Schedule

The conference program is now available.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Executive Committee Meeting - 5:00-8:00pm

Friday, November 6, 2009

Session 1 - 8:30-10:00am (1-10)

1.01 Composition and Rhetoric
1.02 Classics (Greek)
1.03 Critical Theory I: Hermeneutics and Philology
1.04 The Graphic Novel: Word Meets Image
1.05 Jewish Literature and Culture in "Trans-Iberia": Spain, Portugal, and Latin America
1.06 Literature and Religion I: Nineteenth-Century
1.07 Profiles of the Metropolis in Contemporary Film
1.08 Resistance and Collaboration: Filmic Testimony in the 1940s
1.09 Scandinavian Literature
1.10 Women in French I: Immigration

Session 2 - 10:15-11:45am (1-11)

2.01 American Literature before 1865
2.02 Autobiography, Autofiction: Writing the Self
2.03 Ethics in Literary and Artistic Production of the French and Francophone World
2.04 Ethnography and German Literature
2.05 Film Studies I: Feminism and Femmes Fatales
2.06 Folklore and Mythology
2.07 Gay and Lesbian Literature I: Queer Idealism
2.08 Latin American Film and Literature
2.09 Literature and the Other Arts I: Music
2.10 Narratives of Crime
2.11 Shakespeare and Related Topics I: Wild Shakespeare

Luncheon and Presidental Address - 12:00-1:15pm

Session 3 - 1:45-3:15pm (1-12)

3.01 The Academic Workforce: Where We Are and How We Got There, Where We Want to Be and How We Get There
3.02 African American Literature I: Writing Women in Modernity
3.03 Bay Area Writers: Beyond the "Beat Thing"
3.04 Classics (Latin)
3.05 Critical Theory II: Heart and Art
3.06 English Literature (to 1700): Protesting and Preaching
3.07 French Cinema
3.08 Germanics I: Literature and Cultural Critique
3.09 Italian I: 20th Century Dialogues and the Individual
3.10 Studies in Literature and Science
3.11 Virginia Woolf
3.12 Women and Work I: American Literature

Session 4 - 3:30-5:00pm (1-13)

Forum - 5:15-6:45pm

Reception - 6:45-8:00pm

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Session 5 - 8:30-10:00am (1-11)

5.01 African American Literature II: Authority, Influence, and Otherness
5.02 Ancient-Modern Relations
5.03 Contemporary Italian Cinema II: Between Genres and Auteurism
5.04 East-West Literary Relations
5.05 Engaging/Enraging a German Speaking Public
5.06 Jewish American Literature
5.07 Metaphor in Public Discourse
5.08 Romanticism
5.09 Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American) I: Hispanic Literary Vanguard & Transculturation
5.10 Women in French III: Paris... et la litterature
5.11 Women in Literature I: Limning the Liminal

Session 6 - 10:15-11:45am (1-14)

6.01 American Literature after 1865 I: 1865-1945
6.02 Beowulf and Related Topics
6.03 Film and Literature I: Mythical Prototypes
6.04 French and Francophone Literature I: Subverting and Reorganizing the Nation
6.05 Gay and Lesbian Literature: Queer Realism
6.06 Germanics II: Body and Text
6.07 Linguistics
6.08 Literature and the Other Arts II: Contemporary Praxis
6.09 Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture I
6.10 Poetry and Poetics I: Sway--Influence and Dissent
6.11 Post-Colonial Women's Writing I: Gender Divides
6.12 Spanish and Portuguese (Peninsular) I
6.13 Teaching with the Internet and Technology I
6.14 Women in Literature II: Women Transformed

Lunch and Plenary Address - 12:00-1:15pm

"Counter Histories, Alternate Histories, and Fictions; or, How to Account for the Popularity of Telling Like It Wasn't"- Catherine Gallagher, University of California, Berkeley

Session 7 - 1:30-3:00pm (1-14)

7.01 African American Literature III: Style, Space, Genre
7.02 Chaucer and Related Topics
7.03 Children's Literature I: Fears and Foes
7.04 Colonialism and Religion in French and Francophone Literature
7.05 Comparative Media: Media, Labor, and Biopolitics
7.06 Cowboys and Indians: The American West in the European Cultural Imagination
7.07 Italian II: Cinema
7.08 Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture II
7.09 Poetry and Poetics II: Sound, Story, and Sisterhood
7.10 Post-Colonial Literature I
7.11 Solitude and the Modern Metropolis
7.12 Thinking through Food: Culture, Identity, and Symbolism in Literature and Film
7.13 Women and Work II: British Literature
7.14 Women in French IV: Paris et ailleurs...comment enseigner la culture

Session 8 - 3:15-4:45pm (1-14)

8.01 Creative Writing II: A Poetry Reading (Co-sponsored by PAMLA and the Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives, SFSU)
8.02 Children's Literature II: "Childhood" Tales
8.03 Comparative Literature
8.04 Contemporary Italian Cinema III: Italy of the New Millenium
8.05 English Literature (after 1700) I: Generic Tensions in the Eighteenth Century
8.06 Film and Literature II: Modern Realities
8.07 French and Francophone Literature II: Finding Narrative Space
8.08 Literature and Philosophy
8.09 Marriage and Family in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Literature Roundtable: What's Love Got to Do with It? Marriage in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature
8.10 Modernism/Postmodernism
8.11 Post-Colonial Women's Writing II
8.12 Rhetorical Approaches to Literature
8.13 Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American) II: Cultural Production in Twentieth Century Latin American Letters
8.14 Teaching with the Internet and Technology II

Session 9 - 5:00-6:30pm (1-12)