Presentations

1: Chicago’s Dissident Poetics: Continuities and Revisions, from the 1910s to the 1950s

Nathaniel Preus, New York U

2: The Ghosts of 1919 in Gwendolyn Brooks

Dorothy R. Stringer, Temple U, Philadelphia

3: ‘If Uptown Chicago Was a Person . . . ’: Trauma, History, and Transformation in Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Josette Lorig, U of Colorado, Boulder

Presider

Soyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown U

Respondent

Soyica Diggs Colbert, Georgetown U