Maryland at MLA 2011

Faculty


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

 


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



Alumni

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