English Department, University of Maryland

Twenty-one faculty members and graduate students from Maryland will be presenting or presiding over panels at the Modern Language Assocation convention in San Franciscco, December 27-30, 2008.

For more information, please visit the MLA website.

Faculty:

	Jonathan Auerbach - Professor of English Respondent #158 - The Iron Heel at One Hundred Sunday, December 27, 8:45-10:00PM Continental 7, Hilton

	Kandice Chuh -Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies Presiding #781 - Green Asian America - Program arranged by the Division on Asian American Literature Tuesday, December 30, 10:15-11:30AM Union Square 11, Hilton

	William Cohen - Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies Presiding #85 - Wilde Archives - Program arranged by the American Conference for Irish Studies Saturday, December 27, 5:15-6:30PM Van Ness, Hilton Presenting: "Losing Consciousness" #542 - Novel Forms of Victorian Consciousness Sunday, December 28, 12:00-1:15PM Golden Gate 7, Hilton

	Linda S. Kauffman - Professor of English Presenting: "'This Book Is Not to Be Doubted': Islam, Terrorism, and Trauma in Don DeLillo's Falling Man" #398 - Religion Today - Program arranged by the Division on Literary Criticism Sunday, December 28, 7:15-8:30PM

	Matthew Gary Kirschenbaum - Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of MITH Presenting: "If Shakespeare Had a Hard Drive: Our Born-Digital Literary Heritage" #163 - Scholarly Editing in the Twenty-First Century: Digital Media and Editing Sunday, December 28, 8:30-10:15AM Yosemite B, Hilton Presiding #514 - Second Lives: Reading and Writing Virtual Worlds - Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Media and Literature Monday, December 29, 12:00-1:15PM Sutter, Hilton

	Kari M. Kraus - Assistant Professor of English Panel speaker #369 - Promoting the Useful Arts: Copyright, Fair Use, and the Digital Scholar - Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature Sunday, December 28, 3:30-4:45PM Foothill E, Marriott

	Robert S. Levine - Professor of English Presenting: "Working against Archives" #672 - Where is the Archive? - Program arranged by the American Literature Section Monday, December 29, 7:15-8:30PM Powell, Hilton

	Keguro Macharia - Assistant Professor of English Presenting: "Infectious Urbanity: Queering Kenyan Subjects" #412 - Queer Urbanities Sunday, December 28, 7:15-8:30PM Van Ness, Hilton

	Zita Nunes - Associate Professor of English and Director of Comparative Literature Presiding #468 - Humanities 2.0: Participatory Learning in an Age of Technology - Program arranged by the MLA Executive Council Monday, December 29, 8:30-9:45AM Golden Gate 5, Hilton

	Sangeeta Ray - Associate Professor of English Respondent #781 - Green Asian America - Program arranged by the Division on Asian American Literature Tuesday, December 30, 10:15-11:30AM Union Square 11, Hilton

	Brian Richardson - Professor of English Presenting: "Narrative Theories and Postcolonial Texts" #368 - Postcolonial Comparisons: Methodologies - Program arranged by the Division on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture Sunday, December 28, 3:30-4:45PM Imperial A, Hilton

	Laura Rosenthal - Professor of English Presenting - "Constantinople" #783 - Global Cities - Program arranged by the Division on Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature Tuesday, December 30, 10:15-11:30AM Union Square 2, Hilton

	Martha Nell Smith - Professor of English Panel speaker #520 - Roundtable on Electronic Editions and Archives of Poetry - Program arranged by the Division on Poetry Monday, December 29, 12:00-1:15PM Continental 1-2, Hilton Presenting: "Digitally Yours; or, Dwelling in the Possibilities of Dynamic Editing" #692 - Editorial Futures - Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research Monday, December 29, 1:45-3:00PM Sutter, Hilton Also of note, Ellen Louise Hart (Portland State University) and Alexandra Socarides (University of Missouri, Columbia) will be presenting on which they collaborated with Smith. "The Dickinson Electronic Archives and Emily Dickinson's Correspondence: A Born-Digital Inquiry (www.emilydickinson.org)" will be on Monday, December 29 at 7:15-8:30PM in Continental 1-2, Hilton.

Graduate Students:

	Deborah Bailin Presenting: "Disability Awareness through Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples" #426 - Disability in Context: (Re)Defining Disability - Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession Sunday, December 28, 7:15-8:30PM Powell, Hilton

	Joseph Byrne Presenting: "'A Traveller on the Skirt of Sarum'sPlain': Wordsworth's Flight the Joseph Johnson Circle in the Salisbury Plain Poems" #755 - Joseph Johnson - Program arranged by the Division on the English Romantic Period Tuesday, December 30, 8:30-9:45AM Sutter, Hilton

	Tanya Clement Panel speaker #224 - Methodologies for Literary Studies in the Digital Age - Program arranged by MLA Committee on Information Technology Sunday, December 28, 10:15-11:30AM Union Square 14, Hilton Presenting: "The Poetries of Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven: A Digital Genetic Edition in the Versioning Machine" #724 - E-Criticism: New Critical Methods and Modalities- Program arranged by MLA Committee on Information Technology Monday, December 29, 9:00-10:15PM Continental 1-2, Hilton

	Kara Fontenot Presenting: "American Hysteria, Civil Liberties, and the Literary Left: Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry" #14 - Langston Hughes, American Intellectuals and the Loss of Civil Liberties in the McCarthy Era: National Repercussions - Program arranged by the Langston Hughes Society Saturday, December 27, 3:30-4:45PM Van Ness, Hilton

	Daniel Hartley Presenting: "Blue Dachau: Jazz and Blues Aesthetics in John A. Williams's Clifford Blues" #771 - Race, Sexuality, and Masculinity in John A. Williams's The Who Cried I Am and Clifford's Blues -Program arranged by the Division on Literature and Other Arts Tuesday, December 30, 10:15-11:30AM Union Square 15, Hilton

	Marc Ruppel Presenting: "Change the Channel, Then Turn the Page: Cross-Sited Narratives and the New Textual Order" #153 - Textual Scholarship and Popular Culture - Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research Saturday, December 27, 8:45-10:00PM Golden Gate 1, Hilton Presenting: "Narrative Convergence and the New Medial Ecology" #363 - Comparative Literature and Media Studies: Convergence or Opposition? - Program arranged by the American Comparative Literature Association Sunday, December 28, 3:30-4:45PM Yerba Buena 15, Marriott

	Lara Torsky Presenting: "Redoing Identity: Virtual Lesbians, Convergence Culture, and The L Word" #768 - Allegories of Sexual Identity on Screen Tuesday, December 30, 10:15-11:30AM Franciscan A, Hilton

	Kelly Wisecup Presenting: "'The Communication Commonly Call'd Inoculation of the Small-pox': African Medical Testimony, the Colonial Public Sphere, and the 1721 Boston Inoculation Controversy" #203 - Comparative Diasporas - Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in the Eighteenth-Century Literature Sunday, December 28, 10:15-11:30AM Foothill F, Marriott