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Literary Scholars Association Critics The 14th Annual Conference of The Association of October 24-26, 2008 Literary Scholars Sheraton Society Hill Hotel Critics and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Literature Titles from Oxford Journals www.adaptation.oxfordjournals.org www.camqtly.oxfordjournals.org www.english.oxfordjournals.org www.alh.oxfordjournals.org www.cww.oxfordjournals.org ADAPTATION AMERICAN LITERARY THE CAMBRIDGE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH Adaptation provides an HISTORY QUARTERLY WOMEN’S WRITING Published on behalf of international forum to Covering the study of US The Cambridge Quarterly CWW assesses writing The English Association, theorise and interrogate the literature from its origins was established on the by women authors from English contains essays phenomenon of literature through to the present, principle that literature is an 1970 to the present. It on major works of English on screen from both a American Literary History art, and that the purpose of reflects retrospectively on literature or on topics of literary and film studies provides a much-needed art is to give pleasure and developments throughout general literary interest, perspective. forum for the various, enlightenment. It devotes the period, to survey the aimed at readers within often competing voices itself to literary criticism variety of contemporary universities and colleges of contemporary literary and its fundamental aim work, and to anticipate and presented in a lively inquiry. is to take a critical look at the new and provocative and engaging style. accepted views. women’s writing. www.fmls.oxfordjournals.org www.fsb.oxfordjournals.org www.eic.oxfordjournals.org www.fs.oxfordjournals.org www.library.oxfordjournals.org ESSAYS IN CRITICISM FORUM FOR MODERN FRENCH STUDIES FRENCH STUDIES THE LIBRARY Founded in 1951, Essays LANGUAGE STUDIES French Studies publishes BULLETIN For more than a hundred in Criticism soon achieved FMLS publishes articles articles and reviews French Studies Bulletin years The Library has world-wide circulation, and on all aspects of literary covering language and supplements French been the pre-eminent UK is today regarded as one of and linguistic studies, from linguistics, all periods and Studies with a number of scholarly journal for the Britain’s most distinguished the Middle Ages to the aspects of literature in additional features study of bibliography and journals of literary criticism. present day, reflecting on France and the French- including commentary on of the role of the book in Essays in Criticism covers the essential pluralism of speaking world, thought published articles, society history. the whole field of English language and literature and the history of ideas, news, and upcoming Literature from Chaucer to studies and providing a cultural studies, film, and conference details. the present day. forum for worldwide critical theory. scholarly discussion. www.nq.oxfordjournals.org www.litimag.oxfordjournals.org www.res.oxfordjournals.org ALSO... www.litthe.oxfordjournals.org THE YEAR’S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES www.ywes.oxfordjournals.org THE YEAR’S WORK IN CRITICAL & CULTURAL THEORY www.ywcct.oxfordjournals.org SCREEN LITERARY IMAGINATION LITERATURE AND NOTES & QUERIES THE REVIEW OF www.screen.oxfordjournals.org Literary Imagination is THEOLOGY The primary intention of ENGLISH STUDIES a forum for all those Literature and Theology Notes & Queries is the RES is the leading interested in the distinctive provides a forum for asking and answering scholarly journal in the nature, uses, and pleasures interdisciplinary dialogue, of readers’ questions. It field of English literature of literature, from ancient to inviting both close textual is devoted principally to and language. Emphasis modern, in all languages. analysis and broader English language and is on historical scholarship theoretical speculation as literature, lexicography, rather than interpretative ways of exploring how history, and scholarly criticism, though fresh religion is embedded antiquarianism. evaluation of writers and within culture. their work are also offered. LitJnlsSept08_RESEIZED.indd2 2008 ALSC CONFEREN 1 CE PROGRAM 6/10/08 10:49:38 Presenting Partners for 2008 Conference Table of Contents 4 ALSC Featured Presenters 5 Schedule of Events 7 Hotel Map, Presenters 13 Dining and Entertainment in Philadelphia Major Conference Support 15 ALSC Council, Officers, and Committees Daniel & Joanna S. Rose Major Grants 2008 ALSC Fund Donors Literary Partner Guardian Helper (Up to $99) The Lynde and Harry ($1,000 to $2,499) ($100-$249) Anonymous Gift (4) James R. Bridgeland Anonymous Gift (1) Brian J. Buchanan Bradley Foundation Daniel Rose Morris Dickstein Susan Bullock Leila E. B. Luce James Engell Katherine Butler The Louise Taft Reginald Gibbons Christina Emrick Semple Foundation