2016: Crisis and Recovery
University at Albany 14th Annual EGSO Conference
April 1-2, 2016
Friday, April 1, 3:30-7:30 pm--Husted Hall Amphitheater 106A, Downtown Campus
3:30-4:00: Registration
4:00-4:30: Reception and Opening Remarks by Dr. Glyne Griffith
4:30-5:50: Panel 1: Diplomacy and War
Moderator: Samantha Rider
Panelists: Timothy O’Toole (Buffalo), Muhammad Waqar Azeem (Binghamton), Joan Blanchfield (UAlbany)
6:00-7:30 – Keynote Address: Patrick Deer (NYU)
8:00: Conference Dinner at Olde English Pub
Saturday, April 2, 8:30 am-5:30 pm--Husted Hall Amphitheater 106A, Downtown Campus
8:30-9:00: Coffee Reception
9:00-10:20: Panel 2: Crises in Literature
Moderator: Eric Koch
Panelists: Brandon Tankersley (UAlbany), Ashley N. Doonan (UNH), Nicole Cosentino (UAlbany)
10:30-11:50: Panel 3: Personal Crises and Fiction
Moderator: Hyunjoo An
Panelists: Kate Bradley (UAlbany), Kate Ver Ploeg (UNH), Jason Allen (Binghamton)
12:00-1:00: Lunch: Husted Café
1:00-2:30: Keynote Address: Elisa Albert (Columbia)
2:30-3:00: Coffee Break
3:00-4:20: Panel 4: Social Crises and the Individual
Moderator: Mark Collington
Panelists: Caitlin E. Scheufler (UAlbany), Zunaira Yousaf (Independent Scholar), Charletta Robinson (UAlbany)
4:30-5:30: Closing Roundtable
2015: Vision
Friday, March 27 3:30-7:30 pm—200 Milne Hall, Downtown Campus
3:30-4:00 Registration
4:00-4:30: Reception and Opening Remarks by Randall Craig
4:30-5:50: Panel 1: Vision in Time
Moderator: Samantha Rider
Panelists: Marguerite Birrell (CUNY), Justin Hardecker (UAlbany), James Thompson (UAlbany)
6:00-7:30: Keynote Address: Ulrich Baer
Saturday, March 28 8:30 am-6:00 pm—200 Milne Hall, Downtown Campus
8:30-9:00 Coffee Reception
9:00-10:20: Panel 2: Vision in Topography
Moderator: Rumi Takahashi
Panelists: Grace Afsari-Mamagani (NYU), Mari Christmas (UAlbany), Sara Getto (NYU)
10:30-11:50: Panel 3: Vision of Body and Space
Moderator: Steve Delmagori
Panelists: Carolina Gonzalez (CUNY), Kara Jefts (Art Institute of Chicago)
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:30: Keynote Address: Dawn Lundy Martin
2:30-3:00: Coffee Break
3:00-4:20: Panel 4: Literary Vision
Moderator: Aimee Vincent
Panelists: Natalie Amiama (UAlbany), Joseph LaBine (University of Windsor), Tara Menon (NYU)
4:30-6:00: Closing Roundtable
2014: Transaction
Friday, March 28 3:30-7:30 pm—200 Milne Hall, Downtown Campus
3:30-4:00 Registration
4:00-4:30 Reception and Opening Remarks by Randall Craig (UAlbany)
4:30-5:50 Panel: “Defining Possibilities for Transaction: Audience, Language, and (Mis)Communication”
Moderator: Jonah Richards
Panelists: James Belflower (UAlbany), Sarah D’Antonio (Cornell University), Kenji Kihara (UAlbany)
6:00-7:30 Critical Keynote Address by Anna McCarthy
Saturday, March 29 8:30 am-5:30 pm—200 Milne Hall, Downtown Campus
8:30-9:00 Coffee Reception
9:00-10:20 Panel: "Appropriation, Representation, and Cultural Exchange: Transactions of Formation and Identity"
Moderator: Aimee Vincent
Panelists: Nathaniel Wong (Simon Fraser University), Joshua Keller (UAlbany), Naoto Kojima (UAlbany)
10:30-11:50 Panel: “Psychoanalytic Supplementation”
Moderator: Brandon Tankersley
