9:30-10:45. MACRO AND MICRO
Adeline Tran (UC Berkeley), “Transatlantic Aestheticism: Raymond Chandler’s Nostalgia for Fin de Siècle Europe”
Stephen Marsh (Oxford), “Pynchon, Anarchy, and the Shadow of War in the American Century”
Dan Sinykin (Cornell), “On the Poetics of Microfinance: Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Sexy’ and ‘Gramin’ Bank”
Respondent: Palmer Rampell
11:00-12:15. TECHNOLOGIES OF UTOPIA
Hudson Vincent (Harvard), “Reading John Davenport: Utopia and Scripture in Colonial America”
Philip Kadish (CUNY), “Stowe, the Mandingo, and Islam: The Liberian-American Confrontation with Mandingo Power, Transatlantic Scientific Mandingo-Saxonism, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Transformed Ideal of African American Heroism from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Dred”
Derek Lee (Pennsylvania State U), “Hacking High Modernism: Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and Rise of the Post-Quantum Novel”
Respondent: Phoenix Alexander
12:15-1:30. LUNCH AND PUBLICATION WORKSHOP
Gordon Hutner, editor, American Literary History
1:30-2:45. AMERICAN LITERATURE AS “WORLD” LITERATURE
Suzanne Enzerink (Brown), “‘Praisesong’ for the Americans: Presenting African American Literature at FESTAC ’77”
Jesse McCarthy (Princeton), “Strangers in the Village: James Baldwin and Vincent O. Carter”
Ellen Song (Duke), “The Problem of Imagining a New World Order: On Such a Full Sea”
Respondent: Courtney Sato
3:00-4:15 REMAPPING SPACE
Pippa Eldridge (U of London, Birkbeck), “The Deterritorialisation of Suburban Space in the immigrant narratives of Philip Roth and Junot Diaz”
Manuel Herrero-Puertas (U of Wisconsin-Madison), “Disability Travels”
Maile Speakman (Tulane), “Gender in the City: Reading Judith Butler in Havana”
Respondent: Jason Bell
4:30-5:30 SCHOLARS AS WRITERS WORKSHOP
Jill Lepore, Kemper Professor of History at Harvard and staff writer for the New Yorker
5:30-6:30 RECEPTION