CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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A3: The Ancient (and Modern) Quarrel between Poetry and Philosophy (Leon Golden)

A11: Comparative Diasporas/Interdisciplinary Approaches (Anita Mannur and Jana Evans Braziel)

A12: Death Masks: Figurations of Death in and out of Literature (Alessia Ricciardi and Jared Stark)

A14: Early Modern Theatre and Performance in Europe, and the Staging of Culture:
The Problem of Interdisciplinarity (Jane C. Tylus and Susanne L. Wofford)

A15: Ecocriticism: Nature, Modernization, and Postmodernization (Ursula K. Heise)

A18: Fictional Histories/Historical Fictions (Monika Giacoppe and Luis Correa-Díaz)

A19: Interdisciplinary Research in Literary Studies: Theory and Practice (Sarah Winter)

A21: Sovereignties of Law and Literature (Bernadette Meyler and Steven L. Miller)

B5: The Disciplines of Empire: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Spain (Sara T. Nalle)

B7: East/West: Comparative Philosophy and the Question of Translation (David L. Porter)

Globalizing Comparative Literature: The Undergraduate World Literature Course
(Vilashini Cooppan and Michael Holquist)

Chairs: Bella Brodzki, Literature, Sarah Lawrence College and Julia Watson,
Comparative Studies, Ohio State University

1. Margaret Higonnet, English and Comparative Literature, University of Connecticut:
"A Boundary Narrative: David's Leonidas"

2. Joan Templeton, Comparative Literature, Long Island University:
"Munch's Ibsen: Illustration as (Mis)Translation" --CANCELED

3. Kevin Bongiorni, French and Italian, Louisiana State University: "Shaming by Image"

4. Bella Brodzki, Literature, Sarah Lawrence College:
"Culture, Capital, Criticism, and History: The Comic Book"

5. Irene Kacandes, German Studies and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College:
"What Do We See While We Listen? The Visual Dimension of Holocaust Video Testimony"

6. Marianne Hirsch, Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College: "Marked by Memory:
Visual Discourses on Trauma and Transmission"

7. Mark Sanders, English and American Literature, Brandeis University:
"Interdisciplinarity as Reading"

8. Heidi Grunebaum-Ralph, English, University of Western Cape (South Africa):
"Re-placing Pasts, Forgetting Presents: Narrative, Place, and Memory in the Time of
the Truth and Reconciliation Commission"

9. Stephanie L. Rowe, Comparative Literature, University of Oregon:
"Head Games, or, The Phreno-Logic of Mimesis in Antebellum Fiction and Painting"

10. Jennifer Phillips, French, Yale University:
"The Harmony of Opposites: A Corresponding Concern for Complementary Colors in
Baudelaire, Chevreul, and Delacroix"

11. Irene Gammel, English, University of Prince Edward Island (Canada):
"Visualizing Everyday Modernity: Dada and Neue Wilde"

12. Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, Ohio State University: "Disappearing Acts:
The Autobiographical Projects of Charlotte Salomon and Francesca Woodman"

1. Beatrice Hanssen, Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University:
"The Self as Work of Art: Foucault's Turn to Ethics and Aesthetics"

2. Doris Sommer, Romance Languages, Harvard University: "A Bilingual Aesthetics"

3. Haun Saussy, Asian Languages and Comparative Literature, Stanford University:
"Calculating and Perceiving: Towards the Ends (Kant and Leibniz)"

4. Andrzej J. Warminski, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine:
" 'As the Poets Do It': On the Material Sublime"

5. Ian Balfour, English, York University (Canada): "The Threat of the Sublime and the
Judaic Question in Hegel's Aesthetics and Beyond"

7. Kevin Newmark, Romance Studies, Boston College:
"Reading Matters: For Paul de Man"

8. Tilottama Rajan, Theory and Criticism/English, University of Western Ontario (Canada):
"Negativity and Potentiality: Aesthetics and Ideology in Kant's Critique of Judgment
and Hegel's Aesthetics"

9. Andrew Benjamin, Philosophy and Literature, University of Warwick (UK):
" 'From the Work of Art to Art's Work: The Discontinuous Continuity of Romanticism from
Schlegel to de Man"

10. Donald M. Brown, Comparative Literature, Yale University:
"Eagleton and de Man: Modernist Aesthetics and Romantic Ideology"

11. Liu Kang, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University:
"Aesthetics, Politics, and Marxism in China"

12. Tobin Siebers, English, University of Michigan:
"Hitler and the Tyranny of the Aesthetic"

13. Stathis Gourgouris, Comparative Literature, Princeton University:
"Theatrical Matters (Myth, Politics, Aesthetics)"

1. Leon Golden, Classics and Humanities, Florida State University:
"Plato on Poetry: Exploring the Ambiguities"

2. Thomas Bartscherer, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago:
"A Lovers' Quarrel? Tragic Poetry as an Erotic Problem in Plato's Republic"

3. Peter Y. Paik, Comparative Literature, Independent Scholar:
"The Unity of Poetry and Philosophy"

4. Nathalia King, English and Humanities, Reed College:
"Variants and Singularity: The Homeric Tradition's Influence on Plato's Form"

5. Brenda Machosky, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
"The Fictioning Essence of Reason: The Art of the Mirror"

6. Max Statkiewicz, Comparative Literature, SUNY Stony Brook:
"The 'Old Quarrel' and the 'Raging Discordance': Nietzsche's Overturning of Platonism"

7. Michel Chaouli, German and Comparative Literature, Harvard University:
"Hearing Voices in the Critique of Judgment"

8. Matthew Russell, Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin:
"Les Cornets of Ducasse: Pascal in Poésies"

9. Margaret Fisher, Dramatic Art, UC Berkeley:
"Cavalcanti: Ezra Pound's Philosophical Opera"

10. Scott R. Thomas, Classics, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church School:
"Mediating the Quarrel: Quintilian's Ideal Orator"

11. Jeanne J. Smoot, English and Comparative Literature, NC State University:
"Academe on the Attack: The War against the Word"

1. Chin Woon-Ping, Theatre Studies and English (Creative Writing), Goddard College:
"Americanizing Buddhism: From Thoreau to the Beats"

2. John Whalen-Bridge, English, National University of Singapore:
"The Practice of Poetry: Gary Snyder's 'Offering for Tara'"

3. Chitra Sankaran, English, National University of Singapore:
"Goddess Dis-empowered: The Portrayal of the Goddess in Indian Cinema"

4. Indrani Dutta-Gupta, English, Kennesaw State University:
"The Theme of the Guru in Jhabvala's later Novels"

5. Claudia Milstead, English, University of Tennessee:
"Echoes of Krishna and Arjuna in Eliot's 'Little Gidding'"

6. Saudamini Siegrist, English, Saint John's University: "The Writing of Devotion"

7. Jane Falk, English, Ohio State University: "Making Zen a Household Word:
The Popularization of Zen Buddhism by American Magazine Culture in the 1950's"

