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Program of the 2018 Convention New York City 4–7 January
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Officers FOR THE TERM ENDING 7 JANUARY 2018
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Diana Taylor New York University
First Vice President
Anne Ruggles Gere University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Second Vice President
Simon E. Gikandi Princeton University
Executive Director
Paula M. Krebs
Executive Council FOR THE TERM ENDING 7 JANUARY 2018
Brian Croxall Brown University
Gaurav G. Desai University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Margaret R. Higonnet University of Connecticut, Storrs
Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting Vanderbilt University FOR THE TERM ENDING 6 JANUARY 2019
Emily Apter New York University
David Palumbo-Liu Stanford University
Vicky Unruh University of Kansas FOR THE TERM ENDING 12 JANUARY 2020
Angelika Bammer Emory University
Lenora Hanson University of Wisconsin, Madison
David Tse-chien Pan University of California, Irvine
Rafael A. Ramirez Mendoza University of California, Los Angeles FOR THE TERM ENDING 10 JANUARY 2021
Eric Hayot Penn State University, University Park
Evie Shockley Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Dana A. Williams Howard University
Trustees of Invested Funds Malcolm B. Smith (Managing Trustee) New York, New York
Domna C. Stanton New York, New York
Catharine R. Stimpson New York, New York
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About the MLA Convention
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Exhibitors
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Floor Plan of the Exhibit Area
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Map of New York Hotels
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Individual Convention Program
Indexes 794
Sessions Open to the Public 794
Plenaries and Linked Sessions
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Special Events
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Other Sessions Open to the Public
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Forum Sessions
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MLA-Sponsored Sessions
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Working Groups
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Allied Organization Sessions
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Subject Index to All Sessions
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Program Participants
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Thursday, 4 January (sessions 1–196)
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Friday, 5 January (sessions 197–452)
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Saturday, 6 January (sessions 453–717)
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Sunday, 7 January (sessions 719–830)
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Forum Executive Committees
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Index of Advertisers
Cover: Interior view of the Statue of Liberty. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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HE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, FIRST HELD IN 1883, is an annual gathering of teachers and scholars in the ield of language and literature study. he convention enables members of the profession to share their ideas and research with colleagues from other universities and colleges. Sessions will be in the New York Hilton Midtown and the Sheraton New York Times Square; the exhibit hall and the MLA Career Center will be in the New York Hilton Midtown. Sessions begin at 12:00 noon on 4 January, and there are workshops at 8:30 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. The last sessions will end at 1:15 p.m. on 7 January. Convention sessions are organized by MLA members, but nonmembers are welcome to attend. All participants—members and nonmembers alike—must pay registration fees. Registrants receive badges, which entitle convention attendees to gain admittance to sessions, the MLA Career Center, and the exhibit hall. Registrants who lose their badges may purchase replacements at the registration areas.
Sessions Most sessions at the 2018 MLA convention were arranged by the membership at large, either through the association’s forums or by individual members. Attendance is open to all convention registrants, but only current MLA members may organize or participate formally in sessions. On occasion, the membership requirement is waived for individuals whose main interests are in other disciplines. he kinds of sessions arranged for this year’s convention are described below. Forum Sessions MLA forums encompass the scholarly and professional concerns of the association; to this end, their executive committees advise
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o n s p e c i i c r e s e a r c h a n d p e d a g o g i c a l n e e d s, p r o p o s e t o t h e M LA Executive Council programs that might be undertaken on behalf of their forums, compile information of interest to their members for publication in MLA periodicals or in special mailings, and elect forum representatives to serve in the MLA Delegate Assembly. Members who have suggestions for a forum’s sessions or who would like to participate in those sessions should correspond with the 2018 secretary of the appropriate forum, since 2018 secretaries become chairs for the 2019 convention (see the list of executive committee members that follows the sessions listing). For forums approved in 2017, the executive committee members will be listed on the MLA Web site in January 2018.
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-meetings/), governing the organization of these sessions and should observe the deadlines for 2018–19 announced in the Fall MLA Newsletter and on the MLA Web site. Proposals for special sessions must be submitted on the forms provided for this purpose; the forms and other useful information about submitting a proposal will be available on the MLA Web site. Allied Organization Sessions Other scholarly, business, or social meetings are arranged in conjunction with the MLA convention by oicially recognized allied organizations. Typically, these organizations are learned societies or professional associations whose purposes are closely allied with those of the MLA.
Plenaries Arranged by forums or individual members, plenaries are meetings on topics of broad interest. he MLA executive director, with the assistance of the Program Committee, has inal responsibility for approving plenaries. Special Sessions MLA members whose scholarly or professional interests are not adequately accommodated through convention programs arranged by the forums may propose special sessions. These sessions are the most specialized of all convention meetings and are intended to enable participants to exchange ideas on speciic topics. Members who wish to organize a special session for the 2019 convention should carefully read the guidelines, available on the MLA Web site (www.mla.org/organizing
Forums Beginning with the 2016 convention, entities formerly known as divisions and discussion groups have become forums, and new forums that were approved since then are now sponsoring sessions at the meeting. Sessions previously called forums are now called plenary sessions. A list of the forums is available on the MLA Web site (www.mla .org/ Membership/Forums/). Organizing Sessions for 2019 Please see the Procedures for Organizing Meetings on the MLA Web site (www.mla .org/ organizing-meetings/) for further details on all types of sessions. All program copy is due 1 April 2018 for the 2019 convention in Chicago.
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Please check the Convention Daily, available on-site and online, for updates to session information and more. Visit the Information for Attendees page for further details on convention information and services (www.mla.org/Information -for-Attendees).
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Registration and Housing All persons wishing to participate in or attend meetings or use convention services must register for the convention.
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Membership in the MLA
Registration Refunds
Individuals who join the association while registering for the convention are entitled to register at members’ rates. For the convenience of those who would like to join the MLA, as well as for continuing members who would like to renew, a membership desk will be located in the registration and welcome center.
Requests for refunds of registration fees must be made in writing, accompanied by unused convention badges, sent to the head of convention programs at the MLA office, and postmarked no later than 5 January 2018. Refunds requested ater 5 January 2018 will not be granted. A $25 service fee will be deducted from all refunds.
Fees All registration fees are in US dollars. Early registration fees from 7 September through 2 October are as follows: regular members, $185; regular members outside the United States and Canada, $90; graduate student members, $55; emeriti members, $90; unemployed members and members employed part-time, $60. Registration fees from 3 October through 5 December are as follows: regular members, $220; regular members outside the United States and Canada, $90; graduate student members, $55; emeriti members, $90; unemployed members and members employed part-time, $60; nonmembers, $285; student nonmembers, $80. Registration fees after 6 December are as follows: regular members, $265; regular members outside the United States and Canada, $110; graduate student members, $65; emeriti members, $110; unemployed members and members employed part-time, $70; nonmembers, $320; student nonmembers, $90. Registrations will be accepted throughout December, but programs (for nonmembers) and badges may not be sent. On-Site Registration Attendees who have not registered may register during the convention at the registration area in the New York Hilton (Promenade, second loor). he registration area will be open on 4 January from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., on 5 and 6 January from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and on 7 January from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Hotels Hotel rooms at the special MLA rates are available only to persons who are registered for the convention. Each convention registrant can reserve one hotel room. Identification You may need to have a government-issued photo ID when you check into your hotel. Security personnel may ask to see your hotel room key or may ask that you be accompanied by a hotel guest with a room key. Transportation to and in New York City MLA convention hotels are located in midtown Manhattan. Program Online and Convention App A searchable program for the convention is available online. You can also download the MLA convention app, through which you can create a personal convention schedule and access session information, maps, the list of exhibitors, and other convention details. Policies Audio- and Videotaping at Sessions Neither audiotaping nor videotaping of sessions is normally permitted. Occasional exceptions may be made for members of the media taping short segments designed to convey the convention atmosphere. Such
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arrangements must be made through the press oice and require the consent of all speakers at a session. When taping is approved, a representative of the media staf will accompany the reporter and crew. he session organizer will announce to the audience that audio- or videotaping will take place during a part of the session. Only background taping is allowed, not the taping of an entire session. Requests to ilm the convention as part of a creative or documentary project must have been submitted to the Executive Council by 13 October. Badges Badges are required for admission to convention sessions, the exhibit hall, and the MLA Career Center. Badge holders are available at the MLA registration and welcome center, where attendees can also replace lost badges for $20. Fragrance The Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession reminds attendees that refraining from using scented products will help ensure the comfort of everyone at the convention. Guest Passes All MLA members and members of the profession that the MLA serves must register to participate in or attend sessions. A convention speaker may obtain a pass for a guest who has no professional interest in language or literature; the pass is valid only to hear a presentation given by that speaker at a single session. he speaker must request the pass at the MLA registration and welcome center on the day of the session, before the center closes. he speaker must provide his or her name, session details (session number, room, date, and time), and the guest’s name. Passes may not be requested by guests of speakers or by MLA members who have not registered for the convention.
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MLA convention registrants may obtain free passes to the exhibit hall for guests they accompany in the hall. Persons who are not registered for the convention and who are not accompanied by registrants may purchase a one-day pass to the exhibit hall for $10. hese passes are available at the exhibit registration booth, New York Hilton (Promenade, second loor). MLA’s Policies against Discrimination and Harassment he MLA prohibits discrimination in employment, including discrimination in the form of harassment, against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Sexual harassment (such as unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, or other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature) is a specific type of discriminatory harassment and is prohibited. he MLA has policies in place to ensure that any violations involving MLA employees will be handled in an appropriate manner. If you believe you have been subjected to unlawful discrimination by an MLA employee, please contact Arlene Barnard, Terrence Callaghan, or Angela Gibson. The MLA reminds participants in the convention that federal law prohibits discrimination in employment, including discrimination in the form of harassment, against any person. Please ensure that all individuals in your organization who are participating in the MLA’s convention as your representatives are made aware of and understand that they must comply with applicable law. Reading in Absentia To encourage discussion and dialogue among panelists and attendees at convention sessions,
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vention Daily prints special notices, changes in schedule, and brief reports on convention activities and appears hursday, Friday, and Saturday during the convention. Copies are available free at the MLA registration and welcome center; the 4 January issue will appear on the MLA Web site before the convention.
Smoking Smoking is prohibited in most public places in New York City. On-Site Resources Childcare MLA members who are registered for the convention and use childcare services provided by one of the convention hotels or another service are eligible for reimbursement. he MLA has funds available for reimbursement of up to $400 each to registered members who use childcare during convention hours. If more requests are received than can be reimbursed with available funds, preference will be given to graduate students and members in lower-income categories. Members should submit a request for reimbursement, along with supporting documentation such as a receipt from a childcare service, no later than 27 January 2018 to Karin Bagnall, Head of Convention Programs, Modern Language Association, 85 Broad Street, suite 500, New York, NY 10004-2434. Nursing Mothers. Space is available in the New York Hilton (Concourse H, Concourse level) and Sheraton New York (Turtle Bay, lower lobby) during meeting hours for those who require it. Convention Guide and Convention Daily The Convention Guide, containing city and hotel maps and providing general information pertinent throughout the convention, will be available as a PDF on the MLA Web site and as a handout at the convention. he Con-
Disabilities, Facilities and Services for Persons with he MLA is committed to making arrangements that allow all members of the association to participate in the convention. Stacey Courtney coordinates arrangements for persons with disabilities. Desks for Attendees with Disabilities. here will be desks in the MLA registration and welcome center at the New York Hilton (Promenade, second loor) and at the Sheraton New York stafed with personnel who can provide assistance to convention attendees with disabilities. Meeting Rooms. Meeting rooms at the convention are accessible by elevator, and the doors are wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs. Hotel Rooms. To reserve hotel rooms that are speciically equipped for persons with permanent or temporary disabilities, participants must have checked the appropriate boxes on the convention registration and housing reservation forms or contacted Stacey Courtney in the MLA convention oice by 17 November. Transportation. Complimentary transportation services will be available during convention meeting hours to transport attendees with disabilities. Details will be available closer to the convention. Sessions. Speakers are asked to bring five copies of their papers, even in draft form, for the use of members who wish to follow the written text. Speakers who use handouts should prepare some copies in a large-print format (14- to 16-point type size). Speakers
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should indicate whether they want their papers and handouts returned. Sign language interpreters and real-time captioning may be requested in advance. he deadline to arrange for either service is 17 November, though the convention office will make every effort to accommodate late requests. To arrange for either of these services, write or call Stacey Courtney in the MLA convention oice. Scooter Rentals. For navigating the convention more easily, scooters can be rented in advance from Scootaround (888 441-7575 or locations.scootaround.com/MLA). Friends of Bill W. Madison Suite 1 in the Sheraton New York (fifth f loor) is set aside for the Friends of Bill W. throughout convention hours. Headquarters Offices Headquarters offices will be located in the New York Hilton (Green Room, fourth loor) and the Sheraton New York (Bryant Park, lower level). he oices will be open on 4 January from 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., on 5 and 6 January from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and on 7 January from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lounges An area furnished with comfortable chairs and tables where members may congregate for discussion or relaxation will be provided in the New York Hilton (Promenade, third loor) and Sheraton New York (Lenox Ballroom, second loor). A graduate student lounge will be located in the New York Hilton (Trianon Rendezvous, third loor) and will be open on 4, 5, and 6 January from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on 7 January from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. MLA Registration and Welcome Center General questions about the convention and the association will be answered at the MLA
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registration and welcome center in the New York Hilton (Promenade, second f loor). The center will be open on 4 January from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., on 5 and 6 January from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and on 7 January from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. Press Office The press office is located in the New York Hilton (East, fourth loor). Speaker Ready Rooms Space in the New York Hilton (Morgan, second loor) and Sheraton New York (Carnegie West, third loor) has been reserved to allow speakers to run through their audiovisual presentations before their sessions. Those who have computer presentations are strongly encouraged to test their presentations in the speaker ready room during convention hours. Please contact Deirdre Henry (dhenry@mla .org) with audiovisual questions. Requests for audiovisual equipment were due 1 April; we regret that we are unable to accommodate late requests. Twitter We encourage attendees to tweet sessions using the convention hashtag (#mla18) and session hashtags (e.g., #s441). “Who’s Here” Directory The “Who’s Here” directory will be posted in the members’ lounges in the New York Hilton and Sheraton New York. The directory will include the names and convention addresses of persons who make hotel reservations through the housing bureau or send their local addresses to the MLA oice before 12 December. Only the names of hotels listed on the convention housing form or local addresses are listed. Members are advised to check their own “Who’s Here” listings for
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accuracy and to make any necessary revisions. he information used to compile the list comes from the housing service, not from the MLA. hose who wish not to be listed in the “Who’s Here” directory can make that request on the convention registration form. Wi-Fi Access he MLA is providing free wireless Internet access in the meeting rooms and public areas of the New York Hilton and Sheraton New York. MLA Career Center The MLA Career Center (New York Hilton, Americas II, third loor) will be open on 4 January from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., on 5 and 6 January from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and on 7 January from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. A list of available positions will be posted, and a counseling service for job candidates will be available in the interview area on 6 and 7 January. An interviewers’ sign-in ile will be maintained. Space will be available for interviews, but candidates and interviewers are urged to arrange interviews in advance. Job candidates are reminded that almost no unscheduled interviews take place at the convention. herefore, members are advised not to attend the convention for the sole purpose of seeking employment if they do not have scheduled interviews.
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MLA Career Center. Once you know where the interviewer is staying, you can call the hotel information desk and be connected with the interviewer’s hotel room. (For reasons of safety, hotel staff members will not give guests’ room numbers to callers.) If the interviewer is not in, use the hotel’s message facilities. A message let in a hotel mailbox will be lashed on the guest’s room telephone. If the person is not listed in the “Who’s Here” directory, check the Program Participants section of the convention program to see whether that interviewer is speaking at or chairing a session and can be reached at a speciic time and place or ask an MLA Career Center staf member for help. Exhibits The exhibit hall (New York Hilton, Rhinelander Gallery, second f loor, and Americas I, third f loor) is open from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on 5 and 6 January and from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on 7 January. Visit nearly one hundred exhibit booths representing the latest publications and a variety of materials and services of interest to teachers, scholars, and students of language and literature. Admission to the exhibit area is restricted to persons wearing badges or carrying appropriate passes. To view a list of the 2018 exhibitors, go to page 790; visit www.mla .org/Convention/ MLA-2018/MLA -Exhibit-Hall for additional information.
For Prearranged Interviews Consult the interviewers’ sign-in file in the MLA Career Center to ind out where your interview is scheduled to take place. Allow yourself ample time to obtain this information. If your interview is scheduled for the interview area, ask an MLA Career Center staf member for the table number. If the interview is scheduled in a hotel room or if the interviewer has not signed in, consult the “Who’s Here” directory near the
MLA PubCentral Visit MLA PubCentral in the New York Hilton (Rhinelander Gallery, second floor) for everything related to the MLA’s publications and digital initiatives programs. Shop for MLA products—including the new edition of the ML A Handbook—at the booth, explore the MLA International Bibliography and update your ORCID proile with Biblink, update your MLA Commons proile and learn
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about Humanities Commons and the Commons Open Repository Exchange (CORE), and browse the winners of the MLA’s publication prizes all in one central location. Event Highlights MLA Awards Ceremony The awards ceremony will take place at 7:00 p.m. on 6 January in the New York Hil ton (West Ballroom, third loor). First Vice President Anne Ruggles Gere will present the MLA Publication Prizes; Executive Director Paula M. Krebs will present the MLA International Bibliography Fellowship Awards, the seal of approval from the Committee on Scholarly Editions, and the American Lit erature Society’s Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies; ADFL President William Nichols will present the ADFL Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession; ADE President Emily Todd will present the ADE Francis Andrew March Award; and President Diana Taylor will pre sent the MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement. See page 952 for event details. he session is open to the public and will be followed by a reception. Presidential Address
he Presidential Address will take place at 6:45 p.m. on 5 January in the Sheraton New York (Metropolitan Ballroom East, second f loor). Executive Director Paula M. Krebs will report on the association’s 2017 activi ties, and President Diana Taylor will deliver the Presidential Address. The session is open to the public and will be followed by a reception. Presidential Plenary The Presidential Plenary will take place at 3:30 p.m. on 5 January in the New York Hil ton (West Ballroom, third loor).
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MLA Style Workshops On 6 January, MLA editors will lead two workshops on documenting sources and crediting the work of others. From 10:15 to 11:30 a.m. in the New York Hilton (Clinton, second loor), MLA staf editors will provide an indepth explanation of the method for documenting sources explained in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. From 1:45 to 3:00 p.m. in the New York Hilton (Clinton, second loor), editors will provide an overview of paraphrasing and quoting sources, craft ing intext citations, and using notes in MLA style. Both sessions are suitable for librarians and teachers as well as for students at all levels. Delegate Assembly Established in 1971 as an elected body repre senting the membership at large, the Delegate Assembly, composed of over 270 delegates, de bates issues of concern to the membership and advises the Executive Council on the associa tion’s policies, direction, goals, and structure. An open hearing of the Delegate Assem bly, at which MLA members may present their views, will be held at 10:15 a.m. on 5 January in the New York Hilton (Mercury Ballroom, third f loor). This meeting is open only to MLA members. Please remember to wear your badge. Members who wish to submit emer gency resolutions to the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee should attend the open hearing on resolutions on 5 January at 12:00 noon in the New York Hilton (Mercury Ball room, third loor). his meeting is open only to MLA members. Please remember to wear your badge. he deadline for submitting emer gency resolutions to the presider is 12:30 p.m. Formal deliberations of the assembly, at which any MLA member can speak (sub ject to strict time limits), are scheduled for 12:30 p.m. on 6 January in the New York Hil ton (East Ballroom, third loor). his meet ing is open only to MLA members. Please remember to wear your badge.
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Procedures for submitting resolutions, which are general statements of membership sentiment, are described in article 11.C.3 of the MLA constitution and in “Preparing Resolutions for the Delegate Assembly” and “Checklists for Submitting Resolutions,” on the MLA Web site. Professional Development Connected Academics his MLA initiative aims to serve the professional needs of those who pursue advanced degrees in the humanities and offer new possibilities for integrating the values of humanistic study into society. About a dozen sessions related to the project will take place at the convention.
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as you crat an application so that it has the greatest chance of being funded. NEH Information On 6 January from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the New York Hilton (Gramercy West, second floor), a senior program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) highlights recent awards and outlines current funding opportunities. In addition to emphasizing grant programs that support individual and collaborative research and educational opportunities, this workshop includes information on new developments at the NEH and ofers applicants strategies for submitting comptetitve grant proposals. Future Conventions
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Officers and experienced editors who are members of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals will be available for consultation and advice for other editors and scholars who have questions about what to expect in journal submission, peer review, and publishing processes. Beginning scholars (graduate students and entry-level professors) are particularly welcome.
Go to the Calls for Papers page on the MLA Web site to submit (Nov. 2017–28 Feb. 2018) or review (Nov. 2017–31 Mar. 2018) calls for papers for the 2019 MLA convention in Chicago.
Funding in the Humanities Workshop On 5 January from 12:00 noon to 1:15 p.m. in the New York Hilton (Sutton South, second loor), a workshop, primarily geared toward graduate students and junior faculty members, introduces the diferent kinds of grants that are available for scholars in the humanities and how to go about finding them. Facilitators discuss some things to bear in mind
Locations he 134th MLA Annual Convention will take place in Chicago from 3 to 6 January 2019. he 135th convention will take place in Seattle from 9 to 12 January 2020. The 136th convention will take place in Toronto from 7 to 10 January 2021. Organizing Sessions Forms and instructions for organizing sessions for the 2019 convention in Chicago will be available on the MLA Web site in March 2018.
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Individual Convention Program This form has been provided to assist attendees in planning their schedules for the 2018 MLA convention.
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Sessions Open to the Public PLENARIES AND LINKED SESSIONS he Matter of Writing (237) he Presidential Plenary: #States of Insecurity (360) Rights under Repression (517) States of Insecurity: Accepting Vulnerability, Permeability, and Instability (597)
SPECIAL EVENTS Falling for Prepositions, a Performance (450) he Flesh of History: States of Insecurity across Borders (717)
OTHER SESSIONS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC he Humanities and Public Policy (89) Investing in America’s Languages: On the AAAS Commission Report on Language Learning (319) Local Color to World Literature: An Interview with Jia Pingwa (331) Romantics at Two Hundred: 2018 Reads 1818 (368) he Presidential Address (441) MLA Style Workshop: Creating Works-Cited Lists with the MLA Core Elements (525) Carmen Boullosa and Eloy Urroz in Conversation (538) MLA Style Workshop: Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Citing Sources in the Text (589) A Conversation on the Intersection of the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Movements (678) MLA Awards Ceremony (706)
Each session at the convention has been assigned a number, roughly cor responding to the order in which the ses sions occur. In these lists, the numbers in parentheses refer to the session numbers within the chronological listing in the Pro gram (sessions 1–196 take place on Thurs day, 4 Jan.; sessions 197–452 take place on Friday, 5 Jan.; sessions 453–717 take place on Saturday, 6 Jan.; and sessions 719–830 take place on Sunday, 7 Jan.).
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Forum Sessions COMPARATIVE LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES (CLCS) CLCS Medieval (582, 789) CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern (181, 264, 539) CLCS 18th-Century (77, 279, 615) CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century (118, 327) CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century (160, 550, 637) CLCS Arthurian (300) CLCS Caribbean (640) CLCS Celtic (398, 669) CLCS Classical and Modern (722) CLCS European Regions (194, 515) CLCS Global Anglophone (23, 409, 516) CLCS Global Arab and Arab American (44A, 439, 511) CLCS Global Hispanophone (266) CLCS Global Jewish (257, 803) CLCS Global South (281, 400, 585) CLCS Hemispheric American (682) CLCS Mediterranean (556) CLCS Nordic (288)
GENRE STUDIES (GS) GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature (18, 298, 625) GS Comics and Graphic Narratives (173, 439, 729) GS Drama and Performance (86, 552) GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale (638) GS Life Writing (59, 355, 567) GS Noniction Prose (32, 283) GS Poetry and Poetics (473, 549, 804) GS Prose Fiction (10, 436, 774) GS Speculative Fiction (376) GS Travel Writing (196)
HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE PROFESSION (HEP) HEP Community Colleges (25) HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues (605) HEP Teaching as a Profession (130, 314)
LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND CULTURES (LLC) African LLC African to 1990 (286) LLC African since 1990 (258, 400, 481) Numbers in parentheses refer to session numbers in the Program.
American LLC Early American (172, 395, 688)
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LLC 16th-Century French (226, 501, 733) LLC 17th-Century French (526, 611, 826) LLC 18th-Century French (185, 265, 526) LLC 19th-Century French (142, 396) LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French (424, 463) LLC Francophone (458, 588)
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English LLC Old English (154, 491, 669, 816) LLC Middle English (247, 702, 789) LLC Chaucer (107, 437, 544) LLC 16th-Century English (113, 254, 437, 614) LLC Shakespeare (340, 507) LLC 17th-Century English (297, 365) LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English (630, 690) LLC Late-18th-Century English (343, 560, 784) LLC English Romantic (343, 475, 814) LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English (59, 161, 423, 683, 783) LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone (55, 274, 516)
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Korean LLC Korean (629, 778)
Latin American LLC Colonial Latin American (128, 460) LLC 19th-Century Latin American (174, 626) LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American (8, 249) LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic (349) LLC Mexican (305, 602, 827) LLC Puerto Rican (379)
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Slavic LLC Russian and Eurasian (394, 612, 697) LLC Slavic and East European (74, 289, 654)
Spanish and Iberian LLC Medieval Iberian (229, 397, 756) LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama (165, 353) LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose (120, 794) LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian (14, 545) LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian (677, 734)
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LANGUAGE STUDIES AND LINGUISTICS (LSL) LSL Applied Linguistics (67, 503) LSL General Linguistics (575) LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics (267) LSL Global English (477) LSL Language and Society (318, 621, 735) LSL Language Change (145, 623) LSL Linguistics and Literature (335, 822) LSL Romance Linguistics (83, 197) LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning (171, 635)
MEDIA STUDIES (MS) MS Opera and Musical Performance (653) MS Screen Arts and Culture (88, 420, 457, 811) MS Sound (428) MS Visual Culture (386, 404)
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RHETORIC, COMPOSITION, AND WRITING STUDIES (RCWS) RCWS Creative Writing (520, 657) RCWS History and heory of Composition (478) RCWS History and heory of Rhetoric (537, 801) RCWS Literacy Studies (184, 402, 691) RCWS Writing Pedagogies (66, 392)
THEORY AND METHOD (TM) TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing (619) TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography (35, 473) TM Language heory (168, 422) TM Libraries and Research (352) TM Literary and Cultural heory (317, 675, 787) TM Literary Criticism (104, 468) TM he Teaching of Literature (157, 312)
TRANSDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS (TC) TC Age Studies (541) TC Anthropology and Literature (591, 738) TC Cognitive and Afect Studies (44, 700) TC Digital Humanities (57, 184, 304, 583, 808) TC Disability Studies (90, 303, 569) TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities (679, 821) TC History and Literature (114) TC Law and the Humanities (221, 679) TC Marxism, Literature, and Society (573, 731) TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies (521) TC Memory Studies (364, 539) TC Philosophy and Literature (222, 819) TC Popular Culture (333, 462) TC Postcolonial Studies (152, 609, 662, 820) TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature (262, 807) TC Race and Ethnicity Studies (103, 366, 566, 758) TC Religion and Literature (69, 780) TC Science and Literature (284, 351, 827) TC Sexuality Studies (27, 399, 675) TC Translation Studies (179, 600, 697) TC Women’s and Gender Studies (405, 461, 793)
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Working Groups Comparative, National, and World Cinema (208, 534) Literature, Aesthetics, and Cultural Exchange between East Asia and Southeast Asia and Britain and North America in the Long Nineteenth Century (209, 524, 727) Race and the Victorians (210, 535) Nonhuman Forms (215, 522, 726) Psychoanalytic Insecurities (216, 523, 730) Marginality in Spanish heater (217, 532) Race and Aesthetics in French and Francophone Culture (250, 493, 773) Narrative Empathy, Insecurity, and the Humanities (251, 492, 772) heory and Praxis: Visual Media in the Classroom (253, 484, 765)
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Modern Greek Studies Association (263) Modernist Studies Association (182, 633) Nathaniel Hawthorne Society (78) National Council of Teachers of English (513) North American Heine Society (673) North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (665) Paul Claudel Society (309) Pirandello Society of America (372) Poe Studies Association (593) Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages (467) Reception Study Society (207, 498) Rhetoric Society of America (97) Robert Frost Society (277) Romanian Studies Association of America (674) Samuel Beckett Society (672) Simone de Beauvoir Society (269) Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch (290, 753) Society for Critical Exchange (79) Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature (51) Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (81) Society for Textual Scholarship (574) Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (455) Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (465) Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (166) Society for the Study of Southern Literature (20, 242) South Asian Literary Association (220) T. S. Eliot Society (135) horeau Society (100) Wallace Stevens Society (459) Western Literature Association (578) William Carlos Williams Society (201, 518) William Faulkner Society (530) William Morris Society (382) Women in French (687) Women in German (213) Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages (24, 613) Wordsworth-Coleridge Association (64, 645)
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Cultural Studies, Folklore, and Popular Culture
This index, which incorporates all sessions scheduled for the 2018 MLA convention, is designed to help attendees locate sessions by subject. Most of the headings chosen for the index are the obvious ones, reflecting traditional topics of general interest, and have, in many instances, been suggested by the program organizers. While some of the sessions have been cross- referenced, the number and complexity of programs have made it impossible to provide all crossreferences. Convention attendees are therefore advised to scan the entire index when attempting to locate a session.
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Drama Performing Resistance (46) Performance and the Modernist Archive (182) Dramaturgical Curiosities: Eugene O’Neill, Experimentation, and the New York Neo-Futurists (381) Political Pinter (577) hing Power Onstage: Drama, heater, and Posthuman Performativity (737)
Electronic Technology (Teaching, Research, and heory) Activism in the Humanities: Digital Projects for Public Engagement (57) Implementation Stories: Successes and Struggles in Digital Programming (113) Publishing at the Center of the Humanities (184) Digital Humanities as Critical University Studies (198) Activist Infrastructures: Vulnerable Collections and Minimal Computing (304) Varieties of Digital Humanities (347) Printable Pedagogy and 3-D heses (393) Teaching Early American Literature in the Digital Age: Crèvecœur’s Letters from an American Farmer, a Digital Critical Edition (497) Critical Infrastructure Studies (583) Modernism and Digital Archives: Aesthetics, Curation, Reading (633) Managing the Online Classroom: Challenges and Strategies (681) Critical Algorithm Studies (808)
Film, Television, and Other Media Transparent: Opacities of Space and Time (88) Comparative, National, and World Cinema (208, 534) We’re All Living Dead Now (457)
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Dramaturgies of the Ear: Listening to heory’s Scenes (653) Visualizing Violence in Contemporary States of Insecurity (741) Resurrecting Dead Worlds: Video Game Aesthetics and Posthuman Narratives (760) Lois Weber’s Shoes (1916) and American Naturalism (811)
History of the Book, Reception heory, Comparison with Other Media, and Performance Material Matters: Securing Archives and Other Library Resources (35) Insecure Periodicals (102) Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Opera in Literary Translation (357) Insecure Ephemera: Reading Lessons from Shakespeare to Twitter (388) Sound and Performance (428) Transnational Broadcasting: Sot Diplomacy and the Mediations of History (474) Insecure Receptions (498)
Literary Criticism and heory Queer Borders (27) Neurodiversity (44) New Realisms ater Postmodernism and Poststructuralism (68) Queer Faith, Queer Love (69) he Archive and the Repertoire at Fiteen (86) “Alternative Facts” and Fictions: Multiplicity and Indeterminacy in the Atermath of the 2016 Presidential Election (99) Literary Studies Today: What Is to Be Done? On Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History (123) Posthumanist Disability (146) Victorian Realism (161) Literary Analysis and the Unthinkable: Responses to Amitav Ghosh’s he Great Derangement (193) Psychoanalytic Insecurities (216, 523, 730) Psychoanalysis and Deleuze (262) he Politics of Sound in Postcolonial Studies (271) he Book History of heory (317) Keywords for Today and the Keywords Project (318) A Postictional Turn? Transformations in the Novel and Novel Criticism (330)
Subject Index to All Sessions
Capitalism and the Unconscious (337) Authoritarianism (374) “Carceracialization”: Prison, Race, Time (387) Writing AIDS in the Twenty-First Century (399) heorizing the Relation of Cognitive Literary Studies and Comparative Literature (429) Fictionality in Narrative heory: A Reexamination of Core Concepts (431) Confronting the Whiteness of Narratology (471) Fraught Logics of Natural Law (476) Narrative (and) heory in the Environmental Humanities (508) Against Empathy? (568) Nabokov and Correspondence (571) he Literary and the Secular (592) Literary Wordplay with Names (608) Aesthetic Outrage (631) Uneven and Combined Development and the Future of Literary Studies (662) Tendencies ater Tendencies (675) Realism and Production in the Long Nineteenth Century (683) Pierre Macherey (731) he Aterlives of Forms (775) Badiou’s Saint Paul (780) Institutional History of heory (787) he Language of Time (805) Site Speciics (821) he Madwoman in the Critic (823)
Psychoanalysis, the Academy, and the Self (301) Writing and Photography in the Modernism of the United States (326) S. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction (351) Literature and Science in the Age of “Alternative Fact”: he Example of Bruno Latour (389) Drawing on John Berger (404) Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities (511) Weak Environmentalism (564) Race, Resources, and Real Estate (573) heatrical Collaborations (599) Ignite Talk: Alison Bechdel on the Page, Onstage, and in heory (650) Legal Ecologies (679) “Humusities” for a Habitable Multispecies Muddle (806) Resistance in Psychoanalysis and Politics (807)
Nonictional Prose Noniction Prose in a “Post-Factual” World (283) Catished: Lies Online (355) New York Transit (567) he Future(s) of Literary Biography (818)
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Literature, Crisis, and the 1970s (41) he Historicist Turn of Literary Disability Studies (328) Gender, Representation, and Fascism (461) Paper Trails of Popular Revolt: States of Insecurity in the East Bloc (747)
Poetry Books in Multiple Versions: Editorial, Critical, and Pedagogical Issues (116) Contemporary Poetics and Race: Intersections in Place and Particularity (131) Queer per Verse (419) Poetry and Insecurity (473) Poetics of the Git (750) Poetry’s “We” (763) Poetry and Punctuation (804)
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Responding to Extinction (140) Satire Today (192)
Fictionality in a “Post-Fact” World (10) Infrastructure (436) Desire and Domestic Fiction ater hirty Years (641) Fictional Terrain: Insurgent Nationalism and the Global Novel (774)
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Literature and Other Arts, Humanities, Law, Psychology, Science, and Sociology Anthropocene Reading (84) “Papers, Please”: Travel Documents and Travel Writing (196) Law, Literature, and Emotion (221) Narrative Empathy, Insecurity, and the Humanities (251, 492, 772) Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives (284)
Rhetoric and Rhetorical heory Contemplation of Keywords: Celebrating the Rhetoric Society of America’s Fitieth Anniversary (97) he Rhetoric of (New) Fascism (294)
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Translation Charting the Routes of South-South Translation in the Twentieth Century (179) Translation Markets: Comparative and Historical Perspectives (600) Bad Translation (697)
Writing Studies Gender and the Language of Business / the Business of Language (134) Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders (402) Writing Studies and Data (478) Transnational and Transmodal Retelling of Young People’s Literacy Narratives (691) Insecurity and Contingency: Writing Studies, Outcomes, and the Solidarity of Opportunity to Learn (762)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE General Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays (9) Digital Humanities in Practice: Caribbean Models (16) Publishing the Colony, Colonizing Publishing (48) Revisiting Typographical Interventions (73) Carceral States of Exception and Insecurity (103) Cultural Appropriation: Arrogation or Irrigation? (149) Social Medicine: Epidemics, Agents, Networks (189) Hannah Arendt: Totalitarianism and Totality (222) Canadian Exceptionalism (259) he World in Motion: Transnational Environmental Approaches to
Forced Movements, Migrations, and Refuge Seeking (281) Hearing Culture in Texts: Language in Use versus Speech Act heory (325) he Novel and the Poor (338) Refugee Memory (364) Planetary Life in the Contemporary Petrosphere (400) States of Asylum: Refugees and the City (401) Crats of World Literature: Materials, Genres, Forms (433) Strategic Presentism (468) he Nahda or Arab Renaissance (479) Meter, Rhyme, and Dialogue with the Other: Translating from Arabic, Russian, and Spanish into English (531) Women, Art, and Revolution on the Shores of the Mediterranean (556) Interdisciplinary Palestine: Poetry, Narrative, Institutionality (566) Gender Calling: Pronouns as a Comparative Problem (594) Epic and Performance (627) Redeining Self-Translation (636) Literary Universals (700) Democracy Now (722) Instigating Insecurity: he Presidential Executive Order and Muslim American Activism (776) Gender, Precarity, Materiality (793)
Medieval and Renaissance Vernacular Emotions and Women’s Poetry of the Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marguerite de Navarre, Gabrielle de Coignard, and Luisa de Sigea (115) he Sense of Touch in the Renaissance (143) Critical Semantics: New Transcultural Keywords (181) Precarious Bodies and Caring in Medieval Literature (202) Spies, Traitors, and Snitches (264) Early Modern Women and the Environment (465) Remembering the World in Early Modern Europe (539) Remaking Periodization (582)
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries New Philology, Media Ecology (77) Organicisms: Organizations (118) Insecure Enlightenment (129) Fabrications, Old and New (279) Organicisms: Organisms (327)
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Twentieth and TwentyFirst Century Poetics Out of Place (15) Afro-Asian Imaginaries and New and Old Imperialisms (37) Global Fashion (55) Rethinking Paul de Man (79) Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism at Twenty-Five (104) Strips of Modernity: Afect, Labor, and Identity in Early Comics (122) (Preix-)Politics: A Future Otherwise (160) European Regions: Progress in Literary Culture (194) Literary History ater the Nation? (274) Paris in Postwar Jewish Literary Memory (276) Specialisms in the Anxiety of the Global (291) Terrorism and Literature: Representing Political Violence in Poetry, Narrative, and Critical heory (311) Toward a Deinition of Postcolonial Biographical Fiction (336) Right To . . . / Right Not To . . . (386) When and Where Was Modernism? (409) Drone Warfare and Post-9/11 Cultural Practices (464) Exploring Black Identity in Raciolinguistic Terms (477) Into and out of Europe (515) International Women’s Writing during the Spanish Civil War: Archival Recoveries from Insecure Times (527) Queer Insurgencies (540) Approaching the American South and the Global South through Du Bois (550) South-South Translation and the Geopolitics and Geopoetics of Circulation (585) Narratives of Post–World War II Black German Adoption: Identity, History, and Cultural Imagination (616) Du Bois in a Comparative Context (637) Narratives of Resistance and Resilience in Southeast Asian Security Regimes (664)
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Futurity and Diference (693) Approaches to Teaching the Works of Orhan Pamuk (698) Mobilizing Memory (725) Rules and Ruling (819) Settler Colonialism (820)
LINGUISTICS General Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs, Pedagogy, and Peripateticism (145) Philology Old and New (168) he Language of Silence (422) Linguistics and Social Media (575) Language Change: Global (Im)Migration and Linguistic Insecurity (623) Exploring Literary and Nonliterary Texts (822)
English and American he Language of Populism (32) Reading and Responding to Literary Texts (335) Falling for Prepositions, a Performance (450) Subversive Punctuation: Coding Silenced Voices (704)
Foreign Languages Language Learning, Identity, and Intercultural Understanding (67) Service Learning in Teaching Spanish Language (83) Selected Topics in Romance Linguistics (197) New Research in Germanic Philology and Linguistics (267) Research on Advanced-Level SecondLanguage Composition (503)
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heory and Praxis: Visual Media in the Classroom (253, 484, 765) Teaching the Fragments: English Education, Democracy, and Digital Media (268) Blended Learning: Balancing Social Media and Face-to-Face Pedagogies (314) Teaching and Learning the Stories of Standing Rock and #noDAPL (324) Addressing Poverty, Silence, and Resistance in the Classroom (367) Blurring Boundaries: Designing an Interdisciplinary Humanities Curriculum (490) MLA Style Workshop: Creating Works-Cited Lists with the MLA Core Elements (525) Ways of Writing in High School and College (562) MLA Style Workshop: Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Citing Sources in the Text (589) Feminist Pedagogy in Digital Spaces (644) Open Pedagogy: Practices in Digital Citizenship and the Ethics of Care (694)
Language Empowering All Students of German (109) Social Justice in Language Teaching and Learning: Pedagogical Approaches (171) Research Informing Language Instruction to Improve Student Performance (604) Social Justice in Language Teaching and Learning: Curricular Approaches (635)
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TEACHING General Teaching Languages and Literatures Online: Key Principles for Course Design (2) Pre-Texts Workshop Series (4, 218, 494) Consulting on the English Major in Its Departmental Context (80) Critical Relection: Moving toward Conidence and Competence (130) Reducing Grade Insecurity: Grading Case Studies (191) Anxious Pedagogies: Negotiating Precarity and Insecurity in the Classroom (203)
he Teaching of Literature and the Public Humanities (157) Who Owns the Text in his Class? Open Pedagogy and Literary Studies (234) Why Teach Literature? (312) Reimagining Social Justice Concerns: Bringing Fantasy Fiction into the Classroom (671) Engaging Students: Strategies and Concerns (779) Teaching Representations of the First World War: Beyond Fussell (817)
Writing States of Insecurity: Digital Writing in the Post–2016 Election Era (66)
Challenges: High School and College Teacher Perspectives (141) Dangerous Certainty in Student Writing (231) Writing in the English Department: Models for Success (359) Writing across the Curriculum When the Curriculum Is the English Department (392) (Re)Shaping the First-Year College Writing Classroom in the Trump Era (426) States of Racialized Insecurity: Antiracist Literacies in Narratives, Pedagogies, and Community Investigations (513) New Directions for Teaching and Researching Technical Communication (579) Writing Insecurity, Writing in Security (621) Creative Pedagogies in Critical Settings (657)
THE PROFESSION General Advocating for Your Department (1) Marketing 101: How to Promote Your Academic Program or Event (3) Spark Talk: he OpEd Project (5) Administering Feminism: Leadership, Activism, and Diversity (24) Can his Canary Be Saved? (25) Global Arab Precarity and the Contemporary United States Academy: Race, Religion, Profession (44A) A Tool Kit for Doctoral Student Career Planning (47) Writing New Relationships: he Humanities and STEM (56) he Circuitous Path into Higher Administration (70) he Humanities and Public Policy (89) Terms of Employment: Gender and Negotiations (91) Careers beyond the Professoriat for Humanities PhDs: he Employer Perspective (101) Graduate Student Futures (124) When Scholarly Organizations Speak Out (126) Challenges and Opportunities of the New: Practical Advice for Creating Change in the Department and Beyond (144)
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Commonsense Information Security for Academics (158) Connected Academics: Building a Public Humanities PhD Program from the Ground Up (159) Academic Writing in Graduate School (180) Writing for a Broader Audience; or, Academics Are Writers, Too (200) Resisting Insecurity beyond the Academy (225) Lessons of the Connected Academics Proseminar on Careers (227) he Matter of Writing (237) Demystifying the Job Search Process (241) horstein Veblen’s he Higher Learning in America at One Hundred (248) Humanists in Tech (255) Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly (256) Open Hearing on Resolutions (285) Teaching at Teaching-Intensive Institutions (293) Funding in the Humanities: Practical Strategies (310) Precarity and Activism (342) Folklore Careers beyond and within Academia (344) he Identities, Politics, and Insecurities of Undocumented Peoples in the United States (345) Presidential Plenary: #States of Insecurity (360) Making the Most of Humanities Commons (362) A Real Say: Pushing the Limits of Shared Governance (380) 1968–2018: he Movement, the MLA, and the Current Moment (411) Pathways to the Public: Advancing Engagement and Impact in the Humanities (416) Hacking the Scholarly Worklow (440) he Presidential Address (441) Advancing the Field: Connecting Humanities Graduate Education and Community College Teaching (453) Digital Humanities Tools and Technologies for Students, Emerging Scholars, Faculty Members, Librarians, and Administrators (454) Sanctuary, Contingency, and the Campus as a Site of Struggle (467) What Tenured Professors Can Do about Adjunctiication (482)
Interviews in the Digital Age: Making the Most of First-Round Video Interviews (496) Rights under Repression (517) From CFP to Publication: Developing a Successful Conference Panel (533) State Universities of Insecurity (536) Connected Academics: What Students Want (548) Career Opportunities in Community Colleges (558) Communicating Transferable Skills and Humanities Expertise to Prospective Employers (563) MLA Delegate Assembly (580A) States of Insecurity: Accepting Vulnerability, Permeability, and Instability (597) Organizing from the Inside: Efecting Change for Adjuncts in Insecure Times (605) Learning through “Failure”: Feminism on Campus in the Years Ahead (613) Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop (622) Possibilities of the Public Humanities (624) Justice and Equity through the Immigrant Story (656) Humanities at a Professional School (658) Connected Academics: A Showcase of Career Diversity (666) Addressing Diversity in Academic Hiring (667) Bossy Dames: Poetics and Pragmatics of Feminist Leadership (695) MLA Awards Ceremony (706) Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity (739) How Shiting Conigurations Shape Experiences of High School Students Transitioning into College (743) Before #Resist: Judith Fetterley’s he Resisting Reader at Forty (749) Networking and Informational Interviews for Humanities PhDs (761) Flourishing in Diicult Times (771) Method and Critique in the Age of Metrics (777) Candid Conversations: Debt and the Humanities (795) Literary Criticism as Public Scholarship (828)
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English and American Preconvention Workshop on Career Directions for PhDs in English (6) Trans Studies and Disability Studies (90) Pedagogies of Excellence: HBCUs and the PhD Pipeline (334) he Creative Writer’s Obligation in the Age of ____ (520)
Foreign Languages Career Pathways for Job Seekers in Languages (7) Mentoring Workshop for Job Seekers in Languages (65) World Languages and Humanities Majors: Career Trajectories and Advocacy (98) Demonstration Interviews for Job Seekers in Languages (167) Foreign? Rethinking and Reconiguring the Spaces for the Study and Teaching of Language in Higher Education (239) Investing in America’s Languages: On the AAAS Commission Report on Language Learning (319) Understanding Vocabulary Learning and Teaching: Implications for Language Program Development (384) Disability Issues in the Profession: Negotiating between heory and Best Practices (390) Undergraduate Foreign Language Requirements (557) Celebrating One Hundred Years of Hispania (685)
Publishing and Editing How to Get Published (85) He Said WHAAT??!! Editing Oral Texts for Print Publication (252) he Function of the Print Scholarly Edition at the Present Time (332) Editing 101 (377) Publishing Trends and New Directions in Late-Nineteenthand Early-Twentieth-Century Studies (423) Editing Together: Coeditors and Guest Editors (555) Open Humanities 101 (610) Bicentennial Bits and Bytes: he Digital Frankenstein Project (632) Book Development Workshop: From Pitching an Idea to Finding a Publisher (670) Collaborative Authorship at Large Scale (723)
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Publishing Trends and New Directions in Victorian Studies (783)
Research and Bibliography Research and the MLA International Bibliography: From Scholarly Insecurities to Published Citations (94) he MLA International Bibliography as an Active Archive: Knowledge Creation for the Twenty-First Century (156) Partnerships beyond the Stacks: Collaborations between Scholars and Librarians in Research and Teaching (352) he Digital Future of Literary Archives (455) Memory and the Archive (510) New York as Text: Bibliographies and Geographies (619)
AFRICAN LITERATURES he Internet of Everything: African Literature in a Digital Age (108) Questioning Precarity in the Global South (258) Institutional Histories of African Literature (286) Twenty-First-Century African Writers (481) Afro-Natures and Afro-Futures: Speculation, Technology, and Environment in African Literature and Film (561) Archival Research in the Black Diaspora (661) Departure, Stay, and Return in Post-9/11 African Narratives of Migration (746)
AMERICAN LITERATURE General Southern States of Insecurity: he United States South during Crises (20) Late-Nineteenth-Century Panics (30) Precariousness and Women's Bodies (40) Young, Gited, and Black: Girlhood in Literatures of the African Diaspora (42) Edith Wharton’s New York (45) Indigenous Literary Security (58) “Mississippi Goddam!” Everywhere: he Ends of Southern and American Exceptionalisms (138)
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New York, Sanctuary Space (162) From Atlantic to Global (195) he Indigenous Archive (204) Humor and Satire in Online Formats and on Social Media (212) Black Literature Matters (223) he Tacky South (242) New Directions in Multiethnic American Literature (261) Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again” Revisisted (299) Blackness and Disability: A Special Issue of the African American Review (303) Latina/o New York (308) Copy and Repeat: Valuing the Nonoriginal in African American Literary History (320) Commonplace Books, Albums, and Scrapbooks (363) he Golden Door: Immigration, Illegitimacy, and Chicano/a Narrative (371) Mark Twain and heory: Leverage and Limits (385) Political Disappointment (403) he Work of the Anthology in American Literature (408) Serializing Justice (470) Frederick Douglass at Two Hundred: Literary Reconsiderations (506) Writing Nursing: Translating Practice into Literature (521) Sound Studies (547) Insecurities of the North American West (578) Editing Manuscripts: Transparency and Insecurities (617) Knowledge, Power, Creativity: Emerson and Literary Studies (639) Latina/o New York: Contemporary Authors Writing on or from New York (646) Cultures Claiming Writers (684) Activist #States: he United States South in Insecure Times (699) Performing Philosophy (745) Recalling the Person (752) Epic Spaces: Maps, Geography, and Movement in Medieval and Renaissance Epic (753) Nodes of Literacy: David Walker and Intertextuality (768) Digital Histories of the Book in America (791) Archipelagoes, Oceans, Americas (796) Framing New York City in Comics (810)
Before 1900 Music Human and Nonhuman before the Phonograph (62) Hawthorne and hings (78) horeau and Material Culture (100) Debilitating Spaces (148) Early American #BlackLivesMatter (172) Political Philosophy in Melville (219) Early Drama in the Americas (273) he Art of Memoirs: Henry James’s Recollections, Recollections of Henry James (278) Eyewitnessing and Early American Literature (302) Biography, Race, and NineteenthCentury American Culture: Challenges, Methods, and Goals (339) Religion and the Early American Novel (395) Revisiting Transatlanticism: American Women in Circulation (435) he Queer Nadir (488) Teaching Early American Literature in the Digital Age: Crèvecœur’s Letters from an American Farmer, a Digital Critical Edition (497) Ethel’s Love-Life and the Queer Imagination of Margaret J. M. Sweat (499) Margaret Fuller: New Critical Approaches (546) Foregrounding Indigeneity and Settlement in American Literary Studies (587) Poe’s Philadelphia Stories (593) Emily Dickinson’s Narrative Cartography (606) Colloquy with Robert L. Gunn on Ethnology and Empire (642) Atlantic Synesthesia (688) Palestine, Blackness, and the Ongoing Question of Freedom (724) “Of Strangers Is the Earth the Inn”: Still Life, Scale, and Deep Time in Emily Dickinson (809)
Twentieth and TwentyFirst Century Beat Writers, Cold War Politics, and Populist Inclinations (13) Neo-passing: Performing Identity in Post–Jim Crow States of Insecurity (19) Trump Terror (28) Micropress Poetry and the Politics of Electronic Text (29)
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Can It Happen Here? (38) he Historical Novel ater Postmodernism (50) he Temporal Turn in Black Studies (52) Private Media: Rethinking Privacy in Contemporary Culture (53) Big History in the American Century (96) Writing New York: he Other Boroughs (Staten Island, the Bronx, Queens) (111) Literature as Liberatory Praxis: Women-of-Color Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and Social Justice (117) Contemporary Poetics and Race: Intersections in Place and Particularity (131) Manhattan Pound and Ater (132) #wethepeople: National Insecurity and the Myth of Homogeneity (133) he heme and Form of Failure in Midwestern Literature (166) Writing from Elsewhere: he Impact of Independent Presses on the Contemporary Literary Field (175) Nabokov versus Tyrants (187) Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and New York City (201) Rethinking South Asian America and States of Insecurity (220) From Anarchism to Assimilation: he Making of Italian Americans (224) Asian American Racial and Literary Form, Postidentity (238) “hey Can’t Take hat away from Me”: Lightning Shorts on het and Reclamation in Financialized Late Capitalism (245) “Drama Is the Capstone of Poetry”: Robert Frost and Shakespeare (277) 4H: History, Hamilton, and Hip-Hop in High School (298) Transformations of Gertrude Stein (306) James Baldwin’s Speculative Imaginary (323) Web 2.0 Readers (333) Institutions, Markets, Speculations: Creative Economies of Science Fiction (346) Blackness and the United States War on Terror (366) Satire and Cosmic Horror in Dystopian Times (376) he News from Home: Expatriate Media and the Modern Periodical (391)
Cultures of Vulnerability in the Contemporary United States (410) Narrating Vulnerability: Re-seeing Asian American Children’s and Young Adult Literature (413) he Haverford Discussions and the Course of Black Studies (438) Wallace Stevens and Music (459) Complex TV: Texts, Viewers, and Fan Engagement (462) Twenty-First-Century Chicanx Performance (466) Hip-Hop History Lessons: Tragic Form, Truth, and Fiction in Hamilton: An American Musical (504) Pater and Son: Fathers in the Work of William Carlos Williams (518) Black Literary heory in the Time of Trump (519) William Faulkner’s New York (530) Poetry, Paratext, and Punctuation (549) Narratives of Giving and Receiving Care: Afective Dimensions (569) Cultural Critique ater Democracy: On Neocitizenship (572) Graphic States of Insecurity (595) Reading the Radical: American Muslim Immigrants, Surveillance, and Narrative Resistance (596) he Fiction of Colson Whitehead (607) Queer Futurities in Children’s and Young Adult Literature (625) Compromise or Conlict: Literary Form Now (643) Hemingway and War (659) Testimonial Turns and Carceral States: he Atermaths and Aterlives of Japanese American Internment in Asian American Creative Noniction (668) Empire State of Blackness: he Transitional Roles of New York in Amiri Baraka’s Work (686) Surveillance Aesthetics: Drones, Capital, Data (696) he Year hat Changed Everything: 1968 at Fity (740) he Legacy of Captivity Narratives: Gender, Race, and the Captive in Twentieth- and Twenty-FirstCentury American Literature and Culture (742) Red Readings and Alternative Frameworks: How Indigenous Authors and Indigenous Studies
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Scholarship Redeines Notions of Genre and the Classics (751) he X Factor (755) Insecurity and the Aterlives of Slavery (766) Ecologies, Empires, and Island Speculations (781) Insecure Imaginations: Poetry in Invented Languages (782) Precarious Subjects: Refugee and Immigrant Subjectivities (790) Forms of Life, Forms of Literature (800) Reading African American Literature Now: Critical Desires and New Directions in the Field (815) Writing at his Moment: Contemporary Poetry against American Imperialism (830)
ARABIC LITERATURE Latin America and the Arab World (63) Speculative Futures in Arab(ic) Literature (163) Insecurity and Dissent in Middle Eastern and North African Cinema (361) Teaching Global Arab Comics in the United States (439) Nakba at Seventy: Culture and Politics (609) Palestine, Ethics, and World Literature (705)
ASIAN LITERATURES Representing Korean Comfort Women in Fiction and Film (33) Narrativizing Insecurity in Indian Comics (34) Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media (49) Other Archives: West Asian Contexts (82) Transcultural Flows in Modern China (112) Jin Ping Mei in Context: Approaches to Teaching Plum in the Golden Vase (139) Sinophone Studies beyond Disciplinarity (186) Outlaws, Pirates, and Bandits in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction and History (1574–1670) (235) Navigating the MLA: A Guide for East Asian Scholars (275) Bollywood’s New Woman (292)
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How to Translate Early Modern East Asian Texts: hree Case Studies (307) Local Color to World Literature: An Interview with Jia Pingwa (331) hinking Korean Literature through Censorship and Blacklisting (383) he Digital Divide: South Asia in Crisis (418) he “Arrival” of Jia Pingwa in World Literature: Translation and Interpretation (434) Dislocated Identity in Recent South Asian and Diasporic Literature (469) he Power of the Margins: Rethinking Center-Periphery Relations in Premodern Chinese Literature (486) he Politics and Poetics of Nostalgia in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (500) Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts (514) Southeast Asia as Method and Concept of World Literature (551) Articulating the Local: Cultural Practices and Problematics of Dialects in Twentieth-Century China (559) Disability and Human (In)Dignity in East Asian Literature and Film (584) Auditory Texts in Premodern and Modern Korean Literature (629) Cognitive Approaches to Chinese Literature (652) Cannibal Modernity: Cannibalism, Colonialism, and Capitalism in East Asia (676) Historicizing Discourses about Gender and Sexuality in the Ming and Qing Periods (721) Community in the Wake of the Social: Literary Insecurities in Modern and Contemporary Korea (778) Translation and Interlingual Practices in Pre-Meiji Japan (786) Resituating Poetry Text in Early and Medieval China: Anxieties and Transitions (813)
Editing in the Shadow of the Anthropocene (574)
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he Ethics of Progressive Shakespeare (54) Four Hundred Years of King Lear: Sources and Performance (151) Beyond Materiality in Shakespeare Studies (178) hinking Queer History in Shakespeare: A Conversation on Method (340)
General Historicizing Forms and Spaces of Refuge (114) Toward a Poetics of Noise: Literary Form and the Long History of the Techno-Soundscape (127) Relections on Milton’s Eve (315)
Old and Middle English Gender and Medieval Refugees (81) Citizenship (107) “Uncer giedd geador”: Feminist Studies in Old English (154) Medieval Futures (247) A Better Brit Lit Survey: Celtic, Norse, and Teaching a Multicultural North Atlantic (398) “#ASESoWhite”: Combating Racialism in Early Medieval Studies (491) Chaucerian Precarity (544) “Mewn Dau Gae” (“Between Two Fields”): No State of Security in Medieval North Atlantic Studies (669) Medieval Soundscapes (789) he Value of Prehumanist Critique: Anglo-Saxon Contributions (816)
Renaissance and Elizabethan Performance, Materiality, and Ecology in Early Modern Literature (31) Shakespeare and the 99% (87) Early Modern Trans Studies (228) Tyranny (254) Spenser and the Machine (280) Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature (375) Early English Consent (437) Rethinking Marlowe and the Aesthetic (472) Early Modern Collaboration and Expanded Shakespearean Authorship (553) Texts and Localities in Early Modern England (614) Shakespearean Negotiations: he Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, hirty Years On (651) Lyric Intersections in Early Modern England (769)
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Horizons of Intimacy: Distance, Afect, and the Global Imaginary on the Shakespearean Stage (432) Precarious Bonds (507) Four Hundred Years of King Lear: Adaptation and Translation (701) Shakespeare on Contemporary Arab Stages (719) Nonverbal Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet among the Arts (797)
Seventeenth Century Early Modern Biopolitics: Race, Nature, Sexuality (17) Surprised by Sin at Fity (207) he Seventeenth-Century Lyric: hinking through Poetry (297) Net Work: hen and Now (365) Donne and Close Reading: Rejecting, Reevaluating, and Renewing Critical Approaches (590) John Milton: Exegesis and Prophecy (647)
Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century Preserving and Circulating Women’s Texts, 1660–1740 (630) Languages of the Restoration and Enlightenment (690)
Late Eighteenth Century Genres of Migration, 1750–1850 (343) Romantic Personiication Reconsidered (475) Still Reading (560) Romanticizing Meta-? (665) Hot Numbers (784)
Nineteenth Century Make It Visible: he Long Nineteenth Century and New Economic Criticism (22) Frankenstein at Two Hundred: Attachment, Disability, and the Monstrous Body (60) Poetry and Illustration in British Romanticism (64) Walking the Walk: Romantic Writing on the Trail (110) Ephemeral Dickens (136) Ecology, Aesthetics, Empire: Romanticism and Its Aterlives (183) Light, Physics, and Antiform in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (188) Literature, Aesthetics, and Cultural Exchange between East Asia and Southeast Asia and Britain and North America in the Long Nineteenth Century (209, 524, 727)
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Race and the Victorians (210, 535) Scottish Women Writers before 1900 (240) Byron and Politics (270) he Victorians ater Freud (321) Pre-Raphaelites and the Pierpont Morgan Library (329) Romantics at Two Hundred: 2018 Reads 1818 (368) Objectifying Morris (382) Historical Time Machines: Time Criticalities of NineteenthCentury Media (407) Dickens and Resistance (480) John Clare: Encounters (554) South Asia and Romanticism (620) Word and Image in British Romanticism (645) Is Kinship Always Already Queer? Counternormative Communities in the Nineteenth Century (754) Literary Adaptation as Democratic Exchange in the Romantic Period (759) A Hand in It: Hand Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond (788)
Twentieth and TwentyFirst Century Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist Children’s Literature (18) Eminent Victorians at One Hundred (59) British Working-Class Literature: Intersections of Space and Class in Twentieth- and Twenty-FirstCentury Fiction (95) T. S. Eliot and Ecocriticism (135) Alternative Domesticities in the Works of Doris Lessing (214) Woolf's Spaces (350) he Great War Revisited (406) Conrad’s Politics of Fear (489) Leonora Carrington at One Hundred (528) Dangerous Charisma (598) Auden and Others (655) Mapping Literary and Political Landscapes in Postdevolutionary Scottish Writing: Restating Insecurities (720) Revolutionary States: George Bernard Shaw, 1918 (829)
CATALAN LITERATURE Engendering Diferent Catalan Enunciations (260)
Fragile Languages: Unrest, Vulnerability, and Resistance in Occitan and Catalan (628)
CELTIC LITERATURES James Joyce’s Exiles at One Hundred (565)
FRENCH LITERATURE Medieval and Renaissance Fake News (26) New Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literature and Culture (226) Green Arthur (300) he DNA of a Story (356) he Sixteenth-/Seventeenth-Century Divide in French (414) Propaganda, Polemic, Persuasion: Changing Media and Modes in Medieval and Renaissance France (501) Montaigne in the Twenty-First Century (733)
Seventeenth Century Social Emotions in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French SelfWriting (526) Current Trends in SeventeenthCentury French Studies (611) Tragedy beyond heater in Early Modern France: Resistance, Reconiguration, Reappraisal (770) Sound, Noise, and Silence in Seventeenth-Century France (826)
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Atmosphères (142) Fake News: Truth and Truthiness in the Eighteenth Century (185) Salon Wars: he Historiography of Elite Women Intellectuals in the French Enlightenment (265) Apprentissages: Emerging Subjectivities (396) George Sand and the Dumas, Father and Son (689)
