Michael Collins (University of Kent), "‘Creating
a Common Ground: Print Culture, Anarchist
59th BAAS Annual Conference
th
Autobiography and 'US Literary Tradition’"
th
10 - 13 April
J. Michelle Coghlan (University of
Provisional Programme – SUBJECT TO
Manchester), "Amazons in the Parlor: The
CHANGE
Paris Commune and the Visual Culture of Postbellum U.S. Gender Panic"
THURSDAY 10th APRIL
Tom F. Wright (University of Sussex), "How
14. 30: Registration (Arts Foyer)
Silence Spoke for Lucy Parsons"
15.00-16.15pm: BAAS Libraries and Resources
Subcommittee (BLARS) (Arts Main LR)
Panel A2: Fictions of Crisis
Chair: TBC
16.15-16.45: Tea/Coffee (Noble Room)
Michelle Green (University of Nottingham), "A
17.00 -18.30: Welcome and Plenary,
Queer Kind of Anarchy: The 'Failed Citizen' in
sponsored by the Eccles Centre at the British
Contemporary 'Obesity' Fiction"
Library (Noble Room)
David W. Janzen (University of Alberta),
Iwan Morgan, Professor of United States
"Critical Conditions: Crisis and its remainders
Studies and Commonwealth Fund Professor of
in An American Tragedy"
American History, Institute of the Americas
Daniel Mattingley (Swansea University),
(University College London),
"'Crash Fiction': American Literary Novels of
the Global Financial Crisis"
“The Eternal Red Peril: Deficits and Debt in
Respondent
American History from Jefferson to Obama”
Panel A3: Native Writing and Legacies
18.30-19.45: Reception and Buffet (Noble
Chair: TBC
Room)
Zalfa Feghali (Canterbury Christ Church
University), "Writing a Literary History of
th
Friday 11 April
Citizenship"
7.30-9am: Breakfast (Lucas House, for those
Cornelia Vlaicu (Independent Scholar), "Myth
staying on campus)
into Politics, the Sacred, the Wild, and the
Ethical: N. Scott Momaday's House Made of
9.00-10.30: SESSION A
Dawn and The Ancient Child"
Panel A1: BrANCA Panel: Fin de siècle
Radicalisms
Manjeet Ridon (University of Nottingham),
Chair/Respondent: Andrew Lawson (Leeds
"Indian American Dreams of Home in Chitra
Metropolitan)
Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices"
1
Simon Sandison (University of Leeds),
Panel A4: Race and the Body
"America's Games: National nostalgia and
Chair: TBC
Athletic Exceptionalism"
Jonathan Ward (University of East Anglia),
"Containing the Threat: Analyzing Robert
Tom Adam Davies (University of Sussex),
Mapplethorpe's Photographs of Black Men in
"Poster Boy for the Great Society: George
The Black Book"
Forman, Black Protest and American Identity"
Samy Azouz (Independent Scholar), "Amiri
Panel A7: European Beat Studies Network
Baraka's Theater of Ritual and Ritualization:
Chair: Oliver Harris (Keele University)
From Rituals of Sacrifice to Rituals of Political
Véronique Lane (Keele University), "National
Protest Performance"
Identity in Beat Image-Making: Burroughs and
Gide"
Laura MacDonald (University of Portsmouth),
"The Production and Distribution of the Black
Douglas Field (University of Manchester), "In
Female Body on the Musical Theatre Stage in
the Manchester Jeff Nuttall Archives: Tracing a
The Wiz (1975) and Dreamgirls (1981)
Counter-Cultural Polymath"
Ceren Sengezer (University of Birmingham),
Panel A5: Soft Power and Private Agency in
"Allen Ginsberg's Lectures on William
US National Security Policy
Shakespeare"
Chair: TBC
Robert Pee (Independent Scholar), "The rise of
Panel A8: Military Service
democracy promotion during the 1970s: state
Chair: TBC
weakness and non-state initiative"
Christopher Sparshott (Northwestern
Chiara Morbi (University of Birmingham), "U.S.
University in Qatar), "Guilty of Being America:
cultural propaganda in Italy during the Early
Imperial Hubris and the Court Martial of David
Cold War"
Henley, February 1778"
Mara Sankey (University College London),
Lawrence T. McDonnell (Iowa State
"Political Intervention or Impartial Assistance?
University), "Making War Pay: Civil War
The National Endowment for Democracy’s
Military Service and the Creation of an
Electoral Assistance Programmes to Chile and
American Working Class"
Nicaragua 1988-1990"
Patrick Doyle (University of Manchester),
"Irregular Warfare in the Confederate
Panel A6: Sport and Gender
Heartland: Was There a Guerilla War in Civil
Chair: TBC
War South Carolina?"
