The Irish Association for American Studies and The British Association for American Studies

61st Annual BAAS Conference 46th Annual IAAS Conference Thursday 7 – Saturday 9 April 2016 Queen’s University Belfast

IBAAS Conference, Belfast 2016

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Dear delegate

Welcome to Belfast, welcome to Queen’s, and welcome to IBAAS16.

We hope that the 3 days you spend with us here will be as memorable as they are productive. As the first joint annual conference of BAAS and the IAAS in 25 years, we hope that over these few days new alliances will be forged, old friendships renewed, and plans for future collaborations hatched.

When Queen’s accepted the task of staging this event we were not quite sure how large a conference it was going to become. Bringing two American Studies associations together was always going to make for something a little different. As it’s turned out, across 10 sessions and 95 panels, 300 delegates from all corners of the world will be presenting at IBAAS16. In addition, it is our very great pleasure to welcome Professors John Howard, from King’s College London, and Deborah Willis, from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, as our plenary speakers, sponsored by the Eccles Centre and the Journal of American Studies, respectively.

Each year, as part of the IAAS conference, the plenary speaker delivers the Alan Graham Memorial Lecture in honour of one of the Association’s founding members, and former Queen’s University historian, the late Alan Graham. This year, in a slight, but very exciting, change to the format, Richard Ford will read from new work on the evening of Saturday 9 April. This event, along with the IBAAS Gala Dinner, will take place at Titanic Belfast, and will conclude our conference.

Hopefully you will have time to sample some, but not too much, of our city’s hospitality. We extend our appreciation and thanks to our sponsors, in particular the US Embassy and the Eccles Centre for their continued support. A particular note of thanks goes to Peter McKittrick in the US Consulate in Belfast (which itself celebrates its 220th anniversary this year) for his assistance in pulling a lot of things together behind the scenes, as well as the Visit Belfast team for all of their help. For now, we raise a virtual glass to everyone who has worked so hard up to this point to make this conference possible, and to all of you for your contribution to a special three days in Belfast.

#IBAAS16

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Welcome 3

Keynote Speakers 5-7

Conference Programme Overview 8

Full Conference Programme 9-32

Maps 33-34

Logos 39

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Professor Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment with the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Social & Cultural, Africana Studies, where she teaches courses on photography and imaging, iconicity, and cultural histories visualizing the black body, women, and gender. Her research examines photography’s multifaceted histories, and visual culture. She received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and was a Richard D. Cohen Fellow in African and African American Art, Hutchins Center, Harvard University and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Willis received the NAACP Image Award in 2014 for her co-authored book (with Barbara Krauthamer) “Envisioning Emancipation.” Other notable projects include “The Black Female Body A Photographic History,” “Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers - 1840 to the Present;” “Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present;” “Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs,” a NAACP Image Award Literature Winner, and “Black Venus 2010: They Called Her ‘Hottentot.’”

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Professor John Howard

John Howard was born, raised, and educated in the American South, culminating in a Ph.D. in American Studies from Emory University in 1997. After teaching in the history departments at Duke University and the University of York, he moved to King’s College London, where he has served as Professor of American Studies for over a decade.

John has published six books, including an edited collection, two literary editions, the documentary photobook White Sepulchres (University of Valencia Press, 2016), and two monographs— Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (2008) and Men Like That: A Southern Queer History (1999), both from University of Chicago Press.

With colleagues in the states, John was co-author of the Amici Curiae Brief of Professors of History, U.S. Supreme Court, Lawrence v. Texas, 2003. In the 1990s, he was a member of ACT UP and Queer Nation; lately he supports CND and the campaign to Free Chelsea Manning.

John has received awards from the AHRC, British Academy, Delfina, Fulbright, Rockefeller, and King’s College London Students’ Union.

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Richard Ford

In the 40 years since his first novel A Piece of My Heart was published, Richard Ford has established himself as one of the pre-eminent authors on contemporary America or, as The Washington Post referred to him, “one of the finest curators of the great American living museum”. Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1944 and raised both there and in Little Rock, Arkansas, Ford’s early writing bore witness to a wide- ranging literary inheritance. In more recent times he has moved beyond comparisons with other American writers to establish himself as the voice of a particular set of US circumstances: schooled in Emersonian optimism, yet constantly aware of the shortcomings of the American project, Ford’s universe is peopled by complex, yet at times comedic, characters treading a line that simultaneously defines failure as well as short-term successes.

His novels include The Ultimate Good Luck (1981), The Sportswriter (1986; one of Time magazine’s list of 100 best English language books), and its first sequel Independence Day (1995) which won the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize, the first book ever to achieve this feat. In The Sportswriter and Independence Day, Ford created a narrator in Frank Bascombe who has developed into one of the key figures of late-twentieth and now early-twenty-first-century American literature as he continues his middle-age and senior citizen adventures in The Lay of the Land (2006) and Let Me Be Frank With You (2014). In 2012, Ford published what critics argue to be his masterpiece, Canada, a novel that he worked on for twenty years. Amidst the novels there have also been the short story collections Rock Springs (1986), the incomparable Women with Men (1997), and the ten tales of adultery amid regular American lives that comprise A Multitude of Sins (2001). This collection features the story ‘Charity’, set in part in Belfast, Maine, “a town in transition” though not “the one where they fight”.

Now this other Belfast is also in transition and extends a heartfelt welcome to one of America’s finest writers.

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Time Day Activity Area

9 – 11am Thursday Coffee, Registration and Exhibition set up Whitla Hall 11- 12.30pm Thursday Parallel Session A Various 12.30- 1.30pm Thursday Lunch Whitla Hall 1.30- 3pm Thursday Parallel Session B Various 3-4.30pm Thursday Parallel Session C Various 4.30- 5pm Thursday Coffee Whitla Hall 5-6.30pm Thursday Keynote lecture - John Howard Larmour Lecture Theatre 7-8pm Thursday Drinks Reception Belfast City Hall

9-10.30am Friday Parallel Session D Various 10.30-10.45am Friday Coffee Whitla Hall 10.45-12.45pm Friday Parallel Session E Various 12.45-1.45pm Friday Lunch Whitla Hall 1.45-3.15pm Friday Parallel Session F Various 3.30-4pm Friday Coffee Whitla Hall 3.30-5.30pm Friday BAAS AGM Larmour Lecture Theatre 5.30-7pm Friday Keynote lecture – Deborah Willis Larmour Lecture Theatre 7 – 8pm Friday Drinks Reception Great Hall Queen’s

9-10.30am Saturday Parallel Session G Various 10.30-11am Saturday Coffee Whitla Hall 11-12.30pm Saturday Parallel Session H Various 12.30-1.30pm Saturday Lunch Whitla Hall 12.30-1.30pm Saturday IAAS AGM Graduate School TR6 1.30-3.30pm Saturday Parallel Session I Various 3.30-3.45pm Saturday Coffee Whitla Hall 4pm Saturday Exhibition dismantle Whitla Hall 3.45- 5.15pm Saturday Parallel Session J Various 5.30pm Saturday Bus departure to Titanic McClay Library 6.30pm Saturday Richard Ford Reading Titanic 7.30pm Saturday Conference Dinner Titanic

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Activity Venue Time Thursday 7 April 2016 Queen’s University 9.00am – 11.00am Coffee and Registration Whitla Hall Larmour Lecture 10:40am – 10:55am Conference Opening Theatre Parallel Session A 11.00am – 12.30pm A1. Irish and American Popular Culture Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Dorothea Gail (Johannes Gutenberg University Room 03/006a Mainz) ‘To Awake or Deny? : The Irish Wake and American Popular Culture’ Bridget English (Maynooth University) ‘“Thousands are Sailing”: Irish Immigration and Postmemory in the Graphic Novel Gone to Amerikay’ Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado (Maynooth University) ‘Looking for Rusty: The Irish in American Crime Fiction’ Eamonn Hughes (Queen’s University Belfast) A2. Poetics and Music Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Jonathan Creasy (Trinity College Dublin) Room 02/011 ‘Lost in the Ocean of Human Sorrow: Dissonant Counterpoint in Reznikoff’s Testimony’ Simon Cooper (Independent) ‘Berryman’s Familiar Little Songs’ Eve Cobain (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Mark Doty’s Theories of Incompletion’ Philip McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast) A3. Dramatic Personalities Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Jennifer Daly (Trinity College Dublin) Room 03/007 ‘Revolutionising Blanche’ Jennie Tabak (Independent) ‘“A man is not a piece of fruit”: The discarding of Arthur Miller in America Louise Callinan (St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University) ‘Investigating the Real: Arthur Miller’s Postmodernist Detectives’ Ciarán Leinster (Independent) A4. Contemporary Fiction, Secularism and Religion Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Rachel Sykes (Nottingham Trent University) Room 02/025 ‘Gone sometime. Home to stay: Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Home’ David Coughlan (University of Limerick) ‘The Trials of a “Non-practicing Atheist”: Disbelief, New Atheism, and American Secularism in Joshua Ferris’s To Rise Again at a Decent Hour’ David Deacon (University College Dublin) ‘“We remain unknown to ourselves”: Selfhood and the Uncanny in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping’ Andrew Cunning (Queen’s University Belfast)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 10 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time B5. Ethics and Contemporary Fiction Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: David Coughlan (University of Limerick) Room 02/011 ‘Racial and Gendered In/visibility: Neoliberalism, The Oriental Other, and Human Subjectivity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction’ Moussa Pourya Asl and Simon Peter Hull (University Sains Malaysia) ‘An Ethical Response to Political Violence: Confession as Radical Speech in Peter Dimock’s George Anderson: Notes for A Love Song in Imperial Time’ Iain McMaster (University of Edinburgh) ‘15 Years of 9/11 Fiction: Directions in Criticism and Ethics’ Arin Keeble (Nottingham Trent University) B6. Creating Irish America: Irish Cultural and Political Peter Froggatt Centre Identities in the Nineteenth Century Room 02/013 Chair: David Sim (University College London) ‘“That is a strange sentence to come from the pen of an American”: Re-imagining Irish identity abroad during the mid-nineteenth century’ Sophie Cooper (University of Edinburgh) ‘“The brave sons of Erin desired the vanguard of freedom to be”: How songs expressed Irish attachment to the ideals of freedom and liberty during the American Civil War’ Catherine Bateson (University of Edinburgh) ‘“The grandest battle ever fought for the rights of human beings”: radical republicanism and the Irish Land War across the Atlantic’ Andrew Phemister (University of Edinburgh) B7. Violence and the American Civil War Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Brian Kelly (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 03/006a ‘“He is the only white man in the district”: Slavery, Fears of Insurrection, and the Confederate War Effort in Georgia, 1861-1865’ David T. Gleeson (Northumbria University) ‘The Sisters of Mercy: Irish Religious Sisters and the Civil War’ Virginia Gould (Tulane University) ‘The Bear River Massacre: Memorialising a Forgotten History’ Susannah Hopson (University of Hull) B8. Shifting Borders: New Perspectives on the American Peter Froggatt Centre South Room 03/006b Chair: Catherine Clinton (University of Texas San Antonio) ‘Aborted Dreams: The Southwestern Frontier in the Age of the American Revolution’ Susanna Delfino (University of Genoa) ‘Spain’s North American Borderlands in Progressive America’ Alessandra Lorini (University of Firenze) ‘Man of the Rhizomatic West: Tommy Lee Jones at the Border’ Andrew Dix (Loughborough University)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 11 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time B9. Race, Memory and Civil Rights Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Jennifer Terry (University of Durham) Room 03/007 ‘“Burn, Baby, Burn” in A Song Flung up to Heaven’ Sima Jalal Kamali (University of Sussex) ‘“Ma is in the Park”: The Bethune Memorial and Commemorating Black Women’ Jenny Woodley (Nottingham Trent University) ‘Spatial Imagination Not For All: The Case of African Americans’ Elyes Hanafi (University of Tunis, Faculty of Lettres Manouba) B10. Imagined Realities Graduate School TR3 Chair: Conor Reid (Trinity College Dublin) ‘A Robotic Revolution - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and the Origins of Rebellion’ Gabriella McGrogan (Independent) ‘“The Last American”: Plague Narratives in American Popular Culture’ Bernice M. Murphy (Trinity College Dublin) Parallel Session C 3.00pm – 4.30pm C1. American Exceptionalism & Hemispheric Studies: Peter Froggatt Centre Refashioning Exclusivity, Crossing into Canada Room 02/018 Chair: Richard Cole (University of Alberta) ‘A Less “Exceptional” American Studies’ Zalfa Feghali (University of Leicester) ‘“Thus the Oak Succeeds to the Pine”: Canadian Exceptionalism in the Writings of Anna Brownell Jameson’ Rachel Bryant (University of New Brunswick) C2. Anxiety, Illness and Contemporary American Culture Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Jo Gill (University of Exeter) Room 02/025 ‘Staying Safe? Depression, Anxiety, and the Health Crisis of the 1990s’ Martin Halliwell (University of Leicester) ‘“He’d Been a Stranger in the World for most of his Life”: Alzheimer’s and Academic Identity in Contemporary American Fiction’ Jennie Chapman (University of Hull) ‘Re-reading “Fat Fiction” as “Crash Fiction”: Home Making and Breaking in Lionel Shriver’s State-of-the-Nation “Obesity Bestseller” Big Brother’ Michelle Green (University of Nottingham) C3. Affective Ecologies Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Heather Neilson (University of New South Wales) Room 02/013 ‘Writing Ecology in Cold War American Literature and Culture’ Sarah Daw (University of Exeter) ‘“The Beginning of What May Be the End of Us”: Gordon Douglas’s Them! and Post World War II Environmental Anxiety’ Emily Bourke (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Unstable Geographies vs. “the Usual Chronology”: Deep Time in Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!’ Iain Williams (University of Edinburgh)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 12 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time C4. Innovations in Narratology Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: James Hussey (Trinity College Dublin) Room 02/009 ‘The First Big Wound: Symptoms, Side Effects and Narrative Overflow in Across the River and Into the Trees’ Frances Kearney (Ulster University) ‘Adaptation of a Cow: William Faulkner and Literary Form’ Eoin O’ Callaghan (University College Cork) ‘“Unguessed kinships”: Paratactic Style and the Paratactic World(s) of Cormac McCarthy’ Ciarán Dowd (NUI Galway) C5. Threats from Within: From Anti-Communism to Peter Froggatt Centre Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Room 03/006a Chair: Sandra Scanlon, University College Dublin ‘J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI and Forging the “religious cold war” consensus: Causes and Consequences’ Dianne Kirby (University of Ulster) ‘Pragmatic Patriots: Civil Prisoners and Voluntary Service in Vietnam’ Sarah Thelen (University College Cork) ‘The Clinton White House, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and the Gender Politics of Military Service’ David Fitzgerald (University College Cork) C6. Bespoke Bodies Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Pierangelo Castagneto (American University in Room 03/006b Bulgaria) ‘Lance Armstrong and the disappointments of the American Dream’ Matthew Shaw (The British Library) ‘Making Father Know Best: The End of Welfare and the “Responsibilisation” of Fatherhood’ H. Howell Williams (New School for Social Research) ‘The Trial of Rachel Dolezal: Litigating Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century’ Lisa Kingstone (King’s College London) C7. Reconstructing the South: Race and Culture Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Zoe Trodd (University of Nottingham) Room 02/017 ‘A Kingdom For a Horse, A Horse For a Kingdom: The Decline of Racing and the Rise of the Ring Tournament in the Post-Civil War South’ Natalie Zacek (University of Manchester) ‘The Forgotten Teachers: Northern Blacks and Former Slaves in North Carolina’s Schools for the Freed People, 1861-1876’ Anne Marie Brosnan (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick) ‘XANADA: African-Americans in Search of Freedom’ Gareth Davis (University College London)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 13 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time C8. The Politics of Identity in the Contemporary US Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Anthony Stanonis (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 02/011 ‘The Libertarian Festival: People Power for the Twenty-First Century’ Alfred Cardone (King’s College London) ‘Southern Exceptionalism at Bay: Circularity and the Cultures of the Black Lives Matter Movement’ Gavan Lennon (Canterbury Christ Church University) C9. Ireland, the Antebellum US South, and the American Peter Froggatt Centre Civil War: Connections and Comparisons Room 03/007 Chair: David T. Gleeson (Northumbria University) ‘Unionist and Secessionist Elites in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and the Antebellum US South: Landlord and Planter Politics in Comparative Perspective’ Cathal Smith (NUI Galway) ‘Irish Frontier Catholicism in the Antebellum US South’ Joe Regan (NUI Galway) ‘Religion, Racism, and Perfidious Albion: Irish Soldiers in the Union Army during the American Civil War’ Florry O’Driscoll (NUI Galway) C10. Global Revolutions on the Dance Floor Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Dorothea Gail (Johannes Gutenberg University Room 02/010 Mainz) ‘Berlin Is Burning: Voguing In Translation’ Madison Moore (King’s College London) ‘“The other side of things”: Shakti Thara’s Queer and Transnational Circuits of Sound’ Elliott H. Powell (University of Minnesota) Queen’s University 4.30pm – 5.00pm Coffee Whitla Hall Plenary lecture Queen’s University 5.00pm – 6.30pm John Howard, King’s College London: “The American Larmour Lecture Nuclear Cover-up in Spain.” Theatre Drinks reception at the City Hall – sponsored by Belfast Belfast City Hall 7.00pm/7.30pm City Council Friday 8 April 2016 Parallel Session D 9.00am – 10.30am D1. Contemporary American Fiction Economies Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Andrew Pepper (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 02/017 Narrative Economies: Intertextuality and Temporal Disruptions in Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End Aliki Varvogli (University of Dundee) Rapacious Capitalism and the Death of American Idealism in Adam Haslett’s Union Atlantic Catherine Morley (University of Leicester) Value, Values and Valuation in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections David Brauner (University of Reading)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 14 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time D2. Revolutionary Theologies Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Azelina Flint (University of East Anglia) Room 02/025 ‘Revolutionary Evolution: American Literary Naturalism and American Theology’ Steven Bembridge (University of East Anglia) ‘The Spectre of Oppression and National Identity in Hobomok’ Alex McDonnell (Durham University) D3. Novel Forms: Symptoms of Passage Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Ron Callan (IAAS President) Room 02/013 ‘Performing Atonement: Regret, Responsibility, and Redemption in Gail Godwin’s Flora’ Kerstin W. Shands (Södertörn University) ‘Night: Another Frontier in American Wilderness Studies?’ Sarah Cullen (Trinity College Dublin) ‘The Network and the Novel: Reading the Internet in Jonathan Franzen’s Purity’ Daniel South (University of York) D4. (Sub)urban (trans)formations Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Jo Gill (University of Exeter) Room 02/018 ‘Being American: Capitalism, Surveillance, and Exclusion from the Post-War Suburbs to the Contemporary Corporate Campus’ Joanna Wilson (University of Edinburgh) ‘The Post-War Suburb as “Living Memorial” in D.J. Waldie’s Holy Land Martin Dines (Kingston University) ‘Planning for Transformational Change in London and New York City: A Tale of Two Cities’ Richard W. Jelier (Grand Valley State University) and Peter Garside (Kingston University) D5. Modes of Biography Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Lisa Kingstone (King’s College London) Room 03/006a ‘All That’s Fit to Print: Tracing Brand-Building in the Hollywood Biography Through Don’t Say Yes Until I Finish Talking’ Hannah Graves (University of Warwick) ‘American self-fashioning: the biographical enterprise of Jay Parini’ Heather Neilson (University of New South Wales) ‘“He United the States of America”: Independence and the Great Man in HBO’s John Adams’ Rubén Peinado Abarrio (University of Kent)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 15 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time D6. Lost in Translation? US-UK Ideological Exchange Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Peter O’Connor (University of Manchester) Room 03/006b ‘The Scottish-American Association, 1919-21: “intermediary, conciliator and peacebuilder”?’ Stephen Bowman (University of the Highlands and Islands/ Durham University) ‘“Undisguised curiosity and real attention”: Britain and the American Presidency, 1829-1861’ Peter O’Connor (University of Manchester) ‘Thomas Chalmers, the “Godly Commonwealth” and contemporary welfare reform in Britain and the USA’ Jim Smyth (University of Stirling) D7. Medicine and Empire: Race, Gender and Disease in Peter Froggatt Centre the Americas Room 03/007 Chair: Lawrence T. McDonnell (Iowa State University) ‘Mothers of Gynaecology: Enslaved and Irish-Immigrant Women and the Birth of American Gynaecology’ Deirdre Cooper Owens, (Queens College, City University Of New York) ‘“An African corps…in a most distressed and sickly condition”’ Rana A. Hogarth (University Of Illinois At Urbana- Champaign) ‘Beyond the Broad Street Water Pump: The Making of Epidemiology in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction’ James T. Downs (Harvard University & Connecticut College) D8. Law and the Construction of the US Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Emma Long (University of East Anglia) Room 02/011 ‘Marshall’s Voice’ Tom Halper (Baruch College/City University of New York Graduate Center) ‘A New Role in Europe: Northern Democrats and International Law after the Revolutions of 1848’ Mark Power Smith (University College London) ‘Bona Fide Settlers: The Transformation from Immigrant to Citizen-Settlers in the American Settler State’ Sara M. Gray (Swansea University) D9. Writing Race from the Antebellum Period to the Peter Froggatt Centre Present Room 02/009 Chair: Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Nottingham) ‘Re-playing the Octoroon’ Lisa Merrill (Hofstra University) and Theresa Saxon (University of Central Lancashire) ‘Langston Hughes’s Jesse B. Semple: the Hero of the African American Working Class’ Shima Jalal Kamali (University of Sussex) ‘“I cannot see staying here forever”: Stalled journeys and the myth of possibility in Abani, Danticat and Packer’ Nicole King (University of Reading)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 16 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time D10. Self-worth in the ‘free’ market: American fiction Peter Froggatt Centre and neoliberal economics Room 02/010 Chair: Alan Gibbs (University College Cork) ‘“Remember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you’ll never figure out what’s important” (Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story): Seeing through remembrance, celebration and transparency’ Katrina Kelly (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘“Sharing a Fate, directed by the Stars, / To mark the Earth with geometrick Scars”: Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon (1997) and Neoliberal Globalisation’ Samuel J. Cooper (University of Nottingham) ‘Suffering Agency in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence’ Sarah McCreedy (Queen’s University Belfast) D11. American Photographs: Picturing a People’s Graduate School TR6 History Chair: Catherine Gander (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘The Last and Most Precious Memento: Portrait Photography and the Citizen-Soldier’ James Brookes (University of Nottingham) ‘The Abolitionist’s Camera: Frederick Douglass as the Most Photographed American of the Nineteenth Century’ Zoe Trodd (University of Nottingham) Queen’s University 10.30am – 10.45am Coffee Whitla Hall Parallel Session E 10.45am – 12.45pm E1. 19th Century American Letters and Letter-Writing Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Zoe Trodd (University of Nottingham) Room 02/025 ‘Louisa May Alcott’s Family Postbox’ Judie Newman (University of Nottingham) ‘From Mind to Hand: Pens, Paper and the Materiality of Letter Writing’ Graham Thompson (University of Nottingham) ‘Science and the Decline of Letters: The Correspondence of J. Peter Lesley’ Robin Vandome (University of Nottingham) ‘“Frederick Douglass, the freeman” versus “Frederick Bailey, the slave” in Frederick Douglass’s Correspondence’ Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of Nottingham) E2. New Perspectives on Don DeLillo Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Catherine Gander (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 02/017 ‘The continuous finality of Don DeLillo’ Katherine Da Cunha Lewin (University of Sussex) ‘Body Horror: Monstrous and nonhuman forms in DeLillo’s fiction’ Rebecca Harding (University of Sussex) ‘“Some kind of oblique allusion”: Influence and anxiety in the DeLillo/Wallace Archives’ Tim Gurowich (University of Sussex) ‘“A sense of games and half-made selves”: The figure of the child in Don DeLillo’s Underworld’ Katherine Kruger (University of Sussex)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 17 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time E3. Español in Contemporary Fiction Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Zalfa Feghali (University of Leicester) Room 02/018 ‘Universal Insurance/Seguridad Universal: Performing Hegemony in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead’ Kiron Ward (University of Sussex) ‘What’s with the a/o?: Translating Gender in Latina/o Texts’ Eilidh Hall (University of East Anglia) ‘Junot Díaz’s “seditious language”: the Multilingualism of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’ Maria Lauret (University of Sussex) ‘“A Countryless Woman”: Ana Castillo’s Chicana Feminism’ Leona Blair (Queen’s University Belfast) E4. Spatial practices and practical spaces Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Andrew Pepper (Queen’s University Belfast) 02/010 ‘“Thirteen ways of looking from a skyscraper”: Carl Sandburg and Wallace Stevens’ Jo Gill (University of Exeter) ‘“A kind of building dream” The Architecture of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Caroline Blinder (Goldsmiths’ College, University of London) ‘The Campus Affect: An Experimental Dérive at Bowling Green State University’ Elizabeth Ann Collins (Bowling Green State University) E5. Irish-American Diplomatic Relations Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Stephen Bowman (University of the Highlands and Room 02/009 Islands/ Durham University) ‘Irish Nationalism and Arbitration: A reflection on contrasting reactions to Anglo-American rapprochement, 1896-97’ Tony King (NUI Galway) ‘The Irish dimensions to American propaganda during World War One: The work of the Committee on Public Information’ Bernadette Whelan (University of Limerick) ‘Developments in Northern Ireland: The American Consulate in Belfast during World War Two’ Simon Topping (Plymouth University) ‘A Comparative View of the Appointment and Experiences of Female Ambassadors in Ireland and the US in the Twentieth Century’ Anne Marie O’Brien (University of Limerick)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 18 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time E6. Tangled up in Blue Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Joe Street (Northumbria University) Room 03/007 ‘Recording Robert Johnson: Don Law and the Birth of a Blues Legend’ Brian Ward (Northumbria University) ‘Further! How “Magic Bus” imagery has been deployed from The Who to the Hippy Trail’ Brian Ireland (University of South Wales) ‘Searching for an “American” sound: The Pan-American Association of Composers 1928-1934’ Tina Vinson (University of West London) ‘“I Want Her Tailor-Made”: 1930s Hillbilly Music and the Paradox of Southern Womanhood’ Allan Symons (Northumbria University) E7. Anarchy in the USA Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Paul Williams (University of Exeter) Room 03/006a ‘Kathy Acker: Radical Fiction From Counterculture to Punk’ Joanna Freer (University of Exeter) ‘“Hungry Freaks”: Charles Manson’s Los Angeles Adventure’ Jeff Melnick (University of Massachusetts Boston) ‘Alien She: The Female Voice in the American Punk Rock Memoir’ Patricia Malone (Queen’s University Belfast) E8. Jewish-American Culture Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: David Brauner (University of Reading) Room 03/006b ‘Mad Magazine and Postwar Jewish American Culture’ Leah Garrett (Monash University) ‘Jewish American Independence’ Karen E H Skinazi (University of Birmingham) ‘At Home in a Crowd: Anzia Yezierska and Independence from the Domestic Space’ Katie Ahern (University College Cork) ‘Strange Bedfellows: Subversive misogynies in the work of Adelle Waldman and Philip Roth’ Mike Witcombe (University of Southampton) E9. 