ASA Program Book
Session Details
Sunday, November 8, 2009
7:30 am – 8:00 am
Networking Breakfast for American Studies/Ethnic Studies Program Directors
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 12
The Committee on ASA Programs and Centers, in collaboration with the
Minority Scholars Committee, offers an assessment of and dialogue about issues
and problems
with tenure and promotion in American Studies, particularly for faculty of color,
and unique to faculty with and without joint appointments who engage in research
that crosses disciplinary borders. The description follows.
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Tenure and Promotion in American Studies: Guidelines and Issues (Directors' Breakfast Workshop)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 12
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Zombies and Vampires: Identifying American Anxieties over Alterity and Belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 9
Herbert G. de Lisser's Psychological Approach to Vampirism in The White Witch of Rose Hall
Dracula Also Speaks Spanish
Occupied Bodies: Zombies in William Seabrook's Memoir The Magic Island and the Film White Zombie
Ghostly Matters: Grace Lee's Revision of the Zombie Genre in American Zombie
Max Brooks's World War Z and the Zombie Reanimation of Yellow Peril
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Working the Citizen: Law, Labor, and American Citizenship
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 17
A Vague and Vagrant Gender: Work, Citizenship, and the Legal Distribution of Masculinity
Controlled and Confined: The Paradox of Individualism in Antipoverty Policy
The Innovative and Entrepreneurial Citizen:
Walter Majors, Patent Law, and Activism in Springfield, Missouri
What's a Working Girl to Do? Sex Industry Labor and the Limits of Sexual Citizenship
8:00 am – 9:45 am
New Depression Studies in the New New Deal
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance East
St. Louis (MO)
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the Means of Digital Humanities Production
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom Central
8:00 am – 9:45 am
The State(s) of American Studies
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 11
The American State Allegorizes the Ruins: Henry Adams and Counterstrategy
Liam Kennedy, University College Dublin (Ireland)
What Does America Want?
Axes of American Studies
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Thinking Outside the Academy: Making Spaces for Indigenous Women's Work
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 13
8:00 am – 9:45 am
American Studies 2.0: Student Learning through Documentary Video Production in the American Studies Classroom
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 15
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Black Sexual Citizenship: Queering Diasporic Performances, Practices, and Productions
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West B
Can the Ho's Speak? Queering Black Porn, Illicit Eroticism, and Sexual Rights
The Queer Limits of Blackness
Queering Africa, Queering Diaspora
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Embodiments of Progress: Technology, Machines, and
Belonging in Normalcy (On line Session)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 10
Gut Feelings and Technical Precision
Combat, Injury and the Production of Novel Forms of Citizenship
Fixing Disability in the Name of Progress: The Transnational Capital of Disabled Latin Americans
Disciplining the Dead: Behaviorism, Automatism, and the First Zombies
Making Bodies Like a Rocket: Enhancement and Evolution of Natural Bodies
Panel papers now available on-line, along with a pre-conference blog. To learn more, read the papers, and join the discussion, click here
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Queer Transnationalisms, Queer Mexico City
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom North
Anahi Russo Garrido, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ),
Rodrigo Laguarda, Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Mexico City
Habitual Circuits of Transnational Queer Belonging: Theater-Cabaret in Mexico City
Mexico City's Gay Street: A Global/Local Account of Calle Amberes as Identification Space
El otro "ambiente" : Class and Ethnicity in Queer Urban Spaces in Mexico City
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Practices of Community and Belonging: Teaching Graphic Narratives in a Post-9/11 World
The Renaissance DC Hotel Auditorium
Teaching Graphic Novels in a Multicultural Classroom
Developing and Sustaining Intercultural Communicative Competence by Teaching and Studying Graphic Narratives
Comics/x and American Studies Scholarship after 9/11
Anthologizing American Comics: Teaching the Art of American Graphic Narration through McSweeney's 13
Practicing Dissent and Teaching Political Engagement: Aaron McGruder's Comic Strip The Boondocks
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Biocapitalism, Sustainability, and the Reproduction of Value
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 16
Surrogacy, Slavery, and the Reproduction of Value
Falling Out with Green Nukes: Reproduction, Scarcity, and the Rhetoric of Nuclear Energy
Screening Pedophilia: The Value(s) of Virtual
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Borders and Circuits: Performative Geographies, Translation, and the Sustainability of Belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West A
La Maquila-Golondrina, or, Neoliberalism's Habitat-Fragmenting Habits
Translation against Translation in Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
Translating the Sustainability of the Self to the Stage: La mujer que cayó del cielo
The Transborder Immigrant Tool: From Locative Media to Transcitizenship
8:00 am – 9:45 am
On the Unlikely Queer Subject
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom South
"La moda nace en Paris y muere en Caracas": Fashion, Beauty, and Consumption on the (Trans)national
You Are Being Watched (By a Spinster)?
