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Tuesday, 29 December
Politics
Makes American Literature: Crossing National Boundaries
Presiding: Sarah R. Robbins, Texas Christian Univ.
1. "Can a Poem Influence Foreign Policy? Kipling’s ‘The White Man’s Burden’ and
the Debate over Annexation of the Philippines, 1899,” Susan K. Harris, Univ. of
Kansas
2. “Cafe Spies and Afro-Counterfiles: The Cold War Comes to Paris Noir,”
William J. Maxwell, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
3. “The Politics of United States Border Literatures,” Claudia Sadowski-Smith,
Arizona State Univ.
Wednesday, 30 December
Politics Makes American Literature: Confronting Issues
Presiding: Joycelyn K. Moody, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio
1. “The Trail of Tears: Indian Removal and Political Activism in Child,
Fuller, and Sigourney,” Elizabeth Petrino, Fairfield Univ.
2. “Freedom Bound: Cuba in the Imperial Imaginary,” Rick Rodriguez, Loyola
Univ., Chicago
3. “Secret Undergrounds: Black and White Responses to Racial Violence in Sutton
Griggs and Thomas Dixon, Jr.,” Jeff Smith, Univ. of Southern California
4. “Communities behind Bars: The United States Carceral State and Radical Black
Autobiography,” Jason Stupp, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown
American Literature Divisions
American Literature to 1800
Sunday, 27 December
Finance, Investment, Risk
Presiding: Michelle Burnham, Santa Clara Univ.
1. “Threat Finance and the Flows of Capital and Song in Slaves in Algiers,”
Rekha Rosha, Wake Forest Univ.
2. “Dead Labor, Nonreciprocal Exchange: The Market and Social Class in Adam
Smith and Charles Brockden Brown,” Len R. von Morze, Univ. of Massachusetts,
Boston
3. “Insurance, Abolitionism, and California,” Eric Wertheimer, Arizona State
Univ. West
Monday, 28 December
Preracial?
Presiding: Susan Scott Parrish, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1. “About-Face: Human Diversity in the Preracial Spanish World,” Ruth Hill,
Univ. of Virginia
2. “Intermarriage in Early America: Pocahontas, John Rolfe, and the Construction
of English Political and Cultural Identity,” Elizabeth Thompson, Ohio Univ.,
Athens
3. “Race and Disciplinarity in Eighteenth-Century African American Literature,”
Tara Bynum, Towson Univ.
Tuesday, 29 December
Translations and Early American Literature
Presiding: Martin C. Brückner, Univ. of Delaware, Newark
1. “‘Unter der Leitung seines Geistes’ / Under the Guidance of His Spirit:
Toward a History of Mystical Translation in Early America,” Patrick Michael
Erben, State Univ. of West Georgia
2. “Winning Hearts through Language: Shifting Missionary Approaches to American
Indian Education,” Elizabeth Thompson, Ohio Univ., Athens
3. “Sing, Muse, of New Worlds and New Ways: On the Origins of American Poetry,”
Joanne van der Woude, Harvard Univ.
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Monday, 28 December
Book History Matters
Presiding: Eliza Richards, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1. “What’s the Matter with the History of the Book?” Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers
Univ., New Brunswick
2. “Lost in a Book, Lost in Book History,” Patricia Crain, New York Univ.
3. “Fashion Codes, Pocket Codex: Reading Little Books in Antebellum America,”
Martin C. Brückner, Univ. of Delaware, Newark
Tuesday, 29 December
Time after History
Presiding: Lloyd P. Pratt, Michigan State Univ.
1. “The Long Nineteenth Century: Thoreau’s Green Infrastructure,” Wai Chee
Dimock, Yale Univ.
2. “Space into Time: Ambrose Bierce’s Phenomenological Reduction of History,”
Jonathan Elmer, Indiana Univ., Bloomington
3. “Sex and Time,” Dana Luciano, Georgetown Univ.
Wednesday, 30 December
Mysteries of the City
Presiding: Rafia Zafar, Washington Univ. in St. Louis
1. “Racial Properties: The Sinister Coincidences of Antebellum Philadelphia in
Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends,” Elizabeth Stockton,
Southwestern Univ.
2. “Philadelphia Fire: Enlightenment, Mystery, and Urban Space in The Life of
Charles Willson Peale,” Megan Walsh, Temple Univ., Philadelphia
3. “The Mysteries and Miseries of The Quaker City: Philadelphia’s 1840s
‘Urban Mysteries’ Novels,” Sara Hackenberg, San Francisco State Univ.
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature
Sunday, 27 December
Protomodernisms
Presiding: Jennifer L. Fleissner, Indiana Univ., Bloomington
1. “What Did Hamlin Garland Mean by ‘Modernism’?” Christine L. Holbo, Arizona
State Univ.
