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

Saturday, October 30, 1999

7:00 - 9:00 AM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Breakfast for Women in American Studies (Sponsored by the ASA Women's Committee)

SPEAKER:

Sara Horowitz, Department of English, University of Delaware
The Last Taboo: Sexual Violation and the Holocaust in American Women's Lifewriting

7:30 - 9:45 AM

Great Lakes American Studies Association Program Committee Breakfast Meeting

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 1

Sympathetic and Satiric Laughter: The Intervention of Race and Ethnicity in American Comic Expressions

CHAIR:

Arthur Power Dudden, Department of History, Bryn Mawr College

PAPERS:

Daniel Wickberg, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Texas, Dallas
Sambo and the Sympathetic Imagination: Racial Characterology and the Meaning of Laughter in Nineteenth-Century America

Paul Buhle, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Harvey Kurtzman and the Yiddish-Jewish Radical Tradition in Satire: Looking at MAD COMICS, 1952-1955

Stephen Kercher, Department of American Studies, Indiana University
Comic Confrontations: Race, Civil Rights and American Liberal Satire, 1954-1964

COMMENT:

Lawrence Mintz, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 3

Border Skirmishes: (Post) Modernities of the Americas

CHAIR:

Norma Alarcón, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS:

Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The North and the South: National Limits and Liminal Subjects

Katherine Sugg, Department of Women Studies, San Francisco State University
Postmodern Utopias of the Borderlands and John Sayles's Lone Star

Jasbir Puar, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
The Drag of Postcoloniality: Transnational Sexualities and Trinidad

COMMENT:

Norma Alarcón

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 4

Creating New England: Regionalism, Cultural Studies and the High School Curriculum (Sponsored by the Committee on Secondary Education)

CHAIR:

Ardis Cameron, American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine

PANELISTS:

Ardis Cameron

Joseph Conforti, American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine

Donna Cassidy, American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 5

Political Art, Censorship, and Surveillance

CHAIR:

Melissa McEuen, Department of History, Transylvania University

PAPERS:

Mary Ellen Lennon, History of American Civilization Program, Harvard University
"Art Strike against Racism": New York Museums and African American Visual Artists, 1968-1971

William J. Maxwell, Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
F.B. Eyes: The Bureau of Investigation Reads Claude McKay

Steven Garabedian, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
"How Long Blues": Lawrence Gellert's Archive of Blues Protest and the Propaganda of Blues Historiography from the Depression to the Cold War

COMMENT:

Lyman Tower Sargent, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri, St. Louis

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 6

From the Monster's Entrails: José Martí's America and Other Fin de Siecle Modernities

CHAIR:

Sonia Baires, Department of Urban Studies, Université de Québec, Montréal

PAPERS:

Laura Lomas, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Opening the Figures of Modernization: José Martí's and Henry James's (North) American Scenes

A.J. Lopez Maldonado, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University
Affiliation and Exile in José Martí's Our America

Kevin Meehan, Department of English, University of Central Florida
Martí, Schomburg, and Race in the Americas

COMMENT:

Ada Ferrer, Department of History, New York University

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 7

Low End Theories: Expanding Hip-Hop Scholarship

CHAIR:

Joseph Schloss, Ethnomusicology Department, University of Washington

PAPERS:

Jon Caramanica, Sociology Department, Goldsmith College
"Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)": Tribulations of the White MC

Joseph Schloss, Ethnomusicology Department, University of Washington
"It Just Doesn't Sound Authentic": Reflections on the Use of Live Instrumentation in Hip-Hop

Oliver Wang, Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Apostles, Brothers, and Piklz: Hip Hop Asian America in Flux

COMMENT:

Kyra Gaunt, Department of Music, University of Virginia

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 8

North America's Hidden Mestizo History: Intermarriage and Identity in Comparative Perspective

CHAIR:

Maureen Konkle, Department of English, University of Missouri

PAPERS:

Masarah VanEyck, Department of History, McGill University
"We Shall Be One People": Policies and Practices of French-Indian Intermarriage in Seventeenth-Century New France

Jennifer M. Spear, Department of History, Dickinson College
Where She Belongs: Mestizos in Late Eighteenth-Century New Orleans

Karen M. Woods, Department of English, University of Minnesota
The Cherokee Law of Intermarriage: Citizenship, Sovereignty, and Land Rights

COMMENT:

Peggy Pascoe, Department of History, University of Oregon

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON A

Dealing with Disability: Eugenics and Euthanasia in the Industrial Age (Sponsored by the Disability Studies Caucus)

CHAIR:

Robert W. Rydell, History Department, Montana State University

PAPERS:

Rosemarie Garland Thomson, English Department, Howard University
Cure or Kill: The Cultural Logic of Euthanasia in Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"

David Serlin, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine
Exhibiting Eugenics: Babies, Freaks, and Others at the 1939-40 New York World's Fair

Christina Cogdell, Art History, University of Texas, Austin
The Futurama Recontextualized: Norman Bel Geddes' Eugenic "World of Tomorrow"

COMMENT:

Robert W. Rydell

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON B

Collective Memories, Images, and the Atrocity of War

CHAIR:

Joseph Roach, Department of English, Yale University

PAPERS:

Judith Fryer Davidov, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Remnants and Rituals: Competing Narratives of the American Southwest

Laura Wexler, Women's and Gender Studies, Yale University
"Sometimes I was Just in Prison": Photography as Proleptic Memory in the Work of Roman Vishniac

Linda Haverty Rugg, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University
Re-visioning Men in Combat: Soldiers of the Wehrmacht and Saving Private Ryan

Susan Eve Jahoda, Artist/photographer, Amherst, Massachusetts
"The Vacation," from Frictional Contacts and the Other Stories

COMMENT:

Joseph Roach

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON C

Mutual Influences: Canadian Immigrants and Life in the United States

CHAIR:

David R. Spencer, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario

PAPERS:

Nancy Schultz, Department of English, Salem State College
Veiled Northern Threats: The Canadian Factor in the 1834 Burning of the Charlestown, Massachusetts Convent

Lisa Poirier, Department of Religion, Syracuse University and Susan Fliss, Library Information and Technology Services, Mount Holyoke College
Franco-American Education in 19th-Century New England: Tool for "La Survivance"

Andrew Holman, Department of History and Canadian Studies, Bridgewater State College
Here and There: Work, Liminality and Place in a Victorian Diarists' Canada West and New York

Eileen Margerum, Department of English, Salem State College
Palmer Cox and "The Brownies": Leaping over Time and Space

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON H

Materiality across Disciplines: Supplementing the Text in Performance Studies, the History of the Book, and Media History

CHAIR:

Jay A. Grossman, Department of English, Northwestern University

PAPERS:

Shannon Jackson, Rhetoric and Dramatic Art, University of California, Berkeley
Writing Lines of Activity: Queer Domesticity and the Performance of Everyday Life at Hull-House

Meredith L. McGill, Department of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Reading Transportation Networks: Unsettling the Grounds of Book Circulation

Lisa Gitelman, English Department, Catholic University
Matters of Record: On the Status of Print at the Origin of Recorded Sound

COMMENT:

Jay A. Grossman

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON J

Reconstructing Historical Readers: Goals and Methods--A Roundtable

CHAIR:

Barbara Sicherman, Department of History, Trinity College

PANELISTS:

Ronald J. Zboray, Department of History, Georgia State University

Mary Saracino Zboray, Independent Scholar

Ellen Gruber Garvey, English Department, New Jersey City University

Barbara Hochman, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

James L. Machor, Department of English, Kansas State University

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 701

Reimagined Boundaries/Reinvented Identities: Sites of Literary and Performative Transgression in 19th-Century American Culture

CHAIR:

Frederick Moten, Department of Performance Studies, New York University

PAPERS:

Eliza Richards, Department of English, Boston University
Frances Osgood, Magazine Circulation and the Erotic Voice of Print

Sandra Gunning, Department of English, University of Michigan
Refiguring the Nation: Sutton E. Griggs' Imperium in Imperio and the Limits of Early Black Nationalism

Kerry Larson, Department of English, University of Michigan
Critical Performance and Blackface Minstrelsy

COMMENT:

Frederick Moten

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

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

10:00 - 11:00 AM
SALON D

Society of the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Caucus Business Meeting

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 1

Theory of Borders II--Post-colonial Theory and "Native"

CHAIR:

Joel Martin, Program in American Studies, Franklin and Marshall College

PAPERS:

Joanne Barker, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Bad Blood: Reading the Human Genome Diversity Project

Cynthia Franklin and Laura Lyons, Department of English, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Replacing the State: Native Resistance, Globalization, and Cultural Production of Hawai'i

Maria Eugenia Cotera, Modern Thought and Literature Program, Stanford University
Reading across Ethnicities: The Relevance of Post-colonial Theory to the Historical Analysis of Writing by Women of Color in the US

Gamal Abdel-Shehid, Department of Sociology, York University
Black Marxism after Innocence: Post-Manicheism in Recent Black Political Thought

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 3

1950s and Cold War

CHAIR:

David Leverenz, Department of English, University of Florida

PAPERS:

Timothy Melley, Department of English, Miami University
Conspiracy Culture: The Crisis of Agency in Postwar America

Gordon Hutner, Department of English, University of Kentucky
Crossing Class Barriers: Fiction, Criticism, and the '50s

Thomas Doherty, Film Studies Program, Brandeis University
Edward R. Murrow Slays the Dragon of Joseph McCarthy

Eric Jarvis, Department of History, King's College
Anti-McCarthyism and Anti-Communism: The Comic Strip Pogo and Liberal Satire in the 1950s

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 4

"American Identities": A University and Secondary School Collaborative Course (Sponsored by the Committee on Secondary Education)

CHAIR:

Carol Siriani, Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School

PANELISTS:

Carol Siriani

Rachel Rubin, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Eric Goodson, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 5

Pan Pacific

CHAIR:

E. San Juan, Jr., Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University

PAPERS:

Moon-Ho Jung, Department of History, Oberlin College
Caribbean Crossings: Antebellum and Postbellum Debates over the "Coolie" Trade

Sarita Echavez See, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
"An Open Wound": Colonial Melancholia and Contemporary Filipino American Cultural Production

Adria L. Imada, American Studies Program, New York University
Binding Hawai'i and New York in the American Empire: Hula and Hawaiian Music Circuits before Pearl Harbor

