Thursday's Schedule

Thursday, November 14, 2002

The papers and commentaries presented during this meeting are intended solely for the hearing of those present and should not be tape recorded, copied, or otherwise reproduced without the consent of the authors. Recording, copying, or reproducing a paper or presentation without the consent of the author may be a violation of common law copyright and may result in legal difficulties for the person recording, copying, or reproducing.

10:00 - 11:45 AM

* Writing Towards the Local: Exilic Writing from New York City

CHAIR:

Beatriz González-Stephan, Hispanic & Classical Studies, Rice University

PAPERS:

Karina Wigozki, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston
Lo local y lo extranjero en Cartas gredalenses de Nicanor Bolet Peraza
Anadeli Bencomo, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston
La otra América: New York en los apuntes periodísticos/viajeros de José Martí y Manuel Fernández Juncos
Rodolfo Guzmán, Spanish and Latin American Literature, Earlham College
Ciudadanos, patria, cosmopolitismo y "Nuestra América" en Lucía Jerez
Edwin Padilla, Arts and Humanities Department, University of Houston, Downtown
La prensa obrera en Nueva York como reflejo del discurso colonial puertorriqueño

COMMENT:

Beatriz González-Stephan

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Performing Identity: Theory into Praxis (PERFORMANCE)

CHAIR:

Carrah Leah Hood, Department of English, Southern Connecticut State University

PANELISTS:

Camille Forbes, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Tales of Suburban Squalor
Rozalinda Borcila, Department of Art, University of South Florida, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Disturbance and (In)visibility
Daniel Bacalzo, Department of Performance Studies, New York University
Collective Autobiographies: The Peeling Process
Amy Sara Carroll, Literature Program, Duke University
"Autorechazos" and "The Public Poetry Project": Visualizing a Performative Poetics"

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Poor Side of Town: Popular Music, Race and Class Consciousness

CHAIR:

Bill V. Mullen, Division of English, Classics, Philosophy and Humanities, University of Texas,
San Antonio
PAPERS: Rachel Lee Rubin, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Dear Uncle Sam: War and Class Consciousness in Country Music
James Smethurst, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Everyday People: Popular Music, Race, and the Articulation and Formation of Class Identity
W. S. Tkweme, Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Politics of Jazz Fusion, or, Can We Blame Kenny G on the Black Arts Movement?

COMMENT:

Farah Jasmine Griffin, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

10:00 - 11:45 AM

The Black Press Writing Local, National, and Global Protest

CHAIR:

James P. Danky,Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian, State Historical Society of Wisconsin

PAPERS:

Todd Vogel, American Studies Program,
Trinity College
Transatlantic Training and Localized Protest:
James McCune Smith
Elizabeth Engelhardt, Center for Women's Studies, West Virginia University
Black Girls Out of the Doors: Environmental Activism in Appalachian Black Newspapers
Jennifer Steadman, Department of English,
Trinity College
"The Freeman is Read Here": Mary Ann Shadd Cary Connecting Black Communities

COMMENT:

James P. Danky

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Trauma and the Transnational: Thinking Beyond the National Subject

CHAIR:

Donald E. Pease, Department of English, Dartmouth College

PAPERS:

Hamilton Carroll, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington
Traumatic Patriarchy: Subject Identifications and the Postnational in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life
Laura Yow, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington
Stranger in the Self: Trauma, Ethnics, and Intersubjectivity in Wilson Harris's Jonestown
Jana Evans Braziel, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
Duvalier's "War-Machine," the Tonton Macoutes, and Terrorized Bodies in Edwidge Danticat's Transnational Narratives
Kathleen Donegan, American Studies Program,
Yale University
Cast Upon an Unknown Land: Some Uses of Trauma in Colonial Settlement Narratives

COMMENT:

Donald E. Pease

10:00 - 11:45 AM

National Scope and Community Focus: Empowering Local Historians of the Underground Railroad via Digital Libraries and Freedom Stations (EXHIBIT-POSTER SESSION)

CHAIR:

Eric Ledell Smith, The State Museum of Pennsylvania

PAPERS:

Orloff Miller,Freedom Stations Program,
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
National Scope and Community Focus: Empowering Local Historians of the Underground Railroad via Digital Libraries and Freedom Stations
Guy Washington,National Park Service, Pacific West Regional Coordinator, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
The California Database: African American Pioneers of Freedom, 1848-1869
Jean Libby, California History Center & Foundation Board of Trustees, De Anza College
Mirror on an Abolitionist: Tracing John Brown Through Images
Eric Ledell Smith,The State Museum of Pennsylvania
Looking for the Carpetbag: Primary Records of John Brown in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM

The New "Place" of the Vernacular in American Studies

CHAIR:

Roze Hentschell, Colorado State University

PAPERS:

Sieglinde Lemke, Department of Cultural Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute, Free University of Berlin
Revisiting the Vernacular
Shane Shukis, Department of English, Elon University
The State of the Language/The Language of the State: Democracy, Language, and Literature, 1770-1800
Erika Nanes, Department of English, University of California, Irvine
Blues by the Book: Oral and Written Codes in Langston Hughes's Dramatic Monologues

COMMENT:

Audience

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Re/visioning the Harlem Renaissance: New Directions in Harlem Scholarship

CHAIR:

William J. Maxwell, Department English, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

PAPERS:

Ivy Wilson, Department of English, Yale University
Cosmopolitanism Without Emancipation:George Schuyler and the Dilemmas of Trans-National Blackness
Mary Ann Calo, Department of Art and Art History, Colgate University
"Seeing" the Harlem Renaissance: Art History, Vision, and Revision
Mark Andrew Huddle, Department of History, University of Georgia
Harlem and the American South: History and the Poetics of Place

COMMENT:

William J. Maxwell

10:00 - 11:45 AM

All Work and No Pay: Imagining Employment in the Nineteenth-Century U.S

CHAIR:

Glenn Hendler, Department of English, University of Notre Dame

PAPERS:

Nicola Nixon, Department of English, Concordia University
Currency Affairs in Poe's "The Purloined Letter"
Sandra Tomc, Department of English, University of British Columbia
"Fanny Fern" and the Course of Self-Making
Mary Esteve, Department of English, Concordia University
Republicanizing the Post-bellum Romance: Child's and Harper's Narratives of Political Liberalism and Economic Redistribution

COMMENT:

Glenn Hendler

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Music Cultures and Social Change Movements

CHAIR:

Julia Balén, Department of Women's Studies, University of Arizona

PAPERS:

Katynka Zazueta Martínez,Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
From Miami to Los Angeles: Finding a "Safe" Space for the Latin Grammys and the Performance of Latínidad
Charles Bertsch, Department of English, University of Arizona
From Cutting Edge to Vanguard: Punk, Politics, and the New World Order
Yusuke Torii,Department ofAmerican Studies, George Washington University
Selling Democracy: Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) and Cold War/Civil Rights America

COMMENT:

Julia Balén

10:00 - 11:45 AM

("Graffiti") Writing, Tattoos, and Aerosol Art: Reading Urban Cultures in the Local/Global Context

CHAIR:

Michael Brooks, Department of English, Westchester University

PAPERS:

Joe Austin, Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University
Wild Name Reserve: New York City's Location in Global ("Graffiti") Writing Culture
Susan Phillips, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
Crip Walk, Villain Dance, Pueblo Stroll: Embodied Gang Writing Among L.A. Bloods and Crips
Ivor Miller, Diaspora Studies Program, DePaul University
Media, History, and Style in the Aerosol Kingdom

COMMENT:

Cynthia Blair, Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Racing for the Sound: Music, Cultural Crossing, and Racial Identity in the Pacific Rim

CHAIR:

Henry Yu, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles

PAPERS:

Frederick Lau, Department of Music, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
Romanticizing the Oriental in the Production of Musical Chineseness
Yayoi Uno Everett, Department of Music, Emory University
Beyond Orientalism: A Pan-Asian Portrait of Lou Harrison
Mari Yoshihara, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa
The Man Who Became a Method: Globalization of the Suzuki Method
Grace Wang, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Cross-Racial Identifications: Forging Asian American Identities through Musical Practices

COMMENT:

Theodore Gonzalves, Department of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa

10:00 - 11:45 AM

The Legal Uncanny: Gothic Dimensions of Law in Antebellum American Culture

CHAIR:

Benjamin Reiss, Department of English, Tulane University

PAPERS:

Ellen M. Weinauer, Department of English, University of Southern Mississippi
In the Legal Tomb: Married Women and the Gothic in Antebellum America
Deak Nabers, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Hawthorne's Gothic Corporations
Jeanne Elders DeWaard, Department of English, University of Miami
The "Shadow of Law": Gothic Terror, Legal Subjects, and Race in Antebellum Culture

COMMENT:

Benjamin Reiss

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Gender, Race, and Age: Political and Cultural Perspectives

CHAIR:

Kathleen Woodward, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

PAPERS:

Sally Chivers, Department of English, University of British Columbia
"Black is a Woman's Color": The Intersection of Race, Age, and Gender in bell hooks's Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
Eileen Boris, Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Old Before Her Time: Law, Living, and Women's Worth
Sonya Michel, American Studies Department and History Department, University of Maryland, College Park
The Benefits of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation: Defining the Right to Old-Age Security in the United States

COMMENT:

Kathleen Woodward

10:00 - 11:45 AM

Troubling the Local Boundaries of U.S. Hegemonic Feminism: Women's Studies, Girls' Studies, the "Third Wave," and the Continued Dominance of Middle-Class, Middle-Aged, Straight White Female Experience (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Ednie Kaeh Garrison, Women's Studies Program, California State University, Fresno

PANELISTS:

Mary Celeste Kearney, Department of Radio, Television, and Film,University of Texas, Austin
Charla Ogaz, Women's Studies Program, San Jose State University
Doreen Piano, Department of English, University of Houston
Emi Koyama, Women's Studies Program, Portland State University
Marie (Keta) Miranda, Mexican American Studies Program, University of Texas, San Antonio

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM

"The Very Best Place Possible": Wilderness Marketing and Ideologies of Race

CHAIR:

Kent C. Ryden, American and New England Studies Program, University of Southern Maine

PAPERS:

Matthew Bolinder, Department of English, Boston College
"Crossing the Line": Place and Race in Thoreau's The Maine Woods
Elizabeth Otterson Wiley, Department of American Studies, George Washington University
"Maintained in its Pristine Integrity": Constructions of Race and Refinement in the Bangor and Aroostook's Guide, In the Maine Woods
Barbara Ryan, Department of English, University of Missouri, Kansas City
"A Diet of Wilderness": Gene Stratton-Porter's Voracious White Supremacy

COMMENT:

Kent C. Ryden

12:00 - 1:45 PM

* Nationalist and Internationalist Dimensions of the Latina in Texas

CHAIR:

John Hart, Department of History, University of Houston

PAPERS:

Maura Fuchs, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston
Lucy Parsons' Approach to Historiography: Histories of the Many
Juanita Luna Lawhn, English Department, San Antonio College
Editors of La Prensa (San Antonio) Define/Redefine "El Mexico de Afuera: Identity Across International Boundaries
Trinidad Gonzales, Department of History, University of Houston
A Sketch of a Mexicanist Identity in the Lower Rio Grande Valley through the Pages of El Cronista del Valle

COMMENT:

John Hart

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Myths of the G/Local: Capitalist Subcultures in the Twentieth-Century United States

CHAIR:

Benjamin Filene, Exhibits Department, Minnesota Historical Society

PAPERS:

James Annesley, Department of English, Kingston University, London
Go Logo: Globalization, Consumption, and the Counterculture
J. M. Mancini, Department of History, University College, Cork
The Country Age: Globalization and Modernity in an American Region
Eithne Quinn, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Gangsta Rap, Exploitation Culture, and the Local

COMMENT:

Benjamin Filene

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Where "Atlantic" and "Pacific" Converge: From the Pacific as "Racial Frontier" to "Global Pacific Rim"

CHAIR:

John Kuo Wei Tchen, Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program & Department of History, New York University

PAPERS:

Richard Sukjoo Kim, Asian American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
Kilsoo Haan and the Politics of Korean American Nationalism
Arleen de Vera, Department of History, State University of New York, Binghamton
Filipino Migrants, Surveillance, and Nationalism in California
Stacey Yukari Hirose, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Fortress Architecture, Protest Space, and a Place to Shop: Korean and Vietnamese Shopping Centers in Southern California, 1965-2002
Jason C. Chang, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Rethinking Hegemony in an Age of Globalism: the U.S., East Asia, and the Critique of Empire in Rising Sun and Shall We Dance

COMMENT:

John Kuo Wei Tchen

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Early Cold War Popular Culture: The Critique Within (TALK)

CHAIR:

Judith E. Smith, American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston

PAPERS:

Stanley Corkin, Department of English, University of Cincinnati
Cold War Westerns and the Critique of US Imperialism
Megan Feeney, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Dark Con/texts: Post-WWII Film Noir in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba
Andrew J. Falk, Department of History, University of Texas, Austin
The Cold War Invades Television: Constructing a National Identity for American Audiences
John M. Kinder, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota
Scripting World War II: The Novel, Memory, and the American 1948

COMMENT:

Judith E. Smith

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Dancing to the Music of Modernity: The Case of Texas

CHAIR:

Gary Hartman,Center for Texas Music History and Department of History, Southwest Texas State University

PAPERS:

Cory Lock, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
"Times Changes Everything": Nostalgia and a New Texas in J. Frank Dobie and Bob Wills
José E. Limón, Center for Mexican-American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
With His Saxophone in His Hand: Americo Paredes, Beto Villa, Mexican Americans and Globalizing Modernity

COMMENT:

Jean Boyd, Department of Music, Baylor University

12:00 - 1:45 PM

The New World Baroque

CHAIR:

Lois Parkinson Zamora, Departments of English, History, and Art, University of Houston

PAPERS:

Bolívar Echeverría, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Actualidad del ethos barroco /The Timeliness of the Baroque Ethos
Rolando J. Romero, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Chicano Baroque
Monika Kaup, Department of English, University of Washington
The Marvelous Real and Neobaroque Disillusionment in Severo Sarduy, De donde son los cantantes

COMMENT:

Lois Parkinson Zamora

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Performing Theory: Poetic Interludes at the Turn of the Century (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Alvina E. Quintana, Department of English, University of Delaware

PANELISTS:

Lorna Dee Cervantes, Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder
Juan Felipe Herrera, Chicano and Latin American Studies, California State University, Fresno
Margarita Luna Robles, Department of English, California State University, Fresno

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Identity, Gender, and the Market: Global and Local Discourses of the U.S. Christian Right

CHAIR:

Rebecca McLennan, Department of History, Harvard University

PAPERS:

Paul Morris, Religious Studies Program, School of Art History, Classics, and Religious Studies, Victoria University, Wellington
The Globalisation of Virtue—The Christian Right and the Arguments for the Morality of the Market
Dolores Janiewski, School of History, Victoria University, Wellington
Stopping the Christian Right vs. Stop ERA: The Different Trajectories of the Christian Right in New Zealand and the U.S.
Luis A. Vazquez, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Evangelizing Puerto Ricanness: The Role of the Christian Right in the Formation of Puerto Rican Identities
Rebecca Dingo, Department of English, Ohio State University
Secularizing Fundamentalisms: Women, Globalization, and the Expanding Discourse of the Christian Right

COMMENT:

Audience

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Female Subjectivity and American Orientalisms: Consumption, Cultural Representation, and Domesticity

CHAIR:

Nayan Shah, Department of History, University of California, San Diego

PAPERS:

Midori Takagi, Department of History, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University
Women of Comfort and Comfort Women: Imperialism as Seen and Experienced by American and Asian Women
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Department of History, Ohio State University
An Oriental Mammy?: Nurturing the American Family During World War II
Karen J. Leong, Women's Studies Program, Arizona State University
Exploring the Intersections of Immigrant Nostalgia and Anti-Imperialist Nationalism in Anna May Wong's Career

COMMENT:

Gayatri Gopinath, Women and Gender Studies Program, University of California, Davis

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Disasters in Modern America: Historical Perspectives on 9-11

CHAIR:

Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Department of History, University of North Texas

PAPERS:

Ann Larabee, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
Sky Terror: A Meditation on the Skylines of Chicago, Seoul, and Riyadh
Kevin Rozario, American Studies Program, Smith College
"Just Like a Movie": The Culture of Calamity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001
Ralph Savarese, Department of English, Grinnell College
9-11: Dispatching the Ambulance of History, or Gauley's Junction and the World Trade Center

COMMENT:

Steven Biel, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University

12:00 - 1:45 PM

(Re)Locating Subjectivity: Testimonies of Imprisonment Across the Americas

CHAIR:

Grady Hillman, Poet, Anthropologist, Activist

PAPERS:

Laura Lomas, Department of Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University
Performing Testimonio: Alterity and Responsibility in Yo me llamo Rigoberta Menchú, y así me nació la conciencia and Hear My Testimony: María Teresa Tula, Human Rights Activist of El Salvador
Peter Caster, English Department, University of Texas at Austin
Manque à n'être pas and the Will to Become in Mailer's Song and Cleaver's Soul
Kimberly Drake, Department of English, Virginia Wesleyan College
Doing Time in/as "The Monster": Abjection, Testimony, and Reviving the Undead on Ray Hill's Prison Show

COMMENT:

Ray Hill, Prison Show, Pacifica Radio Houston

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Straightening Out History:Queer Analysis, the Heterosexuality Problem, and the Logic of Normality in Twentieth-Century Social and Political Life

CHAIR:

Kathryn E. Diaz, Independent Scholar and Attorney-at-Law

PAPERS:

Ann S. Holder, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University
Who are "My Own Kind"?:Complicating the Representations of Heterosexuality in Historical Writing
Jane F. Gerhard, Department of American Civilization, Brown University
Caught Looking: Straightness Unsettled
Jessica Shubow, Center for Historical Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Normal Sex, Normal Populations:The Heterosexualization of Human Diversity in Modern Evolutionary Theory

COMMENT:

Kathryn E. Diaz

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Performance As Text: Uncovering the History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

CHAIR:

TBA

PERFORMANCE:

Awele Makeba, Department of Education: Language & LiteracySan Francisco State University
Rage is Not a 1-Day Thing!

COMMENT:

TBA

12:00 - 1:45 PM

Negotiating Poverty-class/Working-class Difference in American Literature, Public Representation and Policy

CHAIR:

Sandra L. Dahlberg, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown

PAPERS:

Vivyan C. Adair, Department of Women's Studies, Hamilton College
Working/Poor/Poorer: The Co-optation of the American Poverty Class
Nell Sullivan, Department of English, University of Houston, Downtown
Young Girls Reading: Literacy and the Legitimation of the Poor-White Girl Narrator
Dagmar Stuehrk Corrigan, Department of Discourse Studies, Texas A & M University
Electronic Latino Masculinity: Creating an Ethos of Agency for Poverty-Class and Working-Class Hispanic Students
Leticia Almanza, Spring Woods High School, Houston
Would You Speak for Me? The Voiceless in American Public Schools

COMMENT:

Sandra L. Dahlberg

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Law

CHAIR:

Robert S. Levine, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park

PAPERS:

Gregg D. Crane, Department of English, Miami University
Status, Contract, and Conscience in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Patricia R. Hill, Department of History, Wesleyan University
Public Sentiment and the Law: Mrs. Stowe's Dilemma
Alfred L. Brophy, School of Law, University of Alabama
The Jurisprudence of Sentiment in Stowe's Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

COMMENT:

Robert S. Levine

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Popular Natures: Complicating Nature in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture

CHAIR:

Rebecca Bedell, Art Department, Wellesley College, Wellesley

PAPERS:

Amy S. Green, Department of History, Denison University
Popular Literature and Nature (Re)creation: William H.H. Murray and the "Adirondack Rush" of the 1870s
Wendy Rex-Atzet, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder
Envisioning a Domestic Wilderness: Wilderness, Pastoralism, and Domestic Nature in Antebellum Popular Culture
John Hausdoerffer, American Studies Program, Washington State University, Pullman
The Wilderness of Popular Culture: George Catlin's Construction of Nature and Wildness, 1832-1872

COMMENT:

Anthony Francis Lioi, Department of English, Rutgers University

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Style, Sponsorship, and Status: American Arts and the Marketplace, 1950-1980

CHAIR:

Mary Caroline Simpson,Department of Art and Art History, University of Nebraska, Omaha

PAPERS:

Iain Anderson, Department of History, Dana College
Jazz Goes to College: Experimental Musicians and the Opening of the Academy
Mark Rice, Department of American Studies, St. John Fisher College
Art or Document? The Federal Government and the Struggle to Define Photographic Meaning
Thea Petchler, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Why Be Creative? Making Art to Fight the Cold War, 1950-1970

COMMENT:

Mary Caroline Simpson

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Constructing the Shape and Image of the Local

CHAIR:

Kevin R. McNamara, School of Human Sciences and Humanities, University of Houston, Clear Lake

PAPERS:

Jacalyn D. Harden, Department of Society, Justice, and Culture, Seattle University
Millennial Dreams: How Seattle Tried and Failed to Become a "World Class City"
Alicia Barber, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
Reviving Reno: Heritage, Tourism, and Redevelopment in the Biggest Little City
Laura R. Barraclough, Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
A "New Frontier" for White Identity: Development and Grassroots Political Activism in "Pseudo-Rural" Communities

COMMENT:

Mark Fenster, Levin College of Law, Univesity of Florida

2:00 - 3:45 PM

* War, Displacement, and Representation of "La Gente"

CHAIR:

Jane Creighton, English Department, University of Houston, Downtown

PAPERS:

Arlene Rodríguez, Department of English, Springfield Technical Community College
In Order to Form a More Perfect Union": Nation-building and the Use of Interethnic Unions in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don
Yolanda Padilla, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Indian Mexico: The Politics of Indigenismo in the Work of María Cristina Mena
Roumiana Velikova, English Department, State University of New York, Buffalo
Américo Paredes's George Washington Gómez and the North American Wars of Independence

COMMENT:

Jane Creighton

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Documenting American Warfare

CHAIR:

Laura Wexler, American Studies Program, Yale University

PAPERS:

Margot Norris, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine
Bombing Civilians: Justifications and Representations
Grace Elizabeth Hale, Department of History, University of Virginia
Seeing Is Bleeding: Documentary Imagery and the Value of Life in American Warfare, From Pearl Harbor to the Present
Franny Nudelman, Department of English, University of Virginia
From Civil War to Star Wars: Documentary and the Final Frontier

COMMENT:

Laura Wexler

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Violence in Word and in Deed: Discourses of Domestic Terrorism in Mid-Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century America

CHAIR:

Maria C. Sanchez, Department of English, University of Michigan

PAPERS:

Jeffory Alan Clymer, Department of English, St. Louis University
"Those Bomb-Throwing I Won't Works": Dancing Around the Rhetoric of Violence & Non-Violence in Early Twentieth-Century IWW Pamphlets and Artworks
Ryan Schneider, Department of English, Purdue University
Why Ralph Waldo Emerson (Mostly) Loved John Brown: Violence and The Concept of the Scholar-Reformer
Beverly Gage, Department of History, Columbia University
The 1920 Wall Street Explosion: Political Violence, Political Repression, and the First Red Scare

COMMENT:

Maria C. Sanchez

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Sites of Meaning, Sites of Violence: Recovering African American and Chicano/a Collective Memory and Social-Spatial Legacies in the Nineteenth Century

CHAIR:

Nicole A. Waligora-Davis, Department of English, Cornell University

PAPERS:

Angel David Nieves, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Violence of Erasure on the African-American Cultural Landscape: "Race Women," Nation Making and Memory at Industrial Schools in the New South
Leslie Alexander, Department of History, Ohio State University
Seneca Village: A Forgotten Symbol of New York City's Free Black Community
Nicole Guidotti-Hernández, Department of English, Cornell University
What We Are Not to Remember: Lynching's Local History and the Creation of Chicano/Latino Collective Memory in Santa Cruz California, May 3, 1877

COMMENT:

Nicole A. Waligora-Davis

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Keywords in African-American Studies: A Roundtable

CHAIR:

Herman Beavers, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

PANELISTS:

Judith Jackson Fossett, Department of English & Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Double Consciousness

Kevin Gaines, Department of History, University of Michigan
Africa/Diaspora
James A. Miller, Department of English, George Washington University
Internationalism
Jacqueline Goldsby, Department of English, University of Chicago
Lynching
Carla L. Peterson, Department of English, University of Maryland
Community
Frances Smith Foster, Department of English & Institute for Women's Studies, Emory University
Family

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Remade in America: The Global Flows of Asian Martial Arts

CHAIR:

Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park, School of Theatre, Illinois State University, Normal

PAPERS:

Christina Klein, Literature Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Origin Myths of the Kung Fu Masters of America
Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch'ien, Department of English, University of Hartford
The Martial Meaning of Jet Li
Catherine Ross Nickerson, American Studies Program, Emory University
The Color of Destiny: Martial Arts Fantasies and the Global Economy

COMMENT:

Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Mismatched Modernities: Mapping U.S.-Mexico Interactions Across Technologies of Labor and Leisure, 1930-1950

CHAIR:

Richard Candida Smith, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

PAPERS:

John McKiernan-Gonzalez, Department of History, University of South Florida
Everyday Disturbances: Respectability, "Indian" Marathon Runners, and the Practice of Medical Inspection, 1932
Daniel Belgrad, Department of Humanities and American Studies, University of South Florida
Work Cultures in Conflict: The U.S. Railway Mission to Mexico, 1942-47
Dina M. Berger, Department of History, The College of Wooster
A Drink Between Friends: Mexican and American Pleasure Seekers in 1940s Mexico City

COMMENT:

Richard Candida Smith
Adriana Novoa, Department of Humanities and American Studies, University of Florida

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Amiri Baraka: Jazz, Gender, and Performance as Culture and History

CHAIR:

Komozi Woodard, Department of History, Sarah Lawrence College

PAPERS:

John Gennari, Department of English, University of Vermont
Baraka's Bohemian Blues
Meta DuEwa Jones, Department of English,
George Washington University
From the Page to the Stage: Amiri Baraka's Jazz Poetry in Performance
Nichole T. Rustin, Program in Afro-American Studies and Research Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Le Roi Jones Talking: Black Manhood, Emotional Life, and Jazz Knowledge

COMMENT:

Komozi Woodard

2:00 - 3:45 PM

"Keeping One Foot in the Community": Intergenerational Indigenous Women's Activism from the Local to the Global [And Back Again] (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Elizabeth A. Castle, University of California's President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Santa Cruz

PANELISTS:

Madonna Thunder Hawk, Director, Swift Bird Oyate Center
Lakota Harden, Diversity Trainer and Community Activist
Marcella Gilbert, Department of Rural Health, University of South Dakota, Brookings

COMMENT:

Audience

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Becoming New York's "New Majority": Latino/a Immigrants in a Global City

CHAIR:

Arlene Dávila, American Studies Program, New York University

PAPERS:

Madeleine E. López, Department of History, Princeton University
Speaking American: Puerto Ricans, Language, and the Formation of a New York City Community
Alyshia Gálvez, Department of Anthropology, New York University
The Right to Have Rights: How Undocumented Mexican Participants in Guadalupan Devotional Organizations Redefine the Terms of Citizenship
Ana Aparicio, Department of Anthropology, City University of New York
Amending the Definition of the Contemporary Immigrant Political Actor: Rooting/Routing Dominican American Organizing in New York
Carlos Decena, American Studies Program, New York University
Transnationalizing Queer? Immigrant Lives and Coalition Building Among Latinos in New York

