Meeting Schedule | American Comparative Literature Association

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THURSDAY May 29th

11:30 AM CDT - 1:15 PM CDT

ACLA Graduate Student Committee Webinar: "Without Censorship: On Academic Freedom"

Organizer: Karen Emmerich

Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Time: 11:30 AM CDT - 1:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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2:00 PM CDT - 3:30 PM CDT

Opening Ceremony

Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Time: 2:00 PM CDT - 3:30 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

ACLA Undergraduate Seminar "Bad Readers"

Organizers: Karyn Ball, Karen Emmerich, Hosam Aboul-Ela, Dina Al-Kassim

Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Time: 3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM CDT
- Weike Li “That Day We Read No More”: Textual Mediation and the Border of Language in Inferno 5
- Emily Trujillo Signing Off: Misreading Kafka’s Castle
- John Sexton The Writing on the Wall: Virginia Woolf’s Cautious Imperative to Misread
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Pre-conference Workshop: "Publishing Your First Article" (Comparative Literature/Comparative Literature Studies)

Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Time: 3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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6:00 PM CDT - 7:45 PM CDT

Pre-conference Workshop: "Virtuality, AI, and Comparative Literature"

Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025

Time: 6:00 PM CDT - 7:45 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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FRIDAY May 30th

10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

Organizer: Zaynab Ali

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Elena Foulis El júbilo en el reclamo culinario: Salvadoran American’s Journey Through Recipes and Stories with Alexandra Rodriguez
- Andrea Martinez Teruel Spanglish-ing home in Bessie Flores Zaldívar’s Libertad
- Nirvana Shahriar The Void of Home in Aria Aber's "Azalea Azalea"
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Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction

Organizer: Ioana Pribiag

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Aline Lebel Remembering childhood to imagine death: how to share the experience of the dying subject with the reader?
- Tavleen Purewal Keeping Vigil for Reena Virk in the Poetics of Soraya Peerbaye’s Tell
- Sahid Mondal Munnu as Necrofiction: Tombs/Panels of Aspirations
- Billie Mitsikakos Sexology, Tombs, and the Aesthetics of the Serial: C. P. Cavafy's Queer Necropoetics
- Carissa Ma Queering Death and Waste: Ecological Reimagining in The Waste Tide
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Against Presentism: The Deep History of Our Discipline and Our Object of Study

Organizers: Michael Makarovsky, Delia Ungureanu

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Debjani Ganguly Medieval Devotional Poetics in the Modern Lyric: Reading A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993)
- Christian Dahl Mystery into fiction? Religion and the ancient novel
- Despina Jderu Give sorrow words. Writing grief as spiritual practice from Dante to Philippe Forest
- Carmen Musat Dante's Vita Nuova: From the Bible to Literature
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Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

Organizers: Kevin Blankinship, Muhsin al-Musawi

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Muhsin al-Musawi Classical Arabic Terminological Tabulation and the Current Intertextual Scene
- Kevin Blankinship Organic Unity in the “Personified Letter” of Ibn Ḥijja al-Ḥamawī (d. 837/1434)
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Between Worlds and Worldlessness

Organizers: Roland Vegso, Rok Bencin

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Roland Vegso The Age of World Politics
- Fank Ruda Heidegger’s Weg-Da-Game
- Steven Swarbrick What in the World? Enjoyment as X Factor
- Nathan Gorelick Another Subject: Between the Globe and the World
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Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future

Organizers: Michele Chinitz, Shoumik Bhattacharya

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Deborah Philip Degenerate Bodies and Untimely Belonging in Burgher Writings from Sri Lanka
- Michele Chinitz The Revolution in Fragments: The Home and the World in Serial Form
- Philipp Sperner Fellow Travellers: Feminist Companionship as Communality Beyond Integration in South Asian Literature
- Tammy Amiel Houser Fiction as Protest: Reimagining Collective Action in Zadie Smith's The Fraud
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Kelly Ferguson

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Angela Fernandes Nature and rurality in contemporary Iberian narrative fiction
- Nagore Sedano Naveira Haunted Trees: Spectrality, Gender and Basque Identity in Asier Altuna’s Amama (2015)
- Brittany Frodge No hay Escapa(toria): Renegotiating the Rural in Sara Mesa’s Un amor
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Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

Organizers: Florian Zappe, James Dowthwaite

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Matthew Potolsky Decadent Infrastructure
- Florian Zappe The Decadent Gaze: The Cinematic Poetics of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Early Short Fiction
- Davide Gnoato Decadence in Dialogue: The Tokyo Flâneur, Viennese Modernity, and Transcultural Flânerie
- Ian Gwin From Paysage to Pornotheology: Jaan Oks across the Limits of Rural Decadence
- Cherrie Kwok Art for Anti-Imperialism’s Sake: Sarojini Naidu's Decadent Impressionistic Lies in The Golden Threshold
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Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics

Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- César Méndez The Disputed Border in Omar Pimienta’s Album of Fences
- Brendan Beirne Intermestic Affairs: Problemas de La Frontera and Reyna Grande’s Globalist Solution
- Amaury Gama The Land Between Rivers
- Evren Ozselcuk Aesthetics of the Abstract in El Mar La Mar
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Broken Middles

Organizers: Kieran Brown, Robert Lucas Scott, George Mather

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Robert Lucas Scott Philosophy Still in Ruins: Gillian Rose’s Late Modernism
- Rosie Woodhouse Law, love and violence: autonomy and the political
- George Mather ‘– and again and again’: Possibility, Anxiety and Theory from the Broken Middle
- Anna Beria Love and Recognition in Hegel and Gillian Rose: An Alternative Reading
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Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches

Organizer: Titas Bose

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Kristine Moruzi Defining Literary Culture in the Children’s Periodical Press
- Brigitte Fielder The Unrecovered and Adult-Adjacent in African American Children’s Periodical Literature
- Idunn Victoria Rostøl Becoming Part of a Whole: Text-Circulation in the Creation of a Common Christian Identity in Protestant Children’s Magazines
- Ali Capar Children’s Periodicals and Ideological Control in the Ottoman Empire: Publishing, Circulation, and Censorship in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
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China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective

Organizers: Andrew Emerson, Xiaolong Hou

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Hangping Xu Dancing with the World: Chinese Poetry in Multimedia Motion
- Yingying Huang The Scholar and the Western Beauty: Wang Tao’s Classical Tales and Chinese Manhood in the New World Order
- Ziru Chen Lyricism Across Borders and Media: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s New Millennium Films
- Jacob Edmond “I adjust my camera eyes”: Shifting Perspectives on China, the World, and Comparative Media
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Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South

Organizers: Marie Huber, Maziyar Faridi

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Chaorong Hua Through the Serpentine Tropics: Clashes of Fengto-technics in Amazonian Films
- Bhairab Barman The Sublime Space in Ritwik Ghatak's Films
- Vivienne Tailor Disorienting Audioscapes & Mise-en-scène Challenge Postcoloniality: Ecofeminist Poetics in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Reassemblage and Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
- Irene Rihuete Varea Rhythm, Affect and Ecology in Contemporary Latin American Experimental Cinema
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Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

Organizers: Shirl Yang, Jennifer Y Pan

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Mieko Anders Settler Idealism in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Brazil-Maru
- Shirl Yang “The Art of Horse-Whispering a F'ed-off Client”: Financial Speculation and the Emotional Labor of Persuasion
- Joey Kim Satire and Complicity in Elaine Hsieh Chou’s Disorientation
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Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

Organizer: Nahir Otano Gracia

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Sarah Barringer Whiteness and Sexuality in St. Eugenia
- Shambhavi [N/A] The Villainess Through the Looking Glass: Medieval Europe, Popular Imagination, and the Korean Manhwa Scene
- Jonathan Correa The Coloniality of Being in "Turke and Sir Gawain"
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Decolonisation and the Literary Field

Organizers: Michelle Kelly, Jarad Zimbler

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Kate Wallis Pan-African Publishing Networks: Transformative Modes of Collaboration and Circuits of Value
- 'Gbenga Adeoba West Africa Magazine and African Writers’ Search for a Medium
- Tingting Lyu The literary production and circulation of Luso-African countries
- Amine Zidouh Decolonizing the Margins: Pierre Bourdieu’s Literary Field and the Dynamics of Francophone North African Literature
- Rebecca Glasberg Beyond the French/Francophone Binary: Reassessing the colonial underpinnings of littérature maghrébine
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Disciplinary Affects: The Aesthetics of Systemic Injustices

Organizer: Esther Edelmann

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Nora Bonner From Edmund Spenser’s Ireland to Cop City: connecting 16th century civil ideologies to present-day militarized police training facilities.
- Andrew Henderson Negation, (dis)embodiment, and identity in Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho and Ibrahim Nasrallah’s Prairies of Fever
- Esther Edelmann Framing Protestors with Face Coverings: Affects and Effects of Anti-Democratic Discourse in the Dutch Parliament
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Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.

Organizer: Peter Ogunniran

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Shahab Nadimi Narrative of Displacement: Contemporary Refugee Fiction and Combined and Uneven Development
- Gift Iyioku Illusion and Disillusionment in the Migrant Experience from Chima Oji’s Unter die Deutschen Gefallen. Erfahrungen eines Afrikaners.
- Federica Franze Fortress Europe and the Refugee Crisis: A Dystopian Critique of Europe's Migration Policies in The Hungry and the Fat by Timur Vermes
- NAMRATA DEY ROY Fragmented Belonging: Navigating Identity and Exile in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees
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Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine

Organizers: Michiel Bot, Dina Zbeidy

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Yolande Jansen Auto-ethnography of speaking, self-silencing and being silenced in Palestine activism at UvA and VU
- Ahmad Diab Self-Censorship and Repressive Tolerance: Palestine in the Liberal American University
- Michiel Bot The Palestine Exception to Free Speech
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Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism

Organizer: Alexander Sorenson

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Craig Carson Atoms & Ecstasy: Epicurean Subjects
- June-Ann Greeley The Beauty of the Physical World as an Invitation to Transcendence: Eco-Spirituality in Medieval (Western) Christianity
- Beatrice Marovich Singing Down a Paradise: Ecology and Ecstatic Sound
- Alexander Sorenson Greening the Ground: Hildegard’s Viriditas, Eckhart’s Detachment, and Haushofer’s Poet(h)ics of Care
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Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

Organizers: Sainico Ningthoujam, Moinak Banerjee

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ivanna Berrios Palestinian Placemaking and Feminist Ecopoetics- The Diasporic Geographies in the Work of Zaina Also
- Swati Moitra The Swamp and the City: English-Language Writing and the Making of the ‘City of Palaces’
- Andre Otto Landfills. The elemental assemblages of Arun Kolatkar’s Kala Ghoda
- Sainico Ningthoujam Place-making in Historical Fiction: Landscapes of The Glass Palace
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Embracing Glocality: New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

Organizers: Ileana Baird, Chrysavgi Papagianni

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Szidonia Haragos Centering Women in Contemporary Gulf Arab Fiction: Jokha Alharthi’s Sayyidat al-qamar (Celestial Bodies)
- Hulya Yagcioglu Glocal Narratives: Tradition and Modernity in Jokha Al Harthi's Novels
- Kimmy Clough Shockingly Glocal: Identity Transformation in Mohja Kahf’s The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf
- Reem Tasyakan Pushing the Limits of Genre in the 21st Century Arab American Bildungsroman
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Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons

Organizer: Moira Weigel

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Roanne Kantor "Alive in the Writing": Poetry and personhood in the reading practices of anthropologists
- Sezen Ünlüönen Abdülhak Hamit Tarhan and Colonial Ethnography
- Marta Figlerowicz Autoethnography and Autofiction
- Lonnie Monka Discovering Talking: exploring the emergence of the autoethnographic impulse
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Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

Organizer: Yu Min Claire Chen

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Yu Min Claire Chen Eternal Sunshine and the Paradox of Future Memory: Temporal Distortion in Pope's Verse and Gondry's Cinematic Narrative
- Seokyeong Choi “Let them Study His Memories”: Mourning and Postmemory in Kogonada’s After Yang
- brahim akaya Beyond the Mnemonic Function of Modern Technological Media of Memory in “the entire History of you”: Recording and being recorded.
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Genealogies of World Comparatism

Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Adriana Stan

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Levente T. Szabó Living and Writing Outside the Box in Early Comparative Literature: Patterns of Subversiveness and the Figures of Hugo von Meltzl and Sámuel Brassai
- Emanuel Modoc Inter-Imperial Comparatism: Thomas Frühm’s Concept of Weltliteratur
- Gianina Druta The Scandinavian contribution to Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum. Case study: Rasmus B. Anderson
- Letitia Guran Reconsidering the History of Comparative Studies with Acta Comparationis
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Ghost Figures in World Literature

Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Maysoon Shibi, Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Diego Baena

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Shabana Sayeed Foes to Friends to Ghosts: Assimilation in Resistance to Trauma and Remuneration for Life in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street
- Maysoon Shibi The Roaming Ghosts in Haifa: a reading in Emile Habibi's literature
- Çiğdem Buğdaycı Haunted Modernities: Anxiety and Humor in Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar’s Gulyabani and Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost
- Shahrukh Khan The Indian Ocean as an Archive in Postcolonial Gothic Sea Fiction
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Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics

Organizers: Carson Hammond, Gabriel Briex

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Rick de Villiers Science as revocation: the grand refusals of Cormac McCarthy
- Carson Hammond The End(s) of Care in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
- Kyle Baasch Disenchanted to Death: Alfred Seidel and the Perversity of Knowing
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Global Legal Imagination

Organizer: Adam Schoene

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Anthony Abiragi On the Proper Inheritance of Constitutional Foundings
- Maggie Wang Your Return: Poetry, Taxation, and the Languages of Law
- Stephen Park Immigration Law, White Citizenship, and the Border Patrol Memoir
- Mark Firmani Cataloguing Destruction in Sinan Antoon's Book of Collateral Damage
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Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

Organizer: Shaj Mathew

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Prashant Mishra Being is Eroticism: Octavio Paz’s Carnal Ontological Poetics
- Lingchen Huang On the Function of Mind and Individual Freedom: Spinoza’s Influence on Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart
- Sebastián Andrés Grandas Cannibal Lispector: Swallowing Spinoza, Forgiving God
- Tarun G Can the Earth Speak? Pessoa and the Pathetic Fallacy
- Victoria Zurita José Martí, “Nuestra América,” and the Limits of Care
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Growing Up in the Global South: Children, Agency and World-Making in Contemporary Literature

Organizer: Marco Ramirez

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Lidiana de Moraes The Power Play of Imagination and Resistance: Children's Agency Against Authoritarianism in Ondjaki's AvóDezanove e o Segredo do Soviético
- Laissa Rodriguez Moreno Tengo Miedo: Reimagining Children's Power in the Face of Spectacular Violence
- Daniela Spina Making friends under the bombs: a teenager’s view of the Sri Lankan civil war in two coming-of-age novels by Romesh Gunesekera
- George Azcarate The Young Healer: Exploring Wartime Agency and Ethical Dilemmas in Nellie Campobello's Cartucho
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History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

Organizer: Zachary Hicks

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Pegah Pezeshkighahfarokhi Post-Revolutionary Novels and the Legacy of Socialist Realism: A New Horizon in Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature
- Zachary Hicks Yuri Rytkheu, Peripheral Realism, and the Second World”
- Myka Tucker-Abramson “Walking on the remains of a dreamed future”: the post-Yugoslavia road novel
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Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

Organizer: Asijit Datta

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Sayan Bhattacharyya (Post)Extinction as Strange Loop : Richard Powers’s ‘The Overstory’ and ‘Playground’ by way of Roberto Calasso’s ‘Ka’
- Mark Byron Dendrochronologies: Human-Tree Extinctions in Literature
- Nicole Suetterlin Preempting Extinction? Multispecies Societies in the Posthuman Novel
- Jamiel Ahmad The Fossilized Legacies of Empire: Ecological Destruction and Extinction in The Nutmeg’s Curse
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Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

Organizer: Hudson Moura

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Marina Hassapopoulou The Ephemera of Interactive Cinema
- Kathleen Ryan The Landscape of Digital Archive Collaboration: Assessing User-Friendly Options for an Interactive Online Exhibit with Steven Sielaff
- Kaitlin Moore Star-gazing, sideloading, and planetarium side-quests: the case of Along the River of Spacetime
- Maruf Rahman An Alternative Approach to Document the Reality of Rohingya Refugee in Bangladesh
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Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

Organizer: Ali Ahsan

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Antony Arul Valan Gnanapragasam Catholicism and Caste in an Eighteenth-Century Tamil Jesuit Satire
- Roger McNamara Catholicism and the Limits of African Liberation Theology in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
- Sai Suma Caste, Religion, and Identity: Dalit Christians in Telangana
- Steven George Contours of Caste and Religion: Hybridity in Mukanny
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Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

Organizers: Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Ruma Sinha

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- MASRUFA NUSRAT Interpreting Rape in The Search: A Subaltern History of Bangladesh
- Shabeeh Rahat Beyond Outraging Modesty: Kashmiri Muslim Women’s tales of Resistance
- Maryse Jayasuriya “Holding Space for the Memories of Violence”: Outrage and Storytelling in Sri Lanka
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Large Language Models and Literature

Organizers: Nina Begus, Aaron Hanlon

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Daniel Dooghan Voluble Nonsense: Ontology and Teleology in Large Language Models
- Christian Gelder Technologies of Reading: Practices of Criticism in the Age of Digital Reproduction
- Benjamin Icard Embedding Style Beyond Topics: Analyzing Dispersion Effects Across Different Language Models
- James Draney The Technology Concerning the Question
- Aaron Hanlon Is LLM Output a Genre?
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Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

Organizers: Simone Murray, Alexander Manshel

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Clayton Childress How Shared is Common Culture? A View from the Middle School Library
- Simone Murray Where Is the Digital in High-school English? with Alex Bacalja
- Alexander Manshel CliffsNotes, SparkNotes, and Shmoop: A New History of Literary Criticism
- Ben Libman Grove Press and the Extramural Teach-In
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Ways of Writing Vietnam

Organizers: Marian Wolbers, Lisa Luu

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Lisa Luu In Their Own Voices: A Survey of Emergent Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American Writings
- Mengni Kang A Rhetorical Approach to the Unnatural: Ghosts, Indigenous Beliefs, and Vietnamese Identity in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “Black-Eyed Women”
- Taylor Roberts A Haunting Poetics: The Forever Fractures of the Vietnam War in Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Root Fractures
- MAI NGUYEN Language in a Loop: Literature(s) of Vietnamese Diasporic Identity
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Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

Organizers: Philip Mills, Joel De Lara

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ingeborg Löfgren There's the bit where you say it and the bit where you take it back
- Tucker Conine Falling Short of Language: Studies of Performative Dialogue in William Gaddis’ JR
- Erin Greer ‘Probably Deceitful and Doubtless Wrong’? Perlocutionary Responsibility in Austin, Cavell, & Atwood
- Philip Mills How to Do Things with Animals: J. L. Austin, a Donkey, and J. M. Coetzee
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Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

Organizer: Nidesh Lawtoo

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Joshua Elwer Becoming-Other through Mimesis: The Tradition of Mimicry in Modernist Literature
- Curtis Gruenler Reading for Resonance: The Agency of Friendship
- Menno Lenting Spiraling Out of Hand: Story of the Eye and the Mimetic Unconscious
- Siyu Xie The Resistance to Metaphor: Between Mimesis and Metamorphosis in Contemporary Poetry by Natalie Diaz and Yu Jian
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Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

Organizers: Christopher Gortmaker, Joseph Staten

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Patty Argyrides Renewal and Sacrifice in Ali Smith's Spring and the Ballets Russes's The Rite of Spring
- Vitor Soster Notes on modernist features in Eduardo Coutinho’s "Playing"
- Nate Mickelson Zoot Suits and Modernist Bodies: On the Reparative Impulse of Troy Montes-Michie’s Rock of Eye
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Oceanic Humanities

Organizers: Sarah Senk, Colin Dewey

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Colin Dewey #NotAllShips? The Political Unconscious and Seafaring Today
- Monica Ren Poetics at Sea: Reading the Archive of Slavery and the Oceanic as Method and Mediation in Zong!
- Siwei Wang Underwater Sonorities: Submarine Voices and Radical Place-Making in Contemporary South African Literature and Music
- Idaliz Roman Decolonizing the Sea: Memory, Trauma and Resistance in Caribbean Literature
- Melissa Gniadek Wood and Water
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Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Organizer: Yuanfei Wang

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Rosemary Peters-Hill Fa'a'a from France: Temaru, Tefana, and Radio Silence
- Shinjini Chattopadhyay Oceanic Cosmopolitanism and Currents of Coloniality in Virginia Woolf's Novels
- Lucy Graham Beyond Surfboards to Sacredness: The Meanings of the Sea in South Africa
- Aurelia Mouzet The Atlantic Ocean and Slave Ships as (non-)places of memory in Black Atlantic literature
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Photographic Practices of Repair

Organizer: Candela Marini

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Una Tanovic Repairing the Past: Photographic Representation of the Bosnian War and Srebrenica Genocide
- Candela Marini Between the Malón and the Awkan: Photographic Traces of the Chilean Invasion of Mapuche Territories
- Hande Sever In Search of ‘My Beloved Pauline’
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Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness

Organizer: Hayley Cotter

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Dorin Smith What It’s Not Quite Like: Naturalized Negative Qualia in the Poetry of Melville and Hahn
- Atti Viragh Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Stream of Consciousness, and the Victorian Poetics of Experience
- Langqiu Zhang The Dialogues of Consciousness in Metapoetry: A Close Reading of Zhang Zao's Works
- Pei He Echoes of Consciousness and Embodied Form in Ovid's Echo and Narcissus
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Postcolonial South-Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

Organizers: Chinmay Pandharipande, Rafid C

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Anupama Kuttikat “Literature and Politics?”: Interrogating Plural Identities in Contemporary “Postcolonial South Asian” Fiction
- Sanghamitra Baladhikari Reading the Plurality of Maternal Labour: Representation of Non Mothers/Ayahs in Mahasweta Devi’s Breast Giver and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day.
- Abhinaba Chatterjee ‘Indian’ identity and Modernity in Postcolonial South Asian/ Indian Literature
- Jaseel P “From the Subaltern to the Precariat”: Postcolonial Precarity and the Narratives of Social Identity
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Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Eli Park Sorensen

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Robert Tally Mimesis and World Literature: The Representation of Reality in an Era of Postnational Capitalism
- Gabriele Lazzari Realist Existence and The Politics of Potential Totalities
- Ruochen Bo Toward a Cosmopolitan Listening: Precarity and Openness in Edward Yang’s Yi Yi (2000)
- Ashwin Bajaj Gurnah and the Silent Compulsions of Representation
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Rebooting World SF

Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Hugh O'Connell

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Matt Morgenstern Praiseworthy as Critical World SF
- Cynthia Shin Rogue Code: World SF through Tropes
- Ian MacDonald Postworlding SF
- Shaoni White American Science Fiction Through Other Continents: Vandana Singh’s fiction as American SF, Jeff VanderMeer’s fiction as world SF
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Technicity and the Genesis of the Posthuman World in Literature, Film, Performance, Computational Media, and Critical Theory

Organizers: Jecheol Park, Mayumo Inoue

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Mayumo Inoue Dream Apparatus (across Film, Video, and Poetry)
- Sonja Thiel Radically saying no? Agents and the Creation of Cultures of Artificial Intelligence through artistic practices
- Juhyeon Gu The Museum of Failure: Technology, Art, and Posthuman conditions
- Yu-I (Yvette) Hsieh Paying Attention: De/Culturing the Global Youth
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The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

Organizer: Shruti Jain

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Aadhavan Pazhani ‘Translation as Negotiation’: Translating Anti-Caste Non-Fiction
- Manju Edachira Critical Caste Studies and Cinema: Aesthetic, Affective and Ethical Dimensions
- Vivek V. Narayan Encasted Formalism Notes on Reading Caste Scripts in "Annayya's Anthropology"
- Dickens Leonard Jigsaw of Discolouration: Anti-caste Poetics, Reading and Writing
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The Person in Law & Culture

Organizers: Jeannine DeLombard, Peter Schneck

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Emma Brush Form and Politics, Personhood and Plain Style, in the American Slave Narrative
- Jeannine DeLombard The Black Jurisprudential Vanguard
- Carrie Hyde The Loopholes of Personhood
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The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

Organizers: Noah Terrell, SUBARNA MONDAL

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Julia Mollenthiel Horrifying Whiteness and Jordan Peele's Get Out
- Xavier Aldana Reyes Queer Body Horror: Contemporary Mutations of a Political Subgenre
- SUBARNA MONDAL Body Horror and the Brazilian Gothic: The Haunted Mansion in Clarice Lispector’s O Lustre
- Nurdini Tsabitul Chusna Body Horror and Religion: A Critical Analysis of Posthumous Torture in Film
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Translating the Caribbean

Organizers: Simona Bertacco, Laura Ekberg

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Giuseppe Sofo The Antilles: Fragments of Translation
- Olga Blomgren Reading the Archipelagic: Translation and Creolized Englishes
- Elena Basile Of Reparation and Repair: Colonial Contact Zones and the Wagers of Implicated Translation
- Roberta Cimarosti Dante in Caribbean Translations and Into Italian?
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Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry

Organizers: Lucas Klein, Chris Song

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Liansu Meng From Homosocial Utopia to Heterosexual Socialism: Translations and Transcultural Transformations of Walt Whitman’s “Calamus” in May Fourth and Socialist China
- Timothy Billings The Chinese Sonnet: Re-inventing the Invention of Chinese Poetry for Our Time
- Wenxin Jin When the Lyrical Encounters with Anti-lyricism: the Translation of T.S.Eliot’s Poetics of Impersonality and the Anti-Lyricist Poetic Discourse in 20th-century Chinese Poetry(1920-1940s and 1980s-1990s)
- Lucas Klein Du Fu’s Travels in America and Britain: Text, Context, and Authorial Intent in Translation
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TV-Philosophy

Organizers: Jeroen Gerrits, Elif Sendur

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Guillermo Rodriguez Twin Peaks as Cinematic Antidote to the Serial Addictions of Traditional Narrative
- Andrea Gyenge The Watching Dead: Television Seriality as Zombie Apocalypse
- Martin Shuster On Cancellation
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Untangling the Past: the Figure of the Detective in Postcolonial and Transnational Fiction

Organizers: Priscilla Charrat-Nelson, Julia Calderón

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Yixuan Jiang Cleaning up the Crime: Contamination, Purification, and Colonial Hybridity in Victorian Detective Fiction
- Swarnima Banerjee Exploring the Backstreets of History: The Spectre of Colonialism Revisited in Contemporary Bengali Detective Fictions
- Abhimanyu Acharya Foreignness and Nationalism: Detective Fiction in Gujarati Post Indian Independence
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Varieties of the Impersonal

Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Joseph Henry

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Tong Liu Impersonality vs. Mediation: The Eyeball and the Shepherd
- Joseph Henry Impersonal Feelings and Forms in German Expressionism
- Alexander Lin Kannon and Hercules after Lenin: Ekphrasis as Impersonal Aesthetics
- Jason Han The Intellectual’s Impersonal: Adorno’s Minima Moralia and the Problem of Solitude
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What is in Plain Sight?

Organizer: Yitzhak Lewis

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Yiru Lim Vigilante Violence: Do You See What I See?
- Meaghan Murphy Joseph McElroy’s Cannonball and the Trap of the Visual
- Klara Boger The Anatomy of a Family Secret
- Miryam Segal Justice at Home
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Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith

Organizers: Niia Bishop, Niia Bishop

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ronnel Keith Berry James Baldwin: White Racism or World Community in “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon” (1965)
- Sharonda Stith The Historical Christian Origins of White Class Development
- Andrew Hamilton Original Sins: Demystifying Whiteness as Property in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
- Andres Henao Castro The White Masochism of Hegel’s Theory of the Subject
- Audrey Deveault Unsettling Whiteness: Hauntings and Racialized Affects in Post-1980 American Fiction
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Work

Organizers: Alya Ansari, Eli Jelly-Schapiro

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Brian Jansen "He's Gonna Try": Work and the Gimmick in Professional Wrestling
- Qianxiong Yang Memes and Désoeuvrement, or the Absence of Work in Postsocialist China
- Salman Rafique Anxious, Depressed, and Exhausted: Representing the Achievement Generation in Contemporary Screen Cultures
- Jason Read The Work Image: Representation, Time, and Alienation
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Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality

Organizers: Marc Botha, Heather Yeung

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Paul Harris Petric Poetics: Rockery Reveries and Sedimental Depositions
- Deborah Castro POETICS IN EROSION: BETWEEN WORDS, IMAGES, MEMORY AND OBLIVION
- Dafna Shetreet Melville's Jerusalem: Stony Metropolis of Stones
- Samuel DeMarco Land Claims and Memorialisation in Cree and Settler Lithic Poetics: Three Stones from the Treaty 6 Region
- Marc Botha Deep Lines: Inscribing Fragility in the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay
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12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

"Doing" Media Studies in the Global South

Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, Ankita Deb

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Iskandar Zulkarnain Designing “Open” Nationalism: Techno-nationalistic Imagining in Indonesian Free Open Source Software Activism
- Chuanhui Meng Manifesto of a National Defense Cinema: Towards an ‘Artistic Battleline’ and Cinema as Militant Environment in Pre-War Chinese Film Criticism
- Silpa Mukherjee Playing in the Shadow: Or How a Stolen Police Archive Unscrambles Standard Media Historiographies
- Rahul Kumar Piracy as Praxis: Subverting Archival Constraints in Indian Media Studies
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“The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

Organizers: Tim Wyman-McCarthy, Asha Varadharajan

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Nimisha Sinha Cognitive Estrangement and Climate Futures: Speculative Fiction's Role in Reimagining Human Rights in the Age of Environmental Crisis
- agnes woolley Contesting the Humanitarian Imaginary in Recent Refugee-Made Film
- Tim Wyman-McCarthy Privilege, Confession, and the Self-Help Genre: Constructions of the Human Rights Grantmaker
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(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

Organizers: Hannah Link, Brittany Buscio

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Aliyah Alsaber Un-be-longing: Nostalgia in Diaspora
- Joshua Derick Noveras Subalternity of the Philippine Post-War Politics: Narrating Decolonial Political Rhetorics from 1946-1965
- Anuparna Mukherjee Placing Nostalgia: Empire, Home and British Women in India
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Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

Organizer: Pardis Dabashi

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Shawkat Toorawa Qur’anic Cipher-Aesthetic
- Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi Stories of King Solomon in the Tanakh and the Qur'an: A Comparative Reading
- Pardis Dabashi Revelation and the Limits of Argument
- Michael Allan A Prayer for Mimesis? Reframing Islam in Cinema
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Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence

Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Penny Yeung The diseuse’s double voicing: Relaying history in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee
- Beñat Sarasola Fragmentary Narratives: Blurring Fiction and Non-Fiction in Arantxa Urretabizkaia's Bidean Ikasia
- Pascual Brodsky Soria La mala educación: The Limits and Dangers of Filming Trauma in the Spanish Democratic Transition
- Louis Segura Mnemonic codification and mnemonic fragmentation: Tracing the Memory Laws in Michelle Maillet’s L’Étoile noire
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After Caliban: Literary Education, Empire, and the “Global Anglophone”

Organizer: Laura Ritland

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Maebh Long English No More: The Rise of Pacific Literature
- Anushmita Mohanty Transnational Histories and Literary Representations of English Literary Studies in India
- Shantanu Majee Decolonising English Studies: A Methodology from the Global South
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Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought

Organizer: Adam Mohamed

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- John Vanderheide The Stratigraphic Vision of Blake's Lambeth Works
- Adam Mohamed Blake’s Experimental Events: Reading Deleuze’s Event and Time-Image in The Book of Urizen and The Book of Los.
- Arkady Plotnitsky Thought, Dreams, and Desire in Shelley’s Poetry, from Julian and Maddalo to Prometheus Unbound, with Deleuze and Guattari
- David Baulch Phrenological Desire and the Head of William Blake
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Between Worlds and Worldlessness

Organizers: Roland Vegso, Rok Bencin

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Roland Vegso The Age of World Politics
- Fank Ruda Heidegger’s Weg-Da-Game
- Steven Swarbrick What in the World? Enjoyment as X Factor
- Nathan Gorelick Another Subject: Between the Globe and the World
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Kelly Ferguson

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Angela Fernandes Nature and rurality in contemporary Iberian narrative fiction
- Nagore Sedano Naveira Haunted Trees: Spectrality, Gender and Basque Identity in Asier Altuna’s Amama (2015)
- Brittany Frodge No hay Escapa(toria): Renegotiating the Rural in Sara Mesa’s Un amor
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Body, Language

Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Serena Luckhoff

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Emily Apter Apostrophe and the Unborn
- Matthew Zundel The Dragooned Spectator: La traviata norma's Performative Etiolations
- Serena Luckhoff The Avoidance of Body
- Phyllis Koehler Stone Femme Blues. Masoch and the Pornologos
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Breath Poetics

Organizers: Mae Losasso, Lucy Alford

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Timothy Anderson Free-Breathings, Breath-Pennings: Alliteration and Labor in the Poetry of William Barnes
- Mae Losasso Breathwork: On respiration, labour, and poetry
- Britton Edelen The Breath Drive: Vers Libre and the Animation of the Poetic Subject
- Orchid Tierney Death Gasps and Extinction at the Margins: the Thanaecopoetics of Breathing
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Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

Organizer: Madelaine Hron

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Wendy Hesford Anti-Woke Legislation: Human Rights and the Child-in-Peril
- Lena Khor Webs of Care in Life Narratives of Child-Changemakers
- Betsy Kwong Queering Ecological Futures: Toxic Bodies and the Polluted Wild in Young Adult Fantasy Literature
- Madelaine Hron YA Cli-Fi: Speculations of Children’s & Environmental Rights in the Future
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Comparative Approaches to Prison Abolition: Reading & Representing Against Carcerality

Organizers: Michael Reyes, Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Carolyn Ownbey, Cait Jones

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Kaushik Tekur Venkata The Caribbean Georgic and Fugitive Personhood
- Ibrahim Mertcan Alcinkaya RoboCopaganda: Glorification of Police Violence through Technology in the Diamond Age American Comic Books
- Cait Jones “One of the Fallen”: Narrative Unfreedom in James Baldwin’s Another Country
- Carolyn Ownbey “Remember Oluwale”: Caryl Phillips’ Challenge to Policing and/as Nation
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Comparative Indenture

Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Najnin Islam

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Rebecca Liu Notes Toward a Global System of Asian Indenture
- Weibing NI Blurring the Boundaries between Marronage and Vagrancy: Comparing Raphaël Confiant's Case À Chine and David Dabydeen's The Counting House
- Subhalakshmi Gooptu In Labor
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Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation

Organizers: Torin McLachlan, Rusaba Alam

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Rusaba Alam Comparison and Other Enigmas
- Deena Dinat 'Africa is like the seas Melville missed so much:' Adaptation as Detranslation in Beau Travail and Atlantics
- Antonette Arogo Decolonial Cosmopolitan Translation and Detranslation
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Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World

Organizers: Bhavya Tiwari, Sucheta Kanjilal

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Sravanthi Kollu Comparing Indian Romanticisms
- Rahul Parson Hindi on the Hooghly: Calcutta as Comparative Space
- Joya John Yeh Prithvi rahegi?: Planetarity in the Non-Anglophone Imaginary
- Sujata Mody Hindi Historical Fiction: Literary Engagements with the Past
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Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation

Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Saswati Saha

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Babak Mazloumi A Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? Is a Literary Critic an Alter Ego for a Literary Translator?
- Lizabeth PARAVISINI-GEBERT THE OVIEDO PROJECT: A Collaborative English Translation of Fernández de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias, 1526-1558
- Shuang Xiao A Luxury of Translation Collaboration: The Making of the Last Forty Chapters of "The Story of the Stone"
- Sohan Sharif AI and Human Intelligence in Poetry Translation: Towards a Sustainable Future
- Annelise Finegan Translation Slams as Comparative Collaboration
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Cultures of Energy Transition

Organizers: Martin Premoli, Izzy Lockhart

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Elizabeth Holt Carbon and the Humanities
- Claire Fox Energy Transition in Alberta’s Coal Mining Heritage Sites
- Yorbana Seign-goura Shifting Imaginaries of Oil: The Chadian Experience in Resource Exploitation
- Anna Aschauer Affective Dimensions of Energy Transition: Reading Ascenseur Pour L’échafaud Against its Petrocolonial History
- Martin Premoli Imagining a Just Transition in Saci Lloyd's The Carbon Diaries
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Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts

Organizer: Auritro Majumder

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Anna Bernard Decolonization and the movement novel
- Oded Nir Israel/Palestine as Allegory
- Simran Vijan Of Muses and Models: Omkara and the Decolonizing Potential of Adaptations
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Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Eirini Panagiotidou Diagramming the Borderlands: Multimodal Intersections in Contemporary Experimental Poetry
- Tilo Reifenstein A diagrammatology of photographic writing
- Kiff Bamford Figural patterns in breaking language
- Eva-Maria Aigner Fils, Weavings, Seams – On Texts and Textiles in Deconstruction
- Thomas Symeonidis Tracing / designing the figural. Insights from Jacques Rancière’s theory of writing
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Displacing Academic Practices in the Ruins of the Neoliberal University

Organizers: Maddalena Cerrato, Peter Baker

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Pedro Aguilera-Mellado The Experience of the University
- Williston Chase Community College is for Thinking (about Thinking)!
- GABRIELA MENDEZ COTA De-schooling Writing, De-schooling Life
- Emma McCabe Reconceptualising polycystic ovaries as sexual variation
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Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media

Organizers: Fareed Ben-Youssef, Rebecca Ehrenwirth

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary

Organizer: Amanda Greer

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Christina Gilligan “All Wrong Somehow”: Girlhood, Girling, and Gender Trouble in Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss
- Sofia Chavez Becoming American Girls: Racialized Dollhood in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands
- Aleksandra Kamińska Inhabitable Identities of Digital Girlhood
- Desirée de Jesús Black Girlhood Aesthetics & the Politics of Prefiguration
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Hegel and World Literature

Organizer: Carson Welch

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Christina Chalmers The prodigal daughters of world literature
- Andrew Haas Futile Singulars: Alice Neel and the Monadology of “Wageless Life”
- Adam Koutajian Hegel's Fantasies; or The Religion of Narcissism
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Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide

Organizers: Maria Boletsi, Ilios Willemars

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Maria Boletsi Incompossible maps, weird geographies: Lost, disappearing, and digital islands in real life, literature and virtual reality
- Briand Gentry South Sea-sickness: Virality and Virtuality in U.S. “Hawaiian Fevers”
- Ilios Willemars Incompossible Islands: Insurance and Echo in Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Invention of Morel
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Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures

Organizers: Rini Tarafder, Amrapali Chatterjee

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Suniti Madaan Sarnath Bannerjee's "All Quiet in Vikaspuri" as Counter-Map: Water Wars in Delhi and the Graphic Narrative
- Pooja Shah Crumbling Infrastructures: Material Re-imaginings in The Lid of the Pickle Jar
- Nicole Fadellin A poetics of anticipation in Zona by Atilio Caballero
- Ethan King Infrastructure and the "forefront of progress" in the Modernisms of John Dos Passos
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Interdisciplinary Study of Homemaking: Mapping the Places, Routines, Memories, and Locales We Call Home

Organizers: Jean Amato, Kyunghee Pyun

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Jennifer Stoever Portrait of the Artist in the Living Room: Black Mothering, Musical Home-Making, and the Hip Hop Generation
- Shreya Rastogi Repurposing Domesticity for the Digital Age: A case study of Indian Cottage Core
- Jenisha T Homemaking in Transit Spaces: Exploring Refugee Agency and Spatial Dynamics in Appadurai Muttulingam’s Where God Began
- Baraa Abuzayed Reclaiming Home: Women's Narratives of Displacement, Survival, and Social Reproduction
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Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

Organizer: Ali Ahsan

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Antony Arul Valan Gnanapragasam Catholicism and Caste in an Eighteenth-Century Tamil Jesuit Satire
- Roger McNamara Catholicism and the Limits of African Liberation Theology in Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
- Sai Suma Caste, Religion, and Identity: Dalit Christians in Telangana
- Steven George Contours of Caste and Religion: Hybridity in Mukanny
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Labor in Global Speculative Fiction

Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Emily Maguire

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Paula Guimarães The ‘Futures of Labour’ in the Utopian and Political Writings of Mathilde Blind and Eleanor Marx
- Emily Foister War Labors: Violence as Women’s Work in Joanna Russ’ The Female Man (1970)
- MacKenzie Patterson The Mother Machine in the Garden: Imagining Reproductive Labor in Science Fiction
- Emily Maguire Motherhood’s Nightmares: Reproductive Labor in Elaine Vilar Madruga’s El cielo de la selva
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Literary Ruins: On the Crisis of Contemporary Institutions

Organizers: Daniel Runnels, José Luis Suárez Morales

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Björn Quiring Institutional Surpluses and Narrative Supplements in Diderot, Deleuze and David Simon
- Nurettin Ucar Abbas Khider’s A Slap in the Face: Institutional Ruins and Refugees
- Daniel Runnels "La marcha de la gorra" and The Police as Defective Institution
- Sebastian Antezana Quiroga National Afterlives: Literature and A-ruination in Latin America
- Aaron Obedkoff From Campus Novel to Adjunctroman: "The Groves of Academe" and the University’s Long Downturn
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Magical Realism as World Literature: Travelling Concept, Travelling Theory, Untranslatable

Organizers: Cesar Dominguez, Sarah Vidal Horta

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Cesar Dominguez Is the Post- in Postmagical Realism the Same as the Post- in Postcolonial and Postmodernism?
- Daniel Monzingo Strange Worlds: Anomaly Tale Structure as a Magical Realist Medium
- Sandipan Bose Toward a Vernacular Magical Realism: Notes on the Literary Form in Akhtaruzzaman Elias’ Khoabnama
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Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Sohyun Lee

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Wenxin Liang A New Wave of Fever: Spanish Rewritings, Documentaries, and Literary Pilgrimages to Sanmao
- Huei Lan Yen La melancolía racial: la identidad chino-española como resistencia y empoderamiento
- Hyerim Hong Traveling Among Violence and Care: Tourism, Diasporic Memory, and Relationality in Quan Zhou Wu’s La agridolce vita (2023)
- Miaowei Weng Voices and Visions: The Linguistic and Cultural Portrayal of Chinese in Chinas
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Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context

Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Lara Harb

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Margaret Graves Metalcasting, Mimesis, and the Indexical Trace: Jewelry Molds and the Making of Meaning
- Lara Harb Arabic Mimesis in Practice
- Domenico Ingenito Aristotelian Mimesis and the Persian Poetics of Ekphrasis: Inducing Love, Misrecognizing the Object of Desire in Nezāmi’s Khosrow and Shirin
- Samuel Hodgkin Is the Beloved Idol an Icon or an Index? On Referentiality and Persian Poetic Convention
- Dustin Klinger Reed Pipe Metaphors as Mimetic Devices From Hesiod to Rūmī
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Odd Temporalities

Organizers: Juan Meneses, Matthew Scully

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Matthew Scully Abyssal Times
- Juan Meneses Reclaiming “Meanwhile” as Non-Normative Temporal Relationship
- Simon Swift Accident, Catastrophe, Gaza
- Juan Camilo Velasquez Simultaneity Between Wars: Abel Gance and T.S. Eliot Against Causal Time
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Picturing Violence in the Age of Annihilation

Organizers: Elizabeth Liendo, Adam Yaghi

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Mohsina Shafqat Ali Violence as Seen in Different Aspects: Tehmina Durrani’s A Feudal Lord
- Cynthia Nazarian Inarticulate Violence and the Immovable Object in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
- Elizabeth Liendo “The painter was no god”: Breaking the fourth wall with Hecuba in Shakespeare’s Rape of Lucrece
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Poetic Voice in the Expanded Field

Organizers: Steven Maye, Maria Dikcis

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Geronimo Sarmiento Cruz Anational Voices in Korean American Poetry
- Jay Ritchie Reparative Autopoiesis: Rethinking Conceptualism through Recorded and Authorial Voice in Jordan Abel’s NISHGA
- Shikha JHINGAN Dance in Slow Motion: Politics, Aesthetics and Narratives of Caste in Indian Cinema
- Ramiro Caces Procedures for an expanded field of poetry in Juan Luis Martínez's “La nueva novela” (1977)
- Steven Maye Wikipedia’s Voice: Evading Character in Contemporary Writing
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Poetics and Politics of Memory/Trauma-Scapes in South Asian Literatures

Organizers: Muhammad Numan, Nida Sajid

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Aadrit Banerjee “Moner Akalpo”: Architecture, Trauma, Healing and Identity in Tagore’s “Pratham Puja”
- UDITA BANERJEE De-structuring Memory and the Shifting Affective Terrains: Bengali Identity and Survival in Assam
- Justyna Kurowska Hindi Progressivism and the Bengal Famine of 1943 - Social or Traumatic Realism
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Politics and Desire in the Archive

Organizers: Mercedes Trigos, Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Valerie Fryer-Davis Why Do We Queer the Black Archive?
- Lucas Joshi Tituba in Two Acts: Reading Saidiya Hartman Through Maryse Condé
- iida pöllänen Making the Past Speak for the Present: Harlem Renaissance’s Nordic Archives and Transnational Histories of Race
- Fiana Kawane Unsettling Multicultural Palatability in Asian Canadian Performance and Poetics: Living Archives of Haruko Okano and Fred Wah’s High(bridi)Tea
- Mercedes Trigos Desire and Jovita González Mireles’s Fragmented Archival Presence
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Postcolonial Formalism in Context

Organizers: Arthur Rose, Dominic O'Key

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Jason Sandhar Misreading Plot Holes for Politics, or Why I Didn't Like The White Tiger: Toward a Hermeneutics of Failure
- Brennan McCracken Haze as form in Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy
- Katherine Hallemeier Postcolonial Formalism and Dreams
- Gabriele D'Amato Revisiting the Revisionary Paradigm: Multiperspectivity as a Negative Strategy in James
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Postcolonial Literature and Ecotheology

Organizer: George Handley

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Serena Chou The Earthly Bodhisattva at Green Gulch: Wendy Johnson’s Gardening and World-making Practices
- Animesh Roy Postcolonial Literature, Ecotheology, and Climate Crisis: Beyond the Secular and Sacred Imaginaries of the Anthropocene
- Bosudha Bandyopadhyay Pantheism in the Works of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay: A Spiritual Connection with Nature
- Christopher McGowan Joyce, Catholicism, and the Environment
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Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Eli Park Sorensen

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Robert Tally Mimesis and World Literature: The Representation of Reality in an Era of Postnational Capitalism
- Gabriele Lazzari Realist Existence and The Politics of Potential Totalities
- Ruochen Bo Toward a Cosmopolitan Listening: Precarity and Openness in Edward Yang’s Yi Yi (2000)
- Ashwin Bajaj Gurnah and the Silent Compulsions of Representation
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Scale, Form, and Urban Crisis: Literature and the City

Organizers: Eric Prieto, Liam Lanigan

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Timothy Wright Speculative Johannesburg: Non-realist Form and Mutation as Urban Trope
- Mi Jeong Lee Formal Dome City, Informal Utopian Village: Re-mapping the Globe in Kim Cho-yeop's The Greenhouse at the End of the Earth
- Jacob Soule Open/Closed Cities: Imagined Communities After the City
- Liam Lanigan Scale and Critical Utopia: The City in Ursula K LeGuin
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Sex Negativity II (We Have Never Had Sex)

Organizers: Marija Cetinic, Tessel Veneboer

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Jacinta van de Ven Disruptive patterns: (re)sexualizing queer theory
- Dana Glaser Meaning it Literally: Feminist Style and Sex’s Semiotics
- Tessel Veneboer Sexual difference, Queer Theory, and the Place of Feminist Celibacy
- Marco Borkent Affirming pleasure: queer theory and ambivalence
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Southern Literatures across Multiple Southscapes

Organizers: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Joanna Davis-McElligatt

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Quynh Nhu Le Race, Settlement, and the Narrations of Florida’s Citrus Empire
- Sandra Kim The Testimonio in Rolando Hinojosa’s Korean War Fiction: Linking Multiple Souths of US Empire
- Jessica Hurley Uranium Southscapes, From South Africa to South Carolina
- Joanna Davis-McElligatt ATLiens, Alabama Saturnians, and the North Carolina Mothership: Reading Black Intergalactic Southscapes
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The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation

Organizers: Cucurella Lavin, Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier, Paula Cucurella

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Inger Flem Gabriela Mistral's Mother Tongue: Translation and the Non-Originary Origins
- Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier Economies of imperial, creolizing and philological translation
- Cucurella Lavin Symptom and Translation: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Trauma’s Language
- Andrés Claro Poetic translation (the experience of forms)
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The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement

Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Qiujie Cheng “Such Thick Skins”: Recuperating Home and Migrant Intimacy in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift
- Pavithra Tantrigoda Black Swans and the Ecologies of Displacement and Renewal in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book
- Kimberly Andrews Delisted: Form and Failure in Ecological Poetics
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The Flow of Performing Arts Between Periphery and Center: Tensions and Potentialities

Organizers: Esther Marinho Santana, Carlos Gontijo Rosa

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Hanchen Feng Eastward Journeys, Digital Returns: Chinese Adaptations of Modernist Drama
- Xueting Zhu Dancing With/out Borders: The Theme, Vocabulary, and Cultural Identity in Chinese-style Ballroom Dance
- Joao Marcos Copertino Opera from the Periphery? Carlos Gomes’s Il Guarany reappropriated
- Carlos Gontijo Rosa Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, with a Brazilian spice
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The Persistence of Existentialism

Organizer: Ben Roth

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Mary Brennan Existential Self-Creation in the Feminist Epistolary Fiction of Hedwig Dohm
- Evren Akaltun Akan Existentialism in the Margins: Taşra and Alienation in Atılgan’s Anayurt Oteli and Camus’s The Stranger
- Kevin Spencer Hwang Sok-Yong's At Dusk (2018): Disclosure and the Aesthetics of Existentialist Fiction
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Thinking in and Beyond (?) a Text: Derrida, De Man, and the Political

Organizer: Jonathan Luftig

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Matías Bascuñan Freedom, or the Spacing of Politics in Derrida and Nancy
- Ren Ellis Neyra Aversions to Reading
- Joseph Serrano Allegories of the Concept: de Man and Balibar
- Bianca Messinger Onanism and Derrida: the Voice of Nature and the Politics of the Supplement in Rousseau's Emile
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Translation and Autotheory

Organizers: Jan Steyn, Diana Thow

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Stefania Heim Mónica de la Torre’s Autotranslation as Autotheory
- Jaeyeon Yoo The Translator as Celebrity: Heightened Visibility and Non-Split Subjectivity
- Derick Mattern Not Too Quickly: Translation Memoirs as Errant Practice
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Unpredictable Architectures: The Aesthetics and Politics of Gardening in Latin America

Organizer: Valeria Meiller

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Olga Nedvyga A Puerto Rican Woman Writer in the Shadow of the Botanical Garden
- Lucas Mertehikian Queering Trees: Silvina Ocampo’s Sensuous Arboretum
- Irene Depetris Chauvin Affects of Extinction. Modes of the Vegetal in “Herbaria” and “Atomic Garden”.
- Iván Díez De la Pava Ecodelic Substances as Biotechnological Devices in Gabriela Damián Miravete's “La sincronía del tacto” (2021)
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Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Organizers: Carlo Arrigoni, Irene Bulla

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Christopher Bains Unreliable Narrator(s) in Chateaubriand’s René and George Sand’s Indiana
- Tomoko Inoue Who is Reliable? ーAn Analysis of Narrations in The Novels of Henry James and Mark Twain Related to Their Adaptationsー
- Cristina Carnemolla From Naturalism to Experimentalism: Emilia Pardo Bazán's "South-Express"
- Carlo Arrigoni Impersonality, Gossip, and Unreliability: The Case of Naturalist Literature
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Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes

Organizer: Karyn Ball

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- A. Kiarina Kordela Circumscribing Fetishism
- Rebecca Comay Sense of Unending
- Elissa Marder My Fixations: Reading Time
- Ian Balfour After Benjamin
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We Meet Again: The Psychoanalytic (Re) Turn in Literary Studies

Organizers: Yael Segalovitz, James Ogilvie

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Danielle Drori Hamlet Comes to a Psychoanalytic Institute: Literary Interpretation in the Therapy Room
- Syed Haider Ali From the Real to the Phantasy: Lacan and the Textuality of Desire
- Ana Schwartz Crushing, towards a theory of
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What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?

