Crossing Borders/Crossing Centuries October 28-31, 1999 Descriptions of Sessions and Events

Friday, October 29, 1999

7:00 - 9:00 AM
SALON 3

International Women's Breakfast

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 1

Across Borders in a Tri-cultural Realm: Cutting for Sign in the Mexican-American, Native-American Borderland Region

CHAIR:

Patrick V. McGreevy, Department of Anthropology, Clarion University

PAPERS:

James R. Curtis, Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach
Ensenada: A Mexican Border Town?

Kevin S. Blake, Department of Geography and Recreation, University of Wyoming
Navajo Reservation Borders and the Symbolism of Sacred Mountains

Larry R. Ford, Department of Geography, San Diego State University, and Nina Veregge, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder
Building Tijuana: The Role of Non-Profit Corporations in the Movement of Construction Materials across the US-Mexico Border

Daniel D. Arreola, Arizona State University
Tejano Foodways and the Borders of Mexican-American Culture

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 4

Ideology, Race, Film

CHAIR:

Elayne Rapping, Media Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo

PAPERS:

Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Department of English, Miami University, Ohio
Generic Violences: Narrative Incoherence and the Representation of Torture

Margaret DeRosia, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Black-and-white Signifies More than Film Stock": The Threat of the Mixed Block and the Racialized Borders Governing Film Noir

Derek Foster, Department of Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa
Pastel Suburbs & Black and White People: Locating the Stranger in Gated Communities and the New Urbanism Movement

COMMENT:

J. David Slocum, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, New York University

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 5

Constructions of Whiteness

CHAIR:

Jean Fagan Yellin, Department of English, Pace University

PAPERS:

J. Kehaulani Kauanui, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Demands of Whiteness and the Selective Assimilation of Polynesians in a 1928 Case of Race and United States Naturalization

Shawn Michelle Smith, Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University
Double Consciousness and Second Sight

J.O. Allen Douglas, Jr., Department of History, Rutgers University
"The Most Valuable Sort of Property": American Legal Discourse and the Boundaries of Whiteness, 1880-1950

COMMENT:

Robert Reid-Pharr, English Department, Johns Hopkins University

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 6

Testimony, Narrative and Nation: Constructing Collective Memory and Identity in Québécois, African American, Puerto Rican, and Native Canadian Culture

CHAIR:

George Lipsitz,Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

PAPERS:

Line Grenier, Department of Communication, Université de Montréal
Remembering Differently: Articulations of Fame, Identity and Belonging in Mainstream Popular Music in Québec

Tricia Rose,Africana Studies Department, New York University
Testimony and Truth: African American Women's Narratives about Sexuality and Self

Arlene Davila, Department of Anthropology, Syracuse University
Sponsored Identities: "Hispanic" Marketing and National Identities

Val Morrison, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University
Kashtin and Cultural Survival in Canada

COMMENT:

George Lipsitz

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 7

Black Crossings: Canada and the US

CHAIR:

Warren Crichlow, Faculty of Education, York University

PAPERS:

Michael S. Harper, Department of English, Brown University
Border Crossings and Family History

Leslie Sanders, Department of Humanities, Atkinson College, York University
"Snowy Northern Mississippi": US Presence in African Canadian Writing

Karolyn Smardz, Department of History, University of Waterloo
Fugitive Sources: Researching African Americans Who Became African Canadians

COMMENT:

Warren Crichlow

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 8

Layers in the Relationship: A Roundtable on New Directions in the Study of History across the Canadian-American Border

CHAIR:

Michael Dorland, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University

PAPERS:

Karen A. Balcom, Department of History, Rutgers University
Of Babies and Black Markets: Transnational Social Welfare Policy and History across the Border

Lisa Y. Dillon, Institute of Canadian Studies, University of Ottawa
Using Integrated Census Microdata to Conduct Comparative Demographic Research on Canadian and American Families

Beth LaDow, Writer and Radio Commentator, Brandeis University
Imagining a North American West

Reginald Stuart, Department of History and Politics, Mount St. Vincent University
Optics and Strata: The Layers of the Canadian-American Relationship as a Gateway to Appropriate Periodization

COMMENT:

Michael Dorland

8:00 - 9:45 AM GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

The Fulbright Program: Crossing Borders, Forming Networks

CHAIR:

Eric J. Sandeen, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming

PANELISTS:

Karen Adams, Program Officer, Council for the International Exchange of Scholars

Victor Konrad, Director, The Foundation for Educational Exchange between Canada and the US

Susan Armitage, American Studies Program, Washington State University, Pullman

Michael Steiner American Studies Department, California State University, Fullerton

Eric J. Sandeen

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON A

"Don't Fence Me In": Representing Spaces of Internment

CHAIR:

Michael Davidson, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego

PAPERS:

Susan Bernardin, Division of Humanities, University of Minnesota, Morris
The Spaces between: Writing and Revising the National Subject in Red and Black: Hampton's Southern Workman

Nicole Tonkovich, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Individuation and Civilization: Documenting the Nez Perce Allotment, 1889-1894

Melody Graulich, Department of English, Utah State University
Assumptions of Citizenship: Conflicted Spaces in Internment Camp Writings

COMMENT:

Michael Davidson

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON B

The Practice of Borders: New York City

CHAIR:

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

PAPERS:

Leota Lone Dog, American Studies Program, New York University
The New York City Native American Community: A Community History Project

Tamara Vukov,Department of Communications Studies, Concordia University
Pier 21, Ellis Island, and Settler Postcoloniality: Cross-temporal and Cross-border Perspectives on Immigration

Nick Mount, Department of English, Dalhousie University
Canadian Writers in New York 1880-1900: The Example of Palmer Cox (The Most Famous Canadian You Never Heard of)

COMMENT:

Lewis A. Erenberg, Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON C

Negotiating Black Women

CHAIR:

Craig Watters, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

PAPERS:

Lynn M. Hudson, History Department, California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo
Making "Mammy" Work for You: Permutations of an American Icon

Yevette Richards, Africana Studies Department, University of Pittsburgh
Negotiating Labor Solidarity during the Cold War

Sarah Judson, History Department, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Race and Consumption: Black Women's Model Homes in Atlanta

COMMENT:

Sharon Holland, Department of English, Stanford University

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON H

Transatlantic Epistemes: Knowledge and Language between Colony and Metropolis

CHAIR:

Nancy Ruttenburg, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS:

Ralph Bauer, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
Of Miners and Speculators: Francis Bacon, Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, and the Literary Geography of British America

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Department of English, Yale University
The Tenth Muse of America: Freaks and Female Bodies in the New World

Susan Scott Parrish, Department of English, University of Michigan
Unsettling Curiosity: William Byrd II's Histories of the Dividing Line

COMMENT:

Nancy Ruttenburg

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON J

Living in between and on Borders: Theorizing Constructions of Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality

CHAIR:

Ruth Roach Pierson, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto

PAPERS:

Rosalin Krieger, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto
What Can the Jew Say to the Anti-Semite? Jewish "Passing" from Minstrelsy to Sitcoms

Marcel Grimard, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Frontieres Virtuelles: Un Québécois in Toronto's Gay Ghetto

Teferi Adem, Center for Race and Ethnic Relations, York University
Deconstructing Ethiopian Identity: Identity Crisis and Conflicts, within and without a Self-Reflective Presentation

Josephine Ann Cutajar, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University of Toronto
The Gozitan Female Ethnographer in North America: The Dilemmas of Speaking From, To, For and Of

COMMENT:

Shahrzad Mojab, Department of Adult Education, Community Development and Counseling Psychology, University of Toronto

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 701

Bordering on Transnational America(s) Studies

CHAIR:

Donald E. Pease, English Department, Dartmouth College

PAPERS:

Tiya Miles, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Slavery, Freedom and the Politics of Place in the Cherokee Nation West

Ricardo L. Ortiz, English Department, Georgetown University
Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Québec, and the Radical Reconfiguration of "Our" New America(s)

Ronald A.T. Judy, English Department, University of Pittsburgh
American Studies on the Verge of Arabization

COMMENT:

Donald E. Pease

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
FOYER (BALLROOM LEVEL)

Student Hospitality Lounge (Sponsored by the ASA Students' Committee)

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 1

Marriage, Property and Violence

CHAIR:

Jane Schultz, Department of English, Indiana University

PAPERS:

Vicki Howard, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
The Business of Brides: Gender, Consumption, and the American Wedding Industry

Felicity Schaeffer, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Surfing the Internet for Love and Brides: Nationalism and Desire Between the Boundaries of Latin America and the US

Carolyn Cocca, Department of Politics, New York University
"Punishing Predators" and "Preventing Pregnancy": An Analysis of Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality in Statutory Rape Discourses

COMMENT:

Shirley Samuels, Department of English, Cornell University

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 3

Anti-racist Strategies and Struggles: Comparative Perspectives

CHAIR:

Avery Gordon, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara

PAPERS:

France Winddance Twine, School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
Transatlantic Anti-racism in Practice: A Cultural Analysis of White Parents of African-descent Children in Britain

Ellen Kaye Scott, Department of Sociology, Kent State University
Anti-racism, Practice, and Intention: Interpreting Anti-racist Activism in Context

Becky Thompson, Department of Sociology, Simmons College
Names and Faces: White Anti-racist Activism in the United States

COMMENT:

David Wellman, Department of Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 4

Chicano/Latino Film and Media

CHAIR:

Rosa Linda Fregoso, Women's Studies Program, University of California, Davis

PAPERS:

Elana Levine, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Competing Networks, Competing Identities: US Spanish-Language Television and the Construction of the Latino Audience

Arturo J. Aldama, Department of Chicana/o Studies, Arizona State University
Crossing Borders of Desire: Racialism, Sexuality and the Politics of Chicana/o Autoethnography in Film

Sarah M. Ramirez, Department of Chicana/o Studies, Arizona State University
Deconstructing and Decolonizing the (Re)Development of an Indigenous Consciousness in Chicana/o Popular Culture

Maria Eugenia Anguiano Tellez, Director, Revista Frontera Norte
The US-Mexico Border: Immigration and Labor Market

COMMENT:

Rosa Linda Fregoso

10:00 - 11:45 AM SALON 5

American Exploits: Imagining the US beyond Its Borders

CHAIR:

J. Martin Favor, Department of English, Dartmouth College

PAPERS:

Jennifer Rae Greeson, American Studies Program, Yale University
How Far South Can a Picaro Go? The Search for a Southern Border in the Early National Novel

James J. Schramer, Department of English, Youngstown State University
The United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842) and the Discourse of American Desire

Anthony S. Foy, American Studies Program, Yale University
A Shadow in the Heart of Whiteness: Matthew Henson, Negro Explorer

Maurice O. Wallace, Department of English, Duke University
Escape to Another Country: James Baldwin Abroad

COMMENT:

Tamar Y. Rothenberg, Department of Geography, Bucknell University

J. Martin Favor

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 6

The Boundaries of Blackness: African American Music at the End of the Twentieth Century

CHAIR:

Mary Helen Washington, Department of English, University of Maryland

PAPERS:

Farah Griffin, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
New Moon Daughters and Mischievous Mavericks: A Meditation on the Musics of Cassandra Wilson and MeShell N'degiocello

Richard Yarborough, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
"Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock Music?": The Ongoing Marginalization of Black Rock

Maureen Mahon, Department of Anthropology, Wesleyan University
Playing across the Borders: Contemporary African-American Musicians in Europe

Herman Gray, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Jazz Left

COMMENT:

The Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 7

Crossing Academic Borders: Marketing American Studies Degrees

CHAIR:

Debra DeRuyver, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland

PAPERS:

Kerry Soper, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, Brigham Young University
Passport Problems at the Border Crossing: Traditional Academia's Trouble with the American Studies Scholar

Mark Hulsether, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee
From American Studies to Religious Studies

Scott Walter, Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Marketing the American Studies Degree in the Academic Library

COMMENT:

The Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 8

The Schoolteacher as Border-Crosser

CHAIR:

Frances Smith Foster, Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University

PAPERS:

Sarah Robbins, English and English Education Programs, Kennesaw State University
Domesticating the Schoolhouse: Antebellum Women's Narratives Constructing the Schoolteacher as Nurturing Mother

Cassandra Jackson, English Department, Emory University
"Barriers between Us": Mulatto Figures and the Text of Teaching in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy and Charles Chesnutt's Mandy Oxendine

June Howard, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Local Knowledge and Booklearning: The Schoolteacher in Regional Writing at the Turn into the Twentieth Century

COMMENT:

The Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Wired Graduates: Online Projects, Praxis, Politics, and Professionalization

CHAIR:

Randy Bass, Department of English, Georgetown University

PAPERS:

Annalee Newitz, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Hanging out with the Bad Kids

David Silver, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Networking on the Net: Cyberspace, Online Learning Communities, and Graduate Student Professionalization

Donna Thompson, Department of Art History, City University of New York
Teachers Don't Byte: Guiding Technology Work in a Humanities Setting

Tavia Nyong'o Turkish, American Studies Program, Yale University
Web Servanting: Doing Technology Work in a Humanities Setting

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON A

It's a Good(s) Thing: Martha Stewart and the Refinement of America (Sponsored by the ASA Material Culture Caucus)

CHAIR:

Mary Corbin Sies, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland

PANELISTS:

Sarah Abigail Leavitt, Women of the West Museum
It Was Always a "Good Thing": A Historical Context for Martha Stewart

Shirley Teresa Wajda, Department of History, Kent State University
K-Martha

Amy Bentley, Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University
Martha's Food

Matthew G. Hyland, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
Martha Stewart's Living Landscapes

Mary Anne Beecher, Department of Art and Design, Iowa State University
Hand Made and Home Grown: The Phenomenology of Martha Stewart

Karal Ann Marling, Department of Art History, University of Minnesota
A Very Martha Christmas to You!

COMMENT:

The Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON B

Interart Inquiry: A New Approach to Scholarly Border Crossing in the Black Expressive Arts

CHAIR:

Johann S. Buis, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago

PAPERS:

Paul Hoover, Department of English, Columbia College, Chicago
Linguistic Doubleness in Black Art, Poetry, and Music

Julia Foulkes, Social Sciences, The New School University
Jungle Dances: In Search of a Deeper Comparative Aesthetic

Rosita Sands, Music Department, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Inquiry: Toward Its Implications for Teaching

COMMENT:

James C. Hall, African-American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON C

Work, Play, and Culture

CHAIR:

Evan Watkins, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University

PAPERS:

Bill Brown, Department of English, University of Chicago
The Work of Play and the Game of Culture

Mark Simpson, Department of English, University of Alberta
Trophies: The Strenuous Life of Collection, Banff c. 1900

Christine Bold, School of Literatures and Performance Studies in English, University of Guelph
Art Work and Public Funding in the 1930s

Heather Zwicker, Department of English, University of Alberta
Figures of Terror

COMMENT:

Evan Watkins

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON H

Popular Literature of the 1920s and 1930s

CHAIR:

Janice Radway, Department of Literature, Duke University

PAPERS:

Jillian Sandell, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Born in the USA: The Anthologization of Experience in the Avon Press "Growing Up" Series

Sharon M. Leon,American Studies Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
"Promoting Wise Marriages": Paul Popenoe, Eugenic Advice and Marriage Guides for Men in the 1920s

