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8:00 AM - 3:00 PM | CHOUTEAU A |
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Business Meeting of the ASA National Council |
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Preconvention Workshops for
American Studies Program Directors
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Electronic American Studies: The Jesuit Plantation Project at Georgetown University (Sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Programs) |
| CHAIR: | Chris Lewis, American Studies Program, University of Colorado |
| PANELISTS: | Randall Bass, Department of English, Georgetown University |
| | Emmett Curran, S.J., Department of History, Georgetown University |
| | Ronald Johnson, Department of History, Georgetown University |
| | Sharon Leon, American Studies Program, Georgetown University |
| COMMENTS: | The Audience |
This panel, designed for Program Directors and Department Chairs, will focus on development, over the past four years, of a major curricular revision of American Studies at Georgetown University. Utilizing existing archival resources at the university, the American Studies Program is integrating an extensive electronic data-base into the teaching of American civilization. Faculty and students work in collaboration to explore the world of rural Maryland, the Jesuit order, and the lives of slaves who worked on Jesuit farms during the period from 1790 to 1840. The panel participants, made up of faculty and students involved in the project, will present their views on the project and the respective roles they have played in it.
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11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | CHICAGO A |
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Program Reviews: Process, Assessment, Consequences (Sponsored by the Committee on American Studies Programs) |
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CHAIR: | Erika Doss, Department of Fine Arts, University of Colorado |
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PANELISTS: | Carol Miller, Department of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota
George Sánchez, Program in American Culture, University of
Michigan |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
This session, designed for Program Directors and Department Chairs, will focus on program reviews in American Studies, examining the various processes by which interdisciplinary programs ready themselves for institutional review, considering how programs are assessed by internal and external reviewers, and finally, discussing the consequences of the entire review process. Each of the three panelists have recently undergone the review process in their American Studies programs and will offer their insights about this process. It is anticipated that this session will be of interest to faculty as well as directors and chairs, and will afford an opportunity to review and critique the Committee's Guide for Reviewing American Studies Programs (1995).
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1996 American Studies Association Annual Meeting Sessions
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Precarious Markets: Entrepreneurship and Identity in Antebellum America |
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CHAIR: | Burton J. Bledstein, Department of History, University of Illinois, Chicago |
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PAPERS: | Vincent DiGirolamo, American Studies Program, Princeton University
The Newsboy in "Young America": Class, Character, and the Politics of Personification
Jeff Finlay, American Studies Program, New York University
"A Social War": British Cultural Ideals and Their Impact on the Publishing Industry in Antebellum America
Carolyn J. Lawes, Department of History, Old Dominion University
Buried Alive: Fear of Failure in Antebellum America
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COMMENTS: | Burton J. Bledstein |
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Race, Rights, Citizenship: Reflections on the Centenary of Plessy v. Ferguson |
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CHAIR: | Gayle Wald, Department of English, George Washington University |
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PAPERS: | Kenneth Mack, Department of History, Princeton University
Railroad Segregation and Citizenship in the Postbellum South
Elaine K. Ginsberg, Department of English, West Virginia University
Plessy, Racial Identity, and Property Rights
Gregg Crane, Department of English, University of Washington
The Tables Turned: Race and Role Reversal in the Jurisprudential Imagination
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COMMENTS: | Judith Jackson Fossett, Department of English, University of Southern California |
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Variations of Modernism: Gender, Race, and Regionalism |
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CHAIR: | Marilyn Wyman, School of Art and Design, San José State University |
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PAPERS: | Susan Basalla, Department of English, Princeton University
Interdisciplinary Modernism in the Work of Zora Neale Hurston
Merrill Schleier, Department of Art History, University of the Pacific
Mumford's Machine Age Modernism
Paul Calkins, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Trickle-Down Effects: Regionalism and Modernist Shame in As I Lay Dying
Maria DeGuzman, Department of English, Harvard University
Gertrude Stein's Spanish Landscapes: A Different "Geographical History" for Modernism
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COMMENTS: | Marilyn Wyman |
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The Visible and the Invisible: The Body, Work, and Depression |
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CHAIR: | Peggy Pascoe, Department of History, University of Oregon |
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PAPERS: | Diane Sampson, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Invisible Labor(er)s: Social Reproduction, Service Workers, and Immigrant Women in the Nineties
Mary Thompson, American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University
The Construction of Public Health in the FDA Hearings on Silicone Breast Implants
Kerry Brooks, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
The "Prozac Boom": Depression, Normalization, Women, and the Media |
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COMMENTS: | Peggy Pascoe |
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Midwestern Voices: Women's Work, Culture, and Protest in Pink Collar Industries |
| CHAIR: | Ann Schofield, Department of American Studies, University of Kansas |
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PAPERS: | Sandra L. Albrecht, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
The Development of Feminist Consciousness Through Collective Action: The Case of Striking Flight Attendants
Lisa Benton, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
Beauty Bonding: Oppositional Culture in a Manicure Shop
Julie A. Willett, Department of History, University of Missouri
"This Business Is About as Segregated as Church": The Struggle over Professionalism in the Hairstyling Industry, 1960s-1990s |
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COMMENTS: | Eileen Boris, Department of History, Howard University |
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Oral Gratifications and Social Identities |
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CHAIR: | Katherine C. Grier, Department of History, University of Utah |
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PAPERS: | Margaret M. Mulrooney, American Studies Program, College of William and Mary
Gardens, Foodways, and the Construction of Irish-American Identity in Industrializing America: A Case Study
Lori Merish, Department of English, Miami University
Not "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial Masculinity, 1890-1910
Eleanor Kaufman, Program in Literature, Duke University
Fast Food in Slow Time |
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COMMENTS: | Katherine C. Grier |
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American Poetry of Witness |
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CHAIR: | Andrea M. Atkin, Department of English, Wake Forest University |
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PAPERS: | Anne Herzog, Department of English, West Chester University
"Who Will Speak These Days...?" Muriel Rukeyser's Poetry of Witness
Michele S. Ware, Department of English, Wake Forest University
"Things That Are Worse Than Death": Sharon Olds's Poetry of Witness
Lisa Suhair Majaj, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
"Rain Passed Hand to Hand": David Williams and the Poetry of Witness
Deborah Landau, Department of Humanities, The New School for Social Research
In Time of Plague: Writing About AIDS |
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COMMENTS: | Elaine Orr, Department of English, North Carolina State University |
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CHAIR: | Csaba Toth, Department of History, Carlow College |
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PAPERS: | Gregory M. Pfitzer, Department of American Studies, Skidmore College
Popularizing the Past: "Popular History" and the Construction of National Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century
Teresa B. Lachin, School of Continuing Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Location, Location, (Re-)Location: Adelaide Johnson's "Portrait Monument" to Suffrage Leaders and the United States Capitol, 1920-1995
A. Keith Goshorn, Kresge College, University of California, Santa Cruz
Confronting the "Unrepresentability of the Totality": Oliver Stone's Nixon and Its Critical Backlash
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COMMENTS: | Csaba Toth |
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Queer Motions: Sexuality and Migration |
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CHAIR: | David Lloyd, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley |
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PAPERS: | Judith Halberstam, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Masculinities in Motion: Transvestism and Migration
Chandan Reddy, Department of English, Columbia University
Toward a Negative Aesthetic of Migration: Asian American and Queer Immigrant Literature
Martin F. Manalansan IV, Department of Anthropology, University of Rochester
"I Wanna Be (Gay) in Amerika!": Gay Filipino Immigrants in the Stonewall Rebellion |
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COMMENTS: | David Lloyd |
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Global Migrations, Atlantic Cultures, and the Political Meaning of Ham and Beer: English and Dutch Societies in the Colonial Atlantic World |
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CHAIR: | Elaine Miller, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico |
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PAPERS: | James H. Williams, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University
How Dutch Was It? The Cultural Struggle for New Netherland
Anita Tien, Department of History, Wellesley College
Search for the Ethnic: Interpreting Conflict in Colonial New York
Alison Games, Department of History, Georgetown University
"The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker": When They Travelled Across the Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century, Were They Really Immigrants? (A Cautionary Tale)
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COMMENTS: | Jared Gardner, Department of English, Grinnell College
Elaine Miller |
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War, Migration, and the Racial State |
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CHAIR: | Kimberly Dillon, Department of English, Miami University |
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PAPERS: | Shelley Streeby, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego
"California Is Part of Mexico Because God Wanted It That Way": Joaquin Murieta, the U.S.-Mexican War, and the Migration of Popular Cultures
Curtis Marez, Department of English, University of Chicago
Between Texas and Tokyo: Americo Paredes's "Japanese" Stories and World War II Journalism
Kathryne Lindberg, Department of English, Wayne State University
Siting the Docket by the Bay of Pigs: Ray Durem, Spanish Civil Warrior, and Premature Black Arts Poet
Murray Jackson, Center for the Study of Higher Education, University of Michigan
The G.I. Bill and the Question of Social Justice |
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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Emigration, Immigration, and Sexuality as Sites of Citizenship |
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CHAIR: | Amy Kaplan, Department of English, Mount Holyoke College |
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PAPERS: | Sandra Gunning, Department of English, University of Michigan
Nationalism, Americanization, and the Black Colonization of Africa in the work of Sarah Josepha Hale and Martin Delany
Nancy Bentley, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
A National Sexuality: Fiction and the "Twin Barbarisms" of Polygamy and Slavery
Cyrus R.K. Patell, Department of English, New York University
The Race Standard and the Logic of Naturalization, 1870–1887 |
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COMMENTS: | Amy Kaplan |
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Transnational Contexts and African American Identity |
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CHAIR: | Johnnella Butler, American Ethnic Studies Department, University of Washington |
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PAPERS: | Paul Ryan Schneider, Department of English, Duke University
Beyond The Souls of Black Folk: Multinational Configurations of Race in the Autobiographies of W.E.B. Du Bois
David Luis-Brown, Literature Program, University of California, Santa Cruz
Waves of Decolonization: Toward a Cultural Studies of the Americas
Melani McAlister, American Studies Program, George Washington University
"Children of Israel or Children of Pharaohs?" Representations of the Middle East in Constructing (Trans)National Black Identities
Frank Mitchell, Connecticut Afro American Historical Society/ Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT
Black Sons, White Mothers: Journeys toward Transnational Identity |
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COMMENTS: | Johnnella Butler |
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Neighborhoods, Boundaries, and Visions in Kansas City |
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CHAIR: | William Worley, Department of History, University of Missouri, Kansas City |
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PAPERS: | Kevin Fox Gotham, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
A City Without Slums: Urban Renewal, Large-Scale Highway Building, and Public Housing in Kansas City, 1940-1952
Melinda Knight, Independent Scholar, San Francisco
Bohemia in Kansas City: Aestheticism and Decadence in the "Heart of America"
Sherry Lamb Schirmer, Department of History, Avila College
Fatal Truths: Civic Religion and the Integration Ethos in Kansas City, Missouri, 1940-1963
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COMMENTS: | William Worley |
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Expressive Cultures and the Meanings of Memory: Cultural Production and the Struggle for Citizenship in Los Angeles, 1940s-1980s |
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CHAIR: | Hazel V. Carby, American Studies Program, Yale University |
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PAPERS: | Linda N.E. Maram, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Ritual and Spectacle in Wartime Los Angeles: Filipino Zoot Suiters and Filipino GIs
