38th annual

2010
The Louisville Conference
on Literature and Culture since 1900

February 18- 20

Keynote Speakers Special Guest Speakers

Michael Davidson Mary Jo Bang

Helena María Viramontes Rita Felski
Jacobo Sefamí

University of Louisville
 The Louisville Conference: On Literature & Culture since 1900
invites you to an informal
Reception
free to all conferees,
(with conference badge)

WHEN: Thursday Evening, 6:15 - 7:30 pm

(following the critical keynote speaker)

WHERE: Red Barn

(Located Near the C lock Tower)

WHAT: Pizza & Jazz

WHO: Jamey Aebersold
& his Jazz Quartet
(School of Music, University of Louisville
)

We are honored to have perform for us the internationally known saxophonist

and authority on jazz education and improvisation Jamey Aebersold, who is a
recipient of the 2007 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award

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 The Louisville Conference
on Literature and Culture since 1900
Sponsored by

The University of Louisville

President: James R. Ramsey
Provost: Shirley C. Willihnganz

College of Arts and Sciences

Dean: J. Blaine Hudson

Department of Classical and Modern Languages

Chair: Augustus Mastri

Department of English
Chair: Susan M. Griffin

Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society

Director: Thomas Byers

English Graduate Organization

The EGO Executive Committee
Luncheon Committee

Latin American and Latino Studies Program

Director: Rhonda Buchanan

The Conference Committee gratefully acknowledges the cooperation and assistance of the following: Brian J. Leung,
University of Louisville; Heather Slomski, Axton Fellow; the staff of University of Louisville campus bookstore; the
staff in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and English Department; and all University personnel
who “go beyond the call” to ensure the success of the Conference.

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General Plan of Activities
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 18-20, 2010

Thursday, February 18 Eastern Standard Time

Registration, Bingham Humanities Bldg., Room 300 10:00 am 4:00 pm
Opening Presentation, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 11:30 am 12:30 pm
Mary Jo Bang, Washington University, St. Louis
“Poetry Reading”
Sectional Meetings A 1:30 pm 3:00 pm
Sectional Meetings B 3:15 pm 4:45 pm
Keynote Presentation (critical) Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 5:00 pm 6:00 pm
Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego
“‘Closed in Glass’: Oppen’s Class Spectacles”
Welcome Reception, Red Barn, UofL Campus 6:15 pm 7:30 pm
Jamey Aebersold and his Jazz Quartet, School of Music, UofL

Friday, February 19
Registration continues in Bingham Humanities Room 300 8:00 am 4:00 pm
Sectional Meetings C 9:00 am 10:30 am
Sectional Meetings D 10:45 am 12:15 pm
Calvino Prize Winner, Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room 11:00 am 12:00 pm
Michael Agresta, Austin Texas
“Dreamhomes”
Pre-arranged group luncheons 12:15 pm 1:15 pm
Sectional Meetings E 1:30 pm 3:00 pm
Sectional Meetings F 3:15 pm 4:45 pm
Spanish Keynote Speaker, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 3:15 pm 4:30 pm
Jacobo Sefamí, University of California, Irvine
“Palabras en fuga: Poesía Mexicana en el nuevo milenio”
Keynote Presentation (creative) Strickler Hall Auditorium101 5:00 pm 6:00 pm
Helena María Viramontes, Cornell University
“Cemeteries, Freeways and the Bones of the Forgotten:
How Geography Shaped One Writer's Inspiration”
Conference Dinner, Brown Hotel
Reception (cash bar; all conferees welcome) 6:30 pm
Dinner (reservation required) 8:00 pm

Saturday, February 20
Registration continues in Bingham Humanities Room 300 9:15 am 2:45 pm
Sectional Meetings G 10:15 am 11:45 am
Lunch break; pre-ordered boxed lunches Room 300 12 noon
Special Performance, (Room 205 Humanities Bldg) 12:15 12:45 pm
Sasha Colby, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
Sectional Meetings H 1:00 am 2:30pm
Sectional Meetings I 2:45 pm 4:15 pm
Closing Presentation, Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium 4:30 pm 5:30 pm
Rita Felski, University of Virginia
"The Demon of Interpretation"

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Registration Information
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900
Thursday, Friday, Saturday - February 19-21

The Conference is held on the main (Belknap) campus of the University of Louisville, Third and Eastern
Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky (from Interstate 65 via Exit 133).

The Seelbach Hilton, 500 Fourth Avenue (at Muhammed Ali) has been designated as the Conference hotel
(tel. 800-333-3399; 502-585-3200). The hotel provides an airport shuttle. The Conference will provide
transportation between the Seelbach and the University at regular intervals. See back pages of this program
for the hotel-campus-hotel bus schedule.

All times shown are Eastern Standard Time.

Registration is required of all participants listed in the program. Registration packets and badges will be
available in Room 300, Bingham Humanities Building. University of Louisville faculty and students are
asked to sign in. The general public is invited to hear the guest speakers.

A courtesy coat check will be provided on the 3rd floor of the Humanities Building, Room 300. The coat
check will close at 5:00 pm Thursday, 5:00 pm on Friday, and 5:30 pm on Saturday. Refreshments will be
served in the registration area on Thursday from10 am - 2:00, on Friday 8:15 - 2:00, and on Saturday from
9:15 - 2:00. A message board for the use of conference participants will be located outside Room 300. Please
consult the board regularly for notice of last-minute program changes.

Sectional meetings will be held in the classrooms of Bingham Humanities Building. Creative presentations
will be given in Room 202 Bingham Humanities Building. Details of date, time and place for the Keynote
Speakers and Special Guest are printed in the program.

All meeting rooms are accessible to the handicapped.

Book vendors will display publications for sale on the second floor of the Bingham Humanities Building. A
selection of the Keynote Speakers’ and Special Guests’ books will also be offered for sale at the University of
Louisville bookstore.

See the back pages of this program for an index of chairs and presenters, a basic map of the campus, a shuttle
bus schedule, a list of dining facilities on campus. Flyers announcing Louisville-area events and attractions
will be available in the registration area. The Louisville Convention and Visitor Bureau can provide
information on local cultural events, entertainment, and lodging: Telephone 1(800) 626-5646. Web site:
www.gotolouisville.com

Conference evaluation forms are available in room 300. Please complete one before leaving. You may
deposit the form in the box in Bingham 300 or mail it in to us. Your comments will help us plan for next
year.

Corrections and addenda to the program will be available in room 300 and posted on the notice board.
Please check the notice board often for last-minute changes.

For further conference information, FAX (502) 852-8885, or e-mail: dlday@louisville.edu or

sylvia@louisville.edu

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 Keynote Speakers

Michael Davidson Thursday, February 18, 5:00 pm, Ekstrom Library, C hao A uditorium

Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author
of The S an Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and C ommunity at Mid-C entury (Cambridge U Press, 1989), G hostlier
Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material W ord (U of California Press, 1997), and G uys Like Us: C iting
Masculinity in C old W ar Poetics (U of Chicago Press, 2003). He has written extensively on disability issues, and his
most recent book is C oncerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Bo dy (U of Michigan Press, 2008). He
is the editor of the widely acclaimed New C ollected Poems of G eorge Oppen (New Directions, 2002), and the author
of eight books of poetry, the most recent of which is The A rcades (O Books, 1998). With Lyn Hejinian, Barrett
Watten, and Ron Silliman, he co-authored Leningrad (Mercury House Press, 1991). His forthcoming critical work,
Outskirts of Form: Practicing C ultural Poetics, will be published in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press.

Helena María Viramontes Friday, February 19, 5:00 pm, Ekstrom Library, C hao A uditorium

Helena María Viramontes is the author of The Moths and Other S tories (1985) and Under the Feet of Jesus (1995), a
novel. Her most recent novel, Their Dogs C ame with Them, just published in paperback by Washington Square Press,
focuses on the dispossessed, the working poor, the homeless, and the undocumented of East Los Angeles, where Viramontes
was born and raised. Her work strives to recreate the visceral sense of a world virtually unknown to mainstream letters and
to transform readers through relentlessly compassionate storytelling. In the 1980s, Viramontes became co-coordinator of
the Los Angeles Latino Writers Association and literary editor of XhistmeA rte Magazine. Later in the decade, Viramontes
helped found Southern California Latino Writers and Filmmakers. In collaboration with feminist scholar Maria Herrera
Sobek, she organized three major conferences at UC-Irvine, resulting in two anthologies: C hicana C reativ ity and
C riticism-C harting New Frontiers in A merican Literature (1988) and C hicana W rites: On W ord and Film (1993).
Viramontes' work has been included in nearly every anthology of American literature published in the last ten years,
including, most recently, The Norton A nthology of Literature by W o men. Named a USA Ford Fellow in Literature for
2007 by United States Artists, she has also received the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, a Sundance Institute
Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Luis Leal Award. A teacher and mentor to countless
young writers, Viramontes is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Cornell University

Spanish Keynote

Jacobo Sefamí Friday, February 19, 3:15 pm, Ekstrom Library, C hao A uditorium

Jacobo Sefamí, from Mexico City, has taught at New York University, and is currently Professor of Spanish at the
University of California, Irvine. He is also the Director of the Summer Spanish School at Middlebury College. Sefamí
is Associate Editor of Mexican S tudies/Estudios Mexicanos, and has published articles, notes, and reviews, in many different
journals. His books include: El destierro apacible y otros ensayos (1987), C ontemporary S panish A merican Poets (1992),
El espejo trizado: la poesía de G onzalo Rojas (1992), De la imaginación poética (1996), Medusario : Muestra de poesía
latinoamericana (co-editor, 1996), La voracidad grafómana: José Kozer (editor, 2002), and V aquitas pintadas, an anthology
of texts related to the cow (2004). He has also published a novel, Lo s dolientes (2004).

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 Special Guest Presenters
Opening Presentation

Mary Jo Bang Thursday, February 18, 11:30 am -12:30 pm, Ekstrom Library, Elaine C hao A uditorium

Professor of English at Washington University, where she teaches creative writing and contemporary literature, Mary Jo
Bang holds a B.A. and M.A. in sociology from Northwestern University, a B.A. in photography from the Polytechnic of
Central London, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University. She is the author of six books of poems.
Her first book, A pology for W ant (University Press of New England, 1997), won the 1996 Bakeless Prize and the 1998
Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award; it was cited as one of the National Book Critics Circle's Notable
Books in 1997. Her second book, Lo uise in Lo ve (Grove Press, 2001), won the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di
Castagnola Award for a manuscript-in-progress. Subsequent books include The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of S wans
(University Press of Georgia, 2001), chosen by Mark Strand for the University of Georgia's Contemporary Poetry Series;
The Eye Like a S trange Balloon (Grove Press, 2004); and Elegy (Graywolf, 2007), which received both the Alice Fay di
Castagnola Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book, The Bride of E, appeared from
Graywolf in fall 2009. She is currently at work on a translation of the Inferno. She was the poetry co-editor at Bo ston
Review from 1995 to 2005; her numerous awards include a "Discovery"/The Nation award, a Pushcart Prize, a Hodder
Fellowship from Princeton University and a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation

Closing Presentation
Rita Felski S aturday, February 21, 4:30 - 5:30 pm, Ekstrom Library, Elaine C hao A uditorium
Rita Felski is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia and editor of New Literary History.
She holds a B.A. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from Monash University in Australia. Professor Felski is the
author of Beyond Feminist A esthetics: Feminist Literature and S ocial C hange (Harvard UP, 1989), The G ender o f
Modernity (Harvard UP, 1995), Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern C ulture (New York UP, 2000), Literature
after Feminism (Chicago UP, 2003), and Uses of Literature (Blackwell, 2008), and editor of Rethinking Tragedy (Johns
Hopkins UP, 2007). She has published numerous articles in the areas of literary theory and aesthetics, feminist theory,
modernity and postmodernity, and cultural studies, and her work has been translated into nine languages. Felski describes
her recent manifesto on "The Uses of Literature" as a "neo-phenomenological investigation of aesthetic experiences such
as recognition, enchantment, and shock." She is currently writing a book on the role of suspicious reading in literary
studies. Honors include a fellowship at the Cornell Society for the Humanities, a fellowship at the Institute of Human
Sciences in Vienna and the William Parker Riley Prize for best article in PMLA .

Calvino Prize Winner

Michael Agresta Friday, February 19, 11 am, Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room
Michael Agresta has work published or forthcoming in Bo ston Review, C onjunctions, DIA G RA M, Barrow S treet,
Painted Bride Quarterly, C imarron Review, and others. His story "After the Party" was a finalist for the 2009
DIA G RA M $5 Innovative Fiction Prize. His "Mugger and Mouse Get Married" was recognized as a notable story in
the 2008 storySouth Million Writers Award contest. He holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers in
Austin, Texas, where he lives and works as a freelance journalist and editor.

Featured Performance
Sasha Colby, “Women of the Pound Era” Saturday, February 20, 12:15 12:45pm, Room 205
Sasha Colby is an academic and performer at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. Her recent book,
S tratified Modernism: the Poetics of Excavation from G autier to Olson (Peter Lang, 2009), traces the relationship of
modernist poetics and archaeology in the period 1850-1950. She has performed monologues and plays about modernist
literary history in Canada, Europe, the United States, Mexico, and has been invited to stage a series of performances in
Japan in fall of 2010.

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Daily Schedule of Meetings and Events

REGISTRATION
Thursday - 10 am - 4 pm Bingham Humanities Building, Room 300
Friday 8 am - 4 pm
Saturday 9:15 - 2:45 pm

Please check in and pick up your conference envelope.

You will find a print-out of recent revisions to the program and conference evaluation sheets.
Please check daily for last-minute postings.

