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Students' Committee Working Breakfast: Job Interview Workshop |
This workshop will enable graduate students better to make their way through the often difficult, sometimes trying job interview process. The session will open with brief presentations offering practical advice from Michael Cowan (U.C. Santa Cruz), Keith Edgerton (U. of Montana), James Farrell (St. Olaf Col.), Robert Gross (William and Mary), Patricia Nelson Limerick (U. of Colorado), Barry Shank (U. of Kansas), and Mary Corbin Sies (U. of Maryland). These brief remarks will be followed by a role-play and a question-and-answer period. Muffins, bagels, and the like will be available for purchase. Coffee and tea will be offered free of charge due to the generous assistance provided by the American Studies Program at George Washington University, the Department of American Studies at the University of Michigan, the American Studies Program at the University of Iowa, the American Studies Program at the University of Kansas, the University of Kansas Graduate Association, and the American Studies Department at the University of Wyoming.
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8:30 - 10:15 AM | CHICAGO A |
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Out of the Academy and into the Fire: Politicizing the Practice of American Studies (Sponsored by the Student's Committee) |
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CHAIR: | Keith Edgerton, Department of History, Montana State University, Billings |
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PAPERS: | Renaldo Andrews, Curator of Exhibits, Kansas City Black Archives
The Politics of Archives
Judi Moore Latta, Department of Radio, Film, and Television, Howard University
Charging the Air: Producing "Wade in the Water"--African American Sacred Music Traditions
Patricia Nelson Limerick, Department of History, University of Colorado
Academics and Reporters: A Lived Experience in Cross-Cultural Contact
Sandra Patton, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
The "Salvation" of "Unfit" Mothers and "Illegitimate" Children? An Interdisciplinary Ethnographic Approach to Public Policy |
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COMMENTS: | Paul Lauter, Department of English, Trinity College |
This session will address questions concerning the relationship between American Studies scholarship and politics in the public sphere. In his 1994 presidential address, Paul Lauter argued that one of the directions that American Studies is and should be moving toward is a greater engagement in public political issues. In organizing this session, the Students' Committee embraces such a vision of the future of American Studies and hopes to develop it further on both the theoretical and practical levels. The papers presented will address questions arising from the use of American Studies frameworks and research as a form of political praxis in four distinct venues.
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8:30 - 10:15 AM | CHICAGO B |
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Territorial Stories: Migration, Captivity, and "Wild Hope" |
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CHAIR: | David Waldstreicher, American Studies Program, Yale University |
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PAPERS: | Hilary E. Wyss, Department of English, University of North Carolina
"Taken by the Indians": William Apess, Mary Jemison, and the Negotiations of Transcultural Identity
Karen E. Waldron, Department of Human Studies, College of the Atlantic
Indians, White Women, and Removals: The Migration of Story in (Re)Publications of Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative
William Blazek, Department of American Studies, Liverpool Hope University College, England
Wild Hope: Transforming Cultural Territory in the Novels of Louise Erdrich |
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COMMENTS: | David Waldstreicher |
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8:30 - 10:15 AM | CHICAGO C |
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Migrations of Subjectivity: Sympathy, Self, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Anglo America |
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CHAIR: | Mitchell R. Breitwieser, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley |
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PAPERS: | Christopher Looby, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
American Electricity
Michael Meranze, Department of History, University of California, San Diego
Woolman's Dilemmas: Commerce, Submission, and the Paradoxes of Conscience in the Eighteenth Century
Julia Stern, Department of English, Northwestern University
Migrations of Masculinity and the Problem of Alien-nation in Ormond |
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COMMENTS: | Mitchell R. Breitwieser |
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Analyzing U.S. Cultures: Anthropology and Literature |
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CHAIR: | Paula Rabinowitz, Department of English, University of Minnesota |
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PAPERS: | Maureen Konkle, Department of English, University of Minnesota
Colonial Dominance Maintained: Anthropology and Indian Identity in the Contemporary Criticism of Native American Literature
Carol Mason, Department of English, University of Minnesota
Against the Reproduction of Anthropology: Narrative Strategies for Radical Feminism
Polly Carl, Department of Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society, University of Minnesota
Comparing Stories: Some Counsel for Queer Theory |
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COMMENTS: | Paula Rabinowitz |
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Interrogating Middle-Class Identity |
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CHAIR: | Robert D. Johnston, Department of History, Yale University |
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PAPERS: | Jennifer Parchesky, Program in Literature, Duke University
The Invention of Middle America: Or, How the Middle Class Mistook Itself for Everyone
Kathryn Dudley, American Studies Program, Yale University
Representing the Middle Class
Claire Oberon Garcia, Department of English, Colorado College
The Contemporary Mulatta and the "Archaic" Black Woman: Reading Class and Race in Three Novels of Black Middle-Class Life
Sherry Lee Linkon, American Studies Program, Youngstown State University, and John Russo, Labor Studies Program, Youngstown State University
The Middle Class Ain't What It Used to Be: Class and Identity in Post-Industrial American Culture |
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COMMENTS: | Robert D. Johnston |
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8:30 - 10:15 AM | CHOUTEAU A |
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Crime, Corruption, and Popular Culture |
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CHAIR: | David Ray Papke, School of Law, Indiana University and Purdue University at Indianapolis |
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PAPERS: | Lynne Dahlgren, Film Studies Program, University of Colorado at Boulder
Strategic Wait: Narrative Pause and Noir Displacement in The Killer Inside Me and Touch of Evil
Christopher Wilson, Department of English, Boston College
The Politics of the Procedural
Erin Smith, Program in Literature, Duke University
Proletarian Plots: Hard-boiled Narrative and Working- class Life in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest |
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COMMENTS: | David Ray Papke |
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8:30 - 10:15 AM | CHOUTEAU B |
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Caribbean Travel in Paule Marshall and Toni Morrison |
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CHAIR: | Tamar Rothenberg, Department of Geography, Rutgers University |
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PAPERS: | Mark A. Eaton, Department of English, Boston University
Caribbean Travel and Transnational Capital in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby
Linda Krumholz, Department of English, Denison University
Charting the Cultural Crossroads: U.S.-Caribbean Relations in Paule Marshall's Novels
Bruce Simon, Department of English, Princeton University
Diaspora and Trauma: Paule Marshall's The Chosen Place, The Timeless People |
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COMMENTS: | Tamar Rothenberg |
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8:30 - 10:15 AM | VAN HORN B/C |
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Constructing Racial Hierarchies of Power and Identity: Law, Culture, and class in the Southwestern United States |
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CHAIR: | Ramón Gutiérrez, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego |
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PAPERS: | David A. Reichard, Department of History, Temple University
Whitening the Bar: Professionalization, Ethnicity, and Power in New Mexico's Justice of the Peace Courts, 1862-1886
Colleen O'Neill, Department of History, Rutgers University
Navajo Workers and White Man's Ways: Race, Sovereignty, and Organized Labor on the Navajo Reservation, 1948-1960
Neil Foley, Department of History, University of Texas
Mexican Americans and the Faustian Pact with Whiteness in the Southwest, 1920-1960 |
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COMMENTS: | Karen Brodkin Sacks, Anthropology Department, University of California, Los Angeles
Ramón Gutiérrez |
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A European Import in the American Milieu: Appropriations and Reinterpretations of Psychoanalysis |
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CHAIR: | Lawrence J. Friedman, Department of History, Indiana University |
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PAPERS: | James E. Carney, Social Studies, Fairport Central Schools, New York
Freudians in the Hinterland: Karl Menninger and the European Psychoanalytic Emigres
Rebecca Jo Plant, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
European Psychoanalysts in America: Their Significance as Symbols and Participants in Popular and Professional Life
Eli Zaretsky, Program in Liberal Studies, New School for Social Research, New York
Psychoanalysis, Democratic Culture, and the Problem of Modern Personal Life |
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COMMENTS: | Lawrence J. Friedman, Department of History, Indiana University |
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Consumer History Discussion Group |
This open session is designed for interdisciplinary scholars interested in the study of the culture of consumption and consumerism. Discussion will concern such issues as how to bring the study of consumerism from the margins to the center of historical inquiry.