Twentieth and TwentyFirst Century “La France est en guerre”: Witnessing War in Contemporary France (125) Women Poets in the Surrealist Tradition (170) Proust and Photography (206)
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Beauvoir Studies Today: What Place for Literature in a Postdisciplinary World? (269) Claudel at 150 / Claudel à 150 ans (309) Extreme Politics and Representations of the Extreme in Twentieth- and Twenty-FirstCentury France (424) Deleuze: Literature, Philosophy, and the Postcolonial (463) Against Prison Writing: Reimagining French and Francophone Carceral Spaces (542) Gide’s Friends and Foes (663) Stéréotypes en tous genres: Insécurités sociétales et précarités identitaires (687)
FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE General Édouard Glissant beyond Walls (119) Race and Aesthetics in French and Francophone Culture (250, 493, 773) Dance, Performance, and Identity in French and Francophone Studies (378) Genre, sexualité et politique dans le monde francophone (512) Francophone New York (588)
African he Algerian Novel in French: Sites of Resistance, States of Insecurity, Algerianness, and Cosmopolitanism, 1950–2018 (799)
Caribbean Domination et résilience dans l’œuvre de Gérard V. Etienne (358) Édouard Glissant: From Identitarian Insecurities to the Poetics of Relation (458)
GALICIAN LITERATURE Sempre en Nova Iorque: Galician Cultures in and from New York City (680)
GERMAN LITERATURE General Politicizing Women’s Bodies in the Merkel Age (213)
Before 1700 1618–2018: Remembering the hirty Years’ War (51)
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Shiting Legacies (373) Aterlives of the Premodern (824)
Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Taking Measure: Philosophical Quanta (155) Lessing’s Laughter (487) Taking Measure: Poetic Rhythms (576) Goethe’s Narrative Forms: Ideologies of Selhood (603) “Disputation”: Literature and Politics; Heine and Beyond (673) Goethe’s Narrative Forms: Uncertain Events (744)
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century “Totally Epic”: Brechtian and Wagnerian Aesthetics Today (177) Mediality and Intermediality: Seeing, Hearing, and Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century German Culture (296) he Timeliness and Timelessness of Stefan Zweig (648) Mediality and Intermediality: Temporality and Materiality in Twentieth-Century German Culture (792)
Twentieth and TwentyFirst Century Revolution, Take 2: Exporting the Russian Revolution (12) Herta Müller and the Romanian Language, Culture, and Politics (246) Brecht in the Middle East (341) Revolution, Take 2: Conjunctural Politics and the Paradox of Presence (412) Revolution, Take 2: Receptions of Early Soviet Culture in Postwar Germany (505)
GREEK LITERATURE Considering the Contemporary: (Post)Modern Greek Cinema and Literature (263)
HEBREW LITERATURE New Readings in Modern Hebrew Literature (21) Art and Activism: Israeli Women’s Documentary Filmmaking (348) Representing the Nonhuman in Jewish and Hebrew Literature (803)
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HUNGARIAN LITERATURE he Dispossessed in Hungarian Literature and Culture (36) Son of Saul: A Conversation with Géza Röhrig (420)
ITALIAN LITERATURE Cultural-Political Liminalities in the 1600–1800s (39) Transmediality in Italian Culture (75) Scientiic Discourse in Italy (1600– 1800s) (169) Censorship and Self-Censorship in Premodern Italy (244) Black and White: Opposites, Tensions, and Many Shades of Gray in Between (287) Postcolonial Italy and Speculative Narratives (322) Negotiating Identities: From Pirandello to Today (372) Reproduction and Fertility in Film and Media: Italy in the Mediterranean (405) Imagining Absence in Medieval and Renaissance Italian (456) Environmental Humanities and Italy (570) Texts in Dialogue in the Age of Dante (586) Lectura Boccaccii (660) Conspiracies, Italian Style (748) Dante on Crisis (798)
JEWISH LITERATURE he Sephardim and the City (106) Yiddish and the Political (295) Mapping Jewish Geographies (764)
LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE Modos ininitos de narrar: Homenaje a Ricardo Piglia (8) Hurricanes in Literatures of the United States and Cuba: Ecocritical Approaches to Tropical Storms (93) heoretical Approaches to Colonial Latin American Studies (128) Genealogies of Conservatism (174) Nonwhite Romanticisms (232) New Itineraries of the Colonial Picaresque (243) Latin Americanism ater Trump (249) Juan Rulfo and Twenty-FirstCentury Mexico (305) Portraits in Fidelity: Allegory, Imago, Taboo (349)
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War (379) Exploring Privacy in Mexican Contexts from the Colonial Period to the Twentieth Century (425) Sor Juana: Securing Women’s Writing (460) Reimagining Cuba in a Postnational Context: New Avenues in Cultural Production (502) Carmen Boullosa and Eloy Urroz in Conversation (538) Imperial Scars: New Approaches to Corporality, Race, and Power in Colonial Latin America (580) Visual Culture and Mexican Literature in Times of Crisis (602) Conservatism/Liberalism (626) Feminicide in Central America: Art, Activism, and Resistance to Gender-Based Violence (682) Revisiting Peace in Central American Cultural Production (728) Mexican Literature in heory (757) Crisis, Science, and Mexican Texts (827)
NETHERLANDIC LITERATURE (Post)Colonialities and Netherlandic Literature (233)
PORTUGUESE, LUSOBRAZILIAN, AND LUSOPHONE LITERATURES Brazilian Insecurity (43) Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century (71) Queering Brazilian Film Studies (199) he Lusophone World in the New Geopolitical Order (430) “Verbivocovisual”: Border Forms and the Legacies of Experimental Brazilian Media and Concretism (529) Queering Luso-Brazilian Literatures (736)
PROVENÇAL LITERATURE Joy: hinking/Feeling (92) Performance Practice of the Troubadour Repertory (427)
ROMANIAN LITERATURE Aesthetics of Romanian Cinema, Literature, and Translation: Current Issues (674)
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SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN LITERATURES Revolution, Take 2: Exporting the Russian Revolution (12) Dostoevsky and States of Insecurity (150) Transatlantic Translations of Trans* (289) Alternative Pasts and Futures in Postsocialist Science Fiction (394) Dystopia Today (581) Literature of Waste and Environmental Insecurity in Central and Eastern Europe (654)
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century How We Do Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Studies: Erotica (14) Galdós: Kinship and Class (147) Sets, Spaces, and Stages of Precinema, 1750–1899 (545)
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SPANISH LITERATURE
Wounded Cultures of the TwentyFirst Century (76) Hispanic Women in the Public Sphere: Debates on Feminisms, Activism, and Solidarities (137) Bodies, Transnationalism, and Afect in Recent Hispanic Poetry (485) Materiality and the Cultures of Death in Spain (601) Screening the Past (677) Between Fictions and Documents (734)
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Gothic Masculinities and Spanish Modernity in Literature, Television, and Film (11) Hispanic Bioictions (176) Marginality in Spanish heater (217, 532)
Modern Turkish Literature in Comparative West Asian Contexts (417) Women, Art, and Revolution on the Shores of the Mediterranean (556)
Medieval and Renaissance Documenting the Geography of the Global Hispanophone (266) Afect and the Romance Epic (290) New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (397) Medieval States of Insecurity (756)
Before 1700 Science and Technology in Cervantes (72) Early Modern Spain and the Paciic World: Writing on the Edge of Empire (120) Comedia in and for the Twenty-First Century (165) Fearmongering in Medieval Iberia (229) Staging Insecurity: Early Modern Spanish History Plays As Resistance to Precarity (353) Rewriting and Resisting (634) Approaching 1492 from the Middle Ages (702) Rethinking the Romancero: Songs and Ballads from Early Modern Iberia (794)
OTHER LITERATURE IN ENGLISH General Southeast Asia and Its Empires (153) Race, Space, Gaze: Fields of Ethnographic Narration (591) Reclamation Ecopoetics of the African Diaspora (692) Case, Context, and Description (738)
Australian he Literature of Australia (282) “Uninished Business”: Bioictions from the Antipodes (495)
Canadian Leonard Cohen: Death of a L adies’ Man (316) Sovereign Insecurities / Canadian Insecurities (369) Renegades and Revenge: Hag-Seed and he Heart Goes Last (483)
Caribbean C. L. R. James and the Postcolonial (152) Precarious Sovereignty in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas (640)
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Irish Twenty-First-Century Ireland: Culture and Critique (120A) Irish Women Writing Politics (164) Samuel Beckett and the Discourse of Psychoanalysis (672) Oceanic Ireland (812)
OTHER LITERATURES he 1947 Partition and the South Asian Diaspora (61) Other Archives: West Asian Contexts (82) Assembling the Archive, Imagining the Antilles (205) he Persistence of Boethius (272) Teaching, heorizing, and Reading Caribbean Texts (313) Transpaciic Alignments ater the Trans-Paciic Partnership: Asia and Latin America (370) Literature, Race, and Violence (516) White Supremacy, Racial Insecurity, and Literature Studies (758)
SOCIAL EVENTS Reception Arranged by the Stanford University Department of English and Divison of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages (442) Cash Bar Sponsored by the St. John’s University PhD Program in English (443) Cash Bar Arranged by the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, Feministas Unidas, Women in French, and Women in German (444) Cash Bar Arranged by the Minnesota Review and Meditations (445) Cash Bar Arranged by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona (446) Cash Bar Arranged by the Yale University Department of French (447) Cash Bar Arranged by the Forum LLC Medievel Iberian (448) Cash Bar Arranged by the American Folklore Society (449) Cash Bar Arranged by the Forums LLC 16th-Century French and LLC 17th-Century French (451)
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Informal Gathering Arranged by the Forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American (708) Connected Academics Cash Bar and Networking Event (709) Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics Forums (710) Cash Bar Arranged by the Forum LLC African American (711) Cash Bar Arranged by the Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (712)
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Allen, Nicholas, 812 Allen, homas, 805 Allen Sekhar, Amy L., 703 Almenara, Erika, 40 al-Musawi, Muhsin J., 479 Alon, Shir, 21; 82 Alonso, Alejandro, 680 Alonso, Carlos J., 239 Alsop, Elizabeth, 453 Altinay, Rustem Ertug, 27; 556 Altman, Meryl, 269 Altpeter, Katja, 806 Álvarez, Enrique, 485 Alvarez, Sara P., 345 Alvarez, Steven, 513 Alvarez-Castro, Luis, 685 Al-wazedi, Umme, 220 Alworth, David, 50; 410 Amine, Laila, 746 Amiran, Eyal, 122 Ammah-Tagoe, Aku, 643 Amper, Susan, 593 Anam, Nasia, 250; 493; 773 Anders, Lisann, 810 Andersen, Claus Elholm, 288 Andersen, Tawny, 745 Anderson, Amanda S., 787 Anderson, Ana, 503 Anderson, Jill E., 242 Anderson, Josh, 324 Anderson, Judith H., 590 Anderson, Lisa Marie, 744 Anderson, Robin, 582
Anderson Cordell, Sigrid, 196 Anderst, Leah M., 650 Andrews, Mark, 358 Andrews, William Leake, 339 Andrianova, Anastassiya, 806 Anker, Elizabeth, 820 Anlicker, Christine, 640 Antonopoulos, Alexander, 269 Antonucci, Melissa Leigh, 342 Antoon, Sinan, 63 Anwar, Waseem, 464 Anwer, Megha, 292 Apollonio, Carol, 150 Appel, Charlotte, 18 Appel, Molly, 117 Applegarth, Risa, 478 Applegate, Matt, 198 Apter, Emily, 291; 780 Arac, Jonathan, 318; 641 Arbona, Javier, 379 Arbuckle, Alyssa, 454 Archibald, Diana C., 480 Arias, Jacqueline, 57 Arjomand, Minou, 46; 745 Armiento, Amy Branam, 593 Armillas-Tiseyra, Magali, 195; 481 Armstrong, Amanda, 225 Armstrong, James, 480; 829 Armstrong, Nancy, 641; 783 Armstrong, Paul B., 332 Arnold-Levene, Elise, 205
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Balides, Constance, 811 Balint, Lilla, 747 Balkan, Stacey, 400; 806 Balkin, Sarah, 182 Balkun, Mary McAleer, 312; 497 Ball, Cheryl E., 184; 610 Ballif, Michelle, 97 Bamberger, Gudrun, 824 Bancrot, Christian, 299; 509 Bancrot, Corinne, 157 Banerjee, Anindita, 612 Banerjee, Sandeep, 662 Banerjee, Sukanya, 210; 535 Banks, Erik, 785 Banner, Olivia, 245 Barasch, Benjamin, 327 Baraw, Charles Eaton, 78 Barber, Tifany, 230 Barberan Reinares, M. Laura, 33 Barbour, Catherine, 680 Barnard, John Levi, 140 Barnes, Christopher A., 610 Barnett, Elizabeth, 175 Barolini, Teodolinda, 586; 798 Baron, Robert, 344 Barounis, Cynthia, 823 Barreto, Danny, 680 Bars Closel, Regis Augustus, 553 Barsella, Susanna, 660 Bartolovich, Crystal Lynn, 181 Barzilai, Maya, 257 Barzilai, Shuli, 121 Basu, Anupam, 465 Bateman, Benjamin, 774 Batra, Ajay Kumar, 172 Batra, Kanika, 418 Bauer, Dale Marie, 30 Baumann, Rebecca, 352 Bayerl, Corinne, 115 Bazzoni, Alberica, 372 Beach, Adam Robert, 767 Beall, John, 659
Beam, Dorri, 499 Beard, Laura J., 133 Beaumont, AnneMarie, 789 Beauquis, Corinne, 358 Bebout, Lee, 28 Beck, Benjamin, 339 Beckenstein, Lynne, 823 Beckman, Ericka, 662; 757 Bedecarre, Madeline, 481 Beebee, homas Oliver, 9 Beechy, Tifany, 491 Beeston, Alix, 326 Behdad, Ali, 380; 591 Behrent, Megan, 742 Belafonte, Harry, 678 Belcher, Wendy Laura, 286 Belilgne, Maleda, 323 Bell, Eleanor, 720 Bell, Jason, 148 Belmonte, Laura, 371 Belvis, Cyril, 822 Bender, Abby S., 120A Benedicty, Alessandra, 250; 493; 773 Beneduce, Felice Italo, 75 Benezra, Karen, 249 Benjamin, Martine H., 663 Benjamin, Meredith, 510 Benjamin, Shanna Greene, 334 Ben-Merre, David, 99 Bennett, Chad, 53; 419 Bennett, Jane, 564 Bennett, Michael, 230 Bensmaïa, Réda, 463 Benson, Alex, 547 Bentley, Mel, 29 Bentley, Nick, 95 Benton, Adia, 189 Ben-Tovim, Ron, 215; 522; 726 Benvegnu, Damiano, 570 Berberi, Tammy E., 390 Berg, Marla, 450 Bergland, Renée Louise, 606
Beringer, Alex, 810 Berkowitz, Beth, 803 Berlant, Lauren, 436 Berlin, Henry, 260 Berman, Jessica, 510 Bermudez, Silvia, 137 Bernard, Anna, 433; 705 Bernardi, Joanne, 49 Bernards, Brian, 664 Berry, Michael, 331 Bersett, Jefrey, 14 Bérubé, Michael, 126; 482 Beshero-Bondar, Elisa, 632 Betancur, Bryan, 667 Betensky, Carolyn Jane, 482 Bewes, Timothy, 330 Beytelmann, Sarah, 826 Bezerra, Ligia, 430 Bezhanova, Olga, 485 Bhatnagar, Rashmi Dube, 211 Bhattacharya, Nandini, 48 Bhattacharya, Usree, 621 Bhaumik, Munia, 219 Biareishyk, Siarhei, 412 Biers, Katherine, 737 Bigelow, Allison, 302; 615 Bilbao-Terreros, Gorka, 557 Binmayaba, Mustafa, 397 Bishop, Cecile, 250; 493; 773 Biswas, Madhavi, 292 Bizer, Marc, 770 Bizzell, Patricia Lynn, 392 Bjornstad, Hall, 770; 826 Black, Elizabeth, 501 Black, Scott, 560 Bladek, Marta, 111 Blair, Kristine, 237 Blake, Julie, 116 Blanchard, JeanVincent, 526 Blanco, María del Pilar, 827
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Bousquet, Gilles, 98 Boutouba, Jimia, 512 Bové, Paul Anthony, 211 Bowe, David, 586 Boyagoda, Randy, 592 Boyd, David, 272 Boyd, Matthieu, 398 Boyd, Nolan, 40 Boyd, Rauslynn, 367 Boyd, Sydney, 357 Boyden, Michael G., 636 Boyd Rioux, Anne, 818 Boyko, Kira, 462 Boyle, Margaret, 634 Bracher, Mark, 251; 492; 772 Bracken, Claire, 120A Bradley, Rizvana, 404 Brady, Jennifer, 685 Brady, Lindy, 669 Braga-Pinto, Cesar, 71; 736 Brahm, Gabriel, 311 Braider, Christopher Sheehan, 770 Bramen, Carrie T., 435 Brangan, Michaela, 342 Branson, Tyler, 426 Braunstein, Laura R., 156 Bray, Patrick M., 142 Brearey, Oliver, 134 Breitenwischer, Dustin, 639 Breithaupt, Fritz, 603; 744 Brereton, John C., 156 Brezault, Eloise, 725 Brick, Christopher, 252 Bricker, Mary, 487 Brickey, Alyson, 342 Brickhouse, Anna, 506; 642 Bridger Gilmore, John Garrett, 638 Brietzke, Zander, 381 Briggs, Ronald D., 626 Brighi, Elisabetta, 294 Brioni, Simone, 322 Broadwell, Peter, 514 Brockmann, Stephen Matthew, 177 Brodsky, Claudia, 693 Broglio, Ron, 679
Brokaw, Galen, 128 Bronstein, Michaela, 10 Brooks, Daphne Ann, 552 Brooks, Emily, 393 Brookshaw, Dominic, 74 Brophy, James, 489 Brouillette, Sarah, 274 Brousseau, Marcel, 371 Brown, Adrienne, 573 Brown, Cynthia Jane, 501 Brown, James J., Jr., 97 Brown, Keisha, 112 Brown, Kelly, 47; 795 Brown, Marshall J., 9 Brown, Nicholas Mainey, 433 Brown, Peter D. G., 482 Brown, Tony C., 767 Brown, William Christopher, 134; 681 Browne, Mary Maxine, 273 Browner, Stephanie Patricia, 617 Brown Spiers, Miriam, 58; 751 Brozgal, Lia, 250; 493; 773 Bruenner, Ines, 623 Bruster, Douglas, 151; 553 Bryant, Andrea Dawn, 477 Bryant, Rachel, 259 Bubb, Alexander, 732 Buck, Claire E., 359; 817 Buckley, Jennifer, 829 Buckley, Meghan, 313 Buelens, Gert, 377 Buton, Deborah, 817 Buiza, Nanci, 728 Burgers, Johannes, 233 Burgoyne, Nicole, 505; 747 Burke, Ann, 743 Burke, Daniel, 201 Burke, Mary M., 120A Burkert, Mattie, 365 Burkett, Andrew, 407; 760 Burnett, Rebecca E., 130
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Cazenave, Jennifer, 420 Cedillo, Christina, 345 Cefalu, Paul A., 647 Cervone, Skye, 346 Chacón, Hilda, 613 Chaidez, Sonia, 113 Chakkalakal, Tess, 488 Chakraborty, Chandrima, 61 Chakraborty, Madhurima, 61; 392 Chakravarty, Urvashi, 17 Chakravorty, Mrinalini, 591 Chamberlain, Edward, 15; 510 Chan, Nadine, 153 Chan, Winnie W., 251; 492; 772 Chanda, Sagnika, 258 Chander, Manu Samriti, 232; 620 Chandler, Nahum, 693 Chandna, Mohit, 119; 741 Chandra, Sarika, 41 Chandradas, Usha, 153 Chang, Elizabeth, 209; 524; 727 Chang, Hsia-Ting, 148 Chang, Julia, 147 Chansky, Ricia Anne, 133; 567 Chapman, Dasha, 552 Charles, Julia, 488 Chase, Cynthia, 653 Chase, Greg, 477 Chattopadhyay, Arka, 672 Chaudary, Ajay Singh, 666 Chaudhary, Zahid R., 216; 523; 730 Chaudhuri, Una, 737 Cheang, Kai Hang, 413 Chejfec, Sergio, 8 Chen, Amy, 352 Chen, Barbara, 94 Chen, Jiani, 486 Chen, Jingling, 112 Chen, Jinsong, 177 Chen, Li-ping, 584 Chen, homas, 434
Chen, Tina Yih-Ting, 238 Chen, Yu-Min, 500 Cheng, Julia, 161 Chenier, Natasha, 316 Chenoweth, Katie, 501 Chenoweth, Rebecca, 114 Cherbuliez, Juliette, 770 Chernetsky, Vitaly, 289 Cherniavsky, Eva, 572 Chess, Simone, 228 Chetty, Raj, 152 Chiasson, Christopher, 744 Chihara, Michelle, 245 Chihaya, Sarah, 50; 643 Chinn, Lisa, 496 Chinn, Sarah E., 80; 411 Chiquillo, Raquel Patricia, 684 Chishty, Mahwish, 464 Chivers, Sally, 541 Chodorow, Nancy, 301 Choi, Kyeong-Hee, 383 Chow, Eileen ChengYin, 644; 695 Chrisler, Matthew, 324 Christensen, Nina, 18 Christiansë, Yvette, 517 Christie, Edward J., 816 Christman-Lavin, Sophie, 480; 679 Christof, Alicia, 321 Christopher Faggioli, Sarah E., 115 Christy, John Paul, 101 Chu, David, 319 Chun, Wendy, 808 Chung, Rebecca, 388 Chute, Hillary L., 122; 595 Ciaccio, Jason, 168 Ciamparella, Anna, 287 Civantos, Christina E., 63 Clancy, Eileen, 440 Clapp, Gordon, 277 Clapp, Jefrey, 696 Clapper, Laura, 352 Clark, Andrew Herrick, 265 Clark, Billy, 335 Clark, Katerina, 12
Clarke, Ben, 95 Clarke, Michael Tavel, 85 Classen, Albrecht, 51; 272 Clayson, Ashley, 579 Cleland, Jaime, 666 Click, Ben, 385 Clo, Clarissa, 287 Cloutier, JeanChristophe, 636 Clune, Michael W., 468; 805 Cobham-Sander, Rhonda, 108 Cocola, Jim, 828 Codjoe, Ama, 555 Codr, Dwight, 60 Cohen, Debra Rae, 423; 555 Cohen, Eli, 72 Cohen, Hella Bloom, 741; 806 Cohen, Jefrey, 84; 564 Cohen, Joshua, 768 Cohen, Samuel, 50; 536 Cohen, William A., 70 Cohn, Elisha, 161 Cohn, Mallory, 59 Colbert, Soyica Diggs, 52 Colbert Cairns, Emily, 290 Cole, Heather, 352 Coleman, Deirdre Patricia, 645 Coleman, Nicole, 191; 213 Coleman, Tara, 208; 534 Coletu, Ebony, 366 Colin, Amy-Diana, 246 Colley, Sharon, 20 Collins, Cornelius, 214 Colomina-Alminana, Juan Jose, 628 Colvin, Christina, 140 Combs-Schilling, Jonathan, 456 Commander, Michelle, 230 Conchado, Diana, 680 Cong-Huyen, Anne, 113 Conley, Katharine, 170 Conley, Tom Clark, 463
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Conners, homas, 755 Connolly, Claire, 812 Connolly, Shannon, 733 Connolly, William, 294 Constantinesco, homas, 278 Cooper, Lisa H., 247 Cooper, Mark Garrett, 811 Cooppan, Vilashini, 637 Copestake, Ian D., 518 Corbalan, Ana, 137 Corbin, Christophe, 125 Corbi-Saez, MariaIsabel, 269 Cordier, Stephane, 282 Cordoba, Antonio, 11; 601 Cormack, Bradin, 340 Cornejo, Kency, 682 Cornelius, Jeremy, 651 Corredor, Eva Livia, 36 Costabile-Heming, Carol Anne, 792 Costello, Bonnie, 763 Costello, Kate, 29 Costello, Virginia, 829 Cotter, Erin, 683 Couch, Daniel, 593 Courtmanche, Jason Charles, 4; 218; 494 Couti, Jacqueline, 378 Cowling, Erin, 165 Cox, Catherine S., 81 Cox, John, 622 Cox, Kimberly, 788 Crat, Linda J., 728 Craig, Dustinn, 324 Craig, Eleanor, 216; 523; 730 Craig, Siobhan S., 88 Crank, James, 699 Crawford, Ilene, 402 Crawford, Margo Natalie, 815 Crawley, Ashon, 323 Creahan, Daniel, 387 Creamer, Joseph, 231 Cressler, Loren, 553 Criser, Regine, 109 Crisp, Justin, 69 Crow, Andrea, 771 Crowell, Ellen, 423 Crowley, Dustin, 561
Croxall, Brian, 393; 694 Cruz, Angie, 646 Cruz, Yari, 462 Cruz-Ortiz, Jaime, 667 Cruz Petersen, Elizabeth, 176 Cucu, Sorin, 674 Cuddy, Alison, 101 Culkin, Katherine, 818 Cull, John, 353 Cullen, Sarah, 114 Culleton, Claire, 565 Cullors, Patrisse, 678 Cunningham, Katelyn, 88 Cunningham, Lacie Rae, 692 Cunningham, Nijah, 152 Curran, Kevin, 679 Current, Cynthia A., 380 Curtis Adler, Anthony, 155 Cutler, John Alba, 308 Cutter, Martha J., 19 Cyzewski, Julie, 391; 474 D’Addario, Christopher, 365 Dahn, Eurie, 102 Daigle, Claire, 528 Dailey, Jef, 427 Daily-Bruckner, Katie, 162 Daiya, Kavita, 741 Dalal, Surabhi, 211 Dalton, Susan, 265 Damrosch, David, 698 Dan, Amira, 276 Dangler, Jean, 756 Daniel, Drew, 17; 254 Daniel, Julia, 135 Darda, Joseph, 410; 790 Dasbach, Julia Kolchinsky, 684 Dash, J. Michael, 796 Daub, Adrian, 118 Davidson, Cathy, 360 Davidson, Dan E., 319 Davies, Dominic, 511 Davies, Laura J., 268 Davis, Angela, 360 Davis, Geofrey V., 336
Davis, Jack, 177 Davis, Lanta, 779 Davis, Oliver, 542 Davis, Rebecca, 127 Davis, hadious M., 312 Davis, heo, 752 Dawson, Brent, 215; 522; 726 Dawson, Melanie V., 45 De, Amrita, 418 De, Aparajita, 292 Dean, Jeremy, 234 De’Ath, Amy, 41 Deb, Basuli, 281; 467 Debelius, Margaret, 159 De Castro, Juan E., 626 Deckard, Sharae, 662 Deer, Patrick, 817 De Ferrari, Guillermina, 379; 640 Degenhardt, Jane Hwang, 432 Deggan, Mark, 481; 598 Del Balzo, Angelina, 328 Deleva, Milena, 194 Delgado Lopez, Nayra, 212 Delgado Moya, Sergio, 602 Dell, Helen, 789 Della Coletta, Cristina, 453 DelliCarpini, Dominic, 392 Delogu, Daisy J., 501 del Rio Gabiola, Irune, 137 DeLucia, JoEllen, 240 Demaria, Laura, 8 de Moraes, Lidiana, 736 Dempsey, Sean, 592 Denisof, Dennis, 455 Denlinger, Elizabeth, 60 Dennihy, Melissa, 335; 681; 743 Denzel, Valentina, 279 DeRosa, Aaron, 696 Derrick, Roshawnda, 623 Desai, Adhaar Noor, 127 Desai, Gaurav G., 89; 310
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Desgranges, Maggie, 623 De Souza, Rebecca, 290 Detweiler, Eric, 440 D’Eugenio, Daniela, 533 Deutsch, Helen, 279 Deutsch, James, 121; 344 Devers, Rebecca, 742 Devitt, McKew, 196 Devlin, Paul, 149 De Vos, Laura, 548 DeVos, Whitney, 830 Dewey, Colin David, 624 Diamond, Elin, 737 Diana, Vanessa Holford, 416 Diaz, Monica, 128; 580 Diaz Martin, Esther, 137 Díaz-Quiñones, Arcadio, 8 Dib, Nicole, 157 Dichter, homas, 225 Dickey, Frances, 135 Dickson, Reed, 562 DiCuirci, Lindsay, 78 Di Leo, Jefrey R., 79 Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock, 195; 688 Dimick, Sarah, 304 Dimock, Wai Chee, 408; 564 Dimuro, Joseph A., 45 Dingo, Rebecca, 735 Dinolfo, John, 521 Dinshaw, Carolyn, 247 DiPaolo, Marc, 261 DiPasquale, heresa Maria, 590 Dischinger, Matthew, 253; 484; 765 Dize, Nathan H., 16 Djilo Kamga, Marthe, 510 Dolasinski, Lisa, 405 Dolgin, Ellen, 829 Dolske, Gwendolyn, 269 Dominguez, Ricardo, 517 Donahue, James, 471
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Donaldson, Elizabeth J., 44; 351 Donaldson, Sonya, 616 Donato, Clorinda, 169 Dong, Xiaoxi, 550 Donica, Joseph, 234; 810 Donkor, Crystal, 488 Donlon, Anne, 527; 661 Donoghue, Frank, 248 Donovan, Stephen, 489 Doriott Anderson, Vanessa, 124 Doroga, Jason, 197 Dorta, Walfrido, 349 Douglas, Christopher, 592; 828 Dovchin, Sender, 623 Dowd, Michelle M., 507 Dowdy, Michael, 131 Dowland, Douglas G., 203 Dowling, Sarah, 369; 419 Downing, David B., 248 Dowson, Rebecca, 454 Doyle, Benjamin, 670 Doyle, Jennifer, 403 Doyle, Laura Anne, 195 Draga Alexandru, Maria-Sabina, 674 Draucker, Shannon, 754 Dreier, Stephanie, 671 Drew, Mark, 377 Dreyfus, Emily, 296 Driscoll, Kerry, 518 Droge, Abigail, 468 Drouin, Jefrey, 817 Drumsta, Emily, 82 Duane, Anna Mae, 470; 825 Duarte, Silvia, 401 Duarte-Gray, Isabel, 242 Dube, Sibusiwe, 145 Dubrow, Heather, 590 Dufy, Timothy, 753 Dumitrescu, Domnita, 685 Duncan, Ian, 641
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Dunn, Christopher John, 529 Dupree, Mary Helen, 487 Duprey, Jennifer, 217; 532 Duquette, Elizabeth, 30 Duran, Angelica Alicia, 35; 207 Durand, AlainPhilippe, 124; 496 Durand, Annick A., 687 Duran Real, Angela, 453 Durgan, Jessica, 210; 535 Dushane, Allison, 760 Dutra, Paulo, 71 Duvall, John N., 423 Dworkin, Ira, 758 Dyer, Gary R., 804 Dyson, Katie, 203 Dziub, Nikol, 689 Eager, Claire, 465 Earle, Chris, 801 Earle, Jason, 663 Eberle-Sinatra, Michael, 332 Edelman, Lee, 79 Edel-Roy, Agnes, 187 Edgar, Eir-Anne, 743 Edmondson, Chloe, 265 Edmundson, Mark W., 312 Edwards, Brent Hayes, 637 Edwards, Erica, 438 Edwin, Shirin E., 746 Eeckhout, Bart P., 459 Efe, E., 785 Eigler, Friederike U., 180 Eils, Colleen, 658 Eisendrath, Rachel, 472; 769 Eisner, Martin G., 798 Ekotto, Frieda, 510 Elam, James Daniel, 193 Elam, Michele, 607 El-Ariss, Tarek, 479 Elder, John, 100
Eldridge, Hannah, 576 Elefant, Lior, 348 Elias, Amy J., 230 Elias-Bursac, Ellen, 697 El Khatib, Randa, 212; 454 Elkins, Amy E., 253; 484; 765 Ellard, Donna Beth, 491 Elliot, Norbert, 762 Ellis, Alicia E., 673 Ellis, Nadia, 552 Ellison, Julie, 157 El Nossery, Nevine, 556 El Shakry, Hoda, 163 Elsky, Stephanie, 254 El Younssi, Anouar, 776 Emenyonu, Ernest, 286 Emerson, D. Berton, 504 Emmerich, Karen, 531; 697 Emmerich, Michael, 514 Eng, Chris A., 238 Eng, David L., 216; 523; 730 Engel, Stephen David, 574 Engelstein, Stefani, 118 English, Daylanne K., 52; 359 Enterline, Lynn, 769 Eo, Kyunghee, 778 Epstein, Robert W., 544 Ernest, John, 339; 506 Ernst, Rachel A., 382 Ertürk, Nergis, 417; 637 Estill, Laura, 54 Estremera, Cynthia, 666 Etelain, Jeanne, 73 Etherington, Ben, 433 Evalyn, Lawrence, 808 Evans, Rebecca, 692 Eve, Martin Paul, 610 Exley, Charles, 49 Eyers, Tom, 79 Eyman, Douglas, 237 Fabrizi, Mark, 671 Fache, Caroline, 746 Fadoul, Paul, 119
Fagan, Benjamin, 102 Faini, Marco, 244 Fairouz, Mohammed, 459 Falaky, Fayçal, 526 Falk, Candace, 252 Fallon, Stephen M., 647 Fan, Christopher, 105; 370 Faragher, Megan, 461 Farina, Jonathan, 480; 645 Farley, David, 196; 776 Farmer, Meredith, 624 Farmer, Paul, 189 Fauri, Ana, 430 Fauzetdinova, Adel, 697 Fay, Elizabeth, 645 Fay, Jacqueline Ann, 816 Fazio, Michele A., 224 Fedirka, Sarah A., 391 Fedoruk, Jef, 369 Fedosik, Marina, 616 Fehrenbacher, Dena, 705 Feldman, Keith, 741; 758 Feldman, Leah, 612 Feng, Aileen, 456 Fenner, Angelica, 616 Ferguson, Andrew, 376; 528 Ferguson, Frances, 368; 475 Ferguson, Josh-Wade, 149 Fernandez, Diego, 253; 484; 765 Fernández, Esther, 217; 532 Ferri, Sabrina, 169 Ferris, Andrew, 688 Ferry, Megan M., 7; 65; 557 Fetta, Stephanie A., 684 Fetterley, Judith F., 749 Fetzer, Glenn W., 309 Ffrench, Raymont Patrick, 206 Field, Christopher, 638 Field, Jonathan Beecher, 536
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Field, Robin E., 61 Fielder, Brigitte, 18; 587 Filippova, Darja, 12 Filreis, Al, 157 Finch, David Zachary, 459 Fine, Kerry, 578 Fink, Marty, 509 Finley, Sarah, 460 Finston, Manoah, 666 Fiore, Teresa, 98 Fischer, Susan L., 353 Fish, Amy, 498 Fish, Stanley Eugene, 207 Fisher, Jane E., 817 Fisher, Will, 228 Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, 408; 796 Fisk, Gloria L., 643; 698 Fiss, Geraldine, 112 Fitzgerald, Jason, 740 Fitzgerald, Jonathan, 393 Fitzpatrick, Cristen, 740 Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 610 Fitzpatrick, Katie, 53 Fitzpatrick, KellyAnn, 300 Fitzsimmons, Rebekah, 314 Fiuza, Felipe, 72 Flanagan, Melissa, 6 Flatley, Jonathan, 412 Flaugh, Christian, 390 Flaxman, Gregory, 262 Fleetwood, Nicole, 573 Fleming, Julius, Jr., 438; 766 Flint, Kate, 404; 788 Floreani, Tracy, 144 Florescu, Florina Catalina, 246 Fludernik, Monika, 431; 822 Foley, Barbara Clare, 38; 248 Follett, Alec, 369 Fontana, Antonio, 550 Forbes, Tara, 342 Ford, Gabriel, 202 Fore, Devin A., 412
Foreman, P. Gabrielle, 339 Forman, Ross G., 209; 524; 727 Fornof, Carolyn, 284; 757 Forrester, Sibelan, 531 Forsdick, Charles, 542; 725 Forsythe, Jenny Marie, 264 Foster, Frances Smith, 411 Foster, J. Ashley, 527 Foster, Travis M., 30 Foteinou, Aglaia, 789 Fournier, Lauren, 745 Fowler, Megan, 729 Foy, Anna, 129 Foys, Martin, 154 Fragopoulos, George, 263 Fraiman, Susan D., 225 Fraleigh, Matthew, 786 Fra-Molinero, Baltasar, 661 Francis, Gladys M., 378; 717 Francis, Mary, 184 Francisco, Timothy, 87 François, Anne-Lise, 84; 183 Francomano, Emily C., 159; 264; 634 Frank, Adam J., 389; 653 Franke, William, 798 Franklin-Brown, Mary, 501 Franks, Matt, 703 Franzel, Sean B., 77 Fraser, Benjamin, 390 Freeburg, Christopher, 438 Freeland, Anne, 291 Freeman, Meghan, 329 Freeman, Ru, 520 Freeman, W. Miranda, 334 Frengel, Elizabeth, 136 Frenze, Maj-Britt, 649 Fried, Daniel, 813 Friedl, Herwig, 639 Friedlander, Ari, 17
Friedman, Gabriella, 751 Friedman, Susan Stanford, 274 Friis, Ronald J., 827 Frisch, Andrea Marie, 414 Frisina, Kyle, 745 Fritzsche, Sonja Rae, 239 Frodyma, Judyta, 316 Fröhlich, Sören, 521 Frost, Alanna, 691 Fuchs, Barbara, 353 Fuechtner, Veronika, 505 Fuentes, Marcelo, 229 Fuggle, Sophie, 542 Fukumori, Naomi, 514 Furlan, Laura M., 204 Fyfe, Alexander, 662 Gabbard, Chris, 569 Gaines, Jane Marie, 811 Gairola, Rahul, 418 Gallagher, Mark Russell, 546 Gallop, Jane, 317 Gallope, Michael, 731 Galloway, Alexander, 468 Galperin, William H., 368 Galvan, Margaret, 354 Galvez, Marisa, 582 Galvin, Rachel, 131 Gambarota, Paola, 75 Gambetti, Zeynep, 517 Gamble, Kyle, 719 Game, David, 598 Gana, Nouri, 609 Ganeshan, Ashwini, 191 Gannett, Cinthia, 156 Gansen, Elizabeth, 794 Ganz, Melissa J., 221 Gao, Yunwen, 559 Garber, Marjorie, 787 García, David E., 70 Garcia, Jay, 38 Garcia, Merideth, 562; 691 García-Donoso, Daniel, 601
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Garcia-Martin, Elena, 217; 532 Garcia Pinar, Pablo, 165 Gardiner, Judith, 650 Gardiner, Kelly, 495 Garland-homson, Rosemarie, 146 Garlof, Katja, 792 Garriga, Ana, 460 Garrigan, Shelley Elizabeth, 425 Garrison, John, 375 Garrity, Jane M., 55 Gaskill, Lauren, 253; 484; 765 Gaskins, Nettrice, 230 Gatrall, Jeferson J. A., 394 Gatti, Alberta, 557 Gatto, Katherine Mary, 36 Gauch, Suzanne, 361 Gaudet, Katherine, 66 Gavrielatos, Andreas, 608 Geheber, Philip, 812 Geis, Deborah R., 13 Geller, heresa L., 461 Gemmani, Lucia, 39 George, Alys, 648 George, Sheldon, 216; 523; 730 Gercken, Becca, 751 Gere, Anne Ruggles, 56; 580A; 706; 762 Gerhard, Julia, 394 Gerhardt, Christina, 458; 679 Germana, Monica, 720 Germano, William, 317 Gerrity, Sean, 426; 724 Gerzina, Gretchen, 59 Gezen, Ela, 341 Gharabegian, Alina, 536 Giannini, Stefano, 748 Gibson, Angela, 525; 589; 670 Gibson, Casarae L., 46 Gibson, Corey, 121; 720 Gies, David hatcher, 14
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Gikandi, Simon E., 312; 337 Gil, Alexander, 57; 304 Gilbert, Katherine, 221 Gilbert, Nora, 85 Gilbert, Pamela K., 788 Gill, Amyrose McCue, 670 Gill, Michael James, 812 Gillen, Katherine, 398 Gillman, Susan, 30; 796 Gill-Peterson, Julian, 540 Gilmore, Leigh, 133 Gimse, Geofrey, 694 Gines, Kathryn, 269 Giordano, Rebecca, 354 Glancy, Diane, 751 Glaser, Jennifer, 19 Glass, Erin, 453 Glass, Loren D., 175 Gleason, William A., 227 Glick, Jeremy M., 152 Glover, Jefrey, 302 Glover, Kaiama L., 16; 119 Gniadek, Melissa, 820 Goble, Mark, 326; 547 Gochberg, Reed, 100 Goddard, Jeanette, 658 Goddard, Todd, 818 Godfrey, Mollie, 19 Goetz, Elizabeth, 40 Gofman, Carolyn McCue, 25 Gogol, Miriam S., 811 Gold, Matthew K., 184; 583 Goldberg, David heo, 517; 777 Goldberg, Sarah, 227; 241 Goldberg, Shari, 752 Goldblatt, Laura, 225 Golden, Amanda, 619 Goldfarb, Lisa N., 459 Goldman, Dara E., 349 Goldman, Jonathan, 619 Goldsby, Jacqueline D., 791
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Goldstein, Amanda Jo, 814 Goldwyn, Adam, 263 Gollwitzer-Oh, Kathrin, 824 Golomb, Liorah A., 156 Gomez, Reid, 223 Gomez-Lomeli, Luis Felipe, 827 Gonzalez, Christopher, 261; 471 Gonzalez, Octavio, 399 Gonzalez, Shawn, 313 González Chávez, Humberto, 92 González-Stephan, Beatriz, 174 Goode, Mike, 775 Goodley, Dan, 146 Goodman, Brian, 747 Goodwin, Jonathan, 440 Gordon, Colby W., 228 Gore, Amy, 204 Goul, Pauline, 414 Gowen, Emily, 578 Goyal, Yogita, 195; 607 Grace, Nancy McCampbell, 13 Grace-Petinos, Stephanie, 202 Grady, Hugh, 797 Graf Zivin, Erin D., 257 Graham, Elyse, 308 Graham, Rebecca, 615 Graham, Wendy, 278 Gramling, David, 698 Grandt, Jurgen E., 567 Grant, Nathan, 377 Grattan, Sean, 536 Gray, Jacqueline L., 558 Grazevich, Gregory, 94 Green, Harriett, 352 Greenberg, Jonathan D., 192 Greenberg, Marc L., 65; 98 Greenberg, Nathaniel, 361 Greenblatt, Stephen J., 651 Greene, Roland, 181 Greene, Shelleen, 322
Green-Howard, Rachael, 228 Greenspan, Ezra, 339 Greenwald Smith, Rachel, 643 Greeson, Jennifer Rae, 138 Gregerson, Linda K., 207 Gregory, Chase, 704 Gregory, Scott, 235 Greif, Mark, 123 Greiman, Jennifer, 219 Greyser, Naomi, 148 Grieve, Patricia E., 264 Grieve-Smith, Angus, 455 Griin, Susan Mary, 555 Griith, Jane, 259 Griith, Phillip, 170 Griiths, Devin, 327; 389 Griiths, Timothy, 488 Grigar, Dene M., 644 Grobe, Christopher, 46 Gross, Jessica, 658 Gross, Jonathan, 270 Grossman, Claire, 29 Grossman, Jonathan, 436; 783 Grotans, Anna, 824 Groves, Jason, 654 Grue, Jan, 146 Gruesser, John Cullen, 593 Grumbach, Elizabeth, 454 Grunes, Marissa, 554 Gsoels-Lorensen, Jutta M., 103; 401 Guadaño, Luis, 545 Gudmundsdottir, Gunnthorunn, 288 Guerlac, Suzanne, 206 Guesmi, Haythem, 828 Gui, Weihsin, 664 Guibbory, Achsah, 297 Guidotti-Hernández, Nicole M., 755 Guijarro-Donadios, Antonio, 217; 532 Gundogan Ibrisim, Deniz, 422
Gunn, Robert, 642 Gunter, Ben, 165 Guo, Jie, 721 Guo, Li, 307 Gupta-Casale, Nira M., 418 Gursel, Burcu, 222 Guryeva, Anastasia, 629 Gustafson, Sandra M., 408 Gustafsson Chen, Anna, 434 Gutiérrez, Laura G., 86 Gutiérrez, Manuel, 602 Gutierrez-Albilla, Julian Daniel, 76 Guy-Bray, Stephen, 280 Guyer, Sara, 476 Guynes, Sean, 346 Guyot, Sylvaine, 526 Guzmán, Joshua, 755 Gvili, Gal, 179 Haake, Gregory, 501 Hachad, Naima, 556 Hack, Daniel, 161 Hackenbracht, Ryan, 608 Haeselin, David, 175 Hager, Lisa M., 754 Haidt, Rebecca, 545 Haji Amran, Rinni, 215; 522; 726 Hakala, Taryn, 210; 535 Halberstam, Jack, 597 Halevi-Wise, Yael, 106 Haley, Madigan, 774 Hall, Ann C., 577 Hall, Crystal J., 169 Hall, Donald E., 70 Hall, Molly, 406 Hall, S. Cailey, 183 Hallett, Christine, 521 Halmi, Nicholas, 814 Halperin, Laura, 28 Halpern, Faye S., 85 Hamerton, Katharine, 265 Hamilton, Diana, 15 Hamilton, Elizabeth C., 390 Hamilton, Michelle M., 756 Hamilton, Paul, 665
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Hammer, Langdon, 459 Hammerman, Robin S., 467; 810 Hammerschlag, Sarah, 276 Hammond, James, 141 Hancuf, Richard W., 299; 659 Handley, William, 578 Hannachi, Madiha, 701; 719 Hanscom, Christopher, 778 Hanson, Ellis, 27 Haque, Danielle, 596 Haque, Jameel, 732 Haragos, Szidonia, 420 Hardman, Emilie, 352 Hardy, Molly O’Hagan, 791 Harel, Naama, 803 Hargrave, Jennifer L., 209; 524; 727 Harmon, Sarah, 605 Harner, Christie, 188 Harney-Mahajan, Tara, 120A Harper, Donna Akiba Sullivan, 334 Harries, Martin, 737 Harris, Rachel S., 348 Harris, Stephen J., 649 Harris, Susan K., 385 Harris, William J., 686 Harrison, Marguerite I., 43 Harrison, MaryCatherine, 210; 535 Harrison, Rachel, 551 Harrison, Timothy M., 143; 297 Harrison-Kahan, Lori, 764 Hartman, Saidiya, 597 Hartman, Stacy, 563; 761 Hartmann-Villalta, Laura, 644 Harvey, Elizabeth D., 143 Harwood, Christopher, 654 Hasbun, Muriel, 682 Hashem, Noor, 596
Hass, Robert Bernard, 277 Hassan, Dina, 335 Hauptman, Maya, 358 Hay, John, 62 Hayek, Ghenwa, 44A Hayes, Jarrod L., 242; 396 Hayes, Mary, 168; 422 Hayot, Eric, 159; 274 Haywood, Ian, 64 Hazard, Daniel, 349 Heafey, Caroline, 164 Healey, David, 134 Heath, R. Scott, 230 Heath, Stephen, 318 Hebbard, Elizabeth, 92 Heberling, Lydia, 324 Hefner, Brooks E., 102; 470 Hegel, Allison, 333 Heidemeier, Pia, 215; 522; 726 Heil, Jacob, 666 Heimlich, Timothy, 498; 554 Heine, Stefanie, 574; 792 Heintz, Lauren, 793 Helgesson, Stefan, 433 Heller, Dana A., 650 Helmer, Angela, 575 Helmers, Marguerite Helen, 114; 521 Helton, Laura E., 320 Hena, Omaar, 516 Henchman, Anna, 188 Hengel, Daniel, 657 Henig, Roni, 21 Henzi, Sarah, 58 Herman, Peter C., 311 Hernández, Daisy, 646 Hernandez Grande, Alicia, 260 Herrera, Olga, 371 Herrera, Patricia, 428 Herring, Scott, 399 Hershinow, David, 507 Hesford, Wendy, 537 Hess, Jillian, 363 Hesse, Douglas, 237 Hewitt, Elizabeth, 606 Hickman, Lisa Catherine, 530
Hickman, Trenton L., 308 Higbee, Douglas, 817 Highland, Kristen Doyle, 619 Hildebrand, Sarah, 548 Hill, Michael Gibbs, 179; 559 Hilson, Mica, 214 Hinrichs, William, 666 Hinrichsen, Lisa A., 245 Hinton, Anna, 703 Hipchen, Emily, 355 Hirsch, Marianne, 364; 725 Hirsu, Lavinia, 537 Hisatake, Kara, 105 Hitchcock, Peter James, 104 Ho, Elizabeth H., 209; 524; 727 Hobbs, Allyson, 19 Hobbs, David, 132; 278 Hodgson, Lucia, 825 Hodgson, Matthew, 426 Hofer, Amy, 234 Hokosh, Sonia, 620 Hofmann, Richie, 357 Hogan, Katie J., 24; 821 Hogan, Lalita Pandit, 568; 700 Hogan, Patrick Colm, 429; 568 Hogue, Rebecca, 781 Holden, Anca Luca, 246 Holder, Heidi J., 683 Holdstein, Deborah H., 237; 359 Holland, Caroline, 821 Hollenbach, Lisa A., 182; 549 Hollinshead-Strick, Cary, 388 Hollywood, Amy, 216; 523; 730 Holmes, Gerard, 62 Holmes, Jessica, 548 Holmes, Lindsey, 278 Holt, Elizabeth M., 63 Holt, Jenny, 209; 524; 727
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Hong Fincher, Leta, 695 Hooks, Adam G., 352 Hooley, Matt, 84 Horowitz, Sara R., 276 Hou, Jue, 422 Houchins, Sue E., 35; 661 Housley, Marjorie, 154 Houston Overfelt, Carly, 477 Howard, Jean Elizabeth, 264; 432 Howe, Lawrence, 385 Howe, LeAnne, 800 Hoxby, Blair G., 770 Hoyos, Hector, 249 Hswe, Patricia M., 695 Hsy, Jonathan, 107 Hu, Qiulei, 813 Hu, Tung-Hui, 583 Huang, Amy, 825 Huang, Guangzhi, 37 Huang, Michelle N., 238 Huang, Yiju, 500 Huang, Yu-ting, 186 Hubbard, Dolan, 80 Hubble, Nick, 95 Hubbs, Jolene, 138 Huf, Cheryl, 234 Huh, Jang Wook, 585 Hume Lewandowski, Angela, 419 Hung, Tzu-Hui Celina, 186 Hunt, Dallas, 58 Hunt, Irvin, 470 Hunter, Leeann, 6 Hunter-Parker, Hannah, 373 Hurley, Jessica, 323 Hurley, Natasha, 461 Hurst, Caitlin, 201 Hustis, Harriet Elizabeth, 667 Hutcheson, Gregory S., 229 Hutchinson, Christopher, 51 Hutner, Gordon N., 377; 410 Hutton, Robert, 650
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Huyssen, Andreas A., 505 Hwang, Merose, 676 Hyland, MarieChristine, 554 Ibbett, Katherine, 414 Idrissi Alami, Ahmed, 511 Ifri, Pascal A., 663 Ihinger, Kelsey, 353 Illingworth, Corinna Margarete, 382 Indrunas, Alyson, 234 Ingram, Shelley, 638 Ingrassia, Catherine Elizabeth, 630 Insley Hershinow, Stephanie, 784 Ireland, Benjamin, 37 Ivey, Beatrice, 687 Iyer, Nalini, 61; 220 Jackson, Lawrence, 768 Jackson, Mark Allan, 121 Jackson, Robert A., 699 Jackson, Virginia, 325 Jacobe, Monica F., 66; 124; 743 Jacobowitz, Susan, 36 Jacobs, Bethany, 42; 298 Jacobs, Jason D., 490 Jacobs, Sarah Ruth, 795 Jacobson, Kristin J., 166 Jaén-Portillo, Isabel, 72 Jager, Colin, 343 Jagoda, Patrick, 408; 760 Jaillant, Lise, 455 Jaji, Tsitsi, 271 Jakacki, Diane, 454 Jakobsen, Janet R., 572 James, Erin, 508 James, Jennifer, 506 James, Jenny M., 540 Jamieson, Sandra, 478 Jani, Pranav, 225 Janzen, Rebecca, 757 Jaschik, Scott, 126 Jauregui, Carlos A., 580 Jaussen, Paul, 222 Jegousso, Jeanne, 313 Jellenik, Glenn, 759
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Jemison, Stefani, 404 Jennison, Ruth, 662 Jenns, Erika, 352 Jensen, Katharine Ann, 526 Jeon, Joseph, 238; 370 Jeong, Kelly Y., 584 Jerng, Mark, 471 Jewusiak, Jacob, 541 Jia Pingwa, 331 Jiménez García, Marilisa, 543 Johnsen, Rosemary Erickson, 828 Johnson, Eleanor, 544 Johnson, Erica, 725 Johnson, Kendall, 209; 524; 727 Johnson, Kimberly, 297 Johnson, Mira, 344 Johnson, Reed, 394 Johnson, Ronna Catherine, 13 Johnson, Sharon P., 396 Johnson, Zachary, 150 Johnston, Lisa Longo, 562; 681 Jokic, Olivera, 129 Jolly, Rosemary J., 281 Jones, Allen, 704 Jones, Anna Maria, 209; 524; 727 Jones, Edward, 377 Jones, Gavin, 547 Jones, Jason B., 203; 440 Jones, Meta DuEwa, 419; 549 Jones-Kellogg, Rebecca, 71 Jonik, Michael, 219; 278 Joo, Fumiko, 307 Joplin, Rachelle, 203 Joseph, Régine Isabelle, 588 Joseph-Gabriel, Annette, 588 Joshi, Priya, 35 Joubin, Alexa Alice, 54; 151 Juan-Navarro, Santiago, 502 Judson, Trenton, 455 Justice, George L., 548
Kack, Elin, 608 Kadish, Philip, 32 Kagen, Melissa, 196 Kahan, Benjamin, 675 Kahn, Seth, 482 Kalliney, Peter J., 274; 474 Kande, Sylvie, 119 Kang, Ling, 559 Kanor, Fabienne, 717 Kantor, Roanne, 585 Kao, Vivian, 208; 534 Kao, Wan-Chuan, 544 Kapica, Steven, 212 Kaplan, Carla, 408 Kaplan, Rebbecca, 124 Karageorgou-Bastea, Christina, 485 Karavanta, Asimina, 401 Karger, Paula, 702 Karlin, Ashley, 56 Karshan, homas, 571 Kartalopoulos, Vasilios, 173 Karunanayake, Dinidu, 790 Kashtan, Aaron, 729 Kastner, Tal, 221 Katopodis, Christina, 62; 546 Katsan, Gerasimus M., 263 Katzir, Brandon, 801 Kaufman, Eleanor, 463 Kaufman, Mark, 406 Kaup, Monika, 68 Kaupp, Stefen, 213 Kaur, Rajender, 418 Kaur, Vinamarata, 540 Kavaloski, Laini, 157; 764 Kay, Sarah, 628; 826 Kazanjian, David, 587 Kazanjian, Miriam A., 706 Keating, Benjamin, 268 Keen, Suzanne Parker, 251; 492; 772 Keep, Christopher J., 783 Keeton, Patricia L., 467 Keith, Jennifer, 630
Kelleher, Christopher, 620 Kelleher, Hillary, 231 Kelleher, Paul, 279 Keller, Patricia M., 76; 601 Kelley, Mark, 221 Kelly, Adam, 607 Kelly, Kathleen Coyne, 821 Kelly, Kristin, 157 Kelly, Mike, 791 Kelly-Riley, Diane, 762 Kelp-Stebbins, Katherine, 173 Kemedjio, Cilas, 458 Keniston, Ann, 311; 742 Kennedy, Maria, 344 Kennedy, Mika, 413 Kennedy, Rosanne M., 738 Kennedy, Sean, 37; 149 Kennedy-Epstein, Rowena, 527 Kennison, Rebecca, 184; 610 Kent, Sarah, 387 Keohane, Catherine, 779 Keresztesi, Rita, 258 Kerrigan, John, 507 Keyser, Catherine, 192; 306 Khan, Azeen, 216; 523; 730 Khanna, Neetu, 409 Khanna, Ranjana, 401 Khannous, Touria, 741 Khapaeva, Dina, 581 Kidd, David, 251; 492; 772 Kief, Jonathan, 778 Kile, S. E., 139 Kim, Chung-kang, 33 Kim, Dorothy, 81 Kim, Eunjung, 541 Kim, Heidi, 668 Kim, Immanuel, 383 Kim, Pil Ho, 629 Kim, Sandra, 413 Kim, Sue J., 471 Kim, Sunyoung, 538 Kim, Youngmin, 549 Kim Lee, Summer, 540
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King, Rob, 811 Kinney, Katherine A., 457; 740 Kinniburgh, Mary Catherine, 393 Kippur, Sara, 588 Kirby, Elizabeth, 733 Kirk, Stephanie Louise, 425; 580 Kirkpatrick, Pamela, 681 Kirtley, Susan E., 354; 650 Kita, Caroline A., 648 Kitson, Peter, 209; 524; 727 Kitzinger, Chloë, 150 Klancher, Jon, 632 Klein, Lauren, 347; 688 Klein, Lucas, 813 Klein, Stacy S., 816 Klein, William, 579 Kliger, Ilya, 150 Klimasmith, Betsy, 273 Klobucka, Anna M., 199; 736 Kloeckner, Christian, 245 Knapp, Caleb, 172 Knapp, James A., 178 Knapp, Shoshana Milgram, 187 Knighton, Mary A., 530 Knoeplmacher, U. C., 673 Knox, Katelyn, 250; 493; 773 Ko, Susan, 2 Kobayashi, Eri, 336 Koestenbaum, Wayne, 520; 675 Konstantinou, Lee, 607 Kontje, Todd C., 603 Kopec, Andrew, 30 Koretsky, Deanna, 232 Kornberg, Morani, 609 Kornbluh, Anna, 337; 468 Kosick, Rebecca, 15 Kosman, Marcelle, 415 Kotef, Hagar, 597 Kottemann, Kathrin, 355 Koundakjian, Lola, 194
Kozicki, Benjamin, 577 Krat, Andrea, 130 Krajewski, Bruce, 99; 701 Kramnick, Jonathan, 44; 560 Krebs, Paula M., 24; 126; 441; 706 Kreilkamp, Ivan, 783 Kreitz, Kelley, 308 Krell, Rebekah, 101 Kressner, Ilka, 305 Kriebernegg, Ulla, 541 Krishnan, Rajiv C., 750 Kroik, Polina, 245 Krolikoski, David, 629 Krouk, Dean, 288 Krstic, Visnja, 73 Kruger, Carole A., 167 Kruger, Loren, 585 Krumholtz, Matthew, 227 Krummel, Miriamne Ara, 107 Krzakowski, Caroline Zoe, 391 Kukar, Polina, 251; 492; 772 Kullberg, Christina, 611 Kumar, Akash, 586 Kumar, Srigowri, 469 Kunze, Peter, 212; 504 Kurnick, David S., 338; 775 Kutch, Lynn M., 213 Kuzmanovic, Dejan, 509; 663 Kuzmanovich, Zoran, 571 Kwon, Nayoung Aimee, 510 Kyburz, Bonnie Lenore, 66; 392 Kynard, Carmen, 416 Labbie, Erin Felicia, 789 Labio, Catherine, 173 Labov, Jessie M., 289; 747 Labrador Méndez, Germán, 601 Lachman, Kathryn, 104
Lackey, Michael, 438; 495 Ladd, Barbara, 385 LaFleur, Greta, 17 LaFountain, Pascale, 487 Lagji, Amanda, 42 Lagman, Eileen, 402 Lagny, Anne, 487 LaGuardia, David, 226 Laist, Randy, 533 Laity, Cassandra, 423 Lake, Crystal, 407 Lal, Saumya, 251; 492; 772 Lalicker, William Benedict, 359 Lam, Ling Hon, 139 Lamana, Gonzalo, 128 Lamar Prieto, Covadonga, 575 Lamb, Jonathan P., 365 Lambert, Josh, 74 Lamm, Zachary, 255 Landy, Joshua, 568 Langlois, Christopher, 104 Lanser, Susan S., 566 LaPorta, Kathrina A., 526 Larkin, Edward J., 805 Laros, Ted, 233 Larrier, Renée, 588 Larson, Holly, 367 Larson, Jennifer, 380 Larson, Maxwell, 498 Laski, Gregory, 52; 488 Lasman, Samuel, 669 Lasmana, Viola, 694 Lassner, Phyllis, 348 LaTrecchia, Patrizia, 570 Lau, Travis, 129 Laubender, Carolyn, 807 Laurence, David, 47 Lauret, Maria L. J., 133 Lauritsen, Karen, 234 Lauter, Paul, 411; 706 Lavery, Joseph, 775 Lavin, Matthew, 632 Lawrence, Heidi A., 618 Lawrence, Jefrey, 68; 249
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Lawrence, Patrick, 221 Lawrimore, David K., 395 Lawtoo, Nidesh, 294; 598 Leake, Joseph, 649 Lears, Adin, 127; 789 Leavell, Lori A., 768 LeClerc, Paul, 319 Ledent, Bénédicte, 336 Lederman, Emily, 666 Ledesma, Eduardo, 734 Lee, Benjamin F., 549 Lee, Christina H., 115; 243 Lee, Debbie, 110 Lee, Derek, 105 Lee, Haiyan, 429; 652 Lee, James Kyung-Jin, 413 Lee, Jerry, 621 Lee, Joo Young, 33 Lee, Kyoo, 269 Lee, Laura, 208; 534 Lee, Simon, 55; 95 Lee, Yoon Sun, 10 Le Espiritu, Evyn, 566 Legassie, Shayne Aaron, 702 Legutko, Agnieszka, 295 Lehman, Sara L., 243 Lehnen, Jeremy, 199 Lehnen, Leila Maria, 43; 430 Leichman, Jefrey, 208; 534 Lemon, Mike, 578 Lenart-Cheng, Helga, 133 Leon, Brais D., 251; 492; 772 León, Christina, 308; 793 Leonard, John, 207 Leong, Andrew Way, 105 Leow, Joanne, 153 Lepianka, Nigel, 574 Lerescu, Jacqueline, 7; 65 Lerner, Bettina R., 396 Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini, 405
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Livingstone, Josephine, 666 Livingstone, Victoria, 667 Livorni, Isabella, 224 Loar, Christopher, 381 Lochrie, Karma, 27 Loew, Katharina, 208; 534 Logan, Katie, 162; 350 Logan, Peter M., 787 Logan, Shirley Wilson, 237 Loh, Waiyee, 209; 524; 727 Loichot, Valerie I., 458 Lomuto, Sierra, 702 Lone Fight, Darren, 204 Long, homas Lawrence, 521 Longo, Philip, 66 Looby, Christopher, 499 Looney, Dennis, 167; 239 Loonin, Paulo, 219 López-Calvo, Ignacio, 370 López Intzín, Juan, 360 Lopez Martin, Alberto, 485 Lord, Gillian, 167; 557 Lorenzi, Lucia, 342 Lorimer Leonard, Rebecca, 621 Lorre-Johnston, Christine, 483 Lothian, Alexis, 415 Lothspeich, Pamela, 627 Louar, Nadia, 687 Low, Jennifer A., 298 Low, Trisha, 29 Lowe, John Wharton, 261 Lowe, Lisa, 597 Lowman, Nicole, 490 Lowry, Kathryn, 486 Loysen, Kathleen A., 226 Lu, Tina, 652 Lubin, Alex, 366 Lucci, Laura, 372
Lucenko, Kristina, 145 Lucey, Michael, 325; 594 Luciano, Dana, 84; 403 Ludwig, Kathryn, 592 Lundblad, Michael, 146 Lunsford, Andrea Abernethy, 237 Luo, Junjie, 209; 524; 727 Luo, Liang, 584 Lupke, Christopher M., 275; 559 Lupton, Julia Reinhard, 797 Lupton, Tina, 338; 560 Lussier, Mark, 110 Luzzi, Joseph, 39 Lyle, Timothy, 303 Lynch, Deidre, 641 Lynch-Biniek, Amy, 605 Lyne, Raphael, 763 Lynes, Katherine R., 692 Lyon, Janet, 423 Lyons, Robert, 341 Lypka, Celiese, 350 Lyubas, Anastasiya, 295 Ma, Ming-Qian, 782 MacCabe, Colin Myles, 318 Macdonald, Ewan, 486 MacDonald, Ian, 785 MacGowan, Christopher John, 518 Machado Saez, Elena, 16 Machosky, Brenda, 282 Macintosh, John, 258 Mack, Ruth, 784 MacKay, Ellen, 113 Maclachlan, Ian, 805 MacRae, Susan, 170 Madan, Anuja, 34 Madureira, Luís, 479 Magni, Isabella, 244; 628 Maguire, Michael, 166 Mahafey, Vicki, 565 Mahalel, Adi, 295 Mahapatra, Aruni, 516
Mahler, Anne Garland, 400 Mahoney, Charles Waite, 227 Mahoney, Michael, 44; 245 Maira, Sunaina, 44A Maisto, Maria, 605 Majsova, Natalija, 394 Majstorovic, Gorica, 266 Majumder, Auritro, 220; 662 Makela, Maria, 431 Malakaj, Ervin, 109 Malazita, James, 255; 574 Malisa, Mark, 286 Malka, Ruth, 106 Malkin, Shira, 689 Mall, Laurence, 185; 526 Malley, Suzanne Blum, 237; 402 Maloy, Jennifer, 25 Manalansan, Martin, IV, 597 Mancini, C. Bruna, 483 Mandel, Naomi Iliana, 99 Mandell, Laura C., 630; 777 Maneval, Rhonda, 762 Maney, Bret, 697 Manfredi, Paul, 275 Mangoutas, Irene, 406 Mangum, Teresa, 24; 771 Mani, Bala Venkat, 67; 698 Mann, D. Brian, 145 Mann, Jenny C., 472 Mannan, Joya, 48 Manning, Patricia W., 794 Mannon, Bethany, 699 Manshel, Alexander, 50 Mansouri, Leila, 245 Manzo, Kerry, 48 Marcoux, JeanPhilippe, 686 Marculescu, Andreea, 202; 356 Marcus, Sara, 403
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Marder, Elissa, 594; 807 Mardorossian, Carine M., 533 Marie, Laurence, 265 Marin, Noemi, 674 Marinez, Sophie, 119 Marini-Maio, Nicoletta, 405 Marino, James J., 507 Marion Modi, Jessica, 555 Marren, Joseph, 252 Marrone-Puglia, Gaetana, 748 Marroquin, Jaime, 827 Marsh, Steven, 76 Marshall, Caitlin, 428 Marshall, Jocelyn, 490 Marshall, Kate, 140; 436 Marshall, Megan, 818 Marshall, Zachary, 547 Marshik, Celia, 55 Martin, Jonathan Seelye, 267 Martin, Michelle Holley, 190 Martin, Molly A., 300 Martinek, Jason, 382 Martinez, Aja Y., 513 Martinez, Danizete, 367 Martinez, Glenn, 171 Martinez, Miguel, 794 Martinez Benedi, Pilar, 351 Martínez-Carazo, Cristina, 217; 532 Martinez-Cruz, Paloma, 466 Martinez–San Miguel, Yolanda M., 128 Martín-Martínez, Alodia, 229 Martuscelli, Tania, 430 Maruca, Lisa Marie, 388 Marzec, Robert Philip, 423 Marzioli, Sara, 322 Mason, Qrescent Mali, 269 Massé, Michelle A., 24; 613
Masson, Catherine, 689 Masten, Jefrey, 340 Matarese, Maureen, 32 Matheron, Aurelie, 125 Mathes, Carter, 403; 519 Matheson, Christina Moire, 164 Mathieu, Pierre, 663 Matos, Angel Daniel, 18; 625 Mattern, Shannon, 583 Matteson, John, 59 Matthew, Patricia A., 232 Matthews, Jodie, 210; 535 Mattza, Carmela, 115 Matz, Aaron, 192 Matz, Robert I., 98; 144 Maurer, Anaïs, 183 Maurette, Pablo, 143 Mauro, Aaron, 454 Maxwell, Jason, 735 Maxwell, Lida, 722 Mazella, David Samuel, 129 Mazzaferro, Alexander, 302 McAleavey, Maia, 754 McAlpine, Erica, 554 McBride, Patrizia C., 792 McCants, Kristen, 280 McCarthy, Maureen, 47 McCarty, Ryan, 562 McClancy, Kathleen, 760 McClennen, Sophia A., 249 McClintock, Anne, 404 McCormick, Monica, 184 McCormick, Stacie, 303 McCormick, Stephen, 753 McCoy, Jared, 253; 484; 765 McCoy, Shane, 268 McCracken, Denise, 7; 65 McCracken, Ellen, 333; 462
McCracken-Flesher, Caroline, 240 McCullough, Mary E., 799 McDiarmid, Lucy, 120A McDonagh, Josephine, 343 McDonald, Fran, 376 McDonald, Ronan Daniel, 812 McEleney, Corey, 419 McEnaney, Tom, 325 McFadden, Cybelle H., 424 McFarland, James, 457 McGarrity, Maria, 812 McGiin, Emily, 15 McGill, Meredith L., 791 McGlazer, Ramsey, 216; 523; 730 McGlynn, Mary M., 120A McGowan, Margaret, 690 McGowan, Todd, 337 McGowan, Tony, 114 McGrath, Brian, 283; 475 McGrath, Derek, 533 McGrath, Laura B., 723 McGregor, Hannah, 415 McGuckin, Ryan James, 656 McHale, Ellen, 344 McInnis, Jarvis, 334; 766 McKelvey, Seth, 830 McKenna, Catherine, 398 McKusick, James C., 64 McLaughlin, Stephen Reid, 29 McMahon, Deirdre H., 190; 600 McMahon, Marci R., 466 McMillan, Laurie A., 359 McMillan, Uri, 766 McMillan-Cliton, Alexis, 234
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McMullen, Joey, 398 McNulty, Tess, 283 McPherson, Tara, 583 McQuillan, Martin, 79 McQuillen, Colleen, 654 McQuillen, John T., 666 McShane, Kara, 247 McShane, Megan, 676 McVeigh Trainor, Maureen, 657 McWhirter, David, 20 Meadows, Harrison, 217; 532 Mecchia, Giuseppina, 142 Medoro, Dana, 593 Medovoi, Leerom, 572 Meeker, Natania, 279 Meeuwis, Michael, 210; 535 Mehta, Rini Bhattacharya, 208; 534 Meira Monteiro, Pedro, 736 Meisel, Martin, 829 Melancon, Trimiko, 334 Melin, Charlotte Ann, 65 Menagarishvili, Olga, 314 Mendelman, Lisa, 45; 328 Mendelson, Edward, 655 Menely, Tobias Coyote, 84 Meng, Liansu, 112 Meng, Yue, 193 Menke, Mandy, 503 Menke, Richard, 407 Menon, Madhavi, 27 Menon, Sheela Jane, 551 Mentz, Steve, 254; 821 Meranze, Michael, 380 Mercer, Leigh, 545; 677 Merino, Adriana, 503 Merish, Lori A., 78 Merlin-Kajman, Hélène, 414; 826
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Metres, Philip John, 131 Metz, Christian, 296 Meyer, Neil, 558 Meyer, Steven J., 189; 389 Mezey, Jason Howard, 627 Michelson, Seth, 103; 251; 492; 772 Micir, Melanie, 455; 613 Miele, Benjamin, 264 Mielke, Laura L., 642; 745 Miernowski, Jan, 414 Mikolajcik, Deirdre, 22 Mikos, Keith, 809 Miletich, Marko, 83 Milian, Claudia, 755 Milland, Ron, 806 Millar, Lanie, 179 Miller, Benjamin, 478 Miller, Cristanne, 617 Miller, Lyndsay, 571 Miller, Marilyn Grace, 93 Miller, Monica, 242 Miller, Monica L., 55 Miller, Nicholas, 354 Miller, Peter, 23 Miller, Susan, 80 Miller, Timothy, 247 Miller, Tyrus H., 47; 374 Mina, Lilian, 130 Minich, Julie, 399 Minnen, Jennifer, 188 Miranda, Omar F., 232 Mirpuri, Anoop, 103 Mirzoef, Nicholas, 386 Misemer, Leah, 354; 729 Mishou, Aubrey, 650 Mislevy, Robert, 762 Mitchell, Koritha, 42; 519 Mitchell, Rebecca N., 136 Moeller, Aleidine (Ali), 604 Mohamed, Feisal G., 780 Moi, Toril, 330
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Mole, Tom, 64; 723 Mollow, Anna, 303 Monaco, Pamela, 599 Monroy, Emma, 458 Montag, Warren G., 731 Montaldo, Graciela, 227 Montenegro, María Silvia, 400 Moody, Alys, 409 Moody-Turner, Shirley, 320 Mookerjea-Leonard, Debali, 516 Mookherjee, Taarini, 719 Moon, Michael D., 675 Moore, Alexandra S., 387 Moore, Dennis, 642 Moore, Sarah, 134 Moran, Mary Jeanette, 190; 618 Morana, Mabel E., 128 Moraru, Christian, 674 Moreiras, Alberto, 160 Moreiras-Menor, Cristina, 76; 734 Morel, Eric, 431 Morgan Wortham, Simon, 807 Moriah, Kristin, 42 Morin, Sylvia Veronica, 684 Moro, Jefrey, 304 Morris, Paula, 495 Morrissey, Jennifer, 465 Morse, Daniel, 271; 474 Morsi, Eman, 179; 585 Moslemani, Fadil, 748 Mourad, Ghada, 512 Mousli, Beatrice, 588 Muchiri, Ng’ang’a, 741 Mueller, Carolin, 656 Muellner, Beth Ann, 613 Muenchrath, Anna, 515 Muti, Aamir R., 211 Muti, Nasser, 118 Mukherjee, Sharmila, 34 Mulholland, James, 732; 784
Mullen, Darcy, 300 Müller, Matthias, 12 Mulligan, Amy, 398 Mulligan, Rikk, 632 Mulry, David, 489 Munich, Adrienne A., 788 Muniz, Wendy Virginia, 205 Murphy, Dana, 172 Murphy, Dianna, 98 Murphy, Sinéad, 163 Murray, Cara, 732 Murray, Molly, 297 Murthy, Pashmina, 258 Muyumba, Walton, 366 Myers, Anne, 614 Myers, Bess, 801 Myers, Megan Jeanette, 16; 640 Myers, Robert, 341 Myoung-a, Kwon, 383 Nace, Nicholas D., 192 Nadeau, Carolyn A., 72 Nadel, Ira, 132; 316 Nadkarni, Asha, 591 Naghibi, Nima, 595 Nair, Supriya M., 640 Najarian, Jonathan, 595 Naji, Ammar, 776 Nakley, Susan M., 702 Napolin, Julie, 530 Narayan, Gaura Shankar, 620 Narcisi, Lara, 19 Nardizzi, Vin, 17; 181 Naruse, Cheryl Narumi, 153 Nash, William R., 363 Nashef, Hania, 609 Nasrabadi, Manijeh, 758 Navarro, Jose, 466 Nayder, Lillian, 136 Nazarian, Cynthia, 468 Nealon, Christopher, 123 Negrete, Maria Fernanda, 819 Neijmann, Daisy, 288 Neiman, Elizabeth, 759 Nel, Philip, 18 Nelson, Cary, 311 Nemirof, James, 353
Nesbitt, William, 740 Nestor, Amy R., 809 Neufeld, Josh, 595 Neuman, Nichole, 88 Newcomb, Robert Patrick, 43 Newcombe, Emma, 148 Newield, Christopher John, 380; 777 Newield, Marcia, 467 Newman, Jane Ogden, 373 Ng, Su Fang, 153 Nguyen, Vinh, 551 Nichols, Ashton, 110 Nichols, William, 7; 65; 319; 390 Nichols, William, 1; 706 Nicholson, Michael, 183 Nicolai, Elke, 771 Nicolini, Andrea, 819 Nie, Shijia, 813 Nielsen, Aldon Lynn, 13; 686 nielsen, henrik, 431 Nieves, Angel David, 113; 694 Nikolopoulou, Asimina Ino, 364 Nilges, Mathias, 41 Ninh, Erin Khue, 105 Nir, Oded, 662 Nishikawa, Kinohi, 320 Nivar Ortiz, Nike, 464 Nixon, Rob, 679 Nogar, Anna Maria, 425 Nohrnberg, James Carson, 315; 753 Noirot, Corinne, 226 Noodin, Margaret A., 239 Noonan, Mark J., 619 Nordquist, Brice, 691 Norman, Rachel, 439 Norquay, Glenda, 720 North, Joseph, 123 Nouvet, Claire, 160 Novak, Daniel Akiva, 683 Nuessel, Frank, 685
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Nugent, Carlos, 215; 522; 726 Nunn, Hillary M., 365 Nyong’o, Tavia, 408 Nyquist, Mary, 647 Obarrio, Juan, 291 Oberhelman, David, 156 Oberlin, Adam, 267 O’Brien, Juliet, 92 O’Brien, Michelle, 664 O’Connell, Rachel, 415 O’Connor, Noreen, 659 O’Dair, Sharon, 87; 124 O’Dell, Benjamin, 738 O’Dell, Emily, 313 O’Donoghue, Kate, 656 Oechler, Christopher, 353 Ofenbach, Seth, 145 Ogden, Emily, 302 Ogger, Sara J., 7; 65; 666 O’Gorman, Daniel, 424; 464 O’Hanian, Hunter, 126 Ohler, Paul Joseph, 45 Ohmann, Richard M., 411 Ohri, Indu, 215; 522; 726 O’Keefe Bazzoni, Jana, 372 Oksman, Tahneer, 569 Oldenburg, Scott, 614 Oliver, Jennifer, 733 Oliver, Susan, 156 Olovson, Brian, 503 Olsen, Steve, 227 Olson, Judy, 605 Olson, Kristina Marie, 660; 798 Olubas, Brigitta, 282 O’Malley, Andrew, 595 O’Malley, Seamus, 164 Omidsalar, Alejandro, 800 Ommundsen, Åse Marie, 288 Omori, Kyoko, 49 O’Neil, Scott, 151 Onkey, Lauren Elizabeth, 453 Onorato, Mary, 94
Ontiveros, Randy, 284; 466 Opoku-Agyemang, Kwabena, 108 Orban, Clara E., 420 Orem, Sarah, 303 Orenstein, Katie, 5; 126 Orlando, Valérie K., 481; 799 Orlemanski, Julie, 702 Orr, Ittai, 44 Ortega, Élika, 304 Ortiz, Ricardo L., 159 Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa Marie, 176 Ortiz Wallner, Mercedes Alexandra, 63 Osborn, Haley L., 504 Ostman, Heather E., 656 Osucha, Eden, 117 Otterberg, Henrik, 100 Oushakine, Serguei Alex, 12; 612 Owen, Gabrielle, 625 Owens, Imani, 152 Ownbey, Carolyn, 627 Oyola, Osvaldo, 173; 729 Ozment, Kate, 630 Padmore, Catherine, 495 Padrón, Ricardo, 120 Paiella, Giorgina, 60 Paik, Peter Yoonsuk, 376 Pal-Lapinski, Piya, 270 Palof, Benjamin, 74; 697 Paltin, Judith, 515 Paltrinieri, Carlotta, 455 Palumbo, Patrizia, 75 Palumbo-Liu, David, 225; 705 Pan, David Tse-chien, 515; 603 Pantelides, Kate, 180; 231 Pantin, Isabelle, 414 Pao, Lea, 576 Papa, Victoria, 624; 750
Parakrama, Arjuna, 318 Pardlo, Gregory, 520 Pardo Ballester, Cristina, 384 Parham, Marisa, 113; 347 Parikh, Crystal, 238; 790 Park, Paula, 266 Park, Si Nae, 307 Park, Sowon S., 433 Parker, Andrew C., 594; 675 Parker, Ben, 321 Parks, Sheri, 24 Parsard, Kaneesha, 766 Parsons, Alexandra, 567 Parvini, Neema, 651 Pascoe, Judith Marie, 600 Pasqualina, Stephen, 96 Pasquerella, Lynn, 89 Passmore, Ashley A., 673 Pasupathi, Vimala C., 553; 614 Patterson, Sarah Lynn, 57; 339 Paulin, Diana R., 825 Payán Martín, Juan Jesús, 11 Pearl, Monica B., 399 Pearman, Tory V., 202 Pears, Pamela A., 799 Pearson, Nels, 812 Pellegrini, Ann, 807 Pelletier, Kevin, 768 Pena, Rosemarie, 616 Pena-Iguaran, Alina, 364 Pendergast, John, 357 Pentland, Elizabeth, 54 Perera, Sonali, 23 Peretti, Luca, 75 Perez, Annemarie, 268 Perez, Ashley, 543 Pérez, Jorge P., 677 Perez Jimenez, Cristina, 205 Pergadia, Samantha, 215; 522; 726
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Perisic, Alexandra, 123; 640 Perlof, Marjorie Gabrielle, 132; 207 Perras, Jean-Alexandre, 526 Perrone, Charles A., 529 Perry, Imani, 52 Perry, Laura, 573 Perry, Seamus, 64; 655 Perry, Vic, 431 Peters, Carl, 462; 735 Peters, John Durham, 436 Peters, John G., 489 Peterson, Carla L., 339 Peterson, Nancy J., 204 Pett, Scott, 20 Pettes Guikema, Janel, 635 Pettway, Matthew Joseph, 14 Pexa, Christopher, 693 Phelan, James, 85 Phelps-Hillen, Johanna, 579 Phillippy, Patricia, 465 Phillips, Rose, 253; 484; 765 Phillips Buchberger, Michelle, 598 Phillips-Court, Kristin, 244 Phu, hy, 153 Piatote, Beth, 587 Pick, Anat, 803 Pickens, herí Alyce, 303 Piechocki, Katharina Natalia, 539 Pilsch, Andrew, 158; 304; 440 Pines, Noam, 803 Pinet, Simone, 397 Pinkert, Anke, 46 Pinto, Samantha, 815 Piper, Andrew, 723 Pirri, Caro, 273; 432 Piryaei, Shabnam, 82 Pittin-Hedon, MarieOdile, 720 Pivetti, Kyle, 539 Placidi, Andrea, 586
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Plasencia, Sam, 825 Plotz, John M. G., 641 Poe, Mya, 392 Poiré, Hélène, 309 Polak, Katharine, 251; 492; 772 Polchow, Shannon M., 685 Pollak, Vivian R., 473 Polley, Diana Hope, 497 Ponce, Martin J., 566 Ponce, Pedro Esteban, 176 Ponomaref, Alexander, 354 Ponte, Antonio José, 93 Ponzanesi, Sandra, 741 Popescu, Monica, 286; 674 Popp, Veronica, 613 Poppe, Nicolas, 602 Porter, Dahlia J., 118; 723 Portuges, Catherine E., 420 Posmentier, Sonya, 131; 692 Posner, Miriam, 347 Post, Ben, 120; 273 Potter, Edward T., 487 Potter, George, 511 Pough, Gwendolyn, 333 Powell, Elliott, 540 Powell, Katrina M., 469 Powers, Rebecca, 396 Prabhaker, Prema, 795 Prager, Brad, 420 Pratt, Jacqui, 548 Pratt, Mary Louise, 585 Pravinchandra, Shital, 433 Prica, Aleksandra, 51 Price, Emily Kate, 92 Price, Joseph, 384 Price, Kenneth M., 617 Price, Zachary, 457 Prielipp, Sarah, 191 Priest, Madison, 306 Prince, Gerald Joseph, 330 Prins, Yopie, 325 Prinz, Jessica, 96
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Pritchard, Eric Darnell, 513 Probes, Christine M., 613 Prohászka-Rád, Boróka, 36 Proto, Teresa, 197 Puckett, Kent, 775 Pueyo Zoco, Victor Manuel, 11 Pujol, Anton, 217; 532 Pulda, Molly, 567 Punday, Daniel, 606 Purdham, Medrie, 316 Puthof, David, 342 Putzi, Jennifer L., 499 Pyle, Forest, 814 Qadir, Neelofer, 37 Quaid, Andrea, 830 Quam, Justin, 159 Quayson, Ato, 274; 433 Quesada Gómez, Catalina, 502 Quinn, Brian, 286 Quinn, William A., 437 Quintero, Julio, 728 Quirk, Catherine, 627 Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 423; 565 Rabbi, Shakil, 621 Raber, Karen L., 31 Racz, Gregary Joseph, 531 Radel, Nicholas Fredrick, 651 Rademacher, Virginia, 176 Radway, Janice A., 572 Raengo, Alessandra, 230 Ragain, Nathan, 742 Rajan, Supritha, 22; 738 Rajan, Tilottama, 327; 787 Rajendran, Shyama, 81 Raleigh, Tegan, 600 Raley, Rita, 808 Ramachandran, Ayesha, 539; 769 Ramazani, Jahan, 274 Rambaran-Olm, Mary, 491 Rambsy, Howard, 347 Rambsy, Kenton, 334
Ramesh Sankar, Nandini, 750 Ramos, Eduardo, 491 Rampone, William Reginald, Jr., 651 Rams, Maribel, 677 Ramsey, Joseph, 467 Ramu, Kaushik, 9 Rangan, Pooja, 271 Rao, Eleonora, 483 Rapaport, Herman, 374 Raphael, Rebecca, 257 Rappaport, Jennifer A., 525; 589 Rasberry, Gary Vaughn, II, 366 Raschke, Debrah K., 99; 483 Rasmussen, Birgit Brander, 642 Rasmussen, Eric, 701 Rastegar, Kamran, 417 Ravalico, Lauren, 185 Ravenscrot, Brenda, 459 Ravindranathan, hangam, 463 Rawlins, Paula, 20 Rawson, Eric, 294 Razvi, Saba, 566 Reading, Amity, 328 Rearick, Zachary, 750 Reber, Dierdra, 249 Redding, Patrick, 123 Redding-Brielmaier, Daniel, 669 Redmann, Jennifer, 171; 557 Redwine, Elizabeth Brewer, 164 Reeck, Matt, 250; 493; 773 Reed, Anthony, 52; 131 Reed, Brian, 144; 473 Reed, Cory A., 72 Reeds, Eleanor, 180 Regier, Alexander, 343; 665 Rehill, Annie, 259 Reid, Mark A., 250; 493; 773 Reid, Tiana, 313; 550 Reid-Olds, Tera, 439; 705
Reilly, Terry, 214 Reitan, Carol Helene, 558 Renda, Mary, 171 Rennie, Nicholas A., 77 Reno, Seth T., 496 Restuccia, Frances L., 262 Reuben, Lindsey, 734 Reviron-Piegay, Floriane, 59 Rey Agudo, Roberto, 635 Reyes-Santos, Alai, 379 Rezek, Joseph, 195 Reznicek, Matthew, 164 Rhee, Jennifer, 464; 785 Rhee, Margaret, 782 Rhodes, Cristina, 543 Rhodes, Sharon, 491 Rhodes, William, Jr., 753 Rhody, Jason, 666 Rhody, Lisa Marie, 739 Riazi, Toloo, 361 Ribitzky, Tom, 581 Richard, Jessica, 624 Richardson, Alan, 110 Richardson, Joan T., 389 Richardson, Mark Steed, 277 Ridley Elmes, Melissa, 669 Ridolfo, Jim, 478 Rieder, John A., 781 Riep, Steven, 584 Rikin, Mark, 587; 820 Rinehart, Nicholas, 408; 661 Rinner, Susanne, 109 Rios, Alicia B., 626 Risam, Roopika, 198 Rivas, Carlos, 682 Rivera, Isidro de Jesús, 397 Rivera Garza, Cristina, 305 Rivett, Sarah, 302; 395 Roane, J. T., 766 Robb, Melinda, 793 Robbins, Bruce W., 211; 338 Robbins, Timothy, 234
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Robert, Yann, 185 Roberts, Brian Russell, 93; 796 Roberts, Hugh J., 127 Roberts-Miller, Patricia, 801 Robertson, Kellie, 318 Robey, Molly Katherine, 724 Robinson, Benjamin Butt, 412 Robinson, Sally, 242 Rocha, Silvia, 580 Rodas, Julia Miele, 823 Rodrigues, Elizabeth, 133 Rodriguez, David, 508; 764 Rodriguez, Erika, 147 Rodríguez, Richard T., 755 Rodríguez, Sonia Alejandra, 190; 543 Rodríguez García, José M., 174 Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Ana M., 120; 266 Rodriguez-Solas, David, 217; 532 Roedtjer, Rocio, 14 Rogers, Charlotte W., 93 Rogers, Katina, 739 Röhrig, Géza, 420 Rollyson, Carl, 818 Rolston, David, 235 Romagnolo, Catherine, 471 Roman, Christopher Michael, 789 Romero, Anthony, 360 Romero, Mercy, 552 Rooney, Ellen Frances, 731 Rose, Celine, 384 Rosen, Betty, 163; 609 Rosen, David, 53 Rosen, Jeremy, 346 Rosenbaum, Susan Barbara, 182; 633 Rosenberg, Jessica, 31 Rosenberg, Roberta, 157
Rosenfeld, Colleen, 178; 280 Rosensweig, Anna, 770 Rosenthal, Jesse, 641 Rosenthal, Laura, 504 Ross, Shawna, 158; 203; 440 Rosson, Grant, 606 Roth, Laurence D., 533 Roth, Zoe, 250; 493; 773 Rountree, Stephanie, 138 Roush, Sherry, 456 Rouxel-Cubberly, Noelle, 689 Roveri, Mattia, 322 Rowen, Sarah Bess, 599 Roy, Arnab, 700 Rubenstein, Michael, 436 Rubin, Andrew N., 168 Rubio, Raúl, 502 Rudolph, Jennifer, 658 Ruisánchez Serra, José Ramón, 626 Runge, Laura L., 630 Ruppel, Marc, 416 Rusert, Britt, 320 Russek, Dan, 305 Russell, Arthur, 247 Russell, Sandra Joy, 289 Russett, Margaret E., 814 Russo, Adelaide M., 9 Russo, Elena, 265 Ruth, Jennifer, 380; 482 Rutledge, hais, 350 Ruzich, Connie, 406 Ryan, Colleen M., 287; 384 Ryan, Deirdre, 101 Rymarenko, Oksana, 575 Ryshina-Pankova, Marianna, 109; 180 Ryzhik, Yulia, 280 Rzepka, Adam, 178 Saab, Nada, 341 Sabatos, Charles, 550 Sabau, Ana, 425; 757 Sachs, Jonathan, 560; 723 Sackey, Donnie, 513
Sacks, Jefrey, 82; 756 Safran, Gabriella, 74 Saha, Poulomi, 793 Said, Rania, 439 Saint-Amour, Paul K., 564 Sakellarides, heodora, 299 Sakr, Laila, 57 Salama, Mohammad, 479 Salazkina, Masha, 12 Saldarriaga, Patricia, 602 Salisbury, Laura, 672 Salmon, Naomi, 498 Salter, Anastasia, 66; 729 Salter, Sarah, 102; 224 Samalin, Zachary, 321 Samet, Elizabeth D., 283 Sample, Mark, 57 Sanchez, James, 345 Sanchez, Melissa E., 340; 375 Sánchez-Llama, Íñigo, 147 Sanchez Prado, Ignacio, 370; 757 Sanchis-Sinisterra, Carmen, 137 Sanders, Mark, 722 Sanderson, Terri, 669 Sandler, Matt, 232 Sanok, Catherine, 107 Santesso, Aaron, 53; 393 Santiago, Angel Lopez, 619 Santos, Alessandra, 529 Santos, Jorge, 261 Sanyal, Debarati, 364 Saramago, Victoria, 305 Sarkar, Debapriya, 181 Sarkar, Sreyoshi, 741 Sarnof, Daniella, 310 Sarti, Lisa, 372 Sattar, Atia, 56 Sauer, Elizabeth, 647; 812 Saunders, Graham, 577 Sauri, Emilio, 757
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Sheeran, Amy, 634 Shellhorse, Adam Joseph, 529 Shelnutt, Blevin, 567 Shen, Qinna, 208; 534 Shernuk, Kyle, 186 Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene Monique, 796 Shevlin, Eleanor F., 35 Shi, Flair Donglai, 209; 524; 727 Shi, Song, 208; 534 Shichtman, Martin B., 348 Shields, Juliet, 240 Shih, Shu-mei, 186 Shiller, Dana, 406 Shimakawa, Karen, 162 Shin, Haerin, 104; 778 Shin, Stacey, 561 Shingavi, Snehal, 409 Shires, Linda M., 404; 738 Shoemaker, Tyler, 473 Shohet, Lauren, 315 Shonkwiler, Alison, 410 Shook, Jennifer, 599 Showalter, Elaine C., 818 Shu, Yuan, 796 Shuger, Dale, 73 Shuman, Amy, 537 Shumway, David, 317 Sibley, Emily, 556 Sickmann Han, Carrie, 681 Sides, Kirk B., 561 Sidorenko, Ksenia, 122 Sieber, Patricia A., 307 Sieg, Emily, 373 Siemann, Catherine Ann, 658 Siemens, Raymond G., 454 Sierra Matute, Victor, 794 Sierra-Rivera, Judith, 379 Silberman, Marc David, 341 Silk, Emily, 619 Sillin, Sarah, 435 Silva, Andie, 388; 644
Simal, Monica, 349 Simedoh, Vincent, 512 Simerka, Barbara, 251; 492; 772 Simon, Edward, 99 Simon, Emily, 215; 522; 726 Simon, Kaia, 402 Simon, Katie, 546 Simon, Margaret, 393 Sims, Holly, 634 Sinanga-Ohlmann, Judith, 358 Singer, Andrew, 194 Singer, Kirsty, 549 Singh, Amritjit, 220; 299 Singley, Carol J., 332 Sinha, Ruma, 23 Sinno, Nadine, 511 Sipley, Gina, 255 Sitze, Adam, 17 Skallerup Bessette, Lee, 203; 454; 644 Skolnik, Jonathan S., 296; 673 Skorovsky, Helena, 414 Skwiot, Elizabeth, 90; 644 Slater, Avery, 23; 79 Slater, Katharine, 625 Slaughter, Joseph R., 195; 386 Smith, Blake, 185 Smith, Brady, 561 Smith, Courtney Weiss, 784 Smith, David L., 648 Smith, Derik, 519 Smith, Faith L., 152 Smith, Greta, 455 Smith, Jon, 699 Smith, Martha Nell, 399 Smith, Murray, 700 Smith, Victoria Ford, 666 Smithies, James, 583 Smulyan, Susan, 159 So, Bernadette, 6 So, Brandi, 533 So, Christine C., 221 Sobral Campos, Isabel, 809
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Streit Krug, Aubrey, 324 Strickland, Ronald L., 658 Strier, Richard A., 701 Stuntebeck, Franziska, 197 Suárez, Juan, 428 Suarez-Palma, Imanol, 197 Suhr, Carla, 83 Suidan, Ziad, 776 Sullivan, Heather I., 284; 654 Sullivan, Karen, 26 Summers, Brandi, 573 Sundar, Pavitra, 208; 534 Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari, 211 Susina, Jan Christopher, 298 Sussman, Charlotte Sacks, 343; 767 Sutaria, Sejal, 474 Suttie, Megan, 671 Suzuki, Erin, 370 Swanson, Peter, 604 Swartz, Wendy, 813 Sweeney, Erin, 78 Sweet, Timothy, 140 Swenson, James, Jr., 70 Swenson, Kristine L., 351 Swenson, Rivka, 240 Swidzinski, Joshua, 804 Sy, Waaseyaa’sin Christine, 541 Szwydky, Lissette Lopez, 759 Tabares, Leland, 342 Tabur, Merve, 163 Tacke, Elizabeth, 141 Tackett, Justin C., 547 Tageldin, Shaden M., 179; 479 Tagliaferri, Lisa, 739 Tague, Gregory Frank, 215; 522; 726 Taleghani, R. Shareah, 361 Tally, Robert, 104; 350 Talpaz, Sheera, 257 Tamayo, Steve, 324
Tan, E. K., 186; 551 Tan, Jerrine, 40 Tan, Yanbing, 721 Tanaka, Aya, 615 Tang, Wan, 11 Tange, Andrea Kaston, 210; 535; 771 Tangedal, Ross, 659 Tanner, Jessica, 142 Tapia, Ruby, 103 Tapia Mealla, Luis, 291 Tarnawska Senel, Magdalena, 635 Tartakovsky, Roi, 822 Tavlin, Zachary, 809 Taylor, Christopher J., 152 Taylor, Diana, 86; 360; 441; 678; 706 Taylor, Jeferey H., 272 Taylor, Jesse Oak, 84 Taylor, Leslie Agnes, 272 Taylor, Matthew A., 800 Taylor, Michelle, 116 Tazudeen, Rasheed, 183 Teixeira, Ana Catarina, 430 Tellez, Jorge, 243 Temple, Kathryn D., 159; 221 ten Haaf, Rachel, 76 Tenorio, David, 502 Teo, Tze-Yin, 409 Terblanche, Etienne, 135 Terian, Andrei, 674 Terrenato, Francesca, 233 Teskey, Gordon, 476 Teston, Christa, 537 haggert, Miriam, 519 hakkar, Sonali, 152 haroor Srinivasan, Ragini, 468 hierauf, Doreen, 210; 535 hoidingjam, Sumitra, 627 homas, Calvin, 337 homas, George A., 460 homas, Sarah, 677
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hompson, Christopher, 427 homson, Sinclair, 291 horn, Clovis, 101 horsteinson, Katherine, 387 huswaldner, Gregor A., 648 Ticio Quesada, M. Emma, 83 Tierney, Matt, 10 Tierney, Orchid, 821 Tiin, Sarah, 209; 524; 727 Tit, Stephen J., 631 Tinberg, Howard B., 293 Tinsley, Omise’eke, 675 Tisserand, Michael, 122 Titus, Julia, 636 Todd, Emily, 1; 6; 144; 293; 706 Todorovic, Jelena, 244 Tolliver, Joyce, 266 Tomko, Michael, 592 Tomlinson, Susan, 555 Toohey, Elizabeth J., 746 Torres, Anna Elena, 295 Torres, Lourdes M., 755 Torres, Sara, 81 Torres-Rodriguez, Laura, 370; 757 Totten, Gary, 377 Touya de Marenne, Eric, 309 Town, Caren, 190 Townsend, Sarah J., 86 Tracksdorf, Niko, 496 Train, Robert, 171 Tran, Asha, 453 Tran, Ben Vu, 551; 664 Trasciatti, Mary Anne, 224 Traub, Valerie J., 17; 340 Trauvitch, Rhona, 462 Travis, Jennifer, 644 Treharne, Elaine, 154; 398 Trilling, Renee R., 491 Trop, Gabriel, 155
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Van Deusen, Natalie, 649 VanDevere, Mariann J., 212 Van Engen, Dagmar, 781; 793 van Maas, Sander, 653 Vano Garcia, Ines, 130 Varga, Adriana, 674 Varga, Zsuzsanna, 36 Vargas-Salgado, Carlos, 667 Vargo, Gregory, 732 Varon, Alberto, 28 Vazquez, Alexandra, 552 Vázquez, Eric, 467 Veeser, Harold Aram, 104 Velasco, Sherry M., 165 Velazquez, Sonia, 165 Vērdiņš, Kārlis, 289 Vermeule, Blakey, 631 Versteeg, Margot A., 14 Vesco, Shawna, 420 Vestri Croan, Talia, 754 Vetter, Lara, 461 Vezzani, Cintia, 71 Vials, Chris, 668 Vicars, James, 495 Viego, Antonio, 216; 523; 730 Vieira, Estela J., 71 Vigil, Ariana, 646 Vigil, Donny, 168 Vilarós, Teresa M., 76; 106 Vimalassery, Manu, 587 Vincenot, Emmanuel, 502 Vincent, J. Keith, 429 Vinson, Pauline Homsi, 439 Viramontes, Helena María, 646 Viscomi, Joseph, 64 Vitkus, Daniel, 87 Vivian, Bradford, 97 Vogel, Shane, 86 Voigt, Lisa, 460 Volkova, Ekaterina, 680 Volkova, Rusina, 187
Voloshin, Beverly R., 724 von Holt, Isabel, 373 Vrana, Laura, 149; 223 Vyroubalova, Ema, 54 Wacha, Megan, 610 Wachter-Grene, Kirin, 488 Wacks, David, 397; 756 Waggoner, Jessica, 703 Wagner, Sydnee, 465 Wagner, Ulrike, 77 Wagner-McCoy, Sarah, 569 Waisman, Sergio, 8 Waite, Genevieve, 636 Waite, Stacey, 657 Wald, Priscilla B., 800 Walia, Dhipinder, 644 Walker, Elsie, 85 Walker, Julia M., 333 Walker, Siovahn, 3 Wall, Joshua Logan, 257; 547 Wallace, Maurice, 323 Wallack, Nicole B., 111; 141 Wallen, Jefrey D., 420; 648 Walley, Glynne, 786 Wall-Romana, Christophe M., 250; 493; 773 Walsh, Brandon, 203 Walsh, Keri, 565 Walsh, Rachel, 464 Waltonen, Karma, 483 Wang, Dorothy J., 131 Wang, Fuson, 328 Wang, Guojun, 486 Wang, Hua, 579 Wang, Jennifer, 105 Wang, Mengxiao, 486 Wang, Yiyan, 434 Wang, Yu, 309 Wang, Yuanfei, 235 Wangling, Jinghua, 813 Wanner, Adrian J., 636 Wanzo, Rebecca A., 457 Ward, Adrienne, 39 Ward, David, 748 Ward, Frances, 762 Ward, Jenifer K., 70
Ward, Julie, 191 Wardley, Lynn, 30 Warhol, Robyn, 24 Warley, Christopher, 472 Warner, John, 482 Warner, Tobias, 325 Warren, Andrew, 270 Warren, Christopher, 365 Warren, Kenneth W., 438 Warren, Lenora, 172 Warren, Nancy, 6 Washburn, Kathleen G., 406 Washburne, Xeno, 90 Washington, MaryHelen, 607 Wasmoen, Nikolaus, 510 Wasser, Audrey, 262; 731 Wasserman, Jack, 270 Watkins, Susan, 214 Watson, Amanda L., 363 Watt, Caitlin, 26 Watten, Barrett, 374 Watts, Jarica, 489 Watts, Kara, 461 Waymack, Anna, 342 Weatherby, Leif, 155 Weaver-Hightower, Rebecca, 516 Webb, Jason Paul, 786 Weber, Christian Peter, 603; 744 Weber, Silja, 171 Weberling, Ryan, 59 Weeber, Susan, 779 Weed, Kym, 624 Weekes, Omari, 540 Weetman, Helen, 676 Wegener, Frederick, 111 Weimer, Christopher B., 353 Weinhouse, Linda, 25 Weiskott, Eric, 614; 804 Welch, Ellen, 826 Welch, Tana Jean, 830 Wells, Courtney, 628 Wells, Sarah Ann, 41
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Welsh, Sarah, 253; 484; 765 Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky, 423 Wenzel, Jennifer, 193; 400 Werner, Marta L., 574; 809 Wernimont, Jacqueline D., 57; 113 Werstine, Paul, 151 Werth, Tifany Jo, 31 Wertheimer, Eric, 548 Westerman, Gwen, 58 Westman, Karin E., 80; 536 Weston, Lisa M. C., 398 Wettlaufer, Alexandra K., 396 Wexler, Joyce Piell, 489; 598 Wexler, Laura, 386; 404 Whalen, Zach, 694 Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth, 19 Whearty, Bridget, 247 Wheeler, Roxann, 690 White, Daniel E., 620 White, Duncan, 571 White, Eric, 201 White, Laura, 282 White, Melinda, 644 White, Victoria, 141 Whitield, Esther K., 379 Whitney, Kelly, 579 Whitson, Roger, 407 Wicke, Jennifer, 10; 774 Wickman, Matthew F., 784 Wiegman, Robyn, 572; 675 Wiggers, Heiko, 267 Wikström, Toby, 414 Wilder, Blake, 261 Wildner-Bassett, Mary, 67; 695 Williams, Dana A., 519 Williams, Gareth, 160 Williams, Jefrey J., 317; 795 Williams, Jennifer, 549
Williams, Katherine Schaap, 54 Williams, Lawrence, 635 Williamsen, Amy R., 353 Willis, Ika, 18 Wilson, Cheryl, 695 Wilson, Emily, 56 Wilson, Jefrey, 468 Wilson, Kathleen, 732 Wilson, Ross, 665 Wilson, Sarah, 202 Winant, Johanna, 819 Winter, Sarah, 722 Wirth, James, 578 Wisecup, Kelly, 302; 642 Wisniewski, homas, 608 Witcher, Heather Bozant, 329 Wogenstein, Sebastian, 515; 673 Wolfe, Cary, 679 Wolf, Nathan, 219 Wolf, Tristram, 325 Wolfson, Roberta, 668 Wolfson, Susan J., 368; 564 Womack, Autumn, 320; 506 Womble, David, 118 Wong, Alvin K., 186 Wong, Edlie L., 30 Wong, Hertha D. Sweet, 591 Wong, Lily, 186 Woo, Hyo, 48; 732 Woo, Jewon, 426 Wood, Andrew, 382 Wood, Heather, 367 Wood, Lucas, 26 Woods, Derek, 84 Wooley, Christine Ann, 144 Worthington, Marjorie, 536 Wright, Amy Elisabeth, 425 Wright, Michelle M., 52 Wright, Nazera, 42; 470 Wright, Nicole, 767
Wright, Simona, 533 Wu, Cynthia, 90 Wu, Yung-Hsing, 749 Wurst, Karin Anneliese, 373 Xiao, Jiwei, 331; 434 Xin, Wendy Veronica, 161; 431 Xiong, Ying, 813 Xu, Xiaowen, 434 Yacavone, Kathrin, 206 Yanacek, Holly, 318 Yancey, Kathleen, 237 Yandell, Cathy, 733 Yang, Chi-ming, 615; 767 Yao, Christine, 342; 624 Yao, Sijia, 500 Yashin, Veli N., 82; 417 Yearwood, Mary, 661 Yezzi, David, 277 Yi, We Jung, 333 Yi Tenen, Dennis, 57 Yocco-Locascio, Caitlin, 98 Yocum, Demetrio S., 570 Yoo, Jamie Jungmin, 383 Yoon, Bomi, 422 Yoon, Duncan McEachern, 550 York, Leigh, 296 York, Lorraine, 259; 828 Young, Alex, 820 Young, Cynthia, 366 Young, Damon, 216; 523; 730 Young, Harvey, 86 Young, John, 116 Young, Rosetta, 645; 683 Young, Vershawn, 19 Yu, Timothy, 131; 668 Yuan, Yin, 620 Yue, Ming-Bao, 7; 65; 557 Yusin, Jennifer, 516 Zaborskis, Mary, 703; 825 Zacharias, Greg W., 332
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Program Thursday, 4January 8:30a.m. 1. Advocating for Your Department 8:30–11:30 a.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Presiding: William Nichols, Georgia State U; Emily Todd, Westield State U Led by the ADE and ADFL presidents, this workshop gives participants an opportunity to develop advocacy plans for their departments. Share strategies for publicizing the department, recruiting students, and engaging in new initiatives on your campus and in your community. Hone skills, strategies, and tactics to become a more efective advocate for your department. Preregistration is required.
2. Teaching Languages and Literatures Online: Key Principles for Course Design 8:30–11:30 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton A special session Speakers: Susan Ko, School of Professional Studies, City U of New York; Richard Schumaker, School of Professional Studies, City U of New York his hands-on professional development workshop provides a guided opportunity for designing fully or partially online courses, led by two individuals with extensive expertise in faculty development for online and blended teaching and experience teaching comparative literatures and cultures. Participants drat a design plan for a course or course elements that make use of online delivery and receive feedback from moderators and workshop peers. Preregistration is required. For related material, write to
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3. Marketing 101: How to Promote Your Academic Program or Event 8:30–11:30 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Presiding: Siovahn Walker, MLA Have an event or program to promote and don’t know where to start? Join the MLA’s director of outreach, Siovahn Walker, for a practical workshop on do-it-yourself marketing for academics. Walker brings her extensive marketing experience to teach you to deine your audience, streamline your message, and maximize a small budget. Attend and get the tools you need to efectively promote your next conference, publication lecture series, or call for proposals. Preregistration is required. © 2017 the Modern Language Association of America
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4. Pre-Texts Workshop Series I 8:30–11:30 a.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Doris Sommer, Harvard U Speaker: Jason Charles Courtmanche, U of Connecticut, Storrs his workshop series focuses on the practice of interpreting a literary work through art making. Participants experience connecting with a text, emotionally and intellectually, by playing with it to create a new work of art. he activity makes experientially real how treating a piece of writing as a pretext for play replaces fear of diiculty with the motivating energy of engaging with a challenge. Participants should plan to attend all three workshops (4, 218, and 494). Preregistration is required.
Thursday, 4 January 10:00 a.m. 5. Spark Talk: he OpEd Project 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon, Gramercy West, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Oice of the Executive Director. Presiding: Katie Orenstein, he OpEd Project his interactive session from he OpEd Project, a group that seeks to increase the number of underrepresented voices, including women, contributing to key commentary forums, helps participants write persuasively for a broad audience and addresses core questions of what we know, why it matters, and how and why we should use it. If you want to contribute to the public conversation about the value of the humanities, this is the session for you! Preregistration is required.
Thursday, 4 January 11:45 a.m. 6. Preconvention Workshop on Career Directions for PhDs in English 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the ADE Executive Committee. Presiding: Emily Todd, Westield State U Speakers: Melissa Flanagan, Santa Fe C; Leeann Hunter, Washington State U, Pullman; Bernadette So, New York U; Tarshia Stanley, Spelman C; Nancy Warren, Texas A&M U, College Station
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7. Career Pathways for Job Seekers in Languages 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the ADFL Executive Committee. Presiding: William Nichols, Georgia State U Speakers: Megan M. Ferry, Union C; Jacqueline Lerescu, MLA; Denise McCracken, St. Charles Community C, MO; Sara J. Ogger, Humanities New York; Gary Bruce Schmidt, Coastal Carolina U; Ming-Bao Yue, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa Representatives of diferent institutional types (AA-, BA-, MA-, and PhD-granting programs) as well as from ields outside the academy discuss work and careers. Speakers address institutional expectations, navigating a complex market, transferable skills from graduate school training, administrative positions in higher education and nonproit organizations, and international work opportunities.
Thursday, 4 January 12:00 noon 8. Modos ininitos de narrar: Homenaje a Ricardo Piglia 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American. Presiding: Claudia Cabello-Hutt, U of North Carolina, Greensboro Speakers: Daniel Balderston, U of Pittsburgh; Sergio Chejfec, New York U; Arcadio Díaz-Quiñones, Princeton U; Laura Demaria, U of Maryland, College Park; Sergio Waisman, George Washington U In commemoration of the Argentinean writer Ricardo Piglia (1941–2017), major scholars, translators, and writers gather to honor his memory and to discuss the impact of his work and igure in Latin American literature and intellectual history, as well as his legacy as a literary critic and scholar.
9. Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of Essential Essays 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton
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Program arranged by the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature. Presiding: Adelaide M. Russo, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge 1. “On William Empson’s ‘Feelings in Words,’ ” Marshall J. Brown, U of Washington, Seattle 2. “he Logic of the Purloined Letter: Barbara Johnson on Poe, Lacan, Derrida,” homas Oliver Beebee, Penn State U, University Park 3. “In the Mood for Negation: Dipesh Chakrabarty’s ‘he Climate of History,’ ” Kaushik Ramu, U of Pennsylvania
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Seghers and György Lukács in the Early 1930s,” Katerina Clark, Yale U 2. “Rits in Space-Time: F. C. Weiskopf on the Soviet Union and Germany,” Matthias Müller, Cornell U 3. “‘¡Hasta la Victoria Siempre!’: he Soviet Embassy in Havana,” Darja Filippova, Princeton U 4. “‘What the Russians Let Behind’ in the Cuban Media Culture: From Debates on Socialist Realism to Los Muñequitos Rusos,” Masha Salazkina, Concordia U
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12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction. Presiding: Jennifer Wicke, U of California, Santa Barbara 1. “Fiction as Fake News: Make-Believe or MakeBelief?” Michaela Bronstein, Stanford U 2. “Action Figures,” Yoon Sun Lee, Wellesley C 3. “Words hemselves Are Not Proof,” Matt Tierney, Penn State U, University Park
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Deborah R. Geis, DePauw U 1. “Jack Kerouac and the Language of Populism,” Nancy McCampbell Grace, C of Wooster 2. “Gregory Corso’s he Happy Birthday of Death (1960),” Ronna Catherine Johnson, Tuts U 3. “Kulchur Wars: LeRoi Jones,” Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Penn State U, University Park
11. Gothic Masculinities and Spanish Modernity in Literature, Television, and Film
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12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Wan Tang, Boston C 1. “Don Juan’s Worst Nightmare: Homophobia and Emasculation in ‘El Diablo en Sevilla,’ by Luis García de Luna,” Juan Jesús Payán Martín, Lehman C, City U of New York 2. “Mere Shadows of Men: Gothic Conventions and Masculine Crisis in Galdós’s La sombra,” Wan Tang 3. “No soy como tú: El vampiro neoliberal en España (2007–17),” Victor Manuel Pueyo Zoco, Temple U, Philadelphia 4. “Masculinity, Posthumanism, and the Gothic in Pedro Almodóvar’s he Skin I Live In,” Antonio Cordoba, Manhattan C For related material, write to
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12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding: David hatcher Gies, U of Virginia Speakers: Jefrey Bersett, Westminster C, PA; Matthew Joseph Pettway, C of Charleston; Rocio Roedtjer, U of Cambridge; Margot A. Versteeg, U of Kansas; Maite Zubiaurre, U of California, Los Angeles Panelists address the pedagogical and methodological practices of teaching and researching Spanish erotica in canonical, popular, visual, or archival texts and explore a diverse set of approaches to these questions, including close reading, textual analysis, history of, context, cultural studies, disability studies, gender, power, nationalisms, aging and ageism, colonial and postcolonial, transatlantic, and others.
12. Revolution, Take 2: Exporting the Russian Revolution 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Regent, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. Presiding: Serguei Alex Oushakine, Princeton U 1. “Revolutionary Internationalism, Realism, Modernism, Factography, and All hat: Anna
15. Poetics Out of Place 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Diana Hamilton, Baruch C, City U of New York 1. “Unsettled Feelings: Destabilizing Identity and Spatial Experience in Recent Puerto Rican Poetry,” Edward Chamberlain, U of Washington, Tacoma
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2. “Poems in the Post: Authorship and Exchange in Hemispheric American Poetry,” Rebecca Kosick, U of Bristol 3. “Speaking Truth to Power or Performing Propaganda? South Africa’s Praise Poets at the State of the Nation Address,” Emily McGiin, York U 4. “‘Some Inarticulate Major Premise’: Resisting Deinition in Poetry and (Common) Law,” Talia Shalev, Graduate Center, City U of New York
16. Digital Humanities in Practice: Caribbean Models 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton A special session 1. “Networking the Afro-Atlantic: Finding Potential in Proximity through Digital Cartography,” Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard C 2. “Apátrida Archived: A Literary and Digital Response to Statelessness in the Dominican Republic,” Megan Jeanette Myers, Iowa State U 3. “An Explosion in the Archives: Reframing French Archives through Caribbean Digital Praxis,” Nathan H. Dize, Vanderbilt U 4. “Hamilton and the Digital Archives of LatinxCaribbean Writing,” Elena Machado Saez, Bucknell U For related material, write to
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17. Early Modern Biopolitics: Race, Nature, Sexuality 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Vin Nardizzi, U of British Columbia Speakers: Urvashi Chakravarty, George Mason U; Drew Daniel, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Ari Friedlander, U of Mississippi; Greta LaFleur, Yale U; Adam Sitze, Amherst C; Valerie J. Traub, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor his session explores the utility of biopolitics to early modern English and to early American literatures, leveraging early modern culture to retrace the genealogy of biopolitics. Topics include sixteenth-century Atlantic slavery, Restoration-era conceptions of sovereignty and race, seventeenthcentury sexuality and population theory, early American racial theories of Protestant lineage, and pan-European early modern cartography.
18. Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist Children’s Literature 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Clinton, Hilton
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Program arranged by the forum GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Presiding: Philip Nel, Kansas State U 1. “Agents of Change: Pupils, Parents, and Publishers Moving toward Enlightenment in Denmark, 1780–1850,” Charlotte Appel, Aarhus U; Nina Christensen, Aarhus U 2. “Guiding White Tears: Looking to Abolitionist Children’s Literature,” Brigitte Fielder, U of Wisconsin, Madison 3. “Brujas, Revolutionaries, and Warriors: he Emergence of Radical Queerness in Contemporary Youth Literature,” Angel Daniel Matos, San Diego State U 4. “Harry Potter and the Nazis: Myth, Text, Social Change,” Ika Willis, U of Wollongong
19. Neo-passing: Performing Identity in Post–Jim Crow States of Insecurity 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Mollie Godfrey, James Madison U; Vershawn Young, U of Waterloo Speakers: Derek Adams, Ithaca C; Martha J. Cutter, U of Connecticut, Storrs; Jennifer Glaser, U of Cincinnati; Allyson Hobbs, Stanford U; Lara Narcisi, Regis U; Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, U of Iowa his panel aims to analyze the transformations of passing in the late twentieth century and into the twenty-irst century to unearth the social, political, and economic states of insecurity and instability to which they point. Despite the hope that the dismantling of segregation once seemed to promise, the persistence of racial passing in the post– Jim Crow moment indicates the degree to which identity performances remain hotly contested and heavily policed.
20. Southern States of Insecurity: he United States South during Crises 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature 1. “Paper Citizenship in homas Dixon’s he Clansman: An American Drama,” Scott Pett, Rice U 2. “‘For a Little While It Was a Charmed Life’: Delta Wedding as World War II Novel,” David McWhirter, Texas A&M U, College Station 3. “‘hat Radio Makes It Less Painful’: he herapeutics of Music in Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson before Dying,” Paula Rawlins, U of Georgia 4. “Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta and the Atlanta Child Murders,” Sharon Colley, Middle Georgia State U For related material, write to
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21. New Readings in Modern Hebrew Literature 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Hebrew. Presiding: Beverly Bailis, Brooklyn C, City U of New York 1. “he Birth Pangs of Monolingualism,” Roni Henig, Columbia U 2. “Speculative Futures: Hebrew Postmodernism and the Free Market,” Shir Alon, U of California, Los Angeles 3. “he ‘Natural History’ of Dolly City: CastelBloom and Benjamin on Sovereignty and the Nonhuman,” Jonathan Liebembuk, Graduate Center, City U of New York
22. Make It Visible: he Long Nineteenth Century and New Economic Criticism 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Talia Schafer, Graduate Center, City U of New York Speakers: Lauren Bailey, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Deirdre Mikolajcik, U of Kentucky; Supritha Rajan, U of Rochester; Matt Seybold, Elmira C Examining the current state of economic criticism and nineteenth-century literature in the anglophone world, specialists and nonspecialists consider both the discipline’s history and its future.
23. Global Anglophone: Other han Fiction 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Anglophone. Presiding: Sonali Perera, Hunter C, City U of New York 1. “‘Omiyale’: Nigeria, New Orleans, and the Poetics of Disaster,” Avery Slater, U of Toronto 2. “Caribbean Voices in London,” Peter Miller, U of Virginia 3. “Dalit Graphic Novels: Sites of Dialogue and Dissent,” Ruma Sinha, Syracuse U 4. “Fodder for the Future Canon,” Deepika Bahri, Emory U
24. Administering Feminism: Leadership, Activism, and Diversity 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages. Presiding: Michelle A. Massé, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge
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Speakers: Katie J. Hogan, U of North Carolina, Charlotte; Paula M. Krebs, MLA; Teresa Mangum, U of Iowa; Sheri Parks, U of Maryland, College Park; Robyn Warhol, Ohio State U, Columbus Women who are directors, chairs, and deans relect on how and why feminism is central to their work as leaders in the humanities, as well as to their activism and commitment to diversity.
25. Can his Canary Be Saved? 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum HEP Community Colleges. Presiding: Linda Weinhouse, Community C of Baltimore County, MD 1. “Placing Community College English at the Center of Twenty-First-Century Literacy Education,” Shawn Casey, Columbus State Community C, OH 2. “Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical Issues in Training Community College Faculty Members,” Carolyn McCue Gofman, DePaul U 3. “Enthusiasm and Ambivalence: Will Acceleration Save Developmental Courses?” Jennifer Maloy, Queensboro Community C, City U of New York For related material, write to lweinhouse@ ccbcmd.edu.
26. Fake News 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval French 1. “he Rumor of Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Inidelity in Antioch: Truth, Allegation, Fiction,” Karen Sullivan, Bard C 2. “Transforming the Truth: Fake News in Le roman de silence and L’atre périlleux,” Kristin L. Burr, St. Joseph’s U 3. “‘All Ladies Cheat . . . Sad!’: Difusing and Defusing the ‘Fake News’ of Courtly Adultery,” Lucas Wood, Indiana U, Bloomington 4. “‘Ce n’est pas fable que dire voz volons’: Truth and the Public Impact of Rumor in Ami et Amile,” Caitlin Watt, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
27. Queer Borders 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Sexuality Studies. Presiding: Karma Lochrie, Indiana U, Bloomington 1. “Getting the Queer Drit of Firbank,” Ellis Hanson, Cornell U 2. “Reimagining Borders through Queer Postimperial Melancholia in Turkey,” Rustem Ertug Altinay, U of Vienna
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3. “he History of Sexuality; or, How Is the East Erotic?” Madhavi Menon, Ashoka U For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/sexuality-studies/ ater 15 Dec.
28. Trump Terror 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Chicana and Chicano. Presiding: Laura Halperin, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1. “Weaponizing Victimhood, Terrorizing Whiteness,” Lee Bebout, Arizona State U 2. “Against Xenophobic Citizenship: Latina/o Belonging in the Age of Trump,” Alberto Varon, Indiana U, Bloomington 3. “hird Country Nationals: Making Central Americans into ‘Mexican’ Subalterns in Trump’s Border Executive Order,” Maritza Cardenas, U of Arizona
29. Micropress Poetry and the Politics of Electronic Text 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses 1. “he Electronic Text Made Physical: Digital Poetics and Contemporary Chinese Experimentalism,” Kate Costello, U of Oxford, St. Hugh’s C 2. “he Invisible Online Poetry Library,” Stephen Reid McLaughlin, U of Texas, Austin 3. “Small Data,” Claire Grossman, Stanford U 4. “Niche and Glitch: Poetry E-books and heir Readers,” Mel Bentley, independent scholar Respondent: Trisha Low, Small Press Distribution For related material, visit www.spdbooks.org/ Pages/Item/59229/MLA-2018.aspx.
30. Late-Nineteenth-Century Panics 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Late-19thand Early-20th-Century American. Presiding: Dale Marie Bauer, U of Illinois, Urbana; Edlie L. Wong, U of Maryland, College Park Speakers: Elizabeth Duquette, Gettysburg C; Travis M. Foster, Villanova U; Susan Gillman, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andrew Kopec, Indiana U–Purdue U, Fort Wayne; Lynn Wardley, San Francisco State U; David A. Zimmerman, U of Wisconsin, Madison Exploring the range of panics that inluenced United States literature at the end of the nineteenth century, from racial tensions to economic
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31. Performance, Materiality, and Ecology in Early Modern Literature 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Joseph Campana, Rice U Speakers: Rebecca Weld Bushnell, U of Pennsylvania; Karen L. Raber, U of Mississippi; Jessica Rosenberg, U of Miami; Tifany Jo Werth, U of California, Davis his session examines how early modern performance might inform ideas of agency emerging from contemporary materialist theories. Presenters explore how diferent categories of matter perform, considering the mineral, the vegetal, and the human outperformed by one of its parts. he presenters and audience debate how thinking about material performance can shit the conversation about agency, acting, and actants.
32. he Language of Populism 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Noniction Prose. Presiding: David Bahr, Borough of Manhattan Community C, City U of New York 1. “Fake News and the Miscegenation Hoax of 1864,” Philip Kadish, Hunter C, City U of New York 2. “Populism as Impersonation,” Kurt Spellmeyer, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 3. “From Both Sides Now: An Analysis of Populist Discourse from the Let,” Maureen Matarese, Borough of Manhattan Community C, City U of New York 4. “Negotiating Populism in the Discourse of Memoir: Love and Ambivalence in J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy,” John David Zuern, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa For related material, write to
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33. Representing Korean Comfort Women in Fiction and Film 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Joo Young Lee, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1. “he Representations of Comfort Women in Pre-1990s South Korean Popular Cinema and the Politics of Memory,” Chung-kang Kim, Hanyang U
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2. “‘Unspeakable hings’: he Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Sexual Violence,” M. Laura Barberan Reinares, Bronx Community C, City U of New York 3. “Reframing Comfort Women as Girls in Spirits’ Homecoming (2016),” Margaret Diane Stetz, U of Delaware, Newark For related material, write to m_laura.barberan@ bcc.cuny.edu.
34. Narrativizing Insecurity in Indian Comics 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Anuja Madan, Kansas State U 1. “Endangered Species: Exploring the Animacy Hierarchy in Malik Sajad’s Munnu,” Amit Baishya, U of Oklahoma 2. “Mythological Superhero Comics of Counterviolence,” Sharmila Mukherjee, Bronx Community C, City U of New York 3. “Class Inequity and Water Racism in Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri,” Anuja Madan For related material, write to
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35. Material Matters: Securing Archives and Other Library Resources 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography 1. “Novices in the Archives: Restoring, Preserving, and Modernizing an African Archive,” Sue E. Houchins, Bates C 2. “Secure Material Archives in Insecure Sites: Mexican Archives as a Case Study,” Angelica Alicia Duran, Purdue U, West Lafayette 3. “he Invention of Archives: Book History and Publishing in India,” Priya Joshi, Temple U, Philadelphia Respondent: Eleanor F. Shevlin, West Chester U
36. he Dispossessed in Hungarian Literature and Culture 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Hungarian. Presiding: Zsuzsanna Varga, U of Glasgow Speakers: Eva Livia Corredor, Paris, France; Katherine Mary Gatto, John Carroll U; Susan Jacobowitz, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York; Boróka Prohászka-Rád, Sapientia, Romania;
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Eva Serfozo, U of Oregon; Paul Sohar, independent scholar; Zsuzsanna Varga Hungarian literature enjoys increasing interest thanks to new translations of novels such as Szilárd Borbély’s he Dispossessed. Presenters discuss writers from Hungary or of Hungarian heritage whose work engages with or can be interpreted through the prism of states of insecurity. hey examine novels, plays, and poetry dealing with moments of political upheaval in Hungarian history in the last century and highlight the universality of these works.
37. Afro-Asian Imaginaries and New and Old Imperialisms 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Neelofer Qadir, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 1. “he Wake and the Hold: Racial Capitalism and the Indian Ocean,” Neelofer Qadir 2. “Postcolonial Pain Control and the ‘Transparent I’: Narcotraicking and Narcopolis,” Sean Kennedy, Graduate Center, City U of New York 3. “Mixed Race Poetics of the Francophone Indian Ocean: Afrasian Animal-Maroons,” Benjamin Ireland, Texas Christian U 4. “‘200,000 Blacks in Guangzhou’: News Media, Race, and State Construction of Modern Urbanity,” Guangzhi Huang, U at Bufalo, State U of New York For related material, visit neeloferqadir.com/ MLA2018 ater 15 Nov.
38. Can It Happen Here? 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Barbara Clare Foley, Rutgers U, Newark 1. “Reading Fascism: Kenneth Burke and Richard Wright,” Jay Garcia, New York U 2. “Sinclair Lewis and the Liberals Who Never Learn,” Ian Alerbach, Georgia Inst. of Tech. 3. “he Aterwar: George Orwell and the Contemporary ‘Hitler Wins’ Novel,” Jackson Ayres, Texas A&M U, San Antonio
39. Cultural-Political Liminalities in the 1600–1800s 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian. Presiding: Adrienne Ward, U of Virginia 1. “Preludes of Modernity within Baroque Extravagances,” Lucia Gemmani, Indiana U, Bloomington
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2. “he Translator’s Contested Body: Emilia Luti and the Re-Creation of the Promessi sposi,” Joseph Luzzi, Bard C 3. “Reassessing the Legacy of the Nineteenth Century in Fin de Siècle Italy,” Sara Boezio, U of Warwick 4. “Walking in the City: Gender Conlicts and Women’s Marginality,” Andrea Baldi, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
40. Precariousness and Women’s Bodies 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton A special session 1. “Considering Silence as Resistance: Reading Voicelessness in Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life against the Wednesday Demonstrations,” Jerrine Tan, Brown U 2. “Poems ‘as Good as Rocks’: he Construction of Rebellious Community in Alice Notley’s Mysteries of Small Houses,” Elizabeth Goetz, Graduate Center, City U of New York 3. “he Severed Eye: Sight, Sound, and Gender in Blue Velvet,” Nolan Boyd, Miami U Respondent: Erika Almenara, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville For related material, write to
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41. Literature, Crisis, and the 1970s 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton Program arranged by the Marxist Literary Group 1. “Agrarian Crisis and New Literatures,” Sarika Chandra, Wayne State U 2. “Abolition in Poetry since 1973,” Amy De’Ath, King’s C London 3. “he 1970s in Literary History: Navigating Structural Crisis (in a Canoe),” Mathias Nilges, St. Francis Xavier U 4. “he View from the Car: Cinema, Labor, and Global Capital in 1970s Brazil,” Sarah Ann Wells, U of Wisconsin, Madison
42. Young, Gited, and Black: Girlhood in Literatures of the African Diaspora 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC African American. Presiding: Koritha Mitchell, Ohio State U, Columbus 1. “Locating Black Girlhood in NineteenthCentury Autograph Books,” Nazera Wright, U of Kentucky 2. “Everyone’s Topsy: Performances of Black Girlhood and Modernity,” Kristin Moriah, Grinnell C
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43. Brazilian Insecurity 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the American Portuguese Studies Association. Presiding: Robert Patrick Newcomb, U of California, Davis Speakers: Marguerite I. Harrison, Smith C; Leila Maria Lehnen, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Luiz Fernando Valente, Brown U Panelists consider the efects of the current socioeconomic upheavals and political polarization on the ield of Portuguese and Brazilian studies in the United States, such as funding, enrollments, and faculty positions. At stake is not only the present but also the future of our profession.
44. Neurodiversity 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Cognitive and Afect Studies. Presiding: Jonathan Kramnick, Yale U 1. “Psychosis Blues: Distributed Cognition, Collaborative Media, and Schizophrenia,” Elizabeth J. Donaldson, New York Inst. of Tech. 2. “‘It Had Something to Do with Paying Attention’: ADHD and the Contemporary Oice Novel,” Michael Mahoney, U of California, Irvine 3. “Robert Montgomery Bird’s Neurodiversity Hypothesis,” Ittai Orr, Yale U 4. “Reading Short Stories with Temple Grandin,” Ralph James Savarese, Grinnell C
44A. Global Arab Precarity and the Contemporary United States Academy: Race, Religion, Profession 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American. Presiding: Hatem Akil, Seminole State C Speakers: Matthew Abraham, U of Arizona; Ghenwa Hayek, U of Chicago; Sunaina Maira, U of California, Davis Speakers seek to bring about a multifaceted conversation about the current precarity of the ield of Arab and Islamic studies, as well as those engaged in the ield.
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Thursday, 4 January 1:45 p.m. 45. Edith Wharton’s New York 1:45–3:00 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton Program arranged by the Edith Wharton Society. Presiding: Paul Joseph Ohler, Kwantlen Polytechnic U 1. “Edith Wharton at Chickering Hall: Amusement and Activism in Gilded Age New York,” Yair Solan, Graduate Center, City U of New York 2. “Unaged New York: Corporeal Aesthetics in a Preservationist Culture,” Melanie V. Dawson, C of William and Mary 3. “Lay of the Land: Edith Wharton’s Unmapping of New York,” Joseph A. Dimuro, U of California, Los Angeles 4. “Sites of Sanitation: Germ heory, Mind Science, Wharton’s New York, and the Modern Novel,” Lisa Mendelman, Menlo C
46. Performing Resistance 1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton A special session 1. “he Right to Perform Resistance: Black Protest Aesthetics in Post–Black Arts Movement Drama and Music,” Casarae L. Gibson, Syracuse U 2. “he Art of the Ordeal; or, What Does (and Should) Performance Art Mean Today?” Christopher Grobe, Amherst C 3. “Public Blind Spots: Performing Silent Protest in Prison,” Anke Pinkert, U of Illinois, Urbana Respondent: Minou Arjomand, U of Texas, Austin
47. A Tool Kit for Doctoral Student Career Planning 1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Connected Academics Project Speakers: Kelly Brown, U of California, Irvine; David Laurence, MLA; Maureen McCarthy, Council of Graduate Schools; Tyrus H. Miller, U of California, Santa Cruz Humanities PhDs have always made fulilling and well-compensated careers within and beyond the academy, using their expertise for the social good throughout our society and economy. Participants consider resources and strategies doctoral programs can use to help their students recognize the versatility of doctoral study and pursue the broadest range of occupations available to them.
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48. Publishing the Colony, Colonizing Publishing 1:45–3:00 p.m., Hudson, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Nandini Bhattacharya, Texas A&M U, College Station Speakers: Joya Mannan, Texas Tech U; Kerry Manzo, Texas Tech U; Kevin Sedeno-Guillen, U of Kentucky; Hyo Woo, Nanyang Technological U Panelists consider the interaction of colonial and postcolonial publishing circuits with trajectories of liberation and assimilation implicit in colonialism, anticolonialist sentiment, decolonization, and racialized and gendered subjectivity. Presentations examine publishing Shakespeare in India, mestizo manuscript culture of the Americas, Korean postcolonial publishing in the United States, and marketing West African women novelists.
49. Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media 1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Japanese since 1900 1. “Virtual Reality, Mapping, and the Future of Literary History,” Charles Exley, U of Pittsburgh 2. “he Sound of Silents: Digital Humanities Project on Benshi and Silent Film,” Kyoko Omori, Hamilton C 3. “he Resonance of Digital Space: New Critical Practices in Digital Curation,” Joanne Bernardi, U of Rochester
50. he Historical Novel ater Postmodernism 1:45–3:00 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton A special session 1. “Mapping the Historical Turn: Privileged Periods in Prize-Winning Novels,” Alexander Manshel, Stanford U 2. “‘Building New History’: Mike Meginnis’s Fat Man and Little Boy and Contemporary United States Historical Fiction,” Samuel Cohen, U of Missouri, Columbia 3. “What Is Missing: he Novel as Memorial,” Sarah Chihaya, Princeton U 4. “Don DeLillo’s Bad Art History: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Paradox of the Contemporary,” David Alworth, Harvard U For related material, write to amanshel@stanford .edu ater 1 Nov.
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51. 1618–2018: Remembering the hirty Years’ War 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton Program arranged by the Society for German Renaissance and Baroque Literature 1. “German Baroque Poets in the Atermath of the hirty Years’ War,” Albrecht Classen, U of Arizona 2. “Knowing War: Breitinger, Gryphius, and the Possibility of Controlling Knowledge,” Aleksandra Prica, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 3. “he Economics of War: Cameralism and Liberalism in Wallensteins Lager,” Christopher Hutchinson, Stanford U
52. he Temporal Turn in Black Studies 1:45–3:00 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Daylanne K. English, Macalester C Speakers: Soyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown U; Daylanne K. English; Gregory Laski, United States Air Force Acad.; Imani Perry, Princeton U; Anthony Reed, Yale U; Michelle M. Wright, Emory U From Phillis Wheatley to Suzan-Lori Parks, black artists and activists have been attuned to the political, legal, philosophical, and cultural stakes of time: the diferential ways we interweave past, present, and future. Scholars of African America and the Black Diaspora assess the temporal turn in black studies and suggest directions for future work. For related material, visit blacktime2018.hcommons .org ater 15 Dec.
53. Private Media: Rethinking Privacy in Contemporary Culture 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Scott Selisker, U of Arizona 1. “he Leak, the Novel, and the Networked Self,” Scott Selisker 2. “Inside Out: Privacy in Public in Claudia Rankine’s and John Lucas’s Situation Videos,” Chad Bennett, U of Texas, Austin 3. “Speech without Expression: Anonymous Politics in he Bell Jar,” Katie Fitzpatrick, Brown U Respondents: David Rosen, Trinity C; Aaron Santesso, Georgia Inst. of Tech.
54. he Ethics of Progressive Shakespeare 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Alexa Alice Joubin, George Washington U
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55. Global Fashion 1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone. Presiding: Celia Marshik, Stony Brook U, State U of New York 1. “Fashioning a Geographic Imagination: British Modernism and Primitive Style,” Jane M. Garrity, U of Colorado, Boulder 2. “Sartorial Spaces: Colin MacInnes and Multicultural Style,” Simon Lee, U of California, Riverside 3. “ ‘Serving AfroScandinavian Fresh’: Krull Magazine and the Emergence of Black Swedish Style,” Monica L. Miller, Barnard C
56. Writing New Relationships: he Humanities and STEM 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Anne Ruggles Gere, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1. “Interpretive Praxis in Interdisciplinary Research,” Ashley Karlin, U of Southern California 2. “Creative Epistemologies and Writing to Learn,” Atia Sattar, U of Southern California 3. “Collaboration as Knowledge Production,” Emily Wilson, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
57. Activism in the Humanities: Digital Projects for Public Engagement 1:45–3:00 p.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Digital Humanities. Presiding: Mark Sample, Davidson C Speakers: Jacqueline Arias, Jersey Art Exchange; Jim Casey, Princeton U; Alexander Gil, Columbia U; Purdom Lindblad, U of Maryland, College Park; Sarah Lynn Patterson, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Laila Sakr, U of California, Santa Barbara; Jacqueline D. Wernimont, Arizona State U West; Dennis Yi Tenen, Columbia U Panelists discuss activism through digital humanities projects. Topics include how to engage
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local communities through digital projects, how to shit from academic work to social and political advocacy, how to introduce issues-oriented and community-oriented projects to students, and how to bring together technology with activist work. For related material, visit lklein.com/mla-2018/.
2. “‘Eight Feet in Height, and Proportionably Large’: he Creature’s Body from homas P. Cooke to Benedict Cumberbatch,” Elizabeth Denlinger, New York Public Library 3. “Frankenstein and the Question of Ability,” Dwight Codr, U of Connecticut, Storrs
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1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada. Presiding: Miriam Brown Spiers, Kennesaw State U 1. “‘Of Course hey Count, but Not Right Now’: Regulating (In)Security in Lee Maracle’s Ravensong and Celia’s Song,” Dallas Hunt, U of Manitoba 2. “‘May She Breathe Again’: Western Intrusions in Native American Literature,” Colton Saylor, U of California, Santa Barbara 3. “‘Coming Home through Stories’: Indigenous Voices in Translation,” Sarah Henzi, U de Montréal 4. “Defending Language Security: Letters from the Dakota, 1838–78,” Gwen Westerman, Minnesota State U, Mankato
59. Eminent Victorians at One Hundred 1:45–3:00 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the forums GS Life Writing and LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English. Presiding: John Matteson, John Jay C, City U of New York 1. “Reconstituting Democracy: Strachey, Woolf, and Modernist National Biography,” Ryan Weberling, Boston U 2. “Lytton Strachey and André Maurois: Eminent Modernists in Search of the Biographical Truth,” Floriane Reviron-Piegay, U Jean Monnet 3. “Aging Backward: From Strachey’s Victoria to the Modern Queen,” Gretchen Gerzina, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 4. “Strachey’s Alternative Facts: Life Writing in the Face of Modern Catastrophe,” Mallory Cohn, Indiana U, Bloomington
60. Frankenstein at Two Hundred: Attachment, Disability, and the Monstrous Body 1:45–3:00 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Giorgina Paiella, U of California, Santa Barbara 1. “Just Friends: Frankenstein and the Friend to Come,” Julie Ann Carlson, U of California, Santa Barbara
1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Chandrima Chakraborty, McMaster U 1. “he Traumatic Legacy of Partition in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine,” Robin E. Field, King’s C, PA 2. “Adapting Partition from Diaspora: From IceCandy Man to Earth,” Madhurima Chakraborty, Columbia C, IL 3. “Whose Partition? he Critical Reception of Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House,” Alpana Sharma, Wright State U 4. “Partition in the Formation of the South Asian American Diaspora: Oral Histories in the 1947 Partition Archives,” Nalini Iyer, Seattle U For related material, visit MLA Commons ater 30 Nov.
62. Music Human and Nonhuman before the Phonograph 1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton A special session 1. “‘I Am Small, like the Wren’: Emily Dickinson’s Selected Birdsongs,” Gerard Holmes, U of Maryland, College Park 2. “horeau’s Democratization of Music, from Singing Crickets to Dreaming Frogs,” Christina Katopodis, Graduate Center, City U of New York 3. “‘Haunting My Memory Still’: he Interminable Echo of Longfellow’s ‘My Lost Youth,’ ” John Hay, U of Nevada, Las Vegas
63. Latin America and the Arab World 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Tahia Abdel Nasser, American U in Cairo Speakers: Sinan Antoon, New York U; Christina E. Civantos, U of Miami; Elizabeth M. Holt, Bard C; Mercedes Alexandra Ortiz Wallner, Humboldt-U Cultural encounters between Latin America and the Arab world encompass migration, literature, translation, and travel. We examine connections between Arabic and Latin American literature, cultural exchange, and translation in critical debates
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on world literature. Topics include the comparative study of Arabic and Latin American literature, the legacy of al-Andalus in Latin America, Cold War literature, and Central American travel literature. For related material, write to tgnasser@ aucegypt.edu.
64. Poetry and Illustration in British Romanticism 1:45–3:00 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. Presiding: James C. McKusick, U of Missouri, Kansas City 1. “On Not Reading Blake’s Large Color Prints,” Joseph Viscomi, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2. “Illustration and Terror: homas Macklin’s Poets’ Gallery in a Revolutionary Decade,” Ian Haywood, U of Roehampton 3. “Passing Time in Victorian Illustrations to Romantic Poetry,” Tom Mole, U of Edinburgh Respondent: Seamus Perry, U of Oxford, Balliol C
65. Mentoring Workshop for Job Seekers in Languages 1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. Presiding: Gary Bruce Schmidt, Coastal Carolina U Speakers: Megan M. Ferry, Union C; Marc L. Greenberg, U of Kansas; Jacqueline Lerescu, MLA; Denise McCracken, St. Charles Community C, MO; Charlotte Ann Melin, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; William Nichols, Georgia State U; Sara J. Ogger, Humanities New York; Ming-Bao Yue, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa his workshop ofers small-group mentoring on the job search—inside and outside the academy— focusing on applying to and working in diferent types of institutions; preparing a dossier; Skype, convention, and on-campus interviews; and nonacademic humanities career paths. his mentoring workshop is not intended to replace one-on-one job counseling that can be scheduled at other times during the convention.
66. States of Insecurity: Digital Writing in the Post–2016 Election Era 1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies. Presiding: Bonnie Lenore Kyburz, Lewis U 1. “Plagues of Misinformation,” Katherine Gaudet, U of New Hampshire, Durham
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67. Language Learning, Identity, and Intercultural Understanding 1:45–3:00 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL Applied Linguistics. Presiding: Mary Wildner-Bassett, U of Arizona 1. “Teaching Migration and Minorities in German as a Foreign Language,” Bala Venkat Mani, U of Wisconsin, Madison 2. “Shiting Perspectives: Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding in the Language Curriculum,” Kenric K. Tsethlikai, U of Pennsylvania
68. New Realisms ater Postmodernism and Poststructuralism 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Monika Kaup, U of Washington, Seattle 1. “‘he Detritus of His Childhood’: Toward an Object heory of Trauma,” Chet Lisiecki, Colorado C 2. “Tom Wolfe and Conservative Realism,” Jefrey Lawrence, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 3. “Decolonial Ontologies: Rebellious Object Worlds in Late-Twentieth-Century Multiethnic United States Literature,” Anne Stewart, U of Texas, Austin 4. “New Ecological Realisms in Contemporary heory and Postapocalyptic Narrative,” Monika Kaup
69. Queer Faith, Queer Love 1:45–3:00 p.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Religion and Literature 1. “Abundant Life and Metaictional Aplomb: Deployments of Christianity in Queer Popular Romance Fiction,” Eric Selinger, DePaul U 2. “Jeremy Bentham’s Queer Christ,” Carrie Shanafelt, Fairleigh Dickinson U, Teaneck 3. “Queer Potentiality and the Mystical Text,” Kris Jonathan Trujillo, Fordham U
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70. he Circuitous Path into Higher Administration 1:45–3:00 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Presiding: Donald E. Hall, Lehigh U Speakers: Patricia R. Campbell, Pasco-Hernando State C; William A. Cohen, U of Maryland, College Park; David E. García, Carthage C; James Swenson, Jr., Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Jenifer K. Ward, Centenary C of Louisiana Administrators from a range of institutional types discuss the sometimes surprising road they took to their positions as deans and provosts. Open discussion on the joys and frustrations of a career in higher administration follows.
71. Women Writers in the Long Nineteenth Century 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC LusoBrazilian. Presiding: Cesar Braga-Pinto, Northwestern U 1. “(Re)Reading the Gothic in Antonia Gertrudes Pusich,” Rebecca Jones-Kellogg, United States Military Acad. 2. “Maria Firmina dos Reis e a crítica: A que ponto chegamos?” Paulo Dutra, Stephen F. Austin State U 3. “Ana Plácido, Autobiography, and Literary Legacy,” Estela J. Vieira, Indiana U, Bloomington 4. “Two Reasons for Not Reading: he Writer and the Housewife in Júlia Lopes de Almeida,” Cintia Vezzani, Northwestern U
72. Science and Technology in Cervantes 1:45–3:00 p.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the Cervantes Society of America. Presiding: Carolyn A. Nadeau, Illinois Wesleyan U 1. “‘What Will Be Seen here’: he Science of Seeing in Cervantes and Ibn Al-Haythem,” Eli Cohen, Swarthmore C 2. “Navigation, Cosmography, and Empire in the Persiles,” Cory A. Reed, U of Texas, Austin 3. “Cervantes’s Contribution in Don Quixote to Renaissance heories of Emotion and Development,” Isabel Jaén-Portillo, Portland State U 4. “Cervantes as a Cognitive Scientist: Don Quixote’s and Amadís of Gaul’s Roles in the Evolution
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of the Human Mind through Carnival, Conceptual Metaphors, and Embodied Cognition,” Felipe Fiuza, East Tennessee State U
73. Revisiting Typographical Interventions 1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton A special session 1. “he Spiritual Umlaut: Punctuation in San Ignacio de Loyola’s Diario espiritual,” Dale Shuger, Tulane U 2. “Apollinaire’s Spaces,” Jeanne Etelain, New York U 3. “Rendering Commas: Milos Crnjanski’s Seobe in Michael Henry Heim’s Translation into English,” Visnja Krstic, U of Belgrade For related material, visit iloloskibg.academia .edu/VisnjaKrstic.
74. Ethnic Joking in Comparative Perspective 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Slavic and East European and LLC Yiddish. Presiding: Indra A. Levy, Stanford U 1. “From Vitality to Languor: Changes in the Depiction of Shiraz and Its Inhabitants from the Premodern Period to Today,” Dominic Brookshaw, Oriental Inst. 2. “Cruel Jokes for Crueler Times,” Benjamin Palof, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 3. “Jewish Jokes at the End of Meaning: Gordon Lish’s Extravaganza,” Josh Lambert, U of Massachusetts, Amherst Respondent: Gabriella Safran, Stanford U
75. Transmediality in Italian Culture 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian. Presiding: Paola Bonifazio, U of Texas, Austin 1. “Transformations of the Common Man in World War II: From Cinema and Documentary to Radio and Press,” Paola Gambarota, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 2. “Eni’s Transmedia Approach: Oil and Business in the Italian Economic Miracle,” Luca Peretti, Yale U 3. “he Transmediality of Il piccolo mondo: Don Camillo from Guareschi to Duvivier (and Duvivier), Sequential Art, and Beyond,” Felice Italo Beneduce, Columbia U; Patrizia Palumbo, Columbia U
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76. Wounded Cultures of the TwentyFirst Century 1:45–3:00 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Steven Marsh, U of Illinois, Chicago 1. “Where Are the Children? Rereading Cultura herida in the Age of Spoliation,” Teresa M. Vilarós, Texas A&M U, College Station 2. “Remembering and Deferring Cultura herida’s Fidelity to Psychoanalysis,” Julian Daniel Gutierrez-Albilla, U of Southern California 3. “Cinematic Politics of Wounding in Spanish Neoliberalism,” Rachel ten Haaf, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville 4. “Photography’s Wound,” Patricia M. Keller, Cornell U Respondent: Cristina Moreiras-Menor, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
77. New Philology, Media Ecology 1:45–3:00 p.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS 18thCentury and the Goethe Society of North America 1. “Hypertexting the Late Hymns: Hölderlin, Philology, and the Possibilities of New Media,” Anthony Curtis Adler, Yonsei U 2. “Mobile Print, Stationery Shops: he Business of Paper and the Early-Nineteenth-Century Periodical Landscape,” Sean B. Franzel, U of Missouri, Columbia 3. “Practicing Media Philology in Germany and America around 1800,” Ulrike Wagner, Bard C, Berlin Respondent: Nicholas A. Rennie, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
78. Hawthorne and hings 1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society. Presiding: Charles Eaton Baraw, Southern Connecticut State U 1. “Fabrications,” Lori A. Merish, Georgetown U 2. “Hawthorne’s Houses as Material Culture,” Erin Sweeney, U of California, Irvine 3. “A Is for Archive: (Un)Dead hings in Hawthorne’s ‘Custom-House,’ ” Lindsay DiCuirci, U of Maryland, Baltimore For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/.
79. Rethinking Paul de Man 1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton
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80. Consulting on the English Major in Its Departmental Context 1:45–3:00 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the Association of Departments of English Ad Hoc Committee. Presiding: Doug Steward, MLA Speakers: Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter C, City U of New York; Dolan Hubbard, Morgan State U; Susan Miller, Santa Fe C; Tarshia Stanley, Spelman C; Karin E. Westman, Kansas State U Members of the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on the English Major and the ADE Ad Hoc Committee to Design an ADE Consultancy Service discuss their work on the English major and what departments desire from a consultancy service as they examine their enrollments, curriculum design, faculty governance, and strategic planning.
81. Gender and Medieval Refugees 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship. Presiding: Dorothy Kim, Vassar C 1. “‘For Chaunged Was His Hewe’: Catalytic (Female) Refugees in (Male) Conversion Narratives,” Catherine S. Cox, U of Pittsburgh 2. “‘To Love Him hat Unknowen Is’: Dido’s Desire and Mediterranean Hospitality in he House of Fame and he Legend of Good Women,” Sara Torres, Medieval Acad. of America 3. “Reconceptualizing the Figure of the Refugee through Constance in the Confessio Amantis,” Shyama Rajendran, George Washington U For related material, visit smfs.org ater 1 Jan.
82. Other Archives: West Asian Contexts 1:45–3:00 p.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC West Asian. Presiding: Veli N. Yashin, U of Southern California
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Speakers: Michael Tavel Clarke, U of Calgary; Nora Gilbert, U of North Texas; Faye S. Halpern, U of Calgary; James Phelan, Ohio State U, Columbus; Elsie Walker, U of Salisbury Directed at graduate students and the recently hired, this session aims to demystify the process of publishing in scholarly journals. Experienced editors from an array of journals—ARIEL, Studies in the Novel, Narrative, and Literature/Film Quarterly—ofer multiple perspectives.
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Thursday, 4 January 3:30 p.m. 83. Service Learning in Teaching Spanish Language 3:30–4:45 p.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL Romance Linguistics. Presiding: M. Emma Ticio Quesada, Syracuse U 1. “Language in Action at Syracuse University,” M. Emma Ticio Quesada 2. “Evaluation in Service-Learning Language Courses,” Carla Suhr, U of California, Los Angeles 3. “Comparative Study of Spanish and English through Service Learning,” Svetlana Tyutina, California State U, Northridge 4. “Applied Romance: Integrating Service Learning into Health-Care Interpreting,” Marko Miletich, Texas A&M U, College Station
84. Anthropocene Reading 3:30–4:45 p.m., Regent, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Tobias Coyote Menely, U of California, Davis Speakers: Jefrey Cohen, George Washington U; Anne-Lise François, U of California, Berkeley; Matt Hooley, Clemson U; Dana Luciano, Georgetown U; Jesse Oak Taylor, U of Washington, Seattle; Derek Woods, Dartmouth C his session considers how diferent practices of critical reading—symptomatic and surface, formalist and materialist, philological and computational—facilitate approaches to literary studies in the Anthropocene.
85. How to Get Published 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Presiding: Janine M. Utell, Widener U
3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum GS Drama and Performance. Presiding: Shane Vogel, Indiana U, Bloomington Speakers: Laura G. Gutiérrez, U of Texas, Austin; Diana Taylor, New York U; Sarah J. Townsend, Penn State U, University Park; Harvey Young, Northwestern U On the occasion of the iteenth anniversary of Diana Taylor’s inluential book he Archive and the Repertoire, panelists relect on methodological, theoretical, and historical developments in the ield of performance studies. Ten-minute relections on the terrain opened up by this book, drawing on presenters’ current research, are followed by a response by Taylor. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/drama-and-performance/.
87. Shakespeare and the 99% 3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Timothy Francisco, Youngstown State U 1. “Identiication and Alienation,” Denise Albanese, George Mason U 2. “Who Did Kill Shakespeare?” Sharon O’Dair, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 3. “How the 1% Came to Rule the World: Shakespeare, Metanarrative, and the Origins of Capitalism,” Daniel Vitkus, U of California, San Diego For related material, write to
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88. Transparent: Opacities of Space and Time 3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture. Presiding: Siobhan S. Craig, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1. “he Pfamily Pfeferman: Revelations and Revolutions in Jill Soloway’s Transparent,” Katelyn Cunningham, Pasadena City C
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2. “Postmemory Time Slips and Queer Identity in Transparent,” Nichole Neuman, Kansas State U 3. “Orientation Devices and Queer Lineage in Soloway’s Transparent,” Erin Schlumpf, Ohio U, Athens 4. “Intersecting Jewish and Transgender Identities in Jill Soloway’s Transparent,” Kerstin Steitz, Old Dominion U
89. he Humanities and Public Policy 3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Executive Council. Presiding: Gaurav G. Desai, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor Speakers: William Adams, Mellon Foundation; Earl Lewis, Mellon Foundation; Lynn Pasquerella, Assn. of American Colleges and Universities Participants address the current challenges that the humanities face in terms of funding and support. How can the humanities become more central to matters of public policy?
90. Trans Studies and Disability Studies 3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Disability Studies. Presiding: Cynthia Wu, U at Bufalo, State U of New York Speakers: Cassius Adair, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Cameron Awkward-Rich, Stanford U; Elizabeth Skwiot, Ashford U; Xeno Washburne, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor Panelists pose questions and possibilities for how the ields of trans studies and disability studies might speak to each other. How might our joint critiques talk back to the medical pathologization of trans and disabled bodies? How can existing concepts of time, capital, and teleology reframe discussions about trans and disabled identities? What are the political eicacies and limits of choice, agency, and visibility?
91. Terms of Employment: Gender and Negotiations 3:30–4:45 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession and the MLA Committee on Community Colleges Speakers: Heidi Bostic, U of New Hampshire, Durham; Patricia R. Campbell, Pasco-Hernando State C Panelists ofer a master class on negotiating styles and strategies that best serve academics identifying as women in their eforts to improve salary and other conditions of current or prospective em-
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92. Joy: hinking/Feeling 3:30–4:45 p.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Occitan. Presiding: Elizabeth Hebbard, Yale U 1. “Toward Nondualism: he Ambiguity of Joi in the Occitan Alba, from the Sexual to the Spiritual,” Humberto González Chávez, New York U 2. “Feeling hought: Temporality and Contingency in Troubadour Love Songs,” Emily Kate Price, New York U 3. “he Joy of Consent: Feeling Together,” Juliet O’Brien, U of British Columbia
93. Hurricanes in Literatures of the United States and Cuba: Ecocritical Approaches to Tropical Storms 3:30–4:45 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Charlotte W. Rogers, U of Virginia 1. “Hurricanes and Caribbean Sovereignty: A Short Tour,” Marilyn Grace Miller, Tulane U 2. “Lafcadio Hearn and Disaster Creolization,” Erica Stevens, Penn State U, University Park 3. “Archipelagic Diaspora, Geographic Form, and the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane,” Brian Russell Roberts, Brigham Young U, UT 4. “Huracán, dios de la revolución,” Antonio José Ponte, Diario de Cuba
94. Research and the MLA International Bibliography: From Scholarly Insecurities to Published Citations 3:30–4:45 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography. Presiding: Barbara Chen, MLA Speakers: Gregory Grazevich, MLA; Mary Onorato, MLA What strategies does our intellectual, artistic, and pedagogical work in the humanities ofer for navigating the crises of our time? he discussion explores how the MLA International Bibliography has relected, and responded to, “scholarly insecurities” of the past and what this might tell us about potential strategies in confronting the insecurities of the present.
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95. British Working-Class Literature: Intersections of Space and Class in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Fiction 3:30–4:45 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Simon Lee, U of California, Riverside 1. “‘Low Tastes’: John Braine, Drinking, and Class,” Ben Clarke, U of North Carolina, Greensboro 2. “Resisting Nostalgia for Proletarian Spaces: Gordon Burn’s he North of England Home Service,” Nick Hubble, Brunel U 3. “Narratives of Working-Class Space in Martin Amis’s Lionel Asbo and Ross Raisin’s Waterline,” Nick Bentley, Keele U
96. Big History in the American Century 3:30–4:45 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton A special session 1. “Timescapes in the Art of Robert Smithson,” Jessica Prinz, Ohio State U, Columbus 2. “ ‘Outside Is Inside’: Big History, Modernism, and Imperial Form,” Stephen Pasqualina, U of Southern California 3. “James Michener’s Hawaii and Native Sovereignty in the Age of Trump,” Eric Strand, Lingnan U For related material, write to
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97. Contemplation of Keywords: Celebrating the Rhetoric Society of America’s Fitieth Anniversary 3:30–4:45 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the Rhetoric Society of America 1. “Contemplating and Selecting Rhetoric’s Keywords,” Michelle Ballif, U of Georgia 2. “he Digital,” James J. Brown, Jr., Rutgers U, Camden 3. “Memory,” Bradford Vivian, Penn State U, University Park
98. World Languages and Humanities Majors: Career Trajectories and Advocacy 3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Oice of Programs. Presiding: Gilles Bousquet, U of Wisconsin, Madison Speakers: Teresa Fiore, Montclair State U; Marc L. Greenberg, U of Kansas; Robert I. Matz, George Mason U; Dianna Murphy, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Caitlin Yocco-Locascio, U of Wisconsin, Madison
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his session aims to demonstrate strategies to advocate for world languages on and of campus. Presenters use their research of LinkedIn and other platforms to show how world languages and humanities majors lead to relevant careers and how career trajectories of their alumni can serve as a bridge to advocate with key stakeholders and serve as a relective tool to evolve curricula.
99. “Alternative Facts” and Fictions: Multiplicity and Indeterminacy in the Atermath of the 2016 Presidential Election 3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: David Ben-Merre, Bufalo State C, State U of New York Speakers: Barish Ali, Bufalo State C, State U of New York; Bruce Krajewski, U of Texas, Arlington; Naomi Iliana Mandel, U of Rhode Island; Debrah K. Raschke, Southeast Missouri State U; Edward Simon, Lehigh U hrough diferent lenses (theoretical, national, rhetorical, disciplinary, media), panelists reconsider the theory debates of the 1980s and ater in the light of the 2016 United States presidential election. Is indeterminacy responsible for this new world of “post-fact” or “post-truth”? Is poststructuralist decentering somehow complicit in the rise of “alternative facts” of recent newspeak, or does it ofer a critical bulwark against it?
100. horeau and Material Culture 3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the horeau Society 1. “Reading horeau’s Specimens,” Reed Gochberg, Harvard U 2. “Listening for horeau’s Flute,” John Elder, Middlebury C 3. “he horeau Pencil: A New Look at Sources and Composition,” Henrik Otterberg, Kagaku Analys AB For related material, visit www.thoreausociety.org/ events ater 1 Dec.
101. Careers beyond the Professoriat for Humanities PhDs: he Employer Perspective 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Connected Academics Project. Presiding: John Paul Christy, American Council of Learned Societies Speakers: Alison Cuddy, Chicago Humanities Festival; Rebekah Krell, San Francisco Arts Commission; Deirdre Ryan, ITHAKA; Clovis horn, Grand Street Settlement
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he Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program has placed 125 recent humanities PhDs in two-year fellowships with government and nonproit organizations. his session convenes senior managers from the cultural, policy, social service, and digital media sectors who worked closely with Public Fellows with PhDs in modern languages. Panelists discuss their experiences and review some of the challenges and opportunities facing PhDs as they explore nonacademic careers.
102. Insecure Periodicals 3:30–4:45 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton A special session Speakers: Jim Casey, Princeton U; Eurie Dahn, C of St. Rose; Benjamin Fagan, Auburn U, Auburn; Brooks E. Hefner, James Madison U; Sarah Salter, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi; Derrick R. Spires, U of Illinois, Urbana; Rochelle Zuck, U of Minnesota, Duluth his session promotes conversations about how periodicals—and, in particular, ethnic periodicals in the Americas—respond to and embody particular “states of insecurity” in the American historical and sociopolitical landscape and in the academy at large.
103. Carceral States of Exception and Insecurity 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies. Presiding: Ruby Tapia, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1. “Dreaming America: A Poetics from Undocumented, Unaccompanied Youth in MaximumSecurity Detention,” Seth Michelson, Washington and Lee U 2. “Prison Literature, Prison Crisis, and Abolitionist Reading,” Anoop Mirpuri, Portland State U 3. “Siberia USA: Decolonization, Sovereignty, and the Specter of White Incarceration,” Hadji Bakara, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 4. “States of Asylum: Suspended Lives as Invisible Carcerality,” Jutta M. Gsoels-Lorensen, Penn State U, Altoona
104. Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism at Twenty-Five 3:30–4:45 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TM Literary Criticism. Presiding: Robert Tally, Texas State U Speakers: Peter James Hitchcock, Baruch C, City U of New York; Kathryn Lachman, U of Massachu-
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setts, Amherst; Christopher Langlois, McGill U; Haerin Shin, Vanderbilt U; Harold Aram Veeser, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Zahi A. Zalloua, Whitman C he year 2018 marks the twenty-ith anniversary of Said’s Culture and Imperialism as well as the fortieth anniversary of his Orientalism. he diverse group of speakers, representing diferent linguistic traditions, geographic areas, and historical experiences, examine Said’s texts and the ramiications of his work on postcolonial thought, area studies, comparative literature, critical theory, and the humanities. For related material, write to robert.tally@txstate .edu ater 1 Dec.
105. Asian (American) Utopias and Dystopias 3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Christopher Fan, U of California, Irvine Speakers: Kara Hisatake, U of California, Santa Cruz; Derek Lee, Penn State U, University Park; Andrew Way Leong, Northwestern U; Erin Khue Ninh, U of California, Santa Barbara; Jennifer Wang, Brown U As a reaction-formation to one of the irst travel bans in United States history and other acts of exclusion, the Asian American political imagination ofers ways to more sharply diagnose our present dystopian moment. Panelists discuss how Asian American speculative narratives (sci-i, alternate history, etc.) might help us to think through an intensifying conlict between liberalism’s utopian rhetoric and its dystopian realities and to imagine alternative futures.
106. he Sephardim and the City 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Sephardic. Presiding: Nohemy Solórzano-hompson, Westminster C 1. “From the Orient to the West: Shaping Sephardic Identity in Albert Cohen’s Works,” Ruth Malka, McGill U 2. “Mapping A. B. Yehoshua’s Multicultural Jerusalem,” Yael Halevi-Wise, McGill U 3. “Nonplace ater Destruction: Sinera and Sepharad in the Work of Salvador Espriu,” Teresa M. Vilarós, Texas A&M U, College Station 4. “he Sephardic Sense of Place(s) in Shalach Manot’s His Hundred Years, a Tale,” Gloria J. Ascher, Tuts U
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107. Citizenship 3:30–4:45 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Chaucer. Presiding: Catherine Sanok, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1. “heorizing Jewish Citizenship between 1275 and 1290: Meir b. Elijah of Norwich, a Case Study,” Miriamne Ara Krummel, U of Dayton 2. “Cecilian Polity: Citizenship and Poetry in the Second Nun’s Tale,” Zachary Stone, U of Virginia 3. “‘Passyng Straunge’: Bilingual Poetics and Contingent Belonging in Charles d’Orléans,” Jonathan Hsy, George Washington U
108. he Internet of Everything: African Literature in a Digital Age 3:30–4:45 p.m., Clinton, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Olorunshola Adenekan, U of Bremen 1. “Digital Networks and heir (Dis)Contents: Articulating Instability through Online African Writing,” Olorunshola Adenekan 2. “Collaborative Social Media Networking and Satire in Ghana—My Book of #GHCoats and Flash Fiction Ghana,” Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, West Virginia U, Morgantown 3. “Digital Providence: Serendipity and SelfFashioning in the Work of Adaobi Nwaubani, Chimamanda Adichie, and Binyanvanga Wainaina,” Rhonda Cobham-Sander, Amherst C
109. Empowering All Students of German 3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of German. Presiding: Susanne Rinner, U of North Carolina, Greensboro Speakers: Regine Criser, U of North Carolina, Asheville; Ervin Malakaj, Sam Houston State U; Marianna Ryshina-Pankova, Georgetown U How do the theoretical and methodological concepts that inform current scholarship in German studies shape pedagogical approaches? How do critical pedagogies create inclusive learning environments that allow all students, including the most vulnerable populations, to thrive? How do academic inquiry and public discourse about diversity, human rights, and social justice change our ield and its pedagogy—from trigger warnings to inclusion of all students?
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110. Walking the Walk: Romantic Writing on the Trail 3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Ashton Nichols, Dickinson C 1. “‘Over the Sea to Skye’: Dr. Johnson and Wordsworth on Dun Cann,” Ashton Nichols 2. “Lucy on the Trail with Violets,” Alan Richardson, Boston C 3. “he Ininite Helix: Walking Spiral Jetty with Coleridge,” Debbie Lee, Washington State U, Pullman 4. “Walking through and to Enlightenment,” Mark Lussier, Arizona State U
111. Writing New York: he Other Boroughs (Staten Island, the Bronx, Queens) 3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association. Presiding: George Louis Scheper, Johns Hopkins U, MD 1. “Anna McClure Sholl and the Early Staten Island Novel,” Frederick Wegener, California State U, Long Beach 2. “Returning to the Bronx: Homosexuality and Coming of Age in Chulito and Juliet Takes a Breath,” Grisel Y. Acosta, Bronx Community C, City U of New York 3. “Spaces of Belonging and Exclusion in Irina Reyn’s What Happened to Anna K.,” Marta Bladek, John Jay C, City U of New York 4. “‘Someplace in Queens’: Novels of NotKnowing New York,” Nicole B. Wallack, Columbia U For related material, write to
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112. Transcultural Flows in Modern China 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC East Asian. Presiding: Geraldine Fiss, U of Southern California 1. “Flagging the Greek Tradition in Modern China: Wu Mi and the Critical Review School,” Jingling Chen, Middlebury C 2. “Monster Machines and the Matriarch: Wen Yiduo’s Ecofeminist Turn in Chicago (1922–23),” Liansu Meng, U of Connecticut, Storrs 3. “Transcultural Narratives: Circulation of Black Literature in Twentieth-Century China,” Keisha Brown, Tennessee State U 4. “Rilke in China Today: A Look at a Poetic Transference of Ideas,” Geraldine Fiss
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Poetry,” Carmela Mattza, Louisiana State U & A&M C
3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton A special session Speakers: Sonia Chaidez, Whittier C; Anne CongHuyen, Whittier C; Ellen MacKay, U of Chicago; Angel David Nieves, Hamilton C; Marisa Parham, Amherst C; Jacqueline D. Wernimont, Arizona State U West he successes and hazards of noncurricular digital humanities programming are seldom publicly aired, yet staf, fellows, and directors at DH institutes face the same steep challenges. Our hope is that by laying bare the best and worst aspects of our programming’s implementation we will make our experiences portable for other DH institute members, learn from the suggestions of the audience, and enlarge the place of the human in the digital humanities.
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114. Historicizing Forms and Spaces of Refuge 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC History and Literature. Presiding: Marguerite Helen Helmers, U of Wisconsin, Oshkosh 1. “Migration, Extinction, and the American Novel,” Tony McGowan, United States Military Acad. 2. “Night as Refuge in Antebellum Slavery Narratives,” Sarah Cullen, Trinity C Dublin 3. “‘he War Was Over, Except . . .’: Mothers as War Memorials in Mrs. Dalloway,” Rebecca Chenoweth, U of California, Santa Barbara 4. “‘A Sea-Change’: Shipboard Space, Shipboard Documents, and Interstitial Possibility,” Nissa Cannon, U of California, Santa Barbara
115. Vernacular Emotions and Women’s Poetry of the Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marguerite de Navarre, Gabrielle de Coignard, and Luisa de Sigea 3:30–4:45 p.m., Harlem, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Christina H. Lee, Princeton U 1. “High and Low, Emotion and Passion in Vittoria Colonna’s Spiritual Canzoniere,” Sarah E. Christopher Faggioli, Villanova U 2. “Self-Efacement and Self-Assertion in Devotional Poetry by French Renaissance Women,” Corinne Bayerl, U of Oregon 3. “Switching from Latin to Castilian: he Dialectics of Strength and Weakness in Luisa de Sigea’s
116. Poetry Books in Multiple Versions: Editorial, Critical, and Pedagogical Issues 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Juliette Utard, U of Paris 4, Sorbonne 1. “Will the Real T. S. Eliot Please Stand Up? Poems (1920) versus Ara Vos Prec,” Michelle Taylor, Harvard U 2. “Violence and Memory in the Multiple Versions of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen,” John Young, Marshall U 3. “Poetry Books, School Anthologies, and Cultural Transmission,” Julie Blake, Cambridge U For related material, write to juliette.utard@ gmail.com.
117. Literature as Liberatory Praxis: Women-of-Color Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and Social Justice 3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Eden Osucha, Bates C 1. “How to Begin Is Also Where: Placemaking Pedagogy in June Jordan’s His Own Where,” Danica Savonick, Graduate Center, City U of New York 2. “he Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How he Little School Teaches Us to Be Ethical Learners,” Molly Appel, Penn State U, University Park 3. “What Assata Taught Me: Witnessing and Sustaining in the Wake of Racial Violence,” Tamara Butler, Michigan State U Respondent: Eden Osucha For related material, visit danicasavonick.com/ ater 1 Dec.
118. Organicisms: Organizations 3:30–4:45 p.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century. Presiding: Stefani Engelstein, Duke U 1. “Life in the Hunterian: Plaster, Chalk, Glass, Flesh,” Dahlia J. Porter, U of Glasgow 2. “Musical Form, Organicism, and the Question of Program,” Adrian Daub, Stanford U 3. “he Physiology of the Multitude,” David Womble, U of Chicago
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119. Édouard Glissant beyond Walls 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Francesca Canade Sautman, Hunter C, City U of New York Speakers: Neal Allar, Tsinghua U; Hamid Bahri, York C, City U of New York; Mohit Chandna, English and Foreign Languages U; Paul Fadoul, Queens C, City U of New York; Kaiama L. Glover, Barnard C; Sylvie Kande, State U of New York, Old Westbury; Sophie Marinez, Borough of Manhattan Community C, City U of New York his session considers Édouard Glissant’s ideas for a more secure, egalitarian, open world for peoples: how his work helps identify and abolish hierarchical constructions of race and gender that literature spreads, how to erase the divide between Western and non-Western authors, how to transition from “francophone” to “world literature in French,” and how those goals can be achieved in the classroom.
120. Early Modern Spain and the Paciic World: Writing on the Edge of Empire 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose. Presiding: Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, U of Iowa 1. “Against O’Gorman: he Spanish Paciic Remaps the Atlantic World,” Ricardo Padrón, U of Virginia 2. “heatrical Martyrdoms at the Edges of Empire: Lope’s Los mártires de Japón,” Ben Post, Murray State U 3. “Southeast Asia Unhinged: he Fraught Castilianization of the Portuguese Conquest of Pegu,” Rachel Stein, Columbia U
120A. Twenty-First-Century Ireland: Culture and Critique 3:30–4:45 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Irish. Presiding: Mary M. Burke, U of Connecticut, Storrs Speakers: Abby S. Bender, C of Mount St. Vincent; Claire Bracken, Union C; Mary M. Burke; Tara Harney-Mahajan, LIT: Literature Interpretation heory; Lucy McDiarmid, Montclair State U; Mary M. McGlynn, Baruch C, City U of New York Uncertainties of twenty-irst-century Ireland are traceable to its twentieth-century history: Roman
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Catholic control of women’s bodies and the abandonment of 1916’s socialism and feminism. For related material, visit www.academia.edu/ 34021099/Irish_panel_MLA_2018_21st-c._Ireland -Culture_and_Critique_ABSTRACTS_and_BIOS_.
Thursday, 4 January 5:15 p.m. 121. Destabilizing Folklore: Cultural Production in Moments of Insecurity 5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the American Folklore Society. Presiding: James Deutsch, Smithsonian Institution 1. “‘he Rebellious Underground’: Lomax, Henderson, Lloyd, and the Conception of the Radical Folklorist in the Mid–Twentieth Century,” Corey Gibson, U of Groningen 2. “Folk the Police: Blues Song Response to Law Enforcement in the Black Community during the Era of Jim Crow,” Mark Allan Jackson, Middle Tennessee State U 3. “From Fox to Goldilocks: he Reformations of a Folktale,” Shuli Barzilai, Hebrew U of Jerusalem
122. Strips of Modernity: Afect, Labor, and Identity in Early Comics 5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Hillary L. Chute, Northeastern U 1. “‘hings Are Going to Be Bad!’: he Emergence of the Working Woman in the Early Comic Strip,” Ksenia Sidorenko, Yale U 2. “A Battle of Wills: he Woodcut Novel and the Politics of Form,” Olivia Badoi, Fordham U 3. “he Queer Tortured State of Prince Valiant,” Eyal Amiran, U of California, Irvine Respondents: Nhora Lucia Serrano, Hamilton C; Michael Tisserand, author
123. Literary Studies Today: What Is to Be Done? On Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History 5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Patrick Redding, Manhattanville C Speakers: Mark Greif, New School; Christopher Nealon, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Joseph North, Yale U; Alexandra Perisic, U of Miami; C. Namwali Serpell, U of California, Berkeley
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In Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History, Joseph North claims that mainstream literary studies now operates on the basis of a “historicist/contextualist paradigm,” which is enabling for literary scholarship but disabling for literary criticism. Is this true? And what are the political implications if it is? Panelists explore the methodological and political implications of North’s claims.
124. Graduate Student Futures 5:15–6:30 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Vanessa Doriott Anderson, North Carolina State U Speakers: Vanessa Doriott Anderson; AlainPhilippe Durand, U of Arizona; Monica F. Jacobe, C of New Jersey; Rebbecca Kaplan, Emory U; Sharon O’Dair, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Traditionally, PhD programs have prepared students for one career path: the tenure track. Facing the reality that the number of tenure-track positions has decreased and that many contingent positions are inancially and personally unsustainable, this session addresses the need to prepare students for a broader range of careers. Panelists explore curricular and noncurricular enhancements that prepare students to leverage their skills in nontraditional ways.
125. “La France est en guerre”: Witnessing War in Contemporary France 5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton A special session 1. “Battlegrounds of Terror: Mystical Afghan Landscapes in neither Heaven nor Earth,” Aurelie Matheron, Penn State U, University Park 2. “his Book Is a Nightmare: Terrorism in Contemporary Francophone Literature,” Christophe Corbin, Haverford C 3. “Youth, Media, and Memory in Contemporary France,” Laure Astourian, Bentley U
126. When Scholarly Organizations Speak Out 5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on Advocacy Policies and Procedures. Presiding: Michael Bérubé, Penn State U, University Park Speakers: Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed; Paula M. Krebs, MLA; Ed Liebow, American Anthropological Assn.; Hunter O’Hanian, College Art Assn.; Katie Orenstein, he OpEd Project Participants explore the questions of when, how, and why various scholarly organizations take pub-
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lic stands on issues relevant to their memberships. Representatives of various scholarly organizations talk about how their organizations respond to advocacy issues, address how to publicize eforts at organizational advocacy, and consider what makes certain statements newsworthy.
127. Toward a Poetics of Noise: Literary Form and the Long History of the TechnoSoundscape 5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton A special session 1. “Nimrod’s Legacy: Noise, Technology, and Poetic Crat in Late-Medieval England,” Adin Lears, State U of New York, Oswego 2. “Such Ghastly Noise: Form and Decay in Book 3 of he Faerie Queene,” Adhaar Noor Desai, Tivoli, NY 3. “Telling Tales: Noise and Structure in Chaucer and Keats,” Rebecca Davis, U of California, Irvine; Hugh J. Roberts, U of California, Irvine
128. heoretical Approaches to Colonial Latin American Studies 5:15–6:30 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial Latin American. Presiding: Monica Diaz, U of Kentucky Speakers: Galen Brokaw, Montana State U, Bozeman; Gonzalo Lamana, U of Pittsburgh; Yolanda M. Martinez–San Miguel, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Mabel E. Morana, Washington U in St. Louis Panelists discuss the most relevant theoretical frameworks used in colonial Latin American literary studies and assess their relevance and eicacy in advancing the ield. What theoretical approach(es) should we be considering in colonial studies and why? What kinds of materials (sources) would you analyze with that approach, and what is at stake? What questions guide your intellectual inquiry?
129. Insecure Enlightenment 5:15–6:30 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Dustin D. Stewart, Columbia U 1. “Slave Talk and a West Indian Enlightenment?” David Samuel Mazella, U of Houston 2. “Bioinsecurity and Romantic Immunity,” Travis Lau, U of Pennsylvania 3. “Insecure Enlightenment in ‘he Sugar-Cane,’ ” Anna Foy, U of Alabama, Huntsville
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130. Critical Relection: Moving toward Conidence and Competence 5:15–6:30 p.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum HEP Teaching as a Profession. Presiding: Rebecca E. Burnett, Georgia Inst. of Tech. 1. “Collaboration and Crowdsourcing: Relecting on Group Work in the Multimodal Classroom,” Andrea Krat, Georgia Inst. of Tech. 2. “Relection for Transfer: Formative and Summative Relection on Print and Multimodal Writing,” Lilian Mina, Auburn U, Montgomery 3. “Promoting Critical hinking and Relection through Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning,” Lee B. Abraham, Columbia U 4. “Lights! Camera! Action! Students Using Formative and Summative Relection when Producing Teaching and Learning Materials,” Ines Vano Garcia, Graduate Center, City U of New York Respondent: Rebecca E. Burnett For related material, visit rburnett.lmc.gatech .edu/ ater 1 Dec.
131. Contemporary Poetics and Race: Intersections in Place and Particularity 5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Rachel Galvin, U of Chicago; Timothy Yu, U of Wisconsin, Madison Speakers: Michael Dowdy, U of South Carolina, Columbia; Philip John Metres, John Carroll U; Sonya Posmentier, New York U; Anthony Reed, Yale U; Dorothy J. Wang, Williams C he themes of place and particularity frame a conversation about contemporary United States poetry that centers the work of African American, Asian American, and Latinx writers. For poets of color, connections to place are oten linked to the particularity of racialized communities. Yet place can provide a site of intersection for multiracial poetics. he convention’s location in New York City ofers an opportunity for relection on such potential intersections.
132. Manhattan Pound and Ater 5:15–6:30 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the Ezra Pound Society. Presiding: Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Brandon U 1. “In the Shadow of Pound’s Manhattan: Objectivist Poetics ater Patria Mia,” David Hobbs, New York U
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2. “Manhattan Pound and Biography,” Ira Nadel, U of British Columbia 3. “New York Rinascimento: Poetry, Art, and Architecture in Pound’s 1910 Visit,” Mark Stephen Byron, U of Sydney 4. “Pound’s Unlikely Heir: New York’s Charles Bernstein,” Marjorie Gabrielle Perlof, Stanford U For related material, write to tryphonopoulosd@ brandonu.ca ater 15 Nov.
133. #wethepeople: National Insecurity and the Myth of Homogeneity 5:15–6:30 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Laura J. Beard, U of Alberta; Ricia Anne Chansky, U of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez 1. “We Are Not All Immigrants Now: Refugee Temporality and American Identity,” Elizabeth Rodrigues, Grinnell C 2. “Contesting American Democracy: he Personal-Political Life Writing of J. D. Vance and Ta-Nehisi Coates,” Maria L. J. Lauret, U of Sussex 3. “Stories of Posttrauma and National Sacriice,” Helga Lenart-Cheng, St. Mary’s C, CA Respondent: Leigh Gilmore, Wellesley C For related material, write to
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134. Gender and the Language of Business / the Business of Language 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by the Association for Business Communication. Presiding: William Christopher Brown, Midland C 1. “he Empty Chair: Anna Ella Carroll and the Hidden Business of Persuasive Writing,” David Healey, Kaplan U 2. “he Language of LinkedIn: Helping Students over the Gender Gap,” Sarah Moore, U of Texas, Dallas 3. “Individual and Collaborative Responsibility for Women’s Job-Finding Work in Outplacement,” Oliver Brearey, U of Maryland, College Park
135. T. S. Eliot and Ecocriticism 5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the T. S. Eliot Society. Presiding: Frances Dickey, U of Missouri, Columbia 1. “Soil, Loam, Ash: Eliot and the Crisis of Dirt,” Julia Daniel, Baylor U 2. “Paradox and the Deceit of Opposites: Further Holons in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets,” Etienne Terblanche, North-West U, Potchefstroom
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3. “‘Signiicant Soil’ or ‘Drit of the Sea’? Green and Blue Readings of Four Quartets,” Maxwell Uphaus, Montana State U, Bozeman For related material, visit www.facebook.com/ tseliotsociety/ ater 1 Nov.