COMMENT:

Linda España-Maram, Department of Asian/Asian American Studies, California State University, Long Beach

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 6

Geographies of Power: Slavery and Its Permeable Borders

CHAIR:

Priscilla Wald, Department of English, University of Washington

PAPERS:

Edward Baptist, Department of History, University of Miami
"Stol' and Fetched Here": Vernacular History and Forced Migration across the Borders of the Old Southwest

Jeannine DeLombard, Department of English, University of Puget Sound
Frederick Douglass's Sea-Change: Crossing the Bar on the Crossing

Stephanie Camp, Department of History, University of Washington
Enslaved Mothers, "Amalgamation Prints," and the Geography of Black Political Culture in the Old South

COMMENT:

Judith Jackson Fossett, Department of English, University of Southern California

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 7

Blue(S)ubjects

CHAIR:

William Barlow, School of Communications, Howard University

PAPERS:

Jerry Wasserman, Department of English, University of British Columbia
Queen Bee, King Bee: Blues Subjectivity and The Color Purple

Adam Gussow, Department of English, Princeton University
"Dead Bodies Coming after Me": Spectacle Lynching and Redressive Erotics in B.B. King's Blues All Around Me

Anthony Walton, Department of English, Bowdoin College
The Blues as Poetry, Poetry as the Blues

COMMENT:

William Barlow

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 8

Transgressive Sexualities

CHAIR:

Brett Beemyn, Department of African American Studies, Western Illinois University

PAPERS:

Yvonne Keller, Women's Studies, Miami University, Ohio
"Do you think you could forward this letter to Beebo?" Lesbian Pulp Fiction and the Search for a Usable Past

John C. Hawley, Department of English, Santa Clara University
The Not-So-Innocents Abroad: Hegemonic Overtones of the American Libidinal Economy

Frederick Luis Aldama, Department of English, Stanford University
Transecting Passions of Nation, Ethnicity, and Outlawed Sexuality

COMMENT:

Nan Alamilla Boyd, University of Colorado, Boulder

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON A

Identity Crossings in Nineteenth-Century America

CHAIR:

Miles Orvell, Department of English, Temple University

PAPERS:

Peter Bacon Hales, Art History Department, University of Illinois, Chicago
Identity: Fluidity, Endangerment, Instantiation in 19th-Century Photographs

Joy Kasson, American Studies Curriculum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Identity, Performance, and Self-impersonation

Laura Browder, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University
The Real Ramona: Ethnic Impersonation and American Identities

COMMENT:

Miles Orvell

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON B

Race and Revision in Contemporary Art and Culture

CHAIR:

Kandice Chuh, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park

PAPERS:

Karen Shimakawa, Department of Theater and Dance, University of California, Davis
Border and Body Politics: Trans-/Multi-/Inter-Cultural Performance

Diana Paulin, American Studies, Yale University
Reconfiguring the "Spectacle" of Cross-Racial Contact

Richard Meyer, Department of Art History, University of Southern California
Glenn Ligon's Black Book

David Román, Department of English, University of Southern California
Chicanos in the House

COMMENT:

Kandice Chuh

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON C

Popular Forms of Cultural Consumption

CHAIR:

Simon Bronner, Program in American Studies, Pennsylvania State University

PAPERS:

Hal S. Barron, Department of History, Claremont Graduate University
Playing with Words: Crossword Puzzles and American Culture during the 1920s

Chris R.B. Fay, American Civilization, University of Texas, Austin
Old. New. Whatever. As Long As It Works: The Thrift Store in America

Beverly Gordon, Department of Environment, Textiles and Design, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Aesthetic Excitement and Domesticated Amusements (Presenting a New Framework for Examining Everyday Activities)

COMMENT:

Michael Zuckerman, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON H

Discourses of Civil Rights/Affirmative Action--A Roundtable (Sponsored by the Minority Scholars' Committee)

CHAIR:

Ernesto Chávez, Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso

PANELISTS:

David L. Eng, Department of English, Columbia University

Dwight B. McBride, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh

Lisa Cacho, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Rafael Pérez-Torres, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON J

Today's Job Crisis

CHAIR:

William H. Chafe, Dean of Faculty, Duke University

PANELISTS:

Lynn Sacco, Department of History, University of Southern California
If We're So Smart, Why Are We Still in School?

Ramon A. Gutierrez, Associate Chancellor, University of California, San Diego
Institutional Responses to Academic Workforce Restructuring

William Pannapacker, Program in History of American Civilization, Harvard University
"Saving American Studies": The Academic Job System, Unionization, and the Public Sphere

Patricia Nelson Limerick, Center of the American West, University of Colorado
Selling the Humanities: Impurity and Entrepreneurship

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 701

Art, Commerce and the Slave Trade: The Political Economy of the Black Atlantic

CHAIR:

Philip Barnard, Department of English, University of Kansas

PAPERS:

Philip Gould, Department of English, Brown University
The Slave Trade and the Commercial Borders of Race

Robert Fanuzzi, Department of English, St. John's University
The Traffic in Oratory: Douglass's Rhetorical Art and the Limits of Citizenship

COMMENT:

Philip Barnard
Remarks on Art, Commerce and the Slave Trade

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 1

Immigrants and Image-Nation

CHAIR:

Joanne Jacobson, Department of English, Yeshiva University

PAPERS:

Andaluna Borcila, American Studies, Purdue University
Cold War Immigrants/Post-Cold War American Travelers: Narratives of Return to "Eastern Europe"

Rachel A. Willis, American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Voices of Mill Workers: Responses to Border-Crossers in American Factories and Jobs Crossing Borders

Richard A. Wright, Department of Geography, Dartmouth College
The Salvadoran Transnational Community of Northern New Jersey

COMMENT:

Marilyn Halter, Department of History, Boston University

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 3

Performing America

CHAIR:

Peter Rabinowitz, Department of Comparative Literature, Hamilton College

PAPERS:

Mark Hodin, Department of English, University of Louisville
David Belasco, Naturalism, and Legitimate Ethnic Performance

Catherine Gunther Kodat, Department of English, Hamilton College
"Some Uncertain Footwork": Empire, Ethnography, and the Birth of American Modern Dance

Yuko Matsukawa, Department of English, State University of New York, Brockport
Ruby Shang and David Henry Hwang's Exilic Imagination: Translations and Transformations in "Dances in Exile"

COMMENT:

Amy E. Koritz, Department of English, Tulane University

12:00 - 1:45 PM
TBA

Focus on Teaching Day Luncheon

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 5

The Craft and Art of Community Politics: African American and Chicano Cultural Centers in Postwar Los Angeles

CHAIR:

Raúl H. Villa, Department of English, Occidental College

PAPERS:

Sarah Louise Schrank, Department of History, University of California, San Diego
Secret Festivals and Glass Towers: Art, Community, and Civic Culture in Black Los Angeles

Michael N. Willard, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
"Something from Nothing": The Compton Communicative Arts Academy, the Work of Art and the Art of Work in the Los Angeles Black Arts Movement

Jeffrey J. Rangel, American Cultures Program, University of Michigan
The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Public Art: El Centro de Arte Público and the Chicano Arts Movement in Los Angeles

COMMENT:

Raúl H. Villa

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 6

Writing American Studies for Larger Audiences: The Right Tools for the Right Job

CHAIR:

Michael Vazquez, Executive Editor, Transition

PAPERS:

Jennifer Price, Independent Scholar, Los Angeles
Writing Cultural Theory--That You Don't Need a Humanities Ph.D. to Read

Carlo Rotella, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Writing about Cities: Reporters and Scholars

Wayne Fields, Department of English, Washington University
The Aesthetics of Scholarship

COMMENT:

Michael Vazquez

Don Fehr, Executive Editor, Basic Books

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 7

Outside Poetry: Poetics Inside & Outside the Poem

CHAIR:

Tom Carmichael, English Department, University of Western Ontario

PAPERS:

Kevin McGuirk, English Department, University of Waterloo
"Disremembering, Dismembering": Poetics and the oral history of the Vietnam war

Steve Bennett, English Department, University of Waterloo
A Generic Account of the Dead? A Social Semiotic Reading of Robert Hunter's "Elegy for Jerry"

Joanne Di Nova, English Department, University Waterloo
Controlling Borders: Joy Harjo's Poetic Politics and the Construction of a Political Poetics

Jed Rasula, English Department, Queen's University
This Compost

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON 8

Crossing the Border of Faith: Some Early American Religious Conversions

CHAIR:

Ellen Eslinger, Department of History, DePaul University

PAPERS:

Jewel L. Spangler, Department of History, University of Calgary
Received by Experience: Evangelical Conversion in Early Virginia

Hilary E. Wyss, Department of English, Auburn University
Conversion and the Struggle for Identity among the Stockbridge Indians, 1734-1753

Amy DeRogatis, Department of Religion, Michigan State University
Drawing the Borders of Faith: Frontier Missionaries and the Problem of Conversion

COMMENT:

Ellen Eslinger

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

"The People Have Never Stopped Dancing": Issues in American Indian and Aboriginal Contemporary Dance (Sponsored by the ASA American Indian Caucus)

CHAIR:

Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside

PAPERS:

Tharon Weighill, Department of Dance, University of California, Riverside
Urbanity and Ceremonial Dances Among Southern California Indians

Jerry P. Longboat, Aboriginal Dance Program, Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta
Purpose and Process in Contemporary Aboriginal Dance Expression

Christopher J. Bracken, Department of English, University of Alberta
"This Terrible Torture": Dancing and the Discourse of Colonial Masochism

Anita Gonzalez, Department of Dance, Connecticut College
Globalization of Native Rites: Tragedy or Promise

COMMENT:

Michelle Hermann, Department of English, Swarthmore College

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON A

Remembering Place/Constructing Place

CHAIR:

Dona Brown, Department of History, University of Vermont

PAPERS:

Briann G. Greenfield, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
"While Benefit Street Was Young": Historic Preservation and Public Memory in Providence, Rhode Island

Brian W. Casey, History American Civilization Program, Harvard University
Remembering the Campus: Emotion and the University, 1880-1940

Catherine Gudis, Department of American Studies, Yale University
Cultures of Mobility: Place Packaging, Tourism, and the Democracy of the Open Road

