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The 12th Annual Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
October 13-15, 2006
Sir Francis Drake Hotel
450 Powell Street
San Francisco, California
Featuring
- $25 discount for members of the California Library Association
- Keynote address by Frederick Crews, author of the classic, best-selling satire The Pooh Perplex, The Critics Bear It Away, and many other works of criticism and scholarship
- Panels on "The Decline of Literature Teaching in K-12 Education," "Graeco-Roman Lyric," "Donne and/for Our Times," "Language and the Study of Literature," "Literature and the Environment," and "Authors, Editors, Publishers"
- Readings by poet Heather McHugh, author of Eyeshot, and novelist Dow Mossman, author of The Stones of Summer
- A showing of the film Stone Reader, with post-viewing colloquium by filmmaker Mark Moskowitz and author Dow Mossman
- A late-night open mike for readers of favorite poems, passages, and original works; and also for listeners
Registration fee: $150 / $125 for members of the California Library Association
Register online at https://www.bu.edu/literary/conferences/onlineform.htm.
Questions? alsc@bu.edu / 617-358-1990
Hotel reservations: 1-800-227-5480 (ask for ALSC group for discounted rate)
Rooms: $159 / night for single or double occupancy
Our raison d'etre is literature, of all kinds and in all languages. Our members love it, write it, study it, profess it, or more than one of these. Whether professional, amateur, or afficionado, please join us if you share our ruling passion.
Conference Schedule:
Friday, October 13
Registration: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Book Display: 11 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
2:00-3:45 p.m.
Panel One: The Decline of Literature Teaching in K-12 Education, and Why the ALSC Must Help
Chair: Mark Bauerlein (Emory University)
Kimberly Rose Moekle (Stanford University): "Literature for the Elite, Text for the Rest"
Dana Oswald (University of Wisconsin, Parkside): "Liberal Arts for Teachers: Constructing a Program that Works."David J. Rothman (Crested Butte Academy): "The Crisis of Literacy and the Courage to Teach"
Sandra Stotsky (Massachusetts Department of Education): "The K-12 Literature Curriculum and the Gender Gap in Reading Achievement: Cause, Consequence, or Correlation"
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Readings
Heather McHugh reads from her recent work.
Dow Mossman reads from his novel The Stones of Summer.
5:30-6:15 p.m.
Reception, with address by ALSC President Tom Clayton (University of Minnesota)
7:45-10:30 p.m.
A showing of the film Stone Reader, with post-viewing colloquium by filmmaker Mark Moskowitz and author Dow Mossman
10:45-Midnight
Adeste lectores to the ALSC Open Mike, an informal gathering for readers of favorite poems, passages, and original works; and also for listeners (host William Mullen, Bard College).
Saturday, October 14
Book Display: 8 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
8:30-10:15 a.m.
CONCURRENT SEMINARS
Seminar One: The Pleasures of the Imagination in Science Fiction:
Chair: Paul Alkon (University of Southern California)
Natasha Alvandi Hunt (University of Southern California): "Charting a Way Home: The Pleasures of Imagination in Star Trek: Voyager"
Lee E.S. Bessette (University of Alberta): "Long Ago, in a Galaxy Far Away (Continued): Considering the Star Wars Novels"
Matt DeForrest (Johnson C. Smith University): "Balance of the Fantastic and the Plausible in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World"
John Garrison (San Francisco, California): "The Joy of Re-imagining the Self in Angelica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial"
Christine Gordon (University of Minnesota): "World Building and Thought Experiments in LeGuin's The Left Hand of Darkness"
Larry D. Harwood (Viterbo University): "A Canticle For Leibowitz: The Writhing of the Enemy"
Richard Law (Alvernia College): "The Emotional Science Fiction of Joanna Russ"
John Miller (National University) "The Pleasure of Disorientation in the Science Fiction Short Story"
Sarah Pemelton (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee): " 'That Don't Include You 'less I Conjure It Does': Imaginative Pleasure in Joss Whedon's Serenity"
Miriam Rainbird (University of Notre Dame): "Personal and Communal Pleasure in William Morris’ News From Nowhere"
Janelle A. Schwartz (Hamilton College): "Psychematic Imaginings: The Production of Pleasure in Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Congress"
Juliette Wade (Newark, California): "Making the Strange Familiar: Discourse Structures that Create a Sense of Alien Culture in The Left Hand of Darkness"
Deanna Wells (University of North Texas): "Psychology of SF in The Left Hand of Darkness"
Michael Young (La Roche College): "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Comfort of Metaphoric Technology"
Seminar Two: The Personal Voice in Literary Criticism
Chair: James W. Earl (University of Oregon)
Gary Adelman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): " 'Strangury' - the Writing of Essays After Beckett"
Sarah Allen (University of South Carolina, Columbia): "Ethics of Encounter: William Gass Voicing Emerson"
Walter Collins (University of South Carolina, Lancaster): "Un/Warranted Literary Projection and Un/Warranted Response: Dialogues in and through Post/Colonial Criticism"
Farnoosh Fathi (University of Houston): "Estimations of Critical Distance: the Critical Voice in Creative Scholarship"
Geoffrey Green (San Francisco State University): "Grappling with the Myth of Oneself: Three Exemplars of the Personal Voice in Literary Criticism and a Suggestive Model"
Rachel Hadas (Rutgers University): "Name That Voice"
Mark John Isola (Tufts University): "Critical Positions: Locating Self in Literary Criticism"
Pam Fox Kuhlken (Arizona Western College): "Jacques Derrida as Belles-Critique"
Dejan Kuzmanovic (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point): "Queer Autotheory"
Nina Leacock (University of West Georgia): "Personal Voice and the Challenge to the Reader: the Example of Greg Sarris"
Jennifer Lewin (University of Kentucky): "William Empson's Voice of Reason"
Amy Eller Lewis (University of Rhode Island): "Affinity: A Transgressively Autobiographical and Cabalistic Study of Emily Dickinson"\
Zachary Snider (London Metropolitan University): "Authorial Voice in the Creative Writing PhD Dissertation"
Seminar Three: Landscape and the Lyric
Chair: Paul Sheats (University of California, Los Angeles)
John Baxter (Dalhousie University): "Landscape Dialogues in Two Poems by Helen Pinkerton"
Bonnie Costello (Boston University): "Landscape as Still Life"
Peter Filkins (Simon's Rock College of Bard): "Hope Sown from Despair: Ingeborg Bachmann's Landscapes"
Brett Foster (Wheaton College): "Walking in Rome: Lyrical Disillusion and Revisitation"
John Hart (Lawrence Hart Institute): "Journey To Iceland"
Tony Hilfer (University of Texas, Austin): " 'The Nothing That Is' : The Modernist American Representation Of Nature"
Susannah Hollister (Yale University): "John Ashbery's Landscapes of Language"
Eric Idsvoog (Harvard University): "Landscape and Mood in 'The Lotos-Eaters'"
William Junker (University of Chicago): "Andrew Marvell on the Objective as Opposed to Ideal Landscape, or a Reading of 'The Mower against Gardens'"
Karmen Lenz (Macon State College): "Landscape Imagery and Identity in the Meters of King Alfred's Book of Consolation"
John Sitter (University of Notre Dame): "The 'Geocentric' Poetics of Pattiann Rogers"
John Steen (Emory University): "Modernist Landscape with Love and Death"
Milton Welch (University of Virginia): "Lynching, Landscapes, and Grimke's Trees"
Rachel Wetzsteon (William Paterson University) "Granite Wastes and Rounded Slopes: Auden's Moralized Landscapes"
Jianqing Zheng (Mississippi Valley State University): "Being with Things"
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Panel Two: Graeco-Roman Lyric and Its Legacy
Chair: John F. Miller (University of Virginia)
Discussant: Daniel Hooley (University of Missouri)
Vasiliki Dimoula (King's College, London): "Wordsworth and Greek Lyric Poetry: Language, Communality and the Idea of Lyric"
Selene le Roux (Stellenbosch, South Africa): "Lyric Representations of Political Change: Marvell's Cromwellian Poems"
Christopher Nappa (University of Minnesota): "When Did Catullus Become a Lyric Poet"
John Talbot (Brigham Young University): "I Threw Away My Little Shield: Greek and Roman Lyric and Robert Lowell's Vietnam"
1:30-3:15 p.m.
Panel Three: Donne and/for Our Times
Chair: Achsah Guibbory (Barnard College)
Hannibal Hamlin (Ohio State University): "John Donne vs. The Runaway Bunny"
Judith Scherer Herz (Concordia University): "Resonances and Reversals"
Jonathan F.S. Post (University of California, Los Angeles): "Donne, Discontinuity, and the Proto-Post Modern"
Paul Stanwood (University of British Columbia): "Donne and the Line of Wit"
Susan K. Stewart (SUNY Plattsburgh): "Oaths of Allegiance: Early Modern Objections to Postmodern Queer Martyrologies"
3:30-5:15 p.m.
Panel Four: Language and the Study of Literature
Chair: Robert Alter (University of California, Berkeley)
Cheryl Goldstein (California State University, Long Beach): "Speaking in Tongues: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Literary in the Language of the Hebrew Sonnet"
Walter Jost (University of Virginia): "Doing Ordinary Language Criticism"
Jay Ladin (Stern College, Yeshiva University): "History Leads Us Back: Modernist Poetry and the Case for Close Reading"
5:45-7:00 p.m.
ALSC General Members' Meeting
8:00 p.m.
Dinner, followed by the keynote address of Frederick Crews
Sunday, October 15
Book Display: 8 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
8:30-10:15 a.m.
Panel Five: Literature and Environment
Chair: Scott Slovic (University of Nevada, Reno)
Jean Arnold (California State University): "The Present Moment in Literature about Children in Nature and Environmental Quality of Life Movements"
Chia-ju Chang (Trinity University): "Whose Story of Survival?: A Comparative Study on the Narratives of Endangered Animals and their Human Guardians"
Rachel Golland (St. Thomas Aquinas College): "Ecofeminism: Notions of Gender, Literature, and the Environment in Mary Austin's Land of Little Rain and Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild"
Jennifer Ladino (Creighton University): "The Place of Environmental Literature: A Case for Green Cultural Studies"
Tina Richardson (American University of Sharjah): "In the Garden: Literary Locations of Social Transformation"
Christian Hummelsund Voie (University of Bergen, Norway): "Dangerous and Indifferent Ground: Correspondence with Nature in Annie Proulx's Fiction"
10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel Six: Authors, Editors, and Publishers
Chair: Sarah Spence (University of Georgia; editor, Literary Imagination)
Jay Halio (University of Delaware): "How to Get Your Book Accepted and Published"
Anne Savarese (Princeton University Press): "Literary Encyclopedias in the Internet Age"
Don Share (Harvard University): "Who Writes? Who Reads?"
Fred Speers (Longman Publishers): "The Future of the English Textbook"
Willard Spiegelman (Southern Methodist University): "The View from The Editor's Desk, After Twenty Years"
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