Program of Sessions

Thursday, November 12

 
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1. After the Third Nature

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Permanent Section: Science and Fiction
Chairs: Nesrine Affara, Carnegie Mellon University–Qatar

            Jeffery Squires, Carnegie Mellon University–Qatar

          (a) “Congenital Exile”: A Genetic Archive of the Ephemeral
               Dana Al Disi, Ohio State University

          (b) “Lossless compression”: Elision in Public and Personal Archives
               Lyz Bush-Peel, Independent Scholar

          (c) “Built-in imperfections”: Archiving Social Value via our Genetic Identity
               Jeffery Squires, Carnegie Mellon University–Qatar


 2. Unarchiving the Margins: Antiracist Approaches to Archives and Knowledge

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

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

          (a) Tikbalang: Colonized From Head to Toe and Guts to Tongue
               Kirsten Tabernilla, Northeastern Illinois University

          (b) Algorithmic Erasure and the Margins of Memory: AI, Archival Equity, and the Communities Left

                Behind
               Shiva Mainaly, University of Memphis


 3. Central America’s Republic’s after the Archive: Creative Responses to Archival History

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Permanent Section: Central American Literature and Culture

Chair: Stacy Hoult, Valparaiso University

          (a) Theseus and The Labyrinth of Guatemalan Historical Memory in Rodrigo Rey Rosa’s Human
                Matter

               Julia Calderón, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (b) Pillars of Salt: Looking Back at Guatemalan History in La Llorona
               Stacy Hoult, Valparaiso University

4. Backwards and Forwards: Temporality and the Archive

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Queer History in Both Directions: AIDS Writings as Reparative Intergenerational Archives

               Freesia McKee, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point

          (b) Tender Temporalities/Affective Archives: Bending Space Time with My Father
               Bri Noonan, University of Illinois–Chicago

5. Kept and Forgotten: The Politics of Archival Silence

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, American House

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Archival Absence and the Lives of Disabled Bilingual Students

               Eli Bruner, Metropolitan State UniversityDenver

          (b) An Archive of One’s Own: Collecting Fandom as a Feminist Project Through the Lens of Star Trek
                Fanzines

               Anna Whiting, College of Wooster

          (c) Rewriting the Stars, Forgetting the Names
               Elise Adams, Indiana Wesleyan University

6. “50 Shades” of Noir: The Many Manifestations of the Noir Aesthetic I

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Permanent Section: Film I, Early and Classic Film

Chair: Vincent Casaregola, Saint Louis University

          (a) Godard’s Breathless and Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague

               Paul Acker, Saint Louis University

          (b) Violence against Black Women—An Unaddressed Narrative Thread Related to Film Noir

               Lee Nave, Saint Louis University

          (c) Four Minutes to Mourn the World: Madonna as “Femme Fragile” in David Fincher’s “Bad Girl”
               Drago Momcilovic, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

7. Ecopedagogy

8:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.

14th Floor, Western Stage House

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Climate Fiction Pedagogy: Short Stories and Finding Your Way to Action

               Heather O’Leary, University of Illinois–Chicago

          (b) Reimag(in)ing Ecopedagogy: Elemental Witnessing in the (post)Anthropocene
               Ahmed Tahsin Shams, Indiana University–Bloomington

8. Video Games and Science Fiction

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.

14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) “Who Will You Become?”: An Exploration of Ethical Gameplay and Ludonarrative Dissonance in
                Fable

               Susana Ciuperciuc, Loyola University Chicago

          (b) Deciphering History: Archaeology and the Archive in Heaven’s Vault

               Sophia Ellingham, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (c) “Not a Journey and Return, but a Closed Cycle”: Narrative as Dialectical Rhetoric in The
                Dispossessed
               Dylan Peterson, Northern Illinois University

9. Transgression, Murder, and the Public Consciousness

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Keli Masten, Ferris State University

          (a) “A Setting to Awful Death”: Familial Murder as Social Allegory in “The House in the Mist”

               Keli Masten, Ferris State University

          (b) “I Cannot Solve This Case”: Postmodern Gothic Detection in Wake Up Dead Man

               Erin Mulder, Independent Scholar

          (c) “Our Lunatics were Prophets Once”: Violence, Subjectivity, and Angels as Lovecraftian Horror in
                Alan Moore’s and Eric Campbell’s From Hell
               Isaac Grimaldi, Ferris State University

