ACLA 2005 Preliminary Program

To register for the conference, please choose the Registration link from the main conference page (http://acla2005.outreach.psu.edu).

• A detailed Roster of Seminars that includes the schedule of individual papers.

If you have questions, or if you are a program participant and find an error or omission in this posting, please contact Chriss Schultz (cys2@outreach.psu.edu).

WELCOME AND GENERAL INFORMATION

The members of Penn State’s Department of Comparative Literature are delighted to welcome you to our University Park campus for the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). The program includes two plenary presentations — one by ACLA President Margaret Higonnet, the other by filmmaker and critic Trinh T. Minh-ha; some sixty seminars, in which about 580 papers are scheduled to be presented; the ACLA’s annual business meeting; sessions sponsored by journals and by our affiliated organization, the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature (ADPCL); roundtables; films; and cultural events.

BUILDING LOCATIONS: The opening reception, Saturday plenary, and banquet will take place in the Nittany Lion Inn (NLI). All other sessions will be held at the Hetzel Union Building (HUB), Thomas Building (TOM), or Life Sciences Building (LSC), which are close to each other, with some evening events in Kern Building, which is near the NLI. Please refer to the campus map on the back cover of this program.

PARKING: Visitor parking is available in the Eisenhower Parking Deck (on Shortlidge Road). Please be sure to have a parking permit attached to your rear view mirror at all times; otherwise you will receive a ticket. Permits may be purchased at the Conference Central Desk in the HUB.

TRANSPORTATION: The Campus Loop (bus) is a free service and runs approximately every 15 minutes. It has a stop near both the NLI and the HUB. However, during our conference this service will be available only on Friday, as a result of the Spring Break schedule.

MESSAGES: You can check the bulletin board near the Conference Central Desk in Heritage Hall (HUB) for messages. We will interrupt sessions only for emergency calls. Conference personnel can be reached at the number for Penn State Conferences and Institutes, 814-863-5100.

EMAIL ACCESS: To access the Web via Penn State’s system, you’ll need a temporary Penn State user ID and password. You can stop by the Conference Central Desk to arrange for access and for information on available computer labs and computers located in the HUB and LSC. You may use the HUB’s wireless environment if you have the appropriate access and software (ask at the Conference Central Desk for details). Irving’s Bagels (110 E. College Ave, about a block away from the HUB) also has wireless capabilities. Your hotels may offer email access as well.

AUDIO-VISUAL EQUIPMENT: If your presentation requires A-V equipment, please familiarize yourself with the equipment in your presentation room on Friday, because technical assistance will not be readily available on the weekend. Check at the Conference Central Desk first for a password to open the podium.

VENDING MACHINES, PHOTOCOPIERS: MAC machines and vending machines are located on the lower level of the HUB. Vending machines are also located on the first floor of Thomas Building. Photocopying services will be available Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m, at the HUB’s Copy Center, and coin-operated photocopiers will also be available in the HUB throughout the conference.

BOOK EXHIBIT: The book exhibit, located in Heritage Hall in the HUB, will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, and 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.

MEALS: Lunch on Friday (a buffet at the Business Meeting in Alumni Hall, HUB), is provided for those who have registered for the conference and are ACLA members. Dinner on Friday and lunch on Saturday are on your own; check at the Information Desk in Conference Central for suggestions.

If you would like to reserve a seminar room over the Saturday lunch hour in order to have a group lunch with members of a session, participants in a project, or another conference group, please check at Conference Central for a room assignment. There is no meal service in the seminar rooms, but you may be able to buy a lunch and bring it to your meeting room.

Dinner on Saturday is the conference Banquet (seafood, chicken, and vegetarian/vegan buffet, $25). If you do not yet have a ticket, you can ask at the Conference Central Desk in case tickets remain. The menu will also be available there.

COFFEE SERVICE: Beverage service will be available at Conference Central (HUB) 7:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m. Another beverage station will be located in the Commons Area of Life Sciences Building (same hours).

MEDICAL INFORMATION: The hospital that serves our area, Mt. Nittany Medical Center, is near the University and has 24-hour service (814-234-6110). For emergencies, call 911.

