Session Details

Sunday, 28 December

398. Religion Today

7:15–8:30 p.m., Union Square 22, Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Literary Criticism

Presiding: Hortense Jeanette Spillers, Vanderbilt Univ.

1. “‘This Book Is Not to Be Doubted’: Islam, Terrorism, and Trauma in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man,” Linda S. Kauffman, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

2. “Chick Lit, Women’s Romances as Inverted Consciousness, and Inverted Consciousness as Religion,” Teresa L. Ebert, Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York

3. “Ethical Iconoclasm, Resurgent Universalism, and the Retheorizing of Literary Signification,” Donald R. Wehrs, Auburn Univ., Auburn

4. “Prose(lytizing) in Court: The Rosenberger Case,” Ellen Messer-Davidow, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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