8. BettyJane Champlin, Law, Western State University:
"Henry James's The Ambassadors: Painting a Life without Regret"

9. Parvinder Mehta, English, Wayne State University:
"Occidenting the Orient: A(I)llusion and Representation in Thoreau's Walden"

10. Carlotta Abrams, English, Estrella College: "Speaking through the Silence:
The Buddhist Underpinnings of Japanese Canadian Literature"

1. Steve Hunsaker, Foreign Languages, Emporia State University:
"Exile and Memoir: Pérez Firmat, Dorfman, Said"

2. Camilla H. Mortensen, Comparative Literature and Folklore, University of Oregon:
"Mimesis and Ethnographic Presentation: The Re-Presentation of the Autobiographic Voice"

3. Laurie Hovell McMillin, Expository Writing, Oberlin College:
"New Age Namtar: Tibetan Autobiographies in English"

4. Christian Moraru, English, University of North Carolina, Greensboro:
"Memoirs, Cultural Memory, Social Critique: Paul Auster and the Paradoxes of
Postmodern Autobiography"

5. Justin D.A. Drewry, English, The Webb School: "Metaphors of Marginalization:
The Value of Metaphor in North Carolina Homosexual Autobiography"

6. Liedeke Plate, Literary Studies, Utrecht University (The Netherlands):
"Moments of Reading: The Self as Reader in Annie Leclerc's Origines and
Phyllis Rose's The Year of Reading Proust"

7. Rachel Gabara, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan:
"Third Cinema, National Allegory, Autobiography?"

8. Anne Hudson Jones, Medical Humanities, The University of Texas Medical Branch:
"Contemporary Autobiographies of American Mental Patients: Tools for Changing
Policies of Mental Health Care?"

9. Jonathan W. Gray, English, Fordham University:
"When 'Life is Hectic': Hip Hop's Autobiographical Discourse"

10. Kate Baldwin, English, University of Notre Dame:
"The Data of Life: The Sociological Practice of W.E.B. DuBois's Late Autobiographies"
-- CANCELED

1. Nitasha Kaul, Economics and Philosophy, University of Hull (UK):
"Between Literature and Economics: Discourse Matters and Matters!"

2. Jack Amariglio, Economics, Merrimack College and David F. Ruccio, Economics,
University of Notre Dame:
"Literary/Cultural 'Economies,' Economic Discourse, and the Question of Marxism"

3. Jan Mieszkowski, German and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania:
"The Language Theory of Labor"

4. Blair Hoxby, English, Yale University: "What Literary Theory Can Teach Economists"

5. Bertil Fridén, Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology (Göteborg, Sweden):
"Starobinski and the Economics of Emile's Dark Wine: Text Analysis as a Method in the
History of Economics - A Case Study."

6. Ted Burczak, Economics, Denison University and Rob Garnett, Economics,
Texas Christian University:
"What Can Economists Learn from Derrida's Critique of Saussure?"

7. Stephen Cullenberg, Economics, UC Riverside: "From Myth to Metaphor:
A Semiological Analysis of the Cambridge Capital Controversy"

8. Gillian Hewitson, Economics and Finance, La Trobe University (Australia):
"Drawing on Literature"

9. Arjo Klamer, Art and Cultural Studies Economics, Erasmus University,
Rotterdam (The Netherlands), "Economic Narratives"

10. Margueritte S. Murphy, English, Bentley College, and Brian P. Cooper, Economics,
SUNY Oswego: "Adding Culture to the Equation: Economics and the Other"

11. Susan F. Feiner, Women's Studies and Economics, University of Southern Maine:
" 'T.G.I.F.' (Thank Goodness It's Friday)" -- CANCELED

12. Suzanne Bergeron, Women's Studies and Social Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn:
"'The Challenge of Inclusion' and the (Re)presentation of Narrative Agents in World Bank Literature"
--CANCELED

13. Juan E. de Castro, Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology:
"The Path of the Storyteller: Neo-Liberalism in Mario Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller and
Hernando de Soto's The Other Path:The Silent Revolution and the Third World" -- CANCELED

14. Ulla Grapard, Economics, Colgate University: "Trading Bodies, Trade in Bodies:
The 1878 Paris World Exhibition as Economic Discourse"

15. Catherine Labio, Comparative Literature and French, Yale University:
"Between Literature and Economics: Summary Reflexions"

Chairs: Ulrike Brisson, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University and
Florence J. Widmer-Schnyder, Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin

2. Adrian Grima, Maltese, University of Malta Junior College (Malta)
"An Island State between Home and the Train Station"

3. Mary Bryden, French Studies, University of Reading (UK):
"Lawrence Of, or In, Arabia?"

4. Ulrike Brisson, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University:
"Inventing the Heroine and Orientalizing the Other in Fictional and Actual Travel
Writings Set in the Nineteenth Century"

5. Florence J. Widmer-Schnyder, Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin:
"The English Governess at the Siamese Court at the Genre and Gender Crossroads"

6. Nina Pelikan Straus, Comparative Literature and Creative Writing, SUNY Purchase:
"Kafka's Tourists"

7. Eva-Marie Kröller, English, University of British Columbia (Canada):
" 'Once Again, a City Rewards the Walker:'Berlin, Flâneurism, and the City as Demon"

8. Miguel A. Cabañas, Modern Languages and Literatures/Spanish, College of the Holy Cross:
"Travel, Race, and Natural Science: A Journey in Brazil by Louis and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz"

9. William H. Castro, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University:
"Travel Writing (in) the Americas: George Ephraim Squier, Coronel Urtecho and
the Invention of a (Traveling) Self"

10. Camilla M. Fojas, Humanities, Illinois Institute of Technology:
"Cosmopolitan Travel: Rewriting the Reader"

11. Roxana Verona, French and Italian, Dartmouth College: "On Cultural Commuting"

1. Valerie N. Johnson, English, University of Kentucky:
"Dangerous Ablutions in Dickens's Bleak House and Gaskell's North and South"

2. Urshula Y. Barbour, Liberal Studies, The New School University: "Fragrant Lubricants
and Antiseptic Elixirs: Early Advertising Images of Women's Body Odor"

3. James A. Steintrager, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine:
"Zoning for Pleasure: Harem, Brothel, and Bathhouse"

4. Pamela L. Cheek, Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of New Mexico:
"The Ideal Brothel: The Male Body and the Institution Imagined in Enlightenment
Prostitution Reform Plans"

5. Holly Wagner, University of Arkansas:
"Jekyll and Hyde: The Borderland between Humanity and Animality"

6. Eva Bowerman, History of Art, Yale University:
"The Weaver's Wife and the Campaigning Duchess: The Role of the Nursing Mother in
Late Eighteenth-Century British Satirical Prints"

7. Rebecca Weaver, English, University of Kentucky: "Imperial Bodies and the
Anxiety of Influence: Cannibalism in Robinson Crusoe and The Island of Dr. Moreau"

8. Jeanne Provost, University of Kentucky:
"Chaucer in Drag: Disassembling the Prioress"

9. Melissa L. Chinchillo, English, Cultural Studies, and Women's Studies, SUNY Stony Brook:
"The Embodiment of Chaos in Jasmine and Nervous Conditions"