COMMENT:

José F. Aranda, Jr., Chicano/a and American Literature, Rice University

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Multiculturalism in the Age of Globalization; Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Colonialism

CHAIR:

Dorothy Wang, Department of English, Northwestern University

PAPERS:

Michael Oishi, Department of English, University of Washington
Global Locals:Neo-Colonialism and Critical Regionalism in the Literatures of Hawai'i
Jeffrey Santa Ana, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Feeling Postethnic: The Emotions of Racial and Sexual Formation in a Postmodern Global Era
Jeannie Chiu, Department of English, Pace University
Human Rights, Civil Liberties, and Asian Diasporic Literature

COMMENT:

Dorothy Wang

4:00 - 5:45 PM

The "Place" of Women's Political Language in the Nineteenth-Century Market

CHAIR:

Nancy Niedielzki, Department of Linguistics, Rice University

PAPERS:

Allison Sneider, Department of History, Rice University
The Nation as a Larger Family: Re-Thinking Women, the State, and the Language of Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Teresa Goddu, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Books at the Bazaar: Antislavery Fairs and the Literary Marketplace
Caroline Levander, Department of English, Rice University
All in the Family Women's Abolitionist Politics and the Children's Periodical

COMMENT:

Nancy Niedielzki

4:00 - 5:45 PM

America Studies American Studies: The Education of Max Bickford

CHAIR:

Gary E. Holcomb, Department of English, Emporia State University

PAPERS:

Vicki Eaklor, Division of Human Studies, Alfred University
Henry and Max: "Educating" the (White, Male) Intellectual in a New Century
Christine Myers, Department of History, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Max Bickford vs. the Female College Ideal
Rachel Lyon, Media Arts and Communication, Reinhardt College
Field of Dreams: Richard Dreyfuss and America's Dream

COMMENT:

Mary F. Corey, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Colloquy with Ellen Messer-Davidow on Disciplining Feminism

CHAIR:

Dennis Moore, Department of English, Florida State University

PANELISTS:

Leslie Bow, Department of English & Program in Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Department of Women's Studies, Spelman College
Annette Kolodny, Department of Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona
Elizabeth Long, Department of Sociology, Rice University
Ellen Messer-Davidow, Department of English, University of Minnesota
Janice A. Radway, Literature Program, Duke University
Deborah Rosenfelt, Department of Women's Studies, University of Maryland
Ann Schofield, Department of American Studies and Women's Studies, University of Kansas

COMMENT:

Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

The "Place" of Latina/o Popular Culture? (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Jaime Cárdenas, Program in Latino Studies, Cornell University

PANELISTS:

Mary Pat Brady, Department of English, Cornell University
Luz Calvo, Department of Comparative Studies, Ohio State University
Michelle Habell-Pallán, Department of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
Josh D. Kun, Department of English, University of California, Riverside
Anthony Macías, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
Greg S. Rodríguez, Department of Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona
Deborah R. Vargas, Department of Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
Juan Velasco, Department of English and Modern Languages, Santa Clara University
Ana Patricia Rodríguez, Department of Spanish and Romance Languages, University of Maryland, College Park
Angharad N. Valdivia, Institute of Communication Research, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

COMMENT:

Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Urban Intersections: Convergence and Conflict in the Nineteenth-Century American City

CHAIR:

Peter J. Bellis, Department of English, University of Miami

PAPERS:

Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, Department of History, University of New Mexico
For the Accommodation of Strangers: Aesthetics, Commerce, and the Origins of the American Hotel
Edward Watts, Department of American Thought and Language, Michigan State University
Cincinnati in 1835: Catholicism, Cosmopolitanism, and Colonialism
Samuel Otter, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
John Edgar Wideman's Peculiar Philadelphia

COMMENT:

Peter J. Bellis

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Pop Culture and Performance: Queer Transgressions

CHAIR:

Shelli B. Fowler, Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University

PAPERS:

Lisa R. Williams, Department of American Studies, Washington State University & Tori Byington, Interdisciplinary Studies, Washington State University, Performative Politics in the Palouse: A Reader's Response to Drag
Michael Borgstrom,Department of English, University of California, Davis
Suburban Queer: Reading Grease
Ta-Wei Chi, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
Trasnational Transgender Transgression: A Queer Travel from Hollywood to Asia

COMMENT:

Shelli B. Fowler

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Finding Common Ground with Augusto Boal's Theater of the Oppressed: from Asian American Avant-Garde Performance to Labor Union Organizing, or Can We Still Change the World? (DIALOGUE AND PERFORMANCE)

CHAIR:

Yutian Wong, Program in Arts and Feminist/Gender Studies, Bryn Mawr College

PANELISTS:

Linda Delp, Department of Community Health Sciences & Labor Center, University of California, Los Angeles
Denise Uyehara, Artist-in-Residence, 18th Street Arts Complex in Santa Monica
Teresa Conrow, Independent Labor Organizer and Educator

COMMENT:

Yutian Wong

4:00 - 5:45 PM

The Work of Art: Women, Art, and Cultural Hierarchies in Late Nineteenth-Century America

CHAIR:

Melissa J. Homestead, Department of English, University of Oklahoma

PAPERS:

April F. Masten, Department of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook
"Laborers in the Field of the Beautiful": Art Work and the Professionalization of Women's Art, 1850-1880
Gail K. Smith, Department of English, Birmingham- Southern College
Constructing the Artist in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Agnes of Sorrento
Naomi Z. Sofer, Program in History and Literature, Harvard University
Artists, Mentors, and Cultural Authority in the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Constance Fenimore Woolson

COMMENT:

Melissa J. Homestead

4:00 - 5:45 PM

* Roundtable Discussion: Review and Assessment of the First Ten Years of the Recovery Project

CHAIR:

Nicolás Kanellos, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, University of Houston

PANELISTS:

José Aranda, English Department, Rice University
Nélida Pérez, Centro Library & Archives, Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, City University of New York, Hunter College
Antonio Saborit, Dirección de Estudios Históricos, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, México, D. F.
Silvio Torres-Saillant, English Department, Syracuse University

COMMENT:

Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Cyberspace: The Final Frontier? Exploring the Ramifications of Race on the World Wide Web

CHAIR:

Melinda de Jesús, Program in Asian American Studies, Arizona State University

PAPERS:

John Cheng, Department of Art History and History, George Mason University
Tangled Webs: Race and the Topology of Cyberspace
Lisa Nakamura, Department of English, Sonoma State University
Poweruser or Powerused: The Asian American Discursive Presence in Cyberspace
Anna Everett, Department of Film Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
The New Black Experience: The Million Women March and the Internet

COMMENT:

Chon Noriega, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, University of California, Los Angeles

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Unfair Harvard: Notes from the Living Wage Campaign (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Timothy Patrick McCarthy, Department of History and Literature, Harvard University

PANELISTS:

Bradley S. Epps, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
Gregory Halpern, Harvard College Class of 1999, Photographer & Activist
Thomas R. Jehn, Program in Expository Writing, Harvard University

COMMENT:

Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Nations, Citizens, Cultures: International Fictions of the Cold War

CHAIR:

James Fisher, Department of Theology, Fordham University

PAPERS:

Jonathan Nashel, Department of History, Indiana University, South Bend
The "Golden" Agency: The CIA and American Popular Culture in the 1950s
Toni Irving, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
"The Black Silence of Fear": Sexual Containment in Black Women's Writing
Kate Baldwin, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
Authenticating Nations: Cultural Fictions of Women in the Cold War

COMMENT:

Susan Carruthers, Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Changing American Studies in a New Europe: A Roundtable Discussion (ROUNDTABLE)

CHAIR:

Christa Buschendorf, Institute for English and American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

PANELISTS:

Bogdan Barbu, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Ljiljana Coklin, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
Astrid Franke, Institute for English and American Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Heinz Ickstadt, John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Eric J. Sandeen, American Studies Program, University of Wyoming

COMMENT:

Audience

4:00 - 5:45 PM

Korea, the U.S., and Korean American Literature

CHAIR:

Young Choi, Department of English, Ewha Woman's University

PAPERS:

Kun Jong Lee, Department of English, Korea University
Coloring the American Dream: Benjamin Franklin and Younghill Kang
Sangjun Jeong, Department of English, Seoul National University
Making Korean-American Identity and Orientalism: Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker
Jin-Hee Yim, Division of Foreign Languages, Namseoul University
Nation and Communal Self: Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman

COMMENT:

Sooyoung Chon, Department of English, Ewha Woman's University

4:00 - 5:45 PM

A New Use for Some Old Ways of Thinking: Contemporary Applications of Pragmatism

CHAIR:

Mark Smith, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin

PAPERS:

James A. Good, Department of History, Rice University
"Beyond Sushiology": John Dewey on Diversity
Greg Moses, Department of Philosophy, Marist College
A Technology of Whiteness?: Critical Pragmatism and the Reconstruction of White Identities
Mike O'Connor, Department of American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
The Riddle of Democratic Capitalism: A Pragmatist Solution

COMMENT:

James Livingston, Department of History, Rutgers University

* Indicates sessions that are part of the Seventh Conference of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage or "Redefining 'Nuestra América': A Transnational Perspective on the Local and the Global"

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