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September 2017

Volume 132 Number 4

PMLA

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

Published five times a year by the association

Program of the 2018 Convention

New York City

4–7 January

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THE MODERN LANGUAGE

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA

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Organized 1883, Incorporated 1900

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Ofﬁcers

FOR THE TERM ENDING 7 JANUARY2018

President

DT

New York University

First Vice President

ARG

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Second Vice President

SE.G

Princeton University

Executive Director

PM.K

Executive Council

FOR THE TERM ENDING 7 JANUARY 2018

B C

Brown University

G G. D

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

M R. H

University of Connecticut, Storrs

T D S-W

Vanderbilt University

FOR THE TERM ENDING 6 JANUARY 2019

E A

New York University

D P-L

Stanford University

V U

University of Kansas

FOR THE TERM ENDING 12 JANUARY 2020

A B

Emory University

L H

University of Wisconsin, Madison

D T- P

University of California, Irvine

R A. R M

University of California, Los Angeles

FOR THE TERM ENDING 10 JANUARY 2021

E H

Penn State University, University Park

E S

Rutgers University, New Brunswick

D A. W

Howard University

Trustees of Invested Funds

M B. S (Managing Trustee)

New York, New York

D C. S

New York, New York

C R. S

New York, New York

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Cover: Interior view of the Statue of Liberty.

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of

Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

780 About the MLA Convention

782 General Convention Information and Services

790 Exhibitors

791 Floor Plan of the Exhibit Area

792 Map of New York Hotels

793 Individual Convention Program

Indexes

794 Sessions Open to the Public

794 Plenaries and Linked Sessions

794 Special Events

794 Other Sessions Open to the Public

795 Forum Sessions

798 MLA-Sponsored Sessions

799 Working Groups

800 Allied Organization Sessions

802 Subject Index to All Sessions

814 Program Participants

Program

835 Thursday, 4 January (sessions 1–196)

868 Friday, 5 January (sessions 197–452)

909 Saturday, 6 January (sessions 453–717)

953 Sunday, 7 January (sessions 719–830)

972 Forum Executive Committees

982 Index of Advertisers

Contents SEPTEMBER 2017

HE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, FIRST HELD IN

1883, is an annual gathering of teachers and scholars in the eld

of language and literature study. e convention enables members

of the profession to share their ideas and research with colleagues from

other universities and colleges. Sessions will be in the New York Hilton

Mid town and the Sheraton New York Times Square; the exhibit hall and

the MLA Career Center will be in the New York Hilton Midtown. Ses sions

begin at 12:00 noon on 4 January, and there are workshops at 8:30a.m.

and 11:45a.m. The last sessions will end at 1:15p.m. on 7January.

Convention sessions are organized by MLA members, but non-

members are welcome to attend. All participants—members and

nonmembers alike—must pay registration fees. Registrants receive

badges, which entitle convention attendees to gain admittance to ses-

sions, the MLA Career Center, and the exhibit hall. Registrants who

lose their badges may purchase replacements at the registration areas.

Sessions

Most sessions at the 2018 MLA convention were arranged by the

membership at large, either through the association’s forums or by in-

dividual members. Attendance is open to all convention registrants,

but only current MLA members may organize or participate formally

in sessions. On occasion, the membership requirement is waived for

individuals whose main interests are in other disciplines. e kinds

of sessions arranged for this year’s convention are described below.

Forum Sessions

MLA forums encompass the scholarly and professional concerns

of the association; to this end, their executive committees advise

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o n s p e c i  c r e s e a r c h a n d p e d a g o g i c a l n e e d s ,

p r o p o s e t o t h e M LA Executive Council pro-

grams that might be undertaken on behalf of

their forums, compile information of inter-

est to their members for publication in MLA

periodicals or in special mailings, and elect

forum representatives to serve in the MLA

Delegate Assembly.

Members who have suggestions for a

forum’s sessions or who would like to par

ticipate in those sessions should correspond

with the 2018 secretary of the appropriate fo-

rum, since 2018 secretaries become chairs for

the 2019 convention (see the list of executive

committee members that follows the sessions

listing). For forums approved in 2017, the ex-

ecutive committee members will be listed on

the MLA Web site in January 2018.

Plenaries

Arranged by forums or individual members,

plenaries are meetings on topics of broad in

terest. e MLA executive director, with the

assistance of the Program Committee, has -

nal responsibility for approving plenaries.

Special Sessions

MLA members whose scholarly or professional

interests are not adequately accommodated

through convention programs arranged by the

forums may propose special sessions. These

sessions are the most specialized of all conven-

tion meetings and are intended to enable par-

ticipants to exchange ideas on specic topics.

Members who wish to organize a spe-

cial session for the 2019 convention should

carefully read the guidelines, available on

the MLA Web site (www .mla .org/ organizing

-meetings/), governing the organization of

these sessions and should observe the dead

lines for 2018–19 announced in the Fall MLA

Newsletter and on the MLA Web site. Pro-

posals for special sessions must be submitted

on the forms provided for this purpose; the

forms and other useful information about

submitting a proposal will be available on the

MLA Web site.

Allied Organization Sessions

Other scholarly, business, or social meetings

are arranged in conjunction with the MLA

convention by ocially recognized allied or

ganizations. Typically, these organizations

are learned societies or professional associa

tions whose purposes are closely allied with

those of the MLA.

Forums

Beginning with the 2016 convention, entities

formerly known as divisions and discussion

groups have become forums, and new fo

rums that were approved since then are now

sponsoring sessions at the meeting. Sessions

previously called forums are now called ple

nary sessions. A list of the forums is avail-

able on the MLA Web site (www .mla .org/

Membership/ Forums/).

Organizing Sessions for 2019

Please see the Procedures for Organizing Meet-

ings on the MLA Web site (www .mla .org/

organizing -meetings/) for further details on

all types of sessions. All program copy is due

1April 2018 for the 2019 convention in Chicago.

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About the MLA Convention 

 Registration and Housing

Membership in the MLA; Fees; On- Site Registration; Registration Refunds;

Hotels; Identication

 Transportation to and in New York City

 Program Online and Convention App

 Policies

Audio- and Videotaping at Sessions; Badges; Fragrance; Guest Passes;

MLA’sPolicies against Discrimination and Harassment; Reading in

Absentia; Smoking

 On- Site Resources

Childcare; Convention Guide and Convention Daily; Disabilities, Facilities

and Services for Persons with; Friends of Bill W.; Headquarters Oces;

Lounges; MLA Registration and Welcome Center; Press Oce; Speaker

Ready Rooms; Twit ter ; “Who’s Here” Directory; Wi- Fi Access

 MLA Career Center

For Prearranged Interviews

 Exhibits

MLA PubCentral

 Event Highlights

MLA Awards Ceremony; Presidential Address; Presidential Plenary; MLA

Style Workshops; Delegate Assembly

 Professional Development

Connected Academics; Council of Editors of Learned Journals; Funding in

the Humanities Workshop; NEH Information

 Future Conventions

Calls for Papers; Locations; Organizing Sessions

Registration and Housing

All persons wishing to participate in or attend meetings or use con-

vention services must register for the convention.

General Convention Information and Services

Please check the Convention Daily, avail-

able on-site and online, for updates to

session information and more. Visit the

Information for Attendees page for fur

ther details on convention information

and services (www.mla.org/Information

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Membership in the MLA

Individuals who join the association while

registering for the convention are entitled to

of those who would like to join the MLA, as

well as for continuing members who would

like to renew, a membership desk will be lo

cated in the registration and welcome center.

Fees

All registration fees are in US dollars.

Early registration fees from 7 Septem-

ber through 2 October are as follows: regu-

lar members, $185; regular members outside

the United States and Canada, $90; graduate

student members, $55; emeriti members, $90;

unemployed members and members em-

ployed part- time, $60.

Registration fees from 3 October through

5 December are as follows: regular members,

$220; regular members outside the United

States and Canada, $90; graduate student

members, $55; emeriti members, $90; un

employed members and members employed

part- time, $60; nonmembers, $285; student

nonmembers, $80.

Registration fees after 6 December are

as follows: regular members, $265; regular

members outside the United States and Can

ada, $110; graduate student members, $65;

emeriti members, $110; unemployed mem

bers and members employed part- time, $70;

nonmembers, $320; student nonmembers,

$90. Registrations will be accepted through

out December, but programs (for nonmem-

bers) and badges may not be sent.

On- Site Registration

Attendees who have not registered may regis-

ter during the convention at the registration

area in the New York Hilton (Promenade, sec-

ond oor). e registration area will be open

on 4 January from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00p.m., on

5 and 6 January from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.,

and on 7 January from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m.

Registration Refunds

Requests for refunds of registration fees must

be made in writing, accompanied by unused

convention badges, sent to the head of con

vention programs at the MLA office, and

postmarked no later than 5 January 2018. Re

funds requested aer 5 January 2018 will not

be granted. A $25 service fee will be deducted

from all refunds.

Hotels

Hotel rooms at the special MLA rates are

available only to persons who are registered

for the convention. Each convention regis

trant can reserve one hotel room.

Identiﬁcation

You may need to have a government- issued

photo ID when you check into your hotel.

Security personnel may ask to see your hotel

room key or may ask that you be accompa

nied by a hotel guest with a room key.

Transportation to and in New York City

MLA convention hotels are located in mid-

town Manhattan.

Program Online and Convention App

A searchable program for the convention is

available online. You can also download the

MLA convention app, through which you can

create a personal convention schedule and ac-

cess session information, maps, the list of ex-

hibitors, and other convention details.

Policies

Audio- and Videotaping at Sessions

Neither audiotaping nor videotaping of ses-

sions is normally permitted. Occasional

exceptions may be made for members of

the media taping short segments designed

to convey the convention atmosphere. Such

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arrangements must be made through the press

oce and require the consent of all speakers

at a session. When taping is approved, a repre-

sentative of the media sta will accompany the

reporter and crew. e session organizer will

announce to the audience that audio- or vid

eotaping will take place during a part of the

session. Only background taping is allowed,

not the taping of an entire session. Requests

to lm the convention as part of a creative or

documentary project must have been submit

ted to the Executive Council by 13 October.

Badges

Badges are required for admission to conven-

tion sessions, the exhibit hall, and the MLA

Career Center. Badge holders are available

at the MLA registration and welcome center,

where attendees can also replace lost badges

for $20.

Fragrance

The Committee on Disability Issues in the

Profession reminds attendees that refraining

from using scented products will help ensure

the comfort of everyone at the convention.

Guest Passes

All MLA members and members of the pro-

fession that the MLA serves must register to

participate in or attend sessions.

A convention speaker may obtain a pass

for a guest who has no professional interest in

language or literature; the pass is valid only

to hear a presentation given by that speaker

at a single session. e speaker must request

the pass at the MLA registration and welcome

center on the day of the session, before the

center closes. e speaker must provide his

or her name, session details (session number,

room, date, and time), and the guest’s name.

Passes may not be requested by guests of

speakers or by MLA members who have not

registered for the convention.

MLA convention registrants may obtain

free passes to the exhibit hall for guests they

accompany in the hall. Persons who are not

registered for the convention and who are

not accompanied by registrants may pur

chase a one- day pass to the exhibit hall for

$10. ese passes are available at the exhibit

registration booth, New York Hilton (Prom

enade, second oor).

MLA’s Policies against Discrimination

andHarassment

e MLA prohibits discrimination in employ-

ment, including discrimination in the form of

harassment, against any person on the basis of

race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age,

sexual orientation, disability, gender identity

or expression, marital status, genetic pre

disposition or carrier status, military status,

or any other characteristic protected by law.

Sexual harassment (such as unwelcome sexual

advances, requests for sexual favors, or other

verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature)

is a specific type of discriminatory harass-

ment and is prohibited. e MLA has policies

in place to ensure that any violations involv-

ing MLA employees will be handled in an

appropriate manner. If you believe you have

been subjected to unlawful discrimination by

an MLA employee, please contact Arlene Bar-

nard, Terrence Callaghan, or Angela Gibson.

The MLA reminds participants in the

convention that federal law prohibits discrim-

ination in employment, including discrimi-

nation in the form of harassment, against any

person. Please ensure that all individuals in

your organization who are participating in

the MLA’s convention as your representatives

are made aware of and understand that they

must comply with applicable law.

Reading in Absentia

To encourage discussion and dialogue among

panelists and attendees at convention sessions,

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reading in absentia (whether by Skype, video-

conferencing, audio delivery, or presentation by

surrogates) is not normally permitted. Present-

ers who are unable to attend the convention be-

cause of unforeseen emergencies may include a

link to their papers in the online Program.

Smoking

Smoking is prohibited in most public places

in New York City.

On- Site Resources

Childcare

MLA members who are registered for the

convention and use childcare services pro

vided by one of the convention hotels or an-

other service are eligible for reimbursement.

e MLA has funds available for reimburse

ment of up to $400 each to registered mem-

bers who use childcare during convention

hours. If more requests are received than can

be reimbursed with available funds, prefer-

ence will be given to graduate students and

members in lower- income categories.

Members should submit a request for re-

imbursement, along with supporting docu-

mentation such as a receipt from a childcare

service, no later than 27 January 2018 to Karin

Bagnall, Head of Convention Programs, Mod

ern Language Association, 85 Broad Street,

suite 500, New York, NY 10004-2434.

Nursing Mothers. Space is available in the

New York Hilton (Concourse H, Concourse

level) and Sheraton New York (Turtle Bay,

lower lobby) during meeting hours for those

who require it.

Convention Guide and Convention Daily

The Convention Guide, containing city and

hotel maps and providing general informa

tion pertinent throughout the convention, will

be available as a PDF on the MLA Web site

and as a handout at the convention. e Con

vention Daily prints special notices, changes

in schedule, and brief reports on convention

activities and appears ursday, Friday, and

Saturday during the convention. Copies are

available free at the MLA registration and wel-

come center; the 4 January issue will appear

on the MLA Web site before the convention.

Disabilities, Facilities and Services for

Persons with

e MLA is committed to making arrange-

ments that allow all members of the associa-

tion to participate in the convention. Stacey

Courtney coordinates arrangements for per

sons with disabilities.

Desks for Attendees with Disabilities. ere

will be desks in the MLA registration and

welcome center at the New York Hilton

(Promenade, second oor) and at the Shera

ton New York staed with personnel who can

provide assistance to convention attendees

with disabilities.

Meeting Rooms. Meeting rooms at the conven-

tion are accessible by elevator, and the doors

are wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs.

Hotel Rooms. To reserve hotel rooms that are

specically equipped for persons with perma-

nent or temporary disabilities, participants

must have checked the appropriate boxes on

the convention registration and housing reser-

vation forms or contacted Stacey Courtney in

the MLA convention oce by 17 November.

Transportation. Complimentary transporta-

tion services will be available during conven-

tion meeting hours to transport attendees

with disabilities. Details will be available

closer to the convention.

Sessions. Speakers are asked to bring five

copies of their papers, even in draft form,

for the use of members who wish to follow

the written text. Speakers who use handouts

should prepare some copies in a large- print

format (14- to 16- point type size). Speakers

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should indicate whether they want their pa-

pers and handouts returned. Sign language

interpreters and real- time captioning may be

requested in advance. e deadline to arrange

for either service is 17 November, though the

convention office will make every effort to

accommodate late requests. To arrange for

either of these services, write or call Stacey

Courtney in the MLA convention oce.

Scooter Rentals. For navigating the conven-

tion more easily, scooters can be rented in

advance from Scootaround (888 441-7575 or

locations .scootaround .com/ MLA).

Friends of Bill W.

Madison Suite 1 in the Sheraton New York

(fifth floor) is set aside for the Friends of

BillW. throughout convention hours.

Headquarters Ofﬁces

Headquarters offices will be located in the

New York Hilton (Green Room, fourth oor)

and the Sheraton New York (Bryant Park,

lower level). e oces will be open on 4Jan-

uary from 8:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., on 5 and

6January from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., and on

7 January from 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Lounges

An area furnished with comfortable chairs

and tables where members may congregate for

discussion or relaxation will be provided in

the New York Hilton (Promenade, third oor)

and Sheraton New York (Lenox Ballroom, sec-

ond oor). A graduate student lounge will be

located in the New York Hilton (Trianon Ren

dezvous, third oor) and will be open on 4, 5,

and 6 January from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and

on 7 January from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

MLA Registration and Welcome Center

General questions about the convention and

the association will be answered at the MLA

registration and welcome center in the New

York Hilton (Promenade, second floor).

The center will be open on 4 January from

8:00a.m. to 7:00 p.m., on 5 and 6 January

from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and on 7 January

from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m.

Press Ofﬁce

The press office is located in the New York

Hilton (East, fourth oor).

Speaker Ready Rooms

Space in the New York Hilton (Morgan, sec-

ond oor) and Sheraton New York (Carnegie

West, third oor) has been reserved to allow

speakers to run through their audiovisual

presentations before their sessions. Those

who have computer presentations are strongly

encouraged to test their presentations in the

speaker ready room during convention hours.

Please contact Deirdre Henry (dhenry@ mla

.org) with audiovisual questions. Requests

for audiovisual equipment were due 1 April;

we regret that we are unable to accommodate

late requests.

Twitter

We encourage attendees to tweet sessions us-

ing the convention hashtag (#mla18) and ses-

sion hashtags (e.g., #s441).

“Who’s Here” Directory

The “Who’s Here” directory will be posted

in the members’ lounges in the New York

Hilton and Sheraton New York. The direc

tory will include the names and convention

addresses of persons who make hotel reser

vations through the housing bureau or send

their local addresses to the MLA oce before

12 December. Only the names of hotels listed

on the convention housing form or local ad-

dresses are listed. Members are advised to

check their own “Who’s Here” listings for

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accuracy and to make any necessary revi-

sions. e information used to compile the

list comes from the housing service, not from

the MLA. ose who wish not to be listed in

the “Who’s Here” directory can make that

request on the convention registration form.

Wi- Fi Access

e MLA is providing free wireless Internet ac-

cess in the meeting rooms and public areas of

the New York Hilton and Sheraton New York.

MLA Career Center

The MLA Career Center (New York Hilton,

Americas II, third oor) will be open on 4Jan-

uary from 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., on 5and

6January from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and on

7January from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

A list of available positions will be

posted, and a counseling service for job can

didates will be available in the interview area

on 6and 7 January. An interviewers’ sign- in

le will be maintained. Space will be avail

able for interviews, but candidates and in-

terviewers are urged to arrange interviews

in advance. Job candidates are reminded that

almost no unscheduled interviews take place

at the convention. erefore, members are ad-

vised not to attend the convention for the sole

purpose of seeking employment if they do not

have scheduled interviews.

For Prearranged Interviews

Consult the interviewers’ sign- in file in the

MLA Career Center to nd out where your in-

terview is scheduled to take place. Allow your-

self ample time to obtain this information.

If your interview is scheduled for the in-

terview area, ask an MLA Career Center sta

member for the table number.

If the interview is scheduled in a hotel

room or if the interviewer has not signed in,

consult the “Who’s Here” directory near the

MLA Career Center. Once you know where

the interviewer is staying, you can call the ho-

tel information desk and be connected with

the interviewer’s hotel room. (For reasons

of safety, hotel staff members will not give

guests’ room numbers to callers.) If the inter

viewer is not in, use the hotel’s message facili-

ties. A message le in a hotel mailbox will be

ashed on the guest’s room telephone. If the

person is not listed in the “Who’s Here” direc-

tory, check the Program Participants section

of the convention program to see whether

that interviewer is speaking at or chairing a

session and can be reached at a specic time

and place or ask an MLA Career Center sta

member for help.

Exhibits

The exhibit hall (New York Hilton, Rhine-

lander Gallery, second floor, and Ameri-

casI, third floor) is open from 9:00 a.m.

to 6:00p.m. on 5 and 6 January and from

9:00a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on 7 January. Visit

nearly one hundred exhibit booths repre

senting the latest publications and a variety

of materials and services of interest to teach

ers, scholars, and students of language and

literature. Admission to the exhibit area is

restricted to persons wearing badges or car

rying appropriate passes. To view a list of

the 2018 exhibitors, go to page 790; visit

www .ml a .or g/ Convention/ MLA -2 018/ MLA

- Exhibit -Hall for additional information.

MLA PubCentral

Visit MLA PubCentral in the New York

Hilton (Rhinelander Gallery, second floor)

for everything related to the MLA’s publica

tions and digital initiatives programs. Shop

for MLA products—including the new edi

tion of the ML A Handbook—at the booth,

explore the MLA International Bibliography

and update your ORCID prole with Biblink,

update your MLA Commons prole and learn

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about Humanities Commons and the Com-

mons Open Repository Exchange (CORE), and

browse the winners of the MLA’s publication

prizes all in one central location.

Event Highlights

MLA Awards Ceremony

The awards ceremony will take place at

7:00p.m. on 6 January in the New York Hil

ton (West Ballroom, third oor). First Vice

President Anne Ruggles Gere will present the

MLA Publication Prizes; Executive Director

PaulaM. Krebs will present the MLA Inter

national Bibliography Fellowship Awards,

the seal of approval from the Committee on

Scholarly Editions, and the American Lit

erature Society’s Hubbell Medal for Lifetime

Achievement in American Literary Studies;

ADFL President William Nichols will present

the ADFL Award for Distinguished Service

to the Profession; ADE President Emily Todd

will present the ADE Francis Andrew March

Award; and President Diana Taylor will pre-

sent the MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly

Achievement. See page 952 for event details.

e session is open to the public and will be

followed by a reception.

Presidential Address

e Presidential Address will take place at

6:45 p.m. on 5 January in the Sheraton New

York (Metropolitan Ballroom East, second

floor). Executive Director Paula M. Krebs

will report on the association’s 2017 activi

ties, and President Diana Taylor will deliver

the Presidential Address. The session is

open to the public and will be followed by

a reception.

Presidential Plenary

The Presidential Plenary will take place at

3:30 p.m. on 5 January in the New York Hil

ton (West Ballroom, third oor).

MLA Style Workshops

On 6 January, MLA editors will lead two

workshops on documenting sources and

crediting the work of others. From 10:15 to

11:30 a.m. in the New York Hilton (Clinton,

second oor), MLA sta editors will provide

an in-depth explanation of the method for

documenting sources explained in the eighth

edition of the MLA Handbook. From 1:45 to

3:00 p.m. in the New York Hilton (Clinton,

second oor), editors will provide an overview

of paraphrasing and quoting sources, craft-

ing in-text citations, and using notes in MLA

style. Both sessions are suitable for librarians

and teachers as well as for students at all levels.

Delegate Assembly

Established in 1971 as an elected body repre-

senting the membership at large, the Delegate

Assembly, composed of over 270 delegates, de-

bates issues of concern to the membership and

advises the Executive Council on the associa-

tion’s policies, direction, goals, and structure.

An open hearing of the Delegate Assem-

bly, at which MLA members may pre sent their

views, will be held at 10:15 a.m. on 5January

in the New York Hilton (Mercury Ballroom,

third floor). This meeting is open only to

MLA members. Please remember to wear your

badge. Members who wish to submit emer-

gency resolutions to the Delegate Assembly

Organizing Committee should attend the open

hearing on resolutions on 5January at 12:00

noon in the New York Hilton (Mercury Ball

room, third oor). is meeting is open only

to MLA members. Please remember to wear

your badge. e deadline for submitting emer-

gency resolutions to the presider is 12:30 p.m.

Formal deliberations of the assembly,

at which any MLA member can speak (sub

ject to strict time limits), are scheduled for

12:30p.m. on 6 January in the New York Hil-

ton (East Ballroom, third oor). is meet-

ing is open only to MLA members. Please

remember to wear your badge.

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Procedures for submitting resolutions,

which are general statements of membership

sentiment, are described in article 11.C.3 of

the MLA constitution and in “Preparing

Resolutions for the Delegate Assembly” and

“Checklists for Submitting Resolutions,” on

the MLA Web site.

Professional Development

Connected Academics

is MLA initiative aims to serve the profes-

sional needs of those who pursue advanced

degrees in the humanities and offer new

possibilities for integrating the values of hu

manistic study into society. About a dozen

sessions related to the project will take place

at the convention.

Council of Editors of Learned Journals

Officers and experienced editors who are

members of the Council of Editors of Learned

Journals will be available for consultation

and advice for other editors and scholars who

have questions about what to expect in jour-

nal submission, peer review, and publishing

processes. Beginning scholars (graduate stu

dents and entry- level professors) are particu-

larly welcome.

Funding in the Humanities Workshop

On 5 January from 12:00 noon to 1:15 p.m. in

the New York Hilton (Sutton South, second

oor), a workshop, primarily geared toward

graduate students and junior faculty mem

bers, introduces the dierent kinds of grants

that are available for scholars in the humani-

ties and how to go about finding them. Fa-

cilitators discuss some things to bear in mind

as you cra an application so that it has the

greatest chance of being funded.

NEH Information

On 6 January from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the

New York Hilton (Gramercy West, second

floor), a senior program officer at the Na

tional Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

highlights recent awards and outlines cur-

rent funding opportunities. In addition to

emphasizing grant programs that support

individual and collaborative research and

educational opportunities, this workshop in-

cludes information on new developments at

the NEH and oers applicants strategies for

submitting comptetitve grant proposals.

Future Conventions

Calls for Papers

Go to the Calls for Papers page on the MLA

Web site to submit (Nov. 2017–28 Feb. 2018) or

review (Nov. 2017–31 Mar. 2018) calls for pa-

pers for the 2019 MLA convention in Chicago.

Locations

e 134th MLA Annual Convention will take

place in Chicago from 3 to 6 January 2019.

e 135th convention will take place in Se

attle from 9 to 12 January 2020. The 136th

convention will take place in Toronto from

7to 10 January 2021.

Organizing Sessions

Forms and instructions for organizing ses-

sions for the 2019 convention in Chicago

will be available on the MLA Web site in

March 2018.

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Exhibitors

135 MIT Press

329 University of Nebraska Press

324 New Directions

102 New York Review Books

102 New York Review Children's Collection

102 New York Review Comics

102 New York Review of Books

148 University of North Carolina Press

145 Northwestern University Press

102 NYRB Classics

102 NYRB Poets

120 NYU Press

150, 151 Ohio State University Press

324 Overlook Press

114, 115 Oxford University Press

108, 109 Penguin Random House - Knopf Doubleday

Academic

104, 105 Penguin Random House - Penguin

Academic

106, 107 Penguin Random House - RH Academic

142 Penn State University Press

121 University of Pennsylvania Press

326 Peter Lang Publishing

211 Polity

122, 123 Princeton University Press

126 Project MUSE

221, 223 Publishers Group West

131 University of Rochester Press

306, 307 Routledge

140 Rutgers University Press

314 SabbaticalHomes.com

220 Salem Press

318, 319 Scottish Writing Exhibition

325 Small Press Distribution

316, 317 Springer Nature

146, 147 Stanford University Press

110 SUNY Press

131 Tamesis Books

324 Tin House

132, 133 University of Toronto Press

321 Universitas Press

212 Wiley

129 Wilfrid Laurier University Press

216, 217 W. W. Norton

300 Yale University Press

BOOTH EXHIBITOR

327 ArtMattan Films

143 Artstor

200, 201 Bedford / St. Martin’s, Macmillan Learning

137, 138, 139 Bloomsbury

131 Boydell and Brewer / Camden House

317 Brill

323 Broadview Press

214, 215 Bucknell University Press

101 Cambria Press

116, 117 Cambridge University Press

131 Camden House

152, 153, 154 University of Chicago Press

118, 119 Columbia University Press

213 Cornell University Press

103 Council of Editors of Learned Journals

311 Counterpath / Field Editorial

136 De Gruyter

214, 215 University of Delaware Press

127, 128 Duke University Press

202 EBSCO

130 Edinburgh University Press

218 Editions du Marais

214, 215 Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

144 Fordham University Press

220 Grey House Publishing

221 Grove Atlantic

100 HarperCollins Publishers

112, 113 Harvard University Press

141 Haymarket Books

322 Ingram Academic Services

221, 223, 322 Ingram Content Group

305 Inside Higher Ed

148 University of Iowa Press

124 Johns Hopkins University Press, Books Division

125 Johns Hopkins University Press, Journals

Division

143 JSTOR

214, 215 Lehigh University Press

214, 215 Lexington Books

129 University of Massachusetts Press

203, 204 McFarland

111 University of Michigan Press

410, 412 Michigan State University Press

134 University of Minnesota Press

149 University Press of Mississippi

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Sheraton New York Times Square

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10:15–11:30 a.m.

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Individual Convention Program

This form has been provided to assist

attendees in planning their schedules

for the 2018 MLA convention.

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Sessions Open to the Public

Each session at the convention has

been assigned a number, roughly cor-

responding to the order in which the ses-

sions occur. In these lists, the numbers in

parentheses re fer to the session numbers

within the chronological listing in the Pro-

gram (sessions 1–196 take place on Thurs-

day, 4 Jan.; sessions 197–452 take place

on Friday, 5Jan.; sessions 453–717 take

place on Saturday, 6 Jan.; and sessions

719–830 take place on Sunday, 7 Jan.).

Plenaries and special events are open

to registrants and nonregistrants alike.

Because of the demand for space, other

sessions are not open to nonregistrants.

PLENARIES AND LINKED SESSIONS

e Matter of Writing (237)

e Presidential Plenary: #States of Insecurity (360)

Rights under Repression (517)

States of Insecurity: Accepting Vulnerability, Permeability, and Instability (597)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Falling for Prepositions, a Performance (450)

e Flesh of History: States of Insecurity across Borders (717)

OTHER SESSIONS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

e Humanities and Public Policy (89)

Investing in America’s Languages: On the AAAS Commission Report on

Language Learning (319)

Local Color to World Literature: An Interview with Jia Pingwa (331)

Romantics at Two Hundred: 2018 Reads 1818 (368)

e Presidential Address (441)

MLA Style Workshop: Creating Works-Cited Lists with the MLA Core

Elements(525)

Carmen Boullosa and Eloy Urroz in Conversation (538)

MLA Style Workshop: Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Citing Sources in the Text

(589)

A Conversation on the Intersection of the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter

Movements (678)

MLA Awards Ceremony (706)

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COMPARATIVE LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES (CLCS)

CLCS Medieval (582, 789)

CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern (181, 264, 539)

CLCS 18th-Century (77, 279, 615)

CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century (118, 327)

CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century (160, 550, 637)

CLCS Arthurian (300)

CLCS Caribbean (640)

CLCS Celtic (398, 669)

CLCS Classical and Modern (722)

CLCS European Regions (194, 515)

CLCS Global Anglophone (23, 409, 516)

CLCS Global Arab and Arab American (44A, 439, 511)

CLCS Global Hispanophone (266)

CLCS Global Jewish (257, 803)

CLCS Global South (281, 400, 585)

CLCS Hemispheric American (682)

CLCS Mediterranean (556)

CLCS Nordic (288)

GENRE STUDIES (GS)

GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature (18, 298, 625)

GS Comics and Graphic Narratives (173, 439, 729)

GS Drama and Performance (86, 552)

GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale (638)

GS Life Writing (59, 355, 567)

GS Nonction Prose (32, 283)

GS Poetry and Poetics (473, 549, 804)

GS Prose Fiction (10, 436, 774)

GS Speculative Fiction (376)

GS Travel Writing (196)

HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE PROFESSION (HEP)

HEP Community Colleges (25)

HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues (605)

HEP Teaching as a Profession (130, 314)

LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND CULTURES (LLC)

African

LLC African to 1990 (286)

LLC African since 1990 (258, 400, 481)

American

LLC Early American (172, 395, 688)

Forum Sessions

Numbers in parentheses refer to session

numbers in the Program.

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LLC 19th-Century American (148, 587, 724)

LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American

(30, 363, 547)

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American (410, 800)

LLC African American (42, 519)

LLC Asian American (413, 668, 790)

LLC Chicana and Chicano (28, 371, 466, 755)

LLC Indigenous Literatures of the United States and

Canada (58, 204, 587)

LLC Italian American (224)

LLC Jewish American (764)

LLC Latina and Latino (308, 646, 755)

LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages

Other an English (684)

LLC Southern United States (138, 699)

Arabic

LLC Arabic (163, 361, 705, 756)

Asian

LLC East Asian (112, 275, 584, 676)

LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic (211,

418, 620)

LLC West Asian (82, 417, 758)

Canada

LLC Canadian (369)

Catalan

LLC Catalan Studies (260, 628)

Chinese

LLC Ming and Qing Chinese (139, 500)

LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese (434,

500,559)

Dutch

LLC Dutch (233)

English

LLC Old English (154, 491, 669, 816)

LLC Middle English (247, 702, 789)

LLC Chaucer (107, 437, 544)

LLC 16th-Century English (113, 254, 437, 614)

LLC Shakespeare (340, 507)

LLC 17th-Century English (297, 365)

LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English

(630, 690)

LLC Late-18th-Century English (343, 560, 784)

LLC English Romantic (343, 475, 814)

LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English (59,

161, 423, 683, 783)

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and

Anglophone (55, 274, 516)

French

LLC Medieval French (26, 356, 501)

LLC 16th-Century French (226, 501, 733)

LLC 17th-Century French (526, 611, 826)

LLC 18th-Century French (185, 265, 526)

LLC 19th-Century French (142, 396)

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French (424, 463)

LLC Francophone (458, 588)

Galician

LLC Galician (680)

German

LLC German to 1700 (373, 824)

LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German (155, 576)

LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German (296, 792)

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German (12, 412, 505)

Hebrew

LLC Hebrew (21, 348, 803)

Hungarian

LLC Hungarian (36, 420)

Irish

LLC Irish (120A)

Italian

LLC Medieval and Renaissance Italian (244, 456, 798)

LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-Century Italian (39, 169)

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian (75, 405, 570, 748)

Japanese

LLC Japanese to 1900 (514, 786)

LLC Japanese since 1900 (49, 514)

Korean

LLC Korean (629, 778)

Latin American

LLC Colonial Latin American (128, 460)

LLC 19th-Century Latin American (174, 626)

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American (8, 249)

LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic (349)

LLC Mexican (305, 602, 827)

LLC Puerto Rican (379)

Occitan

LLC Occitan (92, 628)

Old Norse

LLC Old Norse (649)

Portuguese

LLC Global Portuguese (430)

LLC Luso-Brazilian (71, 199, 529, 736)

Romanian

LLC Romanian (246)

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Scottish

LLC Scottish (240)

Sephardic

LLC Sephardic (106)

Slavic

LLC Russian and Eurasian (394, 612, 697)

LLC Slavic and East European (74, 289, 654)

Spanish and Iberian

LLC Medieval Iberian (229, 397, 756)

LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian

Drama (165, 353)

LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian

Poetry and Prose (120, 794)

LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian

(14, 545)

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian

(677, 734)

Yiddish

LLC Yiddish (74, 295)

LANGUAGE STUDIES AND LINGUISTICS (LSL)

LSL Applied Linguistics (67, 503)

LSL General Linguistics (575)

LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics (267)

LSL Global English (477)

LSL Language and Society (318, 621, 735)

LSL Language Change (145, 623)

LSL Linguistics and Literature (335, 822)

LSL Romance Linguistics (83, 197)

LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning

(171,635)

MEDIA STUDIES (MS)

MS Opera and Musical Performance (653)

MS Screen Arts and Culture (88, 420, 457, 811)

MS Sound (428)

MS Visual Culture (386, 404)

RHETORIC, COMPOSITION, AND WRITING

STUDIES (RCWS)

RCWS Creative Writing (520, 657)

RCWS History and eory of Composition (478)

RCWS History and eory of Rhetoric (537, 801)

RCWS Literacy Studies (184, 402, 691)

RCWS Writing Pedagogies (66, 392)

THEORY AND METHOD (TM)

TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing (619)

TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography (35, 473)

TM Language eory (168, 422)

TM Libraries and Research (352)

TM Literary and Cultural eory (317, 675, 787)

TM Literary Criticism (104, 468)

TM e Teaching of Literature (157, 312)

TRANSDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS (TC)

TC Age Studies (541)

TC Anthropology and Literature (591, 738)

TC Cognitive and Aect Studies (44, 700)

TC Digital Humanities (57, 184, 304, 583, 808)

TC Disability Studies (90, 303, 569)

TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities (679,

821)

TC History and Literature (114)

TC Law and the Humanities (221, 679)

TC Marxism, Literature, and Society (573, 731)

TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies (521)

TC Memory Studies (364, 539)

TC Philosophy and Literature (222, 819)

TC Popular Culture (333, 462)

TC Postcolonial Studies (152, 609, 662, 820)

TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature (262, 807)

TC Race and Ethnicity Studies (103, 366, 566, 758)

TC Religion and Literature (69, 780)

TC Science and Literature (284, 351, 827)

TC Sexuality Studies (27, 399, 675)

TC Translation Studies (179, 600, 697)

TC Women’s and Gender Studies (405, 461, 793)

MLA-Sponsored Sessions

Numbers in parentheses refer to session

numbers in the Program.

Ad Hoc Committee on Advocacy Policies and Procedures (126)

ADE Executive Committee (6, 359, 416)

ADFL Executive Committee (7, 167, 557)

Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography (94, 156)

Association of Departments of English (558)

Association of Departments of English Ad Hoc Committee (80)

Association of Departments of Foreign Languages (65, 319, 390, 558)

Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities

(225, 771)

Committee on Community Colleges (91, 367, 656)

Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession (380, 681)

Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession (390, 703)

Committee on Information Technology (158, 440, 694)

Committee on K–16 Alliances (141, 562)

Committee on Scholarly Editions (332)

Committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and

Canada (149, 162, 223)

Committee on the New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare (151, 701)

Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession (342, 624)

Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (91, 644, 695)

Connected Academics Project (47, 101, 159, 227, 548, 666, 795)

Delegate Assembly (580A)

Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee (256, 285)

Executive Council (89, 743)

MLA Awards Ceremony (706)

MLA Career Center (1, 3, 70, 200, 241, 293, 310, 496, 525, 563, 589, 622, 739, 761)

Oce of Programs (98, 239)

Oce of Research (411)

Oce of Scholarly Communication (362, 454, 610)

Oce of the Executive Director (5, 533)

PMLA Editorial Board (347)

Presidential Address (441)

Publications Committee (479, 510)

Regional MLAs (490)

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Numbers in parentheses refer to session

numbers in the Program.

Comparative, National, and World Cinema (208, 534)

Literature, Aesthetics, and Cultural Exchange between East Asia and Southeast

Asia and Britain and North America in the Long Nineteenth Century (209,

524, 727)

Race and the Victorians (210, 535)

Nonhuman Forms (215, 522, 726)

Psychoanalytic Insecurities (216, 523, 730)

Marginality in Spanish eater (217, 532)

Race and Aesthetics in French and Francophone Culture (250, 493, 773)

Narrative Empathy, Insecurity, and the Humanities (251, 492, 772)

eory and Praxis: Visual Media in the Classroom (253, 484, 765)

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Al l i a n c e f o r t h e S t u d y o f Ad o p t i o n a n d C u l t u r e ( 6 1 6 )

Am e r i c a n As s o c i a t i o n o f Au s t r a l i a n Literary Studies (282)

American Association of Teachers of German (109)

American Association of Teachers of Italian (287)

American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (12, 581)

American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (685)

American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (384)

American Boccaccio Association (660)

American Comparative Literature Association (594)

American Conference for Irish Studies (164)

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (604)

American Folklore Society (121, 344)

American Humor Studies Association (212)

American Literature Society (470, 599)

American Name Society (608)

American Portuguese Studies Association (43, 529)

American Psychoanalytic Association (301)

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (767)

American eatre and Drama Society (599, 745)

Association des Amis d’André Gide (663)

Association for Business Communication (134)

Association for Computers and the Humanities (393)

Association for Documentary Editing (252)

Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures (324, 751)

Association for the Study of Dada and Surrealism (170)

Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (324, 561, 692)

Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature (9)

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (579)

Byron Society of America (270)

Cervantes Society of America (72)

Children’s Literature Association (543)

College English Association (268)

College Language Association (334)

Community College Humanities Association (111)

Conference on Christianity and Literature (592)

Conference on College Composition and Communication (345)

Conseil International d’Études Francophones (512)

Council of Editors of Learned Journals (85, 377, 555)

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (29)

Council of Writing Program Administrators (762)

D. H. Lawrence Society of North America (598)

Dante Society of America (586, 798)

Dickens Society (136, 480)

Doris Lessing Society (214)

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Edith Wharton Society (45)

Emily Dickinson International Society (606, 809)

Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society (659)

Eugene O’Neill Society (381)

Ezra Pound Society (132, 201)

Feministas Unidas (137, 613)

G. E. Lessing Society (487)

GEMELA: Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en

España y las Américas (pre-1800) (634)

George Sand Association (689)

GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages (540)

Goethe Society of North America (77, 603, 744)

Graduate Student Caucus (313)

Harold Pinter Society (577)

Henry James Society (278)

International Association of Galdós Scholars (147)

International Boethius Society (272)

International Brecht Society (177, 341)

International Dostoevsky Society (150)

International James Joyce Foundation (565)

International Society for the Study of Narrative

(431,606)

International Spenser Society (280)

International Virginia Woolf Society (350)

International Vladimir Nabokov Society (187, 571)

John Clare Society of North America (554)

John Donne Society (590)

Joseph Conrad Society of America (489)

Keats-Shelley Association of America (368, 620)

Langston Hughes Society (299)

Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations (427)

Margaret Atwood Society (483)

Margaret Fuller Society (546)

Mark Twain Circle of America (385)

Marlowe Society of America (472)

Marxist Literary Group (41, 662)

Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (273)

MELUS: e Society for the Study of the Multi-

Ethnic Literature of the United States (261)

Melville Society (219)

Milton Society of America (207, 647)

Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association

(648)

Modern Greek Studies Association (263)

Modernist Studies Association (182, 633)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Society (78)

National Council of Teachers of English (513)

North American Heine Society (673)

North American Society for the Study of

Romanticism (665)

Paul Claudel Society (309)

Pirandello Society of America (372)

Poe Studies Association (593)

Radical Caucus in English and the Modern

Languages (467)

Reception Study Society (207, 498)

Rhetoric Society of America (97)

Robert Frost Society (277)

Romanian Studies Association of America (674)

Samuel Beckett Society (672)

Simone de Beauvoir Society (269)

Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch

(290, 753)

Society for Critical Exchange (79)

Society for German Renaissance and Baroque

Literature (51)

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship (81)

Society for Textual Scholarship (574)

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and

Publishing (455)

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women (465)

Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (166)

Society for the Study of Southern Literature (20, 242)

South Asian Literary Association (220)

T. S. Eliot Society (135)

oreau Society (100)

Wallace Stevens Society (459)

Western Literature Association (578)

William Carlos Williams Society (201, 518)

William Faulkner Society (530)

William Morris Society (382)

Women in French (687)

Women in German (213)

Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages (24, 613)

Wordsworth-Coleridge Association (64, 645)

Subject Index to All Sessions

This index, which incorporates all ses-

sions scheduled for the 2018 MLA con-

vention, is designed to help attendees

locate sessions by subject. Most of the

headings chosen for the index are the

obvious ones, reﬂecting traditional topics

of general interest, and have, in many in-

stances, been suggested by the program

organizers. While some of the sessions

have been cross- referenced, the num

ber and complexity of programs have

made it impossible to provide all cross-

references. Convention attendees are

therefore advised to scan the entire index

when attempting to locate a session.

GE NR E, THEORY, METHOD

Children’s Literature

Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist

Children’s Literature (18)

Radical Sisterhood in Children’s and

Young Adult Literature (190)

e Rise of Latinx Literature for Youth

(543)

From Gotham to Camazotz: Madeleine

L’Engle at One Hundred and New

York City (618)

Cultural Studies, Folklore, and

Popular Culture

Global Anglophone: Other an

Fiction (23)

Ethnic Joking in Comparative

Perspective (74)

Asian (American) Utopias and

Dystopias (105)

Destabilizing Folklore: Cultural

Production in Moments of Insecurity

(121)

Connecting the Dots: Museums and

Comics (173)

e Futures of Afrofuturism (230)

Leonard Cohen: Everybody Doesn’t

Know (257)

Graphic Resistance: Comics and Social

Protest (354)

“Aca-Fandom” and Digital

Scholarship: Rethinking Research

and Fan Production (415)

Queer Cruising and Caregiving (509)

(Sound) Archives and (Body) Repertoires:

Performance and Political Urgency

in the Circum-Caribbean (552)

Rise of the Global Right (612)

Fake News, Fake-Outs, and Racial

Politics (638)

Disability, Institutionalization, and

State Violence (703)

e Flesh of History: States of

Insecurity across Borders (717)

Comics and the Culture Wars (729)

Articial Intelligence: A Cultural

History (785)

e Child: What Kind of Human

Being? (825)

Drama

Performing Resistance (46)

Performance and the Modernist

Archive (182)

Dramaturgical Curiosities: Eugene

O’Neill, Experimentation, and the

New York Neo-Futurists (381)

Political Pinter (577)

ing Power Onstage: Drama, eater,

and Posthuman Performativity (737)

Electronic Technology (Teaching,

Research, and eory)

Activism in the Humanities: Digital

Projects for Public Engagement (57)

Implementation Stories: Successes and

Struggles in Digital Programming

(113)

Publishing at the Center of the

Humanities (184)

Digital Humanities as Critical

University Studies (198)

Activist Infrastructures: Vulnerable

Collections and Minimal Computing

(304)

Varieties of Digital Humanities (347)

Printable Pedagogy and 3-D eses

(393)

Teaching Early American Literature in

the Digital Age: Crèvecœur’s Letters

from an American Farmer, a Digital

Critical Edition (497)

Critical Infrastructure Studies (583)

Modernism and Digital Archives:

Aesthetics, Curation, Reading (633)

Managing the Online Classroom:

Challenges and Strategies (681)

Critical Algorithm Studies (808)

Film, Television, and Other Media

Transparent: Opacities of Space and

Time (88)

Comparative, National, and World

Cinema (208, 534)

We’re All Living Dead Now (457)

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Dramaturgies of the Ear: Listening

to eory’s Scenes (653)

Visualizing Violence in

Contemporary States of Insecurity

(741)

Resurrecting Dead Worlds: Video

Game Aesthetics and Posthuman

Narratives (760)

Lois Weber’s Shoes (1916) and

American Naturalism (811)

History of the Book, Reception

eory, Comparison with Other

Media, and Performance

Material Matters: Securing Archives

and Other Library Resources (35)

Insecure Periodicals (102)

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century

Opera in Literary Translation (357)

Insecure Ephemera: Reading

Lessons from Shakespeare to

Twitte r (388)

Sound andPerformance (428)

Transnational Broadcasting: So

Diplomacy and the Mediations of

History (474)

Insecure Receptions (498)

Literary Criticism and eory

Queer Borders (27)

Neurodiversity (44)

New Realisms aer Postmodernism

and Poststructuralism (68)

Queer Faith, Queer Love (69)

e Archive and the Repertoire at

Fieen (86)

“Alternative Facts” and Fictions:

Multiplicity and Indeterminacy

in the Aermath of the 2016

Presidential Election (99)

Literary Studies Today: What Is to

Be Done? On Literary Criticism: A

Concise Political History (123)

Posthumanist Disability (146)

Victorian Realism (161)

Literary Analysis and the

Unthinkable: Responses to Amitav

Ghosh’s e Great Derangement

(193)

Psychoanalytic Insecurities (216,

523, 730)

Psychoanalysis and Deleuze (262)

e Politics of Sound in Postcolonial

Studies (271)

e Book History of eory (317)

Keywords for Today and the

Keywords Project (318)

A Postctional Turn?

Transformations in the Novel and

Novel Criticism (330)

Capitalism and the Unconscious (337)

Authoritarianism (374)

“Carceracialization”: Prison, Race,

Time (387)

Writing AIDS in the Twenty-First

Century (399)

eorizing the Relation of Cognitive

Literary Studies and Comparative

Literature (429)

Fictionality in Narrative eory: A

Reexamination of Core Concepts

(431)

Confronting the Whiteness of

Narratology (471)

Fraught Logics of Natural Law (476)

Narrative (and) eory in the

Environmental Humanities (508)

Against Empathy? (568)

Nabokov and Correspondence (571)

e Literary and the Secular (592)

Literary Wordplay with Names (608)

Aesthetic Outrage (631)

Uneven and Combined Development

and the Future of Literary Studies

(662)

Tendencies aer Tendencies (675)

Realism and Production in the Long

Nineteenth Century (683)

Pierre Macherey (731)

e Aerlives of Forms (775)

Badiou’s Saint Paul (780)

Institutional History of eory (787)

e Language of Time (805)

Site Specics (821)

e Madwoman in the Critic (823)

Literary History

Literature, Crisis, and the 1970s (41)

e Historicist Turn of Literary

Disability Studies (328)

Gender, Representation, and

Fascism (461)

Paper Trails of Popular Revolt: States

of Insecurity in the East Bloc (747)

Literary Relations

Responding to Extinction (140)

Satire Today (192)

Literature and Other Arts,

Humanities, Law, Psychology,

Science, and Sociology

Anthropocene Reading (84)

“Papers, Please”: Travel Documents

and Travel Writing (196)

Law, Literature, and Emotion (221)

Narrative Empathy, Insecurity, and

the Humanities (251, 492, 772)

Climate Science, Climate Narrative:

Historical Perspectives (284)

Psychoanalysis, the Academy, and

the Self (301)

Writing and Photography in the

Modernism of the United States

(326)

S. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction (351)

Literature and Science in the Age of

“Alternative Fact”: e Example of

Bruno Latour (389)

Drawing on John Berger (404)

Environmental Insecurities and

Global Arab Humanities (511)

Weak Environmentalism (564)

Race, Resources, and Real Estate

(573)

eatrical Collaborations (599)

Ignite Talk: Alison Bechdel on the

Page, Onstage, and in eory (650)

Legal Ecologies (679)

“Humusities” for a Habitable

Multispecies Muddle (806)

Resistance in Psychoanalysis and

Politics (807)

Nonctional Prose

Nonction Prose in a “Post-Factual”

World (283)

Catshed: Lies Online (355)

New York Transit (567)

e Future(s) of Literary Biography

(818)

Poetry

Poetry Books in Multiple Versions:

Editorial, Critical, and Pedagogical

Issues (116)

Contemporary Poetics and Race:

Intersections in Place and

Particularity (131)

Queer per Verse (419)

Poetry and Insecurity (473)

Poetics of the Gi (750)

Poetry’s “We” (763)

Poetry and Punctuation (804)

Prose Fiction

Fictionality in a “Post-Fact” World

(10)

Infrastructure (436)

Desire and Domestic Fiction aer

irty Years (641)

Fictional Terrain: Insurgent

Nationalism and the Global Novel

(774)

Rhetoric and Rhetorical eory

Contemplation of Keywords:

Celebrating the Rhetoric Society of

America’s Fiieth Anniversary (97)

e Rhetoric of (New) Fascism (294)

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Precarious Rhetorics (537)

Rhetoric in Post-factual Times (735)

e Rhetorical Problem of

Demagoguery (801)

emes, Myths, and Archetypes

Nonhuman Forms (215, 522, 726)

Presidential Plenary: #States of

Insecurity (360)

Global Perspectives on Aging in

Literature and Film (541)

A Conversation on the Intersection

of the Civil Rights and Black Lives

Matter Movements (678)

Translation

Charting the Routes of South-South

Translation in the Twentieth

Century (179)

Translation Markets: Comparative

and Historical Perspectives (600)

Bad Translation (697)

Writing Studies

Gender and the Language of Business

/ the Business of Language (134)

Literacies in Motion: Crossing

National, Cultural, Generational,

and Local Borders (402)

Writing Studies and Data (478)

Transnational and Transmodal

Retelling of Young People’s

Literacy Narratives (691)

Insecurity and Contingency:

Writing Studies, Outcomes, and

the Solidarity of Opportunity to

Learn (762)

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

General

Comparatively Perfect: Guided

Tours of Essential Essays (9)

Digital Humanities in Practice:

Caribbean Models (16)

Publishing the Colony, Colonizing

Publishing (48)

Revisiting Typographical

Interventions (73)

Carceral States of Exception and

Insecurity (103)

Cultural Appropriation: Arrogation

or Irrigation? (149)

Social Medicine: Epidemics, Agents,

Networks (189)

Hannah Arendt: Totalitarianism

and Totality (222)

Canadian Exceptionalism (259)

e World in Motion: Transnational

Environmental Approaches to

Forced Movements, Migrations,

and Refuge Seeking (281)

Hearing Culture in Texts: Language

in Use versus Speech Act eory

(325)

e Novel and the Poor (338)

Refugee Memory (364)

Planetary Life in the Contemporary

Petrosphere (400)

States of Asylum: Refugees and the

City (401)

Cras of World Literature:

Materials, Genres, Forms (433)

Strategic Presentism (468)

e Nahda or Arab Renaissance (479)

Meter, Rhyme, and Dialogue with

the Other: Translating from

Arabic, Russian, and Spanish into

English (531)

Women, Art, and Revolution on the

Shores of the Mediterranean (556)

Interdisciplinary Palestine: Poetry,

Narrative, Institutionality (566)

Gender Calling: Pronouns as a

Comparative Problem (594)

Epic and Performance (627)

Redening Self-Translation (636)

Literary Universals (700)

Democracy Now (722)

Instigating Insecurity: e

Presidential Executive Order and

Muslim American Activism (776)

Gender, Precarity, Materiality (793)

Medieval and Renaissance

Vernacular Emotions and Women’s

Poetry of the Renaissance: Vittoria

Colonna, Marguerite de Navarre,

Gabrielle de Coignard, and Luisa

de Sigea (115)

e Sense of Touch in the

Renaissance (143)

Critical Semantics: New

Transcultural Keywords (181)

Precarious Bodies and Caring in

Medieval Literature (202)

Spies, Traitors, and Snitches (264)

Early Modern Women and the

Environment (465)

Remembering the World in Early

Modern Europe (539)

Remaking Periodization (582)

Eighteenth and Nineteenth

Centuries

New Philology, Media Ecology (77)

Organicisms: Organizations (118)

Insecure Enlightenment (129)

Fabrications, Old and New (279)

Organicisms: Organisms (327)

New Media, Old Media:

Technologies of Empire (615)

Imperial Publics (732)

MigrancyandEmpire in the

Eighteenth Century (767)

Secular Relics (814)

Twentieth and Twenty-

FirstCentu ry

Poetics Out of Place (15)

Afro-Asian Imaginaries and New

and Old Imperialisms (37)

Global Fashion (55)

Rethinking Paul de Man (79)

Edward Said’s Culture and

Imperialism at Twenty-Five (104)

Strips of Modernity: Aect, Labor,

and Identity in Early Comics (122)

(Prex-)Politics: A Future Otherwise

(160)

European Regions: Progress in

Literary Culture (194)

Literary History aer the Nation? (274)

Paris in Postwar Jewish Literary

Memory (276)

Specialisms in the Anxiety of the

Global (291)

Terrorism and Literature:

Representing Political Violence

in Poetry, Narrative, and Critical

eory (311)

Toward a Denition of Postcolonial

Biographical Fiction (336)

Right To . . . / Right Not To . . . (386)

When and Where Was Modernism?

(409)

Drone Warfare and Post-9/11

Cultural Practices (464)

Exploring Black Identity in

Raciolinguistic Terms (477)

Into and out of Europe (515)

International Women’s Writing

during the Spanish Civil War:

Archival Recoveries from Insecure

Times (527)

Queer Insurgencies (540)

Approaching the American South

and the Global South through Du

Bois (550)

South-South Translation and the

Geopolitics and Geopoetics of

Circulation (585)

Narratives of Post–World War II Black

German Adoption: Identity, History,

and Cultural Imagination (616)

Du Bois in a Comparative Context

(637)

Narratives of Resistance and

Resilience in Southeast Asian

Security Regimes (664)

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Futurity and Dierence (693)

Approaches to Teaching the Works

of Orhan Pamuk (698)

Mobilizing Memory (725)

Rules and Ruling (819)

Settler Colonialism (820)

LINGUISTICS

General

Insecurity in the Classroom:

Programs, Pedagogy, and

Peripateticism (145)

Philology Old and New (168)

e Language of Silence (422)

Linguistics and Social Media (575)

Language Change: Global

(Im) Migration and Linguistic

Insecurity (623)

Exploring Literary and Nonliterary

Texts (822)

English and American

e Language of Populism (32)

Reading and Responding to Literary

Texts (335)

Falling for Prepositions, a

Performance (450)

Subversive Punctuation: Coding

Silenced Voices (704)

Foreign Languages

Language Learning, Identity, and

Intercultural Understanding (67)

Service Learning in Teaching

Spanish Language (83)

Selected Topics in Romance

Linguistics (197)

New Research in Germanic

Philology and Linguistics (267)

Research on Advanced-Level Second-

Language Composition (503)

TEACHING

General

Teaching Languages and Literatures

Online: Key Principles for Course

Design (2)

Pre-Texts Workshop Series (4, 218,

494)

Consulting on the English Major in

Its Departmental Context (80)

Critical Reection: Moving toward

Condence and Competence (130)

Reducing Grade Insecurity: Grading

Case Studies (191)

Anxious Pedagogies: Negotiating

Precarity and Insecurity in the

Classroom (203)

eory and Praxis: Visual Media in

the Classroom (253, 484, 765)

Teaching the Fragments: English

Education, Democracy, and Digital

Media (268)

Blended Learning: Balancing

Social Media and Face-to-Face

Pedagogies (314)

Teaching and Learning the Stories of

Standing Rock and #noDAPL (324)

Addressing Poverty, Silence, and

Resistance in the Classroom (367)

Blurring Boundaries: Designing

an Interdisciplinary Humanities

Curriculum (490)

MLA Style Workshop: Creating

Works-Cited Lists with the MLA

Core Elements (525)

Ways of Writing in High School and

College (562)

MLA Style Workshop: Paraphrasing,

Quoting, and Citing Sources in the

Text (589)

Feminist Pedagogy in Digital Spaces

(644)

Open Pedagogy:Practices in Digital

Citizenship and the Ethics of Care

(694)

Language

Empowering All Students of

German (109)

Social Justice in Language Teaching

and Learning: Pedagogical

Approaches (171)

Research Informing Language

Instruction to Improve Student

Performance (604)

Social Justice in Language Teaching

and Learning: Curricular

Approaches (635)

Literature

e Teaching of Literature and the

Public Humanities (157)

Who Owns the Text in is Class?

Open Pedagogy and Literary

Studies (234)

Why Teach Literature? (312)

Reimagining Social Justice

Concerns: Bringing Fantasy

Fiction into the Classroom (671)

Engaging Students: Strategies and

Concerns (779)

Teaching Representations of the First

World War: Beyond Fussell (817)

Writing

States of Insecurity: Digital Writing

in the Post–2016 Election Era (66)

Challenges: High School and College

Teacher Perspectives (141)

Dangerous Certainty in Student

Writing (231)

Writing in the English Department:

Models for Success (359)

Writing across the Curriculum

When the Curriculum Is the

English Department (392)

(Re)Shaping the First-Year College

Writing Classroom in the Trump

Era (426)

States of Racialized Insecurity:

Antiracist Literacies in Narratives,

Pedagogies, and Community

Investigations (513)

New Directions for Teaching

and Researching Technical

Communication (579)

Writing Insecurity, Writing in

Security (621)

Creative Pedagogies in Critical

Settings (657)

THE PROFESSION

General

Advocating for Your Department (1)

Marketing 101: How to Promote

Your Academic Program or Event

(3)

Spark Talk: e OpEd Project (5)

Administering Feminism:

Leadership, Activism, and

Diversity (24)

Can is Canary Be Saved? (25)

Global Arab Precarity and the

Contemporary United States

Academy: Race, Religion,

Profession (44A)

A Tool Kit for Doctoral Student

Career Planning (47)

Writing New Relationships: e

Humanities and STEM (56)

e Circuitous Path into Higher

Administration (70)

e Humanities and Public Policy

(89)

Terms of Employment: Gender and

Negotiations (91)

Careers beyond the Professoriat for

Humanities PhDs: e Employer

Perspective (101)

Graduate Student Futures (124)

When Scholarly Organizations

Speak Out (126)

Challenges and Opportunities

of the New: Practical Advice

for Creating Change in the

Department and Beyond (144)

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Commonsense Information Security

for Academics (158)

Connected Academics: Building a

Public Humanities PhD Program

from the Ground Up (159)

Academic Writing in Graduate

School (180)

Writing for a Broader Audience; or,

Academics Are Writers, Too (200)

Resisting Insecurity beyond the

Academy (225)

Lessons of the Connected Academics

Proseminar on Careers (227)

e Matter of Writing (237)

Demystifying the Job Search Process

(241)

orstein Veblen’s e Higher

Learning in America at One

Hundred (248)

Humanists in Tech (255)

Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate

Assembly (256)

Open Hearing on Resolutions (285)

Teaching at Teaching-Intensive

Institutions (293)

Funding in the Humanities:

Practical Strategies (310)

Precarity and Activism (342)

Folklore Careers beyond and within

Academia (344)

e Identities, Politics, and

Insecurities of Undocumented

Peoples in the United States (345)

Presidential Plenary: #States of

Insecurity (360)

Making the Most of Humanities

Commons (362)

A Real Say: Pushing the Limits of

Shared Governance (380)

1968–2018: e Movement, the MLA,

and the Current Moment (411)

Pathways to the Public: Advancing

Engagement and Impact in the

Humanities (416)

Hacking the Scholarly Workow

(440)

e Presidential Address (441)

Advancing the Field: Connecting

Humanities Graduate Education

and Community College Teaching

(453)

Digital Humanities Tools and

Technologies for Students,

Emerging Scholars, Faculty

Members, Librarians, and

Administrators (454)

Sanctuary, Contingency, and the

Campus as a Site of Struggle (467)

What Tenured Professors Can Do

about Adjunctication (482)

Interviews in the Digital Age:

Making the Most of First-Round

Video Interviews (496)

Rights under Repression (517)

From CFP to Publication:

Developing a Successful

Conference Panel (533)

State Universities of Insecurity (536)

Connected Academics: What

Students Want (548)

Career Opportunities in

Community Colleges (558)

Communicating Transferable Skills

and Humanities Expertise to

Prospective Employers (563)

MLA Delegate Assembly (580A)

States of Insecurity: Accepting

Vulnerability, Permeability, and

Instability (597)

Organizing from the Inside:

Eecting Change for Adjuncts in

Insecure Times (605)

Learning through “Failure”:

Feminism on Campus in the Years

Ahead (613)

Getting Funded in the Humanities:

An NEH Workshop (622)

Possibilities of the Public

Humanities (624)

Justice and Equity through the

Immigrant Story (656)

Humanities at a Professional School

(658)

Connected Academics: A Showcase

of Career Diversity (666)

Addressing Diversity in Academic

Hiring (667)

Bossy Dames: Poetics and

Pragmatics of Feminist Leadership

(695)

MLA Awards Ceremony (706)

Going Public: How and Why to

Develop a Digital Scholarly

Identity (739)

How Shiing Congurations Shape

Experiences of High School

Students Transitioning into

College (743)

Before #Resist: Judith Fetterley’s e

Resisting Reader at Forty (749)

Networking and Informational

Interviews for Humanities PhDs

(761)

Flourishing in Dicult Times (771)

Method and Critique in the Age of

Metrics (777)

Candid Conversations: Debt and the

Humanities (795)

Literary Criticism as Public

Scholarship (828)

English and American

Preconvention Workshop on Career

Directions for PhDs in English (6)

Trans Studies and Disability Studies

(90)

Pedagogies of Excellence: HBCUs

and the PhD Pipeline (334)

e Creative Writer’s Obligation in

the Age of ____ (520)

Foreign Languages

Career Pathways for Job Seekers in

Languages (7)

Mentoring Workshop for Job Seekers

in Languages (65)

World Languages and Humanities

Majors: Career Trajectories and

Advocacy (98)

Demonstration Interviews for Job

Seekers in Languages (167)

Foreign? Rethinking and

Reconguring the Spaces for the

Study and Teaching of Language in

Higher Education (239)

Investing in America’s Languages:

On the AAAS Commission Report

on Language Learning (319)

Understanding Vocabulary Learning

and Teaching: Implications for

Language Program Development

(384)

Disability Issues in the Profession:

Negotiating between eory and

Best Practices (390)

Undergraduate Foreign Language

Requirements (557)

Celebrating One Hundred Years of

Hispania (685)

Publishing and Editing

How to Get Published (85)

He Said WHAAT??!! Editing Oral

Texts for Print Publication (252)

e Function of the Print Scholarly

Edition at the Present Time (332)

Editing 101 (377)

Publishing Trends and New

Directions in Late-Nineteenth-

and Early-Twentieth-Century

Studies (423)

Editing Together: Coeditors and

Guest Editors (555)

Open Humanities 101 (610)

Bicentennial Bits and Bytes: e

Digital Frankenstein Project (632)

Book Development Workshop: From

Pitching an Idea to Finding a

Publisher (670)

Collaborative Authorship at Large

Scale (723)

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Subject Index to All Sessions 

Publishing Trends and New

Directions in Victorian Studies

(783)

Research and Bibliography

Research and the MLA International

Bibliography: From Scholarly

Insecurities to Published Citations

(94)

e MLA International Bibliography

as an Active Archive: Knowledge

Creation for the Twenty-First

Century (156)

Partnerships beyond the Stacks:

Collaborations between Scholars

and Librarians in Research and

Teaching (352)

e Digital Future of Literary

Archives (455)

Memory and the Archive (510)

New York as Text: Bibliographies

and Geographies (619)

AFRICAN LITERATURES

e Internet of Everything: African

Literature in a Digital Age (108)

Questioning Precarity in the Global

South (258)

Institutional Histories of African

Literature (286)

Twenty-First-Century African

Writers (481)

Afro-Natures and Afro-Futures:

Speculation, Technology, and

Environment in African Literature

and Film (561)

Archival Research in the Black

Diaspora (661)

Departure, Stay, and Return in

Post-9/11 African Narratives of

Migration (746)

AMERICAN LITERATURE

General

Southern States of Insecurity: e

United States South during Crises

(20)

Late-Nineteenth-Century Panics (30)

Precariousness and Women's Bodies

(40)

Young, Gied, and Black: Girlhood

in Literatures of the African

Diaspora (42)

Edith Wharton’s New York (45)

Indigenous Literary Security (58)

“Mississippi Goddam!” Everywhere:

e Ends of Southern and

American Exceptionalisms (138)

New York, Sanctuary Space (162)

From Atlantic to Global (195)

e Indigenous Archive (204)

Humor and Satire in Online Formats

and on Social Media (212)

Black Literature Matters (223)

e Tacky South (242)

New Directions in Multiethnic

American Literature (261)

Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be

America Again” Revisisted (299)

Blackness and Disability: A Special

Issue of the African American

Review (303)

Latina/o New York (308)

Copy and Repeat: Valuing the

Nonoriginal in African American

Literary History (320)

Commonplace Books, Albums, and

Scrapbooks (363)

e Golden Door: Immigration,

Illegitimacy, and Chicano/a

Narrative (371)

Mark Twain and eory: Leverage

and Limits (385)

Political Disappointment (403)

e Work of the Anthology in

American Literature (408)

Serializing Justice (470)

Frederick Douglass at Two Hundred:

Literary Reconsiderations (506)

Writing Nursing: Translating

Practice into Literature (521)

Sound Studies (547)

Insecurities of the North American

West (578)

Editing Manuscripts: Transparency

and Insecurities (617)

Knowledge, Power, Creativity:

Emerson and Literary Studies (639)

Latina/o New York: Contemporary

Authors Writing on or from New

York (646)

Cultures Claiming Writers (684)

Activist #States: e United States

South in Insecure Times (699)

Performing Philosophy (745)

Recalling the Person (752)

Epic Spaces: Maps, Geography,

and Movement in Medieval and

Renaissance Epic (753)

Nodes of Literacy: David Walker and

Intertextuality (768)

Digital Histories of the Book in

America (791)

Archipelagoes, Oceans, Americas

(796)

Framing New York City in Comics

(810)

Before 1900

Music Human and Nonhuman

before the Phonograph (62)

Hawthorne and ings (78)

oreau and Material Culture (100)

Debilitating Spaces (148)

Early American #BlackLivesMatter

(172)

Political Philosophy in Melville (219)

Early Drama in the Americas (273)

e Art of Memoirs: Henry James’s

Recollections, Recollections of

Henry James (278)

Eyewitnessing and Early American

Literature (302)

Biography, Race, and Nineteenth-

Century American Culture:

Challenges, Methods, and Goals

(339)

Religion and the Early American

Novel (395)

Revisiting Transatlanticism:

American Women in Circulation

(435)

e Queer Nadir (488)

Teaching Early American Literature

in the Digital Age: Crèvecœur’s

Letters from an American Farmer,

a Digital Critical Edition (497)

Ethel’s Love-Life and the Queer

Imagination of Margaret J. M.

Sweat (499)

Margaret Fuller: New Critical

Approaches (546)

Foregrounding Indigeneity and

Settlement in American Literary

Studies (587)

Poe’s Philadelphia Stories (593)

Emily Dickinson’s Narrative

Cartography (606)

Colloquy with Robert L. Gunn on

Ethnology and Empire (642)

Atlantic Synesthesia (688)

Palestine, Blackness, and the

Ongoing Question of Freedom

(724)

“Of Strangers Is the Earth the Inn”:

Still Life, Scale, and Deep Time in

Emily Dickinson (809)

Twentieth and Twenty-

FirstCentury

Beat Writers, Cold War Politics, and

Populist Inclinations (13)

Neo-passing: Performing Identity in

Post–Jim Crow States of Insecurity

(19)

Trump Terror (28)

Micropress Poetry and the Politics of

Electronic Text (29)

 Modern Language Association

[

PMLA

Can It Happen Here? (38)

e Historical Novel aer

Postmodernism (50)

e Temporal Turn in Black Studies

(52)

Private Media: Rethinking Privacy

in Contemporary Culture (53)

Big History in the American

Century (96)

Writing New York: e Other

Boroughs (Staten Island, the

Bronx, Queens) (111)

Literature as Liberatory Praxis:

Women-of-Color Aesthetics,

Pedagogy, and Social Justice (117)

Contemporary Poetics and Race:

Intersections in Place and

Particularity (131)

Manhattan Pound and Aer (132)

#wethepeople: National Insecurity

and the Myth of Homogeneity (133)

e eme and Form of Failure in

Midwestern Literature (166)

Writing from Elsewhere: e Impact

of Independent Presses on the

Contemporary Literary Field (175)

Nabokov versus Tyrants (187)

Ezra Pound, William Carlos

Williams, and New York City (201)

Rethinking South Asian America

and States of Insecurity (220)

From Anarchism to Assimilation:

e Making of Italian Americans

(224)

Asian American Racial and Literary

Form, Postidentity (238)

“ey Can’t Take at away from

Me”: Lightning Shorts on e and

Reclamation in Financialized Late

Capitalism (245)

“Drama Is the Capstone of Poetry”:

Robert Frost and Shakespeare (277)

4H: History, Hamilton, and Hip-Hop

in High School (298)

Transformations of Gertrude Stein

(306)

James Baldwin’s Speculative

Imaginary (323)

Web 2.0 Readers (333)

Institutions, Markets, Speculations:

Creative Economies of Science

Fiction (346)

Blackness and the United States War

on Terror (366)

Satire and Cosmic Horror in

Dystopian Times (376)

e News from Home: Expatriate

Media and the Modern Periodical

(391)

Cultures of Vulnerability in the

Contemporary United States (410)

Narrating Vulnerability: Re-seeing

Asian American Children’s and

Young Adult Literature (413)

e Haverford Discussions and the

Course of Black Studies (438)

Wallace Stevens and Music (459)

Complex TV: Texts, Viewers, and

Fan Engagement (462)

Twenty-First-Century Chicanx

Performance (466)

Hip-Hop History Lessons: Tragic

Form, Truth, and Fiction in

Hamilton: An American Musical

(504)

Pater and Son: Fathers in the Work

of William Carlos Williams (518)

Black Literary eory in the Time of

Trump (519)

William Faulkner’s New York (530)

Poetry, Paratext, and Punctuation

(549)

Narratives of Giving and Receiving

Care: Aective Dimensions (569)

Cultural Critique aer

Democracy: On Neocitizenship

(572)

Graphic States of Insecurity (595)

Reading the Radical: American

Muslim Immigrants, Surveillance,

and Narrative Resistance (596)

e Fiction of Colson Whitehead

(607)

Queer Futurities in Children’s and

Young Adult Literature (625)

Compromise or Conict: Literary

Form Now (643)

Hemingway and War (659)

Testimonial Turns and Carceral

States: e Aermaths and

Aerlives of Japanese American

Internment in Asian American

Creative Nonction (668)

Empire State of Blackness: e

Transitional Roles of New York in

Amiri Baraka’s Work (686)

Surveillance Aesthetics: Drones,

Capital, Data (696)

e Year at Changed Everything:

1968 at Fiy (740)

e Legacy of Captivity Narratives:

Gender, Race, and the Captive

in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-

Century American Literature and

Culture (742)

Red Readings and Alternative

Frameworks: How Indigenous

Authors and Indigenous Studies

Scholarship Redenes Notions of

Genre and the Classics (751)

e X Factor (755)

Insecurity and the Aerlives of

Slavery (766)

Ecologies, Empires, and Island

Speculations (781)

Insecure Imaginations: Poetry in

Invented Languages (782)

Precarious Subjects: Refugee and

Immigrant Subjectivities (790)

Forms of Life, Forms of Literature

(800)

Reading African American

Literature Now: Critical Desires

and New Directions in the Field

(815)

Writing at is Moment:

Contemporary Poetry against

American Imperialism (830)

ARABIC LITERATURE

Latin America and the Arab World

(63)

Speculative Futures in Arab(ic)

Literature (163)

Insecurity and Dissent in Middle

Eastern and North African

Cinema (361)

Teaching Global Arab Comics in the

United States (439)

Nakba at Seventy: Culture and

Politics (609)

Palestine, Ethics, and World

Literature (705)

ASIAN LITERATURES

Representing Korean Comfort

Women in Fiction and Film (33)

Narrativizing Insecurity in Indian

Comics (34)

Digital Humanities Approaches to

Japanese Media (49)

Other Archives: West Asian

Contexts (82)

Transcultural Flows in Modern

China (112)

Jin Ping Mei in Context: Approaches

to Teaching Plum in the Golden

Vase (139)

Sinophone Studies beyond

Disciplinarity (186)

Outlaws, Pirates, and Bandits in

Late Imperial Chinese Fiction and

History (1574–1670) (235)

Navigating the MLA: A Guide for

East Asian Scholars (275)

Bollywood’s New Woman (292)

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Subject Index to All Sessions 

How to Translate Early Modern East

Asian Texts: ree Case Studies

(307)

Local Color to World Literature: An

Interview with Jia Pingwa (331)

inking Korean Literature through

Censorship and Blacklisting (383)

e Digital Divide: South Asia in

Crisis (418)

e “Arrival” of Jia Pingwa in

World Literature: Translation and

Interpretation (434)

Dislocated Identity in Recent South

Asian and Diasporic Literature

(469)

e Power of the Margins: Rethinking

Center-Periphery Relations in

Premodern Chinese Literature (486)

e Politics and Poetics of Nostalgia

in Modern Chinese Literature and

Culture (500)

Digital Humanities Approaches to

Japanese-Language Texts (514)

Southeast Asia as Method and

Concept of World Literature (551)

Articulating the Local: Cultural

Practices and Problematics of

Dialects in Twentieth-Century

China (559)

Disability and Human (In)Dignity in

East Asian Literature and Film (584)

Auditory Texts in Premodern and

Modern Korean Literature (629)

Cognitive Approaches to Chinese

Literature (652)

Cannibal Modernity: Cannibalism,

Colonialism, and Capitalism in

East Asia (676)

Historicizing Discourses about

Gender and Sexuality in the Ming

and Qing Periods (721)

Community in the Wake of the Social:

Literary Insecurities in Modern and

Contemporary Korea (778)

Translation and Interlingual

Practices in Pre-Meiji Japan (786)

Resituating Poetry Text in Early and

Medieval China: Anxieties and

Transitions (813)

BRITISH LITERATURE

General

Historicizing Forms and Spaces of

Refuge (114)

Toward a Poetics of Noise: Literary

Form and the Long History of the

Techno-Soundscape (127)

Reections on Milton’s Eve (315)

Editing in the Shadow of the

Anthropocene (574)

Old and Middle English

Gender and Medieval Refugees (81)

Citizenship (107)

“Uncer giedd geador”: Feminist

Studies in Old English (154)

Medieval Futures (247)

A Better Brit Lit Survey:

Celtic, Norse, and Teaching a

Multicultural North Atlantic (398)

“#ASESoWhite”: Combating

Racialism in Early Medieval

Studies (491)

Chaucerian Precarity (544)

“Mewn Dau Gae” (“Between Two

Fields”): No State of Security in

Medieval North Atlantic Studies

(669)

Medieval Soundscapes (789)

e Value of Prehumanist Critique:

Anglo-Saxon Contributions (816)

Renaissance and Elizabethan

Performance, Materiality, and

Ecology in Early Modern

Literature (31)

Shakespeare and the 99% (87)

Early Modern Trans Studies (228)

Tyranny (254)

Spenser and the Machine (280)

Ovid and Masculinity in English

Renaissance Literature (375)

Early English Consent (437)

Rethinking Marlowe and the

Aesthetic (472)

Early Modern Collaboration

and Expanded Shakespearean

Authorship (553)

Texts and Localities in Early Modern

England (614)

Shakespearean Negotiations: e

Circulation of Social Energy in

Renaissance England, irty Years

On (651)

Lyric Intersections in Early Modern

England (769)

Shakespeare

e Ethics of Progressive

Shakespeare (54)

Four Hundred Years of King Lear:

Sources and Performance (151)

Beyond Materiality in Shakespeare

Studies (178)

inking Queer History in

Shakespeare: A Conversation on

Method (340)

Horizons of Intimacy: Distance,

Aect, and the Global Imaginary

on the Shakespearean Stage (432)

Precarious Bonds (507)

Four Hundred Years of King Lear:

Adaptation and Translation (701)

Shakespeare on Contemporary Arab

Stages (719)

Nonverbal Shakespeare: Romeo and

Juliet among the Arts (797)

Seventeenth Century

Early Modern Biopolitics: Race,

Nature, Sexuality (17)

Surprised by Sin at Fiy (207)

e Seventeenth-Century Lyric:

inking through Poetry (297)

Net Work: en and Now (365)

Donne and Close Reading: Rejecting,

Reevaluating, and Renewing

Critical Approaches (590)

John Milton: Exegesis and Prophecy

(647)

Restoration and Early

Eighteenth Century

Preserving and Circulating Women’s

Texts, 1660–1740 (630)

Languages of the Restoration and

Enlightenment (690)

Late Eighteenth Century

Genres of Migration, 1750–1850 (343)

Romantic Personication

Reconsidered (475)

Still Reading (560)

Romanticizing Meta-? (665)

Hot Numbers (784)

Nineteenth Century

Make It Visible: e Long

Nineteenth Century and New

Economic Criticism (22)

Frankenstein at Two Hundred:

Attachment, Disability, and the

Monstrous Body (60)

Poetry and Illustration in British

Romanticism (64)

Walking the Walk: Romantic

Writing on the Trail (110)

Ephemeral Dickens (136)

Ecology, Aesthetics, Empire:

Romanticism and Its Aerlives (183)

Light, Physics, and Antiform in the

Nineteenth-Century Novel (188)

Literature, Aesthetics, and Cultural

Exchange between East Asia

and Southeast Asia and Britain

and North America in the Long

Nineteenth Century (209, 524, 727)

 Modern Language Association

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PMLA

Race and the Victorians (210, 535)

Scottish Women Writers before 1900

(240)

Byron and Politics (270)

e Victorians aer Freud (321)

Pre-Raphaelites and the Pierpont

Morgan Library (329)

Romantics at Two Hundred: 2018

Reads 1818 (368)

Objectifying Morris (382)

Historical Time Machines: Time

Criticalities of Nineteenth-

Century Media (407)

Dickens and Resistance (480)

John Clare: Encounters (554)

South Asia and Romanticism (620)

Word and Image in British

Romanticism (645)

Is Kinship Always Already Queer?

Counternormative Communities

in the Nineteenth Century (754)

Literary Adaptation as Democratic

Exchange in the Romantic Period

(759)

A Hand in It: Hand Studies in the

Long Nineteenth Century and

Beyond (788)

Twentieth and Twenty-

FirstCentury

Calling Dumbledore’s Army:

Activist Children’s Literature (18)

Eminent Victorians at One Hundred

(59)

British Working-Class Literature:

Intersections of Space and Class

in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-

Century Fiction (95)

T. S. Eliot and Ecocriticism (135)

Alternative Domesticities in the

Works of Doris Lessing (214)

Woolf's Spaces (350)

e Great War Revisited (406)

Conrad’s Politics of Fear (489)

Leonora Carrington at One

Hundred (528)

Dangerous Charisma (598)

Auden and Others (655)

Mapping Literary and Political

Landscapes in Postdevolutionary

Scottish Writing: Restating

Insecurities (720)

Revolutionary States: George

Bernard Shaw, 1918 (829)

CATALAN LITERATURE

Engendering Dierent Catalan

Enunciations (260)

Fragile Languages: Unrest,

Vulnerability, and Resistance in

Occitan and Catalan (628)

CELTIC LITERATURES

James Joyce’s Exiles at One Hundred

(565)

FRENCH LITERATURE

Medieval and Renaissance

Fake News (26)

New Work in Sixteenth-Century

French Literature and Culture

(226)

Green Arthur (300)

e DNA of a Story (356)

e Sixteenth-/Seventeenth-Century

Divide in French (414)

Propaganda, Polemic, Persuasion:

Changing Media and Modes in

Medieval and Renaissance France

(501)

Montaigne in the Twenty-First

Century (733)

Seventeenth Century

Social Emotions in Seventeenth- and

Eighteenth-Century French Self-

Writing (526)

Current Trends in Seventeenth-

Century French Studies (611)

Tragedy beyond eater in Early

Modern France: Resistance,

Reconguration, Reappraisal (770)

Sound, Noise, and Silence in

Seventeenth-Century France (826)

Eighteenth and

NineteenthCentury

Atmosphères (142)

Fake News: Truth and Truthiness in

the Eighteenth Century (185)

Salon Wars: e Historiography of

Elite Women Intellectuals in the

French Enlightenment (265)

Apprentissages: Emerging

Subjectivities (396)

George Sand and the Dumas, Father

and Son (689)

Twentieth and Twenty-

FirstCentury

“La France est en guerre”:

Witnessing War in Contemporary

France (125)

Women Poets in the Surrealist

Tradition (170)

Proust and Photography (206)

Beauvoir Studies Today: What Place

for Literature in a Postdisciplinary

World? (269)

Claudel at 150 / Claudel à 150 ans

(309)

Extreme Politics and

Representations of the Extreme

in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-

Century France (424)

Deleuze: Literature, Philosophy, and

the Postcolonial (463)

Against Prison Writing:

Reimagining French and

Francophone Carceral Spaces (542)

Gide’s Friends and Foes (663)

Stéréotypes en tousgenres:

Insécurités sociétales et précarités

identitaires (687)

FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE

General

Édouard Glissant beyond Walls (119)

Race and Aesthetics in French and

Francophone Culture (250, 493,

773)

Dance, Performance, and Identity in

French and Francophone Studies

(378)

Genre, sexualité et politique dans le

monde francophone (512)

Francophone New York (588)

African

e Algerian Novel in French:

Sites of Resistance, States of

Insecurity, Algerianness, and

Cosmopolitanism, 1950–2018 (799)

Caribbean

Domination et résilience dans

l’œuvre de Gérard V. Etienne (358)

Édouard Glissant: From Identitarian

Insecurities to the Poetics of

Relation (458)

GALICIAN LITERATURE

Sempre en Nova Iorque: Galician

Cultures in and from New York

City (680)

GERMAN LITERATURE

General

Politicizing Women’s Bodies in the

Merkel Age (213)

Before 1700

1618–2018: Remembering the irty

Years’ War (51)

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Subject Index to All Sessions 

Shiing Legacies (373)

Aerlives of the Premodern (824)

Eighteenth and Early

Nineteenth Century

Taking Measure: Philosophical

Quanta (155)

Lessing’s Laughter (487)

Taking Measure: Poetic Rhythms

(576)

Goethe’s Narrative Forms:

Ideologies of Selood (603)

“Disputation”: Literature and

Politics; Heine and Beyond (673)

Goethe’s Narrative Forms:

Uncertain Events (744)

Nineteenth and Early

TwentiethCentury

“Totally Epic”: Brechtian and

Wagnerian Aesthetics Today (177)

Mediality and Intermediality:

Seeing, Hearing, and Storytelling

in Nineteenth-Century German

Culture (296)

e Timeliness and Timelessness of

Stefan Zweig (648)

Mediality and Intermediality:

Temporality and Materiality

in Twentieth-Century German

Culture (792)

Twentieth and Twenty-

FirstCentury

Revolution, Take 2: Exporting the

Russian Revolution (12)

Herta Müller and the Romanian

Language, Culture, and Politics

(246)

Brecht in the Middle East (341)

Revolution, Take 2: Conjunctural

Politics and the Paradox of

Presence (412)

Revolution, Take 2: Receptions of

Early Soviet Culture in Postwar

Germany (505)

GREEK LITERATURE

Considering the Contemporary:

(Post)Modern Greek Cinema and

Literature (263)

HEBREW LITERATURE

New Readings in Modern Hebrew

Literature (21)

Art and Activism: Israeli Women’s

Documentary Filmmaking (348)

Representing the Nonhuman in

Jewish and Hebrew Literature (803)

HUNGARIAN LITERATURE

e Dispossessed in Hungarian

Literature and Culture (36)

Son of Saul: A Conversation with

Géza Röhrig (420)

ITALIAN LITERATURE

Cultural-Political Liminalities in the

1600–1800s (39)

Transmediality in Italian Culture (75)

Scientic Discourse in Italy (1600–

1800s) (169)

Censorship and Self-Censorship in

Premodern Italy (244)

Black and White: Opposites,

Tensions, and Many Shades of

Gray in Between (287)

Postcolonial Italy and Speculative

Narratives (322)

Negotiating Identities: From

Pirandello to Today (372)

Reproduction and Fertility in

Film and Media: Italy in the

Mediterranean  (405)

Imagining Absence in Medieval and

Renaissance Italian (456)

Environmental Humanities and

Italy (570)

Texts in Dialogue in the Age of

Dante (586)

Lectura Boccaccii (660)

Conspiracies, Italian Style (748)

Dante on Crisis (798)

JEWISH LITERATURE

e Sephardim and the City (106)

Yiddish and the Political (295)

Mapping Jewish Geographies (764)

LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Modos innitos de narrar:

Homenaje a Ricardo Piglia (8)

Hurricanes in Literatures of

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Genealogies of Conservatism (174)

Nonwhite Romanticisms (232)

New Itineraries of the Colonial

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Caribbean Space and Bodies at War

(379)

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to the Twentieth Century (425)

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(199)

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“Verbivocovisual”: Border Forms

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(529)

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New Currents in Medieval Iberian

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Medieval States of Insecurity (756)

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Early Modern Spain and the Pacic

World: Writing on the Edge of

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Comedia in and for the Twenty-First

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Fearmongering in Medieval Iberia

(229)

Staging Insecurity: Early Modern

Spanish History Plays As

Resistance to Precarity (353)

Rewriting and Resisting (634)

Approaching 1492 from the Middle

Ages (702)

Rethinking the Romancero: Songs

and Ballads from Early Modern

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Eighteenth and

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Sets, Spaces, and Stages of Pre-

cinema, 1750–1899 (545)

Twentieth and Twenty-

FirstCentury

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Hispanic Women in the Public

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Activism, and Solidarities (137)

Bodies, Transnationalism, and Aect

in Recent Hispanic Poetry (485)

Materiality and the Cultures of

Death in Spain (601)

Screening the Past (677)

Between Fictions and Documents

(734)

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Modern Turkish Literature in

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(417)

Women, Art, and Revolution on the

Shores of the Mediterranean (556)

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Leonard Cohen: Death of a L adies’

Man (316)

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Insecurities (369)

Renegades and Revenge: Hag-Seed

andhe Heart Goes Last (483)

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(152)

Precarious Sovereignty in the

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Indian

eorizing the Refugee (211)

Irish

Twenty-First-Century Ireland:

Culture and Critique (120A)

Irish Women Writing Politics (164)

Samuel Beckett and the Discourse of

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Oceanic Ireland (812)

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Assembling the Archive, Imagining

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Teaching, eorizing, and Reading

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Transpacic Alignments aer the

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and Latin America (370)

Literature, Race, and Violence (516)

White Supremacy, Racial Insecurity,

and Literature Studies (758)

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Program Participants

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Aarons, Victoria, 764

Abate, Michelle Ann,

618; 625

Abbott, Jillian, 355

Abbott, Marty, 319; 604

Abdelkarim, Sherif, 756

Abdel Nasser, Tahia,

63; 705

Abdulhadi, Rabab

Ibrahim, 566

Abdur-Rahman,

Aliyyah Inaya, 815

Abitz, Dan, 426

Ablow, Rachel, 641; 783

Aboul-Ela, Hosam

Mohamed, 291; 609

Abraham, Lee B., 130

Abraham, Matthew, 44A

Abril-Sanchez, Jorge,

176

Acker, Paul L., 329; 398

Acosta, Ana M., 690

Acosta, Grisel Y., 111

Adair, Cassius, 90

Adams, Derek, 19

Adams, Joshua, 298

Adams, Liz, 354

Adams, Rachel, 569

Adams, Sarah, 233

Adams, William, 89

Addington, Robert

Wells, 231

Adéè

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kó



, Adélékè, 223

Adejunmobi,

Moradewun, 258

Adelson, Leslie A., 693

Adenekan,

Olorunshola, 108

Adler, Anthony Curtis,

Aerbach, Ian, 38

Agate, Nicky, 362; 440;

610

Agathocleous, Tanya,

732

Agnani, Sunil M., 615

Aguilar Dornelles,

Maria Alejandra, 137

Aguirre, Jonathan, 400

Agwu, Chinyelu, 561

Ahmed, Siraj, 615

Aho, Tanja N., 245

Akhimie, Patricia, 539

Akil, Hatem, 44A

Alaniz, José, 354

Albanese, Denise, 87

Albanese, Mary-Grace,

205

Albernaz, Joseph, 576

Albracht, Lindsey, 735

Alcocer, Rudyard Joel,

779

Aleksandrova, Elena,

142

Alekseyeva, Julia, 810

Alemán, Jesse, 223; 371

Alessandrini, Anthony,

417; 758

Alexander, Jonathan,

237

Alexander, Kara Poe,

691

Alexander, Sarah C.,

188

Alfar, Cristina León,

771

Algee-Hewitt, Mark,

723

Ali, Barish, 99

Ali, Samer Mahdy, 239

Aliakbari, Rasoul, 758

Alison, Cheryl, 819

Allan, Michael, 325

Allar, Neal, 119; 463

Allbritton, Dean, 601

Allen, Guinevere, 582

Allen, Nicholas, 812

Allen, omas, 805

Allen Sekhar, Amy L.,

703

Almenara, Erika, 40

al-Musawi, Muhsin J.,

479

Alon, Shir, 21; 82

Alonso, Alejandro, 680

Alonso, Carlos J., 239

Alsop, Elizabeth, 453

Altinay, Rustem Ertug,

27; 556

Altman, Meryl, 269

Altpeter, Katja, 806

Álvarez, Enrique, 485

Alvarez, Sara P., 345

Alvarez, Steven, 513

Alvarez-Castro, Luis,

685

Al-wazedi, Umme, 220

Alworth, David, 50; 410

Amine, Laila, 746

Amiran, Eyal, 122

Ammah-Tagoe, Aku,

643

Amper, Susan, 593

Anam, Nasia, 250; 493;

773

Anders, Lisann, 810

Andersen, Claus

Elholm, 288

Andersen, Tawny, 745

Anderson, AmandaS.,

787

Anderson, Ana, 503

Anderson, Jill E., 242

Anderson, Josh, 324

Anderson, Judith H.,

590

Anderson, Lisa Marie,

744

Anderson, Robin, 582

Anderson Cordell,

Sigrid, 196

Anderst, Leah M., 650

Andrews, Mark, 358

Andrews, William

Leake, 339

Andrianova,

Anastassiya, 806

Anker, Elizabeth, 820

Anlicker, Christine, 640

Antonopoulos,

Alexander, 269

Antonucci, Melissa

Leigh, 342

Antoon, Sinan, 63

Anwar, Waseem, 464

Anwer, Megha, 292

Apollonio, Carol, 150

Appel, Charlotte, 18

Appel, Molly, 117

Applegarth, Risa, 478

Applegate, Matt, 198

Apter, Emily, 291; 780

Arac, Jonathan, 318; 641

Arbona, Javier, 379

Arbuckle, Alyssa, 454

Archibald, Diana C., 480

Arias, Jacqueline, 57

Arjomand, Minou, 46;

745

Armiento, Amy

Branam, 593

Armillas-Tiseyra,

Magali, 195; 481

Armstrong, Amanda,

225

Armstrong, James, 480;

829

Armstrong, Nancy,

641; 783

Armstrong, Paul B., 332

Arnold-Levene, Elise,

205

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Arora, Anupama, 292

Arroyo Calderon,

Patricia, 174

Arteaga, Rachel, 416;

453

Arterian, Diana, 469

Arthur, Jason, 175

Ascher, Gloria J., 106

Ascher, James, 690

Ashton, Jennifer, 482

Aslami, Zarena, 210;

535

Astourian, Laure, 125

Athanasiou-Krikelis,

Lissi, 263

Atkinson, Ted, 530

Atlas, Marilyn Judith,

166

Attebery, Stina, 781

Augst, omas, 791

Avallone, Charlene, 749

Awkward-Rich,

Cameron, 90

Aydogdu, Zeynep, 596

Ayres, Jackson, 38

Azeem, Muhammad

Waqar, 464; 596

Azoulay, Ariella, 386;

517; 722

Babcock, Aaron, 166

Bachner, Andrea, 186

Badoi, Olivia, 122

Baek, Jiewon, 250; 493;

773

Baer, Brian James, 289

Bahr, David, 32

Bahri, Deepika, 23; 220

Bahri, Hamid, 119

Bailey, Amanda, 507

Bailey, Brigitte G., 148

Bailey, Constance, 638

Bailey, Lauren, 22

Bailey, Matthew J., 290

Bailis, Beverly, 21

Bainbridge, Danielle,

661

Baird, Jessie “Little

Doe,” 319

Baishya, Amit, 34; 193

Bakara, Hadji, 103

Balderston, Daniel, 8;

600

Baldi, Andrea, 39

Balfour, Ian, 79; 631

Balides, Constance, 811

Balint, Lilla, 747

Balkan, Stacey, 400; 806

Balkin, Sarah, 182

Balkun, Mary McAleer,

312; 497

Ball, Cheryl E., 184; 610

Ballif, Michelle, 97

Bamberger, Gudrun,

824

Bancro, Christian,

299; 509

Bancro, Corinne, 157

Banerjee, Anindita, 612

Banerjee, Sandeep, 662

Banerjee, Sukanya, 210;

535

Banks, Erik, 785

Banner, Olivia, 245

Barasch, Benjamin, 327

Baraw, Charles Eaton,

Barber, Tiany, 230

Barberan Reinares, M.

