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American Literature – General

• 2013

• 9. Periodizing English and American Nineteenth-Century Poetry inside and outside National Frames

• 28. Scale Matters

• 40. Hearing and Seeing Anew: Ralph Ellison's Aural and Visual Registers

• 41. Reading Latina/o Literature in a Time of War

• 48. Mood Swings

• 50. Blackness without Race: The Subversion of Race in Black Literature, Film, and Music

• 84. Publishing Indigeneity: Future, Fact, and Fiction

• 102. Digital Diasporas

• 103. Native Literary Boston

• 127. Teaching Chicana/o Literature in a Latina/o Context

• 130. Archive Fever: New Methodologies and New Questions for United States Literary and Cultural Studies

• 140. Illness and Disability in Asian American Literature

• 158. Barbara Johnson's Last Works

• 178. Larger Than Life: Southern Heroes

• 193. Shaping the Field of Native American Literary Studies

• 195. Propaganda, Revision, Propagation: New Directions in United States Literary Studies

• 199. "All Black Everything": Speculative Futures of Blackness in Literature, Film, and Performance

• 232. Other Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance

• 256. Naming Character, Characterizing Names: Onomastic Studies of M. Twain, H. Thrale, and T. Morrison

• 287. The South and Sexuality

• 299. Women Poets of the Beat Movement: Diane di Prima, Sandra Hochman, and ruth weiss

• 304. Dickinson, Frost, and Regionalism

• 311. W. E. B. DuBois and the Twenty-First-Century Color Line

• 312. Life Writing and Invention in Latina Memoir and Fiction

• 312. Life Writing and Invention in Latina Memoir and Fiction

• 328. African American Print Culture Studies

• 337. Pieces of a Man: The Mind of Gil Scott-Heron

• 339. Sovereignty and the Archive

• 346. Eat Your Vegetables (before They Eat You!): Plants in Fiction and Culture

• 350. Puerto Rican Print Cultures

• 372. Urban Ethnicity: Work, Protest, and the American Dream

• 381. Native American Literature, Indigenous Scientific Knowledge, and Environmental Justice

• 391. Networked Chicanas/os

• 396. Black Poetics

• 409. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

• 431. Fault Lines in American Literary History

• 435. Violence and the Black Child in the Post-Civil-Rights United States

• 467. Franco-American Literature of New England: Readings and Discussion with Contemporary Authors

• 478. Black Feminist Theory in the Age of Michelle Obama

• 478. Black Feminist Theory in the Age of Michelle Obama

• 487. Ethnic Studies in an Era of Retrenchment

• 496. Has Asian American Literary Studies Failed?

• 503. Giannina Braschi's United States of Banana: Revolutionary in Subject and Form

• 510. Disabled Bodies and African American Literature, 1859–1946

• 515. Revisiting the Concord Transcendentalists: New Scholarly and Pedagogical Approaches

• 519. "Laughing to Keep from Crying": Pain and Humor

• 530. Edith Wharton and Nostalgia

• 539. Gendered Blues Subjectivities and Racial Politics across Southern History

• 560. Remembering the American West

• 574. Problems and Prospects for a Native American Literary Recovery Project

• 577. Science and Technology in Afro-Modern Literature

• 587. The New American Poetry of Engagement

• 591. Secularism's Technologies

• 631. Literary Theory and American Sign Language Literature

• 655. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Black American Literature and Culture

• 658. Giannina Braschi: United States of Banana

• Reception and Cash Bar Arranged by MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States [canceled]

• 661. United States Culture in the Age of Experts

• 662. Queer Times: Affect, Phenomenology, Temporality

• 666. Blacks in the Heartland: The Midwest in the African American Literary Imagination

• 701. Trauma, Affect, and Genre in African American Culture

• 728. Materializing Urban Ecologies in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century United States Culture

• 732. Race and Cultures of Mobility

• 741. Remapping Transnational American Studies

• 750. Chicana Feminisms: Past, Present, and Futures

• 766. Black Women's Sexualities in African American Literature and Cultural Production

• 775. Environment, Epistemology, and Literature of the Americas

• 792. New Native Writers

• 2012

• 20. Public Discourse, Islamism, and the Arab Revolutions: On Paul Berman's The Flight of the Intellectuals (session canceled)

• 21. Globalization, Latinidad, Chicano/a Literature

• 24. Archipelagic American Discourses: Decontinentalizing American Studies

• 31. Colonial Violence, Indigenous Feminisms, and Sovereignty

• 65. After the Heath: Teaching US Multilingual Literature

• 67. Race and Digital Humanities

• 73. How the Recovery of Early American Indian Poetry Changes the History of American Poetry

• 73. How the Recovery of Early American Indian Poetry Changes the History of American Poetry

• 78. Asian American Regionalisms

• 91. Indigenous Languages and Literatures in the Americas

• 125. What's Still Missing? What Now? What Next? Digital Archives in American Literature

• 126. Juárez Bleeds: Violence and Globalization in the United States+Mexico Borderlands

• 132A. The Futures of Jewish American Literature: Celebrating the New Studies in American Jewish Literature

• 135. Textual Scholarship and African Americanist Studies

• 148. Global Markets, Literary Locales: Remapping Southern Spaces

• 177. Satire's Double-Edged Irony: Self-Satire and the Control of the Satirical Object

• 198. Native Space: Indigenous North American Geographies before 1800

• 199. Reading Langston Hughes in the Age of Barack Obama

• 213. The Languages of Hospitality in Literature

• 215. Digital South, Digital Futures

• 232. The Lost Years: African American Literature and Culture, 1940+60

• 253. Pacific Northwest Exchanges

• 274. Intersections between American Indian and Other Literary Traditions

• 287. Where Are All the Brown People? Interdisciplinary Approaches to Popular Film and Television

• 304. Octavia Butler and Ethnic American Speculative Fiction

• 308. Charlie Chan Is Undead: Reopening the Case of America's First Mainstream Minority Detective

• 313. Revisiting "Nation" in the Study of American Literature and Culture

• 316. Asian Americans and Graphic Narrative

• 329. A Creative Conversation with Richard Van Camp: Writing, Language, and Indigenous Expression

• 352. The Body in Motion: Gesture in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature and Culture

• 379. Assessing What Was African American Literature?; or, The State of the Field in the New Millennium

• 394. Flexible Authorship: Recontextualizing Sui Sin Far / Edith Eaton

• 404. Frost and the Politics of Poetry

• 411. The Poetry of Names: Onomastic Investigations into the Work of Gertrude Stein

• 433. Beyond Agrarianism: Southern Ecologies and Economies

• 438. Asian/American Diaspora

• 440. Native-Asian Encounters

• 440. Native-Asian Encounters

• 471. Asian/Jewish/American

• 498. Modes of Transport: Media, Genre, and Nineteenth-Century United States Poetry

• 517. Indigenous Textual Cultures

• 529. James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex+Colored Man: A Century Later

• 548. American Drama Seventy-Five Years after O'Neill's Nobel Prize

• 549. Imaginarios puertorriqueños del fracaso

• 556. Mapping the Transnational: Indigenous and Aboriginal Literatures across the US+Canadian Border

• 560. Black Poetry, Reading (Re)Publics, and the Performative in Nineteenth-Century America

• 561. Institutional Affections

• 584. A Creative Conversation with Charles Johnson

• 624. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

• 643. Trauma and Tradition: Intertextuality, Storytelling, and Lyric Address in Post-9/11 Literature

• 672. Ralph Ellison and Civil Rights

• 677. Western American Transgressions: Crossing Geographical and Literary Forms

• 684. American Indian Theater

• 696. The Faces behind the Data: Humanizing the MLA Report Data on Humanities Doctorate Recipients and Faculty Members by Race and Ethnicity

• 705. Indigenous Languages and Identities

• 719. More Recent Morrison

• 732. Northwest Poetry and Poetics

• 751. Multiethnic Literatures and Laws

• 2011

• 31. In and out of the Archive: Biography, Autobiography, and Constructing the "Self"

• 72. African American Studies in the Postrace Era

• 79. Indigenous Textual Studies

• 79. Indigenous Textual Studies

• 87. California Currents

• 89. Sentiment and Lament: Responses to Death in Poetry of the American Civil War

• 102. Literature, Wars, and the American Body

• 113. Hemispheric Approaches to Chicana and Chicano Studies

• 148. Performances of Black Cultural Trauma and Memory

• 149. Form, Genre, and Judgment: Law and Literature beyond New Historicism

• 157. Resistance, Coalition, and Delinking in the Global South

• 175. Narrative Imag(in)ing and the Comics of the Hernandez Brothers

• 198. The Topography of Ethnicity: History, Culture, and Mobility

• 199. American Indian Film

• 209. Literaturas, culturas y políticas puertorriqueñas

• 244. Remapping the American West

• 262. Indigenous Knowing, Learning, and Teaching

• 267. Contemporary First Nations Literature

• 291. Fan Mail: Narrating or Garbling the Cultural Work of Popular Fictions?

