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Table of Contents
Introduction from the Local Hosting Committee ...... 3 Sponsors ...... 4 MSA Toronto 2019 at a Glance ...... 5 Plenary Sessions ...... 6 Social and Cultural Events ...... 7 Land Acknowledgement ...... 9 Note on Accessibility ...... 9 Thursday, October 17 ...... 10 Friday, October 18 ...... 18 Saturday, October 19 ...... 30 Sunday, October 20 ...... 42 Special Thanks ...... 48
Conference Map ...... 54
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Introduction from the Local Hosting Committee
From the Boer War to the Great War, and from the Russo-Japanese conflict to the Amritsar Massacre and anti- colonial uprisings, modernism and modernity are shaped by processes of upheaval and reconstruction. While modernism is often treated as an artistic and literary movement characterized by conflict, violence, and despair, it nonetheless strove towards renewed hope and positive transformation. At the centenary of the 1919 peace conference, the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Toronto 2019 Conference invites considerations on the processes of upheaval and reconstruction, and prompts reexaminations of modernism and modernity at various times and across global spaces.
We are excited to be introducing for the first time ever a new style of session made up of individual paper proposals, allowing for enhanced flexibility within the MSA conference space. By appealing to an international audience, encouraging interdisciplinary submissions, and inviting participants at all stages of their academic careers to collaborate together, we hope to increase the diversity of responses and voices featured at this year’s conference. The success of this endeavour can be measured by the large number of responses we received, which also highlight the interest and importance of our two special streams: Indigeneity and Making Modernism in/out of Canada. We look forward to helping facilitate these exciting and timely discussions between our delegates.
This year’s MSA Conference was made possible because of the enthusiasm and dedication of our Local Organizing Committee. We are grateful to the Modern Literature and Culture (MLC) Research Centre for hosting the event and for the long-term support provided by the MLC Team, including Laura Cameron, Jaclyn Marcus, Cameron MacDonald, and Gabriela Will, and our conference volunteers. We thank Ray Yabuta for visioning and building the website and Alex Christie, the MSA webmaster who provided feedback on all matters large and small; Rebecca Walsh, the MSA Program Committee Chair who oversaw the adjudication and formation of this program; MSA Finance Chair Allan Hepburn, whose expertise was vital in helping us keep everything organized and on budget; and Celia Marshik, the MSA President.
The Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Toronto 2019 Conference is hosted by Ryerson University’s Modern Literature and Culture (MLC) Research Centre, in collaboration with the University of Toronto, York University, and OCAD University (formerly the Ontario College of Art and Design). We thank our sponsors, notably our lead sponsor, Ryerson University, for generous support.
Irene Gammel, Chair Melba Cuddy-Keane Adam Hammond Jim Drobnick
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Sponsors
MSA 2019 Toronto would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. We would like to thank the following for their contributions:
Lead Sponsors
Major Sponsors
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MSA Toronto 2019 at a Glance Panels and Roundtables 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Wednesday, October 16 Searching for Winnetou: Screening and Q&A 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM | SLC Amphitheatre Registration
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Chelsea Hotel Lobby Saturday, October 19
Thursday, October 17 Registration 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Churchill Court Registration 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Churchill Court Breakfast 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Mountbatten Room Executive Board Meeting 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM | Gerrard Room Seminars 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Pre-Conference Workshops 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Panels and Roundtables 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Book Exhibition 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Mountbatten Lane Digital Exhibits 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM | Mountbatten Lane Seminars 12:45 PM – 2:45 PM | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM What Are You Reading? 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Gerrard Room Panels and Roundtables 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM | 3:15 PM | 4:45 PM Business Lunch 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Mountbatten B Reception and MSA Book Prize 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Churchill Ballroom Keynote Roundtable: Indigenous Modernisms 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM Emerging Scholars Pub Night 8:30 PM – 11:00 PM | Imperial Pub Panels and Roundtables 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Friday, October 18 New Directions of Multimodal Modernism Launch 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | MLC Gallery Registration 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Churchill Court Poetry of Upheaval 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM | Imperial Pub Breakfast
7:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Mountbatten Room Sunday, October 20 Seminars 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Breakfast 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Mountbatten Room Panels and Roundtables 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Executive Board Meeting 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Gerrard Room Digital Exhibits 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Mountbatten Lane Seminars 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM | 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM What Are You Reading? 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Gerrard Room Panels and Roundtables 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Lunch 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Mountbatten Room Book Exhibition 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Mountbatten Lane Keynote Speaker: Richard Cavell 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM | Churchill Ballroom Post-Conference Workshops 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Book Signing
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM | Churchill Court Seminars 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM
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Plenary Sessions
Friday, October 18 | 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
“Truly Modern: Modernism and Remediation” Churchill Ballroom
Dr. Richard Cavell, Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, is a media theorist and Canadian studies scholar whose work focuses on spatial theory, media studies, and their interdisciplinary relations. Mentored by acclaimed media scholar Marshall McLuhan, Cavell is the author of several influential books, including McLuhan in Space: A Cultural Geography (University of Toronto Press, 2002), Remediating McLuhan (Amsterdam University Press, 2016), and the collection On the Nature of Media: Essays by Marshall McLuhan (Gingko Press, 2016), alongside publications such as Friedman House (ORO Editions, 2017) and the critical performance works Speechsong: The Gould/Schoenberg Dialogues (Punctum Press, 2019) and Marinetti Dines with the High Command (Guernica Press, 2014). Dr. Cavell is the founder of the International Canadian Studies Center at UBC, a founding member of the Canadian Association for Cultural Studies, and co-founder of the UBC Media Studies Program. Dr. Cavell’s keynote focuses on the theme of “upheaval and reconstruction” in order to interrogate the relationship of modernity and remediation.
Saturday, October 19 | 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Keynote Roundtable: Indigenous Modernisms Churchill Ballroom
Christina Bold, professor at Guelph University, poses the question of who contributed to popular culture in modernity and who was credited for its creation, revealing the hidden role of Indigenous performers, specifically on vaudeville stages. She received a 2018 Killam Fellowship to complete a book on the topic entitled Indigenous Modernities: The Secret History of Vaudeville, 1880s-1930s.
Jill Carter, Anishinaabe/Ashkenazi assistant professor at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies; the Transitional Year Programme; and the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Toronto. Her scholarly research, creative projects, and activism are built upon ongoing relationships with Indigenous Elders, scholars, youth, artists and activists positioning her as witness to, participant in, and disseminator of oral histories that speak to the application of Indigenous aesthetic principles and traditional knowledge systems to contemporary performance.
Elizabeth Harney, associate professor of Art History at the University of Toronto, researches the politics of exhibition, postcolonial theory, and global modernism, with a focus on African art and marginalized creators within the modernist canon. Her many publications and curatorial practices analyze the ways in which contemporary artists can help re-examine the archive of modernity.
Riley Kucheran, Ojibway fashion researcher, community activist, and 2019 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar. He has served as the first Indigenous Advisor in the Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Ryerson University, taught as a contract lecturer at Lakehead University, and has accepted a position as assistant professor in the School of Fashion at Ryerson University. His research examines clothing and colonization, contemporary Indigenous fashion design, and the role of entrepreneurship in Indigenous cultural and economic resurgence.
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Social and Cultural Events
Thursday, October 17
Reception and MSA Book Prize 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Churchill Ballroom
Emerging Scholars Pub Night 8:30 PM – 11:00 PM Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas Street East
We welcome all graduate student delegates to join us at a favourite local student pub for a night of networking over live music and drinks.
Friday, October 18
Art Museum at the University of Toronto Tours Tour 1: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Tour 2: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle
A 45 to 60-minute tour of one of the largest gallery spaces for visual art exhibitions in Toronto. Exhibitions include Qaggiq: Gathering Place and God of Gods: A Canadian Play.
Ryerson Image Centre Tour 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Ryerson Image Centre, 33 Gould Street
A 40 to 50-minute tour of Ryerson’s renowned gallery space for artistic expression, cultural critique, and social engagement. Exhibits include Lucy Lu: Da Pi Yuan and The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture.
Searching for Winnetou: Screening and Q&A 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM SLC Amphitheatre, 341 Yonge Street
Searching for Winnetou by Drew Hayden Taylor uses humour and satire to investigate the cultural appropriation of Indigenous heritage. Q&A involves Janine Willie, who was part of the making of the documentary. Refreshments provided.
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Saturday, October 19
Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism Book Launch 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM MLC Gallery, 111 Gerrard Street East
More details to come.
Poetry of Upheaval 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas Street East
Local and Ontario-based literary talents perform live readings of their cutting-edge, contemporary poetry at a landmark hub of Toronto’s historic poetry scene. Readings from Stephen Cain, Liz Howard, Canisia Lubrin, and Jay MillAr. Organized by Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo with support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the League of Canadian Poets.
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Land Acknowledgement
Toronto is in the “Dish With One Spoon Territory.” The Dish With One Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect.
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Note on Accessibility
MSA Toronto 2019 is committed to ensuring that all registrants will be able to participate in conference events. We ask that all conference attendees give thought to questions of access and work with the conference organizers to create an event that is welcoming to the entire community of participants. MSA Toronto is pleased to provide individual accommodations including, but not limited to, American Sign Language (ASL) translation, paper copies of session presentations, and large type documents upon request. More information on making accessible presentations is provided in the MSA Accessible Presentation Guide and on the MSA Toronto 2019 website.
The management and staff of the Chelsea are committed to ensuring the accessibility of all attendees of MSA Toronto 2019. The Chelsea Hotel Toronto offers a variety of assistive services for guests, including childcare. More information can be found on their Accessibility page, or by contacting the Chelsea Hotel directly.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to our Local Organizing Committee with any questions or concerns during the conference.
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Thursday, October 17 and mid-career scholars may find it difficult to create a sustainable group. This workshop will help
participants articulate their writing group needs and Registration | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM identify a format to meet those needs. Before the Churchill Court workshop, participants will complete an intake form Executive Board Meeting | 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM and read a short article by Helen Sword on best Gerrard Room practices. During the workshop, presenters will Book Exhibition | 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM discuss personal writing group challenges and Mountbatten Lane successes, along with advantages and disadvantages of particular formats. Participants Pre-Conference Workshops | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM will then break into groups (based on intake forms) to outline attainable goals, discuss the next piece W1. they want to revise, and, ideally, exchange contact Transformative Collaboration information to create groups post-MSA. Seymour Room W3. Leaders: First Book Publishing Laurel Harris (Rider University) Rossetti B/C Room Lauren Rosenblum (Adelphi University) Leaders: This workshop will discuss strategies for Philip Leventhal (Columbia University Press) collaborative scholarship. We will begin by facilitating a discussion on collaboration and its This workshop will bring together commissioning potential to reconstruct academia as a more editors and series editors from leading university inclusive, equitable, and productive space. Most of presses to address a range of practical, intellectual the workshop time will then be spent writing with a and professional issues involved in conceiving, partner in response to prompts or on existing writing, and proposing a monograph in modernist projects. Collaborators can attend together, or the studies and related fields. organizers can pair collaborators before the workshop. We will conclude with a reflection of the W4. process, next steps, and ideas on how to overcome Graduate Student Life obstacles. We welcome participants working in any Scott A/B Room media (digital or otherwise) on projects in any phase of development. Leaders: Patty Argyrides (Queen’s University) W2. Michelle Rada (Brown University) Creating Sustainable Writing Groups Carlyle Room Academia is more than just individual scholarship: it is knowing how to communicate, collaborate, and Leaders: build relationships with peers and professors, which Claire Buck (Wheaton College Massachusetts) can be intimating for emerging scholars. This Elizabeth Foley O’Connor (Washington College) workshop aims to provide techniques for graduate Ravenel Richardson (Case Western Reserve students seeking to improve their networking skills University) in academic settings, and offer guidance on striking Aimee Wilson (University of Kansas) a balance between independent research, collaborative projects, and student social life. Writing groups can be a key to professional productivity. While graduate programs often facilitate them, adjunct faculty, independent scholars, faculty at teaching-centered institutions,
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Thursday Sessions | 12:45 PM – 2:45 PM S3. Indigenous, African, and Asian (Diasporic) Cultural Seminars Production 1900-1950: New Frameworks, New S1. Archives, New Histories Late Surrealism Wren A Room James Room Leaders: Leaders: Nadine Attewell (McMaster University) Christopher Bush (Northwestern University) Alice Te Punga Somerville (University of Waikato) Sarah Ann Wells (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Invited Participant: Enrolled: Andrew Leong Jessica Passos Enrolled: Jesus Costantino Alana Sayers Keith Johnson Kirby Brown George Phillips Jonathan Radocay Christopher Carlton Kelly Whitehead Sarah Brophy Jap-Nanak Makkar Tavid Mulder Adam Spry Christine Coffman Natalia Cecire Joshua Cohen S2. Transnational Feminist Networks and “The Idea of S4. Europe” Listening to the Modernist Audio Archive Turner Room Wren B Room
Leaders: Leaders: Catherine Clay (Nottingham Trent University) Jamie Christopher Callison (Nord University) Invited Participant: Lisa Hollenbach (Oklahoma State University) Maria DiCenzo Invited Participant: Enrolled: Peter Howarth Sophie Lewis Enrolled: Mark Quigley Patrick Milian Lise Sanders Katherine McLeod Louise Kane Gavin Williams Victoria Bazin Karis Shearer Zuzana Rihova Julie Cyzewski Jaime Harker Janet Neigh Emily Robins Sharpe Eric Schmaltz Laura Hartmann-Villalta Mat Fournier
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S5. P2. Relational Aesthetics Critical Aesthetic Emotions: Making Histories of Whistler Room Feeling Stevenson Room Leaders: Brad Evans (Rutgers University) Organizer: Enrolled: Rivky Mondal (University of Chicago) JiHae Koo Chair: Kate Stanley Harris Feinsod (Northwestern University) Geneva Gano Panelists: Julie Napolin Rivky Mondal (University of Chicago) “’We’re here on borrowed time’: Reparative History S6. in J.L. Carr’s A Month in the Country” Modernism’s Antifa Zachary Hope (University of Chicago) Chesterton Room “Salvaging History, Reading Lives: What to Do with Books in Wartime?” Leaders: Claire Seiler (Dickinson College) Alyson Brickey (University of Winnipeg) “Feeling Historical at Mid-century” Daniel Aureliano Newman (University of Toronto) Emily Hyde (Rowan University) Enrolled: “Other Leopards, Other Art Histories” David Young Brian Eberle P3. Alexander Steele Transnational Modernism Seokyeong Choi Claire Battershill Chair: Leif Sorensen (Colorado State University) Thursday Sessions | 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM Panelists: Johanna M. Wagner (Østfold University College) Panels “Exhaling Modernisms: Elizabeth Smart, Djuna P1. Barnes, Jean Rhys, Nella Larsen, and the Sublimity Modernism and Archaeology: Textual Excavation of Despair” Seymour Room Kathryn Franklin (York University) “Glamour in the Good: Phyllis Brett Young and the Organizer: Making of The Torontonians” Leanne Darnbrough (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Laura Cameron (Ryerson University) Chair: “’I Wish I Could Deluge Canada With You!’: Louise Luca Somigli (University of Toronto) Morey Bowman, Amy Lowell, and Modernism’s Panelists: Alternative Route to Canada” Leanne Darnbrough (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) Arthur Rose (University of Bristol) “Hieroglyphic ‘Handschrift’: A Revisitation of Else “Asbestos: A Canadian Modernist Object” Lasker-Schüler’s 1910 Essay” Chiara Zampieri (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) “Towards a Narrative Archaeology: Malaparte’s Tuscan Identity Quest” Maurizio Harari (Università di Pavia) “Giorgio de Chirico, Le printemps de l’ingénieur”
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P4. Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College) Sophistication and Discipline “Disruption, Ambition, and Barbara Stanwyck’s Rossetti B/C Room Modern Women in ‘Baby Face’ (1933) and ‘Crime of Passion’ (1957)” Organizer: Will Scheibel (Syracuse University) Krista Daniel (University of Washington) “Requiem for Laura Palmer: Modernism, Chair: Melodrama, and Acting in ‘Twin Peaks’” Celia Marshik (Stony Brook University) Panelists: P7. Krista Daniel (University of Washington) Cataclysmic Poetics: Language and Catastrophe in “Domestic Sophistication in E.M. Delafield’s Diary of Avant-Garde Writing a Provincial Lady” Wren C Room Faye Hammill (University of Glasgow) “Shipboard Sophistication” Organizer: Elizabeth Sheehan (Oregon State University) Simon Rogghe (University of California, Berkeley) “Radical Glamour: Fashion Magazines, Modernist Chair: Sophistication, and Social Movement in the late Sarah Cole (Columbia University) 1960s” Panelists: Simon Rogghe (University of California, Berkeley) P5. “From Surface to Abyss: The Poetic Spectacle of Reading to Transgress War in Apollinaire’s Calligrammes” Scott A/B Room Austin Hancock (Princeton University) “Blaise Cendrar’s Boxe Manchote: Rethinking Poetic Organizer: Aggression in the Wake of the War” Eve Sorum (University of Massachusetts Boston) Hervé Picherit (University of Texas at Austin) Chair: “The Purloined Letter: Georges Perec’s Benjamin Hagen (University of South Dakota) ‘Catastrophic’ Employment of Form in La Panelists: disparition” Eve Sorum (University of Massachusetts Boston) “The ‘far side of language’: Resisting Mastery in Roundtables Woolf” R1. Jennifer Sorensen (Texas A&M University Corpus Observing Upheaval: Modernism and Surveillance Christi) Austen Room “Packaging Modernism: Or Playing to ‘Prurient’ Desires for ‘Lady’ Authors” Organizer: Joseph Rosenberg (University of Notre Dame) Stephanie Brown (University of Arizona) “Cyril Connolly’s Failed Reading” Chair: Alexandra Peat (Franklin University Switzerland) P6. Panelists: “She’s a Femme Fatale”: Women and Upheaval on Stephanie Brown (University of Arizona) the Screen Nissa Cannon (Boston University) Rossetti A Room Emily Hainze (Boston University) Nick Hubble (Brunel University London) Organizer: Mark D. Kaufman (United States Air Force Academy) Will Scheibel (Syracuse University) Michael Shea (University of Pennsylvania) Chair: Claire Buck (Wheaton College Massachusetts) Panelists: Katherine Fusco (University of Nevada, Reno) “Harlow’s Unhappiness”
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R2. S8. Modernism and Ecology 1: the Plantationocene Modernism and the Minor Duchesse Room Turner Room
Organizer: Leaders: Amy Clukey (University of Louisville) Laura Fisher (Ryerson University) Chair: Shirley Lau Wong (Westfield State University) Anne Raine (University of Ottawa) Jennifer Spitzer (Ithaca College) Panelists: Auditor: Rachel M. Carr (University of Kentucky) Patrick Deer (New York University) Amy Clukey (University of Louisville) Invited Participants: James A. Crank (University of Alabama) Paul Saint-Amour Shannon Finck (University of West Georgia) Aarthi Vadde Isadora Wagner (United States Military Academy Enrolled: West Point) Elizabeth Gregory Benjamin Wilson (University of Kentucky) Judith Paltin Dusan Radunovic Thursday Sessions | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Philip Tsang Michelle Taylor Seminars Scott Challener S7. Yiwen Tao The First Whiteness Seminar in Modernist Studies Victoria Papa James Room Alison Harvey Sarah McDaniel Leaders: Iida Pollanen Jennifer Nesbitt (Pennsylvania State University) Kelly Roberts Sonita Sarker (Macalester College) Enrolled: S9. Elizabeth Sheehan Feminisms, Modernisms, Religions Cyraina Johnson-Roullier Wren A Room Sean McPhail Nanette Norris Leaders: William Conable Sarah Elizabeth Anderson (University of Aberdeen) Laura Winkiel Mimi Winick (Virginia Commonwealth University) Kelly Walsh Jenny Hyest (University of Cincinnati) Stephanie Brown Invited Participants: Adam McKible Gregory Erickson Jane Goldman Suzanne Hobson Enrolled: Charles Andrews Lindsey Pelucacci Krista Daniel Susan Friedman Austin Hancock Gabrielle McIntire Jennifer Mitchell
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S10. S13. Digital Modernist Studies Now: Methods and Re-Examining the Modernist Lyric Self Contributions Galworthy Room Wren B Room Leaders: Leaders: Timothy DeJong (Baylor University) Gabriel Hankins (Clemson University) Enrolled: Adam Hammond (University of Toronto) Christopher Giannakopoulos Invited Participant: Jeremy Stevens Shawna Ross Mark Silverberg Enrolled: Paul Franz Joel Hawkes Joon-Soo Bong Sean Weidman Chiara Zampieri Katherine Elkins John Wrighton Thomas Berenato Kamran Javadizadeh Illya Nokhrin Donna Campbell Thursday Sessions | 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM Yonina Hoffman Panels S11. Edible Modernism P8. Whistler Room Modernist Future Anteriors Seymour Room Leaders: Tram Nguyen (Hostos Community College, CUNY) Organizer: Invited Participant: Marie-Christine Leps (York University) Cat Keyser Chair: Enrolled: Cliff Mak (Queens College, CUNY) Madeline McCluskey Panelists: Benjamin Taylor Marie-Christine Leps & Lesley Higgins (York Vicki Tromanhauser University) Victoria Zurita “Woolf’s Proleptic Anti-War Feminism” Roger Porter Allan Hepburn (McGill University) “A History of the Future: Extinction and the State in S12. The Inheritors” Commemoration and Trends in Modernist Studies Suzanne Zelazo (Ryerson University) Chesterton Room “Future as the Fourth Dimension: Mina Loy’s Crystal Pantomime” Leaders: Tara Thomson (Edinburgh Napier University) Andrew Frayn (Edinburgh Napier University) Enrolled: Claire Buck John McIntyre Santanu Das
