Thursday, September 30

Registration: Third Floor Lobby, Russell House University Union, 12:00-5:00

All sessions in Russell House University Union
Session I, 1:30-3:00

Panel A: Figures and Figurations (Room 302)
Chair: Abu-Bakr Al-Hamid (University of South Carolina)

• Emad Mirmotahari (UCLA): “Abdulrazak Gurnah's By The Sea: Black Atlanticism Reconsidered”
• Richard Serrano (Rutgers University): “Quel chantier! History as Construction Site in Kateb Yacine’s Nedjma and Rachid Boudjedra’s Ma’rakat az-zuqaq
  (The Taking of Gibraltar)”
• Abu-Bakr Al-Hamid (University of South Carolina): “Arab Poet and American Poet: An Aesthetics of Two Lyrics”

Panel B: Asia Past and Present (Room 303)
Chair: John J. Duffy, Jr. (University of South Carolina)

• Hyunsue Kim (Florida State University): “A Story of Degeneration in Colonial Korea: Kim Dongin’s ‘Potatoes’ and Comparative Naturalisms”
• Masaki Mori (University of Georgia): “A Point of Return: The End of the World”
• Vanessa Sarah Ellen Bannino: “Modern Japanese Poetics”

Panel C: The U.K.: Politics, Religion, Dionysus (Room 304)
Chair: Jeffrey Persels (University of South Carolina)

• Robert Kilgore (University of South Carolina): “Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and the Religious Lyrics of the English Renaissance”
• Chris Baker (Armstrong University): “The Dionysian Motif in D.H. Lawrence’s ‘Odor of Chrysanthemums’”
• Edward Donald Kennedy (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “Short Scottish Chronicles: Political Sound Bites of the Middle Ages”

Panel D: Women, History, Representation (Room 305)
Chair: Nancy Lane (University of South Carolina)

• Linda Byrd-Cook (Sam Houston State University): “A Century of History as Revealed in Lee Smith’s Novels”
• Kristi Krumnow (University of South Carolina): “The Collapse of Amazonian Utopias in Cranford and Les Guérillères”
• Kai-ling Liu (National Cheng Kung University): “History and a Dramatic Representation of Women: Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls”

Meeting of the SCLA Advisory Board 3:30-5:00, Witten Room, 3rd floor, Russell House

Session II, 3:30-5:00

Panel A: Africa, America, The Blues (Room 302)
Chair: Ingrid Reneau (University of South Carolina)

• Michael Janis (Morehouse College): “Africana, Americana, and Postmodern Eclecticism”
• Kirstin L. Squint (Louisiana State University): “Racial Terror, Rationality, and Song of Solomon”
• Mark Dolan (University of Mississippi): “Necessary Narratives: Women’s Blues Advertising as Literature in the Chicago Defender 1920-1923”

Panel B: History, Orality, Métissage (Room 303)
Chair: Rosemarie Doucette (South Carolina State University)

• Irina Anisimova (University of South Carolina): “The Esthetics of Métissage and the Revision of History in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, and Paradise”
• Derrilyn E. Morrison (Emory University): “Remembering the Journey: History and Memory in Caribbean and American Poetry”
• Mark A. Pfeiffer (University of Georgia): “Mythical Figures and Avatars of Orality in the Diaspora: Edwidge Danticat and Audre Lorde”

Panel C: Points of Departure (Room 304)
Chair: Mark Beck (University of South Carolina)

• Raymond Capra (Fordham University): “Herodotus and Parthenius: Greco-Roman Mythohistory and the Progeny of Herakles”
• Adelheid R. Eubanks (Coker College): “A Point of Reference, A Point of Departure: Barry Unsworth’s The Songs of Kings and Christa Wolf’s Medea”

Plenary Session 6:00–7:30 Gambrell 153

The Force of (Post) Colonial History: Prose, Poetry, Performance
Moderator: Jeanne Garane (University of South Carolina)

Ken Bugul, reading from The Abandoned Baobab (Le Baobab fou) translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager

Alain Mabanckou, reading from Blue, White, Red (Bleu, blanc, rouge) translated from the French by Carrol Coates

Reception 7:30 p.m. Gambrell 428-429

Friday, October 1

Session III, 8:30-10:00

Panel A: New Readings of Antiquity (Room 302)
Chair: Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina)

• Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina): “Foucault and Persius on Alcibiades: Caring for the Self”
• Sean Lake (American School of Classical Studies): “Settling the Past: A Diachronic Reading of the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes”
• Steve Pearson (University of Georgia): “Deleuze and Mysticism: An Interpretation of Richard Rolle”

Panel B: Words, Images, Discourse (Room 303)
Chair: Béatrice Aaronson (University of South Carolina)

• Julien Bismuth (Princeton University): “Words and Images: The Hybrid Works of Michaux, Klee, and Kandinsky”
• Shahar Bram (Haifa University, Israel): “Ekphrasis, ut pictura poesis, and the Mimetic Tradition”
• Thomas L. Cooksey (Armstrong Atlantic State University): “Proust Recaptured: Fidelity and Dialogic Hypertextuality in Film Adaptations of Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu”

Panel C: The Scars of History (Room 304)
Chair: Faust Pauluzzi (University of South Carolina)

• Ronald Bogue (University of Georgia): “The Scars of History: Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things”
• Margaret DeLong (University of Georgia): “Ousmane Sembène and the Socio-Political Critique of Neo-colonialist Senegal”
• El-Ayech Mahfoudi (University of South Carolina) “Victims of the Transistion: The Question of the ‘Third Space’ in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Les soleils des independences”

Panel D: Cinema: Violence, Ideal, Adaptability (Room 305)
Chair: Tan Ye (University of South Carolina)

• Ashley E. Denham (Florida State University): “Literature as Entry Into and Exit Out of Social History: Invisible Man’s ‘Thrust Toward Human Ideal’”
• Elaine Martin (University of Alabama): “150 Years of Carmen: Cinematic Adaptations as Social History”
• Tan Ye (University of South Carolina): “Deliberate Cruelty is Recommendable”

Session IV, 10:30-12:00

Panel A: Spanish Eyes, Southern Roots (Room 302)
Chair: Brittany R. Powell (University of South Carolina)

• Paul Worley (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “The Clothes He Stands Up In: Performing the Self in The Deceitful Marriage, Lazarillo de Tormes, and The Swindler”
• Robert Stone (U.S. Naval Academy): “The ‘Canonized’ Mooress in the Quixote”
• Brittany R. Powell (University of South Carolina): “Making Literary History: Don Quixote as the Thirteenth Agrarian Southerner”

Panel B: Metaphysics and Metamorphoses (Room 303)
Chair: Agnes Mueller (University of South Carolina)

• Peter Bornedal (American University of Beirut, Lebanon): “The Subtle Art of Seduction: Inventing the Woman as a Metaphysical Conundrum in Søren Kierkegaard’s The Diary of A Seducer”
• Thomas R. Spencer (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “Tieck’s Dark Romanticism”
• Steven F. Walker (Rutgers University): “Intertextuality and Metamorphosis: Making Kafka Come Out Right”

Panel C: Writing Russia, (Re)Writing Communism (Room 304)
Chair: Alexander Ogden (University of South Carolina)

• Danica Cerce (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): “Frank Hardy: A Social Analyst or a Man of Letters?”
• Letitia Guran (University of Georgia): “Post-Communist Literary History: The Challenge of Rereading and Rewriting the Canon”
• Alexander Ogden (University of South Carolina): “Siberia as Chronotope: Regionalist Narratives of Russian History”

Panel D: Fascism, Censorship, Eugenics (Room 305)
Chair: Ramona Lagos (University of South Carolina)

• Susan Mooney (University of South Florida): “A Dialogic History of the Book: Polymodality, the Spanish Socialist Realist Novel, and Censorship in Franco’s Spain”
• Mary Ann Frese Witt (North Carolina State University): “The Chorus as Vox Populi in the Drama of Fascist Italy: Gabrielle D’Annunzio”
• Mandy Bayer (University of South Carolina): "Eugenic Ideology in Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters"
• Ramona Lagos (University of South Carolina): "Literary Portrayal of Life Following End of Dictatorship: Chile and Spain"

Lunch, 12:00-1:30

Session V, 1:30-3:30

Panel A: Rwanda: How to Remember Genocide (Room 302)
Chair: Jeanne Garane (University of South Carolina)
Discussants: Ken Bugul and Alain Mabanckou

• Alexandre Dauge-Roth (Bowdoin College): “Writing the Rwandan Genocide: Dismembering and Remembering History”
• Madelaine Hron (Carnegie-Mellon University): “Observing Genocide: Media, Documentary, and Commemorative Images of the Genocide in Rwanda”
• Alioune Sow (University of Florida): “Memory, Representation and Genocide”

Panel B: French Versions of History (Room 303)
Chair: James Day (University of South Carolina)

• Sharon Nell (Texas Tech University): “Is Rococo Style French?”
• Paula K. Kamenish (University of North Carolina at Wilmington): “Versions of History in the Memoirs of Juliette Roche”
• Paula Fernandes-Wardhaugh (University of Western Ontario): “Simone de Beauvoir’s L’Invitée and New Historicism”

Panel C: Eighteenth-Century Europe (Room 304)
Chair: Freeman Henry (University of South Carolina)

• Lisa R. Van Zwoll (University of Georgia): “The Historical Document’s Literary Soul: The Memoirs of Henriette-Lucy Dillon, the Marquise de La Tour du Pin de Gouvernet”
• Bruce Boeckel (Europa Universitat Viadrina): “The Vignette in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Germany: A Literary Form as Journalism and Moralizing Project”
• Freeman Henry (University of South Carolina): “Frederick the Great’s de la littérature allemande (1780): A German Swan Song in French”
  

