POETRY AND PROSE READING

Heather McEntarfer, University of Pittsburgh, Creative Nonfiction
Jonathan Moody, University of Pittsburgh, Poetry
Amy Tudor, University of Kentucky, Fiction

Javier V. Urbina, Universidad CNCI campus Juarez/UCLA/Ohio State, Poetry

PANEL PRESENTATIONS

PANELS A:

Media/Pedagogy/History: Special Media Demonstration and Roundtable

Presentation: “Reliving History with Reliving the Revolution,” Karen Schrier, S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Comparative Media Studies

Respondents: Kara Andersen, University of Pittsburgh, English/Film Studies

Tara Lockhart, University of Pittsburgh, English

Textual Histories

“Why Can’t the Sansculottes Speak?  Representation and Organicity in Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution: A History,” Amy Cook, University of Pittsburgh, English

“The Historical Human in John Stuart Mill and George Eliot,” Kate Day, University of Pittsburgh, English

“Poe’s Allegory of the Origin: Philosophy, History, and the Event of Truth,” Tom Sparrow, Duquesne University

Representing History’s Horrors

“Commemoration and Disregard:  French Monuments Respond to 1870-71,” Melissa A. Deininger, University of Pittsburgh/Université de Paris X?Nanterre, French and Italian

“Creative Destruction,” Adrian Sas, Free University Brussels, Urban Cultural Affairs

“Passive Revolution and Vengeance Motif: Memory, Image, and Gothic Intelligence in Korean Horrors,” Seung-hwan Shin, University of Pittsburgh, English

PANELS B:

History/Memory/Trauma

“‘A New Face’ for Sicilia: Cinema and History in L’uomo delle stelle,” Devan Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh, English/Film Studies

“Whose Memory is it Anyway?: The Un-experienced Experience as a Reliable Mnemonic Source,” Louis Segura, San Francisco State University, Comparative Literature

“‘Who Now Remembers the Armenians?’:  Atom Egoyan’s Ararat and the Dialectics of Memory,” Anastasia Ulanowicz, University of Pittsburgh, English

Ethics of Critical Practice

“Towards a Responsible Critical Aesthetics: Making Sense with Edward Said and Jean-Paul Sartre,” Sarah Bagley, University of Pittsburgh, English

“Is It ‘Post-’ or Is It ‘Post’?: Postcolonial Studies in the Era of Globalization,” Deepa Jani, University of Pittsburgh, English

“A Chance Encounter With Blanchot and Friends: Viens,” Chris Rawls, Unaffiliated

PANELS C:

Sex, Feminism, and Rock and Roll in the 1960s

“Are You a Mod or a Rocker?  The Marcuse-McLuhan Dialectic in Mid-Sixties Culture,” Christine Feldman, University of Pittsburgh, Communication

“Beyond Nature Girls: The Unexpected Sexploitation of Wishman’s Nude on the Moon,” Melissa Lenos, Temple University, Mass Media and Communication

“The Aesthetics of Mobility: Femininity and Feminism in Movin’ With Nancy, 1967,” Mary E. Pagano, Northwestern University, Radio/TV/Film

Debating Ezra Pound’s Cantos

“Making it Cohere: The Continuing Aesthetics, Ethics, and Relevance of The Cantos,” Lee Einhorn, University of Washington?Seattle, English

“Standing by the Word and Loving the Antient”: The Influence of Confucius on the Aesthetics of Ezra Pound and The Pisan Cantos,” Justin Kishbaugh, Duquesne University, English Literature

“‘Eucalyptus That Is for Memory’: Ezra Pound’s Journey from the DTC to Canto LXXIV,” Maria Matuscak, University of Pittsburgh, English

PANELS C:

Writing Personal Histories: Autobiography and Memoir

“Intimate Histories,” Kristen Cosby, University of Pittsburgh, Creative Nonfiction

“The Cultivation and Liberation of Julia Alvarez’s Literary Voice,” Stefanie Wielkopolan, Chatham College, Creative Writing

Power, Discipline, and History

“Kent State: The Failure of Discipline and the Punishment of Dissidence,” Robert M. Fagley, University of Pittsburgh, French Literature

“The Act of Memorialization: Analyzing the Site, Purpose, and Re-presentation of Lynching Photography Exhibitions,” Erika D. Molloseau, University of Pittsburgh, Communication

“Disciplining the Poetic: Amiri Baraka’s ‘Somebody Blew Up America’ and the Rhetorical Limits of Poetry,” Stephen Llano, University of Pittsburgh, Communication