8:00 p.m. Film Series I: Surname Viet Given Name Nam, a film directed by
Trinh T. Minh-ha

Registration, conference help-desk, tea/coffee service, message board, book exhibit

Welcoming Remarks: Susan Welch, Dean, College of the Liberal Arts,
The Pennsylvania State University

Round Table F 01, 9 LSC:
“Comparative Literature and Comparative American Studies”

Round Table F 02, 11 LSC:
“Job Seeking (and Keeping) at Different Types of Institutions:
A Workshop Co-Sponsored by the Graduate Caucus and the ADPCL”

Margaret Higonnet, University of Connecticut:
“Whose Can(n)on: World War I and Literary Empires”

7:00 p.m. Kern Building (Lobby): Penn State’s graduate students in Comparative Literature invite all student participants to a dinnertime pizza party. There will be soft drinks and several varieties of pizza including vegan. Tickets ($5) should be purchased during conference registration, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Nittany Lion Inn or 8 a.m. to noon Friday at “Conference Central” in the HUB.

Registration, conference help-desk, tea/coffee service, message board, book exhibit

10:25 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Film Series III: At Her Feet, by playwright Nadia Davids

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own. Ask at “Conference Central” for suggestions.

“Working Session for the Upcoming ADCPL Report on the Undergraduate Literature Curriculum”

E. Donald Kennedy, University of North Carolina and Editor,
Studies in Philology

7:30 p.m. Banquet (a limited number of tickets are available – see “Conference Central” desk), followed by the presentation of the annual ACLA awards; then unwind, after discourse, to the rhythms of musical genres from Africa and the Caribbean, with D.J. Pius Adesanmi, Penn State

A 01 Sacred Imperialism: Possession, Conquest, Plenitude, and Power in the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qu’ran

A 04 A Leftist Ontology? On the Relationship Between Theory and Practice Under Global Capitalism

2-day Stream A Seminars (Friday and Saturday only, or Saturday and Sunday only):

A 12 Framing Transnationalism, (Re)Forming Feminisms in the Postcolonial Age (Saturday/Sunday)

A 16 A Translation Turn in East-West Comparative Literature Studies (Saturday/Sunday)

B 11 Beyond Borders: The Re-definition of National Literature and Cinema in the Third Millennium

B 14 Topology, Geography, and Manifest Destiny: The Ideogrammatics of American Imperial Practice

B 16 Echoes of the Soviet “Empire” in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Eurasia

B 23 Imperial Fantasies: Representations of Islam in South Africa (Saturday/Sunday)

C 03 Re-Imagining the “US-Eurocenter”: Narrating the Nation in the Age of Globalization

C 10 Inter-American Studies: Interventions and/or Retrenchments in Dominant Discourse?

C 11 Imperial Institutions and Subjects in Modern Literatures of the Middle East/North Africa

We offer a sampling of films to enhance the international theme of the conference. Showings are free and will be preceded by very brief introductions; for the third film, the filmmaker Nadia Davids will be present.

Film Series I: Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Thursday 8:00 p.m.,
112 Kern Building (Auditorium)

Vietnamese-born Trinh T. Minh-ha’s profoundly personal documentary explores the role of Vietnamese women historically and in contemporary society. Using dance, printed texts, folk poetry and the experiences of Vietnamese women in Vietnam— from both North and South—and the United States, this film challenges official culture with the voices of women. A theoretically and formally complex work, Surname Viet Given Name Nam explores the difficulty of translation, and themes of dislocation and exile, critiquing both traditional society and life since the war.

Low-budget “Nollywood” movies exploded in Nigeria in the 1990s. Shot on video,

they are sold inexpensively on street corners throughout Nigeria and surrounding countries in West Africa. These films have become immensely popular among African immigrant communities in Europe and the United States: action-adventures, family dramas, witchcraft, the urban experience, and its interface with globalization and Transnationalism combine in intricate storylines laced with local color. We will be showing (1) Dangerous Twins: in this fast-paced action thriller, set in Lagos & London, identical twins exploit their resemblance, with tragic consequences; and (2) Shadows: in this family drama, with an exclusive Nigerian urban setting, a rich mother opposes her son’s marriage to a poor girl.

Film Series III: At Her Feet, Saturday 10:25 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., 104 Thomas

At Her Feet, by Nadia Davids, is one of the most innovative and well-received plays in contemporary South African theatre. In the decade since the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, the country’s artistic and theatrical communities have drawn on South Africa’s history of slavery, genocide and apartheid to generate works of increasing complexity, that speak to universal issues of human connection and renewal. Nadia Davids’ play uses poetry and lyrical monologues to convey the realities of women who are African, Muslim and South African. The play was the first to make the views of Muslim women the center of its focus, and has received outstanding critical reviews and South Africa’s highest theatrical honors. We will be showing a DVD of this play as performed. See Seminar B 23.

A 01 Sacred Imperialism: Possession, Conquest, Plenitude, and Power in the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Qur’an

Jay Twomey, University of Cincinnati: “Post-Imperial Paul(s): Reading Community and Authority in the Pauline Epistles”

Thomas Hoffmann, University of Copenhagen: “Imperialist Poetics and the Force-Dynamics of the Qur’an”

Beth E. McDonald, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: “In Possession of the Night: Lilith as Goddess, Demon, Vampire”

Jonathan Bordo, Trent University: “The Wilderness – the Sacred Sources of an Ethico-Aesthetic Site for Modernity”

Marianna Klar, University of London: “Human~Divine Communication as a Paradigm for Power: A Comparison of Q. 38:24 and Q. 38:34”

William T. McBride, Illinois State University: “Possessing Members, Possessing Texts/Circumcision & Midrash”

Magda Romanska, Cornell University: “Gender, Agency, and the Sacred: The Ethics and Counter Ethics of Sacrificial Exchange”

Bruce Fudge, New York University: “The Power and the Story: Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine and Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses”

Roberta Sabbath: “Subjectivity’s Imperial Birth: The Laugh of Abraham”

Seminar Leaders: Annika L. Farber, The Pennsylvania State University, Heather Hayton, Guilford College, and Paul D. Stegner, The Pennsylvania State University

Joseph D. Parry, Brigham Young University: “Lawman’s Brut and the Topography of Medieval Authority and Canonicity”

Matthew E. Spears, California State University, San Marcos: “The Canonicity of Cliché: Idiomatic Language & Formulaic Diction in Beowulf and the Heaney Translation”

Rebecca D. Blustein, University of California, Los Angeles: “‘A Contention for Kingship’: Irish and Latin Learning in The Battle of Mag Tuired”

Alan C. Jalowitz, The Pennsylvania State University: “Confirming the Medieval Canon and So Much More: Medieval Revivals in American and German Long Poetry”

Stan Benfell, Brigham Young University: “‘You have the Scriptures’: Negotiating Authorities in Dante’s Commedia”

Charlotte D. Eubanks, University of Colorado, Boulder: “Reading the Medieval: Performance and Embodiment as Theories of Literary Composition in Kûkai’s Poems of Physical Decomposition”

Sarah J. Adams, Ohio State University: “It Only Looks Like a Lie: Deceit in the English Lives of Thomas”

Katherine H. Terrell, Hamilton College: “Literary Genealogy and Poetic Authority in Dunbar’s Verse”

Derrick G. Pitard, Slippery Rock University: “Chaucerian Vernacularity and ‘The Friar’s Tale’”

Giuseppe A. Gazzola, Yale University: “Expanding Epistolary Genre: Petrarch, the Classics, and the Invention of a Literary Figure”

Corinne L. Scheiner, The Colorado College: “‘Permission to Transgress’?: Reconciling the Metaphors of the Ethical and the Erotic”

Danielle N. La France, University of California, Santa Barbara: “Explorations of Subversive Desire: Blanca Varela in English”

Rosemary Arrojo, State University of New York, Binghamton: “Translation and Marginal Sexuality”

Phillip J. Usher, Brooklyn, New York: “Montaigne: The Translator at the Heart of a Homosocial Network”

Sabine H. Seiler, University at Albany: “The Alchemy of Translation: Lessons from Romanticism”

