A1: Slouching Towards the Post-Secular: Religion, Spirituality, and Contemporary Literature and Film
Seminar Leader: Geoff Baker, Rutgers University

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (SUITE 331)

Amy J. Elias, University of Alabama at Birmingham: "The Postmodern Historical Sublime vs. the Theological Sublime"

Tuire Valkeakari, Yale University: "Signifying on the Sacred: Toni Morrison and the Trope of Scapegoating"

Geoff Baker, Rutgers University: "Discipline and Patience: Pynchon's Beat Retreat and Houellebecq's Millennial Monastics"

Caroline Best, California State University at San Marcos: "The Return of the Gospel in Magic: Christian Ethics in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (SUITE 331)

Neil Hultgren, University of Virginia: "Doves, Pigeons, or Nothing at All: Simulations of Religion in the Fin-de-siècle Religious Thriller"

Todd Comer, Michigan State University: "Declining Baudrillard: Three Recent Films Renounce the Hyperreal"

Ayumi C. Ohmoto, Pennsylvania State University: "The Contemporary Ghost as Familiar: Nostalgia and Recaptured Faith"

Christopher Pizzino, Rutgers University: "God in a Box: Indiana Jones and the Archaeological Fantasies of the Secular"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (SUITE 331)

Theresa Tensuan, Haverford College: "Performing Passion: Turumba, Tourism, and Translations of the Sacred"

Uppinder Mehan, Emerson College: "Translating Orishas into Hi-Tech Intelligences"

Amy E. Hungerford, Yale University: "Don DeLillo's American Religion"

Dennis R. J. Vanderspek, University of Western Ontario: "Secular Visions, Political Conversions: American Nature Writing in the New Age"

A2: Apocalypse and Literature
Seminar Leaders: V. Stanley Benfell III and George Handley, Brigham Young University

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (SUITE 431)

George Handley, Brigham Young University: "History and Endings in Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda"

Samuel André Junod, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Wars, Tragedy, and Apocalypse in the Work of C. F. Ramuz"

Peter E. Firchow, University of Minnesota: "Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: The End of History and the Last Man"

Mark Wrathall, Brigham Young University: "Between the Earth and Sky: Nietzsche and Heidegger on Life After the Death of God"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (SUITE 431)

V. Stanley Benfell III, Brigham Young University: "Dante's Apocalypse"

Joseph D. Parry, Brigham Young University: "The Apocalypse and Spencer's Resistance to Endings"

Federico Luisetti, The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY: "The Encyclopedia as a Sign of the Millennium"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (SUITE 431)

Metin Bosnak, Fatih University, Hadimkoi Yolu Uzeri: "Apocalypse as Dystopia in Mad Max I and Blade Runner"

Parvinder Mehta, Wayne State University: "Suffering and Believing: Visualizing Apocalypse and the Female Body in 'The Rapture' "

Patricia Merivale, University of British Columbia: "Stuck in the Ice: The Woman Writer and the Frozen Apocalypse"

Steven F. Walker, Rutgers University: "Apocalypse: how? Internal Process or External Revolution?"

A3: The Individual in Time and Space: Scenes of Social Convention in the Novel
Seminar Leader: Mary Anne Stewart Boelcskevy, Harvard University

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (ROOM 229)

Mary Anne Stewart Boelcskevy, Harvard University: "Breaking the Mirror: Woolf's Dinner Party and the Reader as Cultural Subject"

Stephanie Hilger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Topographies of Gender: The Female Body in the Enlightenment"

Julie E. Fromer, University of Wisconsin - Madison: "Reading the Rituals of the Tea Table: Courtship in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South"

Eleanor Courtemanche, Macalester College: "Smith's Moral Sentiments, The Mill on the Floss, and the Phenomenology of Realism"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (ROOM 229)

Ilana Simons, New York University: "Crisis of History in Hegel and Melville"

Mario Ortiz-Robles, Columbia University: "Unspeakable Tenses: The Temporality of the Performative in the Victorian Novel"

Nancy Pedri, University of Toronto: "Visual Representations of Social Conventions: Art Spiegelman's Maus"

Stacey Margolis, Macalester College: "Charles Chesnutt's European Conversions"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (ROOM 229)

