DRAFT PROGRAM
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, OKLAHOMA CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
8:30 – 9 am
Registration and check in
9 – 9:15 am
Welcome, Jeffrey Drouin, University of Tulsa
9:15 – 10:45 am
1A Materiality and the Archive
“Catastrophizing the Spanish Requirement of 1513 through Translation,” Allison Stickley, University of Iowa
“Subjectivity and the Archive: Textuality in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania,” Yuhyeoi Kim, University of Tulsa
“Figures Under the Pressure of Paper: Visconti’s Folded Book Illustrations as a Precedent for Cubism, Theorized Through Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” Karen L. Schiff, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/Harvard University
1B Fashioning Identity Through Text
“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
“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
“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
1 – 2:30 pm
3A Publishing Native America
“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
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
Michelle Martin, University of Tulsa
4B Tulsa Arts District
Greenwood Rising Museum, Bob Dylan Center, or Woody Guthrie Center
4 –5:30 pm
Reception and Presidential Address
“The Pressures and Possibilities of Critical Bibliography,” John K. Young, Marshall University
7 pm
Keynote Address
An Evening with Layli Long Soldier
FRIDAY, JUNE 7, UNIVERSITY OF TULSA CAMPUS
8:30 – 9
Registration and check in
9 – 10:30
5A The 1922 Project
Jeffrey Drouin, Abigale Mazzo, Cailie Golden, Ciara Graham, Nathan Blue, Seona Kim, Seungho Lee, and Tyler Dick, University of Tulsa
5B Novel Experiments
“‘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 – 12:15
6 Greetham Lecture
Built from the Fire: Victor Luckerson in conversation with James O. Goodwin
1:30 – 3
7A Text, Image, and Power in Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Latin American Digital Humanities remote
Rolena Adorno, Yale University
Clayton McCarl, University of North Florida
Siobhan Meï, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lisa Sousa, Occidental College
Jonathan Michael Square, The New School
Kevin Terraciano, University of California, Los Angeles
Roxanne Valle, University of California, Los Angeles
7B Constructing Texts, Building Readerships
“‘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
8A Writing Against Erasure in Latin America
“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
8B Editors Under Pressure
Maura Ives, Texas A&M University
Stephanie Browner, The New School
Ken Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ravi M. Gupta, Utah State University
5 – 6:30
9A Print versus Digital: Modes of Scholarly Editing remote
“All-in on Digital,” Peter Robinson, University of Saskatchewan
“The Bountiful Book,” Paul Eggert, Loyola University Chicago and University of New South Wales
9B Race and the Archive
“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
10A Queer and Feminist Recoveries
“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
10B Genre, Resistance, and Race
“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 – 12:45
11 Editing Uncertainty
“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
Closing remarks and catered lunch
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