January 5, 20175. Preconvention Workshop for Job Seekers in Foreign LanguagesThursday, 5 January, 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., 201B, Pennsylvania Convention CenterProgram arranged by the ADFL Executive CommitteePresiding: Karen A. Stolley, Emory UniversitySpeakers: Stacy Hartman, MLA; Omar Ka, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County; Denise McCracken, St. Charles Community Coll., MO; William Nichols, Georgia State Univ.; Gary Bruce Schmidt, Coastal Carolina Univ.Session Description: Representatives of different institutional types discuss work and careers in AA-, BA-, MA-, and PhD-granting programs and institutions, as well as nonteaching academic opportunities. Speakers address institutional expectations; navigating a complex market; the application dossier; convention, Skype, and on-campus interviews; positions off the tenure track; and negotiating an offer.48. Fandom and Reception StudiesThursday, 5 January, 1:45-3:00 p.m., 305-306, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the Reception Study SocietyPresiding: Daniel Charles Morris, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette1. "Victorian Fan Fiction and Its Readers," Carrie Sickmann Han, Indiana Univ.–Purdue Univ., Indianapolis2. "Merchandising and Cosplay in the 1890s," Erica Haugtvedt, Ohio State Univ., Columbus3. "Emily Dickinson, Music Geek," Gerard Holmes, Univ. of Maryland, College Park4. "Ectostory Interaction: The Confluence of Reception, Fandom, and Cognitive Flexibility," Rhona Trauvitch, Florida International Univ.71. Speed Mentoring for Job Seekers in Foreign LanguagesThursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 201B, Pennsylvania Convention CenterProgram arranged by the ADFL Executive CommitteePresiding: Ming-Bao Yue, Univ. of Hawai'i , MānoaSpeakers: Marc L. Greenberg, Univ. of Kansas; Stacy Hartman, MLA; William H. Hinrichs, Bard High School Early College, NY; Omar Ka, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County; Elise C. Leahy, Jr., Southern Utah Univ.; Denise McCracken, St. Charles Community Coll., MO; Charlotte Ann Melin, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities; William Nichols, Georgia State Univ.; Gary Bruce Schmidt, Coastal Carolina Univ.; Karen A. Stolley, Emory Univ.Session Description:Speed mentoring offers small-group mentoring on the job search—inside and outside the academy—focusing on applying to and working in different types of institutions; preparing a dossier; Skype, convention, and on-campus interviews; and nonacademic humanities career paths. Speed mentoring is not intended to replace the one-on-one job counseling that can be scheduled at other times during the convention.95. Astrology/Astronomy as LiteratureThursday, 5 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Franklin 12, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the forums CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern and TC Science and LiteraturePresiding: Pamela Gossin, Univ. of Texas, DallasSpeakers: Kristina Bross, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette; Tita Chico, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Judy A. Hayden, Univ. of Tampa; Chelsea McKelvey, Southern Methodist Univ.; Christine M. Probes, Univ. of South Florida; Katherine Walker, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel HillResponding: Ralph Bauer, Univ. of Maryland, College ParkSession Description:While modern scholars have often regarded early modern astrology as an aberration that had to be overcome until modern, "scientific" astronomy could be born, this session follows the lead of recent work by intellectual historians and reevaluates the important role that astrology occupied in early modern culture and literature, including scientific treatises, poetry, history, and drama.115. Liberty Crack'dThursday, 5 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Franklin 8, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the forum LLC Chicana and ChicanoPresiding: Olga Herrera, Univ. of St. Thomas1. "Homeland Insecurity; or, Un desmadre en Aztlán: Virginia Grise's Blu," Belinda Rincon, John Jay Coll. of Criminal Justice, City Univ. of New York2. "Liberty Pursued: Central American Child Migration, Student Activism, and Rapid Responses," Ana Patricia Rodríguez, Univ. of Maryland, College Park3. "Migrants as Criminals and Criminals as Migrants: Reimagining Jimmy Santiago Baca's United States Prison Literature as Transnational Literature," Victoria Tankersley, Univ. of St. Thomas130. Treacherous Parisian Men: Linking Queerness and Alienation in Writing from France, the Maghreb, and the United StatesThursday, 5 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 308, Philadelphia MarriottA special sessionPresiding: Pamela A. Pears, Washington Coll.1. "'Saint-Jenih': Taïa's Transfilial Alterity," Denis M. Provencher, Univ. of Arizona2. "No Name in the Street for Passengers in the West: Nabile Farès, James Baldwin, and Conversations of Alienation," Valérie K. Orlando, Univ. of Maryland, College Park3. "From Alienation to Activism: Richard Wright, Jean Genet, and the Black Panthers," Pamela A. Pears148. What Is Critical Bibliography?Thursday, 5 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 410, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the forum TM Bibliography and Scholarly EditingPresiding: Ryan Cordell, Northeastern Univ.Speakers: Barbara Heritage, Univ. of Virginia; Rachael King, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Matthew Kirschenbaum, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Nigel Lepianka, Texas A&M Univ., College Station; Caroline Wigginton, Univ. of MississippiResponding: Michael Suarez, Univ. of VirginiaSession Description:Panelists explore the intellectual reach and possibilities for bibliography beyond textual criticism. How might bibliography intersect with other object-oriented disciplines? How should the field converse with literary and cultural theory? Do new scholarly technologies reorient bibliographic practice? What is the function of bibliography today?185. Digital FrostThursday, 5 January, 7:00–8:15 p.m., 102A, Pennsylvania Convention CenterProgram arranged by the Robert Frost SocietyPresiding: Natalie E. Gerber, State Univ. of New York, FredoniaSpeakers: Jason Camlot, Concordia Univ.; Jay Satterfield, Dartmouth Coll. Library; Molly Schwartzburg, Univ. of Virginia; Lisa A. Seale, Univ. of Wisconsin Colls.; Donald Sheehy, Edinboro Univ. of Pennsylvania; Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Setsuko Yokoyama, Univ. of Maryland, College ParkSession Description:Panelists explore the prospects for a collaborative digital-humanities (DH) project for Robert Frost, its contents and partners. Speakers include scholars, editors, and special-collection librarians working with Frost and DH leaders who can speak to the potential, hurdles, and ideal architecture of such a project.January 6, 2017208. Ecological Catastrophe: Past and PresentFriday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 411-412, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the forums LLC Middle English and TC Ecocriticism and Environmental HumanitiesPresiding: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington Univ.Speakers: Alison Glassie, Univ. of Virginia; Dana Luciano, Georgetown Univ.; Kellie Robertson, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Roy Scranton, Univ. of Notre Dame; Corey Sparks, California State Univ., Chico; Karl Steel, Brooklyn Coll., City Univ. of New York; Tom White, Univ. of London, BirkbeckSession Description:How do we read ecological catastrophe across periods? This session gathers medievalists, early modernists, and contemporary scholars to consider how cataclysm is often invoked to establish secure periodizations yet typically undermines easy temporal segregations. Panelists consider representations of ecological crisis, natural disasters and degradation, and apocalyptic images and rhetoric.228. Rethinking the Transnational Turn in American LiteratureFriday, 6 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 203B, Pennsylvania Convention CenterA special sessionPresiding: Yogita Goyal, Univ. of California, Los AngelesSpeakers: Jessica Berman, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County; Russ Castronovo, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; John Alba Cutler, Northwestern Univ.; Wai Chee Dimock, Yale Univ.; Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford Univ.; David James, Univ. of London, Queen Mary Coll.; Johannes Voelz, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-UniversitätSession Description:Panelists look at the literary methods entailed by the transnational turn in American literature. This session takes stock of the limits and possibilities of transnationalism not by repeating earlier claims but by focusing on a single keyword, period, or field and assessing its value for American literature.235. Female Authorship in Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German CultureFriday, 6 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 405, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century GermanPresiding: Elisabeth Krimmer, Univ. of California, Davis1. "'Ein andrer Welttheil wird mein Vaterland': German Émigrés in Charlotte Schiller's Novels," Gaby H. Pailer, Univ. of British Columbia2. "Intellectual Incursions: Benedikte Naubert and the Emergent Disciplines of History and Orientalism," Julie Koser, Univ. of Maryland, College Park3. "Telling Stories: Women Writers Employ the