Thursday, November 14

Book Exhibit

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

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 1. Fact and Fiction: Autobiographical, Historical, and

Speculative Literature in Twentieth-Century Latin America

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

Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Cristina Esteves-Wolff, University of Chicago

          (a) Fictions of the Self: Reading and Writing in José Vasconcelos’ Ulises Criollo
               Enrique Macari, University of Illinois–Chicago
          (b) Aestheticizing the Revolution, from the Caribbean to Europe (and Back Again): Alejo Carpentier’s

               El siglo de las luces
               Cristina Esteves-Wolff, University of Chicago
          (c) Representations of the Amazon in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Science Fiction
               Eduardo Leão, University of Chicago

2. Developing Locally Responsive Health-Oriented Writing

Courses to Engage Students in the Humanities 

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

Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Laura L. Beadling, Youngstown State University

          (a) A First-Year Composition Course Grounded in a Health Humanities Perspective
               Jay L. Gordon, Youngstown State University
          (b) Graphic Medical Humanities in the Classroom: A Course in Graphic Memoirs of Illness and
               Recovery
               Laura L. Beadling, Youngstown State University
          (c) Research-Driven Strategies for Developing Responsive Healthcare Writing Courses for Different

               Student Populations
               Diana Awad Scrocco, Youngstown State University

3. Twentieth-Century Literature and the Imperial State

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

Undergraduate Research Symposium
Moderator: Jack O’Briant, Loyola University Chicago          

          (a) Colonialism’s Bad Medicine in Love in the Time of Cholera: A Condemnation of the Doctor, a
               Defense of the Creep
               Noah Reese-Clauson, Loyola University Chicago
          (b) The Violent Symbiosis of Criminals and The State: A Marxist Reading of Burgess’ A Clockwork

               Orange
               Kassandra Faylun, University of Central Florida

4. Public Debates, Hispanic Identities: Visions of

the Press in Puerto Rico and Arizona, 1882-1930

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

Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Ana Rodríguez Navas, Loyola University Chicago          

          (a) “La guerra de la intransigencia” The Press and Jesuit Education in Puerto Rico (1882)
               Joseph M. Laughlin, SJ, Loyola University Chicago
          (b) ¿Mejorando la raza?: Questions of identity in Two Mexican Newspapers in Tucson, AZ
               Anthony Erlinger, Loyola University Chicago
          (c) “Muchos periódicos:” Readership and the Expansion of the Press in Puerto Rico, 1898–1930
               Ana Rodríguez Navas, Loyola University Chicago

5. Instability in Physical Existence or Perceptions in Medieval Literary Texts

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

Permanent Section: Old and Middle English Language and Literature
Chair: Kathleen Burt, Middle Georgia State University

          (a) Anglo-Turkish Interplay in Medieval Romances: The Turke and Sir Gawain
               Filiz Barin Akman, Social Sciences University of Ankara / Illinois State University
          (b) Silence Interrupted: Reading Le Roman de Silence as a Narrative of (Re)Transition
               Zachary Clifton Engledow, University of Indiana–Bloomington
          (c) ‘In this worlde here ther is reste none’: Laboring and Resting Bodies in Middle English Drama
               Benjamin Howard Hoover, University of Indiana–Bloomington
          (d) Reading Awkward Medieval Bodies: Between Rapture and Ill Health
               Yea Jung Park, Saint Louis University
6. Reproductive Biopolitics and Ecology in Recent Iberian

and Latin American Cultural Production

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

Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: William Viestenz, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities          

          (a) Untidy Creatures: On the Generative in Rafael Bernal’s Su nombre era muerte
               John Trevathan, University of Missouri–St. Louis
               Justin Butler, University of Missouri
          (b) Genetically Predisposed for Bad Business: Fathers and Sons in Isaac Rosa’s Lugar seguro
               Erma Nezirevic, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
          (c) An Ethics of Care in Chemical-Age Literature: Benjamín Labatut’s Un verdor terrible and

               Fernanda Trías’s Mugre Rosa
               Timothy Frye, Independent Scholar
          (d) Affirmative Biopolitics as Care in Pilar Codony’s Distòcia
               William Viestenz, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities

 7. Science and Fiction

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

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

Jeffrey Squires, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

          (a) The Science of Health in the Science Fiction of “The Plague Doctors” and “The Algorithm Will
               See You Now”
               Jarrel De Matas, University of Massachusetts–Amherst
          (b) Poisoned Flesh: Bodily and Global Contamination in Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats and Karen
               Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange
               Caroline Hensley, University of Wisconsin–Madison
          (c) “My Blood is Magic”: The Birth of the Posthuman

