Below is a tentative schedule for (dis)junctions 2005. A more detailed schedule containing full presenter names, university affiliations, and paper titles will be posted when it becomes available.

Friday, April 8

8:00-9:00 Opening Remarks: Dr. Katherine Kinney, English Department Chair

9:00-9:20 Registration & Check In

9:30-10:50

Representation and Presence of Absence

Moderator: Sharon Tohline Magdalene Frye "Blindness and Invitation: Textual Movement and the Mourning of Woman" Marshall University Elizabeth Lurie "Semiotic Sadness: Ruth's Failure to Individuate in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping" California State University, Stanislaus Christy Russell "The Presence of Absence: Representation, Abjection and Mobilization in the Photography of David Wojnarowicz" University of California, Riverside

Advertising

Moderator: Ryan Randall Kelan Koning & Rita Hermann "Code" California State University, Northridge Tom Dobrowolsky "Painted Walls" University of Washington Elizabeth Spies "Advertising Stigmatas" University of California, Riverside

African-American Literature from Diaspora to the Harlem Renaissance (1)

Moderator: Dr. Vorris Nunley Valerie Solar "Love and Politics: Sutton Griggs's Imperium in Imperio" University of California, Riverside Jack Beckham II "The Function of Doubles in Sutton Griggs's Imperium in Imperio" University of California, Riverside Davina Padgett "Ideological Boundaries: The Limits of Reality in The Marrow of Tradition" California State University, San Bernardino

The Asian-American Body in Action Films

Moderator: Merry Mariano Phil Yu "The Importance of Being Bruce: From Superhero to Stereotype in American Popular Culture" University of Southern California Tom Galaraga "Current Representations of Asian-Americans Betray the Demographic They Attempt to Address" University of Southern California Robin H. Kim "The Films of Ang Lee" Courtuald Institute of Art

MMORPGs: At the Boundaries of the Virtual

Moderator: Beth Ptalis Robert Buerkle "Shifty 'I's': Multiple Selves and Modes of Identification in MMOGs" University of Southern California Joshua Call "City of Actors: Performing Identity in On-Line Gaming" University of Nebraska, Lincoln Christine Cruz-Boone "A World of Gender War: A Textual Analysis of MMORPG World of WarCraft" California State University, Northridge

Demystifying the Creation of the Novel

Moderator: Vrunda Sahay Zachary Sifuentes "Created Chemistries: William S. Burroughs and the Textual Opiate" University of Miami Scott Drake "…Text Reading Text Reading Text…: Locating Authority in Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow" Simon Fraser University Sacha Moore "'Written words could tell him who he was': Authorial Authenticity in Don DeLillo's Mao II" California State University, Fullerton

Love Unbound: Postcolonial

Moderator: Jenni Keys Farah Moosa "Transgressing Love Laws: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake" Simon Fraser University Mariam Durrani "Love, Deceit and Devastation in Moth Smoke" University of New Mexico Delores Amorelli "'How Much Land Does a Woman Need?: Land(e)scapes in Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and The Handmaid's Tale" University of South Florida

11:00-12:20

Sexuality Will Not Be Put Aside

Moderator: Dr. George Haggerty Dane Barca "The Hot Hand Seeking to Repress What Would Master Him: Whitman, Mutual Masturbatory Metaphysics" University of California, Riverside Nicole McFarlane "Discourse on the Down Low" North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Kim Palmore "Fears, Jeers, and Queers: Homosexuality in Film Constructed for the Male Gaze" University of California, Riverside

African-American Writers and the Gaze

Moderator: Zina Rodriguez Courtney Johnson "Black Lesbian Spectatorship in Cheryl Dunye's Stranger Inside" University of California, Los Angeles Danna Voth "Including Gender in Diasporic and Postcolonial Interrogations of Home" California State University, Fullerton Emily Anderson "Dangerous Looks and Visual Pleasure: The Gaze in Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing" University of California, Riverside

Gothic Literature and Sexuality

Moderator: Christy Russell Cindy Murillo "Haunted Spaces and Powerful Places: Reconfiguring the Dopplegänger in Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya" University of New Mexico Johanna Wagner "Excessive Homosocial Desire, Homosexual Panic, and Violence in Bram Stoker's Dracula" Arizona State University Heather Latimer "(En)countering Abjection: The Abortion and (Re)creation of Frankenstein's Female Monster" Simon Fraser University Pamela Paulson "Thrashing Tess" California State University, San Marcos

The Asian-American Body Beyond the Action Film

Moderator: Merry Mariano January Lim "Clothes Make the (Wo)man: Race, Gender, and Desire in M. Butterfly" University of Alberta Anjali Asrani "Bend it Like Beckham: A Critical Film Analysis of South Asian Diasporic Subjectivities and Neocolonial Uses of Multiculturalism" San Francisco State University Mary Song "Hiroshima mon amour: An Untellable Tale?" University of California, Riverside

The Designer Nation

Moderator: Helen Lovejoy Andrew Edward Rosenblum "Left-Wing Individualism in America: Matthiessen and the Example of Thoreau" University of California, Los Angeles Jennifer Liddell "'The Suppressed Farce:' Mark Twain's Social Pessimism in Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins" California State University, Fullerton Melissa Couchon "Americanized Beauty: Hairstule and Skin Color in Hemingway's Garden of Eden" UNC-Chapel Hill Kotaro Nagasaki "Re-Discovering of America: Mark Twain and Imperialism" Tokiwa University, Japan

Alternative Landscapes

Moderator: Tina Stavropoulos Steven & Maja Teref "Novica Tadic" Columbia College, Chicago and Truman College Elizabeth Boyne "'There is Nothing but Song': The Poetry of David Mura and its Relation to the Silent History of Japanese American Internment" University of St. Thomas Anjali Nerlekar "The Pi-dog or the Black Horse: Choices in Mumbai's Postcolony" Lauren A. Rule "Colonialism's Repressed Return in Filmic Form: Locating Miscegenation's Ghosts in the Gaps of Postcolonial Memory" Emory University

Guns and Gals

Moderator: : Matthew Snyder Sharon Tohline "Angel in the Shell: Finding Victorian Women in Contemporary Film" University of California, Riverside Giuliano Bettanin "Objectification vs. Hybridity: Body and Gender in Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell" Universit degli Studi di Padova (Italy) Kim Bowers "Tap Dancing into our Hearts: Analyzing the Popularity of Chicago's Female Killers" University of Texas, Arlington

12:20-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:20

Hybridity and Anticolonial Writing

Moderator: Katy Webber Dino Buenviaje "Literature as Anti-Colonialism: Comparing Chinua Achebe with Jose Rizal" University of California, Riverside Marco Katz "Forgive the Stain of my Blood on this Land" Humboldt State University Yumi Kinoshita "Politics of Hybridity: Embracing the American Neo-Imperialism" University of California, Santa Barbara

Conspiracy, Time Travel, and Schizophrenia

Moderator: : Jeremy Kaye Daniel Peterman "Structure and Schizophrenia: A Rhizomatic Exploration of Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum" California State University, Long Beach Matt Bernstein "The Carnivalesque in the Works of Vonnegut" California State University, Northridge Scott Ross "General Relativity, Existentialism, and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five" Brigham Young University

Victoria(n)'s Secrets

Moderator: Dr. Susan Zieger Susan Obarski "Skirting an 'Obscene Libel' in Late Victorian England: Beardsley, Zola, and Wilde's Salome" University of California, Riverside Joshua Rafael Rodriguez "Indiscretions of a Streetwalker: The Closet and Homosexual Panic in Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde" University of California, Riverside Jenni Keys "Unveiling Miss Wade: Raging Against the Victorian Machine" University of California, Riverside

Dictee (1)

Moderator: Sheila Bare Sheila Bare "(Re)Membering Mother/(Re)Narrating Myth: Mother, Memory and Resistance in Cha's Dictee" University of California, Riverside Beatriz Calder "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee: The Voice of Silence" Universidad de Leon Michelle Wester "The Nine Mother's of Dictee" Claremont Graduate University

