Tentative
Program 2002
SP
103 - SP 175 & CP 1- CP 27
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SP
103 Black Music and Technology
CHAIR Alexander G. Weheliye, Department of English,
Northwestern University
PAPERS Beth Coleman, Department of Comparative
Literature, New York University
Come Again Selector
Lynne D.
Johnson, Program
in Urban and Multicultural Education, College of Mount Saint Vincent
Hip-Hop¹s Transformers:
Technologies of Production and Distribution in Hip-Hop
Dalton
Anthony Jones,
American Studies Program, Yale University
Heebie Jeebies, or,
"Why is this Man Smiling?"
Kali Tal, Department of Comparative
Culture and Language Studies, University of Arizona
Room Full of Mirrors, or,
Reflections Without the Man: The Death
and Continuing Non-Life of Jimi Hendrix
COMMENT Alexander G. Weheliye
SP
104 Racializing the American: The New
Negro and the New Whiteness in the Early-Twentieth-Century
United States
CHAIR Alex Byrd, Department of History, Rice University
PAPERS Caroline Goeser, Department
of Art, University of Houston
Remaking the Past, Making the
Modern in Harlem Renaissance Illustration
J.Allen Douglas, Department of History, Rutgers
University
The Property of Citizenship:
Naturalization Laws and Whiteness, 1870-1930
Jack Kerkering, Department of English, Trinity
University
Discarding Dialect, Preserving Race: James Weldon Johnson and the “New Negro”
Poet
SP
105 Pop Culture and Performance: Queer Transgressions
CHAIR Shelli B. Fowler, Department of Comparative
American Cultures, Washington State University
PAPERS Lisa R. Williams, Department
of English, Washington State University and Tori C. Byington, Interdisciplinary Studies,
Washington State University
A Reader’s Response Essay: Drag
Shows as Revolutionary Texts in Moscow, Idaho
Michael Borgstrom, Department of English,
University of California, Davis
Subverting Queer: Reading Grease
Ta-Wei Chi, Department of Comparative
Literature, University of California,
Los Angeles
When Trannies Triumph: A
Transnational Transgression Among Hollywood, Hong Kong, and Thailand
COMMENT
Shelli B. Fowler
SP 106 Faith, Ethnicity, and Social Change:
Three Case Studies of Religion and the
Immigrant Experience in North America
CHAIR Diane Vecchio,
Department of History, Furman University
PAPERS John Craig Watt, Department
of History,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Italianita, Italian Americans,
and the American Religious Environment: Italian Pentecostalism, a Case Study
Sushil
Jain, Scarman Centre, Institute of Asian Cultures
Globalization, Immigration, and Religious Accommodation: The Sikhs in Canada, a Case Study
CHAIR Julia C. Ehrhardt, Honors College, University
of Oklahoma
PAPERS Christina Cogdell, Department of Liberal
Studies, California State University, Fullerton
In Search of Smooth Flow: Constipation, Eugenics,
and Streamline Design in the 1930s
Susan Currell, Department of American and Canadian Studies,
University of Nottingham, UK
“Life Begins at Forty”: Self-Improvement and Eugenics During the Great Depression
Kerry Soper, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative
Literature, Brigham Young University
Bad Breeding and Crime in Dick Tracy’s Rogues
Gallery: The Comic Art of Chester Gould and the Popularization of Eugenics
Theory in 1930s America
Jodi Kelber-Kaye, Department of Comparative Cultural and
Literary Studies, University of Arizona
Sex and Eugenics:
The Ambivalence of Eugenics in 1930s Film
COMMENT Robert Rydell, Department of History and
Philosophy, Montana State University, Bozeman
AV Request VCR/TV, 2 Slide Projectors
CHAIR Robert Olwell, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS: Aaron Palmer, Department of History,
Georgetown University
Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor: Imperial
and Colonial Identity in the American South and British Caribbean, 1763-1783
Anna Mae Duane, Department of English, Fordham Univerity
Growing Pains: Sympathy, Identity, and the
Revolutionary Child
Edward Watts, Department of American Thought and
Language, Michigan State University
The Well Disposed Gentleman and the New Made Indian:
Cosmopolitan Through Contrast, 1790-1820
COMMENT The Audience
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SP
109 Autobiographies of Race: Education, Language, and (Trans)nation
CHAIR Viet Thanh Nguyen, Department of English, University
of Southern California
PAPERS Wilson C. Chen, Writing Programs, University of
California, Los Angeles
Race, Nation, and U.S. Empire in the
Autobiographical Borderlands of James Weldon Johnson’s Along This Way
John Nieto-Phillips, Department of History, New
Mexico State University
Memory, Migration, and Civic Identity:
The Life and Education of an American Jíbaro
Jane Hseu, Department of English and Comparative Literature,
University of California, Irvine
Multilingualism and the Nation: Theresa Cha’s Dictee, Gloria
Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, and the “English-Only” Movement
David Puente, Department of English and Comparative Literature,
University of California, Irvine
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SP 110 The American Politics
of Death (TALK)
CHAIR Frank Shuffelton, Department of English, University of Rochester
PAPERS Desirée Henderson, Department of English,
University of Texas, El Paso
The Politics of Eulogy in
Early America
Karen Flood, History of American
Civilization, Harvard University
The Civilized Corpse: The Cultural Politics of the Dead in Late
Nineteenth-Century America
Juliana Chang, Department of English, Santa
Clara University
Race and American
Melancholia
Timothy Raphael, Department of Communication
Studies and Theater, Ursinas College
Momento Mori: Ronald Reagan and the Sanction of Death
COMMENT Russ Castronovo, Department of American
Studies, University of Miami
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SP 111 The Mass Culture Debate at 50:
Critical Reassessments and Interventions
CHAIR Francis G. Couvares, Department of History and
American Studies, Amherst College
PAPERS Mark Eaton, Department of English, Azusa Pacific
University.
