Program of Sessions

Friday, November 13

Columbian House: Hours to Be Announced

45. The Power of Midwestern Archives and the Shaping of Scholarly Perspective

14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Chairs: Marilyn J. Atlas, Ohio University

               Marc Blanc, Saint Xavier University

               Kane Kijek, Ohio University

 46. Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Permanent Section: Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture
Chair: Amberyl Malkovich, Concord University

                Nineteenth Century
               Nick Markellos, Rutgers University

                Wonderland and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
               Amberyl Malkovich, Concord University

                World Problems
               Genevieve Ford, Utah State University–College of Eastern Utah

 47. Race, Gender, and Subalternity: After the Archive

14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Chair: Tamara Hill, Clark Atlanta University

               Candice Thornton, Clark Atlanta University

               Deaundra Jackson, Clark Atlanta University

48. Women in French I: The Body as a Counter-Archive in Contemporary French Literature

Chair: Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University

               Adrienne Angelo, Auburn University

               Julie Galliard, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

49. Contained and Confined I: Women’s Resistance in Victorian Literature

               Jewon Woo, Lorain County Community College

               Jim Berkey, Pennsylvania State–Brandywine

Chair: Matthew Paul Carlson, High Point University

               Abby Lawson, High Point University

               Owen Newcombe, High Point University

66. Research Gone Rogue: Creative Academic Writing

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Chair: Dinorah Cortés-Vélez, Marquette University

               Dinorah Cortés-Vélez, Marquette University

               Tara Daly, Marquette University

               Michelle Medeiros, Marquette University

67. The Ins and Outs of Applying to Graduate School

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, The Bull's Head

Presenter: Krislyn Zhorne, Loyola University Chicago

Afternoon Break

68. Rebellious Women III

1:40 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Chair: Jeanette Goddard, Trine University

               Tuire Valkeakari, Providence College

               Kehinde Thurman, University of Virginia

               Monir Gholamzadeh Bazarbash, Florida State University

69. Living Archives in and out of Prison

1:40 P.M. – 2:55 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Chair: William Andrews, North Park University

               Leanne Trapedo Sims, Knox College

70. Feminist Considerations

1:40 P.M. – 2:55 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Chair: Heejoung Shin, University of Illinois–Chicago

               Ethan Waddell, University of Colorado–Boulder

               Heejoung Shin, University of Illinois–Chicago

71. Literature of the Twenty-First Century

1:40 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Moderator: To Be Determined

               Yuanrui Xu, Indiana University–Bloomington

               Daniel Patricio-Agosto, Ohio State University

               Rin MacRitchie, Indiana University–Bloomington

72. One Spicy Melting Pot: Pop Culture and Timeless Literature

1:40 P.M. – 2:55 P.M.
14th Floor, American House

Chair: Keli Masten, Ferris State University

               Rosicella Centeno, Ferris State University

               Anna Kausch, Ferris State University

73. Fragmented and Embodied Archives of/in Shakespearean Drama

1:40 P.M. – 2:55 P.M.
14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Chair: Krislyn Zhorne, Loyola University Chicago

               Michael Merlo, Florida State University

               Sara Subotić, University of Illinois–Chicago

 74. Making Service Work for You: Turning Invisible Labor into Professional Value

14th Floor, The Bull's Head

                   Alejandra Ortega, College of DuPage

75. Ways of Seeing

2:15 P.M. – 3:45 P.M.
14th Floor, Western Stage House

Chair: Kathryn B. McKee, University of Mississippi

               John Levi Barnard, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

               Abby Clayton, Indiana University–Bloomington

               Alexander J. Ashland, Viterbo University

 76. Anti-Intellectualism, Comedy, and American Politics

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Moderator: To Be Determined

               Daniel Charlton, Montana State University–Billings

               Melissa Ames, Eastern Illinois University

77. Student-Centered Prison Archives

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Chair: William Andrews, North Park University

               Melissa Pavlik, North Park University

78. Cultural Memory, Representation, and Identity Beyond the Archive

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Chair: Heejoung Shin, University of Illinois–Chicago

               Jeeongwoo Lee, Indiana University–Bloomington

               Michael Pettid, Binghamton University

79. Irish Studies

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Chair: Des Harmond, Marquette University

               Ainsley Atwood, Georgetown University

               Brooke Kertai, Bowling Green State University

80. From Grand Narratives to Scattered Leaves: Literature After Belief

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, American House

Moderator: To Be Determined

               Aidan Eberle, University of Wisconsin–Parkside

81. Queer Bodies and Desire in Shakespearean Comedies

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Chair: Krislyn Zhorne, Loyola University Chicago

               Zan Maley, University of Massachusetts–Amherst

               Sam Weisz, North Carolina State University

 82. Writing Productivity

14th Floor, The Bull's Head 

83. New & Noteworthy: Archival Cornucopia

4:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.
14th Floor, Western Stage House

Chair: Kathleen Diffley, University of Iowa

               Benjamin Fagan, Auburn University

               Andrew Donnelly, University of Memphis

               Judith Giesberg, Villanova University

84. Keynote Address: "From the Ruins of the Archive to Counter-Archival Poiesis"

4:45 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.
14th Floor, Sauganash Ballroom

Prof. Nevine El Nossery, University of Wisconsin–Madison

What remains when the archive itself becomes ruin? We inhabit a historical moment in which war, genocide, settler colonialism, authoritarianism, ecological collapse, and algorithmic governance converge to reshape memory and political life. In this context, the archive can no longer be understood as a stable repository of history but as a contested terrain, vulnerable to erasure, manipulation, and destruction. Libraries, museums, universities, and cultural repositories have become sites of struggle over historical legitimacy and political power, increasingly transformed into ruins.

This keynote explores what I call the ruins of the archive: fractured material and epistemic spaces in which official regimes of preservation have been damaged, displaced, or rendered incapable of sustaining historical continuity, yet memory persists through alternative forms of transmission. My interest lies precisely in this movement from rupture to other forms of remembrance. I examine how artistic practices, community initiatives, and pedagogy respond to archival destruction by reworking what remains.

To name this process, I propose the concept of counter-archival poiesis: the creative, ethical, and relational practice of making new forms of historical relation from the remains of archival violence. Counter-archival poiesis does not seek to reconstruct an intact archive, recover every muted voice, or transform absence into historical certainty. Instead, it makes archival gaps perceptible and places the past in renewed relation to the present and to possible futures.

Focusing on examples from the Global South, I consider contexts in which the destruction of human lives is accompanied by the devastation of educational, cultural, and epistemic infrastructures, exposing the intimate relation between cultural erasure and systems of domination. Within these landscapes of devastation, however, writers, filmmakers, artists, educators, and communities generate counter-archival practices that sustain collective memory, resist epistemic violence, and unsettle dominant regimes of knowledge. Rather than asking simply what remains after the archive, this talk asks how memory survives, migrates, and is reconstituted through its ruins. I argue that counter-archival poiesis gives rise to transformative archival forms whose force lies less in the recovery of a lost totality than in the relations they activate across communities and temporalities, opening possibilities for new forms of knowledge, solidarity, ethical responsibility, and decolonial futurity.

85. President's Reception

5:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Sauganash Ballroom