Friday, November 15Book Exhibit
9:00 am – 5:00 pm; Third Floor: Waldorf CV Drop-In Workshop
10:00 am – 4:00 pm; Fourth Floor: McCormick
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24. Varying Views of Authorship: Traveler, Laborer, Machine 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Third Floor: PDR 1 Moderator: Jacqueline Knirnschild, University of Maine Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern Indiana 25. Mental Health Representations in Global Literature 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Third Floor: PDR 3 Permanent Section: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies Nyasha in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions Maddie Belland, Loyola University Chicago (b) The Race of the Dis-qualified: Literary Representations of the Intersection of Racial and Neurological Otherness 26. Engaging Health in the Undergraduate Classroom 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D Moderator: Amy Gates, Missouri Southern State University (a) Interventions in the Liberal Arts Classroom Setting: Prioritizing Mental Health and Belonging in Spanish for the Professions
Amanda Rector, Wartburg College (b) Healthy Debates: Narrative, Rhetoric, and Poetic Prescriptions in an Undergraduate Medicine & Literature Classroom 27. Workshop: Using Word Embedding Models for Close Reading 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Third Floor: PDR 7 Pre-Organized Workshop How can machine learning be productively and “healthily” used to explore particularity and facilitate close reading? This workshop aims to respond to this question by learning word embedding models that convert words into vectors and map a text corpus as a network of words based on semantic similarity. This makes any groups of words identified as figuratively and semantically close to one another across a certain author’s corpus available for exploration. There will be hands-on activities, alongside the tools and knowledge needed for these types of computational literary studies. Basic understanding of Python is recommended but not required. 28. Re-Imagining Decolonial Narratives #1 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-A Permanent Section: Women in French (a) The Desert Revisited: Disrupting Environmental Colonial Narratives
Hanan Elsayed, Pennsylvania State University (b) Mémoires en contrepoint. L’Algérie et ses histoires (re)construites Nevine Nossery, University of Wisconsin–Madison (c) Navigating Cultural Borders: The Decolonized Narrative of Iranian Diaspora Writers in the US 29. The Women of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Disability, Hysteria, and Self-Education 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-C Moderator: Ariel Fried, University of Missouri–Columbia (a) Deconstructing Disability Myths in Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite: An Exploration of theIntersections Between Gender, Sexuality, and Disability Manuel Alonzo, California State University–Stanislaus (b) Finding Freedom for the Unnatural Woman: Reclaiming Hysteria from Medical Men via Literature and Contemporary Dance 30. Spanish Cultural Studies 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-E Permanent Section: Spanish Cultural Studies
Chair: Kathy Korcheck, Central College (a) Healing from Jet-Lag, Death, and ExileAna Roncero-Bellido, Lewis University (b) “Yo también soy”: Challenging Undergraduates to Interrogate National Belonging Through the Study of Memoir 31. Women’s Wars 8:30 am – 10:00 am; Third Floor: PDR 2 Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus Rachel Banner, West Chester University (b) Transformation, Transition, and Translation: How Sarah Emma Edmonds Crossed Confederate Lines Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College–CUNY (c) “Like Those Pretty Engravings on the Backs of Fans?”: Manassas, Constance Cary, and the Southern Illustrated News 32. Love, Lust, and the Romantic Sublime: Blindness and Insight into Health and Well-Being in Frankenstein and Other Romantic Period Texts 9:30 am – 10:45 am; Third Floor: PDR 1 Pre-Organized Panel Blake, and Millais 33. Remnants of Imperialism and Colonialism in Health Care 9:30 am – 10:45 am; Third Floor: PDR 3 Permanent Section: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies (a) Tanure Ojaide’s Narrow Escapes: COVID-Postcolonialism and the Vulnerability of the Empire
Builders
(b) American Medical Imperialism and Haitian “Home” Remedies in Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m
Ibrahim Nureni, Louisiana State University Dying 34. Teaching and Tutoring Writing in the Humanities 9:30 am – 10:45 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D Moderator: Rae Brunner, Sauk Valley Community College (a) Sensorial Literacy and Gastro Lexicon: Exploring the Role of Food Rhetorics as Cultural Metaphor in Creative Writing Praxis 35. The Female Body in Literature: Identity, Agency, and Trauma 9:30 am – 10:45 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-B Undergraduate Research Symposium Asian Women's Literature 36. Re-Imagining Decolonial Narratives #2 9:30 am – 10:45 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-A Permanent Section: Women in French (a) La nouvelle poétique du monde de Léonora Miano: Le deuil des mères « dont le fils n’ont pas été
retrouvés »
Frederique Chevillot, University of Denver (b) Dialectic Returns: Reconfiguring the Zombie Mythos and Female Postcolonial Identity in Mati
Diop’s Atlantique
Brittany Bernard, Boston University
(c) Sexuality and Statecraft: The Strategic and Ideological Weaponization of Gender in the Algerian
War of Independence
Amelle Zeroug, Brown University
37. The Men of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Religion, Intention, and Conviction 9:30 am – 10:45 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-C Moderator: Judah-Micah Lamar, Muskingum University (a) Ahab’s Bible, Starbuck’s Bible, Melville’s Bibles: Religion and the Almighty Dollar in Moby-DickDean Mendell, Touro University (b) The Problem with Words: Authorial Intention and Meaning in Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym and “The Black Cat” 38. Social Media’s Impact in Research and the Marketplace 9:30 am – 10:45 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-E Moderator: Eric Wistrom, United States Naval Academy (a) Practicing a Digital Ethic of Care amid the Complexities and Implications of Sharing Stories of Reproductive [in]Justice Across Social Media 39. Representing the Klan 10:15 am – 11:45 am; Third Floor: PDR 2 Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus John Cyril Barton, University of Missouri–Kansas City (b) Enforcing and Redeeming the Fourteenth Amendment: State and Federal Ku Klux Klan Trials in North Carolina, 1870–1871 40. Trauma and Healing in Native American Literature 11:00 am – 12:30 pm; Third Floor: PDR 1 Permanent Section: Native American Literature (a) Healing, Trauma, and Re-envisioning Futures: Indigenous Hip Hop as Literary Texts
Jonah Francese, University of Chicago (b) The Fictional Rez as Trauma Center: Native Crime Novels and Communal Well-Being Cyanne So-lo-li Topaum, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign (c) Healing Stories in the Poetry of Natalie Diaz Shawna Rushford-Spence, Lourdes University (d) Extractive Colonialism, Misogynist Violence, and Indigenous Resistance in HBO’s True Detective:
Night Country
Delia Byrnes, Allegheny College
41. The Relationship of Visibility, Silences, Power, and Sickness in Midwestern Literary Texts 11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 3 Associated Organization: Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature Robert Dunne, Central Connecticut State University (b) “Weathering” and Tillie Olsen’s Tell Me a Riddle as Midwestern Cautionary Tale Marilyn Judith Atlas, Ohio University (c) “We can’t stop living”: Not Enough Heartland Love for Carmen Maria Machado’s Queer Midwest Memoir, In the Dream House (2019) 42. Healing Identity and Illness in the Art of Storytelling and the Narrative 11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D Permanent Section: Race, Gender, and Subalternity (a) Nidali, Deya, and __________ in America: Narratives of Illness and Identity
Joy Mazahreh, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities (b) The Black Church: A Sanctuary of Radical Politics in Modern African American Literature Ryan Poll, Northeastern Illinois University (c) The Journey Home: The Consequences of Societal Displacement and the Importance of
Returning to The Landing as a Response to Intraracial Detachment 43. Somewhere and Nowhere: Uncanny Environments in Sci-Fi Television 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm; Third Floor: PDR 2 Undergraduate Research Symposium: Pre-Organized PanelChair: Keli Masten, Ferris State University (a) Unveiling the 2000s Digital Gothic: A Critical Analysis of Torchwood's “Ghost Machine”
Grace Muchmore, Ferris State University
(b) Trapped in a Wrought Iron Cage: The Bradbury Building and Android Identity
Erin Graham, Ferris State University
(c) Dark: Religiosity and Paradox
Heather Stephens, Ferris State University 44. Professionalizing Session: AI Pedagogy Workshop 11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 7 Presenter: Nathan A. Jung, University of Wisconsin–Madison This session will explore the possibilities and pitfalls of generative AI in the humanities classroom. Through several practical examples and exercises, the workshop will provide space for attendees to learn from one another about how AI has impacted their pedagogy in areas like course design, assignments, administrative work, and course content. 45. Narratives of Health(s): Exploring Positionalities through the Medical Humanities Lens #1 11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-A Permanent Section: Women in Literature
