Gordon Hutner is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the Founding Editor of American Literary History (Oxford University Press). He is the author most recently of What America Read: Taste, Class, and the Novel, 1920-1960 (U of North Carolina Press, 2009). He has written numerous articles and edited several collections and anthologies, as well as an edition of Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt (Oxford UP, 2010). hutner@illinois.edu
Panelists
Angela S. Allan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at Brown University. She is currently writing a dissertation on “Neoliberalism and the Novel: Postmodernism and the Value of Literature,” which provides a literary and cultural history of the rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s-1990s. Angela_Allan@brown.edu
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Hadji Bakara is a doctoral student at the University of Chicago. He studies the literary, political, and intellectual history of the global Cold War. His presentation is drawn from a still nascent dissertation project tentatively titled, The Lettered City of Man: World Literature, World Government, and the Global Cold War, which will explore the interlocking projects of liberal internationalism and the globalization of what Lionel Trilling called the “liberal imagination.” hbakara@uchicago.edu
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Oliver Baker is a PhD student of American Literary Studies at the University of New Mexico. He has research interests in American literature since 1865, Native American Literature, Western American Literature, and Marxist Critical Theory. woliverb@unm.edu
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Ben Bascom is a PhD student in the English department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he studies eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature, museum institutions, and the sociocultural meanings of solitude. He has published on print culture and Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose and the eighteenth-century American inventor of the steamboat and federalist political ideology. bascom1@illinois.edu
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Katherine Bishop is a doctoral candidate at the University of Iowa, where she specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, book history, and formalism. She is currently completing her dissertation, “War in the Margins: Illustrating Anti-Imperialism in American Culture.” Her work has recently appeared in The Mark Twain Annual and Antennae: the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. katherine-bishop@uiowa.edu
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Marvin Campbell is a PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Virginia with research interests in theories of lyric, American modernism, and 20th century poetry broadly. His dissertation from which his presentation forms a part, “The View from Key West: Toward a Hemispheric Modernism” situates early to mid twentieth century American poetry along a hemispheric axis that dissolves national boundaries and reveals a matrix of complex aesthetic affiliations. mac3hq@virginia.edu
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Abigail Droge received her B.A. from Yale in 2012. She is currently a first year English PhD student at Stanford University with a focus on Victorian and Modern British novels. adroge@stanford.edu
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Brian Goodman is a third-year doctoral student in Harvard’s American Studies program and his primary field of study is twentieth-century American literary and cultural history, particularly in comparative and transnational perspective. He did his undergraduate work at Stanford, where he wrote his thesis on the influence of Beat literature on Czech dissident culture. Brian’s master’s research at Oxford focused on Philip Roth and counterfactual history, reflecting an ongoing interest in the links between literary form and political history. His dissertation will attempt to map the literary relationship between the U.S. and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War in order to discover what happened when writers and their work moved between supposedly free and unfree political spaces. goodman2@fas.harvard.edu
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Kate Huber will receive her Ph.D. in English from Temple University this May. She specializes in nineteenth-century and early American literature, and will be defending her dissertation, Transnational Translation: Foreign Language in the Travel Writing of Cooper, Melville, and Twain, on April 3. kate.huber@temple.edu
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Jang Wook Huh is a doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is completing his dissertation on textual and cultural interactions between African Americans and Koreans that animated a radical thought of global civil liberation from the late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. jh2735@columbia.edu
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Palmer Rampell is a second-year PhD student at Yale in the Department of English. He specializes in 19th and 20th century American literature, with a particular interest in transpacific studies. His work has appeared in New England Quarterly.
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Lindsay Van Tine is a Ph.D. Candidate in English & Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a 2013-2014 Mellon Fellow in Early American Literature and Material Texts at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. She focuses on American literatures to 1865, with research interests in Atlantic print cultures, New World historiography, and inter-American literary relations. Her dissertation, “Translated Conquests: Spanish New World History in U.S. Literature, 1823-1854,” reconstructs a network of antebellum novelists, historians, antiquarian collectors, and scholars who worked across national boundaries to unearth, translate, edit, and ultimately rewrite the history of Spanish discovery and colonization in the Americas. She has been awarded fellowships by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture at the University of Virginia. lindsay.vantine@gmail.com
Respondents
Jordan Brower is a third year Ph.D. student in English and Film at Yale University, where he is writing a dissertation on the critical literatures (both in print and on film) of the Hollywood Studio Era. Jordan is also part of the organizing committee for this conference. jordan.brower@yale.edu
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Ryan Carr is a fifth-year graduate student in the English department. His research focuses on the role played by the concept of expression in Americanist literary and cultural studies, and the history of that concept’s articulation in various nineteenth-century discourses: philology, the law, the multicultural public sphere, and literary aesthetics. ryan.carr@yale.edu
Merve Emre is a doctoral candidate at Yale University. Her first book project,The Policy Era, shows how institutions of international exchange – ranging from the collegiate Junior Year Abroad to the American Express Company’s organized tours – were crucial to the production of Cold War foreign policy and American literary cosmopolitanism in the twentieth century. She is the managing editor of Post45, an online journal of postwar literature and culture, and the film editor of the L.A. Review of Books. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the L.A. Review of Books, n+1, Salon, and The Boston Review. merve.emre@yale.edu
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Sarah Robbins is a first year PhD student in the English department. She studies nineteenth-century American literature. sarah.robbins@yale.edu
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Organizing Committee
Wai Chee Dimock teaches English and American Studies at Yale University. She is coediting a web-and-print anthology, “American Literature in the World,” with Jordan Brower, Edgar Garcia, and Kyle Hutzler (Yale College ’14). wai.chee.dimock@yale.edu
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Edgar Garcia is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the English department at Yale University. His dissertation focuses on American and Latin-American experimental poetics of the twentieth and twenty-first century, with particular attention to the aesthetic and ethos of literary experimentalism that is drawn from contacts with the indigenous peoples, poetries and languages of the Americas (even as the documentation of these “encounters” are themselves fantasies, fictions and performances of indigeneity—perhaps especially when so.) His poetry, translations and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in a number of publications, including The Antioch Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Big Bridge, Damn the Caesars, Hydra Magazine,Jacket2, Los Angeles Review of Books, MAKE Magazine, Mandorla and Sous les Pavés. Author of Boundary Loot(Punch Press, 2012), he also co-curates a booklet series, Burnt Water Booklets, and a blog, nagualli.blogspot.com. edgar.garcia@yale.edu
Tao Leigh Goffe is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at Yale University. Her dissertation looks at Afro-Asian intimacies in the Americas through photography and literature. From Islamic hip-hop to yellowface and postcolonial theory, her research explores the intersections between black and Asian subcultures in Britain, the Caribbean, and the US. tao.goffe@yale.edu
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Matt Rager is a Ph.D. student in English at Yale University. matthew.rager@yale.edu