The Joint 32Nd European Association for American Studies & 63Rd British Association for American Studies Conference

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The Joint 32nd European Association for American Studies & 63rd British Association for American Studies Conference

4-7 April 2018

Conference Programme

Tuesday 3 April 2018 09:00-15:00 EAAS AGM (Senate House)

Location information All panel sessions on 4-7 April will take place at King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NH.

Individual panel locations will be added to the programme.

Changes will be noted in red

Wednesday 4 April

09:30-11:00 Registration and coffee

11:00-12:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A

Panel A1 Registration vs. Representation: New Approaches to American Culture and Capital

Chair: TBC

Late-Transcendentalism: Literature, Lines of Sight, and Cultural Registration Benjamin Pickford, Université Lausanne

Call and Response: Transatlantic Emancipatory Politics in Chris Abani’s GraceLand Amy Rushton, Nottingham Trent University

Resisting Liberalism: The Paradigm Problem of early ‘National’ US-based Writing Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick

Panel A2 William Gibson's The Peripheral and Alternate Constructions of Reality

Chair: TBC

Post-Temporal, Post-Geographic Cartography in Gibson’s The Peripheral Katherine E. Bishop, Miyazaki International College

Alternate History, Alternative Fact: Detective, Historian, Reader Glyn Morgan, University of Liverpool

‘Something so deeply earned’: Metaphor, Morals, and Meat in Gibson’s The Peripheral Wednesday Keren Omry, University of Haifa

Panel A3 ‘We will all fight’: Modes and Narratives of Environmental Protest

Chair: TBC

‘Botanizing on the Asphalt’: Urban Foraging and/as Environmental Resistance in Rebecca Lerner’s Dandelion Hunter Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, Academia Sinica

Revisiting ‘the Wild’: Transatlantic Visions of Environmental Protest Michaela Keck, University of Oldenburg

Resisting Climate Change Apocalypticism: Jetnil-Kijiner’s Activist Climate Change Poetry Hanna Straß-Senol, University of Oldenburg

Panel A4 The Art of Protest: Critical Art and Beyond

Chair: TBC

Transnational Protest (Inter)actions: Performances, Guerrilla Girls and the New Media in American and Polish Artivism Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak, University of Wrocław

The Disquieting Charm of Renée Cox: Transforming Dispossession into Self-Possession Anna Pochmara, University of Warsaw Justyna Wierzchowska, University of Warsaw

Are We Still Contemporaries of the Communist Hypothesis of the 1968? Artistic Responses to 1968 and Its Reception After the Financial Crisis of 2008 Magdalena Radomska, Adam Mickiewicz University

Panel A5 AIDS, Activism, and Memorialization

Chair: TBC

Get (Sur)Real!: Surrealism as Tactic in the Art and Activism of Ronnie Burk Victoria Carroll, King's College London

From Grove to Pier: Memorializing the AIDS Crisis Wayde Brown, University of Georgia

A Porous City: Reading a Queer New York in the 1970s in Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls (1994) and Edmund White’s City Boy (2009) Vincenzo Bavaro, University of Naples ‘L’Orientale,’ Italy

Panel A6 Imperial Entanglements in a Vast Early America

Chair: Peter Thompson, University of Oxford Wednesday Swamping Guns and Stabbing Irons – The Austrian Netherlands and the American Revolution Marion Huibrechts, KU Leuven

Empires on the Edge – The Habsburg Monarchy and the American Revolution Jonathan Singerton, University of Edinburgh

Congress and the Drift towards a Republican Empire, 1774-1783 Trent Taylor, University of Oxford

Panel A7 Constructing Antebellum Race and Gender

Chair: TBC

The Hanging of Pauline, a Bad Slave Lawrence McDonnell, Iowa State University

Between Womanhood and Citizenship: A Conceptual-Historicist Approach to Antebellum Women's Literature of Protest Iulian Cananau, University of Gävle

A Crossdresser and Con Artist in Antebellum New York Shane White, University of Sydney

Panel A8 Facing Disaster: The American Novel at the End of the World

Chair: TBC

Time After the End: Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Diletta De Cristofaro, University of Birmingham

Archiving Post-Apocalyptic Anxieties in Bats of the Republic Danuta Fjellestad, Uppsala University, Sweden

The Disaster of the End: Writing the World in Contemporary North American Fiction Phil Leonard, Nottingham Trent University

Panel A9 People, Places, and Predators of (Dubious) Acclaim: Environmental Celebrity, Status, and Speech in Human and Non-Human North American History

Chair: TBC

Wednesday Embodying Hostility: Robert Redford, Celebrity Environmental Elitism, and the Four Corners Power Complex Nicholas Blower, University of Kent

‘The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee’: The Celebrity Atatus of the Upper Great Lakes Colin Elder, University of Kent

The Call of the Wild: Yellowstone’s Wolves, Environmental Celebrity and the Shifting Terrain of Wilderness Mythology in Modern America Karen Jones, University of Kent

Panel A10 Place, Protest, Possibility, and Pedagogy: A Roundtable on Teaching (Roundtable)

Chair: Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello

Ingrid Gessner, University of Education Vorarlberg Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Salem State University Bela Gligorova, NOVA International Schools & Center for Culture and Cultural Studies Claire M. Massey, Saarland University Despoina N. Feleki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Panel A11 Visual Representations of American Protest

Chair: TBC

From the Eastern European Communist Regime to the America of the 1970s: the European Auteur in Hollywood Agnieszka Gadomska, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

F*society and Rise of the Robot. Traumatized Technophiles as Subversive Subjects. Pawel Pyrka, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

Hollywood, Red-Baiting and the Second Life of the ‘Commie’ Piotr Skurowski, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

Panel A12 Contemporary American Poetry and Public Space (Roundtable)

Chair: Paulina Ambrozy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

The Cultural Commons and the Poet(h)ics of Appropriation Paulina Ambrozy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

Wednesday Patricia Lockwood's Poetics of Attention Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University

Protest at the Border: Steve Collis and the Poetics of Environmental Space David Herd, University of Kent

Wanda Coleman's Retro Rouge Anthology as Protest Poems Jerzy Kamionowski, University of Białystok

’I’M A POLLINATOR! I’M A POLLINATOR!!’: Anarchism, Gesture and the Ecology of ‘Extreme Present’ in CA Conrad's ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness Małgorzata Myk, University of Lodz

12:30-13:45 Lunch 12:30-13:45: EAAS president’s lunch, location TBC

13:45-15:15 PARALLEL SESSION B

Panel B1 New Voices in Jewish-American Literature (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC

David Brauner, University of Reading Michael Kalisch, University of Cambridge Joshua Leavitt, Ohio State University Dan O'Brien, University College Dublin Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University Eva von Loenen, University of Southampton Mike Witcombe, Bath Spa University

Panel B2 The (Historical) American City in Video Games

Chair: TBC

‘Documenting’ History in Mafia III: Playing with America’s Difficult Pasts Adam Chapman, University of Gothenburg Esther Wright, University of Warwick

Bioshock: Infinite’s Columbia: Heaven in the Cloud Emily Marlow, University of Sheffield

The American City Under Attack: Atari’s Missile Command (1980) John Wills, University of Kent

Panel B3 Literary Ecologies

Chair: TBC

Wednesday Lynne Tillman, Literary Ecologist: Environmental Sensitivities and Ecological Thinking in American Genius, A Comedy Eric Dean Rasmussen, University of Stavanger

Crafting a New Anti-Ecological Space Inside a Transcendentalist Tradition? Felix Nicolau, Lund University

From the Deep Woods… Trees as Home in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Four Souls Gabriela Jeleńska, University of Warsaw

Panel B4 American Literary Naturalism and Social Protest (Roundtable)

Chair: Steven Bembridge, Independent Scholar

Donna M. Campbell, Washington State University Steven Bembridge, Independent Scholar Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas at San Antonio Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College Steve Frye, California State University Bakersfield Eric Carl Link, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Lauren Navarro, LaGuardia Community College Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina Wilmington Adam H. Wood, Salisbury University

Panel B5 The History of Financial Advice

Chair: TBC

Dreams of Avarice: Popular Investment Advice Before and After the Great Crash of 1929 Paul Crosthwaite, University of Edinburgh

