National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference FEMINIST TRANSGRESSIONS November 13–16, 2014 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO Leading the field of women’s studies in educational and social NOVEMBER transformation 13–16, 2014 | SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 1 Conference Maps Puerto Rico Convention Center, First Floor First Aid Main Entrance Information Desk Business Center 101 102 1031 104 Escalator GN ABABC GN ABABC Elevator Complimentary WiFi Hotspot Quiet Space GN Maternal Care Room Restrooms GN Gender Neutral Restroom Puerto Rico Convention Center, Second Floor 208 (LCD) 209 (LCD) 201 (LCD) 202 (LCD) 203 (LCD) AB A BC AABCABC 204 (LCD) NWSA GN Registration 207 (LCD) 210211 Puerto Rico Convention Center, Third Floor Third Floor Terrace Escalator Poster Sessions Third Floor Lobby Elevator Complimentary WiFi Hotspot GN Restrooms GN Gender Neutral Restroom Keynote/Plenaries Exhibit Hall 2 2014 NWSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Poster Sessions Here Escalator Elevator Restrooms GN Gender Neutral Restroom Conference Maps Sheraton Puerto Rico, Second Floor Sheraton Puerto Rico, Second Floor 4 Link@Sheraton Miramar 1 3 Miramar Corridor GN Bahia Foyer San Geronimo 2 1 Bahia 2 Miramar Foyer Escalator Laguna 2 San Cristobal Elevator 1 Laguna Foyer Stairs San Juan Corridor GN Gender Neutral Restroom Restrooms San Juan Foyer First Aid Escalator Quiet Space Information Desk Elevator GN Maternal Care Room Business Center Stairs Restrooms Complimentary WiFi Hotspot GN Gender Neutral Restroom Click here for the online program. 2 NOVEMBER 13–16, 2014 | SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 3 National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference FEMINIST TRANSGRESSIONS National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference FEMINIST TRANSGRESSIONS Table of Contents President’s Welcome .............................................................................................7 Keynote ............................................................................................................................8 Plenary Sessions ...................................................................................................10 Authors Meet Critics ...........................................................................................13 Acknowledgments and Awards ..................................................................17 A Brief (and Incomplete) History of the Women of Color Caucus ............................................................................................................19 NWSA Receptions and Events....................................................................21 Exhibit Hall Overview ........................................................................................ 22 Conference Services ......................................................................................... 23 Constituent Group Meetings .........................................................................24 NWSA Member and Leader Meetings ................................................. 25 Pre-Conference Session Descriptions ................................................. 27 General Conference Session Descriptions ....................................... 39 Participant & Subject Index .......................................................................267 Advertiser Index ..................................................................................................280 NWSASummerAd3.qxp_Layout 1 8/25/14 2:26 PM Page 1 Ms. Community Events C at NWSA: in the Classroom Ms. Reception Honoring Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D. Spelman College Friday, November 14, 5:30–6:30 pm It’s never been easier to add the digital version of Ms. Exhibit Hall, Ms. Booth 103 magazine as a required text in your online, hybrid and classroom courses in women’s studies. Faculty and Ms. Sessions Writing for the Popular Press: graduate students register for free at A Ms. Workshop for Feminist Scholars MsintheClassroom.com, and receive unlimited Friday, November 14, 4:00-5:15pm Sheraton, Miramar-4 access to the ever-growing digital collection of Ms. Article Index (Dis)Gracing the Cover of Ms. Magazine: magazines, as well as a complete and The Fierce Debates over “Beyonce’s Instructors’ Guides. Ms. provides cutting edge Fierce Feminism” Janell Hobson, Ph.D., analysis of contemporary issues using intersectional University at Albany, SUNY and transnational lenses. Ms. in the Classroom pro- Saturday, November 15, 4:00 – 5:15pm PRCC, 208-B vides a total feminist learning experience. Visit the Ms. in the Classroom Booth • Meet Ms. editors & faculty using Ms. in their classes • Pick up the latest copies of Ms. • See a demonstration of Ms. in the Classroom Exhibit Hall, Booth 104 MsintheClassroom.com Email Program Director Karon Jolna, Ph.D.: [email protected] President’s Welcome