Visual Cultural Imperialism: Race, Sexuality, and Visibility in Representations of Indians Philadelphia Marriott Room 411
CHAIR:
Randolph Lewis, University of Oklahoma (OK)
PAPERS:
Lisa Tatonetti, Kansas State University (KS) Nationhood, Sovereignty, and Decolonizing Fantasies:Daniel Heath Justice Takes on Tolkien
Brian Klopotek, University of Oregon (OR) Playing Indian, Playing Black: Outkast, Litefoot, and the Psychology of Invisibility
Beth H. Piatote, University of California, Berkeley (CA) East Meets West(ern): Imperialism, Iraq, and Going Native in Hidalgo
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Transnational Sobriety: Exporting American Ideas about Alcohol and Alcoholism Philadelphia Marriott Room 408
CHAIR:
Jared C. Lobdell, Eastern College (PA)
PAPERS:
Jason S. Lantzer, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis (IN) Drying Up the World: America's Dry Crusade, Wilsonian Idealism, and the Transnational Context
Trysh Travis, University of Florida (FL) The Globalization of 12-Step Recovery: Exporting "The Language of the Heart"
Brian Herrera, University of New Mexico (NM) Performative Autobiography and Transnational Sobriety in Ignacio Solares' "Delirium Tremens"
COMMENT:
Mark Lender, Kean University (NJ)
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Yankees Abroad: Performing "Americanness" in Nineteenth-Century Britain Philadelphia Marriott Room 412
CHAIR:
James W. Cook, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
PAPERS:
Stephen Johnson, University of Toronto (Canada) Report on the Death of Gilbert Pell: Final Thoughts of an American Blackface Minstrel Abroad
Marcy J. Dinius, University of Delaware (DE) "In Daguerreotypes, . . . we beat the world": Exhibiting the "Real" America at the Crystal Palace
Marlis Erica Schweitzer, York University (Canada) From American Girls to Dollar Princesses: Americanness and the Construction of National/ Transnational Gender Identity
COMMENT:
James W. Cook, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI)
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Latino/as Diasporic Performance Philadelphia Marriott Room 409
CHAIR:
Yolanda Maria Martinez-San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania (PA)
PAPERS:
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI) Race, Ethnicity, and Warhol Superstardom: Reading Mario Móntez and Holly Woodlawn
Lorgia Garcia-Pena, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI) Migration, National Identities, and Multicultural Communities: A Study of Claudio Mir's Performance Piece Mondongo Scam
Lucia Suarez, Amherst College (MA) Forged from the Body: Latina Motherhood, Maternity, and Pregnancy
COMMENT:
Yolanda Maria Martinez San Miguel, University of Pennsylvania (PA)
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Faith and Reason: Religious Print Culture and the (Re)making of American Communities Philadelphia Marriott Room 405
CHAIR:
John Corrigan, Florida State University (FL)
PAPERS:
Gregory Jackson, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ) Homiletic Fiction and the Novelization of Progress in Alcott's Little Women
Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University–Bloomington (IN) "God's Medicine Bottle": The Cultural Uses of Printed Texts in American Divine Healing Movements, 1872–2007
Erin Smith, University of Texas Dallas (TX) Books for the Seeker: Liberal Religion and the Literary Marketplace in the 1990s
COMMENT:
John Corrigan, Florida State University (FL)
8:00 am – 9:45 am
The Model Minority in the Age of American Global Expansion Philadelphia Marriott Room 403
CHAIR:
Christina Klein, Boston College (MA)
PAPERS:
Ellen Dionne Wu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ) Race, Hawaiian Statehood, and the Construction of the Model Minority
Mary Lui, Yale University (CT) Selling the Model Minority Abroad
COMMENT:
Christina Klein, Boston College (MA)
8:00 am – 9:45 am
Visions of Community: The Suburb in Recent Novels and Films Philadelphia Marriott Room 410
CHAIR:
Elizabeth Ewen, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury (NY)
PAPERS:
Steven C. Weisenburger, Southern Methodist University (TX) White Suburbs, Race Terror: Postwar Cases and Fictions
Christopher Schedler, Central Washington University (WA) Immigrants at the Gates: Social Borders and Global Suburbs in The Tortilla Curtain
Jeffrey Severs, Harvard University (MA) The Suburbs and Assimilation in Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life
Kathryn Higbee Knapp, Fordham University (NY) Just in Time: Redefining Community in Richard Ford's Suburban Novels
Keith Wilhite, University of Iowa (IA) Framing the Suburbs: Destabilizing America's Insular Geographies
8:00 am – 9:45 am
The Whole World in His Hands: God's Globe, Evangelical Media, and the Secular Sacred Philadelphia Marriott Room 407
CHAIR:
David Watt, Temple University (PA)
PANELISTS:
Janet Jakobsen, Barnard College (NY) Kristin Dombek, Princeton University (NJ) Ben Stewart, New York University (NY)
8:00 am – 9:45 am
The Black and Green Atlantic Philadelphia Marriott Room 401
CHAIR:
David C. Lloyd, University of Southern California (CA)
PAPERS:
Peter Desmond O'Neill, University of Southern California (CA) James Connolly and the Green Atlantic
Anne Gulick, Duke University (NC) Declaring Differently: The Transatlantic Black Political Imagination and Mid-Twentieth-Century Internationalisms
Michael Malouf, George Mason University (VA) Ourselves First: Hubert Harrison and Irish Nationalism
COMMENT:
Amy E. Martin, Mount Holyoke College (MA)
8:00 am – 9:45 am
The Empire Strikes Back, Revisited: Does (Black) British Cultural Studies Still Matter? Philadelphia Marriott Room 404
CHAIR:
Hazel V. Carby, Yale University (CT)
PAPERS:
Joshua Guild, Princeton University (NJ) Walls and Mirrors: African American Studies' Encounter with Black British Studies
Min Hyoung Song, Boston University (MA) Desiring Blackness
Cynthia Young, Boston College (MA) Cultural Studies in an Age of Terror
COMMENT:
Hazel V. Carby, Yale University (CT)
8:00 am – 9:45 am
The Mexican Revolution in the American Imagination Philadelphia Marriott Room 402
CHAIR:
Margaret Ellen Dorsey, University of Pennsylvania (PA)
PAPERS:
William Orchard, University of Chicago (IL) Revolting Pictures
Yolanda Padilla, University of Pennsylvania (PA) Ricardo Flores Magón and the Emergence of Mexican American Literary Culture
Raul A. Ramos, University of Houston (TX) 16 de Septiembre 1910: Which Nationalist on Parade?
Alberto Varon, University of Texas, Austin (TX) Jack London, the Tampico Affair, and U.S. Perspectives on the Mexican Revolution
8:00 am – 9:45 am
The Racial Spectacle of Performance Philadelphia Marriott Room 406
CHAIR:
Tavia Nyongo, New York University (NY)
PAPERS:
Esther Romeyn, University of Florida (FL) Acting, Mutability, and Race in Early Twentieth-Century American Vaudeville
Matthew Dealon Thompson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (NC) Cherokee Casting Call: Tribal Sovereignty and Theater
Antonio Lopez, George Washington University (DC) Post-Afrocubanismo and the Cultures of Afro-Cuban America
Anthea Kraut, University of California, Riverside (CA) Race, Theft, and Embodied Theories of Dance as Property
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Transpresence and the American Century: Toxic Environments across Space and Time Philadelphia Marriott Room 408
CHAIR:
Joni Seager, York University (Canada)
PAPERS:
Charles Waugh, Utah State University (UT) "Fake Science," Agent Orange, and Environmental Justice
Randel D. Hanson, Arizona State University (AZ) Humanizing Geologic Time in the Late American Century: Climate Change as Community with Future Generations
Julie Sze, University of California, Davis (CA) The Cultures of the "Body Burden": Children, Time, and Environmental Pollution
COMMENT:
Joni Seager, York University (Canada)
10:00 am – 11:45 am
The Prenational and the Transhemispheric Philadelphia Marriott Room 402
CHAIR:
Michael A. Elliott, Emory University (GA)
PAPERS:
Ralph Bauer, New York University (NY) Before "Race": Creolization and the Hemispheric Geography of Colonial Difference
Ed White, University of Florida (FL) The Co-modern Utopia
Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University (CT) The African Roots of Lyric: Whitman, Egypt, the Book of the Dead
COMMENT:
Michael A. Elliott, Emory University (GA)
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Yellowface in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America: Performances across Ethnicity, Race, and Nation Philadelphia Marriott Room 413
CHAIR:
Robert Lee, Brown University (RI)
PAPERS:
Josephine Ding Lee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN) Racial Formation in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado
Esther Kim Lee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL) Blackface, Yellowface, and Diplomacy: A Study of Minstrel Shows during the Early Encounters between the U.S. and Japan
Krystyn Moon, University of Mary Washington (VA) The Emergence of Temporary Immigrant Categories: Asian Entertainers and American Immigration Law, 1880s–1930s
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Exploring Nationhood through Dramatic Literature and Performance, 1860–1886 Philadelphia Marriott Room 405
CHAIR:
Michael Aaron Rockland, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway (NJ)
PAPERS:
Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, Miami University of Ohio (OH) Playful Ambivalence: John Hill Hewitt and "The Scouts"
Anne Fletcher, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (IL) Romancing the Civil War: Reconciliation Plays
Noreen C. Barnes, Virginia Commonwealth University (VA) "Susan B. Anthony or I'm a Dutchman!": The Burlesques of Robert Craig
Scott R. Irelan, Illinois State University (IL) Lincoln the Yankee Goon: A Wartime Image in Confederate and Copperhead Drama
10:00 am – 11:45 am
The Emergence of Las Vegas Culture at Midcentury: Glamour, Organized Crime, and Sexual Entertainments Philadelphia Marriott Room 401
CHAIR:
William Arce, Bowdoin College (ME)
PAPERS:
Matt Johnson, Temple University (PA) From Vice to Recreation: Sex, Tourism, and Las Vegas
Laura Cook Kenna, George Washington University (DC) Constructing "Gangster Glamour": How Vegas's Reputation and Sinatra's Persona Aestheticized Ethnic Criminality
Red Vaughan Tremmel, University of Chicago (IL) Postwar American Fantasies of Freedom: Glamorous Girls, Gambling Playboys, and Queers
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Youth Identity Construction in Digital Environments Philadelphia Marriott Room 412
CHAIR:
Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California (CA)
PAPERS:
Katynka Z. Martínez, San Francisco State University (CA) Ultra-Hardcore Gamers Versus Hardcore-Semi: Youth Negotiating Rules for Proper Online Behavior
Sonja Baumer, University of California, Berkeley (CA) What YouTube Has to Teach American Youth about War and Peace in the Middle East
Rebecca Herr Stephenson, University of Southern California (CA) Glomp! Squee! ZOMG! Fangirling as Identity Work
COMMENT:
Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California (CA)
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Interventions: Public Art, Vernacular Culture, and the Politics of Remembrance Philadelphia Marriott Room 403
CHAIR:
Dolores Hayden, Yale University (CT)
PAPERS:
Kathleen Franz, American University (DC) "On Saving the Navarro House": Tejano Memory and the Reshaping of Texas History, 1958–1979
Catherine Gudis, University of California, Riverside (CA) "Live Building": Art, Architecture, and the Whitewashing of Urban Identity
Randall Mason, University of Pennsylvania (PA) What Vernacular Memorials Say about Public Memory
COMMENT:
Benjamin Filene, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Visible Frictions: Visual Culture on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Philadelphia Marriott Room 410
CHAIR:
Rosa L. Fregoso, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
PAPERS:
Rebecca Schreiber, University of New Mexico (NM) Refusing Disposability: Collaboration and Representational Strategies in Maquilapolis
Alejandro Lugo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL) Cruces
Jason Cato, University of Texas, Austin (TX) Visual Regimes of Surveillance: Cultural Politics of U.S.-Mexico Border Militarization
COMMENT:
Rosa L. Fregoso, University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
10:00 am – 11:45 am
W/Righting History: The Problem of Literary Historic Sites Philadelphia Marriott Room 411
CHAIR:
Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Amherst College (MA)
PAPERS:
Anne Trubek, Oberlin College (OH) Why Go? The Irrational Allure of Writers' House Museums
Hilary Iris Lowe, University of Kansas (KS) Literary Houses and Historical Literacy: The Case of the Mark Twain Boyhood Home
Mary Jenkins, National Park ServiceVisiting the Edgar Allan Poe House
COMMENT:
Lawrence Buell, Harvard University (MA)
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Transnational Harlem Renaissance Philadelphia Marriott Room 407
CHAIR:
William J. Maxwell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
PAPERS:
Michael Soto, Trinity University (TX) "Mecca for . . . the entire Negro World": Racial Identity and National Origin in Harlem, 1910–1930
Rebecca Walsh, Duke University (NC) The Meccas of the Harlem Renaissance: Revisiting Afro-Orientalism
Rita Keresztesi, University of Oklahoma (OK) Transnational Harlem Renaissance: George Schuyler's Africa
10:00 am – 11:45 am
The Skyline and the Slum: Visions of New York Philadelphia Marriott Room 406
CHAIR:
Daniel J. Walkowitz, New York University (NY)
PAPERS:
Thuy Lin Nguyen Tu, Cornell University (NY) An Immigrant's Imagination: Martin Wong's Lower East Side
John Cline, University of Texas, Austin (TX) Apprenticeships and Apertures: Subway Graffiti's "Crisis of Representation"
Vojislava Filipcevic, Columbia University (NY) The Skyline and the Slum: Urban Planning and Visions of New York in Films of the Great Depression
COMMENT:
Daniel J. Walkowitz, New York University (NY)
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Victims, Mourning, and Trauma in the Post-9/11 World Philadelphia Marriott Room 409
CHAIR:
Elisabeth Anker, University of California, Berkeley (CA)
PAPERS:
Thomas Kane, independent scholarMelancholic Publics and Peaceful Tomorrows: 9/11 Automortography and the Geographies of Sorrow
Macarena Gomez-Barris, University of Southern California (CA) Making Historical Memory Matter: Resignifying 9/11 Through Allende and Dorfman
Oz Frankel, New School University (NY) The 9/11 Commission Report: Text, Performance, Memory
Moberley Luger, University of British Columbia (Canada) "This Connection of Everyone": Beyond a Patriotric "Spirit of Unity"
10:00 am – 11:45 am
Journeys in Disability Culture/Disability Arts Philadelphia Marriott Room 404
CHAIR:
Jim Ferris, University of Wisconsin, Madison (WI)
PAPERS:
Susan Schweik, University of California, Berkeley (CA) Porgy and DuBose
Petra Kuppers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (MI) Cultural Cycles, Crossings, Journeys: Disability Culture and the Reinvention of Poetic Myth
Kanta Kochhar Lindgren, University of Washington, Bothell (WA) A Transnational Mapping of Deaf and Disability Performance: Le Vu Long, Restless, and Others