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P9. P11. Black Modernism and Transforming the Past Modernist Grace Stevenson Room Rossetti B/C Room
Organizer: Organizer: Annette Debo (Western Carolina University) Johanna Winant (West Virginia University) Chair: Chair: Linda Kinnahan (Duquesne University) Joshua Kotin (Princeton University) Panelists: Panelists: Annette Debo (Western Carolina University) Joanna Winant (West Virginia University) “Black Modernism and the Historical Impulse: “To Explain Grace” Michael S. Harper’s Revisionary Poetics” Walt Hunter (Clemson University) Tyrone Williams (Xavier University) “’The air is populous beyond our vision’: Gravity and “White Money: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Grace in Muriel Rukeyser’s Theory of Flight” Man and Sarah Phillips” John Lurz (Tufts University) Jean-Philippe Marcoux (Université Laval) “Modernism’s Grace: Roland Barthes, Criticism, and “Umbra’s Urban Historiographies: A Modernist the Grace of Language” Reconstruction in Blues Verse” Dora Zhang (University of California, Berkeley) “Little Airs” P10. The Ambivalent Goods of Decadent Modernism P12. Carlyle Room “Generic Hybridity in Context: A Transformative Model” (Société d’études modernists, France) Organizer: Scott A/B Room Tim Clarke (Independent Scholar) Chair: Organizer: Zachary Hope (University of Chicago) Fiona McMahon (Université de Bourgogne) Panelists: Chair: Cristina Ionica (Fanshawe College) Christopher Bush (Northwestern University) “The Joys of Waiting for Godot: Beckett’s Panelists: Transgressive Enactment of Socio-Economic Fiona McMahon (Université de Bourgogne) Normativity” “Derek Beaulieu and the Ongoing Emergence of the Tim Clarke (Independent Scholar) Modernist Trouvaille” “Grey Flowers: Decadence and Impotence in John Helene Aji (Université Paris Nanterre) Fante’s Ask the Dust” “Jerome Rothenberg’s Gematrias: the hybrid poems Robert Stilling (Florida State University) of irreversibility” “Decadence, Islamic Fundamentalism, and the Eric Schmaltz (University of Pennsylvania) Politics of Cultural Translation” “The Itinerant Dada Sound Poem: The Ursonate in North America”
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P13. Roundtables Unfinished Modernism R3. Rossetti A Room New Directions in Canadian Modernism Gerrard Room Organizer: Name and affiliation to come Organizer: Graham Jensen (University of Victoria) Chair: Chair: Cara Lewis (Indiana University Northwest) Gregory Betts (University College Dublin) Panelists: Panelists: Rowena Kennedy-Epstein (University of Bristol) Graham Jensen (University of Victoria) “Wasted Traditions: Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘Unfinished Billy Johnson (University of Toronto) Modernisms’” Linda Morra (Bishop’s University) Anna Snaith (King’s College London) Deanna Reder (Simon Fraser University) “Radio Silence: Jean Rhys’s ‘Unfinished Sonic Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia) Modernsim’” Jeffrey Weingarten (Fanshawe College) Vike Martina Plock (University of Exeter) “Klaus Mann’s Decision: The Unfinished Story of a R4. Modernist Magazine” Modernism and Ecology 2: Eco-Catastrophe Duchesse Room P14. Cultures Across Peripheries: Transcolonial Organizer: Modernism and Canada Anne Raine (University of Ottawa) Wren C Room Chair: Amy Clukey (University of Louisville) Organizer: Respondent: Gregory Betts (Brock University) Rebecca Walsh (North Carolina State University) Chair: Panelists: Smaro Kamboureli (University of Toronto) Molly Hall (Rhode Island School of Design) Panelists: Jon Hegglund (Washington State University) Gregory Betts (Brock University) George Phillips (Franklin College) “Guarding Against Contact: Canadian Case Studies Anne Raine (University of Ottawa) in Transcolonial Modernisms” Glenn Willmott (Queen’s University) Karina Vernon (University of Toronto) “Black Archives and the Challenge to Canadian Reception and MSA Book Prize | Modernism” 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Sarah Dowling (University of Toronto) Churchill Ballroom “Trans-Indigenous Comparison and the Problem of Emerging Scholars Pub Night | Modernism” 8:30 PM – 11:00 PM Julia Polyck-O’Neill (Brock University) Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas Street East “Unsettling Vancouver’s ‘Schools’: Transcolonial
Modernisms in Contemporary Interdisciplinary, Experimental Aesthetic Spaces in Canada/Vancouver”
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Friday, October 18 S16. Modernism, Imperialism, ism
Galworthy Room Registration | 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Churchill Court Leaders: Breakfast | 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM Sarah Fedirka (University of Findlay) Mountbatten Room Zulfqar Awan (University College of the North) Book Exhibition | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Invited Participant: Mountbatten Lane Rebecca Walsh Enrolled: Friday Sessions | 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Jarica Watts Silvia Guslandi Seminars Matthew Brown S14. Modernist Performances: Creation and Friday Sessions | 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Collaboration Whistler Room Panels P15. Leaders: Modernist Afterlives and the Politics of Literary Rebecca Cameron (DePaul University) Transmission Nicole Flynn (South Dakota State University) Seymour Room Enrolled: Sarah Gutsche-Miller Organizer: Alison Cummins Alec Pollak (Cornell University) Emily Murphy Chair: Cameron Moneo Laura Heffernan (University of North Florida) Allegra Fryxell Panelists: Sarah Terry Alec Pollak (Cornell University) Rebecca Kastleman “Lupines vs. Woolfians: The Virginia Woolf Estate Tram Nguyen and the Making of a Literary Legacy” Melanie Micir (Washington University in St. Louis) S15. “Queer Disinheritance and the History of Conservative Modernisms Modernism” Chesterton Room Carla Kaplan (Northeastern University) “Archiving the Renaissance/Recoding Harlem” Leaders: Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan) Justin Pfefferle (Bishop’s University) Enrolled: Michael Horacki Robin Anderson Meg Albrinck Alyssa Mackenzie Jayme Stayer Miles Osgood Kristin Bluemel Nathan Murray Timothy Sutton Christos Hadjiyannis Andrea Zemgulys
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P16. P19. Modernist Meat: Soldiers, Women, Fetuses, and Modernism and Critique Other Consumable Bodies Scott A/B Room Stevenson Room Organizer: Organizer: Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Freiburg) Julie Vandivere (Bloomsburg University) Chair: Chair: Suzanne Hobson (Queen Mary University of Benjamin Hagen (University of South Dakota) London) Panelists: Panelists: Carrie Rohman (Lafayette College) Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Freiburg) “Rebecca West’s Severed Tongue: Women’s “Speculative States: Britain’s Long Hegelian Silence/Women’s Voices on the Table” Moment, 1880-1920” Vicki Tromanhauser (New Paltz, SUNY) Laura Heffernan (University of North Florida) “Meathead: Surgical Stories in Borden and La Motte” “Critique in the Classroom before 1930” Julie Vandivere (Bloomsburg University) Robert Lehman (Boston College) “Bastard as Offal” “Late Modernism, Kantian Formalism, and Methodological Behaviorism” P17. Reconstructing Modern Theatre P20. Carlyle Room Cold War Upheavals and Aesthetic/Political Reconstructions in Modernist Writing Organizer: James Room Brad Kent (Université Laval) Chair: Organizer: Patricia Juliana Smith (Hofstra University) Cassandra Laity (The University of Tennessee, Panelists: Knoxville) Brad Kent (Université Laval) Chair: “Reconstructing Expressionist Theatre” Annalisa Zox-Weaver (Claremont Graduate Lawrence Switzky (University of Toronto) University) “Reconstructing the History of Artificial Intelligence: Panelists: Pygmalion in the Information Age” Cassandra Laity (The University of Tennessee, David Kornhaber (University of Texas at Austin) Knoxville) “Reconstructing Tragedy in the Modern Era” “Elizabeth Bishop’s Anti-Cold War Poetics and H.D.’s Sea Garden: Queen Global Ecologies” P18. Mary Helen Washington (University of Maryland) Rural Modernism and the U.S. South “Paule Marshall’s ‘Reena’: Black, Left, and Queer” Rossetti B/C Room Sarah Daw (University of Bristol) “Ecology, Physics, and ‘Process’ Philosophy: Muriel Organizer: Rukeyser’s Cold War (Eco) Poetics” David A. Davis (Mercer University) Chair: Mark Whalan (University of Oregon) Panelists: David A. Davis (Mercer University) “Proletarian Sharecropper Novels” Jay Watson (University of Mississippi) “Rus in Urbe: William Faulkner’s Rural Modernizers” Alix Beeston (Cardiff University) “Walker Evan’s Icons of Depression”
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P21. P23. Animate Spaces: Domesticity and Dwelling in Between Longing and Threat: Forms of Modernist Marginal Modernisms Closeness Rossetti A Room Wren A Room
Organizer: Organizer: Lisa Walker (University of Southern Maine) Siân White (James Madison University) Chair: Chair: Elizabeth Gregory (University of Houston) Cristina Ionica (Fanshawe College) Panelists: Panelists: Lisa Walker (University of Southern Maine) Siân White (James Madison University) “Elsie de Wolfe’s Queen Animacies: Marie “Narrative and Affective Strangeness in Elizabeth Antoinette and the Modernist Sapphic Interior” Bowen’s The Heat of the Day” Jeremy Colangelo (Western University) Amanda Di Ponio (Huron at Western) “Involuntary Inwardness: Tactical Dwelling and the “Self-Effacement, Confinement, and Violence: Room in Tender Buttons” Intimacy as a Normative Force in Apollinaire, Sarah Elizabeth Anderson (University of Aberdeen) Artaud, Barnes, and Eliot” “’It was small, but wonders could be wrought here’: Jenna Marco (Independent Scholar) domesticity in Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha” “Ritualized Intimacy: Séances, Modernity, and The Waves” P22. Nina White (Teesside University) Citation Between the Wars: Modernism and Title to come Intertextuality Turner Room P24. “Legacies” of Modernism Organizer: Wren B Room Ronan Crowley (University of Antwerp) Chair: Joshua Kotin (Princeton University) Organizer: Panelists: Jap-Nanak K. Makkar (Wilkes University) Ronan Crowley (University of Antwerp) Chair: “Rootstalk and Tree Branch: Reconstructing Timothy Wientzen (Skidmore College) Modernist Citation” Panelists: Dipanjan Maitra (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Magdalena Kay (University of Victoria) “’Really the composition of this war…’: Gertrude “Modernism as Weakness” Stein and Press-Cutting Bureau Networks during the Daniel Ryan Morse (University of Nevada, Reno) Great War” “Intermedial Negotiations of Influence: Sam Selvon Robert Baines (University of Evansville) and James Joyce” “’A handcaughtscheaf of synthetic shammyraf’: Stephanie Bernhard (Salisbury University) Balkelly, Paddrock, and the Synthesis of Finnegans “Is the ‘Globe’ of Global Modernism the ‘Anthro’ of Wake” Anthropocene?” Michaela Bronstein (Stanford University) “Continuity With and Without Modernism”
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P25. R6. Upheaval and Varieties of Modern(ist) Memory Working with the Feminist Archive: Teaching, Wren C Room Research, Curation Austen Room Organizer: Thomas Berenato (University of Virginia) Organizer: Sarah Coogan (University of Notre Dame) Barbara Green (University of Notre Dame) Chair: Chair: Vincent Sherry (Washington University in St. Louis) Barbara Green (University of Notre Dame) Panelists: Participants: Paul Robichaud (Albertus Magnus College) Victoria Bazin (Northumbria University) “Sylvia Townsend Warner, the Great War, and the Catherine Clay (Nottingham Trent University) Poetics of Memorialization” Maria DiCenzo (Wilfrid Laurier University) Thomas Berenato (University of Virginia) Fiona Hackney (University of Wolverhampton) “Incanting the Contemporary: David Jones and Melanie Waters (Northumbria University) Charles Williams on the Forgiveness of Sins” Sarah Coogan (University of Notre Dame) R7. “Uncertain Elegy: Spiritual Transcendence and the Trans* Modernisms Buried Past in the late Modernism of Lynette Duchesse Room Roberts” Organizer: Roundtables Chris Coffman (University of Alaska Fairbanks) R5. Chair: Sexual Knowledge, Queer Circulations Chris Coffman (University of Alaska Fairbanks) Austen Room Participants: Jessica Berman (University of Maryland, Baltimore Organizer: County) Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University) Pamela L. Caughie (Loyola University Chicago) Chair: Mat Fournier (Ithaca College) Gayle Rogers (University of Pittsburgh) Emma Heaney (William Paterson University) Panelists: Grace Lavery (University of California, Berkeley) Melissa Adler (Western University) Aaron Stone (University of Michigan) Guy Davidson (University of Wollongong) Jaime Harker (University of Mississippi) Natasha Hurley (University of Alberta) Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University)
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Digital Exhibits | 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM P27. Mountbatten Lane Queer Wars, Queer Words: Modernism’s Sexual Upheavals DE1. Stevenson Room Title to come Organizer: Participants: Natasha Chenier (McGill University) Names and affiliations to come Chair: Sarah McDaniel (University of Chicago) DE2. Panelists: Title to come Celia Marshik (Stony Brook University) “The Queer Art of War: Enemy Erotics in Kipling and Participants: Hanley” Names and affiliations to come Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston (University of Oxford) “Modernist Trouble: Reconstructing Gender and Sexuality in Oxford’s Phi Collection” DE3. Natasha R. Chenier (McGill University) Title to come “What We Talk About When We Talk About Radclyffe Hall” Participants: Names and affiliations to come P28. Mediation, the Urban, and Cultural Memory Friday Sessions | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Carlyle Room
Panels Organizer: P26. JiHae Koo (Indiana University Bloomington) Reworking Settlerism/Mediating Indigeneity Chair: Seymour Room Laura A. Hartmann-Villalta (Georgetown University) Panelists: Organizer: JiHae Koo (Indiana University Bloomington) Chair: “Mrs. Dalloway, Halftone Printing, and the Fragility Alana Sayers (University of Victoria) of Tradition” Panelists: Patrick Milian (University of Washington) Aaren Pastor (Pennsylvania State University) “’Songs Soak the Walls: Amplification and the “North, South, East, West: Rereading the Winds of Soundscapes of Jean Toomer’s Cane” Māori influences in the Topographies of Katherine Alex Fabrizio (Columbia University) Mansfield’s New Zealand Stories” “Salkey’s ‘Sparks’ and Lamming’s ‘Roots’: Map- Kevin McGuirk (University of Waterloo) Making and Urban London in BBC Radio’s Caribbean “’He could not find his voice’: sound, ethos, and Programs” ‘The Age of Innocence’” Erin J. Kappeler (Missouri State University) “Modernism’s Settler Poetics” Alex Streim (Johns Hopkins University) “Structures of Settlerism and the Modernist Novel: Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House”
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P29. P31. Strong Character, Weak Theory How Red is Modernism? Rossetti B/C Room James Room
Organizer: Organizer: Lisa Mendelman (Menlo College) Matthew Gannon (Boston College) Chair: Tavid Mulder (Brown University) Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University) Chair: Panelists: Julie Cyzewski (Murray State University) Lisa Mendelman (Menlo College) Panelists: “Modernism’s Straw Men: Sentiment and the Matthew Gannon (Boston College) Modern Woman” “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Supersensual and Paul Jaussen (Lawrence Technological University) Suprasensible Fetishization” “On Weak Practice; or, Transcription in Public” Robert Birdwell (Tulane University) Catherine Keyser (University of South Carolina) “The Color of Modernism, the Color of “Sucking Lemons and Queering Race: Character Communism” Types and Citrus Crates” Tavid Mulder (Brown University) “(Aesthetic) Form Follows (Capitalist) Function?” P30. Modernism, Pedagogy, and Structures of P32. Relationality Mutually Underpinned: Reconsidering Modernism Scott A/B Room and Communism in Shanghai Rossetti A Room Organizer: Benjamin Hagen (University of South Dakota) Organizer: Heather Love (University of Waterloo) Karolina Pawlik (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Chair: Chair: Laura Helton (Pennsylvania State University) Dušan Radunović (Durham University) Panelists: Panelists: Benjamin Hagen (University of South Dakota) Karolina Pawlik (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) “Exploring Pedagogical Problems in D.H. Lawrence’s “Persistent Modernism: Visual Continuity and The White Peacock” Ideological Splits in Shanghai” Todd Nordgren (Northwestern University) Lena Scheen (NYU Shanghai) “Sex Education: Queer Development in Colette’s “Shanghai’s Cultural Heritage Plans: Reviving Claudine à l’école and E.M. Forester’s Maurice” Shanghai-Style Modernism and Red Culture” Heather Love (University of Waterloo) Aleksander Sedzielarz (University of Minnesota) “Intimacy from Incompleteness: Partial Perception “Cultural Reciprocity, Political Polarity: Soviet and in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves” Japanese Communism in Shanghai’s Leftist Cultural Jess Waggoner (University of Houston) Front 1927-1932” “Modernism, Gender, and Race in Mad Literatures”
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P33. P35. Modernism by Committee Reconstructing Gender and Race in Popular Turner Room Modernism Wren B Room Organizer: Matthew Taunton (University of East Anglia) Organizer: Chair: Paul Peppis (University of Oregon) Aimee Wilson (University of Kansas) Chair: Panelists: Paul Peppis (University of Oregon) Matthew Taunton (University of East Anglia) Panelists: “T.S. Eliot and the Archbishops’ Commission to A. Layne Craig (Texas Christian University) Revise the Psalter, 1958-63” “’Excellent Vaudeville’: The ‘Alternative Clara Jones (King’s College London) Modernisms’ of Women’s Pacifist Theatre in World “The Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse Committee, 1919- War I” 1940” Claire E. Barwise (University of Washington) Suzanne Hobson (Queen Mary University of “Gentlemen Prefer Lowbrows: Anita Loos and the London) Gender Politics of the ‘Battle of the Brows’” “H.G. Wells, the Rationalist Peace Committee and, Will Conable (University of Oregon) The Rhetoric of Reconstruction” “Louis Armstrong’s Jazz Model and a Grammar of Propagation” P34. Upheaval in Domestic Spaces: Reconfiguring the P36. Home/front in World War II Coterie and Institutions Wren A Room Wren C Room
Organizer: Organizer: Ravenel Richardson (Case Western Reserve Scott Challener (Rutgers University) University) Chair: Chair: Suzanne Churchill (Davidson College) Allan Hepburn (McGill University) Panelists: Panelists: Joshua Kotin (Princeton University) Ravenel Richardson (Case Western Reserve “Shakespeare and Company: Coterie/Institution” University) Michelle Taylor (Harvard University) “’What’s the Point in Picking Flowers?’: Affect and “Virginia Woolf’s Coterie Forms” Landscape in Frances Partridge’s A Pacifist’s War” Scott Challener (Rutgers University) Melissa Dinsman (York College, CUNY) “Coterie Publics and the New York School” Title to come Megan Lynn Faragher (Wright State University) “Observing Wartime Women: The Gender of Sociology in the Work of Celia Fremin”
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P37. Matthew N. Hannah (Purdue University) Sonic Immaterialities: Interiority, Spectrality, and Erin E. Templeton (Converse College) Afterwardness Whistler Room What Are You Reading? Gerrard Room Organizer: Sarah Gleeson-White (University of Sydney) Moderator: Chair: Kristin Bluemel (Monmouth University) Debra Rae Cohen (University of South Carolina) Panelists: Panelists: Joel Duncan – Solveig Daugaard, Collaborating with Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton University) Gertrude Stein: Media ecologies, reception, poetics “What Does Black Interiority Sound Like?” Judith Paltin – Judith Butler, Notes Towards a Sarah Gleeson-White (University of Sydney) Performative Theory of Assembly “Spectral Soundings: Faulkner’s Sartoris Narratives, Jap-Nanak Makkar – James Purdon, Modernism 1929-1973” Informatics: Literature, Information, and the State Julie Napolin (The New School) Lauren Rosenblum – Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary “The Echo of the Object, or Fanon’s Modernist Affects Acoustics” Christopher Giannakopoulos– Jan Zwicky, The Experience of Meaning Roundtables Julie Vandivere – Penelope Deutscher, Foucault’s R8. Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason Upheaval and Reconstruction and the Geneva Gano – Bertrand Westphal, Geocriticism: Ethnofuturist Archives Real and Fictional Spaces Austen Room Caroline Krzakowski – Marina MacKay, Ian Watt: The Novel and the Wartime Critic Organizer: Ian Whittington – Shawn VanCour, Making Radio: Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University) Early Radio Production and the Rise of Modern Chair: Sound Culture Amanda Golden (New York Institute of Technology) Elizabeth Gregory – Brian Glavey, The Wallflower Participants: Avant-Garde: Modernism, Sexuality, and Queer Nasia Anam (University of Nevada, Reno) Ekphrasis David Bering-Porter (The New School) Alexander McKee – Max Saunders, Self Impression: Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University) Life-Writing, Autobiografiction, and the Forms of John Ribó (Florida State University) Modern Literature Merinda Simmons (University of Alabama) Charles M. Tung (Seattle University) Lunch | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Mountbatten Room R9. Lo-Fi Modernisms Keynote Speaker | 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Duchesse Room Richard Cavell, “Truly Modern: Modernism and Remediation” Organizer: Churchill Ballroom Shawna Ross (Texas A&M University) Chair: Book Signing and Refreshments | 2:30 PM – Shawna Ross (Texas A&M University) 3:30 PM Participants: Churchill Court Sophia Martinez Abbud (Rice University) Donna Campbell (Washington State University) Amy E. Elkins (Macalester College) James Gifford (Fairleigh Dickinson University)
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Friday Sessions | 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM S19. Is Modernism Relatable? Seminars Galworthy Room S17. Material Modernisms: Making and Remaking Leaders: Things Glenn Willmott (Queen’s University) Whistler Room Lauren Benjamin (University of Michigan) Invited Participant: Leaders: Brian Glavey Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University) Enrolled: Faye Hammill (University of Glasgow) Kevin Tunnicliffe Celia Marshik (Stony Brook University) Riley Wilson Invited Participant: Kelly Svoboda Myriam Couturier Kelley Wagers Enrolled: Dora Zhang David Earle Doug Battersby Joel Duncan Katherine Fusco Sanja Bahun Danielle Gilman Melissa Bradshaw Jacqueline Shin Arthur Rose Benjamin Hagen Nissa Cannon Ella Ophir Molly Hall Zachary Hope Friday Sessions | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Ann Martin Ronan Crowley Panels Jane Garrity P38. Katelyn Hartke The Work of Life in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction S18. Seymour Room Modernist Paratexts Chesterton Room Organizer: Julia Bloch (University of Pennsylvania) Leaders: Natalia Cecire (University of Sussex) Sarah Copland (MacEwan University) Chair: Illya Nokhrin (University of Toronto) Jane Malcolm (Université de Montréal) Enrolled: Panelists: Amy Feinstein Julia Bloch (University of Pennsylvania) Claire Barwise “Counting the Empty Womb: Property and Race in Erin Yanota the Work of Mina Loy and Monica Youn” Robert Brazeau Natalia Cecire (University of Sussex) Ruth Clemens “Embryonic Open Secrets at Bryn Mawr College” Robert Hurd Sophie Lewis (Independent Scholar) Talia Regan “Reproductive Anti-Production in the Poetics of Cathryn Piwinski Babymaking” Dipanjan Maitra
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P39. P41. Modernism’s Northern Front: Reassessing Dudek, Continental Modernism/Global Modernism Frye, and Kenner Rossetti B/C Room Stevenson Room Organizer: Organizer: John Hoffmann (University of Marburg) John McIntryre (University of Prince Edward Island) Chair: Chair: Jessica Berman (University of Maryland, Baltimore Ella Ophir (University of Saskatchewan) County) Panelists: Panelists: John McIntryre (University of Prince Edward Island) Gayle Rogers (University of Pittsburgh) “Modernism in the Kenner Era” “The Continental Scale” Miranda Brun Hickman (McGill University) María del Pilar Blanco (University of Oxford) “Dudek’s Poundian Modernism” “Continental Youth: Belgium and Spanish-American Michael Davis (Princeton University) Modernism” “Northrop Frye and the Mythopoetics of John Hoffmann (University of Marburg) Modernism” “Berlin, Barcelona, Palestine: Else Lasker-Schüler After Expressionism” P40. Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University) Canadian Modernisms and War “Continental, Global, Comparative, Fugitive: Carlyle Room Breton’s Martinique, charmeuse de serpent and Manning’s School for Love” Chair: Sean McPhail (University of Toronto) P42. Panelists: European Modernism in and through the Nation Anastasiya Lyubas (Modern Literature and Culture Scott A/B Room Research Centre) “Montage as Technique of Narrative Re- Chair: Construction in Elizabeth Smart’s Poetic Prose” Matthew Brown (University of Massachusetts Jane Goldman (University of Glasgow) Boston) “Following Bishop and Bradshaw into Jacob’s Room: Panelists: Canadian and British New Modernist Editorial Silvia Guslandi (University of Chicago) Practices” “F.T. Marinetti and the Construction of a Hybrid Aline Bouwman (University of British Columbia) Nationhood” “The Modern Canadian Ghost in Algernon Marianne Ølholm (University of Copenhagen) Blackwood’s ‘Confession’” “Cross-Aesthetic Practices in and around the Danish Zachary Abram (McGill University) Magazine linien (the line) (1934-1939)” “Pushing Paper: Bertrand Sinclair and the Pulp Zuzana Rihova (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Origins of Canada Anti-War Writing” Republic) “Translation and reception of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in Czech Modernism” Dušan Radunović (Durham University) “Vernacular Modernity and Nativist Avant-Gardes: Georgian Cinema of the 1920s Between Revolutionary Avant-Garde and Earl-Soviet Policy of National Emancipation” Myer Siemiatycki (Ryerson University) “Modernism to Barbarism: Julian Tuwim’s Dangerous Polish-Jewish Poetry, 1919-1954”
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P43. P45. Objects of Inspiration and Upheaval in Modernism New Feminist Modernist Manifestos Woman’s Writing Turner Room James Room Organizer: Organizer: Erica Delsandro (Bucknell University) Hatley Clifford (Indiana Academy) Chair: Chair: Judith Paltin (University of British Columbia) Caroline Krzakowski (Northern Michigan University) Panelists: Panelists: Erica Delsandro (Bucknell University) Ben Rawlins (Baylor University) “Angry Modernism: Reclaiming the Madwoman in “Egyptian Relics and Spiritual Renewal in H.D.’s the Attic” ‘Secret Name’ and The Walls Do Not Fall” Lauren M. Rosenblum (Adelphi University) Hatley Clifford (Indiana Academy) “Dark Modernism: The Benefits of Exclusion” “Women Consuming Women: Consumer Capitalism, Laurel Harris (Rider University) Labor, and the City in Lola Ridge” “Sketchy Modernism: Drafting and Plotting” Allyson DeMaagd (Ball State University) Jennifer Mitchell (Union College) “Disruptive Object: The Invasive Acoustics of “Suffering Modernism: Seductive Literary Pains” Elizabeth Bowen’s Eva Trout” P46. P44. Reconstructing the Black Archive Across the Modernism’s Everyday Intimacies Twentieth Century Rossetti A Room Wren A Room
Organizer: Organizer: Stephanie Boland (University of Exeter) Jean-Christophe Cloutier (University of Chair: Pennsylvania) Polly Hember (Royal Holloway, University of Chair: London) Masami Sugimori (Florida Gulf Coast University) Panelists: Panelists: Stephanie Boland (University of Exeter) Jean-Christophe Cloutier (University of “Women Who Leave: Slyvia Townsend Warner and Pennsylvania) Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s Socialism of Escape” “A Rage of Privacy: Ann Petry and the Ethics of Janine Utell (Widener University) Manuscript Donations” “Intimate Upheavals: Late Modernist Relational Life Laura Helton (University of Delaware) Writing and Forms of Reparative Reading” “Archival Disavowal: Arturo Schomburg and the Greg Chase (College of the Holy Cross) Price of Black History” “’As well as he knew himself, as better’: Marriage Irvin Joseph Hunt (University of Illinois) and Same-Sex Intimacy in Larsen’s Passing” “Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm: An Archive of Dissemblance”
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P47. Panelists: Modernism, Destruction, and Illuminative Kristy Holmes (Lakehead University) Nothingness “Across the Border: Structuralism and Stiches in the Wren B Room Work of Joyce Wieland” Cameron Moneo (York University) Organizer: “Snow’s Global Talk: Language, Audience, and Elysia Balavage (University of North Carolina) Humour in Michael Snow’s Films, 1974-1982” Chair: Ken Eisenstein (Bucknell University) John Allaster (McGill University) “Brakhage’s Chambers: Re-starling the American Panelists: Reception of The Hard of London (1970)” Tim DeJong (Baylor University) “’Outside of here it’s death’: Deferment as Roundtables Aesthetic Strategy in Waiting for Godot and R11. Endgame” “terrible surprises” and “good ones”: Modernist Elysia Balavage (University of North Carolina, Archival Scholarship Greensboro) Austen Room “’The Dark Grow Luminous’: Yeats, Disaster, and the Generative Void” Organizer: Jennifer Gilchrist (Independent Scholar) Laura A. Hartmann-Villalta (Georgetown University) “’A bright glare that vanished and left nothing’: The Chair: Burning House of Modernist Narrative” Laura A. Hartmann-Villalta (Georgetown University) Panelists: P48. Sarah Cornish (University of Northern Colorado) Transhumanist Modernism Elizabeth Foley O’Connor (Washington College) Wren C Room Jennifer Nesbitt (Pennsylvania State University) Sarah Payne (Northeastern University) Organizer: Maren Linett (Purdue University) R12. Chair: Modernism, Information, and the Contemporary Lisa Mendelman (Menlo College) Duchesse Room Panelists: Maren Linett (Purdue University) Organizer: “Making It New, or, Do We Want Humanity 2.0?” Timothy Weintzen (Skidmore College) John Whittier-Ferguson (University of Michigan) Chair: “’Into the Dark’: William Gass, Transhumanism, and Mark Wollaeger (Vanderbilt University) the Problem of History” Participants: Andrew Pilsch (Texas A&M University) Scott Selisker (University of Arizona) “The Totalitarian as Reality-Pilot: Transhumanist Avery Slater (University of Toronto) World Projects in Philip K. Dick’s Three Stigmata of Aarthi Vadde (Duke University) Palmer Eldritch” Searching for Winnetou: Screening and Q&A | P49. 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM Film Bordering On: Wieland, Snow, and Chambers SLC Amphitheatre, 341 Yonge Street Out of Ontario Gerrard Room
Organizer: Ken Eisenstein (Bucknell University) Chair: Jess Schotter (Ohio State University)
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Saturday, October 19 Ian Whittington Michael Coyle
George Fragopoulos Registration | 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM Brandon Truett Churchill Court Erin Templeton Breakfast | 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM Mountbatten Room S22. Book Exhibition | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Queering the Color Line at 20 Mountbatten Lane Galworthy Room
Saturday Sessions | 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Leaders: Jeanne Scheper (University of California, Irvine) Seminars Madelyn Detloff (Miami University) S20. Enrolled: #MeToo Modernism Heidi Siegrist Whistler Room Robin Hackett Benjamin Kahan Leaders: Rose DuCharme Megan Quigley (Villanova University) Todd Nordgren Anne Fernald (Fordham University) Enrolled: Saturday Sessions | 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Aimee Wilson Erica Delsandro Panels Kara Watts P50. Carrie Rohman Modernism in Translation Polly Hember Seymour Room Garry Leonard Jesse Schotter Organizer: Emily James Silvia Guslandi (University of Chicago) Sophie Bowman Chair: Johanna Wagner Silvia Guslandi (University of Chicago Layne Craig Panelists: Cara Lewis Joshua Miller (University of Michigan) Barbara Green “’A race in fragments, almost completely scattered’: Anita Brenner & the Mexican Revolution’s S21. Translational Afterlives” Modernist Show and Tell Katerina Stergiopoulou (Princeton University) Chesterton Room “Tragic Resonances before the Second World War: Eliot, and H.D., and the Translation of the Athenian Leaders: Stage” Alix Beeston (Cardiff University) Paolo Pellecchia (City University of New York) Cliff Mak (Queens College, CUNY) “Walter Benjamin’s ‘The Task of the Translator:’ An Invited Participant: Endeavour on the Brink of Silence and Exile” Mark Goble Enrolled: Patty Argyrides Jane Malcolm Morag Shiach Stephen Pasqualina Jordan Howie
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P51. P53. The Institutions of Irish Modernism Modernism and the Sense of an Ending Stevenson Room Rossetti B/C Room
Organizer: Organizer: Julie Weng (Texas State University) Ian Afflerbach (University of North Georgia) Chair: Chair: Damien Keane (University at Buffalo) Helene Aji (Université Paris Nanterre) Panelists: Panelists: Julie Weng (Texas State University) Amanda Sigler (James Madison University) “Singing the Artist Electric: A Dialectic of Modern “Endings in Trench Poetry” Irish Enlightenment” Timothy Sutton (Samford University) Robert Volpicelli (Randolph-Macon College) “Dying in Absurdity: Modernism, Commodity “Illegitimate Subjects: Wilde and Yeats at the Culture, and Sudden Death” American University” Ian Afflerbach (University of North Georgia) Cóilín Parsons (Georgetown University) “Modernity, Liberalism, and the End of Tragedy” “Taking Ship: Irish Modernism Goes Transnational” Thomas Hintze (University of California, Davis) “’AND SO ON AND SO ON’: The ‘End’ of the Harlem P52. Renaissance and George Schuyler’s Reactionary Writing Historical Consciousness in Mid-Century Turn” Women’s Fiction Carlyle Room P54. Modernism and the Sea Organizer: Scott A/B Room Beryl Pong (University of Sheffield) Chair: Organizer: Maren Linett (Purdue University) Laura Winkiel (University of Colorado Boulder) Panelists: Chair: Beryl Pong (University of Sheffield) Nicole Rizzuto (Georgetown University) “Reading and Writing ‘Post-War’ Melancholia: Panelists: Stevie Smith’s The Holiday” Laura Winkiel (University of Colorado Boulder) Emily Ridge (Education University of Hong Kong) “Jean Rhys and Blackness at Sea” “The Birth of the Group Satire: Christine Brooke- Maxwell Uphaus (University of Toronto) Rose’s The Middlemen and Muriel Spark’s The Girls “Orlando and the Age of Boats” of Slender Means” Harris Feinsod (Northwestern University) Sarah Bernstein (University of Edinburgh) “Walter Benjamin and Maritime Globalization from “Difficult Women & the Common Good: Towards a Columbus to the Kiel Mutiny” Literature In Commons” Alexandra Peat (Franklin University Switzerland) “Making Things with Words in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts”
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P55. P57. Closeness and Distance: Reading the Afterlife of Fashion in the Magazines Modernism’s Affect Turner Room James Room Organizer: Organizer: Lise Sanders (Hampshire College) Yan (Amy) Tang (University of Victoria) Ilya Parkins (University of British Columbia) Kevin Tunnicliffe (University of Victoria) Chair: Chair: Lise Sanders (Hampshire College) Christos Hadjiyiannis (University of Oxford) Panelists: Panelists: Sophie Oliver (University of Liverpool) Kevin Tunnicliffe (University of Victoria) “Mina Loy, Charm Magazine, and Fashion as “Modernist Form and Disembodied Feeling” Modernist Historiography” Doug Battersby (University of Bristol) Victoria Pass (Maryland Institute College of Art) “Perversions of Modernism: Vladimir Nabokov and “Fashioning White Femininity through Ethnic the Ethics of Intimacy” Masquerade in 1930s Fashion Magazines” Jap-Nanak K. Makkar (Wilkes University) Jessica Burstein (University of Washington) “Little Doubt: Conrad, Wiener, & Cliff” “The Picture of Dorian Leigh” Yan (Amy) Tang (University of Victoria) “Lucid Obscurity: The Flattened Form and the P58. Exhaustion of Modernism’s Affect in Kazuo Lost Women Modernists: Decrypting the Originals Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled” and their Reconstruction Wren A Room P56. Theatre, Translation, Regeneration: Performance Organizer: between Cultures and between the Wars Joel Hawkes (University of Victoria) Rossetti A Room Chair: Stephen Ross (University of Victoria) Organizer: Panelists: Jennifer Buckley (University of Iowa) Joel Hawkes (University of Victoria) Chair: “Lines of Flight: The Letters of Mary Butts” R. Darren Gobert (Duke University) Alex Christie (Brock University) Panelists: “Mina Loy and the Digital Humanities” Jennifer Buckley (University of Iowa) Jane Garrity (University of Colorado Boulder) “Relocating the Living Newspaper” “’Queer devils’ and ‘beastly indulgences’: Mary Paul J. Edwards (Rutgers University) Butts’s Unborn Gods” “The Circumstances of Color: Translating Jonny spielt auf between the Old World and the New Alex Feldman (University of Haifa) “Interdrama, Interculture, Interwar: Ernst Toller, Stephen Spender, and Anglo-German Modernist Performance”
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P59. Roundtables Discursive Upheavals and Ethical Reading R13. Wren B Room The Long 1930s Gerrard Room Organizer: Bridget Chalk (Manhattan College) Organizer: Chair: Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Freiburg) Nathan Murray (University of Virginia) Chair: Panelists: Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Freiburg) Bridget Chalk (Manhattan College) Panelists: “’Introspective Sentiment’ and Education in The Kristin Bluemel (Monmouth University) Adelphi” Janice Ho (University of Colorado Boulder) Amanda Gradisek (Walsh University) Tyrus Miller (University of California, Irvine) “Rethinking the Feminist Personal Voice in Cather’s Adam Piette (University of Sheffield) Sapphira and the Slave Girl” Nicole Rizzuto (Georgetown University) Danielle Gilman (University of Georgia) “Common Readers, Common Critics: West, Woolf, R14. and Critical Reciprocity” Historicizing Quantitative Modernism Austen Room P60. Seriality Now and Then: Modernism and the Organizer: Contemporary Novel Series Name and affiliation to come Wren C Room Chair: Organizer: Jeremy Colangelo (Western University) Matthew Levay (Idaho State University) Panelists: Chair: Megan Lynn Faragher (Wright State University) Matt Hart (Columbia University) Jonathan Goodwin (University of Louisiana at Panelists: Lafayette) Elizabeth Alsop (CUNY School of Professional Yonina Hoffman (The Ohio State University) Studies) Benjamin Mangrum (University of Michigan) “Cusk and Stein: A Serial Critique of Character” Rebecah Pulsifer (Kettering University) Matthew Levay (Idaho State University) “A Series of Tangents: Knausgaard, Modernism, R15. Plot” The Legacies of Susan Stanford Friedman: Merve Emre (University of Oxford) Modernist Studies Past, Present, Future, Plural “Serial Estrangement” Duchesse Room
Organizer: Name and affiliation to come
Chair: Rebecca Walsh (North Carolina State University) Panelists: Joseph Boone (University of Southern California) Marsha Bryant (University of Florida) Harsha Ram (University of California, Berkeley) Rebecca Walkowitz (Rutgers University)
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Digital Exhibits | 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM P62. Mountbatten Lane The Terroir of Modernism: Space, Materiality and Affect DE4. Stevenson Room Title to come Organizer: Participants: Polly Hember (Royal Holloway, University of Names and affiliations to come London) Chair: DE5. Polly Hember (Royal Holloway, University of Title to come London) Panelists: Participants: Noreen Masud (Durham University) Names and affiliations to come “Bored in the Flat Field: Attending to Willa Cather’s Landscapes” DE6. Robert Brazeau (University of Alberta) Title to come “’A Great Roaring in the West’: Nature and the Market in Synge’s Riders to the Sea” Participants: William Hogan (Providence College) Names and affiliations to come “The Talkative Terroir of Robert Frost and Edward Thomas” Saturday Sessions | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM P63. Panels Refuge, Upheaval, and Modernist Cultures of P61. Welcoming “Tradition and the Individual Talent” at 100 Carlyle Room Seymour Room Organizer: Organizer: Sean Weidman (Pennsylvania State University) Alexander McKee (University of Delaware) Daniel Hengel (CUNY Graduate Centre) Chair: Chair: Daniel Ryan Morse (University of Nevada, Reno) Robert Volpicelli (Randolph-Macon College) Panelists: Panelists: Alexander McKee (University of Delaware) Meg Albrinck (Lakeland University) “Seamus Heaney’s Modernist Inheritance” “Welcoming the Wounded: The Restorative Value Peter Howarth (Queen Mary University of London) of Hospitality in Wartime Nursing Narratives” “’The necessary self-effacement of the artist’: T.S. Sean Weidman (Pennsylvania State University) Eliot Reads to an Audience” “’A House on Fire’: Edith Wharton’s Interwar Brendan Johnston (University of Nevada, Reno) Hospitality” “Impersonality, Self-Extinction, and the (Mis)Uses of Daniel Hengel (CUNY Graduate Centre) Mysticism in ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ “(In)Hospitably Cosmopolitan: Rhys’s Transient and Eliot’s Early Martyr Poems” Domesticity and Melancholia”
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P64. P66. Ephemeral Modernisms Modernist Technology/Infrastructure Rossetti B/C Room James Room
Organizer: Chair: Nissa Cannon (Boston University) Stephen Pasqualina (University of Southern Christopher Allan Walker (Colby College) California) Chair: Panelists: Nissa Cannon (Boston University) Janet Neigh (Pennsylvania State University) Panelists: “Where Does the Imperial Road Lead? Modern Anna Abramson (Massachusetts Institute of Transportation Infrastructures and Colonial Legacies Technology) in Dominica” “On Not Clearing the Fog: Joseph Conrad, Amitav Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University) Ghosh, and Global Atmosphere” “Land, Life and Cosmopolitics in Ruth Lechlitner” Amardeep Singh (Lehigh University) Joel Duncan (University of Gothenburg) “The Disappearance of Delhi: Ahmed Ali’s ‘Twilight’ “Cars & Ecology in William Carlos Williams and Modernism” Gertrude Stein” Bill Freind (Rowan University) “History, Geology, Ephemera: On Robert Smithson” P67. Christopher Walker (Colby College) Indigenous Modernities and Modernisms “The Afterlives of the Body: Decay and the Rossetti A Room Everyday” Organizer: P65. Kirby Brown (University of Oregon) Representing Indigeneity in Modernism Chair: Scott A/B Room Kirby Brown (University of Oregon) Panelists: Organizer: Joyce Pualani Warren (University of Oregon) Stephen Ross (University of Victoria) “Indigenous Modernisms and Pacific Island Literary Chair: Nationalism in Vincent Eri’s The Crocodile” Jonathan Radocay (University of California, Davis) Christine Bold (University of Guelph) Panelists: “Vaudeville, Early Cinema, & Indigenous Presence” Leif Sorensen (Colorado State University) Angela Calcaterra (University of North Texas) “Minor Characters and the Politics of Temporal “Indigenous Transnationalism and a Global Native Orientation” Modern” Erin Yanota (University of Texas at Austin) Audrey Goodman (Georgia State University) “Hart Crane’s The Bridge and the Racial Imaginary “Native/Black Birds: Voicing the Ruptures of of Indigeneity in the American Modernist Long Modernity through Indigenous Jazz Poetics” Poem” Alexander Steele (University of Oregon) “To Have and To Keep: Indigenous Modernism, Osage Endurance, and John Joseph Mathews” Erica Stacey Decker (University of Minnesota) “Pale Horse, Pale Rider and Ravensong: Epidemics, Healing, and Contingency”
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P68. “Zitkála-Šá and Grazia Deledda: Hybrid. Indigenous. Bad Feminisms: Modernist Women and Vexed Modernist.” Literary Legacies Amanda Zink (Idaho State University) Turner Room “Syncretic Modernism in American Indian Literate” Louise Kane (University of Central Florida) Organizer: “Diffusing/Defusing Modernism: Cosmopolitanism Meghan Fox (LaGuardia Community College, CUNY) and the Caribbean” Chair: Jean Mills (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, P71. CUNY) Derivative Modernisms Panelists: Wren C Room Meghan Fox (LaGuardia Community College, CUNY) “Interrogating ‘an impasse’: Rhys’s Badly Behaving Organizer: Women and the Legacy of Colonial Consumption” Alana Sayers (University of Victoria) Catherine Hollis (University of California, Berkeley) Chair: “Bad Collaboration: Revisiting the Selma Vaz Dias Victoria Papa (Massachusetts College of Liberal Affair in Jean Rhys’s Biography” Arts) Erin Kingsley (King University) Panelists: “’Hysterical Inconsistency’: Beatrice Tina’s Dubious Maebh Long (University of Waikato) Feminism” “Anonymous Subjects, Nuiginian Subjects: Voicing a Modernism in Papua New Guinean Literature” P69. Ryan Stafford (University of Toronto) Indigeneity, Sovereignty, Reverse Colonizations “Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music Wren A Room and Indigenous Rhythm” William Rezende Quintal (Universidade de Brasília) Chair: “Cultural Diversity in Jeopardiz” Nadine Attewell (McMaster University) Alana Sayers (University of Victoria) Panelists: “The Super Natural in the Pacific Northwest” Amadi I. Ozier (Rutgers University) “The Negro Minstrel in the Caribbean Imagination” P72. Geneva Gano (Texas State University) Upheavals and Reconstructions of Modernist “Tony Lujan’s Taos: Modern Arts Colonialism and Distancing Native Sovereignty” Whistler Room Kelly Whitehead (University of Toronto) “Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Testimonial Organizer: Response to Trauma” Kelly S. Walsh (Yonsei University) Chair: P70. John McIntyre (University of Prince Edward Island) Indigenous/Modernist Panelists: Wren B Room Kelly S. Walsh (Yonsei University) “’La vie n’est pas un spectacle’: Aesthetic Distancing Organizer: and Aimé Césaire’s American Afterlives” Beth Piatote (University of California, Berkeley) Yoon-Young Choi (Dongduk Women’s University) Chair: “The Distance Between the Self: Images of the Jennifer Nesbitt (Pennsylvania State University) Mirror in Yi” Panelists: Mi Jeong Lee (Indiana University, Bloomington) Natalie Amleshi (University of Pennsylvania) “Unthinking Planetary Difference in H.G. Wells” “Towards a Modernist Aesthetics of Entanglement” Michael Subialka (University of California, Davis) Sonita Sarker (Macalester College) “Telescopes and a Glass of Champagne: Seeing Life, Disengaged”