10. Stephen Brauer, English and American Studies, St. John Fisher College:
"A Killer Body: Criminality and American Anxiety after World War I"

11. Chris Kocela, English, McGill University (Canada):
"Fetishism as Historical Practice in Two Postmodern American Novels"

12. Eva Livia Corredor, Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University:
"Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous' 'Fabulous' Body"

1. Mary Coffey, Romance Languages, Pomona College:
"Comparatists and the Teaching of Culture: An Interdisciplinary Challenge"

2. Barbara C. Gorka, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Muhlenberg College: "Beyond
the Language Requirement: Using Language and Culture to Study Environmental Issues"

3. Lisa R. Perfetti, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Muhlenberg College:
"Teaching Francophone Culture and Literature: Beyond the Grab Bag Approach"

4. Anbin Shi, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University:
"Teaching Literature across Boundaries"

5. Nancy L. Chick, English, University of Wisconsin, Barron County: "Narratives from
the Borderlands: Literary and Geographic Stories of Multicultural America"

6. Amal El-Hadary, Al-Alsun (Modern Languages), Ain Shams University (Egypt):
"Comparative American Studies: Creating a New Space between Disciplines"

7. Laura Lomas, American Studies, Columbia University: "On the Role of Academic
Knowledge and Activism in 'Unlearning' Development" -- CANCELED

8. Jody N. Lewen, Rhetoric, UC Berkeley: "Frankenstein in Prison: Some Notes on
Teaching Literature to Students who are also Inmates"

9. Elliot C. Adams, Humanities, New College Program, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa:
" 'Young Goodman Brown': A Dramatic Text?"

10. Mary Leming, The Reinvention Center, SUNY at Stony Brook:
" 'I Love to Watch Movies in Class': Teaching Greek Myths through Films"

11. Robin Gunther, English, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa:
"Intercoursing Shakespeare's King Lear across Time, Culture, and Genre"

Chairs: Christopher Braider, French and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado,
Boulder and Herbert Marks, Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Omni Temple

1. Herbert Marks, Comparative Literature, Indiana University:
"The Scholar's Melancholy: Benno Jacob and the Limits of Commentary"

2. Scot R. Douglass, Humanities and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder:
"The New Isaac and Ishmael: The Apostle Paul's Rereading of the Abraham Story in His
Epistle to the Galatians"

3. Stephen Owen, Chinese and Comparative Literature, Harvard University:
"When Commentary Goes Mad"

4. David Damrosch, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University:
"Out of your Sanscreed into our Aryan: Anandavardhana and the Aesthetics of Commentary"

5. Christopher Shields, Philosophy and Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder:
"Philosophical Commentaries: A Functional View"

6. Ann N. Pedone, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley:
"Recovering the Voice of the Text: Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Commentaries on
the Classics and the Search for a Vernacular"

7. Jeffrey T. Schnapp, French and Italian and Comparative Literature, Stanford University:
"Constant Comment (Dante and Dantismo)"

8. William J. Kennedy, Comparative Literature, Cornell University:
"Specters of Petrarchism"

9. Claire Baldwin, German, Washington University:
"Lichtenberg's 'Poetic Commentary' on Hogarth"

10. Christopher Braider, French and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder:
"Medea's Poison, or How (Literary) History Writes Racine"

11. James C. Nohrnberg, English, University of Virginia:
"Some Exegetical Traditions Renewed in Paradise Lost and the New Testament"

12. Ann T. Delehanty, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley:
"Jesus as the Center of All History: Pascal's Sacramental Historiography"

13. Gary Saul Morson, Slavic, Northwestern University:
"The Embedded Commentator in the Literature of Process" -- CANCELED

14. Keota Fields, Interdisciplinary Studies, New York University:
"Deconstruction's Maimonidean Antecedent"

Chairs: Anita Mannur and Jana Evans Braziel, Comparative Literature,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst

1. Benzi Zhang, English, Chinese University of Hong Kong:
"When Cathay is No Longer at the Far East: An Inquiry into Cultural Diaspora"

2. James D. Lilley, Literature, University of Arizona:
"Literary Postcoloniality on the Border"

3. Radhika Gajjala and Annapurna Mamidipudi, Interpersonal Communication,
Bowling Green State University: "Cyborgian Wrything and Mestiza Ecriture:
Collaborating across Contexts, in Digital Diaspora"

4. Rajeev Patke, English, National University of Singapore:
"The Ambivalence of Poetic Self Exile: The Cases of A.K. Ramanujan and Agha Shahid Ali"

5. Karen A. Miller-Loessi and Zeynep Kilic (Ozgen), Sociology, Arizona State University:
"China's Adopted Daughters as a Diaspora: From 'Victim' to Postmodern Identity"

6. Shuchen S. Huang, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst:
"The 'Exotic' Home(land): Chen Ping (Sanmao) in West Sahara"

7. Grant Farred, English, Williams College:
"Wankerdom: Configuring Scotland as the Postcolonial?"

8. Neil Hartlen, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst:
"Sexualities without the Border or Rough Trade? Gay Cultural and Theoretical Exchanges
between the U.S. and France"

9. Zeynep Kilic (Ozgen), Sociology, Arizona State University:
"Homelands and Diasporas: A Love/Hate Relationship?"

10. David W. Anshen, Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook:
"History and Ideology across the Centuries: Representations of the Atlantic Slave Trade in
Melville's Benito Cereno and Charles Johnson's The Middle Passage"

11. Anita Mannur, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst:
"Diasporic Affiliations in the Fiction of Maryse Condé and Shani Mootoo"

12. Jana Evans Braziel, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts-Amherst:
"Comparative Diasporas, Migratory Intensities, Nomadic Displacements:
Contemporary Algerian, Haitian, and Vietnamese Migrant Literatures"

Chairs: Alessia Ricciardi, French and Italian, Northwestern University and
Jared Stark, Draper Cultures, Literary Cultures, New York University

1. Peter Burian, Classical Studies, Duke University:
"The Politics of Burial: Mourning, Memory, and Disorder in Greek Tragedy"

2. Alessia Ricciardi, French and Italian, Northwestern University:
"Pasoloni's Spectral Poetics" -- NEW TITLE

3. Michael G. Levine, Comparative Literature, Barnard College:
"Like Unburied Words: Celan and Derrida"

4. Esther Rashkin, French and Comparative Literature, University of Utah:
"Popular Culture and The Death of Psychoanalysis"

5. Ulrich Baer, German, New York University: "Revision, Animation, Rescue:
Dariusz Jablonski's Holocaust Documentary Photographer"

6. Margaret Gibson, Social Science, University of New England (Australia):
"Death Scenes: Ethics and the Face in Film"

7. Michelle Erickson, French & Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge,
New York University:
"On Spectral Performances, or, Trauma, Technology, and the Holocaust"

