The Society for Textual Scholarship

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES (101 East Archer Street, downtown Tulsa)

8:30 – 9 am

Registration and check in (Lobby)

9 – 9:15 am

Welcome, Jeffrey Drouin, University of Tulsa

9:15 – 10:45 am

1A Materiality and the Archive (North Gallery)
Moderator: María Laura Bocaz, University of Mary Washington

1B Fashioning Identity Through Text (Second Floor Classroom)
Moderator: Jeffrey Drouin, University of Tulsa

“Weaving Selfhood: Thread and Textile Imagery in Woolf’s The Waves,” Stasha Cole, University of Tulsa
“The Decolonization and Ecological Innovation of Botter’s Textile Manifesto,” Abigale Mazzo, University of Tulsa
“The Pressures of Blank Space: Modernist Graphic Design and Manifesto Forms,” Tyler Dick, University of Tulsa

11 am – 12 pm

2A Literary Celebrity in the 20th Century (Second Floor Classroom)
Moderator: Tyler Dick, University of Tulsa

“Creating Critics or Anti-Fans? Ironic Attachments in the Magazines,” Nathan Caleb Blue, University of Tulsa
“Reading Under Pressure: Kate Millett and Norman Mailer,” Yung-Hsing Wu, University of Louisiana Lafayette

2B Interrogating Popular Texts: Lightning Talks (North Gallery)
Moderator: Gabrielle Dean, Johns Hopkins University

“An Eye for Knowledge: Archivists’ Visual Acuity in The Elder Scrolls,” Henry Christopher, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Tumblr and Girlhood: Tracing the Subversion of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita Through Fashion Blogging,” Sarita A. Deleon, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“It Begins with Archives and Depositories. It Begins with Buildings and Family. It Begins with A Discovery of Witches,” Carla Christine Zavala, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Gertrude Stein for Sale: How Commodities Created a Queer and Feminist Icon,” Gabrielle Dean, Johns Hopkins University

12 – 1 pm lunch break

1 – 2:30 pm

3A Publishing Native America (North Gallery)
Moderator: Ken Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Reprinting Native America: Historical Reprints and Indigenous Print Culture,” Ben Pokross, Helmerich Center for American Research
“Whitebreast’s Grave: The Spectacle and Suppression of Indigenous Personhood in the Early Nebraska Press and Penitentiary,” Amanda Gailey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Publishing Sovereignty on and off the Reservation: William Oandasan and A Journal,” Stephanie Fitzgerald, Arizona State University

3B Electra as Intertext to Explore the Religious-Political Pressures of Democratic Athens (Second Floor Classroom)
Moderator: Matthew Oberrieder, Rogers State University

Matthew Oberrieder, Rogers State University
Victor Udwin, University of Tulsa
Francis Grabowski, Rogers State University
Matt Maynard, Ohio State University

2:30 – 4 pm

4A Printmaking Demonstration and Workshop (Second Floor Concourse)
Michelle Martin, University of Tulsa

4B Tulsa Arts District
Visit on your own. Locations and advance ticket purchase available at the links below.
Greenwood Rising Museum
Bob Dylan Center
Woody Guthrie Center

4 – 5:30 pm

5 Reception and Presidential Address (Garden and North Gallery)
“The Pressures and Possibilities of Critical Bibliography,” John K. Young, Marshall University

7 pm

6 Keynote Address (North Gallery)
An Evening with Layli Long Soldier

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, TYRRELL HALL, UNIVERSITY OF TULSA (800 South Tucker Drive)

8:30 – 9 am

Registration and check in (Front Desk, Ground Floor)

9 – 10:30 am

7A The 1922 Project (Lecture Hall, Ground Floor)            
Moderator: Jeffrey Drouin, University of Tulsa

Abigale Mazzo, Cailie Golden, Ciara Graham, Nathan Blue, Seona Kim, Seungho Lee, and Tyler Dick, University of Tulsa

7B Novel Experiments (Room 3020, Third Floor)
Moderator: John Young, Marshall University

“‘Do fags have to be geniuses to justify living?’ De/Reterritorialization of Queer Bildung in Rat Bohemia,” Theo Tolliver, University of Central Florida
“Print as Resistance/Revitalization: An Investigation of Textual Poetics in House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski,” Abhirami Ajith Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
“Annihilation of Creative Act: Historical Fiction Turned into Documentary,” Dovilė Gervytė, Vilnius University

10:45 am – 12:15 pm

8 Greetham Lecture (Lecture Hall, Ground Floor)
Built from the Fire: Victor Luckerson in conversation with James O. Goodwin