OPENING PRESENTATION
Thursday, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Mary Jo Bang, Washington University

“Poetry Reading”

Introduced by Derek Mong, English Department, University of Louisville

CRITICAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Thursday, 5 - 6 p.m. Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium

Michael Davidson, University of California, San Diego

“‘Closed in Glass’: Oppen’s Class Spectacles”
Introduced by Alan Golding, English Department, University of Louisville

WELCOME RECEPTION/PIZZA PARTY with Jamey Aebersold and his quartet

Thursday, 6:15 - 7:30 p.m.. Red Barn

Free to all Conferees Admission by conference badge/identification

Friday, 11 a.m. Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room

Calvino Prize Winner,
Michael Agresta,
"Dreamhomes" .
Introduced by Paul Griner, English Department, University of Louisville

PRE-ARRANGED LUNCHEONS

Friday, 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.

(a) The Creative Writers’ Luncheon will be held at the University Club on campus. A reservation is necessary

(b) EGO, English grad student organization, will offer an informal lunch to all visiting Graduate Students.
There is no charge, but one must reserve. Held in the Belknap Research Building Room 139
Admission by Conference badge with appropriate meal ticket dot.

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Daily Schedule of Meetings and Events continued

SPANISH KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 p.m. Ekstrom Library Chao Auditorium
Jacobo Sefamí, University of California, Irvine
“Palabras en fuga: Poesía mexicana en el nuevo milenio”
Introduced by Clare Sullivan Modern Languages Department, University of Louisville

CREATIVE KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Friday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Strickler Auditorium Room 101
Helena María Viramontes , Cornell University
“C emeteries, Freeways and the Bo nes of the Forgotten: How G eography S haped One W riter's Inspiration”
Introduced by Brian Leung, English Department, University of Louisville

CONFERENCE RECEPTION AND DINNER

Friday evening Brown Hotel
Reception, cash bar (all conferees welcome), 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Dinner, by reservation only, 8:00 p.m.

FEATURED PERFORMANCE Room 205

Saturday, 12:15 - 12:45 pm
Sasha Colby, Simon Fraser University Surrey, Canada
“Women of the Pound Era”
Introduced by Suzette Henke, University of Louisville

CLOSING PRESENTATION
Saturday, 4:30 p.m. - 5:50 pm Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium
Rita Felski, University of Virginia
"The Demon of Interpretation"
Introduced by Suzette Henke, English Department, University of Louisville

First Call for Papers

The 39th Annual
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900
February 24, 25, and 26, 2011
Submission deadline: September 15, 2010(Postmarked)
Guidelines posted on our website in early April - www.thelouisvilleconference.com
Proposals (abstracts) for critical papers may be submitted on any topic that addresses literary works published since
1900, and/or their relationship with other arts and disciplines (film, journalism, opera, music, pop culture, painting,
architecture, law).
Individual creative submissions (poetry or short fiction) are also encouraged.
For details, or to be put on our mailing list, contact:
Danielle R. Day, Conference Director,
Classical and Modern Languages, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292
(502)852-6686 dlday@louisville.edu

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 A-1 Intertextuality as Ethical Intervention
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 101
Chair: Nicole Seymour, University of Louisville
• Ann Marie Adams, Morehead State University
“Does Culture Matter? Aesthetic Ambivalence in Zadie Smith's
On Beauty”
• Dianne Vipond, California State University, Long Beach

Opening Presentation “John Fowles's Short Fiction: Rhizome and Romance”

• Christine A. Rydel, Grand Valley State University
“Pawel Huelle's Castorp and the 'Other' German Novel”

A-2 Horror, Race, Gender, Genre

Ekstrom Library, Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 103
Chair: Daniel C. Mason, Mansfield University
Elaine Chao Auditorium • Ann Mattis, Loyola University, Chicago
“Gothic Interiority and Servants in Edith Wharton's A
Thursday, 11:30 am-12:30 pm Backward Glance and 'The Lady's Maid's Bell'”
• James Fairfield, University of Kentucky
“The Great American Nightmare: D. W. Griffith and the Birth
of the Horror Film”

Mary Jo Bang
• Renee Barlow, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Racial Abjection through Blackness as Boundary in Cather's
My Antonia”

Washington University, St. Louis A-3 Poets and Precursors

Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 106

“Poetry Reading” Chair: Victoria Brockmeier, State University of New York,

Buffalo
• Mark Scroggins, Florida Atlantic University
“The 'Half-Fabulous Field-Ditcher': Ruskin Pound, Geoffrey

Introduced by Hill”
• J. P. Craig, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Susan Howe's Mis-Taken Male Mentors”
Derek Mong, Axton Fellow, • Ruth Williams, University of Cincinnati and James Wheeler,

University of Louisville Mississippi State University (co-authors)

“Palimpsestually Yours: Illuminating Absence in Sappho and the
Urban Landscape”

A-4 Form and Format: Commercial Concerns and American Poetry

Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 108

Chair: Matthew Biberman, University of Louisville
• Staci R. Schoenfeld, Kentucky State University
“'Tugging All Day at Perverse Life': An Exploration of Theodore
Roethke's Greenhouse Poems”
• Francisco Guevara, University of Iowa
"The End of Homo Sacer in Jack Spicer's Publications, Fifteen
False Propositions against God and Book of Magazine Verse”

A ttention C onferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration D esk im m ediately before your session.
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A-5 New Geographies: Spaces in/of U.S. Literature and Culture
since Kerouac
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 114
Chair: John Lina, University of Louisville
• David Need, Duke University
“From Epic to Mandala: Kerouac's Turn to the Episodic”
• Mindy Boffemmyer, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh
“No Direction Home: The Poetics of Displacement in Karen Tei
Yamashita's Tropic of Orange"
• Ken Cooper, State University of New York, Geneseo
“Links: Golfing Culture and the Construction of Real Virtuality”
A-6 The Killing Village: It Takes a Village to Destroy Unruly
Women (Panel prearranged by
Megan Musgrave, Indiana University)
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 209
Chair: Megan Musgrave, Indiana University
• Megan Musgrave, Indiana University, Purdue University
Indianapolis
“Shame, Silence, and Subversion in Maxine Hong Kingston's
The Woman Warrior”
• Judith A. (Judy) Spector, Indiana University, Purdue
University Columbus
“It Takes a Suburb to Kill a Woman's Soul”
• Lewis Dibble, Indiana University, Purdue University
Columbus
“Death and Survival in Toni Morrison's Paradise”
• Katherine V. Wills, Indiana University, Purdue University
Columbus
“The Village as Gender Cleanser: Uppity Women in Nicholas
Gage's Eleni”
A-7 Jewish Identity across Forms and Decades
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 210
Chair: Elizabeth Scheiber, Rider University
• Benjamin Schreier, Penn State University
“Depression Modernism's Jewish Christ”
• Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University
“The Politics of Gluttony in Second-Generation Holocaust
Literature”
• Matthew Sewell, Minnesota State University, Mankato
“'Until They Got the Ballast Right': Angels in America and the
Affirmation of Apocalypse”
A-8 James Joyce: Female Authority and Pleasure
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 207
Chair: Ted Morrissey, Benedictine University, Springfield
• Elisabeth L. Miller, Winona State University
“'Make Him Want Me Thats the Only Way': Molly Bloom and
the Pleasure and Power of a Woman's Body”
• Jermemy Burgess, University of Louisville
“Molly Giveth, Molly Taketh Away: Molly Bloom as Authority
Figure in James Joyce's Ulysses”
• Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Queen's University, Belfast
“Ulysses as Lesbian Text”
A ttention C onferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration D esk im m ediately before your session.
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A-9 Coming of Age: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Black
Masculinity in Literature and Film (Panel prearranged by
Kadeshia Matthews and Leslie Wingard)
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 215
Chair: Kadeshia Matthews, University of New Mexico and Leslie
Wingard, College of Wooster
• Angela Ards, Southern Methodist University
“New Black Man: Deconstructing Traditional Notions of
African American Masculinity in Barack Obama's Dreams from
My Father”
• Kadeshia L. Matthews, University of New Mexico
“From the 'Hood' to the Yard: Black Masculinity and the
Promise of the South in Recent Black Film”
• Leslie Wingard, College of Wooster
“Opening Up: Sacred/Secular Spaces and Masculinity in Ernest
Gaines's 'The Sky is Gray' and Michael Roemer's Nothing But A
Man”
A-10 Nabokov and The Philosophers (Organized by Marianne
Cotugno, Nabokov Society)
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 119
Chair: Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee
• Andrew Booth, University of New Hampshire
“An Infinite Narrative? Perception and Possibility in Nabokov's
Pnin”
• Stephen Blackwell, University of Tennessee
“Baconian Knowledge and Nabokovian Knowledge”
• Zachary Hicks, University of Tennessee
“Things That Cannot Be Said: Intersections of Wittgenstein and
Nabokov”
A-11 John Edgar Wideman I: Rethinking Wideman (Organized by
Keith Byerman, John Edgar Wideman Society)
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 121
Chair: Wilfred Samuels, University of Utah
• Keith Byerman, Indiana State University
“Constructing a Life: Biography and Fiction in the Work of John
Wideman”
A-12 The All Pervasive Influence of Environment
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 109
Chair: Brooke Cochran-Weber, University of Louisville
• Douglas L. Boudreau, Mercyhurst College
“The Acadian Environment in the Novels of Antonine Maillet”
• Lisa F. Signori, College of Charleston
“Narcissistic Narrative: The Process of Writing and the Creation
of Meaning in Amélie Nothomb's Mercure”
• Erin E. Edgington, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Orlanda de Jacqueline Harpman: apologie de la fusion?”
A-13 El realismo mágico en América Latina
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room 219
Chair: Rhonda Buchanan, University of Louisville
• Luis A. Aguilar-Monsalve, Hanover College
“José de la Cuadra frente al realismo mágico y a lo real
Starbucks Coffee
maravilloso”
• Anna Morlan, Pace University
in the
“The Use of Currency as a Transnational Tool in Gabriel García
Márquez's Leaf Storm” Tulip Tree Café
• Patricia Bazán-Figueras, Fairleigh Dickinson University
“The Evolution of the Female Character in The Novels of Paulo offering
Coelho”
Coffee, Sandwiches, Salads
A-14 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 202 Located in the Ekstrom Library
Chair: Patricia Houston, University of Cincinnati
• Robert Manaster, Champaign, Illinois West Wing
Poetry
• Patricia Houston, University of Cincinnati
Underpinnings (fiction)
• Martha Reed, University of Louisiana, Lafayette and Chantel
Langlinais, Texas Christian University and Cindy Childress,
Texas Christian University and Rhonda Dean Robison,
University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Facebook Poetics (collaborative poetry)
Einstein Bagel Company
• Heather Levy, Western Connecticut State University
Even Persephone Is Given Summer (fiction) lst floor
Bingham Humanities Building
offering
Coffee, Bagels, Sandwiches, Salads

