8:30 a.m.

7. Context as Text in Modernist Art, Music, Poetry, and Theatre
Chair: Michael Levenson, English, University of Virginia

• Molly Schwartzburg, English, Stanford University, "Joseph Cornell's Dickinson Boxes: Rethinking the Books and Pages of Modernism"
• Lisa Siraganian, English, Johns Hopkins University, "Texts Without Air: Gertrude Stein's Theories of Painting and Poetic Breath"
• Elizabeth Dyrud Lyman, English, University of Virginia, "Marks on the Page: It is Language Which Speaks"
• Michael Vanden Heuvel, Theatre and Drama, University of Wisconsin - Madison, "Race in Drag: Passing Performances of the Wooster Group"

Location: St. Mark's–Inn at Penn

8. Little Magazines: Identity, Nationality and Modernism
Chair: Richard Kaye, English, Hunter College–City University of New York

• Suzanne Churchill, English, Davidson College, "The Lying Game: Others & the Spectric Hoax of 1917"
• Adam McKible, English, John Jay College Ð City University of New York, "Modernist Bodies and Little Magazines"
• Peter Marks, English, University of Sydney, "Out of the Vortex: Blast and the Emergence of Modernism"

Location: Woodlands D–Inn at Penn

9. Modernism and Theatricality
Chair: Amanda Claybaugh, English, Harvard University

• Alan Ackerman, English and Drama, University of Toronto, "Spirits Visible and Invisible: Antitheatrical Performances in Wilde and Ibsen"
• H. Martin Puchner, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, "Gertrude Stein's 'Four Saints in Three Acts': A Closet Drama to be Performed"
• Rebecca L. Walkowitz, English, University of Wisconsin–Madison, "Conrad's Literary Impersonation: Cosmopolitanism and Literalism."
• Respondent: Michael Fried, Humanities, Johns Hopkins University

Location: Woodlands A–Inn at Penn

10. Philadelphia Modernism & African American Culture
Chair: Don Wellman, Humanities, Webster College

• Christina L. Bell, English, Montgomery College, "'Voluntary Negroes': Reimagining Greek Tragedy in Jesse Fauset's The Chinaberry Tree"
• Anne MacMaster, English and American Studies, Millsaps College, "Jesse Redmon Fauset: Anthropologist of Black Philadelphia"
• Andrew Lawson, American Literary and Cultural Studies, Staffordshire University, "H.D.'s Eugenic Paganism"

Location: Woodlands B–Inn at Penn

11. Re-evaluating Cinema and Modernism
Chair: Gregory Flaxman, Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

• Peter DeCherney, Center for Research on Culture and Literature, Johns Hopkins University, "'This Marriage Business': Iris Barry, MoMA, and the Gender of Film Collecting"
• Timothy Corrigan, English and Film Studies, Temple University, "Writing the Image: Of an Essay Film"
• Louis Schwartz, Film Studies, University of Iowa

Location: Woodlands C–Inn at Penn

12. Women and the Politics of Modernism
Chair: Matthew Luskey, English, University of Oregon

• Suzanne Clark, English, University of Oregon, "The Politics of Style: Modernism and Anarchy"
• Sandra Spanier, English, Pennsylvania State University, "Radical Politics/Radical Poetics in Kay Boyle's Recovered First Novel"
• Elaine Sproat, Literary Executor for Lola Ridge, "Lola Ridge and the Politics of Modernism"
• Matthew Hofer, English, University of Chicago, "'He offers less resistance / murdered from a distance': The Polemical Politics of Mina Loy"

Location: Regent–Inn at Penn

13. Gendering Media in Weimar Germany
Chair: Victoria Rosner, English, Texas A&M University

• Anke Finger, German, Texas A&M University, "Intimate Media: Journalism, Autobiography, and the Woman Artist"
• Janet Ward, German, University of Colorado - Boulder, "Advertising the New Woman"
• Meike Werner, German, Vanderbilt University, "Prometheus, the publisher, bound: Eugen Diederichs and the New Woman"

Location: Woodlands C–Inn at Penn

14. Mestizo Modernisms
Chair: Peter Wollen, Film and Television, University of California–Los Angeles

• Susan Hegeman, English, University of Florida, "Pan-American Modernisms: A Polemic"
• Rebecca Biron, Spanish, University of Miami, "Children of the Mire: Octavio Paz and Mexican Modernism"
• Tace Hedrick, English and Women's Studies, University of Florida, "Bodies Out of Time: Historicity, Race, and 'Our America'"

Location: Woodlands A–Inn at Penn

15. Modernism and Classicism
Chair: Eileen Gregory, English, University of Dallas

• Maria Stadter Fox, Literature and Philosophy, Georgia Southern University, "H.D.'s Ion: A Modernist Model for Reading Euripides"
• Andrzej Gasiorek, English, Birmingham University, "'Hulme of Original Sin': Classicism and Religion"
• Edward P. Comentale, English, Indiana University, "Thesmophoria: Suffragettes, Sympathetic Magic, and Classical Modernism"

Location: Woodlands D–Inn at Penn

• Camille Norton, English, University of the Pacific, "Degenerate Signs: Dolly Wilde, Oscar Wilde, and the Politics of Cultural Meaning"
• Elaine O'Brien, Art, Sacramento State University, "Becoming Baudelaire: Harold Rosenberg and the Decadent Heroics of Modern Art Criticism"
• Liz Constable, French and Italian, University of California - Davis, "Gemma Bovary: Bad Taste? Or Degenerate Modernism from a Post Modern Perspective"

Location: Woodlands B–Inn at Penn

17. Modernist Difficulty: The Ethics, the Pleasures
Chair: Gail McDonald, English, University of North Carolina - Greensboro

• Nicholas Lolordo, English, Harvard University, "The Waste Land and Modernist Difficulty"
• Louis Cabri, English, University of Pennsylvania, "Modernist Spinozism and Louis Zukofsky"
• Leonard Diepeveen, English, Dalhousie University, "The Difficult Pleasures of Modernism"

Location: St. Marks–Inn at Penn

18. New Modernist Humor
Chair: Jean Gallagher, English, Polytechnic University

• Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University, "Murder Most Modern: Agatha Christie's Orientalist Satire"
• Stella Deen, English, State University of New York - New Paltz, "The Intermediary Feminism of 'The Diary of A Provincial Lady' in Time and Tide"
• Kristin Bluemel, English, Monmouth University, "Tears before Laughter: Satire and Survival in the Early Fictions of George Orwell and Stevie Smith"

Location: Regent–Inn at Penn

19. Adorno and the Modernist Avant-Garde
Chair: Kim Middleton, English, University of Notre Dame

• Erich Hertz, English, University of Notre Dame, "The End(s) of the Aesthetic: Rethinking Adorno and the Modernist Avant-Garde"
• Michael Stone-Richards, Art History, Northwestern University, "Adorno and Breton on the Experience of Thinking"
• David Durst, Philosophy, American University of Bulgaria, "Adorno's Dialectical Aesthetics: Art in the Extreme(s) of Expressionism and Constructivism"

Location: Woodlands C–Inn at Penn

20. The Cultural Politics of Close Up
Chair: Diana Collecott, English, University of Durham

• Laura Marcus, English and American Studies, University of Sussex, "'The film for the film's sake': the Moment of Close Up"
• Jane Marcus, English, City College–City University of New York, "Forms of Fellow Travelling: Nancy Cunard's Race Work in Film"
• Charlotte Mandel, Independent Scholar, "Bryher and Cinema: A Didactic Visionary"
• Jean Gallagher, English, Polytechnic University, "H.D.'s Distractions"

Location: St. Mark's–Inn at Penn

21. Jazz and the European Avant-Garde
Chair: Bernard Gendron, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

• Jed Rasula, English, Queen's University - Ontario, "Jazz and the European Avant-Garde"
• Walter Kalaidjian, English, Emory University, "Josephine Baker, Jazz Performance, and the Jouissance of the Other"
• Michael Borshuk, English, University of Alberta, "Noisy Modernism: The Cultural Politics of Langston Hughes' Early Jazz Poetry"

Location: Woodlands B–Inn at Penn

22. Late Modern Photography
Chair: Marsha Bryant, English, University of Florida

• Steve Spence, Humanities, Clayton College, "Walker Evans, Left-Wing Radical"
• Virginia Bonner, Women's Studies and Film Studies, Emory University, "Modest Witness in Storyville: Feminist Ruminations on E. J. Bellocq's Brothel Photographs"
• Stuart Burrows, English, Yale University, "Breaking Down Metaphor: The Figure of the Photograph"

Location: Woodlands D–Inn at Penn (60)

23. Modernism and Environment: Nature in the Age of Science and Technology
Chair: Elisa New, English, Harvard University

• Catherine Paul, English, Clemson University, "Furthest South: The Bottom of the World and Modernist Portrayal of Nature"
• Anne Raine, English, University of Washington, "Still Life in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Nature, Modernity, and Marianne Moore"
• Robin Schulze, English, Pennsylvania State University, "Pound, W.H. Hudson, and the Nature of Modernism"

Location: Regent–Inn at Penn

24. Modernists, Hollywood, and the Great Depression
Chair: Kristina Baumli, English, University of Pennsylvania

• Bruce Kawin, English, University of Colorado, "Faulkner's Hollywood Revisited"
• Stephen Hock, Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania,"'Stories Told Sideways out of the Big Mouth': Dos Passos, Bazin, and the Camera Eye."
• Rita Barnard, English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, "'The Old Teaser Routine': West, the Vamp, and the Barber in Purdue"
• Jonathan Goldman, English, Brown University, "Crime Doesn't Play: Gangsters and Celebrity in 1930s Hollywood"

Location: Writers House–Arts Cafe

25. Voluntary Negro Women?: The Problematics of Historical Repression and the Articulation of the Modern Black Female Subject
Chair: Christina L. Bell, English, Montgomery College

• Cherise A. Pollard, English, West Chester University, "'You Got to Go There to Know There': The Power of History and the Lure of Memory in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God"
• Genevieve Carminatti, English, Montgomery College, "The Sexual Politics of Intraracial and Gender Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand"
• Linda Huff, English, University of California–Riverside, "Tea and Sympathy: Black Woman's Liminal Community in Nella Larsen's Passing"

Location: Woodlands A–Inn at Penn

G. Crossing Boundaries in the Arts
Cristanne Miller, English, Pomona College
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: Woodlands C–Inn at Penn
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H. Fascism and the Avant-Garde
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Sociology, University of California - Santa Barbara
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: Chancellor–Inn at Penn
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N. Spirituality and Early 20th-Century Modernism
Carol Oja, Music, College of William and Mary
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: Writers House–Room 202
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26. Definitional Debates: Modernism and Modernity
Chair: Jody Cardinal, English, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Susan Stanford Friedman, English, University of Wisconsin - Madison, "Definitional Excursions"
• Wladimir Krysinski, Comparative Literature, Universite de Montreal, "Modernist Fallacies"
• Marianna Torgovnick, English, Duke University, "Modernity Project"

Location: Woodlands A–Inn at Penn

27. Girl's Play: Culture, Futurity & the American Female: 1900-1938
Chair: Ann Ardis, English, University of Delaware

• Jennifer Fleissner, English, University of California–Los Angeles, "The Biological Clock: Wharton, Naturalism, and the Temporality of Womanhood"
• Deborah Garfield, English, University of California - Los Angeles, "Castles in the Earth: Child Study and Alternative Femininity"
• Patricia Juliana Smith, English, Hofstra University, "The World, The Flesh, and the Devil: The Malignity of Innocence in Elizabeth Bowen's The Death of the Heart"

Location: Writers House–Arts Café

28. The Surrealist Intervention I: Toward a Public Avant-garde
Chair: Michele M. Richman, Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania

• Katherine Conley, Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College, "Unconscious Vibrations: Robert Desnos and Surrealist Radio."
• Jordana Mendelson, Art and Design, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, "Drawing the Lines between Politics and Poetics in 1930s Barcelona: Joan Miro's 1933 Drawing-Collages."
• Jonathan P. Eburne, Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, "All the World's Curtains Drawn': Violette Nozieres and the Surrealist Book."
• Adam Jolles, Art History, University of Chicago, "Surrealism against the Spectacle: The Anti-Colonial Exhibition of 1931"

Location: St. Mark's–Inn at Penn

29. Working in The New Age: A Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Sean Latham, Modern Culture and Media, Brown University
Chair: Robert Scholes, Humanities, Brown University

• Lee Garver, English, University of Chicago
• Michael Groden, English, University of Western Ontario
• Robert von Hallberg, English, University of Chicago
• Tamar Katz, English, Brown University
• Wallace Martin, English, University of Toledo
• Robert Spoo, Yale Law School

Location: Humanities Forum–3619 Locust Walk