38th annual 2010 The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900

February 18- 20

Keynote Speakers Special Guest Speakers

Michael Davidson Mary Jo Bang Helena María Viramontes Rita Felski Jacobo Sefamí

University of Louisville

The Louisville Conference: On Literature & Culture since 1900

invites you to an informal Reception free to all conferees, (with conference badge)

WHEN: Thursday Evening, 6:15 - 7:30 pm (following the critical keynote speaker)

WHERE: Red Barn (Located Near the Clock Tower)

WHAT: Pizza & Jazz

WHO: Jamey Aebersold & his Jazz Quartet (School of Music, University of Louisville )

We are honored to have perform for us the internationally known saxophonist and authority on jazz education and improvisation Jamey Aebersold, who is a recipient of the 2007 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award

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The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900

Sponsored by

The University of Louisville President: James R. Ramsey Provost: Shirley C. Willihnganz

College of Arts and Sciences Dean: J. Blaine Hudson

Department of Classical and Modern Languages Chair: Augustus Mastri

Department of English Chair: Susan M. Griffin

Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society Director: Thomas Byers

English Graduate Organization The EGO Executive Committee Luncheon Committee

Latin American and Latino Studies Program Director: Rhonda Buchanan

The Conference Committee gratefully acknowledges the cooperation and assistance of the following: Brian J. Leung, University of Louisville; Heather Slomski, Axton Fellow; the staff of University of Louisville campus bookstore; the staff in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and English Department; and all University personnel who “go beyond the call” to ensure the success of the Conference.

2 General Plan of Activities The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 18-20, 2010

Thursday, February 18 Eastern Standard Time Registration, Bingham Humanities Bldg., Room 300 10:00 am 4:00 pm Opening Presentation, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 11:30 am 12:30 pm Mary Jo Bang, Washington University, St. Louis “Poetry Reading” Sectional Meetings A 1:30 pm 3:00 pm Sectional Meetings B 3:15 pm 4:45 pm Keynote Presentation (critical) Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 5:00 pm 6:00 pm Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego “‘Closed in Glass’: Oppen’s Class Spectacles” Welcome Reception, Red Barn, UofL Campus 6:15 pm 7:30 pm Jamey Aebersold and his Jazz Quartet, School of Music, UofL

Friday, February 19 Registration continues in Bingham Humanities Room 300 8:00 am 4:00 pm Sectional Meetings C 9:00 am 10:30 am Sectional Meetings D 10:45 am 12:15 pm Calvino Prize Winner, Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room 11:00 am 12:00 pm Michael Agresta, Austin Texas “Dreamhomes” Pre-arranged group luncheons 12:15 pm 1:15 pm Sectional Meetings E 1:30 pm 3:00 pm Sectional Meetings F 3:15 pm 4:45 pm Spanish Keynote Speaker, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 3:15 pm 4:30 pm Jacobo Sefamí, University of California, Irvine “Palabras en fuga: Poesía Mexicana en el nuevo milenio” Keynote Presentation (creative) Strickler Hall Auditorium101 5:00 pm 6:00 pm Helena María Viramontes, Cornell University “Cemeteries, Freeways and the Bones of the Forgotten: How Geography Shaped One Writer's Inspiration” Conference Dinner, Brown Hotel Reception (cash bar; all conferees welcome) 6:30 pm Dinner (reservation required) 8:00 pm

Saturday, February 20 Registration continues in Bingham Humanities Room 300 9:15 am 2:45 pm Sectional Meetings G 10:15 am 11:45 am Lunch break; pre-ordered boxed lunches Room 300 12 noon Special Performance, (Room 205 Humanities Bldg) 12:15 12:45 pm Sasha Colby, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada Sectional Meetings H 1:00 am 2:30pm Sectional Meetings I 2:45 pm 4:15 pm Closing Presentation, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 4:30 pm 5:30 pm Rita Felski, University of Virginia "The Demon of Interpretation"

3 Registration Information The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 Thursday, Friday, Saturday - February 19-21

The Conference is held on the main (Belknap) campus of the University of Louisville, Third and Eastern Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky (from Interstate 65 via Exit 133).

The Seelbach Hilton, 500 Fourth Avenue (at Muhammed Ali) has been designated as the Conference hotel (tel. 800-333-3399; 502-585-3200). The hotel provides an airport shuttle. The Conference will provide transportation between the Seelbach and the University at regular intervals. See back pages of this program for the hotel-campus-hotel bus schedule.

All times shown are Eastern Standard Time.

Registration is required of all participants listed in the program. Registration packets and badges will be available in Room 300, Bingham Humanities Building. University of Louisville faculty and students are asked to sign in. The general public is invited to hear the guest speakers.

A courtesy coat check will be provided on the 3rd floor of the Humanities Building, Room 300. The coat check will close at 5:00 pm Thursday, 5:00 pm on Friday, and 5:30 pm on Saturday. Refreshments will be served in the registration area on Thursday from10 am - 2:00, on Friday 8:15 - 2:00, and on Saturday from 9:15 - 2:00. A message board for the use of conference participants will be located outside Room 300. Please consult the board regularly for notice of last-minute program changes.

Sectional meetings will be held in the classrooms of Bingham Humanities Building. Creative presentations will be given in Room 202 Bingham Humanities Building. Details of date, time and place for the Keynote Speakers and Special Guest are printed in the program.

All meeting rooms are accessible to the handicapped.

Book vendors will display publications for sale on the second floor of the Bingham Humanities Building. A selection of the Keynote Speakers’ and Special Guests’ books will also be offered for sale at the University of Louisville bookstore.

See the back pages of this program for an index of chairs and presenters, a basic map of the campus, a shuttle bus schedule, a list of dining facilities on campus. Flyers announcing Louisville-area events and attractions will be available in the registration area. The Louisville Convention and Visitor Bureau can provide information on local cultural events, entertainment, and lodging: Telephone 1(800) 626-5646. Web site: www.gotolouisville.com

Conference evaluation forms are available in room 300. Please complete one before leaving. You may deposit the form in the box in Bingham 300 or mail it in to us. Your comments will help us plan for next year.

Corrections and addenda to the program will be available in room 300 and posted on the notice board. Please check the notice board often for last-minute changes.

For further conference information, FAX (502) 852-8885, or e-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]

4 Keynote Speakers

Michael Davidson Thursday, February 18, 5:00 pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao A uditorium

Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century (Cambridge U Press, 1989), G hostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material W ord (U of California Press, 1997), and G uys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold W ar Poetics (U of Chicago Press, 2003). He has written extensively on disability issues, and his most recent book is Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (U of Michigan Press, 2008). He is the editor of the widely acclaimed New Collected Poems of G eorge Oppen (New Directions, 2002), and the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent of which is The A rcades (O Books, 1998). With Lyn Hejinian, Barrett Watten, and Ron Silliman, he co-authored Leningrad (Mercury House Press, 1991). His forthcoming critical work, Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics, will be published in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press.

Helena María Viramontes Friday, February 19, 5:00 pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao A uditorium

Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other Stories (1985) and Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), a novel. Her most recent novel, Their Dogs Came with Them, just published in paperback by Washington Square Press, focuses on the dispossessed, the working poor, the homeless, and the undocumented of East Los Angeles, where Viramontes was born and raised. Her work strives to recreate the visceral sense of a world virtually unknown to mainstream letters and to transform readers through relentlessly compassionate storytelling. In the 1980s, Viramontes became co-coordinator of the Los Angeles Latino Writers Association and literary editor of XhistmeA rte Magazine. Later in the decade, Viramontes helped found Southern California Latino Writers and Filmmakers. In collaboration with feminist scholar Maria Herrera Sobek, she organized three major conferences at UC-Irvine, resulting in two anthologies: Chicana C reativity and C riticism-Charting New Frontiers in A merican Literature (1988) and Chicana W rites: On W ord and Film (1993). Viramontes' work has been included in nearly every anthology of American literature published in the last ten years, including, most recently, The Norton Anthology of Literature by W omen. Named a USA Ford Fellow in Literature for 2007 by United States Artists, she has also received the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, a Sundance Institute Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Luis Leal Award. A teacher and mentor to countless young writers, Viramontes is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Cornell University

Spanish Keynote

Jacobo Sefamí Friday, February 19, 3:15 pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao A uditorium

Jacobo Sefamí, from Mexico City, has taught at New York University, and is currently Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the Director of the Summer Spanish School at Middlebury College. Sefamí is Associate Editor of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, and has published articles, notes, and reviews, in many different journals. His books include: El destierro apacible y otros ensayos (1987), Contemporary Spanish A merican Poets (1992), El espejo trizado: la poesía de G onzalo Rojas (1992), De la imaginación poética (1996), Medusario: Muestra de poesía latinoamericana (co-editor, 1996), La voracidad grafómana: José Kozer (editor, 2002), and Vaquitas pintadas, an anthology of texts related to the cow (2004). He has also published a novel, Los dolientes (2004).

5 Special Guest Presenters Opening Presentation

Mary Jo Bang Thursday, February 18, 11:30 am -12:30 pm, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao A uditorium

Professor of English at Washington University, where she teaches creative writing and contemporary literature, Mary Jo Bang holds a B.A. and M.A. in sociology from Northwestern University, a B.A. in photography from the Polytechnic of Central London, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University. She is the author of six books of poems. Her first book, A pology for W ant (University Press of New England, 1997), won the 1996 Bakeless Prize and the 1998 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award; it was cited as one of the National Book Critics Circle's Notable Books in 1997. Her second book, Louise in Love (Grove Press, 2001), won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award for a manuscript-in-progress. Subsequent books include The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans (University Press of Georgia, 2001), chosen by Mark Strand for the University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series; The Eye Like a Strange Balloon (Grove Press, 2004); and Elegy (Graywolf, 2007), which received both the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book, The Bride of E, appeared from Graywolf in fall 2009. She is currently at work on a translation of the Inferno. She was the poetry co-editor at Boston Review from 1995 to 2005; her numerous awards include a "Discovery"/The Nation award, a Pushcart Prize, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation

Closing Presentation Rita Felski Saturday, February 21, 4:30 - 5:30 pm, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao A uditorium Rita Felski is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and editor of New Literary History. She holds a B.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from Monash University in Australia. Professor Felski is the author of Beyond Feminist A esthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change (Harvard UP, 1989), The G ender of Modernity (Harvard UP, 1995), Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture (New York UP, 2000), Literature after Feminism (Chicago UP, 2003), and Uses of Literature (Blackwell, 2008), and editor of Rethinking Tragedy (Johns Hopkins UP, 2007). She has published numerous articles in the areas of literary theory and aesthetics, feminist theory, modernity and postmodernity, and cultural studies, and her work has been translated into nine languages. Felski describes her recent manifesto on "The Uses of Literature" as a "neo-phenomenological investigation of aesthetic experiences such as recognition, enchantment, and shock." She is currently writing a book on the role of suspicious reading in literary studies. Honors include a fellowship at the Cornell Society for the Humanities, a fellowship at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna and the William Parker Riley Prize for best article in PMLA .

Calvino Prize Winner Michael Agresta Friday, February 19, 11 am, Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room Michael Agresta has work published or forthcoming in Boston Review, Conjunctions, DIAGRA M, Barrow Street, Painted Bride Quarterly, Cimarron Review, and others. His story "After the Party" was a finalist for the 2009 DIA G RA M $5 Innovative Fiction Prize. His "Mugger and Mouse Get Married" was recognized as a notable story in the 2008 storySouth Million Writers Award contest. He holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, where he lives and works as a freelance journalist and editor.

Featured Performance Sasha Colby, “Women of the Pound Era” Saturday, February 20, 12:15 12:45pm, Room 205 Sasha Colby is an academic and performer at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Her recent book, Stratified Modernism: the Poetics of Excavation from Gautier to Olson (Peter Lang, 2009), traces the relationship of modernist poetics and archaeology in the period 1850-1950. She has performed monologues and plays about modernist literary history in Canada, Europe, the United States, Mexico, and has been invited to stage a series of performances in Japan in fall of 2010.

6 Daily Schedule of Meetings and Events

REGISTRATION Thursday - 10 am - 4 pm Bingham Humanities Building, Room 300 Friday 8 am - 4 pm Saturday 9:15 - 2:45 pm

Please check in and pick up your conference envelope. You will find a print-out of recent revisions to the program and conference evaluation sheets. Please check daily for last-minute postings.

OPENING PRESENTATION Thursday, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Mary Jo Bang, Washington University “Poetry Reading”

Introduced by Derek Mong, English Department, University of Louisville

CRITICAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Thursday, 5 - 6 p.m. Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego “‘Closed in Glass’: Oppen’s Class Spectacles” Introduced by Alan Golding, English Department, University of Louisville

WELCOME RECEPTION/PIZZA PARTY with Jamey Aebersold and his quartet

Thursday, 6:15 - 7:30 p.m.. Red Barn Free to all Conferees Admission by conference badge/identification

Friday, 11 a.m. Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room Calvino Prize Winner, Michael Agresta, "Dreamhomes". Introduced by Paul Griner, English Department, University of Louisville

PRE-ARRANGED LUNCHEONS

Friday, 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.

(a) The Creative Writers’ Luncheon will be held at the University Club on campus. A reservation is necessary

(b) EGO, English grad student organization, will offer an informal lunch to all visiting Graduate Students. There is no charge, but one must reserve. Held in the Belknap Research Building Room 139 Admission by Conference badge with appropriate meal ticket dot.

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SPANISH KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 p.m. Ekstrom Library Chao Auditorium Jacobo Sefamí, University of California, Irvine “Palabras en fuga: Poesía mexicana en el nuevo milenio” Introduced by Clare Sullivan Modern Languages Department, University of Louisville

CREATIVE KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Friday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Strickler Auditorium Room 101 Helena María Viramontes, Cornell University “Cemeteries, Freeways and the Bones of the Forgotten: How G eography Shaped One W riter's Inspiration” Introduced by Brian Leung, English Department, University of Louisville

CONFERENCE RECEPTION AND DINNER Friday evening Brown Hotel Reception, cash bar (all conferees welcome), 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Dinner, by reservation only, 8:00 p.m.

FEATURED PERFORMANCE Room 205 Saturday, 12:15 - 12:45 pm Sasha Colby, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada “Women of the Pound Era” Introduced by Suzette Henke, University of Louisville

CLOSING PRESENTATION Saturday, 4:30 p.m. - 5:50 pm Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium Rita Felski, University of Virginia "The Demon of Interpretation" Introduced by Suzette Henke, English Department, University of Louisville

First Call for Papers The 39th Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 February 24, 25, and 26, 2011 Submission deadline: September 15, 2010(Postmarked) Guidelines posted on our website in early April - www.thelouisvilleconference.com Proposals (abstracts) for critical papers may be submitted on any topic that addresses literary works published since 1900, and/or their relationship with other arts and disciplines (film, journalism, opera, music, pop culture, painting, architecture, law). Individual creative submissions (poetry or short fiction) are also encouraged. For details, or to be put on our mailing list, contact: Danielle R. Day, Conference Director, Classical and Modern Languages, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292 (502)852-6686 [email protected]

8 A-1 Intertextuality as Ethical Intervention Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 101 Chair: Nicole Seymour, University of Louisville • Ann Marie Adams, Morehead State University “Does Culture Matter? Aesthetic Ambivalence in Zadie Smith's On Beauty” • Dianne Vipond, California State University, Long Beach “John Fowles's Short Fiction: Rhizome and Romance” Opening Presentation • Christine A. Rydel, Grand Valley State University “Pawel Huelle's Castorp and the 'Other' German Novel”

A-2 Horror, Race, Gender, Genre Ekstrom Library, Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 103 Chair: Daniel C. Mason, Mansfield University Elaine Chao Auditorium • Ann Mattis, Loyola University, Chicago “Gothic Interiority and Servants in Edith Wharton's A Backward Glance and 'The Lady's Maid's Bell'” Thursday, 11:30 am-12:30 pm • James Fairfield, University of Kentucky “The Great American Nightmare: D. W. Griffith and the Birth of the Horror Film” • Renee Barlow, Indiana University, Bloomington “Racial Abjection through Blackness as Boundary in Cather's Mary Jo Bang My Antonia”

Washington University, St. Louis A-3 Poets and Precursors Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 106 Chair: Victoria Brockmeier, State University of New York, “Poetry Reading” Buffalo • Mark Scroggins, Florida Atlantic University “The 'Half-Fabulous Field-Ditcher': Ruskin Pound, Geoffrey Hill” Introduced by • J. P. Craig, University of Tennessee, Knoxville “Susan Howe's Mis-Taken Male Mentors” Derek Mong, Axton Fellow, • Ruth Williams, University of Cincinnati and James Wheeler, Mississippi State University (co-authors) University of Louisville “Palimpsestually Yours: Illuminating Absence in Sappho and the Urban Landscape”

A-4 Form and Format: Commercial Concerns and American Poetry

Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 108 Chair: Matthew Biberman, University of Louisville • Staci R. Schoenfeld, Kentucky State University “'Tugging All Day at Perverse Life': An Exploration of Theodore Roethke's Greenhouse Poems” • Francisco Guevara, University of Iowa "The End of Homo Sacer in Jack Spicer's Publications, Fifteen False Propositions against God and Book of Magazine Verse”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 9 A-5 New Geographies: Spaces in/of U.S. Literature and Culture A-9 Coming of Age: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Black since Kerouac Masculinity in Literature and Film (Panel prearranged by Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 114 Kadeshia Matthews and Leslie Wingard) Chair: John Lina, University of Louisville Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 215 • David Need, Duke University Chair: Kadeshia Matthews, University of New Mexico and Leslie “From Epic to Mandala: Kerouac's Turn to the Episodic” Wingard, College of Wooster • Mindy Boffemmyer, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh • Angela Ards, Southern Methodist University “No Direction Home: The Poetics of Displacement in Karen Tei “New Black Man: Deconstructing Traditional Notions of Yamashita's Tropic of Orange" African American Masculinity in Barack Obama's Dreams from • Ken Cooper, State University of New York, Geneseo My Father” “Links: Golfing Culture and the Construction of Real Virtuality” • Kadeshia L. Matthews, University of New Mexico “From the 'Hood' to the Yard: Black Masculinity and the A-6 The Killing Village: It Takes a Village to Destroy Unruly Promise of the South in Recent Black Film” Women (Panel prearranged by • Leslie Wingard, College of Wooster Megan Musgrave, Indiana University) “Opening Up: Sacred/Secular Spaces and Masculinity in Ernest Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 209 Gaines's 'The Sky is Gray' and Michael Roemer's Nothing But A Man” Chair: Megan Musgrave, Indiana University • Megan Musgrave, Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis A-10 Nabokov and The Philosophers (Organized by Marianne Cotugno, Nabokov Society) “Shame, Silence, and Subversion in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior” Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 119 • Judith A. (Judy) Spector, Indiana University, Purdue Chair: Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee University Columbus • Andrew Booth, University of New Hampshire “It Takes a Suburb to Kill a Woman's Soul” “An Infinite Narrative? Perception and Possibility in Nabokov's • Lewis Dibble, Indiana University, Purdue University Pnin” Columbus • Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee “Death and Survival in Toni Morrison's Paradise” “Baconian Knowledge and Nabokovian Knowledge” • Katherine V. Wills, Indiana University, Purdue University • Zachary Hicks, University of Tennessee Columbus “Things That Cannot Be Said: Intersections of Wittgenstein and “The Village as Gender Cleanser: Uppity Women in Nicholas Nabokov” Gage's Eleni” A-11 John Edgar Wideman I: Rethinking Wideman (Organized by A-7 Jewish Identity across Forms and Decades Keith Byerman, John Edgar Wideman Society) Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 210 Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 121 Chair: Elizabeth Scheiber, Rider University Chair: Wilfred Samuels, University of Utah • Benjamin Schreier, Penn State University • Keith Byerman, Indiana State University “Depression Modernism's Jewish Christ” “Constructing a Life: Biography and Fiction in the Work of John • Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University Wideman” “The Politics of Gluttony in Second-Generation Holocaust Literature” A-12 The All Pervasive Influence of Environment • Matthew Sewell, Minnesota State University, Mankato Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 109 “'Until They Got the Ballast Right': Angels in America and the Chair: Brooke Cochran-Weber, University of Louisville Affirmation of Apocalypse” • Douglas L. Boudreau, Mercyhurst College “The Acadian Environment in the Novels of Antonine Maillet” A-8 James Joyce: Female Authority and Pleasure • Lisa F. Signori, College of Charleston Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 207 “Narcissistic Narrative: The Process of Writing and the Creation Chair: Ted Morrissey, Benedictine University, Springfield of Meaning in Amélie Nothomb's Mercure” • Elisabeth L. Miller, Winona State University • Erin E. Edgington, Indiana University, Bloomington “'Make Him Want Me Thats the Only Way': Molly Bloom and “Orlanda de Jacqueline Harpman: apologie de la fusion?” the Pleasure and Power of a Woman's Body” • Jermemy Burgess, University of Louisville “Molly Giveth, Molly Taketh Away: Molly Bloom as Authority Figure in James Joyce's Ulysses” • Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Queen's University, Belfast “Ulysses as Lesbian Text”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 10 A-13 El realismo mágico en América Latina Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 219 Chair: Rhonda Buchanan, University of Louisville • Luis A. Aguilar-Monsalve, Hanover College Starbucks Coffee “José de la Cuadra frente al realismo mágico y a lo real maravilloso” in the • Anna Morlan, Pace University “The Use of Currency as a Transnational Tool in Gabriel García Márquez's Leaf Storm” Tulip Tree Café • Patricia Bazán-Figueras, Fairleigh Dickinson University “The Evolution of the Female Character in The Novels of Paulo offering Coelho” Coffee, Sandwiches, Salads A-14 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 202 Located in the Ekstrom Library Chair: Patricia Houston, University of Cincinnati • Robert Manaster, Champaign, Illinois West Wing Poetry • Patricia Houston, University of Cincinnati Underpinnings (fiction) • Martha Reed, University of Louisiana, Lafayette and Chantel Langlinais, Texas Christian University and Cindy Childress, Texas Christian University and Rhonda Dean Robison, University of Louisiana, Lafayette Facebook Poetics (collaborative poetry) Einstein Bagel Company • Heather Levy, Western Connecticut State University Even Persephone Is Given Summer (fiction) lst floor Bingham Humanities Building offering Coffee, Bagels, Sandwiches, Salads

