement in Cormac McCarthy's
Blood Meridian”
B- 8 The 21st-Century Novel And Tom McCarthyThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Seth Morton, Rice University
James Duesterberg, University of Chicago“Curated Autonomy in
Remainder”
Rebecca Sánchez, Rochester Institute of Technology“Signs and Scarabs: The Challenge of Communicating in Tom McCarthy's
C”
Paul Cohen, Texas State University-San Marcos“
Remainder as Theory of the Novel”
B- 9 Music in Early Twentieth-Century PoetryThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 209
Chair: Brandon Walsh, University of Virginia
Mary Cook, University of Virginia“The Difference is Spreading: Sonic Repetitions and Subversions in Stein's
Tender Button”
Lauren Hauser, University of Virginia“Sound Gulping After Soundlessness: Idiomatic Silence in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens”
Brandon Walsh, University of Virginia“
The Waste Land's Onomatopoetics”
B- 10 T.S. Eliot I: The Other Arts (Organized by John Morgenstern, T.S. Eliot Society)Thursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 114
Chair: John Morgenstern, Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd
Michelle Witen, University of Oxford“Eliot's Condition of Music”
Andrew Karas, Yale University“My Words Echo Thus: Self-Allusion in
Burnt Norton”
B- 11 The Raj, Rushdie, and all the RageThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 112
Chair: Bishnu Ghimire, Ohio University
Marcia K. Farrell, Wilkes University“Salmon Rushdie and the Sympathy of Humor”
David J. Cook, Wilkes University“Understanding through Displacement: An Analysis of Salman Rushdie's Use of Gothic Location Techniques in
Luka and the Fire of Life”
Russell McDonald, Georgian Court University“Marginalizing the Mainstream: Salman Rushdie's Shaping of
East, West”
Bishnu Ghimire, Ohio University“The Problem of Anti-colonial Nationalist Discourse in Late-Colonial India and Mulk Raj Anand's
Untouchable”
B- 12 Henry James (Organized by Susan Griffin. The Henry James Society)Thursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 109
Chair: Susan Griffin, University of Louisville
Leland Person, University of Cincinnati“Manic James: The Early Letters and Roderick Hudson”
Greg Zacharias, Creighton University“Henry James and Social Climbing”
B- 13 Grief, Memory and the Sub-Altern in Hispanic Poetry and TheaterThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 215
Chair: Mary Makris, University of Louisville
Thomas Cherry, Western Kentucky University“Duende and the Stages of Grief: Federico Garcia Lorca's 'Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias'”
John P. Gabriele, The College of Wooster“Memory and the Sundered Self in Buero Vallejo's
Jueces en la noche”
Joseph Agee, Morehouse College“José Ortega y Gasset and the 21st-Century”
B- 14 Intertexting with Latin American LiteratureThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 217
Chair: Clare Gervasi, University of Louisville
Verônica Lucy Coutinho Lage, Federal University of Juiz de For a“Modernism under Hopper's and Poe's Views and Portinari's and Drummond's Views”
Laureano Corces, Fairleigh Dickinson University“Nilo Cruz's
Anna in the Tropics: Staging intertextual identities”
Ethan Lewis, University of Illinois“A Borgesian Meditation on a Novel by Garcia Márquez”
B- 15 Authors Reading Poetry and FictionThursday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 202
Chair: Kiki Petrosino, University of Louisville
Don Peteroy, University of Cincinnati“Too Much Anthropology”
Ted Morrissey, University of Illinois Springfield“Crowsong for the Stricken”
Cecilia Woloch, University of Southern California“Poems”
C- 1 Pynchon's Fiction: Influences and AnaloguesFriday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 109
Chair: John M. Krafft, Miami University
Damian Ward Hey, Molloy College“That Obscure Abject of Desire: Sustaining Abject Narratives in Pynchon's
Gravity's Rainbow and Buñuel's
That Obscure Object of Desire”
Zofia Kolbuszewska, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin“Timothy Tox's
Pennsylvaniad as Walter Benjamin's Allegory and a Mise-en-Abyme in Pynchon's
Mason & Dixon”
William Day, University of Louisville“Respondent”
C- 3 Pardon Our Analysis: The Legacy of Gil Scott-Heron (Organized by Aldon Lynn Nielsen, African American Literature and Culture Society)Friday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 114
Chair: Tyrone Williams, Xavier University
Stéphane Robolin, Rutgers University“The Transnational Mappings of Gil Scott-Heron”
Williams Tyrone, Xavier University“Sentimental Educations: Gil-Scott Heron's
The Last Holiday and Ralph Ellison's
Juneteenth”
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, The Pennsylvania State University“Professor of Bluesology: Gil Scott-Heron”
C- 4 Literary Institution-BuildingFriday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 119
Chair: Li Zeng, University of Louisville
Anna Lillios, University of Central Florida“The Creation of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's
Cross Creek World”
Kara Lee Donnelly, University of Notre Dame“The Booker Prize and International Literary Space”
James Dempsey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute“Dirty Minds and Literary Lynchings: How Scofield Thayer and
The Dial Outsmarted the Smuthounds”
C- 5 Flannery O'Connor (Organized by Jacqueline Zubeck, Flannery O'Connor Society)Friday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 210
Chair: Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Carole K. Harris, New York City College of Technology“Mules Do Fly: Flannery O'Connor and James Baldwin in Georgia”
Doug Davis, Gordon College“Technological Distances: Science, Technology, and Flannery O'Connor”
Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent“Art and Answerability: Flannery O'Connor's Letters, Essay, and Talks”
C- 6 Film Theory of Generation History & AdaptationFriday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 113
Chair: Alex E. Blazer, Georgia College & State University
Matt Wiles, University of Louisville“Breaking History: Science Fiction as Social/Mental Intervention”
Alex E. Blazer, Georgia College & State University“
Fight Club and
The Social Network: Two Brands of Postcapital Culture”
Drew Patrick Shannon, College of Mount St. Joseph“Not Yet Definitive: The Film Adaptations of D.H. Lawrence's
The Rainbow and
Women in Love”
C- 7 The Unhumanities in Simon Critchley and Tom McCarthyFriday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Jonathan Eburne, Penn State University
Kate Marshall, Notre Dame“Narratology for the Nonhuman: McCarthy v. McCarthy”
Ron Broglio, Arizona State University“Laugh Now, But One Day We'll Be In Charge”
Ray Stricklin, University of Louisville“The "C is Everywhere": A Necronautical Guide to Interfacing In-Between Networks”
C- 8 Lawrence and the Americans (Organized by Pamela Wright, DH Lawrence Society of North America)Friday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 223
Chair: Pamela Wright, Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Katherine Toy Miller, University of Nevada“Spiritual Connections: Georgia O'Keeffe and D.H. Lawrence”
Pamela K. Wright, Texas A&M University“Can You Go Home Again? A WWI Soldier's Experience in D.H. Lawrence's 'The Thimble' and Ernest Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home'”
C- 9 Bodies of Poetry: Eliot, Williams, MayerFriday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 123
Chair: Russell McDonald, Georgian Court University
Richard Badenhausen, Westminster College“Digging Up Corpses: Bodily and Psychic Scarring in
The Waste Land”
Robert Volpicelli, Penn State University“Venereal Verses: William Carlos Williams and the Syphilis Cure”
Sara DiMaggio, Penn State University“Desire in a Collapsing Star: Silence and Excess in Bernadette Mayer's
Studying Hunger”
C- 10 Jean Rhys and the Gender Of ModernityFriday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 122
Chair: Laura K. Donnelly, Western Michigan University
Carey James Mickalites, University of Memphis“
Good Morning, Midnight, Narcissistic Fashion, and Melancholic Consumption”
David M. Hart, University of Memphis“Woman as Cinema in Jean Rhys's
After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie”
Laura Quinlan DeJong, Florida Atlantic University“Follow this Fellow: Re-Tracing Brontë's Narrative in Jean Rhys's
Wide Sargasso Sea”
C- 11 Contemporary Fictions of TraumaFriday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 222
Chair: Michael Jackman, Indiana University Southeast
Leah McCormack, University of Cincinnati“Re-imaging Historical Trauma: the Use of Photographs in the Postmodern Memoirs of Mendelsohn's