136. Ephemeral Dickens 5:15–6:30 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the Dickens Society. Presiding: Susan Zieger, U of California, Riverside 1. “Disposable Dickens? Exploring Dickens in the Ephemeral Archive,” Janice M. Carlisle, Yale U; Elizabeth Frengel, Yale U 2. “Dickensian Jottings,” Lillian Nayder, Bates C 3. “Recurrent Ephemerality and the Dolly Varden Dress,” Rebecca N. Mitchell, U of Birmingham
137. Hispanic Women in the Public Sphere: Debates on Feminisms, Activism, and Solidarities 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by Feministas Unidas. Presiding: Ana Corbalan, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Speakers: Maria Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, U at Albany, State U of New York; Silvia Bermudez, U of California, Santa Barbara; Amy Sara Carroll, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Irune del Rio Gabiola, Butler U; Esther Diaz Martin, U of Texas, Austin; Carmen Sanchis-Sinisterra, C of William and Mary Panelists explore feminist initiatives of activism and solidarity among women in Spanish-speaking societies, including the United States, with a focus on women’s personal and political space in their societies, and analyze case studies on increasing insecurities for women vis-à-vis the impacts of the globalization agenda at the local and regional levels. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ members/hchacon6/ ater 15 Nov.
138. “Mississippi Goddam!” Everywhere: he Ends of Southern and American Exceptionalisms 5:15–6:30 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Southern United States. Presiding: Jolene Hubbs, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 1. “he Region Shall Rise Again: ‘Political Regionalism,’ the Southern United States, and the Global Rise of Nationalist Populism and Its Resistance,” Jill LeRoy-Frazier, East Tennessee State U; Veronica Limeberry, American U
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139. Jin Ping Mei in Context: Approaches to Teaching Plum in the Golden Vase 5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Ming and Qing Chinese. Presiding: Andrew Schonebaum, U of Maryland, College Park 1. “Jin Ping Mei and the Performing Arts,” S. E. Kile, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “Questions of Time in Plum in the Golden Vase,” Ling Hon Lam, U of California, Berkeley 3. “he World of the Inner Quarters in Plum in the Golden Vase,” Katherine Carlitz, U of Pittsburgh For related material, visit MLA Commons.
140. Responding to Extinction 5:15–6:30 p.m., Beekman, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Timothy Sweet, West Virginia U, Morgantown 1. “White Heron, Anthropocene Chicken: American Birds in the Time of Extinction,” John Levi Barnard, C of Wooster 2. “De-extinction and Microworlds,” Kate Marshall, U of Notre Dame 3. “Extinction Games,” Christina Colvin, Georgia Inst. of Tech. 4. “he Alexandrian Library of Life: A Flawed Metaphor for Biodiversity,” Gordon Mitchell Sayre, U of Oregon Respondent: Timothy Sweet
141. Challenges: High School and College Teacher Perspectives 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on K–16 Alliances. Presiding: Meghan Self, Texas Tech U 1. “When Democracy and Social Justice Collide: Ethical Tensions in Teaching and Assessing Writing,” James Hammond, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “Diiculties and Rewards of Teaching Collaborative Writing,” Victoria White, U of California, Davis 3. “More han Either/Or: Navigating Disclosure in Academic Spaces,” Elizabeth Tacke, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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4. “Against Preparation: How an Essay-Centered Curriculum Teaches Inherently Meaningful Writing in High School and College,” Nicole B. Wallack, Columbia U
develop graduate programs, reform curriculum, and institute structures for assessment, sharing not only the ideas but also the lessons learned from adapting and implementing those ideas.
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5:15–6:30 p.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 19thCentury French. Presiding: Patrick M. Bray, Ohio State U, Columbus 1. “A Poetics of the Common: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and la Poésie du Monde,” Robert St. Clair, Dartmouth C 2. “Against Utility: Stendhal, the City, and the World of Plants,” Giuseppina Mecchia, U of Pittsburgh 3. “Writing the Defeat of 1812: he Russian Landscape of Sufering,” Elena Aleksandrova, New York U 4. “Weathering Paris: Natural and Social Atmospheres in L’assommoir,” Jessica Tanner, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/19th-century-french/ ater 11 Oct.
143. he Sense of Touch in the Renaissance 5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Pablo Maurette, U of Chicago 1. “Afecting Flesh: he Face of Early Modern Touch,” Elizabeth D. Harvey, U of Toronto 2. “Embryonic Touch from Dante to Gray: On the Origins of Human Feeling,” Timothy M. Harrison, U of Chicago 3. “A ‘Coarse Piece’ of Writing: Textured Poetics in Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies,” Whitney Sperrazza, Indiana U, Bloomington
144. Challenges and Opportunities of the New: Practical Advice for Creating Change in the Department and Beyond 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Emily Todd, Westield State U Speakers: Tracy Floreani, Oklahoma City U; Robert I. Matz, George Mason U; Brian Reed, U of Washington, Seattle; Christine Ann Wooley, St. Mary’s C, MD his session focuses on the process that chairs and other administrators go through as they take a new idea and try to implement it. Participants from a range of institutions discuss initiatives to promote the humanities, form new partnerships,
5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL Language Change. Presiding: D. Brian Mann, U of North Georgia 1. “From Linguistic Self-Conidence to Linguistic Insecurity: he Discursive Construction of Identities of Resistance,” Sibusiwe Dube, Penn State U, University Park 2. “Teaching a Living History: Teaching History at a Hispanic-Serving Institution,” Seth Ofenbach, Bronx Community C, City U of New York 3. “Countering Insecurity with Advocacy for International Students: Pedagogical and Programmatic Strategies,” Kristina Lucenko, Stony Brook U, State U of New York; Shyam Sharma, Stony Brook U, State U of New York 4. “Keeping Balance between Language Maintenance and Language Policy in a Russian School with a Georgian Ethno-cultural Component in Moscow,” Dionysios Zoumpalidis, Higher School of Economics
146. Posthumanist Disability 5:15–6:30 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Michael Lundblad, U of Oslo 1. “he Biopolitics of Disability and Animality in Harriet McBryde Johnson,” Jan Grue, U of Oslo; Michael Lundblad 2. “he Best: he Limits and Possibilities of Procreation Narratives,” Rosemarie Garlandhomson, Emory U 3. “Disability, Afect, and the Posthuman,” Dan Goodley, Open U For related material, visit www.hf.uio.no/ilos/ english/research/projects/biopolitics-of-disability -illness-and-animal/ ater 4 Jan.
147. Galdós: Kinship and Class 5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the International Association of Galdós Scholars. Presiding: Erika Rodriguez, Washington U in St. Louis 1. “he Intimacy of Blood: Undoing Caste and Kinship in Fortunata y Jacinta,” Julia Chang, Cornell U
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2. “Arkady’s Overcoat: Illegitimacy and Characterization in Dostoevsky,” Chloë Kitzinger, Princeton U 3. “‘Like a Cat around a Hot Saucer of Milk’: Dostoevsky’s Destabilizing Descriptions of Perverse Sexuality,” Zachary Johnson, U of California, Berkeley For related material, visit dostoevskystatesoinsecurity.mla.hcommons.org/.
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5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC 19thCentury American. Presiding: Brigitte G. Bailey, U of New Hampshire, Durham Speakers: Jason Bell, Yale U; Donna M. Campbell, Washington State U, Pullman; Hsia-Ting Chang, Penn State U, University Park; Naomi Greyser, U of Iowa; Emma Newcombe, Boston U Speakers focus on the intersections between social geographies and debilitation in nineteenthcentury American literature, foregrounding how risks and experiences of becoming disabled are unevenly distributed across space. Panelists also put recent theoretical work on debilitation in dialogue with research on disability and necropolitics.
149. Cultural Appropriation: Arrogation or Irrigation? 5:15–6:30 p.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada. Presiding: Cristine Soliz, Arkansas Baptist C Speakers: Andrea Borunda, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Paul Devlin, United States Merchant Marine Acad.; Josh-Wade Ferguson, U of Mississippi; Sean Kennedy, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Laura Vrana, Rutgers U, New Brunswick Panelists consider cultural appropriation from several angles, including cultural appropriation and plagiarism, inspiration, sampling, inluence, satire, sharing, contamination, hybridity, usurpation, dispossession, de- and reterritorialization, routes or roots.
150. Dostoevsky and States of Insecurity 5:15–6:30 p.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the International Dostoevsky Society. Presiding: Carol Apollonio, Duke U 1. “Sovereignty and Exception in Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky with Carl Schmitt,” Ilya Kliger, New York U
5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Presiding: Paul Werstine, U of Western Ontario 1. “Lear ater Leir,” Douglas Bruster, U of Texas, Austin 2. “he Fool’s Errand: Connecting Folly and Tragedy in King Lear’s Performance History,” Scott O’Neil, U of Rochester 3. “King Lear on the Small Screen and Its Pedagogical Implications,” Alexa Alice Joubin, George Washington U
152. C. L. R. James and the Postcolonial 5:15–6:30 p.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Postcolonial Studies. Presiding: Sonali hakkar, U of Chicago Speakers: Raj Chetty, St. John’s U, NY; Nijah Cunningham, Princeton U; Jeremy M. Glick, Hunter C, City U of New York; Imani Owens, U of Pittsburgh; Faith L. Smith, Brandeis U; Christopher J. Taylor, U of Chicago Panelists consider the work and legacy of the Trinidadian Marxist historian and cultural critic C. L. R. James. Speakers discuss the signiicance of James’s literary and critical writings for the ield of postcolonial studies and assess the intersection of postcolonial studies and the black radical tradition.
153. Southeast Asia and Its Empires 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Joanne Leow, U of Saskatchewan; Cheryl Narumi Naruse, Tulane U Speakers: Nadine Chan, U of Chicago; Usha Chandradas, Lasalle C of the Arts; Joanne Leow; Su Fang Ng, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U; hy Phu, U of Western Ontario From the Dutch in Indonesia to the British and Japanese in Malaya to the Americans in Vietnam and the Philippines, Southeast Asia has had long
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and deep histories of imperial presence. his session examines what literary and cultural productions from the Southeast Asian region can reveal about the workings of empire, past and ongoing imbalances of power, legacies of exploitation, and marginalized subjectivities.
he MLA International Bibliography is an active archive and knowledge-creation mechanism, exposing trends in scholarship and reshaping categories. Panelists discuss the dynamic, creative, and democratic processes that inform the collection and harvesting of international language arts scholarship.
154. “Uncer giedd geador”: Feminist Studies in Old English
157. he Teaching of Literature and the Public Humanities
5:15–6:30 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Old English. Presiding: Elaine Treharne, Stanford U 1. “he Case of ‘Anonymous 1044’: How a Widow Becomes a Witch,” Martin Foys, U of Wisconsin, Madison 2. “he Feminine Landscape in ‘he Wife’s Lament’: he Grove as Natural Boundary,” Jennifer van Alstyne, U of Louisiana, Lafayette 3. “Unnamed Emotions: Afect, Gender, and Subjectivity in Old English Poetry,” Marjorie Housley, U of Notre Dame For related material, visit www.academia.edu/ 32168392/MLA_Old_English_ Session_ Descriptions_ 2018.
5:15–6:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TM he Teaching of Literature. Presiding: Roberta Rosenberg, Center for Jewish History Speakers: Corinne Bancrot, U of California, Santa Barbara; Nicole Dib, U of California, Santa Barbara; Julie Ellison, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Al Filreis, U of Pennsylvania; Laini Kavaloski, State U of New York, Canton; Kristin Kelly, U of North Georgia Presenters discuss a range of perspectives on the value of teaching literature in relation to projects of the public humanities. For related material, write to
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155. Taking Measure: Philosophical Quanta 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German 1. “Giebt es auf Erden ein Maaß: Hegel, Hölderlin, and the Crisis of Measure in German Idealism,” Anthony Curtis Adler, Yonsei U 2. “Absolute Mechanics,” Gabriel Trop, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 3. “Measure for Measure: Hegel and Kapp,” Leif Weatherby, New York U 4. “he Scopes of Poetry: Hölderlin Takes Measure,” Dominik Zechner, New York U
156. he MLA International Bibliography as an Active Archive: Knowledge Creation for the Twenty-First Century 5:15–6:30 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography. Presiding: Cinthia Gannett, Fairield U Speakers: Laura R. Braunstein, Dartmouth C; Liorah A. Golomb, U of Oklahoma; David Oberhelman, Oklahoma State U Library; Susan Oliver, U of Essex Respondent: John C. Brereton, U of Massachusetts, Boston
Thursday, 4 January 7:00 p.m. 158. Commonsense Information Security for Academics 7:00–8:15 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology Speakers: Andrew Pilsch, Texas A&M U, College Station; Shawna Ross, Texas A&M U, College Station his informal workshop helps individuals secure their academic and personal data from malicious individuals, businesses, and governments. During the workshop, CIT members work with attendees to implement basic, legal cybersecurity. Bring any laptops, phones, tablets, or other devices whose data you want to secure. For related material, visit infotech.mla.hcommons .org/ ater 30 Oct.
159. Connected Academics: Building a Public Humanities PhD Program from the Ground Up 7:00–8:15 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton
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Program arranged by the MLA Connected Academics Project. Presiding: Kathryn D. Temple, Georgetown U Speakers: Margaret Debelius, Georgetown U; Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown U; Eric Hayot, Penn State U, University Park; Ricardo L. Ortiz, Georgetown U; Justin Quam, Georgetown U; Henry Schwarz, Georgetown U; Susan Smulyan, Brown U; Doris Sommer, Harvard U What would a PhD program in public humanities look like? Our Georgetown University task force has produced a proposal for a PhD in public humanities that considers the public humanities as a profession and ield of knowledge; members of the task force share the proposal, invite leaders in the public humanities movement to respond to it, and engage the audience in a discussion of the project.
160. (Preix-)Politics: A Future Otherwise 7:00–8:15 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century. Presiding: Alberto Moreiras, Texas A&M U, College Station 1. “Impolitical Cinema: Weil, Rossellini, and Disabling the Self,” Timothy Campbell, Cornell U 2. “Crossing Politics: Lyotard’s ‘Ethics of Writing,’ ” Claire Nouvet, Emory U 3. “‘No One Can Take the Other’s Dying Away from Him’: he Infrapolitical Future Otherwise,” Gareth Williams, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 4. “Catastrophe, Politics, and the Economy of the Margin,” Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, Boston C
161. Victorian Realism 7:00–8:15 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English. Presiding: Daniel Hack, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1. “Inedible Feasts: ‘Filling’ Lists and Narrative Staleness in Madame Bovary,” Julia Cheng, New York U 2. “Realism’s Magical hinking,” Wendy Veronica Xin, U of California, Berkeley 3. “Realism in Crisis,” Elisha Cohn, Cornell U
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163. Speculative Futures in Arab(ic) Literature 7:00–8:15 p.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Arabic. Presiding: Hoda El Shakry, Penn State U, University Park 1. “Looking In, Looking Out: Sult.ān al-ʿUmaimī and Ah.mad ʿAbd al-Lat.īf’s One-Person Worlds,” Betty Rosen, U of California, Berkeley 2. “Unsynchronized Modernity: Farah Antun’s Multiple Messianisms,” Adam Spanos, New York U 3. “Utopian Impulses and Artistic Agency in Tawiq al-Hakim’s he Poet on the Moon,” Merve Tabur, Penn State U, University Park 4. “‘Shocking Realism’: Iraqi Science Fiction in a Global Literary Marketplace,” Sinéad Murphy, King’s C London
164. Irish Women Writing Politics 7:00–8:15 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton Program arranged by the American Conference for Irish Studies. Presiding: Matthew Reznicek, Creighton U 1. “Conditions of Coninement: Dorothy Macardle’s Prison Writings,” Caroline Heafey, New York U 2. “he English Maria Edgeworth, the Irish Jane Austen,” Christina Moire Matheson, St. John’s U, NY 3. “‘hat Collaboration with the People’: Lady Gregory and the Language of Populism,” Seamus O’Malley, Yeshiva U, Stern C for Women 4. “Inghinidhe na hÉireann and Pussy Hats: Women’s Political Writings and Street Performance,” Elizabeth Brewer Redwine, Seton Hall U
162. New York, Sanctuary Space 7:00–8:15 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada. Presiding: Karen Shimakawa, New York U 1. “Without Sanctuary: Toward a heory of Black Anti-urbanism,” Jennie Lightweis-Gof, U of Mississippi
165. Comedia in and for the TwentyFirst Century 7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama. Presiding: Sherry M. Velasco, U of Southern California 1. “Staging Early Modern Precarity in La comedia famosa de Juan Latino,” Pablo Garcia Pinar, Colby C
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Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian. Presiding: Sabrina Ferri, U of Notre Dame 1. “Astronomy and Early Modern Print Networks in Galileo’s Library,” Crystal J. Hall, Bowdoin C 2. “Boccaccio and the Lascivious Discourse of Generation and Procreation among EighteenthCentury Men of Science,” Clorinda Donato, California State U, Long Beach 3. “L’igiene per tutti: Science and ‘the People’ in Nineteenth-Century Italy,” Silvia Valisa, Florida State U
7:00–8:15 p.m., Liberty 5, Sheraton Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. Presiding: Marilyn Judith Atlas, Ohio U, Athens 1. “Placing the Midwest in Jonathan Franzen’s he Corrections and Freedom,” Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton U 2. “‘I Must Vote for Failure’: John Williams’s Stoner and Regional Neglect,” Michael Maguire, Penn State U, University Park 3. “‘You Get Home and Aren’t Really Home’: he Enfolding Midwest of David Means’s Hystopia,” Aaron Babcock, Ohio U, Athens 4. “Imagining Walter Cronkite Imagining Himself as a Bird Flying above the Chicago Riots: he Complex Midwest in Nathan Hill’s Absurdist Novel he Nix,” Marilyn Judith Atlas
7:00–8:15 p.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism. Presiding: Katharine Conley, C of William and Mary 1. “Surrealist Collaboration: Claude Cahun, Hannah Weiner, and Performative Photography,” Phillip Griith, Graduate Center, City U of New York 2. “P. K. Page in the Surrealist Tradition,” Susan MacRae, Columbia C, BC 3. “Cathy Park Hong’s Games of Context,” Rachel V. Trousdale, Framingham State U
167. Demonstration Interviews for Job Seekers in Languages
171. Social Justice in Language Teaching and Learning: Pedagogical Approaches
7:00–8:15 p.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the ADFL Executive Committee. Presiding: Dennis Looney, MLA Speakers: Carole A. Kruger, Davidson C; Gillian Lord, U of Florida; Sara Zahler, Indiana U, Bloomington Demonstration interviews of candidates for positions teaching in foreign language and literature departments are analyzed and critiqued by audience members, interviewers, and interviewees.
7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL SecondLanguage Teaching and Learning. Presiding: Jennifer Redmann, Franklin and Marshall C 1. “Tools for a Socially Just Language Pedagogy: Learning Objectives, Assessments, and Critical Relection Activities,” Mary Renda, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “Imagining Multicultural Contexts through Drama: Performative Space in the Foreign Language Classroom,” Silja Weber, Indiana U, Bloomington 3. “Language Experience and Ethicality in Teaching Spanish for Social Justice,” Glenn Martinez, Ohio State U, Columbus; Robert Train, Sonoma State U
168. Philology Old and New 7:00–8:15 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TM Language heory. Presiding: Donny Vigil, U of St. homas, MN 1. “Negative Philology: Orientalism, AntiSemitism, and the European Question,” Andrew N. Rubin, George Mason U 2. “Silence and Naming: John Cage and Finnegans Wake between Heidegger and Hölderlin,” Jason Ciaccio, Graduate Center, City U of New York Respondent: Mary Hayes, U of Mississippi
169. Scientiic Discourse in Italy (1600–1800s) 7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton
170. Women Poets in the Surrealist Tradition
172. Early American #BlackLivesMatter 7:00–8:15 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Early American. Presiding: Jordan Alexander Stein, Fordham U, Lincoln Center 1. “Ambivalent Respectability: he Wrongful Convictions of Abraham Johnstone,” Ajay Kumar Batra, U of Pennsylvania
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2. “Fugitive Joy in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley,” Lenora Warren, Colgate U 3. “Flight Together: Runaway Slave Advertisements and Black Queer Intimacy,” Caleb Knapp, U of Washington, Seattle 4. “Phillis Wheatley’s Divine Quiet,” Dana Murphy, U of California, Irvine Respondent: Jordan Alexander Stein
173. Connecting the Dots: Museums and Comics 7:00–8:15 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton Program arranged by the forum GS Comics and Graphic Narratives. Presiding: Nhora Lucia Serrano, Hamilton C 1. “At Home in the Museum,” Catherine Labio, U of Colorado, Boulder 2. “Paracomics: Art as Comics,” Vasilios Kartalopoulos, New School 3. “Tintin in the World of the Artifact: Authenticity and Artiice, Colonialism and Copyright,” Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Palomar C 4. “‘here’d Be a Hanging’: Community as Art Gallery, Comic as Museum in Gilbert Hernandez’s Human Diastrophism,” Osvaldo Oyola, New York U
174. Genealogies of Conservatism 7:00–8:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 19thCentury Latin American. Presiding: José M. Rodríguez García, Duke U 1. “La blanquitud constitutiva de la modernidad: Las ansiedades raciales del ‘Carreño,’ ” Beatriz González-Stephan, Rice U 2. “he Prosaic Angel and Her Abject Servant: Housework, Capitalism, and the New Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Central America,” Patricia Arroyo Calderon, U of California, Los Angeles 3. “he Godless Reactionary and the Radical Priest: Constitutional Failures in Lima circa 1860,” José M. Rodríguez García
175. Writing from Elsewhere: he Impact of Independent Presses on the Contemporary Literary Field 7:00–8:15 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton A special session 1. “Managing Insecurity: Nonproit Presses and Literary Value,” David Haeselin, U of North Dakota 2. “he Feminist Press and Progressive Nostalgia,” Jason Arthur, Rockhurst U
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176. Hispanic Bioictions 7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Elizabeth Cruz Petersen, Florida Atlantic U 1. “(Trans)National Cervantes: he Catalan (Pseudo)Biography of the Father of Don Quixote de la Mancha,” Jorge Abril-Sanchez, U of New Hampshire, Durham 2. “Bioictional Agents and Subaltern Rebellion: Gioconda Belli’s he Inhabited Woman,” Lisa Marie Ortiz-Vilarelle, C of New Jersey 3. “Truth and Circumstantiality in Javier Cercas’s Bioictions,” Virginia Rademacher, Babson C 4. “History, Fiction, and Possible Worlds: Roberto Bolaño’s Poetics of Bioiction,” Pedro Esteban Ponce, St. Lawrence U For related material, visit babson.academia.edu/ JennyRademacher.
177. “Totally Epic”: Brechtian and Wagnerian Aesthetics Today 7:00–8:15 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the International Brecht Society. Presiding: Stephen Matthew Brockmann, Carnegie Mellon U 1. “From Wagner to Brecht: An Aesthetic Analysis of Elfriede Jelinek’s Rein Gold,” Jinsong Chen, Purdue U, West Lafayette 2. “hrough Brecht to Wagner: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Heiner Müller, Christoph Schlingensief,” Jack Davis, Truman State U 3. “Žižek on Wagner and Brecht,” Vera S. Stegmann, Lehigh U Respondent: Joy Calico, Vanderbilt U
178. Beyond Materiality in Shakespeare Studies 7:00–8:15 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Scott A. Trudell, U of Maryland, College Park 1. “Virtual Knowledge in Hamlet,” Adam Rzepka, Montclair State U 2. “Withholding the Loved Boy,” Scott A. Trudell 3. “Conceited Criticism: he Queen’s Knowledge in Richard II,” Colleen Rosenfeld, Pomona C
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179. Charting the Routes of South-South Translation in the Twentieth Century 7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Translation Studies. Presiding: Shaden M. Tageldin, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1. “Folktales of Bengal in Modern China,” Gal Gvili, McGill U 2. “he Chinese-Arabic Translators of Al-Azhar,” Michael Gibbs Hill, C of William and Mary 3. “Anthologizing Lusophone African Negritude,” Lanie Millar, U of Oregon 4. “Translating Icons: Che Guevara in Arabic Literature,” Eman Morsi, Dartmouth C
180. Academic Writing in Graduate School 7:00–8:15 p.m., Hudson, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Friederike U. Eigler, Georgetown U 1. “Supporting Situated Academic Writing at the Graduate Level with Systemic Functional Linguistics,” Marianna Ryshina-Pankova, Georgetown U 2. “Using Dissertation Methodology Sections as Research Narratives: Explicit Writing Instruction for Graduate Students,” Kate Pantelides, Middle Tennessee State U 3. “Writing Center Support for Graduate Students as Emerging Professionals,” Eleanor Reeds, U of Connecticut, Storrs For related material, write to eiglerf@georgetown .edu ater 30 Nov.
181. Critical Semantics: New Transcultural Keywords 7:00–8:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern. Presiding: Anston Bosman, Amherst C 1. “Color,” John Casey, Brown U 2. “Common,” Crystal Lynn Bartolovich, Syracuse U 3. “Grating,” Vin Nardizzi, U of British Columbia 4. “Utopian,” Debapriya Sarkar, U of Connecticut, Storrs Respondent: Roland Greene, Stanford U
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Program arranged by the Modernist Studies Association. Presiding: Susan Barbara Rosenbaum, U of Georgia 1. “heater Criticism and Obsolescent Media in the Antipodes,” Sarah Balkin, U of Melbourne 2. “Popular heater as Modernist Archive: How Revues, Follies, and Passing Shows Shaped the Understanding of European Avant-Garde Performance,” Sunny Stalter-Pace, Auburn U, Auburn 3. “Listening to Poetry in the Paciica Radio Archive,” Lisa A. Hollenbach, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater
183. Ecology, Aesthetics, Empire: Romanticism and Its Aterlives 7:00–8:15 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Anne-Lise François, U of California, Berkeley 1. “Undigested Sentiment in John Keats’s ‘Isabella; or, he Pot of Basil,’ ” S. Cailey Hall, U of California, Los Angeles 2. “Cutting Breath: Romanticism’s Polar Life,” Michael Nicholson, McGill U 3. “Béla Bartók’s Dissonant Ecologies,” Rasheed Tazudeen, U of Toronto 4. “Indigenous Poetry under the Nuclear Sun,” Anaïs Maurer, Columbia U For related material, visit utoronto.academia.edu/ RasheedTazudeen.
184. Publishing at the Center of the Humanities 7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the forums TC Digital Humanities and RCWS Literacy Studies. Presiding: Rebecca Kennison, K/N Consultants 1. “Connecting Scholarship to the Network: he Enhanced Networked Monograph Project,” Monica McCormick, New York U 2. “Enriching the Monograph: Fulcrum,” Mary Francis, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 3. “Retooling the Monograph: he Manifold Scholarship Project,” Matthew K. Gold, Graduate Center, City U of New York 4. “he Remediation of Scholarly Multimedia Publishing,” Cheryl E. Ball, West Virginia U, Morgantown For related material, visit publishingpanel2017 .hcommons.org/ ater 1 Nov.
182. Performance and the Modernist Archive
185. Fake News: Truth and Truthiness in the Eighteenth Century
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Program arranged by the forum LLC 18thCentury French 1. “Déconiancer la parlerie: Néologie et vérité chez L. S. Mercier,” Laurence Mall, U of Illinois, Urbana 2. “In Truthiness We Trust? How French Justice Came to Love Fiction,” Yann Robert, U of Illinois, Chicago 3. “Fake News from Madagascar: Evariste de Parny and Ethnographic Reading,” Blake Smith, Northwestern U 4. “Does the Truth Matter? Philosophical Perversions of the Harem,” Lauren Ravalico, C of Charleston
186. Sinophone Studies beyond Disciplinarity 7:00–8:15 p.m., Midtown, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Shu-mei Shih, U of California, Los Angeles Speakers: Andrea Bachner, Cornell U; Yu-ting Huang, Amherst C; Tzu-Hui Celina Hung, New York U, Shanghai; Kyle Shernuk, Harvard U; E. K. Tan, Stony Brook U, State U of New York; Alvin K. Wong, Yonsei U; Lily Wong, American U he Sinophone in Shu-mei Shih’s deinition refers to “a network of places of cultural production outside China and on the margins of China and Chineseness.” Panelists demonstrate how the Sinophone is constituted by diverse concepts such as the archive, unbecoming, afect, (un)translatability, ethnicity, decolonization, and the igure of the parasite. he Sinophone as a parasitic formation points to its potential to counter various forms of China-centrism. For related material, write to alvinwong@yonsei .ac.kr ater 1 Dec.
187. Nabokov versus Tyrants 7:00–8:15 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society. Presiding: Christopher A. Link, State U of New York, New Paltz 1. “Nabokov’s Repudiation of Tyranny’s Temptation (Berlin, 1931),” Shoshana Milgram Knapp, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U 2. “Tyrannized and Tyrant: Nabokov, Hegel, and the Master-Slave Dialectic,” Corinne Laura Scheiner, Colorado C 3. “Pnin’s Unfulilled Course on Tyranny,” Rusina Volkova, independent scholar 4. “Against Tyranny: he Nabokovian Politics of Literature as a ‘Magic Democracy,’ ” Agnes EdelRoy, U of Paris-Est Créteil
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188. Light, Physics, and Antiform in the Nineteenth-Century Novel 7:00–8:15 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Anna Henchman, Boston U 1. “he Aberration of Light and the Kinship of Women in Maria Edgeworth’s Helen,” Jennifer Minnen, Princeton U 2. “Mirroring and Somatic Form in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda,” Christie Harner, Dartmouth C 3. “Uniied Field heories and the Victorian Posthuman,” Sarah C. Alexander, U of Vermont Respondent: Anna Henchman For related material, visit lightandantiform.mla .hcommons.org.
189. Social Medicine: Epidemics, Agents, Networks 7:00–8:15 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Steven J. Meyer, Washington U in St. Louis Speakers: Adia Benton, Northwestern U; Paul Farmer, Harvard U; C. P. Haun Saussy, U of Chicago Epidemics spread through social ties. A bacterium or virus afects people who drink water from the same sources, touch one another, breathe in proximity, have sex together, accept blood transfusions, or even prepare kin for burial. Responses to epidemic disease oten result in the creation of social distance, through avoidance, segregation, immigration restrictions, or quarantine. What can we learn from recent epidemics of diseases such as AIDS and Ebola?
190. Radical Sisterhood in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 7:00–8:15 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Deirdre H. McMahon, Drexel U; Mary Jeanette Moran, Illinois State U 1. “Sisterhood, Motherhood, and the Personal as Political in Rita Williams-Garcia’s One Crazy Summer,” Michelle Holley Martin, U of Washington, Seattle 2. “‘Fierce Foursome’: Making Familia from Scratch in Rigoberto González’s he Mariposa Club,” Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez, LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York 3. “‘Wait a Little While and the Fruit Will Fall into Your Hand’: Empathetic Reading in Esperanza Rising,” Caren Town, Georgia Southern U
191. Reducing Grade Insecurity: Grading Case Studies 7:00–8:15 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton
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192. Satire Today 7:00–8:15 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Jonathan D. Greenberg, Montclair State U 1. “Satire in the Bardo: George Saunders and Empathetic Irony,” Catherine Keyser, U of South Carolina, Columbia 2. “Copy, Paste, Parody: Conceptual Writing and the Materiality of Satire,” Nicholas D. Nace, Hampden-Sydney C 3. “Procreative Skepticism and Contemporary Satire,” Aaron Matz, Scripps C Respondent: Jonathan D. Greenberg For related material, write to greenbergj@ montclair.edu ater 15 Nov.
193. Literary Analysis and the Unthinkable: Responses to Amitav Ghosh’s he Great Derangement 7:00–8:15 p.m., Regent, Hilton A special session. Presiding: James Daniel Elam, U of Toronto 1. “Is the ‘Global’ in ‘Global Climate Change’ the Same as the ‘Global’ in ‘Global Literature’?” James Daniel Elam 2. “Anthropocene = Oil? Derangements of Form,” Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia U 3. “Riddles of Sand: Confronting the Unimaginable,” Amit Baishya, U of Oklahoma 4. “hrough the Lens of the Anthropocene: he X Cycle of Plastic,” Yue Meng, U of Toronto
194. European Regions: Progress in Literary Culture 7:00–8:15 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton
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Program arranged by the forum CLCS European Regions. Presiding: Andrew Singer, Penn State U, University Park Speakers: Milena Deleva, Elizabeth Kostova Foundation; Lola Koundakjian, Armenian Poetry Project; Tess Lewis, independent scholar-translator; Carla Stockton, Lehman C, City U of New York In the light of recent political and economic trends counter to a more uniied Europe, panelists assess progress culturally and consider new approaches and understandings of European literary cultures and regions. Aiming for a new infrastructure for European literature, our project, including the Traika Europe Radio initiative, seeks to foster greater openness and mutual regard among European literary communities toward a more shared European identity.
195. From Atlantic to Global 7:00–8:15 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Yogita Goyal, U of California, Los Angeles Speakers: Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Penn State U, University Park; Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern U; Laura Anne Doyle, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Joseph Rezek, Boston U; Joseph R. Slaughter, Columbia U Recent shits from Atlantic frames focused on race, slavery, and empire to a more nebulous model of the global require further consideration of its methodological and analytical valence. Panelists discuss what we mean when we invoke the global as an aspiration, geopolitical fact, or conceptual imperative.
196. “Papers, Please”: Travel Documents and Travel Writing 7:00–8:15 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the forum GS Travel Writing. Presiding: David Farley, St. John’s U, NY 1. “‘Don’t You Want Any Freedom?’: Intersectional Approaches to Agency, Mobility, and Subjectivity in Yoko Tawada’s Das nackte Auge,” Didem Uca, U of Pennsylvania 2. “Border Crossings in Julia Alvarez’s A Wedding in Haiti,” McKew Devitt, U of Vermont 3. “Glory to Trumpistan! Procedural Ethics and Transformative Play in Papers, Please,” Melissa Kagen, Bangor U 4. “Travel Writing in Miniature: (Un)Documented and the Documentary in the Trump Era,” Sigrid Anderson Cordell, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor For related material, write to
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198. Digital Humanities as Critical University Studies 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse C, Hilton A special session 1. “Digital Humanities with a View: Beyond Research, Teaching, and Service,” Roopika Risam, Salem State U 2. “An Analysis of Alternative Career Skills in Academic Job Ads,” Beth Seltzer, Bryn Mawr C 3. “Digital Humanities as Critical University Studies: An Alt-Genealogy of DH Praxis,” Matt Applegate, Molloy C For related material, visit mapplega.com ater 15 Sept.
199. Queering Brazilian Film Studies 8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC LusoBrazilian. Presiding: Anna M. Klobucka, U of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth 1. “O amor que ousa dizer sua feminilidade,” Carolina Castellanos Gonella, Dickinson C 2. “Balancing the Challenges of Queer (Male) Visibility in Brazilian Contemporary Cinema,” Simone Cavalcante DaSilva, U of Oregon 3. “In the Queer Saddle, Again: Boi Neon (2016),” Jeremy Lehnen, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque
200. Writing for a Broader Audience; or, Academics Are Writers, Too 8:30–9:45 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center Speaker: Jane Greenway Carr, CNN Digital
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201. Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and New York City 8:30–9:45 a.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the Ezra Pound Society and the William Carlos Williams Society. Presiding: Eric White, Oxford Brookes U 1. “‘Obscene / beyond Belief’: William Carlos Williams’s (Sub)Urban Ambivalence,” Daniel Burke, Loyola U, Chicago 2. “A Machine of Words, a Machine of Mirrors: William Carlos Williams and Networked New York,” Eric White 3. “Ezra Pound and Marianne Moore’s Shit from the Syllabic Verse to Free Verse (1921–25),” Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Brandon U 4. “‘Contempt of the Unit’: Early Pound and the Unlyrical City,” Caitlin Hurst, New York U For related material, write to tryphonopoulosd@ brandonu.ca ater 15 Sept.
202. Precarious Bodies and Caring in Medieval Literature 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Andreea Marculescu, U of Oklahoma 1. “Harming and Healing Precarious Bodies: Networks of Enchantment in Malory’s Morte D’Arthur,” Tory V. Pearman, Miami U, Hamilton 2. “he Precarious Leper in the Old French Ami et Amile,” Stephanie Grace-Petinos, Hunter C, City U of New York 3. “Sociality at the Margins in Petrus Alfonsi’s Disciplina Clericalis,” Gabriel Ford, Davidson C 4. “‘What Profyt Fyndest how to Mourne So?’: Sorrow and the Ethics of Reciprocity in homas Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes,” Sarah Wilson, Northwestern U For related material, write to andreea
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203. Anxious Pedagogies: Negotiating Precarity and Insecurity in the Classroom 8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau West, Hilton
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204. he Indigenous Archive 8:30–9:45 a.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada. Presiding: Nancy J. Peterson, Purdue U, West Lafayette 1. “Books, Bodies, and the Indigenous Archive,” Amy Gore, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque 2. “Writing in the Breach of Text and Memory: he Recovery of Native or Indigenous Archives in American Discourse,” Billy J. Stratton, U of Denver 3. “‘he Truth Is Never in the Facts’: Archival Profanation and Re-Revisionist History in Stephen Graham Jones’s Ledfeather,” Darren Lone Fight, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 4. “Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians and the Indigenous Archive,” Laura M. Furlan, U of Massachusetts, Amherst
205. Assembling the Archive, Imagining the Antilles 8:30–9:45 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Elise Arnold-Levene, Mercy C 1. “‘A Free and Spontaneous Movement of Your Hearts’: Jean-Jacques Dessalines, C. L. R. James, and the Autonomous Archive,” Mary-Grace Albanese, Binghamton U, State U of New York 2. “Memory Cutouts: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Caribbean Anthological Imagination,” Wendy Virginia Muniz, New York U 3. “Archiving the Monte: Afro-Cuban Ethnographic Imagination,” Elise Arnold-Levene 4. “he Puerto Rican ‘National’ Question in New York’s Hispanic ‘Internationalist’ Press, 1939–45,” Cristina Perez Jimenez, Manhattan C For related material, write to earnoldlevene@ mercy.edu ater 1 Nov.
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206. Proust and Photography 8:30–9:45 a.m., Gibson, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Kathrin Yacavone, U of Nottingham 1. “‘Une vie trouée’: Proust, Photography, Authorship,” Kathrin Yacavone 2. “he Intermittent Photograph,” Suzanne Guerlac, U of California, Berkeley 3. “Proust and Chronophotography,” Raymont Patrick Ffrench, King’s C London For related material, write to Kathrin.Yacavone@ nottingham.ac.uk ater 1 Nov.
207. Surprised by Sin at Fity 8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the Milton Society of America and the Reception Study Society. Presiding: Angelica Alicia Duran, Purdue U, West Lafayette 1. “he Poem as hinking Machine,” Linda K. Gregerson, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “‘Writing through’ Paradise Lost: Ronald Johnson’s Perspectivist Reading,” Marjorie Gabrielle Perlof, Stanford U 3. “here’s Such a hing as Freedom in Surprised by Sin, and It’s a Good hing, Too,” John Leonard, U of Western Ontario Respondent: Stanley Eugene Fish, Florida International U
208. Comparative, National, and World Cinema I 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton Center, Hilton A working group. Presiding: Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, U of Illinois, Urbana Participants: Tara Coleman, LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York; Vivian Kao, Lawrence Technological U; Laura Lee, Florida State U; Jeffrey Leichman, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge; Katharina Loew, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Qinna Shen, Bryn Mawr C; Song Shi, Minzu U, Beijing; Pavitra Sundar, Hamilton C his working group brings together scholars who have navigated the hybrid territory of cinema studies in language and literature and in humanities departments. All participants have a strong interest in both literature and cinema and bring their perspectives on at least one national cinema and a comparative context in which that cinema participates in a dialogue with another tradition. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/comparative-national-and-world-cinema/ ater 31 Oct.
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209. Literature, Aesthetics, and Cultural Exchange between East Asia and Southeast Asia and Britain and North America in the Long Nineteenth Century I
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8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton A working group. Presiding: Elizabeth Chang, U of Missouri, Columbia; Ross G. Forman, U of Warwick; Anna Maria Jones, U of Central Florida Participants: Jennifer L. Hargrave, Baylor U; Elizabeth H. Ho, U of Hong Kong; Jenny Holt, Meiji U; Kendall Johnson, U of Hong Kong; Peter Kitson, U of East Anglia; Waiyee Loh, U of Warwick; Junjie Luo, Gettysburg C; Flair Donglai Shi, U of Oxford; Sarah Tiin, independent scholar Scholars from several disciplines—English and American literature and culture, comparative literature, Asian literature, and art history—explore cultural and aesthetic exchanges between Asia and the anglophone world in the long nineteenth century and consider how these exchanges continue to inform the global circulation of literature and culture today. For related material, visit bit.ly/long19c ater 17 Nov. For the other meetings of the working group, see 524 and 727.
210. Race and the Victorians I 8:30–9:45 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton A working group Participants: Zarena Aslami, Michigan State U; Sukanya Banerjee, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Jessica Durgan, Bemidji State U; Taryn Hakala, U of California, Merced; Mary-Catherine Harrison, U of Detroit-Mercy; Jodie Matthews, U of Huddersield; Michael Meeuwis, U of Warwick; Lucy Sheehan, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi; Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester C; Doreen hierauf, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Assuming race is a complex, contested concept rather than a self-evident or monolithic term referring primarily to colonized peoples, participants challenge assumptions that Britishness is synonymous with whiteness, examine representations of race in a wide variety of genres, complicate theories of Victorian race, consider complex relationships between race and other identity categories, and address pedagogical implications. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/race-and-the-victorians/ ater 1 Nov.
8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic. Presiding: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, New York U Speakers: Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Shiv Nadar U; Paul Anthony Bové, U of Pittsburgh; Surabhi Dalal, Jamia Millia Islamia; Aamir R. Muti, U of California, Los Angeles; Bruce W. Robbins, Columbia U Speakers seek to theorize the political igure of our time: the refugee who, though stateless, remains imbricated in the hypernationalism of militarized borders. Speakers generate discussion concerning a conceptual framework for the humanities that can address the crisis of coercive mass migration, symbolic igures of fear, and reducing of refugees to bare life.
212. Humor and Satire in Online Formats and on Social Media 8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the American Humor Studies Association. Presiding: Peter Kunze, U of Texas, Austin 1. “What Do Memes Want?” Randa El Khatib, U of Victoria 2. “‘Like a Realtor in Peoria’: Patton Oswalt, Twitter, and Heckling as Social Activism,” Steven Kapica, Fairleigh Dickinson U, Teaneck 3. “Comedy of Resistance by Lesbian YouTubers,” Nayra Delgado Lopez, U of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras 4. “Performing Whiteness: Brandon Miller’s Instagram Sensation ‘Joanne the Scammer,’ ” Mariann J. VanDevere, Vanderbilt U
213. Politicizing Women’s Bodies in the Merkel Age 8:30–9:45 a.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by Women in German. Presiding: Nicole Coleman, Wayne State U; Stefen Kaupp, U of Notre Dame 1. “Does Angela Merkel Still Have More to Offer?” Lynn M. Kutch, Kutztown U 2. “Living Dirty: he Pregnant Body in Birgit Vanderbeke’s Die Frau mit dem Hund,” Claire Scott, Duke U 3. “‘Fity Shades of Pantsuits’: Clothing, Power, and the Woman’s Body in Merkel’s Germany,” Andrea Schmidt, Willamette U
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214. Alternative Domesticities in the Works of Doris Lessing 8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the Doris Lessing Society. Presiding: Cornelius Collins, Fordham U 1. “‘Rubbish of All Kinds’: Domesticity, Squalor, and Squatting in Doris Lessing’s Fiction,” Mica Hilson, American U of Armenia 2. “A Postcolonial Ecofeminist Reading of Lessing’s Move from Normative to Non-normative Families,” Selcuk Senturk, U of Leicester 3. “Reimagining the Maternal in Doris Lessing’s Apocalyptic Imaginative Memoirs,” Susan Watkins, Leeds Beckett U 4. “Reading ‘he Grandmothers’ through Diski’s In Gratitude and Nabokov’s Lolita,” Terry Reilly, U of Alaska, Fairbanks For related material, visit dorislessingsociety .wordpress.com/mla/current/ ater 1 Oct.
215. Nonhuman Forms I 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton North, Hilton A working group Participants: Ron Ben-Tovim, Tel Aviv U; Brent Dawson, U of Oregon; Rinni Haji Amran, U Brunei Darussalam; Pia Heidemeier, U of Cologne; Eunice Lim, Nanyang Technological U; Carlos Nugent, Yale U; Indu Ohri, U of Virginia; Samantha Pergadia, Washington U in St. Louis; Emily Simon, Brown U; Gregory Frank Tague, St. Francis C Humanistic inquiry of late is obsessed with the nonhuman. Uncoupling the humanities from the human, the range of approaches operating under the umbrella of the nonhuman turn has reconigured the standard divide between subject and object, agency and volition, person and thing. Participants grapple with the nonhuman in all its forms (from worms to cyborgs) and methods (from animal studies to new materialism). For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/nonhuman-forms/ ater 31 Dec. For the other meetings of the working group, see 522 and 726.
216. Psychoanalytic Insecurities I 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton South, Hilton A working group Participants: Zahid R. Chaudhary, Princeton U; Eleanor Craig, Harvard Divinity School; David L. Eng, U of Pennsylvania; Sheldon George, Simmons C; Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School; Azeen Khan, Dartmouth C; Ramsey McGlazer,
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U of California, Berkeley; Antonio Viego, Duke U; Damon Young, U of California, Berkeley Critiques from feminist, queer, critical race, and postcolonial perspectives have struggled with what it means to theorize with psychoanalysis. Participants consider the risks and potentialities that come with taking up psychoanalytic frameworks. Why, when it raises political, epistemological, and disciplinary suspicions, does psychoanalysis remain compelling for analyzing race, gender, coloniality, and sexuality? For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/psychoanalytic-insecurities/ ater 22 Dec. For the other meetings of the working group, see 523 and 730.
217. Marginality in Spanish heater I 8:30–9:45 a.m., Beekman, Hilton A working group. Presiding: David RodriguezSolas, U of Massachusetts, Amherst Participants: Jennifer Duprey, Rutgers U, Newark; Esther Fernández, Rice U; Elena Garcia-Martin, U of Utah; Antonio Guijarro-Donadios, Worcester State U; Cristina Martínez-Carazo, U of California, Davis; Harrison Meadows, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Anton Pujol, U of North Carolina, Charlotte Participants address how theater has presented and represented marginal subjects from early modern plays to our most immediate present. Group discussions aim at elucidating the theatrical mechanisms by which the constant presence of marginal igures on stage negotiates the nation’s social realities. For related material, visit itpn.mla.hcommons .org/ ater 1 Nov. For the other meeting of the working group, see 532.
218. Pre-Texts Workshop Series II 8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Doris Sommer, Harvard U Speaker: Jason Charles Courtmanche, U of Connecticut, Storrs his workshop series focuses on the practice of interpreting a literary work through art making. Participants experience connecting with a text, emotionally and intellectually, by playing with it to create a new work of art. he activity makes experientially real how treating a piece of writing as a pretext for play replaces fear of diiculty with the motivating energy of engaging with a challenge.
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219. Political Philosophy in Melville 8:30–9:45 a.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the Melville Society. Presiding: Munia Bhaumik, Emory U 1. “‘Diogenes in Disguise’: Cynicism and Politics in he Conidence-Man,” Michael Jonik, U of Sussex 2. “Killers, Whales,” Ana Schwartz, U of Pennsylvania 3. “Melville and Democratic Portraiture: MobyDick as American Laocoon,” Paulo Loonin, Washington U in St. Louis 4. “‘Dead hen I’ll Be’: Melville, Hobbes, and the Death of Politics,” Nathan Wolf, Tuts U Respondent: Jennifer Greiman, Wake Forest U
220. Rethinking South Asian America and States of Insecurity 8:30–9:45 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the South Asian Literary Association. Presiding: Amritjit Singh, Ohio U, Athens 1. “States of Insecurity and Gendered Performances in a Racialized Religion Era,” Umme Alwazedi, Augustana C 2. “Domestic Revolution: Kartar Dhillon and Early South Asian American Feminist Writing,” Nalini Iyer, Seattle U 3. “Berkeley, the 1970s, and South Asian Student Activism in the United States,” Auritro Majumder, U of Houston 4. “First hey Came for the Blacks,” Deepika Bahri, Emory U For related material, write to
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221. Law, Literature, and Emotion 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities. Presiding: Melissa J. Ganz, Marquette U; Kathryn D. Temple, Georgetown U Speakers: Todd Wayne Butler, Washington State U, Pullman; Katherine Gilbert, Drury U; Tal Kastner, New York U; Mark Kelley, U of California, San Diego; Patrick Lawrence, U of South Carolina, Lancaster; Christine C. So, Georgetown U Panelists consider the relation between law and emotion as seen in seventeenth-century English tragedy, antebellum American piracy trials, Victorian sensation iction, United States obscenity law, the Black Lives Matter movement, and contempo-
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222. Hannah Arendt: Totalitarianism and Totality 8:30–9:45 a.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Philosophy and Literature. Presiding: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, U at Bufalo, State U of New York 1. “Spy Subjects, Imperial Censorship, Translation Overlow: Abdulhamid II and Tyranny versus Totalitarianism in Hannah Arendt,” Burcu Gursel, Kirklareli U 2. “Arendt’s Judgment and the Totality to Come,” Paul Jaussen, Lawrence Technological U 3. “he Anxious Techne of Mastery: Wittgenstein and Arendt on Sovereign Rules and Rulers,” Jonathan Liebembuk, Graduate Center, City U of New York 4. “Hannah Arendt’s Attitudes of ‘Nontyrannical’ hinking,” Jana Schmidt, Bard C
223. Black Literature Matters 8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park East, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada. Presiding: Jesse Alemán, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1. “Teaching Citizenship in Predominantly White Classrooms,” Laura Vrana, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 2. “Teaching Race within a Military Sphere,” Trivius Caldwell, United States Military Acad. 3. “We Are Not Wrong: Black English and Black Lives in the Classroom,” Reid Gomez, Kalamazoo C 4. “Black Lives and Just Endings: Hurston, Wright, and Petry,” Adélékè Adéè.kó. , Ohio State U, Columbus
224. From Anarchism to Assimilation: he Making of Italian Americans 8:30–9:45 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Italian American. Presiding: Nancy Caronia, West Virginia U, Morgantown 1. “An Inescapable Past: Working-Class Resistance in Italian American Literature,” Michele A. Fazio, U of North Carolina, Pembroke 2. “Radical Prehistories of Italian America,” Sarah Salter, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi
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225. Resisting Insecurity beyond the Academy 8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities. Presiding: Laura Goldblatt, U of Virginia Speakers: Amanda Armstrong, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Bennett Carpenter, Duke U; homas Dichter, Harvard U; Susan D. Fraiman, U of Virginia; Pranav Jani, Ohio State U, Columbus; David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford U Various of Trump’s executive orders have laid bare the limits of academic privilege and freedom while highlighting the need to make common cause with those beyond the professoriat. For the panelists, that realization came long ago; for them, the academy has been a platform for social justice, even when they occupy precarious positions. Panelists consider efective strategies for organizing; academia and activism are not contradictions.
226. New Work in Sixteenth-Century French Literature and Culture 8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th-Century French. Presiding: Phillip Usher, New York U 1. “Jean de la Taille ou l’action empêchée: ‘Drame’ des armes et des lettres à la in du XVIe siècle,” Corinne Noirot, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U 2. “Oralized Print Culture in the Early Modern French Tradition of Women’s Caquets,” Kathleen A. Loysen, Montclair State U 3. “Telling True Crime Stories in the ‘Canards sanglants,’ ” David LaGuardia, Dartmouth C
227. Lessons of the Connected Academics Proseminar on Careers 8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy West, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Connected Academics Project. Presiding: Steve Olsen, MLA Speakers: William A. Gleason, Princeton U; Sarah Goldberg, Columbia U; Matthew Krumholtz, HufPost; Charles Waite Mahoney, U of Connecticut, Storrs; Graciela Montaldo, Columbia U; Maria Seger, U of Louisiana, Lafayette
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Proseminar alumni and faculty members discuss their respective doctoral programs. Alumni consider which activities of the proseminar were most valuable in broadening and supporting their career ambitions; faculty members relect on the proseminar’s impact on the department and how their own thinking about careers, professional development, and mentoring has changed in response. For related material, visit connect.mla.hcommons .org/2018-mla-convention-activities/ ater 2 Oct.
228. Early Modern Trans Studies 8:30–9:45 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session 1. “Trans-Early-Modern,” Simone Chess, Wayne State U; Will Fisher, Lehman C, City U of New York 2. “Trans Prosthetics and Creaturely Life in Early Modern Literature,” Colby W. Gordon, Bryn Mawr C 3. “Using Gender as Negotiation: Varied Bodies and Speech in Cavendish’s Writing,” Rachael Green-Howard, U of Delaware, Newark
229. Fearmongering in Medieval Iberia 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval Iberian. Presiding: Connie L. Scarborough, Texas Tech U 1. “‘Los moros de la hueste’: Fearmongering in the Alfonsine Corpus,” Gregory S. Hutcheson, U of Louisville 2. “Fear and Loathing in Ceuta: Islamophobia, Warmongering, and Imperialism in Zurara’s Crónica da tomada de Ceuta por el Rei D. João I,” Marcelo Fuentes, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities 3. “Las verdades de perogrullo al servicio de la crítica religiosa: La Profecía de Evangelista,” Alodia Martín-Martínez, Temple U, Philadelphia
230. he Futures of Afrofuturism 8:30–9:45 a.m., Flatiron, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Amy J. Elias, U of Tennessee, Knoxville Speakers: Tifany Barber, U of Rochester; Michael Bennett, Arizona State U; André Carrington, Drexel U; Michelle Commander, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Nettrice Gaskins, Boston Arts Acad.; R. Scott Heath, Georgia State U; Alessandra Raengo, Georgia State U Afrofuturism, an evolving pop genre, is a contemporary arts movement connecting the musical, literary, and visual arts and combining elements of science iction, speculative futurism, history,
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and fantasy with African and African diasporic cultural history, politics, and aesthetics. Speakers focus on how the genre is changing and on the cultural import of that change in writing, music, ilm, digital media, and installation arts. For related material, write to
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231. Dangerous Certainty in Student Writing 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Joseph Creamer, U at Albany, State U of New York 1. “Down with hesis Statements: A Plea for Inventional Uncertainty in English Studies,” Kate Pantelides, Middle Tennessee State U 2. “It’s Hip to Be Unknowable: Embracing Epistemological Uncertainty in Course Design,” Robert Wells Addington, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Respondent: Hillary Kelleher, U at Albany, State U of New York For related material, write to hkelleher@albany .edu ater 1 Jan.
232. Nonwhite Romanticisms 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Manu Samriti Chander, Rutgers U, Newark 1. “he Journals of Exilic Romance in the Romantic Revolutionary Age: El Colombiano and he Liberal,” Omar F. Miranda, New York U 2. “Douglass, Byron, and Radical (Non)Existence,” Deanna Koretsky, Spelman C 3. “Brown Romantic Bodies and the Pedagogy of Abolition,” Patricia A. Matthew, Montclair State U Respondent: Matt Sandler, Columbia U
233. (Post)Colonialities and Netherlandic Literature 8:30–9:45 a.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Dutch. Presiding: Johannes Burgers, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York 1. “Slavery on Scene: he Representation of Slavery on the Dutch Stage from 1775 to 1825,” Sarah Adams, Ghent U 2. “Dutch Literature, Afrikaans Literature, and the ‘World Republic of Letters’: he Literary heoretical Position Taking of André Brink in the 1974 Cape Trial of Kennis van die Aand,” Ted Laros, Open U of the Netherlands 3. “‘Here Comes Jannie’: Contemporary Afrikaans Poets on the Dutch Colonization of the Cape,” Francesca Terrenato, U of Rome
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234. Who Owns the Text in his Class? Open Pedagogy and Literary Studies 8:30–9:45 a.m., Midtown, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Timothy Robbins, Graceland U Speakers: Jeremy Dean, Hypothes.is; Joseph Donica, Bronx Community C, City U of New York; Amy Hofer, Linn-Benton Community C, OR; Cheryl Huf, Germanna Community C, VA; Alyson Indrunas, Lumen Learning; Karen Lauritsen, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Alexis McMillanCliton, State U of New York, Geneseo A diverse panel of OER (open educational resources) advocates, from educators and librarians to publishers and designers, engage open literary pedagogy in its practical and philosophical aspects. Topics include designing and remixing open textbooks, developing open and renewable assignments, inventing strategies for open evaluation, and managing open course access and privacy. For related material, write to timothy.robbins@ graceland.edu ater 4 Dec.
235. Outlaws, Pirates, and Bandits in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction and History (1574–1670) 8:30–9:45 a.m., Clinton, Hilton A special session. Presiding: David Rolston, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1. “he Rhetoric of the Bandit: Interpreting Outlaws in he Water Margin,” Scott Gregory, U of Arizona 2. “Pirates in Late Ming Chinese Fiction and History,” Yuanfei Wang, U of Georgia 3. “Containing the Bandit in Love and Enlightenment: Generic Recombination in Returning to the Lotus Dream,” Mengjun Li, U of Puget Sound Respondent: David Rolston
Friday, 5 January 10:15 a.m. 237. he Matter of Writing 10:15 a.m.–12:00 noon, Murray Hill East, Hilton Presiding: Suzanne Blum Malley, Columbia C, IL Speakers: Jonathan Alexander, U of California, Irvine; Kristine Blair, Youngstown State U; Douglas Eyman, George Mason U; Douglas Hesse, U of Denver; Deborah H. Holdstein, Columbia C; Shirley Wilson Logan, U of Maryland, College Park;
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Andrea Abernethy Lunsford, Stanford U; John L. Schilb, Indiana U, Bloomington; Kathleen Yancey, Florida State U his plenary brings together scholars of rhetoric and composition studies, also known as writing studies, a discipline within English studies, to share key concepts, theories, movements, and agendas of the discipline, especially as it relates to common issues faced by larger ields, such as literary studies, in English departments and in universities. For related material, visit kairos.technorhetoric .net/stasis/2018 ater 1 Jan.
Program arranged by the forum LLC Scottish. Presiding: Rivka Swenson, Virginia Commonwealth U 1. “Laughter Not Tears: Scottish Women Novelists in the Age of Sensibility,” JoEllen DeLucia, Central Michigan U 2. “Where We Never Were: Scottish Women Writers at Walter Scott’s Abbotsford,” Caroline McCracken-Flesher, U of Wyoming 3. “Margaret Todd’s Novel Mentorship in Mona Maclean, Medical Student,” Anne M. Stapleton, U of Iowa 4. “Oliphant’s Stepsisters: he Fiction of Mayo, Keddie, Sinclair, Swan, and Walford,” Juliet Shields, U of Washington, Seattle
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241. Demystifying the Job Search Process
10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Joseph Jeon, Pomona C 1. “(Dis)Possessions: Racial Form and the Aterlives of War and Empire,” Crystal Parikh, New York U 2. “Anti-atomic Identity in Neo-internment Narratives,” Michelle N. Huang, Northwestern U 3. “Alien Abduction, Alien Form,” Tina Yih-Ting Chen, Penn State U, University Park 4. “he Extravagance of A Little Life: Eniguring the Queer Vicissitudes of Asian American Form, ‘Post-Man,’ ” Chris A. Eng, Syracuse U For related material, write to
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239. Foreign? Rethinking and Reconiguring the Spaces for the Study and Teaching of Language in Higher Education 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy West, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Oice of Programs. Presiding: Dennis Looney, MLA 1. “he Language of Foreign,” Carlos J. Alonso, Columbia U 2. “Bebakaaninwewinan: An Anishinaabemowin Perspective of Indigenous Linguistic Diversity,” Margaret A. Noodin, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 3. “Five Hundred Years of Arabic in America: Otherizing the Neighbors—New Public Policy Directions,” Samer Mahdy Ali, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 4. “Redesigning Institutional Spaces, Rethinking Foreign, for Vibrant Language Study,” Sonja Rae Fritzsche, Michigan State U
10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton North, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center Speaker: Sarah Goldberg, Columbia U An introduction to the job search process, this workshop ofers a high-level overview of the stages of the job search, from career exploration and industry research to interviewing and evaluating ofers. We also discuss strategies for managing your search while in graduate school or another job. Participants have the opportunity to generate their own job search plan of action with feedback from the facilitator.
242. he Tacky South 10:15–11:30 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Presiding: Monica Miller, Middle George State U Speakers: Jill E. Anderson, Tennessee State U; Nicole Carr, State U of New York, New Paltz; Isabel Duarte-Gray, Harvard U; Jarrod L. Hayes, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Sally Robinson, Texas A&M U, College Station According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word tacky irst emerged around 1800 as a noun to describe “a poor white of the Southern States from Virginia to Georgia.” his deinition suggests a clear link between national stereotypes of region, race, and class and urbane notions of taste and sensibility. Panelists use the term’s origin to ask new questions about how Southern culture and identity have been and continue to be associated with tackiness. For related material, write to
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A special session. Presiding: Jorge Tellez, U of Pennsylvania 1. “he Appropriation of the Pícaro in Andanzas del Buscón Don Pablos por México y Filipinas (ca. 1768),” Christina H. Lee, Princeton U 2. “Redressing the Dandy: Picaresque Novels and the Loss of Empire,” Sara L. Lehman, Fordham U 3. “Pícaros, Precarity, and Intellectual Life in Mexico,” Jorge Tellez
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2. “Romanian as Metaphor and Metonymy in Herta Müller’s Poetics,” Ramona UritescuLombard, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 3. “he Poetics and Politics of Intertwined Languages in Herta Müller’s Works,” Anca Luca Holden, U of Massachusetts, Amherst Respondent: Florina Catalina Florescu, Pace U, New York
247. Medieval Futures 244. Censorship and Self-Censorship in Premodern Italy 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian. Presiding: Kristin Phillips-Court, U of Wisconsin, Madison 1. “‘Dubita sempre, e vivi cautamente’: Doubt and Self-Censorship in Sixteenth-Century Italy,” Marco Faini, Villa I Tatti 2. “‘Natura pronus ad calamum’ (Sen. VII 1): Petrarch’s Continuous Self-Censorship toward an Unrealized ‘Final Copy’ of the Fragmenta,” Isabella Magni, Indiana U, Bloomington 3. “Niccolò Carducci and Bartolomeo Sermartelli: Censorship or Self-Censorship?” Jelena Todorovic, U of Wisconsin, Madison
245. “hey Can’t Take hat away from Me”: Lightning Shorts on het and Reclamation in Financialized Late Capitalism 10:15–11:30 a.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Michelle Chihara, Whittier C Speakers: Tanja N. Aho, U at Bufalo, State U of New York; Olivia Banner, U of Texas, Dallas; Michelle Chihara; Lisa A. Hinrichsen, U of Arkansas; Christian Kloeckner, Barnard C; Polina Kroik, Fordham U; Michael Mahoney, U of California, Irvine; Leila Mansouri, U of California, Berkeley In lightning shorts, we ask, Why does inance/late/ neoliberal capitalism want to take [identity politics / social justice / nostalgia / empathy / viability / care / diagnosis] away from me? With special attention to intersectional strategies, each scholar identiies and pushes back against a speciic aspect of life understood as appropriated by late capitalism.
246. Herta Müller and the Romanian Language, Culture, and Politics 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Romanian 1. “Herta Müller: Freedom of Words and Words of Freedom,” Amy-Diana Colin, U of Pittsburgh
10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Middle English. Presiding: Lisa H. Cooper, U of Wisconsin, Madison Speakers: Carolyn Dinshaw, New York U; Kara McShane, Ursinus C; Timothy Miller, Sarah Lawrence C; Arthur Russell, Case Western Reserve U; Randy P. Schif, U at Bufalo, State U of New York; Bridget Whearty, Binghamton U, State U of New York Participants focus on the concept of futurity in Middle English literature, media, and culture, as well as the future of scholarship in the ield. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/middle-english/ ater 4 Dec.
248. horstein Veblen’s he Higher Learning in America at One Hundred 10:15–11:30 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Salita Seibert, Community C of Allegheny County, PA 1. “Universities and Gilded Ages: A Marxist Commentary,” Barbara Clare Foley, Rutgers U, Newark 2. “Capitalist Production and Social Reproduction in he Higher Learning in America,” David B. Downing, Indiana U of Pennsylvania 3. “horstein Veblen and the Misery of Assessment,” Frank Donoghue, Ohio State U, Columbus 4. “Idle Curiosity, Good Work, and Academic Labor,” Heather Stefen, U of California, Santa Barbara For related material, write to heather.stefen@ gmail.com ater 1 Nov.
249. Latin Americanism ater Trump 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American. Presiding: Hector Hoyos, Stanford U Speakers: Karen Benezra, Columbia U; Jefrey Lawrence, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Sophia A. McClennen, Penn State U, University Park; Dierdra Reber, U of Kentucky
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Following analytical position statements about the mission and sustainability of the ield of Latin Americanism vis-à-vis discourse by and about Donald Trump, contributors explore three domains: research implications, pedagogy, and scholarly activism. Rather than focus on immediate considerations, pressing as they are, presentations situate the phenomenon in a longue durée. For related material, write to
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250. Race and Aesthetics in French and Francophone Culture I 10:15–11:30 a.m., Beekman, Hilton A working group Participants: Nasia Anam, Williams C; Jiewon Baek, Covenant C; Alessandra Benedicty, City C, City U of New York; Cecile Bishop, New York U; Lia Brozgal, U of California, Los Angeles; Katelyn Knox, U of Central Arkansas; Matt Reeck, U of California, Los Angeles; Mark A. Reid, U of Florida; Zoe Roth, Durham U; Lise-Ségolène V. Schreier, Fordham U; Christophe M. WallRomana, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities he working group explores what the study of the aesthetic can contribute to emerging conversations about race in France and introduces a more global context to critical race studies by bringing it into dialogue with francophone studies. What does it mean to see race in literature or use race as an analytical tool? What makes a piece of art about race? What are the critic’s role and responsibilities in making race an object of study? For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/race-and-aesthetics-in-french-and -francophone-culture/ ater 1 Nov. For the other meetings of the working group, see 493 and 773.
251. Narrative Empathy, Insecurity, and the Humanities I 10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton South, Hilton A working group. Presiding: Barbara Simerka, Queens C, City U of New York Participants: Megan Boler, U of Toronto; Mark Bracher, Kent State U; Emanuele Castano, New School; Winnie W. Chan, Virginia Commonwealth U; Suzanne Parker Keen, Washington and Lee U; David Kidd, New School; Polina Kukar, U of Toronto; Saumya Lal, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Brais D. Leon, Queens C, City U of New York; Seth Michelson, Washington and Lee U; Katharine Polak, Wittenberg U
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Scholars of literature, education, and cognitive science address narrative empathy and #States of Insecurity. Panelists report on empirical research of empathy in the lab and classroom, update work on the limits of narrative empathy, and ofer studies of global literatures and media that depict and problematize empathy for victims of social and economic marginalization, violence, and incarceration. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/narrative-empathy-insecurity-and-the -humanities/ ater 10 Dec. For the other meetings of the working group, see 492 and 772.
252. He Said WHAAT??!! Editing Oral Texts for Print Publication 10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton Program arranged by the Association for Documentary Editing 1. “Quotation Surgery: What’s Taught versus What Really Happens,” Joseph Marren, Bufalo State C, State U of New York 2. “From Fidelity to Fluidity: houghts on Crating a Documentary History of Recorded Sound,” Christopher Brick, George Washington U 3. “Read Emma: he Alchemy of Transcription,” Candace Falk, U of California, Berkeley For related material, write to
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253. heory and Praxis: Visual Media in the Classroom I 10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton Center, Hilton A working group. Presiding: Lauren Gaskill, U of California, Irvine Participants: Matthew Dischinger, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Amy E. Elkins, Macalester C; Diego Fernandez, U of California, Irvine; Jared McCoy, U of California, Irvine; Rose Phillips, U of the Incarnate Word; Sarah Welsh, U of Texas, Austin Actor-network theory grants importance to objects as forces that shape the way we think, behave, and relate to others. Maps, infographics, and databases are some of our objects of inquiry. Brief oral presentations precede short workshop modules, which generalize the tools members have used in the classroom and facilitate dialogue about methods and mechanics. his work across disciplines connects us and aids our pedagogical growth. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/groups/ theory-and-praxis-visual-media-in-the-classroom/. For the other meetings of the working group, see 484 and 765.
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254. Tyranny 10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th-Century English. Presiding: Steve Mentz, St. John’s U, NY 1. “he Terror of Tyranny: Sejanus and the Art of Early Modern Horror,” Henry S. Turner, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 2. “Isabella Whitney’s Anti-anti-tyrannical Poetics,” Stephanie Elsky, Rhodes C 3. “Wyatt’s hralldom,” Drew Daniel, Johns Hopkins U, MD
255. Humanists in Tech 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse A, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Zachary Lamm, Lending Club 1. “Exploring the Ed-Tech Ecosystem: Finding, Redeining, and Mentoring the Next Generation of Innovation,” Gina Sipley, Nassau Community C, NY 2. “Synergies between Humanities Education and Technical Careers,” Armanda Lewis, New York U 3. “Design as Inquiry: Curricula for Training Humanist Designers,” James Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
256. Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate Assembly 10:15–11:30 a.m., Mercury Ballroom, Hilton Presiding: Members of the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee his meeting is open only to MLA members. During the open hearing, MLA members and delegates may discuss all items on the Delegate Assembly’s agenda except resolutions (for agenda information, visit www.mla.org/About-Us/ Governance/Delegate-Assembly/Delegate-Assembly -Agenda/ ater 11 Dec.). MLA members may also present new matters of concern to the assembly.
257. Leonard Cohen: Everybody Doesn’t Know 10:15–11:30 a.m., Regent, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Jewish. Presiding: Maya Barzilai, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1. “Leonard Cohen and the Genres of Jewish Poetry,” Joshua Logan Wall, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “‘Just a Singer of Love Songs’: Leonard Cohen and the Burden of Inspiration,” Rebecca Raphael, Texas State U
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3. “Hineni, Hineni: Violent Ethics in the Lyrical Poetry of Leonard Cohen,” Erin D. Graf Zivin, U of Southern California 4. “Concluding Verses: he Final Works of Leonard Cohen and Yehuda Amichai,” Sheera Talpaz, Princeton U
258. Questioning Precarity in the Global South 10:15–11:30 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC African since 1990. Presiding: Moradewun Adejunmobi, U of California, Davis 1. “Who is Precarious Now?” John Macintosh, U of Maryland, College Park 2. “he Precarious Mobility of the Digital Brown Worker,” Sagnika Chanda, U of Pittsburgh 3. “City Limits: Bulawayo beyond Precarity,” Pashmina Murthy, Kenyon C 4. “Protesting Precarity in Film,” Rita Keresztesi, U of Oklahoma
259. Canadian Exceptionalism 10:15–11:30 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Rachel Bryant, Dalhousie U 1. “here Goes the Neighborhood: Rituals of Possession in ‘he Rising Village,’ ” Rachel Bryant 2. “Settler Colonial Peer Review: he Newspapers of Nineteenth-Century Indian Boarding Schools in Canada and the United States,” Jane Griith, U of Toronto 3. “Multicultural Realities and Complications in Works by Louis Goulet and Paulette Dubé,” Annie Rehill, Anne Arundel Community C, MD 4. “No Celebrity, Please; We’re Canadian: Canadian Exceptionalism and Celebrity Denial in the Age of Trump,” Lorraine York, McMaster U For related material, write to
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260. Engendering Diferent Catalan Enunciations 10:15–11:30 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Catalan Studies. Presiding: Henry Berlin, U at Bufalo, State U of New York 1. “‘Roots Firmly in Place’ and ‘Arms Outstretched to the Rest of the World’: Catalonia’s Architectural Striving,” Remei Capdevila-Werning, Oberlin C 2. “Jo també vull sexe and Vivir y otras icciones: Screening Sexuality and Disability as a Political Tool,” Robert Casas Roige, Stanford U
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3. “Marc Recha’s Un dia perfecte per volar and the Art of Shared Experiences,” Lidia Carol-Gerones, U degli Studi di Verona 4. “Joan Miró’s and La Claca’s Mori el Merma (1978),” Alicia Hernandez Grande, Northwestern U
261. New Directions in Multiethnic American Literature 10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by MELUS: he Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Presiding: Christopher Gonzalez, Utah State U 1. “Breaking the Postracial Frame: New Approaches to New Histories in John Lewis’s March,” Jorge Santos, C of the Holy Cross 2. “Beyond Authenticity: Writing against the Shadow of History in Contemporary African American Fiction,” Sterling L. Bland, Rutgers U, Newark 3. “Black Soldiers as Sufering Heroes: he First World War, Racial Melodrama, and African American Citizenship,” Blake Wilder, U of Maryland, College Park 4. “Octavia Butler and Marge Piercy: Intersections of Multiethnic Literatures and Ecocriticism,” Marc DiPaolo, Southwestern Oklahoma State U Respondent: John Wharton Lowe, U of Georgia
262. Psychoanalysis and Deleuze 10:15–11:30 a.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature. Presiding: Frances L. Restuccia, Boston C 1. “Structure and Resistance,” Audrey Wasser, Miami U, Oxford 2. “he Paranoid Style: Psychoanalysis, Schizoanalysis, and American Politics,” Gregory Flaxman, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 3. “he Project of Clinical Anthropology in Deleuze and Lacan,” Aaron Schuster, U of Chicago
263. Considering the Contemporary: (Post)Modern Greek Cinema and Literature 10:15–11:30 a.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the Modern Greek Studies Association. Presiding: Adam Goldwyn, North Dakota State U 1. “Can Elephants Dance? On Recent Greek Historical Novels,” Gerasimus M. Katsan, Queens C, City U of New York 2. “Crisis of Verse: houghts on the Lyric and Contemporary Greece,” George Fragopoulos, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York
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3. “he Child Reading: Children’s Fiction in Greece,” Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, New York Inst. of Tech.
264. Spies, Traitors, and Snitches 10:15–11:30 a.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern. Presiding: Patricia E. Grieve, Columbia U 1. “Rhetoric, Sincerity, and Dissimulation in the Querelle des Femmes,” Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown U 2. “Hechos a observar su semblante: Unmasking Body Language in the Spanish Imperial Archive,” Jenny Marie Forsythe, U of California, Los Angeles 3. “he Erotics of Secrecy,” Benjamin Miele, U of the Incarnate Word Respondent: Jean Elizabeth Howard, Columbia U
265. Salon Wars: he Historiography of Elite Women Intellectuals in the French Enlightenment 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 18thCentury French. Presiding: Andrew Herrick Clark, Fordham U Speakers: Susan Dalton, U de Montréal; Chloe Edmondson, Stanford U; Katharine Hamerton, Columbia C, IL; Laurence Marie, Columbia U; Elena Russo, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Joanna Stalnaker, Columbia U Following the work of Fumaroli, Goodman, Gordon, Lilti, and Russo, scholarship has emerged on the impact of salons and salonnières on political and philosophical discourse in the eighteenth century and on the extent to which salon culture continued previous forms of aristocratic privilege or opened new discursive and political spaces. his scholarship has brought new attention to the neglected writings of elite women associated with the Enlightenment.
266. Documenting the Geography of the Global Hispanophone 10:15–11:30 a.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Hispanophone. Presiding: Joyce Tolliver, U of Illinois, Urbana 1. “Inventing the Spanish Empire in the Paciic: Jesuit Writings on the Edges of the Spanish Empire (1581–1667),” Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, U of Iowa
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2. “Rethinking Intercoloniality: Philippine Literature in Spanish across the Paciic,” Paula Park, Wesleyan U 3. “Dispossessions: Warscape, Migrant Text, and the Limits of the Archive,” Gorica Majstorovic, Stockton U For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/global-hispanophone/.
267. New Research in Germanic Philology and Linguistics 10:15–11:30 a.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics. Presiding: Heiko Wiggers, Wake Forest U 1. “Cloudy with a Chance of Metaphor: Talking about Weather and Climate in Middle High German,” Adam Oberlin, Princeton U 2. “Unequal Equality: Erec as Head of His Wife in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec,” Jonathan Seelye Martin, Princeton U 3. “Issues in Linguistic Integration: Recent English Loan Words in German,” homas F. Shannon, U of California, Berkeley
268. Teaching the Fragments: English Education, Democracy, and Digital Media 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the College English Association Speakers: Ellen Carillo, U of Connecticut, Storrs; Laura J. Davies, State U of New York, Cortland; Benjamin Keating, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Laura Lisabeth, St. John’s U, NY; Shane McCoy, U of Washington, Seattle; Annemarie Perez, Loyola Marymount U; Ah-Young Song, Teachers C, Columbia U Panelists explore the role of English education in an age of rising populism and rampant social fragmentation. How can English teachers work to heal an increasingly divided nation? How can we use the tools of our trade—close reading, the poem, the novel, the essay—to teach citizenship in a digital age? Is this a battle even worth ighting? Or is critical literacy, and maybe even the idea of education as a democratizing force, outdated?
269. Beauvoir Studies Today: What Place for Literature in a Postdisciplinary World? 10:15–11:30 a.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the Simone de Beauvoir Society. Presiding: Meryl Altman, DePauw U
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270. Byron and Politics 10:15–11:30 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the Byron Society of America. Presiding: Jack Wasserman, Byron Soc. of America Speakers: Jonathan Gross, DePaul U; Piya PalLapinski, Bowling Green State U; Andrew Warren, Harvard U Participants explore the life and works of Lord Byron in relation to the politics of his own time and ours, with emphasis on the Congress of Vienna and the future of Europe, and discuss how Byron’s political writings and personal engagements impacted European culture, politics, and art in the post-Napoleonic context. Part of Romantic Bicentennials (romantics200.org), the session engages the long legacy of Romanticism.
271. he Politics of Sound in Postcolonial Studies 10:15–11:30 a.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Akshya Saxena, Vanderbilt U 1. “Way Out West: hree Ways to Sound Like a Movie Star in West Africa,” Tsitsi Jaji, Duke U 2. “Hide and Seek: Accented Voices and Audiovisual Frames in Call-Center Documentaries,” Pooja Rangan, Amherst C 3. “Story, Story: Voices from the Global Marketplace,” Daniel Morse, U of Nevada, Reno
272. he Persistence of Boethius 10:15–11:30 a.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the International Boethius Society. Presiding: Leslie Agnes Taylor, independent scholar
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273. Early Drama in the Americas 10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. Presiding: Mary Maxine Browne, Purdue U, West Lafayette 1. “El gran teatro del mundo in New Spain: Translating Calderón into Náhuatl,” Obed Lira, Harvard U 2. “Insecure Receptions: Sor Juana’s San Hermenegildo, the Inquisition, and Náhuatl heater,” Ben Post, Murray State U 3. “Forms of ‘Unsettlement’ in Early English Drama,” Caro Pirri, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 4. “he Blockade of Boston: Early American Drama beyond the Script,” Betsy Klimasmith, U of Massachusetts, Boston
274. Literary History ater the Nation? 10:15–11:30 a.m., Empire Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone. Presiding: Peter J. Kalliney, U of Kentucky Speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Carleton U; Susan Stanford Friedman, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Eric Hayot, Penn State U, University Park; Ato Quayson, U of Toronto; Jahan Ramazani, U of Virginia What models of literary history are possible now that the nation no longer provides stable disciplinary markers? Since scholars of literature have embraced the challenge of expanding the cultural, geographic, and linguistic scope of our work, is literary history becoming obsolete, or is this an exciting time to reconsider the question with fresh angles of approach? What are the most promising theories and new methods in literary history?
275. Navigating the MLA: A Guide for East Asian Scholars 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC East Asian. Presiding: Paul Manfredi, Paciic Lutheran U Speaker: Christopher M. Lupke, U of Alberta
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A practically oriented session for newcomers to the MLA on how to navigate the association and its various elements. he irst half of the session outlines such features as how to submit a session proposal, MLA organizational structure and governance, and navigating the MLA Web site and MLA Commons. he second half features open questions and discussion.
276. Paris in Postwar Jewish Literary Memory 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton A special session 1. “A City of My Own: Paris and Desire in the Works of Patrick Modiano and Georges Perec,” Amira Dan, York U 2. “Streetwalking Paris: Transgressive Cityscapes,” Sara R. Horowitz, York U 3. “Algerian Echoes in Modiano and Perec’s Cityscapes of Holocaust Memory,” Sarah Hammerschlag, U of Chicago
277. “Drama Is the Capstone of Poetry”: Robert Frost and Shakespeare 10:15–11:30 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the Robert Frost Society. Presiding: Robert Bernard Hass, Edinboro U 1. “‘From Day to Day’: Shakespeare, Frost, Hecht, and the Dramatic Element,” David Yezzi, Johns Hopkins U, MD 2. “‘he New Art of Speech’: Shakespeare, Sidney Lanier, and Robert Frost,” Mark Steed Richardson, Doshisha U 3. “‘he Play’s the hing,’ but Does hat Make Poetry a Diferent hing?” Gordon Clapp, independent scholar For related material, write to
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278. he Art of Memoirs: Henry James’s Recollections, Recollections of Henry James 10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the Henry James Society 1. “Henry James, Cartographer: Recovering a heory of Reading in Italian Hours,” Lindsey Holmes, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi 2. “‘Sniing Up the Strange’: Henry James’s Developing Taste for the City,” David Hobbs, New York U 3. “Abysses of Association: On Henry James ater William James’s Death,” Michael Jonik, U of Sussex 4. “‘he Romance of Life’ in Henry James’s A Small Boy and Others,” homas Constantinesco, U Paris Diderot Respondent: Wendy Graham, Vassar C
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Friday, 5 January 12:00 noon 279. Fabrications, Old and New 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum CLCS 18th-Century. Presiding: Natania Meeker, U of Southern California 1. “‘he hing Which Was Not’: Swit’s Revolution in Consciousness,” Helen Deutsch, U of California, Los Angeles 2. “Fiction, Fabrication, and Slander: he Use of Metaiction in the Querelle des Femmes,” Valentina Denzel, Michigan State U 3. “Crat Aesthetics and Interiority,” Abigail S. Zitin, Rutgers U, New Brunswick Respondents: Paul Kelleher, Emory U; Natania Meeker
280. Spenser and the Machine 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the International Spenser Society. Presiding: Stephen Guy-Bray, U of British Columbia 1. “Machinic Translations: Talus, Afective Response, and Interlingual Communication in he Faerie Queene,” Kristen McCants, U of California, Santa Barbara 2. “Spenser’s Allegorical Machine and the Consciousness of Space,” Yulia Ryzhik, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque 3. “Spenser’s Stanza in the House of Care,” Colleen Rosenfeld, Pomona C
281. he World in Motion: Transnational Environmental Approaches to Forced Movements, Migrations, and Refuge Seeking 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global South. Presiding: Rosemary J. Jolly, Penn State U, University Park 1. “he Local-Global Connections in Chinese Migrant Workers’ Literature,” Xiaojing Zhou, U of the Paciic 2. “he Documented and the Undocumented: Indigenous Migrants and Refuge-Seeking Immigrants,” Basuli Deb, City U of New York
282. he Literature of Australia 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the American Association of Australian Literary Studies. Presiding: Brenda Machosky, U of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu
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1. “‘A Den of Wild Beasts’: Discourse and Deviance in Charlotte Wood’s he Natural Way of hings,” Laura White, Middle Tennessee State U 2. “he Silent Sublime in Nicolas Rothwell’s Wings of the Kite-Hawk,” Stephane Cordier, U of Sydney 3. “Arriving: At Sea,” Brigitta Olubas, U of New South Wales Respondent: Brenda Machosky For related material, write to machosky@hawaii .edu ater 1 Dec.