Fall 2014 Dear Colleagues, As National Women’s Studies Association president and conference co-chair, I am delighted to welcome you to Feminist Transgressions. We have nearly 2,000 registrants and more than 500 breakout sessions, making NWSA 2014 our largest conference ever! I want to highlight two important changes we have made to accommodate this amazing turnout of feminist scholars: wwThe general conference opens on Thursday, November 13 at 1 PM and continues through Sunday, November 16 at 1:15 PM, so plan to arrive early and stay through Sunday to be sure you don’t miss any cutting- edge sessions. wwbell hooks’ keynote address will take place from 7-9 PM on Friday, November 14. Note that the Program Administration and Development, Women’s Center, and Women of Color Leadership Project pre-conference events will take place as always from 9-5 PM on Thursday, November 13. The conference endeavors to take up the histories, geographies, affective dimensions, and political stakes of various feminist insubordinations in the spaces they occupy: intellectual and institutional, local and global, public and intimate, by choice and under duress. Mobilizing the multivalent concept of transgression helps reframe interrogations and impositions into those locations where we labor, love, defy, resist, protest, play, create, and/or celebrate. Our meeting location in San Juan, Puerto Rico provides an important opportunity to imagine the potentials of feminist transgressions around questions of indigeneity, empire, the citizen subject, militarism, and ongoing strategies of resistance. The program committee and staff have worked hard to provide a dynamic program, which I hope you will find both thought-provoking and invigorating. As I move to the conclusion of my term as president of the association, I must underscore that I remain excited, as ever, about NWSA’s future and the role we can play together in its growth, and once again I welcome you to the conference. Sincerely, Yi-Chun Tricia Lin NWSA President 2012-2014 Professor of Women’s Studies Southern Connecticut State University NOVEMBER 13–16, 2014 | SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 7 KEYNOTE ADDRESS 8 2014 NWSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Keynote Address: bell hooks FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014 When Dr. hooks published her first book, And There We Wept, in 1978, she released it under the name 7:00–9:00 PM “bell hooks” for two reasons. The first was to honor Ballroom A, 3rd Floor, Puerto Rico Convention Center her maternal grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks, whom she For more than three decades, bell hooks (née has described as being “known for her snappy and Gloria Watkins) has been recognized internationally as bold tongue.” Secondly, and more broadly, the name, a scholar, poet, author, and radical expressed in lowercase letters, de-emphasizes the author thinker. The dozens of books as person and instead focuses attention on the subject of and articles she has published her writing. span several genres, including Dr. hooks is the author of over thirty books, many of cultural and political analyses which have focused on issues of social class, race, and and critiques, personal memoirs, gender. In 2013, she published the award-winning poetry poetry collections, and children’s collection Appalachian Elegy and the critical text, Writing books. Her writings cover topics Beyond Race. Most recently, hooks published “Dig Deep: of gender, race, class, spirituality, A Response to Lean In” which appeared as a special teaching, and the significance of feature for The Feminist Wire. She continues to cultivate media in contemporary culture. According to Dr. hooks, intellectual community dialogues by hosting dynamic these topics must be understood as interconnected events through The bell hooks Institute. in the production of systems of oppression and class domination. NWSA WELCOME RECEPTION Dr. hooks has appeared in documentary films. She has been celebrated as one of our nation’s leading public 9:00–10:30 PM intellectuals by The Atlantic Monthly and listed as one 3rd Floor, Puerto Rico Convention Center of Utne Reader’s “100 Visionaries Who Could Change All conference attendees are welcome at the NWSA Your Life.” She is a charismatic speaker who divides her sponsored welcome reception immediately after the time between teaching, writing, and lecturing around keynote. A limited number of books will be available for the world. sale and signing by Dr. bell hooks. NOVEMBER 13–16, 2014 | SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 9 PLENARY SESSIONS 10 2014 NWSA ANNUAL CONFERENCE Plenary Session PLENARY SESSIONS PLENARY Creating Justice: Caribbean Scholarship and Activisms FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2014XXX 12:45–2:15 PM Ana-Maurine Lara, PhD is a national award-winning rd novelist and poet. Her publications Ballroom A, 3 Floor Puerto Rico Convention