Anyone attending the ACLA 2012 conference in Providence at the end of this month is warmly invited to come join some or all of the seminar I have organized with Harris Feinsod on Bad Reception, Missed Connection, Clogged Circulation. We will be meeting at the invigorating hour of 8 a.m. from March 30 to April 1 in the Roberts Center, Room 225. The presentations are:
Friday, March 30
- Katherine Mannheimer, University of Rochester
- “The Rash Dexterity of Wit: Genre-Hopping Verbal Patterns in Restoration Drama and Poetry”
- Molly Swift Metherd, Saint Mary’s College of California
- “The Great Canal Race: US and Japanese Imperialism in James Weldon Johnson’s El Presidente, or The Yellow Peril”
- Anne DeWitt, Princeton University
- “Reading Reception of the Theological Romance”
- Harris Feinsod, Northwestern University
- “Modernism Aship: Recirculating Transnational Poetics”
Saturday, March 31
- Andrew Goldstone, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
- “The Song of Misrecognition: Indian Love Lyrics in Yeats, Tagore, and Edith Hull”
- Sonam Singh, Cornell University
- “The Bad Reception of the 1930s Anglophone Indian Novel: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Frameworks of Postcolonial and Modernist Studies”
- Gabriele S. Hayden, Reed College
- “Performing Blackness in Weimar Germany”
Sunday, April 1
- Luke Parker, Stanford University
- “Emigration, Backwardness, and the Search for an Alternative Present: Russian and American Writers in Interwar Europe”
- Lee Konstantinou, Princeton University
- “Bad Attitude: William S. Burroughs at the Birth of Punk”
- Meredith Ramirez Talusan, Cornell University
- “Negritude Without Filitude: Form, Language, and Possibilities of Reception in Modern Filipino Poetry”
- Daniel R. Mintz, University of Michigan
- “Bildung Towards the End: Kermode’s Mythic Temporality and Doctorow’s Book of Daniel”