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1997 Program Committee Meeting |
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8:30 - 10:15 AM | VAN HORN A |
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Parameters of Social Identity Formation: Roots and Residues of Chicano Movement Period Discourses |
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CHAIR: | Ernesto Chávez, Department of History, University of Texas, El Paso |
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PAPERS: | George Mariscal, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego
Crossing Over: Chicano Writings on the Vietnam War
Raúl H. Villa, Department of English, Occidental College
Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos: The Recuperation and Defense of Social Space in East L.A. Creative Journal Production
Jeff Garcilazo, Department of History, University of California, Irvine
Ethnic Identity, McCarthyism, and Political Ideology: The Decline of Mexican American Radicalism and the Rise of Chicano Nationalism |
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COMMENTS: | Ernesto Chávez |
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Liberalism and the Cultural Boundaries of State and Subject |
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CHAIR: | Arthur Riss, Department of English, University of Rhode Island, Kingston |
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PAPERS: | Gillian Brown, Department of English, University of Utah
Common Sense and Individual Feeling
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University
The Gender of Freedom: Disposessive Individualism in the New Republic
Jacqueline Goldsby, American Studies Program, Yale University
The Liberal Conceit: Lynching and the Experience of False Feeling in Stephen Crane's "The Monster" |
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COMMENTS: | Jennifer Culbert, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley |
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Tour: The City Beautiful Movement in Kansas City |
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GUIDE: | William Worley, Department of History, University of Missouri, Kansas City |
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10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | CHICAGO B |
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Mass Culture and Modernism |
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CHAIR: | Miles Orvell, American Studies Program, Temple University |
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PAPERS: | Karen Jacobs, Department of English, University of Colorado at Boulder
Racial Construction as After-Image: Optical Undecidability in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Patricia L. Morse, Journals Division, University of Chicago Press
"Barnumesque Publicity," American Modernism, and the Spectacle of Gertrude Stein
Michael Tratner, Department of English, Stanford University
Fascist Deconstruction: The Poetics and Politics of The Cantos |
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COMMENTS: | Miles Orvell |
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10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | CHICAGO C |
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Movements and Migrations: Extra-Nationalisms and Tenacious Borders |
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CHAIR: | Priscilla Wald, Department of English, University of Washington |
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PAPERS: | Shirley J. Yee, Department of Women's Studies, University of Washington
Finding a Place: Black Emigration to Canada, 1850-1860
Caroline Chung Simpson, Department of English, University of Washington
The Popular Image of Japanese War Brides: Orientalist Pathologies in Post-War Culture
Matthew Sparke, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
Cascadian Contentions: Transnational Geographies of Development and Diaspora in the Pacific Northwest |
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COMMENTS: | Priscilla Wald |
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10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | EMPIRE C |
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Detection from the Margins: People of Color and Gay Men Solving Mysteries, Large and Small |
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CHAIR: | Ricardo Ortiz, Department of English, Dartmouth College |
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PAPERS: | Richard Yarborough, Department of English and Afro-American Studies Program, University of California, Los Angeles
The Rise of Black Detective Fiction
Patricia A. Turner, African-American and African Studies, University of California, Davis
Who Does It: A Study of African American Mystery Readers and Writers
Jay Mechling, American Studies Program, University of California, Davis
The Problems of Masculinity in Gay Mysteries |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | EMPIRE A |
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Immigration, National Identity, and Scientific Discourse in Eighteenth-Century America |
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CHAIR: | Howard Segal, Department of History, University of Maine |
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PANELISTS: | Lisa Lynch, Department of English, Rutgers University
American Miasmas: Ormond, Arthur Mervyn, and the Politics of Contagion
Joseph Chaves, Department of Comparative Literature, Rutgers University
The People and the Population: Reproduction, Migration, and Nationalism in Benjamin Franklin's "Observation Concerning the Increase of Mankind"
Deborah Allen, Department of English, Rutgers University
America's "Chosen People of God": Geography, Migration, and Nationhood in Defoe and Jefferson |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | EMPIRE B |
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Transcontinental Political Constructions |
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CHAIR: | Lemuel Johnson, Department of English, University of Michigan |
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PAPERS: | Avital H. Bloch, American Studies Program, University of Colima, Mexico
Neoconservatism in the United States and Mexico: Influence, Exchange, and Autonomy in the Making of a Transnational Ideology
Tim Marr, American Studies Program, Yale University
Islamic Orientalism in the Construction of Early American Nationalism
Paola Gemme, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University
Domesticating Foreign Struggles: American Narratives of the Risorgimento and the Debate on Republican Citizenship |
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COMMENTS: | Lemuel Johnson |
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10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | CHOUTEAU A |
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Fantasy, Fandom, and the Celluloid Frontier |
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CHAIR: | Ward Churchill, Department of History, University of Colorado |
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PAPERS: | Allison Giffen, Department of English, The University of Puget Sound
Different Versions of the Same Old Story: The Last of the Mohicans and Representations of National Identity
Yardena R. Rand, Project Director, Research Communications Limited
Contested Landscape and Common Ground: American Audiences and the Movie Western
T.V. Reed, American Studies Program, Washington State University
Old Cowboys, New Indians: Filming American Indian Resistance |
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COMMENTS: | Ward Churchill |
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10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | CHOUTEAU B |
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Making and Marking the Asian American |
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CHAIR: | Da Zheng, Department of English, Suffolk University |
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PAPERS: | Sharon Delmendo, Department of English, St. John Fisher College
On Becoming Filipino: Carlos Bulosan and Ethnic Identity in the Filipino Diaspora
Jae H. Roe, Department of English, New York University
"Marking the Land": China Men and the Myth of the Transcontinental Railroad
Juliana Chang, Department of English, Boston College
Materiality, Theory, and Asian American Poetics |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | VAN HORN B/C |
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Legal Coercion/Legal Rights: Mormons, Maoris, Native Americans, and the National Rifle Association |
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CHAIR: | Sue Armitage, Department of History, Washington State University |
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PAPERS: | J. David Pulsipher, American Studies Program, University of Minnesota
Legislating "American" Culture: The Efforts to Reform Two Un-American Groups
Chadwick Allen, Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona
Treaty Discourse: Founding Contemporary American Indian and New Zealand Maori Signifying Practices
Leif Wellington Haase, American Studies Program, Yale University
From Republican Values to Civil Liberties: The National Rifle Association Joins the Rights Revolution |
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COMMENTS: | Sue Armitage |
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10:30 AM - 12:15 PM | BENTON A |
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Historicity and the Construction of the Self in the Recent Fiction of Philip Roth |
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CHAIR: | Robert M. Greenberg, School of Communications and Theater, Temple University |
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PAPERS: | Sanford Pinkser, Department of English, Franklin and Marshall College
Immigrant Culture, Modernism, and Ambivalence in Philip Roth's Zuckerman Bound Trilogy
Debra Shostak, Department of English, The College of Wooster
The Diaspora Jew and the "Instinct for Impersonation": Philip Roth's Operation Shylock
Jeff Rush, Department of Film and Media Arts, Temple University
Fondling Puppets and Phone Sex: Transgressions and the Historicism of Mediation in Roth's Sabbath's Theater |
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COMMENTS: | Robert M. Greenberg |
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