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

B1- Traveling American Women Writers: Transgressing Gender and Geography in the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

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Miranda A. Green-Barteet (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

› What do we see in Cuba?: Eva Canel and the Hispanophone Perspective - Lisa Surwillo, Stanford University 09:00-09:15 (15min)

› Travel and Transnationalism in Catharine Sedgwick's Periodical Writings - Deborah Gussman, Stockton University 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Martha Gellhorn's Border Crossings: Geography, Gender, Genre - Beth Widmaier Capo, Illinois College 09:30-09:45 (15min)

› Risky Business: Contemporary American Women Writers and Extreme Adventure - Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton University 09:45-10:00 (15min)

B2- "Western Women and Print Culture"

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Cathryn Halverson (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) - Organized by the Western Literature Association (Panel I)

› Sui Sin Far: True ‘Westerner'? - Charles Johanningsmeier, University of Nebraska, Omaha 09:00-09:15 (15min)

› Atlantic Connections - Cathryn Halverson, University of Groningen 09:15-09:30 (15min)

B3- Transgender Studies and Literary Borders

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Susan Tomlinson (University of Massachusetts, USA) - Organized by Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers

› Gender on the Borders: The Journal of Madame Knight - Mary McAleer Balkun, Seton Hall University 09:00-09:15 (15min)

› Transmitting, Transmuting, and Transforming Gender in Julia Ward Howe's The Hermaphrodite - Nancy Strow Sheley, California State University Long Beach 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Crossing Sensory and Gendered Borders in H.D.'s HERmione - Allyson DeMaagd, West Virginia University 09:30-09:45 (15min)

B4- Border Crossings in Edith Wharton’s Writings

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Brigitte Zaugg (Université de Lorraine, Metz, France)

› Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: Trans-Atlantic Currents and the Redefinition of Self - Elaine M. Toia, SUNY Rockland Community College 09:00-09:15 (15min)

› Edith Wharton's Genre Crossings - Laura Rattray, University of Glasgow 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Cosmopolitan Borderlines: Edith Wharton's Representation of Europe in A Son at the Front (1923) - Alberto Lena, University of Valladolid 09:30-09:45 (15min)

› Edith Wharton's Non-fiction and The Great War - Agnes Zsofia Kovacs, University of Szeged 09:45-10:00 (15min)

B5- Crossing Borders in Children’s Literature

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Sirpa Salenius (University of Eastern Finland, Finland). Organized by: Etti Gordon Ginzburg (Oranim College of Education, Israel) & Daniela Daniele (Udine University, Italy)

› Miniaturizations: Louisa May Alcott's Children's Tales - Daniela Daniele, Udine University 09:00-09:15 (15min)

› The Nursery Hermaphrodite: Gender Bending in Laura Richards's ‘My Japanese Fan' - Etti Gordon Ginzburg, Oranim College of Education 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Temporal Border-Crossing in Caroline Dale Snedeker's Roman Novels - Anne Morey, Texas A&M University - Claudia Nelson, Texas A&M University 09:30-09:45 (15min)

B6- Others and Otherness in the Works of Contemporary American Women Writers

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Rachana Sachdev (Susquehanna University, USA)

› Aspects of the Other in Susan Howe and Rosmarie Waldrop's Work - Dubravka Djurić, Faculty for Media and Communication, Singidunum University, Belgrade 09:00-09:15 (15min)

› Representations of the Other in the Works of Jhumpa Lahiri - Sanja Čukić, Union-Nikola Tesla University, Belgrade 09:15-09:30 (15min)

B7- Border Crossings in Asian-American Literature II

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Linda T. Moser (Missouri State University, USA)

› ‘What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?': A Transnational Approach to Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts - Linda T. Moser, Missouri state university 09:00-09:15 (15min)

› Aporetic Origins in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone: (Dis)orientation Across Borders - Noëmie Leduc, Université Bordeaux Montaigne 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Challenging orientalism, gender and race in Grace Zaring Stone's The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Francesca De Lucia, Minzu University of China 09:30-09:45 (15min)

B8- "Borders, Identities, and Bodies"

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Kalenda Eaton (Arcadia University, USA)

› Danticat, Adichie, and the Precarity of Immigrant Existence - Gerise Herndon, Nebraska Wesleyan University 09:00-09:15 (15min)

› Curanderismo: Border Crossing, Healing, and Transformation - Amanda Ellis, University of Houston 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Crossing Over: Inheritance, Mobility, and Western Idealism in Getting Mother's Body and The Second Life of Samuel Tyne - Kalenda Eaton, Arcadia University 09:30-09:45 (15min)

B9- Transformation, Border-crossing and Geopolitics in Contemporary American Women’s Writing

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Aleksandra Izgarjan (University of Novi Sad, Serbia) - Organized by the Association for American Studies in South East Europe

› Towards a new, post-immigrant and post-ethnic U.S. American women's fiction - Jelena Šesnić, University of Zagreb 09:00-09:15 (15min)

› Transformation, transgression and translation in contemporary American Women's Writing - Aleksandra Izgarjan, University of Novi Sad 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Borderland Consciousness in How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent - Mirna Bijedic, University of Novi Sad 09:30-09:45 (15min)

B10- Border Crossings in 19th- and 20th-Century African-American Literature I

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DoVeanna Fulton (University of Houston-Downtown, USA)

› ‘The Black and Red Races of Our Country': African American and Native American Women Public Intellectuals in the Southern Workman - Jacqueline Emery, SUNY College Old Westbury - Teresa Zackodnik, University of Alberta 09:00-09:15 (15min)

› Sentimental Sources of Harriet Jacobs' Life Story - Richard Ellis, University of Birmingham 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Nothing here but Indians and wild beasts'—Sophia Pooley's Cross-Border Story of Enslavement - Nele Sawallisch, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz 09:30-09:45 (15min)

› ‘I prayed to the Lord to go with each seal': Circulating Texts in Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life - Michaël Roy, Université Paris Nanterre 09:45-10:00 (15min)

Coffee break

Hall Central

C1- Crossing Ontological Borders: Representations of ‘Madness’ in Plays by American Women

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Cheryl Black (University of Missouri, USA)

› Lillian Hellman's Madhouse: ‘Abnormal' Performance in The Children's Hour - Anne Fletcher, Southern Illinois University 10:30-10:45 (15min)

› Mrs. Packard, Mrs. Givings, and Mrs. Daldry: Subverting the Madwoman Metaphor - Kristen Rogers, Texas Tech University 10:45-11:00 (15min)

C2- "Western Women and Vanished Legacies, Vanishing Indians"

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Victoria Lamont (University of Watermpp, Canada)

› Crossing Gender Boundaries in the Wilderness: Women in the Fire Lookout Towers of the American West - Nancy S. Cook, University of Montana 10:30-10:45 (15min)

› The Wilderness Within: Western Female Creatives, Embodiment, and Landscape as Craft - Laura Jean Schneider, USA 10:45-11:00 (15min)

› B.M. (Bertha Muzzy) Bower and the Erasure of Women's Westerns - Victoria Lamont, University of Waterloo 11:00-11:15 (15min)

C3- Edith Wharton and Mobility

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Paul Ohler (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada) - Organizers: Paul Ohler (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada) and Virginia Ricard (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France)

› Edith Wharton's Argument with Restlessness - Virginia Ricard, Université Bordeaux Montaigne 10:30-10:45 (15min)

› Globalization and Cultural Fluidity in ‘The Muse's Tragedy' and ‘Souls Belated - Paul Ohler, Kwantlen Polytechnic University 10:45-11:00 (15min)

› Wharton's Metaphors of Homelessness - Arielle Zibrak, University of Wyoming 11:00-11:15 (15min)

› Intellectual Vagrants and Mechanical Readers: The Promise of Tautological Value in The House of Mirth and ‘The Vice of Reading' - Anna Girling, University of Edinburgh 11:15-11:30 (15min)

C4- Border Crossings in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Writings

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Lucinda Damon-Bach (Salem State University, USA). Organized by the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society

› Religious Crossings: How the Protestant Reformation Guided Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Literary Career. - Rachel B. Griffis, Sterling College 10:30-10:45 (15min)

› Crossing Borders Between History and Fiction: Romancing the Revolution in James Fenimore Cooper's Lionel Lincoln (1825) and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's The Linwoods 1835) - Pauline Pilote, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon 10:45-11:00 (15min)

› The Militarization of the Home in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie - Maria O'Malley, University of Nebraska 11:00-11:15 (15min)

C5- Transatlantic Identities: 19th-Century Women’s Life Writing

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Verena Laschinger (Erfurt University, Germany). Organized by Intercontinental Crosscurrents Network

› Censoring Grace King: Northern Discomfort with Southern Womanhood - Khristeena Lute, State University of New York 10:30-10:45 (15min)

› The Relational Selves of Mary Russell Mitford and Rebecca Harding Davis: A Transatlantic Tradition of Women's Life Writing - Julia Nitz, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg 10:45-11:00 (15min)

› Oppositional Nationalities: Edith Wharton, the American ‘Frenchwoman' - Hannah Champion, Université Bordeaux Montaigne 11:00-11:15 (15min)

C6- Subjectivity and the Black Female Body

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Vida Robertson (University of Houston-Downtown, USA). Organized by: the Center for Critical Race Studies, University of Houston-Downtown

› Mama's Baby, Black Maybe: Black Female Subjectivity and the Construction of Blackness in Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills - Vida A. Robertson, University of Houston-Downtown 10:30-10:45 (15min)

› ‘He God to You?': Transgressing the Line Between Love and Concubine in the Neo-Slave Narrative, Wench” - Toya Mares, Independent Scholar 10:45-11:00 (15min)

C7- Border Crossings in Asian-American Literature III

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Brygida Gasztold (Koszalin University of Technology, Poland)

› Paj Ntaub, Plants, and Placenta: Writing Home in the Texts of Hmong American Women - Lisa A. Long, North Central College 10:30-10:45 (15min)

› Self-Inscription as Negotiation and Transcendence of Boundaries in Asian American Writing - Nicoleta Alexoae-Zagni, ISTOM & Université Paris Nanterre 10:45-11:00 (15min)

› Multiple Crossings and the Chinese American Self in Flux: Crossings by Chuang Hua - Nelly Mok, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 11:00-11:15 (15min)

C8- Trauma in Women’s Writings

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Shaheena Ayub Bhatti (National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan). Organized by the Faculty of English Studies, NUML, Islamabad, Pakistan

› Trauma in Gayl Jones' Corregidora - Shaheena Ayub Bhatti, National University of Modern Language 10:30-10:45 (15min)

› Overcoming Inherited Trauma in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God - Asma Naveed, National University of Modern Languages 10:45-11:00 (15min)

› A Study of Breath Eyes Memory in the Light of Pluralistic Model of Trauma - Shazia Rose, National University of Modern Languages 11:00-11:15 (15min)

› Trauma in Sidhwa's Cracking India - Zainab Barlas, Beaconhouse National University 11:15-11:30 (15min)

C9- Border Crossings and Traveling II

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Whitney Womack Smith (Miami University, USA)

› No Bo(a)rders Here: On The Road to Nowhere in Joy Williams' Breaking and Entering - Richard Hardack, Independent Scholar 10:30-10:45 (15min)

› ‘Neither woman nor man, foreigner with no home:'” Traversing Binary Intersections in Maureen F. McHugh's SF Odyssey Mission Child - Simon Whybrew, University of Graz 10:45-11:00 (15min)

› Migratory Impulses: Fantasy Border Crossings in in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins and Tananarive Due - Marlene D. Allen, United Arab Emirates University 11:00-11:15 (15min)

› Female Agents of Population Boosterism: Women's Travel Accounts to Texas during the Early Nineteenth Century - Maki Kodama, Rice University 11:15-11:30 (15min)

C10- 19th-Century Women Crossing Borders between Literature, Culture, and Sociology

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Kathleen Lawrence (Georgetown University, USA)

› The Salem Witches (Re)Created as 19th-Century Romantic Heroines - Inês Tadeu, University of Madeira 10:30-10:45 (15min)

› ‘I feel like Columbus going to discover a new world': The New “New World,” White US American Feminist Liberation in Europe, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in Louisa May Alcott's Diana and Persis - Leslie M. Hammer, University of California 10:45-11:00 (15min)

Lunch

Hall Central

“Prairie Songs: Remembering Ántonia” - A song cycle with voice, piano and violin based on Willa Cather’s My Ántonia

D1- Western Women Crossing Borders

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Jennifer S. Tuttle (University of New England, USA)

› Colorado Pioneer Women along Unmarked Borders: Crossings in the Stories They Told - Lee Schweninger, University of North Carolina, Wilmington 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant: On the Border between Provence and Pueblo - Diane Prenatt, Marian University 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Border Crossing the West: A Global Nation - Mercedes Albert-Llacer, University of the Basque Country 14:45-15:00 (15min)

D2- Boundary Crossings: Edith Wharton’s Intersections with the Popular

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Susan Tomlinson (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA) - Organizer: Melanie Dawson (The College of William and Mary, USA)

› Ethan Frome's Afterlife on Broadway: Crossing Generic Borders - Meredith Goldsmith, Ursinus College 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Crossing Paths, Parting Ways: Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Edith Wharton - Cynthia Davis, University of South Carolina 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Picturing Wharton, Adapting Age - Melanie Dawson, The College of William and Mary 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Domestic Aesthetics in Wilde, Wharton, and Codman - Emily Orlando, Fairfield University 15:00-15:15 (15min)

D3- Crossing Borders between the Arts II

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Ralph Poole (University of Salzburg, Austria)

› Claudia Rankine's Embodied Poetics of Witness - Elisabeth Frost, Fordham University 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› The End of a Dream: Djuna Barnes from her last period in Paris to Nightwood - Alice Barcella, University of Bergamo 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Lydia Sigourney and the Ekphrastic Promise - Mary Lou Kete, University of Vermont 14:45-15:00 (15min)

D4- Writing the Body, Illness, and Trauma

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Pascale Antolin (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France)

› Gloria Anzaldúa's Naguala Cuerpo - Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› ‘The Violation at the Center of my Art': Collective Traumas and Individual Agency in Julia Alvarez's Dominican American Short-Story Cycles - Stefania Ciocia, Canterbury Christ Church University 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Post-War Border Crossings: H.D.'s Healing Imagination - Vivian Delchamps, UCLA 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Crossing (Body-)Borders in Louise Erdrich's The Round House - Kaylee Jangula Mootz, University of Connecticut 15:00-15:15 (15min)

D5- Border Crossings in Willa Cather’s Writings

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Isabel Maria Fernandes Alves (UTAD, Portugal)

› Breastfeeding out West: Willa Cather's Mrs. Templeton in ‘Old Mrs. Harris' - Wendy Whelan-Stewart, McNeese State University 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› A New Date for Cather's Arrival in Pittsburgh - Kim Vanderlaan, California University of Pennsylvania 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Immorally Mobile: White-Slave Traffic and Willa Cather - Jordan Howie, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Germans as Seen through American Eyes: Anti-Immigrant Discourse in the Works of Dunbar-Nelson, Stein, and Cather - Timothy K. Nixon, Shepherd University 15:00-15:15 (15min)

D6- Border Crossings in Elizabeth Bishop’s Writings

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Lhorine François (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France)

› ‘Seeing the sun the other way around': Elizabeth Bishop's explorations of self and other in her Brazil writings - José Rodriguez Herrera, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Elizabeth Bishop's Interior and Outer Border Crossings - Nicole Ollier, Université Bordeaux Montaigne 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› ‘Travelling in the Family': Elizabeth Bishop's Brazilian autobiographical voice - Myriam Bellehigue, Université Paris-Sorbonne 14:45-15:00 (15min)

D7- Border Crossings in Chicana Writing

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Norma E. Cantu (Trinity University, USA)

› Transborder and Woman-Centered Progression From Sandra Cisneros' ‘Woman Hollering Creek' To ‘Never Marry A Mexican' - John Tawiah-Boateng, Augustana College 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Gloria Anzaldúa – Chicanas in the Borderlands - Sarah Jenischewski, University of Bonn 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Negotiating Feminisms in the Family: Negotiation as Feminist Praxis in Chicana Writing - Eilidh A. B. Hall, University of East Anglia 14:45-15:00 (15min)

D8- Border Crossings in 19th- and 20th-Century African-American Literature II

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Richard Ellis (University of Birmingham, UK)

› Mary Church Terrell's Multiple Border Crossings (1863-1920) - Elise Vallier, Université Paris Est Marne la Vallée 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Josie Briggs Hall and Post-Reconstruction African American Border Crossing - JoAnn Pavletich, The University of Houston-Downtown 14:30-14:45 (15min)

D9- Border Crossings, Diaspora, and Exile

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Izabella Kimak (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University,Poland)

› ‘Sick of the city, wanting the sea': Millay and Urban Exile - Hatley Clifford, West Virginia University 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Gender, emotion and exile: Evelyn Scott in deep Brazil - Maria Das Gracias Salgado, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro 14:30-14:45 (15min)

D10- Exploring and Breaking New Grounds for Women’s Empowerment

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Sophie Rachmuhl (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France)

› International Exploration in Young Adult Literature: Stephanie Perkins's Isla and the Happily Ever After as Contemporary Romance and Women's Travel Writing - Margaret A. Robbins, The University of Georgia 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› ‘The Flying Schoolgirl': Katherine Stinson and Early Women Aviators Crossing Frontiers - Julie Williams, University of New Mexico 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Being one of da boyz & Us Girls: a collection of surf journalism by extreme surfer Lane Davey - Lane Davey, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa 14:45-15:00 (15min)

Coffee break

Hall Central

Plenary session: “American Students Abroad – The Shock that Shatters”

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Jean Marie Schultz (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

E1- Margaret Fuller Across Borders

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Charlene Avallone (Kailua, Hawai'i, USA) - Organized by the Margaret Fuller Society

› Radical Translations: Politics, Personal and Transnational, Presaged By Margaret Fuller's Dante, Goethe and George Sand - Kathleen Lawrence, Georgetown University 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› Fuller's Reproductive Originality - Christa Holm Vogelius, University of Copenhagen 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› Networks and Commons: Margaret Fuller's Transnational Exchanges - Sonia Di Loreto, University of Torino 17:15-17:30 (15min)

› Travel, Gender, and Genre in Fuller's European Writings - Brigitte Bailey, University of New Hampshire 17:30-17:45 (15min)

› Margaret Fuller and Her Publics in Russia – in the 19th Century and the 21st - Marina P. Kizima, Moscow State Institute of International Relations 17:45-18:00 (15min)

E2- Traveling Modernism: American Women’s Transatlantic Crossings

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Kristin J. Jacobson (Stockton University, USA) - Organized by Deborah Clarke (Arizona State University, USA) and Johanna Wagner (Østfold University College, Norway)

› Modernism and Transatlantic Hotel Domesticity - Deborah Clarke, Arizona State University 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› Foreign Places, Intimate Spaces Flânerie and Dandyism's Modern Progeny - Johanna Wagner, Østfold university college 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› Expatriation, commonality, and imagined transatlantic community in Kay Boyle's Early Poetry - Anne Reynes-Delobel, Aix-Marseille Université 17:15-17:30 (15min)

E3- Lighting Out for the Territories: Taking Our Writing Out of the Academy

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Susan K. Harris (University of Kansas, USA)

› Expanding Spaces and Re-calibrating Voices in Humanities Scholarship - Sarah Ruffing Robbins, TCU 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› By Any Other Name: Personal Essays as Columns, Op-Eds, and Blog Posts - Angela Pettitt, Penn State University - Bonnie Shaker, Kent State University 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› Novel Questions: Writing About Slavery for Multiple Audiences - Rebecca Entel, Cornell College 17:15-17:30 (15min)

E4- Beyond Borders: Susan Glaspell and her Sisters from the Provincetown Players

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Emeline Jouve (INU Champollion/Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France) - Organized by the International Susan Glaspell Society

› From Stage to Page: Susan Glaspell's Re-imagining of her play Chains of Dew as the novel Ambrose Holt and Family - Cheryl Black, University of Missouri 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› Recruits in the ‘Army of Women': Mary Heaton Vorse and Susan Glaspell - Sharon Friedman, New York University 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› Mud and the Water: Transcultural Explorations of Transgressive gender. Louise Bryant's From Paris to Main Street and Djuna Barnes's Three from the Earth - Drew Eisenhauer, Paris College of Art 17:15-17:30 (15min)

E5- Border Crossings in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Writings

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Sanja Čukić (Union-Nikola Tesla University, Belgrade, Serbia)

› The Language of Driving in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies - Madeleine Vala, University of Puerto Rico 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› Allo-portraits of a Mother: Photography and Diasporic M(o)therhood in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland - Bidisha Banerjee, The Education University of Hong Kong 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› Jhumpa Lahiri: American, Indian American, Global, or Transnational writer? - Rachana Sachdev, Susquehanna University 17:15-17:30 (15min)

E6- Reading, Teaching, Editing, and Publishing American Women Writers in an International and Global Context

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Julie Olin-Ammentorp (Le Moyne College, USA)

› Entering Middlebrow Territory: Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon and its Commercial Afterlives - Margaret A. Toth, Manhattan College 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› Editing The Complete Works of Edith Wharton - Carol J. Singley, Rutgers University - Camden 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› Teaching American Women's Contemporary Drama in the Arab World - Phyllisa Deroze, United Arab Emirates University 17:15-17:30 (15min)

› Adapting to a British Reading Public: The Children's Abridgment of Maria Susanna Cummins' The Lamplighter - Rachel A. Maley, University of Pittsburgh 17:30-17:45 (15min)

E7- Border Crossings and the Experience of Immigration

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Maria das Graças Salgado (Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

› Psychological Borderlands in Memoirs of Reyna Grande and Esmeralda Santiago - Visnja Vujin, University of Nebraska 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› Lives beyond Borders: Immigrant Women's Life Writing, Nationality, and Social Justice - Ina C. Seethaler, Coastal Carolina University 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› Transformation en la Frontera: Gloría Anzaldúa and the ‘Problem' of Immigration - Natalie Cisneros, Seattle University 17:15-17:30 (15min)

› ‘A Shadow without Depth or Color'? Corporeality and Migration in Bharati Mukherjee's Fiction - Izabella Kimak, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University 17:30-17:45 (15min)

› Border-crossings and Reconfigurations in We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo - Corinne Duboin, Université de la Réunion 17:45-18:00 (15min)

E8- 20th- and 21st-Century Women Crossing Borders between Literature, Politics, Social and Welfare Issues

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Jelena Šesnić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

› We Have Found You Wanting”: The Limits of Coalition Among Women Writing Across Class and Ethnic Boundaries in Response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911 - Brenda Glascott, Portland State University 16:45-17:00 (15min)

› All the Single Ladies: The 21st-Century Legacy of the 19th-Century Spinster - Christina Henderson, Augusta University 17:00-17:15 (15min)

› ‘Translators of human beings to one another': Border Crossings in the Archive of Undercover Literature - Laura Fisher, Ryerson University 17:15-17:30 (15min)

› My Adopted State: Teaching, Movement, and Precarious Labour in Contemporary American Women's Writing - Rachel Sykes, University of Birmingham 17:30-17:45 (15min)

E9- Pursuing Graduate Studies: Research and Job Strategies Across Borders / A roundtable featuring Kaylee Jangula Mootz (University of Connecticut, USA), Wendy Tronrud (CUNY Graduate Center, USA), Molly Fuller (Kent State University, USA) & Lekha Roy (Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India)

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Organized by Noëmie Leduc & Charlotte Blanchard (Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France)

Reading session, discussion and book signing with Sarah Rose Etter - Librairie La Machine à Lire (8, Place du Parlement, Bordeaux)

Sarah Rose Etter