Sessions Relating to the Presidential Theme

• Thursday, 5 January

• 13. An African Literary Classic in Ten World Translations

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Willow B, 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

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

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

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

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 612, WSCC

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

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 619, WSCC

• 65. After the Heath: Teaching US Multilingual Literature

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Willow B, Sheraton

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

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 613, WSCC

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

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton

• 91. Indigenous Languages and Literatures in the Americas

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 619, WSCC

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

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton

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

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 303, WSCC

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

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Issaquah, Sheraton

• 156. Genre in the Genome Age

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 303, WSCC

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

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 615, WSCC

• 165. Teaching Early Literature and Why It Matters

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 306, WSCC

• Friday, 6 January

• 166. Tone in Narrative

  8:30–9:45 a.m., 617, WSCC

• 184. Beyond the Arabian Nights: Middle Eastern Fiction in the World Literature Course

  8:30–9:45 a.m., Columbia, Sheraton

• 189. Transpacific Formalisms of the Mid-Twentieth Century

  8:30–9:45 a.m., Issaquah, Sheraton

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

  8:30–9:45 a.m., 614, WSCC

• 201. Translating and Translation in Israeli Literature

  8:30–9:45 a.m., Seneca, Sheraton

• 202. The Presidential Forum: Language, Literature, Learning

  10:15 a.m.–12:00 noon, Metropolitan A, Sheraton

• 249. Building Digital Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom

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

• 263. Reading across Communities: Linguistic Approaches to the Teaching of Literature

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

• 274. Intersections between American Indian and Other Literary Traditions

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 307, WSCC

• 283. What Makes Language Literary?

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Metropolitan A, Sheraton

• 284. Responses to a Changing World: German Language, Literature, and Culture in the Twenty-First Century

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton

• 288. Radical Learning Strategies

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 606, WSCC

• 320. Reenvisioning Foreign Language Education in the Current Economy

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• 330. Learned Journals and Libraries: Knowledge Economies and Economics of Knowledge

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton

• 332. Digital Narratives and Gaming for Teaching Language and Literature

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Aspen, Sheraton

• 341. Learning to Connect the Multiple Fields of an English Department

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 614, WSCC

• 349. Digital Pedagogy

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Grand A, Sheraton

• 359A. Scholarship, Censorship, and Academic Change: The Case of A. K. Ramanujan

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• 360. Expanding the Language Mission across the Disciplines: A Session in Honor of John Grandin

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Greenwood, Sheraton

• 365. Language Learning and Identity Construction

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton

• 372. New Approaches to Civil War Poetry: Dickinson, Whitman, Melville

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 619, WSCC

• 380. The Presidential Address

  6:45 p.m., Metropolitan A, Sheraton

• Saturday, 7 January

• 396. Chinese Narrative, World Literature: The Appeal and the Peril of Being Worldly

  8:30–9:45 a.m., Aspen, Sheraton

• 408. What Do Graduate Students in Spanish Need to Learn, and Why?

  8:30–9:45 a.m., Issaquah, Sheraton

• 414. Teaching Creative Writing

  8:30–9:45 a.m., 304, WSCC

• 419. Good Practices in Hiring, Developing, and Reviewing Contingent Faculty Members

  8:30–9:45 a.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• 428. Technology and Chinese Literature and Language

  10:15–11:30 a.m., Boren, Sheraton

• 431. Language and Learning

  10:15–11:30 a.m., Metropolitan A, Sheraton

• 435. Issues Facing Graduate Students of Color in the Profession

  10:15–11:30 a.m., 309, WSCC

• 442. New Media, New Pedagogies

  10:15–11:30 a.m., 613, WSCC

• 476. New Directions in Ecocriticism: Scientific Knowledge and Literary Critique

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 608, WSCC

• 482. Of Kings' Treasuries and the E-Protean Invasion: The Evolving Nature of Scholarly Research

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 613, WSCC

• 484. Dissenting Voices

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

• 499. Literary Multilingualism and Exile in Twentieth-Century Fiction

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

• 527. Democracy, Language, and Literature

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Metropolitan A, Sheraton

• 530. Translation and World Literature

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton

• 532. Reading Writing Interfaces: Electronic Literature's Past and Present

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 613, WSCC

• 538. Shuttling to Learn

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton

• 545. German Graduate Education 2020: Strategies for the Future

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Issaquah, Sheraton

• 567. Pinter in Seattle: A Creative Conversation with Frank Corrado and Harry Burton

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 608, WSCC

• 571. Coding Culture: Humanities Responses to Biological Theories of Culture

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• 572. The Philosophical Example

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 615, WSCC

• 593. Forms and Effects: Linguistic Approaches to the Teaching of Literature

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton

• 602. Language, Literature, Learning: Ezra Pound as Teacher, Teaching Ezra Pound

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 613, WSCC

• Sunday, 8 January

• 632. Academically Adrift?

  8:30–9:45 a.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• 637. Language in/as Living Organism: The New Genre of Geno-Poetry

  8:30–9:45 a.m., 615, WSCC

• 644. Pedagogy and Print Culture in the Sixties

  8:30–9:45 a.m., 306, WSCC

• 652. The Role of Translation in Foreign Language Departments

  8:30–9:45 a.m., Jefferson, Sheraton

• 664. Sound and Voice in the Creative Writing Classroom: Practice-Based Pedagogies

  10:15–11:30 a.m., 614, WSCC

• 674. Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication

  10:15–11:30 a.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• 682. Criticism and Crisis

  10:15–11:30 a.m., 618, WSCC

• 706. Dynamic Learning for Advanced Proficiency

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

• 710. Academically Adrift? Language, Literature, and Learning in the Small College English Department

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 606, WSCC

• 725. Poetry, Poetics, Politics in the Modern Arab World

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Willow B, Sheraton

• 731. Common First-Year Readings and Themes: Theory, Practice, Problems, Promise

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 608, WSCC

• 732. Northwest Poetry and Poetics

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 606, WSCC

2012 Program