Saturday, November 10, 2001

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 3

Body, Voice, and Narrative Form in Working-Class Literature

CHAIR:

Jeanne Follansbee Quinn, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University

PAPERS:

Lawrence Hanley, Department of English, The City College City University of New York
Class Struggle in the Contact Zone: the Monstrous Project of Proletarian Literature

Joseph Entin, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University
Disfigured Bodies and Narrative Experimentation in Depression-Era Working-Class Literature

Pamela Annas, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Bodily Break-Up and Bodily Integrity in Harriet Arnow's The Dollmaker and Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina

COMMENT:

Jeanne Follansbee Quinn

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 4

Clandestine Formations of Black (U.S.) Publics: Finding the Political in Civic Expression (TALK)

CHAIR:

May Joseph, Pratt University

PAPERS:

Lisa M. Coleman, African American Center, Tufts University
"Digital Black Bridges: Public Practice(s) of Culture in Virtual/.com 'Communities'"

Ebony Chatman, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
"Tent Cities and the Activist Camp: Emergency Shelter in Civic Discourse"

Eva George, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
"Playing Double Dutch: The Travels of Black Cultural Criticisms and The Politics of Expression in the Public Terrain"

Malika Saada Saar, The Law School, Georgetown University
"Crossing the River: Voice, Intersection, and the Reclamation of Lost Parts"

COMMENT:

May Joseph

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 5

Alternative Memories/Alternative Publics: Race, U.S. Imperialism, and the Crisis of Liberalism

CHAIR:

Grace Hong Kyungwon, Department of English, Princeton University

PAPERS:

Jodi Melamed, Department. of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
"No Deed but Memory": W.E.B. Du Bois's Soliloquy for the Communist Century

Cynthia Tolentino, Department of English, Vassar College
Development, Desire and Subjectivity in Cuban American, Filipino American, and Vietnamese American Writing

Victor Bascara, Department of English, University of Georgia
'Whoa, Da Spooky': Embodying the Limits of Pluralism in Darrell Lum's 'Four Score and Seven Years Ago'

COMMENT:

Grace Hong Kyungwon, Department of English, Princeton University

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 12

Objects of Contestation

CHAIR:

Pamela Warford, American Studies Program, Georgetown College

PAPERS:

Paula Kopacz, Department of English, Eastern Kentucky University, and David Patrick, Computer Industry Consultant
Quilting Codes in Antebellum America: A Website Approach to History and Myth

Laura Browder, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University
Sheep Hill Memories, Carver Dreams: Creating a Living Newspaper Today

Lawrence S. Hashima, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Public Memories, Community Discord: The Battle over the "Japanese American Creed"

COMMENT:

Julie Brown, Independent Scholar

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 8

The Literary Performance of Otherness

CHAIR:

Johnnella Butler, American Ethnic Studies Department, University of Washington

PAPERS:

Eleanor Kaufman, Department of English, University of Virginia
Jewish Cowgirls and Cowboys Take Flight

Tonia L. Payne, English Department, Nassau Community College, State University of New York
Familiars in Strange Lands: Terrestrial Aliens and the Negotiation of Otherness in the Science Fiction of Ursula K. LeGuin

Susan Muchshima Moynihan, American Studies Program, Purdue University
The Autobiographical Authenticity of the Asian Other: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior and Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha

COMMENT:

Mara Scanlon, Department of English, Linguistics and Speech, Mary Washington College

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 10

"Made in the USA": A Roundtable on International Students in American Studies Graduate Programs (ROUNDTABLE--Sponsored by the International Committee of the ASA)

CHAIR:

Robert G. Lee, Department of American Civilization, Brown University

PANELISTS:

Kun Li, Department of International Communication and Cultural Exchange, Peking University

Lesley Marx, Department of English, University of Cape Town

Susanne Wiedemann, Department of American Civilization, Brown University

Eriko Ogihara, Department of American Studies, University of Iowa

Masako Notoji, Executive Director, International Liason, Japanese Association of American Studies

COMMENT:

Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 16

Engaging Multiple Publics through a Collaborative NEH Project: Stories from the Keeping and Creating American Communities Program (ROUNDTABLE--Sponsored by ASA Secondary Education Committee)

CHAIR:

Mimi Dyer, Department of English, Kennesaw Mountain High School

PANELISTS:

Sarah Robbins, Keeping and Creating American Communities, Kennesaw State University

Peggy Corbett, Sequoyah High School, Canton, Georgia

Linda Stewart, Freshman Composition Program, Kennesaw State University

Leslie Walker, Campbell High School, Smyrna, Georgia

Bernadette Lambert, Literacy Coordinator, Cobb County School District

COMMENT:

Cristine Levenduski, Department of English, Emory University

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 18

Race and the Origins of U.S. Cinema

CHAIR:

Glen Mimura, Asian American Studies Department, University of California, Irvine

PAPERS:

Curtis Marez, American Studies Program, University of California, Santa Cruz
Warner Brothers and the Magon Brothers, or How Mexicans Made Hollywood

Jacqueline Stewart, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
Riddles of Blackness in Early American Cinema