Michael Willard, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Moving Sideways in the Middle-Class: White Racial Formation and the Cultural Production of Youth in Los Angeles, 1950-1965
Jeffrey J. Rangel, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan
Reconstructing Reality: Chicana/o Artists, Oral History, and the Politics of Cultural Work
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COMMENTS: | Hazel V. Carby |
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3:30 - 5:30 PM | VAN HORN A |
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The Rhetoric of Race in the Antebellum Era |
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CHAIR: | Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University |
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PAPERS: | Todd Vogel, American Civilization Program, University of Texas
Page One Hybridity: Race and Power in the Antebellum Black Press
Patrick Rael, Department of History, Bowdoin College
From Africans in America to Colored Americans: The "Names" Controversy in the Antebellum North
Robert S. Levine, Department of English, University of Maryland
Martin Delany's Masonic Transnationalism
Teresa A. Goddu, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Authenticating Slavery: The Production of Fact in Antislavery Tracts
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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3:30 - 5:30 PM | VAN HORN B |
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Marginal Like Us? U.S. Multiculturalism and Its Transnational Others |
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CHAIR: | Ramón Saldívar, Department of English, Stanford University |
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PAPERS: | Louis Mendoza, Division of English, Classics, and Philosophy, University of Texas, San Antonio
Permutations of Ethnicity, Identity, and History in Latino Literature
Leerom Medovoi, Department of English, University of Utah
Queering the Caribbean or Racializing the Urban Gay Self? Sexual Allegory and Transnational Setting in Ann Rice's Vampire Chronicles
Tomo Hattori, Department of English, University of Utah
Within the Margin and Outside the Rim: Amy Tan's Chinese Abject
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COMMENTS: | The Audience |
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Turn-of-the-Century American Intellectuals and Their Critique of the Social Order |
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CHAIR: | June Howard, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan |
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PAPERS: | John Pettegrew, Department of History, Lehigh University
Recovering Pragmatism: Randolph Bourne's "Life of Irony"
Phillip Barrish, Department of English, University of Texas
William Dean Howells, Realist Taste, and Liberal Paralysis
Liza Kramer, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Gentlemen, Journalists and Lynchers: Charles Chestnutt and Ida B. Wells Respond to White Racial Violence |
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COMMENTS: | June Howard |
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Re-dressing the Colonial: The Dandy in Nineteenth-Century America |
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CHAIR: | Robert K. Martin, Department of English, Université de Montréal, Canada |
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PAPERS: | Sandra Tomc, Department of English, University of British Columbia, Canada
The Imported Dandy in Nationalist America
Nicola Nixon, Department of English, Concordia University, Canada
Dressing for Excess, or Melville's Imperial Dandy in "Benito Cereno"
Glenn Hendler, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
Private Man, Public Sentiments: Dandifying Masculinity in Fanny Fern and Henry James |
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COMMENTS: | Robert K. Martin |
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Constructing Nineteenth-Century Authorship |
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CHAIR: | Sharon O'Brien, Department of English, Dickinson College |
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PAPERS: | Russell Reising, Department of English, University of Toledo
Fading Out of Print: Herman Melville's Israel Potter and the Economics of Literary History
Melissa Homestead, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
"The Fetters of Literary Bondage": Slavery, Copyright, and Augusta Jane Evans' Representation of Female Authorship in St. Elmo
Craig Stroupe, Department of English, Kansas State University
Emigrant and Traditional Selves in Stowe's Rhetoric of National Authorship
Ellen Weinauer, Department of English, University of Southern Mississippi
Policing the Boundaries of the (Literary) State: Territorial/Authorial Expansion in Melville's "Hawthorne and His Mosses" |
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COMMENTS: | Sharon O'Brien |
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Language, Testimony, and the Social Order in the Early Nineteenth Century |
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CHAIR: | Paul E. Johnson, Department of History, University of Utah |
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PAPERS: | Bruce A. Harvey, Department of English, Florida International University
African Figures, Geographical Writing, and the Discourse of Liberty in Antebellum Fiction
Susan M. Ryan, Department of English, University of North Carolina