Märchenoma," Julie Koehler, Wayne State Univ.4. "The Female Body in Louise Aston's and Fanny Lewald's Works through the Prism of Romantic Dialogue," Renata Fuchs, Univ. of California, Los Angeles295. Future(s) of South Asian Literary StudiesFriday, 6 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Franklin 12, Philadelphia MarriottA special sessionPresiding: Sangeeta Ray, Univ. of Maryland, College ParkSpeakers: Deepika Bahri, Emory Univ.; Mrinalini Chakravorty, Univ. of Virginia; Ben Conisbee Baer, Princeton Univ.; Ankhi Mukherjee, Univ. of Oxford; Ulka Anjara, Brandeis Univ.Session Description:Panelists discuss reasons for the decline in interest in South Asian literature in English and other languages. As writers, scholars, and critics, how do we engage with this literature? What questions are we not generating to revitalize the field? What can we learn from scholars in African, postcolonial, and world literature to reinvigorate our field?320. Cold War Racial Forms: Reading across Nations in the Global ConflictFriday, 6 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 104A, Pennsylvania Convention CenterA special sessionPresiding: Mary-Helen Washington, Univ. of Maryland, College Park1. "Red Blues: Racial Longing in the Cold War Musical Silk Stockings," Kate Baldwin, Northwestern Univ.2. "Richard Wright and the Empire of Cold War Liberal Pluralism: Race and American Expansion after World War II," Joseph Keith, Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York3. "Revolutionary Blackness in the Soviet Imaginary: Reading Victor Koretsky's Posters," Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State Univ.4. "The Unyielding Earth: Women of Color Feminism and Cold War Fictions," Crystal Parikh, New York Univ.366. Shapes of the English Major TodayFriday, 6 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 105B, Pennsylvania Convention CenterProgram arranged by the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on the English MajorPresiding: Doug Steward, MLASpeakers: Kent Cartwright, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter Coll., City Univ. of New York; David Laurence, MLA; Tarshia Stanley, Spelman Coll.Session Description:Members of the committee discuss their progress toward describing and assessing changes departments have made to the English major or that are under consideration, especially as they respond to disciplinary realignment, student needs, and declines in the number of undergraduates declaring English as a major.388. Postcolonial AffectFriday, 8 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 18B, ACCProgram arranged by the forum TC Postcolonial StudiesPresiding: Nicholas Mainey Brown, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago1. "Ecology of Intimacies: An Ethics, Aesthetics, and Politics of Reading The Hungry Tide and The Whale Caller," Sangeeta Ray, Univ. of Maryland, College Park2. "City Genre, Urban Government," John Marx, Univ. of California, Davis3. "Affecting History," Vilashini Cooppan, Univ. of California, Santa CruzJanuary 7, 2016444. Infinite Jest at TwentySaturday, 7 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 112A, Pennsylvania Convention CenterA special sessionPresiding: Gerry Canavan, Marquette Univ.1. "Infinite Jest's Near Future," Lee Konstantinou, Univ. of Maryland, College Park2. "Aesthetics of Trauma in Infinite Jest," Carrie Shanafelt, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ., Teaneck3. "No Year of Glad: Infinite Jest after 9/13/2008," Gerry CanavanResponding: N. Katherine Hayles, Duke Univ.459. Race, Religion, and Form in Spenser and MiltonSaturday, 7 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 203B, Pennsylvania Convention CenterProgram arranged by the Milton Society of America and the International Spenser SocietyPresiding: Melissa E. Sanchez, Univ. of Pennsylvania1. "Maybe She's Born with It: On the Hair Color of Spenser's Una and Milton's Eve," Eric Song, Swarthmore Coll.2. "Lyric Orientalism from Spenser to Milton," Ayesha Ramachandran, Yale Univ.3. "'Not Mingled with the Bodie': Religion, Race, and the Nature of Soul in Spenser and Milton," Kimberly Anne Coles, Univ. of Maryland, College Park475. Graphic Style and Big DataSaturday, 7 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 104A, Pennsylvania Convention CenterProgram arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century AmericanPresiding: Amy Hungerford, Yale Univ.1. "Illusions of Progress: Visualization and the Politics of Stylized Time," Ed Finn, Arizona State Univ.2. "Excavating the Present: Richard McGuire’s Here and the Wayback Machine," Alexander Manshel, Stanford Univ.3. "Chris Ware and R. Crumb: From Data to Disgust," Rebecca Clark, Univ. of California, Berkeley4. "The Visual Universalism of Bing Xu’s Book