Rachel Hadas Anita Feldman Janice P. and John Stephen Merriam Major In-Kind Donations of H. Hall Foley Titan ($500-$999) Dexter Jeffries James Geisendorfer Christopher Ricks Marnie Pomeroy Susan Dorrance Facilities and Services Rudolph S. Rasin Kopecek Walter E. Rex Mary Anne O’Neil Hero ($250-$499) Roger H. Schultz Roger L. Parsons Rosanna Warren Frederick T. Speers Adelaide Russo Michael Wood Matt D. Uhler John W. Velz William Vesterman Association Legal Services 2008 Premium Members Commonwealth Promotion/Betty Fulton Patron Level Rachel Hadas Marina Warner Millicent Bell George Held Rosanna Warren McDermott, Will & Emery Maxine Hartley Dexter Jeffries Daniel Webster Lisa Rodensky Sung Ryol Kim Joshua Weiner Margaret Soltan Timothy Kirk Milton L. Welch Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Mass. Dennis Taylor James Longenbach Susan J. Wolfson Washington College Sara Mack Michael Wood Contributing Level Edward Mendelson Gary Saul Morson Eileen Abrahams Joint Domestic Annette Allen Lawrence E. Oelschlegel Warren Dwyer and John Boening Mary Anne O’Neil Jannett K. Highfill Harold W. Brightman Elise Partridge John and Helen Katherine Butler Dan Patrick Schoenhals Hart Grant to Support Design Peter Campion Anita Patterson Jay L. Halio and Diane Clare Cavanagh Marjorie Perloff Isaacs of Literary Matters James W. Chichetto Marnie Pomeroy Robert and Jean Jennifer Clarvoe Daniel Rose Hollander David G. Clemens David J. Rothman X. J. and Dorothy M. Boston University Editorial Institute Chris Coffman Adelaide Russo Kennedy Clark Davis John Sitter Teresa E. and Joseph Pamela Dickson Jeffrey Smith E. Kneuer Morris Dickstein Michael Snediker Thomas R. and Maxine Stephen M. Foley Frederick T. Speers C. Mark William Flesch Stanley N. Stewart Jennifer and Joseph Edwin Frank Linda K. Stillman Palladino 2008 Gift Membership Donors Bruce M. Gans Ernest Suarez Sid and Caren Silvester Thomas P. Gardner Matt D. Uhler Mark and Anya Taylor Robert A.D. Grant Joseph Urbas Christopher Ricks a Rosanna Warren William Green Patricia Wallace 3 Philadelphia, October 24-26 Featured Presenters FEATURED SPEAKER FRiday EVENING READERS Jhumpa Lahiri Jane Hirshfield J.D. McClatchy Joyce Carol Oates Edmund White Photo © 2007 Elena Seibert Photo by Nick Rosza Photo by James Hamilton Photo by Marion Ettlinger Photo by Sophie Bassouls 2008 Conference Committee Chair John Talbot Brigham Young University Saskia Hamilton Barnard College Jack Kolb University of California, Los Angeles Christopher Ricks Boston University Rosanna Warren Boston University Susan Wolfson ALSC owes a great debt of gratitude to our Princeton University conference committee chairman, John Talbot, Michelle Yeh and the members of his committee. It is their University of California, Davis hard work, generosity, leadership, and vision that made this year’s conference possible. 4 2008 ALSC CONFERENCE PROGRAM Schedule of Events Friday, October 24, 2008 Saturday, October 25, 2008 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration ...............................................................Ballroom Foyer Exhibits .............................................................................Cook Room 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Exhibits .............................................................................Cook Room CONCURRENT SEMINARS Interpreting the Shifting Texts of Dickinson 2:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m. and/or Whitman .................................................... Shippen Room Sappho and Her Afterlife: Performance, Reception, and Convener: Don Share (Poetry magazine) Translation ..................................................................Ballroom CD Jessica Beard (University of California, Santa Cruz): “‘Bound—a Convener: Ellen Greene (University of Oklahoma) trouble—’: Literature, the Archive, the Canon, and the Classroom” Sarah Barnsley (University of London): “Sappho, Mary Barnard and Owen Boynton (Cornell University): “Omitting Ellipses: Whitman’s American Modernism” Losses from ’55” Andre Lardinois (Radboud University): “New Philology and the New Archie Burnett (Boston University): “Editing Posthumously” Sappho” James W. Chichetto (Stonehill College): “Editing Dickinson” Holt Parker (University of Cincinnati): “Sappho on Stage” Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University): “DIY Dickinson: Fake Diane Rayor (Grand Valley State University): “The New Sappho and Fascicles, or, A Teaching Edition” Issues of Translation” E. Thomas Finan (Boston University): “Visions and Re-Visions: The Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Johns Hopkins University): “Archaic Song- Whole and the Part in Editing Dickinson and Whitman” making and Anonymous Lyric Compositions” Martin Greenup (Harvard University): “Title divine - is mine!” Marc Mancinelli (Sterling High School): “Whitman: Poet of The
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