Program

147: New Materialisms in Latin America

Participants: Emilio Sauri, Ximena Briceno, Sebastián Figueroa, Carlos M. Amador, Alberto Fonseca

149: Romantic Commonplaces

Participants: Margaret E. Russett, Timothy Heimlich, Jillian Hess, Gary R. Dyer, Sonia Hofkosh

151: Scholarly Making: Pedagogy, Printing, Publics

Participants: Emily Brooks, Ann Hubert, DB Bauer

153: When and Where Was Modernism?

Participants: Snehal Shingavi, Kaitlin Staudt, Neetu Khanna, Alys Moody, Tze-Yin Teo

155: Critical Approaches to Virtual and Augmented Reality

Participants: Victoria E. Szabo, Asimina Ino Nikolopoulou, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Tamara F. O’Callaghan, Andrea R. Harbin, Amanda Licastro

157: Drug Talk: Narcotics, Discourse, and the State in Contemporary Literature

Participants: Lindsey Banco, Kevin Pickard, Amanda McCourt, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela

159: Literatures of Emergency in the Classroom

Participants: Sunny Yudkoff, Hilda Chacón, Remy Attig, Romana Radlwimmer, Sylvia Veronica Morin

161: Writing as Commodity: How the Neoliberal University Renders the Online Writing Classroom Transactional

Participants: Ms Sarah Austin, Erica Stone

163: Textual Transactions: Adaptation and Reception across Genres in Italian Culture

Participants: Suzanne Magnanini, Luca Zipoli, Viola Ardeni, Enrico Vettore

165: Poets Translating Poets: The Emergence of Translation as Poetic Work

Participants: Teresa Villa-Ignacio, Kevin Holden, Christopher Clarke, Matthew Smith, Jean-Jacques Poucel

168: American Drama’s Ethical Transactions

Participants: Nicole Tabor, Ashley Chang, Angela J. Latham, Elliott Turley, Emma Willis

170: Textus and Context(us): Multiplying Pedagogical Transactions

Participants: Margaret A. Noodin, Barbara Lee Ciccarelli, April D Weintritt

172: Rethinking Form

Participants: Marisa Galvez, Megan Cook, Christina Fitzgerald, Daniel Reeve, Seeta Chaganti

174: Going Public

Participants: Rachel Nolan, Adam Goldwyn, Jeffrey J. Williams, Sheila Liming, Rosemary Erickson Johnsen

176: Religions and Secularisms in the Novel

Participants: Jonathan Grossman, Ryan Siemers, Kimberly Rodda, Daniel Grace

MLA Night Out

178: Do Area Studies Matter?

Participants: Catherine Anne Flynn, Paige Reynolds, Michael Malouf, Beatriz Kopschitz Bastos

180: Commonsense Information Security for Academics

Participants: Shawna Ross, Beth Seltzer

182: The Politics of Consent

Participants: Fayçal Falaky, Mary McAlpin, Lucien Nouis, Katherine Terry, Dora E. Polachek

184: Rethinking the Southern Matriarch I

Participants: Alvin Henry, Michelle-Taylor Sherwin, Sidney Jones, Ashley Burge, Alexi Garrett, Hannah Saltmarsh, Cheylon Woods

186: The Use and Abuse of Contemporary American Literary History

Participants: Gordon N. Hutner, Eva Cherniavsky, Yogita Goyal, Prof. Mark Greif, Stephanie LeMenager, Eric W. Lott, Kenneth W. Warren

188: Medieval Race, Gender, and Translation: The Cosmopolitan, the Vernacular, and the Problem of the Mother Tongue

Participants: Dorothy Kim, Shyama Rajendran, Jonathan Hsy, Adrienne Williams Boyarin

190: Queer Women: Readers and Writers in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Peninsular Spanish Literature

Participants: Ana Simon Alegre, Aurelie Vialette, Nuria Capdevila-Arguelles, Pepa Anastasio, Elena Lindholm

192: Melville’s Quarrel with Modernity

Participants: Kim Leilani Evans, Timothy Sweet, Jason de Stefano, Michael Puett, Willis McCumber, Pilar Martinez Benedi, Joe Conway

194: Romantic Animals

Participants: Denise Gigante, Cary Wolfe, Ron Broglio, Katey Castellano, Alexander Regier

196: New Editions, New Writings: Fresh Perspectives on T. S. Eliot

Participants: John Whittier-Ferguson, Jayme Stayer, Jewel Spears Brooker, Dr., Michelle Taylor

198: Teaching Holocaust Literature and Culture in Relation to Technology and Diversity in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom I

Participants: Russell A. Berman, Helene Sinnreich, Phyllis Lassner, Sara R. Horowitz, Shellie McCullough, Monique Rodrigues Balbuena

200: On Text and Context: Playing with Possibilities in Video Games

Participants: Samantha Blackmon, Kishonna Gray, TreaAndrea Russworm

202: Black Literary Forms, Transnationalism, and Politics

Participants: Laila Amine, Walton Muyumba, Melanie Masterton Sherazi

204: #Twitterati

Participants: Mary Hayes, Elizabeth A. Weckhurst, Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Rianka Roy, Leisha J. Jones

206: Transacting Arab Literary Modernity

Participants: Karim Mattar, Adam Spanos, July Blalack, Levi Thompson, Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo

208: Lectura Boccaccii: Decameron VI.4

Participants: Kristina Marie Olson, James Kriesel

210: Censorship and Reading as Textual Production in Modern Korea

Participants: Kyeong-Hee Choi, Jae-Yon Lee, Hyeryoung Lee, Kyounghye Kwon

211: Presidential Plenary: Textual Transactions

Participants: Anne Ruggles Gere, Christopher John Newfield, Kim Felicia Hall, Deborah Brandt, John David Guillory, Tiya Miles

213: Reports from the Front Line: Two-Year-College Faculty Members in Training

Participants: Carolyn McCue Goffman, Elizabeth Aiossa, Bridget Bell, Michael F. Latza

215: Literary Politics beyond Colonial Recognition

Participants: David Babcock, Gabriella Friedman, Alex Young

217: Indigenous and Black Religious Confraternities: Negotiating Identity and Status in Colonial Latin America

Participants: Miguel Valerio, Daniel Nemser, Krystle Farman, Ximena Gomez, Catalina Ospina, Marcella Hayes

219: Political Imaginaries in Portuguese

Participants: Ana Fauri, Ligia Bezerra, Daniel da Silva, Isaac Gimenez Garcia