2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Reckonings, Recoveries, and Transitions
Hosted by The New School, May 19-22, 2021. Please note that there will be 30-minute breaks between sessions, when you are welcome to remain in the Zoom channel for the kinds of informal conversations that would occur during coffee breaks at a face-to-face conference. Zoom links, passwords, and meeting IDs appear immediately below each session. Please see the end of the program for a complete listing of mobile numbers and phone numbers based on your location.
All participants and events are required to create an environment in which people share their ideas rigorously and free of harassment. Any language, gestures, and behavior that creates a hostile or intimidating setting based on identity markers will not be tolerated and the person responsible will not be allowed to remain in the STS virtual conference. Virtual session tips: mute audio when not speaking, assume good intentions, call in instead of out, let people save face, use humor that punches up not down.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19
Session 1 8:00—9:15 am PDT / 11:00 am—12:15 pm EDT / 5:00—6:15 pm CET
Live Panel: New Models of Textual Representation
Chair: Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University)
Peter Robinson (University of Saskatchewan), “A Hybrid Publication Model for Digital
Editions”
Lori Rogers-Stokes (Independent Scholar), “First Do No Harm: Preparing an Equitable
Textual Reception of Newly Available Early American Manuscript Records”
Jess Rogers (Virginia Commonwealth University), “Digital Restoration and Marginality: On
the Possibilities of Revisiting Minor Texts”
Live Panel: Canonical and Marginal Forms of Print
Chair: Alan Galey (University of Toronto)
Jonathan Lamb (University of Kansas), “Cloud Storage, ca. 1640”
Esteban Crespo-Jaramillo (Yale University), “Spanish Diplomacy in Italian Popular
Literature: Giovanni Filippo de Lignamine and the First Poem about the New World”
Amy Billings (University of Kansas), “When Form Meets Desire: The Renaissance of Early
Nineteenth-Century Broadsides”
Session 2 9:45—11:00 am PDT / 12:45—2:00 pm EDT / 6:45—8:00 pm CET
Live Panel: The Notebooks of Jorge Luis Borges 1
Chair: Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh)
Mariela Blanco (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata), “Borges como conferencista, 1949-
1955”
Emron Esplin (Brigham Young University), “Poe in Borges’s MSU Notebooks”
Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh), “Borges’s Poem about his Great-Grandfather, Colonel Isidoro Suárez: An Unknown Manuscript Surfaces”
Live Panel: Race and Publication: Gaps, Distortions, and Silent Archives
Chair: John Young (Marshall University)
Stephanie Browner (The New School) and Ken Price (University of Nebraska), “Minding
Archival Gaps: Charles Chesnutt’s ‘Rena Walden’”
Jennifer Sorensen (Texas A&M—Corpus Christi), “‘A Book No White Person Could Write!’:
Race and the Material Forms of Books by Zora Neale Hurston & Gwendolyn Brooks”
Amanda Golden (New York Institute of Technology), “Recovering Gwendolyn Brooks’s
Pedagogy”
Session 3 11:30 am—1:15 pm PDT / 2:30—4:15 pm EDT / 8:30—10:15 pm CET
Welcome (Stephanie Browner, The New School, and Wayne Storey, Indiana University)
Live Plenary Roundtable: Encountering Race in Rare Books and Archives: Object Stories
Chair: Julie Park (New York University)
Daniela Bleichmar (University of Southern California), “Remaking Aztecs in Print: The
Reproductions of the Codex Mendoza, 1625-1831”
Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton University), “When Ellison Was in Vogue”
Jennifer Park (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), “Botanicals, Cards, and Errors:
Encountering Race in Early Objects”
Curtis Small (University of Delaware), “Black Artists’ Books Matter” (not present)
THURSDAY, MAY 20
Session 4 8:00—9:15 am PDT / 11:00 am—12:15 pm EDT / 5:00—6:15 pm CET
Live Roundtable: Intersectional Textual Scholarship: Theory and Practice
Chair: Barbara Bordalejo (University of Saskatchewan)
Speakers: Barbara Bordalejo, Spandana Bhowmik (Jadavpur University), Polly Duxfield
(King Edward VI College, Stourbridge UK)
Live Panel: The Notebooks of Jorge Luis Borges 2
Chair: Daniel Balderston (University of Pittsburgh)
Nesrin Karavar (Universidad de Barcelona), “Borges y los místicos del Islam”
Marina Martín (St. John’s and St. Benedict University), “Hume in Borges’s MSU Notebooks”
Jerónimo Pizarro (Universidad de los Andes), “Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman”
Session 5 9:45—11:00 am PDT / 12:45—2:00 pm EDT / 6:45—8:00 pm CET
Live Panel: Textual Legacies: Re-Presenting a Canonical Corpus
Chair: John Young (Marshall University)
Inessa Medzhibovskaya (The New School), “The Textual Shape of Radical Justice: Creating
an Anthology of Leo Tolstoy’s Thought”
Emily Bell (University of Antwerp), “Subjectivities and Subject Indexing: The Case of James Joyce’s Library”
Katie Warczak (Penn State University), “Ableist Impulses and Unfinished Texts: Exploring
Edmund Wilson’s and Matthew J. Bruccoli’s Attempts to ‘Cure’ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Final Novel”
Live Panel: Multi- and Inter-media Forms of Contemporary Poetry
Chair: Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University)
Santiago Vidales (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), “Recovering and Reconstructing
Textual Events: Text-as-Body and Body-as-Text, Raúl Salinas and His Multimedia Poetry”
Cole Morgan (UC Irvine), “Figuring Photography and Black Life in Natasha Trethewey”
Thorsten Ries (University of Texas, Austin), “Thomas Kling’s Chant of the Bronchosopy, a
Reconstruction”
Session 6 11:30 am—1:00 pm PDT / 2:30—4:00 pm EDT / 8:30—10:00 pm CET
Live Seminar: Roundtable on Paul Eggert’s The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies
Chair: Marta Werner (Loyola University Chicago)
Speakers: Matt Cohen (University of Nebraska), Ian Cornelius (Loyola University Chicago),
Alan Galey (University of Toronto), Michelangelo Zaccarello (Universita degli Studi di Pisa)
Respondent: Paul Eggert (Loyola University Chicago and University of New South Wales)
Live Seminar: Modernism and the Legacy of George Bornstein
Chair: Jonathan Allison (University of Kentucky)
Speakers: David Holdeman (University of North Texas), Elizabeth Loizeaux (Boston
University), Robin Schulze (University of Buffalo), John Young (Marshall University)
Live Seminar: Outlier Media, Outlier Legacies
Chair: Jeff Drouin (University of Tulsa)
Allison Fulton (UC Davis), “A Scientific Performance: Anna Atkins and the Cyanotype
Photobook”
Júlia Irion Martins (University of Michigan), “Posting Hole or Posting Soul: A Case Study of
Online Parrhesia and Women’s Writing”
Alec Pollak (Cornell University), “Reprints and the Problem of Time”
FRIDAY, MAY 21
Session 7 8:00—9:15 am PDT / 11:00 am—12:15 pm EDT / 5:00—6:15 pm CET
Live Panel: The Evolving Whitman
Chair: Carolyn Berman (The New School)
Nicole Gray (University of Nebraska), “Walt Whitman’s ‘Pictures,’ ‘again restored to the
light’”
Stefan Schöberlein (Marshall University), “Rediscovering Walt Whitman’s New Orleans:
Expanding Corpora, Textual Recovery, and Antebellum Newspaper Culture”
Live Panel: The Past, Present, and Future of Text: Technological and Theoretical Identity
Chair: Emily Brooks (Coastal Carolina University)
Dirk Van Hulle (Oxford University), “The Intertextual Condition”
Grant Leyton Simpson (University of Göttingen), “An Early Digital Humanities Institute at
NYU”
Emily Brooks (Coastal Carolina University), “Recovering the Role of Toy and Movable
Books in 21st-Century Textual Scholarship”
Session 8 9:45—10:30 am PDT / 12:45—1:30 pm EDT / 6:45—7:30 pm CET
Pre-recorded Panel: Trauma and Healing in the Archive
Chair: Melissa Dinverno (Indiana University)
Amanda Gailey (University of Nebraska), “Where is Trauma in the Archive?”
Megan Perram (University of Alberta), “Click Me: Multilinear Cyberliterature as Illness Narrative for Womxn with Hyperandrogenism”
Pre-recorded Panel: Authorial Appearances and Revisions
Chair: Russell McDonald (Georgian Court University)
Julie Sorge Way (James Madison University), “Mrs. Beeton in Transition: Posthumous
Textual Reimaginings of a Victorian Domestic Goddess”
Andrés Ernesto Obando Orozco (University of Pittsburgh), “Metaficción y crítica genética: Sergio Pitol y los manuscritos de Domar a la divina garza”
Session 9 10:45—11:30 am PDT / 1:45—2:30 pm EDT / 7:45—8:30 pm CET
Pre-recorded Panel: Student-Faculty Collaboration on Digital Recovery Projects
Chair: Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University)
Andrew Jewell (University of Nebraska) and Emily Rau (University of Nebraska),
“‘Working for One Purpose and Working Together’: Creating the Complete Letters of Willa Cather with a Community Ethic”
Sarah Dumitrascu (University of North Florida) and Clayton McCarl (University of North
Florida), “Recovering Authorial Process through an Interactive Digital Typescript of The Yearling”
Session 10 11:45 am—1:15 pm PDT / 2:45—4:15 pm EDT / 8:45—10:15 pm CET
Live Roundtable: The State of Textual Studies Programs
Chair: Wayne Storey (Indiana University)
Speakers: Matt Cohen (University of Nebraska), Alan Galey (University of Toronto), Isabella
Magni (Rutgers University), Caroline McCraw (University of Wisconsin), Daniel O’Sullivan (University of Mississippi),
Ashlyn Stewart (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
SATURDAY, MAY 22
Session 11 8:30—9:30 am PDT / 11:30 am—12:30 pm EDT / 5:30—6:30 pm CET
STS Executive Board Meeting
Session 12 10:00—11:00 am PDT / 1:00—2:00 pm EDT / 7:00—8:00 pm CET
Pre-recorded and Live Exhibits
Chair: Andrew Reynolds (West Texas A&M University)
Presenters: Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University), “Covering The Crisis”; Montse Feu (Sam Houston State University), “Virtual Tour: Fighting Fascist Spain—The Exhibits: Sergio Aragonés’s Political Cartoons”; Charline Jao (Cornell University), “‘We Think Them Worthy’: A Digital Collection of Poetry from New York’s Nineteenth-Century Black Periodicals”; Karen Schiff (Rhode Island School of Design), “What If… Alternative Sources for Well-known Items by Gertrude Stein”; Bianca Swift (University of Nebraska), “Let’s Write a Poem about the Ones We’ve Lost, or, ‘things I have not learned and do not wish to happen’”; Marta Werner (Loyola University Chicago), “Dickinson’s Birds Passing Over”
Session 13 11:30 am—12:30 pm PDT / 2:30—3:30 pm EDT / 8:30—9:30 pm CET
Chairs: Wayne Storey and Stephanie Browner
Closing remarks and presentations of Finneran, Bowers, and Greetham prizes
Flash video “film festival” and Q&A
Presenters: Lauren Baccus (University of Nebraska), “Literary and Textile Histories in Collaboration Where the Archive is Absent”; Iona Hine and Emily Burke (University of Sheffield), “Editorial Ethics and the Digitisation of Heinz Cassirer’s Collected Works”; Deanna Stover (Christopher Newport University) and Kayley Hart (Texas A&M University), “From Page to (3D) Print: Changing Modalities in Editing H.G. Wells’s Floor Games”
Please mark your calendar for the 2022 STS conference at Loyola University Chicago, March 10-11. We are planning for a return to our usual in-person format.
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