SESSION X: Sat., April 5, 2:45-4:15 p.m.

10.A Narratives of Assimilation: Jewish-American Writers Working Between the Lines of Race and Gender
President's Ballroom

Carol Batker, Florida State University
"'Why Should You Ask For Ease?': Ethnic Identity, Immigration, and Americanization in Jewish Women's Literature of the 1920's"

Priscilla Wald, University of Washington
"'Changed But Not Yet Fused': The Discourse of Becoming and the Narrative of Assimilation"

Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts
"Resisting Assimilation: The Three Lives of Gertrude Stein (One of Them Ours)"

Moderator: Laura Doyle, University of Massachusetts

10.B Reconfiguring Modernism: Textualizing Images and Visualizing Narratives
Capriccio

Beate Allert, Purdue University
"Obstacles in Textualizing Images and Visualizing Narratives in Paul Klee and E.T.A. Hoffmann"

Daniel R. Schwarz, Cornell University
"Reconfiguring Cezanne and Eliot: Cezanne, Gerontion, and Modernism's Classical Temper"

Daniel Morris, Purdue University
"Figuring and Disfiguring in Joyce Carol Oates's George Bellows: American Artist"

Moderator: Daniel Morris, Purdue University

10.C Anthony Trollope: Sex, Politics, and Plot
Conference Room 3

Robyn R. Warhol, University of Vermont
"Reading Serially: Towards a Poetics of Fiction in Parts"

Antje Schaum Anderson, Dickinson College
"The Female Phineas: Political Plot as Seduction Narrative in Trollope's Phineas Finn"

Jennifer L. Otsuki, Brandeis University
"Fainéant Representation and the Politics of Deference in Trollope's The Prime Minister"

Moderator: Robyn R. Warhol, University of Vermont

10.D Authority, Authorship, and Subjectivity in Twentieth Century British Literature University B

Tamar Katz, Brown University
"Femininity, Race, Modernism: Dorothy Richardson and the Problem of the Subject"

Gautam Premnath, Brown University
"Realism and National Narrative: Discoveries of the Ordinary in 1930's Britain"

Bette London, University of Rochester
"The Lady and the Scribe: Automatic Writing and the Trials of Authorship"

Moderator: Bette London, University of Rochester

10.E Popular Culture and Public Controversies in the Nineteenth Century
Conference Room 1

Peter Logan, University of Alabama
"Fads: The Victorian Narrative of Popular Culture"

Stephanie Smith, University of Florida Bloomers: A Narrative of Shapeshifting"

Carolyn Dever, New York University
"'A Deep, Dark, and Continuous Stream of Mortality': Victorian Midwives' Manuals and the Narrative of Maternal Death"

Moderator: Stephanie Smith, University of Florida

10.F Narratives in Cultural Contact Zones
Conference Room 4

Linda Krumholz, Denison University
"History and Power in Paule Marshall's Daughters"

Julia Watson, California State University, Northridge
"The Narrator as Caseworker: The Cases of Buchi Emecheta and Carolyn Steedman"

Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin
"Borders Versus Borderlands: Narrative Patterns in the Contact Zone"

Moderator: Carolyn Smith, University of Florida

10.G Narratives of the State
Conference Room 2

Michael S. Gorham, University of Florida
"Language of State in Narratives of Early Soviet Russia"

Jodi Melamed, Columbia University
"The Ex-Communist as Apostate: Recanting Communism and Witnessing the Legitimacy of 'National Sentiment' at the Inception of the Cold War"

Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Aarhus University
"Stories Buildings Tell or (Re)Constructing America in Stalin's Skyscrapers"

Moderator: Rebecca Karl, University of Florida

10.H Privileged Refugee , Advanced Tourist, and Trained Observer: Fluid Identities Across the Boundaries of Travel
University A

Rebecca Hogan, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
Joseph Hogan, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater
"Parallel Plots and Parallel Identities in Alma Gottleib's and Philip Graham's Parallel Worlds "

Laura Quinn, Allegheny College
"Up from Anti-Communism: Langston Hughes's Second Autobiography"

Tom Smith, Pennsylvania State Abinton-Ogontz
"Defining Self Via Others: Psychological Lawrence and Postmodern Chatwin"

Moderators: Rebecca Hogan and Joseph Hogan, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

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