8:30 a.m.

Friday
October 13

30. Modernism Revaluated: Pound, Lewis, and the Cultural Poetics of the Avant-Garde
Chair: Vincent Sherry, English, Villanova University

• Beth C. Rosenberg, English, University of Nevada - Las Vegas, "Tarred Beauty: Wyndham Lewis and the Poetics of Anti-Semitism"
• Michael Golston, English, Stanford University, "'A Quill Held in the Nostril': Ezra Pound and l'Abbe Rousslot's Phonoscopic Researches into Rhythm"
• Ming-Qian Ma, English, University of Nevada–Las Vegas, "Edifice of History: The Poetics of Architectonics in Pound's Cantos"

Location: St Mark's–Inn at Penn

31. Modernisms in the Space of the Americas
Chair: Robert L. Caserio, English, Temple University

• Brian Rourke, English, New Mexico State University, "Morally We Are At War with Mexico"
• Jose Quiroga, Spanish, George Washington University, "Out of the Orbit of Lezama"
• Eric Keenaghan, English, Temple University, "Hart Crane's Body; or, Cruising the Caribbean"

Location: Woodlands D–Inn at Penn

32. Modernist Studies and the Flight from Emotion
Chair: Joseph Boone, English, University of Southern California–Los Angeles

• Paige Reynolds, English, Holy Cross College, "Affect Anxiety: Irish Women and Irish Nationalism"
• Judith L. Sensibar, English, Arizona State University, "Hot Beds, 'Rank' Quilts; Faulkner's Poetics of Rage and Shame"
• Lisa Ruddick, English, University of Chicago, "Theorize This: Academic Training and the Brutalization of Self"

Location: Regent–Inn at Penn

33. Popular Modernisms
Chair: Emily Zinn, English, University of Pennsylvania

• Katherine Henniger, English, University of Mississippi–Oxford, "Critical Signifying: Popular Photography and American Modernisms"
• Michelle Ladd, Cultural Studies, Claremont Graduate University, "Smoke Rings: Cigar Discourse, Imperialism, and Masculinity"
• Jessamyn Neuhaus, Gender Studies, Lewis and Clark College, "'When He Cooks': Cookery Instruction for Men: 1920-1940"

Location: Woodlands A–Inn at Penn

34. Victorian Modernism
Chair: Laura Cowan, English, University of Maine

• Ellen Keck Stauder, English and Humanities, Reed College, "The Interval of Listening in Pater and Pound"
• Mary Ellis Gibson, English and Women's Studies, University of North Carolina–Greensboro, "Syntax and the Poetic Line: Browning/Swinburne, Pound/H.D."
• Burton Hatlen, English, University of Maine, "Pater, Hopkins, and the Origins of the Modernist Sublime"

Location: Woodlands B Ð Inn at Penn

35. Writing Modernist Biography
Chair: Mark Morrisson, English, Pennsylvania State University

• Tim Redman, Literary Studies, University of Texas–Dallas, "Pictures at an Exhibition: Photographic Choice and Biographic Practice"
• Donna Hollenberg, English, University of Connecticut, "'The words in our pockets': Levertov/Laughlin/Pound"
• Jane Augustine, independent scholar, "H.D. and Lord Dowding: Aspects of Modernism in Dual Biography"

Location: Woodlands C–Inn at Penn

36. Embodied Modernisms
Chair: Anke Finger, German, Texas A&M University

• Sarah Cole, English, Columbia University, "Anesthetizing War: Injured Bodies, Shell Shock, and Literary Appropriation"
• Laura Frost, English, Yale University, "Sadistic Patriotism: James Hanley's German Prisoner"
• Victoria Rosner, English, Texas A&M University, "Interior at Gordon Square: Modernist Ethics and Bloomsbury Esthetics."

Location: Woodlands C–Inn at Penn

37. High Modernism and Midcentury Poetics
Chair: Rise B. Axelrod, English, California State University–San Bernadino

• Steven Gould Axelrod, English, University of California, Riverside, "Danger Signs in Moore and Lowell"
• Alan Golding, English, University of Louisville, "1922, The End of the Avant-Garde, and the Beginning of Modernism"
• Thomas Travisano, English, Hartwick College, "Personality and the Impersonal: Berryman With and Against Eliot"

Location: Woodlands D–Inn at Penn

38. Irish Modernisms
Chair: Rita Barnard, English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

• Richard Begam, English, University of Wisconsin–Madison, "Ulysses and the Question of Irish Modernism"
• Brian May, English, Northern Illinois University, "Emblems of Uncertainty: Yeats's Modernism in Time of Civil War"
• Michael Valdez Moses, English, Duke University, "Cycling with the Dead: Postcolonial Stasis and O'Brien's 'The Third Policeman'"

Location: Woodlands A Ð Inn at Penn

39. Modernism and the Movies
Chair: Sanford Schwartz, English, Pennsylvania State University

• Peter Lurie, English, Boston University, "Alternating Visions: Sanctuary as Modernist and Popular Cinema"
• Mark Eaton, English, Oklahoma City University, "Moving Pictures: The Aesthetics of Movement in Cinematic and Literary Modernisms"
• Catherine Gunther Kodat, English, Hamilton College, "'I'm Spartacus': or, Woof! Woof!"

Location: St Marks–Inn at Penn

40. Modernism on Trial: Courtroom Negotiations of Modernist Art
Chair: Kurt Koenigsberger, English, Case Western Reserve University

• Dejan Kuzmanovic, English, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, "Perverts, Spies, Soldiers: Wartime Seduction Anxieties and the 1918 Cult of the Clitoris Trial"
• Jodie Medd, English, Carleton University, "Modernist Publics and Privates: Bloomsbury and The Well of Loneliness"
• Caroline Levine, English, Rutgers University–Camden, "Modernism Tax Free: Brancusi v. United States"

Location: TRW Room–Inn at Penn, third floor

41. Policing the Boundaries of Modern Art
Chair: Ann Temkin, Philadelphia Museum of Art

• Kirsten Strom, Art History, Grand Valley State University, "Madness in Modernism: Notes on Sade, Surrealism, and Foucault"
• Daniel A. Siedell, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, "The Critic as Artist: The Crisis of Role at Mid-century"
• Gwen Robertson, Art History, Humboldt State University, "MoMA Said There'd Be Days Like This: The Museum of Modern Art and the Boundaries of Modernism"

Location: Regent–Inn at Penn

42. Joyce/Woolf/Cultural Studies
Chair: Brandon Kershner, English, University of Florida

• Bonnie Kime Scott, English, University of Delaware, "The Culture of Nature in Joyce and Woolf"
• Suzette Henke, English, University of Louisville, "Modernist/Feminist Hybridities: Virginia Woolf's 'The Voyage Out'"
• Garry Leonard, English, University of Toronto, "Neither Here Nor There: Subjectivity, Shopping, and Modernism in Joyce and Woolf"

Location: Writers House–Arts Cafe

43. Anarchism and Modernism
Chair: Greg Wolmart, English, University of Pennsylvania

• Carol Vanderveer Hamilton, English, Carnegie Mellon University, "Anarchism and Modern Science: Conrad, Chesterton, Adams"
• David Weir, Comparative Literature, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, "The Anarchist Ego from Stirner to Freud"
• Glen Close, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin–Madison, "Hispanarchism on the Modernist Periphery".

Location: Woodlands C–Inn at Penn

44. Camp Modernism
Chair: Joseph Allan Boone, English, University of Southern California

• Dennis Denisoff, English, Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, "Camp Mediation in Ada Leverson's Aestheticism"
• Melissa Bradshaw, English, State University of New York–Stony Brook, "'Christ! What are patterns for?' Reading Amy Lowell As/Through Camp"
• Jaime Hovey, English, University of Illinois–Chicago, "'Blasphemed Queens': Courtly Camp in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood"

Location: Woodlands A–Inn at Penn

45. Modernism and Frivolity
Chair: TBA

• Deborah L. Parsons, English, University of Birmingham, "The Popular Attractions of Modernity"
• Sally Ewer, Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, "'Every Little Movement Has a Meaning of Its Own': The Seriousness of Frivolity in the English Music-Hall"
• Barry J. Faulk, English, Florida State University, "T. S. Eliot and the Music-Hall Lament"

Location: Woodlands B–Inn at Penn (120)

46. Modernism and Magic Realism
Chair: Michael Valdez Moses, English, Duke University

• Morton P. Levitt, English, Temple University, "Continuities Between Modernism and Magic Realism"
• Joyce Wexler, English, Loyola University of Chicago, "Beyond the Body: The Value of Symbolism in Modernism and Magic Realism"
• Wendy B. Faris, English, University of Texas–Arlington, "Shamanistic Fictions: From Modernism to Magical Realism"

Location: Woodlands D–Inn at Penn

47. Modernism and the Corporeal Imagination
Chair: Colleen Lamos, English, Rice University

• Vicki Mahaffey, English, University of Pennsylvania, "Reified or Fractured Bodies in Wilde and Eliot"
• Mark Wollaeger, English, Vanderbilt University, "Woolf's Modernism and the Racialized Body"
• Lois Cucullu, English, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, "'Putting Rouge on the Corpse': Cosmopolitan Joyce and Modern Culture"

Location: Regent–Inn at Penn

48. Russian Modernisms
Chair: Barrett Watten, English, Wayne State University

• Christine Tomei, Slavic Seminar, Columbia University, "Belyi, Scriabin and Kandinsky: Spiral Lives in Parallel"
• Adrian Wanner, Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Pennsylvania State University, "Between Image and Text: Kandinsky's Prose Poems"
• Aminadav Dykman, Comparative Literature, Pennsylvania State University, "Velimir Khlebnikov and the Battle of Letters"

Location: TRW Room–Inn at Penn, third floor

49. World War I Literature: New Perspectives
Chair: Suzanne Churchill, English, Davidson College

• James Campbell, English, University of Central Florida, "Trench and Closet: The Problematic Legacy of Paul Fussell's First World War Criticism"
• Vincent Sherry, English, Villanova University, "Liberal Measures: A Poetics of London Modernism at War"
• Richard Kaye, English, Hunter College–City University of New York, "Siegfried Sassoon: The Queer Afterlife of a World War I Poet"

Location: St. Marks–Inn at Penn

O. Coherence and Incoherence in Modernist Literature, Art, and Music
Robert Morgan, Music, Yale University
No auditors, please.
Location: Writers House–Room 202
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P. Diaspora
Norman Finkelstein, English, Xavier University
Tyrone Williams, English, Xavier University
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: Center Suite 1–Sheraton
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Q. Feeding Modernism
Gail McDonald, English, University of North Carolina–Greensboro
No auditors, please.
Location: Chancellor–Inn at Penn
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V. Race and American Modernisms: Performing, Passing, and the Making of Identity
Laura Doyle, English, University of Massachusetts
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: Regent–Inn at Penn
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50. Modernism's Cultural Capital
Chair: Michael Coyle, English, Colgate University

• Jennifer Wicke, English, University of Virginia, "Capital Appreciation/Capital Depreciation: Modernism's Speculative Bubble"
• Kevin J.H. Dettmar, English, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, "Joyce v. The Great Books"
• Derek Attridge, English, University of York, "Joyce–The Making of a Modernist"

Location: Woodlands B–Inn at Penn

51. Modern Poetry and Postnationalism
Chair: Charles Pollard, English, Calvin College

• Nicholas Jenkins, English, Stanford University, "'Prepare to Go on a Journey': Auden, Pound, and the Flight from the National"
• Paul Breslin, English, Northwestern University, "The Politics of Diction in Contemporary English-Language Poetry"
• Jahan Ramazani, English, University of Virginia, "Denationalizing Modern Poetry"

Location: Woodlands A–Inn at Penn

52. Pound/Stevens Revisited: A Roundtable Discussion
Chair: Glen MacLeod, English, University of Connecticut

• Patricia Rae, English, Queens University, "Bloody Battle-Flags and Cloudy Days: The Experience of Metaphor in Pound and Stevens"
• Douglas Mao, English, Harvard University, "How to Do Things with Modernism"
• Marjorie Perloff, English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, "Pound and Stevens: Their Era?"
• Respondent: Al Filreis, English, University of Pennsylvania

Location: Writers House–Arts Café

53. Queer Theory
Chair: Cassandra Laity, English, Drew University

• Joseph Allan Boone, English, University of Southern California, "Queerly Possessed: Modernism and the Contemporary Auteur"
• Colleen Lamos, English, Rice University, "'I'm Not a Lesbian, I Just Loved Thelma': Why Djuna Barnes Wasn't a Lesbian"
• Tim Dean, English, University of Illinois–Urbana, "Modernism Impersonality and Queer Theory"

Location: St. Marks–Inn at Penn