Kerri Snead, Pennsylvania State University: "A Time out of Time: The Annihilation of Time and Space in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain"

Andrea Fabry, State University of New York - Stony Brook: "Counterrevolutionary Spring Cleanup: Social Convention in Anna Édes"

Bonita Rhoads, Yale University: "Private Lives and Private Eyes: From Domesticity to Detection"

Christopher D. Luebbe, University of Michigan: "Theories of History in Elsa Morante's History and Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts"

A4: Queer Times, Diasporic Spaces, Perverse Aesthetics
Seminar Leader: Jana Evans Braziel, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (FLATIRONS)

Anne-Marie Fortier, Lancaster University: " 'Coming Home': Queer Migrations and Evocations of Home"

Victor Manuel Macías-González, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse: "Counter-Discursive Representations of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Mexican Art"

Oscar Fernández, Pennsylvania State University: "Transnationalism and Sexuality: Representations of AIDS in Salón de Belleza by Mario Bellatín and Paisaje con Tumbas Pintadas en Rosa by José Ricardo Chaves"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (FLATIRONS)

Juana María Rodríguez, Bryn Mawr College: "Transcript and Testimony: Reading Queer Legal Terrain"

Sean A. Metzger, University of California - Davis: "Queering Diaspora in Irma Vep and Les Vampires"

Michele Hunter, Emory University: " 'Doing Judith': Race, Mixed Race and Performativity"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (FLATIRONS)

Steven F. Butterman, University of Miami: "Strategic Pain: Fetishism and Sadomasochism in Mattoso's Trilogy of Sonnets"

Jana Evans Braziel, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse: "Migrating in Khatibi's Maghreb: Bilangue, Bisexuality, Tattoos, and 'Two-Tongued' Sex"

Katrin Pahl, University of California - Berkeley: "Lesbian Penetration in Sarah Kofman's Explosion"

Tracy Ferrell, University of Colorado at Boulder: "The Politics of Absence: Sexuality and Exile in Sylvia Molloy's En breve cárcel"

A5: The Empire of Space: Narratives, Topographies, and Typologies of "China"
Seminar Leader: Christopher Bush, Harvard University

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (FLAGSTAFF)

Christopher Bush, Harvard University: "Exoticism as Anti-Hermeneutic: Victor Segalen's China"

Haun Saussy, Stanford University: "Translation and Countertranslation: Taking Hints from the Wolfman"

Alexander J. Beecroft, Harvard University: "More in Heaven and Earth: Cosmological Readings of Homer and Zhuangzi and the Perils of Cross-Cultural Dichotomies"

Steven G. Yao, Ohio State University: "Towards a Taxonomy of Hybridity"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (FLAGSTAFF)

Robert Batchelor, Stanford University: "Bridgework, or Merchants of Venice and China in Eighteenth-Century Britain"

Lydia H. Liu, University of California - Berkeley: "Woman and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century"

Timothy Billings, Middlebury College: "Monumental Materiality: Victor Segalen's 'Stèle Nestorienne'"

Eric Hayot, University of Northern Iowa: "Intimations of War: America's China at the Century's Turn"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (FLAGSTAFF)

Ming Xie, University of Toronto - Trinity College: "G. Lowes Dickinson's Letters from John Chinaman and Early Twentieth-Century Discourses on Cultural Differences"

Benzi Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Deterritorializing 'China': The Politics/Poetics of Cross-cultural (Self-) Construction"

Julia Lovell, Cambridge University: "Several Worlds: Pearl Buck, the Nobel Prize and 'China'"

Aaron Feng Lan, Florida State University: "From Lamenting the Yellow Earth to Celebrating the Divine Land"

A6: Modernism's Desires: Aesthetic, Experiential, and Commercial
Seminar Leaders: Margueritte Murphy, Bentley College; Christy Burns, College of William & Mary

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (SUITE 231)

Christy Burns, College of William & Mary; and Margueritte Murphy, Bentley College: "Modernism's Desires: Opening Remarks"

Suzanne Raitt, College of William & Mary: "Posthumous Pleasures: The Grammar of Desire in the Poetry of Charlotte Mew"

Michael Tratner, Bryn Mawr College: "Montage and Collage versus Suture: Eisenstein and Modernism Versus Hollywood"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (SUITE 231)

