Saturday, November 16

Book 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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 75. Cinematic Trauma Narratives in Contemporary Film

8:00 am – 9:15 am; Third Floor: PDR 1

Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Margarete J. Landwehr, West Chester University

          (a) Coming to Terms with Personal and Historical Trauma in Petzold’s Film Undine
               Margarete J. Landwehr, West Chester University
          (b) Childhood Trauma in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood and Andrei Rublev
               Alice J. Speh, West Chester University
          (c) A Barbarous Form of Incest: Parker Finn’s Smile and Suicide Contagion
               Aaron Botwick, Hostos Community College


76. Shakespeare: Disease, Health, and the Human

8:00 am – 9:15 am; Third Floor: PDR 3

Permanent Section: Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism
Chair: Jeanette Goddard, Trine University

          (a) “To quench the coal which in his liver glows”: Humoral Imbalance in Shakespeare’s The Rape of

               Lucrece
               Krislyn Zhorne, Loyola University Chicago
          (b) “And let us bathe our hands in Caesar’s blood”: The Ills of the Body Politic in Julius Caesar
               Sara Subotić, Loyola University Chicago
          (c) The Pestilent Congregations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet
               Catherine Reedy, Lake Forest College


 77.  The Witness of Political Prisoners

8:00 am – 9:15 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D

Permanent Section: Prison Literature
Chair: William Andrews, North Park Theological Seminary

          (a) Bombs and Bars: Surviving War and Prison
               Dennis R. Koehn, Independent Scholar
          (b) Fictions of Law: Literature of Political Imprisonment in Cuba and Puerto Rico
               Gabriela Lomba Guzmán, University of Chicago
          (c) Desert Rituals: Incarnation and Incarceration
               Andrew J. McKenna, Loyola University Chicago


78. Images of African Life: Navigating Voice, Language, and Political Economy

8:00 am – 9:15 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-A

Permanent Section: African Literature
Chair: Judah-Micah Lamar, Muskingum University

          (a) The Politics of Food and Nutrition in the Novels of Bessie Head
               Londiwe Gamedze, University of California–Berkeley
          (b) Healing for the New African Woman in Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter
               Mary-Lynn Chambers, Elizabeth City State University
          (c) Translanguaging as a Decolonial Strategy: Cultural Revitalization and Identity Formation in

               Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
               A B M Shafiq Islam, Illinois State University


79. Breaking the Silence: Narrative Approaches to Gendered Violence

8:00 am – 9:15 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-B

Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Kristin E. Pitt, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

          (a) Spectral Space and the Social Production of Gendered Violence in Temporada de huracanes,

               by Fernanda Melchor
               Roberto Mendoza-Farias, Central Michigan University
          (b) Clashing Forms of Feminist Ritual in Miriam Toew’s Women Talking
               Timothy Garrison, Northeastern Illinois University
          (c) Giving Voice to Violence in Cherie Jones’ How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
               Kristin E. Pitt, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee


80. The State, Citizenship, and Women on the Margins

8:00 am – 9:15 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-C

Moderator: Alp Eren Pirli, Indiana UniversityBloomington

          (a) The Stateless Wife: Reading the Expatriation Act of 1907 and the Contours of International

               Citizenship
               Isabel Bethke, University of Minnesota
          (b) Ghosts, AI, and the Humanities: Teaching the Works of Olivia Howard Dunbar
               Terence Brunk, Columbia College Chicago


81. Literary Resistance to Socio-Political Oppression

8:00 am – 9:15 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-E

Moderator: Eric Wistrom, United States Naval Academy

          (a) Mapping Tahrir: Spatial Representations and Soundtracks of Egypt’s 2011 Revolution
               Marwa Nour, Loyola University Chicago
          (b) Hottentot’s Venus: Ecology of the Black Female Figure in Robin Coste Lewis’ Voyage of the Sable

               Venus and Other Poems
               Asmita Saha, Illinois State University
          (c) Threads of Pain: The Lingering Intergenerational Trauma in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin
               Ahlam Abulaila, Indiana University of Pennsylvania


82. The Literary Crosscurrents of Reconstruction

8:15 am – 10:00 am; Third Floor: PDR 2

Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus
Organizer: Kathleen Diffley, University of Iowa
Chair: Ian Finseth, University of North Texas

          (a) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rebecca Harding Davis, and the Origins of American Literary Naturalism
               John Hay, University of Nevada–Las Vegas
          (b) Resisting the Flesh: Professional Diction as Racial Border Wall in One Surgeon’s Letters
               Jane E. Schultz, Indiana University Indianapolis
          (c) The Doctor Said, “I Do Not Like Your Corporosity, Sir!”: The Invalid Corps and Postbellum Labor

               Politics
               Marla Anzalone, Duquesne University
          (d) Vessels: Leaves of Grass and America’s Bibles
               Samuel Graber, Valparaiso University
          (e) The Politics of Slavery in Ben-Hur
               Andrew Donnelly, University of Memphis


83. Expanded Cinema from the Geodesic Dome to the Movie Drome

9:30 am – 10:45 am; Third Floor: PDR 1

Permanent Section: Film I
Chair: Craig Saper, University of Maryland–Baltimore County

          (a) Infinite Visibility: Fuller the Conductor of All That is Calculable

               Sarah Lewison, Southern Illinois University–Carbondale
          (b) Tensegrity and the Scalar Poetics of Fluxus
               Hannah B. Higgins, University of Illinois–Chicago
          (c) Stan VanDerBeek’s MovieDrome and Expanded Poetics
               Craig Saper, University of Maryland–Baltimore County


84. Insiders and Outsiders #1

9:30 am – 10:45 am; Third Floor: PDR 3

Permanent Section: English II, English Literature 1800–1900
Chair: Kevin Swafford, Bradley University

          (a) “I was there”: Pain and the Poetry of 'I' of Dorothy Wordsworth
               Daeun Kim, Indiana University–Bloomington
          (b) A Tale of Three Poets
               Jessica Williams, Murray State University
          (c) The Piano as Symbol in Romantic-Era Writing
               Jonathan Gross, DePaul University


85. Mothers in Prison

9:30 am – 10:45 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D

Permanent Section: Prison Literature
Chair: William Andrews, North Park Theological Seminary

          (a) “[B]eing the mother hen for all the babies who needed my love”: Outraged Mothers and Abolition
               Feminism in Joyce Ann Brown’s African American Confinement Literature
               Patrick Elliot Alexander, University of Mississippi
          (b) Maternal Exile: Letters from a French Prison during WWII
               Gayle A. Levy, University of Missouri–Kansas City

86. The Body in Literature: Representational Alternatives to Harmful Norms

9:30 am – 10:45 am; Third Floor: PDR 5

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Moderator: Daniel Fulton Cheung, Loyola University Chicago

          (a) Heavenly Restrictions: (Re)Presentation of Disability and Critical Trauma in Jujutsu Kaisen
               Yufan Lu, Kenyon College
          (b) Bound Up: Transmasculine Health in YA Literature

               Wylan Boyle, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee


87. Navigating the Psychic Residue: Healing, Care,

and Mental Health in the African Novel

9:30 am – 10:45 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-A

Permanent Section: African Literature
Chair: Judah-Micah Lamar, Muskingum University

          (a) Tracing Psychic Genealogies: State Centric and Transnational Bildungsromane
               Michael Williamson, Binghamton University
          (b) Exploring the Dynamics of Mental Illness in Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay with Me
               Sifon Moses, Oklahoma State University


88. Philosophical Reflections on Politics and Personhood

9:30 am – 10:45 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-B

Moderator: John M. Andrick, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

          (a) Healthy Rebellion in the Body Politic: Three Early Modern Perspectives
               Sophia Feingold, Independent Scholar
          (b) “I am not what I am”: The Problem of a Reductivist Account of Personhood

               Sara Subotić, Loyola University Chicago


89. Lenguajes de injusticias y exclusiones

en comunidades hispanohablantes

 9:30 am – 10:45 am; Fourth Floor: Room 4-E

Permanent Section: Spanish III, Latin American Literature
Chair: Chris T. Schulenburg, University of Wisconsin–Platteville

          (a) Naming Linguistic Violence
               Gabriela Veronelli, Northeastern Illinois University
          (b) Language Vulnerabilities as Settler Colonial Logics of Indigenous Erasure in Schools
               Patricia Baquedano-López, University of California–Berkeley
          (c) Ecos del descontento: María Luisa Bombal y La última niebla
               Edwin Murillo, University of Tennessee–Chattanooga


90. Reconstruction’s Women

10:15 am – 11:45 am; Third Floor: PDR 2

Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus
Organizer: Kathleen Diffley, University of Iowa
Chair: Jill Spivey Caddell, Independent Scholar

          (a) Charlotte Forten’s Shadow Diary: The “Daily Record” of the New England Freedmen’s Aid Society
               Jennifer Putzi, William and Mary
          (b) Illustrating Race, Class, and Gender in the 1880s: The Case of Sherwood Bonner and A. B. Frost
               Kathryn B. McKee, University of Mississippi


91. Fulldome Poetics and Practices

11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 1

Permanent Section: Multimodality
Chair: Craig Saper, University of Maryland–Baltimore County

          (a) Matière Première/Raw Material: Narratives Environments for Fulldome Experience
               Yan Breuleux, École NAD–UQAC
          (b) Animation and Cross-Disciplinary Fulldome Collaboration

               Lynn Tomlinson, Towson University


92. Insiders and Outsiders #2

11:00 am – 12:30 pm; Third Floor: PDR 3

Permanent Section: English II, English Literature 1800–1900

Chair: Kevin Swafford, Bradley University

          (a) “Come in! Come in!”: Belonging and Temporal Multiplicity in Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
               Ariel Fried, University of Missouri–Columbia
          (b) “At heart We care nothing for laws, nothing for systems”: The New Woman as Outsider
               Mara Frances Waltz, University of Kansas
          (c) Inside the Outside: George Eliot and Balanced Binaries
               Ana Schnellmann, Lindenwood University
          (d) Empire, Emplotment, and Opiates in The Moonstone

               Katie Brandt, University of Illinois–Chicago


93. Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People

on the Failures of the American Prison

11:00 am – 12:30 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D

Permanent Section: Prison Literature

Chair: William Andrews, North Park Theological Seminary

          (a) A Review of Doran Larson’s Inside Knowledge
               Antonio Pizarro, North Park University
          (b) The Language of Witness: A Reading of Doran Larson’s Inside Knowledge
               Sarah Degner Riveros, Metropolitan State University
          (c) A Review of Doran Larson’s Inside Knowledge
               Kevin D. Strowder, American Library Association
          (d) A Response by the Author
               Doran Larson, Hamilton College


94. Living, Loving and Dying in Comics and Graphic Novels

11:00 am – 12:30 pm; Third Floor: PDR 5

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Keegan Lannon, University of Illinois–Chicago

          (a) Life and Death in Daytripper
               Mathew Rusky, University of Illinois–Chicago
          (b) Parenting & Mental Illness
               Makayla Ernst, University of Illinois–Chicago
          (c) Two Sides of The Same Coin: An Exploration of Familial Love and Its Effects on Self-Worth in
               Jimmy Corrigan and Pretty Deadly
               Rosh Seleena Gonzales, University of Illinois–Chicago
          (d) You Are Memories
               Luc Guerrero, University of Illinois–Chicago

95. Professionalizing Session:

Alt Ac Careers - “Beyond a Plan B Framework”

11:00 am – 12:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 7

PresentersGaywyn Moore, Santa Clara University
Darío Sánchez-González, Gustavus Adolphus College
Caroline Burd, Synapse School, PhD in French
Jill Locke, PhD in Political Science
Carlos Mejía Suárez, PhD in Modern Languages

 

           A discussion designed to offer job candidates and those considering a career change perspectives on how their academic training could transition to the non-academic or non-faculty labor market. Our workshop will consider as well current grad students who wish to target both academic and alt/ac careers from the start. This session will also provide insight for mentors who wish to support a variety of postgraduate employment goals.


96. Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture #1

11:00 am – 12:30 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-B

Permanent Section: Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture
Chair: Amberyl Malkovich, Concord University

          (a) Healing Otherness?: Belonging and Well-Being in Léonora Miano’s Suite africaine
               Jessica Tindira, Eastern Illinois University
          (b) Trauma, Health, and Family Style
               Lan Dong, University of Illinois–Springfield
          (c) “The Cane Became a Part of the Myth”: How YA Fantasy is Reimaging Disability Representation
               Emma Fleet, Columbia University
          (d) “Mom, would Dad have wanted this?” Grievance and Mental Health in Middle Grade Novels with

               Children and Single Parents
               Edcel Javier Cintron-Gonzalez, Illinois State University


97. The Mystery and Sublimity of Edgar Allan Poe

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

Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Keli Masten, Ferris State University

          (a) “The Unusual Horror of the Thing”: Poe’s Gothic Detective
               Keli Masten, Ferris State University
          (b) The Murder of Possibility: The Gothic Detective Tension of Jean Toomer’s Cane
               Lucas McCarthy, University of Michigan
          (c) What Happens When Poe’s Gothic Aesthetics Become a Modern Spectacle?
               Jessica Van Gilder, University of Kentucky


98. Lenguajes, enfermedad, y otras vulnerabilidades

11:00 am – 12:30 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-E

Permanent Section: Spanish III, Latin American Literature
Chair: Chris T. Schulenburg, University of Wisconsin–Platteville

          (a) Unveiling the Shadows: Representations of Mental Illness in the Works of Latin American               Women Writers
               Beatriz L. Botero, University of Wisconsin–Madison
          (b) Trauma y exilio: la memoria del narcotráfico en El ruido de las cosas al caer
               Nelly Zamora-Breckenridge, Valparaiso University
          (c) En bocas cerradas: El canibalismo disfrazado en Cadáver exquisito (2017)
               Chris T. Schulenburg, University of Wisconsin–Platteville
          (d) What do Netflix, Uruguay, and the Western Have in Common? The Role of Netflix in Uruguay

               Nayibe Bermudez-Barrios, University of Calgary


99. Film in the Classroom

12:45 pm – 2:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 1

Permanent Section: Film II
Chairs: Judit Palencia Gutierrez, California State University–Fullerton
José Manuel Medrano, St. Bonaventure University

          (a) Trascendiendo fronteras: Reflexiones sobre el colonialismo y la identidad en el cine
               contemporáneo
               José Manuel Medrano, St. Bonaventure University
          (b) Film as Sign Manipulation: A Collective Philosophical Analysis of the Act of Film Production
               Elliott Koch, University of California–Riverside
          (c) Entre la realidad y la representación: el debate sobre Ixcanul (2015) y la minorización de la
               mujer
               Manuel A. Sánchez Cabrera, University of NC–Chapel Hill
          (d) The Classroom as Self-Discovery: Teaching “Jews in American Film” Amidst Shifting Cultural

               Contexts
               Joseph Ozias, University of Cincinnati


100. Contemporary Discourses of Well-Being

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm; Third Floor: PDR 3

Moderator: S. L. Wisenberg, Independent Scholar 

          (a) Transpersonal Psychology and Practical Spirituality: Furthering Human Flourishing Across th

               Positive Humanities
               John M. Andrick, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
          (b) Self-Help Happiness: Eudaimonia in the Age of Quick-Fix Culture
               Ren Maloney, Indiana University
          (c) Capitalism’s Self-Care Corruption: How Wellbeing Rhetoric Sustains our False Faith
               Ryan Vojtisek, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee


101. Professionalizing Session: Online Teaching

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm; Third Floor: PDR 7

Presenters: Joe Keener, Indiana University Kokomo

Eric Wistrom, United States Naval Academy

          This workshop will discuss online teaching, driven mostly by examples from Canvas. Topics will include strategies for effective and engaging asynchronous online, synchronous online, and blended learning models. Successes and challenges will be addressed, and attendants are encouraged to ask questions or make comments throughout.


102. Practice, Eugenics, and Parasites:

The Medical Profession in African American Literature

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-A

Permanent Section: African American Literature
Chair: Noemí Fernández Labarga, University of Notre Dame

          (a) Novel Doctors: The Black Medical Professional in Fiction
               Patrick S. Allen, Elizabethtown College
          (b) Eugenic Ideology, Progressive Epistemology, and W.E.B. Du Bois’s Poetics of Reform
               Daniel Fulton Cheung, Loyola University Chicago
          (c) Parasitism, Free Indirect Style, and Mental Colonization: Teju Cole’s Open City
               Alp Eren Pirli, Indiana University Bloomington


103. Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture #2

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

Permanent Section: Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture
Chair: Amberyl Malkovich, Concord University

          (a) Health as a Journey in Native American Children's Literature
               Genevieve Ford, Utah State University-College of Eastern Utah
          (b) Banning Children’s Books for the Health of Society?
               Lianna Farber, University of Minnesota
          (c) Reflections of the Mind: Considering the Representation of Mental Health in Young Adult

               Literature
               Amberyl Malkovich, Concord University
          (d) He Cried Nevermore: Poe and Gothic Expression
               George Williams, Concord University


104. Social Critique in American Periodicals

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-C

Moderator: Timothy Garrison, Northeastern Illinois University

          (a) Quarantine and Inoculation: Verity in Boston’s 1721 “Paper-War”
               Kristen Hartman, Wenzhou Kean University
          (b) Power, Media, and “Fake News?”: A Tale of Twin City Rivalry Through the Lens of Two

               Newspapers
               Cari Coleman Godin, University of Maryland–Baltimore County


105. Crossing Boundaries: Narrative Juxtapositions in Film and Literature

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-E

Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Michael Modarelli, Walsh University

          (a) Postcolonial and the Gothic in Nadine Gordimar’s The Conservationist and Jane Campion’s

               Sweetie
               Michael Modarelli, Walsh University
          (b) Fantastic Decolonizations of the Border: Frida and Signs Preceding the End of the World
               Stephanie R. Gates, Wheaton College
          (c) True Colors: Intersectionality and Code-Switching in The Bluest Eye
               Nicholas P. Markellos, Rutgers University


106. Indigenous Thought in the Long Reconstruction

2:15 pm – 4:00 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D

Associated Organization: Civil War Caucus
Organizer: Kathleen Diffley, University of Iowa
Chair: Timothy Sweet, West Virginia University

          (a) Colonel Beaulieu’s War: Making the White Earth Nation, 1862–1868
               Adam Spry, University of Michigan
          (b) Ely Parker in War and Peace
               Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame
          (c) Milton and Modernity in Simon Pokagon’s The Red Man’s Rebuke / Greeting
               Timothy Donahue, Oakland University


107. Teaching Literature Through Reading Bridges

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Third Floor: PDR 1

Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Timothy Hendrickson, Trinity Christian College

          (a) The Pedagogy of Bridging: The Poems of Langston Hughes and Brown Girl Dreaming by
               Jacqueline Woodson
               Kristin Bolkema, Trinity Christian College
          (b) The Pedagogy of Bridging: Faust Stories in Discussion
               Bill Boerman-Cornell, Trinity Christian College
          (c) Approaching Difference Through Bridging: Portrayals of Disability in Of Mice and Men and The

               Bridge Home
               Christine Scholma, Trinity Christian College


108. Novelizing Anthropomorphic Animals & Animality

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Third Floor: PDR 3

Moderator: Jack Kerkering, Loyola University Chicago

          (a) The Esibanag Manifesto–Radical Raccoons in Noopiming and the Agential Resistance of Pests
               Fatima Hasnain, Loyola University Chicago
          (b) Mapping Animal Communities in Woolf
               Stewart Cole, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
               Sarah Schaefer, University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh


109. Prison Writing Programs

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D

Permanent Section: Prison Literature
Chair: William Andrews, North Park Theological Seminary

          (a) “Writing from both Sides of the Moon”: Works by the Writers’ Collective “WRIT112” at Stateville
               Correctional Center
               Melissa Pavlik, North Park University
          (b) Reorganizing, Expanding and Maintaining Writing Programs Inside and Outside the Penal

               System
               William Lederer, Independent Scholar


110. (Mis)Representations in Shakespeare: Disability and the Vice Archetype

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Third Floor: PDR 5

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Moderator: Sara Subotić, Loyola University Chicago

         
This panel has been canceled.


111. Trauma and Embodiment in African American Literature

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-A

Permanent Section: African American Literature
Chair: Noemí Fernández Labarga, University of Notre Dame

          (a) “There was something else . . . a quality within herself”: The Trauma of Neglect in Nella Larsen’s

               Quicksand
               Faye Scott, Northern Illinois University
          (b) Healing Trauma through Community in Three Novels by Rivers Solomon
               Noemí Fernández Labarga, University of Notre Dame
          (c) Considering Health as a Permanent Liminality in Sing, Unburied, Sing
               Natalie Steenbergh, Rochester Christian University


112. Disease, Health, and Identity in Irish Literature

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-B

Permanent Section: Irish Studies
Chair: Desmond Harding, Central Michigan University

          (a) Ulysses’ Silences
               Ery Shin, University of Southern Mississippi
          (b) The Enigma of Grief and Survival in James Joyce’s Dubliners
               Desmond Harding, Central Michigan University


113. German Literature and Film

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-C

Permanent Section: German Literature and Film
Chair: Bethany A. Morgan, Iowa State University

          (a) Art and Desire in Evelyn Schlag’s Die göttliche Ordnung der Begierde
               Thyra E. Knapp, University of North Dakota
          (b) Women Mystics in Films by Margarethe von Trotta
               Bethany A. Morgan, Iowa State University
          (c) The Function of Horror in Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter and Gaiman’s Coraline. A Reconsideration
               Madelon Köhler-Busch, University of Wisconsin–Platteville


114. Spanish I: Peninsular Literature before 1700 #1

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-E

Permanent Section: Spanish I, Peninsular Literature before 1700
Chair: John Paul Giblin, Augusta University

          (a) Food, Farce, and Fellowship in Calderón de la Barca’s “Mojiganga de los guisados”
               John McCaw, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
          (b) Ecos horacianos en Los mirones de la corte
               José Rico-Ferrer, Wayne State University
          (c) “What’s a letter or two between friends?”: Contagion, violence, and comedic closure in La vida es

               sueño
               Jeanette Goddard, Trine University


115. Female Subjects as Objects and Agents in Early Modern Literature

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 3

Moderator: Sara Subotić, Loyola University Chicago

          (a) “Strange Lingering Poisons”: Foreign Substances and Female Bodies in Shakespeare’s
               Cymbeline
               Anne Mcilhaney, Webster University
          (b) To the Virtuous Reader: Early Modern Scholarship and the Petrarchanizing of Aemelia Lanyer
               Maria Capecchi, Elmhurst University
          (c) Writing Their Way In: Bearing Children and Writing Books in 17th Century England
               Laura Anne Carroll-Adler, University of Southern California

116. Literary Arts in Prison: Perspectives from Inside

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-D

Permanent Section: Prison Literature
Chair: William Andrews, North Park Theological Seminary

          (a) Literary Arts in Prison: Perspectives from Inside
               Leigh Sugar, Independent Scholar
          (b) Literary Arts in Prison: Perspectives from Inside
               Tara Betts, DePaul University
          (c) Literary Arts in Prison: Perspectives from Inside
               Victoria Alvarez, Prison + Neighborhood Arts Program


117. Survival, Mental Illness, and Personhood in African American Literature

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-A

Permanent Section: African American Literature
Chair: Noemí Fernández Labarga, University of Notre Dame

          (a) Sometimes You Don’t Survive Whole: Survivorship and The Black Vampire in America
               Jada Grisson, University of Notre Dame
          (b) Depression as a Problem of Writing: Willow Weep For Me’s Black Feminist Reimagination
               Curtis Browne, Brown University
          (c) Redrawing the Human: Blackness and Animality in Kaitlyn Greenidge’s We Love You, Charlie

               Freeman
               Kara Kendall-Morwick, Washburn University


118. New Pedagogical Approaches to Reproductive Justice

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-B

Moderator: Jack Kerkering, Loyola University Chicago

          (a) Pedagogical Interventions in Reproductive Justice: Connecting Healthcare and Education
               Amber Chavez, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
          (b) Narratives around Sex-Ed: From Opt-Out/Opt-In and “Good vs. Bad” Choices to a Curriculum of

               Care
               Rachel La Due, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee


119. Class and Identity in Twenty-First-Century Fiction and Film

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-C

Moderator: David Buehrer, Valdosta State University

          (a) Personas and Performances: Narrative Strategy and Affective Alliances in Virginia Woolf’s Three

               Guineas
               Patrick Thomas Henry, University of North Dakota
          (b) Addiction, Recovery, and the Psychological Burdens of Class in Denis Johnson’s Short Fiction
               David Buehrer, Valdosta State University
          (c) Poverty as a Disease in Layla Martínez’s Carcoma (2021)
               Olga Bezhanova, Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville


120. New & Noteworthy: From a Wide Angle

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm; Third Floor: PDR 2

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

          (a) Author of Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States
               Justine S. Murison, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
          (b) Author of American Tyrannies in the Long Age of Napoleon
               Elizabeth Duquette, Gettysburg College
          (c) Author of Extinction and the Human: Four American Encounters
               Timothy Sweet, West Virginia University
          (d) Author of Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States
               Shirley Samuels, Cornell University


121. Spanish I: Peninsular Literature before 1700 #2

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Fourth Floor: Room 4-E

Permanent Section: Spanish I, Peninsular Literature before 1700
Chair: John Paul Giblin, Augusta University

          (a) Bleeding Women: Menstruation, Bloodletting Practice, and Menopause in Early Modern Spain
               Jenny Jihyun Jeong, University of Wisconsin–Madison
          (b) El urdir sociohistórico de dos vidas barrocas
               Denise Oyuki Castillo, University of Wisconsin–Madison
          (c) Picaresque Families: (Un)reliable Judgments in Lazarillo de Manzanares
               John Paul Giblin, Augusta University