Brian Lennon, Columbia University: “The Jargon of Eigentlichkeit: Adorno’s Theory of Foreign Words”

Valerie L. Reed, University of Wisconsin, Madison: “Arcades and Fragments: Benjamin and Pound on Poetic Translation”

James W. Womack, Oxford University: “Codebreaking, Encoding and Recoding: Problems of Roman Jakobson’s Translation Metaphorics”

Hallie E. Smith, University of Virginia: “Self-Portrait in a Convexed Mirror: The Translations and Translational Metaphors of Agha Shahid Ali”

Lenita R. Esteves, Universidade de São Paulo: “The Greek God Hermes and a Case of Translation Copyright”

A 04 A Leftist Ontology? On the Relationship Between Theory and Practice Under Global Capitalism

Christopher D. Breu, Illinois State University: “Signification and Substance: Toward a Marxist Ontology of the Present”

Sorin R. Cucu, State University of New York, Buffalo: “Politics and the Fiction of the Political”

William Rasch, Indiana University: “The Form of the Political vs. the Structure of Hope”

Max Pensky, Binghamton University: “Between Historical Ontology and Philosophical Anthropology: Critical Genome Theory”

Bradley Butterfield, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse: “Pragmatic Marxism”

Lynn M. Ta, University of California, San Diego: “Left Behind? Rethinking Leftist Technologies of Global Resistance”

Benjamin B. Robinson, Indiana University: “Socialism: Between Emergence and Emergency”

Roland Vegso, State University of New York, Buffalo: “The Promise of Marxism”

Philip Goldstein, University of Delaware: “Reception Study: From Heidegger to Foucault”

Seminar Leaders: Philip A. Armstrong, Ohio State University, and Bradley J. Macdonald, Colorado State University

Michael N. Goddard, University of Lodz: “From the Multitude to the Cognitariat: Franco Berardi’s Constructive Critique of Empire/Multitude”

Mark G. E. Kelly, University of Sydney: “Bioimperialism: Foucault contra Negri”

Paul Trembath, Colorado State University: “The Biopolitics of Reading Empire”

Bradley J. Macdonald: “Extricating Politics From a Certain Ontology: A Poltical Reading of Hardt and Negri’s Multitude”

R. L. Rutsky, San Francisco State University: “Biopolitical Production and Inhuman Life”

James J. Wiltgen, California Institute of the Arts: “Actualizing Power in a Virtual Age, or How to Stop Worrying and Love the Chip”

Brad Evans, University of Leeds: “The Global War on Terror and the Internationalisation Over the Securitisation of Life”

Keir Milburn, University of Leeds: “Biopolitics, Democracy and the Militant”

Mathias Nilges, University of Illinois, Chicago: “The Limits of Biopolitics: Empire and Libidinal Capital”

Brynnar N. Swenson, University of Minnesota: “Corporate Form: Biopower, Capital, Space”

Seminar Leaders: Chad Loewen-Schmidt, Rutgers University, and Sanja Bahun-Radunovic, Rutgers University

Andrew M. Ascherl, University of New Mexico: “The Psychoanaytic Party: Exploring the Lacanian Political Clinic”

Joshua P. Beall, Rutgers University: “Narcissism, Its Contribution to Imperial Structure, and Its Revolutionary Potential”

David S. Sigler, University of Virginia: “Resistances of Psychoanalysis and the Freudian surface.”

Ying-chiao Lin, Huafan University: “Preserving the Primitive: The Matriarchal Utopia in Bai Hua’s The Remote Country of Women”

Chad Loewen-Schmidt: “Resistance as Relationship: Laughter, Pity and Parson Adams”

Robert J. Walz, Pennsylvania College of Technology: “The Splitting of Nature and Society in the Poetry of Wordsworth”

Michael J. Mirabile, Reed College: “Reconstructing the Psycho-Biographical Subject”

Lecia Rosenthal, Tufts University: “Resistance to Death: Mourning, Failure, Psychoanalysis”

Sanja Bahun-Radunovic: “Symptom As Resistance: Modernist Literary Experience”

Annie Lee Jones, New York Harbor Department of Veterans Affairs, and Megan Obourn, New York University: “Why We Write”

Siona Wilson, Columbia University: “‘There’s no ‘get together’ here,’ Night Cleaners (1975) and Avant-Garde Film After May ’68”

Brian A. Smith, Emory University: “John Zorn, Critical Theory, and the Silent Politics of Musical Form”

Tim Lake, Wabash College: “Reading, Teaching, and Imagining The Black Panther Party”

Saturday, 8:15-10:05 a.m., 9 LSC – Presiding: Janet Lyon,
The Pennsylvania State University

Maria Damon, University of Minnesota: “Limits of Literary Historicism: The case of the ‘Historic Avant-Garde’”

Ingeborg Hoesterey, Indiana University, Harvard Extension School: “Avant-Garde as Structure: A Minimalist Approach”

Barrett Watten, Wayne State University: “Global Conceptualism: Conceptual Art, Universals, and the Globalization of the Avant-Garde”

Carrie J. Noland, University of California, Irvine: “Avant-Garde Typographies and Diasporic Politics”

Ellen McCallum, Michigan State University: “Playing with Empiricism: Aesthetics and the Experimental Narrative”

Mina Zdravkovic, Boston University: “The Radical Aesthetics: Some Reflections on German Postwar Avant-Garde”

Brian M. Glavey, University of Virginia: “Homosexuality and the Invisible Avant-Gardism of the New York School”

Benjamin F. Lee, New College of Florida: “Avant-Garde Poetics as Subcultural Practice”

Seminar Leaders: Caroline D. Rupprecht, City University of New York, Queens College, and Veronika Tuckerova, City University of New York, The Graduate Center

Carola Hilmes, Goethe University, Frankfurt: “‘Transforming the mirror into a window’ – Ilse Aichinger’s Latest Autobiographical Book”

Arvi Sepp, Catholic University of Leuven: “Trauma and the Discourse of Memory. Victor Klemperer’s Diaries 1933-1945 and the Historiography of Nazism”

Olga Aksakalova, The City University of New York, The Graduate Center and University Center: “Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird: Reenactment of Personal Trauma as a Cure for Collective Amnesia”

Neil Christian Pages, State University of New York, Binghamton: “‘Paste & Cut’: Montage and Memory in the Work of Alfred Doeblin and Hannah Hoech”

Susan E. Nurmi-Schomers, University of Tübingen: “Agitated Affinities – Poetics of Contiguity, Constellation, Collage, and One Post-Modernist Reading of Walter Benjamin”

Veronika Tuckerova: “Elegy, Irony and Joy in Ivan Blatny’s Exilic Reminiscences”

Lisa M. Isaacson, Zayed University: “Almost a Philatelist: Name and Recognition Value in the Poetry of Ilhan Berk”

Caroline D. Rupprecht: “Hidden in the Cut? Alexander Kluge’s Montage of German History”

Jutta Gsoels-Lorensen, The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College: “Elfriede Jelinek’s ‘Die Kinder Der Toten’: Writing the Necropolis/Confronting the Necropolis of Writing”

Jennifer A. Gregory, New Mexico State University: “Darkness and the Definition of Space in James Hanley’s No Directions”

Seminar Leaders: Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, University of California, Los Angeles, Alexander C. Huang, The Pennsylvania State University, and Claire Conceison, Tufts University

Claudia D. Orenstein, City University of New York, Hunter College: “Kazuko Hohki: Object Theatre and Cross-Cultural Encounter”

Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei: “Freaks, Fags, Foreigners, and Females: Cultural Outlaws and Japanese Theatre History”

John T. Dorsey, Rikkyo University: “Pacific Overtures: Performing Japan”

Yoshiko Fukushima, University of Oklahoma: “When Hollywood Comes to a Japanese Theater: Kerarino Sandrovich’s Comedies”

Haiyan Lee, University of Colorado, Boulder: “Encountering Milan in Shanghai: Nannies, Foreigners, and Neoliberal Fantasies”

Alexander C. Huang: “To Be, or Not To Be, Yet Must Be: Chinese Solo Performances of Shakespeare”

Elizabeth A. Wichmann-Walczak, University of Hawaii at Manoa: “Shang Changrong and Creation in Jingju: Western Theatre as Tool and Tyrant”

Claire Conceison: “There is a Trial Going on Here!: Judging the American Other on the Beijing Stage”

Yuwen Hsiung, Purdue University: “An ‘Ugly Creature’ from the Imperial Wilderness to the Gold-Covered Land: Cao Yu’s Yuan Ye (The Wilderness)”

Katherine M. Mezur, University of California, Berkeley: “Gender Down-loaded: Kabuki Femme Fatale, Cute Drag Queens, and Anime Animals: An Examination of Negotiations with ‘Western’ Binary Gender Hegemonies”

Sue-mei Wu, Carnegie Mellon University: “Resistance or Transformation?: Competing Themes in the Reaction of Hand Puppet Theater (Budaixi) to Competition from Western Entertainment Forms”

David V. Mason, Rhodes College: “‘Rasa’ and the ‘Rasaboxes Exercise’: Legitimizing Theory and Practice through India”

Seminar Leader: Paolo Bartoloni, The University of Sydney, and Robert H. Doran, University of Southern California

Reingard R. Nethersole, University of the Witwatersrand and University of Richmond: “Figuring Interstitiality: Benjamin, Agamben, Coetzee”

Paul North, Northwestern University: “Benjamin’s Doctrine of Distraction”

Dianna C. Niebylski, University of Kentucky: “Eclipsed Subjects, Suspended Communities: Sergio Chejfec and the New Poor”

Joy L. Ramirez, University of Colorado, Boulder: “Threshold Figures and the Example of the Example”

Andrea Righi, Università degli Studi di Bologna: “Interstitial Forms of Poetry: The Print in Valerio Magrelli and Jorge Riechmann”

Anthony A. Abiragi, New York University: “No Longer, Not Yet: On Maurice Blanchot’s L’attente l’oubli”

Eleanor E. ter Horst, Clarion University of Pennsylvania: “Zones of the Lyric: Metaphor and Apostrophe in the Poems of Rilke and Apollinaire”

Robert H. Doran: “Indistinction in François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim”

Bernhard F. Malkmus, Cambridge University: “Excess and Suspension of Experience in Modern Picaresque Fiction: The Confidence Man in Thomas Mann and Saul Bellow”

Ikuho Amano, The Pennsylvania State University: “Expropriation of the Invisible: D’Annunzio’s Venetian Aquascape in Akutagawa’s Water of Ôkawa River”

Thomas C. D’Arcy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy: “War Trauma, Recovery Narrative, and the Need for Resistance: The Case of D. F. Brown’s Vietnam War Poetry”

Michele L. Hardesty, Columbia University: “Hanoi Mary: Mary McCarthy and US Peace Activists in North Vietnam”

Nathan P. Devir, The Pennsylvania State University: “Fantasy in Zion: War and Psychoanalysis in Two Israeli Novels”

Saturday, 8:15-10:05 a.m., 117 TOM – Presiding: Jason K. Brooks,
The Pennsylvania State University

Jose L. Venegas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “Ludic Semicoloniality: The Play-Element in Joyce and Cortázar”

Kristin E. Pitt, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: “Disrupting Nation and Empire in the Fiction of Reinaldo Arenas”

Alexandru Boldor, Louisiana State University: “Self-consciousness and Cultural Identity among the Ruins of the Dual Monarchy”

Mykola Polyuha: “Apolitical Poetry as Politics: Political Writings of Bohdan-Ihor Antonych”

Jason K. Brooks: “Mud Not the Fountain That Gave Drink to Thee?: The Rape of Lucrece and Alexander Pushkin’s Shakespearean Project”

Gina L. Vallis, Oak View, California: “The Edge of the World: Deploying Silence in the Novel”

Ming Xie, University of Toronto: “Translation and the Limits of Universality”

Amy J. Woodworth, Rutgers University: “Language as Resistance: The Transformation of English in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things”

2-day Stream A Seminars (Friday and Saturday only, or Saturday and Sunday only):

A 12 Framing Transnationalism, (Re)Forming Feminisms in the Postcolonial Age

Parvinder Mehta, Wayne State University: “When Bio Becomes Gyno: Performing Autogynography and Theorizing Transnational Feminisms”

Natascha Kruger, The Pennsylvania State University: “The Subaltern in Dialogue with Third and First World Women: Voicing One’s Female Identity through Writing”

Jennifer S. Cameron, Columbia University: “‘Daddy just left’: Gender and Acculturation in Jewish-American Immigrant Literature”

Jeannie Im, Columbia University: “Writing the Patrie Féconde in the Novels of Assia Djebar”

Samantha N. Pinto, University of California, Los Angeles: “Disciplinary Impossibilities: Locating the Objects of Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies and African American Studies”

Esther Cuesta, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: “Who Reads Chicanas and Latinas?: Building Transnational Feminisms as a Way to Resist/Dissent from Hegemonic Systems of Power”

Nandini Bhattacharya, University of Toledo: “Pain, Piety, Pleasure, Pathos and Paterfamilias: Religion in Recent Bollywood Films as Gendered Imagistic for a Pain-free Globalization”

Bhavana Upadhyaya, University of New Mexico: “Moksha for Women: The Engaging and Disengaging Practices of the Woman with Regards to Economics, Sexuality, and Duty to Society as Means for Self-liberation”

Seminar Leaders: Jane E. Bristol Rhys, Zayed University, and Christopher K. Brown, Zayed University

Steve Adisasmito-Smith, California State University, Fresno: “Shadows of Empires Past: Translating Roman and Mauryan Imperialism into the British Raj”

Annette D. Lienau, Yale University: “Circumscribing ‘the Global’: Prospects of Denationalization and Literary De-canonization”

Hasan al Naboodah, United Arab Emirates University: “The British View of the Gulf as Reflected in the British Archives”

James A. Onley, American University of Sharjah: “Britain’s Native Agents in Arabia and Persia in the Nineteenth Century”

Christopher M. Davidson, Zayed University: “Britain’s Cut-Price Empire in the Lower Gulf”

Benjamin M. Odhoji, Yancheng Normal College: “The White Woman’s Ambivalent Burden?: British Women Travelers’ Self-referential Writing in Colonial East Africa”

Aparna V. Zambare, Central Michigan University: “The Imitation of Non-literary Discourse: An Analysis of Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja”

Jane E. Bristol Rhys: “The British Were Here? The UAE’s Legacy of a Protected Past”

Victor Fan, Yale University: “Deterritorializing the Pitch: Redefining Deterritorialization Through English Premiere League Soccer”

Friday, 8:15-10:05 a.m., 121 TOM – Presiding: Michael Eskin,
Columbia University

James Phelan, Ohio State University: “Narrative Judgments and Narrative Aesthetics”

Thangam Ravindranathan, University of Pennsylvania: “Ars non viatica: Georges Perec and the Rhetoric of the Post Card”

John J. Su, Marquette University: “Beautiful Memories and the Nightmare of History: Ethics and Aesthetics after Levinas”

Ursula K. Heise, Stanford University: “Travels in Post-Geography: Global Networks and Narrative Form”

Seminar Leaders: Kristine A. Byron, Michigan State University, and Miguel A. Cabañas, Michigan State University

Emron L. Esplin, Michigan State University: “From Poetic Genius to Master of Short Fiction: A Map of Edgar Allan Poe’s Reception and Influence in Spanish America”

Charles R. Swadley, Oklahoma Baptist University: “Fernández Retamar’s Cuban Caliban: Solidarity and Resistance”

Nidesh Lawtoo, University of Washington: “Neobaroque Identities in Alejo Carpentier’s Concierto Barroco”

Kelly Baker Josephs, Rutgers University: “Validating the Native Gaze: Fanon and Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home”

Natalie R. Leppard, University of South Carolina: “Memory/Appropriation of Memory in the Politics of Exile/Belonging in Junot Díaz’s ‘Aguantando’ and ‘Negocios’ from Drown”

Jason Frydman, Columbia University: “Violence, Masculinity, and Upward Mobility in the Dominican Diaspora: Junot Díaz, the Media, and Drown”

Hana Muzika Kahn, Rutgers University: “Maya Identity in Bi-Lingual Spanish-K’iche Poetry of Humberto Ak’abal”

Luz A. Kirschner, The Pennsylvania State University: “His/tory and Its Vicissitudes in The Handmaid’s Tale and In the Time of the Butterflies”

A 16 A Translation Turn in East-West Comparative Literature Studies: sponsored by the journal Perspectives: Studies in Translatology

Saturday, 8:15-10:05 a.m., 233 HUB – Presiding: Leo Chan, Lingnan University

Ning W. Wang: “Call for a Translation Turn in East-West Comparative Literature Studies”

Yifeng Sun, Lingnan University: ”Foreignizing Translation in East-West Comparative Literature Studies”

Hitomi Nabae, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies: ”The Translator as a Creative Culturalist Writer: The Case of Lafcadio Hearn”

Yu-lin Lee, Tamkang University: “Translation as a Mode of Writing: The Production of Minor Literature”

Xin Ning, Rutgers University: “Textual Translation and Cultural Transplantation: Baudelaire’s Paris, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Urban Landscape in Modern Chinese Poetry”

Yilin Liao, Purdue University: “The Chinese Ulysses – A Comparison of Xiao Qian, Wen Jieruo, and Jin Di’s Translations of Ulysses”

Jessica Tsui Yan Li, University of Toronto: ”The Aesthetics of the Body in Eileen Chang’s The Rouge of the North and its Translation”

Xinmin D. Liu, University of Pittsburgh: ”Visualizing Discursively: Memories of Local Dwellings in Recent Chinese Films”

Anne L. Xu, Rutgers University: “The Temptation of the Other: Cultural Translation in Malraux’s The Temptation of the West”

Dai Xun, Southwest Normal University: “On Chinese Translations of Western Literary Theory”

Seminar Leader: Philip Mosley, The Pennsylvania State University, Commonwealth College

Jason P. Webb, University of Southern California: “Waka and kanshi: Inventing the ‘Japanese Lyric’ and ‘Japaneseness’”

Liyan Shen, Indiana University, Bloomington: “Time Consciousness in Selected Chinese Lyric Poems”

Michele D. Ricci, Oberlin College: “Lyrical Cardiograms of an Age? Linking Languages of Love in German Poetry and Contemporary Discourse”

Andary A. Nezar, Zayed University: “Post Colonial Literature in the UAE: Is it the Same Post?”

Max Statkiewicz, University of Wisconsin, Madison: “The Name of Death and the Death of Name: The Experimentum Linguae in próspero saíz’s book of pronouns”

Peter Consenstein, The City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College: “Cubing the Lyric”

J. Mark Smith, University of Toronto, Scarborough: “Apostrophe and Prosopopoetic Address in Lyric”

Yuemin He, Northern Virginia Community College: “Questioning Red Pine’s Way to Cold Mountain”

Seminar Leaders: Michael Keevak, National Taiwan University, and Rhett McNeil,
The Pennsylvania State University

Michael Keevak: “The Great Wall of Europe: Knowing about China in the Long Eighteenth Century”

Anne E. Lyden, University of Toronto, Mississauga: “Crossing the Beach in Vava’u: Savagery, Civility, and the Observer in William Mariner’s An Account of the Tonga Islands”

Margarita D. Marinova, University of Texas, Austin: “Imperialist Encounters at Home and Abroad. A Russian View of America in the Late Nineteenth Century”

Kirstin Ruth Bratt, Arizona Western College: “Translating the Masculine Sound: Ruben Meneses’s Fictional Accounts of the U.S.-Mexico Border in Translation”

Blake S. Locklin, Texas State University, San Marcos: “(Not) Only in Los Angeles: Transcultural Encounters in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange”

Barbara Alfano, The Pennsylvania State University: “The Narrating ‘Ego’ of Gina Lagorio’s L’arcadia americana: An Empire of the Literary Self”

Jalil Nozari, Mahshahr, Khuzestan, Iran: “Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl: In Search of Authenticity”