Laura, 33

Barbour, Catherine, 680

Barnard, John Levi, 140

Barnes, ChristopherA.,

610

Barnett, Elizabeth, 175

Barolini, Teodolinda,

586; 798

Baron, Robert, 344

Barounis, Cynthia, 823

Barreto, Danny, 680

Bars Closel, Regis

Augustus, 553

Barsella, Susanna, 660

Bartolovich, Crystal

Lynn, 181

Barzilai, Maya, 257

Barzilai, Shuli, 121

Basu, Anupam, 465

Bateman, Benjamin,

774

Batra, Ajay Kumar, 172

Batra, Kanika, 418

Bauer, Dale Marie, 30

Baumann, Rebecca, 352

Bayerl, Corinne, 115

Bazzoni, Alberica, 372

Beach, Adam Robert,

767

Beall, John, 659

Beam, Dorri, 499

Beard, Laura J., 133

Beaumont, Anne-

Marie, 789

Beauquis, Corinne, 358

Bebout, Lee, 28

Beck, Benjamin, 339

Beckenstein, Lynne, 823

Beckman, Ericka, 662;

757

Bedecarre, Madeline,

481

Beebee, omas Oliver,

Beechy, Tiany, 491

Beeston, Alix, 326

Behdad, Ali, 380; 591

Behrent, Megan, 742

Belafonte, Harry, 678

Belcher, Wendy Laura,

286

Belilgne, Maleda, 323

Bell, Eleanor, 720

Bell, Jason, 148

Belmonte, Laura, 371

Belvis, Cyril, 822

Bender, Abby S., 120A

Benedicty, Alessandra,

250; 493; 773

Beneduce, Felice Italo,

Benezra, Karen, 249

Benjamin, Martine H.,

663

Benjamin, Meredith, 510

Benjamin, Shanna

Greene, 334

Ben-Merre, David, 99

Bennett, Chad, 53; 419

Bennett, Jane, 564

Bennett, Michael, 230

Bensmaïa, Réda, 463

Benson, Alex, 547

Bentley, Mel, 29

Bentley, Nick, 95

Benton, Adia, 189

Ben-Tovim, Ron, 215;

522; 726

Benvegnu, Damiano,

570

Berberi, Tammy E., 390

Berg, Marla, 450

Bergland, Renée

Louise, 606

Beringer, Alex, 810

Berkowitz, Beth, 803

Berlant, Lauren, 436

Berlin, Henry, 260

Berman, Jessica, 510

Bermudez, Silvia, 137

Bernard, Anna, 433; 705

Bernardi, Joanne, 49

Bernards, Brian, 664

Berry, Michael, 331

Bersett, Jerey, 14

Bérubé, Michael, 126;

482

Beshero-Bondar, Elisa,

632

Betancur, Bryan, 667

Betensky, Carolyn Jane,

482

Bewes, Timothy, 330

Beytelmann, Sarah, 826

Bezerra, Ligia, 430

Bezhanova, Olga, 485

Bhatnagar, Rashmi

Dube, 211

Bhattacharya, Nandini,

Bhattacharya, Usree,

621

Bhaumik, Munia, 219

Biareishyk, Siarhei, 412

Biers, Katherine, 737

Bigelow, Allison, 302;

615

Bilbao-Terreros, Gorka,

557

Binmayaba, Mustafa,

397

Bishop, Cecile, 250;

493; 773

Biswas, Madhavi, 292

Bizer, Marc, 770

Bizzell, Patricia Lynn,

392

Bjornstad, Hall, 770; 826

Black, Elizabeth, 501

Black, Scott, 560

Bladek, Marta, 111

Blair, Kristine, 237

Blake, Julie, 116

Blanchard, Jean-

Vincent, 526

Blanco, María del Pilar,

827

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Blanco Mourelle, Noel,

290

Bland, Sterling L., 261

Blatt, Heather, 191

Bleich, David, 577; 749

Blockett, Kimberly D.,

339

Bloom, Gina, 340

Bloom, Paul, 568

Bloom, Steven Fredric,

381

Bloom Cohen, Hella,

806

Blyth, Carl, 610

Boeckeler, Erika Mary,

393

Boezio, Sara, 39

Boone, Trevor, 428

Boggs, Colleen

Glenney, 435

Boisvert, Stéfany, 512

Bolduc, Benoit, 611

Boler, Megan, 251; 492;

772

Bolt, Kellen, 688

Bona, MaryJo, 749

Bonifazio, Paola, 75;

405

Bonikowski, Wyatt, 817

Bonino, Nicole, 623

Bono, James J., 389

Bono, Mariana, 503

Boos, Florence S., 329;

382

Booth, Alison, 347

Borenstein, Eliot, 581

Born, Erik, 792

Borunda, Andrea, 149

Boruszak, Jerey, 740

Boscaljon, Daniel, 395

Bose, Maria, 696

Bosman, Anston, 181

Bosteels, Bruno, 305;

780

Bostic, Heidi, 91; 695

Bota, Miquel, 545

Bouhet, Elise, 378

Boullosa, Carmen, 538

Boulukos, George, 767

Bourbonnais, Alissa,

650

Bourgeois, Christine,

356

Bourget, Carine, 424

Bousquet, Gilles, 98

Boutouba, Jimia, 512

Bové, Paul Anthony, 211

Bowe, David, 586

Boyagoda, Randy, 592

Boyd, David, 272

Boyd, Matthieu, 398

Boyd, Nolan, 40

Boyd, Rauslynn, 367

Boyd, Sydney, 357

Boyden, Michael G., 636

Boyd Rioux, Anne, 818

Boyko, Kira, 462

Boyle, Margaret, 634

Bracher, Mark, 251;

492; 772

Bracken, Claire, 120A

Bradley, Rizvana, 404

Brady, Jennifer, 685

Brady, Lindy, 669

Braga-Pinto, Cesar, 71;

736

Brahm, Gabriel, 311

Braider, Christopher

Sheehan, 770

Bramen, Carrie T., 435

Brangan, Michaela, 342

Branson, Tyler, 426

Braunstein, Laura R.,

156

Bray, Patrick M., 142

Brearey, Oliver, 134

Breitenwischer, Dustin,

639

Breithaupt, Fritz, 603;

744

Brereton, John C., 156

Brezault, Eloise, 725

Brick, Christopher, 252

Bricker, Mary, 487

Brickey, Alyson, 342

Brickhouse, Anna, 506;

642

Bridger Gilmore, John

Garrett, 638

Brietzke, Zander, 381

Briggs, Ronald D., 626

Brighi, Elisabetta, 294

Brioni, Simone, 322

Broadwell, Peter, 514

Brockmann, Stephen

Matthew, 177

Brodsky, Claudia, 693

Broglio, Ron, 679

Brokaw, Galen, 128

Bronstein, Michaela, 10

Brooks, Daphne Ann,

552

Brooks, Emily, 393

Brookshaw, Dominic,

Brophy, James, 489

Brouillette, Sarah, 274

Brousseau, Marcel, 371

Brown, Adrienne, 573

Brown, Cynthia Jane,

501

Brown, James J., Jr., 97

Brown, Keisha, 112

Brown, Kelly, 47; 795

Brown, Marshall J., 9

Brown, Nicholas

Mainey, 433

Brown, Peter D. G., 482

Brown, Tony C., 767

Brown, William

Christopher, 134; 681

Browne, Mary Maxine,

273

Browner, Stephanie

Patricia, 617

Brown Spiers, Miriam,

58; 751

Brozgal, Lia, 250; 493;

773

Bruenner, Ines, 623

Bruster, Douglas, 151;

553

Bryant, Andrea Dawn,

477

Bryant, Rachel, 259

Bubb, Alexander, 732

Buck, Claire E., 359; 817

Buckley, Jennifer, 829

Buckley, Meghan, 313

Buelens, Gert, 377

Buon, Deborah, 817

Buiza, Nanci, 728

Burgers, Johannes, 233

Burgoyne, Nicole, 505;

747

Burke, Ann, 743

Burke, Daniel, 201

Burke, Mary M., 120A

Burkert, Mattie, 365

Burkett, Andrew, 407;

760

Burnett, Rebecca E., 130

Burr, Kristin L., 26

Burrington, Ingrid, 808

Burrows, Stuart, 752

Burt, Ellen S., 476

Burt, Stephen Louis,

655

Burtsch, Allison, 808

Bury, Louis, 657

Bush, Christopher

Paul, 555

Bushnell, Rebecca

Weld, 31; 805

Butler, Judith, 360

Butler, Tamara, 117

Butler, Todd Wayne,

221; 416

Buttereld, Ardis, 769;

804

Byers, Mark, 633

Byker, Devin, 437

Byrd, Vance LaVarr, 296

Byron, Mark Stephen,

132

Cabello-Hutt, Claudia,

Cairney, Anna, 355

Calabretta-Sajder,

Ryan, 287

Calatayud-Fernández,

Priscila, 734

Caldwell, Trivius, 223

Caleb, Amanda, 533

Calhoun, Alison, 611

Calico, Joy, 177

Callahan, Cynthia A.,

616

Callaway, Elizabeth,

284

Camarasana, Linda, 536

Caminero-Santangelo,

Byron, 821

Cammarata, Joan F.,

397

Campana, Joseph, 31;

797

Campbell, Donna M.,

148; 332

Campbell, Patricia R.,

70; 91

Campbell, Timothy, 160

Campt, Tina, 386

Canagarajah, A.

Suresh, 621

Canavan, Gerry, 376

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Cannon, Christopher,

582

Cannon, Nissa, 114; 391

Cantú, Norma Elia, 466

Canuel, Mark E., 475

Capdevila-Werning,

Remei, 260

Cappelli, Mary, 464

Cappucci, Paul R., 518

Caracciolo, Marco, 508

Cardenas, Maritza, 28

Cardinal, Jody L., 306;

562

Carillo, Ellen, 268

Carlisle, Janice M., 136

Carlitz, Katherine, 139

Carlson, Julie Ann, 60

Carolan, Mary Ann

McDonald, 287

Carol-Gerones, Lidia,

260

Caronia, Nancy, 224

Carpenter, Bennett,

225; 771

Carr, Jane Greenway,

200

Carr, Nicole, 242

Carrasco, René, 580

Carrera–de la Red,

Micaela, 575

Carrington, André, 230

Carroll, Alicia J., 788

Carroll, Amy Sara, 137

Carruth, Allison, 284;

410

Casarino, Cesare, 731

Casas Roige, Robert, 260

Case, Kristen, 639

Caselli, Daniela, 672

Casey, Janet Galligani,

482

Casey, Jim, 57; 102

Casey, John, 181

Casey, Shawn, 25

Castano, Emanuele,

251; 492; 772

Castellanos Gonella,

Carolina, 199

Caster, Peter, 536

Castiglia,

ChristopherD., 499

Caughie, Pamela L., 633

Cavalcante DaSilva,

Simone, 199

Cazenave, Jennifer, 420

Cedillo, Christina, 345

Cefalu, Paul A., 647

Cervone, Skye, 346

Chacón, Hilda, 613

Chaidez, Sonia, 113

Chakkalakal, Tess, 488

Chakraborty,

Chandrima, 61

Chakraborty,

Madhurima, 61; 392

Chakravarty, Urvashi,

Chakravorty,

Mrinalini, 591

Chamberlain, Edward,

15; 510

Chan, Nadine, 153

Chan, Winnie W., 251;

492; 772

Chanda, Sagnika, 258

Chander, Manu

Samriti, 232; 620

Chandler, Nahum, 693

Chandna, Mohit, 119;

741

Chandra, Sarika, 41

Chandradas, Usha, 153

Chang, Elizabeth, 209;

524; 727

Chang, Hsia-Ting, 148

Chang, Julia, 147

Chansky, Ricia Anne,

133; 567

Chapman, Dasha, 552

Charles, Julia, 488

Chase, Cynthia, 653

Chase, Greg, 477

Chattopadhyay, Arka,

672

Chaudary, Ajay Singh,

666

Chaudhary, Zahid R.,

216; 523; 730

Chaudhuri, Una, 737

Cheang, Kai Hang, 413

Chejfec, Sergio, 8

Chen, Amy, 352

Chen, Barbara, 94

Chen, Jiani, 486

Chen, Jingling, 112

Chen, Jinsong, 177

Chen, Li-ping, 584

Chen, omas, 434

Chen, Tina Yih-Ting,

238

Chen, Yu-Min, 500

Cheng, Julia, 161

Chenier, Natasha, 316

Chenoweth, Katie, 501

Chenoweth, Rebecca,

114

Cherbuliez, Juliette, 770

Chernetsky, Vitaly, 289

Cherniavsky, Eva, 572

Chess, Simone, 228

Chetty, Raj, 152

Chiasson, Christopher,

744

Chihara, Michelle, 245

Chihaya, Sarah, 50; 643

Chinn, Lisa, 496

Chinn, Sarah E., 80; 411

Chiquillo, Raquel

Patricia, 684

Chishty, Mahwish, 464

Chivers, Sally, 541

Chodorow, Nancy, 301

Choi, Kyeong-Hee, 383

Chow, Eileen Cheng-

Yin, 644; 695

Chrisler, Matthew, 324

Christensen, Nina, 18

Christiansë, Yvette, 517

Christie, Edward J., 816

Christman-Lavin,

Sophie, 480; 679

Christo, Alicia, 321

Christopher Faggioli,

Sarah E., 115

Christy, John Paul, 101

Chu, David, 319

Chun, Wendy, 808

Chung, Rebecca, 388

Chute, Hillary L., 122;

595

Ciaccio, Jason, 168

Ciamparella, Anna, 287

Civantos, ChristinaE.,

Clancy, Eileen, 440

Clapp, Gordon, 277

Clapp, Jerey, 696

Clapper, Laura, 352

Clark, Andrew Herrick,

265

Clark, Billy, 335

Clark, Katerina, 12

Clarke, Ben, 95

Clarke, Michael Tavel,

Classen, Albrecht, 51;

272

Clayson, Ashley, 579

Cleland, Jaime, 666

Click, Ben, 385

Clo, Clarissa, 287

Cloutier, Jean-

Christophe, 636

Clune, Michael W.,

468; 805

Cobham-Sander,

Rhonda, 108

Cocola, Jim, 828

Codjoe, Ama, 555

Codr, Dwight, 60

Cohen, Debra Rae, 423;

555

Cohen, Eli, 72

Cohen, Hella Bloom,

741; 806

Cohen, Jerey, 84; 564

Cohen, Joshua, 768

Cohen, Samuel, 50; 536

Cohen, William A., 70

Cohn, Elisha, 161

Cohn, Mallory, 59

Colbert, Soyica Diggs,

Colbert Cairns, Emily,

290

Cole, Heather, 352

Coleman, Deirdre

Patricia, 645

Coleman, Nicole, 191;

213

Coleman, Tara, 208; 534

Coletu, Ebony, 366

Colin, Amy-Diana, 246

Colley, Sharon, 20

Collins, Cornelius, 214

Colomina-Alminana,

Juan Jose, 628

Colvin, Christina, 140

Combs-Schilling,

Jonathan, 456

Commander, Michelle,

230

Conchado, Diana, 680

Cong-Huyen, Anne, 113

Conley, Katharine, 170

Conley, Tom Clark, 463

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Program Participants 

Conners, omas, 755

Connolly, Claire, 812

Connolly, Shannon, 733

Connolly, William, 294

Constantinesco,

omas, 278

Cooper, Lisa H., 247

Cooper, Mark Garrett,

811

Cooppan, Vilashini, 637

Copestake, Ian D., 518

Corbalan, Ana, 137

Corbin, Christophe, 125

Corbi-Saez, Maria-

Isabel, 269

Cordier, Stephane, 282

Cordoba, Antonio, 11;

601

Cormack, Bradin, 340

Cornejo, Kency, 682

Cornelius, Jeremy, 651

Corredor, Eva Livia, 36

Costabile-Heming,

Carol Anne, 792

Costello, Bonnie, 763

Costello, Kate, 29

Costello, Virginia, 829

Cotter, Erin, 683

Couch, Daniel, 593

Courtmanche, Jason

Charles, 4; 218; 494

Couti, Jacqueline, 378

Cowling, Erin, 165

Cox, Catherine S., 81

Cox, John, 622

Cox, Kimberly, 788

Cra, Linda J., 728

Craig, Dustinn, 324

Craig, Eleanor, 216;

523; 730

Craig, Siobhan S., 88

Crank, James, 699

Crawford, Ilene, 402

Crawford, Margo

Natalie, 815

Crawley, Ashon, 323

Creahan, Daniel, 387

Creamer, Joseph, 231

Cressler, Loren, 553

Criser, Regine, 109

Crisp, Justin, 69

Crow, Andrea, 771

Crowell, Ellen, 423

Crowley, Dustin, 561

Croxall, Brian, 393; 694

Cruz, Angie, 646

Cruz, Yari, 462

Cruz-Ortiz, Jaime, 667

Cruz Petersen,

Elizabeth, 176

Cucu, Sorin, 674

Cuddy, Alison, 101

Culkin, Katherine, 818

Cull, John, 353

Cullen, Sarah, 114

Culleton, Claire, 565

Cullors, Patrisse, 678

Cunningham, Katelyn,

Cunningham, Lacie

Rae, 692

Cunningham, Nijah,

152

Curran, Kevin, 679

Current, Cynthia A.,

380

Curtis Adler, Anthony,

155

Cutler, John Alba, 308

Cutter, Martha J., 19

Cyzewski, Julie, 391;

474

D’Addario,

Christopher, 365

Dahn, Eurie, 102

Daigle, Claire, 528

Dailey, Je, 427

Daily-Bruckner, Katie,

162

Daiya, Kavita, 741

Dalal, Surabhi, 211

Dalton, Susan, 265

Damrosch, David, 698

Dan, Amira, 276

Dangler, Jean, 756

Daniel, Drew, 17; 254

Daniel, Julia, 135

Darda, Joseph, 410; 790

Dasbach, Julia

Kolchinsky, 684

Dash, J. Michael, 796

Daub, Adrian, 118

Davidson, Cathy, 360

Davidson, Dan E., 319

Davies, Dominic, 511

Davies, Laura J., 268

Davis, Angela, 360

Davis, Georey V., 336

Davis, Jack, 177

Davis, Lanta, 779

Davis, Oliver, 542

Davis, Rebecca, 127

Davis, adious M., 312

Davis, eo, 752

Dawson, Brent, 215;

522; 726

Dawson, Melanie V., 45

De, Amrita, 418

De, Aparajita, 292

Dean, Jeremy, 234

De’Ath, Amy, 41

Deb, Basuli, 281; 467

Debelius, Margaret, 159

De Castro, Juan E., 626

Deckard, Sharae, 662

Deer, Patrick, 817

De Ferrari,

Guillermina, 379; 640

Degenhardt, Jane

Hwang, 432

Deggan, Mark, 481; 598

Del Balzo, Angelina,

328

Deleva, Milena, 194

Delgado Lopez, Nayra,

212

Delgado Moya, Sergio,

602

Dell, Helen, 789

Della Coletta, Cristina,

453

DelliCarpini, Dominic,

392

Delogu, Daisy J., 501

del Rio Gabiola, Irune,

137

DeLucia, JoEllen, 240

Demaria, Laura, 8

de Moraes, Lidiana, 736

Dempsey, Sean, 592

Deniso, Dennis, 455

Denlinger, Elizabeth, 60

Dennihy, Melissa, 335;

681; 743

Denzel, Valentina, 279

DeRosa, Aaron, 696

Derrick, Roshawnda,

623

Desai, Adhaar Noor,

127

Desai, Gaurav G., 89;

310

Desgranges, Maggie,

623

De Souza, Rebecca, 290

Detweiler, Eric, 440

D’Eugenio, Daniela,

533

Deutsch, Helen, 279

Deutsch, James, 121;

344

Devers, Rebecca, 742

Devitt, McKew, 196

Devlin, Paul, 149

De Vos, Laura, 548

DeVos, Whitney, 830

Dewey, Colin David,

624

Diamond, Elin, 737

Diana, Vanessa

Holford, 416

Diaz, Monica, 128; 580

Diaz Martin, Esther,

137

Díaz-Quiñones,

Arcadio, 8

Dib, Nicole, 157

Dichter, omas, 225

Dickey, Frances, 135

Dickson, Reed, 562

DiCuirci, Lindsay, 78

Di Leo, Jerey R., 79

Dillon, Elizabeth

Maddock, 195; 688

Dimick, Sarah, 304

Dimock, Wai Chee,

408; 564

Dimuro, Joseph A., 45

Dingo, Rebecca, 735

Dinolfo, John, 521

Dinshaw, Carolyn, 247

DiPaolo, Marc, 261

DiPasquale, eresa

Maria, 590

Dischinger, Matthew,

253; 484; 765

Dize, Nathan H., 16

Djilo Kamga, Marthe,

510

Dolasinski, Lisa, 405

Dolgin, Ellen, 829

Dolske, Gwendolyn,

269

Dominguez, Ricardo,

517

Donahue, James, 471

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PMLA

Donaldson, Elizabeth

J., 44; 351

Donaldson, Sonya, 616

Donato, Clorinda, 169

Dong, Xiaoxi, 550

Donica, Joseph, 234;

810

Donkor, Crystal, 488

Donlon, Anne, 527; 661

Donoghue, Frank, 248

Donovan, Stephen, 489

Doriott Anderson,

Vanessa, 124

Doroga, Jason, 197

Dorta, Walfrido, 349

Douglas, Christopher,

592; 828

Dovchin, Sender, 623

Dowd, Michelle M.,

507

Dowdy, Michael, 131

Dowland, Douglas G.,

203

Dowling, Sarah, 369;

419

Downing, David B.,

248

Dowson, Rebecca, 454

Doyle, Benjamin, 670

Doyle, Jennifer, 403

Doyle, Laura Anne, 195

Draga Alexandru,

Maria-Sabina, 674

Draucker, Shannon,

754

Dreier, Stephanie, 671

Drew, Mark, 377

Dreyfus, Emily, 296

Driscoll, Kerry, 518

Droge, Abigail, 468

Drouin, Jerey, 817

Drumsta, Emily, 82

Duane, Anna Mae, 470;

825

Duarte, Silvia, 401

Duarte-Gray, Isabel,

242

Dube, Sibusiwe, 145

Dubrow, Heather, 590

Du y, Timothy, 753

Dumitrescu, Domnita,

685

Duncan, Ian, 641

Dunn, Christopher

John, 529

Dupree, Mary Helen,

487

Duprey, Jennifer, 217;

532

Duquette, Elizabeth, 30

Duran, Angelica Alicia,

35; 207

Durand, Alain-

Philippe, 124; 496

Durand, Annick A.,

687

Duran Real, Angela,

453

Durgan, Jessica, 210;

535

Dushane, Allison, 760

Dutra, Paulo, 71

Duvall, John N., 423

Dworkin, Ira, 758

Dyer, Gary R., 804

Dyson, Katie, 203

Dziub, Nikol, 689

Eager, Claire, 465

Earle, Chris, 801

Earle, Jason, 663

Eberle-Sinatra,

Michael, 332

Edelman, Lee, 79

Edel-Roy, Agnes, 187

Edgar, Eir-Anne, 743

Edmondson, Chloe,

265

Edmundson, Mark W.,

312

Edwards, Brent Hayes,

637

Edwards, Erica, 438

Edwin, Shirin E., 746

Eeckhout, Bart P., 459

Efe, E., 785

Eigler, Friederike U.,

180

Eils, Colleen, 658

Eisendrath, Rachel,

472; 769

Eisner, Martin G., 798

Ekotto, Frieda, 510

Elam, James Daniel,

193

Elam, Michele, 607

El-Ariss, Tarek, 479

Elder, John, 100

Eldridge, Hannah, 576

Elefant, Lior, 348

Elias, Amy J., 230

Elias-Bursac, Ellen, 697

El Khatib, Randa, 212;

454

Elkins, Amy E., 253;

484; 765

Ellard, Donna Beth,

491

Elliot, Norbert, 762

Ellis, Alicia E., 673

Ellis, Nadia, 552

Ellison, Julie, 157

El Nossery, Nevine, 556

El Shakry, Hoda, 163

Elsky, Stephanie, 254

El Younssi, Anouar,

776

Emenyonu, Ernest, 286

Emerson, D. Berton,

504

Emmerich, Karen, 531;

697

Emmerich, Michael,

514

Eng, Chris A., 238

Eng, David L., 216; 523;

730

Engel, Stephen David,

574

Engelstein, Stefani, 118

English, Daylanne K.,

52; 359

Enterline, Lynn, 769

Eo, Kyunghee, 778

Epstein, Robert W., 544

Ernest, John, 339; 506

Ernst, Rachel A., 382

Ertürk, Nergis, 417; 637

Estill, Laura, 54

Estremera, Cynthia,

666

Etelain, Jeanne, 73

Etherington, Ben, 433

Evalyn, Lawrence, 808

Evans, Rebecca, 692

Eve, Martin Paul, 610

Exley, Charles, 49

Eyers, Tom, 79

Eyman, Douglas, 237

Fabrizi, Mark, 671

Fache, Caroline, 746

Fadoul, Paul, 119

Fagan, Benjamin, 102

Faini, Marco, 244

Fairouz, Mohammed,

459

Falaky, Fayçal, 526

Falk, Candace, 252

Fallon, Stephen M., 647

Fan, Christopher, 105;

370

Faragher, Megan, 461

Farina, Jonathan, 480;

645

Farley, David, 196; 776

Farmer, Meredith, 624

Farmer, Paul, 189

Fauri, Ana, 430

Fauzetdinova, Adel,

697

Fay, Elizabeth, 645

Fay, Jacqueline Ann,

816

Fazio, Michele A., 224

Fedirka, Sarah A., 391

Fedoruk, Je, 369

Fedosik, Marina, 616

Fehrenbacher, Dena,

705

Feldman, Keith, 741;

758

Feldman, Leah, 612

Feng, Aileen, 456

Fenner, Angelica, 616

Ferguson, Andrew, 376;

528

Ferguson, Frances, 368;

475

Ferguson, Josh-Wade,

149

Fernandez, Diego, 253;

484; 765

Fernández, Esther, 217;

532

Ferri, Sabrina, 169

Ferris, Andrew, 688

Ferry, Megan M., 7; 65;

557

Fetta, Stephanie A., 684

Fetterley, Judith F., 749

Fetzer, Glenn W., 309

Ffrench, Raymont

Patrick, 206

Field, Christopher, 638

Field, Jonathan

Beecher, 536

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Program Participants 

Field, Robin E., 61

Fielder, Brigitte, 18; 587

Filippova, Darja, 12

Filreis, Al, 157

Finch, David Zachary,

459

Fine, Kerry, 578

Fink, Marty, 509

Finley, Sarah, 460

Finston, Manoah, 666

Fiore, Teresa, 98

Fischer, Susan L., 353

Fish, Amy, 498

Fish, Stanley Eugene,

207

Fisher, Jane E., 817

Fisher, Will, 228

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher,

408; 796

Fisk, Gloria L., 643; 698

Fiss, Geraldine, 112

Fitzgerald, Jason, 740

Fitzgerald, Jonathan,

393

Fitzpatrick, Cristen,

740

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen,

610

Fitzpatrick, Katie, 53

Fitzpatrick, KellyAnn,

300

Fitzsimmons, Rebekah,

314

Fiuza, Felipe, 72

Flanagan, Melissa, 6

Flatley, Jonathan, 412

Flaugh, Christian, 390

Flaxman, Gregory, 262

Fleetwood, Nicole, 573

Fleming, Julius, Jr.,

438; 766

Flint, Kate, 404; 788

Floreani, Tracy, 144

Florescu, Florina

Catalina, 246

Fludernik, Monika,

431; 822

Foley, Barbara Clare,

38; 248

Follett, Alec, 369

Fontana, Antonio, 550

Forbes, Tara, 342

Ford, Gabriel, 202

Fore, Devin A., 412

Foreman, P. Gabrielle,

339

Forman, Ross G., 209;

524; 727

Forno, Carolyn, 284;

757

Forrester, Sibelan, 531

Forsdick, Charles, 542;

725

Forsythe, Jenny Marie,

264

Foster, Frances Smith,

411

Foster, J. Ashley, 527

Foster, Travis M., 30

Foteinou, Aglaia, 789

Fournier, Lauren, 745

Fowler, Megan, 729

Foy, Anna, 129

Foys, Martin, 154

Fragopoulos, George,

263

Fraiman, Susan D., 225

Fraleigh, Matthew, 786

Fra-Molinero, Baltasar,

661

Francis, Gladys M.,

378; 717

Francis, Mary, 184

Francisco, Timothy, 87

François, Anne-Lise,

84; 183

Francomano, Emily C.,

159; 264; 634

Frank, Adam J., 389;

653

Franke, William, 798

Franklin-Brown, Mary,

501

Franks, Matt, 703

Franzel, Sean B., 77

Fraser, Benjamin, 390

Freeburg, Christopher,

438

Freeland, Anne, 291

Freeman, Meghan, 329

Freeman, Ru, 520

Freeman, W. Miranda,

334

Frengel, Elizabeth, 136

Frenze, Maj-Britt, 649

Fried, Daniel, 813

Friedl, Herwig, 639

Friedlander, Ari, 17

Friedman, Gabriella,

751

Friedman, Susan

Stanford, 274

Friis, Ronald J., 827

Frisch, Andrea Marie,

414

Frisina, Kyle, 745

Fritzsche, Sonja Rae,

239

Frodyma, Judyta, 316

Fröhlich, Sören, 521

Frost, Alanna, 691

Fuchs, Barbara, 353

Fuechtner, Veronika,

505

Fuentes, Marcelo, 229

Fuggle, Sophie, 542

Fukumori, Naomi, 514

Furlan, Laura M., 204

Fyfe, Alexander, 662

Gabbard, Chris, 569

Gaines, Jane Marie, 811

Gairola, Rahul, 418

Gallagher, Mark

Russell, 546

Gallop, Jane, 317

Gallope, Michael, 731

Galloway, Alexander,

468

Galperin, William H.,

368

Galvan, Margaret, 354

Galvez, Marisa, 582

Galvin, Rachel, 131

Gambarota, Paola, 75

Gambetti, Zeynep, 517

Gamble, Kyle, 719

Game, David, 598

Gana, Nouri, 609

Ganeshan, Ashwini,

191

Gannett, Cinthia, 156

Gansen, Elizabeth, 794

Ganz, Melissa J., 221

Gao, Yunwen, 559

Garber, Marjorie, 787

García, David E., 70

Garcia, Jay, 38

Garcia, Merideth, 562;

691

García-Donoso, Daniel,

601

Garcia-Martin, Elena,

217; 532

Garcia Pinar, Pablo,

165

Gardiner, Judith, 650

Gardiner, Kelly, 495

Garland-omson,

Rosemarie, 146

Garlo, Katja, 792

Garriga, Ana, 460

Garrigan, Shelley

Elizabeth, 425

Garrison, John, 375

Garrity, Jane M., 55

Gaskill, Lauren, 253;

484; 765

Gaskins, Nettrice, 230

Gatrall, Jeerson J. A.,

394

Gatti, Alberta, 557

Gatto, Katherine Mary,

Gauch, Suzanne, 361

Gaudet, Katherine, 66

Gavrielatos, Andreas,

608

Geheber, Philip, 812

Geis, Deborah R., 13

Geller, eresa L., 461

Gemmani, Lucia, 39

George, Alys, 648

George, Sheldon, 216;

523; 730

Gercken, Becca, 751

Gere, Anne Ruggles,

56; 580A; 706; 762

Gerhard, Julia, 394

Gerhardt, Christina,

458; 679

Germana, Monica, 720

Germano, William, 317

Gerrity, Sean, 426; 724

Gerzina, Gretchen, 59

Gezen, Ela, 341

Gharabegian, Alina,

536

Giannini, Stefano, 748

Gibson, Angela, 525;

589; 670

Gibson, Casarae L., 46

Gibson, Corey, 121; 720

Gies, David atcher,

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Gikandi, Simon E., 312;

337

Gil, Alexander, 57; 304

Gilbert, Katherine, 221

Gilbert, Nora, 85

Gilbert, Pamela K., 788

Gill, Amyrose McCue,

670

Gill, Michael James,

812

Gillen, Katherine, 398

Gillman, Susan, 30; 796

Gill-Peterson, Julian,

540

Gilmore, Leigh, 133

Gimse, Georey, 694

Gines, Kathryn, 269

Giordano, Rebecca, 354

Glancy, Diane, 751

Glaser, Jennifer, 19

Glass, Erin, 453

Glass, Loren D., 175

Gleason, William A.,

227

Glick, Jeremy M., 152

Glover, Jerey, 302

Glover, Kaiama L., 16;

119

Gniadek, Melissa, 820

Goble, Mark, 326; 547

Gochberg, Reed, 100

Goddard, Jeanette, 658

Goddard, Todd, 818

Godfrey, Mollie, 19

Goetz, Elizabeth, 40

Goman, Carolyn

McCue, 25

Gogol, Miriam S., 811

Gold, Matthew K., 184;

583

Goldberg, David eo,

517; 777

Goldberg, Sarah, 227;

241

Goldberg, Shari, 752

Goldblatt, Laura, 225

Golden, Amanda, 619

Goldfarb, Lisa N., 459

Goldman, Dara E., 349

Goldman, Jonathan,

619

Goldsby, Jacqueline

D., 791

Goldstein, Amanda

Jo, 814

Goldwyn, Adam, 263

Gollwitzer-Oh,

Kathrin, 824

Golomb, Liorah A., 156

Gomez, Reid, 223

Gomez-Lomeli, Luis

Felipe, 827

Gonzalez, Christopher,

261; 471

Gonzalez, Octavio, 399

Gonzalez, Shawn, 313

González Chávez,

Humberto, 92

González-Stephan,

Beatriz, 174

Goode, Mike, 775

Goodley, Dan, 146

Goodman, Brian, 747

Goodwin, Jonathan,

440

Gordon, Colby W., 228

Gore, Amy, 204

Goul, Pauline, 414

Gowen, Emily, 578

Goyal, Yogita, 195; 607

Grace, Nancy

McCampbell, 13

Grace-Petinos,

Stephanie, 202

Grady, Hugh, 797

Gra Zivin, Erin D.,

257

Graham, Elyse, 308

Graham, Rebecca, 615

Graham, Wendy, 278

Gramling, David, 698

Grandt, Jurgen E., 567

Grant, Nathan, 377

Grattan, Sean, 536

Gray, Jacqueline L., 558

Grazevich, Gregory, 94

Green, Harriett, 352

Greenberg, Jonathan

D., 192

Greenberg, Marc L.,

65; 98

Greenberg, Nathaniel,

361

Greenblatt, Stephen

J., 651

Greene, Roland, 181

Greene, Shelleen, 322

Green-Howard,

Rachael, 228

Greenspan, Ezra, 339

Greenwald Smith,

Rachel, 643

Greeson, Jennifer Rae,

138

Gregerson, Linda K.,

207

Gregory, Chase, 704

Gregory, Scott, 235

Greif, Mark, 123

Greiman, Jennifer, 219

Greyser, Naomi, 148

Grieve, Patricia E., 264

Grieve-Smith, Angus,

455

Grin, Susan Mary,

555

Grith, Jane, 259

Grith, Phillip, 170

Griths, Devin, 327;

389

Griths, Timothy, 488

Grigar, Dene M., 644

Grobe, Christopher, 46

Gross, Jessica, 658

Gross, Jonathan, 270

Grossman, Claire, 29

Grossman, Jonathan,

436; 783

Grotans, Anna, 824

Groves, Jason, 654

Grue, Jan, 146

Gruesser, John Cullen,

593

Grumbach, Elizabeth,

454

Grunes, Marissa, 554

Gsoels-Lorensen, Jutta

M., 103; 401

Guadaño, Luis, 545

Gudmundsdottir,

Gunnthorunn, 288

Guerlac, Suzanne, 206

Guesmi, Haythem, 828

Gui, Weihsin, 664

Guibbory, Achsah, 297

Guidotti-Hernández,

Nicole M., 755

Guijarro-Donadios,

Antonio, 217; 532

Gundogan Ibrisim,

Deniz, 422

Gunn, Robert, 642

Gunter, Ben, 165

Guo, Jie, 721

Guo, Li, 307

Gupta-Casale, Nira

M., 418

Gursel, Burcu, 222

Guryeva, Anastasia,

629

Gustafson, Sandra M.,

408

Gustafsson Chen,

Anna, 434

Gutiérrez, Laura G., 86

Gutiérrez, Manuel, 602

Gutierrez-Albilla,

Julian Daniel, 76

Guy-Bray, Stephen, 280

Guyer, Sara, 476

Guynes, Sean, 346

Guyot, Sylvaine, 526

Guzmán, Joshua, 755

Gvili, Gal, 179

Haake, Gregory, 501

Hachad, Naima, 556

Hack, Daniel, 161

Hackenbracht, Ryan,

608

Haeselin, David, 175

Hager, Lisa M., 754

Haidt, Rebecca, 545

Haji Amran, Rinni,

215; 522; 726

Hakala, Taryn, 210; 535

Halberstam, Jack, 597

Halevi-Wise, Yael, 106

Haley, Madigan, 774

Hall, Ann C., 577

Hall, Crystal J., 169

Hall, Donald E., 70

Hall, Molly, 406

Hall, S. Cailey, 183

Hallett, Christine, 521

Halmi, Nicholas, 814

Halperin, Laura, 28

Halpern, Faye S., 85

Hamerton, Katharine,

265

Hamilton, Diana, 15

Hamilton, Elizabeth

C., 390

Hamilton, Michelle

M., 756

Hamilton, Paul, 665

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]

Program Participants 

Hammer, Langdon, 459

Hammerman, Robin S.,

467; 810

Hammerschlag, Sarah,

276

Hammond, James, 141

Hancu, Richard W.,

299; 659

Handley, William, 578

Hannachi, Madiha,

701; 719

Hanscom, Christopher,

778

Hanson, Ellis, 27

Haque, Danielle, 596

Haque, Jameel, 732

Haragos, Szidonia, 420

Hardman, Emilie, 352

Hardy, Molly O’Hagan,

791

Harel, Naama, 803

Hargrave, Jennifer L.,

209; 524; 727

Harmon, Sarah, 605

Harner, Christie, 188

Harney-Mahajan, Tara,

120A

Harper, Donna Akiba

Sullivan, 334

Harries, Martin, 737

Harris, Rachel S., 348

Harris, Stephen J., 649

Harris, Susan K., 385

Harris, William J., 686

Harrison, Marguerite

I., 43

Harrison, Mary-

Catherine, 210; 535

Harrison, Rachel, 551

Harrison, Timothy M.,

143; 297

Harrison-Kahan, Lori,

764

Hartman, Saidiya, 597

Hartman, Stacy, 563;

761

Hartmann-Villalta,

Laura, 644

Harvey, Elizabeth D.,

143

Harwood, Christopher,

654

Hasbun, Muriel, 682

Hashem, Noor, 596

Hass, Robert Bernard,

277

Hassan, Dina, 335

Hauptman, Maya, 358

Hay, John, 62

Hayek, Ghenwa, 44A

Hayes, Jarrod L., 242;

396

Hayes, Mary, 168; 422

Hayot, Eric, 159; 274

Haywood, Ian, 64

Hazard, Daniel, 349

Heafey, Caroline, 164

Healey, David, 134

Heath, R. Scott, 230

Heath, Stephen, 318

Hebbard, Elizabeth, 92

Heberling, Lydia, 324

Hefner, Brooks E., 102;

470

Hegel, Allison, 333

Heidemeier, Pia, 215;

522; 726

Heil, Jacob, 666

Heimlich, Timothy,

498; 554

Heine, Stefanie, 574;

792

Heintz, Lauren, 793

Helgesson, Stefan, 433

Heller, Dana A., 650

Helmer, Angela, 575

Helmers, Marguerite

Helen, 114; 521

Helton, Laura E., 320

Hena, Omaar, 516

Henchman, Anna, 188

Hengel, Daniel, 657

Henig, Roni, 21

Henzi, Sarah, 58

Herman, Peter C., 311

Hernández, Daisy, 646

Hernandez Grande,

Alicia, 260

Herrera, Olga, 371

Herrera, Patricia, 428

Herring, Scott, 399

Hershinow, David, 507

Hesford, Wendy, 537

Hess, Jillian, 363

Hesse, Douglas, 237

Hewitt, Elizabeth, 606

Hickman, Lisa

Catherine, 530

Hickman, Trenton L.,

308

Higbee, Douglas, 817

Highland, Kristen

Doyle, 619

Hildebrand, Sarah, 548

Hill, Michael Gibbs,

179; 559

Hilson, Mica, 214

Hinrichs, William, 666

Hinrichsen, Lisa A.,

245

Hinton, Anna, 703

Hipchen, Emily, 355

Hirsch, Marianne, 364;

725

Hirsu, Lavinia, 537

Hisatake, Kara, 105

Hitchcock, Peter James,

104

Ho, Elizabeth H., 209;

524; 727

Hobbs, Allyson, 19

Hobbs, David, 132; 278

Hodgson, Lucia, 825

Hodgson, Matthew,

426

Hofer, Amy, 234

Hoosh, Sonia, 620

Hofmann, Richie, 357

Hogan, Katie J., 24; 821

Hogan, Lalita Pandit,

568; 700

Hogan, Patrick Colm,

429; 568

Hogue, Rebecca, 781

Holden, Anca Luca,

246

Holder, Heidi J., 683

Holdstein, Deborah H.,

237; 359

Holland, Caroline, 821

Hollenbach, Lisa A.,

182; 549

Hollinshead-Strick,

Cary, 388

Hollywood, Amy, 216;

523; 730

Holmes, Gerard, 62

Holmes, Jessica, 548

Holmes, Lindsey, 278

Holt, Elizabeth M., 63

Holt, Jenny, 209; 524;

727

Hong Fincher, Leta,

695

Hooks, Adam G., 352

Hooley, Matt, 84

Horowitz, Sara R., 276

Hou, Jue, 422

Houchins, Sue E., 35;

661

Housley, Marjorie, 154

Houston Overfelt,

Carly, 477

Howard, Jean

Elizabeth, 264; 432

Howe, Lawrence, 385

Howe, LeAnne, 800

Hoxby, Blair G., 770

Hoyos, Hector, 249

Hswe, Patricia M., 695

Hsy, Jonathan, 107

Hu, Qiulei, 813

Hu, Tung-Hui, 583

Huang, Amy, 825

Huang, Guangzhi, 37

Huang, Michelle N.,

238

Huang, Yiju, 500

Huang, Yu-ting, 186

Hubbard, Dolan, 80

Hubble, Nick, 95

Hubbs, Jolene, 138

Hu, Cheryl, 234

Huh, Jang Wook, 585

Hume Lewandowski,

Angela, 419

Hung, Tzu-Hui Celina,

186

Hunt, Dallas, 58

Hunt, Irvin, 470

Hunter, Leeann, 6

Hunter-Parker,

Hannah, 373

Hurley, Jessica, 323

Hurley, Natasha, 461

Hurst, Caitlin, 201

Hustis, Harriet

Elizabeth, 667

Hutcheson, Gregory

S., 229

Hutchinson,

Christopher, 51

Hutner, Gordon N.,

377; 410

Hutton, Robert, 650

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[

PMLA

Huyssen, Andreas A.,

505

Hwang, Merose, 676

Hyland, Marie-

Christine, 554

Ibbett, Katherine, 414

Idrissi Alami, Ahmed,

511

Ifri, Pascal A., 663

Ihinger, Kelsey, 353

Illingworth, Corinna

Margarete, 382

Indrunas, Alyson, 234

Ingram, Shelley, 638

Ingrassia, Catherine

Elizabeth, 630

Insley Hershinow,

Stephanie, 784

Ireland, Benjamin, 37

Ivey, Beatrice, 687

Iyer, Nalini, 61; 220

Jackson, Lawrence, 768

Jackson, Mark Allan,

121

Jackson, Robert A., 699

Jackson, Virginia, 325

Jacobe, Monica F., 66;

124; 743

Jacobowitz, Susan, 36

Jacobs, Bethany, 42;

298

Jacobs, Jason D., 490

Jacobs, Sarah Ruth, 795

Jacobson, Kristin J.,

166

Jaén-Portillo, Isabel, 72

Jager, Colin, 343

Jagoda, Patrick, 408;

760

Jaillant, Lise, 455

Jaji, Tsitsi, 271

Jakacki, Diane, 454

Jakobsen, Janet R., 572

James, Erin, 508

James, Jennifer, 506

James, Jenny M., 540

Jamieson, Sandra, 478

Jani, Pranav, 225

Janzen, Rebecca, 757

Jaschik, Scott, 126

Jauregui, Carlos A., 580

Jaussen, Paul, 222

Jegousso, Jeanne, 313

Jellenik, Glenn, 759

Jemison, Steani, 404

Jennison, Ruth, 662

Jenns, Erika, 352

Jensen, Katharine Ann,

526

Jeon, Joseph, 238; 370

Jeong, Kelly Y., 584

Jerng, Mark, 471

Jewusiak, Jacob, 541

Jia Pingwa, 331

Jiménez García,

Marilisa, 543

Johnsen, Rosemary

Erickson, 828

Johnson, Eleanor, 544

Johnson, Erica, 725

Johnson, Kendall, 209;

524; 727

Johnson, Kimberly, 297

Johnson, Mira, 344

Johnson, Reed, 394

Johnson, Ronna

Catherine, 13

Johnson, Sharon P., 396

Johnson, Zachary, 150

Johnston, Lisa Longo,

562; 681

Jokic, Olivera, 129

Jolly, Rosemary J., 281

Jones, Allen, 704

Jones, Anna Maria,

209; 524; 727

Jones, Edward, 377

Jones, Gavin, 547

Jones, Jason B., 203;

440

Jones, Meta DuEwa,

419; 549

Jones-Kellogg, Rebecca,

Jonik, Michael, 219; 278

Joo, Fumiko, 307

Joplin, Rachelle, 203

Joseph, Régine Isabelle,

588

Joseph-Gabriel,

Annette, 588

Joshi, Priya, 35

Joubin, Alexa Alice,

54; 151

Juan-Navarro,

Santiago, 502

Judson, Trenton, 455

Justice, George L., 548

Kack, Elin, 608

Kadish, Philip, 32

Kagen, Melissa, 196

Kahan, Benjamin, 675

Kahn, Seth, 482

Kalliney, Peter J., 274;

474

Kande, Sylvie, 119

Kang, Ling, 559

Kanor, Fabienne, 717

Kantor, Roanne, 585

Kao, Vivian, 208; 534

Kao, Wan-Chuan, 544

Kapica, Steven, 212

Kaplan, Carla, 408

Kaplan, Rebbecca, 124

Karageorgou-Bastea,

Christina, 485

Karavanta, Asimina,

401

Karger, Paula, 702

Karlin, Ashley, 56

Karshan, omas, 571

Kartalopoulos,

Vasilios, 173

Karunanayake, Dinidu,

790

Kashtan, Aaron, 729

Kastner, Tal, 221

Katopodis, Christina,

62; 546

Katsan, Gerasimus M.,

263

Katzir, Brandon, 801

Kaufman, Eleanor, 463

Kaufman, Mark, 406

Kaup, Monika, 68

Kaupp, Steen, 213

Kaur, Rajender, 418

Kaur, Vinamarata, 540

Kavaloski, Laini, 157;

764

Kay, Sarah, 628; 826

Kazanjian, David, 587

Kazanjian, Miriam A.,

706

Keating, Benjamin, 268

Keen, Suzanne Parker,

251; 492; 772

Keep, Christopher J.,

783

Keeton, Patricia L., 467

Keith, Jennifer, 630

Kelleher, Christopher,

620

Kelleher, Hillary, 231

Kelleher, Paul, 279

Keller, Patricia M., 76;

601

Kelley, Mark, 221

Kelly, Adam, 607

Kelly, Kathleen Coyne,

821

Kelly, Kristin, 157

Kelly, Mike, 791

Kelly-Riley, Diane, 762

Kelp-Stebbins,

Katherine, 173

Kemedjio, Cilas, 458

Keniston, Ann, 311; 742

Kennedy, Maria, 344

Kennedy, Mika, 413

Kennedy, Rosanne M.,

738

Kennedy, Sean, 37; 149

Kennedy-Epstein,

Rowena, 527

Kennison, Rebecca,

184; 610

Kent, Sarah, 387

Keohane, Catherine,

779

Keresztesi, Rita, 258

Kerrigan, John, 507

Keyser, Catherine, 192;

306

Khan, Azeen, 216; 523;

730

Khanna, Neetu, 409

Khanna, Ranjana, 401

Khannous, Touria, 741

Khapaeva, Dina, 581

Kidd, David, 251; 492;

772

Kief, Jonathan, 778

Kile, S. E., 139

Kim, Chung-kang, 33

Kim, Dorothy, 81

Kim, Eunjung, 541

Kim, Heidi, 668

Kim, Immanuel, 383

Kim, Pil Ho, 629

Kim, Sandra, 413

Kim, Sue J., 471

Kim, Sunyoung, 538

Kim, Youngmin, 549

Kim Lee, Summer, 540

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]

Program Participants 

King, Rob, 811

Kinney, Katherine A.,

457; 740

Kinniburgh, Mary

Catherine, 393

Kippur, Sara, 588

Kirby, Elizabeth, 733

Kirk, Stephanie Louise,

425; 580

Kirkpatrick, Pamela,

681

Kirtley, Susan E., 354;

650

Kita, Caroline A., 648

Kitson, Peter, 209; 524;

727

Kitzinger, Chloë, 150

Klancher, Jon, 632

Klein, Lauren, 347; 688

Klein, Lucas, 813

Klein, Stacy S., 816

Klein, William, 579

Kliger, Ilya, 150

Klimasmith, Betsy, 273

Klobucka, Anna M.,

199; 736

Kloeckner, Christian,

245

Knapp, Caleb, 172

Knapp, James A., 178

Knapp, Shoshana

Milgram, 187

Knighton, Mary A., 530

Knoepmacher, U. C.,

673

Knox, Katelyn, 250;

493; 773

Ko, Susan, 2

Kobayashi, Eri, 336

Koestenbaum, Wayne,

520; 675

Konstantinou, Lee, 607

Kontje, Todd C., 603

Kopec, Andrew, 30

Koretsky, Deanna, 232

Kornberg, Morani, 609

Kornbluh, Anna, 337;

468

Kosick, Rebecca, 15

Kosman, Marcelle, 415

Kotef, Hagar, 597

Kottemann, Kathrin,

355

Koundakjian, Lola, 194

Kozicki, Benjamin, 577

Kra, Andrea, 130

Krajewski, Bruce, 99;

701

Kramnick, Jonathan,

44; 560

Krebs, Paula M., 24;

126; 441; 706

Kreilkamp, Ivan, 783

Kreitz, Kelley, 308

Krell, Rebekah, 101

Kressner, Ilka, 305

Kriebernegg, Ulla, 541

Krishnan, Rajiv C., 750

Kroik, Polina, 245

Krolikoski, David, 629

Krouk, Dean, 288

Krstic, Visnja, 73

Kruger, Carole A., 167

Kruger, Loren, 585

Krumholtz, Matthew,

227

Krummel, Miriamne

Ara, 107

Krzakowski, Caroline

Zoe, 391

Kukar, Polina, 251; 492;

772

Kullberg, Christina,

611

Kumar, Akash, 586

Kumar, Srigowri, 469

Kunze, Peter, 212; 504

Kurnick, David S., 338;

775

Kutch, Lynn M., 213

Kuzmanovic, Dejan,

509; 663

Kuzmanovich, Zoran,

571

Kwon, Nayoung Aimee,

510

Kyburz, Bonnie Lenore,

66; 392

Kynard, Carmen, 416

Labbie, Erin Felicia,

789

Labio, Catherine, 173

Labov, Jessie M., 289;

747

Labrador Méndez,

Germán, 601

Lachman, Kathryn, 104

Lackey, Michael, 438;

495

Ladd, Barbara, 385

LaFleur, Greta, 17

LaFountain, Pascale,

487

Lagji, Amanda, 42

Lagman, Eileen, 402

Lagny, Anne, 487

LaGuardia, David, 226

Laist, Randy, 533

Laity, Cassandra, 423

Lake, Crystal, 407

Lal, Saumya, 251; 492;

772

Lalicker, William

Benedict, 359

Lam, Ling Hon, 139

Lamana, Gonzalo, 128

Lamar Prieto,

Covadonga, 575

Lamb, Jonathan P., 365

Lambert, Josh, 74

Lamm, Zachary, 255

Landy, Joshua, 568

Langlois, Christopher,

104

Lanser, Susan S., 566

LaPorta, Kathrina A.,

526

Larkin, Edward J., 805

Laros, Ted, 233

Larrier, Renée, 588

Larson, Holly, 367

Larson, Jennifer, 380

Larson, Maxwell, 498

Laski, Gregory, 52; 488

Lasman, Samuel, 669

Lasmana, Viola, 694

Lassner, Phyllis, 348

LaTrecchia, Patrizia,

570

Lau, Travis, 129

Laubender, Carolyn,

807

Laurence, David, 47

Lauret, Maria L. J., 133

Lauritsen, Karen, 234

Lauter, Paul, 411; 706

Lavery, Joseph, 775

Lavin, Matthew, 632

Lawrence, Heidi A., 618

Lawrence, Jerey, 68;

249

Lawrence, Patrick, 221

Lawrimore, David K.,

395

Lawtoo, Nidesh, 294;

598

Leake, Joseph, 649

Lears, Adin, 127; 789

Leavell, Lori A., 768

LeClerc, Paul, 319

Ledent, Bénédicte, 336

Lederman, Emily, 666

Ledesma, Eduardo, 734

Lee, Benjamin F., 549

Lee, Christina H., 115;

243

Lee, Debbie, 110

Lee, Derek, 105

Lee, Haiyan, 429; 652

Lee, James Kyung-Jin,

413

Lee, Jerry, 621

Lee, Joo Young, 33

Lee, Kyoo, 269

Lee, Laura, 208; 534

Lee, Simon, 55; 95

Lee, Yoon Sun, 10

Le Espiritu, Evyn, 566

Legassie, Shayne

Aaron, 702

Legutko, Agnieszka,

295

Lehman, Sara L., 243

Lehnen, Jeremy, 199

Lehnen, Leila Maria,

43; 430

Leichman, Jerey, 208;

534

Lemon, Mike, 578

Lenart-Cheng, Helga,

133

Leon, Brais D., 251;

492; 772

León, Christina, 308;

793

Leonard, John, 207

Leong, Andrew Way,

105

Leow, Joanne, 153

Lepianka, Nigel, 574

Lerescu, Jacqueline,

7; 65

Lerner, Bettina R., 396

Lerner, Giovanna

Faleschini, 405

 Modern Language Association

[

PMLA

LeRoy-Frazier, Jill, 138

Lesjak, Carolyn, 338;

783

Leuner, Kirstyn, 332

Levay, Matthew, 453

Levine, Caroline E.,

468; 775

Levine, Glenn, 635

Levine, Laura, 797

Levine, Robert S., 506

Levinson, Marjorie,

665

Levy, Indra A., 74

Levy, Michelle Nancy,

723

Levy-Hussen, Aida,

607; 815

Lewis, Armanda, 255;

624

Lewis, Barbara, 599

Lewis, Cara, 326

Lewis, Earl, 89

Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth,

343

Lewis, Tess, 194

Lezra, Jacques, 631

Li, Mengjun, 235

Licastro, Amanda, 440

Liebembuk, Jonathan,

21; 222

Liebow, Ed, 126

Lightweis-Go, Jennie,

162; 624; 699

Lim, Eunice, 215; 522;

726

Lim, Jeehyun, 790

Limeberry, Veronica,

138

Lindblad, Purdom, 57

Linhard, Tabea Alexa,

401

Link, Christopher A.,

187

Lioi, Anthony, 564; 821

Lionnet, Françoise, 458

Lipton, Emma, 437

Lira, Obed, 273

Lisabeth, Laura, 268

Lisiecki, Chet, 68; 294

Litvak, Joseph, 780

Liu, Alan, 347; 583

Liu, Jin, 559

Liu, Lydia, 594

Liu, Xinmin, 500

Livingstone, Josephine,

666

Livingstone, Victoria,

667

Livorni, Isabella, 224

Loar, Christopher, 381

Lochrie, Karma, 27

Loew, Katharina, 208;

534

Logan, Katie, 162; 350

Logan, Peter M., 787

Logan, Shirley Wilson,

237

Loh, Waiyee, 209; 524;

727

Loichot, Valerie I., 458

Lomuto, Sierra, 702

Lone Fight, Darren,

204

Long, omas

Lawrence, 521

Longo, Philip, 66

Looby, Christopher,

499

Looney, Dennis, 167;

239

Loonin, Paulo, 219

López-Calvo, Ignacio,

370

López Intzín, Juan, 360

Lopez Martin, Alberto,

485

Lord, Gillian, 167; 557

Lorenzi, Lucia, 342

Lorimer Leonard,

Rebecca, 621

Lorre-Johnston,

Christine, 483

Lothian, Alexis, 415

Lothspeich, Pamela,

627

Louar, Nadia, 687

Low, Jennifer A., 298

Low, Trisha, 29

Lowe, John Wharton,

261

Lowe, Lisa, 597

Lowman, Nicole, 490

Lowry, Kathryn, 486

Loysen, Kathleen A.,

226

Lu, Tina, 652

Lubin, Alex, 366

Lucci, Laura, 372

Lucenko, Kristina, 145

Lucey, Michael, 325;

594

Luciano, Dana, 84; 403

Ludwig, Kathryn, 592

Lundblad, Michael, 146

Lunsford, Andrea

Abernethy, 237

Luo, Junjie, 209; 524;

727

Luo, Liang, 584

Lupke, Christopher M.,

275; 559

Lupton, Julia Reinhard,

797

Lupton, Tina, 338; 560

Lussier, Mark, 110

Luzzi, Joseph, 39

Lyle, Timothy, 303

Lynch, Deidre, 641

Lynch-Biniek, Amy,

605

Lyne, Raphael, 763

Lynes, Katherine R.,

692

Lyon, Janet, 423

Lyons, Robert, 341

Lypka, Celiese, 350

Lyubas, Anastasiya,

295

Ma, Ming-Qian, 782

MacCabe, Colin Myles,

318

Macdonald, Ewan, 486

MacDonald, Ian, 785

MacGowan,

Christopher John,

518

Machado Saez, Elena,

Machosky, Brenda, 282

Macintosh, John, 258

Mack, Ruth, 784

MacKay, Ellen, 113

Maclachlan, Ian, 805

MacRae, Susan, 170

Madan, Anuja, 34

Madureira, Luís, 479

Magni, Isabella, 244;

628

Maguire, Michael, 166

Mahaey, Vicki, 565

Mahalel, Adi, 295

Mahapatra, Aruni, 516

Mahler, Anne Garland,

400

Mahoney, Charles

Waite, 227

Mahoney, Michael, 44;

245

Maira, Sunaina, 44A

Maisto, Maria, 605

Majsova, Natalija, 394

Majstorovic, Gorica,

266

Majumder, Auritro,

220; 662

Makela, Maria, 431

Malakaj, Ervin, 109

Malazita, James, 255;

574

Malisa, Mark, 286

Malka, Ruth, 106

Malkin, Shira, 689

Mall, Laurence, 185;

526

Malley, Suzanne Blum,

237; 402

Maloy, Jennifer, 25

Manalansan, Martin,

IV, 597

Mancini, C. Bruna, 483

Mandel, Naomi Iliana,

Mandell, Laura C., 630;

777

Maneval, Rhonda, 762

Maney, Bret, 697

Manfredi, Paul, 275

Mangoutas, Irene, 406

Mangum, Teresa, 24;

771

Mani, Bala Venkat, 67;

698

Mann, D. Brian, 145

Mann, Jenny C., 472

Mannan, Joya, 48

Manning, Patricia W.,

794

Mannon, Bethany, 699

Manshel, Alexander, 50

Mansouri, Leila, 245

Manzo, Kerry, 48

Marcoux, Jean-

Philippe, 686

Marculescu, Andreea,

202; 356

Marcus, Sara, 403

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]

Program Participants 

Marder, Elissa, 594; 807

Mardorossian, Carine

M., 533

Marie, Laurence, 265

Marin, Noemi, 674

Marinez, Sophie, 119

Marini-Maio,

Nicoletta, 405

Marino, James J., 507

Marion Modi, Jessica,

555

Marren, Joseph, 252

Marrone-Puglia,

Gaetana, 748

Marroquin, Jaime, 827

Marsh, Steven, 76

Marshall, Caitlin, 428

Marshall, Jocelyn, 490

Marshall, Kate, 140;

436

Marshall, Megan, 818

Marshall, Zachary, 547

Marshik, Celia, 55

Martin, Jonathan

Seelye, 267

Martin, Michelle

Holley, 190

Martin, Molly A., 300

Martinek, Jason, 382

Martinez, Aja Y., 513

Martinez, Danizete,

367

Martinez, Glenn, 171

Martinez, Miguel, 794

Martinez Benedi, Pilar,

351

Martínez-Carazo,

Cristina, 217; 532

Martinez-Cruz,

Paloma, 466

Martinez–San Miguel,

Yolanda M., 128

Martín-Martínez,

Alodia, 229

Martuscelli, Tania, 430

Maruca, Lisa Marie,

388

Marzec, Robert Philip,

423

Marzioli, Sara, 322

Mason, Qrescent Mali,

269

Massé, Michelle A.,

24; 613

Masson, Catherine, 689

Masten, Jerey, 340

Matarese, Maureen, 32

Matheron, Aurelie, 125

Mathes, Carter, 403;

519

Matheson, Christina

Moire, 164

Mathieu, Pierre, 663

Matos, Angel Daniel,

18; 625

Mattern, Shannon, 583

Matteson, John, 59

Matthew, Patricia A.,

232

Matthews, Jodie, 210;

535

Mattza, Carmela, 115

Matz, Aaron, 192

Matz, Robert I., 98; 144

Maurer, Anaïs, 183

Maurette, Pablo, 143

Mauro, Aaron, 454

Maxwell, Jason, 735

Maxwell, Lida, 722

Mazella, David Samuel,

129

Mazzaferro, Alexander,

302

McAleavey, Maia, 754

McAlpine, Erica, 554

McBride, Patrizia C.,

792

McCants, Kristen, 280

McCarthy, Maureen, 47

McCarty, Ryan, 562

McClancy, Kathleen,

760

McClennen, Sophia

A., 249

McClintock, Anne, 404

McCormick, Monica,

184

McCormick, Stacie, 303

McCormick, Stephen,

753

McCoy, Jared, 253; 484;

765

McCoy, Shane, 268

McCracken, Denise,

7; 65

McCracken, Ellen, 333;

462

McCracken-Flesher,

Caroline, 240

McCullough, Mary E.,

799

McDiarmid, Lucy,

120A

McDonagh, Josephine,

343

McDonald, Fran, 376

McDonald, Ronan

Daniel, 812

McEleney, Corey, 419

McEnaney, Tom, 325

McFadden, Cybelle H.,

424

McFarland, James, 457

McGarrity, Maria, 812

McGin, Emily, 15

McGill, Meredith L.,

791

McGlazer, Ramsey, 216;

523; 730

McGlynn, Mary M.,

120A

McGowan, Margaret,

690

McGowan, Todd, 337

McGowan, Tony, 114

McGrath, Brian, 283;

475

McGrath, Derek, 533

McGrath, Laura B., 723

McGregor, Hannah,

415

McGuckin, Ryan

James, 656

McHale, Ellen, 344

McInnis, Jarvis, 334;

766

McKelvey, Seth, 830

McKenna, Catherine,

398

McKusick, James C., 64

McLaughlin, Stephen

Reid, 29

McMahon, Deirdre H.,

190; 600

McMahon, Marci R.,

466

McMillan, Laurie A.,

359

McMillan, Uri, 766

McMillan-Clion,

Alexis, 234

McMullen, Joey, 398

McNulty, Tess, 283

McPherson, Tara, 583

McQuillan, Martin, 79

McQuillen, Colleen,

654

McQuillen, John T.,

666

McShane, Kara, 247

McShane, Megan, 676

McVeigh Trainor,

Maureen, 657

McWhirter, David, 20

Meadows, Harrison,

217; 532

Mecchia, Giuseppina,

142

Medoro, Dana, 593

Medovoi, Leerom, 572

Meeker, Natania, 279

Meeuwis, Michael, 210;

535

Mehta, Rini

Bhattacharya, 208;

534

Meira Monteiro, Pedro,

736

Meisel, Martin, 829

Melancon, Trimiko,

334

Melin, Charlotte Ann,

Menagarishvili, Olga,

314

Mendelman, Lisa, 45;

328

Mendelson, Edward,

655

Menely, Tobias Coyote,

Meng, Liansu, 112

Meng, Yue, 193

Menke, Mandy, 503

Menke, Richard, 407

Menon, Madhavi, 27

Menon, Sheela Jane,

551

Mentz, Steve, 254; 821

Meranze, Michael, 380

Mercer, Leigh, 545; 677

Merino, Adriana, 503

Merish, Lori A., 78

Merlin-Kajman,

Hélène, 414; 826

 Modern Language Association

[

PMLA

Metres, Philip John,

131

Metz, Christian, 296

Meyer, Neil, 558

Meyer, Steven J., 189;

389

Mezey, Jason Howard,

627

Michelson, Seth, 103;

251; 492; 772

Micir, Melanie, 455;

613

Miele, Benjamin, 264

Mielke, Laura L., 642;

745

Miernowski, Jan, 414

Mikolajcik, Deirdre, 22

Mikos, Keith, 809

Miletich, Marko, 83

Milian, Claudia, 755

Milland, Ron, 806

Millar, Lanie, 179

Miller, Benjamin, 478

Miller, Cristanne, 617

Miller, Lyndsay, 571

Miller, Marilyn Grace,

Miller, Monica, 242

Miller, Monica L., 55

Miller, Nicholas, 354

Miller, Peter, 23

Miller, Susan, 80

Miller, Timothy, 247

Miller, Tyrus H., 47;

374

Mina, Lilian, 130

Minich, Julie, 399

Minnen, Jennifer, 188

Miranda, Omar F., 232

Mirpuri, Anoop, 103

Mirzoe, Nicholas, 386

Misemer, Leah, 354;

729

Mishou, Aubrey, 650

Mislevy, Robert, 762

Mitchell, Koritha, 42;

519

Mitchell, Rebecca N.,

136

Moeller, Aleidine (Ali),

604

Mohamed, Feisal G.,

780

Moi, Toril, 330

Mole, Tom, 64; 723

Mollow, Anna, 303

Monaco, Pamela, 599

Monroy, Emma, 458

Montag, Warren G.,

731

Montaldo, Graciela,

227

Montenegro, María

Silvia, 400

Moody, Alys, 409

Moody-Turner, Shirley,

320

Mookerjea-Leonard,

Debali, 516

Mookherjee, Taarini,

719

Moon, Michael D., 675

Moore, Alexandra S.,

387

Moore, Dennis, 642

Moore, Sarah, 134

Moran, Mary Jeanette,

190; 618

Morana, Mabel E., 128

Moraru, Christian, 674

Moreiras, Alberto, 160

Moreiras-Menor,

Cristina, 76; 734

Morel, Eric, 431

Morgan Wortham,

Simon, 807

Moriah, Kristin, 42

Morin, Sylvia Veronica,

684

Moro, Jerey, 304

Morris, Paula, 495

Morrissey, Jennifer, 465

Morse, Daniel, 271; 474

Morsi, Eman, 179; 585

Moslemani, Fadil, 748

Mourad, Ghada, 512

Mousli, Beatrice, 588

Muchiri, Ng’ang’a, 741

Mueller, Carolin, 656

Muellner, Beth Ann,

613

Muenchrath, Anna, 515

Mui, Aamir R., 211

Mui, Nasser, 118

Mukherjee, Sharmila,

Mulholland, James,

732; 784

Mullen, Darcy, 300

Müller, Matthias, 12

Mulligan, Amy, 398

Mulligan, Rikk, 632

Mulry, David, 489

Munich, Adrienne A.,

788

Muniz, Wendy

Virginia, 205

Murphy, Dana, 172

Murphy, Dianna, 98

Murphy, Sinéad, 163

Murray, Cara, 732

Murray, Molly, 297

Murthy, Pashmina, 258

Muyumba, Walton, 366

Myers, Anne, 614

Myers, Bess, 801

Myers, Megan Jeanette,

16; 640

Myers, Robert, 341

Myoung-a, Kwon, 383

Nace, Nicholas D., 192

Nadeau, Carolyn A., 72

Nadel, Ira, 132; 316

Nadkarni, Asha, 591

Naghibi, Nima, 595

Nair, Supriya M., 640

Najarian, Jonathan, 595

Naji, Ammar, 776

Nakley, Susan M., 702

Napolin, Julie, 530

Narayan, Gaura

Shankar, 620

Narcisi, Lara, 19

Nardizzi, Vin, 17; 181

Naruse, Cheryl

Narumi, 153

Nash, William R., 363

Nashef, Hania, 609

Nasrabadi, Manijeh,

758

Navarro, Jose, 466

Nayder, Lillian, 136

Nazarian, Cynthia, 468

Nealon, Christopher,

123

Negrete, Maria

Fernanda, 819

Neijmann, Daisy, 288

Neiman, Elizabeth, 759

Nel, Philip, 18

Nelson, Cary, 311

Nemiro, James, 353

Nesbitt, William, 740

Nestor, Amy R., 809

Neufeld, Josh, 595

Neuman, Nichole, 88

Newcomb, Robert

Patrick, 43

Newcombe, Emma, 148

Neweld, Christopher

John, 380; 777

Neweld, Marcia, 467

Newman, Jane Ogden,

373

Ng, Su Fang, 153

Nguyen, Vinh, 551

Nichols, Ashton, 110

Nichols, William, 7; 65;

319; 390

Nichols, William, 1;

706

Nicholson, Michael,

183

Nicolai, Elke, 771

Nicolini, Andrea, 819

Nie, Shijia, 813

Nielsen, Aldon Lynn,

13; 686

nielsen, henrik, 431

Nieves, Angel David,

113; 694

Nikolopoulou, Asimina

Ino, 364

Nilges, Mathias, 41

Ninh, Erin Khue, 105

Nir, Oded, 662

Nishikawa, Kinohi, 320

Nivar Ortiz, Nike, 464

Nixon, Rob, 679

Nogar, Anna Maria,

425

Nohrnberg, James

Carson, 315; 753

Noirot, Corinne, 226

Noodin, Margaret A.,

239

Noonan, Mark J., 619

Nordquist, Brice, 691

Norman, Rachel, 439

Norquay, Glenda, 720

North, Joseph, 123

Nouvet, Claire, 160

Novak, Daniel Akiva,

683

Nuessel, Frank, 685

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]

Program Participants 

Nugent, Carlos, 215;

522; 726

Nunn, Hillary M., 365

Nyong’o, Tavia, 408

Nyquist, Mary, 647

Obarrio, Juan, 291

Oberhelman, David,

156

Oberlin, Adam, 267

O’Brien, Juliet, 92

O’Brien, Michelle, 664

O’Connell, Rachel, 415

O’Connor, Noreen, 659

O’Dair, Sharon, 87; 124

O’Dell, Benjamin, 738

O’Dell, Emily, 313

O’Donoghue, Kate, 656

Oechler, Christopher,

353

Oenbach, Seth, 145

Ogden, Emily, 302

Ogger, Sara J., 7; 65;

666

O’Gorman, Daniel,

424; 464

O’Hanian, Hunter, 126

Ohler, Paul Joseph, 45

Ohmann, Richard M.,

411

Ohri, Indu, 215; 522;

726

O’Keefe Bazzoni, Jana,

372

Oksman, Tahneer, 569

Oldenburg, Scott, 614

Oliver, Jennifer, 733

Oliver, Susan, 156

Olovson, Brian, 503

Olsen, Steve, 227

Olson, Judy, 605

Olson, Kristina Marie,

660; 798

Olubas, Brigitta, 282

O’Malley, Andrew, 595

O’Malley, Seamus, 164

Omidsalar, Alejandro,

800

Ommundsen, Åse

Marie, 288

Omori, Kyoko, 49

O’Neil, Scott, 151

Onkey, Lauren

Elizabeth, 453

Onorato, Mary, 94

Ontiveros, Randy, 284;

466

Opoku-Agyemang,

Kwabena, 108

Orban, Clara E., 420

Orem, Sarah, 303

Orenstein, Katie, 5; 126

Orlando, Valérie K.,

481; 799

Orlemanski, Julie, 702

Orr, Ittai, 44

Ortega, Élika, 304

Ortiz, Ricardo L., 159

Ortiz-Vilarelle, Lisa

Marie, 176

Ortiz Wallner,

Mercedes Alexandra,

Osborn, Haley L., 504

Ostman, Heather E.,

656

Osucha, Eden, 117

Otterberg, Henrik, 100

Oushakine, Serguei

Alex, 12; 612

Owen, Gabrielle, 625

Owens, Imani, 152

Ownbey, Carolyn, 627

Oyola, Osvaldo, 173;

729

Ozment, Kate, 630

Padmore, Catherine,

495

Padrón, Ricardo, 120

Paiella, Giorgina, 60

Paik, Peter Yoonsuk,

376

Pal-Lapinski, Piya, 270

Palo, Benjamin, 74;

697

Paltin, Judith, 515

Paltrinieri, Carlotta,

455

Palumbo, Patrizia, 75

Palumbo-Liu, David,

225; 705

Pan, David Tse-chien,

515; 603

Pantelides, Kate, 180;

231

Pantin, Isabelle, 414

Pao, Lea, 576

Papa, Victoria, 624; 750

Parakrama, Arjuna,

318

Pardlo, Gregory, 520

Pardo Ballester,

Cristina, 384

Parham, Marisa, 113;

347

Parikh, Crystal, 238;

790

Park, Paula, 266

Park, Si Nae, 307

Park, Sowon S., 433

Parker, Andrew C.,

594; 675

Parker, Ben, 321

Parks, Sheri, 24

Parsard, Kaneesha, 766

Parsons, Alexandra,

567

Parvini, Neema, 651

Pascoe, Judith Marie,

600

Pasqualina, Stephen, 96

Pasquerella, Lynn, 89

Passmore, Ashley A.,

673

Pasupathi, Vimala C.,

553; 614

Patterson, Sarah Lynn,

57; 339

Paulin, Diana R., 825

Payán Martín, Juan

Jesús, 11

Pearl, Monica B., 399

Pearman, Tory V., 202

Pears, Pamela A., 799

Pearson, Nels, 812

Pellegrini, Ann, 807

Pelletier, Kevin, 768

Pena, Rosemarie, 616

Pena-Iguaran, Alina,

364

Pendergast, John, 357

Pentland, Elizabeth, 54

Perera, Sonali, 23

Peretti, Luca, 75

Perez, Annemarie, 268

Perez, Ashley, 543

Pérez, Jorge P., 677

Perez Jimenez,

Cristina, 205

Pergadia, Samantha,

215; 522; 726

Perisic, Alexandra, 123;

640

Perlo, Marjorie

Gabrielle, 132; 207

Perras, Jean-Alexandre,

526

Perrone, Charles A.,

529

Perry, Imani, 52

Perry, Laura, 573

Perry, Seamus, 64; 655

Perry, Vic, 431

Peters, Carl, 462; 735

Peters, John Durham,

436

Peters, John G., 489

Peterson, Carla L., 339

Peterson, Nancy J., 204

Pett, Scott, 20

Pettes Guikema, Janel,

635

Pettway, Matthew

Joseph, 14

Pexa, Christopher, 693

Phelan, James, 85

Phelps-Hillen,

Johanna, 579

Phillippy, Patricia, 465

Phillips, Rose, 253; 484;

765

Phillips Buchberger,

Michelle, 598

Phillips-Court, Kristin,

244

Phu, y, 153

Piatote, Beth, 587

Pick, Anat, 803

Pickens, erí Alyce,

303

Piechocki, Katharina

Natalia, 539

Pilsch, Andrew, 158;

304; 440

Pines, Noam, 803

Pinet, Simone, 397

Pinkert, Anke, 46

Pinto, Samantha, 815

Piper, Andrew, 723

Pirri, Caro, 273; 432

Piryaei, Shabnam, 82

Pittin-Hedon, Marie-

Odile, 720

Pivetti, Kyle, 539

Placidi, Andrea, 586

 Modern Language Association

[

PMLA

Plasencia, Sam, 825

Plotz, John M. G., 641

Poe, Mya, 392

Poiré, Hélène, 309

Polak, Katharine, 251;

492; 772

Polchow, Shannon M.,

685

Pollak, Vivian R., 473

Polley, Diana Hope,

497

Ponce, Martin J., 566

Ponce, Pedro Esteban,

176

Ponomare, Alexander,

354

Ponte, Antonio José, 93

Ponzanesi, Sandra, 741

Popescu, Monica, 286;

674

Popp, Veronica, 613

Poppe, Nicolas, 602

Porter, Dahlia J., 118;

723

Portuges, Catherine

E., 420

Posmentier, Sonya, 131;

692

Posner, Miriam, 347

Post, Ben, 120; 273

Potter, Edward T., 487

Potter, George, 511

Pough, Gwendolyn, 333

Powell, Elliott, 540

Powell, Katrina M., 469

Powers, Rebecca, 396

Prabhaker, Prema, 795

Prager, Brad, 420

Pratt, Jacqui, 548

Pratt, Mary Louise, 585

Pravinchandra, Shital,

433

Prica, Aleksandra, 51

Price, Emily Kate, 92

Price, Joseph, 384

Price, Kenneth M., 617

Price, Zachary, 457

Prielipp, Sarah, 191

Priest, Madison, 306

Prince, Gerald Joseph,

330

Prins, Yopie, 325

Prinz, Jessica, 96

Pritchard, Eric Darnell,

513

Probes, Christine M.,

613

Prohászka-Rád,

Boróka, 36

Proto, Teresa, 197

Puckett, Kent, 775

Pueyo Zoco, Victor

Manuel, 11

Pujol, Anton, 217; 532

Pulda, Molly, 567

Punday, Daniel, 606

Purdham, Medrie, 316

Putho, David, 342

Putzi, Jennifer L., 499

Pyle, Forest, 814

Qadir, Neelofer, 37

Quaid, Andrea, 830

Quam, Justin, 159

Quayson, Ato, 274; 433

Quesada Gómez,

Catalina, 502

Quinn, Brian, 286

Quinn, William A., 437

Quintero, Julio, 728

Quirk, Catherine, 627

Rabaté, Jean-Michel,

423; 565

Rabbi, Shakil, 621

Raber, Karen L., 31

Racz, Gregary Joseph,

531

Radel, Nicholas

Fredrick, 651

Rademacher, Virginia,

176

Radway, Janice A., 572

Raengo, Alessandra,

230

Ragain, Nathan, 742

Rajan, Supritha, 22; 738

Rajan, Tilottama, 327;

787

Rajendran, Shyama, 81

Raleigh, Tegan, 600

Raley, Rita, 808

Ramachandran,

Ayesha, 539; 769

Ramazani, Jahan, 274

Rambaran-Olm, Mary,

491

Rambsy, Howard, 347

Rambsy, Kenton, 334

Ramesh Sankar,

Nandini, 750

Ramos, Eduardo, 491

Rampone, William

Reginald, Jr., 651

Rams, Maribel, 677

Ramsey, Joseph, 467

Ramu, Kaushik, 9

Rangan, Pooja, 271

Rao, Eleonora, 483

Rapaport, Herman, 374

Raphael, Rebecca, 257

Rappaport, Jennifer A.,

525; 589

Rasberry, Gary

Vaughn, II, 366

Raschke, Debrah K.,

99; 483

Rasmussen, Birgit

Brander, 642

Rasmussen, Eric, 701

Rastegar, Kamran, 417

Ravalico, Lauren, 185

Ravenscro, Brenda,

459

Ravindranathan,

angam, 463

Rawlins, Paula, 20

Rawson, Eric, 294

Razvi, Saba, 566

Reading, Amity, 328

Rearick, Zachary, 750

Reber, Dierdra, 249

Redding, Patrick, 123

Redding-Brielmaier,

Daniel, 669

Redmann, Jennifer,

171; 557

Redwine, Elizabeth

Brewer, 164

Reeck, Matt, 250; 493;

773

Reed, Anthony, 52; 131

Reed, Brian, 144; 473

Reed, Cory A., 72

Reeds, Eleanor, 180

Regier, Alexander, 343;

665

Rehill, Annie, 259

Reid, Mark A., 250;

493; 773

Reid, Tiana, 313; 550

Reid-Olds, Tera, 439;

705

Reilly, Terry, 214

Reitan, Carol Helene,

558

Renda, Mary, 171

Rennie, Nicholas A., 77

Reno, Seth T., 496

Restuccia, Frances L.,

262

Reuben, Lindsey, 734

Reviron-Piegay,

Floriane, 59

Rey Agudo, Roberto,

635

Reyes-Santos, Alai, 379

Rezek, Joseph, 195

Reznicek, Matthew, 164

Rhee, Jennifer, 464; 785

Rhee, Margaret, 782

Rhodes, Cristina, 543

Rhodes, Sharon, 491

Rhodes, William, Jr.,

753

Rhody, Jason, 666

Rhody, Lisa Marie, 739

Riazi, Toloo, 361

Ribitzky, Tom, 581

Richard, Jessica, 624

Richardson, Alan, 110

Richardson, Joan T.,

389

Richardson, Mark

Steed, 277

Ridley Elmes, Melissa,

669

Ridolfo, Jim, 478

Rieder, John A., 781

Riep, Steven, 584

Riin, Mark, 587; 820

Rinehart, Nicholas,

408; 661

Rinner, Susanne, 109

Rios, Alicia B., 626

Risam, Roopika, 198

Rivas, Carlos, 682

Rivera, Isidro de Jesús,

397

Rivera Garza, Cristina,

305

Rivett, Sarah, 302; 395

Roane, J. T., 766

Robb, Melinda, 793

Robbins, Bruce W., 211;

338

Robbins, Timothy, 234

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]

Program Participants 

Robert, Yann, 185

Roberts, Brian Russell,

93; 796

Roberts, Hugh J., 127

Roberts-Miller,

Patricia, 801

Robertson, Kellie, 318

Robey, Molly

Katherine, 724

Robinson, Benjamin

Butt, 412

Robinson, Sally, 242

Rocha, Silvia, 580

Rodas, Julia Miele, 823

Rodrigues, Elizabeth,

133

Rodriguez, David, 508;

764

Rodriguez, Erika, 147

Rodríguez, Richard

T., 755

Rodríguez, Sonia

Alejandra, 190; 543

Rodríguez García, José

M., 174

Rodríguez-Rodríguez,

Ana M., 120; 266

Rodriguez-Solas,

David, 217; 532

Roedtjer, Rocio, 14

Rogers, Charlotte W.,

Rogers, Katina, 739

Röhrig, Géza, 420

Rollyson, Carl, 818

Rolston, David, 235

Romagnolo, Catherine,

471

Roman, Christopher

Michael, 789

Romero, Anthony, 360

Romero, Mercy, 552

Rooney, Ellen Frances,

731

Rose, Celine, 384

Rosen, Betty, 163; 609

Rosen, David, 53

Rosen, Jeremy, 346

Rosenbaum, Susan

Barbara, 182; 633

Rosenberg, Jessica, 31

Rosenberg, Roberta,

157

Rosenfeld, Colleen,

178; 280

Rosensweig, Anna, 770

Rosenthal, Jesse, 641

Rosenthal, Laura, 504

Ross, Shawna, 158; 203;

440

Rosson, Grant, 606

Roth, Laurence D., 533

Roth, Zoe, 250; 493;

773

Rountree, Stephanie,

138

Roush, Sherry, 456

Rouxel-Cubberly,

Noelle, 689

Roveri, Mattia, 322

Rowen, Sarah Bess, 599

Roy, Arnab, 700

Rubenstein, Michael,

436

Rubin, Andrew N., 168

Rubio, Raúl, 502

Rudolph, Jennifer, 658

Ruisánchez Serra, José

Ramón, 626

Runge, Laura L., 630

Ruppel, Marc, 416

Rusert, Britt, 320

Russek, Dan, 305

Russell, Arthur, 247

Russell, Sandra Joy, 289

Russett, Margaret E.,

814

Russo, Adelaide M., 9

Russo, Elena, 265

Ruth, Jennifer, 380; 482

Rutledge, ais, 350

Ruzich, Connie, 406

Ryan, Colleen M., 287;

384

Ryan, Deirdre, 101

Rymarenko, Oksana,

575

Ryshina-Pankova,

Marianna, 109; 180

Ryzhik, Yulia, 280

Rzepka, Adam, 178

Saab, Nada, 341

Sabatos, Charles, 550

Sabau, Ana, 425; 757

Sachs, Jonathan, 560;

723

Sackey, Donnie, 513

Sacks, Jerey, 82; 756

Safran, Gabriella, 74

Saha, Poulomi, 793

Said, Rania, 439

Saint-Amour, Paul K.,

564

Sakellarides, eodora,

299

Sakr, Laila, 57

Salama, Mohammad,

479

Salazkina, Masha, 12

Saldarriaga, Patricia,

602

Salisbury, Laura, 672

Salmon, Naomi, 498

Salter, Anastasia, 66;

729

Salter, Sarah, 102; 224

Samalin, Zachary, 321

Samet, Elizabeth D.,

283

Sample, Mark, 57

Sanchez, James, 345

Sanchez, Melissa E.,

340; 375

Sánchez-Llama, Íñigo,

147

Sanchez Prado,

Ignacio, 370; 757

Sanchis-Sinisterra,

Carmen, 137

Sanders, Mark, 722

Sanderson, Terri, 669

Sandler, Matt, 232

Sanok, Catherine, 107

Santesso, Aaron, 53;

393

Santiago, Angel Lopez,

619

Santos, Alessandra, 529

Santos, Jorge, 261

Sanyal, Debarati, 364

Saramago, Victoria,

305

Sarkar, Debapriya, 181

Sarkar, Sreyoshi, 741

Sarno, Daniella, 310

Sarti, Lisa, 372

Sattar, Atia, 56

Sauer, Elizabeth, 647;

812

Saunders, Graham, 577

Sauri, Emilio, 757

Saussy, C. P. Haun, 189;

389

Sautman, Francesca

Canade, 119; 789

Savarese, Anne, 670

Savarese, Ralph James,

44; 429

Savonick, Danica, 117;

739

Saxena, Akshya, 271

Saylor, Colton, 58; 573

Sayre, Gordon

Mitchell, 140

Scalise Sugiyama,

Michelle, 700

Scaramella, Evelyn, 527

Scarborough, Connie

L., 229

Scarsi, Selene, 465

Schaal, Michele, 687

Schade, Richard E.,

487; 824

Schaer, Talia, 22; 754

Scheckel, Susan E., 742

Scheiding, Oliver, 642

Scheiner, Corinne

Laura, 187; 515

Schendel, Isaac, 824

Scheper, George Louis,

111

Schey, Taylor, 283

Schi, Randy P., 247;

300

Schilb, John L., 237;

392

Schlaura, Kristie, 351

Schlumpf, Erin, 88

Schlund-Vials, Cathy

J., 668

Schmidt, Andrea, 213

Schmidt, Gary Bruce,

7; 65; 557

Schmidt, Jana, 222

Schneider, Rebecca, 737

Schneiderman, Jason

A., 520

Schnepf, J. D., 696

Schoenberger, K. C.,

Jr., 652

Schoenfeldt, Michael

Carl, 496

Schonebaum, Andrew,

139

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Schoolman, Martha

E., 724

Schor, Esther H., 814

Schrecker, Ellen, 411

Schreier, Lise-Ségolène

V., 250; 493; 773

Schultheis, Melissa, 365

Schultz, Jane E., 521

Schultz, Kathy Lou,

686

Schumaker, Richard, 2

Schuster, Aaron, 262

Schuwey, Christophe,

611

Schwartz, Ana, 219

Schwarz, Henry, 159

Schwarz, Kathryn, 437

Scott, Claire, 213

Sedeno-Guillen, Kevin,

Seger, Maria, 227; 573

Segeral, Nathalie, 528

Segnini, Elisa, 372; 600

Seibert, Salita, 248

Seidel, Kevin, 592

Seitler, Dana, 675

Self, Meghan, 141

Selinger, Eric, 69

Selisker, Scott, 53

Seltzer, Beth, 198; 440

Sem, Leiv, 288

Sen, Sharmila, 695

Senturk, Selcuk, 214

Serfozo, Eva, 36

Serpell, C. Namwali,

123

Serrano, Nhora Lucia,

122; 173

Seshadri, Kalpana

Rahita, 160

Setina, Emily, 326; 633

Seybold, Matt, 22

Shackelford, Ashley,

606

Shalev, Talia, 15

Shanafelt, Carrie, 69

Shannon, omas F.,

267

Sharma, Alpana, 61

Sharma, Shyam, 145

Shea, James, 657

Shea, Laura, 381

Shearer, Karis, 369

Sheehan, Lucy, 210; 535

Sheeran, Amy, 634

Shellhorse, Adam

Joseph, 529

Shelnutt, Blevin, 567

Shen, Qinna, 208; 534

Shernuk, Kyle, 186

Sherrard-Johnson,

Cherene Monique,

796

Shevlin, Eleanor F., 35

Shi, Flair Donglai, 209;

524; 727

Shi, Song, 208; 534

Shichtman, Martin B.,

348

Shields, Juliet, 240

Shih, Shu-mei, 186

Shiller, Dana, 406

Shimakawa, Karen, 162

Shin, Haerin, 104; 778

Shin, Stacey, 561

Shingavi, Snehal, 409

Shires, Linda M., 404;

738

Shoemaker, Tyler, 473

Shohet, Lauren, 315

Shonkwiler, Alison, 410

Shook, Jennifer, 599

Showalter, Elaine C.,

818

Shu, Yuan, 796

Shuger, Dale, 73

Shuman, Amy, 537

Shumway, David, 317

Sibley, Emily, 556

Sickmann Han, Carrie,

681

Sides, Kirk B., 561

Sidorenko, Ksenia, 122

Sieber, Patricia A., 307

Sieg, Emily, 373

Siemann, Catherine

Ann, 658

Siemens, Raymond G.,

454

Sierra Matute, Victor,

794

Sierra-Rivera, Judith,

379

Silberman, Marc

David, 341

Silk, Emily, 619

Sillin, Sarah, 435

Silva, Andie, 388; 644

Simal, Monica, 349

Simedoh, Vincent, 512

Simerka, Barbara, 251;

492; 772

Simon, Edward, 99

Simon, Emily, 215; 522;

726

Simon, Kaia, 402

Simon, Katie, 546

Simon, Margaret, 393

Sims, Holly, 634

Sinanga-Ohlmann,

Judith, 358

Singer, Andrew, 194

Singer, Kirsty, 549

Singh, Amritjit, 220;

299

Singley, Carol J., 332

Sinha, Ruma, 23

Sinno, Nadine, 511

Sipley, Gina, 255

Sitze, Adam, 17

Skallerup Bessette, Lee,

203; 454; 644

Skolnik, Jonathan S.,

296; 673

Skorovsky, Helena, 414

Skwiot, Elizabeth, 90;

644

Slater, Avery, 23; 79

Slater, Katharine, 625

Slaughter, Joseph R.,

195; 386

Smith, Blake, 185

Smith, Brady, 561

Smith, Courtney Weiss,

784

Smith, David L., 648

Smith, Derik, 519

Smith, Faith L., 152

Smith, Greta, 455

Smith, Jon, 699

Smith, Martha Nell,

399

Smith, Murray, 700

Smith, Victoria Ford,

666

Smithies, James, 583

Smulyan, Susan, 159

So, Bernadette, 6

So, Brandi, 533

So, Christine C., 221

Sobral Campos, Isabel,

809

Sohar, Paul, 36

Sokolsky, Anita Ruth,

476

Solan, Yair, 45

Solanki, Tanvi, 576

Solberg, Maggie, 437

Soliz, Cristine, 149

Solórzano-ompson,

Nohemy, 106

Sommer, Doris, 4; 159;

218; 494

Sommers, Claire, 490

Soneson, Heidi, 390

Song, Ah-Young, 268

Song, Eric, 315

Sorensen, Janet L., 690

Soros, Erin, 369

Sorum, Eve C., 817

Sowards, Robin J., 605

Spaide, Christopher,

595; 763

Spanos, Adam, 163

Spellmeyer, Kurt, 32;

735

Spencer, Joseph, 780

Sperrazza, Whitney,

143

Sperry, Eileen, 763

Spikes, Allison, 575

Spillers, Hortense

Jeanette, 291; 471

Spinner, Samuel, 295

Spires, Derrick R., 102;

506

Spitzer, Jennifer, 655

Spivak, Gayatri

Chakravorty, 291;

637; 706

Sprengnether, Madelon

Gohlke, 301

Sprouse, Sarah, 300

Spurgeon, Sara, 324

Sry, Mbarek, 531

St. Clair, Robert, 142

Stakemeier, Kerstin,

505

Stalling, Jonathan

Christian, 434

Stalnaker, Joanna, 265

Stalter-Pace, Sunny,

182

Stamper, Christine N.,

625

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Program Participants 

Stampone, Christopher,

435

Stanivukovic,

GoranV., 375

Stanley, Kate, 639

Stanley, Sandra K., 298

Stanley, Tarshia, 6; 80

Stapleton, Anne M.,

240

Stapleton, M. L., 375

Staudt, Kaitlin, 409

Stauer, John, 506

Stavrinaki, Maria, 412

Stecker, Robert, 555

Steel, Karl, 702

Steen, Heather, 248;

777

Steen, William, 432

Stegmann, Vera S., 177

Steigerwald, Joan, 327

Stein, Jordan

Alexander, 172

Stein, Rachel, 120

Stein, Sarah, 645

Steinberg, Samuel, 305

Stein-Smith, Kathleen,

557

Steitz, Kerstin, 88

Stember, Nick, 434

Stephens, Michelle

Ann, 796

Stetz, Margaret Diane,

Stevens, Erica, 93

Steward, Doug, 80

Stewart, Anne, 68

Stewart, Dustin D., 129

Stiles, Anne, 351; 700

Stitt, Jocelyn Fenton,

661

Stockton, Carla, 194

Stoever, Jennifer, 547

Stokes, Claudia, 363

Stoll, Abraham D., 647

Stone, Jennifer, 402

Stone, Zachary, 107

Stonebridge, Lyndsey

Jane, 364

Stout, Daniel, 475

Strand, Eric, 96

Stratford, Edward, 393

Stratton, Billy J., 204

Strayer, Susan, 618

Streit Krug, Aubrey,

324

Strickland, Ronald L.,

658

Strier, Richard A., 701

Stuntebeck, Franziska,

197

Suárez, Juan, 428

Suarez-Palma, Imanol,

197

Suhr, Carla, 83

Suidan, Ziad, 776

Sullivan, Heather I.,

284; 654

Sullivan, Karen, 26

Summers, Brandi, 573

Sundar, Pavitra, 208;

534

Sunder Rajan,

Rajeswari, 211

Susina, Jan

Christopher, 298

Sussman, Charlotte

Sacks, 343; 767

Sutaria, Sejal, 474

Suttie, Megan, 671

Suzuki, Erin, 370

Swanson, Peter, 604

Swartz, Wendy, 813

Sweeney, Erin, 78

Sweet, Timothy, 140

Swenson, James, Jr., 70

Swenson, Kristine L.,

351

Swenson, Rivka, 240

Swidzinski, Joshua, 804

Sy, Waaseyaa’sin

Christine, 541

Szwydky, Lissette

Lopez, 759

Tabares, Leland, 342

Tabur, Merve, 163

Tacke, Elizabeth, 141

Tackett, Justin C., 547

Tageldin, Shaden M.,

179; 479

Tagliaferri, Lisa, 739

Tague, Gregory Frank,

215; 522; 726

Taleghani, R. Shareah,

361

Tally, Robert, 104; 350

Talpaz, Sheera, 257

Tamayo, Steve, 324

Tan, E. K., 186; 551

Tan, Jerrine, 40

Tan, Yanbing, 721

Tanaka, Aya, 615

Tang, Wan, 11

Tange, Andrea Kaston,

210; 535; 771

Tangedal, Ross, 659

Tanner, Jessica, 142

Tapia, Ruby, 103

Tapia Mealla, Luis, 291

Tarnawska Senel,

Magdalena, 635

Tartakovsky, Roi, 822

Tavlin, Zachary, 809

Taylor, ChristopherJ.,

152

Taylor, Diana, 86; 360;

441; 678; 706

Taylor, Jeerey H., 272

Taylor, Jesse Oak, 84

Taylor, Leslie Agnes,

272

Taylor, Matthew A.,

800

Taylor, Michelle, 116

Tazudeen, Rasheed, 183

Teixeira, Ana Catarina,

430

Tellez, Jorge, 243

Temple, Kathryn D.,

159; 221

ten Haaf, Rachel, 76

Tenorio, David, 502

Teo, Tze-Yin, 409

Terblanche, Etienne,

135

Terian, Andrei, 674

Terrenato, Francesca,

233

Teskey, Gordon, 476

Teston, Christa, 537

aggert, Miriam, 519

akkar, Sonali, 152

aroor Srinivasan,

Ragini, 468

ierauf, Doreen, 210;

535

oidingjam, Sumitra,

627

omas, Calvin, 337

omas, George A.,

460

omas, Sarah, 677

ompson,

Christopher, 427

omson, Sinclair, 291

orn, Clovis, 101

orsteinson,

Katherine, 387

uswaldner,

GregorA., 648

Ticio Quesada, M.

