April 7, 2017. Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 319 (except where noted).
9:00-9:15. INTRODUCTIONS by the Conference Organizing Committee.
9:15-10:30. PANEL 1: Diasporas and Vernaculars
Jess Cotton (University College London), “‘Migratory passings to and fro’: Wallace Stevens, Picasso and Multiple Forms of Nothing”
Jeremy Miller (University of Arizona), “Unincorporated Territory: Rethinking Postcoloniality Through Craig Santos Perez”
Christofer A. Rodelo (Harvard University), “Exhibiting Latinx: Maximo and Bartola, Travel Narratives, and the Aesthetic Brown Body”
Panel Chair: Courtney Sato (Yale, American Studies)
Panel Respondent: Cera Smith (Yale, African American Studies and English Literature)
10:30-11:45. PANEL 2: Vulnerabilities and Surveillance
Aaron Coleman (Washington University in St. Louis), “Necessary Apparitions: Supernatural Access Points into Radical Vulnerability”
C. O. Grossman (Stanford University), “The ‘Difficult Miracle’ of State-Funded Poetry”
John James (Georgetown University), “Poetry of Surveillance in the Middle Eastern Diaspora: Philip Metres’ Sand Opera and Solmaz Sharif’s Look”
Panel Chair: Anusha Alles (Yale, African American Studies and English Literature)
Panel Respondent: Shayne McGregor (Yale, English Literature)
12:00-1:00. RESEARCH WORKSHOP, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript 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
Wai Chee Dimock, Editor, PMLA
Jordan Brower, Co-editor, American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (Columbia, 2017)
Edgar Garcia, Co-editor, American Literature in the World: An Anthology from Anne Bradstreet to Octavia Butler (Columbia, 2017)
2:00-3:15. PANEL 3: Macro Players
Simona Schneider (University of California, Berkeley), “Walt Whitman’s ‘Salut au Monde!’ in the World”
Sara Gabler Thomas (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “Derek Walcott at Standing Rock: The Indigenous Archipelagic Americas”
Panel Chair: Carlos Alonso Nugent (Yale, English Literature)
Panel Respondent: Maryam Ivette Parhizkar (Yale, African American Studies and American Studies)
3:15-4:30. PANEL 4: World Curation
Wendi Bootes (University of California, Berkeley), “The Optics of Marginality: Langston Hughes, Dziga Vertov, and the Uzbek Unveiling Campaign”
Matthew Holman (University College London), “‘in Spain they said nothing for foreigners’: Frank O’Hara in Madrid”
Hayley O’Malley (University of Michigan), “Museums, Movies, and Toni Morrison: Bridging Worlds at the Louvre and in Home”
Panel Chair: Brandon Menke (Yale, English Literature)
Panel Respondent: Tobi Haslett (Yale, English Literature)
4:30-5:30. RECEPTION