Rosa Linda Fregoso, Women and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis
Chiquita, Carmencita and Maria: Imagining Chicana/Mexicana Femininity in Silent Cinema

COMMENT:

Glen Mimura

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 13

Indians in the Act: Native Performance Past and Present

CHAIR:

Carol Miller, Program in American Studies and Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota

PAPERS:

Craig Howe, Department of American Culture Studies, Washington University
Counting Coup Lakota Style: Brave Acts and Dramatic Reenactments

Dean Rader, Department of English, University of San Francisco
Native American Poetry as Performance

Harvey Markowitz, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Lakota Winter Counts and Performance

LeAnne Howe, Department of English, Wake Forest University
Circling the Wagons: Confessions of a Native American Playwright and Director

COMMENT:

Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 14

Learning from the Local: Pedagogy and Public Space in the Chesapeake Region (ONLINE--Sponsored by the Chesapeake Chapter of the ASA)

CHAIR:

Warren Belasco, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

PAPERS:

Brett Williams, Department of Anthropology, American University
Washington, D.C.: The City as Text

Ed Orser, American Studies Department, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
If All Politics are Local, Then All Local Projects are Political

Kelly Quinn, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, and Mary Sies, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Civic Domesticity/Multiple Publics: Learning From Langston Terrace and Virtual Greenbelt

COMMENT:

Warren Belasco

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 19

Narrating the Nation through Art, Politics, and Intellectual History

CHAIR:

Karla Erickson, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota

PAPERS:

Randel D. Hanson, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State Univesity
Nations, States, Corporations and Tribes: Extending the Scholarly and Teaching Strategies of
David W. Noble

Zoltan Vajda, Department of American Studies, University of Szeged
Political Languages in John C. Calhoun's Nullification Rhetoric

Bill Anthes, Department of Art, University of Memphis
Nationalism and Nomadic Subjects: Recent Work by Native American and Canadian First Nations Artists

Karl Martin, Department of Literature, Point Loma Nazarene University
American History According to American Evangelicals

COMMENT:

Karen L. Murphy, Facing History and Ourselves

8:00 - 9:45 AM Room 7

The Cultural Capital of Antislavery

CHAIR:

Mary Rigsby, Department of English, Linguistics, and Speech, Mary Washington College

PAPERS:

Richard S. Lowry, American Studies Program, The College of William and Mary
Slavery, a Love Story: Harriet Jacob's Horrible Intimacy

Elisa Tamarkin, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Antislavery Soiree; or Pleasantries of the Cause

COMMENT:

Eric Sundquist, Weinberg College of Arts and Science, Northwestern University

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 3

New Work in Youth Culture Studies: Emerging Debates, Public Interventions (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Joe Austin, Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University

PANELISTS:

Paula S. Fass, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

Mary Celeste Kearney, Department of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas, Austin

Eric C. Schneider, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 4

Souls and Commodities: Spirituality, Religion, and the Literary Marketplace in Post-War America

CHAIR:

Jan Blodgett, Archivist, Davidson College

PAPERS:

Paul Gutjahr, Department of English, Indiana University
The Perseverance of Print-Bound Saints: The Astounding Growth of Religious Publishing Since WWII

Amy Johnson Frykholm, Program in Literature, Duke University
Not Your Mama's Christian Fiction

Erin Smith, American Studies Program, University of Texas, Dallas
"The Decade of the Soul": Spirituality, Self-Help, and the Literary Marketplace in the 1990s

COMMENT:

Jan Blodgett

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 5

Academy After Activism

CHAIR:

Amitava Kumar, Department of English, Penn State University

PAPERS:

Andrew Ross, American Studies Program, New York University
The Case for Intellectual Activism

Avery Gordon, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Elizabeth Robinson, KCSB Radio
No Alibis: a Community Radio Collaboration

Jane Juffer, English Department, Penn State University
Sweat, Ethics, and the Corporate U: Student Alternatives to the Nostalgic Critique

Raza Mir, School of Business Administration, Monmouth University
Poetry Against Bombs: Organizing Across Class in the South Asian Diaspora in New York

Lindsay Waters, Harvard University Press, Harvard University
Multiple Publics and Academic Work

COMMENT:

Amitava Kumar

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 12

Making It Public: Putting Multicultural Research Online (ONLINE)

CHAIR:

Joshua Brown, American Social History Project, City University of New York

PAPERS:

Cora Agatucci, Department of Humanities, Central Oregon Community College, and Kathleen Walsh, Department of Humanities, Central Oregon Community College
Going Online to Develop and Communicate Student Perspectives on World and Multicultural Writers

Daryl J. Maeda, Densho Project, University of Michigan
Whose History Is It? The Desho Project, Online Access, and the Narration of Japanese American History

Kathleen Fox, Computer Sciences Department, Northwestern Connecticut Community College
The Invisible Student in a Web-Based Classroom

Danielle Bouchard, Department of Women's Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Educating in the Politics of Knowledge Production: Using Voices From the Gaps as the Central Focus of a Course

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 8

El Pueblo (Dis)Unido (The People (Dis)united): (Re)mapping Identity, Community, and Insurgency in Chicano/Latino Communities in the 1960s and 70s (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Ernesto Chavez, Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso

PANELISTS:

Marisol Moreno, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

Jason Ferreira, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Marisela Chávez, Department of History, Stanford University

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 9

Labor and Working-Class History Association Roundtable: The Cultural Turn in Working-Class Studies (ROUNDTABLE--Sponsored by the Labor and Working-Class History)

CHAIR:

Daniel E. Bender, Department of History, New York University

PANELISTS:

Ardis Cameron, Department of American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine

Rosanne Currarino, Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania

Kimberly L. Phillips, Departments of History and American Studies, The College of William and Mary

Gerald Ronning, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 10

FOCUS ON TEACHING DAY--Bridging the Divide: Race and Ethnicity in the High School and University U.S. Literature and History Classroom (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Jeff Berglund, Department of English, Northern Arizona University

PANELISTS:

Anna Creadick, Department of English, Colgate University

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 11

Visible Knowledge(s), Visual Teaching, and Teaching Visually: A Roundtable and Multimedia Presentation on Conceptual Visualization in American Studies Learning (ROUNDTABLE--Sponsored by the American Studies Crossroads Project's Visible Knowledge)

CHAIR:

Bret Eynon, Center for Excellence in Teaching with Technology, City University of New York, La Guardia

PANELISTS:

Sherry Linkon, American Studies Department, Youngstown State University

Colleen Tremonte, Writing and American Culture Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing

Michael Coventry, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown University

Susan Kilgore, General Education Program, Washington State University, Pullman

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 15

Civic Design, Public Space, and the Washington Mall: A Roundtable Discussion on the National World War II Memorial (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

William Gleason, Department of English, Princeton University

PANELISTS:

J. Carter Brown, Chairman, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts

W. Kent Cooper, Trustee, Committee of 100 on the Federal City

George Hartman, Hartman-Cox Architectural Firm (Consulting Architect for the World War II Memorial)

Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, Roger K. Lewis Associates

E. Lynn Miller, FASLA, Business Faculty, University of Phoenix

Eleanor Holmes Norton, Democrat-District of Columbia, House of Representatives

Adam Sweeting, Division of Humanities and Rhetoric, Boston University

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 16

Nineteenth-Century Public Intellectuals

CHAIR:

Brigitte Bailey, Department of English, University of New Hampshire

PAPERS:

Robert J. Scholnick, Department of English and American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
Rationalizing "Manifest Destiny": John L. O'Sullivan, the Democratic Review, and the Rhetorics of Race, Empire, and Literary Nationalism in Ante-bellum America

Lisa MacFarlane, Department of English, University of New Hampshire
Henry Adams and the Unmaking of an American Tradition

Barbara Bair, Jane Addams Papers Project, Duke University
Jane Addams, Women's Education, and the Seminary Foundations of Her Public Intellectualism

COMMENT:

Charles Capper, Department of History, University of North Carolina

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 18

Contesting Testimonies: Voices from the U.S. Borderlands, 1862-1916

CHAIR:

Barry O'Connell, Department of English, Amherst College

PAPERS:

Tova Cooper, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
A Curriculum for Consent: Testimonial Histories of the U.S. Campaign to Educate the American Indian

Janet Dean, Department of English, University of South Dakota
"A True Statement of My Captivity": Sarah Wakefield's Border Testimonies

Laura Lomas, Department of Comparative Literature, The Pennsylvania State University
Translating Westward Expansion: Jose Marti's Writing on the U.S. Borderlands

COMMENT:

Barry O'Connell

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 13

A New Low for the U.S. Constitution: Rice v. Cayetano and the 14th and 15th Amendments in Relation to Native America, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

J. Kehaulani Kauanui, American Studies Department, Wesleyan University

PANELISTS:

Vincente M. Diaz, Humanistic Studies Program, University of Guam

Joanne Barker, American Indian Studies Department, San Francisco State University

Marvette Perez, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 14

Engaging Multiple Publics: Environmental Justice Politics, Poetics, Pedagogy, and Activism (ROUNDTABLE--Sponsored by The Environmental Studies Caucus)

CHAIR:

Joni Adamson, Department of English and Folklore, University of Arizona, Sierra Vista

PANELISTS:

Giovanna Di Chiro, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Robert Figueroa, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Colgate University

Cynder Hypki, Urban Arts Institute, Baltimore, Maryland

Valerie Kuletz, Department of American Studies, University of Canterbury

Andrea Simpson, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle

Bryant Smith, Urban Arts Institute, Baltimore, Maryland

Rachel Stein, English Department, Siena College

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 19

Postwar Culture and the Shape of the Feminine

CHAIR:

Catherine Jurca, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

PAPERS:

Sharon Corwin, Department of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
The Superpowers of Margaret Bourke-White: Constructing an Identity in the Age of the Machine (EXHIBIT)

Maureen Honey, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The Esquire Pin-Up Art of Alberto Vargas: Erotic Fantasies and Public Values

Marianne Conroy, Comparative Literature Program, University of Maryland, College Park
The Middlebrow and the Color Line: Carmen Jones, Dorothy Dandridge, and American Taste Cultures in the 1950s

COMMENT:

Catherine Jurca

10:00 - 11:45 AM Room 7

Marrying Alien and Native: Ethno-Religious Imaginations

CHAIR:

Randy Bass, English Department, Georgetown University

PAPERS:

Sharon M. Leon, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Tension Not Unlike That Produced By a Mixed Marriage: Catholic Reflections on Interracial Marriage and Anti-miscegenation Statutes, 1920-1950

Libby Garland, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan,
"A Dangerous Project": Jewish Americans and the Debates over Alien Registration Legislation in the Interwar Years

Thomas J. Ferraro, Department of English, Duke University
Cine Cucina

COMMENT:

Tracy Fessenden, Women's Studies and Religious Studies, Arizona State University

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 3

For American Studies Scholars Who Have Considered Suicide When the U.S. Is Just Too Much

CHAIR:

Roderick A. Ferguson, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

PAPERS:

Kulvinder Arora, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Keeping Faith in the Promised Land: South Asians Reinventing the Ethnic Paradigm

Kathy Glass, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Courting Communities

Victor Viesca, American Studies Program, New York University
Straight Out the Barrio: Chicano/a Cultural Politics in Post-Industrial Los Angeles

COMMENT:

Chandan Reddy, Department of English, University of Washington

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 5

Featured Session: Counter Publics in the Age of George W. Bush

CHAIR:

Cynthia Young, Department of English, Department of American Studies, and the Department of Ethnicity, University of Southern California

PANELISTS:

Katherine Arnoldi, Activist and Author

Chaumtoli Huq, Esq., Staff Attorney, Wheels of Justice Project New York Taxi Workers Alliance

Dylan Rodriguez, Critical Resistance

Cathy Cohen, Political Science Department, Yale University

COMMENT:

Audience

This panel brings together academics and activists working in and across multiple racialized and ethnicized communities on issues ranging from HIV/AIDS policy, immigrant rights, reproductive freedom, welfare reform, and the prison industrial complex. The goal of this panel will be first to outline and contours of and assess the shape of the George W. Bush era. How does his political vision and strategizing differ from or resemble those of his predecessors (both Democrat and Republican)? Do Bush-isms (the ideological, material and symbolic forms his regime uses) offer more or less opportunities for forming and mobilizing counter publics? Secondly, this panel will consider what it means to organize grassroots and marginalized constituencies at this historical conjuncture. This panel will assess the damage wrought and possibilities offered by the selection of George W. Bush.

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 12

Academic Job Interview in American Studies: A Demonstration Workshop (Sponsored by the ASA Students' Committee)

CHAIR:

Adam Golub, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin

"Search Committee":

Betty Bell, Department of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Kandice Chuh, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park

Dean Rader, Department of English, University of San Francisco

David Román, Department of English, University of Southern California

Eric Sandeen, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming

Michael Steiner, Department of American Studies, California State University, Fullerton

"Job Applicant":

William Anthes, Department of Art History, University of Memphis

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 8

Ritual, Business, and Gender Conventions in the Twentieth-Century

CHAIR:

Janet M. Davis, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin

PAPERS:

Jeffrey M. Hornstein, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park
Ritual and the Conventions of Middle-Class Masculinity, 1920-1980

Vicki Howard, Department of English, Rutgers University, Camden
Selling Tradition: Jewelers and the Business of Brides in the 1940s and 1950s

Stephanie Dyer, Department of History, Princeton University
Celebrating Suburban Domesticity in the "New Downtown": Rituals of Shopping Center Openings in the 1950s and 1960s

Katina L. Manko, Department of History, University of Delaware
"Welcome to Our World": the Business Rituals of Mary Kay Cosmetics

COMMENT:

Janet M. Davis

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 9

Multiple Voices and Spaces of American Studies Public Practitioners (ROUNDTABLE--Sponsored by the ASA Students' Committee)

CHAIR:

Janine Santiago, Foreign Languages and Literature, State University of New York, Brockport

PANELISTS:

Barbara Clark Smith, Social History Division, Smithsonian Institution

Cary Cordova, American Civilization Program, University of Texas, Austin

Barbara Franco, Executive Director, The Historical Society of Washington, DC

Michele A. Gates Moresi, American Studies Department, George Washington University

Teresa Murphy, American Studies Department, George Washington University

David Scobey, Arts of Citizenship Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 10

State Humanities Councils and the Scholarly Community: Putting Theory into Practice, a Roundtable Discussion (Sponsored by the National Endowment of the Humanities)

CHAIR:

Dwandalyn R. Reece, Office of Federal State Partnership, National Endowment of the Humanities

PANELISTS:

Joseph J. Kelly, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Humanities Council

Robert C. Vaughan, III, President, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

Michael Bouman, Executive Director, Missouri Humanities Council

Edward L. Ayers, Department of History, University of Virginia

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 11

Washington and "High" Culture: Case Studies in Public Support (Neglect?) of the Arts

CHAIR:

Cynthia Mills, Research and Scholars Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum

PAPERS:

Sara A. Butler, Department of Architectural History, University of Virginia
Public Architecture and Institutional Angst in the New Deal Era

Karene Grad, Department of American Studies, Yale University
"American Sputnik": Van Cliburn, Politics, and the Performing Arts

Alan H. Levy, Department of History, Slippery Rock University
The Mapplethorpe/Serrano/Helms Controversies: Their Roots and Legacies

COMMENT:

Cynthia Mills

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 16

A Roundtable on the Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color (ROUNDTABLE--Co-Sponsored by the ASA Women's Committee and the Minority Scholars' Committee)

CHAIR:

Sharon Harley, Afro-American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

PANELISTS:

Seung-kyung Kim, Asian American Studies Program, University of Maryland, College Park

Carol Boyce-Davies, African American Studies Program, Northwestern University

Lynn Bolles, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

Elsa Barkley Brown, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 18

"The Death of a National Landscape": Counternarratives to the Discourse of Bourgeois Nationalism (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

David W. Noble, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota

PANELISTS:

Frederick H. Damon, Anthropology Department, University of Virginia

Adrian T. Gaskins, Carter Woodson Institute, University of Virginia

Catherine C. Griffin, Development Officer, California Indian Legal Services

Mark D. Hulsether, Religious Studies and American Studies, University of Tennessee

Gaye T.M. Johnson, University of California

Scott Laderman, American Studies, University of Minnesota

Alex S. Lubin, Program in American Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder

Anne M. Martinez, American Studies, University of Minnesota

Meredith A. Wood, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 13

Music of the Americas I--Crossing the Color Line: African-Derived Music and Crossing into the "Free" Public Sphere (Sponsored by the Music of the Americas Caucus)

CHAIR:

Deborah Vargas, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz

PAPERS:

Gayle F. Wald, Department of English, George Washington University
Shout, Sister, Shout (Hallelujah): A Pre-History of "Women in Rock"

Sherie Tucker, Women's Studies Program, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Democracy on the Dance Floor: Gender, Race, and Nation at the Hollywood Canteen

Jon Panish, Department of English, Palomar College
Something "Quite Simple": Ken Burns' Jazz

COMMENT:

Raul Fernandez, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 14

Genetic Aesthetics/Aesthetic Genetics: Visualizing Genes and Transgenics in Art, Science, and Popular Culture

CHAIR:

Samira Kawash, Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

PAPERS:

Susan McHugh, Department of Literature, Culture, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology
Godzilla Is inside Each One of Us: Mutation and Genetic Aesthetics

Lisa Lillian Lynch, General Studies, New York University
Anatomy of an Exhibition: Genetic Aesthetics and the Controversy Surrounding Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution

Eugene Thacker, Comparative Literature Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
What Do Posthuman Bodies Look Like? Technoscience and New Media Art

COMMENT:

Samira Kawash

12:00 - 1:45 PM Room 19

Centennial Perspectives on the Philippine-American War (EXHIBIT)

CHAIR:

Julia Liss, Department of History, Scripps College

PAPERS:

Christopher A. Vaughan, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University
In the Shadow of War: Wartime American Conceptions of Filipinos

Sharon Delmendo, Department of English, St. John Fisher College
Early Colonial Juvenilia "Open[s] Up a New Continent of Fairy" in the Philippines

Allan Punzalan Isaac, Department of English, Wesleyan University
Boy Scouts in the Philippines; or Confederate Rebels in the Tropics

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 3

Antebellum Race's International Publics

CHAIR:

Robert Levine, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park

PAPERS:

Chris Castiglia, Department of English, Loyola University, Chicago
The Revoluation Will Not Be Novelized: International Rebellion and Civil Organization in Martin Delany's Blake

Robert Fanuzzi, Department of English, St. John's University
Antislavery and Social Pleasure: Civility in America

Donald Pease, Liberal Arts Program, Dartmouth College
C.L.R. James and Moby Dick: The Politics of Hospitality

COMMENT:

Sharon Patricia Holland, Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 4

From Fear of a Black Planet to "Bling, Bling" and Other Big Willie-isms: Black Popular Culture in the Clinton Era (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Mark Anthony Neal, Department of English, State University of New York, Albany

PAPERS:

S. Craig Watkins, Department of Radio-Television-Film, University of Texas Austin
Being Black, Being Digital: New Frontiers in Black Popular Culture

Nicole Johnson, Department of Africana Studies, State University of New York, Albany
Thru the Lookin' Glass with Slcik Willie: (An)other Look at Black Woman from Sister Soulja to "Cita"

Richard Iton, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto
Known Rivers/New Forms: The Politics of Black Popular Culture During the Clinton Era

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 5

Does Intellectual Property Threaten Intellectual Life?: A Roundtable on Teaching and Research (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Caren Irr, Department of English, Brandeis University

PANELISTS:

Cecelia Tichi, Department of English, Vanderbilt University

Peter Jaszi, College of Law, American University

Rick Weingarten, Office of Information Technology Policy, American Library Association

Robert Kasunic, Office of the General Counsel, US Copyright Office, Library of Congress

Siva Vaidhyanathan, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 12

Student Voices on Academic Freedom: Making Meaning of Domestic Cold War Abuses, an Intergenerational Conversation (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Adina Back, "Student Voices" Project Co-director, Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project of the Graduate School and University Center

PANELISTS:

William L. Taylor, Editor, Vanguard Newspaper (1950)

Rhoda H. Karpatkin, Editor, Vanguard Newspaper (1950)

J. Angus Johnston, Researcher and Interviewer, "Student Voices" Project

Anita Cunningham, Student, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

John A. Calabro, Student, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Gene Bluestein, Journalist, Vanguard Newspaper (1950)

COMMENT:

Adina Back

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 8

Genetics, Popular Culture and Political Identity (Sponsored by the Disability Studies Caucus of the ASA)

CHAIR:

Mark Kessler, Department of Political Science, Bates College

PAPERS:

Mark Jeffreys, Department of English, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Citizen X: Allegories of Genetic Mutants as Patriots and Terrorists in Unbreakable and The X-Men

Priscilla Wald, Department of English, Duke University
Genetics and the New Language of Rights

COMMENT:

Dana Seitler, Center for Teaching, Learning, and Writing, Duke University

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 9

African Women, Human Rights, and Migration (ROUNDTABLE--Sponsored by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society)

CHAIR:

Marilyn Halter, Department of History, Boston University

PANELISTS:

Newtona Johnson, Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University

Grace Dunbar, Programs Manager, Refugee Women's Network

Grace Nyatome, Department of Surgery, Jersey Medical Center

Violet Johnson, Department of History, Agnes Scott College

Annie May-Cole, Executive Secretary, Forum for African Women Educators

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 10

FOCUS ON TEACHING DAY--Attending the Voices of Multiple Constituencies: Creating an American Studies Program in a Small-College Setting (ONLINE & TALK)

CHAIR:

A. Joan Saab, Humanities Department, Eastman School of Music

PAPERS:

Douglas Howard, Associate Dean for First-Year Programs, St. John Fisher College
The Convergence Between American Studies Methodology and General Education Imperatives

Catharine O'Connell, Department of English, St. John Fisher College
Serving Many Masters, Mastering Many Services: Costs and Benefits of Versatility in the American Studies Program

Sara A. Robertson, Program in American Studies, St. John Fisher College
Why American Studies?

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 11

Were Chicanas/os Ever Colonized?: A Riddle (and Response) for Historians and Literary Critics

CHAIR:

Emma Pérez, Department of History, University of Texas at El Paso

PAPERS:

Sheila Contreras, Department of American Thought & Language, Michigan State University
Critically Speaking: Postcolonialism and Chicana/o Literary Discourse

Raúl Coronado, Jr., Modern Thought and Literature Program, Stanford University
Cycles of Conquest: From the Internal Colony Model to Latin American Subaltern Studies

Deena J. Gonzalez, History Department, Pomona College
Are We All That Different?: How Historians and Literary Critics Have Much in Common

John Morán González, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan
Theorizing Colonialism in Chicana/o Studies: Internal, Neo- and Post-

COMMENT:

Emma Pérez

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 15

Representing Radicals

CHAIR:

Christopher Wilson, English Department, Boston College

PAPERS:

Jeffory A. Clymer, English Department, St. Louis University
The Conspiratorial Public Sphere: Terrorism, Writing, and the 1886 Chicago Haymarket Bombing

Michael Cohen, American Studies Department, Yale University
Plutocrats and the Octopus: Conspiratorial Visions of American Radicals in the Early 20th Century

Rachel Groner, American Studies Department, Purdue University
Working for the "Other Side": The Vocabulary of Treason in 1990s Activist Narratives

COMMENT:

Alan Wald, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 16

Revising Canons and Politicizing the Teaching of American Visual Cultures (Sponsored by Visual Culture/Art History Caucus)

CHAIR:

Patricia Hills, Art History Department, Boston University

PAPERS:

Elizabeth West Hutchinson, Department of Art History, Barnard College/Columbia University
Getting Over It and Getting to Work: Expanding the American Survey

Kerry David Soper, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University
American Art Depreciation 101: The Benefits and Challenges of Using Cultural Studies Theory and Methodology in the Traditional Survey Course

Karen Stanworth, Faculty of Fine Arts and Education, York University
Visual Culture, Theory, and Practice: Developing an Ethical Subjectivity in Art Historical Research and Teaching

COMMENT:

Patricia Hills

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 18

Contested Closets: Passing, Coming Out, and Disability (Sponsored by the Disability Studies Caucus)

CHAIR:

Ann M. Fox, Department of English, Davidson College

PAPER: Robert McRuer, Department of English, George Washington University
Epistemology of the (Disabled) Closet

Michael Davidson, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Phantom Limbs: Film Noir and the Disabled Body

Debra Moddelmog, Department of English, Ohio State University
Coming Out Pedagogy: Risking and Enabling Identity in Language and Literature Classrooms