The Lost, Hartman's
Lose your Mother, and Spiegelman's
Maus”
Laura D. Edwards, Southeast Missouri State University“Writing the Wound: Reading Ian McEwan's
Atonement as a Narrative of Trauma”
Nicole Trobaugh, Indiana State University“Conflation of Public and Private: The Effect of Media and the
Falling Man as Trauma Inflictor and Trauma Sufferer”
C- 12 Animal Encounters: Faulkner, Rash & HudsonFriday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 101
Chair: Jimmy Dean Smith, Union College
Jimmy Dean Smith, Union College“Glimpse That Bright Vanishing: Endangered and Extinct Species and Cryptozoology in Ron Rash's Spirit Country”
Christina M. Colvin, Emory University“Bear(ly)-Human: Species Crossings in Faulkner's
Go Down, Moses”
Caroline Hovanec, Vanderbilt University“Inhuman Nature: W.H. Hudson, D.H. Lawrence, and the Bat”
C- 13 L.A. Women in Search of a Voice in the Early XX CenturyFriday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 215
Chair: Rhonda Buchanan, University of Louisville
Fernanda Zullo-Ruiz, Hanover College“Reading the Dead Mother in Silvina Ocampo's
Rhadamanthos”
Patricia N. Klingenberg, Miami University“Intimate Autobiography: Poetic Confession of Silvina Ocampo”
Beth Ransdell Vinkler, Benedictine University“Así lo imaginábamos nosotras: A Study of Early Poems by Gilka Machado, Clementina Suárez, and Julia de Burgos”
C- 14 Imaginando espacios en la producòn cultural ecuatorianaFriday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 217
Chair: V Daniel Rogers, Wabash College
Isabel María Castro, Boston University“paris, capital de la modernidad?, desde las crónicas parisinas de medio siglo de Raúl Andrade”
Clara Verónica Valdano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“Carvajal y Acuña: representaciones espacio-corporales del Río Amazonas algunas consideraciones de estas construcciones coloniales”
Neal Messer, Murray State University“The Strange Rains of Riobamba: Changing Interpretations”
Milton Romero-Obando, University of Cincinnati“Diálogos íntimos de un poeta, cosmovisión poética de César Dávila Andrade”
C- 15 Authors Reading Poetry and FictionFriday 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Room: Humanities 202
Chair: Neil Graves, The University of Tennessee at Martin
J. Bowers, University of Missouri“Shooting a Mule and Motion Studies”
Anya Groner, Xavier University of Louisiana“Between Black Paws”
Vickie Weaver, Indiana University“2001: Another Easter Birthday”
William Auten, University of Virginia“Poems”
D- 1 Rearticulating BlacknessFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 112
Chair: Beth Willey, University of Louisville
Harmony Jankowski, Indiana University“Strange Speech: Gestural Articulations of Violence in Pearl Primus's
Strange Fruit and Jean Toomer's
Cane”
Karah Stokes, Kentucky State University“Vampire Love: Slavery as Mutualistic Symbiosis in Octavia E. Butler's
Fledgling”
Anthony Stewart, Dalhousie University“Black Boys With Beach Houses:
Sag Harbour and a New Black Aesthetic”
Laura Dawkins, Murray State University“Inside and Outside the Master's House: The Architecture of Power in Edward P. Jones's
The Known World”
D- 2 Timespace in Contemporary American FictionFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 114
Chair: Matthew Biberman, University of Louisville
Joey Alfino, University of Central Missouri“
Ragtime as Creation Myth”
Ann M. Peters, Yeshiva University“The Château: William Maxwell,
The New Yorker and the Post-War Tourist Novel”
Chao B. Li, University of Cincinnati Clermont College“Barthelme's
Snow White as a Luddite Fiction”
D- 3 The Dialectics of Identification: Bakhtin and Cixous in Contemporary U.S. CultureFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 119
Chair: Jill A. Leroy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University
Daniel Dale, University of Cincinnati“The Judge and The Kid: Resisting the Authority of Knowledge in Cormac McCarthy's
Blood Meridian”
Erin Sheley, George Washington University“
Gone With the Wind and the Trauma of Lost Sovereignty”
John Lloyd Marsden, Indiana University of Pennsylvania“Is Atticus Finch My Role Model? Con(Textualizing) the Law and Literature Movement”
D- 4 Indiginism & NarrativeFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 123
Chair: Jacqueline E. Brown, Jefferson Community College/University of Louisville
Brandi Stanton, St. Mary's College of Maryland“Words Are Too Limited: Ethnic Literatures, Genre, and Sherman Alexie's
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”
Heongyun Rho, Dongguk University“Native American Transnationalism in Sherman Alexie's
War Dances”
Simone Puleo, Florida Atlantic University“Worrisome Reception: Evaluating the Appeal of Survivance and Indiginist Narratives in Contemporary American Cinema”
D- 5 McCarthy and ModernityFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Patrick O'Donnell, Michigan State University
Justus Nieland, Michigan State University“Dirty Media: Tom McCarthy and the Catastrophes of Modernism”
Keith Johnson, Augusta State University“Ethics After People: On Tom McCarthy's
C”
Patrick O'Donnell, Michigan State University“The Author as the Letter C: A Response to Justus Nieland and Keith Johnson”
D- 6 Iris Murdoch's Novel as a Moral Forum (Organized by Barbara Stevens Heusel, Iris Murdoch Society)Friday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 210
Chair: Barbara Heusel, Florida State University
Barbara Stevens Heusel, Florida State University“Jackson's Dilemma: The Danger of Male Characters Deciding to be Good”
Kayla Pohl, University of South Carolina“Violent Affirmation: Iris Murdoch's Moral Question and the Move Beyond Postmodernism”
J. Robert Baker, Fairmont State University“Iris Murdoch's Middle Way of Healing”
D- 7 Lawrence Durrell Centenary Panel (Organized by Pamela J. Frances, International Lawrence Durrell SocietyFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 117
Chair: Pamela J. Francis, Northwestern State University
Charles Sligh, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga“A memory which catches sight of itself in a mirror: Durrell's Later Borrowings from the Justine Notebooks”
James Gifford, Fairleigh Dickinson University“From Albert Cossery to Robert Duncan: Durrell as Intermediary”
James Clawson, Grambling State University“Distancing Ourselves: Language and History in
The Avignon Quintet”
D- 8 Is Music: The Poetry of John TaggartFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 109
Chair: Robert Zamsky, New College of Florida
Peter O'Leary, School of the Art Institute of Chicago“This Poem is a Song a Work an Act of Love: Taggart and Repetition”
Joe Donahue, Duke University“A Trance in the Gaps: John Taggart and Mark Rothko”
Robert Zamsky, New College of Florida“Pastorelle: John Taggart's Songs of Place”
D- 9 Thinking About Poetry and MemoirFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 122
Chair: Amy Clukey, University of Louisville
Katie Owens-Murphy, The Pennsylvania State University“The Self-Conscious Lyric”
Susan Lidgate Mace, University of California“Mary Karr's Comic Voices in
Lit: A Memoir”
D- 10 Comparative Woolf (Organized by Kristin Czarnecki, The International Virginia Woolf SocietyFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 209
Chair: Kristin Czarnecki, Georgetown College
Holly Barbaccia, Georgetown College“The Criticism is Complete: Virginia Woolf's Chaucerian Poetics”
Barbara Burch, Georgetown College“What Truth Compels: Redressing the Failures of History in Robert Browning and Virginia Woolf”
Kristin Czarnecki, Georgetown College“Negotiating the City in Body and Mind: Virginia Woolf's
Mrs. Dalloway and Toni Morrison's
Jazz”
D- 11 Modernism & ExperimentationFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 207
Chair: Daniel Anderson, Dominican University
Lindsay Welsch, Indiana University“Across a Sort of Darkness: Distance and Perspective in
A Passage to India”
Christopher McVey, University of Wisconsin-Madison“Book of Lief, A Comedy of Letters:
Finnegans Wake, Historiography, and the Heliotrope”
Elizabeth J. Wellman, The Ohio State University“Burning Verse to Guilty Ears: Djuna Barnes and the Necessity of Matricide”
D- 12 Samples of Trauma Studies in France, Panel IFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 121
Chair: Marc Amfreville, Université Paris-Sorbonne
Antoine Cazé, Université Paris-Diderot“'To a Body Anything Can Happen': Lyric and Trauma”
Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès, Université du Maine“Narrativizing the Romance in Post 9/11 American Fiction: A Way of Working Through Trauma?”
Barbara Kowalczuk, Université Bordeaux IV“Who Knows How It Started?: Baroque Melancholia in Tim O'Brien's
The Nuclear Age”
Gwen Le Cor, Université Paris VIII-Vincennes“Ripples of Trauma in Jonathan Safran Foer's
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and in Art Spiegelman's
In the Shadow of No Towers”
D- 13 Transnational and Cross-cultural: New Reading of Asian/Hawaiian American LiteratureFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 224
Chair: Weihsin Gui, University of California-Riverside
Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University“School Lunch: Bicultural Conflicts in Asian-American Women's Food Memoirs”
Rebecca Hogue, Georgetown University“Center of the Pacific, Center of Nowhere: Postcolonial Identity and Liminal Places in Contemporary Hawaiian Fiction”
Chun Yang, University of Louisville“China Men: Kingston's Parodying the Structures of Classical Chinese Vernacular Fictions”
D- 14 Narrative and Stage RepresentationFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 220
Chair: Renato Ventura, University of Dayton
Melanie Zefferino, University of Warwick“The Spectacular Marionette Theatre of Feasting Elites in Baroque Venice”
Annalisa Marroccia, Consorzio Universitario per la Formazione Turistica Inter“L'arte teatrale: ogni movimento in teatro è gesto”
Elden Dale Golden, Union Institute & University“In Defense of Pinkerton”
D- 15 Multimedia Encounters: Video Games, TV, Animation, Blogs and Latinos in the 21st-CenturyFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 215
Chair: Frederick Luis Aldama, The Ohio State University
Theresa Rojas, The Ohio State University“Unapologetic Chicana: Working The Web-Mediascape”
Christopher Gonzalez, The Ohio State University“A Spicy Cesspool of Crime and Villainy: Narrative Worldmaking Strategies and the Cancellation of El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera”
Samuel Saldívar, Michigan State University“Unwanted Extraterrestrials…or Dirty, Stinking, Aliens: Latinos in Today's Sci-Fi Televisual Blueprints”
Frederick Luis Aldama, The Ohio State University“Getting Your Mind/Body On: Latinos in Video Games”
D- 16 Voces pluriculturales ecuatorianasFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 217
Chair: Milton Romero-Obando, University of Cincinnati
Ivonne Gordon Vailakis, University of Redlands“La marginalización en la literatura actual ecuatoriana”
Nicola Whitley, University of Louisville“La perpetuación de estereotipos negativos en la representación del afro descendiente ecuatoriano en los medios de comunicación”
Michael H. Handelsman, University of Tennessee“
El Entenao de Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco y la afirmación de la cultura montuvia como componente integral de lo nacional”
D- 17 Authors Reading Poetry and FictionFriday 10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Room: Humanities 202
Chair: Neil Graves, The University of Tennessee at Martin
Molly McCaffrey, Western Kentucky University“The Other Man, a short story”
Jessica Jacobs, Purdue University“After O'Keeffe, and Other Poems”
Amy Fuqua, Black Hills State University“What to Make of It”
Mark Fitzgerald, University of Maryland“Poems”
E- 1 Toni MorrisonFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 123
Chair: Kristine Yohe, Northern Kentucky University
Kristine Yohe, Northern Kentucky University“Hospitality and Patriarchy in Toni Morrison's
Love”
Kwangsoon Kim, East Tennessee State University“Performing Back to the White Master: Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse in Toni Morrison's
Beloved”
Katrina Harack, Oklahoma State University“Boundaries of Mercy: Testing the Ethical Limit in Toni Morrison's
A Mercy”
E- 2 Moving ImagesFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 108
Chair: Katie Sullivan, Rice University
Michael R. Mauritzen, Purdue University“Truthful Representations in the Age of the Moving Image: Chronophotography and Fiction of the Early Twentieth Century”
Katie Sullivan, Rice University“The Aesthetics of the Inkwell: Modernism in Comic Animation 1900-1934”
Michelle Veenstra, Francis Marion University“Moving Images and Static Words: Curious Paradoxes in the Travelogues of Gertrude Stein and Vita Sackville-West”
E- 3 On The Road Again With KerouacFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 109
Chair: Jessica Jacobs, Purdue University
Benzi Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong“Through a Foggy Window: Buddhism as Cross-cultural Imagination in American Literature”
William Brevda, Central Michigan University“On the Road to Moriah: Kerouac's Leap of Faith”
Skyler Latshaw, Grand Valley State University“Modified Restraints and Literary Inhibitions: Writing and Experience in
On the Road”
Gerald Cournoyer, University of New Hampshire“It Was Always Mañana: Reconsidering Futurity in Kerouac's
On The Road”
E- 4 The Hermeneutic Hit List: Postmodernism's Popular InfluencesFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 210
Chair: Alex E. Blazer, Georgia College & State University
Carl F. Miller, The University of Alabama“Where the Beat Sounds the Same:
American Psycho and the Cultural Capital of Standardized Pop”
Jacqueline E. Brown, Jefferson Community College/University of Louisville“Double, Double, Toil and . . . A
Humbling Nemesis: Philip Roth”
Justin St. Clair, University of South Alabama“Just Press Mute: DeLillo and the Tele-visible”
E- 5 Late Modernism and Ecological BodiesFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 122
Chair: Lyon Evans, Viterbo University
Fiona Tomkinson, Yeditepe University“Beyond Symbolism: The Snake as Philosophical Signature in D.H. Lawrence and Lawrence Durrell”
Cailin Copan-Kelly, Washington University in St. Louis“The mud became fertile: Grotesqueries of Class and Late Modernism in Virginia Woolf's
Between the Acts”
E- 6 Sex and Death: Re-reading Modernism, E.E. Cummings, and the Erotic (Organized by Gillian Huang-Tiller, E.E. Cummings Society)Friday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 209
Chair: Michael Webster, Grand Valley State University
Liz Reilly, Rutgers University-Newark“'my sweet old etcetera': Reading and Critiquing the Erotic in E.E. Cummings' Poetry”
April Fallon, Kentucky State University“Love, Unlove, and Lust: Cummings' Use of the Surreal in His Love and Erotic Poetry”
Gillian Huang-Tiller, University of Virginia at Wise“
A(r)mor amoris: Modernist
Blason, History, and the Body Politic of Cummings' Erotic Sonnetry in
& [AND]”
E- 7 Poetry, The Aural and the Visual: Cortez, Morris, MorleyFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 114
Chair: Donna Hollenburg, University of Connecticut
Michael J. New, Penn State University“Jayne Cortez and the Diasporic Subjunctive”
Jessica Lewis Luck, Cal State San Bernardino“How to Undo Things with Words: Tracie Morris and the Force of Nonsense”
Donna K. Hollenberg, University of Connecticut“Omitting Nothing: Hilda Morley and Abstract Expressionism in
The Turning”
E- 8 Modernist Poetry and the Nineteenth CenturyFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 117
Chair: Robert Archambeau, Lake Forest College
Mark Scroggins, Florida Atlantic University“The Questing, Passive Gaze: Ruskin and Pound's
Yeux Glauques”
Vincent Sherry, Washington University in St. Louis“The Codes of Decadence: Modernism and Its Discontents”
Robert Archambeau, Lake Forest College“Victorian Expectations, Modern Conditions: Real and Imagined Audiences for Modernist Poetry”
E- 9 Confronting Colonial PowerFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 106
Chair: Dhruba Jyoti Neupane, University of Louisville
Wyatt Lewis, Wabash College“Desiderio: The Postcolonial Narrative of a Fractured Self”
