9:00 a.m.

54. Duchamp I
Chair: Marjorie Perloff, English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

• Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Art and Art History, University of Texas–Austin, "Duchamp as Playful Physicist in the Studio/Laboratory (in themanner of Jarry & Roussel)"
• Michael Taylor, Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Duchamp, Stieglitz, and the Last Days of 291"
• Tyrus Miller, Literature, University of California–Santa Cruz, "The Readymade Beyond Objects: Time, Semiosis, and Materiality in Duchamp"

Location: Woodlands A–Inn at Penn

55. Looking Back from Modernism
Chair: Langdon Hammer, English, Yale

• Margaret Bruzelius, Literature, Harvard University, "Escaping the Scene: H.D. and Helen in Egypt"
• Martin Harries, English, Princeton University, "Looking Back at the Cities in Lot in Sodom"
• Jay Dickson, English, University of Tennessee, "Look Back in Languor: Nostalgia and the Raj Quartet"

Location: Woodlands C–Inn at Penn

56. Media(ting) Modernisms: The Avant Garde Intersections of Literature and Film
Chair: Cynthia Hogue, English, Bucknell University

• Susan McCabe, English, University of Southern California, "Cinematic Modernism and the Gestural Body: Gertrude Stein, Man Ray, and Chaplin"
• Laura Hinton, English, City College of New York, "Privileging History: Narrative Borders in Yvonne Rainer's Privilege and Fanny Howe's Saving History"
• Lyn Hejinian, Writer, "Figuring In"
• Respondent: Judith Roof, English, Michigan State University

Location: Woodlands B–Inn at Penn

57. Modernism and Mass Subjectivity
Chair: Chair: Christine Poggi, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

• Nina Rosenblatt, Art History, Columbia University, "The Image in the Street: Mass Media in France in the 1920s"
• Frederic Schwartz, History of Art, University College London, "The Eye of the Expert: Walter Benjamin and the Avant-Garde"
• Matthew Affron, Art, University of Virginia, "The Photomural: Between Modernism and Mass Art"

Location: Woodlands D–Inn at Penn

58. Modernist Exchanges
Chair: Tim Dean, English, University of Illinois–Urbana

• Thaine Stearns, English, University of Washington, "Flatness and the Outside of Modernism: Woolf and Lewis's Competing Visualities"
• Margaret Stetz, English and Women's Studies, Georgetown University, "Modernist Image vs. Modernist Text; The Non-Collaborative Collaboration of David Low and Rebecca West"
• Kimberly Lamm, Whitney Museum Critical Studies Fellow, Pratt Institute, "Picasso's and Stein's Portraits of Collaboration: Exchanging Gender Across the Cézannean Composition"

Location: Regent–Inn at Penn

59. Modernist Primitivism
Chair: Marianna Torgovnick, English, Duke University

• Felipe Smith, English, Tulane University, "The Call of Africa: Basic Savagery and the Dilemma of Black Modernism"
• Suzanne del Gizzo, English, Tulane University, "The Right to Know: The Africanization of Ernest Hemingway"

Location: St. Marks–Inn at Penn

60. Reproductive Failure in/and British Modernism
Chair: Tace Hedrick, English and Women's Studies, University of Florida

• Christina Hauck, English, Kansas State University, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Interference with Reproduction"
• Michael Goeller, Business and Technical Writing, Rutgers University, "Felling the Family Tree: The Lesbian Threat to Lineage"
• Jane Garrity, English, University of Colorado–Boulder, "'The hand that rocks the cradle rocks the world': Dorothy Richardson and the Quest for English Race Preservation"

Location: Writers House–Arts Café

61. Revisioning the Performing Space: Tradition and Temporality on Modernism's Stages
Chair: Paige Reynolds, English, College of the Holy Cross

• James Harding, English, Mary Washington College, "Gertrude Stein's Stages of Collage: From Collage Theory and Practice Collage Event"
• Cindy Rosenthal, Hofstra University, "Early Living Theatre: Julian Beck's and Judith Malina's Modernist Poetic Performances"
• Dorothy Chansky, College of William and Mary, "Nostalgia for the Future: The American Little Theatre Movement and Modern Drama"
• Mike Sell, English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, "Modernity and Performance Time: Collage-Intensity or Dramatic Linearity?"

Location: TRW Room–Inn at Penn, third floor

W. Avant-Garde and Cultural Studies
Barrett Watten, English, Wayne State University
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, English, Temple University
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: Writers House–Room 202
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X. Fashion and Modernism
Jessica Burstein, English, University of Washington
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: Woodlands C–Inn at Penn
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Y. Futurism
Denise Von Glahn, Music, Florida State University
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: Fourth floor conference suite–Inn at Penn
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Z. Modernism and the Movies
Wallace Watson, English, Duquesne University
No auditors, please.
Location: Chancellor–Inn at Penn
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AA. Modernism and the Reader
Brian Richardson, English, University of Maryland
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: Woodlands D–Inn at Penn
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BB. Modernist Orientalism
John Paul Riquelme, English, Boston University
Auditors welcome as space allows.
Location: Regent–Inn at Penn
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62. Africanist Arrangements: Museum Practice & Emergent Modernisms
Chair: Marc Manganaro, English, Rutgers University

• Jeremy Braddock, English, University of Pennsylvania, "The Typology of the Singular: Albert Barnes, the University of Pennsylvania and the Institutionality of African Art"
• Brad Evans, English, Rutgers University, "The End of Folklore: Du Bois in 1911"
• Michele Richman, Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, "French Collections/American Museums: The Formation of a Primitivist Canon"

Location: Woodlands B–Inn at Penn

63. Duchamp II
Chair: Christine Poggi, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

• Helen Molesworth, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Rrose Selavy Goes Shopping"
• Janine Mileaf, Art History, Washington University, "Duchamp, Johns, and the Erotics of Things"
• Jean-Michel Rabate, English, University of Pennsylvania, "Duchamp's Ego"

Location: Woodlands A–Inn at Penn

64. Modernist Performances: Façade and Four Saints in Three Acts
Chair: Helen Sword, English, Indiana University

• Gyllian Phillips, English, Nipissing University, "Four Saints in Three Acts and Facade as Exercises in Collaboration"
• Marsha Bryant, English, University of Florida, "Sitwell's Facades of Empire: Performance, Race, and Nation"
• Madelyn Detloff, English, California State University, "'What is apprehended intended': The Limits of Performativity in the Performance of Four Saints in Three Acts"

Location: Writers House–Arts Café

65. The Surrealist Intervention II: The Institutions of Modern Life
Chair and Respondent: Annette Shandler Levitt, English, Drexel University

• Donald La Coss, History, University of Michigan, "The Anteater's Umbrella: Surrealist Critiques of Zoos, 1937-93."
• Carla Harryman, English, Wayne State University
• Lisa Hawes, Comparative Literature, University of California - Los Angeles, "Journalism and the Social Dynamic of Surreality: The Later Writings of Andre Breton and Robert Desnos"
• Carla Harryman, English, Wayne State University, "A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil: the Opera"

Location: St. Marks–Inn at Penn