COMMENT:

Ann M. Fox

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 13

Music of the Americas II--Remembering/Forgetting the Nation: Diasporic Performances, Genres, and the Continual Remaking of the Public Space (Sponsored by the Music of the Americas Caucus)

CHAIR:

Sara Johnson-La O, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS:

John Charles Chasteen, Department of History, University of North Carolina
The Dance of Two: Reinventing Sexuality in the African Diaspora

Katherine Johanna Hagedorn, Music Department, Pomona College
Drum Talk: Discourses of Authenticity from the Public Drumming Ceremonies of Afro-Cuban Santeria in Havana, Matanzas, and Los Angeles

Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Department of Anthropology, Tufts University
The Transnationalization of Dominican Music and Identity: Merengue and Bachata in the US

COMMENT:

Jeffrey Belnap, College of Arts and Sciences, Brigham Young University, Hawai'i

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 14

The Real Folk: Tourism, Identity, and Attractions in the National Parks

CHAIR:

Dwight T. Pitcaithley, Chief Historian, National Park Service

PAPERS:

Stephen Taylor, Department of History, Macon State College
Building the Back of Beyond: Boosters, the National Park Service, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Denise D. Meringolo, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
Authoritative Landscapes: Historians, Scientists and the Specter of the Audience in Interpretive Strategies at Jamestown during the 1930s

C. Brenden Martin, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University
"I Stuck With the War Bonnet": Tourism and Cherokee Identity

COMMENT:

Dwight T. Pitcaithley

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 19

Museums and Memory

CHAIR:

Rebecca Zurier, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan

PAPERS:

Thomas H. Kane, English Department, University of Virginia
Mourning the Promised Land: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last Act, the Civil Rights Museum, and the Melancholic Sixties

Timothy B. Powell, Department of English, University of Georgia
Native/American Memory: The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and the Architecture of Contradiction

Sue Barker, Department of English, Depaul University
Beyond Gentrification: The Civic Appropriation of Academic Space in Chicago's Museum "Campus"

COMMENT:

Sally M. Promey, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland

2:00 - 3:45 PM Room 7

Incivil Society: Urban Publics in the Nation

CHAIR:

Lisa Lowe, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego

PANELISTS:

Shelley Streeby, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
The Culture of Sensation

Nayan Shah, Department of History, University of California, San Diego
Race, Public Health and Citizenship in San Francisco

Rachel Buff, Department of History, Bowling Green State University
A Tale of Two Cities: Brooklyn Citizenship and Denizenship in a Time of "White Flight"

Melani McAlister, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
Globalizing Sisterhood: Arab Women Writers and American Feminism, 1975-1985

COMMENT:

Jose David Saldivar, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 3

Japanese American Women Writers of the 1930s: Transnationalism and Civic Engagement

CHAIR:

Franklin S. Odo, Asian Pacific American Studies Program, Smithsonian Institution

PAPERS:

Shirley Lim Geok-Lin, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kathleen Tamagawa, Transnationalism, and Homelands

Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Department of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Negotiating Gender and Class in the Transnational Context: Ayako Ishigaki's Restless Wave

Greg Robinson, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University
1930s Japanese American Women Writers and the "Japanese Problem"

COMMENT:

Todd Vogel, Department of American Studies, Trinity College

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 4

Laws of Desire

CHAIR:

David B. Cruz, Law School, University of Southern California

PAPERS:

Bruce Burgett, Department of American Studies, University of Washington, Bothell
Manifest Sexuality; or, the Race for the Southwest

Chantal Nadeau, Communication Studies Department, Concordia University
Droit de sang, droit de sexe: Heredity and Queer Politics

Siobhan B. Somerville, Department of English, Purdue University
Unadulterated Americans: Homosexuality, Adultery, and Race in U.S. Immigration Law

COMMENT:

David B. Cruz

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 5

Race and Rights

CHAIR:

Rick Bonus, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington

PAPERS:

David Noon, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Plessy, Evolutionary Discourse, and the Guidance of "Racial Instinct"

Christopher Schmidt, History of American Civilization, Harvard University
Psychological Explanations of Racism in Brown v. Board of Education

Thomas M. Keck, Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma
Race and Rights in the 21st Century: The Conservative Campaign Against Affirmative Action and the Politics of Constitutional Rights

COMMENT:

Rick Bonus

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 12

Building Publics in Civic Spaces (EXHIBIT/TALK)

CHAIR:

Robert Goler, Arts Management Program, American University

PAPERS:

Sarah Luria, English Department, College of the Holy Cross
Capital Speculations: How Political Reform Built Washington, DC--A Slide Tour

Emily Fourmy Cutrer, American Studies Department, Arizona State University
Visualizing Memory: A Case Study in Visual Culture Scholarship

Laura Baker, American Studies Program, Georgetown University
From City-Building to Citizen-Building: The Implementation Campaign of the 1909 Plan of Chicago and the Reforming of Urban Reform

COMMENT:

Kevin McNamara, Program in Literature, University of Houston, Clear Lake

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 8

American Quarterly, American Studies, and the ASA (ROUNDTABLE--Sponsored by the Board of Advisory Editors of American Quarterly)

CHAIR:

Michael Frisch, Department of History, State University of New York, Buffalo

PANELISTS:

Jennifer De Vere Brody, Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago

Nan Enstad, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Gabriel Melendez, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico

Barry Shank, Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University

Nikhil Pal Singh, Department of History, University of Washington

COMMENT:

Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 9

Re-Mapping Home Anxieties: The Domestic/Local and the Foreign during the Cold War and Beyond

CHAIR:

Robert Perkinson, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa

PAPERS:

Natasha Zaretsky, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Familial Excesses: Middle Class Consumption, National Dependency, and the Oil Crisis of 1973

Mari Yoshihara, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Mirrors of the Star-Spangled Banner: Nation, Race, and Sexuality in Levy Hideo's and John Treat's Journeys to Japan

Yujin Yaguchi, Center for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo
Cowboys of the "Far West": Contextualizing the Hawaiian Paniolo in the American Tradition

COMMENT:

Robert Perkinson

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 10

The Role of American Studies within Environmental Studies (Sponsored by the ASA Environmental Caucus)

CHAIR:

Scott Slovic, Center for Environmental Arts and Humanities, University of Nevada, Reno

PANELISTS:

H. Daniel Peck, American and Environmental Studies Programs, Vassar College

Barton L. St. Armand, Department of American Civilization, Brown University

COMMENT:

Jim Farrell, Department of American Studies, St. Olaf College

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 11

Visual Literacy and the Creation of Publics for Art

CHAIR:

Wanda Corn, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University

PANELISTS:

Lesley Wright, Faulconer Art Gallery, Grinnell College

Shirley Teresa Wajda, Department of History, Kent State University

Kirsten Swinth, Department of History, Fordham University

Georgia Brady Barnhill, Curator of Graphic Arts, American Antiquarian Society

COMMENT:

Martha Sandweiss, Department of American Studies, Amherst College

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 15

Interdisciplinary Renderings of 60s Politics

CHAIR:

David Goldfield, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

PAPERS:

Gordon Hutner, Department of English, University of Kentucky
Civic Lessons: Race, Criticism, and Integration

Joan Morrison, Department of History, New School University
From Camelot to Kent State: Using Oral History to Delineate a Decade

COMMENT:

Kevin Mumford, Department of History, Towson University

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 16

Internationalizing the Study of North American Literatures and Cultures: Identifying Comparative Paradigms (TALK)

CHAIR:

Nancy Ruttenburg, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS:

Brian T. Edwards, Department of English, Northwestern University
Violent Crossings: Bowles, Camus, Fanon, Mrabet on the Maghreb

Benton Jay Komins, Department of American Culture and Literature, Bilkent University, and David G. Nicholls, Department of American Culture and Literature, Bilkent University
Comparative Narratives of the Frontier: the American Overland Trail and the Afrikaner Groot Trek

Chadwick Allen, Department of English, Ohio State University
Comparative Indigeneity: North American Literatures and the Fourth World

COMMENT:

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Department of English, Yale University

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 18

After Degrees of Shame: Finding Solutions to the Adjunct and Part-Time Employment Crisis (ROUNDTABLE--Co-Sponsored by the ASA Students' Committee and the Task Force on Part-Time and Adjunct Employment)

CHAIR:

Eve Meltzer, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

FILM: Barbara Wolf, Film Producer
A Simple Matter of Justice: Contingent Faculty Organize

PANELISTS:

Angel Kwolek-Folland, Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research, University of Florida, Gainesville

Michael Bérubé, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Rich Moser, National Field Representative, American Association of University Professors

Eric Marshall, Vice President for Part-Time Instructional Staff, Professional Staff Congress, City University of new York

COMMENT:

Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 13

Re-Presenting Class in the Mexican American/Chicana/o Public Spheres

CHAIR:

José Aranda, Department of English, Rice University

PAPERS:

José Limón, English and Anthropology Department, University of Texas at Austin
Mexican-American Literature, Barnes and Noble, and 'Community': The Remaking of the Hispanic Middle Class

Amelia María de la Luz Montes, Department of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton as 'Pocha': A Critique of Recovery, the Academy, and Contemporary Chicana Civic Voices

John-Michael Rivera, Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder
Emma Tenayuca's 'The Mexican Question' and the Capital Contradictions of the Mexican American Public Spheres

COMMENT:

José Aranda

4:00 - 5:45 PM Room 14

Foreign, Female and Fighting: De-centering U.S. Paradigms, Developing Transnational Perspectives on Italian Immigrant Women Workers, Exiles and Radicals

CHAIR:

Donna Gabaccia, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

PAPERS:

Jose Moya, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Italian Immigrant Women in Buenos Aires' Anarchist Movement, 1890-1910

Caroline Waldron Merithew, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
The Maternal Mission: Female Immigrant Anarchists' Activism in Illinois Coal Mining Communities

Jennifer Guglielmo, Department of History, University of