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8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-9
Spaces of Transgression
CHAIR:
Dana
Luciano, English Department,
Georgetown University
PAPERS:
Jesse Battan, Department of American Studies, California
State University, Fullerton Parading Private Thoughts in Public Spaces: Making a Spectacle of Desire
in Nineteenth-Century America
Brian Connolly, Department of History, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick Crowded to Excess: Free Labor and the Space of Incest in the Nineteenth
Century
Joanna Levin, Department of English and Comparative
Literature, Chapman University "I'd Rather Live in Bohemia": A Literary and Cultural Geography
COMMENT:
Dana
Luciano
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-11
The
Conservative Labyrinth in Recent US History
CHAIR:
Lisa
McGirr,
Department of History, Harvard University
PAPERS:
Lee Bernstein, Department of History, State University
of New York, New Paltz James Q. Wilson and the Politics of Crime Control from the War on Poverty
to the War on Drugs
Natasha Zaretsky, Department of History, Southern
Illinois University, Carbondale Family, Community, and Nation in the Presidential Election of 1980
David Noon, Department of History, University of Alaska,
Southeast Neoconservatives and the Contemporary Culture of American Empire
COMMENT:
H.
Bruce Franklin,
Department of English, Rutgers University, Newark
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-10
"This
Land is Your / My Land": Great Lakes Identity and Natural Resource
Politics
CHAIR:
Benjamin
Johnson,
History Department, Southern Methodist University
PAPERS:
Megan MacDonald, American Studies Department, Purdue
University Legislated Identity: Fish and Anishinaabe Identity in Upper Michigan
Joseph Jones, American Studies Department, Michigan
State University Choosing to Stay: Cultural Identity in the West Michigan Cutover, 1910-1940
Jill Doerfler, American Studies Department, University
of Minnesota "Yes, I Am a Mixed Blood. I Sold My Land": Anishinaabe Identity and Land
in the Early Twentieth Century on the White Earth Reservation
COMMENT:
Karl
Jacoby, Department of History, Brown
University
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-15
History
in the Gilded Age
CHAIR:
Miles
Orvell,
English Department and American Studies Program, Temple University
PAPERS:
Benjamin Railton, English Department, University
of Massachusetts, Boston, and Writing Program, Boston University Gilded Age Poetry and the Past: Dialogue, History, and the Woman Question
in Harper and Piatt
Megan Elias, History Department, Queensborough Community
College Cooking the Books: How American Cookbook Writers of the Gilded Age Constructed
a National Past
Philip Kowalski, English Department, University of
North Carolina American Histories in 1876
Timothy Sedore, English Department, Bronx Community
College, City University of New York Second American Revolution Iconoclasm
COMMENT:
Leslie
Rowland,
Department of History, University of Maryland
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-14
Model
Homes: Embodiments, Architectures,
and Epistemic Crises in Chicana/o Culture
CHAIR:
Antonio
Viego,
Department of Literature and Romance Studies & Latino/a Studies Program,
Duke University
PAPERS:
Sandra Soto, Department of Women's Studies, University
of Arizona One Yellow House, Queer Victorians, a Brown Study: the Place of Sexual Architecture
in Richard Rodriguez's Soliloquies on Race
Grace Hong, Department of English and Program in Asian
American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison Sacred and Profane: Ana Castillo's Ironic Reversals
Dana Maya, Independent Scholar, Madison, Wisconsin Reversing Faces, Refusing Spaces: Dramas of Access in the Paintings of Salomón
Huerta
COMMENT:
Antonio
Viego
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-13
Staging
Race and Gender
CHAIR:
Tamsen
Wolff,
Princeton University
PAPERS:
Shirley Lim, Department of History, State University
of New York, Stony Brook American Moderns: Anna May Wong and Josephine Baker
Krystyn Moon, History Department, Georgia State University Performing Race: Asians and Asian Americans in Vaudeville, 1880s-1930s
Nancy Page Fernandez, Interdisciplinary General Education
Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Playing Shirley Temple: The Sinn Family Orchestra in American Vaudeville,
1931-1936
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-12
Un/civilizing
Missions: Native American, African American, and Asian American Negotiations of Christianity
CHAIR:
K.
Scott Wong,
American Studies Program and History Department, Williams College
PAPERS:
Anne Soon Choi, American Studies Program, University
of Kansas For God and Country: The Meanings of Christianity and the Korean Independence
Movement in the United States, 1910-1945
Robert Lee, Department of American Civilization, Brown
University "Why I Am Not A Christian—A Heathen": A 19th-Century Chinese
American Debate on Christianity and Confucianism
Kim Warren, Department of History, University of Kansas They Called Themselves Friends of the Indians and Negroes: White Missionaries,
Race, and Citizenship in the Late Nineteenth Century
COMMENT:
K.
Scott Wong
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Renaissance East
Documenting Labor
CHAIR:
Daniel
Marcus, Department of Communication
and Media Studies, Goucher College
PAPERS:
Janet Zandy, Language and Literature Department,
Rochester Institute of Technology The Groundwork of Labor: Earl Dotter's Photography
John Bloom, Department of History, Shippensburg University
Harvesting History (video documentary)
COMMENT:
Daniel
Marcus
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Renaissance West A
On
Stage and In Life: Queer Performance as/and Activism
CHAIR:
Lawrence
LaFountain-Stokes,
Romance Languages Program, University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Aaron Lecklider, American Studies Department, Boston
University "An Unapologetic Tribute to Hedonism": Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Queer
Performance in 1980's America
Raul Rubio, Department of Spanish, Wellesley College Queer Ethnicities and Performance: Stand-up as Activism
Craig McClain, American Studies Department, University
of New Mexico Gay Rodeo: Carnival, Gender, and Resistance
Ailecia Ruscin, American Studies Department, University
of Kansas From Drag King to Burlesque: Gender Perfomativity and the Importance of
Performance in Queer Feminist Subcultures
COMMENT:
Carlos
Vega,
Department of Spanish, Wellesley College
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Renaissance West B
Race and the Politics of
Display
CHAIR:
Kathleen Gough, Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies
Department, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Ellen Goldner, Department of English, City University
of New York, Staten Island Waylaying the Mississippi River Panoramas: The Antislavery Panoramas of
William Wells Brown and James Bell
Paul Gardullo, American Studies Department, George
Washington University Visions of Rebellion: Depictions of Slavery and Resistance in the History
Paintings of Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence
Bettina Carbonell, Department of English, John Jay
College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Inside Out: Visible Storage and Historical Inquiry at the Museum
COMMENT:
Renu Cappelli, Department of Theater, Dance, and
Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-17
Panic
in the Streets of Antebellum America
CHAIR:
Jeffrey
Pasley,
Department of History, University of Missouri, Columbia
PAPERS:
Joshua Greenberg, Department of History, Bridgewater
State College Bread, Meat, Rent, and Fuel: Loco Foco Household Politics, the
New York City Flour Riot, and the Panic of 1837
Justine Murison, Department of English, University
of Pennsylvania Inheriting Insanity in George Lippard's Quaker City
Clay Motley, Department of English, Charleston Southern
University Walls of Fear: Antebellum Charleston and the Threat of Slave Revolt
Jessica Lepler, Department of History, Brandeis University "Poor Devils!": Envisioning the Panic of 1837 in New Orleans
COMMENT:
Jeffrey
Pasley
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM MR-16
Social
Movements, Still Images: Photography and the Representation of Radical Politics
CHAIR:
Deborah
Willis,
Photography and Imaging Department, New York University
PAPERS:
Brian Beaton, History Department, University of Toronto Sisterhood in Halftones: Bettye Lane and Black Feminism
Thy Phu, English Department, University of Western
Ontario Everybody's Protest Photo: "Radical Chic" and the Disarming of the Black
Panther Party
Katherine Griefen, The Graduate Center, City University
of New York An Alternative Civil Rights Photography: The Work of Herbert Randall
COMMENT:
Elspeth
Brown,
History Department, University of Toronto
Carla Williams, Independent Scholar
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Grand Ballroom North
Transnational
Constructions of China and America: Extraterritorial Perspectives
CHAIR:
Charles
Kupfer,
American Studies Department, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
PAPERS:
John Haddad, American Studies Department, Pennsylvania
State University, Harrisburg The Savage East in the Wild West: Buffalo Bill's Boxer Uprising
Xilao Li, English Department, William Rainey Harper
College Mark Twain in China: Translation & Appreciation (1906-2004)
Shaoyuan Cui, Chinese & East Asian Studies Program,
University of Sydney What Does the Hollywood Blockbuster Offer Chinese Audiences?: Hollywood
Films and Americanization
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Grand Ballroom Central
Geographies
of Race, Nation, and Diaspora
CHAIR:
Kimberly Moffit, Department of Communication, DePaul
University
PAPERS:
Asha Nadkarni, Department of English, Brown University Spiritual Nationalism and Diaspora: Dhan Gopal Mukerji's Caste
and Outcast
Yogita Goyal, Department of English, University of
California, Los Angeles Rethinking Nation and Diaspora: W.E.B. Du Bois' Dark Princess
Amor Kohli, African and Black Diaspora Studies, DePaul
University Errantry and the Epic Journey "Home": Amiri Baraka's Black Magic
COMMENT:
Audience
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM Grand Ballroom South
Culture,
Conflict and Community: Northern Cities in the Fifties and Sixties
CHAIR:
Ellen
Dwyer,
Criminal Justice and History Departments, Indiana University
PAPERS:
Robert Snyder, Visual and Performing Arts Department,
Rutgers University, Newark The Death of Michael Farmer: Murder, Media, and Community in Fifties New
York
Max Herman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Rutgers University, Newark Places of Unrest: Commemorating the Riots/Rebellions in Newark and Detroit
Eric Schneider, Urban Studies Department, University
of Pennsylvania Space, Place, and Crime: Heroin and the 1960s in New York
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-9
This
Land is Y/our Land: Claims to Citizenship and Representations of Home
CHAIR:
John
M. Gonzalez,
Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
PAPERS:
Jennifer Alvarez Dickinson, Department of American
Studies, University of New Mexico The American Dream and Border Zones: The Pocho/a Figure in Chicano/a Humor
A. Gabriel Melendez, Department of American Studies,
University of New Mexico The Alianza Drama On and Off the Screen: Reies Lopez Tijerina as Film Icon
Robin Li, American Culture Program, University of
Michigan "Edging Invariably": Narrative Negotiations of American Orientalism
in The Silent Traveller in San Francisco
Vida Mia Garcia, Program in Modern Thought and Literature,
Stanford University Native Son/Playing Tourist
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-11
Spaces
of Slavery in American Modernity
CHAIR:
Chandan
Reddy,
English Department, University of Washington, Seattle
PAPERS:
Lisa Ze Winters, Departments of English and
Africana Studies, Wayne State University Fantasy, Memory and Diaspora: Representing Freedom and Desire in 19th-century
New Orleans
Sara Johnson, Literature Department, University of California, San
Diego Exploiting Slaves in a Language They Can Understand: The Rise of Plantation
Dictionaries in the Early Americas
Stephanie Smallwood, History Department, University
of California, San Diego The Disciplined Critique of Violence in American Slavery
COMMENT:
Chandan
Reddy
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-10
The
Gendered Metropolis and Its Writers, 1945 to the Present
CHAIR:
Julia
Leyda,
Department of English Literature, Sophia University, Japan
PAPERS:
Meg Wesling, Department of Literature, University
of California, San Diego
The Opacity of Everyday Life: Racial Segregation and the Gendered Economies
of the Street
Kimberly K. Lamm, Department of English, University
of Washington Gay Chaps at the Bar, Girls in the Backyard: Gender, Race, and Place in
Gwendolyn Brooks' A Street in Bronzeville
Margaret T. McGehee, American Studies Program, The Graduate Institute
of the Liberal Arts Atlanta's "Urban Oasis": Safe Space and Revolutionary Utopia in Pearl Cleage's
Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do
COMMENT:
Julia
Leyda
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-15
The
Discipline of Space and Time
Our
roundtable will explore and examine how the production of space and time as
abstract, empty, and homogenous has been foundational to both American
exceptionalism and our particular fields of study (legal, literary, critical
race, diaspora, feminist, and queer studies).
CHAIR:
Leti
Volpp,
Law School, American University
PANELISTS:
David
Eng,
English Department, Rutgers University
Teemu Ruskola, American University Law
School
Gina Dent, Women's Studies and History of Consciousness
Departments, University of California, Santa Cruz
COMMENT:
Leti
Volpp
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-14
Roundtable
Discussion on the Practices of Scholar-Activism
This
roundtable brings together scholar-activists from within and outside the
academy to discuss the "practices" of collaborative, politically-committed
scholarship. The presentations will mark some of the conceptual territory for a
more general discussion on these and other issues facing scholar-activists and
the projects they engage.