A ttention C onferees: If you would want water during your presentation, please visit the Registration D esk im m ediately before your session.
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B-1 Crossing Boundaries: Poetic Forms and Feminism
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 106
Chair: Anna Morlan, Pace University
• Lois E. Rubin, Penn State University
“Rethinking, Resisting, Reconnecting: The Late Life Poetry of
Maxine Kumin and Linda Pastan”
• Gosia Gabrys, Ohio State University, Lima
“Disrupting Colonial Discourse(s): 'The Singular, the Exception,
and the Gap' in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Wislawa
Szymborska”
• Anthony Fife, Clark State Community College
“Sizing Each Other Up: Circumnavigating Tension in Claudia
Emerson's Late Wife”
B-2 Music and Literature: Case Studies
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 103
Chair: Jeremy Glazier, Ohio Dominican University
• John McCombe, University of Dayton
“Keeping the Visionary Company: John Lennon and a Neo-
Romantic Aesthetic of Indolence”
• Jacqueline A. Shadko, Oakland Community College
“Tu(r)ning the Key: Metatextual Musicality in the Short Stories
of Charles Baxter”
• Dhruba Jyoti Neupane, University of Louisville
“Historicization of African American Experience in Toni
Morrison's Jazz”
B-3 Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky: Spatial, Indexical and
Documentary Logics
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room 101
Chair: Pamela Francis, Rice University
• Kristine Danielson, Wayne State University
“Poetic Space in Pound's Pisan Cantos: Haecceities, Traumatic
Bodies, Idealized Realms”
• Michael Fournier, Georgia Gwinnet College
“Reading 'A' through Zukofsky's Index"
• Julius Lobo, Pennsylvania State University
“Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky's Documentary Histories of
America”
B-4 Representing 9/11
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room 215
Chair: Benjamin Schreier, Penn State University
• Stephanie Youngblood, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Knowing the Enemy: 9/11 and the Ethics of Representation”
• Magali Cornier Michael, Duquesne University
“The Draw of Narrative in the Face of 9/11: Charles Bernstein's
'Some of These Daze'”
• Moberley Luger, University of British Columbia
“Your Poem Here: Remembering 9/11 on Poetry.com”
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B-5 Noir and its Social Contexts: Lessons Learned on the Dark
Side of the Street (Panel prearranged by Alison Umminger,
University of West Georgia)
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 119
Chair: Alison Umminger, University of West Georgia
• Alison Umminger, University of West Georgia
“Noir and Its Social Contexts: Lessons Learned on the Dark Side
of the Street”
• Kirsten L. Geter, University of West Georgia
“The Bad Seed of Race: The Hidden Horror of Miscegenation in
William March's The Bad Seed”
• Shelley L. Decker, University of West Georgia
“Just like Nick and Nora: America's Prototype for Marital Bliss
Revealed”
• Trista Edwards, University of West Georgia
“Battling for Bi-Gendered Substantiation: Transgressing Socially
Constructed Masculinity in Dorothy B. Hughes's In a Lonely
Place and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club”
• Josh Sewell, University of West Georgia
“Deconstructing Stereotypes: Exploring Gender Trait Reversal in
the Noir Genre”
B-6 Deconstructing the L Word: Revising and Reviving Lesbians
in Creative Spaces (Panel prearranged by Corby Jaye Roberson,
Ball State University)
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 114
Chair: James Chambers, Ball State University
• James Chambers, Ball State University
“The Correct Abject: Female Lesbianism vs. Male
Homosexuality in the Novels of Toni Morrison”
• Sarah Sandman, Ball State University
“A Manifesto that Keeps Happening: Teacher Identity, Student
Identity, and a Dance with Performative Pedagogy”
B-7 D. H. Lawrence: Authenticity and Isolation
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 108
Chair: Julianne Newmark, New Mexico Tech
• Drew Patrick Shannon, College of Mount St. Joseph
“The Priest of Love on a Savage Pilgrimage: Reading the
Biographies of D. H. Lawrence”
• Adam Barrows, Carleton University
“'We Don't Care about Khartoum': Lawrence and the Politics of
'Splendid Isolation'”
• Chris Forster, University of Virginia
“Authentic Copies: The Paintings of D. H. Lawrence”
B-8 Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Concerns about Reading
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 207
Chair: Eurie Dahn, College of Saint Rose
• Mitch Frye, Louisiana State University
“Weary Desperados: Masculine Types in the Westerns of F. Scott
Fitzgerald”
• Eurie Dahn, College of Saint Rose
“Race and Faulkner's Faith”
• Manuel Herrero-Puertas, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“'If My Blues Don't Get You My Jazzing Won't': Narrative Panic
and the Blues in William Faulkner's 'That Evening Sun'”
B-9 Crossing Racial and Cultural Borders: Suzan-Lori Parks,
Ishmael Reed, and Alice Walker
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 217
Chair: Jacqueline E. Brown, University of Louisville
• Laura Dawkins, Murray State University
“Family Acts: History, Memory, and Performance in Suzan-Lori
Parks's The America Play”
• Stephanie Owen Fleischer, Independent Scholar
“'You Put Witchery on the Word': Signifying Women in Ishmael
Reed's Flight to Canada”
• Cheryl R. Hopson, Roanoke College
“'They Calls Me Yellow / Like Yellow Be My Name': Reading
Sisterhood and Biracialism in Alice Walker's The Color Purple”
B-10 Margaret Atwood (Organized by Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw,
Margaret Atwood Society) : de la globalización: La poesía de José Roberto Cea”
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room 209
Chair: Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern
Indiana
• Hannele Kivinen, York University, Canada
“Looking forward by Moving Backwards: Revisionary
Psychoanalysis in Selected Poems by Margaret Atwood”
• Dibakar Pal, Independent Scholar
“Of Pride and Vanity”
• Debrah Raschke, Southeastern Missouri University
“Canadian Landscape Painting and Atwood's 'Death by
Landscape'”
B-11 John Edgar Wideman II: John Wideman's Fanon (Organized
by Keith Byerman, John Edgar Wideman Society)
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 121
Chair: Keith Byerman, Indiana State University
• Stephen Casmier, St. Louis University
“The Jazz 'Head' and Architectonics in Fanon”
• Walton Muyumba, University of North Texas
“Art against Terrorism: Ekpharsis in John Edgar Wideman's
'Fannon' and Fanon”
• Wilfred Samuels, University of Utah
“Fanon: Where History Meets Fiction”
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B-12 E. E. Cummings and Popular Modernism (Organized by
Gillian Huang-Tiller, E. E. Cummings Society)
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 219
Chair: Michael Webster, Grand Valley State University
• Rai Peterson, Ball State University
“E. E. Cummings, Out with the Old, in with the ‘O / L / D’”
• Eva María Gómez Jiménez, Universidad de Granada, Spain
“The Avant-Garde and Social Linguistics: Minority and
Marginalization in Cummings's 95 Poems”
• Kaitlin Mondello, Stetson University and Daytona State
College
“E. E. Cummings and the Politics of Small-Scale Aesthetics”
B-13 Deleuze/Foucault: Critical Theory (Because of multiple
cancellations, the remaining presenter of this panel has been
moved to Friday, D-3 [Slippery Eels and Postmodern
Identities: Graham Swift, Michael Ondaatje, Paul Auster,
and Maurice Blanchot])
B-14 Poesía hispánica
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 221
Chair: Mary Makris, University of Louisville
• Elizabeth Harmon, University of Cincinnati
“Creating National and Personal Identity: Diasporic Memory
and Nostalgia in Pablo Neruda's Canto General”
• Elizabeth Amaya, Millikin University
“Representaciones sincréticas de la cultura frente a los cambios
• Joshua Hamilton, Indiana University
“A 'Schizoanalysis' of José Luis Castillejo's Visual Poetry in La
caída del avión en el terreno baldío”
B-15 Authors Reading Poetry & Fiction
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 202
Chair: James Pihakis, University of Cincinnati
• Ivan Rodden IV, University of Illinois, Chicago
This Is How We Will Live, Now That We Are Free (fiction)
• Nettie Farris, University of Louisville
Poetry
• Greenfield Jones, Louisville, Kentucky
Rêve Américain (fiction)
 C-1 From Exploration to "Explornography" (Panel prearranged by
Collin Meissner, University of Notre Dame)
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 209
CRITICAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS Chair: Collin Meissner, University of Notre Dame
• Collin Meissner, University of Notre Dame
“Explornography: Travel, Adventure, and Thrill Seeking in a
Michael Davidson GPS World”
• Louis Pignatelli, University of Notre Dame
University of California, San Diego “Explornography and Experience: The Vacation of a Lifetime!”
• Eugene Halton, Duke University
“The End of the Road”
“‘Closed in Glass’: Oppen’s Class Spectacles”
C-2 Exhibitions/s (Panel prearranged by Barrett Watten, Wayne
State University)
Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 207
Chair: Barrett Watten, Wayne State University
Thursday, 5:00 - 6:00 pm • renée c. hoogland, Wayne State University
“Imploding Communion: Actualized Alienation in Rineke
Dijkstra's 'Family of Man'”
Introduced by Alan Golding, English Department, • Sarah Ruddy, Wayne State University
University of Louisville “Documenting Disappearance: Exhibiting Community in the
Work of Nan Goldin”
• Barrett Watten, Wayne State University
“Berlin Exhibitions: Between Destruction and Community:
Tod--Kein Tod, Palast der Republik, 2005"

C-3 Rethinking Cultural Critique: Between Gender and

Technology
WELCOME RECEPTION / Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 106
Chair: Daniel C. Mason, Mansfield University
Pizza Party • Ferdâ Asya, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania
“The Fulfillment of the Repressed Anarchist Wish: A Freudian
Reading of Utopia in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of
Time”
with Jamey Aebersold and his jazz quartet • Katherine Thorpe, University of Iowa
“‘To Generate a World': The Poetrics of the Dynamo in Muriel
Rukeyser's 'The Book of the Dead' and Pare Lorentz's The River”
Red Barn • Sarah Kerman, University of Pennsylvania
“Speaking from the Dead: Muriel Rukeyser's Radio Oratorio”
Thursday, 6:15 - 7:30 pm
C-4 Ways of Making Fiction: Orality, Onomastics
University of Louisville, Belknap Campus Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 121
Chair: James Pihakis, University of Cincinnati

Free to all Conferees • Al Dixon, Louisiana State University

“Raconteuring Then and Now: Uses of Orality in the Southern
Comic Tradition”
• Matthew Mullins, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
“Individuals in Community: Giving and Naming in Jhumpa
Admission by conference Lahiri's The Namesake”
badge/identification

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C-5 Documenting/Documentary Ethics
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 119
Chair: Karen Hadley, University of Louisville
• Jennifer Jackson, North Central College
“'War Is Capital Feeding': The Deliberative Poetics of Powers's
Gain and Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story”
• Jackie McGrath, College of DuPage
“Interrrogation and Transgression by/in Iraq War Fiction and
Film”
C-6 Filming in the Negative: Representing the 'Other' Woman
(Panel prearranged by Melissa Fore, Michigan State University)
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 108
Chair: Melissa Fore, Michigan State University
• Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, West Virginia University
“En-Gendering the 'Other': African Film and the Colonial Order
of Things”
• Melissa K. Fore, Michigan State University
“Negative Bodies: Substitution, Opposition, and Void in Visual
Representations of Interracial Desire”
• H. Louise Davis, SUNY, Empire State College
“Only on Our Watch: The Purpose of the African Woman in the
Western Cultural Imaginary”
C-7 New Perspectives on British Modernisms
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 210
Chair: Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University
• Chase Erwin, University of Tennessee
“Friends as Enemies, Enemies as Friends: Lewis's Satire as a
Rhetorical Shibboleth”
• Kevin Allton, University of Southern Indiana
“Keys to the Marvelous: Lenora Carrington's Stone Door as
Surrealist Manifesto”
C-8 Representing Capitalism in Modernity: Arts, Spectacle and
Productivity
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 114
Chair: Christa Zorn, Indiana University Southeast
• Carey James Mickalites, University of Memphis
“Modernism as Total Reification: Ulysses and the Outmoded”
• Benjamin Johnson, University of Central Missouri
“The Art of Capitalism in Doctorow's Ragtime”
• Jenna Gerds, Wayne State University
“Sinclair Lewis's Short Fiction and the Art of the Ad”
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C-9 My Own Way of Doing It: African-American Writers
Defining Music, Beauty, and Themselves (Panel prearranged by
Michelle Filling, Cabrini College)
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 117
Chair: Michelle Filling, Cabrini College
• Michelle L. Filling, Cabrini College
“Fashioning Liberation: Nikki Giovanni as an Icon of Beauty,
Radicalism, and Change”
• Therese M. Rizzo, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
“She Was Too Beautiful for Pity': The Enigmatic Beauty of
Pauline Hopkins's Trickster Mulatta in Contending Forces”
• Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
“Ralph Ellison, Music, and the Limits of Modernism”
• Alexander Long, John Jay College, CUNY
“Who Do You Say We Are, Again? The Faultlines of Identity in
the Poems of Dove, Nelson, and Tretheway”
C-10 Healing and Mourning in American Poetry
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 215
Chair: Alessandro Porco, State University of New York, Buffalo
• Gillian Huang-Tiller, University of Virginia, Wise
“'Monsters of Elegy': La Corona, Pararhyme, and Typography of
Mourning in Sandra M. Gilbert's 'Belongings'”
• Brian L. Jackson, University of Illinois, Springfield
“Cubing Mythic Time: The Oracular Feminine Principle in
Anne Waldman's 'Fast Speaking Woman'”
C-11 Constructing a Global Ethic: Switzerland, Catalonia, Britain
1900-1950
(Organized by Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, Esperantic Studies
Foundation)
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 217
Chair: Frank Nuessel, University of Louisville
• Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, University of Louisville
“Edmond Privat: Homarana embodiment of l'esprit de Genève”
• Duncan Charters, Principia College
“The Catalan Experience with Esperanto: Opening an
International Doorway to a Minority Language and Culture”
• Humphrey Tonkin, University of Hartford
“Constructing a Global Literature: The Emergence of the
Literature of Esperanto”
C-12 From Anti-Novel to New Novel and beyond
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 109
Chair: Jenelle Griffin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Jennifer Jane Rupert, University of Illinois, Chicago
“Disquieting Receptivity in Nadja: André Breton's Surreal
Encounters with Men”
• Jenelle Griffin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Writing on Fire: Destruction and Creation of Space in Butor's
L'Emploi du temps”
C-13 Cuban and Cuban-American Fiction and Culture
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 219
Chair: Aristófanes Cedeño, University of Louisville
• Alejandra Olarte, State University of New York, Albany The Calvino Prize
“La presencia de la carta en Livadia'” was created to honor outstanding pieces of fiction in the fabulist
• Pat Clifford, Cincinnati, Ohio experimentalist mode of Italo Calvino, works that through their
“Cuban Documentaries: Collaborative Works before and after structure, tone, and style expand the boundaries of fiction, rather
the Revolution” than attempt to imitate his inimitable style.
• David De Posada, Georgia College & State University
“Madness, Escapism and the Exilic Labyrinth: Operatic 2009 - 2010 Calvino Prize Winner:
Transposition in the Works of Roberto G. Fernández”

C-14 New Horizons in the Analysis of Lat-Mex Borderland Film

(Panel prearranged by Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State
University)
Michael Agresta
Due to a conflict in scheduling, this panel has been moved
to I -16 (Saturday 2:45 - 4:15).
Austin Texas
C-15 Film and Literature
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 101 DREAMHOMES
Chair: Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross
• Philip Balma, University of Connecticut
“Debenedetti e Lizzani: la storia al cinema” Friday, Feb. 19th
• Giovanni Spani, College of the Holy Cross
“Historia magistra vitae: riflessioni sul cinema di Wilma Labate" Ekstrom Library,
• Fulvio Orsitto, University of California, Chico Bingham Poetry Room 11 am
“La trilogia della vita: Pasolini tra cinema e letteratura"
Introduced by Paul Griner,
C-16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction English Department, University of Louisville
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 202
Chair: Roy Neil Graves, University of Tennessee, Martin
• Richard Andrew Boada, Millsaps College
Post-Soviet Recession (poetry)
• Adam Prince, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ugly around Him (fiction)
• Carrie Coaplen-Anderson, Morehead State University
Selections on Sexuality and Aging: Perspectives through a
Decade (poetry)
• J. T. Dawson, Eastern Illinois University
The Twang of Oranges (fiction)