Critical Mass: Revisiting
the Postwar Mass Culture Debate After Cultural Studies
David Steigerwald, Department of History,
Ohio State University, Marion
The Invention of Cultural
Agency
Stefan K. Cieply, Program in Comparative
Literature, University of Maryland
Beyond the Usual Suspects:
The Case of Dwight MacDonald and Esquire
COMMENT Francis G. Couvares
CHAIR
Stuart Burrows, Department of English, Brown
University
PAPERS Jeff Kadem, Department of English, Cleveland State
University
The Application of
Post-Colonial Methods to Pan-American Study
Gretchen Murphy, Department of English, University of
Minnesota, Morris
The Legacy of the Monroe Doctrine:
or, How the Other Half of the Western Hemisphere Idea Lives
Elena Glasberg, Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University
COMMENT Rodrigo J. Lazo, Department of English, Miami
University
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CHAIR Sally Clarke,
Department of History, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS Kristin Hoganson,
Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Kitchens as Crossroads:
The Popular Geography of Food, 1865-1920
Jennifer
Scanlon,
Women’s Studies Program, Plattsburgh State University of New York
Almost Too Big: The Mall of America
Carolyn Thomas
de la Peña,
American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
Staging the Global Brand: Prada’s Regional Transnational Flagship
Stores
COMMENT Shirley Wajda,
Department of History, Kent State University
AV Request LCD
Projector and Connections (Non-Standard Equipment), Slide Projector, Overhead
Projector
CHAIR Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Department of American
Studies, University of Texas, Austin
PANELISTS Angela Dillard, Department of American
Studies, New York University
Alex Lubin, Program in American Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Gaye T.M. Okoh, Center for Black Studies, University of California,
Santa Barbara
John-Michael Rivera, Department of English, University of Colorado,
Boulder
David Vazquez, Department of English, University of California, Santa
Barbara
COMMENT Shelley Fisher Fishkin
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Player
SP
116 Saving the World Through Children:
Cold War Politics and the Battle for
Children’s Minds
PAPERS Christine Jenkins, Graduate School of Library
and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
A New Sense of World
Brotherhood--and the Will to Express It:
Youth Services Librarians and Cold War Censorship, 1946-1955
Shafali Lal, American Studies Program,
Yale University
The Moral Life of Whiteness:
Northern Science, Regional Ethnography, and Children's Lives
Julia L.
Mickenberg,
Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin.
Bringing
“Interracial” Books to an “All-White World”:
Postwar Children’s Literature and the Old Left
Michelle M. Nickerson, American
Studies Program, Yale University
Education or Indoctrination?:
Housewives Against “Brainwashing” in Cold War Los Angeles
COMMENT Ruth Feldstein, Department of History, Harvard University
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SP
117 The Cultural Work of Financial Panic
CHAIR David Zimmerman, Department of English,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
PAPERS Kevin Hicks, Department of English, Princeton
University
The History of the Hen Fever: Property as Pathogen
Mary Templin, Department of English, University of Wyoming
Containing Sentiment: Antebellum Women’s Panic Fiction
David Anthony, Department
of English, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Bank Panic and Male Panic in the Antebellum Gothic
COMMENT David Zimmerman
AV Request NONE
SP 118 Performance As Text: Uncovering the History of the Montgomery Bus
Boycott
CHAIR William
Chafe,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
PERFORM Awele Makeba, Department of Arts
Elementary Education, San Francisco State University
Rage is Not a One-Day Thing!
COMMENT The Audience
SP
119 Trading Gazes: Anglo American Women
Photographers and Native North Americans
CHAIR Molly H. Mullin, Department of Anthropology
and Sociology, Albion College
PAPERS Nicole Tonkovich, Department of Literature,
University of California, San Diego
Seeing Globally, Preserving
Locally: Jane Gay Among the Nez Perce,
1888-1892
Melody Graulich, Department of English and
American Studies, Utah State University
Kate Cory Among the Hopi,
1905-1912
Lisa MacFarlane, Department of English and
American Studies, University of New Hampshire
“Comprehending Equal
Eyes”: Mary Schaffer Among the Stoney,
1906-1911
COMMENT Molly H. Mullin
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SP 121 Old West, Global
West: Genealogies of Indian Territory
CHAIR Renée Bergland, Department of American Studies,
University of Bergen, Norway
PAPERS Bethany Schneider, Department
of English, Bryn Mawr College
“May I Not Make a Question?”: Elias Boudinot and the Translation of
Cherokee National Belonging
Kendall Johnson, Department
of English, Swarthmore College
Reading Black Hawk’s Mark: George Catlin’s Picturesque “Far West” and the Legibility of
Indian Removal
Stephanie LeMenager, Department
of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Prairie Cosmopolitanism: North America’s Global Deserts
COMMENT Renée Bergland
SP 122 Landscapes of Disease
in Early America
CHAIR Carl Smith, Departments of English and American Studies,
Northwestern University
PAPERS Adam Sweeting, Department of Humanities, Boston
University
The “Autumnal Remitting
Fever”: Medicine, Indian Summer, and the
Late Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Fear of Warm Weather
Megan Kate Nelson, History and Literature
Department, Harvard University
Miasma: Physicians, Swamplands, and the Discourse of Disease in Southern
Culture, 1800-1880
Andrew Curtis and John M. Anderson, Department
of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University
Animating and Spatially Analyzing
the New Orleans Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
COMMENT Paul Kelton, Department of History,
University of Kansas
AV
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SP 123 Culture, Crisis, Citizenship: The
Expressive Arts Respond to Global and
Local Dilemmas
CHAIR Eve Oishi, Department of Women’s Studies, California State
University, Long Beach
PAPERS Deborah Whaley, Department of American
Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Get Up, Get-Get, Get Down, 9/11 Ain’t a Joke in Your Town: Patriotism and Contestation in Black
Expressive Culture
Suniana Maria, Department of English, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
A Brutal Unveiling:
Citizenship and Race Politics for Muslim Immigrant Youth
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Department of Women's Studies, University
of California, Irvine
Compositional Communities: Re-viewing Sa-I-Gu and Mississippi
Triangle
Cynthia Young,
Department of English and American Studies Program, University of Southern
California
Global Aesthetics/Local
Contexts: Film, Culture and Radical Resistance in NYC and L.A.
