The Trans-Atlantic Literary Imagination: Fantasies of Mixed Races and Nations
CHAIR:
David Kazanjian, Queens College, Graduate Center, City University of New York
PAPERS:
Anna Brickhouse, Department of English, University
of Colorado
The Transamerican Geographies of Jamestown: Staging the Cosmopolitan in an Extended
Caribbean
Robert Fanuzzir, Department of English, St. John's
University
Miscegenation as Globalization: Lydia Maria Child's Appeal
Stephen Knadler, Department of English, Spelman College
Traveling Black Culture: William Wells Brown's Transnational Racial Citizenship
and Indian Indentureship
COMMENT:
Elisa Tamarkin, Department of English, University of California, Irvine
8:00 - 9:45 AM
American Jews as Crossroads Figures: Talk (Sponsored by Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society)
CHAIR:
TBA
PAPERS:
Hasia Diner, American Jewish History, New York University
Jewish Immigrant Peddlers at the Crossroads Between America and the World
Joyce Antler, Department of American Studies, Brandeis
University
Good Americans and Good Jews: Social Scientists Interrogate the Jewish Family
Riv Ellen Prell, American Studies, University of
Minnesota
Urban-Suburban Crossroads: Post War Ethnic and Social Transformations of Jews
Michael Staub, Department of English, Bowling Green
State University
Jewish in an Era of Endless War Michael E. Staub Bowling Green State University
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Rethinking the Political Rationalities of Community, 1965-1975
CHAIR:
Nikhil Pal Singh, Department of History, University of Washington
PAPERS:
Alyosha Goldstein, American Studies Program, New
York University
Community/Control: Poverty, Policing and Liberal Strategies of Containment
Alondra Nelson, Departments of Sociology and African
American Studies, Yale University
Body Politic: Gender, Governance and Reproductive Rights in the Black Power
Movement
Amanda J. Cobb, American Studies Department, University
of New Mexico
Thresholds of Sovereignty: The Community Action Program and American Indian
Nationhood
COMMENT:
Nikhil Pal Singh
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Cultures of Censorship
CHAIR:
Anna Kirkland, Women's Studies Program, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Hilary-Anne Hallett, Department of History, Columbia
University
Monstrous Moving Pictures: How Censorship Came to New York
Loren Glass, Department of English, Towson University
Redeeming Social Value: Censhorship and Sexuality in the Sixties
Jennifer Culbert, Political Science, Johns Hopkins
University
Reflections on the Syringe: The (Im)possible Exhibition of Capital Punishment
COMMENT:
Anna Kirkland
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Exemplar, Example, Exception: Rhetorical Crossroads and American Democracy
CHAIR:
Joan Saab, American Studies & Visual and Cultural Studies Programs, University of Rochester
PAPERS:
David Thomson, English Department, University of
Illinois
Natick, Boston, London, 1650: Firstfruits and Exemplarity
Elizabeth Duquette, English Department, Gettysburg
College
Douglass as Example: Race and Representation in America
Sophia Mihic, Department of Political Science, Beloit
College
The Rule of the Exception: Disciplines of Prejudice and Power in American Politics
COMMENT:
Joan Saab
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Revolutionary Daughters, Diasporic Daughters: Défilée's Legacy in Literary Texts by Haitian Diasporic Women Writers
CHAIR:
Jana Braziel, Department of English & Comparative
Literature, University of Cincinnati
PANELISTS:
Renée Larrier, Department of French, Rutgers
University
Traveler's Trees and Umbilical Cords: Embodying Dyaspora Renegotiating Home
Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown, Department of English,
Spelman College
Dream, Ritual, Memory and Metaphor in Edwidge Danticat's Short Fiction
Elizabete Vasconcelos, English Department, University
of Georgia
Mothering Memory; (Re)memory in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Narrating Hybridity
CHAIR:
Donald Weber, Department of English,Mt. Holyoke College
PAPERS:
Sirene Harb,American University of Beirut Metissage and Narrativization: Arab-American Identity and Memory
Lori Jirousek, English, New York Institute of Technology,
Manhattan
Abraham Cahan's Educational Hybridity
Jopi Nyman, Department of English, University of
Joensuu, Finland
Exile, Diaspora and Transnational Networks in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia
COMMENT:
Donald Weber
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Internationalism, Racialism, and Diplomacy
CHAIR:
Penny Von Eschen, Department of History, University
of Michigan
PAPERS:
Neda Atanasoski, Literature, University of California
San Diego
Cold War Carmen: Mythologizing U.S. Racial Desires in the Cold War and After
Piebe Teeboom, Department of Contemporary History,
University of Amsterdam America: the Middle Way? The 1936 Presidential Inquiry Commission on Cooperative
Enterprise in Europe: Transatlantic Examples of Democracy and Contested American
Identity
Samuel Zipp, American Studies, Yale University
Making International Territory: The United Nations, Race, and Cold War in the
Age of Urban Renewal
Patrick Hill, Department of Ethnic Studies, Bowling
Green State University
Arenas Forsaken: US Empire, African-American Internationalism & the Harlem
Globetrotters' Early Cold War Era Tours
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
New Perspectives in Postcoloniality
CHAIR:
Elizabeth Goldberg, Department of English, Babson College
PAPERS:
Arnold Pan, Department of English, University of
California, Irvine
Looking at, Looking back: The World's Columbian Exposition in a Postcolonial
Context
Yael Ben-zvi, Foreign Literatures, Ben-Gurion University
Native-Born Settlers Meet Postcolonial Theory
Krystyna Zamorska, Program in English, City University
of New York
The Country Left Behind
Rick Rodriguez, English Department, Loyola University
Chicago
Sensational Views from/of the Tropics
COMMENT:
Elizabeth Goldberg
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Science and Race in 19th-Century America: New Histories and
Interpretations
CHAIR:
Evelynn M. Hammonds, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
PAPERS:
Bruce Dain, Department of History, University of
Utah
Was there a Transition to Modern Racism in the Antebellum Era?
Neil Brody Miller, Department of History, Rutgers
University
"Embalmed in Egyptian Ethnology": Racial Discourse and Antebellum Interest in
the Ancient Near East
B. Ricardo Brown, Department of Social Science &
Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute
Human Variety, the Species Question, and the Origins of Race
Molly Rogers, Independent Scholar and Writer, Coventry,
UK
Scientific Moonshine: the African-American response to Ethnology and the Theory
of Polygenesis
Gregory T. Carter, Department of American Studies,
University of Texas, Austin
Hybrid Vigor: The Transformation of a Scientific Racialist Idea
Alexandra Cornelius, Washington University, St. Louis
"I Will Do A Deed for Freedom:" Enslaved Women, Racial Scientists, and the Contested
Discourse of Black Womanhood
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Caribbean Encounters at the Cultural Crossroads: Diaspora, Subjectivity, Cultural Geographies, and Temporality in American Studies
CHAIR:
Sara Johnson, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
Adalaine Holton, Department of Literature, University
of California, Santa Cruz
Radicalism and Everyday Life: the Columns of Jesús Colón
Maritza Stanchich, Department of English, University
of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Diasporic Puerto Rican Literature Charts Transnational Configurations of Race
Barbara Shaw Perry, Department of American Studies,
University of Maryland, College Park
Fear and Longing: Violence, Affect, and Mapping Women's Subjectivity in the
Black Atlantic
COMMENT:
Cindi Katz, Environmental Psychology and Women's Studies Programs, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Anti-American Discourse as Terror, Politics, and Commodity
CHAIR:
TBA
PAPERS:
Timothy Melley, Department of English, Miami University
The Geostrategic Melodrama: Recent Representations of Anti-American Terror
Sang-Dawn Lee, Department of English, Hankuk University
of Foreign Studies
Anti-Americanism in Korea as a Commodity
John Muthyala, English Department, University of
Southern Maine
Public Intellectuals on the Border: Arundhati Roy and the Politics of Anti-Americanism
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Housing Labor: Camps, Villages, and Emporia in Twentieth-Century North America
CHAIR:
Maria Montoya, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Ana Elizabeth Rosas, Department of History, University
of Southern California
"En Aquellos Tiempos . . .": Mexican Men and the Cultural Politics of
Bracero Labor Camp Culture, 1954-1956
Kathryn Oberdeck, History, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Kohler Village and Global Crossroads of Hygiene and Habitat in the Twentieth
Century
COMMENT:
Maria Montoya
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Varieties of American Conservatism
CHAIR:
Howard Brick, Washington University, St. Louis
PAPERS:
Chris Vials,English Department, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Gone with the Wind and the Politics of Gumption
Andrea Smith, American Culture, University of Michigan
The Christian Right and Race Reconciliation Post 9/11
Christine Knauer, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen
Fighting the "Un-American Other(s)": Phyllis Schlafly, the ERA, and the Cultural
Changes of the 1960s and 1970s
COMMENT:
Howard Brick
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Immigration and Identity: Community, Conflict and Correspondence
CHAIR:
Gary Okihiro, Columbia University
PAPERS:
Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Pledging Transnational Allegiance or Assimilation? Re-Considerating C.Y. Lee's
The Flower Drum Song
Karen Keely, Mount Saint Mary's College
Freeing the Yellow Winkies: L. Frank Baum and the "Chinese Question"
L. Joyce Z. Mariano, Department of American Studies,
University of Minnesota
Both Here and There: (In)fusing Southeast Asia/America through Contemporary
Community Formations
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Creating Children's Commercial Culture
CHAIR:
Susan Douglas, Department of Communication Studies,
University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Amanda Bruce, History, State University of New York,
Stony Brook
Old Narratives and New Thrills in Children's Radio, 1930 to 1945
Stephanie Tuszynski, American Culture Studies, Bowling
Green State University
Fundamental and Familiar: The History in Schoolhouse Rock
Sarah Banet-Weiser, Annenberg School for Communication,
University of Southern California Consuming Race: Nickelodeon and Youth Audiences
Kris Runberg Smith, History Department, Lindenwood
University
Midgets on Mainstreet: The Transformation of Buster Brown and Children's Consumerism
COMMENT:
The Audience
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Citizenship Crosscurrents in Nineteenth-Century Children's Periodicals
CHAIR:
Angelic Rodgers, English Department, Auburn University
PAPERS:
Lorinda Cohoon, English Department, University of
Texas, El Paso
"A Just, a Useful Part": Sigourney and Sedgwick's Contributions to the Youth's
Companion
Monika Elbert, English Department, Montclair State
University
Slumbering Charity and The Plight of the Poor in Children's Periodicals (1860-1880)
Kyoko Amano, Department of English, University of
Indianapolis
Marry and Merry; or, Alger's Hero Makes a Heroine Happy
Shauna Bigham, Independent Scholar
Political Crossroads: Images of Citizenship for Children During the Political
Reconstruction of the LDS Church
COMMENT:
Robert Cousins, Utah Valley State College
8:00 - 9:45 AM
Finance and Cultural Criticism
CHAIR:
Dehlia Harris, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University
PAPERS:
Descha Daemgen, American Studies Department, New
York University
Architecture as Contact Zone: 9/11, Finance, and the Built Environment
Leigh Claire La Berge, American Studies Department,
New York University
Finance and Textual Interpretation
Rosten Woo, Center for Urban Pedagogy
Finance Capital and Racial Segregation in New York City, Chicago, and Atlanta
COMMENT:
Dehlia Harris
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Rethinking American Feminism in the Post-War Years
CHAIR:
Lary May, Department of American Studies, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Kathleen G. Donohue, Department of History, University
of Central Michigan
Fifties Domesticity and the Construction of a Feminist Consciousness
Jessica Weiss, Department of History, California
State University, Hayward
"A Careerist is Also A Woman": Gender, Domesticity, and Public Life in Oakland,
CA 1957-1964
COMMENT:
Daniel Horowitz, American Studies Program, Smith College
Beth Bailey, American Studies Department, University of New Mexico
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Legal Crossroads: Brown v. Board of Education to Nguyen
v. the Immigration and Naturalization Service
CHAIR:
Gina Dent, Department of Women's Studies, University
of California, Santa Cruz
PAPERS:
Damon Freeman, History Department, University of
Alabama
Not So Simple Justice: Kenneth Clark and the Brown Decision
Gwyneth Mellinger, Department of American Studies,
University of Kansas
Forfeited Opportunity: The American Society of Newspaper Editors' Reaffirmation
of Whiteness in the Wake of Brown
Brian McElwain, Psychology Department, Duquesne
University
Crossing Whiteness after Loving: Interracial Marriage and Transgressive Positionality
Gwen Bergner, Department of English, West Virginia
University
Papa's Baby, An American Maybe: Kinship, Citizenship, and Uncle Sam
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Public Practice and the Academy in American Studies: A Roundtable on Scholarship, Methods and Careers (Sponsored by the ASA Task Force in Public Practice)
This roundtable will address current issues in American Studies as an interdisciplinary and critical enterprise. Addressing perspectives on public practice, the roundtable will enable audience and participants alike to think through the ways to navigate the porous but still policed boundaries between the university and public sectors.
CHAIR:
Charles McGovern, Program in American Studies and Department of History, College of William and Mary
PANELISTS:
Linda Shopes, Division of History, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
Eric Sandeen, Department of American Studies, University of Wyoming
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Youth at the Crossroads: Assembling Politicized Cultures from the Margins
CHAIR:
TBA
PAPERS:
Soo Ah Kwon, Department of Social and Cultural Studies,
University of California, Berkeley
Stop the Super Jail! Second-generation Asian and Pacific Islander Activists
Building Youth Movements
Pablo Gonzalez, Department of Anthropology, University
of Texas, Austin
Youth Liberation Network: Transnational-Inspired Organizing by Youth of Color
in Austin, Texas
Victor Rios, Department of Ethnic Studies, University
of California, Berkeley
Serious Adult Time For Petty Juvenile Crime: The Transformation of Deviant Latino
Youth to Serious Criminal Risks in California
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Women in Print: Stories of Feminist Bookstores and Publishing, Past, Present, and Future
CHAIR:
Laura J. Miller, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University
PAPERS:
Kathleen Liddle, Department of Sociology, Emory
University
Feminist Bookstores Through the Years
Amanda C. Gable, Graduate Studies Office, Georgia
Institute of Technology
Circulation of Feminist Texts: A History of a Southern Lesbian Feminist Literary
Journal
Kristen A. Hogan, Department of English, University
of Texas, Austin
New Words and In Other Words: the Innovative Language of Feminist Bookstores
COMMENT:
Linda Bryant, Co-Owner of Charis Books and More
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Making a Learning Community: Ethics as Crossroads in the American Studies Classroom
This session describes and demonstrates transformative interdisciplinary teaching and learning in Ethics and American Studies. Participants will lead a workshop to give the audience an experiential understanding of the learning experience they enjoyed.
CHAIR:
Nancy Koppelman, American Studies Program, The Evergreen State College
PANELISTS:
Crystal Bolyard, The Evergreen State College
Erin Burrows, The Evergreen State College
Dan Lowe, The Evergreen State College
Ben Stine, The Evergreen State College
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Performing and Re-forming Gender: Tomboys, Cross-dressing, and Medical 'Wisdom'
CHAIR:
AnaLouise Keating, Department of Woman's Studies, Texas Women's University
PAPERS:
Renee Sentilles, History Department, Case Western
Reserve University
Tomboy and Little Women: Gender and Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century American
Popular Literature and Culture
Alison Redick, American Studies Program, New York
University
Under the Microscope: Hugh Hampton Young and the Surgical Treatment of Intersex,
1916-1940
Tyrone R. Simpson II, American and African American
Studies Program, University of Virginia Jammed in Hemispherical Blackness: Looking Through Campy Transvestitism in
Hubert Selby Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
U.S. Poets in the International Context
CHAIR:
Betsy Erkkila, Department of English,Northwestern University
PAPERS:
Mário Avelar, Director of Department of Human
and Social Sciences, Alberta University Reading American Literature and/or Culture in a Foreign Land
Irene Ramalho Santos, University of Coimbra, Portugal
The American Poem as a Crossroads of Cultures
Camelia Elias, Department of Languages and Intercultural
Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark Counter Frames: The Generic Crossroads of the Prose Poem
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Films, Movie, Cinema
CHAIR:
Stanley Corkin, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati
PAPERS:
Andrew Johnston, American Studies, University of
Maryland, College Park
Electric Imperialism: The Pan-American Exhibition, Electric Cinema, and Masculinities
Tom Kemper, Critical Studies, University of Southern
California
AMKINO! Soviet Films in America
Matt Becker, American Studies Department, University
of Minnesota
Shadow Movements: Counterculture Horror Films and the Politics of Ambivalence
Rosa Soto, English Department, University of Florida
Made to be the Maid?: An Examination of Hollywood Maids from "Mammy" to "Rosario"
COMMENT:
Stanley Corkin
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Transcendentalism and Translation
CHAIR:
Meredith McGill, English, Rutgers University
PAPERS:
Christina Zwarg, Department of English, Haverford
College
Translating Traumas of Value in Fuller's Eckermann
Lynn Wardley, Institute for Research on Women and
Gender, Stanford University
Margaret Fuller's Epigenesis: The Biological Origins of the American Self
Jay Grossman, Department of English, Northwestern
University
Translating Matthiessen
COMMENT:
Virginia Jackson, Department of English, New York University
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Telling Narrative Identities: Travel, Translation and Trauma
CHAIR:
Roberta Hill, University of Wisconsin
PAPERS:
Mark Rifkin, English Department, Fordham University
Caught in Translation: The Politics of Collectivity in The Life of Black
Hawk
Martha Viehmann, Literature and Language, Northern
Kentucky University
Speaking Chinook: Images of Cultural Exchange in Stories by E. Pauline Johnson
Susan Stebbins, Anthropology Department, State University
of New York, Posts
John Norton: Scot, Cherokee and Mohawk Chief
Kathryn Koo, Department of English, Saint Mary's
College of California
William Apess, Historical Trauma, and the Geography of New England
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Queering the Gaze: Spectacle, Respectability, and Redemption
CHAIR:
David J. Vázquez, Department of English, University of Oregon
PAPERS:
John Charles, English, Central Michigan University
"I Had Done it to be a Man": White Skins and Queer Redemption in the Post-WWII
African American White-Life Novel
Jeffrey McCune, Performance Studies-Northwestern
University
Moving Beyond Respectability: Hip Hop, the Down Low, and the New African-American
Dream
Yvonne Keller, School of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Miami University of Ohio
A Lesbian Spectacular: Voyeurism and the History of Dominant and Lesbian U.S.
Visual Culture as Reflected/Deflected in the "L" Word
COMMENT:
David J. Vásquez
10:00 - 11:45 AM
20th-Century Gender
CHAIR:
Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota
PAPERS:
Alisse Portnoy, English Language and Literature
Department, University of Michigan
Women against Woman's Rights: What U.S. Women's Antisuffrage Rhetoric Tells
Us about Large-Scale Social Change
Nicholas Syrett, Program in American Culture, University
of Michigan
Gentlemen and Wolves, Nice Girls and Pick-Ups: Sexual Conquest on the Twentieth-Century
College Campus
Michele Pridmore-Brown, Institute for Research on
Women and Gender, Stanford University
Second-Wave Feminism, "Cowboy" Science and the Biopolitics of "Delayed" Motherhood
in America c. 2000
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Seeing the Dead
CHAIR:
Grey Gundaker, College of William & Mary
PAPERS:
Rita Keresztesi, Department of English, University
of Oklahoma
Of Zombies and Women: Hurstons's Ethnogaraphic Writing on Haiti in Tell
My Horse (1938)
Sara Clarke Kaplan, Department of Ethnic Studies,
University of California, Berkeley
Souls at the Crossroads, Africans on the Water: The Politics of Public Mourning
Karen Flood, History and Literature Program, Harvard
University
Image-Making in Life and Death: African-American Photographers and Funeral Directors
