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Narrative 2001: An International Conference

Thursday, March 8, 2001 11:00 a.m. Conference Registration Humanities Building Lobby 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Panel Session I

Humanities Building, Room 117
I-A Contemporary Narratology I: Ambiguity and Readerly Agency
Moderator: Emma Kafalenos, Washington University
Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania
"Pragmatic Ambiguities and Narratological Models"
David H. Richter, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center
"Ambiguous Configuration, or The Reader as Donkey"
Brian McHale, West Virginia University
"On the Limits of Narrativization, or Is The Waste Land Really a Hard-Boiled Detective Story?"
Sewall Hall, Room 305
I-B Ethnographic Narratives of Culture: Power in a Global Economy
Moderator: Lamia Karim, Rice University
Theresa Hernandez, University of Houston
"Unsealing Entombed Narratives: Wealth, Power, and the Richest Men in the World"
Jae Chung, Rice University
"Boom or Bust: Reconstructing Trust and Risk among Korean Immigrant Women in Guam"
Lamia Karim, Rice University
"Silencing Violence: Narratives of Empowerment, Death, and Dying in the Postcolony"
D. J. Hatfield, Rice University
"Global Narratives and Toponymic Crises: Speaking of Places in Taipei/Taibei, for Example"
Respondent: James D. Faubion, Rice University
Sewall Hall, Room 307
I-C The Straight, the Gay, the Lesbian: Chicano/a Literature for the New Millennium
Moderator: Maria C. Gonzalez, University of Houston
Maria C. Gonzalez, University of Houston
"The Construction of a Queer Identity for the Academy: The Case of Gloria Anzaldua and Judith Butler"
Elizabeth Rodriguez Kessler, University of Houston
"The Macho and the Gay Chicano: Negotiating a Place in the Mexican-American Community"
Anne O. Perrin, University of Houston
"Issues of Self-Creation in Chicana Lesbian Fiction"
Sewall Hall, Room 309
I-D Victorian Narratives of the Body
Moderator: Antje S. Anderson, Hastings College
Antje S. Anderson, Hastings College
"Milkmaids: Breast-Feeding and Class in Hardy and Moore"
Kay Heath, Virginia State University
"Women in the Mirror: Female Perceptions of the Aging Self in Trollope"
Janet C. Myers, Elon College
"The Emigrant Body and the Structure of Sensationalism"
Louise Penner, Transylvania University
"Contamination, Contagion, and the Body: Florence Nightingale's Narrative of the Dirty Middle-Class Home"
Humanities Building, Room 118
I-E Gender Crisis, Gender Melodrama
Moderator: Robyn Warhol, University of Vermont
Melissa Valiska Gregory, Indiana University
"From Melodrama to Monologue in the Late-Victorian Novel: Domestic Terror and Henry James"
Jennifer Parchesky, University of Houston
"What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Sally Robinson, Texas A&M University
"Consumer Culture and the 'Crisis' in Masculinity"
Humanities Building, Room 119
I-F Murder Mysteries
Moderator: Thad Logan, Rice University
Stephen Kern, Northern Illinois University
"The Causal Role of Language in Victorian to Modern Murder Novels"
Lucia Thomas Olson, Santa Clara University
"Innocents at Home: Displacing the Other within the Narrative of the Murder Mystery in Agatha Christie's Novels"
Eleanor Salotto, Sweet Briar College
"(Dis)Articulating Identity and Plot in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend"

1:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m. COFFEE Humanities Building Lobby 1:45 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Panel Session II

Humanities Building, Room 117
II-A Historiographies of the Private and Secret
Moderator: Meredith Skura, Rice University
John Edward Martin, Northwestern University
"Mobile without Motive: Edgar Allan Poe and the Politics of the Perverse"
Jacqueline McLean, Texas Tech University
"Improvisations: The Poem as Autobiographical Impulse"
Meredith Skura, Rice University
"The Story of I: The Beginnings of English Autobiographical Narrative"
Sewall Hall, Room 305
II-B Nice Myth, But Will It Work in Theory? Classical Narratives Meet Modern Theory
Moderator: Thomas E. Jenkins, Rice University
Francesca D'Alessandro Behr, University of Houston
"Conservation and Conversation in Persius's Saturae: A View of Roman Satire"
Richard H. Armstrong, University of Houston
"Mythoclasm: Foundational Myth and the Myth of Foundations in Psychoanalysis"
David Mikics, University of Houston
"Sophocles' Theban Plays in Freud and Lacan"
Thomas E. Jenkins, Rice University
"Palamedes' 'Writing Lesson': Refractions of a Myth in Lévi-Strauss and Derrida"
Sewall Hall, Room 307
II-C Booming India: Narratives of the New South Asia
Moderator: Doug Payne, University of San Diego
Rick Livingston, Ohio State University
"Small Things, Big Deals: Spatial Economies of the New South Asian Fiction"
Doug Payne, University of San Diego
"Frame Stories: The Politics of Aestheticism in Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain"
Akhila Ramnarayan, Ohio State University
"The Gandhian Dream: Decaying or Deferred? Caste and Gender Politics in Vijay Tendulkar's Kanyadaan'
Sewall Hall, Room 309
II-D Beyond the "Intellectual Garret": Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Moderator: Michon Benson, Rice University
Michon Benson, Rice University
"Oracular Revelations: Conjuring Sentimentality in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
Mary Stripling, Rice University
"Re-inventing the Master/Slave Dynamic: Linda Brent's Northern Letters in Incidents"
Shannon Richards, Rice University
"Who Is Harriet Jacobs? Exploring the 'Incidents' of Textuality"
Suzanne Lane, Harvard University
"Conjuring the Public Sphere in My Bondage and My Freedom and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"
Humanities Building, Room 118
Humanities Building, Room 119
II-E Narration, Temporality, Teleology
Moderator: Terrence Doody, Rice University
Terrence Doody, Rice University
"Modernist Middles: Parts and Wholes"
Monique Morgan, Stanford University
"'Something Evermore About to Be': Wordsworth's Prospective Narrative"
Phillip Barrish, University of Texas at Austin
"'A Good Fellow Wronged': Christopher Newman in Paris, Jesse Helms at the United Nations"
Humanities Building, Room 226
II-F Cross-Cultural/Postcolonial Narratives
Moderator: Lucille P. Fultz, Rice University
Clifford M. Beumel and Derik J. Smith, Northwestern University
"Subjectivity's Imperial Drive: Homosexuality as Unfounding Ground in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother"
Alyssa Harad, University of Texas at Austin
"'There Are All Kinds of Wars': Long-term Survival, Trauma, and Testimony in Sherman Alexie"
James Richards, University of Houston
"Four Healings Make One Whole: Avey Johnson's Journey in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow"