19th Century Transnational Perspectives Graduate School Chair: Dara Downey (Trinity College, Dublin) TR3 ‘Caution Despite Everything: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Warning Against Uncritically Accepting the Claims of Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ Jonathan Sudholt (Independent Scholar) ‘Banishing the Outlaws: Judicial Treatment As a Literary Tool in the Works of Joseph Glover Baldwin and Mark Twain’ Hamada Kassam (Zayed University) ‘Margaret Fuller’s Transatlantic Nationalisms’ Christa Holm Vogelius (University of Copenhagen) ‘A Visit to the Former Colony: Frances Trollope’s Domestic Manners of the Americans’ Justyna Fruzi´n ska (University of Lodz, Poland)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 19 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time E10. Roundtable: Academic Freedom in the Twenty-First Peter Froggatt Centre Century: Challenges to Researching and Teaching in the Room 02/011 UK and the US Chair: Ed Harcourt (Liverpool John Moores University) Anthony J. Stanonis (Queen’s University Belfast) Cheryl Hudson (University of Liverpool) Alan Ryan (Oxford University) Rania Hafez (University of Greenwich) E11. Digital Scholarship in American Studies 1 Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Katie McGettigan (University of Nottingham) 02/013 ‘Scholarship Online, or How to Train your Hashtag, or I’ll Follow You if You Follow Me’ Jennifer Terry (University of Durham) ‘The Armchair Approach: Encountering Digitised Pictorial Manuscripts in Early American Studies’ Claudia J Rogers (University of Leeds) ‘Digital Loray: Building Community History’ Julie Davis (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) ‘African American Worship in Mississippi, as Mediated through Digital Technology’ Therese Smith (University College Dublin) Queen’s University 12.45pm – 1.45pm Lunch Whitla Hall Parallel Session F 1.45pm – 3.15pm F1. Triangulating Thoreau: Henry David Thoreau’s Cape Graduate School TR3 Cod and the Cartographies of Postbellum America Chair: Hannah Murray (University of Nottingham) ‘Cape Cod and the Cosmos’ Michael Collins (University of Kent) ‘“What stuff history is made of”: Thoreau’s Cape Cod and the Archive’ Joanne Mildenhall (University of East Anglia) ‘Salvage-Writing and Economic Radicalism in Cape Cod’ Benjamin Pickford (University of Nottingham) F2. Writing the Transatlantic ‘Troubles’ Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Steffi Lehner (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 02/025 ‘“The Trouble with Analogies; Analogies with the Troubles”: The Border-Crossing Fiction of Colum McCann’ Ruth Gilligan (University of Birmingham) ‘“I turn to our Irish-American cousins”: Paul Muldoon, the ghost of Roger Casement and the “very deep crisis” of (Northern) Ireland’ Alison Garden (University College Dublin) ‘“Quiet Men”: Film and Filmmaking in Returned Yank Fictions of the Troubles’ Sinéad Moynihan (University of Exeter)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 20 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time F3. C21 DeLillo Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Arin Keeble (Nottingham Trent University) Room 03/006a ‘Rupturing reality’s symbolic cobwebs: locating the real in Don DeLillo’s “Still Life” and Point Omega.’ Kelsie Donnelly (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘“Gray and Waiting”: telepathy and terror in Don DeLillo’s fiction and Gerhard Richter’s October series’ Doug Haynes (University of Sussex) ‘“The Whole World is Watching”: Don DeLillo, Television and the Aesthetics of Revolution’ Thomas Travers (Birkbeck College, University of London) F4. Death and Debt in the Twenty-First Century Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Andrew Pepper (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 03/006b ‘Withdrawing in Disgust: Neoliberalism and the Slacker Narrative’ Joe Rollins (University of York) ‘Beyond Wall Street: De-Centering Finance in the Contemporary Transnational Novel’ Laura Finch (University of Pennsylvania) ‘Death and Mortgages in Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York (2008)’ Sadek Kessous (Newcastle University) F5. American Studies: New Paradigms Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Liam Kennedy (Clinton Institute, University College Room 02/018 Dublin) ‘Death by our own “making”: Maker culture and mass production in the American academy’ Lizzie Falvey (Wentworth Institute of Technology) From Rebellion to Independence? The Historical and Cultural Vagaries of American Studies Paul Jahshan (Notre Dame University) ‘What Makes Queer Oral History Different?: LGBTQ Research and American Studies’ Jason Ruiz (University of Notre Dame) and Kevin P. Murphy (University of Minnesota) F6. ‘Self-Reliance is the Fine Road to Independence’: Peter Froggatt Centre The Personal Rebellions that Shaped the Fight for Room 02/009 African-American Freedom Chair: Elizabeth T. Kenney (Salem State University) ‘The Love of Liberty Brought us Here: The Social Revolution of Black American Women in Nineteenth Century Liberia’ Matthew J. Law (Clark University) ‘A Beacon of Freedom? Black migration to Canada, 1830- 1860’ Oran Kennedy (Leiden University) ‘“No drop of black blood marred him in my sight”: Re- evaluating the Marginalised Status of Louisa May Alcott’s Mixed-Race Heroes’ Azelina Flint (University of East Anglia)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 21 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time F7. Obama’s Wars: Rhetoric and Strategy Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Andrew Thomson (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 02/017 ‘Incentivising and Deregulating Victimage: Obama’s Language of the UAV Wars’ Nathalie Kuroiwa-Lewis (Saint Martin’s University) ‘Shifting Sands: Interagency Tension and Strategic Considerations in US Policy towards Egypt following the overthrow of the Muslim Brothers’ Ahmed Mahdi (Future University in Egypt) F8. Remembering Wars: From the Mexican-American Peter Froggatt Centre War to the Spanish Civil War Room 02/010 Chair: Bernadette Whelan (University of Limerick) ‘“When We Knew No North, No South”: Memories of the US-Mexican War in the Post-Civil War Era, 1874-1897’ Alys Beverton (University College London) ‘Cannibals and a King: Representations of Haiti from the US occupation 1915-1934’ Louise Fenton (University of Wolverhampton) ‘Memories of Spain: The Civil War Diaries of Stanley Postek’ Vernon Pedersen (American University of Sharjah) F9. Black Radicalism from Civil Rights to the Million Man Peter Froggatt Centre March Room 02/013 Chair: Zoe Hyman (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘This is the Rat Speaking!: The Black Student Takeover and Radical Movement for an interdisciplinary Black Studies Curriculum at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1968-1969’ Todd M. Mealy (Pennsylvania State University) ‘Louis Farrakhan’s Fruit of Islam’ Dawn-Marie Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London) F10. A Right to the City: Cultural Activism and the New Peter Froggatt Centre American Communities Room 03/007 Chair: Zoe Trodd (University of Nottingham) ‘The Right to the City: A Cultural Urban History of Puerto Rican Community Activism’ Timo Schrader (University of Nottingham) ‘Wall of Memory: The City’s Aesthetic Response to African American Historical Marginalisation’ Hannah Jeffery (University of Nottingham) ‘From Ethiopia to the Inner City: Dancehall in New York’ Patrick Henderson (University of Nottingham) F11. Anglo, Irish and Ulster-American Relations Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Alex Murray (Queen’s University Belfast) 02/011 ‘The Anglo-American Past at the Philadelphia Centennial’ David Tiedemann (University College London) ‘Funding the Fenians: Junk Bonds and the Difficulties of Bankrolling Secessionist Nationalism’ David Sim (University College London) ‘Throwing the furniture out of the window: Willa Cather’s Aesthetic and Ulster Protestant Plain Style’ Willa Murphy (Ulster University)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 22 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time Queen’s University 3.30pm - 4pm Coffee Whitla Hall Queen’s University BAAS AGM Larmour Lecture 3.30pm – 5.30pm Theatre Plenary lecture Queen’s University 5.30pm -7pm Deborah Willis, NYU: ‘Imaging Social Movements in Larmour Lecture America from Emancipation to Black Lives Matter’ Theatre Drinks reception in the Great Hall - sponsored by 7.00pm – 8pm Canterbury Christ Church University Saturday 9 April 2016 Parallel Session G 9.00am – 10.30am G1. Return, Reimagining, and Retrospect: American Graduate School TR2 Literature and WWI Chair: Philip McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘Edith Wharton in the Trenches: Reimagining War’ William Blazek (Liverpool Hope University) ‘“An unending circle of pain”: criticism and construction in 100 years of American WWI literary scholarship’ David Rennie (University of Aberdeen) ‘F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Unstable Veterans: War, Alcoholism and Suicide’ Helen Turner (University of Essex) G2. Cultural Crossings: Celtic, African, Native-American, Peter Froggatt Centre and Southern Transformations Room 02/013 Chair: Sinéad Moynihan (University of Exeter) ‘Charles W. Chesnutt, Lafcadio Hearn, and the Disavowal of “Voudoo”’ Dara Downey (Trinity College, Dublin) ‘The Singer Outdistances the Song: Emerson’s Transactional Reader and the Cover Song in American Letters’ Dominic Jaeckle (Goldsmiths’ College, University of London) ‘Gypsies, Indians, Ghosts: Transatlantic Spectrality in Washington Irving’s Bracebridge Hall’ Hannah Murray (University of Nottingham) G3. Transnational Racial Thought from the Gilded Age to Peter Froggatt Centre the Age of Decolonisation 02/025 Chair: Dr Anne-Marie Angelo (University of Sussex) ‘”Regardless of color”. German-American socialism, race and class in the Socialist Labour Party, 1876-1890’ Lorenzo Costaguta (University of Nottingham)

‘The Uses of Decolonisation: Frantz Fanon, the Colonial Analogy, and Black Intellectuals in America, 1965-1973’ Sam Klug (Harvard University) ‘A Cultural Bandung: The First International Conference of Black Writers And Artists in 1956’ Merve Fejzula (University of Cambridge)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 23 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time G4. American Pedagogies Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Alex Murray (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 03/007 ‘Textbook Modernism: Learning to Read with Gertrude Stein’ Julie Taylor (Northumbria University) ‘Theory and the Creative Writing Classroom: Conceptual Revision in the School of Gordon Lish’ David Winters (University of Cambridge) ‘The Style of Close Reading in Postwar American Fiction’ Angus Brown (University of Oxford) G5. Verse, Voice and Vision Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Ron Callan (IAAS President) Room 02/010 ‘“Some keep the Sabbath by going to Church” but Some Stay Home to Garden: Examining Emily Dickinson’s Unconventional Religious Conviction’ Darcey Lovell (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) ‘“I Mend a Break in Time”: H.D.’s Healing Prophecy in What Do I Love?’ Abeer Al-Mahdawi (Durham University) ‘Translating the Everyday into Radical Critiques of Ideologies of Self’ Joel Wendland (Grand Valley State University) G6. Visuality, Power, Surveillance 1 Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Susan Flynn (University of the Arts London) Room 02/017 ‘Camera Performed: Visualising the Behaviours of Technology in Digital Performance’ Jaclyn Meloche (University of Ottawa) ‘Power is Knowledge: Surveillance, Biopower and Linguistic Subjectivity in John Eliot’s Christian Commonwealth’ Dan Mills (Kennesaw State University) ‘The New Clinical Gaze’ Susan Flynn (University of the Arts London) G7. Revolution and Empire Building: Sovereignty Peter Froggatt Centre Recognition, Failed Invasions, and Slavery Across the Room 03/006a 49th Parallel Chair: Jennifer Andrews (University of New Brunswick) ‘Treaty Worthiness: Empires, Borders, and First Peoples in North America, 1763-1838’ William J. Campbell (University of Memphis) ‘Transgressing Empire: Revolutionary Identities in the Canadian Borderlands, 1775-1776’ Amy Noel Ellison (Boston University) ‘Reconstructed Ties in Exodus: Black Loyalist Families in Comparative Perspective’ Kameika Murphy (College of Charleston)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 24 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time G8. American Evangelicalism, 1920-1980 Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Diane Kirby (University of Ulster) Room 03/006b ‘Aimee Semple McPherson and her role in the American Evangelical Movement’ Paulina Napierala (Jagiellonian University) ‘A Voice in the Wilderness: The National Association of Evangelicals and the Church-State Debate, 1941-c.1960’ Emma Long (University of East Anglia) ‘A New Christian Femininity: Barlow Girl and the Impossibility of Growing Up’ Dorothea Gail (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz) G9. Emancipation in the Anglo-American World Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Peter O’Connor (The University of Manchester) Room 02/011 ‘From “Very fine fellows” to a “Swarm of Locusts”: The Changing British Interpretations of Slaves and Emancipation in the American Revolutionary War’ Gary Sellick (University of South Carolina) ‘Emancipation and the Possibilities of Language and Liberty in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Atlantic World’ Ben Davidson (New York University) ‘Ulster Anti-Slavery and the American Civil War: George Hay Shanks and Pro-Lincoln Irish Presbyterianism’ Daniel Ritchie (University College Dublin) G10. Writing Multiculturalism Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Andrew Cunning (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 02/018 ‘Creating a Usable Past?: Writing the Korean War in Contemporary American Fiction’ Ruth Maxey (University of Nottingham) ‘Writing the Past, Righting the Present: Intertextuality and Performativity in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India’ Ayesha Siddiqa (Durham University) ‘Looking at Hiroshi Kashiwagi’s Starting from Loomis and Other Stories through New Historicist Lenses’ Iuliana Vizan (Ovidius University) Queen’s University 10.30am – 11.00am Coffee Whitla Hall Parallel Session H 11.00am – 12.30pm H1. Border Pedagogy: The Politics of Recognition in Peter Froggatt Centre Action Room 02/013 Chair: Rachel Bryant (University of New Brunswick) ‘Decolonising Racial Recognition: Elizabeth Bishop Travels North Near Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ Richard Cole (University of Alberta) ‘Negotiating the (Border) Lines: Towards a Theory of a Canada-US Border Pedagogy’ Lee Easton (Mount Royal University) ‘Escape to Canada: Richard Ford’s Fugitive Novel’ Jennifer Andrews (University of New Brunswick)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 25 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time H2. Marilynne Robinson Graduate School TR2 Chair: Michelle Green (University Of Nottingham) ‘“Being beholden was the one thing she could not stand”: the Female Orphan and an Ecofeminist Ethic-of-care in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Lila’ Anna Maguire Elliott (University of Sussex) ‘If he knew, and if he didn’t: Narrative Perspective in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novels’ Rachel Sykes (Nottingham Trent University) ‘All Roads Lead Home? Space and Place in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Richard Ford’s Canada’ Jennifer Daly (Trinity College Dublin) H3. American Indians and the American Economy Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Joe Street (Northumbria University) Room 03/006a ‘The Exchange Trade of Indian and African Slaves in Early French Colonial Louisiana’ Laura Hughes (University of Kent) ‘Cutting it Down to Wood: how North American Woodland Tribes and Early Settlers used their Forest’ Juliane Schlag (University of Hull) ‘“If slavery it could be called, it was the mildest form ever known upon earth”: the Myth of Uncomplicated Biracial Relations among the Seminoles during the Early Nineteenth Century’ Edward Mair (University of Hull) H4. The Visual Continuum Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Bridget Bennett (University of Leeds) Room 03/007 Jules Feiffer’s Tantrum (1979) at the End of Narcissism’s Decade Paul Williams (University of Exeter) ‘The Nature of Agnes Martin’s Grids: A Response to her Paintings from 1960-1967’ Leah Reynolds (UCC) ‘“Are you sure it wasn’t pink elephants you saw?”’: Gender Contestation in the Golden-Age Superman Comics Rebecca Dunbar (The University of Glasgow) H5. Visuality, Power, Surveillance 2 Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Antonia Mackay (Oxford Brookes University) Room 02/017 ‘Cyborgs and Surveillance’ Antonia Mackay (Oxford Brookes University) ‘Looking Through the Window: Urban Surveillance and the Creative Self in Contemporary Fiction’ Alison Lutton (Somerville College, Oxford) ‘Surveilling Citizens: Claudia Rankine, from the First to the Second Person’ Jeffrey Clapp (Hong Kong Institute of Education)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 26 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time H6. Watershed Years in Twentieth-Century US History Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Uta Balbier (King’s College London) Room 02/011 ‘1956: Year of Revolt’ Simon Hall (University of Leeds) ‘Autobiography, Protest and the Idea of 1968’ Nick Witham (University College London) ‘Full Spectrum Dominance: 9/11, Irregular Warfare, and the Transformation of the US Defence Establishment, 2001-present’ Maria Ryan (University of Nottingham) H7. Powering the American Marketplace Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Rachael Alexander (University of Strathclyde) Room 03/006b ‘”Irish Linen Direct - Belfast to any point in the United States”: Home Selling to the Affluent American Consumer’ Catherine O’Hara (Ulster University) ‘“The Family Room of Tomorrow’”: The fallout shelter salesmen in Cold War America’ Tom Bishop (University of Nottingham) ‘“It Couldn’t Happen Here” – American Nuclear Exceptionalism in the Post-Fukushima Era’ Mark Eastwood (University of Nottingham) H8. Digital Scholarship in American Studies 2 Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Katie McGettigan (University of Nottingham) Room 02/025 ‘The Great Awakening Pulpit Oratory under a Stylometric Microscope: A Quantitative Study of American Colonial Preaching’ Michał Choi´n ski (Jagiellonian University) ‘“More Dangerous than a Thousand Rioters”: A Digital Critical Edition of The Life of Albert Parsons’ J. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester) ‘What is the Graphic Novel? Towards a Quantitative History of Cultural Form’ Alexander Dunst (University of Paderborn) H9. Sexual Dissidences Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Doug Haynes (University of Sussex) Room 02/009 ‘It Gets Blander: Boredom and the Coming-Out Story’ Ben Nichols (University of Edinburgh) ‘American Symbolism and Revolutions of Gender: from the Bald Eagle to Hilary’s Pantsuit and Caitlyn Jenner’ Susan Flynn (University of the Arts London) ‘”Thank you for just being there”: Lesbian Liberation in the Sexual Revolution’ Rachel Wallace (Queen’s University Belfast)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 27 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time H10. Contemporary Female Poets Graduate School TR3 Chair: Catherine Gander (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘“Tailored to an Okay Image”: Conformity and Subversion in Sylvia Plath’s Juvenilia’ Maeve O’Brien (University of Ulster) ‘THE QUARRY: Susan Howe’s Poetic Century’ Jonathan Creasy (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Speaking to the Masses: C.D. Wright’s One with Others and Contemporary Bardic Poetry’ Julie Morrissy (University of Ulster) H11. US Foreign Policy, 1945-Present Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Zoe Hyman (Queen’s University Belfast) 02/018 ***this a 4-person panel and will run until 1pm*** ‘Political Prisoners and Black International Protest: The United States and South Africa, 1945-1960’ Nicholas Grant (University of East Anglia) ‘“Looking down the dark Rhodesian tunnel”: Britain, the Carter Administration, and the Rhodesian Crisis, 1977-1980’ Todd Carter (University of Oxford) ‘Educating Iran: Miss D. Elizabeth Williams, the Near East Foundation, and American Foreign Relations’ Ben Offiler (Sheffield Hallam University) ‘Justifying Jihad: American Propaganda during the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan’ Jacqueline Fitzgibbon (University College Cork) Queen’s University Lunch Whitla Hall 12.30pm – 1.30pm & IAAS AGM Graduate School TR6 Parallel Session I 1.30pm – 3.30pm I1. Journal of American Studies - Second Project Peter Froggatt Centre Roundtable Room 02/017 Chair: Sue Currell (University of Sussex) Adam Kelly (University of York) ‘Title TBC’ Joanna Freer (University of Exeter) ‘Moving Beyond the Single Author Thesis’ Áine Mahon (University College Dublin) ‘Just Decide Already: Philosophy, Literature, Education, America’ Simon Hall (University of Leeds) ‘You want me to write another book?’ Nicholas Grant (University of East Anglia) ‘“Tell us about your next project (and how it fits into our REF and Impact strategies)”: Moving on from the dissertation’ Katie McGettigan (University of Nottingham) ‘The Two- Project Problem’

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 28 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time I2. Irish Americans and Hollywood Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Philip McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 02/025 ‘An Irish American Catholic Spy in Ireland: Martin J. Quigley and the Office of Strategic Services in World War II’ James Deutsch (Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage) ‘Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Woman Who Ran Hollywood’s War’ J. E. Smyth (University of Warwick) ‘Leo McCarey, Irish Catholicism, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947’ Thomas Doherty (Brandeis University) ‘John Ford’s Ireland’ Colin Shindler (University of Cambridge) I3. Apocalyptic Visions Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Conor Reid (Trinity College Dublin) Room 03/007 ‘Falling Towards an Exceptional Apotheosis: Violence, Agency, and Dystopia in The Last of Us’ Matthew Wall (University College Dublin) ‘The Odds Are Not In Your Favour: The Precariat in Contemporary Science Fiction Film’ Gregory Frame (Bangor University) ‘Post-Apocalyptic television drama after 9/11: Falling Skies, and Revolution’ Linda Phillips (Swansea University) ‘Carrying the Light: rebellion, redemption and the dystopian turn in contemporary American culture’ Clare Hayes-Brady (University College, Dublin) I4. Transnational Exchanges Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Eamonn Hughes (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 02/013 ‘“Lifesaving powers of forgetfulness”: Post-war Identity and Place in Mavis Gallant’s “Ernst in Civilian Clothes”’ Kate Smyth (Trinity College Dublin) ‘To Ulster as to America’ Stephen O’Neill (Trinity College Dublin) I5. Labour and Social Reforms, 1930s-1960s Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Brian Kelly (Queen’s University Belfast) Room 02/010 ‘From Lanarkshire to Pennsylvania: Philip Murray, ethnicity and the organising of the steel workers, 1936-1937’ Liam O’Discin (University College Dublin) ‘Freedom from Fear: The Promise of Full Employment in the Postwar Era’ Michael Dennis (Acadia University) ‘Social Reforms and the Welfare State in America after the New Deal (1945-1969)’ Tahar-Djebbar Aziza (University Center of Relizane) ‘Guilt by Association: The Federal Employee Loyalty Program and the Case of the “Legless Veteran”, 1948-1958’ John Tiplady (University of Nottingham)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 29 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time I6. Roundtable: Teaching African American History Graduate School TR2 David Brown (Manchester University) Kate Dossett (Leeds University) Jim Hall (Rochester Institute of Technology) Joe Street (Northumbria University) I7. Writing the Mid-Century Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Caroline Blinder (Goldsmiths’ College, University of Room 03/006a London) ‘Blackballed by the Radicals: Henry Miller and the Exclusionary Criteria of the Post-World War Two American Avant-Garde’ Guy Stevenson (Goldsmiths’ College, University of London) ‘White masculinity and Hispanic “Others” in Dorothy B. Hughes’s Ride the Pink Horse and Edna Ferber’s Giant’ Clive Baldwin (The Open University) ‘Major Major Major Major: the Logic of the Absurd in the American Comedic War Novel’ Rosemary Gallagher (National University of Ireland, Galway) ‘“Embracing the Threat from Within”: Patricia Highsmith’s Conformist Masculinity in The Talented Mr Ripley’ Antonia Mackay (Oxford Brookes University) I8. Immigrants and the Creation of American Myths, Peter Froggatt Centre Stereotypes and Traditions Room 02/011 Chair: Elizabeth T. Kenney (Salem State University) ‘Listening to Ireland: Identity and Music in John Ford’s The Quiet Man (1952)’ Paula Musegades (Brandeis University) ‘Catholicism and the Religion of the Lost Cause’ Maura Jane Farrelly, (Brandeis University) ‘George Washington, the Patriot Rabbi and (possibly) a Turkey. The First Presidential Thanksgiving Day Proclamation and the Making of the American Civic Faith’ Pierangelo Castagneto (American University in Bulgaria) I9. Black Bodies from Colonialism to Early 21st Century Peter Froggatt Centre America Room 02/108 Chair: Dara Downey (Trinity College, Dublin) ‘Verschiebung Africanus: Ethnographic Wonder, Freudian Dreamwork, and Slave Resistance to Atlantic Era Olfactory Dialectics’ Andrew Kettler (University of South Carolina) ‘#BlackLivesMatter, Post-Racial Logics, and the Return of the Culture Wars’ Lynn Mie Itagaki, (Ohio State University) Broke Black Nation: The Long History of the Great Recession’ Devin Fergus (Ohio State University) ‘“Your Walls Will Never Cage Our Freedom” - Black- Palestinian Transnationalism and the Politics of Empathy’ Denijal Jegi´c , (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Queen’s University 3.30pm- 3.45pm Coffee Whitla Hall

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 30 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time Parallel Session J 3.45pm – 5.15pm J1. Infinite Jest at Twenty Graduate School TR2 Chair: Tim Gurowich (University of Sussex) ‘The Mirror in the Screen: Theorising the Picture Plane in Infinite Jest’ David Hering (University of Liverpool) ‘Infinite Jest: The Nihilism of Neoliberalism and the Necessity of Collectivity’ Adam Bristow-Smith (University of York) ‘Absorption, Theatricality, and the Form of Experience in Infinite Jest’ Adam Kelly (University of York) J2. Constructing Captivity in the Anglo-American Peter Froggatt Centre Atlantic: The Evolution of Revolutionary Ideas in the Room 02/013 Early American Republic Chair: Thomas Doherty (Brandeis University) ‘Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Slavery Poems’ Nancy Lusignan Schultz (Salem State University) ‘“Captive on the High Seas”: American Constructions of Royal Navy Impressment, 1776-1816’ Dane Anthony Morrison (Salem State University) ‘Brothers and Daughters: Languages of Slavery and Independence in the New Republic’ Elizabeth T. Kenney (Salem State University) J3. The Image of the Presidency since the 1960s Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Michael Patrick Cullinane (Northumbria University) Room 02/011 ‘Cuban Caricature: Politics, Pop, and LBJ (Alvarez, 1968)’ Des O’Rawe (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘Defeating the War on Poverty: From Barry Goldwater to Richard Nixon’ Mark McLay (Glasgow Caledonian University) ‘Rockin’ in the Free World: Presidential Campaigns and Popular Music’ Fraser McCallum (University of Glasgow) J4. (M)othering the novel: women, race, and narrative Peter Froggatt Centre form Room 02/010 Chair: Azelina Flint (University of East Anglia) ‘Motherhood Unbound: The Actions and Consequences of (Thick) Love in Toni Morrison’s Beloved’ Serban Dan Blidariu ‘Points of Rupture: Women Writers & Breaking Form in Contemporary American Fiction’ Sue Rainsford (Bennington College Vermont) ‘Jazz and literature: the revolution of the Jazz Age read by Toni Morrison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Philip Larkin’ Rosita D’Elia (University of Chieti-Pescara)

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151892 QUB IBAAS Conference_2016_A4_V11.indd 31 30/03/2016 09:16 Activity Venue Time J5. Deconstructing Gender Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Catherine O’Hara (Ulster University) Room 03/007 ‘Readers, Consumers, Citizens: The Home and Domesticity in Mass-market Magazines of the 1920s’ Rachael Alexander (University of Strathclyde) Plaster Casts, The Pill, and Emancipation; The Sexual Revolution and Groupie Mythologies’ Laura Rose Byrne (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Feminism in the Salon: Natalie Clifford Barney and her Temple of Female Friendship’ Chelsea Olsen (University of Sussex) J6. Traumatic Genres Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: David Coughlan (University of Limerick) Room 03/006b ‘The Severed Otherness of Our Reality: America and the female terrorist in David Goodwillie’s American Subversive (2010)’ Maria-Irina Popescu (University of Essex) ‘Competitive Narration: Trauma in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, Tim Burton’s Batman Returns and Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves’. Sean Travers (University College Cork) ‘“The Most Common Trouble in America Today”: Nervousness, Genre, and the American West’ Conor Reid (Trinity College Dublin) J7. American Culture: Theatre, Literature and Film in the Peter Froggatt Centre 1910s and 1920s Room 02/018 Chair: Alex Murray (Queen’s University Belfast) ‘World War I and Ethnic Theatre in America’s Cultural Capital’ Elisabeth Maurer (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) ‘Post-Great War America: a Cultural Breakdown’ Ines Sanchez de la Vina Rodriguez (University of Kent) ‘Chaplin’s Tramp Revisited: Poverty, Respectability, and Radicalism in Early American Cinema’ Lawrence T. McDonnell (Iowa State University) J8 The American Revolution at Home and Abroad Peter Froggatt Centre Chair: Emma Long (University of East Anglia) Room 02/025 ‘Mother Knows Best: Maternal Loyalism in Revolutionary New York’ Christopher Sparshott (Northwestern University in Qatar) ‘The American Revolutions of Venice, Florence, and Rome: Views from the Italian Gazettes, 1765-1791’ Anna Vincenzi (University of Notre Dame) ‘“At this alarming time when we are invested almost on every Side by an unnatural Enemy”: 1776 and the Immediate Consequences of the Declaration of Independence in Albany County, New York’ Sophie Jones (University of Liverpool) Back car park at 5.30pm TITANIC DINNER – BUS DEPARTURE 5.30PM McClay Library Richard Ford Reading Titanic Building 6.30pm Gala Dinner Titanic Building 7.30pm

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