SP
125 It’s Open “Mic on
Steroids”: A Conversation about Spoken
Word
(DIALOGUE)
CHAIR Michael Davidson, Department of Literature,
University of California, San Diego
PANELISTS Adrián Arancibia, Department of English, University of
California, San Diego; Member of Taco Shop Poets
Spoken Word Fissures and
Fusion
Démian Pritchard, Department of English, Southern Connecticut State
University
A Few Words on Spoken Word:
Keeping the Funk of the Memory Theater
Laura Gutiérrez, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of
Iowa
Contesting Dominant Notions
of Poetry, Space and Masculinity/ Femininity:
Notes on the Current Trend in Chicana Spoken Word
COMMENT Michael Davidson
SP126 The
South and the West Indies: Literary Translations
CHAIR Jeannine DeLombard, Department
of English, University of Toronto
PAPERS Sean
X. Goudie, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
In Ole West India: Redrawing the Boundaries of U.S. “Local
Color” Writing
Frederick
Jeffrey Karem, Department of English, Cleveland State University, "The Deeper
South”: Caribbean-American Cross-Currents in the Works of Richard Wright and
George Lamming
Martha Schoolman, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania, White
Flight: Maroon Communities and the Limits of Philanthropy in Higginson and
Stowe
COMMENT Jeannine DeLombard
CHAIR Anita Mannur, Department of Comparative Literature,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
PAPERS Martin F. Manalansan IV, Department of
Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Who's Fusing Whom?: Fusion, Foodies,
and Asian American Culinary Modernity
Laurence Roth, Department of English, Susquehanna University
Kosher Hybridity and American Jewish Cookbooks, 1871-1990
Robb Walsh, Houston Press
Six Degrees of Hybridization: The Many Motives of Fusion Cooking
COMMENT Anita Mannur
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Projector
SP 128 Chicana/o Technospaces
CHAIR Rosaura Sánchez, Department of Literature, University
of California,
San Diego
PAPERS Curtis Marez, Department of American Studies,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Insurgent Brown Sounds: Radio and Early Sound Films in
Post-Revolution Los Angeles
Catherine S. Ramírez, Department of English, University of New Mexico
Deus ex machina: Tradition,
Technology, and the Chicanafuturist Art of Marion Martínez
COMMENT Rosa Linda Fregoso, Latin American and Latino
Studies Department,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Rosaura Sánchez
AV
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SP 129
Handwork and Masculinity
CHAIR Patricia
A. Turner,
African and African American Studies, University of California, Davis
PAPERS Simon
J. Bronner,
American Studies Program, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
The Erect Male: Carving Masculinity in American Folk Art
Jay Mechling, American Studies Program, University of California, Davis, The Handmade Boy Scout
Neckerchief Slide
Douglas Manger, Public Folklorist
Handwork and Masculinity
COMMENT Margaret
R. Yocom,
Department of English, George Mason University
AV Request Carousel Slide
Projector
CHAIR Deborah Willis, Department of Photography, Tisch School of the Arts,
New York University
PAPERS Nicole R. Fleetwood, Department of Film, Vassar
College
Rendering the Exotic: Race, Technology, and the Work of Fatimah Tuggar
John L. Jackson, Jr., Department of Cultural
Anthropology, Duke University
The Ethnographic Filmflam: Doing Visual Anthropology, Doing Native Anthropology
Kellie Jones, Departments of History of Art and African
American Studies, Yale University
Lorna Simpson, Bodie,s and Evidence: The Practice and Reception of Postmodern
Photography
AV Request VCR/TV, Overhead Projector, Double Slide Projector
CHAIR Judith Halberstam, Department of Literature, University of
California, San Diego
PANELISTS David Román,
Department of English, University of Southern California
Julia Maria Schiavone
Camacho, Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso
Christina Benes Hanhardt,
American Studies Program, New York University
AV Request CD/Audio-Cassette Player
SP 134 Women Working in
Early Hollywood: Labor, Studio Culture,
and the
Industry of Celebrity
CHAIR Jennifer Parchesky, Department of English,
Arizona State University
PAPERS Heidi Kenaga, Department of Communication, University of Memphis
“Film-Smitten Girls are Marching on the Movie Metropolis”: The MPPDA, the YWCA, and the Hollywood
Studio Club
Karen Ward Mahar, Department of
History, Sienna College
Why Mary Pickford Wasn't Andrew Carnegie: Masculine Corporate Culture and the Female Star Producer, 1916-23
Anne Morey, Department of
English, Texas A&M University
A British Screenwriter in an American Context: Elinor Glyn Educates the American Movie
Viewer
Shelley Stamp, Film &
Digital Media Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
“A Perpetual Leading Lady”:
Fashioning Hollywood’s First Celebrity Director
AV Request Opaque Projector (NON
STANDARD EQUIPMENT) & Overhead Projector
CHAIR Shawn Michelle Smith, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis
University
PAPERS Ellen Goldner, Department of English, City
University of New York, Staten Island
Black Masks, White Masks: Surveillance, Visual Culture, and “Race” in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Clotel
Amy Mooney, Department of Fine Arts, Washington State University
The Paralysis of Portraiture
Elizabeth Abel, Department of English, University of
California, Berkeley
The Camera, the Lunch Counter, and the Contours of
the Nation
AV Request Carousel Slide Projector
CHAIR Amitava Kumar, Department of English, Pennsylvania
State University
PANELISTS Alondra Nelson, Department of African
American Studies, Yale
University
Rachel Buff, Department of History, Bowling Green State
University
Amy Greenberg, Department of History, Pennsylvania State
University
Jason Loviglio, American Studies, University of Maryland,
Baltimore County
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, American Studies Program,
New York University
COMMENT: Amitava Kumar
SP 137 Trading in Print: Transnational Economics and Colonial North
American
Literatures
CHAIR Jennifer Rae Greeson, Society of Fellows in the Humanities,
Columbia
University
PAPERS Michelle Burnham, Department of English, Santa
Clara University
The Language of Investment:
Travel Writing, New England, and the Economic Subject in the World
System
Ivy Schweitzer, Department of English, Dartmouth College
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Department of English and
American Studies Program, Yale University
Puritan Adventurers: The
Transatlantic Print Public Sphere and Colonial Investment
COMMENT Jennifer Rae Greeson
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SP 138 Look at the Queers: Mainstream Mediations of Sexual Practices
and
Identities, 1960-1980
CHAIR Vicki L. Eaklor, Division of Human Studies,
Alfred University
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy, Department of Women’s
Studies, University of Arizona
PAPERS John Howard, American Studies Program,
King’s College, University of London,
This is How We Do It: Queer
Identity Instruction in Postwar America
Patrick McCreery, American Studies Program,
New York University
The Militant Male Molester: Anita Bryant’s Representation of Homosexuals
Leisa D. Meyer, Department of History,
College of William and Mary
“Are Negroes More Amorous Than Whites?”: Competing Sexual Normativities in Popular
Culture During the 1950s and 60s
COMMENT Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
AV
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PAPERS Andrea Tinnemeyer, Department of English,
Utah State University
Embodying the Revolutionary Woman:
Images of Mexican Suffragettes in the 1930s
Juan Alonzo, Center for Mexican American Studies, College of
Liberal Arts, University of Texas, Austin
From Greaser Bandit to Bandit Revolutionary: Ideological Conflation in
Mexican Identity Representation in U.S. Cinema
Richard T. Rodríguez, Department of Chicano
Studies, California State University, Los Angeles
Que Viva Hollywood?: The Mexican Revolution and
the U.S. Mediated Imagination
AV Request LCD Projector for PowerPoint (NON-STANDARD
EQUIPMENT), VCR/TV, Slide Projector
SP 142 Localizing the War on Terrorism: State Repression, Domestic Violence, and
Sexual Politics (DIALOGUE)
CHAIR Joy James, Department of Africana Studies, Brown
University
PAPERS Sora Han, History of Consciousness,
University of California, Santa Cruz; Program in Public Interest Law and
Policy, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
The Veil as Metaphoric
Prison in the War on Terrorism
Dylan Rodríguez, Department of Ethnic Studies,
University of California, Riverside
State Terror and the
Limits/Possibilities of Absolute Conflict:
Waging Wars Through and Beyond Prison Space
Andrea Smith, Program in Native
American Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Safety at Home?
AV
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SP 143 Diasporic Politics and Pacific
Islanders on the Continental United States
CHAIR J. Kehaulani Kauanui, American Studies and
Anthropology, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University
PAPERS Ilana Miriam Gershon, Editorial Associate, American
Ethnologist, Indiana University
The Eviction of
Tradition: "Failure" in a San
Francisco Samoan Community-Based Organization
Ilisa Lam, Department
of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center
Compact Migrants, Natives,
and Others: Contextualizing the
Presence of Marshall Islanders in the United States
Michael Perez, Department of Sociology,
California State University, Fullerton
Insiders Without, Outsiders
Within: Chamorro Ambiguity and Diasporic
Identities on the U.S. Mainland
COMMENT
AV Request NONE
SP
144 The Sexual Politics of Global
Fundamentalist Movements (TALK)
CHAIR Surina Khan, Executive Director,
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
PAPERS Minoo Moallem, Department of Women's
Studies, San Francisco University
Modernist Tropes and
Postmodern Encounters: Islamic
Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Representation
Tanya Erzen, American Studies Program,
New York University
Converting Sexuality in the
U.S. Christian Right
Paola Bacchetta, Women's Studies Program and
Department of Geography, University of Kentucky
Sexual Effects and the
Efficacy of Sexuality in Hindu Nationalism
COMMENT Surina Khan
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SP
145 Talking Across Disciplines: A
Roundtable Discussion on 19th-century
American
Oratorical Performance
CHAIR Jeffrey Rhyne, Department of English,
University of California, Riverside
PAPERS Steven Mailloux, Department of English and
Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Oratorical
Performance and Rhetorical Paths of Thought
Sandra M. Gustafson, Department of English, Notre Dame University
Civic Performance
Joy Connolly, Department of Classics,
Stanford University
The Language
of the Common Body: Virtue or Vice?
Kathy L. Glass, Department of Women’s
Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Undoing the
Public from the Platform: The Oratorical Career of Maria W. Stewart
Christopher G.
Diller,
Department of English, Rhetoric, and Writing, Berry College
Francois
Delsarte and The New Elocution
Granville Ganter, Department of English, St. John’s University
Women's Public
Speech Before 1848
Jeffrey Rhyne,
Subjection and Subjectivity in Oratorical Performance
COMMENT The Audience
SP 146 American
Culture: A Roundtable Discussion on
American Studies in Post Soviet Russia
CHAIR T. Gregory Garvey, Department of English, State University of New York,
Brockport
PANELISTS Dana
Heller, Department
of English, Old Dominion University
Evgenii Mikolaevich
Pashentsev, Faculty
of History, Moscow State Pedagogical University
Tatiana
Venediktova, Faculty of Philology, Moscow State University; Director of
American Studies Summer Institute
AV Request NONE
SP 147 Nations,
Wars, and Markets: Hidden Histories of
the American War in Vietnam
CHAIR Lisa
Lowe, Department
of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS Scott
Laderman, Department
of American Studies, University of Minnesota Celebrating Doi
Moi: Neoliberalism and Travel
Guidebooks for Vietnam
Katherine Kinney, Department of English,
University of California, Riverside Hanoi
Jane
Ed Martini, Department of American
Studies, University of Maryland Whose
Globalization?: The American War on
Vietnam 1975-1995
COMMENT Lisa
Lowe
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SP 149 American
Womanhood in Brown and White – “What’s Class Got To Do With It?” (EXHIBIT)
Lowrider Magazine, Latina Magazine, and
Miss Clairol: What’s Class Got To Do With It?
Susan Marks, Independent Scholar
Linda Heidenreich, Department of Women’s Studies, Washington
State University
Deconstructing Betty: Race, Capital and the Mobilization of Betty
Crocker Images in Twentieth-Century America
COMMENT Bárbara Reyes
SP
151 Left Critique and the War on
“Terror”(ROUNDTABLE)
CHAIR Robyn Wiegman,
Women's Studies Department, Duke University
PANELISTS Eva Cherniavsky, American Studies Program,
Indiana University
Tom Foster, Department of English, Indiana University
Eric Lott, Department of English, University of Virginia
Wahneema Lubiano, Department of Literature, Duke University
COMMENT The Audience
AV
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SP
152 Bad Campus, Good Campus: The
Present and Future of College and University
Architecture and Public Space (EXHIBIT)
CHAIR Meghan Sweeney, Department of English, State
University of New York, Buffalo
PAPERS Robin Bachin, Department
of History, University of Miami
The University of Miami: From
Modern to Moneymaker
Dale
Gyure, Department of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University
“Which One Is the Library?”:
The Evolution of the Library on American College Campuses
Jane Quinn, Department of English, State University of New
York, Old Westbury
SP 153 New
Directions in Early African American Studies (TALK)
CHAIR Shirley
Thompson, Deparrtment
of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS Joanna Brooks, Department of English, University
of Texas, Austin Early Black Literature and
the Politics of Location
Sharon Holland, Program in African American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago,
and Tiya Miles, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California,
Berkeley Seeing Red: Afro-Native Studies as African American Studies
John Saillant, Department of History, Western Michigan University Sources of Abolitionism in the
Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic
COMMENT Shirley Thompson
SP
156 Visual Culture and the Construction of New Identities
CHAIR Barbara A. Babcock, Program in Comparative
Cultural and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Arizona
PAPERS Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, American Studies Program,
Boston University Imagining Ourselves: Photographs and the Formation of Community
Identity in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1900-1920
Joshua L. Miller, Department of English and
Comparative Literature, Columbia University John
Sayles and the Project of Transamerican Cinema: Visual Culture and Multilingual Expression
Edison Cassadore, Program in Comparative
Cultural and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Arizona The
Cinematic Uses of Flashback and Native American Identities in Chris Eyre's Smoke
Signals
Jerry Philogene, Department of American
Studies, Skidmore College Memory and Diasporic Identities in
Jamaican American and Haitian American Artistic Communities
Kendal Kennedy, Teachers College, Columbia
University Iranian American Art: An Identity in the Making
COMMENT Sharon L. Parker, Program in Comparative Literature and
Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Arizona
AV
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Projectors
SP
157 Transnational, Translocal: Popular
Music and the Discourses of Latinidad
CHAIR George Lipsitz, Department of Ethnic
Studies, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS Maria Elena Cepeda, Department of Romance
Languages and Literature, University of Michigan
Making a (Musical) Scene: The
Miami Musical Industry and the Local/Global
Lilia Fernandez, Department of Ethnic
Studies, University of California, San Diego
"We Make the Music"/ Laying Claim to Cultural
Expression: Latino DJs and the
Production of House Music
Wilson Valentin-Escobar, Program in American Culture,
University of Michigan "The River is Deep, You Dig!": Tension Between Global and Local Discourses
Surrounding Latin Jazz
Victor Hugo Viesca, American Studies Program,
New York University
No Justice, No Music: The Peace and Justice Center and the
Chicano/Latino Music Scene in Los Angeles
COMMENT George Lipsitz
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SP 158 Incorporating and
Subverting the Global: Hawai'i Local
Identities Performance
CHAIR Paul Lyons, Department of English,
University of Hawai'i, Manoa
PAPERS Heather Diamond, Department of American
Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa Local Hawai'i at the 1989 Festival of American
Folklife
Halifu Osumare, School of Human Movement,
Sports, and Leisure Studies, Bowling Green State University Performance and Performativity in
Global Hip-Hop: Hawai'i as Case Study
Barry Masuda, Department of Literature,
University of California, San Diego The Politics of Local
Humor in Hawai'i
COMMENT Amy Ku'uleiloha Stillman, Program in American Culture,
University of Michigan
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SP
159 Too Jewish
CHAIR Riv-Ellen Prell, Department of American
Studies, University of Minnesota
PAPERS Eric L. Goldstein, Department of History, Emory
University Racial Conformity and Transgression in American Jewish Youth
Culture, 1920s to 1940s
Leslie Fishbein, Department of American
Studies, Rutgers University
So Jewish, Too Jewish, Not
Jewish: The Intersecting Axes of
Identity of Jewish American Women in the Public Sphere
Hasia R. Diner, Department of History, New
York University A Farewell to Ethnicity:
American Jewish History and the Academy
COMMENT Riv-Ellen Prell
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160 Transnational Localities:
Navigating the Global in Wong Kar-Wai's Happy
Together
CHAIR David Eng, Department of English, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick
PAPERS Neda Atanasoski and Jinah Kim, Department of
Literature, University of California, San Diego
Queer Desire and Subjectivity within Postmodern Geographies
Margaret Fajardo, Deparment of Literature,
University of California, San Diego
El Tango Argentino and Globalized Culture(s)
COMMENT David Eng
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CHAIR Mary Panzer, Department of History, New
York University
PANELISTS David L.
Jacobs, Department of Art, University of Houston
Margaret
Morton, School of Art, The Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art
Miles Orvell, American Studies Program, Temple University
Maren Stange, Faculty
of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of
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SP 162
Indigenous Transnationalisms: American
Indians, Indios, and "Indian Indians"
CHAIR Eric
Gary Anderson, Department of English, Oklahoma State University
PAPERS Lauren
Stuart Muller, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley "Moving
Towards Home": Naming Alliances Across Tough Distances in the Poetry of
Joy Harjo and June Jordan
Sharon Delmendo, Department
of English, St. John Fisher College, "Truly Brother and Sister
Now": Recuperation of the Indio/Indian
Postcolonial Dynamic
Karen Cardoza-Kane, Department
of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Indian Encounters:
Between "Home" and "Migration" in the Americas
COMMENT The Audience
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SP 163
Vanishing Points: Nature, Nation, and
Intimacy in Documentary Photography
CHAIR John Raeburn, Department
of American Studies, University of Iowa
PAPERS James
C. Hall, Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois,
Chicago
Antagonistic Cooperation:
Dennis Stock's Jazz Street and the Documentary Impulse
Barbara Shubinski, Department
of American Studies, University of Iowa Edward Weston's Vision of Walt
Whitman's America: The Much Unsung Leaves
of Grass Project
Jane E. Simonsen, Honors
College, University of Central Arkansas "Picture Us if You Can!":
Dramatic Tensions in E. Jane Gay's Domestic Documentary
COMMENT John
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SP 164 A World Remade, A Racial Past Reconsidered:
Building Black Communities Local and Global, 1890-1950
CHAIR Nancy
Mirabal, Department of La Raza Studies, San Francisco State
University
PAPERS Adrian
Burgos, Jr., Department of History, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign Playing a Whole Different Game?: “The
Latins from Manhattan,” Diaspora, and the Politics of Race in Harlem
Frank
Guridy, “Though Separated By Oceans Deep”: Toward
a History of the Black Transnational Community in Cuba and the United States
Nicole
Stanton, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, “Who Are We? Afro-Americans,
Colored People, or Negroes?”: The Black
Press Debates Racial Terminology, 1890-1920.
Kidada
E. Williams, Department of History, University of Michigan “By Any and All Other Means”: Rethinking Black Responses to Racial Terror,
1890-1925
COMMENT Nancy
Mirabal
SP 165 Talking Back
to "Whiteness"?: Women of
Color Educators, Students, and Texts (ROUNDTABLE)
CHAIR AnaLouise
Keating, Women's Studies Program, Texas Woman's University
PANELISTS Mary
Loving Blanchard, Department of English, New Jersey City University
Ellen
M. Gil-Gomez, Department of English, California State University, San
Bernardino
Simona
J. Hill, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Susquehanna
University
Eliza
S. Noh, Department of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of
California, Berkeley
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SP 166 The American Holy Land: Protestant U.S.'s Involvement in the Middle
East
(TALK)
CHAIR Milette
Shamir, Department of English,
Tel Aviv University
PAPERS Timothy
Marr, Curriculum in American Studies, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill Antebellum American Aspirations and
the Turkish "Empire of Sin":
Protestants and the Problem of Ottoman Ascendancy in the Holy Land
Hilton
Obenzinger, Department of English, Stanford University Holy Land Travel and the American
Covenant: Nineteenth-Century Palestine
in the Settler-Colonial Imagination
Yaakov
Ariel, Department of Religious Studies, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill A Holy Land Indeed:
Palestine in American Protestant Culture
COMMENT Melani
McAlister, Department of American Studies, George Washington
University
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SP 167 Local and Global Identities at the
Intersection of Arab and American
Worlds
CHAIR Andrew
Shyrock, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
PAPERS Akram
Fouad Khater, Department of History, North Carolina State University Discovering Ethnicity:
Arab Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1914
Khaled
Mattawa, Department of English,
University of Texas, Austin Notions of the Universal and the Arab
American Experience: Kahlil Gibran and
Edward Said
Sally
Howell, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Looking for Home in the Global Disorder: Dearborn and its Arab Diasporas
Nadine
Naber, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, American
University in Cairo A
Place From Which to Shout: On Radical,
Arab American Feminist Practice
Ken
Habib, Department of Ethnomusicology, University of California,
Santa Barbara The Lebanese American
Diaspora in the Light of Fairuz
COMMENT Andrew
Shyrock
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SP 168 Religion in the American Studies
Classroom (ROUNDTABLE)
CHAIR Paul Croce, American Studies Program,
Stetson University
PANELISTS Candy
Gunther Brown, American Studies Program, St. Louis University
Danielle Brune, Department of American
Studies, University of Texas
John Corrigan, Department History,
Florida State University
Matthew Hedstrom, Department of American Studies, University
of Texas
Sharon M. Leon, Department of American Studies, University
of Minnesota
COMMENT The Audience
SP
169 "To Witness On Every Level":
The Work of Lorenzo Thomas
CHAIR Barry Maxwell, Department of Comparative Literature and American
Studies Program, Cornell University
PAPERS Harryette Mullen, Department of English,
University of California, Los Angeles "All Silence Says Music Will
Follow": Listening to Lorenzo
Thomas
Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Department of English,
Pennsylvania State University "Fit Music":
The Secret Link Between the Beach Boys and the Black Arts
Maria Damon, Department of English, University of Minnesota
The Historical Present: Lorenzo Thomas's Extraordinary Measures
as Literary Historiography
COMMENT Barry Maxwell
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SP 170 Beg, Borrow or Steal: Critical Engagements with Consumer Culture
(TALK)
CHAIR Amy Schrager Lang, Center for Continuing Education, Sarah Lawrence
College
PAPERS Rosanne Currarino, Department of History,
Queen's University The Consumer-Citizen and the Limits of Liberalism
Patrick Wehner, MARIAL Center, Emory University
Intellectual Outsourcing: Cultural Studies and the "Postmodern
Turn" in Marketing
Cecelia Tichi, Department of English, Vanderbilt
University Muckrakers: The Production Side of Consumer Culture
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SP 171 Contact Zones: Latino/a Language, Memory, and Labor in the
Midwest
CHAIR Theresa Melendez, Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies, Michigan State
University
PAPERS Anne M. Martínez, American Studies Program,
University of Minnesota Crossing Over: Mexican Labor and the Color Line in 1920s Chicago
Theresa Delgadillo, Center for Chicano Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara Localizing the Transnational: A Look at Two Photographic Collections of
Latino/a Life in the Midwest
Frances Aparicio, Progrm in Latin American and Latino Studies,
University of Illinois, Chicago Language
and Colonialism: Latino/a Linguistic
Autobiographies from the Midwest
COMMENT Theresa Melendez
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SP 172 Engendered
Visions: Building Local Physiques and
National Icons in an
Embodied World
CHAIR Linda Borish, Department of History and Women's Studies Program, Western
Michigan University
PAPERS John D. Fair, Department of History and
Geography, Georgia College and State University Mr. and Miss America Contests: A Tale of Contrasting Cultures, 1921-1985
Charles Kupfer, American Studies Program, School of
Humanities, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg Race of Men: Southern Football as Masculinity Crucible,
1964-1985
Jan Todd, Department of Kinesiology and Health Education,
University of Texas, Austin A Patch of Sand that Changed the World: An Illustrated History of Muscle Beach and
its Impact on Modern Body Ideology
COMMENT Linda Borish
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SP
173 The Swingin' Sixties:
Alternative Histories of Jazz
CHAIR Peter X Feng, Department of English, University of
Delaware
PAPERS Peter X Feng, English Department, University of
Delaware
Switch in Time: Count Basie in the 1960s
Eric Porter, Department of American Studies, University of California,
Santa Cruz
“Born Out of Jazz . . . Yet Embracing All
Music": George Russell¹s Avant-Garde Vision
Kevin Fellezs, Department of the History of Consciousness, University of
California, Santa Cruz
COMMENT Mark Anthony Neal, Department of English, State University
of New York, Albany
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SP 175 Beyond the Boundary: Caribbean Culture in the Global Marketplace
CHAIR Deborah A. Thomas, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University
PAPERS: Donette Francis, Department of English, Binghamton
University
From
Rude Boy to Cosmopolitan Man: “Black Tourist Romance Novels” and the Marketing
Afro-Jamaican Masculinity in the U.S.
Harvey Neptune, Department of History,
City University of New York, Staten Island
“The
Taste of Rum and Coca Cola:” Calypso, Nationalism and American
Audiences
in Occupied Trinidad
Kezia
Page, Department of English, University of Miami
Dancehall
Feminisms? Jamaican Female DeeJays and
the politics of “the big Ninja bike.”
Patricia
Saunders,
Department of Liberal Arts, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine,
Trinidad, West Indies
Verbal
Play and the Politics of Interpreting Caribbean Culture
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CP 1 Vision, Visuality and Commerce in Nineteenth Century America,
1800-1850
(Sponsored by the Visual Culture / Art History Caucus)
CHAIR John Davis, Department of Art, Smith
College
PAPERS Wendy Bellion, Winterthur Museum & Garden
The Invisible Lady: Politics of Sight in Early
National America
Alan Wallach, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary,
Panopticism and the Construction of Bourgeois Identity
Peter Brownlee, Department of American Studies, The George Washington
University
Manifest Visuality: Richard Caton Woodville's War News from
Mexico, the Daguerreotype, and Vision at Mid-Century
COMMENT Laura Rigal, Department of English, University of Iowa
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CP
2 Racial Boundaries, Identities, and
Anti-Racist Politics
CHAIR Jim Lee, Department of English,
University of Texas
PAPERS Claire Jean Kim, Department of Political
Science, University of California, Irvine
Race and Positionality
Ofelia Cuevas, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of
California, San Diego
Criminality at the Close of the Millennium: The
Exhibition of Class and the Consruction of Race on COPS
Laura Pulido, Department of Geography, University of Southern
California
Between Black and White: The Negotiation of
Chicana/o Identity Among Los Angeles Activists
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Department of Geography,
University of California, Berkeley
Profiling Alienated Labor: Scale, Racialization, and
Re-partitioned Geographies
COMMENT Jim Lee
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CP 3 Visual
Culture at Work in the 1930s. (Sponsored by the Visual Culture/Art History
Caucus.)
CHAIR Peter
Bacon Hales,
Department of Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago
PAPERS Joan
Saab,
Department of American Studies, University of Rochester Art and Work on the WPA
Kate
Sampsell,
Department of History, Georgetown University Lewis Hine and "The Moral Equivalent of War": Photography
as Toil
Sharon
Ann Musher,
Department of History, Columbia University Painting the Bottom Third In and Out of Existence or How
Representations of the "Forgotten Man" Shaped Political Thinking
Carol
Quirke-Radja,
Department of History, City University of New York, Graduate Center Bitter Kisses:
Visual Narratives of a Sit-down Strike at Hershey Chocolate Corporation, April
1937
COMMENT Ellen Wiley Todd, Department of History,
George Mason University
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CP 4 Transnational Classrooms: Exploring Possibilities of Collaborative
Teaching Online A Roundtable (Sponsored by the Crossroads Project Advisory
Board.)
CHAIR Randy Bass, ASA Crossroads Project,
Georgetown University
PANELIST Bill Bryant, American Studies
Department, University of Iowa
Rob Nelson, American Studies
Department, Rutgers University
Gretchen Schoel, Reves Center for International Studies,
College of William and Mary
Tomoko Hamada, Department of Anthropology, College of William and
Mary
Judy Babbitts, School of Undergraduate Studies, University of
Maryland, University College
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CP
5 American Studies in Secondary
Education (ROUNDTABLE--Focus
on Teaching Day Proposal)
CHAIR Roger Hatridge, Department of English, North Kansas City High
School, North Kansas City, Missouri
PANELIST Lee Bebout, English Department,
University of North Texas, Denton
Ron Briley, History
Department, Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque
Deborah Schmalholz, Teacher Coordinator for Professional
Growth, School District U-46, Elgin, Illinois
COMMENT Roger Hatridge
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CP 6 The Culture of Print in Civil War America: Local and Global
Perspectives (Sponsored by Society for
the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Caucus)
CHAIR Wayne A. Wiegand, School of Library and Information Studies,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
PAPERS Elisa Tamarkin, Department of English,
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Renfrew Glass: or Britain, Civility, and the
Civil War
John Navin, Department of History, Coastal
Carolina University
The War in Print: How Northern and Southern
Library Patrons Viewed the Causes, Conduct, and Consequences of the "War
of Northern Aggression"
Kathleen Diffley, Department of English, University of Iowa
In Circulation: Stories, Magazines and Post
Offices of the Civil War
Robert Scholnick, Department of English, College of William
and Mary
The Fate of Humor in a Time of Civil War: VANITY
FAIR (1860-1863) and the Negro
COMMENT Wayne A. Wiegand
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CP 7 War and the Culture of Print: World War II and the Cold War in
Local and Global Perspective (Sponsored by the Society for the History of
Authorship, Reading, and Publishing)
CHAIR Ellen Gruber Garvey, Department of English, New Jersey City University
PAPERS Dan J. Puckett, Department of History,
California Baptist University
The Struggle Over Hitler, Race, and Democracy in
Alabama's Newspapers During World War II
Richard Fine, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth
University
Covering D-Day: World War II War Correspondents
John B. Hench, Collections and Programs, American Antiquarian
Society
A D-Day for American Books in Europe: Overseas
Editions, Inc., 1944-45
Elke van Cassel, Department of American Studies, University
of Nijmegen, Netherlands
In Defense of Freedom: The Rise and Fall of The Reporter, a Cold War
Magazine
COMMENT Ellen Gruber Garvey
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CP 8 A Coming -of-Age Course: Teaching First-Year Undergraduates to
Think About Who They Are, How They Got That Way, and Who They Might Become (Focus on Teaching Day)
CHAIR Catharine O'Connell, Dean of Academic Affairs, Cabrini College
PAPERS Charlie McCormick, Department of English and
Communications, Cabrini College
Why Coming of Age is a Compelling Idea in Theory
But A Scary Way to Teach a Course
Seth Frechie, Department of English and Communications, Cabrini
College
Writing Identity: The Rhetoric of Coming-of-Age
Amy DeBlasis, Adjunct Faculty, Cabrini College
The Use of Primary Evidence and Outside Experts
in a Coming-of-Age Course: Reflections from the Outside Expert
Leonard Norman Primiano, Department of Religious
Studies, Cabrini College
Coming-of-Age for a Generation of Seekers: The
Place of Spirituality and Religion in a First-Year Course
COMMENT Nancy Lesko, Department of Curriculum and Teaching,
Teachers College, Columbia University
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CP 9 Trans-Species Studies: Animals and Humans in American Culture (TALK-
Program Committee Member)
CHAIR Jane Desmond, American Studies
Department, University of Iowa
PAPERS Brett Mizelle, History Department,
California State University, Long Beach
The Pig of Knowledge and the Swinish Multitude: Human-Animal Communication and the
Contestation Over the Desirability of Democracy in the Early American Republic
Janet M. Davis, Department of American
Studies and History, University of Texas, Austin,
The Location of Cruelty:
Animals, New York City, and the Birth of the ASPCA During the Gilded Age
Jeffrey Hyson, Department of History, Saint Joseph’s University,
COMMENT Jane Desmond
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10 American (Indian?) Studies: Can ASA Be
an Intellectual Home? (Program Committee Member proposal)
CHAIR Mary Helen Washington, Department of English,
University of
Maryland, College Park
PAPERS Phil Deloria, Program in American Culture,
University of Michigan American Indians, American Indian Studies, and the
ASA
Jean O'Brien, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Why Here? Scholarly
Locations for American Indian Studies
Robert Warrior, Program in Native American Studies, University of
Oklahoma
A Room of One's Own at the
ASA: An Indigenous Provocation
COMMENT Mary Helen Washington
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CP
11 American Studies in a Hostile World:
U.S. Culture and Global Politics After September 11th (ROUNDTABLE--Sponsored by
the International Committee)
CHAIR Paul Giles, American Literature Program, University of
Cambridge, U.K.
PANELISTS Olutayo Charles Adesina, Department of History,
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Thomas Bender,
Department of History, New York University
Ana Margheritis,
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University
Kousar Jabeen Azam,
Political Science Department, Osmania University, India
COMMENT The Audience
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CP 12 Education
Without Borders: Building Academy/Community Partnerships (ROUNDTABLE—Sponsored
by the ASA Women’s Committee)
CHAIR Erin A. Smith,
American Studies Program, University of Texas, Dallas
PANELISTS Elizabeth
Gregory,
Women’s Studies Program, University of Houston
Sarah E. Frazer, University Archivist, University of Houston
Carey C. Shuart, Community Volunteer/Activist, Houston
Sally Russ, School of the Woods Montessori School, Houston
COMMENT The Audience
CP 13 Place/Spaces of Performance III:
Embodying Ambiguities (Sponsored by the Performance and the Music
of the Americas Caucuses)
CHAIR Susan Manning,
Department of English, Northwestern University
PERFORMANCE
Valerie A. Briginshaw, Reader in Dance,
University College Chichester
Emilyn Claid,
Research Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts, University of Surrey
COMMENT Susan Manning
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CP
14 Race, Gender, and Education in the Bush
Years
(ROUNDTABLE—Sponsored by the ASA Women's Committee and Committee on Secondary
Education)
CHAIR Barbara McCaskill, Department of English, University
of Georgia
PANELISTS Careda Taylor, Principal, Kenwood Academy High School,
Chicago,
Illinois
Julie M. Browning, Dean for Undergraduate Enrollment, Rice University
Jeanette H. Byrd, Sneed Elementary School,
Alief Independent School
District, Houston
COMMENTS: The Audience
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Of Pachucos, Hep Cats, and Social Horizons:
Masculine Bodies, the Zoot Suit, and Dignity in World War II
Bill Bush, Department of American
Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Vicki Mayer, Department of American Studies, University of
California, Davis
The Spice Girls in Cowboy
Hats: Making
Tejano Teen Music
COMMENT Sonia Saldivar Hull, Department of English, University of Texas,
San Antonio
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CP 16 Commodities, Communities and Culture: The Aesthetics of Working
Class Life (Sponsored
by the Working-Class Studies Caucus)
CHAIR Jacqueline Ellis, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, New
Jersey City University
PAPERS Janet Zandy, Department of Language and
Literature, Rochester Institute of Technology
"I May Paint Flat, But I Don't Think
Flat": Ralph Fasanella,Epic Painter of the Working-Class
Deirdre J. Murphy, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Moralizing Commodity: Defining the Immigrant
Working Class Within American Industrialization in Nineteenth-Century Art
David Gray, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Punching In and Punching Out: Working Class
Struggle in the Late 1940s Boxing Noir Film
COMMENT Michael Frisch, Departments of History and
American Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo
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CP 17 Reading Out: Queer Texts,
Queer Readers, Queer Publics (Sponsored by the Queer Caucus)
CHAIR Cris Mayo, College of Education,
University of Delaware
PAPERS James Polchin, American Studies Program,
New York University,
“Give Me Something Dirty”: Queer Readers in the 1930s
Stephanie
Foote,
Department of English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Odd
Girl Out Again: Republishing as the Making of ‘Our’
Lesbian Past
J.
Todd Ormsbee, Department of
American Studies, University of Kansas
“For
Those in Our Community": Discursive Strategies of Community Building in
Gay Publications, 1960s San Francisco
COMMENT The
Audience
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CP 18 Instituting Lesbian and Gay
Programming: A Roundtable (Sponsored by the Queer Caucus)
CHAIR Anne Enke, Department of Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
PANELISTS George Chauncey, Department of History, University of Chicago
Linnea
Stenson, Steven J. Schochet Center for GLBT Studies, University of
Minnesota, Twin Cities
Lee Quinby, Division of Humanities, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
COMMENT The Audience
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CP 19 Places/Spaces of Performance I: Geographies of Diaspora: Identity
and Sexuality
(Sponsored by the Performance Caucus and the Music of the Americas Caucus)
CHAIR Alicia Arrizon, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of
California, Riverside
PAPERS Anthea Kraut, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for
Afro-American Research,
Harvard University
Between Primitivism and Diaspora: Choreography and Geography in
the Performances of Josephine Baker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Katherine Dunham
Stephanie L. Batiste, Department of American
Studies, George Washington University
The Devil's Daughter: Sisterhood, Voodoo, and the Ambivalence of Black
Diaspora
Beth Berila, Department of English, Syracuse University
“What Do You Expect From a Bunch a' Cowboys?": Queerness and
Western Identity in The Laramie Project
Amy Sara Caroll, Literature Program, Duke University
Situating Mexican Performance As Multi-Media
Fashioned: Seven Contemporary Performanceras' Poetics and Politics
COMMENT Alicia Arrizon
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20 Places/Spaces of Perfomance II: The
Politics of Embodiment (Sponsored by the Performance and Music of the Americas Caucuses)
CHAIR Amy Koritz, Department of English,
Tulane University
PAPERS Rebekah J. Kowal, Department of Dance,
University of Iowa
Chorographic Opacity in the
Early Cold War Years
Karen Backstein, Manhattan Marymount
College
Music, Dance, Performance, Politics:
The Concert Videos of Ney Matogrosso and Caetano Veloso
Janice Ross, Department of Drama, Stanford University
Vanishing Spectators in 1960s
Performance and Popular Culture
COMMENT Shelley Berg, Division of Dance,
Southern Methodist University
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CP 21 B'twixt and Between: Asian American Studies, the Local vs. the
Global
(Sponsored by the Association for Asian American Studies)
CHAIR Gail M. Nomura, Department of American
Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
PANELISTS Rick Bonus, Department of American Ethnic Studies,
University of Michigan
Shirley Hune, Graduate
Division, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert G. Lee,
Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Stephen H. Sumida,
Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
COMMENT The Audience
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CP 22 The Nature of Houston: The Local and Global Implications of and Need
for Reconceiving "Nature" in Urban Environments (Sponsored by ASA
Environmental Studies Caucus Session)
CHAIR Harvey K. Flad, Department of Geography, Vassar
College
PANELISTS Joni Adamson, Program in English and
Folklore, University of Arizona
Hazel Barbour, Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
(TNRCC), Austin
Jia-yi Cheng-Levine, University of Houston, Downtown
Terrell Dixon, Department of English, University of Houston
COMMENT The Audience
CP
23 Academic Job Interview in American
Studies: A Demonstration Workshop (Sponsored by the Students' Committee)
CHAIR Barbara Shaw Perry, Department of American
Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Search
Committee
Elsa Barkley Brown, Departments of History
& Women's Studies,
University of Maryland,
College Park
Cedric Gael Bryant,
Department of English, Colby College
Amy Kaplan, Department
of English, Mount Holyoke College
David Roman, Department
of English, University of Southern California
Richard Yarborough,
Department of English & Center for African American Studies, University of
California, Los Angeles
Job Candidate
Adrian T. Gaskins, Department of American
Studies, University of Minnesota
COMMENT The Audience
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CP 24 American Studies in the Public Sphere (ROUNDTABLE--Sponsored by
the Students' Committee)
CHAIR Barry Shank, Comparative Studies Department, Ohio State
University
PANELISTS Catherine C. Griffin, Development Officer,
California Indian Legal Services
Alice Y. Hom,
Department of History, Claremont Graduate University
Earl Lewis, Rackham
Graduate School, University of Michigan
Clement A. Price,
Department of History, Rutgers University
COMMENT The Audience
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CP 25 Getting
Published: A Workshop for Graduate Students on Publishing in Scholarly
Journals
CHAIR Jessica
Nathanson, Department of American Studies, State University of
New York, Buffalo
PANELISTS Greg
Dimitriadis,
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, State University of New York,
Buffalo
Carla Kaplan, Department of English, University of Southern California
Joanne Meyerowitz, Department of History, Indiana University
Cindy Mills, American Art, Smithsonian Institution
COMMENT The
Audience
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CP 26 Get a
Ph.D. and Change the World: Activist Careers for Humanities Scholars (Sponsored by the Working-Class
Studies Caucus)
CHAIR John
Russo,
Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University
PANELISTS Erik
Peterson,
Labor Education Service, University of Minnesota
Norma
Smith, National Labor Writers Union
Jennifer Luff, Center
for Strategic Research, AFL-CIO
COMMENT The Audience
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CP 27 Regret to Inform You: Women and War (Sponsored by the Women's
Committee)
CHAIR Danille Taylor-Guthrie, Department of Minority Studies, Indiana
University Northwest
FILM Barbara Sonneborn, Director
Regret to Inform You
COMMENT The Audience
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