10. Ecopoetics

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Life and Loss in the Ecopoetic Archive

               Lydia Nixon, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (b) Plants, Utility, and Folklore as Commons in John Clare’s Poetry

               Eliza Marley, University of Illinois–Chicago

          (c) [Reforesting] Memory After the Archive: Indigenous Amazonian Poetry, Vegetal Counter-
                Archives, and Ecological Futures
               Virginia Machado Martin, Florida State University
               Paula Bonoso, Florida State University

11. Considerations on the Act of Creative Writing

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Close Reading as an Archival Act: Reading James Robison's “I See Men Like Trees, Walking” to
                Teach the Power of Associative Details in Microfiction

               Brian Whalen, Mount St. Joseph University

          (b) Transcending the Archive: Documental Poetry as Path to Rehumanization

               Shirley Stephenson, University of Illinois–Chicago

          (c) A Poet Becomes a War Criminal: Radovan Karadžić and the Limits of Literature
               Alen Hamza, Western Michigan University

12. The Unreliable Narrator and the Limits of Truth

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.
14th Floor, American House

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Simplified Politics and the Pitfalls of the Child Narrator in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India

               Parker Mellin, Loyola University Chicago

          (b) Construction of Truth in Alias Grace

               Madison Molis, High Point University

          (c) Echoes and Revisions of Virginia Woolf in Ian McEwan’s Atonement
               Ellison Soto, High Point University

13. “50 Shades” of Noir: The Many Manifestations of the Noir Aesthetic II

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.
14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Permanent Section: Film I, Early and Classic Film

Chair: Vincent Casaregola, Saint Louis University

          (a) Noir and Consequences – How the Film Noir Ethos Has Shaped Aspects of Cultural
                Consciousness

               Patrick Mannix, Cleveland State University

          (b) “Rom-Noir”—Lightening the Darkness by Recovering Romance
               Vincent Casaregola, Saint Louis University

14. Epigentics: An Archival Root in African American Poetics

9:40 A.M. – 10:55 A.M.
14th Floor, Western Stage House

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Deborah Um’rani, Morris Brown College

          (a) Blueseum: The Real Estate of Black Life

               Deborah Um’rani, Morris Brown College

          (b) Poetry as Therapy for Black Women

               Valerie Smith, Kennesaw State University

          (c) Poetry Therapy as a form of Mental Health in the Black Community
               Mack Curry, IV, Morris Brown College

15. Stories Beyond and Against the Archive I

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Permanent Section: Creative Writing I, Prose

Chair: Patrick Thomas Henry, University of North Dakota

          (a) I Don’t Want to Bury Me Again: Legitimizing Subjectivity in Historical Nonfiction

               Sonia Beltz, Loyola University Chicago

          (b) What Archive Could a Dead Tiger Have? Satirizing the Archive

               Aditi Kini, University of Chicago

          (c) Looking for Ghosts: Narrative Medicine, Critical Fabulation, and the Afterlives of Eugenics

               Mary-Claire Sarafianos, University of Missouri–Columbia

          (d) The Six Bells: Going Off the Map to Write Historical Fiction About Student Rebellion
               Theodore Wheeler, Creighton University

16. Beyond the Interdisciplinary Archive

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Permanent Section: Literary Criticism

Chair: Timothy Erwin, University of Nevada–Las Vegas

          (a) The Return of Ekphrasis in Twenty-First Century American Novels

               Monika Gehlawat, University of Southern Mississippi

          (b) Epistolary Novel: Past, Present, and Future

               Emily Ross, University of Southern Mississippi

          (c) Bodiless Signatures:  The Transgressive Potency of Literary Hoaxes

               Adam Ray Wagner, University at Buffalo

          (d) “Cause I Can Do It In the Mix”: Collective Cultural Memory, Porous Borders, and Mosaiced
                Identity in Dance Clubs and DJ-Kicks
               Connor Ferguson, Iowa State University

17. Affect and the Postcolonial Subject

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Unsettling the Human: Colonial Humanism and Posthuman Entanglement in Jean Rhys’s Wide
                Sargasso Sea

               Jiwoo Choi, University of Illinois–Chicago

          (b) Between Digital Majoritarianism and Minority Rights: AI as an Election Chief, Social Media
                Posts, Reels, and Hashtags as Mechanisms of Voter Sentiment Manipulation in South Asian
                States

               Muhammad Sharif, Peoples’ Friendship University Moscow

          (c) Emotional Palimpsests: Affective Objects and South Asian Postcolonial Subjectivity

               Aarzoo Singh, University of Winnipeg

          (d) Connected Hermeneutics: Maps’s Anarchic Aesthetic
               Jeremy Schmid, Loyola University Chicago

18. Gothic Archives

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Spiral(ar) Catharsis: American Cosmic Horror and the Archival Fiction of Brazilian Pacification in
                the Midwest

               Mariane Stanev, Albion College

          (b) In the Great Man’s Shadow: Abraham Lincoln and the Gothic

               Grace Adee, University of Illinois–Chicago

          (c) The Liquid Counter-Archive: Fluid Agency and Gothic Depths in Blasco Ibáñez’s Cañas y barro
                (1902)

               Ilaria Strocchia, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

          (d) After the Gothic Archives: The Monstrous Woman in Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel
               Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw, University of Southern Indiana

19. Archives of Uncertainty and Possibility: Gender in Twentieth-Century American Literature

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, American House

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Elaine Cannell, Saint Mary’s College

          (a) Re-Placing Kate Chopin’s The Awakening in a Summer Place

               Marykate Miller, Saint Mary’s College

          (b) Girl Talk: The Merit of Gossip in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles

               Phoebe Diamond, Saint Mary’s College

          (c) No-No Boy: The Model Minority and American Masculinities

               Mary Adams, Saint Mary’s College

          (d) Restless Bodies: “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Hills Like White Elephants”
               Giuliana Graczyk, Saint Mary’s College

20. Against Black Erasure in the Archive

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Avoiding Touristic Reading: Asserting Subjectivity of Toni Cade Bambara Through a Critical
                Analysis of the Archive

               Lauren Sim, University of Cincinnati

          (b) No Fact of Importance Has Been Omitted: The Pruning of Mary Prince For a White Audience

               Isabella Marx, Northeastern Illinois University

          (c) Reparative Mythology: Extracting Antiracist Agency from the Archive of Capoeira

               Maximillian Majak, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (d) “La Porte Must Be Understood”: Archival Framing and Marian Anderson’s 1944 Performance
               Melva Godwin, Indiana University–South Bend

21. Archival Pedagogy: Investing through Partnerships, Recoveries, Reckonings, and Responsibilities

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Western Stage House

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Heather Fox, Eastern Kentucky University

          (a) Students in the Archives as a Response to “After the Archive”

               Heather Fox, Eastern Kentucky UniversityAmanda Stuckey, Central Penn College

          (b) Empowering the Next Generation: A Digital Archives Curriculum
               Jessica Rose, Clayton State University
               Lynée Galliet, Georgia State University

               Morna Gerard, Georgia State University

          (c) Cultivating Students’ Critical Archival Awareness: Black Hawk and the Need for “Native-Made”
                Metadata Labels

               Melissa Adams-Campbell, Northern Illinois University

          (d) Archival Absences: Teaching the (Im)material of American Women’s Writers
               John Staunton, Eastern Michigan University

22. AI in the Humanities Classroom: Pedagogy, Form, and the Archive

11:05 A.M. – 12:35 P.M.
14th Floor, The Bull's Head

Pre-Organized Workshop
Presenters: Brandon Bisbey, Northeastern Illinois University
                   Olivia Cronk, Northeastern Illinois University
                   Ruth Llana, Northeastern Illinois University

                   Ryan Poll, Northeastern Illinois University

          Artificial intelligence already shapes classrooms, archives, and student writing, yet humanities faculty remain divided on its implications. This workshop convenes four interdisciplinary scholars from English and Spanish—working across composition, creative writing, literary studies, and cultural studies—who stake out differing positions: two advocate critical resistance to LLM dependency, while two approach AI with ambivalence, as a tool demanding engagement rather than rejection. Framed by the conference's archive theme, presenters pair theorists (including Hayles, Raley, Dubreuil, and Berlant) with classroom practice. Rather than resolving debate, the workshop treats disagreement as a resource, offering concrete strategies and sharpened theoretical stakes.