Gilded Age Investment Advice Manuals Peter Knight, University of Manchester

Financial Advice and the Great Compression Nicky Marsh, University of Southampton

Panel B6 Anti-Slavery Networks

Chair: TBC

Conditional Freedom: US Fugitive Slaves in Mexican Texas, 1821-1836

Wednesday Thomas Mareite, Leiden University

‘Heroic Souls’: The Memory of Tubman, Truth and black female abolitionists Charlotte James, University of Nottingham

Panel B7 Beyond the Spectacle: Native North Americans in Britain in the Twentieth Century

Chair: TBC

An uneven surface; British heritage contact zones Jack Davy, University of East Anglia

Beyond Buffalo Bill: Mass Mobilization and the Native Warrior Jacqueline Fear-Segal, University of East Anglia David Stirrup, University of Kent

‘A Struggle for the Land’: Environment, Place, and the Transnational Networks of American Indian Activists and Welsh Nationalists Kate Rennard, University of Kent 7

Panel B8 Indigenous Resistance: From Place-Based Politics to Protest

Chair: TBC

Place-Based Body Politics: Reproductive Justice and Indigenous Women Elizabeth Rule, Brown University

The State of Exception and Indigenous Human Rights: Violations of Indigenous Lands and Rights at Muskrat Falls and Standing Rock Colin Samson, University of Essex

Panel B9 Performance and Activism: Environmental and Cultural Action, From Local Narratives to Global Contexts

Chair: Léna Remy-Kovach, University of Freiburg

Creative Protest: Re-Shaping Storyworlds in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction Judith Eckenhoff, RWTH Aachen University

#NoDAPL: Local, Global, and International Protests for Indigenous Rights and Protection of the Environment Léna Remy-Kovach, University of Freiburg

Protesting through Heritage Performance: Storytelling in Novels of the Native American Renaissance Julia Ruff, University of Freiburg

Panel B10 President Trump’s First 15 Months: Looking Beyond Each 15 Minutes (Roundtable)

Chair: Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University

Wednesday Wednesday Mara Oliva, University of Reading Alex Waddan, University of Leicester Iwan Morgan, University College London Andrew Wroe, University of Kent

Panel B11 Protest and the Historical Sublime: Metafictional Visions of Conquest

Chair: Martina Koegeler-Abdi, University of Copenhagen

Literary Historiography and Sublime Politics in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) Martina Koegeler-Abdi, University of Copenhagen

Trauma and the Historical Sublime: Craig Baldwin’s O No Coronado! Klaus Rieser, University of Graz

Border Paradigms and the Historical Sublime: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange Silvia Schultermandl, University of Graz

Panel B12 Filmic Framings of Environmental Space

Chair: TBC

Zoopoetics of/and the Melting Arctic: Framing Environmental Change in Wildlife Film Michaela Castellanos, Mid-Sweden University

Environments of the Road Movie: Easy Rider to The Straight Story Timo Müller, University of Regensburg

Street Food: Environment, Place, and Protest in Urban Farming Documentaries Alexa Weik von Mossner, University of Klagenfurt

Panel B13 The Peculiar Environments of the Slave South (BrANCH)

Chair: TBC

Environments of Abuse: the Farm, the Plantation, and Sexual Violence under Slavery Elizabeth Barnes, University of Reading

Wednesday The Climatic Theory of Slavery and the Wilmot Proviso Controversy Matthew Griffin, University College London

The Impact of Hostile Environments on the Parameters of Slavery: The Seminoles and Florida, 1780-1822. Edward Mair, University of Hull

15:15-16:00 Break

16:00-17.30 PARALLEL SESSION C

Panel C1 Placing Digital Humanities in American Studies (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC

Computational Criticism and Contemporary American Southern Fiction Michał Choiński, Jagiellonian University, Krakow Maciej Eder, Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences Jan Rybicki, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Shakespeare Fights the Civil War Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University

Voices of America: Reading the Federal Writers’ Project Lauren Tilton, University of Richmond

Panel C2 Places of Completion: Textual Geographies of Dion Boucicault, Theodore Dreiser, and David Foster Wallace

Chair: Jude Davies, University of Winchester

Rewriting The Octoroon. A Digital Research Project Lisa Merrill, Hofstra University Theresa Saxon, University of Central Lancashire

Place and Publication: Cultural and National Geographies in Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire and ‘Mark the Double Twain’ Jude Davies, University of Winchester Carol Smith, University of Winchester

Between Completion and Incompletion: Editing The Pale King Tim Groenland, University College, Dublin

Wednesday

Panel C3 Literary Landscapes and the Making of Nature in 19th Century America (BrANCA)

Chair: Steve Gallo, University of Nottingham

A Ditch in the Garden: Figuring Out the ‘Irrigation West’ Janet Floyd, King's College London

‘The Gerfalcon Swoops’: Tomboyism and the American Landscape in E.D.E.N Southworth’s The Mother-in-Law; Or, Married in Haste Anna Maguire Elliott, University of Sussex

Edgar Allan Poe, Landscape Gardening, Creative Practice and ‘The Domain of Arnheim’ Theodora Tsimpouki, University of Athens

Panel C4 Materiality, Embodiment, Protest – Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Chair: TBC

Reading Disruption: Jenny Holzer’s Emplaced Textualities Katharina Donn, University of Augsburg

Britain’s Fifth Column: Race and Rape in World War II Ruth Lawlor, University of Cambridge

Exhibiting Subversion? Punk in the Art Gallery Jade Tullett, University of Winchester

Panel C5 Law and Justice in the US: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Chair: Olga Akroyd, University of Kent

‘Direct incitement’ or ‘Clear and present danger’: Revisiting American Free Speech Origins in the Courts Jak Allen, University of Kent

Direct Democracy vs. Equal Justice: a Cross-Perspective into Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom Anthony Castet, Francois Rabelais University

To the Dead We Owe The Truth: The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project Documenting and Preserving Racial Violence, 1930-1970 Rhonda Jones, Northeastern University

Panel C6 Faith and Activism

Chair: TBC

Wednesday Resistance Through Education: Irish Catholic Schools in Nineteenth-Century Chicago Sophie Cooper, Northumbria University

From Union Square to Rome: Revisiting the Religious Radicalism of Dorothy Day (1897-1980) Hans Bak, Radboud University, Nijmegen

Protestant Missionaries, American Empire, and the Built Environment in the Philippines, 1898-1920 Tom Smith, University of Cambridge

Panel C7 How the South Changed US Politics, 1968-2018: Race, Religion, Partisanship, Demographics (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC

The Changing Partisanship of the South and Its Impact on National Politics Charles S. Bullock III, University of Georgia

New York Sybarite Conquers Bible Belt: Trump as the Apotheosis of Southern Racial Politics Jeremy D. Mayer, George Mason University

The Changing Demographics of the South and Its Impact on National Politics Susan McManus, University of Southern Florida

The Rise of the Evangelical Right in the South and Its Impact on National Politics Mark J. Rozell, George Mason University

Panel C8 Wrapping Radicalism in the Flag: Protest and Patriotism at the Turn of the 20th Century

Chair: TBC

‘I feel the United States “my country”’: The Paradoxical Patriotism of ‘Red Emma’ Alice Béja, Sciences Po Lille/CERAPS-CNRS)

A National Way to Socialism: Daniel De Leon and the Americanisation of the Socialist Labor Party, 1890-1900 Lorenzo Costaguta, University of Birmingham

Wendell Phillips, American Radical: From Abolitionism to the Labour Movement Hélène Quanquin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3

Wednesday Panel C9 Failure of/as Protest: The Double Legacy of 1968

Chair: TBC

The Electric Kool Aid Watermellon Sugary Acid Test: Renunciation in Tom Wolfe and Richard Brautigan Martin Klepper, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

The Death of the Auteur. William Greaves’s Performance of Non-Directing Zuzanna Ladyga, University of Warsaw

John Williams: the Fame of a Non-Writer Krzysztof Rowiński, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Panel C10 Epistemic Virtues, 18th Century Science, and Transnational Contact in the North American Colonies

Chair: TBC

Sowing Salt: Sentience and Slavery in Crèvecœur Michael Boyden, Uppsala University

Exporting the North American Environment: Bartram Boxes, Material Culture and 18th Century Botany Marcel Hartwig, Universität Siegen

Violent Medicine: Abortion and the Non-transfer of Knowledge Between the Old and the New World Jennifer Henke, University of Bremen

Panel C11 Contesting U.S. Power in the Cold War and the War on Terror

Chair: TBC

Dissenting Empire: The Rise of National Security Whistleblowers in the Long 1970s Kaeten Mistry, University of East Anglia

Gore Vidal’s Queer Cold War: Analogy, History, Empire Mark Storey, University of Warwick

The Aesthetics of Protest Theatre: Dramatizing Suspicion and Surveillance in Post-9/11 American Drama Teresa Botelho, Nova University of Lisbon

Panel C12 Challenging Masculine Norms in Science-Fiction Worlds

Chair: TBC Wednesday

Birth of a Protest: The Spielbergian Hero and the Uterine Challenges of the Digital Revolution Charles-Antoine Courcoux, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Fatherhood in Post-Apocalyptic Worlds Marianne Kac-Vergne, University of Picardie Jules Verne

Male and Female Masculinities in Cinema’s Fantasy and Future Worlds Yvonne Tasker, University of East Anglia

Panel C13 Why You Need Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Studies Needs You (Roundtable)

Chair: Jacqueline Fear-Segal, University of East Anglia

Adam Barker, University of Hertfordshire Emma Battell-Lowman, University of Hertfordshire Reetta Humalajoki, University of Turku Andi Bawden, University of East Anglia Matthew Scobie, University of Sheffield

Panel C14 Age and Gender: American Popular Culture as a Site of Protest (Roundtable)

Chair: Isabel Durán, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

Laura De La Parra Fernández, Universidad Complutense, Madrid Isabel Durán, Universidad Complutense, Madrid Juan G. Etxeberria, Universidad Complutense, Madrid Rebeca Gualberto, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

17:45-19:00: Plenary 1 (Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple University)

19:00-20:00: Reception 1 (King’s College London)

Wednesday

Thursday 5 April

09:30-11.00 PARALLEL SESSION D

Panel D1 Rethinking Literary Reconstruction (BrANCA) (Roundtable)

Chair: Tom Wright, University of Sussex

Opening Remarks: Rethinking Literary Reconstruction: Lord Bryce’s American Commonwealth Gordon Hutner, University of Illinois

Respondents: Stephanie Palmer, Nottingham Trent University Tom Wright, University of Sussex Tomos Hughes, University of Nottingham

Panel D2 Avant Garde as Protest and Experimental Poetics

Chair: Tatiani Rapatzikou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Lizzy Pournara, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Feeling the Blanks: Poems as Typographic Scores in the Work of Dennis Cooley Manuel Portela, University of Coimbra

Susan Howe’s Experimental Poetics Lizzy Pournara, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Subversive City Mappings in bpNichol’s The Martyrology

Thursday Tatiani Rapatzikou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Panel D3 Men, Women, and the Wild in American Fiction

Chair: William Blazek, Liverpool Hope University

To Laugh not to Cry at the Loss of Land and Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s and Susan Power’s Works Elisabeth Bouzonviller, Université Jean Monnet Saint Etienne, France

‘The Beast is what makes the man’: Cain versus Adam in Goat Mountain (2013) by David Vann Sophie Chapuis, Université Jean Monnet Saint Etienne, France

Dammed Men: White Masculinity in Crisis and Ecoterrorist Fantasies in Jim Harrison’s A Good Day to Die (1973) Pierre-Antoine Pellerin, Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 University, France

Panel D4 ‘Inside / Outside’: Forms of Protest against the Prison.

Chairs: Birte Christ, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, and Katharina Motyl, University of Tübingen

The Shoreless Ocean of Time: Temporal Experience in Prison Michael G. Flaherty, Eckerd College

Gestures of Resistance: Writing, Standing, Performing against the Prison Aylwyn Walsh, University of Leeds

‘Everything will be okay’: Prison Wives’ Forms of Resistance in an Era of Mass Incarceration Andrea Zittlau, University of Rostock

Panel D5 Gathering Data and Measuring the Population: Intelligence, Civic Participation, and Prejudice

Chair: TBC

The Pendleton Act and the Origins of Modern Intelligence Michael J. Collins, University of Kent

Obscured by Quantification: Women’s Work in Social Scientific Research at the End of World War II Elena D. Hristova, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Measuring and Monitoring Civic Morality in Progressive Era St. Louis Katie Myerscough, University of Manchester

Panel D6 Creating a Movement of Movements: Reconceptualizing Protest Against

Thursday the War in Vietnam

Chair: TBC

‘The student movement may, indeed, have flown South – and landed’: Tennessee Campus Anti-War Activism Kate Ballantyne, University of Cambridge

The Anti-War Activism of Carol McEldowney: The Intersection of Welfare, War, and Women Sinead McEneaney, St. Mary's University, Twickenham

‘If we fight again, it will be to take these steps’: Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the ‘Battle’ to Defend Democracy Lauren Mottle, University of Leeds

Panel D7 Emigration and Africa

Chair: TBC

The International Exodusters: Black Emigration from the American South, 1865-1877 Matthew Law, Clark University

A Taste of Africa – Florida and the ‘Dark Continent’ Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, Universität Leipzig

Panel D8 New Perspectives on ‘Massive Resistance’ to the Civil Rights Movement

Chair: George Lewis, University of Leicester

Women’s Interracial Relationships and ‘The Gentle Weapon’: Social Ostracism as a Weapon of Massive Resistance in Montgomery Alabama Helen Laville, Manchester Metropolitan University

‘None of you men look like Ku Kluxers’: Gender and Class in the Visual Identity of the White Citizens’ Councils Bradley Phipps, University of Leicester

Mass Media and Massive Resistance: Segregationists’ Televised Response to the Civil Rights Movement Scott Weightman, University of Leicester

Panel D9 Self-Determination and Non-Alignment: Cars, Schools, and Cosmopolitanism as Sites of Transgression of the Colour Line

Chair: TBC

Thursday ‘Oh, if I had that Ford V-8!’: Automotivity, Anti-Lynching Campaigns, and Imagined Black Liberation, 1934-39 Helen A. Gibson, GSNAS, Freie Universität Berlin

Protest, Education, and Self-Determination: Black Power Schools in Harlem, 1960-1980 Viola Huang, Teachers College, Columbia University/Universität Passau

From Souls of Black Folk to Internationalism: W.E.B. Du Bois and His Comrades of Colour Jiann-Chyng Tu, Humboldt University Berlin

Panel D10 Petrochemical America

Chair: TBC

Petrochemical America: Kate Orff and Robert Misrach's Cartography of Disaster Caroline Blinder, Goldsmiths, University of London

Petro-normativity and Realism in Richard Ford’s Let Me Be Frank (2014) Rick Crownshaw, Goldsmiths, University of London

Resource Fictions of the Future: Peak Oil, the Posthuman and the Postapocalypse in American Science Fiction Rune Graulund, University of Southern Denmark

Panel D11 A Woman’s Place is in the Resistance: Identity as Protest in US Women’s Writing

Chair: TBC

‘Mine is Not a Success Story’: Illness as Protest in Women's Memoirs Maria Elena Carpintero Torres-Quevedo, University of Edinburgh

The Women’s Pages: Inventing the Self in Women’s Newspaper Writing Niki Holzapfel, University of Edinburgh

Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess: Examining Multiple Personality Disorder in Shirley Jackson’s The Bird’s Nest (1954) Vicki Madden, University of Edinburgh

Panel D12 American Culture and the Trumpian Moment

Thursday Chair: TBC

‘Does it make you feel bored or stupid?’: Adam McKay’s The Big Short (2015), Investment Bankers, and the Confounding of Understanding Wickham Clayton, University for the Creative Arts

Life at the Margins: The White Working-Class in Contemporary American Independent Cinema Gregory Frame, Bangor University

‘I’ll never have the goodwill of the Establishment’: The Cultural Life of Donald Trump Karen Heath, University of Oxford

Panel D13 Representing Social Struggles: Riots and Racialized Violence in Visual Media

Chair: TBC

Fighting Racialized State Violence in a Postindustrial Age: Spike Lee’s ‘Radio Raheem and the Gentle Giant’ Luvena Kopp, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Organizing the Apocalypse: The Living Dead in the Age of Class Decomposition Marlon Lieber, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

‘The Arm of Criticism Cannot Replace the Criticism of Arms’: On Punching Nazis Jesse Ramírez, Universität St. Gallen

Panel D14 Listening to America: Music and American Studies (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC

By Any Means Necessary – and Available: Public Enemy and the Constant Reinvention of Black Musical Activism Yann Descamps, Université Paris-Est Créteil

Jazz and Everyday Aesthetics Roger Fagge, University of Warwick Nicholas Gebhardt, Birmingham City University

From the Margins: Asians and Asian Americans in American Music Krystyn Moon, University of Mary Washington

Violent Cowboys and Sincere Cowboys: Debating the US Racial Context with American

Thursday Country Music in Japan Mari Nagatomi, Doshisha University

Black Life through a Blues Lens: Visions of America through the Blues Christian O'Connell, University of Gloucestershire

Nowhere to Run: Girl Group Transnationalism Gayle Wald, George Washington University

11:00-11:45: Break

11:45-13.15 PARALLEL SESSION E

Panel E1 Imagined and Re-Imagined Communities in Nineteenth-Century African American Culture (BrANCA)

Chair: Matthew Pethers, University of Nottingham

W.E.B. Du Bois’ Scorn: A Romance and Reconstruction’s Counterfactual Forms Tomos Hughes, University of Nottingham

Guerrilla Marginalia: The 1851 Census and Transatlantic Abolition Bridget Bennett, University of Leeds

The ‘Mothering Influence’ in Nineteenth-Century African American Women’s Theory Gregory Phipps, University of Iceland

Panel E2 Intersections of Women, Place and Protest: From Calm Strategies to

Turbulent Years

Chair: Kate Dossett, University of Leeds

Chisholm ’68: Black Protest and Left-Liberal Politics Anastasia Curwood, University of Kentucky

Transatlantic Feminist Reform Networks in the Mid-20th Century Ann Schofield, University of Kansas

African American Women and Washington, DC as a Site of Protest Kim Warren, University of Southern Denmark

Thursday Thursday Panel E3 Language’s Protest Against Theory in the American Affective Turn (Roundtable)

Chairs: Marc Amfreville, Sorbonne Université, and Nicholas Manning, Sorbonne Université

The Geology of Pain in Rick Bass’s ‘The Lives of Rocks’ Marc Amfreville, Sorbonne Université

Patrick McGrath and the Madness of Interpretation Chiara Battisti, University of Verona

‘A Kind of Shadow Language’: Death, Affect and Words in Zero K (2016) by Don DeLillo Sylvie Bauer, Université Rennes 2

‘A Secret Sense of Wonder’: Experiencing Unnameable Affect in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer Nicholas Manning, Sorbonne Université

Ethical Instability and Textual Irresponsibility in Toni Morrison’s Fiction Paula Martín-Salván, University of Córdoba

The Medical Humanities and the Question of Empathy Anne Whitehead, Newcastle University 20

Panel E4 The Making of Presidential Image: The Role of Culture

Chair: Iwan Morgan, University College London

Barack Obama: Hip-hop and Hope Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University

Nixon in China: Tricky Dick as Hero Mara Oliva, University of Reading

American Icon: The Art of John F. Kennedy Mark White, Queen Mary, University of London

Panel E5 ‘Protest is the new brunch’: American Studies and the (Re)Making of Protest Cultures in the 21st Century

Chair: TBC

Monumental Protest Ingrid Gessner, Pedagogical University Vorarlberg

Black Protest and American Studies Katharina Fackler, University of Graz

Environmental Protest and/in American Studies Susanne Leikam, University of Regensburg

American Studies and Digital Dissent Judith Rauscher, University of Bamberg

Thursday Panel E6 Place and the Racial Imagination

Chair: TBC

‘Practically Our Own City’: Duke Ellington’s Visions of Harlem Daniel Matlin, King's College London

Through the Looking Glass: Hawai‘i and the Problem of Race in Postwar American Culture Sarah Miller-Davenport, University of Sheffield

The Contradictory Caribbean in Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938) Imaobong Umoren, London School of Economics

Panel E7 Red Power Rising: The Long 1968 in Native America

Chair: TBC

Place, Rights and Protest in the Long 1968 of Red Power György Tóth, University of Stirling

Termination as a Catalyst of the Native American 1968: Federal Indian Policy’s Role in Shaping Native American Activism Reetta Humalajoki, University of Turku

‘If Only I Were an Indian’: 1968, the ‘Noble Savage’ Stereotype, and Strategies of Escapism in the Former Czechoslovakia Lucie Kýrová, Charles University, Prague

Panel E8 ‘Need for some genuine stimulation’: Revolutionary Vibes Across Genres

Chair: TBC

Revolutionary Vibes and Performance Art Aleksandra Jovanović, University of Belgrade

Revolutionary Vibes and the American Dream Radojka Vukcevic, University of Belgrade

Revolutionary Vibes and Film Aleksandra Vukotić, University of Belgrade

Panel E9 The Nuclear Age: Activism, Ecology, and the Cold War

Thursday Chair: TBC

Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature: Nuclear Resistance, and Mid-Century American Fiction Sarah Daw, University of Bristol

‘Introduce sanity into the SANE nuclear policy group’ – John F. Kennedy, Nuclear Testing and the Anti-Nuclear Movement 1960-63 Mark Eastwood, University of Nottingham

Mobilizing for Survival: Sidney Lens and the ‘Rebirth’ of the Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1975-1977 John Tiplady, Center for the United States and the Cold War

Panel E10 World Travels

Chair: TBC

The Tomb of Adam and the Tomb of Ornithorhynchus: Mark Twain, Charles Darwin, and Human Ancestry George Blaustein, University of Amsterdam

Hawthorne's Rome – A City of Evil, Political and Religious Corruption, Violence and Dread Irene Rabinovich, Holon Institute of Technology

Wondering, Wandering, Escaping: Langston Hughes’s and Cedric Belfrage’s World Travels in the 1930s Kenneth Janken, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Panel E11 Diver-Agent: The Politics and Poetics of Cultural Dissent in America, A Polyphonic Perspective (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC

Alice Balestrino, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome. Claudio de Majo, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich Marta Gara, Independent Scholar Virginia Pignagnoli, University of Turin Angela Zottola, University of Napoli Federico II

Panel E12 Edith Wharton’s Protest Novel? Rethinking The Fruit of the Tree (Roundtable)

Chair: Michael J. Collins, University of Kent

Thursday Euthanasia Revisited: Edith Wharton’s The Shadow of a Doubt as Source Material for The Fruit of the Tree Laura Rattray, University of Glasgow

Justine Brent, Industrial Novels, and the Limits of Woman Power Stephanie Palmer, Nottingham Trent University

Missing Members: Disability, Print Culture, and Revolution in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree and Jack London's The Iron Heel Donna Campbell, Washington State University

Protest in Reading the New Woman Gaby Fletcher, National University of Ireland, Galway

Family Money: Wealth, Philanthropy and ‘inherited obligations’ in The Fruit of the Tree Anna Girling, University of Edinburgh

Panel E13 Swinging Life and Swinging Literature: Social and Aesthetic Protests of the 1960s

Chair: Olga Nesmelova, Kazan Federal University

The Civil Rights Movement and Literary Representation: Politics and Aesthetics Yuri Stulov, Minsk State Linguistics University

Fact versus Fiction Olga Nesmelova, Kazan Federal University Olga Karasik, Kazan Federal University

Bob Mellors, Charlotte Bach, and the Evolutionary reason for Sexual Deviation Tomasz Basiuk, University of Warsaw

13:15-14:30: Lunch 13:15-14:30: Women in American Studies Network (WASN) and EAAS Women’s Network joint lunch

14:30-16:00: BAAS AGM

17:15-18:30: Plenary 2 (Jo Gill, University of Exeter) UCL-Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 0AL

19:00-20:00: Reception 2 (British Library)

20:15-22:00: Call Mr Robeson (theatre at the British Library Thursday Knowledge Centre) EBAAS delegates are invited to an exclusive performance of Tayo Aluko's award winning one-man show: a rollercoaster journey through African-American actor and singer Paul Robeson’s remarkable life, highlighting his pioneering and heroic political activism. Features Ol’ Man River and other famous songs, much fiery oratory, and a defiant testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee. The performance will take place in the Theatre at the British Library Knowledge Centre, immediately following the reception at the British Library. Running time 85 minutes, no interval; followed by optional Q&A. This performance is being subsidised by the British Association for American Studies. As a result we are able to offer free tickets for students and casualised staff attending EBAAS, and tickets for just £5 for standard rate conference attendees. Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/call-mr-robeson-a-life-with-songs-tickets-39724312488

Friday 6 April

09:30-11:00 PARALLEL SESSION F

Panel F1 American Cultural Identities and Their Literary Representations

Chair: TBC

Questioning Blacks’ Existence in America: Toni Morrison’s Vision of Black Beauty in God Help the Child Yapo Ettien, Félix Houphouet Boigny University of Abidjan-Cocody

Dimensions of Identity in Richard Blanco’s Poetry Ignatov Kirill, Lomonosov Moscow State University

White Pole Dilemma in James Baldwin’s Another Country Agnieszka Łobodziec, University of Zielona Góra

Panel F2 The Domestic Space as a Location of Dissent in American literature

(Roundtable)

Chair: Cristina Alsina-Rísquez, Universitat de Barcelona

‘The confused large house I never name’: Economies of Sensation in Melville’s Pierre Michael Jonik, University of Sussex

Willa Cather’s Dwellings: The Case of The Professor’s House Cristina Alsina-Rísquez, Universitat de Barcelona

Friday Holes and Leaks in Herman Melville’s Stories of Domesticity Rodrigo Andrés, Universitat de Barcelona

What’s the Matter with New York? How NYC Fiction May Be Losing Its Way Thomas Byers, University of Louisville

Home away from Home: Protesting and Protecting the Domestic in Karen Tei Yamashita’s The I Hotel Carmen M. Méndez-García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Panel F3 Environmental Hostility: Protest, Environment, and Place in Contemporary Muslim/Arab American Writing

Chair: TBC

Laying the Groundwork for Coalition: The Rejection of ‘honorary whiteness’ in Arab American Fiction Dima Alzayat, Lancaster University

Making Space and Protest in Contemporary American-Muslim Women’s Writing Hasnul Djohar, University of Exeter

Mapping Arab-American Gendered Subjectivities in Post- 9/11 Contemporary Arab- American Women’s Fiction Nawel Zbidi, Higher Institute of Languages, Moknine

Panel F4 The Power to Resist: Racialized Others and Opposition in Contemporary African-American Narratives

Chair: TBC

Revisiting Resistance: Theft and the Contemporary Immigrant Short Story Christine Okoth, King's College London

‘You can create whole worlds, girl’: Rethinking Black Arts in Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo Jessica Houlihan, University of Essex

‘I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world’: Paul Beatty’s The Sellout as a Protest Novel

Friday Maria-Irina Popescu, University of Essex

Panel F5 Money, Mouth and Message: the Style and Substance of Policy Rollback

Chair: TBC

Communicating the President’s Message: De-Obamafication in Words and Deeds Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University

Obama, Trump and the Policy and Messaging of Trade Politics Alex Waddan, University of Leicester

Trump and Nixon: Roadblocks to Repeal Mitchell Robertson, University of Oxford

Panel F6 Prisons, Protest Culture, and Radical Politics

Chair: TBC

Break Down the Walls: The Black Panther Party and the Struggle for Prisoners’ Rights Zoe Colley, University of Dundee

Freeing Huey P. Newton Joe Street, University of Northumbria

‘We will not become slaves again’: Black Power, Protest and Collective Autobiography in American Women’s Prison Zines Olivia Wright, University of Nottingham

Panel F7 On the Margins: Negotiating Nationhood from the American West in the Post-Civil War Era

Chair: TBC

‘The Vital Link to Mexico’: Reconstructing a State and National Identity in Post-Civil

War Texas Alys Beverton, University College London

‘The Great Battlefield of the World’: The American West and the Making of Christian America Andrew Short, University College London

Buoying the ‘Old Ship of Zion’: Economic Self-Sufficiency as a Means of Defiance in Postbellum Utah James Williamson, Keele University

Friday

Panel F8 The Crisis of the Confederate Monument (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC

Bruce E. Baker, Newcastle University Thomas Brown, University of South Carolina Zoe Hyman, University College London Anthony Stanonis, Queen's University Belfast

Panel F9 Embodied Feminisms of Place and Protest: Maria W. Stewart, Sylvia Plath, Ana Castillo, and Contemporary Female Adventurers (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC

Biophilic Representations of Ethnocultural Identity: Narrating Ecoawareness in Ana Castillo’s Massacre of the Dreamers (1994) and So Far from God (1994) Sophia Emmanouilidou, TEI of the Ionian Islands

Ecologies of Extreme Adventure: Performing Environmental Activism Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton University and Aristotle University

Tainted Protest: Maria W. Stewart, Visceral Rhetoric, and the Search for an Adequate Witness in Nineteenth-Century America Vorris L. Nunley, University of California, Riverside

‘This Is My Property’: Race, Place, and Activism in Sylvia Plath Emily Van Duyne, Stockton University

Panel F10 Transnationalism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (BrANCA)

Chair: Katie McGettigan, Royal Holloway, University of London

The Legal and the Exceptional: The Interaction Between Exceptionalist Discourse and the Law in The Brothers Karamazov and White-Jacket Olga Akroyd, University of Kent

Friday John Neal’s American Literary Nationalism and his Response to Irving’s ‘Westminster Abbey’ Ellen Bulford Welch, University of Sheffield

Transpacific and Transatlantic Exchanges in Henry James’s The Europeans Martha Sledge, Marymount Manhattan College

Panel F11 Games of Empire: Video Games and the (New) American Empire

Chair: Michael Fuchs, University of Graz

‘All your base are belong to us’: Neocolonialism and New Empire in Science Fiction Video Games Paweł Frelik, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University

Fighting Fascists: The (Racial) Politics of Killing Nazis in Wolfenstein II and in Trump’s America C. Richard King, Washington State University

‘Wild West’ or ‘Weird West’: Western Digital Games and the Re-Narration of the US Empire Mahshid Mayar, Bielefeld University

Panel F12 Globalization and Its Discontents 1: Protest In/Out of Place (Roundtable)

Chair: Begoña Simal-González, Universidade da Coruña

Afterimages: History, Time, and the Spaces of American Displacement in the 21st Century Jayson Baker, Curry College

(In)visibility and Protest in Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Romo’s El Puente/The Bridge Lucas Martingano, Universidade da Coruña

Anti- and Alter-Globalization: Protest, Resistance and Alternative Discourses in American Culture Begoña Simal-González, Universidade da Coruña

Panel F13 Army Wives, Astronauts, and Cowgirls: Gendered Mobility in American Culture

Chairs: Katharina Gerund, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Alexandra Ganser University of Vienna

The Astronauts‘ Wife Only? Gendered Mobility in American Astroculture Alexandra Ganser, University of Vienna, Austria

Military (Im)Mobilities: Women and War in Siobhan Fallon’s Short Stories Katharina Gerund, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Cowgirldom on the Move: The Transnational Performances of Annie Oakley Stefanie Schäfer, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany)

Friday Panel F14 Indian and Non-Indian Relations in the Twentieth Century: Land, Images, and Unlikely Cultural Brokers

Chair: Iwan Morgan, University College London

Immigration and Indian Reservation Dispossession: Homesteading and Land Sales on the Northern Great Plains, 1904-1934 Karen V. Hansen, Brandeis University

’Working from the Outside In’: John Collier, Jr.’s Photographs of the Amish and the Navajo Katherine Jellison, Ohio University

The Exhilaration of Indigenous Self-Determination: Richard Nixon and Blue Lake, Gough Whitlam at Wattie Creek Dean J. Kotlowski, Salisbury University

11:00-11:45: Break

11:45-13:15 PARALLEL SESSION G

Panel G1 Literature, Anti-Psychiatry, Psychotherapy: Transatlantic Exchanges

Chair: Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester

The Barefoot Doctor: The Cultural Preconditions of R. D. Laing’s Rebirthing Workshops Brian Edgar, University of Exeter

Villa Road – Inishfree – Colombia: Tracking the Atlantis Primal Commune Paul Williams, University of Exeter

Femininity and the False-Self System: Reading Gender and Self in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar through R. D. Laing’s The Divided Self Joanna Wilson, University of Edinburgh

Panel G2 Narrating the Post-Industrial United States

Chair: TBC

Ruin Porn & Ragged Dicks: Post-Industrial White Masculinity in HBO’s Hung Sandra Becker, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Nothing But Flowers, or Glimpsing the Garden After the Machine Tim Jelfs, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Art and Resistance in DeLillo’s Post-Industrial Landscapes Xavier Marcó del Pont, Independent Scholar

Friday Panel G3 Environmental Consciousness in Twentieth-Century American Literature

Chair: TBC

Ursula K. Le Guin’s SF Fictions and Environmentalism Parisa Changizi, University of Ostrava

Environment and Protest in the Writings of Upton Sinclair James Deutsch, Smithsonian Institution

Literary Environmentalism in California Petr Kopecky, University of Ostrava

Panel G4 Emotions and American Protest (Roundtable)

Chair: Nick Witham, University College London

Forces Driving Right-Wing Women’s Protests and Campaigns June Benowitz, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee

Visualizing Anger in Murals of the Black Power Movement Hannah Jeffery, University of Nottingham

Mobilizing Support for Climate Change Activism through Emotional Appeal Melanie Meunier, Institut d’Etudes Politiques

Expressed and Suppressed Emotions in Nonviolent Civil Rights Campaigns of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s Rosemary Pearce, University of Nottingham

The Joys of Community Activism Timo Schrader, University of Nottingham

Panel G5 Histories of Exploitation: Extracting People of Colour from Labour and Wealth in the US

Chair: Lynn Itagaki, University of Missouri

Slavery, Fugitivity, and the Senses: Examining the Haptic Impact of Slave Filmography Deirdre Cooper Owens, Queens College, CUNY

White Collar Crime: Strategies of Whiteness and the Racial Wealth Gap

Friday Devin Fergus, University of Missouri

Tyrannies of the Workplace: The Employee, the Robot Worker and the End of Humanity Lynn Itagaki, University of Missouri

Panel G6 The Fabric of Power: Women of Colour, Materialities, and Resistance in the Americas

Chair: TBC

Mujerista Threads: Female Agency and the Rebozo in Chicanx Culture Eilidh A B Hall, University of East Anglia

Quilting Legacies of Resistance: The Works of Faith Ringgold and Chawne Kimber Katja May, University of Kent

‘A handkerchief on her head’: Women of Colour and the Material Legacies of the Haitian Revolution Nicole Willson, University of Kent

Panel G7 American Studies in Europe: The Experience of Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers

Chairs: Lorenzo Costaguta, AISNA Graduate Forum, and Katerina Webb-Bourne, King’s College London and BAAS PG Representative

Aleksandra Kamińska, University of Warsaw Marta Duro, University of Valladolid Kostantinos D.Karatzas, University of Zaragoza Natalia Kovalyova, University College Dublin Francesca Razzi, University of Chieti-Pescara Caroline Schroeter, University College Cork

Panel G8 Interactions with the Nonhuman World in 19th C America (BrANCA)

Chair: Linda Freedman, University College London

The Science of ‘Civil Disobedience’ and the Democracy of Trees Michael Jonik, University of Sussex

Combustible Man: Commodity (Mis)Identification in Melville's Redburn Ian Green, Eastern Washington University

Disclosed by Danger: Dickinson, Darwin, Life Amy R. Nestor, Georgetown University, Qatar

Panel G9 Keywords for Trump (Roundtable)

Friday Chair: TBC

Walls Christine Okoth, King's College London

Sad Clare Birchall, King's College London

Kitsch Natalia Cecire, University of Sussex

Deal Molly Geidel, University of Manchester

Red Pill Carleigh Morgan, University of Cambridge

Secular Stagnation Sean O'Brien, University of Alberta

Fascist Myka Tucker-Abramson, University of Warwick

Panel G10 Placing the West

Chair: TBC

A Landscape of Protest: Mormons, Anti-Mormons, and the Representation of Utah Territory's Natural Environment, 1847-1868 Greg Davies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Places, Borders, and Homes - The Story Told by Inscription Rock Andrea Kokeny, University of Szeged

Max Weber on the Oklahoma Plains Tom Wright, University of Sussex

Panel G11 Spatial Politics: Culture, Celebrity, and the City

Chair: TBC

Reimagining New York: Colson Whitehead’s Speculative Cities

Anne-Marie Evans, York St John University

‘The band is really flying tonight’: Creative and Cultural Space in Kristin Hersh’s Paradoxical Undressing Fraser Mann, York St John University

Booker T. Washington: Up From Slavery and African American Celebrity Stephen Robinson, York St John University

Friday Panel G12 Black Is/Black Ain't: Performing, Scripting and Narrativising American Blackness

Chair: TBC

Passing Amid Protest: Imitation of Life, One Life to Live, and Passing Narratives in 1968 Janine Bradbury, York St John University

From the Bronx to Germany and Back: Using the Archive to Narrate African American Protest & Patriotism Nicole King, Goldsmiths, University of London

‘Savages Amongst the Civilized’: Racial Disguise at the Circus and Sideshow Carina Spaulding, University College London

Panel G13 Russian-American Literary Relations

Chair: TBC

Comrade Wright, Renegade Wright: Richard Wright and the Soviet Union Olga Panova, Lomonosov Moscow State University

‘As American as April in Arizona’? Vladimir Nabokov’s English Language Oeuvre Lyndsay Miller, University of Glasgow

Philip K. Dick’s Russian Orbits - Resisting a Time Out of Joint Irina Novikova, University of Latvia

Panel G14 Space as Literary Protest: Subversions of Traditional Literary Conventions in Digital, Virtual, and Multimodal Texts (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Falling Man: When Photography Becomes an

Essential Feature for Interactive Storytelling

Francesco Bacci, University of Macerata

Interacting with Space(s): The Self-Subversive and Self-Reflective Implications of Space in Nick Montfort’s Ad Verbum and Adam Cadre’s Photopia Evgenia Kleidona, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Landscapes as Sites of Protest: Zachary Thomas Dodson’s Bats of the Republic (2015) Thomas Mantzaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Friday Digital Poetics on the Threshold: Interfacial Exchanges Belén Piqueras, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

13:15-14:30: Lunch 13:15-14:30: BAAS AND EAAS postgraduate lunch

14:30-16:00 PARALLEL SESSION H

Panel H1 Asian American Narratives

Chair: TBC

Gardens in the Desert: An Ecocritical Survey of Japanese American Incarceration Narratives Heidi Kim, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The Intimacies of Three Continents: Food, Colonial Desire and Queer Networks in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt Jiachen Zhang, University of Leeds

No Man’s Land: A Transnational Metaphor in Chuang Hua’s Crossings Joe Upton, University of Sussex

Panel H2 Female Agency and Identity Negotiations in Contemporary Narratives of Border Crossings

Chair: TBC

The Dominican-American Scheherazade: The Rhetoric of La Familia and Anxieties of Belonging in Julia Alvarez’s iYo! (1997) Stefania Ciocia, Canterbury Christ Church University

Crossing Borders in Post-Western Films: Sin Nombre, Frozen River Jesús A. González, University of Cantabria

Friday Hyphenated Identities: Tropes of Belonging and Displacement in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth (2008) Mercedes Peñalba, University of Salamanca

Panel H3 Popular Protest in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Ireland and Irish America: Comparisons and Connections (Roundtable)

Chair: Sophie Cooper, Northumbria University

‘If Ye’s Won’t Fight, Don’t Talk Disloyal’: Evaluating Irish American Song Responses to the New York Draft Riots Catherine Bateson, University of Edinburgh

The Greenback and the Green: Agrarian Revolt and the Land Question in America and Ireland Rian Holland, Northumbria University

‘Revolutionary Warfare’: Agrarian Resistance and Urban Radicalism – The Transnational Career of the Boycott Andrew Phemister, University of Edinburgh

‘Daylight Sycophants and Moonlight Marauders’: A Comparison of Slave Resistance in the American South and Peasant Resistance in Ireland. Cathal Smith, National University of Ireland, Galway