Panelists: Earl Liao (CUNY), Pooya Jamaly (UAlbany), Neena Cinquino (NYU)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Creative Keynote Address by Myung Mi Kim
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-4:20 Panel: “Spaces of Circulation: Transactions in Letters, Bars, and Institutions”
Moderator: Katelyn Cove
Panelists: Lise Gaston (UC Berkeley), KC Clements (NYU), Alice Hofmann (UAlbany)
4:30-5:30 Closing Roundtable Moderated by Anna McCarthy
Participants: Natalie Amiama, Christopher Jacques, Eunai Joh, James Thompson (All UAlbany)
University at Albany 14th Annual EGSO Conference
April 1-2, 2016
Friday, April 1, 3:30-7:30 pm--Husted Hall Amphitheater 106A, Downtown Campus
3:30-4:00: Registration
4:00-4:30: Reception and Opening Remarks by Dr. Glyne Griffith
4:30-5:50: Panel 1: Diplomacy and War
Moderator: Samantha Rider
Panelists: Timothy O’Toole (Buffalo), Muhammad Waqar Azeem (Binghamton), Joan Blanchfield (UAlbany)
6:00-7:30 – Keynote Address: Patrick Deer (NYU)
8:00: Conference Dinner at Olde English Pub
Saturday, April 2, 8:30 am-5:30 pm--Husted Hall Amphitheater 106A, Downtown Campus
8:30-9:00: Coffee Reception
9:00-10:20: Panel 2: Crises in Literature
Moderator: Eric Koch
Panelists: Brandon Tankersley (UAlbany), Ashley N. Doonan (UNH), Nicole Cosentino (UAlbany)
10:30-11:50: Panel 3: Personal Crises and Fiction
Moderator: Hyunjoo An
Panelists: Kate Bradley (UAlbany), Kate Ver Ploeg (UNH), Jason Allen (Binghamton)
12:00-1:00: Lunch: Husted Café
1:00-2:30: Keynote Address: Elisa Albert (Columbia)
2:30-3:00: Coffee Break
3:00-4:20: Panel 4: Social Crises and the Individual
Moderator: Mark Collington
Panelists: Caitlin E. Scheufler (UAlbany), Zunaira Yousaf (Independent Scholar), Charletta Robinson (UAlbany)
4:30-5:30: Closing Roundtable
2015: Vision
Friday, March 27 3:30-7:30 pm—200 Milne Hall, Downtown Campus
3:30-4:00 Registration
4:00-4:30: Reception and Opening Remarks by Randall Craig
4:30-5:50: Panel 1: Vision in Time
Moderator: Samantha Rider
Panelists: Marguerite Birrell (CUNY), Justin Hardecker (UAlbany), James Thompson (UAlbany)
6:00-7:30: Keynote Address: Ulrich Baer
Saturday, March 28 8:30 am-6:00 pm—200 Milne Hall, Downtown Campus
8:30-9:00 Coffee Reception
9:00-10:20: Panel 2: Vision in Topography
Moderator: Rumi Takahashi
Panelists: Grace Afsari-Mamagani (NYU), Mari Christmas (UAlbany), Sara Getto (NYU)
10:30-11:50: Panel 3: Vision of Body and Space
Moderator: Steve Delmagori
Panelists: Carolina Gonzalez (CUNY), Kara Jefts (Art Institute of Chicago)
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-2:30: Keynote Address: Dawn Lundy Martin
2:30-3:00: Coffee Break
3:00-4:20: Panel 4: Literary Vision
Moderator: Aimee Vincent
Panelists: Natalie Amiama (UAlbany), Joseph LaBine (University of Windsor), Tara Menon (NYU)
4:30-6:00: Closing Roundtable
2014: Transaction
Friday, March 28 3:30-7:30 pm—200 Milne Hall, Downtown Campus
3:30-4:00 Registration
4:00-4:30 Reception and Opening Remarks by Randall Craig (UAlbany)
4:30-5:50 Panel: “Defining Possibilities for Transaction: Audience, Language, and (Mis)Communication”
Moderator: Jonah Richards
Panelists: James Belflower (UAlbany), Sarah D’Antonio (Cornell University), Kenji Kihara (UAlbany)