from the Ground," Lee Konstantinou, Univ. of Maryland, College Park481. Making It New: Criticism and Method in a Global Textual EcosystemSaturday, 7 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention CenterProgram arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and AnglophonePresiding: Priya Joshi, Temple Univ., PhiladelphiaSpeakers: James F. English, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Lisa Gitelman, New York Univ.; Peter J. Kalliney, Univ. of Kentucky; Matthew Kirschenbaum, Univ. of Maryland, College ParkSession Description:“The greater complexity of social relations demand of modern literature new literary tools,” urged Georg Lukács. Complexities Lukács observed in the 1950s today include economic and material conditions that call for new analytic algorithms. Participants explore current critical methods at a moment when criticism and method appear to be under siege or, worse, irrelevant.511. Disability and PedagogySaturday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession and the MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the ProfessionPresiding: Stacey Amo, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge1. "Interdependency: What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Accessible Pedagogies," Adam Newman, Emory Univ.2. "Compulsory Health and Chronically Ill Existence," Sarah Orem, Smith Coll.3. "Caring for the Self and the Student: The Importance of Sustainability in Accessibility Best Practices," Ruth Osorio, Univ. of Maryland, College Park533. Comparative Studies in the Age of the Global AnglophoneSaturday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Franklin 9, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-CenturyPresiding: Sangeeta Ray, Univ. of Maryland, College Park Speakers: Elliott Colla, Georgetown Univ.; Toral Gajarawala, New York Univ.; Peter James Hitchcock, Baruch Coll., City Univ. of New York; Anjali Prabhu, Wellesley Coll.; Anthony Reed, Yale Univ.; Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick Session Description:Participants take up the question of the place of comparative literary studies in the face of an increasingly global anglophone literary and academic marketplace. What is the relation between global and world literature and comparative literature?580. Trust in Literature: Seventeenth-Century HorizonsSaturday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention CenterProgram arranged by the forum LLC 17th-Century EnglishPresiding: Julia Reinhard Lupton, Univ. of California, Irvine1. "Thinking Trust through Literature in John Donne," Joseph Sterrett, Aarhus Univ.2. "Trust in Money: Weak Sovereignty and Sympathetic Economies in Measure for Measure," Amanda Bailey, Univ. of Maryland, College Park3. "'Then Face to Face': Timing Trust in Macbeth," Jennifer Elizabeth Waldron, Univ. of Pittsburgh595. Transpacific Archives and MethodsSaturday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention CenterProgram arranged by the forum LLC 19th-Century AmericanPresiding: Hsuan L. Hsu, Univ. of California, Davis1. "Transoceanic Thinking and the Literary Pacific," Michelle Burnham, Santa Clara Univ.2. "Being Cold in the Pacific," Nan Da, Univ. of Notre Dame3. "Tracing the Transpacific Childhood of Sui Sin Far’s Mother," Mary A. M. Chapman, Univ. of British ColumbiaResponding: Edlie L. Wong, Univ. of Maryland, College Park600A. Extraordinary Bodies at TwentySaturday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia MarriottA special sessionPresiding: Adam Newman, Emory Univ.Speakers: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.; Julie Minich, Univ. of Texas, Austin; Clare Mullaney, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Ruth Osorio, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Amanda Stuckey, Coll. of William and Mary; Samuel Yates, George Washington Univ.Responding: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory Univ.Session Description:Panelists take the twentieth anniversary of Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s Extraordinary Bodies as an occasion to critically reflect on the continuing impact and influence of this text in the increasingly diverse field of literary disability studies today as well as in the development of the field over the past twenty years.603. Queer DomesticitiesSaturday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 304, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the forum TC Sexuality StudiesPresiding: Karma Lochrie, Indiana Univ., Bloomington; Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park1. "Gertrude Stein and the Theater of Dinner," Elizabeth Blake, Cornell Univ.2. "Queering Medieval Domesticity: Loving in a Marrying Kind of Way," Glenn D. Burger, Queens Coll., City Univ. of New York3. "Queer Communities of Feeling and the All-Male Family in Mary Shelley’s Maurice and Valperga," Colin Carman, Colorado Mesa Univ.4. "Spinster Sexuality and the Low Arts: Queer Sociability," Dana Seitler, Univ. of Toronto611. Periodicals, Editorship, Race, and EthnicitySaturday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 111B, Pennsylvania Convention CenterA special sessionPresiding: Eric S. Gardner, Saginaw Valley State Univ.Speakers: Janet Galligani Casey, Skidmore Coll.; Jim Casey, Univ. of Delaware, Newark; Brooks E. Hefner, James Madison Univ.; Kelley Kreitz, Pace Univ., NY; Zita Nunes, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Sarah Salter, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus ChristiSession Description:This session promotes conversations about editorship, authorship, and collaboration across historical periodicals and the boundaries of race and ethnicity. Panelists respond to important recent work on immigrant, Latin@, and African American print cultures that intersect in their attention to periodicals and the centrality of editorship and collaboration in our literary histories.612. The Limits of the Numerical: New Roles for Literary StudySaturday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Franklin 13, Philadelphia MarriottA special sessionPresiding: Christopher John Newfield, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara1. "Gender and Cultural Analytics: Finding or Making Stereotypes?" Laura C. Mandell, Texas A&M Univ., College Station2. "The Rhetoric of Measurement against Itself," Heather Steffen, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara3. "Beyond the False Certainties of Impact Factors, Altmetrics, and Download Counts: Qualitative and Narrative Accounts of Scholarship," Frank Pasquale, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore616. Queering the Borders of the Black Freedom Struggle: Archives, Histories, AestheticsSaturday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 102A, Pennsylvania Convention CenterA special sessionPresiding: Marlon Bryan Ross, Univ. of Virginia1. "Jorgensen’s Shadows," C. Riley Snorton, Cornell Univ.2. "Experimental Leaders: Performance, Time, and the Queer Aesthetics of Civil Rights Leadership," Julius Fleming, Jr., Univ. of Maryland, College Park3. "Recovering Perry Watkins: American Militarism, Queer Critique, and the Black Homonational," Khary Polk, Amherst Coll.629. Ekphrasis in Medieval and Renaissance Italian LiteratureSaturday, 7 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., Franklin 10, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the forum LLC Medieval and Renaissance ItalianPresiding: Kristin Phillips-Court, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison1. "Frame as Ekphrasis in Enea Vico’s Book of Empresses," Susan Gaylard, Univ. of Washington, Seattle2. "Ariosto’s Arabic; or, When Is an Ekphrasis Not an Ekphrasis?" Joseph M. Ortiz, Univ. of Texas, El Paso3. "Castiglione’s Portrait and the Poetry of Self-Representation in the Elegia qua fingit Hippolyten," Joseph D. Falvo, Univ. of Maryland, College Park4. "Between Art and Literature: Iconography and Petrarchan Ekphrasis," Kristen Ina Grimes, St. Joseph's Univ.653. Chinese Science Fiction: Past, Present, FutureSaturday, 7 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., Franklin 3, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the forums LLC East Asian and LLC Modern and Contemporary ChinesePresiding: Christopher Tong, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore CountySpeakers: Angie Chau, Arizona State Univ.; Cara Healey, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Nathaniel Isaacson, North Carolina State Univ.; Hua Li, Montana State Univ., Bozeman; Christopher TongResponding: Mingwei Song, Wellesley Coll.Session Description:Panelists examine such issues as utopia, nonhuman existence, and the environmental ramifications of contemporary and imagined future human life in the emergent field of science fiction in Chinese literature.656. The Mexican Legal Code and Its GlitchesSaturday, 7 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 308, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the forums LLC Mexican and TC Law and the HumanitiesPresiding: Emily Hind, Univ. of Florida; Peter Mallios, Univ. of Maryland, College Park1. "Omnipresent Massacre and Absent Genocide in Julián Herbert’s La casa del dolor ajeno," Rebecca Janzen, Bluffton Coll.2. "'Te tengo tanta ley': The Judicial System in Golden Age Mexican Cinema," Kevin Anzzolin, Worcester State Univ.3. "Between Poetic License and Criminal Injustice in an Ethnographic Testimonio," Analisa Taylor, Univ. of OregonResponding: Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington Univ. in St. LouisJanuary 8, 2017689. Fabulations from Below: Queer, Feminist, and Decolonial Speculative WorldingsSunday, 8 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 106A, Pennsylvania Convention CenterA special sessionPresiding: Shelley Streeby, Univ. of California, San DiegoSpeakers: Aimee Bahng, Dartmouth Coll.; Stephanie LeMenager, Univ. of Oregon; Alexis Lothian, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Rebekah Sheldon, Indiana Univ., BloomingtonSession Description:This session brings together scholars whose work engages with the ways that speculative fictions by and for feminists, queers, ecosexuals, and people of color have taken the genre’s boundary condition as a starting point for efforts to rewrite empire and find spaces of possibility within devastated futures, apocalyptic landscapes, and inhospitable utopias.690. Critique and Its LimitsSunday, 8 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 110B, Pennsylvania Convention CenterA special sessionPresiding: Philip Gould, Brown Univ.1. "A Hermeneutic of Citizenship," Sandra M. Gustafson, Univ. of Notre Dame2. "Ethos and Critique," Amanda S. Anderson, Brown Univ.3. "'Mere Literature': Between Deliberative and Agonistic Democracy," Peter Mallios, Univ. of Maryland, College ParkResponding: Philip Gould694. Re-turns of DeconstructionSunday, 8 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 111A, Pennsylvania Convention CenterProgram arranged by the forum TM Literary and Cultural TheoryPresiding: Tilottama Rajan, Univ. of Western Ontario1. "Foucault's Inconstant Gaze: Archaeology and Criticism," William Donald Melaney, American Univ. in Cairo2. "Beginning Again: Foucault and the Limit-Experience," Daniel Nutters, Temple Univ., Philadelphia3. "Cave Dwelling: Derrida and the Prosthesis of the Inside," Orrin N. C. Wang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park4. "Life without Power: Deconstructing the Postgenetic Concept of Deconstruction," Mauro Senatore, Diego Portales Univ.697. Rethinking Reconstruction: Methods, Approaches, and LiteraturesSunday, 8 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pennsylvania Convention CenterProgram arranged by the forum LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century AmericanPresiding: Edlie L. Wong, Univ. of Maryland, College Park1. "Reconstructing Black Dignity," Jeannine DeLombard, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara2. "Native American Literature and the Lost Cause," Melanie Benson Taylor, Dartmouth Coll.3. "The Importance of Reading the Literature of Reconstruction Closely," Brook Thomas, Univ. of California, Irvine4. "The People's Court," Bryan Wagner, Univ. of California, Berkeley703. Sand’s Searches BeyondSunday, 8 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 310, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the George Sand AssociationPresiding: Maria G. Traub, Neumann Univ.1. "Maneuvering beyond the Physical Boundaries: George Sand’s Métissage of Genres, from Jeanne (1844) to Histoire de ma vie (1854)," Laetitia Zembski, Univ. of Texas, Austin2. "Beyond the Feminine Voice: Silence, Speech, and Hybridity in George Sand’s Indiana," Hannah Wegmann, Univ. of Maryland, College Park3. "Sand's Literary, Mystical, and Artistic Dialogue—a Response: The Seven Strings of the Lyre," Maria G. Traub713. Sound, Race, TextSunday, 8 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 406, Philadelphia MarriottA special sessionPresiding: Julius Fleming, Jr., Univ. of Maryland, College Park1. "Black Static: Of Sound and Friction in the Black Atlantic," Edwin Hill, Univ. of Southern California2. "Longfellow in Black: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's 'Song of Hiawatha' and the Problem of the Twentieth Century," Tsitsi Jaji, Duke Univ.3. "Shadows of Tomorrow: Rap Aesthetics and the Literary Representation of Post-Civil-Rights Temporality," Carter Mathes, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick4. "The People’s Muse: Paul Robeson as Leitmotif," Shana Redmond, Univ. of California, Los Angeles731. Sophie von La Roche and Female AuthorshipSunday, 8 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 404, Philadelphia MarriottProgram arranged by the forum LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century GermanPresiding: Julie Koser, Univ. of Maryland, College Park1. "Sophie von La Roche und Goethe: Partners in a Literary Network of Sensibility (1772–75)," Monika Nenon, Univ. of Memphis2. "Women Reading and Writing Women: Sophie von La Roche’s Pedagogical Fiction," Lauren Nossett, Elon Univ.3. "Between Emancipation and Reaction: Sophie von La Roche and Her Translator Marie-Elisabeth de La Fite," Angela Sanmann, Université de Lausanne *If we have accidentally omitted you from this list and you would like to be put on, please email englweb@umd.edu