283. Noniction Prose in a “PostFactual” World 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Noniction Prose. Presiding: Brian McGrath, Clemson U 1. “Rumors of the American Civil War: Entwined Legacies of Fact and Fiction,” Elizabeth D. Samet, United States Military Acad. 2. “he ‘Post-Truth’ Era, in heory,” Taylor Schey, Macalester C 3. “Truth in Memoir: A Stylistic Analysis,” Tess McNulty, Harvard U
284. Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Science and Literature. Presiding: Allison Carruth, U of California, Los Angeles 1. “he Dark Green: Plants, Cli-Fi, and the Anthropocene,” Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity U 2. “Cloud Extinction and Speculative Climate Change in Mexican Modernismo,” Carolyn Fornof, Lycoming C 3. “Mapping the Vertical Atmosphere: From Balloon Flights to Sci-Fi,” Elizabeth Callaway, U of Utah Respondent: Randy Ontiveros, U of Maryland, College Park For related material, visit allisoncarruth.com/ talks-lectures/ ater 31 Oct.
285. Open Hearing on Resolutions 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Mercury Ballroom, Hilton Presiding: Members of the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee his meeting is open only to MLA members. During this hearing, MLA members and delegates may discuss the regular resolutions that are on the Delegate Assembly’s agenda. (For information on these resolutions—those submitted by
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286. Institutional Histories of African Literature 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC African to 1990. Presiding: Wendy Laura Belcher, Princeton U 1. “A Brief History of the University of Calabar International Conference on African Literature and the English Language, 1981–Present,” Ernest Emenyonu, U of Michigan, Flint 2. “Between Bandung Ideals and the Cold War: he Afro-Asian Writers Association and the Journal Lotus,” Monica Popescu, McGill U 3. “Mambo Press and the Growth of African Literature in Zimbabwe, 1957–95,” Mark Malisa, U of West Florida 4. “Sui Stories in Performance: Institutional Echoes of Bomba Mas Xam,” Brian Quinn, U of Colorado, Boulder
287. Black and White: Opposites, Tensions, and Many Shades of Gray in Between 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Italian. Presiding: Colleen M. Ryan, Indiana U, Bloomington 1. “Race and Sexuality in Italian American Diasporic Pulp Fiction,” Clarissa Clo, San Diego State U 2. “Black and White, America, and Italy,” Mary Ann McDonald Carolan, Fairield U 3. “Relection of ‘Many Italies’: Toward an Italian Ethnicity as a Cosmopolitan Category, Reconciling Contrasting Literary Representations in the Poetry of the Italian Diaspora,” Anna Ciamparella, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge 4. “Gender Meets Race in Spike Lee’s Italian and Italian American Films,” Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville
288. History, Memory, and War in Nordic Film and Fiction 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Nordic. Presiding: Dean Krouk, U of Wisconsin, Madison 1. “Literary Mediation and Reception of Memories of War: Hallgrímur Hallgrímsson’s ‘Under the Republic’s Flag,’” Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, U of Iceland; Daisy Neijmann, U of Iceland
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2. “he Poetics of Otherness in Recent Norwegian Fiction on the Second World War,” Åse Marie Ommundsen, Oslo and Akershus U C; Leiv Sem, Nord U 3. “A New Past: How the TV Series 1864 Became a Victim of the Danish Culture Wars,” Claus Elholm Andersen, U of Wisconsin, Madison
289. Transatlantic Translations of Trans* 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Slavic and East European. Presiding: Jessie M. Labov, Central European U 1. “Learning from Gombrowicz: Trans-Atlantyk and Its Legacies in Queer and Trans* Cultural Representation,” Vitaly Chernetsky, U of Kansas 2. “Hungry Palimpsests: Food, Queerness, and Ukrainian-Canadian Diasporic Memory in Marusya Bociurkiw’s Comfort Food for Breakups,” Sandra Joy Russell, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 3. “Queer and Transgender Representation in Latvian Émigré Literary Culture,” Kārlis Vērdiņš, Washington U in St. Louis Respondent: Brian James Baer, Kent State U, Kent
290. Afect and the Romance Epic 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch. Presiding: Matthew J. Bailey, Washington and Lee U 1. “he Malmaridada in the Epic and Ballad Traditions of the Sixteenth Century: ‘La bella malmaridada,’ ” Emily Colbert Cairns, Salve Regina U 2. “Afect in Portrayals of the Young Cid,” Matthew J. Bailey 3. “Ambivalent Fame: Llull’s Blanquerna as a Reluctant Public Figure,” Noel Blanco Mourelle, C of William and Mary 4. “he Permeable Self: An Intersectional Approach to Gender and Identity in the Poema de mio Cid and Los siete infantes de Lara,” Rebecca De Souza, U of Nottingham
291. Specialisms in the Anxiety of the Global 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia U Speakers: Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela, U of Houston; Emily Apter, New York U; Anne Freeland, Columbia U; Juan Obarrio, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Hortense Jeanette Spillers, Vanderbilt U; Luis Tapia Mealla, CIDES-UMSA, La Paz; Sinclair homson, New York U
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here is a general enthusiasm today for a global South, even though the concept ignores the heterogeneity of spaces beyond Europe and the United States. his session explores methods that might dismantle the homogenizing of regions beyond the metropolis as monolithic in, for example, discourses of insecurity. Its case study is the production of theory written outside Europe and the United States as a provocative response to the North’s uninstructed enthusiasm for the South.
292. Bollywood’s New Woman 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Anupama Arora, U of Massachusetts, Dartmouth 1. “Global Genres and Local Women in the New Bollywood Films of Vishal Bhardwaj and Abhishek Chaubey,” Madhavi Biswas, U of Texas, Dallas 2. “License, Liberty, and Liberalization: Consumer Pleasures and Bollywood’s En-gendered Distribution of Moral Capital,” Megha Anwer, Purdue U, West Lafayette 3. “Journeys of the Self: Global Travel and the Female Bildungsroman in New Bollywood,” Anupama Arora 4. “Mera Saaya: Shadows of the Woman in Bollywood’s Cultural Imagination,” Aparajita De, U of the District of Columbia For related material, write to megha.anwer@ gmail.com.
293. Teaching at Teaching-Intensive Institutions 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Presiding: Howard B. Tinberg, Bristol Community C, MA; Emily Todd, Westield State U his workshop helps doctoral students and recent PhDs get a sense of what it’s like to make a career at a regional public university, community college, or small teaching college. How do you balance teaching with (some) research and service? Who are the students, and what are the challenges facing them? Workshop leaders help you prepare job applications tailored to these kinds of institutions.
294. he Rhetoric of (New) Fascism 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Nidesh Lawtoo, U of Bern 1. “Donald Trump and the New Fascism,” William Connolly, Johns Hopkins U, MD
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295. Yiddish and the Political 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Yiddish. Presiding: Samuel Spinner, Johns Hopkins U, MD 1. “Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Apolitical: A Yiddish Literature Success Story,” Agnieszka Legutko, Columbia U 2. “Neoconservative Yiddish Scholarship,” Adi Mahalel, U of Maryland, College Park 3. “‘Language Is Migrant’: Yiddish Anarchist Language Politics,” Anna Elena Torres, U of Chicago Respondent: Anastasiya Lyubas, Binghamton U, State U of New York
296. Mediality and Intermediality: Seeing, Hearing, and Storytelling in NineteenthCentury German Culture 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German. Presiding: Jonathan S. Skolnik, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 1. “‘Selbst die Szene . . . spricht in geheimen Anklängen’: Intermedial Writing and the Secrets of Musical Language in E. T. A. Hofmann’s Don Juan (1813),” Emily Dreyfus, U of Chicago 2. “he Mixed-Media Aesthetics of Illustrated Nineteenth-Century German Fashion Periodicals,” Vance LaVarr Byrd, Grinnell C 3. “Intermedial Storytelling in NineteenthCentury Germany: Karl May’s Fictional Universe,” Leigh York, Cornell U 4. “Intermedialität im Verschwommenen: Unschärfe in der Kurzprosa und Lyrik der Moderne,” Christian Metz, Cornell U
297. he Seventeenth-Century Lyric: hinking through Poetry 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC 17thCentury English. Presiding: Achsah Guibbory, Barnard C 1. “Marvell’s Perversions,” Molly Murray, Columbia U
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298. 4H: History, Hamilton, and Hip-Hop in High School 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Presiding: Jan Christopher Susina, Illinois State U 1. “History in hree Minutes: Interrogating the Uses of Billy Joel’s List Song,” Jennifer A. Low, Florida Atlantic U 2. “21: he Story of Roberto Clemente: Teaching History through Graphic Biography,” Joshua Adams, DePaul U 3. “‘Freedom’ in History: Teaching Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar’s BET Performance,” Bethany Jacobs, Georgia Inst. of Tech. 4. “Resignifying the Body of History: Hamilton and Hybrid, Subaltern Forms,” Sandra K. Stanley, California State U, Northridge
299. Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again” Revisisted 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the Langston Hughes Society 1. “‘My God, I Says, You Can’t Live hat Way!’: Langston Hughes and the Low-Down Folks,” Richard W. Hancuf, Misericordia U 2. “‘Va por el mundo Gustavo siempre adelante, adelante’: he Politics of Becoming in Langston Hughes’s Translations of Nicolas Guillen,” Christian Bancrot, U of Houston 3. “A Song of Bitter Rivers: Langston Hughes’s Gothic America,” heodora Sakellarides, Lebanon Valley C 4. “A Vision of Race, Caste, and Class in Langston,” Amritjit Singh, Ohio U, Athens
300. Green Arthur 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Arthurian. Presiding: Molly A. Martin, U of Indianapolis 1. “Pastoral Assemblages in Culhwch ac Olwen: Green Resistance to the Giant,” Sarah Sprouse, Texas Tech U 2. “Human Wastelands: Transcorporeality and Aristocratic Excess in Sir Percyvell of Galles,” Randy P. Schif, U at Bufalo, State U of New York
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3. “Seeds of Knowledge: he Fortiied Landscapes of Chrétien’s Le conte du Graal,” KellyAnn Fitzpatrick, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Darcy Mullen, U at Albany, State U of New York
301. Psychoanalysis, the Academy, and the Self 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Regent, Hilton Program arranged by the American Psychoanalytic Association. Presiding: Madelon Gohlke Sprengnether, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities “‘Could You Direct Me to the Individuology Department?’: Psychoanalysis, the Academy, and the Self,” Nancy Chodorow, Harvard Medical School
302. Eyewitnessing and Early American Literature 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Alexander Mazzaferro, Rutgers U, New Brunswick Speakers: Allison Bigelow, U of Virginia; Jefrey Glover, Loyola U, Chicago; Emily Ogden, U of Virginia; Sarah Rivett, Princeton U; Kelly Wisecup, Northwestern U Panelists explore the wealth of recent scholarship on New World knowledge production, from scientiic and medical discourses to religious, occult, racial, and political ones. Organized around eyewitnessing and empiricism, our conversation relects on and contributes to the recovery of the important role American knowers and knowledge played in an Enlightenment too oten framed in Eurocentric, secular, monodisciplinary, and nonliterary terms.
303. Blackness and Disability: A Special Issue of the African American Review 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Disability Studies. Presiding: herí Alyce Pickens, Bates C Speakers: Timothy Lyle, Iona C; Stacie McCormick, Texas Christian U; Anna Mollow, independent scholar; Sarah Orem, Smith C; Dennis Tyler, Jr., Fordham U Contributors to a special issue of the African American Review on blackness and disability introduce audience members to the scholarship in these ields and help them understand the new paradigms for interpreting the two ields in tandem.
304. Activist Infrastructures: Vulnerable Collections and Minimal Computing 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
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305. Juan Rulfo and Twenty-FirstCentury Mexico 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Mexican Speakers: Bruno Bosteels, Cornell U; Ilka Kressner, U at Albany, State U of New York; Cristina Rivera Garza, U of Houston; Dan Russek, U of Victoria; Victoria Saramago, U of Chicago; Samuel Steinberg, U of Southern California On the one hundredth anniversary of Rulfo’s birth, panelists focus on the study of his works in the twenty-irst century through the lenses of philosophy, photography, ecocriticism, translation, literary, and cultural studies. From an interdisciplinary perspective, presenters read El llano en llamas (1953) and Pedro Páramo (1955) in connection with Rulfo’s photographs, the Green Revolution, and the idea of modernity.
306. Transformations of Gertrude Stein 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton A special session 1. “‘he Better Sort’: Gertrude Stein’s ‘Melanctha,’ ” Madison Priest, Graduate Center, City U of New York 2. “Gleaning Fields and Gathering Mushrooms: Gertrude Stein and Food Studies,” Catherine Keyser, U of South Carolina, Columbia 3. “‘Can You Decline History’: Gertrude Stein’s 1930s,” Jody L. Cardinal, State U of New York, Old Westbury
307. How to Translate Early Modern East Asian Texts: hree Case Studies 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Patricia A. Sieber, Ohio State U, Columbus
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308. Latina/o New York 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Latina and Latino. Presiding: John Alba Cutler, Northwestern U 1. “Reimagining America: Mediating Change in Late-Nineteenth-Century Latina/o New York,” Kelley Kreitz, Pace U 2. “Nostalgia and Trauma in the Spatializing Stories of Dominican-American Fictions of New York City,” Trenton L. Hickman, Brigham Young U, UT 3. “Nuyorican and Black American Vernacular: Culture, Linguistics, and Language Play,” Elyse Graham, Stony Brook U, State U of New York 4. “Pedagogical Performance: he Lingering Lessons of María Irenes Fornés,” Christina León, Princeton U For related material, write to john-cutler@ northwestern.edu ater 15 Nov.
309. Claudel at 150 / Claudel à 150 ans 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the Paul Claudel Society. Presiding: Glenn W. Fetzer, New Mexico State U, Las Cruces 1. “Claudel et Mallarmé: ‘Qu’est-ce que cela veut dire?’: héorie, poétique, et les ins du monde,” Eric Touya de Marenne, Clemson U 2. “Actualité de Partage de midi,” Simonetta Anna Valenti, U di Parma 3. “Impact de Claudel, le lamboyant, sur l’acteur et metteur en scène Antoine Vitez,” Hélène Poiré, independent scholar 4. “Paul Claudel et Le livre de jade,” Yu Wang, U of Paris 4, Sorbonne
310. Funding in the Humanities: Practical Strategies 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Presiding: Gaurav G. Desai, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Daniella Sarnof, Social Science Research Council
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311. Terrorism and Literature: Representing Political Violence in Poetry, Narrative, and Critical heory 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton A special session 1. “‘Avoid Handling or Touching’: Terrorism and Address in Contemporary American Poetry,” Ann Keniston, U of Nevada, Reno 2. “Martyrdom and Protest in Jewish and Palestinian Poetry since 1960,” Cary Nelson, U of Illinois, Urbana 3. “Samson among the Terrorologists,” Peter C. Herman, San Diego State U 4. “Terrorism in heory,” Gabriel Brahm, Northern Michigan U
312. Why Teach Literature? 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TM he Teaching of Literature. Presiding: Mary McAleer Balkun, Seton Hall U Speakers: hadious M. Davis, U of Pennsylvania; Mark W. Edmundson, U of Virginia; Simon E. Gikandi, Princeton U Continuing a tradition of the forum on teaching literature, eminent writers and scholars consider the question “Why teach literature?,” by drawing on personal experience and knowledge of the ield, and relect on the changing nature of the profession.
313. Teaching, heorizing, and Reading Caribbean Texts 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the Graduate Student Caucus. Presiding: Emily O’Dell, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge 1. “Cutting Down the Family Tree in Caribbean Literature,” Jeanne Jegousso, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge 2. “heorizing Caribbean Multilingualism in the Classroom,” Shawn Gonzalez, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 3. “‘Writing Is Writing’: C. L. R. James’s Forms of Talk,” Tiana Reid, Columbia U
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314. Blended Learning: Balancing Social Media and Face-to-Face Pedagogies 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum HEP Teaching as a Profession. Presiding: Olga Menagarishvili, Appalachian State U 1. “Better Learning through Hashtags: Building Community and Improving Discussion with Twitter,” Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Georgia Inst. of Tech. 2. “Technical Communication Process in a Faceto-Face and a Blended Learning Class: Managing Time, Drating, Collaborating, and Providing Feedback,” Olga Menagarishvili For related material, visit rburnett.lmc.gatech .edu/ ater 1 Dec.
315. Relections on Milton’s Eve 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton A special session 1. “Finding and Naming Milton’s Eve,” James Carson Nohrnberg, U of Virginia 2. “‘Starting Back’: Mary Shelley Reading Eve,” Lauren Shohet, Villanova U 3. “From First to Second Eve; or, Tiresias without Semele,” Eric Song, Swarthmore C
316. Leonard Cohen: Death of a Ladies’ Man 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Natasha Chenier, U of British Columbia 1. “Cohen’s Poetry,” Medrie Purdham, U of Regina 2. “Cohen’s Prose,” Ira Nadel, U of British Columbia 3. “Cohen’s Music,” Judyta Frodyma, U of King’s C, Halifax
317. he Book History of heory 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TM Literary and Cultural heory 1. “he Rise of the heory Reader,” Jefrey J. Williams, Carnegie Mellon U 2. “Literary heory with Beneits,” William Germano, Cooper Union 3. “How New Literary History Became a heory Journal,” David Shumway, Carnegie Mellon U Respondent: Jane Gallop, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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318. Keywords for Today and the Keywords Project 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL Language and Society. Presiding: Jonathan Arac, U of Pittsburgh Speakers: Stephen Heath, U of Cambridge, Jesus C; Colin Myles MacCabe, U of Pittsburgh; Arjuna Parakrama, U of Peradeniya; Kellie Robertson, U of Maryland, College Park; Holly Yanacek, James Madison U Speakers introduce Keywords for Today (forthcoming in 2018), a collective work by the Keywords Project that updates Raymond Williams’s classic Keywords, and describe the collaborative, crossinstitutional, and cross-disciplinary work on the project that has been carried out over the last decade. For related material, visit www.keywords.pitt.edu.
Friday, 5 January 1:45 p.m. 319. Investing in America’s Languages: On the AAAS Commission Report on Language Learning 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton Program arranged by the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. Presiding: William Nichols, Georgia State U Speakers: Marty Abbott, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages; Jessie “Little Doe” Baird, Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project; David Chu, Inst. for Defense Analyses; Dan E. Davidson, American Councils for International Education; Paul LeClerc, Columbia Global Center in Paris Authors of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission Report on Language Learning discuss the recommendations to build educational capacity for language learning through local and global collaborations for language advocacy, to support heritage and Native American languages, and to create opportunities for language educators as well as for students. For related material, visit www.amacad.org/ language.
320. Copy and Repeat: Valuing the Nonoriginal in African American Literary History 1:45–3:00 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton A special session
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321. he Victorians ater Freud 1:45–3:00 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Ben Parker, Brown U 1. “Klein before Freud,” Zachary Samalin, U of Chicago 2. “Dickens and Winnicott on Reality,” Ben Parker 3. “George Eliot and Psychoanalytic hinking,” Alicia Christof, Amherst C
322. Postcolonial Italy and Speculative Narratives 1:45–3:00 p.m., Midtown, Hilton A special session 1. “Who Is the True Monster? Ragona and Salkow’s L’ultimo uomo della terra and Postcolonial Italy,” Simone Brioni, Stony Brook U, State U of New York 2. “Breaking the Narrative Conventions of Italian Colonial Literature: Alessandro Spina’s he Young Maronite,” Sara Marzioli, Miami U, Oxford 3. “he Sites and Times of Italian Postcolonialism: Angiuli’s Tre Titoli and Everson’s Rhinoceros,” Shelleen Greene, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Respondent: Mattia Roveri, New York U For related material, write to simone.brioni@ stonybrook.edu.
323. James Baldwin’s Speculative Imaginary 1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton A special session 1. “Nobody Escapes Anything: Proleptic Sound in Sonny’s Blues,” Maleda Belilgne, U of Maryland Baltimore County 2. “Dreaming Mahalia: James Baldwin and Black Pentecostal Memory,” Maurice Wallace, U of Virginia 3. “Apocalyptic Transigurations in Late Baldwin,” Jessica Hurley, U of Chicago Respondent: Ashon Crawley, U of Virginia
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324. Teaching and Learning the Stories of Standing Rock and #noDAPL 1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment and the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. Presiding: Aubrey Streit Krug, Great Plains for the Land Inst. Speakers: Josh Anderson, Ohio State U, Columbus; Matthew Chrisler, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Dustinn Craig, White Springs Creative; Lydia Heberling, U of Washington, Seattle; Sara Spurgeon, Texas Tech U; Aubrey Streit Krug; Steve Tamayo, independent artist Speakers facilitate a relective conversation about how the dynamic stories of indigenous-led environmental justice activism at Standing Rock may be taught and learned. Participants share their engagement with Standing Rock and #noDAPL through diverse pedagogical and educational experiences, ranging from working at the Defenders of the Water School to designing university courses to collaborating on open-access resources and public curriculums.
325. Hearing Culture in Texts: Language in Use versus Speech Act heory 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Tom McEnaney, U of California, Berkeley Speakers: Michael Allan, U of Oregon; Virginia Jackson, U of California, Irvine; Michael Lucey, U of California, Berkeley; Tom McEnaney; Yopie Prins, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Tobias Warner, U of California, Davis; Tristram Wolf, Northwestern U What can tools from linguistic anthropology bring to literary critical practices? Panelists respond to the special issue of Representations (no. 137, Winter 2017) on language in use and the literary artifact, touching on speech-act theory, sound theory, genre, the pragmatics of sexuality and its literary representations, the relation of social groups and literary value, and the creation of literary forms of value in (post)colonial contexts. For related material, visit berkeley.box.com/v/ MLA2018McEnaney ater 1 Jan.
326. Writing and Photography in the Modernism of the United States 1:45–3:00 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Mark Goble, U of California, Berkeley
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1. “Jean Toomer’s Erroneous Pictures,” Alix Beeston, Cardif U 2. “Marianne Moore’s Double Exposures,” Emily Setina, U of Nevada, Las Vegas 3. “Gertrude Stein’s Photographic Surfaces,” Cara Lewis, Indiana U Northwest For related material, write to
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327. Organicisms: Organisms 1:45–3:00 p.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century. Presiding: Tilottama Rajan, U of Western Ontario 1. “Degeneration: Inversions of Teleology,” Joan Steigerwald, York U 2. “Emerson, Embryogenesis, and the Ontology of Style,” Benjamin Barasch, Columbia U 3. “Reorganizing Darwin: Anti-organic Naturalism and the Ecology of Form,” Devin Griiths, U of Southern California
328. he Historicist Turn of Literary Disability Studies 1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Fuson Wang, U of California, Riverside 1. “Týr and the ‘Hoegri Ho˛nd’: Impairment, Disability, and the Heroic Body in Eddic Literature,” Amity Reading, DePauw U 2. “Limping Witches: Shakespeare’s Deformed Women and Colley Cibber’s Richard III,” Angelina Del Balzo, U of California, Los Angeles 3. “Specimens of Manhood: Social and Scientiic Proiles of Race and Addiction in 1930s America,” Lisa Mendelman, Menlo C Respondent: Fuson Wang For related material, write to
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329. Pre-Raphaelites and the Pierpont Morgan Library 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Florence S. Boos, U of Iowa 1. “Utopia under Construction: News from Nowhere in the Pierpont Morgan Library,” Meghan Freeman, Manhattanville C 2. “‘Fingers, Eyes, and Sympathy’: he Kelmscott Chaucer Platinotypes,” Heather Bozant Witcher, St. Louis U 3. “he Pierpont Morgan Library as PreRaphaelite Archive,” Paul L. Acker, St. Louis U
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330. A Postictional Turn? Transformations in the Novel and Novel Criticism 1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Timothy Bewes, Brown U 1. “Narratology and Fictionality,” Gerald Joseph Prince, U of Pennsylvania 2. “Must Novels Be Fiction? Language and Reality in Knausgård’s My Struggle (Min kamp),” Toril Moi, Duke U 3. “What Does It Mean to Write Fiction? What Does Fiction Refer To?” Timothy Bewes For related material, write to
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331. Local Color to World Literature: An Interview with Jia Pingwa 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton Participants: Michael Berry, U of California, Los Angeles; Jia Pingwa, Shaanxi Writers’ Assn.; Jiwei Xiao, Fairield U An interview with Jia Pingwa, an acclaimed Chinese novelist and essayist, hosted by Michael Berry and Jiwei Xiao.
332. he Function of the Print Scholarly Edition at the Present Time 1:45–3:00 p.m., Empire Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions. Presiding: Paul B. Armstrong, Brown U 1. “Failure to Launch: Some Diiculties in Coordinating Print and Digital Editions of he Complete Letters of Henry James,” Greg W. Zacharias, Creighton U 2. “Editing the Complete Works of Edith Wharton in Print and Online,” Donna M. Campbell, Washington State U, Pullman; Carol J. Singley, Rutgers U, Camden 3. “Editing the Stainforth Library Catalog: Print Pasts and Digital Futures for the Study of Women’s Writing,” Kirstyn Leuner, Santa Clara U 4. “From Linear to Open Reading: Adapting ‘Parcours numeriques’ for Scholarly Editions,” Michael Eberle-Sinatra, U of Montreal
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2. “he Insecure Reading Chair,” Julia M. Walker, State U of New York, Geneseo 3. “Redrawing the Lines? Korean War Webtoons and the Politics of Disengagement,” We Jung Yi, Penn State U, University Park 4. “Microblogging Junot Díaz: Political Engagement and Web 2.0 Readers,” Ellen McCracken, U of California, Santa Barbara For related material, visit ellenmccracken .weebly.com.
334. Pedagogies of Excellence: HBCUs and the PhD Pipeline 1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the College Language Association. Presiding: Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Spelman C Speakers: Shanna Greene Benjamin, Grinnell C; W. Miranda Freeman, Tougaloo C; Jarvis McInnis, U of Notre Dame; Trimiko Melancon, Loyola U, New Orleans; Kenton Rambsy, U of Texas, Arlington HBCUs contribute signiicantly to the number of African Americans in the PhD pipeline. Successful strategies of identifying and mentoring likely candidates, supporting research interests and skills, and preparing students for summer research opportunities and graduate school applications should be recognized and celebrated. Mellon Mays is a program that has enhanced HBCUs’ success in alumni PhD completion, publication, and academic tenure.
335. Reading and Responding to Literary Texts 1:45–3:00 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature 1. “Reading like Writers and Writing like Readers,” Billy Clark, Middlesex U 2. “Language Variety in the Literature Classroom: Teaching Alice Walker’s he Color Purple,” Melissa Dennihy, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York 3. “Pedagogical Implications of Contact Literature,” Dina Hassan, Texas Tech U For related material, write to
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1:45–3:00 p.m., Regent, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Popular Culture. Presiding: Gwendolyn Pough, Syracuse U 1. “Goodreads and the Black Box of Online Reading,” Allison Hegel, U of California, Los Angeles
1:45–3:00 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton A special session 1. “he Postcolonial Biographical Novel: Aesthetics and Ideologies,” Bénédicte Ledent, U of Liège; Daria Tunca, U of Liège
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2. “‘Releasing a Story from a Sealed Box’: Shaun Johnson’s he Native Commissioner,” Geofrey V. Davis, U of Aachen 3. “A Postcolonial Reading of Shusaku Endo’s Biographical Novel Silence (1966),” Eri Kobayashi, Seikei U
337. Capitalism and the Unconscious 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Calvin homas, Georgia State U 1. “Capitalism’s Responsibility for Fascism,” Todd McGowan, U of Vermont 2. “he Psychoanalytic Critique of Political Economy,” Anna Kornbluh, U of Illinois, Chicago 3. “Writing Underdevelopment: he Postcolonial Fetish and Its Novelistic Form,” Simon E. Gikandi, Princeton U
338. he Novel and the Poor 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton A special session Speakers: David S. Kurnick, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Carolyn Lesjak, Simon Fraser U; Tina Lupton, U of Warwick; Bruce W. Robbins, Columbia U Panelists discuss a felt need on the part of recent critics to view the novel from the outside, socially as well as geographically, in terms of inequality of access, the constraints of daily habit, and the precarity of the life of its readers as well as of its characters. he word poverty imposes itself anew not because the more technical vocabulary of class has been discredited (as modern and European) but because poverty is the more universal and neutral term.
339. Biography, Race, and NineteenthCentury American Culture: Challenges, Methods, and Goals 1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Benjamin Beck, U of California, Los Angeles Speakers: William Leake Andrews, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Benjamin Beck; Kimberly D. Blockett, Penn State U, Brandywine; John Ernest, U of Delaware, Newark; P. Gabrielle Foreman, U of Delaware, Newark; Ezra Greenspan, Southern Methodist U; Sarah Lynn Patterson, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Carla L. Peterson, U of Maryland, College Park Speakers—specialists in nineteenth-century American literature whose work grapples with race and life and with biography’s goals and meth-
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odologies—discuss life-writing texts from a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches.
340. hinking Queer History in Shakespeare: A Conversation on Method 1:45–3:00 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Shakespeare. Presiding: Gina Bloom, U of California, Davis Speakers: Jefrey Masten, Northwestern U; Valerie J. Traub, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor Respondents: Bradin Cormack, Princeton U; Melissa E. Sanchez, U of Pennsylvania Speakers discuss new methods for doing historicist work on sexuality in Shakespeare and comment on methodologies proposed by each other recently published books. Respondents consider the efects of these methodologies on the ield at large.
341. Brecht in the Middle East 1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the International Brecht Society. Presiding: Marc David Silberman, U of Wisconsin, Madison 1. “Agency and Oppression: Reading Brecht in Egypt,” Mona Zaki, C of William and Mary 2. “Brecht, Wannous, and Arab heater,” Robert Myers, American U of Beirut; Nada Saab, Lebanese American U 3. “Brecht and the Turkish Stage,” Ela Gezen, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 4. “he Jenin Chalk Circle: Brecht’s Playscript and Alternatives with the Freedom heatre in the West Bank, Autumn 2015,” Robert Lyons, Gothenburg U
342. Precarity and Activism 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession. Presiding: Christine Yao, U of British Columbia Speakers: Melissa Leigh Antonucci, U of Oklahoma; Michaela Brangan, Cornell U; Alyson Brickey, U of Toronto; Tara Forbes, Wayne State U; Lucia Lorenzi, McMaster U; David Puthof, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Leland Tabares, Penn State U, University Park; Anna Waymack, Cornell U How do graduate students engage activism from the position of precarity? How do these issues impact research and teaching? Issues include confronting rape culture, creating space for junior scholars in academic organizations, ighting for academic freedom in teaching, critiquing faculty members and
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1:45–3:00 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forums LLC Late-18thCentury English and LLC English Romantic. Presiding: Colin Jager, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, U of California, Irvine 1. “Migrating with the Moravians: Hybrid Hymns and Blake,” Alexander Regier, Rice U 2. “A Modern Eneas; or, he Epic and the Novel Revisited,” Charlotte Sacks Sussman, Duke U 3. “Migration, Character, and Sense of Place in Early-Nineteenth-Century Fiction,” Josephine McDonagh, U of Chicago
346. Institutions, Markets, Speculations: Creative Economies of Science Fiction
344. Folklore Careers beyond and within Academia
347. Varieties of Digital Humanities
1:45–3:00 p.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the American Folklore Society. Presiding: James Deutsch, Smithsonian Institution Speakers: Robert Baron, New York State Council on the Arts; Mira Johnson, Pelham Arts Center; Maria Kennedy, ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes; Ellen McHale, New York Folklore Soc.; Kay F. Turner, American Folklore Soc. he American Folklore Society has long counted both academic and public folklorists in its ranks; the latter hold jobs in a variety of public and private sector organizations and industries. Participants discuss their work, how they got their start, and opportunities they see for others to pursue careers that not only are personally and professionally meaningful but also contribute to the ongoing development of a discipline.
345. he Identities, Politics, and Insecurities of Undocumented Peoples in the United States 1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the Conference on College Composition and Communication 1. “Rhetorics of Insecurity: Foregrounding (Un)Documented Status as Axis of Identity,” Christina Cedillo, U of Houston, Clear Lake 2. “Sanctuary Campuses: Responding to Trump’s Undocumented Policies with Solidarity and Resistance,” James Sanchez, Middlebury C 3. “Undocumented, Trilingual, and ‘Unapologetic’ Joy: When the State of Insecurity Has Always Been
1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton A special session 1. “A Proposition for the Science Fiction Age: John Michel’s Popular Front,” Sean Guynes, Michigan State U 2. “he Ghetto Which Is Not One: Atwood, Science Fiction, and Prestige,” Jeremy Rosen, U of Utah 3. “It Had to Be Science Fiction: Octavia Butler and the Ideology of Canonization,” Skye Cervone, Florida Atlantic U
1:45–3:00 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the PMLA Editorial Board. Presiding: Alison Booth, U of Virginia; Miriam Posner, U of California, Los Angeles Speakers: Lauren Klein, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Alan Liu, U of California, Santa Barbara; Marisa Parham, Amherst C; Howard Rambsy, Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville; Ted Underwood, U of Illinois, Urbana Digital humanities (DH) designates a debatable array of practices and institutional structures, materials and resources, and aspirations. It is expansive, movable, but precarious, a tent still not big enough in terms of diversity and access. Anticipating an issue of PMLA devoted to the topic, we ask, What is next for DH? And what can we learn from what has come before? For related material, visit www.mla.org/pmla_ submitting.
348. Art and Activism: Israeli Women’s Documentary Filmmaking 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Hebrew. Presiding: Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan U 1. “Beauty and the Patriarchy: Ibtisam Mara’ana’s Lady Kul el Arab (2008),” Rachel S. Harris, U of Illinois, Urbana 2. “Filmmaking as Activism: Sound of Torture,” Lior Elefant, Tel Aviv U 3. “Women Pioneers of Feminist Israeli Documentary Film,” Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern U
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349. Portraits in Fidelity: Allegory, Imago, Taboo 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic 1. “ICAIC and the Ten Million Ton Sugar Harvest,” Daniel Hazard, Princeton U 2. “Fidel Castro y/o El Fifo como personaje literario en la narrativa de la Generación del Mariel,” Monica Simal, Providence C 3. “Faith and Fidelity: Examining the Relative Presence/Absence of Fidel as a Cultural Reference,” Dara E. Goldman, U of Illinois, Urbana 4. “Fidel Castro as a Representational Taboo: Aesthetic Disruptions of a Prohibition,” Walfrido Dorta, Williams C
350. Woolf’s Spaces 1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the International Virginia Woolf Society. Presiding: hais Rutledge, U of Texas, Austin 1. “‘he Undiscovered Country’: Woolf’s Geography of Illness,” Katie Logan, University C at Virginia 2. “A Place of One’s Own: he Need for Space in Mrs. Dalloway,” hais Rutledge 3. “Point of View as Cognitive Mapping: Mrs. Dalloway’s Sense of Place,” Robert Tally, Texas State U 4. “Woolf’s Spatiality: Relational Bodies and Affective Spaces,” Celiese Lypka, U of Calgary
351. S. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction 1:45–3:00 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Science and Literature. Presiding: Anne Stiles, St. Louis U 1. “Medical Eclecticism in the Fiction of Silas Weir Mitchell,” Kristine L. Swenson, Missouri U of Science and Tech. 2. “Fractional Phantoms: Gothic Bodies in S. Weir Mitchell’s Medical and Literary Works,” Kristie Schlauraf, Villanova U 3. “Mitchell, Melville, and Phantom Limbs: Fleshing Out Sensory Ghosts,” Pilar Martinez Benedi, Sapienza U of Rome 4. “Disability, Dependency, and Feminist Ethics of Care in S. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction,” Elizabeth J. Donaldson, New York Inst. of Tech.
352. Partnerships beyond the Stacks: Collaborations between Scholars and Librarians in Research and Teaching 1:45–3:00 p.m., Clinton, Hilton
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Program arranged by the forum TM Libraries and Research. Presiding: Harriett Green, U of Illinois, Urbana Speakers: Rebecca Baumann, Indiana U, Bloomington; Amy Chen, U of Iowa; Laura Clapper, Indiana U, Bloomington; Heather Cole, Brown U; Emilie Hardman, Harvard U; Adam G. Hooks, U of Iowa; Erika Jenns, Indiana U, Bloomington New types of partnerships emerging between faculty members, students, librarians, and curators ofer exciting avenues for humanities scholarship. Panelists present collaborative projects between scholars and librarians on creative teaching approaches for archival research, building digital tools, and socially engaged undergraduate research. he panelists discuss strategies for fruitful collaborations and the impacts of these partnerships. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/libraries-and-research/ ater 4 Dec.
353. Staging Insecurity: Early Modern Spanish History Plays As Resistance to Precarity 1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama. Presiding: Amy R. Williamsen, U of North Carolina, Greensboro Speakers: John Cull, C of the Holy Cross; Susan L. Fischer, Bucknell U; Barbara Fuchs, U of California, Los Angeles; Kelsey Ihinger, U of Wisconsin, Madison; James Nemirof, Kalamazoo C; Christopher Oechler, Gettsyburg C; Christopher B. Weimer, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater Panelists explore the political and social crises staged in early modern Spanish historical drama in the context of the conference theme. he speakers consider how these comedias served as sites of resistance.
354. Graphic Resistance: Comics and Social Protest 1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Margaret Galvan, U of Florida; Leah Misemer, Georgia Inst. of Tech. Speakers: Liz Adams, Duke U; José Alaniz, U of Washington, Seattle; Rebecca Giordano, U of Pittsburgh; Susan E. Kirtley, Portland State U; Nicholas Miller, Hollins U; Alexander Ponomaref, U of Massachusetts, Amherst his session investigates how and why comics have served as sites of resistance and explores how this history informs how comics are used—or could
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be used—for protest in our current moment. Participants explore genealogies of social protest that comics create in and across local, national, and international communities. How will this conversation open diferent future trajectories for exploring comics as micropolitical sites of resistance?
355. Catished: Lies Online 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Life Writing. Presiding: Emily Hipchen, U of West Georgia 1. “A Catish’s Motives,” Kathrin Kottemann, Adams State U 2. “Real People, Fake Narratives: Does SelfPublishing Online Promote or Obstruct Authenticity?” Anna Cairney, St. John’s U, NY 3. “Catished: Who Am I Now?” Jillian Abbott, York C, City U of New York For related material, visit www.auto-biography.org.
356. he DNA of a Story 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval French 1. “Chrétien the Jay: Avian Storytelling in Philomena,” Eliza Zingesser, Columbia U 2. “Medieval Hagiography as Literary Machine: Saintly Doubling in the Lives of Desert Ascetics,” Christine Bourgeois, U of Kansas 3. “‘Our’ Medea in Bennoît of Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie,” Andreea Marculescu, U of Oklahoma
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1. “Le pouvoir politique ou les multiples formes de la domination dans l’œuvre de Gérard Etienne,” Maya Hauptman, Haifa U 2. “La pensée de Gérard Etienne sur les peuples noirs: Pour, contre et contradictoire?” Judith Sinanga-Ohlmann, Windsor U 3. “L’esthétique du double et du dédoublement dans l’œuvre romanesque de Gérard Etienne,” Corinne Beauquis 4. “Orage révolutionnaire et courage politique dans les romans montréalais de Gérard Etienne,” Mark Andrews, Vassar C
359. Writing in the English Department: Models for Success 1:45–3:00 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the ADE Executive Committee. Presiding: Claire E. Buck, Wheaton C, MA Speakers: Daylanne K. English, Macalester C; Deborah H. Holdstein, Columbia C; William Benedict Lalicker, West Chester U; Laurie A. McMillan, Pace U How do we deine writing, and what is its place, in today’s English department? We invite discussion of issues, including the evolution of student needs; the changing higher education environment; productive synergies among literary studies, writing studies, and creative writing; and the necessary conditions for a successful writing studies program within the English department. For related material, write to cbuck@wheatonma .edu ater 20 Dec.
357. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Opera in Literary Translation 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton A special session 1. “Schiller, Zhukovsky, Pushkin, and Tchaikovsky’s Lensky: Operatic Translation Miseen-Abyme,” John Pendergast, United States Military Acad. 2. “Billy Budd’s Closed Door: Music, Language, and Temporal Space,” Sydney Boyd, Rice U 3. “‘Something Will Remain’: Alice Goodman, the Libretto, and Lyric Form,” Richie Hofmann, Stanford U For related material, write to
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358. Domination et résilience dans l’œuvre de Gérard V. Etienne 1:45–3:00 p.m., Harlem, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Corinne Beauquis, U of Toronto
Friday, 5 January 3:30 p.m. 360. Presidential Plenary: #States of Insecurity 3:30–5:15 p.m., West Ballroom, Hilton Presiding: Diana Taylor, New York U 1. “Abolition,” Angela Davis, U of California, Santa Clara 2. “Rights and Liberties in America Today,” Anthony Romero, American Civil Liberties Union 3. “Schooled,” Cathy Davidson, Graduate Center, City U of New York 4. “O’tan: Saberes del corazón,” Juan López Intzín, Bats’il K’op 5. “Indeinite Detention,” Judith Butler, U of California, Berkeley he academy functions in and contributes to the ideological, economic, and political struggles of
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our time. On this panel, scholars, advocates, and public intellectuals point to strategies and coalitions that might help the academy uphold its role as a place of critical and historical relection, inquiry, and intervention. For linked sessions, see meetings 517 and 597.
361. Insecurity and Dissent in Middle Eastern and North African Cinema
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2. “Nineteenth-Century Friendship Practices and the humbprint Album,” Laura R. Zebuhr, U of St. homas, MN 3. “he Book’s the hing: Examining Helen horeau’s Antislavery Scrapbooks,” William R. Nash, Middlebury C Respondent: Jillian Hess, Bronx Community C, City U of New York
364. Refugee Memory
3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Arabic. Presiding: R. Shareah Taleghani, Queens C, City U of New York 1. “Unstable Messaging: Revisiting hird, AvantGarde, and Social Realist Cinema in the Films of Tariq Teguia,” Suzanne Gauch, Temple U, Philadelphia 2. “From Futuwwa to Baltagiyya: Populist hemes in Postrevolutionary Egyptian Cinema,” Nathaniel Greenberg, George Mason U 3. “he Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges in Panahi’s Cinema: An Alternative Medium of Resistance,” Toloo Riazi, U of California, Santa Barbara 4. “On Docu-Ironies: Visions of Dissent and Insecurity in Omar Amiralay’s A Flood in Ba’ath Country (2003),” R. Shareah Taleghani
3:30–4:45 p.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Memory Studies. Presiding: Marianne Hirsch, Columbia U 1. “Envisioning States of Detention: Refugees and Activist Cinema,” Debarati Sanyal, U of California, Berkeley 2. “Memory as Host: Poetry and History in the Baddawi Refugee Camp,” Lyndsey Jane Stonebridge, U of East Anglia 3. “Memoria e imagen: (Des)Encuadres del refugio y la denuncia,” Alina Pena-Iguaran, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente 4. “Salvageable Humanity: Curatorial Ethics in the Visual Reverberations of the Syrian Refugee Crisis,” Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou, Tuts U
362. Making the Most of Humanities Commons
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3:30–4:45 p.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Oice of Scholarly Communication Speaker: Nicky Agate, MLA his workshop serves as an introduction to the nonproit scholarly network Humanities Commons and its open-access repository, CORE. Learn how to gain more readers while increasing the impact of your work, make interdisciplinary connections, build class blogs and collaborative Web sites, ind and reuse openly available research materials, and crat a professional online presence. Sign up in advance and view related material at scholcomm.mla.hcommons.org/mla18/.
3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC 17thCentury English. Presiding: Christopher Warren, Carnegie Mellon U 1. “Using the Methods of Our Manuscripts: Networking and Early Modern Recipe Collaborations,” Hillary M. Nunn, U of Akron; Melissa Schultheis, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 2. “he Ifs, Ands, and Buts of Early Modern England,” Jonathan P. Lamb, U of Kansas 3. “Early Modern Echo Chambers? he Quotidian Networks of Civil War London,” Christopher D’Addario, Gettysburg C 4. “Financial and Professional Networks in the Restoration heater,” Mattie Burkert, Utah State U For related material, write to
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363. Commonplace Books, Albums, and Scrapbooks 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Late-19thand Early-20th-Century American. Presiding: Claudia Stokes, Trinity U 1. “‘I Hope Some Valued Scraps to Gain’: American Commonplace Books in the Later Nineteenth Century,” Amanda L. Watson, New York U
366. Blackness and the United States War on Terror 3:30–4:45 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies. Presiding: Alex Lubin, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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1. “Global Algeria: he Price of the Ticket to Paris,” Gary Vaughn Rasberry II, Stanford U 2. “From Hatuim to Homeland: Black Snipers, White Terrorists, and the Settler Colonial Logics of War on Terror Dramas,” Cynthia Young, Penn State U, University Park 3. “Terror, Trauma and Tragicomedy in Spike Lee’s Twenty-First-Century Cinematic Works,” Walton Muyumba, Indiana U, Bloomington 4. “Tent Cities and the Activist Camp Revisited: Black Immigrants and the War on Terror,” Ebony Coletu, Penn State U, University Park Respondent: Alex Lubin
367. Addressing Poverty, Silence, and Resistance in the Classroom 3:30–4:45 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Community Colleges. Presiding: Danizete Martinez, U of New Mexico, Valencia 1. “Consequences and Repercussions: Approaches to Overcome Student Resistance to Critical Pedagogy in the First-Year Composition Classroom,” Rauslynn Boyd, U of Akron 2. “Decentering the Academic Essay and Centering Alternative Ways of hinking, Being, and Writing,” Holly Larson, Seminole State C 3. “Charity Service in the English Classroom: How Writing Practice and Volunteerism Can Help Improve Retention at the Community College,” Heather Wood, U of New Mexico, Valencia
368. Romantics at Two Hundred: 2018 Reads 1818 3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton Program arranged by the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Presiding: William H. Galperin, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 1. “Hazlitt’s People: 1818 and 2018,” Frances Ferguson, U of Chicago 2. “Taming Austen: 1817–21 and 2018?” William H. Galperin 3. “he Anthologies of 1818 and 2018: Endymion, Frankenstein, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage III,” Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton U
369. Sovereign Insecurities / Canadian Insecurities 3:30–4:45 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Canadian. Presiding: Karis Shearer, U of British Columbia, Okanagan
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1. “Talking about a Revolution: Dialogues on Teaching Indigenous Literature in Canadian Universities,” Erin Soros, U of Toronto 2. “Rewriting hese Sorry Statements: Appropriating Settler-State Apologies in the Poetry of Jordan Abel,” Sarah Dowling, U of Washington, Bothell 3. “City Book Awards and the Critical Mass of Canada’s Creative City Complex,” Jef Fedoruk, McMaster U 4. “From Fukushima to Coast Salish Territories: he Nuclear Uncanny and Emergent Transnational Ecopolitics in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being,” Alec Follett, U of Guelph
370. Transpaciic Alignments ater the TransPaciic Partnership: Asia and Latin America 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Ignacio López-Calvo, U of California, Merced Speakers: Christopher Fan, U of California, Irvine; Joseph Jeon, Pomona C; Ignacio López-Calvo; Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington U in St. Louis; Erin Suzuki, U of California, San Diego; Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U he recent dissolution of the TPP has already caused a number of signiicant changes in global patterns and a good deal of uncertainty, as individual states seek bilateral deals in the absence of a global order. Speakers work outside a United States–dominated frame to focus on Asian–Latin American cultural production at this transitional moment and think about new realignments of transpaciic relations.
371. he Golden Door: Immigration, Illegitimacy, and Chicano/a Narrative 3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Chicana and Chicano. Presiding: Olga Herrera, U of St. homas, MN 1. “‘May We Break the Spell of the Oicial Story’: Demetria Martínez’s Sanctuary Movement Activism and the 2017 Sanctuary Movement,” Laura Belmonte, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque 2. “he Devil Is in the Data: Migrant Bodies, Data Bodies, and Chicanx Border Stories,” Marcel Brousseau, U of Texas, Austin 3. “Necro-mojado/as: Literature of the Living Dead,” Jesse Alemán, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque
372. Negotiating Identities: From Pirandello to Today 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton
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373. Shiting Legacies 3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC German to 1700. Presiding: Karin Anneliese Wurst, Michigan State U 1. “Meryl Streep’s hirty Years’ War,” Jane Ogden Newman, U of California, Irvine 2. “Shiting Legacies of the hirty Years’ War: Representations of Religious Identities in Ricarda Huch’s Der Große Krieg in Deutschland (1912–14) and Alfred Döblin’s Wallenstein (1920),” Emily Sieg, Georgetown U 3. “Proliferations: Hubert Fichte’s Appropriation of Lohenstein,” Isabel von Holt, Free U of Berlin 4. “Lessing, Laokoon, and the ‘Mooncalf’ Manuscript,” Hannah Hunter-Parker, Princeton U
374. Authoritarianism 3:30–4:45 p.m., Regent, Hilton A special session 1. “Authoritarianism as an Interdisciplinary Object: he Frankfurt School’s Studien über Autorität und Familie,” Tyrus H. Miller, U of California, Santa Cruz 2. “he Paradoxical Social Psychology of Authoritarianism,” Herman Rapaport, Wake Forest U 3. “Reading he Authoritarian Personality: hen and Now,” Barrett Watten, Wayne State U
375. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature 3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Goran V. Stanivukovic, St. Mary’s U
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1. “Compose Nothing but Males: he First Ars Amatoria in English,” M. L. Stapleton, Purdue U, Fort Wayne 2. “Ovid’s Sappho: Masculinity and Muteness Envy in Early Modern Lyric,” Melissa E. Sanchez, U of Pennsylvania 3. “Ovid in Love and War: Paciist Masculinity in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis,” John Garrison, Grinnell C For related material, write to
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376. Satire and Cosmic Horror in Dystopian Times 3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Speculative Fiction. Presiding: Gerry Canavan, Marquette U 1. “he President as a Shrieking Pile of Void Crabs; or, he Cosmically Horriic Satire of Dr. Chuck Tingle,” Andrew Ferguson, Washington and Lee U 2. “Cosmic Horror as Comedy in Rick and Morty,” Peter Yoonsuk Paik, Yonsei U 3. “Tragedy, Mutated: Time and Timing in Kurt Vonnegut’s Science Fiction Comedies,” Fran McDonald, U of Louisville
377. Editing 101 3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Presiding: Gordon N. Hutner, U of Illinois, Urbana Speakers: Gert Buelens, U of Ghent; Mark Drew, Gettysburg C; Nathan Grant, St. Louis U; Edward Jones, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater; Gary Totten, U of Nevada, Las Vegas hose who take on the substantial work of journal editing have oten received little or no training. his session brings together a varied group of experienced journal editors to ofer editors new to their positions the opportunity to hear advice, raise questions, and share experiences. Panelists ofer brief presentations (“What I Wish I Had Known”); the bulk of the session is open Q and A.
378. Dance, Performance, and Identity in French and Francophone Studies 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton A special session 1. “Les Bosquets: Danser les émeutes de 2005 sur scène, dans la cité et à l’écran,” Elise Bouhet, New York U
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2. “Bals Nègres and Biguine, from Performance to Spectacle: Black Culture for Consumption,” Jacqueline Couti, U of Kentucky 3. “Representing and Performing Trauma: Ethics and Epistemology in Ritualizing Black Lives’ Experiences,” Gladys M. Francis, Georgia State U
379. Caribbean Space and Bodies at War 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Puerto Rican. Presiding: Judith Sierra-Rivera, Penn State U, University Park 1. “Community under Duress,” Guillermina De Ferrari, U of Wisconsin, Madison 2. “Crossing Imperial Frontiers: Puerto Ricans in the Dominican Republic, Santiago de Cuba, and Hawai‘i ater 1898,” Alai Reyes-Santos, U of Oregon 3. “Militarism and Intimacy at Guantanamo,” Esther K. Whitield, Brown U 4. “Explosive Cultures: Puerto Rico’s Bombscapes and the Spatial Order of Law,” Javier Arbona, U of California, Davis For related material, visit pennstate.academia.edu/ JudithSierraRivera.
380. A Real Say: Pushing the Limits of Shared Governance 3:30–4:45 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession. Presiding: Ali Behdad, U of California, Los Angeles Speakers: Cynthia A. Current, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Jennifer Larson, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Michael Meranze, U of California, Los Angeles; Christopher John Newield, U of California, Santa Barbara; Jennifer Ruth, Portland State U Who controls your institution? Who has a voice? he state, administration, endowment, faculty, or students? his session addresses articulating and organizing the plurivocal academy through committee work, departmental service, faculty senate, and unionization.
381. Dramaturgical Curiosities: Eugene O’Neill, Experimentation, and the New York Neo-Futurists 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton Program arranged by the Eugene O’Neill Society. Presiding: Steven Fredric Bloom, Lasell C Speaker: Christopher Loar, theater director Respondents: Zander Brietzke, independent scholar; Laura Shea, Iona C
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382. Objectifying Morris 3:30–4:45 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the William Morris Society. Presiding: Jason Martinek, New Jersey City U 1. “Materially Relational: William Morris and the Hybrid Literary Object,” Rachel A. Ernst, Boston C 2. “William Morris’s Interior Design Creations and His Love of Mythology,” Corinna Margarete Illingworth, independent scholar 3. “Where Have All the Manuscripts Gone? Morris’s Autographs in Diaspora,” Florence S. Boos, U of Iowa Respondent: Andrew Wood, U of California, Santa Cruz For related material, visit www.morrissociety.org/ ater 2 Oct.
383. hinking Korean Literature through Censorship and Blacklisting 3:30–4:45 p.m., Harlem, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Kyeong-Hee Choi, U of Chicago 1. “Control over Morality and Biopolitics in Yi Ki-yŏng’s ‘Rat Fire,’ ” Kwon Myoung-a, Dong A U 2. “Censorship and the Politics of Technology in Eighteenth-Century Korea,” Jamie Jungmin Yoo, Seoul National U 3. “he Absolute Enemy: North Korean Literature and the Canon of Korean Literature,” Immanuel Kim, Binghamton U, State U of New York For related material, write to
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384. Understanding Vocabulary Learning and Teaching: Implications for Language Program Development 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators. Presiding: Colleen M. Ryan, Indiana U, Bloomington 1. “he Case for Collaborative Dialogues to Learn Vocabulary in Upper-Division Courses,” Celine Rose, U of Iowa 2. “he Efectiveness of Second-Language Vocabulary Teaching and Learning Strategies: Perceptions versus Reality,” Joseph Price, U of Arizona 3. “Listening Tasks: A Longitudinal Study on Language-Learning Vocabulary in L2 Spanish,” Cristina Pardo Ballester, Iowa State U
385. Mark Twain and heory: Leverage and Limits 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton
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Program arranged by the Mark Twain Circle of America. Presiding: Lawrence Howe, Roosevelt U 1. “An Environmentalist’s Reading of Life on the Mississippi,” Barbara Ladd, Emory U 2. “Permeating Silences Permeating Discourses: Mark Twain’s Rhetorical Art of the Unspoken,” Ben Click, St. Mary’s C, MD 3. “Reading, Revelation, and Resistance: heory and Practice,” Susan K. Harris, U of Kansas
386. Right To . . . / Right Not To . . . 3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum MS Visual Culture. Presiding: Laura Wexler, Yale U 1. “Archive Stoppage,” Ariella Azoulay, Brown U 2. “Decolonizing the Space of Appearance,” Nicholas Mirzoef, New York U 3. “Flow; or, he Motion or Movement of Black Bodies as a Practice of Refusal,” Tina Campt, Barnard C 4. “Pathetic Fallacies: Corporations before People,” Joseph R. Slaughter, Columbia U
387. “Carceracialization”: Prison, Race, Time 3:30–4:45 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton A special session 1. “Disgorgement: Cameron Rowland and Strategies of Visibility,” Daniel Creahan, New School 2. “Censorship and ‘Carceracialization’ in the War on Terror: Competing Chronotopes of Guantánamo,” Alexandra S. Moore, Binghamton U, State U of New York 3. “‘his Smudge Will Clear Our Minds’: Indigenous Incarceration and Healing the Spirit in he Outside Circle,” Sarah Kent, Queens U 4. “‘History Is a Cage’: Great Time and Doing Time in Philadelphia Fire,” Katherine horsteinson, Cornell U
388. Insecure Ephemera: Reading Lessons from Shakespeare to Twitter 3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton A special session 1. “he Lead-to-Pixels Project: Digitization and the Materiality of Book History Training,” Rebecca Chung, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “Parisian Publics: Learning to Read Nineteenth-Century Spin,” Cary HollinsheadStrick, American U of Paris 3. “he Mediated Student Body: Toward a New (Old) History of the Book,” Lisa Marie Maruca, Wayne State U
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389. Literature and Science in the Age of “Alternative Fact”: he Example of Bruno Latour 3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Steven J. Meyer, Washington U in St. Louis Speakers: James J. Bono, U at Bufalo, State U of New York; Adam J. Frank, U of British Columbia; Devin Griiths, U of Southern California; Joan T. Richardson, Graduate Center, City U of New York; C. P. Haun Saussy, U of Chicago Bruno Latour’s landmark essay “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?” (2004) acquired much of its topicality from his surprise at how climate change deniers were (already) appropriating the discourse of critique. Participants address present controversies regarding facts and alternative facts in the light of Latour’s Giford lectures, Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime (2017).
390. Disability Issues in the Profession: Negotiating between heory and Best Practices 3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages and the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession. Presiding: Christian Flaugh, U at Bufalo, State U of New York; William Nichols, Georgia State U Speakers: Tammy E. Berberi, U of Minnesota, Morris; Benjamin Fraser, East Carolina U; Elizabeth C. Hamilton, Oberlin C; Heidi Soneson, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities Panelists explore issues related to physical and cognitive disabilities from a theoretical as well as a practical standpoint, discussing how an awareness of disability afects the design of courses, notions of identity, modes of second-language learning, and the implementation of study-abroad programs.
391. he News from Home: Expatriate Media and the Modern Periodical 3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Julie Cyzewski, Murray State U 1. “‘he Truth about India’: Narrating National Identity in Extremist Expatriate Newspapers and the Mainstream American Press,” Sarah A. Fedirka, U of Findlay
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2. “‘he American Colonies’: he Paris Tribune’s Audiences,” Nissa Cannon, U of California, Santa Barbara 3. “Rebecca West, Global Citizenship, and the New Yorker,” Caroline Zoe Krzakowski, Northern Michigan U
392. Writing across the Curriculum When the Curriculum Is the English Department 3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum RCWS Writing Pedagogies. Presiding: Bonnie Lenore Kyburz, Lewis U Speakers: Patricia Lynn Bizzell, C of the Holy Cross; Madhurima Chakraborty, Columbia C, IL; Dominic DelliCarpini, York C of Pennsylvania; Mya Poe, Northeastern U; John L. Schilb, Indiana U, Bloomington Panelists explore tensions among faculty members who teach composition and literature. Falling enrollments and other tensions compel English department faculty members—regardless of discipline—to teach more writing, raising questions about the leadership of writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs. Why do WAC programs rarely include outreach to members of the literature faculty? To what extent might we begin to address these tensions?
393. Printable Pedagogy and 3-D heses 3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities. Presiding: Brian Croxall, Brown U Speakers: Erika Mary Boeckeler, Northeastern U; Emily Brooks, U of Florida; Jonathan Fitzgerald, Northeastern U; Mary Catherine Kinniburgh, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Aaron Santesso, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Margaret Simon, North Carolina State U; Edward Stratford, Brigham Young U, UT Over the last decade, alongside the arrival of digital humanities methods, universities have invested in 3-D printing and maker spaces. Presenters discuss how they use fabrication tools and spaces to teach languages and literatures or to conduct linguistic or literary analysis. Brief talks address the praxis of printing and the metaphysics of physicalization for understanding languages and literatures. For related material, visit ach.org ater 15 Dec.
394. Alternative Pasts and Futures in Postsocialist Science Fiction 3:30–4:45 p.m., Midtown, Hilton
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395. Religion and the Early American Novel 3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty 5, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Early American. Presiding: Sarah Rivett, Princeton U 1. “Religion, Indigeneity, and Early American Literature,” Magdalena Zapędowska, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 2. “William Jenks, the New England Clergy, and the Early American Novel,” David K. Lawrimore, Idaho State U 3. “Wieland; or, the Transformation of God: Narrative heology and Postsecular Faith in Early American Literature,” Daniel Boscaljon, U of Iowa
396. Apprentissages: Emerging Subjectivities 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 19thCentury French. Presiding: Alexandra K. Wett laufer, U of Texas, Austin 1. “Life Lessons: Norbert Truquin’s Mémoires et aventures d’un prolétaire,” Bettina R. Lerner, City C, City U of New York 2. “he Worker and the Book: Radical Pedagogies in Jacotot, Sand, and Rancière,” Rebecca Powers, U of California, Santa Barbara 3. “Pedagogies of Race in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana,” Jarrod L. Hayes, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 4. “he Apprenticeship of Antoinette Lemire, a Parisian Embroiderer,” Sharon P. Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/19th-century-french/ ater 18 Oct.
397. New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies 3:30–4:45 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval Iberian. Presiding: Isidro de Jesús Rivera, U of Kansas
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398. A Better Brit Lit Survey: Celtic, Norse, and Teaching a Multicultural North Atlantic 3:30–4:45 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Celtic. Presiding: Amy Mulligan, U of Notre Dame Speakers: Paul L. Acker, St. Louis U; Matthieu Boyd, Fairleigh Dickinson U, Teaneck; Katherine Gillen, Texas A&M U, College Station; Catherine McKenna, Harvard U; Joey McMullen, Centenary U; Elaine Treharne, Stanford U; Lisa M. C. Weston, California State U, Fresno Scholars discuss the practical, political, and pedagogical issues of teaching a diverse North Atlantic: How can study of Celtic and Norse sources champion recognition of a multilingual, multicultural, and multiethnic Brit lit? How can a diverse, diferently organized early Brit lit survey tackle current issues of racism and xenophobic nationalism? How has the anthology industry determined Brit lit’s canonical voices, and where can we intervene?
399. Writing AIDS in the Twenty-First Century 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Sexuality Studies. Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, U of Maryland, College Park 1. “‘he Final Absence of a Cure’: Rafael Campo and the Twenty-First-Century Poetics of AIDS,” Julie Minich, U of Texas, Austin 2. “he New Gay Sexual Revolution,” Octavio Gonzalez, Wellesley C 3. “‘A housand Kindred Spirits’: Recent Relections of AIDS in United States Literature, Cinema, and Conversation,” Monica B. Pearl, U of Manchester Respondent: Scott Herring, Indiana U, Bloomington For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/sexuality-studies/ ater 15 Dec.
400. Planetary Life in the Contemporary Petrosphere 3:30–4:45 p.m., New York, Hilton
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Program arranged by the forums CLCS Global South and LLC African since 1990. Presiding: Anne Garland Mahler, U of Virginia 1. “Cultivating the Local in Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s he Mushroom at the End of the World and Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies,” Stacey Balkan, Florida Atlantic U 2. “Petro-Afect: Toward a Reading of Oil’s Ubiquity in Pelo Malo, by Mariana Rondón,” María Silvia Montenegro, U of Arizona 3. “Salvage and the Accidental Future,” Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia U 4. “Petro-Politics in the Ecological Crisis of Ecuador’s Progressive Government,” Jonathan Aguirre, Princeton U
Friday, 5 January 5:15 p.m. 401. States of Asylum: Refugees and the City 5:15–6:30 p.m., Hudson, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Jutta M. GsoelsLorensen, Penn State U, Altoona 1. “City of Asylum, Pittsburgh: Report from a Safe Space for Persecuted Writers,” Silvia Duarte, City of Asylum 2. “Memories of Asylum: Past and Present Maps of Fugitivity,” Tabea Alexa Linhard, Washington U in St. Louis 3. “Asylum: he Concept and the Practice,” Ranjana Khanna, Duke U 4. “Refusing to Sink: Interpreting Communities to Come,” Asimina Karavanta, National and Kapodistrian U of Athens For related material, write to
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402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National, Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the forum RCWS Literacy Studies. Presiding: Suzanne Blum Malley, Columbia C, IL 1. “Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages and Literacies,” Jennifer Stone, U of Alaska, Anchorage 2. “Intimate Technologies: Afects, State Authority, and Documents as a Literacy Technology,” Eileen Lagman, U of Colorado, Boulder 3. “Revising and Relocating the Good Hmong Daughter,” Kaia Simon, U of Illinois, Urbana
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4. “Women Crossing Over: Vietnamese Educational Migrants Navigating Competing Contexts of Globalization,” Ilene Crawford, Southern Connecticut State U For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/literacy-studies/ ater 15 Dec.
403. Political Disappointment 5:15–6:30 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Jennifer Doyle, U of California, Riverside 1. “he Other Side of Nowhere: Underground Rap Aesthetics and the Contemporary Necropolitical Moment,” Carter Mathes, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 2. “he Memory of Water,” Dana Luciano, Georgetown U 3. “‘Like I’m Her, Mother, Like I’m Her’: Disappointment and the Sound of Failed Solidarity in Tillie Olsen and Lead Belly,” Sara Marcus, Princeton U
404. Drawing on John Berger 5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the forum MS Visual Culture. Presiding: Laura Wexler, Yale U Speakers: Rizvana Bradley, Yale U; Kate Flint, U of Southern California; Stefani Jemison, Williams C; Anne McClintock, Princeton U; Linda M. Shires, Yeshiva U, Stern C for Women In a year of signiicant losses, the death of John Berger on 2 January 2017 is among the weightiest. Berger was a writer, artist, critic, and guide for over a generation, and his deeply political and transdisciplinary work is behind the spirit of many visual culture enterprises. Panelists consider what we may learn from Berger about an event, be it based in close reading, critical writing, or visual storytelling.
405. Reproduction and Fertility in Film and Media: Italy in the Mediterranean 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian and TC Women’s and Gender Studies. Presiding: Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Dickinson C 1. “he Secret Pill: Contraception and Sexual Freedom in Italian Photoromances,” Paola Bonifazio, U of Texas, Austin 2. “Cyber-Moms and Postfeminism in Italian Web Series,” Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Franklin and Marshall C
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406. he Great War Revisited 5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Irene Mangoutas, Queen’s U; Dana Shiller, Washington and Jeferson C 1. “Commemorating War in Landscapes of Environmental Afect: David Jones’s Syntactic Subject of the Great War,” Molly Hall, U of Rhode Island 2. “he Forbidden Zone: Women Poets Transgressing the Boundaries of Self and the Great War,” Connie Ruzich, Robert Morris U 3. “Ashes to Ashenden: Maugham, Modernism, and Spyography,” Mark Kaufman, Alvernia U 4. “Reports from the Field: Recollecting Native Histories in Gerald Vizenor’s Blue Ravens,” Kathleen G. Washburn, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque
407. Historical Time Machines: Time Criticalities of Nineteenth-Century Media 5:15–6:30 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Roger Whitson, Pullman, WA 1. “Big Time: London’s Big Ben, Deep Time, and Time-Criticality Studies,” Andrew Burkett, Union C 2. “Babbage and Blake, Lovelace and Byron: he Algorithmic Condition of Nineteenth-Century Poetics,” Roger Whitson 3. “New Grub Street on Paper,” Richard Menke, U of Georgia Respondent: Crystal Lake, Wright State U For related material, visit MLA Commons ater 1 Dec.
408. he Work of the Anthology in American Literature 5:15–6:30 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Nicholas Rinehart, Harvard U Speakers: Wai Chee Dimock, Yale U; Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford U; Sandra M. Gustafson, U of Notre Dame; Patrick Jagoda, U of Chicago; Carla Kaplan, Northeastern U; Tavia Nyong’o, Yale U Editors from several major journals in American studies and literary and cultural studies consider the work of the anthology in American literature and culture—and its role in research, teaching, and public outreach.
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409. When and Where Was Modernism? 5:15–6:30 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Anglophone. Presiding: Snehal Shingavi, U of Texas, Austin 1. “Progressive Feeling: he Visceral Logics of Decolonization,” Neetu Khanna, U of Southern California 2. “Dictee’s Delayed Translation,” Tze-Yin Teo, U of Oregon 3. “African Modernism and the Crisis in the Social Role of Art,” Alys Moody, Macquarie U 4. “Modernizm and Modernite: Revealing the Turkish Modernist Novel,” Kaitlin Staudt, U of Oxford
410. Cultures of Vulnerability in the Contemporary United States 5:15–6:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American. Presiding: Gordon N. Hutner, U of Illinois, Urbana 1. “Terraforms: Fictions of Geoengineering in the Era of Climate Precarity,” Allison Carruth, U of California, Los Angeles 2. “he Politics of the Contemporary Art Novel,” David Alworth, Harvard U 3. “Survivalist Domesticity: Containment, Growth, and the Land in Edan Lepucki’s California,” Alison Shonkwiler, Rhode Island C 4. “Technologies of Vulnerability: Nonwar, Permanent War, and the Cultural Politics of the Fith Domain,” Joseph Darda, Texas Christian U
411. 1968–2018: he Movement, the MLA, and the Current Moment 5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Oice of Research. Presiding: Paul Lauter, Trinity C, CT Speakers: Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter C, City U of New York; Frances Smith Foster, Emory U; Richard M. Ohmann, Wesleyan U; Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva U, NY Fity years ago, a group of radicals, eager to speak out against the Vietnam War, “disrupted” events at the MLA convention. Panelists and audience members examine the many diferent issues that emerged when our profession encountered an activist movement committed to transforming politics. hese included changes in the canon, in gender and racial hierarchies, in access to college, and in the degradation of the higher education workforce.
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412. Revolution, Take 2: Conjunctural Politics and the Paradox of Presence 5:15–6:30 p.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German. Presiding: Devin A. Fore, Princeton U 1. “Fulilled Present and Critical Present: Art and Revolution according to Carl Einstein, 1919–1921,” Maria Stavrinaki, U Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne 2. “he Poetic Grammar of Revolution,” Benjamin Butt Robinson, Indiana U, Bloomington 3. “Althusser’s Lenin, Reading 1917: Structuralist Marxism or Marxist Formalism?” Siarhei Biareishyk, New York U 4. “Ralph Ellison’s Black Leninism,” Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State U
413. Narrating Vulnerability: Re-seeing Asian American Children’s and Young Adult Literature 5:15–6:30 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian American. Presiding: James Kyung-Jin Lee, U of California, Irvine 1. “Restaging the Superhero Spectacle: Shame and Performative Pedagogy in Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s Shadow Hero,” Kai Hang Cheang, U of California, Riverside 2. “Goyangi Means Cat and the Precarity of Transnational and Transracial Adoptive Citizenship,” Sandra Kim, U of Southern California 3. “Reading Vulnerability: Young Adulthood in Cynthia Kadohata’s Kira-Kira,” Mika Kennedy, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
414. he Sixteenth-/Seventeenth-Century Divide in French 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Katherine Ibbett, U of Oxford; Jan Miernowski, U of Wisconsin, Madison Speakers: Andrea Marie Frisch, U of Maryland, College Park; Pauline Goul, Cornell U; Hélène Merlin-Kajman, U de Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle; Isabelle Pantin, École Normale Supérieure; Helena Skorovsky, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Toby Wikström, Tulane U French studies in the United States has clung to a divide between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What’s at stake in this divide, how did it come to be, and how have its constraints shaped our ield? How do those of us who work across that divide articulate our diference from that norm?
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415. “Aca-Fandom” and Digital Scholarship: Rethinking Research and Fan Production 5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Rachel O’Connell, U of Sussex 1. “Like Dumbledore’s Army Except Hermione Is In Charge: Podcasting, Feminist Fandom, and the Public Academic,” Marcelle Kosman, U of Alberta; Hannah McGregor, Simon Fraser U 2. “Queer Geek Methodologies: Social Justice Fandom as a Transformative Digital Humanities,” Alexis Lothian, U of Maryland, College Park 3. “‘Maybe Willam . . . ’: Writing Fandom, Intimacy, and Queer Femininities,” Rachel O’Connell
416. Pathways to the Public: Advancing Engagement and Impact in the Humanities 5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the ADE Executive Committee. Presiding: Todd Wayne Butler, Washington State U, Pullman 1. “Pathways to Public Accountability in Humanities Scholarship,” Rachel Arteaga, U of Washington, Seattle 2. “Advancing Civic Engagement in a City-as-Text First-Year Composition Learning Community,” Vanessa Holford Diana, Westield State U 3. “Race, Rhetoric, and Writing for Counterpublics: he Pedagogical and Humanistic Implications of Black Radical Traditions,” Carmen Kynard, John Jay C, City U of New York 4. “‘Some of Us Are Lousy Directors’: Media Production, the Academy, and the Future of the Public Humanities,” Marc Ruppel, NEH Public Programs
417. Modern Turkish Literature in Comparative West Asian Contexts 5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC West Asian. Presiding: Kamran Rastegar, Tuts U 1. “Paper Cuts: Beşir Fuad and the Ends of Realism in the Ottoman Nineteenth Century,” Veli N. Yashin, U of Southern California 2. “Suat Derviş and Socialist Realism in Turkey,” Nergis Ertürk, Penn State U, University Park Respondent: Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough Community C, City U of New York
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418. he Digital Divide: South Asia in Crisis 5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic. Presiding: Nira M. Gupta-Casale, Kean U 1. “DigiQueer: Archives of South Asian Sexualities,” Kanika Batra, Texas Tech U 2. “Swaach Bharat and Its Conversations with Social Media,” Amrita De, Binghamton U, State U of New York 3. “Queer Identities in Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh and Shakun Batra’s Kapoor and Sons,” Rahul Gairola, Indian Inst. of Tech. Respondent: Rajender Kaur, William Paterson U For related material, write to
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419. Queer per Verse 5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Chad Bennett, U of Texas, Austin Speakers: Sarah Dowling, U of Washington, Bothell; Angela Hume Lewandowski, U of Minnesota, Morris; Meta DuEwa Jones, Howard U; Corey McEleney, Fordham U Where is poetry’s Novel Gazing (ed. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1997)? Relecting on and advancing a vibrant critical tradition of queer readings in poetry, participants ask, What is the broader theoretical value—at a moment when the ields of queer theory and lyric theory are undergoing substantive contestation and transformation—of an engaged queer poetics?
420. Son of Saul: A Conversation with Géza Röhrig 5:15–6:30 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Hungarian and MS Screen Arts and Culture. Presiding: Clara E. Orban, DePaul U Speakers: Jennifer Cazenave, U of South Florida, Tampa; Szidonia Haragos, Zayed U; Catherine E. Portuges, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Brad Prager, U of Missouri, Columbia; Géza Röhrig, actor; Shawna Vesco, independent scholar; Jefrey D. Wallen, Hampshire C he award-winning ilm Son of Saul (2015) is situated in a long line of relective Hungarian cinematic contributions with worldwide impact, resonating with Holocaust literature, ilm, and poetry internationally. he panelists explore and contextualize this
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5:15–6:30 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TM Language heory. Presiding: Mary Hayes, U of Mississippi 1. “Toward a Poetics of the Silent: Xu Bing’s A Book from the Sky as a Site of Suppressed Audibility,” Jue Hou, U of Chicago 2. “he Unspoken and Its Literary Function in he City in Crimson Cloak and Cereus Blooms at Night,” Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim, Washington U in St. Louis 3. “Speaking through Silence: Uncovering Silent Nuances of Race in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You,” Bomi Yoon, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities
423. Publishing Trends and New Directions in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-TwentiethCentury Studies 5:15–6:30 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English. Presiding: Ellen Crowell, St. Louis U Speakers: Debra Rae Cohen, U of South Carolina, Columbia; John N. Duvall, Purdue U, West Lafayette; Cassandra Laity, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Janet Lyon, Penn State U, University Park; Robert Philip Marzec, Purdue U, West Lafayette; JeanMichel Rabaté, U of Pennsylvania; Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge Editors from Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, Feminist Modernist Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, and Nineteenth Century heater and Film discuss recent trends and future directions in their ields.
424. Extreme Politics and Representations of the Extreme in Twentieth- and TwentyFirst-Century France 5:15–6:30 p.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French. Presiding: Cybelle H. McFadden, U of North Carolina, Greensboro 1. “A Shrinking Single Body, an Expanding Collective Body: Extreme Political Resistance in Simone Weil and Ariane Mnouchkine,” Kaliane Ung, New York U 2. “Intersecting Extremisms in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission,” Daniel O’Gorman, Oxford Brookes U
5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Anna Maria Nogar, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1. “Private Letters and Public Scandal: Power, Religion, and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico,” Stephanie Louise Kirk, Washington U in St. Louis 2. “From Public Fountains to the Kitchen Sink: Ideas on Privacy and the Privatization of Water in Mexico,” Ana Sabau, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 3. “Open Doors: Domesticity and the Mexican Revolution,” Shelley Elizabeth Garrigan, North Carolina State U 4. “Radio’s Public and Private Family Melodrama through the Radionovela Chucho el Roto (1963– 73),” Amy Elisabeth Wright, St. Louis U
426. (Re)Shaping the First-Year College Writing Classroom in the Trump Era 5:15–6:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session 1. “Your ‘Sanctuary Campus’ Makes Us Silent Again,” Jewon Woo, Lorain County Community C, OH 2. “A Pedagogy of Desire: Writing Utopia in the Composition Classroom,” Dan Abitz, Georgia State U 3. “Queering the Rhetoric of Normativity: A Relection on Nontraditional Approaches to Teaching Composition in the Trump Era,” Matthew Hodgson, Chemeketa Community C, OR 4. “Writing about Writing during the Trump Administration,” Tyler Branson, U of Toledo Respondent: Sean Gerrity, Hostos Community C, City U of New York For related material, write to
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427. Performance Practice of the Troubadour Repertory 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the Lyrica Society for WordMusic Relations 1. “Performing the Alba,” Jef Dailey, Five Towns C 2. “Harp Accompaniment for Medieval Monophony,” Christopher hompson, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Collectio Musicorum, early music ensemble
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428. Sound and Performance 5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum MS Sound 1. “‘Ich kann nicht’: Hearing (Racialized) Languages in Josh Inocéncio’s Purple Eyes,” Trevor Bofone, U of Houston 2. “Sonic Treatises of Race in America: Universes and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway Musicals,” Patricia Herrera, U of Richmond 3. “A Voice like hunder: Native Oratory, Metamora, and Unsettling American Drama,” Caitlin Marshall, U of Maryland, College Park 4. “Aural Cartographies: he Inscription of Sound as a Multicultural Project in the Radio Program América y sus juglares (1985), by Nicomedes Santa Cruz,” Juan Suárez, U of Illinois, Urbana
429. heorizing the Relation of Cognitive Literary Studies and Comparative Literature 5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton A special session. Presiding: J. Keith Vincent, Boston U Speakers: Patrick Colm Hogan, U of Connecticut, Storrs; Haiyan Lee, Stanford U; Ralph James Savarese, Grinnell C; J. Keith Vincent; Lisa Zunshine, U of Kentucky Scholars of comparative literature who work with cognitive approaches to literature (e.g., with affect studies, cognitive disability studies, cognitive queer studies, cognitive legal studies, and cognitive narratology) discuss developments of the last decade that are bringing the two ields closer together, focusing in particular on implications for future research and disciplinary self-awareness. For related material, visit english.as.uky.edu/ users/zunshin ater 22 Dec.
430. he Lusophone World in the New Geopolitical Order 5:15–6:30 p.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Global Portuguese. Presiding: Ana Catarina Teixeira, Emory U 1. “he Failure of the First Portuguese Republic and Salazar’s New State,” Ana Fauri, Brown U 2. “Deus Dará and the Dynamics between Brazilian and Portuguese Cultures in the Twenty-First Century,” Tania Martuscelli, U of Colorado, Boulder 3. “Bursting the Bubble: he Public Sphere in the Era of Algorithmic Culture in Bernardo Car va lho’s Reprodução,” Ligia Bezerra, Arizona State U
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431. Fictionality in Narrative heory: A Reexamination of Core Concepts 5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton Program arranged by the International Society for the Study of Narrative. Presiding: henrik nielsen, Aarhus U Speakers: Monika Fludernik, U of Freiburg; Maria Makela, U of Tampere; Eric Morel, U of Washington, Seattle; Vic Perry, Iowa State U; Wendy Veronica Xin, U of California, Berkeley; Simona Zetterberg Gjerlevsen, Aarhus U Recently scholars working in the broad area of rhetorical narrative theory have suggested a new approach to ictionality founded on two principles: a distinction between generic ictions such as the novel, on the one hand, and the quality of ictionality, understood as a mode of discourse prevalent across genres, on the other. Panelists explore the narrative theoretical consequences of this approach by using it to reexamine core concepts of narrative.
