Machl 20162016

Cover Art Jennifer Gabriele

MACHL 20162016

Mid-AmericaMid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures

Book Culture and Beyond

Keynote Speakers: Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Washington University St Louis)

Luisa Elena Delgado (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign)

Homage to Roberta Johnson and Vicky Unruh

November 3-5, 2016 University of Kansas, Lawrence Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Sponsors: MACHL Organizing Committee College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas Margot Versteeg (chair) Latin American Theater Review Jorge Pérez Office of the Provost, University of Kansas Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas Cover Art Jennifer Gabriele

MACHL 2016 Schedule of Events

Thursday–November 3 5:30 p.m. Registration and Reception, Maceli's

6:15 p.m. Welcoming Remarks: Paul Kelton, Associate Dean for the Humanities Stuart Day, Interim Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs

6:30 p.m. Keynote Address: Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Washington University St Louis) “Strategic Occidentalism: Contemporary Mexican Fiction and the 'World Literature' Debate”

Friday–November 4 All sessions will take place in the Kansas Union 8 a.m. Session 1

9:30 a.m. Session 2

11:10 a.m. Session 3

12:30 p.m. Lunch Break

2 p.m. Session 4

3:30 p.m. Session 5

5 p.m. Keynote Address: Luisa Elena Delgado (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign) “Taking Leave of our Senses: The Tasks of Culture in Precarious Times.”

7 p.m. Conference Banquet (Kansas Union Ballroom) Homage to Roberta Johnson and Vicky Unruh Remarks: Silvia Bermúdez, University of California Santa Barbara Harriet Turner, University of Nebraska Lincoln Lee Skinner, Claremont McKenna College Priscilla Meléndez, Trinity College

Saturday–November 5 8 a.m. Session 6

9:40 a.m. Session 7

11:20 a.m. Session 8

12:40 a.m. Lunch Break

2:30 p.m. Session 9

4:10 p.m. Poetry Reading

Kansas Union Level 6 Regionalist English Level 5 45 Centennial EXIT 47 EXIT Curry 48 EXIT 53 Parlors Malott EXIT Big 12 Jayhawk 38 Ballroom 51 46 39 Kansas 37

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Divine Nine E 52 41 42 44 Marketing Pine 43 50 Woodruff 40 Governor’s International N S 47 - English Room 51 - Malott Room 37 - Jayhawk Room 42 - Governer’s Room 48 - Centennial Room 52 - Divine Nine Room 38 - Parlors 43 49 - Kansas Room 53 - Curry Room 39 - Ballroom 44 - KU History Displays 50 - Pine Room W 40 - Woodruff Auditorium 45 - Regionalist Room 41 - International Room 46 - Big 12 Room

Enter Enter Here EXIT Level 4 - Lobby Here Plaza Level 3 12 23 KU Dining Enter Hawk Here Shop ATM 36 To EXIT Patio EXIT KU Dining Administration 14 13 EXIT Roasterie Human Resources F The Market 24 Union Impromptu Salon Hawk Coffee E Alcove 15 26 Welcome Gallery KU Panda Express Center 35 18 Media Alderson 34 Mix 16 Auditorium 25 Commerce D Bank 32 Union Impromptu Alcoves KU Card Lobby Programs/ Cafe To Center 21 KJHK 28 31 90.7 FM Multicultural 27 SUA Student Money Mgmt. 18 Resource Dining KU Info B Center Area 19 29 Alcoves 22 30 20 Re ection Alcove G Student Involvement Traditions Lounge Room 22a and Leadership Center 17 33 Dining Area Gender Neutral 30a Administration: 20 Restroom KU Catering KU Event Services Room Reservations

23 - Hawk Shop 30 - Student Involvement & Leadership 12 - Union I.T. 18 - Impromptu Cafe 24 - 30a - Wheat Room 13 - The Market (Dining) 19 - KJHK 90.7 FM Studios 25 31 - Main Lobby / Traditions Lounge 14 20 - Dining Seating Area 26 - Alderson Auditorium 32 - Union Programs/Student Union Activities 15 - KU Media Mix 21 - Student Money Mgmt. 27 - KU Card Center 33 - Administration/Reservations/Catering 16 - Panda Express 22 - Alcoves B-F 28 - Commerce Bank 34 - Kansas Union Gallery 17 - Alcove G 22 a - Re ection Room 29 - KU Info 35 - Roasterie Coffee 36 - ATM (outside) Level 2 Level 1

EXIT EXIT 1 1 - The Jay The Jay 8 2 - The Spare Room 7 The EXIT 7 - KU Bookstore KU Bookstores Tech 3 - Hawk’s Nest Shop 8 - The Tech Shop To KU Parking Garage EXIT 5 - Tunnel below Miss. St. Spare Room 2 Enter 10 Jayhawk Collection 9 - Jayhawk Ink Here 6 - Baumgartner Terrace 10 - Jayhawk Collection 5 Tunnel 9 Jayhawk Ink Hawk’s Nest Enter 3 Here EXIT EXIT Enter Here 6 Baumgartner Terrace

