Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association ACLA 2018 | TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome and Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................4 Welcome from UCLA ...............................................................................................................................6 General Information ..................................................................................................................................7 Conference Schedule ................................................................................................................................15 Pre-Conference Workshops ....................................................................................................................18 Seminars in Detail (Stream A, B, C, and Split Stream)........................................................................26 Index ........................................................................................................................................................169 CFP ACLA 2019 Announcement .........................................................................................................182 ADVERTISEMENTS Duke University Press ........................................................................................................................ 24-25 Edinburgh University Press ....................................................................................................................69 Liverpool University Press ....................................................................................................................123 Routledge Literature ...............................................................................................................................158 Stanford University Press ......................................................................................................................159 Fordham University Press .....................................................................................................................168 ACLA 2018 3 ACLA 2018 WELCOME AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS On behalf of the local organizing committee and my colleagues in the Departments of Comparative Literature and English, I would like to welcome you to the ACLA Annual Meeting at UCLA. The idea of hosting the ACLA at UCLA was proposed to me by a colleague at a board meeting when I was serving as the organization’s Second Vice President. Considering UCLA’s strong commitment to the humanities, especially to languages and literatures, I found the suggestion to be an eminently sensible one. When I shared the idea with my colleagues at UCLA, I was gratified to learn I had their unanimous support in taking on the complex and demanding work involved in planning a major conference for over 2,000 participants. For his part, the UCLA Dean of Humanities, Professor David Schaberg, not only endorsed the idea of hosting the conference, but also offered generous financial support. So, too, did the UCLA Department of English, for which we are grateful. The dedication demonstrated by my colleagues in agreeing to collaborate in planning the conference is commendable but hardly exceptional in the field of comparative literature, where faculty are well-aware of the practical labor entailed in realizing our collective commitment to supporting genuinely interdisciplinary and transnational scholarship and pedagogy. Here at UCLA, colleagues from across the literature departments have earned renown for pioneering work that has defined new literary paradigms and fostered new directions for explorations in literary studies in such areas as the relationship between translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging media, the future of national literatures in an era of globalization, gender and ethnic formations across time, East-West cultural encounters, human rights and global censorship, postcolonial and diaspora studies, environmental humanities, medical humanities, and experimental approaches to literature and culture. This year at UCLA, an intellectually rich program featuring 217 streams, as well as several pre-conference and non-stream events, awaits you. There will be the Presidential Address by Emily Apter and the Awards Ceremony to recognize outstanding contributions. Our Plenary Session will feature distinguished Professor Josephina Saldana-Portillo and LAXART Executive Director Hamza Walker. In addition, there will be poetry readings by Jennifer Scappettone and Keston Sutherland, and a special session on “Translators and Authors in Dialogue” with Suzanne Jill Levine, Eduardo Lalo, Carlos Rojas, and Yan Lianke. And, for your listening pleasure, the renowned KCRW DJ Raul Campos will spin at the welcoming reception. 4 ACLA 2018 The daunting task of organizing this conference simply would have not been possible without the generous efforts of a committed group of UCLA faculty, staff, and graduate students. Members of the faculty organizing committee deserve our special thanks: Stephanie Bosch Santana, Efrain Kristal, Tamara Levitz, David MacFadyen, and Anahid Nersessian. We are especially fortunate to have had the assistance of an absolutely stellar support staff — Janet Bishop, Steven Schweitzer, Mike Lambert, Barbara Van Nostrand, Jessika Herrera, Diane Ohkawahira, Feng Huang, Bronson Tran, Leo Kuo, and Adrian Lozano have been truly tireless in their efforts to ensure that the conference is a rewarding and enjoyable experience for all who attend. I sincerely hope you enjoy the conference and the rich cultural life of Los Angeles during your stay. Ali Behdad John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature Chair of the Organizing Committee ACLA 2018 5 ACLA 2018 WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES AND TO UCLA Welcome to Los Angeles and to UCLA. I am proud that the Division of Humanities has been able to co- sponsor this year’s gathering, particularly because these are years of change and progress in the Division. We are developing initiatives that bring together colleagues from across the disciplines in the Humanities and beyond with our curriculum and pedagogical approaches. Faculty across the division at UCLA are developing and growing academic programs in Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Urban Humanities, Medical Humanities and transcultural studies. Many of these topics are the focus of the streams that our esteemed colleagues at this ACLA annual meeting will be discussing. Our Mellon funded Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative classrooms (EPIC) program will dedicate space to advancing undergraduate teaching in the Humanities in new and exciting pathways over the next five years. As you reflect on the future of the discipline of Comparative Literature, I hope you consider how undergraduate teaching will lay the foundation for scholarship in the field going forward. The way that Comparative Literature scholars engage critically with difference is what we at UCLA hope to emulate as we forge pathways into these new and exciting fields. The work of Comparative Literature is vital in making the work of humanists relevant to the changing 21st century, and I am honored that UCLA has the opportunity to host such a prestigious gathering of scholars. We believe bringing scholars from the varied humanistic fields to our campus falls directly in line with our division’s overall mission in promoting the humanities and its impact on our students and the surrounding world. We are delighted to entertain thinkers, leaders, and creators who have been at the front lines of this effort. I wish you a most productive conference. Very best, David Schaberg Professor and Dean of Humanities UCLA College of Letters and Science 6 ACLA 2018 GENERAL INFORMATION DICKSON COURT SOUTH Registration will be open on Thursday, March 29th at 1:30 p.m.; Friday, March 30th at 7:30 a.m.; and Saturday, March 31st at 7:30 a.m. The Registration table will be located in Dickson Court South near the Schoenberg Music Building each day of the conference. CONFERENCE BADGE Registration staff will issue conference badges to all participants at the Registration table. The UCLA campus is open to the public; ACLA participants will need to wear conference badges to access conference-specific events and amenities. CONFERENCE LOCATIONS All plenary lectures, streams, and meetings are scheduled in Schoenberg Hall; the Humanities Building; Haines Hall; Royce Hall; and Bunche Hall on the UCLA campus. These locations are highlighted on the map on the back cover of this program. Additional maps are available at the registration table, the UCLA Luskin Conference Center, and the UCLA Guest House. ACCESSIBILITY All buildings are accessible for mobility devices. For further information, please see the UCLA Campus Accessibility Map: https://maps.ucla.edu/downloads/pdf/Access_08_21_15.pdf. An electric shuttle cart service will be available for guests with mobility issues. A designated lactation room is in the Humanities Building in Room A80. To gain access to this room, please contact Janet Bishop at: 818-209-0720. ALL-GENDER RESTROOMS All-gender restrooms can be found in some of the buildings used during the conference as follows: Bunche Hall: Rooms 3253; 3257; 4251; 4350; and 8253 Royce Hall: Room 128 Schoenberg Hall: Room 1128; and 1134 IN CASE OF EMERGENCY In case of emergency, please call the University of California Police Department (UCPD) at: 310- 825-1491. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE ONLINE The entire conference schedule is available