Friday, November 15

Book Exhibit

9:00 am – 5:00 pm; Third Floor: Waldorf

CV Drop-In Workshop
10:00 am – 4:00 pm; Third Floor: PD 6

 

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 24. Varying Views of Authorship: Traveler, Laborer, Machine

 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Third Floor: PD 1

Moderator: Jacqueline Knirnschild, University of Maine

          (a) Pandemic Travel Writing and the Future of Travel

               Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern Indiana
          (b) But Money Is Not I: Writing the American Writer
               Ross Tangedal, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
          (c) Can Xue, Automatic Writing, and the Force of Exhaustion
               Dong Yang, Grinnell College

 25. Mental Health Representations in Global Literature

 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Third Floor: PD 3

Permanent Section: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies
Chair: Jose Intriago Suarez, Marquette University

          (a) Representations of Eating Disorders among Teenage Girls in the Global South: The Character of
               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
               Sinchan Chatterjee, University of California–Berkeley
          (c) Aesthetic Nervousness: The Reading of Broken Glass
               Najma Ibrahim, Marquette University

 26. Engaging Health in the Undergraduate Classroom

 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Third Floor: PD 4

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (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
               Amy Gates, Missouri Southern State University

27. Workshop: Using Word Embedded Models for Close Reading

 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Third Floor: PD 7

Pre-Organized Workshop
Presenter: Heejoung Shin, University of Illinois–Chicago

          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: 4-A

Permanent Section: Women in French
Chair: Nevine Nossery, University of Wisconsin–Madison

          (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
               Navid Etedali, University of New Mexico

29. The Women of Nineteenth-Century American Literature:

Disability, Hysteria, and Self-Education

8:00 am – 9:15 am; Fourth Floor: 4-B

Moderator: Ariel Fried, University of Missouri–Columbia

          (a) Deconstructing Disability Myths in Julia Ward Howe’s The Hermaphrodite: An Exploration of the
               Intersections 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
               Savannah Willard, University of Edinburgh
          (c) “My distant patients”: Women’s Health Advocacy in Mary Gove Nichols
               Kristen Egan, Mary Baldwin University

30. Spanish Cultural Studies

 8:00 am – 9:15 am; Fourth Floor: 4-E

Permanent Section: Spanish Cultural Studies

Chair: Kathy Korcheck, Central College

          (a) Healing from Jet-Lag, Death, and Exile
               Ana Roncero-Bellido, Lewis University
          (b) “Yo también soy”: Challenging Undergraduates to Interrogate National Belonging Through the

               Study of Memoir
               Emily DiFilippo, Loras College
          (c) Millenial Desencanto and the Politics of Nostalgia in Facendera (Óscar García Sierra, 2022)
               Darío Sánchez González, Gustavus Adolphus College

31. Women’s Wars

 8:30 am – 10:00 am; Fourth Floor: 4-D

Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus
Organizer: Kathleen Diffley, University of Iowa
Chair: Shirley Samuels, Cornell University

          (a) Melville’s Wives’ Bodies
               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
               Kathleen Diffley, University of Iowa
          (d) Haunted by Infirmity: Another Look at Phoebe Pember's Ghost Stories
               Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University

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: PD 1

Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Jonathan Gross, DePaul University

          (a) Exploring the Dichotomy of Desire: Lust and Love in Romantic Poetry, Studied Works by Keats,

               Blake, and Millais
               Carmen Romero Lopez, DePaul University
          (b) Romantic Vegetarianism and the Health of the Body Politic
               Rebecca Hathaway, DePaul University
          (c) Hail holy Light: Milton, Mary Shelley, & Burke's Dark Sublime
               Zach Cleir, DePaul University

33. Remnants of Imperialism and Colonialism in Health Care

9:30 am – 10:45 am; Third Floor: PD 3

Permanent Section: Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies
Chair: Jose Intriago Suarez, Marquette University

          (a) Tanure Ojaide’s Narrow Escapes: COVID-Postcolonialism and the Vulnerability of the Empire
               Builders
               Ibrahim Nureni, Louisiana State University
          (b) American Medical Imperialism and Haitian “Home” Remedies in Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m

               Dying
               Caroline Hensley, University of Wisconsin–Madison

34. Teaching and Tutoring Writing in the Humanities

9:30 am – 10:45 am; Third Floor: PD 4

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
               Saima Afreen, Illinois State University
          (b) Emotional Labor and Emotional Intelligence in the Writing Center
               Grace Williams, Wayne State University

35. The Female Body in Literature: Identity, Agency, and Trauma

9:30 am – 10:45 am; Third Floor: PD 5

Undergraduate Research Symposium
Moderator: Courtney Walton, Loyola University Chicago

          (a) Challenging Polyphony’s Role in Addressing Trauma and Mental Stress in Contemporary East

               Asian Women's Literature
               Yiyao Sun, University of Chicago
          (b) Commercialized Violence Reimagined in the Women of Dreiser and Chesnutt
               Morgan Nicole Fuksa, Loyola University Chicago

36. Re-Imagining Decolonial Narratives #2

9:30 am – 10:45 am; Fourth Floor: 4-A

Permanent Section: Women in French
Chair: Nevine Nossery, University of Wisconsin–Madison

          (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: 4-B

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Ahab’s Bible, Starbuck’s Bible, Melville’s Bibles: Religion and the Almighty Dollar in Moby-Dick
               Dean 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”
               Haley Ramirez, Loyola University Chicago
          (c) Well-being, Longevity, and Walt Whitman’s Late Writings
               Kenneth Price, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

38. Social Media’s Impact in Research and the Marketplace

9:30 am – 10:45 am; Fourth Floor: 4-E

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Practicing a Digital Ethic of Care amid the Complexities and Implications of Sharing Stories of

               Reproductive [in]Justice Across Social Media
               Danielle Koepke, Marquette University
          (b) Watch Closely: Reactions, Social Media Entertainment, and Commodifying Connection
               Kelsey Roberts, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

39. Representing the Klan

10:15 am – 11:45 am; Fourth Floor: 4-D

Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus
Organizer: Kathleen Diffley, University of Iowa
Chair: John Levi Barnard, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

          (a) An Earlier Red Record: Towards a Critique of Antebellum Anti-Black Lynching
               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
               Jerry Chen, Harvard University
          (c) “Stranger than Fiction”: Thomas Dixon Jr.’s Idealized Klan
               Katherine Lennard, University of Western Kentucky
          (d) Grant’s Pardoning of the Klan and Thomas Dixon Jr.’s The Traitor
               Brook Thomas, University of California–Irvine

40. Trauma and Healing in Native American Literature

11:00 am – 12:30 pm; Third Floor: PD 1 

Permanent Section: Native American Literature
Chair: Kate Beutel, Lourdes University

          (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 – 12:30 pm; Third Floor: PD 3 

Associated Organization: Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature
Chair: Marilyn Judith Atlas, Ohio University

          (a) Is Winesburg, Ohio’s George Willard an Unwitting Contributor to His Neighbors’ Neuroses?
               Robert Dunne, Central Connecticut State University
          (b) Foucauldian Medical Perception and the Modern Midwest in Sinclair Lewis’s Arrowsmith
               Shaun F. Richards, Finger Lakes Community College
          (c) “Weathering” and Tillie Olsen’s Tell Me a Riddle as Midwestern Cautionary Tale
               Marilyn Judith Atlas, Ohio University
          (d) “We can’t stop living”: Not Enough Heartland Love for Carmen Maria Machado’s Queer Midwest

               Memoir, In the Dream House (2019)
               Patrick S. Allen, Elizabethtown College
               Haley M. Bateman, Elizabethtown College

 42. Healing Identity and Illness in the Art of Storytelling and the Narrative

11:00 am – 12:30 pm; Third Floor: PD 4 

Permanent Section: Race, Gender, and Subalternity
Chair: Tamara D. Hill, Clark Atlanta University

          (a) Narratives of Illness and Identity: Examining the Role of Storytelling, Community, and Healing in
               Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
               Ondra Dismukes, Morehouse College
          (b) Nidali, Deya, and __________ in America: Narratives of Illness and Identity
               Joy Mazahreh, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
          (c) The Black Church: A Sanctuary of Radical Politics in Modern African American Literature
               Ryan Poll, Northeastern Illinois University
          (d) The Journey Home: The Consequences of Societal Displacement and the Importance of

               Returning to The Landing as a Response to Intraracial Detachment
               Thomas Forrest, University of Minnesota

43. Somewhere and Nowhere: Uncanny Environments in Sci-Fi Television

11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Third Floor: PD 5

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: 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: PD 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 – 12:30 pm; Fourth Floor: 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) ‘Continuity in Discontinuity’: Interpreting the Practice of ‘Narrative Care’ for Alzheimer’s in Select
               Indian Literary Texts
               Debashrita Dey, Indian Institute of Technology–Patna
          (c) 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
          (d) 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: 4-B

Permanent Section: Creative Writing I, Prose
Chair: Patrick Thomas Henry, University of North Dakota

          (a) The Three of Them
               Zeke Jarvis, Eureka College
          (b) She Herself Is a Haunted House: Writing Postpartum Psychosis in(/of) Gothic Fiction
               Georgia Poplett, Durham University
          (c) Contingent Contingencies
               Leah McCormack, University of South Dakota
          (d) The Life and Afterlife of Breast Cancer: A Reading and Discussion on Process
               S. L. Wisenberg, Independent Scholar

47. U.S. Combat and Its Consequences in Two Centuries

11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Fourth Floor: 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
               Will Kanyusik, Loras College
          (c) The Artifice of Memory: The Spoken word as a Social Practice in Abner Benaim’s Invasión
               Manuel Sánchez Cabrera, Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

48. Labor, Leisure, and Idleness in Luso-Brazilian Cultures #1

11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Fourth Floor: 4-E

Permanent Section: Luso-Brazilian Studies
Chair: Thomaz Amancio, University of Chicago

          (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
               Jack A. Draper III, University of Missouri
          (c) Queering the Brasiliana Archive: Gê Viana’s Afro-Indigenous Critique of Labor
               Susana Costa Amaral, New York University

49. Taking Survey of the Survey of English

12:45 pm – 2:15 pm; Third Floor: PD 1

Permanent Section: English I, English Literature before 1800
Chair: Adam H. Kitzes, University of North Dakota

          (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
               Adam H. Kitzes, University of North Dakota

50. Medical Dispositives: Texts, Images, Spaces

12:45 pm – 2:15 pm; Third Floor: PD 3

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: 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; Third Floor: PD 4

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: PD 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.

53. Narratives of Health(s): Exploring Positionalities

through the Medical Humanities Lens #2

12:45 pm – 2:15 pm; Fourth Floor: 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: 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: 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: 4-E

Permanent Section: Luso-Brazilian Studies
Chair: Isabela Fraga, Tufts University

          (a) Urban Labor Representations in Brazilian Literature from 1930: A Study of Pagu and Erico
               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
               Letícia Barbosa, University of Wisconsin–Madison

57. Emancipation’s Tremors

2:15 pm – 4:00 pm; Fourth Floor: 4-D

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: PD 1

Permanent Section: American Literature II, Literature after 1870
Chair: Nathan A. Jung, University of Wisconsin–Madison

          (a) “A Tech er de Rheumatiz”: Illness and Declining Health in Charles Chesnutt’s The Conjure
               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
               Jeffrey A. Carr, Miami University

59. French II: Post Ancien Régime

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Third Floor: PD 3

Permanent Section: French II: Post Ancien Régime
Chair: Noëlle Brown, Kennesaw State University

          (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
          (c) Traumatismes de l’exploitation néocoloniale et quête de guérison identitaire dans “Le Rêve du

               pêcheur” d’Hemley Boum
               Georgy Khabarovskiy, University of Chicago

60. Illuminating/Collectivizing Infrastructure

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Third Floor: PD 4

Associated Organization: Association for the Study of Lit and the Environment
Chair: Brian Deyo, Grand Valley State University

          (a) Watershed U: Reading, Learning, and Collectivizing Around Water
               Tierney S. Powell, Grand Valley State University
          (b) Visual Ecopoetry and Empathy towards Nature: Christian Petzold’s Undine
               Margarete J. Landwehr, West Chester University

61. The Rhetorical Framing of Female Bodies in the Public

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Third Floor: PD 5

Undergraduate Research Symposium
Moderator: Nicole Salama, Loyola University Chicago

          (a) The Modern Witch Hunt: An Analysis of Britney Spears’ Media Trials
               Nada Abduljalil, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
          (b) Weaving with a Pink Ribbon: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Cancer Representation and

               Research Funding in Qatar
               Dana Al Disi, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

62. Gender Studies

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: 4-A

Permanent Section: Gender Studies
Chair: Hye Hyon Kim, Illinois State University

          (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
               Katherine Witt, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

63. Reading for Wellness

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: 4-B

Permanent Section: Creative Writing III, Short Story
Chair: Heather Joyce, Northwestern Polytechnic

          (a) “They are hiding in the mist and ferns”: Mediated Narration, (In)direct Experience and Utopia in
               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”
               Heather Joyce, Northwestern Polytechnic

64. Living Under Threat: Palestinian and Israeli Films

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: 4-E

Permanent Section: Global Cinema
Chair: Khani Begum, Bowling Green State University

          (a) Whistling Under Occupation: Palestinian Women’s Friendship, Longing and Resilience in The
               Kingdom of Women (2010) and Soraida: A Woman of Palestine (2004)
               Anne Rothhaas, Univ. of Cincinnati/Bowling Green State Univ.
          (b) Seeking Home & Citizenship: History and Memory in Palestinian Films
               Khani Begum, Bowling Green State University
          (c) “The Most Moral Army in the World”: Israeli National Security, a Casus Belli, and the Counter

               Narrative of Hany Abu-Asad's Films
               Tim Newman, Kent State University

65. International T.S. Eliot Society

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Third Floor: PD 1

Associated Organization: T.S. Eliot Society
Chair: Edward Upton, Valparaiso University

          (a) The Desolations of Philosophy: T.S. Eliot on the Oppressions of Idealism and Materialism
               Jayme Stayer, Loyola University Chicago
          (b) Eliot’s Vanity
               Matthew Kilbane, University of Notre Dame
          (c) T.S. Eliot, Mysticism, and the End of Dialectic
               Edward Upton, Valparaiso University

66. Humanity and Inhumanity in French Medical Imagery

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Third Floor: PD 3

Permanent Section: French III, Cultural Issues
Chair: Ian Williams Curtis, Kenyon College

          (a) Theopolitical Therapeutics: Images of the Immune and Auto-Immune Moment
               Matthew Senior, Oberlin College
          (b) Monstrous, Mythical, or Mundane?: Interrogating the Iconography of Intersex in 19th-Century

               French Medicine
               Laurel Iber, Oberlin College
          (c) Normes, déviations et stéréotypes humains liés à la race dans le Traité des dégénérescences
               Tanya Mushinsky, Southern University Illinois–Edwardsville

67. Environmental Humanities & Planetary/Public Health: Food-Water-Energy

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Third Floor: PD 4

Associated Organization: Association for the Study of Lit and the Environment
Chair: Brian Deyo, Grand Valley State University

          (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
               Caro Register, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

68. Workshop: Countering AI’s Appeal in Writing Classes

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Third Floor: PD 7

Pre-Organized Workshop
Presenters: Priscilla Perkins, Roosevelt University
Michael Blancato, Roosevelt University
Vincent Francone, Roosevelt University

          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: 4-A

Moderator: Eliza Marley, University of Illinois - Chicago

          (a) Bodily Integrity and Disintegration in Mercè Rodoreda’s “La salamandra”
               Kathleen Doyle, Rhodes College
          (b) Fantastical Disorders in Haruki Murakami's Fiction
               Joe DeLong, Case Western Reserve University
          (c) Mental Illness and/as Vampirism: Martin, The Transfiguration, and Renfield’s Syndrome
               Jamil Mustafa, Lewis University

70. Antiracism in Canon Formation and Pedagogy

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Fourth Floor: 4-B

Permanent Section: Antiracism
Chair: Cedric D. Burrows, Arizona State University

          (a) Antiracism Approaches to Canonical Works: Racial Melancholia as a Reading Practice
               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
               Emad Hakim, Illinois State University

71. The Global Western’s New Frontiers

4:15 pm – 5:15 pm; Fourth Floor: 4-D

Permanent Section: Global Cinema
Chair: Khani Begum, Bowling Green State University

          (a) What do Netflix, Uruguay, and the Western Have in Common? The Role of Netflix in Uruguay
               Nayibe Bermudez-Barrios, University of Calgary
          (b) Black Cowboys in Space: The Reinvention of the Western in Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022)
               William Ben Daniels, Bowling Green State University
          (c) Subverting Toxic Masculinity and Empowering Female Agency in The Power of the Dog (2021)

               and Thelma & Louise (1991)
               Khani Begum, Bowling Green State University

72. Innovative Pedagogies: Teaching the Legacies of the Civil War Era

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm; Fourth Floor: 4-D
 

Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus
Organizer: Kathleen Diffley, University of Iowa
Chair: Jane E. Schultz, Indiana University Indianapolis

          (a) Teaching the Medical Legacies of Slavery with Bettina Judd’s patient
               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
               Annemarie Mott Ewing, University of Maryland–College Park
          (d) Sherman and Other St. Louis Sepulchers
               Benjamin Cooper, Lindenwood University
          (e) Digital Approaches to Teaching the Civil War Monument
               Jill Spivey Caddell, Independent Scholar
               Clare Fisher, University of St. Andrews

73. Keynote Address 

On Burning Ground: The Futures of Health in/of the Humanities

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm; Third Floor: Williford ABC

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)