CHAIR:
Daniel
HoSang,
Program in American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
PANELISTS:
Soo
Ah Kwon,
School of Education, University of California, Berkeley
Janice Fine, School of Management
and Labor, Rutgers University
Lori
Villarosa,
Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity, Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights Education Fund
Makani
Themba-Nixon,
The Praxis Project
Dorian
Warren,
Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-13
Encampments: Mapping Queer and Camp Representations
in Contemporary American Film, TV, and Performance
CHAIR:
Eva
George,
History Department, Capital University
PAPERS:
Dabrina Taylor, American Studies Department, University
of Maryland, Baltimore County "Will You Marry It, Marry It, Marry It?": Camping Out with the Stepford
Wives
Julia McCrossin, English Department, George Washington
University Gender F**K at Kennedy High and Other Curious Lesson Plans in the Television
Show "Popular"
John Jacob, Division of Family and Consumer Sciences,
West Virginia University Radical Drag Queen Performatives: Camp and Socially Constructed Queer Eyes
Renee
Romano,
History Department and African American Studies Program, Wesleyan University
PAPERS:
Jay Garcia, American Studies Department, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Lillian Smith, Cultural Criticism and the "Land of Epidermis"
Lindsey Swindall, Department of Afro-American Studies,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst Paul Robeson's Freedom Newspaper, Anti-Racism and Internationalism
Adalaine Holton, Literature Department, University
of California, Santa Cruz Jumping Scale: The Aesthetics of Jesus Colon's Translocal Politics
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Renaissance East
"Domestic Imperialism or Domestic Terrorism?": New Interpretations of the
Klan
CHAIR:
Catherine McNichol Stock, History Department and
American Studies Program, Connecticut College
PAPERS:
Christopher Rhomberg, Sociology Department, Yale
University Class, Race, and Urban Politics: The 1920s Ku Klux Klan Movement in the
United States
David Magill, English Department, University of Pittsburgh,
Johnstown "Men of Kindred Thought": Nostalgic Fraternity as Racial Hatred in the Ku
Klux Klan
Glenn Zuber, Religious Studies Department, Manhattanville
College "Journeys to Sacred Altars": Ritual Space and Ethno-religious Power in 1920s
Klan Initiations
Kelly Baker, Department of Religion, Florida State
University Folds of Hatred: The Ku Klux Klan, Uniforms, and Collective Identity
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Renaissance West A
Segregation and Urban Space
CHAIR:
Philip J. Deloria, Program in American Culture, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor
PAPERS:
Sarah Wilson, Department of English, University of
Toronto Space, Metaphor, and Segregation in Jane Jacob's Social Activism
Anne Krulikowski, History Department, West Chester
University On the Margins in Philadelphia: The Meadows Neighborhood vs. New Eastwick
Cristin McVey, Department of Sociology, University
of California, San Diego Redlines and Rallies: The Story of La Jolla's Black Community
COMMENT:
Philip J. Deloria
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Renaissance West B
The Architecture of
Pedagogy
CHAIR:
Magdalanea
Zaborowska, Program in American Culture,
University of Michigan
PAPERS:
Rachel Remmel, Art History Department, University
of Chicago The Graded School and the Origins of the American School Building: Public
School Architecture in Boston, 1800-1850
Elizabeth Milewicz, Graduate Institute of the Liberal
Arts, Emory University Universities, Reading Rooms, and the Functional Aesthetics of Space
John Sears, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, George Washington
University "How the Devil it Got There": The Smithsonian Castle and the Diffusion of
Knowledge
COMMENT:
Carla
Yanni, Rutgers University
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-17
Race,
Place, and Identity among Native Americans in the Early National Period
CHAIR:
William
Hart,
Department of History, Middlebury College
PAPERS:
David Silverman, History Department, George Washington
University Evolving Indian Notions of Race and Place: Brothertown and New Stockbridge
Migrations
Nancy Shoemaker, History Department, University of
Connecticut, Storrs American "Squaw Men" on the Fiji Frontier
Kirk Davis Swinehart, Department of History, Wesleyan
University Indians in the House
COMMENT:
William
Hart
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM MR-16
Region,
History, and Household Goods
CHAIR:
William
Gleason,
Department of English, Princeton University
PAPERS:
Elizabeth Young, Department of English, Mount Holyoke
College Painted Whipsnaps: Edwin Romanzo Elmer and the Material Culture of New England
Lisa Long, Department of English, North Central College Family Heirlooms and the Materiality of History in the Twentieth-Century
Midwest
Lisa Hammond Rashley, Humanities Division, University
of South Carolina, Lancaster The Materiality of Southern Sentiment: Stitchery, Slavery, and Representing
History
COMMENT:
Audience
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Grand Ballroom North
Right
of Way: Perspectives on Mobility in the Americas
CHAIR:
Angela
Pulley Hudson,
American Studies Program, Yale University
PAPERS:
Pablo Ramirez, School of English & Theatre Studies,
University of Guelph "White Slaves of California": The Railroad as a Vehicle for Racial Justice
Su-ching Huang, Department of Foreign Languages &
Literatures, National Taiwan University Politics of Mobility in Song of Solomon and The Floating World
COMMENT:
Angela Pulley Hudson
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Grand Ballroom South
Pedagogy
of Performance
CHAIR:
Shannon
Jackson,
Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley
PAPERS:
Nina Billone, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance
Studies, University of California, Berkeley Imagining Community, Performing Democracy
Ananya Chatterjea, Theatre Arts and Dance, University
of Minnesota, Twin Cities TBA
Maya E. Roth, Program in Performing Arts, Georgetown
University Performing Space: Performance, Power, and Embodied Transformation in Space
Ruthie Gilmore, University of Southern California TBA