History and African-American Literature

Moderator: Kody Lightfoot Ainsworth Clarke "DuBois's Historiography, or, Autobiography in the Plural Form" Cornell University Erica R. Edwards "Re-Visions of Exodus: Toni Morrison's Paradise" Duke University Daniel Vollaro "A New Life for Frederick Douglass' Slave Narrative: Breaking Free of the Historicist Trap" Georgia State University

Keeping Poetic Records

Moderator: Richard Hishmeh Elizabeth Spies "Advertising Stigmatas" University of California, Riverside Helen Lovejoy "'The room with the staring windows will again closet you': Containment and Subversion of Female Spaces in Cold War Sestinas by Women" University of California, Riverside Brigid Aileen Milligan "Hindsight is 20/20: Judith Wright as a cultural historian of Aborginal Memory" New York University

Politicized Aesthetics

Moderator: Valerie Solar Michael Lopez "Prompting the Prompt" Jo Scott-Coe "'Course Contents' from essay collection, Doing Athena in Different Voices" University of California, Riverside Alegra Marcel Bartzat "Poems on the Book" San Diego State University Sharon Tohline "A Mighty Genius of Construction: Locating Subjective Permanence in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair" University of California, Riverside

3:30-4:50

Literature and Justice

Moderator: Jasmine Payne Jennifer Krusinger Martin "Wild Thyme, Wild Justice, and Wild Art: William Blake's Relationship with Rational Justice and Artistic Modes of Production" Northeastern University Alastair Hunt "The Rhetoric of Species" University of Oregon

Computing Sexuality

Moderator: Jack Beckham II Brad Borevitz "Sexing the Machine" University of California, San Diego Zabet Patterson "Sex Art and Surveillance: Thinking Online Pornography" Kelly Cooper "Sexuality and Consumerism: Towards an Ethics of Pornography" George Washington University

City Spaces: Remapping the City

Moderator: Dr. John Ganim Veronica Kirk-Clausen "Palimpsestic San Francisco" University of California, Santa Cruz Kelly Minerva "Redefining London's Space in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses" University of Toronto Elizabeth Spies "Paris, Urbanism, and the Landscape of the Mapped Body" University of California, Riverside

Dictee (2)

Moderator: Mary Song Christina Diaz "Your Womanhood is your Refuge" California State University, Northridge Helen Ditouras "'Textual Condition(s)': Material Texts and Interpretive Strategies in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee" Wayne State University Sung Hee Yook "The Traumatic Memory of Postcolonial Subjects: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee and Nora Keller's Comfort Women" Graduate Center, City University of New York

Creative Works

Moderator: Hank Scotch Debra van Hulsteyn "Victorianism, The Passenger Pigeon, and Human Action" California State University, Sacramento Tara Prescott "Sestinas and Selected Poems" Claremont Graduate University Elizabeth Venable "Irish Dancing in Color: Racial and Ethnic Relations in American Irish Dancing Culture" University of California, Riverside Connie Suddath "Snowflakes" California State University, Sacramento

Pleasure and Theoretical (Mis)reading

Moderator: Dr. Carole-Ann Tyler Elissa Weeks "Composition, Rhetoric and Jouissance" University of California, Riverside Matthew James Vechinski "Pleasure of the Text or the Desire for the Work?: Blanchot and Barthes on Reading" University of Washington, Seattle Crystal Brownell "Gender and Desire in Wide Sargasso Sea and The Lover" San Diego State University

5:00-6:00 Keynote Speaker: Judith Halberstam (Humanities 400/University Theater)

6:00 Reception (Humanities 2211)

Saturday, April 9

9:00-10:20

Modernist Views

Moderator: Joshua Fenton Susan Johnson "Gazing on the Underworld: H.D., Frost, and the Empathetic Gaze" California State University, Fullerton Amber R. Montez "The Virgin/Whore and the Other in William Carlos Williams' Paterson: Exploring the Unnamed" California State University, Fullerton Danielle Panto "Wallace Stevens: Duality of Self, Duality in Art" California State University, Fullerton

Asian American Literature

Moderator: Janalyn Li Mary Song University of California, Riverside Catherine Fung "Look Who's Watching: The Politics of Spectatorship and the (De)Construction of Myth in Jessica Hagerdorn's Dream Jungle" University of California, Davis Henry Aronson "The Really Fake Asian American Autobiography: Kip Fulbeck's Paper Bullets" University of California, Riverside

Locating and Author

Moderator: Gray Scott Rebecca Marquis "From the Convent to the Back Room: Confessional Writing in Carmen Martin Gaite" Dickinson College Zachary Sifuentes "Confessing to Murder: Post-Structuralism and the Restoration of the Author in Timothy Liu's AIDS poetry" University of Miami Stephanie Snyder "Psychological Confession and Poetic Identity: Anne Sexton's Early Poetry"

Internet Dating from Online to Offline

Moderator: Jeremy Kaye Sharif Mowlabocus "Revisiting Old Haunts Through New Technologies: Uni_cock—the Case Study of a Cyber-Cottage" University of Sussex (UK) Karolina Wrobel "The Sexually Idealized Front: Constructing Body in Online Dating" Tufts University Jeremy Kaye "When Identity Play Became Hooking Up" University of California, Riverside

City Spaces: Cinema and the City

Moderator: Julian Felix G.L. Tyler "The Space Between: Fear of the Other in Cinematic Urban Spaces" Independent Scholar Katherine Lawrie "City Limits: The Exorbitant Urban Experience in Contemporary Cinema, 1990 to the Present" University of California, Los Angeles Selda Tuncer "The (Re)construction of City Myth of Istanbul in Turkish Cinema" Middle East Technical University

Gaming Bodies and Their Virtual Worlds

Moderator: Jim Condon Bruce W. Esplin "What Would Joe Gibbs Do?: Sportsmanship in Cyberspace" Utah State University, Logan Bryan-Mitchell Young "Gaming Mind, Gaming Bodies: Mind-Body Split for the New Millennium" Indiana University Ruffin Bailey "Virtuality Under Erasure: The Complexities of Virtual Worlds" University of South Carolina

The Spectacle of Violence in Renaissance Drama

Moderator: Joanna Scott Lois Wolfe "Damning Gloucester's Eyes: Taming the Counterplot in Lear" Florida Atlantic University Dana Schumacher "Some Never-Heard-of-Torturing Pain: The Function of Violence in Titus Andronicus" Stetson University Claudia Richter "The Spectacle of Braining in the Drama of Christopher Marlowe" Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Gallery

Location: English Lobby Humanities first floor Jennifer Krasula "Six Shoestring Suspects" Peter Vandenberg "Bush Text" Depaul University Juan B. Guttierez "Title TBA" Florida State University

10:30-11:50

U.S.-Mexico Border

Moderator: Jack Beckham II Carlos Martinez "Where is Your Country?: Historical Loss in Blood Meridian" Brandeis University Rosemary Briseno "Mestiza Consciousness Re-Defined, A Borderland of Our Own?" Washington State University Jack Beckham II "The Border: Corruption, Industrialization, and the American Imagination" University of California, Riverside

City Spaces: Navigating New York

Moderator: Mark Bundy Elizabeth Freudenthal "New York is a Tourettic City: The City as Self in Motherless Brooklyn" University of California, Santa Barbara John Lennon "Moving Through the City: Sister Carrie's Chicago and Lily Bart's New York" Jason Tondro "A Newer, Bigger Holocaust: Art Spiegelman and 9/11" University of California, Riverside Ryan Randall "Drive and Disintegration: David Wojnarowicz's 'Losing the Form in Darkness'" University of California, Riverside

Is Pornography Feminist Yet?

