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38th annual

2010

The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900

February 18- 20

Keynote Speakers Special Guest Speakers

Michael Davidson Mary Jo BangHelena María Viramontes Rita FelskiJacobo Sefamí

University of Louisville

The Louisville Conference: On Literature & Culture since 1900

invites you to an informal

Reception free to all conferees,

(with conference badge)

WHEN: Thursday Evening, 6:15 - 7:30 pm(following the critical keynote speaker)

WHERE: Red Barn (Located Near the Clock Tower)

WHAT: Pizza & Jazz

WHO: Jamey Aebersold & his Jazz Quartet

(School of Music, University of Louisville

)

We are honored to have perform for us the internationally known saxophonistand authority on jazz education and improvisation Jamey Aebersold, who is a

recipient of the 2007 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award

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Sponsored by

The University of LouisvillePresident: James R. Ramsey

Provost: Shirley C. Willihnganz

College of Arts and Sciences Dean: J. Blaine Hudson

Department of Classical and Modern Languages Chair: Augustus Mastri

Department of EnglishChair: Susan M. Griffin

Commonwealth Center for Humanities and SocietyDirector: Thomas Byers

English Graduate OrganizationThe EGO Executive Committee

Luncheon Committee

Latin American and Latino Studies ProgramDirector: Rhonda Buchanan

The Conference Committee gratefully acknowledges the cooperation and assistance of the following: Brian J. Leung,University of Louisville; Heather Slomski, Axton Fellow; the staff of University of Louisville campus bookstore; thestaff in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and English Department; and all University personnelwho “go beyond the call” to ensure the success of the Conference.

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General Plan of Activities The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 18-20, 2010

Thursday, February 18 Eastern Standard Time Registration, Bingham Humanities Bldg., Room 300 10:00 am 4:00 pm

Opening Presentation, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 11:30 am 12:30 pmMary Jo Bang, Washington University, St. Louis “Poetry Reading”

Sectional Meetings A 1:30 pm 3:00 pm Sectional Meetings B 3:15 pm 4:45 pmKeynote Presentation (critical) Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 5:00 pm 6:00 pm

Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego “‘Closed in Glass’: Oppen’s Class Spectacles” Welcome Reception, Red Barn, UofL Campus 6:15 pm 7:30 pm

Jamey Aebersold and his Jazz Quartet, School of Music, UofL

Friday, February 19Registration continues in Bingham Humanities Room 300 8:00 am 4:00 pm Sectional Meetings C 9:00 am 10:30 amSectional Meetings D 10:45 am 12:15 pm Calvino Prize Winner, Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room 11:00 am 12:00 pm Michael Agresta, Austin Texas“Dreamhomes”Pre-arranged group luncheons 12:15 pm 1:15 pm Sectional Meetings E 1:30 pm 3:00 pm Sectional Meetings F 3:15 pm 4:45 pmSpanish Keynote Speaker, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 3:15 pm 4:30 pm

Jacobo Sefamí, University of California, Irvine “Palabras en fuga: Poesía Mexicana en el nuevo milenio”

Keynote Presentation (creative) Strickler Hall Auditorium101 5:00 pm 6:00 pmHelena María Viramontes, Cornell University “Cemeteries, Freeways and the Bones of the Forgotten:

How Geography Shaped One Writer's Inspiration” Conference Dinner, Brown Hotel

Reception (cash bar; all conferees welcome) 6:30 pmDinner (reservation required) 8:00 pm

Saturday, February 20Registration continues in Bingham Humanities Room 300 9:15 am 2:45 pmSectional Meetings G 10:15 am 11:45 amLunch break; pre-ordered boxed lunches Room 300 12 noonSpecial Performance, (Room 205 Humanities Bldg) 12:15 12:45 pm

Sasha Colby, Simon Fraser University Surrey, CanadaSectional Meetings H 1:00 am 2:30pmSectional Meetings I 2:45 pm 4:15 pmClosing Presentation, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 4:30 pm 5:30 pm

Rita Felski, University of Virginia "The Demon of Interpretation"

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Registration InformationThe Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900Thursday, Friday, Saturday - February 19-21

The Conference is held on the main (Belknap) campus of the University of Louisville, Third and EasternParkway, Louisville, Kentucky (from Interstate 65 via Exit 133).

The Seelbach Hilton, 500 Fourth Avenue (at Muhammed Ali) has been designated as the Conference hotel(tel. 800-333-3399; 502-585-3200). The hotel provides an airport shuttle. The Conference will providetransportation between the Seelbach and the University at regular intervals. See back pages of this programfor the hotel-campus-hotel bus schedule.

All times shown are Eastern Standard Time.

Registration is required of all participants listed in the program. Registration packets and badges will beavailable in Room 300, Bingham Humanities Building. University of Louisville faculty and students areasked to sign in. The general public is invited to hear the guest speakers.

A courtesy coat check will be provided on the 3 floor of the Humanities Building, Room 300. The coatrd

check will close at 5:00 pm Thursday, 5:00 pm on Friday, and 5:30 pm on Saturday. Refreshments will beserved in the registration area on Thursday from10 am - 2:00, on Friday 8:15 - 2:00, and on Saturday from9:15 - 2:00. A message board for the use of conference participants will be located outside Room 300. Pleaseconsult the board regularly for notice of last-minute program changes.

Sectional meetings will be held in the classrooms of Bingham Humanities Building. Creative presentationswill be given in Room 202 Bingham Humanities Building. Details of date, time and place for the KeynoteSpeakers and Special Guest are printed in the program.

All meeting rooms are accessible to the handicapped.

Book vendors will display publications for sale on the second floor of the Bingham Humanities Building. Aselection of the Keynote Speakers’ and Special Guests’ books will also be offered for sale at the University ofLouisville bookstore.

See the back pages of this program for an index of chairs and presenters, a basic map of the campus, a shuttlebus schedule, a list of dining facilities on campus. Flyers announcing Louisville-area events and attractionswill be available in the registration area. The Louisville Convention and Visitor Bureau can provideinformation on local cultural events, entertainment, and lodging: Telephone 1(800) 626-5646. Web site: www.gotolouisville.com

Conference evaluation forms are available in room 300. Please complete one before leaving. You maydeposit the form in the box in Bingham 300 or mail it in to us. Your comments will help us plan for nextyear.

Corrections and addenda to the program will be available in room 300 and posted on the notice board. Please check the notice board often for last-minute changes.

For further conference information, FAX (502) 852-8885, or e-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

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Keynote Speakers

Michael Davidson Thursday, February 18, 5:00 pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the authorof The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge U Press, 1989), GhostlierDemarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material W ord (U of California Press, 1997), and Guys Like Us: C itingMasculinity in Cold W ar Poetics (U of Chicago Press, 2003). He has written extensively on disability issues, and hismost recent book is Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (U of Michigan Press, 2008). Heis the editor of the widely acclaimed New Collected Poems of George Oppen (New Directions, 2002), and the authorof eight books of poetry, the most recent of which is The Arcades (O Books, 1998). With Lyn Hejinian, BarrettWatten, and Ron Silliman, he co-authored Leningrad (Mercury House Press, 1991). His forthcoming critical work,Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics, will be published in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press.

Helena María Viramontes Friday, February 19, 5:00 pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories (1985) and Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), anovel. Her most recent novel, Their Dogs Came with Them , just published in paperback by Washington Square Press,focuses on the dispossessed, the working poor, the homeless, and the undocumented of East Los Angeles, where Viramonteswas born and raised. Her work strives to recreate the visceral sense of a world virtually unknown to mainstream letters andto transform readers through relentlessly compassionate storytelling. In the 1980s, Viramontes became co-coordinator ofthe Los Angeles Latino Writers Association and literary editor of XhistmeArte Magazine. Later in the decade, Viramonteshelped found Southern California Latino Writers and Filmmakers. In collaboration with feminist scholar Maria HerreraSobek, she organized three major conferences at UC-Irvine, resulting in two anthologies: Chicana C reativ ity andC riticism-Charting New Frontiers in American Literature (1988) and Chicana W rites: On W ord and Film (1993).Viramontes' work has been included in nearly every anthology of American literature published in the last ten years,including, most recently, The Norton Anthology of Literature by W omen. Named a USA Ford Fellow in Literature for2007 by United States Artists, she has also received the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, a Sundance InstituteFellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Luis Leal Award. A teacher and mentor to countlessyoung writers, Viramontes is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Cornell University

Spanish Keynote

Jacobo Sefamí Friday, February 19, 3:15 pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Jacobo Sefamí, from Mexico City, has taught at New York University, and is currently Professor of Spanish at theUniversity of California, Irvine. He is also the Director of the Summer Spanish School at Middlebury College. Sefamíis Associate Editor of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, and has published articles, notes, and reviews, in many differentjournals. His books include: El destierro apacible y otros ensayos (1987), Contemporary Spanish American Poets (1992),El espejo trizado: la poesía de Gonzalo Rojas (1992), De la imaginación poética (1996), Medusario : Muestra de poesíalatinoamericana (co-editor, 1996), La voracidad grafómana: José Kozer (editor, 2002), and Vaquitas pintadas, an anthologyof texts related to the cow (2004). He has also published a novel, Los dolientes (2004).

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Special Guest PresentersOpening Presentation Mary Jo Bang Thursday, February 18, 11:30 am -12:30 pm, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium

Professor of English at Washington University, where she teaches creative writing and contemporary literature, Mary JoBang holds a B.A. and M.A. in sociology from Northwestern University, a B.A. in photography from the Polytechnic ofCentral London, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University. She is the author of six books of poems.Her first book, Apology for W ant (University Press of New England, 1997), won the 1996 Bakeless Prize and the 1998Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award; it was cited as one of the National Book Critics Circle's NotableBooks in 1997. Her second book, Louise in Love (Grove Press, 2001), won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay diCastagnola Award for a manuscript-in-progress. Subsequent books include The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans(University Press of Georgia, 2001), chosen by Mark Strand for the University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series;The Eye Like a S trange Balloon (Grove Press, 2004); and Elegy (Graywolf, 2007), which received both the Alice Fay diCastagnola Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book, The Bride of E, appeared fromGraywolf in fall 2009. She is currently at work on a translation of the Inferno . She was the poetry co-editor at BostonReview from 1995 to 2005; her numerous awards include a "Discovery"/The Nation award, a Pushcart Prize, a HodderFellowship from Princeton University and a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation

Closing Presentation

Rita Felski Saturday, February 21, 4:30 - 5:30 pm, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium

Rita Felski is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and editor of New Literary History. She holds a B.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from Monash University in Australia. Professor Felski is theauthor of Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change (Harvard UP, 1989), The Gender o fModernity (Harvard UP, 1995), Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture (New York UP, 2000), Literatureafter Feminism (Chicago UP, 2003), and Uses of Literature (Blackwell, 2008), and editor of Rethinking Tragedy (JohnsHopkins UP, 2007). She has published numerous articles in the areas of literary theory and aesthetics, feminist theory,modernity and postmodernity, and cultural studies, and her work has been translated into nine languages. Felski describesher recent manifesto on "The Uses of Literature" as a "neo-phenomenological investigation of aesthetic experiences suchas recognition, enchantment, and shock." She is currently writing a book on the role of suspicious reading in literarystudies. Honors include a fellowship at the Cornell Society for the Humanities, a fellowship at the Institute of HumanSciences in Vienna and the William Parker Riley Prize for best article in PMLA .

Calvino Prize Winner

Michael Agresta Friday, February 19, 11 am, Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room

Michael Agresta has work published or forthcoming in Boston Review, Conjunctions, DIAGRAM, Barrow Street,Painted Bride Quarterly, Cimarron Review, and others. His story "After the Party" was a finalist for the 2009DIAGRAM $5 Innovative Fiction Prize. His "Mugger and Mouse Get Married" was recognized as a notable story inthe 2008 storySouth Million Writers Award contest. He holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers inAustin, Texas, where he lives and works as a freelance journalist and editor.

Featured Performance

Sasha Colby, “Women of the Pound Era” Saturday, February 20, 12:15 12:45pm, Room 205

Sasha Colby is an academic and performer at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Her recent book,Stratified Modernism: the Poetics of Excavation from Gautier to Olson (Peter Lang, 2009), traces the relationship ofmodernist poetics and archaeology in the period 1850-1950. She has performed monologues and plays about modernistliterary history in Canada, Europe, the United States, Mexico, and has been invited to stage a series of performances inJapan in fall of 2010.

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Daily Schedule of Meetings and Events

REGISTRATIONThursday - 10 am - 4 pm Bingham Humanities Building, Room 300Friday 8 am - 4 pmSaturday 9:15 - 2:45 pm

Please check in and pick up your conference envelope.You will find a print-out of recent revisions to the program and conference evaluation sheets.Please check daily for last-minute postings.

OPENING PRESENTATIONThursday, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Mary Jo Bang, Washington University “Poetry Reading”

Introduced by Derek Mong, English Department, University of Louisville

CRITICAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Thursday, 5 - 6 p.m. Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego“‘Closed in Glass’: Oppen’s Class Spectacles” Introduced by Alan Golding, English Department, University of Louisville

WELCOME RECEPTION/PIZZA PARTY with Jamey Aebersold and his quartet

Thursday, 6:15 - 7:30 p.m.. Red BarnFree to all Conferees Admission by conference badge/identification

Friday, 11 a.m. Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry RoomCalvino Prize Winner, Michael Agresta, "Dreamhomes".

Introduced by Paul Griner, English Department, University of Louisville

PRE-ARRANGED LUNCHEONS

Friday, 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.

(a) The Creative Writers’ Luncheon will be held at the University Club on campus. A reservation is necessary

(b) EGO , English grad student organization, will offer an informal lunch to all visiting Graduate Students. There is no charge, but one must reserve. Held in the Belknap Research Building Room 139 Admission by Conference badge with appropriate meal ticket dot.

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Daily Schedule of Meetings and Events continued

SPANISH KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONFriday, 3:15 - 4:45 p.m. Ekstrom Library Chao AuditoriumJacobo Sefamí, University of California, Irvine“Palabras en fuga: Poesía mexicana en el nuevo milenio” Introduced by Clare Sullivan Modern Languages Department, University of Louisville

CREATIVE KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONFriday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Strickler Auditorium Room 101Helena María Viramontes, Cornell University “Cemeteries, Freeways and the Bones of the Forgotten: How Geography Shaped One W riter's Inspiration” Introduced by Brian Leung, English Department, University of Louisville

CONFERENCE RECEPTION AND DINNERFriday evening Brown HotelReception, cash bar (all conferees welcome), 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.Dinner, by reservation only, 8:00 p.m.

FEATURED PERFORMANCE Room 205Saturday, 12:15 - 12:45 pmSasha Colby, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada “Women of the Pound Era” Introduced by Suzette Henke, University of Louisville

CLOSING PRESENTATIONSaturday, 4:30 p.m. - 5:50 pm Ekstrom Library, Chao AuditoriumRita Felski, University of Virginia "The Demon of Interpretation" Introduced by Suzette Henke, English Department, University of Louisville

First Call for Papers

The 39th Annual

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900

February 24, 25, and 26, 2011

Submission deadline: September 15, 2010(Postmarked)

Guidelines posted on our website in early April - www.thelouisvilleconference.com

Proposals (abstracts) for critical papers may be submitted on any topic that addresses literary works published since1900, and/or their relationship with other arts and disciplines (film, journalism, opera, music, pop culture, painting,architecture, law).

Individual creative submissions (poetry or short fiction) are also encouraged.

For details, or to be put on our mailing list, contact:

Danielle R. Day, Conference Director,

Classical and Modern Languages, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292

(502)852-6686 [email protected]

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Opening Presentation

Ekstrom Library,

Elaine Chao Auditorium

Thursday, 11:30 am-12:30 pm

Mary Jo BangWashington University, St. Louis

“Poetry Reading”

Introduced by

Derek Mong, Axton Fellow,University of Louisville

A-1 Intertextuality as Ethical Intervention Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 101Chair: Nicole Seymour, University of Louisville• Ann Marie Adams, Morehead State University“Does Culture Matter? Aesthetic Ambivalence in Zadie Smith'sOn Beauty”• Dianne Vipond, California State University, Long Beach“John Fowles's Short Fiction: Rhizome and Romance”• Christine A. Rydel, Grand Valley State University “Pawel Huelle's Castorp and the 'Other' German Novel”

A-2 Horror, Race, Gender, Genre Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 103Chair: Daniel C. Mason, Mansfield University• Ann Mattis, Loyola University, Chicago“Gothic Interiority and Servants in Edith Wharton's ABackward Glance and 'The Lady's Maid's Bell'”• James Fairfield, University of Kentucky“The Great American Nightmare: D. W. Griffith and the Birthof the Horror Film”• Renee Barlow, Indiana University, Bloomington“Racial Abjection through Blackness as Boundary in Cather'sMy Antonia”

A-3 Poets and Precursors Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 106Chair: Victoria Brockmeier, State University of New York,Buffalo• Mark Scroggins, Florida Atlantic University“The 'Half-Fabulous Field-Ditcher': Ruskin Pound, GeoffreyHill”• J. P. Craig, University of Tennessee, Knoxville“Susan Howe's Mis-Taken Male Mentors”• Ruth Williams, University of Cincinnati and James Wheeler,

Mississippi State University (co-authors)“Palimpsestually Yours: Illuminating Absence in Sappho and theUrban Landscape”

A-4 Form and Format: Commercial Concerns and American Poetry Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 108Chair: Matthew Biberman, University of Louisville• Staci R. Schoenfeld, Kentucky State University“'Tugging All Day at Perverse Life': An Exploration of TheodoreRoethke's Greenhouse Poems”• Francisco Guevara, University of Iowa"The End of Homo Sacer in Jack Spicer's Publications, FifteenFalse Propositions against God and Book of Magazine Verse”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session.

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A-5 New Geographies: Spaces in/of U.S. Literature and Culturesince Kerouac Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 114Chair: John Lina, University of Louisville• David Need, Duke University“From Epic to Mandala: Kerouac's Turn to the Episodic”• Mindy Boffemmyer, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh“No Direction Home: The Poetics of Displacement in Karen TeiYamashita's Tropic of Orange"• Ken Cooper, State University of New York, Geneseo“Links: Golfing Culture and the Construction of Real Virtuality”

A-6 The Killing Village: It Takes a Village to Destroy UnrulyWomen (Panel prearranged by Megan Musgrave, Indiana University) Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 209Chair: Megan Musgrave, Indiana University• Megan Musgrave, Indiana University, Purdue University

Indianapolis“Shame, Silence, and Subversion in Maxine Hong Kingston'sThe Woman Warrior”• Judith A. (Judy) Spector, Indiana University, Purdue

University Columbus“It Takes a Suburb to Kill a Woman's Soul”• Lewis Dibble, Indiana University, Purdue University

Columbus“Death and Survival in Toni Morrison's Paradise”• Katherine V. Wills, Indiana University, Purdue University

Columbus“The Village as Gender Cleanser: Uppity Women in NicholasGage's Eleni”

A-7 Jewish Identity across Forms and Decades Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 210Chair: Elizabeth Scheiber, Rider University• Benjamin Schreier, Penn State University“Depression Modernism's Jewish Christ”• Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University“The Politics of Gluttony in Second-Generation HolocaustLiterature”• Matthew Sewell, Minnesota State University, Mankato“'Until They Got the Ballast Right': Angels in America and theAffirmation of Apocalypse”

A-8 James Joyce: Female Authority and Pleasure Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 207Chair: Ted Morrissey, Benedictine University, Springfield• Elisabeth L. Miller, Winona State University“'Make Him Want Me Thats the Only Way': Molly Bloom andthe Pleasure and Power of a Woman's Body”• Jermemy Burgess, University of Louisville“Molly Giveth, Molly Taketh Away: Molly Bloom as AuthorityFigure in James Joyce's Ulysses”• Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Queen's University, Belfast“Ulysses as Lesbian Text”

A-9 Coming of Age: Deconstructing and Reconstructing BlackMasculinity in Literature and Film (Panel prearranged byKadeshia Matthews and Leslie Wingard) Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 215Chair: Kadeshia Matthews, University of New Mexico and LeslieWingard, College of Wooster• Angela Ards, Southern Methodist University“New Black Man: Deconstructing Traditional Notions ofAfrican American Masculinity in Barack Obama's Dreams fromMy Father”• Kadeshia L. Matthews, University of New Mexico“From the 'Hood' to the Yard: Black Masculinity and thePromise of the South in Recent Black Film”• Leslie Wingard, College of Wooster“Opening Up: Sacred/Secular Spaces and Masculinity in ErnestGaines's 'The Sky is Gray' and Michael Roemer's Nothing But AMan”

A-10 Nabokov and The Philosophers (Organized by MarianneCotugno, Nabokov Society)

Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 119Chair: Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee• Andrew Booth, University of New Hampshire“An Infinite Narrative? Perception and Possibility in Nabokov'sPnin”• Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee“Baconian Knowledge and Nabokovian Knowledge”• Zachary Hicks, University of Tennessee“Things That Cannot Be Said: Intersections of Wittgenstein andNabokov”

A-11 John Edgar Wideman I: Rethinking Wideman (Organized byKeith Byerman, John Edgar Wideman Society)

Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 121Chair: Wilfred Samuels, University of Utah• Keith Byerman, Indiana State University“Constructing a Life: Biography and Fiction in the Work of JohnWideman”

A-12 The All Pervasive Influence of Environment Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 109Chair: Brooke Cochran-Weber, University of Louisville• Douglas L. Boudreau, Mercyhurst College“The Acadian Environment in the Novels of Antonine Maillet”• Lisa F. Signori, College of Charleston“Narcissistic Narrative: The Process of Writing and the Creationof Meaning in Amélie Nothomb's Mercure”• Erin E. Edgington, Indiana University, Bloomington“Orlanda de Jacqueline Harpman: apologie de la fusion?”


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A-13 El realismo mágico en América LatinaThursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 219Chair: Rhonda Buchanan, University of Louisville• Luis A. Aguilar-Monsalve, Hanover College“José de la Cuadra frente al realismo mágico y a lo realmaravilloso”• Anna Morlan, Pace University“The Use of Currency as a Transnational Tool in Gabriel GarcíaMárquez's Leaf Storm”• Patricia Bazán-Figueras, Fairleigh Dickinson University“The Evolution of the Female Character in The Novels of PauloCoelho”

A-14 Authors Reading Poetry and FictionThursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 202Chair: Patricia Houston, University of Cincinnati• Robert Manaster, Champaign, IllinoisPoetry• Patricia Houston, University of CincinnatiUnderpinnings (fiction)• Martha Reed, University of Louisiana, Lafayette and Chantel

Langlinais, Texas Christian University and Cindy Childress,Texas Christian University and Rhonda Dean Robison,University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Facebook Poetics (collaborative poetry)• Heather Levy, Western Connecticut State UniversityEven Persephone Is Given Summer (fiction)

Starbucks Coffee in the

Tulip Tree Caféoffering

Coffee, Sandwiches, SaladsLocated in the Ekstrom Library

West Wing

Einstein Bagel Companylst floor

Bingham Humanities Buildingoffering

Coffee, Bagels, Sandwiches, Salads


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B-1 Crossing Boundaries: Poetic Forms and Feminism Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 106Chair: Anna Morlan, Pace University• Lois E. Rubin, Penn State University“Rethinking, Resisting, Reconnecting: The Late Life Poetry ofMaxine Kumin and Linda Pastan”• Gosia Gabrys, Ohio State University, Lima“Disrupting Colonial Discourse(s): 'The Singular, the Exception,and the Gap' in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop and WislawaSzymborska”• Anthony Fife, Clark State Community College“Sizing Each Other Up: Circumnavigating Tension in ClaudiaEmerson's Late Wife”

B-2 Music and Literature: Case StudiesThursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 103Chair: Jeremy Glazier, Ohio Dominican University• John McCombe, University of Dayton“Keeping the Visionary Company: John Lennon and a Neo-Romantic Aesthetic of Indolence”• Jacqueline A. Shadko, Oakland Community College“Tu(r)ning the Key: Metatextual Musicality in the Short Storiesof Charles Baxter”• Dhruba Jyoti Neupane, University of Louisville“Historicization of African American Experience in ToniMorrison's Jazz”

B-3 Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky: Spatial, Indexical andDocumentary Logics Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room 101Chair: Pamela Francis, Rice University• Kristine Danielson, Wayne State University“Poetic Space in Pound's Pisan Cantos: Haecceities, TraumaticBodies, Idealized Realms”• Michael Fournier, Georgia Gwinnet College“Reading 'A' through Zukofsky's Index" • Julius Lobo, Pennsylvania State University“Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky's Documentary Histories ofAmerica”

B-4 Representing 9/11 Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room 215Chair: Benjamin Schreier, Penn State University• Stephanie Youngblood, University of Wisconsin, Madison“Knowing the Enemy: 9/11 and the Ethics of Representation”• Magali Cornier Michael, Duquesne University“The Draw of Narrative in the Face of 9/11: Charles Bernstein's'Some of These Daze'”• Moberley Luger, University of British Columbia“Your Poem Here: Remembering 9/11 on Poetry.com”

B-5 Noir and its Social Contexts: Lessons Learned on the DarkSide of the Street (Panel prearranged by Alison Umminger,University of West Georgia)Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 119Chair: Alison Umminger, University of West Georgia• Alison Umminger, University of West Georgia“Noir and Its Social Contexts: Lessons Learned on the Dark Sideof the Street”• Kirsten L. Geter, University of West Georgia“The Bad Seed of Race: The Hidden Horror of Miscegenation inWilliam March's The Bad Seed”• Shelley L. Decker, University of West Georgia“Just like Nick and Nora: America's Prototype for Marital BlissRevealed”• Trista Edwards, University of West Georgia“Battling for Bi-Gendered Substantiation: Transgressing SociallyConstructed Masculinity in Dorothy B. Hughes's In a LonelyPlace and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club”• Josh Sewell, University of West Georgia“Deconstructing Stereotypes: Exploring Gender Trait Reversal inthe Noir Genre”

B-6 Deconstructing the L Word: Revising and Reviving Lesbiansin Creative Spaces (Panel prearranged by Corby Jaye Roberson,Ball State University)Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 114Chair: James Chambers, Ball State University• James Chambers, Ball State University“The Correct Abject: Female Lesbianism vs. MaleHomosexuality in the Novels of Toni Morrison”• Sarah Sandman, Ball State University“A Manifesto that Keeps Happening: Teacher Identity, StudentIdentity, and a Dance with Performative Pedagogy”