Panel H4 Countercultural Politics and Revisionary Writing

Chair: Linda Freedman, University College London

‘Energy is Eternal Delight’: William Blake and Ecopoetic Action Linda Freedman, University College London

‘Bringing it all Back Home’: E. L. Doctorow's Homer and Langley and Emersonian Transcendentalism in a World of Things Chris Gair, University of Glasgow

‘Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers’: Thomas Pynchon and the David Irving Trial Rob Turner, University of Exeter

Panel H5 Women at Work from Progressivism to Civil Rights

Chair: TBC

Neighbourhood to Nation: School Nurses Pave the Way for a Maternalist Agenda

Heather Furnas, Cornell University

Race and the American Working Mother: African American Women’s Social Activism Between the Waves, 1930-65 Lauren Eglen, University of Nottingham

Women and the Full Employment Movement: Demanding the Right to Work in the New Deal Era Michael Dennis, Acadia University

Friday Panel H6 Black Power

Chair: TBC

Grace Lee Boggs’s The Next American Revolution: Communitarianism and Sustainability in Place-Based Regeneration Aneta Dybska, University of Warsaw

Black Power, Black Capitalism? Challenging the Possessive Investment in Whiteness in the 1960s Simone Knewitz, Universität Bonn

‘The Year of the Panther’: Locating The Black Panther Newspaper in the Context of Revolutionary Pan African Print Culture Anthony Ratcliff, California State University, Los Angeles

Panel H7 Contested Space: Cultural Palimpsests in Latino/a Discourse

Chair: TBC

Ewa Antoscek, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Raúl Rubio, The New School Grzegorz Welizarowicz, University of Gdańsk Karolina Majkowska, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University

Panel H8 African Americans and the Politics of African Diasporan Protest, 1919-1970

Chair: Nicholas Grant, University of East Anglia

La Langue de nos maîtres : African Americans, Présence Africaine and the Question of Language and Culture Sarah Dunstan, University of Sydney

Do our Brothers and Sisters Care?: The Response of African Americans to the Nigerian

Civil War, 1967-1970

James Farquharson, Australian Catholic University

To look and feel like a state: The Pan-African Congress and Interwar Diplomacy Jake Hodder, University of Nottingham

Panel H9 American Radical Periodicals (1890s-1930s): Protest and the Serial Forms of Democratic Practice (Roundtable)

Friday Chair: Hélène Quanquin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3

Radical Self-improvement: Alternative Health Campaigns and Feminist Hygiene in Magazines of the Early 20th-century Sue Currell, University of Sussex Cécile Roudeau, Université Paris-Diderot

The Myth of America in the Italian-Language Radical Press at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Stefano Luconi, University of Genoa

‘A Monthly Album of Crazy Fancies’: The Arena, ‘Cranks’ and Radical Magazines in the 1890s Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet, Savoie-Mont Blanc

Panel H10 Cityspace and its Literary Cartographies

Chair: TBC

‘Criminalized’ Space and Hybrid Borderlines: the Chicana Space of Los Angeles Adina Ciugureanu, Ovidius University Constanta

Heights, Depths and Networks in Colum McCann’s 1974 New York City Nicoleta Stanca, Ovidius University Constanta

Moving from ‘Rabbitland’ to New Prospect, USA: Post – 9/11 Updike and the American City in Terrorist Eduard Vlad, Ovidius University Constanta

Panel H11 Place and Adaptation

Chair: Mihaela Precup, University of Bucharest

The Italian ‘Buster Brown’: Domesticating an American Comic for Local Audience

Ian Gordon, National University of Singapore

From Protest to Propaganda: How Relocating The War of the Worlds Changed Its Message Charles Shindo, Louisiana State University

Adapting Horror and Translating Fear: Transforming Kairo (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 2001) into Pulse (Jim Sonzero, 2006) Valerie Wee, National University of Singapore

Friday Panel H12 Using Runaway Slave Advertisements to Teach Slavery (Workshop)

Chair: TBC

‘But calls himself’: Rereading Runaway Slave Advertisements as Slave Narratives Antonio T. Bly, Appalachian State University

‘Free that are able and willing’: White Slavery in the Age of the American Revolution Ryan Ingerick, Appalachian State University

‘has a Stammering in his Speech’: the Mental Attributes of Runaway Enslaved Nelson Mundell, University of Glasgow

A Runaway and a Deserter: Examining the Importance of Networks in Peter and Isaac’s Run from Maine to South Carolina Nicole Saffold Maskiell, University of South Carolina

Advertising for a ‘Runaway Master,’ or The World Turned Upside Down Billy G. Smith, Montana State University

Panel H13 Illness and the Environment in American Literature and Cinema

Chair: Pascale Antolin, Bordeaux Montaigne University, CLIMAS

What the Chaos of Todd Haynes’s Safe (1995) May Add to Illness Narratives Cecilia Beecher Martins, University of Lisbon, ULICES

Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge: From Woundedness to Wholeness Through Writing Body and Bird Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, ULICES,

‘Half the river red’: Reading the Passaic in Jarmusch and Williams Ciaran O’Rourke

17:15-18:30: Plenary 3 (M. Giulia Fabi, University of Ferrara) UCL-Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 0AL

19:00: Conference Banquet (Senate House) Tickets available via the conference estore: http://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts- humanities/arts-humanities-research-institute/ebaas-2018-uk

Friday

Saturday 7 April

09:30-11:00 PARALLEL SESSION I

Panel I1 The Aesthetics of Resistance in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth Century

Chair: Robin Vandome, University of Nottingham

‘Marching Into The Streets’: Early African American Women Photographers and the Navigation of Public Space Emily Brady, University of Nottingham

‘An Especial Prize to the Boys’: Patriotic Ephemera and the Union Citizen-Soldier James Brookes, University of Nottingham

Landscapes of Progress: Public Parks and the Modernisation of Postbellum Richmond Steve Gallo, University of Nottingham

Panel I2 From Counter-Cultural Shamans to the Life of the Senses: American Studies as Aisthesis

Chair: TBC

How To Smell Like a Man? Towards a Modal Anthropology of Male US Perfume Cultures Thomas Clark, Goethe University, Frankfurt

Affect, Protest, and Research: On the Effects of (Seeking) Knowledge on Protest Nicole Hirschfelder, University of Tübingen

On (Film) Bodies and their Senses: Rereading Two African-American Independent Classics

Saturday Tomáš Pospíšil, Masaryk University, Brno

Panel I3 Placing Protest in an Epidemic: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Place in the United States in the 1980s

Chair: TBC

Idiosyncrasies of AIDS in the American Heartland Katie Batza, University of Kansas

Between Private and Public: AIDS, Health Care Capitalism, and the Politics of Respectability in 1980s America Jonathan Bell, University College London

AIDS, Homophobic Workplace Discrimination and Activism in the Sunbelt Joshua Hollands, University College London

Panel I4 African American Memory and Place

Chair: TBC

Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird and Racial Protest in Alabama’s Magic City Megan Hunt, Edinburgh University

African-American History Museums and the Importance of Place Laura Burnham, Edge Hill University

Black Lives Matter and the Battle over Racial Memory Jenny Woodley, Nottingham Trent University

Panel I5 Health care and protests in the Obama era and Trump era

Chair: TBC

Policy Makes Protest? The Role of Policy Feedback on Protests in Support of the Affordable Care Act Melissa Bass, University of Mississippi

Rejecting Freeloaders: the Tea Party Protests Against Obamacare, 2009-2010 Alf Tønnessen, Volda University College

Panel I6 Sites and Spaces of Human Rights

Chair: TBC

Empathic Revolutions: Writing from the American Gulag Doran Larson, Hamilton College

Saturday ‘Unable or Unwilling’: Genealogies of State Failure in US Humanitarian War Sarah Earnshaw, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Amnesty International and Letter-Writing as a Form of Protest Matthew Chambers, University of Warsaw

Panel I7 Nature is the Best Playground: Imagining Nature in Video Games

Chair: Michael Fuchs, University of Graz

No Longer a ‘Contained and Disciplined Environment’: Urban Nature and Fungal Horror in The Last of Us Michael Fuchs, University of Graz

(Non-)Playable Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Romantic American Landscapes and the Sublime in Video Games Stefan Rabitsch, University of Graz

Mass Effect and the Uses of Nature Anna Warso, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