Moderator: Emily Anderson Christina M. Parker "Primal Screams: Genre Manipulation & Visible Penetration in Baise Moi" Emory University Marcos Moldes "Well Endowed: Representations of Tom of Finland's Masculine Aesthetic" Wilfrid Laurier University

Media Crossings

Moderator: Matt LeBlanc Siobhan O'Flynn "Hybridity in Interactive Documentaries" University of Toronto at Mississauga Isabel Valverde "Towards a Posthuman Corporeal Subjectivity: Interfacing Dance and Technology in CO3 by CiS" University of California, Riverside Jason Mark Skonieczny "Time and the Mainstream: Deleuze's Foucaultian Image, Calm Technology and 3 Spielberg Blockbusters" University of California, Los Angeles

Asian-American Politics and Diaspora

Moderator: Henry Aronson Arnal Dayaratna "Asian American Literature, Historicism, and Neo-Colonial Soverignty" Duke University David Pendery "Identity Development and Cultural Production in the Chinese Diaspora to the United States, 1850-2004: New Perspectives" National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan John Williams "Negation is in the Heart: Postwar Asian American Pan-Ethnicity in Bulosan and Okada" University of California, Irvine

Bodies and Memories at War

Moderator: M: Helen Lovejoy Kerstin Fest "Defending the Nation, Finding Oneself: The War in the Work of Radclyffe Hall" University of Freiburg (Germany) Chris Daley "Ghastly Confidences: War and Transgressive Sexuality in Sylvia Townsend Warner's 'A Love Match'" City University of New York Graduate School and University Center Debra Rademacher "Voices from the Backwash: The Silences, the Forgotten and Ignored Stories of Two World War One Combat Nurses" University of California, Riverside Shawn C. Doubiago "Disrupting Nation: Female Voice as Site of Traumatic Memory in Assia Djebar's L'amour, la fantasia" University of California, Davis Cheryl-Anne Panlilio "No Parsan: The Female in Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Contemporary International" University of Southern California

Gendered Violence and the Early Modern World

Moderator: Dr. Deborah Willis Zachary Sifuentes "Forms of Agency: Marie Collyn and the Privacy of Female Violence" University of Miami Sarah Webster "Examining Lavinia's Rape in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and in Julie Taymor's Titus" California State University, Fullerton Miranda Garno Nesler "What the Dagger's Point Plows Up: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and the Metadrama of Gendered Violence" Vanderbilt University

12:00-1:20 global_interface speaker: Susan Kozel "Closer: Live Performance in Responsive Systems" (Humanities 1503)

1:30-2:50

Chaucer

Moderator: Jason Tondro Sol Neely "From Gentils to Genitalia: General Economy and the Inexorable Failure of Fragment 'A' in The Canterbury Tales" Purdue University Cory Grewell "Laughing Away Authority: Chaucer's Undermining of Misogynist Stereotypes in The Canterbury Tales" Northeastern University Karen Summers, "Title TBA" University of North Carolina, Greensboro

From Beowulf to Buffy

Moderator: Cindy Headley Charlotte Strauwald "Beowulf and its Proto-Feminist Author" California State University, San Marcos Helen Gunn "Queering Hamlet: A Different Sexual Construct for the Prince of Denmark?" California State University, San Marcos Cindy Maroney Walt Whitman and Transgender within Modern American Poetry" California State University, San Marcos Cindy Headley "Slaying Heirarchies: Steps to Democracy" California State University, San Marcos

(Re)writing/(re)claiming History in African-American Literature

Moderator: Zina Rodriguez Deborah Wolfe "A Life Always Spoken and Only Spoken:" Temporality and the Neo-Slave Narrative" The City College of New York, CUNY Nicole McFarlane "Black Motherhood and Competing Nationalisms" North Carolina A&T State University Patrick Randolph "No Ultimate Truth: History and Possibility in The Cattle Killing" University of California, Riverside

Cybertextual Systems

Moderator: Mark Marino Jeremy Douglass "The Implied Code: The Riddle of Reading Interactive Fiction" University of California, Santa Barbara Juan B. Gutierrez "A Graph-Based Algorithm for Adaptive Literary Hypertext" Florida State University Eduardo Navasse "Ideology of Repetition in Music, Art and New Media" University of California, San Diego

Milton (1)