• 320. Asian American Cityscapes

• 330. Representation and the Problem of Democracy

• 338. Locating African American Radicalism

• 363. Telling Life Stories of Korean American Adoptees: Testimony, History, and Politics

• 365. Popular and Experimental African American Literature

• 398. Lives in Two Languages: Narrating across Cultures

• 447. Transnational Americas and the Literatures of the United States

• 449. Where Are We Now? Ecocriticism and Narrative Scholarship

• 453. Document and Antidocument in Asian American Photography

• 454. Literary Representations and Indigenous Migrations en las Américas

• 454. Literary Representations and Indigenous Migrations en las Américas

• 457. African American Literature on the Pacific Rim

• 464. Narrating Lives: An Indigenous Perspective

• 466. Teaching Asian American Literatures

• 493. The Archive and the Aesthetic: Methodologies of American Literary Studies

• 658. Florence Howe and Feminist Studies: A Creative Conversation

• 511. The "New Southern Studies" at Ten

• 542. Graduate Students of Color: Strategies for Success

• 558. Worrying the Line: Rereading African American Poetry, 1940+60

• 566. Names in Literature

• 582. Genre and Style in Endangered Language Revitalization

• 594. Occupational Hazards: United States and Japanese Empires and the Politics of Asian American Literary Studies

• 614. Retrospective: The Gothic in American Humor

• 616. Reading, Race, and Representation in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

• 628. Excavations: The Production of History in the Chicana/o Literary Imagination

• 643. American Sustainability

• 659. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literatures

• 672. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Black American Literature and Culture

• 681. Writing Human Rights: Asian American Contexts

• 682. Twenty Years of Sherman Alexie

• 701. The Future of Chicana and Chicano Literary Studies

• 711. Literature before the Social Sciences

• 733. Black Literary Los Angeles

• 734. American Literature, Disciplinarity, and Interdisciplinary Studies

• 767. Theological Terror: Puritan Legacies across African American Literature

• 770. Varieties of (Alternative) Religious Experience

• 778. Poetic Visions and Revisions

• 786. Spiritual Lives in Chicano/a and Asian American Literature

• 786. Spiritual Lives in Chicano/a and Asian American Literature

• 787. American Patterns of Exemplarity: Novelizing the Lives of the Faithful

• 795. N. Scott Momaday: Man Made of Words

• 2009

• 25. Transformative Texts: Books That Rocked the World

• 35. Placing Korean American Literature in American Literary History

• 37. Reading across Ethnicities

• 41. Law and/in Asian American Literature

• 50. Cultura puertorriqueña y (pos)trabajo

• 86. New Directions in Black Autobiography

• 100. Discipline and Disruption: Ethnic Literature in the Twenty-First-Century Academy

• 103. Indigenous Literature and the Economies of Indian Country

• 107. The Myth of Egypt and Twentieth-Century African American Literature

• 110. The Crisis and the NAACP: Confronting One Hundred Years

• 112. City of Brotherly Love: Philadelphia and Ethnic Studies

• 156. Latinas/os and Cities: Migrations in Context

• 157. Engaging Blackness and Value: The Legacy of Lindon Barrett

• 157. Engaging Blackness and Value: The Legacy of Lindon Barrett

• 190. Teaching American Literature in the Twenty-First Century

• 199. Theorizing Asian American Fiction: A Modern Fiction Studies Special-Issue Spotlight

• 213. Languages in American Indian Literature

• 243. Names and Naming

• 263. The Politics of Language

• 280. Found Humor: Humor in the Strangest Places

• 287. Teaching Contemporary American Indian Literatures

• 299. Practices of the Ethnic Archive

• 315. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

• 322. Looking for Whitman: A Cross-Campus Experiment in Digital Pedagogy

• 327. Ethnicity and the Short Story

• 331. On the Limits of History and the Literature of the Americas

• 333. The Archives of African American Literature

• 365. Music, Resistance, and "the Long Civil Rights Movement"

• 367. American Plantation Fiction in Transatlantic Contexts

• 373. Culinary Fictions: Food in Asian American Literature

• 404. Immigrant or Exile?

• 426. Meter, Sight, and Sound: Readings in African American Prosody

• 435. Labor and Genre in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

• 460. Sanctioned Violence: The State and Subjects of Color

• 474. From Postplantation to the Postracial in Southern Literature and Culture

• 481. Changing Black Literary History after Obama

• 493. Emergent Chicana/o Literacies and Literary Forms

• 495. Race, Space, and Sexuality

• 509. New Directions in African American Literary and Cultural Studies

• 516. Politics Makes American Literature: Crossing National Boundaries

• 526. American Indian Literature and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

• 556. Literary Calls to Rethink the Iconography of Racial Violence

• 601. Latinas/os and the Practices of Citizenship

• 650. Reading Race in the Obama Era

• 651. Politics Makes American Literature: Confronting Issues

• 668. Southeast Asian American Memory Work: Narrative, Trauma, and Remembrance

• 697. Names in Literature

• 739. Teaching Early Native American Literatures

• 745. American Ethnic Best Sellers

• 2008

• 35. Beyond the Gender War

• 43. Gender Bent: Humor and the Sexes

• 83. Indigenous Aesthetics

• 84. Naming and Not Naming

• 96A. Race and Narrative Theory

• 113. Indigenous Languages as Modern Languages

• 120. Richard Wright's Later Works: A Nonaligned Public Intellectual

• 125. Postcolonial Histories and Intertextuality in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

• 128. Torture and Interrogation

• 149. Cultures of Poverty

• 150. Pragmatism and American Fiction

• 165. Folklore and Gayl Jones's Corregidora

• 179. Ethnic Middlebrow Fiction

• 193. Contemporary Poetry: Reassessments and Reevaluations

• 208. Native American Languages and Translation

• 233. Alice Childress: Gender Politics and the Black Radical Tradition

• 239. Backlash: Intellectuals and Literary Production

• 250. Conceiving the Archive

• 252. Crosstalk/Plática: Chicano Studies in a Latina/o Age

• 253. Intersectionalities and Pluralities: The Outb(l)ack

• 268. Richard Wright in the Twenty-First Century: A Roundtable

• 289. Grace Paley Writing the World: Literature and Legacy

• 292. Native Studies Meets Disability Studies

• 313. The Representational Politics of Child Labor in American Textual and Visual Culture

• 339. Provocations

• 356. Digital NDNs: Pedagogies for American Indian Writing and Literature in the Twenty-First Century

• 360. Smart People: Professing Literature in Contemporary American Film

• 375. A Screening of When Lincoln Paid

• 377. Storytelling from Native California

• 400. American Literature of the Southeast Asian Diaspora

• 407. When Lincoln Paid: The Reintroduction of a Forgotten Film

• 408. Bob Dylan's California

• 455. Sexualidades and Sensualidades: Chicana/o-Latina/o Cultural and Literary Imaginaries

• 460. "This Is Not a Story to Pass On": Reading Ernest Gaines and Toni Morrison Comparatively

• 470. Passing for American

• 492. Pragmatism and Literature

• 493. Naming the Self, the Namer, and the Other

• 508. The Story Hearer: Grace Paley's Poetry and Prose

• 532. New Subjects of Race

• 533. Under the Wire, against the Game: Narrative Strategies and Generic Innovation in David Simon's The Wire

• 534. Black Feminist Criticism Today: New Texts, Different Contexts

• 534. Black Feminist Criticism Today: New Texts, Different Contexts

• 567. Ethnic Studies: New Directions

• 569. Asian American Performance Art

• 576. The Future of Puerto Rican Studies

• 584. Suzan-Lori Parks's 365 Days / 365 Plays: A Cross-Cultural Assessment

• 588. Gender in Indigenous North America

• 606. Modernism and Californian Literatures of the Environment

• 608. Still The One: New Critical Considerations of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

• 616. The Responsbility of the Poet: Grace Paley Writing Social Change

• 625. The Transnational Imaginary in Chicana and Latina Narratives: Moving toward Global Alliances

• 630. Revisiting "The Southern Strategy": Rhetoric and Discourse of Region, Race, and Power in 2008

• 672. Where Is the Archive?

• 674. Indigeneity and Twentieth-Century American Literature

• 680. Intersectionalities and Pluralities: Black Sightings

• 680. Intersectionalities and Pluralities: Black Sightings

• 683. "Fun" de Siècle: Twenty-First-Century Humor

• 703. The Bay Area as a Site of Resistance in Native American Literature

• 711. Latinidades and Racial Identity

• 718. Re-forming Queer Asian American Subjects: Transnational Crossings, Literary Experiments

• 718. Re-forming Queer Asian American Subjects: Transnational Crossings, Literary Experiments

• 719. Bodies and Borders in the Atomic West

• 786. The Challenges of Inter- and Multidisciplinarity

• 743. African American Children's Literature

• 744. Reconceptualizing Late Modernist American Poetry: The New Biographies of Guy Davenport, James Laughlin, Kenneth Rexroth, and Louis Zukofsky

• 751. Backlash: New Alignments of Race and the Politics of the University

• 775. Eroticizing Cuba in United States Literature

• 781. Green Asian America

• 2007

• 23. Religion and Spirituality in Afro-Hispanic Texts: From Spiritual Affirmation to Prophetic Signification

• 35. Native Visions: Approaches to Teaching First Nations / Native American Film

• 40. Shadows in the Light: The Pleasure of Dark Comedy

• Always One More Story: A Poetry Reading with Joy Harjo and Simon Ortiz

• 55. Chris Ware and Graphic Narratives: A Roundtable

• 58. Marketing Childhood and Adolescence in Asian American Literature

• 65. Framing Blackness: Literature and Portraiture in African American Culture

• 91. The Institutional Life of African American Studies

• 98. Reconstructing Whitman: The Rhetoric of Recovery

• 108. The Secret Plantation: Race and Childish Intimacies in the Novels of Frances Hodgson Burnett

• 123. Comparative Latinidades: The Institutional Politics of Chicano/Latino Studies

• 134. African American Writers Respond to Government Reform Initiatives, 1915+60

• 135. Debates and Changes in the Study of American Indian Literature

• 137. Autobiography and the American Security State

• 143. Age Studies and the MLA

• 154. Scripting Brutality on the Queer Asian American Body

• 154. Scripting Brutality on the Queer Asian American Body

• 175. Red and Black: Comparative Symbols of Survival

• 176. The Future of the History of the American Novel

• 195. Rethinking the Black Arts Movement

• 202. Multilingual Voices from the Archives

• 229. American West and Geopolitical Imaginary

• 233. Chicana/o Textual Practices and the Politics of Assimilation

• 236. Ethnic Studies: Is It Postcolonial?

• 272. Multiethnic Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersections

• 274. "Wrestling in the Shadows": The Religious Poetry of Nineteenth-Century American Women

• 299. Writing the Modernist City: Urban Experience and Poetic Language

• 301. Racial Allegory

• 308. Languages: America's and Americanists' Languages and Discourses

• 338. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Black American Literature and Culture

• 374. East-West Cross-Cultural Visions in Postmodern African American Literature

• 385. Publishers and Their Authors: Viking Press, The Bookman, and The Crisis

• 399. Religion and Spirituality in African American Literature

• 408. Networks: Interrelationships Characterizing the Subjects We Study and Our Methods of Studying Them

• 426. Aesthetics and United States Ethnic Literature

• 443. The Cosmopolitan Nation; or, The End of American Exceptionalism?

• 453. Reeling with Laughter: Humor on the Silver Screen

• 467. Reviewing American Literary History

• 481. Naming and Identity

• 488. The Political Value of African American Literature

• 490. Literary Geographies of Maud Martha

• 490. Literary Geographies of Maud Martha

• 502. The New Chicago Renaissance Studies

• 520. The New Southern Studies: Three Responses

• 521. Performing Puerto Rican Identities

• 540. Race and Disaster

• 547. The Big Three-Oh: Studies in American Indian Literatures Special Anniversary Session

• 586. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

• 594. Uncertain Waters: Faculty Members of Color Navigate the Tenure Process

• 614. Decolonizing Native American Languages

• 618. Racial (De)Formations: Class, Gender, Geography, and the Persistence of "Authentic" Blackness

• 627. Bound to Respect: Surviving Dred Scott

• 630. Business Meeting of the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

• 632. Literature after 9/11

• 636. Interactions: Old Documents, Present Interests, Early American Studies

• 637. Poetry's Place in Asian American Studies

• 657. Haiku by African American Writers

• 657. Haiku by African American Writers

• 665. The Rhetoric of Trauma: Witnessing War and Disaster in Contemporary American Literature

• 676. Affective Citizenship

• 688. Cosmopolitanism and Ethnic Studies

• 690. Red Line to the Black Belt / Mississippi to the Magnificent Mile: The Poetry of Sterling D. Plumpp

• 715. Poetry, Race, Aesthetics

• 718. Forms of Democracy in Asian American Transnational Fiction

• 731. Gayl Jones's Wandering Black Radicalisms

• 753. (Trans)Nation: Race, Ethnicity, Citizenship, and the State of American Literature

• 778. Naming and Significance

• 2006

• 19. Ideas of Form in Twentieth-Century Poetry: What We Talk about When We Talk about Form

• 29. Postbellum, Pre-Harlem: New Approaches to African American Literature and Culture, 1877+1919

• 47. Nostalgia and American Modernity

• 55. American Literary Historiography, Then and Now

• 57. Reading and Writing against the Grain: African American Literature beyond Race

• 71. Spirituality in Chicana/o Literature

• 75. Who Was the First African American Woman Novelist?

• 75. Who Was the First African American Woman Novelist?

• 97. Ethnicity and New Orleans: Race and Space

• 102. Visual Culture, New Media, Asian American Studies

• 109. Detention and United States Sovereignty: Paradigms, Practices

• 119. American Indian Literatures in Global Contexts

• 134. Documenting Black Philadelphia

• 165. Laughing with the Nation: Ethnicity and Humor

• 204. Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies in the Americas

• 211. Ethnic Studies in the Age of Transnationalism

• 242. Nellie McKay and the Art of Mentoring

• 257. Detention and/as United States Literature

• 259. If We Must Die: Death-Bound Subjects in Twentieth-Century African American Literature and Culture

• 289. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

• 291. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Black American Literature and Culture

• 293. Poetry Reading by Roberta Jean Hill

• 318. Cold War+Era American Publishing and Ideas of Cultural Democracy

• 320. Regarding Violence: Power and Resistance in Puerto Rican Literatures and Cultures

• 332. Lorenzo Thomas: Poet, Scholar, Teacher (1944+2005)

• 350. The Languages of Transnational Drama and Performance

• 351. The New Class in Post+World War II Literary Culture

• 362. Voicing Minority Poetries

• 372. African-American Review at Forty: A Retrospective

• 402. Between Ethnicity and Transnationalism: A Conversation between Native and Asian American Studies

• 402. Between Ethnicity and Transnationalism: A Conversation between Native and Asian American Studies

• 416. Names, Language, and Theory

• 425. Reconsidering Robert Creeley (1926+2005)

• 430. Poetry and History in the Indigenous Americas

• 445. African American Poetry and Performance: Collectives, Critics, Collaboration

• 446. Ethnic Literatures and War

• 463. The Impact of Octavia E. Butler on American Science, Fiction, and Science Fiction: Making New People

• 483. Visual Culture and Chicana/o Literature

• 494. The Political Faulkner

• 503. Ethics and Asian American Studies

• 520. Race and Textual Scholarship

• 528. Canonical Intertext in United States Ethnic Literatures

• 541. The Cool Logic / Lógica Cool of Urayoán Noel: A Bilingual Spoken Word Performance

• 541. The Cool Logic / Lógica Cool of Urayoán Noel: A Bilingual Spoken Word Performance

• 572. Arab American Literature: Writers and Audiences

• 573. Between Ethnicity and Transnationalism: A Conversation between African American and Latino/a Studies

• 573. Between Ethnicity and Transnationalism: A Conversation between African American and Latino/a Studies

• 575. Resisting Containment: African American Cold War Fiction

• 579. Jimmie Durham: Art and Politics

• 610. From Nonfiction to Fiction in African American Literature

• 619. Sites of Textual Memory and Trauma in Korean American Literature

• 620. Time after Time: Literary (Re)Visions of Puerto Rican History after New Historicism