Emma, 83

Tierney, Matt, 10

Tierney, Orchid, 821

Tin, Sarah, 209; 524;

727

Ti, Stephen J., 631

Tinberg, Howard B.,

293

Tinsley, Omise’eke, 675

Tisserand, Michael, 122

Titus, Julia, 636

Todd, Emily, 1; 6; 144;

293; 706

Todorovic, Jelena, 244

Tolliver, Joyce, 266

Tomko, Michael, 592

Tomlinson, Susan, 555

Toohey, Elizabeth J.,

746

Torres, Anna Elena,

295

Torres, Lourdes M., 755

Torres, Sara, 81

Torres-Rodriguez,

Laura, 370; 757

Totten, Gary, 377

Touya de Marenne,

Eric, 309

Town, Caren, 190

Townsend, Sarah J., 86

Tracksdorf, Niko, 496

Train, Robert, 171

Tran, Asha, 453

Tran, Ben Vu, 551; 664

Trasciatti, Mary Anne,

224

Traub, Valerie J., 17;

340

Trauvitch, Rhona, 462

Travis, Jennifer, 644

Treharne, Elaine, 154;

398

Trilling, Renee R., 491

Trop, Gabriel, 155

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Trousdale, Rachel V.,

170

Trudell, Scott A., 178

Trujillo, Kris Jonathan,

Trumbo -Tu a l,

Matthew, 621

Tryphonopoulos,

Demetres, 132; 201

Tsai, Yun-Chu, 676

Tsethlikai, Kenric K.,

Tsuchiya, Akiko, 147

Tsygankova, Valeria,

688

Tucker, Bonnie, 743

Tunca, Daria, 336

Türkkan, Sevinç, 698

Turner, Henry S., 254;

432

Turner, Kay F., 344

Twenter, Brian J., 751

Tyler, Dennis, Jr., 303

Tyutina, Svetlana, 83

Uca, Didem, 196

Ugalde, Zuleima, 440

Ugolini, Paola, 456

Underwood, Ted, 347

Ung, Kaliane, 424

Ungureanu, Delia, 698

Uphaus, Maxwell, 135

Uritescu-Lombard,

Ramona, 246

Urlaub, Per, 503

Urroz, Eloy, 538

Usher, Phillip, 226

Utard, Juliette, 116; 473

Utell, Janine M., 85

Vaingurt, Julia, 654

Valella, Daniel, 735

Valente, Luiz

Fernando, 43

Valenti, Simonetta

Anna, 309

Valerius, Karyn M.,

823

Valisa, Silvia, 169

van Alstyne, Jennifer,

154

Van Buskirk, Emily,

581

Vanderborg, Susan

Jennifer, 782

Van Deusen, Natalie,

649

VanDevere, MariannJ.,

212

Van Engen, Dagmar,

781; 793

van Maas, Sander, 653

Vano Garcia, Ines, 130

Varga, Adriana, 674

Varga, Zsuzsanna, 36

Vargas-Salgado,

Carlos, 667

Vargo, Gregory, 732

Varon, Alberto, 28

Vazquez, Alexandra,

552

Vázquez, Eric, 467

Veeser, Harold Aram,

104

Velasco, Sherry M., 165

Velazquez, Sonia, 165

Vērdiš, Kārlis, 289

Vermeule, Blakey, 631

Versteeg, Margot A., 14

Vesco, Shawna, 420

Vestri Croan, Talia, 754

Vetter, Lara, 461

Vezzani, Cintia, 71

Vials, Chris, 668

Vicars, James, 495

Viego, Antonio, 216;

523; 730

Vieira, Estela J., 71

Vigil, Ariana, 646

Vigil, Donny, 168

Vilarós, Teresa M., 76;

106

Vimalassery, Manu,

587

Vincenot, Emmanuel,

502

Vincent, J. Keith, 429

Vinson, Pauline

Homsi, 439

Viramontes, Helena

María, 646

Viscomi, Joseph, 64

Vitkus, Daniel, 87

Vivian, Bradford, 97

Vogel, Shane, 86

Voigt, Lisa, 460

Volkova, Ekaterina,

680

Volkova, Rusina, 187

Voloshin, Beverly R.,

724

von Holt, Isabel, 373

Vrana, Laura, 149; 223

Vyroubalova, Ema, 54

Wacha, Megan, 610

Wachter-Grene, Kirin,

488

Wacks, David, 397; 756

Waggoner, Jessica, 703

Wagner, Sydnee, 465

Wagner, Ulrike, 77

Wagner-McCoy, Sarah,

569

Waisman, Sergio, 8

Waite, Genevieve, 636

Waite, Stacey, 657

Wald, Priscilla B., 800

Walia, Dhipinder, 644

Walker, Elsie, 85

Walker, Julia M., 333

Walker, Siovahn, 3

Wall, Joshua Logan,

257; 547

Wallace, Maurice, 323

Wallack, Nicole B., 111;

141

Wallen, Jerey D., 420;

648

Walley, Glynne, 786

Wall-Romana,

Christophe M., 250;

493; 773

Walsh, Brandon, 203

Walsh, Keri, 565

Walsh, Rachel, 464

Waltonen, Karma, 483

Wang, Dorothy J., 131

Wang, Fuson, 328

Wang, Guojun, 486

Wang, Hua, 579

Wang, Jennifer, 105

Wang, Mengxiao, 486

Wang, Yiyan, 434

Wang, Yu, 309

Wang, Yuanfei, 235

Wangling, Jinghua, 813

Wanner, Adrian J., 636

Wanzo, Rebecca A.,

457

Ward, Adrienne, 39

Ward, David, 748

Ward, Frances, 762

Ward, Jenifer K., 70

Ward, Julie, 191

Wardley, Lynn, 30

Warhol, Robyn, 24

Warley, Christopher,

472

Warner, John, 482

Warner, Tobias, 325

Warren, Andrew, 270

Warren, Christopher,

365

Warren, Kenneth W.,

438

Warren, Lenora, 172

Warren, Nancy, 6

Washburn,

KathleenG., 406

Washburne, Xeno, 90

Washington, Mary-

Helen, 607

Wasmoen, Nikolaus,

510

Wasser, Audrey, 262;

731

Wasserman, Jack, 270

Watkins, Susan, 214

Watson, Amanda L.,

363

Watt, Caitlin, 26

Watten, Barrett, 374

Watts, Jarica, 489

Watts, Kara, 461

Waymack, Anna, 342

Weatherby, Leif, 155

Weaver-Hightower,

Rebecca, 516

Webb, Jason Paul, 786

Weber, Christian Peter,

603; 744

Weber, Silja, 171

Weberling, Ryan, 59

Weeber, Susan, 779

Weed, Kym, 624

Weekes, Omari, 540

Weetman, Helen, 676

Wegener, Frederick,

111

Weimer,

ChristopherB., 353

Weinhouse, Linda, 25

Weiskott, Eric, 614; 804

Welch, Ellen, 826

Welch, Tana Jean, 830

Wells, Courtney, 628

Wells, Sarah Ann, 41

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Program Participants 

Welsh, Sarah, 253; 484;

765

Weltman, Sharon

Aronofsky, 423

Wenzel, Jennifer, 193;

400

Werner, Marta L., 574;

809

Wernimont,

JacquelineD., 57; 113

Werstine, Paul, 151

Werth, Tiany Jo, 31

Wertheimer, Eric, 548

Westerman, Gwen, 58

Westman, Karin E.,

80; 536

Weston, Lisa M. C., 398

Wettlaufer,

AlexandraK., 396

Wexler, Joyce Piell, 489;

598

Wexler, Laura, 386; 404

Whalen, Zach, 694

Whaley, Deborah

Elizabeth, 19

Whearty, Bridget, 247

Wheeler, Roxann, 690

White, Daniel E., 620

White, Duncan, 571

White, Eric, 201

White, Laura, 282

White, Melinda, 644

White, Victoria, 141

Whiteld, Esther K.,

379

Whitney, Kelly, 579

Whitson, Roger, 407

Wicke, Jennifer, 10; 774

Wickman, MatthewF.,

784

Wiegman, Robyn, 572;

675

Wiggers, Heiko, 267

Wikström, Toby, 414

Wilder, Blake, 261

Wildner-Bassett, Mary,

67; 695

Williams, Dana A., 519

Williams, Gareth, 160

Williams, Jerey J., 317;

795

Williams, Jennifer, 549

Williams, Katherine

Schaap, 54

Williams, Lawrence,

635

Williamsen, Amy R.,

353

Willis, Ika, 18

Wilson, Cheryl, 695

Wilson, Emily, 56

Wilson, Jerey, 468

Wilson, Kathleen, 732

Wilson, Ross, 665

Wilson, Sarah, 202

Winant, Johanna, 819

Winter, Sarah, 722

Wirth, James, 578

Wisecup, Kelly, 302;

642

Wisniewski, omas,

608

Witcher, Heather

Bozant, 329

Wogenstein, Sebastian,

515; 673

Wolfe, Cary, 679

Wol, Nathan, 219

Wol, Tristram, 325

Wolfson, Roberta, 668

Wolfson, Susan J., 368;

564

Womack, Autumn,

320; 506

Womble, David, 118

Wong, Alvin K., 186

Wong, Edlie L., 30

Wong, Hertha D.

Sweet, 591

Wong, Lily, 186

Woo, Hyo, 48; 732

Woo, Jewon, 426

Wood, Andrew, 382

Wood, Heather, 367

Wood, Lucas, 26

Woods, Derek, 84

Wooley, Christine Ann,

144

Worthington,

Marjorie, 536

Wright, Amy Elisabeth,

425

Wright, Michelle M., 52

Wright, Nazera, 42; 470

Wright, Nicole, 767

Wright, Simona, 533

Wu, Cynthia, 90

Wu, Yung-Hsing, 749

Wurst, Karin

Anneliese, 373

Xiao, Jiwei, 331; 434

Xin, Wendy Veronica,

161; 431

Xiong, Ying, 813

Xu, Xiaowen, 434

Yacavone, Kathrin, 206

Yanacek, Holly, 318

Yancey, Kathleen, 237

Yandell, Cathy, 733

Yang, Chi-ming, 615;

767

Yao, Christine, 342;

624

Yao, Sijia, 500

Yashin, Veli N., 82; 417

Yearwood, Mary, 661

Yezzi, David, 277

Yi, We Jung, 333

Yi Tenen, Dennis, 57

Yocco-Locascio,

Caitlin, 98

Yocum, Demetrio S.,

570

Yoo, Jamie Jungmin,

383

Yoon, Bomi, 422

Yoon, Duncan

McEachern, 550

York, Leigh, 296

York, Lorraine, 259;

828

Young, Alex, 820

Young, Cynthia, 366

Young, Damon, 216;

523; 730

Young, Harvey, 86

Young, John, 116

Young, Rosetta, 645;

683

Young, Vershawn, 19

Yu, Timothy, 131; 668

Yuan, Yin, 620

Yue, Ming-Bao, 7; 65;

557

Yusin, Jennifer, 516

Zaborskis, Mary, 703;

825

Zacharias, Greg W., 332

Zacher, Samantha, 816

Zafrin, Vika, 304

Zahler, Sara, 167

Zaki, Mona, 341

Zalloua, Zahi A., 104

Zamora, Francisco

Jose, 575

Zamperini, Paola, 721

Zapędowska,

Magdalena, 395

Zarnowiecki, Matthew,

590

Zebadúa Yánez,

Verónica, 269

Zebuhr, Laura R., 363

Zechner, Dominik, 155

Zemka, Sue, 805

Zetterberg Gjerlevsen,

Simona, 431

Zhang, Ying, 721

Zhang, Yu, 721

Zhelezcheva, Tanya K.,

704; 804

Zhou, Xiaojing, 162; 281

Zhu, Yun, 500

Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska,

222; 819

Zibrak, Arielle, 775

Zieger, Susan, 136

Zigarovich, Jolene, 480

Zimbler, Jarad, 433

Zimmerman, DavidA.,

Zingesser, Eliza, 356

Zinner, Eric, 670

Zinni, Mariana, 634

Zitin, Abigail S., 279

Zoumpalidis,

Dionysios, 145

Zubiaurre, Maite, 14

Zuck, Rochelle, 102

Zuern, John David, 32;

735

Zunshine, Lisa, 429; 652

Zur, Dafna, 629

Zwanzig, Rebekah, 724

Zwicker, Jonathan, 514

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Program



Thursday, 4 January

8:30 a.m.

1. Advocating for Your Department

8:30–11:30 a.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Presiding: William Nichols,

Georgia State U; Emily Todd, Westeld StateU

Led by the ADE and ADFL presidents, this workshop gives participants an

opportunity to develop advocacy plans for their departments. Share strate-

gies for publicizing the department, recruiting students, and engaging in

new initiatives on your campus and in your community. Hone skills, strate-

gies, and tactics to become a more eective advocate for your department.

Preregistration is required.

2. Teaching Languages and Literatures Online: Key Principles for

Course Design

8:30–11:30 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton

A special session

Speakers: Susan Ko, School of Professional Studies, City U of New York;

Richard Schumaker, School of Professional Studies, City U of New York

is hands- on professional development workshop provides a guided op-

portunity for designing fully or partially online courses, led by two individ-

uals with extensive expertise in faculty development for online and blended

teaching and experience teaching comparative literatures and cultures.

Participants dra a design plan for a course or course elements that make

use of online delivery and receive feedback from moderators and workshop

peers. Preregistration is required.

For related material, write to Susan .Ko@ cuny .edu aer 4Dec.

3. Marketing 101: How to Promote Your Academic Program

orEvent

8:30–11:30 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Presiding: Siovahn Walker,

MLA

Have an event or program to promote and don’t know where to start? Join

the MLA’s director of outreach, Siovahn Walker, for a practical workshop

on do- it- yourself marketing for academics. Walker brings her extensive

marketing experience to teach you to dene your audience, streamline your

message, and maximize a small budget. Attend and get the tools you need

to eectively promote your next conference, publication lecture series, or

call for proposals. Preregistration is required.

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4. Pre- Texts Workshop Series I

8:30–11:30 a.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Doris Sommer, Har-

vardU

Speaker: Jason Charles Courtmanche, U of Con-

necticut, Storrs

is workshop series focuses on the practice of

interpreting a literary work through art making.

Participants experience connecting with a text,

emotionally and intellectually, by playing with it

to create a new work of art. e activity makes ex

perientially real how treating a piece of writing as

a pretext for play replaces fear of diculty with the

motivating energy of engaging with a challenge.

Participants should plan to attend all three work

shops (4, 218, and 494). Preregistration is required.

Thursday, 4 January

10:00 a.m.

5. Spark Talk: e OpEd Project

10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon, Gramercy West, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Oce of the Ex-

ecutive Director. Presiding: Katie Orenstein, e

OpEd Project

is interactive session from e OpEd Project, a

group that seeks to increase the number of under-

represented voices, including women, contribut-

ing to key commentary forums, helps participants

write persuasively for a broad audience and ad-

dresses core questions of what we know, why it

matters, and how and why we should use it. If

you want to contribute to the public conversation

about the value of the humanities, this is the ses-

sion for you! Preregistration is required.

Thursday, 4 January

11:45 a.m.

6. Preconvention Workshop on Career

Directions for PhDs in En glish

11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the ADE Executive Com-

mittee. Presiding: Emily Todd, Westeld StateU

Speakers: Melissa Flanagan, Santa Fe C; Leeann

Hunter, Washington State U, Pullman; Bernadette

So, New York U; Tarshia Stanley, Spelman C;

Nancy Warren, Texas A&M U, College Station

Representatives from dierent types of institu-

tions discuss aspects of the job search, including

tenure- track, non- tenure- track, and alt- ac career

paths; letters of application and recommendation;

curricula vitae;Skype, convention, and on- campus

interviews; multiyear job- search strategies; and

negotiating an oer.

7. Career Pathways for Job Seekers in

Languages

11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the ADFL Executive Com-

mittee. Presiding: William Nichols, Georgia StateU

Speakers: MeganM. Ferry, Union C; Jacqueline

Lerescu, MLA; Denise McCracken, St. Charles

Community C, MO; SaraJ. Ogger, Humanities

New York; Gary Bruce Schmidt, Coastal Caro-

linaU; Ming- Bao Yue, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

Representatives of dierent institutional types

(AA-, BA-, MA-, and PhD- granting programs) as

well as from elds outside the academy discuss

work and careers. Speakers address institutional

expectations, navigating a complex market,

transferable skills from graduate school training,

administrative positions in higher education and

nonprot organizations, and international work

opportunities.

Thursday, 4 January

12:00 noon

8. Modos innitos de narrar: Homenaje a

Ricardo Piglia

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century Latin American. Presiding: Claudia

Cabello- Hutt, U of North Carolina, Greensboro

Speakers: Daniel Balderston, U of Pittsburgh; Ser-

gio Chejfec, New York U; Arcadio Díaz- Quiñones,

Prince ton U; Laura Demaria, U of Maryland, Col-

lege Park; Sergio Waisman, George WashingtonU

In commemoration of the Argentinean writer

Ricardo Piglia (1941–2017), major scholars, trans-

lators, and writers gather to honor his memory

and to discuss the impact of his work and gure in

Latin American literature and intellectual history,

as well as his legacy as a literary critic and scholar.

9. Comparatively Perfect: Guided Tours of

Essential Essays

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

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Program arranged by the Association of Depart-

ments and Programs of Comparative Literature.

Presiding: AdelaideM. Russo, Louisiana State U,

Baton Rouge

1. “On William Empson’s ‘Feelings in Words,’ ”

MarshallJ. Brown, U of Washington, Seattle

2. “e Logic of the Purloined Letter: Barbara

Johnson on Poe, Lacan, Derrida,” omas Oliver

Beebee, Penn State U, University Park

3. “In the Mood for Negation: Dipesh Chakrab-

arty’s ‘e Climate of History,’” Kaushik Ramu,

Uof Pennsylvania

10. Fictionality in a “Post- Fact” World

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction.

Presiding: Jennifer Wicke, U of California, Santa

Barbara

1. “Fiction as Fake News: Make- Believe or Make-

Belief?” Michaela Bronstein, StanfordU

2. “Action Figures,” Yoon Sun Lee, WellesleyC

3. “Words emselves Are Not Proof,” Matt Tier-

ney, Penn State U, University Park

11. Gothic Masculinities and Spanish

Modernity in Literature, Television, and Film

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Wan Tang, BostonC

1. “Don Juan’s Worst Nightmare: Homophobia

and Emasculation in ‘El Diablo en Sevilla,’ by

Luis García de Luna,” Juan Jesús Payán Martín,

Lehman C, City U of New York

2. “Mere Shadows of Men: Gothic Conventions and

Masculine Crisis in Galdós’s La sombra,” Wan Tang

3. “No soy como tú: El vampiro neoliberal en

España (2007–17),” Victor Manuel Pueyo Zoco,

Temple U, Philadelphia

4. “Masculinity, Posthumanism, and the Gothic

in Pedro Almodóvar’s e Skin I Live In,” Antonio

Cordoba, ManhattanC

For related material, write to wan .tang@ bc .edu.

12. Revolution, Take 2: Exporting the

Russian Revolution

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Regent, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century German and the American Asso-

ciation of Teachers of Slavic and East European

Languages. Presiding: Serguei Alex Oushakine,

Prince tonU

1. “Revolutionary Internationalism, Realism,

Modernism, Factography, and All at: Anna

Seghers and György Lukács in the Early 1930s,”

Katerina Clark, YaleU

2. “Ris in Space- Time: F. C. Weiskopf on the

Soviet Union and Germany,” Matthias Müller,

CornellU

3. “‘¡Hasta la Victoria Siempre!’: e Soviet Em-

bassy in Havana,” Darja Filippova, Prince tonU

4. “‘What the Russians Le Behind’ in the Cuban

Media Culture: From Debates on Socialist Real-

ism to Los Muñequitos Rusos,” Masha Salazkina,

ConcordiaU

13. Beat Writers, Cold War Politics, and

Populist Inclinations

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: DeborahR. Geis, De-

PauwU

1. “Jack Kerouac and the Language of Populism,”

Nancy McCampbell Grace, C of Wooster

2. “Gregory Corso’s e Happy Birthday of Death

(1960),” Ronna Catherine Johnson, TusU

3. “Kulchur Wars: LeRoi Jones,” Aldon Lynn

Nielsen, Penn State U, University Park

14. How We Do Eighteenth- and

Nineteenth- Century Studies: Erotica

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and

19th- Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding: Da-

vid atcher Gies, U of Virginia

Speakers: Jerey Bersett, Westminster C, PA;

Matthew Joseph Pettway, C of Charleston; Rocio

Roedtjer, U of Cambridge; MargotA. Versteeg,

Uof Kansas; Maite Zubiaurre, U of California,

Los Angeles

Panelists address the pedagogical and method-

ological practices of teaching and researching

Spanish erotica in canonical, popular, visual,

or archival texts and explore a diverse set of ap-

proaches to these questions, including close read-

ing, textual analysis, history of, context, cultural

studies, disability studies, gender, power, national-

isms, aging and ageism, colonial and postcolonial,

transatlantic, and others.

15. Poetics Out of Place

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Diana Hamilton, Ba-

ruch C, City U of New York

1. “Unsettled Feelings: Destabilizing Identity and

Spatial Experience in Recent Puerto Rican Poetry,”

Edward Chamberlain, U of Washington, Tacoma

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2. “Poems in the Post: Authorship and Exchange

in Hemispheric American Poetry,” Rebecca

Kosick, U of Bristol

3. “Speaking Truth to Power or Performing Pro-

paganda? South Africa’s Praise Poets at the State

of the Nation Address,” Emily McGin, YorkU

4. “‘Some Inarticulate Major Premise’: Resisting

Denition in Poetry and (Common) Law,” Talia

Shalev, Graduate Center, City U of New York

16. Digital Humanities in Practice:

Caribbean Models

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

A special session

1. “Networking the Afro- Atlantic: Finding Poten-

tial in Proximity through Digital Cartography,”

KaiamaL. Glover, BarnardC

2. “Apátrida Archived: A Literary and Digital Re-

sponse to Statelessness in the Dominican Repub-

lic,” Megan Jeanette Myers, Iowa StateU

3. “An Explosion in the Archives: Reframing

French Archives through Caribbean Digital

Praxis,” NathanH. Dize, VanderbiltU

4. “Hamilton and the Digital Archives of Latinx-

Caribbean Writing,” Elena Machado Saez, Buck-

nellU

For related material, write to mjmyers@ iastate .edu

aer 30 Sept.

17. Early Modern Biopolitics: Race, Nature,

Sexuality

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Vin Nardizzi, U of

British Columbia

Speakers: Urvashi Chakravarty, George Mason U;

Drew Daniel, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Ari Fried-

lander, U of Mississippi; Greta LaFleur, Yale U;

Adam Sitze, Amherst C; ValerieJ. Traub, U of

Michigan, Ann Arbor

is session explores the utility of biopolitics

to early modern En glish and to early American

literatures, leveraging early modern culture to

retrace the genealogy of biopolitics. Topics include

sixteenth- century Atlantic slavery, Restoration- era

conceptions of sovereignty and race, seventeenth-

century sexuality and population theory, early

American racial theories of Protestant lineage,

and pan- European early modern cartography.

18. Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist

Children’s Literature

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum GS Children’s

and Young Adult Literature. Presiding: Philip Nel,

Kansas StateU

1. “Agents of Change: Pupils, Parents, and Pub-

lishers Moving toward Enlightenment in Den-

mark, 1780–1850,” Charlotte Appel, Aarhus U;

Nina Christensen, AarhusU

2. “Guiding White Tears: Looking to Abolitionist

Children’s Literature,” Brigitte Fielder, U of Wis-

consin, Madison

3. “Brujas, Revolutionaries, and Warriors: e Emer-

gence of Radical Queerness in Contemporary Youth

Literature,” Angel Daniel Matos, San Diego StateU

4. “Harry Potter and the Nazis: Myth, Text, So-

cial Change,” Ika Willis, U of Wollongong

19. Neo- passing: Performing Identity in

Post–Jim Crow States of Insecurity

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Mollie Godfrey, James

Madison U; Vershawn Young, U of Waterloo

Speakers: Derek Adams, Ithaca C; MarthaJ. Cutter,

U of Connecticut, Storrs; Jennifer Glaser, U of Cin-

cinnati; Allyson Hobbs, Stanford U; Lara Narcisi,

Regis U; Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, U of Iowa

is panel aims to analyze the transformations of

passing in the late twentieth century and into the

twenty- rstcentury to unearth the social, politi-

cal, and economic states of insecurity and instabil-

ity to which they point. Despite the hope that the

dismantling of segregation once seemed to prom-

ise, the persistence of racial passing in the post–

Jim Crow moment indicates the degree to which

identity performances remain hotly contested and

heavily policed.

20. Southern States of Insecurity: e

United States South during Crises

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Society for the Study of

Southern Literature

1. “Paper Citizenship in omas Dixon’s he

Clans man: An American Drama,” Scott Pett, RiceU

2. “‘For a Little While It Was a Charmed Life’:

Delta Wedding as World War II Novel,” David Mc-

Whirter, Texas A&M U, College Station

3. “‘at Radio Makes It Less Painful’: e era-

peutics of Music in ErnestJ. Gaines’s A Lesson

before Dying,” Paula Rawlins, U of Georgia

4. “Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta and the Atlanta

Child Murders,” Sharon Colley, Middle Georgia

StateU

For related material, write to kburnett@ sk .edu.

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21. New Readings in Modern Hebrew

Literature

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Hebrew.

Presiding: Beverly Bailis, Brooklyn C, City U of

New York

1. “e Birth Pangs of Monolingualism,” Roni

Henig, ColumbiaU

2. “Speculative Futures: Hebrew Postmodernism

and the Free Market,” Shir Alon, U of California,

Los Angeles

3. “e ‘Natural History’ of Dolly City: Castel-

Bloom and Benjamin on Sovereignty and the Non-

human,” Jonathan Liebembuk, Graduate Center,

City U of New York

22. Make It Visible: e Long Nineteenth

Century and New Economic Criticism

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Talia Schaer, Gradu-

ate Center, City U of New York

Speakers: Lauren Bailey, Graduate Center, City U

of New York; Deirdre Mikolajcik, U of Kentucky;

Su pri tha Rajan, U of Rochester; Matt Seybold,

ElmiraC

Examining the current state of economic criticism

and nineteenth- century literature in the anglo-

phone world, specialists and nonspecialistscon-

sider both the discipline’s history and its future.

23. Global Anglophone: Other an Fiction

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom West,

Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global An-

glophone. Presiding: Sonali Perera, Hunter C, City

U of New York

1. “‘Omiyale’: Nigeria, New Orleans, and the Po-

etics of Disaster,” Avery Slater, U of Toronto

2. “Caribbean Voices in London,” Peter Miller,

Uof Virginia

3. “Dalit Graphic Novels: Sites of Dialogue and

Dissent,” Ruma Sinha, SyracuseU

4. “Fodder for the Future Canon,” Deepika Bahri,

EmoryU

24. Administering Feminism: Leadership,

Activism, and Diversity

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the Women’s Caucus for the

Modern Languages. Presiding: MichelleA. Massé,

Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

Speakers: KatieJ. Hogan, U of North Carolina,

Charlotte; PaulaM. Krebs, MLA; Teresa Mangum,

U of Iowa; Sheri Parks, U of Maryland, College

Park; Robyn Warhol, Ohio State U, Columbus

Women who are directors, chairs, and deans re-

ect on how and why feminism is central to their

work as leaders in the humanities, as well as to

their activism and commitment to diversity.

25. Can is Canary Be Saved?

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum HEP Community

Colleges. Presiding: Linda Weinhouse, Commu-

nity C of Baltimore County, MD

1. “Placing Community College En glish at the Cen-

ter of Twenty- First- Century Literacy Education,”

Shawn Casey, Columbus State Community C, OH

2. “Sending Canaries to the Job Market: Ethical

Issues in Training Community College Faculty

Members,” Carolyn McCue Goman, DePaulU

3. “Enthusiasm and Ambivalence: Will Accelera-

tion Save Developmental Courses?” Jennifer Maloy,

Queensboro Community C, City U of New York

For related material, write to lweinhouse@

ccbcmd .edu.

26. Fake News

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval

French

1. “e Rumor of Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Indelity

in Antioch: Truth, Allegation, Fiction,” Karen Sul-

livan, BardC

2. “Transforming the Truth: Fake News in Le

roman de silence and L’at re pér illeu x ,” KristinL.

Burr, St. Joseph’sU

3. “‘All Ladies Cheat ... Sad!’: Diusing and De-

fusing the ‘Fake News’ of Courtly Adultery,” Lucas

Wood, Indiana U, Bloomington

4. “‘Ce n’est pas fable que dire voz volons’: Truth

and the Public Impact of Rumor in Ami et Amile,”

Caitlin Watt, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

27. Queer Borders

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Sexuality

Studies. Presiding: Karma Lochrie, Indiana U,

Bloomington

1. “Getting the Queer Dri of Firbank,” Ellis

Hanson, CornellU

2. “Reimagining Borders through Queer Post-

imperial Melancholia in Turkey,” Rustem Ertug

Altinay, U of Vienna

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3. “e History of Sexuality; or, How Is the East

Erotic?” Madhavi Menon, AshokaU

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ sexuality- studies/ aer 15Dec.

28. Trump Terror

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Chicana and

Chicano. Presiding: Laura Halperin, U of North

Carolina, Chapel Hill

1. “Weaponizing Victimhood, Terrorizing

Whiteness,” Lee Bebout, Arizona StateU

2. “Against Xenophobic Citizenship: Latina/o

Belonging in the Age of Trump,” Alberto Varon,

Indiana U, Bloomington

3. “ird Country Nationals: Making Central

Americans into ‘Mexican’ Subalterns in Trump’s

Border Executive Order,” Maritza Cardenas, U of

Arizona

29. Micropress Poetry and the Politics of

Electronic Text

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the Council of Literary

Magazines and Presses

1. “e Electronic Text Made Physical: Digital

Poetics and Contemporary Chinese Experimen-

talism,” Kate Costello, U of Oxford, St. Hugh’sC

2. “e Invisible Online Poetry Library,” Stephen

Reid McLaughlin, U of Texas, Austin

3. “Small Data,” Claire Grossman, StanfordU

4. “Niche and Glitch: Poetry E- books and eir

Readers,” Mel Bentley, independent scholar

Respondent: Trisha Low, Small Press Distribution

For related material, visit www .spdbooks .org/

Pages/ Item/59229/MLA- 2018.aspx.

30. Late- Nineteenth- Century Panics

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Late- 19th-

and Early- 20th- Century American. Presiding:

Dale Marie Bauer, U of Illinois, Urbana; EdlieL.

Wong, U of Maryland, College Park

Speakers: Elizabeth Duquette, Gettysburg C;

TravisM. Foster, Villanova U; Susan Gillman,

Uof California, Santa Cruz; Andrew Kopec, In-

dianaU–Purdue U, Fort Wayne; Lynn Wardley,

San Francisco State U; DavidA. Zimmerman, U of

Wisconsin, Madison

Exploring the range of panics that inuenced

United States literature at the end of the nine-

teenthcentury, from racial tensions to economic

problems to identity issues and government tyr-

anny, our panelists represent diverse approaches

to the study of panics, covering tyranny panic, ec-

static panic, racial panic, panic and periodization,

evolution panic, and economic panic.

31. Performance, Materiality, and Ecology

in Early Modern Literature

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Joseph Campana,

RiceU

Speakers: Rebecca Weld Bushnell, U of Pennsyl-

vania; KarenL. Raber, U of Mississippi; Jessica

Rosenberg, U of Miami; Tiany Jo Werth, U of

California, Davis

is session examines how early modern perfor-

mance might inform ideas of agency emerging

from contemporary materialist theories. Present-

ers explore how dierent categories of matter per-

form, considering the mineral, the vegetal, and the

human outperformed by one of its parts. e pre-

senters and audience debate how thinking about

material performance can shi the conversation

about agency, acting, and actants.

32. e Language of Populism

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Nonction

Prose. Presiding: David Bahr, Borough of Manhat-

tan Community C, City U of New York

1. “Fake News and the Miscegenation Hoax of

1864,” Philip Kadish, Hunter C, City U of New York

2. “Populism as Impersonation,” Kurt Spell-

meyer, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

3. “From Both Sides Now: An Analysis of Popu-

list Discourse from the Le,” Maureen Matarese,

Borough of Manhattan Community C, City U of

New York

4. “Negotiating Populism in the Discourse of

Memoir: Love and Ambivalence inJ. D. Vance’s

Hillbilly Elegy,” John David Zuern, U of Hawai‘i,

Mānoa

For related material, write to dbahr@ bmcc .cuny.

33. Representing Korean Comfort Women

in Fiction and Film

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Joo Young Lee, U of

Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. “e Representations of Comfort Women in

Pre- 1990s South Korean Popular Cinema and the

Politics of Memory,” Chung- kang Kim, HanyangU

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2. “‘Unspeakable ings’: e Ethics and Aes-

thetics of Representing Sexual Violence,” M. Laura

Barberan Reinares, Bronx Community C, City U

of New York

3. “Reframing Comfort Women as Girls in Spirits’

Homecoming (2016),” Margaret Diane Stetz, Uof

Delaware, Newark

For related material, write to m_laura .barberan@

bcc .cuny .edu.

34. Narrativizing Insecurity in

IndianComics

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Anuja Madan, Kansas

StateU

1. “Endangered Species: Exploring the Animacy

Hierarchy in Malik Sajad’s Munnu,” Amit Baishya,

U of Oklahoma

2. “Mythological Superhero Comics of Counter-

violence,” Sharmila Mukherjee, Bronx Commu-

nity C, City U of New York

3. “Class Inequity and Water Racism in Sarnath

Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri,” Anuja Madan

For related material, write to amadan@ ksu .edu

aer 30Nov.

35. Material Matters: Securing Archives and

Other Library Resources

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom East,

Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TM Book His-

tory, Print Cultures, Lexicography

1. “Novices in the Archives: Restoring, Preserv-

ing, and Modernizing an African Archive,” SueE.

Houchins, BatesC

2. “Secure Material Archives in Insecure Sites:

Mexican Archives as a Case Study,” Angelica Ali-

cia Duran, Purdue U, West Lafayette

3. “e Invention of Archives: Book History

and Publishing in India,” Priya Joshi, Temple U,

Philadelphia

Respond ent: EleanorF. Shevlin, West ChesterU

36. e Dispossessed in Hungarian

Literature and Culture

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Hungarian.

Presiding: Zsuzsanna Varga, U of Glasgow

Speakers: Eva Livia Corredor, Paris, France; Kath-

erine Mary Gatto, John Carroll U; Susan Jacobow-

itz, Queensborough Community C, City U of New

York; Boróka Prohászka- Rád, Sapientia, Romania;

Eva Serfozo, U of Oregon; Paul Sohar, indepen-

dent scholar; Zsuzsanna Varga

Hungarian literature enjoys increasing interest

thanks to new translations of novels such as Szilárd

Borbély’s he Dispossessed. Presenters discuss writ

ers from Hungary or of Hungarian heritage whose

work engages with or can be interpreted through the

prism of states of insecurity. ey examine novels,

plays, and poetry dealing with moments of political

upheaval in Hungarian historyin the last century

and highlight the universality of these works.

37. Afro- Asian Imaginaries and New and

Old Imperialisms

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Neelofer Qadir, U of

Massachusetts, Amherst

1. “e Wake and the Hold: Racial Capitalism

and the Indian Ocean,” Neelofer Qadir

2. “Postcolonial Pain Control and the ‘Transpar-

ent I’: Narcotracking and Narcopolis,” Sean

Kennedy, Graduate Center, City U of New York

3. “Mixed Race Poetics of the Francophone In-

dian Ocean: Afrasian Animal- Maroons,” Benja-

min Ireland, Texas ChristianU

4. “‘200,000 Blacks in Guangzhou’: News Media,

Race, and State Construction of Modern Urbanity,”

Guangzhi Huang, U at Bualo,State U of New York

For related material, visit neeloferqadir .com/

MLA2018 aer 15Nov.

38. Can It Happen Here?

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Barbara Clare Foley,

Rutgers U, Newark

1. “Reading Fascism: Kenneth Burke and Richard

Wright,” Jay Garcia, New YorkU

2. “Sinclair Lewis and the Liberals Who Never

Learn,” Ian Aerbach, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

3. “e Aerwar: George Orwell and the Con-

temporary ‘Hitler Wins’ Novel,” Jackson Ayres,

Texas A&M U, San Antonio

39. Cultural- Political Liminalities in the

1600–1800s

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-,

and 19th- Century Italian. Presiding: Adrienne

Ward, U of Virginia

1. “Preludes of Modernity within Baroque Extrav-

agances,” Lucia Gemmani, Indiana U, Bloomington

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2. “e Translator’s Contested Body: Emilia Luti

and the Re- Creation of the Promessi sposi,” Joseph

Luzzi, BardC

3. “Reassessing the Legacy of the Nineteenth

Century in Fin de Siècle Italy,” Sara Boezio, U of

Warwick

4. “Walking in the City: Gender Conicts and

Women’s Marginality,” Andrea Baldi, Rutgers U,

New Brunswick

40. Precariousness and Women’s Bodies

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Considering Silence as Resistance: Reading

Voicelessness in Chang- rae Lee’s A Gesture Life

against the Wednesday Demonstrations,” Jerrine

Tan, BrownU

2. “Poems ‘as Good as Rocks’: e Construction

of Rebellious Community in Alice Notley’s Mys-

teries of Small Houses,” Elizabeth Goetz, Graduate

Center, City U of New York

3. “e Severed Eye: Sight, Sound, and Gender in

Blue Velvet,” Nolan Boyd, MiamiU

Respondent: Erika Almenara, U of Arkansas,

Fayetteville

For related material, write to almenara@ uark .edu.

41. Literature, Crisis, and the 1970s

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

Program arranged by the Marxist Literary Group

1. “Agrarian Crisis and New Literatures,” Sarika

Chandra, Wayne StateU

2. “Abolition in Poetry since 1973,” Amy De’Ath,

King’s C London

3. “e 1970s in Literary History: Navigating

Structural Crisis (in a Canoe),” Mathias Nilges, St.

Francis XavierU

4. “e View from the Car: Cinema, Labor, and

Global Capital in 1970s Brazil,” Sarah Ann Wells,

U of Wisconsin, Madison

42. Young, Gied, and Black: Girlhood in

Literatures of the African Diaspora

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC African

American. Presiding: Koritha Mitchell, Ohio

StateU, Columbus

1. “Locating Black Girlhood in Nineteenth-

Century Autograph Books,” Nazera Wright, U of

Kentucky

2. “Everyone’s Topsy: Performances of Black Girl-

hood and Modernity,” Kristin Moriah, GrinnellC

3. “‘How I Became a Poet’: e Girlhood of Audre

Lorde,” Bethany Jacobs, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

4. “Waithood and Girlhood in NoViolet Bulawayo’s

We Need New Names,” Amanda Lagji, PitzerC

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ african- american/.

43. Brazilian Insecurity

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Portuguese

Studies Association. Presiding: Robert Patrick

Newcomb, U of California, Davis

Speakers: MargueriteI. Harrison, Smith C; Leila

Maria Lehnen, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque;

Luiz Fernando Valente, BrownU

Panelists consider the eects of the current socio-

economic upheavals and political polarization on

the eld of Portuguese and Brazilian studies in the

United States, such as funding, enrollments, and

faculty positions. At stake is not only the present

but also the future of our profession.

44. Neurodiversity

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Cognitive

and Aect Studies. Presiding: Jonathan Kramnick,

YaleU

1. “Psychosis Blues: Distributed Cognition, Col-

laborative Media, and Schizophrenia,” ElizabethJ.

Donaldson, New York Inst. of Tech.

2. “‘It Had Something to Do with Paying Atten-

tion’: ADHD and the Contemporary Oce Novel,”

Michael Mahoney, U of California, Irvine

3. “Robert Montgomery Bird’s Neurodiversity

Hypothesis,” Ittai Orr, YaleU

4. “Reading Short Stories with Temple Grandin,”

Ralph James Savarese, GrinnellC

44A. Global Arab Precarity and the

Contemporary United States Academy:

Race, Religion, Profession

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global

Arab and Arab American. Presiding: Hatem Akil,

Seminole StateC

Speakers: Matthew Abraham, U of Arizona;

Ghenwa Hayek, U of Chicago; Sunaina Maira,

Uof California, Davis

Speakersseek to bring about a multifaceted con-

versation about the current precarity of the eld of

Arab and Islamic studies, as well as those engaged

in the eld.

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1:45 p.m.

45. Edith Wharton’s New York

1:45–3:00 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Edith Wharton Society.

Presiding: Paul Joseph Ohler, Kwantlen Polytech-

nicU

1. “Edith Wharton at Chickering Hall: Amuse-

ment and Activism in Gilded Age New York,” Yair

Solan, Graduate Center, City U of New York

2. “Unaged New York: Corporeal Aesthetics in a

Preservationist Culture,” MelanieV. Dawson, C of

William and Mary

3. “Lay of the Land: Edith Wharton’s Unmapping

of New York,” JosephA. Dimuro, U of California,

Los Angeles

4. “Sites of Sanitation: Germ eory, Mind Sci-

ence, Wharton’s New York, and the Modern

Novel,” Lisa Mendelman, MenloC

46. Performing Resistance

1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

A special session

1. “e Right to Perform Resistance: Black Pro-

test Aesthetics in Post–Black Arts Movement

Drama and Music,” CasaraeL. Gibson, SyracuseU

2. “e Art of the Ordeal; or, What Does (and

Should) Performance Art Mean Today?” Christo-

pher Grobe, AmherstC

3. “Public Blind Spots: Performing Silent Protest

in Prison,” Anke Pinkert, U of Illinois, Urbana

Respondent: Minou Arjomand, U of Texas, Austin

47. A Tool Kit for Doctoral Student Career

Planning

1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Connected Aca-

demics Project

Speakers: Kelly Brown, U of California, Irvine; Da-

vid Laurence, MLA; Maureen McCarthy, Council

of Graduate Schools; TyrusH. Miller, Uof Cali-

fornia, Santa Cruz

Humanities PhDs have always made fullling and

well- compensated careers within and beyond the

academy, using their expertise for the social good

throughout our society and economy. Participants

consider resources and strategies doctoral pro-

grams can use to help their students recognize the

versatility of doctoral study and pursue the broad-

est range of occupations available to them.

48. Publishing the Colony, Colonizing

Publishing

1:45–3:00 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Nandini Bhattacha-

rya, Texas A&M U, College Station

Speakers: Joya Mannan, Texas Tech U; Kerry

Manzo, Texas Tech U; Kevin Sedeno- Guillen, U of

Kentucky; Hyo Woo, Nanyang TechnologicalU

Panelists consider the interaction of colonial and

postcolonial publishing circuits with trajectories

of liberation and assimilation implicit in colo

nialism, anticolonialist sentiment, decoloniza-

tion, and racialized and gendered subjectivity.

Presentations examine publishing Shakespeare in

India,mestizo manuscript culture of the Ameri

cas, Korean postcolonial publishing in the United

States, and marketing West African women

novelists.

49. Digital Humanities Approaches to

Japanese Media

1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Japanese

since 1900

1. “Virtual Reality, Mapping, and the Future of

Literary History,” Charles Exley, U of Pittsburgh

2. “e Sound of Silents: Digital Humanities

Project on Benshi and Silent Film,” Kyoko Omori,

HamiltonC

3. “e Resonance of Digital Space: New Critical

Practices in Digital Curation,” Joanne Bernardi,

Uof Rochester

50. e Historical Novel aer

Postmodernism

1:45–3:00 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Mapping the Historical Turn: Privileged Pe-

riods in Prize- Winning Novels,” Alexander Man-

shel, StanfordU

2. “‘Building New History’: Mike Meginnis’s Fat

Man and Little Boy and Contemporary United

States Historical Fiction,” Samuel Cohen, U of

Missouri, Columbia

3. “What Is Missing: e Novel as Memorial,”

Sarah Chihaya, Prince tonU

4. “Don DeLillo’s Bad Art History: Aesthetics,

Politics, and the Paradox of the Contemporary,”

David Alworth, HarvardU

For related material, write to amanshel@ stanford

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51. 1618–2018: Remembering the irty

Years’ War

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton

Program arranged by the Society for German Re-

naissance and Baroque Literature

1. “German Baroque Poets in the Aermath of the

irty Years’ War,” Albrecht Classen, U of Arizona

2. “Knowing War: Breitinger, Gryphius, and the

Possibility of Controlling Knowledge,” Aleksan-

dra Prica, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

3. “e Economics of War: Cameralism and

Liberalism in Wallensteins Lager,” Christopher

Hutchinson, StanfordU

52. e Temporal Turn in Black Studies

1:45–3:00 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: DaylanneK. En glish,

MacalesterC

Speakers: Soyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown U;

DaylanneK. En glish; Gregory Laski, United States

Air Force Acad.; Imani Perry, Prince ton U; An-

thony Reed, Yale U; MichelleM. Wright, EmoryU

From Phillis Wheatley to Suzan- Lori Parks, black

artists and activists have been attuned to the politi

cal, legal, philosophical, and cultural stakes of time:

the dierential ways we interweave past, present,

and future. Scholars of African America and the

Black Diaspora assess the temporal turn in black

studies and suggest directions for future work.

For related material, visit blacktime2018 . hcommons

.org aer 15Dec.

53. Private Media: Rethinking Privacy in

Contemporary Culture

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Scott Selisker, U of

Arizona

1. “e Leak, the Novel, and the Networked Self,”

Scott Selisker

2. “Inside Out: Privacy in Public in Claudia Ran-

kine’s and John Lucas’s Situation Videos,” Chad

Bennett, U of Texas, Austin

3. “Speech without Expression: Anonymous Poli-

tics in he Bell Jar,” Katie Fitzpatrick, BrownU

Respondents: David Rosen, Trinity C; Aaron

Santesso, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

54. e Ethics of Progressive Shakespeare

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Alexa Alice Joubin,

George WashingtonU

1. “e Ethics of Digital Publication and Global

Shakespeare Studies,” Laura Estill, Texas A&M U,

College Station

2. “Global Shakespeare, Dramatic Form, and the

Ethics of ‘Progress,’ ” Katherine Schaap Williams,

New York U, Abu Dhabi

3. “Ethics of Global Shakespeare Pedagogy,” Ema

Vyroubalova, Trinity C Dublin

4. “How to Read a (Digital) Shakespeare Play,”

Elizabeth Pentland, YorkU

55. Global Fashion

1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century En glish and Anglophone. Presiding:

Celia Marshik, Stony Brook U, State U of New York

1. “Fashioning a Geographic Imagination: British

Modernism and Primitive Style,” JaneM. Garrity,

U of Colorado, Boulder

2. “Sartorial Spaces: Colin MacInnes and Mul-

ticultural Style,” Simon Lee, U of California,

Riverside

3. “ ‘Serving AfroScandinavian Fresh’: Krull Mag-

azine and the Emergence of Black Swedish Style,”

MonicaL. Miller, BarnardC

56. Writing New Relationships: e

Humanities and STEM

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Anne Ruggles Gere,

Uof Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. “Interpretive Praxis in Interdisciplinary Re-

search,” Ashley Karlin, U of Southern California

2. “Creative Epistemologies and Writing to

Learn,” Atia Sattar, U of Southern California

3. “Collaboration as Knowledge Production,”

Emily Wilson, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

57. Activism in the Humanities: Digital

Projects for Public Engagement

1:45–3:00 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Digital Hu-

manities. Presiding: Mark Sample, DavidsonC

Speakers: Jacqueline Arias, Jersey Art Exchange;

Jim Casey, Prince ton U; Alexander Gil, Colum-

biaU; Purdom Lindblad, U of Maryland, College

Park; Sarah Lynn Patterson, U of Massachusetts,

Amherst; Laila Sakr, U of California, Santa Bar-

bara; JacquelineD. Wernimont, Arizona State U

West; Dennis Yi Tenen, ColumbiaU

Panelists discuss activism through digital hu-

manities projects. Topics include how to engage

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local communities through digital projects, how

to shi from academic work to social and po

litical advocacy, how to introduce issues- oriented

andcommunity- oriented projects to students, and

how to bring together technology with activist work.

For related material, visit lklein .com/ mla- 2018/.

58. Indigenous Literary Security

1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Indigenous

Literatures of the United States and Canada. Pre-

siding: Miriam Brown Spiers, Kennesaw StateU

1. “‘Of Course ey Count, but Not Right Now’:

Regulating (In)Security in Lee Maracle’s Raven

song and Celia’s Song,” Dallas Hunt, U of Manitoba

2. “‘May She Breathe Again’: Western Intrusions

in Native American Literature,” Colton Saylor,

Uof California, Santa Barbara

3. “‘Coming Home through Stories’: Indigenous

Voices in Translation,” Sarah Henzi, U de Montréal

4. “Defending Language Security: Letters from

the Dakota, 1838–78,” Gwen Westerman, Minne-

sota State U, Mankato

59. Eminent Victorians at One Hundred

1:45–3:00 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forums GS Life Writing

and LLC Victorian and Early- 20th- Century En-

glish. Presiding: John Matteson, John Jay C, City U

of New York

1. “Reconstituting Democracy: Strachey, Woolf,

and Modernist National Biography,” Ryan Weber-

ling, BostonU

2. “Lytton Strachey and André Maurois: Eminent

Modernists in Search of the Biographical Truth,”

Floriane Reviron- Piegay, UJean Monnet

3. “Aging Backward: From Strachey’s Victoria to

the Modern Queen,” Gretchen Gerzina, U of Mas-

sachusetts, Amherst

4. “Strachey’s Alternative Facts: Life Writing in

the Face of Modern Catastrophe,” Mallory Cohn,

Indiana U, Bloomington

60. Frankenstein at Two Hundred:

Attachment, Disability, and the

MonstrousBody

1:45–3:00 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Giorgina Paiella, U of

California, Santa Barbara

1. “Just Friends: Frankenstein and the Friend to

Come,” Julie Ann Carlson, U of California, Santa

Barbara

2. “‘Eight Feet in Height, and Proportionably

Large’: e Creature’s Body from omasP. Cooke

to Benedict Cumberbatch,” Elizabeth Denlinger,

New York Public Library

3. “Frankenstein and the Question of Ability,”

Dwight Codr, U of Connecticut, Storrs

61. e 1947 Partition and the South Asian

Diaspora

1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Chandrima

Chakraborty, McMasterU

1. “e Traumatic Legacy of Partition in Bharati

Mukherjee’sJasmine,” RobinE. Field, King’s C, PA

2. “Adapting Partition from Diaspora: From Ice-

Candy Man to Earth,” Madhurima Chakraborty,

Columbia C, IL

3. “Whose Partition? e Critical Reception

of Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House,” Alpana

Sharma, Wright StateU

4. “Partition in the Formation of the South Asian

American Diaspora: Oral Histories in the 1947

Partition Archives,” Nalini Iyer, SeattleU

For related material, visit MLA Commons aer

30Nov.

62. Music Human and Nonhuman before

the Phonograph

1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

A special session

1. “‘I Am Small, like the Wren’: Emily Dickin-

son’s Selected Birdsongs,” Gerard Holmes, U of

Maryland, College Park

2. “oreau’s Democratization of Music, from

Singing Crickets to Dreaming Frogs,” Christina

Katopodis, Graduate Center, City U of New York

3. “‘Haunting My Memory Still’: e Intermi-

nable Echo of Longfellow’s ‘My Lost Youth,’ ” John

Hay, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

63. Latin America and the Arab World

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Tahia Abdel Nasser,

American U in Cairo

Speakers: Sinan Antoon, New York U; ChristinaE.

Civantos, U of Miami; ElizabethM. Holt, Bard C;

Mercedes Alexandra Ortiz Wallner, Humboldt- U

Cultural encounters between Latin America and

the Arab world encompass migration, literature,

translation, and travel. We examine connections

between Arabic and Latin American literature, cul

tural exchange, and translation in critical debates

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on world literature. Topics include the comparative

study of Arabic and Latin American literature, the

legacy of al- Andalus in Latin America, Cold War

literature, and Central American travel literature.

For related material, write to tgnasser@

aucegypt .edu.

64. Poetry and Illustration in British

Romanticism

1:45–3:00 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Wordsworth- Coleridge

Association. Presiding: JamesC. McKusick, U of

Missouri, Kansas City

1. “On Not Reading Blake’s Large Color Prints,”

Joseph Viscomi, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2. “Illustration and Terror: omas Macklin’s

Poets’ Gallery in a Revolutionary Decade,” Ian

Haywood, U of Roehampton

3. “Passing Time in Victorian Illustrations to Ro-

mantic Poetry,” Tom Mole, U of Edinburgh

Respondent: Seamus Perry, U of Oxford, BalliolC

65. Mentoring Workshop for Job Seekers in

Languages

1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the Association of Depart-

ments of Foreign Languages. Presiding: Gary

Bruce Schmidt, Coastal CarolinaU

Speakers: MeganM. Ferry, Union C; MarcL.

Greenberg, U of Kansas; Jacqueline Lerescu, MLA;

Denise McCracken, St. Charles Community C,

MO; Charlotte Ann Melin, U of Minnesota, Twin

Cities; William Nichols, Georgia State U; SaraJ.

Ogger, Humanities New York; Ming- Bao Yue, U of

Hawai‘i, Mānoa

is workshop oers small- group mentoring on

the job search—inside and outside the academy—

focusing on applying to and working in dierent

types of institutions; preparing a dossier; Skype,

convention, and on- campus interviews; and non-

academic humanities career paths. is mentoring

workshop is not intended to replace one- on- one

job counseling that can be scheduled at other

times during the convention.

66. States of Insecurity: Digital Writing in

the Post–2016 Election Era

1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum RCWS Writing Ped-

agogies. Presiding: Bonnie Lenore Kyburz, LewisU

1. “Plagues of Misinformation,” Katherine

Gaudet, U of New Hampshire, Durham

2. “Games Trolls Play: Lessons from GamerGate

for the Age of Trump,” Anastasia Salter, U of Cen-

tral Florida

3. “How Do Facts Matter Now? Teaching Stu-

dents How to Analyze the Digital Public Sphere,”

Philip Longo, U of California, Santa Cruz

4. “Public Selves and Political Commentary:

Digital Danger and Identity,” MonicaF. Jacobe,

Cof New Jersey

67. Language Learning, Identity, and

Intercultural Understanding

1:45–3:00 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Applied Lin-

guistics. Presiding: Mary Wildner- Bassett, U of

Arizona

1. “Teaching Migration and Minorities in Ger-

man as a Foreign Language,” Bala Venkat Mani,

Uof Wisconsin, Madison

2. “Shiing Perspectives: Teaching and Learn-

ing for Intercultural Understanding in the Lan-

guage Curriculum,” KenricK. Tsethlikai, U of

Pennsylvania

68. New Realisms aer Postmodernism and

Poststructuralism

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Monika Kaup, U of

Washington, Seattle

1. “‘e Detritus of His Childhood’: Toward an

Object eory of Trauma,” Chet Lisiecki, Colo-

radoC

2. “Tom Wolfe and Conservative Realism,” Jerey

Lawrence, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

3. “Decolonial Ontologies: Rebellious Object

Worlds in Late- Twentieth- Century Multiethnic

United States Literature,” Anne Stewart, U of

Texas, Austin

4. “New Ecological Realisms in Contemporary

eory and Postapocalyptic Narrative,” Monika

Kaup

69. Queer Faith, Queer Love

1:45–3:00 p.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Religion and

Literature

1. “Abundant Life and Metactional Aplomb:

Deployments of Christianity in Queer Popular

Romance Fiction,” Eric Selinger, DePaulU

2. “Jeremy Bentham’s Queer Christ,” Carrie

Shanafelt, Fairleigh Dickinson U, Teaneck

3. “Queer Potentiality and the Mystical Text,”

Kris Jonathan Trujillo, FordhamU

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4. “Joy and Jouissance: Mystical eology and the

Ecstatic Politics of Leo Bersani,” Justin Crisp, YaleU

70. e Circuitous Path into Higher

Administration

1:45–3:00 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center.

Presiding: DonaldE. Hall, LehighU

Speakers: PatriciaR. Campbell, Pasco- Hernando

State C; WilliamA. Cohen, U of Maryland, Col-

lege Park; DavidE. García, Carthage C; James Sw-

enson, Jr., Rutgers U, New Brunswick; JeniferK.

Ward, Centenary C of Louisiana

Administrators from a range of institutional types

discuss the sometimes surprising road they took

to their positions as deans and provosts. Open

discussion on the joys and frustrations of a career

in higher administration follows.

71. Women Writers in the Long

NineteenthCentury

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Luso-

Brazilian. Presiding: Cesar Braga- Pinto, North-

westernU

1. “(Re)Reading the Gothic in Antonia Gertrudes

Pusich,” Rebecca Jones- Kellogg, United States

Military Acad.

2. “Maria Firmina dos Reis e a crítica: A que

ponto chegamos?” Paulo Dutra, StephenF. Austin

StateU

3. “Ana Plácido, Autobiography, and Literary

Legacy,” EstelaJ. Vieira, Indiana U, Bloomington

4. “Two Reasons for Not Reading: e Writer and

the Housewife in Júlia Lopes de Almeida,” Cintia

Vezzani, NorthwesternU

72. Science and Technology in Cervantes

1:45–3:00 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the Cervantes Society of

America. Presiding: CarolynA. Nadeau, Illinois

WesleyanU

1. “‘What Will Be Seen ere’: e Science of See-

ing in Cervantes and Ibn Al- Haythem,” Eli Cohen,

SwarthmoreC

2. “Navigation, Cosmography, and Empire in the

Persiles,” CoryA. Reed, U of Texas, Austin

3. “Cervantes’s Contribution in Don Quixote to

Renaissance eories of Emotion and Develop-

ment,” Isabel Jaén- Portillo, Portland StateU

4. “Cervantes as a Cognitive Scientist: Don Qui-

xote’s and Amadís of Gaul’s Roles in the Evolution

of the Human Mind through Carnival, Concep-

tual Metaphors, and Embodied Cognition,” Felipe

Fiuza, East Tennessee StateU

73. Revisiting Typographical Interventions

1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

A special session

1. “e Spiritual Umlaut: Punctuation in San

Ignacio de Loyola’s Diario espiritual,” Dale Shuger,

TulaneU

2. “Apollinaire’s Spaces,” Jeanne Etelain, New

YorkU

3. “Rendering Commas: Milos Crnjanski’s Seobe

in Michael Henry Heim’s Translation into En-

glish,” Visnja Krstic, U of Belgrade

For related material, visit loloskibg .academia

.edu/ VisnjaKrstic.

74. Ethnic Joking in Comparative

Perspective

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Slavic and

East European and LLC Yiddish. Presiding: In-

draA. Levy, StanfordU

1. “From Vitality to Languor: Changes in the De-

piction of Shiraz and Its Inhabitants from the Pre-

modern Period to Today,” Dominic Brookshaw,

Oriental Inst.

2. “Cruel Jokes for Crueler Times,” Benjamin Pal-

o, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “Jewish Jokes at the End of Meaning: Gordon

Lish’s Extravaganza,” Josh Lambert, U of Massa-

chusetts, Amherst

Respondent: Gabriella Safran, StanfordU

75. Transmediality in Italian Culture

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century Italian. Presiding: Paola Bonifazio,

Uof Texas, Austin

1. “Transformations of the Common Man in

World War II: From Cinema and Documentary

to Radio and Press,” Paola Gambarota, Rutgers U,

New Brunswick

2. “Eni’s Transmedia Approach: Oil and Business

in the Italian Economic Miracle,” Luca Peretti,

YaleU

3. “e Transmediality of Il piccolo mondo: Don

Camillo from Guareschi to Duvivier (and Du-

vivier), Sequential Art, and Beyond,” Felice Italo

Beneduce, Columbia U; Patrizia Palumbo, Colum-

biaU

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76. Wounded Cultures of the Twenty-

FirstCentury

1:45–3:00 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Steven Marsh, U of Il-

linois, Chicago

1. “Where Are the Children? Rereading Cul-

tura herida in the Age of Spoliation,” TeresaM.

Vilarós, Texas A&M U, College Station

2. “Remembering and Deferring Cultura her-

ida’s Fidelity to Psychoanalysis,” Julian Daniel

Gutierrez- Albilla, U of Southern California

3. “Cinematic Politics of Wounding in Spanish

Neoliberalism,” Rachel ten Haaf, U of Arkansas,

Fayetteville

4. “Photography’s Wound,” PatriciaM. Keller,

CornellU

Respondent: Cristina Moreiras- Menor, U of Michi-

gan, Ann Arbor

77. New Philology, Media Ecology

1:45–3:00 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS 18th-

Century and the Goethe Society of North America

1. “Hypertexting the Late Hymns: Hölderlin,

Philology, and the Possibilities of New Media,”

Anthony Curtis Adler, YonseiU

2. “Mobile Print, Stationery Shops: e Business

of Paper and the Early- Nineteenth- Century Peri-

odical Landscape,” SeanB. Franzel, U of Missouri,

Columbia

3. “Practicing Media Philology in Germany and

America around 1800,” Ulrike Wagner, Bard C,

Berlin

Respondent: NicholasA. Rennie, Rutgers U, New

Brunswick

78. Hawthorne and ings

1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Nathaniel Hawthorne

Society. Presiding: Charles Eaton Baraw, Southern

Connecticut StateU

1. “Fabrications,” LoriA. Merish, GeorgetownU

2. “Hawthorne’s Houses as Material Culture,”

Erin Sweeney, U of California, Irvine

3. “A Is for Archive: (Un)Dead ings in Haw-

thorne’s ‘Custom- House,’” Lindsay DiCuirci, U of

Maryland, Baltimore

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/.

79. Rethinking Paul de Man

1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Society for Critical Ex-

change. Presiding: JereyR. Di Leo, U of Houston

1. “A Return to ‘e Return to Philology’; or, I

Profess,” Martin McQuillan, KingstonU

2. “De Man’s Negativity,” Lee Edelman, TusU

3. “Paul de Man’s Romantic Materialities,” Tom

Eyers, DuquesneU

4. “Unseen Crystal: De Manian Materiality and

the Digital Future of ‘Inscription,’” Avery Slater,

Uof Toronto

Respondent: Ian Balfour, YorkU

80. Consulting on the En glish Major in Its

Departmental Context

1:45–3:00 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Association of Depart-

ments of En glish Ad Hoc Committee. Presiding:

Doug Steward, MLA

Speakers: SarahE. Chinn, Hunter C, City U of

New York; Dolan Hubbard, Morgan State U; Su-

san Miller, Santa Fe C; Tarshia Stanley, Spelman

C; KarinE. Westman, Kansas StateU

Members of the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on the

En glish Major and the ADE Ad Hoc Committee to

Design an ADE Consultancy Service discuss their

work on the En glish major and what departments

desire from a consultancy service as they examine

their enrollments, curriculum design, faculty gov-

ernance, and strategic planning.

81. Gender and Medieval Refugees

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the Society for Medieval

Feminist Scholarship. Presiding: Dorothy Kim,

VassarC

1. “‘For Chaunged Was His Hewe’: Catalytic (Fe-

male) Refugees in (Male) Conversion Narratives,”

CatherineS. Cox, U of Pittsburgh

2. “‘To Love Him at Unknowen Is’: Dido’s De-

sire and Mediterranean Hospitality in e House

of Fame and e Legend of Good Women,” Sara

Torres, Medieval Acad. of America

3. “Reconceptualizing the Figure of the Refugee

through Constance in the Confessio Amantis,”

Shyama Rajendran, George WashingtonU

For related material, visit smfs .org aer 1Jan.

82. Other Archives: West Asian Contexts

1:45–3:00 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC West Asian.

Presiding: VeliN. Yashin, U of Southern California

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1. “Enemy of the State: State Violence in its Cin-

ematic Subversions in Postrevolutionary Iran,”

Shabnam Piryaei, U of California, Riverside

2. “Archives of Ethical Selves: Returning to the

Seventh Day,” Shir Alon, U of California, Los An-

geles

3. “e Egyptian Novel and the Police,” Emily

Drumsta, BrownU

4. “‘Signaling with Two Hands’: A Poetic Ar-

chive,” Jerey Sacks, U of California, Riverside

Thursday, 4 January

3:30 p.m.

83. Service Learning in Teaching Spanish

Language

3:30–4:45 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Romance

Linguistics. Presiding: M. Emma Ticio Quesada,

SyracuseU

1. “Language in Action at Syracuse University,”

M. Emma Ticio Quesada

2. “Evaluation in Service- Learning Language

Courses,” Carla Suhr, U of California, Los Angeles

3. “Comparative Study of Spanish and En glish

through Service Learning,” Svetlana Tyutina,

California State U, Northridge

4. “Applied Romance: Integrating Service Learn-

ing into Health- Care Interpreting,” Marko Milet-

ich, Texas A&M U, College Station

84. Anthropocene Reading

3:30–4:45 p.m., Regent, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Tobias Coyote Menely,

U of California, Davis

Speakers: Jerey Cohen, George Washington U;

Anne- Lise François, U of California, Berkeley;

Matt Hooley, Clemson U; Dana Luciano, George-

town U; Jesse Oak Taylor, U of Washington, Se-

attle; Derek Woods, DartmouthC

is session considers how dierent practices of

critical reading—symptomatic and surface, for-

malist and materialist, philological and computa-

tional—facilitate approaches to literary studies in

the Anthropocene.

85. How to Get Published

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the Council of Editors of

Learned Journals. Presiding: JanineM. Utell, Wid-

enerU

Speakers: Michael Tavel Clarke, U of Calgary;

Nora Gilbert, U of North Texas; FayeS. Halpern,

U of Calgary; James Phelan, Ohio State U, Colum-

bus; Elsie Walker, U of Salisbury

Directed at graduate students and the recently

hired, this session aims to demystify the process

of publishing in scholarly journals. Experienced

editors from an array of journals—ARIEL,Studies

in the Novel,Narrative, andLiterature/ Film Quar-

terly—oer multiple perspectives.

86. e Archive and the Repertoire at Fieen

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum GS Drama and

Performance. Presiding: Shane Vogel, Indiana U,

Bloomington

Speakers: LauraG. Gutiérrez, U of Texas, Austin;

Diana Taylor, New York U; SarahJ. Townsend,

Penn State U, University Park; Harvey Young,

NorthwesternU

On the occasion of the eenth anniversary of Diana

Taylor’s inuentialbooke Archive and the Reper

toire, panelistsreect on methodological, theoretical,

and historical developments in the eld of perfor

mance studies. Ten- minute reections on the terrain

opened up by this book, drawing on presenters’cur

rent research, are followed by a response by Taylor.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ drama- and- performance/.

87. Shakespeare and the 99%

3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Timothy Francisco,

Youngstown StateU

1. “Identication and Alienation,” Denise Alba-

nese, George MasonU

2. “Who Did Kill Shakespeare?” Sharon O’Dair,

U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

3. “How the 1% Came to Rule the World: Shake-

speare, Metanarrative, and the Origins of Capital-

ism,” Daniel Vitkus, U of California, San Diego

For related material, write to sodair@ ua .edu aer

1Dec.

88. Tr anspar ent: Opacities of Space and Time

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum MS Screen Arts

and Culture. Presiding: SiobhanS. Craig, U of

Minnesota, Twin Cities

1. “e Pfamily Pfeerman: Revelations and

Revolutions in Jill Soloway’s Transparent,” Katelyn

Cunningham, Pasadena CityC

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2. “Postmemory Time Slips and Queer Identity in

Transparent,” Nichole Neuman, Kansas StateU

3. “Orientation Devices and Queer Lineage in Solo-

way’s Transparent,” Erin Schlumpf, Ohio U, Athens

4. “Intersecting Jewish and Transgender Identi-

ties in Jill Soloway’s Transparent,” Kerstin Steitz,

Old DominionU

89. e Humanities and Public Policy

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Executive Council.

Presiding: GauravG. Desai, U of Michigan, Ann

Arbor

Speakers: William Adams, Mellon Foundation;

Earl Lewis, Mellon Foundation; Lynn Pasquerella,

Assn. of American Colleges and Universities

Participants address the current challenges that

the humanities face in terms of funding and sup-

port. How can the humanities become more cen-

tral to matters of public policy?

90. Trans Studies and Disability Studies

3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Disability

Studies. Presiding: Cynthia Wu, U at Bualo,State

U of New York

Speakers: Cassius Adair, U of Michigan, Ann Ar-

bor; Cameron Awkward- Rich, Stanford U; Eliza-

beth Skwiot, Ashford U; Xeno Washburne, U of

Michigan, Ann Arbor

Panelists pose questions and possibilities for how

the elds of trans studies and disability studies

might speak to each other. How might our joint

critiques talk back to the medical pathologization

of trans and disabled bodies? How can existing

concepts of time, capital, and teleology reframe

discussions about trans and disabled identities?

What are the political ecacies and limits of

choice, agency, and visibility?

91. Terms of Employment: Gender and

Negotiations

3:30–4:45 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the

Status of Women in the Profession and the MLA

Committee on Community Colleges

Speakers: Heidi Bostic, U of New Hampshire, Dur-

ham; PatriciaR. Campbell, Pasco- Hernando StateC

Panelists oer a master class on negotiating styles

and strategies that best serve academics identify-

ing as women in their eorts to improve salary

and other conditions of current or prospective em-

ployment. Facilitated by women who are experi-

enced deans and seasoned negotiators, the session

arms attendees with practical advice and eective

techniques for navigating common gendered ob-

stacles to successful negotiations.

92. Joy: inking/ Feeling

3:30–4:45 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Occitan.

Presiding: Elizabeth Hebbard, YaleU

1. “Toward Nondualism: e Ambiguity of Joi

in the Occitan Alba, from the Sexual to the Spiri-

tual,” Humberto González Chávez, New YorkU

2. “Feeling ought: Temporality and Contin-

gency in Troubadour Love Songs,” Emily Kate

Price, New YorkU

3. “e Joy of Consent: Feeling Together,” Juliet

O’Brien, U of British Columbia

93. Hurricanes in Literatures of the United

States and Cuba: Ecocritical Approaches to

Tropical Storms

3:30–4:45 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: CharlotteW. Rogers,

U of Virginia

1. “Hurricanes and Caribbean Sovereignty: A

Short Tour,” Marilyn Grace Miller, TulaneU

2. “Lafcadio Hearn and Disaster Creolization,”

Erica Stevens, Penn State U, University Park

3. “Archipelagic Diaspora, Geographic Form, and

the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane,” Brian Russell

Roberts, Brigham Young U, UT

4. “Huracán, dios de la revolución,” Antonio José

Ponte, Diario de Cuba

94. Research and the MLA International

Bibliography: From Scholarly Insecurities to

Published Citations

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the Advisory Committee

on the MLA International Bibliography. Presiding:

Barbara Chen, MLA

Speakers: Gregory Grazevich, MLA; Mary On-

orato, MLA

What strategies doesour intellectual, artistic,

and pedagogical work in the humanities oer for

navigating the crises of our time?e discussion

explores how the MLA International Bibliography

has reected, and responded to, “scholarly insecu-

rities” of the past and what this might tell us about

potential strategies in confronting the insecurities

of the present.

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95. British Working- Class Literature:

Intersections of Space and Class in

Twentieth- and Twenty- First- Century Fiction

3:30–4:45 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Simon Lee, U of Cali-

fornia, Riverside

1. “‘Low Tastes’: John Braine, Drinking, and Class,”

Ben Clarke, U of North Carolina, Greensboro

2. “Resisting Nostalgia for Proletarian Spaces:

Gordon Burn’s e North of En gland Home Ser-

vice,” Nick Hubble, BrunelU

3. “Narratives of Working- Class Space in Martin

Amis’s Lionel Asbo and Ross Raisin’s Waterline,”

Nick Bentley, KeeleU

96. Big History in the American Century

3:30–4:45 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Timescapes in the Art of Robert Smithson,”

Jessica Prinz, Ohio State U, Columbus

2. “ ‘Outside Is Inside’: Big History, Modernism,

and Imperial Form,” Stephen Pasqualina, U of

Southern California

3. “James Michener’s Hawaii and Native Sover-

eignty in the Age of Trump,” Eric Strand, LingnanU

For related material, write to spasqual@ usc .edu

aer 20Dec.

97. Contemplation of Keywords:

Celebrating the Rhetoric Society of

America’s Fiieth Anniversary

3:30–4:45 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Rhetoric Society of

America

1. “Contemplating and Selecting Rhetoric’s Key-

words,” Michelle Ballif, U of Georgia

2. “e Digital,” JamesJ. Brown, Jr., Rutgers U,

Camden

3. “Memory,” Bradford Vivian, Penn State U,

University Park

98. World Languages and Humanities

Majors: Career Trajectories and Advocacy

3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Oce of Pro-

grams. Presiding: Gilles Bousquet, U of Wisconsin,

Madison

Speakers: Teresa Fiore, Montclair State U; MarcL.

Greenberg, U of Kansas; RobertI. Matz, George

Mason U; Dianna Murphy, U of Wisconsin, Madi-

son; Caitlin Yocco- Locascio, U of Wisconsin,

Madison

is session aims to demonstrate strategies to

advocate for world languages on and o campus.

Presenters use their research ofLinkedIn and

other platforms to show how world languages and

humanities majors lead to relevant careers and

how career trajectories of their alumni can serve

as a bridge to advocate with key stakeholders and

serve as a reective tool to evolve curricula.

99. “Alternative Facts” and Fictions:

Multiplicity and Indeterminacy in the

Aermath of the 2016 Presidential Election

3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: David Ben- Merre,

Bualo State C, State U of New York

Speakers: Barish Ali, Bualo State C,State U of

New York; Bruce Krajewski, U of Texas, Arling-

ton; Naomi Iliana Mandel, U of Rhode Island;

DebrahK. Raschke, Southeast Missouri State U;

Edward Simon, LehighU

rough dierent lenses (theoretical, national,

rhetorical, disciplinary, media), panelists recon-

sider the theory debates of the 1980s and aer in

the light of the 2016 United States presidential

election. Is indeterminacy responsible for this new

world of “post- fact” or “post- truth”?Is poststruc-

turalist decentering somehow complicit in the rise

of “alternative facts” of recent newspeak, or does it

oer a critical bulwark against it?

100. oreau and Material Culture

3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the oreau Society

1. “Reading oreau’s Specimens,” Reed Goch-

berg, HarvardU

2. “Listening for oreau’s Flute,” John Elder,

MiddleburyC

3. “e oreau Pencil: A New Look at Sources

and Composition,” Henrik Otterberg, Kagaku

Analys AB

For related material, visit www .thoreausociety .org/

events aer 1Dec.

101. Careers beyond the Professoriat for

Humanities PhDs: e Employer Perspective

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Connected Aca-

demics Project. Presiding: John Paul Christy,

American Council of Learned Societies

Speakers: Alison Cuddy, Chicago Humanities

Festival; Rebekah Krell, San Francisco Arts Com-

mission; Deirdre Ryan, ITHAKA; Clovis orn,

Grand Street Settlement

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e Mellon/ ACLS Public Fellows program has

placed 125 recent humanities PhDs in two- year

fellowships with government and nonprot orga-

nizations. is session convenes senior managers

from the cultural, policy, social service, and digi-

tal media sectors who worked closely with Public

Fellows with PhDs in modern languages. Panelists

discuss their experiences and review some of the

challenges and opportunities facing PhDs as they

explore nonacademic careers.

102. Insecure Periodicals

3:30–4:45 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

A special session

Speakers: Jim Casey, Prince ton U; Eurie Dahn,

Cof St. Rose; Benjamin Fagan, Auburn U, Au-

burn; BrooksE. Hefner, James Madison U; Sarah

Salter, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi; DerrickR.

Spires, U of Illinois, Urbana; Rochelle Zuck, U of

Minnesota, Duluth

is session promotes conversations about how pe-

riodicals—and, in particular, ethnic periodicals in

the Americas—respond to and embody particular

“states of insecurity” in the American historical and

sociopolitical landscape and in the academy at large.

103. Carceral States of Exception and

Insecurity

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Race and Eth-

nicity Studies. Presiding: Ruby Tapia, U of Michi-

gan, Ann Arbor

1. “Dreaming America: A Poetics from Undocu-

mented, Unaccompanied Youth in Maximum-

Security Detention,” Seth Michelson, Washington

and LeeU

2. “Prison Literature, Prison Crisis, and Aboli-

tionist Reading,” Anoop Mirpuri, Portland StateU

3. “Siberia USA: Decolonization, Sovereignty, and

the Specter of White Incarceration,” Hadji Bakara,

U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

4. “States of Asylum: Suspended Lives as Invis-

ible Carcerality,” JuttaM. Gsoels- Lorensen, Penn

StateU, Altoona

104. Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism

at Twenty- Five

3:30–4:45 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TM Literary Crit-

icism. Presiding: Robert Tally, Texas StateU

Speakers: Peter James Hitchcock, Baruch C, City U

of New York; Kathryn Lachman, U of Massachu-

setts, Amherst; Christopher Langlois, McGill U;

Haerin Shin, Vanderbilt U; Harold Aram Veeser,

Graduate Center, City U of New York; ZahiA.

Zalloua, WhitmanC

e year 2018 marks the twenty- h anniversary

of Said’s Culture and Imperialismas well as the

fortieth anniversary of his Orientalism. e di-

verse group of speakers, representing dierent lin-

guistic traditions, geographic areas, and historical

experiences, examine Said’s texts and the rami-

cations of his work on postcolonial thought, area

studies, comparative literature, critical theory, and

the humanities.

For related material, write to robert .tally@ txstate

.edu aer 1Dec.

105. Asian (American) Utopias and Dystopias

3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Christopher Fan, U of

California, Irvine

Speakers: Kara Hisatake, U of California, Santa

Cruz; Derek Lee, Penn State U, University Park;

Andrew Way Leong, Northwestern U; Erin Khue

Ninh, U of California, Santa Barbara; Jennifer

Wang, BrownU

As a reaction- formation to one of the rst travel

bans in United States history and other acts of ex-

clusion, the Asian American political imagination

oers ways to more sharply diagnose our present

dystopian moment.Panelists discuss how Asian

American speculative narratives (sci- , alternate

history, etc.) might help us to think through an

intensifying conict between liberalism’s utopian

rhetoric and its dystopian realities and to imagine

alternative futures.

106. e Sephardim and the City

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Sephardic.

Presiding: Nohemy Solórzano- ompson, West-

minsterC

1. “From the Orient to the West: Shaping Se-

phar dic Identity in Albert Cohen’s Works,” Ruth

Malka, McGillU

2. “Mapping A. B. Yehoshua’s Multicultural Jeru-

salem,” Yael Halevi- Wise, McGillU

3. “Nonplace aer Destruction: Sinera and Se-

pha rad in the Work of Salvador Espriu,” TeresaM.

Vilarós, Texas A&M U, College Station

4. “e Sephardic Sense of Place(s) in Shalach

Manot’s His Hundred Years, a Tale,” GloriaJ.

Ascher, TusU

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Respondent: Nohemy Solórzano- ompson

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ sephardic/ forum/ topic/ mla- 2018- cfp- 2/.

107. Citizenship

3:30–4:45 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Chaucer. Pre

siding: Catherine Sanok, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. “eorizing Jewish Citizenship between 1275

and 1290: Meirb. Elijah of Norwich, a Case

Study,” Miriamne Ara Krummel, U of Dayton

2. “Cecilian Polity: Citizenship and Poetry in the

Second Nun’s Tale,” Zachary Stone, U of Virginia

3. “‘Passyng Straunge’: Bilingual Poetics and

Contingent Belonging in Charles d’Orléans,”

Jonathan Hsy, George WashingtonU

108. e Internet of Everything: African

Literature in a Digital Age

3:30–4:45 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Olorunshola Aden-

ekan, U of Bremen

1. “Digital Networks and eir (Dis)Contents:

Articulating Instability through Online African

Writing,” Olorunshola Adenekan

2. “Collaborative Social Media Networking and

Satire in Ghana—My Book of #GHCoats and Flash

Fiction Ghana,” Kwabena Opoku- Agyemang,

West Virginia U, Morgantown

3. “Digital Providence: Serendipity and Self-

Fashioning in the Work of Adaobi Nwaubani, Chi-

mamanda Adichie, and Binyanvanga Wainaina,”

Rhonda Cobham- Sander, AmherstC

109. Empowering All Students of German

3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Association

of Teachers of German. Presiding: Susanne Rinner,

Uof North Carolina, Greensboro

Speakers: Regine Criser, U of North Carolina,

Asheville; Ervin Malakaj, Sam Houston State U;

Marianna Ryshina- Pankova, GeorgetownU

How do the theoretical and methodological

concepts that inform current scholarship in Ger-

man studies shape pedagogical approaches? How

do critical pedagogies create inclusive learning

environments that allow all students, including

the most vulnerable populations, to thrive? How

do academic inquiry and public discourse about

diversity, human rights, and social justice change

our eld and its pedagogy—from trigger warnings

to inclusion of all students?

110. Walking the Walk: Romantic Writing

on the Trail

3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Ashton Nichols, Dick-

insonC

1. “‘Over the Sea to Skye’: Dr. Johnson and

Words worth on Dun Cann,” Ashton Nichols

2. “Lucy on the Trail with Violets,” Alan Richard-

son, BostonC

3. “e Innite Helix: Walking Spiral Jetty with

Coleridge,” Debbie Lee, Washington State U,

Pullman

4. “Walking through and to Enlightenment,”

Mark Lussier, Arizona StateU

111. Writing New York: e Other Boroughs

(Staten Island, the Bronx, Queens)

3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the Community College

Humanities Association. Presiding: George Louis

Scheper, Johns Hopkins U, MD

1. “Anna McClure Sholl and the Early Staten

Island Novel,” Frederick Wegener, California

StateU, Long Beach

2. “Returning to the Bronx: Homosexuality

and Coming of Age in Chulito and Juliet Takes a

Breath,” GriselY. Acosta, Bronx Community C,

City U of New York

3. “Spaces of Belonging and Exclusion in Irina

Reyn’s What Happened to Anna K.,” Marta Bladek,

John Jay C, City U of New York

4. “‘Someplace in Queens’: Novels of Not-

Knowing New York,” NicoleB. Wallack, Colum-

biaU

For related material, write to gscheper@ jhu .edu

aer 1Dec.

112. Transcultural Flows in Modern China

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC East Asian.

Presiding: Geraldine Fiss, U of Southern California

1. “Flagging the Greek Tradition in Modern

China: Wu Mi and the Critical Review School,”

Jingling Chen, MiddleburyC

2. “Monster Machines and the Matriarch: Wen

Yiduo’s Ecofeminist Turn in Chicago (1922–23),”

Liansu Meng, U of Connecticut, Storrs

3. “Transcultural Narratives: Circulation of Black

Literature in Twentieth- Century China,” Keisha

Brown, Tennessee StateU

4. “Rilke in China Today: A Look at a Poetic

Transference of Ideas,” Geraldine Fiss

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113. Implementation Stories: Successes and

Struggles in Digital Programming

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

A special session

Speakers: Sonia Chaidez, Whittier C; Anne Cong-

Huyen, Whittier C; Ellen MacKay, U of Chicago;

Angel David Nieves, Hamilton C; Marisa Parham,

Amherst C; JacquelineD. Wernimont, Arizona

State U West

e successes and hazards of noncurricular digital

humanities programming are seldom publicly

aired, yet sta, fellows, and directors at DH insti-

tutes face the same steep challenges.Our hope is

that by laying bare the best and worst aspects of

our programming’s implementation we will make

our experiences portable for other DH institute

members, learn from the suggestions of the audi-

ence, and enlarge the place of the human in the

digital humanities.

114. Historicizing Forms and Spaces ofRefuge

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC History and

Literature. Presiding: Marguerite Helen Helmers,

U of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

1. “Migration, Extinction, and the American

Novel,” Tony McGowan, United States Military

Acad.

2. “Night as Refuge in Antebellum Slavery Narra-

tives,” Sarah Cullen, Trinity C Dublin

3. “‘e War Was Over, Except...’: Mothers as

War Memorials in Mrs. Dalloway,” Rebecca Che-

noweth, U of California, Santa Barbara

4. “‘A Sea- Change’: Shipboard Space, Shipboard

Documents, and Interstitial Possibility,” Nissa

Cannon, U of California, Santa Barbara

115. Vernacular Emotions and Women’s

Poetry of the Renaissance: Vittoria

Colonna, Marguerite de Navarre, Gabrielle

de Coignard, and Luisa de Sigea

3:30–4:45 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: ChristinaH. Lee,

Prince tonU

1. “High and Low, Emotion and Passion in Vit-

toria Colonna’s Spiritual Canzoniere,” SarahE.

Christopher Faggioli, VillanovaU

2. “Self- Eacement and Self- Assertion in Devo-

tional Poetry by French Renaissance Women,”

Corinne Bayerl, U of Oregon

3. “Switching from Latin to Castilian: e Dialec-

tics of Strength and Weakness in Luisa de Sigea’s

Poetry,” Carmela Mattza, Louisiana State U &

A&MC

For related material, write to v.carmela@ gmail .com.

116. Poetry Books in Multiple Versions:

Editorial, Critical, and Pedagogical Issues

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Juliette Utard, U of

Paris 4, Sorbonne

1. “Will the RealT. S. Eliot Please Stand Up? Po-

ems (1920) versus Ara Vos Prec,” Michelle Taylor,

HarvardU

2. “Violence and Memory in the Multiple Ver-

sions of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen,” John Young,

MarshallU

3. “Poetry Books, School Anthologies, and Cul-

tural Transmission,” Julie Blake, CambridgeU

For related material, write to juliette .utard@

gmail .com.

117. Literature as Liberatory Praxis:

Women- of- Color Aesthetics, Pedagogy, and

Social Justice

3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Eden Osucha, BatesC

1. “How to Begin Is Also Where: Placemaking

Pedagogy in June Jordan’s His Own Where,” Dan-

ica Savonick, Graduate Center, City U of New York

2. “e Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How

e Little School Teaches Us to Be Ethical Learn-

ers,” Molly Appel, Penn State U, University Park

3. “What Assata Taught Me: Witnessing and Sus-

taining in the Wake of Racial Violence,” Tamara

Butler, Michigan StateU

Respondent: Eden Osucha

For related material, visit danicasavonick .com/

aer 1Dec.

118. Organicisms: Organizations

3:30–4:45 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Romantic

and 19th- Century. P residing: Stefani Engelstein,

DukeU

1. “Life in the Hunterian: Plaster, Chalk, Glass,

Flesh,” DahliaJ. Porter, U of Glasgow

2. “Musical Form, Organicism, and the Question

of Program,” Adrian Daub, StanfordU

3. “e Physiology of the Multitude,” David

Womble, U of Chicago

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4. “e Birth ofBio- politics: From Race War to

the Imperial Nation- State,” Nasser Mui, U of Il-

linois, Chicago

119. Édouard Glissant beyond Walls

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Francesca Canade

Sautman, Hunter C, City U of New York

Speakers: Neal Allar, Tsinghua U; Hamid Bahri,

York C, City U of New York; Mohit Chandna,

En glish and Foreign Languages U; Paul Fadoul,

Queens C, City U of New York; KaiamaL. Glover,

Barnard C; Sylvie Kande, State U of New York,

Old Westbury; Sophie Marinez, Borough of Man-

hattan Community C, City U of New York

is session considers Édouard Glissant’s ideas for

a more secure, egalitarian, open world for peoples:

how his work helps identify and abolish hierarchi-

cal constructions of race and gender that literature

spreads, how to erase the divide between Western

and non- Western authors, how to transition from

“francophone” to “world literature in French,” and

how those goals can be achieved in the classroom.

120. Early Modern Spain and the Pacic

World: Writing on the Edge of Empire

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th- and

17th- Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and

Prose. Presiding: AnaM. Rodríguez- Rodríguez,

Uof Iowa

1. “Against O’Gorman: e Spanish Pacic Remaps

the Atlantic World,” Ricardo Padrón, U of Virginia

2. “eatrical Martyrdoms at the Edges of Em-

pire: Lope’s Los mártires de Japón,” Ben Post, Mur-

ray StateU

3. “Southeast Asia Unhinged: e Fraught Cas-

tilianization of the Portuguese Conquest of Pegu,”

Rachel Stein, ColumbiaU

120A. Twenty- First- Century Ireland:

Culture and Critique

3:30–4:45 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Irish. Presid-

ing: MaryM. Burke, U of Connecticut, Storrs

Speakers: AbbyS. Bender, C of Mount St. Vincent;

Claire Bracken, Union C; MaryM. Burke; Tara

Harney- Mahajan, LIT: Literature Interpretation

heory; Lucy McDiarmid, Montclair State U;

MaryM. McGlynn, Baruch C, City U of New York

Uncertainties of twenty- rst- century Ireland are

traceable to its twentieth- century history: Roman

Catholic control of women’s bodies and the aban-

donment of 1916’s socialism and feminism.

For related material, visit www .academia .edu/

34021099/ Irish_ panel_ MLA_2018_21st- c._ Ireland

- Culture_ and_ Critique_ ABSTRACTS_ and_ BIOS_.

Thursday, 4 January

5:15 p.m.

121. Destabilizing Folklore: Cultural

Production in Moments of Insecurity

5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the American Folklore

Society. Presiding: James Deutsch, Smithsonian

Institution

1. “‘e Rebellious Underground’: Lomax, Hen-

derson, Lloyd, and the Conception of the Radical

Folklorist in the Mid–Twentieth Century,” Corey

Gibson, U of Groningen

2. “Folk the Police: Blues Song Response to Law

Enforcement in the Black Community during the

Era of Jim Crow,” Mark Allan Jackson, Middle

Tennessee StateU

3. “From Fox to Goldilocks: e Reformations of

a Folktale,” Shuli Barzilai, Hebrew U of Jerusalem

122. Strips of Modernity: Aect, Labor, and

Identity in Early Comics

5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: HillaryL. Chute,

NortheasternU

1. “‘ings Are Going to Be Bad!’: e Emergence

of the Working Woman in the Early Comic Strip,”

Ksenia Sidorenko, YaleU

2. “A Battle of Wills: e Woodcut Novel and the

Politics of Form,” Olivia Badoi, FordhamU

3. “e Queer Tortured State of Prince Valiant,”

Eyal Amiran, U of California, Irvine

Respondents: Nhora Lucia Serrano, Hamilton C;

Michael Tisserand, author

123. Literary Studies Today: What Is to Be

Done? On Literary Criticism: A Concise

Political History

5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Patrick Redding,

ManhattanvilleC

Speakers: Mark Greif, New School; Christopher

Nealon, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Joseph North,

YaleU; Alexandra Perisic, U of Miami; C. Nam-

wali Serpell, U of California, Berkeley

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In Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History,

Joseph North claims that mainstream literary stud

ies now operates on the basis of a “historicist/ con

textualist paradigm,” which is enabling for literary

scholarship but disabling for literary criticism. Is

this true? And what are the political implications

if it is? Panelists explore the methodological and

political implications of North’s claims.

124. Graduate Student Futures

5:15–6:30 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Vanessa Doriott An-

derson, North Carolina StateU

Speakers: Vanessa Doriott Anderson; Alain-

Philippe Durand, U of Arizona; MonicaF. Jacobe,

C of New Jersey; Rebbecca Kaplan, Emory U; Sha-

ron O’Dair, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Traditionally, PhD programs have prepared stu-

dents for one career path: the tenure track. Facing

the reality that the number of tenure- track posi-

tions has decreased and that many contingent

positions are nancially and personally unsustain-

able, this session addresses the need to prepare

students for a broader range of careers. Panelists

explore curricular and noncurricular enhance-

ments that prepare students to leverage their skills

in nontraditional ways.

125. “La France est en guerre”: Witnessing

War in Contemporary France

5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

A special session

1. “Battlegrounds of Terror: Mystical Afghan

Landscapes in neither Heaven nor Earth,” Aurelie

Matheron, Penn State U, University Park

2. “is Book Is a Nightmare: Terrorism in Con-

temporary Francophone Literature,” Christophe

Corbin, HaverfordC

3. “Youth, Media, and Memory in Contemporary

France,” Laure Astourian, BentleyU

126. When Scholarly Organizations SpeakOut

5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Ad Hoc Commit-

tee on Advocacy Policies and Procedures. Presid-

ing: Michael Bérubé, Penn State U, University Park

Speakers: Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed; PaulaM.

Krebs, MLA; Ed Liebow, American Anthropologi-

cal Assn.; Hunter O’Hanian, College Art Assn.;

Katie Orenstein, e OpEd Project

Participants explore the questions of when, how,

and why various scholarly organizations take pub-

lic stands on issues relevant to their memberships.

Representatives of various scholarly organizations

talk about how their organizations respond to ad-

vocacy issues, address how to publicize eorts at

organizational advocacy, and consider what makes

certain statements newsworthy.

127. Toward a Poetics of Noise: Literary

Form and the Long History of the Techno-

Soundscape

5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Nimrod’s Legacy: Noise, Technology, and Po-

etic Cra in Late- Medieval En gland,” Adin Lears,

State U of New York, Oswego

2. “Such Ghastly Noise: Form and Decay in Book

3 of e Faerie Queene,” Adhaar Noor Desai,

Tivoli, NY

3. “Telling Tales: Noise and Structure in Chaucer

and Keats,” Rebecca Davis, U of California, Irvine;

HughJ. Roberts, U of California, Irvine

128. eoretical Approaches to Colonial

Latin American Studies

5:15–6:30 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial

Latin American. Presiding: Monica Diaz, U of

Kentucky

Speakers: Galen Brokaw, Montana State U,

Bozeman; Gonzalo Lamana, U of Pittsburgh;

YolandaM. Martinez–San Miguel, Rutgers U,

New Brunswick; MabelE. Morana, Washington U

in St. Louis

Panelists discuss the most relevant theoretical

frameworks used in colonial Latin American liter

ary studies and assess their relevance and ecacy in

advancing the eld. What theoretical approach(es)

should we be considering in colonial studies and

why? What kinds of materials (sources) would you

analyze with that approach, and what is at stake?

What questions guide your intellectual inquiry?

129. Insecure Enlightenment

5:15–6:30 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: DustinD. Stewart,

ColumbiaU

1. “Slave Talk and a West Indian Enlightenment?”

David Samuel Mazella, U of Houston

2. “Bioinsecurity and Romantic Immunity,” Tra-

vis Lau, U of Pennsylvania

3. “Insecure Enlightenment in ‘e Sugar- Cane,’”

Anna Foy, U of Alabama, Huntsville

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Respondent: Olivera Jokic, John Jay C, City U of

New York

130. Critical Reection: Moving toward

Condence and Competence

5:15–6:30 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum HEP Teaching as

a Profession. Presiding: RebeccaE. Burnett, Geor-

gia Inst. of Tech.

1. “Collaboration and Crowdsourcing: Reecting

on Group Work in the Multimodal Classroom,”

Andrea Kra, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

2. “Reection for Transfer: Formative and Sum-

mative Reection on Print and Multimodal Writ-

ing,” Lilian Mina, Auburn U, Montgomery

3. “Promoting Critical inking and Reection

through Undergraduate Research and Experien-

tial Learning,” LeeB. Abraham, ColumbiaU

4. “Lights! Camera! Action! Students Using For-

mative and Summative Reection when Produc-

ing Teaching and Learning Materials,” Ines Vano

Garcia, Graduate Center, City U of New York

Respondent: RebeccaE. Burnett

For related material, visit rburnett .lmc .gatech

.edu/ aer 1Dec.

131. Contemporary Poetics and Race:

Intersections in Place and Particularity

5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Rachel Galvin, U of

Chicago; Timothy Yu, U of Wisconsin, Madison

Speakers: Michael Dowdy, U of South Carolina,

Columbia; Philip John Metres, John Carroll U;

Sonya Posmentier, New York U; Anthony Reed,

YaleU; DorothyJ. Wang, WilliamsC

e themes of place and particularity frame a conver-

sation about contemporary United States poetry that

centers the work of African American, Asian Ameri

can, and Latinx writers. For poets of color, connec-

tions to place are oen linked to the particularity of

racialized communities. Yet place can provide a site

of intersection for multiracial poetics. e conven

tion’s location in New York City oers an opportu-

nity for reection on such potential intersections.

132. Manhattan Pound and Aer

5:15–6:30 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Ezra Pound Society. Pre-

siding: Demetres Tryphonopoulos, BrandonU

1. “In the Shadow of Pound’s Manhattan: Objec-

tivist Poetics aer Patria Mia,” David Hobbs, New

YorkU

2. “Manhattan Pound and Biography,” Ira Nadel,

U of British Columbia

3. “New York Rinascimento: Poetry, Art, and Ar-

chitecture in Pound’s 1910 Visit,” Mark Stephen

Byron, U of Sydney

4. “Pound’s Unlikely Heir: New York’s Charles

Bernstein,” Marjorie Gabrielle Perlo, StanfordU

For related material, write to tryphonopoulosd@

brandonu.ca aer 15Nov.

133. #wethepeople: National Insecurity and

the Myth of Homogeneity

5:15–6:30 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: LauraJ. Beard, U of

Alberta; Ricia Anne Chansky, U of Puerto Rico,

Mayagüez

1. “We Are Not All Immigrants Now: Refugee

Temporality and American Identity,” Elizabeth

Rodrigues, GrinnellC

2. “Contesting American Democracy: e

Personal- Political Life Writing ofJ. D. Vance and

Ta- Nehisi Coates,” MariaL. J. Lauret, U of Sussex

3. “Stories of Posttrauma and National Sacrice,”

Helga Lenart- Cheng, St. Mary’s C, CA

Respondent: Leigh Gilmore, WellesleyC

For related material, write to lbeard@ ualberta.ca

or ricia .chansky@ upr .edu.

134. Gender and the Language of Business /

the Business of Language

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the Association for Business

Communication. Presiding: William Christopher

Brown, Midland C

1. “e Empty Chair: Anna Ella Carroll and the

Hidden Business of Persuasive Writing,” David

Healey, KaplanU

2. “e Language of LinkedIn: Helping Students

over the Gender Gap,” Sarah Moore, U of Texas,

Dallas

3. “Individual and Collaborative Responsibility

for Women’s Job- Finding Work in Outplacement,”

Oliver Brearey, U of Maryland, College Park

135. T. S. Eliot and Ecocriticism

5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by theT. S. Eliot Society. Pre-

siding: Frances Dickey, U of Missouri, Columbia

1. “Soil, Loam, Ash: Eliot and the Crisis of Dirt,”

Julia Daniel, BaylorU

2. “Paradox and the Deceit of Opposites: Further

Holons inT. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets,” Etienne Ter-

blanche, North- West U, Potchefstroom

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3. “‘Signicant Soil’ or ‘Dri of the Sea’? Green

and Blue Readings of Four Quartets,” Maxwell Up-

haus, Montana State U, Bozeman

For related material, visit www .facebook .com/

tseliotsociety/ aer 1Nov.

136. Ephemeral Dickens

5:15–6:30 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Dickens Society. Presid-

ing: Susan Zieger, U of California, Riverside

1. “Disposable Dickens? Exploring Dickens in the

Ephemeral Archive,” JaniceM. Carlisle, Yale U;

Elizabeth Frengel, YaleU

2. “Dickensian Jottings,” Lillian Nayder, BatesC

3. “Recurrent Ephemerality and the Dolly Varden

Dress,” RebeccaN. Mitchell, U of Birmingham

137. Hispanic Women in the Public Sphere:

Debates on Feminisms, Activism, and

Solidarities

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by Feministas Unidas. Presid-

ing: Ana Corbalan, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Speakers: Maria Alejandra Aguilar Dornelles, Uat

Albany, State U of New York; Silvia Bermudez, U of

California, Santa Barbara; Amy Sara Carroll, U of

Michigan, Ann Arbor; Irune del Rio Gabiola, But

ler U; Esther Diaz Martin, U of Texas, Austin; Car-

men Sanchis- Sinisterra, C of William and Mary

Panelists explore feminist initiatives of activism

and solidarity among women in Spanish- speaking

societies, including the United States, with a focus

on women’s personal and political space in their

societies, and analyze case studies on increasing

insecurities for women vis- à- vis the impacts of

the globalization agenda at the local and regional

levels.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

members/ hchacon6/ aer 15Nov.

138. “Mississippi Goddam!” Everywhere:

e Ends of Southern and American

Exceptionalisms

5:15–6:30 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Southern

United States. Presiding: Jolene Hubbs, U of Ala-

bama, Tuscaloosa

1. “e Region Shall Rise Again: ‘Political Re-

gionalism,’ the Southern United States, and the

Global Rise of Nationalist Populism and Its Resis-

tance,” Jill LeRoy- Frazier, East Tennessee State U;

Veronica Limeberry, AmericanU

2. “e Myth of United States Antebellum Excep-

tionalism: Slavery, Capital, and Anteliberalism in

Southern Literature,” Stephanie Rountree, Geor-

gia StateU

3. “Berlin Goddam, 1937: Nazis, Nation, and

South in Katherine Anne Porter,” Jennifer Rae

Greeson, U of Virginia

139. Jin Ping Mei in Context: Approaches to

Teaching Plum in the Golden Vase

5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Ming and

Qing Chinese. Presiding: Andrew Schonebaum,

Uof Maryland, College Park

1. “Jin Ping Meiand the Performing Arts,” S. E.

Kile, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “Questions of Time in Plum in the Golden

Vase,” Ling Hon Lam, U of California, Berkeley

3. “e World of the Inner Quarters in Plum in the

Golden Vase,” Katherine Carlitz, U of Pittsburgh

For related material, visit MLA Commons.

140. Responding to Extinction

5:15–6:30 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Timothy Sweet, West

Virginia U, Morgantown

1. “White Heron, Anthropocene Chicken: Ameri-

can Birds in the Time of Extinction,” John Levi

Barnard, C of Wooster

2. “De- extinction and Microworlds,” Kate Mar-

shall, U of Notre Dame

3. “Extinction Games,” Christina Colvin, Georgia

Inst. of Tech.

4. “e Alexandrian Library of Life: A Flawed

Metaphor for Biodiversity,” Gordon Mitchell

Sayre, U of Oregon

Respondent: Timothy Sweet

141. Challenges: High School and College

Teacher Perspectives

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on K–16

Alliances. Presiding: Meghan Self, Texas TechU

1. “When Democracy and Social Justice Collide:

Ethical Tensions in Teaching and Assessing Writ-

ing,” James Hammond, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “Diculties and Rewards of Teaching Collab-

orative Writing,” Victoria White, U of California,

Davis

3. “More an Either/ Or: Navigating Disclosure

in Academic Spaces,” Elizabeth Tacke, U of Michi-

gan, Ann Arbor

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Thursday, 4 January 

4. “Against Preparation: How an Essay- Centered

Curriculum Teaches Inherently Meaningful Writ-

ing in High School and College,” NicoleB. Wal-

lack, ColumbiaU

142. Atmosphères

5:15–6:30 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-

Century French. Presiding: PatrickM. Bray, Ohio

State U, Columbus

1. “A Poetics of the Common: Baudelaire, Rim-

baud, and la Poésie du Monde,” Robert St. Clair,

DartmouthC

2. “Against Utility: Stendhal, the City, and the

World of Plants,” Giuseppina Mecchia, U of

Pittsburgh

3. “Writing the Defeat of 1812: e Russian Land-

scape of Suering,” Elena Aleksandrova, New

YorkU

4. “Weathering Paris: Natural and Social At-

mospheres in L’assommoir,” Jessica Tanner, U of

North Carolina, Chapel Hill

For related material, visit mla.hcommons.org/

groups/19th-century-french/ aer 11Oct.

143. e Sense of Touch in the Renaissance

5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Pablo Maurette, U of

Chicago

1. “Aecting Flesh: e Face of Early Modern

Touch,” ElizabethD. Harvey, U of Toronto

2. “Embryonic Touch from Dante to Gray: On

the Origins of Human Feeling,” TimothyM. Har-

rison, U of Chicago

3. “A ‘Coarse Piece’ of Writing: Textured Poet-

ics in Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies,”

Whitney Sperrazza, Indiana U, Bloomington

144. Challenges and Opportunities of the

New: Practical Advice for Creating Change

in the Department and Beyond

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Emily Todd, Westeld

StateU

Speakers: Tracy Floreani, Oklahoma City U; RobertI.

Matz, George Mason U; Brian Reed, U of Washing

ton, Seattle; Christine Ann Wooley, St. Mary’s C, MD

is session focuses on the process that chairs

and other administrators go through as they take

a new idea and try to implement it. Participants

from a range of institutions discuss initiatives to

promote the humanities, form new partnerships,

develop graduate programs, reform curriculum,

and institute structures for assessment, sharing

not only the ideas but also the lessons learned

from adapting and implementing those ideas.

145. Insecurity in the Classroom: Programs,

Pedagogy, and Peripateticism

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Language

Change. Presiding: D. Brian Mann, U of North

Georgia

1. “From Linguistic Self- Condence to Linguistic

Insecurity: e Discursive Construction of Identi-

ties of Resistance,” Sibusiwe Dube, Penn State U,

University Park

2. “Teaching a Living History: Teaching History

at a Hispanic- Serving Institution,” Seth Oen-

bach, Bronx Community C, City U of New York

3. “Countering Insecurity with Advocacy for

International Students: Pedagogical and Pro-

grammatic Strategies,” Kristina Lucenko, Stony

BrookU, State U of New York; Shyam Sharma,

Stony Brook U, State U of New York

4. “Keeping Balance between Language Mainte-

nance and Language Policy in a Russian School

with a Georgian Ethno- cultural Component in

Moscow,” Dionysios Zoumpalidis, Higher School

of Economics

146. Posthumanist Disability

5:15–6:30 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Michael Lundblad,

Uof Oslo

1. “e Biopolitics of Disability and Animality in

Harriet McBryde Johnson,” Jan Grue, U of Oslo;

Michael Lundblad

2. “e Best: e Limits and Possibilities of

Procreation Narratives,” Rosemarie Garland-

omson, EmoryU

3. “Disability, Aect, and the Posthuman,” Dan

Goodley, OpenU

For related material, visit www.hf.uio.no/ilos/

en glish/ research/ projects/ biopolitics-of- disability

- illness -and- animal/ aer 4Jan.

147. Galdós: Kinship and Class

5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the International Associa-

tion of Galdós Scholars. Presiding: Erika Rodri-

guez, Washington U in St. Louis

1. “e Intimacy of Blood: Undoing Caste and Kin

ship in Fortunata y Jacinta,” Julia Chang, CornellU

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2. “Nonfamilial Kinship: Caregiving and Interde-

pendence in Misericordia,” Erika Rodriguez

3. “Transgresión, sacricio, ciudadanía y repa-

ración: La representación galdosiana del discurso

de la domesticidad en El audaz y La familia de

León Roch,” Íñigo Sánchez- Llama, Purdue U, West

Lafayette

Respondent: Akiko Tsuchiya, Washington U in

St.Louis

148. Debilitating Spaces

5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-

Century American. Presiding: BrigitteG. Bailey,

Uof New Hampshire, Durham

Speakers: Jason Bell, Yale U; DonnaM. Campbell,

Washington State U, Pullman; Hsia- Ting Chang,

Penn State U, University Park; Naomi Greyser,

Uof Iowa; Emma Newcombe, BostonU

Speakers focus on the intersections between so-

cial geographies and debilitation in nineteenth-

century American literature, foregrounding how

risks and experiences of becoming disabled are un

evenly distributed across space. Panelists also put

recent theoretical work on debilitation in dialogue

with research on disability and necropolitics.

149. Cultural Appropriation: Arrogation or

Irrigation?

5:15–6:30 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the

Literatures of People of Color in the United States

and Canada. Presiding: Cristine Soliz, Arkansas

BaptistC

Speakers: Andrea Borunda, U of New Mexico, Al

buquerque; Paul Devlin, United States Merchant

Marine Acad.; Josh- Wade Ferguson, U of Missis

sippi; Sean Kennedy, Graduate Center, City U of

New York; Laura Vrana, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

Panelists consider cultural appropriation from sev-

eral angles, including cultural appropriation and

pla gia rism, inspiration, sampling, inuence, satire,

sharing, contamination, hybridity, usurpation, dispos-

session, de- and reterritorialization, routes or roots.

150. Dostoevsky and States of Insecurity

5:15–6:30 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the International Dosto-

evsky Society. Presiding: Carol Apollonio, DukeU

1. “Sovereignty and Exception in Crime and

Punishment: Dostoevsky with Carl Schmitt,” Ilya

Kliger, New YorkU

2. “Arkady’s Overcoat: Illegitimacy and Char-

acterization in Dostoevsky,” Chloë Kitzinger,

Prince tonU

3. “‘Like a Cat around a Hot Saucer of Milk’: Dos-

toevsky’s Destabilizing Descriptions of Perverse

Sexuality,” Zachary Johnson, U of California,

Berkeley

For related material, visit

dostoevskystatesonsecurity .mla .hcommons .org/.

151. Four Hundred Years of King Lear:

Sources and Performance

5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the

New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Presiding:

Paul Werstine, U of Western Ontario

1. “Lear aer Leir,” Douglas Bruster, U of Texas,

Austin

2. “e Fool’s Errand: Connecting Folly and

Tragedy in King Lear’s Performance History,”

Scott O’Neil, U of Rochester

3. “King Lear on the Small Screen and Its Peda-

gogical Implications,” Alexa Alice Joubin, George

WashingtonU

152. C. L. R. James and the Postcolonial

5:15–6:30 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Postcolonial

Studies. Presiding: Sonali akkar, U of Chicago

Speakers: Raj Chetty, St. John’s U, NY; Nijah

Cunningham, Prince ton U; JeremyM. Glick,

HunterC, City U of New York; Imani Owens, U of

Pittsburgh; FaithL. Smith, Brandeis U; Christo-

pherJ. Taylor, U of Chicago

Panelists consider the work and legacy of the Trini-

dadian Marxist historian and cultural critic C. L. R.

James. Speakers discuss the signicance of James’s

literary and critical writings for the eld of postco

lonial studies and assess the intersection of postco-

lonial studies and the black radical tradition.

153. Southeast Asia and Its Empires

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Joanne Leow, U of

Saskatchewan; Cheryl Narumi Naruse, TulaneU

Speakers: Nadine Chan, U of Chicago; Usha Chan-

dradas, Lasalle C of the Arts; Joanne Leow; Su

Fang Ng, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State U;

y Phu, U of Western Ontario

From the Dutch in Indonesia to the British and

Japanese in Malaya to the Americans in Vietnam

and the Philippines, Southeast Asia has had long

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and deep histories of imperial presence.is ses-

sion examines what literary and cultural produc-

tions from the Southeast Asian region can reveal

about the workings of empire, past and ongoing

imbalances of power, legacies of exploitation, and

marginalized subjectivities.

154. “Uncer giedd geador”: Feminist Studies

in Old En glish

5:15–6:30 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Old En glish.

Presiding: Elaine Treharne, StanfordU

1. “e Case of ‘Anonymous 1044’: How a Widow

Becomes a Witch,” Martin Foys, U of Wisconsin,

Madison

2. “e Feminine Landscape in ‘e Wife’s La-

ment’: e Grove as Natural Boundary,” Jennifer

van Alstyne, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

3. “Unnamed Emotions: Aect, Gender, and Sub-

jectivity in Old En glish Poetry,” Marjorie Housley,

U of Notre Dame

For related material, visit www .academia .edu/

32168392/ MLA_ Old_En glish_ Session_

Descriptions_ 2018.

155. Taking Measure: Philosophical Quanta

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and

Early- 19th- Century German

1. “Giebt es auf Erden ein Maaß: Hegel, Hölder-

lin, and the Crisis of Measure in German Ideal-

ism,” Anthony Curtis Adler, YonseiU

2. “Absolute Mechanics,” Gabriel Trop, U of

North Carolina, Chapel Hill

3. “Measure for Measure: Hegel and Kapp,” Leif

Weatherby, New YorkU

4. “e Scopes of Poetry: Hölderlin Takes Mea-

sure,” Dominik Zechner, New YorkU

156. e MLA International Bibliography as

an Active Archive: Knowledge Creation for

the Twenty- First Century

5:15–6:30 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the Advisory Committee

on the MLA International Bibliography. Presiding:

Cinthia Gannett, FaireldU

Speakers: LauraR. Braunstein, Dartmouth C;

LiorahA. Golomb, U of Oklahoma; David Ober-

helman, Oklahoma State U Library; Susan Oliver,

Uof Essex

Respondent: JohnC. Brereton, U of Massachusetts,

Boston

eMLA International Bibliography is an active ar-

chive and knowledge- creation mechanism, expos-

ing trends in scholarship and reshaping categories.

Panelists discuss the dynamic, creative, and demo

cratic processes that inform the collection and har-

vesting of international language arts scholarship.

157. e Teaching of Literature and the

Public Humanities

5:15–6:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TM e Teaching

of Literature. Presiding: Roberta Rosenberg, Cen-

ter for Jewish History

Speakers: Corinne Bancro, U of California, Santa

Barbara; Nicole Dib, U of California, Santa Bar-

bara; Julie Ellison, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Al

Filreis, U of Pennsylvania; Laini Kavaloski, State

U of New York, Canton; Kristin Kelly, U of North

Georgia

Presenters discuss a range of perspectives on the

value of teaching literature in relation to projects

of the public humanities.

For related material, write to rrosenb@ cnu .edu

aer 1Dec.

Thursday, 4 January

7:00 p.m.

158. Commonsense Information Security

for Academics

7:00–8:15 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on In-

formation Technology

Speakers: Andrew Pilsch, Texas A&M U, College

Station; Shawna Ross, Texas A&M U, College

Station

is informal workshop helps individuals secure

their academic and personal data from malicious

individuals, businesses, and governments. During

the workshop, CIT members work with attendees

to implement basic, legal cybersecurity. Bring any

laptops, phones, tablets, or other devices whose

data you want to secure.

For related material, visit infotech .mla .hcommons

.org/ aer 30Oct.

159. Connected Academics: Building a

Public Humanities PhD Program from the

Ground Up

7:00–8:15 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

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Program arranged by the MLA Connected Aca-

demics Project. Presiding: KathrynD. Temple,

GeorgetownU

Speakers: Margaret Debelius, Georgetown U; Em-

ilyC. Francomano, Georgetown U; Eric Hayot,

Penn State U, University Park; RicardoL. Ortiz,

Georgetown U; Justin Quam, Georgetown U;

Henry Schwarz, Georgetown U; Susan Smulyan,

Brown U; Doris Sommer, HarvardU

What would a PhD program in public humanities

look like? Our Georgetown Universitytask force

has produced a proposal for a PhD in public hu-

manities that considers the public humanities as a

profession and eld of knowledge; members of the

task force share the proposal, invite leaders in the

public humanities movement to respond to it, and

engage the audience in a discussion of the project.

160. (Prex-)Politics: A Future Otherwise

7:00–8:15 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS 20th- and

21st- Century. Presiding: Alberto Moreiras, Texas

A&M U, College Station

1. “Impolitical Cinema: Weil, Rossellini, and Dis-

abling the Self,” Timothy Campbell, CornellU

2. “Crossing Politics: Lyotard’s ‘Ethics of Writ-

ing,’” Claire Nouvet, EmoryU

3. “‘No One Can Take the Other’s Dying Away

from Him’: e Infrapolitical Future Otherwise,”

Gareth Williams, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

4. “Catastrophe, Politics, and the Economy of the

Margin,” Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, BostonC

161. Victorian Realism

7:00–8:15 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian

and Early- 20th- Century En glish. Presiding: Daniel

Hack, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. “Inedible Feasts: ‘Filling’ Lists and Narrative Stale-

ness in Madame Bovary,” Julia Cheng, New YorkU

2. “Realism’s Magical inking,” Wendy Veron-

ica Xin, U of California, Berkeley

3. “Realism in Crisis,” Elisha Cohn, CornellU

162. New York, Sanctuary Space

7:00–8:15 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the

Literatures of People of Color in the United States

and Canada. Presiding: Karen Shimakawa, New

YorkU

1. “Without Sanctuary: Toward a eory of Black

Anti- urbanism,” Jennie Lightweis- Go, U of

Mississippi

2. “Sanctuary Space as a Site of Resistance, Rein-

vention, and Transformations in Meena Alexander’s

Manhattan Music,” Xiaojing Zhou, U of the Pacic

3. “Rejecting America: Emigration in Search of

Sanctuary,” Katie Daily- Bruckner, United States

Military Acad.

4. “Watch Your Step: Safety, Vulnerability, and

Intersectionality in New York Walking Narra-

tives,” Katie Logan, University C at Virginia

163. Speculative Futures in Arab(ic) Literature

7:00–8:15 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Arabic. Pre-

siding: Hoda El Shakry, Penn State U, University

Park

1. “Looking In, Looking Out: Sult

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and Ah

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īf’s One- Person Worlds,”

Betty Rosen, U of California, Berkeley

2. “Unsynchronized Modernity: Farah Antun’s

Multiple Messianisms,” Adam Spanos, New

YorkU

3. “Utopian Impulses and Artistic Agency in

Tawq al- Hakim’s e Poet on the Moon,” Merve

Tabur, Penn State U, University Park

4. “‘Shocking Realism’: Iraqi Science Fiction in

a Global Literary Marketplace,” Sinéad Murphy,

King’s C London

164. Irish Women Writing Politics

7:00–8:15 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

Program arranged by the American Conference

for Irish Studies. Presiding: Matthew Reznicek,

CreightonU

1. “Conditions of Connement: Dorothy Macar-

dle’s Prison Writings,” Caroline Heafey, New YorkU

2. “e En glish Maria Edgeworth, the Irish Jane

Austen,” Christina Moire Matheson, St. John’s U,

3. “‘at Collaboration with the People’: Lady

Gregory and the Language of Populism,” Seamus

O’Malley, Yeshiva U, Stern C for Women

4. “Inghinidhe na hÉireann and Pussy Hats:

Women’s Political Writings and Street Perfor-

mance,” Elizabeth Brewer Redwine, Seton HallU

165. Comedia in and for the Twenty-

FirstCentury

7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th- and

17th- Century Spanish and Iberian Drama. Presid-

ing: SherryM. Velasco, U of Southern California

1. “Staging Early Modern Precarity in La comedia

famosa de Juan Latino,” Pablo Garcia Pinar, ColbyC

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2. “Rape Culture: en and Now,” Sonia

Velazquez, Indiana U, Bloomington

3. “Translating Lope’s (Small) New World to (Span-

ish la) Florida,” Ben Gunter, eater with a Mission

Respondent: Erin Cowling, MacEwanU

166. e eme and Form of Failure in

Midwestern Literature

7:00–8:15 p.m., Liberty 5, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Society for the Study of

Midwestern Literature. Presiding: Marilyn Judith

Atlas, Ohio U, Athens

1. “Placing the Midwest in Jonathan Franzen’s

e Corrections and Freedom,” KristinJ. Jacobson,

StocktonU

2. “‘I Must Vote for Failure’: John Williams’s

Stoner and Regional Neglect,” Michael Maguire,

Penn State U, University Park

3. “‘You Get Home and Aren’t Really Home’: e

Enfolding Midwest of David Means’s Hystopia,”

Aaron Babcock, Ohio U, Athens

4. “Imagining Walter Cronkite Imagining Him-

self as a Bird Flying above the Chicago Riots: e

Complex Midwest in Nathan Hill’s Absurdist

Novel e Nix,” Marilyn Judith Atlas

167. Demonstration Interviews for Job

Seekers in Languages

7:00–8:15 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the ADFL Executive Com-

mittee. Presiding: Dennis Looney, MLA

Speakers: CaroleA. Kruger, Davidson C; Gillian Lord,

Uof Florida; Sara Zahler, Indiana U, Bloomington

Demonstration interviews of candidates for posi-

tions teaching in foreign language and literature

departments are analyzed and critiqued by audi-

ence members, interviewers, and interviewees.

168. Philology Old and New

7:00–8:15 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TM Language e-

ory. Presiding: Donny Vigil, U of St. omas, MN

1. “Negative Philology: Orientalism, Anti-

Semitism, and the European Question,” An-

drewN. Rubin, George MasonU

2. “Silence and Naming: John Cage and Finnegans

Wake between Heidegger and Hölderlin,” Jason

Ciaccio, Graduate Center, City U of New York

Respondent: Mary Hayes, U of Mississippi

169. Scientic Discourse in Italy (1600–1800s)

7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-, 18th-,

and 19th- Century Italian. Presiding: Sabrina Ferri,

U of Notre Dame

1. “Astronomy and Early Modern Print Networks

in Galileo’s Library,” CrystalJ. Hall, BowdoinC

2. “Boccaccio and the Lascivious Discourse of

Generation and Procreation among Eighteenth-

Century Men of Science,” Clorinda Donato, Cali-

fornia State U, Long Beach

3. “L’igiene per tutti: Science and ‘the People’ in

Nineteenth- Century Italy,” Silvia Valisa, Florida

StateU

170. Women Poets in the Surrealist Tradition

7:00–8:15 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the Association for the

Study of Dada and Surrealism. Presiding: Katha-

rine Conley, C of William and Mary

1. “Surrealist Collaboration: Claude Cahun, Han-

nah Weiner, and Performative Photography,” Phil-

lip Grith, Graduate Center, City U of New York

2. “P. K. Page in the Surrealist Tradition,” Susan

MacRae, Columbia C, BC

3. “Cathy Park Hong’s Games of Context,” Ra-

chelV. Trousdale, Framingham StateU

171. Social Justice in Language Teaching

and Learning: Pedagogical Approaches

7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Second-

Language Teaching and Learning. Presiding: Jen-

nifer Redmann, Franklin and MarshallC

1. “Tools for a Socially Just Language Pedagogy:

Learning Objectives, Assessments, and Critical

Reection Activities,” Mary Renda, U of Michi-

gan, Ann Arbor

2. “Imagining Multicultural Contexts through

Drama: Performative Space in the Foreign Language

Classroom,” Silja Weber, Indiana U, Bloomington

3. “Language Experience and Ethicality in Teach-

ing Spanish for Social Justice,” Glenn Martinez,

Ohio State U, Columbus; Robert Train, Sonoma

StateU

172. Early American #BlackLivesMatter

7:00–8:15 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Early Ameri-

can. Presiding: Jordan Alexander Stein, Ford-

hamU, Lincoln Center

1. “Ambivalent Respectability: e Wrongful

Convictions of Abraham Johnstone,” Ajay Kumar

Batra, U of Pennsylvania

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2. “Fugitive Joy in the Poetry of Phillis Wheat-

ley,” Lenora Warren, ColgateU

3. “Flight Together: Runaway Slave Advertise-

ments and Black Queer Intimacy,” Caleb Knapp,

U of Washington, Seattle

4. “Phillis Wheatley’s Divine Quiet,” Dana Mur-

phy, U of California, Irvine

Respondent: Jordan Alexander Stein

173. Connecting the Dots: Museums

andComics

7:00–8:15 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum GS Comics and

Graphic Narratives. Presiding: Nhora Lucia Ser-

rano, HamiltonC

1. “At Home in the Museum,” Catherine Labio,

Uof Colorado, Boulder

2. “Paracomics: Art as Comics,” Vasilios Kartalo-

poulos, New School

3. “Tintin in the World of the Artifact: Authen-

ticity and Artice, Colonialism and Copyright,”

Katherine Kelp- Stebbins, PalomarC

4. “‘ere’d Be a Hanging’: Community as Art

Gallery, Comic as Museum in Gilbert Hernan-

dez’s Human Diastrophism,” Osvaldo Oyola, New

YorkU

174. Genealogies of Conservatism

7:00–8:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-

Century Latin American. Presiding: JoséM. Ro-

dríguez García, DukeU

1. “La blanquitud constitutiva de la modernidad:

Las ansiedades raciales del ‘Carreño,’” Beatriz

González- Stephan, RiceU

2. “e Prosaic Angel and Her Abject Servant:

Housework, Capitalism, and the New Inequality in

Late- Nineteenth- Century Central America,” Patri

cia Arroyo Calderon, U of California, Los Angeles

3. “e Godless Reactionary and the Radical

Priest: Constitutional Failures in Lima circa 1860,”

JoséM. Rodríguez García

175. Writing from Elsewhere: e Impact of

Independent Presses on the Contemporary

Literary Field

7:00–8:15 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Managing Insecurity: Nonprot Presses and

Literary Value,” David Haeselin, U of North Dakota

2. “e Feminist Press and Progressive Nostal-

gia,” Jason Arthur, RockhurstU

3. “Actually Publishing in Iowa City,” LorenD.

Glass, U of Iowa

Respondent: Elizabeth Barnett, RockhurstU

For related material, visit davidhaeselin .com/dh

aer 1Nov.

176. Hispanic Bioctions

7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Elizabeth Cruz Pe-

tersen, Florida AtlanticU

1. “(Trans)National Cervantes: e Catalan

(Pseudo)Biography of the Father of Don Quixote

de la Mancha,” Jorge Abril- Sanchez, U of New

Hampshire, Durham

2. “Bioctional Agents and Subaltern Rebellion:

Gioconda Belli’s e Inhabited Woman,” Lisa Ma-

rie Ortiz- Vilarelle, C of New Jersey

3. “Truth and Circumstantiality in Javier Cercas’s

Bioctions,” Virginia Rademacher, BabsonC

4. “History, Fiction, and Possible Worlds: Roberto

Bolaño’s Poetics of Bioction,” Pedro Esteban

Ponce, St. LawrenceU

For related material, visit babson .academia .edu/

JennyRademacher.

177. “Totally Epic”: Brechtian and

Wagnerian Aesthetics Today

7:00–8:15 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the International Brecht

Society. Presiding: Stephen Matthew Brockmann,

Carnegie MellonU

1. “From Wagner to Brecht: An Aesthetic Analy-

sis of Elfriede Jelinek’s Rein Gold,” Jinsong Chen,

Purdue U, West Lafayette

2. “rough Brecht to Wagner: Hans- Jürgen Sy-

berberg, Heiner Müller, Christoph Schlingensief,”

Jack Davis, Truman StateU

3. “Žižek on Wagner and Brecht,” VeraS. Steg-

mann, LehighU

Respondent: Joy Calico, VanderbiltU

178. Beyond Materiality in

ShakespeareStudies

7:00–8:15 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: ScottA. Trudell, U of

Maryland, College Park

1. “Virtual Knowledge in Hamlet,” Adam Rzepka,

Montclair StateU

2. “Withholding the Loved Boy,” ScottA. Trudell

3. “Conceited Criticism: e Queen’s Knowledge

in Richard II,” Colleen Rosenfeld, PomonaC

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Respondent: JamesA. Knapp, Loyola U, Chicago

For related material, visit www .scotttrudell .com

aer 1Nov.

179. Charting the Routes of South- South

Translation in the Twentieth Century

7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Translation

Studies. Presiding: ShadenM. Tageldin, U of Min-

nesota, Twin Cities

1. “Folktales of Bengal in Modern China,” Gal

Gvili, McGillU

2. “e Chinese- Arabic Translators of Al- Azhar,”

Michael Gibbs Hill, C of William and Mary

3. “Anthologizing Lusophone African Negri-

tude,” Lanie Millar, U of Oregon

4. “Translating Icons: Che Guevara in Arabic Lit-

erature,” Eman Morsi, DartmouthC

180. Academic Writing in Graduate School

7:00–8:15 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: FriederikeU. Eigler,

GeorgetownU

1. “Supporting Situated Academic Writing at the

Graduate Level with Systemic Functional Linguis-

tics,” Marianna Ryshina- Pankova, GeorgetownU

2. “Using Dissertation Methodology Sections as

Research Narratives: Explicit Writing Instruction

for Graduate Students,” Kate Pantelides, Middle

Tennessee StateU

3. “Writing Center Support for Graduate Students

as Emerging Professionals,” Eleanor Reeds, U of

Connecticut, Storrs

For related material, write to eiglerf@ georgetown

.edu aer 30Nov.

181. Critical Semantics: New Transcultural

Keywords

7:00–8:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Renais-

sance and Early Modern. Presiding: Anston Bos-

man, AmherstC

1. “Color,” John Casey, BrownU

2. “Common,” Crystal Lynn Bartolovich, Syra-

cuseU

3. “Graing,” Vin Nardizzi, U of British Columbia

4. “Utopian,” Debapriya Sarkar, U of Connecti-

cut, Storrs

Respondent: Roland Greene, StanfordU

182. Performance and the Modernist Archive

7:00–8:15 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Modernist Studies As-

sociation. Presiding: Susan Barbara Rosenbaum,

Uof Georgia

1. “eater Criticism and Obsolescent Media in

the Antipodes,” Sarah Balkin, U of Melbourne

2. “Popular eater as Modernist Archive: How

Revues, Follies, and Passing Shows Shaped the

Understanding of European Avant- Garde Perfor-

mance,” Sunny Stalter- Pace, Auburn U, Auburn

3. “Listening to Poetry in the Pacica Radio Archive,”

LisaA. Hollenbach, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater

183. Ecology, Aesthetics, Empire:

Romanticism and Its Aerlives

7:00–8:15 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Anne- Lise François,

Uof California, Berkeley

1. “Undigested Sentiment in John Keats’s ‘Isa-

bella; or, e Pot of Basil,’ ” S. Cailey Hall, U of

California, Los Angeles

2. “Cutting Breath: Romanticism’s Polar Life,”

Michael Nicholson, McGillU

3. “Béla Bartók’s Dissonant Ecologies,” Rasheed

Tazudeen, U of Toronto

4. “Indigenous Poetry under the Nuclear Sun,”

Anaïs Maurer, ColumbiaU

For related material, visit utoronto .academia .edu/

RasheedTazudeen.

184. Publishing at the Center of the

Humanities

7:00–8:15 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums TC Digital Hu-

manities and RCWS Literacy Studies. Presiding:

Rebecca Kennison, K/N Consultants

1. “Connecting Scholarship to the Network: e

Enhanced Networked Monograph Project,” Mon-

ica McCormick, New YorkU

2. “Enriching the Monograph: Fulcrum,” Mary

Francis, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “Retooling the Monograph: e Manifold

Scholarship Project,” MatthewK. Gold, Graduate

Center, City U of New York

4. “e Remediation of Scholarly Multimedia

Publishing,” CherylE. Ball, West Virginia U, Mor-

gantown

For related material, visit publishingpanel2017

.hcommons .org/ aer 1Nov.

185. Fake News: Truth and Truthiness in the

Eighteenth Century

7:00–8:15 p.m., Madison, Hilton

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Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th-

Century French

1. “Déconancer la parlerie: Néologie et vérité chez

L. S. Mercier,” Laurence Mall, U of Illinois, Urbana

2. “In Truthiness We Trust? How French Justice

Came to Love Fiction,” Yann Robert, U of Illinois,

Chicago

3. “Fake News from Madagascar: Evariste de

Parny and Ethnographic Reading,” Blake Smith,

NorthwesternU

4. “Does the Truth Matter? Philosophical Per-

versions of the Harem,” Lauren Ravalico, C of

Charleston

186. Sinophone Studies beyond

Disciplinarity

7:00–8:15 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Shu- mei Shih, U of

California, Los Angeles

Speakers: Andrea Bachner, Cornell U; Yu- ting

Huang, Amherst C; Tzu- Hui Celina Hung, New

York U, Shanghai; Kyle Shernuk, Harvard U; E. K.

Tan, Stony Brook U, State U of New York; AlvinK.

Wong, Yonsei U; Lily Wong, AmericanU

e Sinophone in Shu- mei Shih’s denition refers to

“a network of places of cultural production outside

China and on the margins of China and Chinese

ness.” Panelists demonstrate how the Sinophone is

constituted by diverse concepts such as the archive,

unbecoming, aect, (un)translatability, ethnicity,

decolonization, and the gure of the parasite. e

Sinophone as a parasitic formation points to its po

tential to counter various forms of China- centrism.

For related material, write to alvinwong@ yonsei

.ac .kr aer 1Dec.

187. Nabokov versus Tyrants

7:00–8:15 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the International Vladimir

Nabokov Society. Presiding: ChristopherA. Link,

State U of New York, New Paltz

1. “Nabokov’s Repudiation of Tyranny’s Tempta-

tion (Berlin, 1931),” Shoshana Milgram Knapp,

Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and StateU

2. “Tyrannized and Tyrant: Nabokov, Hegel,

and the Master- Slave Dialectic,” Corinne Laura

Scheiner, ColoradoC

3. “Pnin’s Unfullled Course on Tyranny,” Ru-

sina Volkova, independent scholar

4. “Against Tyranny: e Nabokovian Politics of

Literature as a ‘Magic Democracy,’” Agnes Edel-

Roy, U of Paris- Est Créteil

188. Light, Physics, and Antiform in the

Nineteenth- Century Novel

7:00–8:15 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Anna Henchman,

BostonU

1. “e Aberration of Light and the Kinship of

Women in Maria Edgeworth’s Helen,” Jennifer

Minnen, Prince tonU

2. “Mirroring and Somatic Form in George Eliot’s

Daniel Deronda,” Christie Harner, DartmouthC

3. “Unied Field eories and the Victorian Post-

human,” SarahC. Alexander, U of Vermont

Respondent: Anna Henchman

For related material, visit lightandantiform .mla

.hcommons .org.

189. Social Medicine: Epidemics, Agents,

Networks

7:00–8:15 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: StevenJ. Meyer,

Washington U in St. Louis

Speakers: Adia Benton, Northwestern U; Paul

Farmer, Harvard U; C. P. Haun Saussy, U of Chicago

Epidemics spread through social ties. A bacterium

or virus aects people who drink water from the

same sources, touch one another, breathe in proxim

ity, have sex together, accept blood transfusions, or

even prepare kin for burial. Responses to epidemic

disease oen result in the creation of social distance,

through avoidance, segregation, immigration re

strictions, or quarantine. What can we learn from re-

cent epidemics of diseases such as AIDS and Ebola?

190. Radical Sisterhood in Children’s and

Young Adult Literature

7:00–8:15 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: DeirdreH. McMahon,

Drexel U; Mary Jeanette Moran, Illinois StateU

1. “Sisterhood, Motherhood, and the Personal as Po-

litical in Rita Williams- Garcia’s One Crazy Summer,”

Michelle Holley Martin, U of Washington, Seattle

2. “‘Fierce Foursome’: Making Familia from

Scratch in Rigoberto González’s e Mariposa

Club,” Sonia Alejandra Rodríguez, LaGuardia

Community C, City U of New York

3. “‘Wait a Little While and the Fruit Will Fall

into Your Hand’: Empathetic Reading in Esper-

anza Rising,” Caren Town, Georgia SouthernU

191. Reducing Grade Insecurity: Grading

Case Studies

7:00–8:15 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

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Thursday, 4 January 

A special session. Presiding: Ashwini Ganeshan,

Ohio U, Athens; Julie Ward, U of Oklahoma

Speakers: Heather Blatt, Florida International U;

Nicole Coleman, Wayne State U; Ashwini Gane-

shan, Ohio U, Athens; Sarah Prielipp, Michigan

State U; Julie Ward

Instructors from various disciplines discuss the

use of specications grading in language, litera-

ture, and linguistics courses. is pass/ fail grad-

ing system promises to restore rigor. Providing

models of syllabus design, assignment descrip-

tions, and rubrics, participants share the benets

and challenges of this innovative grading system.

For related material, write to wardjulie@ ou .edu

aer 4Dec.

192. Satire Today

7:00–8:15 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: JonathanD. Green-

berg, Montclair StateU

1. “Satire in the Bardo: George Saunders and

Empathetic Irony,” Catherine Keyser, U of South

Carolina, Columbia

2. “Copy, Paste, Parody: Conceptual Writing

and the Materiality of Satire,” NicholasD. Nace,

Hampden- SydneyC

3. “Procreative Skepticism and Contemporary

Satire,” Aaron Matz, ScrippsC

Respondent: JonathanD. Greenberg

For related material, write to greenbergj@

montclair .edu aer 15Nov.

193. Literary Analysis and the Unthinkable:

Responses to Amitav Ghosh’s he Great

Derangement

7:00–8:15 p.m., Regent, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: James Daniel Elam,

Uof Toronto

1. “Is the ‘Global’ in ‘Global Climate Change’ the

Same as the ‘Global’ in ‘Global Literature’?” James

Daniel Elam

2. “Anthropocene = Oil? Derangements of Form,”

Jennifer Wenzel, ColumbiaU

3. “Riddles of Sand: Confronting the Unimagi-

nable,” Amit Baishya, U of Oklahoma

4. “rough the Lens of the Anthropocene: e X

Cycle of Plastic,” Yue Meng, U of Toronto

194. European Regions: Progress in

LiteraryCulture

7:00–8:15 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS European

Regions. Presiding: Andrew Singer, Penn State U,

University Park

Speakers: Milena Deleva, Elizabeth Kostova Foun-

dation; Lola Koundakjian, Armenian Poetry Proj-

ect; Tess Lewis, independent scholar- translator;

Carla Stockton, Lehman C, City U of New York

In the light of recent political and economic trends

counter to a more unied Europe, panelists assess

progress culturally and consider new approaches

and understandings of European literary cultures

and regions. Aiming for a new infrastructure for

European literature, our project, including the

Traka Europe Radio initiative, seeks to foster

greater openness and mutual regard among Euro-

pean literary communities toward a more shared

European identity.

195. From Atlantic to Global

7:00–8:15 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Yogita Goyal, U of

California, Los Angeles

Speakers: Magali Armillas- Tiseyra, Penn State

U, University Park; Elizabeth Maddock Dillon,

Northeastern U; Laura Anne Doyle, U of Mas-

sachusetts, Amherst; Joseph Rezek, Boston U;

JosephR. Slaughter, ColumbiaU

Recent shis from Atlantic frames focused on race,

slavery, and empire to a more nebulous model of the

global require further consideration of its method

ological and analytical valence. Panelists discuss

what we mean when we invoke the global as an as

piration, geopolitical fact, or conceptual imperative.

196. “Papers, Please”: Travel Documents

and Travel Writing

7:00–8:15 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum GS Travel Writ-

ing. Presiding: David Farley, St. John’s U, NY

1. “‘Don’t You Want Any Freedom?’: Inter-

sectional Approaches to Agency, Mobility, and

Subjectivity in Yoko Tawada’s Das nackte Auge,”

Didem Uca, U of Pennsylvania

2. “Border Crossings in Julia Alvarez’s A Wedding

in Haiti,” McKew Devitt, U of Vermont

3. “Glory to Trumpistan! Procedural Ethics and

Transformative Play in Papers, Please,” Melissa

Kagen, BangorU

4. “Travel Writing in Miniature: (Un)Documented

and the Documentary in the Trump Era,” Sigrid

Anderson Cordell, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

For related material, write to dgfarley@ gmail .com.

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Friday, 5 January

8:30 a.m.

197. Selected Topics in Romance Linguistics

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Romance

Linguistics. Presiding: Jason Doroga, CentreC

1. “Language in Meter: Positional Parallelism in

French, Italian, and Spanish,” Teresa Proto, U of

Leiden

2. “‘Moi Ø m’en Fou’: Topic Drop in Swiss Whats-

App Messages—A Cross- Linguistic Study on French

and Italian,” Franziska Stuntebeck, U of Zurich

3. “On Anticausative Middles in Spanish,” Ima-

nol Suarez- Palma, U of Arizona

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

aer 1Nov.

198. Digital Humanities as Critical

University Studies

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse C, Hilton

A special session

1. “Digital Humanities with a View: Beyond Re-

search, Teaching, and Service,” Roopika Risam,

Salem StateU

2. “An Analysis of Alternative Career Skills in

Academic Job Ads,” Beth Seltzer, Bryn MawrC

3. “Digital Humanities as Critical University

Studies: An Alt- Genealogy of DH Praxis,” Matt

Applegate, MolloyC

For related material, visit mapplega .com aer

15Sept.

199. Queering Brazilian Film Studies

8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Luso-

Brazilian. Presiding: AnnaM. Klobucka, U of

Massachusetts, North Dartmouth

1. “O amor que ousa dizer sua feminilidade,”

Carolina Castellanos Gonella, DickinsonC

2. “Balancing the Challenges of Queer (Male)

Visibility in Brazilian Contemporary Cinema,”

Simone Cavalcante DaSilva, U of Oregon

3. “In the Queer Saddle, Again: Boi Neon (2016),”

Jeremy Lehnen, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

200. Writing for a Broader Audience; or,

Academics Are Writers, Too

8:30–9:45 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center

Speaker: Jane Greenway Carr, CNN Digital

is workshop outlines the process and pleasures

of writing for general- audience publications, par

ticularly digital news and culture outlets. It provides

hands- on instruction and a forum to discuss becom

ing a humanities practitioner at any career stage,

making connections with editors and producers,

and translating academic expertise into accessible

prose without sacricing vital content and context.

201. Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams,

and New York City

8:30–9:45 a.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Ezra Pound Society and

the William Carlos Williams Society. Presiding:

Eric White, Oxford BrookesU

1. “‘Obscene / beyond Belief’: William Carlos

Williams’s (Sub)Urban Ambivalence,” Daniel

Burke, Loyola U, Chicago

2. “A Machine of Words, a Machine of Mirrors:

William Carlos Williams and Networked New

York,” Eric White

3. “Ezra Pound and Marianne Moore’s Shi from

the Syllabic Verse to Free Verse (1921–25),” Deme-

tres Tryphonopoulos, BrandonU

4. “‘Contempt of the Unit’: Early Pound and the

Unlyrical City,” Caitlin Hurst, New YorkU

For related material, write to tryphonopoulosd@

brandonu.ca aer 15 Sept.

202. Precarious Bodies and Caring in

Medieval Literature

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Andreea Marculescu,

U of Oklahoma

1. “Harming and Healing Precarious Bodies:

Networks of Enchantment in Malory’s Morte

D’Arthur,” ToryV. Pearman, Miami U, Hamilton

2. “e Precarious Leper in the Old French Ami

et Amile,” Stephanie Grace- Petinos, Hunter C,

City U of New York

3. “Sociality at the Margins in Petrus Alfonsi’s

Disciplina Clericalis,” Gabriel Ford, DavidsonC

4. “‘What Profyt Fyndest ow to Mourne So?’:

Sorrow and the Ethics of Reciprocity in omas

Hoccleve’s Regiment of Princes,” Sarah Wilson,

NorthwesternU

For related material, write to andreea

.marculescu@ ou .edu.

203. Anxious Pedagogies: Negotiating

Precarity and Insecurity in the Classroom

8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau West, Hilton

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Friday, 5 January 

A special session. Presiding: Shawna Ross, Texas

A&M U, College Station

Speakers: DouglasG. Dowland, Ohio Northern U;

Katie Dyson, Loyola U, Chicago; JasonB. Jones,

Trinity C, CT; Rachelle Joplin, U of Houston; Lee

Skallerup Bessette, U of Mary Washington; Bran-

don Walsh, U of Virginia

#States of Insecurity have entered our class-

rooms. Participants build on their pedagogical

experiences and apply aect theory to discuss the

sources of anxiety that plague our classroom and

share practical solutions for ameliorating this

anxiety while harnessing it for constructive uses.

Five- minute prepared comments precede a forty-

minute question- and- answer session.

204. e Indigenous Archive

8:30–9:45 a.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Indigenous

Literatures of the United States and Canada. Pre

siding: NancyJ. Peterson, Purdue U, West Lafayette

1. “Books, Bodies, and the Indigenous Archive,”

Amy Gore, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

2. “Writing in the Breach of Text and Memory:

e Recovery of Native or Indigenous Archives in

American Discourse,” BillyJ. Stratton, U of Denver

3. “‘e Truth Is Never in the Facts’: Archival

Profanation and Re- Revisionist History in Ste-

phen Graham Jones’s Ledfeather,” Darren Lone

Fight, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

4. “Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians and the

Indigenous Archive,” LauraM. Furlan, U of Mas-

sachusetts, Amherst

205. Assembling the Archive, Imagining

theAntilles

8:30–9:45 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Elise Arnold- Levene,

MercyC

1. “‘A Free and Spontaneous Movement of Your

Hearts’: Jean- Jacques Dessalines, C. L. R. James,

and the Autonomous Archive,” Mary- Grace Alba-

nese, Binghamton U, State U of New York

2. “Memory Cutouts: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and

the Caribbean Anthological Imagination,” Wendy

Virginia Muniz, New YorkU

3. “Archiving the Monte: Afro- Cuban Ethno-

graphic Imagination,” Elise Arnold- Levene

4. “e Puerto Rican ‘National’ Question in New

York’s Hispanic ‘Internationalist’ Press, 1939–45,”

Cristina Perez Jimenez, ManhattanC

For related material, write to earnoldlevene@

mercy .edu aer 1Nov.

206. Proust and Photography

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gibson, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Kathrin Yacavone,

Uof Nottingham

1. “‘Une vie trouée’: Proust, Photography, Au-

thorship,” Kathrin Yacavone

2. “e Intermittent Photograph,” Suzanne Guer-

lac, U of California, Berkeley

3. “Proust and Chronophotography,” Raymont

Patrick Ffrench, King’s C London

For related material, write to Kathrin .Yacavone@

nottingham.ac.uk aer 1Nov.

20 7. Surprised by Sin at Fiy

8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Milton Society of Amer-

ica and the Reception Study Society. Presiding:

Angelica Alicia Duran, Purdue U, West Lafayette

1. “e Poem as inking Machine,” LindaK.

Gregerson, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “‘Writing through’ Paradise Lost: Ronald John-

son’s Perspectivist Reading,” Marjorie Gabrielle

Perlo, StanfordU

3. “ere’s Such a ing as Freedom in Surprised

by Sin, and It’s a Good ing, Too,” John Leonard,

U of Western Ontario

Respondent: Stanley Eugene Fish, Florida Interna-

tionalU

208. Comparative, National, and World

Cinema I

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

A working group. Presiding: Rini Bhattacharya

Mehta, U of Illinois, Urbana

Participants: Tara Coleman, LaGuardia Commu-

nity C, City U of New York; Vivian Kao, Lawrence

Technological U; Laura Lee, Florida State U; Jef-

frey Leichman, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge;

Katharina Loew, U of Massachusetts, Boston;

Qinna Shen, Bryn Mawr C; Song Shi, Minzu U,

Beijing; Pavitra Sundar, HamiltonC

is working group brings together scholars who

have navigated the hybrid territory of cinema

studies in language and literature and in humani-

ties departments. All participants have a strong

interest in both literature and cinema and bring

their perspectives on at least one national cinema

and a comparative context in which that cinema

participates in a dialogue with another tradition.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ comparative- national- and- world-cinema/

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see534.

209. Literature, Aesthetics, and Cultural

Exchange between East Asia and Southeast

Asia and Britain and North America in the

Long Nineteenth Century I

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

A working group. Presiding: Elizabeth Chang, U of

Missouri, Columbia; RossG. Forman, U of War-

wick; Anna Maria Jones, U of Central Florida

Participants: JenniferL. Hargrave, Baylor U; Eliza-

bethH. Ho, U of Hong Kong; Jenny Holt, Meiji U;

Kendall Johnson, U of Hong Kong; Peter Kitson,

U of East Anglia; Waiyee Loh, U of Warwick;

Junjie Luo, Gettysburg C; Flair Donglai Shi, U of

Oxford; Sarah Tin, independent scholar

Scholars from several disciplines—En glish and

American literature and culture, comparative lit-

erature, Asian literature, and art history—explore

cultural and aesthetic exchanges between Asia and

the anglophone world in the long nineteenth cen-

tury and consider how these exchanges continue

to inform the global circulation of literature and

culture today.

For related material, visit bit.ly/long19c aer 17Nov.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

524 and 727.

210. Race and the Victorians I

8:30–9:45 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton

A working group

Participants: Zarena Aslami, Michigan State U;

Sukanya Banerjee, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee;

Jessica Durgan, Bemidji State U; Taryn Hakala,

Uof California, Merced; Mary- Catherine Har-

rison, U of Detroit- Mercy; Jodie Matthews, U of

Hudderseld; Michael Meeuwis, U of Warwick;

Lucy Sheehan, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi;

Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester C; Doreen ie-

rauf, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Assuming race is a complex, contested concept

rather than a self- evident or monolithic term

referring primarily to colonized peoples, partici-

pants challenge assumptions that Britishness is

synonymous with whiteness, examine representa-

tions of race in a wide variety of genres, compli-

cate theories of Victorian race, consider complex

relationships between race and other identity cat-

egories, and address pedagogical implications.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ race- and- the- victorians/ aer 1Nov.

For the other meeting of the working group,

see535.

211. eorizing the Refugee

8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC South Asian

and South Asian Diasporic. Presiding: Rajeswari

Sunder Rajan, New YorkU

Speakers: Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Shiv NadarU;

Paul Anthony Bové, U of Pittsburgh; Surabhi Dalal,

Jamia Millia Islamia; AamirR. Mui, U of Califor

nia, Los Angeles; BruceW. Robbins, ColumbiaU

Speakers seek to theorize the political gure of our

time: the refugee who, though stateless, remains

imbricated in the hypernationalism of militarized

borders. Speakers generate discussion concerning

a conceptual framework for the humanities that

can address the crisis of coercive mass migration,

symbolic gures of fear, and reducing of refugees

to bare life.

212. Humor and Satire in Online Formats

and on Social Media

8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the American Humor

Studies Association. Presiding: Peter Kunze, U of

Texas, Austin

1. “What Do Memes Want?” Randa El Khatib,

Uof Victoria

2. “‘Like a Realtor in Peoria’: Patton Oswalt,

Twitter, and Heckling as Social Activism,” Steven

Kapica, Fairleigh Dickinson U, Teaneck

3. “Comedy of Resistance by Lesbian YouTubers,”

Nayra Delgado Lopez, U of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

4. “Performing Whiteness: Brandon Miller’s In-

stagram Sensation ‘Joanne the Scammer,’ ” Mari-

annJ. VanDevere, VanderbiltU

213. Politicizing Women’s Bodies in the

Merkel Age

8:30–9:45 a.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by Women in German. Pre-

siding: Nicole Coleman, Wayne State U; Steen

Kaupp, U of Notre Dame

1. “Does Angela Merkel Still Have More to Of-

fer?” LynnM. Kutch, KutztownU

2. “Living Dirty: e Pregnant Body in Birgit

Vanderbeke’s Die Frau mit dem Hund,” Claire

Scott, DukeU

3. “‘Fiy Shades of Pantsuits’: Clothing, Power,

and the Woman’s Body in Merkel’s Germany,” An-

drea Schmidt, WillametteU

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214. Alternative Domesticities in the Works

of Doris Lessing

8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Doris Lessing Society.

Presiding: Cornelius Collins, FordhamU

1. “‘Rubbish of All Kinds’: Domesticity, Squalor,

and Squatting in Doris Lessing’s Fiction,” Mica

Hilson, American U of Armenia

2. “A Postcolonial Ecofeminist Reading of Less-

ing’s Move from Normative to Non- normative

Families,” Selcuk Senturk, U of Leicester

3. “Reimagining the Maternal in Doris Lessing’s

Apocalyptic Imaginative Memoirs,” Susan Wat-

kins, Leeds BeckettU

4. “Reading ‘e Grandmothers’ through Diski’s

In Gratitude and Nabokov’s Lolita,” Terry Reilly,

Uof Alaska, Fairbanks

For related material, visit dorislessingsociety

.wordpress .com/ mla/ current/ aer 1Oct.

215. Nonhuman Forms I

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton North, Hilton

A working group

Participants: Ron Ben- Tovim, Tel Aviv U; Brent

Dawson, U of Oregon; Rinni Haji Amran, UBru

nei Darussalam; Pia Heidemeier, U of Cologne;

Eunice Lim, Nanyang Technological U; Carlos Nu

gent, Yale U; Indu Ohri, U of Virginia; Samantha

Pergadia, Washington U in St. Louis; Emily Simon,

Brown U; Gregory Frank Tague, St. FrancisC

Humanistic inquiry of late is obsessed with the

nonhuman. Uncoupling the humanities from the

human, the range of approaches operating under

the umbrella of the nonhuman turn has recon-

gured the standard divide between subject and

object, agency and volition, person and thing.

Participants grapple with the nonhuman in all

its forms (from worms to cyborgs) and methods

(from animal studies to new materialism).

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ nonhuman- forms/ aer 31Dec.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

522 and 726.

216. Psychoanalytic Insecurities I

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton South, Hilton

A working group

Participants: ZahidR. Chaudhary, Prince ton U;

Eleanor Craig, Harvard Divinity School; DavidL.

Eng, U of Pennsylvania; Sheldon George, Simmons

C; Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School;

Azeen Khan, Dartmouth C; Ramsey McGlazer,

Uof California, Berkeley; Antonio Viego, Duke U;

Damon Young, U of California, Berkeley

Critiques from feminist, queer, critical race, and

postcolonial perspectives have struggled with

what it means to theorize with psychoanalysis.

Participants consider the risks and potenti-

alities that come with taking up psychoanalytic

frameworks. Why, when it raises political, episte-

mological, and disciplinary suspicions, does psy-

choanalysis remain compelling for analyzing race,

gender, coloniality, and sexuality?

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ psychoanalytic- insecurities/ aer 22Dec.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

523 and 730.

217. Marginality in Spanish eater I

8:30–9:45 a.m., Beekman, Hilton

A working group. Presiding: David Rodriguez-

Solas, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Participants: Jennifer Duprey, Rutgers U, Newark;

Esther Fernández, Rice U; Elena Garcia- Martin,

Uof Utah; Antonio Guijarro- Donadios, Worcester

State U; Cristina Martínez- Carazo, U of California,

Davis; Harrison Meadows, U of Tennessee, Knox

ville; Anton Pujol, U of North Carolina, Charlotte

Participants address how theater has presented and

represented marginal subjects from early modern

plays to our most immediate present. Group discus

sions aim at elucidating the theatrical mechanisms

by which the constant presence of marginal gures

on stage negotiates the nation’s social realities.

For related material, visit itpn .mla .hcommons

.org/ aer 1Nov.

For the other meeting of the working group,

see532.

218. Pre- Texts Workshop Series II

8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Doris Sommer, Har-

vardU

Speaker: Jason Charles Courtmanche, U of Con-

necticut, Storrs

is workshop series focuses on the practice of

interpreting a literary work through art making.

Participants experience connecting with a text,

emotionally and intellectually, by playing with it

to create a new work of art. e activity makes ex

perientially real how treating a piece of writing as

a pretext for play replaces fear of diculty with the

motivating energy of engaging with a challenge.

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Participants should plan to attend all three work-

shops (4, 218, and 494). Preregistration is required.

219. Political Philosophy in Melville

8:30–9:45 a.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Melville Society. Presid-

ing: Munia Bhaumik, EmoryU

1. “‘Diogenes in Disguise’: Cynicism and Politics

in e Condence- Man,” Michael Jonik, U of Sussex

2. “Killers, Whales,” Ana Schwartz, U of

Pennsylvania

3. “Melville and Democratic Portraiture: Moby-

Dick as American Laocoon,” Paulo Loonin, Wash-

ington U in St. Louis

4. “‘Dead en I’ll Be’: Melville, Hobbes, and the

Death of Politics,” Nathan Wol, TusU

Respondent: Jennifer Greiman, Wake ForestU

220. Rethinking South Asian America and

States of Insecurity

8:30–9:45 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the South Asian Literary As-

sociation. Presiding: Amritjit Singh, Ohio U, Athens

1. “States of Insecurity and Gendered Perfor-

mances in a Racialized Religion Era,” Umme Al-

wazedi, AugustanaC

2. “Domestic Revolution: Kartar Dhillon and

Early South Asian American Feminist Writing,”

Nalini Iyer, SeattleU

3. “Berkeley, the 1970s, and South Asian Student

Activism in the United States,” Auritro Majumder,

U of Houston

4. “First ey Came for the Blacks,” Deepika

Bahri, EmoryU

For related material, write to amajumder@ uh .edu

aer 1Dec.

221. Law, Literature, and Emotion

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the

Humanities. Presiding: MelissaJ. Ganz, Mar-

quetteU; KathrynD. Temple, GeorgetownU

Speakers: Todd Wayne Butler, Washington State U,

Pullman; Katherine Gilbert, Drury U; Tal Kastner,

New York U; Mark Kelley, U of California, San

Diego; Patrick Lawrence, U of South Carolina,

Lancaster; ChristineC. So, GeorgetownU

Panelists consider the relation between law and

emotion as seen in seventeenth- century En glish

tragedy, antebellum American piracy trials, Victo-

rian sensation ction, United States obscenity law,

the Black Lives Matter movement, and contempo-

rary Asian American literature. In doing so, the

session interrogates familiar dichotomies between

reason and emotion, law and literature, and truth

and performance.

222. Hannah Arendt: Totalitarianism

andTotality

8:30–9:45 a.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Philosophy

and Literature. Presiding: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek,

U at Bualo,State U of New York

1. “Spy Subjects, Imperial Censorship, Transla-

tion Overow: Abdulhamid II and Tyranny versus

Totalitarianism in Hannah Arendt,” Burcu Gursel,

KirklareliU

2. “Arendt’s Judgment and the Totality to Come,”

Paul Jaussen, Lawrence TechnologicalU

3. “e Anxious Techne of Mastery: Wittgen-

stein and Arendt on Sovereign Rules and Rulers,”

Jonathan Liebembuk, Graduate Center, City U of

NewYork

4. “Hannah Arendt’s Attitudes of ‘Non-

tyrannical’ inking,” Jana Schmidt, BardC

223. Black Literature Matters

8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the

Literatures of People of Color in the United States

and Canada. Presiding: Jesse Alemán, U of New

Mexico, Albuquerque

1. “Teaching Citizenship in Predominantly

White Classrooms,” Laura Vrana, Rutgers U, New

Brunswick

2. “Teaching Race within a Military Sphere,”

Trivius Caldwell, United States Military Acad.

3. “We Are Not Wrong: Black En glish and Black

Lives in the Classroom,” Reid Gomez, KalamazooC

4. “Black Lives and Just Endings: Hurston,

Wright, and Petry,” Adélékè Adéè

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, Ohio State U,

Columbus

224. From Anarchism to Assimilation: e

Making of Italian Americans

8:30–9:45 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Italian

American. Presiding: Nancy Caronia, West Vir-

ginia U, Morgantown

1. “An Inescapable Past: Working- Class Resis-

tance in Italian American Literature,” MicheleA.

Fazio, U of North Carolina, Pembroke

2. “Radical Prehistories of Italian America,”

Sarah Salter, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi

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3. “Radicalism, Nationalism, and Cultural Iden-

tity in Italian American Records of the 1920s,”

Isabella Livorni, ColumbiaU

Respondent: Mary Anne Trasciatti, HofstraU

225. Resisting Insecurity beyond

theAcademy

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on

Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and

Responsibilities. Presiding: Laura Goldblatt, U of

Virginia

Speakers: Amanda Armstrong, U of Michigan,

Ann Arbor; Bennett Carpenter, Duke U; omas

Dichter, Harvard U; SusanD. Fraiman, U of Vir-

ginia; Pranav Jani, Ohio State U, Columbus; David

Palumbo- Liu, StanfordU

Various of Trump’s executive orders have laid

bare the limits of academic privilege and freedom

while highlighting the need to make common

cause with those beyond the professoriat. For the

panelists, that realization came long ago; for them,

the academy has been a platform for social justice,

even when they occupy precarious positions. Pan-

elists consider eective strategies for organizing;

academia and activism are not contradictions.

226. New Work in Sixteenth- Century

French Literature and Culture

8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th- Century

French. Presiding: Phillip Usher, New YorkU

1. “Jean de la Taille ou l’action empêchée: ‘Drame’

des armes et des lettres à la n du XVI

siècle,”

Corinne Noirot, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and

StateU

2. “Oralized Print Culture in the Early Modern

French Tradition of Women’s Caquets,” Kath-

leenA. Loysen, Montclair StateU

3. “Telling True Crime Stories in the ‘Canards

sanglants,’” David LaGuardia, DartmouthC

227. Lessons of the Connected Academics

Proseminar on Careers

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Connected Aca-

demics Project. Presiding: Steve Olsen, MLA

Speakers: WilliamA. Gleason, Prince ton U; Sarah

Goldberg, Columbia U; Matthew Krumholtz,

HuPost; Charles Waite Mahoney, U of Connecti-

cut, Storrs; Graciela Montaldo, Columbia U; Maria

Seger, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

Proseminaralumni and faculty members discuss

their respective doctoral programs. Alumni con

sider which activities of the proseminar were most

valuable in broadening and supporting their career

ambitions; faculty members reect on the prose

minar’s impact on the department and how their

own thinking about careers, professional develop

ment, and mentoring has changed in response.

For related material, visit connect .mla .hcommons

.org/2018- mla- convention- activities/ aer 2Oct.

228. Early Modern Trans Studies

8:30–9:45 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Trans- Early- Modern,” Simone Chess, Wayne

State U; Will Fisher, Lehman C, City U of New York

2. “Trans Prosthetics and Creaturely Life in Early

Modern Literature,” ColbyW. Gordon, Bryn MawrC

3. “Using Gender as Negotiation: Varied Bod-

ies and Speech in Cavendish’s Writing,” Rachael

Green- Howard, U of Delaware, Newark

229. Fearmongering in Medieval Iberia

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval

Iberian. Presiding: ConnieL. Scarborough, Texas

TechU

1. “‘Los moros de la hueste’: Fearmongering in

the Alfonsine Corpus,” GregoryS. Hutcheson,

Uof Louisville

2. “Fear and Loathing in Ceuta: Islamophobia,

Warmongering, and Imperialism in Zurara’s

Crónica da tomada de Ceuta por el ReiD. João I,”

Marcelo Fuentes, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

3. “Las verdades de perogrullo al servicio de la

crítica religiosa: La Profecía de Evangelista,” Alo-

dia Martín- Martínez, Temple U, Philadelphia

230. e Futures of Afrofuturism

8:30–9:45 a.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: AmyJ. Elias, U of

Tennessee, Knoxville

Speakers: Tiany Barber, U of Rochester; Michael

Bennett, Arizona State U; André Carrington,

Drexel U; Michelle Commander, U of Tennessee,

Knoxville; Nettrice Gaskins, Boston Arts Acad.;

R. Scott Heath, Georgia State U; Alessandra

Raengo, Georgia StateU

Afrofuturism, an evolving pop genre, is a contem-

porary arts movement connecting the musical,

literary, and visual arts and combining elements

of science ction, speculative futurism, history,

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and fantasy with African and African diasporic

cultural history, politics, and aesthetics. Speakers

focus on how the genre is changing and on the

cultural import of that change in writing, music,

lm, digital media, and installation arts.

For related material, write to aelias2@ utk .edu.

231. Dangerous Certainty in Student Writing

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Joseph Creamer, U at

Albany, State U of New York

1. “Down with esis Statements: A Plea for In-

ventional Uncertainty in En glish Studies,” Kate

Pantelides, Middle Tennessee StateU

2. “It’s Hip to Be Unknowable: Embracing Episte-

mological Uncertainty in Course Design,” Robert

Wells Addington, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Respondent: Hillary Kelleher, U at Albany, State U

of New York

For related material, write to hkelleher@ albany

.edu aer 1Jan.

232. Nonwhite Romanticisms

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Manu Samriti Chan-

der, Rutgers U, Newark

1. “e Journals of Exilic Romance in the Ro-

mantic Revolutionary Age: El Colombiano and e

Liberal,” OmarF. Miranda, New YorkU

2. “Douglass, Byron, and Radical (Non)Exis-

tence,” Deanna Koretsky, SpelmanC

3. “Brown Romantic Bodies and the Pedagogy of

Abolition,” PatriciaA. Matthew, Montclair StateU

Respondent: Matt Sandler, ColumbiaU

233. (Post)Colonialities and Netherlandic

Literature

8:30–9:45 a.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Dutch. Pre-

siding: Johannes Burgers, Queensborough Com-

munity C, City U of New York

1. “Slavery on Scene: e Representation of Slav-

ery on the Dutch Stage from 1775 to 1825,” Sarah

Adams, GhentU

2. “Dutch Literature, Afrikaans Literature, and

the ‘World Republic of Letters’: e Literary eo-

retical Position Taking of André Brink in the 1974

Cape Trial of Kennis van die Aand,” Ted Laros,

Open U of the Netherlands

3. “‘Here Comes Jannie’: Contemporary Afri-

kaans Poets on the Dutch Colonization of the

Cape,” Francesca Terrenato, U of Rome

234. Who Owns the Text in is Class?

Open Pedagogy and Literary Studies

8:30–9:45 a.m., Midtown, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Timothy Robbins,

GracelandU

Speakers: Jeremy Dean, Hypothes.is; Joseph Don-

ica, Bronx Community C, City U of New York;

Amy Hofer, Linn- Benton Community C, OR;

Cheryl Hu, Germanna Community C, VA; Aly-

son Indrunas, Lumen Learning; Karen Lauritsen,

U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Alexis McMillan-

Clion, State U of New York, Geneseo

A diverse panel of OER (open educational re-

sources) advocates, from educators and librarians

to publishers and designers, engage open literary

pedagogy in its practical and philosophical as-

pects. Topics include designing and remixing open

textbooks, developing open and renewable assign-

ments, inventing strategies for open evaluation,

and managing open course access and privacy.

For related material, write to timothy .robbins@

graceland .edu aer 4Dec.

235. Outlaws, Pirates, and Bandits in Late

Imperial Chinese Fiction and History

(1574–1670)

8:30–9:45 a.m., Clinton, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: David Rolston, U of

Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. “e Rhetoric of the Bandit: Interpreting Out-

laws in e Water Margin,” Scott Gregory, U of

Arizona

2. “Pirates in Late Ming Chinese Fiction and His-

tory,” Yuanfei Wang, U of Georgia

3. “Containing the Bandit in Love and Enlighten-

ment: Generic Recombination in Returning to the

Lotus Dream,” Mengjun Li, U of Puget Sound

Respondent: David Rolston

Friday, 5 January

10:15 a.m.

237. e Matter of Writing

10:15 a.m.–12:00 noon, Murray Hill East, Hilton

Presiding: Suzanne Blum Malley, Columbia C, IL

Speakers: Jonathan Alexander, U of California,

Irvine; Kristine Blair, Youngstown State U; Doug-

las Eyman, George Mason U; Douglas Hesse, U of

Denver; DeborahH. Holdstein, Columbia C; Shir-

ley Wilson Logan, U of Maryland, College Park;

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Andrea Abernethy Lunsford, Stanford U; JohnL.

Schilb, Indiana U, Bloomington; Kathleen Yancey,

Florida StateU

is plenary brings together scholars of rhetoric

and composition studies, also known as writ-

ing studies, a discipline within En glish studies,

to share key concepts, theories, movements, and

agendas of the discipline, especially as it relates

to common issues faced by larger elds, such as

literary studies, in En glish departments and in

universities.

For related material, visit kairos .technorhetoric

.net/ stasis/2018 aer 1Jan.

238. Asian American Racial and Literary

Form, Postidentity

10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Joseph Jeon, PomonaC

1. “(Dis)Possessions: Racial Form and the Aer-

lives of War and Empire,” Crystal Parikh, New

YorkU

2. “Anti- atomic Identity in Neo- internment Nar-

ratives,” MichelleN. Huang, NorthwesternU

3. “Alien Abduction, Alien Form,” Tina Yih- Ting

Chen, Penn State U, University Park

4. “e Extravagance of A Little Life: Enguring

the Queer Vicissitudes of Asian American Form,

‘Post- Man,’ ” ChrisA. Eng, SyracuseU

For related material, write to ceng02@ syr .edu aer

2Oct.

239. Foreign? Rethinking and

Reconguring the Spaces for the Study and

Teaching of Language in Higher Education

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Oce of Pro-

grams. Presiding: Dennis Looney, MLA

1. “e Language of Foreign,” CarlosJ. Alonso,

ColumbiaU

2. “Bebakaaninwewinan: An Anishinaabemowin

Perspective of Indigenous Linguistic Diversity,”

MargaretA. Noodin, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

3. “Five Hundred Years of Arabic in America:

Otherizing the Neighbors—New Public Policy Di-

rections,” Samer Mahdy Ali, U of Michigan, Ann

Arbor

4. “Redesigning Institutional Spaces, Rethinking

Foreign, for Vibrant Language Study,” Sonja Rae

Fritzsche, Michigan StateU

240. Scottish Women Writers before 1900

10:15–11:30 a.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Scottish. Pre-

siding: Rivka Swenson, Virginia CommonwealthU

1. “Laughter Not Tears: Scottish Women Novel-

ists in the Age of Sensibility,” JoEllen DeLucia,

Central MichiganU

2. “Where We Never Were: Scottish Women

Writers at Walter Scott’s Abbotsford,” Caroline

McCracken- Flesher, U of Wyoming

3. “Margaret Todd’s Novel Mentorship in Mona

Maclean, Medical Student,” AnneM. Stapleton,

Uof Iowa

4. “Oliphant’s Stepsisters: e Fiction of Mayo,

Keddie, Sinclair, Swan, and Walford,” Juliet

Shields, U of Washington, Seattle

241. Demystifying the Job Search Process

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton North, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center

Speaker: Sarah Goldberg, ColumbiaU

An introduction to the job search process, this

workshop oers a high- level overview of the stages

of the job search, from career exploration and

industry research to interviewing and evaluating

oers. We also discuss strategies for managing

your search while in graduate school or another

job. Participants have the opportunity to generate

their own job search plan of action with feedback

from the facilitator.

242. e Tacky South

10:15–11:30 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Society for the Study

of Southern Literature. Presiding: Monica Miller,

Middle George StateU

Speakers: JillE. Anderson, Tennessee State U; Ni-

cole Carr, State U of New York, New Paltz; Isabel

Duarte- Gray, Harvard U; JarrodL. Hayes, Uof

Michigan, Ann Arbor; Sally Robinson, Texas

A&M U, College Station

According to theOxford En glish Dictionary, the

word tacky rst emerged around 1800 as a noun to

describe “a poor white of the Southern States from

Virginia to Georgia.” is denition suggests a clear

link between national stereotypes of region, race,

and class and urbane notions of taste and sensibil

ity. Panelists use the term’s origin to ask new ques-

tions about how Southern culture and identity have

been and continue to be associated with tackiness.

For related material, write to kburnett@ sk .edu.

243. New Itineraries of the Colonial

Picaresque

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse C, Hilton

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A special session. Presiding: Jorge Tellez, U of

Pennsylvania

1. “e Appropriation of the Pícaro in Andanzas

del Buscón Don Pablos por México y Filipinas (ca.

1768),” ChristinaH. Lee, Prince tonU

2. “Redressing the Dandy: Picaresque Novels and

the Loss of Empire,” SaraL. Lehman, FordhamU

3. “Pícaros, Precarity, and Intellectual Life in

Mexico,” Jorge Tellez

244. Censorship and Self- Censorship in

Premodern Italy

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Medi-

eval and Renaissance Italian. Presiding: Kristin

Phillips- Court, U of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “‘Dubita sempre, e vivi cautamente’: Doubt

and Self- Censorship in Sixteenth- Century Italy,”

Marco Faini, Villa I Tatti

2. “‘Natura pronus ad calamum’ (Sen. VII 1):

Petrarch’s Continuous Self- Censorship toward an

Unrealized ‘Final Copy’ of the Fragmenta,” Isa-

bella Magni, Indiana U, Bloomington

3. “Niccolò Carducci and Bartolomeo Sermar-

telli: Censorship or Self- Censorship?” Jelena

Todorovic, U of Wisconsin, Madison

245. “ey Can’t Take at away from Me”:

Lightning Shorts on e and Reclamation

in Financialized Late Capitalism

10:15–11:30 a.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Michelle Chihara,

WhittierC

Speakers: TanjaN. Aho, U at Bualo,State U of

New York; Olivia Banner, U of Texas, Dallas; Mi-

chelle Chihara; LisaA. Hinrichsen, U of Arkansas;

Christian Kloeckner, Barnard C; Polina Kroik,

Fordham U; Michael Mahoney, U of California,

Irvine; Leila Mansouri, U of California, Berkeley

In lightning shorts, we ask, Why does nance/ late/

neoliberal capitalism want to take [identity poli

tics/ social justice / nostalgia / empathy / viability/

care / diagnosis] away from me? With special atten

tion to intersectional strategies, each scholar iden

ties and pushes back against a specic aspect of

life understood as appropriated by late capitalism.

246. Herta Müller and the Romanian

Language, Culture, and Politics

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Romanian

1. “Herta Müller: Freedom of Words and Words

of Freedom,” Amy- Diana Colin, U of Pittsburgh

2. “Romanian as Metaphor and Metonymy

in Herta Müller’s Poetics,” Ramona Uritescu-

Lombard, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “e Poetics and Politics of Intertwined Lan-

guages in Herta Müller’s Works,” Anca Luca

Holden, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Respondent: Florina Catalina Florescu, Pace U,

New York

247. Medieval Futures

10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Middle En-

glish. Presiding: LisaH. Cooper, U of Wisconsin,

Madison

Speakers: Carolyn Dinshaw, New York U; Kara

McShane, Ursinus C; Timothy Miller, Sarah Law-

rence C; Arthur Russell, Case Western ReserveU;

RandyP. Schi, U at Bualo,State U of New

York; Bridget Whearty, Binghamton U, State U of

NewYork

Participants focus on the concept of futurity in

Middle En glish literature, media, and culture, as

well as the future of scholarship in the eld.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ middle- en glish/ aer 4Dec.

248. orstein Veblen’s e Higher Learning

in America at One Hundred

10:15–11:30 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Salita Seibert, Com-

munity C of Allegheny County, PA

1. “Universities and Gilded Ages: A Marxist Com-

mentary,” Barbara Clare Foley, Rutgers U, Newark

2. “Capitalist Production and Social Reproduc-

tion in e Higher Learning in America,” DavidB.

Downing, Indiana U of Pennsylvania

3. “orstein Veblen and the Misery of Assess-

ment,” Frank Donoghue, Ohio State U, Columbus

4. “Idle Curiosity, Good Work, and Academic La-

bor,” Heather Steen, U of California, Santa Barbara

For related material, write to heather .steen@

gmail .com aer 1Nov.

249. Latin Americanism aer Trump

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century Latin American. Presiding: Hector

Hoyos, StanfordU

Speakers: Karen Benezra, Columbia U; Jerey Law-

rence, RutgersU, New Brunswick; SophiaA. Mc-

Clennen, Penn StateU, University Park; Dierdra

Reber, U of Kentucky

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Following analytical position statements about

the mission and sustainability of the eld of

Latin Americanism vis- à- vis discourse by and

about Donald Trump, contributors explore three

domains: research implications, pedagogy, and

scholarly activism. Rather than focus on immedi-

ate considerations, pressing as they are, presenta-

tions situate the phenomenon in a longue durée.

For related material, write to hoyos@ stanford .edu.

250. Race and Aesthetics in French and

Francophone Culture I

10:15–11:30 a.m., Beekman, Hilton

A working group

Participants: Nasia Anam, Williams C; Jiewon

Baek, Covenant C; Alessandra Benedicty, City C,

City U of New York; Cecile Bishop, New York U;

Lia Brozgal, U of California, Los Angeles; Kate-

lyn Knox, U of Central Arkansas; Matt Reeck,

Uof California, Los Angeles; MarkA. Reid, U of

Florida; Zoe Roth, Durham U; Lise- SégolèneV.

Schreier, Fordham U; ChristopheM. Wall-

Romana, Uof Minnesota, Twin Cities

e working group explores what the study of the

aesthetic can contribute to emerging conversa-

tions about race in France and introduces a more

global context to critical race studies by bringing

it into dialogue with francophone studies. What

does it mean to see race in literature or use race

as an analytical tool? What makes a piece of art

about race? What are the critic’s role and responsi-

bilities in making race an object of study?

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ race- and- aesthetics- in- french- and

- francophone-culture/ aer 1Nov.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

493 and 773.

251. Narrative Empathy, Insecurity, and the

Humanities I

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton South, Hilton

A working group. Presiding: Barbara Simerka,

Queens C, City U of New York

Participants: Megan Boler, U of Toronto; Mark

Bracher, Kent State U; Emanuele Castano, New

School; WinnieW. Chan, Virginia Common-

wealth U; Suzanne Parker Keen, Washington and

Lee U; David Kidd, New School; Polina Kukar,

U of Toronto; Saumya Lal, U of Massachusetts,

Amherst; BraisD. Leon, Queens C, City U of New

York; Seth Michelson, Washington and Lee U;

Katharine Polak, WittenbergU

Scholars of literature, education, and cognitive

science address narrative empathy and #States of

Insecurity.Panelists report on empirical research

of empathy in the lab and classroom, update work

on the limits of narrative empathy, and oer stud

ies of global literatures and media that depict and

problematize empathy for victims of social and eco

nomic marginalization, violence, and incarceration.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ narrative- empathy- insecurity- and- the

- humanities/ aer 10Dec.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

492 and 772.

252. He Said WHAAT??!! Editing Oral

Texts for Print Publication

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Association for Docu-

mentary Editing

1. “Quotation Surgery: What’s Taught versus

What Really Happens,” Joseph Marren, Bualo

State C, State U of New York

2. “From Fidelity to Fluidity: oughts on Cra-

ing a Documentary History of Recorded Sound,”

Christopher Brick, George WashingtonU

3. “Read Emma: e Alchemy of Transcription,”

Candace Falk, U of California, Berkeley

For related material, write to cbrick@ gwu .edu.

253. eory and Praxis: Visual Media in the

Classroom I

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

A working group. Presiding: Lauren Gaskill, U of

California, Irvine

Participants: Matthew Dischinger, Georgia Inst.

of Tech.; AmyE. Elkins, Macalester C; Diego Fer-

nandez, U of California, Irvine; Jared McCoy, Uof

California, Irvine; Rose Phillips, U of the Incar-

nate Word; Sarah Welsh, U of Texas, Austin

Actor- network theory grants importance to ob-

jects as forces that shape the way we think, behave,

and relate to others. Maps, infographics, and data-

bases are some of our objects of inquiry. Brief oral

presentations precede short workshop modules,

which generalize the tools members have used in

the classroom and facilitate dialogue about meth-

ods and mechanics. is work across disciplines

connects us and aids our pedagogical growth.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/ groups/

theory- and- praxis- visual- media- in- the -classroom/.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

484 and 765.

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10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th- Century

En glish. Presiding: Steve Mentz, St. John’s U, NY

1. “e Terror of Tyranny: Sejanus and the Art

of Early Modern Horror,” HenryS. Turner, Rut-

gersU, New Brunswick

2. “Isabella Whitney’s Anti- anti- tyrannical Poet-

ics,” Stephanie Elsky, RhodesC

3. “Wyatt’s ralldom,” Drew Daniel, Johns Hop-

kins U, MD

255. Humanists in Tech

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse A, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Zachary Lamm, Lend-

ing Club

1. “Exploring the Ed- Tech Ecosystem: Finding, Re-

dening, and Mentoring the Next Generation of In-

novation,” Gina Sipley, Nassau Community C, NY

2. “Synergies between Humanities Education and

Technical Careers,” Armanda Lewis, New YorkU

3. “Design as Inquiry: Curricula for Training

Humanist Designers,” James Malazita, Rensselaer

Polytechnic Inst.

256. Open Hearing of the MLA Delegate

Assembly

10:15–11:30 a.m., Mercury Ballroom, Hilton

Presiding: Members of the Delegate Assembly Or-

ganizing Committee

is meeting is open only to MLA members.

During the open hearing, MLA members and

delegates may discuss all items on the Delegate

Assembly’s agenda except resolutions (for agenda

information, visit www .mla .org/ About- Us/

Governance/ Delegate- Assembly/ Delegate - Assembly

- Agenda/ aer 11Dec.). MLA members may also

present new matters of concern to the assembly.

257. Leonard Cohen: Everybody Doesn’tKnow

10:15–11:30 a.m., Regent, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global

Jewish. Presiding: Maya Barzilai, U of Michigan,

Ann Arbor

1. “Leonard Cohen and the Genres of Jewish Po-

etry,” Joshua Logan Wall, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “‘Just a Singer of Love Songs’: Leonard Cohen

and the Burden of Inspiration,” Rebecca Raphael,

Texas StateU

3. “Hineni, Hineni: Violent Ethics in the Lyrical

Poetry of Leonard Cohen,” ErinD. Gra Zivin,

Uof Southern California

4. “Concluding Verses: e Final Works of Leon-

ard Cohen and Yehuda Amichai,” Sheera Talpaz,

Prince tonU

258. Questioning Precarity in the

GlobalSouth

10:15–11:30 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC African

since 1990. Presiding: Moradewun Adejunmobi,

Uof California, Davis

1. “Who is Precarious Now?” John Macintosh,

Uof Maryland, College Park

2. “e Precarious Mobility of the Digital Brown

Worker,” Sagnika Chanda, U of Pittsburgh

3. “City Limits: Bulawayo beyond Precarity,”

Pashmina Murthy, KenyonC

4. “Protesting Precarity in Film,” Rita Keresztesi,

U of Oklahoma

259. Canadian Exceptionalism

10:15–11:30 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Rachel Bryant, Dal-

housieU

1. “ere Goes the Neighborhood: Rituals of Pos-

session in ‘e Rising Village,’” Rachel Bryant

2. “Settler Colonial Peer Review: e Newspapers

of Nineteenth- Century Indian Boarding Schools

in Canada and the United States,” Jane Grith,

Uof Toronto

3. “Multicultural Realities and Complications in

Works by Louis Goulet and Paulette Dubé,” Annie

Rehill, Anne Arundel Community C, MD

4. “No Celebrity, Please; We’re Canadian: Cana-

dian Exceptionalism and Celebrity Denial in the

Age of Trump,” Lorraine York, McMasterU

For related material, write to rbryant@ dal.ca aer

1Nov.

260. Engendering Dierent Catalan

Enunciations

10:15–11:30 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Catalan

Studies. Presiding: Henry Berlin, U at Bualo,

State U of New York

1. “‘Roots Firmly in Place’ and ‘Arms Outstretched

to the Rest of the World’: Catalonia’s Architectural

Striving,” Remei Capdevila- Werning, OberlinC

2. “Jo també vull sexe and Vivir y otras cciones:

Screening Sexuality and Disability as a Political

Tool,” Robert Casas Roige, StanfordU

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3. “Marc Recha’s Un dia perfecte per volar and the

Art of Shared Experiences,” Lidia Carol- Gerones,

Udegli Studi di Verona

4. “Joan Miró’s and La Claca’s Mori el Merma

(1978),” Alicia Hernandez Grande, NorthwesternU

261. New Directions in Multiethnic

American Literature

10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by MELUS: e Society for the

Study of the Multi- Ethnic Literature of the United

States. Presiding: Christopher Gonzalez, Utah

StateU

1. “Breaking the Postracial Frame: New Ap-

proaches to New Histories in John Lewis’s March,”

Jorge Santos, C of the Holy Cross

2. “Beyond Authenticity: Writing against the

Shadow of History in Contemporary African Amer

ican Fiction,” SterlingL. Bland, Rutgers U, Newark

3. “Black Soldiers as Suering Heroes: e First

World War, Racial Melodrama, and African

American Citizenship,” Blake Wilder, U of Mary-

land, College Park

4. “Octavia Butler and Marge Piercy: Intersec-

tions of Multiethnic Literatures and Ecocriticism,”

Marc DiPaolo, Southwestern Oklahoma StateU

Respondent: John Wharton Lowe, U of Georgia

262. Psychoanalysis and Deleuze

10:15–11:30 a.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Psychology,

Psychoanalysis, and Literature. Presiding: Fran-

cesL. Restuccia, BostonC

1. “Structure and Resistance,” Audrey Wasser,

Miami U, Oxford

2. “e Paranoid Style: Psychoanalysis, Schizo-

analysis, and American Politics,” Gregory Flax-

man, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

3. “e Project of Clinical Anthropology in De-

leuze and Lacan,” Aaron Schuster, U of Chicago

263. Considering the Contemporary:

(Post)Modern Greek Cinema and Literature

10:15–11:30 a.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the Modern Greek Studies

Association. Presiding: Adam Goldwyn, North

Dakota StateU

1. “Can Elephants Dance? On Recent Greek His-

torical Novels,” GerasimusM. Katsan, Queens C,

City U of New York

2. “Crisis of Verse: oughts on the Lyric and Con-

temporary Greece,” George Fragopoulos, Queens-

borough Community C, City U of New York

3. “e Child Reading: Children’s Fiction in

Greece,” Lissi Athanasiou- Krikelis, New York Inst.

of Tech.

264. Spies, Traitors, and Snitches

10:15–11:30 a.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Renais-

sance and Early Modern. Presiding: PatriciaE.

Grieve, ColumbiaU

1. “Rhetoric, Sincerity, and Dissimulation in the

Querelle des Femmes,” EmilyC. Francomano,

GeorgetownU

2. “Hechos a observar su semblante: Unmasking

Body Language in the Spanish Imperial Archive,”

Jenny Marie Forsythe, U of California, Los Angeles

3. “e Erotics of Secrecy,” Benjamin Miele, U of

the Incarnate Word

Respondent: Jean Elizabeth Howard, ColumbiaU

265. Salon Wars: e Historiography of

Elite Women Intellectuals in the French

Enlightenment

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th-

Century French. Presiding: Andrew Herrick Clark,

FordhamU

Speakers: Susan Dalton, Ude Montréal; Chloe Ed-

mondson, Stanford U; Katharine Hamerton, Co-

lumbia C, IL; Laurence Marie, Columbia U; Elena

Russo, Johns Hopkins U, MD; Joanna Stalnaker,

ColumbiaU

Following the work of Fumaroli, Goodman, Gor-

don, Lilti, and Russo, scholarship has emerged on

the impact of salons and salonnières on political

and philosophical discourse in the eighteenth

century and on the extent to which salon culture

continued previous forms of aristocratic privilege

or opened new discursive and political spaces.

is scholarship has brought new attention to the

neglected writings of elite women associated with

the Enlightenment.

266. Documenting the Geography of the

Global Hispanophone

10:15–11:30 a.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global His-

panophone. Presiding: Joyce Tolliver, U of Illinois,

Urbana

1. “Inventing the Spanish Empire in the Pacic:

Jesuit Writings on the Edges of the Spanish Em-

pire (1581–1667),” AnaM. Rodríguez- Rodríguez,

U of Iowa

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2. “Rethinking Intercoloniality: Philippine Lit-

erature in Spanish across the Pacic,” Paula Park,

WesleyanU

3. “Dispossessions: Warscape, Migrant Text, and

the Limits of the Archive,” Gorica Majstorovic,

StocktonU

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ global- hispanophone/.

267. New Research in Germanic Philology

and Linguistics

10:15–11:30 a.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Germanic

Philology and Linguistics. Presiding: Heiko Wig-

gers, Wake ForestU

1. “Cloudy with a Chance of Metaphor: Talking

about Weather and Climate in Middle High Ger-

man,” Adam Oberlin, Prince tonU

2. “Unequal Equality: Erec as Head of His Wife in

Hartmann von Aue’s Erec,” Jonathan Seelye Mar-

tin, Prince tonU

3. “Issues in Linguistic Integration: Recent En-

glish Loan Words in German,” omasF. Shan-

non, U of California, Berkeley

268. Teaching the Fragments: En glish

Education, Democracy, and Digital Media

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the College En glish

Association

Speakers: Ellen Carillo, U of Connecticut, Storrs;

LauraJ. Davies, State U of New York, Cortland;

Benjamin Keating, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor;

Laura Lisabeth, St. John’s U, NY; Shane McCoy, U

of Washington, Seattle; Annemarie Perez, Loyola

Marymount U; Ah- Young Song, Teachers C, Co-

lumbiaU

Panelists explore the role of En glish education

in an age of rising populism and rampant social

fragmentation. How can En glish teachers work

to heal an increasingly divided nation? How can

we use the tools of our trade—close reading, the

poem, the novel, the essay—to teach citizenship in

a digital age? Is this a battle even worth ghting?

Or is critical literacy, and maybe even the idea of

education as a democratizing force, outdated?

269. Beauvoir Studies Today: What Place for

Literature in a Postdisciplinary World?

10:15–11:30 a.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the Simone de Beauvoir So-

ciety. Presiding: Meryl Altman, DePauwU

Speakers: Meryl Altman; Alexander Antonopou-

los, Concordia U; Maria- Isabel Corbi- Saez, U of

Alicante; Gwendolyn Dolske, California State

Polytechnic U, Pomona; Kathryn Gines, Penn

State U, University Park; Kyoo Lee, John JayC,

City U of New York; Qrescent Mali Mason,

BereaC; Verónica Zebadúa Yánez, New School

Serious interest in the writing of Simone de

Beauvoir is undergoing something of a renais-

sance. Within philosophy, she has emerged from

Sartre’s shadow and is now recognized as a major

twentieth- century social thinker; new translations

have made her ideas accessible to anglophone

readers as never before. Yet even though Beauvoir

herself ranked her novels among her most satisfy-

ing achievements, literary studies seems to have

lagged behind. What happens next?

270. Byron and Politics

10:15–11:30 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Byron Society of America.

Presiding: Jack Wasserman, Byron Soc. of America

Speakers: Jonathan Gross, DePaul U; Piya Pal-

Lapinski, Bowling Green State U; Andrew Warren,

HarvardU

Participants explore the life and works of Lord By-

ron in relation to the politics of his own time and

ours, with emphasis on the Congress of Vienna

and the future of Europe, and discuss howByron’s

political writings and personal engagements im-

pacted European culture, politics, and art in the

post- Napoleonic context. Part of Romantic Bicen-

tennials(romantics200.org), the session engages

the long legacy of Romanticism.

271. e Politics of Sound in

PostcolonialStudies

10:15–11:30 a.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Akshya Saxena,

VanderbiltU

1. “Way Out West: ree Ways to Sound Like a

Movie Star in West Africa,” Tsitsi Jaji, DukeU

2. “Hide and Seek: Accented Voices and Audiovi-

sual Frames in Call- Center Documentaries,” Pooja

Rangan, AmherstC

3. “Story, Story: Voices from the Global Market-

place,” Daniel Morse, U of Nevada, Reno

272. e Persistence of Boethius

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the International Boethius

Society. Presiding: Leslie Agnes Taylor, indepen-

dent scholar

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1. “O the Grid: e Consolatio as Hermit Dis-

course,” JeereyH. Taylor, Metropolitan StateU

2. “e History of Reception of Boethius in Ger-

many from the Sixteenth through the Twentieth

Centuries,” Albrecht Classen, U of Arizona

3. “Victorian Echoes of Boethius,” Leslie Agnes

Taylor

4. “Glimpses of the All- Time: Exploring Boethian

Eternities and Bergonsian Pure- Pasts in Postwar

Cinema,” David Boyd, U of Glasgow

273. Early Drama in the Americas

10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the Medieval and Renais-

sance Drama Society. Presiding: Mary Maxine

Browne, Purdue U, West Lafayette

1. “El gran teatro del mundo in New Spain: Translat-

ing Calderón into Náhuatl,” Obed Lira, HarvardU

2. “Insecure Receptions: Sor Juana’s San Her-

menegildo, the Inquisition, and Náhuatl eater,”

Ben Post, Murray StateU

3. “Forms of ‘Unsettlement’ in Early En glish

Drama,” Caro Pirri, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

4. “e Blockade of Boston: Early American

Drama beyond the Script,” Betsy Klimasmith,

Uof Massachusetts, Boston

274. Literary History aer the Nation?

10:15–11:30 a.m., Empire Ballroom East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century En glish and Anglophone. Presiding:

PeterJ. Kalliney, U of Kentucky

Speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Carleton U; Susan

Stanford Friedman, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Eric

Hayot, Penn State U, University Park; Ato Quay

son, U of Toronto; Jahan Ramazani, U of Virginia

What models of literary history are possible now

that the nation no longer provides stable disci-

plinary markers? Since scholars of literature have

embraced the challenge of expanding the cultural,

geographic, and linguistic scope of our work, is

literary history becoming obsolete, or is this an

exciting time to reconsider the question with fresh

angles of approach? What are the most promising

theories and new methods in literary history?

275. Navigating the MLA: A Guide for East

Asian Scholars

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC East Asian.

Presiding: Paul Manfredi, Pacic LutheranU

Speaker: ChristopherM. Lupke, U of Alberta

A practically oriented session for newcomers to

the MLA on how to navigate the association and

its various elements. e rst half of the session

outlines such features as how to submit a session

proposal, MLA organizational structure and gov-

ernance, and navigating the MLA Web site and

MLA Commons. e second half features open

questions and discussion.

276. Paris in Postwar Jewish Literary Memory

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton

A special session

1. “A City of My Own: Paris and Desire in the

Works of Patrick Modiano and Georges Perec,”

Amira Dan, YorkU

2. “Streetwalking Paris: Transgressive

Cityscapes,” SaraR. Horowitz, YorkU

3. “Algerian Echoes in Modiano and Perec’s City-

scapes of Holocaust Memory,” Sarah Hammer-

schlag, U of Chicago

277. “Drama Is the Capstone of Poetry”:

Robert Frost and Shakespeare

10:15–11:30 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Robert Frost Society.

Presiding: Robert Bernard Hass, EdinboroU

1. “‘From Day to Day’: Shakespeare, Frost, Hecht,

and the Dramatic Element,” David Yezzi, Johns

Hopkins U, MD

2. “‘e New Art of Speech’: Shakespeare, Sidney

Lanier, and Robert Frost,” Mark Steed Richardson,

DoshishaU

3. “‘e Play’s the ing,’ but Does at Make

Poetry a Dierent ing?” Gordon Clapp, inde-

pendent scholar

For related material, write to rhass@ edinboro .edu.

278. e Art of Memoirs: Henry James’s

Recollections, Recollections of Henry James

10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Henry James Society

1. “Henry James, Cartographer: Recovering a

eory of Reading in Italian Hours,” Lindsey

Holmes, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi

2. “‘Sning Up the Strange’: Henry James’s Devel-

oping Taste for the City,” David Hobbs, New YorkU

3. “Abysses of Association: On Henry James aer

William James’s Death,” Michael Jonik, U of Sussex

4. “‘e Romance of Life’ in Henry James’s A

Small Boy and Others,” omas Constantinesco,

UParis Diderot

Respondent: Wendy Graham, VassarC

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279. Fabrications, Old and New

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS 18th- Century.

Presiding: Natania Meeker, U of Southern California

1. “‘e ing Which Was Not’: Swi’s Revolu-

tion in Consciousness,” Helen Deutsch, U of Cali-

fornia, Los Angeles

2. “Fiction, Fabrication, and Slander: e Use of

Metaction in the Querelle des Femmes,” Valen-

tina Denzel, Michigan StateU

3. “Cra Aesthetics and Interiority,” AbigailS.

Zitin, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

Respondents: Paul Kelleher, Emory U; Natania

Meeker

280. Spenser and the Machine

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the International Spenser

Society. Presiding: Stephen Guy- Bray, U of British

Columbia

1. “Machinic Translations: Talus, Aective Re-

sponse, and Interlingual Communication in e

Faerie Queene,” Kristen McCants, U of California,

Santa Barbara

2. “Spenser’s Allegorical Machine and the Con-

sciousness of Space,” Yulia Ryzhik, U of New

Mexico, Albuquerque

3. “Spenser’s Stanza in the House of Care,” Col-

leen Rosenfeld, PomonaC

281. e World in Motion: Transnational

Environmental Approaches to Forced

Movements, Migrations, and RefugeSeeking

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global

South. Presiding: RosemaryJ. Jolly, Penn State U,

University Park

1. “e Local- Global Connections in Chinese

Migrant Workers’ Literature,” Xiaojing Zhou, U of

the Pacic

2. “e Documented and the Undocumented:

Indigenous Migrants and Refuge- Seeking Immi-

grants,” Basuli Deb, City U of New York

282. e Literature of Australia

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the American Association

of Australian Literary Studies. Presiding: Brenda

Machosky, U of Hawai‘i, West O‘ahu

1. “‘A Den of Wild Beasts’: Discourse and Devi-

ance in Charlotte Wood’s e Natural Way of

ings,” Laura White, Middle Tennessee StateU

2. “e Silent Sublime in Nicolas Rothwell’s Wings

of the Kite- Hawk,” Stephane Cordier, U of Sydney

3. “Arriving: At Sea,” Brigitta Olubas, U of New

South Wales

Respondent: Brenda Machosky

For related material, write to machosky@ hawaii

.edu aer 1Dec.

283. Nonction Prose in a “Post-

Factual”World

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom

East,Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Nonction

Prose. Presiding: Brian McGrath, ClemsonU

1. “Rumors of the American Civil War: Entwined

Legacies of Fact and Fiction,” ElizabethD. Samet,

United States Military Acad.

2. “e ‘Post- Truth’ Era, in eory,” Taylor Schey,

MacalesterC

3. “Truth in Memoir: A Stylistic Analysis,” Tess

McNulty, HarvardU

284. Climate Science, Climate Narrative:

Historical Perspectives

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Science and

Literature. Presiding: Allison Carruth, U of Cali-

fornia, Los Angeles

1. “e Dark Green: Plants, Cli- Fi, and the An-

thropocene,” HeatherI. Sullivan, TrinityU

2. “Cloud Extinction and Speculative Climate

Change in Mexican Modernismo,” Carolyn For-

no, LycomingC

3. “Mapping the Vertical Atmosphere: From Bal-

loon Flights to Sci- Fi,” Elizabeth Callaway, U of Utah

Respondent: Randy Ontiveros, U of Maryland,

College Park

For related material, visit allisoncarruth .com/

talks- lectures/ aer 31Oct.

285. Open Hearing on Resolutions

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Mercury Ballroom, Hilton

Presiding: Members of the Delegate Assembly Or-

ganizing Committee

is meeting is open only to MLA members.

During this hearing, MLA members and delegates

may discuss the regular resolutions that are on

the Delegate Assembly’s agenda. (For informa-

tion on these resolutions—those submitted by

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Friday, 5 January 

1Oct.—visit www .mla .org/ About- Us/Governance/

Delegate- Assembly/ Delegate- Assembly- Agenda/

aer 11Dec.) MLA members may also submit

emergency resolutions to the presiders until the

12:30 p.m. submission deadline.

286. Institutional Histories of African

Literature

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC African to

1990. Presiding: Wendy Laura Belcher, Prince tonU

1. “A Brief History of the University of Calabar

International Conference on African Literature

and the En glish Language, 1981–Present,” Ernest

Emenyonu, U of Michigan, Flint

2. “Between Bandung Ideals and the Cold War:

e Afro- Asian Writers Association and the Jour-

nal Lotus,” Monica Popescu, McGillU

3. “Mambo Press and the Growth of African Lit-

erature in Zimbabwe, 1957–95,” Mark Malisa, U of

West Florida

4. “Su Stories in Performance: Institutional

Echoes of Bomba Mas Xam,” Brian Quinn, U of

Colorado, Boulder

287. Black and White: Opposites, Tensions,

and Many Shades of Gray in Between

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Association

of Teachers of Italian. Presiding: ColleenM. Ryan,

Indiana U, Bloomington

1. “Race and Sexuality in Italian American Di as-

po ric Pulp Fiction,” Clarissa Clo, San Diego StateU

2. “Black and White, America, and Italy,” Mary

Ann McDonald Carolan, FaireldU

3. “Reection of ‘Many Italies’: Toward an Italian

Ethnicity as a Cosmopolitan Category, Reconcil-

ing Contrasting Literary Representations in the

Poetry of the Italian Diaspora,” Anna Ciam-

parella, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

4. “Gender Meets Race in Spike Lee’s Italian and

Italian American Films,” Ryan Calabretta- Sajder,

U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

288. History, Memory, and War in Nordic

Film and Fiction

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Nordic.

Presiding: Dean Krouk, U of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “Literary Mediation and Reception of Memo-

ries of War: Hallgrímur Hallgrímsson’s ‘Under the

Republic’s Flag,’” Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir,

U of Iceland; Daisy Neijmann, U of Iceland

2. “e Poetics of Otherness in Recent Norwe-

gian Fiction on the Second World War,” Åse Marie

Ommundsen, Oslo and Akershus U C; Leiv Sem,

NordU

3. “A New Past: How the TV Series 1864 Became

a Victim of the Danish Culture Wars,” Claus El-

holm Andersen, U of Wisconsin, Madison

289. Transatlantic Translations of Trans*

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Slavic and

East European. Presiding: JessieM. Labov, Central

EuropeanU

1. “Learning from Gombrowicz: Trans- Atlantyk

and Its Legacies in Queer and Trans* Cultural

Representation,” Vitaly Chernetsky, U of Kansas

2. “Hungry Palimpsests: Food, Queerness, and

Ukrainian- Canadian Diasporic Memory in

Marusya Bociurkiw’s Comfort Food for Breakups,”

Sandra Joy Russell, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

3. “Queer and Transgender Representation in

Latvian Émigré Literary Culture,” Kārlis Vērdiš,

Washington U in St. Louis

Respondent: Brian James Baer, Kent State U, Kent

290. Aect and the Romance Epic

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the Société Rencesvals,

American- Canadian Branch. Presidin g: Mat-

thewJ. Bailey, Washington and LeeU

1. “e Malmaridada in the Epic and Ballad

Traditions of the Sixteenth Century: ‘La bella mal-

maridada,’” Emily Colbert Cairns, Salve ReginaU

2. “Aect in Portrayals of the Young Cid,” Mat-

thewJ. Bailey

3. “Ambivalent Fame: Llull’s Blanquerna as a Re-

luctant Public Figure,” Noel Blanco Mourelle, C of

William and Mary

4. “e Permeable Self: An Intersectional Ap-

proach to Gender and Identity in the Poema de

mio Cid and Los siete infantes de Lara,” Rebecca

De Souza, U of Nottingham

291. Specialisms in the Anxiety of the Global

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Gayatri Chakravorty

Spivak, ColumbiaU

Speakers: Hosam Mohamed Aboul- Ela, U of Hous-

ton; Emily Apter, New York U; Anne Freeland,

Columbia U; Juan Obarrio, Johns HopkinsU,

MD; Hortense Jeanette Spillers, VanderbiltU;

Luis Tapia Mealla, CIDES- UMSA, La Paz; Sinclair

omson, New YorkU

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ere is a general enthusiasm today for a global

South, even though the concept ignores the

heterogeneity of spaces beyond Europe and the

United States. is session explores methods that

might dismantle the homogenizing of regions be-

yond the metropolis as monolithic in, for example,

discourses of insecurity. Its case study is the

production of theory written outside Europe and

the United States as a provocative response to the

North’s uninstructed enthusiasm for the South.

292. Bollywood’s New Woman

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Anupama Arora, U of

Massachusetts, Dartmouth

1. “Global Genres and Local Women in the New

Bollywood Films of Vishal Bhardwaj and Abhishek

Chaubey,” Madhavi Biswas, U of Texas, Dallas

2. “License, Liberty, and Liberalization: Con-

sumer Pleasures and Bollywood’s En- gendered

Distribution of Moral Capital,” Megha Anwer,

Purdue U, West Lafayette

3. “Journeys of the Self: Global Travel and the

Female Bildungsroman in New Bollywood,” Anu-

pama Arora

4. “Mera Saaya: Shadows of the Woman in Bolly-

wood’s Cultural Imagination,” Aparajita De, U of

the District of Columbia

For related material, write to megha .anwer@

gmail .com.

293. Teaching at Teaching- Intensive

Institutions

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center.

Presiding: HowardB. Tinberg, Bristol Community

C, MA; Emily Todd, Westeld StateU

is workshop helps doctoral students and recent

PhDs get a sense of what it’s like to make a career

at a regional public university, community college,

or small teaching college. How do you balance

teaching with (some) research and service? Who

are the students, and what are the challenges fac-

ing them? Workshop leaders help you prepare job

applications tailored to these kinds of institutions.

294. e Rhetoric of (New) Fascism

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Nidesh Lawtoo,

U of Bern

1. “Donald Trump and the New Fascism,” Wil-

liam Connolly, Johns Hopkins U, MD

2. “‘Besides, We Weren’t Racists or Fascists’:

Sloterdijk, Houellebecq, and the Violence of Sub-

mission,” Chet Lisiecki, ColoradoC

3. “‘Brexit Means Brexit’: Hypnosis, Contagion,

and Strategies of the ‘New Right,’” Elisabetta

Brighi, U of Westminster

4. “Digital Totalism and Writing Pedagogy,” Eric

Rawson, U of Southern California

295. Yiddish and the Political

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Yiddish. Pre-

siding: Samuel Spinner, Johns Hopkins U, MD

1. “Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Apolitical: A

Yiddish Literature Success Story,” Agnieszka Le-

gutko, ColumbiaU

2. “Neoconservative Yiddish Scholarship,” Adi

Mahalel, U of Maryland, College Park

3. “‘Language Is Migrant’: Yiddish Anarchist Lan-

guage Politics,” Anna Elena Torres, U of Chicago

Respondent: Anastasiya Lyubas, Binghamton U,

State U of New York

296. Mediality and Intermediality: Seeing,

Hearing, and Storytelling in Nineteenth-

Century German Culture

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th- and

Early- 20th- Century German. Presiding: Jona-

thanS. Skolnik, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

1. “‘Selbst die Szene ... spricht in geheimen

Anklängen’: Intermedial Writing and the Secrets

of Musical Language inE. T. A. Homann’s Don

Juan (1813),” Emily Dreyfus, U of Chicago

2. “e Mixed- Media Aesthetics of Illustrated

Nineteenth- Century German Fashion Periodi-

cals,” Vance LaVarr Byrd, GrinnellC

3. “Intermedial Storytelling in Nineteenth-

Century Germany: Karl May’s Fictional Universe,”

Leigh York, CornellU

4. “Intermedialität im Verschwommenen: Un-

schärfe in der Kurzprosa und Lyrik der Moderne,”

Christian Metz, CornellU

297. e Seventeenth- Century Lyric:

inking through Poetry

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-

Century En glish. Presiding: Achsah Guibbory,

BarnardC

1. “Marvell’s Perversions,” Molly Murray, Colum-

biaU

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2. “Songs of Inexperience: e Birth of Con-

sciousness in Vaughan and Traherne,” Timo-

thyM. Harrison, U of Chicago

3. “Paradise Lost and the Triumph of Lyric,” Kim-

berly Johnson, Brigham Young U, UT

298. 4H: History, Hamilton, and Hip- Hop

in High School

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Empire Ballroom

West,Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Children’s

and Young Adult Literature. Presiding: Jan Chris-

topher Susina, Illinois StateU

1. “History in ree Minutes: Interrogating the

Uses of Billy Joel’s List Song,” JenniferA. Low,

Florida AtlanticU

2. “21: e Story of Roberto Clemente: Teaching

History through Graphic Biography,” Joshua Ad-

ams, DePaulU

3. “‘Freedom’ in History: Teaching Beyoncé and

Kendrick Lamar’s BET Performance,” Bethany

Jacobs, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

4. “Resignifying the Body of History: Hamilton

and Hybrid, Subaltern Forms,” SandraK. Stanley,

California State U, Northridge

299. Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be

America Again” Revisisted

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Langston Hughes Society

1. “‘My God, I Says, You Can’t Live at Way!’:

Langston Hughes and the Low- Down Folks,”

RichardW. Hancu, MisericordiaU

2. “‘Va por el mundo Gustavo siempre adelante,

adelante’: e Politics of Becoming in Langston

Hughes’s Translations of Nicolas Guillen,” Chris-

tian Bancro, U of Houston

3. “A Song of Bitter Rivers: Langston Hughes’s

Gothic America,” eodora Sakellarides, Lebanon

ValleyC

4. “A Vision of Race, Caste, and Class in Langs-

ton,” Amritjit Singh, Ohio U, Athens

300. Green Arthur

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Arthurian.

Presiding: MollyA. Martin, U of Indianapolis

1. “Pastoral Assemblages in Culhwch ac Olwen:

Green Resistance to the Giant,” Sarah Sprouse,

Texas TechU

2. “Human Wastelands: Transcorporeality and

Aristocratic Excess in Sir Percyvell of Galles,”

RandyP. Schi, U at Bualo,State U of New York

3. “Seeds of Knowledge: e Fortied Landscapes

of Chrétien’s Le conte du Graal,” KellyAnn Fitz-

patrick, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Darcy Mullen, U at

Albany,State U of New York

301. Psychoanalysis, the Academy, and

theSelf

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Regent, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Psychoana-

lytic Association. Presiding: Madelon Gohlke

Sprengnether, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

“‘Could You Direct Me to the Individuology De-

partment?’: Psychoanalysis, the Academy, and the

Self,” Nancy Chodorow, Harvard Medical School

302. Eyewitnessing and Early American

Literature

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Alexander Mazza-

ferro, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

Speakers: Allison Bigelow, U of Virginia; Jerey

Glover, Loyola U, Chicago; Emily Ogden, U of Vir-

ginia; Sarah Rivett, Prince ton U; Kelly Wisecup,

NorthwesternU

Panelists explore the wealth of recent scholarship

on New World knowledge production, from sci

entic and medical discourses to religious, occult,

racial, and political ones. Organized around eyewit

nessing and empiricism, our conversation reects

on and contributes to the recovery of the important

role American knowers and knowledge played in

an Enlightenment too oen framed in Eurocentric,

secular, monodisciplinary, and nonliterary terms.

303. Blackness and Disability: A Special

Issue of the African American Review

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Disability

Studies. Presiding: erí Alyce Pickens, BatesC

Speakers: Timothy Lyle, Iona C; Stacie McCor-

mick, Texas Christian U; Anna Mollow, indepen-

dent scholar; Sarah Orem, Smith C; Dennis Tyler,

Jr., FordhamU

Contributors to a special issue of the African

American Review on blackness and disability in

troduce audience members to the scholarship in

these elds and help them understand the new par

adigms for interpreting the two elds in tandem.

304. Activist Infrastructures: Vulnerable

Collections and Minimal Computing

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

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Program arranged by the forum TC Digital Hu-

manities. Presiding: Élika Ortega, NortheasternU

1. “A Case Study in Using Our Power and Know-

ing Our Place,” Vika Zafrin, BostonU

2. “Digitizing Seasonality: e BBC’s Springwatch

and the Nature’s Calendar Survey,” Sarah Dimick,

U of Wisconsin, Madison

3. “Security through Transparency: Minimal

Computing in the Jungle of the Real,” Andrew

Pilsch, Texas A&M U, College Station

4. “Take Only Data, Leave No Footprints,” Jerey

Moro, U of Maryland, College Park

Respondent: Alexander Gil, ColumbiaU

305. Juan Rulfo and Twenty- First-

CenturyMexico

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Mexican

Speakers: Bruno Bosteels, Cornell U; Ilka Kress-

ner, U at Albany,State U of New York; Cristina

Rivera Garza, Uof Houston; Dan Russek, U of

Victoria; Victoria Saramago, U of Chicago; Sam-

uel Steinberg, U of Southern California

On the one hundredth anniversary of Rulfo’s

birth, panelists focus on the study of his works in

the twenty- rst century through the lenses of phi-

losophy, photography, ecocriticism, translation,

literary, and cultural studies. From an interdisci-

plinary perspective, presenters readEl llano en lla-

mas(1953) and Pe dro Páramo(1955) in connection

with Rulfo’s photographs, the Green Revolution,

and the idea of modernity.

306. Transformations of Gertrude Stein

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

A special session

1. “‘e Better Sort’: Gertrude Stein’s ‘Melanc-

tha,’” Madison Priest, Graduate Center, City U of

New York

2. “Gleaning Fields and Gathering Mushrooms:

Gertrude Stein and Food Studies,” Catherine Key-

ser, U of South Carolina, Columbia

3. “‘Can You Decline History’: Gertrude Stein’s

1930s,” JodyL. Cardinal, State U of New York, Old

Westbury

307. How to Translate Early Modern East

Asian Texts: ree Case Studies

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: PatriciaA. Sieber,

Ohio State U, Columbus

1. “Translation of Genre Characteristics in

the Reception of Ming- Qing Fiction in Chosŏn

Yadam,” Si Nae Park, HarvardU

2. “At the Nexus of Author, Annotator, and

Translator: Hayashi Razan’s Translation of Chi-

nese Ghost Tales,” Fumiko Joo, Mississippi StateU

3. “How to Translate Late Imperial Women’s

Chantefable Fiction,” Li Guo, Utah StateU

For related material, write to fumiko@ cmll

. msstate .edu aer 8Dec.

308. Latina/o New York

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Latina and

Latino. Presiding: John Alba Cutler, NorthwesternU

1. “Reimagining America: Mediating Change in

Late- Nineteenth- Century Latina/o New York,”

Kelley Kreitz, PaceU

2. “Nostalgia and Trauma in the Spatializing Sto-

ries of Dominican- American Fictions of New York

City,” TrentonL. Hickman, Brigham Young U, UT

3. “Nuyorican and Black American Vernacular:

Culture, Linguistics, and Language Play,” Elyse

Graham, Stony Brook U,State U of New York

4. “Pedagogical Performance: e Lingering

Lessons of María Irenes Fornés,” Christina León,

Prince tonU

For related material, write to john- cutler@

northwestern .edu aer 15Nov.

309. Claudel at 150 / Claudel à 150 ans

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the Paul Claudel Society.

Presiding: GlennW. Fetzer, New Mexico State U,

Las Cruces

1. “Claudel et Mallarmé: ‘Qu’est- ce que cela veut

dire?’: éorie, poétique, et les ns du monde,”

Eric Touya de Marenne, ClemsonU

2. “Actualité de Partage de midi,” Simonetta Anna

Valenti, Udi Parma

3. “Impact de Claudel, le amboyant, sur l’acteur

et metteur en scène Antoine Vitez,” Hélène Poiré,

independent scholar

4. “Paul Claudel et Le livre de jade,” Yu Wang,

Uof Paris 4, Sorbonne

310. Funding in the Humanities: Practical

Strategies

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center. Pre-

siding: GauravG. Desai, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor;

Daniella Sarno, Social Science Research Council

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is workshop, primarily geared toward graduate

students and junior faculty members, introduces

the dierent kinds of grants that are available for

scholars in the humanities and how to go about

nding them. Desai and Sarno discuss some

things to bear in mind as you cra an application

so that it has the greatest chance of being funded.

311. Terrorism and Literature: Representing

Political Violence in Poetry, Narrative, and

Critical eory

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

A special session

1. “‘Avoid Handling or Touching’: Terrorism and

Address in Contemporary American Poetry,” Ann

Keniston, U of Nevada, Reno

2. “Martyrdom and Protest in Jewish and Pales-

tinian Poetry since 1960,” Cary Nelson, U of Il-

linois, Urbana

3. “Samson among the Terrorologists,” PeterC.

Herman, San Diego StateU

4. “Terrorism in eory,” Gabriel Brahm, North-

ern MichiganU

312. Why Teach Literature?

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TM e Teaching

of Literature. Presiding: Mary McAleer Balkun,

Seton HallU

Speakers: adiousM. Davis, U of Pennsylvania;

MarkW. Edmundson, U of Virginia; SimonE. Gi-

kandi, Prince tonU

Continuing a tradition of the forum on teaching lit-

erature, eminent writers and scholars consider the

question “Why teach literature?,” by drawing on

personal experience and knowledge of the eld, and

reect on the changing nature of the profession.

313. Teaching, eorizing, and Reading

Caribbean Texts

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Graduate Student Cau-

cus. Presiding: Emily O’Dell, Louisiana State U,

Baton Rouge

1. “Cutting Down the Family Tree in Caribbean

Literature,” Jeanne Jegousso, Louisiana State U,

Baton Rouge

2. “eorizing Caribbean Multilingualism in the

Classroom,” Shawn Gonzalez, Rutgers U, New

Brunswick

3. “‘Writing Is Writing’: C. L. R. James’s Forms of

Talk,” Tiana Reid, ColumbiaU

4. “e (Creative) Nonction Novella: Teach-

ing Hybrid Genre in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small

Place,” Meghan Buckley, Stony Brook U, State U of

NewYork

314. Blended Learning: Balancing Social

Media and Face- to- Face Pedagogies

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum HEP Teaching as

a Profession. Presiding: Olga Menagarishvili, Ap-

palachian StateU

1. “Better Learning through Hashtags: Building

Community and Improving Discussion with Twit-

ter,” Rebekah Fitzsimmons, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

2. “Technical Communication Process in a Face-

to- Face and a Blended Learning Class: Managing

Time, Draing, Collaborating, and Providing

Feedback,” Olga Menagarishvili

For related material, visit rburnett .lmc .gatech

.edu/ aer 1Dec.

315. Reections on Milton’s Eve

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Finding and Naming Milton’s Eve,” James

Carson Nohrnberg, U of Virginia

2. “‘Starting Back’: Mary Shelley Reading Eve,”

Lauren Shohet, VillanovaU

3. “From First to Second Eve; or, Tiresias without

Semele,” Eric Song, SwarthmoreC

316. Leonard Cohen: Death of a Ladies’ Man

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Natasha Chenier, U of

British Columbia

1. “Cohen’s Poetry,” Medrie Purdham, U of Regina

2. “Cohen’s Prose,” Ira Nadel, U of British

Columbia

3. “Cohen’s Music,” Judyta Frodyma, U of

King’sC, Halifax

317. e Book History of eory

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TM Literary and

Cultural eory

1. “e Rise of the eory Reader,” JereyJ. Wil-

liams, Carnegie MellonU

2. “Literary eory with Benets,” William Ger-

mano, Cooper Union

3. “How New Literary History Became a eory

Journal,” David Shumway, Carnegie MellonU

Respondent: Jane Gallop, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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318. Keywords for Today and the

KeywordsProject

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Language and

Society. Presiding: Jonathan Arac, U of Pittsburgh

Speakers: Stephen Heath, U of Cambridge, JesusC;

Colin Myles MacCabe, U of Pittsburgh; Arjuna

Parakrama, U of Peradeniya; Kellie Robertson,

Uof Maryland, College Park; Holly Yanacek,

James MadisonU

Speakers introduce Keywords for Today (forthcom-

ing in 2018), a collective work by the Keywords

Project that updates Raymond Williams’s classic

Keywords, and describe the collaborative, cross-

institutional, and cross- disciplinary work on the

project that has been carried out over the last decade.

For related material, visit www .keywords .pitt .edu.

Friday, 5 January

1:45 p.m.

319. Investing in America’s Languages:

Onthe AAAS Commission Report on

Language Learning

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton

Program arranged by the Association of Depart-

ments of Foreign Languages. Presiding: William

Nichols, Georgia StateU

Speakers: Marty Abbott, American Council on the

Teaching of Foreign Languages; Jessie “Little Doe”

Baird, Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project;

David Chu, Inst. for Defense Analyses; DanE. Da

vidson, American Councils for International Educa-

tion; Paul LeClerc, Columbia Global Center in Paris

Authors of the American Academy of Arts and

Sciences Commission Report on Language Learn-

ing discuss the recommendations to build edu-

cational capacity for language learning through

local and global collaborations for language ad-

vocacy, to support heritage and Native American

languages, and to create opportunities for lan-

guage educators as well as for students.

For related material, visit www .amacad .org/

language.

320. Copy and Repeat: Valuing the

Nonoriginal in African American

LiteraryHistory

1:45–3:00 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Material Histories of Black Literary Memory,”

LauraE. Helton, U of Delaware, Newark

2. “‘Reprinting the Negro Past’: Arno Press and

the Emergence of Black Literary Studies,” Autumn

Womack, Prince tonU

3. “Copying Blackness in WilliamJ. Wilson’s

‘Afric- American Picture Gallery,’” Britt Rusert,

Uof Massachusetts, Amherst

4. “e Evidence of Experience: Archive and

Index in Baker, Gates, and Spillers,” Kinohi Nishi-

kawa, Prince tonU

Respond e nt: Shirley Moody- Turner, Penn State U,

University Park

321. e Victorians aer Freud

1:45–3:00 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Ben Parker, BrownU

1. “Klein before Freud,” Zachary Samalin, U of

Chicago

2. “Dickens and Winnicott on Reality,” Ben Parker

3. “George Eliot and Psychoanalytic inking,”

Alicia Christo, AmherstC

322. Postcolonial Italy and Speculative

Narratives

1:45–3:00 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

A special session

1. “Who Is the True Monster? Ragona and Salkow’s

L’ultimo uomo della terra and Postcolonial Italy,”

Simone Brioni, Stony Brook U, State U of New York

2. “Breaking the Narrative Conventions of Italian

Colonial Literature: Alessandro Spina’s e Young

Maronite,” Sara Marzioli, Miami U, Oxford

3. “e Sites and Times of Italian Postcolonial-

ism: Angiuli’s Tre Titoli and Everson’s Rhinoceros,”

Shelleen Greene, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Respondent: Mattia Roveri, New YorkU

For related material, write to simone .brioni@

stonybrook .edu.

323. James Baldwin’s Speculative Imaginary

1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Nobody Escapes Anything: Proleptic Sound

in Sonny’s Blues,” Maleda Belilgne, U of Maryland

Baltimore County

2. “Dreaming Mahalia: James Baldwin and Black

Pentecostal Memory,” Maurice Wallace, U of

Virginia

3. “Apocalyptic Transgurations in Late Bald-

win,” Jessica Hurley, U of Chicago

Respondent: Ashon Crawley, U of Virginia

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324. Teaching and Learning the Stories of

Standing Rock and #noDAPL

1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Association for the

Study of Literature and the Environment and the

Association for the Study of American Indian

Literatures. Presiding: Aubrey Streit Krug, Great

Plains for the Land Inst.

Speakers: Josh Anderson, Ohio State U, Columbus;

Matthew Chrisler, Graduate Center, City U of

New York; Dustinn Craig, White Springs Creative;

Lydia Heberling, U of Washington, Seattle; Sara

Spurgeon, Texas Tech U; Aubrey Streit Krug; Steve

Tamayo, independent artist

Speakers facilitate a reective conversation about

how the dynamic stories of indigenous- led envi-

ronmental justice activism at Standing Rock may

be taught and learned. Participants share their

engagement with Standing Rock and #noDAPL

through diverse pedagogical and educational

experiences, ranging from working at the Defend-

ers of the Water School to designing university

courses to collaborating on open- access resources

and public curriculums.

325. Hearing Culture in Texts: Language in

Use versus Speech Act eory

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Tom McEnaney, U of

California, Berkeley

Speakers: Michael Allan, U of Oregon; Virginia

Jackson, U of California, Irvine; Michael Lucey, U of

California, Berkeley; Tom McEnaney; Yopie Prins,

U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Tobias Warner, U of

California, Davis; Tristram Wol, NorthwesternU

What can tools from linguistic anthropology bring

to literary critical practices? Panelists respond to

the special issue ofRepresentations(no.137, Win-

ter 2017) on language in use and the literary arti-

fact, touching on speech- act theory, sound theory,

genre, the pragmatics of sexuality and its literary

representations, the relation of social groups and

literary value, and the creation of literary forms of

value in (post)colonial contexts.

For related material, visit berkeley .box .com/v/

MLA2018McEnaney aer 1Jan.

326. Writing and Photography in the

Modernism of the United States

1:45–3:00 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Mark Goble, U of

California, Berkeley

1. “Jean Toomer’s Erroneous Pictures,” Alix

Beeston, CardiU

2. “Marianne Moore’s Double Exposures,” Emily

Setina, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

3. “Gertrude Stein’s Photographic Surfaces,” Cara

Lewis, Indiana U Northwest

For related material, write to alix .beeston@ gmail .com.

327. Organicisms: Organisms

1:45–3:00 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Romantic

and 19th- Century. P residing: Tilottama Rajan,

Uof Western Ontario

1. “Degeneration: Inversions of Teleology,” Joan

Steigerwald, YorkU

2. “Emerson, Embryogenesis, and the Ontology

of Style,” Benjamin Barasch, ColumbiaU

3. “Reorganizing Darwin: Anti- organic Natural-

ism and the Ecology of Form,” Devin Griths,

Uof Southern California

328. e Historicist Turn of Literary

Disability Studies

1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Fuson Wang, U of

California, Riverside

1. “Týr and the ‘Hoegri Ho˛nd’: Impairment, Dis-

ability, and the Heroic Body in Eddic Literature,”

Amity Reading, DePauwU

2. “Limping Witches: Shakespeare’s Deformed

Women and Colley Cibber’s Richard III,” Angelina

Del Balzo, U of California, Los Angeles

3. “Specimens of Manhood: Social and Scientic

Proles of Race and Addiction in 1930s America,”

Lisa Mendelman, MenloC

Respondent: Fuson Wang

For related material, write to fusonw@ ucr .edu

aer 29 Sept.

329. Pre- Raphaelites and the Pierpont

Morgan Library

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: FlorenceS. Boos,

Uof Iowa

1. “Utopia under Construction: News from No-

where in the Pierpont Morgan Library,” Meghan

Freeman, ManhattanvilleC

2. “‘Fingers, Eyes, and Sympathy’: e Kelmscott

Chaucer Platinotypes,” Heather Bozant Witcher,

St. LouisU

3. “e Pierpont Morgan Library as Pre-

Raphaelite Archive,” PaulL. Acker, St. LouisU

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330. A Postctional Turn? Transformations

in the Novel and Novel Criticism

1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Timothy Bewes,

BrownU

1. “Narratology and Fictionality,” Gerald Joseph

Prince, U of Pennsylvania

2. “Must Novels Be Fiction? Language and Real-

ity in Knausgård’s My Struggle (Min kamp),” Toril

Moi, DukeU

3. “What Does It Mean to Write Fiction? What

Does Fiction Refer To?” Timothy Bewes

For related material, write to bewes@ brown .edu.

331. Local Color to World Literature: An

Interview with Jia Pingwa

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

Participants: Michael Berry, U of California, Los

Angeles; Jia Pingwa, Shaanxi Writers’ Assn.; Jiwei

Xiao, FaireldU

An interview with Jia Pingwa, an acclaimed

Chinese novelist and essayist, hosted by Michael

Berry and Jiwei Xiao.

332. e Function of the Print Scholarly

Edition at the Present Time

1:45–3:00 p.m., Empire Ballroom East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on

Scholarly Editions. Presiding: PaulB. Armstrong,

BrownU

1. “Failure to Launch: Some Diculties in Coor-

dinating Print and Digital Editions of he Com-

plete Letters of Henry James,” GregW. Zacharias,

CreightonU

2. “Editing the Complete Works of Edith Whar-

ton in Print and Online,” DonnaM. Campbell,

Washington State U, Pullman; CarolJ. Singley,

Rutgers U, Camden

3. “Editing the Stainforth Library Catalog: Print

Pasts and Digital Futures for the Study of Wom-

en’s Writing,” Kirstyn Leuner, Santa ClaraU

4. “From Linear to Open Reading: Adapting

‘Parcours numeriques’ for Scholarly Editions,” Mi-

chael Eberle- Sinatra, U of Montreal

333. Web 2.0 Readers

1:45–3:00 p.m., Regent, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Popular Cul-

ture. Presiding: Gwendolyn Pough, SyracuseU

1. “Goodreads and the Black Box of Online Read-

ing,” Allison Hegel, U of California, Los Angeles

2. “e Insecure Reading Chair,” JuliaM. Walker,

State U of New York, Geneseo

3. “Redrawing the Lines? Korean War Webtoons

and the Politics of Disengagement,” We Jung Yi,

Penn State U, University Park

4. “Microblogging Junot Díaz: Political Engage-

ment and Web 2.0 Readers,” Ellen McCracken,

Uof California, Santa Barbara

For related material, visit ellenmccracken

.weebly .com.

334. Pedagogies of Excellence: HBCUs and

the PhD Pipeline

1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the College Language Asso-

ciation. Presiding: Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper,

SpelmanC

Speakers: Shanna Greene Benjamin, Grinnell C;

W.Miranda Freeman, Tougaloo C; Jarvis McInnis,

Uof Notre Dame; Trimiko Melancon, Loyola U,

New Orleans; Kenton Rambsy, U of Texas, Arlington

HBCUs contribute signicantly to the number of

African Americans in the PhD pipeline. Success-

ful strategies of identifying and mentoring likely

candidates, supporting research interests and skills,

and preparing students for summer research op

portunities and graduate school applications should

be recognized and celebrated. Mellon Mays is a pro

gram that has enhanced HBCUs’ success in alumni

PhD completion, publication, and academic tenure.

335. Reading and Responding to LiteraryTexts

1:45–3:00 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Linguistics

and Literature

1. “Reading like Writers and Writing like Read-

ers,” Billy Clark, MiddlesexU

2. “Language Variety in the Literature Class-

room: Teaching Alice Walker’s he Color Purple,”

Melissa Dennihy, Queensborough Community C,

City U of New York

3. “Pedagogical Implications of Contact Litera-

ture,” Dina Hassan, Texas TechU

For related material, write to troyerr@ wou .edu.

336. Toward a Denition of Postcolonial

Biographical Fiction

1:45–3:00 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

A special session

1. “e Postcolonial Biographical Novel: Aesthet-

ics and Ideologies,” Bénédicte Ledent, U of Liège;

Daria Tunca, U of Liège

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2. “‘Releasing a Story from a Sealed Box’: Shaun

Johnson’s he Native Commissioner,” GeoreyV.

Davis, U of Aachen

3. “A Postcolonial Reading of Shusaku Endo’s

Biographical Novel Silence (1966),” Eri Kobayashi,

SeikeiU

337. Capitalism and the Unconscious

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Calvin omas, Geor-

gia StateU

1. “Capitalism’s Responsibility for Fascism,” Todd

McGowan, U of Vermont

2. “e Psychoanalytic Critique of Political Econ-

omy,” Anna Kornbluh, U of Illinois, Chicago

3. “Writing Underdevelopment: e Postcolonial

Fetish and Its Novelistic Form,” SimonE. Gikandi,

Prince tonU

338. e Novel and the Poor

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

A special session

Speakers: DavidS. Kurnick, Rutgers U, New Bruns-

wick; Carolyn Lesjak, Simon Fraser U; Tina Lup-

ton, U of Warwick; BruceW. Robbins, ColumbiaU

Panelists discuss a felt need on the part of recent

critics to view the novel from the outside, socially as

well as geographically, in terms of inequality of ac

cess, the constraints of daily habit, and the precarity

of the life of its readers as well as of its characters.

e word poverty imposes itself anew not because

the more technical vocabulary of class has been

discredited (as modern and European) but because

poverty is the more universal and neutral term.

339. Biography, Race, and Nineteenth-

Century American Culture: Challenges,

Methods, and Goals

1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Benjamin Beck, U of

California, Los Angeles

Speakers: William Leake Andrews, U of North

Carolina, Chapel Hill; Benjamin Beck; Kim-

berlyD. Blockett, Penn State U, Brandywine; John

Ernest, U of Delaware, Newark; P. Gabrielle Fore-

man, U of Delaware, Newark; Ezra Greenspan,

Southern Methodist U; Sarah Lynn Patterson, Uof

Massachusetts, Amherst; CarlaL. Peterson, U of

Maryland, College Park

Speakers—specialists in nineteenth- century

American literature whose work grapples with

race and life and with biography’s goals and meth-

odologies—discuss life- writing texts from a vari-

ety of methodological and theoretical approaches.

340. inking Queer History in

Shakespeare: A Conversation on Method

1:45–3:00 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Shakespeare.

Presiding: Gina Bloom, U of California, Davis

Speakers: Jerey Masten, Northwestern U; Val-

erieJ. Traub, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Respondents: Bradin Cormack, Prince ton U; Me-

lissaE. Sanchez, U of Pennsylvania

Speakers discuss new methods for doing historicist

work on sexuality in Shakespeare and comment

on methodologies proposed by each other recently

published books. Respondents consider the eects

of these methodologies on the eld at large.

341. Brecht in the Middle East

1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the International Brecht

Society. Presiding: Marc David Silberman, U of

Wisconsin, Madison

1. “Agency and Oppression: Reading Brecht in

Egypt,” Mona Zaki, C of William and Mary

2. “Brecht, Wannous, and Arab eater,” Robert

Myers, American U of Beirut; Nada Saab, Leba-

nese AmericanU

3. “Brecht and the Turkish Stage,” Ela Gezen, U of

Massachusetts, Amherst

4. “e Jenin Chalk Circle: Brecht’s Playscript

and Alternatives with the Freedom eatre in the

West Bank, Autumn 2015,” Robert Lyons, Gothen-

burgU

342. Precarity and Activism

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the

Status of Graduate Students in the Profession. Pre-

siding: Christine Yao, U of British Columbia

Speakers: Melissa Leigh Antonucci, U of Oklahoma;

Michaela Brangan, Cornell U; Alyson Brickey, U

of Toronto; Tara Forbes, Wayne State U; Lucia Lo

renzi, McMaster U; David Putho, U of New Mex-

ico, Albuquerque; Leland Tabares, Penn StateU,

University Park; Anna Waymack, CornellU

How do graduate students engage activism from the

position of precarity? How do these issues impact

research and teaching? Issues include confronting

rape culture, creating space for junior scholars in

academic organizations, ghting for academic free

dom in teaching, critiquing faculty members and

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the corporate university, addressing poverty, and

discussing dierent aspects of union organizing.

For related material, visit mlagrads .mla

. hcommons .org/ aer 20Dec.

343. Genres of Migration, 1750–1850

1:45–3:00 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Late- 18th-

Century En glish and LLC En glish Romantic.

Presiding: Colin Jager, Rutgers U, New Brunswick;

Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, U of California, Irvine

1. “Migrating with the Moravians: Hybrid

Hymns and Blake,” Alexander Regier, RiceU

2. “A Modern Eneas; or, e Epic and the Novel

Revisited,” Charlotte Sacks Sussman, DukeU

3. “Migration, Character, and Sense of Place in

Early- Nineteenth- Century Fiction,” Josephine

McDonagh, U of Chicago

344. Folklore Careers beyond and within

Academia

1:45–3:00 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Folklore Society.

Presiding: James Deutsch, Smithsonian Institution

Speakers: Robert Baron, New York State Council

on the Arts; Mira Johnson, Pelham Arts Center;

Maria Kennedy, ARTS Council of the Southern

Finger Lakes; Ellen McHale, New York Folklore

Soc.; KayF. Turner, American Folklore Soc.

e American Folklore Society has long counted

both academic and public folklorists in its ranks;

the latter hold jobs in a variety of public and pri-

vate sector organizations and industries. Partici-

pants discuss their work, how they got their start,

and opportunities they see for others to pursue ca-

reers that not only are personally and profession-

ally meaningful but also contribute to the ongoing

development of a discipline.

345. e Identities, Politics, and Insecurities

of Undocumented Peoples in the United States

1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the Conference on College

Composition and Communication

1. “Rhetorics of Insecurity: Foregrounding

(Un)Documented Status as Axis of Identity,”

Christina Cedillo, U of Houston, Clear Lake

2. “Sanctuary Campuses: Responding to Trump’s

Undocumented Policies with Solidarity and Resis-

tance,” James Sanchez, MiddleburyC

3. “Undocumented, Trilingual, and ‘Unapologetic’

Joy: When the State of Insecurity Has Always Been

Present for Undocumented Bilingual and Cultur

ally Rich Students,” SaraP. Alvarez, Uof Louisville

For related material, visit www .ncte .org/ library/

NCTEFiles/ Groups/ CCCC/ CCCC_

2018MLASession .pdf.

346. Institutions, Markets, Speculations:

Creative Economies of Science Fiction

1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

A special session

1. “A Proposition for the Science Fiction Age:

John Michel’s Popular Front,” Sean Guynes, Mich-

igan StateU

2. “e Ghetto Which Is Not One: Atwood, Science

Fiction, and Prestige,” Jeremy Rosen, U of Utah

3. “It Had to Be Science Fiction: Octavia Butler

and the Ideology of Canonization,” Skye Cervone,

Florida AtlanticU

347. Varieties of Digital Humanities

1:45–3:00 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the PMLA Editorial Board.

Presiding: Alison Booth, U of Virginia; Miriam

Posner, U of California, Los Angeles

Speakers: Lauren Klein, Georgia Inst. of Tech.;

Alan Liu, U of California, Santa Barbara; Marisa

Parham, Amherst C; Howard Rambsy, Southern

Illinois U, Edwardsville; Ted Underwood, U of Il-

linois, Urbana

Digital humanities (DH) designates a debatable

array of practices and institutional structures, ma-

terials and resources, and aspirations. It is expan-

sive, movable, but precarious, a tent still not big

enough in terms of diversity and access. Anticipat-

ing an issue of PMLA devoted to the topic, we ask,

What is next for DH? And what can we learn from

what has come before?

For related material, visit www .mla .org/ pmla_

submitting.

348. Art and Activism: Israeli Women’s

Documentary Filmmaking

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Hebrew. Pre-

siding: MartinB. Shichtman, Eastern MichiganU

1. “Beauty and the Patriarchy: Ibtisam Mara’ana’s

Lady Kul el Arab (2008),” RachelS. Harris, U of Il-

linois, Urbana

2. “Filmmaking as Activism: Sound of Torture,”

Lior Elefant, Tel AvivU

3. “Women Pioneers of Feminist Israeli Docu-

mentary Film,” Phyllis Lassner, NorthwesternU

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349. Portraits in Fidelity: Allegory,

Imago,Taboo

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Cuban and

Cuban Diasporic

1. “ICAIC and the Ten Million Ton Sugar Har-

vest,” Daniel Hazard, Prince tonU

2. “Fidel Castro y/o El Fifo como personaje liter-

ario en la narrativa de la Generación del Mariel,”

Monica Simal, ProvidenceC

3. “Faith and Fidelity: Examining the Relative

Presence/ Absence of Fidel as a Cultural Refer-

ence,” DaraE. Goldman, U of Illinois, Urbana

4. “Fidel Castro as a Representational Taboo:

Aesthetic Disruptions of a Prohibition,” Walfrido

Dorta, WilliamsC

350. Woolf’s Spaces

1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the International Virginia

Woolf Society. Presiding: ais Rutledge, U of

Texas, Austin

1. “‘e Undiscovered Country’: Woolf’s Geogra-

phy of Illness,” Katie Logan, University C at Virginia

2. “A Place of One’s Own: e Need for Space in

Mrs. Dalloway,” ais Rutledge

3. “Point of View as Cognitive Mapping: Mrs. Dal-

loway’s Sense of Place,” Robert Tally, Texas StateU

4. “Woolf’s Spatiality: Relational Bodies and Af-

fective Spaces,” Celiese Lypka, U of Calgary

351. S. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction

1:45–3:00 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Science and

Literature. Presiding: Anne Stiles, St. LouisU

1. “Medical Eclecticism in the Fiction of Silas

Weir Mitchell,” KristineL. Swenson, Missouri U

of Science and Tech.

2. “Fractional Phantoms: Gothic Bodies in

S.Weir Mitchell’s Medical and Literary Works,”

Kristie Schlaura, VillanovaU

3. “Mitchell, Melville, and Phantom Limbs: Flesh-

ing Out Sensory Ghosts,” Pilar Martinez Benedi,

Sapienza U of Rome

4. “Disability, Dependency, and Feminist Ethics

of Care inS. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction,” ElizabethJ.

Donaldson, New York Inst. of Tech.

352. Partnerships beyond the Stacks:

Collaborations between Scholars and

Librarians in Research and Teaching

1:45–3:00 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TM Libraries and

Research. Presiding: Harriett Green, U of Illinois,

Urbana

Speakers: Rebecca Baumann, Indiana U, Bloom-

ington; Amy Chen, U of Iowa; Laura Clapper,

Indiana U, Bloomington; Heather Cole, Brown U;

Emilie Hardman, Harvard U; AdamG. Hooks,

Uof Iowa; Erika Jenns, Indiana U, Bloomington

New types of partnerships emerging between fac

ulty members, students, librarians, and curators

oer exciting avenues for humanities scholarship.

Panelists present collaborative projects between

scholars and librarians on creative teaching ap

proaches for archival research, building digital

tools, and socially engaged undergraduate research.

e panelists discuss strategies for fruitful collabo

rations and the impacts of these partnerships.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ libraries- and- research/ aer 4Dec.

353. Staging Insecurity: Early Modern Spanish

History Plays As Resistance to Precarity

1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th- and

17th- Century Spanish and Iberian Drama. Presid-

ing: AmyR. Williamsen, U of North Carolina,

Greensboro

Speakers: John Cull, C of the Holy Cross; SusanL.

Fischer, Bucknell U; Barbara Fuchs, U of Califor-

nia, Los Angeles; Kelsey Ihinger, U of Wisconsin,

Madison; James Nemiro, Kalamazoo C; Chris-

topher Oechler, Gettsyburg C; ChristopherB.

Weimer, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater

Panelists explore the political and social crises

staged in early modern Spanish historical drama

in the context of the conference theme. e speak-

ers consider how these comedias served as sites of

resistance.

354. Graphic Resistance: Comics and

SocialProtest

1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Margaret Galvan, Uof

Florida; Leah Misemer, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Speakers: Liz Adams, Duke U; José Alaniz, Uof

Washington, Seattle; Rebecca Giordano, U of

Pittsburgh; SusanE. Kirtley, Portland State U;

Nicholas Miller, Hollins U; Alexander Pono-

mare, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

is session investigates how and why comics have

served as sites of resistance and explores how this

history informs how comics are used—or could

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be used—for protest in our current moment. Par-

ticipants explore genealogies of social protest that

comics create in and acrosslocal, national, and

international communities. How will this conver-

sation open dierent future trajectories for explor-

ing comics as micropolitical sites of resistance?

355. Catshed: Lies Online

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Life Writing.

Presiding: Emily Hipchen, U of West Georgia

1. “A Catsh’s Motives,” Kathrin Kottemann,

Adams StateU

2. “Real People, Fake Narratives: Does Self-

Publishing Online Promote or Obstruct Authen-

ticity?” Anna Cairney, St. John’s U, NY

3. “Catshed: Who Am I Now?” Jillian Abbott,

York C, City U of New York

For related material, visit www .auto- biography .org.

356. e DNA of a Story

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval

French

1. “Chrétien the Jay: Avian Storytelling in Philo-

mena,” Eliza Zingesser, ColumbiaU

2. “Medieval Hagiography as Literary Machine:

Saintly Doubling in the Lives of Desert Ascetics,”

Christine Bourgeois, U of Kansas

3. “‘Our’ Medea in Bennoît of Sainte- Maure’s Ro-

man de Troie,” Andreea Marculescu, U of Oklahoma

357. Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century

Opera in Literary Translation

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

A special session

1. “Schiller, Zhukovsky, Pushkin, and Tchai-

kovsky’s Lensky: Operatic Translation Mise-

en- Abyme,” John Pendergast, United States

MilitaryAcad.

2. “Billy Budd’s Closed Door: Music, Language,

and Temporal Space,” Sydney Boyd, RiceU

3. “‘Something Will Remain’: Alice Goodman,

the Libretto, and Lyric Form,” Richie Hofmann,

StanfordU

For related material, write to sboyd@ rice .edu.

358. Domination et résilience dans l’œuvre

de GérardV. Etienne

1:45–3:00 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Corinne Beauquis,

Uof Toronto

1. “Le pouvoir politique ou les multiples formes

de la domination dans l’œuvre de Gérard Etienne,”

Maya Hauptman, HaifaU

2. “La pensée de Gérard Etienne sur les peuples

noirs: Pour, contre et contradictoire?” Judith

Sinanga- Ohlmann, WindsorU

3. “L’esthétique du double et du dédoublement

dans l’œuvre romanesque de Gérard Etienne,”

Corinne Beauquis

4. “Orage révolutionnaire et courage politique

dans les romans montréalais de Gérard Etienne,”

Mark Andrews, VassarC

359. Writing in the En glish Department:

Models for Success

1:45–3:00 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the ADE Executive Com-

mittee. Presiding: ClaireE. Buck, Wheaton C, MA

Speakers: DaylanneK. En glish, Macalester C; Deb-

orahH. Holdstein, Columbia C; William Benedict

Lalicker, West Chester U; LaurieA. McMillan,

PaceU

How do we dene writing, and what is its place, in

today’s En glish department? We invite discussion

of issues, including the evolution of student needs;

the changing higher education environment; pro-

ductive synergies among literary studies, writing

studies, and creative writing; and the necessary

conditions for a successful writing studies pro-

gram within the En glish department.

For related material, write to cbuck@ wheatonma

.edu aer 20Dec.

Friday, 5 January

3:30 p.m.

360. Presidential Plenary: #States of Insecurity

3:30–5:15 p.m., West Ballroom, Hilton

Presiding: Diana Taylor, New YorkU

1. “Abolition,” Angela Davis, U of California,

Santa Clara

2. “Rights and Liberties in America Today,” An-

thony Romero, American Civil Liberties Union

3. “Schooled,” Cathy Davidson, Graduate Center,

City U of New York

4. “O’tan: Saberes del corazón,” Juan López In-

tzín, Bats’il K’op

5. “Indenite Detention,” Judith Butler, U of

California, Berkeley

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ideological, economic, and political struggles of

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our time. On this panel, scholars, advocates, and

public intellectuals point to strategies and coali-

tions that might help the academy uphold its role

as a place of critical and historical reection, in-

quiry, and intervention.

For linked sessions, see meetings 517 and 597.

361. Insecurity and Dissent in Middle

Eastern and North African Cinema

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Arabic. Pre-

siding: R. Shareah Taleghani, Queens C, City U of

New York

1. “Unstable Messaging: Revisiting ird, Avant-

Garde, and Social Realist Cinema in the Films

of Tariq Teguia,” Suzanne Gauch, Temple U,

Philadelphia

2. “From Futuwwa to Baltagiyya: Populist emes

in Postrevolutionary Egyptian Cinema,” Nathan-

iel Greenberg, George MasonU

3. “e Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges in

Panahi’s Cinema: An Alternative Medium of Resis

tance,” Toloo Riazi, U of California, Santa Barbara

4. “On Docu- Ironies: Visions of Dissent and

Insecurity in Omar Amiralay’s A Flood in Ba’ath

Country (2003),” R. Shareah Taleghani

362. Making the Most of Humanities Commons

3:30–4:45 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Oce of Scholarly

Communication

Speaker: Nicky Agate, MLA

is workshop serves as an introduction to the

nonprot scholarly networkHumanities Com-

monsand its open- access repository, CORE. Learn

how to gain more readers while increasing the

impact of your work, make interdisciplinary con-

nections, build class blogs and collaborative Web

sites, nd and reuse openly available research

materials, and cra a professional online presence.

scholcomm .mla .hcommons .org/ mla18/.

363. Commonplace Books, Albums, and

Scrapbooks

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Late- 19th-

and Early- 20th- Century American. Presiding:

Claudia Stokes, TrinityU

1. “‘I Hope Some Valued Scraps to Gain’: Ameri-

can Commonplace Books in the Later Nineteenth

Century,” AmandaL. Watson, New YorkU

2. “Nineteenth- Century Friendship Practices and

the umbprint Album,” LauraR. Zebuhr, U of St.

omas, MN

3. “e Book’s the ing: Examining Helen o-

reau’s Antislavery Scrapbooks,” WilliamR. Nash,

MiddleburyC

Respondent: Jillian Hess, Bronx Community C,

City U of New York

364. Refugee Memory

3:30–4:45 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Memory

Studies. Presiding: Marianne Hirsch, ColumbiaU

1. “Envisioning States of Detention: Refugees and

Activist Cinema,” Debarati Sanyal, U of Califor-

nia, Berkeley

2. “Memory as Host: Poetry and History in the

Baddawi Refugee Camp,” Lyndsey Jane Stone-

bridge, U of East Anglia

3. “Memoria e imagen: (Des)Encuadres del refu-

gio y la denuncia,” Alina Pena- Iguaran, Instituto

Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente

4. “Salvageable Humanity: Curatorial Ethics in

the Visual Reverberations of the Syrian Refugee

Crisis,” Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou, TusU

365. Net Work: en and Now

3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-

Century En glish. Presiding: Christopher Warren,

Carnegie MellonU

1. “Using the Methods of Our Manuscripts:

Networking and Early Modern Recipe Collabo-

rations,” HillaryM. Nunn, U of Akron; Melissa

Schultheis, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

2. “e Ifs, Ands, and Buts of Early Modern En-

gland,” JonathanP. Lamb, U of Kansas

3. “Early Modern Echo Chambers? e Quotid-

ian Networks of Civil War London,” Christopher

D’Addario, GettysburgC

4. “Financial and Professional Networks in the

Restoration eater,” Mattie Burkert, Utah StateU

For related material, write to cnwarren@ cmu .edu

aer 1Dec.

366. Blackness and the United States War

on Terror

3:30–4:45 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Race and

Ethnicity Studies. Presiding: Alex Lubin, U of New

Mexico, Albuquerque

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1. “Global Algeria: e Price of the Ticket to

Paris,” Gary Vaughn Rasberry II, StanfordU

2. “From Hatum to Homeland: Black Snipers,

White Terrorists, and the Settler Colonial Logics

of War on Terror Dramas,” Cynthia Young, Penn

State U, University Park

3. “Terror, Trauma and Tragicomedy in Spike

Lee’s Twenty- First- Century Cinematic Works,”

Walton Muyumba, Indiana U, Bloomington

4. “Tent Cities and the Activist Camp Revisited:

Black Immigrants and the War on Terror,” Ebony

Coletu, Penn State U, University Park

Respondent: Alex Lubin

367. Addressing Poverty, Silence, and

Resistance in the Classroom

3:30–4:45 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on

Community Colleges. Presiding: Danizete Marti-

nez, U of New Mexico, Valencia

1. “Consequences and Repercussions: Approaches

to Overcome Student Resistance to Critical Peda-

gogy in the First- Year Composition Classroom,”

Rauslynn Boyd, U of Akron

2. “Decentering the Academic Essay and Cen-

tering Alternative Ways of inking, Being, and

Writing,” Holly Larson, Seminole StateC

3. “Charity Service in the En glish Classroom:

How Writing Practice and Volunteerism Can Help

Improve Retention at the Community College,”

Heather Wood, U of New Mexico, Valencia

368. Romantics at Two Hundred: 2018

3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Keats- Shelley Associa-

tion of America. Presiding: WilliamH. Galperin,

Rutgers U, New Brunswick

1. “Hazlitt’s People: 1818 and 2018,” Frances Fer-

guson, U of Chicago

2. “Taming Austen: 1817–21 and 2018?” Wil-

liamH. Galperin

3. “e Anthologies of 1818 and 2018: Endymion,

Frankenstein, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage III,” Su-

sanJ. Wolfson, Prince tonU

369. Sovereign Insecurities / Canadian

Insecurities

3:30–4:45 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Canadian.

Presiding: Karis Shearer, U of British Columbia,

Okanagan

1. “Talking about a Revolution: Dialogues on

Teaching Indigenous Literature in Canadian Uni-

versities,” Erin Soros, U of Toronto

2. “Rewriting ese Sorry Statements: Appropriat

ing Settler- State Apologies in the Poetry of Jordan

Abel,” Sarah Dowling, U of Washington, Bothell

3. “City Book Awards and the Critical Mass of

Canada’s Creative City Complex,” Je Fedoruk,

McMasterU

4. “From Fukushima to Coast Salish Territories:

e Nuclear Uncanny and Emergent Transna-

tional Ecopolitics in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the

Time Being,” Alec Follett, U of Guelph

370. Transpacic Alignments aer the Trans-

Pacic Partnership: Asia and Latin America

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Ignacio López- Calvo,

U of California, Merced

Speakers: Christopher Fan, U of California, Irvine;

Joseph Jeon, Pomona C; Ignacio López- Calvo; Ig-

nacio Sanchez Prado, Washington U in St. Louis;

Erin Suzuki, U of California, San Diego; Laura

Torres- Rodriguez, New YorkU

e recent dissolution of the TPP has already caused

a number of signicant changes in global patterns

and a good deal of uncertainty, as individual states

seek bilateral deals in the absence of a global order.

Speakers work outside a United States– dominated

frame to focus on Asian– Latin American cultural

production at this transitional moment and think

about new realignments of transpacic relations.

371. e Golden Door: Immigration,

Illegitimacy, and Chicano/a Narrative

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Chicana and

Chicano. Presiding: Olga Herrera, U of St. omas,

1. “‘May We Break the Spell of the Ocial Story’:

Demetria Martínez’s Sanctuary Movement Activ-

ism and the 2017 Sanctuary Movement,” Laura

Belmonte, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

2. “e Devil Is in the Data: Migrant Bodies,

Data Bodies, and Chicanx Border Stories,” Marcel

Brousseau, U of Texas, Austin

3. “Necro- mojado/ as: Literature of the Liv-

ing Dead,” Jesse Alemán, U of New Mexico,

Albuquerque

372. Negotiating Identities: From

Pirandello to Today

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

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Program arranged by the Pirandello Society of

America. Presiding: Lisa Sarti, Borough of Man-

hattan Community C, City U of New York

1. “Regional and Gender Identities in Transla-

tion: Translating Pirandello’s Liolà,” Elisa Segnini,

U of Glasgow

2. “ Pirandellian Uncertainty: e eater as

Laboratory,” Laura Lucci, U of Toronto

3. “e (Un)Masking of Patriarchal Power in Pi-

randello’s Plays,” Alberica Bazzoni, U of Warwick

4. “ Who Am I? Who Am I Not? Agency and

(Dis)Identication in Luigi Pirandello’s e Note-

books of Serano Gubbio, Cinematograph Opera-

tor,” Lisa Sarti

Respondent: Jana O’Keefe Bazzoni, Baruch C, City

U of New York

For related material, visit pirandellosociety .org

aer 15 Sept.

373. Shiing Legacies

3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC German to

1700. Presiding: Karin Anneliese Wurst, Michigan

StateU

1. “Meryl Streep’s irty Years’ War,” Jane Ogden

Newman, U of California, Irvine

2. “Shiing Legacies of the irty Years’ War:

Representations of Religious Identities in Ricarda

Huch’s Der Große Krieg in Deutschland (1912–14)

and Alfred Döblin’s Wallenstein (1920),” Emily

Sieg, GeorgetownU

3. “Proliferations: Hubert Fichte’s Appropriation

of Lohenstein,” Isabel von Holt, Free U of Berlin

4. “Lessing, Laokoon, and the ‘Mooncalf’ Manu-

script,” Hannah Hunter- Parker, Prince tonU

374. Authoritarianism

3:30–4:45 p.m., Regent, Hilton

A special session

1. “Authoritarianism as an Interdisciplinary Object:

e Frankfurt School’s Studien über Autorität und

Familie,” TyrusH. Miller, U of California, Santa Cruz

2. “e Paradoxical Social Psychology of Author-

itarianism,” Herman Rapaport, Wake ForestU

3. “Reading e Authoritarian Personality: en

and Now,” Barrett Watten, Wayne StateU

375. Ovid and Masculinity in En glish

Renaissance Literature

3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: GoranV. Stanivu-

kovic, St. Mary’sU

1. “Compose Nothing but Males: e First Ars

Amatoria in En glish,” M. L. Stapleton, Purdue U,

Fort Wayne

2. “Ovid’s Sappho: Masculinity and Muteness

Envy in Early Modern Lyric,” MelissaE. Sanchez,

U of Pennsylvania

3. “Ovid in Love and War: Pacist Masculinity in

Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis,” John Garrison,

GrinnellC

For related material, write to johnsf@ gmail .com.

376. Satire and Cosmic Horror in

DystopianTimes

3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Speculative

Fiction. Presiding: Gerry Canavan, MarquetteU

1. “e President as a Shrieking Pile of Void

Crabs; or, e Cosmically Horric Satire of Dr.

Chuck Tingle,” Andrew Ferguson, Washington

and LeeU

2. “Cosmic Horror as Comedy in Rick and

Morty,” Peter Yoonsuk Paik, YonseiU

3. “Tragedy, Mutated: Time and Timing in Kurt

Vonnegut’s Science Fiction Comedies,” Fran Mc-

Donald, U of Louisville

377. Editing 101

3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the Council of Editors of

Learned Journals. Presiding: GordonN. Hutner,

Uof Illinois, Urbana

Speakers: Gert Buelens, U of Ghent; Mark Drew,

Gettysburg C; Nathan Grant, St. Louis U; Edward

Jones, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater; Gary Totten,

U of Nevada, Las Vegas

ose who take on the substantial work of jour-

nal editing have oen received little or no train-

ing.is session brings together a varied group of

experienced journal editors to oer editors new

to their positions the opportunity to hear advice,

raise questions, and share experiences. Panelists

oer brief presentations (“What I Wish I Had

Known”); the bulk of the session is open Q andA.

378. Dance, Performance, and Identity in

French and Francophone Studies

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

A special session

1. “Les Bosquets: Danser les émeutes de 2005 sur

scène, dans la cité et à l’écran,” Elise Bouhet, New

YorkU

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2. “Bals Nègres and Biguine, from Performance

to Spectacle: Black Culture for Consumption,” Jac-

queline Couti, U of Kentucky

3. “Representing and Performing Trauma: Ethics

and Epistemology in Ritualizing Black Lives’ Ex-

periences,” GladysM. Francis, Georgia StateU

379. Caribbean Space and Bodies at War

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Puerto Ri-

can. Presiding: Judith Sierra- Rivera, Penn State U,

University Park

1. “Community under Duress,” Guillermina De

Ferrari, U of Wisconsin, Madison

2. “Crossing Imperial Frontiers: Puerto Ricans in

the Dominican Republic, Santiago de Cuba, and

Hawai‘i aer 1898,” Alai Reyes- Santos, U of Oregon

3. “Militarism and Intimacy at Guantanamo,”

EstherK. Whiteld, BrownU

4. “Explosive Cultures: Puerto Rico’s Bombscapes

and the Spatial Order of Law,” Javier Arbona, U of

California, Davis

For related material, visit pennstate .academia .edu/

JudithSierraRivera.

380. A Real Say: Pushing the Limits of

Shared Governance

3:30–4:45 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on

Contingent Labor in the Profession. Presiding: Ali

Behdad, U of California, Los Angeles

Speakers: CynthiaA. Current, U of North Carolina,

Chapel Hill; Jennifer Larson, U of North Carolina,

Chapel Hill; Michael Meranze, U of California, Los

Angeles; Christopher John Neweld, U of Califor

nia, Santa Barbara; Jennifer Ruth, Portland StateU

Who controls your institution? Who has a voice?

e state, administration, endowment, faculty, or

students? is session addresses articulating and

organizing the plurivocal academy through com-

mittee work, departmental service, faculty senate,

and unionization.

381. Dramaturgical Curiosities: Eugene

O’Neill, Experimentation, and the New York

Neo- Futurists

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

Program arranged by the Eugene O’Neill Society.

Presiding: Steven Fredric Bloom, LasellC

Speaker: Christopher Loar, theater director

Respondents: Zander Brietzke, independent

scholar; Laura Shea, IonaC

382. Objectifying Morris

3:30–4:45 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the William Morris Society.

Presiding: Jason Martinek, New Jersey CityU

1. “Materially Relational: William Morris and the

Hybrid Literary Object,” RachelA. Ernst, BostonC

2. “William Morris’s Interior Design Creations

and His Love of Mythology,” Corinna Margarete

Illingworth, independent scholar

3. “Where Have All the Manuscripts Gone? Mor-

ris’s Autographs in Diaspora,” FlorenceS. Boos,

Uof Iowa

Respondent: Andrew Wood, U of California,

SantaCruz

For related material, visit www .morrissociety .org/

aer 2Oct.

383. inking Korean Literature through

Censorship and Blacklisting

3:30–4:45 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Kyeong- Hee Choi,

Uof Chicago

1. “Control over Morality and Biopolitics in Yi

Ki- yŏng’s ‘Rat Fire,’” Kwon Myoung- a, Dong AU

2. “Censorship and the Politics of Technology in

Eighteenth- Century Korea,” Jamie Jungmin Yoo,

Seoul NationalU

3. “e Absolute Enemy: North Korean Literature

and the Canon of Korean Literature,” Immanuel

Kim, Binghamton U, State U of New York

For related material, write to kchoi@ uchicago .edu.

384. Understanding Vocabulary Learning

and Teaching: Implications for Language

Program Development

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Association of

University Supervisors and Coordinators. Presid-

ing: ColleenM. Ryan, Indiana U, Bloomington

1. “e Case for Collaborative Dialogues to Learn

Vocabulary in Upper- Division Courses,” Celine

Rose, U of Iowa

2. “e Eectiveness of Second- Language Vocab-

ulary Teaching and Learning Strategies: Percep-

tions versus Reality,” Joseph Price, U of Arizona

3. “Listening Tasks: A Longitudinal Study on

Language- Learning Vocabulary in L2 Spanish,”

Cristina Pardo Ballester, Iowa StateU

385. Mark Twain and eory: Leverage

andLimits

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

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Program arranged by the Mark Twain Circle of

America. Presiding: Lawrence Howe, RooseveltU

1. “An Environmentalist’s Reading of Life on the

Mississippi,” Barbara Ladd, EmoryU

2. “Permeating Silences Permeating Discourses:

Mark Twain’s Rhetorical Art of the Unspoken,”

Ben Click, St. Mary’s C, MD

3. “Reading, Revelation, and Resistance: eory

and Practice,” SusanK. Harris, U of Kansas

386. Right To.../ Right Not To...

3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum MS Visual Cul-

ture. Presiding: Laura Wexler, YaleU

1. “Archive Stoppage,” Ariella Azoulay, BrownU

2. “Decolonizing the Space of Appearance,” Nich-

olas Mirzoe, New YorkU

3. “Flow; or, e Motion or Movement of Black

Bodies as a Practice of Refusal,” Tina Campt, Bar-

nardC

4. “Pathetic Fallacies: Corporations before Peo-

ple,” JosephR. Slaughter, ColumbiaU

387. “Carceracialization”: Prison, Race, Time

3:30–4:45 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Disgorgement: Cameron Rowland and Strate-

gies of Visibility,” Daniel Creahan, New School

2. “Censorship and ‘Carceracialization’ in the

War on Terror: Competing Chronotopes of Guan-

tánamo,” AlexandraS. Moore, Binghamton U,

State U of New York

3. “‘is Smudge Will Clear Our Minds’: Indig-

enous Incarceration and Healing the Spirit in e

Outside Circle,” Sarah Kent, QueensU

4. “‘History Is a Cage’: Great Time and Doing

Time in Philadelphia Fire,” Katherine orstein-

son, CornellU

388. Insecure Ephemera: Reading Lessons

from Shakespeare to Twit te r

3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

A special session

1. “e Lead- to- Pixels Project: Digitization and

the Materiality of Book History Training,” Re-

becca Chung, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “Parisian Publics: Learning to Read

Nineteenth- Century Spin,” Cary Hollinshead-

Strick, American U of Paris

3. “e Mediated Student Body: Toward a New

(Old) History of the Book,” Lisa Marie Maruca,

Wayne StateU

Respondent: Andie Silva, York C, City U of New York

For related material, write to cstrick@ aup .edu.

389. Literature and Science in the Age

of “Alternative Fact”: e Example of

BrunoLatour

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: StevenJ. Meyer,

Washington U in St. Louis

Speakers: JamesJ. Bono, U at Bualo,State U of

New York; AdamJ. Frank, U of British Columbia;

Devin Griths, U of Southern California; JoanT.

Richardson, Graduate Center, City U of New York;

C. P. Haun Saussy, U of Chicago

Bruno Latour’s landmark essay “Why Has Critique

Run Out of Steam?” (2004) acquired much of its

topicality from his surprise at how climate change

deniers were (already) appropriating the discourse

of critique. Participants address present contro

versies regarding facts and alternative facts in the

light of Latour’s Giord lectures, Facing Gaia:

Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime (2017).

390. Disability Issues in the Profession:

Negotiating between eory and Best

Practices

3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the Association of Depart-

ments of Foreign Languages and the MLA Com-

mittee on Disability Issues in the Profession.

Presiding: Christian Flaugh, U at Bualo,State U

of New York; William Nichols, Georgia StateU

Speakers: TammyE. Berberi, U of Minnesota,

Morris; Benjamin Fraser, East Carolina U; Eliza-

bethC. Hamilton, Oberlin C; Heidi Soneson, U of

Minnesota, Twin Cities

Panelists explore issues related to physical and

cognitive disabilities from a theoretical as well as a

practical standpoint, discussing how an awareness

of disability aects the design of courses, notions

of identity, modes of second- language learning,

and the implementation of study- abroad programs.

391. e News from Home: Expatriate

Media and the Modern Periodical

3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Julie Cyzewski, Mur-

ray StateU

1. “‘e Truth about India’: Narrating National

Identity in Extremist Expatriate Newspapers

and the Mainstream American Press,” SarahA.

Fedirka, U of Findlay

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2. “‘e American Colonies’: e Paris Tribune’s

Audiences,” Nissa Cannon, U of California, Santa

Barbara

3. “Rebecca West, Global Citizenship, and the

New Yorker,” Caroline Zoe Krzakowski, Northern

MichiganU

392. Writing across the Curriculum When

the Curriculum Is the En glish Department

3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum RCWS Writing Ped-

agogies. Presiding: Bonnie Lenore Kyburz, LewisU

Speakers: Patricia Lynn Bizzell, C of the Holy

Cross; Madhurima Chakraborty, Columbia C, IL;

Dominic DelliCarpini, York C of Pennsylvania;

Mya Poe, Northeastern U; JohnL. Schilb, Indi-

anaU, Bloomington

Panelists explore tensions among faculty members

who teach composition and literature. Falling

enrollments and other tensions compel En glish

department faculty members—regardless of dis-

cipline—to teach more writing, raising questions

about the leadership of writing across the curricu-

lum (WAC) programs. Why do WAC programs

rarely include outreach to members of the litera-

ture faculty? To what extent might we begin to ad-

dress these tensions?

393. Printable Pedagogy and 3- D eses

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the Association for Comput-

ers and the Humanities. Presiding: Brian Croxall,

BrownU

Speakers: Erika Mary Boeckeler, Northeastern U;

Emily Brooks, U of Florida; Jonathan Fitzgerald,

Northeastern U; Mary Catherine Kinniburgh,

Graduate Center, City U of New York; Aaron

Santesso, Georgia Inst. of Tech.; Margaret Si-

mon, North Carolina State U; Edward Stratford,

Brigham Young U, UT

Over the last decade, alongside the arrival of digital

humanities methods, universities have invested in

3- D printing and maker spaces. Presenters discuss

how they use fabrication tools and spaces to teach

languages and literaturesor to conduct linguistic

or literary analysis. Brief talks address the praxis of

printing and the metaphysics of physicalization for

understanding languages and literatures.

For related material, visit ach .org aer 15Dec.

394. Alternative Pasts and Futures in

Postsocialist Science Fiction

3:30–4:45 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Russian and

Eurasian. Presiding: JeersonJ. A. Gatrall, Mont-

clair StateU

1. “Soviet CulturalMyths Deconstructed: Altered

Past, Unaltered History in Alexei Fe dor chen ko’s

First on the Moon,” Julia Gerhard, U of Colorado,

Boulder

2. “Transgressing Cosmic Dissonance: e Post-

Soviet Legacy of the Symbolism of1980s Soviet Sci

entic Fantasy,” Natalija Majsova, U of Ljubljana

3. “Where Parallel LinesIntersect: Elena Chizho-

va’s e Sinologist,” Reed Johnson, U of Virginia

395. Religion and the Early American Novel

3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty 5, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Early Ameri-

can. Presiding: Sarah Rivett, Prince tonU

1. “Religion, Indigeneity, and Early American

Literature,” Magdalena Zapędowska, U of Massa-

chusetts, Amherst

2. “William Jenks, the New En gland Clergy, and

the Early American Novel,” DavidK. Lawrimore,

Idaho StateU

3. “Wieland; or, the Transformation of God: Nar-

rative eology and Postsecular Faith in Early

American Literature,” Daniel Boscaljon, U of Iowa

396. Apprentissages: Emerging Subjectivities

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-

Century French. Presiding: AlexandraK. Wett lau-

fer, U of Texas, Austin

1. “Life Lessons: Norbert Truquin’s Mémoires

et aventures d’un prolétaire,” BettinaR. Lerner,

CityC, City U of New York

2. “e Worker and the Book: Radical Pedagogies

in Jacotot, Sand, and Rancière,” Rebecca Powers,

U of California, Santa Barbara

3. “Pedagogies of Race in Nineteenth- Century

Louisiana,” JarrodL. Hayes, U of Michigan, Ann

Arbor

4. “e Apprenticeship of Antoinette Lemire, a

Parisian Embroiderer,” Sharon P. Johnson, Vir-

ginia Polytechnic Inst. and StateU

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/19th- century- french/ aer 18Oct.

397. New Currents in Medieval

IberianStudies

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval Ibe

rian. Presiding: Isidro de Jesús Rivera, U of Kansas

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1. “Economies of Place in Medieval Literature,”

Simone Pinet, CornellU

2. “e Interpretation of the Mystical Gap in the

Light of American Cognitive eory,” Mustafa

Binmayaba, King Abdulaziz U, Jeddah

3. “Fairies and Pagan Mythologies in the Ro-

mancero,” David Wacks, U of Oregon

4. “Life Writing, Illness, and Gender: Autopatho-

graphy in the Medieval Cloister,” JoanF. Camma-

rata, ManhattanC

398. A Better Brit Lit Survey: Celtic, Norse,

and Teaching a Multicultural North Atlantic

3:30–4:45 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Celtic. Pre-

siding: Amy Mulligan, U of Notre Dame

Speakers: PaulL. Acker, St. Louis U; Matthieu

Boyd, Fairleigh Dickinson U, Teaneck; Katherine

Gillen, Texas A&M U, College Station; Catherine

McKenna, Harvard U; Joey McMullen, Cente-

nary U; Elaine Treharne, Stanford U; LisaM. C.

Weston, California State U, Fresno

Scholars discuss the practical, political, and peda-

gogical issues of teaching a diverse North Atlan-

tic:How can study of Celtic and Norse sources

champion recognition of a multilingual, multicul

tural, and multiethnic Brit lit? How can a diverse,

dierently organized early Brit lit survey tackle cur

rent issues of racism and xenophobic nationalism?

How has the anthology industry determined Brit

lit’s canonical voices, and where can we intervene?

399. Writing AIDS in the Twenty- First Century

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Sexuality

Studies. Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, U of Mary-

land, College Park

1. “‘e Final Absence of a Cure’: Rafael Campo

and the Twenty- First- Century Poetics of AIDS,”

Julie Minich, U of Texas, Austin

2. “e New Gay Sexual Revolution,” Octavio

Gonzalez, WellesleyC

3. “‘A ousand Kindred Spirits’: Recent Reections

of AIDS in United States Literature, Cinema, and

Conversation,” MonicaB. Pearl, U of Manchester

Respondent: Scott Herring, Indiana U, Bloomington

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ sexuality- studies/ aer 15Dec.

400. Planetary Life in the Contemporary

Petrosphere

3:30–4:45 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums CLCS Global

South and LLC African since 1990. Presiding:

Anne Garland Mahler, U of Virginia

1. “Cultivating the Local in Anna Lowenhaupt

Tsing’s e Mushroom at the End of the World and

Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies,” Stacey Balkan,

Florida AtlanticU

2. “Petro- Aect: Toward a Reading of Oil’s Ubiq-

uity in Pelo Malo, by Mariana Rondón,” María

Silvia Montenegro, U of Arizona

3. “Salvage and the Accidental Future,” Jennifer

Wenzel, ColumbiaU

4. “Petro- Politics in the Ecological Crisis of Ecua-

dor’s Progressive Government,” Jonathan Aguirre,

Prince tonU

Friday, 5 January

5:15 p.m.

401. States of Asylum: Refugees and the City

5:15–6:30 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: JuttaM. Gsoels-

Lorensen, Penn State U, Altoona

1. “City of Asylum, Pittsburgh: Report from a

Safe Space for Persecuted Writers,” Silvia Duarte,

City of Asylum

2. “Memories of Asylum: Past and Present Maps

of Fugitivity,” Tabea Alexa Linhard, Washington

U in St. Louis

3. “Asylum: e Concept and the Practice,” Ran-

jana Khanna, DukeU

4. “Refusing to Sink: Interpreting Communities

to Come,” Asimina Karavanta, National and Ka-

podistrian U of Athens

For related material, write to jmg35@ psu .edu aer

1Dec.

402. Literacies in Motion: Crossing National,

Cultural, Generational, and Local Borders

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum RCWS Literacy

Studies. Presiding: Suzanne Blum Malley, Colum-

bia C, IL

1. “Digital Stewards of Alaska Native Languages

and Literacies,” Jennifer Stone, U of Alaska, An-

chorage

2. “Intimate Technologies: Aects, State Author-

ity, and Documents as a Literacy Technology,”

Eileen Lagman, U of Colorado, Boulder

3. “Revising and Relocating the Good Hmong

Daughter,” Kaia Simon, U of Illinois, Urbana

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4. “Women Crossing Over: Vietnamese Educa-

tional Migrants Navigating Competing Contexts

of Globalization,” Ilene Crawford, Southern Con-

necticut StateU

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ literacy- studies/ aer 15Dec.

403. Political Disappointment

5:15–6:30 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Jennifer Doyle, U of

California, Riverside

1. “e Other Side of Nowhere: Underground

Rap Aesthetics and the Contemporary Necropo-

litical Moment,” Carter Mathes, Rutgers U, New

Brunswick

2. “e Memory of Water,” Dana Luciano,

GeorgetownU

3. “‘Like I’m Her, Mother, Like I’m Her’: Disap-

pointment and the Sound of Failed Solidarity in Til-

lie Olsen and Lead Belly,” Sara Marcus, Prince tonU

404. Drawing on John Berger

5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum MS Visual Cul-

ture. Presiding: Laura Wexler, YaleU

Speakers: Rizvana Bradley, Yale U; Kate Flint, U

of Southern California; Steani Jemison, Wil-

liams C; Anne McClintock, Prince ton U; LindaM.

Shires, Yeshiva U, Stern C for Women

In a year of signicant losses, the death of John

Berger on 2 January 2017 is among the weighti-

est. Berger was a writer, artist, critic, and guide

for over a generation, and his deeply political

and transdisciplinary work is behind the spirit of

many visual culture enterprises.Panelists consider

what we may learn from Berger about an event, be

it based in close reading, critical writing, or visual

storytelling.

405. Reproduction and Fertility in Film and

Media: Italy in the Mediterranean

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC 20th- and

21st- Century Italian and TC Women’s and Gender

Studies. Presiding: Nicoletta Marini- Maio, Dick-

insonC

1. “e Secret Pill: Contraception and Sexual

Freedom in Italian Photoromances,” Paola Boni-

fazio, U of Texas, Austin

2. “Cyber- Moms and Postfeminism in Italian

Web Series,” Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Frank-

lin and MarshallC

3. “‘Sterile’ Bodies? Masculinity, Migrants, and

New Formations of Sociocultural (Re)Production

in Italian Film and Media,” Lisa Dolasinski, Indi-

ana U, Bloomington

406. e Great War Revisited

5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Irene Mangoutas,

Queen’s U; Dana Shiller, Washington and Jeer-

sonC

1. “Commemorating War in Landscapes of Envi-

ronmental Aect: David Jones’s Syntactic Subject

of the Great War,” Molly Hall, U of Rhode Island

2. “e Forbidden Zone: Women Poets Trans-

gressing the Boundaries of Self and the Great

War,” Connie Ruzich, Robert MorrisU

3. “Ashes to Ashenden: Maugham, Modernism,

and Spyography,” Mark Kaufman, AlverniaU

4. “Reports from the Field: Recollecting Native

Histories in Gerald Vizenor’s Blue Ravens,” Kath-

leenG. Washburn, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

407. Historical Time Machines: Time

Criticalities of Nineteenth- Century Media

5:15–6:30 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Roger Whitson, Pull-

ma n, WA

1. “Big Time: London’s Big Ben, Deep Time, and

Time- Criticality Studies,” Andrew Burkett, UnionC

2. “Babbage and Blake, Lovelace and Byron: e

Algorithmic Condition of Nineteenth- Century

Poetics,” Roger Whitson

3. “New Grub Streeton Paper,” Richard Menke,

Uof Georgia

Respondent: Crystal Lake, Wright StateU

For related material, visit MLA Commons aer

1Dec.

408. e Work of the Anthology in

American Literature

5:15–6:30 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Nicholas Rinehart,

HarvardU

Speakers: Wai Chee Dimock, Yale U; Shelley Fisher

Fishkin, Stanford U; SandraM. Gustafson, U of

Notre Dame; Patrick Jagoda, U of Chicago; Carla

Kaplan, Northeastern U; Tavia Nyong’o, YaleU

Editors from several major journals in American

studies and literary and cultural studies consider

the work of the anthology in American literature

and culture—and its role in research, teaching,

and public outreach.

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409. When and Where Was Modernism?

5:15–6:30 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global An-

glophone. Presiding: Snehal Shingavi, U of Texas,

Austin

1. “Progressive Feeling: e Visceral Logics of

Decolonization,” Neetu Khanna, U of Southern

California

2. “Dictee’s Delayed Translation,” Tze- Yin Teo,

Uof Oregon

3. “African Modernism and the Crisis in the So-

cial Role of Art,” Alys Moody, MacquarieU

4. “Modernizm and Modernite: Revealing the

Turkish Modernist Novel,” Kaitlin Staudt, U of

Oxford

410. Cultures of Vulnerability in the

Contemporary United States

5:15–6:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century American. P residing: GordonN.

Hutner, U of Illinois, Urbana

1. “Terraforms: Fictions of Geoengineering in the

Era of Climate Precarity,” Allison Carruth, U of

California, Los Angeles

2. “e Politics of the Contemporary Art Novel,”

David Alworth, HarvardU

3. “Survivalist Domesticity: Containment,

Growth, and the Land in Edan Lepucki’s Califor-

nia,” Alison Shonkwiler, Rhode IslandC

4. “Technologies of Vulnerability: Nonwar, Per-

manent War, and the Cultural Politics of the Fih

Domain,” Joseph Darda, Texas ChristianU

411. 1968–2018: e Movement, the MLA,

and the Current Moment

5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Oce of Research.

Presiding: Paul Lauter, Trinity C, CT

Speakers: SarahE. Chinn, Hunter C, City U of

New York; Frances Smith Foster, Emory U; Rich-

ardM. Ohmann, Wesleyan U; Ellen Schrecker,

Yeshiva U, NY

Fiy years ago, a group of radicals, eager to speak

out against the Vietnam War, “disrupted” events

at the MLA convention. Panelists and audience

members examine the many dierent issues that

emerged when our profession encountered an activ-

ist movement committed to transforming politics.

ese included changes in the canon, in gender and

racial hierarchies, in access to college, and in the

degradation of the higher education workforce.

412. Revolution, Take 2: Conjunctural

Politics and the Paradox of Presence

5:15–6:30 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century German. Presiding: DevinA. Fore,

Prince tonU

1. “Fullled Present and Critical Present: Art and

Revolution according to Carl Einstein, 1919–1921,”

Maria Stavrinaki, UParis 1- Panthéon- Sorbonne

2. “e Poetic Grammar of Revolution,” Benja-

min Butt Robinson, Indiana U, Bloomington

3. “Althusser’s Lenin, Reading 1917: Structuralist

Marxism or Marxist Formalism?” Siarhei Biarei-

shyk, New YorkU

4. “Ralph Ellison’s Black Leninism,” Jonathan

Flatley, Wayne StateU

413. Narrating Vulnerability: Re- seeing

Asian American Children’s and Young

Adult Literature

5:15–6:30 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian

American. Presiding: James Kyung- Jin Lee, U of

California, Irvine

1. “Restaging the Superhero Spectacle: Shame and

Performative Pedagogy in Gene Luen Yang and

Sonny Liew’s Shadow Hero,” Kai Hang Cheang,

Uof California, Riverside

2. “Goyangi Means Cat and the Precarity of

Transnational and Transracial Adoptive Citizen-

ship,” Sandra Kim, U of Southern California

3. “Reading Vulnerability: Young Adulthood in

Cynthia Kadohata’s Kira- Kira,” Mika Kennedy,

Uof Michigan, Ann Arbor

414. e Sixteenth-/ Seventeenth- Century

Divide in French

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Katherine Ibbett, U of

Oxford; Jan Miernowski, U of Wisconsin, Madison

Speakers: Andrea Marie Frisch, U of Maryland,

College Park; Pauline Goul, Cornell U; Hélène

Merlin- Kajman, Ude Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle;

Isabelle Pantin, École Normale Supérieure; Helena

Skorovsky, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Toby Wik-

ström, TulaneU

French studies in the United States has clung to

a divide between the sixteenth and seventeenth

centuries. What’s at stake in this divide, how did

it come to be, and how have its constraints shaped

our eld? How do those of us who work across that

divide articulate our dierence from that norm?

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How do dierent institutions redra it? What ap-

proaches, methodologies, or problematics might

benet from rethinking our ways of working?

415. “Aca- Fandom” and Digital Scholarship:

Rethinking Research and Fan Production

5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Rachel O’Connell,

Uof Sussex

1. “Like Dumbledore’s Army Except Hermione

Is In Charge: Podcasting, Feminist Fandom, and

the Public Academic,” Marcelle Kosman, U of Al-

berta; Hannah McGregor, Simon FraserU

2. “Queer Geek Methodologies: Social Justice

Fandom as a Transformative Digital Humanities,”

Alexis Lothian, U of Maryland, College Park

3. “‘Maybe Willam...’: Writing Fandom, Inti-

macy, and Queer Femininities,” Rachel O’Connell

416. Pathways to the Public: Advancing

Engagement and Impact in the Humanities

5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the ADE Executive Com-

mittee. Presiding: Todd Wayne Butler, Washington

State U, Pullman

1. “Pathways to Public Accountability in Human-

ities Scholarship,” Rachel Arteaga, U of Washing-

ton, Seattle

2. “Advancing Civic Engagement in a City- as- Text

First- Year Composition Learning Community,”

Vanessa Holford Diana, Westeld StateU

3. “Race, Rhetoric, and Writing for Counter-

publics: e Pedagogical and Humanistic Im-

plications of Black Radical Traditions,” Carmen

Kynard, John Jay C, City U of New York

4. “‘Some of Us Are Lousy Directors’: Media

Production, the Academy, and the Future of the

Public Humanities,” Marc Ruppel, NEH Public

Programs

417. Modern Turkish Literature in

Comparative West Asian Contexts

5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC West Asian.

Presiding: Kamran Rastegar, TusU

1. “Paper Cuts: Beir Fuad and the Ends of Real-

ism in the Ottoman Nineteenth Century,” VeliN.

Yashin, U of Southern California

2. “Suat Dervi and Socialist Realism in Turkey,”

Nergis Ertürk, Penn State U, University Park

Respondent: Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough

Community C, City U of New York

418. e Digital Divide: South Asia in Crisis

5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC South Asian

and South Asian Diasporic. Presiding: NiraM.

Gupta- Casale, KeanU

1. “DigiQueer: Archives of South Asian Sexuali-

ties,” Kanika Batra, Texas TechU

2. “Swaach Bharat and Its Conversations with

Social Media,” Amrita De, Binghamton U, State U

of New York

3. “Queer Identities in Hansal Mehta’s Aligarh

and Shakun Batra’s Kapoor and Sons,” Rahul Gai-

rola, Indian Inst. of Tech.

Respondent: Rajender Kaur, William PatersonU

For related material, write to ncasale@ kean .edu

aer 20Dec.

419. Queer per Verse

5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Chad Bennett, U of

Texas, Austin

Speakers: Sarah Dowling, U of Washington, Both-

ell; Angela Hume Lewandowski, U of Minnesota,

Morris; Meta DuEwa Jones, Howard U; Corey

McEleney, FordhamU

Where is poetry’s Novel Gazing(ed. Eve Kosofsky

Sedgwick, 1997)? Reecting on and advancing

a vibrant critical tradition of queer readings in

poetry, participants ask, What is the broader

theoretical value—at a moment when the elds of

queer theory and lyric theory are undergoing sub-

stantive contestation and transformation—of an

engaged queer poetics?

420. Son of Saul: A Conversation with

GézaRöhrig

5:15–6:30 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Hungar-

ian and MS Screen Arts and Culture. Presiding:

ClaraE. Orban, DePaulU

Speakers: Jennifer Cazenave, U of South Florida,

Tampa; Szidonia Haragos, Zayed U; CatherineE.

Portuges, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Brad

Prager, U of Missouri, Columbia; Géza Röhrig, ac-

tor; Shawna Vesco, independent scholar; JereyD.

Wallen, HampshireC

e award- winning lm Son of Saul (2015) is situ-

ated in a long line of reective Hungarian cinematic

contributions with worldwide impact, resonating

with Holocaust literature, lm, and poetry interna

tionally. epanelists explore and contextualize this

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lm; the lm’s lead actor, Géza Röhrig, also partici-

pates, broadening the scope of our discussion.

422. e Language of Silence

5:15–6:30 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TM Language

eory. Presiding: Mary Hayes, U of Mississippi

1. “Toward a Poetics of the Silent: Xu Bing’s A

Book from the Sky as a Site of Suppressed Audibil-

ity,” Jue Hou, U of Chicago

2. “e Unspoken and Its Literary Function in

e City in Crimson Cloak and Cereus Blooms at

Night,” Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim, Washington U

in St. Louis

3. “Speaking through Silence: Uncovering Silent

Nuances of Race in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never

Told You,” Bomi Yoon, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

423. Publishing Trends and New Directions

in Late- Nineteenth- and Early- Twentieth-

Century Studies

5:15–6:30 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian

and Early- 20th- Century En glish. Presiding: Ellen

Crowell, St. LouisU

Speakers: Debra Rae Cohen, U of South Carolina,

Columbia; JohnN. Duvall, Purdue U, West Lafay-

ette; Cassandra Laity, U of Tennessee, Knoxville;

Janet Lyon, Penn State U, University Park; Robert

Philip Marzec, Purdue U, West Lafayette; Jean-

Michel Rabaté, U of Pennsylvania; Sharon Aronof-

sky Weltman, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

Editors from Modernism/ Modernity, Modern Fic-

tion Studies, Feminist Modernist Studies, Journal

of Modern Literature, and Nineteenth Century

eater and Film discuss recent trends and future

directions in their elds.

424. Extreme Politics and Representations

of the Extreme in Twentieth- and Twenty-

First- Century France

5:15–6:30 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century French. Presiding: CybelleH. Mc-

Fadden, U of North Carolina, Greensboro

1. “A Shrinking Single Body, an Expanding Col-

lective Body: Extreme Political Resistance in Sim-

one Weil and Ariane Mnouchkine,” Kaliane Ung,

New YorkU

2. “Intersecting Extremisms in Michel Houelle-

becq’s Submission,” Daniel O’Gorman, Oxford

BrookesU

3. “e Burkini Aair as a Case of Political Hys-

teria,” Carine Bourget, U of Arizona

425. Exploring Privacy in Mexican

Contexts from the Colonial Period to the

TwentiethCentury

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Anna Maria Nogar,

Uof New Mexico, Albuquerque

1. “Private Letters and Public Scandal: Power,

Religion, and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico,”

Stephanie Louise Kirk, Washington U in St. Louis

2. “From Public Fountains to the Kitchen Sink:

Ideas on Privacy and the Privatization of Water in

Mexico,” Ana Sabau, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “Open Doors: Domesticity and the Mexican

Revolution,” Shelley Elizabeth Garrigan, North

Carolina StateU

4. “Radio’s Public and Private Family Melodrama

through the Radionovela Chucho el Roto (1963–

73),” Amy Elisabeth Wright, St. LouisU

426. (Re)Shaping the First- Year College

Writing Classroom in the Trump Era

5:15–6:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Your ‘Sanctuary Campus’ Makes Us Silent

Again,” Jewon Woo, Lorain County Commu-

nityC, OH

2. “A Pedagogy of Desire: Writing Utopia in the

Composition Classroom,” Dan Abitz, Georgia

StateU

3. “Queering the Rhetoric of Normativity: A Re-

ection on Nontraditional Approaches to Teach-

ing Composition in the Trump Era,” Matthew

Hodgson, Chemeketa Community C, OR

4. “Writing about Writing during the Trump Ad-

ministration,” Tyler Branson, U of Toledo

Respondent: Sean Gerrity, Hostos Community C,

City U of New York

For related material, write to jwoo@ lorainccc .edu.

427. Performance Practice of the

Troubadour Repertory

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the Lyrica Society for Word-

Music Relations

1. “Performing the Alba,” Je Dailey, Five TownsC

2. “Harp Accompaniment for Medieval Monoph-

ony,” Christopher ompson, Graduate Center,

City U of New York; Collectio Musicorum, early

music ensemble

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aer 1Oct.

428. Sound andPerformance

5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum MS Sound

1. “‘Ich kann nicht’: Hearing (Racialized) Lan-

guages in Josh Inocéncio’s Purple Eyes,” Trevor

Boone, U of Houston

2. “Sonic Treatises of Race in America: Universes

and Lin- Manuel Miranda’s Broadway Musicals,”

Patricia Herrera, U of Richmond

3. “A Voice like under: Native Oratory,

Metamora, and Unsettling American Drama,”

Caitlin Marshall, U of Maryland, College Park

4. “Aural Cartographies: e Inscription of

Sound as a Multicultural Project in the Radio Pro-

gram América y sus juglares (1985), by Nicomedes

Santa Cruz,” Juan Suárez, U of Illinois, Urbana

429. eorizing the Relation of Cognitive

Literary Studies and Comparative Literature

5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: J. Keith Vincent, Bos-

tonU

Speakers: Patrick Colm Hogan, U of Connecticut,

Storrs; Haiyan Lee, Stanford U; Ralph James Sava-

rese, Grinnell C; J. Keith Vincent; Lisa Zunshine,

U of Kentucky

Scholars of comparative literature who work with

cognitive approaches to literature (e.g., with af-

fect studies, cognitive disability studies, cognitive

queer studies, cognitive legal studies, and cogni-

tive narratology) discuss developments of the last

decade that are bringing the two elds closer to-

gether, focusing in particular on implications for

future research and disciplinary self- awareness.

For related material, visit en glish.as.uky .edu/

users/ zunshin aer 22Dec.

430. e Lusophone World in the New

Geopolitical Order

5:15–6:30 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Global Portu-

guese. Presiding: Ana Catarina Teixeira, EmoryU

1. “e Failure of the First Portuguese Republic

and Salazar’s New State,” Ana Fauri, BrownU

2. “Deus Dará and the Dynamics between Brazilian

and Portuguese Cultures in the Twenty- First Cen

tury,” Tania Martuscelli, U of Colorado, Boulder

3. “Bursting the Bubble: e Public Sphere in the

Era of Algorithmic Culture in Bernardo Car va l-

ho’s Reprodução,” Ligia Bezerra, Arizona StateU

4. “#Democracy (in Brazilian Culture),” Leila

Maria Lehnen, U of New Mexico, Albuquerque

For related material, write to ana .teixeira@ emory

.edu aer 1Nov.

431. Fictionality in Narrative eory:

AReexamination of Core Concepts

5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton

Program arranged by the International Society for

the Study of Narrative. Presiding: henrik nielsen,

AarhusU

Speakers: Monika Fludernik, U of Freiburg; Maria

Makela, U of Tampere; Eric Morel, U of Wash-

ington, Seattle; Vic Perry, Iowa State U; Wendy

Veronica Xin, U of California, Berkeley; Simona

Zetterberg Gjerlevsen, AarhusU

Recently scholars working in the broad area of

rhetorical narrative theory have suggested a new

approach to ctionality founded on two prin-

ciples: a distinction between generic ctions such

as the novel, on the one hand, and the quality of

ctionality, understood as a mode of discourse

prevalent across genres, on the other. Panelists

explore the narrative theoretical consequences of

this approach by using it to reexamine core con-

cepts of narrative.

432. Horizons of Intimacy: Distance,

Aect, and the Global Imaginary on the

Shakespearean Stage

5:15–6:30 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Jean Elizabeth How-

ard, ColumbiaU

1. “Distance, Proximity, and Human Empathy in

he Tempest,” Jane Hwang Degenhardt, U of Mas-

sachusetts, Amherst

2. “‘To Bear Another Hew’: Violent Intimacies of

Race and Natural Commodities in Titus Androni

cus,” William Steen, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

3. “‘Wandering in Illusion’: Horizons of Intimacy

in the Comedy of Errors,” HenryS. Turner, Rut-

gersU, New Brunswick

4. “Cymbeline’s Melancholic Intimacies: Displace-

ment and Settlement as eatrical Aesthetic,”

Caro Pirri, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

For related material, visit MLA Commons.

433. Cras of World Literature: Materials,

Genres, Forms

5:15–6:30 p.m., New York, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Ben Etherington, West-

ern Sydney U; Jarad Zimbler, U of Birmingham

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Speakers: Anna Bernard, King’s C London; Nicho

las Mainey Brown, U of Illinois, Chicago; Stefan

Helgesson, Stockholm U; SowonS. Park, U of Cali

fornia, Santa Barbara; Shital Pravinchandra, Queen

Mary U of London; Ato Quayson, U of Toronto

Participants reect on the state of world literary

studies and on ways it might yet be recongured

from the perspective of literary materials, genres,

and forms.Together, they consider the impact of

recent interventions, as well as opportunities aris-

ing from a focus on questions of literary practice.

434. e “Arrival” of Jia Pingwa in World

Literature: Translation and Interpretation

5:15–6:30 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Modern

and Contemporary Chinese. Presiding: Jiwei Xiao,

FaireldU

Speakers: omas Chen, Lehigh U; Anna Gus-

tafsson Chen, Västerhaninge, Sweden; Jonathan

Christian Stalling, U of Oklahoma; Nick Stember,

translator; Yiyan Wang, Victoria U of Wellington;

Xiaowen Xu, SyracuseU

Focusing on the work of Jia Pingwa, one of the

most renowned contemporary novelists in China,

panelists discuss various ongoing projects that

involve the translation and critical studies of Jia’s

novels outside China. Speakers also assess the sig-

nicance of Jia’s being an undertranslated Chinese

writer in the realm of world literature.

435. Revisiting Transatlanticism: American

Women in Circulation

5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Transatlantic Sisterhood and American Sym-

pathy: Hawthorne’s Heroine Abroad,” Sarah Sil-

lin, GettysburgC

2. “Radical Feminism and Revolutionary Senti-

ment in William Wells Brown’s Multiedition

Clotel,” Christopher Stampone, Southern Method-

istU

3. “Securitization and Life’s Precariousness: Lo-

reta Velazquez’s Performance of the Civil War Mil-

itary Code,” Colleen Glenney Boggs, DartmouthC

4. “e American Girl Goes to the Global South:

Juvenile Literature of the 1890s,” CarrieT. Bra-

men, U at Bualo,State U of New York

For related material, visit www .sarahsillin .com/.

436. Infrastructure

5:15–6:30 p.m., Regent, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction.

Presiding: Kate Marshall, U of Notre Dame

1. “Standardized Money,” Jonathan Grossman,

Uof California, Los Angeles

2. “Spatiotemporal Data Infrastructures in the

Novel and Weather Reporting,” John Durham

Peters, YaleU

3. “Life Support: Fictions of Energy and Environ-

ment,” Michael Rubenstein, Stony Brook U, State

U of New York

Respondent: Lauren Berlant, U of Chicago

437. Early En glish Consent

5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forums LLC 16th-

Century En glish and LLC Chaucer. Presiding:

Emma Lipton, U of Missouri, Columbia

1. “Chaucer and the Compelling Argument,”

WilliamA. Quinn, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

2. “e Consent of the Virgin Mary,” Maggie Sol-

berg, BowdoinC

3. “Belatedness and the Consenting Voice in Mea-

sure for Measure,” Devin Byker, C of Charleston

Respondent: Kathryn Schwarz, VanderbiltU

438. he Haverford Discussions and the

Course of Black Studies

5:15–6:30 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

A special session

Speakers: Erica Edwards, U of California, River-

side; Julius Fleming, Jr., U of Maryland, College

Park; Christopher Freeburg, U of Illinois, Urbana;

Michael Lackey, U of Minnesota, Morris; Ken-

nethW. Warren, U of Chicago

We will use Michael Lackey’she Haverford Dis-

cussions: A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Ra-

cial Justiceas a point of departure to reassess the

founding moment of black studies from the stand-

point of some of its most articulate critics. Panel-

ists address the gains and losses that attended the

rise of black power, the turn away from political

economy, and current implications for African

American literary and cultural study.

For related material, write to kwarren@

uchicago .edu.

439. Teaching Global Arab Comics in the

United States

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums GS Comics and

Graphic Narratives and CLCS Global Arab and

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Friday, 5 January

7:15 p.m.

442. Reception Arranged by the Stanford

University Department of En glish and Divison

of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

7:15–8:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom East, Sheraton

443. Cash Bar Sponsored by the St. John’s

University PhD Program in En glish

7:15–8:30 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

444. Cash Bar Arranged by the Women’s

Caucus for the Modern Languages,

Feministas Unidas, Women in French, and

Women in German

7:15–8:30 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

445. Cash Bar Arranged by the Minnesota

Review and Meditations

7:15–8:30 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

Arab American. Presiding: Pauline Homsi Vinson,

Diablo ValleyC

1. “Teaching and Drawing Boundaries in South-

South Collaborations: e Seventh Issue of Lab619

as a Case Study,” Rania Said, Binghamton U, State

U of New York

2. “Depicting the Graphic in Abirached’s A Game

for Swallows and Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi,” Rachel

Norman, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

3. “Palestine at the Crossroads: Teaching Leila

Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi as a Mediterranean

Comic,” Tera Reid- Olds, U of Oregon

440. Hacking the Scholarly Workow

5:15–7:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on

Information Technology. Presiding: Shawna Ross,

Texas A&M U, College Station; Beth Seltzer, Bryn

MawrC

Speakers: Nicky Agate, MLA; Eileen Clancy, Grad-

uate Center, City U of New York; Eric Detweiler,

Middle Tennessee State U; Jonathan Goodwin,

U of Louisiana, Lafayette; JasonB. Jones, Trin-

ityC, CT; Amanda Licastro, Stevenson U; Andrew

Pilsch, Texas A&M U, College Station; Zuleima

Ugalde, California State U, Northridge

is workshop shares eight simple, real- life, low-

cost, practical hacks to help scholars organize

research materials, streamline teaching, manage

their calendars, promote their work, and con-

nect with other academics. A round of descriptive

lightning talks is followed by interactive breakout

sessions during which speakers demonstrate their

hack in- depth.

Friday, 5 January

6:45 p.m.

441. e Presidential Address

6:45 p.m., Metropolitan Ballroom East, Sheraton

Presiding: PaulaM. Krebs, MLA

1. Report of the Executive Director, PaulaM. Krebs

2. e Presidential Address, “¡Presente!” Diana Taylor, New YorkU. ¡Presente! (“Present!”) can

be understood as a war cry, an act of solidarity or witnessing, a way of being in the world, compli-

ance to roll call, a display or declaration of presence. ¡Presente! announces an embodied form of

engagement with others, a way of being present, physically and politically, that takes us beyond the

disciplined and restrictive ways of knowing. ¡Presente! envisions knowledge not as something to

be harvested and commercialized but as an engaged process of being with, of walking and talking

with others and all the pitfalls, complications, and contradictions that entails. ¡Presente! invites us

to think together.

Reception immediately following.

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Saturday, 6 January 

446. Cash Bar Arranged by the

Departmentof Spanish and Portuguese,

University of Arizona

7:15–8:30 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton

447. Cash Bar Arranged by the Yale

University Department of French

7:15–8:30 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

448. Cash Bar Arranged by the Forum LLC

Medievel Iberian

7:15–8:30 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton

449. Cash Bar Arranged by the American

Folklore Society

7:15–8:30 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

450. Falling for Prepositions, a Performance

7:15–8:30 p.m., Regent, Hilton

Participant: Marla Berg, Kent State U, Kent

is event aims to playfully reveal the beauty and

humor in prepositions. rough movement and

operatic song, viewers deepen their physical and

emotional connection to the preposition. As the

performers embody and reveal language, they in-

tegrate the distinct disciplines of En glish, theater,

dance, and music.

451. Cash Bar Arranged by the Forums

LLC 16th- Century French and LLC 17th-

CenturyFrench

7:15–8:30 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

452. Cash Bar Sponsored by the Forums LLC

Victorian and Early- 20th- Century- English

and LLC Late- 18th- Century- En glish, Feminist

Modernist Studies, Modernism/Modernity,

Nineteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-

Century eatre and Film, Novel, Victorian

Literature and Culture, and Victorian Studies

7:15–8:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

Saturday, 6 January

8:30 a.m.

453. Advancing the Field: Connecting

Humanities Graduate Education and

Community College Teaching

8:30–11:30 a.m., Concourse A, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Elizabeth Alsop,

Graduate Center, City U of New York; Rachel

Arteaga, U of Washington, Seattle

Speakers: Cristina Della Coletta, U of California,

San Diego; Angela Duran Real, U of Washington,

Seattle; Erin Glass, U of California, San Diego;

Matthew Levay, Idaho State U; Lauren Elizabeth

Onkey, Cuyahoga Community C, OH; Asha Tran,

South Seattle C

Community colleges and doctoral programs

are developing new ways to work together to

strengthen and amplify their missions and to

support equity and diversity in higher education.

Faculty members, administrators, and students

lead a participatory discussion and hands- on

workshop about opportunities and challenges of

connecting graduate education and pedagogical

training with community college teaching. Pre

registration is required.

For related material, visit cunyhumanitiesalliance

.org/.

454. Digital Humanities Tools and

Technologies for Students, Emerging

Scholars, Faculty Members, Librarians, and

Administrators

8:30–11:30 a.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Oce of Scholarly

Communication. Presiding: RaymondG. Siemens,

U of Victoria

Speakers: Alyssa Arbuckle, U of Victoria; Rebecca

Dowson, Simon Fraser U; Randa El Khatib, U of

Victoria; Elizabeth Grumbach, Arizona State U;

Diane Jakacki, Bucknell U; Aaron Mauro, Penn

State U, Erie- Behrend; RaymondG. Siemens; Lee

Skallerup Bessette, U of Mary Washington

is workshop oers participants both theoretical

and hands- on considerations of digital humani-

ties (DH) tools, soware, and methodologies;

on- campus digital scholarship; DH postdoctoral

fellowships; social media; DH for academic ad-

ministrators; #alt- ac roles; and open social schol-

arship. Preregistration is required.

For related material, visit dhsi .org aer 15 Sept.

455. e Digital Future of Literary Archives

8:30–9:45 a.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the Society for the History

of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Presiding:

Lise Jaillant, LoughboroughU

Speakers: Dennis Deniso, U of Tulsa; Angus

Grieve- Smith, Columbia U; Trenton Judson, Jarvis

Christian C; Melanie Micir, Washington U in St.

Louis; Carlotta Paltrinieri, Indiana U, Blooming-

ton; Greta Smith, Miami U, Oxford

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Literary archives have been transformed by thedig

italrevolution in terms ofpreservation through

digitization projects,discoverability and accessibil

ity (making available materials that were previously

dicult to discover and access), andscholarship

(use ofdigitaltools such as visualization to analyze

archival documents).Panelists focus onthefu

tureof literary archives in a fast- changing context.

For related material, visit www .sharpweb .org/

aer 1Dec.

456. Imagining Absence in Medieval and

Renaissance Italian

8:30–9:45 a.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Medieval

and Renaissance Italian. Presiding: Aileen Feng,

Uof Arizona

1. “‘A Stranger in Our Woods’: Voicing the Absent

and Viewing the Distant in Trecento Pastoral,” Jon

athan Combs- Schilling, Ohio State U, Columbus

2. “In the Idol’s Presence: Ludovico Carbone in

1460,” Sherry Roush, Penn State U, University Park

3. “e Absent Court: e Perfect Court as an

Imaginary Entity in Cinquecento Italy,” Paola

Ugolini, U at Bualo, State U of New York

457. We’re All Living Dead Now

8:30–9:45 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum MS Screen Arts

and Culture. Presiding: RebeccaA. Wanzo, Wash-

ington U in St. Louis

1. “Duane Jones: Acting and the Paradox of Race,”

KatherineA. Kinney, U of California, Riverside

2. “‘We Urge You to Stay Tuned to Radio and TV

and to Stay Indoors at All Costs’: Zombies, Live

Broadcast, and the Powers of the False in George

Romero’s Night of the Living Dead,” James McFar-

land, VanderbiltU

3. “Dawn of the Living Digital Horde: Zombies

in the Twenty- First Century,” Zachary Price, Cor-

nellU

458. Édouard Glissant: From Identitarian

Insecurities to the Poetics of Relation

8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Franco-

phone. Presiding: Cilas Kemedjio, U of Rochester

1. “Esquisser la relation: Les dessins d’Édouard

Glissant,” ValerieI. Loichot, EmoryU

2. “Of Poetics and Islands: Neso- Aesthetics—

Glissant’s Relationality and Social Justice,” Chris-

tina Gerhardt, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

3. “Édouard Glissant as Curator: e Place of the

Museum in the Tout- Monde,” Emma Monroy, U of

North Carolina, Chapel Hill

4. “‘Enceinte d’autant de morts que de vivants en

sursis’: Gender and Allegory in Poétique de la rela-

tion,” Françoise Lionnet, HarvardU

459. Wallace Stevens and Music

8:30–9:45 a.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Wallace Stevens Society

Speakers: BartP. Eeckhout, U of Antwerp; Mo-

hammed Fairouz, composer; David Zachary

Finch, Massachusetts C of Liberal Arts; LisaN.

Goldfarb, New York U; Langdon Hammer, Yale U;

Brenda Ravenscro, McGillU

is session focuses on the musical analogy in po-

ems, aspects of voice and theme, music and sound,

musical compositions based on Stevens’s work,

Stevens’s interest in and references to particular

composers, and musical- poetic structures.

460. Sor Juana: Securing Women’s Writing

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Colonial

Latin American. Presiding: Lisa Voigt, Ohio

StateU, Columbus

1. “Resisting through the Senses: Sor Juana’s

Primero Sueño and María de San José’s Autobiog-

raphy,” Ana Garriga, BrownU

2. “Sounding Feminine Intellect in the Villanci-

cos to St. Catherine of Alexandria (1691),” Sarah

Finley, Christopher NewportU

3. “Women and Science: Mujeres Doctas in Sor

Juana’s Respuesta,” GeorgeA. omas, U of

Northern Colorado

461. Gender, Representation, and Fascism

8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Women’s and

Gender Studies. Presiding: Natasha Hurley, U of

Alberta

1. “Camp Fascism: Isherwood’s Arthur Norris

and the Aestheticizaton of Politics,” Megan Fara-

gher, Wright StateU

2. “Sexuality and the Inhuman in Storm Jame-

son’s In the Second Year,” Lara Vetter, U of North

Carolina, Charlotte

3. “‘Alternative Facts’ and Fictions: Woolf, Fou-

cault, and the Potential for Freedom under Fas-

cism,” Kara Watts, U of Rhode Island

4. “‘ere Is the Moment, and Its Possibilities’:

Becoming- Woman in omas Pynchon’s Gravity’s

Rainbow,” eresaL. Geller, GrinnellC

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462. Complex TV: Texts, Viewers, and Fan

Engagement

8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Popular Cul-

ture. Presiding: Ellen McCracken, U of California,

Santa Barbara

1. “Transmedia and Telenovelas: Parodying

Latinx Melodramas for a Transnational and

Hemispheric Latinx Audience,” Yari Cruz, Indi-

ana U, Bloomington

2. “e ‘Tina’ Phenomenon: Bob’s Burgers and the

New Riot Grrls,” Kira Boyko, U of Victoria

3. “Against Cognitive Philosophies of Film Ex-

perience: An Archaeology of Image: Rethinking

Jason Mittell’s Cognitivism,” Carl Peters, U of the

Fraser Valley

4. “e Transmedial and Synontological Com-

plexity of Castle,” Rhona Trauvitch, Florida Inter-

nationalU

For related material, visit ellenmccracken

.weebly .com.

463. Deleuze: Literature, Philosophy, and

the Postcolonial

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century French. Presiding: angam Ravin-

dranathan, BrownU

1. “Conscience and Concept,” Tom Clark Conley,

HarvardU

2. “Glissant and Deleuze in the Longue Durée,”

Neal Allar, TsinghuaU

3. “e Second Term of the Trinity: reshold,

Limit, Stockpiling, and Barbarians,” Eleanor

Kaufman, U of California, Los Angeles

Respondent: Réda Bensmaïa, BrownU

464. Drone Warfare and Post- 9/11 Cultural

Practices

8:30–9:45 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Waseem Anwar, For-

man ChristianC

Speakers: Muhammad Waqar Azeem, Bing-

hamtonU, State U of New York; Mary Cappelli,

Nevada State C; Mahwish Chishty, Kent State U,

Kent; Nike Nivar Ortiz, U of Southern California;

Daniel O’Gorman, Oxford Brookes U; Jennifer

Rhee, Virginia Commonwealth U; Rachel Walsh,

Bowling Green StateU

e session discusses the representation of drone

warfares in post- 9/11 visual and grati art, lm

and documentaries, plays and stage performances,

and memoirs and ction. Participants explore

how the art forms reimagine weaponized drones

in connection with the War on Terror, militarized

surveillance, us- versus- them binaries, the state-

citizen relationship, racial dehumanization and

pixelization of targets, and drone pilots’ PTSD.

For related material, visit wordpress .com/ page/

waqar81.wordpress .com/11.

465. Early Modern Women and the

Environment

8:30–9:45 a.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the Society for the Study of

Early Modern Women. Presiding: Patricia Phil-

lippy, Kingston U London

Speakers: Anupam Basu, Washington U in

St.Louis; Claire Eager, U of Virginia; Jennifer

Morrissey, Dominican U; Selene Scarsi, Kingston

U London; Sydnee Wagner, Graduate Center, City

U of New York

Panelists discuss early modern women’s negotia-

tions with built and natural environments. Top-

ics include Vittoria Colonna’s garden at Ischia;

biopolitical readings of visual and textual repre

sentations of gypsies; Ursulines’ utopian project

in New France; literary garden of Lucy, Countess

of Bedford,at Twickenham; and women’s manu

script recipes’ engagements with household and

natural domains.

For related material, write to p.phillippy@

kingston.ac.uk.

466. Twenty- First- Century Chicanx

Performance

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Chicana and

Chicano. Presiding: Jose Navarro, California Poly-

technic State U, San Luis Obispo

1. “Interpreting the Latin Lover: A Hemisexual

Approach,” Paloma Martinez- Cruz, Ohio State U,

Columbus

2. “(Re)Sounding Chicanidad: Listening to the

Revival Production of Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit,”

MarciR. McMahon, U of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

3. “Screening Chicana Adolescence in the

Twenty- First- Century Suburbs: Finessa Pineda’s

and Venecia Troncoso’s Performances in Mosquita

y Mari (2012),” Randy Ontiveros, U of Maryland,

College Park

4. “A Site of Living Public Art: San Antonio

Artivist David Zamora Casas,” Norma Elia Cantú,

TrinityU

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467. Sanctuary, Contingency, and the

Campus as a Site of Struggle

8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the Radical Caucus in

En glish and the Modern Languages. Presiding:

RobinS. Hammerman, Stevens Inst. of Tech.

Speakers: Basuli Deb, City U of New York; Patri-

ciaL. Keeton, Ramapo C; Marcia Neweld, Bor-

ough of Manhattan Community C, City U of New

York; Joseph Ramsey, U of Massachusetts, Boston;

Eric Vázquez, SkidmoreC

Panelists address prevailing states of insecurity

in institutions of higher learning, focusing on the

threats facing undocumented students, sta, and

faculty members and the strengths and shortcom-

ings of the sanctuary movement in confronting

these, as well as the continuing state of job- related

insecurity experienced by the ever- burgeoning

number of non- tenure- track faculty members.

468. Strategic Presentism

8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TM Literary Crit-

icism. Presiding: CarolineE. Levine, CornellU

Speakers: MichaelW. Clune, Case Western Re-

serve U; Abigail Droge, Stanford U; Alexander

Galloway, New York U; Anna Kornbluh, U of

Illinois, Chicago; Cynthia Nazarian, Northwest-

ernU; Ragini aroor Srinivasan, U of Nevada,

Reno; Jerey Wilson, HarvardU

Presentism has oen been the name for an intel-

lectual mistake, but intervening in the present has

also been one of the most urgent aims of a politi-

cal criticism. How might we perform a historical

literary studies for the present? Participants from

dierent elds, including Renaissance French, new

media, and postcolonial studies, briey introduce

a keyword or phrase. Active audience participa-

tion follows.

For related material, write to cel235@ cornell .edu

aer 1Dec.

469. Dislocated Identity in Recent South

Asian and Diasporic Literature

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Humanimal’s ‘Rescued’ Wolf Girls: Bhanu

Kapil’s Investigation of the Displaced,” Diana Ar-

terian, U of Southern California

2. “‘No- man’s- land’: e Production of Spaces

of Refuge in Manto’s ‘Toba Tek Singh,’” Srigowri

Kumar, St. John’s U, NY

3. “Transitory Identities across Genres and Gen-

der: Jean Arasanayagam’s Archives in Motion,”

KatrinaM. Powell, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and

StateU

470. Serializing Justice

8:30–9:45 a.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the American Literature

Society. Presiding: Anna Mae Duane, U of Con-

necticut, Storrs

1. “Serialization and Black Girlhood in Fran-

cesE.W. Harper’s Trial and Triumph,” Nazera

Wright, Uof Kentucky

2. “Serialized Activism and Black Modernity,”

Irvin Hunt, U of Illinois, Urbana

3. “Serial Forms, Serial Characters, and the Chal-

lenges of Racial Justice,” BrooksE. Hefner, James

MadisonU

471. Confronting the Whiteness of

Narratology

8:30–9:45 a.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: SueJ. Kim, U of Mas-

sachusetts, Lowell

Speakers: James Donahue, State U of New York,

Potsdam; Christopher Gonzalez, Utah State U;

Mark Jerng, U of California, Davis; Catherine

Romagnolo, Lebanon Valley C; Hortense Jeanette

Spillers, VanderbiltU

Panelists engage the following questions: Why

is narratology still predominantly white—in its

models, assumptions, and texts? What would it

mean to take other narrative or critical traditions

as a basis for a theory of narratives? What would it

mean to radically rethink the foundations of nar-

rative theory using the concepts of ethnic studies?

e goal is, ultimately, to work toward decoloniz-

ing the eld of narratology.

472. Rethinking Marlowe and the Aesthetic

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Marlowe Society of

America

1. “Imagining ings: Materialism and Aesthet-

ics in Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage,” Rachel

Eisendrath, BarnardC

2. “Marlowe in Chains: Renaissance Figures of

Literary Transmission,” JennyC. Mann, CornellU

3. “Marlowe’s Proof of Pleasure,” Christopher

Warley, U of Toronto

For related material, visit www

. marlowesocietyofamerica .org.

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473. Poetry and Insecurity

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums GS Poetry and

Poetics and TM Book History, Print Cultures,

Lexicography. Presiding: Brian Reed, U of Wash-

ington, Seattle

1. “Wordless Labor: Digitizing Rosaire Appel’s

Asemic Poetry,” Tyler Shoemaker, U of California,

Santa Barbara

2. “‘E Pluribus Unum’: e United States–

American Poetry Collection as a Space of Politi-

cal and Poetic Intervention,” Juliette Utard, U of

Paris4, Sorbonne

3. “Muriel Rukeyser and the False Security of

Connement,” VivianR. Pollak, Washington U in

St. Louis

474. Transnational Broadcasting: So

Diplomacy and the Mediations of History

8:30–9:45 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: PeterJ. Kalliney, U of

Kentucky

1. “Changing Mediascapes and Cold War Cul-

tural Politics: e Transcription Centre’s Africa

Abroad,” Julie Cyzewski, Murray StateU

2. “Two Women Broadcasters and a Critique of

Imperialism,” Daniel Morse, U of Nevada, Reno

3. “Grunwick’s ‘Strikers in Saris’: Revising Re-

sistance and Devising So Diplomacy on BBC

Radio,” Sejal Sutaria, King’s C London

For related material, write to sejal .sutaria@ kcl .ac .uk.

475. Romantic Personication Reconsidered

8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC En glish Ro-

mantic. Presiding: MarkE. Canuel, U of Illinois,

Chicago

1. “Soulless, Immortal: e Incorporation of Per-

sonhood circa 1800,” Daniel Stout, U of Mississippi

2. “Personifying Persons,” Frances Ferguson,

Uof Chicago

3. “Personication and the Everyday,” Brian Mc-

Grath, ClemsonU

476. Fraught Logics of Natural Law

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Anita Ruth Sokolsky,

WilliamsC

1. “Natural Right, Natural Law, and the Logic of

Sacrice in Voltaire’s Treatise on Tolerance,” Anita

Ruth Sokolsky

2. “Welcome to Paris: e Guardians and the

Stranger in Rousseau’s ‘Ninth Promenade,’ ” El-

lenS. Burt, U of California, Irvine

3. “‘is Is Not Anthropomorphism’: Benjamin

and the Problem of the Anthropocene,” Sara

Guyer, U of Wisconsin, Madison

Respondent: Gordon Teskey, HarvardU

477. Exploring Black Identity in

Raciolinguistic Terms

8:30–9:45 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Global En-

glish. Presiding: Carly Houston Overfelt, U of

Massachusetts, Amherst

1. “Introducing Raciolinguistics: A Case Study of

Charles Chesnutt’s e House behind the Cedars,”

Carly Houston Overfelt

2. “When the Exotic Becomes German: On Being

Black in the ird Reich,” Andrea Dawn Bryant,

GeorgetownU

3. “‘e Moments of Living Slowly Revealed eir

Coded Meanings’: Wright’s Black Boy as Raciolin

guistic Investigation,” Greg Chase, BostonU

478. Writing Studies and Data

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum RCWS History

and eory of Composition. Presiding: Risa Ap-

plegarth, U of North Carolina, Greensboro

1. “Rethinking the Research Paper in the Light of

Citation Project Data,” Sandra Jamieson, DrewU

2. “Five Years of Data: Visualizing the Job Market

through Rhetmap,” Jim Ridolfo, U of Kentucky

3. “Dissertations as Disciplinary Data,” Benjamin

Miller, U of Pittsburgh

479. e Nahda or Arab Renaissance

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Publications Com-

mittee. Presiding: Luís Madureira, U of Wisconsin,

Madison

1. “Reections on the Nahda,” MuhsinJ. al-

Musawi, ColumbiaU

2. “Untiming the Modern Arab ‘Renaissance,’”

ShadenM. Tageldin, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

3. “Anthologizing the Nahda,” Tarek El- Ariss,

DartmouthC

Respondent: Mohammad Salama, San Francisco

StateU

480. Dickens and Resistance

8:30–9:45 a.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

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Program arranged by the Dickens Society. Pre-

siding: DianaC. Archibald, U of Massachusetts,

Lowell

1. “A Blot in the eater: Dickens, Macready, and

the Quest to ‘Revive the Drama,’” James Arm-

strong, Graduate Center, City U of New York

2. “Dickens and Government Resistance: e

Battle to Save Epping Forest,” Sophie Christman-

Lavin, Stony Brook U,State U of New York

3. “Dickens and Gender Resistance,” Jolene Ziga-

rovich, U of Northern Iowa

4. “‘Innumerable Goroos Interspersed’: Awk-

wardness as Resistance in Dickens’s Prose,” Jona-

than Farina, Seton HallU

481. Twenty- First- Century African Writers

8:30–9:45 a.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC African

since 1990

1. “Contemporary Literary Prizes and the Fram-

ing of African Literature as World Literature in

French,” Madeline Bedecarre, École des Hautes

Études en Sciences Sociales

2. “e Postcolony and the Road Not Takeable:

Southern African Edens from World- Lit to World-

Lite,” Mark Deggan, Simon FraserU

3. “Algérianité, la Littérature- Monde, and the

Contemporary Modes of Being an Algerian Au-

thor,” ValérieK. Orlando, U of Maryland, College

Park

4. “Homegoing: Reading the ‘Global’ African

Novel in the Twenty- First Century,” Magali

Armillas- Tiseyra, Penn State U, University Park

482. What Tenured Professors Can Do

about Adjunctication

8:30–9:45 a.m., Mercury Ballroom, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Carolyn Jane Beten-

sky, U of Rhode Island

Speakers: Jennifer Ashton, U of Illinois, Chicago;

Michael Bérubé, Penn State U, University Park;

PeterD. G. Brown, State U of New York, New

Paltz; Janet Galligani Casey, Skidmore C; Seth

Kahn, West Chester U; Jennifer Ruth, Portland

State U; John Warner, C of Charleston

How have some tenured faculty members suc-

ceeded in reshaping their departments and insti-

tutions into more equitable places of employment?

What strategies might encourage more tenured

faculty members to act forcefully, from positions

of relative security, to help ensure a sustainable

future for our students and the profession?

483. Renegades and Revenge: Hag- Seed and

he Heart Goes Last

8:30–9:45 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Margaret Atwood Soci-

ety. Presiding: Eleonora Rao, U of Salerno

1. “‘Master(s) of a Full Poor Cell’: Magic and

Constraining Spaces in Hag- Seed and he Tem-

pest,” C. Bruna Mancini, U of Calabria

2. “‘Who Are the Inmates and Who Are the

Guards?’: Prisons as Sites of Resistance in At-

wood,” Karma Waltonen, U of California, Davis

3. “Revenge ‘Melted into Air’: Staging Transfor-

mation in Hag- Seed,” DebrahK. Raschke, South-

east Missouri StateU

4. “he Heart Goes Last (2015), a Contemporary

Narrative of Slavery,” Christine Lorre- Johnston,

Uof Paris 3

484. eory and Praxis: Visual Media in the

Classroom II

8:30–9:45 a.m., Beekman, Hilton

A working group. Presiding: Lauren Gaskill, U of

California, Irvine

Participants: Matthew Dischinger, Georgia Inst.

of Tech.; AmyE. Elkins, Macalester C; Diego Fer-

nandez, U of California, Irvine; Jared McCoy, Uof

California, Irvine; Rose Phillips, U of the Incar-

nate Word; Sarah Welsh, U of Texas, Austin

Actor- network theory grants importance to ob-

jects as forces that shape the way we think, behave,

and relate to others. Maps, infographics, and data-

bases are some of our objects of inquiry. Brief oral

presentations precede short workshop modules,

which generalize the tools members have used in

the classroom and facilitate dialogue about meth-

ods and mechanics. is work across disciplines

connects us and aids our pedagogical growth.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ theory- and- praxis- visual- media- in- the-

classroom/.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

253 and 765.

485. Bodies, Transnationalism, and Aect

in Recent Hispanic Poetry

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gibson, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Enrique Álvarez,

Florida StateU

1. “Spanish Crisis Poetry and the Strategies of

Survival,” Olga Bezhanova, Southern Illinois U,

Edwardsville

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2. “Poéticas afectivas en el espacio social: Respues-

tas saharauis a preguntas indignadas,” Alberto

Lopez Martin, Davidson, NC

3. “Errancia como herencia en Migraciones, de

Gloria Gervitz,” Christina Karageorgou- Bastea,

VanderbiltU

For related material, write to ealvarez@ fsu .edu.

486. e Power of the Margins: Rethinking

Center- Periphery Relations in Premodern

Chinese Literature

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse F, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Kathryn Lowry, Art-

Life Gallery Workshop

1. “Between the Margin and the Center: Antholo-

gizing the Works of Courtesans in Ming Dynasty

Nanjing,” Jiani Chen, U of London

2. “Writing Political Personas: Arguments from

the Margins in Ling Mengchu’s Pai’an jingqi,”

Ewan Macdonald, U of London

3. “Staging the Enlightenment: Reconciling Liter-

ary and Religious Practices in Tu Long’s Tanhua

ji,” Mengxiao Wang, YaleU

4. “e Margin for Reality: Problematizing

the Front Matter of Traditional Chinese Drama

Prints,” Guojun Wang, VanderbiltU

For related material, write to mengxiao .wang@

yale .edu aer 31Dec.

487. Lessing’s Laughter

8:30–9:45 a.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by theG. E. Lessing Society.

Presiding: Mary Bricker, Southern Illinois U, Car-

bondale

1. “Lessing’s Lyric Laughter,” RichardE. Schade,

U of Cincinnati

2. “Satire and Pedagogical Laughter in Lessing’s

Early Comedies,” EdwardT. Potter, Mississippi

StateU

3. “‘Was haben Sie gegen das Lachen?’: Lessing’s

Laughing Bodies,” Pascale LaFountain, Montclair

StateU

4. “Laughter in Lessing’s Nathan,” Anne Lagny,

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Respondent: Mary Helen Dupree, GeorgetownU

For related material, write to mbricker@ siu .edu.

488. e Queer Nadir

8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Tess Chakkalakal,

BowdoinC

Speakers: Julia Charles, Auburn U, Auburn;

Crystal Donkor, State U of New York, New Paltz;

Timothy Griths, U of Virginia; Gregory Laski,

United States Air Force Acad.; Kirin Wachter-

Grene, New YorkU

Panelists engage African American literature of

the postreconstruction era alongside recent de-

velopments in the intersectional study of gender,

sexuality, and race aer the emergence of queer

theory and queer- of- color critique. We will dis-

cuss, in particular, the utility of queer theory to a

better understanding of the sexual politics of this

period and its discontents.

489. Conrad’s Politics of Fear

8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Joseph Conrad Society

of America. Presiding: David Mulry, C of Coastal

Georgia

1. “Seeing ings: ‘Autocracy and War’ (1905)

and News Reporting in the Age of Knowledge,”

Stephen Donovan, UppsalaU

2. “Submerged by Fear: e Politics of Wartime

Hysteria in Conrad and Conan Doyle,” Jarica

Watts, Brigham Young U, UT

3. “Autonomy and Arendtian Cliché: Reading

Banality and Monstrosity in Conrad’s e Secret

Agent,” James Brophy, BostonU

4. “Doubling Down on the Politics of Fear,” Joyce

Piell Wexler, Loyola U, Chicago

Respondent: JohnG. Peters, U of North Texas

For related material, visit conrad2018mla .com

aer 30Dec.

490. Blurring Boundaries: Designing an

Interdisciplinary Humanities Curriculum

8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the Regional MLAs. Presid-

ing: Claire Sommers, Graduate Center, City U of

New York

1. “New Strategies for First- Year Writing: Music

Videos and Rhetoric,” Nicole Lowman, U at Buf-

falo, State U of New York

2. “Interdisciplinary Composition: Hybridizing

a Required Course,” Jocelyn Marshall, U at Buf-

falo,State U of New York

3. “Centering Humanities Skills in the General

Education Curriculum: e Roger Seminar,” Ja-

sonD. Jacobs, Roger WilliamsU

4. “Building Bridges: e Critical eory Certi-

cate Program at the Graduate Center, City Univer-

sity of New York,” Claire Sommers

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For related material, write to csommers@ gc

.cuny .edu.

491. “#ASESoWhite”: Combating Racialism

in Early Medieval Studies

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Old En glish.

Presiding: ReneeR. Trilling, U of Illinois, Urbana

Speakers: Tiany Beechy, U of Colorado, Boul-

der; Donna Beth Ellard, U of Denver; Mary

Rambaran- Olm, U of Glasgow; Eduardo Ramos,

Penn State U, University Park; Sharon Rhodes,

Uof Rochester

Anglo- Saxonists consider how racialism oper-

ates both within our period and within our eld.

Presentations examine various constructions of

race in the medieval and postmedieval period, this

legacy in the academy, and scholarlship and public

engagement to complicate and combat political

drives that rely on an oversimplied, erroneous,

and anachronous idea of Anglo- Saxon En gland.

For related material, visit www .academia

.edu/ 32168392/MLA_ Old_En glish_ Session_

Descriptions_ 2018.

492. Narrative Empathy, Insecurity, and the

Humanities II

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton South, Hilton

A working group. Presiding: Barbara Simerka,

Queens C, City U of New York

Participants: Megan Boler, U of Toronto; Mark

Bracher, Kent State U; Emanuele Castano, New

School; WinnieW. Chan, Virginia Common-

wealth U; Suzanne Parker Keen, Washington and

Lee U; David Kidd, New School; Polina Kukar,

U of Toronto; Saumya Lal, U of Massachusetts,

Amherst; BraisD. Leon, Queens C, City U of New

York; Seth Michelson, Washington and Lee U;

Katharine Polak, WittenbergU

Scholars of literature, education, and cognitive

science address narrative empathy and #States of

Insecurity. Panelists report on empirical research

of empathy in the lab and classroom, update work

on the limits of narrative empathy, and oer stud

ies of global literatures and media that depict and

problematize empathy for victims of social and eco

nomic marginalization, violence, and incarceration.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ narrative- empathy- insecurity- and -the

- humanities/ aer 10Dec.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

251 and 772.

493. Race and Aesthetics in French and

Francophone Culture II

8:30–9:45 a.m., Regent, Hilton

A working group

Participants: Nasia Anam, Williams C; Jiewon Baek,

Covenant C; Alessandra Benedicty, City C, City U of

New York; Cecile Bishop, New York U; Lia Brozgal,

U of California, Los Angeles; Katelyn Knox, U of

Central Arkansas; Matt Reeck, U of California, Los

Angeles; MarkA. Reid, U of Florida; Zoe Roth, Dur

ham U; Lise- Ségolène V. Schreier, Fordham U; Chris-

topheM. Wall- Romana, Uof Minnesota, Twin Cities

e working group explores what the study of the

aesthetic can contribute to emerging conversa-

tions about race in France and introduces a more

global context to critical race studies by bringing

it into dialogue with francophone studies. What

does it mean to see race in literature or use race

as an analytical tool? What makes a piece of art

about race? What are the critic’s role and responsi-

bilities in making race an object of study?

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ race -and - aesthetics -in -french -and

- francophone -culture/ aer 1Nov.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

250 and 773.

494. Pre- Texts Workshop Series III

8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Doris Sommer, Har-

vardU

Speaker: Jason Charles Courtmanche, U of Con-

necticut, Storrs

is workshop series focuses on the practice of

interpreting a literary work through art making.

Participants experience connecting with a text,

emotionally and intellectually, by playing with it

to create a new work of art. e activity makes ex

perientially real how treating a piece of writing as

a pretext for play replaces fear of diculty with the

motivating energy of engaging with a challenge.

Participants should plan to attend all three work

shops (4, 218, and 494). Preregistration is required.

495. “Unnished Business”: Bioctions

from the Antipodes

8:30–9:45 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Michael Lackey, U of

Minnesota, Morris

1. “Of Jimmie and the Neds: Killer Bioctions

from the Antipodes,” Kelly Gardiner, La Trobe U;

Catherine Padmore, La TrobeU

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2. “Against the Exotic: Can You Handle the

Truth?” Paula Morris, U of Auckland

3. “Rediscovering ‘Lost’ Lives: Fiction as a Bio-

graphic Space in Australian Literature,” James

Vicars, U of New En gland

496. Interviews in the Digital Age: Making

the Most of First- Round Video Interviews

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton North, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center.

Presiding: Lisa Chinn, Duke U; Niko Tracksdorf,

U of Rhode Island

1. “Understanding and Negotiating the Skype

and Other Digital Technologies Interview,” Alain-

Philippe Durand, U of Arizona

2. “Skype Interviews

oughts from Both Sides

of the Screen,” Set

. Reno, Auburn U, Auburn

3. “

e Dierent Art of the Skype Interview,” Mi-

chael Carl Schoenfeldt, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

For related material, write to niko@ tracksdorf

.com aer 20Dec.

Saturday, 6 January

9:45 a.m.

497. Teaching Early American Literature in

the Digital Age: Crèvecœur’s Letters from an

American Farmer, a Digital Critical Edition

9:45–11:45 a.m., Exhibit Hall Entrance, Rhinelander

Gallery, Hilton

Presenters: Mary McAleer Balkun, Seton HallU;

Diana Hope Polley, Southern New Hampshire U

Highlighting work with the open- source schol-

arly publishing platform Scalar and Crèvecœur’s

Letters, this poster presentation comprises a tra-

ditional print poster outlining the context of the

project and a concurrent digital projection of the

online edition. Attendees can experiment with

embedded links, learn about the application, and

discuss the practical and pedagogical implications

of the platform and the edition.

Saturday, 6 January

10:15 a.m.

498. Insecure Receptions

10:15–11:30 a.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Reception Study Society

1. “e Forceful Insecurity of Minority Youth

Authorship: ea Behran’s ‘Anti- Semitism,’” Amy

Fish, HarvardU

2. “Staging Reception: Mary Elizabeth Braddon,

‘Babington White,’ and Colonel Shandon Face O

in the Victorian Press,” Naomi Salmon, U of Wis-

consin, Madison

3. “‘Facts Are Stubborn ings’: Reception e-

ory in the Forgeries of Iolo Morganwg,” Timothy

Heimlich, U of California, Berkeley

4. “New Propaganda and the Regression of Read-

ing: Harold Lasswell Counts the News,” Maxwell

Larson, Penn State U, University Park

For related material, write to yhwu@ mac .com.

499. Ethel’s Love- Life and the Queer

Imagination of MargaretJ. M. Sweat

10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: ChristopherD. Casti-

glia, Penn State U, University Park

1. “Sweat, Sand, Sex,” Christopher Looby, U of

California, Los Angeles

2. “Margaret Sweat’s Generic Anachronisms,”

JenniferL. Putzi, C of William and Mary

3. “Serial Sweat,” Dorri Beam, SyracuseU

500. e Politics and Poetics of Nostalgia in

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Modern

and Contemporary Chinese and LLC Ming and

Qing Chinese. Presiding: Yiju Huang, FordhamU

1. “Recollecting Ruins: Republican Nanjing

and Layered Nostalgia,” Yun Zhu, Temple U,

Philadelphia

2. “Nostalgia, Aesthetics, and Postcolonial Con-

dition,” Yu- Min Chen, St. Mary’s C, MD

3. “Hindsight as Foresight: In Search of Ecologi-

cal Imagination in the Literature of China’s Roots-

Seeking Youth,” Xinmin Liu, Washington State U,

Pullman

4. “Nostalgia and Chinese Popular Culture in a

Global Age,” Sijia Yao, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

501. Propaganda, Polemic, Persuasion:

Changing Media and Modes in Medieval

and Renaissance France

10:15–11:30 a.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC 16th-

Century French and LLC Medieval French. Presid-

ing: Elizabeth Black, Old Dominion U; DaisyJ.

Delogu, U of Chicago

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Speakers: Cynthia Jane Brown, U of California,

Santa Barbara; Katie Chenoweth, Prince ton U;

Mary Franklin- Brown, U of Minnesota, Twin Cit-

ies; Gregory Haake, U of Notre Dame

How were opinions disseminated in French me-

dieval and Renaissance worlds? In which ways

did modes of literary production, patronage, and

censorship aect the presentation and exchange of

ideas? Medievalists and Renaissance scholars seek

to identify commonalities and continuities in the

evolution of manuscript and print culture, notably

in the distribution of polemical, persuasive, and

propagandistic texts.

502. Reimagining Cuba in a Postnational

Context: New Avenues in Cultural

Production

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Santiago Juan-

Navarro, Florida InternationalU

1. “Collecting, Curating, and Archiving Cuban

Art: A Material Culture Approach,” Raúl Rubio,

New School

2. “Drawing Queer Utopias: Temporality and

Queer Visual Art in Post- Soviet Cuba,” David

Tenorio, U of California, Davis

3. “New Trends in Cuban Literature: Crisis of

Identity Politics and the Emergence of Global Fic-

tions,” Catalina Quesada Gómez, U of Miami

4. “Gaming Cuba: Reimagining Havana in Assas-

sin’s Creed: Black Flag,” Emmanuel Vincenot, Ude

Paris- Est

503. Research on Advanced- Level Second-

Language Composition

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Applied Lin-

guistics. Presiding: Per Urlaub, U of Texas, Austin

1. “Promoting Second- Language Writing through

Collaboration: Are Two Heads Really Better?”

Brian Olovson, U of Iowa

2. “Collaborative Pedagogies for Advanced L2

Composition,” Mariana Bono, Prince ton U; Adri-

ana Merino, Prince tonU

3. “In eir Own Words: Student Perceptions of

Writing in a Foreign Language Major,” Ana An-

derson, Franklin and Marshall C; Mandy Menke,

U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

504. Hip- Hop History Lessons: Tragic

Form, Truth, and Fiction in Hamilton: An

American Musical

10:15–11:30 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: HaleyL. Osborn, U of

Tennessee, Knoxville

1. “Here Comes the General: Hamilton, Gender,

and Tragic Form,” Laura Rosenthal, U of Mary-

land, College Park

2. “Lin- Manuel Miranda, Hamilton , and the

Cultural Politics of Sincerity,” Peter Kunze, U of

Texas, Austin

3. “e Pedagogical Possibilities of Hamilton as Fic-

tion of Founding,” D. Berton Emerson, WhitworthU

505. Revolution, Take 2: Receptions of Early

Soviet Culture in Postwar Germany

10:15–11:30 a.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century German

1. “A Form beyond Art,” Kerstin Stakemeier,

Academy of Arts, Neuremberg

2. “Biopolitics of the Machine: Ehrenburg’s e

Life of the Automobile,” AndreasA. Huyssen, Co-

lumbiaU

3. “Dissident Socialist Realism in the East Ger-

man Underground of the Seventies,” Nicole Bur-

goyne, Wheaton C, MA

Respondent: Veronika Fuechtner, DartmouthC

506. Frederick Douglass at Two Hundred:

Literary Reconsiderations

10:15–11:30 a.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: RobertS. Levine, U of

Maryland, College Park

Speakers: Anna Brickhouse, U of Virginia; John

Ernest, U of Delaware, Newark; Jennifer James,

George Washington U; DerrickR. Spires, U of Il-

linois, Urbana; John Stauer, Harvard U; Autumn

Womack, Prince tonU

On the occasion of the two- hundreth anniversary

of the birth of Frederick Douglass, panelists address

new ways of thinking about him as a literary gure.

e speakers take up his writings and inuence on

African American and United States literary his

tory. Panelists explore such topics as Douglass the

journalist, Douglass’s impact on the progressive

movement, and Douglass as an ecocritic.

507. Precarious Bonds

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Shakespeare.

Presiding: MichelleM. Dowd, U of Alabama, Tus-

caloosa

1. “e Political Physics of Nothing,” Amanda

Bailey, U of Maryland, College Park

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2. “Fatherless Venice,” JamesJ. Marino, Cleve-

land StateU

3. “Rude Civility and the Many- Headed Multi-

tude: Community in Coriolanus,” David Hershi-

now, Prince tonU

Respond ent: John Kerrigan, U of Cambridge, St.

John’sC

508. Narrative (and) eory in the

Environmental Humanities

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Rethinking Focalization for Econarratology:

Aerial Description and Environmental Form,” Da

vid Rodriguez, Stony Brook U, State U of New York

2. “Narrating the Mesh,” Marco Caracciolo,

GhentU

3. “How Do ‘We’ Narrate in the Anthropocene?”

Erin James, U of Idaho

509. Queer Cruising and Caregiving

10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Marty Fink, Ryer-

sonU

1. “‘e Most Important ing Was Human In-

timacy’: Ontologies of Cruising and Support Sys-

tems in Europe during World War II,” Christian

Bancro, U of Houston

2. “Cruising HIV/ AIDS, Disability, and Commu-

nities of Care,” Marty Fink

3. “Relying on the Kindness of Strangers: Submis-

sion and Caregiving in BDSM Cruising,” Dejan

Kuzmanovic, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

510. Memory and the Archive

10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Publications Com-

mittee. Presiding: Jessica Berman, U of Maryland

Baltimore County

Speakers: Meredith Benjamin, Barnard C; Edward

Chamberlain, U of Washington, Tacoma; Marthe

Djilo Kamga, independent director; Frieda Ekotto,

U of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Nayoung Aimee

Kwon, Duke U; Nikolaus Wasmoen, U at Buf-

falo,State U of New York

is session fosters conversation among scholars

engaged in the creation, preservation, digitization,

and critique of archives. eir archives are vari-

ously dened, whether as a collection of material

artifacts that requires interpretation or as a body

of work that might enable reection on the rela-

tions among literature, visual media, and memory.

511. Environmental Insecurities and Global

Arab Humanities

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global

Arab and Arab American. Presiding: Ahmed Id-

rissi Alami, Purdue U, West Lafayette

1. “Trash Talking, Tree Logging, and Rat Infesta-

tions on the Wall: Waste Management, Govern-

ment Corruption, and Environmentalism in

Beirut Grati,” Nadine Sinno, Virginia Polytech-

nic Inst. and StateU

2. “When the Desert Isn’t Enough: heeb Past and

Present,” George Potter, ValparaisoU

3. “Exploding the Frame: Resilience, Reconstruc-

tion, and Resistance in Lamia Ziadé’s Bye Bye

Babylon (2011) and Zeina Abirached’s A Game for

Swallows (2012),” Dominic Davies, U of Oxford

512. Genre, sexualité et politique dans le

monde francophone

10:15–11:30 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the Conseil International

d’Études Francophones. Presiding: Jimia Bou-

touba, Santa ClaraU

1. “Genre, sexualité et politique dans le dernier

combat du Captain Ni’mat,” Ghada Mourad, U of

California, Irvine

2. “Les hommes du box- oce Québécois: La re-

construction sérielle du genre et du sexe dans les

nouvelles franchises cinématographiques,” Stéfany

Boisvert, McGillU

3. “Sexualité dans les romans de Sami Tchak:

Transgression et rupture,” Vincent Simedoh, Dal-

housieU

4. “Politique du trouble et dissidence chez les

femmes cinéastes du Maghreb,” Jimia Boutouba

For related material, visit secure .cief .org/wp/

?page_ id =837.

513. States of Racialized Insecurity:

Antiracist Literacies in Narratives,

Pedagogies, and Community Investigations

10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the National Council of

Teachers of En glish. Presiding: Steven Alvarez, St.

John’s U, NY

1. “Counterstory: e Writing and Rhetoric of

Critical Race eory,” AjaY. Martinez, SyracuseU

2. “‘Love Is Life Force’: June Jordan’s Rhetoric for

Writing Teachers,” Eric Darnell Pritchard, U of Il-

linois, Urbana

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3. “Citizen Sensors: Using Citizen Science and

Participatory Design to Investigate Asthma,”

Donnie Sackey, Wayne StateU

514. Digital Humanities Approaches to

Japanese- Language Texts

10:15–11:30 a.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Japanese

since 1900 and LLC Japanese to 1900. Presiding:

Michael Emmerich, U of California, Los Angeles

1. “Yashiro’s Tears: Aect and Aura in the Digital

Archive,” Jonathan Zwicker, U of California, Berkeley

2. “Applying Digital Corpus Analysis to Heian

Period Vernacular Literary Texts,” Naomi Fuku-

mori, Ohio State U, Columbus

3. “Developing Interactive Visualizations for

Teaching and Exploring Japanese Text Corpora,”

Peter Broadwell, U of California, Los Angeles

515. Into and out of Europe

10:15–11:30 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS European

Regions. Presiding: Sebastian Wogenstein, U of

Connecticut, Storrs

1. “Assemblages of Place: Vanguards, Europeans,

and a Fractured Globe,” Judith Paltin, U of British

Columbia

2. “Translating Cosmopolitanism into Chinese,”

David Tse- chien Pan, U of California, Irvine

3. “Translating Harlem into Germany,” Anna

Muenchrath, U of Wisconsin, Madison

Respondent: Corinne Laura Scheiner, ColoradoC

516. Literature, Race, and Violence

10:15–11:30 a.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forums LLC 20th- and

21st- Century En glish and Anglophone and CLCS

Global Anglophone. Presiding: Omaar Hena,

Wake ForestU

Speakers: Aruni Mahapatra, Emory U; Debali

Mookerjea- Leonard, James Madison U; Rebecca

Weaver- Hightower, U of North Dakota; Jennifer

Yusin, DrexelU

Panelists explore how structures of violence—

stemming from colonialism, slavery, inequality,

and globalization—shape gurations of the body

across the Caribbean, Africa, and India. ey also

question the formal, aesthetic strategies authors

deploy to register, contest, and potentially reimag-

ine racial violence in conditions of insecurity, par-

ticularly for those most vulnerable to bodily harm

and under threat of erasure and forgetting.

517. Rights under Repression

10:15–11:30 a.m., Mercury Ballroom, Hilton

A linked session arranged in conjunction with the

Presidential Plenary: #States of Insecurity (360).

Presiding: David eo Goldberg, U of California,

Irvine

1. “#FearlessGestures: Disturbing Insecurity

States Now,” Ricardo Dominguez, U of California,

San Diego

2. “Academics for Peace,” Zeynep Gambetti, Bo-

gaziciU

3. “Unlearning Human Rights,” Ariella Azoulay,

BrownU

4. “No Easy Answer: Emergent Human Rights

and Nineteenth- Century Indian Ocean Contests,”

Yvette Christiansë, BarnardC

e panel focuses on critical work promoting hu-

man rights in a global context and in the face of

broadening cultures of repression.

518. Pater and Son: Fathers in the Work of

William Carlos Williams

10:15–11:30 a.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the William Carlos Williams

Society. Presiding: Kerry Driscoll, U of St. Joseph

1. “e Missing Fathers in Paterson,” Christopher

John MacGowan, C of William and Mary

2. “‘Pop! So, You’re Not Dead!’: Transformation

and Revelation in William Carlos Williams’s

‘Burning the Christmas Greens’ and ‘e Spar-

row,’” PaulR. Cappucci, Georgian CourtU

3. “Fighting the ‘Darker Whispering / at Death

Invents’: Williams and His Figurative Father,”

IanD. Copestake, William Carlos Williams Review

519. Black Literary eory in the Time

ofTrump

10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC African

American. Presiding: Miriam aggert, U of Iowa

Speakers: Carter Mathes, Rutgers U, New Bruns-

wick; Koritha Mitchell, Ohio State U, Columbus;

Derik Smith, U at Albany, State U of New York;

DanaA. Williams, HowardU

Donald Trump’s presidency has resulted in increased

forms of violence against and heightened feelings of

precarity among communities of color in the United

States and abroad. During a period that contests the

presence of African Americans in multiple ways, what

lessons can be learned from African American ction

and culture? What strategies, for healing or resis-

tance, are available for those who study black ction?

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520. e Creative Writer’s Obligation in the

Age of ____

10:15–11:30 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum RCWS Creative

Writing. Presiding: JasonA. Schneiderman, Bor-

ough of Manhattan Community C, City U of

NewYork

1. “No More Tasks,” Wayne Koestenbaum, Grad-

uate Center, City U of New York

2. “e Apprehensive Imagination: Writing

in Fear of an Antagonistic Audience,” Gregory

Pardlo, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

3. “Use It or Lose It: A Question of Relevancy,”

Ru Freeman, ColumbiaU

521. Writing Nursing: Translating Practice

into Literature

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Medical Hu-

manities and Health Studies. Presiding: omas

Lawrence Long, U of Connecticut, Storrs

Speakers: John Dinolfo, Medical U of South

Carolina; Sören Fröhlich, independent scholar;

Christine Hallett, U of Manchester; Marguerite

Helen Helmers, U of Wisconsin, Oshkosh; JaneE.

Schultz, Indiana U–Purdue U, Indianapolis

While the literary canon is well furnished with

work by or about physicians, canonical writing

by nurses is sparse and less well documented in

scholarly literature. Presenting “ash papers,”

panelists aim to remedy the inattention to nurse

narratives by focusing on nurses’ representations

of wartime trauma, triage, and testimony from the

American Civil War and World WarI.

522. Nonhuman Forms II

10:15–11:30 a.m., Regent, Hilton

A working group

Participants: Ron Ben- Tovim, Tel Aviv U; Brent

Dawson, U of Oregon; Rinni Haji Amran, UBru

nei Darussalam; Pia Heidemeier, U of Cologne;

Eunice Lim, Nanyang Technological U; Carlos Nu

gent, Yale U; Indu Ohri, U of Virginia; Samantha

Pergadia, Washington U in St. Louis; Emily Simon,

Brown U; Gregory Frank Tague, St. FrancisC

Humanistic inquiry of late is obsessed with the

nonhuman. Uncoupling the humanities from the

human, the range of approaches operating under

the umbrella of the nonhuman turn has recon-

gured the standard divide between subject and

object, agency and volition, person and thing.

Participants grapple with the nonhuman in all

its forms (from worms to cyborgs) and methods

(from animal studies to new materialism).

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ nonhuman- forms/ aer 31Dec.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

215 and 726.

523. Psychoanalytic Insecurities II

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton North, Hilton

A working group

Participants: ZahidR. Chaudhary, Prince ton U;

Eleanor Craig, Harvard Divinity School; Da-

vidL. Eng, U of Pennsylvania; Sheldon George,

Simmons C; Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity

School; Azeen Khan, Dartmouth C; Ramsey Mc-

Glazer, U of California, Berkeley; Antonio Viego,

Duke U; Damon Young, U of California, Berkeley

Critiques from feminist, queer, critical race, and

postcolonial perspectives have struggled with what it

means to theorize with psychoanalysis. Participants

consider the risks and potentialities that come with

taking up psychoanalytic frameworks. Why, when

it raises political, epistemological, and disciplinary

suspicions, does psychoanalysis remain compelling

for analyzing race, gender, coloniality, and sexuality?

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ psychoanalytic- insecurities/ aer 22Dec.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

216 and 730.

524. Literature, Aesthetics, and Cultural

Exchange between East Asia and Southeast

Asia and Britain and North America in the

Long Nineteenth Century II

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

A working group. Presiding: Elizabeth Chang, U of

Missouri, Columbia; RossG. Forman, U of War-

wick; Anna Maria Jones, U of Central Florida

Participants: JenniferL. Hargrave, Baylor U; Eliza-

bethH. Ho, U of Hong Kong; Jenny Holt, Meiji U;

Kendall Johnson, U of Hong Kong; Peter Kitson,

U of East Anglia; Waiyee Loh, U of Warwick;

Junjie Luo, Gettysburg C; Flair Donglai Shi, U of

Oxford; Sarah Tin, independent scholar

Scholars from several disciplines—En glish and

American literature and culture, comparative lit-

erature, Asian literature, and art history—explore

cultural and aesthetic exchanges between Asia and

the anglophone world in the long nineteenth cen-

tury and consider how these exchanges continue

to inform the global circulation of literature and

culture today.

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For related material, visit bit.ly/long19c aer 17Nov.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

209 and 727.

525. MLA Style Workshop: Creating Works-

Cited Lists with the MLA Core Elements

10:15–11:30 a.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center

Speakers: Angela Gibson, MLA; JenniferA. Rap-

paport, MLA

In this workshop MLA sta editors will provide

an in- depth explanation of the method for docu-

menting sources explained in the eighth edition of

theMLA Handbook. Participants will gain hands-

on experience craing a range of works- cited- list

entries using the new approach. Suitable for librar-

ians and teachers as well as for students at all levels.

526. Social Emotions in Seventeenth- and

Eighteenth- Century French Self- Writing

10:15–11:30 a.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC 17th-

Century French and LLC 18th- Century French.

Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard U; Laurence

Mall, U of Illinois, Urbana

Speakers: Jean- Vincent Blanchard, Swarthmore C;

Fayçal Falaky, Tulane U; Katharine Ann Jensen, Lou

isiana State U, Baton Rouge; KathrinaA. LaPorta,

New York U; Jean- Alexandre Perras, U of Oxford

Panelists discuss the intricate connection of emo

tions, moral norms, and collective values in seven

teenth- and eighteenth- century France, adopting a

comparative approach that encompasses both cen

turies while analyzing various rst- person genres

(e.g., correspondence, memoirs, pamphlets) as a

particularly fertile area for the study of the cultural,

political, and ethical models that could be derived

from the representations of social emotions.

527. International Women’s Writing during

the Spanish Civil War: Archival Recoveries

from Insecure Times

10:15–11:30 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Rowena Kennedy-

Epstein, U of Bristol

1. “Recovering Black Women’s Life Writing from

the Spanish Civil War,” Anne Donlon, MLA

2. “Muriel Rukeyser’s Spanish Civil War Transla-

tions: Archives of Solidarity and Resistance,” Ev-

elyn Scaramella, ManhattanC

3. “States of Vulnerability and the Spanish Civil

War Refugee Trail,” J. Ashley Foster, California

State U, Fresno

528. Leonora Carrington at One Hundred

10:15–11:30 a.m., Hudson, Hilton

A special session

1. “Signs ‘of the Same Sensation’: e Becoming-

Painting of Leonora Carrington’s Fiction,” Claire

Daigle, San Francisco Art Inst.

2. “(Self-)Translating Madness and Trauma:

Leonora Carrington’s En Bas / Down Below,” Na-

thalie Segeral, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

3. “‘e Earth Itself Seemed to Yield Up Its Own

Life’: Leonora Carrington’s Gothic Anthropo-

cene,” Andrew Ferguson, Washington and LeeU

For related material, write to fergusona@ wlu .edu

aer 1Dec.

529. “Verbivocovisual”: Border Forms and

the Legacies of Experimental Brazilian

Media and Concretism

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Portuguese

Studies Association and the forum LLC Luso-

Brazilian. Presiding: Adam Joseph Shellhorse,

Temple U, Philadelphia

1. “André Vallias’s Media Poetry as Open Dia-

gram,” Alessandra Santos, U of British Columbia

2. “‘Verbivocovisual’: Border Forms and the

Legacies of Experimental Brazilian Media and

Concretism,” Adam Joseph Shellhorse

3. “e Concrete Poetics of Tom Zé,” Christopher

John Dunn, TulaneU

Respondent: CharlesA. Perrone, U of Florida

530. William Faulkner’s New York

10:15–11:30 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the William Faulkner Soci-

ety. Presiding: Ted Atkinson, Mississippi StateU

1. “Faulkner’s Puppet Worlds, from New York

to Yoknapatawpha,” MaryA. Knighton, Aoyama

GakuinU

2. “e South’s Outer Limits: Staging e Sound

and the Fury,” Julie Napolin, New School

3. “One Fih Avenue: William Faulkner Ro-

mances Manhattan...and Joan Williams,” Lisa

Catherine Hickman, independent scholar

531. Meter, Rhyme, and Dialogue with the

Other: Translating from Arabic, Russian,

and Spanish into En glish

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse C, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Karen Emmerich,

Prince tonU

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1. “Archaicism and Rejuvenation in a New Trans-

lation of Lope de Vega’s El perro del hortelano,”

Gregary Joseph Racz, Long Island U, Brooklyn

2. “Rhyme, Meter, and Stylistic Level in Translat-

ing Maria Stepanova’s Poetry,” Sibelan Forrester,

SwarthmoreC

3. “Translation as Exile: Reection on the Cra,”

Mbarek Sry, U of Pennsylvania

532. Marginality in Spanish eater II

10:15–11:30 a.m., Beekman, Hilton

A working group. Presiding: David Rodriguez-

Solas, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Participants: Jennifer Duprey, Rutgers U, Newark;

Esther Fernández, Rice U; Elena Garcia- Martin,

Uof Utah; Antonio Guijarro- Donadios, Worcester

State U; Cristina Martínez- Carazo, U of California,

Davis; Harrison Meadows, U of Tennessee, Knox

ville; Anton Pujol, U of North Carolina, Charlotte

Participants address how theater has presented

and represented marginal subjects from early

modern plays to our most immediate present.

Group discussions aim at elucidating the theatri-

cal mechanisms by which the constant presence of

marginal gures on stage negotiates the nation’s

social realities.

For related material, visit itpn .mla .hcommons/

.org/ aer 1Nov.

For the other meeting of the working group, see 217.

533. From CFP to Publication: Developing a

Successful Conference Panel

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Oce of the Ex-

ecutive Director

Speakers: Amanda Caleb, Misericordia U; Daniela

D’Eugenio, Vanderbilt U; Randy Laist, Goodwin

C; CarineM. Mardorossian, U at Bualo,State U

of New York; Derek McGrath, U at Bualo,State

U of New York; LaurenceD. Roth, Susquehanna

U; Brandi So, Stony Brook U, State U of New York;

Simona Wright, C of New Jersey

Scholars guide audience members through all

steps in organizing panels for language and litera-

ture conferences: writing the proposal, promoting

the call for papers, curating abstracts, facilitating

discussion among panelists and audience mem-

bers, and developing panels into publications.

Audience members are encouraged to oer advice

from their own experiences.

For related material, visit dereksmcgrath

. wordpress .com aer 3Nov.

534. Comparative, National, and World

Cinema II

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton South, Hilton

A working group. Presiding: Rini Bhattacharya

Mehta, U of Illinois, Urbana

Participants: Tara Coleman, LaGuardia Commu-

nity C, City U of New York; Vivian Kao, Lawrence

Technological U; Laura Lee, Florida State U; Jef-

frey Leichman, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge;

Katharina Loew, U of Massachusetts, Boston;

Qinna Shen, Bryn Mawr C; Song Shi, Minzu U,

Beijing; Pavitra Sundar, HamiltonC

is working group brings together scholars who

have navigated the hybrid territory of cinema

studies in language and literature and in humani-

ties departments. All participants have a strong

interest in both literature and cinema and bring

their perspectives on at least one national cinema

and a comparative context in which that cinema

participates in a dialogue with another tradition.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ comparative- national- and- world-cinema/

aer 31Oct.

For the other meeting of the working group, see 208.

535. Race and the Victorians II

10:15–11:30 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton

A working group

Participants: Zarena Aslami, Michigan State U;

Sukanya Banerjee, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee;

Jessica Durgan, Bemidji State U; Taryn Hakala,

Uof California, Merced; Mary- Catherine Har-

rison, U of Detroit- Mercy; Jodie Matthews, U of

Hudderseld; Michael Meeuwis, U of Warwick;

Lucy Sheehan, Texas A&M U, Corpus Christi;

Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester C; Doreen ie-

rauf, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Assuming race is a complex, contested concept

rather than a self- evident or monolithic term

referring primarily to colonized peoples, par-

ticipants challenge assumptions that Britishness

is synonymous with whiteness, examine rep-

resentations of race in a wide variety of genres,

complicate theories of Victorian race, consider

complex relationships between race and other

identity categories, and address pedagogical

implications.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ race- and- the- victorians/ aer 1Nov.

For the other meeting of the working group, see 210.

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536. State Universities of Insecurity

10:15–11:30 a.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Samuel Cohen, U of

Missouri, Columbia

Speakers: Linda Camarasana, State U of New York,

Old Westbury; Peter Caster, U of South Carolina,

Spartanburg; Jonathan Beecher Field, Clemson U;

Alina Gharabegian, New Jersey City U; Sean Grat-

tan, U of Kent; KarinE. Westman, Kansas State U;

Marjorie Worthington, Eastern IllinoisU

is session focuses on the state of insecurity in

which many who work at public universities now

nd themselves. In this era of budget cuts and

attacks on curriculum, workload, and speech,

faculty members feel as if they, their schools, and

public higher education itself are operating under

siege. Participants talk about the environment in

which they work and the ways in which they have

responded to it as scholars, teachers, administra-

tors, and citizens.

537. Precarious Rhetorics

10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum RCWS History

and eory of Rhetoric

1. “Slow Death and Precision Medicine,” Christa

Teston, Ohio State U, Columbus

2. “Gendering Terror: Precarious Rhetorics, ISIS,

and the Global Right,” Wendy Hesford, Ohio State

U, Columbus

3. “Gendering Terror: Precarious Narratives and

Yazidi Genocide,” Amy Shuman, Ohio State U,

Columbus

4. “Precarious Lives and Object Metrics during

the Syrian Refugee Crisis,” Lavinia Hirsu, U of

Glasgow

538. Carmen Boullosa and Eloy Urroz in

Conversation

10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Sunyoung Kim, Pur-

due U, West Lafayette

Speakers: Carmen Boullosa, Graduate Center, City

U of New York; Eloy Urroz, e Citadel

e poet, novelist, and playwright Carmen Boul-

losa (Duerme, Cielos de la tierra, Las paredes

hablan, A Narco History), whose work has exam-

ined gender roles in Latin America and Mexican

identity in relation to the United States border,

joins Eloy Urroz to discuss her writing career and

to explore Mexican culture and identity within

social and historical contexts.

Saturday, 6 January

12:00 noon

539. Remembering the World in Early

Modern Europe

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums TC Memory

Studies and CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern.

Presiding: Ayesha Ramachandran, YaleU

1. “Germany, Europe, the World: Memory and

Scale in Conrad Celtis’s Quatuor libri amorum

(1501),” Katharina Natalia Piechocki, HarvardU

2. “How Did I Get Here? Memory and Global

Conversions in Massinger’s e Renegado,” Kyle

Pivetti, NorwichU

3. “Remembering Women’s Travel: e Travels of

Aletheia, Countess of Arundel,” Patricia Akhimie,

Rutgers U, New Brunswick

For related material, write to kpivetti@ norwich

.edu aer 1Nov.

540. Queer Insurgencies

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

Program arranged by the GL/Q Caucus for the

Modern Languages. Presiding: JennyM. James,

Pacic LutheranU

1. “Something in the Holy Water Ain’t Clean:

On the Bottom eology of Hal Bennett’s Lord of

Dark Places,” Omari Weekes, WillametteU

2. “Retheorizing Queerness: Exploring a Queer

New Materialist Approach to Sikh Spatial Rep-

resentations in South Asian Films,” Vinamarata

Kaur, U of Cincinnati

3. “e Queer Shape of Solitude: Ocean Vuong’s

Poetry and Resistance in Respite,” Summer Kim

Lee, DartmouthC

4. “Trans of Color Critique before Transsexual-

ity,” Julian Gill- Peterson, U of Pittsburgh

Respondent: Elliott Powell, U of Minnesota,

TwinCities

541. Global Perspectives on Aging in

Literature and Film

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Age Studies.

Presiding: Jacob Jewusiak, Valdosta StateU

1. “Nokomis, Grandmother, Moon: Primordial

Always- Anchor for the People,” Waaseyaa’sin

Christine Sy, U of Victoria

2. “Livestock and Aerlife Companions in Lee

Chung- ryoul’s Old Partner and Jin Mo- young’s

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My Love, Don’t Cross at River,” Eunjung Kim,

SyracuseU

3. “Narrating Forgetting: Arno Geiger’s e

Old King in His Exile and Cyrille Oermans’s

Why I Have to Lie to My Demented Mother,” Ulla

Kriebernegg, U of Graz

4. “Animating Age and Agency in Javier Recio

Gracia’s e Lady and the Reaper and Kunio Kato’s

Tsumiki no Ie,” Sally Chivers, TrentU

542. Against Prison Writing: Reimagining

French and Francophone Carceral Spaces

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Oliver Davis, War-

wickU

1. “e Prison Form of Social- Scientic Prison

Writing: A Genealogical Critique of Didier Fas-

sin’s L’ombre du monde (2015),” Oliver Davis

2. “From Carceral Economy to Ecology: Writing

the Ruins of the Penal- scape,” Sophie Fuggle, Not-

tingham TrentU

3. “Dark Tourism, Penal Heritage, and Recover-

ing Transcolonial Histories,” Charles Forsdick,

Uof Liverpool

543. e Rise of Latinx Literature for Youth

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the Children’s Literature

Association. Presiding: Marilisa Jiménez García,

LehighU

1. “Navigating the Borderlands: Childhood and

the Power of the Mestiza Consciousness in Gloria

Anzaldúa’s Bilingual Picture Books,” Cristina

Rhodes, Texas A&M U, Commerce

2. “Learning Unbounded: Emancipatory Educa-

tion in Latinx Young Adult Fiction,” Ashley Perez,

Ohio State U, Columbus

3. “Conocimiento Narratives: (Re)Imagining the

Künstlerroman for Latina Girls,” Sonia Alejandra

Rodríguez, LaGuardia Community C, City U of

New York

544. Chaucerian Precarity

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Chaucer

1. “e Precarity of the Prostitute: Chaucer’s

Summoner and the Institution of the Sex Market,”

RobertW. Epstein, FaireldU

2. “Squeezed Chaucer,” Wan- Chuan Kao, Wash-

ington and LeeU

3. “Environmental Bodies,” Eleanor Johnson,

ColumbiaU

545. Sets, Spaces, and Stages of Pre- cinema,

1750–1899

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and

19th- Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding:

Leigh Mercer, U of Washington, Seattle

1. “Mapping the Entertainment of Pre- cinematic

Modernity from 1750 to 1850: A Magic Lantern

District in Madrid,” Rebecca Haidt, Ohio State U,

Columbus

2. “Technology, Stagecra, Performative Styles,

and Audiences in 1896 Spain: Edwin Rousby’s An-

imatograph and Jean Busseret’s Cinematographe,”

Luis Guadaño, Old DominionU

3. “e Portrait of Women in Iberian Narratives

of the Pre- cinema Era: From the Struggle on Pa-

per to the Sexual Objectication in Film,” Miquel

Bota, California State U, Sacramento

546. Margaret Fuller: New Critical

Approaches

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Margaret Fuller Society

1. “Critique as Aect in Margaret Fuller’s Tran-

scendentalist Writings,” Mark Russell Gallagher,

U of California, Los Angeles

2. “e Trouble with Gender for Margaret Fuller,”

Christina Katopodis, Graduate Center, City U of

New York

3. “Haunting Aect in Fuller and oreau,” Katie

Simon, GeorgiaC

547. Sound Studies

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Late- 19th-

and Early- 20th- Century American. Presiding:

Gavin Jones, StanfordU

Speakers: Alex Benson, Bard C; Mark Goble, U of

California, Berkeley; Zachary Marshall, U of Wis-

consin, Madison; Jennifer Stoever, Binghamton U,

State U of New York; JustinC. Tackett, StanfordU;

Joshua Logan Wall, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Panelists explore the complex relation between

the graphic and the sonic in late- nineteenth- and

early- twentieth- century American literature and

culture.Brief presentations trace sonic discourse

across dierent cultural contexts to spur con-

versation about relations between technologies

of transcription and a series of vernacular and

nontraditional voices, hence bringing to the fore a

world of marginalized sound.

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548. Connected Academics: What

StudentsWant

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Connected Aca-

demics Project. Presiding: Eric Wertheimer, Ari-

zona StateU

Speakers: Laura De Vos, U of Washington, Se-

attle; Sarah Hildebrand, Graduate Center, City U

of New York; Jessica Holmes, U of Washington,

Seattle; GeorgeL. Justice, Arizona State U; Jacqui

Pratt, U of Washington, Seattle

What do PhD students really want? Doctoral

students reect on their wishes and needs in the

context of their job search and careers. Short pre-

sentations focus on one aspect of a program in the

languages and literatures:mentoring, curriculum,

dissertation, or career preparation. Conversation

between moderators and the audience follows.

549. Poetry, Paratext, and Punctuation

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Poetry and

Poetics. Presiding: Meta DuEwa Jones, HowardU

Speakers: LisaA. Hollenbach, Oklahoma StateU,

Stillwater; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk U; Benja-

minF. Lee, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kirsty

Singer, U of California, Irvine; Jennifer Williams,

Morgan StateU

is transhistorical and formally innovative

roundtable features diverse participants who con

sider varied poetic and theoretical perspectives on

paratextuality, punctuation, and poetry across the

nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaches in

clude process, modes, and forms of poetic engage

ment. Poets discussed include Gwendolyn Brooks,

Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Frank O’Hara,

Jack Spicer, and other postwar and modern poets.

For related material, write to meta .jones@ howard

.edu aer 30Nov.

550. Approaching the American South and

the Global South through Du Bois

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS 20th- and

21st- Century. Presiding: Duncan McEachern

Yoon, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

1. “Writers of the Harlem Renaissance and Cen-

tral Europe,” Charles Sabatos, YeditepeU

2. “Across the Color- Nation Line: e Harlem

Renaissance and the Sino- Afro Alliance,” Xiaoxi

Dong, U of Hong Kong

3. “‘World- Work’: Du Bois, Gender, and the Ad

dress of Internationalism,” Tiana Reid, ColumbiaU

4. “e South as a Space of Emancipation: On the

Relation between Du Bois and Gramsci,” Antonio

Fontana, St. John’s U, NY

551. Southeast Asia as Method and Concept

of World Literature

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Ben Vu Tran, Vander-

biltU

Speakers: Rachel Harrison, SOAS, U of London;

Sheela Jane Menon, Dickinson C; Vinh Nguyen,

Harvard U; E. K. Tan, Stony Brook U, State U of

New York

is session considers how Southeast Asian lit-

erature and scholarship’s ongoing eorts of de-

imperialization contest the boundaries of world

literature. Participantsfocus on how the region’s

literary and cultural production engages histories

of imperialism, colonialism, and the Cold War,

interrogating how Southeast Asia oers alternative

methods and concepts for understanding the con-

tributions and limitations of world literature.

552. (Sound) Archives and (Body)

Repertoires: Performance and Political

Urgency in the Circum- Caribbean

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum GS Drama and

Performance. Presiding: Nadia Ellis, U of Califor-

nia, Berkeley

1. “Grounding Practice: Vodou’s Corporeal Tech-

nologies of Freedom,” Dasha Chapman, DukeU

2. “Two Lives: Archives of Puerto Rican Music,”

Mercy Romero, Sonoma StateU

3. “Drum Proposals: Making Time for Place,” Al-

exandra Vazquez, New YorkU

Respondent: Daphne Ann Brooks, YaleU

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ drama- and- performance/.

553. Early Modern Collaboration and

Expanded Shakespearean Authorship

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Loren Cressler, U of

Texas, Austin

1. “Trying to Make Fletch Happen,” VimalaC.

Pasupathi, HofstraU

2. “e Translation of Shakespeare’s Coauthored

Plays and Additions,” Regis Augustus Bars Closel,

UdeSão Paulo

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Respondent: Douglas Bruster, U of Texas, Austin

For related material, write to lcressler@ utexas .edu

aer 1Nov.

554. John Clare: Encounters

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the John Clare Society of

North America. Presiding: Erica McAlpine, U of

Oxford, St. Edmund Hall

1. “‘e Invitation’: Periodical Border Wars and

the Poetics of Encounter,” Marie- Christine Hy-

land, New YorkU

2. “‘Like a Ruin of the Past All Alone’: Encoun-

tering History in John Clare’s Remembrances,”

Timothy Heimlich, U of California, Berkeley

3. “‘ou Lowly Cot’: Rudimentary Architecture

in John Clare and Robert Frost,” Marissa Grunes,

HarvardU

555. Editing Together: Coeditors and Guest

Editors

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the Council of Editors of

Learned Journals. Presiding: Susan Mary Grin,

U of Louisville

Speakers: Christopher Paul Bush, Northwestern U;

Ama Codjoe, New York U; Debra Rae Cohen, U of

South Carolina, Columbia; Jessica Marion Modi,

New York U; Robert Stecker, Central Michigan U;

Susan Tomlinson, U of Massachusetts, Boston

For both scholarly and creative journals, coeditors

and guest editors oer acommitment to coopera

tive work, divided workloads, and multiple sources

of nancial support. But such arrangements can

make for complicated logistics. is discussion

brings together a panel of speakers who are experi

enced in shared editorial work, providing a unique

opportunity for open discussion of the advantages,

practices, and problems entailed in such situations.

556. Women, Art, and Revolution on the

Shores of the Mediterranean

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Mediterra-

nean. Presiding: Nevine El Nossery, U of Wiscon-

sin, Madison

1. “A ousand Times No: Tradition, Transgres-

sion, and Art in the Public Sphere,” Emily Sibley,

New YorkU

2. “New Belongings, Other Desires: A Mediter-

ranean Woman’s Queer Art of Failure,” Rustem

Ertug Altinay, U of Vienna

3. “Moroccan Women Photographers: Crossing

and Transforming Mediterranean Borders and

Boundaries,” Naima Hachad, AmericanU

For related material, write to kpl2@ cornell .edu.

557. Undergraduate Foreign Language

Requirements

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Regent, Hilton

Program arranged by the ADFL Executive Com-

mittee. Presiding: MeganM. Ferry, UnionC

Speakers: Gorka Bilbao- Terreros, Prince ton U; Al-

berta Gatti, Graduate Center, City U of New York;

Gillian Lord, U of Florida; Jennifer Redmann, Frank

lin and Marshall C; Gary Bruce Schmidt, Coastal

Carolina U; Kathleen Stein- Smith, Fairleigh Dickin

son U, Teaneck; Ming- Bao Yue, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

Representatives from a diverse range of postsec-

ondary institutions discuss the role of foreign

language courses in university general education

and core requirements. Current trends in lan-

guage requirements will be discussed, as well as

appropriate responses at the institutional and de-

partmental level, including possible road maps for

advocacy and curricular reform.

558. Career Opportunities in

CommunityColleges

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty 5, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Association of De-

partments of En glish and the Association of

Departments of Foreign Languages. Presiding: Jac-

quelineL. Gray, St. Charles Community C, MO

Speakers: Neil Meyer, LaGuardia Community C,

City U of New York; Carol Helene Reitan, City C

of San Francisco

Faculty members in En glish and foreign languages

discuss the career opportunities that exist incom-

munity colleges, with a special focus on job seek-

ers who are starting their careers.

559. Articulating the Local: Cultural

Practices and Problematics of Dialects in

Twentieth- Century China

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Modern and

Contemporary Chinese. Presiding: ChristopherM.

Lupke, U of Alberta

1. “Dialect as People’s Language: War Mobiliza-

tion, National Identity, and Class Consciousness,”

Ling Kang, Washington U in St. Louis

2. “Lost in Translation? Annotation, Adaptation,

and Marketability of Reprinted Late- Qing Novels

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in Republican China,” Yunwen Gao, U of South-

ern California

3. “Problematizing the Local Community Con-

structed in Laughter: Media Productions in Si-

chuan Mandarin in Contemporary China,” Jin

Liu, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

Respondent: Michael Gibbs Hill, C of William

andMary

560. Still Reading

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Late- 18th-

Century En glish. Presiding: Jonathan Sachs, Con-

cordiaU

1. “Silent Reading,” Scott Black, U of Utah

2. “Repeat Reading,” Tina Lupton, U of Warwick

3. “e Sense of Not Ending,” Jonathan Kram-

nick, YaleU

561. Afro- Natures and Afro- Futures:

Speculation, Technology, and Environment

in African Literature and Film

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Association for the

Study of Literature and the Environment. Presid-

ing: Dustin Crowley, RowanU

1. “Afro- Sci- Fi in the Anthropocene: ree e-

ses,” Brady Smith, U of Chicago

2. “Remapping Spatialities, Creating New Post-

colonial Futures in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon,”

Chinyelu Agwu, FederalU

3. “Seed Bags and Storytelling: Modes of Living

aer the End in Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi,” KirkB.

Sides, U of Johannesburg

4. “Take Root among the Stars: Afro- Futurist En-

vironmentalism in Octavia Butler’s Parable Series

and the Sculptures of Cyrus Kabiru,” Stacey Shin,

U of California, Los Angeles

For related material, write to cechterling@ ku .edu

aer 1Dec.

562. Ways of Writing in High School

andCollege

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on

K–16 Alliances. Presiding: Lisa Longo Johnston,

CentenaryU

1. “Beyond ‘Funds of Knowledge’: e Unrecognized

Literacy Practices Multilingual Students Bring to

College,” Ryan McCarty, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “Accessibility, Stamina, and Depth: Reecting

on Multimodal Engagements with Traditional

Texts,” Merideth Garcia, U of Michigan, Ann

Arbor

3. “David Coleman Is Not an Educator: Reclaiming

Narrative Nonction and Poetry Writing in High

School En glish and College Composition Class

rooms,” Reed Dickson, Pima Community C, AZ

4. “Help or Hindrance? Is ere a Role for For-

mulas in the Teaching of College Writing?” JodyL.

Cardinal, State U of New York, Old Westbury

563. Communicating Transferable Skills

and Humanities Expertise to Prospective

Employers

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center

Speaker: Stacy Hartman, MLA

Humanities PhDs working outside the profes-

soriat bring not only transferable skills but also

unique forms of expertise to their organizations.

is hands- on workshop provides job seekers with

an introduction to articulating transferable skills

and communicating humanities expertise to pro-

spective employers outside the academy.

564. Weak Environmentalism

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Anthony Lioi, Juil-

liard School

Speakers: Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins U, MD;

Jerey Cohen, George Washington U; Wai Chee

Dimock, Yale U; PaulK. Saint- Amour, U of Penn-

sylvania; SusanJ. Wolfson, Prince tonU

e urgency, high stakes, and planetary scale of

climate change have produced commensurately

strong environmentalisms. Panelists consider the

work that aweak environmentalism might do, as

alternative or supplement to strong. e subjects

addressed include small- scale actions and ideas,

low- intensity aects and social ties, and weak

frontiers between species or between animate and

inanimate matter. What is the environmentalism

of stone?

For related material, write to psain@ en glish .upenn

.edu aer 15Dec.

565. James Joyce’s Exiles at One Hundred

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the International James

Joyce Foundation. Presiding: Claire Culleton, Kent

State U, Kent

1. “Editing Exiles, Acting Exiles,” Keri Walsh,

FordhamU

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2. “Exiles, Exils, Exilés: Editing a New Translation of

Joyce’s Play,” Jean- Michel Rabaté, U of Pennsylvania

3. “e Excised Irishness of Exiles,” Vicki Mahaf-

fey, U of Illinois, Urbana

566. Interdisciplinary Palestine: Poetry,

Narrative, Institutionality

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Race and

Ethnicity Studies. Presiding: MartinJ. Ponce, Ohio

State U, Columbus

1. “Olive in the Trees and in the Shadows of Sol-

diers: Persistence, Peace, and the Spectral in the

Poetics of the Palestinian Diaspora,” Saba Razvi,

U of Houston, Victoria

2. “Exile Poetics: Bridging Refugee Settlers and

Palestinian Liberation,” Evyn Le Espiritu, U of

California, Berkeley

3. “Narrating Palestine: Time, Space, and States

of Asymmetry,” SusanS. Lanser, BrandeisU

4. “Palestine, Indigeneity, and Ethnic Studies:

Justice- Centered Scholarship and Pedagogy at SFSU,”

Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, San Francisco StateU

567. New York Transit

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Life Writing. Presid-

ing: Ricia Anne Chansky, U of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

1. “Douglass on the Promenade,” Blevin Shelnutt,

New YorkU

2. “Connection, Connement, Collision: Walking

the New New York City,” Molly Pulda, TulaneU

3. “David Wojnarowicz and Derek Jarman in New

York: Diaries of the City during the HIV/ AIDS

Crisis,” Alexandra Parsons, University C London

4. “Empire State of Mind: Site, Sound, and Social

Improvisation in Steven Spielberg’s e Terminal,”

JurgenE. Grandt, U of North Georgia

For related material, visit www .auto- biography .org.

568. Against Empathy?

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Lalita Pandit Hogan,

U of Wisconsin, La Crosse

1. “Nussbaum and Brecht in the Age of Trump,”

Joshua Landy, StanfordU

2. “For (Eortful) Empathy,” Patrick Colm Ho-

gan, U of Connecticut, Storrs

Respondent: Paul Bloom, YaleU

For related material, visit literary- universals

.uconn .edu/2017/03/27/an- empathy- panel -at -the

-mla - convention- in- 2018/.

569. Narratives of Giving and Receiving

Care: Aective Dimensions

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Disability

Studies. Presiding: Rachel Adams, ColumbiaU

1. “Object Exposures: Roz Chast and Joyce

Farmer Document Aging, Illness, and Death,”

Tahneer Oksman, Marymount ManhattanC

2. “Communities of Care in Charles Chesnutt’s

Conjure Fiction,” Sarah Wagner- McCoy, ReedC

3. “Home Games for the Away Team: Memoirs

by Father Caregivers,” Chris Gabbard, U of North

Florida

570. Environmental Humanities and Italy

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century Italian

1. “e Dialogues Digital Project: Landscape

Ecology in Central Italy from the Sixth Century to

the Present,” Damiano Benvegnu, DartmouthC

2. “e Politics of Organic- Food Discourse in It-

aly: Identity, Authenticity, Sustainability,” Patrizia

LaTrecchia, U of South Florida, Tampa

3. “In eir Own Voices: A ‘Kenotic’ Approach

to Animal Studies and Ecotheology,” DemetrioS.

Yocum, U of Notre Dame

571. Nabokov and Correspondence

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton

Program arranged by the International Vladimir

Nabokov Society. Presiding: Zoran Kuzmanovich,

DavidsonC

1. “Little Stray Dogs: Nabokov’s Letters Lost in

the Post,” omas Karshan, U of East Anglia

2. “Letters to Véra: Nabokov’s Invisible Revi-

sions,” Lyndsay Miller, U of Glasgow

3. “Creativity and Crisis in Nabokov’s Letters to

Véra,” Duncan White, HarvardU

For related material, visit dev- international

- vladimir - nabokov-society .pantheonsite.io.

572. Cultural Critique aer Democracy:

OnNeocitizenship

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Robyn Wiegman,

DukeU

Speakers: Eva Cherniavsky, U of Washington, Seat

tle; JanetR. Jakobsen, Barnard C; Leerom Medovoi,

U of Arizona; JaniceA. Radway, NorthwesternU

Panelists engage with Eva Cherniavsky’s recently

published book, Neocitizenship: Political Culture

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aer Democracy, which asks what the evisceration of

modern democratic institutions under contempo-

rary neoliberal rule signies for the practice of citi-

zenship and for the work of the critical humanities.

573. Race, Resources, and Real Estate

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom

East,Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Marxism, Lit-

erature, and Society. Presiding: Nicole Fleetwood,

Rutgers U, New Brunswick

1. “e Corner: Black Bodies, Spatial Aesthetics,

and DC’s Go- Go Economy,” Brandi Summers,

Virginia CommonwealthU

2. “Picturing Dispossession: e Chicago Hous-

ing Campaigns of Martin Luther King, Jr., and

Richard Wright,” Adrienne Brown, U of Chicago

3. “‘Best to Let It Burn’: Destroying or Becoming

Property in Philadelphia Fire,” Colton Saylor, U of

California, Santa Barbara

4. “Weird Became the Night: Nuisance Com-

plaints in Langston Hughes,” Laura Perry, U of

Wisconsin, Madison

Respondent: Maria Seger, U of Louisiana, Lafayette

574. Editing in the Shadow of the

Anthropocene

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the Society for Textual Schol-

arship. Presiding: MartaL. Werner, D’YouvilleC

1. “Some Aordances of Deep Time,” Stephen

David Engel, U of California, Santa Cruz

2. “Forces of Unworking,” Stefanie Heine, U of

Toronto

3. “Editing the Aggregate; or, Beyond TEI (Text

Encoding Initiative),” Nigel Lepianka, Texas

A&MU, College Station

Respondent: James Malazita, Rensselaer Polytech-

nic Inst.

For related material, write to marta .werner@

gmail .com.

575. Linguistics and Social Media

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL General

Linguistics. Presiding: Angela Helmer, U of South

Dakota

1. “Dialectal Accommodation through Social Me

dia: A Case Study of a Study- Abroad Program,” Co

vadonga Lamar Prieto, U of California, Riverside

2. “Elitist or Marginal, Sacred or Utilitarian:

Representation of Scientic Activity in Social Me-

dia,” Oksana Rymarenko, Russian State U for the

Humanities

3. “Fashion Bloggers and Social Media in Spain:

Analysis of Some Strategies of eir Discourse

from a Perspective of Sociocultural Pragmatics,”

Micaela Carrera–de la Red, Ude Valladolid

4. “Linguistic Aspects of ‘Facework’ in a Spanish

Blog of Literary Fiction Books,” Francisco Jose

Zamora, U de Valladolid

Respondent: Allison Spikes, Texas TechU

576. Taking Measure: Poetic Rhythms

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and

Early- 19th- Century German

1. “Hölderlin and the Measure of Ether,” Joseph

Albernaz, U of California, Berkeley

2. “Klopstock’s ‘Grammatical Poetics’ and the

Measure of Poetry,” Lea Pao, Penn State U, Uni-

versity Park

3. “Measure, Meter, Aesthetics,” Hannah El-

dridge, U of Wisconsin, Madison

4. “Measured Listening,” Tanvi Solanki, Cor-

nellU

577. Political Pinter

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Harold Pinter Society.

Presiding: AnnC. Hall, U of Louisville

1. “Gender Politics and Language Use in e

Homecoming,” David Bleich, U of Rochester

2. “Harold Pinter’s Political Archive,” Graham

Saunders, U of Birmingham

3. “Art, Activism, Performance,” Benjamin

Kozicki, RiceU

578. Insecurities of the North American West

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Western Literature

Association

1. “‘e Hard White Empty Core of the World’:

Desituating the Masculinized West in Didion and

Morrison,” James Wirth, U of Washington, Seattle

2. “Here Comes the Groom: Regionalized Mar-

riage Allegory in e Squatter and the Don (1885),”

Mike Lemon, Texas TechU

3. “From Frank Reade, Jr., to Westworld: e

American West and the reat of Technology,”

Emily Gowen, BostonU

4. “Western Time Limits in the Anthropocene,”

William Handley, U of Southern California

Respondent: Kerry Fine, Arizona StateU

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579. New Directions for Teaching and

Researching Technical Communication

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the Association of Teachers

of Technical Writing. Presiding: William Klein,

Uof Missouri, St. Louis

1. “e Institutional Review Board and Research

in Writing Studies,” Johanna Phelps- Hillen, U of

South Florida, Tampa

2. “e Rising Power of Digital Genre: e Role

of WeChat QR Codes in Accommodating Health-

care Exigency in China,” Hua Wang, Michigan

TechnologicalU

3. “(Technical) Writing about (Technical) Writ-

ing: Building a Literacy for Students as Makers

and Consumers of Technical Writing,” Kelly

Whitney, New Mexico State U, Las Cruces

Respondent: Ashley Clayson, U of West Florida

For related material, write to bill_ klein@ umsl .edu.

580. Imperial Scars: New Approaches to

Corporality, Race, and Power in Colonial

Latin America

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: René Carrasco, Har-

vardU

1. “e Discourse of Race and Empire in Carlos

de Sigüenza y Góngora’s Paraiso Occidental,”

Stephanie Louise Kirk, Washington U in St. Louis

2. “Biopolitics and Pneumopolitics in the Hospi-

tal Project of Bartolomé de Las Casas,” CarlosA.

Jauregui, U of Notre Dame

3. “Modeling Virtue in Colonial Latin America:

Race, Gender, and the Catholic Church,” Monica

Diaz, U of Kentucky

4. “Counterscarring Inquisitorial Power: Sexual

Oenses and Pacts with the Devil from Mulattos in

New Spain,” Silvia Rocha, Washington U in St. Louis

Saturday, 6 January

12:30 p.m.

580A. MLA Delegate Assembly

12:30 p.m., East Ballroom, Hilton

Presiding: Anne Ruggles Gere, U of Michigan,

Ann Arbor

is meeting is open only to MLA members.

For agenda information, visit www .mla .org/ About

-Us/ Governance/ Delegate- Assembly/ Delegate

- Assembly- Agenda/ aer 11Dec.

Saturday, 6 January

1:45 p.m.

581. Dystopia Today

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Association of

Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.

Presiding: Emily Van Buskirk, Rutgers U, New

Brunswick

1. “Hell Is Other Peoples: Dystopia and the Puti-

nist Imaginary,” Eliot Borenstein, New YorkU

2. “Society of Estate: Dystopia and Ideology in Pu-

tin’s Russia,” Dina Khapaeva, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

3. “e Corporate Space of Zamyatin’s Dystopia,”

Tom Ribitzky, Graduate Center, City U of New York

582. Remaking Periodization

1:45–3:00 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Medieval.

Presiding: Marisa Galvez, StanfordU

1. “‘[Her Pity] Was Like a Flaming Sword’: Chi-

valric Ethics and the Reforming of Empathy in

Rebecca West’s e Return of the Soldier,” Robin

Anderson, U of Toronto

2. “Philological Periodization in Iberian Manu-

script Culture,” Guinevere Allen, StanfordU

3. “Orality and Literacy Revisited,” Christopher

Cannon, Johns Hopkins U, MD

583. Critical Infrastructure Studies

1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Digital Hu-

manities. Presiding: Alan Liu, U of California,

Santa Barbara

1. “On Human Infrastructure,” Tung- Hui Hu,

Uof Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “Cabinet Logics: Infrastructures for Episte-

mological Containment,” Shannon Mattern, New

School

3. “Infrastructures of Hate,” Tara McPherson,

Uof Southern California

4. “Interrogating Global Humanities Infrastruc-

ture,” James Smithies, King’s C London

Respondent: MatthewK. Gold, Graduate Center,

City U of New York

For related material, visit criticalinfrastructure

.hcommons .org/.

584. Disability and Human (In)Dignity in

East Asian Literature and Film

1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison, Hilton

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Program arranged by the forum LLC East Asian.

Presiding: KellyY. Jeong, U of California, Riverside

1. “‘What If the Child Should Look like You’: e

Impotent Husbands in Yasunari Kawabata’s ‘e

Moon on the Water’ and Songfen Guo’s ‘Moon

Seal,’” Li- ping Chen, U of Southern California

2. “A Punch at the Postmodern Lives in Contem-

porary East Asia,” Liang Luo, U of Kentucky

3. “Disability and Human Dignity in Hong Kong

and Korean Cinema: Depictions of Visual Dis-

abilities in Blind Detective and Blind,” Steven Riep,

Brigham Young U, UT

585. South- South Translation and the

Geopolitics and Geopoetics of Circulation

1:45–3:00 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global

South. Presiding: Mary Louise Pratt, New YorkU

1. “Circulation without Translation? Truth and Rec-

onciliation Commission Discourses between Chile

and South Africa,” Loren Kruger, U of Chicago

2. “Sentimental Translation in the Global South,”

Jang Wook Huh, U of Washington, Seattle

3. “A Case of Exploding Markets: Latin American

and South Asian Literary Booms in a Comparative

Perspective,” Roanne Kantor, HarvardU

4. “El realismo mágico in Arabic: Globalization,

Best Sellers, and Other Problems in South- South

Cultural Exchanges,” Eman Morsi, DartmouthC

586. Texts in Dialogue in the Age of Dante

1:45–3:00 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

Program arranged by the Dante Society of Amer-

ica. Presiding: Teodolinda Barolini, ColumbiaU

1. “Cotale gioco mai non fue veduto: Reading

Tenzoni in a Ludic Key,” Akash Kumar, U of Cali-

fornia, Santa Cruz

2. “Beyond Anti- types: Beatrice, Becchina, and

the Tenzone Fittizia,” David Bowe, U of Oxford

3. “Dante’s ‘Amicus Sollicitus’: A Hidden Dia-

logue in Book II of De vulgari eloquentia,” Andrea

Placidi, Prince tonU

587. Foregrounding Indigeneity and

Settlement in American Literary Studies

1:45–3:00 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forums LLC 19th-

Century American and LLC Indigenous Litera-

tures of the United States and Canada. Presiding:

Mark Riin, U of North Carolina, Greensboro

1. “‘Strange Paupers’: Indigenous Labor, Debt,

and Persistence in Early America,” Beth Piatote,

Uof California, Berkeley

2. “Politics of the Past: Antidispossessive Strug-

gles in 1690s Massachusetts and Yucatán,” David

Kazanjian, U of Pennsylvania

3. “Mary Jemison’s Cabin: Indigeneity, Interracial

Kinship, and Domestic Racialization,” Brigitte

Fielder, U of Wisconsin, Madison

4. “Colonialism, White Supremacy, and the ‘Cor-

porate Person,’” Manu Vimalassery, BarnardC

588. Francophone New York

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Francophone.

Presiding: Renée Larrier, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

1. “Toussaint in New York: e Transatlantic Cit-

izenship of Saint- Domingue’s Refugees,” Annette

Joseph- Gabriel, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “‘Paris, the Alternative Capital of My Imagi-

nation’: Susan Sontag, the New Yorker as a ‘Pas-

seur,’ ” Beatrice Mousli, U of Southern California

3. “En Route to the Big City in Danticat: ‘Brother,

Are You Here Yet?’” Régine Isabelle Joseph,

Queens C, City U of New York

4. “From New York Fait Divers to the Goncourt:

Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce,” Sara Kippur,

Trinity C, CT

589. MLA Style Workshop: Paraphrasing,

Quoting, and Citing Sources in the Text

1:45–3:00 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center

Speakers: Angela Gibson, MLA; JenniferA. Rap-

paport, MLA

Crediting the work of others is the cornerstone of

scholarly communication and a key skill for stu

dents to learn. Get an overview of paraphrasing

and quoting sources, craing in- text citations, and

using notes in MLA style. MLA editors will answer

questions, share tips, and help participants trou

bleshoot common problems. Suitable for librarians

and teachers as well as for students at all levels.

590. Donne and Close Reading: Rejecting,

Reevaluating, and Renewing Critical

Approaches

1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the John Donne Society.

Presiding: Heather Dubrow, FordhamU

1. “Literature, Culture, and Other Redundancies,”

JudithH. Anderson, Indiana U, Bloomington

2. “Ways of Reading Donne’s Epitaphs: Close,

Comparative, Contextual, Concrete,” eresa Ma-

ria DiPasquale, WhitmanC

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3. “‘Musicke Lacks a Song’: Close Reading’s Dis-

contents and John Donne’s Musical Poetry,” Mat-

thew Zarnowiecki, TouroC

591. Race, Space, Gaze: Fields of

Ethnographic Narration

1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Anthropology

and Literature. Presiding: Mrinalini Chakravorty,

U of Virginia

1. “Racial Comparisons: Reections on Dam-

mann’s Ethnographical Photographic Gallery of the

Various Races of Men,” Ali Behdad, U of Califor-

nia, Los Angeles

2. “Refracting the Ethnographic Gaze: A Zanzi-

bari Explorer in En gland and a First Nation Trick-

ster Interlocuter in Canada,” HerthaD. Sweet

Wong, U of California, Berkeley

3. “‘A Queerness of No Return’? Competing Dia-

sporic Imaginaries in Shani Mootoo’s He Drown

She in the Sea,” Asha Nadkarni, U of Massachu-

setts, Amherst

592. e Literary and the Secular

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

Program arranged by the Conference on Christi-

anity and Literature

Speakers: Randy Boyagoda, U of Toronto; Sean

Dempsey, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Christopher

Douglas, U of Victoria; Kathryn Ludwig, Indiana

Wesleyan U; Kevin Seidel, Eastern Mennonite U;

Michael Tomko, VillanovaU

is session examines recent framings of the secu-

lar and the postsecular while considering the best

methods for advancing this ongoing critical dis-

cussion. Panelists ask whether there is something

that can rightly be thought of as religious about

the ourishing of (semi-)sacred experiences in lit-

erature. Has the religious turn come of age?

593. Poe’s Philadelphia Stories

1:45–3:00 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Poe Studies Associa-

tion. Presiding: Amy Branam Armiento, Frostburg

StateU

1. “Illustrating ‘e Gold- Bug,’” John Cullen

Gruesser, KeanU

2. “e Colonial Geographies of Sympathetic

Ink in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘e Gold- Bug,’” Daniel

Couch, United States Air Force Acad.

3. “e Duplicitous Design of Four Supposed

Tales of Terror,” Susan Amper, Bronx Commu-

nityC, City U of New York

4. “Abortion, Punctuation, and the Murders at

Aren’t Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Dana Me-

doro, U of Manitoba

For related material, visit www

. poestudiesassociation .org/ conferences/ aer 1Dec.

594. Gender Calling: Pronouns as a

Comparative Problem

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Comparative

Literature Association. Presiding: Michael Lucey,

U of California, Berkeley

1. “Trans,” AndrewC. Parker, Rutgers U, New

Brunswick

2. “Nannü,” Lydia Liu, ColumbiaU

3. “Insex,” Elissa Marder, EmoryU

595. Graphic States of Insecurity

1:45–3:00 p.m., Empire Ballroom East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Jonathan Najarian,

BostonU

1. “Making Comics: Word and Image in Nonc

tion Narratives,” Josh Neufeld, independent scholar

2. “e Child as Witness in Riad Sattouf’s e

Arab of the Future,” Nima Naghibi, Ryerson U;

Andrew O’Malley, RyersonU

3. “Now and en: Richard McGuire and Lauren

Redniss’s Representational Extremes,” Christo-

pher Spaide, HarvardU

Respondent: HillaryL. Chute, NortheasternU

For related material, write to joncn@ bu .edu aer

1Dec.

596. Reading the Radical: American

Muslim Immigrants, Surveillance, and

Narrative Resistance

1:45–3:00 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Noor Hashem, inde-

pendent scholar

1. “resholds of Modernism: Constructing the

Ideal Muslim Subject in Selma Ekrem’s Unveiled,”

Zeynep Aydogdu, Ohio State U, Columbus

2. “Anomalous Expansion under Surveillance:

Somali American Literature, Art, and Film,” Dan-

ielle Haque, Minnesota StateU

3. “Muslim Subjects as Homo Sacer in Contem-

porary Pakistani- American Fiction,” Muhammad

Waqar Azeem, Binghamton U, State U of New York

597. States of Insecurity: Accepting

Vulnerability, Permeability, and Instability

1:45–3:00 p.m., Mercury Ballroom, Hilton

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A linked session arranged in conjunction with the

Presidential Plenary: #States of Insecurity (360).

Presiding: Jack Halberstam, ColumbiaU

1. “Schemes of Belonging in Israel/ Palestine,”

Hagar Kotef, SOAS, U of London

2. “Undocumented Knowledge,” Lisa Lowe, TusU

3. “Backward Glances, Glaring Stares: e Inse-

cure Erotics of Cruising and Surveillance,” Martin

Manalansan IV, U of Illinois, Urbana

4. “A Little History of the Wayward,” Saidiya

Hartman, ColumbiaU

e security regime lives in us and through us, en-

suring that protected populations live far removed

from anything like the quotidian violence that

marks the lives of the uprooted, the migrant, the

homeless, the lost, the occupied, the incarcerated,

and the illegitimate. Now we need to explore hidden

byways, obscured paths, unlikely routes, unbound

knowledge, and improvised truths in the hope of re

fusing the binary formulation of security/ insecurity.

598. Dangerous Charisma

1:45–3:00 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

Program arranged by theD. H. Lawrence Society

of North America. Presiding: Joyce Piell Wexler,

Loyola U, Chicago

1. “D. H. Lawrence’s Critique of Fascist (Will to)

Power,” Nidesh Lawtoo, U of Bern

2. “D. H. Lawrence’s Leadership Novels and the

Cult of the Charismatic,” Michelle Phillips Buch-

berger, Miami U, Hamilton

3. “e Lure of Leadership in Lawrence’s Austra-

lian Novels,” David Game, Australian NationalU

4. “Bestiary of the Charismatic Right: Unveil-

ing D.H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo through a Page

of Moch tar Lubis’s Tiger,” Mark Deggan, Simon

FraserU

599. eatrical Collaborations

1:45–3:00 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the American Literature

Society and the American eatre and Drama

Society. Presiding: Barbara Lewis, U of Massachu-

setts, Boston

1. “e Lines between the Lines: Stage Directions

as Fluid, Physical Collaborations between Play-

wrights and Actors,” Sarah Bess Rowen, Graduate

Center, City U of New York

2. “Anna Lucasta Goes to Broadway: Stymied but

Not Stopped in Collaboration,” Barbara Lewis

3. “Kitchen Table Worlds: Transcultural Col-

laborations in Native American eater,” Jennifer

Shook, GrinnellC

4. “Removing the Bars for Collaborative eater,”

Pamela Monaco, North CentralC

600. Translation Markets: Comparative and

Historical Perspectives

1:45–3:00 p.m., Regent, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Translation

Studies. Presiding: Daniel Balderston, U of Pittsburgh

1. “e Global Travel of Italian Contemporary

Fiction: A Sociological Approach,” Elisa Segnini,

U of Glasgow

2. “One ousand and One Authors: Transla-

tion and Pseudotranslation in Eighteenth- Century

France,” Tegan Raleigh, U of California, Santa Barbara

3. “e Abundance of Japanese Brontë Transla-

tions,” Judith Marie Pascoe, Florida StateU

4. “‘e Best Books by the Best Writers from All

Parts of the World’: e Lack of Translations into

En glish in Children’s Publishing,” DeirdreH. Mc-

Mahon, DrexelU

601. Materiality and the Cultures of Death

in Spain

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Antonio Cordoba,

Manhattan C; Daniel García- Donoso, Catholic U

of America

1. “Capturing Death: Photography and Biopoli-

tics,” PatriciaM. Keller, CornellU

2. “What We Leave Behind: Junk Boxes of the

Dead,” Dean Allbritton, ColbyC

3. “What Do We Do with the Dead? Deritual-

izing Death in the Contemporary Novel,” Daniel

García- Donoso

4. “e Political Death of Live Bodies: Necropoli-

tics and Radical Solidarity aer the 2008 Crisis in

Spain,” Germán Labrador Méndez, Prince tonU

602. Visual Culture and Mexican Literature

in Times of Crisis

1:45–3:00 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Mexican

1. “Sin México no hay Paraíso: Apocalyptic Im-

ages in Contemporary Mexican Literature and Vi-

sual Culture,” Patricia Saldarriaga, MiddleburyC

2. “Approaches to Visual Culture: e Logic of

Sensationalism,” Sergio Delgado Moya, HarvardU

3. “Beyond the Verbal and Visual Divide: How

the Visual Arts are Shaping the Production, Pro-

motion, and Consumption of Literature in Con-

temporary Mexico,” Manuel Gutiérrez, RiceU

Respondent: Nicolas Poppe, MiddleburyC

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603. Goethe’s Narrative Forms: Ideologies

of Selood

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the Goethe Society of North

America. Presiding: Christian Peter Weber, Flor-

ida StateU

1. “Goethe’s Whispering Voices: Narratives

of Conscience,” Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana U,

Bloomington

2. “Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister and the Pedagogical

Narrative of Capitalism,” David Tse- chien Pan,

Uof California, Irvine

3. “Narratives of Rebirth and Rebranding in the

Italian Journey,” ToddC. Kontje, U of California,

San Diego

604. Research Informing Language

Instruction to Improve Student Performance

1:45–3:00 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Council on

the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Presiding:

Marty Abbott, American Council on the Teaching

of Foreign Languages

1. “Focus on Core Instructional Practices,” Peter

Swanson, Georgia StateU

2. “Making Research Accessible to K–20 Lan-

guage Educators,” Aleidine (Ali) Moeller, U of

Nebraska, Lincoln

3. “Using Language and Culture Can- Do State-

ments to Improve Student Performance,” Marty

Abbott

For related material, visit www .act .org aer 1Nov.

605. Organizing from the Inside: Eecting

Change for Adjuncts in Insecure Times

1:45–3:00 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum HEP Part- Time

and Contingent Faculty Issues. Presiding: Maria

Maisto, New Faculty Majority

Speakers: Sarah Harmon, Cañada C; Amy Lynch-

Biniek, Kutztown U; Judy Olson, California

StateU, Los Angeles; RobinJ. Sowards, Chat hamU

All of us are members of organizations—profes-

sional organizations like the MLA, labor unions,

faculty senates, and activist networks on and o

campus. But even organizations whose missions

involve defending the profession or addressing

the dire problems facing United States higher

education oen fall short. We can make our or-

ganizations more eective by organizing inside

them.Panelists examine how to accomplish that

organizing work.

606. Emily Dickinson’s Narrative

Cartography

1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the International Society for

the Study of Narrative and the Emily Dickinson

International Society. Presiding: Daniel Punday,

Mississippi StateU

1. “Sahara, Contentment: Emily Dickinson’s Ut-

mosts,” Renée Louise Bergland, SimmonsC

2. “Banking on Zero: Position and Space in Dick-

inson’s Poetry,” Elizabeth Hewitt, Ohio State U,

Columbus

3. “Dickinson and the Creation of Self as Sto-

ryworld,” Ashley Shackelford, U of Arkansas,

Fayetteville

4. “Indirections: On a Worldview from a Solitary

Acre,” Grant Rosson, U of California, Los Angeles

607. e Fiction of Colson Whitehead

1:45–3:00 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Lee Konstantinou,

Uof Maryland, College Park

Speakers: Michele Elam, Stanford U; Yogita Goyal,

U of California, Los Angeles; Adam Kelly, U of

York; Lee Konstantinou; Aida Levy- Hussen, U of

Michigan, Ann Arbor; Mary- Helen Washington,

U of Maryland, College Park

Participants discuss the career of Colson White-

head in the light of his winning the National Book

Award forhe Underground Railroad (2016). How

should critics situate Whitehead in the contempo-

rary American literary eld? How have his novels

both participated in and critiqued African Ameri-

can literature? How has Whitehead represented

race in a United States and a global context? What

is the future of Whitehead studies?

608. Literary Wordplay with Names

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Name Society.

Presiding: Andreas Gavrielatos, U of Edinburgh

1. “e Place- Name Double: Reconguring Space

in the Euro- American Imaginary,” Elin Kack,

LinkopingU

2. “‘It Is God’s Spelling and Mine’: Epic Errors

and the Evolution of a Genre in Derek Walcott’s

Omeros,” Ryan Hackenbracht, Texas TechU

3. “Names, Wit, and Wordplay in Wilde,” omas

Wisniewski, HarvardU

609. Nakba at Seventy: Culture and Politics

1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

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Program arranged by the forum TC Postcolonial

Studies. Presiding: Nouri Gana, U of California,

Los Angeles

1. “Bearing Witness: Hanthala the Deant Immor

tal Child,” Hania Nashef, American U of Sharjah

2. “Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitanism in Re-

verse,” Hosam Mohamed Aboul- Ela, U of Houston

3. “Resistance from Within: e Nakba in He-

brew and Israeli Anglophone Poetry,” Morani

Korn berg, U at Bualo,State U of New York

4. “Viewing, Editing, Interpreting: Film as Cri-

tique in Two Nakba Novels,” Betty Rosen, U of

California, Berkeley

610. Open Humanities 101

1:45–3:00 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Oce of Scholarly

Communication. Presiding: Nicky Agate, MLA

Speakers: CherylE. Ball, West Virginia U, Mor-

gantown; ChristopherA. Barnes, Gettysburg C;

Carl Blyth, U of Texas, Austin; Martin Paul Eve,

U of London, Birkbeck C; Kathleen Fitzpatrick,

Michigan State U; Rebecca Kennison, K/N Con-

sultants; Megan Wacha, City U of New York

An introduction to open- access publishing for

humanities scholars, including books, journals,

and repositories. Participants discuss and answer

questions on the potential benets and drawbacks

of open access, negotiating open author contracts,

publishing open- access monographs, Creative

Commons licensing and fair use, open peer re-

view, open educational resources, and where to

upload work to have the greatest possible impact.

611. Current Trends in Seventeenth-

Century French Studies

1:45–3:00 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-

Century French

1. “Sound Psychology: Descartes and the Struggle

with Passionate Sounds,” Alison Calhoun, Indi-

anaU, Bloomington

2. “Recording Silence in Seventeenth- Century

Parisian eater,” Benoit Bolduc, New YorkU

3. “Making Others Speak: Direct and Indirect

Speech in Seventeenth- Century Travel Writing in

the Caribbean,” Christina Kullberg, UppsalaU

4. “Toward a Marketing Approach to

Seventeenth- Century French Literature,” Chris-

tophe Schuwey, U of Fribourg

612. Rise of the Global Right

1:45–3:00 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Russian

and Eurasian. Presiding: Serguei Alex Oushakine,

Prince tonU

1. “Environmental Eurasianism; or, e Alt- Right

in the Anthropocene,” Anindita Banerjee, CornellU

2. “e New Right Commune: Everyday Eur-

asianism and Anarcho- Nationalism,” Leah Feld-

man, U of Chicago

613. Learning through “Failure”: Feminism

on Campus in the Years Ahead

1:45–3:00 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the Women’s Caucus for the

Modern Languages and the Feministas Unidas.

Presiding: MichelleA. Massé, Louisiana State U,

Baton Rouge

Speakers: Hilda Chacón, Nazareth C; Melanie

Micir, Washington U in St. Louis; Beth Ann

Muellner, C of Wooster; Veronica Popp, Elmhurst

C; ChristineM. Probes, U of South Florida, Tampa

Feminism in academia is at risk—as activism, as

complicit in hierarchy, as an academic eld, as

postfeminism. e ostensible failure of feminism

in the current political climate, however, is subject

to debate. is session explores the “low theory” of

resistance and transformation.

614. Texts and Localities in Early

ModernEn gland

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th-

Century En glish. Presiding: Anne Myers, U of

Missouri, Columbia

1. “Defending the Homeland: e En glish Muster

on Stage and Soil, 1530–1660,” VimalaC. Pasupa-

thi, HofstraU

2. “Word and Bond: e Textual Life of an Early

Modern London Neighborhood,” Scott Olden-

burg, TulaneU

3. “En glish Political Prophecy in the Welsh

Marches, 1450–1650,” Eric Weiskott, BostonC

615. New Media, Old Media: Technologies

of Empire

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS 18th-

Century. Presiding: Chi- ming Yang, U of

Pennsylvania

1. “Interstate Systems,” Siraj Ahmed, Graduate

Center, City U of New York

2. “Physiocracy in America; or, Utopia Goes to

Market,” Aya Tanaka, New YorkU

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3. “Media in Absentia: Re- Creating the Colonial

Archive,” Allison Bigelow, U of Virginia; Rebecca

Graham, U of Virginia

Respondent: SunilM. Agnani, U of Illinois,

Chicago

616. Narratives of Post–World War II Black

German Adoption: Identity, History, and

Cultural Imagination

1:45–3:00 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the Alliance for the Study of

Adoption and Culture. Presiding: Marina Fedosik,

Prince tonU

1. “Black Germans: Reunication and Belonging

in Diaspora,” Rosemarie Pena, Rutgers U, New

Brunswick

2. “Black German Orphans in the United States

Literary Imagination,” CynthiaA. Callahan, Ohio

State U, Manseld

3. “Screening the Postwar Myth of Racial Integra-

tion: Germany and Italy in Comparative Perspec-

tive,” Angelica Fenner, U of Toronto

Respondent: Sonya Donaldson, New Jersey CityU

For related material, visit www

. adoptionandculture .org/ upcoming- mla/.

617. Editing Manuscripts: Transparency and

Insecurities

1:45–3:00 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Cristanne Miller, U at

Bualo,State U of New York

1. “‘Relentless Accuracy’: Insecurities and Irre-

coverable Problems in Editing Marianne Moore,”

Cristanne Miller

2. “Conjuring a Chesnutt Edition: Manuscripts,

Print, and Digital Transformations,” Stephanie

Patricia Browner, New School

3. “e Borders of the Archive and the Limits of

Genre: Challenges in Editing Whitman,” Ken-

nethM. Price, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

618. From Gotham to Camazotz: Madeleine

L’Engle at One Hundred and New York City

1:45–3:00 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Michelle Ann Abate,

Ohio State U, Columbus

1. “Actualizing Camazotz in New York City,”

HeidiA. Lawrence, U of Glasgow

2. “When You Wrinkle Time: e ‘Expanding

Universe’ of Madeleine L’Engle in Rebecca Stead’s

When You Reach Me,” Susan Strayer, Ohio State U,

Columbus

3. “A Buttery in the City: Interrelational Musi-

cal Identity in e Young Unicorns and A Severed

Wasp,” Mary Jeanette Moran, Illinois StateU

619. New York as Text: Bibliographies and

Geographies

1:45–3:00 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TM Bibliography

and Scholarly Editing. Presiding: Amanda Golden,

New York Inst. of Tech.

Speakers: Jonathan Goldman, New York Inst. of

Tech.; Kristen Doyle Highland, American U of

Sharjah; MarkJ. Noonan, New York City C of

Tech., City U of New York; Angel Lopez Santiago,

Hunter C, City U of New York; Emily Silk, Har-

vardU

Panelists introduce new considerations of New

York literary and social history, including projects

combining digital mapping and archival research,

and discuss New York’s racial diversity, archives,

book history, social welfare, and print culture. Ad-

dressing Manhattan from the nineteenth century

to the present, the presenters shed new light on

New York’s vitality in twenty- rst- century biblio-

graphic and textual scholarship.

For related material, visit agoldenphd .com.

620. South Asia and Romanticism

1:45–3:00 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC South Asian

and South Asian Diasporic and the Keats- Shelley

Association of America. Presiding: Sonia Hoosh,

TusU

Speakers: Manu Samriti Chander, Rutgers U, New-

ark; Christopher Kelleher, U of Toronto; Gaura

Shankar Narayan, Purchase C, State U of New

York; DanielE. White, U of Toronto; Yin Yuan,

BostonC

is session addresses the importance of the

transnational turn in literary studies and of

postcolonial theory toan understanding of Brit-

ish Romanticism as both a historical period and

an aesthetic category. Panelists discuss early

nineteenth- century representations of South Asia

and then the formation of Romanticism in the im-

perial public sphere and its discourses of oriental-

ism, cosmopolitanism, and globalism.

For related material, write to gaura .narayan@

purchase .edu aer 20Dec.

621. Writing Insecurity, Writing in Security

1:45–3:00 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton

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Program arranged by the forum LSL Language

and Society. Presiding: A. Suresh Canagarajah,

Penn State U, University Park

Speakers: Usree Bhattacharya, U of Georgia;

A.Suresh Canagarajah; Jerry Lee, U of California,

Irvine; Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, U of Massachu-

setts, Amherst; Shakil Rabbi, Penn State U, Uni-

versity Park; Matthew Trumbo- Tual, ColumbiaU

Writing practice involves considerable insecurity,

for personal and political reasons, and writers

oen negotiate this insecurity in relative detach-

ment in safe spaces, for expressive and critical

purposes. Participants address current debates on

the need and ecacy of safe spaces in educational

institutions by demonstrating how these spaces fa-

cilitate constructiveengagement with sociopoliti-

cal conicts for transformative outcomes.

For related material, write to asc16@ psu .edu.

Saturday, 6 January

3:00 p.m.

622. Getting Funded in the Humanities:

AnNEH Workshop

3:00–5:00 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center.

Presiding: John Cox, National Endowment for the

Humanities

A senior program ocer at the National Endow-

ment for the Humanities (NEH) highlights recent

awards and outlines current funding opportuni-

ties. In addition to emphasizing grant programs

that support individual and collaborative research

and educational opportunities, this workshop

includes information on new developments at the

NEH and oers applicants strategies for submit-

ting competitive grant proposals.

Saturday, 6 January

3:30 p.m.

623. Language Change: Global

(Im)Migration and Linguistic Insecurity

3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Language

Change. Presiding: Roshawnda Derrick, Pepper-

dineU

1. “Promoting Plurilingual Approaches to Inte-

gration,” Ines Bruenner, OberlinC

2. “Language Change: e Creation of the Variety

Lunfardo as Linguistic Reaction to Twentieth-

Century Global Migration,” Nicole Bonino, U of

Virginia

3. “Sonjé Lakay: Language and Historicity in

Antillean Narratives,” Maggie Desgranges, Stony

Brook U,State U of New York

4. “Unequal Translingual En glishes in the Asian

Peripheries,” Sender Dovchin, U of Aizu

624. Possibilities of the Public Humanities

3:30–4:45 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the

Status of Graduate Students in the Profession. Pre-

siding: Meredith Farmer, Wake ForestU

Speakers: Colin David Dewey, California State U,

Maritime Acad.; Armanda Lewis, New York U; Jen

nie Lightweis- Go, U of Mississippi; Victoria Papa,

Massachusetts C of Liberal Arts; Jessica Richard,

Wake Forest U; Kym Weed, U of North Carolina,

Chapel Hill; Christine Yao, U of British Columbia

In a moment of crisis in the humanities we nd one

silver lining: scholars have found a multitude of ways

to make a dierence for broader publics. Our panelists

introduce public projects (digital humanities, medi-

cal humanities, podcasting, community engagement,

service learning, and teaching in prisons), then speak

to how they built those projects, ultimately oering

advice for getting started with new public work.

For related material, visit https:// mlagrads .mla

.hcommons .org/ aer 20Dec.

625. Queer Futurities in Children’s and

Young Adult Literature

3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Children’s

and Young Adult Literature. Presiding: Angel

Daniel Matos, San Diego StateU

1. “e Ethics of Queer Futurity,” Gabrielle

Owen, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

2. “‘Read Up on Your Future’s History’: Futurity

through Bisexuality in Young Adult Novels,”

ChristineN. Stamper, Ohio State U, Columbus

3. “‘We’ll Always Come Here for the Summer,

Right?’: e Queer Geographies of is O ne Sum-

mer,” Katharine Slater, RowanU

4. “Out of History: Aristotle and D ante D iscover

the Secrets of the Universe, the Reclamation of a

Lost Past, and Queer Retrosity,” Michelle Ann

Abate, Ohio State U, Columbus

626. Conservatism/ Liberalism

3:30–4:45 p.m., New York, Hilton

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Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-

Century Latin American. Presiding: AliciaB. Rios,

SyracuseU

1. “Doubting the Lettered City,” RonaldD.

Briggs, BarnardC

2. “Ricardo Palma and the Contradictions of Peru

vian Liberalismo,” JuanE. De Castro, New School

3. “A Conservative Romanticism,” José Ramón

Ruisánchez Serra, U of Houston

627. Epic and Performance

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Pamela Lothspeich,

Uof North Carolina, Chapel Hill

1. “Most Notorious Female(s): Contemporary

Women’s Resistance Movements in India,” Sumi-

tra oidingjam, Jamia Millia Islamia

2. “e Colors of Ramlila,” Pamela Lothspeich

3. “#GettingBolderWithBoulders: e Iliad in

Multimedia Performance,” Carolyn Ownbey, Mc-

Gill U; Catherine Quirk, McGillU

4. “‘A Great Storehouse of Knowledge’: e Epic

as Yesteryear’s Big Data,” Jason Howard Mezey, St.

Joseph’sU

628. Fragile Languages: Unrest,

Vulnerability, and Resistance in Occitan

and Catalan

3:30–4:45 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Occitan and

LLC Catalan Studies. Presiding: Courtney Wells,

Hobart and William Smith Cs

1. “e Cultural Transmission of a Fragile Lan-

guage: e Vulnerable Presence of Old Occitan in

the Medieval Italian Peninsula,” Isabella Magni,

Indiana U, Bloomington

2. “e Names of Ausiàs March,” Juan Jose

Colomina- Alminana, U of Texas, Austin

3. “Between Infanticide and Fratricide: Trouba-

dour Song in Verdi’s Il Trovatore,” Sarah Kay, New

YorkU

629. Auditory Texts in Premodern and

Modern Korean Literature

3:30–4:45 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Korean. Pre-

siding: Pil Ho Kim, Ohio State U, Columbus

1. “Perception Aesthetics: Performing Late

Chosŏn Vernacular Verse through Listening,” An-

astasia Guryeva, St. PetersburgU

2. “Speaking the Language of the Child- Heart,”

Dafna Zur, StanfordU

3. “e Translation of Rhythm: e Japanese-

Language Poetry of Chŏng Chi- yong,” David Kro-

likoski, U of Chicago

4. “Power of Refrain: e Lasting Impact of

Koryŏ Kayo on Modern Korean Popular Music,”

Pil Ho Kim

630. Preserving and Circulating Women’s

Texts, 1660–1740

3:30–4:45 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Restora-

tion and Early- 18th- Century En glish. P residing:

LauraL. Runge, U of South Florida, Tampa

1. “Expanding Access: e Role of the Women in

Book History Bibliography,” Kate Ozment, Texas

A&M U, College Station

2. “First: A Map,” Jennifer Keith, U of North

Carolina, Greensboro

3. “Eighteenth- Century Women’s Writing Now,”

Catherine Elizabeth Ingrassia, Virginia Common-

wealthU

Respondent: LauraC. Mandell, Texas A&M U,

College Station

631. Aesthetic Outrage

3:30–4:45 p.m., Regent, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: StephenJ. Ti, Wil-

liamsC

1. “e Terrible Charm of Moral Outrage,”

Blakey Vermeule, StanfordU

2. “‘[C]ounting Your Heads / As I’m Making the

Beds’: ‘Piratesthetics,’ from Brecht to Simone,”

Jacques Lezra, U of California, Riverside

3. “Ritual and Abomination: e Dynamics of

Riots over Works of Art,” StephenJ. Ti

Respondent: Ian Balfour, YorkU

632. Bicentennial Bits and Bytes: he

Digital Frankenstein Project

3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Rikk Mulligan, Car-

negie MellonU

Speakers: Elisa Beshero- Bondar, U of Pittsburgh,

Greensburg; Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon U;

Matthew Lavin, U of Pittsburgh; Rikk Mulligan

e Digital Frankenstein Projectcreates a scholarly

edition from all three versions of the novel (1818,

1823, 1831) and includes textual analysis, data vi-

sualizations, and online annotations. is session

discusses project scoping, workows, task sharing,

and coordinating the eorts of nine- month and

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twelve- month faculty members housed in depart-

ments and libraries across several institutions.

For related material, write to rikk@ cmu .edu.

633. Modernism and Digital Archives:

Aesthetics, Curation, Reading

3:30–4:45 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Modernist Studies As-

sociation. Presiding: Susan Barbara Rosenbaum,

Uof Georgia

1. “From Man to Woman and from Work to Tech:

Queer Narratives and the Digital Archive,” Pa-

melaL. Caughie, Loyola U, Chicago

2. “Aesthetics of the Archive: Digital (Late) Mod-

ernism,” Mark Byers, NewcastleU

3. “Out of the Darkroom: Reading in the Digital

Archive,” Emily Setina, U of Nevada, Las Vegas

634. Rewriting and Resisting

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by GEMELA: Grupo de Estu-

dios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas

(pre- 1800). Presiding: EmilyC. Francomano,

GeorgetownU

1. “Noble Lineage, Royal Betrayal, and Divine

Protection: Rewriting Family History in Leonor

López de Córdoba’s Memorias,” Holly Sims, U of

North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2. “Women and eir Words: Protest and Con-

sent in Ana Caro,” Margaret Boyle, BowdoinC

3. “Writing Redemption into Being: Zayas’s Revi-

sionist History,” Amy Sheeran, Johns HopkinsU, MD

4. “Rewriting Creole Resistance in Mid- colonial

Mexico: María de Estrada Medinilla,” Mariana

Zinni, Queens C, City U of New York

635. Social Justice in Language Teaching

and Learning: Curricular Approaches

3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Second-

Language Teaching and Learning. Presiding:

Glenn Levine, U of California, Irvine

1. “Social Justice in the L2 Curriculum: A Survey-

and Interview- Driven Study,” Janel Pettes Gui-

kema, Grand Valley State U; Lawrence Williams,

U of North Texas

2. “e Woke Curriculum: Using Intergroup Dia-

logue in the Language Classroom,” Roberto Rey

Agudo, DartmouthC

3. “Integrating a Social Justice Curriculum in Be-

ginning German Language Courses,” Magdalena

Tarnawska Senel, U of California, Los Angeles

636. Redening Self- Translation

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Genevieve Waite,

Graduate Center, City U of New York

1. “Introducing Jean- Louis Kérouac: ‘Loome

laute bord—e Man on the Other Side,’ ” Jean-

Christophe Cloutier, U of Pennsylvania

2. “J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Self-

Translator,” MichaelG. Boyden, UppsalaU

3. “Vladimir Nabokov’s Self- Translated Poetry,”

AdrianJ. Wanner, Penn State U, University Park

4. “e Transmutations of Conclusive Evidence,

Drugie berega, and Speak, Memory!” Julia Titus,

YaleU

For related material, write to genewaite@ gmail .com.

637. Du Bois in a Comparative Context

3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS 20th- and

21st- Century. Presiding: Nergis Ertürk, Penn

StateU, University Park

1. “Running Aer Du Bois,” Gayatri Chakravorty

Spivak, ColumbiaU

2. “e Wince of the Flesh: Du Bois’s Embodied

Humanism,” Vilashini Cooppan, U of California,

Santa Cruz

Respondent: Brent Hayes Edwards, ColumbiaU

638. Fake News, Fake- Outs, and

RacialPolitics

3:30–4:45 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Folklore,

Myth, and Fairy Tale. Presiding: Constance Bailey,

U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

1. “‘at’s Just Folklore’: Folklore Pedagogy in

the Age of Fake News,” Shelley Ingram, U of Loui-

siana, Lafayette

2. “Conspiracy and Black Critique in Imperium in

Imperio and Of One Blood,” John Garrett Bridger

Gilmore, U of California, Irvine

3. “Discursive Fake- Outs: Jay- Z, Illuminati, and

the Wealthy Black Man Archetype,” Constance

Bailey

4. “Watershed Moments: Stephen King’s 11/22/63

as Reaction against Conspiracy eories,” Chris-

topher Field, Tennessee StateU

639. Knowledge, Power, Creativity: Emerson

and Literary Studies

3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

A special session

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1. “Critical Attachment: Emersonian Knowledge

and the Practice of Literary Criticism,” Kristen

Case, U of Maine, Farmington

2. “Creative Forces: e Aesthetics of Power in

Emerson and Nietzsche,” Dustin Breitenwischer,

Albert- Ludwigs- U Freiburg

3. “e Pragmatist Practice of Pedagogy,” Kate

Stanley, U of Western Ontario

Respondent: Herwig Friedl, Heinrich- Heine- U

Düsseldorf

640. Precarious Sovereignty in the

Caribbean and Its Diasporas

3:30–4:45 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Caribbean.

Presiding: SupriyaM. Nair, U of Michigan, Ann

Arbor

1. “Extinction,” Guillermina De Ferrari, U of

Wisconsin, Madison

2. “Precarious Crossings: Intra- Caribbean Immi-

gration in Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro’s Los documen-

tados,” Alexandra Perisic, U of Miami

3. “Narratives of Diaspora and Sovereignty in

Edwidge Danticat’s e Dew Breaker,” Christine

Anlicker, Georgia StateU

4. “Island Erasure: Writing (Out) the Dominican

Republic in Evelyne Trouillot’s e Blue of the Is

land and Louis- Phillipe Dalembert’s e Other Side

of the Sea,” Megan Jeanette Myers, Iowa StateU

641. Desire and Domestic Fiction aer

irt y Years

3:30–4:45 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: JohnM. G. Plotz,

BrandeisU

Speakers: Rachel Ablow, U at Bualo,State U of

New York; Jonathan Arac, U of Pittsburgh; Nancy

Armstrong, Duke U; Ian Duncan, U of California,

Berkeley; Deidre Lynch, Harvard U; Jesse Rosen-

thal, Johns Hopkins U, MD

is session shows that Nancy Armstrong’s rst

book, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political His-

tory of the Novel(1987), continues to inspire work

on the history of the novel, the history of feelings,

and the ways we understand our institutions for

study of the novel.

642. Colloquy with RobertL. Gunn on

Ethnology and Empire

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Dennis Moore, Flor-

ida StateU

Speakers: Anna Brickhouse, U of Virginia; Robert

Gunn, U of Texas, El Paso; LauraL. Mielke, U of

Kansas; Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Binghamton U,

State U of New York; Oliver Scheiding, Johannes

Gutenberg U; Kelly Wisecup, NorthwesternU

Panelists, including Robert Gunn, make short

opening statements on Ethnology and Empire: Lan-

guages, Literatures, and the Making of the North

American Borderlands. is approach frees up

time for lively, substantive discussion that engages

members of the audience as well as the panelists.

643. Compromise or Conict: Literary

Form Now

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Rachel Greenwald

Smith, St. LouisU

Speakers: Aku Ammah- Tagoe, Stanford U; Sarah

Chihaya, Prince ton U; GloriaL. Fisk, Queens C,

City U of New York; Rachel Greenwald Smith

How do contemporary writers adapt the literary

genres and forms they inherit to represent the

pressures that work on political systems at the

turn of the twenty- rst century? How do contem-

porary genres and forms inscribe, subtend, and

critique the political systems we see tested and

imagined in this moment? Our answers to these

questions work across the axes of the aesthetic and

the political by taking up two central concepts:

compromise and conict.

644. Feminist Pedagogy in Digital Spaces

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the

Status of Women in the Profession. Presiding: Ei-

leen Cheng- Yin Chow, DukeU

Speakers: DeneM. Grigar, Washington State U,

Vancouver; Laura Hartmann- Villalta, George-

town U; Andie Silva, York C, City U of New York;

Lee Skallerup Bessette, U of Mary Washington;

Elizabeth Skwiot, Ashford U; Jennifer Travis, St.

John’s U, NY; Dhipinder Walia, Lehman C, City

U of New York; Melinda White, U of New Hamp-

shire, Durham

Digital spaces are a challenge for feminist dis-

course: platforms like Tw it ter amplify trolling

and harassment, unmoderated online forums can

become havens for misogyny, and being visible

as a woman online is associated with sexual ha-

rassment and microaggressions. However, digital

spaces are also sites of learning. is interactive

roundtable examines ways to integrate feminist

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accessibility and inclusion.

645. Word and Image in British

Romanticism

3:30–4:45 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Wordsworth- Coleridge

Association. Presiding: Jonathan Farina, Seton

HallU

1. “Antislavery Satire before Abolitionism: Two

New Images,” Deirdre Patricia Coleman, U of

Melbourne

2. “Blake’s Wollstonecra’s Girls,” Elizabeth Fay,

U of Massachusetts, Boston

3. “Hebrew Micrography in the Works of William

Blake,” Sarah Stein, Arkansas TechU

4. “e Game of Human Life: Late Romantic

Amusement, Social Class, and Illustration,” Ro-

setta Young, U of California, Berkeley

646. Latina/o New York: Contemporary

Authors Writing on or from New York

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Latina and

Latino. Presiding: Ariana Vigil, U of North Caro-

lina, Chapel Hill

1. “e Poetics of Location: Writing Chicana/o

Literature from New York,” Helena María Vira-

montes, CornellU

2. “When la Frontera Is JFK: Writing Place in the

Latina Memoir,” Daisy Hernández, Miami U, Oxford

3. “Literature and the Dominican Diaspora in

New York City,” Angie Cruz, U of Pittsburgh

647. John Milton: Exegesis and Prophecy

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Milton Society of Amer-

ica. Presiding: Elizabeth Sauer, BrockU

1. “Animality, the ‘Political,’ and Biblical Exegesis

in Milton and Hobbes,” Mary Nyquist, U of Toronto

2. “Conscience and Milton’s Liberalism,” Abra-

hamD. Stoll, U of San Diego

3. “e Johannine Spirit- Paraclete in the Works

of John Milton,” PaulA. Cefalu, LafayetteC

4. “e Prophetic Milton and Isaac Newton,” Ste-

phenM. Fallon, U of Notre Dame

648. e Timeliness and Timelessness of

Stefan Zweig

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton

Program arranged by the Modern Austrian Litera-

ture and Culture Association. Presiding: GregorA.

uswaldner, North ParkU

1. “With One Voice: e Politics of Community

in Stefan Zweig’s Jeremias,” CarolineA. Kita,

Washington U in St. Louis

2. “Politics as ‘Zeitmaske’? Understanding the

Divine in the Works of Stefan Zweig,” DavidL.

Smith, East CarolinaU

3. “Stefan Zweig, Hannah Arendt, and the State

of Statelessness,” Alys George, New YorkU

4. “Die Welt von Morgen? e Political Future for

Stefan Zweig,” JereyD. Wallen, HampshireC

For related material, write to Hschreck@ uvm .edu.

649. e Fantastic in Old Norse Literature

3:30–4:45 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Old Norse.

Presiding: Natalie Van Deusen, U of Alberta

1. “Revisiting the Well and the Tree: A Pagan

Exe ge sis,” StephenJ. Harris, U of Massachusetts,

Amherst

2. “Translating Monstrosity into Old Norse

Idiom,” Maj- Britt Frenze, U of Notre Dame

3. “Christianity and the Norse Otherworlds of

Glæsisvellir and Ódáinsakr,” Joseph Leake, U of

Connecticut, Storrs

650. Ignite Talk: Alison Bechdel on the

Page, Onstage, and in eory

3:30–4:45 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

A special session

Speakers: LeahM. Anderst, Queensborough Com-

munity C, City U of New York; Alissa Bourbon-

nais, U of Washington, Seattle; Judith Gardiner,

U of Chicago; DanaA. Heller, Old Dominion U;

Robert Hutton, Carleton U; SusanE. Kirtley, Port-

land State U; Aubrey Mishou, Old DominionU

Ten years aer the conclusion of Dykes to Watch

Out For, twelve years aer the graphic memoir Fun

Home, and ve years aer Lisa Kron and Jeanine

Tesori’s theatrical adaptation of Fun Home, this

ignite talk session oers a spectrum of voices, per-

spectives, and theoretical approaches to the works

of Bechdel, demonstrating not just analysis of a

single author across genres but the impact of such

texts on wider elds of study.

651. Shakespearean Negotiations: e

Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance

En gland, irty Years On

3:30–4:45 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: William Reginald

Rampone, Jr., South Carolina StateU

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1. “e College of Corporations: Stephen Green-

blatt’s Network of Social Energy,” Neema Parvini,

U of Surrey

2. “Circulating Social Contagion: Negotiations

of Disability, Sexuality, and Animality in Re-

naissance Drama,” Jeremy Cornelius, Louisiana

StateU, Baton Rouge

3. “Sympathy for the Devil: Sodomy and the

Limiting Silences of Masculine Desire in William

Shakespeare’s Othello,” Nicholas Fredrick Radel,

FurmanU

Respondent: StephenJ. Greenblatt, HarvardU

652. Cognitive Approaches to Chinese

Literature

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

A special session

1. “Immoral Music: A Cognitive Comparison of

Monteverdi and Hong Sheng,” K. C. Schoenberger,

Jr., Hong Kong PolytechnicU

2. “e Importance of Being Deceived,” Lisa

Zunshine, U of Kentucky

3. “Fiction, Capitalism, Mindreading, and Moral-

ity,” Tina Lu, YaleU

Respondent: Haiyan Lee, StanfordU

653. Dramaturgies of the Ear: Listening to

eory’s Scenes

3:30–4:45 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum MS Opera and

Musical Performance

1. “Hollow Utterance or Expression: Listening to

Austin with Stein,” AdamJ. Frank, U of British

Columbia

2. “e Book as a Medium of Listening,” Sander

van Maas, U of Amsterdam

3. “e Tenor Reads Himself Aloud,” Cynthia

Chase, CornellU

654. Literature of Waste and Environmental

Insecurity in Central and Eastern Europe

3:30–4:45 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Slavic and

East European. Presiding: Julia Vaingurt, U of Il-

linois, Chicago

1. “Uncontainable Waste in (and beyond) Ger-

man Realist Literature,” Jason Groves, U of Wash-

ington, Seattle

2. “Transformation of Matter and Energy Ex-

change: Waste as a Relative Category in Russian

Neorealism,” Colleen McQuillen, U of Illinois,

Chicago

3. “e Garbage Dump as a Locus of Self-

Debasement, Renewal, and Creativity in Jáchym

Topol’s City Sister Silver,” Christopher Harwood,

ColumbiaU

Respondent: HeatherI. Sullivan, TrinityU

655. Auden and Others

3:30–4:45 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Seamus Perry, U of

Oxford, BalliolC

1. “Authorship and Friendship in the Public

Auden and the Private Auden,” Edward Mendel-

son, ColumbiaU

2. “‘e Youngest Person in the Room’: Auden

and the Refusal of Authority,” Stephen Louis Burt,

HarvardU

3. “Auden’s Amateurs: Developing an Oppositional

Queer Poetics in the 1930s,” Jennifer Spitzer, IthacaC

656. Justice and Equity through the

Immigrant Story

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Com-

munity Colleges. Presiding: HeatherE. Ostman,

Westchester Community C, State U of New York

1. “Between the Disciplines: Border Crossings in

the Community College Classroom,” Ryan James

McGuckin, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge

2. “Teaching about the Stories of ‘Migration’ in

the Project- Based Learning Space of a German

Language Classroom,” Carolin Mueller, Ohio

State U, Columbus

3. “Suolk Voices: Using Student Narra-

tives as Texts in a Divided Community,” Kate

O’Donoghue, Suolk County Community C, NY

657. Creative Pedagogies in Critical Settings

3:30–4:45 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum RCWS Creative

Writing. Presiding: Louis Bury, Hostos Commu-

nity C, City U of New York

1. “Creative Writing Techniques in the Composi-

tion Classroom,” Maureen McVeigh Trainor, West

ChesterU

2. “Teaching the Survey: e Commonplace

Book—Engaging Students through Alterior Forms

of Assessment,” Daniel Hengel, Graduate Center,

City U of New York

3. “Argument as the Art of Poetic Imagination,”

Stacey Waite, U of Nebraska, Lincoln

4. “Imitation as the Sincerest Form of Liter-

ary Studies: On the Value of Creative Writing

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Pedagogies in a Postcritical Context,” James Shea,

Hong Kong BaptistU

658. Humanities at a Professional School

3:30–4:45 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Jessica Gross, St.

Louis C of Pharmacy

Speakers: Colleen Eils, United States Military

Acad.; Jeanette Goddard, Trine U; Jessica Gross;

Jennifer Rudolph, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.;

Catherine Ann Siemann, New Jersey Inst. of Tech.;

RonaldL. Strickland, Michigan TechnologicalU

e large role that professional schools play in

employing humanities scholars and in training

future professionals, although usually overlooked

in discussions of the profession, is an important

contribution to the conversation about the place of

the humanities in higher education. What unique

challenges and opportunities face humanities

scholars, students, and the humanities elds at

professional schools?

659. Hemingway and War

3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty 5, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Ernest Hemingway

Foundation and Society. Presiding: RichardW.

Hancu, MisericordiaU

1. “‘Besides It Nothing Else Mattered’: Il-

lustrating War, Death, and Remembrance in

Hemingway’s Preface to A Farewell to Arms,” Ross

Tangedal, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

2. “Hemingway’s ‘Now I Lay Me’: Of War, Rivers,

and Writing,” John Beall, Collegiate School, NY

3. “Rivers, Mountains, and Gardens: Traumatic

Narratives and Mourning in Hemingway, Mans-

eld, and von Arnim,” Noreen O’Connor, King’sC

660. Lectura Boccaccii

3:30–4:45 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Boccaccio As-

sociation. Presiding: Kristina Marie Olson, George

MasonU

“Boccaccio Humanist: Specula principum and

Fortuna in the De casibus virorum illustrium,” Su-

sanna Barsella, FordhamU

661. Archival Research in the Black Diaspora

3:30–4:45 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: SueE. Houchins,

BatesC

Speakers: Danielle Bainbridge, Yale U; Anne Don-

lon, MLA; Baltasar Fra- Molinero, Bates C; Nicho-

las Rinehart, Harvard U; Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, Uof

Michigan, Ann Arbor; Mary Yearwood, Schom-

burg Center for Research in Black Culture

Archives are a lens to study the black diaspora

as a site of insecurity. Dispersal entailed slavery,

colonialism, and persecution aer emancipation

anddecolonization. We discuss the import of

archival research, demystify the logistics of the

work, investigate the insecurity of diasporic sub-

jects and archives, andoer diverse examples of

projects. We hope to derive a set of best practices

for archival research on the black diaspora.

For related material, write to shouchin@ bates .edu.

662. Uneven and Combined Development

and the Future of Literary Studies

3:30–4:45 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton

Program arranged by the Marxist Literary Group

and the forum TC Postcolonial Studies

Speakers: Sandeep Banerjee, McGill U; Ericka

Beckman, U of Pennsylvania; Sharae Deckard,

National U of Ireland; Alexander Fyfe, Penn State

U, University Park; Ruth Jennison, U of Massa-

chusetts, Amherst; Auritro Majumder, U of Hous-

ton; Oded Nir, Franklin and MarshallC

What are the political stakes of reinvigorating un-

even and combined development at this particular

moment in the history of postcolonial studies? What

are the transformations that the concept has under

gone (or ought to undergo) in postcolonial contexts?

What is the relevance of its various histories in di

verse intellectual traditions? And how does its use in

contexts outside the domain of anglophone postco

lonial studies change our understanding of it?

663. Gide’s Friends and Foes

3:30–4:45 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the Association des Amis

d’André Gide. Presiding: MartineH. Benjamin,

Prince tonU

1. “L’évolution des sentiments de Gide envers

Proust,” PascalA. Ifri, Washington U in St. Louis

2. “L’aaire Béraud- Gide: Populism, Paranoia,

and the Novel,” Jason Earle, Sarah LawrenceC

3. “André Gide et Jean Cocteau: Le refus d’ ‘une

ami tié pléonasme,’” Pierre Mathieu, ULumière,

Lyon 2

4. “Oscar Wilde’s Tough Love: Young Gide’s Arch

Frenemy Makes Him Check His Privilege,” Dejan

Kuzmanovic, U of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

For related material, write to marbenj@ gmail .com.

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664. Narratives of Resistance and Resilience

in Southeast Asian Security Regimes

3:30–4:45 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Weihsin Gui, U of

California, Riverside

1. “Resilient Spaces and Sociality in Last Train

From Tanjong Pagar,” Weihsin Gui

2. “Foreign Talent and the Specter of Foreign

Workers in e Inlet,” Michelle O’Brien, U of Brit-

ish Columbia

3. “Socialism’s Underworld: Crime and Gold,”

Ben Vu Tran, VanderbiltU

4. “Covert Videography, Undocumented Migra-

tion, Concealed Burmeseness,” Brian Bernards,

Uof Southern California

For related material, write to weihsin .gui@ ucr .edu

aer 1Dec.

Saturday, 6 January

5:15 p.m.

665. Romanticizing Meta-?

5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

Program arranged by the North American Society

for the Study of Romanticism. Presiding: Ross Wil-

son, U of Cambridge

1. “Meta- physics,” Marjorie Levinson, U of Mich-

igan, Ann Arbor

2. “Meta- critique,” Alexander Regier, RiceU

3. “European Romantic Transformations of Re-

ection: A Very Short History,” Paul Hamilton,

Uof London, Queen Mary

666. Connected Academics: A Showcase of

Career Diversity

5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Connected Aca-

demics Project

Speakers: Ajay Singh Chaudary, Brooklyn Inst. for

Social Research; Jaime Cleland, MLA; Cynthia

Estremera, Strategy Arts, Philadelphia; Manoah

Finston, Columbia U; Jacob Heil, C of Wooster; Wil-

liam Hinrichs, Bard High School Early C, NY; Emily

Lederman, Grand St. Settlement; Josephine Living-

stone, New Republic; JohnT. McQuillen, Morgan Li-

brary and Museum; SaraJ. Ogger, Humanities New

York; Jason Rhody, Social Science Research Council;

Victoria Ford Smith, U of Connecticut, Storrs

is session showcases careers of PhD recipients

who have put their advanced degrees in the hu-

manities to work in a variety of rewarding occu-

pations and oers participants an opportunity to

discover the wide range of employment possibili-

ties available within and beyond the academy.Pre-

senters are available at individual stations for

one- on- one discussions about their jobs and the

career paths that led to them.

For related material, visit connect .mla .hcommons

.org/2018- mla- convention- activities/ aer 2Oct.

667. Addressing Diversity in Academic Hiring

5:15–6:30 p.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Bryan Betancur,

Bronx Community C, City U of New York

Speakers: Jaime Cruz- Ortiz, Kennesaw State U;

Harriet Elizabeth Hustis, C of New Jersey; Vic-

toria Livingstone, Moravian C; Carlos Vargas-

Salgado, WhitmanC

is session aims to create a space for dialogue

regarding diversity in faculty hiring. Panelists dis-

cuss their experiences on hiring committees and

as candidates on the job market and consider the

ecacy and limits of current recruiting strategies.

668. Testimonial Turns and Carceral States:

e Aermaths and Aerlives of Japanese

American Internment in Asian American

Creative Nonction

5:15–6:30 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian

American. Presiding: CathyJ. Schlund- Vials, U of

Connecticut, Willimantic

1. “Graphic Memoir as Visual Testimony: Docu-

menting the Injustice of Japanese Internment in

Miné Okubo’s Citizen 13660,” Roberta Wolfson,

California State Polytechnic U, San Luis Obispo

2. “Community Means Contained: Internees,

Refugees, and Ambivalent Activism,” Timothy Yu,

U of Wisconsin, Madison

3. “e Queer Internment Testimonial of Karen

Kehoe,” Chris Vials, U of Connecticut, Storrs

4. “Don’t Tell on Mama: Chinese American

Memoir in the Confession Era,” Heidi Kim, U of

North Carolina, Chapel Hill

669. “Mewn Dau Gae” (“Between Two

Fields”): No State of Security in Medieval

North Atlantic Studies

5:15–6:30 p.m., Harlem, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Old En glish

and CLCS Celtic. Presiding: Lindy Brady, U of

Mississippi

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1. “On the Power and Authority of the Outsider

Poet, en and Now,” Daniel Redding- Brielmaier,

U of Toronto

2. “Singing in Chains: Prison, Porter, and Inspi-

ration in Medieval Welsh Antiquarian Narrative,”

Samuel Lasman, U of Chicago

3. “Hereward ‘e Wake’: Exile and Outlaw

Hero,” Terri Sanderson, U of Toronto

Respondent: Melissa Ridley Elmes, LindenwoodU

For related material, visit www .academia

.edu/32168392/MLA_ Old_En glish_ Session_

Descriptions_2018.

670. Book Development Workshop: From

Pitching an Idea to Finding a Publisher

5:15–6:30 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

A special session

Speakers: Benjamin Doyle, Palgrave Macmillan;

Angela Gibson, MLA; Amyrose McCue Gill, Text-

Formations; Anne Savarese, Prince ton U Press;

Eric Zinner, New York U Press

is workshop oers practical guidance on

successfully developing an academic book for

publication in the humanities, from proposal

to contract. Panelists oer tips for writing your

book proposal, thinking about readership, and

responding to readers’ reports and developmental

editing, among other topics. Aer brief presenta-

tions, panelists will answer questions and facilitate

discussions.

671. Reimagining Social Justice Concerns:

Bringing Fantasy Fiction into the Classroom

5:15–6:30 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Stephanie Dreier, U of

British Columbia

1. “Confronting Tolkien and Rowling: A Criti-

cal Approach to Fantasy in the Classroom,” Mark

Fabrizi, Eastern Connecticut StateU

2. “Resistance from Britain to Germany: Explor-

ing Heroism through Fantasy,” Stephanie Dreier

3. “Problematizing Popular Representations of

Education and Educators in Fantasy through Lev

Grossman’s e Magicians,” Megan Suttie, Mc-

MasterU

672. Samuel Beckett and the Discourse of

Psychoanalysis

5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Samuel Beckett Society

1. “Insuerable Beckett,” Daniela Caselli, U of

Manchester

2. “Is ere a Mental Parallax? Beckett and Psy-

chic Distance,” Arka Chattopadhyay, U of Western

Sydney

3. “From ‘Waiting for’ to ‘Waiting with’: Beckett,

Psychoanalysis, and the Ethics of Intersubjective

Time,” Laura Salisbury, U of Exeter

For related material, write to daniela .caselli@

manchester.ac.uk.

673. “Disputation”: Literature and Politics;

Heine and Beyond

5:15–6:30 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the North American Heine

Society. Presiding: JonathanS. Skolnik, U of Mas-

sachusetts, Amherst

1. “Hebraism’s Ironic Antidotes to Autocratic

Rule: From Hau to Heine,” U. C. Knoepmacher,

Prince tonU

2. “No Grateful Dead: Heine’s Ludwig Börne and

Literature or Politics,” Sebastian Wogenstein, U of

Connecticut, Storrs

3. “Race and Empire: Heine’s ‘Das Sklavenschi’

and Turner’s e Slave Ship,” AliciaE. Ellis,

ColbyC

4. “Sender the Wiser: Disputing the Universality

of German in Karl Emil Franzos’sDer Pojaz,” Ash

leyA. Passmore, Texas A&M U, College Station

674. Aesthetics of Romanian Cinema,

Literature, and Translation: Current Issues

5:15–6:30 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the Romanian Studies Asso-

ciation of America. Presiding: Maria- Sabina Draga

Alexandru, U of Bucharest

1. “Romanian Literature as World Literature:

Geopolitics, World Systems, and Spatiality in

the Contemporary Romanian Imaginary and

Literary- Cultural Scholarship,” Christian Moraru,

U of North Carolina, Greensboro; Andrei Terian,

Lucian Blaga U of Sibiu

2. “Afro- Romanian Cosmopolitanism: Wanlov

the Kubolor’s ‘Afro- Gypsy’ Aesthetics,” Monica

Popescu, McGillU

3. “Mateiu Caragiale and the Painterly Vision,”

Adriana Varga, U of Nevada, Reno

4. “In the Realm of Media: e Aesthetics of Trans-

mission in the Romanian New Wave,” Sorin Cucu,

LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York

Respondent: Noemi Marin, Florida AtlanticU

675. Tendencies aer Tendencies

5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

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Program arranged by the forums TC Sexuality

Studies and TM Literary and Cultural eory.

Presiding: Benjamin Kahan, Louisiana State U,

Baton Rouge

Speakers: Wayne Koestenbaum, Graduate Center,

City U of New York; MichaelD. Moon, Emory U;

AndrewC. Parker, Rutgers U, New Brunswick;

Dana Seitler, U of Toronto; Omise’eke Tinsley,

Uof Texas, Austin; Robyn Wiegman, DukeU

Twenty- ve years aer Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

publishedTendencies, her meditation on sexuali-

ties in lives and literatures and on the articial

categories imposed on people because of their

sexual orientation, queer theorists come together

to reect on her book’sperpetually profound, far-

reaching resonances.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ sexuality- studies/ aer 15Dec.

676. Cannibal Modernity: Cannibalism,

Colonialism, and Capitalism in East Asia

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC East Asian.

Presiding: Yun- Chu Tsai, e Citadel

1. “Cannibalism and Creative Journalism in

1930s Korea,” Merose Hwang, HiramC

2. “e Grotesque Stomach: Cannibalism, Ideol-

ogy, and Experiment in Ishikawa Jun’s Narukami,”

Helen Weetman, BatesC

3. “A Postsocialist Desire for Cannibalism: Self,

Other, and Neoliberalism in e Republic of

Wine,” Yun- Chu Tsai

4. “Mimetic Violence in the Contemporary Chi-

nese Avant- Garde: Infant Cannibalism and Self-

Mutilation as Quotidian Remonstrations,” Megan

McShane, Florida Gulf CoastU

677. Screening the Past

5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding:

JorgeP. Pérez, U of Texas, Austin

1. “Visual Perfectionism and Fetishization: e

Spectacular Erasure of Social Critique in Palm-

eras en la nieve,” Leigh Mercer, U of Washington,

Seattle

2. “Prizing the Past: Intermedial Approaches in

Recent Spanish Cinema,” Sarah omas, BrownU

3. “Mediating History in First- Person Documen-

tary Films by the Grandchildren of the Civil War,”

Maribel Rams, U of Massachussets, Amherst

678. A Conversation on the Intersection of the

Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter Movements

5:15–6:30 p.m., West Ballroom, Hilton

Presiding: Diana Taylor, New York U

Participants: Harry Belafonte; Patrisse Cullors,

#BlackLivesMatter

Belafonte and Cullors explore changing strategies

in the struggle for social justice.

679. Legal Ecologies

5:15–6:30 p.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forums TC Law and

the Humanities and TC Ecocriticism and Envi-

ronmental Humanities. Presiding: Ron Broglio,

Arizona StateU

Speakers: Sophie Christman- Lavin, Stony Brook

U, State U of New York; Kevin Curran, U of Lau-

sanne; Christina Gerhardt, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa;

Rob Nixon, Prince ton U; Cary Wolfe, RiceU

e Anglo- American legal tradition is funda-

mentally anthropocentric and individualist. is

session pushes back against this tradition by con-

sidering how the theoretical tools developed by

ecocriticism might help us redescribe legal experi-

ence in terms that don’t depend on the grammar

of I and me. Participants also consider the impli-

cations of this conceptual reorientation for the

practice of environmental justice.

For related material, visit shakespeareanexteriority

.wordpress .com aer 1Dec.

680. Sempre en Nova Iorque: Galician

Cultures in and from New York City

5:15–6:30 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Galician.

Presiding: Danny Barreto, ColgateU

1. “ Francisco Leiro and Antonio Murado: Gali-

cian Visual Artists in New York,” Ekaterina

Volkova, U of Auckland

2. “ Shattered Traditions and Atlantic Journeys:

New York and the Fragmentation of Galician Na-

tional Narrative,” Alejandro Alonso, Brooklyn C,

City U of New York

3. “ ‘A outra cara da terra prometida’: Competing

Identities in Francisco Álvarez Koki’s Ratas en

Manhattan (2007),” Catherine Barbour, U of St.

Andrews

4. “Grazing on Signs: e Urban Ecology of Clau-

dio Rodríguez Fer’s New York,” Diana Conchado,

Hunter C, City U of New York

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681. Managing the Online Classroom:

Challenges and Strategies

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on

Contingent Labor in the Profession. Presiding:

William Christopher Brown, Midland C

1. “Depth versus Breadth: Coverage in the Online

Classroom,” Carrie Sickmann Han, Indiana U–

Purdue U, Indianapolis

2. “More an Just Convenience: Harnessing

the Learning Opportunities of the Online Class-

room,” Melissa Dennihy, Queensborough Com-

munity C, City U of New York

3. “Reinventing the Online Course: Social Media

Approaches to Learning,” Lisa Longo Johnston,

CentenaryU

4. “Teaching World Literature Online: Helping

Students Engage with Multicultural Literature,”

Pamela Kirkpatrick, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

682. Feminicide in Central America: Art,

Activism, and Resistance to Gender- Based

Violence

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Hemi-

spheric American

Speakers: Kency Cornejo, U of New Mexico, Al-

buquerque; Muriel Hasbun, Centro Cultural de

España; Carlos Rivas, U of California, Los Angeles

Since 2000, feminicide in Guatemala, Honduras,

and El Salvador has been increasing, according

to a 2011 study by the University of California,

Hastings College of the Law, and this region has

the highest feminicide rate in the world. Panelists

discuss the work of Central American artists and

activists that interrogate this terrible phenomenon

and reveal the heteronormative patriarchal social

structures underneath these terrible acts.

683. Realism and Production in the Long

Nineteenth Century

5:15–6:30 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian

and Early- 20th- Century En glish. Presiding: Daniel

Akiva Novak, U of Mississippi

1. “‘e Most Dangerous Performance We Ever

Beheld’: Realism, Imitation, and the Staging of the

Criminal in the Newgate Drama,” HeidiJ. Holder,

Mt. HolyokeC

2. “Exposing Realist Fantasies: Revisiting the New

Woman in Edith Wharton’s e House of Mirth

through Silent Film,” Erin Cotter, U of Texas, Austin

3. “Realism and Self- Promotion: Dickens’s Sketches of

Young Gentlemen and Charles William Day’s Hints on

Etiquette,” Rosetta Young, U of California, Berkeley

684. Cultures Claiming Writers

5:15–6:30 p.m., Regent, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Literatures of

the United States in Languages Other an En glish

1. “In- Between Cultures: e Dicult Case of

Mario Bencastro,” Raquel Patricia Chiquillo, U of

Houston, Downtown

2. “Tracing the Traceless: Trauma, Translation,

and the Archive,” Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, U of

Pennsylvania

3. “Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butteries:

e Turn of Latin@/x Texts from Marginalized

United States Literatures to Latin American Cul-

tural Authorities,” StephanieA. Fetta, SyracuseU

4. “Class Claiming Culture: e Shaping of Na-

tional Identity for Writers Publishing in Spanish

in the United States,” Sylvia Veronica Morin, U of

Tennessee, Martin

685. Celebrating One Hundred Years of

Hispania

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Association

of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Presiding:

ShannonM. Polchow, U of South Carolina Upstate

1. “Once Again ‘On the reshold’: Interdiscipli-

narity in Hispania in the Twenty- First Century,”

Jennifer Brady, U of Minnesota, Duluth

2. “Hispania and Its Reviews: Keeping Abreast

of the Latest Scholarship,” Domnita Dumitrescu,

California State U, Los Angeles

3. “Hispania at Two Hundred: On the Future of

Spanish and Portuguese Studies,” Luis Alvarez-

Castro, U of Florida, Gainesville

Respondent: Frank Nuessel, U of Louisville

686. Empire State of Blackness: e

Transitional Roles of New York in Amiri

Baraka’s Work

5:15–6:30 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Jean- Philippe Mar-

coux, U of Laval

Speakers: WilliamJ. Harris, U of Kansas; Jean-

Philippe Marcoux; Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Penn StateU,

University Park; Kathy Lou Schultz, U of Memphis

Panelists discuss the multifunctional role of New

York City in shaping the artistic and political

voice of African American poet Amiri Baraka. As

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an emerging voice in the Lower East Side scene,

Baraka, then embracing Beat and Le aesthetics

and politics, began his poetic transition to more

nationalistic ideals, culminating in the formation

of the Black Arts Movement in Harlem by 1965.

For related material, visit amiribarakasociety .com.

687. Stéréotypes en tousgenres: Insécurités

sociétales et précarités identitaires

5:15–6:30 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by Women in French. Presid-

ing: Nadia Louar, U of Wisconsin, Madison

1. “Racial and Sexual Stereotypes in Contempo-

rary Women’s Writing in France,” Nadia Louar

2. “A Twisted Use of Autobiography: Nina

Bouraoui’s La voyeuse interdite (‘Forbidden Vi-

sion’),” AnnickA. Durand, ZayedU

3. “Stéréotypes, malaise social et précarités iden-

titaires dans Apocalypse bébé, de Virginie Despen-

tes,” Michele Schaal, Iowa StateU

4. “e Memory of Stereotypes in Malika Moked-

dem’s Writing,” Beatrice Ivey, U of Leeds

688. Atlantic Synesthesia

5:15–6:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Early Ameri-

can. Presiding: Valeria Tsygankova, ColumbiaU

1. “A Noxious Nation: e Biopolitics of Smell in

Eighteenth- Century Immigration Tracts,” Kellen

Bolt, NorthwesternU

2. “Anglo- Catholicism and Indigenous Bodies in

Colonial Maryland En glish Jesuit Writings from

the 1630s–40s,” Andrew Ferris, Prince tonU

3. “Atlantic Aesthesis,” Elizabeth Maddock Dil-

lon, NortheasternU

4. “Gabriel’s Rebellion and the Senses of Satisfac-

tion,” Lauren Klein, Georgia Inst. of Tech.

689. George Sand and the Dumas, Father

and Son

5:15–6:30 p.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the George Sand Associa-

tion. Presiding: Catherine Masson, WellesleyC

1. “Une liation élective: Vingt- cinq ans de cor-

respondance épistolaire entre George Sand et Du-

mas ls,” Noelle Rouxel- Cubberly, BenningtonC

2. “Des mémoires à quatre mains? George Sand et

Alexandre Dumas père entre fraternité et concur-

rence,” Nikol Dziub, Ude Haute- Alsace

3. “O- Stage eater Games: George Sand and

the Dumas, Père and Fils,” Shira Malkin, RhodesC

For related material, visit gsa .hofstradrc .org.

690. Languages of the Restoration and

Enlightenment

5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Restoration

and Early- 18th- Century En glish. Presiding: Rox-

ann Wheeler, Ohio State U, Columbus

1. “Using the Language of the Philosophical

Transactions to Reexamine Poetry as Printed Texts

at Circulated among the Same Readers,” James

Ascher, U of Virginia

2. “Nature, Language, and Religious Reform in

John Wilkins’s Essay towards a Real Character and

a Philosophical Language,” Margaret McGowan,

YaleU

3. “ee and ou and the Quaker Elimination

of Social Hierarchy in Speech,” AnaM. Acosta,

Brooklyn C, City U of New York

4. “Nonstandard En glish and the Hyperreal in

Eighteenth- Century Print,” JanetL. Sorensen,

Uof California, Berkeley

691. Transnational and Transmodal Retelling

of Young People’s Literacy Narratives

5:15–6:30 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum RCWS Literacy

Studies. Presiding: Alanna Frost, U of Alabama,

Huntsville

1. “Transcending Commodication and Disrupt-

ing the Literacy Myth: Reading I Am Malala as a

Literacy Narrative,” Kara Poe Alexander, BaylorU

2. “Digital Dispositions: Leveraging Youth Lit-

eracy Practices in Academic Contexts,” Merideth

Garcia, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “Moving Bodies, Moving Borders: Mobility

and Containment in School and Society,” Brice

Nordquist, SyracuseU

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ literacy- studies/ aer 2Jan.

692. Reclamation Ecopoetics of the African

Diaspora

5:15–6:30 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Association for the

Study of Literature and the Environment. Presid-

ing: KatherineR. Lynes, UnionC

1. “‘Too Wild an Elation’: e Dangers and Neces-

sities of Wilderness Pleasure,” KatherineR. Lynes

2. “Reclamation, Reparation, Reconstruction,”

Sonya Posmentier, New YorkU

3. “Hubble Gazes into Duende: TracyK. Smith’s

Ecopoetics of Survival,” Lacie Rae Cunningham,

CornellU

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4. “Speculative History, Speculative Futurity: Eco-

feminist Afro- Futurisms and Reclamation Ecopo-

etics,” Rebecca Evans, Winston- Salem StateU

For related material, write to cechterling@ ku .edu

aer 1Dec.

693. Futurity and Dierence

5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: LeslieA. Adelson,

CornellU

1. “Grassesgrassesgrasses: Grounded Indigenous

Futures in Whereas,” Christopher Pexa, U of Min-

nesota, Twin Cities

2. “e Second Time: On Rhythm and Tempo-

rality in the Practices of Cecil Taylor and Jacques

Derrida,” Nahum Chandler, U of California, Irvine

3. “Standing...a Chance,” Claudia Brodsky,

Prince tonU

694. Open Pedagogy:Practices in Digital

Citizenship and the Ethics of Care

5:15–6:30 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on

Information Technology. Presiding: Angel David

Nieves, HamiltonC

Speakers: Brian Croxall, Brown U; Georey

Gimse, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Viola Lasmana,

U of Southern California; Zach Whalen, U of

Mary Washington

Open pedagogycan be extremely valuable but can

also be risky, especially when student work may cri

tique dominant cultures of access, privilege, able

ism, or oppression. How do we balance the benets

and the risks of public engagement? What are our

ethical obligations to our students? is session

generates practical advice and examples for best

practices, beyond the option of pseudonymity, for

connecting students to authentic, public audiences.

For related material, visit infotech .mla .hcommons

.org/ aer 1Dec.

695. Bossy Dames: Poetics and Pragmatics

of Feminist Leadership

5:15–6:30 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on

the Status of Women in the Profession. Presiding:

Heidi Bostic, U of New Hampshire, Durham; Ei-

leen Cheng- Yin Chow, DukeU

Speakers: Leta Hong Fincher, New York, NY; Pa-

triciaM. Hswe, Mellon Foundation; Sharmila Sen,

Harvard U Press; Mary Wildner- Bassett, U of Ari-

zona; Cheryl Wilson, StevensonU

Addressing theoretical aspects of women’s leader-

ship, participants from a variety of perspectives

consider the discourse of living in a postfeminist

era, the persistence of gender bias, the idea of

“leaning in” as well as its limits, and misogyny

in political discourse. What does it mean to be a

feminist leader now?

696. Surveillance Aesthetics: Drones,

Capital, Data

5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Aaron DeRosa, Cali-

fornia State Polytechnic U, Pomona

1. “Securing ‘e Lady of the House’: e Domes-

tication of Drone Form,” J. D. Schnepf, Prince tonU

2. “Drone Warfare, Leak Aesthetics,” Aaron DeRosa

3. “Data Exhaust: Tao Lin’s Quotation Marks and

Surveillance Capitalism,” Jerey Clapp, Education

U of Hong Kong

4. “‘I’ll Take a Mountain of Evidence Over a Con-

fession Any Day’: Racial Formation and the Limits

of Narrative Certainty in the Age of Mass Surveil-

lance,” Maria Bose, ClemsonU

697. Bad Translation

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Russian and

Eurasian and TC Translation Studies. Presiding:

Benjamin Palo, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. “Perfectly Terrible Translation in Christine

Brooke- Rose’s Between,” Karen Emmerich, Prince-

tonU

2. “Hamlet in Lower Jerkwater: An Experiment in

Translating Context,” Ellen Elias- Bursac, Ameri-

can Literary Translators Assn.

3. “e Russian Crime and Punishment in the

Argentine Seven Madmen; or, How Bad Transla-

tions Made Good Literature,” Adel Fauzetdinova,

BostonU

Respondent: Bret Maney, Lehman C, City U of

New York

For related material, write to palo@ umich .edu.

698. Approaches to Teaching the Works of

Orhan Pamuk

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Sevinç Türkkan, U of

Rochester

Speakers: David Damrosch, Harvard U; GloriaL.

Fisk, Queens C, City U of New York; David Gram-

ling, U of Arizona; Bala Venkat Mani, U of Wis-

consin, Madison; Delia Ungureanu, HarvardU

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How do we teach Pamuk today—twelve years aer

the Nobel prize—across languages and disciplin-

ary and scholarly formations and against the most

recent sociopolitical transformations globally?

For related material, write to sturkkan@ ur

. rochester .edu aer 15Dec.

699. Activist #States: e United States

South in Insecure Times

5:15–6:30 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Southern

United States

Speakers: James Crank, U of Alabama, Tuscaloosa;

RobertA. Jackson, U of Tulsa; Jennie Lightweis-

Go, U of Mississippi; Bethany Mannon, Old Do-

minion U; Jon Smith, Simon FraserU

Panelists address activism’s role in the study of

Southern literature and in the Southern liter-

ary studies classroom, literature’s role in activist

movements, pedagogical projects with an activist

focus, attacks on socially engaged teaching and re-

search, and how Southern strategies and activists’

responses circulate outside the region. Attendees

are encouraged to share their own strategies for

engaging activist praxis.

700. Literary Universals

5:15–6:30 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Cognitive and

Aect Studies. Presiding: Lalita Pandit Hogan,

Uof Wisconsin, La Crosse

1. “Primal Androgyny: Typological and Statistical

Universals,” Arnab Roy, U of Connecticut, Storrs

2. “Literary Prehistory: Oral Storytelling as Natural

Pedagogy,” Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, Uof Oregon

3. “Universality and Cultural Variability of Facial

Expression in Film: ree Views,” Murray Smith,

U of Kent

4. “Literary Universals: Childhood,” Anne Stiles,

St. LouisU

For related material, visit literary- universals

.uconn .edu/2017/03/22/literary- universals- panel

- mla- convention- 2018/.

701. Four Hundred Years of King Lear:

Adaptation and Translation

5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on the

New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare. Presiding:

Eric Rasmussen, U of Nevada, Reno

1. “e Brilliance of Tate’s Lear,” RichardA.

Strier, U of Chicago

2. “Variations on the Arab Lear: History of Re-

ception, Translation, and Production,” Madiha

Hannachi, Ude Montréal

3. “Recent Philosophical Receptions of King Lear:

Slavoj Žižek and Stanley Cavell,” Bruce Krajewski,

U of Texas, Arlington

702. Approaching 1492 from the Middle Ages

5:15–6:30 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Middle En-

glish. Presiding: Julie Orlemanski, U of Chicago

Speakers: Paula Karger, U of Toronto; Shayne

Aaron Legassie, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill;

Sierra Lomuto, U of Pennsylvania; SusanM. Nak-

ley, St. Joseph’s C; Karl Steel, Brooklyn C, City U

of New York

What do medievalists contribute to the study of

contact and the early age of discovery? How do

medieval histories of race, colonization, time, and

religious dierence inect origin stories for glo-

balized modernity?

703. Disability, Institutionalization, and

State Violence

5:15–6:30 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on

Disability Issues in the Profession. Presiding:

AmyL. Allen Sekhar, Indiana U East; Jessica Wag-

goner, U of Houston

1. “A ‘War of Minds’ Waged against Bodies: e

Political Activist as Prisoner and Patient,” Anna

Hinton, Southern MethodistU

2. “State Dependence as State Violence: Disabil-

ity, Blackness, and HIV/ AIDS in ‘Bloodchild,’”

Matt Franks, U of West Georgia

3. “Educations in Sterilization in the Perkins

School for the Blind,” Mary Zaborskis, Vander-

biltU

For related material, visit

committeeondisabilityissuesintheprofession .mla

.hcommons .org aer 15Dec.

704. Subversive Punctuation: Coding

Silenced Voices

5:15–6:30 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Allen Jones, U of

Stavanger

1. “Visualizing ought, Summoning Emotion:

Uses of Braces in Andrews, Featly, Herbert, and

Traherne,” TanyaK. Zhelezcheva, Queensborough

Community C, City U of New York

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2. “Performing Textual Resistance: Parentheses

as Narrative in Joyce’s ‘Circe,’” Allen Jones

3. “Barbara- isms: Parentheses in the Work of

Barbara Johnson,” Chase Gregory, DukeU

For related material, visit www .punctuation .org.

705. Palestine, Ethics, and World Literature

5:15–6:30 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Arabic. Pre-

siding: Tahia Abdel Nasser, American U in Cairo

1. “Human Rights or Revolution: Literature and Pal-

estine Solidarity,” Anna Bernard, King’s C London

2. “Palestinians Podcast: Ethical Representation

in an Age of New Media,” Dena Fehrenbacher,

HarvardU

3. “Caring at a Cost: e Dicult Ethics of the

Boycott for Palestinian Rights,” David Palumbo-

Liu, StanfordU

4. “Poetics of Reception and Ethical Readership

in Leila Abdelrazaq’s Baddawi,” Tera Reid- Olds,

Uof Oregon

Saturday, 6 January

7:00 p.m.

706. MLA Awards Ceremony

7:00 p.m., West Ballroom, Hilton

Presiding: Diana Taylor, New YorkU, MLA President

1. Anne Ruggles Gere, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MLA First Vice President, will present the

William Riley Parker Prize; James Russell Lowell Prize; MLA Prize for a First Book; Kenneth W.

Mildenberger Prize; Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters; Katherine

Singer Kovacs Prize; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies; Aldo and

Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize

for a Translation of a Literary Work; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Slavic Lan-

guages and Literatures; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of

Literature; MLA Prize for a Scholarly Edition; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a

Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies; Lois Roth Award; Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Ital-

ian Studies; William Sanders Scarborough Prize; MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino

and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies; and Matei Calinescu Prize.

2. PaulaM. Krebs, MLA, will present the MLA International Bibliography Fellowship Awards.

3. PaulaM. Krebs will announce the recipients of the seal of approval from the Committee on

Scholarly Editions.

4. PaulaM. Krebs will present the American Literature Society’s Hubbell Medal for Lifetime

Achievement in American Literary Studies.

5. William Nichols, Georgia State U, ADFL President, will present the ADFL Award for

Distinguished Service to the Profession to MiriamA. Kazanjian, Coalition for International

Education.

6. Remarks by MiriamA. Kazanjian

7. Emily Todd, Westeld StateU, ADE President, will present the ADE Francis Andrew March

Award to Paul Lauter, Trinity C, CT.

8. Remarks by Paul Lauter

9. Diana Taylor will present the MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement to Gayatri

Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia U.

10. Remarks by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Reception immediately following.

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7:15 p.m.

707. Reception Arranged by the University

of Michigan En glish Department

7:15–8:30 p.m., New York Ballroom West, Sheraton

708. Informal Gathering Arranged by

the Forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab

American

7:15–8:30 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

709. Connected Academics Cash Bar and

Networking Event

7:15–8:30 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language

Studies and Linguistics Forums

7:15–8:30 p.m., Regent, Hilton

711. Cash Bar Arranged by the Forum LLC

African American

7:15–8:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom East, Sheraton

712. Cash Bar Arranged by the Department of

En glish, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

7:15–8:30 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

713. Cash Bar Arranged by the German

Graduate Program, University of

California,Irvine

7:15–8:30 p.m., Murray Hill West, Hilton

714. Reception Arranged by the School of

Criticism and eory

7:15–8:30 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

715. Cash Bar Arranged by the Forum LLC

Catalan Studies

7:15–8:30 p.m., Sutton North, Hilton

716. Cash Bar Arranged by the Forums

LLC Latina and Latino, LLC Chicana and

Chicano, LLC Puerto Rican, and LLC Cuban

and Cuban Diasporic

7:15–8:30 p.m., Gramercy West, Hilton

717. e Flesh of History: States of

Insecurity across Borders

7:15–8:30 p.m., Sutton South, Hilton

Presiding: GladysM. Francis, Georgia StateU

Participant: Fabienne Kanor, Louisiana State U,

Baton Rouge

is interactive exploration of issues of (im)mi-

gration, displacement, and refugee crisis is a per-

formance by journalist, lmmaker, and author

Fabienne Kanor; the session is moderated by cultural

studies scholar GladysM. Francis.It takes place in

a dark room that simulates the anguish of passage

across waters and borders. In this huis- clos,the audi

ence questions the forced migration experiencescon-

jured up byliterary excerpts,lm, music, and dance.

Sunday, 7 January

8:30 a.m.

719. Shakespeare on Contemporary

ArabStages

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gibson, Hilton

A special session

1. “Romeo and Juliet in Israel- Palestine: e

Political Stakes of Intercultural and Postcolonial

eater,” Kyle Gamble, U of Toronto

2. “Reading History in Sulayman Al- Bassam’s

Richard III: An Arab Tragedy,” Taarini Mookher-

jee, ColumbiaU

3. “Adaptation as Conversion: Politics of Con-

version in Sulayman Al- Bassam’s e Al- Hamlet

Summit,” Madiha Hannachi, Ude Montréal

For related material, write to madiha .hannachi@

umontreal.ca aer 17Nov.

720. Mapping Literary and Political

Landscapes in Postdevolutionary Scottish

Writing: Restating Insecurities

8:30–9:45 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Glenda Norquay, Liv-

erpool John MooresU

1. “From Nonplaces to Other Places: Deviant

Scenery in Contemporary Scottish Fiction,” Mon-

ica Germana, U of Westminster

2. “e Quest for Truth in Fiction: Colin Mac In-

tyre’s e Letters of Ivor Punch and James Robertson’s

e Professor of Truth,” Eleanor Bell, U of Strathclyde

3. “‘e Scotland in Which ere Is No Repeti-

tion’: e Limits of the Imagination in Literary-

Political Discourse on Independence, 2007–17,”

Corey Gibson, U of Groningen

Respondent: Marie- Odile Pittin- Hedon, Aix Mar-

seilleU

721. Historicizing Discourses about Gender

and Sexuality in the Ming and Qing Periods

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton

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A special session

Speakers: Jie Guo, U of South Carolina, Colum-

bia; Yanbing Tan, Washington U in St. Louis;

Paola Zamperini, Northwestern U; Ying Zhang,

Ohio State U, Columbus; Yu Zhang, Loyola U,

Baltimore

Bringing together new perspectives on historiciz-

ing gender and sexuality discourses from four-

teenth- to early- twentieth- centuryChina, speakers

discuss the construction of female gender roles in

Ming writings by and about imprisoned ocials,

gender dynamics between late Ming artists and

women forgers, sexualization of the Shan ethnic

body in Qing exploration narratives, and gender

consciousness of a late Qing female evangelist.

For related material, write to li.guo@ usu .edu aer

8Dec.

722. Democracy Now

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum CLCS Classical

and Modern. Presiding: Sarah Winter, U of Con-

necticut, Storrs

1. “Democracy in the Paranoid Style,” Mark

Sanders, New YorkU

2. “Cassandra and Chelsea Manning: Gender,

Truth Telling, and Democracy,” Lida Maxwell,

Trinity C, CT

3. “e Imperial Origins of Democracy,” Ariella

Azoulay, BrownU

723. Collaborative Authorship at

LargeScale

8:30–9:45 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Andrew Piper, Mc-

GillU

Speakers: Mark Algee- Hewitt, Stanford U; Mi-

chelle Nancy Levy, Simon Fraser U; LauraB.

McGrath, Michigan State U; Tom Mole, U of Ed-

inburgh; DahliaJ. Porter, U of Glasgow; Jonathan

Sachs, ConcordiaU

is session explores the practical, intellectual,

and technological implications of large- scale col-

laborative authorship in literary studies.

724. Palestine, Blackness, and the Ongoing

Question of Freedom

8:30–9:45 a.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th-

Century American. Presiding: BeverlyR. Voloshin,

San Francisco StateU

1. “Erased/ Redrawn: Mapping the Dispossessed

in the Nineteenth and Twenty- First Centuries,”

Molly Katherine Robey, Illinois WesleyanU

2. “Muddying the Waters: African American

Narratives of Freedom and Palestinian Narratives

of Resistance,” Rebekah Zwanzig, Penn State U,

University Park

3. “Imagining the Liberal Subject: Regimes of

Movement from Contemporary Palestine to An-

tebellum North Carolina,” Sean Gerrity, Graduate

Center, City U of New York

4. “Israel, Palestine, and the Neo- Abolitionist

Archive,” MarthaE. Schoolman, Florida Interna-

tionalU

725. Mobilizing Memory

8:30–9:45 a.m., New York, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Charles Forsdick, U of

Liverpool

1. “Countermemorials to the Middle Passage,”

Erica Johnson, Pace U, NY

2. “e Duty of Memory: Memorializing the

Rwandan Genocide in Writing and Art,” Eloise

Brezault, St. LawrenceU

3. “Epi- Memory, Art, and Action,” Marianne

Hirsch, ColumbiaU

726. Nonhuman Forms III

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

A working group

Participants: Ron Ben- Tovim, Tel Aviv U; Brent

Dawson, U of Oregon; Rinni Haji Amran, UBru-

nei Darussalam; Pia Heidemeier, U of Cologne;

Eunice Lim, Nanyang Technological U; Carlos

Nugent, Yale U; Indu Ohri, U of Virginia; Saman-

tha Pergadia, Washington U in St. Louis; Emily

Simon, Brown U; Gregory Frank Tague, St. Fran-

cisC

Humanistic inquiry of late is obsessed with the

nonhuman. Uncoupling the humanities from the

human, the range of approaches operating under

the umbrella of the nonhuman turn has recon-

gured the standard divide between subject and

object, agency and volition, person and thing.

Participants grapple with the nonhuman in all

its forms (from worms to cyborgs) and methods

(from animal studies to new materialism).

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ nonhuman- forms/ aer 31Dec.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

215 and 522.

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727. Literature, Aesthetics, and Cultural

Exchange between East Asia and Southeast

Asia and Britain and North America in the

Long Nineteenth Century III

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

A working group. Presiding: Elizabeth Chang, U of

Missouri, Columbia; RossG. Forman, U of War-

wick; Anna Maria Jones, U of Central Florida

Participants: JenniferL. Hargrave, Baylor U; Eliza-

bethH. Ho, U of Hong Kong; Jenny Holt, Meiji U;

Kendall Johnson, U of Hong Kong; Peter Kitson,

U of East Anglia; Waiyee Loh, U of Warwick;

Junjie Luo, Gettysburg C; Flair Donglai Shi, U of

Oxford; Sarah Tin, independent scholar

Scholars from several disciplines—En glish and

American literature and culture, comparative litera

ture, Asian literature, and art history—explore cul-

tural and aesthetic exchanges between Asia and the

anglophone world in the long nineteenth century and

consider how these exchanges continue to inform the

global circulation of literature and culture today.

For related material, visit bit.ly/long19c aer 17Nov.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

209 and 524.

728. Revisiting Peace in Central American

Cultural Production

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Nanci Buiza, Swarth-

moreC

1. “Safeguarding Peace in El Salvador: On the

Cultural and Political Magazine Tendencias (1991–

2000),” Nanci Buiza

2. “Central America’s Stolen Peace: From Dis-

courses of National Liberation to Narratives of

Crime and Violence,” LindaJ. Cra, North ParkU

3. “What Peace Looks Like: Exploring Conict in

Post- 1996 Narratives in Guatemala,” Julio Quin-

tero, Grove CityC

729. Comics and the Culture Wars

8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Comics and

Graphic Narratives. Presiding: Aaron Kashtan,

Uof North Carolina, Charlotte

1. “‘e Truth of Matters’: Transnational Hu-

man Diastrophism and the Culture Wars in the

Work of Gilbert Hernandez,” Osvaldo Oyola, New

YorkU

2. “Queer Representation in Sandman: Comics

in the Culture Wars of the 1990s,” Leah Misemer,

Georgia Inst. of Tech.

3. “Super Social Justice Warriors: DC Rebirth’s

Green Arrow and the Comic Culture Wars,” Anas-

tasia Salter, U of Central Florida

4. “Queering Captain America: Fandom Rewrit-

ings of a Jewish Superhero Icon,” Megan Fowler,

Uof Florida

730. Psychoanalytic Insecurities III

8:30–9:45 a.m., Beekman, Hilton

A working group

Participants: ZahidR. Chaudhary, Prince ton U;

Eleanor Craig, Harvard Divinity School; Da-

vidL. Eng, U of Pennsylvania; Sheldon George,

Simmons C; Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity

School; Azeen Khan, Dartmouth C; Ramsey Mc-

Glazer, U of California, Berkeley; Antonio Viego,

Duke U; Damon Young, U of California, Berkeley

Critiques from feminist, queer, critical race, and

postcolonial perspectives have struggled with

what it means to theorize with psychoanalysis.

Participants consider the risks and potenti-

alities that come with taking up psychoanalytic

frameworks. Why, when it raises political, episte-

mological, and disciplinary suspicions, does psy-

choanalysis remain compelling for analyzing race,

gender, coloniality, and sexuality?

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ psychoanalytic- insecurities/ aer 22Dec.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

216 and 523.

731. Pierre Macherey

8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Marxism, Lit-

erature, and Society. Presiding: Cesare Casarino,

Uof Minnesota, Twin Cities

1. “What Do We Mean When We Speak of the Sur-

face of a Text?” WarrenG. Montag, OccidentalC

2. “Why Read, Macherey?” Audrey Wasser, Mi-

ami U, Oxford

3. “e Spoken and the Unspoken,” Ellen Frances

Rooney, BrownU

Respondent: Michael Gallope, U of Minnesota,

Twin Cities

732. Imperial Publics

8:30–9:45 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Tanya Agathocleous,

Hunter C, City U of New York

Speakers: Alexander Bubb, U of Roehampton; Ja-

meel Haque, Minnesota State U, Mankato; James

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Mulholland, North Carolina State U; Cara Mur-

ray, Queensborough Community C, City U of

New York; Gregory Vargo, New York U; Kathleen

Wilson, Stony Brook U,State U of New York; Hyo

Woo, Nanyang TechnologicalU

It is time to rethink public sphere theory and the

idea of counterpublics by examining imperial his-

tory and the global circulation of texts along im-

perial circuits from the eighteenth to the twentieth

century.What methodological problems does the

concept of an imperial public sphere raise? How

might we classify the various overlapping, com-

peting, and agonistic publics (colonial, semicolo-

nial, metropolitan) that made up that larger space?

733. Montaigne in the Twenty- First Century

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th- Century

French. Presiding: Cathy Yandell, CarletonC

1. “Judging Equitably in Montaigne’s ‘Of Canni-

bals,’ ” Shannon Connolly, Missouri Southern StateU

2. “‘Je m’y fusse très volontiers peint tout entier

et tout nu’: Montaigne, Derrida, and Writing the

Naked Self,” Elizabeth Kirby, New YorkU

3. “‘Tout le bastiment de nostre science’: Mon-

taigne’s Solid Abstractions,” Jennifer Oliver, U of

Oxford, St. John’sC

734. Between Fictions and Documents

8:30–9:45 a.m., Regent, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century Spanish and Iberian. Presiding: Cris-

tina Moreiras- Menor, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1. “Truth Adri: Science- Fiction Documentary

and Mauro Herce’s Dead Sl o w Ah ead,” Eduardo

Ledesma, U of Illinois, Urbana

2. “Tras- tornar el documental como verdad: La de-

struc ción de la veritas en Basilio Martín Patino,” Pri-

scila Calatayud- Fernández, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

3. “Fiction, Autography, and Impossible Transi-

tion in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s To do lo que era

sólido,” Lindsey Reuben, U of Pennsylvania

735. Rhetoric in Post- factual Times

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton North, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Language

and Society. Presiding: Rebecca Dingo, U of Mas-

sachusetts, Amherst

Speakers: Lindsey Albracht, Graduate Center,

City U of New York; Jason Maxwell, Penn State U,

University Park; Carl Peters, U of the Fraser Val-

ley; Kurt Spellmeyer, Rutgers U, New Brunswick;

Daniel Valella, U of California, Berkeley; John

David Zuern, U of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

Since the recent election scholars have reexam-

ined the best practices of argumentation and how

they are teaching students to assess information

and make arguments about it. Panelists examine

how we perform textual analysis when facts and

evidence are no longer the marker of good argu-

mentation and oer historical, theoretical, meth-

odological, and pedagogical perspectives.

