Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting of the American Comparative acla2016 Literature Association Harvard University acla2016 March 17-20, 2016 Harvard University March 17-20, 2016 Cover art by Svetlana Boym 5 table of contents WIFI: Conference participants can log on to the Harvard wifi network by Acknowledgements ................................................................................4 selecting the Harvard University "GUEST" Wi-Fi network and then opening any webpage in your browser. A prompt will appear asking for some basic information; once you provide this information, you will be online. Welcome .................................................................................................5 MEDIA: For the duration of ACLA, Harvard University Information Technology has staff on duty in each building, as well as on call at their Conference Schedule .............................................................................7 central office, to help with media questions for seminars that explicitly requested media from ACLA. For these seminars, technology in each room Seminar Overview ................................................................................11 is mostly self-explanatory, but should you encounter any difficulties, please call HUIT support 617-495-9460 or their central number 617-495-7777. Transportation .....................................................................................22 2016 acla Graduate Student Events .....................................................................24 Museums, Food, Bookstores .................................................................25 Pre-Conference Workshops ..................................................................30 table of contents table Maps .....................................................................................................33 Stream A ...............................................................................................52 Stream B .............................................................................................118 Stream C .............................................................................................188 Stream D .............................................................................................210 Mixed Streams ....................................................................................230 Advertising .........................................................................................279 Link to Index and Program Online ...................................................286 Campus Map ......................................................................................288 5 6 7 acknowledgments welcome The Harvard ACLA Faculty Committee – Karen Thornber (Chair), David On behalf of Harvard University and especially the faculty and Damrosch, and Panagiotis Roilos – would not have been able to host ACLA graduate students of Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature, 2016, the second largest in the Association’s history, without the tremendous it is my great pleasure to welcome you to Cambridge and to ACLA support of colleagues and graduate students at Harvard and beyond. 2016, which with 322 seminars and 3325 participants is the second largest convention in ACLA history and the largest convention ever On campus, greatest thanks are due to Elena Fratto, Chair of the Harvard ACLA Graduate Student Committee, as well as to the dedicated and tireless hosted by Harvard. graduate students who formed the core of the committee and did the bulk It is fitting that we gather this year in Cambridge, where in 1816 of the local arrangements and program organizing: Daniel Behar, Cecily Cai, Marina Connelly, Jermain Heidelberg, Sina Hoche, Rachael Lee, Melody Li, Harvard established the Smith Professorship of French and Spanish Argyro Nicolaou, and Joseph Pomp. We also are grateful to the many other Languages. The first incumbent of this professorship was Harvard’s graduate students and undergraduates who are assisting with Registration and first comparatist, the renowned Hispanist George Ticknor (1791-1871). other events during the conference itself. Although fluent in Greek and Latin, Ticknor had special affinity for 2016 acla the vernacular literatures of Europe, and he introduced to Harvard Melissa Carden, Administrator, and Isaure Mignotte, Coordinator, of the wildly popular courses on Dante and Shakespeare, as well as on acla 2016 Department of Comparative Literature provided invaluable logistical support German, French, Portuguese, and Spanish literatures, drawing from throughout, as did Rosie Cortese (Administrator of Regional Studies East materials gathered on his extensive European travels. Asia), Elizabeth Liao (Executive Director of the Harvard Asia Center), Stacie Matsumoto (Interim Executive Director of the Reischauer Institute), and In addition to the 200th anniversary of the Smith Professorship and Mathilda Van Es (Administrative Dean of Arts and Humanities). the first teaching of living literatures at Harvard, 2016 also marks welcome th Generous funding for ACLA 2016 – for which we are most thankful – was the 110 anniversary of the founding of Harvard’s Department of provided by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities (Dean Diana Comparative Literature. Reflecting the ongoing paradigm shift of Sorensen), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Dean Xiao-Li Meng), the comparative studies from an almost exclusive focus on Western Harvard University Asia Center (Professor Arthur Kleinman), the John King European traditions to a new global awareness, the department’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies (Senior Vice Provost Mark C. Elliott), the faculty members and graduate students now work on an increasingly Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies (Professors Ted Bestor and Wesley broad range of languages and cultures; in fact, more than half of the Jacobsen), the Korea Institute (Professor Carter Eckert), the Center for African graduate students are fluent in at least one non-Western language, Studies (Professor Caroline Elkins), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies from Arabic and Chinese to Urdu and Wolof, to name just a few. (Professor William Granara), and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin The department also engages in a wide variety of transdisciplinary American Studies (Professor Brian Farrell). scholarship, with critical theory, literary interpretation, and And finally, Professor Alex Beecroft (Secretary/Treasurer) and Andy Anderson comparative philology providing the basis for work on translation, (Administrator) of the ACLA Secretariat at the University of South Carolina the history of ideas, gender, drama, oral poetics, multilingualism, have provided expert advice and good cheer, as have Professors Yopie Prins, postcolonialism, the environmental and medical humanities, ACLA President, and Eleni Coundouriotis, ACLA Program Committee Chair. globalization, and world literature. Students and faculty additionally work in a variety of fields contiguous with literature, including As is true of all such gatherings, ACLA 2016 has from the very beginning been architecture and the visual arts, film and music, history, anthropology, a collaborative endeavor, and we are exceptionally appreciative to everyone philosophy, and medicine. for sharing their time and talents to make this extraordinary convention a great success. The same of course is true of the ACLA. As we put together this acknowledgements year’s program, we could not but be impressed by the tremendous Karen Thornber variety of seminars and papers by comparatists from more than 60 6 7 8 9 countries working in a growing range of innovative fields. This year also marked a record number of applications for ACLA seminars, acla 2016 conference schedule demonstrating expanding interest in the field from scholars and students around the world. Thursday, March 17 In addition to 322 accepted seminars, we also are delighted to host a 4:00pm – 5:45pm: ACLA Workshops number of special events, listed together on the following pages under • Comparative Literature 2016: The Importance of Space, “General Information” as well as in the “Conference Schedule.” We Theory, and Translation – Sever 103 (Closed; advanced are particularly honored to have Professor Ursula Heise (UCLA) as registration only) the first keynote speaker (Thursday evening) and Professors Sandra Bermann (Princeton), Stephen Owen (Harvard), and David Damrosch • Readings In Memory of Svetlana Boym – Northwest B101 (Harvard) as the plenary panel (Saturday noon); also noteworthy are our pre-conference workshops (Thursday), a special session on new • Side-Work Matters: Translation, Blogging, and the directions in comparative and world literature publishing (Friday), as Importance of Non-Dissertation Writing (Graduate Caucus well as three workshops especially for graduate students sponsored Panel) – Sever 106 (Closed; advanced registration only) 2016 acla by the Graduate Caucus and Harvard’s Department of Comparative • The Future of South Asian Literature in Comparative acla 2016 Literature (Thursday, Friday, Saturday), the annual Book Exhibit, and Literature – Sever 102 (Closed; advanced registration only) the ADPCL breakfast meeting for Chairs and Directors (Saturday). The Opening Reception (Thursday) and Presidential Address and • Useable Literature (ACLA Vice-President’s Panel) – Award Reception (Friday), together with the ACLA President’s Panel Northwest B108 (Closed; advanced