Recently Updated Sessions

• Thursday, 5 January

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

  8:30–11:30 a.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• 4. Preconvention Workshop for Job Seekers in Foreign Languages

  11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., 2A, WSCC

• 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

• 32. Slave Emancipation and Projects of Citizenship

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 613, WSCC

• 39. Where New European Literature Begins . . .

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Redwood, Sheraton

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

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 612, WSCC

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

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton

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

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 613, WSCC

• 70. Multimediated Brecht

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Cedar, Sheraton

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

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 304, WSCC

• 91. Indigenous Languages and Literatures in the Americas

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 619, WSCC

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

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Redwood, Sheraton

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

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Aspen, Sheraton

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

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 308, WSCC

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

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 618, WSCC

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

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 604, WSCC

• 149. The Environment, Trauma, and Contemporary Fiction

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 606, WSCC

• 162. Comparative Conversion

  7:00–8:15 p.m., Jefferson, Sheraton

• 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

• Friday, 6 January

• 170. Queering Value

  8:30–9:45 a.m., 619, WSCC

• 174. The Opera Libretto

  8:30–9:45 a.m., 620, WSCC

• 181. Graphic Narratives Retelling History: Germany

  8:30–9:45 a.m., University, Sheraton

• 194. Activism in the Academy: Generational, Historical, and Theoretical Perspectives

  8:30–9:45 a.m., Willow B, 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

• Business Meeting of the Reception Study Society

  10:15–11:30 a.m., Kirkland, Sheraton

• 226. West Asia and the World Literature Debate (session canceled)

  10:15–11:30 a.m., Ravenna C, Sheraton

• 266. Realisms after Modernisms

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 616, WSCC

• 275. Recognition as Critique

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

• 301. Reconfiguring Publishing

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Grand A, Sheraton

• 303. On War: Classical and Modern Perspectives

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

• 306. Provocative Feminisms

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 612, WSCC

• 325. Ireland and the Politics of Language

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 304, WSCC

• 334. A Comparative View of Passion and Affect in Early Modern Tragedy

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Ballard, Sheraton

• 345. Animals, Machines, Forces of Nature: Alternative Agencies in Arthurian Literature

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 308, WSCC

• 346. New Temporalities of Old Age

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 620, WSCC

• 349. Digital Pedagogy

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Grand A, Sheraton

• 358. Scrittura e cultura in movimento: Italophone Literatures, Literatures of Italian Diaspora

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Virginia, 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

• Cash Bar Arranged by the Discussion Group on Scottish Literature

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 212, WSCC

• Cash Bar Arranged by the University of Washington English Department

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 213, WSCC

• Saturday, 7 January

• 399. How Seattle Changed Comics

  8:30–9:45 a.m., 303, WSCC

• 404. Frost and the Politics of Poetry

  8:30–9:45 a.m., 309, WSCC

• 406. Courtly Values in Medieval Courtly Literature

  8:30–9:45 a.m., Willow B, Sheraton

• 444. Preservation Is (Not) Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose

  10:15–11:30 a.m., 307, WSCC

• 450. Digital Faulkner: William Faulkner and Digital Humanities

  10:15–11:30 a.m., 615, WSCC

• 453. Why Teach Literature

  10:15–11:30 a.m., Grand A, Sheraton

• 459. Work

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

• 460. The Academic Workplace 101

  10:15–11:30 a.m., Columbia, Sheraton

• 463. Luncheon Arranged by the Conference on Christianity and Literature

  12:00 noon, Washington Athletic Club

• 478. Material Translations in Early Modern Theater

  12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Ravenna A and B, Sheraton

• 501. Using Your Foreign Language Proficiency and Cultural Expertise in the Federal Government

  1:30–3:30 p.m., 2B, WSCC

• 521. Rethinking Fascism and Communism: Eastern European Film since 1980

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Cedar, Sheraton

• 527. Democracy, Language, and Literature

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

• 539. #alt-ac: Alternative Paths, Pitfalls, and Jobs in the Digital Humanities

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 3B, WSCC

• 542. Exaltadas: Women and Transcendentalism

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 308, WSCC

• 549. Imaginarios puertorriqueños del fracaso

  3:30–4:45 p.m., Greenwood, Sheraton

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

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 608, WSCC

• 570. Ethnographic Encounters: Jewish American and Italian American Graphic Narratives

  3:30–4:45 p.m., 307, WSCC

• 582. Reception for Patricia Yaeger Arranged by the PMLA Editorial Board

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Princessa Ballroom, Grand Hyatt, 721 Pine St.

• 594. Alternative Ancestries

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 620, WSCC

• 596. Language, Literature, Learning: New Research in Celtic Studies

  5:15–6:30 p.m., 306, WSCC

• 605. Modern East Asian Literature, World Literature

  5:15–6:30 p.m., Cedar, Sheraton

• Cash Bar and Awards Dinner Arranged by the Keats-Shelley Association of America

  Cash bar at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:00 p.m., Alexis Hotel Seattle, 1007 1st Ave.

• 611. MLA Awards Ceremony

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

• Reception Arranged by the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of English

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 205, WSCC

• Dinner Arranged by the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America

  Dinner at 7:00 p.m., 95 Pine St., Pike Place Market, Steelhead Diner

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

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 212, WSCC

• 625. Cash Bar Arranged by the Division on the Victorian Period and the Division on the English Romantic Period

  7:00–8:15 p.m., 214, WSCC

• Cash Bar Arranged by ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present

  8:45–10:00 p.m., Willow A, Sheraton

• Informal Gathering, Networking Meeting of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment

  8:45–10:00 p.m., Boren, Sheraton

• Business Meeting of the Wallace Stevens Society

  8:45–10:00 p.m., Greenwood, Sheraton

• Business Meeting of the Margaret Atwood Society

  8:45–10:00 p.m., Columbia, Sheraton

• Cash Bar Arranged by the GL/Q Caucus for the Modern Languages

  8:45–10:00 p.m., Metropolitan B, Sheraton

• Open Business Meeting of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture

  8:45–10:00 p.m., Leschi, Sheraton

• Cash Bar Arranged by the South Central Modern Language Association

  8:45–10:00 p.m., Willow B, Sheraton

• Reception Arranged by MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States

  8:45–10:00 p.m., 202, WSCC

• Business Meeting of the Doris Lessing Society

  8:45–10:00 p.m., Ravenna C, Sheraton

• Sunday, 8 January

• 654. "Continuous Voyage Orders": From Komagata Maru to the Aftermath of 9/11

  8:30–9:45 a.m., Ballard, Sheraton

• 655. Unemployment

  8:30–9:45 a.m., 617, WSCC

• 706. Dynamic Learning for Advanced Proficiency

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

• 728. New Paths of Flânerie: Crossings of Gender and Space and the Nineteenth-Century French Flâneur/Flâneuse

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Aspen, Sheraton

• 737. Cultural Consumption, Lifestyle, and Values

  1:45–3:00 p.m., Virginia, Sheraton

• 745. Affecting Affect Theory

  1:45–3:00 p.m., 615, WSCC

2012 Program