8. M. Julia Creet, English, York University, Toronto (Canada):
"The Archive and the Uncanny"

9. Oleksiy Panych, Cultural Studies and Musicology, Donetsk State University (Ukraine)
and Seton Hall University: "Death in the Culture of European Enlightenment:
Re-Consideration of Suicide as an Aesthetic Problem"

10. Jared Stark, Draper Program, Literary Cultures, New York University:
"The Fiction of Suicide at the Fin-de-Siècle"

11. Richard Block, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon:
"Deadly Desires: On Winckelmann, Castration, and Imitating the Art of the Ancients"
--CANCELED

12. Thomas H. Kane, English, University of Virginia:
"The Cryptography of Death: Hip-hop, Meaning, and Mortality"

Chairs: Naomi E. Silver, English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine and
Yung-Hsing Wu, English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

1. Henry H.H. Remak, Comparative Literature, Indiana University:
"The Evolution of Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies"

2. Alice Mikal Craven, Comparative Literature, American University of Paris (France):
"An Atom in the Univer(City): Feynman and the Apologetics of the Scientist"

3. John Laudun, English and Folklore, University of Louisiana at Lafayette:
"The Discipline Which Is Not One" "

4. Jonathan Crewe, English and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College:
"Disciplines as Currency Zones" -- CANCELED

5. Thomas Albrecht, Modern and Contemporary Studies, UCLA:
"Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinarity"

6. James H. Donelan, Writing, UC Santa Barbara: "Absolute Music and the Literary Absolute:
Hegel and the Boundaries of Poetry and Music"

7. Amanpal Garcha, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University:
"Interdisciplinarity and the Reemergence of the Aesthetic"

8. David Michael Hertz, Comparative Literature, Indiana University: "Comparative Literature,
Culture Studies, Comparative Arts Studies: Delights and Dangers of the Interdisciplinarian"

9. Liz L. Constable, French and Italian, UC Davis:
"Disciplinary Enculturation: Work-in-Progress in French Studies"

10. Naomi E. Silver, English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine:
"Sacrifice: An Interdisciplinary Case Study"

11. Jack Green Musselman, Philosophy, Indiana University:
"Antonin Scalia's Judicial Craft: Political Exclusion by Legal Metaphor"

12. Yung-Hsing Wu, English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette:
"The Institute of Deconstruction"

A14: Early Modern Theatre and Performance in Europe, and the Staging of Culture:
The Problem of Interdisciplinarity

Chairs: Jane C. Tylus, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison and
Susanne L. Wofford, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1. Jane C. Tylus, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
"Pastoral and Place"

2. Abby Zanger, French, Harvard University: "Printed Pamphlets, Painted Plaster, and
Oral Poetry: Molière's Val-de-Grâce and the Glories of (Inter)Disciplinary Performance"

3. Melinda Gough, English, Oklahoma State University:
"Henrietta Maria, Women's Performance Traditions and the Transformation of Epic into
Theatre in the French and English Courts"

4. Maria Mercedes Carrión, Spanish, Emory University:
"The Burden of Evidence: Violence, Marriage, and Representation in Othello and
Calderón's El médico de su honra"

5. Richard A. Andrews, Italian, University of Leeds (UK):
"Female Performers, and Performance, in Italian Renaissance Drama and Opera"

6. Robert Henke, Comparative Literature, Washington University:
"Carnivalesque Degradation and Oneiric Liberation in Zanni Pamphlets, 1576-1600"

7. Eric A. Nicholson, General Studies, New York University in Florence (Italy):
"Ophelia, the Italian Innamorata, and Female Performances of Madness"

8. Pamela A. Brown, English, University of Connecticut:
"Boying her grandezza: The Diva Englished"

9. Maria G. Stampino, Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami:
"Performative Spaces, Continental Cities: Italy vs. France"

10. Christian M. Billing, Theatre, University of Warwick (UK): "Staging the Homo-erotic Cuerpo:
Jonson's New Inn and the Sexual Politics of Transvestite Performance"

11. Carrie A. Prettiman, International Languages, Cedar Crest College:
"Dryden, Wycherley, Behn and the Politics of Plagiarism in English Drama, 1660-1680"

12. Susanne L. Wofford, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
" 'All was cold, cold as any stone': Metamorphic Statues and the Apparent Corpse in Shakespeare,
Tirso de Molina's El Burlador de Sevilla, and the Italian Novella"

1. Heather Sullivan, Modern Languages and Literatures and German, Trinity University:
"From Early Geology to Ecology: Imagining Earth Systems"

2. Jonathan Levin, English, Columbia University:
"Biological Systems: Utopian Science and the End of Man"

3. Robert Kern, English, Boston College:
"Gary Snyder and the Nature of the Nature of Nature"

4. Richard Prud'homme, English, Yale University:
"Thoreau's Adam Smith: Political Economy in Walden"

5. Eric C. Brown, English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Lilian A. Contreras-Silva,
Comparative Literature, Louisiana State University:
"Commonwealth of Bees and Colonial Insects"

6. Jorge T. Marcone, Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University:
"Romances of the Jungle: Lost Worlds and Last Frontiers"

7. Eric Zakim, Asian and African Languages and Literature, Duke University:
"Eco-Orientalism: Knowledge, Nature, and the Poetics of Malaria in Colonial Palestine"

8. John Sandlos, Environmental Studies, York University (Canada):
"The Presence of Absence: Animals in Canadian Literature"

9. Ursula K. Heise, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University:
"No Talk of Trees: Technology in German and American Ecopoetry"

10. Simon Estok, English, Chongwoon University (South Korea): "Metaphors, Monsters,
and Meta-Narrative Moves: Ecocriticism, Shakespeare, and the Early Modern Period"

11. Helen Kapstein, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University:
" 'Unspoiled Spots': Ecotourism in a Global Economy"

12. Janet A. Walker, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University:
"Baudelaire in Tokyo: Nagai Kafu's Transculturation of the Flâneur"

Chairs: Alexander Alberro, Art History, University of Florida and Nora M. Alter, German and
Slavic Studies, University of Florida

1. Zahi A. Zalloua, Romance Languages and Literatures, Princeton University:
"Skepticism and the Ethics of the Essay: Montaigne's Anti-Confessional Discourse"

2. Gaby Bedetti, English, Eastern Kentucky University:
"Photo-Essay: The Wordless Hook"

3. John A. McCarthy, German and Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University:
"Of Fragments and Fractals: On the Nature of the Essay in Ecocritical Terms"

4. Peter Hitchcock, English, CUNY Baruch:
"Inspecting the Essay: or, Essaying the Specter"

5. Esther L. Gabara, Comparative Literature, Stanford University:
"Engendering Nation: Mexican Photo-Essays,1920-1940"

6. Bruno Bosteels, Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University:
"Of Chronicles, Testimonies, and Other Inquisitions: The Latin American Essay Revisited"

7. Ingeborg Hoesterey, German and Comparative Literature, Indiana University:
"Essayism as a Kind of Living: Projects in Twentieth-Century Textual and Visual Practices"