Organizer: Raquel Kennon

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Jude Okpala Intractable Nature of Blackness and Global Black Literature
- Joseph Shafer Black or Blackness, Color or Surplus: Moten and the Globally Nonexistent
- Brenda Tan Racial Conscription and Its Limits: Antinomies of Race in Teju Cole's Open City and Tremor
- Rebecca Amonor Cultural Specificity and the Global Black Imagination: Africanfuturism in Tomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone
- Hapsatou Wane I Am Black Too: How Do Ogbanje, Black Intersectionality, and Migratory Subjectivities Shape the New Black Feminist Library?
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Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith

Organizers: Niia Bishop, Niia Bishop

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ronnel Keith Berry James Baldwin: White Racism or World Community in “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon” (1965)
- Sharonda Stith The Historical Christian Origins of White Class Development
- Andrew Hamilton Original Sins: Demystifying Whiteness as Property in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
- Andres Henao Castro The White Masochism of Hegel’s Theory of the Subject
- Audrey Deveault Unsettling Whiteness: Hauntings and Racialized Affects in Post-1980 American Fiction
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Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, Sofía Forchieri

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Elena von Ohlen 'Las brujas saben cambiar de género': The witch as a fluid being in Latin American literary history.
- Ana Marina Gamba Body-territory in Fernanda Melchor's Temporada de huracanes: Transfemicide, Extractivism and Pedagogies of Cruelty
- Vivian Arimany Gothic Gender: Vengeance Against Gender Violence in Jayro Bustamante's Film "La llorona" (2019)
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2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

(Un)Easy Entanglements: Agency, Alliances, and Affinities of Translators and Language Teachers

Organizers: Shane Carreon, Ayelén Rosario Tissera

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Rennae Robinson American Phonics: A Roiling
- Claudia Elizabet Silva Developing intercultural communicative competence at primary and secondary school: a new vision to teaching English as a foreign language
- Yeojin Kim Teaching a Multilingual Community in English as a Non-Native English Speaker
- Gabriela Veronelli Interrupting the coloniality of English Instruction – Putting ELT at the Center of Imagining
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ACLA Undergraduate Seminar "Bad Readers"

Organizers: Karyn Ball, Karen Emmerich, Hosam Aboul-Ela, Dina Al-Kassim

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Maya Cheikh Moorish Misreadings in Don Quixote
- Zehra Yedidal Bad Reading and Literary Anxieties in Ottoman Tanzimat Literature: An Analysis of Hayal ve Hakikat
- Yushan Lei Emmas' Illusion: How "Bad Reading" Shapes Contemporary Chinese Literary Trends
- Shuwen Qi Negotiating Diasporic Fantasy with Identity Construction - Bad Reading and its Over-correction in Chinese American Literature
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ADPCL Panel: "2024 Survey of PhD Programs in Comparative Literature in the U.S.: Takeaways and Next Steps"

Organizers: Yopie Prins, Luis Fernando Restrepo, Michael Allan

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)

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Alternatives to Narrative

Organizer: Nina Farizova

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Roi Tartakovsky The Mechanisms of Poetry as Forms of Resistance to Narrativity
- Nomaan Hasan Rethinking Lyric Identity: The Urdu Ghazal and Non-Narrative Conceptions of Self
- Amanda Parente Vieira Beyond 'He' and 'She': Ungendered Anti-Narrative in Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva
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Anti-Fascist Worldmaking

Organizers: Jessy Bell, Patrick Noonan

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Claudio Sansone Alonzo Elliott Markham's "Odyssey": Prufrock and Mauberly on The Way to the Spanish Civil War
- Jacqueline Sheean Madrid’s Multiple Meanings: Urban Documentary Filmmaking as a Mode of Identifying and Reclaiming Fascist Space
- Michael Henderson Testimonies of Beauty & Witnesses to Terror: Aesthetic Solidarity in the Resistance Writings of Peter Weiss & Rene Char
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Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, Linda Chu

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Cullen Goldblatt The Multilingualism of “Francophone” African Literature
- Jinjian Li Swahili and Chinese Shylock: Towards a Discourse of Decolonization
- Hsienmin Mia Chu The Jealous Princess and the Misled Monk: Multilingualism in Capital Narratives in 6th Century China
- Linda Chu Sacred Interplay: An Archipelagic Approach to Multilingual Missionary Novels
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Attending To: Regard and Care

Organizers: Victoria (Tia) Glista, Akosua T. Adasi

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Timothy Pantoja Regarding Mercy in Henry Tanner's The Annunciation
- Cole Adams Discerning Love: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Rafael Campo, and Poetic Methods
- EJ KNEIFEL The Bed is a Word that is Already Here: Doing Disability Justice & Where Ekphrasis Goes
- Tiana Reid The “Negro Woman Worker” According to the State: Report, Rapport, Regard
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Black Genres of Political Theology

Organizers: Andrew Kaplan, Kevin Pyon

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Leonard Curry Realizing the Genre of Black Theology
- Allison Cardon Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s Political Theology
- Kevin Pyon The Covenant Theology of the Slave Spiritual Tradition: Towards a Slave Religion of Revelation and Revolution
- Joel Auerbach The Hindered Hand: Divine Impotence and the Torsions of Empire in W. E. B. Du Bois and Sutton Griggs
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Brazilian Literature in English: Cross-Cultural Dialogues and Polysystemic Perspectives

Organizers: Larissa Daroda, Carolina Magaldi

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)

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Bridging Worlds: Literature and the Future of Public Humanities

Organizer: Tanushree Ghosh

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Clara Busch Burning the Bridge? - The University, the Lecture, and the Politics of Tradition
- Shruti Jain Adapting, Translation and Teaching: The Global Public in Public Humanities
- Tanushree Ghosh Bridging Disciplines and Communities: The Tell All the Truth Project and Public Humanities
- Anastasia Nikolis Place-Based Approaches for the Literary Public Humanities: the Empire State Poetry Project
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Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities

Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Katharine Cheston Illness as narrative, narrative about illness: Making storied sense of ME/CFS
- Claire Jeantils Intersubjectivity, collectiveness and spaces of individuation in epilepsy narratives: a focus on the seizure diary
- crystal Lie On Anthologies and Autistic Self-Advocacy
- Candela Potente Francesc Tosquelles and the Construction of Collectivity
- Zoë Ghyselinck Illness, Loss, and Relationality: The Audience as Collective in Theatre and Shared-Reading Practices
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Comparative Caribbean Modernisms

Organizer: J. Dillon Brown

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Ben De Witte Astrid H. Roemer’s Diasporic Caribbean Modernism
- Chelsea Stieber Literary Revolution and Evolution in Haiti
- Rose DuCharme Caribbean Modernism and the Possibility of a (Queer) Creole Poetics
- Sheri-Marie Harrison Global Style: Caribbean Authors as World Authors
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Comparative Literature's Cold War

Organizer: Cate Reilly

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Alexandra Perisic Aoua Kéita, Yugoslav Women, and Global Socialist Feminisms
- Alexandra Urakova Crossing the Anti-Gender Line: Queer Studies and ‘Classical’ Russian Literature
- Kaitlyn Sorenson Cruse in Korčula: On Non-Aligned Discourse(s)
- Maria Romanova Permafrost as (Planetary) Media: Postcolonialism, Postsocialism and Indigenous Loss in Post-Soviet Sakha Republic
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Contemporary Asian Spy Literature and Cinema

Organizer: Lily Li

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Kaby Wing Sze Kung History in Meta-fiction: Recreating Chinese Spy Heroine in Lou Ye’s Saturday Fiction
- Neil Wright Historical vs. Psychological Narrative in Cheng Er's Spy Film Wu Ming
- Wenyang Zhai Another Endeavor Towards Individual Freedom
- Choa Choi The Historical Hinterland of Espionage in South Korean Spy Novels and Film
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Cultures of Monoculture

Organizers: Amber Bal, Ben Beitler

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Ben Beitler The monocultural plaint, or monoculture as problem for description
- Abigail Fields Monoculture reading: Following wheat in Émile Zola’s “La Terre”
- David Squires Armed on the Plantation: Sugar Production and the Specter of Revolution
- Peter Erickson The Sugar Beet Industry and the American West: Hope Williams Sykes’ "Second Hoeing" and Jessica Bruder’s "Nomadland"
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Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Eirini Panagiotidou Diagramming the Borderlands: Multimodal Intersections in Contemporary Experimental Poetry
- Tilo Reifenstein A diagrammatology of photographic writing
- Kiff Bamford Figural patterns in breaking language
- Eva-Maria Aigner Fils, Weavings, Seams – On Texts and Textiles in Deconstruction
- Thomas Symeonidis Tracing / designing the figural. Insights from Jacques Rancière’s theory of writing
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Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism

Organizer: Tatiana Konrad

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Tatiana Konrad Colonialism, Disability, and the Environment across Time and Space
- Iain Hutchison Blind Horizons: The Worlds of People with Sight Loss during Scotland’s Long Nineteenth Century
- Jessica Schwartz The (Un)Making of Voice: Nuclear Colonialism, Disability, and Toxic Environmentalism in Marshallese Music
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Dissident Writing, the Cold War, and the Decolonizing World

Organizers: Peter Kalliney, Jini Kim Watson

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Srimati Ghosal Foot Soldiers of Afro-Asian Solidarity : Subhas Mukhopadhyay’s translation of Nazim Hikmet
- Yiwen Liu Treading the Cold War Border: Liu Yichang and the Literary Publishing World in Hong Kong
- Amanda Su Nieh Hualing, Mo Yan, and Iowa
- Laetitia Zecchini What Dissidence Can Mean: Two Indian Writers on Freedom
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Documentary Fever

Organizer: Rosana Hernandez Nieto

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Olivia Evans The Project Book Era: Documentary Poetics and Academic Discourse
- Whitney DeVos Oneiric Documentary Poetry & the Politics of Non-waking Life: Raúl Zurita’s Dream Testimonios & Edgar García’s Skins of Columbus
- Hannah Van Hove ‘Object maintenance’: Chronicling the body in the conceptual self-portraits of Adrian Piper and Bernadette Mayer
- MARIO JIMENEZ CHACON Documenting Beauty and Social Justice in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway, and Joshua Bonetta and J.P. Sniadecki’s El mar La Mar
- Rosana Hernandez Nieto Documentary Writing and Mediation: A Theoretical Exploration through Nowak’s Coal Mountain Elementary and Herrera’s A Silent Fury
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Ethics and Aesthetics of Direct Climate Action

Organizer: Adam Hill

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Steven Watts Metabolic Sabotage
- Adam Hill Bataille’s eco-anxiety: surplus energy and spectacularized acts of sabotage
- Karina Mathew Animated Female Eco-Terrorists and the Ethics of (Non-)Violence: From “Princess Mononoke” to “Rick and Morty”
- Lava Asaad Aesthetics of Ecological Vengeance: Micro-Minorities and Environmental Rights
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Evolutions of Literary Theory: The Afterlives of New Criticism, Structuralism, and Others

Organizer: KATHERIN YU

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Avery Slater AI and the Death of the Author-Function
- Joseph Concannon Plath Critics on Web 1.0
- Dominick Lawton To History, Through Form: Reconsidering the Diachronic in New Critical and Russian Formalisms
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Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century

Organizers: Nicolás Sánchez, Daniel Brandlechner, Cristina Carnemolla

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Anthony Tello Extracting Humanity: Reading the Human in 19th Century Latinx Literature as Non-renewable Resources
- Carles Ferrando Valero On the Receiving End of Empire: Carolina Coronado's Vision of 19th-Century Spain
- Rafael Nunez Rodriguez Una mirada martiana de la deuda ecológica: monstruos, árboles en el comercio transatlántico
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Forbidden Roads: Travel as Metaphor in Contemporary Eastern European Cultures and Literatures

Organizers: Margarita Marinova, Stiliana Milkova

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Mihaela Harper Routes and Veins: Transcorporeal Itineraries in Georgi Gospodinov’s Writing
- Franciszek Dziduch Time to Stay Home? The Ethics of Travel and Movement in Flights through the Lens of Posthuman Phenomenology
- Margarita Marinova Olga Tokarczuk's "Flights" as an Embodiment of the Myth and Metaphor of Travel
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Great Books? Bad Books? Rethinking our Broken Canons

Organizers: Amanda Malone, Kenneth Sammond

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Matthieu Boyd What Can Old Books Teach Us about Rethinking the Canon? The example of the Ovide Moralisé
- Sybil Cooksey Too Tragic, Too Pornographic, Too American: Chester Himes's Archive of French Rejection Letters
- GUANQI LU Space and Ideological Boundaries: The Rejection and Re-reception of Eileen Chang's Lust, Caution
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How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections

Organizers: Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Adrienne Resha

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Alexander Ponomareff To Be Clear: The Ames Lettering Guide, Comics Lettering, and the Demand for Clarity
- Chris Gavaler Seeing Color: Representing Race in CMYK and Digital Colors
- Adrienne Resha Good is Not a Thing Kamala Khan Is, It’s a Thing Ms. Marvel Does
- Nicolas Martinez Marvel Comics Translations in (Francoist) Spain: Othering Identities in Black and White?
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Illegibility and Aesthetic Form in the African Diasporas of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans

Organizers: Semilore Sobande, Kinaya Hassane

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Kinaya Hassane Incommensurate Images: Photography and Labor in the African Indian Ocean
- Steph Brown Reaching for Opacity in Andrew Salkey’s The Adventures of Catullus Kelly and Come Home Malcolm Heartland
- Jordan Taliha McDonald Anti-Blackness, Transoceanic Slavery, and the (Pre)Legibility of Desire in Red Island House
- Kimberly Juanita Brown Movement, Corpus, Flow
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Intersectional Crip Theory: (Re)presenting Intersections of Illness, Disability, and Madness with Gender and Sexuality

Organizers: Tegan Zimmerman, Jordana Greenblatt

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Zoë Burgard Diagnostic Self-Fashioning: Writing the Self Through Disability
- Drew Danielle Belsky Generative Frictions: Cripping Medical Illustration
- Elizabeth Richmond-Garza Either This Wallpaper or Wilde: Victorian Biopolitics at 13 Rue des Beaux Arts
- Jordana Greenblatt “Lifting Belly”: Doing Queer and Trans, Neurodivergent Circus with Gertrude Stein
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Intimacies Against Empire, Archives of the Ordinary: Aleksandar Hemon’s The World and All that It Holds

Organizers: Mo Pareles, Ervin Malakaj

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Ervin Malakaj Queer Balkan Fabulation
- Amal Zaman "Don’t you see that this is my land?" Desire and Anticolonial History in Qurratulain Hyder's Sita Betrayed
- Braden Russell Radical Jewish Diasporism and Kinship in Aleksandar Hemon’s The World and All That It Holds
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Literature and International Development

Organizers: Susanna Sacks, Lauren Horst

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Susanna Sacks From Community to Development: Relation and Economy in Zambian Participatory Theatre, 1972-2022
- Iosefina Blazsani Batto Unfolding Development: Literary Methods as Tools for Analyzing International Development Narratives and Cultural Diplomacy
- Kun Qian The Discourse of Scarcity: A Counternarrative of Global Development in 1930s China
- Kevin Anzzolin “No one can escape the plague”: Economics and Eros in Gabriel García Márquez's Narrative
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Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism

Organizer: Isabelle Hesse

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Meg Brayshaw Resource nationalism, leftist sentiment and mid-century Australian realism
- Emily Potter Extractive regions in Australian literary practice
- Alexander Lalama Gemstone and Geologic Bodies of Resistance in Natalie Diaz's Postcolonial Love Poem
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Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Sohyun Lee

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Wenxin Liang A New Wave of Fever: Spanish Rewritings, Documentaries, and Literary Pilgrimages to Sanmao
- Huei Lan Yen La melancolía racial: la identidad chino-española como resistencia y empoderamiento
- Hyerim Hong Traveling Among Violence and Care: Tourism, Diasporic Memory, and Relationality in Quan Zhou Wu’s La agridolce vita (2023)
- Miaowei Weng Voices and Visions: The Linguistic and Cultural Portrayal of Chinese in Chinas
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Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

Organizer: Carlo Stranges

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Kit Ying Lye This City is Not Mine
- Tingting Zhong From Peasants to Urbanites: Rural Muslim Identity in Patigul’s Bloodline
- Carola Paolucci Beyond identity: the contemporary periphery in Walter Siti, Zadie Smith and Shumona Sinha
- Mamen Rodriguez Galindo Dismantling the “G*psy”: Romani literary affirmations of identity and Romanipen
- Gokul S The Portrayal of Landscape in Valmiki's Joothan: Understanding the Spatial Politics of Dalit Identity
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Mediating the Illegible: Theory, Aesthetics, and Activism under Regimes of Capture

Organizers: Rijuta Mehta, Ani Maitra

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Marco Wan Law, Film, and the Struggle for Legibility: Ray Yeung's Suk Suk
- Shwetha Chandrashekhar Desiring as Dissent: Feminine Unpleasantness in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Maqbool and 7 Khoon Maaf
- Kenneth Berger The Visible and the Illegible
- Prathna Lor Looking for My Eyes
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Mobilizing Gender(s): Neoliberal States and South Asian Cinemas

Organizers: Md Hasan Ashik Rahman, Hena Sarkar

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Mayadevi Murthy Angry Young Neoliberal Man: Tracing the Aesthetics of Neoliberal Masculinity in Telugu Cinema
- Swati Baruah Men written by Women and Women written by Women: The Female Gaze and the Subversion of Toxic Masculinity in Kiran Rao’s Laapata Ladies
- Md Hasan Ashik Rahman Hero Masculinity of Manna: Precarity and Violence in Selected Films of 1990s Neoliberal Bangladesh
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Modernism, Religion, and Empire

Organizers: Apala Das, Suzanne Hobson

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Oscar Chaidez 'Los goces de su encarnación misteriosa': Transubstantiation and Homoerotism in Xavier Villaurrutia’s Nostalgia de la muerte
- Apala Das "Ascesis" and Empire in H. D.'s Helen in Egypt
- Janine Sobers Divine Orientalism: Holy Figures in the Religious Dramas of Sadakichi Hartmann
- Jiacheng Feng Ethnopoetics of Futurism: Venedikt Mart's Poem K'ian and the Ethnographic Knowledge in the Russian Far East
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More-Than-Human Poetics and Worlding

Organizer: Hsinmei Lin

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Jun Zhang Ani(mal)ity and More-Than-Human Poetics: Reimagining Worlding Beyond Boundaries
- Patricia Vieira Zoophytographic Indigenous Writing from the Amazon: Márcia Kambeba’s More than Human Poetry
- Gilad Shiram Words Grown Flesh: The More-than-Human Materialities in Zuzanna Ginczanka's Poetry and the Question of Language
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New Directions in Temporality Studies: Time and the Construction of the Racialized Gendered Subject

Organizer: Elizabeth Rose

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Jose Ruben Diaz Vasquez An Aztec Invocation: The Afterlives of Conquest and Slavery in the Heterotemporal Dialogue of Francisco X. Alarcón’s “Snake Poems”
- Reid Gómez Title: Transing Our Collective Longing: A Poetics of Lateness
- Madiha Noman Temporality and Surveillance: Archival Afterlives in Sultana’s Reality
- Margaret McLaughlin All of America is Inside of You: Temporal Disruption as Queer Black Looking in Kelly’s Bestiary and Collins’s Undersong
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Powers of the Inhuman: Representations of the Working Class in the New International Division of Humanity

Organizer: Marcela Romero Rivera

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Thomas Laughlin The Work of Letters: Nineteenth-Century Writing and Proletarian Experience
- Yidan Wang Bestial Justice: Animality and Worker Resistance in "A Touch of Sin"
- John Macintosh Circulation Fiction
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Present When I'm Absent, Speaking When I'm Not There (Uh): The Surd and Immanent Expression in the Radical Black Aesthetic

Organizer: Zach Wagner

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Kayla Boyden Beyond Form: Tierra Whack’s “Mumbo Jumbo,” Genius, and Radical Black Aesthetics
- Ezekiel Dixon-Roman Black Noise and a Technopolitical Process of Disruption
- Aden Evens Brittle Digital Representation
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Public *Environmental* Humanities

Organizers: Yanoula Athanassakis, Teresa Shewry

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Leonardo Nole Scales of Ecological Grief: Examining Solastalgia through Flash Fiction with Bryan Yazell
- Laura Nelson Outsider Education: (Social) Infrastructures and Place-based Pedagogies
- Anna Hill Cedar Point Park: Sketches and Impressions
- Kate Stanley Practices of Possibility: Experiments in Aesthetic Education for the Twenty-first Century
- Zunaira Yousaf Post-Colonial Environmental Humanities in South Asia
- Anais Maurer Towards Protocols for Ethical Research in Nuclear Studies
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Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America

Organizer: Diego Bustos

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Henrique Bordini The wall and the archive
- Martin Ruiz-Mendoza Ruiz-Mendoza The Archive of the Unlettered in Mapa Teatro’s Witness to the Ruins
- Daniel Bataller Dreaming an Exit from Neoliberalism: Patricio Guzmán's Imaginary Country
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Reading the European Semi-Periphery: Narrative, Legacy, Collective Memory

Organizers: RAUL ALGARIN VILLALBA, Neus Rotger Cerdà

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Neus Rotger Cerdà Semi-Peripheral Literary Spaces, Comparative Literature and the Question of Realism
- Eralda Lameborshi Historical Memory in the Literary Imagination of Southeastern European Literature
- RAUL ALGARIN VILLALBA Semantization of Space and Identity Quest in Post-Yugoslav Literature
- Jan Váňa (De)Constructing Historical Continuity of Post-Soviet Czechoslovakia through Novels
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Relationality in Queer/Trans Asian/American and Asian Diasporic Cultural Forms

Organizers: stef torralba, Phuong Vuong

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Chris A. Eng “Yellow and Barely There”: Queerness amid the Ruins of Whiteness in On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
- Lilika Kukiela Subjectless or Brown? Toward Asian American Relationality through Queer of Color Critique
- stef torralba Feeling Close in Queer and Trans US Filipinx and Indigenous Diasporic Undocumented Literature
- MT Vallarta On “Filipinx:” Space, Place, and Critical Togetherness
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Remembering the Future: (Re)Constructing Memory and Realities in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and the Balkans

Organizer: Thomas Jesús Garza

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Dragoslav Momcilovic American Zombies and Balkan Monsters: Immigrant and Refugee Narratives in The Walking Dead - Dead City
- Judit Papp Hungarian poetry from the Soviet Labor Camps
- Matthew Mucha Queer Excavation & the Post-Socialist Archive: Imagining Otherwise in Remigiusz Ryziński's Foucault in Warsaw
- Lana Krys Ukraine at War with Its Soviet Past: Liuko Dashvar’s SpADok
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Rethinking Literature Beyond the Frame of the Citizen

Organizer: Diana Filar

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Matilde Piu Beyond Borders. Exploring Transcultural Identities in the Works of Maria Kuncewicz and Elisabeth Mann Borgese
- Corinna Cape Deconstructing Citizenship in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient
- Tathagata Som State Violence and Ecological Belonging in Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004)
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Sensation and/as Method

Organizers: Yanbing Er, Hayun Cho

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Mohammad Mehdi Kimiagari (Un)Staged Sensations in Lingering Relay: Ebrat as a Shapeshifting, Reverberant Affect
- Hayun Cho Between Fact and Fiction: Sensations of Writing in Shin Kyung-sook’s A Lone Room
- Ka Lee Wong Crying for the Loss: Emotion as a Methodology to Recuperate Hong Kong Cantonese Singing Traditions in Disappearance
- Atsuko Sakaki The Sonorous Body That Writes and Reads in Itō Seikō’s “Imai-san”
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Speculating Speculative Fiction

Organizer: John Souza

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Rachel Tay Whither Spectacle?
- Annabel Kim Speculative/Fiction
- Tyler Lutz Science Fiction's Incompleteness
- barbara simerka Prototype Theories of Genre and Octavia E. Butler’s Hybrid “Speculative” Fiction
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Surplus Labour and World-Literature

Organizer: Joshua Hambleton-Jewell

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Madeleine Sinclair “Her womb grew into a churning vortex”: Feminized Body-Horror and the Crisis of Care in Carribean Fragoza’s Short Fiction
- Joshua Hambleton-Jewell Gendered labour precarity and literary form in the Caribbean novel
- Chloe Green Economies of Feeling: Emotional Labour and the Work of Wellness in Catherine Lacey’s The Answers
- Iris Gioti Sex, Reproduction and the Abjection of Labour within the Eastern Mediterranean Novel
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The End of the Beginning: Post-Soul Humor

Organizers: Alex Valin, Jasleen Singh

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Mukasa Mubirumusoke Laughing in the Void: Between Black and Dark Humor
- amadi ozier Canned Laughter and the Attention Economy
- Kyle Fox Shuckin’ and Jivin’: A Journey Toward Palatable Black Masculinity Among America’s Bullsh**
- Esme Feurtado No Closure: Humor as Post-Racial Refusal in Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Percival Everett's Erasure
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The Poetics of Collecting

Organizer: Guangchen Chen

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- David Seamans To in the Ruthless Critique Find Love: Collecting as Critical Epistemology
- Katherine Payne Case Files and Accidental Archives: Two Collected Poetics
- Ye Ram Kim Palimpsests of Silence: Collecting Lost Voices and Bodies from French Archives in Algerian and Korean Narratives
- Dore Levy Collecting Illusion: The Panoply of Art Collections in The Story of the Stone
- Haley Reed Unpacking the Collection With/In Virginia Woolf's Orlando
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Time, Memory, and the Western

Organizers: Jordan Savage, Jini Kim Watson

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Richard Parker ’49-’17-’68: Ruth Ann Baldwin, Lina Wertmüller and Women’s Memory Westerns
- John Dunn Hunting the West: John Williams’ Butcher’s Crossing (1960) and the future of ecological crisis in the Western
- Matthew Carter Who Framed Liberty Valance?
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Toxic Exposure: Chemicals in Contemporary Global Fiction

Organizers: Alexandra Brown, David Vivian

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- David Vivian Toxicity and Decoloniality
- Joelle Vitiello From Brittany to the Caribbean: Intoxicated Waters, Ecotones, and Land
- sarah nisenson Metamorphic Seeds, Metonymic Life: How Toxic Exposure Engenders Life in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation
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Translation Futures

Organizers: Anandi Rao, Youngmin Kim

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Hiu Chi Chan Breaking Barriers: Leveraging Corpus Tools for Cantopop's Global Reach
- Hongyang Ji How to Translate Animals in Eco-translation: Adapting Methods and Strategies from Related Translation Theory?
- SYED SALMAN ABBAS Temporality of gender: Dealing with euphemisms and invisibility of “Chaste” Urdu in translating Sibylle Berg’s Gender Manifesto of the future
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Undetermined Promising Futures

Organizer: Michael Turcios

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Samuel Aftel Anti-Progressive Futurities in Contemporary Palestinian Literature
- Shruti Shukla Dreaming of Promising Futures in a Promised Land
- Michael Turcios Indigenous Poetic Time, Palestine on Hold
- Maia Rodriguez Remembering Our Decolonial Futures
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Utopian Substances in and Beyond the Soviet Empire

Organizers: George Kovalenko, Aleksandr Prigozhin

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Auriane Benabou Grouse or Gruel: Gendered Ideology of Food and Fat in Russian Literature of the 1920s
- Asiya Bulatova Ilya Ehrenburg’s Nuclear Nirvana: Utopian Figurations of Radium in Early-Soviet Science Fiction
- Aurelia Cojocaru Grey Matter as Utopian Substance: Lenin’s Cerebrum and Futurist "Mass-Brain"
- George Kovalenko The World of Secrets and Substance: Platonov's Lyric Materialism
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Ways of Living/Leaving: Intermedial Landscape, Walking and Mapping