Afternoon Break

12:35 P.M. – 1:40 P.M.

23. Stories Beyond and Against the Archive II

1:40 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Permanent Section: Creative Writing I, Prose

Chair: Patrick Thomas Henry, University of North Dakota

          (a) “Fresh Health,” a Novel: Manufacturing an Archive as the Basis for Composition

               Amanda Goldblatt, Northeastern Illinois University

          (b) Born in the USA: Horror and America’s “Me Decade” in Fiction

               Zeke Jarvis, Eureka College

          (c) Haunting the Archive: Speculative Interventions in Historical Fiction

               Rebecca Kilroy, University of Minnesota

          (d) Mementos and Memories: Narrating Speculative Archives through Cursed Objects
               Patrick Thomas Henry, University of North Dakota

24. International T.S. Eliot Society I

1:40 P.M. – 2:55 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Associated Organization: International T.S. Eliot Society

Chair: Edward Upton, Valparaiso University

          (a) Honours Make the Man: Staging Authority and the Making of T.S. Eliot’s Late Public Persona

               James Moser, New River Community College

          (b) T.S. Eliot’s Cult of Saint Sebastian: Decadent Catholicism and the Visual Culture of Modernism

               Valentina Monateri, University of Padua

          (c) The Fire and the Rose: Reading the Excess in T.S. Eliot’s Religious Poetry
               Yibin Yang, University of Notre Dame

25. Feminist Considerations

1:40 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) From the Home Front to the War Front: Female Poets of WWI

               Gabriela Clarke, Northern Illinois University

          (b) A Room of One’s Own Insanity: An Analysis of Women’s Rebellion Through Isolation in
                Domesticity

               Nada Abdujalil, Independent Scholar

          (c) WPA as Feminist Killjoy

               Kristi McDuffie, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

          (d) Leavening the Lump: The Radical Potential of Early Kindergarten Pedagogy in the University
                Writing Classroom
               Amber Chavez, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

26. Punk, Queer, Taboo

1:40 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Archiving Punk:  The Afterlives of the Ramones in Comics

               William Nesbitt, Beacon College

          (b) Battle Scars from the Mosh Pit: Organic Archiving in a Small-Town Queer Punk Scene

               Freesia McKee, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point

          (c) (Drag) Queens of Pleasure and (Drag) Kings of Pain: The Aftermath of Taboo in Swinburne

               Jenn Lee, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign

          (d) Finding The Joy Spot in the Queer Archive: Beyond Damage and Repair
               Luke Anderson, Louisiana State University

27. Extra-Illustrated Dickens

1:40 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
14th Floor, American House

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Carolyn Jacobson, Grinnell College

          (a) Distilling Dickens: Comparative Indexes of Extra-Illustrated Editions of The Life of Charles
                Dickens

               Virginia Oliver, Grinnell College

          (b) The Impact of Transatlantic Celebrity on Victorian Social Novelists

               Rosie Penar, Grinnell College

          (c) Marginalizing Text: The Changed Materialities of Extra-Illustrated Books and their Effects on
                Reader Interaction

               Lillian Tuai, Grinnell College

          (d) An Atypical Author: Henry Alexander as the Extra-Illustrator of John Forster’s The Life of Charles
                Dickens
               Hazel Zhou, Grinnell College

28. Victorian Readings

1:40 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Marrying Bleak House: Proposing Asexual Readings as an Archival Intervention

               Sonia Beltz, Loyola University Chicago

          (b) Suffering and Spiritualism: Ghosts and Rhetorical Coping in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

               Anna Baugher, Saint Louis University

          (c) The Search for the Self: Religion, Reason, and Faith in George Eliot’s Middlemarch

               Ana Schnellman, Lindenwood University

          (d) A Christmas Carol in the Age of Economic Ghosts: Dickens, Marx, and Engels
               Ryan Poll, Northeastern Illinois University

29. French III: Cultural Issues

1:40 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
14th Floor, Western Stage House

Permanent Section: French III, Cultural Issues

Chair: Ian Curtis, Kenyon College

          (a) Fragmented Mediations: Leïla Sebbar’s Proto-Anarchival Essay “La Seine était rouge”

               Sage Goellner, University of Wisconsin–Madison

          (b) Traumatic Arrivals: Inheritance, Address, and Literature After the Archive

               Romain Pasquer Brochard, Oberlin College

          (c) Voicing the Unarchived: Trauma, Madness, and Counter-Memory in Humus (2006)

               Silvia Álvarez-Trujillo, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

          (d) Par le biais des autres: Acknowledging Irony in Bélem’s Le Fruit le plus rare
               Lindsey Richter, Grace College

30. What We Can Know: Teaching Research and Writing After the Archive

1:40 P.M. – 3:10 P.M.
14th Floor, The Bull's Head

Pre-Organized Workshop
Presenters: Paula Reiter, Mount Mary University
                   Kimberly Baldus, University of Missouri–St. Louis
                   Abbie Joranger, Mount Mary University

                   Lesley Sieger-Walls, University of Missouri–St. Louis

          This workshop uses Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know to address a central problem of contemporary scholarship and pedagogy: we are surrounded by digital information yet increasingly cut off from meaningful records, stable evidence, and trustworthy tools. McEwan’s novel makes visible the crisis scholars now face as readers, researchers, and educators: how to evaluate sources, sustain interpretive rigor, and preserve meaningful inquiry when the archive itself is unstable. The session’s goal is to help participants design student work by developing assignments that foreground source evaluation, evidence gaps, transparency, and reflective engagement with what can and cannot be known.

31. After the Archive: Embodiment, Memory, and Poetic Reconstruction

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Permanent Section: Creative Writing II, Poetry

Chair: Ola ElWassify, Illinois State University

          (a) Body as the Site of Archival Inquiry in Poetry
               Cynthia Nwakudu, Illinois State University

               Saima Afreen, Illinois State University

          (b) Fragmented Memory and Poetic Life Writing in 1980s Iran
               Monir Bazarbash, Florida State University

32. International T.S. Eliot Society II

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Associated Organization: International T.S. Eliot Society

Chair: Edward Upton, Valparaiso University

          (a) T.S. Eliot, Out of South Africa

               Kieran Silbert Brown, Somerville College, University of Oxford

          (b) Students as Archivists: Reconstructing T.S. Eliot in AP English Literature

               Kathy Contant, University of North Carolina–Greensboro

          (c) “What the Devil Do You Want Me to Print”: T.S. Eliot as Editor and Publisher
               Eden Link, Loyola University Chicago

33. Archiving Identity Across Time, Space, and Place

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Jane M. Battison, Case Western Reserve University

          (a) Constructing the New Archive: Grassroots African Museums and Innovation

               Cheryl Toman, University of Alabama

          (b) Archives of the Colonial Past: The Ghosts of the Musée du Quai Branly

               Charlotte Sanpere, Case Western Reserve University

          (c) (Re)writing the Migrant Identity in Gaël Faye’s Petit Pays and Kim Thúy’s Ru
               Jane M. Battison, Case Western Reserve University

34. Little Moving Parts: Molecules, Microbooks, Bees

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Angela Sorby, Marquette University

          (a) Tiny Homes: Aromatic Compounds and Affective Speech

               Tracy Thompson, Alverno College

          (b) Microbook Binding in Real Time

               Angela Sorby, Marquette University

          (c) The Hive Mind and Colony Collapse Disorder in Bee Poetry
               Sandra Kleppe, Inland Norway University

35. The Normal and the Aberrant: Desire and the Politics of Visibility

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, American House

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Individual-Paper Panel

Chair: Patrick Thomas Henry, University of North Dakota

          (a) “Enforcing Normalcy” in Howl’s Moving Castle

               Audrey Lim, Andrews University

          (b) The Knight of Desire: Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

               William Anderson, Elmhurst University

          (c) It Wasn’t Love: The Effort to Normalize Same-Sex Relationships
               Maggie Dorn, Indiana University–South Bend

36. Trans Archives

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Archive

               Jared O’Connor, Shenandoah University

          (b) From Text to Flesh: Paul Preciado’s Orlando and New Directions in Literary Criticism

               Kathleen Higgins, University of Minnesota

          (c) Greer Lankton’s Doll Archive
               Cassandra Lerer, University of Chicago

37. Dealing with the Digital

3:20 P.M. – 4:35 P.M.
14th Floor, Western Stage House

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) The Times They are A Changin’: Adapting Teaching Techniques in Literature Classes for the
                Student of Right Now

               Sarah Acunzo, Suffolk County Community College

          (b) Ghosted in the Classroom: Teaching Black Culture and Literature During an Era of Digital Erasure

               Keturah Nix, Xavier University

          (c) Abstraction After the Archive: Reading Zong!
               Anna Ioanes, University of St. Francis

38. Beyond the Archive: Love, the Blues, and Negotiation

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel N

Permanent Section: African American Literature

Chair: Judah-Micah Lamar, Muskingum University

          (a) Love in Letters: Curating Intimacy in the Black Feminist Archive

               Mariama Sidime, Princeton University

          (b) J. McHenry Jones’s Hearts of Gold: A Negotiation with the White Press

               Alp Eren Pirli, Indiana University–Bloomington

          (c) Women With Knives: Classic Blues and the Ambivalence of Feminized Infrapolitics in Toni
                Morison's The Bluest Eye and Jazz
               Aindrila Choudhury, University of Virginia

39. Using Local Archives to Engage Students in Academic and Professional Writing: Perspectives from English and History

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Merchants Hotel S

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Diana Awad Scrocco, Youngstown State University

          (a) Motivating Student Writers Through Ethnographic Research: The Case for Local Archival Writing
                Assignments

               Diana Awad Scrocco, Youngstown State University

          (b) Fostering Engagement in an Online, Asynchronous First-Year College Writing Class Using
                Archival Research

               Jay Gordon, Youngstown State University

          (c) Using Local Archives to Write a Holocaust Exhibition: The Honigman Project and Class
                Collaboration
               Kyle Starkey, Youngstown State University

40. “I think the term you’re looking for is ‘colonised’”: Emancipation or Reification in Deadlock

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel N

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Elaine Roth, Indiana University–South Bend

          (a) Laughing Through Bared Teeth:  Women’s Rage in the Australian Police Procedural Deadloch

               Elaine Roth, Indiana University–South Bend

          (b) Police Corruption in Deadloch

               Jason McLachlan, Notre Dame University

          (c) The Eddie Factor: Crass Humor, Freedom, and Containment
               Jessica Kado, Indiana University–South Bend

41. After the Archive: Recovering Memory Against Erasure

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Steamboat Hotel S

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) AI, Synthetic Memory, and the Exigencies of Truth in Chiang’s Fiction

               Elizabeth Burow-Flask, Valparaiso University

          (b) A Conversation with Concha Alborg: Chronicles of a Transatlantic Identity
               Maria Gomez Martin, California State University–San Marcos

               Ana Roncero Bellido, Lewis University

          (c) How to Use an Archive: Families Histories and Community Organizing in Perifèria (2020)
               Caitlin Quintenz, Carthage College

42. Italian American Archives: Women’s Voices / Women’s Lives

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, American House

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Nancy Caronia, Loyola University Chicago

          (a) Rethinking Archives: Chicago Italian American Women’s Oral Histories
               Estelle Cooksey, Loyola University Chicago

               Nic Dyer, Loyola University Chicago

          (b) The Shout into the Quiet: The Legacy of Vittoria repetto
               Riley Mueller, Loyola University Chicago

43. Georgian Readings

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Shakespeare House

Individual-Paper Panel

Moderator: To Be Determined

          (a) At Play in the Archives: Mary Hamilton, Munster Village, and the Palimpsestic Text

               J. David Macey, Central Connecticut State University

          (b) The Unfinished Sheepfold: Michael and the Archive of a Vanishing Life

               Ran Tao, University of Notre Dame

          (c) Searching for Melancholy: Melancholia in Charlotte Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets
               Lileana Cavillo, Florida State University

44. Reinterpreting Of One Blood: Identity, Genetics, and Psychoanalysis

4:45 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
14th Floor, Western Stage House

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Max Chapnick, Saint Mary’s College

          (a) The Historical Reality of Of One Blood

               Brooke Baumann, Saint Mary’s College

          (b) What is Purity? The Specter of Genetics in Hopkins’s Of One Blood

               Genevieve Le Leux, Saint Mary’s College

          (c) The Uncanny and Effects of Slavery in Of One Blood
               Victoria Rossi, Saint Mary’s College