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

Sunday, October 31, 1999

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 1

Crossing Borders: Traversing the Academic/Community Boundary--A Roundtable

CHAIR:

Sherry Linkon, Department of English, Youngstown State University

PANELISTS:

Perry Frank, President, American Dreams & Associates, Inc.

Bruce Levy, English Department, Southern Methodist University

Susan Swan, Department of Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University

Robert Urstein, American Studies Program, San Francisco University High School

Janet Zandy, Department of Language and Literature, Rochester Institute of Technology

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 3

Media I: T.V. and Radio

CHAIR:

Barbara Groseclose, Department of Art History, Ohio State University

PAPERS:

Jeffrey S. Miller, Department of English and Journalism, Augustana College
English Channels: "American" Television and the Myth of Cultural Imperialism, 1969-1978

Ron Becker, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Hear-and-See Radio in the World of Tomorrow: RCA and the Presentation of Television at the New York World's Fair, 1939-1940

Shealeen Meaney, Department of English, State University of New York, Albany
"Re-runs All Become Our History": Technologies of Documentation and the Immediacy of the Nostalgia Impulse in America's "Eighties Kids"

COMMENT:

The Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 4

Japanese Americans/Canadians: Interrogating the Racialized Border

CHAIR:

Edward Hashima, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College

PAPERS:

Daryl J. Maeda, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Liberal Canadian to Neoconservative American: S.I. Hayakawa and the Construction of Community

Lawrence S. Hashima, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Has the "Border" Been Erased? "Internment" and Its Legacy on Japanese American and Japanese Canadian Fiction

COMMENT:

The Audience

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 5

Rethinking the 60s

CHAIR:

Joan Morrison, New School for Social Research

PAPERS:

Wini Breines, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University
The Trouble between Us: White Women, Black Women, the Sixties

Stephen Ward, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin
Rethinking Black Intellectual Traditions: The Political Memoirs of Black Women in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements

Michael E. Staub, Department of English, Bowling Green State University
From Black Power to Jewish Radicalism, 1966-1974

COMMENT:

Seymour Leventman, Department of Sociology, Boston College

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 6

Crossing Boundaries: Religion and Culture in the Early American Colonies

CHAIR:

Elaine Forman Crane, History Department, Fordham University

PAPERS:

William H. Foster, History Department, Cornell University
Men on the Margins: Marguerite Bourgeoys's Vie Voyagere for Women and the Transculturation of Male Subjects in Seventeenth-Century Montréal

Jacqueline S. Reinier, History Department, California State University, Sacramento
Transmitting Trans-Atlantic Politeness: Lucy Parke Byrd in Early Eighteenth-Century Virginia

Edith B. Gelles, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University
Abigail Levy Franks: Negotiating Jewish Identity in Colonial New York

COMMENT:

J. William T. Youngs, History Department, Eastern Washington University

Sheila Skemp, History Department, University of Mississippi

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 7

African-American Culture at the Turn of Three Centuries

CHAIR:

W. Lawrence Hogue, Department of English, University of Houston

PAPERS:

Phillip M. Richards, Department of English, Colgate University
From the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century: Institutionalizing Black Life

Carla L. Peterson, Department of English, University of Maryland
From the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century: Worldliness and Spirituality in New Negro Culture

Shelley Fisher Fishkin, American Studies Program, University of Texas, Austin
From the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century: Desegregating American Literary Studies

COMMENT:

W. Lawrence Hogue

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON 8

The Life and Work of Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna): Literary, Geographic, and Ethnic Border-Crossing in the Early Twentieth Century

CHAIR:

Lisa Botshon, Department of Humanities, University of Maine, Augusta

PAPERS:

Maureen Honey, Department of English, University of Nebraska
Crossing Literary and Ethnic Borders: The Fictional Personas of Onoto Watanna

Jean Lee Cole, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
Claiming the Big Country: Winnifred Eaton's Albertan Novels

Diana Birchall, Warner Brothers Studios, Burbank, California
Shifting for Herself: Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna), A Self-invented Identity and Commercial Success

COMMENT:

Hiroko Sato, Department of English, Tokyo Woman's Christian University

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

Science Fictions: Crossing Borders between Science and Culture

CHAIR:

Darrell Moore, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University

PAPERS:

R. Tripp Evans, Department of Art History, Wheaton College
Bordering on the Magnificent: Augustus LePlongeon and the Lost Kingdom of Mu

Beth Loffreda, Department of English, University of Wyoming
Going to Trinity: Pulp Science, Tourism, and Alien Anxieties in the Nuclear West

Eve Oishi, Women's Studies Program, California State University, Long Beach
The Colored Museum: Race, Ethnography and the "Science" of Culture

COMMENT:

Darrell Moore

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON A

Women Writing: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

CHAIR:

Linda J. Borish, Department of History, Western Michigan University

PAPERS:

Jane Kuenz, Department of English, University of Southern Maine
Harlem Renaissance Poetry, Mass Culture, and the Ideology of Modernism

Stephen Knadler, Department of English, Spelman College
Domesticated Whiteness: Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stoddard, and the Question of a Separate Sphere of "Female Racism"

Mishuana R. Goeman, Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University
I Remember This Common Skin: Native Women Inhabiting the Spaces of Nation and Body

COMMENT:

Margit Stange, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON B

New World Studies: A Conversation

CHAIR:

Alan R. Velie, Department of English, University of Oklahoma

PANELISTS:

Willard Gingerich, Office of the Provost, St. John's University

Jace Weaver, American Studies Department, Yale University

Robert Con Davis, Department of English, Oklahoma University

Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Cesar Chavez Center for Chicano/a Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Tey Diana Rebolledo, Department of Spanish, University of New Mexico

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON C

Richard Wright and Social Frames

CHAIR:

Jim Smethurst, English Department, University of North Florida

PAPERS:

Roderick A. Ferguson, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Dubious Liaisons: Or, What Happens When You Cross Sociology and African-American Literature? Wright and Chicago School Sociology?

Catherine Jurca, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Richard Wright's Trespasses

Rachel Peterson, American Studies, Washington State University, Pullman
"But What Kind of Society Will Make Him See Me?": Autonomy and Representation in Ellison, Wright and James and the Communist Party

COMMENT:

Jim Smethurst

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON H

Situational Sexualities

CHAIR:

Terence Kissack, Department of History, City University of New York

PAPERS:

Kathryn R. Kent, Department of English, Williams College
Girl Scouts Together

Jeffrey Escoffier, Program in Comparative Studies, Florida Atlantic University
Gay for Pay: Situational Sexuality and the Making of Gay Pornography

Regina Kunzel, Department of History, Williams College
Outlaw Desires: Prison Sexual Culture and the Problem of "Situational Homosexuality"

COMMENT:

Terence Kissack

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SALON J

Articulating Liberation, Democracy, & Citizenship

CHAIR:

Susan Castillo, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow

PAPERS:

David Murray, Department of History, University of Guelph
Hands across the Border: The Abortive Extradition of Solomon Moseby

Amy E. Winans, Department of English, Susquehanna University
Ethiopia in America: Retelling the Story of the Slave Trade

Marilyn Randall, Department of French, University of Western Ontario
Revolutionary Border Crossings: America in the 1837 Rebellion of Lower Canada

Allen P. Stouffer, Department of History, St. Francis Xavier University
Toward Community: Black Methodism in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia

8:00 - 9:45 AM
SUITE 701

20th-Century Women's Writing

CHAIR:

Danille Taylor-Guthrie, Minority Studies, Indiana University Northwest

PAPERS:

April Shemak, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park
Historicizing Hispaniola: Nations, Bodies and Borders in Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones

Linda Grasso, Department of English, York College, City University of New York
"Little-girl-gone-to-woman" Border-crossing Narratives: Contemporary Women Writers' Reconfigurations of Love, Mothering, and Female Maturation

Lorraine Ouimet, Department of English, University of Florida
Crossing Borders: The Use of the Supernatural in Contemporary African-American Fiction

COMMENT:

Danille Taylor-Guthrie

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 1

Gendered Tensions in African-American Marriage, 1880-1940

CHAIR:

Elsa Barkley Brown, Women's Studies Department, University of Maryland, College Park

PAPERS:

Michele Mitchell, Department of History, University of Michigan
Grass Widows, Loafers, and Flirts: African American Marriage as a Site of Intraracial Reform after Reconstruction

Christina Simmons, Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science, University of Windsor
"Modern Marriage" for African Americans, 1920-1940

COMMENT:

Elsa Barkley Brown

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 3

Media II: Film

CHAIR:

Chris Rasmussen, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

PAPERS:

Monica Brown, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
Inside/Outside the Gang Nation: The Newsmagazine Form/Forum and the Aura of Self-representation

Susan Courtney, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia
The Last (Black) Man and (White) Woman on Earth, Alone in New York City: Going to Cinematic Extremes in the Late 1950s

Karla Erickson, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
What's Your Movie?: Citizenship and Public Life in Post-Reality

COMMENT:

Chris Rasmussen

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 4

North American Dynamics: Social, Political and Cultural Aspects

CHAIR:

Greg M. Nielsen, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University

PAPERS:

Isidro Morales, History Department, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
Sovereignty, Nation and State Transformation in Mexico

Anouk Bélanger, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
The Spectacularization of North American Urban Spaces: Hockey through the Remaking of Nostalgia and Cultural Traditions in Montréal

Jean-François Côté, Department of Sociology, Université de Québec, Montréal
Questioning the Constitution of the North American Public Sphere

COMMENT:

Greg M. Nielsen

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 5

Transgressing Borders in Early American Studies

CHAIR:

Sharon M. Harris, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

PAPERS:

Dana D. Nelson, Department of English, University of Kentucky
(Haitian) Revolution: Presidentialism, Representative Democracy, and the Abjection of Democratic Freedom in the Early US

Lydia Kualapai, Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Breaching the Boundaries of US Colonial Discourse: Betsey Stockton's African American Journal from the "Sandwich Islands"

Zabelle Stodola, Department of English, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Captive Stereotypes, Captive Audiences, and Contemporary Book Marketing

COMMENT:

The Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 6

Cosmopolitan Outlaws: Lola Montez, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Mae West

CHAIR:

Mari Jo Buhle, Department of American Civilization, Brown University

PAPERS:

Leslie Fishbein, Department of American Studies, Rutgers University
Lola Montez and Her Invented Selves

Lois Rudnick, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
The Unexpurgated Self: Mabel Dodge Luhan's Intimate Memories

Lillian Schlissel, American Studies Program, Brooklyn College
Mae West and the "Queer" Plays: "Diamond Lil" as Terrorist

COMMENT:

Mari Jo Buhle

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 7

Business Matters: Artistic Deals with America

CHAIR:

Mary Chapman, Department of English, University of British Columbia

PAPERS:

Sandra Tomc, Department of English, University of British Columbia
Joseph Dennie and the Fortunes of Leisure

Nicola Nixon, Department of English, Concordia University
James's "The Jolly Corner" and America's Solid Vacancies

Marcie Frank, Department of English, Concordia University
Screening the Author: Gore Vidal, Public Intellectual

COMMENTS:

Michael Zeitlin, Department of English, University of British Columbia

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON 8

"Dark Alliances": Drugs and the Policing of Race, Class, and Sexuality

CHAIR:

Kate McCullough, Department of English, University of Miami, Ohio

PAPERS:

Nayan Shah, History Department, State University of New York, Binghamton
Policing Perverse Pleasures: Opium Dens and the Queering of Time, Space and Social Conduct

Curtis Márez, American Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Artist Colony and the Penal Colony: Drug Crimes and the Clamp-down on Chicano Labor in 1930s New Mexico

Mary Pat Brady, English Department, University of Indiana
"Going Queer for Pachucos": Race and Sexuality in the Criminalization of Marijuana

COMMENT:

Kate McCullough

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

Representations of Social Conflict in the Elite and Popular Arts

CHAIR:

Patricia Johnston, Department of Art, Salem State College

PAPERS:

Sarah Burns, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University
The Uncanny Civil War and the Limits of Art

Melissa Dabakis, Department of Art and Art History, Kenyon College
Emancipation, Gender, and the Black Body

Jeffrey Belnap, Division of Fine Arts, Brigham Young University
Caricaturing the Gringo Tourist: Mexican Muralism and the US Gaze

Alan Wallach, Department of Art and Art History, College of William and Mary
The Norman Rockwell Museum and the Representation of Social Conflict

COMMENT:

David D. Hall, Divinity School, Harvard University

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON A

Declarations of Crisis and Promises of Solace: Prophetic Narratives at the Intersection of American Religious and Political Culture

CHAIR:

Teresa Anne Murphy, Department of American Studies, George Washington University

PAPERS:

David S. Gutterman, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University
Prophetic Narratives from Rev. Billy Sunday to Promise Keepers: The American Jeremiad and the Revival of "Christian Masculinity"

Jennifer M. Reece, Department of History and Ecumenics, Princeton Theological Seminary
"A Ride to America in a Cloud": Women's Missionary Writings in the Development of American Exceptionalism from the Jeremiad Tradition

Marianne O. Rhebergen, Interdisciplinary Studies in American Church History and Practical Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary
Down at the Riverside: The American Jeremiad in 20th-Century Protestant Preaching

COMMENT:

Teresa Anne Murphy

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON B

Redefining Boundaries and Reconstructing Cultural Identity

CHAIR:

Christopher Mulvey, American Studies Program, King Alfred's College, United Kingdom

PAPERS:

Fritz Gysin, Department of English, University of Bern, Switzerland and Hartwig Isernhagen, Department of English, University of Basel, Switzerland
Ethics and Aesthetics: Aspects of the (Re)construction of Cultural Identity in Contemporary North-American "Minority" Literatures

Maria Diedrich, Department of English and American Studies, University of Münster, Germany
"Of Emerald Islands and Magic Gardens": Ottilie Assing's Black American Dream

Carl Pedersen, Center for American Studies, Odense University, Denmark
Claude McKay, Itinerancy, and Transnationalism

COMMENTS:

The Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON C

Feminism: A Class Act (Sponsored by the Women's Committee)

CHAIR:

Alvina Quintana, Department of English, University of Delaware

PANELISTS:

Jean Pfaelzer, Department of English, University of Delaware

Deborah Rosenfelt, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland

Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Department of American Studies, Amherst College

COMMENT:

Alvina Quintana

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON H

Re-thinking the Afro-Asian Century

CHAIR:

Joe Wood, The New Press

PAPERS:

Bill Mullen, Department of English, Youngstown State University
Double (Class) Consciousness: W.E.B. Du Bois' Pregnant Orientalism

Nikhil Singh, American Studies Program, New York University
MN Roy and the Century of Revolution

Sheila Lloyd, English Department, Wayne State University
"As a Black Man He Could Identify with Japan": The Fronting of Race and Culture in Ishmael Reed's Japanese by Spring

COMMENT:

Kathryne Lindberg, Department of English, Wayne State University

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SALON J

Performances of Crossing--A Roundtable

CHAIR:

Jason King, Performance Studies, New York University

PANELISTS:

Ann Cvetcovich, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin

Ann Pellegrini, Department of Women's Studies, Barnard College

Diana Taylor, Department of Performance Studies, New York University

COMMENT:

Holly Hughes, Performance Artist

Carmelita Tropicana, Performance Artist

10:00 - 11:45 AM
SUITE 701

White Responses to Race after the Civil War

CHAIR:

Reynolds Scott-Childress, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park

PAPERS:

Kathleen Diffley, Department of English, University of Iowa
"Cross-Providences, God's Will": Civil War Stories, the Lakeside Monthly, and Railroad Sprawl

Kate Masur, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Race, Corruption, and Political Reform in Reconstruction-Era Washington, DC

Shirley E. Thompson, History of American Civilization Program, Harvard University
The New Orleans Tribune and the "Black Community"

COMMENT:

Steven Wiesenburger, Program in American Culture, University of Kentucky