432. Horizons of Intimacy: Distance, Afect, and the Global Imaginary on the Shakespearean Stage 5:15–6:30 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Jean Elizabeth Howard, Columbia U 1. “Distance, Proximity, and Human Empathy in he Tempest,” Jane Hwang Degenhardt, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 2. “‘To Bear Another Hew’: Violent Intimacies of Race and Natural Commodities in Titus Andronicus,” William Stefen, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 3. “‘Wandering in Illusion’: Horizons of Intimacy in the Comedy of Errors,” Henry S. Turner, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 4. “Cymbeline’s Melancholic Intimacies: Displacement and Settlement as heatrical Aesthetic,” Caro Pirri, Rutgers U, New Brunswick For related material, visit MLA Commons.
433. Crats of World Literature: Materials, Genres, Forms 5:15–6:30 p.m., New York, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Ben Etherington, Western Sydney U; Jarad Zimbler, U of Birmingham
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Speakers: Anna Bernard, King’s C London; Nicholas Mainey Brown, U of Illinois, Chicago; Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm U; Sowon S. Park, U of California, Santa Barbara; Shital Pravinchandra, Queen Mary U of London; Ato Quayson, U of Toronto Participants relect on the state of world literary studies and on ways it might yet be reconigured from the perspective of literary materials, genres, and forms. Together, they consider the impact of recent interventions, as well as opportunities arising from a focus on questions of literary practice.
Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction. Presiding: Kate Marshall, U of Notre Dame 1. “Standardized Money,” Jonathan Grossman, U of California, Los Angeles 2. “Spatiotemporal Data Infrastructures in the Novel and Weather Reporting,” John Durham Peters, Yale U 3. “Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environment,” Michael Rubenstein, Stony Brook U, State U of New York Respondent: Lauren Berlant, U of Chicago
434. he “Arrival” of Jia Pingwa in World Literature: Translation and Interpretation
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5:15–6:30 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese. Presiding: Jiwei Xiao, Fairield U Speakers: homas Chen, Lehigh U; Anna Gustafsson Chen, Västerhaninge, Sweden; Jonathan Christian Stalling, U of Oklahoma; Nick Stember, translator; Yiyan Wang, Victoria U of Wellington; Xiaowen Xu, Syracuse U Focusing on the work of Jia Pingwa, one of the most renowned contemporary novelists in China, panelists discuss various ongoing projects that involve the translation and critical studies of Jia’s novels outside China. Speakers also assess the signiicance of Jia’s being an undertranslated Chinese writer in the realm of world literature.
435. Revisiting Transatlanticism: American Women in Circulation 5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session 1. “Transatlantic Sisterhood and American Sympathy: Hawthorne’s Heroine Abroad,” Sarah Sillin, Gettysburg C 2. “Radical Feminism and Revolutionary Sentiment in William Wells Brown’s Multiedition Clotel,” Christopher Stampone, Southern Methodist U 3. “Securitization and Life’s Precariousness: Loreta Velazquez’s Performance of the Civil War Military Code,” Colleen Glenney Boggs, Dartmouth C 4. “he American Girl Goes to the Global South: Juvenile Literature of the 1890s,” Carrie T. Bramen, U at Bufalo, State U of New York For related material, visit www.sarahsillin.com/.
436. Infrastructure 5:15–6:30 p.m., Regent, Hilton
5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the forums LLC 16thCentury English and LLC Chaucer. Presiding: Emma Lipton, U of Missouri, Columbia 1. “Chaucer and the Compelling Argument,” William A. Quinn, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville 2. “he Consent of the Virgin Mary,” Maggie Solberg, Bowdoin C 3. “Belatedness and the Consenting Voice in Measure for Measure,” Devin Byker, C of Charleston Respondent: Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt U
438. he Haverford Discussions and the Course of Black Studies 5:15–6:30 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton A special session Speakers: Erica Edwards, U of California, Riverside; Julius Fleming, Jr., U of Maryland, College Park; Christopher Freeburg, U of Illinois, Urbana; Michael Lackey, U of Minnesota, Morris; Kenneth W. Warren, U of Chicago We will use Michael Lackey’s he Haverford Discussions: A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial Justice as a point of departure to reassess the founding moment of black studies from the standpoint of some of its most articulate critics. Panelists address the gains and losses that attended the rise of black power, the turn away from political economy, and current implications for African American literary and cultural study. For related material, write to kwarren@ uchicago.edu.
439. Teaching Global Arab Comics in the United States 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forums GS Comics and Graphic Narratives and CLCS Global Arab and
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440. Hacking the Scholarly Worklow 5:15–7:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology. Presiding: Shawna Ross,
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Friday, 5 January 6:45 p.m. 441. he Presidential Address 6:45 p.m., Metropolitan Ballroom East, Sheraton Presiding: Paula M. Krebs, MLA 1. Report of the Executive Director, Paula M. Krebs 2. he Presidential Address, “¡Presente!” Diana Taylor, New York U. ¡Presente! (“Present!”) can be understood as a war cry, an act of solidarity or witnessing, a way of being in the world, compliance to roll call, a display or declaration of presence. ¡Presente! announces an embodied form of engagement with others, a way of being present, physically and politically, that takes us beyond the disciplined and restrictive ways of knowing. ¡Presente! envisions knowledge not as something to be harvested and commercialized but as an engaged process of being with, of walking and talking with others and all the pitfalls, complications, and contradictions that entails. ¡Presente! invites us to think together. Reception immediately following.
Friday, 5 January 7:15 p.m. 442. Reception Arranged by the Stanford University Department of English and Divison of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
444. Cash Bar Arranged by the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, Feministas Unidas, Women in French, and Women in German
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443. Cash Bar Sponsored by the St. John’s University PhD Program in English
445. Cash Bar Arranged by the Minnesota Review and Meditations
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446. Cash Bar Arranged by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Arizona 7:15–8:30 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton
447. Cash Bar Arranged by the Yale University Department of French 7:15–8:30 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton
448. Cash Bar Arranged by the Forum LLC Medievel Iberian 7:15–8:30 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton
449. Cash Bar Arranged by the American Folklore Society 7:15–8:30 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton
450. Falling for Prepositions, a Performance 7:15–8:30 p.m., Regent, Hilton Participant: Marla Berg, Kent State U, Kent his event aims to playfully reveal the beauty and humor in prepositions. hrough movement and operatic song, viewers deepen their physical and emotional connection to the preposition. As the performers embody and reveal language, they integrate the distinct disciplines of English, theater, dance, and music.
451. Cash Bar Arranged by the Forums LLC 16th-Century French and LLC 17thCentury French 7:15–8:30 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton
452. Cash Bar Sponsored by the Forums LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century-English and LLC Late-18th-Century-English, Feminist Modernist Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Nineteenth-Century Literature, NineteenthCentury heatre and Film, Novel, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Victorian Studies 7:15–8:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton
Saturday, 6 January 8:30 a.m. 453. Advancing the Field: Connecting Humanities Graduate Education and Community College Teaching 8:30–11:30 a.m., Concourse A, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Elizabeth Alsop, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Rachel Arteaga, U of Washington, Seattle
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Speakers: Cristina Della Coletta, U of California, San Diego; Angela Duran Real, U of Washington, Seattle; Erin Glass, U of California, San Diego; Matthew Levay, Idaho State U; Lauren Elizabeth Onkey, Cuyahoga Community C, OH; Asha Tran, South Seattle C Community colleges and doctoral programs are developing new ways to work together to strengthen and amplify their missions and to support equity and diversity in higher education. Faculty members, administrators, and students lead a participatory discussion and hands-on workshop about opportunities and challenges of connecting graduate education and pedagogical training with community college teaching. Preregistration is required. For related material, visit cunyhumanitiesalliance .org/.
454. Digital Humanities Tools and Technologies for Students, Emerging Scholars, Faculty Members, Librarians, and Administrators 8:30–11:30 a.m., Sutton Center, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Oice of Scholarly Communication. Presiding: Raymond G. Siemens, U of Victoria Speakers: Alyssa Arbuckle, U of Victoria; Rebecca Dowson, Simon Fraser U; Randa El Khatib, U of Victoria; Elizabeth Grumbach, Arizona State U; Diane Jakacki, Bucknell U; Aaron Mauro, Penn State U, Erie-Behrend; Raymond G. Siemens; Lee Skallerup Bessette, U of Mary Washington his workshop ofers participants both theoretical and hands-on considerations of digital humanities (DH) tools, sotware, and methodologies; on-campus digital scholarship; DH postdoctoral fellowships; social media; DH for academic administrators; #alt-ac roles; and open social scholarship. Preregistration is required. For related material, visit dhsi.org ater 15 Sept.
455. he Digital Future of Literary Archives 8:30–9:45 a.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Presiding: Lise Jaillant, Loughborough U Speakers: Dennis Denisof, U of Tulsa; Angus Grieve-Smith, Columbia U; Trenton Judson, Jarvis Christian C; Melanie Micir, Washington U in St. Louis; Carlotta Paltrinieri, Indiana U, Bloomington; Greta Smith, Miami U, Oxford
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456. Imagining Absence in Medieval and Renaissance Italian 8:30–9:45 a.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian. Presiding: Aileen Feng, U of Arizona 1. “‘A Stranger in Our Woods’: Voicing the Absent and Viewing the Distant in Trecento Pastoral,” Jonathan Combs-Schilling, Ohio State U, Columbus 2. “In the Idol’s Presence: Ludovico Carbone in 1460,” Sherry Roush, Penn State U, University Park 3. “he Absent Court: he Perfect Court as an Imaginary Entity in Cinquecento Italy,” Paola Ugolini, U at Bufalo, State U of New York
457. We’re All Living Dead Now 8:30–9:45 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture. Presiding: Rebecca A. Wanzo, Washington U in St. Louis 1. “Duane Jones: Acting and the Paradox of Race,” Katherine A. Kinney, U of California, Riverside 2. “‘We Urge You to Stay Tuned to Radio and TV and to Stay Indoors at All Costs’: Zombies, Live Broadcast, and the Powers of the False in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead,” James McFarland, Vanderbilt U 3. “Dawn of the Living Digital Horde: Zombies in the Twenty-First Century,” Zachary Price, Cornell U
458. Édouard Glissant: From Identitarian Insecurities to the Poetics of Relation 8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Francophone. Presiding: Cilas Kemedjio, U of Rochester 1. “Esquisser la relation: Les dessins d’Édouard Glissant,” Valerie I. Loichot, Emory U 2. “Of Poetics and Islands: Neso-Aesthetics— Glissant’s Relationality and Social Justice,” Christina Gerhardt, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa
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459. Wallace Stevens and Music 8:30–9:45 a.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the Wallace Stevens Society Speakers: Bart P. Eeckhout, U of Antwerp; Mohammed Fairouz, composer; David Zachary Finch, Massachusetts C of Liberal Arts; Lisa N. Goldfarb, New York U; Langdon Hammer, Yale U; Brenda Ravenscrot, McGill U his session focuses on the musical analogy in poems, aspects of voice and theme, music and sound, musical compositions based on Stevens’s work, Stevens’s interest in and references to particular composers, and musical-poetic structures.
460. Sor Juana: Securing Women’s Writing 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial Latin American. Presiding: Lisa Voigt, Ohio State U, Columbus 1. “Resisting through the Senses: Sor Juana’s Primero Sueño and María de San José’s Autobiography,” Ana Garriga, Brown U 2. “Sounding Feminine Intellect in the Villancicos to St. Catherine of Alexandria (1691),” Sarah Finley, Christopher Newport U 3. “Women and Science: Mujeres Doctas in Sor Juana’s Respuesta,” George A. homas, U of Northern Colorado
461. Gender, Representation, and Fascism 8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies. Presiding: Natasha Hurley, U of Alberta 1. “Camp Fascism: Isherwood’s Arthur Norris and the Aestheticizaton of Politics,” Megan Faragher, Wright State U 2. “Sexuality and the Inhuman in Storm Jameson’s In the Second Year,” Lara Vetter, U of North Carolina, Charlotte 3. “‘Alternative Facts’ and Fictions: Woolf, Foucault, and the Potential for Freedom under Fascism,” Kara Watts, U of Rhode Island 4. “‘here Is the Moment, and Its Possibilities’: Becoming-Woman in homas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow,” heresa L. Geller, Grinnell C
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462. Complex TV: Texts, Viewers, and Fan Engagement 8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Popular Culture. Presiding: Ellen McCracken, U of California, Santa Barbara 1. “Transmedia and Telenovelas: Parodying Latinx Melodramas for a Transnational and Hemispheric Latinx Audience,” Yari Cruz, Indiana U, Bloomington 2. “he ‘Tina’ Phenomenon: Bob’s Burgers and the New Riot Grrls,” Kira Boyko, U of Victoria 3. “Against Cognitive Philosophies of Film Experience: An Archaeology of Image: Rethinking Jason Mittell’s Cognitivism,” Carl Peters, U of the Fraser Valley 4. “he Transmedial and Synontological Complexity of Castle,” Rhona Trauvitch, Florida International U For related material, visit ellenmccracken .weebly.com.
463. Deleuze: Literature, Philosophy, and the Postcolonial 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French. Presiding: hangam Ravindranathan, Brown U 1. “Conscience and Concept,” Tom Clark Conley, Harvard U 2. “Glissant and Deleuze in the Longue Durée,” Neal Allar, Tsinghua U 3. “he Second Term of the Trinity: hreshold, Limit, Stockpiling, and Barbarians,” Eleanor Kaufman, U of California, Los Angeles Respondent: Réda Bensmaïa, Brown U
464. Drone Warfare and Post-9/11 Cultural Practices 8:30–9:45 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Waseem Anwar, Forman Christian C Speakers: Muhammad Waqar Azeem, Binghamton U, State U of New York; Mary Cappelli, Nevada State C; Mahwish Chishty, Kent State U, Kent; Nike Nivar Ortiz, U of Southern California; Daniel O’Gorman, Oxford Brookes U; Jennifer Rhee, Virginia Commonwealth U; Rachel Walsh, Bowling Green State U he session discusses the representation of drone warfares in post-9/11 visual and graiti art, ilm and documentaries, plays and stage performances,
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and memoirs and iction. Participants explore how the art forms reimagine weaponized drones in connection with the War on Terror, militarized surveillance, us-versus-them binaries, the statecitizen relationship, racial dehumanization and pixelization of targets, and drone pilots’ PTSD. For related material, visit wordpress.com/page/ waqar81.wordpress.com/11.
465. Early Modern Women and the Environment 8:30–9:45 a.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. Presiding: Patricia Phillippy, Kingston U London Speakers: Anupam Basu, Washington U in St. Louis; Claire Eager, U of Virginia; Jennifer Morrissey, Dominican U; Selene Scarsi, Kingston U London; Sydnee Wagner, Graduate Center, City U of New York Panelists discuss early modern women’s negotiations with built and natural environments. Topics include Vittoria Colonna’s garden at Ischia; biopolitical readings of visual and textual representations of gypsies; Ursulines’ utopian project in New France; literary garden of Lucy, Countess of Bedford, at Twickenham; and women’s manuscript recipes’ engagements with household and natural domains. For related material, write to p.phillippy@ kingston.ac.uk.
466. Twenty-First-Century Chicanx Performance 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Chicana and Chicano. Presiding: Jose Navarro, California Polytechnic State U, San Luis Obispo 1. “Interpreting the Latin Lover: A Hemisexual Approach,” Paloma Martinez-Cruz, Ohio State U, Columbus 2. “(Re)Sounding Chicanidad: Listening to the Revival Production of Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit,” Marci R. McMahon, U of Texas, Rio Grande Valley 3. “Screening Chicana Adolescence in the Twenty-First-Century Suburbs: Finessa Pineda’s and Venecia Troncoso’s Performances in Mosquita y Mari (2012),” Randy Ontiveros, U of Maryland, College Park 4. “A Site of Living Public Art: San Antonio Artivist David Zamora Casas,” Norma Elia Cantú, Trinity U
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467. Sanctuary, Contingency, and the Campus as a Site of Struggle 8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages. Presiding: Robin S. Hammerman, Stevens Inst. of Tech. Speakers: Basuli Deb, City U of New York; Patricia L. Keeton, Ramapo C; Marcia Newield, Borough of Manhattan Community C, City U of New York; Joseph Ramsey, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Eric Vázquez, Skidmore C Panelists address prevailing states of insecurity in institutions of higher learning, focusing on the threats facing undocumented students, staf, and faculty members and the strengths and shortcomings of the sanctuary movement in confronting these, as well as the continuing state of job-related insecurity experienced by the ever-burgeoning number of non-tenure-track faculty members.
468. Strategic Presentism 8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TM Literary Criticism. Presiding: Caroline E. Levine, Cornell U Speakers: Michael W. Clune, Case Western Reserve U; Abigail Droge, Stanford U; Alexander Galloway, New York U; Anna Kornbluh, U of Illinois, Chicago; Cynthia Nazarian, Northwestern U; Ragini haroor Srinivasan, U of Nevada, Reno; Jefrey Wilson, Harvard U Presentism has oten been the name for an intellectual mistake, but intervening in the present has also been one of the most urgent aims of a political criticism. How might we perform a historical literary studies for the present? Participants from diferent ields, including Renaissance French, new media, and postcolonial studies, briely introduce a keyword or phrase. Active audience participation follows. For related material, write to
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469. Dislocated Identity in Recent South Asian and Diasporic Literature 8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton A special session 1. “Humanimal’s ‘Rescued’ Wolf Girls: Bhanu Kapil’s Investigation of the Displaced,” Diana Arterian, U of Southern California 2. “‘No-man’s-land’: he Production of Spaces of Refuge in Manto’s ‘Toba Tek Singh,’ ” Srigowri Kumar, St. John’s U, NY
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470. Serializing Justice 8:30–9:45 a.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the American Literature Society. Presiding: Anna Mae Duane, U of Connecticut, Storrs 1. “Serialization and Black Girlhood in Frances E. W. Harper’s Trial and Triumph,” Nazera Wright, U of Kentucky 2. “Serialized Activism and Black Modernity,” Irvin Hunt, U of Illinois, Urbana 3. “Serial Forms, Serial Characters, and the Challenges of Racial Justice,” Brooks E. Hefner, James Madison U
471. Confronting the Whiteness of Narratology 8:30–9:45 a.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Sue J. Kim, U of Massachusetts, Lowell Speakers: James Donahue, State U of New York, Potsdam; Christopher Gonzalez, Utah State U; Mark Jerng, U of California, Davis; Catherine Romagnolo, Lebanon Valley C; Hortense Jeanette Spillers, Vanderbilt U Panelists engage the following questions: Why is narratology still predominantly white—in its models, assumptions, and texts? What would it mean to take other narrative or critical traditions as a basis for a theory of narratives? What would it mean to radically rethink the foundations of narrative theory using the concepts of ethnic studies? he goal is, ultimately, to work toward decolonizing the ield of narratology.
472. Rethinking Marlowe and the Aesthetic 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the Marlowe Society of America 1. “Imagining hings: Materialism and Aesthetics in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage,” Rachel Eisendrath, Barnard C 2. “Marlowe in Chains: Renaissance Figures of Literary Transmission,” Jenny C. Mann, Cornell U 3. “Marlowe’s Proof of Pleasure,” Christopher Warley, U of Toronto For related material, visit www .marlowesocietyofamerica.org.
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473. Poetry and Insecurity 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forums GS Poetry and Poetics and TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography. Presiding: Brian Reed, U of Wash ington, Seattle 1. “Wordless Labor: Digitizing Rosaire Appel’s Asemic Poetry,” Tyler Shoemaker, U of California, Santa Barbara 2. “‘E Pluribus Unum’: he United States– American Poetry Collection as a Space of Politi cal and Poetic Intervention,” Juliette Utard, U of Paris 4, Sorbonne 3. “Muriel Rukeyser and the False Security of Coninement,” Vivian R. Pollak, Washington U in St. Louis
474. Transnational Broadcasting: Sot Diplomacy and the Mediations of History 8:30–9:45 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Peter J. Kalliney, U of Kentucky 1. “Changing Mediascapes and Cold War Cul tural Politics: he Transcription Centre’s Africa Abroad,” Julie Cyzewski, Murray State U 2. “Two Women Broadcasters and a Critique of Imperialism,” Daniel Morse, U of Nevada, Reno 3. “Grunwick’s ‘Strikers in Saris’: Revising Re sistance and Devising Sot Diplomacy on BBC Radio,” Sejal Sutaria, King’s C London For related material, write to
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475. Romantic Personiication Reconsidered 8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC English Ro mantic. Presiding: Mark E. Canuel, U of Illinois, Chicago 1. “Soulless, Immortal: he Incorporation of Per sonhood circa 1800,” Daniel Stout, U of Mississippi 2. “Personifying Persons,” Frances Ferguson, U of Chicago 3. “Personiication and the Everyday,” Brian Mc Grath, Clemson U
476. Fraught Logics of Natural Law 8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy West, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Anita Ruth Sokolsky, Williams C 1. “Natural Right, Natural Law, and the Logic of Sacriice in Voltaire’s Treatise on Tolerance,” Anita Ruth Sokolsky
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2. “Welcome to Paris: he Guardians and the Stranger in Rousseau’s ‘Ninth Promenade,’ ” El len S. Burt, U of California, Irvine 3. “‘his Is Not Anthropomorphism’: Benjamin and the Problem of the Anthropocene,” Sara Guyer, U of Wisconsin, Madison Respondent: Gordon Teskey, Harvard U
477. Exploring Black Identity in Raciolinguistic Terms 8:30–9:45 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL Global En glish. Presiding: Carly Houston Overfelt, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 1. “Introducing Raciolinguistics: A Case Study of Charles Chesnutt’s he House behind the Cedars,” Carly Houston Overfelt 2. “When the Exotic Becomes German: On Being Black in the hird Reich,” Andrea Dawn Bryant, Georgetown U 3. “‘he Moments of Living Slowly Revealed heir Coded Meanings’: Wright’s Black Boy as Raciolin guistic Investigation,” Greg Chase, Boston U
478. Writing Studies and Data 8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum RCWS History and heory of Composition. Presiding: Risa Ap plegarth, U of North Carolina, Greensboro 1. “Rethinking the Research Paper in the Light of Citation Project Data,” Sandra Jamieson, Drew U 2. “Five Years of Data: Visualizing the Job Market through Rhetmap,” Jim Ridolfo, U of Kentucky 3. “Dissertations as Disciplinary Data,” Benjamin Miller, U of Pittsburgh
479. he Nahda or Arab Renaissance 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Publications Com mittee. Presiding: Luís Madureira, U of Wisconsin, Madison 1. “Relections on the Nahda,” Muhsin J. al Musawi, Columbia U 2. “Untiming the Modern Arab ‘Renaissance,’ ” Shaden M. Tageldin, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities 3. “Anthologizing the Nahda,” Tarek ElAriss, Dartmouth C Respondent: Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State U
480. Dickens and Resistance 8:30–9:45 a.m., Chelsea, Sheraton
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Program arranged by the Dickens Society. Presiding: Diana C. Archibald, U of Massachusetts, Lowell 1. “A Blot in the heater: Dickens, Macready, and the Quest to ‘Revive the Drama,’ ” James Armstrong, Graduate Center, City U of New York 2. “Dickens and Government Resistance: he Battle to Save Epping Forest,” Sophie ChristmanLavin, Stony Brook U, State U of New York 3. “Dickens and Gender Resistance,” Jolene Zigarovich, U of Northern Iowa 4. “‘Innumerable Goroos Interspersed’: Awkwardness as Resistance in Dickens’s Prose,” Jonathan Farina, Seton Hall U
481. Twenty-First-Century African Writers 8:30–9:45 a.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC African since 1990 1. “Contemporary Literary Prizes and the Framing of African Literature as World Literature in French,” Madeline Bedecarre, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales 2. “he Postcolony and the Road Not Takeable: Southern African Edens from World-Lit to WorldLite,” Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser U 3. “Algérianité, la Littérature-Monde, and the Contemporary Modes of Being an Algerian Author,” Valérie K. Orlando, U of Maryland, College Park 4. “Homegoing: Reading the ‘Global’ African Novel in the Twenty-First Century,” Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Penn State U, University Park
482. What Tenured Professors Can Do about Adjunctiication 8:30–9:45 a.m., Mercury Ballroom, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Carolyn Jane Betensky, U of Rhode Island Speakers: Jennifer Ashton, U of Illinois, Chicago; Michael Bérubé, Penn State U, University Park; Peter D. G. Brown, State U of New York, New Paltz; Janet Galligani Casey, Skidmore C; Seth Kahn, West Chester U; Jennifer Ruth, Portland State U; John Warner, C of Charleston How have some tenured faculty members succeeded in reshaping their departments and institutions into more equitable places of employment? What strategies might encourage more tenured faculty members to act forcefully, from positions of relative security, to help ensure a sustainable future for our students and the profession?
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483. Renegades and Revenge: Hag-Seed and he Heart Goes Last 8:30–9:45 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the Margaret Atwood Society. Presiding: Eleonora Rao, U of Salerno 1. “‘Master(s) of a Full Poor Cell’: Magic and Constraining Spaces in Hag-Seed and he Tempest,” C. Bruna Mancini, U of Calabria 2. “‘Who Are the Inmates and Who Are the Guards?’: Prisons as Sites of Resistance in Atwood,” Karma Waltonen, U of California, Davis 3. “Revenge ‘Melted into Air’: Staging Transformation in Hag-Seed,” Debrah K. Raschke, Southeast Missouri State U 4. “he Heart Goes Last (2015), a Contemporary Narrative of Slavery,” Christine Lorre-Johnston, U of Paris 3
484. heory and Praxis: Visual Media in the Classroom II 8:30–9:45 a.m., Beekman, Hilton A working group. Presiding: Lauren Gaskill, U of California, Irvine Participants: Matthew Dischinger, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Amy E. Elkins, Macalester C; Diego Fernandez, U of California, Irvine; Jared McCoy, U of California, Irvine; Rose Phillips, U of the Incarnate Word; Sarah Welsh, U of Texas, Austin Actor-network theory grants importance to objects as forces that shape the way we think, behave, and relate to others. Maps, infographics, and databases are some of our objects of inquiry. Brief oral presentations precede short workshop modules, which generalize the tools members have used in the classroom and facilitate dialogue about methods and mechanics. his work across disciplines connects us and aids our pedagogical growth. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/theory-and-praxis-visual-media-in-theclassroom/. For the other meetings of the working group, see 253 and 765.
485. Bodies, Transnationalism, and Afect in Recent Hispanic Poetry 8:30–9:45 a.m., Gibson, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Enrique Álvarez, Florida State U 1. “Spanish Crisis Poetry and the Strategies of Survival,” Olga Bezhanova, Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville
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2. “Poéticas afectivas en el espacio social: Respues tas saharauis a preguntas indignadas,” Alberto Lopez Martin, Davidson, NC 3. “Errancia como herencia en Migraciones, de Gloria Gervitz,” Christina KarageorgouBastea, Vanderbilt U For related material, write to
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486. he Power of the Margins: Rethinking Center-Periphery Relations in Premodern Chinese Literature 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse F, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Kathryn Lowry, Art Life Gallery Workshop 1. “Between the Margin and the Center: Antholo gizing the Works of Courtesans in Ming Dynasty Nanjing,” Jiani Chen, U of London 2. “Writing Political Personas: Arguments from the Margins in Ling Mengchu’s Pai’an jingqi,” Ewan Macdonald, U of London 3. “Staging the Enlightenment: Reconciling Liter ary and Religious Practices in Tu Long’s Tanhua ji,” Mengxiao Wang, Yale U 4. “he Margin for Reality: Problematizing the Front Matter of Traditional Chinese Drama Prints,” Guojun Wang, Vanderbilt U For related material, write to mengxiao.wang@ yale.edu ater 31 Dec.
487. Lessing’s Laughter 8:30–9:45 a.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the G. E. Lessing Society. Presiding: Mary Bricker, Southern Illinois U, Car bondale 1. “Lessing’s Lyric Laughter,” Richard E. Schade, U of Cincinnati 2. “Satire and Pedagogical Laughter in Lessing’s Early Comedies,” Edward T. Potter, Mississippi State U 3. “‘Was haben Sie gegen das Lachen?’: Lessing’s Laughing Bodies,” Pascale LaFountain, Montclair State U 4. “Laughter in Lessing’s Nathan,” Anne Lagny, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon Respondent: Mary Helen Dupree, Georgetown U For related material, write to
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488. he Queer Nadir 8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Tess Chakkalakal, Bowdoin C
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Speakers: Julia Charles, Auburn U, Auburn; Crystal Donkor, State U of New York, New Paltz; Timothy Griiths, U of Virginia; Gregory Laski, United States Air Force Acad.; Kirin Wachter Grene, New York U Panelists engage African American literature of the postreconstruction era alongside recent de velopments in the intersectional study of gender, sexuality, and race ater the emergence of queer theory and queerofcolor critique. We will dis cuss, in particular, the utility of queer theory to a better understanding of the sexual politics of this period and its discontents.
489. Conrad’s Politics of Fear 8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the Joseph Conrad Society of America. Presiding: David Mulry, C of Coastal Georgia 1. “Seeing hings: ‘Autocracy and War’ (1905) and News Reporting in the Age of Knowledge,” Stephen Donovan, Uppsala U 2. “Submerged by Fear: he Politics of Wartime Hysteria in Conrad and Conan Doyle,” Jarica Watts, Brigham Young U, UT 3. “Autonomy and Arendtian Cliché: Reading Banality and Monstrosity in Conrad’s he Secret Agent,” James Brophy, Boston U 4. “Doubling Down on the Politics of Fear,” Joyce Piell Wexler, Loyola U, Chicago Respondent: John G. Peters, U of North Texas For related material, visit conrad2018mla.com ater 30 Dec.
490. Blurring Boundaries: Designing an Interdisciplinary Humanities Curriculum 8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the Regional MLAs. Presiding: Claire Sommers, Graduate Center, City U of New York 1. “New Strategies for FirstYear Writing: Music Videos and Rhetoric,” Nicole Lowman, U at Buf falo, State U of New York 2. “Interdisciplinary Composition: Hybridizing a Required Course,” Jocelyn Marshall, U at Buf falo, State U of New York 3. “Centering Humanities Skills in the General Education Curriculum: he Roger Seminar,” Ja son D. Jacobs, Roger Williams U 4. “Building Bridges: he Critical heory Certii cate Program at the Graduate Center, City Univer sity of New York,” Claire Sommers
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491. “#ASESoWhite”: Combating Racialism in Early Medieval Studies 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Old English. Presiding: Renee R. Trilling, U of Illinois, Urbana Speakers: Tifany Beechy, U of Colorado, Boulder; Donna Beth Ellard, U of Denver; Mary Rambaran-Olm, U of Glasgow; Eduardo Ramos, Penn State U, University Park; Sharon Rhodes, U of Rochester Anglo-Saxonists consider how racialism operates both within our period and within our ield. Presentations examine various constructions of race in the medieval and postmedieval period, this legacy in the academy, and scholarlship and public engagement to complicate and combat political drives that rely on an oversimpliied, erroneous, and anachronous idea of Anglo-Saxon England. For related material, visit www.academia .edu/32168392/MLA_Old_English_ Session_ Descriptions_ 2018.
492. Narrative Empathy, Insecurity, and the Humanities II 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton South, Hilton A working group. Presiding: Barbara Simerka, Queens C, City U of New York Participants: Megan Boler, U of Toronto; Mark Bracher, Kent State U; Emanuele Castano, New School; Winnie W. Chan, Virginia Commonwealth U; Suzanne Parker Keen, Washington and Lee U; David Kidd, New School; Polina Kukar, U of Toronto; Saumya Lal, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Brais D. Leon, Queens C, City U of New York; Seth Michelson, Washington and Lee U; Katharine Polak, Wittenberg U Scholars of literature, education, and cognitive science address narrative empathy and #States of Insecurity. Panelists report on empirical research of empathy in the lab and classroom, update work on the limits of narrative empathy, and ofer studies of global literatures and media that depict and problematize empathy for victims of social and economic marginalization, violence, and incarceration. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/narrative-empathy-insecurity-and-the -humanities/ ater 10 Dec. For the other meetings of the working group, see 251 and 772.
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493. Race and Aesthetics in French and Francophone Culture II 8:30–9:45 a.m., Regent, Hilton A working group Participants: Nasia Anam, Williams C; Jiewon Baek, Covenant C; Alessandra Benedicty, City C, City U of New York; Cecile Bishop, New York U; Lia Brozgal, U of California, Los Angeles; Katelyn Knox, U of Central Arkansas; Matt Reeck, U of California, Los Angeles; Mark A. Reid, U of Florida; Zoe Roth, Durham U; Lise-Ségolène V. Schreier, Fordham U; Christophe M. Wall-Romana, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities he working group explores what the study of the aesthetic can contribute to emerging conversations about race in France and introduces a more global context to critical race studies by bringing it into dialogue with francophone studies. What does it mean to see race in literature or use race as an analytical tool? What makes a piece of art about race? What are the critic’s role and responsibilities in making race an object of study? For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/race-and-aesthetics-in-french-and -francophone-culture/ ater 1 Nov. For the other meetings of the working group, see 250 and 773.
494. Pre-Texts Workshop Series III 8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Doris Sommer, Harvard U Speaker: Jason Charles Courtmanche, U of Connecticut, Storrs his workshop series focuses on the practice of interpreting a literary work through art making. Participants experience connecting with a text, emotionally and intellectually, by playing with it to create a new work of art. he activity makes experientially real how treating a piece of writing as a pretext for play replaces fear of diiculty with the motivating energy of engaging with a challenge. Participants should plan to attend all three workshops (4, 218, and 494). Preregistration is required.
495. “Uninished Business”: Bioictions from the Antipodes 8:30–9:45 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Michael Lackey, U of Minnesota, Morris 1. “Of Jimmie and the Neds: Killer Bioictions from the Antipodes,” Kelly Gardiner, La Trobe U; Catherine Padmore, La Trobe U
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496. Interviews in the Digital Age: Making the Most of First-Round Video Interviews 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton North, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Presiding: Lisa Chinn, Duke U; Niko Tracksdorf, U of Rhode Island 1. “Understanding and Negotiating the Skype and Other Digital Technologies Interview,” Alain Philippe Durand, U of Arizona 2. “Skype Interviews: oughts from Both Sides of the Screen,” Set h . Reno, Auburn U, Auburn 3. “e Diferent Art of the Skype Interview,” Mi chael Carl Schoenfeldt, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor For related material, write to niko@tracksdorf .com ater 20 Dec.
Saturday, 6 January 9:45 a.m. 497. Teaching Early American Literature in the Digital Age: Crèvecœur’s Letters from an American Farmer, a Digital Critical Edition 9:45–11:45 a.m., Exhibit Hall Entrance, Rhinelander Gallery, Hilton Presenters: Mary McAleer Balkun, Seton Hall U; Diana Hope Polley, Southern New Hampshire U Highlighting work with the open-source scholarly publishing platform Scalar and Crèvecœur’s Letters, this poster presentation comprises a traditional print poster outlining the context of the project and a concurrent digital projection of the online edition. Attendees can experiment with embedded links, learn about the application, and discuss the practical and pedagogical implications of the platform and the edition.
Saturday, 6 January 10:15 a.m. 498. Insecure Receptions 10:15–11:30 a.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the Reception Study Society
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1. “he Forceful Insecurity of Minority Youth Authorship: hea Behran’s ‘Anti-Semitism,’ ” Amy Fish, Harvard U 2. “Staging Reception: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, ‘Babington White,’ and Colonel Shandon Face Of in the Victorian Press,” Naomi Salmon, U of Wisconsin, Madison 3. “‘Facts Are Stubborn hings’: Reception heory in the Forgeries of Iolo Morganwg,” Timothy Heimlich, U of California, Berkeley 4. “New Propaganda and the Regression of Reading: Harold Lasswell Counts the News,” Maxwell Larson, Penn State U, University Park For related material, write to
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499. Ethel’s Love-Life and the Queer Imagination of Margaret J. M. Sweat 10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Christopher D. Castiglia, Penn State U, University Park 1. “Sweat, Sand, Sex,” Christopher Looby, U of California, Los Angeles 2. “Margaret Sweat’s Generic Anachronisms,” Jennifer L. Putzi, C of William and Mary 3. “Serial Sweat,” Dorri Beam, Syracuse U
500. he Politics and Poetics of Nostalgia in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese and LLC Ming and Qing Chinese. Presiding: Yiju Huang, Fordham U 1. “Recollecting Ruins: Republican Nanjing and Layered Nostalgia,” Yun Zhu, Temple U, Philadelphia 2. “Nostalgia, Aesthetics, and Postcolonial Condition,” Yu-Min Chen, St. Mary’s C, MD 3. “Hindsight as Foresight: In Search of Ecological Imagination in the Literature of China’s RootsSeeking Youth,” Xinmin Liu, Washington State U, Pullman 4. “Nostalgia and Chinese Popular Culture in a Global Age,” Sijia Yao, U of Nebraska, Lincoln
501. Propaganda, Polemic, Persuasion: Changing Media and Modes in Medieval and Renaissance France 10:15–11:30 a.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC 16thCentury French and LLC Medieval French. Presiding: Elizabeth Black, Old Dominion U; Daisy J. Delogu, U of Chicago
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502. Reimagining Cuba in a Postnational Context: New Avenues in Cultural Production 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Santiago JuanNavarro, Florida International U 1. “Collecting, Curating, and Archiving Cuban Art: A Material Culture Approach,” Raúl Rubio, New School 2. “Drawing Queer Utopias: Temporality and Queer Visual Art in Post-Soviet Cuba,” David Tenorio, U of California, Davis 3. “New Trends in Cuban Literature: Crisis of Identity Politics and the Emergence of Global Fictions,” Catalina Quesada Gómez, U of Miami 4. “Gaming Cuba: Reimagining Havana in Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag,” Emmanuel Vincenot, U de Paris-Est
503. Research on Advanced-Level SecondLanguage Composition 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL Applied Linguistics. Presiding: Per Urlaub, U of Texas, Austin 1. “Promoting Second-Language Writing through Collaboration: Are Two Heads Really Better?” Brian Olovson, U of Iowa 2. “Collaborative Pedagogies for Advanced L2 Composition,” Mariana Bono, Princeton U; Adriana Merino, Princeton U 3. “In heir Own Words: Student Perceptions of Writing in a Foreign Language Major,” Ana Anderson, Franklin and Marshall C; Mandy Menke, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities
504. Hip-Hop History Lessons: Tragic Form, Truth, and Fiction in Hamilton: An American Musical 10:15–11:30 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton
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505. Revolution, Take 2: Receptions of Early Soviet Culture in Postwar Germany 10:15–11:30 a.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German 1. “A Form beyond Art,” Kerstin Stakemeier, Academy of Arts, Neuremberg 2. “Biopolitics of the Machine: Ehrenburg’s he Life of the Automobile,” Andreas A. Huyssen, Columbia U 3. “Dissident Socialist Realism in the East German Underground of the Seventies,” Nicole Burgoyne, Wheaton C, MA Respondent: Veronika Fuechtner, Dartmouth C
506. Frederick Douglass at Two Hundred: Literary Reconsiderations 10:15–11:30 a.m., Central Park East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Robert S. Levine, U of Maryland, College Park Speakers: Anna Brickhouse, U of Virginia; John Ernest, U of Delaware, Newark; Jennifer James, George Washington U; Derrick R. Spires, U of Illinois, Urbana; John Staufer, Harvard U; Autumn Womack, Princeton U On the occasion of the two-hundreth anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, panelists address new ways of thinking about him as a literary igure. he speakers take up his writings and inluence on African American and United States literary history. Panelists explore such topics as Douglass the journalist, Douglass’s impact on the progressive movement, and Douglass as an ecocritic.
507. Precarious Bonds 10:15–11:30 a.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Shakespeare. Presiding: Michelle M. Dowd, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 1. “he Political Physics of Nothing,” Amanda Bailey, U of Maryland, College Park
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2. “Fatherless Venice,” James J. Marino, Cleveland State U 3. “Rude Civility and the Many-Headed Multitude: Community in Coriolanus,” David Hershinow, Princeton U Respondent: John Kerrigan, U of Cambridge, St. John’s C
508. Narrative (and) heory in the Environmental Humanities 10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton A special session 1. “Rethinking Focalization for Econarratology: Aerial Description and Environmental Form,” David Rodriguez, Stony Brook U, State U of New York 2. “Narrating the Mesh,” Marco Caracciolo, Ghent U 3. “How Do ‘We’ Narrate in the Anthropocene?” Erin James, U of Idaho
509. Queer Cruising and Caregiving 10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Marty Fink, Ryerson U 1. “‘he Most Important hing Was Human Intimacy’: Ontologies of Cruising and Support Systems in Europe during World War II,” Christian Bancrot, U of Houston 2. “Cruising HIV/AIDS, Disability, and Communities of Care,” Marty Fink 3. “Relying on the Kindness of Strangers: Submission and Caregiving in BDSM Cruising,” Dejan Kuzmanovic, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
510. Memory and the Archive 10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Publications Committee. Presiding: Jessica Berman, U of Maryland Baltimore County Speakers: Meredith Benjamin, Barnard C; Edward Chamberlain, U of Washington, Tacoma; Marthe Djilo Kamga, independent director; Frieda Ekotto, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Duke U; Nikolaus Wasmoen, U at Buffalo, State U of New York his session fosters conversation among scholars engaged in the creation, preservation, digitization, and critique of archives. heir archives are variously deined, whether as a collection of material artifacts that requires interpretation or as a body of work that might enable relection on the relations among literature, visual media, and memory.
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511. Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American. Presiding: Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Purdue U, West Lafayette 1. “Trash Talking, Tree Logging, and Rat Infestations on the Wall: Waste Management, Government Corruption, and Environmentalism in Beirut Graiti,” Nadine Sinno, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U 2. “When the Desert Isn’t Enough: heeb Past and Present,” George Potter, Valparaiso U 3. “Exploding the Frame: Resilience, Reconstruction, and Resistance in Lamia Ziadé’s Bye Bye Babylon (2011) and Zeina Abirached’s A Game for Swallows (2012),” Dominic Davies, U of Oxford
512. Genre, sexualité et politique dans le monde francophone 10:15–11:30 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the Conseil International d’Études Francophones. Presiding: Jimia Boutouba, Santa Clara U 1. “Genre, sexualité et politique dans le dernier combat du Captain Ni’mat,” Ghada Mourad, U of California, Irvine 2. “Les hommes du box-oice Québécois: La reconstruction sérielle du genre et du sexe dans les nouvelles franchises cinématographiques,” Stéfany Boisvert, McGill U 3. “Sexualité dans les romans de Sami Tchak: Transgression et rupture,” Vincent Simedoh, Dalhousie U 4. “Politique du trouble et dissidence chez les femmes cinéastes du Maghreb,” Jimia Boutouba For related material, visit secure.cief.org/wp/ ?page_id=837.
513. States of Racialized Insecurity: Antiracist Literacies in Narratives, Pedagogies, and Community Investigations 10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the National Council of Teachers of English. Presiding: Steven Alvarez, St. John’s U, NY 1. “Counterstory: he Writing and Rhetoric of Critical Race heory,” Aja Y. Martinez, Syracuse U 2. “‘Love Is Life Force’: June Jordan’s Rhetoric for Writing Teachers,” Eric Darnell Pritchard, U of Illinois, Urbana
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3. “Citizen Sensors: Using Citizen Science and Participatory Design to Investigate Asthma,” Donnie Sackey, Wayne State U
514. Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts 10:15–11:30 a.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Japanese since 1900 and LLC Japanese to 1900. Presiding: Michael Emmerich, U of California, Los Angeles 1. “Yashiro’s Tears: Afect and Aura in the Digital Archive,” Jonathan Zwicker, U of California, Berkeley 2. “Applying Digital Corpus Analysis to Heian Period Vernacular Literary Texts,” Naomi Fukumori, Ohio State U, Columbus 3. “Developing Interactive Visualizations for Teaching and Exploring Japanese Text Corpora,” Peter Broadwell, U of California, Los Angeles
515. Into and out of Europe 10:15–11:30 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS European Regions. Presiding: Sebastian Wogenstein, U of Connecticut, Storrs 1. “Assemblages of Place: Vanguards, Europeans, and a Fractured Globe,” Judith Paltin, U of British Columbia 2. “Translating Cosmopolitanism into Chinese,” David Tse-chien Pan, U of California, Irvine 3. “Translating Harlem into Germany,” Anna Muenchrath, U of Wisconsin, Madison Respondent: Corinne Laura Scheiner, Colorado C
516. Literature, Race, and Violence 10:15–11:30 a.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forums LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone and CLCS Global Anglophone. Presiding: Omaar Hena, Wake Forest U Speakers: Aruni Mahapatra, Emory U; Debali Mookerjea-Leonard, James Madison U; Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, U of North Dakota; Jennifer Yusin, Drexel U Panelists explore how structures of violence— stemming from colonialism, slavery, inequality, and globalization—shape igurations of the body across the Caribbean, Africa, and India. hey also question the formal, aesthetic strategies authors deploy to register, contest, and potentially reimagine racial violence in conditions of insecurity, particularly for those most vulnerable to bodily harm and under threat of erasure and forgetting.
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517. Rights under Repression 10:15–11:30 a.m., Mercury Ballroom, Hilton A linked session arranged in conjunction with the Presidential Plenary: #States of Insecurity (360). Presiding: David heo Goldberg, U of California, Irvine 1. “#FearlessGestures: Disturbing Insecurity States Now,” Ricardo Dominguez, U of California, San Diego 2. “Academics for Peace,” Zeynep Gambetti, Bogazici U 3. “Unlearning Human Rights,” Ariella Azoulay, Brown U 4. “No Easy Answer: Emergent Human Rights and Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean Contests,” Yvette Christiansë, Barnard C he panel focuses on critical work promoting human rights in a global context and in the face of broadening cultures of repression.
518. Pater and Son: Fathers in the Work of William Carlos Williams 10:15–11:30 a.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the William Carlos Williams Society. Presiding: Kerry Driscoll, U of St. Joseph 1. “he Missing Fathers in Paterson,” Christopher John MacGowan, C of William and Mary 2. “‘Pop! So, You’re Not Dead!’: Transformation and Revelation in William Carlos Williams’s ‘Burning the Christmas Greens’ and ‘he Sparrow,’ ” Paul R. Cappucci, Georgian Court U 3. “Fighting the ‘Darker Whispering / hat Death Invents’: Williams and His Figurative Father,” Ian D. Copestake, William Carlos Williams Review
519. Black Literary heory in the Time of Trump 10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC African American. Presiding: Miriam haggert, U of Iowa Speakers: Carter Mathes, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Koritha Mitchell, Ohio State U, Columbus; Derik Smith, U at Albany, State U of New York; Dana A. Williams, Howard U Donald Trump’s presidency has resulted in increased forms of violence against and heightened feelings of precarity among communities of color in the United States and abroad. During a period that contests the presence of African Americans in multiple ways, what lessons can be learned from African American iction and culture? What strategies, for healing or resistance, are available for those who study black iction?
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520. he Creative Writer’s Obligation in the Age of ____ 10:15–11:30 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum RCWS Creative Writing. Presiding: Jason A. Schneiderman, Borough of Manhattan Community C, City U of New York 1. “No More Tasks,” Wayne Koestenbaum, Graduate Center, City U of New York 2. “he Apprehensive Imagination: Writing in Fear of an Antagonistic Audience,” Gregory Pardlo, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 3. “Use It or Lose It: A Question of Relevancy,” Ru Freeman, Columbia U
521. Writing Nursing: Translating Practice into Literature 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies. Presiding: homas Lawrence Long, U of Connecticut, Storrs Speakers: John Dinolfo, Medical U of South Carolina; Sören Fröhlich, independent scholar; Christine Hallett, U of Manchester; Marguerite Helen Helmers, U of Wisconsin, Oshkosh; Jane E. Schultz, Indiana U–Purdue U, Indianapolis While the literary canon is well furnished with work by or about physicians, canonical writing by nurses is sparse and less well documented in scholarly literature. Presenting “lash papers,” panelists aim to remedy the inattention to nurse narratives by focusing on nurses’ representations of wartime trauma, triage, and testimony from the American Civil War and World War I.
522. Nonhuman Forms II 10:15–11:30 a.m., Regent, Hilton A working group Participants: Ron Ben-Tovim, Tel Aviv U; Brent Dawson, U of Oregon; Rinni Haji Amran, U Brunei Darussalam; Pia Heidemeier, U of Cologne; Eunice Lim, Nanyang Technological U; Carlos Nugent, Yale U; Indu Ohri, U of Virginia; Samantha Pergadia, Washington U in St. Louis; Emily Simon, Brown U; Gregory Frank Tague, St. Francis C Humanistic inquiry of late is obsessed with the nonhuman. Uncoupling the humanities from the human, the range of approaches operating under the umbrella of the nonhuman turn has reconigured the standard divide between subject and object, agency and volition, person and thing. Participants grapple with the nonhuman in all
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its forms (from worms to cyborgs) and methods (from animal studies to new materialism). For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/nonhuman-forms/ ater 31 Dec. For the other meetings of the working group, see 215 and 726.
523. Psychoanalytic Insecurities II 10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton North, Hilton A working group Participants: Zahid R. Chaudhary, Princeton U; Eleanor Craig, Harvard Divinity School; David L. Eng, U of Pennsylvania; Sheldon George, Simmons C; Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School; Azeen Khan, Dartmouth C; Ramsey McGlazer, U of California, Berkeley; Antonio Viego, Duke U; Damon Young, U of California, Berkeley Critiques from feminist, queer, critical race, and postcolonial perspectives have struggled with what it means to theorize with psychoanalysis. Participants consider the risks and potentialities that come with taking up psychoanalytic frameworks. Why, when it raises political, epistemological, and disciplinary suspicions, does psychoanalysis remain compelling for analyzing race, gender, coloniality, and sexuality? For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/psychoanalytic-insecurities/ ater 22 Dec. For the other meetings of the working group, see 216 and 730.
524. Literature, Aesthetics, and Cultural Exchange between East Asia and Southeast Asia and Britain and North America in the Long Nineteenth Century II 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton A working group. Presiding: Elizabeth Chang, U of Missouri, Columbia; Ross G. Forman, U of Warwick; Anna Maria Jones, U of Central Florida Participants: Jennifer L. Hargrave, Baylor U; Elizabeth H. Ho, U of Hong Kong; Jenny Holt, Meiji U; Kendall Johnson, U of Hong Kong; Peter Kitson, U of East Anglia; Waiyee Loh, U of Warwick; Junjie Luo, Gettysburg C; Flair Donglai Shi, U of Oxford; Sarah Tiin, independent scholar Scholars from several disciplines—English and American literature and culture, comparative literature, Asian literature, and art history—explore cultural and aesthetic exchanges between Asia and the anglophone world in the long nineteenth century and consider how these exchanges continue to inform the global circulation of literature and culture today.
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525. MLA Style Workshop: Creating WorksCited Lists with the MLA Core Elements 10:15–11:30 a.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center Speakers: Angela Gibson, MLA; Jennifer A. Rappaport, MLA In this workshop MLA staf editors will provide an in-depth explanation of the method for documenting sources explained in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook. Participants will gain handson experience crating a range of works-cited-list entries using the new approach. Suitable for librarians and teachers as well as for students at all levels.
526. Social Emotions in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French Self-Writing 10:15–11:30 a.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC 17thCentury French and LLC 18th-Century French. Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard U; Laurence Mall, U of Illinois, Urbana Speakers: Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Swarthmore C; Fayçal Falaky, Tulane U; Katharine Ann Jensen, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge; Kathrina A. LaPorta, New York U; Jean-Alexandre Perras, U of Oxford Panelists discuss the intricate connection of emotions, moral norms, and collective values in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, adopting a comparative approach that encompasses both centuries while analyzing various irst-person genres (e.g., correspondence, memoirs, pamphlets) as a particularly fertile area for the study of the cultural, political, and ethical models that could be derived from the representations of social emotions.
527. International Women’s Writing during the Spanish Civil War: Archival Recoveries from Insecure Times 10:15–11:30 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Rowena KennedyEpstein, U of Bristol 1. “Recovering Black Women’s Life Writing from the Spanish Civil War,” Anne Donlon, MLA 2. “Muriel Rukeyser’s Spanish Civil War Translations: Archives of Solidarity and Resistance,” Evelyn Scaramella, Manhattan C 3. “States of Vulnerability and the Spanish Civil War Refugee Trail,” J. Ashley Foster, California State U, Fresno
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528. Leonora Carrington at One Hundred 10:15–11:30 a.m., Hudson, Hilton A special session 1. “Signs ‘of the Same Sensation’: he BecomingPainting of Leonora Carrington’s Fiction,” Claire Daigle, San Francisco Art Inst. 2. “(Self-)Translating Madness and Trauma: Leonora Carrington’s En Bas / Down Below,” Nathalie Segeral, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa 3. “‘he Earth Itself Seemed to Yield Up Its Own Life’: Leonora Carrington’s Gothic Anthropocene,” Andrew Ferguson, Washington and Lee U For related material, write to
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529. “Verbivocovisual”: Border Forms and the Legacies of Experimental Brazilian Media and Concretism 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the American Portuguese Studies Association and the forum LLC LusoBrazilian. Presiding: Adam Joseph Shellhorse, Temple U, Philadelphia 1. “André Vallias’s Media Poetry as Open Diagram,” Alessandra Santos, U of British Columbia 2. “‘Verbivocovisual’: Border Forms and the Legacies of Experimental Brazilian Media and Concretism,” Adam Joseph Shellhorse 3. “he Concrete Poetics of Tom Zé,” Christopher John Dunn, Tulane U Respondent: Charles A. Perrone, U of Florida
530. William Faulkner’s New York 10:15–11:30 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the William Faulkner Society. Presiding: Ted Atkinson, Mississippi State U 1. “Faulkner’s Puppet Worlds, from New York to Yoknapatawpha,” Mary A. Knighton, Aoyama Gakuin U 2. “he South’s Outer Limits: Staging he Sound and the Fury,” Julie Napolin, New School 3. “One Fith Avenue: William Faulkner Romances Manhattan . . . and Joan Williams,” Lisa Catherine Hickman, independent scholar
531. Meter, Rhyme, and Dialogue with the Other: Translating from Arabic, Russian, and Spanish into English 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse C, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Karen Emmerich, Princeton U
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532. Marginality in Spanish heater II 10:15–11:30 a.m., Beekman, Hilton A working group. Presiding: David RodriguezSolas, U of Massachusetts, Amherst Participants: Jennifer Duprey, Rutgers U, Newark; Esther Fernández, Rice U; Elena Garcia-Martin, U of Utah; Antonio Guijarro-Donadios, Worcester State U; Cristina Martínez-Carazo, U of California, Davis; Harrison Meadows, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Anton Pujol, U of North Carolina, Charlotte Participants address how theater has presented and represented marginal subjects from early modern plays to our most immediate present. Group discussions aim at elucidating the theatrical mechanisms by which the constant presence of marginal igures on stage negotiates the nation’s social realities. For related material, visit itpn.mla.hcommons/ .org/ ater 1 Nov. For the other meeting of the working group, see 217.
533. From CFP to Publication: Developing a Successful Conference Panel 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Oice of the Executive Director Speakers: Amanda Caleb, Misericordia U; Daniela D’Eugenio, Vanderbilt U; Randy Laist, Goodwin C; Carine M. Mardorossian, U at Bufalo, State U of New York; Derek McGrath, U at Bufalo, State U of New York; Laurence D. Roth, Susquehanna U; Brandi So, Stony Brook U, State U of New York; Simona Wright, C of New Jersey Scholars guide audience members through all steps in organizing panels for language and literature conferences: writing the proposal, promoting the call for papers, curating abstracts, facilitating discussion among panelists and audience members, and developing panels into publications. Audience members are encouraged to ofer advice from their own experiences. For related material, visit dereksmcgrath .wordpress.com ater 3 Nov.
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534. Comparative, National, and World Cinema II 10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton South, Hilton A working group. Presiding: Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, U of Illinois, Urbana Participants: Tara Coleman, LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York; Vivian Kao, Lawrence Technological U; Laura Lee, Florida State U; Jeffrey Leichman, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge; Katharina Loew, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Qinna Shen, Bryn Mawr C; Song Shi, Minzu U, Beijing; Pavitra Sundar, Hamilton C his working group brings together scholars who have navigated the hybrid territory of cinema studies in language and literature and in humanities departments. All participants have a strong interest in both literature and cinema and bring their perspectives on at least one national cinema and a comparative context in which that cinema participates in a dialogue with another tradition. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/comparative-national-and-world-cinema/ ater 31 Oct. For the other meeting of the working group, see 208.
535. Race and the Victorians II 10:15–11:30 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton A working group Participants: Zarena Aslami, Michigan State U; Sukanya Banerjee, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Jessica Durgan, Bemidji State U; Taryn Hakala, U of California, Merced; Mary-Catherine Harrison, U of Detroit-Mercy; Jodie Matthews, U of Huddersield; Michael Meeuwis, U of Warwick; Lucy Sheehan, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi; Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester C; Doreen hierauf, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Assuming race is a complex, contested concept rather than a self-evident or monolithic term referring primarily to colonized peoples, participants challenge assumptions that Britishness is synonymous with whiteness, examine representations of race in a wide variety of genres, complicate theories of Victorian race, consider complex relationships between race and other identity categories, and address pedagogical implications. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/race-and-the-victorians/ ater 1 Nov. For the other meeting of the working group, see 210.
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536. State Universities of Insecurity 10:15–11:30 a.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Samuel Cohen, U of Missouri, Columbia Speakers: Linda Camarasana, State U of New York, Old Westbury; Peter Caster, U of South Carolina, Spartanburg; Jonathan Beecher Field, Clemson U; Alina Gharabegian, New Jersey City U; Sean Grattan, U of Kent; Karin E. Westman, Kansas State U; Marjorie Worthington, Eastern Illinois U his session focuses on the state of insecurity in which many who work at public universities now ind themselves. In this era of budget cuts and attacks on curriculum, workload, and speech, faculty members feel as if they, their schools, and public higher education itself are operating under siege. Participants talk about the environment in which they work and the ways in which they have responded to it as scholars, teachers, administrators, and citizens.
537. Precarious Rhetorics 10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum RCWS History and heory of Rhetoric 1. “Slow Death and Precision Medicine,” Christa Teston, Ohio State U, Columbus 2. “Gendering Terror: Precarious Rhetorics, ISIS, and the Global Right,” Wendy Hesford, Ohio State U, Columbus 3. “Gendering Terror: Precarious Narratives and Yazidi Genocide,” Amy Shuman, Ohio State U, Columbus 4. “Precarious Lives and Object Metrics during the Syrian Refugee Crisis,” Lavinia Hirsu, U of Glasgow
538. Carmen Boullosa and Eloy Urroz in Conversation 10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Sunyoung Kim, Purdue U, West Lafayette Speakers: Carmen Boullosa, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Eloy Urroz, he Citadel he poet, novelist, and playwright Carmen Boullosa (Duerme, Cielos de la tierra, Las paredes hablan, A Narco History), whose work has examined gender roles in Latin America and Mexican identity in relation to the United States border, joins Eloy Urroz to discuss her writing career and to explore Mexican culture and identity within social and historical contexts.
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540. Queer Insurgencies 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton Program arranged by the GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages. Presiding: Jenny M. James, Paciic Lutheran U 1. “Something in the Holy Water Ain’t Clean: On the Bottom heology of Hal Bennett’s Lord of Dark Places,” Omari Weekes, Willamette U 2. “Retheorizing Queerness: Exploring a Queer New Materialist Approach to Sikh Spatial Representations in South Asian Films,” Vinamarata Kaur, U of Cincinnati 3. “he Queer Shape of Solitude: Ocean Vuong’s Poetry and Resistance in Respite,” Summer Kim Lee, Dartmouth C 4. “Trans of Color Critique before Transsexuality,” Julian Gill-Peterson, U of Pittsburgh Respondent: Elliott Powell, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities
541. Global Perspectives on Aging in Literature and Film 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Age Studies. Presiding: Jacob Jewusiak, Valdosta State U 1. “Nokomis, Grandmother, Moon: Primordial Always-Anchor for the People,” Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy, U of Victoria 2. “Livestock and Aterlife Companions in Lee Chung-ryoul’s Old Partner and Jin Mo-young’s
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My Love, Don’t Cross hat River,” Eunjung Kim, Syracuse U 3. “Narrating Forgetting: Arno Geiger’s he Old King in His Exile and Cyrille Ofermans’s Why I Have to Lie to My Demented Mother,” Ulla Kriebernegg, U of Graz 4. “Animating Age and Agency in Javier Recio Gracia’s he Lady and the Reaper and Kunio Kato’s Tsumiki no Ie,” Sally Chivers, Trent U
542. Against Prison Writing: Reimagining French and Francophone Carceral Spaces 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Oliver Davis, Warwick U 1. “he Prison Form of Social-Scientiic Prison Writing: A Genealogical Critique of Didier Fassin’s L’ombre du monde (2015),” Oliver Davis 2. “From Carceral Economy to Ecology: Writing the Ruins of the Penal-scape,” Sophie Fuggle, Nottingham Trent U 3. “Dark Tourism, Penal Heritage, and Recovering Transcolonial Histories,” Charles Forsdick, U of Liverpool
543. he Rise of Latinx Literature for Youth 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the Children’s Literature Association. Presiding: Marilisa Jiménez García, Lehigh U 1. “Navigating the Borderlands: Childhood and the Power of the Mestiza Consciousness in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Bilingual Picture Books,” Cristina Rhodes, Texas A&M U, Commerce 2. “Learning Unbounded: Emancipatory Education in Latinx Young Adult Fiction,” Ashley Perez, Ohio State U, Columbus 3. “Conocimiento Narratives: (Re)Imagining the Künstlerroman for Latina Girls,” Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez, LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York
544. Chaucerian Precarity 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Chaucer 1. “he Precarity of the Prostitute: Chaucer’s Summoner and the Institution of the Sex Market,” Robert W. Epstein, Fairield U 2. “Squeezed Chaucer,” Wan-Chuan Kao, Washington and Lee U 3. “Environmental Bodies,” Eleanor Johnson, Columbia U
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545. Sets, Spaces, and Stages of Pre-cinema, 1750–1899 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding: Leigh Mercer, U of Washington, Seattle 1. “Mapping the Entertainment of Pre-cinematic Modernity from 1750 to 1850: A Magic Lantern District in Madrid,” Rebecca Haidt, Ohio State U, Columbus 2. “Technology, Stagecrat, Performative Styles, and Audiences in 1896 Spain: Edwin Rousby’s Animatograph and Jean Busseret’s Cinematographe,” Luis Guadaño, Old Dominion U 3. “he Portrait of Women in Iberian Narratives of the Pre-cinema Era: From the Struggle on Paper to the Sexual Objectiication in Film,” Miquel Bota, California State U, Sacramento
546. Margaret Fuller: New Critical Approaches 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton Program arranged by the Margaret Fuller Society 1. “Critique as Afect in Margaret Fuller’s Transcendentalist Writings,” Mark Russell Gallagher, U of California, Los Angeles 2. “he Trouble with Gender for Margaret Fuller,” Christina Katopodis, Graduate Center, City U of New York 3. “Haunting Afect in Fuller and horeau,” Katie Simon, Georgia C
547. Sound Studies 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Late-19thand Early-20th-Century American. Presiding: Gavin Jones, Stanford U Speakers: Alex Benson, Bard C; Mark Goble, U of California, Berkeley; Zachary Marshall, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Jennifer Stoever, Binghamton U, State U of New York; Justin C. Tackett, Stanford U; Joshua Logan Wall, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor Panelists explore the complex relation between the graphic and the sonic in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American literature and culture. Brief presentations trace sonic discourse across diferent cultural contexts to spur conversation about relations between technologies of transcription and a series of vernacular and nontraditional voices, hence bringing to the fore a world of marginalized sound.
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548. Connected Academics: What Students Want 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Connected Academics Project. Presiding: Eric Wertheimer, Arizona State U Speakers: Laura De Vos, U of Washington, Seattle; Sarah Hildebrand, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Jessica Holmes, U of Washington, Seattle; George L. Justice, Arizona State U; Jacqui Pratt, U of Washington, Seattle What do PhD students really want? Doctoral students relect on their wishes and needs in the context of their job search and careers. Short presentations focus on one aspect of a program in the languages and literatures: mentoring, curriculum, dissertation, or career preparation. Conversation between moderators and the audience follows.
549. Poetry, Paratext, and Punctuation 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Poetry and Poetics. Presiding: Meta DuEwa Jones, Howard U Speakers: Lisa A. Hollenbach, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk U; Benjamin F. Lee, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kirsty Singer, U of California, Irvine; Jennifer Williams, Morgan State U his transhistorical and formally innovative roundtable features diverse participants who consider varied poetic and theoretical perspectives on paratextuality, punctuation, and poetry across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaches include process, modes, and forms of poetic engagement. Poets discussed include Gwendolyn Brooks, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Frank O’Hara, Jack Spicer, and other postwar and modern poets. For related material, write to meta.jones@howard .edu ater 30 Nov.
550. Approaching the American South and the Global South through Du Bois 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century. Presiding: Duncan McEachern Yoon, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 1. “Writers of the Harlem Renaissance and Central Europe,” Charles Sabatos, Yeditepe U 2. “Across the Color-Nation Line: he Harlem Renaissance and the Sino-Afro Alliance,” Xiaoxi Dong, U of Hong Kong
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551. Southeast Asia as Method and Concept of World Literature 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Ben Vu Tran, Vanderbilt U Speakers: Rachel Harrison, SOAS, U of London; Sheela Jane Menon, Dickinson C; Vinh Nguyen, Harvard U; E. K. Tan, Stony Brook U, State U of New York his session considers how Southeast Asian literature and scholarship’s ongoing eforts of deimperialization contest the boundaries of world literature. Participants focus on how the region’s literary and cultural production engages histories of imperialism, colonialism, and the Cold War, interrogating how Southeast Asia ofers alternative methods and concepts for understanding the contributions and limitations of world literature.
552. (Sound) Archives and (Body) Repertoires: Performance and Political Urgency in the Circum-Caribbean 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the forum GS Drama and Performance. Presiding: Nadia Ellis, U of California, Berkeley 1. “Grounding Practice: Vodou’s Corporeal Technologies of Freedom,” Dasha Chapman, Duke U 2. “Two Lives: Archives of Puerto Rican Music,” Mercy Romero, Sonoma State U 3. “Drum Proposals: Making Time for Place,” Alexandra Vazquez, New York U Respondent: Daphne Ann Brooks, Yale U For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/drama-and-performance/.
553. Early Modern Collaboration and Expanded Shakespearean Authorship 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Loren Cressler, U of Texas, Austin 1. “Trying to Make Fletch Happen,” Vimala C. Pasupathi, Hofstra U 2. “he Translation of Shakespeare’s Coauthored Plays and Additions,” Regis Augustus Bars Closel, U de São Paulo
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554. John Clare: Encounters 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the John Clare Society of North America. Presiding: Erica McAlpine, U of Oxford, St. Edmund Hall 1. “‘he Invitation’: Periodical Border Wars and the Poetics of Encounter,” Marie-Christine Hyland, New York U 2. “‘Like a Ruin of the Past All Alone’: Encountering History in John Clare’s Remembrances,” Timothy Heimlich, U of California, Berkeley 3. “‘hou Lowly Cot’: Rudimentary Architecture in John Clare and Robert Frost,” Marissa Grunes, Harvard U
555. Editing Together: Coeditors and Guest Editors 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Presiding: Susan Mary Griin, U of Louisville Speakers: Christopher Paul Bush, Northwestern U; Ama Codjoe, New York U; Debra Rae Cohen, U of South Carolina, Columbia; Jessica Marion Modi, New York U; Robert Stecker, Central Michigan U; Susan Tomlinson, U of Massachusetts, Boston For both scholarly and creative journals, coeditors and guest editors ofer a commitment to cooperative work, divided workloads, and multiple sources of inancial support. But such arrangements can make for complicated logistics. his discussion brings together a panel of speakers who are experienced in shared editorial work, providing a unique opportunity for open discussion of the advantages, practices, and problems entailed in such situations.
556. Women, Art, and Revolution on the Shores of the Mediterranean 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Mediterranean. Presiding: Nevine El Nossery, U of Wisconsin, Madison 1. “A housand Times No: Tradition, Transgression, and Art in the Public Sphere,” Emily Sibley, New York U 2. “New Belongings, Other Desires: A Mediterranean Woman’s Queer Art of Failure,” Rustem Ertug Altinay, U of Vienna
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3. “Moroccan Women Photographers: Crossing and Transforming Mediterranean Borders and Boundaries,” Naima Hachad, American U For related material, write to
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557. Undergraduate Foreign Language Requirements 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Regent, Hilton Program arranged by the ADFL Executive Committee. Presiding: Megan M. Ferry, Union C Speakers: Gorka Bilbao-Terreros, Princeton U; Alberta Gatti, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Gillian Lord, U of Florida; Jennifer Redmann, Franklin and Marshall C; Gary Bruce Schmidt, Coastal Carolina U; Kathleen Stein-Smith, Fairleigh Dickinson U, Teaneck; Ming-Bao Yue, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa Representatives from a diverse range of postsecondary institutions discuss the role of foreign language courses in university general education and core requirements. Current trends in language requirements will be discussed, as well as appropriate responses at the institutional and departmental level, including possible road maps for advocacy and curricular reform.
558. Career Opportunities in Community Colleges 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty 5, Sheraton Program arranged by the Association of Departments of English and the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages. Presiding: Jacqueline L. Gray, St. Charles Community C, MO Speakers: Neil Meyer, LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York; Carol Helene Reitan, City C of San Francisco Faculty members in English and foreign languages discuss the career opportunities that exist in community colleges, with a special focus on job seekers who are starting their careers.
559. Articulating the Local: Cultural Practices and Problematics of Dialects in Twentieth-Century China 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese. Presiding: Christopher M. Lupke, U of Alberta 1. “Dialect as People’s Language: War Mobilization, National Identity, and Class Consciousness,” Ling Kang, Washington U in St. Louis 2. “Lost in Translation? Annotation, Adaptation, and Marketability of Reprinted Late-Qing Novels
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in Republican China,” Yunwen Gao, U of South ern California 3. “Problematizing the Local Community Con structed in Laughter: Media Productions in Si chuan Mandarin in Contemporary China,” Jin Liu, Georgia Inst. of Tech. Respondent: Michael Gibbs Hill, C of William and Mary
560. Still Reading 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Late18th Century English. Presiding: Jonathan Sachs, Con cordia U 1. “Silent Reading,” Scott Black, U of Utah 2. “Repeat Reading,” Tina Lupton, U of Warwick 3. “he Sense of Not Ending,” Jonathan Kram nick, Yale U
561. Afro-Natures and Afro-Futures: Speculation, Technology, and Environment in African Literature and Film 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Presiding: Dustin Crowley, Rowan U 1. “AfroSciFi in the Anthropocene: hree he ses,” Brady Smith, U of Chicago 2. “Remapping Spatialities, Creating New Post colonial Futures in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon,” Chinyelu Agwu, Federal U 3. “Seed Bags and Storytelling: Modes of Living ater the End in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi,” Kirk B. Sides, U of Johannesburg 4. “Take Root among the Stars: AfroFuturist En vironmentalism in Octavia Butler’s Parable Series and the Sculptures of Cyrus Kabiru,” Stacey Shin, U of California, Los Angeles For related material, write to
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562. Ways of Writing in High School and College 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on K–16 Alliances. Presiding: Lisa Longo Johnston, Centenary U 1. “Beyond ‘Funds of Knowledge’: he Unrecognized Literacy Practices Multilingual Students Bring to College,” Ryan McCarty, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “Accessibility, Stamina, and Depth: Relecting on Multimodal Engagements with Traditional
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Texts,” Merideth Garcia, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 3. “David Coleman Is Not an Educator: Reclaiming Narrative Noniction and Poetry Writing in High School English and College Composition Class rooms,” Reed Dickson, Pima Community C, AZ 4. “Help or Hindrance? Is here a Role for For mulas in the Teaching of College Writing?” Jody L. Cardinal, State U of New York, Old Westbury
563. Communicating Transferable Skills and Humanities Expertise to Prospective Employers 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center Speaker: Stacy Hartman, MLA Humanities PhDs working outside the profes soriat bring not only transferable skills but also unique forms of expertise to their organizations. his handson workshop provides job seekers with an introduction to articulating transferable skills and communicating humanities expertise to pro spective employers outside the academy.
564. Weak Environmentalism 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Anthony Lioi, Juil liard School Speakers: Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Jefrey Cohen, George Washington U; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale U; Paul K. SaintAmour, U of Penn sylvania; Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton U he urgency, high stakes, and planetary scale of climate change have produced commensurately strong environmentalisms. Panelists consider the work that a weak environmentalism might do, as alternative or supplement to strong. he subjects addressed include smallscale actions and ideas, lowintensity afects and social ties, and weak frontiers between species or between animate and inanimate matter. What is the environmentalism of stone? For related material, write to
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565. James Joyce’s Exiles at One Hundred 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the International James Joyce Foundation. Presiding: Claire Culleton, Kent State U, Kent 1. “Editing Exiles, Acting Exiles,” Keri Walsh, Fordham U
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566. I nterdisciplinary Palestine: Poetry, Narrative, Institutionality 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies. Presiding: Martin J. Ponce, Ohio State U, Columbus 1. “Olive in the Trees and in the Shadows of Soldiers: Persistence, Peace, and the Spectral in the Poetics of the Palestinian Diaspora,” Saba Razvi, U of Houston, Victoria 2. “Exile Poetics: Bridging Refugee Settlers and Palestinian Liberation,” Evyn Le Espiritu, U of California, Berkeley 3. “Narrating Palestine: Time, Space, and States of Asymmetry,” Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis U 4. “Palestine, Indigeneity, and Ethnic Studies: Justice-Centered Scholarship and Pedagogy at SFSU,” Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, San Francisco State U
567. New York Transit 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Life Writing. Presiding: Ricia Anne Chansky, U of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez 1. “Douglass on the Promenade,” Blevin Shelnutt, New York U 2. “Connection, Coninement, Collision: Walking the New New York City,” Molly Pulda, Tulane U 3. “David Wojnarowicz and Derek Jarman in New York: Diaries of the City during the HIV/AIDS Crisis,” Alexandra Parsons, University C London 4. “Empire State of Mind: Site, Sound, and Social Improvisation in Steven Spielberg’s he Terminal,” Jurgen E. Grandt, U of North Georgia For related material, visit www.auto-biography.org.
568. Against Empathy? 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Lalita Pandit Hogan, U of Wisconsin, La Crosse 1. “Nussbaum and Brecht in the Age of Trump,” Joshua Landy, Stanford U 2. “For (Efortful) Empathy,” Patrick Colm Hogan, U of Connecticut, Storrs Respondent: Paul Bloom, Yale U For related material, visit literary-universals .uconn.edu/2017/03/27/an-empathy-panel-at-the -mla-convention-in-2018/.
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569. Narratives of Giving and Receiving Care: Afective Dimensions 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Disability Studies. Presiding: Rachel Adams, Columbia U 1. “Object Exposures: Roz Chast and Joyce Farmer Document Aging, Illness, and Death,” Tahneer Oksman, Marymount Manhattan C 2. “Communities of Care in Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Fiction,” Sarah Wagner-McCoy, Reed C 3. “Home Games for the Away Team: Memoirs by Father Caregivers,” Chris Gabbard, U of North Florida
570. Environmental Humanities and Italy 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian 1. “he Dialogues Digital Project: Landscape Ecology in Central Italy from the Sixth Century to the Present,” Damiano Benvegnu, Dartmouth C 2. “he Politics of Organic-Food Discourse in Italy: Identity, Authenticity, Sustainability,” Patrizia LaTrecchia, U of South Florida, Tampa 3. “In heir Own Voices: A ‘Kenotic’ Approach to Animal Studies and Ecotheology,” Demetrio S. Yocum, U of Notre Dame
571. Nabokov and Correspondence 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton Program arranged by the International Vladimir Nabokov Society. Presiding: Zoran Kuzmanovich, Davidson C 1. “Little Stray Dogs: Nabokov’s Letters Lost in the Post,” homas Karshan, U of East Anglia 2. “Letters to Véra: Nabokov’s Invisible Revisions,” Lyndsay Miller, U of Glasgow 3. “Creativity and Crisis in Nabokov’s Letters to Véra,” Duncan White, Harvard U For related material, visit dev-international -vladimir-nabokov-society.pantheonsite.io.
572. Cultural Critique ater Democracy: On Neocitizenship 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Robyn Wiegman, Duke U Speakers: Eva Cherniavsky, U of Washington, Seattle; Janet R. Jakobsen, Barnard C; Leerom Medovoi, U of Arizona; Janice A. Radway, Northwestern U Panelists engage with Eva Cherniavsky’s recently published book, Neocitizenship: Political Culture
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ater Democracy, which asks what the evisceration of modern democratic institutions under contemporary neoliberal rule signiies for the practice of citizenship and for the work of the critical humanities.
573. Race, Resources, and Real Estate 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society. Presiding: Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 1. “he Corner: Black Bodies, Spatial Aesthetics, and DC’s Go-Go Economy,” Brandi Summers, Virginia Commonwealth U 2. “Picturing Dispossession: he Chicago Housing Campaigns of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Richard Wright,” Adrienne Brown, U of Chicago 3. “‘Best to Let It Burn’: Destroying or Becoming Property in Philadelphia Fire,” Colton Saylor, U of California, Santa Barbara 4. “Weird Became the Night: Nuisance Complaints in Langston Hughes,” Laura Perry, U of Wisconsin, Madison Respondent: Maria Seger, U of Louisiana, Lafayette
574. Editing in the Shadow of the Anthropocene 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the Society for Textual Scholarship. Presiding: Marta L. Werner, D’Youville C 1. “Some Afordances of Deep Time,” Stephen David Engel, U of California, Santa Cruz 2. “Forces of Unworking,” Stefanie Heine, U of Toronto 3. “Editing the Aggregate; or, Beyond TEI (Text Encoding Initiative),” Nigel Lepianka, Texas A&M U, College Station Respondent: James Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. For related material, write to marta.werner@ gmail.com.
575. Linguistics and Social Media 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL General Linguistics. Presiding: Angela Helmer, U of South Dakota 1. “Dialectal Accommodation through Social Media: A Case Study of a Study-Abroad Program,” Covadonga Lamar Prieto, U of California, Riverside 2. “Elitist or Marginal, Sacred or Utilitarian: Representation of Scientiic Activity in Social Me-
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dia,” Oksana Rymarenko, Russian State U for the Humanities 3. “Fashion Bloggers and Social Media in Spain: Analysis of Some Strategies of heir Discourse from a Perspective of Sociocultural Pragmatics,” Micaela Carrera–de la Red, U de Valladolid 4. “Linguistic Aspects of ‘Facework’ in a Spanish Blog of Literary Fiction Books,” Francisco Jose Zamora, U de Valladolid Respondent: Allison Spikes, Texas Tech U
576. Taking Measure: Poetic Rhythms 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German 1. “Hölderlin and the Measure of Ether,” Joseph Albernaz, U of California, Berkeley 2. “Klopstock’s ‘Grammatical Poetics’ and the Measure of Poetry,” Lea Pao, Penn State U, University Park 3. “Measure, Meter, Aesthetics,” Hannah Eldridge, U of Wisconsin, Madison 4. “Measured Listening,” Tanvi Solanki, Cornell U
577. Political Pinter 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton Program arranged by the Harold Pinter Society. Presiding: Ann C. Hall, U of Louisville 1. “Gender Politics and Language Use in he Homecoming,” David Bleich, U of Rochester 2. “Harold Pinter’s Political Archive,” Graham Saunders, U of Birmingham 3. “Art, Activism, Performance,” Benjamin Kozicki, Rice U
578. Insecurities of the North American West 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the Western Literature Association 1. “‘he Hard White Empty Core of the World’: Desituating the Masculinized West in Didion and Morrison,” James Wirth, U of Washington, Seattle 2. “Here Comes the Groom: Regionalized Marriage Allegory in he Squatter and the Don (1885),” Mike Lemon, Texas Tech U 3. “From Frank Reade, Jr., to Westworld: he American West and the hreat of Technology,” Emily Gowen, Boston U 4. “Western Time Limits in the Anthropocene,” William Handley, U of Southern California Respondent: Kerry Fine, Arizona State U
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579. New Directions for Teaching and Researching Technical Communication 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Presiding: William Klein, U of Missouri, St. Louis 1. “he Institutional Review Board and Research in Writing Studies,” Johanna Phelps-Hillen, U of South Florida, Tampa 2. “he Rising Power of Digital Genre: he Role of WeChat QR Codes in Accommodating Healthcare Exigency in China,” Hua Wang, Michigan Technological U 3. “(Technical) Writing about (Technical) Writing: Building a Literacy for Students as Makers and Consumers of Technical Writing,” Kelly Whitney, New Mexico State U, Las Cruces Respondent: Ashley Clayson, U of West Florida For related material, write to bill_
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580. Imperial Scars: New Approaches to Corporality, Race, and Power in Colonial Latin America 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: René Carrasco, Harvard U 1. “he Discourse of Race and Empire in Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora’s Paraiso Occidental,” Stephanie Louise Kirk, Washington U in St. Louis 2. “Biopolitics and Pneumopolitics in the Hospital Project of Bartolomé de Las Casas,” Carlos A. Jauregui, U of Notre Dame 3. “Modeling Virtue in Colonial Latin America: Race, Gender, and the Catholic Church,” Monica Diaz, U of Kentucky 4. “Counterscarring Inquisitorial Power: Sexual Ofenses and Pacts with the Devil from Mulattos in New Spain,” Silvia Rocha, Washington U in St. Louis
Saturday, 6 January 12:30 p.m. 580A. MLA Delegate Assembly 12:30 p.m., East Ballroom, Hilton Presiding: Anne Ruggles Gere, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor his meeting is open only to MLA members. For agenda information, visit www.mla.org/About -Us/Governance/Delegate-Assembly/Delegate -Assembly-Agenda/ ater 11 Dec.