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Roundtables Victoria Zurita – Mercè Rodoreda, The Time of the R16. Doves The Modernisms of 1919 Zulfqar Awan – Santanu Das, India, Empire, and First Austen Room World War Culture J. Ashley Foster – Mulk Raj Anand, The Trilogy: The Organizer: Village, Across the Black Waters, the Sword and the Gabriel Hankins (Clemson University) Sickle Chair: Christopher Townsend – Author and title of book to Gabriel Hankins (Clemson University) come Panelists: David Young – Author and title of book to come Stephen Eric Bronner (Rutgers University) Jennifer Nesbitt – Kerry Bystrom & Joseph R. Christine Froula (Northwestern University) Slaughter (editors), The Global South Atlantic Elizabeth Outka (University of Richmond) Sangina Patnaik (Swarthmore College) Business Lunch | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Jill Richards (Yale University) Mountbatten B Room Vincent Sherry (Washington University in St. Louis) Regular Lunch | 12:300 PM – 1:30 PM Mountbatten A Room R17. Making It Now: The New Modernist Studies at Keynote Roundtable | 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM Twenty Churchill Ballroom Duchesse Room Panelists: Organizer: Christine Bold (Guelph University) Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University) Jill Carter (University of Toronto) Chair: Elizabeth Harney (University of Toronto) Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University) Riley Kucheran (Ryerson University) Panelists: Moderator: Sarah Cole (Columbia University) Name and affiliation to come Sara Crangle (University of Sussex) Susan Stanford Friedman (University of Wisconsin- Madison) Paul Saint-Amour (University of Pennsylvania)
What Are You Reading? Gerrard Room
Moderator: Philip Tsang (University of Cincinnati) Panelists: Nathan Murray – John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps Emily Murphy – Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness Garry Leonard – Maria diBattista, This is Not A Movie: Ulysses and Cinema Cathryn Piwinski – Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves Gregory Erickson – James Gleick, Time Travel: A History
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Saturday Sessions | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM P75. Nation and Commemoration: Experience, Panels Authority, and the Great War in Britain P73. Carlyle Room Encounters, Upheavals, and Modernism in Asia Seymour Room Organizer: Sean McPhail (University of Toronto) Organizer: Chair: Wanyu Lin (National Chengchi University) Anderson Araujo (University of British Columbia) Chair: Panelists: Lena Scheen (NYU Shanghai) Sean McPhail (University of Toronto) Panelists: “’To the Last Drop of Someone Else’s Blood!’: Wanyu Lin (National Chengchi University) Civilian Experience and World War in Siegfried “Pain in ‘Esthétique du Mal’” Sassoon’s Autobiographies” Yuexi Liu (Durham University) Austin Riede (University of North Georgia) “Towards Chinese Modernism: Fortress Besieged “’Follow the Clue Patiently and You Will Understand (1947) and Love in a Fallen City (1943)” Nothing’: Basil Bunting, Two World Wars, and the Yong Yi Wong (Affiliation to come) Uses of the Past” “The Weaving Waves that Dream and Wake: the Patricia Rae (Queen’s University) Negotiation and Construction of Identity in “George Orwell on the Ethics of Atrocity Wandering in a Garden, Walking from a Dream: Propaganda” Tales of Taipei Characters” Au Chung-to (The Education University of Hong P76. Kong) Agency, Autonomy, and Mobility: Gender and “Stephen Spender and Hong Kong Modernism: a Literary Geography Study of Wenyl Xinchao” Rossetti B/C Room
P74. Organizer: Modernism’s Little Wars Carey Snyder (Ohio University) Stevenson Room Chair: Laura Winkiel (University of Colorado Boulder) Organizer: Panelists: Cedric Van Dijck (Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Carey Snyder (Ohio University) Cairo) “A ‘wretched girl-mother’: Katherine Mansfield, Chair: Women’s Suffrage, and Infanticide” Meg Albrinck (Lakeland University) Anne Fernald (Fordham University) Panelists: “Leaving Home and its Risks” Cedric Van Dijck (Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Elizabeth F. Evans (University of Notre Dame) Cairo) “Gender and Geography at Scale” “Forster and the Egyptian Revolution” Christina Britzolakis (University of Warwick) “Modernism and the Greco-Turkish War” Marius Hentea (University of Gothenburg) “Tzara and the Balkan Wars”
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P77. P79. Material Trace: Scale and Orientation in Modernist Reconstructing Modernism ~Building Websites~ Image-Making Transforming Pedagogy Scott A/B Room Rossetti A Room
Organizer: Organizer: Melissa Hardie (University of Sydney) Linda Kinnahan (Duquesne University) Chair: Chair: Emily Hyde (Rowan University) Emily Murphy (University of British Columbia, Panelists: Okanagan) Melissa Hardie (University of Sydney) Panelists: “Late Mid-Century: Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood in the Linda Kinnahan (Duquesne University) Cybernetic Fold” “DH Avant-Garde: Collaboration, Crossing Kate Lilley (University of Sydney) Boundaries, and Creativity” “Mary Ellen Solt’s ‘Forsythia’, Concrete Poetry, and Cristanne Miller (University of Buffalo) Indiana University Press” “Ethics and Pedagogy: What Constitutes Jani Scandura (University of Minnesota) Appropriate Use of Assigned Student ‘Labor’? “Twitch: Masumi Hayashi’s American Concentration Suzanne Churchill (Davidson College) Camp Photo-Collages” “A Modernism of Their Own: Sustainability and Obsolescence in Student-Authored Websites” P78. Modernism and the Cold war P80. James Room The Institutions of Modernist Canon Making Turner Room Organizer: Rebecca Beasley (University of Oxford) Organizer: Chair: Rafael Walker (Baruch College, CUNY) Anna Snaith (King’s College London) Claire Seiler (Dickinson College) Panelists: Panelists: Rebecca Beasley (University of Oxford) Rafael Walker (Baruch College, CUNY) “Cold War (British) Modernism” “Realism in Exile” Scott McCracken (Queen Mary University of Beth Blum (Harvard University) London) “A Sociology of Discovery” “Without Enthusiasm: Brecht, Exile, and the Melissa Girard (Loyola University Maryland) Consequences of Defeat” “Louise Bogan’s Popular Front” Greg Barnhisel (Duquesne University) “’The Balanced Plenum’: The Editorial and Political Collaboration of Norman Holmes Pearson and Ezra Pound”
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P81. P83. Waves of Re-Construction: Modernist Networks Poetry of the Post-War and Publishing Wren C Room Wren A Room Organizer: Organizer: Stephen Voyce (University of Iowa) Gareth Mills (University of Reading) Chair: Chair: Sean Pryor (UNSW Sydney) Claire Battershill (Simon Fraser University) Panelists: Panelists: Stephen Voyce (University of Iowa) Gareth Mills (University of Reading) “Anti-War Poetry in an Age of Permanent Crisis” “The Dolphin Book Series, 1930-2: The Material John Wrighton (University of Brighton) Book and the Construction of New Modernisms” "‘You are eroded as war erodes us’: Rhetoric and Chris Mourant (University of Birmingham) Postwar Ethics in the Poetry of Denise Levertov” “Wanted, A New World: Post-War Reconstruction in Harry Stecopoulos (University of Iowa) The Athenaeum (1919-21)” “The King of May and the CIA: Allen Ginsberg After Ruth Clemens (Leeds Trinity University) the Cultural Cold War” “Mijn klok staat stil: On Recovering the Dutch Minimalist Nonsense of De Stijl (1917-31)” Roundtables R18. P82. Affective Materialities: Reorienting the Body in Performing Intimacies: Faciality, Celebrity, and Modernist Literature Material Culture Austen Room Wren B Room Organizer: Organizer: Molly Hall (University of Rhode Island) Alice Maurice (University of Toronto) Chair: Chair: Molly Hall (University of Rhode Island) Louis Pelletier (Université du Québec à Montréal) Panelists: Angelica Fenner (University of Toronto) Robin Hackett (University of New Hampshire) Panelists: Karen Guendel (Boston University) Alice Maurice (University of Toronto) Judith Paltin (University of British Columbia) “Reading Faces and Seeing Stars: Puzzling Over the Kim Sigouin (Carleton University) Screen Face in the Silent Era” Kathryn Van Wert (University of Minnesota Duluth) Adrienne McLean (University of Texas at Dallas) Mary Wood (University of Oregon) “The Faces of Ginger: Makeup, Hairdressing, and Class in a Hollywood Star Image” Denise Mok (University of Toronto) “Puzzling (Im)Perfections: Manipulations and Materiality in Edith Nadajewski’s Face-Saturated Star Scrapbooks (1924-1990s)”
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R19. The Future of Modernist Studies in the Age of Precarity Duchesse Room
Organizer: Alix Beeston (Cardiff University) Chair: Alix Beeston (Cardiff University) Panelists: Debra Rae Cohen (University of South Carolina) Rebecca Colesworthy (SUNY Press) Pardis Dabashi (Boston University) Michelle Rada (Brown University) Ben Wilson (Affiliation to come)
Florine Stettheimer: New Directions in Multimodal Modernism Book Launch | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM MLC Gallery, 111 Gerrard Street East
Poetry of Upheaval | 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas Street East
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Sunday, October 20 S24. Public/Private Aftermaths
Chesterton Room Breakfast | 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Mountbatten Room Leaders: Executive Board Meeting | 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Genevieve Brassard (University of Portland) Gerrard Room Jay Dickson (Reed College) Book Exhibition | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Paula Derdiger (University of Minnesota Duluth) Mountbatten Lane Enrolled: Annalisa Zox-Weaver Sunday Sessions | 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Therese Cox Anastasia Nikolis Seminars Lauryl Tucker S23. Amada Di Ponio Jim Crow Modernism Margaret Richardson Whistler Room Caroline Krzakowski Nick Hubble Leaders: Sejal Sutaria Adam McKible (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Aliju Kim CUNY) David Rosen Robert Jackson (University of Tulsa) Invited Participants: S25. Michael Soto Annotated Editions and Guides to Poems by Leigh Anne Duck Modernist Women Enrolled: Galworthy Room Jean Marie Lutes Mark Whalan Leaders: Gary Holcomb Sara Dunton (University of New Brunswick) Joshua Lam Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos (Brandon University) Laura Helton Invited Participant: John Hadlock Matthew Robinson Frances Dickey Enrolled: Courtney Mullis Anna Fyta Patrick Collier Lisa Banks Alyson Brickey Urmila Seshagiri Nolan Gear Joost Burgers
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Sunday Sessions | 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM P86. Listening at the Peripheries Panels Turner Room P84. The Media of African Modernism Organizer: James Room Ellen Lockhart (University of Toronto) Chair: Organizer: Julie Napolin (The New School) Matthew Eatough (Baruch College, CUNY) Panelists: Chair: Ellen Lockhart (University of Toronto) William J. Maxwell (Washington University in St. “Listening at the Peripheries” Louis) Hannah Freed-Thall (New York University) Panelists: Title to come Matthew Eatough (Baruch College, CUNY) Sherry Lee (University of Toronto) “Es’kia Mphahlele: The Critic as Modernist” Title to come Julie Cyzewski (Murray State University) Gavin Williams (King’s College London) “Broadcasting Transnational Black Modernisms in Title to come the Mid-Twentieth-Century” Joshua Cohen (City College of New York, CUNY) P87. “Fodéba Keïta, West African Polymath: The Bad Dressing Cosmopolitan Crux of Fanonian National Culture” Wren A Room
P85. Organizer: Vehicular Modernism: The Motor-Car and Social Beci Carver (University of Exeter) Violence Chair: Rossetti A Room Jessica Burstein (University of Washington) Panelists: Organizer: Beci Carver (University of Exeter) Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan) “Good Bad Dressing” Chair: Michael McCluskey (University of York) Allan Pero (Western University) “’Tatler-tainted’: Fairbank’s Fashions” Panelists: Matt Ingleby (Queen Mary University of London) Ann Martin (University of Saskatchewan) “Wedding Gown Tinder: Sartorial Obsolescence and “Cars within Carriages: Reading Rose Day in Mrs. Apocalypse, 1860-1945” Dalloway” Farah Nada (University of Exeter) Zena Meadowsong (Rowan University) “Losing Clothes in Elizabeth Bowen” “An Automotive Passage” Christopher Townsend (Royal Holloway, University of London) “’We can be heroes’: Motor-racing, Agency, and Modern Warfare”
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P88. Alison Harvey (University of Nevada, Reno) Reconstruction of the Modernist City Mark Quigley (University of Oregon) Wren B Room Anna Teekell Smith (Christopher Newport University) Organizer: Beth Wightman (California State University, Ken Hirschkop (University of Waterloo) Northridge) Chair: Andrea Zemgulys (University of Michigan) R22. Panelists: Unpicking the Seams: Ken Hirschkop (University of Waterloo) Deconstructing/Reconstructing Modernist Fashion “Toronto’s Late (Half-Hearted) Modernism” Media Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University) Duchesse Room “’This owner, that’: Shakespeare and Company and the Rebuilding of the Modernist Bookshop” Organizers: Tamar Katz (Brown University) Alison Matthews David (Ryerson University) “Lewis Mumford: How to See the City Whole” Jaclyn Marcus (Ryerson University) Chairs: P89. Alison Matthews David (Ryerson University) Making the Stones Speak: Modernist Literature Jaclyn Marcus (Ryerson University) and the First World War Memories Panelists: Wren C Room Caroline Evans (University of the Arts London) Andrea Kollnitz (Stockholm University) Organizer: Ilya Parkins (University of British Columbia) Stacy Hubbard (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Elizabeth Sheehan (Oregon State University) Chair: Irene Mangoutas (Queen’s University) Sunday Sessions | 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM Panelists: Alice Kelly (University of Oxford) Seminars “Commemorative Modernisms: Literary and Artistic S26. Memorials in the Post-War Period” Modernism and Theory Stacy Hubbard (University of Buffalo, SUNY) Chesterton Room “’To Trouble the Living Stream’: Literary Responses to WWI Memories” Leaders: Bette London (University of Rochester) Stephen Ross (University of Victoria) “Re-Figuring the Great War in the Age of Invited Participant: Postmemory” Fabio Ackelrud Durao Enrolled: Roundtables Yan Tang R21. Irene Mangoutas Irish Modernisms Jennifer Mondal Austen Room Cristina Ionica Robert Baines Organizer: Matthew Gannon Siân White (James Madison University) Daniel Newman Chair: David Ayers Siân White (James Madison University) Kathryn Carnery Panelists: Masami Sugimori T.J. Boynton (Wichita State University) Roger Rothman Matthew Brown (University of Massachusetts Julie Vandivere Boston)
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S27. P91. Modernism’s Dead Ends Libraries, Propaganda, Information Galworthy Room Rossetti A Room
Leaders: Organizer: Joseph Rosenberg (University of Notre Dame) Damien Keane (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Sean Pryor (UNSW Sydney) Chair: Sara Crangle (University of Sussex) Laura Helton (University of Delaware) Enrolled: Panelists: Karin Westman Damien Keane (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Allison Pease “Keyword: Pacification” Simon Rogghe Jeremy Braddock (Cornell University) Jacob Harris “Libraries and Authoritarianism: 1939, 1945, 2019” Patricia Juliana Smith Eliza Bettinger (Cornell University) Sophie Oliver “What to Do When the Books Read You Back: Building Anti-Surveillance Havens in the Library” Sunday Sessions | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM P92. Panels Modernism as Institutional Culture P90. Turner Room Indigenous Avant-gardes James Room Organizer: Philip Tsang (University of Cincinnati) Organizer: Chair: Jonathan Radocay (University of California, Davis) Morag Shiach (Queen Mary University of London) Chair: Panelists: Jonathan Radocay (University of California, Davis) Robert Higney (City College of New York, CUNY) Panelists: “Crossroads Nowhere: Modernism at the Allan Antliff (University of Victoria) Birmingham Centre” “Decolonizing Modernism” Philip Tsang (University of Cincinnati) Adam Spry (Emerson College) “The Unavowable Anthology” “’Native Modernism’ and an Avant-Garde Emily C. Bloom (Columbia University) Indigenous Poetics” “Positively Bad? Samuel Beckett and Pubic Opinion James Kliewer (University of Georgia) Research” “Rescuing the Indigenous from the Modernist Institution: Survivance and Modernity in D’Arcy McNickle’s ‘The Hawk is Hungry’”
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P93. P95. Moving the Modernist Archive: Reconstructing Literary Witness, Humanitarian Aid, and the Women’s Choreography Spanish Civil War Wren A Room Wren C Room
Organizer: Organizer: Patty Argyrides (Queen’s University) Laura A. Hartmann-Villalta (Georgetown University) Chair: Chair: Katherine McLeod (Concordia University) Jeanne Scheper (University of California, Irvine) Panelists: Panelists: Sarah Gutsche-Miller (University of Toronto) Charles Andrews (Whitworth University) “Resituating French Ballet Modernism in Madame “The Political Theory of Heaven: Anarchism, Mariquita” Theology, and Spanish Aid in Sylvia Townsend Parry Argyrides (Queen’s University) Warne’s After the Death of Don Juan” “’I want the art of dance to live again’: Resuscitating Jean Mills (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Bronislava Nijinska’s Choreography and CUNY) Choreographic Approach” “’The Pornography of Violence’: Beyond Testimony Emily Christina Murphy (University of British in Gamel Woolsey’s Malaga Burning: An American Columbia) Woman’s Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil “Digital Duende: Re-Mediating Settler Canadian War (1939)” Histories of Spanish Dance” J. Ashley Foster (California State University, Fresno) “Humanitarian Aid as Pacifist Response to Total P94. War: A Reading of Relief and Reconstruction Work Resistance and Reconstruction: Modernist Anti- as Modernist Projects” Fascism Laura A. Hartmann-Villalta (Georgetown University) Wren B Room “AID for Spain: Testimony, Photographs, Pamphlets, and Modernism” Organizer: Frances Dickey (University of Missouri) P96. Chair: South Asian Modernisms: Histories, Metaphors, Ian Afflerbach (University of North Georgia) and Modernities Panelists: Whistler Room Frances Dickey (University of Missouri) “Resistance or Resignation: Woolf’s Between the Organizer: Acts as an Answer to Four Quartets” Supurna Dasgupta (University of Chicago) Patrick Query (United States Military Academy West Chair: Point) Amardeep Singh (Lehigh University) “Democracy, Punishment, Banality: Anti-Fascism Panelists: 1940-1963” Supurna Dasgupta (University of Chicago) Aakanksha Virkar Yates (University of Brighton) “’The Strange Fragrance of Rice’: Modernists “Resisting Fascism: Beethoven’s Legacy” Encounter a Famine (Bengal, 1943)” Jennifer Dubrow (University of Washington) “Metaphors of Modernity: Man and Machine in Colonial and Postcolonial Urdu Fiction” Preetha Mani (Rutgers University) “The Modernist Realist Mandate: Empathy and Feminine Desire in Postcolonial Hindi and Tamil Short Stories”
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P97. including interpreting difficult texts, evaluating Social Crisis: Syntax and Image relationships between art and politics, and Austen Room examining the field’s complex national and temporal parameters—are urgent and relevant in Organizer: our classrooms. In this interactive workshop, Louis Cabri (University of Windsor) participants will share challenges and opportunities Chair: inherent in teaching modernism in 2019 and learn Natalia Cecire (University of Sussex) new strategies for designing effective and engaging Panelists: courses. Louis Cabri (University of Windsor) “Social Wobble” W6. Joshua Schuster (Western University) Mobilizing Research through Radio, Television, and “Modernist Heliopoetics” Exhibitions Christine Stewart (University of Alberta) Rossetti B/C Room “Modernist Pointing” Sam Cooper (Affiliation to come) Leader: “Modernist Spatial Poetics” Irene Gammel (Ryerson University) Invited Participants: Roundtables Cintia Cristiá (Ryerson University) R24. Plastic Modernisms How does research for a book or an article evolve Duchesse Room into an exhibition? What goes into a media package in humanities scholarship? How does literary and Organizer: artistic research translate across different media? Marsha Bryant (University of Florida) This workshop explores ways research can be Chair: developed and translated beyond the manuscript or Marsha Bryant (University of Florida) the classroom through the integration of other Panelists: forms of media. Attendees will learn how to Amanda Golden (New York Institute of Technology) translate and mobilize their research for exhibition, Anita Helle (Oregon State University) radio, television, print media, and social media. Scott Herring (Indiana University Bloomington) Margaret Konkol (Old Dominion University) W7. Allan Pero (Western University) Journal Publishing Christina Walter (University of Maryland) Scott A/B Room
Post-Conference Workshops | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Leader: Jim Drobnick (OCAD University), Journal of W5. Curatorial Studies Teaching Modernism in 2019 Carlyle Room This workshop focuses on learning how to navigate, approach, and submit to academic publishers, and Leader: will offer insight into what academic publishers Elizabeth Dickens (University of Virginia) search for in a scholarly work. Participants will also learn how to fine-tune their essays for publication, How do we teach modernism in the current as well as the tips and tricks for securing a scholarly moment, in which we and our students grapple with publication. the renewed prominence of ideologies like fascism and white nationalism and in which the ability to analyze and evaluate texts and images is especially crucial? The concerns of modernist studies—
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Special Thanks
MSA Executive Committee 2019 MSA First Book Prize Committee President: Celia Marshik, Stony Brook University Brian Glavey, University of South Carolina First Vice President: Matthew Hart, Columbia Julia Jordan, University College London University Aarthi Vadde, Duke University Second Vice President: Bill Maxwell, Washington University Participating Book Exhibitors Past President: Laura Winkiel, University of Bloomsbury Colorado Boulder BRILL Chair, Interdisciplinary Approaches: Laura Broadview Press Heffernan, University of North Florida Boydell & Brewer Chair, International Relations: Marius Hentea, University of California Press University of Gothenburg Cambridge University Press Chair, Membership & Elections: Erin Templeton, University of Clemson Press Converse College Columbia University Press Chair, Program: Rebecca Walsh, North Carolina Cornell University Press State University Edinburgh University Press Chair, Finance (Treasurer): Allan Hepburn, McGill University Press of Florida University Johns Hopkins University Press Chair, Technology and Infrastructure: Alex Christie, University of Minnesota Press Brock University Oxford University Press Co-Editor of Modernism/modernity: Debra Rae Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature) Cohen, University of South Carolina Scholar’s Choice Co-Editor of Modernism/modernity: Christopher University of Toronto Press Bush, Northwestern University
MSA Program Committee Rebecca Walsh, North Carolina State University (Chair)
Local Organizing Committee Irene Gammel, Ryerson University (Chair) Melba Cuddy-Keane, University of Toronto Adam Hammond, University of Toronto Jim Drobnick, OCAD University
2019 MSA Book Prize Committee Sanja Bahun, University of Essex Maria DiBattista, Princeton University Janet Poole, University of Toronto
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