Border Crossings:Translation, Migration, & Gender in the Americas, the Transatlantic, & the Transpacific

Registration

Hall Central

Welcome Address

Amphi 700

Keynote Address : Susan Sontag’s Parisian Year (1957-1958)

Amphithéâtre 700

Alice Kaplan

A1- Trans/literary Dramaturgy: Crossing Genres in Plays by American Women

J002

Cheryl Black (University of Missouri, USA) - Organized by the American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS)

› Re-Presenting the Wages of War: Interrogating the Boundaries between Fact and Truth in the War Plays by Helen Benedict and Paula Vogel - Sharon Friedman, New York University 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› From American Girl Dolls to Mean Girls: Finding a Place for a Twenty-first Century Little Women - Valerie Joyce, Villanova University 14:45-15:00 (15min)

A2- Transatlantic Imitations

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Mary Lou Kete (University of Vermont, USA)

› Snippets, Excerpts, and Epigraphs: Ann Radcliffe and the Transatlantic Quotation - Claudia Stokes, Trinity University 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› The American Hemans - Jennifer Putzi, The College of William and Mary 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› A Transatlantic Triangle Trade: Harriet Beecher Stowe's New Orleans Slavery Dialogues and the West Indian Dialogues of English Evangelist Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - Laura Korobkin, Boston University 15:00-15:15 (15min)

A4- Gertrude Stein: Expatriate Woman Writer in Paris

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Timothy K. Nixon (Shepherd University, USA)

› The Missing Link: Gertrude Stein between American and European Theater - Laura Luise Schultz, University of Copenhagen 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Women and Novels: Modernist Edition, by Gertrude Stein - Cecilia Koncharr Farr, St. Catherine University 14:45-15:00 (15min)

A5- Gloria Anzaldúa: Translation and Linguistic Border Crossings

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Véronique Béghain (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France)

› Translating Gloria Anzaldúa - Norma E. Cantú, Trinity University 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Border Literatures / Chicana Translatability - Romana Radlwimmer, Universität Augsburg 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Anzaldúa's Border Crossings in contact with Indigenous Feminist Bridges - Isabel Dulfano, University of Utah 15:00-15:15 (15min)

A6- Border Crossings in Asian-American Literature I

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Francesca De Lucia (Minzu University of China, Beijing, China)

› Japanese Picture Brides and Their American Lives in Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic - Brygida Gasztold, Koszalin University of Technology 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› American Heroines in Japan: American Domestic Novels and the Formation of Japanese Girls Culture - Hisayo Ogushi, Keio University 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Open Meanings: Settler Colonialism, War, and Survival in Juliet Kono's Anshū: Dark Sorrow - Kelsey Amos, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa 15:00-15:15 (15min)

› Women Crossing Tropics and Oceans: the Transgression of Female Border-Crossing in Contemporary American Literature - Héloïse Thomas-Cambonie, Université Bordeaux Montaigne 15:15-15:30 (15min)

A7- Border Crossings and Traveling I

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Rita Bode (Trent University, Canada)

› Reading Europe: The Reading List of the Women's Rest Tour Association - Julia Carlson, National University of Ireland Galway 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› ‘Momentary Escapes from the Expected': ‘Thin Places' in the Travel Writing of Edith Wharton - Bonnie McMullen, Independent Scholar 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Crossing Borders in Elizabeth B. Stoddard's Paradoxical Voyages - Audrey Fogels, Université Paris 8 - Vincennes-Saint-Denis 15:00-15:15 (15min)

› Transgressive Archives and the Labor of Recovery: The Case of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Jennifer S. Tuttle, University of New England 15:15-15:30 (15min)

A8- Crossing Borders between the Arts II

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Mathieu Duplay (Université Paris Diderot, France)

› ‘Whole New Worlds of Art': Save Me the Waltz (1932), Interwar Paris, and the Ballets Russes - Charlotte Rich, Eastern Kentucky University 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Ayn Rand and Marilyn Monroe: Making Your Own Boundaries - Shoshana Milgram Knapp, Virginia Tech 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› ‘How does a shadow shine?' Bridgetower and the Reappearance of the Mulatto - Ralph Poole, University of Salzburg 15:00-15:15 (15min)

Coffee break

Hall Central

“Regarding Susan Sontag”

Amphithéâtre "Odéon" Archéopôle + Amphithéâtre DEFLE

A documentary by Nancy Kates

Susan Glaspell’s Fugitive's Return

Amphithéâtre MDE (Maison Des Étudiants)

A staged reading organized by the International Susan Glaspell Society