B1: Rethinking Time and Space in Dante's Worlds
Seminar Leaders: Santa Casciani, John Carroll University; Heather Richardson Hayton, California State University - San Marcos

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUITE 231)

Adam Miyashiro, Penn State University: "Gendered Time and Space: the Semiotic Order of the Forest in Chrétien's Yvain and Dante's Inferno"

Frederick Luis Aldama, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Dante's Hell and the Carnivalizing of Time, Space, and Genre"

Thomas Nevin, John Carroll University: "From the Ends of the Earth at the End of Time: Dante's Apocalypse"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUITE 231)

Elisabetta Sayiner, University of Pennsylvania: "Space, Landscape, and the Politics of Rewriting in Dante's Commedia"

Santa Casciani, John Carroll University: "The Light of Venus in the Fiore and the Comedy"

Joseph Luzzi, Yale University: " 'Come l'uom s'etterna': The Medieval Soul and the Modern Self"

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUITE 231)

Heather Richardson Hayton, California State University - San Marcos: "Reading Troy: Navigating and Complicity in Dante and Chaucer"

Eric Jager, University of California - Los Angeles: "The Shipman's Tale: Merchant's Time and Church's Time, Secular and Sacred Space"

Chad Hayton, California State University - San Marcos: "Timing the Fall: Reason, Choice, and Political Agency in Milton and Dante"

B2: Set Apart: The Culture and Politics of Confinement
Seminar Leaders: Guillermina De Ferrari, University of Wisconsin; Helen Kapstein, Columbia University

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUITE 331)

Douglas Taylor, University of North Carolina: "From Slavery to Prison: Benjamin Rush, James Norcom, and Harriet Jacobs"

Katherine M. Cockin, University of Hull: "Embracing the Freedom of the Prison: The Literature of the British Women's Suffrage Movement"

Anna Kaladiouk, University of California - Davis: " 'A System So Wise, Humane, and Just': Prison Isolation and Class Politics in Victorian England (1840-1860)"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUITE 331)

Heather Schuster, New York University: "Sentenced to Life: AIDS, Activism, and Prison"

Fernando Feliú, University of Michigan - Dearborn: "Those Mad Killers: The Rehabilitating Power of Hygiene in Francisco del Valle Atiles' Inocencia"

Guillermina De Ferrari, University of Wisconsin: "Border Crossings: AIDS and Citizenship in Severe Sarduy's Pájaros de la playa"

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUITE 331)

Kristen Drybread, Columbia University: "Robinson Crusoe and the Unmaking of the Citizen"

Peter Caster, University of Texas: "Literary Canonicity, The National Prison Association, and Disciplining the Subject"

Andrew Rubin, Columbia University: "Imperial Capital: Confinement and the Cultural Politics of the Cold War"

B3: Dishing out the Past
Seminar Leader: Mary Margolies DeForest, University of Colorado at Denver

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (MILLENNIUM)

Mary Margolies DeForest, University of Colorado at Denver: "Dinner with Odysseus"

David J. Zucker, Denver Institute of Jewish Studies : "The Passover Festival: A Table in the Wilderness"

Kathleen Bollard, University of Colorado at Denver: "The Eucharist as Feast in Spanish Counter-Reformation Drama"

Seth Ward, Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies: "The Fast of Ramadan"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (MILLENNIUM)

Nancy Ciccone, University of Colorado at Denver: "Mouth-Slayers in Beowulf"

Matthew Wickman, Brigham Young University: "Romance and 'Rude Festivity' in Scott's Waverley: Of Consumption and the Modern Cultural Space of Literature"

Sharon L. James, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: "A Courtesan's Choreography: Female Liberty and Male Anxiety at the Roman Dinner Party"

Mary-Kay Gamel, Case Western Reserve University: "Ingratum Artificium: Performing Trimalchio"

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (MILLENNIUM)

James Nicolopulos, University of Texas-Austin: "Feasting on/with the Other: Camoens's 'Isle of Love' and the Problematic Encoding of Ultramarine Imperialism"

Kathleen Elaine Davis, Tulane University: "Distancing the Past: Dinner in 19th-Century Spain"

Linda S. Alcott, University of Colorado at Denver: "Food, Feasting and Self Validation in Zola's l'Assommoir"

Mary Sortino Petersen, Loyola Marymount University: "Feast of the Dearly Beloved: The Role of the Unlikely Feast in Toni Morrison's Beloved"

Pompa Banerjee, University of Colorado at Denver: "An Anti-Thanksgiving at Jamestown"

B4: Landscape and Literature
Seminar Leader: Monika Giacoppe, Ramapo College of New Jersey