Organizers: Irene Artigas, Susana González-Aktories

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Dong Xia What Does Google Maps Have to Do with Literary Realism?: Informational Imagining from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith
- Maria Rita Campbell Seeing the Broken Circle: Visualising Disaster Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land
- Keni LI Redrawing the Map of Lost Memory: Cinematic Cartography, Deep Mapping, and City Memory Space
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World Literature and Disappearance

Organizers: Peter Leman, Peter Leman, Joseph Wager

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Cheri Robinson Silence Equals Death: Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders
- Joseph Wager Transforming Forensic Absence into Narrative Presence: Literary Genealogies of Disappearance in a Global Perspective
- Muhammad Farooq From Software Update to Unaccounted Bodies: Pain and Temporality of Missing Persons in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Frontier
- Kasia Mika-Bresolin “I live, as we all live, in the aftermath:” mourning poiesis and forensic imagination in the works of Hisham Matar and Diana Matar
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World Literature and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery

Organizer: Arif Camoglu

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Ayse Circir Gendering Orientalism in Ottoman Egypt: Representations of Odalisques, Concubines and Eunuchs in Out el Kouloub’s Ramza
- Nihan Simge Soyoz The Objecting Concubine: Sexual Slavery, Marital Ethics, and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century Oriental Tale
- sennur bakirtas The Devşirme System as a Proto-Postcolonial Mechanism: Dracula’s Devşirme in The Historian
- Hasan BAKTIR Ottoman Serai and Ruling Slaves
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Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, Sofía Forchieri

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Elena von Ohlen 'Las brujas saben cambiar de género': The witch as a fluid being in Latin American literary history.
- Ana Marina Gamba Body-territory in Fernanda Melchor's Temporada de huracanes: Transfemicide, Extractivism and Pedagogies of Cruelty
- Vivian Arimany Gothic Gender: Vengeance Against Gender Violence in Jayro Bustamante's Film "La llorona" (2019)
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4:30 PM CDT - 5:45 PM CDT

ICLA Business Meeting

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 4:30 PM CDT - 5:45 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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4:30 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

Presidential Address: Karen Emmerich

Organizers: Karen Emmerich, Karyn Ball

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 4:30 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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5:45 PM CDT - 6:45 PM CDT

Awards Ceremony

Day: Friday, May 30, 2025

Time: 5:45 PM CDT - 6:45 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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SATURDAY May 31st

10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

Organizer: Zaynab Ali

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Hyo Kyung Woo (Un)Homing the Motherland and Zainichi Identities in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko (2017)
- Rosina Martucci ITALY REVISITED. CONVERSATIONS WITH MY MOTHER BY MARY MELFI, A MEMOIR EXPLORING LANGUAGE, IDENTITY AND DISPLACEMENT
- emel zorluoglu akbey From Ottoman Empire to American Melting-pot: An Empowering Transcultural Identity- The Case of Selma Ekrem
- Oriana Mejias Martinez Since we know about horror… Memories for the future in Atrás queda la tierra by Arianna De Sousa-García
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Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction

Organizer: Ioana Pribiag

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Oana Panaite The Ambivalent Poethics of Necrofiction
- Renee Randall Spirited Resistance: Transcending Necropolitics in Elias Khoury’s Yalu
- Pujarinee Mitra "Corpse-land étiquette": Code of conduct in Kashmir's Necropolis
- Ioana Pribiag Death Between Madness and Memory: (Im)possible Commemoration in Jean-Luc Raharimanana’s Za
- Letitia Guran "The Visibility of Death in Alexandre Nanau’s Collective"
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Against Presentism: The Deep History of Our Discipline and Our Object of Study

Organizers: Michael Makarovsky, Delia Ungureanu

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Francesca Orsini A verse at the right moment
- Roxana Eichel Rereading Protofeminism: Moderata Fonte and the Sources of Feminism as World Literature
- Rebecca Smith Translating the Sacred: Nahua and Castilian Concepts of Sacrality in Colonial Nahuatl Religious Theater
- Manuel Azuaje-Alamo Translated into the Present of Another Culture: On the Presentism of Japanese-language Translations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium
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Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

Organizers: Kevin Blankinship, Muhsin al-Musawi

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Allison Gibeily Correcting Christians: Louis Cheikho, ʿĪssa Iskandar al-Maʿalūf, and the Curation of Arabic Literary History
- Ali Almajnooni Narrativizing the Ṣuʿlūk Figure in Modern Arabic Fiction
- Levi Thompson 'The Echo Rings Out in Every Ear': How the Past Haunts Modernist Arabic Poetry
- Evelyn Richardson Ancient and Modern in Light of Muwaylihi’s Fatra min al-Zaman
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Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future

Organizers: Michele Chinitz, Shoumik Bhattacharya

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Emmanuel Velayos Larrabure Jacinto Ventura and the Weaving of Communal Rights into Postcolonial Republics
- Aamna Rashid Absent Bodies, Present Memories: The Visual Politics of Disappearance and Resistance in Chile and Pakistan
- Fadila Habchi Leila Sebbar and the Limits of Integration
- Jing Wei Channeling the Peripheral: Affective Trance and Solidarity in Hamid Ismailov’s Manaschi
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Kelly Ferguson

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Emilio Irigoyen What the Old Man Knew. Patriarchy, Rootedness, and Modernization in Barranca abajo
- Kelly Ferguson Unruly Rural Landscapes vs. Barbaric Modernity in Jayro Bustamante's Ixcanul (2015), Temblores (2019), and La Llorona (2019)
- Paulo Soares Brazilian Gauchism: Ideology, Detachment, and the Shaping of Southern Brazilian Identity
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Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

Organizers: Florian Zappe, James Dowthwaite

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Aliju Kim Ruined Splendor and Urban Imaginary: Korean Travelers in Colonial Cities
- Yijie Zhang Beyond Dichotomies: Reframing Decadence in Early Modern Chinese Revolutionary Aesthetics
- Robert Stilling Decadence and Early Twentieth-Century West Indian Print Culture
- Emily Singeisen What Book Does This Picture NOT Represent? Decadence, Dada, and the Drawings of Clara Tice
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Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics

Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Christiane Fischer Shifting Borderlands: German Colonialism in Hito Steyerl’s The Empty Center
- Cristina M. Gamez-Fernandez Visions of Hope from the Border: The Case of Tim Z. Hernandez's Mañana Means Heaven and Jennifer de Leon's Borderless
- Jennifer Gully The Body as Biometric Border with Lynn Itagaki
- Sophia Lencioni Animal Imagery as Resistance to Classification for the Deterritorialized Border-Crossing Subject
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Broken Middles

Organizers: Kieran Brown, Robert Lucas Scott, George Mather

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- James Callahan Critical Marxism: Between the Critique of Political Economy and the Critique of Political Theology
- Conrad Bongard Hamilton The Brokenness of Value: Of Gillian Rose and Alfred Sohn-Rethel
- Michael Lazarus Economy and the State: Rose, Luxemburg and Arendt
- Rocío Zambrana Philosophy in the Severe Style: Method and Value in Rose’s Hegel and Marx
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Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches

Organizer: Titas Bose

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- DIVYA KANNAN Imperial Compassion: Missionary Periodicals, Philanthropy, and Childhood in Colonial India
- Niyati Gangwar Sharma Vernacular Children’s Periodicals in Colonial North India: An Inter-Textual Study of Urdu and Hindi Publications
- Paul Ringel Making Space for African-American Children’s Literature: The Brownies’ Book, 1920-1921
- İclal Didem Arvas Constructing the Republican Child: National Identity and Modern Childhood in Yavrutürk (1936–1942)
- leting zheng Little Red Guards in The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976): Violence, Happiness, and Hatred in Propagandistic Children’s Periodicals
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China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective

Organizers: Andrew Emerson, Xiaolong Hou

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Anatoly Detwyler Remaking the World: Film, Bianxiang, and Comparative Media
- Andrew Emerson Disrupting Allegory in the Chinese Sitcom
- Xiaolong Hou China and its Forgotten Frontier: Inner/Mongolia in Chinese Cinema and Television (1950s-2010s)
- Sheldon Lu Reimagining Chinese Culture in Transpacific Sino-American Films
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Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South

Organizers: Marie Huber, Maziyar Faridi

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Marie Huber Parables of Self and Other: Early Poetic Ethnographies of the Iranian New Wave
- Ayesha Barque The Erratically Cine-poetic Indian Biopic
- Aaron Lacayo Your Own Museum: Absence, Memory and Art Objects in For Your Peace of Mind, Make Your Own Museum
- Maryam Athari The Mutable Rhythm of Reality: Manoucher Yektai’s Poetics of Overlooked Things
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Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World

Organizers: Bhavya Tiwari, Sucheta Kanjilal

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

Organizers: Shirl Yang, Jennifer Y Pan

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Conchitina Cruz Translation Fever and the Export of Literary Production in the Philippines’ Guest-of-Honor Program at the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair
- Chih-hen Chang Complicit Figures, Complicit Readers: Taiwan’s White Terror Fiction in the Age of Transitional Justice (2018–2024)
- Jennifer Y Pan Ecological Maintainability and Complicit Infrastructures in Utopian Fiction
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Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

Organizer: Nahir Otano Gracia

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- QUIM SOLIAS Problematizing Race Articulations in Bruni’s Panegyric to Florence
- Clara Jimenez You are not the father: or, the Multifaceted Lump Child in The King of Tars
- Dontay Givens II Facing Opacity: Blackness and the Aesthetics of the Spielraum
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Decolonisation and the Literary Field

Organizers: Michelle Kelly, Jarad Zimbler

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang Decolonizing Method: Reimagining Teaching Practices at the University of Ghana
- Michelle Kelly Cultural Institutions and the Emerging Postcolonial State: Gold Coast/Ghana 1950-1965
- Rebecca Roach Literary Sociologies from the Teaching Archive: World Lit edition
- Madeline Bedecarre Decolonizing the Library
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Disciplinary Affects: The Aesthetics of Systemic Injustices

Organizer: Esther Edelmann

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Esther Edelmann From Diffusion to Quantum Leap: Is This the Endgame, or What’s Left Out?
- Navid Naderi Censored Tele-visions: On the Structure of Islamophobic Feelings
- Zachary Riggins The Aesthetics of Minor Feelings in Chinatowns Old and New: Humor in Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Interior Chinatown
- Siddharth Arora Hindu Nationalism and the Genre of the Absurd
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Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.

Organizer: Peter Ogunniran

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ne'am Abd Elhafeez Unspoken Violence of Refugees’ Narratives in Hassan Blasim’s Short Fiction
- Oluwakemisola Adeusi Colonial Shadows: Politics, Aesthetics, and Identity in Ousmane Sembene’s "Black Girl"
- Chinaza Egere Les Héritages du Colonialisme et les Crises Identitaires des Réfugiés dans Jacaranda de Gaël Faye : Une Approche Postcoloniale et Traumatique
- Gorica Majstorovic Shattered Literary Forms: Refugee Routes in Bekim Sejranović and Hassan Blasim
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Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine

Organizers: Michiel Bot, Dina Zbeidy

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Dina Zbeidy From control to Scholasticide: Israel’s policy towards Palestinian education
- Michael Litwack Palestine and the Philosemitic University
- Sarouche Razi Managing its ways into meaninglessness: the Australian university and Palestine with Lina Koleilat
- Brittany Munro Violence, to keep you safe: on zionist 'safety' and the demands of anti-racist teaching in this moment
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Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism

Organizer: Alexander Sorenson

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ruoshui Zhang Ecological Ecstasy and Mysticism: Wallace Stevens’ Poetry and the Transcendence of Modern Subjectivity
- Thomas Carlson Ecstasy and Atmosphere: On Selfhood, Nature, and Religion in Existential Phenomenology and the American Poetic Tradition
- Kathryn Lawson Ecological Attention and Simone Weil
- William Zeng Bataille as Ecological Mystic: Aesthetics and Negativity
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Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

Organizers: Sainico Ningthoujam, Moinak Banerjee

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Mathias Iroro Orhero Elemental Forces in Niger Delta Literary and Cultural Production
- Chelsea Keane 'We Live As If Divided': Imperialism, Globalism, and Elemental World-Building in Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Semanti Basu Employing the Elemental: South Asian Novels and Resisting Genre-fication
- Kritish Rajbhandari Monsoon as Setting: Reading Literary Atmosphere in the Age of Climate Change
- Alok Amatya Place-making as Resistance in Environmental Justice Documentary Film
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Embracing Glocality: New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

Organizers: Ileana Baird, Chrysavgi Papagianni

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- vasiliki kotini Exploring Glocality in David Malouf’s Ransom: Identity, Liminality, and the Reimagining of Myth
- Sheetal Majithia Cinema Under Siege
- Heba Embaby Aly Isis; Feminism and the Egyptian Myth
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Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons

Organizer: Moira Weigel

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Yiyun Zhang Ethnography as a Literary Research Method: A Case Study of Yi Author Yi Wu’s Literary Life
- Rovel Sequeira Fabulations of a Fugitive: The Hijra/Trans Subject and Ethnography as Queer Method
- Muneer Aram Kuzhiyan Genre and/as Devotion: The Māla and Contemporary Muslim Ethical Formation on the Malabar Coast
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Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

Organizer: Yu Min Claire Chen

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Thomas Mical Future Memory with Posthuman Apparatuses in Cinematic Dreaming
- Ju Young Jin Memory and Human Moments in the Posthuman: Don DeLillo’s Zero K
- Callie Ingram Technologies of Consciousness in Jennifer Egan's "Vision" Trilogy
- 冠維黃 Entangled Memory: Zen, Quantum Physics, and Speculative Narrative in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale For the Time Being
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Genealogies of World Comparatism

Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Adriana Stan

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Zoltán Z. Varga Transnational and Comparative Perspectives in Early Hungarian Literary Criticism
- Blaz Zabel The Many Origins of Comparative Literature: Matija Murko and the early years of Slavia
- Karlis Verdins Polyglottism and anticolonial nationalism in the early Latvian literary culture
- Cosmin Borza The Scandinavian Model: The North as Terra Comparationis of the Romanian Populists from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
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Ghost Figures in World Literature

Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Maysoon Shibi, Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Diego Baena

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Learned Foote Tibetan Ghosts & Environmental Healing: Readings in Adzom Drukpa's Life Writings
- Ido Fuchs "We are ghosts and we should go and haunt the world": Ghosts in contemporary Palestinian cultural production
- Kristin Perkins Finding Ghosts in Angels: Converting KKK Robes to Angel Costumes in The Prince of Peace Easter Pageant, 1936
- Soonyoung Lee The Spectral Lens: Rethinking Humanity through Ghosts in Post-2000 Korean Literature
- Nicole Dib Storied Ghosts in the Native Pacific: Contemporary Scenes of Resistance to the Specter of Settler Colonialism
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Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics

Organizers: Carson Hammond, Gabriel Briex

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Laura Zebuhr The Paper That Is Not Titled "Giving Up the Ghost": Failed Hermeneutics and the American Gothic Literary Tradition
- Gabriel Briex Mourning, Giving, and Giving Up in Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man
- Rohan Ghatage Colson Whitehead's Racial Realism
- Hui Min Annabeth Leow Racial (In)difference and the Stakes of Giving Up on Southeast Asian American Failure
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Global Legal Imagination

Organizer: Adam Schoene

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Amalie Goul Dueholm Imagining and Imaging the New Legal Order: Consent and Sexual Violence in the Courtroom Drama Section 375
- Mauricio Oportus Preller The Beasts of the Sovereign: Animality and Legal Narrative in Rómulo Gallegos’s Doña Bárbara (1929)
- Nicholas Huelster Montaigne's Skeptical Libertinage
- Sabine Kim Performative Theft and the Illegalities of Colonial Law
- Adam Schoene Law Beyond Borders
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Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

Organizer: Shaj Mathew

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Gavin Herbertson “Not the Exception but the Norm”: Creolizing Cross-Cultural Influence
- Bowen Wang “Poet-Painter of China”: E. E. Cummings’ Daoist Philosophies and Transpacific Modernism
- Jacob Sponga Rethinking the Modernist Pollutive in Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal
- Culin Peddada A Mind Like A Knife: Nietzsche and Salih's Challenge to the Modern European Mind
- Mariia Lupak Literature as a tool of Nation-Building
- Austin Wilson Against the Machine: Tagore in Cyberspace
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Growing Up in the Global South: Children, Agency and World-Making in Contemporary Literature

Organizer: Marco Ramirez

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Edward Dehua Wang Cycling History: The Child as Historian in "City of Small Blessings"
- SOUMYADEEP CHAKRABORTY Locating the ‘Adult-Child Interplay’: A Study of Select Children’s Fiction of Shashi Deshpande
- Silvia Ruiz Tresgallo Agencies and Resistances of a Street Child in Honduras: Alex Dogboy by Mónica Zak
- Marco Ramirez THE BOOK OF EMMA REYES: AN ACTIVE DISTRUST OF CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
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History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

Organizer: Zachary Hicks

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Harsha Ram Between Myth and Folklore: Socialist Realism and Modernist Archaism in the Soviet Georgia
- Esa Purschke Contiguous Internationalism: the Proletarian Culture Movement
- Margarita Delcheva Late within the Second World: Mail Art and Concrete Poetry in Bulgarian
- Ena Selimovic Huck Finn Sails the River Sava: Imperial Myths on Two Continents
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Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

Organizer: Asijit Datta

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Alexandre Desbiens-Brassard Clawing Back the Apocalypse: Technology, Gaia and the cycle of extinction in Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West
- Sarah Warren Extinction vs. Homo Botanicus: Environmental Aesthetics as Existential Protection
- Andrea Natan Feltrin Rewilding Afterness: Extinction as Regeneration and Speculative Futures
- Jan Kastner The Epistemological Problem of Extinction and Its Ontological Implications
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Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

Organizer: Hudson Moura

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Mauro Colarieti #TheresAFreakingGhostBehindUs. Supermassive Games and the Revolution of Interactive Horror
- Ayman Almomani Dystopia: Interactive Horrors
- Apala Kundu Teaching Literatures of Migration on the Move through Storytelling and Interactivity
- Cassandra Barkman The Potential Narrative Complexity of Navigability in Videogames
- Evan Torner From Parlor Games to Larp: Interpreting Adult Pretend Play
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Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

Organizer: Ali Ahsan

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Badusha Peer Masthan Badqismath Auratein: Towards the Aesthetics of Dalit Muslim Feminism through Shajahana’s “Laddaaffni” and “Silsila”
- Izza Ahsan Music & Mysticism: an Anti-Caste Study of Hindustani Classical Arts
- Saurav Rai In Search of Vanshikura: A Critical Reexamination of Scheduled Tribe Demands in Darjeeling
- Sunaina Arya Ambedkar - Caste, Religion, and Patriarchy
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Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

Organizers: Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Ruma Sinha

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Turni Chakrabarti Outrage, Social Media, and Gender-based Violence
- Nupur Chawla Recurring Instances of Sexual Violence: A Sign of Biopower?
- Somia Bibi Expressions of Outrage and their Consequences: The Importance, Dangers, Silences and Contradictions
- Anja Wieden Outrageous Depictions of Sexual Violence
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Large Language Models and Literature

Organizers: Nina Begus, Aaron Hanlon

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Tessa Haining 'The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction': what literary theory can teach us about AI
- Katerina Zoi AI Meets Literature: Comparing Human and AI-Generated Content Based on Alexandros Papadiamantis' Works with Dimitrios Mysiloglou
- Matthew Kilbane The Large Language Model and the Workshop: Gwendolyn Brooks, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, and Community Writing
- Patrick Sui Large Language Models are Post-Structuralist Intertexts
- Nina Begus Artificial Humanities and LLMs
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Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

Organizers: Simone Murray, Alexander Manshel

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Mark McGurl Criticism at Scale: BookTube and Literary Hyper-Abundance
- J.D. Porter The Popular Life of Literary Critical Language
- Matthew Eatough *The Untranslated* and the Art of Amateur Criticism
- Shakti Jaising Televisual Literature: From PBS to Netflix
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Ways of Writing Vietnam

Organizers: Marian Wolbers, Lisa Luu

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Marian Wolbers Reader Response Theory to the Rescue: Pedagogical Challenges re. Teaching Vietnam-Related Literature in Present-Day American College Settings with Lisa Luu
- Yan Zhao The Trial of the Foreign
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Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

Organizers: Philip Mills, Joel De Lara

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Eric Lindstrom Literary "Immodality": A Felicitous Error in Austin?
- David Rudrum NOTES IN/AND/ON AUSTIN
- Camila Lobo The total perspective in the total perspective situation
- Joel De Lara Incorrigible Corrigibility and Sensible Sensibility
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Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

Organizer: Nidesh Lawtoo

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Kemal Sultanov Mimo(n)tologies: the scenic life of concepts
- Asijit Datta Indian Parasites and Contagious Media: A Study of a Divided Nation under a State of Exception
- Fatima Festic Mimesis, Nomadic Thought, and Postdiasporic Dispersion
- Benjamin Schoonenberg Witnessing the Contemporary: The Aesthetization of Politics and Meme-esis
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Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

Organizers: Christopher Gortmaker, Joseph Staten

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Davis Smith-Brecheisen Contemporary Modernism and a Correct Picture of the World
- Joseph Staten "The Essence of All Painting is Quality"
- Walter Michaels MAGAfiction
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Oceanic Humanities

Organizers: Sarah Senk, Colin Dewey

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Sarah Senk Mourning the Unseen, Navigating Slow Disaster
- Nanthanoot Udomlamun Hydrotextuality: Rethinking Forms of Oceanic Narratives in the Changing Climate
- Oliver Aas The Meltwater of History: Arctic as Media
- Shelby Oxenford (Re)Writing the World: Tsunami Disasters in Contemporary East Asian Literature
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Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Organizer: Yuanfei Wang

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Nicolai Volland Coming to Terms with the Ocean in Early Modern China
- Yuanfei Wang A Whirlpool, an Undercurrent, and an Oceanic Heterotopia in an 18th-century Chinese novel Maritime Adventures
- Kelly Yin Nga Tse Asia deluged: A long-range perspective
- Jasmin Law The Myth of Luting: Writing the Sea Nomads at the Maritime Frontier
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Photographic Practices of Repair

Organizer: Candela Marini

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Sophia Mo Unmuting the Gaze of Algerian Female Freedom Fighters
- Juliana Fillies Photography and Afro-Colombian Self-Representation in the Thousand Days War (1899-1902)
- Suddhadeep Mukherjee Repair, not Recuperation: Twin Sisters breaking the backdrop with their Cameras
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Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness

Organizer: Hayley Cotter

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Stephen Ellis (Dis)embodied Consciousness: Two Views from Contemporary Poetry
- Effy Morris Substance or Life: The Spinozist Poetics of Clarice Lispector
- Juan David Cadena Botero Ontology and Visions in Latin American Arts, Literature and Culture
- Hayley Cotter The Sonnets, the Self, and the Problem of Consciousness
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Postcolonial South-Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

Organizers: Chinmay Pandharipande, Rafid C

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Prateek Sharma Tracing the place of Premakhyan in Hindi and Urdu literary histories: Doing "Literary History from Below"
- Shreya Dash Colonial Indian Novel-- National Or Supranational: Illustrating A History Of Literary Systems Using The "Horizon Of Expectations" As A Tool Through Fakir Mohan Senapati’s Six Acres and a Third (1896) and O. Chandumenon’s Indulekha (1889)
- Smitha S Varghese (Re)Writing Area; (Dis)Locating Literature
- Ananya Dutta Teaching the Partition of India in a Literature Department: Praxis, Problems, and Proposals.
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Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Eli Park Sorensen

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- DIDIER COSTE The Stakes of Realist Aesthetics in Global Confrontation
- Hicham Bouhlal Realism and Transcultural Identity in French Migrant Writing
- Nicolas NOE Metabolizing Realism: Caribbean Narratives Beyond Western Aesthetics in Chamoiseau’s Texaco and Pineau’s La Grande drive des Esprits
- Michelle Lee Arabesque Realism in Honoré de Balzac’s La Peau de chagrin and Voyage de Paris à Java
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Rebooting World SF

Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Hugh O'Connell

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Taryne Jade Taylor Caribbean Futurisms and the Apocalypse: From Devastation to CoFuturist Utopia
- Nicola Hunte Nemesis as Saving Grace: Re-Positioning Human for a Truly Global SF
- Guangzhao Lyu World SF as Hyperobject: Locality and Being-in-the-World-ness of Chinese SF
- Kylie Korsnack Co-Designed Canons: Collaborative Narratives of World SF with Okorafor and Singh with Jessica FitzPatrick
- Justice Hagan American and World SF in Gaming
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Technicity and the Genesis of the Posthuman World in Literature, Film, Performance, Computational Media, and Critical Theory

Organizers: Jecheol Park, Mayumo Inoue

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Jecheol Park The Cinematic Genesis of the Posthuman World as Emergent Transindividual Individuations
- [email protected] Ahn Hauntological Archive and Troubling Histories on East Asian films
- Pinar İnceefe Exploring Technicity and the Copernican Turn in a Retro-Futuristic Discourse: Ian McEwan’s "Machines Like Me"
- Yongjin Kim Return of the obsolete film medium in the age of Posthumanism
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The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

Organizer: Shruti Jain

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ankit Ramteke Debrahmanizing Literary Studies: A Critical Caste Approach
- Megha A G Navigating Paradigms: The Influence of Critical Caste Studies on Dalit Studies and Dalit Feminism
- Riya Singh Varna ≠ Vocation: Resistance against Casteist Labor Subjugation
- Ravneet Param Reconstitution of Caste Privilege in Elite Educational Institutions
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The Person in Law & Culture

Organizers: Jeannine DeLombard, Peter Schneck

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Peter Schneck Who's a person, anyway? Law, Lliterature and Subjective Rights
- Laura Zander Reimagining Personhood: Ludic Ubuntu Ethics in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s "Nervous Conditions" and Yaa Gyasi’s "Homegoing"
- Ethan Madarieta 'one’s own and unrepeatable territory': The Mapuche che and the territorio cuerpo-tierra
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The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

Organizers: Noah Terrell, SUBARNA MONDAL

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Jonathan Greenaway From Gallerte to Financial Spectrality - Notes on A Taxonomy of Contemporary Body Horror
- Benjamin Schluter “To Accommodate the Inhuman”: Julia Armfield’s Slow Body Horror and the Banality of the Anthropocene
- Noah Terrell Aesthetic Experience and the Horror of Anthropogenesis in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future
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Translating the Caribbean

Organizers: Simona Bertacco, Laura Ekberg

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Yvonne Lindqvist The Anglo-Caribbean translation-scape in Sweden 1990–2020
- Laura Ekberg Shifting trends in Nordic translations of Caribbean literary works
- Seda EROL LE MORELLEC An Analysis of Turkish Translations of Jean Rhys's Novels as Feminist Postcolonial Texts
- Simona Bertacco Multilingualism and Translation in Caribbean Literature
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Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry

Organizers: Lucas Klein, Chris Song

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Brian Reed Into the Wind: Wong May's Translations of Xue Tao and Yu Xuanji
- Cosima Bruno Translating Ling Yü's Poetry in 2024
- Chris Song Rewriting as a Space of Poetic and Ideological Negotiation: Shi Zhecun’s 1934 Special Issue on “Modern American Poetry” in Les Contemporaines
- Daniel Fried National and Regional Poetics in the Sinitic Republic of Letters
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TV-Philosophy

Organizers: Jeroen Gerrits, Elif Sendur

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Sebastian Lederle Being an Android among Androids in Star Trek TNG: Cybernetics, Virtuality, Technopoiesis
- Heidi Ka-Sin Lee Character Identification as Plot: Moral Engagement in Sci-fi Thriller Series of the High-Tech Era
- Jeroen Gerrits What is Televisual Skepticism?
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Untangling the Past: the Figure of the Detective in Postcolonial and Transnational Fiction

Organizers: Priscilla Charrat-Nelson, Julia Calderón

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Brian Martin Polar Crime: Nordic Detectives and Neo-Colonial Narratives
- Kamelia Talebian Sedehi Finding the Lost Ones in Le Vent en Parle Encore
- Priscilla Charrat-Nelson Transnational Pursuits and Postcolonial Shadows: Unveiling Dawa Through the Detective Lens
- Warisara Emily Sawin Investigating Arranged Marriages in Clément Baloup’s Mémoires de Viet Kieu: Les Mariées de Taïwan
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Varieties of the Impersonal

Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Joseph Henry

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Jacob Reimer Murder Revisited: Kokoshka's Play and the Question of "Battle" of Sexuality
- Leland Jasperse Chaste Brevity: Short Form, Literary Recessiveness, and Asexual Style
- Conall Cash Measuring the Impersonal: Economies of Personhood and Race in Fitzgerald and Morrison
- Maïté Marciano From Impersonality to Disaffection: The Fallacy of the 'Pensée du Neutre' in Modern French Theory and Literature.
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What is in Plain Sight?