2. “The Experimental Realism of William Dean Howells,” Brian McGrath, Rutgers
Univ., New Brunswick
3. “Oz’s Colorful Pedagogy; or, Modernism in the Kindergarten,” Nicholas Gaskill,
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Monday, 28 December
Depressions
Presiding: Gordon N. Hutner, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
1. “Financial Collapse and the Canon: New Readings for the Study of Economic
Crisis,” Cecelia Tichi, Vanderbilt Univ.
2. “Boom and Bust: The Language of Financial Insecurity in the Gilded Age,”
Gavin Jones, Stanford Univ.
3. “Between the Outhouse and the Garbage Dump: Locations in and of Collapse,”
Paula Rabinowitz, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Tuesday, 29 December
Is the United States a Creole Nation?
Presiding: Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth Coll.
1. “Is Martí’s Ramona a Creole Pioneer?” Susan K. Gillman, Univ. of California,
Santa Cruz
2. “Beyond ‘the White Dream of Her There’: Imagining the Empress Josephine in
Caribbean American Regionalism,” Sean X. Goudie, Penn State Univ., University
Park
3. “The Transamerican Gilded Age: A Long History of Economic Regionalization in
the Americas,” Laura Anne Lomas, Rutgers Univ., Newark
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Sunday, 27 December
The Politics of Animal Representation
Presiding: Marianne DeKoven, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
1. “Sick as a Dog: The Politics of Animality in Mark Doty’s Dog Years,”
Michael Lundblad, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins
2. “‘And the Lion Shall Eat Straw’: Vegetarian Predators in the American
Cultural Landscape,” June S. Dwyer, Manhattan Coll.
3. “Temple Grandin and Cultural Politics,” Jessica L. W. Carey, McMaster Univ.
4. “‘Empty Souls’? Human and Animal in the Novels of Cormac McCarthy,” Nicholas
Monk, Univ. of Warwick
Tuesday, 29 December
Literature and the Politics of Space
Presiding: Shari Huhndorf, Univ. of Oregon
1. “Asian Homelands in a Foreign America: Global Identities and Renegotiating
Southern Literary Spaces,” Frank Cha, Coll. of William and Mary
2. “The Politics of Home and the Neodomestic American Novel,” Kristin J.
Jacobson, Richard Stockton Coll. of New Jersey
3. “‘Like Water Going Back to Itself’: Spaces of Subjectivity in Castillo’s
The Mixquiahuala Letters and Hogan’s Solar Storms,” Shealeen Anne
Meaney, Sage Colls.
4. “Mapping and Moving Nation: Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day,” Courtney
Thorsson, Columbia Univ.
Wednesday, 30 December
Audio/Text
Presiding: Evie Shockley, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
1. “Contemporary American Speech Music,” Mendi Lewis Obadike, Pratt Inst.
2. “‘Tape-Recorderese’: Language after the End of Man,” J. D. Connor, Yale Univ.
3. “Textual Acoustics: Refashioning Aesthetic Practice in Post-Civil-Rights
African American Literature,” Carter A. Mathes, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
Black American Literature and Culture
Monday, 28 December
The Crisis and the NAACP: Confronting One Hundred Years
Presiding: Jennifer Williams, Michigan State Univ.
1. “DuBois and The Crisis: The Editor as Activist and the Activist as
Editor,” Dolan Hubbard, Morgan State Univ.
2. “With Pens, Buttons, and Signs: The Crisis and the Antilynching
Campaign,” Fumiko Sakashita, Michigan State Univ.
Tuesday, 29 December
New Directions in African American Literacy and Cultural Studies
Presiding: Daylanne K. English, Macalester Coll.
Speakers: Kinitra Brooks, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio; Sharon Patricia
Holland, Duke Univ.; Xiomara A. Santamarina, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor;
Michelle Maria Wright, Northwestern Univ.; Kimberly Blockett, Penn State
Brandywine
Wednesday, 30 December
Reading Race in the Obama Era
Presiding: Habiba Ibrahim, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
1. “New Millennial Primitivisms: Coco Fusco, Suzan Lori Parks, Kara Walker, and
Beyoncé,” Soyica Diggs Colbert, Dartmouth Coll.
2. “The Obama Phenomenon, Race, and Liberalism,” Justin Leroy, New York Univ.
3. “From Ellison to Obama: Dreams of Ultraraciality,” Christopher Powers, Univ.
of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
American Indian Literatures
Sunday, 27 December
Indigenous Literature and the Economics of Indian Country
Program arranged by the Division on American Indian Literatures
1. “At a Crossroads: Poverty, Property, and Indigenous Economies,” Simon J.
Ortiz, Arizona State Univ.
2. “Economies in From Sand Creek,” Robert Warrior, Univ. of Illinois,
Urbana
3. “Economic Imperialism and Indigenous Mexico in the Novels of Todd Downing,”
James H. Cox, Univ. of Texas, Austin
Monday, 28 December
Languages in American Indian Literature
Program arranged by the Division on American Indian Literatures
Presiding: Margaret A. Noori, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1. “Stories within Stories: Context, Process, and Collaboration in the Creation
of ‘Stories of the Turtle Island Liars’ Club,’” Christopher B. Teuton, Univ. of
Denver
2. “Oshknishinaabezhibiigejig / New Anishinaabe Writers and Why We Need Them,”
Janis Fairbanks, Michigan State Univ.