Tika R. Lamsal, University of Louisville“Colonial Gaze in Jack Maggs: Subverting the Imperial Projection of the
Other”
Dhruba Jyoti Neupane, University of Louisville“Heart of Indian Darkness: The Dickens's of
The White Tiger and Re-Indexing of an Entangled Progress”
E- 10 Languaging the FrontierFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 113
Chair: Eric Casero, University of Kentucky
Eric Casero, University of Kentucky“Closing the Frontier:
Wittgenstein's Mistress and the Limits of Language in Postmodern Fiction”
Aaron Cloyd, University of Kentucky“Rewriting the Frontier:
Housekeeping with Biodegradable Products”
Jenna Goldsmith, University of Kentucky“Connection Through Da Kine: Frontiers of Ecocriticism and Visual Rhetoric in Juliana Spahr's
Fuck You - Aloha - I Love You”
E- 11 Literature, Film and Psychology (Organized by Andrew Gordon, The PsyArt Foundation)Friday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 224
Chair: Andrew Gordon, The PsyArt Foundation
Katherine Bahr, Chadron State College“Invasions of Inner Space in the HANNIBAL films: Dr. Lecter is IN”
Cynthia Fortner, Purdue University“From Wish Projection to Fulfillment: Configuring Movement and Mobility in James Cameron's
Avatar”
Ted Morrissey, University of Illinois Springfield“William H. Gass's 'Very Cold Winter': The Cultural Trauma of the Fallout Shelter Frenzy as Expressed in
The Tunnel”
Andrew Gordon, University of Florida“Saul Bellow's Quarrel with Psychoanalysis”
E- 12 Samples of Trauma Studies in France, Panel IIFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 119
Chair: Antoine Cazé, Université Paris-Diderot
Sylvie Bauer, Université Paris-Diderot“Thinking Along the Margins: the Choreography of Trauma in
The Body Artist by Don DeLillo”
Houaria Righi, Paris-Sorbonne“Trauma Ties in Paul Auster's
Invention of Solitude”
Marc Amfreville, Université Paris-Sorbonne“Traumatic Helplessness in
The Surrendered by Chang Rae Lee”
Marie-Odile Salati, Université de Savoie“Displacement and Repetition: the Mechanics of Trauma in Ernest Hemingway's Early Works”
E- 13 Facets of Asian Literature and CultureFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 112
Chair: Li Zeng, University of Louisville
Weihsin Gui, University of California, Riverside“Neoliberalism and Literary Realism in Postcolonial Anglophone Malaysian Fiction”
Kamal ud Din, Forman Christian College“Liberalism and Tolerance: Culture in Saadat Hassan Manto's Works”
Timothy Huson, St. Louis University“Lacan's
discours in the Short Fiction and the Poetry of Lu Xun”
Li Song, Harbin Institute of Technology“Family Metaphor in Chinese Culture”
E- 14 Théâtre, Poésie, Littérature Variations dans l'EsthétiqueFriday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 222
Chair: John Lina, University of Louisville
Florence Dwyer, Thomas More College“Oser l'impossible ou comment Dieu s'invite sur la scène théâtrale contemporaine. Étude de la dimension philosophique dans l'oeuvre théâtrale d' Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt:
Le Visiteur”
Jennifer Stafford Brown, Whitworth University“The Avant-Garde Médiéval in Guillaume Apollinaire”
Michael F. Leruth, The College of William and Mary“The Theme of Contemporary Art in Some Recent Works of French Literature”
Marianne Bessy, Furman University“Le jeu du <
>: Vassilis Alexakis et ses masques”
E- 15 Sicily on Page and Screen
Friday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 220
Chair: Fulvio Orsitto, California State University
Renato Ventura, University of Dayton“Brancati e la "commedia" del maschio. Il Don Giovanni involontario e la governante”
Daniele Fioretti, Miami University“La vita ogra sulla pagina e sullo schermo”
Fulvio Orsitto, California State University“L'ultimo capodanno: da Niccolò Ammaniti a Marco Risi”
E- 16 In and Out of Latin American National Identities
Friday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 215
Chair: Clare Sullivan, University of Louisville
S.C. Gooch, Purdue University“Tajeándose con los alambrados: Modernity in the Argentina of Don Segundo Sombra and El juguete rabioso”
Holly Flint, The University of Alabama“Cultural Citizenship and Latino/a Literature”
Mica Howe, Murray State“Cubanness Inside and Outside of Cuba”
E- 17 Amor crisis e infierno a fines de dos siglos
Friday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 217
Chair: Michael Handelsman, University of Tennessee
Vicente Robalino, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador“la poesía ecuatoriana de entre siglos: La poesía infernal, el retorno de Lautréamont, Sade y el surrealismo”
Mike Waag, Murray State University“Amor y crisis del fin del siglo en Sonata para sordos: una novela ecuatoriana de Ivan Egiiez”
V. Daniel Rogers, Wabash College“Theatricality and Indigenous Identity in Juan León Mera's Cumandá”
E- 18 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Friday 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Room: Humanities 202
Chair: Amy Fleury, McNeese State University
Elaine Neil Orr, North Carolina State University“Driving the Peugeot”
Jenny Mueller, McKendree University“Poems”
Brian Trapp, University of Cincinnati“Liability”
Amy Fleury, McNeese State University“Poems”
F- 1 Gendering Space
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 109
Chair: Eman ElMeligi, Alexandria University
Jennifer Furner, Grand Valley State University“Split Identities: Lacan's Mirror Stage in Shirley Jackson's The Tooth”
Sandra Wilson Smith, Union College“The Domestic Ideal Falls Apart: Ann Petry's The Narrows”
Benjamin Hufbauer, University of Louisville“Hitchcock's Vertigo: The Architecture of Gender”
F- 2 The Presence of the Past: Richard Flanagan, Octavia Butler, and the Violence of Abu Ghraib
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 112
Chair: John M. Krafft, Miami University–Hamilton
Ashley Whitmore, Wayne State University“Reconfigurations of History and Embodying Books in Gould's Book of Fish”
Adam Haley, Pennsylvania State University“The Real Invisible Hand: Historical Haunting, Porous Chronologies, and the Grasp of What Came Before”
Megha Anwer, Purdue University“Visualizing Violence: Photographing the Pain and Torture of 'Others'”
F- 3 The Great Depression and the Culture of Economic Critique: Thorstein Veblen, Mina Loy, and Langston Hughes
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 123
Chair: Whitney Lee Brown, University of Louisville
Peter Collins, Pennsylvania State University“Practical Mechanics and Goddamned Bondsalesmen: The Engineer and the Investor in Dos Passos's The Big Money”
Maureen Gallagher, Duquesne University“Conspicuous Waste: Inversions of Waste and Wealth in Mina Loy's Late Poetry”
Grace Tirapelle, University of California, Davis“Hotel Living, Racialized Labor, and the American Literary Left”
F- 4 Southern Connections
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 210
Chair: Amy Clukey, University of Louisville
Marc Dziak, Purdue University“Stubborn and Coquettish Decay: Reimagining Gothic Relationships in the Fiction of William Faulkner”
Libby Hallgren Hoxmeier, Creighton University“The Divine and Erotic Action of Flannery O'Connor's Fiction”
Daniel Irving, Binghamton University“Even Children Get Older/I'm Getting Older, Too: (Un)Acceptance of Aging and the Demise of the Southern Belle”
F- 5 Influence and Joyce
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 224
Chair: Jacqueline E. Brown, Jefferson Community College/University of Louisville
Whitney Jones, University of Tennessee“Imaginative Flights: Rejecting Masculinities in Joyce's Portrait and Barrie's Pan”
Briana Casali, University of Miami“Modern Metafictions: Tracing the Origins of the Self-Reflexive Novel in James Joyce's Dubliners”