Location Level Location Level Location Level Location Level Administration 4 Event Services/Reservations 4 KU Bookstore 2 Regionalist Room 5 Alcoves 3 Gallery 4 KU Card Center 4 Roasterie® Coffee 4 Alderson Auditorium 4 Gender Neutral Restroom 4 KU Dining Services Offices 3 The Spare Room 1 ATM 4 Governors Room 5 KU Info 4 Student Involvement & Leadership Ctr. 4 Ballroom 5 Hawk Shop Convenience Store 4 KU Media Mix 3 Student Money Mgmt. Services 3 Baumgartner Terrace 1 Hawk's Nest 1 KU Women's Hall of Fame 5 Student Union Activities 4 Big 12 Room 5 Human Resources 3 Main Lobby 4 Tech Shop 2 Catering Office 4 Impromptu Café 3 Malott Room 6 Traditions Lounge 4 Centennial Room 6 International Room 5 Market (Dining) 3 Tunnel Under Miss. St. 1 Class Banner Display 5 & 6 The Jay 1 Marketing 5 Union Accounting/Business Office 3 Commerce Bank 4 Jayhawk Collection 2 Media Crossroads 4 Union Box Office 4 Curry Room 6 Jayhawk Ink 2 Panda Express 3 Union IT Department 3 Dining Seating 3 Jayhawk Room 5 Parking Garage Access 2 Union Programs 4 Divine Nine Room 6 Kansas Room 6 Parlors 5 Union Welcome Center 4 English Room 6 KJHK 90.7 FM Studios 3 Pine Room 6 Wheat Room 4 Reflection Room 3 Woodruff Auditorium 5

Elevators Restrooms KU Parking

Parking Garage Walkway is on Level 2 Friday–November 4 Breaks will be in the Ballroom 8:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

Divine Nine Room Crossing Borders Chair: Javier Barroso Maria G. Akrabova (Metropolitan State University of Denver) “Marx and the Hashtag: Rereading Xavier Velasco in the light of Eric Jarosinski’s Nein: A Manifesto” Jonathan Dettman (University of Nebraska–Kearney) “Reimagining the National Community from the New Mexico Borderlands” Sergio A. Poveda (Lindenwood University) “Like the Brightness of a Lighthouse: The poetry of Roberto Bolaño and Jack Kerouac” Francesca Dennstedt (Washington University St Louis) “Puentes y puntos de quiebre: el proyecto editorial Literal Publishing a través de Cuerpo extraño de Jazmina Barrera Velázquez y La reinita pop no ha muerto de Criseida Santos Guevara”

Malott Room Music and Eroticism in 19th and early 20th century Spanish Cultural Production Chair: Alfonso Bartolomé Argelia García Saldiva (Goshen College) “Coplas populares, Benito Pérez Galdós y los Imaginarios nacionales” Santiago Morales (UC Irvine) “Galdosiana: Episodio musical del cólera” Maria Paredes Méndez (Western Washington University) “De Raquel Meller a Sara Montiel: el cuplé y la mujer española en el siglo XX”

Alcove G Post-War Novel and Theater Chair: Ángel Ranales Craig N. Bergeson (Weber State University) “Manipulating Time in Postwar Spain” Nicholas Sheets (U of Miami) “El madrileño emancipado en La colmena” Cayce Elder (University of Kansas) “Mining the Spanish Classics and Undermining Franco” Anthony Pasero-O'Malley (U of Virginia) “Los ojos brillantes de Ena: Negociando vampirismo en Nada de Carmen Laforet"

Governors Room Queer Spaces Chair: Andrés Rabinovich José J. Álvarez (South Dakota State University) “Decadent Transcendentalism in Atilio Chiáppori’s Un libro imposible” Iván Eusebio Aguirre Darancou (Washington University in St Louis) “The (neo)baroque desert: Abigael Bohórquez’s queer utopian nationscapes” Matthew Edwards (UMKC) “Queer Argentina: Community Formation in a Global Age”

Curry Room Galician Cultural Studies Chair: Irene Vilariño Ana Carballal (Univ of Nebraska, Omaha) “Ángulos políticos de Castelao” Michael L. Martínez (Texas Tech University) “The Politics of Castroforte” Arturo Meijide (St Ambrose University) “Licántropo gallego: Nomadismo e identidad posnacional en Romasanta (2004) de Alfredo Conde”

9:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

Divine Nine Room Realism and Beyond Chair: Margot Versteeg Íñigo Sánchez-Llama (Purdue University) “Clasicismo, romanticismo, historiografía y género sexual: la singular contribución de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda en Egilona (1845)” Harriet S. Turner (University Nebraska-Lincoln) “Up-Down, Over, and Beyond: Naming the Unnamable in the Galdós novel” Mónica Fernández Martins (Texas Tech University) “El incesto como alegoría en Pardo Bazán y Eça de Queirós” Mary Coffey (Pomona College) “End of an Empire and Birth of a Nation in the early Episodios nacionales”

