American Literature in the World Graduate Conference

Event time: 
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 12:00am
Location: 
Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC) See map
63 High St.
New Haven, CT 06511
(Location is wheelchair accessible)
Event description: 

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”.

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”.

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”; Jennifer Lozano (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “The Spirit of ‘World’ Literature and the Case of Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”; Ellen Song (Duke), “The Problem of Imagining a New World Order: On Such a Full Sea”.

3:00-4:15 REMAPPING SPACE - Pippa Eldridge (U of London, Birbeck), “The Deterritorialisation of Suburban Space in the immigrant narratives of Philip Roth, Junot Diaz and Karen Tei Yamashita”; Manuel Herroro-Puertas (U of Wisconsin-Madison), “Disability Travels”; Maile Speakman (Tulane), “Gender in the City: Judith Butler in Havana”.

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

Open to: 
General Public

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