Ruth Hoberman, Eastern University“The Nightmare of History in George Orwell's The Clergyman's Daughter”
F- 6 Documentary Impulses
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 108
Chair: Michael Jackman, Indiana University Southeast
Stephanie Weaver, University of Louisville“Al Gore, Former Vice President, Former Tobacco Farmer: An Analysis of Gore's Use of Personal Narrative in An Inconvenient Truth”
Thomas S. Davis, The Ohio State University“The Fate of the Liberal Avant-Garde: Late Modernism and Documentary”
Jill LeRoy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University“Freedom Belongs to the Strong: Uncle Tom's Children as Marxist Tragedy”
F- 7 Writing in the Voice: Orality, Aurality and the Politics of Participation in 20th-Century American Poetry
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 114
Chair: J. Peter Moore, Duke University
Michael Eng, John Carroll University“Fasci-nations of the Voice: Bernstein, Aurality, and the Onto-typology of Sound”
Kimberly Lamm, Duke University“Reading the Voice of Silence: Guest, Cage, and the Inoperative Language of Community”
J. Peter Moore, Duke University“A Rustle of Programs: the Pitch of Lyric Tragedy in Delmore Schwartz's 'Coriolanus and His Mother'”
F- 8 Women and Colonial Violence
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 119
Chair: Jennifer A. Fraley, University of Louisville
Kimberly A. Nance, Illinois State University“What Language is That? Socioliterary Reading from Uwen Akpan's Say You're One of Them”
Jeannie Ludlow, Eastern Illinois University“Intimacy and Occupation: Abortion, Gestation, and Colonization in Contemporary American Literature”
Carmen M. Méndez-García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain“This is my place, Mama Nadi's: Feminine Spaces and Identity in Lynn Nottage's Ruined”
F- 9 Wallace Stevens and the New York School (Organized by Josh Schneiderman, The Wallace Stevens Society
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 117
Chair: Josh Schneiderman, CUNY Graduate Center
David Jarraway, University of Ottawa“Wallace Stevens, Barbara Guest, and the 'New York School' in the Distance”
Rachel Galvin, Princeton University“Ashbery, Stevens, and the Politics of Abstraction”
Michael Clune, Case Western Reserve University“From Symbol to Sound”
Andrew Epstein, Florida State University“Respondent”
F- 10 The Blank Generation: Empty Spaces, Blank Pages, and Useless Junk in Contemporary Literature
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 219
Chair: Nicole Seymour, University of Louisville
Abram Foley, Pennsylvania State University“One or Two Get Through: The Cipher and the Sieve in Nicholas Mosley's Catastrophe Practice”
David Letzler, CUNY“'Barthes' 'Reality Effect' in Post-War Non-Realist Fiction”
David B. Olsen, Saint Louis University“What's Not to See: Blank Spaces and Contemporary Fiction”
F- 11 &Now: revisiting literary forms and notions - Panel I (Organized by Anne-Laure Tissut, University of Rouen)
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Anne-Laure Tissut, University of Rouen
Davis Schneiderman, Lake Forest College“Endurance Texts”
Arnaud Regnauld, University of Paris“Chasing Ghosts: Experiencing the Visual Tactility of Michael Joyce's Electronic Hyperfictions, afternoon, a story(1990) and Twelve Blue(1996)”
Debra Di Blasi, Independent Scholar“Braver Newer World: The Convergence of Technology, Human & Literature”
F- 12 Terror, Trauma, Texts
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 122
Chair: Ted Morrissey, University of Illinois Springfield
Lee Ann Glowzenski, Duquesne University“The Anthropology of Terrorism in Ian McEwan's Saturday”
Huei-ju Wang, National Chi Nan University“Life Between Two Deaths: Commemoration and Archive Fever in Katherine Weber's Triangle”
Sarah Walker, University of Iowa“What gestures the unspeakable?: Haunting as Healing in Literary Memorializations of Slavery and 9/11”
F- 13 Jesus, Idiots and Refugees Novelty and Eastern Europe
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 113
Chair: Susan Lidgate Mace, University of California
Joseph Dargue, University of Cincinnati“Exploring the Transnational Scapes of Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan”
Christine Rydel, Grand Valley State University“The Silken Thread: Pawel Huelle, His Narrator, and Their Amicable Polemic with the Catholic Church in Poland”
David A. Stivers, Savannah College of Art and Design“A Tale the World Has Grown Tired of Hearing: Russians in America and Dashiell Hammett's The Gutting of Couffignal”
F- 14 Said and Unsayable
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 222
Chair: Christa Zorn, Indiana University Southeast
John Cameron, University of Regina“Speak and Attest: Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Hass, and the Mimesis of the Unsayable”
Harald Höbusch, University of Kentucky“Stunde Null on Nanga Parbat - The German Mountain of Destiny in Pre- and Post-WW II Youth Literature”
Enno Lohmeyer, Case Western Reserve University“Deconstructing the Myth of War in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”
F- 15 Change of Truths and the Subversive Language
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 220
Chair: Don Spinelli, Wayne State University
Elizabeth Scheiber, Rider University“La manomissione delle parole: Linguaggi e veritá in Gianrico Carofiglio”
Nicoletta Serenata, The Ohio State University“La verità secondo Tabucchi”
Charles Klopp, The Ohio State University“Postmodern Odeporics: Calvino, Tabucchi, and Celati”
F- 16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Friday 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Room: Humanities 202
Chair: Ashley Bender, University of Louisville
Ashley Kunsa, Duquesne University“(Fiction)”
Gregory Kiewiet, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago“The Influence of Working in Translation”
Jane L. Carman, Illinois State University“Innovative Hybrid”
Katelyn Kenderish, Independent Scholar“Poems from Understory”
G- 1 Destabilizing Exceptionalism in the Age of the American Century
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 112
Chair: Jonathan Vincent, University of Louisville
Rebecah Pulsifer, Purdue University“America Will Not Forget: Amnesia and Exceptionalism in WBAA's Our Wonder World”
Katherine Stanutz, University of Maryland“The Home Front as War Front in Chester Himes's If He Hollers Let Him Go”
Susan Cooke Weeber, The Pennsylvania State University“The Crisis of Ahab: Mariners, Renegades and Castaways and the Schizophrenia of Modern America”
G- 2 Contemporary U.S. Satire: Stephen Wright, Diane Johnson, Albert Brooks
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 113
Chair: Eman ElMeligi, Alexandria University
Jonathan Imber Shaw, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania“Morning in America: Metaphories of Light in Stephen Wright's M31: A Family Romance”
Carolyn A. Durham, The College of Wooster“The Spy Novel Parodied: Diane Johnson's Lulu in Marrakech”
G- 3 Contemporary British Culture-Making: Winterson, Ishiguro, and Harwood
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 109
Chair: Peter Collins, Pennsylvania State University
Liz Kuhn, Towson University“Beyond Souls and Selves: The Imperialism of Interiority in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go”
Juan Meneses, Purdue University“Illusory Dialogue and Resistance in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion”
Ann C. Hall, Ohio Dominican University“Ronald Harwood's Tragic Vision: Taking Sides”
G- 4 Thinking Through Modern Drama and Fiction: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Orton
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 123
Chair: John P. Gabriele, The College of Wooster
Fran Helphinstine, Morehead State University“Theatre of the Absurd No Longer Absurd: Pinter's The Homecoming”
Raymond Strickin, University of Louisville“Beckett Year Zero: Form as a Theory of Ontology/Politics in The Unnamable”
Samara Bennett, Marshall University“Strip-Searching Stoppard and Finding Foucault”
Joseph Kai-Hang Cheang, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale“Fashioning a New Homosexual Paradigm: Joe Orton's Re-representations of Homosexual Characters in Entertaining Mr. Sloane and Its Implications”
G- 5 Framing Poetic Communities in Avant-Garde Poetics (Organized by Tyler Babbie, University of Washington-Seattle)
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 114
Chair: Carla Billitteri, University of Maine
Ryan Roderick, University of Maine“Theorizing a Relationship between Theory, Art, and Community”
Raymond Tyler Babbie, University of Washington-Seattle“Participatory Shock and Nonsense in Italian Futurism”
Rebecca Griffin, University of Massachusetts-Amherst“Subtle Socialist: Oppen's Affect”
G- 6 Literary Responses to the "Violence Without": Reflection, Retreat, and Resistance in Beckett, Stevens, Bishop and Plath
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 108
Chair: Claire Bowen, Dickinson College
Michael Hobbs, Northwest Missouri State University“Watch it Closely: Bishop and Stevens on Reading American Poetry”
Eusebio De Lorenzo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid“Sylvia Plath's Late Poetry as a Site of Resistance”
G- 7 Neil Gaiman and Literary Traditions
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 122
Chair: Jeffery G. Stoyanoff, Duquesne University
Anne Brannen, Duquesne University“Shadow and Transformed Mistletoe: The Death of Balder in Neil Gaiman's American Gods”
Jennifer L. Gorman, Duquesne University“On Wings and Chains: Gaiman's Stardust and the Body of the Neo-Slave Narrative”
Jeffery G. Stoyanoff, Duquesne University“Eat Your Heart Out: Re-Engendering Harlequin in Gaiman's Harlequin Valentine”
G- 8 Katherine Mansfield (Organized by W. Todd Martin, The Katherine Mansfield Society)
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 219
Chair: W. Todd Martin, Huntington University
Alexander Moffett, Providence College“To Stare Down the Years: Irruptions of Memory in Katherine Mansfield's Fiction”
Nikki-Lee Birdsey, New York University“Responses to Exile: Identity, Memory and Simultaneous Realities in Katherine Mansfield”
W. Todd Martin, Huntington University“Katherine Mansfield in Bavaria: 'Unpacking' the First-Person Narrator of In a German Pension”
G- 9 Sacred Journeys, Imagined Places: Pilgrimage and American Literature (Organized by Lisa Oliverio, Fontbonne University)
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 224
Chair: Lisa Oliverio, Fontbonne University
David Morris, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign“The Home of all Muslims: Pilgrimage and the American Muslim in Mohja Kahf's Girl in the Tangerine Scarfvel”
Lisa Oliverio, Fontbonne University“A Woman's Book: Dorothy Day's On Pilgrimage and the Catholic Politics of Domesticity at Mid-Century”
Franklin Ridgway, University of Cincinnati“Theodore Dreiser from Pilgrim to Passenger”
G- 10 Fooling with the Archive
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Judith Roof, Rice University
Jonathan P. Eburne, The Pennsylvania State University“So Dark, the Con Man”
Laura Richardson, Rice University“Conning the Archive: Marianne Moore Bamboozles Poetry”
Judith Roof, Rice University“Personifying La Con: Impersonation in Personation, or Post-Hoax Ergo Proper Hoax”
Jeremy C. Justus, West Virginia University“The Long Con in Stone Arabia”
G- 11 Narrative at the End of Life (Organized by David Eberly, Narrative Medicine Society)
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 207
Chair: Suzette Henke, University of Louisville
Dana Gage, St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital“Two People, Three Hands, Four Eyes…One Voice”
Annette Allen, University of Louisville“Respondent”
G- 12 Múltiples otredades: representaciones altenativas de la mujer hispana como sujeto plural cambiante - Panel I (Organized by Feministas Unidas Society)
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 117
Chair: Nadina Olmedo, Campbellsville University
Nadina Olmedo, Campbellsville University“El otro: esa inquietante compañía”
Itzá A. Zavala-Garrett, Morehead State University“Dos mujeres, el mismo retrato: la representación de la mujer immigrante hispana en La misma luna y Las mujeres verdaderas tienen curvas”
Ruth Brown, University of Kentucky“Travesías de una heroína migrante en Across a Hundred Mountains por Reyna Grande”
G- 13 La intersecòn de lo visual y lo textual en la producòn cultural latino americana
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 215
Chair: Vicente Robalino, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Ecuador
Roberto De la Torre, Independent Scholar“Juan Rulfo: La fotografía y le escritura una misma pasiòn”
Pablo A. Martínez, Trinity University“El curioso olvido y la injusta postergación de un clásico de la poesía ecuatoriana contemporánea: Ontogonías (1990) de Alexis Naranjo”
Sandy Calahorrano Gallardo, Boston University“Kléver Viera y Wilson Pico, mediante la influencia de la danza contemporánea estadounidense, han creado formas de identidad nacional”
G- 14 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Saturday 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Room: Humanities 202
Chair: Jameson Welch, Independent Scholar
Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Ohio University“Inside the Wave”
Gary L. McDowell, Belmont University“'This Summer with Fischl' and Other Ekphrastic Poems”
Lois Marie Harrod, The College of New Jersey“The Return of the Generals”
Jennifer Militello, River Valley Community College“Poems”
H- 1 Navigating 'Blackness': From Jean Toomer's Cane to Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 109
Chair: Jennifer Drake, University of Indianapolis
Ernestina Edoziem, University of Indianapolis“The Tripartite Identity of Blacks in America: A Source of Power in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall”
Robert Cooprider, University of Indianapolis“Recalibration and Reversal of Current: Textual Roots and Influence Flow Between Jean Toomer's Cane and Colston Whitehead's The Intuitionist”
Jamila M. Kareem, University of Indianapolis“Write to Make it Right, Don't Like Where I Be: Examining Lupe Fiasco's The Cool in the African American Literary Tradition”
H- 2 &Now: revisiting literary forms and notions - Panel II (Organized by Anne-Laure Tissut, University of Rouen)
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Anne-Laure Tissut, University of Rouen
Judith Roof, Rice University“Genre meets Genre: or the Only Way to Go is OUT”
Matthew Kirkpatrick, University of Utah“Light Without Heat (selections)”
Rob Stephenson, Independent Scholar“A Cluster of Textual Probes”
H- 3 Alternative Spaces to Language in Native American Texas
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 114
Chair: Pamela Rader, Georgian Court University
Pamela Rader, Georgian Court University“Zwischenraum as a Site for 'Productive' Silences in Louise Erdrich's The Painted Drum”
Angela Laflen, Marist College“The Weight of Eyes: The Politics of Representation in Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag”
Jennifer Russo, City University of New York“Jimmie Durham Hates You: A Poetics of Power and Communication”
H- 4 Literary Responses to WWI: David Jones and GB Shaw
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 113
Chair: Abby Buchanan, Indiana University Southeast
Urszula Horoszko, University of Wisconsin - Madison“From 'unlovely order' to the 'creatures of chemicals': Metamorphoses of Modernity in David Jones's In Parenthesis”
Hyonbin Choi, University of Wisconsin-Madison“Entering No-Man's-Land: The Interior of Homines Sacri in David Jones's In Parenthesis”
Christa Zorn, Indiana University Southeast“Madness, War, and the Public: Shaw's Heartbreak House and the Corruption of Common Sense”
H- 5 Virginia Woolf
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 123
Chair: Jasie Stokes, University of Louisville
Julie Cyzewski, The Ohio State University“Savage Civilizations in Woolf's The Waves and The Voyage Out”
Matthew Weber, Pennsylvania State University“Those Dots: Rhetoric of Suspension in Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas and Between the Acts”
Leslie Harper, University of Louisville“Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Mrs. Dalloway and 'The Prime Minister'”
H- 6 Hollywood Ménage: Mulvey, Zizek, and Lacan Go to the Movies
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 108
Chair: Ted Morrissey, University of Illinois Springfield
Nichole Peacock, University of Montevallo“The Indecorous but Sympathetic Feminine in Mid-Century Film”
Patrick Herald, University of Kentucky“I Have Lost Something: Fantasy in American Beauty”
William Welty, Independent Scholar“That Rug Really Tied The Room Together: Why The Dude is a Lacanian”
H- 7 Poetics with Pound, Stein and Zukofsky
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 112
Chair: Mark Scroggins, Florida Atlantic University
Lucile Dumont, Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle“Ezra Pound, or bare-handed philosophy of language”
Christopher Raczkowski, University of South Alabama“Gertrude Stein and Criminal Modernism”
Michael Fournier, Georgia Gwinnett College“Counting the Days: Shavuos, Kabbalah, and Objectification in Zukofsky's "A"-7”
H- 8 Modernism and Society
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 119
Chair: Whitney Lee Brown, University of Louisville
Shane Bruce, Georgia Gwinnett College“In Defiance of Modernist Poetry: Lucia Trent and the Poetic Power for the People”
Heidi Marsh, Union College“Journey to the 'Promised Land': The Great Migration in Go Tell It on the Mountain”
Matthew Poland, The Ohio State University“He was earth, and would return to earth: The Quest for An Origin to Willa Cather's The Professor's House”
H- 9 All Too Real: Realisms and Surrealisms in Contemporary Literature
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 210
Chair: Caleb Magyar, University of Louisville
Eman Helmy El Meligi, Alexandria University“Intertextuality, the Simulacrum and the Academy Novel: A New Historicist Reading of Reality and Hyperreality in David Lodge's Nice Work, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, and Richard Powers' Galatea 2.2”
Jennifer Grindstaff, Eastern Illinois University“…by any other name: The Importance of Names in Metafiction”
Guy Conn, Emory University“Chester Himes's Racio-Sexual Psychology of Inter-Racial Relations”
H- 10 Pictorialism, Ekphrasis and Identity in Contemporary Writing
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 106
Chair: Michael Begnal, Duquesne University
Bill Riley, The Ohio State University“Pictorialism and the Lyric Essay: The Reader's Gaze and Negative Space in Ted Kooser's Winter”
Emily R. Rutter, Duquesne University“MOST YOUNG KINGS/ GET THEIR HEADS CUT OFF: Kevin Young’s To Repel Ghosts and the Legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat”
Clayton Adam Clark, The Ohio State University“Surrealism as Mode and Interpretive Frame: Interplay of Pictorialism and Ekphrasis in José Rivera's References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot”
H- 11 Against/After the Postmodern: Denis Johnson, DeLillo, Wallace, Franzen
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 223
Chair: David Buehrer, Valdosta State University
David Buehrer, Valdosta State University“The 'Institutional Man' as 'Knight of Faith': Psychological Paradoxes of Madness and Religion in Denis Johnson's Resuscitation of a Hanged Man”
Martin Brick, Ohio Dominican University“Post-Secular Monologues/Dialogues: An Examination of 'Belief' in Post-Modern Writing”
Kyle T. Henrichs, Illinois State University“The Post-Postmodern Project: How David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen Approach the Aesthetics of Difficulty”
H- 12 The Politics of Friendship in Avant-Garde Poetry (Organized by Benjamin Lee, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present)
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 219
Chair: Ben Lee, University of Tennessee
Libbie Rifkin, Georgetown University“Between Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Avant-Garde Poetry”
Anne Dewey, St. Louis University of Madrid“Between Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Avant-Garde Poetry”
Ben Lee, University of Tennessee“The Grand Piano and the Play of History”
Barrett Watten, Wayne State University“The Ends of Friendship: Literary Community in The Grand Piano”
H- 13 I Do, I Don't, I Will, I Won't: Marriage and Identity in Early 20th-Century Texts (Organized by Megan Leroy, University of Florida)
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 207
Chair: Megan Leroy,University of Florida
Rachel Slivon, University of Florida“Personal Desires Versus Societal Expectations: Female Identity and Marriage in Victoria Cross's Ann Lombard”
Lisa Dusenberry, University of Florida“Schooled in Marriage: Revising and Negotiating Female Identity in Daddy-Long-Legs”
Megan Leroy, University of Florida“Mistress of Matrimony: Phyllis McGinley on Marriage and Female Identity”
H- 14 Múltiples otredades: representaciones altenativas de la mujer hispana como sujeto plural cambiante - Panel II (Organized by Feministas Unidas Society)
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 117
Chair: Dawn Slack, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Dawn Slack, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania“Unas identidades femeninas al revés: Tomando el rol del "otro"”
Dolores Martin-Armas, SUNY at Potsdam“La lesbiana en España: 'el otro' invisible”
Emily Stow, Georgetown College“Family Secrets and the Three Elsas: Espido Freire's Melocotones helados”
H- 15 Exilios, fronteras y estrategias de voces pos-coloniales
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 217
Chair: Guillermo López, University of Louisville
Patrick Ridge, University of Louisville“Más allá de una línea: la frontera como metáfora en Cartas de Alou, Sleep Dealer y Al otro lado”
Haakayoo N. Zoggyie, Morehouse College“jAlabada sea la alienación!: reflexiones sobre las ambigüedads discursivas en Las Tinieblas de tu memoria negra, de Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo”
James J. Park Key, Universidad de Los Lagos“De lo lárico y lo lírico en la poética mapuche huilliche contemporánea: territorio discurso y poesía en Roxanda Miranda Rupailaf, Paulo Huirimila Oyarzo y Bernardo Colipán Filgueira”
H- 16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Saturday 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Room: Humanities 202
Chair: Kiki Petrosino, University of Louisville
Christian Moody, University of Cincinnati“In the Middle of the Woods”
Dan Rosenberg, University of Georgia“Poetry”
Mica Darley, University of Cincinnati“Half”
Leah Silvieus, University of Miami“Aristotle's Lanterns”
I- 1 On Symbolic Violence: Race and the Self in African American Literature
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 108
Chair: Richard Purcell, Carnegie Mellon University
Kadeshia L. Matthews, University of New Mexico“Appetite for Blackness: Questioning Integration in Ellison's and Baldwin's Lynching Stories”
Richard Purcell, Carnegie Mellon University“Against the Violent Ends of Exile: Baldwin, Chartres and the Pilgrim as Self”
William Scott, University of Pittsburgh“Violence and Idealization in Richard Wright's Native Son”
I- 2 Saving Theory for Criticism
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 109
Chair: Caleb Magyar, University of Louisville
Amy Wright, Austin Peay State University“Riding Six White Horses: On Creative Criticism”
Hem Sharma Paudel, University of Louisville“Revisiting the Debate on Foundationalism/Antifoundationalsim: Rorty's Intervention”
Ben Wetherbee, University of Louisville“What Is Cinematic Ethos: Three Theoretical Inquiries into the Rhetoric of Film”
I- 3 Fictional Ethics, Ethical Fictions: David Foster Wallace and The Pale King
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 112
Chair: Ian Butcher, Duquesne University
Ian Butcher, Duquesne University“The Pale King of Capitalist Realism”
Gregory J. Harold, Duquesne University“Masculine Narrative Identify in David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men”
I- 4 What's New in Kerouac Studies (Organized by Ronna Johnson, Beat Studies Association)
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 114
Chair: Nancy M. Grace, The College of Wooster
Erin E. Bell, Wayne State University“Mapping Desire: Homoeroticism and the Third World in Kerouac's On the Road”
Brittney Winters, Grand Valley State University“Between Innocence and Experience: Marginalization of the 'Other' in On the Road”
Jody Spedaliere, California University of PA“Revisions of Neal: A Comparative Reading of the Depiction of Neal Cassady in the Fiction of
Jack Kerouac”
I- 5 The Maggot Swallows Its Own Tale: History, Hysteria, and Cyclicality
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 117
Chair: Dianne Vipond, California State University
Dianne Vipond, California State University“John Fowles's A Maggot: A Celebration of Mystery”
Buell Wisner, Gordon College“The Antiquarian Poetics of John Fowles's A Maggot”
T.R. Johnson, Tulane University“The New Hysteria Studies, Masculinity, and Addiction: The Strange Cases of Sigmund Freud, William Burroughs, and Keith Richards”
I- 6 Systems and the Contemporary Novel: Joseph Heller and Tom McCarthy
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 113
Chair:
Christopher R. Boss, University of Kentucky“'I am the supervisor': The Corporate Redemption of Masculinity in Joseph Heller's Something Happened”
Brian Trapp, University of Cincinnati“Two Paths or a Maze: A Response via Flaubert to Zadie Smith's 'Two Paths for the Novel'”
I- 7 Queer Moderns
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 119
Chair: Clare Gervasi, University of Louisville
Dan Rosenberg, University of Georgia“H.D.'s Disembodied Eros: Recuperating a Sapphic Poetics”
Jennifer Jane Rupert, University of Illinois at Chicago“Queering Surrealism: Djuna Barnes' and Claude Cahun's Obscure Experiments in L'Amour fou”
I- 8 Poets and Philosophers
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 221
Chair: Donna Hollenberg, University of Connecticut
Tom Fisher, Portland State University“Making Sense: Language Poetry, Politics and Aesthetics”
Eileen Gregory, University of Dallas“Levinas's 'Sensibility' and the Critical Valences of Affect in Modern Women Poets”
I- 9 Unlikely Avant-Gardisms: The Pastoral, The Domestic, The Female Muse
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 210
Chair: Jeannie Ludlow, Eastern Illinois University
Jeff Nguyen, Harvard University“The Pastoral Manifesto: Diane Di Prima and the Mimeo Revolutionists”
Claire Bowen, Dickinson College“Slow Eating: The Politics and Poetics of Food in Lyn Hejinian's My Life”
John P. Craig, Alabama State University“Gender, Generativity and the Muse in the Work of Rachel Blau DuPlessis”
I- 10 Fantastic Genre Fiction: Collins, Tolkien, Milne
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 217
Chair: Leslie Ann Harper, University of Louisville
Michael Sobiech, University of Louisville“Bread and Circuses and Teenage Gladiators: The Perils of Empire in Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games”
P. Michael Campbell, Coastal Carolina University“From The Hobbit to Harry Potter: The Return of School Days and The Rise (and Fall [and Resurrection?]) of Fantasy in Children's Literature”
Sarah Johnson, Huntington University“Are you sure, Pooh?: Certainty in A.A. Milne's Child, Adult and Hundred Acre Wood Characters”
I- 11 Addicted to Modernity: Drugs and Culture in Twentieth-Century America
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 223
Chair: Sarah B. Humphrey, University of Louisville
Charlotte Rich, Eastern Kentucky University“Suffocated with [a] sense of well-being: Physiological and Psychological Addiction in Ethan Frome”
Jessica Burke, Union College“A Shrinking Island: Myth, Meth, Modernity, and Ron Rash's Spirit Country”
Adam Fajardo, Indiana University“A harmless Remedy for the Blues is Imperial: Cocaine, the Efficiency Movement, and Race Violence”
I- 12 States of Mind
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 121
Chair: Judith Roof, Rice University
Craig N. Owens, Drake University“Eroticon”
Benjamin Kozicki, Rice University“Hoaxing Science”
Dennis W. Allen, West Virginia University“No Way: Skepticism and the Possibility of Truth in Internet Commentary”
I- 13 Trauma and Teaching English Studies
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 209
Chair: Amy Eggert, Bradley University
Amy Eggert, Bradley University“Traumatic Renaissance: Trauma Theory and the Teaching of Creative Writing”
Laurie Vickroy, Bradley University“Trauma and Narrative Motivation in Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin”
Danielle Glassmeyer, Bradley University“Some Things are Hard to Remember: Substituting Recursion for Resistance in the Trauma Narrative Classroom”
I- 14 Coetzee, Lessing, Pamuk: The Novel of Ideas
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 219
Chair: Lyon Evans, Viterbo University
Mike Piero, John Carroll University“The Beginnings of Isolated Person(alitie)s in the Works of J.M. Coetzee”
Lyon Evans, Viterbo University“The Silence of Snow, the Silence of God: Art and Adversity, Creation and Chaos in Orhan Pamuk's Snow”
Zachary J. Hacker, College of Mount St. Joseph“Realistic and Speculative Unimportance: Lessing's Canapus in Argos as an Extension of Children of Violence”
I- 15 Border Identity
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 215
Chair: Mónica Rodríguez, University of Louisville
Nicholas Sloboda, University of Wisconsin“Violent-looking with clotted swirls of red: Painting the Relational and Defiant Self in Christina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban”
Pilar Melero, Whitewater“Navigating la cuerda floja de la frontera: a [re]articulation of Chican@ identify Away from Marginalization”
Mindy Boffemmyer, Duquesne University“Memory, Misery, and Miracle: Ana Castillo's Transformative Poetics in So Far from God”
I- 16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Saturday 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM Room: Humanities 202
Chair: Nina Bannett, New York City College of Technology
Cyn Kitchen, Knox College“The American Midwest”
Clayton Adam Clark, The Ohio State University“Poetry”
Ellen Birkett Morris, Queens University“Kodachrome”
Nina Bannett, New York City College of Technology“Lithium Witness”
SP- 1 Spanish Book Presentation - Brown Bag Lunch
Room: Humanities 219
Chair: Manuel Medina, University of Louisville
Ivonne Gordon Vailakis, University of Redlands“Presentación del libro: Barro blasfemo”
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