ACLA at MLA 2007

 

ACLA Sessions and Events at the 2007 MLA in Chicago

Programs Arranged by the American Comparative Literature Association:

Thursday, 27 December

36. New Comparative Methodologies: Rethinking Difference
3:30-4:45 p.m., Ontario, Sheraton Chicago
Session Organizer: Thomas Beebee, Penn State University
Presiding: Robert Doran, Middlebury College

1. "Diasporic Patterns: A Complex Systems Approach to the African Diaspora," Renee Barlow, Indiana University, Bloomington

2. "Rethinking the Turn to Comparative Analysis in American Ethnic Studies," Lou Freitas Caton, Westfield State College

3. "Essayism; or Comparison in Time," Brian Lennon, Penn State University

Friday, 28 December

348. Cash Bar and Reception Arranged by the School of Criticism and Theory Jointly with the ACLA
5:15-6:30 p.m., Water Tower, Hyatt Regency

Saturday, 29 December

480. New Comparative Methodologies: Musical Thinking
12:00-1:15 p.m., Ohio, Sheraton Chicago
Presiding: Yopie Prins, University of Michigan

1. "The Music That Thinking Is," Marshall Brown, University of Washington

2. "Twentieth-Century Literature and Absolute Music," Gregory Erickson, Mannes College

3. "Musical Thought, Literary Experience," Robert Kaufman, University of California, Berkeley

Session Arranged by the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature (ADPCL):

Saturday, 29 December

606. Who's (Not Afraid of) Teaching Comparative Literature?
7:15-8:30 p.m., McCormick, Hyatt Regency
Presiding: Caroline D. Eckhardt, Penn State University

1. "The Place of Comparative Literature in a Global University," Pericles Lewis, Yale University

2. "What Do I Teach When I Teach Comparative Literature?," Nancy Blake, University of Illinois, Urbana

3. "Always Depending on the Kindness of Strangers: Staffing Comparative Literature at a Liberal Arts College," Corinne Scheiner, Colorado College

Programs Arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature:

Thursday, 27 December

126. Comparative Literature and Transnational Regionalism
8:45-10:00 p.m., Arkansas, Sheraton Chicago
Presiding: Marcel Cornis-Pope, Virginia Commonwealth University

1. "The Posthistorical Novel of the Mediterranean as Critical Regionalism," Firat Oruc, Duke University

2. "Storytelling and Transnational Identity in Contemporary German-Romanian Literature," Anca Luca Holden, University of Georgia

3. "Premchand and Lu Xun as Transnational Regionalists," John Burt Foster, Jr., George Mason University

4. "Critiques of State Nationalism and Market Globalism in American Indian Fiction," Joseph Bauerkemper, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Friday, 28 December

260. Networked Margins
1:45-3:00 p.m., Ontario, Sheraton Chicago
Presiding: Natasha Barnes, University of Illinois, Chicago

1. "Asian Cell and Horror," Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State University

2. "Trafficking Desire: Stacyann Chin's Blogs, Poetry, and the Creation of Global Conversation," Jeannine Murray-Roman, University of California, Los Angeles

3. "Global Testimonials: Soweto Children in Sindiwe Magona's Mother to Mother," Basuli Deb, Michigan State University

4. "Choreographing Cultural Nationalism: Engaging the Local and Transnational in Trinidadian Dance," Meida McNeal, Northwestern University

Saturday, 29 December

499. Stolen Childhoods: Narratives at Work in the World
12:00-1:15 p.m., Superior A, Sheraton Chicago
Presiding: Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Respondent: Daniel Feldman, Yale University

1. "Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss," Gabriele M. Schwab, University of California, Irvine

2. "Narrative and the Possibilities of Justice for Boy Soldiers and Lost Boys," Kimberly Ann Nance, Illinois State University

3. "From Displacement to Reconstitution: What Memoirs Can Do," U. C. Knoepflmacher, Princeton University