Randall F. Mason, Department of Urban Planning, Columbia University
History for the Future: Building Historical Memory into the Landscape of Modern New York, 1900-1920

COMMENT:

Dona Brown

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON B

Hyphennationalisms

CHAIR:

Mary Wood, Department of English, University of Oregon

PAPERS:

Greta Ai-Yu Niu, English Department, State University of New York, Brockport
Hyphenation, Imperialism and Teratology: Pagus Migrations in an Asian Pacific Rim

Kristin Bergen, Graduate Program in Literature, Duke University
The Melting Pot and the Pluralist Kettle

Siobhan Somerville, Department of English, Purdue University
"Simply an American": Jean Toomer's Queer Nationalism

COMMENT:

Mary Wood

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON C

Ideal Interiors: Domesticity, Ideology, and Social Change in Turn-of-the-Century America

CHAIR:

Christine Holbo, Department of English, Stanford University

PAPERS:

Cynthia J. Davis, Department of English, University of South Carolina
Home Renovations: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's
Anti-domestic Feminism

Sara K. Martin, Department of History, University of Maine
"Solid Comfort": Living Rooms, Dens, and Family Relationships in "Little City," 1890-1920

Pia Neumann, Department of American Studies, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt
Visualizing the Absence of a Domestic Ideal: Jacob Riis' Photographs of the New York Tenements

COMMENT:

Ellen Litwicki, Department of History, State University of New York, Fredonia

Ellen-J. Pader, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON H

Where in the World is American Studies? International Editors' Forum

CHAIR:

Bernard Mergen, Editor, American Studies International

PANELISTS:

Eiichi Akimoto, Editor, The Japanese Journal of American Studies

B. Ramesh Babu, Member of the Editorial Board, Indian Journal of American Studies

Keith Beattie, Editor, Australasian Journal of American Studies

Ana Celi, Member of the Editorial Board, Jornadas de la Asociacion Argentina de Estudios Americanos

Gonul Pultar, Editor, Journal of American Studies of Turkey

Diego Ignacio Bugeda, Editorial Production and Distribution Coordinator, Voices of Mexico

Carolyn M. Elliott, Editor, Indian Journal of American Studies

Richard Gray, Editor, Journal of American Studies, England

Alfred Hornung, Editor, Amerikastudien/American Studies

Liliane Kerjan, Editor, Revue Française d'Études Américaines

Priscilla L. Walton, Editor, The Canadian Review of American Studies

Vu Dang Hinh, Deputy Editor in Chief, Americas Today, Hanoi

COMMENT:

The Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SALON J

Crossing Centuries, Remaking Boundaries: Abortion Politics and the Politics of National Identity

CHAIR:

Allen F. Davis, Department of History, Temple University

PAPERS:

Jane Sherron De Hart, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Saving the Fetus, Reproducing the Nation: Abortion as an Un-American Activity

COMMENT:

Elaine Tyler May, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota

Emily Rosenberg, Macalester College, University of San Diego

Cora Kaplan, Department of English, University of Southampton, UK

12:00 - 1:45 PM
SUITE 701

Chinese Cross the Racial Border of Law and Culture

CHAIR:

Matthew Frye Jacobson, Department of History, Yale University

PAPERS:

Erika Lee, History Department, University of Minnesota
Crossing Borders and Race: Illegal Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era

K. Scott Wong, History Department, Williams College
From Pariah to Participant: World War Two and the Changing Status of Chinese Americans

Robert G. Lee, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
The End of Exclusion and the Crisis of Assimilation: Rereading Pardee Lowe's Father and Glorious Descendent

COMMENT:

Matthew Jacobson

1:00 - 4:00 PM
SALON D

Mock Interview Session (Sponsored by the ASA Students' Committee)

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 1

Japanese-American Tensions

CHAIR:

John Eperjesi, Cultural Studies Program, Carnegie Mellon University

PAPERS:

Krystyn R. Moon, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
"There's No Yellow in the Red, White, Blue": The Production and Reception of Anti-Japanese Music during World War II

Eriko Hara, Department of International Communication, Tokyo Kasei University, Japan
The Politics of Re-narrating History as Gendered War: Asian American Women's Theatre

COMMENT:

John Eperjesi

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 3

The New Right

CHAIR:

Kathy Rudy, Women's Studies, Duke University

PAPERS:

Renee Romano, African-American Studies Program, Wesleyan University
"Love Is the Answer, Not Legislation": The Place of Interracial Relationships in Conservative Writings on Race

Tanya Erzen, American Studies Program, New York University
Global Crusaders: Exporting the Cultural Politics of the Christian Right

Stacy Takacs, Department of English, Indiana University
"The Spectatorial Lust of Jingoism": A Historical Consideration of US Imperial Practice, 1898-1998

COMMENT:

Stefano Harney, Department of Sociology, City University of New York

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 4

Teaching American Studies: Choosing and Developing Materials

CHAIR:

Walter Hesford, American Studies Program, University of Idaho

PAPERS:

Gena Dagel Caponi, American Studies, University of Texas, San Antonio
Hoop Dreams and the American Dream: Basketball, American Studies, and Public Pedagogy

Teresa Toulouse, American Studies, Tulane University, and Malcolm Heard, Architecture Department, Tulane University
Constructing and Teaching New Orleans as a Cultural System

