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Northeast Modern Language Association NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION 44th Annual Convention March 21-24, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts Host: Tufts University 3 Convention Staff Executive Director: Elizabeth Abele The State University of New York Convention Associate: Brandi So SUNY Stony Brook Chair Coordinator: Kristin LeVeness SUNY Nassau Community College Special Programs Coordinator: Lisa Perdigao Florida Institute of Technology Webmaster: Michael Cadwallader Local Liaisons: Diego Millan Jackie O’Dell Tufts University Program Editor: Elizabeth Foley O’Connor Marist College NeMLA Designer: Mike O’Connor Fellows Newsletter Editor: Laura Collins SUNY Binghamton Exhibitor Assistant: Michael Becker University of Rhode Island NeMLA Italian Studies Fellow: Anna Strowe University of Massachusetts-Amherst Special Events Assistant: Francisco Delgado SUNY Stony Brook Editorial Assistants: Kim Cox Nathaniel Doherty SUNY Stony Brook Marketing Assistant: Kim Evelyn University of Rhode Island Book Award Assistant: Daniel J. Irving SUNY Stony Brook 4 Travel Awards Assistant: Bernabe Mendoza Rutgers University Workshop Assistant: Maria Grewe Columbia University Scheduling Assistant: Matthew Mosher SUNY Stony Brook Registration Assistants: Carolyn Burke Benjamin Bickle SUNY Stony Brook NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION Upcoming NeMLA Conventions 2014 April 3 - 6 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Host: Susquehanna University 2015 April 30 - May 3 Toronto, Ontario Host: Ryerson University 5 6 Board of Directors (2012-13) President German Languages and Natalie Edwards Literatures Director University of Adelaide Astrid Wiegert Georgetown University Past President William Waddell Spanish and Portuguese St. John Fisher College Languages and Literatures Director First Vice President Cristina Santos Ellen Dolgin Brock University Dominican College-Blauvelt Italian Languages and Second Vice President Literatures Director Daniela Bisello Antonucci Giovanni Spani Princeton University College of Holy Cross Past President At Large Cultural Studies and Film Director Carine Mardorossian Margarita Vargas SUNY Buffalo SUNY Buffalo American/British Member-At-Large: Diversity Literatures Director Donavan L. Ramon Jennifer Harris Rutgers University Mount Allison University Graduate Student American/British Caucus Representative Literatures Director Barry Spence Suha Kudsieh University of Massachusetts- College of Staten Island-CUNY Amherst Comparative Languages and Women’s and Gender Studies Literatures Director Caucus Representative Gillian Pierce Rita Bode Boston University Trent University French Languages and Editor of Literatures Director Modern Language Studies Moussa Sow Laurence Roth The College of New Jersey Susquehanna University 7 The Faculty and Staff of the School of Arts and Sciences and The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University Are Delighted to Welcome the Northeastern Modern Language Association to Boston for its 2013 Conference 8 Thursday, March 21 All events are at the convention hotel unless otherwise specified. 11:00AM - 5:00PM Registration Hyatt-4th Floor 10:30AM - 12:30PM Workshop 1: Applying for Research Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities Ann R. Meyer, Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities Pre-registration required Hyatt-Duxbury 11:30AM - 2:00PM Workshop 2: Creative Writing: Finding a Voice Suzanne Matson, Boston College Pre-registration required Hyatt-Adrienne Salon Workshop 3: Responding to Student Papers Jim Bowman, St. John Fisher College Pre-registration required Hyatt-Ballroom B 2:15PM - 4:15PM Track 2: Seminars 4:30PM - 6:00PM Track 3: Sessions 6:30PM - 8:00PM Welcome Reading & Reception Excerpts from Smedley’s Secret Guide to World Literature Askold Melnyczuk, University of Massachusetts-Boston Ballroom A 9:00PM - 11:00PM Graduate Caucus Meet & Greet J.J. Foley’s Bar & Grille, 21 Kingston Street 9 Friday, March 22 8:00AM - 5:00PM Registration Hyatt-4th Floor Exhibitors Hyatt-Cape Cod 8:30AM - 9:45AM Track 4: Sessions 10:00AM - 11:30AM Track 5: Sessions 11:45AM - 1:00PM Track 6: Sessions 1:15PM - 2:45PM Track 7: Sessions Italian Language & Literatures Special Event “The Untimely Timeliness of Giacomo Leopardi’s Theory of Pleasure” Alessandro Carrera, University of Houston Ritz-Carlton, Salon World Literatures Sponsored Roundtable “Empowering Arabic Learners through Immersion/Content Based Instruction” Hyatt-Adrienne Salon 3:00PM - 4:30PM Track 8: Sessions 4:45PM - 6:15PM Track 9: Sessions 6:20PM - 7:15PM Graduate Caucus Business Meeting Hyatt-Ipswich 7:00PM - 9:00PM Keynote Address and Reception “The Versos of the Blue Clerk, or what is withheld” Dionne Brand Hyatt-Ballroom 7:30PM - 10:00PM Cosi Fan Tutte Boston Lyric Opera Pre-registration required 8:00PM - 10:00PM