in the Early Twentieth Century
Nicole Waligora-Davis, Department of English, Cornell
University Habeas Corpus: Forensics, Fetishism, and Court TV
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Body Politics: Health, Activism and the Nation
CHAIR:
Natalie Molina, Ethnic Studies Department, University of California, San Diego
PAPERS:
Meredith Raimondo, Comparative American Studies,
Oberlin College
"No Front Lines:" National Security, Cultural Relativism, and United Nations'
War on AIDS
Lisa Diedrich, Women's Studies Program, Stony Brook
University
Doing Queer Love: A Genealogy of AIDS Activism
Jenna Loyd, Geography, University of California,
Berkeley
Internationalism and the US Health Left of the 1960s and 1970s
COMMENT:
The Audience
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Crossroads of Colonialism and Empire: The Emergence of the United States as an Imperial Power Seen from Cuba and Italy in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
CHAIR:
Ada Ferrer, Department of History, New York University
PAPERS:
Marial Iglesias Utset, Facultad de Filosofia
e Historia, Universidad de La Habana
The Construction of Cuban National Identity: Symbolic Forms of Transition from
Colonial to Republican Cuba under the US Military Domination, 1892-1902
Enrica Bricchetto, Dipartimento di Storia, Universita'
di Torino, Italy
Racial Representations of the Enemy: The Italian Press in the Aftermath of ADWA
(1896) and the Question of the Impact of American Models of Journalism in Early
Twentieth-Century Italy
Alessandra Lorini, Dipartimento di Studi Storici
e Geografici, Università di Firenze, Italy
Atlantic Crossings: Italians Debating Late Nineteenth-Century "Cuba Libre" and
the North American Intervention of 1898
COMMENT:
Ada Ferrer
10:00 - 11:45 AM
Crossing Racial Borders Via Literary Texts: Constructions of (Racial and/or Gendered) Passing in Velina Hasu Houston's Waiting for Tadashi, Writer Robert Morales and Artist Kyle Baker's Comic Book Series, Truth: Red White and Black and Patricia Powell
CHAIR:
Suparna Bhaskaran, Department of Cultural & Interdisciplinary Studies, Antioch College
PAPERS:
Sean Metzger, School of Theatre, University of California,
Davis
What is Family?: The Discourses Surrounding Issues of Passing in Velina Hasu
Houston's Waiting for Tadashi
Nina Ha, English Department, The Ohio State University
The Art and Act of Passing: The Crossing of Racial, Gender, and Sexual Borders
in Patricia Powell's The Pagoda
Rebecca Wanzo, Departments of Women's Studies & African and African American Studies, The Ohio State University Passing Patriotism: Wearing Hero-face in Truth: Red, White, and Black
COMMENT:
Suparna Bhaskaran
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Editing Women's Papers: The Activism of Florence Kelley, Harriet Jacobs and Abby Kelley Foster
CHAIR:
Jean Fagan Yellin, Department of English, Pace University
PAPERS:
Beverly Wilson Palmer, Department of History, Pomona
College
Geography and Politics in the Letters of Florence Kelley
Kate Culkin, Department of English, Pace University
Building a Web: Editing the Harriet Jacobs Papers
Carolyn Howe, Departments of Sociology and Anthropology,
College of the Holy Cross
At the Crossroads of Race and Gender: The Abby Kelley Foster Letters Project
COMMENT:
Carol Faulkner, Department of History, State University of New York, Geneseo
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Asian and African Americans at the Crossroads of Class
CHAIR:
Yoonmee Chang, Departments of English and American Studies, Indiana University
PAPERS:
Pensri Ho, Department of Anthropology, University
of Virginia
Class Privilege and Racialization of Asian American Professionals
Candice Jenkins, Department of English, Hunter College
Class Privilege = Racial Alienation?