Malott Room Decoloniality Chair: Emilia Barbosa Iván R. Reyna (University of Missouri) “La maldad de Francisco de Carvajal: el demonio de los andes en la segunda parte de los Comentarios Reales de los Incas” Ginett Pineda (University of Kansas) “Tierra encantada: Funciones ecológicas del mito en el mundo andino” Enrique Rodrigo (Creighton University) “Narradores y receptores en El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes”

Alcove G Early Modern Poetics Chair: Erik Alder R. John McCaw (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) “Convoluted Quests: Luis de Góngora, Pedro Espinosa, and the Poetics of Revelation” Mary Jane Kelley (Ohio University) “Mixed Ideologies in Góngora’s Burlesque Poetry” Óscar Sendón (Truman State University) “Los moldes literarios de las relaciones de soldados en la Primera Modernidad”

Governors Room Print Culture Chair: Christi Ivers Amy E. Wright (St. Louis University) “From the Lone Pícaro to the Formidable Familia : Treatment of History & Lineage in Las aventuras de un tourista (1903-04) & Don Catarino y su apreciable familia (1921)” Vanessa Fernández Greene (Winona State University) “Beyond Book Culture: Victoria Ocampo” Vanessa Rodríguez de la Vega (Missouri State University) “El fenómeno del best-seller en la obra de Federico Andahazi” Juan C. Fernández Iglesias (Winona State University) “Identidades portátiles: El libro como objeto narrativo en la obra de Roberto Bolaño”

Curry Room The Return of the Political in Contemporary Spain Chair: Rafael Valadez Daniel García-Donoso (The Catholic University of America) “Localizando lo sagrado en los espacios de lo precario: Purgatorio (2002) de Joan F. Mira” Vicent Moreno (Arkansas State University) “Marta Sanz y el rescate de lo popular: Cultura y política de la España en crisis” David Collinge (Union College) “Freedom of Expression and Terrorist Discourse vs The Spanish Penal Code”

11:10 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

Divine Nine Room Peninsular Poetry Chair: Jonathan Mayhew Reyes Vila-Belda (Indiana University) “Seix Barral, Gloria Fuertes y el mercado editorial de poesía” Marina Llorente (St. Lawrence University) “Spanish Poetry Against Forgetting: the works of Antonio Crespo Massieu and Isabel Pérez Montalbán” Stephen D. Gingerich (Cleveland State University) “Machado’s Apocrypha: Writing the Ephemeral Passage”

Malott Room Memory, Identity, and Ethics in Contemporary Spanish Novel and Culture Chair: Maryanne Leone Nathan Richardson (Bowling Green State University) “Some Books Burn Better Than Others: Los libros arden mal and the Spanish Civil War Novel” Nina Molinaro (University of Colorado, Boulder) “The Art of Responsibility: Levinas, Ethics, and Contemporary Peninsular Narrative” Jessica A. Folkart (Virginia Tech) “The Incestuous Embodiment of Immigration and Identity in La filla estrangera by Najat El Hachmi” Michelle Murray (Vanderbilt University) “Live-tweets from Mauthausen?: @Deportado4443 and Testimonial Writing in an Age of Digital Narration”

Alcove G Pleasure and Sexuality Chair: Raciel Alonso Todd S Garth (US Naval Academy) “Sexismo a la Deriva: Quiroga and Storni in Dialogue” Laura Senio Blair (Southwestern University) “From Pain to Pleasure: Sexual Awakenings and Revival in Contemporary Chilean Narrative” Emma Merrigan (Washington University St. Louis) “Reading the Erotic Corporal Text: Heteroglossia in Mayra Santos-Febres’ Fe en disfraz and Nancy Morejón’s ‘Amo a mi amo’” Rigoberto Guevara (Universidad de Nebraska Lincoln) “El erotismo de olores, sabores y sonidos: Darío, Agustini y Vallejo”

Governors Room Dictatorship and Imperialism in Latin American Science Fiction and Horror Organizer and Chair: David Dalton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) Eric Rojas (Pittsburg State University) “La búsqueda de un pasado enterrado en Almuerzo con vampiros de Carlos Franz” Sara Potter (The University of Texas at El Paso) “(Post)colonial Invasions: Urban Wastelands and Neoliberal Contagion in Con Z de Zombie and Juan de los muertos” David Dalton (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) “De-Mechanizing the Cyborg Slave: Robo Sacer Resistance in Francisco Laresgoiti’s 2033” Manuel Medina (University of Louisville) “Entre ciencia ficción y denuncia social en la narrativa de Solange Rodríguez Pappe”

