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MLANortheast Modern Language Association47th Annual ConventionMarch 17–20, 2016HARTFORD, CONNECTICUTLocal Host: University of ConnecticutAdministrative Sponsor: University at Buffalo
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CONVENTION STAFFExecutive DirectorCarine MardorossianLocal LiaisonsCathy Schlund-VialsUniversity at BuffaloUniversity of ConnecticutEmma Burris-JanssenAssociate Executive DirectorBrandi SoUniversity of ConnecticutSarah MoonStony Brook University, SUNYUniversity of ConnecticutAdministrative CoordinatorRenata TowneGraduate Assistant/WebmasterJesse MillerUniversity at BuffaloUniversity at BuffaloChair CoordinatorKristin LeVenessCV Clinic OrganizerJames Van WyckSUNY Nassau Community CollegeFordham UniversityMarketing CoordinatorDerek McGrathStony Brook University, SUNYFELLOWSBook Award AssistantShayna IsraelPanel AssistantPaul BeattieEvents AssistantSarah GoldbortSummer Fellowship AssistantLeslie NickersonExhibitor AssistantJoshua FlaccaventoTravel Awards AssistantNicole LowmanUniversity at BuffaloUniversity at BuffaloUniversity at BuffaloUniversity at BuffaloUniversity at BuffaloUniversity at Buffalo4
BOARD OF DIRECTORSPresidentBenjamin Railton Fitchburg State UniversityFirst Vice PresidentHilda Chacón Nazareth CollegeSecond Vice PresidentMaria DiFrancesco Ithaca CollegePast PresidentDaniela B. Antonucci Princeton UniversityAnglophone/American Literature DirectorJohn Casey University of Illinois at ChicagoAnglophone/British Literature DirectorSusmita Roye Delaware State UniversityComparative Literature DirectorRichard Schumaker University of Maryland University CollegeCultural Studies and Media Studies DirectorLisa Perdigao Florida Institute of TechnologyFrench and Francophone Language and Literature DirectorAnna Rocca Salem State UniversityGerman Language and Literature DirectorLynn Marie Kutch Kutztown UniversityItalian Language and Literature DirectorGloria Pastorino Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityPedagogy and Professionalism DirectorAngela Fulk Buffalo State College SUNYSpanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures DirectorMaria Matz University of Massachusetts LowellCAITY Caucus President and RepresentativeEmily Lauer Suffolk County Community CollegeMember-At-Large: Creative Writing, Publishing, & EditingChristina Milletti University at BuffaloMember-At-Large: DiversityVetri Nathan University of Massachusetts BostonGraduate Student Caucus RepresentativeMarie-Eve Monette University of AlabamaWomen’s and Gender Studies Caucus RepresentativeRachel Spear Francis Marion UniversityEditor of Modern Language StudiesLaurence Roth Susquehanna University5
Welcome to HartfordWe are so excited to welcome you to Hartford and NeMLA 2016!Hartford’s range of historical and cultural sites is the focus of our localevents, including: discounted tickets to the Mark Twain House, theHarriet Beecher Stowe Center, and the Wadsworth Atheneum; a WallaceStevens walk led by a member of the Stevens Society; and a group rateto Romeo and Juliet on the Hartford Stage.Our Opening and Keynote speakers embody NeMLA 2016’s emphasison the public humanities. Opening reader Monique Truong, whose talk“Writing Plenty, Writing Hunger” will be held on Thursday at 7 PM atthe Convention Center, is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and editor.Keynote speaker Dr. William Jelani Cobb, whose address will be held onFriday at 7 PM at the Mark Twain House, is a preeminent public scholar,as well as Professor of History and Director of the Africana StudiesInstitute at the University of Connecticut. These promise to be cannotmiss events, so make sure to visit the registration table to pre-register!The 2016 Convention features many new initiatives. Sponsored by theCreative Writing Area, a series of Flash Readings will provide brief butincisive introductions to the work of practicing writers in the NeMLAcommunity. One session will be an open reading: any NeMLA attendeemay come to read, on a first-come first-served basis. Novelists CaroleMaso and Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel headline our first “Meet theAuthor” sessions. And two series of Presidential Sessions highlight keyconvention themes: on Friday at the Twain House, the series focuseson the public humanities, leading up to a session on “Scholarshipafter Ferguson,” to which Dr. Cobb will respond; and on Saturday at theConvention Center, the series focuses on academic labor, leading up toour CAITY Caucus event on adjunct unionization. Thanks to Dr. Cobb, theTwain House, and all the participants in these important events!Once again our Areas and Caucuses are offering a wide range of SpecialEvents. The Fifth Annual Shakespeare’s Sister Mentoring Breakfast,sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus, will be held onSaturday at 8 AM. The Creative Writing Area and Modern Language Studieswill host their annual Creative Writers and Editors’ Reception on Saturday at6:15 PM, preceding Carole Maso’s Meet-the-Author session. The Anglophoneand American Areas are co-sponsoring a reading by Iranian-American authorPorochista Khakpour on Saturday at 11:45 AM. For more information onthese and other Special Events, including those like Khakpour’s reading thatrequire pre-registration, see the descriptions in this program!6
Almost all of these events and receptions, including those requiring preregistration, are available to conference registrants for free. In addition,members can enroll in a number of interactive small-group workshops inculture and media studies, women’s and gender studies, graduate studentconcerns, and digital humanities. We will once again be offering a freeCV clinic at the convention. And our free membership business brunchmeeting on Sunday will conclude the convention and include informationon next year’s convention in Baltimore.Thanks so much to the University of Connecticut, our local host, for alltheir efforts, including securing guest speakers and setting up specialevents. Thanks in particular to Dean Shirley Roe, Professors CathySchlund-Vials and Robert Hasenfratz, and graduate student liaisonsEmma Burris-Janssen and Sarah Moon. And huge thanks to the entireNeMLA staff, to past presidents Daniela Antonucci and Ellen Dolgin, andto the entire NeMLA Board!All our staff and board members will be at the convention and are eagerto meet with you to address any concerns. Finally, please stay involved inNeMLA by proposing a session for the 2017 Baltimore convention beforethe April 29, 2016, deadline. NeMLA is one of the most supportive andcollegial scholarly communities we have encountered, and the morevoices are added to the conversation, the stronger we will be in the yearsto come!Enjoy Hartford!Benjamin RailtonPresident, NeMLAFitchburg State UniversityCarine MardorossianExecutive Director, NeMLAUniversity at BuffaloFuture Conventions2017 March 23-26BALTIMORE, MARYLANDHost: Johns Hopkins University2018 April 12-15PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIAHost: University of Pittsburgh7
Marriott Hartford Downtown (Map: Page 230)Connecticut Convention Center (Map: Page 231)Our convention site is located in the Adriaen’s Landing District ofdowntown Hartford, overlooking the Connecticut River, interconnected withthe Connecticut Convention Center, and conveniently located near theHartford Public Library.200 Columbus Boulevard, Hartford, CT 06103860 249-8000The Hartford DASH: Free Public ShuttleThe local Connecticut Transit DASH shuttle service provides freetransportation to the sites that await you in Hartford, with stops at theMarriott/Convention Center (Stop #1), the Hilton Hartford (Stop #10), theWadsworth Atheneum (Stop #3), and the Hartford Stage (Stop #11).The bright orange DASH bus will be offering extended service during theconvention weekend: Thursday, March 17 to Saturday, March 19, 7:00 AMto 11:00 PM, and Sunday, March 20, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM.More information: cttransit.com/RoutesSchedules/dash freeShuttle.aspNeMLA-sponsored Shuttle (Friday only)On Friday, NeMLA provides shuttles to transport attendees to the MarkTwain House and Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.Shuttles leave every 30 minutes from the following locations at thefollowing times between 12:00 PM and 9:30 PM:From the Marriott/Convention Center at 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, andcontinuing every 30 minutes until 9:30 PMFrom the Hilton at 12:05, 12:35, 1:05, and continuing every 30minutes until 9:35 PMFrom the Twain House/Stowe Center at 12:15, 12:45, 1:15, andcontinuing every 30 minutes until 9:45 PM8
9y Street1417stop 9stop 4stop 51381112109XL CENTERstop 10Yistop 320stop 11CVS10Possible detours and delays near stops #4-11 on March 20 from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. due to a 5K race taking place inDowntown. The final departure is 15 minutes prior to published end time. Route noted in orange on map above.Departs from Stop #1 every 15 minutesMarch 17, 18 and 19, 2016 - 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.March 20, 2016 - 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.FREE DOWNTOWN SHUTTLE6Map produced 9/17/2015by CT Conv. & Sports BureauBest Western Hotel& Suites (exit 27)stop 1N Soldiers & Sailors ArchP Homewood Suites DowntownQ Corning Fountain14 Black Eyed Sally’sSTOP #6J XL CenterK Theater Works11 Trumbull Kitchen12 McKinnon’s Irish Pub13 Max Downtowni Welcome CenterSTOP # 5L Ancient Burial Ground9 Vito’s By The Park10 Salute RestaurantM Bushnell Park CarouselSTOP # 4Butler Mc-Cook HouseHartford City HallHartford Public LibraryWadsworth AtheneumPeppercorn’s GrillBUS FOR MARK TWAIN HOUSE - 3/18/1621HartfordHampton Inn(East Hartford)Pedestrian Bridge - Hartford/EastRoute 2Holiday Inn(East Hartford)EFGH8STOP #3D Front Street District3 The Capital Grille4 NIXS Hartford5 Infinity Music Hall & Bistro6 Ted’s Montana Grill7 Bears BBQ SmokehouseSTOP # 2A CT Science CenterB Marriott Hartford DwtnC CT Convention Center1 FroYo World2 Vivo Seasonal TrattoriaSTOP #1iIndicates popular food truck locationsTypically weekdays, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.W Riverfront PlazaRadisson Hotel HartfordSTOPS #13 and #14VHartford StageResidence Inn by MarriottCT Old Street HouseCity Steam Brewery CafeDISH Bar & GrillSorella RestaurantPanera BreadSTOPS #12TUX18192021XL CenterHilton Hartford DowntownBaseball Stadium (April 2016)STOPS #11JSYSTOP # 10J XL Center17 Agave GrillSTOP # 9R Union Station (train/bus)15 Hot Tomato’s16 Black Bear SaloonUnion Station (train/bus)STOP #8RSTOP # 7NeMLA will be providing complimentary shuttle serviceto the Mark Twain House and Harriet Beecher Stowe Centeron Friday, March 18. Roundtrip service will be availablefrom 12:00 noon to 10:00 p.m. from the ConnecticutConvention Center and Hilton Hartford Hotel via Hy’sWorldwide Transportation. Travel time is about 15 minuteseach way. (The Mark Twain House is not on the DASH route.)stop 2stop 13Interstate 91stop 14Interstate 84stop 125 4 3d Hwy7Whitehea211918Hartford DASHCapitolAveTrinitSTATECAPITOLBUILDINGstop 615 16stop 8stop 7Map features restaurant partners of the ConnecticutConvention & Sports Bureau. Visit www.Hartford.comfor even more dining options in Hartford.THE DASH: FREE LOCAL SHUTTLE
SPECIAL EVENTSThursday, March 1711:00 AM–5:00 PMRegistration Convention Center, City Side EsplanadeLocal Event: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, self-directed tour 5 with NeMLA ID badge. Free DASH shuttle (page 9)11:30 AM–2:00 PMTrack 1: WorkshopsWorkshop: Cultural/Media Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies“Global Feminist Film: Diversity on Screen” Sofia Varino and JoySchaefer, SUNY Stony Brook. Films include Bold – A Short Film About Hairby Sascha Just, Self and Others by Patricia Silva, and Carnal Orient byMila Zuo Convention Center 11Workshop: Graduate Students “Getting the Most out of Graduate Advising:A Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty” Charles Mahoney andGreg Semenza, University of Connecticut Convention Center 17Workshop: Digital Humanities “Gaining Proficiency in the ForeignLanguage Classroom through Task-Based Activities” Sarah Martin,Sherry Venere, Rebecca Jones-Kellogg, and John Pendergast, UnitedStates Military Academy-West Point Convention Center 141:30–3 :45 PMWallace Stevens Walk led by Jim Finnegan of the Wallace StevensSociety NeMLA Price (includes shuttle): 10. More information:stevenspoetry.org/stevenswalk.htm. Sign up at the Registration Table Meet at 1:30 PM in the Marriott lobby to catch the NeMLA Shuttle2:00–5:00 PMExhibit Hall Convention Center Ballroom C2:15–4:15 PMTrack 2: Seminars, Roundtables, and Creative Sessions ConventionCenter and Marriott4:00–5:30 PMPresentation on Wallace Stevens and Other Poets “Great Poetry andMusic: Videos by Nancy Bogen” Free DASH shuttle (page 9) HartfordPublic Library, Center for Contemporary Culture, 500 Main Street10
Special Events Friday March 184:30–6:00 PMTrack 3: Sessions Convention Center and Marriott7:00 PMOpening Address “Writing Plenty, Writing Hunger” Monique Truong,novelist. Pre-register at the Registration Table Convention Center,Ballroom A9:00–11:00 PMGraduate Student Caucus Meet and Greet Welcome Reception ArchStreet Tavern, 85 Arch Street, 860 246-7610Friday, March 188:00 AM–5:00 PMRegistration Convention Center, City Side EsplanadeExhibit Hall Convention Center Ballroom C8:30–6:00 PMCV Clinic sign-up station Convention Center Ballroom C8:00–9:00 AMContinental Breakfast Convention Center Ballroom C8:30–9:45 AMTrack 4: Sessions Convention Center and Marriott10:15–10:45 AMFlash Readings by Jody Lisberger, University of Rhode Island, andChristine Becker, University of Maine Convention Center Ballroom C10:00–11:30 AMTrack 5: Sessions Convention Center and Marriott11:00 AM–5:00 PMLocal Event: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, self-directed tour 5 with NeMLA ID badge. Free DASH shuttle (page 9)11:45 AM–1:00 PMTrack 6: Sessions and Special Events Convention Center and Marriott11
Special Events Friday March 18President-sponsored Special EventA Reading by Historical and Romance Novelist Leanne Hinkle, Universityof Tennessee-Knoxville Convention Center 2112:30–1:30 PMPresident-sponsored Session: Public Humanities“Public Digital Humanities Projects” Shuttle available (page 8) Classroom-1, Mark Twain House and Museum, 351 Farmington AvenueIvy Schweitzer, Dartmouth College; Jennifer Serventi, Office of Digital Humanities(NEH); Jack Dougherty, Trinity College; Stephen Railton, University of Virginia1:30–2:30 PMTours of the Mark Twain House and Museum and the Harriet BeecherStowe Center. NeMLA admission (including cost of shuttle): 12 per tour.Pre-register at the Registration Table. Shuttle available (page 8)1:15–2:45 PMTrack 7: Sessions Convention Center and Marriott1:45–3:00 PMPresident-sponsored Session: Public Humanities“Humanities and the Public” Shuttle available (page 8) Classroom-2,Mark Twain House and Museum, 351 Farmington AvenueSally Whipple, CT Humanities Council Board; Rosemary Johnsen, GovernorsState University; Katherine Kane, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center; James Golden,Mark Twain House and Museum; Carolyn Karcher, Temple University2:30–3:30 PMTours of the Mark Twain House and Museum and the Harriet BeecherStowe Center. NeMLA admission (including cost of shuttle): 12 per tour.Pre-register at the Registration Table. Shuttle available (page 8)3:15–3:45 PMFlash Readings by Christina Milletti, SUNY University at Buffalo, and B.K. Fischer, Columbia University Convention Center Ballroom C3:00–4:30 PMTrack 8: Sessions and President-sponsored Sessions ConventionCenter, Marriott, and Mark Twain House and MuseumPedagogy and Professional Special Event Connected Academics:Preparing Doctoral Students for a Variety of Careers Convention Center 2112
Special Events Friday March 183:15–4:30 PMPresident-sponsored Session: Public Humanities“Public Scholarship and Activism: Communities, Practices, andBattlegrounds” Shuttle available (page 8) Classroom-1, Mark TwainHouse and Museum, 351 Farmington AvenueAmy Brady, Independent Scholar; Paul Gagliardi, University of WisconsinMilwaukee; Roberto Hurtado, SUNY Oswego; Emma Howes, Coastal CarolinaUniversity; Christian Smith, Coastal Carolina UniversityPresident-sponsored Session: Public Humanities“Academic and Museum Collaborations: Teaching a Literature Coursethrough Museums and Material Culture” Shuttle service: Page 8 Classroom-2, Mark Twain House and Museum, 351 Farmington AvenueJeff Partridge, Capital Community College; Emily Wanlewski, Harriet BeecherStowe Center; James Golden, Mark Twain House and Museum3:30–4:30 PMTours of the Mark Twain House and Museum and the Harriet BeecherStowe Center. NeMLA admission (including shuttle page 8): 12 per tour.Pre-register at the Registration Table. 3:30 PM.4:45–6:15 PMTrack 9: Sessions and President-sponsored Sessions ConventionCenter, Marriott, and Mark Twain House and Museum4:45–6:00 PMPresident-sponsored Session: Public Humanities“Scholarship after Ferguson” Shuttle available (page 8) Auditorium,Mark Twain House and Museum, 351 Farmington AvenueJonathan Gray, John Jay College; Zellie Imani, public school educator and activist;Juliet Hooker, University of Texas Austin; Sadasia McCutchen, Wesleyan Office ofEquity and Inclusion; Respondent: Jelani Cobb, University of Connecticut3:6:30–7:30 PMTrack 10: Business MeetingsCAITY Annual Business Meeting Convention Center 11Graduate Student Caucus Annual Meeting Convention Center 127:00 PMKeynote Address William Jelani Cobb, University of Connecticut.Reception to follow. 5 (shuttle service). Sign up at the RegistrationTable Auditorium, Mark Twain House and Museum, 351 Farmington Ave13
Special Events Saturday March 19Saturday, March 198:00 AM–5:00 PMRegistration Convention Center, City Side EsplanadeExhibit Hall Convention Center Ballroom C8:30 AM–5:00 PMCV Clinic sign-up station Convention Center Ballroom C8:00–9:00 AMContinental Breakfast Convention Center Ballroom C8:00–10:00 AMSpecial Event: Shakespeare’s Sister Mentoring Breakfast Sponsored bythe Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus Marriott E8:30–10:00 AMTrack 11: Sessions Convention Center and Marriott10:15–10:45 AMFlash Readings by Joseph Hall, SUNY University at Buffalo, and EmilyAnderson, SUNY University at Buffalo Convention Center Ballroom C10:00–5:00 PMLocal Event: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, self-directed tour 5 with NeMLA ID badge. Free DASH shuttle (page 9)10:15–11:30 AMTrack 12: Sessions and Special Events Convention Center and MarriottGraduate Student Caucus Special Event“Rethinking Success After Grad School” Jennifer Polk, life coach andpublic speaker Convention Center 21President-sponsored Session: Labor and the State of Higher Education“Contingency Toolboxes: Strategy Session for Adjuncts and other Nontenure Track Faculty” Convention Center 1714
Special Events Saturday March 1911:45 AM–1:15 PMTrack 13: Sessions and Special Events Convention Center and MarriottAnglophone and American Special Event“One Iranian-American’s Literary Debut: How to Introduce New ImmigrantIdentities in Anglophone Prose” Porochista Khakpour, Bard College. Signup at the Registration Table Convention Center 17President-sponsored Session: Labor and the State of Higher Education“Adjuncts, Academic Labor and the State of Higher Education” Convention Center 211:30–3:00 PMTrack 14: Sessions and Special Event Convention Center and MarriottPresident-sponsored Session: Labor and the State of Higher Education“Rethinking Humanities Pedagogy” Convention Center 133:15–3:45 PMFlash Readings: Open Mic Convention Center Ballroom C3:15–4:30 PMTrack 15: Sessions and Special Events Convention Center and MarriottCultural Studies and Media Studies Special Event “Buffy, Beatrice,Black Widow: Strains of Whedon’s Feminism” Rhonda V. Wilcox, GordonState College Convention Center 11CAITY Special Event “Protecting the Precarious: Unionizing AdjunctFaculty” Katelynn DeLuca, the Faculty Association Executive Council atSuffolk County Community College, and Rachel Kaufman, Ithaca Collegeand SEIU Local 200 Convention Center 214:45–6:15 PMTrack 16: Sessions and Meeting Convention Center and MarriottWomen’s and Gender Studies Business Meeting Convention Center 116:30–8:30 PMTrack 17: Special Events Convention Center and Downtown HartfordAnnual Creative Writers and Editors’ Reception Sponsored by ModernLanguage Studies Convention Center 21Women’s and Gender Studies and Diversity Special Event “TheUnyielding Earth: Women of Color Feminism and Cold War Fictions”Crystal Parikh, New York University Convention Center 1115
Special Events Saturday March 19Spanish and Portuguese Special Event “De aquí y de allá: vertientesde la poesía puertorriqueña trasatlántica” Michele C. Dávila Gonçalves,Salem State University Convention Center 12Italian Literatures and Cultures Special Event Reading and Discussionwith Amara Lakhous, novelist and philosopher Convention Center 13Comparative Literature Special Event “Technology and Online Teaching:Reflections on the Role of the Instructor” Susan Ko, CUNY School ofProfessional Studies Convention Center 14French and Francophone Special Event, co-sponsored by Women inFrench “Le là d’où je viens” Fabienne Kanor, novelist and filmmaker Convention Center 15German Special Event Film Screening Wir wollten was tun! (We Wanted toDo Something!) with director Iris Bork-Goldfield, Wesleyan University, inattendance. Followed by a reception co-sponsored by Kutztown University Convention Center 177:30–8:30 PM“Meet the Author” Session Carole Maso, Brown University, novelist andessayist Convention Center 218:00–10:00 PMDiversity Reception and Mixer Live music Arch Street Tavern, 85 ArchStreet8:00 PMRomeo and Juliet, directed by Darko Tresnjak NeMLA price: 22. FreeDASH shuttle (Stop #11, page 9) Hartford Stage, 50 Church Street16
Special Events Sunday March 20Sunday, March 208:00–10:30 AMRegistration Convention Center, City Side EsplanadeCoffee Convention Center Ballroom C8:00 AM–12:00 PMExhibit Hall Convention Center Ballroom C8:30–10:00 AMTrack 18: Sessions Convention Center and Marriott10:00 AM–5:00 PMLocal Event Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, self-directed tour 5 with NeMLA ID badge. Free DASH shuttle (page 9)10:15–11:45 AMTrack 19: Sessions and Special Event Convention Center and Marriott“Meet the Author” Special Event A reading of excerpts from WabanakiBlues, Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, Mohegan Tribe Convention Center 2412:15–1:30 PMMembership Business Meeting and Brunch Pre-registration required Convention Center Ballroom A1:00–3:00 PMTrack 20: Seminars and Roundtables Convention Center and Marriott17
SUBJECT INDEX TO SESSIONSAMERICANThursday2:15 PM4:30 PMFriday8:30 AM10:00 AM11:45 AM2.5 Gimme Shelter: Creative Writing about Rescued Animals2.13 Still Searching for Nella LarsenCC262.16 The Choice of Books: The Woman Reader, Control, and Cultural AuthorityCapital 23.11 Teaching American Literature with Digital TextsCC243.16 Immigrant Narratives and U.S. Racial IdentitiesCapital 23.19 Literary Landscapes: Water and Island WorldsConference 54.11 The Domestic in Toni Morrison's FictionCC244.16 Can Satire Really Restore Sanity?Capital 24.21 Generic Possibilities: Interrogating the Fusion of Genre Fiction and LiteratureMarriott A5.11 "Beat! Beat! Drums!" American War PoetryCC245.12 Representations of National Identity in 20th-century Ethnic American Literature ICC255.16 Hartford SentimentCapital 25.20 Moved by the Spirit, Authorized by God I: Black Women Activists and ReligionConference 76.6 Vietnam War Representations in American Culture6.8 President-sponsored Special Event and Reading1:15 PM3:00 PM4:45 PMSaturday8:30 AMCC15CC16CC216.11 Beyond the Phallus: Seeing Men Otherwise in American Literature and CultureCC247.10 Cities of the FutureCC237.11 Revisiting the 1980s I: American Literature and Culture in the Reagan EraCC247.15 One Hundred Years of Susan Glaspell’s TriflesCapital 18.1 The Bible and 19th-century American Women WritersCC118.6 Revisiting the 1980s II: American Literature and Culture in the Reagan EraCC168.7 White Buildings at 90: Revisiting the Art of the (Post)Modern Poetry CollectionCC178.11 Teaching Twain in the 21st CenturyCC248.15 Contemporary Literature as Digital LiteratureCapital 18.16 Willa Cather as ModernistCapital 28.20 Religious Authority in American Literature IConference 78.24 Non-identity, Dis-identity, and ImpersonalityMarriott E9.4 Representations of National Identity in 20th-century Ethnic American Literature II CC149.11 Soundscapes of American LiteratureCC249.14 Training our Students to Teach under Common CoreCC279.17 Queer Intimacies, Queer Spaces, and Scales of Desire ICapital 39.22 The Archive and African American Literature in the 21st CenturyMarriott B11.7 Mary McCarthy’s The Group: Further Still to Go?CC1711.13 New Frontiers in the American WestCC2611.16 'Catch if you can your country’s moment': The Poetry of Current EventsCapital 211.17 Moved by the Spirit, Authorized by God II: Black Women Activists and ReligionCapital 318
AmericanSaturday 10:15 AM11:45 AM1:30 PM12.6 Remembering the Chinese Educational Mission in Hartford12.11 Death and the Civil WarCC2412.13 Italian-American Studies in the Third MillenniumCC2612.16 Cities, Centers, and Limits in Post-1945 American LiteratureCapital 212.18 The Language of American Warfare after World War IIConference 412.20 Harriet Beecher Stowe's Iconic Uncle Tom's Cabin: A RevisitConference 712.21 Queer Intimacies, Queer Spaces, and Scales of Desire IIMarriott A13.6 Mark Twain, Then and NowCC1613.7 Anglophone and American Co-sponsored Special EventCC1713.11 Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Transmission of Ideas in Colonial AmericaCC2413.16 Hawthorne on LoveCapital 214.6 Representing Disability in American Fiction ICC1614.7 Pakistani English Literature After 9/11CC1714.8 Faulkner: Still Relevant?CC2114.11 Sexual Violence in American CultureCC2414.14 The Rise and Development of Dystopia in YA LiteratureCC2714.16 The Hartford Wits and Their LegacyCapital 23:15 PM 15.11 Jazz Literature from the 1950s: Papers in Honor of Ann and Samuel Charters4:45 PMSundayCC2415.16 Dawnland Voices: Contemporary Literature in Indigenous New EnglandCapital 215.19 Theodicy of Spirituality in Contemporary American Women’s PoetryConference 515.24 You and Me and Ut Pictura Poesis Make Three: Illustrated Poetry after 1900Marriott E16.3 Hartford and Antebellum WritingCC1316.11 Representing Disability in American Fiction IICC2416.16 Longfellow, Writer of Books: Interpretations of the Single Volume or CollectionCapital 216.19 Detectives and Detection in Post-9/11 Film and TelevisionConference 516.21 Museum Engagements in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Literature IMarriott A8:30 AM 18.11 Post-Civil War Rhetorics of Violence18.20 The Science of Affect in American Literature and Culture10:15 AMCC16CC24Conference 719.1 Utopia on the MarginsCC1119.5 'Laboring, Loafing, and Languishing': Work and Identity in Antebellum AmericanLiteratureCC1519.6 The Literature and Film of the Wars in IraqCC1619.9 Museum Engagements in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Literature IICC2219.11 "Meet the Author": A ReadingCC2419.19 'Ruined!': On Failed Adaptations from Page to ScreenConference 51:00 PM 20.16 The Multigenerational Latino Novel: Structure and Nuance in the Latino Experience Capital 219
AnglophoneANGLOPHONEThursday2:15 PM4:30 PMFriday8:30 AM10:00 AM11:45 AM2.7 Literature and Art of ReconciliationCC172.15 Metaphors of DetectionCapital 13.15 The Teacher and the Complex TextCapital 13.18 What Next? Narrative in the Post-post-Modernist and Post-meta-fiction EraConference 43.19 Literary Landscapes: Water and Island WorldsConference 53.20 Dwelling Space: The Theory and Practice of Habitation and 'Home'Conference 74.15 Drama as Woman's Work: Contemporary Female PlaywrightsCapital 15.10 Touching the Body in Pieces I: Affective Ecologies of the Modern BodyCC235.15 Dollars and Desire: Capitalism, Oppression, and the Racial OtherCapital 16.1 Word and Image on Page, Stage, and Screen in the Long Nineteenth Century6.15 Living in a Serial WorldCC11Capital 16.16 Diagnosis Literature I: Medical Narratives of Invalidism in the Nineteenth Century Capital 21:15 PM7.7 The Language of Indigenous Politics7.21 Diagnosis Literature II: Medical Gaze and Narrative Structure in theNineteenth Century3:00 PMSaturday8.7 White Buildings at 90: Revisiting the Art of the (Post)Modern Poetry CollectionCC17Marriott ACC178.15 Contemporary Literature as Digital LiteratureCapital 18.17 Contextualizing Ireland’s Same-sex Union Referendum in Irish LiteratureCapital 34:45 PM9.15 Use, Abuse, Abstinence: Reading Alcohol in LiteratureCapital 18:30 AM11.3 The Great War RevisitedCC1311.11 Touching the Body in Pieces II: Affective Ecologies of the Modern BodyCC2410:15 AM 12.15 Beyond the Monster I: The Ethics of Fragmentation in the Long Nineteenth Century Capital 112.16 Cities, Centers, and Limits in Post-1945 American Literature11:45 AM1:30 PM13.7 Anglophone and American Co-sponsored Special EventCC2513.15 Can Global Space Become a Local Space?Capital 114.7 Pakistani English Literature After 9/1114.24 Global Dickens (sponsored by The Dickens Society)Marriott ECapital 116.4 Landscape and Literature: Autobiography and Geographies of the Heart and Mind CC1416.15 Represent, Rename, Recall: Collective Memory in Caribbean LiteratureCapital 116.18 The Critical "I"Conference 410:15 AM 19.15 Aesthetics after Theory: Politics, History, and the Pied Space of Literature1:00 PMCC17Conference 73:15 PM 15.15 Ecocriticism and PostcolonialismSundayCC1713.12 Local and Global Transgressions in Art and Literature (PCSA panel)14.20 Reconsidering Sodomy4:45 PMCapital 220.3 Detective Fiction: How Dead Is the Past?Capital 1CC1320.12 Beyond the Monster II: The Ethics of Fragmentation in the Long Nineteenth Century CC2520
BritishBRITISHThursdayFriday2:15 PM2.9 Victorian Popular Fiction and the 21st CenturyCC224:30 PM3.3 Brontë Women: Conventional, Radical, and ExceptionalCC1
community. One session will be an open reading: any NeMLA attendee may come to read, on a first-come first-served basis. Novelists Carole Maso and Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel headline our first "Meet the Author" sessions. And two series of Presidential Sessions highlight key convention themes: on Friday at the Twain House, the series focuses
