C2: The (Post) Modernity of the 'Primitive': The Indigenous, the Traditional, and the Cultural Production of the 20th Century
Seminar Leader: Juan E. de Castro, Colorado School of Mines

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

Rainer Rumold, Northwestern University: "To Be Postmodern One Must Be Absolutely Primitive. The Visual Turn of the Avant-Garde"

David Pan, Stanford University: "Modernism as Misnomer: Primitivism in Cubism and Expressionism"

Juan E. de Castro, Colorado School of Mines: "Jose Carlos Mariátegui, the Amerindian, and the Modernization of Latin American Culture: From Indigenismo to Magic Realism"

Tamara Teale, University of Southern Colorado: "Literature and Narrative in John Collier's Discourse on Tribal National Sovereignty"

Saturday, April 21 - 1:00-3:00pm (FLATIRONS)

Erik Camayd-Freixas, Florida International University: "The Returning Gaze: Primitivism and Identity in Latin America"

María E. Olaya, Oregon State University: "The Threat of the Indigenous in Modern and (Post) Modern Cultural Discourse"

Marcus Embry, University of Northern Colorado: "Tradition and the Usable Artifacts of the Americas"

C3: Literary Studies with and against Psychoanalysis
Seminar Leader: Jan Mieszkowski, Reed College

Friday, April 20 - 2:00-4:00pm (SUITE 231)

Rochelle Tobias, Johns Hopkins University: "Guilt and its Mythologies: Freud and Kierkegaard on Guilt"

Michael Levine, Barnard College: " 'Spectral Gatherings' in Celan and Freud"

Jan Mieszkowski, Reed College: "The Dream has no Element"

Caroline Rupprecht, The City University of New York - Queen's College: "(W)ri(gh)ting 'The Third Sex': Djuna Barnes' Nightwood and its Relation to Sexual Science"

Saturday, April 21 - 1:00-3:00pm (SUITE 231)

Zak Watson, University of Georgia: "From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: Aesthetics and the 'No-Space' of Topology"

Thomas Pepper, University of Minnesota: "On the Necessity of Psychoanalysis for any Future Criticism Whatsoever"

John Mowitt, University of Minnesota: "Stumbling on Analysis: Psychoanalysis and Everyday Life"

Jody Lewen, University of California - Berkeley: "The Self Everywhere, in Everything: Trauma and Material Disintegration in Marie Redonnet's Le Splendid Hôtel"

C4: Postmodern Sites: The City as Simulacrum
Seminar Leaders: Joy Ramirez and Janet Ward, University of Colorado at Boulder

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

Joy Ramirez, University of Colorado at Boulder: "The Desert of the Real: Las Vegas and the Production/Reproduction of the City"

Mary Vogl, Colorado State University: "Postmodern Paris: Visions of Dystopia in the French City"

Hans-Jorg Grohmann, University of Colorado at Boulder: "How to Bring Time Back to Dresden: The City Before and After the Gap"

Christopher Winks, New York University: "Thalassal Histories, Oneiric Cartographies: Calvert Casey's Havana and the Caribbean Imaginary"

Saturday, April 21 - 1:00-3:00pm (TRAILRIDGE)

Janet A. Ward, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Berlin as a Virtual Global City"

Zala Volcic, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Urban Spaces in the Balkans: The Recreation of the Sense of Belonging"

Karen L. Piper, University of Missouri: "Colonial Los Angeles"

Amanda Holmes, University of Oregon: "Urban Design and the Fictional City of Christoph Ransmayr's Die Letzte Welt"

C5: The Representation of Space in Late Colonial Narrative
Seminar Leader: Ken Seigneurie, Lebanese American University

Friday, April 20 - 2:00-4:00pm (ROOM 229)

Iris L. Smith, University of Kansas: "Reading Backwards, Reading Forwards: Peter & Wendy"

John Burt Foster, George Mason University: "Eccentric Modernisms: Topologies of Center and Periphery in Yeats and Nabokov"

Barbara G. Anderson, Northwestern University: "Reading the Dialogic Chonotopes of National History in Contemporary British Fiction"

Ken Seigneurie, Lebanese American University: "Social Space as a Critical Category in Late Colonial British Fiction"

Saturday, April 21 - 1:00-3:00pm (ROOM 229)

Russell Samolsky, University of Colorado at Boulder: "Apocalyptic Futures: Heart of Darkness, Embodiment, and African Genocide"

Maria Stadter Fox, Georgia Southern University: "Duras' India Song: Fictions of Desire"

Jeanne M. Garane, University of South Carolina: "Missing the Mother(land): Ken Bugul's Autobiographies and the Mother Africa Trope"

C6: Travel and Water: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of a Fluid Medium
Seminar Leader: Florence Widmer-Schnyder, University of Zurich

Friday, April 20 - 2:00-4:00pm (SUITE 331)

Mary Bryden, University of Reading - Whitenights: "Aqueous Becomings: Gilles Deleuze and Melville's Moby Dick"

Barbara Alfano, Pennsylvania State University: "Water and the Narrative Processes of Moby Dick and El immortal"

Florence Widmer-Schnyder, University of Zurich: "Water En-Gendering Identity: Explorations of Sea and Self in Dickens and Bronte's Villette"

Ulrike Brisson, Pennsylvania State University: "Women's Travels on Waters: Transformation and Transition in Virgina Woolf and C.S. Forester"