Curry Room Time, Space, Performance Chair: Yesenia López Matt Johnson (Indiana University) “Art, Life, and the Museum of the Novel: Macedonio Fernández’s Avant-Garde Aesthetics” J. McClanahan (Creighton University). “Confusing Politics with Performance: Picospardo’s and Its Critics” Anton Pujol (UNC Charlotte) “La poética del espacio en el teatro de Paco Bezerra”

Spencer Library Gallery The Route of Cortés/La Ruta de Cortés Organizer and Chair: Santa Arias (University of Kansas) Kelly McDonough (University of Texas at Austin) “Taxonomies of Remembering and Forgetting: 16th Century Nahua Letters to the Spanish Crown” Tania García Piña (University of Texas, Austin) “Indigenous Networks in 16th-Century Nahuatl Annals” Respondent: Kathleen Ann Myers (Indiana University)

12:30 Lunch Break

2:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

Divine Nine Room Cartografías culturales gallegas Organizer and Chair: Silvia Bermúdez Eugenia R. Romero (The Ohio State University) “Museographical Practices of Galeguidade: O Museo do Pobo Galego” Alba Constenla Torrado (University of California-Santa Barbara) “Esta es mi tierra - ‘Galicia, arpa de niebla:’ psicogeografía de/en Manuel Rivas” Silvia Bermúdez (University of California-Santa Barbara) “Santiago de Compostela: De la ciudad imaginada a la ciudad recuperada”

Malott Room In Honor of Frank Dauster I Chair: Camilla Stevens (Rutgers University) Kirsten Nigro (University of Texas, El Paso) “Vicente Leñero and the Written Word” Gail Bulman (Syracuse University) “Rigid spaces, transnational places: Cruelty unleashed on/in Chilean Stages” Lucía Garavito (Kansas State University) “Formas espectrales y cultura material en la dramaturgia del conflicto armado en Colombia: Con el corazón abierto de Humberto Dorado” Sharon Magnarelli (Quinnipiac University) “Theater and Museum: Filling Spaces, Masks, and Mirrors in Museo”

Alcove G Medieval Epistemologies Chair: Isidro Rivera Amy Austin (University of Texas at Arlington) “Ramon Llull’s Arbors of Knowledge” Michael O’Brien (Washburn University) “Delay Tactics: Postponement as Power in Libro de Apolonio” Roxana Recio (Creighton University) “Los cancioneros del XV: Carroç Pardo como un espejo del cambio en la poética peninsular”

Curry Room Social space, spectacle and female sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Spain Organizer and Chair: Susan Walter (U Denver) Sarah Sierra (Virginia Tech) “Virtual Bodies, Perception, and Social Space: The Spectacle in Pardo Bazán’s Morriña” Erika M. Sutherland (Muhlenberg College) “Teaching the Unmentionable: Nineteenth Century Sexuality in an Undergraduate Spanish Class” Susan Walter (University of Denver) “Female sexual desire and the environment in Los Pazos de Ulloa and La madre naturaleza”

Alcove F 20th century Spanish Women Novelists Chair: Megan Sheldon Sandra J. Schumm (Baker University) “Revisiting the Interlocutor: El cuarto de atrás and El pozo del cielo” Alicia Rico (University of Nevada) “La mujer fría de Carmen de Burgos: ¿quién es el monstruo?” Teresa M Greppi (University of Illinois) “Clandestine Cats and Communal Motherhood: Carmen Laforet and Ecofeminism”

Spencer Library Roundtable Discussion on the Cambridge History of Mexican Literature Chair: Rafael Acosta Panelists: Ignacio Sánchez Prado (Washington University, Saint Louis) Anna M. Nogar (University of New Mexico) José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra (University of Houston) Santa Arias (University of Kansas) Kelly McDonough (University of Texas at Austin) Mariselle Meléndez (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Amy E. Wright (Saint Louis University) Stuart Day (University of Kansas)

3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

Divine Nine Room Seeing is Believing? – Cultures of Visibility Organizer and Chair: Robert Wells (William Jewell College) Patricia Keller (Cornell University) “The Image as Camouflage: Joan Fontcuberta and the Production of Photographic Faith” Eugenio Di Stefano (University of Nebraska Omaha) “Culture of Visibility, Politics of Grievability: The Question of the Aesthetic Frame in Pablo Larraín's No” Manuel Chinchilla (Sewanee: The University of the South) “Ecstatic Revolution in Carlos Reygadas’s Este es mi reino” Robert Wells (William Jewell College) “Hidden in Plain Light: Reframing and Refracting the Mexican Uncanny in Carlos Reygadas’s Post Tenebras Lux” Juli Highfill (University of Michigan) “Visionary Consciousness and Aerial Vision: Flight in the Literary and Popular Imagination in Spain, 1920-1936”

Malott Room In Honor of Frank Dauster II Chair: Kirsten Nigro (University of Texas, El Paso) Priscilla Meléndez (Trinity College) “Teo- y narco-logías: Los mercaderes del templo en El narco negocia con Dios de Sabina Berman” Amalia Gladhart (University of Oregon) “Mauricio Kartun's Terrenal: humor, rewriting, audience” Iani Moreno (Suffolk University) “Representations of La Mara Salvatrucha in Contemporary Mexican Theatre” Margarita Vargas (University of Buffalo) “El mundo artístico como aldea global en Casi Transylvania de Bárbara Colio” Zaida Godoy Navarro (Fort Hays State University) “Gender, Globalization, and Migration: Local vs. Foreign Identities in Enrique Ballesté’s Cantina La Conquista and Edgar Chías’ Fronteras”

Alcove G Early Twentieth-Century Peninsular Literature Chair: Jonathan Mayhew Brian Cope (College of Wooster) “Unamuno as Freethinker” Kelly Drumright (University of Colorado at Boulder) “Compassion and Logos in Joan Maragall’s articles on the Tragic Week (1909)” Carles Ferrando Valero (University of Colorado at Boulder) “Modernidad y (re)humanización en la narrativa de Fernando Vela” Joan M. Hoffman (Western Washington University) “Tragedy and Triumph: Further Comparisons of Yerma and Burning Bright”

Governors Room Colonial Negotiations Chair: Ginett Pineda Ignacio Carvajal (The University of Texas at Austin) “Chinamit? Pueblo? Texts and colonial negotiation in sixteenth century Guatemala” Beth Boyd (Indiana University Bloomington) “‘Fue uno de los que vieron con sus ojos’: Sensory Perception, Image, and Humanizing the Sacred in Francisco de Florencia’s La milagrosa invención de un tesoro escondido…(1685)”

Curry Room Science in 19th and 20th century Peninsular Literature Chair: Mirla González Leslie Anne Merced (Rockhurst University, Kansas City) “Through her Eyes: German Science and Literature during 19th and early 20th century Spain” Michael A. Gómez (College of Charleston) “Early Science Fiction Discourse” Rebecca M. Bender (Kansas State University) “Mother or Monster? Exploring Female Subjectivity through Science, Medicine, and Literature in early 20th Century Spain”

Alcove F Writing and Film in Mexico Chair: Luis Alberto Rodríguez Cortés María Teresa DePaoli (Kansas State University) “Screenwriting and Documentary in Mexican Cinema's Silent Period: A Case Study” Christopher Schulenburg (U Wisconsin Platteville) “Contaminated Samples: The Search for a Unifying Discourse in Jorge Volpi’s No será la Tierra (2006)” Megan Thornton (John Carroll University) “El Zarco Reimagined in Nosotros los Nobles: A Foundational Fiction for the 21 Century” Jacob Rapp (Whitworth University) “More Than a Nudge: Carlos González Peña (Re)Writes Modernista Fiction”

5 p.m. Keynote

Kansas Union Ballroom Luisa Elena Delgado (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign) “Taking Leave of our Senses: The Tasks of Culture in Precarious Times.”

7 p.m. Banquet

Kansas Union Ballroom Homage to Roberta Johnson and Vicky Unruh. Remarks: Silvia Bermúdez (University of California Santa Barbara); Harriet Turner (University of Nebraska Lincoln); Lee Skinner (Claremont McKenna College); Priscilla Meléndez (Trinity College)

Saturday–November 5

8:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

Centennial Room Countering Master Narratives through Performance in Contemporary Latin America Chair: Paola Hernández (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Megan Bailon (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “’Y solo quedó uno.’ Violence, Immobility, and Globalization in Confesiones de un elefante” Evelyn Galindo (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “El turno del ofendido. Narratives of Memory in Post-war El Salvador” Carlos Ortiz (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “¿Democracia en el Chile contemporáneo? Escuela de Guillermo Calderón como contradiscurso para la Historia establecida” Aníbal González (Yale University) “Arte y crisis en Puerto Rico: el Manual del bestiario doméstico de Las Nietas de Nonó”

English Room Translation Beyond the Page: Rewriting and Resistance in Contemporary Spanish American Literature Organizer and Chair: Laura Kanost (Kansas State University) Resha Cardone (Southern Connecticut State University) “The Activist Work of the Translator: Independent Publishing in Contemporary Chile” Laura Kanost (Kansas State University) “La Castañeda Translated: Palimpsest in Works by Cristina Rivera Garza” David Lisenby (William Jewell College) “From the Plantation to the Palenque: Translating Human/Cuban Rights in Gerardo Fulleda’s Ruandi”

International Room Sites of Power Chair: Dana Meredith Jacob Brown (Vanderbilt University) “Adapting Masculine “Performance” from Novel to Film: Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas” Amy Robinson (Bowling Green State University) “Reinventing Chucho el Roto in Late Twentieth- Century Mexico” Charles Boyer (Hawai'I Pacific University) “Play, Place and the Reader in 1970s Crime Fiction from Mexico”