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Saturday, 6 January 1:45 p.m. 581. Dystopia Today 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. Presiding: Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 1. “Hell Is Other Peoples: Dystopia and the Putinist Imaginary,” Eliot Borenstein, New York U 2. “Society of Estate: Dystopia and Ideology in Putin’s Russia,” Dina Khapaeva, Georgia Inst. of Tech. 3. “he Corporate Space of Zamyatin’s Dystopia,” Tom Ribitzky, Graduate Center, City U of New York
582. Remaking Periodization 1:45–3:00 p.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Medieval. Presiding: Marisa Galvez, Stanford U 1. “‘[Her Pity] Was Like a Flaming Sword’: Chivalric Ethics and the Reforming of Empathy in Rebecca West’s he Return of the Soldier,” Robin Anderson, U of Toronto 2. “Philological Periodization in Iberian Manuscript Culture,” Guinevere Allen, Stanford U 3. “Orality and Literacy Revisited,” Christopher Cannon, Johns Hopkins U, MD
583. Critical Infrastructure Studies 1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Digital Humanities. Presiding: Alan Liu, U of California, Santa Barbara 1. “On Human Infrastructure,” Tung-Hui Hu, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “Cabinet Logics: Infrastructures for Epistemological Containment,” Shannon Mattern, New School 3. “Infrastructures of Hate,” Tara McPherson, U of Southern California 4. “Interrogating Global Humanities Infrastructure,” James Smithies, King’s C London Respondent: Matthew K. Gold, Graduate Center, City U of New York For related material, visit criticalinfrastructure .hcommons.org/.
584. Disability and Human (In)Dignity in East Asian Literature and Film 1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison, Hilton
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Program arranged by the forum LLC East Asian. Presiding: Kelly Y. Jeong, U of California, Riverside 1. “‘What If the Child Should Look like You’: he Impotent Husbands in Yasunari Kawabata’s ‘he Moon on the Water’ and Songfen Guo’s ‘Moon Seal,’ ” Li-ping Chen, U of Southern California 2. “A Punch at the Postmodern Lives in Contemporary East Asia,” Liang Luo, U of Kentucky 3. “Disability and Human Dignity in Hong Kong and Korean Cinema: Depictions of Visual Disabilities in Blind Detective and Blind,” Steven Riep, Brigham Young U, UT
585. South-South Translation and the Geopolitics and Geopoetics of Circulation 1:45–3:00 p.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global South. Presiding: Mary Louise Pratt, New York U 1. “Circulation without Translation? Truth and Reconciliation Commission Discourses between Chile and South Africa,” Loren Kruger, U of Chicago 2. “Sentimental Translation in the Global South,” Jang Wook Huh, U of Washington, Seattle 3. “A Case of Exploding Markets: Latin American and South Asian Literary Booms in a Comparative Perspective,” Roanne Kantor, Harvard U 4. “El realismo mágico in Arabic: Globalization, Best Sellers, and Other Problems in South-South Cultural Exchanges,” Eman Morsi, Dartmouth C
586. Texts in Dialogue in the Age of Dante 1:45–3:00 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton Program arranged by the Dante Society of America. Presiding: Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia U 1. “Cotale gioco mai non fue veduto: Reading Tenzoni in a Ludic Key,” Akash Kumar, U of California, Santa Cruz 2. “Beyond Anti-types: Beatrice, Becchina, and the Tenzone Fittizia,” David Bowe, U of Oxford 3. “Dante’s ‘Amicus Sollicitus’: A Hidden Dialogue in Book II of De vulgari eloquentia,” Andrea Placidi, Princeton U
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588. Francophone New York 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Francophone. Presiding: Renée Larrier, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 1. “Toussaint in New York: he Transatlantic Citizenship of Saint-Domingue’s Refugees,” Annette Joseph-Gabriel, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “‘Paris, the Alternative Capital of My Imagination’: Susan Sontag, the New Yorker as a ‘Passeur,’ ” Beatrice Mousli, U of Southern California 3. “En Route to the Big City in Danticat: ‘Brother, Are You Here Yet?’ ” Régine Isabelle Joseph, Queens C, City U of New York 4. “From New York Fait Divers to the Goncourt: Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce,” Sara Kippur, Trinity C, CT
589. MLA Style Workshop: Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Citing Sources in the Text 1:45–3:00 p.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center Speakers: Angela Gibson, MLA; Jennifer A. Rappaport, MLA Crediting the work of others is the cornerstone of scholarly communication and a key skill for students to learn. Get an overview of paraphrasing and quoting sources, crating in-text citations, and using notes in MLA style. MLA editors will answer questions, share tips, and help participants troubleshoot common problems. Suitable for librarians and teachers as well as for students at all levels.
587. Foregrounding Indigeneity and Settlement in American Literary Studies
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1:45–3:00 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forums LLC 19thCentury American and LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada. Presiding: Mark Rikin, U of North Carolina, Greensboro 1. “‘Strange Paupers’: Indigenous Labor, Debt, and Persistence in Early America,” Beth Piatote, U of California, Berkeley
1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the John Donne Society. Presiding: Heather Dubrow, Fordham U 1. “Literature, Culture, and Other Redundancies,” Judith H. Anderson, Indiana U, Bloomington 2. “Ways of Reading Donne’s Epitaphs: Close, Comparative, Contextual, Concrete,” heresa Maria DiPasquale, Whitman C
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591. Race, Space, Gaze: Fields of Ethnographic Narration 1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Anthropology and Literature. Presiding: Mrinalini Chakravorty, U of Virginia 1. “Racial Comparisons: Relections on Dammann’s Ethnographical Photographic Gallery of the Various Races of Men,” Ali Behdad, U of California, Los Angeles 2. “Refracting the Ethnographic Gaze: A Zanzibari Explorer in England and a First Nation Trickster Interlocuter in Canada,” Hertha D. Sweet Wong, U of California, Berkeley 3. “‘A Queerness of No Return’? Competing Diasporic Imaginaries in Shani Mootoo’s He Drown She in the Sea,” Asha Nadkarni, U of Massachusetts, Amherst
592. he Literary and the Secular 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton Program arranged by the Conference on Christianity and Literature Speakers: Randy Boyagoda, U of Toronto; Sean Dempsey, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Christopher Douglas, U of Victoria; Kathryn Ludwig, Indiana Wesleyan U; Kevin Seidel, Eastern Mennonite U; Michael Tomko, Villanova U his session examines recent framings of the secular and the postsecular while considering the best methods for advancing this ongoing critical discussion. Panelists ask whether there is something that can rightly be thought of as religious about the lourishing of (semi-)sacred experiences in literature. Has the religious turn come of age?
593. Poe’s Philadelphia Stories 1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the Poe Studies Association. Presiding: Amy Branam Armiento, Frostburg State U 1. “Illustrating ‘he Gold-Bug,’ ” John Cullen Gruesser, Kean U 2. “he Colonial Geographies of Sympathetic Ink in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘he Gold-Bug,’ ” Daniel Couch, United States Air Force Acad. 3. “he Duplicitous Design of Four Supposed Tales of Terror,” Susan Amper, Bronx Community C, City U of New York
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4. “Abortion, Punctuation, and the Murders hat Aren’t Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Dana Medoro, U of Manitoba For related material, visit www .poestudiesassociation.org/conferences/ ater 1 Dec.
594. Gender Calling: Pronouns as a Comparative Problem 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton Program arranged by the American Comparative Literature Association. Presiding: Michael Lucey, U of California, Berkeley 1. “Trans,” Andrew C. Parker, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 2. “Nannü,” Lydia Liu, Columbia U 3. “Insex,” Elissa Marder, Emory U
595. Graphic States of Insecurity 1:45–3:00 p.m., Empire Ballroom East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Jonathan Najarian, Boston U 1. “Making Comics: Word and Image in Noniction Narratives,” Josh Neufeld, independent scholar 2. “he Child as Witness in Riad Sattouf’s he Arab of the Future,” Nima Naghibi, Ryerson U; Andrew O’Malley, Ryerson U 3. “Now and hen: Richard McGuire and Lauren Redniss’s Representational Extremes,” Christopher Spaide, Harvard U Respondent: Hillary L. Chute, Northeastern U For related material, write to
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596. Reading the Radical: American Muslim Immigrants, Surveillance, and Narrative Resistance 1:45–3:00 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Noor Hashem, independent scholar 1. “hresholds of Modernism: Constructing the Ideal Muslim Subject in Selma Ekrem’s Unveiled,” Zeynep Aydogdu, Ohio State U, Columbus 2. “Anomalous Expansion under Surveillance: Somali American Literature, Art, and Film,” Danielle Haque, Minnesota State U 3. “Muslim Subjects as Homo Sacer in Contemporary Pakistani-American Fiction,” Muhammad Waqar Azeem, Binghamton U, State U of New York
597. States of Insecurity: Accepting Vulnerability, Permeability, and Instability 1:45–3:00 p.m., Mercury Ballroom, Hilton
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A linked session arranged in conjunction with the Presidential Plenary: #States of Insecurity (360). Presiding: Jack Halberstam, Columbia U 1. “Schemes of Belonging in Israel/Palestine,” Hagar Kotef, SOAS, U of London 2. “Undocumented Knowledge,” Lisa Lowe, Tuts U 3. “Backward Glances, Glaring Stares: he Insecure Erotics of Cruising and Surveillance,” Martin Manalansan IV, U of Illinois, Urbana 4. “A Little History of the Wayward,” Saidiya Hartman, Columbia U he security regime lives in us and through us, ensuring that protected populations live far removed from anything like the quotidian violence that marks the lives of the uprooted, the migrant, the homeless, the lost, the occupied, the incarcerated, and the illegitimate. Now we need to explore hidden byways, obscured paths, unlikely routes, unbound knowledge, and improvised truths in the hope of refusing the binary formulation of security/insecurity.
598. Dangerous Charisma 1:45–3:00 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton Program arranged by the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America. Presiding: Joyce Piell Wexler, Loyola U, Chicago 1. “D. H. Lawrence’s Critique of Fascist (Will to) Power,” Nidesh Lawtoo, U of Bern 2. “D. H. Lawrence’s Leadership Novels and the Cult of the Charismatic,” Michelle Phillips Buchberger, Miami U, Hamilton 3. “he Lure of Leadership in Lawrence’s Australian Novels,” David Game, Australian National U 4. “Bestiary of the Charismatic Right: Unveiling D. H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo through a Page of Mochtar Lubis’s Tiger,” Mark Deggan, Simon Fraser U
599. heatrical Collaborations 1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the American Literature Society and the American heatre and Drama Society. Presiding: Barbara Lewis, U of Massachusetts, Boston 1. “he Lines between the Lines: Stage Directions as Fluid, Physical Collaborations between Playwrights and Actors,” Sarah Bess Rowen, Graduate Center, City U of New York 2. “Anna Lucasta Goes to Broadway: Stymied but Not Stopped in Collaboration,” Barbara Lewis 3. “Kitchen Table Worlds: Transcultural Collaborations in Native American heater,” Jennifer Shook, Grinnell C
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600. Translation Markets: Comparative and Historical Perspectives 1:45–3:00 p.m., Regent, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Translation Studies. Presiding: Daniel Balderston, U of Pittsburgh 1. “he Global Travel of Italian Contemporary Fiction: A Sociological Approach,” Elisa Segnini, U of Glasgow 2. “One housand and One Authors: Translation and Pseudotranslation in Eighteenth-Century France,” Tegan Raleigh, U of California, Santa Barbara 3. “he Abundance of Japanese Brontë Translations,” Judith Marie Pascoe, Florida State U 4. “‘he Best Books by the Best Writers from All Parts of the World’: he Lack of Translations into English in Children’s Publishing,” Deirdre H. McMahon, Drexel U
601. Materiality and the Cultures of Death in Spain 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Antonio Cordoba, Manhattan C; Daniel García-Donoso, Catholic U of America 1. “Capturing Death: Photography and Biopolitics,” Patricia M. Keller, Cornell U 2. “What We Leave Behind: Junk Boxes of the Dead,” Dean Allbritton, Colby C 3. “What Do We Do with the Dead? Deritualizing Death in the Contemporary Novel,” Daniel García-Donoso 4. “he Political Death of Live Bodies: Necropolitics and Radical Solidarity ater the 2008 Crisis in Spain,” Germán Labrador Méndez, Princeton U
602. Visual Culture and Mexican Literature in Times of Crisis 1:45–3:00 p.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Mexican 1. “Sin México no hay Paraíso: Apocalyptic Images in Contemporary Mexican Literature and Visual Culture,” Patricia Saldarriaga, Middlebury C 2. “Approaches to Visual Culture: he Logic of Sensationalism,” Sergio Delgado Moya, Harvard U 3. “Beyond the Verbal and Visual Divide: How the Visual Arts are Shaping the Production, Promotion, and Consumption of Literature in Contemporary Mexico,” Manuel Gutiérrez, Rice U Respondent: Nicolas Poppe, Middlebury C
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1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the Goethe Society of North America. Presiding: Christian Peter Weber, Florida State U 1. “Goethe’s Whispering Voices: Narratives of Conscience,” Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana U, Bloomington 2. “Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and the Pedagogical Narrative of Capitalism,” David Tse-chien Pan, U of California, Irvine 3. “Narratives of Rebirth and Rebranding in the Italian Journey,” Todd C. Kontje, U of California, San Diego
1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the International Society for the Study of Narrative and the Emily Dickinson International Society. Presiding: Daniel Punday, Mississippi State U 1. “Sahara, Contentment: Emily Dickinson’s Utmosts,” Renée Louise Bergland, Simmons C 2. “Banking on Zero: Position and Space in Dickinson’s Poetry,” Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State U, Columbus 3. “Dickinson and the Creation of Self as Storyworld,” Ashley Shackelford, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville 4. “Indirections: On a Worldview from a Solitary Acre,” Grant Rosson, U of California, Los Angeles
604. Research Informing Language Instruction to Improve Student Performance 1:45–3:00 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Presiding: Marty Abbott, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages 1. “Focus on Core Instructional Practices,” Peter Swanson, Georgia State U 2. “Making Research Accessible to K–20 Language Educators,” Aleidine (Ali) Moeller, U of Nebraska, Lincoln 3. “Using Language and Culture Can-Do Statements to Improve Student Performance,” Marty Abbott For related material, visit www.actl.org ater 1 Nov.
605. Organizing from the Inside: Efecting Change for Adjuncts in Insecure Times 1:45–3:00 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues. Presiding: Maria Maisto, New Faculty Majority Speakers: Sarah Harmon, Cañada C; Amy LynchBiniek, Kutztown U; Judy Olson, California State U, Los Angeles; Robin J. Sowards, Chatham U All of us are members of organizations—professional organizations like the MLA, labor unions, faculty senates, and activist networks on and of campus. But even organizations whose missions involve defending the profession or addressing the dire problems facing United States higher education oten fall short. We can make our organizations more efective by organizing inside them. Panelists examine how to accomplish that organizing work.
607. he Fiction of Colson Whitehead 1:45–3:00 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Lee Konstantinou, U of Maryland, College Park Speakers: Michele Elam, Stanford U; Yogita Goyal, U of California, Los Angeles; Adam Kelly, U of York; Lee Konstantinou; Aida Levy-Hussen, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Mary-Helen Washington, U of Maryland, College Park Participants discuss the career of Colson Whitehead in the light of his winning the National Book Award for he Underground Railroad (2016). How should critics situate Whitehead in the contemporary American literary ield? How have his novels both participated in and critiqued African American literature? How has Whitehead represented race in a United States and a global context? What is the future of Whitehead studies?
608. Literary Wordplay with Names 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by the American Name Society. Presiding: Andreas Gavrielatos, U of Edinburgh 1. “he Place-Name Double: Reconiguring Space in the Euro-American Imaginary,” Elin Kack, Linkoping U 2. “‘It Is God’s Spelling and Mine’: Epic Errors and the Evolution of a Genre in Derek Walcott’s Omeros,” Ryan Hackenbracht, Texas Tech U 3. “Names, Wit, and Wordplay in Wilde,” homas Wisniewski, Harvard U
609. Nakba at Seventy: Culture and Politics 1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton
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Program arranged by the forum TC Postcolonial Studies. Presiding: Nouri Gana, U of California, Los Angeles 1. “Bearing Witness: Hanthala the Deiant Immortal Child,” Hania Nashef, American U of Sharjah 2. “Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitanism in Reverse,” Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela, U of Houston 3. “Resistance from Within: he Nakba in Hebrew and Israeli Anglophone Poetry,” Morani Kornberg, U at Bufalo, State U of New York 4. “Viewing, Editing, Interpreting: Film as Critique in Two Nakba Novels,” Betty Rosen, U of California, Berkeley
610. Open Humanities 101 1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Oice of Scholarly Communication. Presiding: Nicky Agate, MLA Speakers: Cheryl E. Ball, West Virginia U, Morgantown; Christopher A. Barnes, Gettysburg C; Carl Blyth, U of Texas, Austin; Martin Paul Eve, U of London, Birkbeck C; Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Michigan State U; Rebecca Kennison, K/N Consultants; Megan Wacha, City U of New York An introduction to open-access publishing for humanities scholars, including books, journals, and repositories. Participants discuss and answer questions on the potential beneits and drawbacks of open access, negotiating open author contracts, publishing open-access monographs, Creative Commons licensing and fair use, open peer review, open educational resources, and where to upload work to have the greatest possible impact.
611. Current Trends in SeventeenthCentury French Studies 1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 17thCentury French 1. “Sound Psychology: Descartes and the Struggle with Passionate Sounds,” Alison Calhoun, Indiana U, Bloomington 2. “Recording Silence in Seventeenth-Century Parisian heater,” Benoit Bolduc, New York U 3. “Making Others Speak: Direct and Indirect Speech in Seventeenth-Century Travel Writing in the Caribbean,” Christina Kullberg, Uppsala U 4. “Toward a Marketing Approach to Seventeenth-Century French Literature,” Christophe Schuwey, U of Fribourg
612. Rise of the Global Right 1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton
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613. Learning through “Failure”: Feminism on Campus in the Years Ahead 1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages and the Feministas Unidas. Presiding: Michelle A. Massé, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge Speakers: Hilda Chacón, Nazareth C; Melanie Micir, Washington U in St. Louis; Beth Ann Muellner, C of Wooster; Veronica Popp, Elmhurst C; Christine M. Probes, U of South Florida, Tampa Feminism in academia is at risk—as activism, as complicit in hierarchy, as an academic ield, as postfeminism. he ostensible failure of feminism in the current political climate, however, is subject to debate. his session explores the “low theory” of resistance and transformation.
614. Texts and Localities in Early Modern England 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC 16thCentury English. Presiding: Anne Myers, U of Missouri, Columbia 1. “Defending the Homeland: he English Muster on Stage and Soil, 1530–1660,” Vimala C. Pasupathi, Hofstra U 2. “Word and Bond: he Textual Life of an Early Modern London Neighborhood,” Scott Oldenburg, Tulane U 3. “English Political Prophecy in the Welsh Marches, 1450–1650,” Eric Weiskott, Boston C
615. New Media, Old Media: Technologies of Empire 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum CLCS 18thCentury. Presiding: Chi-ming Yang, U of Pennsylvania 1. “Interstate Systems,” Siraj Ahmed, Graduate Center, City U of New York 2. “Physiocracy in America; or, Utopia Goes to Market,” Aya Tanaka, New York U
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3. “Media in Absentia: Re-Creating the Colonial Archive,” Allison Bigelow, U of Virginia; Rebecca Graham, U of Virginia Respondent: Sunil M. Agnani, U of Illinois, Chicago
3. “A Butterly in the City: Interrelational Musical Identity in he Young Unicorns and A Severed Wasp,” Mary Jeanette Moran, Illinois State U
616. Narratives of Post–World War II Black German Adoption: Identity, History, and Cultural Imagination
1:45–3:00 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing. Presiding: Amanda Golden, New York Inst. of Tech. Speakers: Jonathan Goldman, New York Inst. of Tech.; Kristen Doyle Highland, American U of Sharjah; Mark J. Noonan, New York City C of Tech., City U of New York; Angel Lopez Santiago, Hunter C, City U of New York; Emily Silk, Harvard U Panelists introduce new considerations of New York literary and social history, including projects combining digital mapping and archival research, and discuss New York’s racial diversity, archives, book history, social welfare, and print culture. Addressing Manhattan from the nineteenth century to the present, the presenters shed new light on New York’s vitality in twenty-irst-century bibliographic and textual scholarship. For related material, visit agoldenphd.com.
1:45–3:00 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture. Presiding: Marina Fedosik, Princeton U 1. “Black Germans: Reuniication and Belonging in Diaspora,” Rosemarie Pena, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 2. “Black German Orphans in the United States Literary Imagination,” Cynthia A. Callahan, Ohio State U, Mansield 3. “Screening the Postwar Myth of Racial Integration: Germany and Italy in Comparative Perspective,” Angelica Fenner, U of Toronto Respondent: Sonya Donaldson, New Jersey City U For related material, visit www .adoptionandculture.org/upcoming-mla/.
617. Editing Manuscripts: Transparency and Insecurities 1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Cristanne Miller, U at Bufalo, State U of New York 1. “‘Relentless Accuracy’: Insecurities and Irrecoverable Problems in Editing Marianne Moore,” Cristanne Miller 2. “Conjuring a Chesnutt Edition: Manuscripts, Print, and Digital Transformations,” Stephanie Patricia Browner, New School 3. “he Borders of the Archive and the Limits of Genre: Challenges in Editing Whitman,” Kenneth M. Price, U of Nebraska, Lincoln
618. From Gotham to Camazotz: Madeleine L’Engle at One Hundred and New York City 1:45–3:00 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Michelle Ann Abate, Ohio State U, Columbus 1. “Actualizing Camazotz in New York City,” Heidi A. Lawrence, U of Glasgow 2. “When You Wrinkle Time: he ‘Expanding Universe’ of Madeleine L’Engle in Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me,” Susan Strayer, Ohio State U, Columbus
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620. South Asia and Romanticism 1:45–3:00 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic and the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Presiding: Sonia Hokosh, Tuts U Speakers: Manu Samriti Chander, Rutgers U, Newark; Christopher Kelleher, U of Toronto; Gaura Shankar Narayan, Purchase C, State U of New York; Daniel E. White, U of Toronto; Yin Yuan, Boston C his session addresses the importance of the transnational turn in literary studies and of postcolonial theory to an understanding of British Romanticism as both a historical period and an aesthetic category. Panelists discuss early nineteenth-century representations of South Asia and then the formation of Romanticism in the imperial public sphere and its discourses of orientalism, cosmopolitanism, and globalism. For related material, write to gaura.narayan@ purchase.edu ater 20 Dec.
621. Writing Insecurity, Writing in Security 1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton
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Program arranged by the forum LSL Language and Society. Presiding: A. Suresh Canagarajah, Penn State U, University Park Speakers: Usree Bhattacharya, U of Georgia; A. Suresh Canagarajah; Jerry Lee, U of California, Irvine; Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Shakil Rabbi, Penn State U, University Park; Matthew Trumbo-Tual, Columbia U Writing practice involves considerable insecurity, for personal and political reasons, and writers oten negotiate this insecurity in relative detachment in safe spaces, for expressive and critical purposes. Participants address current debates on the need and eicacy of safe spaces in educational institutions by demonstrating how these spaces facilitate constructive engagement with sociopolitical conlicts for transformative outcomes. For related material, write to
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Saturday, 6 January 3:00 p.m. 622. Getting Funded in the Humanities: An NEH Workshop 3:00–5:00 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Presiding: John Cox, National Endowment for the Humanities A senior program oicer at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) highlights recent awards and outlines current funding opportunities. In addition to emphasizing grant programs that support individual and collaborative research and educational opportunities, this workshop includes information on new developments at the NEH and ofers applicants strategies for submitting competitive grant proposals.
Saturday, 6 January 3:30 p.m. 623. Language Change: Global (Im)Migration and Linguistic Insecurity 3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL Language Change. Presiding: Roshawnda Derrick, Pepperdine U 1. “Promoting Plurilingual Approaches to Integration,” Ines Bruenner, Oberlin C
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624. Possibilities of the Public Humanities 3:30–4:45 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession. Presiding: Meredith Farmer, Wake Forest U Speakers: Colin David Dewey, California State U, Maritime Acad.; Armanda Lewis, New York U; Jennie Lightweis-Gof, U of Mississippi; Victoria Papa, Massachusetts C of Liberal Arts; Jessica Richard, Wake Forest U; Kym Weed, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Christine Yao, U of British Columbia In a moment of crisis in the humanities we ind one silver lining: scholars have found a multitude of ways to make a diference for broader publics. Our panelists introduce public projects (digital humanities, medical humanities, podcasting, community engagement, service learning, and teaching in prisons), then speak to how they built those projects, ultimately ofering advice for getting started with new public work. For related material, visit https://mlagrads.mla .hcommons.org/ ater 20 Dec.
625. Queer Futurities in Children’s and Young Adult Literature 3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Presiding: Angel Daniel Matos, San Diego State U 1. “he Ethics of Queer Futurity,” Gabrielle Owen, U of Nebraska, Lincoln 2. “‘Read Up on Your Future’s History’: Futurity through Bisexuality in Young Adult Novels,” Christine N. Stamper, Ohio State U, Columbus 3. “‘We’ll Always Come Here for the Summer, Right?’: he Queer Geographies of his O ne Summer,” Katharine Slater, Rowan U 4. “Out of History: Aristotle and D ante D iscover the Secrets of the Universe, the Reclamation of a Lost Past, and Queer Retrosity,” Michelle Ann Abate, Ohio State U, Columbus
626. Conservatism/Liberalism 3:30–4:45 p.m., New York, Hilton
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627. Epic and Performance 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Pamela Lothspeich, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1. “Most Notorious Female(s): Contemporary Women’s Resistance Movements in India,” Sumitra hoidingjam, Jamia Millia Islamia 2. “he Colors of Ramlila,” Pamela Lothspeich 3. “#GettingBolderWithBoulders: he Iliad in Multimedia Performance,” Carolyn Ownbey, McGill U; Catherine Quirk, McGill U 4. “‘A Great Storehouse of Knowledge’: he Epic as Yesteryear’s Big Data,” Jason Howard Mezey, St. Joseph’s U
628. Fragile Languages: Unrest, Vulnerability, and Resistance in Occitan and Catalan 3:30–4:45 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Occitan and LLC Catalan Studies. Presiding: Courtney Wells, Hobart and William Smith Cs 1. “he Cultural Transmission of a Fragile Language: he Vulnerable Presence of Old Occitan in the Medieval Italian Peninsula,” Isabella Magni, Indiana U, Bloomington 2. “he Names of Ausiàs March,” Juan Jose Colomina-Alminana, U of Texas, Austin 3. “Between Infanticide and Fratricide: Troubadour Song in Verdi’s Il Trovatore,” Sarah Kay, New York U
629. Auditory Texts in Premodern and Modern Korean Literature 3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Korean. Presiding: Pil Ho Kim, Ohio State U, Columbus 1. “Perception Aesthetics: Performing Late Chosŏn Vernacular Verse through Listening,” Anastasia Guryeva, St. Petersburg U 2. “Speaking the Language of the Child-Heart,” Dafna Zur, Stanford U
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3. “he Translation of Rhythm: he JapaneseLanguage Poetry of Chŏng Chi-yong,” David Krolikoski, U of Chicago 4. “Power of Refrain: he Lasting Impact of Koryŏ Kayo on Modern Korean Popular Music,” Pil Ho Kim
630. Preserving and Circulating Women’s Texts, 1660–1740 3:30–4:45 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English. Presiding: Laura L. Runge, U of South Florida, Tampa 1. “Expanding Access: he Role of the Women in Book History Bibliography,” Kate Ozment, Texas A&M U, College Station 2. “First: A Map,” Jennifer Keith, U of North Carolina, Greensboro 3. “Eighteenth-Century Women’s Writing Now,” Catherine Elizabeth Ingrassia, Virginia Commonwealth U Respondent: Laura C. Mandell, Texas A&M U, College Station
631. Aesthetic Outrage 3:30–4:45 p.m., Regent, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Stephen J. Tit, Williams C 1. “he Terrible Charm of Moral Outrage,” Blakey Vermeule, Stanford U 2. “‘[C]ounting Your Heads / As I’m Making the Beds’: ‘Piratesthetics,’ from Brecht to Simone,” Jacques Lezra, U of California, Riverside 3. “Ritual and Abomination: he Dynamics of Riots over Works of Art,” Stephen J. Tit Respondent: Ian Balfour, York U
632. Bicentennial Bits and Bytes: he Digital Frankenstein Project 3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Rikk Mulligan, Carnegie Mellon U Speakers: Elisa Beshero-Bondar, U of Pittsburgh, Greensburg; Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon U; Matthew Lavin, U of Pittsburgh; Rikk Mulligan he Digital Frankenstein Project creates a scholarly edition from all three versions of the novel (1818, 1823, 1831) and includes textual analysis, data visualizations, and online annotations. his session discusses project scoping, worklows, task sharing, and coordinating the eforts of nine-month and
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633. Modernism and Digital Archives: Aesthetics, Curation, Reading 3:30–4:45 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton Program arranged by the Modernist Studies Association. Presiding: Susan Barbara Rosenbaum, U of Georgia 1. “From Man to Woman and from Work to Tech: Queer Narratives and the Digital Archive,” Pamela L. Caughie, Loyola U, Chicago 2. “Aesthetics of the Archive: Digital (Late) Modernism,” Mark Byers, Newcastle U 3. “Out of the Darkroom: Reading in the Digital Archive,” Emily Setina, U of Nevada, Las Vegas
634. Rewriting and Resisting 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by GEMELA: Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800). Presiding: Emily C. Francomano, Georgetown U 1. “Noble Lineage, Royal Betrayal, and Divine Protection: Rewriting Family History in Leonor López de Córdoba’s Memorias,” Holly Sims, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2. “Women and heir Words: Protest and Consent in Ana Caro,” Margaret Boyle, Bowdoin C 3. “Writing Redemption into Being: Zayas’s Revisionist History,” Amy Sheeran, Johns Hopkins U, MD 4. “Rewriting Creole Resistance in Mid-colonial Mexico: María de Estrada Medinilla,” Mariana Zinni, Queens C, City U of New York
635. Social Justice in Language Teaching and Learning: Curricular Approaches 3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL SecondLanguage Teaching and Learning. Presiding: Glenn Levine, U of California, Irvine 1. “Social Justice in the L2 Curriculum: A Surveyand Interview-Driven Study,” Janel Pettes Guikema, Grand Valley State U; Lawrence Williams, U of North Texas 2. “he Woke Curriculum: Using Intergroup Dialogue in the Language Classroom,” Roberto Rey Agudo, Dartmouth C 3. “Integrating a Social Justice Curriculum in Beginning German Language Courses,” Magdalena Tarnawska Senel, U of California, Los Angeles
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637. Du Bois in a Comparative Context 3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century. Presiding: Nergis Ertürk, Penn State U, University Park 1. “Running Ater Du Bois,” Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia U 2. “he Wince of the Flesh: Du Bois’s Embodied Humanism,” Vilashini Cooppan, U of California, Santa Cruz Respondent: Brent Hayes Edwards, Columbia U
638. Fake News, Fake-Outs, and Racial Politics 3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale. Presiding: Constance Bailey, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville 1. “‘hat’s Just Folklore’: Folklore Pedagogy in the Age of Fake News,” Shelley Ingram, U of Louisiana, Lafayette 2. “Conspiracy and Black Critique in Imperium in Imperio and Of One Blood,” John Garrett Bridger Gilmore, U of California, Irvine 3. “Discursive Fake-Outs: Jay-Z, Illuminati, and the Wealthy Black Man Archetype,” Constance Bailey 4. “Watershed Moments: Stephen King’s 11/22/63 as Reaction against Conspiracy heories,” Christopher Field, Tennessee State U
639. Knowledge, Power, Creativity: Emerson and Literary Studies 3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton A special session
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1. “Critical Attachment: Emersonian Knowledge and the Practice of Literary Criticism,” Kristen Case, U of Maine, Farmington 2. “Creative Forces: he Aesthetics of Power in Emerson and Nietzsche,” Dustin Breitenwischer, Albert-Ludwigs-U Freiburg 3. “he Pragmatist Practice of Pedagogy,” Kate Stanley, U of Western Ontario Respondent: Herwig Friedl, Heinrich-Heine-U Düsseldorf
640. Precarious Sovereignty in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas 3:30–4:45 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Caribbean. Presiding: Supriya M. Nair, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1. “Extinction,” Guillermina De Ferrari, U of Wisconsin, Madison 2. “Precarious Crossings: Intra-Caribbean Immigration in Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro’s Los documentados,” Alexandra Perisic, U of Miami 3. “Narratives of Diaspora and Sovereignty in Edwidge Danticat’s he Dew Breaker,” Christine Anlicker, Georgia State U 4. “Island Erasure: Writing (Out) the Dominican Republic in Evelyne Trouillot’s he Blue of the Island and Louis-Phillipe Dalembert’s he Other Side of the Sea,” Megan Jeanette Myers, Iowa State U
641. Desire and Domestic Fiction ater hirty Years 3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: John M. G. Plotz, Brandeis U Speakers: Rachel Ablow, U at Bufalo, State U of New York; Jonathan Arac, U of Pittsburgh; Nancy Armstrong, Duke U; Ian Duncan, U of California, Berkeley; Deidre Lynch, Harvard U; Jesse Rosenthal, Johns Hopkins U, MD his session shows that Nancy Armstrong’s irst book, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (1987), continues to inspire work on the history of the novel, the history of feelings, and the ways we understand our institutions for study of the novel.
642. Colloquy with Robert L. Gunn on Ethnology and Empire 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Dennis Moore, Florida State U
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Speakers: Anna Brickhouse, U of Virginia; Robert Gunn, U of Texas, El Paso; Laura L. Mielke, U of Kansas; Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Binghamton U, State U of New York; Oliver Scheiding, Johannes Gutenberg U; Kelly Wisecup, Northwestern U Panelists, including Robert Gunn, make short opening statements on Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literatures, and the Making of the North American Borderlands. his approach frees up time for lively, substantive discussion that engages members of the audience as well as the panelists.
643. Compromise or Conlict: Literary Form Now 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Rachel Greenwald Smith, St. Louis U Speakers: Aku Ammah-Tagoe, Stanford U; Sarah Chihaya, Princeton U; Gloria L. Fisk, Queens C, City U of New York; Rachel Greenwald Smith How do contemporary writers adapt the literary genres and forms they inherit to represent the pressures that work on political systems at the turn of the twenty-irst century? How do contemporary genres and forms inscribe, subtend, and critique the political systems we see tested and imagined in this moment? Our answers to these questions work across the axes of the aesthetic and the political by taking up two central concepts: compromise and conlict.
644. Feminist Pedagogy in Digital Spaces 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession. Presiding: Eileen Cheng-Yin Chow, Duke U Speakers: Dene M. Grigar, Washington State U, Vancouver; Laura Hartmann-Villalta, Georgetown U; Andie Silva, York C, City U of New York; Lee Skallerup Bessette, U of Mary Washington; Elizabeth Skwiot, Ashford U; Jennifer Travis, St. John’s U, NY; Dhipinder Walia, Lehman C, City U of New York; Melinda White, U of New Hampshire, Durham Digital spaces are a challenge for feminist discourse: platforms like Twitter amplify trolling and harassment, unmoderated online forums can become havens for misogyny, and being visible as a woman online is associated with sexual harassment and microaggressions. However, digital spaces are also sites of learning. his interactive roundtable examines ways to integrate feminist
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645. Word and Image in British Romanticism 3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association. Presiding: Jonathan Farina, Seton Hall U 1. “Antislavery Satire before Abolitionism: Two New Images,” Deirdre Patricia Coleman, U of Melbourne 2. “Blake’s Wollstonecrat’s Girls,” Elizabeth Fay, U of Massachusetts, Boston 3. “Hebrew Micrography in the Works of William Blake,” Sarah Stein, Arkansas Tech U 4. “he Game of Human Life: Late Romantic Amusement, Social Class, and Illustration,” Rosetta Young, U of California, Berkeley
646. Latina/o New York: Contemporary Authors Writing on or from New York 3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Latina and Latino. Presiding: Ariana Vigil, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1. “he Poetics of Location: Writing Chicana/o Literature from New York,” Helena María Viramontes, Cornell U 2. “When la Frontera Is JFK: Writing Place in the Latina Memoir,” Daisy Hernández, Miami U, Oxford 3. “Literature and the Dominican Diaspora in New York City,” Angie Cruz, U of Pittsburgh
647. John Milton: Exegesis and Prophecy 3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the Milton Society of America. Presiding: Elizabeth Sauer, Brock U 1. “Animality, the ‘Political,’ and Biblical Exegesis in Milton and Hobbes,” Mary Nyquist, U of Toronto 2. “Conscience and Milton’s Liberalism,” Abraham D. Stoll, U of San Diego 3. “he Johannine Spirit-Paraclete in the Works of John Milton,” Paul A. Cefalu, Lafayette C 4. “he Prophetic Milton and Isaac Newton,” Stephen M. Fallon, U of Notre Dame
648. he Timeliness and Timelessness of Stefan Zweig 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton Program arranged by the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association. Presiding: Gregor A. huswaldner, North Park U
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649. he Fantastic in Old Norse Literature 3:30–4:45 p.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Old Norse. Presiding: Natalie Van Deusen, U of Alberta 1. “Revisiting the Well and the Tree: A Pagan Exegesis,” Stephen J. Harris, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 2. “Translating Monstrosity into Old Norse Idiom,” Maj-Britt Frenze, U of Notre Dame 3. “Christianity and the Norse Otherworlds of Glæsisvellir and Ódáinsakr,” Joseph Leake, U of Connecticut, Storrs
650. Ignite Talk: Alison Bechdel on the Page, Onstage, and in heory 3:30–4:45 p.m., Beekman, Hilton A special session Speakers: Leah M. Anderst, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York; Alissa Bourbonnais, U of Washington, Seattle; Judith Gardiner, U of Chicago; Dana A. Heller, Old Dominion U; Robert Hutton, Carleton U; Susan E. Kirtley, Portland State U; Aubrey Mishou, Old Dominion U Ten years ater the conclusion of Dykes to Watch Out For, twelve years ater the graphic memoir Fun Home, and ive years ater Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori’s theatrical adaptation of Fun Home, this ignite talk session ofers a spectrum of voices, perspectives, and theoretical approaches to the works of Bechdel, demonstrating not just analysis of a single author across genres but the impact of such texts on wider ields of study.
651. Shakespearean Negotiations: he Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, hirty Years On 3:30–4:45 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: William Reginald Rampone, Jr., South Carolina State U
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1. “he College of Corporations: Stephen Greenblatt’s Network of Social Energy,” Neema Parvini, U of Surrey 2. “Circulating Social Contagion: Negotiations of Disability, Sexuality, and Animality in Renaissance Drama,” Jeremy Cornelius, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge 3. “Sympathy for the Devil: Sodomy and the Limiting Silences of Masculine Desire in William Shakespeare’s Othello,” Nicholas Fredrick Radel, Furman U Respondent: Stephen J. Greenblatt, Harvard U
652. Cognitive Approaches to Chinese Literature 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton A special session 1. “Immoral Music: A Cognitive Comparison of Monteverdi and Hong Sheng,” K. C. Schoenberger, Jr., Hong Kong Polytechnic U 2. “he Importance of Being Deceived,” Lisa Zunshine, U of Kentucky 3. “Fiction, Capitalism, Mindreading, and Morality,” Tina Lu, Yale U Respondent: Haiyan Lee, Stanford U
653. Dramaturgies of the Ear: Listening to heory’s Scenes 3:30–4:45 p.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the forum MS Opera and Musical Performance 1. “Hollow Utterance or Expression: Listening to Austin with Stein,” Adam J. Frank, U of British Columbia 2. “he Book as a Medium of Listening,” Sander van Maas, U of Amsterdam 3. “he Tenor Reads Himself Aloud,” Cynthia Chase, Cornell U
654. Literature of Waste and Environmental Insecurity in Central and Eastern Europe 3:30–4:45 p.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Slavic and East European. Presiding: Julia Vaingurt, U of Illinois, Chicago 1. “Uncontainable Waste in (and beyond) German Realist Literature,” Jason Groves, U of Washington, Seattle 2. “Transformation of Matter and Energy Exchange: Waste as a Relative Category in Russian Neorealism,” Colleen McQuillen, U of Illinois, Chicago
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3. “he Garbage Dump as a Locus of SelfDebasement, Renewal, and Creativity in Jáchym Topol’s City Sister Silver,” Christopher Harwood, Columbia U Respondent: Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity U
655. Auden and Others 3:30–4:45 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Seamus Perry, U of Oxford, Balliol C 1. “Authorship and Friendship in the Public Auden and the Private Auden,” Edward Mendelson, Columbia U 2. “‘he Youngest Person in the Room’: Auden and the Refusal of Authority,” Stephen Louis Burt, Harvard U 3. “Auden’s Amateurs: Developing an Oppositional Queer Poetics in the 1930s,” Jennifer Spitzer, Ithaca C
656. Justice and Equity through the Immigrant Story 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Community Colleges. Presiding: Heather E. Ostman, Westchester Community C, State U of New York 1. “Between the Disciplines: Border Crossings in the Community College Classroom,” Ryan James McGuckin, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge 2. “Teaching about the Stories of ‘Migration’ in the Project-Based Learning Space of a German Language Classroom,” Carolin Mueller, Ohio State U, Columbus 3. “Sufolk Voices: Using Student Narratives as Texts in a Divided Community,” Kate O’Donoghue, Sufolk County Community C, NY
657. Creative Pedagogies in Critical Settings 3:30–4:45 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum RCWS Creative Writing. Presiding: Louis Bury, Hostos Community C, City U of New York 1. “Creative Writing Techniques in the Composition Classroom,” Maureen McVeigh Trainor, West Chester U 2. “Teaching the Survey: he Commonplace Book—Engaging Students through Alterior Forms of Assessment,” Daniel Hengel, Graduate Center, City U of New York 3. “Argument as the Art of Poetic Imagination,” Stacey Waite, U of Nebraska, Lincoln 4. “Imitation as the Sincerest Form of Literary Studies: On the Value of Creative Writing
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658. Humanities at a Professional School 3:30–4:45 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Jessica Gross, St. Louis C of Pharmacy Speakers: Colleen Eils, United States Military Acad.; Jeanette Goddard, Trine U; Jessica Gross; Jennifer Rudolph, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.; Catherine Ann Siemann, New Jersey Inst. of Tech.; Ronald L. Strickland, Michigan Technological U he large role that professional schools play in employing humanities scholars and in training future professionals, although usually overlooked in discussions of the profession, is an important contribution to the conversation about the place of the humanities in higher education. What unique challenges and opportunities face humanities scholars, students, and the humanities ields at professional schools?
659. Hemingway and War 3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty 5, Sheraton Program arranged by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society. Presiding: Richard W. Hancuf, Misericordia U 1. “‘Besides It Nothing Else Mattered’: Illustrating War, Death, and Remembrance in Hemingway’s Preface to A Farewell to Arms,” Ross Tangedal, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point 2. “Hemingway’s ‘Now I Lay Me’: Of War, Rivers, and Writing,” John Beall, Collegiate School, NY 3. “Rivers, Mountains, and Gardens: Traumatic Narratives and Mourning in Hemingway, Mansield, and von Arnim,” Noreen O’Connor, King’s C
660. Lectura Boccaccii 3:30–4:45 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the American Boccaccio Association. Presiding: Kristina Marie Olson, George Mason U “Boccaccio Humanist: Specula principum and Fortuna in the De casibus virorum illustrium,” Susanna Barsella, Fordham U
661. Archival Research in the Black Diaspora 3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Sue E. Houchins, Bates C Speakers: Danielle Bainbridge, Yale U; Anne Donlon, MLA; Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Bates C; Nicho-
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662. Uneven and Combined Development and the Future of Literary Studies 3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton Program arranged by the Marxist Literary Group and the forum TC Postcolonial Studies Speakers: Sandeep Banerjee, McGill U; Ericka Beckman, U of Pennsylvania; Sharae Deckard, National U of Ireland; Alexander Fyfe, Penn State U, University Park; Ruth Jennison, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Auritro Majumder, U of Houston; Oded Nir, Franklin and Marshall C What are the political stakes of reinvigorating uneven and combined development at this particular moment in the history of postcolonial studies? What are the transformations that the concept has undergone (or ought to undergo) in postcolonial contexts? What is the relevance of its various histories in diverse intellectual traditions? And how does its use in contexts outside the domain of anglophone postcolonial studies change our understanding of it?
663. Gide’s Friends and Foes 3:30–4:45 p.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the Association des Amis d’André Gide. Presiding: Martine H. Benjamin, Princeton U 1. “L’évolution des sentiments de Gide envers Proust,” Pascal A. Ifri, Washington U in St. Louis 2. “L’afaire Béraud-Gide: Populism, Paranoia, and the Novel,” Jason Earle, Sarah Lawrence C 3. “André Gide et Jean Cocteau: Le refus d’ ‘une amitié pléonasme,’” Pierre Mathieu, U Lumière, Lyon 2 4. “Oscar Wilde’s Tough Love: Young Gide’s Arch Frenemy Makes Him Check His Privilege,” Dejan Kuzmanovic, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point For related material, write to
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664. Narratives of Resistance and Resilience in Southeast Asian Security Regimes 3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Weihsin Gui, U of California, Riverside 1. “Resilient Spaces and Sociality in Last Train From Tanjong Pagar,” Weihsin Gui 2. “Foreign Talent and the Specter of Foreign Workers in he Inlet,” Michelle O’Brien, U of British Columbia 3. “Socialism’s Underworld: Crime and Gold,” Ben Vu Tran, Vanderbilt U 4. “Covert Videography, Undocumented Migration, Concealed Burmeseness,” Brian Bernards, U of Southern California For related material, write to
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Saturday, 6 January 5:15 p.m. 665. Romanticizing Meta-? 5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton Program arranged by the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism. Presiding: Ross Wilson, U of Cambridge 1. “Meta-physics,” Marjorie Levinson, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “Meta-critique,” Alexander Regier, Rice U 3. “European Romantic Transformations of Relection: A Very Short History,” Paul Hamilton, U of London, Queen Mary
666. Connected Academics: A Showcase of Career Diversity 5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Connected Academics Project Speakers: Ajay Singh Chaudary, Brooklyn Inst. for Social Research; Jaime Cleland, MLA; Cynthia Estremera, Strategy Arts, Philadelphia; Manoah Finston, Columbia U; Jacob Heil, C of Wooster; William Hinrichs, Bard High School Early C, NY; Emily Lederman, Grand St. Settlement; Josephine Livingstone, New Republic; John T. McQuillen, Morgan Library and Museum; Sara J. Ogger, Humanities New York; Jason Rhody, Social Science Research Council; Victoria Ford Smith, U of Connecticut, Storrs his session showcases careers of PhD recipients who have put their advanced degrees in the hu-
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manities to work in a variety of rewarding occupations and ofers participants an opportunity to discover the wide range of employment possibilities available within and beyond the academy. Presenters are available at individual stations for one-on-one discussions about their jobs and the career paths that led to them. For related material, visit connect.mla.hcommons .org/2018-mla-convention-activities/ ater 2 Oct.
667. Addressing Diversity in Academic Hiring 5:15–6:30 p.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Bryan Betancur, Bronx Community C, City U of New York Speakers: Jaime Cruz-Ortiz, Kennesaw State U; Harriet Elizabeth Hustis, C of New Jersey; Victoria Livingstone, Moravian C; Carlos VargasSalgado, Whitman C his session aims to create a space for dialogue regarding diversity in faculty hiring. Panelists discuss their experiences on hiring committees and as candidates on the job market and consider the eicacy and limits of current recruiting strategies.
668. Testimonial Turns and Carceral States: he Atermaths and Aterlives of Japanese American Internment in Asian American Creative Noniction 5:15–6:30 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian American. Presiding: Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, U of Connecticut, Willimantic 1. “Graphic Memoir as Visual Testimony: Documenting the Injustice of Japanese Internment in Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660,” Roberta Wolfson, California State Polytechnic U, San Luis Obispo 2. “Community Means Contained: Internees, Refugees, and Ambivalent Activism,” Timothy Yu, U of Wisconsin, Madison 3. “he Queer Internment Testimonial of Karen Kehoe,” Chris Vials, U of Connecticut, Storrs 4. “Don’t Tell on Mama: Chinese American Memoir in the Confession Era,” Heidi Kim, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
669. “Mewn Dau Gae” (“Between Two Fields”): No State of Security in Medieval North Atlantic Studies 5:15–6:30 p.m., Harlem, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Old English and CLCS Celtic. Presiding: Lindy Brady, U of Mississippi
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1. “On the Power and Authority of the Outsider Poet, hen and Now,” Daniel Redding-Brielmaier, U of Toronto 2. “Singing in Chains: Prison, Porter, and Inspiration in Medieval Welsh Antiquarian Narrative,” Samuel Lasman, U of Chicago 3. “Hereward ‘he Wake’: Exile and Outlaw Hero,” Terri Sanderson, U of Toronto Respondent: Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood U For related material, visit www.academia .edu/32168392/MLA_Old_English_ Session_ Descriptions_2018.
670. Book Development Workshop: From Pitching an Idea to Finding a Publisher 5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton A special session Speakers: Benjamin Doyle, Palgrave Macmillan; Angela Gibson, MLA; Amyrose McCue Gill, TextFormations; Anne Savarese, Princeton U Press; Eric Zinner, New York U Press his workshop ofers practical guidance on successfully developing an academic book for publication in the humanities, from proposal to contract. Panelists ofer tips for writing your book proposal, thinking about readership, and responding to readers’ reports and developmental editing, among other topics. Ater brief presentations, panelists will answer questions and facilitate discussions.
671. Reimagining Social Justice Concerns: Bringing Fantasy Fiction into the Classroom 5:15–6:30 p.m., Clinton, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Stephanie Dreier, U of British Columbia 1. “Confronting Tolkien and Rowling: A Critical Approach to Fantasy in the Classroom,” Mark Fabrizi, Eastern Connecticut State U 2. “Resistance from Britain to Germany: Exploring Heroism through Fantasy,” Stephanie Dreier 3. “Problematizing Popular Representations of Education and Educators in Fantasy through Lev Grossman’s he Magicians,” Megan Suttie, McMaster U
672. Samuel Beckett and the Discourse of Psychoanalysis 5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the Samuel Beckett Society 1. “Insuferable Beckett,” Daniela Caselli, U of Manchester
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673. “Disputation”: Literature and Politics; Heine and Beyond 5:15–6:30 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the North American Heine Society. Presiding: Jonathan S. Skolnik, U of Massachusetts, Amherst 1. “Hebraism’s Ironic Antidotes to Autocratic Rule: From Hauf to Heine,” U. C. Knoeplmacher, Princeton U 2. “No Grateful Dead: Heine’s Ludwig Börne and Literature or Politics,” Sebastian Wogenstein, U of Connecticut, Storrs 3. “Race and Empire: Heine’s ‘Das Sklavenschif’ and Turner’s he Slave Ship,” Alicia E. Ellis, Colby C 4. “Sender the Wiser: Disputing the Universality of German in Karl Emil Franzos’s Der Pojaz,” Ashley A. Passmore, Texas A&M U, College Station
674. Aesthetics of Romanian Cinema, Literature, and Translation: Current Issues 5:15–6:30 p.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the Romanian Studies Association of America. Presiding: Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, U of Bucharest 1. “Romanian Literature as World Literature: Geopolitics, World Systems, and Spatiality in the Contemporary Romanian Imaginary and Literary-Cultural Scholarship,” Christian Moraru, U of North Carolina, Greensboro; Andrei Terian, Lucian Blaga U of Sibiu 2. “Afro-Romanian Cosmopolitanism: Wanlov the Kubolor’s ‘Afro-Gypsy’ Aesthetics,” Monica Popescu, McGill U 3. “Mateiu Caragiale and the Painterly Vision,” Adriana Varga, U of Nevada, Reno 4. “In the Realm of Media: he Aesthetics of Transmission in the Romanian New Wave,” Sorin Cucu, LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York Respondent: Noemi Marin, Florida Atlantic U
675. Tendencies ater Tendenci es 5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton
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Program arranged by the forums TC Sexuality Studies and TM Literary and Cultural heory. Presiding: Benjamin Kahan, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge Speakers: Wayne Koestenbaum, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Michael D. Moon, Emory U; Andrew C. Parker, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Dana Seitler, U of Toronto; Omise’eke Tinsley, U of Texas, Austin; Robyn Wiegman, Duke U Twenty-ive years ater Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick published Tendencies, her meditation on sexualities in lives and literatures and on the artiicial categories imposed on people because of their sexual orientation, queer theorists come together to relect on her book’s perpetually profound, farreaching resonances. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/sexuality-studies/ ater 15 Dec.
676. Cannibal Modernity:Cannibalism, Colonialism,and Capitalism in East Asia 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC East Asian. Presiding: Yun-Chu Tsai, he Citadel 1. “Cannibalism and Creative Journalism in 1930s Korea,” Merose Hwang, Hiram C 2. “he Grotesque Stomach: Cannibalism, Ideology, and Experiment in Ishikawa Jun’s Narukami,” Helen Weetman, Bates C 3. “A Postsocialist Desire for Cannibalism: Self, Other, and Neoliberalism in he Republic of Wine,” Yun-Chu Tsai 4. “Mimetic Violence in the Contemporary Chinese Avant-Garde: Infant Cannibalism and SelfMutilation as Quotidian Remonstrations,” Megan McShane, Florida Gulf Coast U
677. Screening the Past 5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding: Jorge P. Pérez, U of Texas, Austin 1. “Visual Perfectionism and Fetishization: he Spectacular Erasure of Social Critique in Palmeras en la nieve,” Leigh Mercer, U of Washington, Seattle 2. “Prizing the Past: Intermedial Approaches in Recent Spanish Cinema,” Sarah homas, Brown U 3. “Mediating History in First-Person Documentary Films by the Grandchildren of the Civil War,” Maribel Rams, U of Massachussets, Amherst
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678.A Conversation on the Intersection of the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Movements 5:15–6:30 p.m., West Ballroom, Hilton Presiding: Diana Taylor, New York U Participants: Harry Belafonte; Patrisse Cullors, #BlackLivesMatter Belafonte and Cullors explore changing strategies in the struggle for social justice.
679. Legal Ecologies 5:15–6:30 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forums TC Law and the Humanities and TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities. Presiding: Ron Broglio, Arizona State U Speakers: Sophie Christman-Lavin, Stony Brook U, State U of New York; Kevin Curran, U of Lausanne; Christina Gerhardt, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa; Rob Nixon, Princeton U; Cary Wolfe, Rice U he Anglo-American legal tradition is fundamentally anthropocentric and individualist. his session pushes back against this tradition by considering how the theoretical tools developed by ecocriticism might help us redescribe legal experience in terms that don’t depend on the grammar of I and me. Participants also consider the implications of this conceptual reorientation for the practice of environmental justice. For related material, visit shakespeareanexteriority .wordpress.com ater 1 Dec.
680. Sempre en Nova Iorque:Galician Cultures in and from New York City 5:15–6:30 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Galician. Presiding: Danny Barreto, Colgate U 1. “ Francisco Leiro and Antonio Murado: Galician Visual Artists in New York,” Ekaterina Volkova, U of Auckland 2. “ Shattered Traditions and Atlantic Journeys: New York and the Fragmentation of Galician National Narrative,” Alejandro Alonso, Brooklyn C, City U of New York 3. “ ‘A outra cara da terra prometida’: Competing Identities in Francisco Álvarez Koki’s Ratas en Manhattan (2007),” Catherine Barbour, U of St. Andrews 4. “Grazing on Signs: he Urban Ecology of Claudio Rodríguez Fer’s New York,” Diana Conchado, Hunter C, City U of New York
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681. Managing the Online Classroom: Challenges and Strategies 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession. Presiding: William Christopher Brown, Midland C 1. “Depth versus Breadth: Coverage in the Online Classroom,” Carrie Sickmann Han, Indiana U– Purdue U, Indianapolis 2. “More han Just Convenience: Harnessing the Learning Opportunities of the Online Classroom,” Melissa Dennihy, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York 3. “Reinventing the Online Course: Social Media Approaches to Learning,” Lisa Longo Johnston, Centenary U 4. “Teaching World Literature Online: Helping Students Engage with Multicultural Literature,” Pamela Kirkpatrick, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville
682. Feminicide in Central America: Art, Activism, and Resistance to Gender-Based Violence 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Hemispheric American Speakers: Kency Cornejo, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Muriel Hasbun, Centro Cultural de España; Carlos Rivas, U of California, Los Angeles Since 2000, feminicide in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador has been increasing, according to a 2011 study by the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and this region has the highest feminicide rate in the world. Panelists discuss the work of Central American artists and activists that interrogate this terrible phenomenon and reveal the heteronormative patriarchal social structures underneath these terrible acts.
683. Realism and Production in the Long Nineteenth Century 5:15–6:30 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English. Presiding: Daniel Akiva Novak, U of Mississippi 1. “‘he Most Dangerous Performance We Ever Beheld’: Realism, Imitation, and the Staging of the Criminal in the Newgate Drama,” Heidi J. Holder, Mt. Holyoke C 2. “Exposing Realist Fantasies: Revisiting the New Woman in Edith Wharton’s he House of Mirth through Silent Film,” Erin Cotter, U of Texas, Austin
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684. Cultures Claiming Writers 5:15–6:30 p.m., Regent, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other han English 1. “In-Between Cultures: he Diicult Case of Mario Bencastro,” Raquel Patricia Chiquillo, U of Houston, Downtown 2. “Tracing the Traceless: Trauma, Translation, and the Archive,” Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, U of Pennsylvania 3. “Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterlies: he Turn of Latin@/x Texts from Marginalized United States Literatures to Latin American Cultural Authorities,” Stephanie A. Fetta, Syracuse U 4. “Class Claiming Culture: he Shaping of National Identity for Writers Publishing in Spanish in the United States,” Sylvia Veronica Morin, U of Tennessee, Martin
685. Celebrating One Hundred Years of Hispania 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Presiding: Shannon M. Polchow, U of South Carolina Upstate 1. “Once Again ‘On the hreshold’: Interdisciplinarity in Hispania in the Twenty-First Century,” Jennifer Brady, U of Minnesota, Duluth 2. “Hispania and Its Reviews: Keeping Abreast of the Latest Scholarship,” Domnita Dumitrescu, California State U, Los Angeles 3. “Hispania at Two Hundred: On the Future of Spanish and Portuguese Studies,” Luis AlvarezCastro, U of Florida, Gainesville Respondent: Frank Nuessel, U of Louisville
686. Empire State of Blackness: he Transitional Roles of New York in Amiri Baraka’s Work 5:15–6:30 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Jean-Philippe Marcoux, U of Laval Speakers: William J. Harris, U of Kansas; JeanPhilippe Marcoux; Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Penn State U, University Park; Kathy Lou Schultz, U of Memphis Panelists discuss the multifunctional role of New York City in shaping the artistic and political voice of African American poet Amiri Baraka. As
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687. Stéréotypes en tous genres: Insécurités sociétales et précarités identitaires 5:15–6:30 p.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by Women in French. Presiding: Nadia Louar, U of Wisconsin, Madison 1. “Racial and Sexual Stereotypes in Contemporary Women’s Writing in France,” Nadia Louar 2. “A Twisted Use of Autobiography: Nina Bouraoui’s La voyeuse interdite (‘Forbidden Vision’),” Annick A. Durand, Zayed U 3. “Stéréotypes, malaise social et précarités identitaires dans Apocalypse bébé, de Virginie Despentes,” Michele Schaal, Iowa State U 4. “he Memory of Stereotypes in Malika Mokeddem’s Writing,” Beatrice Ivey, U of Leeds
688. Atlantic Synesthesia 5:15–6:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Early American. Presiding: Valeria Tsygankova, Columbia U 1. “A Noxious Nation: he Biopolitics of Smell in Eighteenth-Century Immigration Tracts,” Kellen Bolt, Northwestern U 2. “Anglo-Catholicism and Indigenous Bodies in Colonial Maryland English Jesuit Writings from the 1630s–40s,” Andrew Ferris, Princeton U 3. “Atlantic Aesthesis,” Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern U 4. “Gabriel’s Rebellion and the Senses of Satisfaction,” Lauren Klein, Georgia Inst. of Tech.
689. George Sand and the Dumas, Father and Son 5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the George Sand Association. Presiding: Catherine Masson, Wellesley C 1. “Une iliation élective: Vingt-cinq ans de correspondance épistolaire entre George Sand et Dumas ils,” Noelle Rouxel-Cubberly, Bennington C 2. “Des mémoires à quatre mains? George Sand et Alexandre Dumas père entre fraternité et concurrence,” Nikol Dziub, U de Haute-Alsace 3. “Of-Stage heater Games: George Sand and the Dumas, Père and Fils,” Shira Malkin, Rhodes C For related material, visit gsa.hofstradrc.org.
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690. Languages of the Restoration and Enlightenment 5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English. Presiding: Roxann Wheeler, Ohio State U, Columbus 1. “Using the Language of the Philosophical Transactions to Reexamine Poetry as Printed Texts hat Circulated among the Same Readers,” James Ascher, U of Virginia 2. “Nature, Language, and Religious Reform in John Wilkins’s Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language,” Margaret McGowan, Yale U 3. “hee and hou and the Quaker Elimination of Social Hierarchy in Speech,” Ana M. Acosta, Brooklyn C, City U of New York 4. “Nonstandard English and the Hyperreal in Eighteenth-Century Print,” Janet L. Sorensen, U of California, Berkeley
691. Transnational and Transmodal Retelling of Young People’s Literacy Narratives 5:15–6:30 p.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the forum RCWS Literacy Studies. Presiding: Alanna Frost, U of Alabama, Huntsville 1. “Transcending Commodiication and Disrupting the Literacy Myth: Reading I Am Malala as a Literacy Narrative,” Kara Poe Alexander, Baylor U 2. “Digital Dispositions: Leveraging Youth Literacy Practices in Academic Contexts,” Merideth Garcia, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 3. “Moving Bodies, Moving Borders: Mobility and Containment in School and Society,” Brice Nordquist, Syracuse U For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/literacy-studies/ ater 2 Jan.
692. Reclamation Ecopoetics of the African Diaspora 5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Presiding: Katherine R. Lynes, Union C 1. “‘Too Wild an Elation’: he Dangers and Necessities of Wilderness Pleasure,” Katherine R. Lynes 2. “Reclamation, Reparation, Reconstruction,” Sonya Posmentier, New York U 3. “Hubble Gazes into Duende: Tracy K. Smith’s Ecopoetics of Survival,” Lacie Rae Cunningham, Cornell U
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693. Futurity and Diference 5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Leslie A. Adelson, Cornell U 1. “Grassesgrassesgrasses: Grounded Indigenous Futures in Whereas,” Christopher Pexa, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities 2. “he Second Time: On Rhythm and Temporality in the Practices of Cecil Taylor and Jacques Derrida,” Nahum Chandler, U of California, Irvine 3. “Standing . . . a Chance,” Claudia Brodsky, Princeton U
694. Open Pedagogy: Practices in Digital Citizenship and the Ethics of Care 5:15–6:30 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology. Presiding: Angel David Nieves, Hamilton C Speakers: Brian Croxall, Brown U; Geofrey Gimse, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Viola Lasmana, U of Southern California; Zach Whalen, U of Mary Washington Open pedagogy can be extremely valuable but can also be risky, especially when student work may critique dominant cultures of access, privilege, ableism, or oppression. How do we balance the beneits and the risks of public engagement? What are our ethical obligations to our students? his session generates practical advice and examples for best practices, beyond the option of pseudonymity, for connecting students to authentic, public audiences. For related material, visit infotech.mla.hcommons .org/ ater 1 Dec.
695. Bossy Dames: Poetics and Pragmatics of Feminist Leadership 5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession. Presiding: Heidi Bostic, U of New Hampshire, Durham; Eileen Cheng-Yin Chow, Duke U Speakers: Leta Hong Fincher, New York, NY; Patricia M. Hswe, Mellon Foundation; Sharmila Sen, Harvard U Press; Mary Wildner-Bassett, U of Arizona; Cheryl Wilson, Stevenson U
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696. Surveillance Aesthetics: Drones, Capital, Data 5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Aaron DeRosa, California State Polytechnic U, Pomona 1. “Securing ‘he Lady of the House’: he Domestication of Drone Form,” J. D. Schnepf, Princeton U 2. “Drone Warfare, Leak Aesthetics,” Aaron DeRosa 3. “Data Exhaust: Tao Lin’s Quotation Marks and Surveillance Capitalism,” Jefrey Clapp, Education U of Hong Kong 4. “‘I’ll Take a Mountain of Evidence Over a Confession Any Day’: Racial Formation and the Limits of Narrative Certainty in the Age of Mass Surveillance,” Maria Bose, Clemson U
697. Bad Translation 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Russian and Eurasian and TC Translation Studies. Presiding: Benjamin Palof, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1. “Perfectly Terrible Translation in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Between,” Karen Emmerich, Princeton U 2. “Hamlet in Lower Jerkwater: An Experiment in Translating Context,” Ellen Elias-Bursac, American Literary Translators Assn. 3. “he Russian Crime and Punishment in the Argentine Seven Madmen; or, How Bad Translations Made Good Literature,” Adel Fauzetdinova, Boston U Respondent: Bret Maney, Lehman C, City U of New York For related material, write to
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698. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Orhan Pamuk 5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Sevinç Türkkan, U of Rochester Speakers: David Damrosch, Harvard U; Gloria L. Fisk, Queens C, City U of New York; David Gramling, U of Arizona; Bala Venkat Mani, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Delia Ungureanu, Harvard U
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2. “Variations on the Arab Lear: History of Reception, Translation, and Production,” Madiha Hannachi, U de Montréal 3. “Recent Philosophical Receptions of King Lear: Slavoj Žižek and Stanley Cavell,” Bruce Krajewski, U of Texas, Arlington
699. Activist #States: he United States South in Insecure Times
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5:15–6:30 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Southern United States Speakers: James Crank, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Robert A. Jackson, U of Tulsa; Jennie LightweisGof, U of Mississippi; Bethany Mannon, Old Dominion U; Jon Smith, Simon Fraser U Panelists address activism’s role in the study of Southern literature and in the Southern literary studies classroom, literature’s role in activist movements, pedagogical projects with an activist focus, attacks on socially engaged teaching and research, and how Southern strategies and activists’ responses circulate outside the region. Attendees are encouraged to share their own strategies for engaging activist praxis.
700. Literary Universals 5:15–6:30 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Cognitive and Afect Studies. Presiding: Lalita Pandit Hogan, U of Wisconsin, La Crosse 1. “Primal Androgyny: Typological and Statistical Universals,” Arnab Roy, U of Connecticut, Storrs 2. “Literary Prehistory: Oral Storytelling as Natural Pedagogy,” Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, U of Oregon 3. “Universality and Cultural Variability of Facial Expression in Film: hree Views,” Murray Smith, U of Kent 4. “Literary Universals: Childhood,” Anne Stiles, St. Louis U For related material, visit literary-universals .uconn.edu/2017/03/22/literary-universals-panel -mla-convention-2018/.
701. Four Hundred Years of King Lear: Adaptation and Translation 5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Presiding: Eric Rasmussen, U of Nevada, Reno 1. “he Brilliance of Tate’s Lear,” Richard A. Strier, U of Chicago
5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Middle English. Presiding: Julie Orlemanski, U of Chicago Speakers: Paula Karger, U of Toronto; Shayne Aaron Legassie, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Sierra Lomuto, U of Pennsylvania; Susan M. Nakley, St. Joseph’s C; Karl Steel, Brooklyn C, City U of New York What do medievalists contribute to the study of contact and the early age of discovery? How do medieval histories of race, colonization, time, and religious diference inlect origin stories for globalized modernity?
703. Disability, Institutionalization, and State Violence 5:15–6:30 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession. Presiding: Amy L. Allen Sekhar, Indiana U East; Jessica Waggoner, U of Houston 1. “A ‘War of Minds’ Waged against Bodies: he Political Activist as Prisoner and Patient,” Anna Hinton, Southern Methodist U 2. “State Dependence as State Violence: Disability, Blackness, and HIV/AIDS in ‘Bloodchild,’ ” Matt Franks, U of West Georgia 3. “Educations in Sterilization in the Perkins School for the Blind,” Mary Zaborskis, Vanderbilt U For related material, visit committeeondisabilityissuesintheprofession.mla .hcommons.org ater 15 Dec.
704. Subversive Punctuation: Coding Silenced Voices 5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Allen Jones, U of Stavanger 1. “Visualizing hought, Summoning Emotion: Uses of Braces in Andrews, Featly, Herbert, and Traherne,” Tanya K. Zhelezcheva, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York
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705. Palestine, Ethics, and World Literature 5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Arabic. Presiding: Tahia Abdel Nasser, American U in Cairo
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Saturday, 6 January 7:00 p.m. 706. MLA Awards Ceremony 7:00 p.m., West Ballroom, Hilton Presiding: Diana Taylor, New York U, MLA President 1. Anne Ruggles Gere, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MLA First Vice President, will present the William Riley Parker Prize; James Russell Lowell Prize; MLA Prize for a First Book; Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize; Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters; Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature; MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies; Lois Roth Award; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies; William Sanders Scarborough Prize; MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies; and Matei Calinescu Prize. 2. Paula M. Krebs, MLA, will present the MLA International Bibliography Fellowship Awards. 3. Paula M. Krebs will announce the recipients of the seal of approval from the Committee on Scholarly Editions. 4. Paula M. Krebs will present the American Literature Society’s Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literary Studies. 5. William Nichols, Georgia State U, ADFL President, will present the ADFL Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession to Miriam A. Kazanjian, Coalition for International Education. 6. Remarks by Miriam A. Kazanjian 7. Emily Todd, Westield State U, ADE President, will present the ADE Francis Andrew March Award to Paul Lauter, Trinity C, CT. 8. Remarks by Paul Lauter 9. Diana Taylor will present the MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia U. 10. Remarks by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Reception immediately following.
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Saturday, 6 January 7:15 p.m. 707. Reception Arranged by the University of Michigan English Department 7:15–8:30 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton
708. Informal Gathering Arranged by the Forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American 7:15–8:30 p.m., Gibson, Hilton
709. Connected Academics Cash Bar and Networking Event 7:15–8:30 p.m., Beekman, Hilton
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics Forums 7:15–8:30 p.m., Regent, Hilton
711. Cash Bar Arranged by the Forum LLC African American 7:15–8:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom East, Sheraton
712. Cash Bar Arranged by the Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick 7:15–8:30 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton
713. Cash Bar Arranged by the German Graduate Program, University of California, Irvine 7:15–8:30 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton
714. Reception Arranged by the School of Criticism and heory 7:15–8:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton
715. Cash Bar Arranged by the Forum LLC Catalan Studies 7:15–8:30 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton
716. Cash Bar Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LLC Puerto Rican, and LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic 7:15–8:30 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton
717. he Flesh of History: States of Insecurity across Borders 7:15–8:30 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton Presiding: Gladys M. Francis, Georgia State U Participant: Fabienne Kanor, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge
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his interactive exploration of issues of (im)migration, displacement, and refugee crisis is a performance by journalist, ilmmaker, and author Fabienne Kanor; the session is moderated by cultural studies scholar Gladys M. Francis. It takes place in a dark room that simulates the anguish of passage across waters and borders. In this huis-clos, the audience questions the forced migration experiences conjured up by literary excerpts, ilm, music, and dance.
Sunday, 7 January 8:30 a.m. 719. Shakespeare on Contemporary Arab Stages 8:30–9:45 a.m., Gibson, Hilton A special session 1. “Romeo and Juliet in Israel-Palestine: he Political Stakes of Intercultural and Postcolonial heater,” Kyle Gamble, U of Toronto 2. “Reading History in Sulayman Al-Bassam’s Richard III: An Arab Tragedy,” Taarini Mookherjee, Columbia U 3. “Adaptation as Conversion: Politics of Conversion in Sulayman Al-Bassam’s he Al-Hamlet Summit,” Madiha Hannachi, U de Montréal For related material, write to madiha.hannachi@ umontreal.ca ater 17 Nov.
720. Mapping Literary and Political Landscapes in Postdevolutionary Scottish Writing: Restating Insecurities 8:30–9:45 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Glenda Norquay, Liverpool John Moores U 1. “From Nonplaces to Other Places: Deviant Scenery in Contemporary Scottish Fiction,” Monica Germana, U of Westminster 2. “he Quest for Truth in Fiction: Colin MacIntyre’s he Letters of Ivor Punch and James Robertson’s he Professor of Truth,” Eleanor Bell, U of Strathclyde 3. “‘he Scotland in Which here Is No Repetition’: he Limits of the Imagination in LiteraryPolitical Discourse on Independence, 2007–17,” Corey Gibson, U of Groningen Respondent: Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Aix Marseille U
721. Historicizing Discourses about Gender and Sexuality in the Ming and Qing Periods 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton
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722. Democracy Now 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forum CLCS Classical and Modern. Presiding: Sarah Winter, U of Connecticut, Storrs 1. “Democracy in the Paranoid Style,” Mark Sanders, New York U 2. “Cassandra and Chelsea Manning: Gender, Truth Telling, and Democracy,” Lida Maxwell, Trinity C, CT 3. “he Imperial Origins of Democracy,” Ariella Azoulay, Brown U
723. Collaborative Authorship at Large Scale 8:30–9:45 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Andrew Piper, McGill U Speakers: Mark Algee-Hewitt, Stanford U; Michelle Nancy Levy, Simon Fraser U; Laura B. McGrath, Michigan State U; Tom Mole, U of Edinburgh; Dahlia J. Porter, U of Glasgow; Jonathan Sachs, Concordia U his session explores the practical, intellectual, and technological implications of large-scale collaborative authorship in literary studies.
724. Palestine, Blackness, and the Ongoing Question of Freedom 8:30–9:45 a.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC 19thCentury American. Presiding: Beverly R. Voloshin, San Francisco State U
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725. Mobilizing Memory 8:30–9:45 a.m., New York, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Charles Forsdick, U of Liverpool 1. “Countermemorials to the Middle Passage,” Erica Johnson, Pace U, NY 2. “he Duty of Memory: Memorializing the Rwandan Genocide in Writing and Art,” Eloise Brezault, St. Lawrence U 3. “Epi-Memory, Art, and Action,” Marianne Hirsch, Columbia U
726. Nonhuman Forms III 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton Center, Hilton A working group Participants: Ron Ben-Tovim, Tel Aviv U; Brent Dawson, U of Oregon; Rinni Haji Amran, U Brunei Darussalam; Pia Heidemeier, U of Cologne; Eunice Lim, Nanyang Technological U; Carlos Nugent, Yale U; Indu Ohri, U of Virginia; Samantha Pergadia, Washington U in St. Louis; Emily Simon, Brown U; Gregory Frank Tague, St. Francis C Humanistic inquiry of late is obsessed with the nonhuman. Uncoupling the humanities from the human, the range of approaches operating under the umbrella of the nonhuman turn has reconigured the standard divide between subject and object, agency and volition, person and thing. Participants grapple with the nonhuman in all its forms (from worms to cyborgs) and methods (from animal studies to new materialism). For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/nonhuman-forms/ ater 31 Dec. For the other meetings of the working group, see 215 and 522.
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727. Literature, Aesthetics, and Cultural Exchange between East Asia and Southeast Asia and Britain and North America in the Long Nineteenth Century III 8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton A working group. Presiding: Elizabeth Chang, U of Missouri, Columbia; Ross G. Forman, U of Warwick; Anna Maria Jones, U of Central Florida Participants: Jennifer L. Hargrave, Baylor U; Elizabeth H. Ho, U of Hong Kong; Jenny Holt, Meiji U; Kendall Johnson, U of Hong Kong; Peter Kitson, U of East Anglia; Waiyee Loh, U of Warwick; Junjie Luo, Gettysburg C; Flair Donglai Shi, U of Oxford; Sarah Tiin, independent scholar Scholars from several disciplines—English and American literature and culture, comparative literature, Asian literature, and art history—explore cultural and aesthetic exchanges between Asia and the anglophone world in the long nineteenth century and consider how these exchanges continue to inform the global circulation of literature and culture today. For related material, visit bit.ly/long19c ater 17 Nov. For the other meetings of the working group, see 209 and 524.
728. Revisiting Peace in Central American Cultural Production 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Nanci Buiza, Swarthmore C 1. “Safeguarding Peace in El Salvador: On the Cultural and Political Magazine Tendencias (1991– 2000),” Nanci Buiza 2. “Central America’s Stolen Peace: From Discourses of National Liberation to Narratives of Crime and Violence,” Linda J. Crat, North Park U 3. “What Peace Looks Like: Exploring Conlict in Post-1996 Narratives in Guatemala,” Julio Quintero, Grove City C
729. Comics and the Culture Wars 8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Comics and Graphic Narratives. Presiding: Aaron Kashtan, U of North Carolina, Charlotte 1. “‘he Truth of Matters’: Transnational Human Diastrophism and the Culture Wars in the Work of Gilbert Hernandez,” Osvaldo Oyola, New York U 2. “Queer Representation in Sandman: Comics in the Culture Wars of the 1990s,” Leah Misemer, Georgia Inst. of Tech.
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3. “Super Social Justice Warriors: DC Rebirth’s Green Arrow and the Comic Culture Wars,” Anastasia Salter, U of Central Florida 4. “Queering Captain America: Fandom Rewritings of a Jewish Superhero Icon,” Megan Fowler, U of Florida
730. Psychoanalytic Insecurities III 8:30–9:45 a.m., Beekman, Hilton A working group Participants: Zahid R. Chaudhary, Princeton U; Eleanor Craig, Harvard Divinity School; David L. Eng, U of Pennsylvania; Sheldon George, Simmons C; Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School; Azeen Khan, Dartmouth C; Ramsey McGlazer, U of California, Berkeley; Antonio Viego, Duke U; Damon Young, U of California, Berkeley Critiques from feminist, queer, critical race, and postcolonial perspectives have struggled with what it means to theorize with psychoanalysis. Participants consider the risks and potentialities that come with taking up psychoanalytic frameworks. Why, when it raises political, epistemological, and disciplinary suspicions, does psychoanalysis remain compelling for analyzing race, gender, coloniality, and sexuality? For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/psychoanalytic-insecurities/ ater 22 Dec. For the other meetings of the working group, see 216 and 523.
731. Pierre Macherey 8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society. Presiding: Cesare Casarino, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1. “What Do We Mean When We Speak of the Surface of a Text?” Warren G. Montag, Occidental C 2. “Why Read, Macherey?” Audrey Wasser, Miami U, Oxford 3. “he Spoken and the Unspoken,” Ellen Frances Rooney, Brown U Respondent: Michael Gallope, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities
732. Imperial Publics 8:30–9:45 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Tanya Agathocleous, Hunter C, City U of New York Speakers: Alexander Bubb, U of Roehampton; Jameel Haque, Minnesota State U, Mankato; James
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736. Queering Luso-Brazilian Literatures 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Luso-Brazilian. Presiding: Pedro Meira Monteiro, Princeton U
8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th-Century French. Presiding: Cathy Yandell, Carleton C 1. “Judging Equitably in Montaigne’s ‘Of Cannibals,’” Shannon Connolly, Missouri Southern State U 2. “‘Je m’y fusse très volontiers peint tout entier et tout nu’: Montaigne, Derrida, and Writing the Naked Self,” Elizabeth Kirby, New York U 3. “‘Tout le bastiment de nostre science’: Montaigne’s Solid Abstractions,” Jennifer Oliver, U of Oxford, St. John’s C
1. “Between Libaninho and Albino: Queerness and Homophobia in the Luso-Brazilian Nineteenth Century and Beyond,” Anna M. Klobucka, U of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth 2. “Queer(ing) the Belle Epoque; or, Roberto Gomes Who?” Cesar Braga-Pinto, Northwestern U 3. “Among Metaphors and Epiphanies: he (Trans)Formation of Identity through Immigration in Sergio Y,” Lidiana de Moraes, U of Miami
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8:30–9:45 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Katherine Biers, Columbia U 1. “‘What Happened’: Drama, Performance, and Scupture [sic],” Rebecca Schneider, Brown U 2. “Learning with Fornes,” Elin Diamond, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 3. “Jason Moran and the Drama of Chairs,” Martin Harries, U of California, Irvine Respondent: Una Chaudhuri, New York U
8:30–9:45 a.m., Regent, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding: Cristina Moreiras-Menor, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1. “Truth Adrit: Science-Fiction Documentary and Mauro Herce’s Dead Sl o w A h ead,” Eduardo Ledesma, U of Illinois, Urbana 2. “Tras-tornar el documental como verdad: La destrucción de la veritas en Basilio Martín Patino,” Priscila Calatayud-Fernández, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 3. “Fiction, Autography, and Impossible Transition in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s To do l o qu e era sólido,” Lindsey Reuben, U of Pennsylvania
735. Rhetoric in Post-factual Times 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton North, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL Language and Society. Presiding: Rebecca Dingo, U of Massachusetts, Amherst Speakers: Lindsey Albracht, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Jason Maxwell, Penn State U, University Park; Carl Peters, U of the Fraser Valley; Kurt Spellmeyer, Rutgers U, New Brunswick;
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738. Case, Context, and Description 8:30–9:45 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Anthropology and Literature. Presiding: Supritha Rajan, U of Rochester 1. “he Limits of Case Study for Literary Analysis,” Linda M. Shires, Yeshiva U, Stern C for Women 2. “he Natural History of Adam Bede,” Benjamin O’Dell, U of Illinois, Urbana 3. “Decolonizing Trauma heory: Literary and Anthropological Approaches,” Rosanne M. Kennedy, Australian National U
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739. Going Public: How and Why to Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity 8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Presiding: Katina Rogers, Graduate Center, City U of New York Speakers: Lisa Marie Rhody, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Danica Savonick, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Lisa Tagliaferri, Fordham U Establishing a meaningful digital identity is essential to managing one’s scholarly and professional reputation. his workshop addresses ways to cultivate an online identity and ofers guidance on “going public” using tools and strategies for building a community around your work. Topics include social media, writing for diferent audiences, personal Web sites, digital dissertations, and more.
740. he Year hat Changed Everything: 1968 at Fity 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Jefrey Boruszak, U of Texas, Austin 1. “‘A Movie of Our Lives’: New Journalism, Perception, and he Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” William Nesbitt, Beacon C 2. “Making Movies in ‘Now-Time’: Medium Cool and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One,” Katherine A. Kinney, U of California, Riverside 3. “Undoing the Myth of Eden: Restaging a heatrical Controversy,” Jason Fitzgerald, Columbia U 4. “Feminist Zines, Fity Years Later,” Cristen Fitzpatrick, St. John’s U, NY
741. Visualizing Violence in Contemporary States of Insecurity 8:30–9:45 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Kavita Daiya, George Washington U Speakers: Mohit Chandna, English and Foreign Languages U; Hella Bloom Cohen, St. Catherine U; Keith Feldman, U of California, Berkeley; Touria Khannous, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge; Ng’ang’a Muchiri, U of Nebraska, Lincoln; Sandra Ponzanesi, Utrecht U; Sreyoshi Sarkar, George Washington U his session considers a wide range of visual narratives, including commercial and art cinema, documentaries, art installations, and protest images, to ask, How do these narratives represent lived experiences of violence in contemporary war zones, among refugee populations, and in contexts of environmental destruction? How do race, gender, class,
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742. he Legacy of Captivity Narratives: Gender, Race, and the Captive in Twentiethand Twenty-First-Century American Literature and Culture 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Megan Behrent, New York City C of Tech., City U of New York 1. “‘We Dream the Dream of Extirpation’: Female Captivity and Racial Displacement,” Ann Keniston, U of Nevada, Reno 2. “‘How Can I Explain the Runaway Slave in Terms hat Do Not Imply Uniqueness?’: George Jackson’s Solitary Solidarity,” Nathan Ragain, U of Nevada, Reno 3. “Captivation: Television’s Imprisoned Women as Comic Revisions of Early American Captivity Narratives,” Rebecca Devers, New York City C of Tech., City U of New York Respondent: Susan E. Scheckel, Stony Brook U, State U of New York
743. How Shiting Conigurations Shape Experiences of High School Students Transitioning into College 8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Executive Council. Presiding: Monica F. Jacobe, C of New Jersey 1. “What Is College-Level English? An Examination of the College Now Program,” Melissa Dennihy, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York 2. “For-Proit Postsecondary Institutions as Literacy Sponsors,” Bonnie Tucker, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 3. “What Students Can Tell Us about the Transition from High School to College,” Ann Burke, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 4. “Minding the Gap: Addressing the Distance between Students’ Abilities and Expectations,” Eir-Anne Edgar, U of Kentucky
744. Goethe’s Narrative Forms: Uncertain Events 8:30–9:45 a.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the Goethe Society of North America. Presiding: Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana U, Bloomington
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745. Performing Philosophy 8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the American heatre and Drama Society. Presiding: Laura L. Mielke, U of Kansas 1. “Philosophy as Performance in Maggie Nelson’s he Argonauts,” Kyle Frisina, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “Avital Ronell: Performer-Philosopher,” Tawny Andersen, CRMEP at Kingston U 3. “Instantiating Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason through Black Feminist Practice: Adrian Piper’s Food for the Spirit as Kantian (Anti)Selie,” Lauren Fournier, York U 4. “Epic and Realist Publics,” Minou Arjomand, U of Texas, Austin
746. Departure, Stay, and Return in Post9/11 African Narratives of Migration 8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton South, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Caroline Fache, Davidson C 1. “Border (In)Security: African Diasporas in Consulates, Embassies, and Processes of Immigration,” Shirin E. Edwin, Sam Houston State U 2. “9/11 and the Collapse of the American Dream: Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers,” Elizabeth J. Toohey, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York 3. “Homegoing in Post-9/11 African Novels,” Laila Amine, U of North Texas
747. Paper Trails of Popular Revolt: States of Insecurity in the East Bloc 8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau West, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Lilla Balint, Vanderbilt U 1. “he Dissenting Canon: American Literary Studies in Czechoslovakia before and ater the Communist Takeover,” Brian Goodman, Arizona State U
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748. Conspiracies, Italian Style 8:30–9:45 a.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian. Presiding: Stefano Giannini, Syracuse U 1. “De nobis fabula narratur: he Prague Cemetery between Hermeneutics of Reality and MetaHistoriography,” Fadil Moslemani, U of Chicago 2. “An Enigma Wrapped in History: Francesco Rosi’s he Mattei Afair,” Gaetana MarronePuglia, Princeton U 3. “he Case for Conspiracy heories in Contemporary Italian Literature,” David Ward, Wellesley C
749. Before #Resist: Judith Fetterley’s he Resisting Reader at Forty 8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park East, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Charlene Avallone, independent scholar 1. “Fetterley’s ‘Palpable Design’: Feminist Blueprint for Resisting Scholars,” MaryJo Bona, Stony Brook U, State U of New York 2. “Immasculation in the Language Uses of Science and Philosophy,” David Bleich, U of Rochester 3. “Identiication Matters: One Legacy of he Resisting Reader,” Yung-Hsing Wu, U of Louisiana, Lafayette Respondent: Judith F. Fetterley, U at Albany, State U of New York For related material, write to avallone000@ gmail.com.
750. Poetics of the Git 8:30–9:45 a.m., Flatiron, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Nandini Ramesh Sankar, Indian Inst. of Tech., Hyderabad 1. “he Forgotten History of the Git Sonnet,” Zachary Rearick, Georgia State U 2. “Of Dedicated Poems,” Rajiv C. Krishnan, English and Foreign Languages U 3. “he Grammar of the Git in J. H. Prynne,” Nandini Ramesh Sankar
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751. Red Readings and Alternative Frameworks: How Indigenous Authors and Indigenous Studies Scholarship Redeines Notions of Genre and the Classics 8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison, Hilton Program arranged by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 1. “he Chassis of Colonialism: Unsettling Frames in Stephen Graham Jones’s he Bird Is Gone: A Monograph Manifesto,” Gabriella Friedman, Cornell U 2. “Indigenizing Academia: Reading Red in Native Popular Culture and Television,” Brian J. Twenter, Western Washington U 3. “‘To Collaborate Right’: Indigenous Women at the Publishing Margins,” Miriam Brown Spiers, Kennesaw State U 4. “It Is over here by hat Place,” Diane Glancy, Macalester C Respondent: Becca Gercken, U of Minnesota, Morris
752. Recalling the Person 8:30–9:45 a.m., Chelsea, Sheraton A special session 1. “Multiple Personality and Literary Character in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Shari Goldberg, Franklin and Marshall C 2. “he Beasts in the Jungle,” Stuart Burrows, Brown U 3. “Criticism and Personhood; or, he Confusion of Newland Archer,” heo Davis, Northeastern U
753. Epic Spaces: Maps, Geography, and Movement in Medieval and Renaissance Epic 8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton Program arranged by the Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch. Presiding: William Rhodes, Jr., U of Pittsburgh 1. “Sacred Mappings: Vida, Tasso, Milton, and the Crisis of Biblical Epic,” Timothy Dufy, New York U 2. “Reading the Franco-Italian Epic Cartographically,” Stephen McCormick, Washington and Lee U 3. “Argonautica Poetica: Landmarks, Seamarks, Limits, and Mapping the Domain of Traditional Epic,” James Carson Nohrnberg, U of Virginia For related material, write to mccormicks@wlu .edu ater 1 Oct.
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754. Is Kinship Always Already Queer? Counternormative Communities in the Nineteenth Century 8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Shannon Draucker, Boston U; Talia Vestri Croan, Boston U 1. “‘Queer Little Windows’: he New Women and Sisterhood in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s My Flirtations,” Lisa M. Hager, U of Wisconsin Cs 2. “Care Communities as Queer Social Structures in Victorian Fiction,” Talia Schafer, Graduate Center, City U of New York 3. “‘Make Kin, Not Babies!’ ” Maia McAleavey, Boston C For related material, visit MLA Commons ater 1 Nov.
755. he X Factor 8:30–9:45 a.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Chicana and Chicano and LLC Latina and Latino. Presiding: Richard T. Rodríguez, U of California, Riverside 1. “Latinx: Millennials Claiming Space in Discourse,” Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, U of Texas, Austin 2. “Chicano, the Word,” Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles 3. “Latinx as Disidentiication: Finding Resistance in the Signiier,” homas Conners, U of Pennsylvania 4. “he X Factor and Academic Publishing,” Lourdes M. Torres, DePaul U Respondent: Claudia Milian, Duke U
Sunday, 7 January 10:15 a.m. 756. Medieval States of Insecurity 10:15–11:30 a.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Medieval Iberian and LLC Arabic. Presiding: Michelle M. Hamilton, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities 1. “Mediating Insecurity in Ibn Quzmān’s Zajal 84,” Jean Dangler, Tulane U 2. “Narrative Insecurity: A Muslim Crusader in hirteenth-Century Granada,” David Wacks, U of Oregon 3. “On the Assassinations of Lisān al-Dīn, Iberian Diplomat and Man of Letters,” Sherif Abdelkarim, U of Virginia
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757. Mexican Literature in heory 10:15–11:30 a.m., Nassau West, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington U in St. Louis Speakers: Ericka Beckman, U of Pennsylvania; Carolyn Fornof, Lycoming C; Rebecca Janzen, U of South Carolina, Columbia; Ana Sabau, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Emilio Sauri, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U Speakers, contributors to Mexican Literature in heory, discuss the challenges of reading Mexican literature in a theoretical fashion in the light of the debate on the resistance to theory that characterizes the Mexican literary ield. hey also discuss what Mexicanist literary criticism can contribute to contemporary debates on theory. For related material, write to
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758. White Supremacy, Racial Insecurity, and Literature Studies 10:15–11:30 a.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forums TC Race and Ethnicity Studies and LLC West Asian. Presiding: Ira Dworkin, Texas A&M U, College Station 1. “Against Immersion,” Keith Feldman, U of California, Berkeley 2. “‘Everybody Came Together around Palestine’: Iranian-Arab Solidarities in the United States,” Manijeh Nasrabadi, Brandeis U 3. “People Who Believe hey Are Western: Baldwin in Istanbul, Wright in Cairo, and Us Here Now,” Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough Community C, City U of New York 4. “Racial Domestication of Orientalism: Aryanist Supremacy and the Modern housand and One Nights in Iran,” Rasoul Aliakbari, U of Alberta
759. Literary Adaptation as Democratic Exchange in the Romantic Period 10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton A special session 1. “Godwin, Wollstonecrat, Robinson, and the Rise of Novelization; or, Adaptation as the Art Form of Democracy,” Glenn Jellenik, U of Central Arkansas
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760. Resurrecting Dead Worlds: Video Game Aesthetics and Posthuman Narratives 10:15–11:30 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Patrick Jagoda, U of Chicago 1. “Romantic Deep Time and Dejobaan Games’s Elegy for a Dead World (2014),” Andrew Burkett, Union C 2. “Darwin, Dickens, and Drowned London: he Industrial Revolution as Event in Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (2015) and Sunless Sea (2015),” Allison Dushane, Angelo State U 3. “Sea Slugs and Atom Bombs: Genetic and Ideological Manipulation in BioShock (2007),” Kathleen McClancy, Texas State U
761. Networking and Informational Interviews for Humanities PhDs 10:15–11:30 a.m., Clinton, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Career Center Speaker: Stacy Hartman, MLA his hands-on workshop provides an introduction to networking and informational interviews for PhD candidates and postdocs in MLA ields. How do you ind people to talk to about possible career paths? How do you create meaningful professional connections with people outside your academic ield? What questions should you ask in informational interviews? Please bring a laptop.
762. Insecurity and Contingency: Writing Studies, Outcomes, and the Solidarity of Opportunity to Learn 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Presiding: Norbert Elliot, U of South Florida, Tampa 1. “Scholarly and heoretical Contributions of Writing Programs and Writing Studies to Evolving Conceptions of Learning Outcomes and Fairness,” Diane Kelly-Riley, U of Idaho 2. “Assessing Writing: A Sociocognitive Perspective to Advance Opportunity to Learn,” Robert Mislevy, ETS
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10:15–11:30 a.m., Flatiron, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Uri McMillan, U of California, Los Angeles 1. “‘And hey All Said hey Loved Her’: Kept Relationships in the Beacon Group’s Barrack Yard Literatures,” Kaneesha Parsard, Northwestern U 2. “he Aterlife of the Plantation in Attica Locke’s he Cutting Season,” Jarvis McInnis, U of Notre Dame 3. “Black Patience: Performance, Insecurity, and the Racial Politics of Time,” Julius Fleming, Jr., U of Maryland, College Park 4. “‘I Am Afraid for My Life and My Home’: On Joseph Beam’s Queer Transformation,” J. T. Roane, Smith C
10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse F, Hilton A special session 1. “We-Representations in Minds and Poems,” Raphael Lyne, U of Cambridge 2. “Terrance Hayes’s Response-Poems and the African-American Lyric ‘We,’ ” Christopher Spaide, Harvard U 3. “‘Now Let Us Sport While We May’: FirstPerson Plural and the Lyric Address,” Eileen Sperry, U at Albany, State U of New York Respondent: Bonnie Costello, Boston U
764. Mapping Jewish Geographies 10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Jewish American. Presiding: Victoria Aarons, Trinity U 1. “West of the Ghetto: Regionalism and Religion in Emma Wolf’s Heirs of Yesterday,” Lori Harrison-Kahan, Boston C 2. “Navigation and the Form of Environment in Reznikof’s Jerusalem the Golden,” David Rodriguez, Stony Brook U, State U of New York 3. “Geopolitical Bodies: Reading Insecurity through Jewish Graphic Narratives,” Laini Kavaloski, State U of New York, Canton
765. heory and Praxis: Visual Media in the Classroom III 10:15–11:30 a.m., Beekman, Hilton A working group. Presiding: Lauren Gaskill, U of California, Irvine Participants: Matthew Dischinger, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Amy E. Elkins, Macalester C; Diego Fernandez, U of California, Irvine; Jared McCoy, U of California, Irvine; Rose Phillips, U of the Incarnate Word; Sarah Welsh, U of Texas, Austin Actor-network theory grants importance to objects as forces that shape the way we think, behave, and relate to others. Maps, infographics, and databases are some of our objects of inquiry. Brief oral presentations precede short workshop modules, which generalize the tools members have used in the classroom and facilitate dialogue about methods and mechanics. his work across disciplines connects us and aids our pedagogical growth.
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767. Migrancy and Empire in the Eighteenth Century 10:15–11:30 a.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Presiding: George Boulukos, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale Speakers: Adam Robert Beach, Ball State U; George Boulukos; Tony C. Brown, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Charlotte Sacks Sussman, Duke U; Nicole Wright, U of Colorado, Boulder; Chi-ming Yang, U of Pennsylvania Imperial projects in the eighteenth century depended on migrancy from the slave trade, settler colonies, warfare, displacement, and commercial networks. Nonetheless, migrancy is oten overlooked in eighteenth-century studies, even as the concept sufuses current politics. Speakers discuss literary, historical, legal, comparative, political theory, and ecocritical perspectives on imperial migrancy in the eighteenth-century world. For related material, visit migrancyempire .wordpress.com.
768. Nodes of Literacy: David Walker and Intertextuality 10:15–11:30 a.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Joshua Cohen, Emory U 1. “Maryland Maps of Frederick Douglass’s Literacy Experience,” Lawrence Jackson, Johns Hopkins U, MD
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2. “Ghost Authorizer: David Walker in Henry Highland Garnet’s 1848 Volume,” Lori A. Leavell, U of Central Arkansas 3. “‘hat Tremendous Indictment of Slavery’: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Reading of David Walker’s Appeal,” Joshua Cohen Respondent: Kevin Pelletier, U of Richmond For related material, visit jlaurencecohen.org/ blog/conference-panels/mla-2018.
769. Lyric Intersections in Early Modern England 10:15–11:30 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Ardis Butterield, Yale U 1. “Andrew Marvell’s ‘Unfortunate Lovers,’ ” Lynn Enterline, Vanderbilt U 2. “Lyric at the Limits of Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s Rape of Lucrece,” Rachel Eisendrath, Barnard C 3. “Spenser and the Aesthetics of Pleasure,” Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale U
770. Tragedy beyond heater in Early Modern France: Resistance, Reconiguration, Reappraisal 10:15–11:30 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Blair G. Hoxby, Stanford U Speakers: Marc Bizer, U of Texas, Austin; Hall Bjornstad, Indiana U, Bloomington; Christopher Sheehan Braider, U of Colorado, Boulder; Juliette Cherbuliez, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Blair G. Hoxby; Anna Rosensweig, U of Rochester Participants aim to pursue the early modern French engagement with, or resistance to, the tragic outside the theater across the traditional divide between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. he foci are tragedy and the tragic in relation to politics, to comedy, to the inhuman, and to Schiller’s tragic sublime. he goal is to reach a more historically contextualized understanding of tragedy in the early modern period that also reveals its great scope. For related material, visit earlymodtragedy.mla .hcommons.org/ ater 1 Oct.
771. Flourishing in Diicult Times 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities. Presiding: Cristina León Alfar, Hunter C, City U of New York
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772. Narrative Empathy, Insecurity, and the Humanities III 10:15–11:30 a.m., Regent, Hilton A working group. Presiding: Barbara Simerka, Queens C, City U of New York Participants: Megan Boler, U of Toronto; Mark Bracher, Kent State U; Emanuele Castano, New School; Winnie W. Chan, Virginia Commonwealth U; Suzanne Parker Keen, Washington and Lee U; David Kidd, New School; Polina Kukar, U of Toronto; Saumya Lal, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Brais D. Leon, Queens C, City U of New York; Seth Michelson, Washington and Lee U; Katharine Polak, Wittenberg U Scholars of literature, education, and cognitive science address narrative empathy and #States of Insecurity. Panelists report on empirical research of empathy in the lab and classroom, update work on the limits of narrative empathy, and ofer studies of global literatures and media that depict and problematize empathy for victims of social and economic marginalization, violence, and incarceration. For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/narrative-empathy-insecurity-and-the -humanities/ ater 10 Dec. For the other meetings of the working group, see 251 and 492.
773. Race and Aesthetics in French and Francophone Culture III 10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton Center, Hilton A working group Participants: Nasia Anam, Williams C; Jiewon Baek, Covenant C; Alessandra Benedicty, City C, City U of New York; Cecile Bishop, New York U; Lia Brozgal, U of California, Los Angeles; Katelyn Knox, U of Central Arkansas; Matt Reeck, U of California, Los Angeles; Mark A. Reid, U of Florida; Zoe Roth, Durham U; Lise-Ségolène V.
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774. Fictional Terrain: Insurgent Nationalism and the Global Novel 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse A, Hilton Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction. Presiding: Benjamin Bateman, California State U, Los Angeles 1. “he Global Return: he Novel as Global Commons,” Jennifer Wicke, U of California, Santa Barbara 2. “Ecologies of Discontent: Global Indigeneity in Cather’s My Ántonia,” Benjamin Bateman 3. “Ruination and the Fiction of Global Survival,” Madigan Haley, C of the Holy Cross
775. he Aterlives of Forms 10:15–11:30 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton A special session Speakers: Mike Goode, Syracuse U; David S. Kurnick, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Joseph Lavery, U of California, Berkeley; Caroline E. Levine, Cornell U; Kent Puckett, U of California, Berkeley; Arielle Zibrak, U of Wyoming Many aesthetic and social forms continue to exist beyond their period of origins, intended use, and context. Caroline Levine’s Forms considers cases where forms unsettle each other, but how do forms stay in place? Why do they endure ater their time? Participants address the aterlives of social, cultural, institutional, and aesthetic forms, responding to recent debates in strategic formalism and new formalism.
776. Instigating Insecurity: he Presidential Executive Order and Muslim American Activism 10:15–11:30 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton
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A special session. Presiding: Ammar Naji, Colorado C 1. “From Muslim Bans to ICE Raids: NYC’s Municipal ID Program and Intersectional Local Activism in Trump’s America,” David Farley, St. John’s U, NY 2. “he Trump Executive Order on Immigration: A Wake-Up Call for Muslims?” Anouar El Younssi, Virginia Military Inst. 3. “Reconsidering the History of Islamophobia in a State of Exception,” Ziad Suidan, Haigazian U For related material, write to
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777. Method and Critique in the Age of Metrics 10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison, Hilton A special session. Presiding: David heo Goldberg, U of California, Irvine 1. “How Can Literary and Cultural Study Respond to Faculty Performance Management?” Christopher John Newield, U of California, Santa Barbara 2. “Data Mining versus the Case History,” Laura C. Mandell, Texas A&M U, College Station 3. “Quantiication from Above and Below in United States Academic Labor Criticism,” Heather Stefen, U of California, Santa Barbara For related material, write to heather.stefen@ gmail.com ater 1 Nov.
778. Community in the Wake of the Social: Literary Insecurities in Modern and Contemporary Korea 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Korean. Presiding: Christopher Hanscom, U of California, Los Angeles 1. “‘To a Poet in the South’: Rethinking Community across the hirty-Eighth Parallel in 1950s–1960s Korea,” Jonathan Kief, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2. “Politics of Purity: he Queer Community of ‘Literary Girls’ in Cold War South Korea,” Kyunghee Eo, U of Southern California 3. “Media Convergence as Destabilization: he Transversality of Comics, Web Tunes, and Visual Media Communities in W,” Haerin Shin, Vanderbilt U
779. Engaging Students: Strategies and Concerns 10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Catherine Keohane, Montclair State U
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1. “Rethinking Relatability as an Invitation to Engage,” Catherine Keohane 2. “he Problem of Relatability,” Susan Weeber, U of Rochester 3. “Based on a True Story? Student Engagement and Luisa Valenzuela’s ‘Los mejor calzados,’ ” Rudyard Joel Alcocer, U of Tennessee, Knoxville 4. “Appreciating the Text, Living the Text: Assessment that Forms Attitude,” Lanta Davis, Indiana Wesleyan U
780. Badiou’s Saint Paul 10:15–11:30 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Religion and Literature. Presiding: Feisal G. Mohamed, Graduate Center, City U of New York 1. “Deposing Paul,” Bruno Bosteels, Cornell U 2. “Internal Betrayal: Badiou, Paul, Pasolini,” Joseph Litvak, Tuts U 3. “Badiou’s Paul, Agamben’s Paul: On Romans 7.15,” Joseph Spencer, Brigham Young U, UT Respondent: Emily Apter, New York U
781. Ecologies, Empires, and Island Speculations 10:15–11:30 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton A special session. Presiding: John A. Rieder, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa 1. “Amphibious Mutations, Island Queerness, and the Racialization of Disease in H. P. Lovecrat,” Dagmar Van Engen, U of Southern California 2. “Decolonial Speculation in Wendt’s Black Rainbow: Transindigenous Resistance in the Nuclear Paciic,” Rebecca Hogue, U of California, Davis 3. “Posthuman Ecologies in Solomon Enos’s Speculative Art,” Stina Attebery, U of California, Riverside
782. Insecure Imaginations: Poetry in Invented Languages 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Susan Jennifer Vanderborg, U of South Carolina, Columbia 1. “Invented Language, Created Life: From Insecurity to a Poetics of Variation,” Ming-Qian Ma, U at Bufalo, State U of New York 2. “Inventing a Women’s Language: he Poetic Crises of Láadan,” Susan Jennifer Vanderborg 3. “Visualizing a Cyborg Poetics: Crises and Code Poetry,” Margaret Rhee, U of Oregon
783. Publishing Trends and New Directions in Victorian Studies 10:15–11:30 a.m., Central Park East, Sheraton
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784. Hot Numbers 10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Late-18thCentury English. Presiding: Ruth Mack, U at Bufalo, State U of New York; James Mulholland, North Carolina State U 1. “2 ✕ 2 = 5 and Other Strange Adventures in the History of Fiction,” Matthew F. Wickman, Brigham Young U, UT 2. “Counting Syllables in Selborne,” Courtney Weiss Smith, Wesleyan U 3. “Clarissa, by the Numbers,” Stephanie Insley Hershinow, Baruch C, City U of New York
785. Artiicial Intelligence: A Cultural History 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Ian MacDonald, Florida Atlantic U 1. “he Turk, the Dwarf, and the Robot,” E. Efe, Rutgers U, New Brunswick 2. “Decolonizing the Mind(ship): Re-culturating AI in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber,” Ian MacDonald 3. “Race, Capitalism, and Care in Spike Jonze’s Her,” Jennifer Rhee, Virginia Commonwealth U 4. “Tu Quoque: Constitutive Nihilism and the Hard AI Challenge,” Erik Banks, Wright State U
786. Translation and Interlingual Practices in Pre-Meiji Japan 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 1. “Approaching Classical Chinese Poetry in Early Modern Japan: Translation Strategies in Early Modern ‘Remarks on Poetry,’ ” Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis U 2. “Translating China: Simulation and Subversion in Japan’s Oldest Poetic Anthology, Kaifūsō,” Jason Paul Webb, U of Southern California
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787. Institutional History of heory 10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TM Literary and Cultural heory. Presiding: Peter M. Logan, Temple U, Philadelphia 1. “Against Institution,” Tilottama Rajan, U of Western Ontario 2. “heory and the Changing Forms of Institutional Prestige,” Amanda S. Anderson, Brown U 3. “Heyday,” Marjorie Garber, Harvard U
788. A Hand in It: Hand Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond 10:15–11:30 a.m., Chelsea, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Kimberly Cox, Chadron State C 1. “‘He Took My Hand—Oh, How I Despise Myself!’: Hands and the Will in he Woman in White,” Pamela K. Gilbert, U of Florida 2. “he Photographer’s Hand,” Kate Flint, U of Southern California 3. “Hands to Work: Octavia Hill, Olive Cockerell, and the Right to Dig,” Alicia J. Carroll, Auburn U, Auburn Respondent: Adrienne A. Munich, Stony Brook U, State U of New York For related material, write to
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789. Medieval Soundscapes 10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Middle English and CLCS Medieval. Presiding: Erin Felicia Labbie, Bowling Green State U Speakers: Anne-Marie Beaumont, U of Wolverhampton; Helen Dell, U of Melbourne; Aglaia Foteinou, U of Wolverhampton; Adin Lears, State U of New York, Oswego; Christopher Michael Roman, Kent State U, Tuscarawas; Francesca Canade Sautman, Hunter C, City U of New York his session explores how medieval lyrics, songs, poetic meter, and sounds of everyday life produce cognitive and emotional or afective spaces. How might medieval literature present an architecture of sound? How does oral presentation difer from silent reading of medieval texts, and how does this
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diference alter the process of analysis, reception, and interpretation of medieval literature? What is the temporal dimension of sound?
790. Precarious Subjects: Refugee and Immigrant Subjectivities 10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian American. Presiding: Jeehyun Lim, Denison U 1. “South Asian American Diasporic Postmemories and Provincializing America,” Dinidu Karunanayake, Miami U, Oxford 2. “Like a Refugee: Veterans, Vietnam, and the Precarious Subjects of a False Equivalence,” Joseph Darda, Texas Christian U 3. “he Innocents: Reading Refugees in National Culture and Asian American Literature,” Crystal Parikh, New York U
791. Digital Histories of the Book in America 10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: homas Augst, New York U 1. “he Anglophone Early Modern Printing Trade,” Molly O’Hagan Hardy, American Antiquarian Soc. 2. “Mapping the Native American Book,” Mike Kelly, Amherst C 3. “he (Printer’s) Devil Is in the Details; or, he Case for Digitizing Black Bibliographic Data,” Jacqueline D. Goldsby, Yale U; Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
792. Mediality and Intermediality: Temporality and Materiality in TwentiethCentury German Culture 10:15–11:30 a.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German. Presiding: Katja Garlof, Reed C 1. “In Slow Motion: Magniied Time as Narrative Technique,” Erik Born, Cornell U 2. “Breath and Mediality in Robert Musil’s ‘Atemzüge eines Sommertags,’ ” Stefanie Heine, U of Toronto 3. “he Literarization of Life: Literature, Materiality, and the Avant-Garde in Weimar Culture,” Patrizia C. McBride, Cornell U 4. “Mediating Images: homas Schadt in Dialogue with Walter Ruttmann,” Carol Anne Costabile-Heming, U of North Texas
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Sunday, 7 January 12:00 noon 793. Gender, Precarity, Materiality 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies. Presiding: Christina León, Prince ton U 1. “Clothing Modernity Elsewhere,” Poulomi Saha, U of California, Berkeley 2. “Zong!’s Echolocations,” Melinda Robb, Em ory U 3. “Pregnant Men, Inhuman Reproduction, and the ‘Creation of African America’ in Octavia But ler and Kara Walker,” Lauren Heintz, Tulane U 4. “Racialized Precarity and Crip Sex with Ships’ Engines in Jacqueline Koyanagi’s Ascension,” Dag mar Van Engen, U of Southern California
794. Rethinking the Romancero: Songs and Ballads from Early Modern Iberia 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th and 17thCentury Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose. Presiding: Miguel Martinez, U of Chicago 1. “Nunca hasta agora impressos: Printing and Sound in the Ramillete(s) de lores,” Victor Sierra Matute, U of Pennsylvania 2. “Written in the Memory of the Living: he Boundaries of History in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo’s Historia general,” Elizabeth Gansen, Grand Valley State U 3. “Romances and Political Critique in the Long Seventeenth Century,” Patricia W. Manning, U of Kansas
795. Candid Conversations: Debt and the Humanities 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton Program arranged by the MLA Connected Aca demics Project. Presiding: Kelly Brown, U of Cali fornia, Irvine Speakers: Sarah Ruth Jacobs, Graduate Center, City U of New York; Prema Prabhaker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Jefrey J. Williams, Carnegie Mellon U his session provides an opportunity to engage in dialogue around the issue of debt, a topic that is inadequately addressed in conversations on career pathways and professionalization. Panelists explore the topic of debt and the humanities and begin to imagine a future where the conversation about debt is no longer isolating and is instead an
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796. Archipelagoes, Oceans, Americas 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Michelle Ann Ste phens, Rutgers U, New Brunswick Speakers: J. Michael Dash, New York U; Susan Gill man, U of California, Santa Cruz; Brian Russell Roberts, Brigham Young U, UT; Cherene Monique SherrardJohnson, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Yuan Shu, Texas Tech U; Michelle Ann Stephens Respondent: Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford U Focused on audience engagement with an Ameri can cultural and literary studies that is emerging as archipelagic and oceanic, panelists plot points of comparison and overlap among the United States, the broader Americas, the Caribbean, the Paciic, and the islandocean form of the archi pelago. he discussion addresses postcontinental thinking, Glissantian poetics, shoreline heuristics, archipelagic comparitivism, oceanic archives, and island temporalities. For related material, write to brianrussellroberts@ byu.edu.
797. Nonverbal Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet among the Arts 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Hugh Grady, Arca dia U 1. “Of Dance and Disarticulation: Juliet Dead and Alive,” Joseph Campana, Rice U 2. “A Self by Any Other Name,” Laura Levine, New York U 3. “Cut Him Out in Little Stars: Romeo and Juliet in Pictures,” Julia Reinhard Lupton, U of Califor nia, Irvine
798. Dante on Crisis 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Hudson, Hilton Program arranged by the Dante Society of Amer ica and the forum LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian. Presiding: Martin G. Eisner, Duke U 1. “Dante’s Moral Canzoni Le dolci rime and Poscia ch’Amor: he Crisis of Mid1290s Florence and the Commedia,” Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia U 2. “Dante and the Crisis of Representation in the Modern Age,” William Franke, Vanderbilt U 3. “Maintaining Neutrality in Moral Crisis: he Appropriation of Inferno 3 from John F. Kennedy
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799. he Algerian Novel in French: Sites of Resistance, States of Insecurity, Algerianness, and Cosmopolitanism, 1950–2018 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Pamela A. Pears, Washington C 1. “he Making of the Modern Algerian New Novel, 1950–79,” Valérie K. Orlando, U of Maryland, College Park 2. “Women’s Bodies as Sights/Sites of Insecurity: (Post)Colonialism, Torture, and Patriarchy in Louisette Ighilariz’s Algérienne (2000) and Myriam Ben’s Sabrina, Ils t’ont volé ta vie (1986),” Mary E. McCullough, Samford U 3. “Literary Transvestism in Yasmina Khadra’s Les agneaux du seigneur,” Pamela A. Pears
800. Forms of Life, Forms of Literature 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American 1. “Animate Earths: Vitalizing the Anthropocene,” Matthew A. Taylor, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2. “Embodied Tribalography, the Story of America: Second Installment,” LeAnne Howe, U of Georgia 3. “Cryptic Ascension: Narrating Becoming God in American Horror Literature,” Alejandro Omidsalar, U of Texas, Austin 4. “he Evolution of Science Fiction Horror,” Priscilla B. Wald, Duke U
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803. Representing the Nonhuman in Jewish and Hebrew Literature 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Hebrew and CLCS Global Jewish. Presiding: Naama Harel, Columbia U 1. “A Radical Advocacy: Sufering Jews and Animals in S. Y. Abramovitsh’s Di Kliatsche,” Noam Pines, U at Bufalo, State U of New York 2. “Chen Sheinberg’s Cinematic Bestiary and Israeli Experimental Film,” Anat Pick, Queen Mary U of London 3. “he Badly Behaved Donkey and the Fiction of Discipline in Talmud Tractate Shabbat,” Beth Berkowitz, Barnard C
804. Poetry and Punctuation 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum GS Poetry and Poetics. Presiding: Ardis Butterield, Yale U 1. “Lord Byron’s Punctuation in Manuscript and Print,” Gary R. Dyer, Cleveland State U 2. “Punctuation as Diagramming in EighteenthCentury Editions of Paradise Lost,” Joshua Swidzinski, U of Portland 3. “Punctuating Old English Poetry: Challenges and Strategies,” Eric Weiskott, Boston C 4. “Of Braces, Pricks, and Dots: homas Traherne Punctuating Emotion,” Tanya K. Zhelezcheva, Queensborough Community C, City U of New York
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Program arranged by the forum RCWS History and heory of Rhetoric 1. “‘A Champion of the People’: American Sophistry and the Rhetoric of Donald Trump,” Bess Myers, U of Oregon 2. “Against Demagoguery: Lessons from Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah,” Brandon Katzir, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge 3. “You Can’t Fact-Check a Demagogue: Kenneth Burke on Demagoguery as Antirhetoric,” Chris Earle, U of Nevada, Reno Respondent: Patricia Roberts-Miller, U of Texas, Austin
Speakers: homas Allen, U of Ottawa; Michael W. Clune, Case Western Reserve U; Edward J. Larkin, U of Delaware, Newark; Ian Maclachlan, U of Oxford, Merton C; Sue Zemka, U of Colorado, Boulder his session builds on the temporal turn in literary studies by exploring the ways that literary language represents time while also considering how time structures language and helps deine the category of the literary. Participants speak to diferent aspects of the temporality of literary representation, drawing connections from the formal and aesthetic to the historical and political.
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806. “Humusities” for a Habitable Multispecies Muddle 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Anastassiya Andrianova, North Dakota State U 1. “STEM-Humanities Coteaching and the ‘Humusities’ Turn,” Hella Bloom Cohen, St. Catherine U 2. “Teaching in the ‘Multispecies Muddle’: Toward a Theory of ‘Thought, Love, Rage and Care,’ ” Katja Altpeter, Lewis and Clark C 3. “Inhabiting the Chthulucene: Tentacular Intimacies in Jamaal May’s Detroit,” Stacey Balkan, Florida Atlantic U Respondent: Ron Milland, independent researcher
807. Resistance in Psychoanalysis and Politics 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature. Presiding: Elissa Marder, Emory U 1. “Good News, Bad News: The Resistance of Resistance,” Ann Pellegrini, New York U 2. “Techniques of Resistance: D. W. Winnicott and the Politics of Clinical Technique,” Carolyn Laubender, Duke U 3. “Phobic Resistance, Phobic Politics,” Simon Morgan Wortham, Kingston U London
808. Critical Algorithm Studies 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Digital Humanities. Presiding: Lawrence Evalyn, U of Toronto 1. “Trees, Daylight, and Dirt,” Ingrid Burrington, Data and Society Research Inst. 2. “Algorithmic Insecurity,” Rita Raley, U of California, Santa Barbara 3. “Speculative Algorithms,” Allison Burtsch, UNICEF Innovation in Speculative Hardware Respondent: Wendy Chun, Brown U For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/ groups/digital-humanities-2014/ after 30 Nov.
809. “Of Strangers Is the Earth the Inn”: Still Life, Scale, and Deep Time in Emily Dickinson 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton Program arranged by the Emily Dickinson International Society. Presiding: Marta L. Werner, D’Youville C 1. “‘Just a Life I Left’: Still Life Painting, Emily Dickinson, and the Anthropocene,” Isabel Sobral Campos, Montana Tech of the U of Montana
2. “Plashless as She Sees: Dickinson’s Glancing Stitch,” Zachary Tavlin, U of Washington, Seattle 3. “ ‘Disclosed by Danger’: Dickinson, Darwin, Time,” Amy R. Nestor, Georgetown U, Qatar Respondent: Keith Mikos, DePaul U For related material, visit www .emilydickinsoninternationalsociety.org/.
810. Framing New York City in Comics 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Robin S. Hammerman, Stevens Inst. of Tech. 1. “Drawn from the Stage: Nineteenth-Century United States Comics and New York City’s Theater Culture,” Alex Beringer, U of Montevallo 2. “Between Strange and Familiar: Old New York in Contemporary Jewish Comics,” Julia Alekse yeva, Harvard U 3. “When Frames Disappear: Gotham City between Violence and Vengeance,” Lisann Anders, U of Zurich 4. “Great American Myths: New York City and Conservative Utopianism,” Joseph Donica, Bronx Community C, City U of New York
811. Lois Weber’s Shoes (1916) and American Naturalism 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture. Presiding: Rob King, Columbia U 1. “Prostitutes in American Naturalism, 1893– 1916,” Miriam S. Gogol, Mercy C 2. “Melodrama and the Seduction of Innocence,” Jane Marie Gaines, Columbia U 3. “Shoes as Epistemic Text: Allegorical Lantern Slides to Sociological Case Studies,” Constance Balides, Tulane U 4. “Preachment for Profit,” Mark Garrett Cooper, U of South Carolina, Columbia
812. Oceanic Ireland 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Nicholas Allen, U of Georgia Speakers: Claire Connolly, University C Cork; Philip Geheber, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge; Michael James Gill, U of Liverpool; Ronan Daniel McDonald, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Maria McGarrity, Long Island U, Brooklyn; Nels Pearson, Fairfield U; Elizabeth Sauer, Brock U Although land has received the most attention in studies of Irish literary traditions, equally significant may be water, including maritime exchange and
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migration, Ireland’s situation in an imperial archipelago, and the economic and ecological significance of ports, coastlines, and waterways. Panelists discuss how developments in the “blue humanities” such as oceanic and archipelagic studies might productively enhance our understanding of Irish modernity. For related material, write to npearson@fairfield .edu after 2 Jan.
813. Resituating Poetry Text in Early and Medieval China: Anxieties and Transitions 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Jinghua Wangling, Loyola U, Baltimore Speakers: Daniel Fried, U of Alberta; Qiulei Hu, Whitman C; Lucas Klein, U of Hong Kong; Shijia Nie, U of Oregon; Wendy Swartz, Rutgers U, New Bruns- wick; Jinghua Wangling; Ying Xiong, U of Oregon This session offers new approaches and methodologies in the examination of poetry in early and medieval China from various textual perspectives. For related material, write to yzhang1@loyola.edu after 20 Dec.
814. Secular Relics 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum LLC English Romantic Speakers: Amanda Jo Goldstein, Cornell U; Nicholas Halmi, U of Oxford; Forest Pyle, U of Oregon; Margaret E. Russett, U of Southern California; Esther H. Schor, Princeton U Participants give responses to prompts on Coleridge’s inkstand, Wordsworth’s skates, Byron’s boxing gloves, the can of accelerant used to light Shelley’s funeral pyre, and a ring containing Keats’s hair.
815. Reading African American Literature Now: Critical Desires and New Directions in the Field 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton A special session Speakers: Aliyyah Inaya Abdur-Rahman, Brandeis U; Margo Natalie Crawford, Cornell U; Aida Levy-Hussen, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Samantha Pinto, Georgetown U Panelists examine the present moment of reading African American literature not as a teleology of inevitable progress but as a constellation of difficult and even competing critical desires. We will collectively consider emergent trajectories of reading for and through race—including affect, ontology,
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abstraction, and temporality—innovatively mapping connections between contemporary modes of reading and the politics that animate them.
816. The Value of Prehumanist Critique: Anglo-Saxon Contributions 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC Old English. Presiding: Samantha Zacher, Cornell U 1. “The Weeds We Are: The Trans-planted Politics of Eleventh-Century England,” Jacqueline Ann Fay, U of Texas, Arlington 2. “The Elephant, the Leopard, and Animal Discourse on the Human in Anglo-Saxon Literature,” Edward J. Christie, Georgia State U 3. “Sexual Creatura,” Stacy S. Klein, Rutgers U, New Brunswick For related material, visit www.academia .edu/32168392/MLA_Old_English_ Session_ Descriptions_2018.
817. Teaching Representations of the First World War: Beyond Fussell 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison, Hilton A special session. Presiding: Douglas Higbee, U of South Carolina, Aiken Speakers: Wyatt Bonikowski, Suffolk U; Claire E. Buck, Wheaton C, MA; Deborah Buffton, U of Wis- consin, La Crosse; Patrick Deer, New York U; Jeffrey Drouin, U of Tulsa; Jane E. Fisher, Canisius C; Doug- las Higbee; Eve C. Sorum, U of Massachusetts, Boston Scholarship over the last few decades has worked to recover the diversity of the First World War experience. Drawing on postcolonial perspectives, revisionist historiography, feminist rediscovery, media theory, and new understandings of modernism and modernity—along with a wealth of newly developed material and virtual resources for study—this session explores the complex task of effectively teaching what has always been a dauntingly enormous subject.
818. The Future(s) of Literary Biography 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Todd Goddard, Utah Valley U Speakers: Anne Boyd Rioux, U of New Orleans; Katherine Culkin, Bronx Community C, City U of New York; Todd Goddard; Megan Marshall, Emerson C; Carl Rollyson, Baruch C, City U of New York; Elaine C. Showalter, Princeton U The theoretical turn in literary studies, with the consequent separation of text from life, has for some time now unsettled the status of biography
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in English departments and elsewhere. Yet life writing continues to thrive as a subject of inquiry and as a practice. Panelists explore the future(s) of literary biography inside and outside the academy, particularly in the light of recent transformations of the genre into hybridic, new forms.
819. Rules and Ruling 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Philosophy and Literature. Presiding: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, U at Buffalo, State U of New York 1. “Why Do I Obey You? Beckett’s Disciplined Instruments,” Cheryl Alison, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts U 2. “Unruly Duras,” Maria Fernanda Negrete, U at Buffalo, State U of New York 3. “Mishima and the Rules of Desire,” Andrea Nicolini, U of Verona 4. “The Work of Games: Elizabeth Bishop Exposes the Rules,” Johanna Winant, West Virginia U, Morgantown
820. Settler Colonialism 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton Program arranged by the forum TC Postcolonial Studies. Presiding: Elizabeth Anker, Cornell U 1. “Indigeneity as Setting: Speculations on Postcolonial Nationhood and the Politics of Settler Occupation,” Mark Rifkin, U of North Carolina, Greensboro 2. “Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: Decolonial Politics and the Settler Colonial Distinction,” Alex Young, Amherst C 3. “Settler Colonialism’s Temporalities: Here,” Melissa Gniadek, U of Toronto Respondent: Elizabeth Anker
821. Site Specifics 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, Hilton Program arranged by the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities. Presiding: Byron Caminero-Santangelo, U of Kansas Speakers: Katie J. Hogan, U of North Carolina, Charlotte; Caroline Holland, U of Toronto; Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Northeastern U; Anthony Lioi, Juilliard School; Steve Mentz, St. John’s U, NY; Orchid Tierney, U of Pennsylvania How does place matter, even at a hotel-centric MLA conference? This session focuses on topics related to New York City environs (e.g., the Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics, superstorm impacts, and environmental justice) but also on “climate controlled” and other kinds
of spaces. Please see our MLA Commons page for information about a linked field trip.
822. Exploring Literary and Nonliterary Texts 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Midtown, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LSL Linguistics and Literature 1. “Carceral Metaphors in Literature and Nonfiction: A Corpus-Based Analysis,” Monika Fludernik, U of Freiburg 2. “Second-Order Foregrounding in Nonstandard Closed Similes,” Roi Tartakovsky, Tel Aviv U 3. “The Rhetorical Construction of a Nineteenth- Century Novena Reader: A Sociolinguistic Inventory,” Cyril Belvis, De La Salle Araneta U For related material, write to troyerr@wou.edu.
823. The Madwoman in the Critic 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Julia Miele Rodas, Bronx Community C, City U of New York 1. “No Madwomen, No Geniuses, Only a Prosaic Melancholy: Depressive Disorders in Louisa May Alcott’s Moods and Work,” Karyn M. Valerius, Hofstra U 2. “The Weight of Being Well: Decolonizing Mental Health in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters and Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals,” Lynne Beckenstein, Graduate Center, City U of New York 3. “ ‘Mad Dykes Rule, OK?’: Camp Humorlessness in Hothead Paisan,” Cynthia Barounis, Washington U in St. Louis
824. Afterlives of the Premodern 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gibson, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC German to 1700. Presiding: Anna Grotans, Ohio State U, Columbus 1. “Of Honor and Shame: The Significance of a Medieval Concept in Modern Culture,” Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh, U of California, Berkeley 2. “Fischart’s Two Eulenspiegels,” Isaac Schendel, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities 3. “The Afterlife of Sixteenth-Century Prose Novels in German Romanticism,” Gudrun Bamberger, Eberhard Karls U Tübingen 4. “Grass and Rühmkorf Reading Trostgedichte in Commemoration of the Peace (1648/1998),” Richard E. Schade, U of Cincinnati
825. The Child: What Kind of Human Being? 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton
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A special session. Presiding: Anna Mae Duane, U of Connecticut, Storrs 1. “Criminal or Captive? The Childhood Origins of Violence in The Confessions of Nat Turner,” Lucia Hodgson, Texas A&M U, College Station 2. “ ‘The Sorrow of Frado’: Black Abjection and the Structure of Adulthood in Harriet W. Wilson’s Our Nig,” Sam Plasencia, U of Illinois, Urbana 3. “Humanity and Black Sexuality in African American Boarding Schools,” Mary Zaborskis, Vanderbilt U 4. “Spiritualism and the Scamp: Queer Performances of Childhood in The Life of Little Justin Hulburd,” Amy Huang, Brown U Respondent: Diana R. Paulin, Trinity C, CT For related material, write to luciahodgson@tamu .edu after 15 Dec.
826. Sound, Noise, and Silence in Seventeenth-Century France 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th- Century French. Presiding: Hall Bjornstad, Indiana U, Bloomington 1. “The Politics and Poetics of Noise at the French Court,” Sarah Beytelmann, Princeton U 2. “ ‘Un bruit confus qui s’éleva tout d’un coup’: The Fronde in Sound,” Ellen Welch, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 3. “La plainte entre la phoné et le logos: Réflexions pour une nouvelle philologie,” Hélène Merlin- Kajman, U de Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle Respondent: Sarah Kay, New York U
827. Crisis, Science, and Mexican Texts 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton Program arranged by the forums LLC Mexican and TC Science and Literature 1. “From Translation to Discovery: The Emergence of Early Modern Sciences and New Spain’s Cultural Borders,” Jaime Marroquin, Western Oregon U 2. “Rereading Mexican Environmentalist Novels: From López Portillo y Rojas to Rodríguez Barrón,” Luis Felipe Gomez-Lomeli, U of Kansas 3. “Wave, Particle, Chaos, and Entropy in Alberto Blanco’s La hora y la neblina (2005),” Ronald J. Friis, Furman U Respondent: María del Pilar Blanco, U of Oxford, Trinity C
828. Literary Criticism as Public Scholarship 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton
Sunday, 7 January
A special session. Presiding: Rosemary Erickson Johnsen, Governors State U Speakers: Jim Cocola, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.; Christopher Douglas, U of Victoria; Haythem Guesmi, U de Montréal; Rosemary Erickson Johnsen; Lorraine York, McMaster U Panelists demonstrate compelling and successful approaches to practicing literary criticism as public scholarship, from writing on contemporary culture and politics for broad reading publics to building community partnerships. The session will be structured as an ignite talk, or PechaKucha format.
829. Revolutionary States: George Bernard Shaw, 1918 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Jennifer Buckley, U of Iowa 1. “Staging Immortality in 1918: Bernard Shaw and Luigi Antonelli,” James Armstrong, Graduate Center, City U of New York 2. “Revolutionaries of a Different Sort: Bernard Shaw and Emma Goldman,” Virginia Costello, U of Illinois, Chicago 3. “Catching the Mood Postwar: Bernard Shaw and Sean O’Casey,” Martin Meisel, Columbia U 4. “Women, Warriors: Redefining ‘Woman’ in Bernard Shaw’s and J. M. Barrie’s Wartime Plays,” Ellen Dolgin, Dominican C of Blauvelt For related material, write to jennifer-buckley@ uiowa.edu after 1 Dec.
830. Writing at This Moment: Contemporary Poetry against American Imperialism 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton A special session. Presiding: Tana Jean Welch, Florida State U 1. “Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas: Poetic Intervention into the Documents of Settler Colonialism,” Andrea Quaid, Bard C 2. “Post-Testimonio Poetics: A Critique of United States–Led Imperialism in the Work of Craig Santos Pérez and Raúl Zurita,” Whitney DeVos, U of California, Santa Cruz 3. “Juliana Spahr’s Anarchist Globalization,” Seth McKelvey, Southern Methodist U 4. “Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution and Dynamic Globalization: Fostering a New World Community,” Tana Jean Welch For related material, write to tana.welch@med.fsu .edu after 1 Oct.
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1 9 2 0 1 7 – J a n. 0 1 7 – J a n. 2
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern R a l p h B a u e r, J a n . 2 0 1 8 An s t o n B o s m a n , J a n . 2 0 1 9 ( 2 0 1 7 – J a n . 2 0 1 8 C h .) Pa t r i c i a E . G r i e v e , J a n . 2 0 2 0 ( 2 0 1 7 – J a n . 2 0 1 8 S e c .) Lynn Enterline, Jan. 2021 Ayesha Ramachandran, Jan. 2022
CLCS 18th-Century
Listed here are the forum executive committees for the 2018 convention year (9 Jan. 2017–7 Jan. 2018). The dates after the names of executive committee members designate the conventions that conclude the final convention years of their terms. (A convention year begins after the close of one convention and continues through the close of the next; it is named for the convention that concludes the year.) These listings indicate which committee members are currently serving as chair and secretary. Normally, this year’s secretary becomes next year’s chair.
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CLCS Arthurian Bonnie Wheeler, Jan. 2018 Paul Vincent Rockwell, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Sian Echard, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Molly A. Martin, Jan. 2021 Karen Sullivan, Jan. 2022
CLCS Caribbean [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Supriya M. Nair, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Guillermina De Ferrari, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Raphael Dalleo, Jan. 2021 Jennifer M. Wilks, Jan. 2022
CLCS Celtic
Chi-ming Yang, Jan. 2018 Nicholas A. Rennie, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Natania Meeker, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Paul Kelleher, Jan. 2021 Sunil M. Agnani, Jan. 2022
[position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Amy Mulligan, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Lindy Brady, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Natasha Sumner, Jan. 2021 Melissa Ridley Elmes, Jan. 2022
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century
CLCS Classical and Modern
Jan Mieszkowski, Jan. 2018 Matthew Potolsky, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Tilottama Rajan, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Stefani Engelstein, Jan. 2021 Claudia Brodsky, Jan. 2022
Andrew C. Parker, Jan. 2018 Sarah Winter, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Seth Lerer, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Sarah Nooter, Jan. 2021 Vassilios Lambropolous, Jan. 2022
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century
CLCS European Regions
Sangeeta Ray, Jan. 2018 Nergis Ertürk, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Emily Apter, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Annette Damayanti Lienau, Jan. 2021 Alberto Moreiras, Jan. 2022
Debra Ann Castillo, Jan. 2018 Sebastian Wogenstein, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Corinne Laura Scheiner, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) homas Oliver Beebee, Jan. 2021 Sara Kippur, Jan. 2022
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CLCS Global Anglophone T oral Gajarawala, Jan. 2018 Tsitsi Jaji, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Snehal Shingavi, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Jenny Sharpe, Jan. 2021 Sonali Perera, Jan. 2022
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Pauline Homsi Vinson, Jan. 2018 Hatem Akil, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Shaden M. Tageldin, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Karim Mattar, Jan. 2021 Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Jan. 2022
Forum Executive Committees
Nevine El Nossery, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Gregory S. Hutcheson, Jan. 2021 Claudio Fogu, Jan. 2022
CLCS Nordic Kjerstin Moody, Jan. 2018 Dean Krouk, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Marianne Tranberg Stecher, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Olivia Noble Gunn, Jan. 2022
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CLCS Global Hispanophone
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Joyce Tolliver, Jan. 2019 Benita Sampedro, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Jan. 2021 Elisa G. Rizo, Jan. 2022
Lee A. Talley, Jan. 2018 Jan Christopher Susina, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Michelle Ann Abate, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Ramona Caponegro, Jan. 2021 Philip Nel, Jan. 2022
CLCS Global Jewish
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Lisa Marcus, Jan. 2018 Maya Barzilai, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Simchi Cohen, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Martin B. Shichtman, Jan. 2021 Sara R. Horowitz, Jan. 2022
CLCS Global South Roopika Risam, Jan. 2018 Anne Garland Mahler, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Mary Louise Pratt, Jan. 2021 Rosemary J. Jolly, Jan. 2022
CLCS Hemispheric American Macarena Gomez-Barris, Jan. 2018 Gina Athena Ulysse, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Ana Lee, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Suyapa Portillo, Jan. 2021 Vanessa Valdés, Jan. 2022
CLCS Mediterranean Anna Botta, Jan. 2018 Kathleen P. Long, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.)
Nhora Lucia Serrano, Jan. 2018 Christopher Pizzino, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Susan E. Kirtley, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Aaron Kashtan, Jan. 2021 Lan Dong, Jan. 2022
GS Drama and Performance [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Nadia Ellis, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Shane Vogel, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Ashon Crawley, Jan. 2022
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale Constance Bailey, Jan. 2018 Casey Kayser, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Shelley Ingram, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Rosmarie T. Morewedge, Jan. 2021 Norma Elia Cantú, Jan. 2022
GS Life Writing Georgia Kathryn Johnston, Jan. 2018 John Matteson, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Emily Hipchen, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Ricia Anne Chansky, Jan. 2021 John David Zuern, Jan. 2022
GS Noniction Prose Howard Horwitz, Jan. 2018 Brian McGrath, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) David Bahr, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Catherine Taylor, Jan. 2021 Jef Porter, Jan. 2022
GS Poetry and Poetics Meta DuEwa Jones, Jan. 2018 Brian M. Reed, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Alexandra Socarides, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Angelica Alicia Duran, Jan. 2021 Ardis Butterield, Jan. 2022
GS Prose Fiction Hester Blum, Jan. 2018 Jennifer Wicke, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Gayle Rogers, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Jonathan Grossman, Jan. 2021 Kate Marshall, Jan. 2022
GS Speculative Fiction Tyler Curtain, Jan. 2018 Gerry Canavan, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Alexis Lothian, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Mark Jerng, Jan. 2021 [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee]
GS Travel Writing Ali Behdad, Jan. 2018 David Farley, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Lauren Coats, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Erin Suzuki, Jan. 2021 Andrea Kaston Tange, Jan. 2022
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HEP Community Colleges
Matt Cohen, Jan. 2018 Sarah Rivett, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Monique Allewaert, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Duncan F. Faherty, Jan. 2021 Jordan Alexander Stein, Jan. 2022
Stacey Lee Donohue, Jan. 2018 Linda Weinhouse, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Michael A. Burke, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Miles McCrimmon, Jan. 2021 Shawn Casey, Jan. 2022
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues Lee Skallerup Bessette, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan. 2018 Acting Ch.) [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Maria S. Grewe, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Robin J. Sowards, Jan. 2021 Sarah Harmon, Jan. 2022
HEP Teaching as a Profession Robert Samuels, Jan. 2018 Rebecca E. Burnett, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Gerald Graf, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) David C. Lloyd, Jan. 2021 Claudia A. Becker, Jan. 2022
LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND CULTURES (LLC) AFRICAN LLC African to 1990 Adeleke Adeeko, Jan. 2018
LLC Early American
LLC 19th-Century American
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LLC Chicana and Chicano Laura Halperin, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Olga Herrera, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Richard T. Rodríguez, Jan. 2020 Jose Navarro, Jan. 2021 Jackie Cuevas, Jan. 2022
LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and Canada
Dana Luciano, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Rodrigo Lazo, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Hsuan L. Hsu, Jan. 2020 Mark Rikin, Jan. 2021 Gordon Fraser, Jan. 2022
[position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Miriam Brown Spiers, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Melanie Benson Taylor, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Christopher Pexa, Jan. 2022
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20thCentury American
LLC Italian American
Dale Marie Bauer, Jan. 2018 Russ Castronovo, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Edlie L. Wong, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Gavin Jones, Jan. 2021 Claudia Stokes, Jan. 2022
[position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Nancy Caronia, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Clarissa Clo, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Jessica L. Maucione, Jan. 2021 Teresa Fiore, Jan. 2022
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
LLC Jewish American
Amy Hungerford, Jan. 2018 Heather Houser, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Joseph Jeon, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Gordon N. Hutner, Jan. 2021 Soyica Diggs Colbert, Jan. 2022
LLC African American
Victoria Aarons, Jan. 2018 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Maeera Yafa Shreiber, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Benjamin Schreier, Jan. 2020 Dean Joseph Franco, Jan. 2021 Sharon B. Oster, Jan. 2022
LLC Latina and Latino Raúl Coronado, Jan. 2018 Maia Gil’Adi, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) John Alba Cutler, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Ariana Vigil, Jan. 2021 Carmen Lamas, Jan. 2022
Susan Z. Andrade, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Anjali Prabhu, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Wendy Laura Belcher, Jan. 2021 Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Jan. 2022
Deborah McDowell, Jan. 2018 Miriam haggert, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) habiti Lewis, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Koritha Mitchell, Jan. 2021 Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo, Jan. 2022
LLC African since 1990
LLC Asian American
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other han English
Moradewun Adejunmobi, Jan. 2018 Phyllis Taoua, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Manori Neelika Jayawardane, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Naminata Diabate, Jan. 2021 Carmela Garritano, Jan. 2022
Crystal Parikh, Jan. 2018 Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) James Kyung-Jin Lee, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Jeehyun Lim, Jan. 2021 Heidi Kathleen Kim, Jan. 2022
Stephanie A. Fetta, Jan. 2018 Sylvia Veronica Morin, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Uriel Quesada, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Karen Elizabeth Bishop, Jan. 2021 Bill Johnson Gonzalez, Jan. 2022
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LLC Southern United States Ted Atkinson, Jan. 2018 Jolene Hubbs, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Gina Caison, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Michael Paul Bibler, Jan. 2021 Kirstin L. Squint, Jan. 2022
ARABIC LLC Arabic Waïl S. Hassan, Jan. 2018 Hoda El Shakry, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Tahia Abdel Nasser, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Michael Allan, Jan. 2021 Ghenwa Hayek, Jan. 2022
ASIAN LLC East Asian [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Rivi Handler-Spitz, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Kelly Y. Jeong, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Geraldine Fiss, Jan. 2021 Jonathan Abel, Jan. 2022
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Rajender Kaur, Jan. 2018 Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Kanika Batra, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Gaura Shankar Narayan, Jan. 2021 Nira M. Gupta-Casale, Jan. 2022
LLC West Asian Amy Motlagh, Jan. 2018 Nergis Ertürk, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Kamran Rastegar, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Jefrey Sacks, Jan. 2021 Anthony Alessandrini, Jan. 2022
CANADA LLC Canadian Larissa Lai, Jan. 2018 Karis Shearer, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)
Forum Executive Committees
Nicholas Bradley, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Karina Vernon, Jan. 2021 Robert Zacharias, Jan. 2022
CATALAN LLC Catalan Studies Anton Pujol, Jan. 2018 Edgar Illas, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Henry Berlin, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Aurelie Vialette, Jan. 2021 Marta Marín-Dòmine, Jan. 2022
CHINESE LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Tina Lu, Jan. 2018 Liana Chen, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Nathan Faries, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Andrew Schonebaum, Jan. 2021 Li Guo, Jan. 2022
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese
LLC Middle English Shannon Gayk, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Erin Felicia Labbie, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Julie Orlemanski, Jan. 2021 Lisa H. Cooper, Jan. 2022
LLC Chaucer Mark Miller, Jan. 2018 Emma E. Lipton, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Catherine Sanok, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Eleanor Johnson, Jan. 2021 Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Jan. 2022
LLC 16th-Century English Katherine Eggert, Jan. 2018 Ellen MacKay, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Anne Myers, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Steve Mentz, Jan. 2021 Adam Zucker, Jan. 2022
LLC Shakespeare
Christopher M. Lupke, Jan. 2018 Paul Manfredi, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Jiwei Xiao, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Christopher Tong, Jan. 2021 Haiyan Lee, Jan. 2022
Elizabeth D. Harvey, Jan. 2018 Sarah Werner, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Gina Bloom, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Michelle M. Dowd, Jan. 2021 Andras Kisery, Jan. 2022
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LLC 17th-Century English
LLC Dutch [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Yves T’Sjoen, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Johannes Burgers, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) James A. Parente, Jan. 2021 Russ Leo, Jan. 2022
ENGLISH LLC Old English Elaine Treharne, Jan. 2018 Matthew Hussey, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Renée R. Trilling, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Samantha Zacher, Jan. 2021 Nicole Guenther Discenza, Jan. 2022
Mihoko Suzuki, Jan. 2018 Julia Reinhard Lupton, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Sharon Achinstein, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Achsah Guibbory, Jan. 2021 Christopher Warren, Jan. 2022
LLC Restoration and Early18th-Century English Sean D. Moore, Jan. 2018 Laura C. Mandell, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Laura L. Runge, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Roxann Wheeler, Jan. 2021 Betty Joseph, Jan. 2022
LLC Late-18th-Century English [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee]
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LLC English Romantic Mark E. Canuel, Jan. 2018 Margaret E. Russett, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Denise Gigante, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Colin Jager, Jan. 2021 Richard C. Sha, Jan. 2022
LLC Victorian and Early-20thCentury English Daniel Hack, Jan. 2018 David S. Kurnick, Jan. 2018 Aviva Briefel, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Coch.) Daniel Akiva Novak, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Coch.) Ellen Crowell, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Cosec.) Carolyn Lesjak, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Cosec.) Pamela K. Gilbert, Jan. 2021 Paul K. Saint-Amour, Jan. 2022
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone Jahan Ramazani, Jan. 2018 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Debra Rae Cohen, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Peter J. Kalliney, Jan. 2020 Celia Marshik, Jan. 2021 John Marx, Jan. 2022
FRENCH LLC Medieval French Daisy J. Delogu, Jan. 2018 Kathy M. Krause, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Peggy Sue McCracken, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Mary Franklin-Brown, Jan. 2021 Anne-Hélène M. Miller, Jan. 2022
LLC 16th-Century French Leah L. Chang, Jan. 2018 Cathy Yandell, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Phillip Usher, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Jan Miernowski, Jan. 2021 Elizabeth Black, Jan. 2022
LLC 17th-Century French Faith E. Beasley, Jan. 2018 Valentina Denzel, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Sylvaine Guyot, Jan. 2021 Toby Wikström, Jan. 2022
LLC 18th-Century French Jennifer S. Tsien, Jan. 2018 Andrew Herrick Clark, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Laurence Mall, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Annelle Curulla, Jan. 2021 Fayçal Falaky, Jan. 2022
LLC 19th-Century French Michael D. Garval, Jan. 2018 Patrick M. Bray, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Rachel L. Mesch, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, Jan. 2021 Elizabeth N. Emery, Jan. 2022
LLC 20th- and 21stCentury French Cybelle H. McFadden, Jan. 2018 Eric Trudel, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Michael Lucey, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) hangam Ravindranathan, Jan. 2021 Sylvie Eve Blum-Reid, Jan. 2022
LLC Francophone Cilas Kemedjio, Jan. 2018 Milena Santoro, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Richard H. Watts, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Lia Brozgal, Jan. 2021 Karl Ashoka Britto, Jan. 2022
GALICIAN LLC Galician Eugenia R. Romero, Jan. 2018 Obdulia E. Castro, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Gabriel Rei-Doval, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Danny Barreto, Jan. 2021 Germán Labrador Méndez, Jan. 2022
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GERMAN LLC German to 1700 Ann Marie Rasmussen, Jan. 2018 Jane Ogden Newman, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Anna Grotans, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Peter A. Hess, Jan. 2021 Karin Anneliese Wurst, Jan. 2022
LLC 18th- and Early-19thCentury German Elisabeth Krimmer, Jan. 2018 Jocelyn Holland, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Laurie Johnson, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Sean B. Franzel, Jan. 2021 Heidi Schlipphacke, Jan. 2022
LLC 19th- and Early-20thCentury German Jonathan S. Skolnik, Jan. 2018 Peter C. Pfeifer, Jan. 2019 Katja Garlof, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Anette Schwarz, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Ashley A. Passmore, Jan. 2022
LLC 20th- and 21stCentury German Stefanie Harris, Jan. 2018 Devin A. Fore, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Kerstin Barndt, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Veronika Fuechtner, Jan. 2021 Elke Siegel, Jan. 2022
HEBREW LLC Hebrew Allison Schachter, Jan. 2018 Barbara Mann, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Vered Shemtov, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Naama Harel, Jan. 2021 Philip A. Hollander, Jan. 2022
HUNGARIAN LLC Hungarian Zsuzsanna Varga, Jan. 2018 Clara E. Orban, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)
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[position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Lilla Balint, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Jessie M. Labov, Jan. 2022
IRISH LLC Irish Sean D. Moore, Jan. 2018 Mary M. Burke, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Catherine Anne Flynn, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Paige Reynolds, Jan. 2021 Clair Wills, Jan. 2022
ITALIAN LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian David Lummus, Jan. 2018 Martin G. Eisner, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Kristin Phillips-Court, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Aileen Feng, Jan. 2021 Susan Gaylard, Jan. 2022
LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19thCentury Italian Rachel A. Walsh, Jan. 2018 Adrienne Ward, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Sabrina Ferri, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Silvia Valisa, Jan. 2021 Enrico Vettore, Jan. 2022
LLC 20th- and 21stCentury Italian Allison A. Cooper, Jan. 2018 Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Stefano Giannini, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Paola Bonifazio, Jan. 2021 Elena Margarita Past, Jan. 2022
JAPANESE LLC Japanese to 1900 Charlotte Eubanks, Jan. 2018 Vyjayanthi Selinger, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Matthew Fraleigh, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Jonathan Zwicker, Jan. 2021 Naomi Fukumori, Jan. 2022
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LLC Japanese since 1900 Melek Ortabasi, Jan. 2018 [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Orna Shaughnessy, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Michael Emmerich, Jan. 2021 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Joanne Bernardi, Jan. 2022
KOREAN LLC Korean Jina Kim, Jan. 2018 Heekyoung Cho, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Kyeong-Hee Choi, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Christopher Hanscom, Jan. 2021 Ji-Eun Lee, Jan. 2022
LATIN AMERICAN LLC Colonial Latin American Cristian Roa, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Ivonne del Valle, Jan. 2019 Monica Diaz, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Elvira L. Vilches, Jan. 2021 Lisa Voigt, Jan. 2022
LLC 19th-Century Latin American Natalia Brizuela, Jan. 2018 José M. Rodríguez García, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Alicia B. Rios, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Nathalie Bouzaglo, Jan. 2021 Abraham Acosta, Jan. 2022
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Jorge Coronado, Jan. 2018 Claudia Cabello-Hutt, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Héctor Hoyos, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Brenda Werth, Jan. 2022
LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic Jacqueline Loss, Jan. 2018 Emily Maguire, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)
Rachel Price, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Esther Allen, Jan. 2021 Tania Pérez-Cano, Jan. 2022
LLC Mexican Ignacio Corona, Jan. 2018 Oswaldo Estrada, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Emily Hind, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Adela E. Pineda Franco, Jan. 2021 José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, Jan. 2022
LLC Puerto Rican Liana Silva, Jan. 2018 Judith Sierra-Rivera, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno, Jan. 2021 Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Jan. 2022
OCCITAN LLC Occitan Courtney Wells, Jan. 2018 Sarah Kay, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Jesús R. Velasco, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Juliet O’Brien, Jan. 2021 Elizabeth Hebbard, Jan. 2022
OLD NORSE LLC Old Norse Stephen J. Harris, Jan. 2018 Natalie Van Deusen, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Paul L. Acker, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Christopher Abram, Jan. 2021 Jay Paul Gates, Jan. 2022
PORTUGUESE LLC Global Portuguese Niyi Afolabi, Jan. 2018 [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Ana Catarina Teixeira, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Katia C. Bezerra, Jan. 2021 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Leonora Souza Paula, Jan. 2022
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LLC Luso-Brazilian Robert Patrick Newcomb, Jan. 2018 Cesar Braga-Pinto, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Pedro Meira Monteiro, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Estela J. Vieira, Jan. 2021 Marcus V. C. Brasileiro, Jan. 2022
ROMANIAN LLC Romanian [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Adriana Gradea, Jan. 2019 Anca Luca Holden, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Oana Sabo, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Florina Catalina Florescu, Jan. 2022
SCOTTISH LLC Scottish Corey Edward Andrews, Jan. 2018 Rivka Swenson, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Juliet Shields, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Tony Jarrells, Jan. 2021 Steven L. Newman, Jan. 2022
SEPHARDIC LLC Sephardic Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan. 2018 Acting Ch.) [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Nohemy Solórzano-hompson, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Bethany Beyer, Jan. 2021 Ruth Malka, Jan. 2022
SLAVIC LLC Russian and Eurasian Serguei Alex Oushakine, Jan. 2018 Benjamin Palof, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Jeferson J. A. Gatrall, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Jan. 2021 Leah Feldman, Jan. 2022
LLC Slavic and East European Julia Vaingurt, Jan. 2018 Gabriella Safran, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.)
Edyta M. Bojanowska, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Emily Van Buskirk, Jan. 2021 Vitaly Chernetsky, Jan. 2022
SPANISH AND IBERIAN LLC Medieval Iberian Cristina Guardiola, Jan. 2018 Nadia R. Altschul, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Michelle M. Hamilton, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Connie L. Scarborough, Jan. 2021 Matthew J. Bailey, Jan. 2022
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YIDDISH LLC Yiddish Allison Schachter, Jan. 2018 Gabriella Safran, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Agnieszka Legutko, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Samuel Spinner, Jan. 2021 Sunny Yudkof, Jan. 2022
LANGUAGE STUDIES AND LINGUISTICS (LSL) LSL Applied Linguistics
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama Harry Vélez-Quiñones, Jan. 2018 Amy R. Williamsen, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Sherry M. Velasco, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro, Jan. 2021 Margaret Boyle, Jan. 2022
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose Leah Wood Middlebrook, Jan. 2018 John Slater, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Miguel Martinez, Jan. 2021 Emilie L. Bergmann, Jan. 2022
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian David hatcher Gies, Jan. 2018 Rebecca Haidt, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Lisa Surwillo, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Leigh Mercer, Jan. 2021 Catherine Marie Jafe, Jan. 2022
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Jan. 2018 Mario Santana, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Ana Corbalan, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Malcolm Alan Compitello, Jan. 2021 Jorge P. Pérez, Jan. 2022
Elizabeth Bernhardt, Jan. 2018 Lee B. Abraham, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Per Urlaub, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Mary Wildner-Bassett, Jan. 2021 Fernando Rubio, Jan. 2022
LSL General Linguistics Covadonga Lamar Prieto, Jan. 2018 Angela Helmer, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Mariche Bayonas, Jan. 2021 Armik Mirzayan, Jan. 2022
LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Tina Boyer, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Heiko Wiggers, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Adrienne Damiani Merritt, Jan. 2022
LSL Global English [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Melissa Dennihy, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Don Fette, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee]
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LSL Language and Society
MS Screen Arts and Culture
Ken Hirschkop, Jan. 2018 A. Suresh Canagarajah, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Jonathan Arac, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Rebecca Dingo, Jan. 2021 Christopher Jenks, Jan. 2022
Caetlin Benson-Allott, Jan. 2018 Rob King, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Christina Gerhardt, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Rebecca A. Wanzo, Jan. 2021 Sara Saljoughi, Jan. 2022
LSL Language Change
MS Sound
T. Craig Christy, Jan. 2018 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) D. Brian Mann, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Taryn Hakala, Jan. 2021 Roshawnda Derrick, Jan. 2022
Daniel Snelson, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Mark Sample, Jan. 2019 [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Jennifer Stoever, Jan. 2021 Marci R. McMahon, Jan. 2022
LSL Linguistics and Literature
MS Visual Culture
Robert Troyer, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan. 2018 Acting Ch.) David L. Hoover, Jan. 2019 Billy Clark, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Anja Mueller-Wood, Jan. 2021 Martin Joel Gliserman, Jan. 2022
Lisa Siraganian, Jan. 2018 Elizabeth Swanstrom, Jan. 2018 Ariella Azoulay, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) David S. Ferris, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Laura Wexler, Jan. 2021 W. J. T. Mitchell, Jan. 2022
LSL Romance Linguistics M. Emma Ticio Quesada, Jan. 2018 Jason Doroga, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Carolina Gonzalez, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Julio Villa-Garcia, Jan. 2021 Svetlana Tyutina, Jan. 2022
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Jennifer Redmann, Jan. 2018 Lunden Eschelle MacDonald, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Sheri Spaine Long, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Kate Paesani, Jan. 2021 Glenn Levine, Jan. 2022
MEDIA STUDIES (MS) MS Opera and Musical Performance Matthew W. Smith, Jan. 2018 Alessandra Campana, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Ian Duncan, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Irene Morra, Jan. 2022
RHETORIC, COMPOSITION, AND WRITING STUDIES (RCWS) RCWS Creative Writing [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Jason A. Schneiderman, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Louis Bury, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Tonya Foster, Jan. 2021 David Caplan, Jan. 2022
RCWS History and heory of Composition John C. Brereton, Jan. 2018 Risa Applegarth, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Jean Ferguson Carr, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Amy Anderson, Jan. 2021 Bruce Horner, Jan. 2022
RCWS History and heory of Rhetoric Stephanie Lynn Kerschbaum, Jan. 2018 Casie Cobos, Jan. 2019
James J. Brown, Jr., Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Donnie Sackey, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Christa Teston, Jan. 2022
RCWS Literacy Studies Cheryl E. Ball, Jan. 2018 Suzanne Blum Malley, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Alanna Frost, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Peggy D. Otto, Jan. 2021 Annette Vee, Jan. 2022
RCWS Writing Pedagogies Catherine Jean Prendergast, Jan. 2018 Bonnie Lenore Kyburz, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Julia Voss, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Deborah H. Holdstein, Jan. 2021 Douglas Eyman, Jan. 2022
THEORY AND METHOD (TM) TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Jan. 2018 Lindsey Jane Eckert, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Amanda Golden, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Ryan Cordell, Jan. 2021 Dawn Childress, Jan. 2022
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography Robert DeMaria, Jan. 2018 J. Lawrence Mitchell, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Eleanor F. Shevlin, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Jonathan Senchyne, Jan. 2021 Laura Forsberg, Jan. 2022
TM Language heory Irma Alarcon, Jan. 2018 Donny Vigil, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Ager Gondra Astigarraga, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Mary Hayes, Jan. 2021 Natalie E. Gerber, Jan. 2022
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TC Cognitive and Afect Studies
[position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Harriett Green, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Amanda L. Watson, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Brian Rosenblum, Jan. 2021 Amy Chen, Jan. 2022
Jonathan Kramnick, Jan. 2018 Patrick Colm Hogan, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Alan Richardson, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Suzanne Parker Keen, Jan. 2021 Kay Young, Jan. 2022
TM Literary and Cultural heory
Matthew K. Gold, Jan. 2018 Mark Sample, Jan. 2018 Cheryl E. Ball, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Coch.) Lauren Klein, Jan. 2019 Rachel Buurma, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Coch.) Jentery Sayers, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Victoria E. Szabo, Jan. 2021 Élika Ortega, Jan. 2022
Tilottama Rajan, Jan. 2018 Peter M. Logan, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Jane Gallop, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Jefrey J. Williams, Jan. 2021 Lee Edelman, Jan. 2022
TM Literary Criticism Rita Felski, Jan. 2018 Bill Brown, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Robert Tally, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Andrew Cole, Jan. 2021 Caroline E. Levine, Jan. 2022
TM he Teaching of Literature Mary McAleer Balkun, Jan. 2018 Margaret Maurer, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Roberta Rosenberg, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Derek Furr, Jan. 2021 Clement Akassi, Jan. 2022
TRANSDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS (TC) TC Age Studies
TC Digital Humanities
TC Disability Studies Allison Hobgood, Jan. 2018 herí Alyce Pickens, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Cynthia Wu, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Rachel Adams, Jan. 2021 Julie Minich, Jan. 2022
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Stephanie LeMenager, Jan. 2018 Jefrey Cohen, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Sharon O’Dair, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Byron Caminero-Santangelo, Jan. 2021 Ron Broglio, Jan. 2022
TC History and Literature
Elizabeth L. Gregory, Jan. 2018 Valerie Barnes Lipscomb, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Sally Chivers, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Nancy C. Backes, Jan. 2021 Jacob Jewusiak, Jan. 2022
Marguerite Helen Helmers, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Ourida Mostefai, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Eleni Eva Coundouriotis, Jan. 2021 Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Jan. 2022
TC Anthropology and Literature
TC Law and the Humanities
Gabriele M. Schwab, Jan. 2018 [position unilled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Supritha Rajan, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec. and Acting Ch.) Mrinalini Chakravorty, Jan. 2021 John Paul Riquelme, Jan. 2022
Imani Perry, Jan. 2018 Richard Weisberg, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Kevin Curran, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Melissa J. Ganz, Jan. 2021 Kathryn D. Temple, Jan. 2022
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TC Marxism, Literature, and Society Zahid R. Chaudhary, Jan. 2018 Cesare Casarino, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Nicole Fleetwood, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Christopher John Newield, Jan. 2021 Gavin Arnall, Jan. 2022
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Rebecca Garden, Jan. 2018 homas Lawrence Long, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Andrea Charise, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Erin Lamb, Jan. 2021 Alvan Ikoku, Jan. 2022
TC Memory Studies Stef Craps, Jan. 2018 Marianne Hirsch, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Kyle Pivetti, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Debarati Sanyal, Jan. 2021 Michael Rothberg, Jan. 2022
TC Philosophy and Literature Jacques Lezra, Jan. 2018 Jean-Michel Rabaté, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Susan Bernstein, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Jefrey T. Nealon, Jan. 2021 Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Jan. 2022
TC Popular Culture Ellen McCracken, Jan. 2018 Laura G. Gutierrez, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Gwendolyn Pough, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Francesca herese Royster, Jan. 2021 Bishnupriya Ghosh, Jan. 2022
TC Postcolonial Studies Nouri Gana, Jan. 2018 Nicholas Mainey Brown, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Elizabeth Anker, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Sheri-Marie Harrison, Jan. 2021 Sonali hakkar, Jan. 2022
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Elissa Marder, Jan. 2018
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Frances L. Restuccia, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Calvin homas, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Lauren Berlant, Jan. 2021 Michelle Ann Stephens, Jan. 2022
Misty G. Anderson, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Feisal G. Mohamed, Jan. 2021 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Joshua Pederson, Jan. 2022
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
Pamela Gossin, Jan. 2018 Allison Carruth, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Anne Stiles, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) J. Andrew Brown, Jan. 2021 James J. Bono, Jan. 2022
Penelope M. Kelsey, Jan. 2018 Ruby Tapia, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Martin J. Ponce, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Ira Dworkin, Jan. 2021 [position uni lled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee]
TC Religion and Literature Lisa M. Gordis, Jan. 2018 Adrienne Williams Boyarin, Jan. 2019
TC Translation Studies Giada Biasetti, Jan. 2018 Michael Gibbs Hill, Jan. 2019 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Daniel Balderston, Jan. 2020 (2017– Jan. 2018 Sec.) Anne E. B. Coldiron, Jan. 2021 Keith Leslie Johnson, Jan. 2022
TC Science and Literature
TC Women’s and Gender Studies
TC Sexuality Studies Martha Nell Smith, Jan. 2018 (2017– Jan. 2018 Ch.) Scott Herring, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Karma Lochrie, Jan. 2020
With the Witnesses Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience
[position uni lled on 2017–Jan. 2018 committee] Madhavi Menon, Jan. 2022
Madelyn Detlof, Jan. 2018 Pamela Brown, Jan. 2019 Mabel Cuesta, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.) Christina León, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.) Natasha Hurley, Jan. 2022
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