The 14th Annual Conference of The Association of October 24-26, 2008 Literary Scholars Sheraton Society Hill Hotel Critics and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Literature Titles from Oxford Journals www.adaptation.oxfordjournals.org www.camqtly.oxfordjournals.org www.english.oxfordjournals.org www.alh.oxfordjournals.org www.cww.oxfordjournals.org ADAPTATION AMERICAN LITERARY THE CAMBRIDGE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH Adaptation provides an HISTORY QUARTERLY WOMEN’S WRITING Published on behalf of international forum to Covering the study of US The Cambridge Quarterly CWW assesses writing The English Association, theorise and interrogate the literature from its origins was established on the by women authors from English contains essays phenomenon of literature through to the present, principle that literature is an 1970 to the present. 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It field of English literature of literature, from ancient to inviting both close textual is devoted principally to and language. Emphasis modern, in all languages. analysis and broader English language and is on historical scholarship theoretical speculation as literature, lexicography, rather than interpretative ways of exploring how history, and scholarly criticism, though fresh religion is embedded antiquarianism. evaluation of writers and within culture. their work are also offered. LitJnlsSept08_RESEIZED.indd2 2008 ALSC CONFEREN 1 CE PROGRAM 6/10/08 10:49:38 Presenting Partners for 2008 Conference Table of Contents 4 ALSC Featured Presenters 5 Schedule of Events 7 Hotel Map, Presenters 13 Dining and Entertainment in Philadelphia Major Conference Support 15 ALSC Council, Officers, and Committees Daniel & Joanna S. Rose Major Grants 2008 ALSC Fund Donors Literary Partner Guardian Helper (Up to $99) The Lynde and Harry ($1,000 to $2,499) ($100-$249) Anonymous Gift (4) James R. Bridgeland Anonymous Gift (1) Brian J. Buchanan Bradley Foundation Daniel Rose Morris Dickstein Susan Bullock Leila E. B. Luce James Engell Katherine Butler The Louise Taft Reginald Gibbons Christina Emrick Semple Foundation Rachel Hadas Anita Feldman Janice P. and John Stephen Merriam Major In-Kind Donations of H. Hall Foley Titan ($500-$999) Dexter Jeffries James Geisendorfer Christopher Ricks Marnie Pomeroy Susan Dorrance Facilities and Services Rudolph S. Rasin Kopecek Walter E. Rex Mary Anne O’Neil Hero ($250-$499) Roger H. Schultz Roger L. Parsons Rosanna Warren Frederick T. Speers Adelaide Russo Michael Wood Matt D. Uhler John W. Velz William Vesterman Association Legal Services 2008 Premium Members Commonwealth Promotion/Betty Fulton Patron Level Rachel Hadas Marina Warner Millicent Bell George Held Rosanna Warren McDermott, Will & Emery Maxine Hartley Dexter Jeffries Daniel Webster Lisa Rodensky Sung Ryol Kim Joshua Weiner Margaret Soltan Timothy Kirk Milton L. 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Stewart Jennifer and Joseph Edwin Frank Linda K. Stillman Palladino 2008 Gift Membership Donors Bruce M. Gans Ernest Suarez Sid and Caren Silvester Thomas P. Gardner Matt D. Uhler Mark and Anya Taylor Robert A.D. Grant Joseph Urbas Christopher Ricks a Rosanna Warren William Green Patricia Wallace 3 Philadelphia, October 24-26 Featured Presenters FEATURED SPEAKER FRiday EVENING READERS Jhumpa Lahiri Jane Hirshfield J.D. McClatchy Joyce Carol Oates Edmund White Photo © 2007 Elena Seibert Photo by Nick Rosza Photo by James Hamilton Photo by Marion Ettlinger Photo by Sophie Bassouls 2008 Conference Committee Chair John Talbot Brigham Young University Saskia Hamilton Barnard College Jack Kolb University of California, Los Angeles Christopher Ricks Boston University Rosanna Warren Boston University Susan Wolfson ALSC owes a great debt of gratitude to our Princeton University conference committee chairman, John Talbot, Michelle Yeh and the members of his committee. It is their University of California, Davis hard work, generosity, leadership, and vision that made this year’s conference possible. 4 2008 ALSC CONFERENCE PROGRAM Schedule of Events Friday, October 24, 2008 Saturday, October 25, 2008 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Registration ...............................................................Ballroom Foyer Exhibits .............................................................................Cook Room 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m.–10:15 a.m. Exhibits .............................................................................Cook Room CONCURRENT SEMINARS Interpreting the Shifting Texts of Dickinson 2:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m. and/or Whitman .................................................... Shippen Room Sappho and Her Afterlife: Performance, Reception, and Convener: Don Share (Poetry magazine) Translation ..................................................................Ballroom CD Jessica Beard (University of California, Santa Cruz): “‘Bound—a Convener: Ellen Greene (University of Oklahoma) trouble—’: Literature, the Archive, the Canon, and the Classroom” Sarah Barnsley (University of London): “Sappho, Mary Barnard and Owen Boynton (Cornell University): “Omitting Ellipses: Whitman’s American Modernism” Losses from ’55” Andre Lardinois (Radboud University): “New Philology and the New Archie Burnett (Boston University): “Editing Posthumously” Sappho” James W. Chichetto (Stonehill College): “Editing Dickinson” Holt Parker (University of Cincinnati): “Sappho on Stage” Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University): “DIY Dickinson: Fake Diane Rayor (Grand Valley State University): “The New Sappho and Fascicles, or, A Teaching Edition” Issues of Translation” E. Thomas Finan (Boston University): “Visions and Re-Visions: The Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Johns Hopkins University): “Archaic Song- Whole and the Part in Editing Dickinson and Whitman” making and Anonymous Lyric Compositions” Martin Greenup (Harvard University): “Title divine - is mine!” Marc Mancinelli (Sterling High School): “Whitman: Poet of The