Program of Sessions

Saturday, November 14

 
Book Exhibit:

Columbian House: Hours to Be Announced

CV Drop-In Workshop:

Lake House: 9:30 A.M – 12:35 P.M. and 1:40 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.

Coffee, Tea, and Snack Service:
West-Side Lobby: Hours to Be Announced

 

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 86. Comics in/as Archives
8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Permanent Section: Comics and Graphic Narratives

Chairs: Keegan Lannon, University of Illinois–Chicago

          (a) “Ancestry in Progress”: Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez’s Wake: The Hidden History of Women-
                Led Slave Revolts as Visual Counter-Archive

               Lauren Gantz, University of Wisconsin-–Stevens Point

          (b) The Archive Without Reckoning: Settler Colonialism and the Limits of Golden Kamuy

               Samantha Ting, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

          (c) Comics as Speculative Archive:  The Speculative Historical Figure in The Art of Charlie Chan
                Hock Chye
               Chong Woon Ray, Pennsylvania State University

 87. Creative Writing III: Short Story

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Permanent Section: Creative Writing III, Shorth Story

Chair: Heather Joyce, Northwestern Polytechnic

          (a) Revisiting Frank O’Connor’s The Lonely Voice: Short Fiction as a Counter-Archive

               Patrick Thomas Henry, University of North Dakota

          (b) It Came From the 80’s: The Horrors of the Me Decade
               Zeke Jarvis, Eureka College

          (c) Epigraphic Entanglements: The Archive, Adaptation, and Naomi Alderman’s “God’s Doorbell”
               Heather Joyce, Northwestern Polytechnic

 88. Prisons of Creativity: Artistic Innovation During Incarceration

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Permanent Section: Prison Literature

Chair: William Andrews, North Park University

          (a) A Review of Prisons of Creativity

               Sarah Degner-Riveros, Augsburg University

          (b) A Review of Prisons of Creativity

               Andrew McKenna, Loyola University Chicago

          (c) A Response by the Author of Prisons of Creativity
               John Whitman, Independent Scholar

89. Archives of Print Culture

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Pages as Places: The Cultural Archives of Chicago’s Magazines
               Jessica McKee, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

               Taylor Mitchell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

          (b) The Editor as Nexus: Sri Lankan Literary Networks and the Politics of Patronage in Post-War
                London

               Nathan Omprasadham, University of Michigan

          (c) Subtext, Archive, and Carceral Contexts: A Study of “In Alabama”
               Bella Fiorucci, Loyola University Chicago

90. Shakespeare, Disability, and the Horrific Body

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, American House

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Mardy Philippian, Lewis University

          (a) Shakespeare’s Present Horrors

               Chloe Torres, Lewis University

          (b) Politicizing Disability in Coriolanus and Measure for Measure
               Shannon Tierney, Lewis University

91. American Literature II: Literature After 1870, Part I

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Permanent Section: American Literature II, Literature After 1870

Chair: Alp Eren Pirli, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (a) Revising and Rena: The Charles W. Chesnutt Archives

               Amina Gautier, University of Miami

          (b) To Witness the “beauty of the bloom”: The Aesthetics of Beginning and Beginning of Aesthetics
                in The Wings of the Dove

               Adam Kerker, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (c) Kate Chopin After the Archive: Allegorizing the Rise of Modern English in The Awakening
               Jack Kerkering, Loyola University Chicago

 92. Body Parts

8:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.

14th Floor, Western Stage House

Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus

Chair: Michael Stancliff, Arizona State University

          (a) Gone for a Soldier: Alfred Bellard and the Wounded Body in the Invalid Corps

               Marla Anzalone, Duquesne University

          (b) Embattled Bodies: Whitman’s Abiding War and ‘the Religion of Jesus’

               Samuel Graber, Valparaiso University

          (c) "The only hand in taking the oath which he had not given his country": Zenas W. John Gets Away
                with Murder

               Allison M. Johnson, San José State University

          (d) Picturing the Story: The Work of Illustration in Postbellum Periodicals
               Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College–CUNY

93. How to Create an Archive

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.

14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Two Editions, One Manuscript: Editorial Mediation, Illness, and Archive in El diario de Julia de
                Burgos

               Silvia Andrea Hernandez Crispin, Texas Tech University

          (b) “Swaggering all sex wise”: The Erotics of Joan Murray’s Archive

               Elanor Spring, University of Maine

          (c) “A Special Value” for Future Generations: An Examination of the Curatorial and Archival
                Practices of Vera Brittain
               Kayla Campana, University of Central Florida

94. Intertexts and Archives

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) “A Pattern in Sand”: Eunice Tietjens’ Jake as an Influence on Jean Toomer’s Cane

               Sara Gerend, Aurora University

          (b) The Pianist Madame Szymanowska’s Influence on English and Irish Romanticism

               Jonathan Gross, DePaul University

          (c) Intertextual Infiltration: The Nature of the Nightingale in Elizabeth Bowen’s “I Hear You Say So”
               Heather Joyce, Northwestern Polytechnic

95. Religion and Culture in Prison Witness

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Permanent Section: Prison Literature

Chair: William Andrews, North Park University

          (a) Resisting Erasure: Muslim Presence in Christian Educational Spaces in Prison

               Ken Sawyer, McCormick Theological Seminary

          (b) Counter-Archives of Carceral Space: Prison Writing Anthologies in Latin America

               Cameron Flynn, Creighton University

          (c) “I had become the government’s slave”: Women’s Imprisonment, Misogynoir, and James
                Baldwin’s Witnessing Aesthetic in Keeda Haynes’s Contemporary African American
                Confinement Literature
               Patrick Alexander, University of Mississippi

96. Religion and Literature After the Archive I

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Permanent Section: Religion and Literature

Chair: Seth Johnson, University of Alabama

          (a) Hades.edu: R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis

               Seth Johnson, University of Alabama

          (b) Fairies, Changelings, and Bluebeard’s Castle: Fairy Tales as an Antithesis to Hegemonic
                Religiosity in Jane Eyre

               Alexa Keough, University of Hampshire

          (c) After the Catholic Archive: Imaginary Libraries from Spenser to Eco
               John Walters, University of Alabama

97. Othered Bodies: Medicine, Horror, and the Human Boundary

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.
14th Floor, American House

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) On Death and Disease: How Physicians’ Perspectives Compare Across Specialties Through
                Written Work

               Stephanie Alkonga, Northern Illinois University

          (b) “Weird Transgender”: Crossgender Bodyswapping in Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep”
               Warren Bingcang, Grinnell College

98. American Literature II: Literature After 1870, Part II

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.
14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Permanent Section: American Literature II, Literature After 1870

Chair: Alp Eren Pirli, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (a) Exhuming Edgar Derby: The Kurt Vonnegut Archives and the Case of Michael Palaia

               Jeremy C. Justus, University of Pittsburgh–Johnstown

          (b) “Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and your flesh and your memory”: Narrative
                Repetition, Gaps, and Ideologically Inscribed Trauma in Absalom, Absalom!

               James Masanek, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (c) Ezra Pound, “International Voyeurism,” and the Allure of Fascism
               Ethan Lafond, University of Illinois–Chicago

99. Academic Book Publishing

 9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.

14th Floor, The Bull's Head

Professionalizing Session

Presenter: Joe Keener, Indiana University–Kokomo

          Turning that dissertation or manuscript into an academic book can seem like a daunting task. Even those who have published articles in academic journals often feel anxiety when it comes to such an undertaking. This presentation will contain practical tips such as: 
  • study the leading books in your field to see which presses are printing your particular kind of work.
  • Get feedback from colleagues before submission.
  • Show the book’s contribution: what it adds that existing books do not.
 As in life, there are no guarantees, but this session is likely to improve your chances.

100. Black Artistry

10:15 A.M. – 11:45 A.M.
14th Floor, Western Stage House

Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus

Chair: Timothy Sweet, West Virginia University

          (a) Animal Feeling and Black Experience in the Poetry of George Moses Horton

               Faith Barrett, Duquesne University

          (b) Black/Up/Lift

               Brigitte Fielder, University of Wisconsin–Madison

          (c) "The Lyre of War": Black Civil Memory in Paul Laurence Dunbar
               Jordan Virtue, Stanford University

101. Negotiating Identity Under Patriarchy and the Color Line

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) “The Pseudo-Citizenship of Gender”: Internal Colonialism and Masculinity as the Final Frontier
                of False Consciousness in Richard Wright’s Native Son

               Jessica Jimenez, Indiana University–South Bend

          (b) “I can play some good music now!”: Levee as an African American Avant-Garde Jazz Artist in
                August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

               Masud Parvez, Northern Illinois University

          (c) Work, Motherhood, and Media: A Cross-Cultural Study of Employed Mothers in Eastern and
                Western Context

               Rokeya Begum, Northern Illinois University

          (d) Empoderamiento femenino y maternidad en la narrativa de Melissa Ballasch
               Miguel Gonzalez-Abellas, Washburn University

102. Landscapes of Data and Debt

11:05 A.M. – 12:20 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Associated Organization: Assoc. for the Study of Lit. and Environment

Chair: Tierney S. Powell, Grand Valley State University

          (a) Extractive Saharanism’s Role in Creating and Sustaining Digital Infrastructures: A Visual
                Analysis of Saudi Arabia’s Hexagon Data Center

               Alexia Bozas, Pennsylvania State University

          (b) Scales of Debt: A Dialogue on the Socio-Environmental Impacts of Debt from the University
                and Beyond
               Brian Deyo, Grand Valley State UniversityTierney S. Powell, Grand Valley State University

103. Lived Resistance and Archival Recovery: Embodied Histories in Harlem and the South in Black/Dalit Communities

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Permanent Section: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies

Chair: Holly Burgess, Independent Scholar

          (a) Harlem through Malcolm’s Eyes: Archival Pilgrimage and Black Lived Resistance in the Life of
                Malcolm X

               Holly Burgess, Independent Scholar

          (b) Gossip as Story, Subversion, Intimacy (in Dalit and African American Women’s Literary Works)

               Aindrila Choudhury, University of Virginia

          (c) Jean Amrouche: History, Memory, and the Creation of an Archive of Berber Poetry in Colonial
                Algeria

               Russell Hopley, Independent Scholar

          (d) JUNIOR: A Reflection on Finding & Making Home
               DeMar Walker, Independent Scholar

104. Religion and Literature After the Archive II

11:05 A.M. – 12:20 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Permanent Section: Religion and Literature

Chair: Seth Johnson, University of Alabama

          (a) You Can’t Erase History . . . Unless You Have a Word Count and a “Backspace” Key: Historical
                Revisionism, Neohoodoo, and Literary Fortunetelling

               Adam Roberts, University of Alabama

          (b) “the future is possible”: Resurrection in Lucille Clifton’s Good News about the Earth

               Merry Cockroft, Notre Dame University

          (c) More and More Awful and Beautiful: Testaments of Suffering in Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams
               Ross Tangedal, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Pointe

105. The Ecological Unseen: Atmospherics, Enclosure, and Undisclosed Materiality in Contemporary Iberian Studies

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

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: William Viestenz, University of Minnesota

          (a) Atmo-terrorism, Air Design, and Post-Immunological Modernity in Rafael Chirbes’s Crematorio

               William Viestenz, University of Minnesota

          (b) Language and Existence in Erasure: Reconfiguring the Human and Non-Human in the Novels Las
                efímeras (2015) and Horda (2021)

               Westin Smith, University of Notre Dame

          (c) Winds of Change: Aeolian Infrastructure in Recent Iberian Cinema

               John Trevathan, University of Missouri–St. Louis

          (d) Spain and the New Metabolic Economy
               Erna Nezrivec, University of MinnesotaJosé Aguirre, University of Minnesota

106. Silence and Trauma in the Archive

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

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) The Homuncular Landscape of Paper: Bey, Spatial Trauma, and Prolonged Exposure Therapy

               Enya Calibuso, University of Chicago

          (b) Muted Bodies as Archives: Embodiment, Silence, and Postcolonial Feminist Memory in The God
                of Small Things

               Abbas Khan, Eastern Illinois University

          (c) The Memory of Loss and the Loss of Memory: “Do They Suppose They Can Kill Us All?” in
                Ibtisam Azem’s The Book of Disappearance

               Ahlam Abulaila, Lansing Community College

          (d) Speaking Through Silence: Andrew Suknaski and the Art of the Unsaid
               Mariya Shymchyshyn, University of Manitoba

107. Translating Academic Training into Civic Engagement

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

Professionalizing Session
Presenters: Jonathan Gross, DePaul University

                   Julia diLiberti, College of DuPage

          While the content of this session relies on work in the arts, particular attention will be paid to translating academic training and skills into work outside of the academy both in and out of the arts.  Using 45-minute plays in outreach programs run by the Old Town School of Folk Music and Urban Gateways for the Chicago Public schools, this panel delves into Public Humanities initiatives which translate academic training into civic engagement. How can humanists reach high school and college-level audiences through targeted programming on jazz and other art forms that celebrate creativity through a variety of channels? Presenters will discuss the Harlem Renaissance (Ellington, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes), Afterlives of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith, and Graffiti Kings, as well as children’s plays like “The Blue Dog” at Old Town School of Folk Music. Using local arts and arts organization as an entry point, we offer a view to many places where academic training can lead. Other organizations such as The Jane Austen Society, The Byron Society of America, The William Hazlitt Society, and The H.G. Wells Society which lead to publication possibilities may be touched on as time permits.

Afternoon Break

12:35 P.M. – 1:40 P.M.

108. Archives of Diaspora and Exile

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

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Beyond the Archive: Material Diasporic Memory in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing

               Juliet Tawiah, Northern Illinois University

          (b) Archiving the Everyday: “Portable Homelands” in the Poetry of Louise Bennett and Lorna
                Goodison

               Masuma Akter, Northern Illinois University

          (c) Occupied Exile in Against the Loveless World (2020) by Susan Abulhawa

               Lauren Sim, University of Cincinnati

          (d) Diasporic Transnational Memory and Virlana Tkacz: At the Intersections of Ukrainian American
                Archives and Theater
               Krystia Nora, Milwaukee Area Technical College

109. Gender Archive: Beyond the Evidence

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

Permanent Section: Gender Studies

Chair: Hye Hyon Kim, Riverland Community College

          (a) Strange Bodies: Hypervisibility, Body Politics, and Queer Futurity in Sarah Cypher’s The Skin and
                Its Girl and Hala Alyan’s The Arsonists’ City

               Emma Williams, University of Arkansas–Fayetteville

          (b) Zines as Community Archive

               Sarah Goodson, University of Hawaii–Mānoa

          (c) Classifying Women Artists Gender and Archival Visibility in Early Nineteenth-Century Rome

               Michaela D’Agostino, University of Rome–Tor Vergata

          (d) Embodied Haunting and Queer/Trans Crip Hope in Sim Kern’s Depart, Depart!
               Fletcher Weiss, University of Illinois–Chicago

110. Sounds Like Trouble to Me: Women Speaking Out and Standing Up Against Abuse in Prison

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

Permanent Section: Prison Literature

Chair: William Andrews, North Park University

          (a) A Review of Sounds Like Trouble to Me

               Deborah Sims, Independent Scholar

          (b) A Review of Sounds Like Trouble to Me

               Mary Veeneman, North Park University

          (c) A Conversation with the Author of Sounds Like Trouble to Me
               Jean Trounstine, Middlesex Community College

111. Religion and Literature After the Archive III

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

Permanent Section: Religion and Literature

Chair: Seth Johnson, University of Alabama

          (a) “Our Hermetic Philosophy and Mystic Knowledge”: How Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Budding
                Spiritualism Impacted “The Ring of Thoth”

               Eleanor Curatolo, Monmouth University

          (b) Anna Letitia Barbauld, God, and an Equalizing Narratology

               Ashley Rushing, University of Indiana

          (c) Kierkegaard’s Retelling of “Agnes and the Merman” in Fear and Trembling: How an Appreciation
                of “the Demonic” Gives Insight into Abraham’s Religious Faith
               Noel Adams, Marquette University

112. Confronting Silence and Absence in the Archives

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

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Vivian N. Halloran, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (a) An Empty Archive: The Modern Impacts of Silencing Queer Voices throughout History

               Abigail Hitchcock, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (b) Telling the Story: Archives, Audiences, and Absence

               Srikar Vaasan, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (c) Silenced Dissent: A Political Approach to Media and Historical Interpretation
               Carter Middleton, Indiana University–Bloomington

113. English Literature, 1800–1900: Archivization, Publication, and Digitization

1:40 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Permanent Section: English Literature, 1800–1900

Chair: Katie Brandt, University of Illinois–Chicago

          (a) The Dickens Letters Project and Social Media as Public Archiving

               Scott Caddy, Wayne State University

          (b) My Good Friend Jonathan: A New Digital Archive of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

               Isabella Marx, Northeastern Illinois University

          (c) “[F]ull of Every Thing [That Should] Not Be Anywhere”: The Publication, Reception, and
                Suppression of M.G. Lewis’s The Monk

               Mara Waltz, University of Kansas

          (d) The Paradox of Preserved Recipes: Elizabeth Drew Stoddard’s The Morgesons
               Emily Ross, University of Southern Mississippi

 114. Reconstruction’s Shifting Perspectives

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

Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus

Chair: Andrew Donnelly, University of Memphis

          (a) Rewriting Edisto Island: Dispatches from the South Carolina Leader

               Gregory Laski, University of Notre Dame

          (b) 1866/1867: Twain and Blyden Visit Palestine

               Max Chapnick, Saint Mary’s College

          (c) Civilization and Barbarism and Reconstruction

               Timothy Donahue, Oakland University

          (d) Boosters, Shareholders, and Stowaways
               Daniel Myers, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

 115. Bodies of Knowledge: Health Humanities and Children’s Literature

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

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Lan Dong, University of Illinois–Springfield

          (a) Under the Surface Pressure: Mirabel, Luisa, and Intergenerational Healing in Encanto

               Edcel Javier Cintron Gonzalez, Illinois State University

          (b) Coming out of the Room: Understanding the Real and the Unreal through a Child’s Perspective

               Amrita Bakshi, University of Alabama

          (c) Resilience and Resistance: Female Subjectivity and Agency in Asian Trauma Fiction: Monkey
                Bridge (1997) and When You Trap a Tiger (2020)
               Jia Zuo, Illinois State University

116. Disability and the Archive

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

Permanent Section: Disability Studies

Chair: John Allen, Milwaukee Area Technical College

          (a) Shifting Gears, Spaces, Places, & Names: Navigating the Narrative Labyrinth in Mick Herron’s
                The Secret Hours

               Blake Westerlund, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire

          (b) Phantasmic Knowledge: Orthopsychiatry, Motherhood, and The History of  Psychology in
                America

               Kylie Lynch, University of Illinois–Chicago

          (c) The Body as (Disabled) Archive in  Carmen Maria Machado’s “Real Women Have Bodies”
               Fletcher Weiss, University of Illinois–Chicago

117. Unconventional Prison Archives

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

Permanent Section: Prison Literature

Chair: William Andrews, North Park University

          (a) Unconventional Archives: Creativity in Documenting the Incarcerated Experience

               Kira Compton, University of Southern Mississippi

          (b) Inside/Outside the Archive: Carceral Spaces as Control Group for the AI Classroom

               Benjamin Delloiacono, Montclair State University

          (c) Dangerous Archive: Memory, Movement, and Meaning
               Jane Sawyer, Harold Washington College

118. Canonization, Marginalization and the Archive in Post Ancien Régime French and Francophone Literature and Culture

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

Permanent Section: French II, Post Ancien Régime

Chair: Tanya Mushinsky, Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville

          (a) Activating the Archive in Autocratic Times: Raphaël Meyssay’s Les Damnés de la Commune
                (2019)

               Rosemarie Scullion, University of Iowa

          (b) Archival Influences on the Rise of Rimbaud’s Status from Unpopular Poète Maudit to Canonized
                Author and Pop Culture Celebrity
               Tanya Mushinsky, Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville

119. English Literature, 1800–1900: History as the Archive

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

Permanent Section: English Literature, 1800–1900

Chair: Katie Brandt, University of Illinois–Chicago

          (a) “Recalled to Life”: The Recollection of Uncertainty in A Tale of Two Cities

               Alonzo Rico, University of Illinois–Chicago

          (b) Archiving Sound: Clamor, Silence, and Knowledge in Isabella Bird’s The Yangtze Valley and
                Beyond

               Penny Yuting Pan, Hong Kong Baptist University

          (c) “All History is Narrative”: The Wife and the Ward and the Narrative of Mutiny
               Brianne Neptin, University of Illinois–Chicago

 120. Telling New Stories at Camp Nelson National Monument, Kentucky

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

Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus

Chair: Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College–CUNY

          This session explores ongoing research being conducted by members of the Commemorative Cultures team (University of St Andrews) into Camp Nelson National Monument, Nicholasville, Kentucky. The project aims to incorporate community and descendant voices at the site, now a redesigned museum space. Participants will share their archival and outreach work, which has uncovered arresting stories of Black USCT soldiers and their families.

121. Three Latin American Authors Today: Patricia Engel, Pilar Quintana, and Jeannette L. Clariond

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Germán D. Carrillo, Marquette University

          (a) Aproximación a la Novela de Pilar Quintana: Noche negra (2025)

               Germán D. Carrillo, Marquette University

          (b) A Transnational Mail-Order Bride as Cinderella: An Unlikely Love Story in “The Book of Saints”
                by Patricia Engel

               J. Andrea Carrillo, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (c) Travesías de Sublevación en Las lágrimas de las cosas de Jeannette L. Claariond
               Rosa Tezanos-Pinto, Indiana University–Indianapolis

122. After the Archive in American Literature to 1870

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Permanent Section: American Literature I, to 1870

Chair: Jonathan Murphy, Texas A&M International University

          (a) Fake Bodies in Real Museums: Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century Anatomical Spectacle in the
                Present Day

               Nora Schultz, University of Wisconsin–Madison

          (b) After Oberon in the Hawthorne Archive

               Jonathan Murphy, Texas A&M International University

          (c) “No One in Perfect Sanity Walks about in His Sleep”: Erasmus Darwin’s Zoonomia and Brown’s
                Edgar Huntly
               Joe Hansen, Loyola University Chicago

123. Power and Perception

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Pietas, Power, and the Production of Imperial Subjects: The Aeneid through Althusser and
                Foucault

               Jocelyn Dugger, Indiana State University

          (b) Self-Observation: Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game Through Foucault’s Panopticon

               Michael Meyer, Indiana State University

          (c) The Politics of Visibility : Bakhtinian Corporeality in Githa Hariharan’s “The Remains of The
                Feast”
               Snehanjali Das, Independent Scholar

124. Life and Debt

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Tierney S. Powell, Grand Valley State University

          (a) Minor Matters: Debt and the Disabled Child

               Sarah Cavar, Grand Valley State University

          (b) Utopian Currency: Bellamy’s Imagined Credit Card System and Its Modern Resonance

               Md. Abu Hena Pohil, Northern Illinois University

          (c) Narratives of Indebted Life in Modern Migration
               Isabel Bethke, University of Minnesota

 125. Archives of Our Ancestors

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, American House

Permanent Section: Native American Literature

Chair: Jonah Francese, University of Chicago

          (a) Anishinaabe Anang Aadizookaanag: An Archive of Stars and Bones

               Margaret Noodin, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

          (b) Love is a War Song: Native Romance and Reclaiming the Archive of Love
               Jonah Francese, University of Chicago

126. Adaptation and the Early Modern: Thinking About Race

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Permanent Section: English I, Literature Before 1800

Chair: Philip Goldfarb Styrt, St. Ambrose University

          (a) “No” “I Didn’t Want To Unravel the Symbolism in Act Three”: Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day and How
                to Study Early Modern Race

               Josephine Geiger-Lee, University of Iowa

          (b) Making the Queen African: Marlowe’s Dido, Fanfiction, and Race
               Philip Goldfarb Styrt, St. Ambrose University