Presentation Schedule

February 11, 2010-- Old President’s House

8:30 am-- Conference Room
Revisiting Narratives of the Atlantic
Mitch Frye, Chair

“To Do What a God Would Do”: Jamaica Kincaid’s Unequivocal Origins in My Garden (Book), Jessica Puzzo (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)

“Do dragoons ever moralize?”: The Alterity of Circum-Atlantic Performance in George Washington Cable’s The Grandissimes, Joseph Donica (Southern Illinois University)

Reiteration in George Washington Cable’s The Grandissimes and William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!, Adam Long (University of Kansas)


8:30 am-- Reading Room
Victorian Women on the Page and on the Stage
Corrie Kiesel, Chair

“Ere she quits her gypsy life for aye”: Gypsies and (Inter)National Discourse in Il Trovatore, The Bohemian Girl, and The Merry Zingara, Catherine Riley (Louisiana State University)

“Troubling” Adaptations: Jane Eyre and the Double Dilemma of Staging Cultural Regulation, Doris Raab (Louisiana State University)

George Eliot and St. Theresa of Middlemarch, Ali Rezaie (Louisiana State University)


10:00 am-- Conference Room
Place and Displacement
Amanda Wicks, Chair

On the Road Again/Mythic Heroes of the West: Francis Parkman’s Influence on Jack Kerouac, Scott Holman (Idaho State University)

Time-Space Compression and the Role of Television in David Foster Wallace's “Little Expressionless Animals,” Andrew H. Banecker (Louisiana State University)

“The Forest of Marble”: The Role of Venetian Images in Ezra Pound’s Cantos, Elena Shabliy (Tulane University)


10:00 am-- Reading Room
Approaching Postcolonial Reiterations
Sukanya Gupta, Chair

The Infidelity Approach to Postcolonial Film Adaptation, Jerod Hollyfield (Louisiana State University)

Future Beyond the Nation-State: Strategies of Postnationalist Indian Science Fiction, Suparno Banerjee (Louisiana State University)

Haunted by History: The Postcolonial Gothic in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, Meghan Carlton (James Madison University)


11:30am-1:00pm
Break for Lunch


1:00pm Conference Room
Satire: Reiteration with a Caustic Edge
Andrew Banecker, Chair

“My Immediate Weapons are Necessary and Can Help”: Contemporary Satire in Dawn Powell’s A Time to be Born and The Locusts Have No King, Amanda Wicks (Louisiana State University)

The Joke’s on You: Parody and the Postmodern in Green Grass, Running Water, Conor Picken (Louisiana State University)

Trickster Ex Machina: The Transmigration of Humorous Power in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Pete Pappas (Louisiana State University)


1:00 pm-- Reading Room
Performing and Transforming the Shakespearean Text
Erin Breaux, Chair

Reviewing Reiterations: Nineteenth Century Performance Reviews of Macbeth on Stage, Helena Brigman (Louisiana State University)

Reinventing Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century African-American Novel: The Tempest in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day, Melissa Browning (University of Maryland)

“I Cannot Say the Words”: The Passion of Celia in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Rebecca Mertz (University of Pittsburgh)


2:30 pm-- Conference Room
Ruminations on Violence
Lindy Dentinger, Chair

Infamous!: Narrative, Repetition, and Violence in Conrad’s The Duel, Nicole Zeftel (City University of New York)

“A Cross of Blood”: R.M. Bird’s Nick of the Woods as a Response to J.F. Cooper’s Frontier Gothic, Bob Hodges (University of Mississippi)

Family Feuds: Mark Twain’s “Private History” and Repetitions of the Fireside Family after the Civil War, Robert Arbour (Indiana University)












2:30 pm-- Reading Room
Fantasy and Chivalry
Rich Cooper, Chair

History, Mystery, or Conspiracy?: The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Knights Templar, Arwen Taylor (Indiana University)

Reiteration and Simulacrum in Jeff Vandermeer’s “The Hoebgotten Guide to the Early History of Ambergris” by Duncan Shriek, Rich Cooper (Louisiana State University)

Questioning Authority: Philip Pullman’s Authority and John Milton’s Satan, David Riche (Louisiana State University)


4:00 pm-- Conference Room
The Referential Fiction of Walker Percy
Deighton Zerby, Chair

The Role of Reiteration in the American South: A Tour of Three Authors, Three Genres, and Thirty Years, Katharina Worch (Goethe University-Frankfurt)

A Text on Derrida’s Dissemination and Percy’s The Moviegoer, Michael T. Smith (Purdue University)

Fighting the Burden of Grief with Laughter: Oppression, Violence, Death, and Humor in Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces and Percy’s The Moviegoer, Anna Nelson (Louisiana State University)


4:00 pm-- Reading Room
The Detective Fiction of Paul Auster
Kris Mecholsky, Chair

Adaptation, Repetition, and Amplification in City of Glass: The Graphic Novel, Cara Williams (University of North Carolina-Greensboro)

Navigation Narratives in Paul Auster’s City of Glass, Lindsay Bartkowski (University at Buffalo)

“You’re Breaking Up With Me?”: Paul Auster’s Alterations to the Author/Reader Relationship, Jeffrey Blanchard (Drew University)


