37th annual

2009 The Louisville Conference

on Literature and Culture since 1900

February 19- 21

Keynote Speakers Special Guest Speakers

Vicki Mahaffey Ed Roberson
Percival Everett David James
Manuel Martínez-Maldonado

University of Louisville
 The Louisville Conference: On Literature & Culture since 1900
invites you to an informal
Reception
free to all conferees,
(with conference badge)

WHEN: Thursday Evening, 6:15 - 7:30 pm

(following the critical keynote speaker)

WHERE: Red Barn

(Located Near the Clock Tower)

WHAT: Pizza & Jazz

WHO: Jamey Aebersold

& his Jazz Quartet
(School of Music, University of Louisville )

We are honored to have perform for us the internationally known saxophonist and
authority on jazz education and improvisation Jamey Aebersold, who is a recipient
of the 2007 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award
 The Louisville Conference
on Literature and Culture since 1900
Sponsored by

The University of Louisville

President: James R. Ramsey
Provost: Shirley C. Willihnganz

College of Arts and Sciences

Dean: J. Blaine Hudson

Department of Classical and Modern Languages

Chair: Augustus Mastri

Department of English
Chair: Susan M. Griffin

Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society

Director: Thomas Byers

English Graduate Organization

The EGO Executive Committee
Luncheon Committee

Latin American and Latino Studies Program

Director: Rhonda Buchanan

Kentucky Foundation for Women

Director: Judi Jennings

The Conference Committee gratefully acknowledges the cooperation and assistance of the following: Brian J. Leung,
University of Louisville; Heather Slomski, Axton Fellow; the staff of University of Louisville campus bookstore; the staff
of the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Department English; and all University personnel who “go
beyond the call” to ensure the success of the Conference.
General Plan of Activities
The Louisville Conference on Literature and
Culture Since 1900, February 19- 21, 2009

Thursday, February 19 Eastern

Standard
Time
Registration, Bingham Humanities Bldg.,
Room 300 10:00 am 4:00 pm

Opening Presentation,
Presentation Ekstrom Library,
Elaine Chao Auditorium 11:30 am 12:30 pm
Ed Roberson, Northwestern University
“Reading”

Sectional Meetings A 1:30 pm 3:00 pm

Sectional Meetings B 3:15 pm 4:45 pm

Keynote Presentation (critical) Ekstrom

Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium
5:00 pm 6:00 pm
Vicki Mahaffey, University of Illinois

“Sex, Lies
and
Reading:
The Book as
Bed in
James
Joyce's
Work”

Welcome Reception
Reception, Red Barn, UofL Campus
6:15 pm 7:30 pm
Jamey Aebersold and his Jazz Quartet,
School of Music, UofL

Special Dramatic Presentation Thurst

Theatre “Soldiers Circle” 7:45 pm 8:45 pm
by Russell Vandenbroucke, University of
Louisville

Friday, February 20
Registration continues in Bingham
Humanities Room 300 8:00 am 4:00 pm
Sectional Meetings C 9:00 am 10:30 am
Sectional Meetings D 10:45 am 12:15 pm

Calvino Prize Winner,

Winner Ekstrom Library,
Bingham Poetry Room 11:00 am 12:00 pm
Helen Phillips, Brooklyn College, Reading
from The Regimes

Pre-arranged group luncheons

12:15 pm 1:15 pm

Sectional Meetings E 1:30 pm 3:00 pm

Sectional Meetings F 3:15 pm 4:45 pm
 Spanish Keynote Speaker,
Speaker Ekstrom Library,
Elaine Chao Auditorium 3:15 pm 4:30 pm
Manuel Martínez-Maldonado, University
of Louisville
"La literatura puertorriqueña de cerca y
de lejos: visión de los últimos 25 años"

Keynote Presentation (creative) Strickler

Hall Auditorium101 5:00 pm 6:00
pm
Percival Everett, University of Southern
California
“Reading”

Conference Dinner,
Dinner Seelbach Hilton Hotel

Reception (cash bar; all conferees

welcome) 6:30 pm
Dinner (reservation required)
8:00 pm

Saturday, February 21
Registration continues in Bingham
Humanities Room 300 9:15 am 2:45 pm

Sectional Meetings G 10:15 am 11:45 am

Lunch break; pre-ordered boxed lunches Room

300 12 noon

Sectional Meetings H 1:00 am 2:30pm

Sectional Meetings I 2:45 pm 4:15 pm

Closing Presentation,
Presentation Ekstrom Library,
Elaine Chao Auditorium 4:30 pm 5:30 pm
David James, University of Southern
California, School of Cinematic Arts
"Rock'N'Film: The Beginnings of the Pop
Musical"
Registration Information
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900
Thursday, Friday, Saturday - February 19-21

The Conference is held on the main (Belknap) campus of the University of Louisville, Third and Eastern
Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky (from Interstate 65 via Exit 133).

The Seelbach Hilton, 500 Fourth Avenue (at Muhammed Ali) has been designated as the Conference hotel
(tel. 800-333-3399; 502-585-3200). The hotel provides an airport shuttle. The Conference will provide
transportation between the Seelbach and the University at regular intervals. See back pages of this program
for the hotel-campus-hotel bus schedule.

All times shown are Eastern Standard Time.

Registration is required of all participants listed in the program. Registration packets and badges will be
available in Room 300, Bingham Humanities Building. University of Louisville faculty and students are asked
to sign in. The general public is invited to hear the guest speakers.
rd
A courtesy coat check will be provided on the 3 floor of the Humanities Building, Room 300. The coat check
will close at 5:00 pm Thursday, 5:00 pm on Friday, and 5:30 pm on Saturday. Refreshments will be served in
the registration area on Thursday from10 am - 2:00, on Friday 8:15 - 2:00, and on Saturday from 9:15 - 2:00. A
message board for the use of conference participants will be located outside Room 300. Please consult the
board regularly for notice of last-minute program changes.

Sectional meetings will be held in the classrooms of Bingham Humanities Building. Creative presentations
will be given in Room 202 Bingham Humanities Building. Details of date, time and place for the Keynote
Speakers and Special Guest are printed in the program.

All meeting rooms are accessible to the handicapped.

Book vendors will display publications for sale on the second floor of the Bingham Humanities Building. A
selection of the Keynote Speakers’ and Special Guests’ books will also be offered for sale at the University of
Louisville bookstore.

See the back pages of this program for an index of chairs and presenters, a basic map of the campus, a shuttle
bus schedule, a list of dining facilities on campus. Flyers announcing Louisville-area events and attractions will
be available in the registration area. The Louisville Convention and Visitor Bureau can provide information
on local cultural events, entertainment, and lodging: Telephone 1(800) 626-5646. Web site:
www.gotolouisville.com

Conference evaluation forms are available in room 300. Please complete one before leaving. You may deposit
the form in the box in Bingham 300 or mail it in to us. Your comments will help us plan for next year.

Corrections and addenda to the program will be available in room 300 and posted on the notice board.
Please check the notice board often for last-minute changes.

For further conference information, FAX (502) 852-8885, or e-mail: dlday@louisville.edu or

sylvia@louisville.edu
 Keynote Speakers

Vicki Mahaffey Thursday, February

19, 5:00 pm, Ekstrom
Library, Chao
Auditorium

Professor Vicki Mahaffey is Kirkpatrick Chair of English and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Champagne-
Urbana. She has taught at the University of York in England and at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Mahaffey’s
Reauthorizing Joyce was published by Cambridge University Press in 1988 and in paperback by Florida University Press in
1995. States of Desire: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce and the Irish Experiment was brought out by Oxford University Press in 1998.
Modernist Literature: Challenging Fictions (Basil Blackwell, 2007) interrogates several fictions (the fiction that reading has
little relation to social or political action; the fiction that the transparency of texts is necessarily a good thing) by looking
at the experimental work of ‘high’ Modernist authors alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Prof. Mahaffey is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the
International James Joyce Foundation. She is currently completing a book manuscript calledThe Joyce of Everyday Life and
is editing a collection of collaborative essays on Joyce's Dubliners.

Percival Everett Friday, February 20,

5:00 pm, Stickler
Hall Auditorium 101

There might not be a more fertile mind in

American fiction today than Percival
Everett. For more than two decades, he has
published almost a book a year, including a
farcical Western, a savage satire of the
publishing industry, a children’s story
spoofing counting books, retellings of the
Greek myths of Medea and Dionysus, and a
philosophical tract narrated by a four
year-old. The Washington Post has called
him “one of the most adventurously
experimental of modern American
novelists,” and has declared his most recent
novel, THE WATER CURE, "his finest book to
date." According to The Boston Globe, “He's
literature’s NASCAR champion, going flat
out, narrowly avoiding one seemingly
inevitable crash only to steer straight
for the next.”
Everett’s writing has earned him the PEN
USA 2006 Literary Award (for his 2005 novel,
Wounded), the Academy Award for
Literature of the American Academy of
Arts and Letters and the Hurston/Wright
Legacy Award (for his 2001 novel, Erasure),
the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for
Excellence in Literature (for his 1996 story
collection, Big Picture) and the New
American Writing Award (for his 1990 novel,
Zulus). He has served as a judge for, among
others, the 1997 National Book Award for
fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for
Fiction in 1991. He is Distinguished Professor
of English at the University of Southern
California, where he teaches creative
writing, American Studies, and critical
theory.

Spanish Keynote Presentation

Manuel Martínez-Maldonado Friday,

February
20, 3:15 pm,
Ekstrom
Library,
Chao
Auditoriu
m

Manuel Martínez-Maldonado was born in

Yauco, Puerto Rico. A physician-scientist, he
is a member of the Institute of Medicine of
the National Academy of Sciences and a
foreign honorary member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, and serves as
the University of Louisville’s Executive
Vice-President of Research. From 1978 to 1989
he was a film critic for the English
journal Caribbean Business, and for the
Spanish dailies El Reportero and El Mundo.
He was a member of the University of
Puerto Rico Press and Editorial Board from
1984-89. From 2001-2005 he presided over the
Board of Trustees of the Institute of
Puerto Rican Culture, the body that
establishes and helps implement the
cultural policy for Puerto Rico. As the
Board’s president, Martínez-Maldonado also
presided over the Board of Trustees of
Puerto Rico’s Performing Arts Center. In
addition he served on the Board of the
Corporation for Musical Arts, which runs
the prestigious yearly Casals Festival. His
poems and essays have appeared in Yunque,
Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico,
Cariban, Mairena, Pharos, Linden Lane,
Revista del Instituto de Cultura
Puertorriqueña, and Cupey. His poems and
novel have also appeared in anthologies in
Puerto Rico and abroad. He is the recipient
of the José Gautier Benítez Poetry Award
from the University of Puerto Rico, and has
received honorarble mentions for his
poetry from the Ateneo de Puerto Rico.
Martínez-Maldonado’s has published five
volumes of poetry (La voz sostenida, Palm
Beach Blues, Por amor al arte, Hotel María,
and Novela de mediodía), and the novel Isla
Verde.
 Special Guest Presenters
Opening Presentation

Ed Roberson Thursday, February 19,

11:30 am -12:30 pm,
Ekstrom Library,
Elaine Chao
Auditorium
Ed Roberson is the author of When Thy King
Is a Boy (University of Pittsburgh Press,
1970); Etai-eken (University of Pittsburgh
Press, 1975); Lucid Interval as Integral Music
(Harmatan, 1984); Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In
(University of Iowa Press, 1995, winner of the
Iowa Poetry Prize); Just in Word of
Navigational Change: New and Selected Work
(Talisman House, 1998); the National Poetry
Series winner Atmosphere Conditions (Sun
and Moon, 2000); and City Eclogue (Atelos, 2006).
He has received the Lila Wallace--Readers
Digest Writer’s Award, and was finalist for
the Lenore Marshall Award from the
Academy of American Poets in 2000. Born and
raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Roberson has worked as a limnologist
(conducting research on inland and coastal
fresh water systems in Alaska's Aleutian
Islands and in Bermuda), as a diver for the
Pittsburgh Aquazoo, in an advertising
graphics agency and in the Pittsburgh steel
mills. As twice team member of the
Explorer's Club of Pittsburgh South
American Expeditions, he has climbed
mountains in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian
Andes and explored the upper Amazon jungle.
More recently he has worked in academic
administration at Rutgers University and
taught at Columbia College, Northwestern
University and the University of Chicago.
He lives in Chicago. Roberson says of his
work, “Trying to speak fully, clearly is
what gets me labeled experimental. I’m
trying to get a fully honest and open
emotional and psychological reading of the
language that’s already here, but
dishonestly read; unlike a lot of folks in
the room, I’m not creating a new language.
I’m just trying to un-White-Out the one
we’ve got. No sleeping through the words to
put the White-Out back in.”

Closing Presentation

David James Saturday, February 21,

4:30 - 5:30 pm, Ekstrom
Library, Elaine Chao
Auditorium
David James is professor of critical studies
in the School of Cinematic Arts at the
University of Southern California. He is
the author of Written Within and Without:
A Study of Blake's Milton (Peter Lang, 1977),
Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the
Sixties (Princeton University Press, 1989),
Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular
Culture (Verso, 1996), and The Most Typical
Avant-Garde: History and Geography of
Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles (University of
California Press, 2006). He has edited To Free
the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York
Underground (Princeton University Press,
1992), The Hidden Foundation: Cinema and the
Question of Class (Minnesota University
Press, 1996), Im Kwon-Taek: The Making Of a
Korean National Cinema (Wayne State
University Press, 2002), The Sons and
Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in
LA (Temple University Press, 2003), and Stan
Brakhage: Filmmaker (Temple University
Press, 2006), and has served on the editorial
boards of Cinema Journal, Quarterly Review
of Film and Video, Now Time, and Art Week.
His awards include an NEH Fellowship for
College Teachers, a Rockefeller Foundation
Fellowship in the Humanities at the
Whitney Museum of American Art, and the
Associates Award for Creativity in
Research at USC; he has also been a scholar
at the Getty Research Institute. His
teaching and research interests encompass
avant-garde cinema, culture in Los Angeles,
East Asian cinema, film and music, and
working-class culture. The recipient of a
2007 Academy Film Scholar grant from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences,
he is currently writing a book on the
interaction between rock ’n’ roll and cinema
in the United States and the United Kingdom.
He has also published two books of poetry,
and his films have screened at the Whitney
Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles
Filmforum and Canyon Cinema in San
Francisco.

Calvino Prize Winner

Helen Phillips Friday, February 20,

11 am, Ekstrom
Library, Bingham
Poetry Room
Helen Phillips's work has appeared in The
Mississippi Review, Small Spiral Notebook,
Faultline, The Brooklyn Review, The L
Magazine, The Hotel St. George Press
Literary Magazine, and The Yale Literary
Magazine, among others. She was a finalist
in the recent Black Warrior Review, Iowa
Review, Indiana Review, and Mississippi
Review fiction contests, and for the 2008-9
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center
fellowship. In August 2008, she was a resident
at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. She
received her BA from Yale and her MFA from
Brooklyn College, where she now teaches
undergraduate creative writing. She lives
in Brooklyn with her husband, artist Adam
Thompson.
Daily Schedule of Meetings and Events

REGISTRATION

Thursday - 10 am - 4 pm Bingham
Humanities
Building, Room
300
Friday 8 am - 4 pm
Saturday 9:15 - 2:45 pm

Please check in and pick up your conference

envelope.
You will find a print-out of recent revisions
to the program and conference evaluation
sheets.
Please check daily for last-minute postings.