8. Alexander Alberro, Art History, University of Florida:
"Suburbia, the Hippies, and the Psychedelic Fantasies of the Sixties"

9. Jelena Stojanovic, Art History, Ithaca College: "Asger Jorn's Essayistic Tribulations"

10. Michael Eng, Philosophy/Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture, Binghamton University:
"Essayism and the City"

11. Caroline B. Constant, Architecture, University of Florida, Gainesville:
"Dialogue vs. Manifesto as Vehicles of Architectural Persuasion"

12. Nora M. Alter, German and Slavic Studies, University of Florida:
"The Audiovisual Essay"

Chair: Dietrich Scheunemann, Asian and Modern European Languages,
University of Edinburgh, UK

1. Dietrich Scheunemann, Asian and Modern European Languages, University of Edinburgh:
"On Photography and Painting: Notes towards a New Theory of the Avant-Garde"

2. Stephen C. Foster, History of Art, University of Iowa:
"Dada and the Constitution of Culture: (Re-)Conceptualizing the Avant-Garde"

3. Mara de Gennaro, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: "On the
Relationship of Photography to Narrative and Essay in Surrealist Writings and Magazines"

4. Bernd Kiefer, Film, Johann Gutenberg Universität Mainz (Germany): "Crucial Moments,
Crucial Points: Walter Benjamin - The Recognition of Modernity in the Light of the Avant-Garde"

5. Edward Lintz, Comparative Literature, Yale University: "Difficiles Nuage: Gertrude Stein,
Jacques Roubaud, and the Grammar of the Avant-Garde"

6. H. Martin Puchner, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University:
"Screeching Voices: Avant-Garde Manifestos in the Cabaret"

7. David J.R. Macrae, Asian and Modern European Languages, University of Edinburgh
"Painterly Concepts and Filmic Objects: The Dynamic Confrontation of Expression and
Reproduction in Early European Avant-Garde Film"

8. Richard Kostelanetz, New York:
"Polyartistry in the Works of John Cage and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy"

9. Ben Highmore, Cultural and Media Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol
"Everyday Life, Technologies, and Avant-Gardism: The Case of Mass-Observation"

10. Katharine E. Swarbrick, European Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh
"Avant-Garde Productions and Psychoanalytic Theory. The Story of an Encounter"

11. Klaus D. Beekman, Modern Dutch Literature, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands):
"The Selection of Avant-Garde Poetry for Anthologies: An Institutional Approach to
Avant-Garde Literature"

12. Roundtable: Rewriting the Theory of the Avant-Garde: Approaches and Strategies

Chairs: Monika Giacoppe, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University and
Luis Correa-Díaz, Romance Languages, University of Georgia

1. Luis Correa-Díaz, Romance Languages, University of Georgia:
"Pinochet's Deaths: An Apocryphal (Literary) History"

2. Monika Giacoppe, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University:
"Gothic Histories: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Anne Hébert's Kamouraska"

3. Christina E. Civantos, Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Miami:
"History and Fiction in Counter-Representations: Arab Argentine Versions of the Orient"

4. Liza Ann Acosta, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University: "The African
Presence in the Americas: Historical Transgressions in Inter-American Women's Drama"

5. Peter O. Arnds, Modern Languages, Kansas State University:
"Tom Thumb and The Tin Drum: History and Fantasy, Holocaust and Folklore"

6. Margaret C. Scanlan, English, Indiana University South Bend:
"Narrating Ivan the Terrible: Operation Shylock and the Demjanjuk Trial"

7. Laura A. Tanenbaum, Comparative Literature, New York University:
" 'Everything that Came Before is (Not) the same': History, Politics and the Literary
Resurrection of the Rosenbergs"

8. Ileana Alexandra Orlich, Languages and Literatures, Arizona State University:
"Pre/Post-Communist Fictional Histories of the 'Other' Europe: Notes on
Central Eastern European Literature"

9. Yomi Braester, Comparative Literature, University of Georgia:
"Memory at a Standstill: Film in the Wake of the Cultural Revolution"

10. Deborah Roberts, Classics and Comparative Literature, Haverford College:
"Writing the Past for Girls: Ancient Greece in History and Fiction"

11. Michael I. Carignan, History, Michigan State University:
"History as Fiction or Fiction as History? George Eliot's Contribution to
Nineteenth-Century Historiography"

1. Karen Piper, English, University of Missouri-Columbia:
"Cartographic Fictions: Kim, 'Pundit A,' and Trans-Himalayan Surveys"

2. Carlos Rojas, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University:
"China's Cartographic Unconscious"

3. Michael P. Rothberg, English, University of Miami, Coral Gables:
"What Was the Twentieth Century? Theory, Interdisciplinarity, Periodization"

4. Candace Skorupa, Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University:
"Music and Literature: Approaching the Challenge of an Interdisciplinary Perspective"

5. Suzanne M. Lodato, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Musicology, Columbia University:
"Richard Strauss' Lieder and Text/Music Analysis: A Case Study in False Assumptions"

6. Patricia Howell Michaelson, Arts and Humanities, University of Texas at Dallas:
"Speaking Volumes: Literature and the Languages of Women"

7. Sébastien Ruffo, Etudes françaises, Université de Montréal:
"The Phonostylistics of the Dramatic Character"

---Theory, Methodology, and Interdisciplinary Practice in Comparative Literature

8. John Mackay, Slavic, Yale University: "Comparative History and Comparative Literature:
The Case of US Slavery and Russian Serfdom"

9. Sandra Bermann, Comparative Literature, Princeton University:
"Between Disciplines"

10. Sarah Winter, English, Yale University:
"Interdisciplinary Research: Theory and Practice"

1. Karen Bassi, Literature and Classics, UC Santa Cruz: "Eye-witnessing the Past"

2. Leslie Kurke, Classics and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley:
"Cultural Poetics and the Materiality of Cultural History"

3. Richard Neer, Art History, University of Chicago:
"Classical Studies and the Beginnings of Naturalism"

4. Simon Goldhill, Classics, King's College, Cambridge University (UK):
"Whose Greek? Whose Greece?"

5. Ralph J. Hexter, Classics and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley:
"Handling the Passer: The Knowing and Unknowing of Some Students of Catullus"

6. James Porter, Classics and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan:
"Body Studies and the Classics: Disciplinary Formations or Materializations?"

7. John T. Kirby, Comparative Literature, Purdue University:
"Semiotics Ancient and Modern: Aristotle and Umberto Eco"

8. Matthew Gumpert, Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
"Grafting Homer: A New Metaphor for Literary and Cultural Intertextuality"

9. Yopie Prins, English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan:
"Translating 'Classics' "

Chairs: Bernadette Meyler, Stanford Law School and English and Comparative Literature,
UC Irvine and Steven L. Miller, English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, Omni Whalley

1. Steven L. Miller, English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine:
"Sovereignty beyond the Fictions of the Political"

2. Matthias Lütkehermölle, Philosophy, Villanova University:
"Power and Law: Re-reading the 'Critique of Violence' "

3. Craig Carson, English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine:
"Abandoning Law: On the Threshold of the State of Exception"

4. Roger Berkowitz, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley:
"The Legal as the Problem of Modernity in Foucault's Governmentality"

5. Joan Meyler, English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice: "An Examination of the
Concept of Sovereignty as Embodied in the United States Constitution"

6. Michael D. Jasny, English, UCLA:
"Answering Eichmann: Law, Literature, and the War Crimes Novel"

7. Elliott Visconsi, English, UCLA:
"Equity, Cruelty, and the Origins of Sovereignty: Dryden's Indian Queen"

8. Jack W. Chen, Comparative Literature, Harvard University: "Poetry, Ritual, and the Sacred:
Towards an Understanding of Medieval Chinese Sovereignty"

9. Bernadette Meyler, Stanford Law School/ English/Comparative Literature, UC Irvine:
"Power and the Place of Forgiveness in Twentieth-Century Theories of Sovereignty"

Chairs: Timothy Barringer and Maria Georgopoulou, History of Art, Yale University

1. Vanessa Ryan, English, Yale University:
"Inventing Vision: The Art-Literature of Ruskin"

2. Timothy Barringer, History of Art, Yale University: "Ruskin's Languages of Labour"

4. Jessica R. Feldman, English, University of Virginia:
"Francesca's Cabinet: Ruskin's Tender Disciplines"

5. Maria Georgopoulou, History of Art, Yale University:
"Orientalizing Byzantium: Ruskin and St. Mark's"

6. Daniel A. Simon, Comparative Literature, Indiana University:
"Translating Ruskin: Marcel Proust's Orient of Devotion"

8. James K. Freda, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA:
"Disorienting Pathologies: A Meditation on Time and Traffic"

1. Martina Kolb, Comparative Literature, Yale University:
"Hybridization as Quest: Metaphors of Exile in Dante and Kafka"

2. Phillip G. Kendall, Comparative Literature, Penn State University: "On Location:
Contrasting Management of Place in Chrétien's and Wolfram's Grail Romances"

3. Luciana Villas-Bôas Castelo-Branco, Germanic Languages and Comparative Literature
and Society, Columbia University: "The New World in Print: Genre Innovations and
Cultural Difference in Sixteenth-Century Travel Narratives"

4. Rebecca Cole Heinowitz, Comparative Literature, Brown University:
"Empire of Sentiment: Latin America and the Expansion of the British Lyric 'I' in
Helen Maria Williams' 'Peru' (1784)"

5. Jan Borm, English, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: "Travail in Common?
The Anthropological in Travelogues and Travel Writing in Anthropology"

6. Brian T. Edwards, English, University of Notre Dame:
"Disciplined Translation: The Mrabet/Bowles Collaboration"

7. Cosana M. Nicolae, American Studies, University of Bucharest (Romania)/NYU:
"Andrei Codrescu, the Road Scholar"

1. Walter A.E. Geerts, Romance Languages, University of Antwerp (Belgium):
"The Narrow Margins of Literary Form: On Nonstandard Expressions of the Holocaust"

2. Patrick Deer, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University: "Refusing the Cure
for Europe's Ills in Martin Amis' Time's Arrow and W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants"

3. Eva Tettenborn, English, Binghamton University, State University of New York:
"'Körperwelten': Crafting Cryptual Realities"

4. Amy Hungerford, English and American Studies, Yale University:
"Nuclear Holocaust and the Literary Victim"

5. Lorraine Markotic, Comparative Literature, University of Calgary (Canada):
"Melancholy and Wistful Mourning: Julia Kristeva's Thing and Marlen Haushofer's Lost Desire"

6. Herschel J. Farbman, Comparative Literature, Yale University: "Practice for Death:
Philosophy, Literature, and Knowledge of the Future"

7. Katherine A. Stanton, English, Rutgers University: " 'Giving Voice to the Dead':
Remains and Reanimation in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron"

1. Tiina Kirss, Estonian Studies, University of Toronto (Canada):
"Post-Colonialism's 'Other' Regions: Topographic Limits of Interdisciplinarity"

2. Susan E. Nichols, Comparative Literature, UCLA:
"Emma Pérez and the Transformative Potential of the Imagination"

3. Alicia Schmidt Camacho, American Studies, Yale University:
"Narrative Acts: Figuring Critical Consciousness in the Global Assembly Line"

4. Monique Tschofen, English, Ryerson Polytechnic University (Canada):
" 'A Love Song to Our Mongrel Selves': Hybridity in the Canadian Torture Narrative"

6. Marike S. Janzen, Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin:
"Locating Transnationalism"

7. MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins, Comparative Literature, University of Texas at Austin:
"Urbanization, Migration, and African Narratives of Development"

8. Anna M. Brigido Corachan, Comparative Literature, University of Iowa:
"Unraveling the Looms: A Study of Hybridity and Multiculturalism in Almanac of the Dead
and Tropic of Orange"

B5: The Disciplines of Empire:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Spain

Roberto González Echevarría, Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature,
Yale University: "The Two Endings of La vida es sueño"

1. Alison P. Weber, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia:
"Manhood in the Making: Constructing Masculinity in Counter-Reformation Spain"

2. Joseph V. Ricapito, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Louisiana State University:
"Consciousness and Psychological Depiction in Cervantes's Don Quijote"

3. Georgina Dopico Black, Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University:
"'Pretium sanguinis': Quevedo's Execración contra los judíos"

4. Carlos M.N. Eire, Religious Studies, Yale University:
"Infernal Meditations in Early Modern Spain: Shrinking Hell and Cooling It"

5. David A. Boruchoff, Hispanic Studies, McGill University:
"Historiography with License: The Catholic Monarch and the Kingdom of God"

6. Jacques Lezra, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison:
"State Pleasure and Ethnic Pain in Titian and Covarrubias"

7. Andres Ubeda, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Madrid)/ Museo del Prado: "Genealogies of Spanish Academicism" -- CANCELED

1. Raphael Falco, English, University of Maryland, Baltimore County:
"Charisma and Miasma"

2. Tanya Pollard, English, Macalaster College:
"Competing Pleasures: Literature and Medicine"

3. Christopher K. Rovee, English, Princeton University:
"Siddonian Portraiture and the Queen Caroline Affair"

4. Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies,
University of Connecticut: "Negative Narratives: Maternity in Eighteenth-Century
Treatises on Women's Education"

Chair: David L. Porter, English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

1. Ming Xie, English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto (Canada):
" I.A. Richards on Comparative Method"

2. Eric Hayot, English, Auburn University:
"Is China Logocentric? And Other Comparative Questions"

3. Nash Mayfield, English, Mercer University, Toronto (Canada):
"On Moral Discipline: Ethics in Tibetan Buddhism and Poststructuralism"

4. Yoshihiro Yasuhara, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University:
"Basho's Haikai no renga (Linked Poetry), Ishikawa Jun's Short Stories, and Phenomenology"

