Description: This Pecha Kucha reflects the cartographic turn in literary studies and is shaped by cartographic studies in literature that theorize narrative, affect, and materiality. Presenters situate their work on mapping, text, and travel around the globe in the sixteenth through twenty-first centuries within the context of the history of cartography, storytelling, emotion, materiality, and commerce.

Speakers

Marcel Brousseau, U of Oregon

Alison Rutledge, Columbia C, MO

Jimena Rodriguez, U of California, Los Angeles

Jordana Dym, Skidmore C

Huiying Chen, U of Illinois, Chicago

Raquel Albarran, Middlebury C

Sheila Hwang, Webster U

Leah Michelle Thomas, Virginia State U

Presiders

Sheila Hwang, Webster U

Leah Michelle Thomas, Virginia State U