3. “Nonindigenous Educators and the Indigenous Literary Text: Interpreting
Literature Written in Canada by Writers of Cree Ancestry,” Joanie Crandall,
Univ. of Saskatchewan
Tuesday, 29 December
American Indian Literature and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Program arranged by the Division on American Indian Literatures
Presiding: Stephanie J. Fitzgerald, Univ. of Kansas
1. “Telling the Understory: Gathering Moss with Robin Wall Kimmerer,” Linda
Lizut Helstern, North Dakota State Univ.
2. “Anishinabe Ecology in Louise Erdrich’s Master Butcher’s Singing Club,”
Channette Romero, Univ. of Georgia
3. “For the Sake of the Land: Simon Ortiz and the Ethics of Nuclear Mining,”
Marie Satya McDonough, Univ. of Chicago
Asian American Literature
Sunday, 27 December
Law and/in Asian American Literature
Presiding: Kandice Chuh, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
1. “Ethics and Political Violence,” Sze Wei Ang, Univ. of California, Los
Angeles
2. “Untying ‘Nots’ in the Black-White Binary: Reading Double Negation and Asian
Racialization in Ozawa (1922) and Thind (1923),” Allan Isaac,
Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
3. “‘She Kept Up Her Sense of Emergency Every Moment’: Rethinking the Law in
Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men,” Jutta M. Gsoels-Lorensen, Penn State
Univ., Altoona
Monday, 28 December
Theorizing Asian American Fiction: A Modern Fiction Studies
Special-Issue Spotlight
Presiding: Paul Y. Lai, Univ. of Saint Thomas, MN
1. “Collaboration and Translation: Lin Yutang and the Archive of Asian American
Literature,” Richard Jean So, Williams Coll.
2. “Theorizing the Hyphen’s Afterlife in Post-Tiananmen Asian America,” Belinda
Kong, Bowdoin Coll.
3. “Haunted Homelands: Negotiating Locality in ‘Father of the Four Passages,’”
Erin Suzuki, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Tuesday, 29 December
Culinary Fictions: Food in Asian American Literature
Presiding: Anita Mannur, Miami Univ., Oxford
1. “‘A Barrierless Sea’: Cooking as the Trope of Utopian Community in Monique
Truong’s The Book of Salt and the New Sentimentalisms of Race Theory,”
Amrohini Sahay, Hofstra Univ.
2. “‘True Americanness’: Toxic Food and Intoxicating Land in Bich Minh Nguyen’s
Stealing Buddha’s Dinner,” Yanoula Athanassakis, Univ. of California,
Santa Barbara
3. “With Reservations: Consuming Culture and Asian Adoption in Kim Sunée’s
Trail of Crumbs,” Jenny Wills, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.
Chicana and Chicano Literature
Monday, 28 December
The Politics of Language
Presiding: Domino Renee Perez, Univ. of Texas, Austin
1. “Performing Identities and Social Transformation: Caló and Aesthetic
Innovation in Chicana/o Poetry,” Beth Hernandez, Univ. of California, Merced
2. “Tropicalizing the Maghreb: North Africa, the Caribbean, and Hybridity in the
Poetry of Victor Hernández Cruz,” Marisel C. Moreno, Univ. of Notre Dame
3. “‘The Gloss Indeed Destroys the Text’: Exploring the Role of the Glossary in
Latina/o Texts,” Allison E. Fagan, Loyola Univ., Chicago
Tuesday, 29 December
Emergent Chicana/o Literacies and Literary Forms
Presiding: Sheila Marie Contreras, Michigan State Univ.
1. “The Pedagogy of Pictures: Gilbert Hernandez and the Lessons of Iconoclasm,”
William Erwin Orchard, Univ. of Chicago
2. “From Pencils to Pixels: Lorna Dee Cervantes’s Online Presence and the
Innovation of Literary Form,” Erin Hurt, Univ. of Texas, Austin
3. “Mucha Michele Serros: A Chicana Role Model in Cyberspace,” Crystal M. Kurzen,
Univ. of Texas, Austin
4. “Reading the Unpublished: Virtual Presses and Their Role in the Chicana/o
Literary Field,” Manuel M. Martin-Rodriguez, Univ. of California, Merced
Tuesday, 29 December
Latinas/os and the Practices of
Citizenship
Presiding: Marissa K. Lopez, Univ. of California, Los
Angeles
1. “Before and after the Gringo Came: Mexican American Masculinity and the New
California Literary History,” Alberto Varon, Univ. of Texas, Austin
2. “Idealistic Assimilation and Empty Hope in Luis Rodriguez’s Always
Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.,” Lou Freitas Caton, Westfield
State Coll.
3. “‘Where You From?’: Neighborhood Violence, Coming of Age, and Identity
Formation of Immigrant Youth,” Jennifer Rudolph, Colby Coll.
