Browse 2012 Program: Thursday, 5 January

• Thursday, 5 January, 8:30 a.m.

• 1. Evaluating Digital Work for Tenure and Promotion: A Workshop for Evaluators and Candidates

  8:30–11:30 a.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• 2. A Nonteaching Academic Job Search

  8:30–11:30 a.m., 618, WSCC

• Thursday, 5 January, 11:45 a.m.

• 3. Strategies for Search Committees in Foreign Languages

  11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., 206, WSCC

• 4. Preconvention Workshop for Job Seekers in Foreign Languages

  11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., 2A, WSCC

• 5. Preconvention Workshop for Job Seekers in English

  11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., 2B, WSCC

• Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon

• 6. Inter-nature-nality: International Perspectives on Environment

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., University, Sheraton

• 7. Conrad's A Personal Record and 'Twixt Land and Sea at One Hundred

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 616, WSCC

• 8. Teaching the Bible as Literature

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 308, WSCC

• 9. Large Digital Libraries: Beyond Google Books

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 611, WSCC

• 10. Rag, Letter, Post: Material Communications Networks in Colonial and Early National America

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 608, WSCC

• 11. The Theatricality of Samson Agonistes

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 607, WSCC

• 12. Transmedia Stories and Literary Games

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 615, WSCC

• 13. An African Literary Classic in Ten World Translations

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Willow B, Sheraton

• 14. Early Modern Disabled Bodies and Cultural Discourses

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 618, WSCC

• 15. Useful Fictions? A Cognitive Perspective on the Utility of Emotions, Imagination, and Long Novels

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 606, WSCC

• 16. Beyond the Colonial Gaze: Photorealism and Photojournalism in India, 1870–1930

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton

• 17. Fernando Vallejo's Poetics of Transgression

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Boren, Sheraton

• 18. Betrayal: The Individual and the State

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Virginia, Sheraton

• 19. Postnationalism: Comparative Theories and Practices

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Cedar, Sheraton

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

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Aspen, Sheraton

• 21. Globalization, Latinidad, Chicano/a Literature

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 614, WSCC

• 22. American Poetry in the 1890s: Culture, Convention, Canons

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 306, WSCC

• 23. Shaw in the 1930s: Drama and Dictatorial Politics

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 604, WSCC

• 24. Archipelagic American Discourses: Decontinentalizing American Studies

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 304, WSCC

• 25. Material Worlds

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Redwood, Sheraton

• 26. The Memoir Boom

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 310, WSCC

• 27. Literature and Photography

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 303, WSCC

• 28. What Is the Future of French in French Studies?

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Ravenna C, Sheraton

• 29. Alexander Pope!

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 307, WSCC

• 30. Crisis and the US Political Imaginary: Tremblement de Terre and Terror Wars

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 617, WSCC

• 31. Colonial Violence, Indigenous Feminisms, and Sovereignty

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 612, WSCC

• 32. Slave Emancipation and Projects of Citizenship

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 613, WSCC

• 33. Cetacean Nations: Thinking Transversely

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 620, WSCC

• 34. The Future of Peer Review

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Issaquah, Sheraton

• Thursday, 5 January, 1:45 p.m.

• 35. Climate Change and the Limits of Representation: Literary History in the Anthropocene

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 310, WSCC

• 36. The Tragic and the Heroic: Phases in a Modern Affair

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Ballard, Sheraton

• 37. Animals, Vegetables, Minerals

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 608, WSCC

• 38. Everything and More: Theorizing the Encyclopedic Novel

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 307, WSCC

• 39. Where New European Literature Begins . . .

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Redwood, Sheraton

• 40. Using Foucault

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• 41. Social Networks, Jewish Identity, and New Media

  1:45–3:00 p.m., University, Sheraton

• 42. Morris's Artistic Descendants: Women Writers, Artists, and Designers

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 620, WSCC

• 43. Making a Case for the Humanities: Advocacy and Audience

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 612, WSCC

• 44. Pinter's Voice

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 303, WSCC

• 45. Spenser, Donne, and the Work of Poetry

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 619, WSCC

• 46. Ezra Pound and James Joyce: Connections and Disconnections

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 617, WSCC

• 47. Old Books and New Tools

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 606, WSCC

• 48. Filling the Gaps: The Future of Keywords for Children's Literature

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 614, WSCC

• 49. Why Habermas Matters Now

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 305, WSCC

• 50. Writing Lives, Living Lives in French: Camille Delaville, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marjane Satrapi

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton

• 51. The American Transcendentalists as Continental Philosophers

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 308, WSCC

• 52. Post-Operaismo, Techne, and the Common

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 304, WSCC

• 53. Death and/of the Author: Posthumous Publication

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 615, WSCC

• 54. Theme of Humor in the Comedia of Early Modern Spanish Drama

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Boren, Sheraton

• 55. Reflections on Mexico

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Ravenna A and B, Sheraton

• 56. African Studies / Postcolonial Studies: A Match (Un)Made in Academia

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Aspen, Sheraton

• 57. Adaptation and Refraction in East Asia to 1900

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Issaquah, Sheraton

• 58. Biopolitics of Performance

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 306, WSCC

• 59. Against Orthodoxy

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Ravenna C, Sheraton

• 60. Assessing Assessment(s)?