OPENING PRESENTATION
Ekstrom Library, Chao
Auditorium
Thursday, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Ed Roberson,
Roberson Northwestern University
“Reading”

Introduced by Matthew Biberman, English

Department, University of Louisville

CRITICAL KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Thursday, 5 - 6 p.m. Ekstrom

Library, Chao
Auditorium

Vicki Mahaffey, University of Illinois

“Sex, Lies and Reading: The Book as Bed in
James Joyce’s Work“
Introduced by Aaron Jaffe, English
Department, University of Louisville

WELCOME RECEPTION/PIZZA PARTY with Jamey

Aebersold and his quartet

Thursday, 6:15 - 7:30 p.m.. Red Barn

Free to all Conferees Admission by
conference
 badge/identification

Thursday, 7:45 - 8:45pm Thurst

Theatre
Special Dramatic Presentation “Excerpt
from Soldiers Circle”

Friday, 11 a.m. Ekstrom

Library, Bingham
Poetry Room
Calvino Prize Winner,
Winner
Helen Phillips, Brooklyn College Reading
from The Regimes
Introduced by Paul Griner, English
Department, University of Louisville

PRE-ARRANGED LUNCHEONS

Friday, 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.

(a) The Creative Writers’ Luncheon will

be held at the University Club on
campus. A reservation is necessary

(b) Participants in the French Literature

sections are invited to lunch together.
At 12:15, please assemble at the
door by the elevator, first floor,
Bingham Humanities Building.
Matthieu Dalle, University of
Louisville, will host and walk with the
group to the Café Bristol at the
Speed Museum. Individuals will order
from the menu and pay on-site.

(c) EGO,
EGO English grad student organization,
will offer an informal lunch to all
visiting Graduate Students.
Students
There is no charge, but one must reserve.
Held in the Belknap Research Building
Room 139
Admission by Conference badge with
appropriate meal ticket dot.
Daily Schedule of Meetings and Events continued

SPANISH KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 p.m. Ekstrom
Library
Chao
Auditoriu
m

Manuel Martínez-Maldonado,
Martínez-Maldonado University of
Louisville
"La literatura puertorriqueña de cerca y de
lejos: visión de los últimos 25 años"
Introduced by Rhonda Buchanan, Modern
Languages Department, University of
Louisville

CREATIVE KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

Friday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Ekstrom
Library,
Chao
Auditoriu
m

Percival Everett, University of Southern

California
“Reading”
Introduced by Thomas Byers, English
Department, University of Louisville

CONFERENCE RECEPTION AND DINNER

Friday evening Seelbach
Hilton
Hotel
Reception, cash bar (all conferees welcome),
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Dinner, by reservation only, 8:00 p.m.

CLOSING PRESENTATION

Saturday, 4:30 p.m. - 5:50 pm Ekstrom

Library,
Chao
 Auditoriu
m
David James,
James University of Southern
California, School of Cinematic Arts
"Rock'N'Film: The Beginnings of the Pop
Musical"
Introduced by Alan Golding, English
Department, University of Louisville

First Call for Papers

The 38th Annual
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900
February18, 19, and 20, 2010
Submission deadline: September 15, 2009(Postmarked)
Guidelines posted on our website in early April www.modernlanguages.louisville.edu/conference

Proposals (abstracts) for critical papers may be submitted on any topic that addresses literary works published since
1900, and/or their relationship with other arts and disciplines (film, journalism, opera, music, pop culture, painting,
architecture, law).
Individual creative submissions (poetry or short fiction) are also encouraged.

For details, or to be put on our mailing list, contact:

Danielle R. Day, Conference Director,
Classical and Modern Languages,
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292
(502)852-6686 dlday@louisville.edu
 CONFERENCE SECTIONS A - I

A-1 African American Women's Writing: Alice Childres,

and Nella Larsen
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 113
Chair: Shirley A. Stave, Northwestern State University
• Julie Burrell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Alice Childress's Radical Children's Theatre"
• Jill LeRoy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University

OPENIN
"The Discourse of Color in Nella Larsen's Quicksand"

A-2 Contemporary British Fiction: Barnes

Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 112

G Chair: Doris Bremm, Grinnell College

• Eric L. Berlatsky, Florida Atlantic University
"'Madame Bovary, c'est moi!' Cross-Dressing, Perversion,

PRESEN and Queer Theory in Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot"

• Doris Bremm, Grinnell College
"Ekphrasis in Julian Barnes's The History of the World in 10

TATION
½ Chapters: Turning Catastrophe into Art"

A-3 Sound/Music
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 109
Chair: Christa Zorn, Indiana University, Southeast
• Ruth Hoberman, Eastern Illinois University

Ekstrom
"Visual Verbality in Vernon Lee's 'The Wedding Chest'"
• Pamela L. Caughie, Loyola University, Chicago
"What Does Identity Sound Like? 'Passing' and Sound

Library, Technologies"
• Christa Zorn, Indiana University, Southeast
"The Return of the Author: New Intertextual Relations
Elaine between Ethel Smyth and Vernon Lee"

A-4 Conrad
Chao Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 122
Chair: Ann Elizabeth Willey, University of Louisville

Auditori • Carey James Mickalities, University of Memphis

"Impressions of the Market: Conrad, Ford, and
Economies of Loss"

um • Sean A. Labbé, Loyola University, Chicago

"'Steady like a Rock, a Soft Kind of Rock': Ironical and
Archetypal Secret Agents in Conrad's The Secret Agent"

Thursd • Kyle David Torke, Colorado College

"The Destructive Element: T. S. Eliot Responds to Lord
Jim"

ay, 11:30

Attention Conferees: If you want water during your

presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
 CONFERENCE SECTIONS A - I
A-5 Post-War American Masculinities (Panel prearranged by
Colleen Glen, University of Kentucky)
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 108
Chair: Colleen Glen, University of Kentucky
• Dorothy Stringer, Temple University
"Masculinity, Whiteness and Trauma in Richard
Wright's Savage Holiday"
• Emily Lutenski, Bowling Green State University
"Tribes of Men"
• Colleen Glen, University of Kentucky
"Sinatra the Soldier: Displacing War Trauma Onscreen"
A-6 On the Road with the Beats
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 106
Chair: Teneice Durrant Delgado, University of Toledo
• Jeannie Ludlow, Eastern Illinois University
"'I Want to Know How You / Are': Mothering the
Aborted Fetus in di Prima's 'Brass Furnace Going
Out'"
• Teneice Durrant Delgado, University of Toledo
"More Beat than 'The Beats': Di Prima, Jones, and
Johnson as the Foundation of the Beat Movement"
• Tom Murphy, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christ
"'Planless Happening without Goal or Cadenced March
in Time': Spengler's Fellaheen in Kerouac's On the
Road"
A-7 "Objectivisim" and Objectivists
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 208
Chair: Randolph Chilton, University of St. Francis
• Chris Glomski, University of Illinois, Chicago
"Objective and Obligation: 'A' Little Door Slides Back"
• Randolph Chilton, University of St. Francis
"The Poetry of Case Law: Charles Reznikoff's Testimony
as Fact"
• Emily Lambeth-Climaco, Saint Louis University
"We Are Locked Out: The Material and the Maternal in
George Oppen's Objectivist Poetics"
A-8 Method, Literature, Pedagogy
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 123
Chair: Adrienne Royo, Randolph-Macon College,
Ashland
• Alan C. Jalowitz, Pennsylvania State University
"The Literary Map as a Key to Integrating Literature,
History, and Culture"
• Vanessa Kraemer, University of Louisville
"'Theme for English B' and Classroom Practice: Is It
'That Simple?’"
• Amy Wright, Austin Peay State University
"And Then the Body Fell: The Creative Nonfiction
Composition Essay"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
A-9 Gendering the Colony
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 210
Chair: Linda A. Török, University of Cincinnati
• Leah Rang, University of Tennessee
"Acting the Stereotype in David Henry Hwang's M.
Butterfly"
• Linda A. Török, University of Cincinnati
"Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine: When Choosing to Claim
Desire Means Becoming the Female Hijra"
• Michael K. Walonen, University of Louisiana,
Lafayette
"The Sexual-Spatial Politics of Domination, Subjugation,
and Revolution in the North African Writings of
William Burroughs"
• Meg Gillette, Augustana College
"Free to Choose: The Abortion Racket in William
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying"
A-10 Mimesis in the Wake of Postmodernism: Theory and
Practice
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 121
Chair: Linda Nicole Blair, University of Washington,
Tacoma
• Daniel Tripp, Frostburg State University
"American Realism in the Age of Media Multiplicity"
• Josh Toth, Grant MacEwan College, Canada
"Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and the Recovery
of Postmodern America"
• Charlie Bertsch, Arizona State University
"Reading For the Dish: Andy Warhol's a, New Media,
and Post-Literary Desire"
A-11 Mediating James (Panel organized by Susan Griffin,
Henry James Society)
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 215
Chair: Benjamin Hufbauer, University of Louisville
• Virginia Blum, University of Kentucky
"Milly Theale's Body: Three Film Adaptations of The
Wings of the Dove"
• Jayson Baker, Regis College
"American Heritage and Global Consciousness in
Merchant and Ivory's The Golden Bowl"
 CONFERENCE SECTIONS A - I

A-12 Latin American Narrative: Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela

Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 219
Chair: Manuel Medina, University of Louisville
Welcome to the Kentucky Show
• Karlys Vanessa White, Northern Virginia Community The Kentucky Show is an exciting,
College emotionally compelling large screen multi-
"Doña Bárbara and Hugo Chávez: Revisiting Gallegos's
Masterpiece in the Twenty-First Century" media experience that captures Kentucky’s
• Luis A. Aguilar-Monsalve, Hanover College people, culture, history, music, spirit and
"Un hombre muerto a puntapiés de Pablo Palacio: cuento
vanguardista y de inicio huraño sobre la
more!
homosexualidad en la literatura ecuatoriana" Approximately a ½ hour presentation
• Aileen El-Kadi, University of Texas, El Paso Please ask at registration for a $2 off coupon
“Keep Them There! Marginalizing the Favelados in
Where:
Patricia Melo's Inferno"
• Sandro R. Barros, Depauw University Kentucky Center for the Arts
"That Explicit Life of the Other: On Prostitution 501 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202 Phone:
Narrative in Contemporary Latin American (502) 562-7800
Literature" When:
Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m., 1 pm and 3 pm
A-13 Poesía hispanoamericana
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 221 Sunday 1 pm. and 3 pm.
Chair: Clare Sullivan, University of Louisville
• Timothy Ambrose, Indiana University, Southeast How:
"Ontology and the Pre-Modern Mind in Jorge Guillén's Kentucky Show tickets are available at the Kentucky
Cántico" Center Box Office. We encourage you to purchase your
• Armando Armengol, University of Texas, El Paso tickets at the box office window (to avoid phone and
"La sublimación de la materia en Cien sonetos de amor de internet handling charges).
Pablo Neruda" General Public admission $7
Seniors and Students - $6
A-14 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 202
Chair: Katharine Polak, University of Cincinnati
• Katharine Polak, University of Cincinnati
This Heavy-Handed Revel East (poetry)
• Nicole Moro, Bellarmine University
Thick Skin (nonfiction)
• Samantha Bell, University of Kansas
Different Ways Out of Town (nonfiction)

Attention Conferees: If you want water during your

presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
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B-1 McEwan
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 114
Chair: Jeffrey Roessner, Mercyhurst College
• Magali Cornier Michael, Duquesne University
"Imagining the Other/Terrorist as Human: McEwan's
Gesturing toward the Ethical in Saturday"
• Tim S. Gauthier, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Fear and the Western Mind: Ian McEwan's Saturday"
• Ann Marie Adams, Morehead State University
"The Great House and Modern Memory: Late
Modernism Revisited in the Work of Kazuo Ishiguro
and Ian McEwan"
• Jeffrey Roessner, Mercyhurst College
"The Sadomasochistic Pleasures of Ian McEwan's Texts"
B-2 Voicing Race and Ethnicity in Literature and Popular
Culture
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 123
Chair: Gabriela Nuñez, University of Louisville
• Katherine Lee, Indiana State University
"The Funhouse of the American Racial Imaginary and
Subversions of 'Authenticity' on Chappelle's Show"
• Carlos Manuel (Chavarria), Bellarmine University
"In the Heights: Latino Characters with Rhythm, Rhyme,
and Poetry"
• Quan Manh Ha, Texas Tech University
"Trey Ellis's Platitudes: Synthesizing Black Voices"
B-3 Material Culture as Metaphorical Structure in Modern
and Contemporary US Texts
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 122
Chair: Jennifer Leigh Lieberman, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
• Jennifer Leigh Lieberman, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign
"Affective Telegraphy: Communication Networks and
the Body Electric in Edith Wharton's Fruit of the Tree"
• Linda Nicole Blair, University of Washington, Tacoma
"So Long, See You Tomorrow: The House That Maxwell
Built"
• Amanda L. Forsting, Spalding University
"Continuous Passage: Building Literary Bridges for Ease
and Splendor"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
B-4 American Literature and Political Cynicism (Panel
prearranged by John D. Rockefeller V)
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 109
Chair: John D. Rockefeller V, John Hopkins University
• Timothy Aubry, Baruch College
"Alcoholics Anonymous as Therapeutic Counterpublic
in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest"
• Hollis Robbins, Johns Hopkins University
"The Alien Postman in Modern American Fiction:
Fitzgerald, Welty, Bukowski, Olson"
• John D. Rockefeller V, Johns Hopkins University
"Reconnecting Progressivism to Its Pre-Prohibition
Roots: Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned"
B-5 Dramatic Seens: Theatrical Vision and Shifting
Landscapes (Panel prearranged by Lance Norman)
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 117
Chair: Lance Norman, Michigan State University
• Matthew Bowman, Lansing Community College
"Landscapes of Cannibalism: The Traveler Never
Returns"
• Brian Holcomb, Michigan State University
"'How I Long For the Old View': The Psychic Landscape
of Sunday in the Park with George"
• Lance Norman, Michigan State University
"Watching the Audience Watch and the Landscape of
Theatrical Spectatorship"
B-6 Documentary Poetics and Political Understanding
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 108
Chair: Stephen Cope, Ithaca College
• Melanie Reichwald, University of Iowa
"Refusing to 'Shut Up': Mark Nowak's Poethics and the
Anticapitalist Counterpublic"
• Julius Lobo, Pennsylvania State University
"John Beecher's Documentary Poetics of the New Deal"
B-7 African American Literature and Music Culture
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 207
Chair: Aldon Nielsen, Pennsylvania State University
• Alice Finkelstein, Xavier University
"Cosmological Salvation in Amiri Baraka, Sun Ra, and
William Blake"
• Rachel Cordasco, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"W. E. B. Du Bois, Opera, and the Racial Divide"
• Corey M. Taylor, Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology
"Strange Noise: Carl Van Vechten's Music Criticism"
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B-8 Contemporary US Film and Women's Bodies
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 103
Chair: Melanie Rowand-White, University of Louisville
• Emily J. Standridge, Ball State University
"America the Beautiful? The Politics of Fatness, Beauty,
and the Career of America Ferrera"
• Nicole Moro, Bellarmine University
"Language of Ambiguity and Contradiction in Wendy
McClure's I'm Not the New Me"
B-9 Birthing the Nation
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 210
Chair: Christa Zorn, Indiana University, Southeast
• Andrea M. Bebell, West Virginia University
"Subaltern Materialism in Baharati Mukherjee's The
Holder of the World"
• Scott Cohen, Stonehill College
"From Concentration Camp to Partition: The Rise of
Modernism's Globalism"
B-10 Stevens, Freud, Psychoanalysis (Panel organized by
Charles Berger, Wallace Stevens Society)
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 217
Chair: Charles Berger, Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville
• Charles Berger, Southern Illinois University,
Edwardsville
"Desire and Its Objects: Stevens's Revision of Freud"
• Bethany Hicok, Westminster College
"Stevens after Freud: Theories of the Post-
Englightenment Self"
• Tom Sowders, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington
"'Resisting Freud's Microscope': The Poet as Patient and
the Performance of Defense Mechanism in Stevens"
• Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, University of Notre Dame
"Sister of the Minotaur"
B-11 Translating James (Panel organized by Susan Griffin,
Henry James Society)
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 215
Chair: Jerry Vzarnecki, Hanyang University, Ansan,
South Korea
• Kathy Lawrence, George Washington University
"William Wetmore Story and His Foe: Henry James's
Tampering with the Story Archive"
• Molly Kelley Gage, University of Minnesota, Twin
Cities
"The Pleasures of Translation"
• Peter Rawlings, University of the West of England
"The 'Dark and Bloody Crossroad': Henry James and
Sinclair Lewis's Dodsworth"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
B-12 Capitalism, Economics, and Texts
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 221
Chair: Jill LeRoy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University
• Daniel Mrozowski, University of Minnesota
"Corporate Immortality: Representations of Economic
Eternals in Twentieth-Century American Literature"
• Katherine Skwarczek, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign
"The Costs of Neuroscience: Cognition, Economics, and
Ecotourism in Powers's The Echo Maker"
• Peter Collins, Pennsylvania State University
"The Ghosts of Economics Past: Rethinking the
Southern Gothic from Absalom, Absalom! to John Henry
Days"
B-13 Twentieth-Century Masters' Theoretical Explorations
of Narrative and Drama: Anna Seghers, Heinrich Böll,
and Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 224
Chair: Bohdan Bochan, Indiana University Southeast
• Enno Lohmeyer, Case Western Reserve University
"Das Zusammenspiel von Individuum und Gemeinschaft
in Anna Seghers's Aufstand der Fischer von St.
Barbara"
• Peter W. Ferran, Rochester Institute of Technology
"'The Play Is Done': Brecht's Theatre Poems"
• Bohdan Bochan, Indiana University Southeast
"The Aesthetics of Bread in German Short Stories"
• Olivia G. Gabor, Western Michigan University
“Ob man selbst ein Stoff zu werden vermag. Friedrich
Duerrenmatt's Stoffe as Passage through the Labyrinth"
B-14 Narrative Strategies in French Literature
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 220
Chair: Barry Chametzky, Washington and Jefferson
College
• Barry Chametzky, Washington and Jefferson College
"The Internal Conflicts of Anne Desbaresdes in Duras's
Moderato Cantabile"
• John T. Booker, University of Kansas
"Ambiguity of Voice in Annie Ernaux's Les Années"
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B-15 Narrativa sin fronteras
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 219
Chair: Ana Isabel Carballal, University of Nebraska,
Omaha
• Elizabeth Amaya, Millikin University CRITICAL
"Fronteras culturales en la novela Odisea del Norte de
Mario Bencastro"
KEYNOTE
• Rubén Candia-Araiza, St. Mary's University ADDRESS
"Paratextos e Intertextualidad Exoliteraria en Canícula de
Norma Cantú"