5. Yinxing Liu, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University:
"Orientalism and Multiculturalism in Film Studies and Contemporary Chinese Cinema"

6. Judy T. H. Chen, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University: "Out/Posts East and West:
Paradigms of Reading and Writing Culture in Maryse Condé and Zhu Tienwen"

7. Christopher Bush, Comparative Literature, UCLA:
"Japonisme and the Painting of Modern Life"

8. David L. Porter, English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan: "'Beyond the
Bounds of Truth': Cross-Cultural Translation and William Chambers' Chinese Garden"

Chair: Rachel Ramsey, English, West Virginia University and
Katherine W. Scheil, English, University of Rhode Island

1. Shi-yee Liu, History of Art, Yale University:
"From the Theatrical to the Pictorial: Chen Hongshou's Unconventional Group Portraits"

2. Christopher Winks, Comparative Literature, New York University:
"Timehri, Vèvè, Hieroglyph: Visual Signs in Afro-Diasporic Poetry"

3. Polly Stevens Fields, English, Lake Superior University: "Silence with Signs:
Speech-Sex Nexus in Eighteenth-Century Chippewa-Ojibway Pictographs"

4. Irene M. Artigas, Modern Languages, National Autonomous University of Mexico-UNAM:
" 'Where Things Hurry Away from their Names': Joseph Cornell, Octavio Paz, and Elizabeth
Bishop's 'Objects and Apparitions'"

5. Katherine W. Scheil, English, University of Rhode Island: "The Cobbler of Preston (1716):
Rebellion and the English Civil War in Literature and Art"

6. Marc R. Mazzone, English, Tennessee State University: "Hogarth's 'Four Stages of Cruelty'
and the Radicalization of Eighteenth-Century Humanitarianism"

7. Rachel Ramsey, English, West Virginia University: "Visualizing Capitalism and Producing Value: Eighteenth-Century Architecture and the English Novel"

8. Jeannie Dalporto, English, West Virginia University: "Landscaping the Eighteenth-Century Country House: Improvement, Paternalism, and the Laboring Poor"

9. Bonita Billman, Art, Music, and Theatre, Georgetown University:
"Bulwer-Lytton's Last Days of Pompeii and the Visual Arts"

1. Geoff Baker, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University:
"Pressing Engagement: Sartre, Beauvoir and the Uncertainty of the Intellectual"

2. Marcy Wheeler, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan:
"The Roman-feuilleton Plays Politics: Les Mystères de Paris as a Public Sphere"

3. Elizabeth Amann, Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University:
"A Marriage Sans-Culotte? The Politics of the Adultery Novel"

4. Alex Woloch, English, Stanford University:
"King Lear Lost in Paris: Balzac's Le Père Goriot as Modern Tragedy"

5. Pericles Lewis, English and Comparative Literature, Yale University:
"Rousseau and Proust on the Will"

6. Ilya Kliger, Comparative Literature, Yale University:
"Moral Judgment in Anna Karenina: A Study of Universality in the Novel"

7. Jane F. Thrailkill, English, Johns Hopkins University:
"The Voodoo Death of Milly Theale"

8. Rachel Karol Ablow, English, Johns Hopkins University:
"The Ethics of Excess: George Eliot's Art of Pain"

9. James P. Shortall, English, University of Notre Dame:
"Narrative Dispossession and Cultural Critique in The Wings of the Dove"

1. Christian Giguère, Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal:
"The 'Focus Group' Meets the Modernist Dogma: 'Info-Mercials' and Delegitimized Culture"

2. Tova Cooper, English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine:
" 'Cosmic Ray Bomb Explosion': Entertaining Comics and the Cold War"

3. Kathleen L. Komar, Comparative Literature, UCLA:
"Klytemnestra Meets the World Wrestling Organization in Cyberspace: or,
How Interdisciplinarity Becomes Unavoidable at the Beginning of the New Millenium"

4. Kumiko Sato, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University:
"Rediscovering 'Japan' in American Cyberspace: Science Fiction at the Interface between
Science and Literature"

5. Jeff F. Severs, English and American Literature, Harvard University: " 'Their Likeness
Will Not Serve': The Atomic War Memorial and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow"

6. Cathy Steblyk, Comparative Literature and Japanese, Pennsylvania State University:
"Body No Body: Epistemologies and Corpses in Postmodern Hard-Boiled Narratives"

7. Dana Del George, English, North Park University: "The Narrative Powers of Orphaned Idiots
in Isaac Bashevis Singer's 'Gimpel the Fool' and Gabriel García Márquez's
'Blacamán el bueno vendedor de milagros"

8. Reiko Tachibana, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University:
"Nomadic Writers of Japan"

1. Jonathan B. Monroe, Comparative Literature, Cornell University:
"Virtual Fields: Writing in the Disciplines"

2. Raymond Loveridge, Said Business School, University of Oxford (UK):
"Professions, Post-Modernity, and the Humanities"

3. Bruce Robbins, English, Rutgers, The State University:
"Literariness and Constructivism"

4. Larry I. Palmer, Law, Cornell University:
"Writing Law: The Search for Rigor and Relevance"

6. Jeffrey D. Wallen, Comparative Literature, Hampshire College: "Professional Discord"

7. William Summers, Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University:
"Between Profession and Public Policy: Medicine at a Crossroads"

8. Mehrdad Hadighi, Architecture, SUNY Buffalo: "Architecture: The Hinged Discourse"

1. Kerstin Barndt, Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Michigan:
"Germany's Third Sex: Science and Desire in the Novel of the New Woman"

2. Erin M. Williams, Comparative Literature, UCLA:
"Paroxysms of Chastity: Performing Female Desire and Parodying Hysteria in Rachilde"

3. Rebecca C. Hyman, English and Women's and Gender Studies, Oglethorpe University:
"Dispensing Masculinities: Sexual Neurasthenia and the Laboring Body"

4. Jason P. Steed, English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas:
"Mormon Discourse(s) of Death and Negotiations of Identity"

5. Ian Jobling, Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo: "Narrative and the Stone Age Mind:
Using Evolutionary Psychology to Understand Literature"

6. Christopher M. Kuipers, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine: "The Rise of Sociocultural
Psychology, or, the Return of Vygotsky: Recent Psychological Study of Creativity,
Development, and Evolution, and some Literary Repercussions"

7. Steven F. Walker, Comparative Literature, Rutgers University: "On the Brink:
Some Thoughts on Psychology, Anthropology, Literature, and the Midlife Crisis"

8. Debra San, Critical Studies, Massachusetts College of Art:
"Intersections of Literature and Math"

9. Jonathan S. Feinstein, Economics, Yale School of Management:
"Conceptualizations of Creative Development"

10. Antonio Callari, Economics, Franklin and Marshall College:
"How Economics was 'Invented' "

Chair: Tyrus Miller, Comparative Literature and English, Yale University and
Literature Program, UC Santa Cruz

1. Ronald Bogue, Comparative Literature, University of Georgia: "Between Literature
and Philosophy: Interdisciplinarity in Bene and Deleuze's Superpositions"

2. Richard Lee, Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY-Binghamton: "Constructing Authoritative
Knowledge: Universalism, Particularism, and the 'Battles of the Books' "

3. Gilbert D. Chaitin, Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study; Indiana University:
"Cultural Theory beyond the Particular and the Universal"

4. Vladimir Alexandrov, Slavic, Yale University:
"Biology and Semiosis in Lotman's Semiosphere"

5. Tyrus Miller, Comparative Literature and English, Yale University and
Literature Program, UC Santa Cruz: "Authorizing Interdisciplinary Research:
The Frankfurt School's Studien über Autorität and The Authoritarian Personality"

6. Mathieu Arsenault, Comparative Literature, Université de Montréal (Canada):
"He Loved Spinoza"

7. David Ferris, Comparative Literature, University of Colorado:
"The Senses of Enlightenment: Interdisciplinarity in Condillac and Diderot"

8. William D. Melaney, Comparative Literature (Independent Scholar):
"Kant's Disciplinary Risk: Enthusiasm among the Faculties"

9. Brendan Moran, Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary (Canada):
"Early Benjamin on Presenting the Form of Interdisciplinarity"

1. Marco Dorfsman, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of New Hampshire: "On the Way to Cultural Studies"

2. Katharine Jenckes, Comparative Literature, University of Oregon:
"Reading Cultural Studies Reading"

3. Horacio Legras, Spanish and Comparative Literature, Georgetown University:
"Latin American Cultural Studies, the Crisis of Representation and the Promotion of Subaltern Studies"

5. Mary McGlynn, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University:
"FIFA for fun: America Climbs the Beanstalk for a Change"

6. Jonathan Culler, Comparative Literature, Cornell University:
"The Novel as Condition of the Nation?"

7. Elizabeth Duquette, English and Humanities, Reed College:
"Institutionalized Disdain? The Rise of English with and against Philosophy"

8. Abdul-Karim Mustapha, Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University:
"On Theoretical Failure"

1. Erica Obey, Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center:
"Habits of Intemperance: Abduction and Allegory in Edgar Allan Poe and Fyodor Dostoevksy" -- CANCELED

2. Chiyoko Kawakami, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University:
"The Textualized Yose Hall in the Works of Kyoka Izumi"

3. Imraan Coovadia, English, Yale University: "Clothes and the Garment of Culture in Hardy, Simmel, and Barthes"

4. Karen O'Connor-Floman, English, George Washington University: "Burying the Victorians: Negotiating Nostalgia in Edwardian and Modernist Literature" -- FORMERLY SCHEDULED TO SPEAK ON SATURDAY.

5. Karen von Kunes, Slavic and Film, Yale University: "The Political vs. Erotic: Female Characters in Milan Kundera's and Milo Forman's Earlier Works"

6. Sinkwan Cheng, English, City College of New York, CUNY:
"The Novel and the Bürger: Citizen, Bourgeois, and Burger's Daughter"

7. Ross Shideler, Comparative Literature, UCLA:
"P.C. Jersild and Science in Black & White"

1. Kelly Austin, Comparative Literature, UCLA: "Tremolos, Tessitura, and Contraltos: The Language of Music in Clarice Lispector's Agua viva"

2. Celso L. de Oliveira, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, University of South Carolina: "Orpheus: Variations on a Classical Myth"

3. Tony Whyton, Jazz and Contemporary Music, Leeds College of Music (UK): "Authorship, Originality, and Jazz: Roland Barthes and the Jazz Performative"

4. Moneera Al-Ghadeer, English, Eastern Michigan University:
"What's the Literary? What's the Musical?"

5. Bethany R. Brown, English, University of St. Thomas:
"The Blues Aesthetic in African-American Literature"

6. Leon U. Weinmann, Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "'The World Turned Upside Down': New England Fife and Drum Music and the Carnival of Nationalism"

7. Ann W. Lemke, Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan:
"Poet's Preferences: Goethe Songs by Women Composers"

Chair: Murray J.K. Biggs, English and the Theater Studies Program, Yale University

1. Kristi M. Wilson, Comparative Literature, UC San Diego:
"Pasoloni's Medea: An Untimely Classic"

3. Kumiko Hilberdink-Sakamoto, Foreign Languages, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration (Japan): "The New Kurosawa? The Reception of Yukio Ninagawa's Shakespeare in the West"

4. Murray J.K. Biggs, English and Theater Studies, Yale University:
"Coward's Cavalcade, Colonel Blimp, and His Life and Death on Film: Snapshots of British Society from the South African War to the Second World War"

5. Brian R. Rourke, English, Stanford University: "Last Year in Quauhnahuac: The Memorial Chronotopes of Malcolm Lowry and Alain Resnais"

6. Inez Hedges, Cinema Studies/Modern Languages, Northeastern University: "Transformative Strategies: Faustian Film Heroes and the Literary Canon"

7. Hartmut Heep, German and Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University: "Dame tu taco postmoderno: Carnal Seconds in The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover and Like Water for Chocolate"

Chair: Allyson D. Polsky, English and Human Sciences, George Washington University

1. Carra Hood, English, Southern Connecticut State University:
"Adjudicating Virulence in Kimberly Bergalis v. Dr. David Acer"

2. Christopher S. Leslie, American Studies, CUNY Graduate Center:
"The Danger of the Infectious Paradigm: Pellagra at the Turn of the Century"

3. Lisa L. Lynch, English, Rutgers University:
" 'The UNSAFE SEX' (Biomedical Sciences and Popular Culture)"

4. Charles T. Mathewes, Religious Studies, University of Virginia:
"Bioethics and the Gothic Imagination"

5. Robert McRuer, English and Human Sciences, The George Washington University: "Critical Bodies: AIDS and/as Disability"

6. Allyson D. Polsky, English and Human Sciences, George Washington University: "Mastering Innerspace: Gaming and the Circuit of Microbial Return"

7. Anne-Marie Thomas, English, Louisiana State University:
"Rewriting Infection: The Virus in Feminist Science Fiction"

8. Priscilla B. Wald, English, Duke University: "Communicable Culture: Disease Narratives and the Culture Concept in the Twentieth Century"

9. Lisa H. Weasel, Biology, Portland State University`: "Danger and Difference in Popular and Scientific Representations of Immunity: A Feminist Perspective on Constructions of the Self in Science"

Chairs: Vilashini Cooppan Comparative Literature, Yale University and Michael Holquist,
Comparative Literature and Slavic, Yale University

2. Dorothy Figueira, Comparative Literature, University of Georgia:
"Comparative Literature and the Illusion of Multiculturalism"

3. John B. Alphonso Karkala, English and World Literature, SUNY New Paltz:
"Epic Genre in World Literature"

4. Carrie A. Prettiman, International Languages, Cedar Crest College: " 'Literature that
Changed the World': Designing an Undergraduate World Literature Course"

5. Irene Wei, English and Comparative Literature, UC Irvine:
"Comparative Literature and the Problem of Co-Figuration"