Program

All papers for workshops are precirculated in advance and will not be read aloud during sessions; papers to be presented orally are also available for those who prefer to have read in advance.

Friday, November 13

105 Cornell Hall

9:00 to 9:30

Breakfast and Welcome: Andrew Hoberek (Missouri)

9:30 to 11:00

Work-in-Progress Workshop: Theoretical Styles

  • Michael Clune (South Florida), “Theory as Style”
  • Fred Whiting (Alabama), “Pathological Man”

11:15 to 12:45

Oral presentations: Language and the Human Revisited

  • Oren Izenberg (Chicago), “Language, Language, Language”
  • Sean McCann (Wesleyan), “Anti-humanism and The Humanist Institution: A Case Study”
  • Mark Christian Thompson (Illinois), “Being Beloved: Morrison, Heidegger, and Black Anti-Humanism”

12:45 to 2:00

Lunch/free time

2:00 to 4:00

Work-in-Progress Workshop: Sixties Protest, Real and Imagined

  • Franny Nudelman (Carleton), “Sleeping In: Rest and Resistance at Dewey Canyon III”
  • Michael Szalay (Irvine), “White Negro Liberalism”

4:15 to 5:45

Work-in-Progress Workshop: The Seventies and Eighties

  • Sally Bachner (Wesleyan), “Sex Vets: Violence, Vietnam and Feminist Fiction in the 70s”
  • Richard Godden (Irvine), “Fictions of Fictitious Capital: American Psycho and the Poetics of Deregulation”

5:45 to 6:30

Public Reception


Saturday, November 14

S304 Memorial Union

9:00 to 10:30

Work-in-Progress Workshop: Representing the Bomb

  • Dan Grausam (Washington University), “Nuclear Time”
  • Deak Nabers (Brown), “The Historiography of the Bomb”

10:45 to 12:45

Work-in-Progress Workshop: Rethinking the South

  • Florence Dore (Kent State), “Electro-Faulkner: From New Criticism to New Media in Faulkner’s The Town”
  • Mary Esteve (Concordia University-Montreal), “Peter Taylor’s Triple Negative: Happy Families Are Not Not All Unalike”

1:00 to 2:30

Boxed Lunch and Post•45 meeting. Discussion led by Andrew Hoberek and Deak Nabers

2:45 to 4:15

Work-in-Progress Workshop: The Politics of Entertainment in Post-Classical Hollywood

  • J D Connor (Yale), “Pressing Hard for the White Suit: Saturday Night Fever and the Recalibration of Entertainment”
  • Derek Nystrom (McGill), “Looking for Empire and the Multitude in the Contemporary Multi-Plot Film”

4:30 to 6:00

Work-in-Progress Workshop: Contemporary Fiction and History

  • Sam Cohen (Missouri), “Infinite Jest and the Problem of Ending”
  • Timothy Yu (Wisconsin), “Always Playing Catch-Up: Asian American Literature and Imitation”

Saturday evening, 6:30 onwards:
Dinner and party for all participants at PS Gallery

Discussants:
Jason Arthur, Central Methodist
Christopher Breu, Illinois State
Tom Cerasulo, Elms College
Abigail Cheever, Richmond
Loren Glass, Iowa
Andrew Hoberek, Missouri
Amy Hungerford, Yale
Cathy Jurca, Caltech
Eleanor Kaufman, UCLA
Debbie Nelson, Chicago
Alison Shonkwiler, Rutgers