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D-1 Poetry and the Global
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 108
Chair: Suzette Higgs, University of Louisville
• Ghanashyam Sharma, University of Louisville
“Marilyn Nelson's The Cachoeira Tales as Transcultural 'World'
Literature”
• Andrew Walser, College of the Albemarle
“The Epic Geography of James Merrill's Changing Light at
Sandover"
• Piotr Gwiazda, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Ether: Juliana Spahr, Mark Nowak, and Poetry in the Age of
Empire”
D-2 Game, Poetry, Performance: Reading and Writing the Present
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 106
Chair: Ivan Rodden IV, University of Illinois, Chicago
• William R. Howe, Miami University, Ohio
“Michael McClure's Games as Poetry”
• Tyrone Williams, Xavier University
“Disaster Suites: The Present Poetics of Rob Halpern”
• Cris Cheek, Miami University, Ohio
“monday morning quarterbacking 'on' and 'off' gods commons”
D-3 Slippery Eels and Postmodern Identities: Graham Swift,
Michael Ondaatje, Paul Auster, and Maurice Blanchot
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 119
Chair: Hilarie Ashton, New York University
• Donald P. Kaczvinsky, Louisiana Tech University
“The Riddle of the Birth and Sex Life of the Eel: Intertextuality
in Graham Swift's Waterland”
• Tim Farrell, University of Alabama, Huntsville
“'For Reasons too Complex to Explain with Brevity': Reclaiming
Totality in Graham Swift's Waterland”
• Scott Pett, Independent Scholar
“The Desert and a Common Purpose: The End of Individuality
via National Identity in The English Patient”
• Alex E. Blazer, Georgia College & State University
“Infinite Interiority in Paul Auster and Maurice Blanchot”
• Hilarie Ashton, New York University
“Stabat Stella: Stella Dallas and 'Stabat Mater' via Foucauldian
Theories of Power”
D-4 Fracturing (Indian) Histories and Bodies
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 207
Chair: Karen Hadley, University of Louisville
• Doris Bremm, University of Iowa
“Retelling History as Palimpsest: Narrative Ekphrasis in Salman
Rushdie's Moor's Last Sigh”
• Bishnue Ghimire, Ohio University
“Liberal Imagination and the Fate of Radical Desire in Attia
Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column”
• Jessamon Jones, Wayne State University, Detroit
“Biopower, Globalization and the Organ Trade in Manjula
Padmanabhan's Harvest”
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D-5 Virginia Woolf: Presence, and Authority
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 103
Chair: Nicole Blair, University of Washington, Tacoma
• David Wanczyk, Ohio University
“'So They Fidgeted': The Anti-Fascist Twitch of Woolf's
Between the Acts”
• Megan Holt, Tulane University
“What's History without the Army, Eh? Virginia Woolf and
Historiography”
D-6 Dissolving "English"ness
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 210
Chair: Weihsin Gui, University of California, Riverside
• Matthew Oliver, Campbellsville University
“Domestic Heroism: Ishiguro's Adventures and the Post-Imperial
British Imaginary”
• David Borman, University of Miami
“Raggastani Hybridity and Zadie Smith's White Teeth”
• Brian Holcomb, Michigan State University
“Re-Membering England: Contemporary England as Historical
Fantasy in E. M. Forster and Julian Barnes”
D-7 Regions of Discontent: Faulkner and Steinbeck
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 217
Chair: Ferdâ Asya, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania
• Beth Polzin, Binghamton University
“Twining 'Passive and Hopeless Grief': The Pervasive Wistaria,
Cigar Smoke, and Dust in William Faulkner's Absalom,
Absalom!”
• Huei-ju Wang, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
“John Steinbeck and His Migrants: From In Dubious Battle to
The Grapes of Wrath”
• Scott Henkel, State University of New York, Binghamton
"Sedition and Upheaval in The Grapes of Wrath”
D-8 African-American Writing and Music: Analogies and
Syntheses
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pmRoom: 114
Chair: Dhruba Jyoti Neupane, University of Louisville
• Joel Levise, Wayne State University
“Directions in Music and Literature: The Multiauthorship of
Miles: The Autobiography”
• Alessandro Porco, State University of New York, Buffalo
“'I Ain't No Joke': Hip-Hop, Poetry, and Cultural Capital”
D-9 T. S. Eliot I: Myths and Metaphysics: (Organized by William
Harmon, T. S. Eliot Society)
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 117
Chair: Carol L. Yang, National Chengchi University
• Martin Lockerd, Saint Louis University
“Modernly Metaphysical: Understanding Eliot's Sensibility”
• Kassandra Montag, Creighton University
“Reader Collaboration and the Mythical Method in The Waste
Land”
• William Harmon, UNC, Chapel Hill (Emeritus)
“Eliot: Lists, Tallies, Catalogues, Inventories, Paradigmata”

D-10 Homemade: Eugene O'Neill and Domesticity (Organized by
Cynthia McCown, Eugene O'Neill Society)
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 209
Chair: Cynthia McCown, Beloit College
• E. Andrew Lee, Lee University
“Gothic Domesticity in Desire under the Elms”
• Katie N. Johnson, Miami University
“Domesticity Unplugged: Interracial Desire and Class Difference
in All God's Chillun Got Wings”
• Patrick Maley, Indiana University
“Desire under Dylan: Bob Dylan and O'Neillian Domestic
Tragedy”
• Lydia Abel, Independent Scholar
“There Are No Women Here: O'Neill's 'Tarts' and Gendered
Spaces in Iceman Cometh and Anna Christie”
• Cynthia McCown, Beloit College
“At Home at Sea: Domestic Detail in O'Neill's Early Maritime
Dramas" (This paper will be presented if time permits)
D-11 Modernism: Center and Circumference (Organized by
Charles Sligh, International Lawrence Durrell Society)
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 215
Chair: Charles Sligh, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
• John Murphy, University of Virginia
“Pantomime Englishness and Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End”
• William Godshalk, University of Cincinnati
“Henry Miller's Copy of Lawrence Durrell's Black Book”
• Pamela Francis, Rice University
“Durrell and the Cairo Poets”
D-12 Cinematic Studies
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 109
Chair: Charles Pooser, Indiana University, Southeast
• Hollie Markland Harder, Brandeis University
“Remapping the Walls of Paris, or Entre les murs as Palimpsest”
• Lee E. S. Bessette, University of Kentucky
“Becoming a gwo nèg in 1970s Haiti: Dany Laferrière's Coming-
of-Age Film Le goût des jeunes filles (On the Verge of Fever)”
D-13 Three Twentieth Century Masters Revisited
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 121
Chair: Christa Zorn, Indiana University Southeast
• Daniel Morris, Purdue University
"Resisting Billy Collins"
• Leah Rang, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“'The Lover Was Nearer the Beloved than the Divine':
Fraudulent Symbolism in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice”
• Enno Lohmeyer, Case Western Reserve University
“Die verschlungenen Pfade der menschlichen Seele - Hermann
Hesse und seine Märchen”
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D-14 Pirandello and Relative Truth
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 101
Chair: Fulvio Orsitto, University of California, Chico
• Stefano Boselli, Gettysburg College
“Pirandello's Cecè: Mulitple Identities and Postmodern Stage
Directing”
• Mike Edwards, University of Pennsylvania
“Luigi Pirandello and the Death of the Author: Suicidal
Tendencies in Six Characters in Search of an Author”
• Marco Zanelli, Middlebury College
“Così è (se vi pare) il relativismo della vertià"
D-15 Chicana/o Identities, the Law, and the U.S.-Mexico Border
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 219
Chair: Carmen Montañez, Indiana State Univesity
• Myrriah Gómez, University of Texas, San Antonio
“Las hijas de los hidalgos: The Erasure of Mexican Women's
Property Rights in the Novel Caballero”
• José A. De La Garza Valenzuela, Miami University
“Crossing Lines: Knowledge and Education as a Place of Cultural
Contract in Rigoberto González's Crossing Vines”
• Leigh Johnson, University of New Mexico
“Domestic Violence Goes Global: Chicanas Writing Allegory”
• Jacob Goessling, University of Louisville
“'I'm Not a Tourist. . . It's Called Research': Community,
Method and Representation in Desert Blood”
D-16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 202
Chair: Ryan Trauman, University of Louisville
• Megan Spooner, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
If I Could Find My Heart (poetry)
• S. Morgan, Sahuarita, Arizona
The Slaughtering (fiction)
• Moberley Luger, University of British Columbia
Ragtime for Beginners (poetry)
• Paul Vidich, Rutgers University, Newark
Perils of Living (fiction)
E-1 Absence and Presence in Contemporary U. S. Drama
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 207
Chair: Kekoa C. Kaluhiokalani, Muskingum University
• Ivan Rodden IV, University of Illinois, Chicago
“Gilman's Invisible Menace: Spinning into Butter and the
Threat of Specificity”
• Lorah Kristin Combs, Eastern Kentucky University
“Gallimard's Act: Performing Masculinity in David Henry
Hwang's M. Butterfly”
• Manda Cochran, West Virginia University
“'Tell Me Some More about Justice': Law and Legal Systems in
Angels in America”
E-2 Lost and Found in Translation
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 209
Chair: Adrienne Royo, Southern Adventist University
• Eireene Nealand, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Translation of the Lyric in Late Capitalism: Michael Palmer
and Alexandr Skidan”
• Svetoslav P. Pavlov, Grand Valley State University
“Lexical and Syntactical Peculiarities of Pasternak's Translation
of Shakespeare”
• José Endoença Martins, Uniandrade, Curitiba (PR), Brazil
“Double Consciousness and Double Bind: Identities, Tradition
and Translation in Alice Walker's Short Story 'Everyday Use'”
E-3 Science of Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 210
Chair: Jill LeRoy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University
• Joe Plicka, Ohio University
“Liquid Technology and Human Code in Microserfs”
• Richard Dragan, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
“Vectors of Grace: Reading 'Artful Science' in Pynchon's
Against the Day”
E-4 The Poetry of Gutaf Sobin (Panel prearranged by Joseph
Donahue, Duke University)
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 106
Chair: Joseph Donahue, Duke University
• Joseph Donahue, Duke University, Durham
“The Isn't that Is: Gustaf Sobin and the Poetics of Negativity”
• Robert L. Zamsky, New College of Florida
“'Sprinkling the Pages with Blown Phonemes': The Act of
Writing, the Art of Breathing in the Poetry of Gustaf Sobin”
Spanish Keynote Presentation
Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium
Friday, 3:15- 4:45 pm
Jacobo Sefamí, University of California, Irvine
P alab r as e n fu g a: P o e sía m e x ican a e n e l n u e vo m ile n io
Introduced by Clare Sullivan, University of Louisville
C o-sponsored by: the Latin A m erican and Latino Studies Program , and
The D epartm ent of C lassical and M odern Languages
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E-5 From Postcolonial to Global/Postglobal Studies (Panel
prearranged by Alfred López, Purdue University)
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 114
Chair: Alfred López, Purdue University
• Alfred J. López, Purdue University
“From Postcolonial to Global/Postglobal Studies”
• Jason Buchanan, Purdue University
“Global Voids: Abyssal Images in Theories of Globalization”
• Ekeama Goddard, Purdue University
“Caribbean Music Videos: Soca and the Globalization of
Carnival”
• S. C. Gooch, Purdue University
“Postglobal Tourism in the Favelas of Brazil”
E-6 Characterization in Early Modernist Fiction: Joseph Conrad,
James Joyce, and Ford Madox Ford (Panel prearranged by
Robert Petersen, Middle Tennessee State University)
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 217
Chair: Robert Petersen, Middle Tennessee State University
• Will W. Onstott, Middle Tennessee State University
“Getting Mother out of the Way: An Exploration of a Central
Chapter in Conrad's The Secret Agent as it Relates to a
Historical Literary Departure from the Victorian Mode"”
• Summer O'Neal, Middle Tennessee State University
“A Portrait of the Artist as a Child: Piaget and Cognitive
Development in Young Stephen Dedalus”
• Scott McMillan, Volunteer State Community College
“'The Proper Man': Defining Masculinity in Ford Madox Ford's
The Good Soldier”
E-7 Remapping African-American Community
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 119
Chair: James B. Peterson, Bucknell University
• Ryan D. Stryffeler, Ball State University
“Brother from Another Mother: Appropriating 'Otherness' and
Masculinity in Wright's Early Short Fiction”
• Patricia Brooke, Fontbonne University
“'Lovell Take Care of That': Filicide in Suzan-Lori Parks's The
Red Letter Plays”
• Brandi Stanton, St. Mary's College, Maryland
“Family as Form, or What June Jordan Reveals About the
Politics of Location”
E-8 T. S. Eliot II: Metaphor and Metamorphosis (Organized by
William Harmon, T. S. Eliot Society)
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 117
Chair: Martin Lockerd, Saint Louis University
• Carol L. Yang, National Chengchi University
“The Waste Land and the Virtual City”
• Stefanie Wortman, University of Missouri
“'Inside a Ring of Lights': Eliot's 'Suite Clownesque'”
• Stephen Koelz, Providence College
“'The Look of Flowers that Are Looked At': Auratic Distance
and Eliot's Eyebeam”
E-9 Virginia Woolf (Organized by Kristin Czarnecki, The E-13 Madness, Mystery, Death
International Virginia Woolf Society Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 101
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 215 Chair: Philip Balma, University of Connecticut
Chair: Kristin Czarnecki, Georgetown College • Daniele Fioretti, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Timothy C. Vincent, Duquesne University “The Madman in the Factory: Madness and Illness in Paolo
“Robert Vischer's Einfühlung and Virginia Woolf's Visual Volponi's 'Memoriale'”
Aesthetic” • Sabrina Ovan, Scripps College
• Emily Fridlund, University of Southern California “La morte e l'architettura: Gramsci e Pasolini”
“Simultaneity and Sequence: Narrative Interruptions in Virginia • Eleonora Buonocore, Yale University
Woolf's The Years” “Dal romanzo d'appendice al giallo: Carolina Invernizio e 'Nina
• Brook Miller, University of Minnesota, Morris la poliziotta dilettante'"
“Drive and Perception in the Interludes to The Waves”
E-14 Cien años de cultura española
E-10 DeLillo I: DeLillo and Drama (Organized by Jacqueline Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 221
Zubeck, Don DeLillo Society) Chair: Philip Delegal, University of Louisville
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 121 • Carmen Arranz, Centre College
Chair: Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent “Nuevas configuraciones del espacio en la modernidad: Carmen
• Gisele Manganelli Fernandes, Sao Paulo State University, de Burgos viaja Por Europa”
Brazil • Elena Aldea Agudo, University of Kentucky
“Valparaiso: A Play in Two Acts and Love-Lies-Bleeding: “Camisa azul. Tradición y renovación al servicio de la
Reading of Postmodern Instabilities” propaganda del nuevo hombre falangista”
• Paul Giaimo, Highland Community College • Iria Gonzalez-Liaño, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“DeLillo, Film, and the Italian American” “Feminismo, sociedad y cultura en la obra de Lucía Etxebarria”
• Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent • A. David Hitchcock, University of Southern Indiana
“'Exalted Time': DeLillo and His Drama” “Teatro del Astillero's Intolerancia: A Blueprint for
Sociopolitical Inquiry through Artistic Collaboration”
E-11 Theater of the Absurd
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 109 E-15 Reflexiones en torno a la cultura mexicana
Chair: Julien Carrière, Bellarmine University Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 219
• Julien Carrière, Bellarmine University Chair: Michael Waag, Murray State Univesity
“False Paths: The Search for Meaning in Waiting for Godot” • Armando Armengol, University of Texas, El Paso
• Edyta K. Oczkowicz, Salem College, Winston-Salem “La muerte en la poesía de Jaime Sabines”
“Thornton Wilder's Sense of the Absurd: 'Infancy' and • Roberto De La Torre, Independent Scholar
'Childhood' from The Seven Ages of Man” “Nellie Campobello: del texto literario a la historia de la
• Florence Dwyer, Thomas More College Revolución”
“L'indémodable Cantatrice Chauve d'Eugène Ionesco” • Pilar Melero, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
“When Passivity Becomes a Virtue: Antonieta Rivas Mercado
E-12 Space, Multiculturalism and Science Fiction in Film and and the Negation of Being”
Novel
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 108 E-16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Chair: Jacqueline E. Brown, University of Louisville Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 202
• Andrew DeSelm, Indiana University South Bend Chair: Greenfield Jones, Louisville, Kentucky
“Dystopic Films and the Unexplained Variable” • Jerry Bradley, Lamar University
• Lesley C. Pleasant, University of Evansville The Importance of Elsewhere (poetry)
“Moving Multiculturalism to the Next Level: Andrea Staka's • Ted Morrissey, Benedictine University, Springfield
Fräulein and Yilmaz Arslan's Brudermord” Communion with the Dead (fiction)
• Chinmayi Kattemalavadi, Wayne State University, Detroit • Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Queen's University, Belfast
“Mapping Space, History, and People: W. G. Sebald's Rings of Poetry
Saturn” • Deborah Adelman, College of DuPage
Fleshing Out the Bones (fiction)

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F-1 Tinker, Terrorist, Husband, Spy: The Wages of Cynicism F-5 Dramatizing Espionage, Censorship, and Propaganda: Buchan,
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 114 Hitchcock, Sorescu, and Lukács
Chair: Jennifer Jackson, North Central College Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 119
• Martyn Colebrook, University of Hull, England Chair: A. David Hitchcock, University of Southern Indiana
“Getting Rich from the Wages of Fear: Australian Literature, • Susan Lidgate Mace, University of California, Berkeley
Terror and the Cultural Aftermath” “'Steppin' The Thirty-Nine Steps: Buchan's Fiction as
• Skip Willman, University of South Dakota Hitchcock's Film”
“'After the Fall': The Philby Case as Historical Trauma in the • Raluca Markow, University of Alabama, Huntsville
Fiction of John le Carré” “Cultural and Literary Paradigms in Marin Sorescu's
Dramaturgy”
F-2 Wealth, Poverty, Power: Reflections on the Professorial • Ronald J. Meyers, East Stroudsburg University
Practices of Authorship and Pedagogy (Panel prearranged by “Intellectuals, Literary Criticism, and the Cold War”
Chris Green, Marshall University)
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 108 F-6 Memory and Place in Women's Writing
Chair: Chris Green, Marshall University Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 103
• Chris Green, Marshall University Chair: Marcia Phillips McGowan, Eastern Connecticut State
“Beneath the Civic Center: Race, Class, and Poetry in University
Lexington, KY” • Patricia M. Feito, Barry University
• Joel Peckham, University of Cincinnati “'Poetry with Its Feet on the Ground': Self, Metaphor, and
“Everything Must Go: Poetry and Recession in Southwestern Nature in Josephine Johnson's Now in November”
Ohio” • Jill LeRoy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University
• Rachael Peckham, Marshall University “'She Picks the Significant Episode': Cultural Memory and
“Wealth, Poverty, Power: Reflections on the Professorial Historical Agency in Caroline Gordon's The Women on the
Practices of Authorship and Pedagogy” Porch”
• Anthony J. Viola, Marshall University • Carrie Coaplen-Anderson, Morehead State University
“Fiction, Fish Markets, and Tenure (West Virginia and New “Writing Home: Literature's Place for Displacement Survivors”
Jersey)”
F-7 Literary, Historical, and Aesthetic Collaborations: Joyce,
F-3 Postcolonial Readings of William Faulkner (Panel prearranged Forster, Nietzsche, and Auden
by Andrew Strombeck, Wright State University) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 207
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 106 Chair: John McCombe, University of Dayton
Chair: Andrew Strombeck, Wright State University • Aileen Farrar, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
• Aja Ash, Wright State University “An Unexpected Alliance: James Joyce and Alexander Pope in
“Crossing Boundaries: William Faulkner and Postcolonial 'Ithaca'”
Identity” • Lynne Walhoust Hinojosa, Baylor University
• Joshua Moody, Wright State University “The Aesthetic Hero in Forster and Joyce: A Brief Genealogy of
“Haints in the Head: Primal Interpellation and the Quest for the the Concept”
Postcolonial Self in William Faulkner” • Richard Badenhausen, Westminster College
• Daniel Dale, Wright State University “The Theory and Practice of Collaboration in W. H. Auden”
“The Trauma of the Real Body: The Deconstruction of Mental
Hierarchies in Faulkner's Sanctuary” F-8 Darkness (In)Visible: Re-Visioning Violence in McCarthy,
Magona, and Maxwell
F-4 Boundary Crossing: Contemporary Poetic Hybridities (Panel Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 209
prearranged by Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa) Chair: Lesley C. Pleasant, University of Evansville
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 117 • William Welty, University of Cincinnati
Chair: Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa “'Another Kind of Clay': History, Violence, and Cormac
• Lynn Keller, University of Wisconsin, Madison McCarthy's New Mythology”
“Becoming Animal? Paul Muldoon's Horse Latitudes” • Daniel W. Lehman, Ashland University
• Linda Kinnahan, Duquense University “'My Son Killed Your Daughter': Testimony and Imagination in
“Caroline Bergvall's Hybrid Encounters with the Dolls of Hans Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother”
Bellmer” • Nicole Blair, University of Washington, Tacoma
• Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa “Time Will Darken It: Reciting/Re-Sighting the Past”
“‘We Have Never Had a Mind of Our Own': The Poetics of the
Integrated Circuit”

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F-9 Communities in Crisis in Toni Morrison (Panel prearranged by F-13 Autofiction/Autobiography
E. James Chambers, Ball State University) Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 109
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 215 Chair: Diane Capitani, Northwestern University
Chair: E. James Chambers, Ball State University • Ryan Trauman, University of Louisville
• E. James Chambers, Ball State University “Blogging, Authorship, and Roland Barthes's Autobiography”
“Communities in Crisis in Toni Morrison” • John T. Booker, University of Kansas
• Cole E. Farrell, Ball State University “Love (of) Stories: Camille Laurens's L'amour, roman”
“'I Know That Woman': Violet and the Fringes of Community in • Kristine Yohe, Northern Kentucky University
Toni Morrison's Jazz” “Jean-Robert Cadet's Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to
• Ellie M. Isenhart, Ball State University Middle-Class American”
“Social Stagnation in Morrison's Love: A Reflection of Race
Relations in America” F-14 Masina, Levi, and Bilenchi: The Daily and the Extraordinary
• Tibor Munkacsi, Ball State University Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 101
“Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: Digging in the Charnel Chair: Don Spinelli, Wayne State University
House” • Victoria Surliuga, Texas Tech University
“Giulietta Masina without Federico Fellini: Her Journalism in
F-10Dorothy Richardson: Going beyond the Narrative (Organized the Diary of Others”
by Micki Nyman, The Dorothy Richardson Society) • Elizabeth Scheiber, Rider University
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 217 “Levi's Ideal Listener: Re-Reading Il Canto di Ulisse”
Chair: Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University • Charles Klopp, Ohio State University
• Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University` “War, Lust, Hatred, and Death in Romano Bilenchi's
“Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage: 'The Mirror Image'” Conservatorio di Santa Teresa”
• Shavonne Johnson, Borough of Manhattan Community
College, CUNY
“Consciousness and Narrative in Dorothy Richardson's F-15 Hispanic Keynote Speaker Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm
Pilgrimage” Elaine Chao Auditorium , Ekstrom Library

F-11 Dialogue and Disease: Medical Narrative in the Work of

Jacobo Sefami
William Carlos Williams, May Sarton, and Sylvia Plath University of California, Irvine
(Organized by David Eberly, Narrative Medicine Society) “Palabras en fuga: Poesía Mexicana en el nuevo milenio”
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 221
Chair: David Eberly, Independent Scholar
Introduced by Clare Sullivan, University of Louisville
• Brian A. Bremen, University of Texas, Austin
“Healing Words: William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Burke, and C o-sponsored by Latin A m erican & Latino Studies and
Bibliotherapy” the D epartm ent of C lassical and M odern Languages
• David Eberly, Independent Scholar
“High Colonics: Presenting the Idealized Patient Self in
Endgame”
• Rick Mansfield, Dartmouth School of Medicine F-16Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
“The Dying Narrative in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar" Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 202
Chair: Nina Adel, Belmont University
F-12 DeLillo II: DeLillo and Subjectivity (Organized by Jacqueline • Daniel Morris, Purdue University
Zubeck, Don DeLillo Society) If Not for the Courage (poetry)
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 121 • Tessa Mellas, University of Cincinnati
Chair: Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent Blue Sky White (fiction)
• Anne Longmuir, Kansas State University • Jeremy Allan Hawkins, University of Alabama
“'All this Crammed Maleness': Gender and Art in DeLillo's Poetry
Underworld” • Carole K. Harris, New York City College of Technology
• Jen Apgar, Georgia State University Freeze Frame (fiction)
“(Un)Heeled/Unhealed: Shoes and Other Traumatic Artifacts in
DeLillo's Falling Man”
• Randy Laist, Gateway Community College
“Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in DeLillo's Novels”

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 G-1 U. S. Drama
CREATIVE KEYNOTE Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 207
PRESENTATION Chair: Susan Lidgate Mace, University of California, Berkeley
• Jennifer L. Collins, Duquesne University , Pittsburgh
“The Strategy of the British Country House in Lillian Hellman's
Watch on the Rhine”
Strickler Auditorium • Charles Hatten, Bellarmine University
“The Death of an Angry Salesman: David Mamet's Early Plays,

Room 101 the Legacy of Arthur Miller, and the Era of White Male Rage”

G-2 Ecocriticism and Animal Studies

Friday 5:00 - 6:00 pm Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 106
Chair: Nicole Seymour, University of Louisville

Helena María
• Jordan S. Carroll, University of California, Davis
“Rats, Dragons, and Shortpig: Utopia and the Animal in Stars in
My Pockets like Grains of Sand”
• Matthew Sutton, College of William and Mary

Viramontes “Seeds of Glory: The Ecocritical Stance of Guthrie's Bound for

Glory”
• Kimberly Kaczorowski, Miami University

Cornell University “A Congestion of Shapes: The Landscape of Alice Munro”

G-3 Poetries in Transition, Poetries as Transition (Panel

Cemeteries, Freeways and the Bones of the prearranged by John Bradley, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room:108
Forgotten: How Geography Shaped One Chair: John Bradley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Writer's Inspiration • Lisa Hollenbach, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Reading Through: Jackson Mac Low and the Modernist Canon”
• Aline Lo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Claiming a Choice: Transitions in the Works of Ariel Dorfman
Introduced by and Li-Young Lee”
Brian Leung, University of Louisville • John Bradley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Repeat After: Between Student and Teacher in Theresa Cha's
Dictee”

G-4 Writing Asia: Gender, Identity, Ethnography

Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 103
Chair: Li Zeng, University of Louisville
CONFERENCE RECEPTION • Weihsin Gui, University of California, Riverside
“Fictive Ethnography and The Contemporary Anglophone
AND DINNER Malaysian Novel”
• Christopher Giroux, Saginaw Valley State University
“Swinging with the Sisters Wing: Exploding Binaries in Shirley
Friday evening Brown Hotel Geok-Lin Lim's Sister Swing”
• James D. Riemer, Marshall University
Reception, cash bar (all conferees “Women's Writing, Friendship, and Gender Roles in Lisa See's
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan”
welcome), 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Additional Informatiom
Dinner, by reservation only, All presentation rooms are accesible to the handicapped.

8:00 p.m. All sections of Critical Papers and Creative Readings are
scheduled in the Bingham Humanities Building

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G-5 Female Fashion and Spaces: Jean Rhys and Djuna Barnes
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 101
Chair: Cynthia Davis, University of Maryland
• Cynthia Davis, University of Maryland
“Survival of the Chic-est: Fashion as Resistance in the Work of
Jean Rhys”
• Ian Scott Todd, Tufts University
“Ladies' Rooms: Women, Bathrooms, and Modernity in Jean
Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight”
• Liz Vine, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Queering Home in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood”
G-6 Feeding the Music: Food and Dining as Significant Signifier
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 114
Chair: Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University
• Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University
“Significant Food, the Immigrant Experience, and the Short
Story”
• Charlotte Rich, Eastern Kentucky University
“Edith Wharton's Paris: Spaces of Liberation and Constriction”
• Suzanne Samples, Auburn University
“Pickling History: Nietzsche, Lyotard, and Consumption in
Midnight's Children”
G-7 Identifying: Individuality and Connection in African-
American Fiction and Memoir
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 117
Chair: David Todd Lawrence, University of Saint Thomas
• Karen Walker, University of Arkansas
“Breaking It Down to Build It Back Up, or Dismantling
American Individualism and the Rhetorical Tradition of Racial
Uplift: The Search for Female Subjectivity in Nella Larsen's
Quicksand”
• David Todd Lawrence, University of Saint Thomas
“Beneath the Underdog, between Traditions: Charles Mingus's
Use of the Black Pimp Figure”
G-8 Reassessing the Good in Iris Murdoch's Novels (Organized by
Barbara Heusel, Iris Murdoch Society) Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45
am Room:119
Chair: Barbara Heusel, Florida State University
• Barbara Heusel, Florida State University
“Bizarre Reinvention of Selfish Characters via The Good in
Nuns and Soldiers and The Sea, The Sea”
• Joanne H. Edmonds, Ball State University
“Readers Considering Characters; Characters Considering
Experience: Thought as Action in Three Novels by Iris
Murdoch”
• J. Robert Baker, Fairmont State University
“'Les Cousins et Les Tantes': Murdoch's Imagination of
Becoming Good”
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G-9 Queer Film (Because of multiple cancellations, the remaining
presenter of this panel has been moved to [I-8 Subversive
Narratives of Sexualities], Saturday at 2:45 -4:15 pm)
G-10 Animal Studies and Wallace Stevens (Organized by Tom
Sowders, Walace Stevens Society)
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 217
Chair: Tom Sowders, Louisiana State University
• Brian Brodhead Glaser, Chapman University
“Rats, Cats, and Nightingales”
• Angela Hofstetter, Butler University
“Wallace Stevens's Noble Rider: Animality, Modernity, and
Pure Poetry”
•Karen Helgeson, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
"Cries from the Outside: Nature’s Choristers in the Late Poetry
of Wallace Stevens”
• Tom Sowders, Louisiana State University
“Anthropomorphism in Stevens's Comic Poetry”
G-11 Philip Roth: Narratology, Sexuality and Politics (Organized
by David Brauner, Philip Roth Society)
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 121
Chair: Matthew Shipe, Washington University, St. Louis
• Matthew Shipe, Washington University, St. Louis
“So You Say You Wanna Revolution? Sexual Liberation in
Philip Roth's Indignation”
• Sarah Thalia Scheiner-Bobis, Stanford University
“Anti-Oedipal Desire: Philip Roth's The Human Stain”
• Kellie Dawson, DePauw University
“Becoming Faunia Farley: The Human Stain and the Death of
P.C.”
G-12 The 1960's and Then Some . . . Flannery O'Connor
(Organized by Jacqueline Zubeck, Flannery O'Connor
Society)
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 209
Chair: Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent
• Mark S. Graybill, Widener University
“O'Connor, Tielhard de Chardin, and the Environment”
• Carole Harris, New York City College of Technology
“Clichés and the Anxieties of Inheritance in Flannery
O'Connor's 'A Circle in the Fire,' 'Greenleaf,' and 'Everything
That Rises Must Converge'”
• Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University
“Bill Hill, Ruby, and the Pill: Reproductive Politics in the 1950s”
• Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent
“The Visual Impact of the Icon in Flannery O'Connor's 'Parker's
Back'”
G-13 Graphic Novels: Transformations, Deformations
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 221
4th STREETLIVE, It’s all about hanging out
Chair: Micki Nyman, Fayetteville State University
• Jacqueline E. Brown, University of Louisville
“Persepolis: The History of a Childhood/The Childhood of a
Located: 4th Street between Muhammad Ali Blvd and
History” Liberty St.
• Derrick Stewart, Tennessee Technological University Out-of-towners have an option.
“Representing and Creating Feminine Identities in Chris Ware's From billiards to bowling, bourbon to beer, books to coffee.
Jimmy Corrigan”
One stop urban entertainment center. Everything in one place.
• Matthew Wiles, University of Louisville
More than 25 businesses including big national names.
“Considering the Graphic Novel: Making Use of a Transgressive
and Transformative Space” 4th STREET LIVE for whatever you want your personal
experience to be.
G-14 Creative Fiction in Spanish
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 219
Chair: Melissa Groenwold, University of Louisville
Visit their web address for more
• Enid Valle, Kalamazoo College www.4thstlive.com
Sigilo (poesía)
• Iria Gonzalez-Liaño, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Mediterráneo (poesía)
• Ceida Fernández Figueroa, Baldwin School of Puerto Rico
Olguita se va de Cuba o la jinetera frente al espejo (ficción) A short walk from Ekstrom Library
• Santiago García-Castañón, Western Carolina University
“Escribir fuera de los márgenes, o cómo mantener una carrera
literaria en el mundo académico”
The Speed Art Museum
G-15 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 202 Museum Hours
Chair: Leslie Harper, University of Louisville Monday Closed
• Andrew Grace, University of Cincinnati Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 10:30 am to 4 pm
Poetry
Thursday 10:30 am to 8 pm
• Lori D'Angelo, Kent State, East Liverpool
Balloon Ride (fiction) Saturday 10:30 to 5 pm
• Katherine Thorpe, University of Iowa Sunday 12 pm to 5 pm
Excerpts from Heart in Port (poetry) The Speed Art Museum (located next to the University of
• Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy
Louisville, Ekstrom Library)
A Fair Fight in Neutral Location (fiction)
2035 South Third Street, Louisville, KY 40208 - (502) 634-
2700 www.speedmuseum.org
Speed Museum Café is open for lunch Tuesdays-Saturdays
11:30 am - 2 pm

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H-1 Post-Politically Correct Narrative (Panel prearranged by Kellie
Dawson, DePauw University)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 103
Chair: Kellie Dawson, DePauw University
• Kellie Dawson, DePauw University
“Wrong Humor and the Death of PC”
• Greg Weiss, University of Southern Mississippi
“'A Funny Kind of Poem': From Parker to Seidel”
• Collin C. Coleman, Georgia State University
“Irreverent Humor and Emotional Connections in Californication”
H-2 Technology and Cultural Transformation
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 109
Chair: Daniel Mrozowski, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
• Olivia R. Turnage, University of Memphis
“Luddic Humanism in Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy”
• Daniel Mrozowski, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
“The Politics of Eating Well: Upton Sinclair and the Modern Diet”
H-3 The Poetics of the American Memoir
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 106
Chair: Kevin Allton, University of Southern Indiana
• Jill Kelly Koren, Ivy Tech Community College
“Useful Ambivalence: Adventures in Lyric Essay Land”
• Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy
“Roaring toward the Sublime: California in Hunter Thompson's
Hell's Angels”
• Julia A. Galbus, University of Southern Indiana
“Selflessness in Buddhist Life Writing”
H-4 Postmodern Fiction and the Sense of the Past
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 108
Chair: M. Nell Sullivan, University of Houston, Downtown
• Charlie Bertsch, Arizona State University
“The Landscape of Melancholy: Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice
and the Geography of the Counterculture”
• Katrina Harack, Berry College
“Embedded and Embodied Memories: Body, Space, and Time in
Don DeLillo's White Noise and Falling Man”
• Ted Morrissey, Benedictine University, Springfield
“In the Heart of the Heart of the Cold War: Cultural Trauma and
the Fiction of William H. Gass”
H-5 Drama of National Identity: Friel, Barry, Rubio, and Miller
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 114
Chair: Kristina Persenaire, Grand Valley State University
• Vanessa M. Bosley, Xavier University
“'Securely Irish': Refashioning Ireland in Brian Friel's Translations”
• Kekoa C. Kaluhiokalani, Muskingum University
“Irishness and the Masochism of National Identity in Sebastian
Barry's The Steward of Christendom”
• Jason Thomas Parker, Vanderbilt University
“Revising Reality: Metatheater as a Strategy of Social Critique in
José López Rubio and Arthur Miller”
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H-6 Narrative and the Radical
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 117
Chair: Scott Henkel, State University of New York, Binghamton
• Andrew Scheiber, University of St. Thomas
“Radical Continence: Unsexing the Revolution in Agnes
Smedley's Daughter of Earth and Jack Conroy's The Disinherited”
• Mica Howe, Murray State University
“Hombres armados and the Alliance for (Lack of) Progress”
H-7 Postmodern Classicism: Contemporary Polish Poets and Their
Uses of the Past (Panel prearranged by Karen Kovacik, Indiana
University-Purdue University, Indianapolis)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 119
Chair:
• Jessica Zychowicz , University of Michigan
“Toward a Poetics of Municipality, or The Place of Personality:
Meditations on the Poetry of Zbigniew Herbert and Adam
Zagajewsk”
• Karen Kovacik, Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis
“Revisiting Herbert's 'Mr. Cogito': The Post-Communist, Gendered
Realm of Izabela Filipiak's 'Madame Intuita'”
• Ewa Chrusciel, Colby-Sawyer College
“Flirting with Tradition, Flirting with Mystery: New Poems by
Agnieszka Kuciak and Tomasz Rózycki”
H-8 Sonnets and The City: New York Poetry
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 215
Chair: Manuel Herrero-Puertas, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Victoria Brockmeier, State University of New York, Buffalo
“Crossing on Doubt: Hart Crane's Bridge”
• Richard Andrew Boada, Millsaps College
“The Crisis of Individuality and the Ecosublime in the Industrial
Metropolis: Anthropomorphizing Engineering in Hart Cranes's 'To
Brooklyn Bridge'”
• Cameron Golden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
“Song of Myself: Mad Men, Poetry, and the Construction of
Identity”
H-9 A Woman's Guide to Twilight: Sentimentality, Pornography,
Motherhood
(Panel prearranged by Kate Cochran, University of Southern
Mississippi)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 219
Chair: Kate Cochran, University of Southern Mississippi
• Christina Riley Brown, Mercyhurst College
“But Why Are They Reading That Stuff? Sentimental Pleasures in
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga”
• Kate Cochran, University of Southern Mississippi
“Rewriting the Fade-To-Black: X-Rated Twilight Fan Fiction”
• Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky University
“Genetic Dead Ends and the Reproduction of Motherhood in
Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga”
H-10 Imputed Virtue: Ways of Seeing Pynchon's Inherent Vice
(Panel prearranged by John M. Krafft, Miami University,
Hamilton)
 Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 221
Chair: John M. Krafft, Miami University, Hamilton
• Bernard Duyfhuizen, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
“'The Map Is Not the Territory': Pynchon's Inherent Vice and
General Semantics”
• Dana Medoro, University of Manitoba
“The Guard Dogs of the Paper Archive in Inherent Vice”
• Steve Weisenburger, Southern Methodist University
“Of Paving Stones and Freedom Struggles”
H-11 Gendering Modernity: Dreiser, Wharton and Fitzgerald
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 207
Chair: Amanda Konkle, University of Kentucky
• Janna Tajibaeva, University of Louisville
“Desiring and Desired Women: Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie,
Edith Wharton's House of Mirth and the Art of American
Impressionists”
• Natalie M. Kalich, Loyola University Chicago
“Domestic Modernism: Ladies' Home Journal and Mass Culture's
Engagement with the Modernist Movement”
• Amanda Konkle, University of Kentucky
“Hysterical Fathers Make Poor Men: Monsignor Darcy as a Model
of Masculinity in This Side of Paradise”
H-12 Native Spaces, American Places
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 209
Chair: Thomas L. Morgan, University of Dayton
• Erin M. Rentschler, Duquesne University
“'A Story Is Forever Unfolding': Personal and Cultural Memory in
Linda Hogan's People of the Whale”
• Julianne Newmark, New Mexico Tech
“Creating Place: Profession and Presence in the Political Writings
of Gertrude Bonnin, Carlos Montezuma, and Charles Alexander
Eastman”
• Thomas L. Morgan, University of Dayton
“Specters of Belief: Race and Metaphor in Sherman Alexie's
Poetry”
H-13 Forms of African American (Post)Identity
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 217
Chair: Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University
• Emily Lutenski, Bowling Green State University
“Beyond Harlem: New Negro Cartographies of the American
West”
• Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University
“A Blacker Modern: Melvin B. Tolson”
• Ryan Cull, New Mexico State University
“From Difference to Splendor: Thylias Moss's Search for a
Universalist Poetics”
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H-14 Henry James (Organized by Susan Griffin, Henry James
Society)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 223
Chair: Shawna Ross, Pennsylvania State University
• Shawna Ross, Pennsylvania State University
“The Space of Play: The Hotel as Leisure Space in Henry James”
• Jennifer B. Camden, University of Indianapolis
“Transatlantic Exchange in The Golden Bowl”
H-15 Psychological Approaches to Literature and Culture after
1900 (Organized by Susan Hathaway Boydston, The PsyArt
Foundation)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 121
Chair: Susan Hathaway Boydston, Independent Scholar
• Susan Hathaway Boydston, Independent Scholar
“The (Un)happy Confluence of Greed and Naïveté in The Voysey
Inheritance and the Madoff Scam”
• Camelia Elias, Roskilde University, Denmark
“The Quietude of Knowledge”
• Andrew M. Gordon, University of Florida
“Myla Goldberg's Novel Bee Season: The Obsessive-Compulsive
Family”
• Bent Sorensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
“Syndrome-, Symptom- and Trauma-Chains in Post-9/11 Novels”
H-16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 202
Chair: Kimberly A. Baker, University of Louisville
• Christina Veladota, Washington State Community College
The Girl and Her Lions (poetry)
• Al Dixon, Louisiana State University
Guy Walks into a Bar (fiction)
• Kristin Dykstra, Illinois State University
Translations of poetry by Cuban writer Angel Escobar (poetry)
• Trudy Lewis, University of Missouri
Radio Ranger (fiction)
H-17 Tapping The Wire I (Bubbles's Revenge): Subjectivity and
Politics
(Panel prearranged by Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room 101
Chair: Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University
• Ernest L. Gibson III, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"'For Whom the Bell Tolls': The Wire's Stringer Bell as a Tragic
Intellectual"
• Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University
On Being Green and Turning Brown: Johnny Weeks in
Hamsterdam
• Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky
“When Homeland Terror Passes for Bureaucratic Security: The
Wire Meets The Office"
I-1 Community, Relations, and Historical Revisioning
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 103
Chair: Benjamin D. O'Dell, University of Southern Indiana
• Missy Dehn Kubitschek, Indiana University Purdue University
“America's National Narratives: Willa Cather and Lousie Erdrich”
• Benjamin D. O'Dell, University of Southern Indiana
“'A Vague Benevolent Something': Native Son and the Problem of
Community”
• William R. Hunter, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
“Damned If You Do: Toni Morrison's A Mercy as Reaction to
Beloved”
I-2 Professing Womanhood: Education, Work, and Literacy in
Loos, Chute, Gibbons, and Gilman
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 106
Chair: Jill A. Kinkade, University of Southern Indiana
• Peter Collins, Pennsylvania State University
“A Girl like Lorelei: Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and
Female Professionalism during the Modernist Period”
• M. Nell Sullivan, University of Houston, Downtown
“Cultural Capital and Narrative Voice in Ellen Foster and The
Beans of Egypt, Maine”
• Eir-Anne E. Edgar, University of Kentucky
“Women's Work: Gender Articulation in Gilman's Herland”
I-3 Performative Violence, Artifice and the Real
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 108
Chair: Lance Norman, Michigan State University
• Anna Mullins, North Carolina State University
“The Necessity of Violence Onstage: Sarah Kane's Blasted”
• Matthew Bowman, Lansing Community College
“'Another Helping Please': Cannibalism on Stage in Sarah Kane's
Blasted and Fernando Arrabal's The Emperor and the Architect of
Assyria”
• Lance Norman, Michigan State University
“Cathartic Ruminations and the Absurdity of Performative
Violence”
I-4 George Oppen, Heidegger and Ideas of Literature
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 109
Chair: Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University
• Alexander Cobb, University of Cincinnati
“Poet, Object, Being: George Oppen's Poetics of Phenomenological
Ontology”
• Charles Cullum, University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown
“Sweeping a Clearing in the House of Being: Heidegger's Theory of
Language and David Foster Wallace's The Broom of the System”
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I-5 Music and Literature: Aesthetic Interrogations
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 119
Chair: Jeremy Glazier, Ohio Dominican University
• Jeremy Glazier, Ohio Dominican University
“'A Noise among Other Noises': Music and Historicity Twenty
Years after the Berlin Wall”
• April D. Fallon, Kentucky State University
“O Sweet Spontaneous: The Significance of Paris and Erik Satie on
E. E. Cummings's Aesthetics”
• Damian Ward Hey, Molloy College
“Song and Its Double in Against the Day"
I-6 Reading American Poetry: Ethics, Strategies, Resistances
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 114
Chair: Jessica Lewis Luck, Cal State San Bernardino
• Cynthia R. Wallace, Loyola University, Chicago
“It Must Acknowledge the Spiritual Forces Which Have Made It:
Marianne Moore, Religion, and the Ethics of Critical Discourse”
• Jessica Lewis Luck, Cal State San Bernardino
“Larry Eigner and the Phenomenology of Multistability”
I-7 Flora, Fauna, and Fauvism: Artistic and Poetic Auras
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 117
Chair: Adriana Umana, Rice University
• Adriana Umana, Rice University
“L'itinéraire exploratoire d'Henri Matisse”
• Liz Kuhn, Pennsylvania State University
“'Love Is a Thing to Be Learned': The Complex Progress of Dyadic
Anti-Humanism in D. H. Lawrence's Modernism”
• Sarah Bouttier, Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle
“Wherein Does Fitness Lie? Lawrentian versus Darwinian Fitness in
D. H. Lawrence's Poetry"
I-8 Subversive Narratives of Sexualities
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room:215
Chair: Clare F. Gervasi, University of Louisville
• Lisa Arnold, University of Louisville
“An 'Ethics of Difficulty': (Re)Reading Judith Butler's Performative
Prose as Feminist Practice”
• Robin Silbergleid, Michigan State University
“Narrative Promiscuity in Carole Maso's Aureole”
• Kevin Arnold, State University of New York, Buffalo
“What is 'Gaydar'? Narrative and Repetition in The City and the
Pillar”
• Kathleen T. Leuschen, Roosevelt University
“Strategy of Resistance: The Grotesque and Hermaphroditic
Identity in Middlesex”
• Clare F. Gervasi, University of Louisville
“Subverting Gender Binaries: Almodóvar's Lesbians and La
Movida”
I-9 Examining Rhoda: Three Readings of Ellen Gilchrist's 'The
Lower Garden District Free Gravity Mule Blight' (Panel
prearranged by Kathryn E. Lane, Southeastern Louisiana
University)
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 217
Chair: Kathryn E. Lane, Southeastern Louisiana University
• Kathryn E. Lane, Southeastern Louisiana University
“Rhoda, A Woman Searching”
• Michelle Hebert Russo, Napoleonville Middle School
“Rhoda, Her Voices and the Revelation of the Fable”
• Carolyn Kirk Vosburg, Southeastern Louisiana University
“Rhoda, a Woman of the Southern Bourgeois Tradition”
I-10 Fantasy and Science Fiction: Social Critiques and Genre
Fiction
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 219
Chair: Katherine Lee, Indiana State University
• Katherine Lee, Indiana State University
“Sookie Stackhouse, Bella Swan, and . . . Elizabeth Bennet? The
New Women Warriors and the Gender Politics of Chick-
Lit/Monster Novel Mash-Ups
• Andy Engel, Wayne State University
“Fashion as Infection: Trauma and Capital in William Gibson's
Pattern Recognition”
• Theresa Gromek, John Carroll University
“Collection of Spare Parts: Ishiguro's Clones' Curious Position
within Human Society”
I-11 Joycean Space: Sensed, Seen, and Signed (Organized by Jim
LeBlanc, International James Joyce Foundation)
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 223
Chair: Jim LeBlanc, Cornell University
• William Brockman, Pennsylvania State University
“The (E)State of James Joyce's Letters”
• Thomas Jackson Rice, University of South Carolina
“A Mind’s Eye View: Imaging the Read in James Joyce”
• Jim LeBlanc, Cornell University
“Agoraphobia in James Joyce's 'Eveline'”
I-12 Telling Art in Robert Penn Warren's Poetry (Organized by
Patricia Bradley, Robert Penn Warren Society)
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 221
Chair: Patricia Bradley, Middle Tennessee State University
• Kelly Whiddon, Macon State College
“Folklore in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren: Where the
Storyteller and the Hero Converge”
• Kim Hutto, Middle Tennessee State University
“Robert Penn Warren's Audubon: The Art of Seeing”
• Joseph Millichap, Western Kentucky University
“Photography as Narrative in Robert Penn Warren's Poetry”
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I-13 The 1950s and Its Afterlives: Contemporary Texts, Postwar
Precursors (Organized by Benjamin Lee, Association for the
Study of the Arts of the Present)
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 121
Chair: Benjamin Lee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Benjamin Lee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Meditations in an Emergency: Frank O'Hara and the Crises of
Late Capitalism”
• Don Belton, Indiana University
“New Jazz from Another Country”
• J. Dillon Brown, Washington University, St. Louis
“Windrush, Continued? Postwar Black British Writing in the
Present Tense”
I-14 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 202
Chair: Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy
• Brian L. Jackson, University of Illinois, Springfield
From Delancey West (poetry)
• Michele Moore, Atlanta, Georgia
Cremo College (fiction)
• Charlotte Pence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Poetry
• Kyle David Torke, US Air Force Academy
Sunset Falls (fiction)
I-15 Tapping The Wire II (The Son of Snoop): Performance,
Supplement, Conspiracy
(Panel prearranged by Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University)
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room 101
Chair: Julie Burrell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Julie Burrell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Racial Performance and Performativity in The Wire”
• Dennis W. Allen, West Virginia University
“No Big Thing: The Wire's Supplementary Logic”
• Judith Roof, Michigan State University
“True Grit: Aurality and the Pleasures of Conspiracy in The Wire"
I-16 New Horizons in the Analysis of Lat-Mex Borderland Film
(Panel prearranged by Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State
University)
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 210
Chair: Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University
• Frederick Luis Aldama, Ohio State University
“Affective Congruence and Brown Body Crossings in Sin Nombre”
• Christopher Gonzalez, Ohio State University
“'Connecting' to Borderland Consciousness: Cognition and
Narrative Design in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer”
• Samuel Saldivar, Ohio State University
“The Living Dead, or, Brown Bodies that Matter”
 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
CLOSING SPEAKER T h e 39th A n n u al Louisville Conference
on Literature and Culture since 1900

Rita Felski February 24, 25, and 26, 2011

Submission deadline:
University of Virginia September 15, 2010 (Postmarked)

Please refer to the guidelines posted on our

"The Demon of website in early April

www.thelouisvilleconference.com

Interpretation" Proposals (abstracts) for critical papers may be submitted

on any topic that addresses literary works published since
1900, and/or their relationship with other arts and
disciplines (film, journalism, opera, music, pop culture,
painting, architecture, law).
Saturday, 4:30 - 5:30 pm.
Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Individual creative submissions (poetry or short fiction)
are also encouraged.
Auditorium
For details, or to be put on our mailing list, contact:

Introduced by Suzette Henke

Danielle R. Day, Conference Director,
English Department, Classical and Modern Languages,
University of Louisville University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292
(502) 852-6686
dlday@louisville.edu

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 Presenter’s and Chair’s Index

Abel, Lydia D 10 Brown, Jacqueline E. B 9, E 12, G 13 Dragan, Richard E 3

Adams, Ann Marie A 1 Brown, Christina Riley H 9 Duyfhuizen, Bernard H 10
Adel, Nina F 16 Brown,J. Dillon I 13 Dwyer, Florence E 11
Adelman,Deborah E 16 Buchanan, Rhonda A 13 Dykstra, Kristin H 16
Agudo,Elena Aldea E 14 Buchanan, Jason E 5 Eberly, David F 11
Aguilar-Monsalve,Luis A. A 13 Buonocore, Eleonora E 13 Edgar,Eir-Anne E. I 2
Aldama, Frederick Luis C 14, I 16 Burgess, Jermemy A 8 Edgington,Erin E. A 12
Allen, Dennis W. I 15 Burrell, Julie I 15 Edmonds, Joanne H. G 8
Allton, Kevin C 7, H 3 Byerman, Keith A 11, B 11 Edwards, Mike D 14
Amaya, Elizabeth B 14 Camden,J ennifer B. H 14 Edwards,Trista B 5
Apgar,Jen F 12 Capitani, Diane F 13 Elias, Camelia H 15
Ards,Angela A9 Carrière, Julien E 11 Engel, Andy I 10
Armengol,Armando E 15 Carroll, Jordan S. G 2 Erwin, Chase C7
Arnold,Kevin I8 Casmier, Stephen B 11 Fairfield, James A2
Arnold,Lisa I8 Cedeño, Aristófanes C 13 Fallon, April D. I5
Arranz, Carmen E 14 Chambers, E. James B 6, F 9 Farrar, Aileen F7
Ash, Aja F 3 Charters, Duncan C 11 Farrell, Cole E. F 9
Ashton, Hilarie D 3 Cheek, Cris D2 Farrell,Tim D3
Asya, Ferdâ C 3, D 7 Childress, Cindy A 14 Farris, Nettie B 15
Badenhausen, Richard F 7 Chrusciel, Ewa H 7 Feito, Patricia M. F 6
Baker, Kimberly A. H 16 Clifford, Pat C 13 Fernandes, Gisele Manganelli E 10
Baker,J. Robert G 8 Coaplen-Anderson,Carrie C 16, F 6 Fife,Anthony B1
Balma, Philip E 13 Cobb, Alexander I 4 Figueroa,Ceida Fernández G 14
Balma,Philip C 15 Cochran, Kate H9 Filling, Michelle L. C 9
Barlow,Renee A2 Cochran-Weber, Brooke A 12 Fioretti, Daniele E 13
Barrows, Adam B 7 Cochran, Amanda E 1 Fleischer, Stephanie Owen B 9
Bazán-Figueras, Patricia A 13 Cochran, Kate H 9 Fonseca-Greber, Bonnie C 11
Belton, Don I 13 Colebrook, Martyn F 1 Fore, Melissa C6
Bertsch, Charlie H 4 Coleman, Collin C. H 1 Forster, Chris B7
Bessette, Lee E. S. D 12 Collins, Jennifer L. G 1 Fournier, Michael B 3
Biberman, Matthew A 4 Collins, Peter I2 Francis, Pamela B 3, D 11
Birkenstein, Jeff G 6 Combs, Lorah Kristin E 1 Fridlund, Emily E9
Blackwell, Stephen A 10 Cooper, Ken A5 Frye, Mitch B8
Blair, Nicole D 5, F 8 Cotugno, Marianne A 10 Gabrys, Gosia B1
Blazer, Alex E. D 3 Craig, J. P. A 3 Galbus, Julia A. H3
Boada, Richard Andrew C 16, H 8 Cull, Ryan H 13 García-Castañón, Santiago 14
Boffemmyer, Mindy A 5 Cullum, Charles I 4 Geis, Deborah R. A 7
Booker, John T. F 13 Czarnecki, Kristin E 9 Gerds, Jenna C8
Booth, Andrew A 10 D'Angelo, Lori G 15 Gervasi, Clare F. I 8
Borman, David D6 Dahn, Eurie B8 Geter, Kirsten L. B 5
Boselli, Stefano D 14 Dale, Daniel F3 Ghimire, Bishnue D 4
Bosley,Vanessa M. H 5 Danielson, Kristine B 3 Giaimo, Paul E 10
Boudreau, Douglas L. A 12 Davis, Cynthia G5 Gibson III, Ernest L. H 17
Bouttier, Sarah I7 Davis, H. Louise C 6 Giroux, Christopher G 4
Bowman, Matthew I 3 Dawkins,Laura B 9 Glaser, Brian Brodhead G 10
Boydston, Susan Hathaway H 15 Dawson, J. T. C 16 Glazier, Jeremy B 2, I 5
Bradley, Patricia I 12 Dawson, Kellie G 11, H 1 Goddard, Ekeama E 5
Bradley, Jerry E 16 De Posada, David C 13 Godshalk, William D 11
Bradley, John G3 De La Garza Valenzuela, Jose A. D 15 Goessling, Jacob D 15
Bradley, Patricia L. I 12 De La Torre,Roberto E 15 Golden, Cameron H 8
Bremen, Brian A. F 11 Decker, Shelley L. B 5 Gómez, Myrriah D 15
Bremm, Doris D4 Delegal, Philip E 14 Gonzalez-Liaño, Iria G 14
Brockman, William I 11 DeSelm, Andrew E 12 Gonzalez-Liaño, Iria E 14
Brockmeier, Victoria A 3 Dibble, Lewis A6 Gonzalez, Christopher I 16
Brockmeier, Victoria H 8 Dixon, Al C 4, H 16 Gooch, S. C. E5
Brooke, Patricia E 7 Donahue, Joseph E 4 Gordon, Andrew M. H 15

