Thursday, 06 January Literature, Wars, and the American Body Presiding: Paul Y. Lai, U
of Saint Thomas
1. “The Body under Siege: The Affective Legacy of War in Chang-Rae
Lee’s The Surrendered,” Susan Muchshima Moynihan, U at Buffalo,
State U of New York
2. “The Premilitarized Black Body, the Korean War, and Afro-Orientalism
in Clarence Adams’s An American Dream,” Daniel Young-Hoon Kim, Brown
U
3. “Photographing Ghosts, Memorializing the Body: lê thi diem thúy and
the Traumatic Representation of Viet Nam,” Adrian Khactu, U of
Pennsylvania
Saturday, 08 January
The Archive and the Aesthetic: Methodologies of American Literary
Studies Presiding: Elizabeth
Maddock Dillon, Northeastern U
1. “Archive Anxieties and Print Culture,” Nancy Glazener, U of
Pittsburgh
2. “The New New Historicism: Electronic Archives and Aesthetic
Judgment,” Maurice Sherwood Lee, Boston U
3. “Historical Oversights: Ambivalence and Judgment in the Age of
Archival Reproducibility,” John Funchion, U of Miami
American Literature Divisions
American Literature to 1800 Thursday, 06 January New Directions in Early American
Studies Presiding: Michelle Burnham,
Santa Clara U
Speakers: Matt Cohen, U of Texas, Austin; Jennifer Rae Greeson,
U of Virginia; Tamara Maureen Harvey, George Mason U; Eric
Slauter, U of Chicago; Elisa Tamarkin, U of California, Berkeley
This session will bring together five authors, working in the field of
early American and antebellum US cultural and literary studies, whose
important first books have recently appeared in print. They will share
their work and discuss the state of the field in brief presentations.
Saturday, 08 January Modes of Truth in the Early Modern
Atlantic World Presiding: Susan Scott
Parrish, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1. “Avouch, Beseem, and Certify: Truth, a Verb in Early Modern Atlantic
Writing,” Henry S. Turner, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
2. “Land, Labor, and Genre in the Early Modern English Caribbean,” Kim
Felicia Hall, Barnard College
3. “Evidence of Grace: A Transatlantic Science for the Soul,” Sarah
Rivett, Princeton U
Nineteenth-Century American
Literature Friday, 07 January Picturing Literature: Visualizing
Nineteenth-Century Texts Presiding: Rafia Zafar,
Washington U in St. Louis
1. “Democratizing Images: Life Pictures Douglass in 1968,” Julia
Faisst, Giessen U
2. “The Eastern Schoolmarm and National Destiny in Screen Versions of
Wister’s The Virginian,” R. Barton Palmer, Clemson U
3. “Rockwell Kent’s Illustrations for Moby-Dick,” Angela Miller,
Washington U in St. Louis
Saturday, 08 January Literature and Economic Crisis Presiding: Samuel Otter,
U of California, Berkeley
1. “Downturn: Catharine Sedgwick, National Finance, and the Limits of
Sentiment,” María Carla Sánchez, U of North Carolina, Greensboro
2. “Money, Jews, and Anxiety in Antebellum Sensationalism,” David John
Anthony, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale
3. “The Failure of Walden,” Gavin Jones, Stanford U
Saturday, 08 January The Global American South in the
Nineteenth Century Presiding: Lloyd P. Pratt,
Michigan State U
1. “An Archaeology of Slave Management: From ‘The State of War
Continued’ to ‘No More Beautiful Picture of Human Society,’” Richard A.
Garner, U at Buffalo, State U of New York
2. “An Englishwoman in the South: The Global Politics of Race in Fanny
Kemble’s American Journals,” Sarah Lahey, Northwestern U
3. “‘Too-Wit’: Poe’s Southern Political Aesthetic in Latin America,”
Matthew Sandler, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge
Sunday, 09 January Stowe and Critical Memory Presiding: Anna C. Brickhouse,
U of Virginia
1. “Textual, Cultural, and Theoretical: Reviewing Stowe Scholarship at
a Bicentennial Moment,” Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Texas Christian U
2. “‘An Eliza’: Mary King, ‘Miscegenation,’ and Fugitivity,” Brigitte
Fielder, Cornell U
3. “‘A Manly Heart’: The Heroism of Stowe’s Uncle Tom,” Adena Spingarn,
Harvard U
4. “Uncle Tom and the Critics: From Feminism to Transnationalism and
Beyond,” David S. Reynolds, Graduate Center, City U of New York
Late-Nineteenth- and
Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature Friday, 07 January Critical Commandments Presiding: Jane F.