3:45 p.m.-4:00 p.m. COFFEE Humanities Building Lobby 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Panel Session III

Humanities Building, Room 117
III-A (Dis)Articulating Race: Self-Authorizing Narratives
Moderator: Jannelle Blankenship, Duke University
Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University
"Stage Narrative of Disposition, Fragmentation, and Formation: Adrienne Kennedy"
Christina Riley Brown, University of Mississippi
"'Rally Forth around Me a Faithful Band of Supporters': Sentimental Parody in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig"
Theodore O. Mason, Kenyon College
"Reading Narrative under the Protocols of Race"
Katy Ryan, West Virginia University
"Revolutionary Suicide in Toni Morrison's Fiction"
Sewall Hall, Room 305
III-B Narrativity and Violence
Moderator: Jules Law, Northwestern University
Mary Ann O'Farrell, Texas A&M University
"Haggard on Manners"
Deanna Kreisel, Mississippi State University
"What Maxie Knew: Violent Gift-Giving and the Laying-on of Hands in What Maisie Knew and Rushmore"
Joseph Litvak, Tufts University
"Caught in the Crossfire: Violence, Intellectuality, and Anti-Anti-Semitic Narrative"
Jules Law, Northwestern University
"Being There: Violence and Virtuality in Frankenstein, Dracula, and Strange Days"
Sewall Hall, Room 307
III-C Narrative Curiosities
Moderator: Wesley A. Morris, Rice University
Gerd Bayer, Case Western Reserve University
"Eco-Narrative: The Green Chaos of John Fowles's Art"
Karen Lawrence, University of California, Irvine
"Christine Brooke-Rose's Lipograms; or, How Do We Notice What Isn't There?"
John R. Reed, Wayne State University
"Present-Tense Narration from Dickens to the Present"
Lawrence K. Stanley, Brown University
"The Tease of Narrative: The Arabesque of Creative Nonfiction"
Sewall Hall, Room 309
III-D "Raising the Dead" in African American Culture
Moderator: Richard Pearce, Wheaton College
Sharon Patricia Holland, University of Illinois-Chicago
"The Argument of and New Directions for Her Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity"
Maurice Wallace, Duke University
"Spectacles of Death: Looking and Lynching in American Photorealism"
Richard Pearce, Wheaton College
"Raising the Dead in Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise"
Humanities Building, Room 118
III-E The Ideological Work of Pop Cultural Narratives
Moderator: Jamie Barlowe, University of Toledo
Jamie Barlowe, University of Toledo
"No Innocence in This Age: Edith Wharton and Mass Culture, 1905-39"
Catherine Gunther Kodat, Hamilton College
"I'm Spartacus; or, Woof! Woof!"
Priscilla Walton, Carleton University, Canada
"Queering Vietnam: Katherine V. Forrest's Liberty Square"
Humanities Building, Room 119
III-F Latina/o Narratives of Space, Home, and Migration
Moderator: Ben Olguin, University of Texas at San Antonio
Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi
"Narrating Space: California in Helena María Viramontes's Fiction"
Sarah Ramirez, Stanford University
"Lila Downs: Aqui la justicia sale sobrando"
Andrea Tinnemeyer, Rice University
"Captivity and Manifest Destiny: Who Would Have Thought It?"
Juan Alonzo, University of Texas
"Collapsing Discursive Oppositions in John Sayles's Men with Guns/Hombres Armados"
Humanities Building, Room 226
III-G Personal Exposures: Publicity and Intimacy in the Modern Autobiographical Novel
Moderator: Scott Herring, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scott Herring, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"The Negro Artist and the Racial Manor: Infants of the Spring and the Conundrum of Publicity"
Michael L. Cobb, Cornell University
"Painfully Obvious: Nakedness and Religious Rhetoric in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain"
Rochelle Rives, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"A 'Peculiar Feeling of Intimacy': D. H. Lawrence's Queer Bildungsroman"
Respondent: Janet Lyon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m. RECEPTION Martell Lobby, Duncan Hall PLENARY A 7:45 p.m.-9:15 p.m. Duncan Hall Auditorium Introduction: Helena Michie, Rice University Speaker: Franco Moretti, Stanford University "Fillers" Respondent: José David Saldivar, University of California, Berkeley return to top

Friday, March 9, 2001 8:00 a.m. REGISTRATION Sewall Hall Gallery Foyer 8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Sewall Hall Gallery Foyer

PLENARY B
8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Physics Amphitheater
Introduction: José Aranda, Rice University
Speaker: José David Saldivar, University of California, Berkeley
"Border Thinking and the Relocation of Chicano/a Narrative"
Respondent: Richard Shusterman, Temple University

10:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m. COFFEE Sewall Hall Gallery Foyer

10:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Session IV
Humanities Building, Room 117
IV-A Narrative Ethics
Moderator: Carol Quillen, Rice University
Odila Triebel, Rice University
"'And If I Had the Final Say?' Narrating Citizenship in Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature"
Lynne Huffer, Rice University
"Identity and Its Others in Proust"
Carol Quillen, Rice University
"Writing Others: Agency and Ethics in Historical Narrative"
Respondents: Debarati Sanyal, University of California, Berkeley, and Adam Zachary Newton, University of Texas at Austin
Sewall Hall, Room 305
IV-B Constructing National Identity
Moderator: Dimitri Anastasopoulos, University of Rochester
Phillipe Carrard, University of Vermont
"France's 'World Team': Sports, Narrative, and National Identity"
Robert L. Patten, Rice University
"Scott's Parthenogenetic Narrative"
Kathy Alexis Psomiades, University of Notre Dame
"Narcissism and Nation in 1876: Daniel Deronda, Phoebe Junior, and Blonde Ambition"
Sewall Hall, Room 307
IV-C Literary History as Group Biography, or Those Murals in Barnes and Noble
Moderator: Alison Booth, University of Virginia
Alison Booth, University of Virginia
"Lifestyles of the Great and Famous"
Robert Holton, University of Virginia
"Keeping the Beat: A Prolegomenon to Beat Prosopography"
Sewall Hall, Room 309
IV-D Ralph Ellison's Essays and the Fiction of National Narratives
Moderator: Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Alan Nadel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"The Dark Narrative of a Conscious Nation: Ralph Ellison's Essays and the Return of the American Repressed"
Donald Pease, Dartmouth College
"Ellison's Burkean Narrative and Richard Wright's 'Socially Symbolic Action'"
Hortense Spillers, Cornell University
"Juneteenth and the Man at Chehaw Station"
Respondent: Patrick O'Donnell, Michigan State University
Humanities Building, Room 119
IV-E Authorship, Masculinity, and Class Crisis
Moderator: Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri-Columbia
Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri-Columbia
"The White (Collar) Man's Burden, or Class Politics in The Shining"
David Anthony, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
"Libel, Libertines, and Racism in Tabloid Sensationalism: George Washington Dixon and the Polyanthos Case"
John Evelev, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
"Pierre and the Pains of Professionalism"
Jeffrey R. Williams, University of Missouri-Columbia
"Reconstruction, Rape, and Race: Rehabilitation and (Re)presentation of the Black Male Body in Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition"
Keck Hall, Room 101
IV-F Games
Moderator: Scott Derrick, Rice University
Bonnie Blackwell, Texas Christian University
"The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Narrative"
Sharon Diane Nell, Texas Tech University
"The Tell-Tale Couch: The Dangers of Narrative Diversion in Crébillon's Sopha"
Daniel Punday, Purdue University-Calumet
"Fiction and Game in Contemporary Narrative"
Michael Scham, St. John's University/College of St. Benedict
"Tennis, Chess, Manuscripts, and Gardens: The Ludic Principle in Cervantes and Nabokov"
Sewall Hall, Room 303
IV-G Modernism and the New Media: Then and Now
Moderator: Mark Wollaeger, Vanderbilt University
Mark Wollaeger, Vanderbilt University
"New Media and the Emergence of Modernism"
Karin E. Westman, Kansas State University
"'For Her Generation the Newspaper Was a Book': Media, Mediation, and Transformation in Woolf's Between the Acts"
Richard Grusin, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Screen Space, Collage, and the Remediation of Modernism"
Keck Hall, Room 105
IV-H Acoustic Victorians
Moderator: Ivan Kreilkamp, University of Chicago
Ivan Kreilkamp, University of Chicago
"'Done to Death': Dickens and the Impersonation of Narrative"
John Picker, Harvard University
"'What the Waves Were Always Saying': Volumes, Voices, Dombey and Son"
Kay Young, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Middlemarch and the Problem of Other Minds Heard"
Respondent: John Plotz, Johns Hopkins University
Keck Hall, Room 107
IV-I Repetition, Gender, Desire
Moderator: Robyn Warhol, University of Vermont
Corrinne Harol, University of Utah
"Crimes against Narrative: Virginity, Repetition, and Perversion in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure"
David Mazella, University of Houston
"Repetition, Sentiment, and Masculinity in Mackenzie and Smollett"
Lorri Nandrea, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
"Desiring Difference in Repetition: From Sterne to Charlotte Brontë"
Valerie Rohy, Bowling Green State University
"'Ligeia' and the Will to Narrative"

12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. LUNCH (Boxed lunch with advance order) Sewall Hall Gallery Lobby

1:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
Panel Session V
Humanities Building, Room 117
V-A Contemporary Narratology II: Insiders, Outsiders, and Narrative Ethics
Moderator: Brian McHale, West Virginia University
James Phelan, Ohio State University
"Technique and Ethics in Autobiography: Angela's Ashes and 'Tis"
Elizabeth Preston, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
"Disillusions/Dissolutions of Race: James Weldon Johnson as Career Author"
Michal Peled Ginsburg, Northwestern University
"Speaking in Tongues: On the Narrative Function of a National Language"
Sewall Hall, Room 305
V-B Containing Bodies: Identity, Narrative, Resistance
Moderator: Diane Price Herndl, New Mexico State University
Robert McRuer, New Mexico State University
"Capitalism and Disabled Identity: AIDS, Homelessness, and Queer Domesticity"
Abby Wilkerson, New Mexico State University
"The Sick and the Queer: Memoir and the Possibility of Oppositional Subjectivity"
Diane Price Herndl, New Mexico State University
"Our Breasts, Ourselves: Negotiating Identity in Cancer Autobiography"
Ann Folwell Stanford, New Mexico State University
"'Wishing I Could Count the Stars': Identity, Testimony, and Resistance"
Sewall Hall, Room 307
V-C Picturing Narrative
Moderator: Eileen Cleere, Southwestern University
Eileen Cleere, Southwestern University
"Brown Studies: Painting and Pestilence in Victorian Fiction"
Marcy J. Dinius, Northwestern University
"America in Black and White: The Daguerreotype, Sentimentality, and Narrative Realism in Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Deborah Harter, Rice University
"Erotic Portraits: Balzac and the Aesthetics of Perfection"
Lisa Siraganian, Johns Hopkins University
"A Gaping Vortex? Turning Wyndham Lewis's Painting Theory into Novelistic Practice"
Sewall Hall, Room 309
V-D Cinematic Narrative and the Politics of Figure
Moderator: Lee Edelman, Tufts University
Lee Edelman, Tufts University
"Chinatown's Disfiguration"
Rebecca Walkowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Face to Face: Mrs. Dalloway in Cinema"
Madhavi Menon, Ithaca College
"Same Old, Same Old: Shakespeare in Love and the Ideology of Difference"
Paul Morrison, Brandeis University
"Face Value: Sunset Boulevard and the Ideology of Love"
Humanities Building, Room 119
V-E Filmic Borders, Filmic Limits
Moderator: Susan Lurie, Rice University
Ruth D. Johnston, Pace University
"The Dis-articulation of Classical Narrative Cinema in Singin' in the Rain and Radio Days"
Susan Lurie, Rice University
"Alien Patrol: The Ethnic (as) Police in 1990s U.S. Films"
Jeffrey Pence, Oberlin College
"The End: Narrative Cinema and Eschatology"
Keck Hall, Room 101
V-F Narrative and Temporal Affect
Moderator: Jesse Matz, Harvard University
Jay Dickson, University of Tennessee
"Paul Scott's Nostalgia"
Jennifer Fleissner, University of California, Los Angeles
"History's Unnarratable Details: The Bostonians and Feminism as Fad"
Ingrid Geerken-Nilsson, Harvard University
"George Eliot's Regret"
David Michael Robinson, University of Arizona
"Bummers, Downers, and Killjoys: Mid-Eighteenth-Century Anti-Benevolist Narratives"
Respondent: Jesse Matz, Harvard University
Sewall Hall, Room 303
V-G Houston, a Major Center of the Literary Arts: The Nuts and Bolts of Inventing Contemporary Narrative Production
Moderator: José Aranda, Rice University
Roundtable Discussion by
José Aranda, Rice University
Tony Diaz, Director of Nuestra Palabra
Nicolás Kanellos, Director of Arte Público and Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project-University of Houston
Rich Levy, Director of Inprint-University of Houston
Keck Hall, Room 105
V-H Postcolonial India
Moderator: Brinda Roy
Stephen da Silva, Independent Scholar
"Tridib's Gastric: The Contradictory Effects of Narrative Perversity in The Shadow Lines"
Sangita Gopal, Old Dominion University
"(Third) Histories and a Return to Realism"
Betty Joseph, Rice University
"Globalization and the Anglophone Novel: Narrative Emergences in the New World Order"
Keck Hall, Room 107
V-I Narrating Early Modern History
Moderator: Ayse Celikkol, Rice University
Carla Boyer, University of Dallas
"When a Chill Makes History: Historical Scale Adjusted in the Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois"
Regina Schneider, Lincoln College-Oxford
"'But Coming to Arsileus Again': Point of View in Montemayor's Diana"
Susan Isabel Stein, Texas Tech University
"Sor Juana and Santa Cruz: The Bishop's Slip of the Tongue-Lashing"
Eric Vaccarella, Texas Tech University
"Echoes of Resistance: Narrative Styling and Pro-Indian Discourse in El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's La Florida del Inca"

3:15 p.m.-3:30 p.m. COFFEE Sewall Hall Gallery Foyer

3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Panel Session VI
Humanities Building, Room 117
VI-A Narratives of the Gene Age
Moderator: Dennis Flannery, Vanderbilt University/University of Leeds
Priscilla Wald, Duke University
"Carrier Narratives: From 'Typhoid Mary' to 'African Eve'"
Susan McHugh, Georgia Institute of Technology
"'Neither Animal nor Man': Transgenic Eugenics in The Island of Dr. Moreau"
Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University
"Crimes of the Genome: Philip Kerr's A Philosophical Investigation and the Gene for Violence"
Sewall Hall, Room 305
VI-B Interiorities and Superficialities
Moderator: Robyn Warhol, University of Vermont
Sabrina Barton, University of Texas at Austin
"'She Does Things': Why It's All Right for Sophisticated Feminist Critics to Like Strong Female Characters"
Esther Rashkin, University of Utah
"From Star Trek to Ally McBeal: Narrating the End of Psychoanalysis"
Robyn Warhol, University of Vermont
"'But Do I Really Feel the Way I Feel?': A Performative Model of Narrative Affect"
Sewall Hall, Room 307
VI-C Queering the Latino Male Mystique
Moderator: Priscilla Ybarra, Rice University
Stephen Knadler, Spelman College
"Queering Atzlan, Mestiz-ing Queer Theory: Arturo Islas's The Rain God"
Charli Valdez, University of Houston
"The Terrain of the Latino Body"
Keja Valens, Harvard University
"Between Lucía Jerez and Sol de la Valle: Re-reading Martí's Narrative of National Foundation in the Light of 'El Poeta Walt Whitman'"
Sewall Hall, Room 309
VI-D Criminal Jews
Moderator: Marilyn Reizbaum, Bowdoin College
Marilyn Reizbaum, Bowdoin College
"Cesare Lombroso and Just a Few Bad Seeds"
Aviva Briefel, Bowdoin College
"Illusory Idols/Sacred Objects: The Fake in Freud's 'The Moses of Michelangelo'"
Joseph Litvak, Tufts University
"Unfashionable"
Humanities Building, Room 119
VI-E "Examining Un-German Narratives": Language, Memory, and the Question of the Second World War
Moderator: Brad Prager, University of Missouri-Columbia
Kristina Busse, Tulane University
"How German Is It? Forgetting the Trauma/Re-covering the Past"
Brad Prager, University of Missouri-Columbia
"'A Curiously Extraterritorial Place': Memory and History in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants"
Neil Levi, Columbia University
"Contaminations: Klemperer Remembers the Third Reich"
Keck Hall, Room 101
VI-F Failed Fictions: Totalizing Narratives in the Postmodern Novel
Moderator: John Su, Marquette University
John Su, Marquette University
"Epics of Failure: Imagining India in Salman Rushdie's Midnight Children"
Luc Herman, University of Antwerp
"Gravity's Encyclopedia Revisited"
Respondent: Cynthia Petrites, Princeton University
Sewall Hall, Room 303
VI-G Bodies at Rest
Moderator: Mary Stripling, Rice University
Michael Blackie, University of Southern California
"Seeing the Rest-Cured Body: The 'Faint-Figure' between Charlotte P. Gilman and S. Weir Mitchell"
Carolyn Lesjak, Swarthmore College
"On the Making of the Middle Class: Visions of Banality and the Disappearance of Work in Dickens's Great Expectations"
Karen Odden, New York University
"'Reading Coolly' in John Marchmont's Legacy: Reconsidering M. E. Braddon's Legacy"
Keck Hall, Room 105
VI-H Tragic Women
Moderator: Rita Felski, University of Virginia
Rita Felski, University of Virginia
"Tragic Women"
Janet Lyon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Modernist Naturalism and the Tragic Woman"
Carole Anne Taylor, Bates College
"'It's She Who Owns the Terror': What to Do with Modern Ghosts"
Keck Hall, Room 107
VI-I Narratives of the Sacred
Moderator: Mary Zimmer, Rice University
Charlotte Berkowitz, University of Houston
"'Who Told You That You Are Naked?': Cixousian Theory and the Torah's Narrative Voice"
Nancy Clasby, University of Miami-Coral Gables
"Saving Baby Moses: Towards a New Typology"
Amy J. Elias, University of Alabama-Birmingham
"Narratology, Narrative Fiction, and the Sacred"
PLENARY C
5:15 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
Physics Amphitheater
Introduction: Lynne Huffer, Rice University
Speaker: Barbara Johnson, Harvard University
"Bringing Out D. A. Miller"
Respondent: Franco Moretti, Stanford University