Julie Rak (University of Alberta), "The
Brotherhood of the Rope? Gender Trouble on
10.30-11.00: Tea/Coffee (Mason Lounge, Arts)
the American climbs of K2"
11.00-12.30: SESSION B
2
Panel B1: HOTCUS Panel 1: American History
Liam Kennedy (University College Dublin),
and the Moving Image in War and Peace
"The Elusive Enemy: Zero Dark Thirty and the
Chair: - Cara Rodway (Independent Scholar)
American Worldview"
Sara Beth Levavy (Courtauld Institute of Art),
Nick Robinson (University of Leeds), "Playing
"Constructing the Contemporary: American
our Own Reality? Towards an Understanding
Interwar Newsreels and the Patchwork of the
of Post-9/11 Military Games"
Everyday"
Panel B4: Civil Rights
Amy-Claire Scott (Newcastle University), "The
Chair: TBC
Office of War Information and the Depiction
Lee Sartain (University of Portsmouth), "'Let
of Isolationism in the Hollywood Journalism
the Children Lead': The Youth Marches to
Genre, 1942-1945"
Washington, DC 1958 and 1959"
Iwan Morgan (University College London),
Gemma Evans (University of Nottingham),
"Before the Red Scare: Hollywood's Nazi-
"'Taking the Law into Our Own': African
Hunting Movies, 1945-47"
American Religious Leadership and the
Panel B2: American Poetry
Constitutionality of Non-violent Direct Action,
Chair: TBC
1960-1965"
Eleanor Spencer-Regan (Durham University),
Mark Newman (University of Edinburgh), "The
"'Down here, after 9/11, we need positive
Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans and
stuff': Post-9/11 Poetry and the Elegiac
Parochial School Desegregation, 1955-1962"
Tradition"
Panel B5: Lost in Translation: Latino/a
Rona Cran (Independent Scholar), "'the
Identities and the Browning of America
uptown poets and the downtown poets':
Chair: TBC
inter-coterie poetics in mid-century New York"
Becky Avila (University of East Anglia), "Dora
Melanie Eis (Free University of Berlin),
the Explorer Speaks Like a White Girl:
"'Seeking Jazz or Sex or Soup': Public
Standard Language Ideology & U.S. Born
Performances of Emotionality in Allen
Latinos"
Ginsberg's 'Howl'"
Victoria Carroll (King's College London), "The
Panel B3: “We Create our own Reality”: The
White Man in Me: Translating HIV
War on Terror and U.S. Media
Transmission as Interracial Exchange in Gay
Representation
Latino/a Cultural Production"
Chair: Zara Dinnen (University of Birmingham)
Eilidh Hall (University of East Anglia), "'Honk,
Hamilton Carroll (University of Leeds), "How
says the cars at home, here they say tán-tán-
to Tell a True War Story: The Photojournalist
tán': The Mestizaje of Language and Identity in
as Subject in Contemporary Documentary"
Sandra Cisneros"
3
Student Activism in Nashville, Tennessee,
Panel B6: Performing the Past
1940-1964"
Chair: TBC
12.30-13.30: Lunch (Mason Lounge, Arts)
Sarah Conrad Gothie (University of Michigan),
"'A Funny Match': Radicalism Weds Nostalgia
13.30-15.30: SESSION C
at Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
Museum"
Panel C1: Communicating Political Ideas in
the 20th Century
Kate Kirwan (University College, Cork), "'A
Chair: Sue Currell (University of Sussex)
cappella heavy metal': the transnational
Simone Diender (Brandeis University),
renaissance of Sacred Harp singing"
"Trading Activism: Middlebrow Publishing and
the Career of Everyday Political Language in
Panel B7: Narratives of Slavery and Freedom
20th Century America"
Chair: TBC
Bharat Malkani (University of Birmingham),
Ian Afflerbach (University of California),
"Voices for Abolition: A Comparative Study of
"Tragic Liberalism in Midcentury America"
Slave Narratives and the Testimonies of Death
Nick Witham (Canterbury Christ Church
Row Exonerees"
University), "The House of Knopf and the
Heike Jablonski (University of Heidelberg),
History of Slavery: Rethinking Kenneth
"American Martyrs: Discourses of Martyrdom
Stampp's The Peculiar Institution (1956)"
in the American Anti-Slavery Movement"
Panel C2: Vertical Networks
Jenni Lewis (Bath Spa University), "Frederick
Chair: TBC
Douglass' Phenomenology of Literacy"
Robin Vandome (University of Nottingham),
“Theorizing Vertical Networks”
Panel B8: Domestic and Transnational Action
Against Jim Crow in Southern Universities
Graham Thompson (University of
and Their Communities
Nottingham), “Melville’s Magazine Fiction”
Chair: George Lewis (University of Leicester)
James C. Hall (University of Alabama),
John Fagg (University of Birmingham),
"Segregation and the Professor: Faculty
“Norman Hapgood’s Editorial Control”
Responses to the Autherine Lucy Crisis at the
Matthew Pethers (University of Nottingham),
University of Alabama in 1956"
“Going Postal: Distribution Networks and the
Hannah Higgin (University of Cambridge),
Form of the Nineteenth-Century Magazine”
"Bringing “Peace” to the American South:
Peace Corps Training and Race Relations
Panel C3: Natural Histories of American
Below the Mason-Dixon Line, 1961-1969"
Memory
Chair: TBC
Katherine Jernigan (University of Cambridge),
"'Elders in Our Midst': A Long History of
4
Lucy Bond (University of Westminster),
Commerce in the Magazine Fiction of F. Scott
"'Forget what it means to be human': The
Fitzgerald"
Bureaucratization of Life and the Corporate
Maya Heller (Goldsmiths, University of
Pastoral in Joshua Ferris’s The Unnamed"
London), "'… The coffin on the saw-horses like
Rick Crownshaw (Goldsmiths, University of
a cubistic bug, comes into relief': William
London), "Oil Pasts and Oil Futures in
Faulkner's Fragmentation of Form and Cubistic
Contemporary American Fiction"
Technique"
Christopher Lloyd (Goldsmiths, University of
Sophie Jones (Birkbeck, University of London),
London), "Natural Memory, Southern
"Abortion and the Road Journey in Joan
Memory: Hurricane Katrina in Beasts of the
Didion's Fictions of the West"
Southern Wild"
Panel C6: The Subversive Everyday
Jessica Rapson (King’s College, London), "De-
Chair: TBC
Naturalizing Slavery: Plantation Excavations in
Doug Haynes (University of Sussex), "Toy
Attica Locke’s The Cutting Season"
Story: Mike Kelley, from Monkey to Mauss"
Panel C4: Race and Memorialization
Nicholas Murgatroyd (University of Sheffield),
Chair: TBC
"American psychosis: Pop Culture and
Wayde Brown (University of Georgia), "Lost,
Paranoia in J G Ballard's The Atrocity
Found, Made: The Cherokee Memory in
Exhibition"
Georgia"
Stephanie Lambert (University of York), "Don
Bryan Jack (Southern Illinois University),
DeLillo's Crowds and the Resistance of
"Era(c)ing the South: Race, Modern Film,
Everyday Life"
Identity, and the Historical South
Maysaa Jaber (University of Baghdad), "Small
James West (University of Manchester), "'His
Town Monsters: Psychopathy in Jim
Light Still Shines': EBONY Magazine, American
Thompson's Crime Fiction"
Advertisers and King's Rhetorical Legacy"
Panel C7: Zombie Allegories in AMC’s The
Jenny Woodley (Nottingham Trent University),
Walking Dead
"Celebrating Emancipation: African-American
Chair: Julie Rak (University of Alberta),
Commemorative Practices and Cultural
Gwyneth Peaty (University of Western
Resistance"
Australia), "We Don’t Have Time: Temporality
and the Apocalypse"
Panel C5: Literature and its Visual Contexts
Chair: TBC
Gary Farnell (University of Winchester), "The
Jade Broughton Adams (University of
Zombie Drive and the Vegetable Subject"
Leicester), "'The Price Was High': Art and
5
Angus Nurse (Middlesex University), "Order
Own arrangements for dinner. Information on
versus Chaos: Asserting Law and Order over
local and city centre eateries is provided in the
the Mindless"
conference pack
Dawn Keetley (Lehigh University), "The
Saturday 12th April
Zombie Gaze"
7.30-9am: Breakfast (Lucas House, for those
staying on campus)
Panel C8: The Political Screen
09.00-10.00: Session D
Chair: TBC
Joshua Gulam (University of Manchester),
Panel D1: Massive Resistance Revisited: New
"The Left's Mr Right? The Ides of March and
Interpretations of the Segregationist
the Limits of George Clooney's Liberal
Counter-Movement
Activism"
Chair: George Lewis (University of Leicester)
Rebecca Brueckmann (Freie Universitaet
Katie Barnett (University of Worcester), "'It's
Berlin), "'I've been here from the start, and I'm
Time to Be the Nation's Father': Bill Clinton,
staying to the finish': Women in Massive
Masculine Crisis and Paternal Survival
Resistance"
Hannah Graves (University of Warwick), "The
Emma Folwell (University of Leicester), "Helen
Citizen Writer Inside the Studio Gates: Albert
Bass Williams and Mississippi Action for
Matz's WWII Work at Warner Bros"
Progress: Massive Resistance to the War on
Poverty"
Gregory Frame (University of Warwick), "The
War Memorial in U.S. Television Drama:
Triumphalism and Repression in The West
Panel D2: Civil War Nursing: Experiences and
Wing and The X-Files
Legacies
Chair: TBC
15.30-16.00: Tea/Coffee (Mason Lounge, Arts)
Rachel Williams (University of Nottingham),
16.00 - 17.30: AGM (Arts Main LR)
"'The greatest digestibility and the greatest
economy': Female Workers in the Civil War
17.45-18.45: Plenary sponsored by University
Diet Kitchens"
of Birmingham
Kristen Brill (Aberystwyth University), "'I do
Janice Radway, Walter Dill Scott Professor of
not remember any more, for I fainted':
Communication Studies (Northwestern)
Rethinking the Legacy of Mary Chesnut"
18.45-19.45: Reception hosted by
Panel D3: Television and Surveillance Culture
Northumbria University, hosts of BAAS 2015
in 21st Century America
(Barber Institute of Fine Arts)
Chair: TBC
Darcie Rives-East (Augustana College) "Holmes
of the Brave: American Surveillance and
6
Policing of Gender and Sexuality in CBS’s
Kal Ashraf (Editor, American Studies in
Elementary"
Britain), "Interpreting Representations of
Speech in William Wells Brown's 'Novel' Clotel
Jeffrey S. Miller (Augustana College), "Sound
(1853)"
and Vision: Surveillance as Spectacle in Post9/11 American Television"
Matthias Klestil (University of Bayreuth), "'It
was as when, for the first time, I was to stand
Panel D4: Science Fiction and American
Masculinity
on free soil' (Douglass 1843): Antebellum
Jenna Pitchford-Hyde (University of East
Niagara Falls"
African Americans, the Black Sublime and
Anglia), "Re-masculinizing Contemporary
Conflict in Science Fiction: Writing Against
Panel D8: Openness, Security and Paranoia
Technomasculinity in Battlestar Gallactica"
Chair: TBC
Alex Goodall (University of York), "The Open
Miranda Corcoran, "'The Incredible Shrinking
Door in a Closed World: Openness, Anti-
(Organization) Man': Organization and Identity
Totalitarianism and Anti-Imperialism in US
in Post-War American Science Fiction"
Foreign Policy Debates, 1933-1945"
Panel D5: Groundbreaking Travellers
Kevern Verney (Edge Hill University), "'Not
Chair: TBC
One of Us': Barack Obama and the Paranoid
William Frost (British Library / University of
Style in American Politics
Sheffield), "Wheresoe'er they roam: North
American female travellers in Norway, 18801900"
Panel D9: Cultural Crossings: US-Mexico
Experiences
Chair: TBC
Henry Knight (Northumbria University),
Malgorzata Martynuska (University of
"'Afromobiling': A Tourist Phenomenon in Jim
Rzeszow) "Hybridization of Mexican-American
Crow Florida"
Cuisine and Identity Examined Through
Foodways in Maria Ripoll’s Tortilla Soup"
Panel D6: Masculinity on Screen
Chair: Julie Rak (University of Alberta),
Helen Oakley (Open University) "Contesting
Frances Smith (University of Warwick), "An
identity on the US-Mexico border: Alicia
Elevator of One's Own: Performativity and
Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood: The Juárez
Masculinity in Breaking Bad"
Murders"
Clare Hayes-Brady (University College Dublin),
10.00-10.30 Tea/coffee (Mason Lounge, Arts)
"Apocalyptic Parenting: Paternity, Heroism
SESSION E: 10.30-12.30
and the End of the World"
Panel E1: Nineteenth-Century American
Panel D7: African American Rhetoric
Literature
Chair: TBC
Chair: TBC
7
David Greenham (University of the West of
Nicole Ives Allison (University of St Andrews),
England), "Transatlantic Transcendentalism: A
"Chicago's Uncivil Wars: Street Gangs and
Case Study of American Literary Origins and
Political Violence in Contemporary Urban
Originality"
America"
Maria Holmgren Troy (Karlstad University),
Joe Merton (University of Nottingham), "Fear
"Framing the Fairy Tale: Nation Building and
of Crime, the Association for a Better New
Imagination in Hawthorne's and the
York and the Privatization of New York City,
Stoddards' Nineteenth-Century Books for
1971-1985"
Children"
Timothy Robbins (University of Iowa),
Martina Kado (University of Zagreb), "The
"Spencer-Whitmanism: The Poetics of Social
(Self-)Legitimation of Sea Narratives by
Science in Progressive Era Chicago"
Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad"
Alice Levick (University of Exeter),
Kristin Allukian (University of Florida), "'The
"Autobiography and the American city:
Most Brilliant Career'": Money, Work, and
Marshall Berman, DJ Waldie, and Conceptions
Politics in Henry James's The Bostonians and
of Memory in 20th Century Urban Spaces"
Lillie Deveraux Blake's Fettered for Life"
Panel E2: Complex Stagings
Panel E4: Technology and Aesthetics
Chair: TBC
Chair: TBC
Theresa Saxon (University of Central
Zara Dinnen (University of Birmingham),
Lancashire), "'No men here yet!': Clyde Fitch's
"Holograms for Kings: Eggers, Lethem, Tupac
Theatrical Women"
and failing technological futures"
Ramón Espejo Romero (University of Seville),
Nerys Williams (University College Dublin),
"Early American Theater in Spain: The Fulton
"Lyric Data in Claudia Rankine's Please Don't
Years"
Let Me Be Lonely
Luke Devlin (University of Edinburgh), "Staging
Dorothy Butchard (University of Edinburgh),
a Coup: Theatrical Beginnings in the Irish and
"'Inky Oblivion' and Baby Nostradamus:
Harlem Renaissances"
illegible spaces in The People of Paper and
House of Leaves"
Laura Michiels (Free University of Brussels),
"Copies and Comebacks: Reproduction and/as
Robert W Jones II (University of Leicester),
Metatheatre in Tennessee Williams's Sweet
"'You Should Become Uptight': The Nexus of
Bird of Youth
the Body and Technology in the Poetry of John
Giorno"
Panel E3: Contested Urban Spaces
Chair: TBC
Panel E5: Sequential Art
Chair: TBC
8
Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church
'Rod of Iron': The Paradox of 17th Century
University), "Storyboarding the 'Spielberg-
Puritan Marriage in New England"
Lucas-Coppola Cinema of Effects"
Anna Luker Gilding (Independent Scholar),
Freyja Peters (Lancaster University),
"'Theorizing Editorial Labor: Exertion, Illness
"'Découpage and montage': the Production of
and Property in 1830s Magazine Culture"
Urban Space in American Graphic Novels"
Rachel Alexander (University of Strathclyde),
Michael Goodrum (University of Essex),
"Fashioning the Ideal Woman: Gender
"'Superman believes that a wife's place is in
Paradigms, Self-improvement, and
the home': Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane
Consumption in the Ladies' Home Journal and
and the representation of women"
Canadian Home Journal"
Alan Gibbs (University College Cork), "Against
Stephanie C. Palmer (Nottingham Trent
Collective Trauma: Art Spiegelman's In the
University), "Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Wide
Shadow of No Towers and Pluralistic
British Readership"
Responses"
Panel E8: Race and Freedom
Panel E6: America in the World (Roundtable)
Chair: TBC
Bevan Sewell (University of Nottingham), “The
Julie Taylor (Northumbria University), "Race,
Wheels on the Bandwagon: America & the
Animation, and Animatedness in Jean
World, Diplomatic History, and some Possible
Toomer's Cane"
Suggestions for Future Directions”
Alex Runchman (Trinity College Dublin), "'A
Joshua Simon (King’s College London), "Our
common race': Albery Allson Whitman's
Americas: Pan-Americanism, the Panama
Twasinta's Seminoles and William Cullen
Congress, and the Origins of antiyanquismo"
Bryant's 'The Ages'"
Uta Balbier (King’s College London), "'The City
R.J. Ellis (University of Birmingham), "'In this
upon a Hill and the World': Diplomatic History,
age money talked': Charles Chesnutt's The
Religious Studies, and the Transnationalization
Colonel's Dream"
of US Religious History"
HollyGale V. Millette (University of
Nicholas Grant (University of East Anglia),
Southampton), "Black Power's Epigram:
“Transnational Black Activism”
Transatlantic Radicals at the Turn of the
Century"
Panel E7: Women, Readership and Print
Culture
Panel E9: Faraway Women and In-Between
Men
Chair: Stephanie C. Palmer (Nottingham Trent
University)
Chair: Danielle Fuller (University of
Birmingham)
Margaret Manchester (Providence College),
"Wielding a 'Golden Scepter of Grace' and the
9
Christine Bold, (University of Guelph), “Indian
Princesses” on the Vaudeville Circuit, 1890s1930s”
Ruth Maxey (University of Nottingham),
"Writing India into America: Calcutta, History
and South Asian American Literature"
Nancy Cook (University of Montana), "Bears in
Sinéad Moynihan (University of Exeter), "'The
the Kitchen: Women, National Parks, and
Line of My Past': James Baldwin, Literary
Wilderness as a Social Space"
Genealogy and Contemporary Queer Writing"
Cathryn Halverson (University of
Tessa Roynon (University of Oxford), "Ovid
Copenhagen), "The Atlantic Monthly,
and (Post)modern American Fiction"
Gertrude Stein, and 'Faraway Women'"
James Kirwan (Kansai University),
Panel F2: US-UK Special Relationships
"Middlebrow Literature: No Such Thing"
Chair: TBC
Ishan Ashutosh and Nick Hayward
Panel E10: Suburbia and the Home in Post
(Northumbria University), "Amorous Politics?
War Literature
Interrogating the US-UK Special Relationship"
Chair: TBC
Suzanne Doyle (University of East Anglia), "'A
Antonia Mackay (Oxford Brookes University)
Foregone Conclusion?' The Carter
"Simulacra and Selves in Cold War Suburbia"
Administration and the Trident Agreement,
January 1978 - July 1980"
Jarrod Homer (University of Manchester), "On
the Banks of the Mainstream: Suburban
Jamie Fletcher (University of Winchester),
Discontent and Urban Alternatives in the
"The Politics of Constitutions: UKIP and the
1950s Jewish Imagination"
Tea Party's attempt to re-establish their 'lost
constitution'
Ruth Hawthorn (University of New England),
"Finding Significance in Suburbia: John Fante's
Panel F3: African American Visual Cultures
'My Dog Stupid'"
Chair: Sara Wood (University of Birmingham)
Jennifer Daly (Trinity College Dublin), "'Trying
Celeste-Marie Bernier (University of
to bring life to a place': Richard Ford's
Nottingham), "'Stick to the Skin': Storytelling,
Bascombe trilogy and the Dream of Home
Memory and Historical Imagining in
Ownership"
Contemporary African American Art"
Jennifer Terry (Durham University), "Counter-
12.30-13.30: Lunch (Mason Lounge)
Futures in the Diasporic Art of Ellen Gallagher"
13.30-15.00: Session F
Alan Rice (University of Central Lancashire),
"Playing in the Dark (with the Archive): Henry
Panel F1: Literary Genealogies
Box Brown, African Atlantic Artists and their
Chair: TBC
Radical Interventions"
10
Fraser McCallum (University of Glasgow),
Panel F4: Twentieth-Century Cross-Currents:
"From JFK to Parkland: Re-Shooting The
Ireland and America
Kennedy Assassination in Hollywood Cinema"
Chair: TBC
Louise Walsh (University College Dublin)
John Howard (King’s College London), "Cliff vs.
"Everted Orthodoxy: James Joyce, George
Pinkos: Nuclear Secrecy and Spiritual/Sexual
Schuyler and an ‘Inside-Out’ Christianity"
Disclosures in Finders Keepers"
Sarah Bennett (Oriel College Oxford) "The
Panel F7: RITA Panel: The Role of
Lessons of Whitman in Twentieth-Century
Intersectionality in the Study of Race in the
Irish Poetry"
Americas
Chair: TBC
Tara Stubbs (Oxford University Department
Steve Garner (The Open University), Title TBC
for Continuing Education) "W.B. Yeats in
Maria Lauret (University of Sussex), Title TBC
Contemporary American Culture"
Adunni Adams (Co-Founder of RITA Group),
Panel F5: The Liberal Consensus in an Age of
"Contextualizing The Texas Abortion Bill 2013
Conservatism
– An Intersectional Approach"
Chair: TBC
Panel F8: Humor in American Fiction
Uta Balbier (King’s College, London), “US
Chair: TBC
Evangelicalism and the Liberal Consensus”
Laura E B Key (University of Liverpool) "'Toxic
Helen Laville (University of Birmingham),
Assets': Humor and the Great Recession in
“Gender Issues in an Era of Liberal Consensus”
Twenty-First Century American Fiction"
George Lewis (University of Leicester)“Civil
Rachael McLennan (University of East Anglia)
Rights, the Liberal Consensus and the March
"‘What do we talk about when we talk about
20 Years Later”
Anne Frank?’ The Holocaust and 9/11 in
Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy (2012)
Panel F6: HOTCUS Panel 2: Reframing the
and Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About
1960s in Film and History
When We Talk About Anne Frank (2012)”
Chair: Nick Witham (Canterbury Christ Church
15.00-15.30: Tea/ Coffee (Mason Lounge,
Arts)
University)
Althea Legal-Miller (University College
Session G: 15.30-17.00
London), "'Seeing us Break': Civil Rights
History, Sexual Violation and Filmic
Panel G1: Writing Nature
Representations of the Leesburg Stockade
Chair: TBC
Jailing, 1963"
Sarah Daw (University of Exeter), "'Cauldfield's
Thoreauvian Dream': Nature as Origin and
Escape in Cold War New York Writing"
11
Rebecca Mills (University of Exeter), "'Beyond
Panel G4: Franzen, Wallace and
Ariel's Song': Sylvia Plath's Oceanic
Contemporary Fiction
Geographies"
Chair: TBC
Sadek Kessous (Newcastle University),
Courtney Traub (University of Oxford),
"Franzen in Love: 'Big Dramas of Individuation'
"Incommensurable Landscapes: Complicating
in Jonathan Franzen's Freedom"
the Postmodern Sublime in Recent American
Novels"
Jennifer Glennon (Birkbeck, University of
London), "David Foster Wallace: The Burdens
Panel G2: It Will Oblige Your Constant
of Genius and Postmodernism"
Readers’: Newspapers, Agency, and the
Language of Atlantic Commerce
Tim Groenland (Trinity College Dublin), "The
Chair: TBC
Pale Kings: Exploring Textual Multiplicity in
Simon Middleton (University of Sheffield),
David Foster Wallace's Unfinished Novel"
"Runaways, Rewards, and the Social History of
Panel G5: US Conservatism
Money"
Chair: TBC
Emily Buchnea (University of Nottingham),
Tom Packer (Independent Scholar), "Jesse
"Beyond Price Currents: Reflections of
Helms and the Polarization of America"
American Business in British Commercial
David Hancock (Kingston University),
Press, 1783-1820"
"Neoconservative Wives: Gertrude
Angel-Luke O’Donnell (University of
Himmelfarb and the de-moralization of
Liverpool), "‘Raising and Increasing the
America"
Jealousy of Great Britain’: Protest, Confidence,
Martin Walter (University of Nottingham),
and Domestic Manufacturing in Philadelphia,
"From Bailouts to Birthers: The Evolution of
1765 to 1774"
Tea Party Protest in 2009"
Panel G3: Ethics and the Spectacle of Torture
Chair: Zara Dinnen (University of Birmingham)
Panel G7: The Southwest
Oliver Kenny (Queen Mary University of
Chair: TBC
London), "The Saw series: a neo-conservative
Martin Padget (Aberystwyth University), "The
ethics?"
Radical Southwest: Paul Strand, Harold
Clurman, Ernie O'Malley and Philip Stevenson"
Michele Aaron (University of Birmingham),
"Ethics, Arousal and Impunity: The
Michael Dennis (Acadia University), "Ella
Pornography of Death in The Act of Killing"
Winter and the Labor Humanism of the Great
Depression"
John Horne (University of Birmingham), "The
Abu Ghraib Spectacle and A Simple Case for
Joseph Morton (University of Manchester),
Torture (1983)"
"The Persistence of Regional Exceptionalism:
12
Continuing Excursions in the California
17.15-18.30 – Plenary Sponsored by Journal of
American Studies (Bramall)
Collective Imaginary"
Caitlin Schindler (University of Leeds), "The
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Alphonse Fletcher
University Professor and Director of the
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and
African American Research (Harvard
University)
Lost American Tradition: American Foreign
18.30 - 19.15 – Reception (Bramall)
Panel G8: Public Diplomacy and Interventions
Chair: TBC
Policy Public Engagement and the Origins of
19.15 - 19.45 – Coaches to Birmingham
Council House
American Public Diplomacy"
19.45 onwards – Gala Dinner and Awards
Evening, (The Banqueting Suite, Birmingham
Council House)
Ksenia Wesolowska (University of
Nottingham), "The United States and the
Arab-Israeli conflict: the Rogers Plan - A
Failure or Success of Mediation?"
Sunday 13th April
David Model (Seneca College), "The Last
7.30-9am: Breakfast (Lucas House, for those
staying on campus)
Frontier: U.S. Post-Colonialism in Somalia"
09.30-11.00: SESSION H
Panel G9: Time and Space in Diasporic
Literatures
Chair: TBC
Benjamin Miller (University College Dublin)
Panel H1: American Music
"Narrating Transhistorical Determinism and
Gloucestershire), "'Nel blu, dipinto di "Blues"':
Transnational Diaspora in Danticat's The Dew
African American music in Italy during the
Breaker and Díaz's Oscar Wao"
1930s"
Su Mee Lee (Dong-A University) "Japanese-
Collin Lieberg (University of Warwick), "'All
Brazilian Diasporic Community in Karen Tei
Gone to Look for America': National Identity in
Yamashita’s Brazil Maru"
the Sounds of California"
Habiba Ibrahim (University of Washington)
Nick Heffernan (University of Nottingham),
"Live Forever: Black Temporality in Toni
"From the Scottsboro Boys to Trayvon Martin:
Morrison’s Sula and Beloved"
The Aesthetics and Politics of the Topical Anti-
Chair: TBC
Christian O'Connell (University of
Racist Protest Song"
Lena Ahlin (Kristianstad University), "'All we
Panel H2: Building by Numbers: American
wanted to do, now that we were back in the
Magazine Culture and the Spaces of Writing
world, was forget': On Collective
Chair: John Fagg (University of Birmingham)
Remembrance and Forgetting in Julie Otsuka's
Kristen Treen (University of Cambridge)
Novels"
"'Delightful relics...money cannot buy’: The
Domestic Arrangement of Civil War Memory
in the Ladies’ Home Journal, 1883-1906"
13
Ed Clough (University of East Anglia), "The
Edward Allen (University of Cambridge)
Space of Southern Writing after ’64: Returns
"'More than a crossing of boundaries':
to the Plantation in Gaines, Grau, and Styron"
Bouleversement and Architectural Rhythms in
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse"
Panel H5: Policy and Crisis
Chair: TBC
Joanne O'Leary (University of Cambridge)
Clodagh Harrington (De Montfort University),
"John Ashbury's 'Furniture poetry' and the
"Sense and Sustainability: SNAP, Food Poverty
1970s New Yorker"
and the US Obesity Epidemic"
Panel H3: The New American Century? The
Rebecca Isaacs (University of Birmingham),
‘War on Terror’ and Beyond
"The Myth of the 'Sputnik Moment'"
Chair: TBC
Steve Hewitt (University of Birmingham), "The
Emily Crick (Swansea University), "The Global
Long Run: An Examination of the Implications
Drug Prohibition Regime: America's War"
for American Domestic Counter-Terrorism of
the Obama Administration’s Use of Drones
Panel H6: Experiences of the Divine in
Abroad"
American Literature since the Fin-de-Siècle
Chair: TBC
Maria Ryan (University of Nottingham), "'War
Steven Bembridge (University of East Anglia),
on Countries We are not at War With':
"The Politicization of Jesus in the Work of Jack
Irregular Warfare and the ‘War on Terror’ on
London and Upton Sinclair"
the Periphery"
Loni Reynolds (Independent Scholar), "'A
Mark Ledwidge (Canterbury Christchurch
Humane yet Dark Tribute to Life': The
University), Title TBC
Eucharist in the Work of Gregory Corso"
Panel H4: Fifty Summers after ‘Freedom’:
Jennie Chapman (University of Hull), "'Death
1964 and the Southern Literary Imagination
isn’t what you think!' Narrating the Near
Chair: TBC
Death Experience in Fiction and Non-Fiction"
Jude Riley (Northumbria University), "'His
Father Had Been Some White Man': Southern
Panel H7: Rethinking David Foster Wallace
Eugenic Legislation, Race and Intellectual
Chair:
Disability in Elizabeth Madox Roberts and
Adam Kelly (University of York), "In Quest of
Ellen Glasgow"
American Sincerity: Stanley Cavell and David
Foster Wallace"
Gavan Lennon (University of Nottingham),
"The Liberation of LBJ: Jesse Hill Ford, the
Iain Williams (University of Edinburgh), "David
Southern Town, and the Civil Rights Act"
Foster Wallace: An Unlikely Conservative?"
14
Edward Jackson (Independent Scholar),
Francisca Fuentes (York St John University),
"Burned Children: Framing America's Wars in
"An American Peña & the Chilean 9/11: exilic
David Foster Wallace's Oblivion"
cultural memory of US covert activity in Chile"
Panel H8: Artistic Communities
Alexandra Homolar (University of Warwick),
"Narratives of Enmity: The Power of Words in
Chair: TBC
Jennifer Essen (Kings College London) “A
Resting Place for My Affections”: Setting Up
Home in Southwestern Art Colonies
US Security Policy"
Clare Birchall (King's College London), "The
Snowden Revelations and the American Data
Sara Rutkowski (The Graduate Center, The City
University of New York) "The Literary Legacy
of the Federal Writers’ Projec"
Dream"
Janusz Kazmierczak (Adam Mickiewicz
University), "The Dispassionate Pilgrim: Jan
Jozef Szczepanski, the University of Iowa
International Writing Program, and the Myth
of America".
Geographical Intersections
Panel I3: Nineteenth-Century Historical and
Chair: TBC
Alessandra Magrin (University of Strathclyde),
"How the West was Shown: Italian Narratives
of the American Frontier (1790-1906)
11.00-11.30 – Tea/Coffee (Mason Lounge)
Lorenzo Costaguta (University of Nottingham),
11.30-13.00 - SESSION I
"Must they go? The Socialist Labor Party and
the 'Chinese Question' (1878-1890)"
Panel I1: Visions of Africa
Chair: TBC
Panel 14: Frames of Fiction
Imaobong Umoren (University of Oxford),
Chair: TBC
"Global Race Women in the Post Second
Guy Barefoot (University of Leicester), "Frank
World War Age, 1945-1955"
Merriwell in Hollywood: Series Books and the
Film Serial"
Carmen Mboumba Nzamba (University of
Paris), "The United States and Africa: The
Ben Robbins (Free University of Berlin),
Image of Africa in Ebony Magazine until the
"Between Literature and Film: the Hawksian
1960's
Woman's Faulkernian Inspiration"
Hannah Durkin (University of Nottingham),
Jennifer Cowe (University of Glasgow), "Sex
"Pearl Primus, African Dance and the Cold
and the City: A Situationist Reading of Jens
War"
Jorgen Thorsen's Film Adaptation of 'Quiet
Days in Clichy'"
Panel I2: Narratives in US Foreign and
Security Policy
Panel I5: Transatlantic Texts
Chair: TBC
Chair: TBC
Finn Pollard (University of Lincoln), "'Here he
had touched realities': P.G. Wodehouse,
15
Psmith Journalist and Anglo-American
Panel I8: Politics, Protest, Gender and
Relationships 1904-1975"
Sexuality
Chair: TBC
Lyndsay Miller (University of Nottingham),
David Deverick (University of Nottingham),
"Nabokov's Extra-textual Revisions"
"Lyndon Johnson and Women's Rights"
Sharon McCann (University of Cambridge),
Tom Bishop (University of Nottingham), "'Kiss
"Trial and Error: The Transatlantic Troubles of
the children goodbye': Challenging the
Charles Reznikoff's Testimony"
patriarchy of Civil Defense"
Josh Hollands (University of Hull), "Boycott
Panel I6: Exploring Louisiana
Coors: Solidarity and the Role of Labor
Chair: TBC
Activism in the Struggle for Gay Liberation,
Darryl Barthe (University of Sussex), "E
1970s San Francisco"
Duobos Unum: Race, Ethnicity and Jim Crow in
Creole New Orleans, 1900-1947"
13.00-14.00 – Lunch and closing of Conference
Louise Fenton (University of Wolverhampton),
"'Snakes Jumped Out of Her Mouth': New
Orleans Voodoo represented in the works of
Lyle Saxon and Robert Tallant, 1920-1950"
Christophe Landry (University of Sussex),
"From a Linguistic to an 'Ethnic' Identity:
Americanization in Creole Southwest
Louisiana in the interwar period, 1916-1940"
Panel I7: Literary Spaces
Chair: TBC
Rob Lederer (University of Edinburgh),
"Renovating the House of Fiction"
Katie Ahern (University College Cork),
"Deserted Streets and Empty Rooms: Spatial
Constraints and Liminal Concerns in Edith
Wharton's The House of Mirth"
Coco d'Hont (University of East Anglia), "'So
the Thing's Still in the House?': The
(Un)heimliche Home as a Critical Space in
Lunar Park and House of Leaves
16