Jayhawk Room Otherness and Alternative Cultures Chair: Mónica Veiga Amanda K. Rector (University of Illinois at Urbana Campaign) “Problematic Perceptions: Performing Alterity and ‘Going Native’ in Diario de la guerra de África (1859-1860) y Viajes por Marruecos (1836)” Elizabeth Smith Rouselle (Xavier University of Louisana) “Zulima as a Strong African Female in Los Amantes de Teruel by Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch” Carmen Torre Pérez (University of Pennsylvania) “ ‘Si el punk ha muerto, nosotros somos la venganza’: globalización y culturas alternativas en Cuba”

Pine Room Literature and Society Chair: Rafael Acosta Francisco Flores-Cuautle (Wichita State University) “Márgenes narrativos y traición a la novela tradicional: Profesores y Be y pies de Gabriel Wolfson” Emilio Sauri (University of Massachusetts Boston) “Literature and De-development” Santiago Rozo-Sánchez (Washington University in St. Louis) “Translating Mexico City: Mass-Archive, Foreignness and World Literature in Rodrigo Fresán’s Mantra”

Divine Nine Room Internal Aliens in the Hispanic World: Textual and Cinematic Representations during the 20th and 21st Centuries Organizer and Chair: Carmen Toro Soledad Mocchi-Radichi (Washington University St. Louis) “La ‘Suiza de América:’ ¿el fin de un mito? Uruguay, 2003” Kyeongeun Park (Washington University St. Louis) “La nueva cartografía de la urbe selvática, en Las teorías salvajes de Pola Oloixarac” Silvia Rocha (Washington University St. Louis) “Intervenciones contagiosas y profilaxis cinemática en el melodrama mexicano: Nosotros los pobres, de Ismael Rodríguez” Carmen Toro (Washington University in St Louis) “Ni niños ni adultos: Dicotomías en suspensión en El espinazo del diablo de Guillermo del Toro”

Regionalist Room Latinoamérica en crisis: sujetos en transición Organizer and Chair: Luis Alberto Rodríguez Cortés Luis Alberto Rodríguez Cortés (University of Kansas) “Del estigma al enigma: secuelas macondianas y la cuestión de lo latinoamericano en La materia del deseo de Edmundo Paz Soldán” Adolfo Bejar (University of Arizona) “Cosa de negros: identidad latinoamericana y la coartada neoliberal” Javier Barroso (University of Kansas) “Rodó, Bolaño y el neoconservadurismo de la izquierda en América Latina: Desilusiones, exclusiones y la solidaridad insufrible” Jennifer Abercrombie Foster (University of Kansas) “The Devil in the System: Identity and Anti- capitalist Feminism in Franz Galich’s Managua, Salsa City”

9:40 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

Centennial Room Exploring the Social: Politically Committed Works in Contemporary Latin(o) American Plays Organizer: Paola Hernández (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Chair: Marcy Schwartz (Rutgers University) Paola Hernández (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Shadows of the Real: Ciudad Juárez and Teatro línea de sombra” Sarah M. Misemer (Texas A&M University) “ ‘Eso no es revolución’: Juxtaposing Theory and Practice in Santiago Sanguinetti’s Trilogía de la Revolución” Camilla Stevens (Rutgers University) “Interrogating the Stereotype of the Jodedor in La Cosa Nostra Dominicana” Michelle Warren (University of Nebraska at Kearney) “Miserable Tourism: Metatheatre and Performance of Poverty in Eduardo Rovner’s Miserables”

English Room STEM and Literary Production by Contemporary Spanish Women Organizer and Chair: Dawn Smith-Sherwood Dawn Smith-Sherwood (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) “Las chicas raras de STEM: An Overview” Debra Faszer-McMaho (Seton Hill University) “Science in the Works of Clara Janés: A Poetics of Theoretical (Meta)physics” Victoria L. Ketz (La Salle University) “Through Time and Space: The Theory of Relativity in Mayoral’s Admirados colegas” Maryanne L. Leone (Assumption College) “Unorthodox Theories: Science and Technology in the Recent Works of Rosa Montero”

International Room Masculinity, disability, death in Fin-de-siglo Spanish Literature Chair: Rob Bayliss Zachary Erwin (Monmouth College) “Masculinity, Androgyny, and the Carnivalesque in Emilia Pardo Bazán’s La Tribuna” Ismael Souto Rumbo (State University of New York at Brockport) “Masculinidad, (dis)capacitada en La de Bringas (1884) de Benito Pérez Galdós” David Wood (Millsaps College) “Literary Suicide and Creation in Azorín¹s Bohemia and Diario de un enfermo”

Jayhawk Room Visual Cultures in Contemporary Spain Chair: Angélica García Genel Michael Ugarte (University of Missouri, Columbia) “Dead Woman Walking: Dulce Chacón’s The Sleeping Voice and Its Film Adaptation” Alberto Villamandos (University of Missouri, Kansas City) “A través del espejo: la obra pictórica de José Hernández en su écfrasis” Emily DiFilippo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) “Motionless: disability and Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves” Juan Senís Fernández (Universidad de Zaragoza) “Et in arcadia (no) Leo: escritura y oralidad en La flor de mi secreto”

Pine Room Print Culture and Revolutions: A Transatlantic Perspective Organizer and Chair: Luis Cuesta Luis Cuesta (State University of New York, Albany) “Portraits of a Failed Revolution: The Asturian Revolution on Alfonso Camín´s El valle Negro” Vanessa Marie Fernández (San José State University) “A Spanish ‘Novel of the Mexican Revolution’: Tirano Banderas in El Estudiante (Salamanca-Madrid 1925-26)” Brenda Ortiz-Loyola (California State University, Stanislaus) “Transatlantic Solidarity: Dominican- Spanish Relations During the U.S. Occupation, 1916-1924”

Divine Nine Room Race, Ritual, Representation Chair: Marcela Risso Lee Skinner (Claremont McKenna College) “Food and Order: Conduct Manuals and Dining in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America” Rebecca Ingram (University of San Diego) “The Civic Virtues of “Eating Right”: Transnational Cooking and Modernizing Barcelona” Emilia Barbosa (University of Kansas) “Re-Imagining the Archive: Verónica Riedel’s Reinas Indígenas Doubling for Latin America’s Foremothers”

Regionalist Room Gender and Genre in Early Modern Spain Chair: Patricia Manning Christine Garst Santos (South Dakota State University) “The Body as Graphic Text: María de Zayas Explores the Pathologies of Femininity” Alicia Herraiz (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) “El gusto de mi padre se hará el mío: (des)obediencia filial en la literatura hispana de la primera modernidad” Ryan Prendergast (University of Rochester) “Genre and History in Cervantes’s El rufián dichoso”

11:20 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

Centennial Room Post-Canon Reflections: Challenging Literary Traditions Through Latin American Theatre and Performance Chair: Jacqueline Bixler (Virginia Tech) Christina Baker (The College of William and Mary) “Hugo Salcedo and Re-Defining the Music of Modern Mexico: From Narcocorridos to Música de balas)” Verónica Rodríguez (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “From the 17th Century to Almoloya: The Symbolic Power of Sor Juana/Jesusa” Marin Laufenberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “The post-escénico of Ricardo Bartis' Postales argentinas: poetics of recycling and excess in times of neoliberal crisis” Carly Kragthorpe (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Exploding the Tradition: Astrid Hadad and Mexican Camp”

English Room The Ashes and the Undertow. The Cosmopolitics of Arde el Mar (1966-2016) Organizer and Chair: Eloi Grasset (University of California Santa Barbara) Eloi Grasset (University of California Santa Barbara) “Arde el Mar as a Failed Attempt: Reinscribing Modernismo in the Spanish Literary Tradition” Carlos Varón González (NYU) “Gimferrer's Combustible Poetics: the Primitive Accumulation of Cultural Capital” Pablo Martínez Diente (Kansas State University) “On Translating Arde el mar”

International Room Space and class in 19th Century Peninsular Literature Chair: Cristina Casas Jennifer Isasi (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) “Modelo de análisis de la sociedad en el diseño de los personajes de los Episodios nacionales” Carmen Pereira-Muro, Texas Tech University “Agua, urbanismo y escritura en Fortunata y Jacinta” Maria Luz Bateman (Texas Tech University) “Promesa de felicidad, género e ideología en Tristana de Galdós y Memorias de un solterón de Pardo Bazán” Francisca González Arias (Boston University) “Pardo Bazán’s Places”

Jayhawk Room Imagen frente a texto: potencia cinematográfica y política Organizer and Chair: Cristina Moreiras-Menor (The University of Michigan) Priscila Calatayud (University of Michigan) “Cine, trabajo y dominación social en Vikingland de Xurxo Chirro” Rachel TenHaaf (University of Arkansas) “Magical Sacred Spaces and the Undoing of Capitalism in Vermut” Cristina Moreiras-Menor (University of Michigan) “La mirada traidora: Imagen y legado en Pa Negre de Agustín Villaronga”

Pine Room Media Representation and the Globalized World Chair: Luciano Tosta Coral Rivera-Díaz (SUNY Stonybrook) La isla de los amores infinitos de Daina Chaviano Miguel González-Abellás (Washburn University Topeka) “Kansas in Spanish-Language Novels during the 20th Century: Conservative Craziness”