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Saturday, March 10, 2001 7:45 a.m.-8:15 a.m. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Sewall Hall Gallery Foyer

8:15 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
Panel Session VII
Humanities Building, Room 117
VII-A Contemporary Narratology III: Sequence, Reliability, Narrative
Moderator: Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania
Uri Margolin, University of Alberta
"Layering of Discourses, Layering of Times"
Tamar Yacobi, Tel-Aviv University
"(Un)Reliability, Time, and Subjective Point of View"
Emma Kafalenos, Washington University
"Oxymoronic Focalization: Narrativity and the Representation of the Desires That Motivate Trajectories"
Sewall Hall, Room 305
VII-B Jane Austen
Moderator: Ginny Lane, Rice University
Pamela S. Bromberg, Simmons College
"'Medley' versus Storytelling: Miss Bates as Counter-Narrator in Emma"
Dara Rossman Regaignon, William Paterson University
"Managing Lizzy: Maternal Authority and the Narrative Strategy of Pride and Prejudice"
Hilary M. Schor, University of Southern California
"Emma, Interrupted: Speaking Jane Austen in Novel and Film"
Humanities Building, Room 119
VII-C Gender/Race/Sexuality: Narratives Before and After the Holocaust
Moderator: Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College
Irene Kacandes, Dartmouth College
"Narratives of/for Destruction: Feminizing, Sexualizing, and Racializing 'Others' in the Late-Weimar and Early-Third-Reich Periods"
Cynthia Merrill, University of California, Los Angeles
"Charlotte Delbo's Useless Knowledge: Narrative Intersubjectivity after Auschwitz"
Sewall Hall, Room 307
VII-D The Medical Case History and Literary Narrative
Moderator: Meegan Kennedy, Trinity College, Hartford
Paul W. Child, Sam Houston State University
"George Cheyne's The Case of the Author as Spiritual Autobiography"
Meegan Kennedy, Trinity College, Hartford
"Medical Vision and the Novel of Sensibility"
Jason Tougaw, American University
"Narrating Hypochondriacs"
Sewall Hall, Room 309
VII-E Telling Lives: Varieties of Victorian Autobiography
Moderator: Janice Carlisle, Tulane University
Linda H. Peterson, Yale University
"Edited Auto/biography: Whose Narrative? Whose Ideology?"
Janice Carlisle, Tulane University
"Factory Lives"
Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Boston College
"The Autobiographical Passion of Edith Simcox"
Humanities Building, Room 118
VII-F Postmodernism, Violence, and Responsibility
Moderator: Susan Lurie, Rice University
Denis Jonnes, Kyushu University
"Trauma, Mourning, and the Reconstruction of American Adolescence: Salinger's Catcher in the Rye in Cold War Context"
Joseph M. McGeary, Duke University
"Cold War Liberalism and the New Imperial Narrative: The Fictions of Robert Stone and Don DeLillo"
Sharon Stockton, Dickinson College
"Rape and Postmodern Narrative--Pynchon and Barth"
Sewall Hall, Room 303
VII-G Strategies of Reception, Dialogue, and (Re-)creation: Kafka, Robbe-Grillet, Morrison
Moderator: William H. Clamurro, Emporia State University
Gary Lee Baker, Denison University
"Discourse of ''Shock' and 'Abandonment': Reading Kafka in the Late 1940s"
Ryan D. Shafer, Ohio State University
"Robbe-Grillet and Kafka: A Phantasmal Paternity"
Hans B. Lofgren, University of Göteborg
"The Past, Purity, and Paradise"
Keck Hall, Room 101
VII-H Narrating Nomads
Moderator: Eileen Cleere, Southwestern University
Stacy Burton, University of Nevada-Reno
"Mere Trippers: Flânerie and Parody in Modern Travel Narrative"
A. C. Goodson, Michigan State University
"Constructing the City of Saturn"
Silvia G. Kurlat Ares, George Mason University
"Narratives of the Nomadic Intellectual: Nationalism, Cultural Market, and Globalization from a Southern Cone Perspective"
Keck Hall, Room 107
VII-I Masculinities
Moderator: Richard C. Cante, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James S. Miller, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
"White Collars and White Skin: Race, Masculinity, and the Formation of the Middlebrow"
Erin Redfern, Northwestern University
"Pathology of a Party: John Steinbeck's Cannery Row"
Rebecca Stern, Ball State University
"'Where's My Puss?': Male Desire and Marriage Plotting in Victorian England"

9:45 a.m.-10:00 a.m. COFFEE Sewall Hall Gallery Foyer

10:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Panel Session VIII
Humanities Building, Room 117
VIII-A Attending, Seeing, Knowing: Science and Narrative Consumption, 1720-1890
Moderator: Nicholas Dames, Columbia University
Nicholas Dames, Columbia University
"Attention, Reader: Distraction, Absorption, and the Victorian Reader"
Amy Mae King, California Institute of Technology
"Perception and Natural History; or, How to Know What You See in Adam Bede"
Gabrielle Starr, New York University
"Mental Imagery in the Eighteenth Century: The Language of Swift and Defoe"
Sewall Hall, Room 305
VIII-B Queerness and Narrativity
Moderator: Deborah Needleman Armintor, Rice University
Matthew Bell, Tufts University
"Another Country's Telling Failure"
Richard C. Cante, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Inter-National Gay Maleness and the Narrative Topographies of Art Cinema(s) since HIV"
Deborah Needleman Armintor, Rice University
"Mammy, Mommy, Lover, Maid: The Surrogate Family Romance in Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life"
Keck Hall, Room 101
VIII-C Historiographies
Moderator: Carol Quillen, Rice University
Michael Moore, University of Houston
"Historical Consciousness in the Royal Frankish Annals"
Frank Palmeri, University of Miami
"Hume, Rousseau, Nietzsche: From Conjectural History to Genealogy"
Harvey Yunis, Rice University
"Narrative, Speeches, and Ethical Instruction in Thucydides"
Sewall Hall, Room 307
VIII-D Technologies of Gender Identity
Moderator: Sarah Ellenzweig, Rice University
Carol Colatrella, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Feminist Narratives of Science and Technology: Artificial Life and True Love in Eve of Destruction and Making Mr. Right"
Kevin Kehrwald, Purdue University
"Whorls and Whirlwinds: Drafting a Connection between Weather Maps and Fingerprints"
Leah Price, Harvard University
"Stenographic Masculinity"
Sewall Hall, Room 309
VIII-E Dialogue and World-Making in Fiction, Fact, and Film
Moderator: Cheryl Nixon, Babson College
Cheryl Nixon, Babson College
"Dialogue on Trial: Recording the Eighteenth-Century Legal Case as Fiction"
Susan Ferguson, Whitman College
"The Scandalous 'Quote' in Late-Nineteenth-Century News"
Michael Kearns, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
"Naturalization by Means of Dialogue in Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Usual Suspects"
Humanities Building, Room 119
VIII-F Structures of Romance
Moderator: Shirley Stave, Louisiana Scholar's College
George Boulukos, Oberlin College
"The Origin and Progress of the History of the Novel: A Critique of the 'Rise of a Novel' Thesis"
Margaret Bruzelius, Smith College
"Weird Archaeology: W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn and John Buchan's Huntingtower"
Steven J. Sherwood, University of California, Los Angeles
"The Wound and Its Magic: The Cultural Construction of the American Artist in Discourse and Narrative"
Sewall Hall, Room 303
VIII-G Cyber-Narrations and Hypertexts
Moderator: Marshall Armintor, Rice University
Lisa Baird, Texas Christian University
"The Narrative in Cyberspace"
Henry James Butler, University of Florida
"Cyber-Narrative Voyeur to Participant: The Role of Fabula"
Jennifer Vasil Deaton, University of New Orleans
"'What Stunning Conjuring Tricks': House of Leaves as a Hypertextual Evolution of Pale Fire"
Everdeen Tree, trAce Online Writing Community
"Collaborative Imagining on the Web: Connected or Coherent Narratives?"
Keck Hall, Room 105
VIII-H Postcolonial Francophonie
Moderator: Deborah A. Harter, Rice University
Marie-Pierre Caquot Baggett, South Dakota State University
"Sexuality and Nationalism: Filmic Representation of Colonial Algeria"
Estelle Tarica, University of California, Berkeley
"Creoleness Out of Time: Schwarz-Bart's Telumée against Colonial History"
Humanities Building, Room 226
VIII-I Telephone Wires and Matrices
Moderator: Betty Joseph, Rice University
Martin Danahay, University of Texas at Arlington
"Hypercapitalism and The Matrix"
Ellen Lee McCallum, Michigan State University
"Neotechnostalgia"
Ned Schantz, University of Southern California
"Telephonic Film"

12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. BUSINESS LUNCH AT WARWICK HOTEL (for those with full registration) Shuttles leave from Sewall Hall beginning at 11:30 a.m.

2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Panel Session IX
Humanities Building, Room 117
IX-A Carving out a Writerly Life within Academe
Moderator: José Aranda, Rice University
Readings by
E. Douglas Mitchell, Rice University
Marsha Recknagel, Rice University
Susan Wood, Rice University
Sewall Hall, Room 305
IX-B Homes, Houses, and Memory
Moderator: Ann Kennedy, Rice University
Lori Jacobson, SUNY at Buffalo
"Housekeeping with Bare Walls: Interpreting Home in the Captivity Narrative of Mary Rowlandson"
Eleanor Kaufman, University of Virginia
"Rebellion in the Family? Jewish Women Homesteaders at the Turn of the Century"
Victoria Rosner, Texas A&M University
"'Life within Walls': Bloomsbury and the Architecture of Life-Writing"
Maria Rubins, Rice University
"Andreï Makine's Retrospective Narratives and the Proustian Tradition"
Keck Hall, Room 101
IX-C Narratives of British Identity
Moderator: Duncan Hasell, Rice University
Nicola Pitchford, Fordham University
"The (Identity) Politics of Passion in Kureishi's Black Album"
Ryan S. Trimm, Florida International University
"Keeping It Real; or, Narrative and Authenticity in The French Lieutenant's Woman"
Richard Zumkhawala-Cook, Kenyon College
"Pickled Folk: Nineteenth-Century Book Culture and the Invention of the Scottish Highlands"
Sewall Hall, Room 307
IX-D Edelman's "Kid Stuff"
Moderator: Caroline Levander, Rice University
Susan Fraiman, University of Virginia
"Queer Theory and the Second Sex"
Casey McKittrick, University of Texas at Austin
"Our Future Is Child's Play: The Pedagogical Narrative in Taxi Zum Klo"
Respondent: Caroline Levander, Rice University
Sewall Hall, Room 309
IX-E Showing by Telling: Circulating Value in Mid-Victorian Fiction
Moderator: Judith Stoddart, Michigan State University
John Plotz, Johns Hopkins University
"Jewels Out of the Crown: Portable Diamonds in The Moonstone and The Eustace Diamonds"
Audrey Jaffe, Ohio State University
"Trollope in the Stock Market: Irrational Exuberance and The Prime Minister"
Judith Stoddart, Michigan State University
"Counterfeit Value: Simulating Sentiment in Collins"
Sheila Teahan, Michigan State University
"The Traffic in Pictures: Publicity and Authenticity in James's Neglected Last Novel"
Humanities Building, Room 119
IX-F Revising, Recycling, Rereading
Moderator: Jan Hewitt, Rice University
Andreea D. Boboc, University of Michigan
"Competing Discourses in W. H. Auden's The Shield of Achilles"
Beth A. Boehm, University of Louisville
"'To All the Big and Little Boys Who Read': Two Women's Narrative Revisions of Masculine Romances by Stevenson and Haggard"
Christina Milletti, SUNY at Albany
"'No Sooner Said than Dung': Christine Brooke Rose's Recycled Words"
Laura Mooneyham White, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"The Gulf between Courtship and 'Shagging': Jane Austen as Reactionary Cultural Icon in Helen Fielding's Narratives of Bridget Jones"
Sewall Hall, Room 303
IX-G Go There to Know There: Narrative Epistemologies of Anthropology, Mysticism, Trauma
Moderator: Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University
Alicia Kent, Bowling Green State University
"'You Got tuh Go There tuh Know There': Zora Neale Hurston's Modernist Anthropology"
Lynn C. Jennings
"Narrating the Unconscious: Mystical Movements to the Ancestral Past in Contending Forces"
Lisa Woolfork, University of Virginia
"Trauma, Time Travel, and Narrative Epistemologies in Octavia Butler's Kindred"
Keck Hall, Room 105
IX-H Deconstructed Subjects and Ideological Constructions: Forms of Social Identity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Fiction
Moderator: Dorothy J. Hale, University of California, Berkeley
Dorothy J. Hale, University of California, Berkeley
"Visible Invisibility: Authorial Self-Representation and the Development of Novel Theory in America, 1885-1940"
Florence Dore, Kent State University
"The Devastation of Character in Absalom, Absalom!: Sexualizing the Novel"
Nancy Glazener, University of Pittsburgh
"More than Adultery in the Novel"
Keck Hall, Room 107
IX-I Confrontations: Facing Race
Moderator: Cheryl Hall, University of Mississippi
Laura Callanan, Mount Holyoke College
"Reading as Revolution: Harriet Martineau's Rendering of Interpretive Dynamics in The Hour and the Man"
Jack Kerkering, Trinity University, San Antonio
"'The Habit of a Lifetime': Racial Instinct in Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson and Davenport's Blood Will Tell"
Andrew Scheiber, University of St. Thomas
"Healing and the Blues: Charles Burnett's To Sleep with Anger"

4:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. COFFEE Sewall Hall Gallery Foyer

PLENARY D
4:45 p.m.-6:15 p.m.
Physics Amphitheater
Introduction: Steven Crowell, Rice University
Speaker: Richard Shusterman, Temple University
"Art as Dramatization"
Respondent: Barbara Johnson, Harvard University

9:00 p.m.-12:00 p.m. DANCE PARTY Rice Memorial Center Grand Hall Shuttles will leave from hotels starting at 8:45 p.m. Featuring the music of Mango Punch return to top

Sunday, March 11, 2001 8:00 a.m.-8:30 a.m. CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Sewall Hall Gallery Foyer

8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Panel Session X
Humanities Building, Room 117
X-A Contemporary Narratology IV: Narrativity, Length, Genre
Moderator: James Phelan, Ohio State University
William Nelles, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
"What Makes a Very Short Story 'Very Short'?"
Brian Richardson, University of Maryland
"Margaret Atwood's Difficult Middles: On Plot after Postmodernism"
Meir Sternberg, Tel-Aviv University
"Plot Arguments: Action for a Purpose"
Sewall Hall, Room 305
X-B Teaching Narrative
Moderator: Hilary P. Dannenberg, University of Freiburg, Germany
Hilary P. Dannenberg, University of Freiburg, Germany
"Writing around the Canon: The Use of Creative Re/Writing to Teach Narrative"
Mark Noe, Texas Christian University
"Narrative in the Composition Classroom, or Why 'What I Did for Summer Vacation' Isn't Enough Anymore"
Elizabeth Shipley, University of Kiel, and Jonathan Shipley
"Engendering Narrative in the Virtual Classroom"
Natalie M. Houston, University of Houston
"Towards a Pedagogy of Serial Reading: Teaching Lady Audley's Secret"
Keck Hall, Room 101
X-C Narrative and Political Discourse
Moderator: Lynne Huffer, Rice University
Christopher Hager, Northwestern University
"Lincoln in the 1850s: Republican Restraint as Narrative Theory"
Andrew H. Miller, Indiana University
"On Envy and Victorian Liberalism"
Jeanne-Hélène Roy, University of Akron
"Fashioning Fiction(s): Rousseau's 'Discours sur l'Origine de l'Inégalité'"
Judith Holland Sarnecki, Lawrence University
"Telling Stories: The Subversion of Nazi Censorship in Sartre's No Exit and Carné's Children of Paradise"
Sewall Hall, Room 307
X-D Telling and Healing
Moderator: Lynn Voskuil, University of Houston
Lori E. Amy, Georgia Southern University
"Digital Disseminations: Changing Cultural Narratives of Memory and Identity"
Thatcher Carter, University of California, Riverside
"Medical Narratives/Cultural Stories: Tales of Breast Cancer in the Twentieth Century"
Elizabeth Hollow, CUNY Graduate Center
"'Yet Must I Resolve Again?': Chronic Wanting and Serial Suffering in Boswell and Johnson"
Susanna Lee, Georgetown University
Regeneration and Miracle in Zola's Lourdes
Sewall Hall, Room 309
X-E African Identities
Moderator: Elias Bongmba, Rice University
Elias Bongmba, Rice University
"Negative Theology: Nawal El Sadadawi on The Innocence of the Devil, or Lessons for a Christian Theologian"
Jan van Luxemburg, University of Amsterdam
"Reading South Africa: Coetzee and Van Niekerk"
Louise Viljoen, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Gendered Space in the Narratives of Male Authors in Afrikaans
Keck Hall, Room 105
X-F Narrating the Un-narratable: Holocaust Memoirs
Moderator: Rafael Merida-Jimenez, Rice University
Frederick Laughlin Ashe, Birmingham-Southern College
"'Our Private Stories': Maus and Micronarrative"
Michelle Erickson, New York University
"When Seeing Is Not Believing: Authorial Self-Representation in Literary Holocaust Testimony"
Dana Shiller, Washington and Jefferson College
"'You Can Always Say Everything': Semprin's Hybrid Holocaust Memoir"
Keck Hall, Room 107
X-G Postmodern Strategies
Moderator: Caroline Levander, Rice University
Chris Haven, University of Houston
"The Ordering Imagination: Aristotle Encounters Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato"
Linda Raphael, George Washington University
"The Ambiguous Role of Zuckerman in Philip Roth's American Pastoral"
Sherry Lutz Zivley, University of Houston
"Phenomenology and Modernism in Don Barthelme's Snow White"

10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. COFFEE Sewall Hall Gallery Foyer

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Session XI
Humanities Building, Room 117
XI-A Vulgarity
Moderator: Elsie B. Michie, Louisiana State University
Ronald Thomas, Trinity College, Hartford
"Making a Spectacle of Yourself: Vulgarity, Aestheticism, and the History of Moving Pictures in The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Susan Bernstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Visibility Traps: Jewish Vulgarity in Trollope, Eliot, and Levy"
Beth Newman, Southern Methodist University
"In Praise of Vulgar Women: Challenges to Femininity in Cranford and Miss Marjoribanks"
Elsie B. Michie, Louisiana State University
"Vulgar Squandering: Trollope's Heiresses and the Credit Economy"
Sewall Hall, Room 305
XI-B Economics/Speculations
Moderator: Lynn Voskuil, University of Houston
Diane Brunner, Michigan State University
"Narratives of Consumption: DeBeers and the Logic of Late Capitalism"
Daniel Hack, SUNY at Buffalo
"Prophet and Profit in Daniel Deronda"
Tara McGann, Columbia University
"City Limits: The Borders between the Novelistic and Economic in Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now"
Annette Van, Brown University
"Women in Risk Management: Speculation and Faith in Olive and Jane Eyre"
Keck Hall, Room 101
XI-C Gendering Genres
Moderator: Michelle A. Massé, Louisiana State University
Alcena Rogan, Louisiana State University
"Engendering a New Genre: Feminist Revisions of Science Fiction"
Anna Nardo, Louisiana State University
"George Eliot's Epic Aspirations and Performance"
Michelle A. Massé, Louisiana State University
"Detecting Gender: The Case of Louisa May Alcott"
Sewall Hall, Room 307
XI-D Figuring Marriage
Moderator: Janna Smartt Chance, Rice University
Janna Smartt Chance, Rice University
"Femininity and Consent in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park"
Kate E. Brown, Emory University
"Felicities of Fiction: Marital Acts in Jane Eyre"
Ed Madden, University of South Carolina
"The Narrative of Gay Marriage: Nation, Sexuality, and Reproduction in A Better Angel"
Sewall Hall, Room 309
XI-E Victorian Men and the Other
Moderator: Anne Dayton, Rice University
Genie Babb, University of Alaska-Anchorage
"Beyond Consciousness: Structures of Embodiment in R. L. Stevenson's The Ebbtide"
Anne Dayton, Rice University
"Famine, Marriage, and Blackmail in Trollope's Castle Richmond"
Molly Youngkin, Ohio State University
"Narrative Discourse and 'Woman's Agency' in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure"
Humanities Building, Room 119
XI-F Sentimental Specialization
Moderator: John Marx, University of Richmond
Cathy Shuman, Modern Language Association
"The Summons of Truth and the Clerical Career"
Jennifer Ruth, Portland State University
"Suburban Professionals"
John Marx, University of Richmond
"Picturesque Authenticity"
Nicholas Daly, Trinity College, Dublin
"It"
Keck Hall, Room 105
XI-G Gay and Lesbian Stories of Self-Creation
Moderator: Colleen Lamos, Rice University
Margot Gayle Backus, University of Houston
"'I Am Your Mother; She Was a Carrying Case': Narrating Adoption in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"
Colleen Lamos, Rice University
"The Love That Refused to Speak Its Name: Woolf's Between the Acts"
LaTissia Mitchell, University of Michigan
"Grave Identities: Narrative, Gay Male Identity, and the Queer Space of Death in Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits"
Keck Hall, Room 107
XI-H Resisting Master Narratives
Moderator: Mary Lou Kete, University of Vermont
Laura J. Beard, Texas Tech University
"Not Just Her Personal Story: Bobbi Lee: Indian Rebel as Testimonial Literature"
Andrea Dimino, University of South Florida
"A School Bus of One's Own: Oppositional Structure in Welty's Losing Battles"
Jeff Karem, Cleveland State University
"Rhetorics of Authenticity in Contemporary American Ethnic Fiction"
Beth A. McCoy, SUNY at Geneseo
"Alluring Cites: Paratextuality and African American Narrative"

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