Schedule of Events

Goerings Book Store will have a display of works by the participants at various times throughout the weekend in 215 Dauer Hall. (Thanks to Tom Rider of Goerings.)

February 7

All sessions will be held in the Ruth McQuown Room, 219 Dauer Hall

Session I 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

1950s and '60s American Literature and Culture

LaMonda Horton Stallings, University of Florida
"Satire, Sex, and Nation in Chester Himes' Pinktoes"

Marsha Bryant, University of Florida
"H.D. in CinemaScope: Helen in Egypt and Historical Epic Film"

Andrew M. Gordon, University of Florida
"When in Rome: Bernard Malamud"s Pictures of Fidelman and Philip Roth"s Portnoy's Complaint"

Moderator: Pamela Gilbert, University of Florida

lunch on your own 12:30-2 p.m.

Session II 2-4 p.m.

Visual Iconographies of the Americas

Leah Rosenberg, University of Florida
"Jamaican Literature and the Iconography of Tourism"

Tace Hedrick, University of Florida
"Where"s the Black in the Venus Negra? Indigenism and Blackness in the Work of Ana Mendieta"

Malini Johar Schueller, University of Florida
"Globalizing Asian-America and the Question of Race"

Moderator: Richard Burt, University of Florida

February 8

All sessions will be held in the Ruth McQuown Room, 219 Dauer Hall

Session III 10 a.m.-noon

Early American Foundations of Race

Julie Chun Kim, University of Florida
"Novel Narratives of Race"

Jodi Schorb, University of Florida
"Representing Indian Death in an Era of Revolutionary Sentiment"

Ed White, University of Florida
"Semiotics of the Founders"

Moderator: John Sensbach, University of Florida

lunch on your own noon to 1:30 p.m.

Session IV 1:30-3:30 p.m.

The Politics of Contemporary American Intellectuals and the University

Kim Emery, University of Florida
"Unhappy Habits: Queer Futures and the University"

Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida
"The Beat Cops of History; or, The Paranoid Style in American Intellectual Politics"

Susan Hegeman, University of Florida
"Existential Indians and Other Philosophers"

Moderator: Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida

Session V 4-5:30 p.m.

"Choosing Traditions: Elizabeth Bishop and the U. S. A. Schools of Writing"
Vivian Pollak, Washington University

Vivian Pollak is professor of English and Women and Gender Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Her books include Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender (Cornell 1984) and The Erotic Whitman (California 2000), and she is the editor of A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson (Oxford 2004).

Introduction by David Leverenz, University of Florida

February 9

All sessions will be held in the Ruth McQuown Room, 219 Dauer Hall

Session VI 10 a.m.-noon

Race and National Imaginaries

Debra Walker King, University of Florida
"The Mythico-Ritual Logic and Technology of Blackpain"

Stephanie A. Smith, University of Florida
"The Mother of Them All: Sacagawea as American Icon"

David Leverenz, University of Florida
"Race-based Shaming"

Moderator: Louise Newman, University of Florida

lunch on your own noon-1:30 p.m.

Session VII 1:30-3 p.m.

"Clones, Chimeras, and Other Creatures of the Biotechnological Revolution: Toward a Genomic Mythology"
Priscilla Wald, Duke University

Priscilla Wald is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Duke University. She is editor of American Literature, and author of Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form (Duke 1995) and Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (Duke 2008).

Introduction by Stephanie A. Smith, University of Florida

Session VIII 3:30-5 p.m.

The Futures of American Studies:
A Closing Discussion with Symposium Participants

Moderator: Phillip E. Wegner, University of Florida

Support for this conference has been provided by the Department of English and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.