Vicki
B-16 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Thursday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 202
Chair: Debra Leigh Scott, Temple University Mahaf
• Sarah A. Chavez, Ball State University
Poetry
• Julie Babcock, University of Michigan
Snark (fiction)
fey
• Chris Glomski, University of Illinois, Chicago
Eidolon (poetry)
University of Illinois
• Paul Vidich, Rutgers University
Home Theater (Fiction)
“Sex, Lies and Reading:
The Book as Bed in James Joyce's Work”

Ekstrom
Library,
Chao
Auditorium
Thursday, 5:00 - 6:00 pm

Introduced by
Aaron Jaffe,
English
Department,
University of
Louisville

Attention Conferees: If you want water during your

presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
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WELCOME
RECEPTION /
Pizza Party
with Jamey
Aebersold and
his jazz
quartet

Red Barn
Thursday, 6:15 -
7:30 pm
University of
Louisville,
Belknap Campus

Free to
all Conferees
Admission by
conference
badge/identific
ation

Attention Conferees: If you want water during your

presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
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C-1 Ghostly Bodies and Postmodern Historical Fiction
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 112
Chair: Eric L. Berlatsky, Florida Atlantic University
• Amanda Konkle, University of Kentucky
“Telling (G)host Stories: History and Trauma in
Postmodern American Literature"
• Marcela De Araujo Pinto, Universidade Estadual
Paulista
“Women in the Development of Nations in Tony
Morrison’s Beloved, and Ana Miranda’s Desmundo“ •
Brandi Stanton, Saint Mary's College of Maryland
“'To Touch Solid Evidence': Black and White Bodies in
Pain in Octavia Butler's Kindred"
• Patricia Brooke, Fontbonne University
"Experimental/Experiential Violence: The Case of Kathy
Acker, Who Was a Dream"
C-2 Anxieties of Literary Influence
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 113
Chair: Melissa Eden, Hanover College
• Melissa Eden, Hanover College
"Whose [Shakespeare] Is This Anyway? Subverting
Cultural Imperialism through Comedy in Angela
Carter's Wise Children"
• Jeffrey Severs, University of Texas, Austin
"American Biblical Vernacular: Moby-Dick through the
Lens of Gilead"
• Jeffrey Gonzalez, Pennsylvania State College
"Competing Whitmans: The Politics of Revisonist
Deployment"
C-3 “Into Serious Eating”: Eating and
Expulsion/Subsistence in American Literature
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 109
Chair: Diane Capitani, Garrett-Evangelical Theological
Seminary, Northwestern University
• Jeff Birkenstein, Saint Martin's University
"Eating Raymond Carver"
• Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University
"Cooking It Up: Recent Food Memoirs and the Nature
of Testimony"
• Danielle Glassmeyer, Bradley University
"Holden Caulfield's Anorexia"
• Andrea Zemgulys, University of Michigan
"George Orwell and the Remoralization of Poverty"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
C-4 Failed Parenting in U.S. Literature
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 123
Chair: Alicia M. Brazeau, University of Louisville
• Christa Baiada, Borough of Manhtattan Community
College, CUNY
"Borne of Man: Afflicted Fathers and Endangered
Daughters in Russell Banks's Sweet Hereafter"
• Hayley Mitchell Haugen, Ohio University Southern
"The Sins of the Mothers: Creativity as Response to
Familial Stigmatization in Contemporary American
Literature about Disability and Illness"
• M. Nell Sullivan, University of Houston
"The Road as Revison: Repairing the Father-Son
Narrative"
C-5 Representing Bodies (Panel prearranged by Margaret E.
Mitchell)
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 121
Chair: Margaret E. Mitchell, University of West Georgia
• Margaret E. Mitchell, University of West Georgia
"Transformative Bodies: Modeling Pain, Speaking Beauty
in Egan and Gaitskill"
• Joshua J. Masters, University of West Georgia
"Traumatized Bodies and the Language of Pain in
Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison"
• Jake Mattox, Indiana University, South Bend
"'A Ghastly Pudding': Mobility, Resistance, and
Dissolving Bodies in the Fiction of George S.
Schuyler"
C-6 Striking Points of Congruence: Iris Murdoch and
Others' Characters (Panel organized by Barbara Stevens
Heusel, Murdoch Society)
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 215
Chair: Barbara Stevens Heusel, Florida State University
• Robert J. Baker, Fairmont State University
"Seeing in Conrad and Murdoch"
• Barbara Stevens Heusel, Florida State University
"Dangerous Models: Bradley Pearson's Echoes of
Stephen Dedalus's Shakespeare Theory in The Black
Prince"
• Joanne H. Edmonds, Ball State University
"Self-Effacing yet Ineffaceable: Good Characters and
Their Difficulties in Iris Murdoch's A Fairly Honourable
Defeat and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park"
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C-7 T. S. Eliot I (Panel organized by Benjamin G. Lockerd,
T. S. Eliot Society)
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 208
Chair: Benjamin G. Lockerd, Grand Valley State
University
• Ben Bakhtiarynia, Queen's University, Canada
"The Deed Is Dead: Ethics in The Waste Land"
• William Harmon, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
"Eliot and Pound vis à vis the Most Modern Generation"
C-8 New Approaches to Nabokov: Three Alternative
Perspectives (Panel organized by Marianne Cotugno,
Nabokov Society)
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 114
Chair: Marianne Cotugno, Miami University
• Marianne Cotugno, Miami University, Oxford
"Viewing Lolita"
• R. S. Gwynn, Lamar University
"'And If My Private Universe Scans Right': Pale Fire and
Its Creative Context"
• Margarit Tadevosynan-Ordukhanyan, St. John's
University
"The Marble Page of (Auto)Biography: Tristram Shandy as
a Mode of Reading Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol"
C-9 Poetic Form: Politics of/Politics and
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 217
Chair: Afaa Michaerl Weaver, Simmons College
• Amish Trivedi, Independent Scholar
"A Tenuous Relationship: Political and Poetic Forms in
Mark Nowak's Shut Up Shut Down"
• Roy Neil Graves, University of Tennessee, Martin
"Julian Bond as Poet"
• Cynthia Arrieu-King, Stockton College
"Rehabilitating Silence: Listening as Political Act in
Berssenbrugge's and Smith's Concordance"
C-10 Grammar, Ethics, Experience: Theorizing the Writing
Subject in American Poetry
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 210
Chair: Adam Robinson, University of Louisville
• Justin Hayes, Quinnipiac University
"The Composition of Gertrude Stein"
• Grant Matthew Jenkins, University of Tulsa
"Toward a Theory of Eth(n)ics"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
C-11 Graphic Novels: Narrative, and Film
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 103
Chair: Susan Vanderborg, University of South Carolina
• Jacqueline E. Brown, Independent Scholar
"Persepolis: The History of a Childhood/The Childhood
of a History"
• Susan Vanderborg, University of South Carolina
"Capturing Calliope: Epic Disjunctions in Neil Gaiman's
The Sandman"
C-12 Metafictional Masterpieces: Joyce, Pynchon, Beckett,
Mitchell
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 108
Chair: Ryan Rase McCray, Hollins University
• Richard Stock, Charles University, Prague, Czech
Republic
"The Puzzle Novel: A Twentieth-Century Genre"
• Benjamin D. Hagen, University of Rhode Island
"'Interplay of Fate and Chance': The Metafiction of
David Mitchell"
• Lidan Lin, Indiana University, Purdue University
"Chinese Music as Narrative Model: The Aesthetics of
Liu Liu and Metafiction in Samuel Beckett's Dream of
Fair to Middling Women"
C-13 Feminist Critique in Alfred Döblin, Unica Zürn, and
Heiner Müller
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 111
Chair: Olivia G. Gabor, Western Michigan University
• Wesley Lim, Vanderbilt University
"Bodily Skepticism and Observation: The Progression of
Disease into Art Form in Döblin's 'Die Tänzerin und
der Leib'"
• Jennifer Rupert, University of Illinois, Chicago
"Dark Spring: The Desire for Otherness in the Lifewriting
of Unica Zürn"
• Lesley C. Pleasant, University of Evansville
"R-evolving Revolvers: Hamletmachines Meinhof-fnung"
C-14 Recours à divers modes d'expression: Michaux, Prévert,
Césaire
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 122
Chair: Aurélie Van De Wiele, Rice University
• Aurélie Van De Wiele, Rice University
"La poésie de Césaire et Prévert sur le thème de la misère
sociale: déplacement spatial, bouleversement discursif"
• Alison Vort Halász, Rhodes College
"Henri Michaux's Autobiographical Poems on Trauma"
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C-15 Narrativa latinoamericana
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 219
Chair: Lisa Wagner, University of Louisville
• Iliana Rosales Figueroa, University of Cincinnati
"El poder de la seducción femenina en Aura y Luna
caliente"
• Roberto De La Torre, Grupo Literario Canto Rodado
Special
Dramatic
"Nellie Campobello: Ecos del corrido en Cartucho"
• Camelly Cruz-Martes, Walsh University
"Diario del dolor: en la intimidad del dolor la promesa del
otro"
Presenta
C-16 Spanish Narrative
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 221
Chair: Gregory Hutcheson, University of Louisville
tion
• Brenda Cappuccio, Florida State University
"'Ofrenda a una virgen loca': Ecos, eros e ironía en un
cuento de Rosa Chacel" Excerpt from Soldiers Circle
• Ana Isabel Carballal, University of Nebraska, Omaha
"That Lonely Madman in Carlos Casares's Vento Ferido"
• Andrew J. Deiser, University of Arkansas, Little Rock This excerpt from a new play premiering
"Los mares del Sur: A Socially Integrated Account of later this year dramatizes the daily
Spain's Transition to Democracy"
struggles of Americans in Iraq through
C-17 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction the humor, heartbreak, song, and stories
Friday, 9:00 - 10:30 am Room: 202 of the soldiers themselves.
Chair: Timothy J. Sisk, University of Tennessee
• Christina Pugh, University of Illinois, Chicago
Grains of the Voice (poetry) written and directed by
• Ben Stein, Quinnipiac University
Important Things to Remember (fiction)
• Michael Levan, University of Tennessee
Russell Vandenbroucke
Poetry
• S. Morgan, Sahuarita, Arizona Theatre Arts Department, University of
Tobacco (fiction)
Louisville

Thursday, The Thurst Theatre

7:45 - 8:45 pm
The person escorting you to the Thurst Theatre will be
announced at the Pizza Party.
Approximate performance time 30 minutes. Even with
some discussion afterwards, the event will finish well
before the time to catch the bus back to the hotel.
(The bus will be outside the theatre)

Attention Conferees: If you want water during your

presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
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D-1 Mid Century British Modernism: Malcolm Lowry,
Henry Green, Evelyn Waugh
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 114
Chair: Janine Utell, Widener University
• Daniel Lewis, Ball State University
"Say It, Don't Do It: Male Speech and Male Action in
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"
• Susan Lidgate Mace, University of California, Berkeley
"Malcolm Lowry and the Mailman: The Letters in
Lowry's Fiction/The Fiction in Lowry's Letters"
• Tim Christensen, Muskingum College
"'A Dark and Hidden Thing': Evelyn Waugh,
Cannibalism, and Communion"
• Liz Kuhn, Pennsylvania State University
"Henry Green's Intersubjectivity: Dialogue as Exteriority
in Thirties Realism"
D-2 Fitzgerald, Hemingway, West: American Modernists
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 117
Chair: Kyle David Torke, Colorado College
• Katharine Sentz, California State University, Fullerton
"Mr. and Ms. Lonelyhearts: Reading Advice Columns
and Gender in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts"
• Joseph Cheatle, Miami University and
• Kimberly Kaczorowski, Miami University
"Beyond Eden: Androgyny in Ernest Hemingway's The
Sun Also Rises"
• Cara Snider, West Virginia University
"'My Romantic Chestertonian Orthodoxy': This Side of
Paradise and F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gospel of Sacrifice"
D-3 Writing about Gender in Early Modernist British
Fiction (Panel prearranged by Robert C. Petersen,
Middle Tennessee State University)
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm. Room: 119
Chair: Robert C. Petersen, Middle Tennessee State
Univertsity
• Shane A. McCoy, Middle Tennessee State University
"Fusing the Masculine and the Feminine: Gender
Identity and Discovery of Sexuality in May Sinclair's
Mary Olivier: A Life"
• Robert C. Petersen, Middle Tennessee State
University
"Gender Constuction and Deconstruction in Walter de
la Mare's Memoirs of a Midget"
• Jessica D. McKee, University of South Florida
"Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse: 'She Drew a Line
There, in the Centre'"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
D-4 Fact and Fiction
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm. Room: 121
Chair: Daryll Anderson, Louisville, Kentucky
• Giséle Manganelli Fernandes, Universidade Estadual
Paulista
"Falling Men: Terror and Trauma in Janathan Safran
Foer’s Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, and Don
DeLillo’s Falling Man"
• Kathryn Olsen, Auburn University
"The Biographer and Memoirist as Detective: Exploring
the Mode of Mystery Writing in Vladimir Nabokov"
• Daryll Anderson, Louisville, Kentucky
"Bohumil Hrabal: It's Not Funny Anymore"
D-5 Jewish-American Fiction: Roth and Malamud on Race
and History
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 123
Chair: Matthew Biberman, University of Louisville
• Jason Siegel, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"The Plot against America: Philip Roth's Counter-Plot to
American History"
• Benjamin Salloum, University of Regina
"'Language in the Service of a Surmise': The Politics of
Perception and Narration in Philip Roth's Human
Stain"
• Benjamin Schreier, Pennsylvania State Universsity
“Bernard Malamud's Semitism: or, Jews are Other
People."
D-6 Metacommentary (Panel prearranged by Jeremy Justus,
West Virginia University)
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 223
Chair: Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University
• Michelle (Shel) Veenstra, Michigan State University
"Burton Holmes as Travelogue: How Metacommentary
Can Make You Look Like You're Moving When
You're Really Standing Still"
• Jeremy Justus, West Virginia University
"Autopoeitic Meta-et-cetera: The Body in the Blind Spot
in Hassan Elahi's Tracking Transience"
• Dennis W. Allen, West Virginia University
"I Can Haz Identuty? Metacommentary and Autopoeisis
on Gawker.com"
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D-7 Creating South African Identities
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 109
Chair: Lesley C. Pleasant, University of Evansville
• William N. Claxon, Jr, University of South Carolina,
Aiken
"The Making of a Writer: The Relationship between
Nadine Gordimer and The New Yorker"
• Daniel W. Lehman, Ashland University
"Writing across Race: Immersion and Implication in
Recent South African Nonfiction"
• Laurie Rodrigues, University of Rhode Island
"A Retreat to Exteriority, a Return to Areferentiality:
Coetzee's Barbarian Girl as Homo Sacer"
D-8 Film, History, and Ideology
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 103
Chair: M. Nell Sullivan, University of Houston
• Jason T. McEntee, South Dakota State University
"Rethinking Gender after the Gulf Wars: Literary and
Filmic Representations of the Female Warrior, 1991-
Present"
• William Bartley, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
"Home and Homeless: Mike Leigh's Naked and the Road
Film"
• E. James Chambers, Ball State University
"'But a Sad-Eyed Queen Is No Hero, and Geoff Was No
Threat': A reexamination of A Taste of Honey and its
Effects on the Sexual Offences Act of 1967"
D-9 Teaching Difficult Poems: New Challenges and
Strategies (Panel prearranged by Jessica Luck, California
State University, San Bernardino)
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 108
Chair: Jessica Lewis Luck, California State University,
San Bernardino
• Jessica Lewis Luck, California State University, San
Bernardino
"'Never Teach My Life Again': Connecting Difficult
Poems to Students’ Lives"
• Barrett Watten, Wayne State University
"A Theory of Sampling: The Social Construction of
Difficult Texts"
• Lynn Keller, University of Wisconsin Madison
"Inconvenient Questions: Ecological Crisis and
(Eco)Critical Approaches to Poetry"
• Philip Metres, John Carroll University
"Creative Reading: Staging Difficult Poems"
• Adalaide Morris, University of Iowa
"From Page to Screen: Teaching Digital Poetics Digitally"
D-10 American Poetries and Musics
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 112
Chair: Joe Moffett, Kentucky Wesleyan College
• Jeremy Glazier, Ohio Dominican University
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
"'The Pale Light That Each upon the Other Throws':
Wallace Stevens and Elliott Carter"
• Eric James Swanson, University of Tennessee
"'An Event in Itself': Amiri Baraka and the Jazzification
of Black Writing"
• Mark Scroggins, Florida Atlantic University
"Susan Howe's Hauntologies: The Spectral Theater of A
Bibliography of the King's Book"
D-11 Percival Everett: In Theory (Panel prearranged by
Anthony Stewart, Dalhousie University, Canada)
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 217
Chair: Anthony Stewart, Dalhousie University, Canada
• Michel Feith, University of Nantes, France
"Hire-a-Glyph: Hermetics and Hermeneutics in Percival
Everett's Glyph"
• Seth Morton, Michigan State University
"Replacing the Experimental Novel"
• Judith Roof, Michigan State University
"The Exponential Storyteller: Relativity Meets the
Hypernarrator in Percival Everett's Tales"
• Marc Amfreville, Université Paris 12
"Erasure and The Water Cure: A Possible Suture?
D-12 T. S. Eliott II (Panel organized by Benjamin G. Lockerd,
T. S. Eliot Society)
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 208
Chair: William Harmon, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
• Mark Cantrell, University of Miami
"Musical Form in Eliot's Four Quartets and Hughes's
Montage of a Dream Deferred"
• Nancy Hargrove, Mississippi State University
"T. S. Eliot, Henri Alain-Fournier, and Jean Verdenal"
D-13 Locating the Coterie I: Writers' Circles and Their
Cities (Panel organized by Pamela J. Francis,
International Lawrence Durrell Society)
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 209
Chair: Pamela J. Francis, Rice University, Houston
• Normajean MacLeod, Indiana University
"Agnar Mykle's Fiction and Edvard Munch's 'Mural on
the Back of the Aula': Fictional Anatomies of Norwegian
Life and Loves in Literature and Painting"
• Anna Lillios, University of Central Florida
“Re-Remembering Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers
Workshops"
• Pamela J. Francis, Rice University, Houston
“'Such Shared Life as Egypt Offers Him': English Poets
in Cairo, 1939-1942"
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D-14 Female Voices in Francophone Literature 122
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room:
Chair: Margaret Becker, University of Louisville
• Jerry L. Curtis, Ohio State University, Newark
"’Lucette Desvignes' Perception of Feminism"
• Michèle Vialet, University of Cincinnati
"The Secret Song of Arabic: Leïla Sebbar's récits de
filiation"
• Drew Patrick Shannon, College of Mount St. Joseph
"'I Had a Legend to Build': Autobiographical Impulse
and Public Persona in the Fiction of Amélie The Calvino Prize
Nothomb" was created to honor outstanding pieces of fiction in the
fabulist experimentalist mode of Italo Calvino, works that
D-15 Sesión creativa: poesía y ficción through their structure, tone, and style expand the boundaries
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 221 of fiction, rather than attempt to imitate his inimitable style.
Chair: Herbert Delegal, University of Louisville
• Pilar Melero, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
De arpas, abejas y otros pendientes: cuentos para la siesta
(ficción)
2008 - 2009 Calvino Prize
• Carmen Montañez, Indiana State University
Pelo bueno, pelo malo (ficción)
Winner:
• Santiago García-Castañón, Western Carolina
University
Helen Phillips
EQUIS (poesía) and Brooklyn College
"Las mentiras de un novelista, o cómo engañar a los
lectores sin que nadie se entere"
"The Regimes"
D- 16 XX secolo italiano: letteratura e cinema
Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 101
Friday, Feb. 20th
Chair: Simone Dubrovic, Kenyon College
• Michael Edwards, University of North Texas Ekstrom Library,
"ll quarto protagonista nel Fu Mattia Pascal?" Bingham Poetry Room 11 am
• Marco Zanelli, Middlebury College Introduced by Paul Griner,
"La trilogia della guerra: cronaca di un'epoca" English Department, University of Louisville
• Sante Matteo, Miami University, Ohio
"'Mi scappa la pipì papà'. Patriarchy and Peeing on the
Italian Screen: Prolegomenon to a Typology"

D-17 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction

Friday, 10:45 - 12:15 pm Room: 202
Chair: Roy Neil Graves, University of Tennessee,
Martin
• Jesseca Cornelson, University of Cincinnati
Word Problems (poetry)
• Letitia L. Moffitt, Eastern Illinois University
Only Say True (fiction)
• Brenna Dugan, University of Toledo
Poetry
• Becky Adnot, University of Cincinnati
A Natural Progression of Things (fiction)

Attention Conferees: If you want water during your

presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
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E-1 (Auto)Fiction and the Gifts of Poetry: H. D.
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 112
Chair: Daniel Manheim, Centre College
• Jill Kroeger Kinkade, University of Southern
Indiana
"Authentic Sister: H. D.'s Self-Mythologizing in the
Novel Asphodel"
• J. P. Craig, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"H. D.'s Negative Gift"
E-2 Home Fires and the Home Front: Fannie Hurst,
Sylvia Townsend Warner, and German-Americans in
World War I
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 113
Chair: John Lina, University of Louisville
• Ann Mattis, Loyola University, Chicago
"The Oedipalization of Life: Domestic Service and
New Womanhood in Fannie Hurst's
Lummox"
• Angela Ward, Pennsylvania State University
"'There Was No Way Out": Fantastical Counter-
Discourses of Spinsterhood in Sylvia
Townsend Warner's
Lolly Willowes"
• Lisa Schreibersdorf, University of Wisconsin, Fond
du Lac
"The Hyphenated Home-Front: World War I
Bestsellers and the Idea of German-America"
E-3 Nonfiction and Literature: Orwell
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 109
This panel has collapsed and Andrea Zemgulys
presentation has moved to C 3
• Andrea Zemgulys, University of Michigan
"George Orwell and the Remoralization of Poverty"
E-4 Hearth, Home, Seduction, and Eugenics
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 114
Chair: Karlys Vanessa White, Northern Virginia
Community College
• Charlotte Rich, Eastern Kentucky University
"Odd Bedfellows: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Pauline
Hopkins, and Eugenic Discourse"
• Erin Holliday-Karre, Loyola University, Chicago
"From Production to Seduction: Wharton, Women,
and Power in the Progressive Era"
• Elaine Smith, University of South Florida
"Willa Cather and Ungendered Domesticity"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
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immediately before your session.
E-5 City, Region, Language, Page: The 'Spaces' of
Contemporary Poetry
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 117
Chair: Alan Golding, University of Louisville
• Brad Flis, Wayne State University
"'Disposable Portable Buildings Labeled Women and
Men': The Gendered Poetics of (Urban)
Production and Postmodern Remodelings of
Modernist Spatial Form"
• Barrett Watten, Wayne State Univesity
"Sampling Fachsprachen: Ulf Stolterfoht's Lingos as
Transnational Region"
• Laura Hinton, City College of New York
"Conceptual Art, Film, and the Poetry Hybrid of
Dictée: The 'Evictive State' of the Image"
E-6 Conradian Dialectics (Panel prearranged by Kate
Holterhoff, University of Cincinnati)
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 119
Chair: Kate Holterhoff, University of Cincinnati
• Allison D. Carr, University of Cincinnati
"'It Is All a Darkness': The Psychology of Telling in
Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Ford's The
Good Soldier"
• Whitney N. Hardin, University of Cincinnati
"'A Carefully Arranged, Frightfully Emotional,
Outpouring': Confession and Performance in
Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad"
• Nicholas Chuha, University of Cincinnati
"What Fools These Portals Be: Legitimacy and
Terrorism in Conrad's Narrators"
E-7 Beyond "del mule uh de world": Representations of
Black Women's Labor in Literature and Film (Panel
prearranged by William Scott)
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 121
Chair: William Scott, University of Pittsburgh
• Kadeshia L. Matthews, University of New Mexico
"Working Towards Herself: Labor and Literacy in A. J.
Verdelle's Good Negress"
• Richard Purcell, Carnegie Mellon University
"How 'Working Class' Is Zora Neale Hurston?"
• Leslie E. Wingard, College of Wooster
"Service and Servitude in Rosemary Bray's Unafraid of
the Dark and Elia Kazan's Pinky"
• William Scott, University of Pittsburgh
"Lucille Clifton's The River between Us"
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E-8 Transatlantic Hip Hop (Panel sponsored by Atlantikos:
A Journal of Transatlantic Scholarship, and organized by
Tonya Braddox, Michigan State University)
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 108
Chair: Tonya Braddox, Michigan State University
• Kambi Gathesha, City College of New York
"Problematizing Hip Hop's Origin Narrative and
Confronting the Logics of Authorization"
• Tonya S. Braddox, Michigan State University
"Hip Hop Nation Language in Music by African
American Women"
E-9 Film Theory and Comment: Tykwer, Hitchcock, the
Coen Brothers
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 103
Chair: Andrew J. Deiser, University of Arkansas, Little
Rock
• Elaine Roth, Indiana University, South Bend
"Tom Tykwer as International Auteur"
• ShaunAnne Tangney, Minot State University
"The Dream Abides: The Big Lebowski, Film Noir, and
the American Dream"
• Charles H. Meyer, University of Florida
"Slips in Film Reading as Artifacts"
E-10 Rewriting the Discourse: Early Twentieth-Century
Women's Literary Revisons (Panel prearranged by
Shawna Rushford-Spence, Miami University of Ohio)
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 215
Chair: Shawna Rushford-Spence, Miami University of
Ohio
• Shawna Rushford-Spence, Miami University of
Ohio
"Rethinking the Male Medical Discourse: Charlotte
Perkins Gilman's The Home, Its Work and
Influence"
• Angela L. Weaver, Miami University of Ohio
"Dorothy Parker's Rethinking of Women's Choices in
the Ladies' Home Journal"
• Jamie Calhoun, Miami University of Ohio
"Maxine Hong Kingston's Revisions of Sui Sin Far and
the Ethics of Ethnic Identity"
E-11 Naipaul's Distances
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 123
Chair: Vanessa Kraemer, University of Louisville
• Bishnu Ghimire, Ohio University
"Naipaul's Agendas for Ironic Self-Critiquing in The
Mimic Men and A House for Mr. Biswas"
• Julie Bishop, University of Tulsa
"Cinema and Self-Fragmentation in V. S. Naipaul's
Fiction"
• Irina I. Strout, University of Tulsa
"'The Mimic Men' of the New World, or the Journey
to Self-Discovery in V. S. Naipaul's Fiction"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
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E-12 Tradition, Transposition: Influence, Intertext (Panel
organized by James Gifford, International Lawrence
Durrell Society)
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 209
Chair: James Gifford, Farleigh Dickinson University
• Charles Sligh, University of Tennessee,
Chattanooga
"'Notes Scribbled on the Margins of a Dream':
Lawrence Durrell's Quarry-Book Method"
• Eri Hitotsuyanagi-Kobayashi, Ochanomizu
University, Japan
"The Power of Writing in the Interbellum Era:
Intertextuality Presented by the Works of
Ford Madox Ford, Jean Rhys, Stella Bowen,
and Jean Lenglet"
E-13 Percival Everett: In the West (Panel organized by
Anthony Stewart, Dalhousie University, Canada)
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 217
Chair: Anthony Stewart, Dalhousie University,
Canada
• Claude Julien, Université François-Rabelais, France
"From Walk Me to the Distance to Wounded: or, resisting
'The Appropriation of Cultures'"
• Sylvie Bauer, University Paris X-Nanterre, France
"Grand Canyon Inc, by Percival Everett: Self-Reliance
Revisited"
• Frédéric Dumas, Université Stendhal, France
"Trout Fishing and Red Herring: Going Wild in
Percival Everett's Damned if I Do"
E-14 Holocaust Narratives: Writing the Unspeakable
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 122
Chair: Michèle Vialet, University of Cincinnati
• Elizabeth Scheiber, Rider University
"Je suis sûre que c'est véridique: Truth and Imagination in
Charlotte Delbo's Holocaust Memoirs"
• Andrew J. Ploeg, University of Rhode Island
"'The Sketch of a Scream': Tracing the Witness in
Edmond Jabés's Book of Questions"
• Kem Roper, University of Louisville
"Selves, Stories and Narrative Reconstruction in Eli
Wiesel's Night"
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E-15 Espacios ambiguos, desde el Caribe al Sur: cinco
escritoras hispanoamericanas
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 219
Chair: Ester Gimbernat Gonzalez, University of
Northern Colorado Spanish Keynote Presentation
• Maribel Tamargo, Universidad Interamericana de
Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium
Puerto Rico
"Estrechos diálogos en zonas ambiguas: Sexto sueño de Friday, 3:15- 4:45 pm
Marta Aponte Alsina"
• Miriam Balboa Echeverría, Texas State University
"Anuncio de futuras geografías: Zoé Valdéz y Mayra
Manuel Martínez-
Montero"
• Javier F. González G., University of Colorado,
Maldonado
Boulder
"Voces fragmentadas en poemas de Alejandra Pizarnik"
University of Louisville
• Ester Gimbernat González, University of Northern
Colorado "La literatura puertorriqueña
"Cuaderno de New York de Luisa Valenzuela: ars amandi
feminista" de cerca y de lejos:
E-16 Marginalia: poesia e prosa del '900 italiano
Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 101
visión de los últimos 25 años"
Chair: Don Spinelli, Wayne State University
• Giovanni Spani, Bowdoin College and
Introduced by Rhonda Buchanan, University of Louisville
• Philip Balma, University of Connecticut
"'Mi so che go paròn': Consideration of Ernesto
Calzavara's Poetry" Co-sponsored by Latin the American and Latino Studies
• Giovanni Migliara, University of Madrid UNED Program
"Marco Drago and the Marginalization of the
'Normal'"

E-17 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction

Friday, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Room: 202
Chair: Emma Bolden, Georgetown College
• Emma Bolden, Georgetown College
How to Recognize a Lady (poetry)
• Carol Rainey, Cincinnati, Ohio
Visiting Poet (memoir)
• Adam Prince, University of Tennessee
Poetry
• B. R. Smith, University of Cincinnati
The Countrymen (Haiti, 1798) (fiction)

Exhibits of interest on Campus Shirley Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Marianne Moore, and
Richard Wilbur. Professor Emeritus of English Robert H.
Ekstrom Library - Rare Books Gallery Miller also formed the Libraries' Graham Greene collection,
and taught the art of descriptive bibliography to several
Ekstrom Library Exhibit Hours:
generations of scholars.
10:00 am to 4:00 pm weekdays, 10:00 am to 8:00 pm Thursday
- Closed Saturday & Sunday
Schneider Hall - Hite Art Institute Galleries (short walk south
Richard M. Kain Rare Books Gallery exhibition: Robert and
from Humanities building)
Diane Miller Collection
exhibit hours:
An exhibition drawn from the collection's more than 400
volumes, including rare first editions, proof copies, and first 9 am to 4:30 pm weekdays,
appearances in print of modern authors and poets such as Saturday 10 am- 2pm, Sundays 1 - 6pm

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First Call for Papers

The 38th Annual
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since
1900
Fourth Street Live!
February 18, 19, and 20, 2010
Louisville’s premier dining, entertainment and Submission deadline: September 15, 2009(Postmarked)
retail destination is located on Fourth Street,
between Liberty Street and Muhammad Ali
Please refer to the guidelines
Boulevard, in the heart of historic downtown
posted on our website in early April
Louisville, KY. Just a short walk from downtown
www.modernlanguages.louisville.edu/conference
hotels, waterfront park, Main Street, Slugger
Field, and other major attractions, Fourth Street
Live! is your one stop destination for dining, Proposals (abstracts) for critical papers may be submitted
entertainment, and shopping! on any topic that addresses literary works published since
1900, and/or their relationship with other arts and
Restaurant and entertainment venues include
disciplines (film, journalism, opera, music, pop culture,
Hard Rock Cafe, Red Star Tavern, The Improv
painting, architecture, law).
Comedy Club, TGI Friday’s, The Pub, Sully’s, J.
Gumbo’s and the world’s first Maker’s Mark
Individual creative submissions (poetry or short fiction)
Bourbon House & Lounge. Bars and nightclubs
are also encouraged.
include; Tengo Sed Cantina, Angel’s Rock Bar,
Hotel, Saddle Ridge, and Sully’s. Live music is
For details, or to be put on our mailing list, contact:
featured nightly at Howl at the Moon.
Danielle R. Day, Conference Director,
Fourth Street Live! also features a major food Classical and Modern Languages,
court with restaurants such as Wendy’s, Subway,
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292
and Rocky Rococo’s Pizza. Retail amenities
(502)852-6686 dlday@louisville.edu
include Borders Books & Music, Foot Locker, T-
Mobile, Ginny’s Hallmark, and Game Stop.
Visit their web address for more.
www.4thstli
ve.com

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F-1 D. H. Lawrence and The New Age
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 112
Chair: Ghanashyam Sharma, University of Louisville
• Dorian Stuber, Hendrix College
"One Plus One Makes Three: Lawrence's The Rainbow and
the Language of Excess"
• Rod C. Taylor, Stanford University
"(Re)Educating the People: A Forgotten Lesson from D. H.
Lawrence"
• Janine Utell, Widener University
"Women's Bodies and the Body Politic: The
Representation of Postwar Activism and Anxiety in The
New Age"
F-2 Global Dis/Locations: Bowles, Munif, and Matthiessen
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 113
Chair: Ann Elizabeth Willey, University of Louisville
• Davis Brown, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Dislocation and National Identity in Paul Bowles's The
Sheltering Sky"
• Zaid N. Mahir, University of Missouri, Columbia
"Absence of Central Characters from Munif's Cities of Salt:
Rewriting the Desert to Counter Orientalist
Reductionism"
• Andrew Ferguson, University of Tulsa
"The Jewel at the Heart of the Lotus: Autobiography as
Meditation in Peter Matthiessen's Snow Leopard"
F-3 Religious Beliefs
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 114
Chair: Diane Capitani, Garrett-Evangelical Theological
Seminary, Northwestern University
• Holly Flint, University of Alabama, Huntsville
"'Po-tee-weet?' Reading Sherman Alexie's Flight as Twenty-
First Century Ceremonial Ghost Dance"
• William R. Hunter, Edinboro University, Pennsylvania
"It's Really Something: The Manipulation of Epiphany in
the Short Stories of Raymond Carver"
• Margaret Sullivan, Saint Louis University
"'Lost, Yet Still Around': Sex and God in Sylvia Townsend
Warner's Mr. Fortune's Maggot"
F-4 Machine Men, Cyborgs, Cybernetics
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 123
Chair: Dhruba Karki, University of Texas, Dallas
• Flore Chevaillier, Dayton, Ohio
"The Textual Body in Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell's
VAS: An Opera in Flatland"
• Ryan Trauman, University of Louisville
"Posthuman Superheroes: The Evolution of Human into
Machine"
• Rebecca J. Beardsall, DeSales University
"Henry Chinaski Shakes His Money Maker: A Mechanical
Look at Charles Bukowski's Post Office"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
F-5 Resistance and Assimilation in the Work of Zitkala-Sa
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 224
Chair: Marianne Mallia Holohan, Duquesne University
• Marianne Mallia Holohan, Duquesne University
"Disrupting Middlebrow Taste: Zitkala-Sa's
Autobiographical Writings and the Context of the
Progressive-Era Atlantic Monthly"
• Alba Krishna Topan Feldman, University Sâo José do
Rio Preto, Brazil
"Crossing Borders: An Analysis of the Sundance Opera, by
Zitkala-Sa"
F-6 Looking for Words, Looking Back: Nostalgia in the
Contemporary Novel (Panel prearranged by Chauna
Craig, Indiana University, Pennsylvania)
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 117
Chair: Chauna Craig, Indiana University, Pennsylvania
• John L. Marsden, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"'This Bastard . . . Child, Nostalgia': Memory and Amnesia
in the Contemporary British Novel"
• Melissa Rogers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"Nostalgic Revision: Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and the
Art of Looking Back"
• Chauna Craig, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
"'Before It Is Only a Memory': Nostalgia and the
Reimagination of History in Marianne Wiggins's
The Shadowcatcher"
F-7 Beats
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 109
Chair: Teneice Durrant Delgado, University of Toledo
• David Need, Duke University
"The Measure of the Beat: Spontaneous Aesthetics and the
Problem of the Open in Kerouac, Olson, Kaprow,
and Ginsberg"
• Lisette Schillig, Lock Haven University
"The Stories That Make and Remake in the Literature of
the Road"
• Susanne E. Hall, Duke University
"Poetry as Political Practice: U.S. Lyric and Organization in
the 1960's"
F-8 The Poetry of Ed Roberson (Panel prearranged by Joseph
Donahue, Duke University)
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 119
Chair: Joseph Donahue, Duke University
• Evie Shockley, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
"The Nature of Black Aesthetics in Ed Roberson's Poetry"
• Joseph Donahue, Duke University
"Metaphysical Shiver: On the Poetry of Ed Roberson"
• Stephen Cope, Ithaca College
"Syntagonism: Culture, Race, and Roberson's Line"
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F-9 Trauma, War and Memory in Women's Literature
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 121
Chair: Jill Kroeger Kinkade, University of Southern
Indiana
• Sarah Burcon, Wayne State University
"Hyphenated Identity: Storytelling and Memory in Julia
Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents"
• Jill Darling, Wayne State University
"Documenting Postmodern Trauma: The Crisis of the
Contemporary in Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be
Lonely"
• Jessica C. Nowacki, Duquesne University
"Drawing Comfort from the Beyond: Rape, Race, and the
Near-Death Experience in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort
Woman"
• Vanessa Reece, Indiana University
"Ceremonial Acts: Race and Perfomativity in Leslie
Marmon Silko's Ceremony"
F-10 Virginia Woolf (Panel organized by Kristin Czarnecki,
International Virginia Woolf Society)
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 215
Chair: Suzette Henke, University of Louisville
• Beth Rigel Daugherty, Otterbein College
"Educating the Reader: Virginia Woolf's Pedagogical
Essays"
• Brian Richardson, University of Maryland
"The Physical Book and the Site of Reading in To the
Lighthouse"
• Theresa Mae Thompson, Valdosta State University
"Woolf and Gandhi: The Raj in Jacob's Room"
F-11 Margaret Atwood (Panel organized by Tomoko
Kuribayashi, Atwood Soceity)
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 207
Chair: Tomoko Kuribayashi, University of Wisconisn,
Stevens Point
• Carol D. Osborne, Coastal Carolina University
"Saving Graces: Narrative Designs in Margaret Atwood's
Oryx and Crake"
• Nancy Peled, University of Haifa, Israel and Oranim
Academic Educational College
“Wicked Woman Writing: Narrator as Witch in Margaret
Atwood's Blind Assassin"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
F-12 Literary Underminings: Strindberg, Vonnegut,
Shepard
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 108
Chair: Robert Terry, University of Louisville
• Wendy Weckwerth, Mount Holyoke College
"Characters in Court, Monarchs on Stage: Strindberg's
Queen Christina and Gustave III"
• Janine Tobeck, Univesity of Wisconsin, Whitewater
"Persons Should Not Be Construed: The Character of
Ethics in The Sirens of Titan"
• Ricardo S. Sobreira, State University of Sâo Paulo, Brazil
"Narrative Indeterminacies in the Short Fiction of Sam
Shepard"
F-13 Modernism and Film (Panel arranged by Dale M. Bauer)
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 103
Chair: Dale M. Bauer, University of Illinois
• Dale M. Bauer, University of Illinois
"On Fannie Hurst and Film"
• Patrick O'Donnell, Michigan State University
"Frame-Up: James, Caché, and the Border of the Visible"
• Lynda Zwinger, University of Arizona
"Modernity Mothers"
F-14 In and around Proust
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 122
Chair: John T. Booker, University of Kansas
• Kenneth Faulkner, Wayne State University
"Time Rhizomed: Proust's Narrator as Liminal Assemblage
and Rhizomatic Subject in Le Temps Retrouvé"
• Jeffrey Victor Johnson, Independent Scholar
"Combray, Balbec, Paris: Self, Identity, and the Making of
an Artist in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time"
• Hollie Markland Harder, Brandeis University
"Paul Vacca's La petite cloche au son grêle, or the 'partage du
plaisir [proustien] avec d'autres'"
F-15 Keynote, Hispanic Lecture, Co-sponsored by the Latin
American and Latino Studies, University of Louisville.
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library
Chair: Rhonda Buchanan, University of Louisville
• Manuel Martínez-Maldonado, University of Louisville
“La literatura puertorriqueña de cerca y de lejos: visión de
los últimos 25 años"
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F-16 Casi particolari del cinema e teatro del '900 italiano
Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 101
Chair: Giovanni Spani, Bowdoin College
• Simone Dubrovic, Kenyon College
"Michelangelo Antonioni e l'identificazione (impossibile) di
una donna"
• Stefano Boselli, Gettysburg College
"Against the Bard's Lengthiness: Dramatic Synthesis from
the Futurists to the Reduced Shakespeare Company"
• Charles Klopp, Ohio State University
"Tabucchi, the Years of Terror, and Where We Are Now"

F-17 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction

Friday, 3:15 - 4:45 pm Room: 202
Chair: Roxana L. Cazan, Indiana University Bloomington
• Roxana L. Cazan, Indiana University Bloomington
Worlds in the Middle (poetry)
• Deborah Adelman, College of DuPage
Fleshing out the Bones (fiction)
• Afaa Michaerl Weaver, Simmons College
The Plum Flower Dance (fiction)
• Lori D'Angelo, West Virginia University
Finding Myself in Fiction (fiction)

CREATIVE KEYNOTE
PRESENTATION

Strickler Auditorium Room 101

Friday 5:00 - 6:00 pm

Percival Everett
University of Southern California

“Reading”
Introduced by Thomas Byers, University
of Louisville

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CONFERENCE RECEPTION
AND DINNER
Friday evening Seelbach Hilton Hotel

Reception, cash bar (all conferees

welcome), 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Dinner, by reservation only, 8:00 p.m.

Additional Information
All presentation rooms are accessible to the handicapped
All sections of Critical Papers and Creative Readings are
scheduled in Bingham Humanities Building

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presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
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G-1 Reading Gender, Reading Sex
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 112
Chair: Andrew Rabin, University of Louisville
• Meagan Cass, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
"Nineteenth-Century Divas in the Future Anterior: Female
Perfomance, Desire, and Feminist History in Angela
Carter's Nights at the Circus"
• Sarah Dunlap, State University of New York, Fredonia
"Queer as Counterfeit: Identity and Homosexuality in The
Recognitions"
• Kevin Allton, University of Southern Indiana
"Visions of Ariadne: Leonora Carrington in the Labyrinth
of Myth"
• Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern
Indiana
"'Gender Trouble' in Until I Find You"
G-2 The Sun Also Rises: Gender and Race, Masculinity and
Mourning
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 114
Chair: Susan Lidgate Mace, University of California,
Berkeley
• Jennifer Sullivan, Miami University
• Elise Swinford, Miami University
"Chaps, Bitches, and New Women: Brett's Anti-Maternal
Gender Performance in The Sun Also Rises"
• Katherine Fusco, Vanderbilt University
"The Boxer and the Bullfighter: Racial and Masculine
Anxiety in The Sun Also Rises"
• Karryn Lintelman, Miami University of Ohio
• Rachel Ewing, Miami University of Ohio
"Ecstatic Mourning: Community and Othering in
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises"
G-3 Trauma Narrative: The Holocaust and 9/11
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 109
Chair: Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Indiana
University/Purdue University, Columbus
• Matthew L. Miller, University of South Carolina, Aiken
"The Trauma of September “11th”: Storytelling and
Photography in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Novel Extremely
Loud and Incredibly Close"
• Ann Gibaldi Campbell, Lake Forest College
"Searching for Order or Embracing Chaos: Contemporary
British Women's Novels after 9/11"
• Elizabeth Scheiber, Rider University
"Je suis sûre que c'est véridique: Truth and Imagination in
Charlotte Delbo's Holocaust Memoirs"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
G-4 Women Seeking Power: The Hegemony of Mojo Across
Culture (Panel prearranged by Katherine V. Wills,
Indiana University/Purdue University, Columbus)
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 117
Chair: Katherine V. Wills, Indiana University/Purdue
University, Columbus
• Katherine V. Wills, Indiana University/Purdue
University Columbus
"Greek Women Conjuring Power: Evil Eyes and Windex
in Nicholas Gage's Eleni and My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
• Judith A. (Judy) Spector, Indiana University/Purdue
University Columbus
"Magic and Narrative in Kill Bill 2: Reclaiming the Female
Body"
• Lewis Dibble, Indiana University/Purdue University
Columbus
"(No)Place of Power: Adrienne Rich and the Location of
the Woman (Poet)"
• Megan Musgrave, Indiana University/Purdue University
Columbus
"The Death of the Domestic Goddess: Women, Magic and
(Dis)Empowerment in Ana Castillo's So Far from God"
G-5 O'Connor's Palimpsest (Panel organized by Jacqueline
Zubeck, Flannery O'Connor Society)
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 119
Chair: Avis Hewit, Grand Valley State University,
Allendale
• Carole K. Harris, New York City College of Technology
"The Politics of the Cliché in Flannery O'Connor's
'Revelation'"
• William Neal, Campbellsville University
"Flannery O'Connor's Modernism: Rejection and
Affirmation of Christian Traditions in Nontraditional
Narration"
• Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent
"Alpha and Omega: The Byzantine Icon and 'Parker's
Back'"
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G-6 Genre Issues: Rereading E. E. Cummings and Modernism
(Panel organized by Gillian Huang-Tiller, E. E. Cummings
Society)
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 217
Chair: Michael Webster, Grand Valley State University
• Adam C. Vander Tuig, Jesus College, Cambridge
University
"The Stuff of Expression: Interpreting Cummings's Artistic
Thought through Pinker's Mentalese"
• Michael Webster, Grand Valley State University
"'Almost All I Don't Know about Art': E. E. Cummings
Explicates His Dust Jacket Blurb for Him"
• Gillian Huang-Tiller, University of Virginia, Wise
"'3 Dimensional Human': E. E. Cummings'
Shakespeareanism and WWII Conceit in 1 x 1"
• Richard D. Cureton, University of Michigan
"Pararhyme in E. E. Cummings's Sonnets -- Realities"
G-7 Don DeLillo in the Twenty-First Century (Panel
organized by Mary Holland, Don DeLillo Society)
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 209
Chair: Mary Holland, State University of New York, New
Paltz
• Matt Mullins, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Children of Terror: Elementary Perfomances of Terror in
DeLillo before and after 9/11"
• Kyle A. Wiggins, Brandeis University
"Terminal Violence in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis"
• Todd Rohman, St. Louis Community College, Meramec
"'The American Mystery Deepens': DeLillo's Placement in
Post-9/11 Literature"
• Richard Dragan, LaGuardia Community College
"Falling Men: Realistic and Postmodern Terror and
Wonder in DeLillo's and McEwan's Recent Fiction and
in James Marsh's Man on Wire"
G-8 Time, Spirit and the Sacred in American Poetry
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 121
Chair: Stephen Frech, Millikin University,
• Stephen Frech, Millikin University
"’Inmost Vital Substance of the Present’: Hart Crane's Lyric
Time"
• Joe Moffett, Kentucky Wesleyan College
"Merrill and Wright: Spirituality in the Postmodern Long
Poem"
• Norman Finkelstein, Xavier University
"'Making the Ghost Walk About Again and Again’: History
as Séance in the Work of Susan Howe"
• Bonnie Emerick, Armstrong Atlantic State University
"Like a Figure Eight: Intertextuality and Memory in Martha
Ronk's Vertigo"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
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G-9 Percival Everett: In Practice (Panel prearranged by
Anthony Stewart)
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 207
Chair: Anthony Stewart, Dalhousie University, Canada
• Keith B. Mitchell, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
“Grotesque Realism and the Carnivalesque in Percival
Everett's Zulus"
• David Borman, University of Louisville
"The American Monologue: Cultural Repetition
Compulsion"
• AnneLaure Tissut, Sorbonne University, France
"The Torture and Delights of Time in Percival Everett's
Work: A Poetic Study"
• Anthony Stewart, Dalhousie University, Canada
"Setting One's House in Order: The Image of the
Academic in Everett's Fiction"
G-10 Novels and Poststructuralist Theory
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 210
Chair:
• Dianne Vipond, California State University, Long Beach
"Metarealism: Politics and Humanism in John Fowles's
Daniel Martin"
• Collin Meissner, University of Notre Dame
"Unrequited Love: Money, Globalism, and the American
Nightmare"
G-11 Narrativa caribeña
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 219
Chair: Carmen Montañez, Indiana State University
• Sara Ortega, Lee University
"Garduña, de Manuel Zeno Gandía: 'Crónicas de viaje' de
un manuscrito y crónica de la escritura de una novela"
• Doralina A. Martínez Conde, Georgia Southern
University
"Discurso histórico y social: las escritoras dominicanas en la
historia literaria nacional"
• Ceida Fernández Figueroa, Baldwin School of Puerto
Rico
"Erotismo: cuerpo y palabra en el Animal tropical de Pedro
Juan Gutiérrez"
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G-12 Spanish Theater
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 221
Chair: Mary Makris, University of Louisville
• Jason Thomas Parker, Vanderbilt University
"Chronicles of the Street: Luces de bohemia as Journalistic
Esperpento"
The Speed Art Museum
• David Hitchcock, University of Southern Indiana Reclaiming the Plate: Nineteenth-
"Identities in Play: Poetic Language's Decompositon and
Re-Composition of the Self in the Theater of Raúl Century Etching Clubs
Hernández Garrido"
• Laureano Corces, Fairleigh Dickinson University During the nineteenth century, European and American artists
"Dramatic Discourse in Contemporary Spanish Theater as rediscovered the expressive possibilities of using acid to etch or
a Reframing of Experience: Individual Tales and Social bite images into metal plates, which could be used to produce
Consensus" prints ranging from velvety impressions of the French
countryside to sensitive renderings of a humble wine glass.
G-13 Locating the Coterie II: Writers’ Circles and Their
Cities (Panel organized by Pamela J. Francis,
International Lawrence Durrell Society) Collecting for Kentucky: A Year
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 106
Chair: Anne Zahlan, Eastern Illinois University of New Art at the Speed
• James Gifford, Farleigh Dickinson University
During the past year many exceptional works of art have been
"From Fabians to Anarchists: English Surrealism in the
given to, or purchased by, the Speed. For the first time the
1930s and 40s"
museum unveils all of these new treasures at once in a single
• James Clawson, University of Edinburgh
exhibition.
"Beyond a Few Bad Novels: The Hobsbaum Group's
Imaginative Glasgow"
• Eric Dean Bennett, Harvard University
"Iowa City and Postwar American Poetry" American Art at the Speed
This exhibition features paintings, works on paper,
G-14 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the museum’s
Saturday, 10:15 - 11:45 am Room: 202
American and Kentucky collections.
Chair: Paul Durica, University of Chicago
• M. E. Tappmeyer, Southwest Baptist University Museum Hours:
Poetry Monday Closed
• Phong Nguyen, University of Central Missouri Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 10:30 am to 4 pm
Pages from the Texbook of Alternate History: Hilter Goes to Thursday 10:30 am to 8 pm
Art School (fiction) Saturday 10:30 to 5 pm
• Philip Metres, John Carroll University Sunday 12 pm to 5 pm
Fragment Album (poetry)
• Nicole Louise Reid, University of Southern Indiana The Speed Art Museum (located next to the University of
Red Wagon (Fiction) Louisville, Ekstrom Library)
2035 South Third Street, Louisville, KY 40208 - (502)
634-2700 www.speedmuseum.org

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H-1 Postmodern Women Write Race and Ethnicity: Jean
Rhys, Zadie Smith, and Toni Cade Bambara
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room:112
Chair: Ania Spyra, Butler University
• Theresa Habbestad, California State University,
Fullerton
"It's Not Easy Being In Between: The Search for
Acceptance in Wide Sargasso Sea and White Teeth"
• Mindy Boffemmyer, Duquesne University
"'The City Too Busy to Hate': Toni Cade Bambara's
Environmental Justice Poetics in Those Bones Are Not My
Child"
H-2 Questions of Documentation in Film and Literature
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 103
Chair: William Day, University of Louisville
• Jennifer L. Barker, East Tennessee State University
"Documentation and the Visual Dynamics of the 'Real' in
Fritz Lang's Fury"
• Joshua Kates, Indiana University
"Literature Documenting History? Faulkner, Dick, and
Historical Totality"
• Paul Durica, University of Chicago
"Historicity"
H-3 Violent Visions: Representing and Responding to
Extremity
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 108
Chair: Jeffrey A. Sartain, Indiana University, Bloomington
• Mihaela Harper, University of Rhode Island
"Ekphrasis, Absence, and the Witness in the Extreme Text"
• Jeffrey A. Sartain, Indiana University, Bloomington
“It Takes ‘Guts’: Masculinity, Bodily Trauma, and the
Unspoken”
• Courtney Wennerstrom, Indiana University
"It Takes 'Guts': Masculinity, Bodily Trauma, and the
Unspoken"
H-4 Literature and Philosophy
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 113
Chair: Julia A. Galbus, University of Southern Indiana
• Robert Chodat, Boston University
"What Revival? Pragmatism and Contemporary American
Fiction"
• Charles Cullum, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
"History as Possibility: Heideggerian Temporality and
Richard Powers's Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance"
• Andrew Price, Mount Union College
"Critical Readers, Citizens of the World and Alice Walker's
Possessing the Secret of Joy"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
H-5 Post 9/11 Mediations in Film, Television, and Fiction
(Panel prearranged by Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 117
Chair: Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky
• Sarah Louise Childress, Vanderbilt University
"Seeing It All: The Panoptic Aesthetic of Post-9/11 Films"
• Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky
"LOST's Intimate Moments and Objects of Intimacy: The
Impact of 9/11 on the Midsection of the Plane"
• Shirley A. Stave, Northwestern State University
"Then or Now: 9/11 as Ghostly Visitation in Toni
Morrison's A Mercy"
H-6 Politicizing Religion: A New Politics for the Twentieth
Century (Panel prearranged by Lisa Oliverio, University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 114
Chair: Lisa Oliverio, University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign
• David Morris, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"The Epic of a World Abandoned by [The Holy Spirit]:
The Postmodern Genre and Politics of Left Behind"
• Lisa Oliverio, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"The Body of Christ: Flannery O'Connor's Theology of the
Body and the Politcs of Catholic Authorship"
• Rynetta Davis, University of Kentucky
"Competing Visions: The Contending Forces of Black
Religious Expression in Pauline Hopkins's
Contending Forces"
H-7 Domesticity, Corporeal History and the Female Subject
in American Poetry and Prose
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 121
Chair: Flore Chevaillier, Dayton, Ohio
• Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick, Indiana University/Purdue
University, Columbus
"Rewriting Patriarchal War Narrative: The Embodied
Female Survivor in Gertrude Stein's Mrs. Reynolds"
• April D. Fallon, Kentucky State University
"Mutability and Paradox in the Poetry of Lorine Niedecker"
• Hillary Gravendyk, University of California, Berkeley
"Dictée and Durée: Cha, Bergson, and the Body of History"
• Joe DeLong, University of Cincinnati
"The Ruins of the Body: Non-Normative Corporeality in
Plath's Poetry"
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H-8 Essentialist Joyce? (Panel organized by Agata Szczeszak-
Brewer, International James Joyce Foundation)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 215
Chair: Agata Szczeszak-Brewer, Wabash College
• Richard Murphy, University of South Carolina Upstate
"'The Race to Which He Belonged': Race Discourse and
Canonical Aesthetics in A Portrait"
• Thomas Jackson Rice, University of South Carolina
"Visualizing the Wake"
• Teresa Winterhalter, Armstrong Atlantic State
University
"’In the Act of Going He Stayed to Straighten the
Bedspread': Narrative Torsion and the Essential Self in
James Joyce's Ulysses"
H-9 Geography, Space, History
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 123
Chair: Ryan Allen, University of Louisville
• John Conner, Wayne State University
"The Benjaminian 'Storyteller' in Victor Segalen's René Leys"
• K. Matthew Kelley, University of Michigan
"'Not to Heaven, But to Georgia': Narratives of
Containment in Steinbeck and Capa's A Russian Journal"
• Adryan Glasgow, Purdue University
"Imperialism and the Metrosexual in Shteyngart's
Absurdistan"
H-10 O'Connor's Materiality (Panel organized by Jacqueline
Zubeck, Flannery O'Connor Society)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 119
Chair: Jacqueline Zubeck, College of Mount Saint Vincent,
Riverdale
• Avis Hewitt, Grand Valley State University, Allendale
"The Displaced Person and the Surrogate Spouse"
• Lori D'Angelo, West Virginia University
“What is the Real of their Desire: A Lacanian Analysis of
'Everything That Rises Must Converge.'"
• Katy Leedy, Grand Valley State University
“Resisting Colonization: Peacocks and Poles in
O'Connor's Displaced Person"
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
H-11 Big Theory
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 217
Chair: Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern
Indiana
• Norman David Marín Calderón, Ball State University
"Borges, Freud, and Lacan: Reading Literature Otherwise"
• Tomoko Kuribayashi, University of Wisconsin, Stevens
Point
"'Becoming Molecular' in Stories of Transformation: The
Disappearing Narrator in Tawada Yoko's Opium for
Metamorphoses"
• Bernard Rhie, Williams College
"The Face, In Theory"
• Ryan Rase McCray, Hollins University
"Secret Agent Child: Perfomance, Paradox, and the Child's
Desire for an Adult Construction"
H-12 Don DeLillo I: Questions of Identity
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 210
Chair: Mary Holland, State University of New York, New
Paltz
• Nicole\] Seymour, Vanderbilt University
"Who's Writing White Noise? Narrative, Agency, and
Consciousness in DeLillo's Novel"
• Karsten H. Piep, Union Institute and University
"'You Come from the Future': Postmodern
Counternarratives in Don DeLillo's Mao II"
• Dave Jones, Old Dominion University
"Body as Index: Signification of the Body in Don DeLillo's
Recent Fiction"
H-13 Escritoras del Siglo XXI: Women Writing Now (Panel
organized by Kimberly A. Nance, Feministas Unidas
Society)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 219
Chair: Kimberly A. Nance, Illinois State University
• Carol Stos, Laurentian University, Canada
"Rosa Montero y el ecofeminismo"
• Michelle Geoffrion-vinci, Lafayette College
"Male as Antihero in the Short Narrative of Cristina
Fernández Cubas"
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H 14 Modes of Narrative Medicine: Fiction, Film, and Radio
(Panel organized by David Eberly, Narrative Medicine
Society)
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 207
Chair: David Eberly, Independent Scholar
• Ruth Johnston, Pace University
"Signification Trauma and Crises of Vision in Spellbound"
• Linda Raphael, George Washington University, School
of Medicine
"Troubles with Empathy: Narrative Medicine in Third-Year DINING FACILITIES
Clerkships"
• Maura Spiegel, Columbia University
Campus
"True Storytelling in Ira Glass's This American Life: A Case
Study"
Student Activities Center ( SAC)
H-15 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction Look for the Clock Tower
Saturday, 1:00 - 2:30 pm Room: 202 Both Terrace (2nd floor) and
Chair: Ryan Trauman, University of Louisville Ground Floor Food Courts
• Joshua Robbins, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Not open on Saturday
Field Guide to the Second Coming (poetry)
• Patrick S. McGinnity, Central Michigan University
Hard Winter (fiction) Mitzi’s (basement, Miller Technology Building)
• Dan McCarthy, University of Kansas Mon - Fri 7:30 am- 3:00 pm
I'll Be Home (poetry) Not open on Saturday
• Chauna Craig, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Pluma Piluma and the Utopian Turtle Top: A Bedtime Story for
Women Writers (creative nonfiction)
Near Campus(within walking distance)

Café Bristol (Speed Art Museum)

Starbucks Coffee Reservations suggested 634-2723
in the Tues - Sat,11:30 am-2:00 pm
Tulip Tree Café
offering
Coffee, Sandwiches, Salads
Located in the Ekstrom Library West Wing

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I-1 Journeys of the Spirit: Odysseys East and West
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 112
Chair: Li Zeng, University of Louisville
• Ania Spyra, Butler University
"Can Tourism Be Ethical? Jamaica Kincaid Trekking in
Nepal"
• Fran Helphinstine, Morehead State University
"Billy Blue's Wanderings among the Primal Patterns of
Drama in Derek Walcott's Odyssey"
• Julia A. Galbus, University of Southern Indiana
"Evoking Stillness: Buddhist Memoir as Cultural Bridge"
I-2 Female Modernists Write Sexuality and Travel: Woolf,
Broughton, and Jane Bowles
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 113
Chair: Tamar Heller, University of Cincinnati
• Tonya Krouse, Northern Kentucky University
"Shame and the Domestication of Pleasure in the Novels of
Virginia Woolf"
• Tamar Heller, University of Cincinnati
"Hopelessly Unmanly: Romance and the Crisis of
Masculinity in Rhoda Broughton's Lavinia"
• Margaux Cowden, University of California, Irvine
"Dreadful Metaphors: Jane Bowles's Late Modernist
Travelers"
I-3 Modern and Contemporary Irish
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 123
Chair: Jacqueline Brown, Independent Scholar
• Julien Carrière, Bellarmine University
"Beckett's Optimism: Another Happy Day on Winnie's
Mound, or Language and Gender in Happy Days"
• Helen Emmitt, Center College
"Transformative Language in Eavan Boland's In Her Own
Image"
I-4 Auster
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 122
Chair: Alex E. Blazer, Georgia College and State University
• Daniel V. Facchinetti, University of Rhode Island
"'Wherever I Am Not': City of Glass and the Trouble with
Trauma"
• Alex E. Blazer, Georgia College and State University
"'Blinded by the Book': Metafictional Madness and Sublime
Solitude in the Work of Paul Auster"
• Michael L. Black, University of Illinois, Urbana-
Champaign
"Creating 'More Narrative': How the Reader-As-
Hyperdetective Can Solve the Case of the Missing
Endings in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy"
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I-5 Race and Cultural Institutions (Panel prearranged by
Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky)
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 217
Chair: Aaron Jaffe, University of Louisville
• Yung-Hsing Wu, University of Louisiana
"The Flavor of Footnotes"
• Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky
"Race and the Avant-Garde: Nancy Cunard's Negro
Anthology"
• Benjamin Lee, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"LeRoi Jones, Editor"
I-6 Spectres of Derrida: Reading E. M. Forster, Carole Maso,
and Caryl Churchill
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 119
Chair: Jeannie Ludlow, Eastern Illinois University
• Olga Medvedeva, Purdue University
"Voice and Narrative Ethics in Jacques Derrida and E. M.
Forster"
• David B. Olsen, Saint Louis University
"What the Light Looked At: Spectrality and the Image in
Carole Maso's Art Lover"
• Thomas Butler, Eastern Kentucky University
"Animals in Caryl Churchill's Far Away"
I-7 Gender in U.S. Film and Drama
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 103
Chair: Melanie Rowand-White, University of Louisville
• Christopher Giroux, Wayne State University
"I Am My Own Ethnographer: The Art of Ethnography in
Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife"
• Harold C. Zimmerman, East Tennessee State University
"Why Is the First Millennium AD Seemingly So More
Progressive than the Third? The Troubling Gender
Politics of Beowulf on Film"
• Melissa Ames, Eastern Illinois University
"REMOTEly CONTROLing Femininity: Unexpected
Allies Question Mediated Gender Stereotypes and Power
Relations"
I-8 Drafts, Texts, and Paratexts: Bishop, Moore and the
'Legible'
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 109
Chair: Natalia Cecire, University of California, Berkeley
• Christina Pugh, University of Illinois, Chicago
"Choosing/Not Choosing in Edgar Allan Poe and the Juke-
Box"
• Natalia Cecire, University of California, Berkeley
"Deceptively Reserved and Flat: Marianne Moore and the
Index"
• Benjamin Johnson, University of Central Missouri
"Poetics and Publicity in Marianne Moore's 'Abraham
Lincoln and the Art of the Word'"
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I-9 James Joyce: Massaging the Media of Language and
Religion
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 114
Chair: Patrick Prominski, Grand Valley State University
• Elizabeth Kate Switaj, Independent Scholar
"'His Language, So Familiar and So Foreign': Language and
Alienation in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
• Patrick Prominski, Grand Valley State University
"Tradition and Technology: New Media Connections in
the 'Aeolus' Episode of James Joyce's Ulysses"
• Martin Brick, Marquette University
"Religious Estrangement and Rejuvenation in Joyce and
His Contemporaries"
I-13 Global Mexico: Border-Crossing Subjects in U. S.
Literature
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 219
Chair: Michael Waag, Murray State University
• Cassandra L. Neace, East Tennessee State University
"We'll Always Have México: The Expatriate Experience
South of the Border"
• Sarah A. Chavez, Ball State University
"Presenting the Unpresentable: Alienation and Migration
Narrative in Tomás Rivera's . . . Y no se lo tragó la tierra"
• Jesseca Cornelson, University of Cincinnati
"The No Man's Land of Tijuana Straits: A Geo-Marxist
Reading"

I-10 Don DeLillo II: Falling Man I-14 Authors Reading Poetry and Fiction
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room:121 Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 202
Chair: Matthew L. Miller, University of South Carolina, Chair: Carole K. Harris, New York City College of
Aiken Technology
• Michael Hobbs, Northwest Missouri State University • David Need, Duke University
"'In the Excitements of Silence': Outliving the Self in From 'Offshore St. Mark' (poetry)
Falling Man" • Carole K. Harris, New York City College of Technology
• Collin Meissner, University of Notre Dame Training School (fiction)
"’Like Nothing in This Life': Don DeLillo and Terror's • Charlotte Pence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Counternarrative" Last Night with Zeus (poetry)
• Louis F. Pignatelli, University of Notre Dame • William N. Claxon, Jr, University of South Carolina,
"Don DeLillo: Novelist, Narrative and Democracy in a Aiken
Time of Terror" Snowbound (fiction)

I-11 War: Responses and Responsibilities, Vietnam and Iraq

Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 117
Chair: Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy
CLOSING
• Matthew Shipe, Washington University, St. Louis
"John Updike and the Burden of Not Being a Dove"
PRESENTATIO
• Jimmy Dean Smith, Union College
` "'If Any Blame or Fault Attaches to the Attempt': Assigning
N
and Accepting Responsibly in The Things They Carried"
• Brandon Lingle, United States Air Force Academy
"Colby Buzzell's My War: A Narrative of War and Writing" David
I-12 Symbolic Spaces in Modern and Contemporary Texts
Saturday, 2:45 - 4:15 pm Room: 215
James,
Chair: Paul Durica, University of Chicago
• Sunny Stalter, Auburn University
University of
"The Expressionist Apartment"
• Huei-ju Wang, National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan
Southern
"Modernity, Cities, Class Struggle and Post-9/11 Politics in California
Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day"
• Michael Rerick, University of Cincinnati "Rock'N'Film:
"Queering the Museum: Challenging Heteronormative
Space in Bechdel's Fun Home" The
Beginnings of

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the Pop
Musical"

Saturday, 4:30 -
5:30 pm. Ekstrom
Library, Elaine
Chao
Auditorium
Introduced by
Alan Golding
English
Department,
University of
Louisville

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Adams, AnnMarie B 1
Adelman, Deborah F 17
Adnot, Becky D 16
Aguilar-Monsalve, Luis A. A 12
Allen, Dennis W. D 6
Allen, Ryan H 9
Allton, Kevin G 1
Amaya, Elizabeth B 15
Ambrose, Timothy A 13
Ames, Melissa I 7
Amfreville, Marc D 10
Anderson, Daryll D 4
Armengol, Armando A 13
Arnold, Lisa E 3
Arrieu-King, Cynthia C 9
Aubry, Timothy B 4
Babcock, Julie B 16
Baiada, Christa C 4
Baker, Jayson A 11
Baker, Robert J. C 6
Bakhtiarynia, Ben C 7
Balma, Philip E 16
Barker, Jennifer L. H 2
Barros, Sandro R. A 12
Bartley, William D 8
Bauer, Dale M. F 13
Bauer, Sylvie E 13
Beardsall, Rebecca J. F 4
Bebell, Andrea M. B 9
Becker, Margaret D 14
Bell, Samantha A 14
Bennett, Eric Dean G 13
Berger, Charles B 10
Berlatsky, Eric L. C1, A 2
Bertsch, Charlie A 10
Biberman, Matthew D 5
Birkenstein, Jeff C 3
Bishop, Julie E 11
Black, Michael L. I 4
Blair, Linda Nicole B 3
Blair, Nicole A 10
Blazer, Alex E. I 4
Blum, Virginia A 11
Bochan, Bohdan B 13
Boffemmyer, Mindy H 1
Bolden, Emma E 17
Booker, John T. F 14
Borman, David G 9
Boselli, Stefano F 16
Bowman, Matthew B 5
Braddox, Tonya S. E 8
Brazeau, Alicia M. C 4
Bremm, Doris A 2
Brick, Martin I 9
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
Presenter’s and Chairs Index
Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught B 10
Brooke, Patricia C 1
Brown, Davis F 2
Brown, Jacqueline E. C 11, I 3
Burcon, Sarah F 9
Burrell, Julie A 1
Butler, Thomas I 6
Calderón, Norman David Marín H 11
Calhoun, Jamie E 10
Campbell, Ann Gibaldi G 3
Candia-Araiza, Rubén B 15
Cantrell, Mark D 12
Capitani, Diane C 3, F 3
Cappuccio, Brenda C 16
Carballal, Ana Isabel B 15, C 16
Carr, Allison D. E 6
Carrière, Julien I 3
Cass, Meagan G 1
Caughie, Pamela L. A 3
Cazan, Roxana L. F 17
Cecire, Natalia I 8
Chambers, E. James D 8
Chametzky, Barry B 14
Chavez, Sarah A. B 16, I 13
Cheatle, Joseph D 2
Chevaillier, Flore F 4, H 7
Childress, Sarah Louise H 5
Chilton, Randolph A 7
Chodat, Robert H 4
Christensen, Tim D 1
Chuha, Nicholas E 6
Clawson, James G 14
Claxon, Jr, William N. D 7, I 14
Cohen, Scott B 9
Collins, Peter B 12
Conde, Doralina A. Martínez G 11
Conner, John H 9
Cope, Stephen B 6, F 8
Corces, Laureano G 12
Cordasco, Rachel B 7
Cornelson, Jesseca D 16, I 13
Cotugno, Marianne C 8
Cowden, Margaux I 2
Craig, J. P. E 1
Craig, Chauna F 6, H 15
Cruz-Martes, Camelly C 15
Cullum, Charles H 4
Cureton, Richard D. G 7
Curtis, Jerry L. D 14
Czarnecki, Jerry B 11
D'Angelo, Lori F 17, H 10
Darling, Jill F 9
Daugherty, Beth Rigel F 10
Davis, Rynetta H 6
Day, William H 2
De La Torre, Roberto C 15
Deiser, Andrew J. C 16, E 9
Delegal, Herbert D 15
Delgado, Teneice Durrant A 6, F 7
DeLong, Joe H 7
Dibble, Lewis G 4
Donahue, Joseph F 8
Dragan, Richard G 7
Dubrovic, Simone F 16
Dugan, Brenna D 16
Dumas, Frédéric E 13
Dunlap, Sarah G 1
Durica, Paul G 15, H 2, I 12
Eberly, David H 14
Echeverría, Miriam Balboa E 15
Eden, Melissa C 2
Edmonds, Joanne H. C 6
Edwards, Michael D 16
El-Kadi, Aileen A 12
Emerick, Bonnie G 8
Emmitt, Helen I 3
Ewing, Rachel G 2
Facchinetti, Daniel V. I 4
Fallon, April D. H 7
Faulkner, Kenneth F 14
Feith, Michel D 10
Feldman, Alba Krishna Topan F 5
Ferguson, Andrew F 2
Fernandes, Giséle Manganelli D 4
Figueroa, Ceida Fernández G 11
Figueroa, Iliana Rosales C 15
Finkelstein, Norman G 8
Finkelstein, Alice B 7
Flint, Holly F 3
Flis, Brad E 5
Forsting, Amanda L. B 3
Francis, Pamela J. D 13
Frech, Stephen G 9
Fusco, Katherine G 2
Gabor, Olivia G. B 13, C 12
Gage, Molly Kelley B 11
Galbus, Julia A. H 4, I 1
García-Castañón, Santiago D 15
Gathesha, Kambi E 8
Gauthier, Tim S. B 1
Geis, Deborah R. C 3
Geoffrion-vinci, Michelle H 13
Ghimire, Bishnu E 11
Gifford, James E 12, G 13
Gillette, Meg A 9
Giroux, Christopher I 7
Glasgow, Adryan H 9
Glassmeyer, Danielle C 3

Glazier, Jeremy D 10
Glen, Colleen A 5
Glomski, Chris B 16
Glomski, Chris A 7
Golding, Alan E 5
Gonzáez, Ester Gimbernat E 15
Gonzalez, Jeffrey C 2
González G., Javier F. E 15
Goodspeed-Chadwick, Julie G 3, H 7
Gravendyk, Hillary H 7
Graves, Roy Neil C 8, D 17
Gwynn, R. S. C 8
Ha, Quan Manh B 2
Habbestad, Theresa H 1
Hadley, Karen G 10
Hagen, Benjamin D. C 12
Halász, Alison Vort C 14
Hall, Susanne E. F 7
Harder, Hollie Markland F 14
Hardin, Whitney N. E 6
Hargrove, Nancy D 12
Harmon, William C 7, D 12
Harper, Mihaela H 3
Harris, Carole K. G 5, I 14
Haugen, Hayley Mitchell C 4
Hayes, Justin C 10
Heller, Tamar I 2
Helphinstine, Fran I 1
Henke, Suzette F 10
Heusel, Barbara Stevens C 6
Hewit, Avis G 5, H 10
Hicok, Bethany B 10
Hinton, Laura E 5
Hitchcock, David G 12
Hitotsuyanagi-Kobayashi, Eri E 12
Hobbs, Michael I 10
Hoberman, Ruth A 3
Hoeness-Krupsaw, Susanna G 1, H 11
Holcomb, Brian B 5
Holland, Mary K. G 7, H 12
Holliday-Karre, Erin E 4
Holohan, Marianne Mallia F 5
Holterhoff, Kate E 6
Huang-Tiller, Gillian G 6
Hufbauer, Benjamin A 11
Hunter, William R. F 3
Hutcheson, Gregory C 16
Jaffe, Aaron I 5
Jalowitz, Alan C. A 8
Jenkins, Grant Matthew C 10
Johnson, Benjamin I 8
Johnson, Jeffrey Victor F 14
Johnston, Ruth H 14
Jones, Dave H 12
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
Presenter’s and Chairs Index
Julien, Claude E 13
Justus, Jeremy D 6
Kaczorowski, Kimberly D 2
Kalliney, Peter I 5
Karki, Dhruba F 4
Kates, Joshua H 2
Keller, Lynn D 9
Kelley, K. Matthew H 9
Kinkade, Jill Kroeger E 1, F 9
Klopp, Charles F 16
Konkle, Amanda C 1
Kraemer, Vanessa A 8, E 11
Krouse, Tonya I 2
Kuhn, Liz D 1
Kuribayashi, Tomoko F 11, H 11
Labbé, Sean A. A 4
Lambeth-Climaco, Emily A 7
Lawrence, Kathy B 11
Lee, Katherine B 2
Lee, Benjamin I 5
Leedy, Katy H 10
Lehman, Daniel W. D 7
LeRoy-Frazier, Jill A 1, B 12
Levan, Michael C 18
Lewis, Daniel D 1
Lieberman, Jennifer Leigh B 3
Lillios, Anna D 13
Lim, Wesley C 13
Lin, Lidan C 12
Lina, John E 2
Lingle, Brandon I 11
Lintelman, Karryn G 2
Lobo, Julius B 6
Lockerd, Benjamin G. C 7
Lohmeyer, Enno B 13
Luck, Jessica Lewis D 9
Ludlow, Jeannie A 6, I 6
Lutenski, Emily A 5
Mace, Susan Lidgate D 1
Mace, Susan Lidgate G 2
MacLeod, Normajean D 13
Mahir, Zaid N. F 2
Makris, Mary G 13
Maldonado, Manuel Martínez F 15
Manheim, Daniel E 1
Manuel (Chavarria), Carlos B 2
Marsden, John L. F 6
Masters, Joshua J. C 5
Mastri, Augustus F 16
Matteo, Sante D 16
Matthews, Kadeshia L. E 7
Mattis, Ann E 2
Mattox, Jake C 5
McCarthy, Dan H 15
McCoy, Shane A. D 3
McCray, Ryan Rase C 12, H 11
McEntee, Jason T. D 8
McGinnity, Patrick S. H 15
McKee, Jessica D. D 3
Medina, Manolo A 13
Medvedeva, Olga I 6
Meissner, Collin I 10
Melero, Pilar D 15
Metres, Philip D 9, G 14
Meyer, Charles H. E 9
Michael, Magali Cornier B 1
Mickalities, Carey James A 4
Migliara, Giovanni E 16
Miller, Matthew L. G 3, I 10
Mitchell, Keith B. G 10
Mitchell, Margaret E. C 5
Moffett, Joe D 10, G 8
Moffitt, Letitia L. D 16
Montañez, Carmen D 15, G 10
Morgan, S. C 18
Moro, Nicole A 14, B 8
Morris, David H 6
Morris, Adalaide D 9
Morton, Seth D 10
Mrozowski, Daniel B 12
Mullins, Matt G 7
Murphy, Tom A 6
Murphy, Richard H 8
Musgrave, Megan G 4
Nadel, Alan H 5
Nance, Kimberly A. H 13
Neace, Cassandra L. I 13
Neal, William G 5
Need, David F 7, I 14
Nguyen, Phong G 14
Nielsen, Aldon B 7
Norman, Lance B 5
Nowacki, Jessica C. F 9
Núnez, Gabriele B 2
O'Donnell, Patrick F 13
Oliverio, Lisa H 6
Olsen, Kathryn D 4
Olsen, David B. I 6
Ortega, Sara G 11
Osborne, Carol D. F 11
Parker, Jason Thomas G 12
Peled, Nancy F 11
Pence, Charlotte I 14
Petersen, Robert C. D 3
Piep, Karsten H. H 12
PignateMarcela lli, Louis F. I 10
Pinto, De Araujo C 1
Pleasant, Lesley C. C 13, D 7

Ploeg, Andrew J. E 14
Polak, Katharine A 14
Price, Andrew H 4
Prince, Adam E 17
Prominski, Patrick I 9
Pugh, Christina C 18, I 8
Purcell, Richard E 7
Rabin, Andrew G 1
Rainey, Carol E 17
Rang, Leah A 9
Raphael, Linda H 14
Rawlings, Peter B 11
Reece, Vanessa F 9
Reichwald, Melanie B 6
Reid, Nicole Louise G 14
Rerick, Michael I 12
Rhie, Bernard H 11
Rice, Thomas Jackson H 8
Rich, Charlotte E 4
Richardson, Brian F 10
Robbins, Joshua H 15
Robbins, Hollis B 4
Robinson, Adam C 10
Rockefeller V, John D. B 4
Rodrigues, Laurie D 7
Roessner, Jeffrey B 1
Rogers, Melissa F 6
Rohman, Todd G 7
Roof, Judith D 10
Roper, Kem E 14
Roth, Elaine E 9
Rowand-White, Melanie B 8, I 7
Royo, Adrienne A 8
Rupert, Jennifer C 13
Rushford-Spence, Shawna E 10
Salloum, Benjamin D 5
Sartain, Jeffrey A. H 3
Scheiber, Elizabeth E 14
Schillig, Lisette F 7
Schreibersdorf, Lisa R 2
Schreier, Benjamin D 5
Scott, William E 7
Scott, Debra Leigh B 16
Scott, William E 7
Scroggins, Mark D 10
Sentz, Katharine D 2
Severs, Jeffrey C 2
Seymour, Nicole H 12
Shannon, Drew Patrick D 14
Sharma, Ghanashyam (Sam) F 1
Shipe, Matthew I 11
Shockley, Evie F 8
Siegel, Jason D 5
Sisk, Timothy J. C 17
Attention Conferees: If you want water during your
presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
Presenter’s and Chairs Index
Skwarczek, Katherine B 12
Sligh, Charles E 12
Smith, Jimmy Dean I 11
Smith, J. Fitzpatrick E 3
Smith, Elaine E 4
Smith, B. R. E 17
Snider, Cara D 2
Sobreira, Ricardo S. F 12
Sowders, Tom B 10
Spector, Judith A. (Judy) G 4
Spiegel, Maura H 14
Spinelli, Don E 16
Spyra, Ania H 1, I 1
Stalter, Sunny I 12
Standridge, Emily J. B 8
Stanton, Brandi C 1
Stave, Shirley A. A 1, H 5
Stein, Ben C 18
Stewart, Anthony D 11, E 13, G 10
Stock, Richard C 12
Stos, Carol H 13
Stringer, Dorothy A 5
Strout, Irina I. E 11
Stuber, Dorian F 1
Sullivan, Clare A 13
Sullivan, M. Nell D 8
Sullivan, Margaret F 3
Sullivan, M. Nell C 4
Sullivan, Jennifer G 2
Swanson, Eric James D 10
Swinford, Elise G 2
Switaj, Elizabeth Kate I 9
Szczeszak-Brewer, Agata H 8
Tadevosynan-Ordukhanyan, M. C 8
Tamargo, Maribel E 15
Tangney, ShaunAnne E 9
Tappmeyer, M. E. G 14
Taylor, Corey M. B 7
Taylor, Rod C. F 1
Terry, Robert F 12
Thompson, Theresa Mae F 10
Tissut, AnneLaure G 9
Tobeck, Janine F 12
Torke, Kyle David A 4, D 2
Török, Linda A. A 9
Toth, Josh A 10
Trauman, Ryan F 4, H 15
Tripp, Daniel A 10
Trivedi, Amish C 9
Tuig, Adam C. Vander G 6
Utell, Janine F 1
Utell, Janine D 1
Van De Wiele, Aurélie C 14
Vanderborg, Susan C 11
Veenstra, Michelle (Shel) D 6
Vialet, Michèle D 14
Vialet, Michèle E 14
Vidich, Paul B 16
Vipond, Dianne G 10
Vitti, Antonio D 16
Waag, Michael I 13
Wagner, Lisa C 15
Walonen, Michael K. A 9
Wang, Huei-ju I 12
Ward, Angela E 2
Watten, Barrett D 9, E 5
Weaver, Angela L. E 10
Weaver, Afaa Michael C 9, F 17
Webster, Michael G 6
Weckwerth, Wendy F 12
Wennerstrom, Courtney H 3
White, Karlys Vanessa A 12, E 4
Wiggins, Kyle A. G 8
Willey, Ann Elizabeth A 4, F 2
Wills, Katherine V. G 4
Wingard, Leslie E. E 7
Winterhalter, Teresa H 8
Wright, Amy A 8
Wu, Yung-Hsing I 5
Zahlan, Anne R. E 12, G 13
Zanelli, Marco D 17
Zemgulys, Andrea E 3
Zeng, Li I 1
Zimmerman, Harold C. I 7
Zorn, Christa A 3, B 9
Zubeck, Jacqueline G 5, H 10
Zwinger, Lynda F 13
Hotel Shuttle Bus Schedule 2009 -
Eastern Standard Time

The Conference will provide (yellow school) bus service between the hotel and campus. The buses will run on a circuit: hotel-campus-
hotel. The bell captain at the Seelbach will have a copy of this schedule.
Bus stops:
Seelbach Hilton Hotel, main (front) entrance AND UofL campus, North Visitors' Center
Please note:
Times listed are DEPARTURE times from the stated bus stop.(About 15 minutes to or from)

Thursday Friday Saturday

Seelbach UofL Seelbach UofL Seelbach UofL

10:00 10:30 7:30 8:00 9:00 9:30

11:00 11:30 8:30 9:00 10:00 10:30
12:00 12:30 9:30 10:00 11:00 12:00
1:00 1:30 10:30 11:00 12:30 1:30
2:00 2:30 12:30 1:00 2:00 2:45
4:00 4:30 1:30 2:00 4:30 5:45
5:00 5:30 2:30 3:00
6:30 7:45 3:30 4:00
9:00 4:30 5:15
6:30

Directions from the University Campus to the Seelbach Hotel by City Bus -
If you should miss the free conference shuttle there is a city bus which runs every 12 minutes, approximately 30 minute
excursion each way

Louisville, the River City, is the jumping off place for the Rogers and Clark Expedition.Now you can share in the
excitement of discover, as you board a city bus to return to the Seelbach Hotel.Your tour will provide a glimpse of the
charm which makes “Louavul” a best kept secret of the American heartland.

Your expedition begins on exiting Bingham Humanities Building (Westward, ho!) Headed towards the Library, Continue
rd
westbound until 3 Street. Paying heed to traffic signals, ford this bustling campus artery and forge ahead until you see
the majestic, soaring, sloping roofs of the high rise dorms which are home to a varied array of indigenous UofL fauna.The
th
bus stop at 4 and Brandeis bids you to await the next conveyance northward every twelve minutes (bus appropriately
labeled “4") at the nominal fare of $1.50 - exact change only please, and on to the Seelbach Hotel, which served as model
for “The Great Gatsby”.

Shortly after boarding, you will transit the area of Central Park, one of Louisville’s 16 parks laid out by l’Enfant, the same
French architect who configured the nation’s capitol, Washington D.C.The stately homes of Saint James Place, with its
striking bronze figural fountain, feature prominently as background for the annual Saint James Art Fair, held each fall.

You will next note Spalding University and shortly thereafter prepare for transboarding at Broadway to the Toonerville II
Trolley, which in addition to being absolutely free!!!, will surprise and delight you with the sights and sounds of Theater
Square before delivering you to the main entrance and southern hospitality of the Legendary Seelbach.To return to the
conference, simply play this scenario in reverse and get off the bus at Cardinal Boulevard.

Attention Conferees: If you want water during your

presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.
 The Louisville Conference
on Literature and Culture since 1900

Conference Year 2009

Danielle R. Day, Director

Sylvia Berger, Coordinator

Committee Members

Matthew Biberman, English

Rhonda Buchanan, Spanish
Thomas B. Byers, English
Karen Chandler, English
William Cunningham, German
Matthieu Dalle, French
Alan Golding, English
Susan M. Griffin, English
Karen Hadley, English
Suzette A. Henke, English
Aaron Jaffe, English
Augustus Mastri, Italian
Gabriela Nuñez, English
Jeffrey Skinner, English
Ann Elizabeth Willey, English
Li Zeng, Chinese

Manuel F. Medina, Website Design

James Hensley - Website Maintenance

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presentation, please visit the Registration Desk
immediately before your session.