736. Queering Luso- Brazilian Literatures

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Luso- Brazilian.

Presiding: Pedro Meira Monteiro, Prince tonU

1. “Between Libaninho and Albino: Queerness

and Homophobia in the Luso- Brazilian Nine-

teenth Century and Beyond,” AnnaM. Klobucka,

U of Massachusetts, North Dartmouth

2. “Queer(ing) the Belle Epoque; or, Roberto

Gomes Who?” Cesar Braga- Pinto, NorthwesternU

3. “Among Metaphors and Epiphanies: e

(Trans)Formation of Identity through Immigra-

tion in Sergio Y,” Lidiana de Moraes, U of Miami

737. ing Power Onstage: Drama, eater,

and Posthuman Performativity

8:30–9:45 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Katherine Biers, Co-

lumbiaU

1. “‘What Happened’: Drama, Performance, and

Scupture [sic],” Rebecca Schneider, BrownU

2. “Learning with Fornes,” Elin Diamond, Rut-

gers U, New Brunswick

3. “Jason Moran and the Drama of Chairs,” Mar-

tin Harries, U of California, Irvine

Respondent: Una Chaudhuri, New YorkU

738. Case, Context, and Description

8:30–9:45 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Anthropol-

ogy and Literature. Presiding: Supritha Rajan, U of

Rochester

1. “e Limits of Case Study for Literary Analy-

sis,” LindaM. Shires, Yeshiva U, Stern C for

Women

2. “e Natural History of Adam Bede,” Benja-

min O’Dell, U of Illinois, Urbana

3. “Decolonizing Trauma eory: Literary and

Anthropological Approaches,” RosanneM. Ken-

nedy, Australian NationalU

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739. Going Public: How and Why to

Develop a Digital Scholarly Identity

8:30–9:45 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center.

Presiding: Katina Rogers, Graduate Center, City U

of New York

Speakers: Lisa Marie Rhody, Graduate Center, City

U of New York; Danica Savonick, Graduate Center,

City U of New York; Lisa Tagliaferri, FordhamU

Establishing a meaningful digital identity is essen-

tial to managing one’s scholarly and professional

reputation. is workshop addresses ways to culti-

vate an online identity and oers guidance on “go-

ing public” using tools and strategies for building

a community around your work. Topics include

social media, writing for dierent audiences, per-

sonal Web sites, digital dissertations, and more.

740. e Year at Changed Everything:

1968 at Fiy

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Jerey Boruszak, U of

Texas, Austin

1. “‘A Movie of Our Lives’: New Journalism, Per-

ception, and e Electric Kool- Aid Acid Test,” Wil-

liam Nesbitt, BeaconC

2. “Making Movies in ‘Now- Time’: Medium Cool

and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One,” Kather-

ineA. Kinney, U of California, Riverside

3. “Undoing the Myth of Eden: Restaging a e-

atrical Controversy,” Jason Fitzgerald, ColumbiaU

4. “Feminist Zines, Fiy Years Later,” Cristen

Fitzpatrick, St. John’s U, NY

741. Visualizing Violence in Contemporary

States of Insecurity

8:30–9:45 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Kavita Daiya, George

WashingtonU

Speakers: Mohit Chandna, En glish and Foreign

Languages U; Hella Bloom Cohen, St. CatherineU;

Keith Feldman, U of California, Berkeley; Touria

Khannous, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge; Ng’ang’a

Muchiri, U of Nebraska, Lincoln; Sandra Ponzanesi,

Utrecht U; Sreyoshi Sarkar, George WashingtonU

is session considers a wide range of visual nar-

ratives, including commercial and art cinema,

documentaries, art installations, and protest im

ages, to ask, How do these narratives represent lived

experiences of violence in contemporary war zones,

among refugee populations, and in contexts of envi-

ronmental destruction? How do race, gender, class,

and caste organize them? How do old and new tech

nologies encounter each other in these texts?

For related material, write to sreyoshi@ gwu .edu

aer 25Dec.

742. e Legacy of Captivity Narratives:

Gender, Race, and the Captive in Twentieth-

and Twenty- First- Century American

Literature and Culture

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Megan Behrent, New

York City C of Tech., City U of New York

1. “‘We Dream the Dream of Extirpation’: Female

Captivity and Racial Displacement,” Ann Kenis-

ton, U of Nevada, Reno

2. “‘How Can I Explain the Runaway Slave in

Terms at Do Not Imply Uniqueness?’: George

Jackson’s Solitary Solidarity,” Nathan Ragain, U of

Nevada, Reno

3. “Captivation: Television’s Imprisoned Women

as Comic Revisions of Early American Captivity

Narratives,” Rebecca Devers, New York City C of

Tech., City U of New York

Respondent: SusanE. Scheckel, Stony Brook U,

State U of New York

743. How Shiing Congurations Shape

Experiences of High School Students

Transitioning into College

8:30–9:45 a.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Executive Council.

Presiding: MonicaF. Jacobe, C of New Jersey

1. “What Is College- Level En glish? An Examina-

tion of the College Now Program,” Melissa Den-

nihy, Queensborough Community C, City U of

New York

2. “For- Prot Postsecondary Institutions as Lit-

eracy Sponsors,” Bonnie Tucker, U of Michigan,

Ann Arbor

3. “What Students Can Tell Us about the Transi-

tion from High School to College,” Ann Burke,

Uof Michigan, Ann Arbor

4. “Minding the Gap: Addressing the Distance

between Students’ Abilities and Expectations,”

Eir- Anne Edgar, U of Kentucky

744. Goethe’s Narrative Forms:

UncertainEvents

8:30–9:45 a.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the Goethe Society of North

America. Presiding: Fritz Breithaupt, Indiana U,

Bloomington

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1. “Uncanny Narrating in Goethe’s Ballads,”

Christian Peter Weber, Florida StateU

2. “ Conscious Subplots and Mimetic Desire:

Overcoming the Repression of Goethe’s Novels,”

Christopher Chiasson, Indiana U, Bloomington

3. “Countering Catastrophe: Goethe’s Novellas

in the Aershock of Kleist,” Lisa Marie Anderson,

Hunter C, City U of New York

745. Performing Philosophy

8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the American eatre and

Drama Society. Presiding: LauraL. Mielke, U of

Kansas

1. “Philosophy as Performance in Maggie Nel-

son’s e Argonauts,” Kyle Frisina, U of Michigan,

Ann Arbor

2. “Avital Ronell: Performer- Philosopher,” Tawny

Andersen, CRMEP at KingstonU

3. “Instantiating Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason

through Black Feminist Practice: Adrian Piper’s

Food for the Spirit as Kantian (Anti)Sele,” Lauren

Fournier, YorkU

4. “Epic and Realist Publics,” Minou Arjomand,

U of Texas, Austin

746. Departure, Stay, and Return in Post-

9/11 African Narratives of Migration

8:30–9:45 a.m., Sutton South, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Caroline Fache, Da-

vidsonC

1. “Border (In)Security: African Diasporas in

Consulates, Embassies, and Processes of Immigra-

tion,” ShirinE. Edwin, Sam Houston StateU

2. “9/11 and the Collapse of the American Dream:

Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers,” ElizabethJ.

Toohey, Queensborough Community C, City U of

New York

3. “Homegoing in Post- 9/11 African Novels,”

Laila Amine, U of North Texas

747. Paper Trails of Popular Revolt: States of

Insecurity in the East Bloc

8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau West, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Lilla Balint, Vander-

biltU

1. “e Dissenting Canon: American Literary

Studies in Czechoslovakia before and aer the

Communist Takeover,” Brian Goodman, Arizona

StateU

2. “A Revolution warted: Bureaucratic Aer-

math of the Prague Spring in East Germany,” Ni-

cole Burgoyne, Wheaton C, MA

3. “Stay Calm and Keep Funding the Radios: Bu-

reaucrats, Broadcasts, and Cold War Discourse,”

JessieM. Labov, Central EuropeanU

For related material, visit MLA Commons.

748. Conspiracies, Italian Style

8:30–9:45 a.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century Italian. Presiding: Stefano Giannini,

SyracuseU

1. “De nobis fabula narratur: e Prague Cem-

etery between Hermeneutics of Reality and Meta-

Historiography,” Fadil Moslemani, U of Chicago

2. “An Enigma Wrapped in History: Francesco

Rosi’s e Mattei Aair,” Gaetana Marrone-

Puglia, Prince tonU

3. “e Case for Conspiracy eories in Contem-

porary Italian Literature,” David Ward, Welles-

leyC

749. Before #Resist: Judith Fetterley’s he

Resisting Reader at Forty

8:30–9:45 a.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Charlene Avallone,

independent scholar

1. “Fetterley’s ‘Palpable Design’: Feminist Blue-

print for Resisting Scholars,” MaryJo Bona, Stony

Brook U, State U of New York

2. “Immasculation in the Language Uses of

Science and Philosophy,” David Bleich, U of

Rochester

3. “Identication Matters: One Legacy of e Re-

sisting Reader,” Yung- Hsing Wu, U of Louisiana,

Lafayette

Respondent: JudithF. Fetterley, U at Albany,State

U of New York

For related material, write to avallone000@

gmail .com.

750. Poetics of the Gi

8:30–9:45 a.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Nandini Ramesh San-

kar, Indian Inst. of Tech., Hyderabad

1. “e Forgotten History of the Gi Sonnet,”

Zachary Rearick, Georgia StateU

2. “Of Dedicated Poems,” RajivC. Krishnan, En-

glish and Foreign LanguagesU

3. “e Grammar of the Gi inJ. H. Prynne,”

Nandini Ramesh Sankar

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4. “Economies of Loss: Elegy as Gi in Anne

Carson’s Nox,” Victoria Papa, Massachusetts C of

Liberal Arts

For related material, write to nandini@ iith.ac.in.

751. Red Readings and Alternative

Frameworks: How Indigenous Authors and

Indigenous Studies Scholarship Redenes

Notions of Genre and the Classics

8:30–9:45 a.m., Madison, Hilton

Program arranged by the Association for the

Study of American Indian Literatures

1. “e Chassis of Colonialism: Unsettling

Frames in Stephen Graham Jones’s e Bird Is

Gone: A Monograph

Manifesto,” Gabriella Fried-

man, CornellU

2. “Indigenizing Academia: Reading Red in Na-

tive Popular Culture and Television,” BrianJ.

Twenter, Western WashingtonU

3. “‘To Collaborate Right’: Indigenous Women at

the Publishing Margins,” Miriam Brown Spiers,

Kennesaw StateU

4. “It Is over ere by at Place,” Diane Glancy,

MacalesterC

Respondent: Becca Gercken, U of Minnesota, Morris

752. Recalling the Person

8:30–9:45 a.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Multiple Personality and Literary Character

in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Shari Goldberg,

Franklin and MarshallC

2. “e Beasts in the Jungle,” Stuart Burrows,

BrownU

3. “Criticism and Personhood; or, e Confusion

of Newland Archer,” eo Davis, NortheasternU

753. Epic Spaces: Maps, Geography, and

Movement in Medieval and Renaissance Epic

8:30–9:45 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton

Program arranged by the Société Rencesvals,

American- Canadian Branch. Presidin g: William

Rhodes, Jr., U of Pittsburgh

1. “Sacred Mappings: Vida, Tasso, Milton, and the

Crisis of Biblical Epic,” Timothy Duy, New YorkU

2. “Reading the Franco- Italian Epic Cartographi

cally,” Stephen McCormick, Washington and LeeU

3. “Argonautica Poetica: Landmarks, Seamarks,

Limits, and Mapping the Domain of Traditional

Epic,” James Carson Nohrnberg, U of Virginia

For related material, write to mccormicks@ wlu

.edu aer 1Oct.

754. Is Kinship Always Already Queer?

Counternormative Communities in the

Nineteenth Century

8:30–9:45 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Shannon Draucker,

Boston U; Talia Vestri Croan, BostonU

1. “‘Queer Little Windows’: e New Women and

Sisterhood in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s My Flirta-

tions,” LisaM. Hager, U of Wisconsin Cs

2. “Care Communities as Queer Social Structures

in Victorian Fiction,” Talia Schaer, Graduate

Center, City U of New York

3. “‘Make Kin, Not Babies!’” Maia McAleavey,

BostonC

For related material, visit MLA Commons aer

1Nov.

755. e X Factor

8:30–9:45 a.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Chicana and

Chicano and LLC Latina and Latino. Presiding:

RichardT. Rodríguez, U of California, Riverside

1. “Latinx: Millennials Claiming Space in Dis-

course,” NicoleM. Guidotti- Hernández, U of

Texas, Austin

2. “Chicano, the Word,” Joshua Guzmán, U of

California, Los Angeles

3. “Latinx as Disidentication: Finding Resis-

tance in the Signier,” omas Conners, U of

Pennsylvania

4. “e X Factor and Academic Publishing,”

LourdesM. Torres, DePaulU

Respondent: Claudia Milian, DukeU

Sunday, 7 January

10:15 a.m.

756. Medieval States of Insecurity

10:15–11:30 a.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Medieval

Iberian and LLC Arabic. Presiding: MichelleM.

Hamilton, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

1. “Mediating Insecurity in Ibn Quzmān’s Zajal

84,” Jean Dangler, TulaneU

2. “Narrative Insecurity: A Muslim Crusader in

irteenth- Century Granada,” David Wacks, U of

Oregon

3. “On the Assassinations of Lisān al- Dīn, Iberian

Diplomat and Man of Letters,” Sherif Abdelkarim,

U of Virginia

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4. “Insecurities: Tocqueville, de Slane, Ibn Khal-

dun,” Jerey Sacks, U of California, Riverside

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ medieval- iberian/ aer 1Oct.

757. Mexican Literature in heory

10:15–11:30 a.m., Nassau West, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Ignacio Sanchez

Prado, Washington U in St. Louis

Speakers: Ericka Beckman, U of Pennsylvania;

Carolyn Forno, Lycoming C; Rebecca Janzen,

U of South Carolina, Columbia; Ana Sabau, U of

Michigan, Ann Arbor; Emilio Sauri, U of Mas-

sachusetts, Boston; Laura Torres- Rodriguez, New

YorkU

Speakers, contributors toMexican Literature in

eory,discuss the challenges of reading Mexican

literature in a theoretical fashion in the light of the

debate on the resistance to theory that character-

izes the Mexican literary eld. ey also discuss

what Mexicanist literary criticism can contribute

to contemporary debates on theory.

For related material, write to isanchez@ wustl .edu

aer 1Dec.

758. White Supremacy, Racial Insecurity,

and Literature Studies

10:15–11:30 a.m., New York Ballroom East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forums TC Race and

Ethnicity Studies and LLC West Asian. Presiding:

Ira Dworkin, Texas A&M U, College Station

1. “Against Immersion,” Keith Feldman, U of

California, Berkeley

2. “‘Everybody Came Together around Palestine’:

Iranian- Arab Solidarities in the United States,”

Manijeh Nasrabadi, BrandeisU

3. “People Who Believe ey Are Western: Bald-

win in Istanbul, Wright in Cairo, and Us Here

Now,” Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough

Community C, City U of New York

4. “Racial Domestication of Orientalism: Aryanist

Supremacy and the Modern ousand and One

Nights in Iran,” Rasoul Aliakbari, U of Alberta

759. Literary Adaptation as Democratic

Exchange in the Romantic Period

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

A special session

1. “Godwin, Wollstonecra, Robinson, and the

Rise of Novelization; or, Adaptation as the Art

Form of Democracy,” Glenn Jellenik, U of Central

Arkansas

2. “Romantic Adaptations: Minerva’s Shared Cir-

cuit of Popular Conventions,” Elizabeth Neiman,

U of Maine, Orono

3. “Hack Dramatists, Adaptations, and Cultural

Literacy in the Nineteenth Century,” Lissette Lo-

pez Szwydky, U of Arkansas, Fayetteville

For related material, visit lissettels .weebly .com/.

760. Resurrecting Dead Worlds: Video

Game Aesthetics and Posthuman Narratives

10:15–11:30 a.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Patrick Jagoda, U of

Chicago

1. “Romantic Deep Time and Dejobaan Games’s

Elegy for a Dead World (2014),” Andrew Burkett,

UnionC

2. “Darwin, Dickens, and Drowned London: e

Industrial Revolution as Event in Assassin’s Creed:

Syndicate (2015) and Sunless Sea (2015),” Allison

Dushane, Angelo StateU

3. “Sea Slugs and Atom Bombs: Genetic and Ideo-

logical Manipulation in BioShock (2007),” Kath-

leen McClancy, Texas StateU

761. Networking and Informational

Interviews for Humanities PhDs

10:15–11:30 a.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Career Center

Speaker: Stacy Hartman, MLA

is hands- on workshop provides an introduction

to networking and informational interviewsfor

PhD candidates and postdocs in MLA elds. How

do you nd people to talk to about possible career

paths? How do you create meaningful professional

connections with people outside your academic

eld? What questions should you ask in informa-

tional interviews? Please bring a laptop.

762. Insecurity and Contingency: Writing

Studies, Outcomes, and the Solidarity of

Opportunity to Learn

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the Council of Writing Pro-

gram Administrators. Presiding: Norbert Elliot,

Uof South Florida, Tampa

1. “Scholarly and eoretical Contributions of

Writing Programs and Writing Studies to Evolv-

ing Conceptions of Learning Outcomes and Fair-

ness,” Diane Kelly- Riley, U of Idaho

2. “Assessing Writing: A Sociocognitive Perspec-

tive to Advance Opportunity to Learn,” Robert

Mislevy, ETS

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Sunday, 7 January 

3. “Writing to Outcomes: Genre and Fairness

in Nursing Practice,” Rhonda Maneval, Pace U;

Frances Ward, Temple U, Philadelphia

Respondent: Anne Ruggles Gere, U of Michigan,

Ann Arbor

763. Poetry’s “We”

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse F, Hilton

A special session

1. “We- Representations in Minds and Poems,”

Raphael Lyne, U of Cambridge

2. “Terrance Hayes’s Response- Poems and the

African- American Lyric ‘We,’ ” Christopher

Spaide, HarvardU

3. “‘Now Let Us Sport While We May’: First-

Person Plural and the Lyric Address,” Eileen

Sperry, U at Albany,State U of New York

Respondent: Bonnie Costello, BostonU

764. Mapping Jewish Geographies

10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Jewish

American. Presiding: Victoria Aarons, TrinityU

1. “West of the Ghetto: Regionalism and Reli-

gion in Emma Wolf’s Heirs of Yesterday,” Lori

Harrison- Kahan, BostonC

2. “Navigation and the Form of Environment in

Rezniko’s Jerusalem the Golden,” David Rodri-

guez, Stony Brook U, State U of New York

3. “Geopolitical Bodies: Reading Insecurity

through Jewish Graphic Narratives,” Laini Ka-

valoski, State U of New York, Canton

765. eory and Praxis: Visual Media in the

Classroom III

10:15–11:30 a.m., Beekman, Hilton

A working group. Presiding: Lauren Gaskill, U of

California, Irvine

Participants: Matthew Dischinger, Georgia Inst.

of Tech.; AmyE. Elkins, Macalester C; Diego Fer-

nandez, U of California, Irvine; Jared McCoy, U

of California, Irvine; Rose Phillips, U of the Incar-

nate Word; Sarah Welsh, U of Texas, Austin

Actor- network theory grants importance to ob-

jects as forces that shape the way we think, behave,

and relate to others. Maps, infographics, and data-

bases are some of our objects of inquiry. Brief oral

presentations precede short workshop modules,

which generalize the tools members have used in

the classroom and facilitate dialogue about meth-

ods and mechanics. is work across disciplines

connects us and aids our pedagogical growth.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/ groups/

theory- and- praxis- visual- media- in- the-classroom/.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

253 and 484.

766. Insecurity and the Aerlives of Slavery

10:15–11:30 a.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Uri McMillan, U of

California, Los Angeles

1. “‘And ey All Said ey Loved Her’: Kept

Relationships in the Beacon Group’s Barrack Yard

Literatures,” Kaneesha Parsard, NorthwesternU

2. “e Aerlife of the Plantation in Attica

Locke’s e Cutting Season,” Jarvis McInnis, U of

Notre Dame

3. “Black Patience: Performance, Insecurity, and

the Racial Politics of Time,” Julius Fleming, Jr.,

Uof Maryland, College Park

4. “‘I Am Afraid for My Life and My Home’:

On Joseph Beam’s Queer Transformation,” J. T.

Roane, SmithC

767. MigrancyandEmpire in the

EighteenthCentury

10:15–11:30 a.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the American Society for

Eighteenth- Century Studies. Presiding: George

Boulukos, Southern Illinois U, Carbondale

Speakers: Adam Robert Beach, Ball State U;

George Boulukos; TonyC. Brown, U of Min-

nesota, Twin Cities; Charlotte Sacks Sussman,

DukeU; Nicole Wright, U of Colorado, Boulder;

Chi- ming Yang, U of Pennsylvania

Imperial projects in the eighteenth century de-

pended on migrancy from the slave trade, settler

colonies, warfare, displacement, and commercial

networks. Nonetheless, migrancy is oen over-

looked in eighteenth- century studies, even as the

concept suuses current politics. Speakers discuss

literary, historical, legal, comparative, political

theory, and ecocritical perspectives on imperial

migrancy in the eighteenth- century world.

For related material, visit migrancyempire

. wordpress .com.

768. Nodes of Literacy: David Walker and

Intertextuality

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Joshua Cohen, EmoryU

1. “Maryland Maps of Frederick Douglass’s Lit-

eracy Experience,” Lawrence Jackson, Johns Hop-

kins U, MD

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2. “Ghost Authorizer: David Walker in Henry

Highland Garnet’s 1848 Volume,” LoriA. Leavell,

U of Central Arkansas

3. “‘at Tremendous Indictment of Slavery’:

W.E. B. Du Bois’s Reading of David Walker’s Ap-

peal,” Joshua Cohen

Respondent: Kevin Pelletier, U of Richmond

For related material, visit jlaurencecohen .org/

blog/ conference- panels/ mla- 2018.

769. Lyric Intersections in Early

ModernEngland

10:15–11:30 a.m., Bowery, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Ardis Buttereld,

YaleU

1. “Andrew Marvell’s ‘Unfortunate Lovers,’”

Lynn Enterline, VanderbiltU

2. “Lyric at the Limits of Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s

Rape of Lucrece,” Rachel Eisendrath, BarnardC

3. “Spenser and the Aesthetics of Pleasure,” Aye-

sha Ramachandran, YaleU

770. Tragedy beyond eater in

Early Modern France: Resistance,

Reconguration, Reappraisal

10:15–11:30 a.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: BlairG. Hoxby, Stan-

fordU

Speakers: Marc Bizer, U of Texas, Austin; Hall

Bjornstad, Indiana U, Bloomington; Christopher

Sheehan Braider, U of Colorado, Boulder; Juliette

Cherbuliez, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities; BlairG.

Hoxby; Anna Rosensweig, U of Rochester

Participants aim to pursue the early modern

French engagement with, or resistance to, the

tragic outside the theateracross the traditional

divide between the sixteenth and seventeenth

centuries. e foci are tragedy and the tragic in re-

lation to politics, to comedy, to the inhuman, and

to Schiller’s tragic sublime. e goal is to reach a

more historically contextualized understanding

of tragedy in the early modern period that also

reveals its great scope.

For related material, visit earlymodtragedy .mla

.hcommons .org/ aer 1Oct.

771. Flourishing in Dicult Times

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on

Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and

Responsibilities. Presiding: Cristina León Alfar,

Hunter C, City U of New York

Speakers: Bennett Carpenter, Duke U; Andrea

Crow, Columbia U; Teresa Mangum, U of Iowa;

Elke Nicolai, Hunter C, City U of New York; An-

drea Kaston Tange, MacalesterC

Panelists discuss institutions working to protect aca-

demic freedom, faculty governance, and professional

rights through projects that nourish the university

community and foster collaboration in this dicult

political climate. Central to the conversation are ser

vice, union organizing, mentoring of faculty mem-

bers and graduate students, and proactive actions

taken to protect students and faculty members.

772. Narrative Empathy, Insecurity, and the

Humanities III

10:15–11:30 a.m., Regent, Hilton

A working group. Presiding: Barbara Simerka,

Queens C, City U of New York

Participants: Megan Boler, U of Toronto; Mark

Bracher, Kent State U; Emanuele Castano, New

School; WinnieW. Chan, Virginia Common-

wealth U; Suzanne Parker Keen, Washington and

Lee U; David Kidd, New School; Polina Kukar,

U of Toronto; Saumya Lal, U of Massachusetts,

Amherst; BraisD. Leon, Queens C, City U of New

York; Seth Michelson, Washington and Lee U;

Katharine Polak, WittenbergU

Scholars of literature, education, and cognitive

science address narrative empathy and #States of

Insecurity.Panelists report on empirical research

of empathy in the lab and classroom, update work

on the limits of narrative empathy, and oer stud

ies of global literatures and media that depict and

problematize empathy for victims of social and eco

nomic marginalization, violence, and incarceration.

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ narrative- empathy- insecurity- and- the

- humanities/ aer 10Dec.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

251 and 492.

773. Race and Aesthetics in French and

Francophone Culture III

10:15–11:30 a.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

A working group

Participants: Nasia Anam, Williams C; Jiewon

Baek, Covenant C; Alessandra Benedicty, City C,

City U of New York; Cecile Bishop, New York U;

Lia Brozgal, U of California, Los Angeles; Kate-

lyn Knox, U of Central Arkansas; Matt Reeck,

Uof California, Los Angeles; MarkA. Reid, U of

Florida; Zoe Roth, Durham U; Lise- SégolèneV.

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Sunday, 7 January 

Schreier, Fordham U; ChristopheM. Wall-

Romana, Uof Minnesota, Twin Cities

e working group explores what the study of the

aesthetic can contribute to emerging conversa-

tions about race in France and introduces a more

global context to critical race studies by bringing

it into dialogue with francophone studies. What

does it mean to see race in literature or use race

as an analytical tool? What makes a piece of art

about race? What are the critic’s role and responsi-

bilities in making race an object of study?

For related material, visit mla .hcommons .org/

groups/ race- and- aesthetics- in- french- and

- francophone-culture/ aer 1Nov.

For the other meetings of the working group, see

250 and 493.

774. Fictional Terrain: Insurgent

Nationalism and the Global Novel

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse A, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction.

Presiding: Benjamin Bateman, California State U,

Los Angeles

1. “e Global Return: e Novel as Global Com-

mons,” Jennifer Wicke, U of California, Santa

Barbara

2. “Ecologies of Discontent: Global Indigeneity in

Cather’s My Ántonia,” Benjamin Bateman

3. “Ruination and the Fiction of Global Survival,”

Madigan Haley, C of the Holy Cross

775. e Aerlives of Forms

10:15–11:30 a.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

A special session

Speakers: Mike Goode, Syracuse U; DavidS. Kur-

nick, Rutgers U, New Brunswick; Joseph Lavery,

Uof California, Berkeley; CarolineE. Levine,

Cornell U; Kent Puckett, U of California, Berke-

ley; Arielle Zibrak, U of Wyoming

Many aesthetic and social forms continue to exist be-

yond their period of origins, intended use, and con-

text. Caroline Levine’s Formsconsiders cases where

forms unsettle each other, but how do forms stay in

place? Why do they endure aer their time?Partici

pants address the aerlives of social, cultural, insti-

tutional, and aesthetic forms, responding to recent

debates in strategic formalism and new formalism.

776. Instigating Insecurity: e Presidential

Executive Order and Muslim American

Activism

10:15–11:30 a.m., Union Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Ammar Naji, Colo-

radoC

1. “From Muslim Bans to ICE Raids: NYC’s Munic-

ipal ID Program and Intersectional Local Activism

in Trump’s America,” David Farley, St. John’s U, NY

2. “e Trump Executive Order on Immigra-

tion: A Wake- Up Call for Muslims?” Anouar El

Younssi, Virginia Military Inst.

3. “Reconsidering the History of Islamophobia in

a State of Exception,” Ziad Suidan, HaigazianU

For related material, write to najihod@ gmail .com

aer 15Oct.

777. Method and Critique in the Age of

Metrics

10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: David eo Goldberg,

U of California, Irvine

1. “How Can Literary and Cultural Study Respond

to Faculty Performance Management?” Christo

pher John Neweld, U of California, Santa Barbara

2. “Data Mining versus the Case History,”

LauraC. Mandell, Texas A&M U, College Station

3. “Quantication from Above and Below in

United States Academic Labor Criticism,” Heather

Steen, U of California, Santa Barbara

For related material, write to heather .steen@

gmail .com aer 1Nov.

778. Community in the Wake of the

Social: Literary Insecurities in Modern and

Contemporary Korea

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Korean.

Presiding: Christopher Hanscom, U of California,

Los Angeles

1. “‘To a Poet in the South’: Rethinking Commu-

nity across the irty- Eighth Parallel in 1950s–1960s

Korea,” Jonathan Kief, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2. “Politics of Purity: e Queer Community of

‘Literary Girls’ in Cold War South Korea,” Kyung-

hee Eo, U of Southern California

3. “Media Convergence as Destabilization: e

Transversality of Comics, Web Tunes, and Visual

Media Communities in W,” Haerin Shin, Vander-

biltU

779. Engaging Students: Strategies

andConcerns

10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Catherine Keohane,

Montclair StateU

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1. “Rethinking Relatability as an Invitation to

Engage,” Catherine Keohane

2. “e Problem of Relatability,” Susan Weeber,

Uof Rochester

3. “Based on a True Story? Student Engagement

and Luisa Valenzuela’s ‘Los mejor calzados,’” Rud-

yard Joel Alcocer, U of Tennessee, Knoxville

4. “Appreciating the Text, Living the Text: Assess-

ment that Forms Attitude,” Lanta Davis, Indiana

WesleyanU

780. Badiou’s Saint Paul

10:15–11:30 a.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Religion and

Literature. Presiding: FeisalG. Mohamed, Gradu-

ate Center, City U of New York

1. “Deposing Paul,” Bruno Bosteels, CornellU

2. “Internal Betrayal: Badiou, Paul, Pasolini,” Jo-

seph Litvak, TusU

3. “Badiou’s Paul, Agamben’s Paul: On Romans

7.15,” Joseph Spencer, Brigham Young U, UT

Respondent: Emily Apter, New YorkU

781. Ecologies, Empires, and Island

Speculations

10:15–11:30 a.m., Nassau East, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: JohnA. Rieder, U of

Hawai‘i, Mānoa

1. “Amphibious Mutations, Island Queerness, and

the Racialization of Disease inH. P. Lovecra,”

Dagmar Van Engen, U of Southern California

2. “Decolonial Speculation in Wendt’s Black Rain-

bow: Transindigenous Resistance in the Nuclear

Pacic,” Rebecca Hogue, U of California, Davis

3. “Posthuman Ecologies in Solomon Enos’s Specu-

lative Art,” Stina Attebery, U of California, Riverside

782. Insecure Imaginations: Poetry in

Invented Languages

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse G, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Susan Jennifer

Vanderborg, U of South Carolina, Columbia

1. “Invented Language, Created Life: From Inse-

curity to a Poetics of Variation,” Ming- Qian Ma,

U at Bualo,State U of New York

2. “Inventing a Women’s Language: e Poetic

Crises of Láadan,” Susan Jennifer Vanderborg

3. “Visualizing a Cyborg Poetics: Crises and Code

Poetry,” Margaret Rhee, U of Oregon

783. Publishing Trends and New Directions

in Victorian Studies

10:15–11:30 a.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian

and Early- 20th- Century En glish. Presiding: Caro-

lyn Lesjak, Simon FraserU

Speakers: Rachel Ablow, U at Bualo,State U

of New York; Nancy Armstrong, Duke U; Jona-

than Grossman, U of California, Los Angeles;

ChristopherJ. Keep, U of Western Ontario; Ivan

Kreilkamp, Indiana U, Bloomington

Editors of major Victorian and more broadly based

journals discuss publishing trends, new directions

in Victorian studies, and the state of the eld.

784. Hot Numbers

10:15–11:30 a.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Late- 18th-

Century En glish. Presiding: Ruth Mack, U at

Bualo,State U of New York; James Mulholland,

North Carolina StateU

1. “2

✕2 = 5 and Other Strange Adventures in

the History of Fiction,” MatthewF. Wickman,

Brigham Young U, UT

2. “Counting Syllables in Selborne,” Courtney

Weiss Smith, WesleyanU

3. “Clarissa, by the Numbers,” Stephanie Insley

Hershinow, Baruch C, City U of New York

785. Articial Intelligence: A Cultural History

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Ian MacDonald,

Florida AtlanticU

1. “e Turk, the Dwarf, and the Robot,” E. Efe,

Rutgers U, New Brunswick

2. “Decolonizing the Mind(ship): Re- culturating

AI in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber,” Ian

MacDonald

3. “Race, Capitalism, and Care in Spike Jonze’s

Her,” Jennifer Rhee, Virginia CommonwealthU

4. “Tu Quoque: Constitutive Nihilism and the

Hard AI Challenge,” Erik Banks, Wright StateU

786. Translation and Interlingual Practices

in Pre- Meiji Japan

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Japanese

to1900

1. “Approaching Classical Chinese Poetry in

Early Modern Japan: Translation Strategies in

Early Modern ‘Remarks on Poetry,’” Matthew

Fraleigh, BrandeisU

2. “Translating China: Simulation and Subver-

sion in Japan’s Oldest Poetic Anthology, Kaifūsō,”

Jason Paul Webb, U of Southern California

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3. “Translation on the Margin: Rendering e

Water Margin for a Popular Audience in Early-

Nineteenth- Century Japan,” Glynne Walley, U of

Oregon

For related material, write to fraleigh@ brandeis .edu.

787. Institutional History of eory

10:15–11:30 a.m., Murray Hill East, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TM Literary

and Cultural eory. Presiding: PeterM. Logan,

Temple U, Philadelphia

1. “Against Institution,” Tilottama Rajan, U of

Western Ontario

2. “eory and the Changing Forms of Institu-

tional Prestige,” AmandaS. Anderson, BrownU

3. “Heyday,” Marjorie Garber, HarvardU

788. A Hand in It: Hand Studies in the Long

Nineteenth Century and Beyond

10:15–11:30 a.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Kimberly Cox, Chad-

ron StateC

1. “‘He Took My Hand—Oh, How I Despise

Myself!’: Hands and the Will in e Woman in

White,” PamelaK. Gilbert, U of Florida

2. “e Photographer’s Hand,” Kate Flint, U of

Southern California

3. “Hands to Work: Octavia Hill, Olive Cockerell,

and the Right to Dig,” AliciaJ. Carroll, Auburn U,

Auburn

Respondent: AdrienneA. Munich, Stony Brook

U,State U of New York

For related material, write to kcox@ csc .edu.

789. Medieval Soundscapes

10:15–11:30 a.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Middle En-

glish and CLCS Medieval. Presiding: Erin Felicia

Labbie, Bowling Green StateU

Speakers: Anne- Marie Beaumont, U of Wolver-

hampton; Helen Dell, U of Melbourne; Aglaia

Foteinou, U of Wolverhampton; Adin Lears, State

U of New York, Oswego; Christopher Michael Ro-

man, Kent State U, Tuscarawas; Francesca Canade

Sautman, Hunter C, City U of New York

is session explores how medievallyrics, songs,

poetic meter, and sounds of everyday life produce

cognitive and emotional or aective spaces. How

mightmedieval literature present an architecture

of sound? How does oral presentation dier from

silent reading ofmedievaltexts, and how does this

dierence alter the process of analysis, reception,

and interpretation of medievalliterature? What is

the temporal dimension of sound?

790. Precarious Subjects: Refugee and

Immigrant Subjectivities

10:15–11:30 a.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Asian Amer-

ican. Presiding: Jeehyun Lim, DenisonU

1. “South Asian American Diasporic Postmemo-

ries and Provincializing America,” Dinidu Ka-

runanayake, Miami U, Oxford

2. “Like a Refugee: Veterans, Vietnam, and the

Precarious Subjects of a False Equivalence,” Jo-

seph Darda, Texas ChristianU

3. “e Innocents: Reading Refugees in National

Culture and Asian American Literature,” Crystal

Parikh, New YorkU

791. Digital Histories of the Book in

America

10:15–11:30 a.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: omas Augst, New

YorkU

1. “e Anglophone Early Modern Printing

Trade,” Molly O’Hagan Hardy, American Anti-

quarian Soc.

2. “Mapping the Native American Book,” Mike

Kelly, AmherstC

3. “e (Printer’s) Devil Is in the Details; or, e

Case for Digitizing Black Bibliographic Data,” Jac-

quelineD. Goldsby, Yale U; MeredithL. McGill,

Rutgers U, New Brunswick

792. Mediality and Intermediality:

Temporality and Materiality in Twentieth-

Century German Culture

10:15–11:30 a.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th- and

Early- 20th- Century German. Presiding: Katja

Garlo, ReedC

1. “In Slow Motion: Magnied Time as Narrative

Technique,” Erik Born, CornellU

2. “Breath and Mediality in Robert Musil’s ‘At-

emzüge eines Sommertags,’” Stefanie Heine, U of

Toronto

3. “e Literarization of Life: Literature, Materi-

ality, and the Avant- Garde in Weimar Culture,”

PatriziaC. McBride, CornellU

4. “Mediating Images: omas Schadt in

Dialogue with Walter Ruttmann,” Carol Anne

Costabile- Heming, U of North Texas

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12:00 noon

793. Gender, Precarity, Materiality

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse E, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Women’s and

Gender Studies. Presiding: Christina León, Prince-

tonU

1. “Clothing Modernity Elsewhere,” Poulomi

Saha, U of California, Berkeley

2. “Zong!’s Echolocations,” Melinda Robb, Em-

oryU

3. “Pregnant Men, Inhuman Reproduction, and

the ‘Creation of African America’ in Octavia But-

ler and Kara Walker,” Lauren Heintz, TulaneU

4. “Racialized Precarity and Crip Sex with Ships’

Engines in Jacqueline Koyanagi’s Ascension,” Dag-

mar Van Engen, U of Southern California

794. Rethinking the Romancero: Songs and

Ballads from Early Modern Iberia

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse B, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 16th- and

17th- Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and

Prose. Presiding: Miguel Martinez, U of Chicago

1. “Nunca hasta agora impressos: Printing and

Sound in the Ramillete(s) de ores,” Victor Sierra

Matute, U of Pennsylvania

2. “Written in the Memory of the Living: e

Boundaries of History in Gonzalo Fernández de

Oviedo’s Historia general,” Elizabeth Gansen,

Grand Valley StateU

3. “Romances and Political Critique in the Long

Seventeenth Century,” PatriciaW. Manning, U of

Kansas

795. Candid Conversations: Debt and the

Humanities

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chelsea, Sheraton

Program arranged by the MLA Connected Aca-

demics Project. Presiding: Kelly Brown, U of Cali-

fornia, Irvine

Speakers: Sarah Ruth Jacobs, Graduate Center, City

U of New York; Prema Prabhaker, U of California,

Santa Cruz; JereyJ. Williams, Carnegie MellonU

is session provides an opportunity to engage

in dialogue around the issue of debt, a topic that

is inadequately addressed in conversations on

career pathways and professionalization. Panelists

explore the topic of debt and the humanities and

begin to imagine a future where the conversation

about debt is no longer isolating and is instead an

integral part to building communities. Video dia-

logues informing the conversation are available at

humwork .uchri .org.

796. Archipelagoes, Oceans, Americas

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy East, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Michelle Ann Ste-

phens, Rutgers U, New Brunswick

Speakers: J. Michael Dash, New York U; Susan Gill-

man, U of California, Santa Cruz; Brian Russell

Roberts, Brigham Young U, UT; Cherene Monique

Sherrard- Johnson, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Yuan

Shu, Texas Tech U; Michelle Ann Stephens

Respondent: Shelley Fisher Fishkin, StanfordU

Focused on audience engagement with an Ameri-

can cultural and literary studies that is emerging

as archipelagic and oceanic, panelists plot points

of comparison and overlap among the United

States, the broader Americas, the Caribbean, the

Pacic, and the island- ocean form of the archi-

pelago. e discussion addresses postcontinental

thinking, Glissantian poetics, shoreline heuristics,

archipelagic comparitivism, oceanic archives, and

island temporalities.

For related material, write to brianrussellroberts@

byu .edu.

797. Nonverbal Shakespeare: Romeo and

Juliet among the Arts

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gramercy, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Hugh Grady, Arca-

diaU

1. “Of Dance and Disarticulation: Juliet Dead and

Alive,” Joseph Campana, RiceU

2. “A Self by Any Other Name,” Laura Levine,

New YorkU

3. “Cut Him Out in Little Stars: Romeo and Juliet

in Pictures,” Julia Reinhard Lupton, U of Califor-

nia, Irvine

798. Dante on Crisis

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Hudson, Hilton

Program arranged by the Dante Society of Amer-

ica and the forum LLC Medieval and Renaissance

Italian. Presiding: MartinG. Eisner, DukeU

1. “Dante’s Moral Canzoni Le dolci rime and Pos-

cia ch’Amor : e Crisis of Mid- 1290s Florence and

the Commedia,” Teodolinda Barolini, ColumbiaU

2. “Dante and the Crisis of Representation in the

Modern Age,” William Franke, VanderbiltU

3. “Maintaining Neutrality in Moral Crisis: e

Appropriation of Inferno 3 from JohnF. Kennedy

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to Martha Nussbaum,” Kristina Marie Olson,

George MasonU

799. e Algerian Novel in French: Sites of

Resistance, States of Insecurity, Algerianness,

and Cosmopolitanism, 1950–2018

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse F, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: PamelaA. Pears,

WashingtonC

1. “e Making of the Modern Algerian New

Novel, 1950–79,” ValérieK. Orlando, U of Mary-

land, College Park

2. “Women’s Bodies as Sights/ Sites of Insecu-

rity: (Post)Colonialism, Torture, and Patriarchy

in Louisette Ighilariz’s Algérienne (2000) and

Myriam Ben’s Sabrina, Ils t’ont volé ta vie (1986),”

MaryE. McCullough, SamfordU

3. “Literary Transvestism in Yasmina Khadra’s

Les agneaux du seigneur,” PamelaA. Pears

800. Forms of Life, Forms of Literature

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park West, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and

21st- Century American

1. “Animate Earths: Vitalizing the Anthropo-

cene,” MatthewA. Taylor, U of North Carolina,

Chapel Hill

2. “Embodied Tribalography, the Story of America:

Second Installment,” LeAnne Howe, U of Georgia

3. “Cryptic Ascension: Narrating Becoming God

in American Horror Literature,” Alejandro Omid-

salar, U of Texas, Austin

4. “e Evolution of Science Fiction Horror,”

PriscillaB. Wald, DukeU

801. e Rhetorical Problem of Demagoguery

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Clinton, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum RCWS History

and eory of Rhetoric

1. “‘A Champion of the People’: American Soph-

istry and the Rhetoric of Donald Trump,” Bess

Myers, U of Oregon

2. “Against Demagoguery: Lessons from Ibn

Khaldun’s Muqaddimah,” Brandon Katzir, Louisi-

ana State U, Baton Rouge

3. “You Can’t Fact- Check a Demagogue: Kenneth

Burke on Demagoguery as Antirhetoric,” Chris

Earle, U of Nevada, Reno

Respondent: Patricia Roberts- Miller, U of Texas,

Austin

803. Representing the Nonhuman in Jewish

and Hebrew Literature

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau West, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Hebrew

and CLCS Global Jewish. Presiding: Naama Harel,

ColumbiaU

1. “A Radical Advocacy: Suering Jews and Ani-

mals inS. Y. Abramovitsh’s Di Kliatsche,” Noam

Pines, U at Bualo, State U of New York

2. “Chen Sheinberg’s Cinematic Bestiary and Is-

raeli Experimental Film,” Anat Pick, Queen Mary

U of London

3. “e Badly Behaved Donkey and the Fiction

of Discipline in Talmud Tractate Shabbat,” Beth

Berkowitz, BarnardC

804. Poetry and Punctuation

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom

East,Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum GS Poetry and

Poetics. Presiding: Ardis Buttereld, YaleU

1. “Lord Byron’s Punctuation in Manuscript and

Print,” GaryR. Dyer, Cleveland StateU

2. “Punctuation as Diagramming in Eighteenth-

Century Editions of Paradise Lost,” Joshua Swid-

zinski, U of Portland

3. “Punctuating Old En glish Poetry: Challenges

and Strategies,” Eric Weiskott, BostonC

4. “Of Braces, Pricks, and Dots: omas Tra-

hernePunctuating Emotion,” TanyaK. Zhe-

lezcheva, Queensborough Community C, City U

of New York

805. e Language of Time

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Center, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Rebecca Weld Bush-

nell, U of Pennsylvania

Speakers: omas Allen, U of Ottawa; MichaelW.

Clune, Case Western Reserve U; EdwardJ. Larkin,

U of Delaware, Newark; Ian Maclachlan, Uof Ox

ford, Merton C; Sue Zemka, U of Colorado, Boulder

is session builds on the temporal turn in liter-

ary studies by exploring the ways that literary

language represents time while also considering

how time structures language and helps dene

the category of the literary. Participants speak to

dierent aspects of the temporality of literary rep-

resentation, drawing connections from the formal

and aesthetic to the historical and political.

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806. “Humusities” for a Habitable

Multispecies Muddle

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Union Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Anastassiya Andri-

anova, North Dakota StateU

1. “STEM- Humanities Coteaching and the ‘Hu-

musities’ Turn,” Hella Bloom Cohen, St. CatherineU

2. “Teaching in the ‘Multispecies Muddle’: To-

ward a eory of ‘ought, Love, Rage and Care,’”

Katja Altpeter, Lewis and ClarkC

“

Inhabiting the Chthulucene: Tentacular Inti-

macies in Jamaal May’s Detroit,” Stacey Balkan,

Florida AtlanticU

Respondent: Ron Milland, independent researcher

807. Resistance in Psychoanalysis and Politics

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Central Park East, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Psychology,

Psychoanalysis, and Literature. Presiding: Elissa

Marder, EmoryU

1. “Good News, Bad News: e Resistance of Re-

sistance,” Ann Pellegrini, New YorkU

2. “Techniques of Resistance: D. W. Winnicott

and the Politics of Clinical Technique,” Carolyn

Laubender, DukeU

“

Phobic Resistance, Phobic Politics,” Simon

Morgan Wortham, Kingston U London

808. Critical Algorithm Studies

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Digital Hu-

manities. P

residing: Lawrence Evalyn, U of Toronto

1. “Trees, Daylight, and Dirt,” Ingrid Burrington,

Data and Society Research Inst.

2. “Algorithmic Insecurity,” Rita Raley, U of Cali-

fornia, Santa Barbara

3. “Speculative Algorithms,” Allison Burtsch,

UNICEF Innovation in Speculative Hardware

Respondent: Wendy Chun, BrownU

For related material, visit mla

hcommons

.or

groups/ digital- humanities- 2014/ aer 30Nov.

809. “Of Strangers Is the Earth the Inn”: Still

Life, Scale, and Deep Time in Emily Dickinson

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Murray Hill, Sheraton

Program arranged by the Emily Dickinson In-

ternational Society. Presiding: MartaL. Werner,

D’YouvilleC

1. “‘Just a Life I Le’: Still Life Painting, Emily

Dickinson, and the Anthropocene,” Isabel Sobral

Campos, Montana Tech of the U of Montana

2. “Plashless as She Sees: Dickinson’s Glancing

Stitch,” Zachary Tavlin, U of Washington, Seattle

3. “‘Disclosed by Danger’: Dickinson, Darwin,

Time,” AmyR. Nestor, Georgetown U, Qatar

Respondent: Keith Mikos, DePaulU

For related material, visit www

.emilydickinsoninternationalsociety .org/.

810. Framing New York City in Comics

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison Square, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: RobinS. Hammer-

man, Stevens Inst. of Tech.

“

Drawn from the Stage: Nineteenth-

entury

United States Comics and New York City’s eater

Culture,” Alex Beringer, U of Montevallo

2. “Between Strange and Familiar: Old New York

in Contemporary Jewish Comics,” Julia Alekse

yeva, HarvardU

“

When Frames Disappear: Gotham City be-

tween Violence and Vengeance,” Lisann Anders,

U of Zurich

4. “Great American Myths: New York City and

Conservative Utopianism,” Joseph Donica, Bronx

Community C, City U of New York

811. Lois Weber’s Shoes (1916) and American

Naturalism

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Bowery, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum MS Screen Arts

and Culture. Presiding: Rob King, ColumbiaU

“

Prostitutes in American Naturalism, 1893–

1916,” MiriamS. Gogol, MercyC

“

Melodrama and the Seduction of Innocence,”

Jane Marie Gaines, ColumbiaU

“Shoes as Epistemic Text: Allegorical Lantern

Slides to Sociological Case Studies,” Constance

Balides, TulaneU

4. “Preachment for Prot,” Mark Garrett Cooper,

U of South Carolina, Columbia

812. Oceanic Ireland

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Suite, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Nicholas Allen, U of

Georgia

Speakers: Claire Connolly, University C Cork;

Philip Geheber, Louisiana State U, Baton Rouge;

Michael James Gill, U of Liverpool; Ronan Daniel

McDonald, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Maria

McGarrity, Long Island U, Brooklyn; Nels Pear-

son, Faireld U; Elizabeth Sauer, BrockU

Although land has received the most attention in

studies of Irish literary traditions, equally signi-

cantmay be water, includingmaritime exchange and

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migration, Ireland’s situation in an imperial archi-

pelago, and the economic and ecological signicance

f ports, coastlines, and waterways. Panelists discuss

how developments in the “blue humanities” such as

oceanic and archipelagic studies might productively

enhance our understandingof Irish modernity.

For related material, write to npearson@ faireld

.edu aer 2Jan.

813. Resituating Poetry Text in Early and

Medieval China: Anxieties and Transitions

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Nassau East, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Jinghua Wangling,

Loyola U, Baltimore

Speakers: Daniel Fried, U of Alberta; Qiulei Hu, Whit-

man C; Lucas Klein, U of Hong Kong; Shijia Nie,

Uof Oregon; Wendy Swartz, Rutgers U, New Bruns-

wick; Jinghua Wangling; Ying Xiong, U of Oregon

is session oersnew approaches and method-

ologies in the examination of poetry in early and

medieval China from various textual perspectives.

For related material, write to yzhang1@

oyola

aer 20Dec.

814. Secular Relics

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New York Ballroom

West,Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum LLC En

lish

Romantic

Speakers: Amanda Jo Goldstein, Cornell U; Nicho-

las Halmi, U of Oxford; Forest Pyle, U of Oregon;

MargaretE. Russett, U of Southern California;

EstherH. Schor, Prince tonU

Participants give responses to prompts on Cole ridge’s

inkstand, Wordsworth’s skates, Byron’s boxing

gloves, the can of accelerant used to light Shelley’s

funeral pyre, and a ring containing Keats’s hair.

815. Reading African American Literature

Now: Critical Desires and New Directions in

the Field

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Empire Ballroom West, Sheraton

A special session

Speakers: Aliyyah Inaya Abdur-

ahman,

BrandeisU; Margo Natalie Crawford, Cornell U;

Aida Levy-

ussen, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor;

Samantha Pinto, GeorgetownU

Panelists examine the present moment of reading

African American literature not as a teleology of

inevitable progress but as a constellation of dicult

and even competing critical desires. We will col

lectively consider emergent trajectories of reading

or and through race—including aect, ontology,

abstraction, and temporality—innovatively map

ping connections between contemporary modes of

eading and the politics that animate them.

816. e Value of Prehumanist Critique:

Anglo-

Saxon Contributions

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse D, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC Old En

lish.

Presiding: Samantha Zacher, CornellU

“

e Weeds We Are: e Trans-

lanted Poli-

tics of Eleventh- Century En gland,” Jacqueline

Ann Fay, U of Texas, Arlington

2. “e Elephant, the Leopard, and Animal Dis-

course on the Human in Anglo-

axon Literature,”

EdwardJ. Christie, Georgia StateU

. “Sexual Creatura,” StacyS. Klein, Rutgers U,

New Brunswick

For related material, visit www

academia

.edu/ 32168392/MLA_ Old_En glish_ Session_

Descriptions_2018.

817. Teaching Representations of the First

World War: Beyond Fussell

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Madison, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Douglas Higbee, U of

South Carolina, Aiken

Speakers: Wyatt Bonikowski, Suolk U; ClaireE.

Buck, Wheaton C, MA; Deborah Buon, U of Wis-

consin, La Crosse; Patrick Deer, New York U; Jerey

Drouin, U of Tulsa; JaneE. Fisher, Canisius C; Doug-

las Higbee; EveC. Sorum, U of Massachusetts, Boston

Scholarship over the last few decades has worked to

recover the diversity of the First World War experi-

ence. Drawing on postcolonial perspectives, revi-

sionist historiography, feminist rediscovery, media

heory, and new understandings of modernism and

modernity—along with a wealth of newly developed

material and virtual resources for study—this ses-

sion explores the complex task of eectively teaching

hat has always been a dauntingly enormous subject.

818. e Future(s) of Literary Biography

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty 3, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Todd Goddard, Utah

ValleyU

Speakers: Anne Boyd Rioux, U of New Orleans;

Katherine Culkin, Bronx Community C, City U of

New York; Todd Goddard; Megan Marshall, Em-

erson C; Carl Rollyson, Baruch C, City U of New

York; ElaineC. Showalter, Prince

onU

e theoretical turn in literary studies, with the

consequent separation of text from life, has for

some time now unsettled the status of biography

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in En glish departments and elsewhere. Yet life

writing continues to thrive as a subject of inquiry

and as a practice. Panelists explore the future(s) of

literary biography inside and outside the academy,

particularly in the light of recent transformations

of the genre into hybridic, new forms.

819. Rules and Ruling

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Lincoln Suite, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Philosophy

and Literature. Presiding: Ewa Plonowska Ziarek,

U at Bualo, State U of New York

1. “Why Do I Obey You? Beckett’s Disciplined In-

struments,” Cheryl Alison, School of the Museum

of Fine Arts at TusU

“

Unruly Duras,” Maria Fernanda Negrete, U at

Bualo, State U of New York

“

Mishima and the Rules of Desire,” Andrea

Nicolini, U of Verona

“

e Work of Games: Elizabeth Bishop Ex-

poses the Rules,” Johanna Winant, West Vir-

giniaU, Morgantown

820. Settler Colonialism

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Riverside Ballroom, Sheraton

Program arranged by the forum TC Postcolonial

Studies. Presiding: Elizabeth Anker, CornellU

1. “Indigeneity as Setting: Speculations on Postcolo-

nial Nationhood and the Politics of Settler Occupa-

tion,” Mark Riin, U of North Carolina, Greensboro

2. “Indigenous Cosmopolitanism and Its Discon-

tents: Decolonial Politics and the Settler Colonial

Distinction,” Alex Young, AmherstC

“

Settler Colonialism’s Temporalities: Here,”

Melissa Gniadek, U of Toronto

Respondent: Elizabeth Anker

821. Site Specics

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum TC Ecocriticism

and Environmental Humanities. Presiding: Byron

Caminero-

antangelo, U of Kansas

Speakers: KatieJ. Hogan, U of North Carolina,

Charlotte; Caroline Holland, U of Toronto; Kath-

leen Coyne Kelly, Northeastern U; Anthony Lioi,

Juilliard School; Steve Mentz, St. John’s U, NY;

Orchid Tierney, U of Pennsylvania

How does place matter, even at a hotel-

entric

MLA conference? is session focuses on top-

ics related to New York City environs (e.g., the

Hudson, urban parks and ecosystems, tectonics,

superstorm impacts, and environmental justice)

but also on “climate controlled” and other kinds

of spaces. Please see our MLA Commons page for

information about a linked eld trip.

822. Exploring Literary and Nonliterary Texts

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Midtown, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LSL Linguistics

and Literature

1. “Carceral Metaphors in Literature and Nonc-

tion: A Corpus- Based Analysis,” Monika Flud-

ernik, U of Freiburg

2. “Second- Order Foregrounding in Nonstandard

Closed Similes,” Roi Tartakovsky, Tel AvivU

3. “e Rhetorical Construction of a Nineteenth-

Century Novena Reader: A Sociolinguistic Inven-

tory,” Cyril Belvis, De La Salle AranetaU

For related material, write to troyerr@

du.

823. e Madwoman in the Critic

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Flatiron, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Julia Miele Rodas,

Bronx Community C, City U of New York

1. “No Madwomen, No Geniuses, Only a Prosaic

Melancholy: Depressive Disorders in Louisa May

Alcott’s Moods and Work,” KarynM. Valerius,

HofstraU

2. “e Weight of Being Well: Decolonizing Men-

tal Health in Toni Cade Bambara’s e Salt Eaters

and Audre Lorde’s e Cancer Journals,” Lynne

Beckenstein, Graduate Center, City U of New York

3. “‘Mad Dykes Rule, OK?’: Camp Humorlessness

in Hothead Paisan,” Cynthia Barounis, Washing-

ton U in St. Louis

824. Aerlives of the Premodern

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Gibson, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC German

to 1700. Presiding: Anna Grotans, Ohio State U,

Columbus

1. “Of Honor and Shame: e Signicance of a

Medieval Concept in Modern Culture,” Kathrin

Gollwitzer- Oh, U of California, Berkeley

2. “Fischart’s Two Eulenspiegels,” Isaac Schendel,

U of Minnesota, Twin Cities

3. “e Aerlife of Sixteenth- Century Prose Nov-

els in German Romanticism,” Gudrun Bamberger,

Eberhard Karls U Tübingen

4. “Grass and Rühmkorf Reading Trostgedichte in

Commemoration of the Peace (1648/1998),” Rich-

ardE. Schade, U of Cincinnati

825. e Child: What Kind of Human Being?

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sugar Hill, Sheraton

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Sunday, 7 January 

A special session. Presiding: Anna Mae Duane,

Uof Connecticut, Storrs

1. “Criminal or Captive? e Childhood Origins

of Violence in e Confessions of Nat Turner,” Lu-

cia Hodgson, Texas A&M U, College Station

“

‘e Sorrow of Frado’: Black Abjection and

the Structure of Adulthood in HarrietW. Wilson’s

Our Nig,” Sam Plasencia, U of Illinois, Urbana

3. “Humanity and Black Sexuality in African

American Boarding Schools,” Mary Zaborskis,

VanderbiltU

“

Spiritualism and the Scamp: Queer Perfor-

mances of Childhood in e Life of Little Justin

Hulburd,” Amy Huang, BrownU

Respondent: DianaR. Paulin, Trinity C, CT

For related material, write to luciahodgson@

amu

.edu aer 15Dec.

826. Sound, Noise, and Silence in

Seventeenth- Century France

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse G, Hilton

Program arranged by the forum LLC 17th-

Century French. Presiding: Hall Bjornstad, Indi-

ana U, Bloomington

1. “e Politics and Poetics of Noise at the French

Court,” Sarah Beytelmann, Prince

onU

2. “‘Un bruit confus qui s’éleva tout d’un coup’:

e Fronde in Sound,” Ellen Welch, U of North

Carolina, Chapel Hill

“

La plainte entre la phoné et le logos: Réex-

ions pour une nouvelle philologie,” Hélène Merlin-

ajman, Ude Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle

Respondent: Sarah Kay, New YorkU

827. Crisis, Science, and Mexican Texts

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton

Program arranged by the forums LLC Mexican

and TC Science and Literature

1. “From Translation to Discovery: e Emergence

of Early Modern Sciences and New Spain’s Cultural

Borders,” Jaime Marroquin, Western OregonU

2. “Rereading Mexican Environmentalist Novels:

From López Portillo y Rojas to Rodríguez Barrón,”

Luis Felipe Gomez- Lomeli, U of Kansas

“

Wave, Particle, Chaos, and Entropy in Alberto

Blanco’s La hora y la neblina (2005),” RonaldJ.

Friis, FurmanU

Respondent: María del Pilar Blanco, U of Oxford,

TrinityC

828. Literary Criticism as Public Scholarship

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse A, Hilton

A special session. Presiding: Rosemary Erickson

Johnsen, Governors StateU

Speakers: Jim Cocola, Worcester Polytechnic Inst.;

Christopher Douglas, U of Victoria; Haythem

Guesmi, Ude Montréal; Rosemary Erickson John-

sen; Lorraine York, McMasterU

Panelists demonstrate compelling and successful

approaches to practicing literary criticism as public

scholarship, from writing on contemporary culture

and politics for broad reading publics to building

community partnerships. e session will be struc-

tured as an ignite talk, or PechaKucha format.

829. Revolutionary States: George Bernard

Shaw, 1918

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Columbus Circle, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Jennifer Buckley,

UofIowa

1. “Staging Immortality in 1918: Bernard Shaw

and Luigi Antonelli,” James Armstrong, Graduate

Center, City U of New York

2. “Revolutionaries of a Dierent Sort: Bernard

Shaw and Emma Goldman,” Virginia Costello,

Uof Illinois, Chicago

3. “Catching the Mood Postwar: Bernard Shaw

and Sean O’Casey,” Martin Meisel, ColumbiaU

4. “Women, Warriors: Redening ‘Woman’ in

Bernard Shaw’s andJ. M. Barrie’s Wartime Plays,”

Ellen Dolgin, Dominican C of Blauvelt

For related material, write to jennifer-

uckley@

iowa

du aer 1Dec.

830. Writing at is Moment: Contemporary

Poetry against American Imperialism

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Sutton Place, Sheraton

A special session. Presiding: Tana Jean Welch,

Florida StateU

1. “Layli Long Soldier’s Whereas: Poetic Interven-

tion into the Documents of Settler Colonialism,”

Andrea Quaid, BardC

2. “Post-Testimonio Poetics: A Critique of United

States–Led Imperialism in the Work of Craig San-

tos Pérez and Raúl Zurita,” Whitney DeVos, U of

California, Santa Cruz

3. “Juliana Spahr’s Anarchist Globalization,” Seth

McKelvey, Southern MethodistU

4. “Cathy Park Hong’s Dance Dance Revolution

and Dynamic Globalization: Fostering a New

World Community,” Tana Jean Welch

For related material, write to tana

welch@

fsu

du aer 1Oct.

[

PMLA

  

Forum Executive Committees

Listed here are the forum executive

committees for the 2018 convention

year (9Jan. 2017–7 Jan. 2018). The dates

after the names of executive commit-

tee members designate the conventions

that conclude the ﬁnal convention years

of their terms. (A convention year be-

gins after the close of one convention

and continues through the close of the

next; it is named for the convention

that concludes the year.) These listings

indicate which committee members are

currently serving as chair and secretary.

Normally, this year’s secretary becomes

next year’s chair.

Comparative Literary and

Cultural Studies (CLCS)

CLCS Medieval

J i l l R o s s , J a n . 2 0 1 8

E l e o n o r a S t o p p i n o , J a n . 2 0 1 9

Ma r i s a G a l v e z , J a n . 2 0 2 0 ( 2 0 1 7 – J a n .

2 0 1 8 C h . )

J o n a t h a n H s y , J a n . 2 0 2 1 ( 2 0 1 7 – J a n .

2 0 1 8 S e c . )

Z r i n k a S t a h u l j a k , J a n . 2 0 2 2

CLCS Renaissance and

EarlyModern

R a l p h B a u e r , J a n . 2 0 1 8

An s t o n B o s m a n , J a n . 2 0 1 9 ( 2 0 1 7 – J a n .

2 0 1 8 C h . )

Pa t r i c i a E . G r i e v e , J a n . 2 0 2 0 ( 2 0 1 7 – J a n .

2 0 1 8 S e c . )

Lynn Enterline, Jan. 2021

Ayesha Ramachandran, Jan. 2022

CLCS 18th-Century

Chi-ming Yang, Jan. 2018

Nicholas A. Rennie, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Natania Meeker, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Paul Kelleher, Jan. 2021

Sunil M. Agnani, Jan. 2022

CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century

Jan Mieszkowski, Jan. 2018

Matthew Potolsky, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Tilottama Rajan, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Stefani Engelstein, Jan. 2021

Claudia Brodsky, Jan. 2022

CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century

Sangeeta Ray, Jan. 2018

Nergis Ertürk, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Emily Apter, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018

Sec.)

Annette Damayanti Lienau, Jan. 2021

Alberto Moreiras, Jan. 2022

CLCS Arthurian

Bonnie Wheeler, Jan. 2018

Paul Vincent Rockwell, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Sian Echard, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018

Sec.)

Molly A. Martin, Jan. 2021

Karen Sullivan, Jan. 2022

CLCS Caribbean

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Supriya M. Nair, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Guillermina De Ferrari, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Raphael Dalleo, Jan. 2021

Jennifer M. Wilks, Jan. 2022

CLCS Celtic

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Amy Mulligan, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Lindy Brady, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018

Sec.)

Natasha Sumner, Jan. 2021

Melissa Ridley Elmes, Jan. 2022

CLCS Classical and Modern

Andrew C. Parker, Jan. 2018

Sarah Winter, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Seth Lerer, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018

Sec.)

Sarah Nooter, Jan. 2021

Vassilios Lambropolous, Jan. 2022

CLCS European Regions

Debra Ann Castillo, Jan. 2018

Sebastian Wogenstein, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Corinne Laura Scheiner, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

omas Oliver Beebee, Jan. 2021

Sara Kippur, Jan. 2022

.

]

Forum Executive Committees   

CLCS Global Anglophone

T oral Gajarawala, Jan. 2018

Tsitsi Jaji, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018

Ch.)

Snehal Shingavi, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Jenny Sharpe, Jan. 2021

Sonali Perera, Jan. 2022

CLCS Global Arab and Arab

American

Pauline Homsi Vinson, Jan. 2018

Hatem Akil, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Shaden M. Tageldin, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Karim Mattar, Jan. 2021

Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Jan. 2022

CLCS Global Hispanophone

Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, Jan. 2018

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Joyce Tolliver, Jan. 2019

Benita Sampedro, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Jan. 2021

Elisa G. Rizo, Jan. 2022

CLCS Global Jewish

Lisa Marcus, Jan. 2018

Maya Barzilai, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Simchi Cohen, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Martin B. Shichtman, Jan. 2021

Sara R. Horowitz, Jan. 2022

CLCS Global South

Roopika Risam, Jan. 2018

Anne Garland Mahler, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Mary Louise Pratt, Jan. 2021

Rosemary J. Jolly, Jan. 2022

CLCS Hemispheric American

Macarena Gomez- Barris, Jan. 2018

Gina Athena Ulysse, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Ana Lee, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018

Sec.)

Suyapa Portillo, Jan. 2021

Vanessa Valdés, Jan. 2022

CLCS Mediterranean

Anna Botta, Jan. 2018

Kathleen P. Long, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Nevine El Nossery, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Gregory S. Hutcheson, Jan. 2021

Claudio Fogu, Jan. 2022

CLCS Nordic

Kjerstin Moody, Jan. 2018

Dean Krouk, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Marianne Tranberg Stecher, Jan.

2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Olivia Noble Gunn, Jan. 2022

GENRE STUDIES (GS)

GS Children’s and Young Adult

Literature

Lee A. Talley, Jan. 2018

Jan Christopher Susina, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Michelle Ann Abate, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Ramona Caponegro, Jan. 2021

Philip Nel, Jan. 2022

GS Comics and Graphic

Narratives

Nhora Lucia Serrano, Jan. 2018

Christopher Pizzino, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Susan E. Kirtley, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Aaron Kashtan, Jan. 2021

Lan Dong, Jan. 2022

GS Drama and Performance

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Nadia Ellis, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Shane Vogel, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Ashon Crawley, Jan. 2022

GS Folklore, Myth, and

FairyTale

Constance Bailey, Jan. 2018

Casey Kayser, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Shelley Ingram, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Rosmarie T. Morewedge, Jan. 2021

Norma Elia Cantú, Jan. 2022

GS Life Writing

Georgia Kathryn Johnston, Jan. 2018

John Matteson, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Emily Hipchen, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Ricia Anne Chansky, Jan. 2021

John David Zuern, Jan. 2022

GS Nonction Prose

Howard Horwitz, Jan. 2018

Brian McGrath, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

David Bahr, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Catherine Taylor, Jan. 2021

Je Porter, Jan. 2022

GS Poetry and Poetics

Meta DuEwa Jones, Jan. 2018

Brian M. Reed, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Alexandra Socarides, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Angelica Alicia Duran, Jan. 2021

Ardis Buttereld, Jan. 2022

GS Prose Fiction

Hester Blum, Jan. 2018

Jennifer Wicke, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Gayle Rogers, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Jonathan Grossman, Jan. 2021

Kate Marshall, Jan. 2022

GS Speculative Fiction

Tyler Curtain, Jan. 2018

Gerry Canavan, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Alexis Lothian, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Mark Jerng, Jan. 2021

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

GS Travel Writing

Ali Behdad, Jan. 2018

David Farley, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Lauren Coats, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Erin Suzuki, Jan. 2021

Andrea Kaston Tange, Jan. 2022

 Modern Language Association

[

PMLA

HIGHER EDUCATION AND

THE PROFESSION (HEP)

HEP Community Colleges

Stacey Lee Donohue, Jan. 2018

Linda Weinhouse, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Michael A. Burke, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Miles McCrimmon, Jan. 2021

Shawn Casey, Jan. 2022

HEP Part-Time and Contingent

Faculty Issues

Lee Skallerup Bessette, Jan. 2018

(2017–Jan. 2018 Acting Ch.)

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Maria S. Grewe, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Robin J. Sowards, Jan. 2021

Sarah Harmon, Jan. 2022

HEP Teaching as a Profession

Robert Samuels, Jan. 2018

Rebecca E. Burnett, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Gerald Gra, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

David C. Lloyd, Jan. 2021

Claudia A. Becker, Jan. 2022

LANGUAGES,

LITERATURES, AND

CULTURES (LLC)

AFRICAN

LLC African to 1990

Adeleke Adeeko, Jan. 2018

Susan Z. Andrade, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Anjali Prabhu, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Wendy Laura Belcher, Jan. 2021

Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Jan. 2022

LLC African since 1990

Moradewun Adejunmobi, Jan. 2018

Phyllis Taoua, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Manori Neelika Jayawardane, Jan.

2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Naminata Diabate, Jan. 2021

Carmela Garritano, Jan. 2022

AMERICAN

LLC Early American

Matt Cohen, Jan. 2018

Sarah Rivett, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Monique Allewaert, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Duncan F. Faherty, Jan. 2021

Jordan Alexander Stein, Jan. 2022

LLC 19th-Century American

Dana Luciano, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Rodrigo Lazo, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Hsuan L. Hsu, Jan. 2020

Mark Riin, Jan. 2021

Gordon Fraser, Jan. 2022

LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-

Century American

Dale Marie Bauer, Jan. 2018

Russ Castronovo, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Edlie L. Wong, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Gavin Jones, Jan. 2021

Claudia Stokes, Jan. 2022

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century

American

Amy Hungerford, Jan. 2018

Heather Houser, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Joseph Jeon, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Gordon N. Hutner, Jan. 2021

Soyica Diggs Colbert, Jan. 2022

LLC African American

Deborah McDowell, Jan. 2018

Miriam aggert, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

abiti Lewis, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Koritha Mitchell, Jan. 2021

Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo, Jan.

2022

LLC Asian American

Crystal Parikh, Jan. 2018

Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

James Kyung-Jin Lee, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Jeehyun Lim, Jan. 2021

Heidi Kathleen Kim, Jan. 2022

LLC Chicana and Chicano

Laura Halperin, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Olga Herrera, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Richard T. Rodríguez, Jan. 2020

Jose Navarro, Jan. 2021

Jackie Cuevas, Jan. 2022

LLC Indigenous Literatures of

the United States and Canada

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Miriam Brown Spiers, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Melanie Benson Taylor, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Christopher Pexa, Jan. 2022

LLC Italian American

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Nancy Caronia, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Clarissa Clo, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Jessica L. Maucione, Jan. 2021

Teresa Fiore, Jan. 2022

LLC Jewish American

Victoria Aarons, Jan. 2018 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Maeera Yaa Shreiber, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Benjamin Schreier, Jan. 2020

Dean Joseph Franco, Jan. 2021

Sharon B. Oster, Jan. 2022

LLC Latina and Latino

Raúl Coronado, Jan. 2018

Maia Gil’Adi, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

John Alba Cutler, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Ariana Vigil, Jan. 2021

Carmen Lamas, Jan. 2022

LLC Literatures of the United

States in Languages Other

anEnglish

Stephanie A. Fetta, Jan. 2018

Sylvia Veronica Morin, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Uriel Quesada, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Karen Elizabeth Bishop, Jan. 2021

Bill Johnson Gonzalez, Jan. 2022

.

]

Forum Executive Committees 

LLC Southern United States

Ted Atkinson, Jan. 2018

Jolene Hubbs, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Gina Caison, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Michael Paul Bibler, Jan. 2021

Kirstin L. Squint, Jan. 2022

ARABIC

LLC Arabic

Waïl S. Hassan, Jan. 2018

Hoda El Shakry, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Tahia Abdel Nasser, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Michael Allan, Jan. 2021

Ghenwa Hayek, Jan. 2022

ASIAN

LLC East Asian

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Rivi Handler-Spitz, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Kelly Y. Jeong, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Geraldine Fiss, Jan. 2021

Jonathan Abel, Jan. 2022

LLC South Asian and South

Asian Diasporic

Rajender Kaur, Jan. 2018

Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Kanika Batra, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Gaura Shankar Narayan, Jan. 2021

Nira M. Gupta-Casale, Jan. 2022

LLC West Asian

Amy Motlagh, Jan. 2018

Nergis Ertürk, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Kamran Rastegar, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Jerey Sacks, Jan. 2021

Anthony Alessandrini, Jan. 2022

CANADA

LLC Canadian

Larissa Lai, Jan. 2018

Karis Shearer, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Nicholas Bradley, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Karina Vernon, Jan. 2021

Robert Zacharias, Jan. 2022

CATALAN

LLC Catalan Studies

Anton Pujol, Jan. 2018

Edgar Illas, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Henry Berlin, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Aurelie Vialette, Jan. 2021

Marta Marín-Dòmine, Jan. 2022

CHINESE

LLC Ming and Qing Chinese

Tina Lu, Jan. 2018

Liana Chen, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Nathan Faries, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Andrew Schonebaum, Jan. 2021

Li Guo, Jan. 2022

LLC Modern and

Contemporary Chinese

Christopher M. Lupke, Jan. 2018

Paul Manfredi, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Jiwei Xiao, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018

Sec.)

Christopher Tong, Jan. 2021

Haiyan Lee, Jan. 2022

DUTCH

LLC Dutch

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Yves T’Sjoen, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Johannes Burgers, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

James A. Parente, Jan. 2021

Russ Leo, Jan. 2022

ENGLISH

LLC Old English

Elaine Treharne, Jan. 2018

Matthew Hussey, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Renée R. Trilling, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Samantha Zacher, Jan. 2021

Nicole Guenther Discenza, Jan. 2022

LLC Middle English

Shannon Gayk, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Erin Felicia Labbie, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Julie Orlemanski, Jan. 2021

Lisa H. Cooper, Jan. 2022

LLC Chaucer

Mark Miller, Jan. 2018

Emma E. Lipton, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Catherine Sanok, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Eleanor Johnson, Jan. 2021

Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Jan. 2022

LLC 16th-Century English

Katherine Eggert, Jan. 2018

Ellen MacKay, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Anne Myers, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Steve Mentz, Jan. 2021

Adam Zucker, Jan. 2022

LLC Shakespeare

Elizabeth D. Harvey, Jan. 2018

Sarah Werner, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Gina Bloom, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Michelle M. Dowd, Jan. 2021

Andras Kisery, Jan. 2022

LLC 17th-Century English

Mihoko Suzuki, Jan. 2018

Julia Reinhard Lupton, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Sharon Achinstein, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Achsah Guibbory, Jan. 2021

Christopher Warren, Jan. 2022

LLC Restoration and Early-

18th-Century English

Sean D. Moore, Jan. 2018

Laura C. Mandell, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Laura L. Runge, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Roxann Wheeler, Jan. 2021

Betty Joseph, Jan. 2022

LLC Late-18th-Century English

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

 Modern Language Association

[

PMLA

Jayne Elizabeth Lewis, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Jonathan Sachs, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Ruth Mack, Jan. 2021

James Mulholland, Jan. 2022

LLC English Romantic

Mark E. Canuel, Jan. 2018

Margaret E. Russett, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Denise Gigante, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Colin Jager, Jan. 2021

Richard C. Sha, Jan. 2022

LLC Victorian and Early-20th-

Century English

Daniel Hack, Jan. 2018

David S. Kurnick, Jan. 2018

Aviva Briefel, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Coch.)

Daniel Akiva Novak, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Coch.)

Ellen Crowell, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Cosec.)

Carolyn Lesjak, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Cosec.)

Pamela K. Gilbert, Jan. 2021

Paul K. Saint-Amour, Jan. 2022

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century

English and Anglophone

Jahan Ramazani, Jan. 2018 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Debra Rae Cohen, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Peter J. Kalliney, Jan. 2020

Celia Marshik, Jan. 2021

John Marx, Jan. 2022

FRENCH

LLC Medieval French

Daisy J. Delogu, Jan. 2018

Kathy M. Krause, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Peggy Sue McCracken, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Mary Franklin-Brown, Jan. 2021

Anne-Hélène M. Miller, Jan. 2022

LLC 16th-Century French

Leah L. Chang, Jan. 2018

Cathy Yandell, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Phillip Usher, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Jan Miernowski, Jan. 2021

Elizabeth Black, Jan. 2022

LLC 17th-Century French

Faith E. Beasley, Jan. 2018

Valentina Denzel, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Jean-Vincent Blanchard, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Sylvaine Guyot, Jan. 2021

Toby Wikström, Jan. 2022

LLC 18th-Century French

Jennifer S. Tsien, Jan. 2018

Andrew Herrick Clark, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Laurence Mall, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Annelle Curulla, Jan. 2021

Fayçal Falaky, Jan. 2022

LLC 19th-Century French

Michael D. Garval, Jan. 2018

Patrick M. Bray, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Rachel L. Mesch, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, Jan. 2021

Elizabeth N. Emery, Jan. 2022

LLC 20th- and 21st-

CenturyFrench

Cybelle H. McFadden, Jan. 2018

Eric Trudel, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Michael Lucey, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

angam Ravindranathan, Jan. 2021

Sylvie Eve Blum-Reid, Jan. 2022

LLC Francophone

Cilas Kemedjio, Jan. 2018

Milena Santoro, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Richard H. Watts, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Lia Brozgal, Jan. 2021

Karl Ashoka Britto, Jan. 2022

GALICIAN

LLC Galician

Eugenia R. Romero, Jan. 2018

Obdulia E. Castro, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Gabriel Rei-Doval, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Danny Barreto, Jan. 2021

Germán Labrador Méndez, Jan. 2022

GERMAN

LLC German to 1700

Ann Marie Rasmussen, Jan. 2018

Jane Ogden Newman, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Anna Grotans, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Peter A. Hess, Jan. 2021

Karin Anneliese Wurst, Jan. 2022

LLC 18th- and Early-19th-

Century German

Elisabeth Krimmer, Jan. 2018

Jocelyn Holland, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Laurie Johnson, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Sean B. Franzel, Jan. 2021

Heidi Schlipphacke, Jan. 2022

LLC 19th- and Early-20th-

Century German

Jonathan S. Skolnik, Jan. 2018

Peter C. Pfeier, Jan. 2019

Katja Garlo, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Anette Schwarz, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Ashley A. Passmore, Jan. 2022

LLC 20th- and 21st-

CenturyGerman

Stefanie Harris, Jan. 2018

Devin A. Fore, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Kerstin Barndt, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Veronika Fuechtner, Jan. 2021

Elke Siegel, Jan. 2022

HEBREW

LLC Hebrew

Allison Schachter, Jan. 2018

Barbara Mann, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Vered Shemtov, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Naama Harel, Jan. 2021

Philip A. Hollander, Jan. 2022

HUNGARIAN

LLC Hungarian

Zsuzsanna Varga, Jan. 2018

Clara E. Orban, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

.

]

Forum Executive Committees 

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Lilla Balint, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Jessie M. Labov, Jan. 2022

IRISH

LLC Irish

Sean D. Moore, Jan. 2018

Mary M. Burke, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Catherine Anne Flynn, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Paige Reynolds, Jan. 2021

Clair Wills, Jan. 2022

ITALIAN

LLC Medieval and

RenaissanceItalian

David Lummus, Jan. 2018

Martin G. Eisner, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Kristin Phillips-Court, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Aileen Feng, Jan. 2021

Susan Gaylard, Jan. 2022

LLC 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-

Century Italian

Rachel A. Walsh, Jan. 2018

Adrienne Ward, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Sabrina Ferri, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Silvia Valisa, Jan. 2021

Enrico Vettore, Jan. 2022

LLC 20th- and 21st-

CenturyItalian

Allison A. Cooper, Jan. 2018

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Stefano Giannini, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Paola Bonifazio, Jan. 2021

Elena Margarita Past, Jan. 2022

JAPANESE

LLC Japanese to 1900

Charlotte Eubanks, Jan. 2018

Vyjayanthi Selinger, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Matthew Fraleigh, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Jonathan Zwicker, Jan. 2021

Naomi Fukumori, Jan. 2022

LLC Japanese since 1900

Melek Ortabasi, Jan. 2018

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Orna Shaughnessy, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Michael Emmerich, Jan. 2021 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Joanne Bernardi, Jan. 2022

KOREAN

LLC Korean

Jina Kim, Jan. 2018

Heekyoung Cho, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Kyeong-Hee Choi, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Christopher Hanscom, Jan. 2021

Ji-Eun Lee, Jan. 2022

LATIN AMERICAN

LLC Colonial Latin American

Cristian Roa, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Ivonne del Valle, Jan. 2019

Monica Diaz, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Elvira L. Vilches, Jan. 2021

Lisa Voigt, Jan. 2022

LLC 19th-Century Latin

American

Natalia Brizuela, Jan. 2018

José M. Rodríguez García, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Alicia B. Rios, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Nathalie Bouzaglo, Jan. 2021

Abraham Acosta, Jan. 2022

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century

Latin American

Jorge Coronado, Jan. 2018

Claudia Cabello-Hutt, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Héctor Hoyos, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Brenda Werth, Jan. 2022

LLC Cuban and Cuban

Diasporic

Jacqueline Loss, Jan. 2018

Emily Maguire, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Rachel Price, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Esther Allen, Jan. 2021

Tania Pérez-Cano, Jan. 2022

LLC Mexican

Ignacio Corona, Jan. 2018

Oswaldo Estrada, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Emily Hind, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Adela E. Pineda Franco, Jan. 2021

José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, Jan.

2022

LLC Puerto Rican

Liana Silva, Jan. 2018

Judith Sierra-Rivera, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Lena Burgos-Lafuente, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno, Jan.

2021

Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé, Jan. 2022

OCCITAN

LLC Occitan

Courtney Wells, Jan. 2018

Sarah Kay, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018

Ch.)

Jesús R. Velasco, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Juliet O’Brien, Jan. 2021

Elizabeth Hebbard, Jan. 2022

OLD NORSE

LLC Old Norse

Stephen J. Harris, Jan. 2018

Natalie Van Deusen, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Paul L. Acker, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Christopher Abram, Jan. 2021

Jay Paul Gates, Jan. 2022

PORTUGUESE

LLC Global Portuguese

Niyi Afolabi, Jan. 2018

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Ana Catarina Teixeira, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Katia C. Bezerra, Jan. 2021 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Leonora Souza Paula, Jan. 2022

 Modern Language Association

[

PMLA

LLC Luso-Brazilian

Robert Patrick Newcomb, Jan. 2018

Cesar Braga-Pinto, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Pedro Meira Monteiro, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Estela J. Vieira, Jan. 2021

Marcus V. C. Brasileiro, Jan. 2022

ROMANIAN

LLC Romanian

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Adriana Gradea, Jan. 2019

Anca Luca Holden, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Oana Sabo, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Florina Catalina Florescu, Jan. 2022

SCOTTISH

LLC Scottish

Corey Edward Andrews, Jan. 2018

Rivka Swenson, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Juliet Shields, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Tony Jarrells, Jan. 2021

Steven L. Newman, Jan. 2022

SEPHARDIC

LLC Sephardic

Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, Jan. 2018

(2017–Jan. 2018 Acting Ch.)

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Nohemy Solórzano-ompson, Jan.

2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Bethany Beyer, Jan. 2021

Ruth Malka, Jan. 2022

SLAVIC

LLC Russian and Eurasian

Serguei Alex Oushakine, Jan. 2018

Benjamin Palo, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Jeerson J. A. Gatrall, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Jan. 2021

Leah Feldman, Jan. 2022

LLC Slavic and East European

Julia Vaingurt, Jan. 2018

Gabriella Safran, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Edyta M. Bojanowska, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Emily Van Buskirk, Jan. 2021

Vitaly Chernetsky, Jan. 2022

SPANISH AND IBERIAN

LLC Medieval Iberian

Cristina Guardiola, Jan. 2018

Nadia R. Altschul, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Michelle M. Hamilton, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Connie L. Scarborough, Jan. 2021

Matthew J. Bailey, Jan. 2022

LLC 16th- and 17th-Century

Spanish and Iberian Drama

Harry Vélez-Quiñones, Jan. 2018

Amy R. Williamsen, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Sherry M. Velasco, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro, Jan. 2021

Margaret Boyle, Jan. 2022

LLC 16th- and 17th-Century

Spanish and Iberian Poetry

andProse

Leah Wood Middlebrook, Jan. 2018

John Slater, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Ana M. Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Jan.

2020 (2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Miguel Martinez, Jan. 2021

Emilie L. Bergmann, Jan. 2022

LLC 18th- and 19th-Century

Spanish and Iberian

David atcher Gies, Jan. 2018

Rebecca Haidt, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Lisa Surwillo, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Leigh Mercer, Jan. 2021

Catherine Marie Jae, Jan. 2022

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century

Spanish and Iberian

Cristina Moreiras-Menor, Jan. 2018

Mario Santana, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Ana Corbalan, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Malcolm Alan Compitello, Jan. 2021

Jorge P. Pérez, Jan. 2022

YIDDISH

LLC Yiddish

Allison Schachter, Jan. 2018

Gabriella Safran, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Agnieszka Legutko, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Samuel Spinner, Jan. 2021

Sunny Yudko, Jan. 2022

LANGUAGE STUDIES

AND LINGUISTICS (LSL)

LSL Applied Linguistics

Elizabeth Bernhardt, Jan. 2018

Lee B. Abraham, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Per Urlaub, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Mary Wildner-Bassett, Jan. 2021

Fernando Rubio, Jan. 2022

LSL General Linguistics

Covadonga Lamar Prieto, Jan. 2018

Angela Helmer, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Mariche Bayonas, Jan. 2021

Armik Mirzayan, Jan. 2022

LSL Germanic Philology and

Linguistics

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Tina Boyer, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Heiko Wiggers, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Adrienne Damiani Merritt, Jan.

2022

LSL Global English

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Melissa Dennihy, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Don Fette, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan. 2018

Sec.)

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

.

]

Forum Executive Committees 

LSL Language and Society

Ken Hirschkop, Jan. 2018

A. Suresh Canagarajah, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Jonathan Arac, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Rebecca Dingo, Jan. 2021

Christopher Jenks, Jan. 2022

LSL Language Change

T. Craig Christy, Jan. 2018

Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino, Jan.

2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

D. Brian Mann, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Taryn Hakala, Jan. 2021

Roshawnda Derrick, Jan. 2022

LSL Linguistics and Literature

Robert Troyer, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan.

2018 Acting Ch.)

David L. Hoover, Jan. 2019

Billy Clark, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Anja Mueller-Wood, Jan. 2021

Martin Joel Gliserman, Jan. 2022

LSL Romance Linguistics

M. Emma Ticio Quesada, Jan. 2018

Jason Doroga, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Carolina Gonzalez, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Julio Villa-Garcia, Jan. 2021

Svetlana Tyutina, Jan. 2022

LSL Second-Language Teaching

and Learning

Jennifer Redmann, Jan. 2018

Lunden Eschelle MacDonald, Jan.

2019 (2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Sheri Spaine Long, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Kate Paesani, Jan. 2021

Glenn Levine, Jan. 2022

MEDIA STUDIES (MS)

MS Opera and Musical

Performance

Matthew W. Smith, Jan. 2018

Alessandra Campana, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Ian Duncan, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Irene Morra, Jan. 2022

MS Screen Arts and Culture

Caetlin Benson-Allott, Jan. 2018

Rob King, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018

Ch.)

Christina Gerhardt, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Rebecca A. Wanzo, Jan. 2021

Sara Saljoughi, Jan. 2022

MS Sound

Daniel Snelson, Jan. 2018 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Mark Sample, Jan. 2019

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Jennifer Stoever, Jan. 2021

Marci R. McMahon, Jan. 2022

MS Visual Culture

Lisa Siraganian, Jan. 2018

Elizabeth Swanstrom, Jan. 2018

Ariella Azoulay, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

David S. Ferris, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Laura Wexler, Jan. 2021

W. J. T. Mitchell, Jan. 2022

RHETORIC,

COMPOSITION, AND

WRITING STUDIES (RCWS)

RCWS Creative Writing

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Jason A. Schneiderman, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Louis Bury, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Tonya Foster, Jan. 2021

David Caplan, Jan. 2022

RCWS History and eory of

Composition

John C. Brereton, Jan. 2018

Risa Applegarth, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Jean Ferguson Carr, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Amy Anderson, Jan. 2021

Bruce Horner, Jan. 2022

RCWS History and eory

ofRhetoric

Stephanie Lynn Kerschbaum, Jan.

2018

Casie Cobos, Jan. 2019

James J. Brown, Jr., Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Donnie Sackey, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Christa Teston, Jan. 2022

RCWS Literacy Studies

Cheryl E. Ball, Jan. 2018

Suzanne Blum Malley, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Alanna Frost, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Peggy D. Otto, Jan. 2021

Annette Vee, Jan. 2022

RCWS Writing Pedagogies

Catherine Jean Prendergast, Jan.

2018

Bonnie Lenore Kyburz, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Julia Voss, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan. 2018

Sec.)

Deborah H. Holdstein, Jan. 2021

Douglas Eyman, Jan. 2022

THEORY AND METHOD

(TM)

TM Bibliography and Scholarly

Editing

Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Jan. 2018

Lindsey Jane Eckert, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Amanda Golden, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Ryan Cordell, Jan. 2021

Dawn Childress, Jan. 2022

TM Book History, Print

Cultures, Lexicography

Robert DeMaria, Jan. 2018

J. Lawrence Mitchell, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Eleanor F. Shevlin, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Jonathan Senchyne, Jan. 2021

Laura Forsberg, Jan. 2022

TM Language eory

Irma Alarcon, Jan. 2018

Donny Vigil, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Ager Gondra Astigarraga, Jan. 2020

(2017–Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Mary Hayes, Jan. 2021

Natalie E. Gerber, Jan. 2022

 Modern Language Association

[

PMLA

TM Libraries and Research

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Harriett Green, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Amanda L. Watson, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Brian Rosenblum, Jan. 2021

Amy Chen, Jan. 2022

TM Literary and

Culturaleory

Tilottama Rajan, Jan. 2018

Peter M. Logan, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Jane Gallop, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Jerey J. Williams, Jan. 2021

Lee Edelman, Jan. 2022

TM Literary Criticism

Rita Felski, Jan. 2018

Bill Brown, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan. 2018

Ch.)

Robert Tally, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Andrew Cole, Jan. 2021

Caroline E. Levine, Jan. 2022

TM e Teaching of Literature

Mary McAleer Balkun, Jan. 2018

Margaret Maurer, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Roberta Rosenberg, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Derek Furr, Jan. 2021

Clement Akassi, Jan. 2022

TRANSDISCIPLINARY

CONNECTIONS (TC)

TC Age Studies

Elizabeth L. Gregory, Jan. 2018

Valerie Barnes Lipscomb, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Sally Chivers, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Nancy C. Backes, Jan. 2021

Jacob Jewusiak, Jan. 2022

TC Anthropology and Literature

Gabriele M. Schwab, Jan. 2018

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Supritha Rajan, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec. and Acting Ch.)

Mrinalini Chakravorty, Jan. 2021

John Paul Riquelme, Jan. 2022

TC Cognitive and Aect Studies

Jonathan Kramnick, Jan. 2018

Patrick Colm Hogan, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Alan Richardson, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Suzanne Parker Keen, Jan. 2021

Kay Young, Jan. 2022

TC Digital Humanities

Matthew K. Gold, Jan. 2018

Mark Sample, Jan. 2018

Cheryl E. Ball, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Coch.)

Lauren Klein, Jan. 2019

Rachel Buurma, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Coch.)

Jentery Sayers, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Victoria E. Szabo, Jan. 2021

Élika Ortega, Jan. 2022

TC Disability Studies

Allison Hobgood, Jan. 2018

erí Alyce Pickens, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Cynthia Wu, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Rachel Adams, Jan. 2021

Julie Minich, Jan. 2022

TC Ecocriticism and

Environmental Humanities

Stephanie LeMenager, Jan. 2018

Jerey Cohen, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Sharon O’Dair, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Byron Caminero-Santangelo, Jan.

2021

Ron Broglio, Jan. 2022

TC History and Literature

Marguerite Helen Helmers, Jan. 2018

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Ourida Mostefai, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

[position unlled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Eleni Eva Coundouriotis, Jan. 2021

Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Jan. 2022

TC Law and the Humanities

Imani Perry, Jan. 2018

Richard Weisberg, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Kevin Curran, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Melissa J. Ganz, Jan. 2021

Kathryn D. Temple, Jan. 2022

TC Marxism, Literature,

andSociety

Zahid R. Chaudhary, Jan. 2018

Cesare Casarino, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Nicole Fleetwood, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Christopher John Neweld, Jan.

2021

Gavin Arnall, Jan. 2022

TC Medical Humanities and

Health Studies

Rebecca Garden, Jan. 2018

omas Lawrence Long, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Andrea Charise, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Erin Lamb, Jan. 2021

Alvan Ikoku, Jan. 2022

TC Memory Studies

Stef Craps, Jan. 2018

Marianne Hirsch, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Kyle Pivetti, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Debarati Sanyal, Jan. 2021

Michael Rothberg, Jan. 2022

TC Philosophy and Literature

Jacques Lezra, Jan. 2018

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Susan Bernstein, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Jerey T. Nealon, Jan. 2021

Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Jan. 2022

TC Popular Culture

Ellen McCracken, Jan. 2018

Laura G. Gutierrez, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Gwendolyn Pough, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Francesca erese Royster, Jan. 2021

Bishnupriya Ghosh, Jan. 2022

TC Postcolonial Studies

Nouri Gana, Jan. 2018

Nicholas Mainey Brown, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Elizabeth Anker, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Sheri-Marie Harrison, Jan. 2021

Sonali akkar, Jan. 2022

TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis,

and Literature

Elissa Marder, Jan. 2018

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Forum Executive Committees 

Frances L. Restuccia, Jan. 2019

(2017–Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Calvin  omas, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Lauren Berlant, Jan. 2021

Michelle Ann Stephens, Jan. 2022

TC Race and Ethnicity Studies

Penelope M. Kelsey, Jan. 2018

Ruby Tapia, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Martin J. Ponce, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Ira Dworkin, Jan. 2021

[position un lled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

TC Religion and Literature

Lisa M. Gordis, Jan. 2018

Adrienne Williams Boyarin, Jan.

2019

Misty G. Anderson, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Feisal G. Mohamed, Jan. 2021 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Joshua Pederson, Jan. 2022

TC Science and Literature

Pamela Gossin, Jan. 2018

Allison Carruth, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Anne Stiles, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

J. Andrew Brown, Jan. 2021

James J. Bono, Jan. 2022

TC Sexuality Studies

Martha Nell Smith, Jan. 2018 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Scott Herring, Jan. 2019 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Karma Lochrie, Jan. 2020

[position un lled on 2017–Jan. 2018

committee]

Madhavi Menon, Jan. 2022

TC Translation Studies

Giada Biasetti, Jan. 2018

Michael Gibbs Hill, Jan. 2019 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Ch.)

Daniel Balderston, Jan. 2020 (2017–

Jan. 2018 Sec.)

Anne E. B. Coldiron, Jan. 2021

Keith Leslie Johnson, Jan. 2022

TC Women’s and Gender Studies

Madelyn Detlo , Jan. 2018

Pamela Brown, Jan. 2019

Mabel Cuesta, Jan. 2020 (2017–Jan.

2018 Ch.)

Christina León, Jan. 2021 (2017–Jan.

2018 Sec.)

Natasha Hurley, Jan. 2022

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