Panel I8 Remembering Transatlantic Upheavals

Chair: TBC

Cultural Memory and Transatlantic Solidarity with Native Americans in the Late Cold War György Tóth, University of Stirling

Krautrock and the Transatlantic Student Movement Ulrich Adelt, University of Wyoming

The US Overseas Military Cemeteries as Sites of Transatlantic Politics and Protests Allison Wanger, Miami University, Ohio

Panel I9 European Ethnicity in the United States

Chair: TBC

Aspen’s Goethe Bicentennial and the Legacy of the Holocaust Julia Lange, University of Hamburg

The Significance of Becoming Anglo-Saxon: Swedish Immigrants in American Ethno-Racial Hierarchies circa 1900 Dag Blanck, Uppsala University

Ethnic Attachments and Transnational Loyalties: Romanian Heritage Festivals in the United States Raluca Rogoveanu, Ovidius University, Constanta

Panel I10 Lineages, Legacies & Identities in Chicano (Pop) Culture: Art, Film & Memoir

Saturday Chair: TBC

Rasquache Reclamation: Taking to the Streets to Take Back a Movement Caleb Bailey, University of Nottingham

From Teen Angels to Vogue: Protest Through Subcultural Styles in Mi Vida Loca Emma Horrex, University of Hull

Calling Back; Self-Expression and Political Protest in the Memoirs of Luis J. Rodriguez Josephine Metcalf, University of Hull

Panel I11 Girlhood and Popular Culture

Chair: TBC

Placing Girlhood in Jennifer Egan's Look at Me (2001) and A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) Rachael Mclennan, University of East Anglia

Against Adulthood: Self-Representations of Girls in Popular Culture Aleksandra Kamińska, University of Warsaw

Preserving the Slut’s Pleasure(s): Zines, Archives and the Power of Sorority’s Healing and Solidarity in Archives Vanesa Menéndez Cuesta, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Panel I12 Frontier Fiction

Chair: TBC

Something Wicked Westward Goes: Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson and the Frontier Gothic Robyn Pritzker, University of Edinburgh

Dancing on the Edge of America: Ballrooms as Social Frontiers in the Fiction of John Fante Michael Docherty, University of Kent

11:00-11:45: Break

11:45-13:15 PARALLEL SESSION J

Panel J1 Redefining Black Mountain Poetry: Before and After Olson Saturday

Chair: TBC

M.C. Richards’ Pedagogies Lucy Burns, University of Manchester

Jonathan Williams’s Occasions Mark Byers, Newcastle University

John Wieners’ Lyric Intensions Michael Kindellan, University of Sheffield

Panel J2 Transatlantic Threads: Little Magazine Networks and the International Underground

Chair: TBC

Little Magazines and Transatlantic Networks: Jeff Nuttall and My Own Mag Douglas Field, University of Manchester

The Transatlantic Radical Art of the UCL Small Press Archive Liz Lawes, University College London

The Art of Outflanking: Alexander Trocchi and the Sigma Portfolio James Riley, University of Cambridge

Panel J3 America's Sacrifice Zone: Environmentalism and Protest in Appalachian Literature

Chair: TBC

‘This is my homeplace’: Narratives of Protest and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Appalachian Mountain Literature Katherine Ledford, Appalachian State University

‘Cant no fire burn me’: Protest Songs in the Coalfields in Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven Carmen Rueda, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona

‘We’ll keep cutting’: Obstinacy and Disaster in Ron Rash’s Serena Frédérique Spill, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens

Panel J4 Protest in American Photography/American Photography in Protest Saturday

Chair: TBC

Tough Images: Garry Winogrand’s Public Relations and the Paradoxes of Street Photography Simon Constantine, University College London

Camera as Weapon: ‘Worker Photography’ in the USA in the 1930s Barnaby Haran, University of Hull

The Same Old Thing Again: Martha Rosler’s Protest Stephanie Schwartz, University College London

Panel J5 The International Dimensions of Postwar American Evangelicalism (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC

‘Practicing Global Evangelicalism’: Prayer in the Making of Billy Graham’s Global Evangelical Community Uta Balbier, King's College London

Evangelicals, Missionaries, and the International Dimension of the Religious Liberty Debate c.1945-1960 Emma Long, University of East Anglia

Evangelicals, Religious Politics, and US Cold War Globalism Axel R. Schäfer, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

U.S. and South African Evangelical Responses to Apartheid Melani McAlister, George Washington University

Panel J6 The 2016 presidential elections as a protest phenomenon (Roundtable – supported by Kennan Institute)

Chair: Victoria Zhuravleva, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow

Shifting Focus: Russia as a Target of Protests after Trump Election Ivan Kurilla, European University at Saint-Petersburg

Protests as Agenda of the 2016 President Elections Alexander Okun, Samara University

Gendered Presidential Election from a Perspective of Women’s Protest Ludmila Popkova, Samara University Saturday ‘A Woman’s Place is in the Resistance’: Female Artists’ Responses to the Politics of Donald J. Trump Andrea Schlosser, Ruhr University Bochum

Visual Protest: Anti-Trump Discourse in American Political Cartoons Victoria Zhuravleva, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow

Panel J7 Rethinking the Southern Colour Line, 1920s-1970s

Chair: TBC

‘Low Type Peons, Catholics and Communists’: The KKK, Mexican Immigration and the 1924 Johnson Act Miguel Hernandez, University of Exeter

‘We are willing to take their money’: Southern Department Store Managers and Segregation in 1950s America. Vicki Howard, University of Essex

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Rowan Hartland, Northumbria University

Panel J8 Race, Culture, and Activism in New Orleans

Chair: TBC

New Orleans in Time: Narrating Disaster Anna Hartnell, Birkbeck, University of London

The Louisiana Federal Writers’ Project: Representing Race and Voodoo in New Orleans Jennie O'Reilly, Liverpool John Moores

Mardi Gras Indians: From Mutual Aid to Social Activism Katerina Webb-Bourne, King's College London

Panel J9 Globalization and Its Discontents 2: Trans-Global, Trans-National, Trans-Ethnic America

Chair: Martín Urdiales, Universidade de Vigo

Post-ethnicity and Anti-globalization in Chicana/o Science Fiction Elsa del Campo Ramírez, Universidad de Camilo José Cela

Being True to the Trans-: The Trans-global Science Fiction of Samuel R. Delany José Liste Noya, Universidade da Coruña

Trans-global, Trans-human, Trans-generic, Trans-historical but . . . Trans-eth(n)ic?: Chasing Boundaries in Yann Martel’s Fiction Martín Urdiales, Universidade de Vigo

Saturday Panel J10 Contemporary North American Detective Narratives

Chair: TBC

Marvel’s The Defenders: A Transmedia Detective Narrative Lyndsay Miller, University of Glasgow

‘As easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket’: Animetaphor in Raymond Chandler and Jonathan Lethem Ruth Hawthorn, University of Lincoln

Thomas Pynchon’s Hardboiled Eric Sandberg, City University of Hong Kong

Panel J11 Degeneration of Settler Colonialism in Contemporary Cinematic Depictions of the US West

Chair: M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg University, Minneapolis

The Roots of the Degeneration of Settler Colonialism in The Keeping Room Matthew Carter, Manchester Metropolitan University

Settler Colonial Disease and Dis-Ease in August, Osage County M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg University, Minneapolis

Portrayals of Degenerate Religious Leaders in Contemporary Film Westerns Marek Paryz, University of Warsaw

Panel J12 Perspectives on New York's Urban Crisis

Chair: TBC

Urban Lifestyle Magazines and the Ideology of Self-Help in ‘Crisis’-Era New York City, 1969-1985 Joe Merton, University of Nottingham

‘Queer Girl Healthcare is Political’: Women, AIDS, and Healthcare Activism in 1980s and 1990s New York Emma Day, University of Oxford

The Re-Education of John Lindsay Ryan Purcell, Cornell University

13:15-14:30: Lunch Saturday

14:30-16:00: 1968 Panel Discussion (Roundtable – sponsored by Edinburgh University Press)

Chair: Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester

Penny Lewis, City University of New York Sharon Monteith, Nottingham Trent University Doug Rossinow, Oslo University Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University Nick Witham, University College London

16:00: Conference Ends