Divine Nine Room Turning the Page: Reading Practices in Latin America from the 20th to the 21st Century Organizer and Chair: Marcy Schwartz (Rutgers University) Leila Gómez (University of Colorado-Boulder) “Gabriela Mistral y el libro en la reforma educativa mexicana” Antonia Viu (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile) "El orden de los libros: culturas lectoras, reproducción y catalogación en Chile 1910-1960” Marcy Schwartz (Rutgers University) “Books that Bite: Libraries of Banned Books in Argentina” Laura Demaría (University of Maryland) “Leer desde Chivilcoy: la descomposición de Hernán Ronsino”

Regionalist Room Arquetypes, Journeys and Dirty Realism Chair: Rafael Acosta Miguel-Ángel Albujar-Escuredo (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) “Un arquetipo, tres cuentos” Sylvia López (Beloit College) “Isabel Allende’s YA Fiction: Call to Adven(a)ture in La ciudad de las bestias” Patricia Pérez-Leal (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) “La personificación de la muerte en los cuentos de Froylán Turcios Cuentos del amor y de la muerte” Raúl C. Verduzco (Tecnológico de Monterrey) ‘Neobarroco y desecho: Hacia una relectura del realismo sucio latinoamericano”

12:40 p.m. Lunch Break

2:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

Centennial Room Migration, violence, trauma Chair: Dana Meredith Zaida Godoy Navarro (Fort Hays State University) “Gender, Globalization, and Migration: Local vs. Foreign Identities in Enrique Ballesté’s Cantina La Conquista and Edgar Chías’ Fronteras” Ariel Strichartz (St. Olaf College) “Media, Memory, and Genocidal Violence: La negación by Alejandro Genés” Katya Soll (Baker University) “Othello Goes to the Circus: Redefining Comedy and Tragedy through Adaptation”

English Room Queer Politics and Culture in Contemporary Spain Chair: Rafael Valadez Jill Robbins (University of California, Merced) “Out of the Picture: Queers, Feminists and 11-M.” Elena Castro (Louisiana State University) “The Discourses of Sexual Dissidence and memoria histórica in Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s Donde nadie te encuentre” Megan Sheldon (University of Kansas) “Persisting Social Hierarchies and Divides in the Literature of Spain’s ‘Rainbow Society’” Beatriz Celaya (University of Cincinnati), Ecocrítica feminista de una España neoliberal: Crematorio y En la orilla, de Rafael Chirbes”

International Room Agency and Identity Chair: Emilia Barbosa Jonathan O'Conner (St. Olaf College) “Reforging History: Malinalli's Authoritative Voice from the Margins in Laura Esquivel's Malinche” Montserrat Fuente-Camacho (University of Nebraska) “Una lectura ecocrítica de Los ríos profundos de José María Arguedas” Guillermina Pena “Nahualismo como realización de la filosofía estética en la obra pictórica de Leonora Carrington” Sunyoung Kim (Purdue University) “El símbolo del binarismo en Duerme de Carmen Boullosa”

Jayhawk Room Testimonio and Trauma Chair: Javier Barroso Sandra Úsuga (Purdue University) “Testimonios, cuentos y muñecas: voces marginalizadas productoras de cultura y literatura en el conflicto armado colombiano” Pablo G. Celis Castillo (Elon University) “Brutal Invisibility: Graffiti, Fear, and Subjectivity in Rosario García Montero’s Las malas intenciones (2011)”

Pine Room España, una angustia nacional Chair: Hattie Miles-Polka Iker González-Allende (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) En defensa de España: Masculinidad franquista en el exilio en El otro árbol de Guernica, de Luis de Castresana” Erma Nezirevic (University of Minnesota – Twin Cities) “Iberian Hospitality: Facing the Balkan Other in Erika Bornay’s Lunes en la calle Slova” Susan Wright (U of Colorado, Boulder) “¿Qué es España ya? Paisajes a través del tiempo en España (2008) y Los inmortales (2011) por Manuel Vilas”

Divine Nine Room Alternative Spiritualities in Fin-de-siglo Spain Organizer and Chair: Jennifer Smith Alicia Cerezo (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Ciencia, mediumnidad y feminismo” Christy Presson Shaughnessy (Washington and Jefferson College) “Imagining Saintly Women: Pardo Bazán’s Cuadros religiosos” Denise DuPont (Southern Methodist University) “St. Teresa, 1914: Homage to the Glorious Doctor” Jennifer Smith (Southern Illinois University) “Eduardo López Bago’s Nymphomaniacal Nuns: La monja (1886)”

Regionalist Room Ausencia, presencia y ubicación: narrativas de género sexual en la calle Organizer and Chair: Amanda L Petersen (U San Diego) Alejandro Puga (DePauw University) “La ciudadanía paseante de Ana Clavel y Gonzalo Celorio” C. Patricia Tovar (Oberlin College) “Tácticas de resistencia: la Ciudad de México en El huésped de Guadalupe Nettel” Amanda L Petersen (University of San Diego) “The Haunted Spaces of Intimate Violence in Rosina Conde”

4:10 p.m.

English Room Poetry Reading Jose R. Ballesteros (St. Mary's College of Maryland)