6:00-7:30 Critical Keynote Address by Anna McCarthy
Saturday, March 29 8:30 am-5:30 pm—200 Milne Hall, Downtown Campus
8:30-9:00 Coffee Reception
9:00-10:20 Panel: "Appropriation, Representation, and Cultural Exchange: Transactions of Formation and Identity"
Moderator: Aimee Vincent
Panelists: Nathaniel Wong (Simon Fraser University), Joshua Keller (UAlbany), Naoto Kojima (UAlbany)
10:30-11:50 Panel: “Psychoanalytic Supplementation”
Moderator: Brandon Tankersley
Panelists: Earl Liao (CUNY), Pooya Jamaly (UAlbany), Neena Cinquino (NYU)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Creative Keynote Address by Myung Mi Kim
2:30-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-4:20 Panel: “Spaces of Circulation: Transactions in Letters, Bars, and Institutions”
Moderator: Katelyn Cove
Panelists: Lise Gaston (UC Berkeley), KC Clements (NYU), Alice Hofmann (UAlbany)
4:30-5:30 Closing Roundtable Moderated by Anna McCarthy
Participants: Natalie Amiama, Christopher Jacques, Eunai Joh, James Thompson (All UAlbany)
2013: Considering Relevance
Friday, March 8 1:30-5:00 pm—200 Milne Hall, Downtown Campus
1:30-2:00 Registration
2:00-3:00 Reception and Welcome Remarks by English Department Chair Randall Craig
3:00-5:00 Panel: "Relevance: Universal and Particular, Historical and Contemporary"
Moderator: Eric Anderson
Panelists: Michael Amrozowicz, Joseph Henderson, Christopher Jacques, James Searle (All UAlbany)
Saturday, March 9 8:30 am-5:30 pm—Husted and Milne Halls, Downtown Campus
9:00-9:30 Breakfast and Registration
9:30-11:00 Panel: "Alternate Modalities: Subjectivities & Worlds"
Moderator: Christopher Jacques
Panelists: Earl Yin-Wei Liao (CUNY Graduate Center), Graeme Northcote (University of Guelph), Jonah Richards (University at Albany)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 Creative Keynote Address by Jill Magi
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Panel: "Imag(in)ing the Self"
Moderator: Kate Cove
Panelists: Genevieve Aldi (College of St. Rose), Maureen Anderson (University at Albany), Aimee Vincent (University at Albany)
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 Critical Keynote Address by Ashley Dawson (CUNY Graduate Center)
Friday, March 8 1:30-5:00 pm—200 Milne Hall, Downtown Campus
1:30-2:00 Registration
2:00-3:00 Reception and Welcome Remarks by English Department Chair Randall Craig
3:00-5:00 Panel: "Relevance: Universal and Particular, Historical and Contemporary"
Moderator: Eric Anderson
Panelists: Michael Amrozowicz, Joseph Henderson, Christopher Jacques, James Searle (All UAlbany)
Saturday, March 9 8:30 am-5:30 pm—Husted and Milne Halls, Downtown Campus
9:00-9:30 Breakfast and Registration
9:30-11:00 Panel: "Alternate Modalities: Subjectivities & Worlds"
Moderator: Christopher Jacques
Panelists: Earl Yin-Wei Liao (CUNY Graduate Center), Graeme Northcote (University of Guelph), Jonah Richards (University at Albany)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-1:00 Creative Keynote Address by Jill Magi
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Panel: "Imag(in)ing the Self"
Moderator: Kate Cove
