CHAIR:
Michael A. Elliott, Department of English, Emory University
PAPERS:
Joanne Barker, Program in Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
Inequality in Motion: Native Women, Constitutionalism, and the Question of SovereigntyKerry Wynn, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Body and Nation: Citizenship in the Movement From Indian Territory to Oklahoma, 1890-1920Sean Teuton, Department of English &Program in American Indian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Seeking the International Native American Scholar: Cherokee Nationhood and Human Rights
COMMENT:
Michael A. Elliott
CHAIR:
Raul A. Ramos, Department of History, University of Houston
PAPERS:
Laura Ehrisman, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Border Identities in Laredo's Washington's Birthday CelebrationAnthony Mora, Department of History, Texas A&M University
It Must Never Be Forgotten This is New and Not Old Mexico: Local Space, Race, and Nation on the Nineteenth-Century United States/Mexican BorderVincent Pérez, Department of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
California's Hispanic Narrative of Origins: Ambivalence and Mimicry in "Hacienda" Narratives
COMMENT:
Raul A. Ramos
CHAIR:
Joanne Pope Melish, Department of History, University of Kentucky
PAPERS:
Carter Jones Meyer, School of American and International Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey
"More Than a Local Triumph": Edgar Hewett and the Promotion of Pueblo Indian Culture, 1918-1926Christina Chia, Department of English, Duke University
Vanishing into the Color Line: Charles Chesnutt's "Black Indians"Heidi Hoechst, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Performing Erasure, Performing Survival: Catlin's Indians in Europe
COMMENT:
Joanne Pope Melish
CHAIR:
Patricia Hills, Art History Department, Boston University
PAPERS:
Susan Rather, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin
The Sign of the Painter: Art and Trade in Eighteenth-Century AmericaElisabeth Roark, Department of Art, Chatham College
"Crafting" the Artist's Identity: Tompkins Matteson's Erastus Dow Palmer in His Studio, 1857Emily Shapiro, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University
"An Art Not Unknown to the Delicate Hand": Labor and Gender in Charles Ulrich'sAn Amateur Etcher, 1882Julia Bryan-Wilson, Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
Hard Labor and Art Strikes: Robert Morris in 1970
COMMENT:
Patricia Hills
CHAIR:
Brenda Gayle Plummer, Department of History, University of Wisconsin
PAPERS:
Nikki L. Brown, Department of History, Kent State University
"How Could America Treat Her Loyal Blacks This Way?": African American Club Women and Postwar Appeals for Racial EqualityChad L. Williams, Department of History, Princeton University
A Bond Forged in Blood: The First World War and African American Diasporic ConsciousnessAdalaine Holton, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
Diasporic Histories, the Black Atlantic, and the Politics of Arthur Schomburg's ArchiveOmayra Cruz, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Thrill, Threat, and Promise: Black U.S.-Japanese Internationalism Between the Wars
COMMENT:
Brenda Gayle Plummer
CHAIR:
Renée Bergland, Department of English, Simmons College
PAPERS:
Bethany Schneider, Department of English, Bryn Mawr College
"May I Not Make a Question?": Elias Boudinot and the Translation of Cherokee National BelongingKendall Johnson, Department of English, Swarthmore College
Reading Black Hawk's Mark: George Catlin's Picturesque "Far West" and the Legibility of Indian RemovalStephanie LeMenager, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Prairie Cosmopolitanism: North America's Global Deserts
COMMENT:
Renée Bergland
CHAIR:
T. V. Reed, Program in American Studies, Washington State University, Pullman
PANELISTS:
Ilene Feinman, Program in Democratic Participation, California State University, Monterey BayRenny Christopher, Department of English, California State University, Channel Islands
John Trumbold, Independent Scholar
Noël Sturgeon, Department of Women's Studies, Washington State University, Pullman
Henry Schwarz, Program in Justice and Peace, Georgetown University
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Andrew Shyrock, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Akram Fouad Khater, Department of History, North Carolina State University
Discovering Ethnicity: Arab Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1914Khaled Mattawa, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
Notions of the Universal and the Arab American Experience: Kahlil Gibran and Edward SaidSally Howell, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Looking for Home in the Global Disorder: Dearborn and its Arab DiasporasNadine Naber, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, American University in Cairo
A Place From Which to Shout: On Radical,
Arab American Feminist PracticeKen Habib, Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Arab-American Diaspora in Light of Fairuz: Music and the Politics of Home
COMMENT:
Andrew Shyrock
CHAIR:
Bruce A. Harvey, Department of English, Florida International University
PAPERS:
Cheli Reutter, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Stowe's Pearl of Imperial Commerce: New England and the West Indies in The Pearl of Orr's IslandChad Barbour, Department of English, University of Kentucky
National Identity and Democracy in Daniel Boone Biographies and Robert Montgomery Bird's Nick of the Woods
COMMENT:
Bruce A. Harvey
CHAIR:
Marc Zimmerman, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
PAPERS:
Andrea Tinnemeyer, Department of English , Utah State University
Feminism as Border Gnosis in Villegas de Magnón's The RebelJohn M. González, Center for Mexican American Studies and Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
Gendering the Transnational Imaginary in Villegas de Magnón's The RebelClara Lomas, Department of Romance Languages, The Colorado College
