Thursday, November 11, 2004

7:30 - 8:00 AM
‡ Networking Breakfast for Program Directors
The Networking Breakfast will flow into the Roundtable-Workshop: International and US American Studies Program Directors session, as both are held in the same meeting room. Please note that the Networking Breakfast for Program Directors requires a ticket. Early reservations are advised because tickets are available in limited quantities. Tickets may be purchased when attendees pre-register, as noted on the pre-registration form, or at the registration desk upon arrival at the Hyatt Regency. No tickets will be sold after 5:00 PM, Wednesday, November 10, 2004. $15 for members, $5 for international scholars.
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Business Meeting of the ASA National Council
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Families and Others: The Strange and Intimate Ties of the Body Politic
CHAIR:
Judith Smith, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
PAPERS:
Jen Douglas, School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Private Families and Public Problems & Making Waves in A Virtual Ocean of Conclusive Social Science
Ann Holder, Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute
Loving, Lawrence and Beyond: The Political History and Uses of the Marriage Analogy
Louis Prisock, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Queer Assimilation: Why the Legalization of Gay Marriage Could be a Boon to Gay Conservatives
COMMENT:
Judith Smith
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Public Communication and Public Health: Infectious Disease as a Site for Cultural Narrative
Given the prominence of infectious disease as a news item in the United States in recent years, this panel seeks to convene a range of scholars and professional practitioners to discuss current and historical public communication related to infectious disease.
CHAIR:
Brian Southwell, School of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of
PANELIST:
Alexandra Minna Stern, Center for the History of Medicine, University of Michigan
John Finnegan, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
Nkuchia M'ikanatha, Pennsylvania Department of Health
Marta Hanson, Department of History, University of California, San Diego
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Mediating the Crossroads: Representing Arab Women in American Culture
CHAIR:
Ella Shohat, Department of Art and Public Policy and Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
PAPERS:
Evelyn Alsultany, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
Selling Citizenship Post 9/11: Representations of Arab- and Muslim-American Women in Non-Profit Advertising
Amal Amireh, Department of English, George Mason University
Romancing Iraq as an Arab-American Predicament in Diana Abu Jaber's Crescent
Marcy Knopf Newman, Department of English, Boise State University
Scheherazade Teaches the U.S.: Representing Arab Women in the American Child's Imagination
COMMENT:
Ella Shohat
8:00 - 9:45 AM
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood": Black Women, Performance, and Power
This roundtable brings together humanities and social science scholars in an interdisciplinary discussion of the politics and aesthetics of 20th and 21st century black women's musical performance.
CHAIR:
Tamsen Wolff, Department of English, Princeton University
PANELISTS:
Maureen Mahon, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Gayle Wald, Department of English, George Washington University
Judith Casselberry, Departments of African American Studies & Anthropology, Yale University
Daphne Brooks, Department of English, Princeton University
Imani Perry, School of Law, Rutgers University
Sonnet Retman, American Ethnic Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Authorizing Union in Early America
CHAIR:
Carol Colatrella, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology
PAPERS:
Martha Rojas, Department of English, Sweet Briar College
"A Firm League of Friendship": The Articles of Confederation and Negotiating National Union
Hana Layson, Department of English, Northern Illinois University
Sentimentality and Sexual Violence in Early National Law: The Case of Joseph Mountain
Colleen Terrell, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology
Fitting the Wills of the People to Each Other: A Pedagogy of Political Harmony
COMMENT:
Carol Colatrella
8:00 - 9:45 AM
‡ Roundtable and Workshop: International and U.S. American Studies Program Directors (Sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Programs)
A discussion of the challenges faced by American Studies programs today among Directors of American Studies Programs in Azerbaijan, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Czech Republic, Austria, Canada, Korea, Turkey, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ukraine, Jordan, Lebanon, China, Egypt, Norway, Holland, Hungary, France, Bangladesh, Japan, Georgia, as well as the United States. A list of the names and affiliations of directors of American Studies programs outside the U.S. in attendance at the conference is included in the International Initiative Directory distributed at registration.
CHAIR:
Gabriel Melendez, Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Who's Laughing Now?: Contemporary Ethnic & Racial Humor in Popular Culture
CHAIR:
TBA
PAPERS:
Libby Lewis, Department of African American Studies, University of California Performing the Crossroads of Difference in "Whoopi"
Dana Heller, English Department, Old Dominion University
"Not Asian Enough": The Humor of Margaret Cho
Jennifer Alvarez Dickinson, American Studies Program, University of New Mexico Latino/a Laughs in Prime Time: "The George Lopez Show" and the Mainstream Media
Minh-Ha T. Pham, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley
"You Too Can Be a Cross-Over Success": Asian/Latino Performances of Racial Drag
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Blues at the Crossroads of Cultures
CHAIR:
Valerie Prince, English Department, Hampton University
PAPERS:
Patricia R. Schroeder, English Department, Ursinus College
Martin Scorsese and the Reviewers
Adam Gussow, English Department and Program in Southern Studies, University of Mississippi
The White American Bluesman Looks at the French-African Bluesman, the Japanese Bluesboy, and the Czech Blueswoman: Rethinking 'Real Blues' in the Postmodern World
Tony Bolden, English Department, University of Alabama
The Crossroads: The Black Church, Black Music, and the Racial Contract
COMMENT:
Valerie Prince
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Adjudicating Racial Anomaly
CHAIR:
Suzanne Oboler, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
PAPERS:
Victor Jew, Legal Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Fitting the Incommensurable: The United States Immigration Service and the Classifying of New Exclusion Subjects in the Progressive Era Midwest
Ariela Gross, School of Law, University of Southern California
Litigating Mexican-American Whiteness in The Early Twentieth Century
Leslie Bow, Departments of English and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Interstitiality, Transracialism, Segregation
COMMENT:
Suzanne Oboler
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Bodies at the Crossroads: The Corporeal Terrain of American Colonialism
CHAIR:
TBA
PANELISTS:
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Department of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies
The Aesthetics of National Identity: Whitening America
Juniper Ellis, Department of English, Loyola College
The Traveling Tattoo: Mako Mokai, Melville and Original Signs
Leah Rosenberg, Department of English, University of Florida
When Zombis Were in Vogue: Appropriations of Afro-Caribbean Religion in U.S. Imperialism and Caribbean Nationalism
Suzann Bost, Department of English, South Methodist University
Conflicting Imperial Bodies and Neo-Indigenous Cosmologies
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Disciplines, Interdisciplines and the Job Market for American Studies Degrees (Sponsored by the President's Task Force on Graduate Education)
The topic will be preparing graduate students with advanced degrees in American Studies for a job market that often includes applications for jobs in both individual disciplines and interdisciplinary positions other than American Studies. The panel will discuss both the choices students can make within their graduate programs to better enable successful jobs searches, and how to present oneself as a candidate during the job search itself.
CHAIR:
T.V. Reed, Department of American Studies, Washington State University
PANELISTS:
Matt Basso, Department of History, University of Richmond
Kandice Chuh, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
Nicole King, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
COMMENT:
T.V. Reed
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Feedback, Hybridity, Nationalism: Three Views
CHAIR:
Michael Aaron Rockland, American Studies Department, Rutgers University
PAPERS:
Gülriz Büken, Department of History, Bilkent University
Cultural Hybridity or Cultural Amalgamation
Tamara Roberts, Performance Studies, Northwestern University
American Feedback: Exploring Nationalism in Jimi Hendrix's "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Daniel Belgrad, Humanities and American Studies, University of South Florida Feedback, Phenomenology and the Ecology of Cultures
COMMENT:
Michael Aaron Rockland
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Extreme Exploration
CHAIR:
Philip G. Terrie, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University
PAPERS:
K. Maria Lane, Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin
To the Red Planet and Back: American Imaginations of the Journey to Mars, 1899-1916
James Postema, English Department, Concordia College, Moorhead
First (Double) Crossings: Vikings, Christianity, and the Skraelings of North America
Hester Blum, English, Pennsylvania State University
Globalism's Hollow Core: Symzonia and the Promise of Polar Exploration
COMMENT:
Philip G. Terrie
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Painting Politics, the Past and Perfection: Velarde, Demuth, Rivera and Henry
CHAIR:
Janice Simon, School of Art,University of Georgia
PAPERS:
Emily Shapiro, Department of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Painter of a Passing Age: E.L. Henry and The Old Westover Mansion
Laural Weintraub, History of Art Department, Fashion Institute of Technology
The True Mystery of the Visible: Charles Demuth's Work in Watercolor
Catha Paquette, College of Art, California State University, Long Beach
Left or Right at the Crossroads: Ideological Collision between the Rockefellers and Diego Rivera, 1933
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Crossroads in the Classroom: American Studies as Honors Curriculum
This Roundtable discusses the role of American Studies in Honors courses and programs.
CHAIR:
TBA
PANELISTS:
Julia Ehrhardt, Honors College, University of Oklahoma
Megan Nelson, Honors College, Texas Tech University
Hilton Obenzinger, Undergraduate Research Programs and Department of English, Stanford University
Jo Paoletti, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Jane Simonsen, Honors College, University of Central Arkansas
Catherine Turner, Honors Program and Department of English, College Misericordia
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Cold War Politics and the Formation of Ethnic Identities
CHAIR:
TBA
PAPERS:
Randy Ontiveros, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Making Plain: Chicano Nationalism and the Logic of the Manifesto
Mimi Nguyen, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Patriot Acts: Human Rights, Multiculturalism and Cold War Knowledge Production
Jodi Kim, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Ends of Empire: Asian American Literature, the Cold War, and U.S. Global Capitalism
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Urban Crossroads: The Scholar in the City
CHAIR:
Mary Corbin Sies, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
PAPERS:
Joseph Heathcott, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University
Mortar and Metaphor: Stories of a Storied Place
Carlo Rotella, American Studies Program, Boston College
The Big Picture
Noel Marie Rasor, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas
Urban Renewal: The Process of Researching a Process
Eric Sandweiss, Department of History, Indiana University
"Have I Been Walking North?" Reflections of a Lost Walker in the City
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Indianness and the Everyday Workings of Racial Dominance
CHAIR:
Linda Oxendine, Department of American Indian Studies, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
PAPERS:
Malinda Maynor, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Developing Racial Segregation: Industrialization, Identity, and Racial Violence in Montgomery County, Georgia, 1893
Laura Mielke, Department of English, Iowa State University
Ham, Shem, and Japheth: Indians and Racial Hierarchy in Southern Pro-Slavery Literature
Gerald Ronning, Department of History, Albright College
"A Roving Microbe in the Blood": Indians, Race, and the Radical Wobbly Menace on the Pacific Coast
COMMENT:
Philip Deloria, Department of History and Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Writing Them In, Writing Them Out: Personal Mythologies and American Careers
CHAIR:
Patricia Hills, Department of Art History, Boston University
PAPERS:
Linda M. Grasso, English Department, York College, City University of New York
Sex, Status, and Greeting Cards: Georgia O' Keeffe as an American Icon
Jon-Christian Suggs, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York and City University of New York Graduate School
Fade to (Walter) White: Image, Absence, and Race in a Twentieth-Century Reputation
Nancy Berke, Independent Scholar
Rereading Genevieve Taggard's Odes in a Time of Crisis
COMMENT:
Patricia Hills
10:00 - 11:45 AM
"The Wings of Atlanta": Atlanta and the Black Public Sphere
This roundtable will offer discussions of several paradigmatic moments in Atlanta's history as a center of international Black thought and action.
CHAIR:
William Maxwell, Department of English & Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PANELISTS:
Aldon Nielsen, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University
Anna Everett, Department of Film Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lorenzo Thomas, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown
COMMENT:
William Maxwell
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Crossroads Blues: Race, Masculinity and Popular Culture in the 1970s
CHAIR:
Aniko Bodroghkozy, Department of English and Media Studies Program, University of Virginia
PAPERS:
Scott Saul, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
"Hey Hey Hey": Fat Albert and the Cartoon Inner City
Jefferson Cowie, American Studies Program, Industrial Relations School, Cornell University
"Life Goin' Nowhere":: Race, Masculinity, and the Fate of the Seventies Working Class
Joel Dinerstein, Department of English, Tulane University
The Soul Roots of Bruce Springsteen's American Dream
COMMENT:
Aniko Bodroghkozy
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Regional Racial Formations: At the Crossroads of Race, Space, and Place (Sponsored by the ASA Students Committee)
This panel is concerned with the conflict, collaboration, and cultural borrowing between racial formations at multiple geographical scales, most particularly the region. It incorporates key geographical concepts of scale, region, movement, and borders to address the formation of racial categories and hierarchies.
CHAIR:
Kimberly Phillips, Departments of History and American Studies, College of William and Mary
PAPERS:
Katy Chiles, Department of English, Northwestern University
Racialized Movement and Captivity: Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative and Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive
Seema Sohi, Department of History, University of Washington
South Asian Revolutionaries and White Exclusionists: Rethinking the Borderlands and the Transnational
Daniel Worden, Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University The National Region: Narratives of the West and the Making of Americans
COMMENT:
Kimberly Phillips
10:00 - 11:45 AM
‡ Beyond Interdisciplinarity: The New Goals of American Stduies Programs (Sponsored by the ASA Committee on American Studies Programs)
In this panel, presenters from programs in the United States and abroad reflect on the dramatic reshaping of American Studies in academe in recent years and discuss future directions. The presenters offer perspectives from their recent reformative experiences and invite discussion from the audience on the programmatic representation of the American Studies movement.
CHAIR:
Simon Bronner, American Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University
PANELISTS:
Sherry Linkon, American Studies Program, Youngstown State University
George Sánchez, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
James Kloppenberg, Graduate Program in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University

Takashi Sasaki, Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University, Japan

Walter Hoelbling, American Studies Department, Karl-Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Strange Affinities: Centering Gender and Sexuality in Comparative Race Analyses
CHAIR:
Grace Hong, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison
PAPERS:
Chandan Reddy, Department of English, University of Washington, Seattle
Black Internationalism, Interracialism, and the Politics of Alienage
Victor Bascara, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Getting Over Yourself: The Intersectionality of the Historical Novel and the Bildungsroman
Ruby Tapia, Women's Studies Program, Ohio State University
Volumes of "Transnational" Vengeance: Fixing Feminism and Race on the Way to Kill Bill
Helen Jun, Department of English and Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
Family Matters: Relational Regimes of Racial Discipline in post-1965 America
COMMENT:
Grace Hong
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Cultural Geography: Rethinking the Rivalry between Boston and New York
CHAIR:
Audrey Goodman, English, Georgia State University
PAPERS:
Betsy Klimasmith, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston Cosmopolitan Collections: Museums and Urban Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston and New York
Carl Leafstedt, Department of Music, Trinity University
Boston, 1860: Middle-Class Taste and the Ascendancy of America's Musical Athens
Claudia Stokes, Department of English, Trinity University
Time and Place: Rethinking the Geography of Periodization
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Crafting Ancestry: Race and the Politics of Family History
CHAIR:
Barbara Krauthamer, Department of History, New York University
PAPERS:
Scott A. Sandage, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
The Adventures of Antoine Barada: Race, Law, and Land in Nebraska's Half-Breed Tract
Claudio Saunt, Department of History, University of Georgia
In the Spirit of Progress: A Black-Indian Family Whitewashes Its Past
Circe Sturm, Department of Anthropology and Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma
Bill Clinton's Cherokee Grandmother: The Racial and Cultural Politics of Claiming Indian Kin
COMMENT:

Mia Bay, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Barbara Krauthamer

10:00 - 11:45 AM
Wielding the Engraver's Knife: Popular Illustration as Ideological Tool in Civil War America
CHAIR:
Miles Orvell, Department of English, Temple University
PAPERS:
Ross Barrett, Department of Art History, Boston University
On Forgetting: Thomas Nast, the Middle Class, and the Visual Culture of the Draft Riots
Aaron Lecklider, American and New England Studies Program, Boston University
Capturing Freedom: Images of Civil War Contraband in the Pictorial Press
Julia Dolan, Department of Art History, Boston University
Understanding "The Rebel Lady's Boudoir": Layers of Meaning in the Depiction of Southern Women in the Civil War Era
COMMENT:
Joshua Brown, Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
10:00 - 11:45 AM
CANCELED -- Locating History: Mexicana and Chicana Politics of Space
CHAIR:
TBA
PAPERS:
John M. Gonzalez, Department of English and Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
"This Is Our Grand Lone Star State": Reclaiming historia fronteriza in Zamora O'Shea's El Mesquite
Amelia de la Luz Montes, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
"Not Linked To Aztecs": Norma Cantú and Reconfiguring Chicana Literary Perspectives
Andrea Tinnemeyer, Department of English, Utah State University
Possibilities of a Third Space: La Frontera and Pan-American Feminism
COMMENT:
TBA
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Bodies of Evidence
CHAIR:
Betty Bayer, Department of Women's Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
PAPERS:
Kathy Scales Bryan, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Speaking for the Dead: Privileged Narratives in Post-911 America
Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Department of English, Media Studies Program, Pomona College Who Are You? CSI, Simulation, and the Production of Postmodern Empiricism
Bridget Brown, Department of English, Montclair State University
Identifying Remains: Body Politics in the Wake of 9/11
COMMENT:
Betty Bayer
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Space, Race, and Social Control: Ideal Communities and the Regulation of the Foreign


CHAIR:

Yogita Goyal, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

PAPERS:
Elaine Lacy, Department of History, University of South Carolina, Aiken
Mexican Transnational Communities in South Carolina: The Changing Face of Home
Asha Nadkarni, English Department, Brown University
"Compulsory Socialization": Immigration and Utopia in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Moving the Mountain

Jolie Sheffer, English Department, University of Virginia
Their Spaces, Their Selves: Jane Addams' Hull-House and the Regulation of Immigrants in/and Urban Space

COMMENT:

Yogita Goyal
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Constructing Urban Spaces: Conflict, Control, and Citizenship
CHAIR:
Lee Ann Lands, Kennesaw State University
PAPERS:
Karen Miller, Hunter College
"Better Housing Makes Better Citizens": Race, Public Housing, and Citizenship in Detroit in the 1930s
Christina B. Hanhardt, American Studies Program New York University
From Documentation to Retribution: Gay Indexicality, Urban Redevelopment, and the Punishment of Hate
COMMENT:
Lee Ann Lands
10:00 - 11:45 AM
The Figure of "the Indian" in the African American Imaginary
CHAIR:
Timothy Powell, Department of English, University of Georgia
PAPERS:
Angela Pulley Hudson, American Studies Program, Yale University
Child of an Unnatural Mother: The Mis-Identification of Okah Tubbee
Annette Trefzer, Department of English, University of Mississippi
"Who was an Indian and who was a Negro?" Zora Neale Hurston's Indians
Sarah Casteel, Department of English, Carleton University
The Figure of the North American Indian in Derek Walcott's Poetry and Drama
COMMENT:
Timothy Powell
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Seeing is Believing?: Visual Culture, Material Culture, and Selling Culture to Travelers
CHAIR:
Katherine Ledford, Gardner-Webb University
PAPERS:
Kevin O'Donnell, Department of English, East Tennessee State University
Southern Prospects: Mass-Produced Mountain Landscapes and the End of Reconstruction
Andrea Feeser, Art and Art History Department, Clemson University
A 'Scent'imental Journey: Browny Perfume's Late 1940s-Early 1960s Tourist Souvenirs of Hawai'i
Micki McElya, Department of American Studies, University of Alabama
White Haven: Race, Memory, and a Kentucky Rest Stop
Paula Nicole King, Department of American Studies; University of Maryland, College Park Pedro in the Political: Reading Roadside Kitsch
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Female Cultural Production at the Crossroads: Ya Ya Sisters, Alicia Keys, and a Radical Feminist Rock Critic
CHAIR:
Ann Powers, Senior Curator, Experience Music Project
PAPERS:
Lisa Rhodes, American Studies Program, Temple University
Radical Feminist Rock Critic: Ellen Willis, Rock Critic for The New Yorker, 1968-1975
Elizabeth Boyd, American and Southern Studies Program, Vanderbilt University
Ya Yas, GRITS, and Sweet Potato Queens A Big-Ass Paper on Contemporary Southern Belles and the Prescriptions that Guide Them
Cynthia Fuchs, Department of English, George Mason University
"You about To Miss A Good Thing": Music, Business, and Alicia Keys
COMMENT:
Ann Powers
 
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Roundtable: Crossroads of Working-Class Studies (Sponsored by the Working-Class Studies Caucus)
At this roundtable, the participants and the audience will engage in a conversation about the intersections between new Working-Class Studies and American Studies and discuss how Working-Class Studies operates "in the crossroads" with other fields; at the intersections of class, race, gender, and sexuality; in the interchange between the global and local; and in the interactions between the academy and the community.
CHAIR:
Renny Christopher, English, California State University, Channel Islands
PANELIST:
Alessandro Portelli, Department of English, University of Rome, Italy
John Russo, Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University
Mary Romero, School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University
Todd Vogel, American Studies Program, Trinity College
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Copying the Right: Racial Appropriation, Parody, and Performance
CHAIR:
Kembrew McLeod, Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa
PAPERS:
Lynn Itagaki, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
The Parody of Pluralism, or, the Fair Use of Paul Beatty's White Boy Shuffle
Eden Kainer, Department of Music, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Trafficking in Images of Blackness on the Early Vaudeville Stage: Sophie Tucker's Role in the Transformations of Blackface Minstrelsy
Joanna Demers, Department of Music History and Literature, University of Southern California Musical Appropriation, Musical Meaning, and the Law
COMMENT:
Kembrew McLeod
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Intimate Relations, Class Negotiations: Gratitude, Trust, and Suspicion in the Service Economy
CHAIR:
Rachel Salazar Parreñas, Program in Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis
PAPERS:
Rachel Sherman, Department of Sociology, Yale University
Normalizing Domination through Reciprocity: Worker-Guest Relations in Luxury Hotels
Julia Wrigley, Program in Sociology, City University of New York, Graduate Center Risky Business: Parents and their Children's Caregivers
Rachel Heiman, Departments of Social Sciences, New School University
A Provocative Presence: Middle Class Servants in Middle Class Homes
COMMENT:
Rachel Salazar Parreñas
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Johnny Cash and Popular Culture
CHAIR:
Barry Shank, Department of Comparative Studies, The Ohio State University
PAPERS:
Leigh Edwards, Department of English, Florida State University
Rockabilly Iconology: Johnny Cash and Cultural Syncretism
Cecelia Tichi, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Folsom and San Quentin: Johnny Cash and the Prison Nation
David Sanjek, Director, BMI Archives
In My Time of Dying: Johnny Cash and Cycles of Hipness
COMMENT:
Barry Shank
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Racialized Economies / Economies of Race
CHAIR:
Jennifer Morgan, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
PAPERS:
Kate Masur, Kluge Fellow, Library of Congress
Discrediting Democracy: Economic Ideologies of Race in the Disfranchisement of the District of Columbia
Todd Stevens, Program in American Studies, Princeton University
Race and Commerce: The Commercial Rights of Chinese Americans during the Era of Ascription
COMMENT:
David Chang, History Department, University of Minnesota
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Danger at the Crossroads? 9/11, American Studies and the Future of Area Studies
CHAIR:
S. Shankar, Department of English, University of Hawi'i, Manoa
PAPERS:
Sophia McClennen, Department of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University
Pluribus Unum/Ex Uno Plura: Area Studies and the Problem of America
Bill V. Mullen, Department of English, University of Texas, San Antonio
Enemy Combatants? Area Studies, American Studies and The Global Du Bois
Malini Schueller, Department of English, University of Florida, Gainesville
Discipline and Secure: The Post-colonialist as Terrorist
COMMENT:
S. Shankar
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Far From the Fifties: The Post-War Era in Contemporary Culture
CHAIR:
Lori Harrison-Kahan, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University
PAPERS:
Lisa Nelson, Department of English, Columbia University
Freed in the Fifties? Far From Heaven and the Liberation of White Female Desire
Christine Sprengler, Department of Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario, Canada
The American Fifties and the Fifties as America in Dennis Potter's Karaoke and Cold Lazarus
COMMENT:
Daniel Marcus, Communication and Media Studies Program, Goucher College
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Cultural Paradigms of Third Wave Feminism
CHAIR:
Victoria Hesford, Women's Studies Program, State University of New York, Stony Brook
PANELISTS:
Stacy Gillis, Department of English, University of Newcastle, U.K.
New and Improved!: The Branding of (Third Wave) Feminism
Rebecca Munford, Independent Scholar, U.K.
(En)gendering 'Girl' Identities: Third Wave Feminism and Popular Culture
Ednie Kaeh Garrison, Department of Women's Studies, Wells College
Waving Questions: On Feminist Oceanography, Radio Wavelengths, and Submerged Epistemologies
COMMENT:
Victoria Hesford
12:00 - 1:45 PM
The Ethics of Advocacy in U.S. Culture
CHAIR:
Bruce Robbins, English Department, Columbia University
PAPERS:
Jeremy Braddock, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
Godmother Mason, Cunard, and the Ethics of the Visible
John Gennari, Department of English and ALANA U.S. Ethnic Studies, University of Vermont
Taking a Pass on Passing: The White Jazz Critic as Anti-White Negro
Martha Schoolman, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Abolition, Neo-Abolition, and The Weather Underground
COMMENT:
Bruce Robbins
12:00 - 1:45 PM
What the Rest Think When Not Contemplating the West: A New Anthropology of Art in Native American (And Other . . .) Contexts
CHAIR:
Nancy Marie Mithlo, Department of Anthropology, Smith College
PAPERS:
Elisabetta Frasca, Department of Anthropology, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
"Sorry If I'm Not Being Very Nice"—The Resistance to the West in Transcultural Native American Arts
Jessie Ryker-Crawford, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
Art is like a Language: The Deconstruction and Re-Invention of Cultural Identity Within Contemporary Native American Arts
Morgan Perkins, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Potsdam Chinese American and Native American Perspectives on the International Contemporary Artworld
Shelley Niro, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Six Nations Reserve Recent Works
COMMENTS:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
The Unstable Eye: American Travel Writing and Cultural Presentation
CHAIR:
Charles Kupfer
PAPERS:
Karin Thomas, Department of American Studies, Yale University
The Passing Tourist: Sylvester Long and African American Travel Writing
John Haddad, Department of American Studies, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
A Total Want of that Elegant Symmetry
Hokulani Aikau, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
"A Paradise at Home": Cultural Presentation in James Michener's Hawai'i
Edlie Wong, English Department, Rutgers University
On the Southern Tour: William and Ellen Craft's Flight to Freedom
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Atlanta: Past, Present, Future
CHAIR:
Timothy Crimmins, Department of History, Georgia State University
PAPERS:
Timothy Sedore, English Department, Bronx Community College, City University of New York
"Prisoners of Hope": The Rhetoric of Northern and Southern Post-Civil War Elegies in Atlanta and Andersonville, Georgia as Iconoclastic Communities
Marni Davis, History, Emory University
Jews in the Atlanta Liquor Trade, 1880-1910
Laura Hymson, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Advertising Empire: The Coca-Cola Company and American Wartime Advertising, 1943-1945
Dana White, Urban Studies, Emory University
"The Making of Modern Atlanta": A Retrospective
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Scottsboro as Discourse: Race, Ethnicity, Sexuality, Nation
CHAIR:
James Miller, Department of Africana Studies, George Washington University
PAPERS:
Ellen Landau, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University Effacing the Scottsboro Boys: Censorship as Discourse
Rebecca Hill, Department of Social Science, Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York
Working Class Heroes: The Scottsboro Boys' Place in the History of Labor Defense
Sondra Guttman, Department of English, Ithaca College
"So Painfully Obvious": Scottsboro as National Fiction
Mosby Perrow, School of Law, University of Richmond
The Politics of Theater and the Theater of Law: Legal and Aesthetic Dramatizations of Scottsboro in the 1930s
COMMENT:
James Miller
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Making Music in America
CHAIR:
John Dougan, Department of Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University
PAPERS:
Kirstie Dorr,Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The Andean Music Industry: Geographies of Sound in the San Francisco Bay Area
Carla Vecchiola, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Making Their Presence Heard: Detroit Electronic Musicians, International Fans, and Local Representation
Rashida Braggs, Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Looking for the "American" in Jazz
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Crossroads of Character
CHAIR:
Wai Chee Dimock, Department of English and American Studies Program, Yale University
PAPERS:
Alan Ackerman, Department of English, University of Toronto
Structures of Feeling in Victor Séjour's Tireuse de cartes
Nancy Ruttenburg, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University
The Character of Voice: The Secularization of Conscience in Federalist America
Thomas Augst, Department of English, University of Minnesota
Becoming the Drunk: Moral Discourse, Mass Culture, and the Reform of Character
COMMENT:
Wai Chee Dimock
 
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Cross Waters: The United States and the West Indies in the Nineteenth Century
CHAIR:
Sean X. Goudie, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
PAPERS:
Justine S. Murison, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
A Slave to the Hypos: Hypochondria, the West Indies, and Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
James Alexander Dun, Department of History, Princeton University
"[N]os brigands": The Threat of "French Negroes" in Contemporary Philadelphia
Ifeoma C.K. Nwankwo, Department of English and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Raced Man: U.S. Representations of Placido, Cuban Poet of Color
Kathryn L. Beard, Department of History, Wayne State University
"Higher than Those of Their Race of Less Fortunate Advantages": Race, Ethnicity, and Political Change in Detroit's African American Community, 1840-1940
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
The Worlding of Hip-Hop I
CHAIR:
Richard Iton, African American Studies Program, Northwestern University
PANELISTS:
Ian Condry, Department of Languages and Literatures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Real Japanese Hip-Hop
Oliver Wang, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Learn Chinese: Race and the Asian American MC
Sohail Daulatzai, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
Lifting Spliffs in Hell: Afro-Asian Poetics, Hip-Hop Culture and Perpetual War
Halifu Osumare, Human Movement, Sport and Leisure Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
Hip-hop Border Crossings: From the Bronx Hood to the Global Hood
COMMENT:
The Audience
1:00 - 2:30 AM
Business Meeting of the American Studies Editorial Board
1:00 - 3:00 AM
Business Meeting of the Women's Committee
Business Meeting of the Minority Scholars Committee
2:00 - 3:45 PM
The Filipino Imaginary in the Wake of U.S. Imperialism:
CHAIR:
Tera Maxwell, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS:
Sharon Delmendo, St. John Fisher College
Caught Between the Elephants: Filipino Resistance, 1945
Jennifer McMahon, Department Of English, Hunter College, The City University of New York
"Filipino Rebel(s)": Filipino Literature and Modes of Resistance
Denise Cruz, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Martin Joseph Ponce, Department of English, Rutgers University Reading
Anglophone Filipino Literary Anthologies
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Beyond and Back: Locating Chicanas and Latinas within Transnational Feminist Theories
While Chicanas and Latinas have been at the center of transnational processes, they have been largely marginalized within transnational feminist theories. This roundtable brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to address this erasure and begin a dialogue on how Chicanas and Latinas, as multiply situated actors across several borders, have not only responded to economic globalization but have constructed new, critical transnational imaginaries, cultural flows and political formations.
CHAIR:
Michelle Habell-Pallán, American Ethnic Studies Department, Univesity of Washington
PANELISTS:
Maylei Blackwell, César E. Chávez Center for Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel, Latin American/Latino Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
Anna Sampaio, Department of of Political Science, University of Colorado
Eden Torres, Women's Studies, University of Minnesota
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Is it Real Yet? Examining Virtual Community after Ten Years on the Web
CHAIR:
Lisa Gittelman, Program in Media Studies, Catholic University
PAPERS:
Susan Garfinkel, Library of Congress
Friendsters, Fakesters and Tribes: Authentic Identity Fictions in Online Personal Networks
Christopher Wright, Department of Communication, Culture and Technology, Georgetown University
Poaching Reality: The Reality Fictions of Online Survivor Fans
D. Melissa Hilbish, Liberal Arts Program, Johns Hopkins University
"It's Real to Me!": Community Formation and the Ongoing Act of Writing Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Mary T. Battenfeld, Departments of Humanities and American Studies, Wheelock College
Adoption Search: Ethics and Power Embedded in Internet Search Engines
Philip G. Stewart, Technical Writer
Hardware Hackers: Bridging Consumption and Production on the Web
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Race, Media, and Brown v. Board of Education
CHAIR:
Cynthia Young, Department of English and Program in American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California
PAPERS:
Ruth Elizabeth Burks, English Department, Bentley College
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire: The Political Exigencies that Fueled Stormy Weather and Carmen Jones

Joan L. Bryant, African & Afro-American Studies Department, Brandeis University Representing Childhood in the Era of Brown v. Board of Education
Carroll Parrott Blue, School of Film and Digital Media, University of Florida
The Dawn at My Back: Memoir of a Black Texas Upbringing: A Textual, Digital Multimedia Interactive, and Cyberspace Journey into Racism
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Print Culture(s) and Social Reform
CHAIR:
Robert Levine, Department of English, University of Maryland
PAPERS:
Teresa Goddu, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Tracts and Tactics: Antislavery Print Culture in the 1830s
Chris Castiglia, Department of English, Loyola University, Chicago
Bad Associations: Anti-Catholic Reform and Institutional Publicity
Mary Chapman, Department of English, University of British Columbia, Canada
Speaking Through Silence: Voiceless Speeches and Suffrage Print Culture
COMMENT:
Robert Levine
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Dancing to the Music: Identity and Performance
CHAIR:
Krystyn Moon, History Department,Georgia State University
PAPERS:
Danielle Goldman, Performance Studies, New York University
Harlem's Savoy Ballroom: a Crossroads of Music, Dance, and Race
Gema R. Guevara, Languages and Literature, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
The Memory of Music and the Construction of Latinidad
COMMENT:
Krystyn Moon
2:00 - 3:45 PM
The U.S. and Cultural Policy in a Global Context
CHAIR:
Philip John Davies, Eccles Centre for American Studies, The British Library, London, U.K.
PAPERS:
Amy Spellacy, Department of English, University of Iowa
A Neighbor Responds: Criticism of the U.S. Good Neighbor Policy in César Falcón's El buen vecino Sanabria U.
Scott Lucas, Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Birmingham, U.K.
State-Private Networks and the Re-Negotiation of "American Studies"
Kristin Solli, Department of American Studies, University of Iowa
The Invention of Europe: The US, the EU and Cultural Policy
Vasil Kacharava, Department of Modern and Contemporary History of Europe and America, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
The Role of American Culture in Georgian-American Relations
COMMENT:
Liping Bu, History Department, Alma College
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Interrogating Heterosexuality, Challenging Heteronormativity
CHAIR:
Annette Schlichter, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
PAPERS:
Lisa Johnson, Department of English and Journalism, Coastal Carolina University Graves, Pyramids, and Other Narrative Openings: The Shape of Feminist Heterosexuality on HBO's Six Feet Under
Danielle Mitchell, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, Fayette Straight and Sleazy? Bisexual and Easy? Heteronormativity, Marriage, and the Politics of Karen Walker
Michael David Franklin, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
The Delicious Confinement of My Wife's Pretty Clothes: Male-to-Female Transvestism, Marriage, and the Rhetoric of Hyper-Heterosexuality in the Early Writings and Publications of Virginia Prince
Julie Ann Willett, Department of History, Texas Tech University
From Boysitters to Day Care Daddies: Denaturalizing Care and Heterosexuality
COMMENT:
Annette Schlichter
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Race, Gender, Sexuality: Environmental Justice Perspectives
This roundtable addresses environmental justice issues from various perspectives that foreground race, gender, and sexuality in both current and historical cases and from several different regions.
CHAIR:
Annie Merrill Ingram, English Department, Davidson College
PANELISTS:
Joni Adamson, Departments of English and Folklore, University of Arizona
Valerie Kaalund, Department of African and African-American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Na'Taki Osborne, National Leadership Development Coordinator, National Wildlife Federation
Catriona Sandilands, Department of Environmental Studies, York University
Rachel Stein, Department of English, Women's and Multicultural Studies, Siena College
Margo Tamez, Department of Creative Writing, Pima Community College
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Representin(g) the Black South
CHAIR:
Kathryn McKee, Department of English and Southern Studies Program, University of Mississippi
PAPERS:
Riché Richardson, Department of English, University of California, Davis
Gangstas and Playas in the Dirty South
Bruce Brasell, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University
Hush Hoggies Hush: Praying Pigs, Cultural Theory, and the American South
Jon Smith, Department of English, University of Montevallo
Folk and Modernist Aesthetics in The Quilts of Gee's Bend
COMMENT:
Tara McPherson, Program in Critical Studies, School of Cinema/Television, University of Southern California
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Mediated Border Crossings: Popular Culture of the 1960s in Comparative Perspective
CHAIR:
Susan Smulyan, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
PAPERS:
Ilka Saal, English Department, University of Richmond
Transformations—American Political Theater in the 1960s
James Deutsch, Program Coordinator, World War II Reunion, Smithsonian Institution Curious But Yellow: Sweden, Cinema, and Sex in the Sixties
Gerd Horten, Humanities Department, Concordia University
Westwinds: The Impact of American TV Shows on German Television and Culture in the 1960s
COMMENT:
Lewis Erenberg, History Department, Loyola University, Chicago
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Photographing Americans, American Photographers
CHAIR:
Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Departments of English and American Studies, Amherst College
PAPERS:

Martin Padget, Department of English, Univesity of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Cold War Era Photography and the Search for New Foundations: Paul Strand's Tir a' Mhurain/Outer Hebrides

Elena Tajima Creef, Women's Studies Department, Wellesley College
East to America: Theorizing the Photographic History of Japanese Picture Brides

 Susan Scheckel, English, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Double Negatives: Picturing Citizenship at the Hampton Institute

COMMENT:
Karen Sanchez-Eppler
2:00 - 3:45 PM
The Confidence Men: Reexamining the Culture of Capitalism in the Age of Panics
CHAIR:
Ann Fabian, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University
PAPERS:
Joshua R. Greenberg, Department of History, Bridgewater State College
A Hit on the Dandies: Working Men, Cultural Expression, and Market Engagement in Early Nineteenth-Century New York
Stephen Mihm, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Detecting Counterfeits: Confidence and Currency in the Antebellum United States
Brian Luskey, Department of History, Emory University
The Clerk as Crook: Morality, Theft, and Success Narratives in the Antebellum Commercial World
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Sites of Memory: Managing Mythmaking
CHAIR:
Karal Ann Marling, Minnesota
PAPERS:
Caitlin McGrath, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
1939 New York World's Fair: Film and Architecture
Joseph Keith, Department of English, Binghamton University
Ellis Island and C.L.R. James' "Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways": Alternative Topographies of Community and the Limits of the Liberal Nation-State
June Dwyer, Department of English, Manhattan College
Erasing Complexity at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum
Amy Tyson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cites
The Smiling Faces of the Past: Emotion Management and Historical Memory Production at Living History Museums
COMMENT:
The Audience
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Chicana/o Studies at San Quentin: The Challenges for American and Ethnic Studies Inside a State Prison
CHAIR:
Marissa López, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Mitchum Huehls, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Culture Clash I: Challenging Students to be Critical Readers of Texts
María Villaseñor, University of California, Berkeley
Culture Clash II: Challenging Students to be Critical Readers of Culture
COMMENT:
Marissa López
2:00 - 3:45 PM
Fitness: The Body at the Crossroads of Science, Culture and Politics
CHAIR:
Kirsten Ostherr, Department of English, Rice University
PAPERS:
Shelly McKenzie, American Studies, George Washington University
Fitness Begins in the Highchair: American Youth, Physical Fitness and the Cold War
Charlotte Biltekoff, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
"The U.S. Needs US Strong": Eating and Citizenship on The W.W.II Homefront
Christina Jarvis, Department of English, State University of New York, Fredonia Rebuilding the Body Politic: Physical Fitness Programs during World War II
COMMENT:
Kirsten Ostherr
2:00 - 3:45 PM
The Worlding of Hip-Hop II
CHAIR:
Bianca Robinson, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
PAPERS:
Nicole Fleetwood, American Studies Department, University of California, Davis
Hip-Hop Fashion, Masculine Anxiety and the Discourse of Americana

Marc Hill, Education, Culture and Society Program, University of Pennsylvania
(Homo) Thuggin' It: Hip-hop, Masculinity, and the Politics of Queerness
William Jelani Cobb, Department of History, Spelman College
Ready to Die? Life, Death & Hip Hop Audiobiography
Jennifer Williams, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
Lutie's Blues and Lil' Kim's Blue Eyes: Black Women's Subjectivity in Urban Space
Dipa Basu, Sociology Department, Pitzer College
The World of Hip-Hop as a Commodity and a Generation
COMMENT:
The Audience
3:00 - 7:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Regional Chapters Committee
3:30 - 5:30 PM
Business Meeting of the American Quarterly Advisory Editorial Board
4:00 - 11:00 PM
Business Meeting of the ASA Nominating Committee
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Baldwin's "The Evidence of Things Not Seen": A Twenty Year Retrospective
CHAIR:
TBA
PAPERS:
D. Quentin Miller, English, Suffolk University
"Evidence" and the Law
Richard Schur, Drury University Baldwin and CriticalRace Theory
Lynn Orilla Scott, Michigan State University
"The Evidence of Things Not Seen" as Intellectual Performance
Joshua Miller, English Department, University of Michigan
Baldwin as Witness and the Rhetoric of Reportage
Warren Carson, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Spartanburg Baldwin as Prophet: "The Evidence of Things Not Seen"
COMMENT:
The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Mapping Men and Asian America
CHAIR:
Martin Summers, Department of History, University of Oregon
PAPERS:
Fiona Ngô, Ethnic Studies Program, University of Oregon
Perilous Sexuality: Asian/American Masculinity and the Construction of National Borders in the Jazz Age
Michael Masatsugu, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Beat Zen, Square Zen: Buddhism and Cold War Masculinities
Chiou-Ling Yeh, Center for Ethnicities, Communities, and Social Policy, Bryn Mawr
"Model Minorities" vs. "Youth Activists": Masculinities and Chinese American Identity Formation, 1950s-1970s
COMMENT:
Martin Summers
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Digi-Cultural Crossroads
This discussion panel addresses cultural and racial crossings that arise from the participation in several forms of digital technology, including and extending beyond the Internet.
CHAIR:
Jillana Enteen, Departments of English and Gender Studies, Northwestern University
PANELISTS:
Alexander Weheliye, Departments of English and African American Studies, Northwestern University
Beth Coleman, Comparative Media Studies Program and Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Radhika Gajjala, Department of Communication, Bowling Green State University
Jennifer Brody, English and Performance Studies Departments, Northwestern University
COMMENT:
The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
'Bringing Folks Together': Musical Intersections of Race and Class
CHAIR:
Kenneth Marcus, Department of History and Political Science, University of La Verne
PAPERS:
Chris Rasmussen, School of Political Science and History, Fairleigh Dickinson
"Land of the Jook": Blues Music and Jukeboxes in the 1930s and 1940s
Ted Olson, Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, East Tennessee
"Strangely, It Brings Folks Together": Shape-Note Singing in the American South
Mariel Rose, American Studies Program, New York University
Cumbia, Country, and Cold Mountain: Appalachian Crossroads in the Age of Neoliberalism
COMMENT:
Kenneth Marcus
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Who's Keeping House?: Interpreting Servitude in Historic House Museums (Sponsored by the Material Culture Caucus)
CHAIR:
Alan Wallach, Departments of Art and Art History and American Studies, College of William and Mary
PANELISTS:
Dianne Swann-Wright, Director of African-American and Special Programs, Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.
John Tschirch, Director of Academic Programs and Architectural Historian, The Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island
Elizabeth O'Leary, Associate Curator, American Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Consultant, Marymont Foundation
COMMENT:
Alan Wallach
4:00 - 5:45 PM
The Curse of Caste; or, the Slave Bride: A Rediscovered 19th-Century Novel by Julia C. Collins, an African American Woman
CHAIR:
William L. Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PAPERS:
Mitch Kachun, Department of History, Western Michigan University
Interrogating the Silences: Reconstructing the Life and Work of Julia C. Collins
Veta Tucker, Department of English, Grand Valley State University
A Tale of Disunion: Unclaimed Kindred in Julia C. Collins' The Curse of Caste
COMMENT:
Jocelyn Moody, Department of English, University of Washington
William L. Andrews
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Varieties of Religious Experience
CHAIR:
Amy Louise Wood, Department of History, Illinois State University
PAPERS:
James Emmett Ryan, Department of English, Auburn University
Imaginary Friends: Representing Quakers in American Fiction
Linda Frost, English Department, the University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Secret, Persevering, and Importunate": Prayer and the Public Sphere in Nineteenth-Century America
Sylvia W. Chan, Ethnic Studies Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley Orientalism's Travels: Laura Bush, Lil' Kim and the (un)Veiling of Islam
Arletha Livingston, Georgia State University
Women of IFA: Looking Back, Reaching Forward
COMMENT:
Amy Louise Wood
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Violence and Popular Memory
CHAIR:
Yolanda Padilla, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
PAPERS:
Renya Ramirez, American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Healing, Sexual Violence, and Native American Women
Lisa Yoneyama, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego
America's "Just War" and Cold War Feminism: Remembering the Liberation of Japanese Women Under US Occupation
Curtis Marez, Program in Critical Studies, School of Cinema-TV, University of Southern California What Was Silicon Valley? The Work of Historicizing the Future
COMMENT:
The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Space, Standing and Silence: Raising the Roofs and Speaking of Truths
CHAIR:
Alicia Barber, Core Humanities Program, University of Nevada, Reno
PAPERS:
Elizabeth Abele, Department of English, Nassau Community College
On the Street Where you Live
Kelly Freidenfelds, Stanford University
The Indigenous Mission: The Political Power of "Roots" in San Francisco's Mission District
Darwin Fishman, American Studies Department, Univeristy of Maryland, College Park
Can DC Youth Speak?: An Ethnographic Journey Into The Lives Of African American Youth In The Nation's Capitol
COMMENT:
Alicia Barber
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Classical, Vernacular, High and Low Culture: Music, Dance, and Architecture in America
CHAIR:
Catherine Gunther Kodat, Department of English,Hamilton College
PAPERS:
Gudrun Grabher, Department of American Studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria
American Classical Music at the Crossroads of the Vernacular and the (European) Cultivated Influences: Charles Ives and Antonin Dvorak
Robert Hinton, The Africana Studies Program, New York University
Ballet and the Second Harlem Renaissance
Paul Edwards, School of American and Canadian Studies,; University of Nottingham, U.K.
Reimagining the Shopping Mall: The European Invention of an "American" Consumer Space
COMMENT:
Catherine Kodat
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Mixed Messages, Dissonant Tones, Covert Agendas: Writing "Race" at the Turn into the Twentieth Century
CHAIR:
June Howard, English, American Culture & Women Studies Programs, Rackham Graduate School
PAPERS:
P. Gabrielle Foreman, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and American Studies, Occidental College
Bobbing and Weaving: Home Protection and Literary Aggression in Temperance and Anti-Lynching Fights
Ellen Gruber Garvey, Departments of English and Women's Studies, New Jersey City University Slave
Trading in Post-Reconstruction Magazine Stories: Floating a New North-South Reconciliation Myth
Sandra Zagarell, Department of English, Oberlin College
Disparate Audiences, Disparate Appeals: Paul Lawrence Dunbar's Lyrics of Cabin and Field and Alice Moore Dunbar's The Goodness of St. Rocque
COMMENT:
June Howard
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Seeing Masculinity, Reading Maleness
CHAIR:
Gavin Jones, English Department, Stanford University
PAPERS:
Jyoti Argade, Performance Studies, Northwestern University
Ethnic Ambivalence and Hollywood Ethnology: The Celebrity of Sabu
Chad Barbour, University of Kentucky
Francis Parkman's Search for Masculinity Among the Sioux
Guy Jordan, Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland
Spermatorrheal Opthalmia: Hiram Powers and the Perils of Unmediated Vision
COMMENT:
Gavin Jones
4:00 - 5:45 PM
The Victorian Body in the American Imagination
CHAIR:
Joy Kasson, American Studies Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
PAPERS:
Vivien Green Fryd,Art History Department, Vanderbilt University
The "Ghosting" of Incest in Harriet Hosmer'sBeatrice Cenci
Melissa Dabakis, Art History Department, Kenyon College
American Women Sculptors in Rome: Gender, Creativity, and Colonial Body
Jane F. Thrailkill, English Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Corporeal Wonder
COMMENT:
Joy Kasson
4:00 - 5:45 PM
American Studies and Composition
CHAIR:
Adam Golub, Education Studies Department, Guilford College
PAPERS:
Jonathan Silverman, Department of English, Pace University
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Composition
Dean Rader, Department of English, University of San Francisco
Get Medieval on Your Class: Pulp Fiction, Composition and American Studies
Miles McCrimmon, Department of English, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Using a Consumer Awareness Pedagogy in the Composition Classroom
COMMENT:
The Audience
4:00 - 5:45 PM
Alternative Civic Spaces and Experiments with Public Culture in Los Angeles
CHAIR:
Cecile Whiting, Art History Department, University of California, Irvine
PAPERS:
Sarah Schrank,Department of History, California State University, Long Beach
The Visual Arts as Civic Space
Marina Peterson, Anthropology Department, University of Chicago
"My Music": Public Concerts and Civic Belonging
Mario Ontiveros, Art History Department, University of California, Los Angeles Engendering Ethical Relations in Civic Spaces
COMMENT:
Cecile Whiting
4:30 - 7:30 PM
Business Meeting of the Students' Committee
5:00 - 7:00 PM
The Americas as Crossroads from Prehistory to the Present: Cultural Collisions and National Delusions
Exploring the theme of the 2004 ASA meeting, "Crossroads of Cultures," this panel examines the different ways in which the Americas have served—both geographically and ideologically—as cultural crossroads, from prehistory through the present. As such, this panel contributes to redefining what we mean by the Americas as "crossroads" and "contact zones."
CHAIR:
Thadious M. Davis, English Department, Vanderbilt University
PAPERS:
Tom D. Dillehay, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
The First Crossroads of American Humanity: Pre-European Diversity, Identity, and Social Order
Annette Kolodny, College of Humanities, American Literature and Culture, University of Arizona
Who Gets to Tell the Contact Story? Indians and Vikings at the Crossroads of United States Origin Myths
Ralph Bauer, Department of English, University of Maryland Creole
Subjects in the Colonial Americas
Vermonja R. Alston, English Department, York University
Race-Crossings at the Crossroads of African American Travel Writing
COMMENT:
The Audience
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Business Meeting of the Visual Culture/Art History Caucus
6:30 - 7:30 PM
Business Meeting of the Material Culture Caucus
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Crossroads Project's 10th Anniversary Celebration Reception
Please come help us celebrate Crossroads Project's 10th Anniversary.
‡ Reception for International Scholars and Visitors
Reception of the Minority Scholars' Committee, Women's Committee, & Queer Caucus
The Minority Scholars' Committee, the Women's Committee, and the Queer Caucus invite you to attend a reception at the ASA annual meeting in Atlanta. Please come to eat, drink and network. Preregistration is required: $15 for members, $8 for students, $5 for international scholars.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Memorial and Altar Building in Honor of Gloria Anzaldúa
Noted public intellectual and independent scholar Gloria Anzaldúa passed away unexpectedly in mid-May from diabetes-related complications. This informal memorial and alter-building will honor her memory, her life and her words.
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Playing Race: Performing and Construing Racial Identity in the Works of William S. Yellow Robe Jr. and Raúl R. Salinas
CHAIR:
Pamela Voekel, Department of History, University of Georgia
PAPERS:
William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., Trinity Repertory Theatre, Providence, Rhode Island
"On Stands Alone" from Better-n-Indians
Raúl R. Salinas, Founder and Director of Red Salmon Arts
Theatrics and the Tradition of "Playing Indian"
Louis Mendoza, Department of English, Classics and Philosophy, University of Texas, San Antonio
"A Xicano Odyssey through Indian Country": Forming and Performing Indio-Xicano Unity
COMMENT:
Katie Kane, English Department, University of Montana
9:00 - 10:00 PM
Academic and Community Activism Caucus


‡ Indicates an International American Studies Initiative Event