Saving Them from Ourselves: Cherokee Removal and the Language of White Benevolence
Wil M. Verhoeven, Department of English, University of Groningen, Netherlands
Settlement, State, and Self: Or, Angst in the Early Republic--Identity and Authority in Charles Brockden Brown
Jill Swiencicki, Department of English, Miami University, Ohio
Performing Conversion: The Figure of the Migrant in Washingtonian Temperance Rhetoric |
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COMMENTS: | Paul E. Johnson |
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3:30 - 5:30 PM | VAN HORN C |
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Rituals and Rites of the South |
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CHAIR: | Ruth Banes, Department of Humanities and American Studies, University of South Florida |
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PAPERS: | Rodger Brown, Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University
"Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit": Southern community festivals as a response to population shifts and economic restructuring
Susanne B. Dietzel, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota
Domesticating the Mississippi Delta: Mary Hamilton's Trials of the Earth
Elizabeth B. Boyd, American Civilization Program, University of Texas
Grace, Poise, and Really Big Hair: Beauty Pageants and the Construction of Femininity in the American South |
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COMMENTS: | Ruth Banes |
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3:30 - 5:30 PM | EXECUTIVE BOARD ROOM |
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Salzburg Seminar Open Discussion (Sponsored by the International Committee) |
Join Ron Clifton, director of Salzburg Seminar's Center for the Study of American Culture and Language, to discuss the future of the Center's International American Studies and Language Faculty, a program that aims to assist institutions throughout the world interested in developing new American Studies programs, courses, curricula, or materials through an on-site consultancy program.
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Material Culture Studies Caucus Meeting
This is a business meeting for a material culture studies network and interest group within the American Studies Association. All students or professional working in or interested in material culture studies are invited to attend. The Caucus would like to extend a special invitation to students and professionals in art history and visual culture to attend this meeting to discuss our mutual interests. Those wishing to suggest agenda items or topics for discussion may e-mail Kasey Grier, kasey.grier@m.cc.utah.edu; Patricia Hills, pathills@bu.edu; or Mary Corbin Sies, ms128@umail.umd.edu.
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Awards Ceremony for ASA Prize Recipients |
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PRESIDING: | Mary Helen Washington, Department of English, University of Maryland, and President-Elect of the American Studies Association |
Presentation of the 1996 Bode-Pearson Prize for outstanding contributions to American Studies, the 1996 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best book in American Studies, the 1996 Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize for the best dissertation in American Studies, the 1996 Constance Rourke Prize for the best article in American Quarterly, the 1996 Mary C. Turpie Prize for outstanding teaching, advising, and program development in American Studies, the 1996 Wise-Susman Prize for the best student paper at the convention, and the Annette K. Baxter Travel Awards to provide travel assistance to outstanding graduate students on the program.
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President's Address: Insiders and Outsiders--The Borders of the Nation and the Limits of the ASA |
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WELCOMES: | Emanuel Cleaver II, Mayor, Kansas City, Missouri
Eleanor B. Schwartz, Chancellor, University of Missouri, Kansas City |
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SPEAKER: | Patricia Nelson Limerick, Department of History, University of Colorado, and President of the American Studies Association |
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9:30 PM - 12:30 AM | NEW YORK |
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President's Reception and Halloween Dance |
The University Press of Kansas, The University Press of Colorado, The University of Colorado, and The University of California Press are pleased to join Patricia Nelson Limerick in inviting all participants in the annual meeting to bop 'til they drop.
Since this occasion coincides with Halloween, ASA members are licensed and invited to wear costumes. Role reversals, transformations of identity, border-crossings, and general play with academic convention are particularly encouraged. Tonight the ivory tower will be shrouded in darkness, the skeletons in the closet will be doing the shag, and the masque will be rocked by Danny Cox and his band, who will serve up a rogue's banquet of musical styles from funk to r&b to rock 'n' roll. This is the be/witching hour when it's time to (cross)dress up, get "down," and dance this mess/mass around.
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