April 8, 2016. Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319 (except where noted).
9:00-9:15. INTRODUCTIONS
9:15-10:30. PANEL 1: Counterplots
Julia Cheng (New York University), “Queering Lists: Culinary and Literary Modernism in The Book of Salt”
Christopher Berardino (Cornell University), “Paper Sons: Counter-Authentication in Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone and Helena Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus”
Cynthia García (Stanford University), “‘They Must Agree to Forget’: Urban Counter-Cartographies in Chicanx Literature and Public Art”
Panel Chair: Courtney Sato (Yale, American Studies)
Panel Respondent: Yuhe Faye Wang (Yale, American Studies)
10:30-11:45. PANEL 2: Soundscapes and Visual Fields
Mason Jabbari (University of Michigan), “‘Art “copying from life” and life itself’: Klee’s Influence in Bishop’s Late Poems”
Shawn M. Higgins (University of Connecticut), “The Land of the Painted Fan: Orientalist Soundscapes, Barred Zones, and Raymond Egan’s Japan”
Michele Chinitz (City University of New York, Graduate Center), “Affect, the Arts, and Displacement in Teju Cole’s Open City”
Panel Chair: Brandon Menke (Yale, English Literature)
Panel Respondent: Anna Hill (Yale, English Literature)
12:00-1:00. RESEARCH WORKSHOP, Beinecke Classroom in Sterling Memorial Library
Melissa Barton, Curator of Prose and Drama for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library
1:00-2:00. LUNCH AND PUBLICATION WORKSHOP
Gordon Hutner, Editor, American Literary History
2:00-3:15. PANEL 3: Plurality of Worlds
Tim Sommer (University of Heidelberg), “Orestes Brownson and the World Republic of Letters”
Nora Eltahawy (Northwestern University), “Neo-Scheherazade: Transnational Storytelling and the Iraq War in Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter”
Martin Aagaard Jensen (City University of New York, Graduate Center), “Worlding Domesticity: Methodology Debates and Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom”
Panel Chair: Anusha Alles (Yale, African American Studies and English Literature)
Panel Respondent: Anna Shechtman (Yale, English Literature and Film and Media Studies)
3:15-4:30. PANEL 4: Generic Variations
Joshua Bartlett (University at Albany, SUNY), “‘Then thro’ the wilderness I’ll run / Preaching the gospel free’: Samson Occom’s Hymnodic Ecology”
Mollie Eisenberg (Princeton University), “‘Not That Kind of Story’: The American Hardboiled’s Anxiety of (British) Influence”
Sophia Mao (Harvard University), “Different Lives: The Rise of Asian American Genre Fiction”
Panel Chair: Carlos Alonso Nugent (Yale, English Literature)
Panel Respondent: Andrew Lanham (Yale, English Literature)
4:30-5:30. SCHOLARS AS WRITERS WORKSHOP
Stephen Burt, Poet and Professor of English at Harvard University
5:30-6:30. RECEPTION