               Nesrine Affara, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
               Jeffrey Squires, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

 8. Extra-Illustrated Dickens

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

Undergraduate Research Symposium: Pre-Organized Panel

Chair: Carolyn Jacobson, Grinnell College

          (a) Extra-Illustration and Transformative Book Arts of the Turn of the Century
               Ellianna Cierpiot, Grinnell College
          (b) Sentiment, Materiality, and Celebrity Consumption via the Extra-Illustrated Life of Charles
               Dickens
               Sophie Kempenaar, Grinnell College
          (c) The Most Authentic Intimate Link Between the Present and the Greatness of the Past’: The Role

               of Letters in Extra-Illustration
               Wallis Shepard, Grinnell College

9. Mental Health and Memoir

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

Moderator: Lan Dong, University of Illinois–Springfield

          (a) Surviving the War: The Gift and H.D.’s Divine Maternal Legacy
               Samantha Lepak, Loyola University Chicago
          (b) Psychosocial Adaptation: Clifford Whittingham Beer’s A Mind That Found Itself, Manic-

               Depressive Psychosis and the Manufacture of Mental Health in Modern America
               Christian Gelder, Macquarie University–Sydney
          (c) Cutting to the Heart of the Matter: Narration as Surgery in Jean Rolin’s Savannah
               Luke A. Ptak, University of Wisconsin–Madison

10. Religion and Literature

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm; Third Floor: PDR 1

Permanent Section: Religion and Literature

Chair: Seth Johnson, University of Alabama

          (a) The Clerical Mystery: Detection, Religion, and Community
               Doug Sheldon, University of Illinois–Chicago
          (b) Castles of Health: Institutions for Reading in/of Spenser
               John Walters, University of Alabama
          (c) A Conspiracy Against Itself: Campus Novels and a Loss of Faith in the Academy

               Seth Johnson, University of Alabama

11. War, Nursing, Narrative

12:45 pm – 2:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 3

Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Douglas Dowland, Ohio Northern University

          (a) Costs of Containment: Narrative Innovation as Psychological Preservation in First World War
               Nursing Narratives
               Meg Albrinck, University of Wisconsin–Madison

          (b) “The War Is the World”: Theories of Feeling in Women’s Great War Nursing Narratives
               Anika Jensen, University of Kentucky
          (c) “Comfort and Order”: Feeling-Work in Mary Seacole
               Joshua Gooch, D’Youville University
          (d) The Invention of Identity in Mary Borden’s “Rosa”
               Douglas Dowland, Ohio Northern University

 12. Teaching Care: Integrating Health Care Themes

into Core Writing and Literature Courses

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

Pre-Organized Panel
Chair: Vincent Casaregola, Saint Louis University

          (a) “Where to Begin?” A First-Year Seminar in Representations of Health and Illness for Pre-Med

               and Pre-Health Students
               Vincent Casaregola, Saint Louis University
          (b) Teaching Disability Studies in Literature and Medical Humanities Classrooms
               Katie Eck Thorman, Saint Louis University
          (c) Substances to Stanzas: Teaching Poetry at a Treatment Center
               Christian Rayner, Saint Louis University
          (d) Why Stories? Three Approaches to Narrative Medicine
               Dominic Robin, Saint Louis University

13. Workshop: Reimagining the Humanities Through Medicine and Business

12:45 pm – 2:00 pm; Third Floor: PDR 5

Pre-Organized Workshop
Presenters: Kristin LaFollette, University of Southern Indiana
Sukanya Gupta, University of Southern Indiana

          This workshop outlines the transformation of a general-education humanities program into two minors in medical humanities and business humanities. This overview will transition into a collaborative discussion about the opportunities and practical implementation of similar programs on participants’ own campuses. The collaborative discussion will include pooling advice about the specific needs of different types of institutions, outlining the challenges of program development and implementation, and discussing the development of applied humanities gateway courses.

14. Queer Representations on the Twentieth-Century Page and Stage

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

Moderator: Manuel Alonzo, California State University–Stanislaus

          (a) A Queer Realization: The Queer Modern Novel Fully Formed
               Anne Garwig Lucas, Kent State University
          (b) Liberal Empathy and Radical Sexualities: Staging AIDS in Gay Theatre 1980s–2000
               Jared O’Connor, University of Illinois–Chicago

 15. The (In)Human Experience in Science Fiction

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Third Floor: PDR 1

Moderator: Jose Intriago Suarez, Marquette University

          (a) Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Inherited Trauma: A Study on Self-Censorship
               Sierra Getz, University of Brighton
          (b) “Like Entering a Hall of Mirrors”: Never Let Me Go’s Politics of Empathy
               Aileen Tierney, University of Iowa
          (c) “Unretrainability” and the Benefits of Arts and Humanities in Post-2008 Fictions of AI
               Elizabeth Burow-Flak, Valparaiso University