Saturday, April 21 - 1:00-3:00pm (SUITE 331)

Carol H. Rhoades, University of Texas at Austin: "Water-Borne: Pursuing the Shadows of History through Scotland's Western Isles"

Adrian Grima, University of Malta: "Encountering the Bird Within over Water: Revisiting Marjanu Vella's 'Gull' and Coleridge's 'Albatross over the Mediterranean Sea' "

Roxana M. Verona, Dartmouth College: "Fictions of the Danube"

R. L. Rutsky, University of California - Irvine: "Myths of Fluidity and Drift: Hawaii/Paris/Silicon Valley"

C7: Women Playwrights and Modern Drama: Gender, Politics and Performance Since 1789
Seminar Leader: Lynn R. Wilkinson, University of Texas at Austin

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

Katie Johnson and Kerry Powell, Miami University:: "The Censoring of My Little Sister: Elizabeth Robins' Lost Feminist Play"

Katherine E. Kelly, Texas A&M University: "Suffrage and Modern Performance in London, 1906-1913"

Liza Ann Acosta, North Park University: "Ritual in Inter-American Women's Drama"

Lynn R. Wilkinson, University of Texas at Austin: "Sex and Socialism in Two Late Plays by Anne Charlotte Leffler"

Saturday, April 21 - 1:00-3:00pm (MILLENNIUM)

Tanya Thresher, University of Wisconsin - Madison: "Cecilie Løveid's Østerrike: A Postmodern Feminist Revision of Ibsen's Brand"

Yael Feiler, Stockholm University: "Julia Meets Miss Julie and Survives: Margareta Garpe's Ongoing Dialogue with August Strindberg"

Barbro Sigfridsson, University of Stockholm: "In Her Own Words: The Plays of Katarina Frostenson"

C8: Contrastive Interconnections, East and West
Seminar Leader: Terry Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder

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

Nathan Faries, Pennsylvania State University: "Smuggling Bibles into China: The Changing Rhetoric and Shifting Historical Vision of Chinese Missions"

Sandra W. Borg, University of California - Davis: "Rosseau, Montaigne, and Seneca: Literary Lineage and Buddhist Parallels"

Yoko Chiba, St. Lawrence University: "W. B. Yeats and Yanagita Kunio: Reviving Irish and Japanese Folklore for a Modern Aesthetic"

Masaki Mori, University of Georgia: "Aesthetic Rebels: Thomas Mann and Kawabata Yasunari"

Saturday, April 21 - 1:00-3:00pm (CENTURY)

Ya-Chen Chen, Columbia University: "The X-File of Academic Defensive Mechanism: An Influence of Anxiety in the Transfer of Feminisms into Taiwan"

Yinxing Liu, Pennsylvania State University: "Magical Realism in Contemporary Chinese Literature"

Nicholas S. Fralin, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: "Du Fu and Verlaine: Prosody in Common"

Henry H. H. Remak, Indiana University: "American and Chinese Comparative Literature: The Deep Structures"

C9: Premodern Cultural Encounters
Seminar Leader: Joseph V. Ricapito, Louisiana State University

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

Dorothy Figueira, University of Georgia: "Damião de Góis and the European Other"

Joseph V. Ricapito, Louisiana State University: "Cervantes and Body in Don Quijote"

Nhora Lucía Serrano, University of Wisconsin - Madison: "The Inca Empire: Literary Ruins of Rome"

Cristine Soliz, University of Washington: "Territorial Agony from the Old World: Judge Pyncheon and Indian Removal in a Poetics of Cannibalism in The House of the Seven Gables"

Saturday, April 21 - 1:00-3:00pm (FLAGSTAFF)

David Thomson, Franklin and Marshall College: "David Thomson"

Lise-Hélène V. Trouilloud, University of California - Davis: "Reconciling Origins and Otherness in Tocqueville"

Georges Van Den Abbeele, University of California - Davis: "Places Without People: Calvinism and Colonialism"

C10: Internationalizing the Study of North American Literatures and Cultures: Identifying Comparative Paradigms, 1 & 2
Seminar Leader: Nancy Ruttenburg, University of California - Berkeley

Friday, April 20 - 2:00-4:00pm (SUITE 431)

Rachel Adams, Columbia University: "The Whole World is Watching: The Sixties in International Context"

Margaret Cohen, New York University: "Translating the Atlantic"

Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University: "Non-Newtonian Time: Robert Lowell and Temporal Hybridity"

Anne Lounsbery, Harvard University: "Government Work: Joseph Brodsky as American Poet Laureate"

Saturday, April 21 - 1:00-3:00pm (SUITE 431)

Justin Read, University of Michigan: "Textual Subjectivities: Transcultural Migration and Modernist Form in William Carlos Williams' Spring and All"

Jacquelyn C. Walsh, New York University: "False Trails and Funny Matches: The Unresolved Marriage Plot in Colonial Literatures of the North Atlantic"

Laura Anne Lomas, Pennsylvania State University: "José Martí on the Disunited State of the Americas: Race, Language, and Diaspora"

C11: ADPCL Workshop: Pragmatic Advice for Academic and Non-Academic Placement

Saturday, April 21 - 1:00-3:00pm (EXECUTIVE)

Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina

William Moebius, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "The Letter of Application..."

Pericles Lewis, Yale University

Heather Richardson Hayton, California State University, San Marcos: "Pragmatic Advice for Academic and Non-Academic Placement"