Session 2-G The Nonfiction of John Edgar Wideman Organized by The John Edgar Wideman Society Chair: Keith Byerman, Indiana State University 1. "John Edgar Wideman: The Writer as Public Intellectual." Tracie Guzzio, SUNY Plattsburgh 2. “Generational Differences in Fatheralong,” Wilfred Samuels, University of Utah Audio-visual equipment required: None Session 2-H Resurrection Narratives and the Ethics of Hope Organized by the American Religion and Literature Society Chair: Rachel Payne, Independent Scholar 1. “Resurrecting the Body in Postbellum Consolation Literature,” Christine Hedlin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2. “Resurrection Narratives: Ethics, Genre, and Comparative Religions,” Rafi Rahman, Emory University 3. “The Gospel According to Dan: The Da Vinci Code as Post-9/11 Anti-Resurrection Narrative,” Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria Audio-Visual Equipment required: None Session 2-I Southern Influences: The Dixie Limited Derailed? Organized by The Society for the Study of Southern Literature Chair: Tara Powell, University of South Carolina 1. “The Faulkner Factor: Three Black Southern Writers Respond,” Martyn Bone, University of Copenhagen/University of Mississippi 2. “The Anxiety of Faulknerian Influence,” Doreen Fowler, The University of Kansas 3. “‘a tradition, a duty, and a care’: Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and McCarthy’s Child of God,” Travis Franks, Arizona State University Audio-Visual Equipment required: None Session 2-J Mad Writing in Black Women’s Fictional Narratives: the Caribbean and the United States Organized by: Caroline Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts, Boston 1. “Chante-mas for the Bones: Mad Testimony in Marie-Elena John’s Unburnable,” Johanna Garvey, Fairfield University 2. “Through a Glass Darkly: The Trickster's Mad Humor in Erna Brodber’s Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home,” Caroline Brown, University of Montreal
Organized by the Society for Contemporary Literature Moderator: Karen Weekes, Penn State University, Abington College 1. “Literature as Equipment for Living”: Teaching the Texts of the 2010s,” Thomas Jesse, Texas Christian University 2. “All That Happens Must Be Known”: Contemporary Literature in the Digital Age,” Jennifer Travis, St. Johns University 3. “Contemporary Literature in the General Education Classroom: Teaching ‘Comics and the American Experience,’” Baraw, Southern Connecticut State University 4. “Contemporary American Regional Literature,” Sara Kosiba, Troy University 5. “‘Which Way Is the Front Line from Here?’: War in the Classroom,” Kristin Kelly, University of North Georgia Audio-visual needs: digital projector that can be connected to laptop; Session 9-D ProQuest and RSAP Article Winners Roundtable Organized by the Research Society for American Periodicals (RSAP) Chair: Bill Hardwig, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 1. “No One Who Reads the History of Hayti Can Doubt the Capacity of Colored Men: Racial Formation and Atlantic Rehabilitation in New York City’s Early Black Press, 1827–1841,” Charlton Yingling, University of South Carolina 2. “Beyond the ‘Shingle Factory’: The Armory Show in the Popular Press after 1913,” Melissa Renn, Harvard Art Museums 3. "‘Taken Possession of’: The Reprinting and Reauthorship of Hawthorne's ‘Celestial Railroad’ in the Antebellum Religious Press,” Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University Audio-Visual Equipment required: Projector Session 9-E: New Directions in McCarthy Studies Organized by the Cormac McCarthy Society Chair: Stacey Peebles, Centre College 1. “Personal Foul: Lester Ballard’s Post-Concussion Syndrome,” Benjamin S. West, State University of New York at Delhi 2. “Pedophobia, Ecocatastrophe, and the Novels of Cormac McCarthy,” Kevin Trumpeter, Allen University 3. “Teaching Blood Meridian: A PowerPoint Presentation,” Steven Frye, California State University, Bakersfield Audio-Visual Equipment required: Projector for PowerPoint and Screen Session 9-F At the Edge of the Postmodern? American Poetry in the 1950s Organized by the Charles Society
1. “Countercultural Writers’ Love/Hate Relationships with the USA: The Case of Gary Snyder,” John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore 2. “Kool-Aid Reality: Shaping the Subject of Trout Fishing in America,” Sean Bolton, National Chiao Tung University 3. “`One Plus One Equals William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and The Third Mind,” William Nesbitt, Beacon College Audiovisual Equipment Required: Computer Hookup for Power Point Session 12-B New Readings of Carson McCullers Organized by the Carson McCullers Society Chair: Courtney George, Columbus State University 1. “The Masquerade: Gender Performance and Isolation in the Global South,” April Kathleen Lenoir, University of Memphis 2. “Body Language & Language about Bodies: Deafness in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,” Laura Broom, UNC Chapel Hill 3. “From the Clinical to the Critical: Carson McCullers’ “Freaks” as Lines of Flight,” renée c. hoogland, Wayne State University Audio-Visual Equipment required: Projector Session 12-C Online in the Old Classroom Organized by the Society of Early Americanists Chair: Edward Whitley, Lehigh University 1. “Teaching T(homas) Paine through Rap Genius: Early American Literature and Collaborative Literacy,” Kacy Tillman, University of Tampa & Jeremy Dean, RapGenius.com 2. “ ‘The simple, compact, well join’d scheme’: Creating Multimodal Experiences for Students of Early American Literature Using Webbased Resources,” Jeff Everhart, Longwood University 3. “The New Leviathan: How I Implemented the AAS’s Periodicals Database in My Traditional American Literature Survey and Lived to Tell the Tale,” Joshua Matthews, Dordt College Audio-Visual Equipment required: Projector and Screen Session 12-D Iconic People, Iconic Places: The American West in the Early Twentieth Century Organized by the Western Literature Association Chair: Nicolas S. Witschi, Western Michigan University 1. “‘We was just colts then’: Animality and Regional Identity in Owen Wister’s The Virginian,” Joshua Lundy, University of South Carolina 2. “Technicolor Places: Langston Hughes, Race, and Revolution in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” Emily Lutenski, Saint Louis University
Alfred Bendixen, Texas A&M University Bergman, Towson University Ed Folsum, University of Iowa Nick Halpern, North Carolina State University Cristoph Irmscher, Indiana University Wendy Martin, Claremont Graduate University Brian Reed, University of Washington Eliza Richards, University of North Carolina Angela Sorby, Marquette University Audio-Visual Equipment Required: NONE Session 23-H Business meeting: Philip Roth Society Sunday, May 25, 2014 11:30 – 12:50 pm Session 24-A Roth, History, Identity Organized by the Philip Roth Society Chair: Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University 1. “Re-ordering (Personal) History: The Case of Patrimony,” Pia Masiero, Ca’Foscari University of Venice 2. "New Deal (In)Securities: Liberal Disillusionment and the Birth Pangs of Narrative Artistry in The Plot against America," Andy Connolly, The Fashion Institute of Technology 3. “Roth’s Children: Futurity, Aging, and Identity,” Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University Audio-Visual Equipment required: None Session 24-B Shirley Jackson, Gender, and the Cold War Organizer and Chair: Leslie Allison, Temple University Katharine Keenan, Cabrini College 1. “‘What is this world?’: Queer Cold War Apocalypticism in Shirley Jackson’s The Sundial,” Jill Anderson, Tennessee State University 2. “‘Listening to what she had almost said’: Postwar Femininity and the Buried Narratives of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle,” Ashleigh Hardin, University of Kentucky 3. “Demons and Savages: The Horror and Humor of Cold War Children in Shirley Jackson’s Memoirs,” Andrea Krafft, University of Florida Equipment Required: None