• 648. Parables of Race, Genes, and Power: Remembering Octavia Butler

• 652. Ethnic Studies and Globalization

• 655. Politics of Feeling: Affect and Asian American Literature

• 663. The Heritage Series: African American Poetry and Transatlantic Dialogue

• 666. Susan Sontag and the Public Woman of Letters

• 680. Global Implications of the Statement on Native Languages: A Roundtable

• 687. The Coining of Names

• 706. Art(or)Fact in United States Ethnic Literatures

• 756. Teaching the American Indian Boarding School Experience

• 764. Wholly Holy: The Intersection of Humor and Religion

• 2005

• 6. Reading Race in Black and Yellow

• 15. Positively Seventh Street: Washington, DC, in African American Literature and Culture

• 30. Complicity and Collusion: Accounting for Ethics in Twentieth-Century American Narrative

• 35. English Studies and Political Literacy

• 50. The New Black Aesthetic and the Cultural Mulatto

• 56. Convergences and Divergences: Chicano and Fronteriza Literatures

• 91. American Realism and American Citizenship

• 91. American Realism and American Citizenship

• 91. American Realism and American Citizenship

• 97. Casualties of War in Asian American Literature

• 102. Humor in Chicana/o Popular Culture

• 107. Problematic Identities

• 126. From Bourgeoisie to Boo-gie: Mapping the Economics of Identity and the Black Middle Class

• 138. Mary Antin and Science in The Promised Land and Beyond

• 140. New Perspectives on the New Negro: Current Work on the Harlem Renaissance

• 146. Citizenship and United States Writing: Perspectives from the American Literature Divisions

• 153. Food in United States Ethnic Literatures

• 176. Native American Languages: Past, Present, and Future

• 179. Postplantation Society in the South, Latin America, and the Caribbean

• 202. Twentieth-Century Black Women Playwrights

• 216. Intertextuality in American Modernism's Long Poem: The Dialogical Conversation among T. S. Eliot, Hart Crane, and William Carlos Williams

• 220. Trauma, American Literature, and the Problematic Aesthetics of Voice

• 240. The Languages of Transamerican Cinema

• 255. From Bebop to Hip-Hop: Breaking the Cultural Divide I

• 255. From Bebop to Hip-Hop: Breaking the Cultural Divide I

• 284. (In)Comparable Américas? Writing Race and Ethnicity in the Hemisphere

• Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Black American Literature and Culture

• 303. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

• 303. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

• 311. Insularities and Diaspora: Recent Trends in Puerto Rican Cultural Criticism

• 312. Toni Morrison's Trilogy

• 341. The Political Implications of Representing Multilingualism in Literary Texts and Films

• 357. Posthistoricist Approaches to American Literature

• 358. Segregation and the United States Literary Imagination

• 360. Civil Rights Legacies in African American Literature

• 367. New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry

• 395. Joke Cycles

• 406. Re-dressing Mr. Mom: Querying Masculinity and Domesticity in Recent American Literature

• 412. The Great (Im)Migration: Culture, Citizenship, and Black Resettlement, 1865+1940

• 426. Reading the Records, Filling the Gaps, Mixing the Genres: Paradoxes of African American Literary History

• 432. Ethnic Identity in Literary Onomastics

• 449. Praxis in Native American Performance

• 474. Broken Forms: Poetry and the Construction of National Identity

• 476. United States Ethnic Literatures and Marxism: A Dialogue

• 479. Religion and Asian American Cultural Production

• 485. Redface, Blackface: Women and Race Performance

• 485. Redface, Blackface: Women and Race Performance

• 485. Redface, Blackface: Women and Race Performance

• 504. Paul Laurence Dunbar: New Century, New Approaches

• 520. Citizenship and the Study of United States Poetry

• 521. Chicana Authors Making Masculinities

• 532. Assessing Native Criticism

• 553. Black Poetics for the Twenty-First Century

• 585. Literatures of Color, Elsewhere: Migrating across Disciplinary Boundaries

• 590. Narrative Construction and the Modern African American Novel

• 607. Ethics and American Indian Cultures

• 627. Gender Negotiations and Asian American Literature

• 630. American Poets in the Twenty-First Century: The New Poetics

• 654. The Panoramic Imagination of Toni Cade Bambara

• 659. Damaged Debates: Dialogue and Political Conflict in the American Novel

• 676. Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: African American Poetry Preservation and Innovation