Douglas Mao, Harvard University: "Modernism, Sentimentality, Impossibility"

Christy Burns, College of William & Mary: "Phenomology and Modernism: Woolf's and Proust's Invocations of Immediacy -- through a Temporal Mode"

Jeff Nunokawa, Princeton University: [title not yet available]

John Marx, University of Richmond: "Primitive Economy"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (SUITE 231)

Susan Hiner, Vassar College: "Desire and Distinction: Reading Cashmere in Modern France"

Margueritte Murphy, Bentley College: "Consuming Art: Need and Desire in Baudelaire's Salon de 1846"

Jesse Matz, Harvard University: "Modernism, Market Populism, and Culture- Jamming"

A7: Fantasias of the Museum: Showcases of Time and Space
Seminar Leader: Michael du Plessis, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (CANYON)
"Displays of Identity and Memory"

Katarzyna Pieprzak, University of Michigan: "Whose Patrimony Is It Anyway? The Quarrel Between Ali Baba's Cave and the National Museum of Morocco"

Marilyn Miller, The Catholic University of America: "Brazilian Rhapsody: Showcasing Racial Amalgamation in Bahia"

Brett Kaplan, University of California - Berkeley: "Aesthetic Pollution: Memory and Forgetting in Holocaust Museums"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (CANYON)
"The Museum Beside Itself"

Robin Blyn, University of West Florida: "A Muse Itself: Charles Wilson Peale, P. T. Barnum, and the Museum Exposed"

Lisa Luengo, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Charcot's Demoniac Museum"

Kathleen Chapman, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Outsider Art: From Art Brut to The Atrocity Exhibition"

Cecilia Novero, Pennsylvania State University: "From Oral Prattle to Eat Art, or When Food Matters: Artists Spoerri and Beuys"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (CANYON)
"Collections, Cabinets, and Curiosity"

Rikki Ducornet, writer and independent scholar: "The Deep Zoo"

Michelle Henning, University of the West of England: "Gawping, Gaping, and Gazing: Taxidermy and Improper Attention"

Gillen Wood, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign: "The Virtual Elgin Marbles"

Michael du Plessis, University of Colorado at Boulder: "The Wunderkammer of Rikki Ducornet"

A8: Predicaments of the Exilic Sensibility: Reading Asian/Americans via Film and Fiction
Seminar Leader: Ping Fu, University of Colorado at Boulder; Moderator: Haiping Yan, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (EXECUTIVE)

Betsy Huang, University of Rochester: "Ethnitopia, Ethnophobia, and the Ambivalence of Maxine Hong Kingston"

Su-ching Huang, University of Rochester: "Exiles at Home"

Jing Jiang, University of Michigan: "Daydreaming and Nation-Building: Reading Liu Heng's Canghe Bairi Meng (Daydream on the Canghe River)"

Saturday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (EXECUTIVE)

Amy Cheng, Pennsylvania State University: "Narratives of Four Chinese Women in Exile: A Generation of Nostalgia, Displacement, and Despair"

Jianguo Chen, Michigan State University: "Spectrality, Romantic Irony, Postmodern Desire: A Study of the Ghostly in Asian American Writers"

Rachel M. Hung, National Chi Nan University: "A Chinese Jewish Exile in Scarshill, New York: Remapping the Geography of Identity in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (EXECUTIVE)

Yiman Wang, Duke University: "Re-Centering the Stage: On Maggie Cheung's Trans-Topal Identity"

Chung-min Tu, National Chi Nan University: "A Postcolonial/Postmodern Reconstruction of Love, Crisis, and Femininity in Obasan and Jasmine"

Ping Fu, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Reformulating Exilic Paradox: Discursive Power Production in Bujian Busan"

A9: "Postmodernism" before the Postmodern: The Interconnection of Literature with Society and Politics from Euripidean and Senecan Tragedy to the 20th Century
Seminar Leader: Leon Golden, Florida State University

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (ROOM 227)

Ingeborg Hoesterey, Indiana University: "Historicizing Postmodernism in Artistic Practices: Keeping 'the Postmodern' as Zeitgeist Necessity"

Gary Mathews, North Carolina School of the Arts: "Living on Hope: Walter Benjamin's Postmodern Philosophy of History and Euripides"

Jeanne Smoot, North Carolina State University: "Political Ramifications of the Hippolytus Myth from Euripides to the Present"

Mary Ann Frese Witt, North Carolina State University: "Aesthetic Fascism in French Modern Tragedy under the German Occupation"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (ROOM 227)

Patricia Marchesi, University of Colorado at Boulder: " 'The Theater of History': Politics, Class, and Subversion in Shakespeare's History Plays"

Alwin L. Baum, California State University - Long Beach: "In the Name of the Law: The Trials of Dario Fo's and Franca Rame's Mistero Buffo"

Erin G. Carlston, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: "Proust, the Dreyfus Affair, and Homosex as Treason"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (ROOM 227)

Mark Benassi, University of Colorado at Boulder: "An Attempt at a Post-Colonial Reading of Apuleius' The Golden Ass"

Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina: " 'That's Amore': Ovid as Postmodernist"

Leon Golden, Florida State University: "Euripides' The Trojan Women and the Politics of Hubris at Athens"

A10: Aestheticizing Politics - Politicizing Aesthetics
Seminar Leader: Beatrice Hanssen, Harvard University

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (MILLENNIUM)

Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick: "Hegel's Aesthetics and the Possibility of Criticism"

Beatrice Hanssen, Harvard University: "An Aesthetics of Existence: Nietzsche and Foucault on Styles of Living"

Mark Poster, University of California - Irvine: "The Aesthetics of Distracting Media"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (MILLENNIUM)

Robert Kaufman, Stanford University: "Modernism After Postmodernism, Aura After Mechanical Reproduction?"

Verena Conley, Harvard University: "A Political Motor: Paul Virilio's Aesthetics of Speed"

Tobin Siebers, University of Michigan: "Disability and the Culture Wars"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (MILLENNIUM)

John Hamilton, University of California - Santa Cruz: "Thunder from a Clear Sky: On Lessing's Rescue of Horace and Hölderlin's Revolution"

James H. Donelan, University of California - Santa Barbara: " 'Der Philosoph muß eben so viel ästhetische Kraft besizen, als der Dichter': Power and the Aesthetic in the Systemprogramm Fragment"

Mary Rhiel, University of New Hampshire: "Political Rhythms and Rhythmic Politics: From Ausdruckstanz to Olympia"

Pericles Lewis, Yale University: "Defetishizing Critique: The Dialectic between Aesthetics and Politics"

A11: Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial, 1
Seminar Leader: Hussein Kadhim, Dartmouth College

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (TRAILRIDGE)

Waïl S. Hassan, Western Illinois University: "Postcolonial Theory and Modern Arabic Literature: Horizons of Application"

Aïda A. Bamia, University of Florida: "Decolonization, Language, Space, and History"

Mustapha Hamil, Univ. of Illinois: "The Arabic Novel and the Postcolonial Discourse on Identity and Difference"

Saadi A. Simawe, Grinnell College: "Post or Neocolonialism: The Literature of War and Sanctions"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (TRAILRIDGE)

Terri DeYoung, University of Washington: "Self, Identity, and Other in Modern Arabic Intellectual Discourse: The Influence of the Colonial Encounter"

Miriam Cooke, Duke University: "Prison Stories"

Lucy Stone McNeece, University of Connecticut: "Dreaming Histories: Rewriting Destiny in the Works of Amin Maalout and Fouad Ajami"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (TRAILRIDGE)

Muhammad Siddiq, University of California - Berkeley: "What Nation, If Any, does the Egyptian Novel Represent?"

Deborah A. Starr, Pennsylvania State University: "Revisiting Alexandria: Cosmopolitanism, Post-Coloniality, and Constructions of Egyptian Identity"

Almira El-Zein, Georgetown University: "From Writing Place to Writing Space in Arabic and Francophone Literature"

Muhsin J. al-Musawi, American University of Sharjah: "Postcolonial Poetics: Masks and Identities of Arab Poets since the Fifties"

A12: Allegory: Time or Place
Seminar Leader: Brenda Machosky, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (SUGARLOAF)

Brenda Machosky, University of Wisconsin - Madison: "Allegory and the Image: Language in the Void of Difference"

Michael Sinding, McMaster University: "Assembling Spaces: The Conceptual Structure of Allegory"

