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CHAIR:
Beatriz González-Stephan, Hispanic & Classical Studies, Rice University
PAPERS:
Karina Wigozki, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston
Lo local y lo extranjero en Cartas gredalenses de Nicanor Bolet PerazaAnadeli Bencomo, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston
La otra América: New York en los apuntes periodísticos/viajeros de José Martí y Manuel Fernández JuncosRodolfo Guzmán, Spanish and Latin American Literature, Earlham College
Ciudadanos, patria, cosmopolitismo y "Nuestra América" en Lucía JerezEdwin Padilla, Arts and Humanities Department, University of Houston, Downtown
La prensa obrera en Nueva York como reflejo del discurso colonial puertorriqueño
COMMENT:
Beatriz González-Stephan
CHAIR:
Carrah Leah Hood, Department of English, Southern Connecticut State University
PANELISTS:
Camille Forbes, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Tales of Suburban SqualorRozalinda Borcila, Department of Art, University of South Florida, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Disturbance and (In)visibilityDaniel Bacalzo, Department of Performance Studies, New York University
Collective Autobiographies: The Peeling ProcessAmy Sara Carroll, Literature Program, Duke University
"Autorechazos" and "The Public Poetry Project": Visualizing a Performative Poetics"
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Bill V. Mullen, Division of English, Classics, Philosophy and Humanities, University of Texas,
San AntonioPAPERS: Rachel Lee Rubin, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Dear Uncle Sam: War and Class Consciousness in Country MusicJames Smethurst, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Everyday People: Popular Music, Race, and the Articulation and Formation of Class IdentityW. S. Tkweme, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Politics of Jazz Fusion, or, Can We Blame Kenny G on the Black Arts Movement?
COMMENT:
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
CHAIR:
James P. Danky,Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian, State Historical Society of Wisconsin
PAPERS:
Todd Vogel, American Studies Program,
Trinity College
Transatlantic Training and Localized Protest:
James McCune SmithElizabeth Engelhardt, Center for Women's Studies, West Virginia University
Black Girls Out of the Doors: Environmental Activism in Appalachian Black NewspapersJennifer Steadman, Department of English,
Trinity College
"The Freeman is Read Here": Mary Ann Shadd Cary Connecting Black Communities
COMMENT:
James P. Danky
CHAIR:
Donald E. Pease, Department of English, Dartmouth College
PAPERS:
Hamilton Carroll, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington
Traumatic Patriarchy: Subject Identifications and the Postnational in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture LifeLaura Yow, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington
Stranger in the Self: Trauma, Ethnics, and Intersubjectivity in Wilson Harris's JonestownJana Evans Braziel, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Duvalier's "War-Machine," the Tonton Macoutes, and Terrorized Bodies in Edwidge Danticat's Transnational NarrativesKathleen Donegan, American Studies Program,
Yale University
Cast Upon an Unknown Land: Some Uses of Trauma in Colonial Settlement Narratives
COMMENT:
Donald E. Pease
CHAIR:
Eric Ledell Smith, The State Museum of Pennsylvania
PAPERS:
Orloff Miller,Freedom Stations Program,
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
National Scope and Community Focus: Empowering Local Historians of the Underground Railroad via Digital Libraries and Freedom StationsGuy Washington,National Park Service, Pacific West Regional Coordinator, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
The California Database: African American Pioneers of Freedom, 1848-1869Jean Libby, California History Center & Foundation Board of Trustees, De Anza College
Mirror on an Abolitionist: Tracing John Brown Through ImagesEric Ledell Smith,The State Museum of Pennsylvania
Looking for the Carpetbag: Primary Records of John Brown in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Roze Hentschell, Colorado State University
PAPERS:
Sieglinde Lemke, Department of Cultural Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin
Revisiting the VernacularShane Shukis, Department of English, Elon University
The State of the Language/The Language of the State: Democracy, Language, and Literature, 1770-1800Erika Nanes, Department of English, University of California, Irvine
Blues by the Book: Oral and Written Codes in Langston Hughes's Dramatic Monologues
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
William J. Maxwell, Department English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PAPERS:
Ivy Wilson, Department of English, Yale University
Cosmopolitanism Without Emancipation:George Schuyler and the Dilemmas of Trans-National BlacknessMary Ann Calo, Department of Art and Art History, Colgate University
"Seeing" the Harlem Renaissance: Art History, Vision, and RevisionMark Andrew Huddle, Department of History, University of Georgia
Harlem and the American South: History and the Poetics of Place
COMMENT:
William J. Maxwell
CHAIR:
Glenn Hendler, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
PAPERS:
Nicola Nixon, Department of English, Concordia University
Currency Affairs in Poe's "The Purloined Letter"Sandra Tomc, Department of English, University of British Columbia
"Fanny Fern" and the Course of Self-MakingMary Esteve, Department of English, Concordia University
Republicanizing the Post-bellum Romance: Child's and Harper's Narratives of Political Liberalism and Economic Redistribution
COMMENT:
Glenn Hendler
CHAIR:
Julia Balén, Department of Women's Studies, University of Arizona
PAPERS:
Katynka Zazueta Martínez,Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
From Miami to Los Angeles: Finding a "Safe" Space for the Latin Grammys and the Performance of LatínidadCharles Bertsch, Department of English, University of Arizona
From Cutting Edge to Vanguard: Punk, Politics, and the New World OrderYusuke Torii,Department ofAmerican Studies, George Washington University
Selling Democracy: Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) and Cold War/Civil Rights America
COMMENT:
Julia Balén
CHAIR:
Michael Brooks, Department of English, Westchester University
PAPERS:
Joe Austin, Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University
Wild Name Reserve: New York City's Location in Global ("Graffiti") Writing CultureSusan Phillips, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Crip Walk, Villain Dance, Pueblo Stroll: Embodied Gang Writing Among L.A. Bloods and CripsIvor Miller, Diaspora Studies Program, DePaul University
Media, History, and Style in the Aerosol Kingdom
COMMENT:
Cynthia Blair, Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
CHAIR:
Henry Yu, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
PAPERS:
Frederick Lau, Department of Music, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Romanticizing the Oriental in the Production of Musical ChinesenessYayoi Uno Everett, Department of Music, Emory University
Beyond Orientalism: A Pan-Asian Portrait of Lou HarrisonMari Yoshihara, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
The Man Who Became a Method: Globalization of the Suzuki MethodGrace Wang, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Cross-Racial Identifications: Forging Asian American Identities through Musical Practices
COMMENT:
Theodore Gonzalves, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
CHAIR:
Benjamin Reiss, Department of English, Tulane University
PAPERS:
Ellen M. Weinauer, Department of English, University of Southern Mississippi
In the Legal Tomb: Married Women and the Gothic in Antebellum AmericaDeak Nabers, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Hawthorne's Gothic CorporationsJeanne Elders DeWaard, Department of English, University of Miami
The "Shadow of Law": Gothic Terror, Legal Subjects, and Race in Antebellum Culture
COMMENT:
Benjamin Reiss
CHAIR:
Kathleen Woodward, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington
PAPERS:
Sally Chivers, Department of English, University of British Columbia
"Black is a Woman's Color": The Intersection of Race, Age, and Gender in bell hooks's Bone Black: Memories of GirlhoodEileen Boris, Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Old Before Her Time: Law, Living, and Women's WorthSonya Michel, American Studies Department and History Department, University of Maryland, College Park
The Benefits of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation: Defining the Right to Old-Age Security in the United States
COMMENT:
Kathleen Woodward
CHAIR:
Ednie Kaeh Garrison, Women's Studies Program, California State University, Fresno
PANELISTS:
Mary Celeste Kearney, Department of Radio, Television, and Film,University of Texas, AustinCharla Ogaz, Women's Studies Program, San Jose State University
Doreen Piano, Department of English, University of Houston
Emi Koyama, Women's Studies Program, Portland State University
Marie (Keta) Miranda, Mexican American Studies Program, University of Texas, San Antonio
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Kent C. Ryden, American and New England Studies Program, University of Southern Maine
PAPERS:
Matthew Bolinder, Department of English, Boston College
"Crossing the Line": Place and Race in Thoreau's The Maine WoodsElizabeth Otterson Wiley, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
"Maintained in its Pristine Integrity": Constructions of Race and Refinement in the Bangor and Aroostook's Guide, In the Maine WoodsBarbara Ryan, Department of English, University of Missouri, Kansas City
"A Diet of Wilderness": Gene Stratton-Porter's Voracious White Supremacy
COMMENT:
Kent C. Ryden
CHAIR:
John Hart, Department of History, University of Houston
PAPERS:
Maura Fuchs, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston
Lucy Parsons' Approach to Historiography: Histories of the ManyJuanita Luna Lawhn, English Department, San Antonio College
Editors of La Prensa (San Antonio) Define/Redefine "El Mexico de Afuera: Identity Across International BoundariesTrinidad Gonzales, Department of History, University of Houston
A Sketch of a Mexicanist Identity in the Lower Rio Grande Valley through the Pages of El Cronista del Valle
COMMENT:
John Hart
CHAIR:
Benjamin Filene, Exhibits Department, Minnesota Historical Society
PAPERS:
James Annesley, Department of English, Kingston University, London
Go Logo: Globalization, Consumption, and the CountercultureJ. M. Mancini, Department of History, University College, Cork
The Country Age: Globalization and Modernity in an American RegionEithne Quinn, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Gangsta Rap, Exploitation Culture, and the Local
COMMENT:
Benjamin Filene
CHAIR:
John Kuo Wei Tchen, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program & Department of History, New York University
PAPERS:
Richard Sukjoo Kim, Asian American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
Kilsoo Haan and the Politics of Korean American NationalismArleen de Vera, Department of History, State University of New York, Binghamton
Filipino Migrants, Surveillance, and Nationalism in CaliforniaStacey Yukari Hirose, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Fortress Architecture, Protest Space, and a Place to Shop: Korean and Vietnamese Shopping Centers in Southern California, 1965-2002Jason C. Chang, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Rethinking Hegemony in an Age of Globalism: the U.S., East Asia, and the Critique of Empire in Rising Sun and Shall We Dance
COMMENT:
John Kuo Wei Tchen
CHAIR:
Judith E. Smith, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
PAPERS:
Stanley Corkin, Department of English, University of Cincinnati
Cold War Westerns and the Critique of US ImperialismMegan Feeney, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Dark Con/texts: Post-WWII Film Noir in Pre-Revolutionary CubaAndrew J. Falk, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin
The Cold War Invades Television: Constructing a National Identity for American AudiencesJohn M. Kinder, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Scripting World War II: The Novel, Memory, and the American 1948
COMMENT:
Judith E. Smith
CHAIR:
Gary Hartman,Center for Texas Music History and Department of History, Southwest Texas State University
PAPERS:
Cory Lock, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
"Times Changes Everything": Nostalgia and a New Texas in J. Frank Dobie and Bob WillsJosé E. Limón, Center for Mexican-American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
With His Saxophone in His Hand: Americo Paredes, Beto Villa, Mexican Americans and Globalizing Modernity
COMMENT:
Jean Boyd, Department of Music, Baylor University
CHAIR:
Lois Parkinson Zamora, Departments of English, History, and Art, University of Houston
PAPERS:
Bolívar Echeverría, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Actualidad del ethos barroco /The Timeliness of the Baroque EthosRolando J. Romero, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Chicano BaroqueMonika Kaup, Department of English, University of Washington
The Marvelous Real and Neobaroque Disillusionment in Severo Sarduy, De donde son los cantantes
COMMENT:
Lois Parkinson Zamora
CHAIR:
Alvina E. Quintana, Department of English, University of Delaware
PANELISTS:
Lorna Dee Cervantes, Department of English, University of Colorado, BoulderJuan Felipe Herrera, Chicano and Latin American Studies, California State University, Fresno
Margarita Luna Robles, Department of English, California State University, Fresno
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Rebecca McLennan, Department of History, Harvard University
PAPERS:
Paul Morris, Religious Studies Program, School of Art History, Classics, and Religious Studies, Victoria University, Wellington
The Globalisation of Virtue—The Christian Right and the Arguments for the Morality of the MarketDolores Janiewski, School of History, Victoria University, Wellington
Stopping the Christian Right vs. Stop ERA: The Different Trajectories of the Christian Right in New Zealand and the U.S.Luis A. Vazquez, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Evangelizing Puerto Ricanness: The Role of the Christian Right in the Formation of Puerto Rican IdentitiesRebecca Dingo, Department of English, Ohio State University
Secularizing Fundamentalisms: Women, Globalization, and the Expanding Discourse of the Christian Right
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Nayan Shah, Department of History, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
Midori Takagi, Department of History, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University
Women of Comfort and Comfort Women: Imperialism as Seen and Experienced by American and Asian WomenJudy Tzu-Chun Wu, Department of History, Ohio State University
An Oriental Mammy?: Nurturing the American Family During World War IIKaren J. Leong, Women's Studies Program, Arizona State University
Exploring the Intersections of Immigrant Nostalgia and Anti-Imperialist Nationalism in Anna May Wong's Career
COMMENT:
Gayatri Gopinath, Women and Gender Studies Program, University of California, Davis
CHAIR:
Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Department of History, University of North Texas
PAPERS:
Ann Larabee, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
Sky Terror: A Meditation on the Skylines of Chicago, Seoul, and RiyadhKevin Rozario, American Studies Program, Smith College
"Just Like a Movie": The Culture of Calamity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001Ralph Savarese, Department of English, Grinnell College
9-11: Dispatching the Ambulance of History, or Gauley's Junction and the World Trade Center
COMMENT:
Steven Biel, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University
CHAIR:
Grady Hillman, Poet, Anthropologist, Activist
PAPERS:
Laura Lomas, Department of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University
Performing Testimonio: Alterity and Responsibility in Yo me llamo Rigoberta Menchú, y así me nació la conciencia and Hear My Testimony: María Teresa Tula, Human Rights Activist of El SalvadorPeter Caster, English Department, University of Texas at Austin
Manque à n'être pas and the Will to Become in Mailer's Song and Cleaver's SoulKimberly Drake, Department of English, Virginia Wesleyan College
Doing Time in/as "The Monster": Abjection, Testimony, and Reviving the Undead on Ray Hill's Prison Show
COMMENT:
Ray Hill, Prison Show, Pacifica Radio Houston
CHAIR:
Kathryn E. Diaz, Independent Scholar and Attorney-at-Law
PAPERS:
Ann S. Holder, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University
Who are "My Own Kind"?:Complicating the Representations of Heterosexuality in Historical WritingJane F. Gerhard, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Caught Looking: Straightness UnsettledJessica Shubow, Center for Historical Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Normal Sex, Normal Populations:The Heterosexualization of Human Diversity in Modern Evolutionary Theory
COMMENT:
Kathryn E. Diaz
CHAIR:
TBA
PERFORMANCE:
Awele Makeba, Department of Education: Language & LiteracySan Francisco State University
Rage is Not a 1-Day Thing!
COMMENT:
TBA
CHAIR:
Sandra L. Dahlberg, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown
PAPERS:
Vivyan C. Adair, Department of Women's Studies, Hamilton College
Working/Poor/Poorer: The Co-optation of the American Poverty ClassNell Sullivan, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown
Young Girls Reading: Literacy and the Legitimation of the Poor-White Girl NarratorDagmar Stuehrk Corrigan, Department of Discourse Studies, Texas A & M University
Electronic Latino Masculinity: Creating an Ethos of Agency for Poverty-Class and Working-Class Hispanic StudentsLeticia Almanza, Spring Woods High School, Houston
Would You Speak for Me? The Voiceless in American Public Schools
COMMENT:
Sandra L. Dahlberg
CHAIR:
Robert S. Levine, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
PAPERS:
Gregg D. Crane, Department of English, Miami University
Status, Contract, and Conscience in Uncle Tom's CabinPatricia R. Hill, Department of History, Wesleyan University
Public Sentiment and the Law: Mrs. Stowe's DilemmaAlfred L. Brophy, School of Law, University of Alabama
The Jurisprudence of Sentiment in Stowe's Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
COMMENT:
Robert S. Levine
CHAIR:
Rebecca Bedell, Art Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley
PAPERS:
Amy S. Green, Department of History, Denison University
Popular Literature and Nature (Re)creation: William H.H. Murray and the "Adirondack Rush" of the 1870sWendy Rex-Atzet, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder
Envisioning a Domestic Wilderness: Wilderness, Pastoralism, and Domestic Nature in Antebellum Popular CultureJohn Hausdoerffer, American Studies Program, Washington State University, Pullman
The Wilderness of Popular Culture: George Catlin's Construction of Nature and Wildness, 1832-1872
COMMENT:
Anthony Francis Lioi, Department of English, Rutgers University
CHAIR:
Mary Caroline Simpson,Department of Art and Art History, University of Nebraska, Omaha
PAPERS:
Iain Anderson, Department of History, Dana College
Jazz Goes to College: Experimental Musicians and the Opening of the AcademyMark Rice, Department of American Studies, St. John Fisher College
Art or Document? The Federal Government and the Struggle to Define Photographic MeaningThea Petchler, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Why Be Creative? Making Art to Fight the Cold War, 1950-1970
COMMENT:
Mary Caroline Simpson
CHAIR:
Kevin R. McNamara, School of Human Sciences and Humanities, University of Houston, Clear Lake
PAPERS:
Jacalyn D. Harden, Department of Society, Justice, and Culture, Seattle University
Millennial Dreams: How Seattle Tried and Failed to Become a "World Class City"Alicia Barber, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Reviving Reno: Heritage, Tourism, and Redevelopment in the Biggest Little CityLaura R. Barraclough, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
A "New Frontier" for White Identity: Development and Grassroots Political Activism in "Pseudo-Rural" Communities
COMMENT:
Mark Fenster, Levin College of Law, Univesity of Florida
CHAIR:
Jane Creighton, English Department, University of Houston, Downtown
PAPERS:
Arlene Rodríguez, Department of English, Springfield Technical Community College
In Order to Form a More Perfect Union": Nation-building and the Use of Interethnic Unions in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the DonYolanda Padilla, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Indian Mexico: The Politics of Indigenismo in the Work of María Cristina MenaRoumiana Velikova, English Department, State University of New York, Buffalo
Américo Paredes's George Washington Gómez and the North American Wars of Independence
COMMENT:
Jane Creighton
CHAIR:
Laura Wexler, American Studies Program, Yale University
PAPERS:
Margot Norris, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Bombing Civilians: Justifications and RepresentationsGrace Elizabeth Hale, Department of History, University of Virginia
Seeing Is Bleeding: Documentary Imagery and the Value of Life in American Warfare, From Pearl Harbor to the PresentFranny Nudelman, Department of English, University of Virginia
From Civil War to Star Wars: Documentary and the Final Frontier
COMMENT:
Laura Wexler
CHAIR:
Maria C. Sanchez, Department of English, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Jeffory Alan Clymer, Department of English, St. Louis University
"Those Bomb-Throwing I Won't Works": Dancing Around the Rhetoric of Violence & Non-Violence in Early Twentieth-Century IWW Pamphlets and ArtworksRyan Schneider, Department of English, Purdue University
Why Ralph Waldo Emerson (Mostly) Loved John Brown: Violence and The Concept of the Scholar-ReformerBeverly Gage, Department of History, Columbia University
The 1920 Wall Street Explosion: Political Violence, Political Repression, and the First Red Scare
COMMENT:
Maria C. Sanchez
CHAIR:
Nicole A. Waligora-Davis, Department of English, Cornell University
PAPERS:
Angel David Nieves, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Violence of Erasure on the African-American Cultural Landscape: "Race Women," Nation Making and Memory at Industrial Schools in the New SouthLeslie Alexander, Department of History, Ohio State University
Seneca Village: A Forgotten Symbol of New York City's Free Black CommunityNicole Guidotti-Hernández, Department of English, Cornell University
What We Are Not to Remember: Lynching's Local History and the Creation of Chicano/Latino Collective Memory in Santa Cruz California, May 3, 1877
COMMENT:
Nicole A. Waligora-Davis
CHAIR:
Herman Beavers, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
PANELISTS:
Judith Jackson Fossett, Department of English & Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Double ConsciousnessKevin Gaines, Department of History, University of Michigan
Africa/DiasporaJames A. Miller, Department of English, George Washington University
InternationalismJacqueline Goldsby, Department of English, University of Chicago
LynchingCarla L. Peterson, Department of English, University of Maryland
CommunityFrances Smith Foster, Department of English & Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University
Family
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, School of Theatre, Illinois State University, Normal
PAPERS:
Christina Klein, Literature Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Origin Myths of the Kung Fu Masters of AmericaEvelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien, Department of English, University of Hartford
The Martial Meaning of Jet LiCatherine Ross Nickerson, American Studies Program, Emory University
The Color of Destiny: Martial Arts Fantasies and the Global Economy
COMMENT:
Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park
CHAIR:
Richard Candida Smith, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
John McKiernan-Gonzalez, Department of History, University of South Florida
Everyday Disturbances: Respectability, "Indian" Marathon Runners, and the Practice of Medical Inspection, 1932Daniel Belgrad, Department of Humanities and American Studies, University of South Florida
Work Cultures in Conflict: The U.S. Railway Mission to Mexico, 1942-47Dina M. Berger, Department of History, The College of Wooster
A Drink Between Friends: Mexican and American Pleasure Seekers in 1940s Mexico City
COMMENT:
Richard Candida SmithAdriana Novoa, Department of Humanities and American Studies, University of Florida
CHAIR:
Komozi Woodard, Department of History, Sarah Lawrence College
PAPERS:
John Gennari, Department of English, University of Vermont
Baraka's Bohemian BluesMeta DuEwa Jones, Department of English,
George Washington University
From the Page to the Stage: Amiri Baraka's Jazz Poetry in PerformanceNichole T. Rustin, Program in Afro-American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Le Roi Jones Talking: Black Manhood, Emotional Life, and Jazz Knowledge
COMMENT:
Komozi Woodard
CHAIR:
Elizabeth A. Castle, University of California's President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz
PANELISTS:
Madonna Thunder Hawk, Director, Swift Bird Oyate CenterLakota Harden, Diversity Trainer and Community Activist
Marcella Gilbert, Department of Rural Health, University of South Dakota, Brookings
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Arlene Dávila, American Studies Program, New York University
PAPERS:
Madeleine E. López, Department of History, Princeton University
Speaking American: Puerto Ricans, Language, and the Formation of a New York City CommunityAlyshia Gálvez, Department of Anthropology, New York University
The Right to Have Rights: How Undocumented Mexican Participants in Guadalupan Devotional Organizations Redefine the Terms of CitizenshipAna Aparicio, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York
Amending the Definition of the Contemporary Immigrant Political Actor: Rooting/Routing Dominican American Organizing in New YorkCarlos Decena, American Studies Program, New York University
Transnationalizing Queer? Immigrant Lives and Coalition Building Among Latinos in New York
COMMENT:
José F. Aranda, Jr., Chicano/a and American Literature, Rice University
CHAIR:
Dorothy Wang, Department of English, Northwestern University
PAPERS:
Michael Oishi, Department of English, University of Washington
Global Locals:Neo-Colonialism and Critical Regionalism in the Literatures of Hawai'iJeffrey Santa Ana, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Feeling Postethnic: The Emotions of Racial and Sexual Formation in a Postmodern Global EraJeannie Chiu, Department of English, Pace University
Human Rights, Civil Liberties, and Asian Diasporic Literature
COMMENT:
Dorothy Wang
CHAIR:
Nancy Niedielzki, Department of Linguistics, Rice University
PAPERS:
Allison Sneider, Department of History, Rice University
The Nation as a Larger Family: Re-Thinking Women, the State, and the Language of Rights in Nineteenth-Century AmericaTeresa Goddu, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Books at the Bazaar: Antislavery Fairs and the Literary MarketplaceCaroline Levander, Department of English, Rice University
All in the Family Women's Abolitionist Politics and the Children's Periodical
COMMENT:
Nancy Niedielzki
CHAIR:
Gary E. Holcomb, Department of English, Emporia State University
PAPERS:
Vicki Eaklor, Division of Human Studies, Alfred University
Henry and Max: "Educating" the (White, Male) Intellectual in a New CenturyChristine Myers, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Max Bickford vs. the Female College IdealRachel Lyon, Media Arts and Communication, Reinhardt College
Field of Dreams: Richard Dreyfuss and America's Dream
COMMENT:
Mary F. Corey, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
CHAIR:
Dennis Moore, Department of English, Florida State University
PANELISTS:
Leslie Bow, Department of English & Program in Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin, MadisonBeverly Guy-Sheftall, Department of Women's Studies, Spelman College
Annette Kolodny, Department of Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona
Elizabeth Long, Department of Sociology, Rice University
Ellen Messer-Davidow, Department of English, University of Minnesota
Janice A. Radway, Literature Program, Duke University
Deborah Rosenfelt, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland
Ann Schofield, Department of American Studies and Women's Studies, University of Kansas
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Jaime Cárdenas, Program in Latino Studies, Cornell University
PANELISTS:
Mary Pat Brady, Department of English, Cornell UniversityLuz Calvo, Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University
Michelle Habell-Pallán, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
Josh D. Kun, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Anthony Macías, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
Greg S. Rodríguez, Department of Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona
Deborah R. Vargas, Department of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
Juan Velasco, Department of English and Modern Languages, Santa Clara University
Ana Patricia Rodríguez, Department of Spanish and Romance Languages, University of Maryland, College Park
Angharad N. Valdivia, Institute of Communication Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Peter J. Bellis, Department of English, University of Miami
PAPERS:
Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, Department of History, University of New Mexico
For the Accommodation of Strangers: Aesthetics, Commerce, and the Origins of the American HotelEdward Watts, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
Cincinnati in 1835: Catholicism, Cosmopolitanism, and ColonialismSamuel Otter, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
John Edgar Wideman's Peculiar Philadelphia
COMMENT:
Peter J. Bellis
CHAIR:
Shelli B. Fowler, Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University
PAPERS:
Lisa R. Williams, Department of American Studies, Washington State University & Tori Byington, Interdisciplinary Studies, Washington State University, Performative Politics in the Palouse: A Reader's Response to DragMichael Borgstrom,Department of English, University of California, Davis
Suburban Queer: Reading GreaseTa-Wei Chi, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
Trasnational Transgender Transgression: A Queer Travel from Hollywood to Asia
COMMENT:
Shelli B. Fowler
CHAIR:
Yutian Wong, Program in Arts and Feminist/Gender Studies, Bryn Mawr College
PANELISTS:
Linda Delp, Department of Community Health Sciences & Labor Center, University of California, Los AngelesDenise Uyehara, Artist-in-Residence, 18th Street Arts Complex in Santa Monica
Teresa Conrow, Independent Labor Organizer and Educator
COMMENT:
Yutian Wong
CHAIR:
Melissa J. Homestead, Department of English, University of Oklahoma
PAPERS:
April F. Masten, Department of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
"Laborers in the Field of the Beautiful": Art Work and the Professionalization of Women's Art, 1850-1880Gail K. Smith, Department of English, Birmingham- Southern College
Constructing the Artist in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Agnes of SorrentoNaomi Z. Sofer, Program in History and Literature, Harvard University
Artists, Mentors, and Cultural Authority in the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Constance Fenimore Woolson
COMMENT:
Melissa J. Homestead
CHAIR:
Nicolás Kanellos, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston
PANELISTS:
José Aranda, English Department, Rice UniversityNélida Pérez, Centro Library & Archives, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, City University of New York, Hunter College
Antonio Saborit, Dirección de Estudios Históricos, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, México, D. F.
Silvio Torres-Saillant, English Department, Syracuse University
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Melinda de Jesús, Program in Asian American Studies, Arizona State University
PAPERS:
John Cheng, Department of Art History and History, George Mason University
Tangled Webs: Race and the Topology of CyberspaceLisa Nakamura, Department of English, Sonoma State University
Poweruser or Powerused: The Asian American Discursive Presence in CyberspaceAnna Everett, Department of Film Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
The New Black Experience: The Million Women March and the Internet
COMMENT:
Chon Noriega, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles
CHAIR:
Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University
PANELISTS:
Bradley S. Epps, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard UniversityGregory Halpern, Harvard College Class of 1999, Photographer & Activist
Thomas R. Jehn, Program in Expository Writing, Harvard University
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
James Fisher, Department of Theology, Fordham University
PAPERS:
Jonathan Nashel, Department of History, Indiana University, South Bend
The "Golden" Agency: The CIA and American Popular Culture in the 1950sToni Irving, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
"The Black Silence of Fear": Sexual Containment in Black Women's WritingKate Baldwin, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
Authenticating Nations: Cultural Fictions of Women in the Cold War
COMMENT:
Susan Carruthers, Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
CHAIR:
Christa Buschendorf, Institute for English and American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
PANELISTS:
Bogdan Barbu, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, AustriaLjiljana Coklin, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Astrid Franke, Institute for English and American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Heinz Ickstadt, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Eric J. Sandeen, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming
COMMENT:
Audience
CHAIR:
Young Choi, Department of English, Ewha Woman's University
PAPERS:
Kun Jong Lee, Department of English, Korea University
Coloring the American Dream: Benjamin Franklin and Younghill KangSangjun Jeong, Department of English, Seoul National University
Making Korean-American Identity and Orientalism: Chang-Rae Lee's Native SpeakerJin-Hee Yim, Division of Foreign Languages, Namseoul University
Nation and Communal Self: Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman
COMMENT:
Sooyoung Chon, Department of English, Ewha Woman's University
CHAIR:
Mark Smith, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS:
James A. Good, Department of History, Rice University
"Beyond Sushiology": John Dewey on DiversityGreg Moses, Department of Philosophy, Marist College
A Technology of Whiteness?: Critical Pragmatism and the Reconstruction of White IdentitiesMike O'Connor, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
The Riddle of Democratic Capitalism: A Pragmatist Solution
COMMENT:
James Livingston, Department of History, Rutgers University
* Indicates sessions that are part of the Seventh Conference of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage or "Redefining 'Nuestra América': A Transnational Perspective on the Local and the Global"