Valerie Karno, Department of English and Pre-Law
Program, University of Rhode Island
Televised Court Shows: Judges and The Development of a Classed Citizenry
COMMENT:
Yoonmee Chang
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Reading Class in 19th-Century African American Literature
CHAIR:
Rolland Murray, Department of English, Ohio State University
PAPERS:
Andrea N. Williams, Department of English, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Examining Class Mobility and Respectability in the Serialized Novels of Frances
Harper
Robert Oscar Lopez, Department of English, Rutgers
University, Camden
Gentlemen and Rogues in The Garies and Their Friends and Blake
Samuel Otter, Department of English, University of
California, Berkeley
How Joseph Willson's Sketches Shows Us That We Don't Know What We Mean
by "Class"
COMMENT:
Xiomara Santamarina, Departments of English & African American Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Toni Cade Bambara's Cross Cultural Work in Atlanta
CHAIR:
Cheryl Wall, Department of English, Rutgers University
PAPERS:
Linda J. Holmes, Independent Scholar
From Atlanta to Vietnam: Bambara as Activist
Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Women's Studies Department,
Spelman College
Toni Cade Bambara: Black Feminist Foremother
Bettina Aptheker, Department of Women's Studies,
University of California, Santa Cruz
THE SALT EATERS and the Struggle for the Twenty-First Century
COMMENT:
Cheryl Wall
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Queer Southerners and Queer Souths: Culture, Community, and Region
CHAIR:
Pippa Holloway, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University
PAPERS:
Fred Fejes, Communication Department, Florida Atlantic
University
Sexualities and Sunshine: The Development of the Southeast Florida Lesbian/Gay
Community
Will Holmes, Department of History, University of
Georgia
"Gay is the Great Equalizer": Community and Gender Divisions in Gay Birmingham,
Alabama, 1977-1985
William Brock Thompson, Programs in American &
Film Studies, King's College, University of London
An Un-Natural State: Same-Sex Desire in Arkansas
COMMENT:
Pippa Holloway
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Seeing Jews: Jewish Bodies at a Theatrical Crossroads
CHAIR:
Stacy Wolf, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS:
Andrea Most, Department of English, University of
Toronto, Canada
Acting Jewish in Philip Roth's The Counterlife
Daniel Itzkovitz, Department of English, Stonehill
College
A Penetrating Calculation: White Slaves, Performing Jews
Laura Levitt, Department of Religion, Temple University
Seeing Jewishness in the Details: Excess/orizing American Jews
COMMENT:
Stacy Wolf
12:00 - 1:45 PM
The Black Bourgeoisie at the Turn-of-the-Century: Cotton, Consumption and Cosmetics
CHAIR:
John Stauffer, Program in the History of American Civilization, Harvard University
PAPERS:
John Kerkering, English Department, Loyola University,
Chicago
Subject Positions of Privilege: Racial Identity via Conspicuous Consumption
Hsuan Hsu, Department of English, University of
California, Berkeley
Booker T. Washington at the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition
Erin D. Chapman, African American Studies and History
Departments, Yale University
Prove It On Me: New Negro Women, the Advertisement Industry, and the Sex-Race
Marketplace
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Antebellum Public Discourse: Readers, Speakers, Boarders
CHAIR:
Katherine Adams, Department of English, University of Tulsa
PAPERS:
Peter Gibian, English Department, McGill University
The Politics of the Parlor: Nineteenth-Century Talk Groups as Contact Zones
and Catalysts for Cultural Change
David Faflik, Doctoral Candidate and Teaching Fellow,
Department of English, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
To the Boardinghouse: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860
Michael Millner, English/Humanities, University
of Chicago
Literacy, Emotion, and Antebellum Reading Publics
COMMENT:
Katherine Adams
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Reading Revolutions
CHAIR:
Leslie Harris, Emory University
PAPERS:
Wil Verhoeven, American Studies Department, University
of Groningen, The Netherlands
The American Front of the French Revolution in England: The Case of Walker's
The Vagabond.
Gretchen Woertendyke, State University of New York,
Stony Brook
From Revolution to Insurrection; or the Specter of Haiti
Amy Qualls, Auburn University
Written Performances: The Documentary and Epistolary Accounts of the 1680 Pueblo
Revolt
Leslie Hammer, University of California, San Diego
Fighting like a "Lady" for Hawaiian Sovereignty: Sentimentality and Performing
Whiteness in Queen Lili'uokalani's Hawai'i's Story by Hawai'i's Queen
COMMENT:
Lelie Harris
12:00 - 1:45 PM
After the Revolution
Our panel takes up the post-Revolutionary Period and the various theoretical "revolutions" in American studies and cultural studies over the last three decades to examine the relation between aesthetics, political forms and the revolutionary archive; the production of revolutionary African American archives; and other significant issues.
CHAIR:
Monique Allewaert, Department of English, Duke University
Cathy Davidson, Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University
PAPERS:
Lauren Berlant, Department of English, University of Chicago Politics, Aesthetics, and Revolution
Lisa Lowe, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego A Single Republic, Out of Four Continents
Christopher Newfield, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara Revolution and Administration
Elizabeth McHenry, Department of English, New York University The Search for Black Readers
Doris Sommer, Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, Harvard University TBA
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
From Critique to Vision: The Unfinished Work of American Studies?