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Grace, Andrew G 15 Kaczorowski, Kimberly G 2 McCown, Cynthia D 10

Graves, Roy Neil C 16 Kaczvinsky, Donald P. D 3 McGowan, Marcia Phillips F 6
Graybill, Mark S. G 12 Kalich, Natalie M. H 11 McGrath, Jackie C 5
Green, Chris F2 Kaluhiokalani, Kekoa C. E 1, H 5 McMillan, Scott E 6
Griffin, Jenelle C 12 Kattemalavadi, Chinmayi E 12 Medoro, Dana H 10
Groenwold, Melissa G 14 Keller, Lynn F4 Meissner, Collin C 1
Gromek, Theresa I 10 Kerman, Sarah C3 Melero, Pilar E 15
Guevara, Francisco A 4 Kinkade, Jill A. I2 Mellas, Tessa F 16
Gui, Weihsin D 6, G 4 Kinnahan, Linda F 4 Meyers, Ronald J. F 5
Gwiazda, Piotr D 1 Kivinen, Hannele B 10 Michael, Magali Cornier B 4
Hadley, Karen C 5, D 4 Klopp, Charles F 14 Mickalites, Carey James C 8
Halton, Eugene C1 Koelz, Stephen E8 Miller, Brook E9
Hamilton, Joshua B 14 Konkle, Amanda H 11 Miller, Elisabeth L. A 8
Harack, Katrina H 4 Koren, Jill Kelly H 3 Millichap, Joseph I 12
Harder, Hollie Markland D 12 Kovacik, Karen H7 Mondello, Kaitlin B 12
Harmon, Elizabeth B 14 Krafft, John H 10 Montag, Kassandra D 9
Harmon, William D 9 Krouse, Tonya H9 Montanez, Carmen L. D 15
Harper, Leslie G 15 Kubitschek, Missy Dehn I 1 Moody, Joshua F3
Harris, Carole K. F 16, G 12 Kuhn, Liz I7 Moore, Michele I 14
Hatten, Charles G1 Laist,Randy F 12 Morgan, Thomas L. H 12
Hawkins, Jeremy Allan F 16 Lane, Kathryn E. I 9 Morgan, S. D 16
Helgeson, Karen G 10 Langlinais, Chantel A 14 Morgan, Thomas L. H 12
Henkel, Scott H6 Lawrence, David Todd G 7 Morlan, Anna A 13, B 1
Henkel,Scott D7 LeBlanc, Jim I 11 Morris, Adalaide F 4
Herrero-Puertas, Manuel B 8, H 8 Lee, Katherine I 10 Morris, Daniel D 13, F 16
Heusel, Barbara G8 Lee, Benjamin I 13 Morrissey, Ted A 8, E 16, H 4
Hewitt, Avis G 12 Lee, E. Andrew D 10 Mrozowski, Daniel H 2
Hey, Damian Ward I 5 Lehman, Daniel W. F 8 Mullins, Anna I3
Hicks, Zachary A 10 LeRoy-Frazier, Jill E 3, F 6 Mullins, Matthew C 4
Higgs, Suzette D1 Leuschen, Kathleen T. I 8 Munkacsi, Tibor F 9
Hinojosa, Lynne Walhoust F 7 Levise, Joel D8 Murphy,John D 11
Hitchcock, A. David E 14, F 5 Levy, Heather A 14 Musgrave, Megan A 6
Hoeness-Krupsaw, Susanna B 10 Lewis, Trudy H 16 Muyumba, Walton B 11
Hofstetter, Angela G 10 Lina, John A5 Myman, Micki F 10
Holcomb, Brian D 6 Lingle, Brandon G 15, H 3, I 14 Nadel, Alan H 17
Hollenbach, Lisa G 3 Lo, Aline G3 Nealand, Eireene E 2
Holt, Megan D5 Lobo, Julius B3 Need, David A5
Hoogland, Renée C. C 2 Lockerd, Martin D 9, E 8 Neupane, Dhruba Jyoti B 2, D 8
Hopson, Cheryl R. B 9 Lohmeyer, Enno D 13 Newmark, Julianne B 7, H 12
Houston, Patricia A 14 Long, Alexander C 9 Nielsen, Aldon Lynn B 13, H 13, I 4
Howe, Mica H6 Longmuir, Anne F 12 Norman, Lance I3
Howe, William R. D 2 López, Alfred J. E5 Nuessel, Frank C 11
Huang-Tiller, Gillian B 12, C 10 Luck, Jessica Lewis I 6 Nyman, Micki C 7, F 10, G 13
Hunter, William R. I 1 Luger, Moberley B 3, D 16 O'Dell, Benjamin D. I 1
Hutto, Kim I 12 Lutenski, Emily H 13 O'Neal, Summer E 6
Isenhart, Ellie M. F 9 Mace, Susan Lidgate F 5, G 1 Oczkowicz, Edyta K. E 11
Jackson, Jennifer C 5, F 1 Makris, Mary B 14 Ogunfolabi, Kayode Omoniyi C 6
Jackson, Brian L. C 10, I 14 Maley,Patrick D 10 Olarte, Alejandra C 13
Jiménez, Eva María Gómez B 12 Manaster,Robert A 14 Oliver, Matthew D 6
Johnson, Benjamin C 8 Mansfield, Rick F 11 Onstoff, Wil W. E 6
Johnson, Katie N. D 10 Markow, Raluca F 5 Orsitto, Fulvio C 15, D 14
Johnson, Leigh D 15 Martins, José Endoença E 2 Ovan, Sabrina E 13
Johnson, Shavonne F 10 Mason, Daniel A 2, C 3 Pal, Dibakar B 10
Jones, Greenfield B 15, E 16 Matthews, Kadeshia L. A 9 Paloff, Benjamin H 7
Jones, Jessamon D 4 Mattis, Ann A2 Parker, Jason Thomas H 5
Justus, Jeremy H 17 McCombe, John B 2, F 7 Pavlov, Svetoslav P. E 2

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Peckham, Joel F 2 Spinelli, Don F 14
DINING FACILITIES
Peckham, Rachael F 2 Spooner, Megan D 1
Campus
Pence, Charlotte I 14 Stanton, Brandi E 7
Persenaire, Kristina H 5 Stewart,Derrick G 13
Petersen, Robert C. E 6 Strombeck, Andrew F 3 Student Activities Center ( SAC)
Peterson, James B. E 7 Stryffeler, Ryan D. E 7 Look for the Clock Tower
Peterson, Rai B 12 Sullivan, M. Neil H 4, I 2 Both Terrace (2nd floor) and
Pett, Scott D3 Surliuga, Victoria F 14
Ground Floor Food Courts
Pignatelli, Louis C 1 Sutton, Matthew G 2
Pihakis, James B 15, C 4 Switaj, Elizabeth Kate A 8, E 16 Not open on Saturday
Pleasant, Lesley E 12, F 8 Tajibaeva, Janna H 11
Plicka, Joe E3 Taylor, Corey M. C 9 Mitzi’s (basement, Miller
Polzin, Beth D7 Thorpe, Katherine C 3, G 15 Technology Building)
Pooser, Charles D 12 Todd, Ian Scott G 5
Mon - Fri 7:30 am- 3:00 pm
Porco, Alessandro C 10, D 8 Tonkin, Humphrey C 11
Prince, Adam C 16 Torke, Kyle David I 14 Not open on Saturday
Rang, Leah D 13 Trauman, Ryan D 16, F 13
Raschke, Debrah B 10 Turnage, Olivia R. H 2
Reed, Marthe A 14 Umana, Adrianna I 7 Near Campus (within walking
Rentschler, Erin M. H 12 Umminger, Alison B 5
distance)
Rice, Thomas Jackson I 11 Valle, Enid G 14
Rich, Charlotte G 6 Veladota, Christina H 16
Riemer, James D. G 4 Vidich, Paul D 16 Café Bristol (Speed Art Museum)
Rizzo, Therese M. C 9 Vincent, Timothy C. E 9 Reservations suggested 634-2723
Robison, Rhonda Dean A 14 Vine, Liz H 5 Tues - Sat,11:30 am-2:00 pm
Rodden IV, Ivan B 15, D 2, E 1 Viola, Anthony J. F 2
Roof, Judith I 15 Vipond, Dianne A 1
Ross, Shawna H 14 Vosburg, Carolyn Kirk I 9
Royo, Adrienne E 2 Waag, Michael E 15
Rubin, Lois E. B1 Walker, Karen G7
Ruddy, Sarah C2 Wallace, Cynthia R. I 6
Rupert, Jennifer Jane C 12 Walser, Andrew D 1
Russo, Michelle Hebert I 9 Wanczyk, David D 5
Rydel, Christine A. A 1 Wang, Huei-ju D7
Saldivar, Samuel I 16 Watten, Barrett C2
Samples, Suzanne G 6 Webster, Michael B 12
Samuels, Wilfred A 11, B 11 Weisenburger, Steve H 10
Sandman, Sarah B 6 Weiss, Greg H1
Scheiber, Elizabeth A 7, F 14 Welty, William F8
Scheiber, Andrew H 6 Wheeler,J ames A3
Scheiner-Bobis, Sarah Thalia G 11 Whiddon, Kelly I 12
Schoenfeld,Staci R. A 4 Wiles, Matthew G 13
Schreier, Benjamin A 7, B 4 Williams, Ruth A 3
Scroggins,Mark A 3 Williams, Tyrone D 2
Sefami,Jacoco F 15 Willman, Skip F 1
Sewell, Josh B5 Wills, Katherine V. A 6
Sewell, Matthew A 7 Wingard, Leslie A9
Seymour, Nicole A 1, G 2 Wortman, Stefanie E 8
Shadko, Jacqueline A. B 2 Yang, Carol L. D 9, E 8
Shannon,Drew Patrick B 7 Yohe, Kristine F 13
Sharma, Ghanashyam D 1 Youngblood, Stephanie B 4
Shipe, Matthew G 11 Zamsky, Robert L. E 4
Signori, Lisa F. A 12 Zanelli, Marco D 14
Silbergleid, Robin I 8 Zeng, Li G 4
Sligh, Charles D 11 Zorn, Christa C 8, D 13
Sorensen, Bent H 15 Zubeck, Jacqueline E 10, F 12, G 12
Sowders, Tom G 10 Zychowicz, Jessica H 7
Spani, Giovanni C 15
Spector, Judith A. (Judy) A 6

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 Hotel Shuttle Bus Schedule 2010
The Conference will provide (yellow school) bus service between the hotel and campus.
The buses will run on a circuit: hotel-campus-hotel.
The bell captain at the Brown Hotel will have a copy of this schedule.

Bus stops: Brown Hotel, UofL campus,

Broadway side of hotel, North Visitors' Center

Please note:
Times listed are DEPARTURE times from the stated bus stop.
(About 15 minutes to or from)
Eastern Standard Time

Thursday Friday Saturday

Brown UofL Brown UofL Brown UofL
Hotel Hotel Hotel
10:00 10:30 7:30 8:00 9:00 9:30
11:00 11:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 10:30
12:00 12:30 9:30 10:00 11:00 12:00
1:00 1:30 10:30 11:00 12:30 1:30
2:00 2:30 12:30 1:00 2:00 2:45
4:00 4:30 1:30 2:00 4:30
5:00 5:30 2:30 3:00 5:45
6:30 3:30 4:00
7:45 4:30 5:15
6:30

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 The Louisville Conference
on Literature and Culture since 1900

Committee Members
Conference Year 2010

Danielle R. Day, Director

Sylvia Berger, Coordinator
Marie Frana, Assistant

Committee Members

Matthew Biberman, English

Rhonda Buchanan, Spanish
Thomas B. Byers, English
Karen Chandler, English
William Cunningham, German
Matthieu Dalle, French
Alan Golding, English
Susan M. Griffin, English
Karen Hadley, English
Suzette A. Henke, English
Augustus Mastri, Italian
Gabriela Nuñez, English
Nicole Seymour, English
Jeffrey Skinner, English
Ann Elizabeth Willey, English
Li Zeng, Chinese

Manuel F. Medina, Website Design

James Hensley - Website Maintenance

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