Other Panels of Interest

9. The John Brown Event: Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Righteous Violence
Thursday, 9 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Los Angeles–Miami, Chicago Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Jason Berger, Univ. of South Dakota

  •  “Unionism, Repressive Tolerance, and Righteous Violence: Garrison’s Antislavery Ethics,” Martha E. Schoolman, Dickinson Coll.
  • “Harpers Ferry and the Process of Emancipation,” Deak Nabers, Brown Univ.
  •  “Serializing Violence: Harper’s Weekly and the Civil War Draft Riots,” Colleen Glenney Boggs, Dartmouth Coll.
  • “A Violent Ethics of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the John Brown Model of Race Reform,” Ryan Schneider, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette

16. Teaching Racist Texts: Pedagogical Challenges
Thursday, 9 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Clark, Chicago Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Russell Sbriglia, Univ. of Rochester

Speakers: Melissa Adams-Campbell, Northern Illinois Univ.; Alexander Corey, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder; Brigitte Fielder, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; Sarah Mesle, Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Erich Nunn, Auburn Univ., Auburn

Session Description:

The pedagogy of dealing with the racist content of American literature is the subject of this roundtable. Its underlying premise will be that rather than evacuating or ignoring racist content, engaging students in frank conversations about the racism inherent in much of American literature will help them address the difficult content of the literatures we read, discuss, and write about.

17. Art, Activism, and Post-Civil-Rights Black Identity
Thursday, 9 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Purdue-Wisconsin, Chicago Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Marlon Bryan Ross, Univ. of Virginia

  • “Civil Rights, a Dream Deferred?” Soyica Diggs Colbert, Dartmouth Coll.
  • “A Band of Angels of Art: Nina Simone, Lorraine Hansberry, and The Politics of Friendship,” Salamishah Tillet, Univ. of Pennsylvania
  • “James Baldwin and the Making of Late Style,” Dagmawi Woubshet, Cornell Univ.
  • “‘Where You Gon Be Standin?’: Spatial Logics, Civil Rights Discourse, and the Poetics of Black Lesbian Identity,” GerShun Avilez, Yale Univ.

82. Vulnerable Readers and the Post-1945 American Novel
Thursday, 9 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., O’Hare, Chicago Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Ivy Schweitzer, Dartmouth Coll.

  • “Suburban Gothic: The Uneasy Readers of Shirley Jackson,” Royden Kadyschuk, Columbia Univ.
  • “Vladimir Incognito: Neurotic Rereading and the Upward Spiral of Paranoia in Nabokov’s Pale Fire,” Kathryn Fleishman, Univ. of California, Berkeley
  • “Vulnerable Native Subjects: Reading Affective Resistance in the Renewal of Dakota Tiyospaye (Kinship) Bonds in Ella Cara Deloria’s Waterlily,” Christopher Pexa, Vanderbilt Univ.
  • “Responsible Readings: Interpretive Relation and the Novels of Toni Morrison,” Jenny M. James, Pacific Lutheran Univ.; Autumn Womack, Univ. of Pittsburgh

160. Archipelagic American Studies
Thursday, 9 January, 7:00–8:15 p.m., Chicago H, Chicago Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern Univ.

  • “How Long Is the Coast of America? Archipelagic American Studies and Rough Reading,” Brian Roberts, Brigham Young Univ., UT
  • “The Chinese Atlantic Seascape,” Sean Aaron Metzger, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
  • “From Coloniality to Postcoloniality: Comparative Studies of US Archipelagic Colonialities,” Yolanda M. Martínez–San Miguel, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
  • “Islands and Empires: Antipodean American Narratives,” Paul D. Giles, Univ. of Sydney

 

283. Beneath the American Renaissance at Twenty-Five: The Legacy of an American Cultural Studies Classic
Friday, 10 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chicago C, Chicago Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Sean Gerrity, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York

  • “Beneath the American Cultural Biography: David Reynolds and the Quest for ‘An Attentiveness Never Before Attempted,'” Harold K. Bush, Saint Louis Univ.
  • “Reading beneath (and through) David Reynolds: From Influence to Reading,” Christopher N. Phillips, Lafayette Coll.
  • “The Paradox of Radical Conventionalism: The ‘Benign-Subversive Style’ and Cold War Ethnic Fictions,” Sean Gerrity

Responding: David S. Reynolds, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York

 

341. Rethinking Postbellum Literary History
Friday, 10 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Chicago H, Chicago Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Elizabeth Duquette, Gettysburg Coll.

Speakers: Jesse Alemán, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Michael C. Cohen, Univ. of California, Los Angeles; Travis M. Foster, Villanova Univ.; Nicholas Gaskill, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick; June Howard, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Koritha Mitchell, Ohio State Univ., Columbus; Claudia Stokes, Trinity Univ.

355. Representing Slavery in the Twenty-First-Century American Cultural Imagination
Friday, 10 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Chicago F, Chicago Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Gregory Laski, United States Air Force Acad.

  •  “Hollywood Blunders: The Treatment of Elizabeth Keckley in Spielberg’s Lincoln,” Sarah Lahey, Northwestern Univ.
  • “Prometheus Unchained: Mythologizing Slavery for a Twenty-First-Century American Audience,” Justine McConnell, Univ. of Oxford
  • “An Alternative History of Slavery: Steven Barnes’s Lion’s Blood,” Jeffrey Allen Tucker, Univ. of Rochester

Responding: Soyica Diggs Colbert, Dartmouth Coll.

366. Melville and Matter
Friday, 10 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Armitage, Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the Melville Society
Presiding: Timothy W. Marr, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  • “Systems without Bodies: Moby-Dick’s ‘Ungraspable Phantom of Life,'” Alexander Erik Larsen, Univ. of Notre Dame
  •  “Melville’s Materialism: Is It in the Air?” Meredith Farmer, Wake Forest Univ.
  •  “Dense Vulnerability: The Matter of Clarel’s Holy Land,” Amy R. Nestor, Georgetown Univ.

486. The Spatiality of Reading: Contemporary Fiction and New Reading Methods
Saturday, 11 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Chicago A–B, Chicago Marriott
A special session
Presiding: David Alworth, Harvard Univ.

  •  “Situated Reading,” Amy Hungerford, Yale Univ.
  • “Reading and the Orphic Turn in Contemporary Realism,” Nicholas Dames, Columbia Univ.
  • “The Desire for the Literal,” Jennifer L. Fleissner, Indiana Univ., Bloomington

540. Cross-Cultural Dialogues
Saturday, 11 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Superior A, Sheraton Chicago
Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Presiding: Olakunle George, Brown Univ.

  • “Odd Jobs: Malinky Robot and Malay Precarity in Singapore,” Aimee Bahng, Dartmouth Coll.
  • “Letters from the Dead: Incendies and the Legacies of the Lebanese Civil War,” Salah D. Hassan, Michigan State Univ.
  • “Transnational Capital, Branding, and Migrating Genres in New South African Urban Fiction,” Loren Kruger, Univ. of Chicago
  • “Relationality: What Is It About?” Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan, Univ. of California, Irvine

579. Beyond Recovery: Rethinking American Literary History
Saturday, 11 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Chicago C, Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the American Literature Section
Presiding: Andrea N. Williams, Ohio State Univ., Columbus
Speakers: Maria Guilia Fabi, Univ. of Ferrara; Barbara McCaskill, Univ. of Georgia; Shirley Moody-Turner, Penn State Univ., University Park; Xiomara A. Santamarina, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Richard Alan Yarborough, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

629. The Philosophical (Re)Turn?
Saturday, 11 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., Chicago D, Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature
Presiding: Brad Evans, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

Speakers: Kristen Case, Univ. of Maine, Farmington; Lindsay Reckson, Haverford Coll.; Joan T. Richardson, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York; Lynn Wardley, San Francisco State Univ.; Hannah Wells, Drew Univ.