Eugenia DeLamotte, Arizona State University: "Instant Moments: Allegory and the Spatial Compression of Time"

Margaret W. Lynch, University of Michigan: "Out of Space, Out of Time, and Yet: The Roles of Body and Time in Allegorical Dreams and their Interpretations"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (SUGARLOAF)

Galina Yermolenko, Marquette University: "Allegory: Time and Memory"

Sara Guyer, University of California - Berkeley: "Allegory and Death's Space"

Noah Guynn, University of California - Davis: "The Spatialization of Time in Jean deMeun's Romance of the Rose"

Sabine I. Gölz, University of Iowa: "Allegory and Differential Signifying Spaces: The Case of Karoline von Guenderrode's 'Schleiermacher Excerpt' "

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (SUGARLOAF)

Kevin Laam, University of Southern California: "Allegorizing Absence: George Sandys and Ovid's Metamorphoses"

Christian Hite, University of Southern California: "To Be Apart/Tears Apart: Inhuman Mimetic Movement in De Man, Caillois, and Benjamin"

Carol Ann Bays, Northern Michigan University: "Self-Reflexive Allegory in Novel and Film: A Buddhist Intersection of Time and Space in Kobo Abe's The Woman in the Dunes"

Ed Cutler, Brigham Young University: "Allegory and the New: The Urban Poetics of Poe and Baudelaire"

A13: Literary Cartography
Seminar Leader: Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (CENTURY)

Robert R. Churchill, Middlebury College: "Maps and Meaning: Linking Popular Trends and Contemporary Perspectives in Cartography"

Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar: "Literary Cartography: Mapping the Territory"

Hilary P. Dannenberg, University of Freiburg: "Mapping Narrative Time: The Spatial Metaphors of the Path and the Journey in the Theory and Practice of Fiction"

Gloria Feman Orenstein, University of Southern California: "Journey through Mlle de Scudéry's 'Carte de Tendre' "

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (CENTURY)

Wendy Faris, University of Texas at Arlington: "The Labyrinth: Anti-Map, Topos, and Chronos"

David Herman, North Carolina State University: "Spatialization in Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman"

Paul K. Saint-Amour, Pomona College: "Vertical Flânerie in Urban Modernism"

Jon Hegglund, Central Connecticut State University: "Cartography as Cultural Contact in Brian Friel's Translations"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (CENTURY)

Espen Aarseth, University of Bergen and Brown University: "Worlds, WADs, and Wanderlust: The Production of Spatial Desire in Computer Games"

Lisbeth Klastrup, IT-University at Copenhagen: "Literary Worlds in a Networked Age: Imaginary Territories on the Internet"

Raine Koskimaa, IT-University at Copenhagen: "The Shifting Contours of Reality: The Role of Maps in Califia"

Mark Nunes, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston Campus: "Virtual Worlds and Situated Spaces: Topographies of the World Wide Web"

A14: Textual Spaces
Seminar Leader: Monique Tschofen, Ryerson University

Friday, April 20 - 8:15-10:15am (SUNSHINE)

Nat W. Hardy, Louisiana State University: "Mapping Textual Bodies of Infection: The Anatomy of Plague in George Thomson's Loimotomia: or the Pest Anatomized [1666]"

Monique Tschofen, Ryerson University: "Reading Torture: The Cannibal Narrative"

Mark Simpson, University of Alberta: "Liveness"

Anthony Purdy, University of Western Ontario: "H is for Heterotopia"

Saturday, April 21 - 8:15-10:15am (SUNSHINE)

Barbra Churchill, University of Alberta: "Intertexts & Palimpsests: The 'Child (Femme) Fatale' "

Cathy P. Steblyk, Pennsylvania State University: "Performing Modern Eros: Hollywood and Japan"

Sujay Sood, The Boston Conservatory: "Hallucination and Critical Matrix"

William Castro, Pennsylvania State University: "Virtual Chicanisomo: Café Tacuba, Ozomatli, and the Politics of Internet Networking"

Sunday, April 22 - 8:15-10:15am (SUNSHINE)

Imre Szeman, McMaster University: "Rethinking Mediation: Marxism and/ in the New Media"

Carsten Strathausen, University of Missouri at Columbia: "A Post-Hermeneutics? Media, Systems-Theory, and the Art of Reading"