Call for Papers: Session Topics
Proposal Deadline: April 15, 2013
Extended Deadline Sessions: May 12, 2013
Please review the Guidelines and Procedures before submitting a proposal. In particular, please note:
- Members may only deliver one paper at the conference. You may submit more than one proposal, but as soon as you accept an invitation, you must inform the organizers of the other sessions that you are no longer eligible to present in their sessions.
- Papers may not be read in absentia.
- Participation in the conference requires payment of PAMLA 2013 membership dues by June 1 and the separate conference registration fee by September 15. A combined membership/conference fee is available for convenience, and we strongly encourage you to take advantage of this option by June 1.
How to Submit
Submit proposals to any open topic area using the Online Proposal Submission Form. You will need to register and login to access the form (if you created an account last year, you can use it again; if you forgot your username or password, visit the Password Recovery page).
Questions
Questions about a specific session or topic area should be directed to the Presiding Officer listed below. Use these addresses for questions only. Proposals should be submitted using the online form. Completing the form will send an email to the Presiding Officer as well as gather other information we need to construct the conference program.
General inquiries about PAMLA or the conference may be directed to the Executive Director Craig Svonkin at svonkin@netzero.com.
Questions regarding the website or the submission form may be directed to the Webmaster Heather Wozniak at webmaster@pamla.org.
| Topic Area | Presiding Officer | Session Type |
|---|---|---|
| Adaptation Studies |
Yolanda Doub, California State University, Fresno ydoub@mail.fresnostate.edu |
Special Session |
| Affective Ties, Defective Contexts |
Julia Medina, University of San Diego jmedina@sandiego.edu |
Special Session |
| African American Literature |
Martin Japtok, Palomar College mjaptok@palomar.edu |
Standing Session |
| Age, Identity, and Culture in Global Diasporas |
Weihsin Gui, UC Riverside weihsin.gui@ucr.edu |
Special Session |
| Age, Identity, Culture, and the Nonhuman Animal |
Shefali Rajamannar, University of Southern California rajamann@usc.edu |
Special Session |
| Aging in Contemporary Film |
Vito Zagarrio, University of Rome, Italy zagarrio@uniroma3.it |
Special Session |
| American Literature after 1865 |
Shanna Shadoan, McGill University, Canada shanna.shadoan@gmail.com |
Standing Session |
| American Literature before 1865 |
Amy Parsons, University of Wisconsin Platteville parsonsam@uwplatt.edu |
Standing Session |
| Ancient-Modern Relations |
Jon Solomon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign josolomo@illinois.edu |
Standing Session |
| Another After Life: Coming of Age in a Post-Everything World |
Tanya Rawal, UC Riverside trawa001@ucr.edu |
Special Session |
| Architecture and Literature: Reading the Room |
Christina Stevenson, Independent Scholar stevensonlushbaugh@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Asian American Literature |
Sharon Tang-Quan, University of California Santa Barbara sharon_tangquan@umail.ucsb.edu |
Standing Session |
| Asian Literature |
Mariam B. Lam, University of California, Riverside mariam.lam@ucr.edu |
Standing Session |
| Autobiography |
Tanya Heflin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania heflin@iup.edu |
Standing Session |
| Autobiography and Fiction in American Women’s Writing (Sponsored by the Southern California Society for the Study of American Women Writers) |
Lauren Summers, University of Washington lnicolesummers@gmail.com |
Standing Session |
| Beowulf and Related Topics |
John M. Ganim, UC Riverside john.ganim@ucr.edu |
Standing Session |
| Biopolitical Time: Biomedicine, Science Fiction, Lifespan |
Sherryl Vint, University of California, Riverside Rob Latham, University of California, Riverside sherryl.vint@ucr.edu |
Special Session |
| Body on the Extreme |
Chris Ruiz-Velasco, California State University, Fullerton cruizvelasco@fullerton.edu |
Special Session |
| Border Studies |
Amanda Petersen, University of San Diego apetersen@sandiego.edu |
Special Session |
| Chaucer and Related Topics |
Cristina Pangilinan, Willamette University cpangili@willamette.edu |
Standing Session |
| Child Labor and American Modernism (1890-1930) |
Tim Randell, University of San Diego trandell@sandiego.edu |
Special Session |
| Childhood and Hybridity in the Literature and Film of Indian Diaspora |
Shadi Ghazimoradi, Queens University at Kingston 11sg28@queensu.ca |
Special Session |
| Children of the Spanish Transition |
Alexandra Saum-Pascual, University of California, Berkeley saum-pascual@berkeley.edu |
Special Session |
| Children's Literature |
Lauren Benard, San Diego State University laurenbenard@hotmail.com |
Standing Session |
| Classics (Greek) |
Victor Castellani, University of Denver vcastell@du.edu |
Standing Session |
| Classics (Latin) |
Sonia Sabnis, Reed College sabnis@reed.edu |
Standing Session |
| Comparative American Ethnic Literature: Fatherlands, Mother Countries, and Wards of the (Nation) State |
Melanie Hernandez, University of Washington, Seattle melanieh@u.washington.edu |
Special Session |
| Comparative Literature |
Diviani Chaudhuri, Binghamton University dchaudh1@binghamton.edu |
Standing Session |
| Comparative Media: Social Mobility, Media, and the Development of Networked Social Spheres |
Lorenzo Servitje, University of California, Riverside lserv001@ucr.edu |
Standing Session |
| Composition and Rhetoric |
Catherine Cucinella, California State University, San Marcos catcuch@aol.com |
Standing Session |
| Constructing a “New” America: The United States in the 1930s |
Paulina M. Gonzales, University of California, San Diego p6gonzal@ucsd.edu |
Special Session |
| Contemporary Luso-Afro-Brazilian Film |
Ricardo Vasconcelos, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee ricardov@uwm.edu |
Special Session |
| Continental Romanticism |
Larry H. Peer, Brigham Young University larry_peer@byu.edu |
Special Session |
| Crafting Childhood in Autobiographical Writing |
June Cummins, San Diego State University jcummins@mail.sdsu.edu |
Special Session |
| Creative Writing: Fiction Featuring Older Protagonists |
Theresa Crater, Metropolitan State University of Denver cratert@msudenver.edu |
Special Session |
| Creative Writing: Poetry and Prose of Aging, Youth, and Culture |
Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, University of Colorado, Denver andrewmcfadyenketchum@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Creative Writing: TBD |
Rae Armantrout, University of California, San Diego rarmantrout@pamla.org |
Special Session |
| Crime Narratives |
Beth Ptalis Hough, University of California, Riverside beth.ptalis@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Critical Theory |
Alfred Drake, California State University, Fullerton ajdrake@ajdrake.com |
Standing Session |
| Diachronical Applications in Spanish Linguistics |
Eva Nunez, Portland State University enunez@pdx.edu |
Special Session |
| Dime Novels and Pulp Fiction |
Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State University of Denver svonkin@netzero.net |
Special Session |
| Discovering Feminine Identity Through Their Literary Work |
Patricia Amezcua, California State University, Long Beach Patricia.Amezcua@csulb.edu |
Special Session |
| Disney and Its Worlds |
Jeremiah Axelrod, Occidental College axelrod@oxy.edu |
Special Session |
| Early American Myths, Legends, and Folklore |
Charles Hoge, Metropolitan State University of Denver hoge@msudenver.edu |
Special Session |
| East-West Literary Relations |
Fontaine Lien, University of California, Riverside flien001@ucr.edu |
Standing Session |
| Ecocriticism (co-sponsored by Association for the Study of Literature & Environment) |
Kevin Hutchings, University of Northern British Columbia hutchink@unbc.ca |
Standing Session |
| Engaging Bayard Taylor |
Liam Corley, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona wccorley@csupomona.edu |
Special Session |
| English (1700 to Present) |
Stephanie Harper, California State University, Northridge stephanie.harper.15@my.csun.edu |
Standing Session |
| English (to 1700) |
Megan Herrold, University of Southern California meganlherrold@gmail.com |
Standing Session |
| English as a Second Language Studies |
Elena Polyudova, Russian Institute for Art Education Studies Epolyudova@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Environment and Ecology in Italian Literature and Culture |
Ilaria Tabusso Marcyan, University of California, San Diego iltabuss@ucsd.edu |
Special Session |
| Ew! Gross! Abjection, Affect, and Bodily Fluids |
Soren Frohlich, University of California, San Diego sfrohlic@ucsd.edu |
Special Session |
| Explorations of Childhood in Nineteenth Century Working Class Life Writing |
Sarah MacDonald, Kent State University smacdon8@kent.edu |
Special Session |
| Film and Literature |
Aili Zheng, Willamette University azheng@willamette.edu |
Standing Session |
| Film in the French Language Classroom |
Kevin Elstob, California State University, Sacramento kelstob@saclink.csus.edu |
Special Session |
| Film Noir |
Clare Rolens, University of California, San Diego crolens@ucsd.edu |
Special Session |
| Film Studies |
Richard E. Hishmeh, Palomar College rhishmeh@palomar.edu |
Standing Session |
| Film-makers Forum |
Amanda Petersen, University of San Diego apetersen@sandiego.edu |
Special Session |
| Folklore and Mythology |
Rahima Schwenkbeck, George Washington University rahima@gwu.edu |
Standing Session |
| Food Studies in the Hispanic World |
Rebecca Ingram, University of San Diego rei@sandiego.edu |
Special Session |
| Fragments de Femmes à la Française |
Christy Mroczek, Armstrong Atlantic State University christy.mroczek@armstrong.edu |
Special Session |
| French |
Naïma Hachad, American University hachad@american.edu |
Standing Session |
| Future of Cognitive Approaches to Literature |
Elsie Haley, Metropolitan State University of Denver haleye@msudenver.edu |
Special Session |
| Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Literature |
Mark W. Bundy, University of California, Riverside mark.bundy@ucr.edu |
Standing Session |
| Gender, Mind Science, and Literature in Early Modern Spain: Maria de Zayas and the Defense of the Female Wit |
Isabel Jaen Portillo, Portland State University jaen@pdx.edu |
Special Session |
| General Conference Events |
Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State University of Denver svonkin@netzero.net |
General Event |
| German Cinema |
Anke Biendarra, University of California, Irvine abiendar@uci.edu |
Special Session |
| Germanics |
Andrea Gogrof, Western Washington University agvoorhees@yahoo.com |
Standing Session |
| Gertrude Stein's Late Works |
Janet Boyd, Fairleigh Dickinson University boydj@fdu.edu |
Special Session |
| Global Perspectives on Death in Children's Literature |
Lesley Clement, Lakehead University, Canada lclement@lakeheadu.ca |
Special Session |
| Gothic |
Cheryl Edelson, Chaminade University of Honolulu cedelson@chaminade.edu |
Special Session |
| Graphic Novels |
John D. Schwetman, University of Minnesota, Duluth jschwetm@d.umn.edu |
Standing Session |
| Indigenous Literatures and Cultures: Transnational and Trans-Indigenous Aesthetics |
Brian Gillis, University of California, Berkeley gillis@berkeley.edu |
Standing Session |
| Innocence Abroad: Representing the Child in World Cinema |
Jason Spangler, Riverside City College jason.spangler@rcc.edu |
Special Session |
| Italian |
Francesco Ciabattoni, Georgetown University fc237@georgetown.edu |
Standing Session |
| Italian (neo)Realisms |
Loredana Di Martino, University of San Diego ldm@sandiego.edu |
Special Session |
| Italian Cinema |
Fulvio Orsitto, California State University, Chico forsitto@csuchico.edu |
Standing Session |
| Jewish Literature and Culture |
Amanda Sharick, University of California, Riverside amanda.k.moreno@gmail.com |
Standing Session |
| Jewish Literature and Culture in “Trans-Iberia”: Spain, Portugal, and Latin America |
Maria Elva Echenique, University of Portland echeniqu@up.edu |
Special Session |
| Latin American and Spanish Cinema: Ideology and Cultural Contexts |
Hector Cavallari, Mills College hmcavallari@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Latina/o Literature and Culture |
Alma Granado, University of California, Berkeley agranado@berkeley.edu |
Standing Session |
| Legacies of Paul de Man in the 21st-century Criticism |
Michiko Shimokobe, Seikei University, Japan shimom@s7.dion.ne.jp |
Special Session |
| Limits of Humor: Provocation and Political Correctness in French Media |
Dalton Krauss, Scripps College dkrauss@scrippscollege.edu |
Special Session |
| Linguistics |
Andrew Pantos, Metropolitan State University of Denver apantos@msudenver.edu |
Standing Session |
| Linguistics: Time, Language Variation, and Language Change |
Marina Gorlach, Metropolitan State University of Denver gorlach@msudenver.edu |
Special Session |
| Literature and Religion |
Haein Park, Biola University hapark1@gmail.com |
Standing Session |
| Literature and the Other Arts |
Alix Miller, University of Georgia apmiller@uga.edu |
Standing Session |
| Literature of the American West |
Stanley Orr, University of Hawai'i, West O'ahu sorr@hawaii.edu |
Special Session |
| Lost Boys and Girls: Children in/and War |
Brenda Sanfilippo, University of California, Santa Cruz bsanfil@ucsc.edu |
Special Session |
| Lyric Theory in the 21st Century |
Ryan D. Sullivan, University of California, Riverside rsull001@ucr.edu |
Special Session |
| Mapping Identity |
Megan Cannella, Independent Scholar megan.cannella@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Medieval and Early Modern Witchcraft |
Logan Greene, Eastern Washington University lgreene@ewu.edu |
Special Session |
| Medieval Literature |
Jennie Friedrich, University of California, Riverside jfrie005@ucr.edu |
Standing Session |
| Mid-Twentieth-Century Poetry and Culture (Robert Lowell Society) |
Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside steven.axelrod@ucr.edu |
Standing Session |
| Modern Austrian Literature |
Brigitte Prutti, University of Washington triest@uw.edu |
Standing Session |
| Native North American Literatures |
Sarah Mayville, University of California, San Diego smayvill@ucsd.edu |
Special Session |
| New Italians: Migrant Stories in Literature and Film |
Gloria Pastorino, Fairleigh Dickinson University gloria.pastorino@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture |
Ray Crosby, University of California, Riverside raymond.crosby@email.ucr.edu |
Standing Session |
| Oceanic Literatures and Cultures |
Rebecca Hogue, Georgetown University rhh23@georgetown.edu |
Standing Session |
| On and Off the Grid: Multimodal Composition and Digital Humanities at Rural, Regional, or Branch Universities |
Jessie Blackburn, University of Pittsburgh, Bradford jbb35@pitt.edu |
Special Session |
| Once Upon a Time: The Impact of Princess Culture on Girls |
Michelle Stonis, California State University, Long Beach and Grand Canyon University michelle.stonis@csulb.edu |
Special Session |
| Orient in the Hispanic Wor(l)d |
Alejandro Lee, Central Washington University leealejandro@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Pain, Violence, and Affected Bodies in Francophone Literature |
Loic Bourdeau, University of California, Davis lbourdeau@ucdavis.edu |
Special Session |
| Philippine Diasporic Literature and Culture |
Melissa Knoll, Irvine Valley College melissagarcia.knoll@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Philosophy, Politics and Literature |
Tim Luther, California Baptist University tluther@calbaptist.edu |
Special Session |
| Pioneering Poets |
Marilyn Chin, San Diego State University mchin@pamla.org |
Special Session |
| Poetry and Poetics |
Brian Adler, University of California, Irvine badler@uci.edu |
Standing Session |
| Postcolonial Literature |
Lorna Hutchison, Metropolitan State University of Denver lhutchi9@msudenver.edu |
Standing Session |
| Prosthetic Poetics |
Jessica Luck, Cal State San Bernardino jluck@csusb.edu |
Special Session |
| Queering Age |
Emily Mattingly, University of California, Riverside emily.mattingly@email.ucr.edu |
Special Session |
| Rethinking/Retheorizing Video Games |
Daniel Ante-Contreras, University of California, Riverside dante001@ucr.edu |
Special Session |
| Revisiting Madness and Literature |
Bendi Benson Schrambach, Whitworth University BBSchrambach@whitworth.edu |
Special Session |
| Rhetorical Approaches to Literature |
Richard Hunt, University of California, Riverside richard.hunt@email.ucr.edu |
Standing Session |
| Romanticism |
Peter Weise, University of California, Davis pjweise@ucdavis.edu |
Standing Session |
| Satire and Humor |
Craig Sirles, DePaul University csirles@depaul.edu |
Special Session |
| Scandinavian Literature |
Marlene Broemer, Clackamas Community College marlenemp@yahoo.com |
Standing Session |
| Science Fiction |
Melissa Filbeck, California State University, Northridge melissa.filbeck@gmail.com |
Standing Session |
| Shakespeare and Related Topics |
Eugene Saxe, Metropolitan State University of Denver saxeg@msudenver.edu |
Standing Session |
| Solo Performances On and Off the Page |
Catherine Irwin, University of La Verne tirwin@laverne.edu |
Special Session |
| Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American) |
Sonia Barrios Tinoco, Seattle University barrioss@seattleu.edu |
Standing Session |
| Spanish and Portuguese (Peninsular) |
Allen Young, Northwestern University allenyoung@gmail.com |
Standing Session |
| Stages Beyond Life: The Undead and Culture |
Roland Finger, Cuesta College roland_finger@cuesta.edu |
Special Session |
| Teaching with the Internet and Technology |
Kim Palmore, De Anza College palmorekim@fhda.edu |
Standing Session |
| Technology and Communication |
Bret Noble, Washington State University bretnoble@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Television Studies |
Kristin Brunnemer, Pierce College kbrunnemer@pierce.ctc.edu |
Special Session |
| Text and Identity in Hispanic Literatures |
Damian Bacich, San Jose State University damian.bacich@sjsu.edu |
Special Session |
| The Author’s Inter/Face: Playing the Poet |
Imke Meyer, Bryn Mawr College ixmeyer@brynmawr.edu |
Special Session |
| The Other Detective |
Shannon Takeuchi-Chung, California State University, Fullerton stakeuchi@fullerton.edu |
Special Session |
| The Power of Fictional Narratives: Reflections in the Mirrors of Layers of Reality |
James Lu, California Baptist University jlu@calbaptist.edu |
Special Session |
| The Unreal in Literature for Children and Young Adults |
Kate Carnell Watt, University of California, Riverside kate.watt@ucr.edu |
Special Session |
| The Walking Dead and the Reinvigoration of the Zombie Apocalypse |
Andrew Howe, La Sierra University ahowe@lasierra.edu |
Special Session |
| Transatlantic Perspective on 20th-century Dictatorships in Spain and Latin America |
Erin Hogan, University of San Diego erin.hogan@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Translating/Interpreting: Issues and Questions |
Thierry Boucquey, Scripps College tboucquey@scrippscollege.edu |
Special Session |
| Travel and Literature |
Jenni Keys, California State University, San Bernardino Jkeys@csusb.edu |
Standing Session |
| Visible Difference and the Travel Seminar Experience |
Carlton Floyd, University of San Diego carldfloyd@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Wide Open Spaces: Cultures and Languages |
Covadonga Lamar Prieto, University of California Riverside covadonga.lamar-prieto@ucr.edu |
Special Session |
| With Pens And Forks: A Frank Look At Food Writing |
Lyndsey Lefebvre, Cerritos College LyndseyLefebvre@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Women and Film |
Joi Carr, Pepperdine University Joi.Carr@pepperdine.edu |
Special Session |
| Women and Work |
Susanne Weil, Centralia College, Washington Christine Mower, Seattle University sweil@centralia.edu |
Special Session |
| Women in French |
Catherine Montfort, Santa Clara University cmontfort@scu.edu |
Standing Session |
| Women in Literature |
Jill Goad, Georgia State University jgoad1@gsu.edu |
Standing Session |
| Woody Allen |
Andrea Schmidt, University of Washington schmia@uw.edu |
Special Session |
| World Language Programs in the 21st Century |
Lorely French, Pacific University frenchl@pacificu.edu |
Special Session |
| World Literature in Theory and in Practice |
William Arighi, University of Washington warighi@uw.edu |
Special Session |
| Writing Defeat: The Failure of Politics and the Politics of Failure in Contemporary Hispanic Literatures |
Sarah Thomas, New York University slt276@nyu.edu |
Special Session |
| Young Adult Literature |
Megan Parry, San Diego State University mparry@mail.sdsu.edu |
Special Session |
| Topic Area | Presiding Officer | Session Type |
|---|---|---|
| Depictions of Educators in East Asian Literature |
Christopher J. Dawe, University of Pennsylvania dawe@gse.upenn.edu |
Special Session |
| Memoir as a Scholarly Pursuit |
Matthew Motyka, University of San Francisco mjmotyka@usfca.edu |
Special Session |
| Postmemory in Contemporary Ibero-America |
Miguel Caballero Vazquez, Princeton University fmcv@princeton.edu |
Special Session |
| Reading Across and Between: Transnational and Trans-Indigenous Aesthetics |
Brian Gillis, University of California, Berkeley gillis@berkeley.edu |
Special Session |
| Senior Reports: Current Work by Older Germans |
Anne C. Reitz, University of Houston annec.reitz@gmail.com |
Special Session |
| Teaching the Writing of Age and Aging in the Creative Writing Classroom |
Renee Ruderman, Metropolitan State University of Denver rudermar@msudenver.edu |
Special Session |
| Test Topic Heather |
Heather Wozniak, UCLA hwoz@ucla.edu |
Special Session |
| Transnational Memory in Germany, Austria, Switzerland |
Heidi Schlipphacke, Old Dominion University hschlipp@odu.edu |
Special Session |
| Webcomics: Coming of Age? |
Christopher Kuipers, Indiana University of Pennsylvania c.kuipers@iup.edu |
Special Session |
| Writing the Farm: Ecocritical Perspectives on Literature and Agriculture |
Andrew Wallis, Whittier College awallis@whittier.edu |
Special Session |
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