9:30-10:45. NATIVES AND MIGRANTS
Sarah Matherly (Princeton), “The Art of Removal”
Daniel Vallela (UC Berkeley), “Daniel Venegas’s Early Chicano Transnationalism”
Liz Janssen (Washington U), “Recent Immigrant Fiction in U.S. Reviews”
Respondent: Edgar Garcia
11:00-12:15. BILINGUALISMS
Nicholas Rinehart (Harvard), “Creole Folklore, the Federal Writers’ Project, and the Francophone Equiano”
Kristin Moriah (CUNY), “Onkel Toms Hutte: German Inversions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin“
Jordan Wingate (UCLA), “Washington Irving and the Columbian Americas”
Respondent: Jordan Brower
12:15-1:30 LUNCH AND PUBLICATION WORKSHOP
Gordon Hutner, Editor, American Literary History
1:30-2:45 ETHNOGRAPHIES OF MATERIAL LIFE
Corey Johnson (Stanford), “Material Effects: Queequeg as an Ethnographic Subject”
Stephan Kuhl (Goethe U, Frankfurt), “Richard Wright on White America and West Africa”
Stephanie Tsank (Iowa), “Authentic Cuisine and Global Citizenship: Kiran Desai”
Respondent: Tao Goffe
3:00-4:15 THE ENVIRONMENTAL TURN
John Easterbrook (NYU), “The Atlantick Rivers”
Alexei Nowak (UCLA), “The trans-Pacific debate on rural modernity: Pearl Buck”
Jenn Shapland (UT Austin), “Imagined Arctics”
Respondent: Anusha Alles
4:30-5:30 SCHOLARS AS WRITERS WORKSHOP
Lan Samantha Chang, Director, The Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Harry Stecopoulos, Editor, The Iowa Review (via Skype)
Richard Deming, Director of Creative Writing, Yale University
5:30-6:30 RECEPTION