Panel D: Fiction and Articulation in Spanish America (Room 305)
Chair: Celso de Oliveira (University of South Carolina)

• Susan Stein (Texas Tech University): “Inca Garcilaso’s General History of Peru: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man”
• Maarten van Delden (Rice University): “Juan Rulfo, Virginia Woolf, and the Spanish-American Turn on European Modernism”
• Jennifer French (Williams College): “The War of the Triple Alliance in Articulations of National Identity in Paraguay”

Keynote Address 4:00-5:30 Gambrell 153

Welcome to Participants: Paul Allen Miller, (University of South Carolina)
Moderator: Catherine Castner (University of South Carolina)

Keynote Speaker: Amy Richlin (University of Southern California) “History, Property, Desire”

Cash bar 6:00-7:00 Clarion Town House Hotel

Banquet 7:00 Clarion Townhouse Hotel

Saturday, October 2
Note: All sessions in Gambrell Hall.

Session VI 8:30-10:00

Panel A: New Worlds, Old Paradigms (Gambrell 302)
Chair: Jorge Camacho (University of South Carolina)

• Kiyoko M. Toyama (Tokyo Women’s Christian University): The Mansion: The Culmination of a Life’s Work
• Alfred Lopez (University of Mississippi): “Dressing for Success in Global Contexts: Martí Studies and the Rediscovery of the ‘New World’”
• Jeanine Lino Costa (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “The U.S. Invasion of Grenada: A Literary Interpretation Versus Historical Views”
  

Panel B: Colonial Encounters: India and Beyond (Gambrell 402)
Chair: Meili Steele (University of South Carolina)

• Dorothy Figueira (University of Georgia): “Postcolonial Criticism and the Brahminization of Theory”
• Helen Asquine Fazio (Rutgers University): “Mahabarata Redux: Recreating Indian Nationalist Identity”
• Veena Lutchman (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa): “Colonial Encounters in Poetry in South Africa and India”

Panel C: Old Lands, New Perspectives (Gambrell 431)
Chair: M. Angélica Lopes (University of South Carolina)

• Ana-Isabel Aliaga-Buchenau (University at North Carolina-Charlotte): “Images of Mid-Nineteenth Century American Life: The German Immigrant in Margaret Lenk and Louise Weil”
• Yao-Kun Liu (Whitireia Polytechnic, New Zealand): “An Experimental Theatre Laboratory: On Fugard’s Play, The Coat”
• Angelica Lopes (University of South Carolina): Autran Dourado’s A barca dos homens (Ship of Men) and Portuguese Conceptions of ‘Found’ Land”

Panel D: What Editors Want (Gambrell 429)
Chair: Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina—Transactions of the American Philological Association)

• Jeffrey DiLeo (Symplokê—University of Houston, Victoria Campus): “Reviewing Reviewing: Collegiality, Excellence and the Scholarly Book Review”
• Mary Ann Frese Witt (The Comparatist—North Carolina State University): “Writing for the Comparatist”
• Sharon Nell (Intertexts—Texas Tech University): “From Journal Articles to Monographs: Publishing in Intertexts and Fashioning the Eighteenth Century”
  Buford Norman (French Literature Series—University of South Carolina): “Shared Responsibilities: The Editor and the Author”

Break: 10:00-10:30: Coffee Gambrell 428

Session VII 10:30-12:00

Panel A: Anxiety, Depression, and the Symbolic (Gambrell 402)
Chair: María Mabrey (University of South Carolina)

• Jacob Blevins (McNeese State University): “Anxious Influence and the Intertextual Poetic Self: A Lacanian Reading of Bloom”
• Kinitra Brooks (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “Status Negotiation: The Symbolic in Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba”
• Jennifer Bunton-Bryant (University of South Carolina): “Women, Reading and Depression”

Panel B: History and the Holocaust (Gambrell 429)
Chair: Judith Kalb (University of South Carolina)

• León Berdichevsky : “The Historical Experience in Reading Art Spiegelman’s Maus”
• Julia Isabel Faisst (Harvard University): “History Stares Back: Oblique Gazes and the Eye of the Object in W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz”
• Galia Glasner (Boston University): “Emotionality and Rationality: Israeli Reactions to K. Tzetnik’s Holocaust Writing”

Panel C: History, Poetry, Fiction (Gambrell 431)
Chair: Buford Norman (University of South Carolina)

• Salah Khan (Reed College): “Rimbaud’s Radical History and Poetry’s Limit”
• Donald R. Wehrs (Auburn University): “Historical Fiction, the Story of Losers, and the Triumph of Anti-Triumphalism from Scott to Balzac”
• Richard Williams (Benedict College): “History and the Joy of Writing”

Business Lunch, Clarion Townhouse Hotel 12:30-2:30

Conference Ends