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (ROOM 229)

Monika Giacoppe, Ramapo College of New Jersey: "Nation and Affiliation in Margaret Cézair-Thompson's The True History of Paradise"

Paula Straile, Hampton University: "Snapshots of the Whipping Post: Slavery and the Open-Air Museum in Salvador, Brazil and Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia"

Andrew Furman, Florida Atlantic University: "The Changing Landscape of Jewish-American Literature"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (ROOM 229)

Anna Ranero-Antolin, Arizona State University: "The Concept of Geographical Space in Hindu Tradition: A Comparative Study of the Rigveda and the Vayu Purana"

Jason Cortés, Pennsylvania State University: "Landscape and the Ethics of Authorship: Severo Sarduy's Colibri"

Ursula Heise, Columbia University: "Virtual Landscapes: Cyberspace and the Reconfiguration of Nature"

Sunday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (ROOM 229)

Dagmar Burkhart, Universität Mannheim: "Spatial Concepts in the Poetry of Anna Akhmatova and Maria Cvetaeva"

Janet Walker, Rutgers University: "Modernist Landscapes in Japan and Europe"

Caroline A. Mohsen, Pennsylvania State University: "Border-Crossing and Narrative Difficulty in Aritha van Herk's Geografictione and Michael Ondaaje's Fictional Memoir"

B5: History/Memory in Film Narrative
Seminar Leaders: Brian Rourke, New Mexico State University; Inez Hedges, Northeastern University

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUNSHINE)

Ileana Orlich, Arizona State University: "Burnt by the Sun: The Memory of Stalinism"

Inez Hedges, Northeastern University: "Mnemonic Cinema: Occupied France In Le Chagrin et la pitié (Ophuls) and Le Dernier métro (Truffaut)"

Nora M. Alter, University of Florida: "History and Politics in Godard's Sound-Image"

Karen de Bruin, University of Chicago: "La comédie Napoléonienne: Honoré de Balzac and Abel Gance's Sublime Bonaparte"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUNSHINE)

Yingjin Zhang, Indiana University: "Two Disciplines Diverge in Academia: A Comparative Perspective on Literary History and Film History"

Brian Rourke, New Mexico State University: "Visualizing the Enlightenment: Film Narrative and Social Space in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Jacques Rivette's The Nun"

Rei Okamoto, Northeastern University: "Early Japanese Animated Films: Moving Cartoon and National Identity"

Mike Frank, Bentley College: "On a Single Moment from the Early History of Cinema"

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUNSHINE)

Yasco Horsman, Yale University: "History, Memory, Photography. On Fotamator and Angelo's Film"

Dayna Oscherwitz, University of Texas at Austin: "History, Memory, and Immigrant Identity in Yamina Benguigui's Mémoires d'immigrés and Azouz Bega's Le gone du Chaava"

Luz Calvo, University of California: "Embedding Racial Memory: The Flashback in John Sayle's Lone Star"

B6: Time, Place, and the Autobiographical Self
Seminar Leader: Steve Hunsaker, Emporia State University

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (ROOM 227)

Craig Monk, University of Lethbridge: "Autobiography and the Geography of Modernism"

Rachel Trousdale, Yale University: "The Transformation of Place in Out of Africa"

Sameer Pandya, Stanford University: "Nirad Chaudhuri: Postnational Bibliophile"

Barbara Schwarz Wachal, St. Louis University: "Peter Balakian's Black Dog of Fate: Testimony of an Exile, Once-Removed"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (ROOM 227)

David Parker, Chinese University of Hong Kong: "Particular and Universal Identities in Contemporary Autobiographies"

Heather Dubnick, Johns Hopkins University: "Jorge Luis Borges' Autobiographical Excursion in 'A New Refutation of Time'"

Zahi Zalloua, Princeton University: "The Return of the Subject in Contemporary French Autobiography"

Jeanette den Toonder, University of Edinburgh: "Time and Place in French New Autobiography"

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (ROOM 227)

Peter J. Kvidera, University of Washington: "Creating a Chinese Immigrant Self in North America: Sui Sin Far's Autobiographical Journey"

Alisa Braun, University of Michigan: "The Authority of Chance in the Autobiography of Abraham Cahan"

Jennifer Levi, University of Delaware: "Fragmentation, Empowerment, and the Immigrant Experience"

Steve Hunsaker, Emporia State University: "The Immigrant Child in the Autobiographies of Matsuko Kawai and Mary Antin"

B7: Sexing Nationalism: (En)Gendering the (Post)Colonial Nation
Seminar Leader: Priya Jha, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (FLATIRONS)

Francis Ngaboh-Smart, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh: "Desire and the Limit of the Modern African Nation"

Rita A. Faulkner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Regendering/Regenerating the Nation: Algeria and Egypt"

Charlene Merithew, Assumption College: "Revising Archetypes, Gender, and History in the Mexican Nation"

Thérèse Migraine-George, University of Cincinnati: "The Living and the Dead: Ama Ata Aidoos' Orphean Ghosts in 'Anowa' and 'The Dilemma of a Ghost'"

Shoba Rajgopal, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Cracking Earth, Fragmenting Nation?"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (FLATIRONS)

L. Adriana González, New York University: "Queer Glances into the Colonial Past"

Banu N. Uygun, Duke University: " 'Natashas': Migrant Sex Words in Eastern Black Sea Turkey"

Rick Livingston, Ohio State University: "Shadows and Mirrors: Spaces of Indian Partition"

Monika Mehta, University of Minnesota: "What is Behind Film Censorship?"

Pamela J. Rader, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Cultural Citizenship and Marassas in Contemporary Haitian North American Women's Writings"

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (FLATIRONS)

Priya Jha, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Mother India: All the Rage"

James F. Walker, University of Colorado: "Infibulated in Paradise: Racialized Representation in African-Italian Women's Writings"

Jennifer Lemon, University of South Africa: "Teaching and Transforming Gender Studies in a Changing Society: The Challenges of South African Feminist Discourses"

Manju Jaidka, Panjab University: "Changing Perspectives in the Works of 'Re-Located' Indian Women"

B8: Literature and Systems Science
Seminar Leader: Christopher Kuipers

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUITE 431)

Paul Adams, University of New England: "The Generation of Information: Saussure and IT"

Luis O. Arata, Quinnipiac University: "Emergence at the Borders of Science and Literature"

Andrea Sabine Bachner, University of California - Irvine: "Problematic Circularities: Analogous Figurations in Literature and Systems Theory"

David Barndollar, University of Texas at Austin: "Doubt and Poetic Emergence in Tennyson's In Memoriam"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUITE 431)

Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University: "The Form of Metamorphosis: Systems Theory and A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Hiber Conteris, University of Arizona: "Chaos, Complexité Essentielle, Narrative Parcours"

Martin Donougho, University of South Carolina: "The 'Eternal Return' of the Temporality of Art"

Adam J. Frank, University of British Columbia: "Symptoms and Systems"

Richard Arthur House, Georgia Institute of Technology: "The Invisible Hands of Gravity's Rainbow: Emergence and Paranoid Reading"

Sunday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUITE 431)

Marina Ludwigs, University of California - Irvine: "The Informational and Cognitive Theory of Prosody"

Andrew McMurry, University of Waterloo: "New Yet Unapproachable: Emerson, Luhmann, and the Literary System"

Stephen Schryer, University of California - Irvine: " 'Implementing Unplanlessness': William Gaddis and the Aesthetics of Information"

Eric White, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Sovereign Chance: Kairos and the Clinamen"

B9: Visible Cities
Seminar Leader: David Damrosch, Columbia University

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (CENTURY)

David Damrosch, Columbia University: "Tenochtitlan Before and After Cortés"

Taiwo A. Osinubi, University of British Columbia: "Created, Celebrated, and Contested: Abeokuta and the Three Cs of the City"

Robin Kornman, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee: "Imagined Cities in Tibetan Epic"

Esther Gabara, Stanford University: "Recycled Figures: Mexico City in Photographs by Nacho Lopez and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (CENTURY)

Emily Apter, University of California-Los Angeles: "Spitzer in Istanbul: Revising Foundational Myths of Exile in the History of Comparative Literature"

Benton Jay Komins and Ozlem Sandikci, Bilkent University: "A Topography of Difference: Istanbul's Beyoglu"

James Hicks, Smith College: " 'What is it Like There?' Notes on the Real-Time Mapping of Atrocity (Sarajevo)"

Adriana Valencia, University of California-Berkeley: "Baghdad and Narration: Baghdad's Literary Space and Al-Masur's Ideal City"

Aminadav Dykman, Pennsylvania State University: "Jerusalem in Poetry: Between the Visible and the Invisible"

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (CENTURY)

Marcy Wheeler, University of Michigan: "Translating the Dark Underbelly: Les Mystères of a Malleable Paris"

Jean-Jacques Poucel, Yale University: "Transformations in the Poetry of Paris"

Anna Botta, Smith College: "Cartographies of Non-Places and Nomadic Literature (Paris)"

Gail Finney, University of California - Davis: "The Wall, Visible and Invisible: Berlin 1961, 1989, 2000"

B10: Foreign Topos/Chronos in Japanese Culture (Literature, Films, and Popular Culture
Seminar Leaders: Cris O. Reyns-Chikuma, Lafayette College; Faye Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (EXECUTIVE)

Sukehiro Hirakawa, Tokyo University: "Is Kimiko a Japanese Geisha or a Russian Countess? - Lafcadio Hearn's Romantic Application of Maupassant's Heroine in Describing Japanese Womanhood"

Koichi Haga, Purdue University: "Alice in Japan: Mechanical Dream and Japanese Contemporary Writings"

Steve Snyder, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Travels of a Genre/Genres of Travel: Nagai Kafu in Amerika"

Faye Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Colonial Ethnography and Writing of the Exotic"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (EXECUTIVE)

Yoshihiro Yasuhara, Pennsylvania State University: "Murano Shiro's Quest for Reality (Jitsuzai): A Japanese Modernist Exploration of 'Neue Sachlichkeit' (New Objectivity)"

Kumiko Sato, Pensylvania State University: "Domesticating the West, Domesticizing Japan: Shozo Numa's Domestic Yapoo and Japan's Ethnic Masochism"

Ikuho Amano, University of Georgia: "The Utopic Topos in Yukio Mishima's Sound of Waves"

Keijiro Suga, Meiji University: "Chrono-topologic Exiles in Contemporary Omniphone Japanese"

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (EXECUTIVE)

Reiko Tachibana, Pennsylvania State University: "The 'New' Japanese Literature: Celebration of Heterogeneity"

Keiko Nakano, John Carroll University: "Nomadic Writers: Language and Identity"

Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Pennsylvania State University: "The Intersection of the Japanese 'I' and the American 'I': Haruki Murakami's Hear the Wind Sing and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five"

Cris O. Reyns-Chikuma, Lafayette College: "Abe Kobo's Kangaroo Nooto: A Japanese-Cosmopolitan Text"

B11: Aesthetics, Politics, and Staging Return
Seminar Leaders: Katherine Sugg, University of California-Davis; Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (FLAGSTAFF)

Marisa Belausteguigoitia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México: "Visual Dilemmas: Narrative Impressions and the Return of the Abject. The Case of Chiapas"

Miglena Ivanova, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign: "Humans as Things and Things as Humans: Ulster in Contemporary Political Murals and the Fine Arts"

Irene M. Artigas Albarelli, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México: "Ekphrasis and Memory: Rafael Alberti's 'El Bosco' as a Landscape of Memory"

Amy Blau, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign: "Resurrected Soldiers: Military Past and the Staging of the Nation in Nazi Germany"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (FLAGSTAFF)

Nancy Blake, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign: "The Return of the Repressed: Surrealism, Revolution, and Unconscious Desire"

Esther Rashkin, University of Utah: "Sexual Perversion, Suicidal Return, and Psychoanalytic Space in Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris"

Thomas Deene Tucker, Chadron State College: "The Eternal Return: Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalgia"

Evy Varsamopoulou, Anglia Polytechnic University: "Nostalgia: Impossible Love of the Inhuman?"

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (FLAGSTAFF)

Katherine Sugg, University of California - Davis: "Suspended Migrations: Sexuality and Return in Achy Obejas and Julia Alvarez"

Jane Elliott, Rutgers University: "Metaphorizing Diaspora: Cross-Cultural Romance and the Futurity of Return"

Eden Osucha, Duke University: " 'A Hot Thing,' A Haunting Desire: The Queer Logics of Return in Toni Morrison's Beloved"

Nair Mara Anaya Ferreira, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México: "Coming to Terms with a Broken History: Brathwaite and Walcott's Journey into an Erased Past"

Roy Kamada, University of California - Davis: "Mythic Returns and the Intersectionality of Asian American Identity in Garrett Hongo's Volcano"

B12: Arabic Literature and the Postcolonial, 2
Seminar Leader: Moneera Al-Ghadeer, Eastern Michigan University

Friday, April 20 - 10:30am-12:30pm (TRAILRIDGE)

Mohammed Hirchi, Colorado State University: "Toward New Cultural Paradigms: Mohammed AI-Jabiri, Abdelkebir Khatibi, and the Reinvention of the Self"

Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Indiana University: "Subaltern Figurations of the West: Three Nineteenth-Century Moroccan Travel Accounts"

Mootacem Bellah Mhiri, Pennsylvania State University: "The Construction of Womanhood in the Literature and Nationalist Discourse of Tunisia"

Nirvana G. Al Tannoukhi, University of Texas at Austin: "Rewriting a Social Realist Work into a Third-World Classic: Bowles' Translation of Choukri's Al-Khubz Al-Hafi"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (TRAILRIDGE)

Elliot Colla, Brown University: "Literature and the Ambivalences of Colonial Antagonism: Two Texts from the French Expedition"

Musa Al-Halool, Tishreen University: "Rewriting the Tape of History to 711 AD"

Jamie Edwards, University of Colorado at Boulder: "The Maghreb and Spain: A Postcolonial Perspective on a Centuries-Long Connection"

Mohammad T. Alhawary, American University: "Redefining Language, Unwriting Literature and Culture: The Arabic Context from al-Jiberti to Salamah Musa"

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (TRAILRIDGE)

Faedah Maria Totah, University of Texas at Austin: "Women's Perception of Self and Place in Post/Colonial Syria"

Salwa Ghaly, University of Sharjah: "Beyond the Mimic Man: Western Education and the Construction and Deconstruction of the Arab Identity"

B13: Gender and the Chronotopes of the Novel
Seminar Leader: Gina Fisch, University of Colorado at Boulder

Friday, April 20 - 2:00-4:00pm (EXECUTIVE)

Andrea Bernardelli, Università degli Studi di Perugia; and Eleonora Federici, University of Hull: "The Genderization of Space and Time in the Modern and Contemporary Novel"

Kari Lokke, University of California - Davis: "George Sand's Consuelo and the Reconfiguration of History: From Cosmopolitan Enlightenment to International Socialism"

Mariarosa Mettifogo, University of California - Davis: "On the Path of the Zingara: The Return to the Mother in George Sand's Consuelo"

Judith E. Martin, Southwest Missouri State University: "French and German Literary Women Reconfiguring the Boundaries of Gender, Genre, and Politics around 1800"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (CANYON)

Felicia Fahey, University of San Francisco: "Erotic Heterotopias: Post-National Meditations in Mexican Women's Writing"

Jessie Friedman, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Ritual and Convergence: Maintaining and Negotiating Identity: The Art of Nicario Jimenez"

Mary Ellen (Ellie) Higgins, University of Texas at Austin: "Transnationalism and Place in Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican"

Kevin S. Larsen, University of Wyoming: "Hysterical Aphonia in 'La gaviota' and 'Su único hijo' "

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (CANYON)

Sylvie R. Moulin, Ball State University: "Thoughts of Food, Food for Thoughts: Stories, Recipes, and Time Conception in Women's Literature, or Blixen, Allende, and Esquivel"

Marilyn Manners, University of California - Los Angeles: "Horror Vacui"

Keri Elizabeth Ames, Connecticut College: "Molly's Prison Break: Marriage as a Prison in Joyce's Ulysses and Homer's Odyssey"

B14: The Space-Time of Reflexivity
Seminar Leader: Oleg Gelikman, Johns Hopkins University

Friday, April 20 - 2:00-4:00pm (ROOM 227)

Florian Hild, Case Western Reserve University: "Language as a Location: Heidegges' Houses of Being

Peter Bornedal, American University of Beirut: "Living in the Mirror: The Narcissism of Human Knowledge"

Stephen Pierson, Purdue University: "Brooklyn, New York, 1855: The Dialogic Context and Cognition of Leaves of Grass"

Dorothee Gelhard, Freie Universtät, Berlin: "The Semantics of Time in Bakhtin and Levinas"

Steven Adisasmito-Smith, Appalachian State University: "Imagining a Better State: The Aesthetic Transformation of Sound, Discourse, and Ideology in Kalidasa, Abhinavagupta, and Thorea"

Saturday, April 21 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUGARLOAF)

Fevronia Novac, University of Ottawa: "The Function of Estheticism in Last Year in Marienbad"

Michael Mirabile, Yale University: "The Nouveau Roman and the End of the Reading Scene"

Oleg Gelikman, Johns Hopkins University: "Bourdieu's 'Conversion': The Genesis of Mallarmé in The Rules of Art"

Matthew Anderson, Colorado College: "Theory, Modernity, and the Example of Baudelaire"

Sunday, April 22 - 10:30am-12:30pm (SUGARLOAF)

Andrew Franta, University of Denver: "Transmission as Transcendence: Shelley Reading Dante and Milton"

Mark Hansen, Princeton University: "The Affective Topology of New Media Art"

Rita Raley, University of Minnesota: "Links: Hypertext and Performance"

Stefan Stoenescu, Independent Scholar: "From the Radical Center: Amy Clampitt's Poetry in the Light of Frederick Turner's Manifesto"