Moderator: : Dr. John Briggs Justin B. Kolb "Brotherly Dissimilitudes: The Radical Sects and Milton's Vitalist Distinctions" University of Wisconsin-Madison Christopher Glover "Paradise Lost: A Tract for Women's Rights" California State University, Long Beach Jean Bocharova "Barbarous Dispossessors: Sovereignty and Race in Milton's The History of Britain" University of California, Riverside

Cannibalism and the Body

Moderator: Andrew Bligh Brian Frink "Drawing Lots: The Politics of Survival Cannibalism" University of California, Riverside Melissa Garcia Knoll "Jéan de Lery: Good Enough to Eat? An Investigation of Incorporation Anxiety in History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil" University of California, Riverside Tammy DiBenedetto "Appetites in Excess: (Mis)Representations of the Female Cannibalism" University of California, Riverside

3:00-4:20

Traveling Discourse

Moderator: Erie Leduc Scott Lehman "The Print Logic of Warfare: Cartographic Representations of Cuba in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1740-1762" San Francisco State University Ana Savic "Oriental Legacy and Robert Curzon's Visit to the Monasteries in the Levant" University of California, Riverside Keri Barber "Woolf and Monumentality: The Elegy of the Soldier" University of California, Riverside Christopher Allan Black "The Land and the Sea: Manifest Destiny, Slavery, and Property in Moby Dick" California State University, Fullerton

African American Literature from Diaspora to Harlem Renaissance (2)

Moderator: Jack Beckham II Kelli Kyle "Title TBA"University of California, Riverside Chris Daley "A Rocky Road to Posterity: The Publication of Zora Neale Hurston" City University of New York Graduate School and University Center Gerald M. Kenney "Autodidactic Pedagogy: How Frederick Douglas Came to Language" University of Central Florida

Harry Potter Fan Fiction and Its Communities

Moderator: Andrew Howe Emily Anderson "Covert Common Rooms and Broom Closet Encounters: Harry Potter Femmeslash and its Communities" University of California, Riverside Megan Fowler "Electronic Owls and Digital Diaries" University of California, Riverside Sandra Alagona "Navigating Harry Potter Fan Fiction Communities" Claremont Graduate University

Electronic Literature

Moderator: Methal Al-Otaibi Astrid Ensslin "From Wreader to Breather—Kate Pullinger—Breathing Wall and the Loss of Intentionality" Universities of Leeds, Heidelberg Natisha Demko "From Page to Screen: 'Writing' in the Digital Medium" Sonoma State University Amaranth Borsuk "Waves on Nets: Reading the V into Stephanie Strickland's Vniuverse" University of Southern California

Milton (2)

Moderator: Jean Bocharova Miranda Garnor Nesler "When Equal over Equal Reigns: Paradise Lost and the Performance of the Leviathan" Vanderbilt University Julie Sorge "Sifting Psyche's Seeds: Negative Capability in Milton" University of Kansas Amy Carleton "A Queen of Hermeneutics: Text as Literary Monument" Northeastern University

New Asian-American Bodies in Film

Moderator: Nick Valdez Bruno Dequen "Beyond the Senses: Ghost in the Shell 2 and Philosophy" Concordia University, Montreal Kanno Yuka "Ping Pong: Bouncing Between Japanese Corporeal Identities" University of California, Irvine Shige Suzuki "The Dolls Scream, 'I Didn't Want to Become Human!': Posthuman Vision in Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence" University of California, Santa Cruz

Drama and Metadrama

Moderator: Jim Condon Janine Hauthal "Intermedial and Narratological Revisions of the Metadramatic and Its Functions Illustrated by Peter Shaffer's Amadeus" Giessen Graduate School for the Humanities (GGK) Frank Episale "Plays within Plays within Prisons: Revolution and Rehabilitation in the Total Institution" University of Hawaii at Manoa Elena Miraglia "Over-rational and Wicked: Shakespeare's and Laclos's Deceitful Artists" University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy

4:30 CINtax speaker: Dr. Toby Miller "Global Hollywood II" (Humanities 1501)

5:30- 9:00 CINtax Film Forum ( Humanities 1501)