Browse Special Sessions

Select Convention Year:   2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004   

• 2013

• 2. Digital Pedagogy: An Unconference Workshop

• 7. Rhetoric and the Virtues

• 8. Fragmented Lives, Hybridity, and the Politics of Identity in South Asian Muslim Women's Writing

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

• 10. Marriage and South Asian Publics

• 11. Assessing the Human: Twenty-First-Century American Fiction and the Idea of the Self

• 12. The Prehistory of Animal Studies

• 13. The Boundaries of Biography: A Genre at the Crossroads

• 15. Transatlantic Book History in the Eighteenth Century

• 16. Islands without Borders: Teaching the Caribbean across Languages

• 20. Reorientations: East Asia in Recent Anglophone Fiction

• 21. Avenues of Access for Recent PhDs

• 22. Expanding Access: Building Bridges within Digital Humanities

• 23. "American Ways of Life": Estados Unidos y la Vanguardia Española

• 24. Secluded Lives, Visible Bodies: Representations of Zenana Fashion in Film and Literature

• 26. Going Viral

• 38. Theories of the Romantic Grotesque

• 39. Contemporary Novels and the Twenty-First-Century Media Ecology

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

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

• 42. The Spatial Turn in French Studies

• 43. Law and Literature: The State of the Field

• 44. Old World Mirrors, New World Faces: Imagining Transatlantic Selfhood through Literature of the Americas

• 45. Planetary Modernisms and Modernities

• 46. Kierkegaard and the Trials of Modernity

• 47. Critical Debates in Sinophone Postcolonial Studies: Where Do We Go Now?

• 48. Mood Swings

• 49. Beyond Critique? The Possibilities of Post–Cold War Criticism

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

• 51. Speculative Turns in Culture and Critique: A Collaborative Exploration

• 52. Issued from Boston: The National Impact of a Local Print Culture on Slavery-Related Politics

• 53. The Futures of the Transnational: Interrogating Border Crossing

• 54. Auden at Work

• 61. Behavioral Economics and Literary Studies

• 62. Feelings for Sale: The Commodification of Affect

• 63. "What like a Bullet Can Undeceive!": Veterans in the Literature Classroom

• 64. Global Health and World Literature

• 65. Queer Theory without Antinormativity

• 76. Twenty-First-Century Latin American Narrative and Postmodern Feminism

• 78. The Spanish Civil War across the Language Curriculum

• 79. Crossing Borders, Finding Homes

• 80. Environments in Science Fiction: Beyond Dystopias

• 81. The American Jeremiad at Thirty-Five: The State of the Americanist Field

• 94. Modernism and the Senses

• 95. Discursive Possession: African Transmission, Western Texts

• 111. The Cinema of Marco Tullio Giordana

• 114. Marketing Your PhD in Literature and Languages: Languages for Special Purposes

• 116. Art for Virtue's Sake: New World Theories on Print and the Public Good

• 117. French Prerevolutionary Libertines

• 118. Challenging Israeli and Palestinian Relations: The Protest of Poetry in a Region of Conflict

• 119. Violence and Women's Writing in Francophone North Africa

• 120. Rethinking Recovery: American Women's Writing

• 121. Shakespeare and Selfhood: New Keywords

• 129. Teaching in the Shallows: Reading, Writing, and Teaching in the Digital Age

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

• 133. Reading the Invisible and Unwanted in Old and New Media

• 134. The Persistence of Panpsychism in Philosophical and Literary Approaches to Consciousness

• 135. Proust's Swann at One Hundred: Text and Context

• 138. Madness in Black Women's Diasporic Novels and the Aesthetics of Resistance

• 139. On Cognitive Approaches to Literature, Disability Studies, and Being Wrong

• 147. Theories and Practices of the Literary Lab

• 148. Surface Reading by Hand: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

• 150. The Poet-Scholar

• 151. Providence as Metanarrative: The Orders and Social Change in Colonial Spanish America

• 152. Political Trauma and Literary Alchemy: Testimonios and the Regenerative Power of Language

• 153. Slavery and the Culture of Taste

• 154. Teaching Arab Novels in English

• 155. Movements, Incantations, and Parables of Queer Performance

• 156. Neoliberalism and the Novel

• 157. Irishness and Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century "Irish" American Literature

• 158. Barbara Johnson's Last Works

• 163. Tweeting the Revolution: Networked Media, the Rhetorics of Activism, and Practices of the Everyday

• 164. A Currency for Collaboration: The Ethics and Economics of Academic Partnership

• 165. Beyond the PDF: Experiments in Open-Access Scholarly Publishing

• 166. Whatever Happened to Materialist Feminism?

• 167. Digital Humanities and Theory

• 168. Muriel Rukeyser: A Centennial Roundtable

• 169. Serial Television across Boundaries

• 170. Medieval Classicisms: The Cultural Uses of Antiquity in Late Medieval Lyric and Romance

• 171. Periodization and Its Discontents: New Ways of Conceiving Academic Organization

• 183. Lost Empire: The “Haus Österreich” and the Elusive Home

• 188. Reading Anticolonialism

• 189. Sexuality and Form in English Renaissance Literature

• 191. Teaching Austen in Challenging Circumstances

• 192. Purges, Plagues, and Body Snatchers: Religion and Medicine in Colonial and Early National America

• 194. Fantasies of 9/11: American Exceptionalism, Neoliberalism, and the Security State

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

• 198. Convergent Histories of the Book: From Manuscript to Digital

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

• 200. The Time of Cinematic Decision

• 202. Spectacles of Gender and Desire in Silver Age Spain

• 203. Palestinians Writing: A Stateless People's National Literature

• 204. Theorizing Indigenous Literatures in Latin America

• 205. Peterloo Revisited: New Forms of Political Dissent in the Aftermath of the 1819 Manchester Massacre

• 206. Transgressing Discipline in Medieval German Narrative

• 229. Cosmopolitanism in Teaching and Reading: Uses and Limits

• 230. Narrating Value in the Long Eighteenth Century

• 231. New Approaches to Teaching the Literature Surveys

• 232. Other Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance

• 236. Representations of Cultural Resistance: Deafness and Power

• 237. Access to What? A Roundtable on Public Scholarship, Community Engagement, and Diversity

• 238. Hannah Arendt and American Literature

• 239. Representing Race: Silence in the Digital Humanities

• 240. Elegy and Photography

• 241. Accessing Romanticism through Atlantic Slavery: Period, Archive, Memory, Scholarship

• 242. Interpreting Contemporary Translingual Literature

• 243. British Literature and the State, 1880–1940

• 244. The Poetry of Uncertainty, the Uncertainty of Poetry

• 245. Russian Modernism and the Problem of Language

• 246. Trauma Studies and Contemporary East Asian Literature and Film: Trauma, Memory, and History

• 247. More Than Words in Contemporary Francophone Women's Autobiography

• 248. Agency, Identity, and the Petitionary Genre in Colonial Latin America

• 259. New Directions in Caribbean Enlightenment Studies

• 261. Good Objects and Their Discontents: The Berlin School and the Current State of German Film Studies

• 262. Orienting Students for Crossing Cultural Barriers: Case Studies in Chinese and Japanese

• 265. Material Medicine: Health, Power, and the Value of Pain in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

• 268. Disability Discourses: Bodily Selves and the Embodiment of Deviance

• 269. Global Africa

• 270. How Did I Get Here? Our “Altac” Jobs

• 271. Political Play: Memory and Violence in Latin American Theater

• 294. The Work of Editing: A Workshop for New and Old Scholarly Editors

• 297. Enigma and Epiphany in the Narratives of Soledad Puértolas

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

• 306. Disability Studies, the MLA, and the AAUP Report "Accommodating Faculty Members Who Have Disabilities"

• 307. The Dark Side of Digital Humanities

• 308. Modernism and Its New Engagements with the "Real" in Contemporary Time

• 309. The Poetics and Politics of Modern Utopianisms: Literature, Solidarity, and Human Rights

• 310. Queerness as Form

• 333. Transgender France

• 336. Material Culture and Phenomenologies of Time, 1760–1810

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

• 343. All Ears: Listening as a Way of Understanding Literature

• 344. Animals in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century French Narratives: Distance and Closeness

• 370. Marxism and Modernist Studies Today

• 371. Visual Literacies: Word and Image in Tudor and Stuart Women’s Works

• 375. Decadent Poetics

• 378. Dada, Surrealism, and Colonialism

• 382. Enabling Access: Gower and Premodern Disability Studies

• 383. The Archival Turn

• 384. What Is a Journal? Toward a Theory of Periodical Studies

• 385. The Mechanics of Fictional World Making

• 386. Peripheral Places of Memory in Spain

• 407. Mothers in Theory

• 429. Juan José Saer: Memory and Experience

• 430. Franco-American Literature of New England: New Perspectives on Place, Memory, and Identity

• 431. Fault Lines in American Literary History

• 432. Aural Literature and Close Listening

• 433. With and beyond Freud: Trauma and Collective Memory

• 434. Rethinking Comparison: Latin America and East Asia

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

• 436. Radical Environmentalism and Ecoterrorism in Post-1945 American Literature

• 437. Wit, Inspiration, and Fancy: The Early Modern Poetic Thought

• 440. How I Got Started in Digital Humanities: New Digital Projects from DHCommons

• 441. Disability in Jane Eyre: The Madwoman and the Blindman

• 442. Reading Aloud to Revise: Exploring the Role of Intonation in Silent Written Language

• 443. Love and Its Discontents

• 444. The Kafka Factor in Post-Holocaust Film and Literature

• 452. Watching the World: Early Modern Spectatorship beyond Theater

• 463. Antebellum Secularisms

• 464. Thinking the South Atlantic: Africa–Latin America Exchanges

• 465. Afterlife and Image: Rethinking the Politics of Memory through Visual Culture in Contemporary Spain

• 466. Passionate Milton: Readings and Representations of Paradise Lost

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

• 474. Thoughts for American Transcendentalism on War and Death

• 475. Why Do Literary History?

• 476. Vital Knowledge: Reading Standards in the Nineteenth Century

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

• 479. Contemporary French Film

• 498. Logic and Victorian Literature

• 499. New Perspectives on German Ecocritical Prose: Messages, Patterns, and the Revision of the Literary Canon

• 500. Undergrounds and Counterpublics in Nineteenth-Century American Print Culture

• 501. Small Worlds: Projection, Magnification, and Scale in Victorian and Modern Britain

• 502. An Alternative Genealogy of Poetry: Elegies for Female Poets

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

• 507. New Archives, Renewed Access: Research Methodologies in Latin American Collections

• 508. New Materialism and Cultural Critique

• 509. How to Do Things with Twilight: Young-Adult Fiction in the College Classroom

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

• 511. Card Catalog, Magnetic Telegraph, Mirror, and Veil: Affective Technologies of Knowing

• 532. Between the Postcolonial and the Global

• 535. Undercover America

• 536. The Simple Art of Boston Murder

• 537. Victorian Erotic Networks

• 538. Skepticism in the Seventeenth Century

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

• 546. Taste, Touch, Hear: Race, Science, and the Senses in the Nineteenth Century

• 547. Literary Arendt

• 548. Borders, Identities, and the Geographies of Anger and Fear: Toward a Global Dialogue

• 549. Why Marx Was Right

• 550. The Classroom as Interface

• 551. Narrative, Genre, and Evidence: The Juridical Imaginary in Contemporary Law, Literature, and Culture

• 552. Anger in Women's Literature

• 571. Early Modern Contemporary: Poetry, Tradition, Innovation

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

• 575. Figurations of Media: The Novel after Media Studies

• 576. Cultural Capitalism in Singapore Literary Cultures: Intersections of Neoliberalism and Biopolitics

• 577. Science and Technology in Afro-Modern Literature

• 578. Private-Sector Careers and the Language and Literature PhD

• 583. Intellectual and Cognitive Disability Studies

• 584. Accessing Race in the Digital Humanities: An E-roundtable

• 585. Negotiating Sacred and Secular in Muslim Everyday Life

• 586. Scaling and Sharing: Data Management in the Humanities

• 587. The New American Poetry of Engagement

• 588. Race and Poetics: On Aesthetic Practice in Ethnic Studies

• 609. Prison Architecture and Subalternism

• 611. French Women Writers in the Wake of the New Novel: Literary Heirs of Sarraute and Duras

• 612. Poetics of Disaster: Writing the Ends of the Earth in Colonial Latin America

• 613. An African Literary Classic in Twelve World Translations

• 614. The Functioning of the Public Sphere in Sixteenth-Century France

• 616. Poetic Occupations: From the Great Depression to the "Great Recession"

• 617. Spanish Literature in the Opera House: The Ideologies and Aesthetics of Adaptation

• 639. Two Tools for Student-Generated Digital Projects: WordPress and Omeka in the Classroom

• 662. Queer Times: Affect, Phenomenology, Temporality

• 663. Urban Slavery: North, South, and Global South

• 664. American Antifascism: Cultural Challenges to the Political Right from the 1930s to the 1960s

• 665. Adaptation and Tony Kushner

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

• 668. Literary Cartographies

• 669. Social Media and Scholarship: The State of Middle-State Publishing

• 670. Romantic Media Studies: Means of Reading and Reading for Means

• 671. The Vernacular and the Avant Garde: Modernism's Ethnographic Turn

• 672. The Legacy of Suspicion

• 673. What Short Story Theory and Narrative Theory Can—and Can't—Do for Each Other

• 674. Translation and the Undergraduate Curriculum

• 675. Robin Hood and the Literary Canon

• 676. Re–Understanding Comics

• 677. Trafficking: Bodies, Cargoes, Texts

• 678. Anglo-Saxon Futures

• 679. Decision and Indecision in Medieval and Early Modern French Literature

• 680. Imagining Paradise: Nature, Ecology, and Culture in Kashmiri Literature

• 681. The Beginning of Now: Contemporaneity in Early Modern Writing

• 682. Scriblerians at Three Hundred

• 698. Intonation and Poetic Convention

• 700. May 4 Voices: Teaching about the 1970 Kent State Shootings through Oral History and Drama

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

• 702. South Asian-izing the Digital Humanities

• 703. Poetics and the Liberal Arts

• 704. Adapting Social Science Methods to Humanities Research

• 705. Perspectivizing World Literature

• 706. Twentieth-Century Imperial Spain

• 707. Feeling Texts in Nineteenth-Century Sino-Anglo-American Exchanges

• 708. Victorian Oral Culture, circa 1861–1901

• 709. Picturing Photography in Graphic Memoirs

• 710. Paul Celan's Encounters

• 711. Literature and Constructivism

• 712. Expanding Approaches to the Critical Analysis of Afro-Latin American Literature through Film

• 713. "Delight and Instruct": Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century British Popular Entertainment

• 714. Teaching Jane Austen in Emerging Contexts

• 715. Philip Roth's Music

• 716. Three Remainders

• 729. Race, Science, and Representation in Early America

• 730. Shakespeare by Design

• 731. What Is Post-AIDS Literature?

• 732. Race and Cultures of Mobility

• 733. Service Learning in Literary Studies: New Ways to Read Texts and Communities

• 734. Twentieth-Century German Theories of the Transformation of Urban Public Space

• 735. Material Magic in Imperial Spain

• 736. Rethinking Modernist Life Narratives: Postcolonial, Gendered, and Cinematic Perspectives

• 737. Satire and Biopolitics

• 738. The Question of a Dialogic Poem

• 739. Across the Global Pacific: Transregional and Transmedia Cultural (Re)Production

• 740. Sustainability and Pedagogy

• 741. Remapping Transnational American Studies

• 742. Early Tory Women Writers

• 743. María Zambrano in Dialogue

• 744. Identity Knowledges and the Future of Critique: A Conversation with Object Lessons

• 745. Rethinking the Victorian Marriage Plot

• 746. Finding a Nondystopian Future: A Literary and Scientific Exchange

• 747. Oscar Wilde in Print and Visual Culture

• 760. Bibliography in the Digital Age

• 763. Digital Technology, Environmental Aesthetics, Ecocritical Discourse

• 765. The Aesthetics of Debt

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

• 767. Rewards and Challenges of Serial Scholarship

• 768. Forgetting, Memory: Time and Mourning in W. G. Sebald

• 769. Reading the "Difficult" Poem: Experimental Pedagogies from Workshop to Literature Classroom

• 770. New Perspectives on Emotion and Narrative across Media

• 771. Deterritorialization of the Borderlands: Performing Marginal Bodies in Violent Cartographies

• 772. Collisions and Collusions in Arabic-French Aesthetics of Violence

• 773. Imagined Humanities: Race and Human Rights in United States Literature and Culture

• 774. The Future of Jewish Literature from the Maghreb

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

• 776. Beat Poetics' Cambridge-Boston Origins

• 795. Literature and Digital Pedagogies

Program Archive