Panelists: Genevieve Aldi (College of St. Rose), Maureen Anderson (University at Albany), Aimee Vincent (University at Albany)
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 Critical Keynote Address by Ashley Dawson (CUNY Graduate Center)
2012: Waste
Friday 5 PM Husted 106A Welcome
Friday 5:30-7:00PM Husted 106A
Keynote Address: Thierry Bardini (Université de Montréal)
"Waste as Process(ed): Further Steps Toward a Junk Aesthetics"
Saturday 9:00-9:30 AM Downtown Cafe Registration and light breakfast
Saturday 9:45-11:15AM Rudolf Room (Husted Hall 110)
Panel 1 "Aesthetics of Ruin: Methodologies of Collecting the Past"
Joel Sodano (University at Albany) "Facebook's Junk History as the Apotheosis of Enlightenment Historiography; or, Why We Should Care about Literary History"
Christopher Jacques (University at Albany) "Peter Henry Emerson's Fenlands: The Picturesque and the Aesthetics of Poverty"
James Searle (University at Albany) "Vital Fascinations: Proposals for a More Sustainable Professional Practice"
Moderator: Michael Amrozowicz; Respondent: Paul Stasi
Saturday 9:45-11:15AM Richardson 002
Panel 2 "Consequences of Excess"
Jordan Turner (University of Windsor) " Constructing Schizo-Culture: "Big Exit," a Creative Writing Project "
Joshua Bartlett (University at Albany) "Amy Amy Amy/I died a hundred times: Loving in excess (or, loving towards death) in the lyrics of Amy Winehouse"
Megan Parry (San Diego State University) "Submission, Surveillance, and Shame: Discipline in Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter "
Moderator: Kate Cove; Respondent: Rick Barney
Saturday 11:15 AM Downtown Cafe Lunch
Saturday 12:30-1:45PM Rudolf Room (Husted Hall 110)
Panel 3 "Use(less) Value: Problems of Materiality"
Sara Glaberson (SUNY-New Paltz) " Navigating Immediacy and Inheritance "
Jessy Poole (University at Albany) "The High Fashion Dumpster Dive: Luxury Expressed through the Appropriation of Want in the Film Zoolander"
Jude Welburn (University of Toronto) "Gold Slave Chains--Waste, Value and Discipline in Thomas More's Utopia"
Moderator: Luke Martin; Respondent: Ineke Murakami
Saturday 12:30-1:45PM Richardson 002
Panel 4 "Subject and Swamp: Modalities of Excrement"
Mary Evans (University at Albany) "Toni Morrison's Sula: Access through Waste"
Eric Anderson (University at Albany) "Demanding Invention: That 'Slant of Life' in Toni Morrison's Sula"
M. P. Jones (The University of Montevallo) "Indecent Exposure: Ecopoetics, Waste, and Renewal"
Moderator: Tony Delgado; Respondent: Bret Benjamin
Saturday 2:00-3:30PM Rudolf Room (Husted Hall 110)
Panel 5 "Exhausted Models: Economy, Text, Body":
Katelyn Cove (University at Albany) "'Yes, remarkable'--The Textual Collapse of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Man That Was Used Up'"
Eaming Wu (Princeton University) "Organic Excess in the Demand for Narrative Form"
Tom Cannavino (University of Minnesota) "Money in the (Bio)bank: Waste and the Production of Biotechnological Value"
Moderator: Chris Jacques; Respondent: Kir Kuiken
Saturday 2:00-3:30PM Richardson 002
Panel 6 "Recovering Wasted Archives"
Jennifer Pruden Colligan (University at Albany) " Re-covering Lola Ridge: Why should we look at a lost writer's work?"
Jason Yonover (Cornell University) "The ‘Trash’ Aesthetics of Film, the Persistence of a Romantic Urteilskraft, and the Inaesthetic as Anaesthetic..."
Michael Mason (University of South Alabama) "'Specimens of Urban Spoor': Systems Hierarchies and the Wasteful Self in Don DeLillo's Underworld"
Moderator: Sara Al-Otaibi; Respondent: Derik Smith
Saturday 3:45-5:00PM Husted 204
Closing Remarks/Thanks
Thierry Bardini Seminar
Friday 5:30-7:00PM Husted 106A
Keynote Address: Thierry Bardini (Université de Montréal)
"Waste as Process(ed): Further Steps Toward a Junk Aesthetics"
Saturday 9:00-9:30 AM Downtown Cafe Registration and light breakfast
Saturday 9:45-11:15AM Rudolf Room (Husted Hall 110)
Panel 1 "Aesthetics of Ruin: Methodologies of Collecting the Past"
Joel Sodano (University at Albany) "Facebook's Junk History as the Apotheosis of Enlightenment Historiography; or, Why We Should Care about Literary History"
Christopher Jacques (University at Albany) "Peter Henry Emerson's Fenlands: The Picturesque and the Aesthetics of Poverty"
James Searle (University at Albany) "Vital Fascinations: Proposals for a More Sustainable Professional Practice"
Moderator: Michael Amrozowicz; Respondent: Paul Stasi
Saturday 9:45-11:15AM Richardson 002
Panel 2 "Consequences of Excess"
Jordan Turner (University of Windsor) " Constructing Schizo-Culture: "Big Exit," a Creative Writing Project "
Joshua Bartlett (University at Albany) "Amy Amy Amy/I died a hundred times: Loving in excess (or, loving towards death) in the lyrics of Amy Winehouse"
Megan Parry (San Diego State University) "Submission, Surveillance, and Shame: Discipline in Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter "
Moderator: Kate Cove; Respondent: Rick Barney
Saturday 11:15 AM Downtown Cafe Lunch
Saturday 12:30-1:45PM Rudolf Room (Husted Hall 110)
Panel 3 "Use(less) Value: Problems of Materiality"
Sara Glaberson (SUNY-New Paltz) " Navigating Immediacy and Inheritance "
Jessy Poole (University at Albany) "The High Fashion Dumpster Dive: Luxury Expressed through the Appropriation of Want in the Film Zoolander"
Jude Welburn (University of Toronto) "Gold Slave Chains--Waste, Value and Discipline in Thomas More's Utopia"
Moderator: Luke Martin; Respondent: Ineke Murakami
Saturday 12:30-1:45PM Richardson 002
Panel 4 "Subject and Swamp: Modalities of Excrement"
Mary Evans (University at Albany) "Toni Morrison's Sula: Access through Waste"
Eric Anderson (University at Albany) "Demanding Invention: That 'Slant of Life' in Toni Morrison's Sula"
M. P. Jones (The University of Montevallo) "Indecent Exposure: Ecopoetics, Waste, and Renewal"
Moderator: Tony Delgado; Respondent: Bret Benjamin
Saturday 2:00-3:30PM Rudolf Room (Husted Hall 110)
Panel 5 "Exhausted Models: Economy, Text, Body":
Katelyn Cove (University at Albany) "'Yes, remarkable'--The Textual Collapse of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Man That Was Used Up'"
Eaming Wu (Princeton University) "Organic Excess in the Demand for Narrative Form"
Tom Cannavino (University of Minnesota) "Money in the (Bio)bank: Waste and the Production of Biotechnological Value"
Moderator: Chris Jacques; Respondent: Kir Kuiken
Saturday 2:00-3:30PM Richardson 002
Panel 6 "Recovering Wasted Archives"
Jennifer Pruden Colligan (University at Albany) " Re-covering Lola Ridge: Why should we look at a lost writer's work?"
Jason Yonover (Cornell University) "The ‘Trash’ Aesthetics of Film, the Persistence of a Romantic Urteilskraft, and the Inaesthetic as Anaesthetic..."
Michael Mason (University of South Alabama) "'Specimens of Urban Spoor': Systems Hierarchies and the Wasteful Self in Don DeLillo's Underworld"
Moderator: Sara Al-Otaibi; Respondent: Derik Smith
Saturday 3:45-5:00PM Husted 204
Closing Remarks/Thanks
Thierry Bardini Seminar
2011: Outlaw
FRIDAY
Location: Downtown Campus, Milne Hall: Room 200
4:00: Welcome
4:30-5:45: Graduate creative presentations and Q&A
Kit Frick (Syracuse University)
Anna Eyre (University at Albany)
James Belflower (University at Albany)
6:00-7:30: Keynote Address and Q&A
Doug Rice
SATURDAY
Location: Downtown Campus, Husted Hall and Milne Hall: Room 200 and Arthur C. Levitt Room
9:00-9:30: Registration and light breakfast
Location: Husted Hall, the “Downtown Café”
9:30-10:00: Introductory remarks
10:00-11:30am: Subjects and Institutions (Respondent: Mort Schoolman, University at Albany)
Location: Milne Hall, Arthur Levitt Room
Matt McGregor (University at Albany)
Culture, Technics, and “Monopoly Capitalism” in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory
Ibai Atutxa (Universitat de València; Visiting Scholar University at Albany)
Notes for a reading of discourses on subject(ificat)ion of the outlaw, and the construction of the State-nation as Community
Thomas Dichter (University of Pennsylvania)
The Joint: Hip Hop and Mass Incarceration
10:00-11:30am: Gender, Troubled (Respondent: Charles Shepherdson, University at Albany)
Location: Milne Hall, Room 200
Sarah Giragosian (University at Albany)
Queer Elocation and Initiation in Late Moore
Marcie A. Newton (University of Sheffield, UK)
“Free Me from My Acts of Transgression": Sex, Religion, and the Paradoxical Nature of Transgression in the Modernist
Autobiographical Novel
Courtney Conroy (Georgia State University)
Always a Woman to Me: Vollmann's Subject Par Excellence
11:30: Lunch
Location: Husted Hall, the “Downtown Café”
12:30-2:00: Keynote Address
Location: Milne Hall, Room 200
Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University)
Tuning Out the Nation: Thoreau and Others
2:15-3:45: Trespassing (Respondent: TBA)
Location: Milne Hall, Room 200
Amber J. Reed (West Chester University)
The Outlaw and American Identity in the Adventures of Joaquin Murrieta
Noor Adhaar Desai (Cornell University)
Border Reiving: Macbeth and the King's Two Kingdoms
Aaron Wittman (University at Albany)
“The Diminutive Process of All Things”: Alternatives to the Anthropocentric in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God
2:15-3:45: Aesthetic Borderlands (Respondent: Paul Stasi, University at Albany)
Location: Milne Hall, Arthur Levitt Room
Aidan Thompson (University at Albany)
The Poetics of Collision and 'Evolutional Transformation' in the Work of Mina Loy's “Anglo Mongrel and the Rose”
Jennifer Austin (The College of Saint Rose)
Dissolving the Patriarchal Hegemony: Reading the Crisis of Female Identity Formation in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation
Joshua Bartlett (University at Albany)
“Let me out now please--/--Please let me in”: Thinking of Elise Cowen
4:00-5:30: History and Histories (Respondent: Pat Chu, University at Albany)
Location: Milne Hall, Arthur Levitt Room
David D. Squires (University at Buffalo)
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion: Ida B. Wells and Lynch Law
Daisuke Kiriyama (University at Albany)
Between Reinhart and Invisibility: Jazz and History in Invisible Man
4:00-5:30: Discourse and Discipline (Respondent: Laura Wilder, University at Albany)
Location: Milne Hall, Room 200
Vanessa R. Panfil (University at Albany)
“I’m not like that:” Representation, subversion, and masculinity in the narratives of gay gang- and crime-involved men
Anna Eyre (University at Albany)
The Ethics of Jaime de Angulo's Ethnopoetics
Location: Downtown Campus, Milne Hall: Room 200
4:00: Welcome
4:30-5:45: Graduate creative presentations and Q&A
Kit Frick (Syracuse University)
Anna Eyre (University at Albany)
James Belflower (University at Albany)
6:00-7:30: Keynote Address and Q&A
Doug Rice
SATURDAY
Location: Downtown Campus, Husted Hall and Milne Hall: Room 200 and Arthur C. Levitt Room
9:00-9:30: Registration and light breakfast
Location: Husted Hall, the “Downtown Café”
9:30-10:00: Introductory remarks
10:00-11:30am: Subjects and Institutions (Respondent: Mort Schoolman, University at Albany)
Location: Milne Hall, Arthur Levitt Room
Matt McGregor (University at Albany)
Culture, Technics, and “Monopoly Capitalism” in Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory
Ibai Atutxa (Universitat de València; Visiting Scholar University at Albany)
Notes for a reading of discourses on subject(ificat)ion of the outlaw, and the construction of the State-nation as Community
Thomas Dichter (University of Pennsylvania)
The Joint: Hip Hop and Mass Incarceration
10:00-11:30am: Gender, Troubled (Respondent: Charles Shepherdson, University at Albany)
Location: Milne Hall, Room 200
Sarah Giragosian (University at Albany)
Queer Elocation and Initiation in Late Moore
Marcie A. Newton (University of Sheffield, UK)
“Free Me from My Acts of Transgression": Sex, Religion, and the Paradoxical Nature of Transgression in the Modernist
Autobiographical Novel
Courtney Conroy (Georgia State University)
Always a Woman to Me: Vollmann's Subject Par Excellence
11:30: Lunch
Location: Husted Hall, the “Downtown Café”
12:30-2:00: Keynote Address
Location: Milne Hall, Room 200
Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University)
Tuning Out the Nation: Thoreau and Others
2:15-3:45: Trespassing (Respondent: TBA)
Location: Milne Hall, Room 200
Amber J. Reed (West Chester University)
The Outlaw and American Identity in the Adventures of Joaquin Murrieta
Noor Adhaar Desai (Cornell University)
Border Reiving: Macbeth and the King's Two Kingdoms
Aaron Wittman (University at Albany)
“The Diminutive Process of All Things”: Alternatives to the Anthropocentric in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God
2:15-3:45: Aesthetic Borderlands (Respondent: Paul Stasi, University at Albany)
Location: Milne Hall, Arthur Levitt Room
Aidan Thompson (University at Albany)
The Poetics of Collision and 'Evolutional Transformation' in the Work of Mina Loy's “Anglo Mongrel and the Rose”
Jennifer Austin (The College of Saint Rose)
Dissolving the Patriarchal Hegemony: Reading the Crisis of Female Identity Formation in Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation
Joshua Bartlett (University at Albany)
“Let me out now please--/--Please let me in”: Thinking of Elise Cowen
4:00-5:30: History and Histories (Respondent: Pat Chu, University at Albany)
Location: Milne Hall, Arthur Levitt Room
David D. Squires (University at Buffalo)
Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion: Ida B. Wells and Lynch Law
Daisuke Kiriyama (University at Albany)
Between Reinhart and Invisibility: Jazz and History in Invisible Man
4:00-5:30: Discourse and Discipline (Respondent: Laura Wilder, University at Albany)
Location: Milne Hall, Room 200
Vanessa R. Panfil (University at Albany)
“I’m not like that:” Representation, subversion, and masculinity in the narratives of gay gang- and crime-involved men
Anna Eyre (University at Albany)
The Ethics of Jaime de Angulo's Ethnopoetics