Michael Goldberg, Liberal Studies, University of Washington, Bothell
Articulated Interdisciplinarity and the Teaching of Post-War Youth Culture

Jeremy L. Korr, American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
"What Do You Do with an American Studies Degree?" Integrating Real-Life Applications into American Studies Classes

Sheila Ruzycki O'Brien, American Studies, University of Idaho
Dancing with Agendas: Developing an American Studies Core Course and Textbook

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 5

Creating the Latino Cultural Heritage Center of Washington, DC: A Roundtable

CHAIR:

Clemencia Rodriguez, Division of English, Classics, Philosophy and Communications, University of Texas, San Antonio

PANELISTS:

Olivia Cadaval, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution

Quique Avilés, Poet/Performance Artist, Community Research for LCHC

Barbara Franco, Historical Society of Washington, DC

Brian Finnegan, American Studies Department, George Washington University

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 6

The "Good," the "Bad" and the "Feeble-minded": Comparative Perspectives on Mothers and Daughters in Britain, the USA, and Canada, 1920s-1960s

CHAIR:

Deborah Gorham, History Department, Carleton University

PAPERS:

Ellen Ross, History Department, Ramapo College
Slum Journalism and the Depression-Era, Working-Class Family

Molly Ladd Taylor, History Department, York University, Ontario
Because of Their Bad Behaviour: Compulsory Sterilization and "Feebleminded" Women in Minnesota

Franca Iacovetta, Department of History, University of Toronto
Gossip and Power in the Making of Postwar Suburban Bad Girls: Mothers, Daughters, and Caseworkers in Conflict in Cold War Canada

COMMENT:

Karen Dubinsky, History Department, Queen's University

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 7

Re-crossing Borders: Assessing American Multi-Ethnic Society and Literature Back Home

CHAIR:

Teresa F.A. Alves, Department of English, University of Lisbon, Portugal

PAPERS:

Jennie Wang, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Northern Iowa
Reinterpreting Kingston's Feminist Agenda on the Borderline of Asia and Asia America

Teresa Cid, Department of English, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Portuguese-American Blues Migrate to Portugal: Reading Katherine Vaz, Re-thinking the Portuguese Diaspora

Heinz Ickstadt, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Appropriating Difference: Turkish-German Rap

COMMENT:

Kathleen Ashley, Department of English, University of Southern Maine

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON 8

Science and Science Fiction

CHAIR:

Greg P. Lainsbury, Academic Program, Northern Lights College

PAPERS:

Susana S. Martins, Department of English, Boston College
Whole Body, Artificial Parts: The Naturalization of the Cyborg in Popular Medical Discourse

Meredith Raimondo, Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
Border Patrols: Belle Glade, Florida, and "the Spread of AIDS"

Ernest H. Redekop, Department of English, University of Western Ontario
Crossing into Planck Spacetime: Frank Herbert & Dan Simmons

COMMENT:

Greg P. Lainsbury

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

American Studies Association President's Forum: Practicing American Studies: The Academy and Beyond

CHAIR:

Mary Kelley, Department of History, Dartmouth College

PANELISTS:

Martha Banta, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Cowan, Department of American Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Lawrence Levine, Department of History, George Mason University

James Miller, Department of English, George Washington University

Vicki Ruiz, Department of History, Arizona State University

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON A

Polluted Relations, Diluted Bodies: Racial Intermarriage and Mixed Race Identity in Post-WWII America

CHAIR:

Judith Smith, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston

PAPERS:

Alexander Lubin, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
African American GI Racial Intermarriage and the "Double V" Campaign

Steven M. Lee, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
A Debilitating Panacea: Mixed Race Identity in Sigrid Nunez's A Feather on the Breath of God

Caroline A. Streeter, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Ambivalent Desires and "New" Racial Objects: Representations of Mixed Race People in Contemporary Advertising Images

COMMENT:

Judith Smith

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON B

Postcards from the Edge: American Vision in the Cinematic Contact Zone

CHAIR:

Anne Baker, Department of English, Reed College

PAPERS:

Renee Bergland, Department of English, Simmons College
Electrical Eyes: Sex, Science, and the "Modern Magic" of Louisa May Alcott

Gregory S. Jackson, Department of English, University of Arizona
Virtual Houses, Virtual Hells: The Projection of Homiletic Architecture in Jacob Riis's New York Underworld

Robert Bednar, Department of Communication, Southwestern University, Texas
The Imperial Viewfinder: Discourses of Place-Making and the Visual Culture of Tourism in Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks

Mark Williams, Department of Film Studies, Dartmouth College
This Time It's Personal: Twister in the Age of the Internet

COMMENT:

Anne Baker

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON C

Nervous Bodies at the Turn of the Century

CHAIR:

Barbara Will, Department of English, Dartmouth College

PAPERS:

Jennifer Tuttle, Department of Women's Studies, San Diego State University
Owen Wister, S. Weir Mitchell, and the Therapeutics of "Going Native"

Jayne Morgan, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia
A Rough Ride: Eadweard Muybridge and the Visual History of Neurasthenia

Tim Armstrong, Department of English, University of London
Trauma, Distraction, and Nervousness at the Turn of the Century

COMMENT:

Barbara Will

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON H

Uses of the Past, Citizenship, and Cultural Identity in the United States and Europe

CHAIR:

Guenter H. Lenz, American Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

PANELISTS:

Patricia Clavin, Department of History, Keele University, United Kingdom

Robert Garson, Department of American Studies, Keele University, United Kingdom

Rob Kroes, American Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

David Thelen, History Department, Indiana University

Maurizio Vaudagna, History Department, University of Bari, Italy

Marilyn B. Young, History Department, New York University

COMMENT:

The Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SALON J

The Significance of Place in Native American Identity (Sponsored by the Regional Chapters' Committee)

CHAIR:

Mary Lou Kete, Department of English, University of Vermont

PAPERS:

Larry Gross (Ojibwe), Department of Religion, Iowa State University
Minnesota in the Myths of the Midewiwin: Establishing a Sense of Place in a New Homeland

Kari J. Winter, Department of English, University of Vermont
Shaped by the Land: Abenaki Identity in the Writings of Joseph Bruchac

Donald A. Grinde, Jr. (Yamasee), Department of History, University of Vermont
Iroquois Border Crossings: Place, Politics and the Jay Treaty

COMMENT:

John Mohawk (Seneca), American Studies Department, State University of New York, Buffalo

2:00 - 3:45 PM
SUITE 701

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Gender of the Color Line

CHAIR:

Susan Gillman, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

PAPERS:

Alys Eve Weinbaum, Department of English, University of Washington
The Sexual Anatomy of DuBoisian Genealogy

Vilashini Cooppan, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University
"Domestic Science"? Du Bois's Sociology and the Making of Race, Nation, and Gender

Brent Edwards, Department of English, Rutgers University
Gender in Black Internationalism: Three Visions

COMMENT:

Susan Gillman

2:00 - 6:00 PM
SALON 2

Regional Chapters' Committee Business Meeting

3:00 - 8:00 PM
SALON G

Business Meeting of the 2000 Program Committee

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

Thomas King: A Reading

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 1

Technophobia: The Millennium, the Human(ities), and the Machine

CHAIR:

Jeremy Green, Department of English, University of Colorado

PAPERS:

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Department of English/Media Studies Program, Pomona College
The Exhaustion of Literature: The Computer Novel and the Computer-as-Writer

N. Katherine Hayles, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles
Posthuman Ideology: Technophobia, Technoecstacy, and the Subversion of the Liberal Subject

Cyrus R.K. Patell, Department of English, New York University
The Hive Mind: Post-Individualism and Cultural Technophobia

COMMENT:

Jeremy Green

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 3

Girls and Tomboys: The Genders of Youth Rebellion in Popular Culture

CHAIR:

Judith Halberstam, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego

PAPERS:

Lee Medovoi, Department of Film Studies, University of California, Irvine
Tomboy: Girling the Rebel Masculinity of Postwar Youth Culture

Gayle Wald, Department of English, George Washington University
Women and Popular Culture: A Girl Issue?

Patricia White, Department of English, Swarthmore College
Satan's Schoolgirls

COMMENT:

Judith Halberstam

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 4

Screening of La Sarrasine

PRESENTER:

Bruno Ramirez, Department of History, Université de Montréal

COMMENT:

Martin Sherwin, Department of History, Taft University

This session will screen the 108-minute film La Sarrasine, co-designed and co-written by Bruno Ramirez and Paul Tana, who also directed the film. The film is an example of a professional historian crossing disciplines, turning to filmmaking in order to narrate to non-academic audiences a crucial moment in the history of Italian immigrants settling in early 19th-century Montréal. Unlike the more frequent case of professional historians advising in film productions, in this case the work of historical, cultural and linguistic research is central to the filmmaking. Martin Sherwin will lead a post-film conversation about the possibilities this approach to narrating history offers and its real and potential dangers.

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 5

Native Terrains: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Urban Indian Spaces of Resistance

CHAIR:

Heather Howard-Bobiwash, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto

PAPERS:

Evelyn Joy Peters, Department of Geography, Queens University, Kingston
The Two Major Living Realities: First Nations Women and the City

ViBrina Coronado (Lumbee/Tuscarora), Graduate School, The Union Institute
Configuring Native American Space in New York City: The American Indian Community House

Susan Roy, Department of History, Simon Fraser University
The Warrior Dance: Performance as a Response to Urban Invisibility in Vancouver

Pauline Escudero Shafer (Mescalero Apache), Department of English, University of Washington
Spaces for Survivance: Puget Sound Indian Writers and Performance at Seattle Community Events

Coll-Peter Thrush, Department of History, University of Washington
Commemorating Native Place in Urban Space: Public Art and the Uses of Indian History in Seattle

COMMENT:

Jonathan Warren, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 6

Poetic Crossings and American Studies: Hart Crane, 1899-1999

CHAIR:

Alan Trachtenberg, Department of English, Yale University

PAPERS:

Langdon Hammer, Department of English, Yale University
The Question of Poetry in American Studies: Hart Crane's Intensity

Vera Kutzinski, Department of English, Yale University
Crane, Williams, and the Americas

Graça Capinha, Department of Anglo-American Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Crane, Duncan, and the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets

Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa Santos, Department of Anglo-American Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Epics of the Modern Consciousness: Próspero Saíz's Re-writing of "The Bridge" in "Chants of Nezahualcoyotl"

Mario Jorge Torres, Department of English, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Crane and European Decadentism: Wilde, Pessoa,
Sá-Carneiro

COMMENT:

Alan Trachtenberg

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 7

20th-Century Musics

CHAIR:

Barbara Tischler, Department of History, Horace Mann School

PAPERS:

Dara N. Byrne, Department of English, Carleton University
Boundary Spanning: Contextualizing Cultural Borders in Transnational Discourses within a Diasporic Tradition

Mark Goble, Department of English, Stanford University
"In Paris They Call It American Music": Records of Race and the Global Culture of Ragtime

Geraldine Finn, School for Studies in Art and Culture, Carleton University
Music, Identity, and the Play of Differance in the case of Charles Ives

Lisa Maya Knauer, American Studies Program, New York University
Travelling Diasporic Cultures: Afrocubanidad Goes Global

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON 8

The Politics of Queer Border Crossings in North America

CHAIR:

Robin Brownlie, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives

PAPERS:

Paul Jackson, Department of History, Queens University
The Prejudice of Good Order: Homosexuality amongst German POWs in Canada during WWII

Marc Stein, Department of History, York University
The US Supreme Court's Sexual Revolution? 1965-1973

Ian K. Lekus, Department of History, Duke University
¿Quién Es Más Macho? Homophobia, Machismo, and Ideology on the Venceremos Brigades

COMMENT:

Sharon Ullman, Department of History, Bryn Mawr College

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON A

Public Art in the 1920s and 1930s

CHAIR:

Katherine Manthorne, Art History Graduate Program, City University of New York

PAPERS:

Micol Seigel, American Studies Program, New York University, and Micki McElya, Department of History, New York University
Confusing Relations: Mammy, Mãe Preta, and the Shape of Black Citizenship in 1920s US and Brazil

Martin Harries, Department of English, Princeton University
Theater State California, 1900-1930

David Brody, Department of Art History, University of Delaware
Modernist Crossings: Philadelphia's Changing Skyline of the 1930s

COMMENT:

Katherine Manthorne

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON B

Crossing Borders/Crossing Genres: Hollywood and Latin America during World War II

CHAIR:

Susan Ohmer, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame

PAPERS:

Catherine Benamou, American Culture, University of Michigan
Documentary Diplomacy, Studio Prerogative: Rockefeller, RKO, and the Limits of Inter-American Dialogue on Film during WW II

Susan Ohmer
South of the Border with Disney: Genre/Gender Bending

Karen Backstein, Communication Arts, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
"The South American Way": The Musical in Brazil and Argentina

COMMENT:

The Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON C

Theory of Borders III

CHAIR:

Marilyn Wyman, School of Art and Design, San Jose State University

PAPERS:

Aureliano Maria DeSoto, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
Comparative Discourses of Multiculturalism in the USA and Canada, or, The Relative Risks of Cross-National Comparative Practice

Kate McInturff, Department of English, University of British Columbia
Disciplining Race: Crossing Intellectual Borders in "Ethnic" and "Postcolonial" Studies

Gretchen Murphy, Department of English, University of Washington
Writing from the US-Canadian Borderlands: Empire and Identity in Ranald MacDonald's Japan Story of Adventure

Deborah Vannijnatten, Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science, University of Windsor, and Gerard Boychuk, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta
National vs. Cross-Border/Regional Political Cultures in North America: Evidence from a Review of Public Policy in the American States and Canadian Provinces

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SALON H

Jeux Sans Frontières, or Can We Play American Studies, Too?-- A Roundtable Discussion

CHAIR:

Krista Vogelberg, Baltic Center for American Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia

PANELISTS:

Scarlett Cornelissen, Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Virginia Domínguez, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa

Norman Yetman, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas

Maureen Montgomery, Department of American Studies, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

4:00 - 5:45 PM
SUITE 701

Borders of Black Studies

CHAIR:

Noliwe Rooks, Department of History, Princeton University

PAPERS:

Jeffrey Tucker, Department of English, University of Rochester
"The Margin of the Margin": Samuel R. Delany, Race, and Authenticity

Rinaldo Walcott, Division of Humanities, York University
Queer (Black) Diaspora: The Edges of Black Studies

Donna Jones, Department of English, Princeton University
¡El bongo antidoto del Wall Street! Contested Geographies in Cuban and American Inter-War Year Culture

Bruce Simon, English Department, State University of New York, Fredonia
Bordering Black Studies: Silko and the Americas

5:00 - 6:00 PM
SALON D

ASA Nominating Committee Business Meeting

5:00 - 6:30 PM
SALON J

Lecture by Nell Painter, Department of History, Princeton University

5:00 - 6:30 PM
FOYER (BALLROOM LEVEL)

American Indian Caucus Reception

6:00 - 7:30 PM
SALON 8

University of Michigan Reception (Co-Sponsored by the Great Lakes American Studies Association)

7:00 - 8:00 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Shamans' Circle: A Performance by Jerry P. Longboat

8:30 - 10:00 PM
GRANDE SALLE DE BAL OUEST

Preaching to the Perverted: A Performance by Holly Hughes

Milk of Amnesia: A Performance by Carmelita Tropicana