Registration: 8:00 – 9:00 Gowan Auditorium

Session I: 8:30 – 10:00 a.m.

1. Social Spaces in Transition: Nation, Language and Cityscapes

Pangborn 303

Chair: Margaret Ann Kassen, The Catholic University of America

“Dual-Citizenship: Implications for ‘transnational identity’”

Debora Upegui-Hernández, City University of New York

“Space of Democracy: Growth of Transient Space in Bengali Culture”

Q M Mahtab-uz-Zaman, BRAC University, Bangladesh

“Are You a Citizen? Insights from Borderlands”

Mehnaaz Momen, Texas A&M International University

“From Lifestyles to Workstyles: New Economy Architecture and Design”

David Buuck, UC-Santa Cruz

2. Bridging the Gap: Diaspora, Immigration and Utopias

Pangborn 302

Chair: Patricia Orozo-Watrel, The Catholic University of America

“Postmodernism and Utopia in La nada cotidiana by Zoé Valdés”

Jim Griesse, The Catholic University of America

“City in Diaspora Literature and in Utopia”

Lyubov Bugaeva, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

“Puentes: The Other Side of the Bridge – Dominican-Haitian Space and Racial/Class Conflicts”

Mayka S. Puente de Righi, The Catholic University of America

Session II: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

3. Urban Violence, Ghetto Noir, and the monstruo-theque

Pangborn 303

Chair: Kerstin Gaddy, The Catholic University of America

“Medellín, Colombia: The mostruo-theque of Fernando Vallejo”

Alberto Galindo, Princeton University

“Ghetto Noir: Postindustrial Crime Fiction and the Urban Imagination”

Justin David Gifford, University of Virginia

“’There is an idea of Patrick Bateman’: Or, Why American Psycho Really is a Horror Film”

Brooke M. Campbell, Emory University

“Nomadic Urban Spaces: Interstitial Topographies in William Gibson’s Virtual Lights-Trilogy”

Karin Hoepker, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany

4. Urban Woman: Identity, Frontiers, and Strategies of Resistance

Pangborn 302

Chair: Richard Rischar, Dickinson College

“(Re)Claiming a Space of One’s Own: Leïla Sebbar’s Urban Heroines”

Mary McCullough, Samford University

“The New Woman and the Urban Frontier”

Clarence Ray Slavens, Indian Hills Community College

“Phenome(non) Controversial Cinema: Popularity, the Los Angeles Apparel Industry, and Strategies of Resistance in Cardoso’s Real Women Have Curves”

Luís Carlos Rodríguez, University of Southern California

11:45 – 12:45 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 “Find a City: Enrique Otte's Cartas privadas de emigrantes a Indias and the Language of Longing in Early Colonial Spanish America”

Keynote Speaker: Kris Lane, Associate Professor of History, The College of William and Mary

Session III: 2:00 – 3:30

5. Urban and (Sub)urban Topographies: Memory, Immigration and Kinship

Pangborn 303

Chair: Stefania Lucamante, The Catholic University of America

“Mapping the City, Mapping the Self”

Jolie A. Sheffer, University of Virginia

“Psychoanalytic Terror and Dashed Utopian (Sub)urban Dreams in the Post-WWII United States: A Cultural and Music Analysis of Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti”

Richard Rischar, Dickinson College

“From Shanties to Lace-Curtains: Mapping Identity Transformations Among Irish-American Catholics in Buffalo, New York, 1880-1910”

William Jenkins, York University, Canada

“Hearing Others’ Voices: An Exploration of Six Immigrant Students’ Experiences in High School Choir”

Regina Carlow, The University of Maryland, College Park and Montgomery County Public Schools

6. Subject Formation, Borderlands and the Literary Marketplace

Pangborn 302

Chair: Julian Nelson, The Catholic University of America

“Urban Resistance: Borders, Identities and Citizenship in the Work of Thomas King”

Patricia K. Wood, York University, Canada

“The Promiscuity of Print: Revisiting John Clare’s London”

J. Nathaniel Goldsmith, University of Virginia

“Urban Interpellations: The Subject and the City in the Works of Richard Wright”

Joshua S. Stone, University of Miami

Session IV: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

7. Public Performance: Race Relations, Cultural Space and Urban Landscapes

Pangborn 303

Chair: Ben Chappell, Bridgewater College

“’You leave di country an’ come a town?’: Performing Place, Community, and Nation in Jamaica”

Guha Shankar, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

“Dis/Re-orienting the Masses: The Public Art Play”

Kristin Baker & Sunil Swaroop, Tufts University

“Remembrances and Passages: An American Grid as Memory Personified”

Diane Fellows, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

“Lowrider Space: Cultural Performance as Spatial Practice”

Ben Chappell, Bridgewater College

8. A Woman’s Place: Private and Public Spaces in Latin American and Spanish Literature

Pangborn 302

Chair: Catherine DeLong Malloy, The Catholic University of America

“Space in Elena Quiroga’s Tristura: Entrapment and Escape”

Tricia M. Arnold, The Catholic University of America

“Re-Mapping Urban Topographies in Luisa Valenzuela’s La travesía (2001): Vertiginous Cities, Seditious Writing”

Inela Selimovic, University of Kentucky

“The Relationship Between Space and Identity in El sur and Bene”

Colleen Sweet, The Catholic University of America

Session V: 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.

9. Transgression and Alterity: Performance, Narration and Film

Pangborn 302

Chair: Fabiola Fernández, Chicago State University

“The Sabbat: Space and Other in Colonial Latin America”

Mónica Castillo, Hope College

“Fallen Woman: Julia’s Transgression in Jonah and the Pink Whale”

Fabiola Fernández, Chicago State University

“Ángeles de Irisarri’s The Year of Immortality: Urban Space as a Paradigm for Transgression”

Beatriz Trigo, Washington and Jefferson College

“Marguerite Duras's Indian Urb: Altering Narrative Performance."

Esther N. Marion, Princeton University

10. Sacred Space and Global Soul: Spiritual Journeys of Self and Other

Pangborn 303

Chair: Elizabeth Bachrach Tan, Independent Scholar

“Urban Sacred Spaces in the Rural-Centered Writings of Annie Dillard and Kathleen Norris”

Elizabeth Bachrach Tan, Independent Scholar

“The Absence of the Urban in Hayy ibn Yaqzan”

Catherine DeLong Malloy, The Catholic University of America

“Pico Iyer’s Global Soul: Hermeneutics of the Self”

Jude Chudi Okpala, Howard Community College