12:15 – 1:30 lunch break         

1:30 – 3 pm

9A Text, Image, and Power in Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Latin American Digital Humanities (Room 3020/remote) Moderator: Clayton McCarl, University of North Florida

“Text and Image in the Guaman Poma Website,” Rolena Adorno, Yale University
“Rendering Revolution: On the Use of Instagram to Explore Haitian Material Histories,”  Siobhan Meï, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Jonathan Michael Square, The New School
“The Digital Florentine Codex: Re-presenting Indigenous Knowledge from Mexico,” Lisa Sousa, Occidental College, Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles, and Roxanne Valle, University of California, Los Angeles

9B Constructing Texts, Building Readerships (Lecture Hall, Ground Floor)
Moderator: Amanda Gailey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“‘This Hell hound doth so egerly barke’: Publicizing Textual Quarrels in English Epistles to the Reader,” Krislyn Zhorne, Loyola University Chicago
“‘All So Weighty & Brilliant as to Preclude Choice’: Coleridge’s Marginal and Textual Methods in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’,” Maggie Dryden, Emory University
“Jean Ingelow’s ‘Songs of Seven’: Publishing History and the Making of a Literary Celebrity,” Maura Ives, Texas A&M University

3:15 – 4:45 pm        

10A Writing Against Erasure in Latin America (Room 3020)
Moderator: Daniel Balderston, University of Pittsburgh

“Augusto Roa Bastos’s Recovered Library, Found in an Abandoned Container on a Highway in Argentina,” Daniel Balderston, University of Pittsburgh
“(Trans)gender lost in Translation. Towards the Need of a Partial New Translation of Gender in the English version of the novel El lugar sin límites by José Donoso,” María Laura Bocaz, University of Mary Washington
“Borges and Emerson: Exploring Transitions and Tensions from Lecture to Text,” Santiago Contardo, University of Vienna
“Unmasking Carlos Fuentes’ ‘Chac Mool’,” Jonathan Godínez Páez, University of Pittsburgh 

10B Editors Under Pressure (Lecture Hall, Ground Floor)
Moderator: Maura Ives, Texas A&M University

Maura Ives, Texas A&M University
Stephanie Browner, The New School
Ken Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ravi M. Gupta, Utah State University
Jeffrey Drouin, University of Tulsa

5 – 6:30 pm             

11A Print versus Digital: Modes of Scholarly Editing (Room 3020/remote)
Moderator: John Young, Marshall University

“All-in on Digital,” Peter Robinson, University of Saskatchewan
“The Bountiful Book,” Paul Eggert, Loyola University Chicago and University of New South Wales

11B Race and the Archive (Lecture Hall, Ground Floor)
Moderator: Ken Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Fashioning Stereotypes of Native Americans in Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing on the West,” I. S.  MacLaren, University of Alberta
“To Exert and Exploit: Tracing the Pressures of Frederick Douglass’s Last Stand,” Ron McColl, West Chester University
“A Text Under Pressure: The Manuscript History of Chesnutt’s ‘The Doll’,” Stephanie Browner, The New School

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, UNIVERSITY OF TULSA CAMPUS

9:30 – 11 am

12A Queer and Feminist Recoveries (Lecture Hall, Ground Floor)
Moderator: Gabrielle Dean, Johns Hopkins University

“Of Fragments and Failures: Hurston and Meyer’s Black Souls, or the Novel That Wasn’t,” Stephanie Peebles Tavera, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
“Passing the Word Along: Artistic Activism in the Archives,” M. Wright, University of Tulsa
“Jewett the Obscure: The Process of Queer Recovery,” Don James McLaughlin, University of Tulsa

12B Genre, Resistance, and Race (Room 3020)
Moderator: Stephanie Browner, The New School

“Negative Space and Modes of Resistance in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies,” Zandria Sarrazin, Simon Fraser University
“Theory in the Paratext and Genreless Forms: Teaching Zami by Audre Lorde and Noopiming by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson,” Agatha Beins, Texas Women’s University
“Genre Constraints and the Impact of Inuit Oral Storytelling on Sanaaq by Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk,” Freya Abbas, University of Toronto

11:15 am – 12:45 pm

13 Editing Uncertainty (Lecture Hall, Ground Floor)
Moderator: Daniel Balderston, University of Pittsburgh

“Late-Life Whitman: The End of Writing and the Ends of Editing,” Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“Scriptural Controversy and Textual Criticism: Editing the Bhagavad Gita As It Is,” Ravi M. Gupta, Utah State University
“Seventeen Books in Two Months: The Race to Publish a Classic Bengali Text,” Jayadvaita Swami, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

1 – 2 pm

Hosted lunch (Second Floor Common Area) and and closing remarks (Lecture Hall, Ground Floor)