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 616, WSCC

• 61. The Book and the Body in Medieval Iberia

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton

• 62. C'era una volta: New Directions in Italian Fairy Tales Studies

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Cedar, Sheraton

• 63. Reading Robert Duncan Reading: The H.D. Book

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 604, WSCC

• 64. Cinema, Politics, Theory

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 618, WSCC

• 65. After the Heath: Teaching US Multilingual Literature

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Willow B, Sheraton

• 66. Early Modern Knowledge Transfer

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Virginia, Sheraton

• 67. Race and Digital Humanities

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 611, WSCC

• 68. What Works? Integrating Culture into First-Year English and Foreign Language Courses

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 613, WSCC

• Thursday, 5 January, 3:30 p.m.

• 69. The Future of Higher Education

  3:30–5:15 p.m., Grand C, Sheraton

• 70. Multimediated Brecht

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Cedar, Sheraton

• 71. How to Read the New-York Saturday Press

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 306, WSCC

• 72. Thinking Memory

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 308, WSCC

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

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 607, WSCC

• 74. Revisiting Emotion and Gender in the Regency

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 310, WSCC

• 75. Education and Ideology in the Jim Crow South

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 305, WSCC

• 76. Teaching Theory One Generation Later: What Is the Canon in the Introductory Theory Course Now?

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 612, WSCC

• 77. How New Variorum Shakespeare Editors Work

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 606, WSCC

• 78. Asian American Regionalisms

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 615, WSCC

• 79. Gender and Medieval Literary Form

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Virginia, Sheraton

• 80. Connecting Theory and Practice in the Teaching of LCTLs (Less Commonly Taught Languages)

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Issaquah, Sheraton

• 81. Tutors, Models, and Guides in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Ballard, Sheraton

• 82. Arabic Language and Identity: Transregional Texts and Transnational Discourses

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton

• 83. The Color Curtain: Political Identity and Solidarity in the Global Cold War

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Seneca, Sheraton

• 84. Rethinking Empathy: Feeling with Others in Contemporary Literature

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 608, WSCC

• 85. New Approaches to Teaching H.D.

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 611, WSCC

• 86. Slavery, Enlightenment, and the Book

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Willow B, Sheraton

• 87. Digital Literary Studies: When Will It End?

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 304, WSCC

• 88. Before Normal

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 620, WSCC

• 89. 1812–68: The Literary Landscape of Spain

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton

• 90. Crossing Boundaries in Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Ravenna C, Sheraton

• 91. Indigenous Languages and Literatures in the Americas

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 619, WSCC

• 92. Preference

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 604, WSCC

• 93. Professional Employment Practices for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 617, WSCC

• 94. Disaster/Collapse

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 618, WSCC

• 95. The Graphic Novel in Latin America

  3:30–4:45 p.m., University, Sheraton

• 96. Transgendering Psychoanalysis

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 303, WSCC

• 97. Voicing Documentary

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 307, WSCC

• 98. Romania's Intellectuals and Ceauşescu's Secret Police

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Boren, Sheraton

• 99. Invisibility

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Greenwood, Sheraton

• 100. Class in the Classroom: 2012

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 616, WSCC

• 101. Women for Ecological Justice

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Redwood, Sheraton

• 102. Medievalism and Marlowe

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 613, WSCC

• 103. Traveling Melville

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 614, WSCC

• 104. Art of the Oppressed: Global Performance and Resistance

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Ravenna A and B, Sheraton

• Thursday, 5 January, 5:15 p.m.

• 105. Race and Metaphor in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century American and Continental Thought

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Boren, Sheraton

• 106. No(Bodies): Ghost Children in Juvenile Literature

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 305, WSCC

• 107. Postcolonial Studies and Literary Form

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 618, WSCC

• 108. Metamorphoses of Reason and Progress in Early Modern England

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 614, WSCC

• 109. Trauma and Sexuality in Contemporary African American Literature

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 615, WSCC

• 110. What Do We Talk about When We Talk about Sensationalism?

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 308, WSCC

• 111. American Exceptionalism after 9/11

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 310, WSCC

• 112. George Sand and/in Translation

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Ravenna C, Sheraton

• 113. Keeping the Lights On: Shared Governance in the Corporate University

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 612, WSCC

• 114. Reading and the Medium of Literature

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Ravenna A and B, Sheraton

• 115. Gender and Voice: Orality, Dissent, and Community in the Late Middle Ages

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Virginia, Sheraton

• 116. Luso-Brazilian Literatures and the Critical Global Humanities

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Willow B, Sheraton

• 117. Passions in Premodern Hispanic Literature (XV–XVII Centuries)

  5:15–6:30 p.m., University, Sheraton

• 118. Linear Isomorphism and Represented Environments in the British Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 613, WSCC

• 119. Toward New Humanity: Theoretical Interventions into Literature in Modern Chinese Aesthetics

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Greenwood, Sheraton

• 120. Writing the Cuban Nation

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 617, WSCC

• 121. Writing the Jasmine Revolution and Tahrir Square: Graffiti, Film, Collage, Poetry

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Cedar, Sheraton

• 122. Romantic Comedy, Romantic Play

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 604, WSCC

• 123. Comparing Modern Literatures Worldwide: Can It Be Done within the Current MLA Structure?

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Redwood, Sheraton

• 124. Field Bibliographer Training for the MLA International Bibliography

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 306, WSCC

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

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 608, WSCC

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

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• 127. The Job I Got

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 616, WSCC

• 128. Transforming Community Service into Public Scholarship: Strategies for Women

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 611, WSCC

• 129. Joan Maragall: A Legacy of Engagement

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Issaquah, Sheraton

• 130. Change and Perception of Change in the Romance Languages

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton

• 131. The Very Thought of the University

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 619, WSCC

• 132. Language, Literature, and Learning in English Renaissance Pedagogy

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 304, WSCC

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

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 303, WSCC

• 133. Fiction and Theory in Julia Kristeva

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Ballard, Sheraton

• 134. Goethe and Islam: Beyond the Orientalism Aporia?

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Aspen, Sheraton

• 135. Textual Scholarship and African Americanist Studies

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 307, WSCC

• Thursday, 5 January, 7:00 p.m.

• 135A. The Future of Learning

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Grand C, Sheraton

• 136. Modeling Girlhood: Reassessing Martha Finley's Elsie Dinsmore Series

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 308, WSCC

• 137. Business Meeting of the Cervantes Society of America

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Ravenna A and B, Sheraton

• 138. Revisionary Nation: New Frontiers in the War on Terror

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 611, WSCC

• 139. Peripheral Conversations: South-South Dialogues

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 307, WSCC

• 140. Whitman and the Ultracontemporary: Between Crisis and Innovation

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 608, WSCC

• 141. What Popular Culture Suggests about Contemporary Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice . . . and Vice Versa

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 618, WSCC

• 142. Affect, Distance, Confession: Emotion and Popular Music

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 620, WSCC

• 143. A Creative Conversation: Ruth Ozeki with Susan Squier

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 604, WSCC

• 144. Society and the Sacred in Colonial Latin America

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• 145. Memory in Modern Jewish Literature

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Ravenna C, Sheraton

• 146. Comparative Literature and the Work of Translation: The Case of Hungary

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Ballard, Sheraton

• 147. Women of the Woolf: Influence, Affinity, Obscurity

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 310, WSCC

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

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 617, WSCC

• 149. The Environment, Trauma, and Contemporary Fiction

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 606, WSCC

• 150. Digital Humanities and Internet Research

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 613, WSCC

• 151. Language, Literature, and . . . ? New Models for Foreign Language Departments

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Issaquah, Sheraton

• 152. Narrative and/in Wittgenstein

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Virginia, Sheraton

• 153. Hermann Broch and the Modern Novel

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Greenwood, Sheraton

• 154. Mutant Fictions: Networks, Objects, and Cities in the New Wave of Spanish Narrative

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Cedar, Sheraton

• 155. Authority, Sovereignty, Postcoloniality: Recent Narratives of Dictatorship

  7:00–8:15 p.m., University, Sheraton

• 156. Genre in the Genome Age

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 303, WSCC

• 157. Transforming the Atlantic: Caribbean-Scottish (Post)Colonial Relations

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 304, WSCC

• 158. Photo(bio)graphies: Collaborative Intersections between Text and Image

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Boren, Sheraton

• 159. Rhetoric and/of the Job Market

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 616, WSCC

• 160. Demonstration Interviews for Job Seekers in Foreign Languages

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Aspen, Sheraton

• 160A. Re-membering Milton Twenty-Five Years Later

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 619, WSCC

• 161. The Webs We Weave: Online Pedagogy in Community Colleges

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 615, WSCC

• 162. Comparative Conversion

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton

• 163. Theorizing Love: Conceptions of Love, Sex, and Desire from Staël to Proust

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Willow B, Sheraton

• 164. Structures of Experience in The Faerie Queene

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 614, WSCC

• 165. Teaching Early Literature and Why It Matters

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 306, WSCC

• Thursday, 5 January, 8:45 p.m.

• CELJ Awards Ceremony

  8:45–10:00 p.m., Seneca, Sheraton

• Cash Bar: Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages, Women in French, Women in German, and Feministas Unidas

  8:45–10:00 p.m., Redwood, Sheraton