Sleeping Beauty Boston Ballet Pre-registration required 9:30PM - 11:30PM Diversity Meet-and-Greet The Sweetwater Tavern, 3 Boylston Place 10 Saturday, March 23 8:00AM - 5:00PM Exhibitors Cape Cod Registration Hyatt-4th Floor 8:30AM - 10:00AM Track 10: Sessions 10:00AM - 11:30AM Black Heritage Trail Walking Tour Tour begins at the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Beacon Street. Pre-registration required 10:15AM - 11:30AM Track 11: Sessions CAITY Caucus Business Meeting All Contingent, Adjunct, Independent Scholars, and Two-Year College Faculty are invited to attend. Hyatt-Ipswich 11:45AM - 1:15PM Track 12: Sessions Diversity Programs Speaker “The Hip Hop Entry Point: Promoting Diversity and Inclusion through Pedagogy” Emmett G. Price III Ritz-Carlton, Boylston Spanish Language & Literatures Special Event “Cuban American Writing in the 21st Century: A Dialogue with the Writers” Ana Menendez, University of Maastricht; Pablo Medina, Emerson College; and Carlos Eire, Yale University Ritz-Carlton, Salon I CAITY Caucus Speaker “Beyond Alienation and Contingency: The Role of Unions in Academia Today” Joseph Ramsey, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Hyatt-Ipswich 11 1:30PM - 3:00PM Track 13: Sessions 3:15PM - 4:45PM American Area Film Screening Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years: 1984-1992 Hyatt-Plymouth 3:15PM - 4:30PM Track 14: Sessions 4:45PM - 6:15PM Track 15: Sessions WGSC Business Meeting Hyatt-Quincy 6:30PM - 8:00PM Track 16: Special Events & Receptions American Literatures Reception This reception will precede the performance of Raisin in the Sun Hyatt-Adrienne Salon Women’s & Gender Studies Caucus Speaker and Reception “Writing Women’s Lives: A Fiction Reading and Discussion” Suzanne Matson, Boston College Hyatt-Martha’s Vineyard B German Language, Literature & Culture Special Event HauptStadtStudio - A Poetry Reading by Hans-Michael Speier Sponsored by Georgetown University and Tufts Department of German, Russsian, and Asian Languages Goethe Institute, 170 Beacon Street Italian Languages & Literatures Board Meeting and Reception Remarks by Giuseppe Pastorelli, Italian Consul, and Mauro Puppin, the Director of the Education Office Hyatt-Duxbury Cultural Studies & Film Special Event and Reception “Truth and Deception in The Jew of Malta: A Director’s Perspective” Douglas Morse, The New School Hyatt-Plymouth 12 Plenary Speaker “What Translation Teaches” David Bellos, Princeton University Hyatt-Ballroom B 8:00PM - 10:00PM Graduate Student Caucus Dinner Empire Garden 690 Washington Street, Boston, MA Raisin in the Sun, Huntington Theatre Sponsored by American Area and Diversity Program Pre-registration required for group rate 8:00PM - 9:30PM Creative Writing and Editors Reception Sponsored by Modern Language Studies Hyatt-Chatham Sunday, March 24 8:00AM - 10:00AM Registration Hyatt-4th Floor 8:30AM - 10:00AM Track 17: Sessions 9:00AM - 3:00PM Day Trip to Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum and Salem Witch Museum Pre-registration required Charter will leave from Hyatt 10:15AM - 12:15PM Track 18: Seminars 12:15PM - 1:30PM Membership Meeting & Brunch Hyatt-Cape Cod 12:45PM - 3:15PM Workshop 4: Shaping Your Academic Career and Entering the Job Market Gregory Colón Semenza Pre-registration required Hyatt-Martha’s Vineyard A 13 SUBJECT INDEX TO SESSIONS American The ‘Soul’ of W.E.B. DuBois: Fifty Years Later 7.08 1930s’ Emily Dickinson 4.06 African American Experience & the Poetry of Michael S. Harper 18.12 African American Literature Since 1970 18.13 American Life Writing and Psychology: Narratives of Mental Illness and Recovery 14.06 American Literatures Reception 16.03 The American Lyceum: I rise to speak because I am not a slave 6.07 American Screening: Audre Lorde -The Berlin Years 1984-1992 14.11 The Anxiety of Influence in Post-Stonewall LGBTQ Literature 7.05 Between Modernism and Postmodernism Part 2: Theory--Old and New 17.04 Citizen Poet: Protest Poetry In America Post 9/11 9.11 The City in Literature after 9/11 8.08 The Cognitive Turn in Contemporary American Literature 13.16 Constructions of Landscape in American Literature: Human/Nature Intersections I 12.19 Constructions of Landscape in American Literature: Human/Nature Intersections II 15.06 Cormac McCarthy and Modernity 6.06 Diversity Programs Sponsored Speaker 12.03 Early American Romanticism 7.27 Early Black Feminist Ideology and the Development of a New Paradigm 9.08 The Elegiac Mode: Contemporary Transformations in Elegy Studies 5.07 Encounter Tradition, Make It New: Approaches for Teaching the Harlem Renaissance 5.08 Envisioning Modernity: America’s Urban Centers 15.05 14 The Even Bigger Read: Making American Literature National 10.07 Fathers and Daughters in Henry James’s Fiction 8.14 Fighting Words: Aesthetic Protests in Nineteenth-Century Literature 17.01 Interethnic Encounters
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