16. The Vision of Versions in Twentieth-Century Fiction and Film

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Third Floor: PDR 3

Moderator: Stephanie R. Gates, Wheaton College

          (a) Translating Sickness: Metaphoric Shifting in the German Translations of The Sun Also Rises
               Christopher Dick, Tabor College
          (b) Theorizing Forbidden Planet as a Science Fiction Adaptation of Shakespeare
               Noah Slowik, University of Delaware

 17. Workshop: Naming Linguistic Violence

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

Pre-Organized Workshop
Presenter: Gabriela Veronelli, Northeastern Illinois University

          “When we speak and are listened to, we are able to begin healing the wounds created by our past and present lives” (Chabram-Dernersesian & Torre).

          This workshop utilizes the Latina/Chicana feminist methodology of plática to foster community-building through sharing verbal journeys that voice harms caused by systemic and interpersonal violence. It proposes a space for conversation and recognition, where participants reflect and name linguistic violence in their own terms, based on their personal or witnessed experiences. Through this process, it creates an environment of healing and empowerment, where personal stories contribute to the larger work of undoing coloniality of language.

18. Chivalric Myths of Female Chastity: Revision and Resistance

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm; Third Floor: PDR 5

Undergraduate Research Symposium
Moderator: Abigail Palmisano, Loyola University Chicago

          (a) The Significance of the 1596 Revision in Interpreting the House of Busirane
               Kaitlyn Harland, Trinity Christian College
          (b) “A White Woman’s Falsehood”: Myths of Chivalry and Black-on-White Rape in Ida B. Wells’s

               Pamphlets
               Haley M. Bateman, Elizabethtown College

19. Affective Experience and the Amelioration of Health Care

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

Moderator: Christian Gelder, Macquarie University–Sydney

          (a) From English Professor to Therapist: A Case Study
               Jonathan Ritz, Michigan State University

          (b) “Annie, Annie, Are You Okay?”: L’Inconnue and the Visual Culture of Simulated Human Models
               Sookyong Ko, University of California–San Diego

20. Impactful Environments: Natural and Architectural

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 1

Moderator: Jose Intriago Suarez, Marquette University

          (a) The Power of Natural Remedies in The Secret Garden
               Matthew Carlson, High Point University
          (b) Toward an Interconnected Climate Response: Agency and Subject-Object Relationships in The

               Grapes of Wrath
               Jesse Carter, Truman State University
          (c) Creepy Ivy: Invasive Landscape, Invasive Architecture, and the Hysterical City
               Elizabeth Marley, University of Illinois–Chicago

21. Literary Intersections of Women and Aging

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm; Third Floor: PDR 3

Moderator: Meg Albrinck, University of Wisconsin–Madison

          (a) “They Returned Again into The Past”: Aging and Time in Persuasion
               Melanie Zynel, Central State University
          (b) The Ethics of Care and Ways of Aging in Sigrid Nunez’s What Are You Going Through
               Amelia Chen, University of Oregon
          (c) Ageism-Sexageism and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Spanish Graphic Novel
               Yomary Carrillo Tequia, University of Minnesota

22. Methods in Literary Criticism

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

Permanent Section: Literary Criticism
Organizer: Joel Wendland-Liu, Grand Valley State University
Moderator: Nathan McBride, Ohio State University

          (a) Strange Symptoms: Metaphor, Interpretation and the Uncanny
               Delmar Reffett, Kentucky State University
          (b) African Drama: A Literary Look into the Mental Health of Wole Soyinka’s Kongi’s Harvest
               Characters through Social Psychology
               Adesanya M. Alabi, Ostim Technical University
          (c) Spanish Postwar Literature is Fertile Ground for Ecocriticism

               Nathan McBride, Ohio State University

23. Autonomy, Authority, and Accessibility:

Representations of Disability in Film and Literature

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

Permanent Section: Disability Studies
Chair: John Allen, Milwaukee Area Technical College

          (a) AI and the Blind Gaze: Translating Blind Subjectivity into AI-generated Cinema in The Blind

               Canvas Project (2023)
               Eduardo Ledesma, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
          (b) Authentic Representation of Intellectual Disability in Literary Texts from Algernon to AI
               John Allen, Milwaukee Area Technical College
          (c) (In)Accessibility: Fantastical Prosthetic in Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Little Lame Prince
               Emily Jones, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities