WELKOM Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association

ACLA 2017 ACLA WELKOM Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association ACLA 2017 | Utrecht University TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome and Acknowledgments ...............................................................................................4 Welcome from Utrecht Mayor’s Office .....................................................................................6 General Information ................................................................................................................... 7 Conference Schedule ................................................................................................................. 14 Biographies of Keynote Speakers ............................................................................................ 18 Film Screening, Video Installation and VR Poetry ............................................................... 19 Pre-Conference Workshops ...................................................................................................... 21 Stream Listings ..........................................................................................................................26 Seminars in Detail (Stream A, B, C, and Split Stream) ........................................................42 Index......................................................................................................................................... 228 CFP ACLA 2018 Announcement ...........................................................................................253 Maps of Utrecht .......................................................................................................................254 ADVERTISEMENTS Airfrance .....................................................................................................................................25 Utrecht, City of Literature............................................................................................................39 Duke University Press .............................................................................................................. 40 Stanford University Press ...................................................................................................... 226 Literature & Cultural Studies/Brill .......................................................................................227 WELCOME AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A long time ago in a country far, far away, a Dutch professor asked the then president of the ACLA David Damrosch to change course and steer towards Europe. ‘Why not?’, Damrosch replied. And so it went. It almost went to Paris, but that was the necessary detour on the way to one of the top ten unsung places of the world: Utrecht, the downriver town. In 1579, Utrecht gave its name to a treaty that is still seen by many as the beginning of the Dutch Republic. This summer, 438 years later, the ACLA opening reception is hosted in the hall where the treaty of Utrecht was signed. As a university, Utrecht has educated and hosted a colorful list of scholars ranging from René Descartes, James Boswell, and Frans de Waal to Rosi Braidotti, Ann Rigney, and Mieke Bal. The fact that these scholars relate to—and, as for the last three, have helped to ground and develop—Comparative Literature as an interdisciplinary field, only reinforces Utrecht University as the first overseas location of the ACLA. A rich and exciting program will await you here. We are honored to present our keynotes Trinh Minh-ha, Rey Chow, and Mieke Bal, as well as the special panels including Samuel Weber, Vicki Kirby, Jacques Lezra, Achille Mbembe, Ato Quayson, and Sarah Nuttall. But perhaps most of all, we are honored to host all of you, who have chosen to attend the 2017 ACLA conference in such great numbers. We hope you will enjoy the town, and the events to be enjoyed during the conference in and outside Utrecht, on a bike or on foot. Do not forget to take a look at the international programs we offer here in the fields of Comparative Literature, as well as the disciplines of Dutch, English, Italian, German, Spanish, and French literary studies, Film and Media studies, the Gender Studies programs, and Intercultural Communication. Our Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON), the research focus area Culture, Citizenship, and Human Rights (CCHR), the Postcolonial Initiative, the Terra Critica Network, and the Transcultural Memory Network form the groundwork of our research here. Feel free to enquire and discover more during your stay. What started as a playful proposal in 2010 evolved into real, arduous and inspired work from 2015 onward by an all-women scientific committee. This committee united our Faculty of the Humanities with its sister faculties at Leiden, Amsterdam, and Nijmegen, and consists of: Inge Mathijssen, Ann Rigney, Rosemarie Buikema, Susanne Knittel, Kathrin Thiele, Iris van der Tuin, Anna Poletti, Ingrid Hoofd, Rianne Giethoorn, Yra van Dijk, Esther Peeren, Liedeke Plate, Kiki Drost, and Ingibjörg Rúnarsdóttir. Still, however much we worked, this conference would never have been possible without the help of our support staff. We wish to thank Rob Grift, Wieke Eefting, Marianne Speckmann, Laura Veenendaal, Annelies van der Lagemaat-Nap, Tanja Schols, Emma de Vries, and Paul van der Lugt. Our dean Keimpe Algra, our vice-dean Ted Sanders, the directors of the research institute Frank Kessler and Frans Ruiter as well the Head of the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication Els Stronks have given their full support to this conference. 4 ACLA 2017 Utrecht University For their generous financial contributions, we would also like to thank: the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, the Utrecht University focus area Culture, Citizenship and Human Rights, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL), the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA), the Netherlands Research School for Gender Studies (NOG), the Postcolonial Studies Initiative (PCI), the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), the Amsterdam Center for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), and the City of Utrecht. A last special thanks is for our former dean Wiljan van den Akker who helped us lay the groundwork for this conference in 2012. Enjoy the conference and enjoy Utrecht! Kiene Brillenburg Wurth and Birgit Mara Kaiser Utrecht University ACLA 2017 5 WELCOME TO THE HEART OF THE NETHERLANDS At the moment I am writing this, the 4th Utrecht International Literature Festival is about to start. Starring the British novelist and translator, Tim Parks, as well as the Dutch star author, Herman Koch. Maybe you know him, since his most famous novel, The Dinner, has been translated into 31 languages. At the moment you are reading this, many Utrecht citizens, irrespective of their nationality (of which the city counts 170), are leaving their residence for their yearly summer holidays. Favourite foreign destinations are France, Germany, Spain. Stay-behinds appreciate the comparative quietness of summer. But tourists, students attending the Utrecht Summer School (with over 3,000 students Europe’s largest) and you as participants of the International Conference of the American Comparative Literature Association provide a welcome infusion of colour. So please, have a look beyond the programme you find in this book. Enjoy the city where Belle van Zuylen lived and worked in the 18th century. Where the Stijl movement flourished in the person of the distinguished architect and interior designer, Gerrit Rietveld. Where the artist, Dick Bruna, produced his series of children’s books starring Miffy and her friends. Translated into more than 50 languages and admired all over the world. In brief: feel welcome to the cosmopolitan heart of the Netherlands, a place that will not fail to rouse your inspiration. Jan van Zanen Mayor of Utrecht 6 ACLA 2017 Utrecht University GENERAL INFORMATION REGISTRATION Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten Address: Domplein 4 The registration desk is located at the Utrechts Centrum for the Kunsten (UCK) at the Dom square. You will find the UCK right next to the Tourist Information Centre. When you enter the building, please follow the signs to the ‘Torenzaal.’ This is where we will be ready to hand out your badge to you from Thursday 6 July 1:30pm onwards (check the conference schedule for our complete opening hours). CONFERENCE BADGE During the weekend, Utrecht University is open to ACLA participants and visitors only, not to students. Please wear your badges at all times, to ensure that security will recognize you and allow you to enter the conference buildings. CONFERENCE LOCATIONS Utrecht University is not located at a single campus area. Instead, its faculties and departments are housed in historical buildings across the city. Please make sure to check the location of a seminar or a plenary session on the map, as it may take some time to travel from one building to another. The number of the room always contains the floor number. So Drift 25 RM105 is located on the first floor, Drift 23 RM010 on the ground floor. Most plenary lectures and discussions take place in buildings that are not part of the university. These locations are included on the map, which is to be found in this program guide and on the acla.org website. Addresses of all Utrecht University conference locations: • Drift 13 • Drift 21 (entrance through Drift 27) • Drift 23 (entrance through Drift 27) • Drift 25 (entrance through Drift 27) •

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