Thrailkill, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1. “Everything’s a Text,” Walter Benn Michaels, U of Illinois,
Chicago
2. “No Jargon,” Wai Chee Dimock, Yale U
3. “Death of the Author,” Brenda Wineapple, Graduate Center, City U
of New York
4. “Always Historicize!” Jennifer L. Fleissner, Indiana U,
Bloomington
Saturday, 08 January American Sustainability Presiding: Gordon N. Hutner,
U of Illinois, Urbana
1. “How to Tell a Southern Flood Story, 1927–39,” Susan Scott Parrish,
U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2. “Sustainable Aesthetics and American Petro-modernism,” Stephanie
LeMenager, U of California, Santa Barbara
3. “Child’s Play and Disease in Rivers and Ravines: The Formation of a
Movement and a Nation,” Barbara J. Eckstein, U of Iowa
Sunday, 09 January Varieties of (Alternative) Religious
Experience Presiding: Stephanie Foote,
U of Illinois, Urbana
1. “‘An Inflated Little Figure’: The Uncanny Politics of Spiritualism
in Henry James,” Lindsay Reckson, Princeton U
2. “The Potential of Ecstasy: Race, Pentecostalism, and Psychology at
the Turn of the Century,” Rebekah Trollinger, Indiana U, Bloomington
3. “‘It Might Be the Death of You’: Chesnutt’s Conjure and Hurston’s
Voodoo,” Matthew A. Taylor, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Twentieth-Century American
Literature Friday, 07 January A Poetics of Intimacy, Liminality, and
Black Masculinity: Afaa M. Weaver at 60 Presiding: Evie Shockley,
Rutgers U, New Brunswick
1. “Liminal Poetics: Questions of Place and Identity in Afaa M.
Weaver’s My Father’s Geography,” GerShun Avilez, Yale U
2. “With His Sleeves Rolled Up: Afaa Michael Weaver’s Redefinition of
the Black Male in Talisman,” Randall Horton, U of New Haven
3. “A Truce with Intimacy: The Ten Lights of God by Afaa Michael
Weaver,” Ruth Ellen Kocher, U of Colorado, Boulder
Friday, 07 January Narrative and Intellectual Disability Presiding: Rachel Adams,
Columbia U
1. “The Human Spectrum: Speculative Fiction and Autism,” Robert Spirko,
U of Tennessee, Knoxville
2. “Fruitcake Weather: Encountering Disability and Queerness in Truman
Capote’s ‘A Christmas Memory,’” Scott St. Pierre, Montgomery College,
Rockville, MD
3. “Disabled Narrative,” Michael Bérubé, Penn State U, University
Park
Saturday, 08 January Regulating Culture: Constitutional
Rights and Norms Presiding: Caleb Smith, Yale
U
1. “Bad Tendencies: American Modernism and the First Amendment,” Peter
Mallios, U of Maryland, College Park
2. “Supreme Court Jurisprudence, Fictional Jurisgenesis,” Margaret Hunt
Gram, Harvard U
3. “Novels for Hire: A Regulatory Approach to the Growing Problem of
Hybrid Speech,” Zahr Said Stauffer, U of Virginia
Black American Literature and
Culture Thursday, 06 January African American Studies in the
Postrace Era Presiding: Michele Elam,
Stanford U
Speakers: Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Spelman College; Gene Andrew
Jarrett, Boston U.; Meta DuEwa Jones, U of Texas, Austin;
Deborah McDowell, U of Virginia
Directors of African American studies programs at a range of US
colleges and universities will discuss the state of the field today,
given the current economic crisis and other institutional realities it
faces.
Thursday, 06 January Is There a Crisis in Black Research
Publishing? Presiding: Joycelyn K. Moody,
U of Texas, San Antonio
Speakers: Erica Ball, California State U, Fullerton
Daylanne K. English, Macalester Coll.
Martha J. Cutter, U of Connecticut, Storrs
Anna Everett, U of California, Santa Barbara
David Serlin, U of California, San Diego
Curtis Frank Márez, U of California, San Diego
Michael T. Martin, Indiana U, Bloomington
This collaborative roundtable speaks to the economic impact on journal
publishing as well as to the particular devastation the European
Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) journal ranking stands to
wreak on African American(ist) scholarship, given US institutional and
academic xenophobia.
Saturday, 08 January African American Literature on the
Pacific Rim Presiding: Daylanne K.
English, Macalester College
1. “The Black Man’s Burden: African American Writing and the
Pacification of the Philippines,” John Cullen Gruesser, Kean U
2. “The Transpacific Horizons of Black Political and Cultural
Modernisms: Reviewing the Color-Line Thesis,” Vincent Schleitwiler,
Williams College
3. “Los Angeles as Fault Line in Chester Himes’s If He Hollers Let Him
Go,” Patricia Burns, U of Texas, Austin
American Indian Literatures Friday, 07 January American Indian Film Presiding: Channette Romero,
Univ. of Georgia
1. “The Social Geography of Sherman Alexie’s The Business of Fancy
Dancing,” Matthew Herman, Montana State U, Bozeman
2. “Marketing Authenticity: ‘Real Indians’ as Coming Attractions in
Contemporary Hollywood,” Becca Gercken, U of Minnesota, Morris
3. “Defining a Diné Tribal Film Aesthetic,” Jeff Berglund, Northern
Arizona U
Saturday, 08 January Literary Representations and
Indigenous Migrations en las Américas Presiding: Sheila Marie
Contreras, Michigan State Univ.
1. “Crossing Borders in Anita Endrezze’s Throwing Fire at the Sun,
Water at the Moon,” Channette Romero, U of Georgia
2. “Imagined Nations and Indigenous Crossing in Chicana Literature,”
Lydia French, U of Texas, Austin
3. “Cherokee Aztlán: Imagining Mexico in the Cherokee Nation’s Struggle
for Sovereignty,” Sean Teuton, U of Wisconsin, Madison
Saturday, 08 January Genre and Style in Endangered Language
Revitalization Presiding: Margaret A. Noori,
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1. “Genre and Aesthetics in Anishinaabemowin Personal Narratives,”
Stephanie J. Fitzgerald, U of Kansas
2. “The Role of Dual-Language Picture Books in Canadian Indigenous
Language Revitalization,” Joanie Crandall, U of Saskatchewan
3. “The Poetry of Popular Lyrics Translated into Anishinaabemowin,”
Michael Zimmerman, Lake Michigan Community College, MI
Sunday, 09 January N. Scott Momaday: Man Made of Words Presiding: A. LaVonne Brown
Ruoff, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
1. “Charting a Way: The Balance of Oral and Graphic Communication in
the Writings of N. Scott Momaday,” Christopher B. Teuton, U of
Denver
2. “Making Do: Survival Ceremonies in a Hostile World,” Kenneth
Morrison Roemer, U of Texas, Arlington
3. “International Man of Mystery: The Enduring Influence of N. Scott
Momaday,” Jace Weaver, U of Georgia
Asian American Literature Friday, 07 January Asian American Cityscapes Presiding: Tina Yih-Ting Chen,
Penn State U, University Park
1. “Cityscapes: The Asian American Ghetto,” Yoonmee Chang, George Mason
U
2. “Global South in the Global City: Magical Realist Mapping of Social
Ecology in Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita,” Xiaojing Zhou, U of the Pacific
3. “‘A New Mappa Mundi’: Transnational Cityscapes in South Asian
American Art,” Rajender Kaur, William Paterson U
Saturday, 08 January Teaching Asian American Literatures Presiding: Kandice Chuh, U
of Maryland, College Park
1. “Teaching Asian American Graphic Narratives in a ‘Post-Race’ Era,”
Caroline Kyungah Hong, Queens Coll., City U of New York
2. “Linking Words and Histories: Teaching South Asian and Arab American
Literature after 9/11,” Anantha Sudhakar, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
3. “When Words Aren’t Enough: Race, Reparations, and Interracial
Justice,” Lynn M. Itagaki, Ohio State, Columbus
4. “Introducing the Field,” Wen Jin, Columbia U
Sunday, 09 January Writing Human Rights: Asian American
Contexts Presiding: Anita Mannur,
Miami U, Oxford
1. “Cold War Human Rights: Le Ly Hayslip’s When Heaven and Earth
Changed Places,” Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, U of Connecticut, Storrs
2. “Come Almost Home: Human Rights and the Minor Subjects of Asian
American Literature,” Crystal A. Parikh, New York U
3. “Who’s Helping Whom? Satirizing International Relief Efforts in Tony
D’Souza’s Whiteman,” Stephen Sohn, Stanford U
Chicana and Chicano Literature Thursday, 06 January Hemispheric Approaches to Chicana and
Chicano Studies Presiding: John M. González,
U of Texas, Austin
1. “Reinventing Mexican America: The Narrative of Chicano/a Hemispheric
History,” Jesse Alemán, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. “The ‘Other’ Novel of the Mexican Revolution: Local Conflicts and
Hemispheric Critique in Early Twentieth-Century Mexican American
Narratives,” Yolanda Padilla, U of Pennsylvania
3. “The (Un)Rest of the Story: Imagination and Hemispheric Time,” Kevin
Thomas Concannon, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi
Saturday, 08 January Literary Representations and
Indigenous Migrations en las Américas Presiding: Sheila Marie
Contreras, Michigan State U
1. “Crossing Borders in Anita Endrezze’s Throwing Fire at the Sun,
Water at the Moon,” Channette Romero, U of Georgia
2. “Imagined Nations and Indigenous Crossing in Chicana Literature,”
Lydia French, U of Texas, Austin
3. “Cherokee Aztlán: Imagining Mexico in the Cherokee Nation’s Struggle
for Sovereignty,” Sean Teuton, U of Wisconsin, Madison
Sunday, 09 January The Future of Chicana and Chicano
Literary Studies Presiding:
Domino Renee Perez, U of Texas, Austin
1. “From Luxury to Heartache: El Plan de Santa Bárbara at Forty,”
Aureliano DeSoto, Metropolitan State U
2. “The Utopia of America: Migration, Mestizaje, and Radical Latina/o
Visions,” Stephen Park, U of Southern California
3. “What to Call the First Latino Novel: Hemispheric, Native, or None
of the Above?” Kirsten Silva Gruesz, U of California, Santa Cruz