Organizer: Yitzhak Lewis

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Yitzhak Lewis What is Between the Lines? Aestheticizing Omission and the Readings of Literature
- Arne Sander Speculative Forensics. Fiction and Fabulation in Edmond Locard’s L’enquête criminelle et les méthodes scientifiques
- Jeanette Goddard From Blindness to Marriage in Gl’ingannati: Visuality and the Comedic Genre
- Susanne Fuchs “It now seems obvious”: Cognitive Dissonance in Brenda Shaughnessy’s The Octopus Museum
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Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith

Organizers: Niia Bishop, Niia Bishop

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Brett Zehner Model Collapse: On Capital and White Anxiety
- Olivia Gunn Whiteness, Quitting, and Quitting Whiteness in the Writings of Camara Lundestad Joof
- Niia Bishop Eternal Flame: The Fire of White Supremacy and the Fragility of Home in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
- Matthew Ussia Cosplaying White Working-Class Identity
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Work

Organizers: Alya Ansari, Eli Jelly-Schapiro

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Annie McClanahan Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Domestic Worker Novel
- Madeline Lane-McKinley Women in the Workplace: Looking at the Erotic Thriller After #MeToo
- Sarah Brouillette Emma Cline's The Guest versus the "Trauma Plot"
- Charles Tyson Work and the Standardization of Personality: Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman
- Sean O'Brien Working Hard or Hardly Working? Precarity In and Out of the Workplace
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Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality

Organizers: Marc Botha, Heather Yeung

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Aurora Romero Vom Turm ins Land geschleudert: Stone and Current in the Work of Rose Ausländer
- Adele Bardazzi Poetics of Mourning Between Lithic Inscriptions and Textile Elegies: Gian Maria Annovi and Indira Allegra
- Fangdai Chen From Stone to Paper: Stèles (1912) and Victor Segalen's Project of "Cultural Becomimg"
- Heather Yeung Spolia: Lapidarium, Flight, Echo-Location
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"Doing" Media Studies in the Global South

Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, Ankita Deb

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Mejgan Massoumi Listening to the Past: Memory, Migration, and Archives of Sound in Afghanistan
- Didi Cheeka What does it mean to think Third Cinema in Relation to Doing Archival Studies and Practices in the Global South?
- Aatika Singh Ambedkar’s Iconoclasm- Entanglements of Doing, Desecration and Dignity in Contemporary North India
- Nancy Martínez Profound Adornment: Building New Archives with Contemporary Maya Glyph Usage
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“The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

Organizers: Tim Wyman-McCarthy, Asha Varadharajan

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Joseph Bitney "The Mob Lurks Just Under the Skin": Crowd Theory as Melodrama
- Asha Varadharajan Playing Fast and Loose with 'Tragedy': The Politics of Generic (Un)Scrupulousness in Human Rights Discourse
- Sophie Salvo Impotent Forms: Crabwalk and the Political Novel
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(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

Organizers: Hannah Link, Brittany Buscio

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Brittany Buscio “Autenticamente nostro”: Nostalgic Repurposing of Dante in Meloni’s Politics of Control
- Catherine Enwright Wartime Domestic Melodrama in Griffith, Gance and Flazer
- Gwendoline Choi Colonial Nostalgia and National Identity: The Case of the Weimar Republic
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(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

Organizer: Zaynab Ali

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Hyo Kyung Woo (Un)Homing the Motherland and Zainichi Identities in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko (2017)
- Rosina Martucci ITALY REVISITED. CONVERSATIONS WITH MY MOTHER BY MARY MELFI, A MEMOIR EXPLORING LANGUAGE, IDENTITY AND DISPLACEMENT
- emel zorluoglu akbey From Ottoman Empire to American Melting-pot: An Empowering Transcultural Identity- The Case of Selma Ekrem
- Oriana Mejias Martinez Since we know about horror… Memories for the future in Atrás queda la tierra by Arianna De Sousa-García
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Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

Organizer: Pardis Dabashi

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Abolfazl Ahangari Islam and Adabiat: The Senses of Literary Islam in the Persian World
- Jane Mikkelson The Taste of Worship: Seventeenth-Century Persian Poetry of Devotional Experience
- Sara Vakili Queer Orison in Motion: A Phenomenlogical Approach To Rumi's Practice of Samā
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Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence

Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Annette Joseph-Gabriel Slavery, Childhood, and the Fugitive Account
- Yoo-Hyeok Lee Literary Representation of Historical Violence as an Alternative Remembering? Representing Tiananmen Square Incident in 1989 in The Crazed
- Sofia Masdeu Regurgitating Waters: The Return of the Dead from Lorenzo Latorre's Dictatorship
- Sasha McDowell Loud Silence and Present Absence: The Poetics of Grief in Sara Uribe’s Antígona González
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After Caliban: Literary Education, Empire, and the “Global Anglophone”

Organizer: Laura Ritland

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Soham Deb Barman “The ample teaching of our improved European literature…”: Literary Pedagogy in Early Nineteenth-Century Bengal
- Julie Cyzewski Literary Criticism and Radio: Teaching Literary Appreciation on the BBC’s Calling West Africa
- Laura Ritland Refiguring the Colonial Classroom: E.R. Braithwaite and Stuart Hall’s Teaching in the Metropole
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Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought

Organizer: Adam Mohamed

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Jeremy Arnott Approaching Deleuze’s Aesthetics: Art and Philosophy
- François Vozel Thinking Difference in Itself with Cixous, Lispector, and Deleuze
- Zooey Deissler Ziller Deleuzian Aesthetic Ontology: On Desiring, Assemblages, & Intensities
- Maria Paula del Portillo Cure The Writer as a Sorcerer: Becoming-Animal and Hybrid Literature(s) in Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus
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Between Worlds and Worldlessness

Organizers: Roland Vegso, Rok Bencin

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Alexander Fyfe Achille Mbembe: Thinking the World through Form
- Sorin Cucu World Literature at War -- From Agony to Agonism
- Sol Pelaez Cannibalizing World and the Extintion of Humanity. Samantha Schewblin's Exquisite Cadaver.
- Jan Voelker Space without World
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Kelly Ferguson

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Emilio Irigoyen What the Old Man Knew. Patriarchy, Rootedness, and Modernization in Barranca abajo
- Kelly Ferguson Unruly Rural Landscapes vs. Barbaric Modernity in Jayro Bustamante's Ixcanul (2015), Temblores (2019), and La Llorona (2019)
- Paulo Soares Brazilian Gauchism: Ideology, Detachment, and the Shaping of Southern Brazilian Identity
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Body, Language

Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Serena Luckhoff

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Jan Mieszkowski The Tramp Writes!
- Melissa Melpignano Corpographies of Poetic Gestures with Sara Sermini
- Patricia Dailey Captive Negativity / Capting Negatives
- Dominik Zechner Somiosis
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Breath Poetics

Organizers: Mae Losasso, Lucy Alford

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Matthew Smith A Blessing and a Scream: Paul Celan, John Coltrane, and the Breath
- Sam Carter Respiration and Sovereignty in Soraya Maicoño’s Pewma ull
- Jordan Krohn Black Visualsonic-Affective Breath: Critical Resonances of Breathing in Richard Wright’s Realist Narratives
- Marlo Starr “That moving line of breath”: Wind, Breath, and Vā in Caroline Sinavaina-Gabbard’s Poetics
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Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

Organizer: Madelaine Hron

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Arpita Sen A Place Where No One Hurts You: Examining Insidious Trauma and Transgenerational Violence in the lives of Hazara Refugees
- Ademola Adesola Lost Boys of Sudan or War-Displaced Sudanese Children: Reclaiming Marginalized Voices and Experiences
- Christina Banalopoulou The Racializing Politics of Youth Futurity: Children and the Dramaturgies of the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange
- Ana Paula Bianconcini Anjos The right to play: Adinkras and a Halloween celebration in a public school in São Paulo, Brazil
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Comparative Approaches to Prison Abolition: Reading & Representing Against Carcerality

Organizers: Michael Reyes, Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Carolyn Ownbey, Cait Jones

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Courtney Colligan 'Is Anyone Listening to Me?': Humanizing Incarceration in Clean Break's Sweatbox
- Zainab Abdali Guantánamo and Experiments in Freedom
- Michael Reyes Visualizing the Carcerality of Northern Ireland’s Troubles in Donovan Wylie’s The Maze
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Comparative Indenture

Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Najnin Islam

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Najnin Islam “One of the best schemes possible”: Comparative Racialization, Caste, and the Indian Coolie
- Chandrica Barua Knot my Cup of Tea: Coolie Labor and Race-Making in Plantation Worlds
- Nico Millman From Black Coolie to Brown Indian: Race, Caste, and Indenture in the Life Writing of Pandurang Khankhoje
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Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation

Organizers: Torin McLachlan, Rusaba Alam

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Torin McLachlan Hubert Aquin and Laplanchian "Detranslation": Impossible Association in Trou de memoire
- Madeleine Reddon Sex and the Enigma: De-Translating Indigenous Sexuality in Deep Inside Clint Star
- Annalisa Ciano 1789, an Empty Signifier: Detranslating History in Maryse Condé’s An Tan Révolysion (1989)
- Jennifer Paul Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Hysteria, Mysticism
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Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World

Organizers: Bhavya Tiwari, Sucheta Kanjilal

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation

Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Saswati Saha

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Sarmila Paul Mapping the Role of Collaborative Translation in Translating Adivashi Literature in India
- Rindon Kundu Translation as Collaboration: Challenging the Notion of Solitary Translator
- Abrona Lee Pandi Aden Inclusivity and Agency in Collaborative Translation: Some Critical Perspectives
- Saswati Saha From “Reading” to “Listening”: Collaborative Translation, Inclusivity and Indigenous Oral Literature
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Cultures of Energy Transition

Organizers: Martin Premoli, Izzy Lockhart

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Daniel Vitkus Theorizing the Energy Humanities: Political Ecology, Historical Materialism, and Transition as Revolution
- Casey Williams Texas’s Banal Solar Poetics
- Jason Bircea carrying away the lop and top; energy use and class conflict in the era of parliamentary enclosure
- Izzy Lockhart Critical Care Infrastructure
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Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts

Organizer: Auritro Majumder

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Zeyad El Nabolsy Colonialism as a De-Civilizing Mission: Amílcar Cabral and Ghassan Kanafani on the Place of Colonialism in the Philosophy of History
- Crystal Bartolovich Decolonization and Totality
- Auritro Majumder Decolonization and the Illiberal University
- Jordan Brown Uneven Circumstances, Necessitated Tragedies: Lamming, Lukács, and Social Realism’s Contemporary Usage
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Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- ESTHIR LEMI The freedom of the diagram as a preparatory process in artworks and in writing
- Peter Rostovsky Comics as Translation
- Eftihia Mihelakis A Refuge: The Use of Photography in Autotheory in Roland Barthes’ "Camera Lucida" and Jane Gallop’s "Living with His Camera"
- EVANGELIA DANADAKI Feminine encounters: reading Sophie Calle’s visual practice through Bracha L. Ettinger matrixial theory
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Displacing Academic Practices in the Ruins of the Neoliberal University

Organizers: Maddalena Cerrato, Peter Baker

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Gordillo Andrés Negative historiography. Another place, other practices, another writing
- Maddalena Cerrato (Trans-)Autographic Praxis and Academic Work
- Peter Baker Academic Ruins and (Trans-)Autographic Praxis
- Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott Infrapolitical excription
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Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media

Organizers: Fareed Ben-Youssef, Rebecca Ehrenwirth

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Rex Lin A Trans-media “Supplément” to Taiwanese Queer Kinship
- Ursula Friedman Flying (Back to) the Cozy Nest: Queer Multimedia Homecomings/Home-Leavings in Crystal Boys
- Lilith Acadia nostALGIA: Suicidal Longing in Queer First Generation Diasporic Taiwanese Literature
- Wei Yi Chen Retrospection: Taiwan’s ’Queer Past Politics’ in Po Ching Chen’s Zang Dong Xi
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Ghost Figures in World Literature

Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Maysoon Shibi, Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Diego Baena

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Learned Foote Tibetan Ghosts & Environmental Healing: Readings in Adzom Drukpa's Life Writings
- Ido Fuchs "We are ghosts and we should go and haunt the world": Ghosts in contemporary Palestinian cultural production
- Kristin Perkins Finding Ghosts in Angels: Converting KKK Robes to Angel Costumes in The Prince of Peace Easter Pageant, 1936
- Soonyoung Lee The Spectral Lens: Rethinking Humanity through Ghosts in Post-2000 Korean Literature
- Nicole Dib Storied Ghosts in the Native Pacific: Contemporary Scenes of Resistance to the Specter of Settler Colonialism
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Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary

Organizer: Amanda Greer

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Katherine Fusco Slapstick Girlhoods
- Amanda Greer You’re Standing on My Neck: Daria’s Awkward Adolescence
- Jacqueline Ristola Animating Plastic Girlhood: The Aesthetics of Barbie in Life in the Dreamhouse and Vlogs
- Hiroko Matsuzaki The Girls Save the World? : The Representation of Girlhood as a Salvation Goddess in Shinkai Makoto's Films
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Hegel and World Literature

Organizer: Carson Welch

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Sebastiaan Boersma Onwards, Backwards: The Johnson-Forest Tendency and Hegel’s Aesthetic Idealism
- Anisha Sankar Hegel's Parapraxis, or the 'Absolute' of Absolute Slavery
- Carson Welch Tragedies of the Deed: Hegel and Haiti Revisited
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Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide

Organizers: Maria Boletsi, Ilios Willemars

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Grace Wang Utopian Fugitivity in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- May Ee Wong The Energy Island as Incomposite Techno-Utopia with Michaela Buesse
- Cui Chen Incompossible Island and Ecological Utopia: Huxley’s Island as a Nexus of Isolation, Sustainability, and Global Vulnerability
- Sophia Emmanouilidou Culture(d) Medicinal Practices: Transcorporeality and Resilience on Zakynthos Island, Greece
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Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures

Organizers: Rini Tarafder, Amrapali Chatterjee

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Caterina Pan Gendered infrastructure: Intertextuality as reproduction and embodiment in Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat (2020) and Louisa Hall's Reproduction (2023)
- Christina Reitz Glass’s House of Usher: Reimagining Poe’s Infrastructure
- Eftihia Saxoni Narrating (In) Transition: Contextual Narratology and the Dialogue Between Formal and Thematic Infrastructures in Gender-Conscious Novels
- Ben Stanley Storying Queer Mobility and Transportation Infrastructure: Uvile Ximba’s “Dreaming in Colour” and Shamim Sarif’s “The World Unseen”
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Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

Organizer: Hudson Moura

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Mauro Colarieti #TheresAFreakingGhostBehindUs. Supermassive Games and the Revolution of Interactive Horror
- Ayman Almomani Dystopia: Interactive Horrors
- Apala Kundu Teaching Literatures of Migration on the Move through Storytelling and Interactivity
- Cassandra Barkman The Potential Narrative Complexity of Navigability in Videogames
- Evan Torner From Parlor Games to Larp: Interpreting Adult Pretend Play
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Interdisciplinary Study of Homemaking: Mapping the Places, Routines, Memories, and Locales We Call Home

Organizers: Jean Amato, Kyunghee Pyun

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Utitofon Inyang Towards a Critical Mask Poetics: Visuospatial Refractions in Chimamanda Adichie’s Fiction
- Qianting Lu Imagined Homecoming: Memorializing and Translating Shanghai in Qiu Xiaolong’s Detective Novels
- Rume Kpadamrophe Chronotopes of Home: Affective Ties and Cultural Memory in Displacement
- Debali Mookerjea-Leonard Re-Mapping Home in a Divided Land: Women, Literature, and the Partition of India
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Labor in Global Speculative Fiction

Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Emily Maguire

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Mary Elizabeth Ginway Ecozombies and Gig Labor in Brazil in Corpos secos e A extinção das abelhas.
- Daniel Quintero Plata Labor in Dystopia: Identity, Control, and Precarity in Herbert W. Franke’s Ypsilon Minus*
- Eero Suoranta Only a Rounding Error?: “Redundant” Laborers in Hao Jingfang’s “Folding Beijing” and Xia Jia’s “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight”
- Maia Gil'Adí Labor, Language, and the Undead
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Literary Ruins: On the Crisis of Contemporary Institutions

Organizers: Daniel Runnels, José Luis Suárez Morales

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Katina Rogers Growth from Decay in the Mycelial University
- Marcelino Viera Marked Bodies, Bodies in Transition: The Writing of the I-Body in Mariana Enriquez
- Eduardo Febres Colonial Ruins and the Crisis of Modernity in the Caribbean
- Claudio Aguayo-Borquez Breaking the Mirror: Middle Class Novel and Reproduction of Literary Criticism
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Magical Realism as World Literature: Travelling Concept, Travelling Theory, Untranslatable

Organizers: Cesar Dominguez, Sarah Vidal Horta

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Sarah Vidal Horta Terminological and conceptual demarcation of magical realism in Lusophonia
- Paulo Gatica The Netflixization of Magical Realism: about One Hundred Years of Solitude (2024)
- Marjan Mohammadi Ben Okri’s Magical Realism: Re-enchantment, Voice, Environment in Global Economy
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Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Sohyun Lee

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Nilanjana Bhattacharya Early Indo-Latin American Contact: A Historiography
- Alvaro Trigo Maldonado Exploring screen culture interchange between Korea and Spain with a focus on “La casa de papel” (2017)
- Sohyun Lee Recrafting the villain: a comparative study of Contratiempo (2016) and Confession (2022).
- Adelheid Sudibyo La raza malayo-mahometana: Spanish Colonial Anxieties Towards a Religious Race
- Olga Guadalupe Imperial Anxieties: Representations of the Hispanic Pacific in the Journalistic Work of Benito Pérez Galdós
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Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context

Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Lara Harb

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Avigail Noy A Medieval Arabic Critique of Mimesis
- Ryan Milov-Cordoba Collective Mimesis in Avicenna's Reception of the Poetics
- Mehvish Siddiqui Mimesis, sous rature: Afzal Kāshāni’s case for representation-through-negation
- Mehtap Ozdemir Asaf Halet Celebi (1907-1958), Mystical Poethics, and La Poésie Pure
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Odd Temporalities

Organizers: Juan Meneses, Matthew Scully

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Alberto Tondello Contagious past and present estrangement: Djuna Barnes's alternative temporalities
- Geordie Miller "Down Time’s Street": Proletarian Internationalism and Langston Hughes’s Red Temporality
- Aleksandra Malinowska Looking through feminist pasts towards feminist futures: The Combahee River Collective “Statement” (1977) and “Feminism for the 99%” (2019)
- Sean Yeager Kakokairos: A not-altogether-unserious theory of time, language, and autism
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Picturing Violence in the Age of Annihilation

Organizers: Elizabeth Liendo, Adam Yaghi

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Jasmine An Inscrutability and Fictive Incoherence in Cynthia Dewi Oka’s A Tinderbox in Three Acts
- Qing Liao How to Read Kazuo Ishiguro?: Systemic Violence and the Limit of Liberal Humanism
- Klaudia Cierluk Archiving Violence, Violating the Archive: Renegotiating the Status of the Victim in Olga Hund’s 'Dogs of Smaller Breeds' and Belén López Peiró’s 'Why Did You Come Back Every Summer'
- Adam Yaghi Torn Limb from Limb on the Alter of Settler-colonial Israel: Stand-up Comedy and Mainstream Media Coverage of the Gaza Genocide
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Poetic Voice in the Expanded Field

Organizers: Steven Maye, Maria Dikcis

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Esther Sanchez-Pardo Ruthless iterations: Reberveration, voice, exhaustion and silence in Kamenszain's The Echo of my mother (2010)
- Alex Braslavsky The Evolution of the Aging Voice: Elizaveta Mnatsakanova’s Multiple Temporal Orientations in Kniga detstva (1973-2018)
- Jonathan Atkins Forms of Failure
- Maria Dikcis Code-Switched: AI, Poetic Voice, and the GPT Divide
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Poetics and Politics of Memory/Trauma-Scapes in South Asian Literatures

Organizers: Muhammad Numan, Nida Sajid

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Margarida Martins The cracked lens of Maali’s seven moons: memory, transience and permanence
- Azka Chaudhry Psychocultural Trauma in Contemporary Kashmiri Fiction: Re-envisioning Traumascapes in The Half Mother
- Suchetana Sarkar The Interplay of Nostalgia and Melancholia in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef
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Politics and Desire in the Archive

Organizers: Mercedes Trigos, Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Alejandra Vela Martínez Compulsive Preservations: Garro vs. Castellanos Archives
- Georgina Fooks Writing with the Archive: The Desire to Translate Alejandra Pizarnik
- Hannah Frydman Lesbian History for Everybody: Intuition, Inference, and Allusion as Archival Method
- Rosa Campbell Hopelessly Devoted: Problems of Archival Care
- Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro Desire In, and Desire For, Carmen Santos' Lost Films
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Postcolonial Formalism in Context

Organizers: Arthur Rose, Dominic O'Key

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Chi Le Playing in the Light: On Formalist Thinking in Derek Walcott’s Omeros
- Aliya Ram The form of context in Derek Walcott's The Rig
- Muhammad Waqar Azeem Neo-Colonialism and Formal Resistance
- Simon van Schalkwyk Missing Dates: From Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) to An Island (2019).
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Postcolonial Literature and Ecotheology

Organizer: George Handley

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- George Handley Finding the Divine Mother Tree: Reading the Ceiba as Postcolonial Ecotheology
- Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim Beyond Human Domination on Environment: Arboreal Approaches to Ecotheology in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees
- MAITRAYEE MISRA Guardians of the Mountains: Environmental Stewardship and Ecotheology in Siddhartha Sarma’s Year of the Weeds
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Scale, Form, and Urban Crisis: Literature and the City

Organizers: Eric Prieto, Liam Lanigan

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Giada Peterle Narrative geographies of home: Inhabiting the urban futures through transcalarity
- Sophie Kriegel Finding a Way Home: Mobility as Spatialising Practice in South African Narratives of Urban Crisis
- Shivani Gautam Whose City Is it Anyway: An Alternate Cartography of Twenty-First Century Delhi
- Guadalupe Escobar “The Promise of Sunrise and Sanctuary”: The Urban Imaginaries of Leticia Hernández-Linares’s Bay Area
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Sex Negativity II (We Have Never Had Sex)

Organizers: Marija Cetinic, Tessel Veneboer

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Matthew Rana Towards Sinthomatic Reading
- Maeve Mcilwain Death Orgy Island: sex between strangers, erotic transference and the internal Other
- Shiv Datt Sharma The Question of Real Fantasies: Reading Cinema with Sex/Negativity
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Southern Literatures across Multiple Southscapes

Organizers: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Joanna Davis-McElligatt

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Haider Shahbaz From the U.S. South to the Global South: Translating Toni Morrison
- Mourad Romdhani From River to Sea: Survival and Exclusion in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and the South Mediterranean
- Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi Southern Intertextuality: Faulkner and Murakami in Lee Chang-dong’s Burning (2018)
- Daniel Kim Historian or Tour Guide? Cathy Park Hong’s Dance, Dance, Revolution and Making Violence from the Global South Part of the Global Literary Landscape
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The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation

Organizers: Cucurella Lavin, Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier, Paula Cucurella

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Douglas Smith Of naked machines and singularity: How Schleiermacher’s translation theory lays bare LLM translation
- Guanyu Shao Towards the Hard Translation of Persian Poetry: Reviewing Disputes Over Shafīʿī-Kadkanī's Untranslatability
- Eli Didier Objectivism and the Limit of Translation
- Xiaoqing Liu Untranslatability as a Form of Resistance: Exploring Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary"
- Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé Untranslatability and the European Border Regime: Cassin, Balibar, Mezzadra/Neilson
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The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement

Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Sreyoshi Sarkar Handmade: Feminist-Arboreal Kinships and Survival in the face of the Sri Lankan Civil War
- Christine Xiong Oceanic Displacements of Asian American Poetics
- Ada Smailbegovic The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Ecologies of Refugee Temporality
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The Flow of Performing Arts Between Periphery and Center: Tensions and Potentialities

Organizers: Esther Marinho Santana, Carlos Gontijo Rosa

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Rosario Hubert Chinese revolutionary choreographies in Latin America
- Esther Marinho Santana Peripheral Performances and the European Gaze: The Complex Dynamics of the Festival International d’Art Dramatique of Paris
- Gideon Morison Theorising African Postcolonial Theatre(s): Folkism and the Dramaturgy of Sam Ukala
- Subhankar Dutta Resilience and Renewal: Sustainability, Identity and Memory-in-Practice in the Gajan (Hook-Swinging) Festival of Bengal
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The Persistence of Existentialism

Organizer: Ben Roth

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Aurora Laybourn-Candlish The Essential and The Contingent in Beauvoir’s Life and Thought: Re-examining Beauvoir’s American Legacy
- Ben Roth Inverted Bad Faith in the Novels of Marie NDiaye
- Michael LeMahieu The Ends of Existentialism
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Thinking in and Beyond (?) a Text: Derrida, De Man, and the Political

Organizer: Jonathan Luftig

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Saul Anton Ironic Pseudoknowledge and the Usurpation of the Political
- Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús Ipseity in Question: Hospitality, Mastery, and the Peculiar Case of Slavery in Derrida's Hospitality Seminars
- Christina León Reading Difference in de Man, Derrida, and Edelman
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Translation and Autotheory

Organizers: Jan Steyn, Diana Thow

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Raja Lahiani Translating the Soundscapes of Classical Arabic Poetry An Autotheoretical Approach
- Deanna Cachoian-Schanz Situating the Translator When the Issue is “Race”: An Autotheory of Translation
- Pablo Barra Requena The Maternal Scene: Autotheory and Translation in Paloma Vidal's Não escrever [com Roland Barthes] 2023
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Unpredictable Architectures: The Aesthetics and Politics of Gardening in Latin America

Organizer: Valeria Meiller

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Diego Molina Around and inside gardens light, people, and plants in Bogotá’s history
- Vaughn Anderson Gardening in the Ruins of the Lettered City: Homero Aridjis, Butterfly Sanctuaries, and the Grupo de los Cien
- Azucena Castro Jardín Tríptico: Contesting Spatial Injustice in the Vertical Gardens of Green Neoliberalism
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Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Organizers: Carlo Arrigoni, Irene Bulla

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Irene Bulla Dead Man Talking: Catalepsis and First-Person Narration in E.A. Poe, Émile Zola and Tommaso Landolfi
- Lorenzo Mecozzi Relatable Narrators. Unreliability and Empathy in the Retrospective Novel
- Chiara Ludovica Maria Nifosi Unreliable Rephrasings: Some Stylistic Remarks on Proust’s Delusional Strategies
- Daniel Adler Metafiction: from Modernism to Metamodernism
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Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes

Organizer: Karyn Ball

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- John Mowitt Drive, They Rd
- Andrew Parker Hearing Things: Memoirs of My Nervous Illness after Sound Studies
- David Marriott On Solicitude
- Nathan Gorelick Back to the Death Drive: Reading for the Future
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We Meet Again: The Psychoanalytic (Re) Turn in Literary Studies

Organizers: Yael Segalovitz, James Ogilvie

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- David Schur Freud's Highway to Hell
- Emma Eigen The Dream of the Book: Freud and Jung on Interpretation
- Zoë Roth Literature in the Consulting Room: Form, Setting, and Countertransference
- Arka Chattopadhyay Letter between Knowledge and Jouissance: Literature and Psychoanalysis through Matheme-atics
- Juan Gallardo Reading Freud Reading: The Primal Scene, The Investigator, and the Antebellum Slave Narrative
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What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?

Organizer: Raquel Kennon

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Lena Sow Ser mujer negra en España: Aesthetic Activism and Black Diasporic Belonging
- Raquel Kennon “Family is like the forest”: Theorizing African Diaspora in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
- Marshall Smith Invisible Ink as Opacity: Embracing Incomprehension in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby and Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend
- Tolulope Akinwole Archive: Global; Cue: Black
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Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, Sofía Forchieri

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Faye Lynch ‘She’s only macchina!’: Gender Violence in 21st Century Fembot Narratives
- Aiswarya Pradeep Allegories of a Dead Girl’s Body: Public Perception of Aarushi Talwar and the Representational Circuits of True-Crime Narratives
- Judith Goetz Femi(ni)zide on Stage: The Representation of Gendered Violence in Canonical Theater
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2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

(Un)Easy Entanglements: Agency, Alliances, and Affinities of Translators and Language Teachers

Organizers: Shane Carreon, Ayelén Rosario Tissera

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Youn Soo Goldstein Subtitles as Contact Zones: English Translations of Korean Film and Television Series
- Chenrui Zhao Anglicizing Psychiatry: When does Depression become Americanization?
- Ivars Steinbergs ‘What Russian is to You, English is to Us’: Considerations after an Irish-Latvian Poetry Translation Workshop
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ACLA Undergraduate Seminar "Bad Readers"

Organizers: Karyn Ball, Karen Emmerich, Hosam Aboul-Ela, Dina Al-Kassim

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Sarah Sophie Schwarzhappel See-through Beings in Gabriel García Márquez´ "Crónica de una muerte anunciada"
- Cannon Sharp The Archimboldians: Obsession and Misreading in Roberto Bolaño's 2666
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Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

Organizer: Pardis Dabashi

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Abolfazl Ahangari Islam and Adabiat: The Senses of Literary Islam in the Persian World
- Jane Mikkelson The Taste of Worship: Seventeenth-Century Persian Poetry of Devotional Experience
- Sara Vakili Queer Orison in Motion: A Phenomenlogical Approach To Rumi's Practice of Samā
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Alternatives to Narrative

Organizer: Nina Farizova

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Nina Farizova The Illusory Nonnarrativity of Gaspar Noé
- Daniel Pratt The Constellation Novel: Olga Tokarczuk and Non-Narrativity
- Wenyi Xiao Finding the Female Voice in Form-- A Feminist-Narratological Reading of “The Glass Essay”
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Anti-Fascist Worldmaking

Organizers: Jessy Bell, Patrick Noonan

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Wendi Bootes Literary Montage and International Form
- Amy Barenboim Black Anti-Fascisms: Zora Neale Hurston, C.L.R. James, and the German-Jewish Refugee Crisis
- Harumi Osaki Miki Kiyoshi’s Conversion from Anti-Fascist Worldmaking to Fascist Worldmaking?
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Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, Linda Chu

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Charlie Oubridge Multilingualism in Translation: Revealing the multilingual foundations of a 1971 performance of ‘The Triumph of Horus’
- Haodong Bai La Dame aux Camélias: Translation as Political Practice in Early 20th Century China and Egypt
- Karla Mallette The cosmopolitan language and translanguaging
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Attending To: Regard and Care

Organizers: Victoria (Tia) Glista, Akosua T. Adasi

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Drishadwati Bargi The sentiment of (self) care and the racial images of caste
- Victoria (Tia) Glista Bodies of Evidence: (Against) Reading the Pose
- Gabriella Lindsay Juxtaposed regards: the eye and the I in Marie NDiaye's, Autoportrait en vert (Self-portrait in Green, 2005/2014)
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Black Genres of Political Theology

Organizers: Andrew Kaplan, Kevin Pyon

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Rebecca Wilcox To Spite Non-Being: Black Religion, Paul Tillich, and the Antiblackness of Creativity
- Nick Peterson Towards a Fugitive Black Theology of Non-Existence
- Andrew Kaplan Critical Fabulation's Black Messianic Poetics
- Isabelle Meyer Ensass A Guiding Darkness: Nan Dòmi as Black Genre of Endarkenment
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Brazilian Literature in English: Cross-Cultural Dialogues and Polysystemic Perspectives

Organizers: Larissa Daroda, Carolina Magaldi

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Carolina Magaldi Exporting Brazilian Literature - main findings
- Cintia Vezzani Júlia Lopes de Almeida Takes on the Adultery Novel
- tal goldfajn Translating Brazilian Picture books into English
- Mariane Stanev Translating Spiral Time: Navigating Monolingualism and Archival Afterlives in Contemporary Brazilian Critical Fabulation
- Mariana Mello Alves de Souza Echoes of the past and a possible depiction of Brazil’s future in Ninguém Nasce Herói, a dystopia by Eric Novello
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Bridging Worlds: Literature and the Future of Public Humanities

Organizer: Tanushree Ghosh

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)

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Broken Middles

Organizers: Kieran Brown, Robert Lucas Scott, George Mather

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- James Callahan Critical Marxism: Between the Critique of Political Economy and the Critique of Political Theology
- Conrad Bongard Hamilton The Brokenness of Value: Of Gillian Rose and Alfred Sohn-Rethel
- Michael Lazarus Economy and the State: Rose, Luxemburg and Arendt
- Rocío Zambrana Philosophy in the Severe Style: Method and Value in Rose’s Hegel and Marx
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Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities

Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Sara DiCaglio Speaking Alone, Speaking Together: Early Pandemic Writing as a Collective
- Büşra Şengül Prescription for a Sick Empire: Modernizing Institutions and Literature
- Alani Hicks-Bartlett A Disability-Forward Approach to Collective Illness, Public Health, and Community in Petrarch and “El príncipe melancólico”
- Derek Ettensohn Communities of Care in the Public Health Novel
- Aria Torkanbouri Challenging Narratives: Musicking as Collective Narrative During the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Azerbaijan
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Comparative Caribbean Modernisms

Organizer: J. Dillon Brown

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Charlie Hankin Son Poets, Black Popular Music, and Caribbean Modernism’s Afro-Cuban Rhythmic Key
- Leo Dunsker So far to have made nothing: Merle Hodge’s Translations of Léon-Gontran Damas
- Cesar Salgado Vernacularizing Modernism in Cuba During the Early Cold War: José Rodríguez Feo’s Editorial Vision in Orígenes (1944-1954) and Ciclón (1955-1957)
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Comparative Literature's Cold War

Organizer: Cate Reilly

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Cate Reilly Quiet Suns: The End of the World Literature and Cold War Imaginaries for the Anthropocene
- Siddhi M S World Literature, Translation and the "Historically Open Aesthetic System Of The Truthful Representation Of Life": The Contours of Socialist Realism in Malayalam Literature
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Contemporary Asian Spy Literature and Cinema

Organizer: Lily Li

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Lily Li The Relativity of History and Memory: Mai Jia’s Spy Novel The Message
- Fei Shi Red tropes: genealogy of political stylization and contemporary commercialization of geopolitics in Zhang Yimou’s spy film “Cliff Walkers” (2021)
- Bangce Cheng Path Without End: The Politics of Pseudo-Objective Gameplay in The Red Path of Espionage
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Cultures of Monoculture

Organizers: Amber Bal, Ben Beitler

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Amber Bal Where is the groundnut? Peanut monoculture as pastoral utopia in Senghor's poetic oeuvre.
- Stacey Baran Maize in Midwest Horror and Zak Hilditch's 1922
- David Huddart Sheepwrecked: Landscape Memoir and the Conservation Humanities
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Disability, the Environment, and Colonialism

Organizer: Tatiana Konrad

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Anna Stenning The Superfluous: Edward Thomas’s Response to Eugenics and Coloniality in his 1913 novel The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans
- Suha Kudsieh The Damaging Effects of Western Neoliberal Policies and Local Corruption in Indra Sinha's Novel Animal People
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Dissident Writing, the Cold War, and the Decolonizing World

Organizers: Peter Kalliney, Jini Kim Watson

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Kodai Abe Afro-Okinawan Antagonism and the Militarized Black Pacific
- Hadji Bakara The Writer's Freedom
- Thuyen Truong Magong and Naxalite: Human Rights at the Limits and Ex-Guerrilla Literatures
- Jini Kim Watson Reading Communists: Leftists, Dissidents, and Postcolonial Literary Studies
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Documentary Fever

Organizer: Rosana Hernandez Nieto

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Seunghyun Shin The Post-Matrix: Documentary and the Real
- Sibyl Gallus-Price “The World Is Watching: Neo-liberalism’s Self-Deception and the Fever Dream of Justice in Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing”
- Nien-ying Wang Transborder Mobility: Lim Giong and Midi Z’s Collaborative Documentary Audiovisuality
- Haiqing Sun In Search of the Unsung Verse: Rolando's Documentary Films
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Ethics and Aesthetics of Direct Climate Action

Organizer: Adam Hill

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Jean-Thomas Tremblay Parentality and Parataxis
- Michael Overstreet Compost as design model for degrowth? : an unflinching look at the ethics of Gaspard Koenig's Humus
- Georgiana de Rham Holding Actions in the Floodplain: Direct Climate Action’s Liquid Aesthetics
- Alexis Radisoglou Oikology: On Petro-Masculinity, Eco-Fundamentalism, and the Queer Horizon of Climate Action
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Evolutions of Literary Theory: The Afterlives of New Criticism, Structuralism, and Others

Organizer: KATHERIN YU

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- William Burns ‘Take care of values. The rest is shopping’: John Ashbery’s Depreciating Appreciations
- KATHERIN YU Beliefs in Aesthetic Unity within Experimental Postwar American Poetry
- Leah Allen The Half-Life of New Criticism
- Naomi Levine The Plain Reader and the Bad Poem
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Extractivism and Nation Building in the Long Nineteenth Century

Organizers: Nicolás Sánchez, Daniel Brandlechner, Cristina Carnemolla

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Maxwell Woods Extractivism in Latin America and Irish Decolonization
- Sevgin Özer Electrifying and High-Speed Love Affairs in the 1920s Turkish Novels
- Rose FitzPatrick Making Oil Visible in the Soviet Twenties
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Forbidden Roads: Travel as Metaphor in Contemporary Eastern European Cultures and Literatures

Organizers: Margarita Marinova, Stiliana Milkova

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Dragana Obradovic Bored and Broke in Post-Socialism
- Ioana Luca Post-1989 Romanian Migration: Archives of Lives and Stories
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Great Books? Bad Books? Rethinking our Broken Canons

Organizers: Amanda Malone, Kenneth Sammond

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Kenneth Sammond CounterNarratives as Great Books
- Tamar Barbakadze Rewriting as changing the literary canon
- Noelle Darling Re-Discovery Lit: Second Chance Publishing and the New Reading Landscape
- Katharine Streip Shared Inquiry, Revised
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How It’s Made: Image-texts, Identity, Interpretation, Intersections

Organizers: Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Adrienne Resha

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Katherine Kelp-Stebbins Technologies of Misrecognition
- Olivia Yoshioka-Maxwell Visualizing everyday life in 21st-century Ivorian bande dessinée
- Michele White Technologies of the Hand: From Hand-pointers to the Nail Art of Sha’Carri Richardson
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Illegibility and Aesthetic Form in the African Diasporas of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans

Organizers: Semilore Sobande, Kinaya Hassane

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Semilore Sobande Writing on the Wall: Strangeness in Toni Morrison's A Mercy and Glenn Ligon's What We Said the Last Time
- Mysia Anderson City Girl Summer: The Ones Who Make the Streets Hot
- Nadia Ellis Habitations: Dwelling in Feminine Folk Figuration in the Black Diaspora
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Intersectional Crip Theory: (Re)presenting Intersections of Illness, Disability, and Madness with Gender and Sexuality

Organizers: Tegan Zimmerman, Jordana Greenblatt

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Corinna Wolters “Wild Always Wins”: Feral Creatures, (Dis)ability, and Crip Kinship in Rivers Solomon’s Texts
- Kaliane Ung Pig Tales : Crip and Fat Studies in France
- Irene Pagano Queer Crip Intimacies and the Monstrous in Julia Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea and Dominic Mitchell’s In The Flesh
- Weston Richey The Sun’s Special Kindness and Paradise Behind the Clouds: Queerness, Disability, and Speculative Externalization of a Loving Self
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Intimacies Against Empire, Archives of the Ordinary: Aleksandar Hemon’s The World and All that It Holds

Organizers: Mo Pareles, Ervin Malakaj

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Sunnie Rucker-Chang On the Rhizomatic Nature of Time, Place, and Empire in Aleksandar Hemon’s The World and all That it Holds
- Samantha Farmer Sarajevo, ljubavi moja/mi kerido: Local and Historical Attachments in The World and All That it Holds
- Denis Ferhatovic Migrant Translanguaging: TikTok, Hemon, Žlof
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Literature and International Development

Organizers: Susanna Sacks, Lauren Horst

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Lauren Horst “Building a World on Nothing”: Development Planning and Novel Writing as Worldbuilding
- Lindsay Schaffer The Birth of a Loser: South Korean Loser Fiction in the Neoliberal Era
- Sonia Yu Hsuan Hung All Women Are Equal?: Universal Trauma and Destiny of Womenin Lynn Nottage’s Ruined
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Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism

Organizer: Isabelle Hesse

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Juliane Braun Humboldt’s Extractive Logics
- Emily McGiffin Silence is Golden: Violence, Obscurantism and the Making of Extractivist States
- Isabelle Hesse Beyond the Territorial Imaginary: Entangled Environments in Contemporary South African Literature
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Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

Organizer: Carlo Stranges

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Bidisha Pal Towards Reclamation: Interrogating the Power-Hierarchy and Dalit Women of Bengal
- Dany Jacob Between Sacred and Self: Religious and Queer Identity Conflict in God in Pink Identities in God in Pink
- Hyosung Kim Reaffirmation of Dominant Societal Narratives in Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
- Isabel Velasco Trujillo Emotional bonds among Nineteenth Century Female Writers: Soledad Acosta de Samper’s Approach to Women Representation in a Patriarchal Society
- Paula Sanmartin Hiding in Plain Sight: Afro-Cuban Women’s Autobiographical Poetic Voices
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Mediating the Illegible: Theory, Aesthetics, and Activism under Regimes of Capture

Organizers: Rijuta Mehta, Ani Maitra

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Wazhmah Osman Unruly Subjects: The Subaltern Struggle for Representation During the War on Terror
- Ying Hu Queering Wusangwo: A Daoist Poetics beyond Liberal Capture
- Valentina Pucci A countermodel to the nation: Matamoro's Olimpo as queer insurgency
- Ishan Mehandru Knowing Less: Exploring the limits of fascist and secular politics in contemporary India
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Mobilizing Gender(s): Neoliberal States and South Asian Cinemas

Organizers: Md Hasan Ashik Rahman, Hena Sarkar

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Sushree Routray Ungrievable lives: Necropolitical Narratives of the Hijra Precariat in Indian Regional Films
- Jagriti Upadhyaya Transcending Gender and Subverting the Heteronormative: A study of Select Indian Media Narratives
- Sucheta Choudhuri Rethinking the Closet: Neoliberal Workplace and the Politics of Visibility in Rohin Raveendran’s The Booth.
- Iqra Shagufta Cheema Vulgar/ Behooda Language of Queer Intimacy in Joyland
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Modernism, Religion, and Empire

Organizers: Apala Das, Suzanne Hobson

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Aisan Latifi Afshar Gnosticism and the Lovecraftian Mythos: Cosmic Horror
- Matthew Mullins The Ghosts that We Knew: Jesmyn Ward’s Anti-Secular Realism
- Abdul Sabur Kidwai The Many Lives of Muhammad: Muir, Syed Ahmed, and John Davenport
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More-Than-Human Poetics and Worlding

Organizer: Hsinmei Lin

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Leonor María Martínez Serrano Harry Thurston’s Ova Aves: Encounters with the Animal Other in the Anthropocene
- Hee Eun Helen Lee Botanical Cartographies: Remapping Victorian Worlds Through Women's Poetry and Plant Life
- Elizabeth Smith Lichen Worldings in Precarious Times: Brenda Hillman's Decomposing "undercommons"
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New Directions in Temporality Studies: Time and the Construction of the Racialized Gendered Subject

Organizer: Elizabeth Rose

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Ana Llurba The Debris of Progress: Wild Temporalities in Ana Vaz's A Idade da Pedra
- Aaron Hammes Deterritorializing the Trans Minor Historical Novel
- Douja Mamelouk Temporality as a Narrative Mechanism in Amira Ghnim’s Novel Nāzla dār al-akābir
- Stefanie Heine Deep Time Transition: Callum Angus’s “Rock Jenny”
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Powers of the Inhuman: Representations of the Working Class in the New International Division of Humanity

Organizer: Marcela Romero Rivera

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Marcela Romero Rivera Signs of the Inhuman: The Figure of the Worker Haunts New Latin American Literature
- Pradarshika Biswas On the Margins of Democracy: Representations of Working Class Women in Contemporary Indian Fiction
- Andre Nascimento Truncated Birth: The Emergence of Maya-Tsotsil Fictions in the Era of the Narco-State
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Present When I'm Absent, Speaking When I'm Not There (Uh): The Surd and Immanent Expression in the Radical Black Aesthetic

Organizer: Zach Wagner

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Christopher Clarke Drill Rap and Kanye West!?: Repressed Origins, Racial-Violence, and Resisting the Algorithm
- Ailin Jain Sensing Empire: Michelle Cliff’s Dancing Organs
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Public *Environmental* Humanities

Organizers: Yanoula Athanassakis, Teresa Shewry

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)

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Reading the Archive of the Unexpected: Aspiration, Violence, and the Labor of Development in the Narratives on Reading in Latin America

Organizer: Diego Bustos

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Yair Cuenu Chambacú, corral de negros (1962): Máximo, an Afrourbanita confronts the Peace Corps
- Diego Bustos Writings on Reading: Repertoires of Aspiration, Violence, and Labor in three Narratives in Colombia.
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Reading the European Semi-Periphery: Narrative, Legacy, Collective Memory

Organizers: RAUL ALGARIN VILLALBA, Neus Rotger Cerdà

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Aina Vidal Awareness of the Semi-Periphery: The Case of (Euro)Mediterranean Noir
- Àlex Moreno Mulet Europe from an island: Sebald’s poetics through the Corsica journey
- Estibalitz Ezkerra The Land of Equality? The Troubles of Europeanization in Basque and Irish Dystopian Fiction
- Masaki Mori A Semi-Peripheral, Historicized Europe in Japanese Imagination
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Relationality in Queer/Trans Asian/American and Asian Diasporic Cultural Forms

Organizers: stef torralba, Phuong Vuong

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Yunning Zhang Queering the Transpacific Colonial Archives
- Phuong Vuong “To the Sea and the Journey”: The Migrating Coolie Body in In-Betweens and Oceans
- Urnisa Karmakar Dancing Beyond Borders: Launda Naach and the Reimagining of Queer Afro-Asian Relationalities
- Steven Beardsley We Are Not American: A Queer Diasporic Reading of Noor Hindi’s Poetry and Malaka Gharib’s Graphic Novel
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Remembering the Future: (Re)Constructing Memory and Realities in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and the Balkans

Organizer: Thomas Jesús Garza

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Eva Hudecova Nostalgia Has Never Traveled This Far: The Slavs from Planet Persuan
- Maryna Romanets Nostalgia, Obsessive Perversion, and Retrofuture Come Reality: Russian Warfare Fictions
- Oana Popescu-Sandu Remembering the Future: Nostalgia as a Weapon in US and Postcommunist Cultures
- Thomas Jesús Garza Know the Enemy: Weaponizing HIV-AIDS and Memory in Contemporary Russia
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Rethinking Literature Beyond the Frame of the Citizen

Organizer: Diana Filar

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Sirsha Nandi Staying with Disjunction: On Nation-state, Family, and Plastic Citizens
- Diana Filar The im/possibilities of diasporic futurity
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Sensation and/as Method

Organizers: Yanbing Er, Hayun Cho

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Mirja Lobnik An Expanse of Tastes and Smells: Food and the Environmental Imagination in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby and Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale
- Moyang Li Moonlight down my spine: reading for the subaltern in speculative archival fiction
- Yanbing Er The Tropics as Method
- Hsuan Hsu Worldmaking with Smell
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Speculating Speculative Fiction

Organizer: John Souza

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Shea Hennum Abolitionist Speculation, of The Defamiliarization of Everyday Life
- Alejandra Ortega Obsessive Intellectual Pursuits: Intersections of Speculative Fiction and Dark Academia
- Maria Andrea Diaz Miranda Speculative Fiction in You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi
- Saba Pirzadeh Speculative Storytelling and Aquatic Futures in Asif Farrukhi’s Stealing the Sea
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The End of the Beginning: Post-Soul Humor

Organizers: Alex Valin, Jasleen Singh

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Rojda Idil Arslan Politics of Black Representation: From Erasure to American Fiction
- Alex Valin Matzoh Ball Soup for the (Post-)Soul: Fran Ross’ Black Yinglish Humor
- Thomas Britt Post-language, post-soul: New rap and its reception
- Simone Sannio Theoretical Elevators, Practical Jokes: Black Humor and Intertextuality in Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist
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The Poetics of Collecting

Organizer: Guangchen Chen

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Sara Nocerino Collecting Narratives. An interdisciplinary inquiry
- Claire Grandy Collecting the Picturesque: Postcard Poetics
- Celia Abele Sherds and Samples: Collecting Sebald’s Rings of Saturn
- isa murdock-hinrichs Collecting Nature: Weimar Cinema, Travel, and Sensationalism
- Annie Pfeifer The Collector as Parvenu
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Time, Memory, and the Western

Organizers: Jordan Savage, Jini Kim Watson

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Heleana Bakopoulos The Holographic Afterlife of an Actor-President
- Jordan Savage Traveling the Genderqueer Slipstream: Embodying Trans Memory in the Western
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Toxic Exposure: Chemicals in Contemporary Global Fiction

Organizers: Alexandra Brown, David Vivian

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Alexandra Brown Weed Killers and Killer Weeds: Pesticidal Afterlives in the Caribbean
- Kathryn Houston Hazardous Herding: The Production and Consumption of Bodies in Cadáver exquisito
- Amrita De Reading the Bhopal Tragedy: Leaky Entanglements, Interspecies Exchanges and the Technology of Masculinity
- Stephanie Arc Ethical questions in the writing of “documentary fiction”: the exemple of “Paillages”, a novel about “life and death” of plastic mulch in farming
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Translation Futures

Organizers: Anandi Rao, Youngmin Kim

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Vanesa Cañete Jurado Rethinking Translation Pedagogy in the 21st Century: Integrating AI and Digital Tools for Ethical and Critical Engagement
- Stephen Zhongqing WU The New Translation Ethics in the Age of AI
- Youngmin Kim Translation As An Act of Intelligent Coding
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Undetermined Promising Futures

Organizer: Michael Turcios

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Stefanie Sevcik Narratives of Resistance: Gender, Political Identity, and Performative Futures
- Alice Turski The Poetics of Catastrophic Endings: (Un)determining Possibility From (Un)inhabitable Worlds
- Mélika Hashemi [Re]Imagining Muslim Futures: Khayāl and Sci-Fi Sufism as Astro-Activism
- Sareh Afshar (Un)Promised Futures: Disavowals of Fate and the Power of the Sovereign in "A Threnody for Sohrab"
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Utopian Substances in and Beyond the Soviet Empire

Organizers: George Kovalenko, Aleksandr Prigozhin

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Mieka Erley A Narratology of the Soviet Closed Ecological Life Support System
- Flora Roberts White Gold unspun: the matter of cotton in postwar Soviet Tajikistan
- Aleksandr Prigozhin Beneath Nature’s Surface: The Material Depths of Andrei Platonov
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Ways of Living/Leaving: Intermedial Landscape, Walking and Mapping

Organizers: Irene Artigas, Susana González-Aktories

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Irene Artigas Leaving/ Living Ruins: Verónica Gerber‘s and Christianne Burkhard’s Ritual Expansions of History and Memory
- Carolina Sanchez Post-Extractive Ways of Living and Mapping the Landscapes in the Intermedial Poetics of Venezuelan Artist Erika Ordosgoitti
- Susana González-Aktories Wandering as a way to rewrite the ruins: intermedial poetics in Veronica Gerber’s La compañía
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World Literature and Disappearance

Organizers: Peter Leman, Peter Leman, Joseph Wager

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Guilherme Vilaça Files, Dust, Law
- Peter Leman 'Standing in a place where no place can be found': Biopolitics, Disappearance, and Habeas Corpus in Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song
- Jordan Jones Afro-Brazilians, Afrobunkers, and Disappearance in Lázaro Ramos’s 'Executive Order'
- Rich Cole Literature and the Hidden Dimensions of Legal Amnesty After the Evian Accords
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World Literature and the Ottoman Institution of Slavery

Organizer: Arif Camoglu

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 2:30 PM CDT - 4:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream C (2:30 PM - 4:15 PM CDT)
- Angelina Del Balzo Staging Atlantic Slavery and the Ottoman Empire: the Case of Oroonoko
- Arif Camoglu Equiano's Abolitionism and the Ottoman Empire
- Burcu Gursel Love’s Labor Lost: Self-Translating Ottoman Domestic Slavery in Sermed (1918) and Çılgın Gibi (1945)
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Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, Sofía Forchieri

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Faye Lynch ‘She’s only macchina!’: Gender Violence in 21st Century Fembot Narratives
- Aiswarya Pradeep Allegories of a Dead Girl’s Body: Public Perception of Aarushi Talwar and the Representational Circuits of True-Crime Narratives
- Judith Goetz Femi(ni)zide on Stage: The Representation of Gendered Violence in Canonical Theater
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4:30 PM CDT - 6:00 PM CDT

Keynote Lecture: Aslı Iğsiz, "Rethinking Displacement and the Humanities in the Civilizationist Present"

Organizer: Asli Igsiz

Day: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Time: 4:30 PM CDT - 6:00 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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SUNDAY June 1st

10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction

Organizer: Ioana Pribiag

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Against Presentism: The Deep History of Our Discipline and Our Object of Study

Organizers: Michael Makarovsky, Delia Ungureanu

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Longxi Zhang Life, Cultural Memory, and a Critique of Presentism
- Françoise KRAL Sustainable narratives for a livable world
- Michael Makarovsky Towards a Deep History of Presentism: The Poetics of Repetition with Difference in Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval
- Theodoor Louis Dhaen Presentism, Philology, History
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Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

Organizers: Kevin Blankinship, Muhsin al-Musawi

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Angelika Palmegiani Samih al-Qasim and the Dialectic of Tradition and Modernity in Palestinian Poetic Resistance
- Ghayde Ghraowi Ancient History, Modern Maqāma: Shihāb al-Dīn al-Khafājī’s Allusions of Grandeur
- Hanan Natour Modern Tunisian Fiction & the Revival of Ibn Khaldūn
- Daniel Behar Crossed Mirrors: The Ancient, the Modern, and Clashing Intertextuality in Elias Khoury's Childern of the Ghetto Trilogy
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Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, Linda Chu

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Hsiang-Yin Chen Sino-Soviet Leviathan, Chinese Stories, and China Dream
- Hannah Scott Deuchar Language on Trial: Multilingualism in the (literary) courtroom
- Chunhui Peng Imagining Lady Tan’s Life in Multilingual Practices
- yingxin chen Iconization of Sherlock Holmes in Chinese translations 1916
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Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future

Organizers: Michele Chinitz, Shoumik Bhattacharya

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Una Chung Art of Indetermination: Contemporary Reading Practices and the I-Jing
- Sharanya Dutta Realism, the Novel, and Theory-Work in Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida and Vauhini Vara’s The Immortal King Rao
- Shoumik Bhattacharya Queer Solidarities and Chosen Families in 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'
- Tadiwanashe Madenga Literary Exposure: On Cruising African Book Fairs
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Kelly Ferguson

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Katie Hogan Resisting “Backwardness”: From Fun Home to Appalachian Activism
- Emily Coccia Frontier Fantasies: Trans Ecologies in the Nineteenth-Century Dime Novel Western
- Lin Wu Between the Domestic and the Public: Family Narratives and Gender Politics in Tell It to Women
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Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

Organizers: Florian Zappe, James Dowthwaite

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- James Dowthwaite Decadence and Austerity between the Alster and the Elbe: Stephen Spender’s Hamburg
- Roslyn Joy Irving Decadence and Bath: Splendid Villas and Baneful Vice
- Benjamin Heal Decadence in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Transnational Urban Experiences
- Abhishek Sarkar Shelley, Swinburne and Decadence in Late 19th-Century Bengali Poetics
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Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics

Organizer: Evren Ozselcuk

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Anne-Kim Tremblay The new literary frontiers of Xinjiang; between fiction and reality in Li Juan’s and Yerkesy Hulmanbiek’s work
- Cecily Cai Towards a New Land: The Border-Crossings of Jhumpa Lahiri and Claudia Durastanti
- Serena Obkircher Gender, Borders and Inversion of Power Relations in Naomi Alderman's _The Power_
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Broken Middles

Organizers: Kieran Brown, Robert Lucas Scott, George Mather

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Robert Freeman 'Imagination's Mercies': Fiction and facetiousness in Gillian Rose's The Broken Middle
- Louis Klee Kierkegaard's Middles
- Elizabeth Li Aporetic Hermeneutics: Rose and Kierkegaard on Difficulty and the Philosophy of Reading
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Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches

Organizer: Titas Bose

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Eva Van de Wiele Distant and Close Reading of Children’s Periodicals: The Case of European Mickey Magazines in 1935
- Poushali Bhadury The Home and the World: Shuktara and (Inter)national Identity
- Sarah Wadsworth Cultivating Cosmopolitanism in the 1970s: Cricket Magazine and the American Child Reader
- Ginny Qian Qian Xu “Heaven” vs. “Hell”: Space in Stories about Left-behind Children in Chinese Children’s Magazines
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China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective

Organizers: Andrew Emerson, Xiaolong Hou

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Xinyue Zhang Chinese-Style Horror: Sinicization of Anxieties from Below
- Flora Xu Beyond the Gaze: Ethnic Identity and Feminist Expression in Chinese Social Media Platforms
- Yishan Jiang China’s New “Journey to the West” in Black Myth: Wukong: Translation, Cultural Nationalism and Video Game Localisation
- Majorca Bateman-Coe Chongqing (重庆), TikTok, Virtualized Fantasies, and the Great Firewall: Global Asia’s Perspectives on Futurism
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Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South

Organizers: Marie Huber, Maziyar Faridi

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Sihan Wang Walking Against Time: Chan Buddhism and the Politics of Slowness in Tsai Ming-liang’s Walker Series
- Vincent Barletta Rhythm as Rebirth in "The House is Black"
- Vanessa Holyoak A Rumble from the Core of the Earth: Temporal Multiplicity and Dreaming as Intersubjective Memory in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria
- Maziyar Faridi Folds of Time, Folds of Life: Notes on Politics and Poetics of Rhythm in the Modernist Art of the Middle East
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Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

Organizers: Shirl Yang, Jennifer Y Pan

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Rachel Wong From Catwalk to Tiananmen Square: Mass Ornaments of Complicity in Siegfried Kracauer, Hito Steyerl, and Postsocialist China
- Pragati Sharma Complicit Critiques: Performances of Protest in “Pumzi” and “The Couple in the Cage”
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Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

Organizer: Nahir Otano Gracia

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Nahir Otano Gracia Whiteness, Borders, and the Otherworld: Yvain in the Global North Atlantic
- Gabrielle DaCosta-Yulsman Reframing a Eurocentric Medievalism from the perspective of Augustine's Africanity
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Decolonisation and the Literary Field

Organizers: Michelle Kelly, Jarad Zimbler

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ashleigh Harris The Threshold of Visibility in African Literary Metadata
- Hayley Toth Collective Writing / Effaced Authorship
- Asha Rogers "Oral art" and decolonizing examinations in Kenya
- Jarad Zimbler Kamau Brathwaite in Ghana: Migrant Labour in the Literary Field
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Disciplinary Affects: The Aesthetics of Systemic Injustices

Organizer: Esther Edelmann

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Jorge Durán From the reasonable to the merely affective: the angry feminist trope and the exclusion of the economy of reason in the feminist protests in Mexico.
- Dustin Dill The Black Lives Matter Movement in Mexico: Community through Social Media, Literary, and Film Production
- Oliver Sage It was a Question of Inflaming You: Narrative Resistance and Refusal in Experimental Queer Literature
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Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.

Organizer: Peter Ogunniran

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Hujuala Rika Ayu “Refugee Futurity”: the Absent Father, the Floating Nation, and Tent City in Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again
- Ayse Irem Karabag Thinking through Skies: Queer Refugee Narratives and the Politics of Mobility
- Peter Ogunniran Stories of Survival: Refugee Narratives and Colonial Legacies in Gurnah’s By the Sea
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Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism

Organizer: Alexander Sorenson

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Sarah Runnstrom Mythic Innocence and the Ecological Self: Challenging Duality through Mystical Symbolism
- Catherine Rigby Contemplative Ecopoetics
- Suvankur Sukul “Irish charms will get you nowhere”: religious and ecological thinking in Richard Kearney’s Salvage (2023)
- Roger Gottlieb NATURE SPRITUALITY IN AN AGE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
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Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

Organizers: Sainico Ningthoujam, Moinak Banerjee

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Fuzail Asar Siddiqi Atmospheres and the Mind: The Modernist Urdu Short Stories of India and Pakistan from the 1960s Onwards
- Abiral Kumar Where Several Worlds Collide: Reading Tilismi Spaces in Post/Colonial Otherworlds
- Priyam Goswami Choudhury Lovers in Ratanpur: Interrogating Historical Violence in Assam’s Tea Gardens
- Moinak Banerjee Translating Riverscape(s): Heteroglossia and Heterotopia in Hansuli Banker Upakatha
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Embracing Glocality: New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

Organizers: Ileana Baird, Chrysavgi Papagianni

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Hania Nashef Bridging Cultures in a Changing City: Fatima Al-Banawi’s Basma and Mahmoud Sabbagh’s Barakah Meets Barakah
- Maya Aghasi Beyond Identity Politics: The Male Body in _Warsha_ and _Matryr_
- Muhammed Salem The Internationalization of Egyptian Women’s Struggles in The Brink of Dreams and Feathers
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Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons

Organizer: Moira Weigel

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Brian Fairley Of Mushrooms and Multiplicity: Polyphony between Ethnography and Literature
- Shira Levy Oral Storytelling and Soundscapes in Zora Neale Hurston's Fiction and Ethnographic Recordings
- Susan Morrow Theorizing Techniques of the Body in Dancer Autobiographies
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Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

Organizer: Yu Min Claire Chen

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Nicole Crevar Surveillance Technology and the Coded Language of Survival in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
- Thanh-Nhan Le “We will live!”: (Just) Forgetting for (Self) Liberation in The Sympathizer
- Karolin Schäfer … aunque nos impidan acceder a ello. The strategic suppression of memory in Mar Moreno’s El día que nos obliguen a olvidar (2019)
- Min-Chi Chen Memory Wars: The Battle over Perspectives of Sexual Assault in Shinning Girls (2022)
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Genealogies of World Comparatism

Organizers: Anca Parvulescu, Adriana Stan

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Angus Nicholls Salvage Anthropology and Early Comparative Literature: the Acta Comparationis and the Journal of American Folklore.
- Medeleanu Medeleanu The place of Romani Literature in the global context of Wold Literature
- Sarah María Medina Pérez From Mexico City to World Literature: Enrique de Olavarría y Ferrari’s Collaboration with Hugo Meltzl’s Global Literary Project
- Vinay Dharwadker From Comparative Philology to Comparative Literature: India's Interrupted Transitions since Middle Modernity
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Ghost Figures in World Literature

Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Maysoon Shibi, Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Diego Baena

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Roni Henig A Haunted Narrative: Hebrew as a Spectral Mother in Agnon’s In The Prime of Her Life
- William Fogarty Ghostly Tongues: Poetic Language from Beyond
- Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay A Make-Believe Ghost in a Make-Believe State: Feminist Killjoy Anti-Utopianism in Turkish Cypriot Youth Dramatic Literature
- Thomas Dayzie Write, Don't Write: Gordonian writerly haunting and Goethe's Dämonisch in two contemporary postcolonial novels
- Sarah Zahed Spectral Hauntings: What Teaching Speculative Refugee Literature in PWI Classrooms Looks Like.
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Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics

Organizers: Carson Hammond, Gabriel Briex

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Dorota Heneghan The Subtle Art of Giving Up on Feminism in Sofia Casanova's 1930s Transnational Fiction
- Jay Straker The Novelist as Unwelcome Mourner: Redescribing Peripheral Life after Poetry and Revolution in Orhan Pamuk's Eastern Anatolia
- Russell Samolsky On Giving Up in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
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Global Legal Imagination

Organizer: Adam Schoene

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

Organizer: Shaj Mathew

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Growing Up in the Global South: Children, Agency and World-Making in Contemporary Literature

Organizer: Marco Ramirez

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Amrita Das Playing the Other: Charting Geographies of Otherness through the motif of play in Satyajit Ray’s Sonar Kella (1971)
- Cecilia Enjuto Rangel Rosario Ferré’s “Amalia” and the Dystopian State
- Wesley Jacques Black Diasporic Folklore as Post-Colonial Care Ethic
- Gabriela Buitron Vera Indigenous Deities and Catholic Prayer: an Undocumented Immigrant Cry for Help in Solito (2022) by Javier Zamora
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History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

Organizer: Zachary Hicks

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Martin Breul Under the Radar: GDR Publishing, Canadian Writing, and World Literature
- Igor Marjanović Raum, prostor: philosophy and East-Central European spatial education 1960-1980
- Eliza Rose It Takes a Village: Literature as Civic Infrastructure in the Pages of New Village
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Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

Organizer: Asijit Datta

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Kexin Song Victorian Natural History and its Translation of Extinction
- Aditi Barman Roy The Neanderthal That Therefore I Was: A Posthuman Reading of James Bradley`s Ghost Species
- Anna Mochar The Fossilized Self in Marlen Haushofer's "The Wall" (1963) and Jacqueline Harpman's "I Who Have Never Known Men" (1995)
- Bidyum Medhi Selective Conservation and Species Extinction: The Whistling Hunters
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Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

Organizer: Hudson Moura

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

Organizer: Ali Ahsan

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Aniruddha Nagaraj Critical Reading of the Sharana Tradition in Sankranti (1973) and Shivaratri (2009)
- Shameer K Sulaiman Writing in Absence of Interlocutors: The missing traces of caste in the writings of Vaikkom Muhammad Basheer
- SATYANARAYANA KUSUMA Race, Caste and Religion in B. R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste
- Vismaya Pk Translating Karukku ; Tamil, Malayalam and English Comparative Analysis
- Ali Ahsan Spiritual Dimensions of Race and/or Caste in Oxherding Tale (1982) and I Have Become the Tide (2019)
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Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

Organizers: Billie Thoidingjam Guarino, Ruma Sinha

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Nidhi Shrivastava #MeToo in the Comment Sections: Exploring Content Ka Keeda’s Short Films on Youtube
- Ruma Sinha Witness, Survivors, Leaders: Dalit Female Journalists Transforming Outrage to Solidarity
- Billie Thoidingjam Guarino Where’s the Outrage?: Representations of Rape in Manipuri Cinema
- Robin Field Justice and Reparation in the #MeToo Novel
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Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

Organizers: Simone Murray, Alexander Manshel

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Katherine Deane Market Research and the Construction of Genre Readers
- Angelina Eimannsberger Readers Who Know What They Want: Grassroots Genre Shaping in Romance
- Rebekah Waalkes Getting On the Same Page? What Book Clubs Can Teach Literary Scholars with Maggie Boyd
- Julie Rak The Return of Commonplacing: Journaling and Information Management for the 21st Century
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Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

Organizers: Philip Mills, Joel De Lara

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Mynt Marsellus Authorship and Illocutionary Force
- Lisa McKeown Acknowledging Passionate Utterances
- Nikki Ernst Prediction, Projection & Persuasion
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Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

Organizer: Carlo Stranges

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Andrea Opitz The Violence in and of The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
- Zidong Li The Comical African American Characters in Go Down, Moses
- Nicolas Schwalbe Marie Depussé, or the unheard margins of madness: the experience of the La Borde clinic and the death of psychiatry, a “de-coïncidence”?
- XIYI ZHANG "Transcending Ethnicity and Memory: The Representation of the Komatsugawa Incident in Postwar Japanese Literature and Film"
- Vincent Perez Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s Recuerdos (1875) and the Hemispheric Text-Network
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Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

Organizer: Nidesh Lawtoo

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Shan Wu Homo-mēnsus, Homo-mimeticus, Homo-mēnsūra
- Jacob Levi “Now What?”: Deconstruction, Mimesis, and the End of Liber Mundi
- Mickey Vallee Mimesis and Biosemiotics: The Paradox of Relational Dynamics in Ecological Systems
- Philip Michels From Hypermimesis to Hyperperformativity: How AI Reshapes the Human
- Stijn De Cauwer Mirror Neurons and the Response to Images: Mimesis in the Work of Georges Didi-Huberman
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Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

Organizers: Christopher Gortmaker, Joseph Staten

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Timothy McCarthy Hybrid (post)Modernity in Don Delilo's Underworld
- Christine Fouirnaies Pictorial Metamodernism and W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
- Daniel Dufournaud Booker Style, or, The Comforts of Residual Modernism
- Christopher Gortmaker The Modernist Sequel
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Oceanic Humanities

Organizers: Sarah Senk, Colin Dewey

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Organizer: Yuanfei Wang

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Muge Gedik The More-than-human Contact Zone: Human-Fish Encounters in Yaşar Kemal’s Deniz Küstü and Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea
- Christina (Ting-Ting) Shiea Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Then and Now: Traversing Oceans and Time
- Tyler Ball The Oceanic World-Literature of the Indian Ocean
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Photographic Practices of Repair

Organizer: Candela Marini

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Audrey Leblanc The materiality of abandoned art historical slide libraries: from traces of exclusion to repairing narratives. Slide/Lecture by Susan Dobson
- Catalina Poggio On touching images. Traces of potential resistance on historical photography.
- Jennifer O'Connor A Lifetime of Ground to Cover: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking the Archive
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Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness

Organizer: Hayley Cotter

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Gautama Polanki Speech that Conjures the Speaker: A Phenomenology of the Lyric
- Mingyi Xiao A Poetics of Self-Reflection: Exploring Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Prose Poetry
- Jay Butler Sentient Sentences: Gestures Towards an Enactivist Poetics in Renee Gladman
- Mushira Habib Thinking through Affective Poetics
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Postcolonial South-Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

Organizers: Chinmay Pandharipande, Rafid C

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Areej Kiani The Problem of Singular Representation in Peer e Kamil
- Anil Raj P S Comparative Texts in Purpose-Driven Tune: Interrogating Dalit Voices through Arivu’s Tamil Rap
- Mythili Bhat The Modern in Literature – science, urban development and the tussle with modernity in Poornachandra Tejaswi
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Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Eli Park Sorensen

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ipshita Chanda Real(ist) Presences : The Transmedial Aesthetics and Poetics of Plurality
- Judhajit Sarkar The Persistence of (Critical) Realism: In the Mirror of Contemporary Indian Writing
- Anjalee Nadarajan Walking Observations in Open City and Standing Heavy
- Alexandra Yan The Colonial Realism Debate: Inter-imperiality and Fiction in Long Ying-zong’s The Caricature of Madame Zhao
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Rebooting World SF

Organizers: Gerry Canavan, Hugh O'Connell

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Suzanne Boswell Where is the World in WorldCon?: The Global Aims and Contradictions of Science Fiction Fandom.
- Erin Twohig Access, authenticity, and classification: designing a syllabus on Francophone Maghrebi speculative fiction
- YILUN FAN Confronting the Elephant in the Room: Reflections on the Bidirectional English-Chinese and Chinese-English Science Fiction Translations
- Daniel Martin 'Global' Cultural Identity and Anti-Colonial Science Fiction: Teaching Afrofuturism in South Korea
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Technicity and the Genesis of the Posthuman World in Literature, Film, Performance, Computational Media, and Critical Theory

Organizers: Jecheol Park, Mayumo Inoue

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Chen-Kuang Yin Technics as Mediation: Rethinking Nature in Wu Ming-Yi's The Stolen Bicycle
- Amrita Iyer When a noun becomes a verb: Ontological possibilities of Simondonian technicity in William Gibson’s cyberpunk novels
- Zach Wagner Maxwell's Demon and the Veil of Ignorance
- Sangmin Kim The Proliferation of AI Agents: No Human Needed for Non-human Communication
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The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

Organizer: Shruti Jain

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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The Person in Law & Culture

Organizers: Jeannine DeLombard, Peter Schneck

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Rebecca Wey Narratives of Subjectivity and Desire in Abortion Debate
- John Quirk Will and Testaments: The Contemporary Historical Novel and its Inheritances
- Christopher Walker Chilled Futures: The Cryopreserved Body
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The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

Organizers: Noah Terrell, SUBARNA MONDAL

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Júlia Zen Dariva Wound Play and Body Disintegration: A Utopian Rejection of Self-Preservation
- Priscilla Layne Monstrous Bodies: Body Horror as Social Critique in Graphic Medicine
- SUBARNA MONDAL Curiosity and Squeamishness: Singular Bodies in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock
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Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry

Organizers: Lucas Klein, Chris Song

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Joanna Krenz In-text Translation: Negotiating Between Poetry and Academic Prose in a Translation of a Chinese-language Book on Chinese Classical Verse
- Federico Picerni Exile as Translation, Translation as Exile: Yang Lian’s Translational Poetics
- Tianran Han Voices from the Past: Translating Yuan Vernacular in Xue Angfu’s Sanqu Songs
- simona gallo The liminality of poetry, the centrality of the subject, the dis-location of the Sinophone: Hsia Yü’s First Person 第一人稱 and its multilingualism
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TV-Philosophy

Organizers: Jeroen Gerrits, Elif Sendur

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Larson Powell Between Culture and Ontology: TV as Thick Disposition
- sandra Laugier How TV Series Change us, and the World
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Untangling the Past: the Figure of the Detective in Postcolonial and Transnational Fiction

Organizers: Priscilla Charrat-Nelson, Julia Calderón

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Qi Hong Neighborhood Holmes: Parody, Translation, and the Politics of Humor in Liu Fu’s The Grand Failures of Sherlock Holmes, 1915-1916
- Marzia Milazzo Detecting White Injury: Deon Meyer’s Benny Griessel Novels, Racial Disavowal, and the Post-Apartheid State
- Delia García The Corrupt Revolutionary Archetype in Cuban Detective Fiction: Postcolonial Identity in Leonardo Padura’s Personas Decentes
- Julia Calderón The Crime of Touristification in the Detective Saga of Daniel Quirós
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Varieties of the Impersonal

Organizers: Elias Kleinbock, Joseph Henry

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Alexandra Irimia Misplaced Personality: Foucault’s “Lives of Infamous Men” and Bureaucratic Modernism with Jonathan Foster
- Bella Grigoryan “Pushkin and I Are Chums”: On the Media, Personhood, and Politics in Nikolai Gogol’s Time
- Elias Kleinbock To Make the Father Forgotten: Gestic Speech, Quotability and Impersonal Style
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Work

Organizers: Alya Ansari, Eli Jelly-Schapiro

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Alden Marte-Wood On Reproductive Irrealism
- Alya Ansari Fear and Self-Loathing: The Call Center in Contemporary Fiction
- Patrick Lyons '‘The True Builders’ Names are Always Silenced’: Uncovering the Traces of Immigrant Labor in "The Man Who Stepped Over the Sea.”
- Samuel Mercer The Presence of Marx’s Stories and Metaphors in the Ideology of Work
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Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality

Organizers: Marc Botha, Heather Yeung

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)

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"Doing" Media Studies in the Global South

Organizers: Silpa Mukherjee, Ankita Deb

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Karin Inouye Madame Mao as Durational Performance: Left-wing Cinema, Model Works, and Post-Mao Musicals
- DARSHANA MINI The Discontents of a Genre: Soft-porn Filmmaking and Scholarship as Subcultural Practice
- Ankita Deb Rumors of Film History: Researching Sex Media Infrastructures in the Global South
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“The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

Organizers: Tim Wyman-McCarthy, Asha Varadharajan

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Vincent Pacheco Disappearing bodies and the rhetoric of vanishing: Notes on Suharto, the Petrus killings in Indonesia (1983-1985), and the Philippine Drug War (2016-present)
- Alexandra Moore “Desert Dumps,” Border Control, and Collective Storytelling in the Human Rights Report with Elizabeth Swanson
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(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

Organizers: Hannah Link, Brittany Buscio

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Hannah Link From Phrygian caps to Phryges: nostalgic history and nation-building at the 2024 Paris Olympics
- Xiaoge Wang ‘A Cure Worse Than the Disease’: National Anxiety and Idyllic Nostalgia in Julian Barnes’s England, England
- Natasha Kinne Searching for the Legal Precedent for Prejudice: Contemporary Nostalgia for Anti-Abortion Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century American Legal and Medical Literature
- Caroline D. Eckhardt Past and Present in Two Medieval Arthurian Traditions
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(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

Organizer: Zaynab Ali

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- SAYED ELSISI Political Narrative vs. the Politics of Narration of The Sixties' generation of Arab writers
- Atefa Abdallah Narrating the Nation: A Translation of the Homeland Experience in Soha Bechara’s Resistance: My Life for Lebanon
- Maika Nguyen So You Want to Come Home With Me? “Knowing” Home in Dany Laferrière’s Pays sans chapeau
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Aesthetic Approaches to the Qur'an and Islam

Organizer: Pardis Dabashi

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Musab Abdul Salam ‘Why are Muslim Men and Women Not Writing Novels?’: Exploring the Place of Novels in the Mappila Literary Tradition
- Azize Kour Cultivating Universal Values in Moroccan Young Learners : Towards Fostering Peace Education in the Moroccan Primary School Levels : Fi Rihab Attarbia AlIslamiyya (6th Grade) Textbook as a Case Study
- Ifrah Javaid Grammars of Belief: On Miracles in Modernity
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Aesthetics and Ethics of the Fragment in Remembering and Forgetting Historical Violence

Organizer: Jeanne Devautour Choi

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Stephen Voyce Hellfire: the History of a Fragment
- Anastasia Kostetskaya Postmemory of the Armenian genocide in a children's book
- Ashmita Chatterjee Affective Landscapes of Violent States – The Uncanny in Mariana Enriquez’s 'Chicos que faltan'
- Jeanne Devautour Choi The Legacy of a Mnemonic Jigsaw Puzzle in Patricio Pron's El Espiritu de Mis Padres
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After Caliban: Literary Education, Empire, and the “Global Anglophone”

Organizer: Laura Ritland

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Romona Bennett Teaching Postcolonial Literature at the University of Guyana
- Adrian Wisnicki BIPOC Voices, Radical Care, and the Decolonization of Generative AI in the Classroom
- Sushmita Sircar Translation and Global Anglophone Literature
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Archipelagic Buddha and Christ: Towards Multilingualism as Method

Organizers: Wen-chin Ouyang, Linda Chu

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Hsiang-Yin Chen Sino-Soviet Leviathan, Chinese Stories, and China Dream
- Hannah Scott Deuchar Language on Trial: Multilingualism in the (literary) courtroom
- Chunhui Peng Imagining Lady Tan’s Life in Multilingual Practices
- yingxin chen Iconization of Sherlock Holmes in Chinese translations 1916
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Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought

Organizer: Adam Mohamed

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- David Sigler Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines in The Enchanted Mirror (1799)
- Marc Lynch Stealing Back the Baby: Reclawing Minority Writing
- Nadine Boljkovac Cinema’s nonstyle: Cinécriture via Varda
- Matthew Garrett Concept and Form between Beckett and Schizoanalysis
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Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Organizers: Brittany Frodge, Kelly Ferguson

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Katie Hogan Resisting “Backwardness”: From Fun Home to Appalachian Activism
- Emily Coccia Frontier Fantasies: Trans Ecologies in the Nineteenth-Century Dime Novel Western
- Lin Wu Between the Domestic and the Public: Family Narratives and Gender Politics in Tell It to Women
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Body, Language

Organizers: Dominik Zechner, Serena Luckhoff

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Anna Hunt Brecht's Buckow Elegies
- Aviv Hilbig-Bokaer Epilepsy as Form in Thomas Bernhard’s Amras
- Ian Fleishman Genre Queer: Adaptation and Embodiment in Fassbinder and Ozon
- Rose Taury Insectum
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Breath Poetics

Organizers: Mae Losasso, Lucy Alford

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Sriya Chakraborty Krishna Consciousness and the Beat Poet(h)ics of Breath
- Anne Marie Thompson Listening to “letter-spirits”: The Poetics of Inspiration in the Performances of Susan Howe and David Grubbs
- Sarah Nooter “and I stopped breathing”: Breath, Death and the End of the Line
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Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

Organizer: Madelaine Hron

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Kate Mackenzie Building the Future, Reproducing the Past: Girls and Society in Francophone African Fiction, International Children’s Rights Law, and Developmental Discourse
- Julia Empey Children Are/As Robots: dehumanization, personhood, and the ethics of futurity
- Harveer Saini Youth Voices in AI: Shaping an Ethical Future
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Collective Narratives and the Critical Medical Humanities

Organizer: Marta-Laura Cenedese

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Ningning Huang The Genetic Narratives between Cloning and Infection in The Tiger Flu
- Katrin Wehling-Giorgi Relational Storytelling and Transgenerational Trauma in the Works of Igiaba Scego and Katja Petrowskaja
- Chen Wang Disenchanting Illness as Personalised Metaphor: Discursive Transformation in Disease Narratives in Chinese Literature and Art of the Last Decade
- Psyfun Mustary Immanent Transcendence and Nested Narration in Phasawne Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow
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Comparative Approaches to Prison Abolition: Reading & Representing Against Carcerality

Organizers: Michael Reyes, Kaushik Tekur Venkata, Carolyn Ownbey, Cait Jones

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Jung Choi Are We Being Educated or Schooled? Lessons from the Inside
- Sarah Snyder Reading Like Fanon: Interpellations of the Literary in the Incarcerated Tradition
- Armin Fardis "Carceral Marronage: George Jackson’s Carceral Insurgency and A Revolutionary Ethics of Comparison”
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Comparative Indenture

Organizers: Rebecca Liu, Najnin Islam

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Devin Choudhury Writing the Earth: Post-Indenture Geographies in V.S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men and K.S. Maniam’s In a Far Country
- XU PENG Asian Indenture as a Literary Expression of Caribbean Nationalism
- Catherine Peters The Contract and the Collective: A Prehistory of Asian Indenture in the Early Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
- Atreyee Phukan Global Indenture, Globalizing Indenture
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Comparative Literature and the Politics of Detranslation

Organizers: Torin McLachlan, Rusaba Alam

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Sheila Giffen The Enigmatic Message of Racial Difference
- Robert Malone Enigmatic Wish Fulfillment in Freud's Interpretation of Dreams
- Claudia Grigg Edo Radical Transference as Detranslation
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Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World

Organizers: Bhavya Tiwari, Sucheta Kanjilal

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Abhipsa Chakraborty Feminist Resistance, Translation and the Politics of “Dhvani” in Geetanjali Shree’s Ret ki Samadhi (Tomb of Sand)
- Ulka Anjaria Too Big and Too Straight: Motherhood and Literary Form in the Hindi Novel
- Vandana Saxena Premchands at Home: Gender, nation and tradition in a woman’s memoir
- Tarjanee Parmar Fear and Caste-anxieties in Hindi Dalit Short Fiction
- Sushil jha The Elephant-God and a Window of small things
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Critical Perspectives on Collaborative Translation

Organizers: Abrona Lee Pandi Aden, Saswati Saha

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Cultures of Energy Transition

Organizers: Martin Premoli, Izzy Lockhart

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Decolonization and Unevenness in Material Contexts

Organizer: Auritro Majumder

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Fabio Akcelrud Durão Bolsonarism's Strategies of Recolonization
- Mukti Mangharam ‘Indigeneity’ as a Framework for Decolonization: Adivasi, Palestinian, and Haudenosaunee Paradigms of Collective Belonging
- Pavan Kumar Malreddy Putting Solidarity in Its Place: Us, them, and Other Affective Injustices
- Sheetala Bhat Performing Against Disappearance: Visibility, Violence, and Decolonization on Turtle Island and India-occupied Kashmir
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Diagrams of writing. Design, ekphrastic and figural patterns in artistic and literary forms

Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Displacing Academic Practices in the Ruins of the Neoliberal University

Organizers: Maddalena Cerrato, Peter Baker

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Noraeden Mora Mendez Precarious Concepts: experiment, displacement, and collaboration
- Tim Roberts Desiring the Ruin as Outrunning the Ruin: np:'s Opening to Reset in the Critical University
- Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes Anti-Neoliberal Organizations and Initiatives: Notes Derived From The Experience of 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos
- Claudia Marques-Martin Restoring the Past in Order to Hear the Female Artist
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Dissident Writing, the Cold War, and the Decolonizing World

Organizers: Peter Kalliney, Jini Kim Watson

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Brian Goodman The Antipolitical Imagination: From East-Central Europe to the Global South
- Preeti Singh Cold War Emergencies: Authoritarianism and Modernism in Postcolonial India
- Jiaxin Yan “Crossing the 38th Parallel in Japan”: Zainichi and the Promise of Citizenship
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Finding New Kinships: Queer Homecomings in East Asian Literature and Media

Organizers: Fareed Ben-Youssef, Rebecca Ehrenwirth

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Qingyang Freya Zhou Contesting Chrononormativity: Vicarious Kinship and Unofficial Historiography in Anna Kim’s Novel Die große Heimkehr (The Great Homecoming, 2017)
- Yun Peng Queer Homemaking
- Jamie J. Zhao Queer women prefer older sisters: Mediating queer sisterhood in Chinese women game live streamers’ stardom and fandom
- Flora Roussel Skinship and Queerness: Decentering Home in Ekuni Kaori’s Twinkle Twinkle
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Ghost Figures in World Literature

Organizers: Ido Fuchs, Maysoon Shibi, Paula Perez-Rodriguez, Diego Baena

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Roni Henig A Haunted Narrative: Hebrew as a Spectral Mother in Agnon’s In The Prime of Her Life
- William Fogarty Ghostly Tongues: Poetic Language from Beyond
- Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay A Make-Believe Ghost in a Make-Believe State: Feminist Killjoy Anti-Utopianism in Turkish Cypriot Youth Dramatic Literature
- Thomas Dayzie Write, Don't Write: Gordonian writerly haunting and Goethe's Dämonisch in two contemporary postcolonial novels
- Sarah Zahed Spectral Hauntings: What Teaching Speculative Refugee Literature in PWI Classrooms Looks Like.
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Girlhood Aesthetics: Coming of Age in the Cultural Imaginary

Organizer: Amanda Greer

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Rachel Windsor "Weird, Filthy, Fancy Things": Reading Lolita Through Thing Theory
- Erin Nunoda Against Lesbian Distinction: Aftersun and Queer Girlhood Desire
- Rachel O'Brien Dirty Girls and Wolfish Appetites: Queer Abject Aesthetics in Anuja Varghese’s “Milk”
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Hegel and World Literature

Organizer: Carson Welch

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Tavid Mulder Self-Alienated World Literature: Hegel and Schwarz on Formation
- Jensen Suther Adorno's Blindspot: Art and Organism in Hegel's Aesthetics
- Thomas Waller World Literature and Absolute Method
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Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide

Organizers: Maria Boletsi, Ilios Willemars

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Sejal Mahendru Cartographies of Resistance: Island Ecologies and the Novel Form in The Last Wave and Latitudes of Longing
- Neni Panourgia Ecologies of Confinement and the Reality of the Unreal
- Callum Copley Constructing Utopia: Artificial Islands and the Fantasy of Isolation
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Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures

Organizers: Rini Tarafder, Amrapali Chatterjee

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Suzan Deniz An Analysis of the Infrastructural Details in terms of Disability in Daralan
- Kelly Moore The Affective Infrastructure of Joan Sales’ Uncertain Glory (1971)
- Sara Johnson Ministering to Power: Greeks, Jews and Historical Fiction at the Persian Court
- Kendra Atkin The Pharmakon’s Residue: infrastructure, media and metaphor
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Interdisciplinary Study of Homemaking: Mapping the Places, Routines, Memories, and Locales We Call Home

Organizers: Jean Amato, Kyunghee Pyun

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Samiksha Samiksha The Other at Home: Servants, Spaces, and Objects in Urban Domesticities
- Soham Sinha The Limits of Chremamorphic Reconfiguration: Disruption of National Identity in the Manor House in Lady Audley’s Secret (1862)
- Shiqi Xu Home through Absence: Longing for a Displaced Primordial Homeland in Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- Foteini Lika Constructing Oriental Nostalgia: Heritage, Gender and Material Culture in M. Iordanidou’s Loxandra
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Labor in Global Speculative Fiction

Organizers: Samuel Ginsburg, Emily Maguire

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Natalia Aguilar Vasquez Blenders and Love: Reimagining Domesticity and Queer Desire in Vagabunda Bogotá’s Post-Work Future
- Mitch Murray Cozy Work, If You Can Get It
- Winnie Pérez Martínez Cyberpunk Models of Post-Capitalist Labor in Caja de fractales (2017)
- Samuel Ginsburg Labor Ecologies and Roboticization in the Speculative Fiction of Hiroko Oyamada and Pabsi Livmar
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Literary Ruins: On the Crisis of Contemporary Institutions

Organizers: Daniel Runnels, José Luis Suárez Morales

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Andrew Strombeck Reading Small-Scale Institiutions with Tommy Orange
- Matt Johnson Worlds Apart: Mass Tourism and the Crisis of Travel in the Post-Pandemic Yucatán Peninsula
- José Luis Suárez Morales Monumentalizing Memory: Crisis, Symbolic Struggles, and Urban Landscapes in San Salvador
- Jose Ricardo Garcia Martinez Expansive Ruins and Ruins “Under Construction” a note on Aira’s Los fantasmas and Danielewski’s House of leaves
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Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism

Organizer: Isabelle Hesse

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Nico Fonseca Out from Under: Indigeneity, the Nonhuman, and Life Under Extraction in the work of Seba Calfuqueo
- Carolyn Lesjak Unsettling the Canadian Settler Colonial Narrative
- Alyssa Froemel At What Cost? The Dystopian Future of Extraction for Indigenous Population in The Marrow Thieves
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Magical Realism as World Literature: Travelling Concept, Travelling Theory, Untranslatable

Organizers: Cesar Dominguez, Sarah Vidal Horta

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Uttara Rangarajan Feminist Pasts and Diasporic Futures: Magical Realism and Hindu Mythology in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City
- Iker Arranz Rural or Urban? The answer is Magical. Bernardo Atxaga’s proposal as a fantastic no-answer for a Basque intra-journey
- Patricia Vidal 'We were never meant to survive' : Futurities of difference in Speculative Fiction from the Global South
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Mapping the Asian-Hispanic Borderland: Cultural Interactions and Hybrid Identities

Organizers: Miaowei Weng, Sohyun Lee

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Blake Seana Locklin Chinese Transparency, Mexican Deceit: The Meaning of Clothing in El Periquillo Sarniento
- Bingli Liu Coincidence or Influence? The Interaction of Chinese Loong and Mesoamerican Serpents
- Qing Ai Intersectionality and Gendered Immigrant Experience in El Futuro Perfecto
- Paula Park Julia Wong and the Paradoxes of Representation
- Dinu Luca Linguistic China in 17th-century Spanish Texts: Aspects of a Hauntology
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Marginalized Voices: The Representation of Peripheral Life in Literature

Organizer: Carlo Stranges

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Andrea Opitz The Violence in and of The Lost Journals of Sacajewea
- Zidong Li The Comical African American Characters in Go Down, Moses
- Nicolas Schwalbe Marie Depussé, or the unheard margins of madness: the experience of the La Borde clinic and the death of psychiatry, a “de-coïncidence”?
- XIYI ZHANG "Transcending Ethnicity and Memory: The Representation of the Komatsugawa Incident in Postwar Japanese Literature and Film"
- Vincent Perez Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s Recuerdos (1875) and the Hemispheric Text-Network
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Mimesis in a Global and Historical Context

Organizers: Samuel Hodgkin, Lara Harb

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Beth Harper Hortomimesis: representing the gardener in ancient China and Augustan Rome
- Michael Clarke Mimesis and Political Representation in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
- Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani Mimesis, Resistance, and Identity: Exploring the Role of Imitatio in the Woman, Life, Freedom Movement
- Taymaz Pour Mohammad Between Tongue and Taste: Persian Jones and the Non-Mimetic Aesthetics
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Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

Organizer: Nidesh Lawtoo

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Shan Wu Homo-mēnsus, Homo-mimeticus, Homo-mēnsūra
- Jacob Levi “Now What?”: Deconstruction, Mimesis, and the End of Liber Mundi
- Mickey Vallee Mimesis and Biosemiotics: The Paradox of Relational Dynamics in Ecological Systems
- Philip Michels From Hypermimesis to Hyperperformativity: How AI Reshapes the Human
- Stijn De Cauwer Mirror Neurons and the Response to Images: Mimesis in the Work of Georges Didi-Huberman
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Odd Temporalities

Organizers: Juan Meneses, Matthew Scully

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Erin Schlumpf Feeling Queasy, Feeling Utopia: Impossible Temporalities in Love Lies Bleeding
- amanda macedo macedo Temporal Disruptions: Media and Violence in Sara Eliassen's "Images [and Talking Back to Them]"
- Ahmad Nadalizadeh Film’s Treachery: The Politics of Panahi’s Temporalities
- Xiaojiao Wang Senescent Time of a Future Past: Biopolitical Impasse and Legitimacy Crisis of Working-Class Communities in Shanghai and Paris
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Picturing Violence in the Age of Annihilation

Organizers: Elizabeth Liendo, Adam Yaghi

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Yian Zhu “Nor Certitude, Nor Peace, Nor Help for Pain”: Children and Families of the Troubles in Anna Burns' Milkman
- Anita Rescia “Autobiographic pages of unkept diaries:” Agency in Children’s Drawings During the Spanish Civil War
- Mary Gryctko Picturing Violence Against Children: The Child in a Live-Streamed Genocide
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Poetic Voice in the Expanded Field

Organizers: Steven Maye, Maria Dikcis

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Poetics and Politics of Memory/Trauma-Scapes in South Asian Literatures

Organizers: Muhammad Numan, Nida Sajid

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Rituparna Rana "From Erasure to Embodiment: Curatorial Expressions and Post-Memory of the 1947 Partition"
- Muhammad Numan Memoryscapes in Post-9/11 South Asia Beyond Trauma: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Vernacular Poetry
- Pawan Sharma Narratives of Migrant Foodscapes: Memory, Identity, and the Politics of Belonging
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Politics and Desire in the Archive

Organizers: Mercedes Trigos, Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Postcolonial Formalism in Context

Organizers: Arthur Rose, Dominic O'Key

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Thando Njovane Towards a Postcolonial Aesthetics of Form
- Pratistha Bhattarai Formalism and Allegory: Revisiting J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
- Dominic O'Key Nadine Gordimer's Black Eagle
- Ryan Topper River as Form in Gabriel Okara's The Fisherman's Invocation
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Postcolonial Literature and Ecotheology

Organizer: George Handley

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Manvi Sharma Reimagining Postcolonial Folktales in the Planetary Crisis: Tracing the Anthropocene in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle nama
- Niğmet Metinoğlu The Hungry Tide as the Intersection of Ecotheology and Postcolonial Ideas
- Dr. Asis De Tribal Ecotheology and the Uncanny in Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey
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Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Organizers: DIDIER COSTE, Eli Park Sorensen

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream A (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM CDT)
- Ipshita Chanda Real(ist) Presences : The Transmedial Aesthetics and Poetics of Plurality
- Judhajit Sarkar The Persistence of (Critical) Realism: In the Mirror of Contemporary Indian Writing
- Anjalee Nadarajan Walking Observations in Open City and Standing Heavy
- Alexandra Yan The Colonial Realism Debate: Inter-imperiality and Fiction in Long Ying-zong’s The Caricature of Madame Zhao
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Scale, Form, and Urban Crisis: Literature and the City

Organizers: Eric Prieto, Liam Lanigan

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Danielle Hanzalik “Terrorist Geographies” of the Algerian War: Reading Cities Transhistorically through Photography and Fiction
- Olivier Sales Microspaces and Guerilla Urbanism: Scale Effects in Contemporary French Rap Lyrics
- Somak Mukherjee The Fire-Eaters: Urban Ecology, the Lumpenproletariat, and the Cultural Politics of the Lumpenproletariat in Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Fiction
- Eric Prieto Scale, Place, and the Ethics of Terrorism in Mahi Binebine’s Horses of God
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Sex Negativity II (We Have Never Had Sex)

Organizers: Marija Cetinic, Tessel Veneboer

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Jo Giardini Animalistic Desire: Consent and Coherence at the Limits of the Human with Marian Engel's 'Bear'
- Brooke Clark Sex Without Bodies: Beckett’s Breath
- Aristotelis Tokatlidis Sex, Lies, and Autofiction: Reading Love Me Tender
- Carole-Anne Tyler Less and More than Men: The Queer Sex of the Castrato
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Southern Literatures across Multiple Southscapes

Organizers: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Joanna Davis-McElligatt

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Anh Nguyen Routing South-South Solidarity: Vietnam-Palestine, Third World Travel Narratives, and Subaltern Internationalism
- Jeong Eun We Archaeology of Decolonization in Jeju Art
- Cassie Miura Uchinānchu American Literature: Representing Hajichi Revitalization in Japan’s Southernmost Prefecture
- Nienke Boer “What does a Global Southscape Look Like?”
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The An-Arché of Language: Embracing Chaos, Complexity, and Non-Productivity in Translation

Organizers: Cucurella Lavin, Gonzalo Díaz-Letelier, Paula Cucurella

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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The Blue of the Plums is the Memory of the Sea: Poetic Ecologies of Displacement

Organizer: Ada Smailbegovic

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Azra Ghandeharion The Culinary Art of Horror: Displacement and (Re)Orientation in Hannibal Series
- Rebecca Weingart The Wind Blossoms Blue: Yiddish Women Poets in New York
- Lucien Darjeun Meadows Entangled Presence: A Red Reading of A.E. Housman’s “The Merry Guide”
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The Flow of Performing Arts Between Periphery and Center: Tensions and Potentialities

Organizers: Esther Marinho Santana, Carlos Gontijo Rosa

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Diana Benea Dismantling the Center-Periphery Binary in Roma Theatre: Giuvlipen’s Counter-Discourse
- Robin Driver Canon and periphery in Armando Martins Janeira’s work on Gil Vicente and Noh theatre
- Souradeep Roy Reconstructing the Intercultural Debate Through World Systems Theory
- Andrew Schlager Our Emperor, Ourselves
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The Persistence of Existentialism

Organizer: Ben Roth

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Adelheid Rundholz Revival of Kierkegaardian Existentialism in Haruki Murakami's Killing Commendatore
- George Cai From Mishima to Murakami: Living with the Debris in Post-War Japan
- Lior Levy The Persistence of the Human -- Humanism and the Legacy of Existentialism
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Thinking in and Beyond (?) a Text: Derrida, De Man, and the Political

Organizer: Jonathan Luftig

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Cynthia Chase De Man Listening to the Poets
- Soelve Curdts The Time Of Our Reading – Reading Out Of Time – Understanding ‘Nothing’
- Henry Sussman Pictures at an Exhibition: Four Resplendent Text-Windows
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Translation and Autotheory

Organizers: Jan Steyn, Diana Thow

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Allison Grimaldi Donahue Playing Tomaso Binga
- Ami Xherro SKAM MANIFESTO, OR THE ALBANIAN LESSON
- Vincent BROQUA ‘Shifty translation’ or what is gained in practicing and thinking of translation from a queer, creative and autotheoretical perspective.
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Unpredictable Architectures: The Aesthetics and Politics of Gardening in Latin America

Organizer: Valeria Meiller

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Regina Pieck A Tree is not a Forest: A Phytopoetic Critique of Capitalism
- Valeria Meiller Interstitial Gardens: The (Geo)Politics of Land Defense in Cecilia Vicuña’s Ephemeral Forests
- Safaa Mohamed Defiant Gardens as Eco-Feminist Archival Spaces in Francesca Momplaisir’s The Garden of Broken Things
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Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Organizers: Carlo Arrigoni, Irene Bulla

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Brian Richardson Extreme and Postmodern Types of Unreliable Narrator
- Craig Smith The Reliability of Counterfact: Translation, Mediation and Narrative Strategy in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome
- Morgan Lehofer Unreliable Omniscience: Power, Gender, and Narrative Authority in Muriel Spark’s The Comforters
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Vice-Presidential Plenary Seminar: Reading and Its Vicissitudes

Organizer: Karyn Ball

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Hosam Aboul-Ela Points of Departure
- Larissa Lai Life Reading: Asiancy, Speculation, Recovery
- Dina Al-Kassim Driving in Palestine, with thanks to Rehab Nazzal and Adania Shibli
- Abdul R. JanMohamed Vicissitudes of the Manichean Opposition
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We Meet Again: The Psychoanalytic (Re) Turn in Literary Studies

Organizers: Yael Segalovitz, James Ogilvie

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- Dana Amir Shelf Zones, Deep-Sea Zones and Abyssal Zones in Psychoanalytic Writing
- Vered Shimshi Prosopopoeia and Intersubjectivity: Expanding Auto/biographical Boundaries in Yael Neeman's Once There Was a Woman
- jorgelina corbatta Reflections on Psychoanalysis and Literary Studies based upon my book Psychoanalysis and Narrative. Literature, Film and Autobiography (2024)
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What Is This “Black” in Global Black Literatures?

Organizer: Raquel Kennon

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)

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Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty, Sofía Forchieri

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

Stream: Stream B (12:30 PM - 2:15 PM CDT)
- JUNG CHOI Violence Against Women: Writing Gender Violence in South Korea
- Karen Genschow Poetry and feminicide in contemporary Mexico
- Sofía Forchieri Unsettling the ‘Gendered Grammar of Violence:’ Women as Agents of Violence in Contemporary Latin American Women’s Writing
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3:00 PM CDT - 5:00 PM CDT

ACLA Board Meeting

Day: Sunday, June 1, 2025

Time: 3:00 PM CDT - 5:00 PM CDT

Location: Virtual Conference

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11:30 AM CDT - 1:15 PM CDT

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2:00 PM CDT - 3:30 PM CDT

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3:45 PM CDT - 5:30 PM CDT

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10:30 AM CDT - 12:15 PM CDT

(The Politics of) Writing Home: Language, and Identity in the Literature of Displacement

Aesthetics and Politics of Necrofiction

Against Presentism: The Deep History of Our Discipline and Our Object of Study

Arabic Literature, or The Ancient in the Modern

Between Worlds and Worldlessness

Beyond Assimilation/Revolution? Collectivity, Solidarity, and the Future

Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential

Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

Border Narratives, Border Aesthetics

Broken Middles

Children's Periodicals and Their Readers: Methods and Comparative Approaches

China and the World: A Comparative Media Perspective

Ciné-Poetics of Time in the Global South

Complicit Figures, Complicit Forms

Critical Whiteness and the Middle Ages: Past and Present

Decolonisation and the Literary Field

Disciplinary Affects: The Aesthetics of Systemic Injustices

Displacement, Identity, and Colonial Legacies: Literary works and Global Refugee Crises.

Don’t Stop Talking About Palestine

Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism

Elemental Unevenness: Place-making in Literary and Cultural Forms

Embracing Glocality: New Perspectives on Arab and Anglophone Arab Literature and Film

Ethnography and/as Literature: Content, Context, and Comparisons

Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

Genealogies of World Comparatism

Ghost Figures in World Literature

Giving Up: Literature, Criticism, Politics

Global Legal Imagination

Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

Growing Up in the Global South: Children, Agency and World-Making in Contemporary Literature

History, Modernity, and Second World Forms

Imagining Extinction: Afterness, Fossils and Fiction

Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

Intersections between Race/Caste and Religion in Literature

Is “Outrage” Enough?: Sexual Violence, Popular Culture, and the Politics of Human Rights

Large Language Models and Literature

Literary Studies Beyond the Academy

Looking Back, Looking Forward: New Ways of Writing Vietnam

Lost in Austin: Critical Inheritances of a Philosophical Maverick

Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn

Modernism in the Twenty-First Century

Oceanic Humanities

Oceans in World Literature: from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Photographic Practices of Repair

Poetics and the Problem of Consciousness

Postcolonial South-Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

Realism, Globalization, and Cosmopolis

Rebooting World SF

Technicity and the Genesis of the Posthuman World in Literature, Film, Performance, Computational Media, and Critical Theory

The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges

The Person in Law & Culture

The Textuality of Contemporary (Body) Horror

Translating the Caribbean

Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry

TV-Philosophy

Untangling the Past: the Figure of the Detective in Postcolonial and Transnational Fiction

Varieties of the Impersonal

What is in Plain Sight?

Whiteness: Imploding the Impermeable and Invisible Monolith

Work

Written in Stone: Lithic Inscription and the Poethics of Monumentality

12:30 PM CDT - 2:15 PM CDT

"Doing" Media Studies in the Global South

“The Content of the Form”: Genre and Action in the Rhetoric of Human Rights

(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology