Tentative Program 2002

SP 103 - SP 175 & CP 1- CP 27

 

The following list of sessions and participants reflects the program as currently constructed on April 15, 2002. The information is subject to change. The program will be continually updated. The official online program will be continually updated. The official program book will be available online on or before August 1, 2002 at http://www.theasa.net and click-on "Annual Meeting Information."

 

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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

 

COMMENT   Orm Øverland, Department of English, University of Bergen

 

 

SP 107 Making it Modern: Popular Culture and Eugenics in the 1930s (TALK)

 

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

 

 

SP 108 The Problem of Identity in Early America, 1600-1830

 

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

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

James Weldon Johnson, American Bildung, and the Talented Tenth

 

COMMENT   The Audience

 

AV Request   Overhead Projector

 

 

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

 

AV Request   Slide Projector

 

 

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     

 

SP 112 What’s In a Hemisphere?  Theorizing New Locations for American Studies

 

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

A Hemispheric Imaginary for American Studies

 

COMMENT   Rodrigo J. Lazo, Department of English, Miami University

 

AV Request   Overhead Projector

 

SP 114         Kitchens, Chapels, and Prada: Consumer Spaces and Global Exchange

 

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

SP 115         Multiculturalism in a Post-Civil Rights Age (ROUNDTABLE)

 

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

 

AV Request   Slide Projector and CD 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

 

AV Request   Slide Projector

 

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

 

AV Request   Slide Projector with Remote Control

 

 

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 Request   NONE

 

 

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.

 

COMMENT   The Audience

 

 

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

 

SP 127         Global Food?:  Fusion, Creolization, and Hybridity in Culinary Culture

 

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


AV Request   TV/VCR, Overhead 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 Request   Slide Projector, VCR/TV

 

 

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

 

 

SP130 Visualizing Blackness:  Locality, Race, and the Polemics of Visibility (TALK)

 

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

 

COMMENT   Deborah Willis

 

AV Request   VCR/TV, Overhead Projector, Double Slide Projector

 

 

SP 131         Roundtable Discussion on Race, Space, and Queer Subcultures

(ROUNDTABLE)

 

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     

                                     

COMMENT   The Audience

 

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

 

COMMENT  The Audience

 

AV Request   Opaque Projector (NON STANDARD EQUIPMENT) & Overhead Projector

 

 

SP 135         Visual Cultures of Blackness and Whiteness

 

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

 

COMMENT   Shawn Michelle Smith

 

AV Request   Carousel Slide Projector

 

 

SP 136         Teaching 9/11 (ROUNDTABLE)

 

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

John Winthrop’s “Familiar Commerce”

 

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

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 Request   Slide Projector

 

 

SP 139         The Mexican Revolution in U.S. National Consciousness

 

CHAIR         Antonia Castañeda, Department of History, St. Mary’s University

 

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

 

COMMENT   The Audience

 

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 Request   NONE

 

 

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

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

AV Request   Overhead Projector, VCR/TV                                                                                                                     

SP 149 American Womanhood in Brown and White – “What’s Class Got To Do With It?”  (EXHIBIT)

        

CHAIR         Bárbara Reyes, Department of History, University of New Mexico

 

PAPERS       Adriana Estill, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New Mexico

Lowrider Magazine, Latina Magazine, and Miss Clairol: What’s Class Got To Do With It?

 

Susan Marks, Independent Scholar

The Betty Mystique

 

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 Request   VCR/TV

 

 

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

Reverse Panopticism in the English Department

 

COMMENT   Jonathan Silverman, Department of  English, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

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 Request   VCR/TV and 2 Slide 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

 

AV Request   CD Player, VCR/TV, Overhead Projector

 

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

 

SP 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

 

AV Request   VCR/TV

 

 

SP 161         September 11, 2001 as Memory, History, Document, Art, Photograph

(ROUNDTABLE)

 

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 Science and Art

 

COMMENT   The Audience

 

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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 Raeburn

AV Request   Slide Projector

                                                                                                                                            

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

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

 

AV Request   Slide Projector, CD Player, Tape Recorder (NON STANDARD EQUIPMENT)

 

 

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

 

AV Request   Slide Projector, Overhead Projector

 

 

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

 

AV Request   Slide Projector, Overhead Projector, VCR/TV, PC and Display for PowerPoint (NON-STANDARD EQUIPMENT)

 

 

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

Fused and Re-fused

 

COMMENT   Mark Anthony Neal, Department of English, State University of New York, Albany

 

AV Request   CD Player, Overhead Projector

 

 

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

 

COMMENT   Deborah A. Thomas

 

AV Request   Slide Projector, VCR & CD Player

 

 

 

 

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

AV Request   Two Slide Projectors

 

 

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

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

 

Comment     The Audience

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

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

 

AV Request   Overhead Projector, VCR/TV

 

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

 

AV Request   Overhead Projector

 

 

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

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,

The Purposes of “Panda-Monium”:  Giant Pandas at American Zoos

 

COMMENT   Jane Desmond

 

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CP 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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

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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CP 15 Inventing Youth Cultures in the Borderlands

 

CHAIR         David Montejano, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin

 

PAPERS       Luis Alvarez, Department of History, University of Houston

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

Talking Back to the Experts: Juvies in Civil Rights-Era Texas

 

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

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

AV Request
   VCR/TV       

 

 

CP 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

 

AV Request   VCR/TV and DVD Player (NON StANDARD EQUIPMENT)

 

 

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

 

AV Request   2 Overhead Projectors & a Large Room

 

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

 

AV Request   NONE

 

 

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

 

AV Request   VCR/TV