The Joint 32nd European Association for American Studies & 63rd British Association

for American Studies Conference

4-7 April 2018

Conference Programme

Tuesday 3 April 2018 09:00-15:00 EAAS AGM (Senate House)

Location information All panel sessions on 4-7 April will take place at King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, London, SE1 9NH. Individual panel locations will be added to the programme.

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Wednesday 4 April

09:30-11:00 Registration and coffee 11:00-12:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A Panel A1 Registration vs. Representation: New Approaches to American Culture

and Capital Chair: TBC Late-Transcendentalism: Literature, Lines of Sight, and Cultural Registration

Benjamin Pickford, Université Lausanne

Call and Response: Transatlantic Emancipatory Politics in Chris Abani’s GraceLand Amy Rushton, Nottingham Trent University

Resisting Liberalism: The Paradigm Problem of early ‘National’ US-based Writing

Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick

Panel A2 William Gibson's The Peripheral and Alternate Constructions of Reality Chair: TBC Post-Temporal, Post-Geographic Cartography in Gibson’s The Peripheral

Katherine E. Bishop, Miyazaki International College Alternate History, Alternative Fact: Detective, Historian, Reader

Glyn Morgan, University of Liverpool ‘Something so deeply earned’: Metaphor, Morals, and Meat in Gibson’s The Peripheral

Keren Omry, University of Haifa Panel A3 ‘We will all fight’: Modes and Narratives of Environmental Protest Chair: TBC ‘Botanizing on the Asphalt’: Urban Foraging and/as Environmental Resistance in Rebecca Lerner’s Dandelion Hunter

Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, Academia Sinica Revisiting ‘the Wild’: Transatlantic Visions of Environmental Protest

Michaela Keck, University of Oldenburg

Resisting Climate Change Apocalypticism: Jetnil-Kijiner’s Activist Climate Change Poetry Hanna Straß-Senol, University of Oldenburg

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Panel A4 The Art of Protest: Critical Art and Beyond Chair: TBC Transnational Protest (Inter)actions: Performances, Guerrilla Girls and the New Media in American and Polish Artivism

Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak, University of Wrocław

The Disquieting Charm of Renée Cox: Transforming Dispossession into Self-Possession Anna Pochmara, University of Warsaw Justyna Wierzchowska, University of Warsaw

Are We Still Contemporaries of the Communist Hypothesis of the 1968? Artistic Responses to 1968 and Its Reception After the Financial Crisis of 2008

Magdalena Radomska, Adam Mickiewicz University

Panel A5 AIDS, Activism, and Memorialization Chair: TBC Get (Sur)Real!: Surrealism as Tactic in the Art and Activism of Ronnie Burk

Victoria Carroll, King's College London From Grove to Pier: Memorializing the AIDS Crisis

Wayde Brown, University of Georgia

A Porous City: Reading a Queer New York in the 1970s in Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls (1994) and Edmund White’s City Boy (2009)

Vincenzo Bavaro, University of Naples ‘L’Orientale,’ Italy

Panel A6 Imperial Entanglements in a Vast Early America

Chair: Peter Thompson, University of Oxford Swamping Guns and Stabbing Irons – The Austrian Netherlands and the American Revolution

Marion Huibrechts, KU Leuven Empires on the Edge – The Habsburg Monarchy and the American Revolution

Jonathan Singerton, University of Edinburgh

Congress and the Drift towards a Republican Empire, 1774-1783 Trent Taylor, University of Oxford

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Panel A7 Constructing Antebellum Race and Gender

Chair: TBC The Hanging of Pauline, a Bad Slave

Lawrence McDonnell, Iowa State University Between Womanhood and Citizenship: A Conceptual-Historicist Approach to Antebellum Women's Literature of Protest

Iulian Cananau, University of Gävle A Crossdresser and Con Artist in Antebellum New York

Shane White, University of Sydney Panel A8 Facing Disaster: The American Novel at the End of the World Chair: TBC Time After the End: Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Diletta De Cristofaro, University of Birmingham

Archiving Post-Apocalyptic Anxieties in Bats of the Republic Danuta Fjellestad, Uppsala University, Sweden

The Disaster of the End: Writing the World in Contemporary North American Fiction Phil Leonard, Nottingham Trent University

Panel A9 People, Places, and Predators of (Dubious) Acclaim: Environmental

Celebrity, Status, and Speech in Human and Non-Human North American History

Chair: TBC Embodying Hostility: Robert Redford, Celebrity Environmental Elitism, and the Four Corners Power Complex

Nicholas Blower, University of Kent

‘The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee’: The Celebrity Atatus of the Upper Great Lakes

Colin Elder, University of Kent

The Call of the Wild: Yellowstone’s Wolves, Environmental Celebrity and the Shifting Terrain of Wilderness Mythology in Modern America

Karen Jones, University of Kent

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Panel A10 Place, Protest, Possibility, and Pedagogy: A Roundtable on Teaching (Roundtable)

Chair: Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello Ingrid Gessner, University of Education Vorarlberg Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Salem State University Bela Gligorova, NOVA International Schools & Center for Culture and Cultural Studies Claire M. Massey, Saarland University Despoina N. Feleki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Panel A11 Visual Representations of American Protest Chair: TBC From the Eastern European Communist Regime to the America of the 1970s: the European Auteur in Hollywood

Agnieszka Gadomska, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw F*society and Rise of the Robot. Traumatized Technophiles as Subversive Subjects.

Pawel Pyrka, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

Hollywood, Red-Baiting and the Second Life of the ‘Commie’ Piotr Skurowski, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

Panel A12 Contemporary American Poetry and Public Space (Roundtable) Chair: Paulina Ambrozy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań The Cultural Commons and the Poet(h)ics of Appropriation

Paulina Ambrozy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Patricia Lockwood's Poetics of Attention

Marta Figlerowicz, Yale University Protest at the Border: Steve Collis and the Poetics of Environmental Space

David Herd, University of Kent

Wanda Coleman's Retro Rouge Anthology as Protest Poems Jerzy Kamionowski, University of Białystok

’I’M A POLLINATOR! I’M A POLLINATOR!!’: Anarchism, Gesture and the Ecology of ‘Extreme Present’ in CA Conrad's ECODEVIANCE: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness

Małgorzata Myk, University of Lodz

12:30-13:45 Lunch 12:30-13:45: EAAS president’s lunch, location TBC

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13:45-15:15 PARALLEL SESSION B Panel B1 New Voices in Jewish-American Literature (Roundtable) Chair: TBC David Brauner, University of Reading Michael Kalisch, University of Cambridge Joshua Leavitt, Ohio State University Dan O'Brien, University College Dublin Aimee Pozorski, Central Connecticut State University Eva von Loenen, University of Southampton Mike Witcombe, Bath Spa University Panel B2 The (Historical) American City in Video Games Chair: TBC ‘Documenting’ History in Mafia III: Playing with America’s Difficult Pasts

Adam Chapman, University of Gothenburg Esther Wright, University of Warwick

Bioshock: Infinite’s Columbia: Heaven in the Cloud Emily Marlow, University of Sheffield

The American City Under Attack: Atari’s Missile Command (1980) John Wills, University of Kent

Panel B3 Literary Ecologies Chair: TBC Lynne Tillman, Literary Ecologist: Environmental Sensitivities and Ecological Thinking in American Genius, A Comedy

Eric Dean Rasmussen, University of Stavanger Crafting a New Anti-Ecological Space Inside a Transcendentalist Tradition?