Chair: Sayanti Mondal, Ithaca College (a) Going Mad in Area X: A Mad Studies Approach to Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy Heather O’Leary, University of Illinois–Chicago
(b) The Breath Between Heartbeats: A Narrative Medicine Approach to Black Motherhood in Film
and Documentary
Rosemary O’Mahony, Columbia University
Sarah Caston, Columbia University
Deborah Denman, Columbia University
Malaika Jawed, Columbia University
(c) The Pharmakoi of the Deep South: Corporeality and Interiority in Conflict in Carson McCullers’
Fiction
Giovana Proença Gonçalves, Universidade de São Paulo 46. Writing Illness, Embodiment, and Care in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction 11:00 am – 12:30 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-B Permanent Section: Creative Writing I, Prose (a) The Three of Them 47. U.S. Combat and Its Consequences in Two Centuries 11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-C Moderator: Sierra Getz, University of Brighton (a) “The Marvellous Thing”: The Unpredictability and Certainty of Death
Rebecca Curry, Middle Tennessee State University (b) Disability, Health, and the “Resilient” Masculine Subject in American Narratives of Combat and
Recovery 48. Labor, Leisure, and Idleness in Luso-Brazilian Cultures #1 11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-E Permanent Section: Luso-Brazilian Studies (a) Standing Still: Idleness and Labor in the Plantation
Isabela Fraga, Tufts University (b) Macunaíma of the Beautiful Game: Garrincha’s Subversive Idleness in Brazilian Soccer, Art & Society 49. Taking Survey of the Survey of English 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 1 Permanent Section: English I, English Literature before 1800 (a) Bodies, Objects of Placement, Pedagogy in Jane Barker’s Love Intrigues (1713)
Hye Hyon Kim, Illinois State University (b) Refashioning English Literature Survey Courses for Cross-Cultural Inclusivity and Coverage: Romantic Orientalism and Literary Interplays Between East and West
Filiz Barin Akman, Social Sciences University of Ankara / Illinois State University (c) The Wedding or The Wife? Rethinking the Texts We Include for Survey
Kyle Robert Moore, University of North Dakota (d) Fire and History: Alternative Chronologies in the Survey of English Literature 50. Medical Dispositives: Texts, Images, Spaces 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 3 Pre-Organized PanelChair: Matthew Senior, Oberlin College (a) War Wounds: On the Painted Image and the Injuriousness of History David Clark, McMaster University
(b) Charité Hospital in Berlin: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
Jennifer Ham, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay
(c) The Sacred Exception in Beckett’s Le Dépeupleur
Ian Curtis, Kenyon College
(d) Medical or Narratological Dispositives: Text, Body, and Images in Steve Tomsula’s VAS
Hanna Hadjadj, University of Paris 8–Vincennes-Saint-Denis 51. Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D Permanent Section: Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy
Chair: Alexander B. Johns, University of North Georgia (a) Narrative Resolutions: Blueprints for Recovery in Kenneth Grahame’s “The Reluctant Dragon” and Ted Hughes’s The Iron Giant: A Story in Five Nights
Heather Joyce, Northwestern Polytechnic
(b) Teaching Writing through Collective Witness: Contagion Narratives and Students’ Lived COVID-
19 Experiences
Devyn Andrews, University of Illinois–Chicago
(c) German in South Dakota: Promoting Intercultural Competence by Utilizing Local German
Heritage
Nathan J. Bates, University of South Dakota
(d) R/Askalex: Reddit Replies as Poetic Practice
Alexander B. Johns, University of North Georgia 52. Professionalizing Session: Getting It Published, Articles 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 7 Presenter: Olga Bezhanova, Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville This session will cover all stages of the publication process for an academic article. We will talk about establishing a workable and productive writing schedule, choosing a venue, approaching the editors, and navigating the different stages of the publication process. We will explore how to create and inhabit a scholarly persona and discuss the difficulties experienced by scholars from marginalized communities as they position themselves as research scholars. through the Medical Humanities Lens #2 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-A Permanent Section: Women in Literature
Chair: Sayanti Mondal, Ithaca College (a) Gendered Pathographies: Differing Graphic Memoirs of a Mother’s Terminal Illness Laura Beadling, Youngstown State University
(b) Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Environmental Political Cartoons: Climate Change
Activism of Science Fiction and Satire
Maddie Belland, Loyola University Chicago
(c) Health Humanities on Women’s Mental Health in Darryl Cunningham’s Psychiatric Tales and
Rachel Lindsay’s Rx: A Graphic Memoir
Edcel Javier Cintron-Gonzalez, Illinois State University
(d) Women, Health, and Comics: Teaching Graphic Medicine
Lan Dong, University of Illinois–Springfield 54. At the Heart of Things: Illness, Wellness, Poetry 12:45 pm – 2:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-B Permanent Section: Creative Writing II, Poetry
Chair: Hannah Kroonblawd, Concordia University Nebraska (a) About the Mountain
Russell Brickey, Independent Writer
(b) On a Scale from Zero to Ten: Poetry and Women's Pain in Medicine
Haley A. Larson, University of Massachusetts Global
(c) Poems for My Father
Cecil Sayre, Independent Writer
(d) Vital Signs “Poetry in Response to Illness and Trauma”
Vincent Casaregola, Saint Louis University
55. Representations of the Female Body in Print and Television 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-C Moderator: A B M Shafiq Islam, Illinois State University (a) “An Itching Disease”: Gambling, Gender, and the Language of Contagion in Eighteenth-Century
Britain
J. David Macey, Fort Hays State University
(b) Poetry of the Double: Re-Production in L’Immaculée Conception
Lindsey Richter, Grace College
(c) Exiting the Vomitorium: Detecting Through Kristeva’s Lens of Abjection
Ruth Williams, William Jewell College
56. Labor, Leisure, and Idleness in Luso-Brazilian Cultures #2 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-E Permanent Section: Luso-Brazilian Studies Veríssimo
Giovana Proença Gonçalves, University of São Paulo (b) Field Work: Labor and Culture in Rural Brazil Thomaz Amancio, University of Chicago (c) Tijolos em Rasantes Voos: Racialized Labor Dynamics and Disability in Conceição Evaristo’s Um piano para Yá Dulcina 57. Emancipation’s Tremors 2:15 pm – 4:00 pm; Third Floor: PDR 2 Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus
Organizer: Kathleen Diffley, University of Iowa
Chair: Samuel Graber, Valparaiso University (a) Frederick Douglass, the Screenplay: Reflections on Scripting an Iconic Life Ian Finseth, University of North Texas
(b) George Moses Horton and the Landscapes of Southern Romanticism
Faith Barrett, Duquesne University
(c) “The Struggle for Freedom”: Rosetta Douglass Publishes a Novel of Black Insurrection
Benjamin Fagan, Auburn University
(d) The Emancipatory Air of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s War Poetry
Robert Arbour, Spring Hill College
(e) Remembering the Late War: The SCSA’s 1866–1867 Lecture Course, Black Reconstructions, and
William Still
Eric Gardner, Saginaw Valley State University 58. American Literature II: Literature after 1870 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Third Floor: PDR 1 Permanent Section: American Literature II, Literature after 1870 Woman and The Wife of His Youth
Amina Gautier, University of Miami (b) Working-Class Perspectives on World War I: Soldiering as Labor in Boyd’s Through the Wheat and March’s Company K 59. French II: Post Ancien Régime 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Third Floor: PDR 3 Permanent Section: French II: Post Ancien Régime (a) Health and Social Change in Zola’s Germinal
Tanya Mushinsky, Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville (b) Anxiety and Depression: The Impossible Career of a Woman Writer in 19th- and 20th-Century France
Noëlle Brown, Kennesaw State University 60. Illuminating/Collectivizing Infrastructure 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D Associated Organization: Association for the Study of Lit and the Environment (a) Watershed U: Reading, Learning, and Collectivizing Around Water 61. The Rhetorical Framing of Female Bodies in the Public 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-C Undergraduate Research Symposium Nada Abduljalil, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (b) Weaving with a Pink Ribbon: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Cancer Representation and Research Funding in Qatar 62. Gender Studies 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-A Permanent Section: Gender Studies (a) Gender as an Oppressive Intervention into our Shared Humanity
Elliot Koch, University of California–Riverside (b) Finding Beauty and Identity in the Scar: A Reading of Toni Morrison’s Beloved Kiara Washington, SUNY–Geneseo College (c) George Brant’s Grounded: The Erasure of Pregnant Bodies 63. Reading for Wellness 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-B Permanent Section: Creative Writing III, Short Story E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”
Jacqueline Knirnschild, University of Maine (b) Monkeys and Memories: Selfhood and Storytelling in Haruki Murakami’s Shinagawa Monkey Stories
Patrick Thomas Henry, University of North Dakota (c) Symbolic Value and the Short Story: Affective Objects in Gunnhild Øyehaug’s “Apples” and Olga Tokarczuk’s “Seams” 64. Living Under Threat: Palestinian and Israeli Films 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-E Permanent Section: Global Cinema
This panel has been canceled.
65. International T.S. Eliot Society 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 1 Associated Organization: T.S. Eliot Society (a) The Desolations of Philosophy: T.S. Eliot on the Oppressions of Idealism and Materialism 66. Humanity and Inhumanity in French Medical Imagery 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 3 Permanent Section: French III, Cultural Issues Matthew Senior, Oberlin College (b) Monstrous, Mythical, or Mundane?: Interrogating the Iconography of Intersex in 19th-Century French Medicine 67. Environmental Humanities & Planetary/Public Health: Food-Water-Energy 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D Associated Organization: Association for the Study of Lit and the Environment (a) Food-Water-Energy Criticism: The Soybean
Brian Deyo, Grand Valley State University (b) Crítica de la matriz alimentación-agua-energía: el plátano Mayra Fortes, Grand Valley State University (c) Everything We Need: Curanderismo as Conceptual Lens for Chicana Environmentalisms in Ana
Castillo’s So Far from God 68. Workshop: Countering AI’s Appeal in Writing Classes 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 7 Pre-Organized Workshop While we sometimes worry that AI could squelch students' willingness to write, we reject the premise that the humanities’ decline will be written by AI. Instructors serve students best when we use “counterstories to challenge, displace, or mock pernicious narratives and beliefs” (Delgado & Stefanic 38). Our experience gives us compelling counterstories that undermine AI’s promise of clean academic prose, but we are also “McGyvering” AI tools to support critical acts of writing and revision. Discussion will include, how AI can help document everyday resistance in community-engaged writing courses, and how students can leverage AI tools to reflect whether what they've written accurately reflects the commitments they hold in life. 69. Supernaturalism and the Body in Literature and Film 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-A
Moderator: Eliza Marley, University of Illinois–Chicago (a) Bodily Integrity and Disintegration in Mercè Rodoreda’s “La salamandra” 70. Antiracism in Canon Formation and Pedagogy 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-B Permanent Section: Antiracism Jennifer Arias Sweeney, Northwestern University (b) View from a Trauma-Informed Lens: Incorporating Trigger Warnings and Stress and Trauma Alleviation Techniques into the First-Year Composition Classroom
Faye Scott, Northern Illinois University (c) Transforming College Writing Classrooms: Translingualism as a Decolonial and Anti-Racist Initiative 71. The Global Western’s New Frontiers 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D Permanent Section: Global CinemaChair: Khani Begum, Bowling Green State University
This panel has been canceled.
72. Innovative Pedagogies: Teaching the Legacies of the Civil War Era 4:15 pm – 5:30 pm; Third Floor: PDR 2
Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus Jean Franzino, Boston College (b) Teaching Black Fugitive Poetics, 1863–2024 Michael Stancliff, Arizona State University (c) The “State of Possibility” in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and the Undergraduate Classroom 73. Keynote Address On Burning Ground: The Futures of Health in/of the Humanities 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm; Third Floor: Williford BC
Speaker: Andrea Charise, University of Toronto Scarborough Andrea Charise, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Health and Acting Associate Vice-Principal Research and Innovation (AVPRI)–Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships, Office of the Vice-Principal Research and Innovation (OVPRI) Society, at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada. She is the author or editor of two recent academic books, including the Routledge Companion to Health Humanities (2020) and The Aesthetics of Senescence (SUNY Press), a finalist for the 2020 British Society for Literature and Science’s Book Prize. Her research and teaching focuses on the connections between arts, health, and community wellness. She curates The Resemblage Project, an award-winning intergenerational digital storytelling initiative (www.resemblageproject.ca), and is Principal Investigator of “FLOURISH: Community-Engaged Arts as a Method for Social Wellness”, an interdisciplinary research cluster dedicated to advancing creative arts engagement across the lifecourse. Beyond academia, Andrea is a studio-based ceramics artist and an end-of-life doula. (www.andreacharise.ca)
74. President's Reception 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm; Third Floor: Williford BC Celebrate with us while enjoying a range of
complimentary hors d’oeuvres and (non)alcoholic drinks!
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