Murder S/he Wrote
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Weather and Disaster and Social Belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 14
Gated Sustainable Communities: Eco-Utopias and the Question of Who Will Survive Climate Change
Floating Communities and Contested Belonging: The Flood Narratives of Hurricane Katrina and Richard Wright
Postseasonal Affective Disorder: Weather, Faith, and Democratic Citizenship
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Women and Belonging: Gender and Citizenship in the Realm of Public Memory (sponsored by the Women's Committee)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 16
I Couldn't Not Quilt Obama
Captivating America: The Mass Marketing of Colonial Captive Hannah Duston
Stone Soldiers and Shafts: Gender and Patriotism in U.S. Women's Commemorations in the Early Twentieth Century
The Multiracial March on Washington: Womanhood and the New Stakes of Civil Rights
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Yes We Did? Symbolic Racial Victories from the Cold War to Barack Obama
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 17
Obama's Race Resituated: Historicizing the Exportation of United States Multiculturalism to the World
Victory at Last: The End of the Urban Crisis in 1968, 1998, and 2008
History Gave Grant Park Another Chance: Considering Place and a Civil Rights Trajectory
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Citizen Historian: Multiple Perspectives on Studs Terkel
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 10
Studs Terkel, Historian
Terkel at Work
The Truth According to Terkel: The Authoring of Oral History in Hard Times and The Good War
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Latinidad, Comparative Social Movements, and the Politics of the Possible
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 9
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Roundtable: Bridging Humanities and Social Sciences within American Studies (sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Centers and Programs)
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 12
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Born in the U.S.A.: Native-Born Americans and Second-Class Citizenship in the Early Twentieth Century
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West A
Sex vs. Citizenship: Plessy, Prostitution, and the
(Re)invention of the Erotic Octoroon
The Logic of Expulsion: Asylum and Extradition on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Romo v. Laird: Mexican American Segregation and the Modern Pedagogy of the Tempe Normal School
Old Obsessions, Modern Concerns: Reevaluating the Dillingham Commission at 100
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Nineteenth-Century Geographies of Race and Freedom
The Renaissance DC Hotel Grand Ballroom South
Samuel Ringgold Ward's Agricultural Aspirations
Climates of History: Atlantic Geopolitics, Narrative Indirection, and the Transient Citizen in Douglass's The Heroic Slave
Black Migration and the Politics of Exclusion in James Williams's Life and Adventures
Pauline Hopkins and the Impossible Geography of Africa
10:00 am – 11:45 am
The Visual West and American Identity: Constructing Nationalism through the Western Landscape, 1860–1985
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 11
Picturing the View from Above: Mapping Identity on the Prairie Empire, 1860–1880
Rewriting the Western Frontier: Panoramic Vision and Telegraphic Language in Railroad Guidebooks, 1869–1884
Constructing National Identity through Western Survey Photography, Then and Now
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Where Do American Jews Belong? Jewish Ethno-Racial Liminality in the Postwar United States
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 15
A Large, Extended Family: Race, Resistance, and Familial Belonging in Hettie Jones's Autobiographical Practices
A Shifting Sense of Belonging: Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker
Like Being a Little Pregnant: Practices of Belonging and Exclusion in Online Jewish Genealogy
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Transnational Adoption between the United States and Asia: Racial and Gendered Violence and Communities of Resistance
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 14
Love and Violence in Transracial/national Adoption
(Web)site of Resistance: Performing the Loss of Birthmothers
Toward Truth and Reconciliation: Rewriting National Routes in Jane Jeong Trenka's Fugitive Visions
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Visualizing Difference, Consuming Identity
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance East
Commodity Consumption and the Transracial Performative
The Object of Freedom and the Black Skin of Painting
We Are All Americans First: Postwar Visions of African American Citizenship in Consumer Magazines
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Reality of Belonging
The Renaissance DC Hotel Renaissance West B
Citizenship, Consumerism, and Gendered Refinement on Makeover Reality TV
Outsourcing Content: Media Technologies and Audience Labor
Wilderness Porn: The Selling of the Natural World's Debasement of the Human Body
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Limits of Belonging in Nineteenth-Century Literature
The Renaissance DC Hotel Meeting Room 13
The Sweet, Suggestive Landscapes of Hamlin Garland and the American Populists
The Strange Faculty of Dreams: Antebellum Popular Reform Literature, Collective Performance, and Individual Imagination
What We Call a Metaphor in Our Country: Emily Dickinson's Public Sphere