Erin Smith,American Studies, University of Texas, Dallas
Americanizing the Working Class through Print: Pulp Magazines, Immigrants, and Consumer Culture

Karen A. Keely, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
"Shall I Marry This Man?": Eugenics Advice in Women's Magazines of the Early Twentieth-Century

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON J

American Indians, Assimilation, and the Issue of Representation

CHAIR:

Ruth Rosenberg, Department of English, Brooklyn College

PAPERS:

Amelia V. Katanski, Department of English, Tufts University
Victory Songs: The Transformation of the Indian Boarding School Band from Assimilative Tool to Marker of Identity

Carter Jones Meyer, Department of History, Ramapo College of New Jersey
"Charming Indian Princess": Tsianina Redfeather and the Quest for Native Identity in Early Twentieth-Century America

Daryl K. Carr, Department of English, Florida State University
The American Indian as Prototype: Charles Eastman's Endorsement of the Boy Scouts Movement

Siobhan Senier, Department of Humanities, University of Maine, Farmington
Resisting Representation: Alice Callahan's and Victoria Howard's Challenge to Ethnographic Convention

COMMENT:

The Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 701

The US-Canadian Border and North American Identities

CHAIR:

Margaret Lowe, Department of History, Bridgewater State College

PAPERS:

Patricia K. Wood, Department of Geography, York University
Power Lines: The Relevance and Irrelevance of the Border to Immigrants and Aboriginals

Mark A.R. Kemp, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
Cigarettes and Eagle Feathers: Literary Borders and "the American Indian" in Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water

Susan L. Blake, Department of English, Lafayette College
Carol Shields and the Possibility of "North American" Identity

Jennifer L. Gauthier, Department of Cultural Studies, George Mason University
Caught at the Border: Highway 61 and Lonestar

COMMENT:

Margaret Lowe

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM SALON 2

International Committee Business Meeting

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
SALON G

Canadian Association for American Studies Executive Meeting

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM SALON D

ASA Students' Committee Mock Interviews

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 1

Talking Back: Performing and Reforming Indian Speech in Early America

CHAIR:

David Murray, Department of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham

PAPERS:

Lucy Rinehart, Department of English, DePaul University
"The Method of Doing Business with Those Barbarians": Inventing the Native Speaker in Benjamin Franklin's Printings of Pennsylvania Indian Treaties

Patricia Crain, English Department, Princeton University
Pedagogy for Removal: Joseph Lancaster's Monitorial System and the Cherokee Mission Schools

Carolyn Eastman, History Department, Johns Hopkins University
The Indian Censures the White Man: "Indian Eloquence" and Representations of American Responsibility

COMMENT:

David Murray

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 3

Dissent and Difference in Colonial America

CHAIR:

Lee Bernstein, American Studies Program, University of Colorado

PAPERS:

Michelle Burnham, Department of English, Santa Clara University
The Fate of Equivalence: Roger Williams and the Economics of Dissent

Jonathan Gill, Department of English, Columbia University
Blacks and Jews in New Amsterdam: A Colonial Romance

Edward Watts, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
"But Is It in Our Interest to Secede?": Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Whiskey Rebellion

COMMENT:

Lisa Gordis, Department of English, Barnard College

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 4

American Dramas Set in Foreign Lands

CHAIR:

Joyce Antler, Department of American Studies, Brandeis University

PAPERS:

M. Lynn Weiss, Department of English and African American Literature, Washington University, St. Louis
Blacks and Jews on the Parisian Stage: The Drama of Victor Séjour

Alan Ackerman, Department of English, University of Toronto
Defamiliarizing Class Conflict: Early American Melodramas Set in Foreign Lands

Andrea Most, English Department, Brandeis University
"You've Got to Be Carefully Taught": Orientalism in Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and The King and I

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 5

Children's Literature

CHAIR:

Glenn Hendler, Department of English, University of Notre Dame

PAPERS:

Gillian Brown, Department of English, University of Utah
The Global Child

Lesley Ginsberg, Department of English, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
The Human/Animal Divide: Crossing the Borders of Citizenship in Antebellum American Children's Literature

Meredith Wood, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Racial Passing and Sexual Crossing: Encoding Nationalism in the 1930s Hardy Boys Novels

Deborah Thacker, School of English, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
"And the Little House was Sad": The City as an Adult Space in Modern Children's Books

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 6

Searching for the Jazz Truth: Art, Identity, and Politics in the Crucible of Modern Jazz

CHAIR:

Ingrid Monson, Department of Music, Washington University

PAPERS:

John Gennari, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia
Rebels and Hooligans: The Cultural Politics of the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival

Nichole T. Rustin, American Studies Program, New York University
"To Tell Duke I Loved Him?": Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Debut Records, and the Question of Influence

Eric Porter, American Studies Department, University of New Mexico
"Straight Ahead": Abbey Lincoln and the Challenge of Jazz Singing

Salim Washington, American Studies Department, Trinity College
Dissonant Beauty: The Coltrane Classic Quartet and the Blues Aesthetic

COMMENT:

Ingrid Monson

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 7

Sexual Visibility and Public Citizenship in Asian/American Cultural Productions

CHAIR:

Sangeeta Ray, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park

PAPERS:

Elena Tajima Creef, Department of Women's Studies, Wellesley College
"My Only Crime Is My Face": Photographing the (Dis)Loyal Japanese American Body and the Visual Rhetoric of Relocation

Leslie Bow, Department of English, University of Miami
"I Enjoy Being a Girl": Sexuality and Partial Citizenship in Asian American Women's Writing

Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine
Queer Si(gh)tings and Missing Homelands: Three Korean American "Incidents of Travel"

COMMENT:

Sangeeta Ray

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 8

Bringing the Social Sciences Back into American Studies: A Forum

CHAIR:

Thadious M. Davis, Department of English, Vanderbilt University

PANELISTS:

Larry Griffin, Program in American/Southern Studies, Vanderbilt University

Grey Gundaker, American Studies Program, College of William & Mary

Linda K. Kerber, Department of History, University of Iowa

Jay Mechling, American Studies Program, University of California, Davis

Masahiro Hosoya, Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Crossing Borders without Passport or Visa: Using the Internet for International Exchange in American Studies (Sponsored by the Crossroads Advisory Board)

CHAIR:

Kate Delaney, US Embassy, Warsaw

PAPERS:

Jaap Verheul, American Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Mastering the Global Classroom: Transcultural Exchanges on the Electronic Frontier

William Bryant, American Studies Program, University of Iowa
Teaching an Internationalized American Studies with the Internet

Charles B. Green, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary, and Gretchen Ferris Schoel, American Studies and English, Keio University, Japan
The Intersection of the Virtual and the Real: Internet Video Conferencing and Transnational Community Building

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON A

African American Photographers: Revisioning African American Identity

CHAIR:

Deborah Willis, Smithsonian Center for African American History and Culture

PAPERS:

Donna M. Wells, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
"We Lifted the Curtain": Washington, DC's Black Photographers, 1850-1970

Arthé Anthony, American Studies Program, Occidental College
Imagistic Dignity during the Great Depression: Collins Studio in 1930s New Orleans

Lisa Gail Collins, Art History Department, Vassar College
Brown Crayons and Black Dolls: The Art of Coming of Age

COMMENT:

Deborah Willis

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON B

American Jesus

CHAIR:

Jesse T. Todd, American Religious Studies, Drew University

PAPERS:

Stephen Prothero, Department of Religion, Boston University
The Oriental Christ

Kevin R. McNamara, School of Human Sciences and Humanities, University of Houston, Clear Lake
A Christ That Smiles: Forest Lawn's American Jesus

Linda Tucker, Department of English, University of Alberta
Tupac Shakur: Where Is the Christ in the Crises?

COMMENT:

Jesse T. Todd

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON C

Nationalisms and Sexuality: Queer Citizenship

CHAIR:

Licia Fiol-Matta, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Barnard College

PAPERS:

Henry Abelove, Department of English, Wesleyan University
Anti-colonialism in the Development of New York City Gay Liberation

Chantal Nadeau, Department of Communications, Concordia University
Citizen Beaver

José Esteban Muñoz, Department of Performance Studies, New York University
Magic Touches: Queers of Color in Alternative Economies

Michael Warner, Department of English, Rutgers University
Sexual McCarthyism?

Lisa Duggan, Department of American Studies, New York University
The Incredible Shrinking Public: Sexual Politics and the Decline of Democracy

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON H

Interrogating the Border: The Meanings and Implications of Interdisciplinarity in American Studies

CHAIR:

Jonathan Scott Holloway, Department of History, Yale University

PAPERS:

Gregory Jay, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
The Evil Empire of American Studies

Sandhya Shukla, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Informing on Disciplinarity and the Methodological Challenges of Globalization

Ruby C. Tapia, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
De-essentializing Disciplines: Questions of Theory and Method in the Politics of Border Crossing

COMMENT:

Jonathan Scott Holloway

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON J

Crossing Borders in the Caribbean and Latin America

CHAIR:

Bruce Daniels, Department of History, University of Winnipeg

PAPER:

Rafael Hernandez, Senior Research Fellow, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Cultura Cubana
The "Americanness" of Cuban Culture: A Comparative Perspective

COMMENT:

Stanley Katz, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Josh Kun, English Department, University of California, Riverside

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 701

Still at Issue: Legacies of Progressive Era Women

CHAIR:

Lisbeth Gant-Britton, Department of English, Kalamazoo College

PAPERS:

Janet Beer, Department of English, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, and Katherine Joslin, Program in American Studies, Western Michigan University
Living in the City: Jane Addams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Chicago

Deborah Williams, Department of English, Iona College
Transgressive, Progressive Politics: Zona Gale, Inez Haynes Irwin, and the Women of Heterodoxy

Donna Campbell, Department of English, Gonzaga University
Imagining Albania in America: Rose Wilder Lane and the Politics of "Home"

COMMENT:

Lisbeth Gant-Britton

12:00 - 2:00 PM
SALON G

Disability Studies Caucus Business Meeting

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 1

Becoming a "Western" Writer: Crossing Borders and Forging Identities

CHAIR:

Krista Comer, Department of English, Rice University

PAPERS:

Patrick J. Walsh, Department of History, University of Texas
George Sterling and the Creation of a Western Literary Identity

Maureen Reed, Department of American Studies, University of Texas
Kaibahís Dilemma: Why We Have Failed to Recollect Kay Bennetti's Recollections of a Navajo Girlhood

Monika Kaup, Department of English, College of William and Mary
Is New Mexican History But a Chronicle of the Marvelous Real? Rudolfo Anayai's Bless Me, Ultima and Ana Castilloi's So Far from God

COMMENT:

Mary Lawlor, Department of English, Muhlenberg College

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 3

Re-positioning American Studies in the (Inter)National Context

CHAIR:

Yoongsoon Yim, Department of Political Science, Sungkyankwan University

PAPERS:

Kent A. Ono, American Studies, University of California, Davis
In-/Ex-clusionary American Studies: Neocolonialism, Multiculturalism, Whiteness and the Discourses of Conversion and Assimilation

Eunsook Koo, English Literature, Chonju University, Korea
Toward the Creation of a Global Intellectual Community: Negotiating Culture, Knowledge and Nationalism

Jae-Hyup Lee, School of Law, Kyunghee University, Korea
Quest for American Identity: Cultural Contention in Courts

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 4

"Degrees of Shame": Adjunct Faculty in the Academy

CHAIR:

Robert C.H. Sweeney, Memorial University of Newfoundland

PANELISTS:

Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh, History-RWC, University of Cincinnati

Barbara Wolf, Video Work, Cincinnati, Ohio

Paul Lauter, Literature Department, Trinity College

This session will be centered on the viewing of Barbara Wolf's 30-minute documentary, "Degrees of Shame," which explores the situation of adjunct and part-time faculty. Wolf interviews a variety of adjuncts, making visible the working lives of those who now do more than 40% of the teaching in America's institutions of higher education. The panelists will contextualize the documentary, and engage the audience in a discussion concerning their reactions to the problem and possible solutions.

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 5

Artistic Boundaries

CHAIR:

Anne Verplanck, Maryland Historical Society

PAPERS:

Thomas P. Kinnahan, Department of English, West Virginia University
Mapping the Land of Lost Borders: Scientific Vision and Narratives of Expansion in the Work of John Wesley Powell

Johanne Sloan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University
Remembering Old Growth: Early Postcards and the Circulation of Tree Imagery

Katherine E. Ledford, Department of English, University of Kentucky
Culture(d) by Comparison: American Narrative of Travel to Hillbillyland in the Photographs of Shelby Lee Adams

COMMENT:

Julie K. Brown, Independent Scholar

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 6

Monsters and Media

CHAIR:

G. Thomas Couser, Department of English, Hofstra University

PAPERS:

Allison McCracken, American Studies Program, University of Iowa
Scary Women and Scarred Men: Radio Suspense Drama, Gender Trouble, and Postwar Change (1943-1948)

Barbara Eckstein, Department of English, University of Iowa
Monsters in Public Memory: The Role of Helen Prejean's Prisoners and Anne Rice's Vampires in a Sustainable New Orleans

COMMENT:

Elizabeth Young, Department of English, Mount Holyoke College

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 7

Staging Racial Biology: The Negotiation of Essence in Nineteenth-Century Popular Performance

CHAIR:

Eric Lott, Department of English, University of Virginia

PAPERS:

Rachel Adams, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
The Black Look and the Spectacle of Whitefolks: Performing Race in the Nineteenth-Century Freak Show

Robin Bernstein, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
The White Girl on the Minstrel's Knee: Little Eva, Uncle Tom, and the Cross-racial Embrace

Benjamin Reiss, Department of English, Tulane University
Cultural Hybridity, Biological Essentialism, and Antebellum Popular Culture

COMMENT:

Eric Lott

2:00 - 3:45 PM SALON 8

Bodies and Spirits at the Turn of the Last Century

CHAIR:

Tracy Fessenden, Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University

PAPERS:

Karen Flood, History of American Civilization Program, Harvard University
Corpses and Human Identity in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century American Culture

Jodi Cressman, Department of English, University of Utah
The Nation of Memory and the Mind's Eyewitness

Jennifer Ratner Rosenhagen, Department of History, Brandeis University
The Übermensch in America: Visions and Revisions of a Cultural Concept

COMMENT:

Bryan F. Le Beau, American Studies Program, Creighton University

2:00 - 3:45 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Conversation on Affirmative Action: The Shape of the River and the National Agenda

CHAIR:

Dennis Moore, Department of English, Florida State University

PANELISTS:

Elson S. Floyd, President, Western Michigan University

Glenn C. Loury, Director, Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston University

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Esq.

Ellen Messer-Davidow, Department of English, University of Minnesota

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 AM
SALON A

Marriage and Modernity

CHAIR:

Alice Kessler-Harris, Department of History, Rutgers University

PAPERS:

Vivien Green Fryd, Department of Fine Arts, Vanderbilt University
Control and Submission: Marital Conflict in Edward Hopper's Images of Nude Women

Susan Hegeman, Department of English, University of Florida
The Politics of Embarrassment: Sherwood Anderson's Many Marriages

Stephanie A. Smith, Department of English, University of Florida
Bombshell: Sex, Memory and Amnesia, "After the Fall"

COMMENT:

Alice Kessler-Harris

2:00 - 3:45 AM
SALON B

Women in the 1930s

CHAIR:

Sharon O'Brien, English Department, Dickinson College

PAPERS:

Alan Wald, English Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Other Americas: Bending Borders, Genders, and Genres in Lauren Gilfillan's I Went to Pit College

Robin Hemenway, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
"Had a Good Cry and Went Home Happy": Shirley Temple, Community, and the Private Politics of Public Life in the 1930s

Lisa Walker, Department of English, University of Southern Maine
Beauty Culture and the Geography of Lesbian Desire: Mixing Business with Pleasure in Fannie Hurst's Imitation of Life

COMMENT:

Jennifer Scanlon, Center for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON C

American Studies, Geography, and Global Knowledge

CHAIR:

Neil Smith, Geography Department, Rutgers University

PAPERS:

Elena Glasberg, Department of Liberal Studies, California State University, Los Angeles
The Last Place on Earth: American Global Endings

Caren Kaplan, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
"A World without Boundaries": Making Feminist Sense of Transnationality

Matthew Sparke, Geography Department, University of Washington
Crossing Borders/Clashing Conservatisms: US Geopolitics between Buchananism and "Americans for Better Borders"

COMMENT:

Neil Smith

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON H

Identities and Interdisciplinarity: Border Work in Academic Institutions--A Roundtable

CHAIR:

Jane Rhodes, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego

PANELISTS:

Robyn Wiegman, Program in Women's Studies, University of California, Irvine

Inderpal Grewal, Department of Women's Studies, San Francisco State University

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

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON J

Between Subject and Citizen: Film, Television and the Internet as Cultural Processes

CHAIR:

Martin Allor, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University

PAPERS:

Nancy Shaw, Department of Communication Studies, McGill University
Canadian Identity and American Mass Culture: The Emergence of Television and the Arts in Canada, 1952-1962

Monika Kin Gagnon, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University
Ethnicized Spectatorship

Petra Mueller, Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University
The Formation of the Financial Citizen

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 701

Figments of Someone Else's Imagination: Border Crossings in Canadian and American Native Fiction

CHAIR:

Kate Shanley, Department of English, Cornell University

PAPERS:

Helen Hoy, Department of English, University of Guelph
"How Should I Eat These?": Reading Canadian Native Women Cross-culturally

Carol Miller, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
The Urban as Indian Country: Representations of Urban Experience in Contemporary Native Fiction

Margery Fee, Department of English, University of British Columbia
Activism as Border Crossings: Contending Implications in Canadian Fiction

COMMENT:

Michael Wilson, English Department, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

4:00 - 5:30 PM
SALON 5

Canadian Association for American Studies Annual Business Meeting

4:00 - 5:30 PM
SALON J

Graduate Student Town Hall Meeting

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 1

Making Early American Studies Matter--A Roundtable Discussion of Evidence, Discipline and the Institution

CHAIR:

Matthew P. Brown, Department of English, Northern Illinois University

PANELISTS:

Sandra Gustafson, Department of English, University of Notre Dame

Janice Knight, Department of English, University of Chicago

Christopher Looby, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

Ivy Schweitzer, Department of English, Dartmouth College

COMMENT:

The Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 3

Bridging the Pacific

CHAIR:

Ralph Ketcham, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

PAPERS:

Hiroko Takamura, Department of European and American Studies, Toyo Women's College
Crossing the Border between Citizen and Non-citizen: The Great War and Japanese Immigrants' Fight for the Franchise

Marc Gallicchio, Department of History, Villanova University
Black Internationalism in Asia: Crossing the Borders of the Great Power System

Teruko Kumei, Department of English, Shirayuri College
(Re)crossing the Bridge: Japanese Immigrants on the US-Japan Exchange Vessels during the Pacific War

Hisako Yanaka, Faculty of International Studies, Kyoritsu Women's University
Building an International Bridge for the Pacific Century: An Assessment of the JET Programme

COMMENT:

Ralph Ketcham

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 6

The Ethnic 1950s

CHAIR:

Thomas Ferraro, English Department, Duke University

PAPERS:

Jennifer Jang, American Civilization, Brown University
Frank Chin's Theory of Food Pornography

Christina Klein, Literature Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Global Expansion and Ethnic Inclusion: Literary Tourism and Postwar Chinatown

Michelle Stephens, English Department, Mount Holyoke College
"The First Negro Matinee Idol": Harry Belafonte and American Culture in the 1950s

COMMENT:

Thomas Ferraro

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 7

The "Sporting" Press in 1840s New York: Three Interpretations

CHAIR:

Elliott J. Gorn, Department of History, Purdue University

PAPERS:

Patricia Cline Cohen, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Editors and Publishers of the Sporting "Flash" Press

Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago
Politics and "Sporting Men": The Birth of Pornography in the US

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, American Studies Program, Smith College
Understanding "Obscenity" in the 1840s

COMMENT:

Elliott J. Gorn

Renee M. Sentilles, Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellow, American Antiquarian Society

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 8

Indigenous Sovereignty in Canada and the United States: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Implications

CHAIR:

Ned Blackhawk, American Indian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison

PAPERS:

David E. Wilkins, Department of Political Science, University of Arizona
First Nations and First Intent: Re-examining the Original Principles of the Indigenous/American State Relationship

Charlotte Cote, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Native Sovereignty in Canada and the United States

Dale Turner, Native American Studies and Government Department, Dartmouth College
Indigenous Oral Histories, Political Sovereignty, and the Law in Canada and the US

Audra Simpson, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
Speaking Sovereignty, Being a Nation: Narrativity and Citizenship in Kahnwake

COMMENT:

The Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Tongue Smell Color

CHAIR:

Avital C. Bloch, Centro Universitario de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad de Colima

PERFORMERS:Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Dance Department, Temple University

Hellmut Gottschild, Dance Department, Temple University

COMMENT:

Avital C. Bloch

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON A

Critiquing the High/Low Hierarchies: Reorienting Models across North America

CHAIR:

Frances Pohl, Associate Dean, Pomona College

PAPERS:

Shaw Smith, Department of Art History, Davidson College
Post-colonial View of Visual Culture in the Southern United States

Feliza Medrano, Art History Department, University of New Mexico
"Ni Chicha Ni Limonada": Depictions of the Mulatto Woman in Cuban Tobacco Art

Frank H. Goodyear, American Studies Program, University of Texas, Austin
Photography's Challenge to the High/Low Paradigm: The Case of Carleton Watkins

COMMENT:

Michele H. Bogart, Art Department, State University of New York, Stony Brook

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON B

American/Canadian Lives and Borders

CHAIR:

Brian Greenspan, Department of English, University of Toronto

PAPERS:

Elizabeth J. Birmingham, Rhetoric and Professional Communication, Iowa State University
Crossing Borders in Architectural Practice: Marion Mahoney Griffin on Colonizing Practices in Australia, India, and the US

Sandra Paikowsky, Department of Art History, Concordia University
American Strategies for Canadian Art

Justin D. Edwards, Department of English, University of Montréal
William Dean Howells' Gothic Travels in Canada

COMMENT:

Brian Greenspan

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON C

Asian-American Border Crossings

CHAIR:

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, English Department, University of Hong Kong

PAPERS:

Todd Vogel, American Studies Program, Trinity College
Crossing over: Recrafting the Exotic Chinese with Arnold Genthe and Sui Sin Far

Georgina Dodge, Department of English, Ohio State University
Women between Worlds in A Daughter of the Samurai

Siva Vaidhyanathan, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University
Displacing Gandhi: Nationalism, India and Tagore's Cosmopolitanism in North America

Selena Whang, American Studies Program, New York University
Double Cross: FTMs of Color, Retraversee and Asian-American Gendering in the TransVideos of Christopher Lee

COMMENT:

Shirley Geok-lin Lim

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON H

19th-Century Literature and Women

CHAIR:

Isabelle Lehuu, Department of History, Université de Québec, Montréal

PAPERS:

Dorri Beam, Department of English, University of Virginia
Beyond the Body's Borders: Mesmerism, Sex, and Cheap Literature by 19th-Century Women

Michael L. Thompson, Department of History, Stanford University
Where's the Past of Me?: Black Mammy and the Literary Reconstruction of Southern White Womanhood in Postbellum America, 1877-1919

Melissa J. Homestead, Department of English, Huntingdon College
"Sometimes an Old Maid, Sometimes a Wife, Then a Widow, Now a Jack, Then a Gill, At Present a 'Fanny'": Re-reading Ruth Hall in Relation to Fanny Fern's Early Periodical Career

COMMENT:

Isabelle Lehuu

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 701

Reading and Emotional Life in America

CHAIR:

Robert Gross, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary

PAPERS:

Joan Shelley Rubin, Department of History, University of Rochester
Slim Volumes, Weighty Feelings: Poetry Reading and Emotional Experience

David M. Stewart, Department of English, National Central University
Reading, Feeling, Gender, and Sex

Robyn R. Warhol, Department of English, University of Vermont
Having a Good Cry: Feminine Feelings and Popular Forms

COMMENT:

Robert Gross

Joel Pfister, American Studies, Wesleyan University

4:30 - 6:00 PM SALON 4

Environmental Studies Caucus Organizational Meeting

6:00 - 7:30 PM SALON 5

Material Culture/Art History Caucuses Reception

6:00 - 7:30 PM SALON C

Music of the Americas Caucus Reception

6:00 - 8:00 PM SALON B

University of Minnesota Reception

7:00 - 7:45 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Awards Ceremony for ASA Prize Recipients

PRESIDING:

Michael Frisch, Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo, and President-Elect of the American Studies Association

Presentation of: the 1999 Bode-Pearson Prize for outstanding contributions to American Studies; the 1999 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best book in American Studies; the 1999 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for the best dissertation in American Studies; the 1999 Constance Rourke Prize for the best article in American Quarterly; the 1999 Mary C. Turpie Prize for outstanding teaching, advising, and program development in American Studies; the 1999 Wise-Susman Prize for the best student paper at the convention; and the Annette K. Baxter Travel Awards to provide travel assistance to outstanding graduate students on the program.

8:00 - 9:30 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

President's Address

SPEAKER:

Mary Kelley, Department of History, Dartmouth College, and President of the American Studies Association
Taking Stands: American Studies at Century's End

9:30 PM - 12:30 AM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

President's Reception and Dance