V21 @ MLA: 4th annual social hour
Join V21 for our 4th annual MLA social hour, Friday 4 January, 6pm-10pm! This year we’re lucky to have an affiliate house near the convention. Come early, come late, take the Blue Line from MLA hotels or on your way in from OHare. If you haven’t already received the address in an invite, drop us a line!
Before and after the social hour, the conversations are ongoing: mark your dance cards for these affiliate panels!
035: Infrastructure Stories: Modernization and Mobility in the Twentieth-Century Novel
12:00 PM–1:15 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Grand Suite 5
Presentations
1: Fugitive Infrastructure: Chain Gang Narratives and the Spectacle of Mobility
Susan Zieger, U of California, Riverside
2: Concretopia: High-Rise Infrastructures and Downward Mobility
Kelly Rich, Harvard U
3: Petro-Infrastructures and Countermobility in Trinidadian Realism
Nicole Rizzuto, Georgetown U
Related Material: For related material, write to susan.zieger@ucr.edu
Presider
Susan Zieger, U of California, Riverside
052: The Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities
1:45 PM–3:00 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Crystal Ballroom A
Description: What are the digital futures of graduate study in the humanities, and how are those futures related to the institutionalization of digital humanities degrees and programs? The digital humanities has passed from its moment of insurgency to a phase of institutionalization, in an array of certificates and degree programs. But how is specific graduate-level work in these programs imagined, planned, and realized? What future for graduate study do they imagine?
Related Material: For related material, write to gabrielhankins@gmail.com
Speakers
Stephen Robertson, George Mason U
Meredith Martin, Princeton U
Adrian S. Wisnicki, U of Nebraska, Lincoln
Alison Booth, U of Virginia
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern U
Roopika Risam, Salem State U
Respondent
Patrick Jagoda, U of Chicago
Presider
Gabriel Hankins, Clemson U
053: Climate Humanism and the Nonhuman Turn
1:45 PM–3:00 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Grand Suite 3
Description: With an emphasis on what long duration conversation across periods and disciplines can yield, panelists explore the work of the humanities scholar in a time of climate change, focusing on the turn in the environmental humanities toward the study of nonhuman agency and its attendant challenge to narrate less anthropocentric stories.
Presider
Jeffrey Cohen, Arizona State U
Speakers
Wai Chee Dimock, Yale U
Jesse Oak Taylor, U of Washington, Seattle
Steve Mentz, St. John’s U, NY
Stephanie Foote, West Virginia U, Morgantown
Paul K. Saint-Amour, U of Pennsylvania
065: Circling Back to Sociology
1:45 PM–3:00 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Columbus EF
Presentations
1: After Max Weber
Eric Hayot, Penn State U, University Park
2: My Sociology Envy
Rita Felski, U of Virginia
3: Shared Forms: Literary Studies and Sociology
Caroline E. Levine, Cornell U
107: Our Queer Aesthetic Categories
3:30 PM–4:45 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Michigan 1C
Presentations
1: Plasticity and Performance: Queer ‘Meta’ Materials
Tracy Rosenthal, Los Angeles Community C, CA
2: The Beauty of Being Bitchy
Simon Reader, C of Staten Island, City U of New York
3: The Queer Close-Up
Natalie Prizel, Princeton Soc. of Fellows
Presiders
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, U of Tennessee, Knoxville
Simon Reader, C of Staten Island, City U of New York
209: The Persistence of Ideology Critique
8:30 AM–9:45 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Columbus CD
Description: What is ideology critique? How might it be preferable to other ways of addressing the present or the past? Speakers discuss the persistence of ideology critique, including modes of engaged cultural analysis that are attentive to the problems of capitalism, modes of production, the affective and speculative forms therein, and the political contexts of thinking and writing.
Speakers
Caren Irr, Brandeis U
Eleanor Kaufman, U of California, Los Angeles
Anna Kornbluh, U of Illinois, Chicago
Warren G. Montag, Occidental C
Robert Tally, Texas State U
Bruce W. Robbins, Columbia U
Lauren Berlant, U of Chicago
Presider
Andrew Cole, Princeton U
224: Romanticism Now I
10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Randolph 1
Description: We aim to tap into how romanticists are positing historical relations as nonlinear and entangled but also to explore how Romanticism, as an aesthetic and political movement, might help literary scholars rethink historical methodologies. The literature of this era provides deep resources for thinking through today’s eventfulness and needs to be brought into dialogue with the “now,” providing parataxis that then becomes a site of potentiality.
For the other meeting of the working group, see 425.
Related Material: For related material, visit MLA Commons after 1 Dec.
Participants
Elizabeth Fay, U of Massachusetts, Boston
Thora Brylowe, U of Colorado, Boulder
Timothy P. Campbell, U of Chicago
Eric M. Eisner, George Mason U
Anne McCarthy, Penn State U, University Park
Catherene Ngoh, Emory U
Brian Rejack, Illinois State U
David Sigler, U of Calgary
Andrew Warren, Harvard U
Chris Washington, Francis Marion U
Presider
Elizabeth Fay, U of Massachusetts, Boston
284: Post-critique and the Profession
1:45 PM–3:00 PM Friday, Jan 4, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Randolph 3
Presentations
1: Abraham Lincoln, Artemus Ward, and the Literary Event
Christopher Looby, U of California, Los Angeles
2: A Case for the Modest (Young) Critic
Pardis Dabashi, Boston U
3: Positive Critique
Bruce W. Robbins, Columbia U
328: Victorian Wartime
3:30 PM–4:45 PM Friday, Jan 4, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Randolph 2
Presentations
1: Historical Genre Painting and the Disabling of Heroism, circa 1857
Natalie Prizel, Princeton Soc. of Fellows
2: Arendt on Race, Literature, and Imperial War: The Case of Disraeli
Rachel Teukolsky, Vanderbilt U
3: Victorian Wartime after Victorian Wartime
Jane Hu, U of California, Berkeley
Presider
Nathan K. Hensley, Georgetown U
425: Romanticism Now II
8:30 AM–9:45 AM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Randolph 1
Description: We aim to tap into how romanticists are positing historical relations as nonlinear and entangled but also to explore how Romanticism, as an aesthetic and political movement, might help literary scholars rethink historical methodologies. The literature of this era provides deep resources for thinking through today’s eventfulness and needs to be brought into dialogue with the “now,” providing parataxis that then becomes a site of potentiality.
For the other meeting of the working group, see 224.
Related Material: For related material, visit MLA Commons after 1 Dec.
Participants
Elizabeth Fay, U of Massachusetts, Boston
Thora Brylowe, U of Colorado, Boulder
Timothy P. Campbell, U of Chicago
Eric M. Eisner, George Mason U
Anne McCarthy, Penn State U, University Park
Catherene Ngoh, Emory U
Brian Rejack, Illinois State U
David Sigler, U of Calgary
Andrew Warren, Harvard U
Chris Washington, Francis Marion U
Presider
Elizabeth Fay, U of Massachusetts, Boston
491: Criticism and Theory
12:00 PM–1:15 PM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Crystal Ballroom A
Description: The terms criticism and theory are often used interchangeably; their relation is seldom articulated and perhaps even more rarely understood. Scholars from a wide array of fields take up the challenge of articulating the relations between criticism and theory.
Presider
Caroline E. Levine, Cornell U
Speakers
Jane Gallop, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Andrew Cole, Princeton U
Rita Felski, U of Virginia
Amanda S. Anderson, Brown U
Hortense Jeanette Spillers, Vanderbilt U
Arlene R. Keizer, Pratt Inst.
531: Poetics and Annotation
1:45 PM–3:00 PM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Columbus EF
Description: Panelists explore annotations across historical periods, asking what marginalia, footnotes, and other such paratexts can tell us about the dialogic spaces they create, the development of the lyric, and past and current reading practices. Considering both published and unpublished annotations, speakers also think through the challenges and possibilities of annotation in the digital age.
Presider
Alexandra Socarides, U of Missouri, Columbia
Speakers
Amanda Golden, New York Inst. of Tech.
Ian Cornelius, Loyola U Chicago
Linda K. Gregerson, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Meredith Martin, Princeton U
Jeff Strabone, Connecticut C
547: New Directions in Science and Literature
3:30 PM–4:45 PM Saturday, Jan 5, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Randolph 1
Description: Participants explore the current status of scholarship on science and literature in the Victorian and modernist periods in British and anglophone literature. Fields include physics, botany, neurology, and geology.
Speakers
Jonathan Smith, U of Michigan, Dearborn
Pamela Gossin, U of Texas, Dallas
Benjamin Morgan, U of Chicago
Lynn M. Voskuil, U of Houston
Anne Stiles, St. Louis U
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Penn State U, University Park
Barri J. Gold, Muhlenberg C
Presider
Laura Christine Otis, Emory U
655: Theorizing the Theory Survey Course
10:15 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Columbus CD
Presentations
1: The Immanent Theory Syllabus
Anna Kornbluh, U of Illinois, Chicago
2: Theory of the Survey
Theodore Martin, U of California, Irvine
3: Ordering off the Menu
Jeffrey T. Nealon, Penn State U, University Park
Presider
Jane Gallop, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
676: Ecological Crisis in the Long Nineteenth Century
10:15 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Water Tower
Description: What can the environmental humanities gain from an expansive historical scope, and how can nineteenth-century studies work to confront contemporary ecological crisis? This session addresses how the ecological crisis of the nineteenth century is the ecological crisis of today, how it challenges us to think historically as well as transhistorically, and how nineteenth-century studies matter in critical efforts to make sense of our ecological moment.
Presider
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, U of California, Davis
Speakers
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, U of California, Davis
Sukanya Banerjee, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Nathan K. Hensley, Georgetown U
Deanna Kreisel, U of British Columbia
Benjamin Morgan, U of Chicago
Jesse Oak Taylor, U of Washington, Seattle
Lynn M. Voskuil, U of Houston
Daniel Williams, Harvard U
696: Decolonizing the Victorians
12:00 PM–1:15 PM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Gold Coast
Description: Victorian: a period whose very name invites decolonial thinking. Participants focus on ways of shifting course design and teaching practices in nineteenth-century British literature away from white metropolitan imperialist subjects, works, and heuristics, asking, How do we teach the history and dynamics of empire without unthinkingly replicating them? What particular challenges and resources does the period offer an antiracist pedagogy?
Speakers
Daniel Hack, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alicia Christoff, Amherst C
Tim Watson, U of Miami
Sukanya Banerjee, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Grace Lavery, U of California, Berkeley
Ryan Fong, Kalamazoo C
Robert David Aguirre, James Madison U
Presider
Mary Ellis Gibson, Colby C
741: New Starting Points for Literature and the Mind
1:45 PM–3:00 PM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Grand Suite 5
1: Victorian Literature and Neuroscience
Anne Stiles, St. Louis U
2: What Fiction Writers Can Teach Neuroscientists
Laura Christine Otis, Emory U
3: Literature and Cognition: The Lay of the Land
Elaine Auyoung, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities
747: Critical Race Theory and New Directions for Victorian Studies
1:45 PM–3:00 PM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Hyatt Regency – Columbus G
Description: Panelists explore a central methodological and citational exclusion of Victorian studies: critical race theory has been underengaged by scholars in the field, to the detriment of our scholarship, our teaching, and the communities we create. We interrogate the intellectual frameworks that have dominated the field, past and present, and suggest productive reframings through the integration of critical race theory.
Speakers
Amy R. Wong, Dominican U of California
Zarena Aslami, Michigan State U
Manu Chander, Rutgers U, Newark
Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Concordia U
Alicia Christoff, Amherst C
Anjuli Raza Kolb, Williams C
Tricia A. Lootens, U of Georgia
Jane Hu, U of California, Berkeley
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