B-7 D. H. Lawrence: Authenticity and IsolationThursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 108Chair: Julianne Newmark, New Mexico Tech• Drew Patrick Shannon, College of Mount St. Joseph“The Priest of Love on a Savage Pilgrimage: Reading theBiographies of D. H. Lawrence”• Adam Barrows, Carleton University“'We Don't Care about Khartoum': Lawrence and the Politics of'Splendid Isolation'”• Chris Forster, University of Virginia“Authentic Copies: The Paintings of D. H. Lawrence”


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B-8 Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Concerns about ReadingThursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 207Chair: Eurie Dahn, College of Saint Rose• Mitch Frye, Louisiana State University“Weary Desperados: Masculine Types in the Westerns of F. ScottFitzgerald”• Eurie Dahn, College of Saint Rose“Race and Faulkner's Faith”• Manuel Herrero-Puertas, University of Wisconsin, Madison“'If My Blues Don't Get You My Jazzing Won't': Narrative Panicand the Blues in William Faulkner's 'That Evening Sun'”

B-9 Crossing Racial and Cultural Borders: Suzan-Lori Parks,Ishmael Reed, and Alice Walker Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 217Chair: Jacqueline E. Brown, University of Louisville• Laura Dawkins, Murray State University“Family Acts: History, Memory, and Performance in Suzan-LoriParks's The America Play”• Stephanie Owen Fleischer, Independent Scholar“'You Put Witchery on the Word': Signifying Women in IshmaelReed's Flight to Canada”• Cheryl R. Hopson, Roanoke College“'They Calls Me Yellow / Like Yellow Be My Name': ReadingSisterhood and Biracialism in Alice Walker's The Color Purple”

B-10 Margaret Atwood (Organized by Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw,Margaret Atwood Society) :

Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room 209Chair: Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of SouthernIndiana• Hannele Kivinen, York University, Canada“Looking forward by Moving Backwards: RevisionaryPsychoanalysis in Selected Poems by Margaret Atwood”• Dibakar Pal, Independent Scholar“Of Pride and Vanity”• Debrah Raschke, Southeastern Missouri University“Canadian Landscape Painting and Atwood's 'Death byLandscape'”

B-11 John Edgar Wideman II: John Wideman's Fanon (Organizedby Keith Byerman, John Edgar Wideman Society)

Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 121Chair: Keith Byerman, Indiana State University• Stephen Casmier, St. Louis University“The Jazz 'Head' and Architectonics in Fanon”• Walton Muyumba, University of North Texas“Art against Terrorism: Ekpharsis in John Edgar Wideman's'Fannon' and Fanon”• Wilfred Samuels, University of Utah“Fanon: Where History Meets Fiction”

B-12 E. E. Cummings and Popular Modernism (Organized byGillian Huang-Tiller, E. E. Cummings Society)

Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 219Chair: Michael Webster, Grand Valley State University• Rai Peterson, Ball State University“E. E. Cummings, Out with the Old, in with the ‘O / L / D’”• Eva María Gómez Jiménez, Universidad de Granada, Spain“The Avant-Garde and Social Linguistics: Minority andMarginalization in Cummings's 95 Poems”• Kaitlin Mondello, Stetson University and Daytona State

College“E. E. Cummings and the Politics of Small-Scale Aesthetics”

B-13 Deleuze/Foucault: Critical Theory (Because of multiplecancellations, the remaining presenter of this panel has beenmoved to Friday, D-3 [Slippery Eels and PostmodernIdentities: Graham Swift, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Auster,and Maurice Blanchot])

B-14 Poesía hispánica Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 221Chair: Mary Makris, University of Louisville• Elizabeth Harmon, University of Cincinnati“Creating National and Personal Identity: Diasporic Memoryand Nostalgia in Pablo Neruda's Canto General”• Elizabeth Amaya, Millikin University“Representaciones sincréticas de la cultura frente a los cambiosde la globalización: La poesía de José Roberto Cea”• Joshua Hamilton, Indiana University“A 'Schizoanalysis' of José Luis Castillejo's Visual Poetry in Lacaída del avión en el terreno baldío”

B-15 Authors Reading Poetry & Fiction Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 202Chair: James Pihakis, University of Cincinnati • Ivan Rodden IV, University of Illinois, ChicagoThis Is How We Will Live, Now That We Are Free (fiction)• Nettie Farris, University of LouisvillePoetry• Greenfield Jones, Louisville, KentuckyRêve Américain (fiction)


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CRITICAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Michael DavidsonUniversity of California, San Diego

“‘Closed in Glass’: Oppen’s Class Spectacles”

Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Thursday, 5:00 - 6:00 pm

Introduced by Alan Golding, English Department,University of Louisville

WELCOME RECEPTION / Pizza Party

with Jamey Aebersold and his jazz quartet

Red BarnThursday, 6:15 - 7:30 pm

University of Louisville, Belknap Campus

Free to all Conferees

Admission by conferencebadge/identification

C-1 From Exploration to "Explornography" (Panel prearranged byCollin Meissner, University of Notre Dame)Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 209Chair: Collin Meissner, University of Notre Dame• Collin Meissner, University of Notre Dame“Explornography: Travel, Adventure, and Thrill Seeking in aGPS World”• Louis Pignatelli, University of Notre Dame“Explornography and Experience: The Vacation of a Lifetime!”• Eugene Halton, Duke University“The End of the Road”

C-2 Exhibitions/s (Panel prearranged by Barrett Watten, WayneState University)Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 207Chair: Barrett Watten, Wayne State University• renée c. hoogland, Wayne State University“Imploding Communion: Actualized Alienation in RinekeDijkstra's 'Family of Man'”• Sarah Ruddy, Wayne State University“Documenting Disappearance: Exhibiting Community in theWork of Nan Goldin”• Barrett Watten, Wayne State University“Berlin Exhibitions: Between Destruction and Community: Tod--Kein Tod, Palast der Republik, 2005"

C-3 Rethinking Cultural Critique: Between Gender andTechnology Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 106Chair: Daniel C. Mason, Mansfield University• Ferdâ Asya, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania“The Fulfillment of the Repressed Anarchist Wish: A FreudianReading of Utopia in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge ofTime”• Katherine Thorpe, University of Iowa“‘To Generate a World': The Poetrics of the Dynamo in MurielRukeyser's 'The Book of the Dead' and Pare Lorentz's The River”• Sarah Kerman, University of Pennsylvania“Speaking from the Dead: Muriel Rukeyser's Radio Oratorio”

C-4 Ways of Making Fiction: Orality, OnomasticsFriday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 121Chair: James Pihakis, University of Cincinnati • Al Dixon, Louisiana State University“Raconteuring Then and Now: Uses of Orality in the SouthernComic Tradition”• Matthew Mullins, University of North Carolina, Greensboro“Individuals in Community: Giving and Naming in JhumpaLahiri's The Namesake”


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C-5 Documenting/Documentary EthicsFriday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 119Chair: Karen Hadley, University of Louisville• Jennifer Jackson, North Central College“'War Is Capital Feeding': The Deliberative Poetics of Powers'sGain and Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story”• Jackie McGrath, College of DuPage“Interrrogation and Transgression by/in Iraq War Fiction andFilm”

C-6 Filming in the Negative: Representing the 'Other' Woman(Panel prearranged by Melissa Fore, Michigan State University)Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 108Chair: Melissa Fore, Michigan State University• Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, West Virginia University“En-Gendering the 'Other': African Film and the Colonial Orderof Things”• Melissa K. Fore, Michigan State University“Negative Bodies: Substitution, Opposition, and Void in VisualRepresentations of Interracial Desire”• H. Louise Davis, SUNY, Empire State College“Only on Our Watch: The Purpose of the African Woman in theWestern Cultural Imaginary”

C-7 New Perspectives on British ModernismsFriday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 210Chair: Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University• Chase Erwin, University of Tennessee“Friends as Enemies, Enemies as Friends: Lewis's Satire as aRhetorical Shibboleth”• Kevin Allton, University of Southern Indiana“Keys to the Marvelous: Lenora Carrington's Stone Door asSurrealist Manifesto”

C-8 Representing Capitalism in Modernity: Arts, Spectacle andProductivityFriday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 114Chair: Christa Zorn, Indiana University Southeast• Carey James Mickalites, University of Memphis“Modernism as Total Reification: Ulysses and the Outmoded”• Benjamin Johnson, University of Central Missouri“The Art of Capitalism in Doctorow's Ragtime”• Jenna Gerds, Wayne State University“Sinclair Lewis's Short Fiction and the Art of the Ad”

C-9 My Own Way of Doing It: African-American WritersDefining Music, Beauty, and Themselves (Panel prearranged byMichelle Filling, Cabrini College) Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 117Chair: Michelle Filling, Cabrini College• Michelle L. Filling, Cabrini College“Fashioning Liberation: Nikki Giovanni as an Icon of Beauty,Radicalism, and Change”• Therese M. Rizzo, University of North Carolina, Pembroke“She Was Too Beautiful for Pity': The Enigmatic Beauty ofPauline Hopkins's Trickster Mulatta in Contending Forces”• Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology“Ralph Ellison, Music, and the Limits of Modernism”• Alexander Long, John Jay College, CUNY“Who Do You Say We Are, Again? The Faultlines of Identity inthe Poems of Dove, Nelson, and Tretheway”

C-10 Healing and Mourning in American Poetry Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 215Chair: Alessandro Porco, State University of New York, Buffalo• Gillian Huang-Tiller, University of Virginia, Wise“'Monsters of Elegy': La Corona, Pararhyme, and Typography ofMourning in Sandra M. Gilbert's 'Belongings'”• Brian L. Jackson, University of Illinois, Springfield“Cubing Mythic Time: The Oracular Feminine Principle inAnne Waldman's 'Fast Speaking Woman'”

C-11 Constructing a Global Ethic: Switzerland, Catalonia, Britain1900-1950

(Organized by Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, Esperantic StudiesFoundation) Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 217Chair: Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville• Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, University of Louisville“Edmond Privat: Homarana embodiment of l'esprit de Genève”• Duncan Charters, Principia College“The Catalan Experience with Esperanto: Opening anInternational Doorway to a Minority Language and Culture”• Humphrey Tonkin, University of Hartford“Constructing a Global Literature: The Emergence of theLiterature of Esperanto”

C-12 From Anti-Novel to New Novel and beyond Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 109Chair: Jenelle Griffin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign• Jennifer Jane Rupert, University of Illinois, Chicago“Disquieting Receptivity in Nadja: André Breton's SurrealEncounters with Men”• Jenelle Griffin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign“Writing on Fire: Destruction and Creation of Space in Butor'sL'Emploi du temps”


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C-13 Cuban and Cuban-American Fiction and Culture Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 219Chair: Aristófanes Cedeño, University of Louisville• Alejandra Olarte, State University of New York, Albany“La presencia de la carta en Livadia'”• Pat Clifford, Cincinnati, Ohio“Cuban Documentaries: Collaborative Works before and afterthe Revolution”• David De Posada, Georgia College & State University“Madness, Escapism and the Exilic Labyrinth: OperaticTransposition in the Works of Roberto G. Fernández”

C-14 New Horizons in the Analysis of Lat-Mex Borderland Film(Panel prearranged by Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio StateUniversity)

Due to a conflict in scheduling, this panel has been movedto I -16 (Saturday 2:45 - 4:15).

C-15 Film and Literature

Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 101Chair: Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross• Philip Balma, University of Connecticut“Debenedetti e Lizzani: la storia al cinema”• Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross“Historia magistra vitae: riflessioni sul cinema di Wilma Labate" • Fulvio Orsitto, University of California, Chico“La trilogia della vita: Pasolini tra cinema e letteratura"

C-16 Authors Reading Poetry and FictionFriday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 202 Chair: Roy Neil Graves, University of Tennessee, Martin• Richard Andrew Boada, Millsaps CollegePost-Soviet Recession (poetry)• Adam Prince, University of Tennessee, KnoxvilleUgly around Him (fiction)• Carrie Coaplen-Anderson, Morehead State UniversitySelections on Sexuality and Aging: Perspectives through aDecade (poetry)• J. T. Dawson, Eastern Illinois UniversityThe Twang of Oranges (fiction)

The Calvino Prize

was created to honor outstanding pieces of fiction in the fabulistexperimentalist mode of Italo Calvino, works that through their

structure, tone, and style expand the boundaries of fiction, ratherthan attempt to imitate his inimitable style.

2009 - 2010 Calvino Prize Winner:

Michael Agresta Austin Texas

DREAMHOMES

Friday, Feb. 19th Ekstrom Library,

Bingham Poetry Room 11 am Introduced by Paul Griner,

English Department, University of Louisville


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D-1 Poetry and the Global Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 108Chair: Suzette Higgs, University of Louisville• Ghanashyam Sharma, University of Louisville“Marilyn Nelson's The Cachoeira Tales as Transcultural 'World'Literature”• Andrew Walser, College of the Albemarle“The Epic Geography of James Merrill's Changing Light atSandover" • Piotr Gwiazda, University of Maryland, Baltimore County“Ether: Juliana Spahr, Mark Nowak, and Poetry in the Age ofEmpire”

D-2 Game, Poetry, Performance: Reading and Writing the Present Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 106Chair: Ivan Rodden IV, University of Illinois, Chicago• William R. Howe, Miami University, Ohio“Michael McClure's Games as Poetry”• Tyrone Williams, Xavier University“Disaster Suites: The Present Poetics of Rob Halpern”• Cris Cheek, Miami University, Ohio“monday morning quarterbacking 'on' and 'off' gods commons”

D-3 Slippery Eels and Postmodern Identities: Graham Swift,Michael Ondaatje, Paul Auster, and Maurice Blanchot Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 119Chair: Hilarie Ashton, New York University• Donald P. Kaczvinsky, Louisiana Tech University“The Riddle of the Birth and Sex Life of the Eel: Intertextualityin Graham Swift's Waterland”• Tim Farrell, University of Alabama, Huntsville“'For Reasons too Complex to Explain with Brevity': ReclaimingTotality in Graham Swift's Waterland”• Scott Pett, Independent Scholar“The Desert and a Common Purpose: The End of Individualityvia National Identity in The English Patient”• Alex E. Blazer, Georgia College & State University“Infinite Interiority in Paul Auster and Maurice Blanchot”• Hilarie Ashton, New York University“Stabat Stella: Stella Dallas and 'Stabat Mater' via FoucauldianTheories of Power”

D-4 Fracturing (Indian) Histories and Bodies Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 207Chair: Karen Hadley, University of Louisville• Doris Bremm, University of Iowa“Retelling History as Palimpsest: Narrative Ekphrasis in SalmanRushdie's Moor's Last Sigh”• Bishnue Ghimire, Ohio University“Liberal Imagination and the Fate of Radical Desire in AttiaHosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column”• Jessamon Jones, Wayne State University, Detroit“Biopower, Globalization and the Organ Trade in ManjulaPadmanabhan's Harvest”

D-5 Virginia Woolf: Presence, and Authority Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 103Chair: Nicole Blair, University of Washington, Tacoma• David Wanczyk, Ohio University“'So They Fidgeted': The Anti-Fascist Twitch of Woolf'sBetween the Acts”• Megan Holt, Tulane University“What's History without the Army, Eh? Virginia Woolf andHistoriography”

D-6 Dissolving "English"ness Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 210Chair: Weihsin Gui, University of California, Riverside• Matthew Oliver, Campbellsville University“Domestic Heroism: Ishiguro's Adventures and the Post-ImperialBritish Imaginary”• David Borman, University of Miami“Raggastani Hybridity and Zadie Smith's White Teeth”• Brian Holcomb, Michigan State University“Re-Membering England: Contemporary England as HistoricalFantasy in E. M. Forster and Julian Barnes”

D-7 Regions of Discontent: Faulkner and Steinbeck Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 217Chair: Ferdâ Asya, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania• Beth Polzin, Binghamton University“Twining 'Passive and Hopeless Grief': The Pervasive Wistaria,Cigar Smoke, and Dust in William Faulkner's Absalom,Absalom!”• Huei-ju Wang, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan“John Steinbeck and His Migrants: From In Dubious Battle toThe Grapes of Wrath”• Scott Henkel, State University of New York, Binghamton "Sedition and Upheaval in The Grapes of Wrath”

D-8 African-American Writing and Music: Analogies andSyntheses Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pmRoom: 114Chair: Dhruba Jyoti Neupane, University of Louisville• Joel Levise, Wayne State University“Directions in Music and Literature: The Multiauthorship ofMiles: The Autobiography”• Alessandro Porco, State University of New York, Buffalo“'I Ain't No Joke': Hip-Hop, Poetry, and Cultural Capital”

D-9 T. S. Eliot I: Myths and Metaphysics: (Organized by WilliamHarmon, T. S. Eliot Society)Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 117Chair: Carol L. Yang, National Chengchi University• Martin Lockerd, Saint Louis University“Modernly Metaphysical: Understanding Eliot's Sensibility”• Kassandra Montag, Creighton University“Reader Collaboration and the Mythical Method in The WasteLand”• William Harmon, UNC, Chapel Hill (Emeritus)“Eliot: Lists, Tallies, Catalogues, Inventories, Paradigmata”


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D-10 Homemade: Eugene O'Neill and Domesticity (Organized byCynthia McCown, Eugene O'Neill Society)

Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 209Chair: Cynthia McCown, Beloit College• E. Andrew Lee, Lee University“Gothic Domesticity in Desire under the Elms”• Katie N. Johnson, Miami University“Domesticity Unplugged: Interracial Desire and Class Differencein All God's Chillun Got Wings”• Patrick Maley, Indiana University“Desire under Dylan: Bob Dylan and O'Neillian DomesticTragedy”• Lydia Abel, Independent Scholar“There Are No Women Here: O'Neill's 'Tarts' and GenderedSpaces in Iceman Cometh and Anna Christie”• Cynthia McCown, Beloit College“At Home at Sea: Domestic Detail in O'Neill's Early MaritimeDramas" (This paper will be presented if time permits)

D-11 Modernism: Center and Circumference (Organized byCharles Sligh, International Lawrence Durrell Society)

Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 215Chair: Charles Sligh, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga• John Murphy, University of Virginia“Pantomime Englishness and Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End”• William Godshalk, University of Cincinnati“Henry Miller's Copy of Lawrence Durrell's Black Book”• Pamela Francis, Rice University“Durrell and the Cairo Poets”

D-12 Cinematic StudiesFriday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 109Chair: Charles Pooser, Indiana University, Southeast• Hollie Markland Harder, Brandeis University“Remapping the Walls of Paris, or Entre les murs as Palimpsest”• Lee E. S. Bessette, University of Kentucky“Becoming a gwo nèg in 1970s Haiti: Dany Laferrière's Coming-of-Age Film Le goût des jeunes filles (On the Verge of Fever)”

D-13 Three Twentieth Century Masters Revisited Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 121Chair: Christa Zorn, Indiana University Southeast• Daniel Morris, Purdue University"Resisting Billy Collins"• Leah Rang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville“'The Lover Was Nearer the Beloved than the Divine':Fraudulent Symbolism in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice”• Enno Lohmeyer, Case Western Reserve University“Die verschlungenen Pfade der menschlichen Seele - HermannHesse und seine Märchen”

D-14 Pirandello and Relative TruthFriday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 101Chair: Fulvio Orsitto, University of California, Chico• Stefano Boselli, Gettysburg College“Pirandello's Cecè: Mulitple Identities and Postmodern StageDirecting”• Mike Edwards, University of Pennsylvania“Luigi Pirandello and the Death of the Author: SuicidalTendencies in Six Characters in Search of an Author”• Marco Zanelli, Middlebury College“Così è (se vi pare) il relativismo della vertià"

D-15 Chicana/o Identities, the Law, and the U.S.-Mexico Border Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 219Chair: Carmen Montañez, Indiana State Univesity• Myrriah Gómez, University of Texas, San Antonio“Las hijas de los hidalgos: The Erasure of Mexican Women'sProperty Rights in the Novel Caballero”• José A. De La Garza Valenzuela, Miami University“Crossing Lines: Knowledge and Education as a Place of CulturalContract in Rigoberto González's Crossing Vines”• Leigh Johnson, University of New Mexico“Domestic Violence Goes Global: Chicanas Writing Allegory”• Jacob Goessling, University of Louisville“'I'm Not a Tourist. . . It's Called Research': Community,Method and Representation in Desert Blood”

D-16 Authors Reading Poetry and FictionFriday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 202Chair: Ryan Trauman, University of Louisville• Megan Spooner, University of Tennessee, ChattanoogaIf I Could Find My Heart (poetry)• S. Morgan, Sahuarita, ArizonaThe Slaughtering (fiction)• Moberley Luger, University of British ColumbiaRagtime for Beginners (poetry)• Paul Vidich, Rutgers University, NewarkPerils of Living (fiction)


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E-1 Absence and Presence in Contemporary U. S. Drama Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 207Chair: Kekoa C. Kaluhiokalani, Muskingum University• Ivan Rodden IV, University of Illinois, Chicago“Gilman's Invisible Menace: Spinning into Butter and theThreat of Specificity”

• Lorah Kristin Combs, Eastern Kentucky University“Gallimard's Act: Performing Masculinity in David HenryHwang's M. Butterfly”• Manda Cochran, West Virginia University“'Tell Me Some More about Justice': Law and Legal Systems inAngels in America”

E-2 Lost and Found in Translation Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 209Chair: Adrienne Royo, Southern Adventist University• Eireene Nealand, University of California, Santa Cruz“Translation of the Lyric in Late Capitalism: Michael Palmerand Alexandr Skidan”• Svetoslav P. Pavlov, Grand Valley State University“Lexical and Syntactical Peculiarities of Pasternak's Translationof Shakespeare”• José Endoença Martins, Uniandrade, Curitiba (PR), Brazil“Double Consciousness and Double Bind: Identities, Traditionand Translation in Alice Walker's Short Story 'Everyday Use'”

E-3 Science of Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 210Chair: Jill LeRoy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University• Joe Plicka, Ohio University“Liquid Technology and Human Code in Microserfs”• Richard Dragan, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY“Vectors of Grace: Reading 'Artful Science' in Pynchon'sAgainst the Day”

E-4 The Poetry of Gutaf Sobin (Panel prearranged by JosephDonahue, Duke University) Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 106 Chair: Joseph Donahue, Duke University• Joseph Donahue, Duke University, Durham“The Isn't that Is: Gustaf Sobin and the Poetics of Negativity”• Robert L. Zamsky, New College of Florida“'Sprinkling the Pages with Blown Phonemes': The Act ofWriting, the Art of Breathing in the Poetry of Gustaf Sobin”

S p a n i s h K e y n o t e P r e s e n t a t i o n

Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium

Friday, 3:15- 4:45 pm

Jacobo Sefamí, University of California, Irvine

P alab r as e n fu g a: P o e sía m e x ican a en e l n u e vo m ile n io

Introduced by Clare Sullivan, University of Louisville

Co-sponsored by: the Latin Am erican and Latino Studies Program , and

The Departm ent of Classical and M odern Languages

E-5 From Postcolonial to Global/Postglobal Studies (Panelprearranged by Alfred López, Purdue University) Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 114 Chair: Alfred López, Purdue University• Alfred J. López, Purdue University“From Postcolonial to Global/Postglobal Studies”• Jason Buchanan, Purdue University“Global Voids: Abyssal Images in Theories of Globalization”• Ekeama Goddard, Purdue University“Caribbean Music Videos: Soca and the Globalization ofCarnival”• S. C. Gooch, Purdue University“Postglobal Tourism in the Favelas of Brazil”

E-6 Characterization in Early Modernist Fiction: Joseph Conrad,James Joyce, and Ford Madox Ford (Panel prearranged byRobert Petersen, Middle Tennessee State University) Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 217Chair: Robert Petersen, Middle Tennessee State University• Will W. Onstott, Middle Tennessee State University“Getting Mother out of the Way: An Exploration of a CentralChapter in Conrad's The Secret Agent as it Relates to aHistorical Literary Departure from the Victorian Mode"”• Summer O'Neal, Middle Tennessee State University“A Portrait of the Artist as a Child: Piaget and CognitiveDevelopment in Young Stephen Dedalus”• Scott McMillan, Volunteer State Community College“'The Proper Man': Defining Masculinity in Ford Madox Ford'sThe Good Soldier”

E-7 Remapping African-American Community Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 119Chair: James B. Peterson, Bucknell University• Ryan D. Stryffeler, Ball State University“Brother from Another Mother: Appropriating 'Otherness' andMasculinity in Wright's Early Short Fiction”• Patricia Brooke, Fontbonne University“'Lovell Take Care of That': Filicide in Suzan-Lori Parks's TheRed Letter Plays”• Brandi Stanton, St. Mary's College, Maryland“Family as Form, or What June Jordan Reveals About thePolitics of Location”

E-8 T. S. Eliot II: Metaphor and Metamorphosis (Organized byWilliam Harmon, T. S. Eliot Society)Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 117Chair: Martin Lockerd, Saint Louis University• Carol L. Yang, National Chengchi University“The Waste Land and the Virtual City”• Stefanie Wortman, University of Missouri“'Inside a Ring of Lights': Eliot's 'Suite Clownesque'”• Stephen Koelz, Providence College“'The Look of Flowers that Are Looked At': Auratic Distanceand Eliot's Eyebeam”


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E-9 Virginia Woolf (Organized by Kristin Czarnecki, TheInternational Virginia Woolf SocietyFriday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 215Chair: Kristin Czarnecki, Georgetown College• Timothy C. Vincent, Duquesne University“Robert Vischer's Einfühlung and Virginia Woolf's VisualAesthetic”• Emily Fridlund, University of Southern California“Simultaneity and Sequence: Narrative Interruptions in VirginiaWoolf's The Years”• Brook Miller, University of Minnesota, Morris“Drive and Perception in the Interludes to The Waves”

E-10 DeLillo I: DeLillo and Drama (Organized by JacquelineZubeck, Don DeLillo Society)

Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 121Chair: Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent• Gisele Manganelli Fernandes, Sao Paulo State University,

Brazil“Valparaiso: A Play in Two Acts and Love-Lies-Bleeding:Reading of Postmodern Instabilities”• Paul Giaimo, Highland Community College“DeLillo, Film, and the Italian American”• Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent“'Exalted Time': DeLillo and His Drama”

E-11 Theater of the Absurd Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 109Chair: Julien Carrière, Bellarmine University• Julien Carrière, Bellarmine University“False Paths: The Search for Meaning in Waiting for Godot”• Edyta K. Oczkowicz, Salem College, Winston-Salem“Thornton Wilder's Sense of the Absurd: 'Infancy' and'Childhood' from The Seven Ages of Man”• Florence Dwyer, Thomas More College“L'indémodable Cantatrice Chauve d'Eugène Ionesco”

E-12 Space, Multiculturalism and Science Fiction in Film andNovel

Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 108Chair: Jacqueline E. Brown, University of Louisville• Andrew DeSelm, Indiana University South Bend“Dystopic Films and the Unexplained Variable”• Lesley C. Pleasant, University of Evansville“Moving Multiculturalism to the Next Level: Andrea Staka'sFräulein and Yilmaz Arslan's Brudermord”• Chinmayi Kattemalavadi, Wayne State University, Detroit“Mapping Space, History, and People: W. G. Sebald's Rings ofSaturn”

E-13 Madness, Mystery, Death Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 101Chair: Philip Balma, University of Connecticut• Daniele Fioretti, University of Wisconsin, Madison

“The Madman in the Factory: Madness and Illness in PaoloVolponi's 'Memoriale'”• Sabrina Ovan, Scripps College

“La morte e l'architettura: Gramsci e Pasolini”• Eleonora Buonocore, Yale University“Dal romanzo d'appendice al giallo: Carolina Invernizio e 'Ninala poliziotta dilettante'"

E-14 Cien años de cultura española

Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 221Chair: Philip Delegal, University of Louisville• Carmen Arranz, Centre College“Nuevas configuraciones del espacio en la modernidad: Carmende Burgos viaja Por Europa”• Elena Aldea Agudo, University of Kentucky“Camisa azul. Tradición y renovación al servicio de lapropaganda del nuevo hombre falangista”• Iria Gonzalez-Liaño, University of Nevada, Las Vegas“Feminismo, sociedad y cultura en la obra de Lucía Etxebarria”• A. David Hitchcock, University of Southern Indiana“Teatro del Astillero's Intolerancia: A Blueprint forSociopolitical Inquiry through Artistic Collaboration”

E-15 Reflexiones en torno a la cultura mexicana Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 219Chair: Michael Waag, Murray State Univesity• Armando Armengol, University of Texas, El Paso“La muerte en la poesía de Jaime Sabines”• Roberto De La Torre, Independent Scholar“Nellie Campobello: del texto literario a la historia de laRevolución”• Pilar Melero, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater“When Passivity Becomes a Virtue: Antonieta Rivas Mercadoand the Negation of Being”

E-16 Authors Reading Poetry and FictionFriday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 202Chair: Greenfield Jones, Louisville, Kentucky• Jerry Bradley, Lamar UniversityThe Importance of Elsewhere (poetry)• Ted Morrissey, Benedictine University, SpringfieldCommunion with the Dead (fiction)• Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Queen's University, BelfastPoetry• Deborah Adelman, College of DuPageFleshing Out the Bones (fiction)


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F-1 Tinker, Terrorist, Husband, Spy: The Wages of Cynicism Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 114Chair: Jennifer Jackson, North Central College• Martyn Colebrook, University of Hull, England“Getting Rich from the Wages of Fear: Australian Literature,Terror and the Cultural Aftermath”• Skip Willman, University of South Dakota“'After the Fall': The Philby Case as Historical Trauma in theFiction of John le Carré”

F-2 Wealth, Poverty, Power: Reflections on the ProfessorialPractices of Authorship and Pedagogy (Panel prearranged byChris Green, Marshall University)Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 108Chair: Chris Green, Marshall University• Chris Green, Marshall University“Beneath the Civic Center: Race, Class, and Poetry inLexington, KY”• Joel Peckham, University of Cincinnati“Everything Must Go: Poetry and Recession in SouthwesternOhio”• Rachael Peckham, Marshall University“Wealth, Poverty, Power: Reflections on the ProfessorialPractices of Authorship and Pedagogy”• Anthony J. Viola, Marshall University“Fiction, Fish Markets, and Tenure (West Virginia and NewJersey)”

F-3 Postcolonial Readings of William Faulkner (Panel prearrangedby Andrew Strombeck, Wright State University) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 106Chair: Andrew Strombeck, Wright State University• Aja Ash, Wright State University“Crossing Boundaries: William Faulkner and PostcolonialIdentity”• Joshua Moody, Wright State University“Haints in the Head: Primal Interpellation and the Quest for thePostcolonial Self in William Faulkner”• Daniel Dale, Wright State University“The Trauma of the Real Body: The Deconstruction of MentalHierarchies in Faulkner's Sanctuary”

F-4 Boundary Crossing: Contemporary Poetic Hybridities (Panelprearranged by Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 117Chair: Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa• Lynn Keller, University of Wisconsin, Madison“Becoming Animal? Paul Muldoon's Horse Latitudes”• Linda Kinnahan, Duquense University“Caroline Bergvall's Hybrid Encounters with the Dolls of HansBellmer”• Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa“‘We Have Never Had a Mind of Our Own': The Poetics of theIntegrated Circuit”

F-5 Dramatizing Espionage, Censorship, and Propaganda: Buchan,Hitchcock, Sorescu, and LukácsFriday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 119Chair: A. David Hitchcock, University of Southern Indiana• Susan Lidgate Mace, University of California, Berkeley“'Steppin' The Thirty-Nine Steps: Buchan's Fiction asHitchcock's Film”• Raluca Markow, University of Alabama, Huntsville“Cultural and Literary Paradigms in Marin Sorescu'sDramaturgy”• Ronald J. Meyers, East Stroudsburg University“Intellectuals, Literary Criticism, and the Cold War”

F-6 Memory and Place in Women's WritingFriday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 103Chair: Marcia Phillips McGowan, Eastern Connecticut StateUniversity• Patricia M. Feito, Barry University“'Poetry with Its Feet on the Ground': Self, Metaphor, andNature in Josephine Johnson's Now in November”• Jill LeRoy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University“'She Picks the Significant Episode': Cultural Memory andHistorical Agency in Caroline Gordon's The Women on thePorch”• Carrie Coaplen-Anderson, Morehead State University“Writing Home: Literature's Place for Displacement Survivors”

F-7 Literary, Historical, and Aesthetic Collaborations: Joyce,Forster, Nietzsche, and Auden Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 207Chair: John McCombe, University of Dayton• Aileen Farrar, University of Louisiana, Lafayette“An Unexpected Alliance: James Joyce and Alexander Pope in'Ithaca'”• Lynne Walhoust Hinojosa, Baylor University“The Aesthetic Hero in Forster and Joyce: A Brief Genealogy ofthe Concept”• Richard Badenhausen, Westminster College“The Theory and Practice of Collaboration in W. H. Auden”

F-8 Darkness (In)Visible: Re-Visioning Violence in McCarthy,Magona, and Maxwell Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 209Chair: Lesley C. Pleasant, University of Evansville• William Welty, University of Cincinnati“'Another Kind of Clay': History, Violence, and CormacMcCarthy's New Mythology”• Daniel W. Lehman, Ashland University“'My Son Killed Your Daughter': Testimony and Imagination inSindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother”• Nicole Blair, University of Washington, Tacoma“Time Will Darken It: Reciting/Re-Sighting the Past”


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F-9 Communities in Crisis in Toni Morrison (Panel prearranged byE. James Chambers, Ball State University) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 215Chair: E. James Chambers, Ball State University• E. James Chambers, Ball State University“Communities in Crisis in Toni Morrison”• Cole E. Farrell, Ball State University“'I Know That Woman': Violet and the Fringes of Community inToni Morrison's Jazz”• Ellie M. Isenhart, Ball State University“Social Stagnation in Morrison's Love: A Reflection of RaceRelations in America”• Tibor Munkacsi, Ball State University“Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: Digging in the CharnelHouse”

F-10Dorothy Richardson: Going beyond the Narrative (Organizedby Micki Nyman, The Dorothy Richardson Society) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 217Chair: Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University• Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University`“Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage: 'The Mirror Image'”• Shavonne Johnson, Borough of Manhattan Community

College, CUNY“Consciousness and Narrative in Dorothy Richardson'sPilgrimage”

F-11 Dialogue and Disease: Medical Narrative in the Work ofWilliam Carlos Williams, May Sarton, and Sylvia Plath(Organized by David Eberly, Narrative Medicine Society) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 221Chair: David Eberly, Independent Scholar• Brian A. Bremen, University of Texas, Austin“Healing Words: William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Burke, andBibliotherapy”• David Eberly, Independent Scholar“High Colonics: Presenting the Idealized Patient Self inEndgame”• Rick Mansfield, Dartmouth School of Medicine“The Dying Narrative in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar"

F-12 DeLillo II: DeLillo and Subjectivity (Organized by JacquelineZubeck, Don DeLillo Society) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 121Chair: Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent• Anne Longmuir, Kansas State University“'All this Crammed Maleness': Gender and Art in DeLillo'sUnderworld”• Jen Apgar, Georgia State University“(Un)Heeled/Unhealed: Shoes and Other Traumatic Artifacts inDeLillo's Falling Man”• Randy Laist, Gateway Community College“Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in DeLillo's Novels”

F-13 Autofiction/Autobiography Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 109Chair: Diane Capitani, Northwestern University

• Ryan Trauman, University of Louisville“Blogging, Authorship, and Roland Barthes's Autobiography”

• John T. Booker, University of Kansas“Love (of) Stories: Camille Laurens's L'amour, roman”

• Kristine Yohe, Northern Kentucky University“Jean-Robert Cadet's Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child toMiddle-Class American”

F-14 Masina, Levi, and Bilenchi: The Daily and the Extraordinary Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 101Chair: Don Spinelli, Wayne State University• Victoria Surliuga, Texas Tech University“Giulietta Masina without Federico Fellini: Her Journalism inthe Diary of Others”• Elizabeth Scheiber, Rider University“Levi's Ideal Listener: Re-Reading Il Canto di Ulisse”• Charles Klopp, Ohio State University “War, Lust, Hatred, and Death in Romano Bilenchi'sConservatorio di Santa Teresa”

F-15 Hispanic Keynote Speaker Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pmElaine Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library

Jacobo Sefami

University of California, Irvine

“Palabras en fuga: Poesía Mexicana en el nuevo milenio”

Introduced by Clare Sullivan, University of Louisville

Co-sponsored by Latin American & Latino Studies and

the Department of Classical and M odern Languages

F-16Authors Reading Poetry and FictionFriday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 202Chair: Nina Adel, Belmont University• Daniel Morris, Purdue UniversityIf Not for the Courage (poetry)

• Tessa Mellas, University of CincinnatiBlue Sky White (fiction)

• Jeremy Allan Hawkins, University of AlabamaPoetry

• Carole K. Harris, New York City College of TechnologyFreeze Frame (fiction)


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CREATIVE KEYNOTEPRESENTATION

Strickler Auditorium Room 101

Friday 5:00 - 6:00 pm

Helena MaríaViramontes

Cornell University

Cemeteries, Freeways and the Bones of theForgotten: How Geography Shaped One

Writer's Inspiration

Introduced by

Brian Leung, University of Louisville

CONFERENCE RECEPTION

AND DINNER

Friday evening Brown Hotel

Reception, cash bar (all conferees

welcome), 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Dinner, by reservation only,

8:00 p.m.

G-1 U. S. Drama Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 207Chair: Susan Lidgate Mace, University of California, Berkeley• Jennifer L. Collins, Duquesne University , Pittsburgh“The Strategy of the British Country House in Lillian Hellman'sWatch on the Rhine”• Charles Hatten, Bellarmine University“The Death of an Angry Salesman: David Mamet's Early Plays,the Legacy of Arthur Miller, and the Era of White Male Rage”

G-2 Ecocriticism and Animal Studies Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 106Chair: Nicole Seymour, University of Louisville• Jordan S. Carroll, University of California, Davis“Rats, Dragons, and Shortpig: Utopia and the Animal in Stars inMy Pockets like Grains of Sand”• Matthew Sutton, College of William and Mary“Seeds of Glory: The Ecocritical Stance of Guthrie's Bound forGlory”• Kimberly Kaczorowski, Miami University“A Congestion of Shapes: The Landscape of Alice Munro”

G-3 Poetries in Transition, Poetries as Transition (Panelprearranged by John Bradley, University of Wisconsin, Madison)Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room:108Chair: John Bradley, University of Wisconsin-Madison• Lisa Hollenbach, University of Wisconsin-Madison“Reading Through: Jackson Mac Low and the Modernist Canon”• Aline Lo, University of Wisconsin-Madison“Claiming a Choice: Transitions in the Works of Ariel Dorfmanand Li-Young Lee”• John Bradley, University of Wisconsin-Madison“Repeat After: Between Student and Teacher in Theresa Cha'sDictee”

G-4 Writing Asia: Gender, Identity, Ethnography Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 103Chair: Li Zeng, University of Louisville• Weihsin Gui, University of California, Riverside“Fictive Ethnography and The Contemporary AnglophoneMalaysian Novel”• Christopher Giroux, Saginaw Valley State University“Swinging with the Sisters Wing: Exploding Binaries in ShirleyGeok-Lin Lim's Sister Swing”• James D. Riemer, Marshall University“Women's Writing, Friendship, and Gender Roles in Lisa See'sSnow Flower and the Secret Fan”

Additional Informatiom

All presentation rooms are accesible to the handicapped.

All sections of Critical Papers and Creative Readings arescheduled in the Bingham Humanities Building


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G-5 Female Fashion and Spaces: Jean Rhys and Djuna Barnes Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 101Chair: Cynthia Davis, University of Maryland• Cynthia Davis, University of Maryland“Survival of the Chic-est: Fashion as Resistance in the Work ofJean Rhys”• Ian Scott Todd, Tufts University“Ladies' Rooms: Women, Bathrooms, and Modernity in JeanRhys's Good Morning, Midnight”

• Liz Vine, University of Wisconsin, Madison“Queering Home in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood”

G-6 Feeding the Music: Food and Dining as Significant Signifier Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 114 Chair: Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University• Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University“Significant Food, the Immigrant Experience, and the ShortStory”

• Charlotte Rich, Eastern Kentucky University“Edith Wharton's Paris: Spaces of Liberation and Constriction”• Suzanne Samples, Auburn University“Pickling History: Nietzsche, Lyotard, and Consumption inMidnight's Children”

G-7 Identifying: Individuality and Connection in African-American Fiction and Memoir Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 117Chair: David Todd Lawrence, University of Saint Thomas• Karen Walker, University of Arkansas“Breaking It Down to Build It Back Up, or DismantlingAmerican Individualism and the Rhetorical Tradition of RacialUplift: The Search for Female Subjectivity in Nella Larsen'sQuicksand”• David Todd Lawrence, University of Saint Thomas“Beneath the Underdog, between Traditions: Charles Mingus'sUse of the Black Pimp Figure”

G-8 Reassessing the Good in Iris Murdoch's Novels (Organized byBarbara Heusel, Iris Murdoch Society) Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45am Room:119Chair: Barbara Heusel, Florida State University• Barbara Heusel, Florida State University“Bizarre Reinvention of Selfish Characters via The Good inNuns and Soldiers and The Sea, The Sea”• Joanne H. Edmonds, Ball State University“Readers Considering Characters; Characters ConsideringExperience: Thought as Action in Three Novels by IrisMurdoch”• J. Robert Baker, Fairmont State University“'Les Cousins et Les Tantes': Murdoch's Imagination ofBecoming Good”

G-9 Queer Film (Because of multiple cancellations, the remainingpresenter of this panel has been moved to [I-8 SubversiveNarratives of Sexualities], Saturday at 2:45 -4:15 pm)

G-10 Animal Studies and Wallace Stevens (Organized by TomSowders, Walace Stevens Society)

Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 217Chair: Tom Sowders, Louisiana State University• Brian Brodhead Glaser, Chapman University“Rats, Cats, and Nightingales”• Angela Hofstetter, Butler University“Wallace Stevens's Noble Rider: Animality, Modernity, andPure Poetry”

•Karen Helgeson, University of North Carolina, Pembroke "Cries from the Outside: Nature’s Choristers in the Late Poetryof Wallace Stevens”• Tom Sowders, Louisiana State University“Anthropomorphism in Stevens's Comic Poetry”

G-11 Philip Roth: Narratology, Sexuality and Politics (Organizedby David Brauner, Philip Roth Society)

Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 121Chair: Matthew Shipe, Washington University, St. Louis• Matthew Shipe, Washington University, St. Louis“So You Say You Wanna Revolution? Sexual Liberation inPhilip Roth's Indignation”• Sarah Thalia Scheiner-Bobis, Stanford University“Anti-Oedipal Desire: Philip Roth's The Human Stain”• Kellie Dawson, DePauw University“Becoming Faunia Farley: The Human Stain and the Death ofP.C.”

G-12 The 1960's and Then Some . . . Flannery O'Connor(Organized by Jacqueline Zubeck, Flannery O'ConnorSociety)

Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 209Chair: Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent• Mark S. Graybill, Widener University“O'Connor, Tielhard de Chardin, and the Environment”

• Carole Harris, New York City College of Technology“Clichés and the Anxieties of Inheritance in FlanneryO'Connor's 'A Circle in the Fire,' 'Greenleaf,' and 'EverythingThat Rises Must Converge'”• Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University“Bill Hill, Ruby, and the Pill: Reproductive Politics in the 1950s”• Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent“The Visual Impact of the Icon in Flannery O'Connor's 'Parker'sBack'”


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G-13 Graphic Novels: Transformations, Deformations Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 221Chair: Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University • Jacqueline E. Brown, University of Louisville“Persepolis: The History of a Childhood/The Childhood of aHistory”• Derrick Stewart, Tennessee Technological University“Representing and Creating Feminine Identities in Chris Ware'sJimmy Corrigan”• Matthew Wiles, University of Louisville“Considering the Graphic Novel: Making Use of a Transgressiveand Transformative Space”

G-14 Creative Fiction in SpanishSaturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 219Chair: Melissa Groenwold, University of Louisville

• Enid Valle, Kalamazoo CollegeSigilo (poesía)

• Iria Gonzalez-Liaño, University of Nevada, Las VegasMediterráneo (poesía)

• Ceida Fernández Figueroa, Baldwin School of Puerto RicoOlguita se va de Cuba o la jinetera frente al espejo (ficción)• Santiago García-Castañón, Western Carolina University“Escribir fuera de los márgenes, o cómo mantener una carreraliteraria en el mundo académico”

G-15 Authors Reading Poetry and FictionSaturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 202Chair: Leslie Harper, University of Louisville

• Andrew Grace, University of CincinnatiPoetry• Lori D'Angelo, Kent State, East LiverpoolBalloon Ride (fiction)

• Katherine Thorpe, University of IowaExcerpts from Heart in Port (poetry)

• Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force AcademyA Fair Fight in Neutral Location (fiction)

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H-1 Post-Politically Correct Narrative (Panel prearranged by KellieDawson, DePauw University)

Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 103Chair: Kellie Dawson, DePauw University• Kellie Dawson, DePauw University“Wrong Humor and the Death of PC”• Greg Weiss, University of Southern Mississippi“'A Funny Kind of Poem': From Parker to Seidel”• Collin C. Coleman, Georgia State University“Irreverent Humor and Emotional Connections in Californication”

H-2 Technology and Cultural Transformation Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 109Chair: Daniel Mrozowski, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• Olivia R. Turnage, University of Memphis“Luddic Humanism in Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy”• Daniel Mrozowski, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities“The Politics of Eating Well: Upton Sinclair and the Modern Diet”

H-3 The Poetics of the American Memoir Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 106Chair: Kevin Allton, University of Southern Indiana• Jill Kelly Koren, Ivy Tech Community College“Useful Ambivalence: Adventures in Lyric Essay Land”• Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy“Roaring toward the Sublime: California in Hunter Thompson'sHell's Angels”• Julia A. Galbus, University of Southern Indiana“Selflessness in Buddhist Life Writing”

H-4 Postmodern Fiction and the Sense of the Past Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 108Chair: M. Nell Sullivan, University of Houston, Downtown• Charlie Bertsch, Arizona State University“The Landscape of Melancholy: Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Viceand the Geography of the Counterculture”• Katrina Harack, Berry College“Embedded and Embodied Memories: Body, Space, and Time inDon DeLillo's White Noise and Falling Man”• Ted Morrissey, Benedictine University, Springfield“In the Heart of the Heart of the Cold War: Cultural Trauma andthe Fiction of William H. Gass”

H-5 Drama of National Identity: Friel, Barry, Rubio, and Miller Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 114Chair: Kristina Persenaire, Grand Valley State University• Vanessa M. Bosley, Xavier University“'Securely Irish': Refashioning Ireland in Brian Friel's Translations”• Kekoa C. Kaluhiokalani, Muskingum University“Irishness and the Masochism of National Identity in SebastianBarry's The Steward of Christendom”• Jason Thomas Parker, Vanderbilt University“Revising Reality: Metatheater as a Strategy of Social Critique inJosé López Rubio and Arthur Miller”

H-6 Narrative and the Radical Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 117Chair: Scott Henkel, State University of New York, Binghamton• Andrew Scheiber, University of St. Thomas“Radical Continence: Unsexing the Revolution in AgnesSmedley's Daughter of Earth and Jack Conroy's The Disinherited”• Mica Howe, Murray State University“Hombres armados and the Alliance for (Lack of) Progress”

H-7 Postmodern Classicism: Contemporary Polish Poets and TheirUses of the Past (Panel prearranged by Karen Kovacik, IndianaUniversity-Purdue University, Indianapolis)

Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 119Chair: • Jessica Zychowicz , University of Michigan“Toward a Poetics of Municipality, or The Place of Personality:Meditations on the Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert and AdamZagajewsk”• Karen Kovacik, Indiana University-Purdue University

Indianapolis“Revisiting Herbert's 'Mr. Cogito': The Post-Communist, GenderedRealm of Izabela Filipiak's 'Madame Intuita'”• Ewa Chrusciel, Colby-Sawyer College“Flirting with Tradition, Flirting with Mystery: New Poems byAgnieszka Kuciak and Tomasz Rózycki”

H-8 Sonnets and The City: New York Poetry Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 215Chair: Manuel Herrero-Puertas, University of Wisconsin, Madison• Victoria Brockmeier, State University of New York, Buffalo“Crossing on Doubt: Hart Crane's Bridge”• Richard Andrew Boada, Millsaps College“The Crisis of Individuality and the Ecosublime in the IndustrialMetropolis: Anthropomorphizing Engineering in Hart Cranes's 'ToBrooklyn Bridge'”• Cameron Golden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro“Song of Myself: Mad Men, Poetry, and the Construction ofIdentity”

H-9 A Woman's Guide to Twilight: Sentimentality, Pornography,Motherhood

(Panel prearranged by Kate Cochran, University of SouthernMississippi)Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 219Chair: Kate Cochran, University of Southern Mississippi• Christina Riley Brown, Mercyhurst College“But Why Are They Reading That Stuff? Sentimental Pleasures inStephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga”• Kate Cochran, University of Southern Mississippi“Rewriting the Fade-To-Black: X-Rated Twilight Fan Fiction”• Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky University“Genetic Dead Ends and the Reproduction of Motherhood inStephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga”

H-10 Imputed Virtue: Ways of Seeing Pynchon's Inherent Vice(Panel prearranged by John M. Krafft, Miami University,Hamilton)


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Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 221Chair: John M. Krafft, Miami University, Hamilton• Bernard Duyfhuizen, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire“'The Map Is Not the Territory': Pynchon's Inherent Vice andGeneral Semantics”• Dana Medoro, University of Manitoba“The Guard Dogs of the Paper Archive in Inherent Vice”• Steve Weisenburger, Southern Methodist University“Of Paving Stones and Freedom Struggles”

H-11 Gendering Modernity: Dreiser, Wharton and Fitzgerald Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 207Chair: Amanda Konkle, University of Kentucky• Janna Tajibaeva, University of Louisville“Desiring and Desired Women: Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie,Edith Wharton's House of Mirth and the Art of AmericanImpressionists”• Natalie M. Kalich, Loyola University Chicago“Domestic Modernism: Ladies' Home Journal and Mass Culture'sEngagement with the Modernist Movement”• Amanda Konkle, University of Kentucky“Hysterical Fathers Make Poor Men: Monsignor Darcy as a Modelof Masculinity in This Side of Paradise”

H-12 Native Spaces, American Places Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 209Chair: Thomas L. Morgan, University of Dayton• Erin M. Rentschler, Duquesne University“'A Story Is Forever Unfolding': Personal and Cultural Memory inLinda Hogan's People of the Whale”• Julianne Newmark, New Mexico Tech“Creating Place: Profession and Presence in the Political Writingsof Gertrude Bonnin, Carlos Montezuma, and Charles AlexanderEastman”• Thomas L. Morgan, University of Dayton“Specters of Belief: Race and Metaphor in Sherman Alexie'sPoetry”

H-13 Forms of African American (Post)Identity Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 217Chair: Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University• Emily Lutenski, Bowling Green State University“Beyond Harlem: New Negro Cartographies of the AmericanWest”• Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University“A Blacker Modern: Melvin B. Tolson”• Ryan Cull, New Mexico State University“From Difference to Splendor: Thylias Moss's Search for aUniversalist Poetics”

H-14 Henry James (Organized by Susan Griffin, Henry JamesSociety)

Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 223Chair: Shawna Ross, Pennsylvania State University• Shawna Ross, Pennsylvania State University“The Space of Play: The Hotel as Leisure Space in Henry James”• Jennifer B. Camden, University of Indianapolis“Transatlantic Exchange in The Golden Bowl”

H-15 Psychological Approaches to Literature and Culture after1900 (Organized by Susan Hathaway Boydston, The PsyArtFoundation)

Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 121Chair: Susan Hathaway Boydston, Independent Scholar• Susan Hathaway Boydston, Independent Scholar“The (Un)happy Confluence of Greed and Naïveté in The VoyseyInheritance and the Madoff Scam”• Camelia Elias, Roskilde University, Denmark“The Quietude of Knowledge”• Andrew M. Gordon, University of Florida“Myla Goldberg's Novel Bee Season: The Obsessive-CompulsiveFamily”• Bent Sorensen, Aalborg University, Denmark“Syndrome-, Symptom- and Trauma-Chains in Post-9/11 Novels”

H-16 Authors Reading Poetry and FictionSaturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 202 Chair: Kimberly A. Baker, University of Louisville

• Christina Veladota, Washington State Community CollegeThe Girl and Her Lions (poetry)

• Al Dixon, Louisiana State UniversityGuy Walks into a Bar (fiction)

• Kristin Dykstra, Illinois State UniversityTranslations of poetry by Cuban writer Angel Escobar (poetry)

• Trudy Lewis, University of MissouriRadio Ranger (fiction)

H-17 Tapping The Wire I (Bubbles's Revenge): Subjectivity andPolitics

(Panel prearranged by Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University)Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room 101Chair: Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University• Ernest L. Gibson III, University of Massachusetts, Amherst"'For Whom the Bell Tolls': The Wire's Stringer Bell as a TragicIntellectual"• Jeremy Justus, West Virginia UniversityOn Being Green and Turning Brown: Johnny Weeks inHamsterdam• Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky“When Homeland Terror Passes for Bureaucratic Security: TheWire Meets The Office"


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I-1 Community, Relations, and Historical Revisioning Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 103Chair: Benjamin D. O'Dell, University of Southern Indiana• Missy Dehn Kubitschek, Indiana University Purdue University“America's National Narratives: Willa Cather and Lousie Erdrich”• Benjamin D. O'Dell, University of Southern Indiana“'A Vague Benevolent Something': Native Son and the Problem ofCommunity”• William R. Hunter, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania“Damned If You Do: Toni Morrison's A Mercy as Reaction toBeloved”

I-2 Professing Womanhood: Education, Work, and Literacy inLoos, Chute, Gibbons, and Gilman

Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 106Chair: Jill A. Kinkade, University of Southern Indiana• Peter Collins, Pennsylvania State University“A Girl like Lorelei: Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes andFemale Professionalism during the Modernist Period”• M. Nell Sullivan, University of Houston, Downtown“Cultural Capital and Narrative Voice in Ellen Foster and TheBeans of Egypt, Maine”• Eir-Anne E. Edgar, University of Kentucky“Women's Work: Gender Articulation in Gilman's Herland”

I-3 Performative Violence, Artifice and the Real Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 108Chair: Lance Norman, Michigan State University• Anna Mullins, North Carolina State University“The Necessity of Violence Onstage: Sarah Kane's Blasted”• Matthew Bowman, Lansing Community College“'Another Helping Please': Cannibalism on Stage in Sarah Kane'sBlasted and Fernando Arrabal's The Emperor and the Architect ofAssyria”• Lance Norman, Michigan State University“Cathartic Ruminations and the Absurdity of PerformativeViolence”

I-4 George Oppen, Heidegger and Ideas of Literature Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 109Chair: Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University • Alexander Cobb, University of Cincinnati“Poet, Object, Being: George Oppen's Poetics of PhenomenologicalOntology”• Charles Cullum, University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown“Sweeping a Clearing in the House of Being: Heidegger's Theory ofLanguage and David Foster Wallace's The Broom of the System”

I-5 Music and Literature: Aesthetic Interrogations Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 119Chair: Jeremy Glazier, Ohio Dominican University• Jeremy Glazier, Ohio Dominican University“'A Noise among Other Noises': Music and Historicity TwentyYears after the Berlin Wall”• April D. Fallon, Kentucky State University“O Sweet Spontaneous: The Significance of Paris and Erik Satie onE. E. Cummings's Aesthetics”• Damian Ward Hey, Molloy College“Song and Its Double in Against the Day"

I-6 Reading American Poetry: Ethics, Strategies, Resistances Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 114Chair: Jessica Lewis Luck, Cal State San Bernardino• Cynthia R. Wallace, Loyola University, Chicago“It Must Acknowledge the Spiritual Forces Which Have Made It:Marianne Moore, Religion, and the Ethics of Critical Discourse”• Jessica Lewis Luck, Cal State San Bernardino“Larry Eigner and the Phenomenology of Multistability”

I-7 Flora, Fauna, and Fauvism: Artistic and Poetic Auras Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 117Chair: Adriana Umana, Rice University• Adriana Umana, Rice University“L'itinéraire exploratoire d'Henri Matisse”• Liz Kuhn, Pennsylvania State University“'Love Is a Thing to Be Learned': The Complex Progress of DyadicAnti-Humanism in D. H. Lawrence's Modernism”• Sarah Bouttier, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle“Wherein Does Fitness Lie? Lawrentian versus Darwinian Fitness inD. H. Lawrence's Poetry"

I-8 Subversive Narratives of Sexualities Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room:215Chair: Clare F. Gervasi, University of Louisville• Lisa Arnold, University of Louisville“An 'Ethics of Difficulty': (Re)Reading Judith Butler's PerformativeProse as Feminist Practice”• Robin Silbergleid, Michigan State University“Narrative Promiscuity in Carole Maso's Aureole”• Kevin Arnold, State University of New York, Buffalo“What is 'Gaydar'? Narrative and Repetition in The City and thePillar”• Kathleen T. Leuschen, Roosevelt University“Strategy of Resistance: The Grotesque and HermaphroditicIdentity in Middlesex”• Clare F. Gervasi, University of Louisville“Subverting Gender Binaries: Almodóvar's Lesbians and LaMovida”


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I-9 Examining Rhoda: Three Readings of Ellen Gilchrist's 'TheLower Garden District Free Gravity Mule Blight' (Panelprearranged by Kathryn E. Lane, Southeastern LouisianaUniversity)

Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 217Chair: Kathryn E. Lane, Southeastern Louisiana University• Kathryn E. Lane, Southeastern Louisiana University“Rhoda, A Woman Searching”• Michelle Hebert Russo, Napoleonville Middle School“Rhoda, Her Voices and the Revelation of the Fable”• Carolyn Kirk Vosburg, Southeastern Louisiana University“Rhoda, a Woman of the Southern Bourgeois Tradition”

I-10 Fantasy and Science Fiction: Social Critiques and GenreFiction

Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 219Chair: Katherine Lee, Indiana State University• Katherine Lee, Indiana State University“Sookie Stackhouse, Bella Swan, and . . . Elizabeth Bennet? TheNew Women Warriors and the Gender Politics of Chick-Lit/Monster Novel Mash-Ups• Andy Engel, Wayne State University“Fashion as Infection: Trauma and Capital in William Gibson'sPattern Recognition”• Theresa Gromek, John Carroll University“Collection of Spare Parts: Ishiguro's Clones' Curious Positionwithin Human Society”

I-11 Joycean Space: Sensed, Seen, and Signed (Organized by JimLeBlanc, International James Joyce Foundation)

Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 223Chair: Jim LeBlanc, Cornell University• William Brockman, Pennsylvania State University“The (E)State of James Joyce's Letters”• Thomas Jackson Rice, University of South Carolina“A Mind’s Eye View: Imaging the Read in James Joyce”• Jim LeBlanc, Cornell University“Agoraphobia in James Joyce's 'Eveline'”

I-12 Telling Art in Robert Penn Warren's Poetry (Organized byPatricia Bradley, Robert Penn Warren Society)

Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 221Chair: Patricia Bradley, Middle Tennessee State University• Kelly Whiddon, Macon State College“Folklore in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren: Where theStoryteller and the Hero Converge”• Kim Hutto, Middle Tennessee State University“Robert Penn Warren's Audubon: The Art of Seeing”• Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky University“Photography as Narrative in Robert Penn Warren's Poetry”

I-13 The 1950s and Its Afterlives: Contemporary Texts, PostwarPrecursors (Organized by Benjamin Lee, Association for theStudy of the Arts of the Present)

Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 121Chair: Benjamin Lee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville• Benjamin Lee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville“Meditations in an Emergency: Frank O'Hara and the Crises ofLate Capitalism”• Don Belton, Indiana University“New Jazz from Another Country”• J. Dillon Brown, Washington University, St. Louis“Windrush, Continued? Postwar Black British Writing in thePresent Tense”

I-14 Authors Reading Poetry and FictionSaturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 202Chair: Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy

• Brian L. Jackson, University of Illinois, SpringfieldFrom Delancey West (poetry)

• Michele Moore, Atlanta, GeorgiaCremo College (fiction)

• Charlotte Pence, University of Tennessee, KnoxvillePoetry

• Kyle David Torke, US Air Force AcademySunset Falls (fiction)

I-15 Tapping The Wire II (The Son of Snoop): Performance,Supplement, Conspiracy

(Panel prearranged by Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University)Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room 101Chair: Julie Burrell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst• Julie Burrell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst“Racial Performance and Performativity in The Wire”• Dennis W. Allen, West Virginia University“No Big Thing: The Wire's Supplementary Logic”• Judith Roof, Michigan State University“True Grit: Aurality and the Pleasures of Conspiracy in The Wire"

I-16 New Horizons in the Analysis of Lat-Mex Borderland Film(Panel prearranged by Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio StateUniversity)

Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 210Chair: Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University• Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University“Affective Congruence and Brown Body Crossings in Sin Nombre”• Christopher Gonzalez, Ohio State University“'Connecting' to Borderland Consciousness: Cognition andNarrative Design in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer”• Samuel Saldivar, Ohio State University“The Living Dead, or, Brown Bodies that Matter”


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CLOSING SPEAKER

Rita FelskiUniversity of Virginia

"The Demon ofInterpretation"

Saturday, 4:30 - 5:30 pm. Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao

Auditorium

Introduced by Suzette Henke English Department,

University of Louisville

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

T h e 39th An n u al Louisville Conference

on Literature and Culture since 1900

February 24, 25, and 26, 2011

Submission deadline:

September 15, 2010 (Postmarked)

Please refer to the guidelines posted on our

website in early April

www.thelouisvilleconference.com

Proposals (abstracts) for critical papers may be submitted

on any topic that addresses literary works published since

1900, and/or their relationship with other arts and

disciplines (film, journalism, opera, music, pop culture,

painting, architecture, law).

Individual creative submissions (poetry or short fiction)

are also encouraged.

For details, or to be put on our mailing list, contact:

Danielle R. Day, Conference Director,

Classical and Modern Languages,

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292

(502) 852-6686

[email protected]


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http://www.louisville.edu

mailto:[email protected]

Presenter’s and Chair’s Index

Abel, Lydia D 10Adams, Ann Marie A 1Adel, Nina F 16Adelman,Deborah E 16Agudo,Elena Aldea E 14Aguilar-Monsalve,Luis A. A 13Aldama, Frederick Luis C 14, I 16Allen, Dennis W. I 15Allton, Kevin C 7, H 3Amaya, Elizabeth B 14Apgar,Jen F 12Ards,Angela A 9Armengol,Armando E 15Arnold,Kevin I 8Arnold,Lisa I 8Arranz, Carmen E 14Ash, Aja F 3Ashton, Hilarie D 3Asya, Ferdâ C 3, D 7Badenhausen, Richard F 7Baker, Kimberly A. H 16Baker,J. Robert G 8Balma, Philip E 13Balma,Philip C 15Barlow,Renee A 2Barrows, Adam B 7Bazán-Figueras, Patricia A 13Belton, Don I 13Bertsch, Charlie H 4Bessette, Lee E. S. D 12Biberman, Matthew A 4Birkenstein, Jeff G 6Blackwell, Stephen A 10Blair, Nicole D 5, F 8Blazer, Alex E. D 3Boada, Richard Andrew C 16, H 8Boffemmyer, Mindy A 5Booker, John T. F 13Booth, Andrew A 10Borman, David D 6Boselli, Stefano D 14Bosley,Vanessa M. H 5Boudreau, Douglas L. A 12Bouttier, Sarah I 7Bowman, Matthew I 3Boydston, Susan Hathaway H 15Bradley, Patricia I 12Bradley, Jerry E 16Bradley, John G 3Bradley, Patricia L. I 12Bremen, Brian A. F 11Bremm, Doris D 4Brockman, William I 11Brockmeier, Victoria A 3Brockmeier, Victoria H 8Brooke, Patricia E 7

Brown, Jacqueline E. B 9, E 12, G 13Brown, Christina Riley H 9Brown,J. Dillon I 13Buchanan, Rhonda A 13Buchanan, Jason E 5Buonocore, Eleonora E 13Burgess, Jermemy A 8Burrell, Julie I 15Byerman, Keith A 11, B 11Camden,J ennifer B. H 14Capitani, Diane F 13Carrière, Julien E 11Carroll, Jordan S. G 2Casmier, Stephen B 11Cedeño, Aristófanes C 13Chambers, E. James B 6, F 9Charters, Duncan C 11Cheek, Cris D 2Childress, Cindy A 14Chrusciel, Ewa H 7Clifford, Pat C 13Coaplen-Anderson,Carrie C 16, F 6Cobb, Alexander I 4Cochran, Kate H 9Cochran-Weber, Brooke A 12Cochran, Amanda E 1Cochran, Kate H 9Colebrook, Martyn F 1Coleman, Collin C. H 1Collins, Jennifer L. G 1Collins, Peter I 2Combs, Lorah Kristin E 1Cooper, Ken A 5Cotugno, Marianne A 10Craig, J. P. A 3Cull, Ryan H 13Cullum, Charles I 4Czarnecki, Kristin E 9D'Angelo, Lori G 15Dahn, Eurie B 8Dale, Daniel F 3Danielson, Kristine B 3Davis, Cynthia G 5Davis, H. Louise C 6Dawkins,Laura B 9Dawson, J. T. C 16Dawson, Kellie G 11, H 1De Posada, David C 13De La Garza Valenzuela, Jose A. D 15De La Torre,Roberto E 15Decker, Shelley L. B 5Delegal, Philip E 14DeSelm, Andrew E 12Dibble, Lewis A 6Dixon, Al C 4, H 16Donahue, Joseph E 4

Dragan, Richard E 3Duyfhuizen, Bernard H 10Dwyer, Florence E 11Dykstra, Kristin H 16Eberly, David F 11Edgar,Eir-Anne E. I 2Edgington,Erin E. A 12Edmonds, Joanne H. G 8Edwards, Mike D 14Edwards,Trista B 5Elias, Camelia H 15Engel, Andy I 10Erwin, Chase C 7Fairfield, James A 2Fallon, April D. I 5Farrar, Aileen F 7Farrell, Cole E. F 9Farrell,Tim D 3Farris, Nettie B 15Feito, Patricia M. F 6Fernandes, Gisele Manganelli E 10Fife,Anthony B 1Figueroa,Ceida Fernández G 14Filling, Michelle L. C 9Fioretti, Daniele E 13Fleischer, Stephanie Owen B 9Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie C 11Fore, Melissa C 6Forster, Chris B 7Fournier, Michael B 3Francis, Pamela B 3, D 11Fridlund, Emily E 9Frye, Mitch B 8Gabrys, Gosia B 1Galbus, Julia A. H 3García-Castañón, Santiago 14Geis, Deborah R. A 7Gerds, Jenna C 8Gervasi, Clare F. I 8Geter, Kirsten L. B 5Ghimire, Bishnue D 4Giaimo, Paul E 10Gibson III, Ernest L. H 17Giroux, Christopher G 4Glaser, Brian Brodhead G 10Glazier, Jeremy B 2, I 5Goddard, Ekeama E 5Godshalk, William D 11Goessling, Jacob D 15Golden, Cameron H 8Gómez, Myrriah D 15Gonzalez-Liaño, Iria G 14Gonzalez-Liaño, Iria E 14Gonzalez, Christopher I 16Gooch, S. C. E 5Gordon, Andrew M. H 15


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Presenter’s and Chair’s Index

Grace, Andrew G 15Graves, Roy Neil C 16Graybill, Mark S. G 12Green, Chris F 2Griffin, Jenelle C 12Groenwold, Melissa G 14Gromek, Theresa I 10Guevara, Francisco A 4Gui, Weihsin D 6, G 4Gwiazda, Piotr D 1Hadley, Karen C 5, D 4Halton, Eugene C 1Hamilton, Joshua B 14Harack, Katrina H 4Harder, Hollie Markland D 12Harmon, Elizabeth B 14Harmon, William D 9Harper, Leslie G 15Harris, Carole K. F 16, G 12Hatten, Charles G 1Hawkins, Jeremy Allan F 16Helgeson, Karen G 10Henkel, Scott H 6Henkel,Scott D 7Herrero-Puertas, Manuel B 8, H 8Heusel, Barbara G 8Hewitt, Avis G 12Hey, Damian Ward I 5Hicks, Zachary A 10Higgs, Suzette D 1Hinojosa, Lynne Walhoust F 7Hitchcock, A. David E 14, F 5Hoeness-Krupsaw, Susanna B 10Hofstetter, Angela G 10Holcomb, Brian D 6Hollenbach, Lisa G 3Holt, Megan D 5Hoogland, Renée C. C 2Hopson, Cheryl R. B 9Houston, Patricia A 14Howe, Mica H 6Howe, William R. D 2Huang-Tiller, Gillian B 12, C 10Hunter, William R. I 1Hutto, Kim I 12Isenhart, Ellie M. F 9Jackson, Jennifer C 5, F 1Jackson, Brian L. C 10, I 14Jiménez, Eva María Gómez B 12Johnson, Benjamin C 8Johnson, Katie N. D 10Johnson, Leigh D 15Johnson, Shavonne F 10Jones, Greenfield B 15, E 16Jones, Jessamon D 4Justus, Jeremy H 17

Kaczorowski, Kimberly G 2Kaczvinsky, Donald P. D 3Kalich, Natalie M. H 11Kaluhiokalani, Kekoa C. E 1, H 5Kattemalavadi, Chinmayi E 12Keller, Lynn F 4Kerman, Sarah C 3Kinkade, Jill A. I 2Kinnahan, Linda F 4Kivinen, Hannele B 10Klopp, Charles F 14Koelz, Stephen E 8Konkle, Amanda H 11Koren, Jill Kelly H 3Kovacik, Karen H 7Krafft, John H 10Krouse, Tonya H 9Kubitschek, Missy Dehn I 1Kuhn, Liz I 7Laist,Randy F 12Lane, Kathryn E. I 9Langlinais, Chantel A 14Lawrence, David Todd G 7LeBlanc, Jim I 11Lee, Katherine I 10Lee, Benjamin I 13Lee, E. Andrew D 10Lehman, Daniel W. F 8LeRoy-Frazier, Jill E 3, F 6Leuschen, Kathleen T. I 8Levise, Joel D 8Levy, Heather A 14Lewis, Trudy H 16Lina, John A 5Lingle, Brandon G 15, H 3, I 14Lo, Aline G 3Lobo, Julius B 3Lockerd, Martin D 9, E 8Lohmeyer, Enno D 13Long, Alexander C 9Longmuir, Anne F 12López, Alfred J. E 5Luck, Jessica Lewis I 6Luger, Moberley B 3, D 16Lutenski, Emily H 13Mace, Susan Lidgate F 5, G 1Makris, Mary B 14Maley,Patrick D 10Manaster,Robert A 14Mansfield, Rick F 11Markow, Raluca F 5Martins, José Endoença E 2Mason, Daniel A 2, C 3Matthews, Kadeshia L. A 9Mattis, Ann A 2McCombe, John B 2, F 7

McCown, Cynthia D 10McGowan, Marcia Phillips F 6McGrath, Jackie C 5McMillan, Scott E 6Medoro, Dana H 10Meissner, Collin C 1Melero, Pilar E 15Mellas, Tessa F 16Meyers, Ronald J. F 5Michael, Magali Cornier B 4Mickalites, Carey James C 8Miller, Brook E 9Miller, Elisabeth L. A 8Millichap, Joseph I 12Mondello, Kaitlin B 12Montag, Kassandra D 9Montanez, Carmen L. D 15Moody, Joshua F 3Moore, Michele I 14Morgan, Thomas L. H 12Morgan, S. D 16Morgan, Thomas L. H 12Morlan, Anna A 13, B 1Morris, Adalaide F 4Morris, Daniel D 13, F 16Morrissey, Ted A 8, E 16, H 4Mrozowski, Daniel H 2Mullins, Anna I 3Mullins, Matthew C 4Munkacsi, Tibor F 9Murphy,John D 11Musgrave, Megan A 6Muyumba, Walton B 11Myman, Micki F 10Nadel, Alan H 17Nealand, Eireene E 2Need, David A 5Neupane, Dhruba Jyoti B 2, D 8Newmark, Julianne B 7, H 12Nielsen, Aldon Lynn B 13, H 13, I 4Norman, Lance I 3Nuessel, Frank C 11Nyman, Micki C 7, F 10, G 13O'Dell, Benjamin D. I 1O'Neal, Summer E 6Oczkowicz, Edyta K. E 11Ogunfolabi, Kayode Omoniyi C 6Olarte, Alejandra C 13Oliver, Matthew D 6Onstoff, Wil W. E 6Orsitto, Fulvio C 15, D 14Ovan, Sabrina E 13Pal, Dibakar B 10Paloff, Benjamin H 7Parker, Jason Thomas H 5Pavlov, Svetoslav P. E 2


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Peckham, Joel F 2Peckham, Rachael F 2Pence, Charlotte I 14Persenaire, Kristina H 5Petersen, Robert C. E 6Peterson, James B. E 7Peterson, Rai B 12Pett, Scott D 3Pignatelli, Louis C 1Pihakis, James B 15, C 4Pleasant, Lesley E 12, F 8Plicka, Joe E 3Polzin, Beth D 7Pooser, Charles D 12Porco, Alessandro C 10, D 8Prince, Adam C 16Rang, Leah D 13Raschke, Debrah B 10Reed, Marthe A 14Rentschler, Erin M. H 12Rice, Thomas Jackson I 11Rich, Charlotte G 6Riemer, James D. G 4Rizzo, Therese M. C 9Robison, Rhonda Dean A 14Rodden IV, Ivan B 15, D 2, E 1Roof, Judith I 15Ross, Shawna H 14Royo, Adrienne E 2Rubin, Lois E. B 1Ruddy, Sarah C 2Rupert, Jennifer Jane C 12Russo, Michelle Hebert I 9Rydel, Christine A. A 1Saldivar, Samuel I 16Samples, Suzanne G 6Samuels, Wilfred A 11, B 11Sandman, Sarah B 6Scheiber, Elizabeth A 7, F 14Scheiber, Andrew H 6Scheiner-Bobis, Sarah Thalia G 11Schoenfeld,Staci R. A 4Schreier, Benjamin A 7, B 4Scroggins,Mark A 3Sefami,Jacoco F 15Sewell, Josh B 5Sewell, Matthew A 7Seymour, Nicole A 1, G 2Shadko, Jacqueline A. B 2Shannon,Drew Patrick B 7Sharma, Ghanashyam D 1Shipe, Matthew G 11Signori, Lisa F. A 12Silbergleid, Robin I 8Sligh, Charles D 11Sorensen, Bent H 15Sowders, Tom G 10Spani, Giovanni C 15Spector, Judith A. (Judy) A 6

Spinelli, Don F 14Spooner, Megan D 1Stanton, Brandi E 7Stewart,Derrick G 13Strombeck, Andrew F 3Stryffeler, Ryan D. E 7Sullivan, M. Neil H 4, I 2Surliuga, Victoria F 14Sutton, Matthew G 2Switaj, Elizabeth Kate A 8, E 16Tajibaeva, Janna H 11Taylor, Corey M. C 9Thorpe, Katherine C 3, G 15Todd, Ian Scott G 5Tonkin, Humphrey C 11Torke, Kyle David I 14Trauman, Ryan D 16, F 13Turnage, Olivia R. H 2Umana, Adrianna I 7Umminger, Alison B 5Valle, Enid G 14Veladota, Christina H 16Vidich, Paul D 16Vincent, Timothy C. E 9Vine, Liz H 5Viola, Anthony J. F 2Vipond, Dianne A 1Vosburg, Carolyn Kirk I 9Waag, Michael E 15Walker, Karen G 7Wallace, Cynthia R. I 6Walser, Andrew D 1Wanczyk, David D 5Wang, Huei-ju D 7Watten, Barrett C 2Webster, Michael B 12Weisenburger, Steve H 10Weiss, Greg H 1Welty, William F 8Wheeler,J ames A 3Whiddon, Kelly I 12Wiles, Matthew G 13Williams, Ruth A 3Williams, Tyrone D 2Willman, Skip F 1Wills, Katherine V. A 6Wingard, Leslie A 9Wortman, Stefanie E 8Yang, Carol L. D 9, E 8Yohe, Kristine F 13Youngblood, Stephanie B 4Zamsky, Robert L. E 4Zanelli, Marco D 14Zeng, Li G 4Zorn, Christa C 8, D 13Zubeck, Jacqueline E 10, F 12, G 12Zychowicz, Jessica H 7

DINING FACILITIES

Campus

Student Activities Center ( SAC)

Look for the Clock Tower

Both Terrace (2nd floor) and

Ground Floor Food Courts

Not open on Saturday

Mitzi’s (basement, MillerTechnology Building)Mon - Fri 7:30 am- 3:00 pm

Not open on Saturday

Near Campus (within walking distance)

Café Bristol (Speed Art Museum)

Reservations suggested 634-2723

Tues - Sat,11:30 am-2:00 pm


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Hotel Shuttle Bus Schedule 2010 The Conference will provide (yellow school) bus service between the hotel and campus.

The buses will run on a circuit: hotel-campus-hotel. The bell captain at the Brown Hotel will have a copy of this schedule.

Bus stops: Brown Hotel, Broadway side of hotel,

UofL campus, North Visitors' Center

Please note: Times listed are DEPARTURE times from the stated bus stop.

(About 15 minutes to or from) Eastern Standard Time

Thursday Friday Saturday

Brown Hotel

UofL Brown Hotel

UofL Brown Hotel

UofL

10:00 10:30 7:30 8:00 9:00 9:30

11:00 11:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 10:30

12:00 12:30 9:30 10:00 11:00 12:00

1:00 1:30 10:30 11:00 12:30 1:30

2:00 2:30 12:30 1:00 2:00 2:45

4:00 4:30 1:30 2:00 4:30

5:00 5:30 2:30 3:00 5:45

6:30 3:30 4:00

7:45 4:30 5:15

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Committee Members

Conference Year 2010

Danielle R. Day, Director

Sylvia Berger, Coordinator

Marie Frana, Assistant

Committee Members

Matthew Biberman, English

Rhonda Buchanan, Spanish

Thomas B. Byers, English

Karen Chandler, English

William Cunningham, German

Matthieu Dalle, French

Alan Golding, English

Susan M. Griffin, English

Karen Hadley, English

Suzette A. Henke, English

Augustus Mastri, Italian

Gabriela Nuñez, English

Nicole Seymour, English

Jeffrey Skinner, English

Ann Elizabeth Willey, English

Li Zeng, Chinese

Manuel F. Medina, Website Design

James Hensley - Website Maintenance


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