Women in the Mexican Revolution
COMMENT:
Marc Zimmerman
CHAIR:
Yujin Yaguchi, Center for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo
PAPERS:
Susan Najita, Department of English Language and Literatures, University of Michigan
Making the Case for Locally-Situated Magic RealismMark Rifkin, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Faith and Debt: The Memoirs of Henry Obookiah and the Transnationalization of Hawai'iMichael Millner, Department of English, University of Virginia
The "Fegee Mermaid" and Melville: "Exotics" in 1840s Manhattan
COMMENT:
Yujin Yaguchi
CHAIR:
Anne E. Boyd, Department of English, University of New Orleans
PAPERS:
Carolyn L. Karcher, Department of English, Temple University
Frances Wright of the Free Enquirer: Woman Editor in a Man's WorldLois Rudnick, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
The Syphilis Papers: Gender, Psychoanalysis, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Late Victorian/Early Modern U.S.Linda Grasso, Department of English, York College, City University of New York
"I'll Make It an American Painting": Georgia O'Keeffe's Sexual Nationalism
COMMENT:
Anne E. Boyd
CHAIR:
Tina Y. Chen, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
PAPERS:
Anthony S. Shiu, American Studies Program, Michigan State University
To Construct Subordination: Hegemony, Coercion, RaceLingyan Yang, Department of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Theorizing Asian America: On Asian American and Postcolonial Asian Diasporic Women IntellectualsYonka Krasteva, Department of English, University of Veliko Turnovo
Fashioning Postethnic Female Subjectivity in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land
COMMENT:
Tina Y. Chen
CHAIR:
David M. Scobey, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Sarah Robbins, Department of English, Kennesaw State University
Imagining American Missionary Motherhood: Creating a (Trans)national Model in a Turn-of-the-Century MagazineSandra A. Zagarell, Department of English, Oberlin College
French Connections: Regionalist Writing by Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Sarah Orne JewettJune Howard, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Toward an Understanding of "Region" and "Regionalism"
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Merline Pitre, Department of History, Texas Southern University
PAPERS:
Amilcar Shabazz, Program in African American Studies, University of Alabama
"Driven to Communism?": Carter Wesley's Houston & His WorldLorenzo Thomas, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown
"Resonant as a Million Hallelujahs": The Civic Poetics of Vivian Ayers
COMMENT:
Merline Pitre
CHAIR:
Jennifer Rae Greeson, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University
PAPERS:
Michelle Burnham, Department of English, Santa Clara University
The Language of Investment: Travel Writing, New England, and the Economic Subject in the World SystemIvy Schweitzer, Department of English, Dartmouth College
John Winthrop's "Familiar Commerce"Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Department of English & American Studies Program, Yale University
Puritan Adventurers: The Transatlantic Print Public Sphere and Colonial Investment
COMMENT:
Jennifer Rae Greeson
CHAIRS:PANELISTS:Steven Garabedian, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Benjamin Flowers, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Erik Peterson, Labor Education Service, University of MinnesotaNorma Smith, National Labor Writers Union
Jennifer Luff, Center for Strategic Research, AFL-CIO
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Christopher Newfield, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
PAPERS:
Catherine Turner, Department of English, College Misericordia
Good Reading in the Great DepressionJoAnn Pavletich, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown
Jittery Stocks and Tentative Markets: The Affect of Wall StreetJeffrey Sklansky, Department of History, Oregon State University
Gilded Globalization: Cosmopolitanism, Provincialism, and the Gold Standard
COMMENT:
Christopher Newfield
CHAIR:
Manuel Gutiérrez, Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
PAPERS:John Escobedo, English Department, Rice University
The Squatter and the Don: A Victorian ReadingEdna Ochoa, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston
Luisa Capetillo: teatro y pensamiento anarcosindicalistaCristián Santibáñez, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston
La crónica irónica de Silverio: estrategias discursivasCOMMENT:
Manuel Gutiérrez
CHAIR:
Faith Smith, African and Afro-American Studies Department, Brandeis University
PAPERS:
Donette Francis, Department of English, Binghamton University
From Rude Boy to Cosmopolitan Man: "Black Tourist Romance Novels" and the Marketing Afro-Jamaican Masculinity in the U.S.Harvey Neptune, Department of History, City University of New York, Staten Island
"The Taste of Rum and Coca Cola": Calypso, Nationalism and American Audiences in Occupied TrinidadKezia Page, Department English, University of Miami
Dancehall Feminisms? Jamaican Female DeeJays and the Politics of "the Big Ninja Bike"Patricia Saunders, Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, West Indies
Verbal Play and the Politics of Interpreting Caribbean CultureCOMMENT:
Faith Smith
CHAIR:
Paul Lyons, Department of English, University of Hawai'i
PAPERS:
Heather Diamond, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i
Local Hawai'i at the 1989 Festival of American FolklifeHalifu Osumare, School of Human Movement, Sports, and Leisure Studies, Bowling Green State University
Performance and Perfomativity in Global Hip Hop: Hawai'i as Case StudyBarry Masuda, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
The Politics of Local Humor in Hawai'iCOMMENT:
Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan