Tita Chico
Presenting: “The Immodest Witness”
779. The Royal Society—Program arranged by the Division on Restoration
and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Sunday, 09 January 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Olympic III, J. W. Marriott
Jeanne Fahnestock
Presenting: “Teaching the Art of Amplifying”
358. Rethinking Style: Reinvigorating Writing Instruction with Rhetorical
Stylistics—Program arranged by the Rhetoric Society of America
Friday, 07 January 3:30–4:45 p.m.
Platinum Salon B, J. W. Marriott

Neil Fraistat
Presiding
459. P. B. Shelley and the Gothic—Program arranged by the Keats-Shelley
Association of America
Saturday, 08 January 8:30–9:45 a.m.
Plaza III, J. W. Marriott

Linda S. Kauffman
Presenting: “Resisting Spectacle: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and
Alejandro Inarritu’s Film 9/11/01”
593. Domesticated Terror: Toward a Post-9/11 Aesthetic (a special session)
Saturday, 08 January 3:30–4:45 p.m.
Diamond Salon 6, J. W. Marriott

Matthew Gary Kirschenbaum
Presiding
52. E-Books as Bibliographical Objects— Program arranged by the
Discussion Group on Bibliography and Textual Studies
Thursday, 06 January 1:45–3:00 p.m.
Platinum Salon C, J. W. Marriott
(and)
Responding
521. Close Reading the Digital (a
special session)
Saturday, 08 January 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Atrium I, J. W. Marriott

Robert S. Levine
Presiding
341. Reading as Critical Practice in American Literary Studies (a special session)
Friday, 07 January 3:30–4:45 p.m.
Platinum Salon A, J. W. Marriott

Marilee Lindemann
Speaking
150. New Tools, Hard Times: Social Networking and the Academic Crisis (a special session)
Thursday, 06 January 5:15–6:30 p.m.
406A, LA Convention Center
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Peter Mallios
Presenting: “Bad Tendencies: American Modernism and the First Amendment”
553. Regulating Culture: Constitutional Rights and Norms—Program
arranged by the Discussion Group on Law as Literature and the Division on
Twentieth-Century American Literature
Saturday, 08 January 1:45–3:00 p.m.
404B, LA Convention Center
(and)
Responding
785. Conrad’s Under Western Eyes—Program arranged by the Conrad Society of America
Sunday, 09 January 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Platinum Salon J, J. W. Marriott

Stanley Plumly
Presenting: “Keats’s Odes: A Biography”
634. Thinking through Form: Romantic Biography—Program arranged by the
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
Saturday, 08 January 5:15–6:30 p.m.
Atrium II, J. W. Marriott
Sangeeta Ray
Presenting: “Through the Looking Glass: Was Postcolonial Theory Always Comparative?”
46. Postcolonial Theory and the Pressures of Comparison—Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Thursday, 06 January 1:45–3:00 p.m.
408A, LA Convention Center
(and)
Presenting: “Practices of Reading: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics”
456. Histories of Reading—Program arranged by the Division on English Literature Other
Than British and American
Saturday, 08 January 8:30–9:45 a.m.
Platinum Salon J, J. W. Marriott

Brian Richardson
Speaking
313. Postcolonial Narratology: Do We Need One?—Program arranged by the
Division on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture
Friday, 07 January 1:45–3:00 p.m.
406B, LA Convention Center
(and)
Presenting: “Unnatural Lives: Theories and Practices”
502. Contemporary Approaches to Literary Narrative (a special session)
Saturday, 08 January 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Atrium III, J. W. Marriott

Laura Rosenthal
Presiding
816. Cosmopolitanism—Program arranged by the Division on
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Sunday, 09 January1:45–3:00 p.m.
Atrium III, J. W. Marriott
(and)
Speaking
611. The Pleasures and Perils of Legitimation: In Honor of Hans Turley—Program
arranged by the Division on Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Saturday, 08 January 3:30–4:45 p.m.
Atrium II, J. W. Marriott

Martha Nell Smith
Presiding
271. Dickinson Forming History— Program arranged by the Emily Dickinson
International Society
Friday, 07 January 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Platinum Salon J, J. W. Marriott

Mary-Helen Washington
Presenting: “When Gwendolyn Brooks Wore Red”—Program arranged by the
Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages
504. Proletarian Literature Then and Now
Saturday, 08 January 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Platinum Salon I, J. W. Marriott
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Tanya E. Clement
Speaking
12. Labor in the Digital Humanities—Program arranged by the MLA
Committee on Information Technology and the MLA Committee on Academic Freedom
and Professional Rights and Responsibilities
Thursday, 06 January 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
407, LA Convention Center
Julie R. Enszer
Presenting: “‘I found the words to every thought / I ever had—but One—’:
Invocations of Emily Dickinson in Lesbian-Feminist Print Culture”
16. Dickinson’s Afterlife—Program arranged by the Emily Dickinson
International Society
Thursday, 06 January 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Diamond Salon 8, J. W. Marriott