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 11 B-1 Crossing Boundaries: Poetic Forms and Feminism B-5 Noir and its Social Contexts: Lessons Learned on the Dark Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 106 Side of the Street (Panel prearranged by Alison Umminger, Chair: Anna Morlan, Pace University University of West Georgia) • Lois E. Rubin, Penn State University Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 119 “Rethinking, Resisting, Reconnecting: The Late Life Poetry of Chair: Alison Umminger, University of West Georgia Maxine Kumin and Linda Pastan” • Alison Umminger, University of West Georgia • Gosia Gabrys, Ohio State University, Lima “Noir and Its Social Contexts: Lessons Learned on the Dark Side “Disrupting Colonial Discourse(s): 'The Singular, the Exception, of the Street” and the Gap' in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Wislawa • Kirsten L. Geter, University of West Georgia Szymborska” “The Bad Seed of Race: The Hidden Horror of Miscegenation in • Anthony Fife, Clark State Community College William March's The Bad Seed” “Sizing Each Other Up: Circumnavigating Tension in Claudia • Shelley L. Decker, University of West Georgia Emerson's Late Wife” “Just like Nick and Nora: America's Prototype for Marital Bliss Revealed” B-2 Music and Literature: Case Studies • Trista Edwards, University of West Georgia Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 103 “Battling for Bi-Gendered Substantiation: Transgressing Socially Chair: Jeremy Glazier, Ohio Dominican University Constructed Masculinity in Dorothy B. Hughes's In a Lonely • John McCombe, University of Dayton Place and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club” “Keeping the Visionary Company: John Lennon and a Neo- • Josh Sewell, University of West Georgia Romantic Aesthetic of Indolence” “Deconstructing Stereotypes: Exploring Gender Trait Reversal in • Jacqueline A. Shadko, Oakland Community College the Noir Genre” “Tu(r)ning the Key: Metatextual Musicality in the Short Stories of Charles Baxter” B-6 Deconstructing the L Word: Revising and Reviving Lesbians • Dhruba Jyoti Neupane, University of Louisville in Creative Spaces (Panel prearranged by Corby Jaye Roberson, “Historicization of African American Experience in Toni Ball State University) Morrison's Jazz” Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 114 Chair: James Chambers, Ball State University B-3 Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky: Spatial, Indexical and • James Chambers, Ball State University Documentary Logics “The Correct Abject: Female Lesbianism vs. Male Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room 101 Homosexuality in the Novels of Toni Morrison” Chair: Pamela Francis, Rice University • Sarah Sandman, Ball State University • Kristine Danielson, Wayne State University “A Manifesto that Keeps Happening: Teacher Identity, Student “Poetic Space in Pound's Pisan Cantos: Haecceities, Traumatic Identity, and a Dance with Performative Pedagogy” Bodies, Idealized Realms” • Michael Fournier, Georgia Gwinnet College B-7 D. H. Lawrence: Authenticity and Isolation “Reading 'A' through Zukofsky's Index" Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 108 • Julius Lobo, Pennsylvania State University Chair: Julianne Newmark, New Mexico Tech “Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky's Documentary Histories of • Drew Patrick Shannon, College of Mount St. Joseph America” “The Priest of Love on a Savage Pilgrimage: Reading the Biographies of D. H. Lawrence” B-4 Representing 9/11 • Adam Barrows, Carleton University Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room 215 “'We Don't Care about Khartoum': Lawrence and the Politics of Chair: Benjamin Schreier, Penn State University 'Splendid Isolation'” • Stephanie Youngblood, University of Wisconsin, Madison • Chris Forster, University of Virginia “Knowing the Enemy: 9/11 and the Ethics of Representation” “Authentic Copies: The Paintings of D. H. Lawrence” • Magali Cornier Michael, Duquesne University “The Draw of Narrative in the Face of 9/11: Charles Bernstein's 'Some of These Daze'” • Moberley Luger, University of British Columbia “Your Poem Here: Remembering 9/11 on Poetry.com”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 12 B-8 Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Concerns about Reading B-12 E. E. Cummings and Popular Modernism (Organized by Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 207 Gillian Huang-Tiller, E. E. Cummings Society) Chair: Eurie Dahn, College of Saint Rose Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 219 • Mitch Frye, Louisiana State University Chair: Michael Webster, Grand Valley State University “Weary Desperados: Masculine Types in the Westerns of F. Scott • Rai Peterson, Ball State University Fitzgerald” “E. E. Cummings, Out with the Old, in with the ‘O / L / D’” • Eurie Dahn, College of Saint Rose • Eva María Gómez Jiménez, Universidad de Granada, Spain “Race and Faulkner's Faith” “The Avant-Garde and Social Linguistics: Minority and • Manuel Herrero-Puertas, University of Wisconsin, Madison Marginalization in Cummings's 95 Poems” “'If My Blues Don't Get You My Jazzing Won't': Narrative Panic • Kaitlin Mondello, Stetson University and Daytona State and the Blues in William Faulkner's 'That Evening Sun'” College “E. E. Cummings and the Politics of Small-Scale Aesthetics” B-9 Crossing Racial and Cultural Borders: Suzan-Lori Parks, Ishmael Reed, and Alice Walker B-13 Deleuze/Foucault: Critical Theory (Because of multiple Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 217 cancellations, the remaining presenter of this panel has been Chair: Jacqueline E. Brown, University of Louisville moved to Friday, D-3 [Slippery Eels and Postmodern • Laura Dawkins, Murray State University Identities: Graham Swift, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Auster, “Family Acts: History, Memory, and Performance in Suzan-Lori and Maurice Blanchot]) Parks's The America Play” • Stephanie Owen Fleischer, Independent Scholar B-14 Poesía hispánica “'You Put Witchery on the Word': Signifying Women in Ishmael Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 221 Reed's Flight to Canada” Chair: Mary Makris, University of Louisville • Cheryl R. Hopson, Roanoke College • Elizabeth Harmon, University of Cincinnati “'They Calls Me Yellow / Like Yellow Be My Name': Reading “Creating National and Personal Identity: Diasporic Memory Sisterhood and Biracialism in Alice Walker's The Color Purple” and Nostalgia in Pablo Neruda's Canto General” • Elizabeth Amaya, Millikin University B-10 Margaret Atwood (Organized by Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, “Representaciones sincréticas de la cultura frente a los cambios Margaret Atwood Society) : de la globalización: La poesía de José Roberto Cea” Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room 209 • Joshua Hamilton, Indiana University Chair: Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern “A 'Schizoanalysis' of José Luis Castillejo's Visual Poetry in La Indiana caída del avión en el terreno baldío” • Hannele Kivinen, York University, Canada “Looking forward by Moving Backwards: Revisionary B-15 Authors Reading Poetry & Fiction Psychoanalysis in Selected Poems by Margaret Atwood” Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 202 • Dibakar Pal, Independent Scholar Chair: James Pihakis, University of Cincinnati “Of Pride and Vanity” • Ivan Rodden IV, University of Illinois, Chicago • Debrah Raschke, Southeastern Missouri University This Is How We Will Live, Now That We Are Free (fiction) “Canadian Landscape Painting and Atwood's 'Death by • Nettie Farris, University of Louisville Landscape'” Poetry • Greenfield Jones, Louisville, Kentucky B-11 John Edgar Wideman II: John Wideman's Fanon (Organized Rêve Américain (fiction) by Keith Byerman, John Edgar Wideman Society) Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 121 Chair: Keith Byerman, Indiana State University • Stephen Casmier, St. Louis University “The Jazz 'Head' and Architectonics in Fanon” • Walton Muyumba, University of North Texas “Art against Terrorism: Ekpharsis in John Edgar Wideman's 'Fannon' and Fanon” • Wilfred Samuels, University of Utah “Fanon: Where History Meets Fiction”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 13 C-1 From Exploration to "Explornography" (Panel prearranged by Collin Meissner, University of Notre Dame) Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 209 CRITICAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS Chair: Collin Meissner, University of Notre Dame • Collin Meissner, University of Notre Dame “Explornography: Travel, Adventure, and Thrill Seeking in a GPS World” Michael Davidson • Louis Pignatelli, University of Notre Dame University of California, San Diego “Explornography and Experience: The Vacation of a Lifetime!” • Eugene Halton, Duke University “The End of the Road” “‘Closed in Glass’: Oppen’s Class Spectacles” C-2 Exhibitions/s (Panel prearranged by Barrett Watten, Wayne State University) Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 207 Chair: Barrett Watten, Wayne State University Thursday, 5:00 - 6:00 pm • renée c. hoogland, Wayne State University “Imploding Communion: Actualized Alienation in Rineke Dijkstra's 'Family of Man'” Introduced by Alan Golding, English Department, • Sarah Ruddy, Wayne State University University of Louisville “Documenting Disappearance: Exhibiting Community in the Work of Nan Goldin” • Barrett Watten, Wayne State University “Berlin Exhibitions: Between Destruction and Community: Tod--Kein Tod, Palast der Republik, 2005"

C-3 Rethinking Cultural Critique: Between Gender and Technology WELCOME RECEPTION / Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 106 Chair: Daniel C. Mason, Mansfield University • Ferdâ Asya, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania Pizza Party “The Fulfillment of the Repressed Anarchist Wish: A Freudian Reading of Utopia in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time” with Jamey Aebersold and his jazz quartet • Katherine Thorpe, University of Iowa “‘To Generate a World': The Poetrics of the Dynamo in Muriel Rukeyser's 'The Book of the Dead' and Pare Lorentz's The River” Red Barn • Sarah Kerman, University of Pennsylvania Thursday, 6:15 - 7:30 pm “Speaking from the Dead: Muriel Rukeyser's Radio Oratorio” C-4 Ways of Making Fiction: Orality, Onomastics University of Louisville, Belknap Campus Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 121 Chair: James Pihakis, University of Cincinnati • Al Dixon, Louisiana State University Free to all Conferees “Raconteuring Then and Now: Uses of Orality in the Southern Comic Tradition” • Matthew Mullins, University of North Carolina, Greensboro “Individuals in Community: Giving and Naming in Jhumpa Admission by conference Lahiri's The Namesake” badge/identification

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 14 C-5 Documenting/Documentary Ethics C-9 My Own Way of Doing It: African-American Writers Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 119 Defining Music, Beauty, and Themselves (Panel prearranged by Chair: Karen Hadley, University of Louisville Michelle Filling, Cabrini College) • Jennifer Jackson, North Central College Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 117 “'War Is Capital Feeding': The Deliberative Poetics of Powers's Chair: Michelle Filling, Cabrini College Gain and Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story” • Michelle L. Filling, Cabrini College • Jackie McGrath, College of DuPage “Fashioning Liberation: Nikki Giovanni as an Icon of Beauty, “Interrrogation and Transgression by/in Iraq War Fiction and Radicalism, and Change” Film” • Therese M. Rizzo, University of North Carolina, Pembroke “She Was Too Beautiful for Pity': The Enigmatic Beauty of C-6 Filming in the Negative: Representing the 'Other' Woman Pauline Hopkins's Trickster Mulatta in Contending Forces” (Panel prearranged by Melissa Fore, Michigan State University) • Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 108 “Ralph Ellison, Music, and the Limits of Modernism” Chair: Melissa Fore, Michigan State University • Alexander Long, John Jay College, CUNY • Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, West Virginia University “Who Do You Say We Are, Again? The Faultlines of Identity in “En-Gendering the 'Other': African Film and the Colonial Order the Poems of Dove, Nelson, and Tretheway” of Things” • Melissa K. Fore, Michigan State University C-10 Healing and Mourning in American Poetry “Negative Bodies: Substitution, Opposition, and Void in Visual Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 215 Representations of Interracial Desire” Chair: Alessandro Porco, State University of New York, Buffalo • H. Louise Davis, SUNY, Empire State College • Gillian Huang-Tiller, University of Virginia, Wise “Only on Our Watch: The Purpose of the African Woman in the “'Monsters of Elegy': La Corona, Pararhyme, and Typography of Western Cultural Imaginary” Mourning in Sandra M. Gilbert's 'Belongings'” • Brian L. Jackson, University of Illinois, Springfield C-7 New Perspectives on British Modernisms “Cubing Mythic Time: The Oracular Feminine Principle in Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 210 Anne Waldman's 'Fast Speaking Woman'” Chair: Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University • Chase Erwin, University of Tennessee C-11 Constructing a Global Ethic: Switzerland, Catalonia, Britain “Friends as Enemies, Enemies as Friends: Lewis's Satire as a 1900-1950 Rhetorical Shibboleth” (Organized by Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, Esperantic Studies • Kevin Allton, University of Southern Indiana Foundation) “Keys to the Marvelous: Lenora Carrington's Stone Door as Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 217 Surrealist Manifesto” Chair: Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville • Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, University of Louisville C-8 Representing Capitalism in Modernity: Arts, Spectacle and “Edmond Privat: Homarana embodiment of l'esprit de Genève” Productivity • Duncan Charters, Principia College Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 114 “The Catalan Experience with Esperanto: Opening an Chair: Christa Zorn, Indiana University Southeast International Doorway to a Minority Language and Culture” • Carey James Mickalites, University of Memphis • Humphrey Tonkin, University of Hartford “Modernism as Total Reification: Ulysses and the Outmoded” “Constructing a Global Literature: The Emergence of the • Benjamin Johnson, University of Central Missouri Literature of Esperanto” “The Art of Capitalism in Doctorow's Ragtime” • Jenna Gerds, Wayne State University C-12 From Anti-Novel to New Novel and beyond “Sinclair Lewis's Short Fiction and the Art of the Ad” Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 109 Chair: Jenelle Griffin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign • Jennifer Jane Rupert, University of Illinois, Chicago “Disquieting Receptivity in Nadja: André Breton's Surreal Encounters with Men” • Jenelle Griffin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “Writing on Fire: Destruction and Creation of Space in Butor's L'Emploi du temps”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 15 C-13 Cuban and Cuban-American Fiction and Culture Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 219 Chair: Aristófanes Cedeño, University of Louisville • Alejandra Olarte, State University of New York, Albany The Calvino Prize “La presencia de la carta en Livadia'” was created to honor outstanding pieces of fiction in the fabulist • Pat Clifford, Cincinnati, Ohio experimentalist mode of Italo Calvino, works that through their “Cuban Documentaries: Collaborative Works before and after structure, tone, and style expand the boundaries of fiction, rather the Revolution” than attempt to imitate his inimitable style. • David De Posada, Georgia College & State University “Madness, Escapism and the Exilic Labyrinth: Operatic 2009 - 2010 Calvino Prize Winner: Transposition in the Works of Roberto G. Fernández”

C-14 New Horizons in the Analysis of Lat-Mex Borderland Film (Panel prearranged by Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State Michael Agresta University) Due to a conflict in scheduling, this panel has been moved Austin Texas to I -16 (Saturday 2:45 - 4:15).

C-15 Film and Literature Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 101 DREAMHOMES Chair: Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross • Philip Balma, University of Connecticut “Debenedetti e Lizzani: la storia al cinema” Friday, Feb. 19th • Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross “Historia magistra vitae: riflessioni sul cinema di Wilma Labate" Ekstrom Library, • Fulvio Orsitto, University of California, Chico Bingham Poetry Room 11 am “La trilogia della vita: Pasolini tra cinema e letteratura" Introduced by Paul Griner, C-16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction English Department, University of Louisville Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 202 Chair: Roy Neil Graves, University of Tennessee, Martin • Richard Andrew Boada, Millsaps College Post-Soviet Recession (poetry) • Adam Prince, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Ugly around Him (fiction) • Carrie Coaplen-Anderson, Morehead State University Selections on Sexuality and Aging: Perspectives through a Decade (poetry) • J. T. Dawson, Eastern Illinois University The Twang of Oranges (fiction)

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 16 D-1 Poetry and the Global D-5 Virginia Woolf: Presence, and Authority Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 108 Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 103 Chair: Suzette Higgs, University of Louisville Chair: Nicole Blair, University of Washington, Tacoma • Ghanashyam Sharma, University of Louisville • David Wanczyk, Ohio University “Marilyn Nelson's The Cachoeira Tales as Transcultural 'World' “'So They Fidgeted': The Anti-Fascist Twitch of Woolf's Literature” Between the Acts” • Andrew Walser, College of the Albemarle • Megan Holt, Tulane University “The Epic Geography of James Merrill's Changing Light at “What's History without the Army, Eh? Virginia Woolf and Sandover" Historiography” • Piotr Gwiazda, University of Maryland, Baltimore County “Ether: Juliana Spahr, Mark Nowak, and Poetry in the Age of D-6 Dissolving "English"ness Empire” Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 210 Chair: Weihsin Gui, University of California, Riverside D-2 Game, Poetry, Performance: Reading and Writing the Present • Matthew Oliver, Campbellsville University Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 106 “Domestic Heroism: Ishiguro's Adventures and the Post-Imperial Chair: Ivan Rodden IV, University of Illinois, Chicago British Imaginary” • William R. Howe, Miami University, Ohio • David Borman, University of Miami “Michael McClure's Games as Poetry” “Raggastani Hybridity and Zadie Smith's White Teeth” • Tyrone Williams, Xavier University • Brian Holcomb, Michigan State University “Disaster Suites: The Present Poetics of Rob Halpern” “Re-Membering England: Contemporary England as Historical • Cris Cheek, Miami University, Ohio Fantasy in E. M. Forster and Julian Barnes” “monday morning quarterbacking 'on' and 'off' gods commons” D-7 Regions of Discontent: Faulkner and Steinbeck D-3 Slippery Eels and Postmodern Identities: Graham Swift, Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 217 Michael Ondaatje, Paul Auster, and Maurice Blanchot Chair: Ferdâ Asya, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 119 • Beth Polzin, Binghamton University Chair: Hilarie Ashton, New York University “Twining 'Passive and Hopeless Grief': The Pervasive Wistaria, • Donald P. Kaczvinsky, Louisiana Tech University Cigar Smoke, and Dust in William Faulkner's Absalom, “The Riddle of the Birth and Sex Life of the Eel: Intertextuality Absalom!” in Graham Swift's Waterland” • Huei-ju Wang, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan • Tim Farrell, University of Alabama, Huntsville “John Steinbeck and His Migrants: From In Dubious Battle to “'For Reasons too Complex to Explain with Brevity': Reclaiming The Grapes of Wrath” Totality in Graham Swift's Waterland” • Scott Henkel, State University of New York, Binghamton • Scott Pett, Independent Scholar "Sedition and Upheaval in The Grapes of Wrath” “The Desert and a Common Purpose: The End of Individuality via National Identity in The English Patient” D-8 African-American Writing and Music: Analogies and • Alex E. Blazer, Georgia College & State University Syntheses “Infinite Interiority in Paul Auster and Maurice Blanchot” Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pmRoom: 114 • Hilarie Ashton, New York University Chair: Dhruba Jyoti Neupane, University of Louisville “Stabat Stella: Stella Dallas and 'Stabat Mater' via Foucauldian • Joel Levise, Wayne State University Theories of Power” “Directions in Music and Literature: The Multiauthorship of Miles: The Autobiography” D-4 Fracturing (Indian) Histories and Bodies • Alessandro Porco, State University of New York, Buffalo Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 207 “'I Ain't No Joke': Hip-Hop, Poetry, and Cultural Capital” Chair: Karen Hadley, University of Louisville • Doris Bremm, University of Iowa D-9 T. S. Eliot I: Myths and Metaphysics: (Organized by William “Retelling History as Palimpsest: Narrative Ekphrasis in Salman Harmon, T. S. Eliot Society) Rushdie's Moor's Last Sigh” Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 117 • Bishnue Ghimire, Ohio University Chair: Carol L. Yang, National Chengchi University “Liberal Imagination and the Fate of Radical Desire in Attia • Martin Lockerd, Saint Louis University Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column” “Modernly Metaphysical: Understanding Eliot's Sensibility” • Jessamon Jones, Wayne State University, Detroit • Kassandra Montag, Creighton University “Biopower, Globalization and the Organ Trade in Manjula “Reader Collaboration and the Mythical Method in The Waste Padmanabhan's Harvest” Land” • William Harmon, UNC, Chapel Hill (Emeritus) “Eliot: Lists, Tallies, Catalogues, Inventories, Paradigmata”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 17 D-14 Pirandello and Relative Truth D-10 Homemade: Eugene O'Neill and Domesticity (Organized by Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 101 Cynthia McCown, Eugene O'Neill Society) Chair: Fulvio Orsitto, University of California, Chico Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 209 • Stefano Boselli, Gettysburg College Chair: Cynthia McCown, Beloit College “Pirandello's Cecè: Mulitple Identities and Postmodern Stage • E. Andrew Lee, Lee University Directing” “Gothic Domesticity in Desire under the Elms” • Mike Edwards, University of Pennsylvania • Katie N. Johnson, Miami University “Luigi Pirandello and the Death of the Author: Suicidal “Domesticity Unplugged: Interracial Desire and Class Difference Tendencies in Six Characters in Search of an Author” in All God's Chillun Got Wings” • Marco Zanelli, Middlebury College • Patrick Maley, Indiana University “Così è (se vi pare) il relativismo della vertià" “Desire under Dylan: Bob Dylan and O'Neillian Domestic Tragedy” D-15 Chicana/o Identities, the Law, and the U.S.-Mexico Border • Lydia Abel, Independent Scholar Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 219 “There Are No Women Here: O'Neill's 'Tarts' and Gendered Chair: Carmen Montañez, Indiana State Univesity Spaces in Iceman Cometh and Anna Christie” • Myrriah Gómez, University of Texas, San Antonio • Cynthia McCown, Beloit College “Las hijas de los hidalgos: The Erasure of Mexican Women's “At Home at Sea: Domestic Detail in O'Neill's Early Maritime Property Rights in the Novel Caballero” Dramas" (This paper will be presented if time permits) • José A. De La Garza Valenzuela, Miami University “Crossing Lines: Knowledge and Education as a Place of Cultural D-11 Modernism: Center and Circumference (Organized by Contract in Rigoberto González's Crossing Vines” Charles Sligh, International Lawrence Durrell Society) • Leigh Johnson, University of New Mexico Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 215 “Domestic Violence Goes Global: Chicanas Writing Allegory” Chair: Charles Sligh, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga • Jacob Goessling, University of Louisville • John Murphy, University of Virginia “'I'm Not a Tourist. . . It's Called Research': Community, “Pantomime Englishness and Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End” Method and Representation in Desert Blood” • William Godshalk, University of Cincinnati “Henry Miller's Copy of Lawrence Durrell's Black Book” D-16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction • Pamela Francis, Rice University Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 202 “Durrell and the Cairo Poets” Chair: Ryan Trauman, University of Louisville • Megan Spooner, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga D-12 Cinematic Studies If I Could Find My Heart (poetry) Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 109 • S. Morgan, Sahuarita, Arizona Chair: Charles Pooser, Indiana University, Southeast The Slaughtering (fiction) • Hollie Markland Harder, Brandeis University • Moberley Luger, University of British Columbia “Remapping the Walls of Paris, or Entre les murs as Palimpsest” Ragtime for Beginners (poetry) • Lee E. S. Bessette, University of Kentucky • Paul Vidich, Rutgers University, Newark “Becoming a gwo nèg in 1970s Haiti: Dany Laferrière's Coming- Perils of Living (fiction) of-Age Film Le goût des jeunes filles (On the Verge of Fever)”

D-13 Three Twentieth Century Masters Revisited Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 121 Chair: Christa Zorn, Indiana University Southeast • Daniel Morris, Purdue University "Resisting Billy Collins" • Leah Rang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville “'The Lover Was Nearer the Beloved than the Divine': Fraudulent Symbolism in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice” • Enno Lohmeyer, Case Western Reserve University “Die verschlungenen Pfade der menschlichen Seele - Hermann Hesse und seine Märchen”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 18 E-1 Absence and Presence in Contemporary U. S. Drama E-5 From Postcolonial to Global/Postglobal Studies (Panel Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 207 prearranged by Alfred López, Purdue University) Chair: Kekoa C. Kaluhiokalani, Muskingum University Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 114 • Ivan Rodden IV, University of Illinois, Chicago Chair: Alfred López, Purdue University “Gilman's Invisible Menace: Spinning into Butter and the • Alfred J. López, Purdue University Threat of Specificity” “From Postcolonial to Global/Postglobal Studies” • Lorah Kristin Combs, Eastern Kentucky University • Jason Buchanan, Purdue University “Gallimard's Act: Performing Masculinity in David Henry “Global Voids: Abyssal Images in Theories of Globalization” Hwang's M. Butterfly” • Ekeama Goddard, Purdue University • Manda Cochran, West Virginia University “Caribbean Music Videos: Soca and the Globalization of “'Tell Me Some More about Justice': Law and Legal Systems in Carnival” Angels in America” • S. C. Gooch, Purdue University “Postglobal Tourism in the Favelas of Brazil” E-2 Lost and Found in Translation Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 209 E-6 Characterization in Early Modernist Fiction: Joseph Conrad, Chair: Adrienne Royo, Southern Adventist University James Joyce, and Ford Madox Ford (Panel prearranged by • Eireene Nealand, University of California, Santa Cruz Robert Petersen, Middle Tennessee State University) “Translation of the Lyric in Late Capitalism: Michael Palmer Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 217 and Alexandr Skidan” Chair: Robert Petersen, Middle Tennessee State University • Svetoslav P. Pavlov, Grand Valley State University • Will W. Onstott, Middle Tennessee State University “Lexical and Syntactical Peculiarities of Pasternak's Translation “Getting Mother out of the Way: An Exploration of a Central of Shakespeare” Chapter in Conrad's The Secret Agent as it Relates to a • José Endoença Martins, Uniandrade, Curitiba (PR), Brazil Historical Literary Departure from the Victorian Mode"” “Double Consciousness and Double Bind: Identities, Tradition • Summer O'Neal, Middle Tennessee State University and Translation in Alice Walker's Short Story 'Everyday Use'” “A Portrait of the Artist as a Child: Piaget and Cognitive Development in Young Stephen Dedalus” E-3 Science of Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction • Scott McMillan, Volunteer State Community College Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 210 “'The Proper Man': Defining Masculinity in Ford Madox Ford's Chair: Jill LeRoy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University The Good Soldier” • Joe Plicka, Ohio University “Liquid Technology and Human Code in Microserfs” E-7 Remapping African-American Community • Richard Dragan, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 119 “Vectors of Grace: Reading 'Artful Science' in Pynchon's Chair: James B. Peterson, Bucknell University Against the Day” • Ryan D. Stryffeler, Ball State University “Brother from Another Mother: Appropriating 'Otherness' and E-4 The Poetry of Gutaf Sobin (Panel prearranged by Joseph Masculinity in Wright's Early Short Fiction” Donahue, Duke University) • Patricia Brooke, Fontbonne University Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 106 “'Lovell Take Care of That': Filicide in Suzan-Lori Parks's The Chair: Joseph Donahue, Duke University Red Letter Plays” • Joseph Donahue, Duke University, Durham • Brandi Stanton, St. Mary's College, Maryland “The Isn't that Is: Gustaf Sobin and the Poetics of Negativity” “Family as Form, or What June Jordan Reveals About the • Robert L. Zamsky, New College of Florida Politics of Location” “'Sprinkling the Pages with Blown Phonemes': The Act of Writing, the Art of Breathing in the Poetry of Gustaf Sobin” E-8 T. S. Eliot II: Metaphor and Metamorphosis (Organized by William Harmon, T. S. Eliot Society) Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 117 S p a n i s h K e y n o t e P r e s e n t a t i o n Chair: Martin Lockerd, Saint Louis University Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium • Carol L. Yang, National Chengchi University “The Waste Land and the Virtual City” Friday, 3:15- 4:45 pm • Stefanie Wortman, University of Missouri Jacobo Sefamí, University of California, Irvine “'Inside a Ring of Lights': Eliot's 'Suite Clownesque'” P alab ras en fuga: P o esía m exican a en el n uevo m ilen io • Stephen Koelz, Providence College “'The Look of Flowers that Are Looked At': Auratic Distance Introduced by Clare Sullivan, University of Louisville and Eliot's Eyebeam” Co-sponsored by: the Latin Am erican and Latino Studies Program , and The Departm ent of Classical and M odern Languages

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 19 E-9 Virginia Woolf (Organized by Kristin Czarnecki, The E-13 Madness, Mystery, Death International Virginia Woolf Society Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 101 Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 215 Chair: Philip Balma, University of Connecticut Chair: Kristin Czarnecki, Georgetown College • Daniele Fioretti, University of Wisconsin, Madison • Timothy C. Vincent, Duquesne University “The Madman in the Factory: Madness and Illness in Paolo “Robert Vischer's Einfühlung and Virginia Woolf's Visual Volponi's 'Memoriale'” Aesthetic” • Sabrina Ovan, Scripps College • Emily Fridlund, University of Southern California “La morte e l'architettura: Gramsci e Pasolini” “Simultaneity and Sequence: Narrative Interruptions in Virginia • Eleonora Buonocore, Yale University Woolf's The Years” “Dal romanzo d'appendice al giallo: Carolina Invernizio e 'Nina • Brook Miller, University of Minnesota, Morris la poliziotta dilettante'" “Drive and Perception in the Interludes to The Waves” E-14 Cien años de cultura española E-10 DeLillo I: DeLillo and Drama (Organized by Jacqueline Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 221 Zubeck, Don DeLillo Society) Chair: Philip Delegal, University of Louisville Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 121 • Carmen Arranz, Centre College Chair: Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent “Nuevas configuraciones del espacio en la modernidad: Carmen • Gisele Manganelli Fernandes, Sao Paulo State University, de Burgos viaja Por Europa” Brazil • Elena Aldea Agudo, University of Kentucky “Valparaiso: A Play in Two Acts and Love-Lies-Bleeding: “Camisa azul. Tradición y renovación al servicio de la Reading of Postmodern Instabilities” propaganda del nuevo hombre falangista” • Paul Giaimo, Highland Community College • Iria Gonzalez-Liaño, University of Nevada, Las Vegas “DeLillo, Film, and the Italian American” “Feminismo, sociedad y cultura en la obra de Lucía Etxebarria” • Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent • A. David Hitchcock, University of Southern Indiana “'Exalted Time': DeLillo and His Drama” “Teatro del Astillero's Intolerancia: A Blueprint for Sociopolitical Inquiry through Artistic Collaboration” E-11 Theater of the Absurd Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 109 E-15 Reflexiones en torno a la cultura mexicana Chair: Julien Carrière, Bellarmine University Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 219 • Julien Carrière, Bellarmine University Chair: Michael Waag, Murray State Univesity “False Paths: The Search for Meaning in Waiting for Godot” • Armando Armengol, University of Texas, El Paso • Edyta K. Oczkowicz, Salem College, Winston-Salem “La muerte en la poesía de Jaime Sabines” “Thornton Wilder's Sense of the Absurd: 'Infancy' and • Roberto De La Torre, Independent Scholar 'Childhood' from The Seven Ages of Man” “Nellie Campobello: del texto literario a la historia de la • Florence Dwyer, Thomas More College Revolución” “L'indémodable Cantatrice Chauve d'Eugène Ionesco” • Pilar Melero, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater “When Passivity Becomes a Virtue: Antonieta Rivas Mercado E-12 Space, Multiculturalism and Science Fiction in Film and and the Negation of Being” Novel Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 108 E-16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction Chair: Jacqueline E. Brown, University of Louisville Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 202 • Andrew DeSelm, Indiana University South Bend Chair: Greenfield Jones, Louisville, Kentucky “Dystopic Films and the Unexplained Variable” • Jerry Bradley, Lamar University • Lesley C. Pleasant, University of Evansville The Importance of Elsewhere (poetry) “Moving Multiculturalism to the Next Level: Andrea Staka's • Ted Morrissey, Benedictine University, Springfield Fräulein and Yilmaz Arslan's Brudermord” Communion with the Dead (fiction) • Chinmayi Kattemalavadi, Wayne State University, Detroit • Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Queen's University, Belfast “Mapping Space, History, and People: W. G. Sebald's Rings of Poetry Saturn” • Deborah Adelman, College of DuPage Fleshing Out the Bones (fiction)

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 20 F-1 Tinker, Terrorist, Husband, Spy: The Wages of Cynicism F-5 Dramatizing Espionage, Censorship, and Propaganda: Buchan, Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 114 Hitchcock, Sorescu, and Lukács Chair: Jennifer Jackson, North Central College Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 119 • Martyn Colebrook, University of Hull, England Chair: A. David Hitchcock, University of Southern Indiana “Getting Rich from the Wages of Fear: Australian Literature, • Susan Lidgate Mace, University of California, Berkeley Terror and the Cultural Aftermath” “'Steppin' The Thirty-Nine Steps: Buchan's Fiction as • Skip Willman, University of South Dakota Hitchcock's Film” “'After the Fall': The Philby Case as Historical Trauma in the • Raluca Markow, University of Alabama, Huntsville Fiction of John le Carré” “Cultural and Literary Paradigms in Marin Sorescu's Dramaturgy” F-2 Wealth, Poverty, Power: Reflections on the Professorial • Ronald J. Meyers, East Stroudsburg University Practices of Authorship and Pedagogy (Panel prearranged by “Intellectuals, Literary Criticism, and the Cold War” Chris Green, Marshall University) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 108 F-6 Memory and Place in Women's Writing Chair: Chris Green, Marshall University Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 103 • Chris Green, Marshall University Chair: Marcia Phillips McGowan, Eastern Connecticut State “Beneath the Civic Center: Race, Class, and Poetry in University Lexington, KY” • Patricia M. Feito, Barry University • Joel Peckham, University of Cincinnati “'Poetry with Its Feet on the Ground': Self, Metaphor, and “Everything Must Go: Poetry and Recession in Southwestern Nature in Josephine Johnson's Now in November” Ohio” • Jill LeRoy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University • Rachael Peckham, Marshall University “'She Picks the Significant Episode': Cultural Memory and “Wealth, Poverty, Power: Reflections on the Professorial Historical Agency in Caroline Gordon's The Women on the Practices of Authorship and Pedagogy” Porch” • Anthony J. Viola, Marshall University • Carrie Coaplen-Anderson, Morehead State University “Fiction, Fish Markets, and Tenure (West Virginia and New “Writing Home: Literature's Place for Displacement Survivors” Jersey)” F-7 Literary, Historical, and Aesthetic Collaborations: Joyce, F-3 Postcolonial Readings of William Faulkner (Panel prearranged Forster, Nietzsche, and Auden by Andrew Strombeck, Wright State University) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 207 Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 106 Chair: John McCombe, University of Dayton Chair: Andrew Strombeck, Wright State University • Aileen Farrar, University of Louisiana, Lafayette • Aja Ash, Wright State University “An Unexpected Alliance: James Joyce and Alexander Pope in “Crossing Boundaries: William Faulkner and Postcolonial 'Ithaca'” Identity” • Lynne Walhoust Hinojosa, Baylor University • Joshua Moody, Wright State University “The Aesthetic Hero in Forster and Joyce: A Brief Genealogy of “Haints in the Head: Primal Interpellation and the Quest for the the Concept” Postcolonial Self in William Faulkner” • Richard Badenhausen, Westminster College • Daniel Dale, Wright State University “The Theory and Practice of Collaboration in W. H. Auden” “The Trauma of the Real Body: The Deconstruction of Mental Hierarchies in Faulkner's Sanctuary” F-8 Darkness (In)Visible: Re-Visioning Violence in McCarthy, Magona, and Maxwell F-4 Boundary Crossing: Contemporary Poetic Hybridities (Panel Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 209 prearranged by Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa) Chair: Lesley C. Pleasant, University of Evansville Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 117 • William Welty, University of Cincinnati Chair: Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa “'Another Kind of Clay': History, Violence, and Cormac • Lynn Keller, University of Wisconsin, Madison McCarthy's New Mythology” “Becoming Animal? Paul Muldoon's Horse Latitudes” • Daniel W. Lehman, Ashland University • Linda Kinnahan, Duquense University “'My Son Killed Your Daughter': Testimony and Imagination in “Caroline Bergvall's Hybrid Encounters with the Dolls of Hans Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother” Bellmer” • Nicole Blair, University of Washington, Tacoma • Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa “Time Will Darken It: Reciting/Re-Sighting the Past” “‘We Have Never Had a Mind of Our Own': The Poetics of the Integrated Circuit”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 21 F-9 Communities in Crisis in Toni Morrison (Panel prearranged by F-13 Autofiction/Autobiography E. James Chambers, Ball State University) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 109 Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 215 Chair: Diane Capitani, Northwestern University Chair: E. James Chambers, Ball State University • Ryan Trauman, University of Louisville • E. James Chambers, Ball State University “Blogging, Authorship, and Roland Barthes's Autobiography” “Communities in Crisis in Toni Morrison” • John T. Booker, University of Kansas • Cole E. Farrell, Ball State University “Love (of) Stories: Camille Laurens's L'amour, roman” “'I Know That Woman': Violet and the Fringes of Community in • Kristine Yohe, Northern Kentucky University Toni Morrison's Jazz” “Jean-Robert Cadet's Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to • Ellie M. Isenhart, Ball State University Middle-Class American” “Social Stagnation in Morrison's Love: A Reflection of Race Relations in America” F-14 Masina, Levi, and Bilenchi: The Daily and the Extraordinary • Tibor Munkacsi, Ball State University Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 101 “Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: Digging in the Charnel Chair: Don Spinelli, Wayne State University House” • Victoria Surliuga, Texas Tech University “Giulietta Masina without Federico Fellini: Her Journalism in F-10Dorothy Richardson: Going beyond the Narrative (Organized the Diary of Others” by Micki Nyman, The Dorothy Richardson Society) • Elizabeth Scheiber, Rider University Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 217 “Levi's Ideal Listener: Re-Reading Il Canto di Ulisse” Chair: Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University • Charles Klopp, Ohio State University • Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University` “War, Lust, Hatred, and Death in Romano Bilenchi's “Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage: 'The Mirror Image'” Conservatorio di Santa Teresa” • Shavonne Johnson, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY “Consciousness and Narrative in Dorothy Richardson's F-15 Hispanic Keynote Speaker Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Pilgrimage” Elaine Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library

F-11 Dialogue and Disease: Medical Narrative in the Work of Jacobo Sefami William Carlos Williams, May Sarton, and Sylvia Plath University of California, Irvine (Organized by David Eberly, Narrative Medicine Society) “Palabras en fuga: Poesía Mexicana en el nuevo milenio” Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 221 Chair: David Eberly, Independent Scholar Introduced by Clare Sullivan, University of Louisville • Brian A. Bremen, University of Texas, Austin “Healing Words: William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Burke, and Co-sponsored by Latin American & Latino Studies and Bibliotherapy” the Department of Classical and Modern Languages • David Eberly, Independent Scholar “High Colonics: Presenting the Idealized Patient Self in Endgame” • Rick Mansfield, Dartmouth School of Medicine F-16Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction “The Dying Narrative in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 202 Chair: Nina Adel, Belmont University F-12 DeLillo II: DeLillo and Subjectivity (Organized by Jacqueline • Daniel Morris, Purdue University Zubeck, Don DeLillo Society) If Not for the Courage (poetry) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 121 • Tessa Mellas, University of Cincinnati Chair: Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent Blue Sky White (fiction) • Anne Longmuir, Kansas State University • Jeremy Allan Hawkins, University of Alabama “'All this Crammed Maleness': Gender and Art in DeLillo's Poetry Underworld” • Carole K. Harris, New York City College of Technology • Jen Apgar, Georgia State University Freeze Frame (fiction) “(Un)Heeled/Unhealed: Shoes and Other Traumatic Artifacts in DeLillo's Falling Man” • Randy Laist, Gateway Community College “Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in DeLillo's Novels”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 22 G-1 U. S. Drama CREATIVE KEYNOTE Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 207 PRESENTATION Chair: Susan Lidgate Mace, University of California, Berkeley • Jennifer L. Collins, Duquesne University , Pittsburgh “The Strategy of the British Country House in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine” Strickler Auditorium • Charles Hatten, Bellarmine University “The Death of an Angry Salesman: David Mamet's Early Plays, Room 101 the Legacy of Arthur Miller, and the Era of White Male Rage” G-2 Ecocriticism and Animal Studies Friday 5:00 - 6:00 pm Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 106 Chair: Nicole Seymour, University of Louisville • Jordan S. Carroll, University of California, Davis “Rats, Dragons, and Shortpig: Utopia and the Animal in Stars in Helena María My Pockets like Grains of Sand” • Matthew Sutton, College of William and Mary “Seeds of Glory: The Ecocritical Stance of Guthrie's Bound for Viramontes Glory” • Kimberly Kaczorowski, Miami University “A Congestion of Shapes: The Landscape of Alice Munro” Cornell University G-3 Poetries in Transition, Poetries as Transition (Panel Cemeteries, Freeways and the Bones of the prearranged by John Bradley, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room:108 Forgotten: How Geography Shaped One Chair: John Bradley, University of Wisconsin-Madison Writer's Inspiration • Lisa Hollenbach, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Reading Through: Jackson Mac Low and the Modernist Canon” • Aline Lo, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Claiming a Choice: Transitions in the Works of Ariel Dorfman Introduced by and Li-Young Lee” Brian Leung, University of Louisville • John Bradley, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Repeat After: Between Student and Teacher in Theresa Cha's Dictee”

G-4 Writing Asia: Gender, Identity, Ethnography Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 103 Chair: Li Zeng, University of Louisville CONFERENCE RECEPTION • Weihsin Gui, University of California, Riverside “Fictive Ethnography and The Contemporary Anglophone AND DINNER Malaysian Novel” • Christopher Giroux, Saginaw Valley State University “Swinging with the Sisters Wing: Exploding Binaries in Shirley Friday evening Brown Hotel Geok-Lin Lim's Sister Swing” • James D. Riemer, Marshall University Reception, cash bar (all conferees “Women's Writing, Friendship, and Gender Roles in Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” welcome), 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Additional Informatiom Dinner, by reservation only, All presentation rooms are accesible to the handicapped. 8:00 p.m. All sections of Critical Papers and Creative Readings are scheduled in the Bingham Humanities Building

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 23 G-5 Female Fashion and Spaces: Jean Rhys and Djuna Barnes G-9 Queer Film (Because of multiple cancellations, the remaining Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 101 presenter of this panel has been moved to [I-8 Subversive Chair: Cynthia Davis, University of Maryland Narratives of Sexualities], Saturday at 2:45 -4:15 pm) • Cynthia Davis, University of Maryland “Survival of the Chic-est: Fashion as Resistance in the Work of G-10 Animal Studies and Wallace Stevens (Organized by Tom Jean Rhys” Sowders, Walace Stevens Society) • Ian Scott Todd, Tufts University Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 217 “Ladies' Rooms: Women, Bathrooms, and Modernity in Jean Chair: Tom Sowders, Louisiana State University Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight” • Brian Brodhead Glaser, Chapman University • Liz Vine, University of Wisconsin, Madison “Rats, Cats, and Nightingales” “Queering Home in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood” • Angela Hofstetter, Butler University “Wallace Stevens's Noble Rider: Animality, Modernity, and G-6 Feeding the Music: Food and Dining as Significant Signifier Pure Poetry” Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 114 •Karen Helgeson, University of North Carolina, Pembroke Chair: Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University "Cries from the Outside: Nature’s Choristers in the Late Poetry • Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University of Wallace Stevens” “Significant Food, the Immigrant Experience, and the Short • Tom Sowders, Louisiana State University Story” “Anthropomorphism in Stevens's Comic Poetry” • Charlotte Rich, Eastern Kentucky University “Edith Wharton's Paris: Spaces of Liberation and Constriction” G-11 Philip Roth: Narratology, Sexuality and Politics (Organized • Suzanne Samples, Auburn University by David Brauner, Philip Roth Society) “Pickling History: Nietzsche, Lyotard, and Consumption in Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 121 Midnight's Children” Chair: Matthew Shipe, Washington University, St. Louis • Matthew Shipe, Washington University, St. Louis G-7 Identifying: Individuality and Connection in African- “So You Say You Wanna Revolution? Sexual Liberation in American Fiction and Memoir Philip Roth's Indignation” Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 117 • Sarah Thalia Scheiner-Bobis, Stanford University Chair: David Todd Lawrence, University of Saint Thomas “Anti-Oedipal Desire: Philip Roth's The Human Stain” • Karen Walker, University of Arkansas • Kellie Dawson, DePauw University “Breaking It Down to Build It Back Up, or Dismantling “Becoming Faunia Farley: The Human Stain and the Death of American Individualism and the Rhetorical Tradition of Racial P.C.” Uplift: The Search for Female Subjectivity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand” G-12 The 1960's and Then Some . . . Flannery O'Connor • David Todd Lawrence, University of Saint Thomas (Organized by Jacqueline Zubeck, Flannery O'Connor “Beneath the Underdog, between Traditions: Charles Mingus's Society) Use of the Black Pimp Figure” Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 209 Chair: Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent G-8 Reassessing the Good in Iris Murdoch's Novels (Organized by • Mark S. Graybill, Widener University Barbara Heusel, Iris Murdoch Society) Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 “O'Connor, Tielhard de Chardin, and the Environment” am Room:119 • Carole Harris, New York City College of Technology Chair: Barbara Heusel, Florida State University “Clichés and the Anxieties of Inheritance in Flannery • Barbara Heusel, Florida State University O'Connor's 'A Circle in the Fire,' 'Greenleaf,' and 'Everything “Bizarre Reinvention of Selfish Characters via The Good in That Rises Must Converge'” Nuns and Soldiers and The Sea, The Sea” • Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University • Joanne H. Edmonds, Ball State University “Bill Hill, Ruby, and the Pill: Reproductive Politics in the 1950s” “Readers Considering Characters; Characters Considering • Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent Experience: Thought as Action in Three Novels by Iris “The Visual Impact of the Icon in Flannery O'Connor's 'Parker's Murdoch” Back'” • J. Robert Baker, Fairmont State University “'Les Cousins et Les Tantes': Murdoch's Imagination of Becoming Good”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 24 G-13 Graphic Novels: Transformations, Deformations Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 221 4th STREETLIVE, It’s all about hanging out Chair: Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University • Jacqueline E. Brown, University of Louisville Located: 4th Street between Muhammad Ali Blvd and “Persepolis: The History of a Childhood/The Childhood of a History” Liberty St. • Derrick Stewart, Tennessee Technological University Out-of-towners have an option. “Representing and Creating Feminine Identities in Chris Ware's From billiards to bowling, bourbon to beer, books to coffee. Jimmy Corrigan” One stop urban entertainment center. Everything in one place. • Matthew Wiles, University of Louisville More than 25 businesses including big national names. “Considering the Graphic Novel: Making Use of a Transgressive and Transformative Space” 4th STREET LIVE for whatever you want your personal experience to be. G-14 Creative Fiction in Spanish Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 219 Visit their web address for more Chair: Melissa Groenwold, University of Louisville • Enid Valle, Kalamazoo College www.4thstlive.com Sigilo (poesía) • Iria Gonzalez-Liaño, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Mediterráneo (poesía) • Ceida Fernández Figueroa, Baldwin School of Puerto Rico Olguita se va de Cuba o la jinetera frente al espejo (ficción) A short walk from Ekstrom Library • Santiago García-Castañón, Western Carolina University “Escribir fuera de los márgenes, o cómo mantener una carrera literaria en el mundo académico” The Speed Art Museum G-15 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 202 Museum Hours Chair: Leslie Harper, University of Louisville Monday Closed • Andrew Grace, University of Cincinnati Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 10:30 am to 4 pm Poetry Thursday 10:30 am to 8 pm • Lori D'Angelo, Kent State, East Liverpool Balloon Ride (fiction) Saturday 10:30 to 5 pm • Katherine Thorpe, University of Iowa Sunday 12 pm to 5 pm Excerpts from Heart in Port (poetry) The Speed Art Museum (located next to the University of • Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy Louisville, Ekstrom Library) A Fair Fight in Neutral Location (fiction) 2035 South Third Street, Louisville, KY 40208 - (502) 634- 2700 www.speedmuseum.org Speed Museum Café is open for lunch Tuesdays-Saturdays 11:30 am - 2 pm

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 25 H-1 Post-Politically Correct Narrative (Panel prearranged by Kellie H-6 Narrative and the Radical Dawson, DePauw University) Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 117 Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 103 Chair: Scott Henkel, State University of New York, Binghamton Chair: Kellie Dawson, DePauw University • Andrew Scheiber, University of St. Thomas • Kellie Dawson, DePauw University “Radical Continence: Unsexing the Revolution in Agnes “Wrong Humor and the Death of PC” Smedley's Daughter of Earth and Jack Conroy's The Disinherited” • Greg Weiss, University of Southern Mississippi • Mica Howe, Murray State University “'A Funny Kind of Poem': From Parker to Seidel” “Hombres armados and the Alliance for (Lack of) Progress” • Collin C. Coleman, Georgia State University “Irreverent Humor and Emotional Connections in Californication” H-7 Postmodern Classicism: Contemporary Polish Poets and Their Uses of the Past (Panel prearranged by Karen Kovacik, Indiana H-2 Technology and Cultural Transformation University-Purdue University, Indianapolis) Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 109 Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 119 Chair: Daniel Mrozowski, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Chair: • Olivia R. Turnage, University of Memphis • Jessica Zychowicz , University of Michigan “Luddic Humanism in Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy” “Toward a Poetics of Municipality, or The Place of Personality: • Daniel Mrozowski, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Meditations on the Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert and Adam “The Politics of Eating Well: Upton Sinclair and the Modern Diet” Zagajewsk” • Karen Kovacik, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis H-3 The Poetics of the American Memoir “Revisiting Herbert's 'Mr. Cogito': The Post-Communist, Gendered Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 106 Realm of Izabela Filipiak's 'Madame Intuita'” Chair: Kevin Allton, University of Southern Indiana • Ewa Chrusciel, Colby-Sawyer College • Jill Kelly Koren, Ivy Tech Community College “Flirting with Tradition, Flirting with Mystery: New Poems by “Useful Ambivalence: Adventures in Lyric Essay Land” Agnieszka Kuciak and Tomasz Rózycki” • Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy “Roaring toward the Sublime: California in Hunter Thompson's H-8 Sonnets and The City: New York Poetry Hell's Angels” Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 215 • Julia A. Galbus, University of Southern Indiana Chair: Manuel Herrero-Puertas, University of Wisconsin, Madison “Selflessness in Buddhist Life Writing” • Victoria Brockmeier, State University of New York, Buffalo “Crossing on Doubt: Hart Crane's Bridge” H-4 Postmodern Fiction and the Sense of the Past • Richard Andrew Boada, Millsaps College Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 108 “The Crisis of Individuality and the Ecosublime in the Industrial Chair: M. Nell Sullivan, University of Houston, Downtown Metropolis: Anthropomorphizing Engineering in Hart Cranes's 'To • Charlie Bertsch, Arizona State University Brooklyn Bridge'” “The Landscape of Melancholy: Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice • Cameron Golden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro and the Geography of the Counterculture” “Song of Myself: Mad Men, Poetry, and the Construction of • Katrina Harack, Berry College Identity” “Embedded and Embodied Memories: Body, Space, and Time in Don DeLillo's White Noise and Falling Man” H-9 A Woman's Guide to Twilight: Sentimentality, Pornography, • Ted Morrissey, Benedictine University, Springfield Motherhood “In the Heart of the Heart of the Cold War: Cultural Trauma and (Panel prearranged by Kate Cochran, University of Southern the Fiction of William H. Gass” Mississippi) Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 219 H-5 Drama of National Identity: Friel, Barry, Rubio, and Miller Chair: Kate Cochran, University of Southern Mississippi Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 114 • Christina Riley Brown, Mercyhurst College Chair: Kristina Persenaire, Grand Valley State University “But Why Are They Reading That Stuff? Sentimental Pleasures in • Vanessa M. Bosley, Xavier University Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga” “'Securely Irish': Refashioning Ireland in Brian Friel's Translations” • Kate Cochran, University of Southern Mississippi • Kekoa C. Kaluhiokalani, Muskingum University “Rewriting the Fade-To-Black: X-Rated Twilight Fan Fiction” “Irishness and the Masochism of National Identity in Sebastian • Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky University Barry's The Steward of Christendom” “Genetic Dead Ends and the Reproduction of Motherhood in • Jason Thomas Parker, Vanderbilt University Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga” “Revising Reality: Metatheater as a Strategy of Social Critique in José López Rubio and Arthur Miller” H-10 Imputed Virtue: Ways of Seeing Pynchon's Inherent Vice (Panel prearranged by John M. Krafft, Miami University, Hamilton)

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 26 Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 221 H-14 Henry James (Organized by Susan Griffin, Henry James Chair: John M. Krafft, Miami University, Hamilton Society) • Bernard Duyfhuizen, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 223 “'The Map Is Not the Territory': Pynchon's Inherent Vice and Chair: Shawna Ross, Pennsylvania State University General Semantics” • Shawna Ross, Pennsylvania State University • Dana Medoro, University of Manitoba “The Space of Play: The Hotel as Leisure Space in Henry James” “The Guard Dogs of the Paper Archive in Inherent Vice” • Jennifer B. Camden, University of Indianapolis • Steve Weisenburger, Southern Methodist University “Transatlantic Exchange in The Golden Bowl” “Of Paving Stones and Freedom Struggles” H-15 Psychological Approaches to Literature and Culture after H-11 Gendering Modernity: Dreiser, Wharton and Fitzgerald 1900 (Organized by Susan Hathaway Boydston, The PsyArt Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 207 Foundation) Chair: Amanda Konkle, University of Kentucky Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 121 • Janna Tajibaeva, University of Louisville Chair: Susan Hathaway Boydston, Independent Scholar “Desiring and Desired Women: Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, • Susan Hathaway Boydston, Independent Scholar Edith Wharton's House of Mirth and the Art of American “The (Un)happy Confluence of Greed and Naïveté in The Voysey Impressionists” Inheritance and the Madoff Scam” • Natalie M. Kalich, Loyola University Chicago • Camelia Elias, Roskilde University, Denmark “Domestic Modernism: Ladies' Home Journal and Mass Culture's “The Quietude of Knowledge” Engagement with the Modernist Movement” • Andrew M. Gordon, University of Florida • Amanda Konkle, University of Kentucky “Myla Goldberg's Novel Bee Season: The Obsessive-Compulsive “Hysterical Fathers Make Poor Men: Monsignor Darcy as a Model Family” of Masculinity in This Side of Paradise” • Bent Sorensen, Aalborg University, Denmark “Syndrome-, Symptom- and Trauma-Chains in Post-9/11 Novels” H-12 Native Spaces, American Places Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 209 H-16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction Chair: Thomas L. Morgan, University of Dayton Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 202 • Erin M. Rentschler, Duquesne University Chair: Kimberly A. Baker, University of Louisville “'A Story Is Forever Unfolding': Personal and Cultural Memory in • Christina Veladota, Washington State Community College Linda Hogan's People of the Whale” The Girl and Her Lions (poetry) • Julianne Newmark, New Mexico Tech • Al Dixon, Louisiana State University “Creating Place: Profession and Presence in the Political Writings Guy Walks into a Bar (fiction) of Gertrude Bonnin, Carlos Montezuma, and Charles Alexander • Kristin Dykstra, Illinois State University Eastman” Translations of poetry by Cuban writer Angel Escobar (poetry) • Thomas L. Morgan, University of Dayton • Trudy Lewis, University of Missouri “Specters of Belief: Race and Metaphor in Sherman Alexie's Radio Ranger (fiction) Poetry” H-17 Tapping The Wire I (Bubbles's Revenge): Subjectivity and H-13 Forms of African American (Post)Identity Politics Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 217 (Panel prearranged by Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University) Chair: Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room 101 • Emily Lutenski, Bowling Green State University Chair: Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University “Beyond Harlem: New Negro Cartographies of the American • Ernest L. Gibson III, University of Massachusetts, Amherst West” "'For Whom the Bell Tolls': The Wire's Stringer Bell as a Tragic • Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University Intellectual" “A Blacker Modern: Melvin B. Tolson” • Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University • Ryan Cull, New Mexico State University On Being Green and Turning Brown: Johnny Weeks in “From Difference to Splendor: Thylias Moss's Search for a Hamsterdam Universalist Poetics” • Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky “When Homeland Terror Passes for Bureaucratic Security: The Wire Meets The Office"

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 27 I-1 Community, Relations, and Historical Revisioning I-5 Music and Literature: Aesthetic Interrogations Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 103 Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 119 Chair: Benjamin D. O'Dell, University of Southern Indiana Chair: Jeremy Glazier, Ohio Dominican University • Missy Dehn Kubitschek, Indiana University Purdue University • Jeremy Glazier, Ohio Dominican University “America's National Narratives: Willa Cather and Lousie Erdrich” “'A Noise among Other Noises': Music and Historicity Twenty • Benjamin D. O'Dell, University of Southern Indiana Years after the Berlin Wall” “'A Vague Benevolent Something': Native Son and the Problem of • April D. Fallon, Kentucky State University Community” “O Sweet Spontaneous: The Significance of Paris and Erik Satie on • William R. Hunter, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania E. E. Cummings's Aesthetics” “Damned If You Do: Toni Morrison's A Mercy as Reaction to • Damian Ward Hey, Molloy College Beloved” “Song and Its Double in Against the Day"

I-2 Professing Womanhood: Education, Work, and Literacy in I-6 Reading American Poetry: Ethics, Strategies, Resistances Loos, Chute, Gibbons, and Gilman Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 114 Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 106 Chair: Jessica Lewis Luck, Cal State San Bernardino Chair: Jill A. Kinkade, University of Southern Indiana • Cynthia R. Wallace, Loyola University, Chicago • Peter Collins, Pennsylvania State University “It Must Acknowledge the Spiritual Forces Which Have Made It: “A Girl like Lorelei: Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Marianne Moore, Religion, and the Ethics of Critical Discourse” Female Professionalism during the Modernist Period” • Jessica Lewis Luck, Cal State San Bernardino • M. Nell Sullivan, University of Houston, Downtown “Larry Eigner and the Phenomenology of Multistability” “Cultural Capital and Narrative Voice in Ellen Foster and The Beans of Egypt, Maine” I-7 Flora, Fauna, and Fauvism: Artistic and Poetic Auras • Eir-Anne E. Edgar, University of Kentucky Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 117 “Women's Work: Gender Articulation in Gilman's Herland” Chair: Adriana Umana, Rice University • Adriana Umana, Rice University I-3 Performative Violence, Artifice and the Real “L'itinéraire exploratoire d'Henri Matisse” Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 108 • Liz Kuhn, Pennsylvania State University Chair: Lance Norman, Michigan State University “'Love Is a Thing to Be Learned': The Complex Progress of Dyadic • Anna Mullins, North Carolina State University Anti-Humanism in D. H. Lawrence's Modernism” “The Necessity of Violence Onstage: Sarah Kane's Blasted” • Sarah Bouttier, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle • Matthew Bowman, Lansing Community College “Wherein Does Fitness Lie? Lawrentian versus Darwinian Fitness in “'Another Helping Please': Cannibalism on Stage in Sarah Kane's D. H. Lawrence's Poetry" Blasted and Fernando Arrabal's The Emperor and the Architect of Assyria” I-8 Subversive Narratives of Sexualities • Lance Norman, Michigan State University Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room:215 “Cathartic Ruminations and the Absurdity of Performative Chair: Clare F. Gervasi, University of Louisville Violence” • Lisa Arnold, University of Louisville “An 'Ethics of Difficulty': (Re)Reading Judith Butler's Performative I-4 George Oppen, Heidegger and Ideas of Literature Prose as Feminist Practice” Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 109 • Robin Silbergleid, Michigan State University Chair: Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University “Narrative Promiscuity in Carole Maso's Aureole” • Alexander Cobb, University of Cincinnati • Kevin Arnold, State University of New York, Buffalo “Poet, Object, Being: George Oppen's Poetics of Phenomenological “What is 'Gaydar'? Narrative and Repetition in The City and the Ontology” Pillar” • Charles Cullum, University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown • Kathleen T. Leuschen, Roosevelt University “Sweeping a Clearing in the House of Being: Heidegger's Theory of “Strategy of Resistance: The Grotesque and Hermaphroditic Language and David Foster Wallace's The Broom of the System” Identity in Middlesex” • Clare F. Gervasi, University of Louisville “Subverting Gender Binaries: Almodóvar's Lesbians and La Movida”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 28 I-9 Examining Rhoda: Three Readings of Ellen Gilchrist's 'The I-13 The 1950s and Its Afterlives: Contemporary Texts, Postwar Lower Garden District Free Gravity Mule Blight' (Panel Precursors (Organized by Benjamin Lee, Association for the prearranged by Kathryn E. Lane, Southeastern Louisiana Study of the Arts of the Present) University) Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 121 Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 217 Chair: Benjamin Lee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Chair: Kathryn E. Lane, Southeastern Louisiana University • Benjamin Lee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville • Kathryn E. Lane, Southeastern Louisiana University “Meditations in an Emergency: Frank O'Hara and the Crises of “Rhoda, A Woman Searching” Late Capitalism” • Michelle Hebert Russo, Napoleonville Middle School • Don Belton, Indiana University “Rhoda, Her Voices and the Revelation of the Fable” “New Jazz from Another Country” • Carolyn Kirk Vosburg, Southeastern Louisiana University • J. Dillon Brown, Washington University, St. Louis “Rhoda, a Woman of the Southern Bourgeois Tradition” “Windrush, Continued? Postwar Black British Writing in the Present Tense” I-10 Fantasy and Science Fiction: Social Critiques and Genre Fiction I-14 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 219 Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 202 Chair: Katherine Lee, Indiana State University Chair: Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy • Katherine Lee, Indiana State University • Brian L. Jackson, University of Illinois, Springfield “Sookie Stackhouse, Bella Swan, and . . . Elizabeth Bennet? The From Delancey West (poetry) New Women Warriors and the Gender Politics of Chick- • Michele Moore, Atlanta, Georgia Lit/Monster Novel Mash-Ups Cremo College (fiction) • Andy Engel, Wayne State University • Charlotte Pence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville “Fashion as Infection: Trauma and Capital in William Gibson's Poetry Pattern Recognition” • Kyle David Torke, US Air Force Academy • Theresa Gromek, John Carroll University Sunset Falls (fiction) “Collection of Spare Parts: Ishiguro's Clones' Curious Position within Human Society” I-15 Tapping The Wire II (The Son of Snoop): Performance, Supplement, Conspiracy I-11 Joycean Space: Sensed, Seen, and Signed (Organized by Jim (Panel prearranged by Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University) LeBlanc, International James Joyce Foundation) Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room 101 Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 223 Chair: Julie Burrell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Chair: Jim LeBlanc, Cornell University • Julie Burrell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst • William Brockman, Pennsylvania State University “Racial Performance and Performativity in The Wire” “The (E)State of James Joyce's Letters” • Dennis W. Allen, West Virginia University • Thomas Jackson Rice, University of South Carolina “No Big Thing: The Wire's Supplementary Logic” “A Mind’s Eye View: Imaging the Read in James Joyce” • Judith Roof, Michigan State University • Jim LeBlanc, Cornell University “True Grit: Aurality and the Pleasures of Conspiracy in The Wire" “Agoraphobia in James Joyce's 'Eveline'” I-16 New Horizons in the Analysis of Lat-Mex Borderland Film I-12 Telling Art in Robert Penn Warren's Poetry (Organized by (Panel prearranged by Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State Patricia Bradley, Robert Penn Warren Society) University) Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 221 Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 210 Chair: Patricia Bradley, Middle Tennessee State University Chair: Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University • Kelly Whiddon, Macon State College • Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University “Folklore in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren: Where the “Affective Congruence and Brown Body Crossings in Sin Nombre” Storyteller and the Hero Converge” • Christopher Gonzalez, Ohio State University • Kim Hutto, Middle Tennessee State University “'Connecting' to Borderland Consciousness: Cognition and “Robert Penn Warren's Audubon: The Art of Seeing” Narrative Design in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer” • Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky University • Samuel Saldivar, Ohio State University “Photography as Narrative in Robert Penn Warren's Poetry” “The Living Dead, or, Brown Bodies that Matter”

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 29 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSING SPEAKER T h e 39th An n ual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 Rita Felski February 24, 25, and 26, 2011 Submission deadline: University of Virginia September 15, 2010 (Postmarked)

Please refer to the guidelines posted on our website in early April "The Demon of www.thelouisvilleconference.com

Interpretation" Proposals (abstracts) for critical papers may be submitted on any topic that addresses literary works published since 1900, and/or their relationship with other arts and disciplines (film, journalism, opera, music, pop culture, Saturday, 4:30 - 5:30 pm. painting, architecture, law). Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Individual creative submissions (poetry or short fiction) are also encouraged. Auditorium For details, or to be put on our mailing list, contact: Introduced by Suzette Henke Danielle R. Day, Conference Director, English Department, Classical and Modern Languages, University of Louisville University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292 (502) 852-6686 [email protected]

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Abel, Lydia D 10 Brown, Jacqueline E. B 9, E 12, G 13 Dragan, Richard E 3 Adams, Ann Marie A 1 Brown, Christina Riley H 9 Duyfhuizen, Bernard H 10 Adel, Nina F 16 Brown,J. Dillon I 13 Dwyer, Florence E 11 Adelman,Deborah E 16 Buchanan, Rhonda A 13 Dykstra, Kristin H 16 Agudo,Elena Aldea E 14 Buchanan, Jason E 5 Eberly, David F 11 Aguilar-Monsalve,Luis A. A 13 Buonocore, Eleonora E 13 Edgar,Eir-Anne E. I 2 Aldama, Frederick Luis C 14, I 16 Burgess, Jermemy A 8 Edgington,Erin E. A 12 Allen, Dennis W. I 15 Burrell, Julie I 15 Edmonds, Joanne H. G 8 Allton, Kevin C 7, H 3 Byerman, Keith A 11, B 11 Edwards, Mike D 14 Amaya, Elizabeth B 14 Camden,J ennifer B. H 14 Edwards,Trista B 5 Apgar,Jen F 12 Capitani, Diane F 13 Elias, Camelia H 15 Ards,Angela A 9 Carrière, Julien E 11 Engel, Andy I 10 Armengol,Armando E 15 Carroll, Jordan S. G 2 Erwin, Chase C 7 Arnold,Kevin I 8 Casmier, Stephen B 11 Fairfield, James A 2 Arnold,Lisa I 8 Cedeño, Aristófanes C 13 Fallon, April D. I 5 Arranz, Carmen E 14 Chambers, E. James B 6, F 9 Farrar, Aileen F 7 Ash, Aja F 3 Charters, Duncan C 11 Farrell, Cole E. F 9 Ashton, Hilarie D 3 Cheek, Cris D 2 Farrell,Tim D 3 Asya, Ferdâ C 3, D 7 Childress, Cindy A 14 Farris, Nettie B 15 Badenhausen, Richard F 7 Chrusciel, Ewa H 7 Feito, Patricia M. F 6 Baker, Kimberly A. H 16 Clifford, Pat C 13 Fernandes, Gisele Manganelli E 10 Baker,J. Robert G 8 Coaplen-Anderson,Carrie C 16, F 6 Fife,Anthony B 1 Balma, Philip E 13 Cobb, Alexander I 4 Figueroa,Ceida Fernández G 14 Balma,Philip C 15 Cochran, Kate H 9 Filling, Michelle L. C 9 Barlow,Renee A 2 Cochran-Weber, Brooke A 12 Fioretti, Daniele E 13 Barrows, Adam B 7 Cochran, Amanda E 1 Fleischer, Stephanie Owen B 9 Bazán-Figueras, Patricia A 13 Cochran, Kate H 9 Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie C 11 Belton, Don I 13 Colebrook, Martyn F 1 Fore, Melissa C 6 Bertsch, Charlie H 4 Coleman, Collin C. H 1 Forster, Chris B 7 Bessette, Lee E. S. D 12 Collins, Jennifer L. G 1 Fournier, Michael B 3 Biberman, Matthew A 4 Collins, Peter I 2 Francis, Pamela B 3, D 11 Birkenstein, Jeff G 6 Combs, Lorah Kristin E 1 Fridlund, Emily E 9 Blackwell, Stephen A 10 Cooper, Ken A 5 Frye, Mitch B 8 Blair, Nicole D 5, F 8 Cotugno, Marianne A 10 Gabrys, Gosia B 1 Blazer, Alex E. D 3 Craig, J. P. A 3 Galbus, Julia A. H 3 Boada, Richard Andrew C 16, H 8 Cull, Ryan H 13 García-Castañón, Santiago 14 Boffemmyer, Mindy A 5 Cullum, Charles I 4 Geis, Deborah R. A 7 Booker, John T. F 13 Czarnecki, Kristin E 9 Gerds, Jenna C 8 Booth, Andrew A 10 D'Angelo, Lori G 15 Gervasi, Clare F. I 8 Borman, David D 6 Dahn, Eurie B 8 Geter, Kirsten L. B 5 Boselli, Stefano D 14 Dale, Daniel F 3 Ghimire, Bishnue D 4 Bosley,Vanessa M. H 5 Danielson, Kristine B 3 Giaimo, Paul E 10 Boudreau, Douglas L. A 12 Davis, Cynthia G 5 Gibson III, Ernest L. H 17 Bouttier, Sarah I 7 Davis, H. Louise C 6 Giroux, Christopher G 4 Bowman, Matthew I 3 Dawkins,Laura B 9 Glaser, Brian Brodhead G 10 Boydston, Susan Hathaway H 15 Dawson, J. T. C 16 Glazier, Jeremy B 2, I 5 Bradley, Patricia I 12 Dawson, Kellie G 11, H 1 Goddard, Ekeama E 5 Bradley, Jerry E 16 De Posada, David C 13 Godshalk, William D 11 Bradley, John G 3 De La Garza Valenzuela, Jose A. D 15 Goessling, Jacob D 15 Bradley, Patricia L. I 12 De La Torre,Roberto E 15 Golden, Cameron H 8 Bremen, Brian A. F 11 Decker, Shelley L. B 5 Gómez, Myrriah D 15 Bremm, Doris D 4 Delegal, Philip E 14 Gonzalez-Liaño, Iria G 14 Brockman, William I 11 DeSelm, Andrew E 12 Gonzalez-Liaño, Iria E 14 Brockmeier, Victoria A 3 Dibble, Lewis A 6 Gonzalez, Christopher I 16 Brockmeier, Victoria H 8 Dixon, Al C 4, H 16 Gooch, S. C. E 5 Brooke, Patricia E 7 Donahue, Joseph E 4 Gordon, Andrew M. H 15

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Grace, Andrew G 15 Kaczorowski, Kimberly G 2 McCown, Cynthia D 10 Graves, Roy Neil C 16 Kaczvinsky, Donald P. D 3 McGowan, Marcia Phillips F 6 Graybill, Mark S. G 12 Kalich, Natalie M. H 11 McGrath, Jackie C 5 Green, Chris F 2 Kaluhiokalani, Kekoa C. E 1, H 5 McMillan, Scott E 6 Griffin, Jenelle C 12 Kattemalavadi, Chinmayi E 12 Medoro, Dana H 10 Groenwold, Melissa G 14 Keller, Lynn F 4 Meissner, Collin C 1 Gromek, Theresa I 10 Kerman, Sarah C 3 Melero, Pilar E 15 Guevara, Francisco A 4 Kinkade, Jill A. I 2 Mellas, Tessa F 16 Gui, Weihsin D 6, G 4 Kinnahan, Linda F 4 Meyers, Ronald J. F 5 Gwiazda, Piotr D 1 Kivinen, Hannele B 10 Michael, Magali Cornier B 4 Hadley, Karen C 5, D 4 Klopp, Charles F 14 Mickalites, Carey James C 8 Halton, Eugene C 1 Koelz, Stephen E 8 Miller, Brook E 9 Hamilton, Joshua B 14 Konkle, Amanda H 11 Miller, Elisabeth L. A 8 Harack, Katrina H 4 Koren, Jill Kelly H 3 Millichap, Joseph I 12 Harder, Hollie Markland D 12 Kovacik, Karen H 7 Mondello, Kaitlin B 12 Harmon, Elizabeth B 14 Krafft, John H 10 Montag, Kassandra D 9 Harmon, William D 9 Krouse, Tonya H 9 Montanez, Carmen L. D 15 Harper, Leslie G 15 Kubitschek, Missy Dehn I 1 Moody, Joshua F 3 Harris, Carole K. F 16, G 12 Kuhn, Liz I 7 Moore, Michele I 14 Hatten, Charles G 1 Laist,Randy F 12 Morgan, Thomas L. H 12 Hawkins, Jeremy Allan F 16 Lane, Kathryn E. I 9 Morgan, S. D 16 Helgeson, Karen G 10 Langlinais, Chantel A 14 Morgan, Thomas L. H 12 Henkel, Scott H 6 Lawrence, David Todd G 7 Morlan, Anna A 13, B 1 Henkel,Scott D 7 LeBlanc, Jim I 11 Morris, Adalaide F 4 Herrero-Puertas, Manuel B 8, H 8 Lee, Katherine I 10 Morris, Daniel D 13, F 16 Heusel, Barbara G 8 Lee, Benjamin I 13 Morrissey, Ted A 8, E 16, H 4 Hewitt, Avis G 12 Lee, E. Andrew D 10 Mrozowski, Daniel H 2 Hey, Damian Ward I 5 Lehman, Daniel W. F 8 Mullins, Anna I 3 Hicks, Zachary A 10 LeRoy-Frazier, Jill E 3, F 6 Mullins, Matthew C 4 Higgs, Suzette D 1 Leuschen, Kathleen T. I 8 Munkacsi, Tibor F 9 Hinojosa, Lynne Walhoust F 7 Levise, Joel D 8 Murphy,John D 11 Hitchcock, A. David E 14, F 5 Levy, Heather A 14 Musgrave, Megan A 6 Hoeness-Krupsaw, Susanna B 10 Lewis, Trudy H 16 Muyumba, Walton B 11 Hofstetter, Angela G 10 Lina, John A 5 Myman, Micki F 10 Holcomb, Brian D 6 Lingle, Brandon G 15, H 3, I 14 Nadel, Alan H 17 Hollenbach, Lisa G 3 Lo, Aline G 3 Nealand, Eireene E 2 Holt, Megan D 5 Lobo, Julius B 3 Need, David A 5 Hoogland, Renée C. C 2 Lockerd, Martin D 9, E 8 Neupane, Dhruba Jyoti B 2, D 8 Hopson, Cheryl R. B 9 Lohmeyer, Enno D 13 Newmark, Julianne B 7, H 12 Houston, Patricia A 14 Long, Alexander C 9 Nielsen, Aldon Lynn B 13, H 13, I 4 Howe, Mica H 6 Longmuir, Anne F 12 Norman, Lance I 3 Howe, William R. D 2 López, Alfred J. E 5 Nuessel, Frank C 11 Huang-Tiller, Gillian B 12, C 10 Luck, Jessica Lewis I 6 Nyman, Micki C 7, F 10, G 13 Hunter, William R. I 1 Luger, Moberley B 3, D 16 O'Dell, Benjamin D. I 1 Hutto, Kim I 12 Lutenski, Emily H 13 O'Neal, Summer E 6 Isenhart, Ellie M. F 9 Mace, Susan Lidgate F 5, G 1 Oczkowicz, Edyta K. E 11 Jackson, Jennifer C 5, F 1 Makris, Mary B 14 Ogunfolabi, Kayode Omoniyi C 6 Jackson, Brian L. C 10, I 14 Maley,Patrick D 10 Olarte, Alejandra C 13 Jiménez, Eva María Gómez B 12 Manaster,Robert A 14 Oliver, Matthew D 6 Johnson, Benjamin C 8 Mansfield, Rick F 11 Onstoff, Wil W. E 6 Johnson, Katie N. D 10 Markow, Raluca F 5 Orsitto, Fulvio C 15, D 14 Johnson, Leigh D 15 Martins, José Endoença E 2 Ovan, Sabrina E 13 Johnson, Shavonne F 10 Mason, Daniel A 2, C 3 Pal, Dibakar B 10 Jones, Greenfield B 15, E 16 Matthews, Kadeshia L. A 9 Paloff, Benjamin H 7 Jones, Jessamon D 4 Mattis, Ann A 2 Parker, Jason Thomas H 5 Justus, Jeremy H 17 McCombe, John B 2, F 7 Pavlov, Svetoslav P. E 2

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 32 Peckham, Joel F 2 Spinelli, Don F 14 DINING FACILITIES Peckham, Rachael F 2 Spooner, Megan D 1 Campus Pence, Charlotte I 14 Stanton, Brandi E 7 Persenaire, Kristina H 5 Stewart,Derrick G 13 Petersen, Robert C. E 6 Strombeck, Andrew F 3 Student Activities Center ( SAC) Peterson, James B. E 7 Stryffeler, Ryan D. E 7 Look for the Clock Tower Peterson, Rai B 12 Sullivan, M. Neil H 4, I 2 Both Terrace (2nd floor) and Pett, Scott D 3 Surliuga, Victoria F 14 Ground Floor Food Courts Pignatelli, Louis C 1 Sutton, Matthew G 2 Pihakis, James B 15, C 4 Switaj, Elizabeth Kate A 8, E 16 Not open on Saturday Pleasant, Lesley E 12, F 8 Tajibaeva, Janna H 11 Plicka, Joe E 3 Taylor, Corey M. C 9 Mitzi’s (basement, Miller Polzin, Beth D 7 Thorpe, Katherine C 3, G 15 Technology Building) Pooser, Charles D 12 Todd, Ian Scott G 5 Mon - Fri 7:30 am- 3:00 pm Porco, Alessandro C 10, D 8 Tonkin, Humphrey C 11 Prince, Adam C 16 Torke, Kyle David I 14 Not open on Saturday Rang, Leah D 13 Trauman, Ryan D 16, F 13 Raschke, Debrah B 10 Turnage, Olivia R. H 2 Reed, Marthe A 14 Umana, Adrianna I 7 Near Campus (within walking Rentschler, Erin M. H 12 Umminger, Alison B 5 distance) Rice, Thomas Jackson I 11 Valle, Enid G 14 Rich, Charlotte G 6 Veladota, Christina H 16 Riemer, James D. G 4 Vidich, Paul D 16 Café Bristol (Speed Art Museum) Rizzo, Therese M. C 9 Vincent, Timothy C. E 9 Reservations suggested 634-2723 Robison, Rhonda Dean A 14 Vine, Liz H 5 Tues - Sat,11:30 am-2:00 pm Rodden IV, Ivan B 15, D 2, E 1 Viola, Anthony J. F 2 Roof, Judith I 15 Vipond, Dianne A 1 Ross, Shawna H 14 Vosburg, Carolyn Kirk I 9 Royo, Adrienne E 2 Waag, Michael E 15 Rubin, Lois E. B 1 Walker, Karen G 7 Ruddy, Sarah C 2 Wallace, Cynthia R. I 6 Rupert, Jennifer Jane C 12 Walser, Andrew D 1 Russo, Michelle Hebert I 9 Wanczyk, David D 5 Rydel, Christine A. A 1 Wang, Huei-ju D 7 Saldivar, Samuel I 16 Watten, Barrett C 2 Samples, Suzanne G 6 Webster, Michael B 12 Samuels, Wilfred A 11, B 11 Weisenburger, Steve H 10 Sandman, Sarah B 6 Weiss, Greg H 1 Scheiber, Elizabeth A 7, F 14 Welty, William F 8 Scheiber, Andrew H 6 Wheeler,J ames A 3 Scheiner-Bobis, Sarah Thalia G 11 Whiddon, Kelly I 12 Schoenfeld,Staci R. A 4 Wiles, Matthew G 13 Schreier, Benjamin A 7, B 4 Williams, Ruth A 3 Scroggins,Mark A 3 Williams, Tyrone D 2 Sefami,Jacoco F 15 Willman, Skip F 1 Sewell, Josh B 5 Wills, Katherine V. A 6 Sewell, Matthew A 7 Wingard, Leslie A 9 Seymour, Nicole A 1, G 2 Wortman, Stefanie E 8 Shadko, Jacqueline A. B 2 Yang, Carol L. D 9, E 8 Shannon,Drew Patrick B 7 Yohe, Kristine F 13 Sharma, Ghanashyam D 1 Youngblood, Stephanie B 4 Shipe, Matthew G 11 Zamsky, Robert L. E 4 Signori, Lisa F. A 12 Zanelli, Marco D 14 Silbergleid, Robin I 8 Zeng, Li G 4 Sligh, Charles D 11 Zorn, Christa C 8, D 13 Sorensen, Bent H 15 Zubeck, Jacqueline E 10, F 12, G 12 Sowders, Tom G 10 Zychowicz, Jessica H 7 Spani, Giovanni C 15 Spector, Judith A. (Judy) A 6

Attention Conferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration Desk immediately before your session. 33 Hotel Shuttle Bus Schedule 2010 The Conference will provide (yellow school) bus service between the hotel and campus. The buses will run on a circuit: hotel-campus-hotel. The bell captain at the Brown Hotel will have a copy of this schedule. Bus stops: Brown Hotel, UofL campus, Broadway side of hotel, North Visitors' Center

Please note: Times listed are DEPARTURE times from the stated bus stop. (About 15 minutes to or from) Eastern Standard Time

Thursday Friday Saturday Brown UofL Brown UofL Brown UofL Hotel Hotel Hotel 10:00 10:30 7:30 8:00 9:00 9:30 11:00 11:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 10:30 12:00 12:30 9:30 10:00 11:00 12:00 1:00 1:30 10:30 11:00 12:30 1:30 2:00 2:30 12:30 1:00 2:00 2:45 4:00 4:30 1:30 2:00 4:30 5:00 5:30 2:30 3:00 5:45 6:30 3:30 4:00 7:45 4:30 5:15 6:30

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