• 676. Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: African American Poetry Preservation and Innovation

• 699. Representations of Native American Women in Literature and Criticism

• 701. Ethnicity in the Capital

• 717. Woody Allen

• 728. Broadening the Conversation: Teaching beyond the Canonical Native Writers

• 762. Drama and Ethnicity

• 768. From Bebop to Hip-Hop: Breaking the Cultural Divide II

• 768. From Bebop to Hip-Hop: Breaking the Cultural Divide II

• 778. Naming Our Fictional Worlds

• 2004

• 13. Psychoanalysis and Asian American Literature

• 14. Experiments with Form in Modern African American Drama

• 14. Experiments with Form in Modern African American Drama

• 19. Writing Philadelphia: Urban Circulations

• 30. "Tonic Emanation": The Reception of a Gay Whitman, 1892-1919

• 30. "Tonic Emanation": The Reception of a Gay Whitman, 1892-1919

• 38. African American Philadelphia

• 39. Transnational Transformations: Remaking America in Asian Pacific American Literature

• 59. The Postsentimental Culture of Nineteenth-Century America

• 63. Urban Ethnicities

• 70. Belief and the American Public Sphere

• 71. Intersections of Working-Class Studies and Native American Literature

• 81. Philadelphia Fire: Philadelphia in African American Thought and Expression

• 128. Problems in Applying Feminist Theory to Native American Literature

• 142. Dark Princesses, Detectives, and Survivors: Twentieth-Century African American Genre Fiction

• 144. Metacommentary

• 164. Philadelphia and Black Writers on Fire

• 186. Sexuality's Plantation Myth(s)

• 199. Jewishness, Blackness, and Gender

• 220. Ethnic Studies under Siege

• 261. Teaching Asian American Literature: Strategies and Innovations

• 275. Ethnicity and Poetry

• 306. Lamenting Tribal-Language Loss

• 326. The Genre of Latina/o Studies

• 328. African Americanist Criticism and the State in the Age of Terror

• 332. Literary Name Creation and Naming Patterns

• 335. Asian Pacific American Travel Narratives

• 351. Not Black Enough? Experimental Black Writing since 1965

• 353. Latent Destinies: Suppressed Empires and Oppositional States in Nineteenth-Century North American Literature

• 374. Class Critique and the Work of Asian American Literature

• 401. Teaching through the Crossfire: Student Anger in the Native Literature Classroom

• 418. Multilingualism and Modernism

• 445. Honoring Louis Owens

• 451. Phillis Wheatley and Identification

• 484. Literary Responses to Lynching

• 485. Transcending and Transforming Humorous Stereotypes in American Film Comedy

• 491. Means and Ends: Reexamining the Work of Literary Recovery in a New Political Climate

• 495. Recovering Hispanic Philadelphia

• 504. In Honor of James Welch: Shaping Native American Literature, Voicing Native American Experience

• 522. Indigenous Encounters as Sites of Ethnic (Re)Production

• 525. Meta-fronteras

• 536. American Literature at Seventy-Five

• 538. Feeling Modern: Emotion, Authority, and American Women, 1900+20

• 541. Reframing Black Masculinity in Theoretical Perspective

• 557. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

• 563. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on Black American Literature and Culture

• 579. "Talking like White Folks": The Rise of the Post+World War II African American "White-Life" Novel

• 586. Artist-Critic, Critic-Artist

• 589. Drama, Politics, and the Antebellum Philadelphia Theater

• 596. Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia: Homenaje a Luz María Umpierre

• 612. Ethnicity in the Hood

• 613. Alice Childress: Marking the Tenth Anniversary of the Passing of a Literary Mentor

• 640. Writing Philadelphia: Inscrutable Spaces, Impossible Maps

• 650. James Weldon Johnson's America

• 668. From Philadelphia to Paris: Jessie Fauset's Cosmopolitan Geographies

• 678. Metahistory

• 693. Defying Limits: Subversive Humor in the Texts of American Minorities and Women

• 703. American Indian Literature and Visual Culture

• 742. Adaptations, Connotations, and Derivations in Literary Naming

• 768. Surviving Ethnicity: Trauma in Multiethnic Literatures

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