Felix Nicolau, Lund University From the Deep Woods… Trees as Home in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Four Souls

Gabriela Jeleńska, University of Warsaw

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Panel B4 American Literary Naturalism and Social Protest (Roundtable) Chair: Steven Bembridge, Independent Scholar Donna M. Campbell, Washington State University Steven Bembridge, Independent Scholar Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas at San Antonio Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College Steve Frye, California State University Bakersfield Eric Carl Link, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Lauren Navarro, LaGuardia Community College Keith Newlin, University of North Carolina Wilmington Adam H. Wood, Salisbury University Panel B5 The History of Financial Advice Chair: TBC Dreams of Avarice: Popular Investment Advice Before and After the Great Crash of 1929

Paul Crosthwaite, University of Edinburgh

Gilded Age Investment Advice Manuals Peter Knight, University of Manchester

Financial Advice and the Great Compression Nicky Marsh, University of Southampton

Panel B6 Anti-Slavery Networks Chair: TBC Conditional Freedom: US Fugitive Slaves in Mexican Texas, 1821-1836

Thomas Mareite, Leiden University ‘Heroic Souls’: The Memory of Tubman, Truth and black female abolitionists

Charlotte James, University of Nottingham Panel B7 Beyond the Spectacle: Native North Americans in Britain in the

Twentieth Century Chair: TBC An uneven surface; British heritage contact zones

Jack Davy, University of East Anglia

Beyond Buffalo Bill: Mass Mobilization and the Native Warrior Jacqueline Fear-Segal, University of East Anglia David Stirrup, University of Kent

‘A Struggle for the Land’: Environment, Place, and the Transnational Networks of American Indian Activists and Welsh Nationalists

Kate Rennard, University of Kent

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Panel B8 Indigenous Resistance: From Place-Based Politics to Protest Chair: TBC Place-Based Body Politics: Reproductive Justice and Indigenous Women

Elizabeth Rule, Brown University The State of Exception and Indigenous Human Rights: Violations of Indigenous Lands and Rights at Muskrat Falls and Standing Rock

Colin Samson, University of Essex Panel B9 Performance and Activism: Environmental and Cultural Action, From

Local Narratives to Global Contexts Chair: Léna Remy-Kovach, University of Freiburg Creative Protest: Re-Shaping Storyworlds in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Judith Eckenhoff, RWTH Aachen University #NoDAPL: Local, Global, and International Protests for Indigenous Rights and Protection of the Environment

Léna Remy-Kovach, University of Freiburg

Protesting through Heritage Performance: Storytelling in Novels of the Native American Renaissance

Julia Ruff, University of Freiburg Panel B10 President Trump’s First 15 Months: Looking Beyond Each 15 Minutes

(Roundtable) Chair: Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University Mara Oliva, University of Reading Alex Waddan, University of Leicester Iwan Morgan, University College London Andrew Wroe, University of Kent

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Panel B11 Protest and the Historical Sublime: Metafictional Visions of Conquest Chair: Martina Koegeler-Abdi, University of Copenhagen Literary Historiography and Sublime Politics in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014)

Martina Koegeler-Abdi, University of Copenhagen Trauma and the Historical Sublime: Craig Baldwin’s O No Coronado!

Klaus Rieser, University of Graz Border Paradigms and the Historical Sublime: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange

Silvia Schultermandl, University of Graz Panel B12 Filmic Framings of Environmental Space Chair: TBC Zoopoetics of/and the Melting Arctic: Framing Environmental Change in Wildlife Film

Michaela Castellanos, Mid-Sweden University

Environments of the Road Movie: Easy Rider to The Straight Story Timo Müller, University of Regensburg

Street Food: Environment, Place, and Protest in Urban Farming Documentaries

Alexa Weik von Mossner, University of Klagenfurt Panel B13 The Peculiar Environments of the Slave South (BrANCH) Chair: TBC Environments of Abuse: the Farm, the Plantation, and Sexual Violence under Slavery

Elizabeth Barnes, University of Reading

The Climatic Theory of Slavery and the Wilmot Proviso Controversy Matthew Griffin, University College London

The Impact of Hostile Environments on the Parameters of Slavery: The Seminoles and Florida, 1780-1822.

Edward Mair, University of Hull

15:15-16:00 Break

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16:00-17.30 PARALLEL SESSION C Panel C1 Placing Digital Humanities in American Studies (Roundtable) Chair: TBC Computational Criticism and Contemporary American Southern Fiction

Michał Choiński, Jagiellonian University, Krakow Maciej Eder, Institute of Polish Language, Polish Academy of Sciences Jan Rybicki, Jagiellonian University, Krakow

Shakespeare Fights the Civil War

Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University Voices of America: Reading the Federal Writers’ Project

Lauren Tilton, University of Richmond Panel C2 Places of Completion: Textual Geographies of Dion Boucicault,

Theodore Dreiser, and David Foster Wallace Chair: Jude Davies, University of Winchester Rewriting The Octoroon. A Digital Research Project

Lisa Merrill, Hofstra University Theresa Saxon, University of Central Lancashire

Place and Publication: Cultural and National Geographies in Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire and ‘Mark the Double Twain’

Jude Davies, University of Winchester Carol Smith, University of Winchester

Between Completion and Incompletion: Editing The Pale King

Tim Groenland, University College, Dublin Panel C3 Literary Landscapes and the Making of Nature in 19th Century

America (BrANCA) Chair: Steve Gallo, University of Nottingham A Ditch in the Garden: Figuring Out the ‘Irrigation West’

Janet Floyd, King's College London ‘The Gerfalcon Swoops’: Tomboyism and the American Landscape in E.D.E.N Southworth’s The Mother-in-Law; Or, Married in Haste

Anna Maguire Elliott, University of Sussex Edgar Allan Poe, Landscape Gardening, Creative Practice and ‘The Domain of Arnheim’

Theodora Tsimpouki, University of Athens

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Panel C4 Materiality, Embodiment, Protest – Interdisciplinary Perspectives Chair: TBC Reading Disruption: Jenny Holzer’s Emplaced Textualities

Katharina Donn, University of Augsburg

Britain’s Fifth Column: Race and Rape in World War II Ruth Lawlor, University of Cambridge

Exhibiting Subversion? Punk in the Art Gallery

Jade Tullett, University of Winchester Panel C5 Law and Justice in the US: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Chair: Olga Akroyd, University of Kent ‘Direct incitement’ or ‘Clear and present danger’: Revisiting American Free Speech Origins in the Courts

Jak Allen, University of Kent Direct Democracy vs. Equal Justice: a Cross-Perspective into Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Freedom

Anthony Castet, Francois Rabelais University To the Dead We Owe The Truth: The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project Documenting and Preserving Racial Violence, 1930-1970

Rhonda Jones, Northeastern University Panel C6 Faith and Activism Chair: TBC Resistance Through Education: Irish Catholic Schools in Nineteenth-Century Chicago

Sophie Cooper, Northumbria University From Union Square to Rome: Revisiting the Religious Radicalism of Dorothy Day (1897-1980)

Hans Bak, Radboud University, Nijmegen Protestant Missionaries, American Empire, and the Built Environment in the Philippines, 1898-1920

Tom Smith, University of Cambridge

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Panel C7 How the South Changed US Politics, 1968-2018: Race, Religion, Partisanship, Demographics (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC The Changing Partisanship of the South and Its Impact on National Politics

Charles S. Bullock III, University of Georgia New York Sybarite Conquers Bible Belt: Trump as the Apotheosis of Southern Racial Politics

Jeremy D. Mayer, George Mason University The Changing Demographics of the South and Its Impact on National Politics

Susan McManus, University of Southern Florida The Rise of the Evangelical Right in the South and Its Impact on National Politics

Mark J. Rozell, George Mason University Panel C8 Wrapping Radicalism in the Flag: Protest and Patriotism at the Turn

of the 20th Century Chair: TBC ‘I feel the United States “my country”’: The Paradoxical Patriotism of ‘Red Emma’

Alice Béja, Sciences Po Lille/CERAPS-CNRS) A National Way to Socialism: Daniel De Leon and the Americanisation of the Socialist Labor Party, 1890-1900

Lorenzo Costaguta, University of Birmingham Wendell Phillips, American Radical: From Abolitionism to the Labour Movement

Hélène Quanquin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 Panel C9 Failure of/as Protest: The Double Legacy of 1968 Chair: TBC The Electric Kool Aid Watermellon Sugary Acid Test: Renunciation in Tom Wolfe and Richard Brautigan

Martin Klepper, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin The Death of the Auteur. William Greaves’s Performance of Non-Directing

Zuzanna Ladyga, University of Warsaw John Williams: the Fame of a Non-Writer

Krzysztof Rowiński, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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Panel C10 Epistemic Virtues, 18th Century Science, and Transnational Contact in the North American Colonies

Chair: TBC Sowing Salt: Sentience and Slavery in Crèvecœur

Michael Boyden, Uppsala University Exporting the North American Environment: Bartram Boxes, Material Culture and 18th Century Botany

Marcel Hartwig, Universität Siegen Violent Medicine: Abortion and the Non-transfer of Knowledge Between the Old and the New World

Jennifer Henke, University of Bremen Panel C11 Contesting U.S. Power in the Cold War and the War on Terror Chair: TBC Dissenting Empire: The Rise of National Security Whistleblowers in the Long 1970s

Kaeten Mistry, University of East Anglia Gore Vidal’s Queer Cold War: Analogy, History, Empire

Mark Storey, University of Warwick

The Aesthetics of Protest Theatre: Dramatizing Suspicion and Surveillance in Post-9/11 American Drama

Teresa Botelho, Nova University of Lisbon Panel C12 Challenging Masculine Norms in Science-Fiction Worlds Chair: TBC Birth of a Protest: The Spielbergian Hero and the Uterine Challenges of the Digital Revolution

Charles-Antoine Courcoux, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Fatherhood in Post-Apocalyptic Worlds

Marianne Kac-Vergne, University of Picardie Jules Verne Male and Female Masculinities in Cinema’s Fantasy and Future Worlds

Yvonne Tasker, University of East Anglia

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Panel C13 Why You Need Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Studies Needs You (Roundtable)

Chair: Jacqueline Fear-Segal, University of East Anglia Adam Barker, University of Hertfordshire Emma Battell-Lowman, University of Hertfordshire Reetta Humalajoki, University of Turku Andi Bawden, University of East Anglia Matthew Scobie, University of Sheffield Panel C14 Age and Gender: American Popular Culture as a Site of Protest

(Roundtable) Chair: Isabel Durán, Universidad Complutense, Madrid Laura De La Parra Fernández, Universidad Complutense, Madrid Isabel Durán, Universidad Complutense, Madrid Juan G. Etxeberria, Universidad Complutense, Madrid Rebeca Gualberto, Universidad Complutense, Madrid

17:45-19:00: Plenary 1 (Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple University)

19:00-20:00: Reception 1 (King’s College London)

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Thursday 5 April

09:30-11.00 PARALLEL SESSION D Panel D1 Rethinking Literary Reconstruction (BrANCA) (Roundtable) Chair: Tom Wright, University of Sussex Opening Remarks: Rethinking Literary Reconstruction: Lord Bryce’s American Commonwealth

Gordon Hutner, University of Illinois Respondents:

Stephanie Palmer, Nottingham Trent University Tom Wright, University of Sussex Tomos Hughes, University of Nottingham

Panel D2 Avant Garde as Protest and Experimental Poetics Chair: Tatiani Rapatzikou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Lizzy Pournara, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Feeling the Blanks: Poems as Typographic Scores in the Work of Dennis Cooley

Manuel Portela, University of Coimbra Susan Howe’s Experimental Poetics

Lizzy Pournara, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Subversive City Mappings in bpNichol’s The Martyrology

Tatiani Rapatzikou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Panel D3 Men, Women, and the Wild in American Fiction Chair: William Blazek, Liverpool Hope University To Laugh not to Cry at the Loss of Land and Female Power in Louise Erdrich’s and Susan Power’s Works

Elisabeth Bouzonviller, Université Jean Monnet Saint Etienne, France ‘The Beast is what makes the man’: Cain versus Adam in Goat Mountain (2013) by David Vann

Sophie Chapuis, Université Jean Monnet Saint Etienne, France

Dammed Men: White Masculinity in Crisis and Ecoterrorist Fantasies in Jim Harrison’s A Good Day to Die (1973)

Pierre-Antoine Pellerin, Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 University, France

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Panel D4 ‘Inside / Outside’: Forms of Protest against the Prison. Chairs: Birte Christ, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, and Katharina Motyl,

University of Tübingen The Shoreless Ocean of Time: Temporal Experience in Prison

Michael G. Flaherty, Eckerd College Gestures of Resistance: Writing, Standing, Performing against the Prison

Aylwyn Walsh, University of Leeds

‘Everything will be okay’: Prison Wives’ Forms of Resistance in an Era of Mass Incarceration Andrea Zittlau, University of Rostock

Panel D5 Gathering Data and Measuring the Population: Intelligence, Civic

Participation, and Prejudice Chair: TBC The Pendleton Act and the Origins of Modern Intelligence

Michael J. Collins, University of Kent

Obscured by Quantification: Women’s Work in Social Scientific Research at the End of World War II

Elena D. Hristova, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Measuring and Monitoring Civic Morality in Progressive Era St. Louis Katie Myerscough, University of Manchester

Panel D6 Creating a Movement of Movements: Reconceptualizing Protest Against

the War in Vietnam Chair: TBC ‘The student movement may, indeed, have flown South – and landed’: Tennessee Campus Anti-War Activism

Kate Ballantyne, University of Cambridge The Anti-War Activism of Carol McEldowney: The Intersection of Welfare, War, and Women

Sinead McEneaney, St. Mary's University, Twickenham ‘If we fight again, it will be to take these steps’: Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the ‘Battle’ to Defend Democracy

Lauren Mottle, University of Leeds

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Panel D7 Emigration and Africa Chair: TBC The International Exodusters: Black Emigration from the American South, 1865-1877 Matthew Law, Clark University A Taste of Africa – Florida and the ‘Dark Continent’

Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez, Universität Leipzig Panel D8 New Perspectives on ‘Massive Resistance’ to the Civil Rights Movement Chair: George Lewis, University of Leicester Women’s Interracial Relationships and ‘The Gentle Weapon’: Social Ostracism as a Weapon of Massive Resistance in Montgomery Alabama

Helen Laville, Manchester Metropolitan University ‘None of you men look like Ku Kluxers’: Gender and Class in the Visual Identity of the White Citizens’ Councils

Bradley Phipps, University of Leicester Mass Media and Massive Resistance: Segregationists’ Televised Response to the Civil Rights Movement

Scott Weightman, University of Leicester Panel D9 Self-Determination and Non-Alignment: Cars, Schools, and

Cosmopolitanism as Sites of Transgression of the Colour Line Chair: TBC ‘Oh, if I had that Ford V-8!’: Automotivity, Anti-Lynching Campaigns, and Imagined Black Liberation, 1934-39

Helen A. Gibson, GSNAS, Freie Universität Berlin Protest, Education, and Self-Determination: Black Power Schools in Harlem, 1960-1980

Viola Huang, Teachers College, Columbia University/Universität Passau

From Souls of Black Folk to Internationalism: W.E.B. Du Bois and His Comrades of Colour Jiann-Chyng Tu, Humboldt University Berlin

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Panel D10 Petrochemical America Chair: TBC Petrochemical America: Kate Orff and Robert Misrach's Cartography of Disaster

Caroline Blinder, Goldsmiths, University of London Petro-normativity and Realism in Richard Ford’s Let Me Be Frank (2014)

Rick Crownshaw, Goldsmiths, University of London Resource Fictions of the Future: Peak Oil, the Posthuman and the Postapocalypse in American Science Fiction

Rune Graulund, University of Southern Denmark Panel D11 A Woman’s Place is in the Resistance: Identity as Protest in US Women’s

Writing Chair: TBC ‘Mine is Not a Success Story’: Illness as Protest in Women's Memoirs

Maria Elena Carpintero Torres-Quevedo, University of Edinburgh The Women’s Pages: Inventing the Self in Women’s Newspaper Writing

Niki Holzapfel, University of Edinburgh Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess: Examining Multiple Personality Disorder in Shirley Jackson’s The Bird’s Nest (1954)

Vicki Madden, University of Edinburgh Panel D12 American Culture and the Trumpian Moment Chair: TBC ‘Does it make you feel bored or stupid?’: Adam McKay’s The Big Short (2015), Investment Bankers, and the Confounding of Understanding

Wickham Clayton, University for the Creative Arts Life at the Margins: The White Working-Class in Contemporary American Independent Cinema

Gregory Frame, Bangor University

‘I’ll never have the goodwill of the Establishment’: The Cultural Life of Donald Trump Karen Heath, University of Oxford

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Panel D13 Representing Social Struggles: Riots and Racialized Violence in Visual Media

Chair: TBC Fighting Racialized State Violence in a Postindustrial Age: Spike Lee’s ‘Radio Raheem and the Gentle Giant’

Luvena Kopp, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

Organizing the Apocalypse: The Living Dead in the Age of Class Decomposition Marlon Lieber, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

‘The Arm of Criticism Cannot Replace the Criticism of Arms’: On Punching Nazis

Jesse Ramírez, Universität St. Gallen Panel D14 Listening to America: Music and American Studies (Roundtable) Chair: TBC By Any Means Necessary – and Available: Public Enemy and the Constant Reinvention of Black Musical Activism

Yann Descamps, Université Paris-Est Créteil

Jazz and Everyday Aesthetics Roger Fagge, University of Warwick

Nicholas Gebhardt, Birmingham City University

From the Margins: Asians and Asian Americans in American Music Krystyn Moon, University of Mary Washington

Violent Cowboys and Sincere Cowboys: Debating the US Racial Context with American Country Music in Japan

Mari Nagatomi, Doshisha University

Black Life through a Blues Lens: Visions of America through the Blues Christian O'Connell, University of Gloucestershire

Nowhere to Run: Girl Group Transnationalism

Gayle Wald, George Washington University

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11:45-13.15 PARALLEL SESSION E Panel E1 Imagined and Re-Imagined Communities in Nineteenth-Century African

American Culture (BrANCA) Chair: Matthew Pethers, University of Nottingham W.E.B. Du Bois’ Scorn: A Romance and Reconstruction’s Counterfactual Forms

Tomos Hughes, University of Nottingham Guerrilla Marginalia: The 1851 Census and Transatlantic Abolition

Bridget Bennett, University of Leeds

The ‘Mothering Influence’ in Nineteenth-Century African American Women’s Theory Gregory Phipps, University of Iceland

Panel E2 Intersections of Women, Place and Protest: From Calm Strategies to

Turbulent Years Chair: Kate Dossett, University of Leeds Chisholm ’68: Black Protest and Left-Liberal Politics

Anastasia Curwood, University of Kentucky

Transatlantic Feminist Reform Networks in the Mid-20th Century Ann Schofield, University of Kansas

African American Women and Washington, DC as a Site of Protest

Kim Warren, University of Southern Denmark

Panel E3 Language’s Protest Against Theory in the American Affective Turn

(Roundtable) Chairs: Marc Amfreville, Sorbonne Université, and Nicholas Manning, Sorbonne Université The Geology of Pain in Rick Bass’s ‘The Lives of Rocks’

Marc Amfreville, Sorbonne Université

Patrick McGrath and the Madness of Interpretation Chiara Battisti, University of Verona

‘A Kind of Shadow Language’: Death, Affect and Words in Zero K (2016) by Don DeLillo

Sylvie Bauer, Université Rennes 2

‘A Secret Sense of Wonder’: Experiencing Unnameable Affect in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer

Nicholas Manning, Sorbonne Université

Ethical Instability and Textual Irresponsibility in Toni Morrison’s Fiction Paula Martín-Salván, University of Córdoba

The Medical Humanities and the Question of Empathy

Anne Whitehead, Newcastle University

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Panel E4 The Making of Presidential Image: The Role of Culture Chair: Iwan Morgan, University College London Barack Obama: Hip-hop and Hope

Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University

Nixon in China: Tricky Dick as Hero Mara Oliva, University of Reading

American Icon: The Art of John F. Kennedy

Mark White, Queen Mary, University of London

Panel E5 ‘Protest is the new brunch’: American Studies and the (Re)Making of Protest Cultures in the 21st Century

Chair: TBC Monumental Protest

Ingrid Gessner, Pedagogical University Vorarlberg

Black Protest and American Studies Katharina Fackler, University of Graz

Environmental Protest and/in American Studies

Susanne Leikam, University of Regensburg

American Studies and Digital Dissent Judith Rauscher, University of Bamberg

Panel E6 Place and the Racial Imagination Chair: TBC ‘Practically Our Own City’: Duke Ellington’s Visions of Harlem

Daniel Matlin, King's College London

Through the Looking Glass: Hawai‘i and the Problem of Race in Postwar American Culture Sarah Miller-Davenport, University of Sheffield

The Contradictory Caribbean in Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938)

Imaobong Umoren, London School of Economics

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Panel E7 Red Power Rising: The Long 1968 in Native America Chair: TBC Place, Rights and Protest in the Long 1968 of Red Power

György Tóth, University of Stirling Termination as a Catalyst of the Native American 1968: Federal Indian Policy’s Role in Shaping Native American Activism

Reetta Humalajoki, University of Turku

‘If Only I Were an Indian’: 1968, the ‘Noble Savage’ Stereotype, and Strategies of Escapism in the Former Czechoslovakia

Lucie Kýrová, Charles University, Prague Panel E8 ‘Need for some genuine stimulation’: Revolutionary Vibes

Across Genres Chair: TBC Revolutionary Vibes and Performance Art

Aleksandra Jovanović, University of Belgrade

Revolutionary Vibes and the American Dream Radojka Vukcevic, University of Belgrade

Revolutionary Vibes and Film

Aleksandra Vukotić, University of Belgrade Panel E9 The Nuclear Age: Activism, Ecology, and the Cold War Chair: TBC Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature: Nuclear Resistance, and Mid-Century American Fiction

Sarah Daw, University of Bristol

‘Introduce sanity into the SANE nuclear policy group’ – John F. Kennedy, Nuclear Testing and the Anti-Nuclear Movement 1960-63

Mark Eastwood, University of Nottingham

Mobilizing for Survival: Sidney Lens and the ‘Rebirth’ of the Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1975-1977

John Tiplady, Center for the United States and the Cold War

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Panel E10 World Travels Chair: TBC The Tomb of Adam and the Tomb of Ornithorhynchus: Mark Twain, Charles Darwin, and Human Ancestry

George Blaustein, University of Amsterdam Hawthorne's Rome – A City of Evil, Political and Religious Corruption, Violence and Dread

Irene Rabinovich, Holon Institute of Technology Wondering, Wandering, Escaping: Langston Hughes’s and Cedric Belfrage’s World Travels in the 1930s

Kenneth Janken, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Panel E11 Diver-Agent: The Politics and Poetics of Cultural Dissent in America, A

Polyphonic Perspective (Roundtable) Chair: TBC Alice Balestrino, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome. Claudio de Majo, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich Marta Gara, Independent Scholar Virginia Pignagnoli, University of Turin Angela Zottola, University of Napoli Federico II Panel E12 Edith Wharton’s Protest Novel? Rethinking The Fruit of the Tree

(Roundtable) Chair: Michael J. Collins, University of Kent Euthanasia Revisited: Edith Wharton’s The Shadow of a Doubt as Source Material for The Fruit of the Tree

Laura Rattray, University of Glasgow Justine Brent, Industrial Novels, and the Limits of Woman Power

Stephanie Palmer, Nottingham Trent University Missing Members: Disability, Print Culture, and Revolution in Edith Wharton's The Fruit of the Tree and Jack London's The Iron Heel

Donna Campbell, Washington State University Protest in Reading the New Woman

Gaby Fletcher, National University of Ireland, Galway Family Money: Wealth, Philanthropy and ‘inherited obligations’ in The Fruit of the Tree

Anna Girling, University of Edinburgh

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Panel E13 Swinging Life and Swinging Literature: Social and Aesthetic Protests of the 1960s

Chair: Olga Nesmelova, Kazan Federal University The Civil Rights Movement and Literary Representation: Politics and Aesthetics Yuri Stulov, Minsk State Linguistics University Fact versus Fiction Olga Nesmelova, Kazan Federal University Olga Karasik, Kazan Federal University Bob Mellors, Charlotte Bach, and the Evolutionary reason for Sexual Deviation

Tomasz Basiuk, University of Warsaw

13:15-14:30: Lunch 13:15-14:30: Women in American Studies Network (WASN) and EAAS Women’s Network joint lunch

14:30-16:00: BAAS AGM

17:15-18:30: Plenary 2 (Jo Gill, University of Exeter) UCL-Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 0AL

19:00-20:00: Reception 2 (British Library)

20:15-22:00: Call Mr Robeson (theatre at the British Library Knowledge Centre)

EBAAS delegates are invited to an exclusive performance of Tayo Aluko's award winning one-man show: a rollercoaster journey through African-American actor and singer Paul Robeson’s remarkable life, highlighting his pioneering and heroic political activism. Features Ol’ Man River and other famous songs, much fiery oratory, and a defiant testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

The performance will take place in the Theatre at the British Library Knowledge Centre, immediately following the reception at the British Library. Running time 85 minutes, no interval; followed by optional Q&A.

This performance is being subsidised by the British Association for American Studies. As a result we are able to offer free tickets for students and casualised staff attending EBAAS, and tickets for just £5 for standard rate conference attendees. Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/call-mr-robeson-a-life-with-songs-tickets-39724312488

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Friday 6 April

09:30-11:00 PARALLEL SESSION F Panel F1 American Cultural Identities and Their Literary Representations Chair: TBC Questioning Blacks’ Existence in America: Toni Morrison’s Vision of Black Beauty in God Help the Child

Yapo Ettien, Félix Houphouet Boigny University of Abidjan-Cocody

Dimensions of Identity in Richard Blanco’s Poetry Ignatov Kirill, Lomonosov Moscow State University

White Pole Dilemma in James Baldwin’s Another Country

Agnieszka Łobodziec, University of Zielona Góra

Panel F2 The Domestic Space as a Location of Dissent in American literature (Roundtable)

Chair: Cristina Alsina-Rísquez, Universitat de Barcelona ‘The confused large house I never name’: Economies of Sensation in Melville’s Pierre

Michael Jonik, University of Sussex

Willa Cather’s Dwellings: The Case of The Professor’s House Cristina Alsina-Rísquez, Universitat de Barcelona

Holes and Leaks in Herman Melville’s Stories of Domesticity

Rodrigo Andrés, Universitat de Barcelona

What’s the Matter with New York? How NYC Fiction May Be Losing Its Way Thomas Byers, University of Louisville

Home away from Home: Protesting and Protecting the Domestic in Karen Tei Yamashita’s The I Hotel

Carmen M. Méndez-García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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Panel F3 Environmental Hostility: Protest, Environment, and Place in Contemporary Muslim/Arab American Writing

Chair: TBC Laying the Groundwork for Coalition: The Rejection of ‘honorary whiteness’ in Arab American Fiction

Dima Alzayat, Lancaster University Making Space and Protest in Contemporary American-Muslim Women’s Writing

Hasnul Djohar, University of Exeter Mapping Arab-American Gendered Subjectivities in Post- 9/11 Contemporary Arab- American Women’s Fiction

Nawel Zbidi, Higher Institute of Languages, Moknine

Panel F4 The Power to Resist: Racialized Others and Opposition in

Contemporary African-American Narratives Chair: TBC Revisiting Resistance: Theft and the Contemporary Immigrant Short Story

Christine Okoth, King's College London ‘You can create whole worlds, girl’: Rethinking Black Arts in Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo

Jessica Houlihan, University of Essex

‘I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world’: Paul Beatty’s The Sellout as a Protest Novel Maria-Irina Popescu, University of Essex

Panel F5 Money, Mouth and Message: the Style and Substance of Policy Rollback Chair: TBC Communicating the President’s Message: De-Obamafication in Words and Deeds

Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort University

Obama, Trump and the Policy and Messaging of Trade Politics Alex Waddan, University of Leicester

Trump and Nixon: Roadblocks to Repeal Mitchell Robertson, University of Oxford

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Panel F6 Prisons, Protest Culture, and Radical Politics Chair: TBC Break Down the Walls: The Black Panther Party and the Struggle for Prisoners’ Rights

Zoe Colley, University of Dundee

Freeing Huey P. Newton Joe Street, University of Northumbria

‘We will not become slaves again’: Black Power, Protest and Collective Autobiography in American Women’s Prison Zines

Olivia Wright, University of Nottingham Panel F7 On the Margins: Negotiating Nationhood from the American West in

the Post-Civil War Era Chair: TBC ‘The Vital Link to Mexico’: Reconstructing a State and National Identity in Post-Civil War Texas

Alys Beverton, University College London

‘The Great Battlefield of the World’: The American West and the Making of Christian America Andrew Short, University College London

Buoying the ‘Old Ship of Zion’: Economic Self-Sufficiency as a Means of Defiance in Postbellum Utah

James Williamson, Keele University Panel F8 The Crisis of the Confederate Monument (Roundtable) Chair: TBC Bruce E. Baker, Newcastle University Thomas Brown, University of South Carolina Zoe Hyman, University College London Anthony Stanonis, Queen's University Belfast

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Panel F9 Embodied Feminisms of Place and Protest: Maria W. Stewart, Sylvia Plath, Ana Castillo, and Contemporary Female Adventurers (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC Biophilic Representations of Ethnocultural Identity: Narrating Ecoawareness in Ana Castillo’s Massacre of the Dreamers (1994) and So Far from God (1994)

Sophia Emmanouilidou, TEI of the Ionian Islands

Ecologies of Extreme Adventure: Performing Environmental Activism Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton University and Aristotle University

Tainted Protest: Maria W. Stewart, Visceral Rhetoric, and the Search for an Adequate Witness in Nineteenth-Century America

Vorris L. Nunley, University of California, Riverside

‘This Is My Property’: Race, Place, and Activism in Sylvia Plath Emily Van Duyne, Stockton University

Panel F10 Transnationalism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

(BrANCA) Chair: Katie McGettigan, Royal Holloway, University of London The Legal and the Exceptional: The Interaction Between Exceptionalist Discourse and the Law in The Brothers Karamazov and White-Jacket

Olga Akroyd, University of Kent

John Neal’s American Literary Nationalism and his Response to Irving’s ‘Westminster Abbey’ Ellen Bulford Welch, University of Sheffield

Transpacific and Transatlantic Exchanges in Henry James’s The Europeans

Martha Sledge, Marymount Manhattan College

Panel F11 Games of Empire: Video Games and the (New) American Empire Chair: Michael Fuchs, University of Graz ‘All your base are belong to us’: Neocolonialism and New Empire in Science Fiction Video Games

Paweł Frelik, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Fighting Fascists: The (Racial) Politics of Killing Nazis in Wolfenstein II and in Trump’s America

C. Richard King, Washington State University ‘Wild West’ or ‘Weird West’: Western Digital Games and the Re-Narration of the US Empire

Mahshid Mayar, Bielefeld University

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Panel F12 Globalization and Its Discontents 1: Protest In/Out of Place (Roundtable)

Chair: Begoña Simal-González, Universidade da Coruña Afterimages: History, Time, and the Spaces of American Displacement in the 21st Century

Jayson Baker, Curry College (In)visibility and Protest in Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Romo’s El Puente/The Bridge

Lucas Martingano, Universidade da Coruña Anti- and Alter-Globalization: Protest, Resistance and Alternative Discourses in American Culture

Begoña Simal-González, Universidade da Coruña Panel F13 Army Wives, Astronauts, and Cowgirls: Gendered Mobility in

American Culture Chairs: Katharina Gerund, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, and Alexandra Ganser University of Vienna The Astronauts‘ Wife Only? Gendered Mobility in American Astroculture

Alexandra Ganser, University of Vienna, Austria

Military (Im)Mobilities: Women and War in Siobhan Fallon’s Short Stories Katharina Gerund, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

Cowgirldom on the Move: The Transnational Performances of Annie Oakley

Stefanie Schäfer, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany) Panel F14 Indian and Non-Indian Relations in the Twentieth Century: Land,

Images, and Unlikely Cultural Brokers Chair: Iwan Morgan, University College London Immigration and Indian Reservation Dispossession: Homesteading and Land Sales on the Northern Great Plains, 1904-1934

Karen V. Hansen, Brandeis University

’Working from the Outside In’: John Collier, Jr.’s Photographs of the Amish and the Navajo Katherine Jellison, Ohio University

The Exhilaration of Indigenous Self-Determination: Richard Nixon and Blue Lake, Gough Whitlam at Wattie Creek

Dean J. Kotlowski, Salisbury University

11:00-11:45: Break

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11:45-13:15 PARALLEL SESSION G Panel G1 Literature, Anti-Psychiatry, Psychotherapy: Transatlantic Exchanges Chair: Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester The Barefoot Doctor: The Cultural Preconditions of R. D. Laing’s Rebirthing Workshops

Brian Edgar, University of Exeter

Villa Road – Inishfree – Colombia: Tracking the Atlantis Primal Commune Paul Williams, University of Exeter

Femininity and the False-Self System: Reading Gender and Self in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar through R. D. Laing’s The Divided Self

Joanna Wilson, University of Edinburgh Panel G2 Narrating the Post-Industrial United States Chair: TBC Ruin Porn & Ragged Dicks: Post-Industrial White Masculinity in HBO’s Hung

Sandra Becker, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Nothing But Flowers, or Glimpsing the Garden After the Machine Tim Jelfs, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Art and Resistance in DeLillo’s Post-Industrial Landscapes

Xavier Marcó del Pont, Independent Scholar Panel G3 Environmental Consciousness in Twentieth-Century American Literature Chair: TBC Ursula K. Le Guin’s SF Fictions and Environmentalism

Parisa Changizi, University of Ostrava

Environment and Protest in the Writings of Upton Sinclair James Deutsch, Smithsonian Institution

Literary Environmentalism in California

Petr Kopecky, University of Ostrava

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Panel G4 Emotions and American Protest (Roundtable) Chair: Nick Witham, University College London Forces Driving Right-Wing Women’s Protests and Campaigns

June Benowitz, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee

Visualizing Anger in Murals of the Black Power Movement Hannah Jeffery, University of Nottingham

Mobilizing Support for Climate Change Activism through Emotional Appeal

Melanie Meunier, Institut d’Etudes Politiques

Expressed and Suppressed Emotions in Nonviolent Civil Rights Campaigns of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s

Rosemary Pearce, University of Nottingham

The Joys of Community Activism Timo Schrader, University of Nottingham

Panel G5 Histories of Exploitation: Extracting People of Colour from Labour

and Wealth in the US Chair: Lynn Itagaki, University of Missouri Slavery, Fugitivity, and the Senses: Examining the Haptic Impact of Slave Filmography

Deirdre Cooper Owens, Queens College, CUNY

White Collar Crime: Strategies of Whiteness and the Racial Wealth Gap Devin Fergus, University of Missouri

Tyrannies of the Workplace: The Employee, the Robot Worker and the End of Humanity

Lynn Itagaki, University of Missouri Panel G6 The Fabric of Power: Women of Colour, Materialities, and Resistance

in the Americas Chair: TBC Mujerista Threads: Female Agency and the Rebozo in Chicanx Culture

Eilidh A B Hall, University of East Anglia

Quilting Legacies of Resistance: The Works of Faith Ringgold and Chawne Kimber Katja May, University of Kent

‘A handkerchief on her head’: Women of Colour and the Material Legacies of the Haitian Revolution

Nicole Willson, University of Kent

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Panel G7 American Studies in Europe: The Experience of Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers

Chairs: Lorenzo Costaguta, AISNA Graduate Forum, and Katerina Webb-Bourne, King’s College London and BAAS PG Representative Aleksandra Kamińska, University of Warsaw Marta Duro, University of Valladolid Kostantinos D.Karatzas, University of Zaragoza Natalia Kovalyova, University College Dublin Francesca Razzi, University of Chieti-Pescara Caroline Schroeter, University College Cork Panel G8 Interactions with the Nonhuman World in 19th C America (BrANCA) Chair: Linda Freedman, University College London The Science of ‘Civil Disobedience’ and the Democracy of Trees

Michael Jonik, University of Sussex Combustible Man: Commodity (Mis)Identification in Melville's Redburn

Ian Green, Eastern Washington University

Disclosed by Danger: Dickinson, Darwin, Life Amy R. Nestor, Georgetown University, Qatar

Panel G9 Keywords for Trump (Roundtable) Chair: TBC Walls

Christine Okoth, King's College London

Sad Clare Birchall, King's College London

Kitsch

Natalia Cecire, University of Sussex

Deal Molly Geidel, University of Manchester

Red Pill

Carleigh Morgan, University of Cambridge

Secular Stagnation Sean O'Brien, University of Alberta

Fascist

Myka Tucker-Abramson, University of Warwick

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Panel G10 Placing the West Chair: TBC A Landscape of Protest: Mormons, Anti-Mormons, and the Representation of Utah Territory's Natural Environment, 1847-1868

Greg Davies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Places, Borders, and Homes - The Story Told by Inscription Rock

Andrea Kokeny, University of Szeged Max Weber on the Oklahoma Plains

Tom Wright, University of Sussex Panel G11 Spatial Politics: Culture, Celebrity, and the City Chair: TBC Reimagining New York: Colson Whitehead’s Speculative Cities

Anne-Marie Evans, York St John University

‘The band is really flying tonight’: Creative and Cultural Space in Kristin Hersh’s Paradoxical Undressing

Fraser Mann, York St John University

Booker T. Washington: Up From Slavery and African American Celebrity Stephen Robinson, York St John University

Panel G12 Black Is/Black Ain't: Performing, Scripting and Narrativising

American Blackness Chair: TBC Passing Amid Protest: Imitation of Life, One Life to Live, and Passing Narratives in 1968

Janine Bradbury, York St John University

From the Bronx to Germany and Back: Using the Archive to Narrate African American Protest & Patriotism

Nicole King, Goldsmiths, University of London

‘Savages Amongst the Civilized’: Racial Disguise at the Circus and Sideshow Carina Spaulding, University College London

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Panel G13 Russian-American Literary Relations Chair: TBC Comrade Wright, Renegade Wright: Richard Wright and the Soviet Union

Olga Panova, Lomonosov Moscow State University ‘As American as April in Arizona’? Vladimir Nabokov’s English Language Oeuvre

Lyndsay Miller, University of Glasgow

Philip K. Dick’s Russian Orbits - Resisting a Time Out of Joint Irina Novikova, University of Latvia

Panel G14 Space as Literary Protest: Subversions of Traditional Literary

Conventions in Digital, Virtual, and Multimodal Texts (Roundtable) Chair: TBC Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close and Falling Man: When Photography Becomes an Essential Feature for Interactive Storytelling

Francesco Bacci, University of Macerata

Interacting with Space(s): The Self-Subversive and Self-Reflective Implications of Space in Nick Montfort’s Ad Verbum and Adam Cadre’s Photopia

Evgenia Kleidona, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Landscapes as Sites of Protest: Zachary Thomas Dodson’s Bats of the Republic (2015)

Thomas Mantzaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Digital Poetics on the Threshold: Interfacial Exchanges Belén Piqueras, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

13:15-14:30: Lunch 13:15-14:30: BAAS AND EAAS postgraduate lunch

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14:30-16:00 PARALLEL SESSION H Panel H1 Asian American Narratives Chair: TBC Gardens in the Desert: An Ecocritical Survey of Japanese American Incarceration Narratives

Heidi Kim, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Intimacies of Three Continents: Food, Colonial Desire and Queer Networks in Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt

Jiachen Zhang, University of Leeds No Man’s Land: A Transnational Metaphor in Chuang Hua’s Crossings

Joe Upton, University of Sussex Panel H2 Female Agency and Identity Negotiations in Contemporary Narratives

of Border Crossings Chair: TBC The Dominican-American Scheherazade: The Rhetoric of La Familia and Anxieties of Belonging in Julia Alvarez’s iYo! (1997)

Stefania Ciocia, Canterbury Christ Church University

Crossing Borders in Post-Western Films: Sin Nombre, Frozen River Jesús A. González, University of Cantabria

Hyphenated Identities: Tropes of Belonging and Displacement in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth (2008)

Mercedes Peñalba, University of Salamanca Panel H3 Popular Protest in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Ireland

and Irish America: Comparisons and Connections (Roundtable) Chair: Sophie Cooper, Northumbria University ‘If Ye’s Won’t Fight, Don’t Talk Disloyal’: Evaluating Irish American Song Responses to the New York Draft Riots

Catherine Bateson, University of Edinburgh The Greenback and the Green: Agrarian Revolt and the Land Question in America and Ireland

Rian Holland, Northumbria University

‘Revolutionary Warfare’: Agrarian Resistance and Urban Radicalism – The Transnational Career of the Boycott

Andrew Phemister, University of Edinburgh

‘Daylight Sycophants and Moonlight Marauders’: A Comparison of Slave Resistance in the American South and Peasant Resistance in Ireland.

Cathal Smith, National University of Ireland, Galway

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Panel H4 Countercultural Politics and Revisionary Writing Chair: Linda Freedman, University College London ‘Energy is Eternal Delight’: William Blake and Ecopoetic Action

Linda Freedman, University College London

‘Bringing it all Back Home’: E. L. Doctorow's Homer and Langley and Emersonian Transcendentalism in a World of Things

Chris Gair, University of Glasgow

‘Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers’: Thomas Pynchon and the David Irving Trial Rob Turner, University of Exeter

Panel H5 Women at Work from Progressivism to Civil Rights Chair: TBC Neighbourhood to Nation: School Nurses Pave the Way for a Maternalist Agenda

Heather Furnas, Cornell University Race and the American Working Mother: African American Women’s Social Activism Between the Waves, 1930-65

Lauren Eglen, University of Nottingham Women and the Full Employment Movement: Demanding the Right to Work in the New Deal Era Michael Dennis, Acadia University Panel H6 Black Power Chair: TBC Grace Lee Boggs’s The Next American Revolution: Communitarianism and Sustainability in Place-Based Regeneration

Aneta Dybska, University of Warsaw

Black Power, Black Capitalism? Challenging the Possessive Investment in Whiteness in the 1960s

Simone Knewitz, Universität Bonn ‘The Year of the Panther’: Locating The Black Panther Newspaper in the Context of Revolutionary Pan African Print Culture

Anthony Ratcliff, California State University, Los Angeles

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Panel H7 Contested Space: Cultural Palimpsests in Latino/a Discourse Chair: TBC Ewa Antoscek, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Raúl Rubio, The New School Grzegorz Welizarowicz, University of Gdańsk Karolina Majkowska, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Panel H8 African Americans and the Politics of African Diasporan Protest,

1919-1970 Chair: Nicholas Grant, University of East Anglia La Langue de nos maîtres : African Americans, Présence Africaine and the Question of Language and Culture

Sarah Dunstan, University of Sydney

Do our Brothers and Sisters Care?: The Response of African Americans to the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970

James Farquharson, Australian Catholic University To look and feel like a state: The Pan-African Congress and Interwar Diplomacy

Jake Hodder, University of Nottingham Panel H9 American Radical Periodicals (1890s-1930s): Protest and the Serial

Forms of Democratic Practice (Roundtable) Chair: Hélène Quanquin, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3 Radical Self-improvement: Alternative Health Campaigns and Feminist Hygiene in Magazines of the Early 20th-century

Sue Currell, University of Sussex Cécile Roudeau, Université Paris-Diderot

The Myth of America in the Italian-Language Radical Press at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Stefano Luconi, University of Genoa

‘A Monthly Album of Crazy Fancies’: The Arena, ‘Cranks’ and Radical Magazines in the 1890s Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet, Savoie-Mont Blanc

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Panel H10 Cityspace and its Literary Cartographies Chair: TBC ‘Criminalized’ Space and Hybrid Borderlines: the Chicana Space of Los Angeles

Adina Ciugureanu, Ovidius University Constanta

Heights, Depths and Networks in Colum McCann’s 1974 New York City Nicoleta Stanca, Ovidius University Constanta

Moving from ‘Rabbitland’ to New Prospect, USA: Post – 9/11 Updike and the American City in Terrorist

Eduard Vlad, Ovidius University Constanta Panel H11 Place and Adaptation Chair: Mihaela Precup, University of Bucharest The Italian ‘Buster Brown’: Domesticating an American Comic for Local Audience

Ian Gordon, National University of Singapore

From Protest to Propaganda: How Relocating The War of the Worlds Changed Its Message Charles Shindo, Louisiana State University

Adapting Horror and Translating Fear: Transforming Kairo (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 2001) into Pulse (Jim Sonzero, 2006)

Valerie Wee, National University of Singapore Panel H12 Using Runaway Slave Advertisements to Teach Slavery (Workshop) Chair: TBC ‘But calls himself’: Rereading Runaway Slave Advertisements as Slave Narratives

Antonio T. Bly, Appalachian State University

‘Free that are able and willing’: White Slavery in the Age of the American Revolution Ryan Ingerick, Appalachian State University

‘has a Stammering in his Speech’: the Mental Attributes of Runaway Enslaved

Nelson Mundell, University of Glasgow

A Runaway and a Deserter: Examining the Importance of Networks in Peter and Isaac’s Run from Maine to South Carolina

Nicole Saffold Maskiell, University of South Carolina

Advertising for a ‘Runaway Master,’ or The World Turned Upside Down Billy G. Smith, Montana State University

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Panel H13 Illness and the Environment in American Literature and Cinema Chair: Pascale Antolin, Bordeaux Montaigne University, CLIMAS What the Chaos of Todd Haynes’s Safe (1995) May Add to Illness Narratives

Cecilia Beecher Martins, University of Lisbon, ULICES

Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge: From Woundedness to Wholeness Through Writing Body and Bird

Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, ULICES,

‘Half the river red’: Reading the Passaic in Jarmusch and Williams

Ciaran O’Rourke

17:15-18:30: Plenary 3 (M. Giulia Fabi, University of Ferrara) UCL-Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, Bloomsbury, London, WC1H 0AL

19:00: Conference Banquet (Senate House) Tickets available via the conference estore: http://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/arts-humanities-research-institute/ebaas-2018-uk

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Saturday 7 April

09:30-11:00 PARALLEL SESSION I Panel I1 The Aesthetics of Resistance in the Mid- to Late-Nineteenth Century Chair: Robin Vandome, University of Nottingham ‘Marching Into The Streets’: Early African American Women Photographers and the Navigation of Public Space

Emily Brady, University of Nottingham

‘An Especial Prize to the Boys’: Patriotic Ephemera and the Union Citizen-Soldier James Brookes, University of Nottingham

Landscapes of Progress: Public Parks and the Modernisation of Postbellum Richmond

Steve Gallo, University of Nottingham Panel I2 From Counter-Cultural Shamans to the Life of the Senses: American

Studies as Aisthesis Chair: TBC How To Smell Like a Man? Towards a Modal Anthropology of Male US Perfume Cultures

Thomas Clark, Goethe University, Frankfurt

Affect, Protest, and Research: On the Effects of (Seeking) Knowledge on Protest Nicole Hirschfelder, University of Tübingen

On (Film) Bodies and their Senses: Rereading Two African-American Independent Classics

Tomáš Pospíšil, Masaryk University, Brno Panel I3 Placing Protest in an Epidemic: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of

Place in the United States in the 1980s Chair: TBC Idiosyncrasies of AIDS in the American Heartland

Katie Batza, University of Kansas

Between Private and Public: AIDS, Health Care Capitalism, and the Politics of Respectability in 1980s America

Jonathan Bell, University College London

AIDS, Homophobic Workplace Discrimination and Activism in the Sunbelt Joshua Hollands, University College London

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Panel I4 African American Memory and Place Chair: TBC Boo, Bull, and Birmingham: To Kill a Mockingbird and Racial Protest in Alabama’s Magic City

Megan Hunt, Edinburgh University African-American History Museums and the Importance of Place

Laura Burnham, Edge Hill University Black Lives Matter and the Battle over Racial Memory

Jenny Woodley, Nottingham Trent University Panel I5 Health care and protests in the Obama era and Trump era Chair: TBC Policy Makes Protest? The Role of Policy Feedback on Protests in Support of the Affordable Care Act

Melissa Bass, University of Mississippi Rejecting Freeloaders: the Tea Party Protests Against Obamacare, 2009-2010

Alf Tønnessen, Volda University College Panel I6 Sites and Spaces of Human Rights Chair: TBC Empathic Revolutions: Writing from the American Gulag

Doran Larson, Hamilton College ‘Unable or Unwilling’: Genealogies of State Failure in US Humanitarian War

Sarah Earnshaw, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Amnesty International and Letter-Writing as a Form of Protest Matthew Chambers, University of Warsaw

Panel I7 Nature is the Best Playground: Imagining Nature in Video Games Chair: Michael Fuchs, University of Graz No Longer a ‘Contained and Disciplined Environment’: Urban Nature and Fungal Horror in The Last of Us

Michael Fuchs, University of Graz

(Non-)Playable Scenes of Visionary Enchantment: Romantic American Landscapes and the Sublime in Video Games

Stefan Rabitsch, University of Graz

Mass Effect and the Uses of Nature Anna Warso, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw

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Panel I8 Remembering Transatlantic Upheavals Chair: TBC Cultural Memory and Transatlantic Solidarity with Native Americans in the Late Cold War

György Tóth, University of Stirling

Krautrock and the Transatlantic Student Movement Ulrich Adelt, University of Wyoming

The US Overseas Military Cemeteries as Sites of Transatlantic Politics and Protests

Allison Wanger, Miami University, Ohio Panel I9 European Ethnicity in the United States Chair: TBC Aspen’s Goethe Bicentennial and the Legacy of the Holocaust

Julia Lange, University of Hamburg The Significance of Becoming Anglo-Saxon: Swedish Immigrants in American Ethno-Racial Hierarchies circa 1900

Dag Blanck, Uppsala University Ethnic Attachments and Transnational Loyalties: Romanian Heritage Festivals in the United States

Raluca Rogoveanu, Ovidius University, Constanta Panel I10 Lineages, Legacies & Identities in Chicano (Pop) Culture: Art, Film &

Memoir Chair: TBC Rasquache Reclamation: Taking to the Streets to Take Back a Movement

Caleb Bailey, University of Nottingham

From Teen Angels to Vogue: Protest Through Subcultural Styles in Mi Vida Loca Emma Horrex, University of Hull

Calling Back; Self-Expression and Political Protest in the Memoirs of Luis J. Rodriguez

Josephine Metcalf, University of Hull

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Panel I11 Girlhood and Popular Culture Chair: TBC Placing Girlhood in Jennifer Egan's Look at Me (2001) and A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011)

Rachael Mclennan, University of East Anglia Against Adulthood: Self-Representations of Girls in Popular Culture

Aleksandra Kamińska, University of Warsaw Preserving the Slut’s Pleasure(s): Zines, Archives and the Power of Sorority’s Healing and Solidarity in Archives

Vanesa Menéndez Cuesta, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Panel I12 Frontier Fiction Chair: TBC Something Wicked Westward Goes: Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson and the Frontier Gothic

Robyn Pritzker, University of Edinburgh Dancing on the Edge of America: Ballrooms as Social Frontiers in the Fiction of John Fante

Michael Docherty, University of Kent

11:00-11:45: Break

11:45-13:15 PARALLEL SESSION J Panel J1 Redefining Black Mountain Poetry: Before and After Olson Chair: TBC M.C. Richards’ Pedagogies

Lucy Burns, University of Manchester

Jonathan Williams’s Occasions Mark Byers, Newcastle University

John Wieners’ Lyric Intensions

Michael Kindellan, University of Sheffield

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Panel J2 Transatlantic Threads: Little Magazine Networks and the International Underground

Chair: TBC Little Magazines and Transatlantic Networks: Jeff Nuttall and My Own Mag

Douglas Field, University of Manchester

The Transatlantic Radical Art of the UCL Small Press Archive Liz Lawes, University College London

The Art of Outflanking: Alexander Trocchi and the Sigma Portfolio

James Riley, University of Cambridge Panel J3 America's Sacrifice Zone: Environmentalism and Protest in

Appalachian Literature Chair: TBC ‘This is my homeplace’: Narratives of Protest and the Fight for Environmental Justice in Appalachian Mountain Literature

Katherine Ledford, Appalachian State University

‘Cant no fire burn me’: Protest Songs in the Coalfields in Denise Giardina’s Storming Heaven

Carmen Rueda, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona

‘We’ll keep cutting’: Obstinacy and Disaster in Ron Rash’s Serena Frédérique Spill, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens

Panel J4 Protest in American Photography/American Photography in Protest Chair: TBC Tough Images: Garry Winogrand’s Public Relations and the Paradoxes of Street Photography Simon Constantine, University College London Camera as Weapon: ‘Worker Photography’ in the USA in the 1930s

Barnaby Haran, University of Hull The Same Old Thing Again: Martha Rosler’s Protest

Stephanie Schwartz, University College London

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Panel J5 The International Dimensions of Postwar American Evangelicalism (Roundtable)

Chair: TBC ‘Practicing Global Evangelicalism’: Prayer in the Making of Billy Graham’s Global Evangelical Community

Uta Balbier, King's College London

Evangelicals, Missionaries, and the International Dimension of the Religious Liberty Debate c.1945-1960

Emma Long, University of East Anglia Evangelicals, Religious Politics, and US Cold War Globalism

Axel R. Schäfer, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz U.S. and South African Evangelical Responses to Apartheid Melani McAlister, George Washington University Panel J6 The 2016 presidential elections as a protest phenomenon

(Roundtable – supported by Kennan Institute) Chair: Victoria Zhuravleva, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow Shifting Focus: Russia as a Target of Protests after Trump Election

Ivan Kurilla, European University at Saint-Petersburg

Protests as Agenda of the 2016 President Elections Alexander Okun, Samara University

Gendered Presidential Election from a Perspective of Women’s Protest

Ludmila Popkova, Samara University

‘A Woman’s Place is in the Resistance’: Female Artists’ Responses to the Politics of Donald J. Trump

Andrea Schlosser, Ruhr University Bochum

Visual Protest: Anti-Trump Discourse in American Political Cartoons Victoria Zhuravleva, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow

Panel J7 Rethinking the Southern Colour Line, 1920s-1970s Chair: TBC ‘Low Type Peons, Catholics and Communists’: The KKK, Mexican Immigration and the 1924 Johnson Act

Miguel Hernandez, University of Exeter

‘We are willing to take their money’: Southern Department Store Managers and Segregation in 1950s America. Vicki Howard, University of Essex ‘White like You’: The Spectacle of Whiteface in the Free Southern Theatre, 1964-1977

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Rowan Hartland, Northumbria University Panel J8 Race, Culture, and Activism in New Orleans Chair: TBC New Orleans in Time: Narrating Disaster

Anna Hartnell, Birkbeck, University of London

The Louisiana Federal Writers’ Project: Representing Race and Voodoo in New Orleans Jennie O'Reilly, Liverpool John Moores

Mardi Gras Indians: From Mutual Aid to Social Activism

Katerina Webb-Bourne, King's College London Panel J9 Globalization and Its Discontents 2: Trans-Global, Trans-National,

Trans-Ethnic America Chair: Martín Urdiales, Universidade de Vigo Post-ethnicity and Anti-globalization in Chicana/o Science Fiction

Elsa del Campo Ramírez, Universidad de Camilo José Cela

Being True to the Trans-: The Trans-global Science Fiction of Samuel R. Delany José Liste Noya, Universidade da Coruña

Trans-global, Trans-human, Trans-generic, Trans-historical but . . . Trans-eth(n)ic?: Chasing Boundaries in Yann Martel’s Fiction

Martín Urdiales, Universidade de Vigo Panel J10 Contemporary North American Detective Narratives Chair: TBC Marvel’s The Defenders: A Transmedia Detective Narrative

Lyndsay Miller, University of Glasgow

‘As easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket’: Animetaphor in Raymond Chandler and Jonathan Lethem

Ruth Hawthorn, University of Lincoln

Thomas Pynchon’s Hardboiled Eric Sandberg, City University of Hong Kong

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Panel J11 Degeneration of Settler Colonialism in Contemporary Cinematic Depictions of the US West

Chair: M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg University, Minneapolis The Roots of the Degeneration of Settler Colonialism in The Keeping Room

Matthew Carter, Manchester Metropolitan University

Settler Colonial Disease and Dis-Ease in August, Osage County M. Elise Marubbio, Augsburg University, Minneapolis

Portrayals of Degenerate Religious Leaders in Contemporary Film Westerns

Marek Paryz, University of Warsaw Panel J12 Perspectives on New York's Urban Crisis Chair: TBC Urban Lifestyle Magazines and the Ideology of Self-Help in ‘Crisis’-Era New York City, 1969-1985

Joe Merton, University of Nottingham ‘Queer Girl Healthcare is Political’: Women, AIDS, and Healthcare Activism in 1980s and 1990s New York

Emma Day, University of Oxford The Re-Education of John Lindsay Ryan Purcell, Cornell University

13:15-14:30: Lunch 14:30-16:00: 1968 Panel Discussion (Roundtable – sponsored by Edinburgh University Press) Chair: Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester Penny Lewis, City University of New York Sharon Monteith, Nottingham Trent University Doug Rossinow, Oslo University Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University Nick Witham, University College London

16:00: Conference Ends

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