6:00 pm-- Old Law Building
Keynote Address-- Models and Thought-Experiments, Dr. Brian McHale


7:30 pm-- The Faculty Club
Conference Dinner








February 12, 2010-- Old President’s House

8:30 am-- Conference Room
Adaptation and Alteration on Stage
Doris Raab, Chair

Singing the Secret: Wilkie Collins and Andrew Lloyd Weber’s The Woman in White, Carrie Lynn Sickmann (Indiana University)

“Go Back to the Beginning”: Legacy, Desire, and Ghosting in the Playwriting Workshop, John Patrick Bray (Louisiana State University)

“Fog People”: Escape, Regression, and Addiction in O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, Natalie Chambers (Indiana State University)


8:30 am-- Reading Room
Print Culture and Communication
Jaime Cantrell, Chair

Reiterating Media: Subjective Communication Technologies in John Dos Passos’s The 42nd Parallel, Travis Rozier (University of Mississippi)

Samuel Richardson’s Experiment: Remaking the Fable in Clarissa, Collin Jennings (New York University)

“writing ghost writing”: Susan Howe as Bibliographical Re-animator in Eikon Basilike, Jeremy Burgess (University of Louisville)


10:00 am-- Conference Room
Modernism on the Fringe
Conor Picken, Chair

Almost the Same, but Not Quite: Ironic Appropriation of For Whom the Bell Tolls in Carlos Bulosan’s The Cry and the Dedication, Robert Brown (George Washington University)

Post-Expressionist Magic Realism and the New World Baroque in the Transatlantic Aesthetics of Jorge Luis Borges and William Faulkner, Deighton Zerby (Louisiana State University)

Reiterating Speech in Ring Lardner’s Fiction, Al Dixon (Louisiana State University)


10:00 am-- Reading Room
Twentieth Century Poetry
Tom Sowders, Chair

The Structure of Rime: Robert Duncan’s Poetics of Reiteration, Matt Clothier (University of Kansas)

Allen Ginsberg and the Marketing of the Cold War Queer Body, Brigitte McCray (Louisiana State University)

“I Just Wrote that I Did”: Confession as Alteration in Sexton, Eric Doise (University of Florida)



11:30 am-1:00 pm
Break for Lunch


1:00 pm-- Conference Room
Sequels, Adaptations, and Fascists: Reiteration on Film
Laura Marks, Chair

“Everybody Deserves a Second Chance”: Hamlet 2, the Inspirational Teacher Film, and the Restaging of the Culture Wars, David McAvoy (Indiana University)

Revolutionary Road: A Story of Terminations, Shane Smith (Georgia State University)

No Place for Softness: The Fascist Aesthetic in Zack Snyder’s 300, Kris Mecholsky (Louisiana State University)


1:00 pm-- Reading Room
(Re)Modeling our Others: Draculas, Jasons, Michaels, and Freddies
John Browning, Chair

Horror-fying Whiteness: Slasher Conduct, Masculinity, and the Cultural Politics of Halloween, Tiffany Bryant (James Madison University)

Hybridity is Monstrosity for Beowolf: The Lines of Identity in the Old English Poem and the 2007 Film, Linda Dolan (New York University)

The Evolution of Zombies from Monsters to Heroes, Rachel Van Sickle (Louisiana State University)


2:30pm-- Conference Room
(Re)Visions in/of Rhetoric and Composition
David Riche, Chair

Literacy among Deaf Students, Andrea Sonnier (Louisiana State University)

Writing for the Public: The Intersections of Journalism and Composition, Eleni Economides (San Francisco State University)

Revising the Freshman Composition Course Using Cultural Studies Criticism and Non-Canonical Literature, Diana Yildiz (Georgia State University)


2:30 pm-- Reading Room
In Theory
Peter Pappas, Chair

Loose Vowels: Lil Wayne, Linguistic Waste, and Other Shit, Lindsay O’Connor (University of Virginia)

Originality and Boredom: Repetition, or Something Like It, Macy Patrick Todd (New York University)

Rosemary Waldrop and the Texture of Wittgenstein’s Writing, Andy Nicholson (University of Nevada- Las Vegas)


4:00 pm-- Conference Room
Diverse Verse
Brigitte McCray, Chair

Petrarchan Satire: The Painted Female Body in the Sonnets of Gaspara Stampa and Sor Juana Ines de Cruz, Alani Hicks-Bartlett (University of California-Berkeley)

Kubla Kahn: The Romantic Republic, Olga Gudkov (Louisiana State University)

The Matter of Prophecy: The Alchemical Character of Spiritual Transformation for Blake and Milton, Cory Teubner (Wichita State University)


4:00 pm-- Reading Room
Mysterious Fictions
Kris Mecholsky, Chair

White Man’s Burden: Blood, Vomit, and Light in August, Mary Timothy Wilson (Louisiana State University)

The Original of Laura as Nabokov’s Entrance into the Critical Conversation Surrounding Lolita, Paul Ardoin (Florida State University)

Metaphors of Paradox in Detective Fiction and Film, Dr. Ilana Shiloh (Guest Speaker)