For more than thirty years, conservative institutions and
think-tanks have been bringing together cultural historians, political scientists,
and active politicians to craft the language and the framework that would give
conservative policies cultural legitimacy and political traction. No such synergistic
effort has taken place on the other side of the political spectrum, where Washington-based
institutes have focused on policy studies while a dispersed community of cultural
scholars and intellectuals has focused primarily on critique - of social injustices,
nationalism, and the suppression of difference, for example. The question on
the table now is whether this project of critique can and should turn a corner
and become a visionary project as well
CHAIR:
Nick Bromell, Department of English, University
of Massachussets, Amherst
PANELISTS:
Mary Kelley, History Department, University of Michigan
James Livingston, Department of History, Rutgers
University
Jose David Saldivar, Department of Ethnic Studies
and English, University of California, Berkeley
Danille Taylor, Dean of Humanities, Dillard University
Kenneth W. Warren, Department of English, University
of Chicago
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
The Disabled Body: Memoir, Movement and Masculinity
CHAIR:
Sharon O'Brien, American Studies Department, Dickinson
College
PAPERS:
John Kinder, Department of American Studies, University
of Minnesota
The Disabled Atlantic: World War I, Migration
Cynthia Franklin, English Department, University
of Hawai'i
"Life as We (Should) Know It": Considering the Crossroads of Academic Memoir
and Disability Studies
Heidi Hoechst, Literature Department, University
of California, San Diego
Seeing Normal: Unbreakable's "Invalid" Gaze
COMMENT:
Sharon O'Brien
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Crossing Paths in the Eighteenth Century: Religion, the Frontier, and North America
CHAIR:
Dennis Moore, Department of English, Florida State University
PAPERS:
Cedrick May, Auburn University
"Enthusiasm" as Sign in Black Christianity: Theologies of Race and Class in
Early America
Heather Miyano Kopelson, History, University of
Iowa
Women's Work, Men's Work, God's Work?: Gender and Religious Practice in Seventeenth-Century
Bermuda and New England
Tyler Boulware, Department of History, University
of South Carolina
The Meaning of "Frontier" in the 18th Century South
Hilary Wyss, Department of English, Auburn University
English Letters: Native Education in Colonial New England
COMMENT:
The Audience
12:00 - 1:45 PM
Cuba and Haiti: Nationalism, Ethnography, and a Child's-Eye View
CHAIR:
Rebecka Rutledge, Miami University of Ohio
PAPERS:
David Luis-Brown, English Department, Lafayette College
Implosive Nationalism: The Racial Politics of Black and Cuban Exile Anticolonialism
in the 1850s
Jill Lane, American Studies, Yale University
Racial Ethnography, Urban Sex, and Literate Women, Havana 1888
Nathalie op de Beeck, Department of English, Illinois
State University
Pineapple Canneries and Abandoned Forts: Contexts and Subtexts in Hughes and
Bontemps' Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti (1932)
COMMENT:
Rebecka Rutledge
12:00 - 1:45 PM
What American Studies Can Teach Libraries and Vice-Versa
CHAIR:
Brett Gary, New York University
PAPERS:
Wayne Wiegand, Florida State University
What American Studies Can Teach the Library and Information Studies Community
about the Library in the Life of the User
Abigail Van Slyck, Connecticut College
Managing Pleasure: Library Architecture and the Erotics of Reading
Christine Pawley, University of Iowa
In Full View: American Libraries and the Study of Readers and Reading
COMMENT:
Brett Gary
12:00 - 1:45 PM
"I Am a Man of My Times, But the Times Don't Know It Yet":
New Black Masculinity in the Academy
CHAIR:
S. Craig Watkins, Department of Radio, Television, Film, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS:
Mark Anthony Neal, American Studies Department,
University of Texas, Austin Confessions of a
TNI: Why I Became a Black Intellectual
E. Patrick Johnson, Performance Studies Program,
Northwestern University
In the Merry Old Land of OZ Or For Little Queer Colored Boys Who Considered
the Projects when the Academy Got Too Rough
Lawrence Jackson, Department of English, Emory University
The Revolutionary Spirit, 1988-1993
John L. Jackson, Cultural Anthropology Program,
Duke University
Toward an Ethnography of Ghetto Fabulousity
COMMENT:
The Audience
‡ Indicates an International American Studies Initiative Event