V21 at MLA! 5th annual social hour and panels

Join V21 for our 5th annual MLA social hour, Saturday 11 January, 5pm-7pm, at The Fountain Bar (in the Sheraton). This year we’re delighted to partner with the Forum on Victorian and Modernist Lit, which will start their gathering at 6:30pm in the same venue, so the hours of affiliating are many.  Make new collectives!

Before and after the social hour, mark your dance cards for these V21 Affiliate panels:

13. Fighting Exploitation of Contingent Faculty Members from Within: How Tenure- Stream Allies Can Help Create Equity on Campus
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 612, WSCC
A special session. Presiding: Jennifer Ruth, Portland
State U
Speakers: Carolyn Jane Betensky, U of Rhode Island;
Amy Lynch- Biniek, Kutztown U; Jennifer Ruth

18. Poetics and Lineation
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 607, WSCC
Program arranged by the forum GS Poetry and
Poetics. Presiding: Meredith Martin, Prince ton%U
Speakers: Emily Drumsta, Brown U; Rachel Feder,
U of Denver; Douglas Kearney, U of Minnesota,
Twin Cities; Ruen- chuan Ma, Utah Valley U; Daniel
Snelson, U of California, Los Angeles

32. New Approaches to Language Theory in Victorian Studies
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 618, WSCC
A special session. Presiding: Gordon Bigelow,
Rhodes
1. “Philosophy of Language circa 15 May
1865,” Jami Bartlett, U of California, Irvine
2. “Jon Harmon and the Referentiality of Character,”
Rebecca Ehrhardt, U of Southern California
3. “Victorian Ordinary Language Philosophy,”
Jonathan Farina, Seton Hall U
Respondent: Gordon Bigelow

37. V. S. Naipaul Today
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 303, WSCC
A special session. Presiding: Rhonda Cobham-
Sander, Amherst C
1. “V. S. Naipaul: On the Origins and Obsessions
of a Controversial Writer,” Sanjay Krishnan, Boston
U
2. “Colonia Moralia,” Nasser Mufti, U of Illinois,
Chicago
3. “The Other Race of Indians: Naipaul and Indigeneity,”
Anna #omas, U of Toronto
4. “Naipaul’s Aunts and the Creole Imagination,”
Rhonda Cobham- Sander

166. Has Postcritique Run Out of Steam?
7:00–8:15 p.m., 4C- 1, WSCC
Program arranged by the Society for Critical
Exchange
Speakers: Frida Beckman, Stockholm U; Michael
Bérubé, Penn State U, University Park; Jeffrey
Di Leo, U of Houston; Jane Gallop, U of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee; Jeffrey T. Nealon, Penn State U,
University Park; Bruce Robbins, Columbia’U

190. Poetry in Motion: Teaching Metrics through Performance
7:00–8:15 p.m., 211, WSCC
Program arranged by the forum TM Language
&eory. Presiding: Natalie”E. Gerber, State U of
New York, Fredonia
Speakers: &omas Cable, U of Texas, Austin;
G.’Burns Cooper, U of Alaska, Fairbanks; Jonathan
Culler, Cornell U; Ben Glaser, Yale U; Kristin
Hanson, U of California, Berkeley; Meredith Martin,
Prince ton U; Nicholas Myklebust, Regis U

211. Beyond the Pleasure Principle: A”Centenary Roundtable
8:30–9:45 a.m., 607, WSCC
Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian
and Early- 20th- Century En glish. Presiding:
Paul$K. Saint- Amour, U of Pennsylvania
Speakers: Dina Al- Kassim, U of British Columbia,
Vancouver; Peter Brooks, Prince ton U; Lee Edelman,
Tu(s U; Omnia El Shakry, U of California,
Davis; Grace Lavery, U of California, Berkeley;
Ankhi Mukherjee, U of Oxford

227. Infrastructure, Race, and Literature
8:30–9:45 a.m., 606, WSCC
A special session. Presiding: Ramesh Mallipeddi,
U of Colorado, Boulder
Speakers: Jonathan Grossman, U of California,
Los Angeles; Ramesh Mallipeddi; Nicole Rizzuto,
Georgetown U; Michael Rubenstein, Stony Brook
U, State U of New York; Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia
U; Susan Zieger, U of California, Riverside

250. Science and Fiction in Developing Worlds
10:15–11:30 a.m., Skagit 3, WSCC
Program arranged by the forum CLCS Global Anglophone.
Presiding: Aarthi Vadde, Duke&U
1. “Developmental Dreams: Afronauts and the
Square Kilometer Array,” Cóilín Parsons, Georgetown
&U
2. “Eat, Drink, and Be Black: Speculative Futures
of Development Science in the Afropolitan Digestive
Imagination,” Samantha Pinto, U of Texas,
Austin
3. “Recycled Trash, Living Waste: Tracing Temporal
Ecologies of Capitalist Ruins in Waste Tide,”
Frances Tran, Florida State&U
4. “Logistical Underworlds: Cocaine, Capital, and
the Non%ction Novel,” Susan Zieger, U of California,
Riverside
Respondent: Jenny Sharpe, U of California, Los
Angeles

335. (Re)theorizing Nineteenth- Century Materiality
1:45–3:00 p.m., Issaquah, Sheraton
A special session. Presiding: Priti Joshi, U of Puget
Sound
1. “‘$e Vibrations Which Shake Our Whole
System’: Acoustic Aesthetics and Moral Sensibility
in George Eliot’s Fiction,” Elizabeth Weybright,
Graduate Center, City U of New York
2. “Life on the Rocks: Celia $axter’s Dri’- Weed
Aesthetics,” Vesna Kuiken, U at Albany, State U of
New York
3. “‘Here Goes the Testator and a Pedigree!’:
Burning Finance and the Family in the Victorian
Novel,” Sarah Ross, Johns Hopkins U, MD
4. “In the Space between Materiality and Corporeality:
Fugitive Slave Advertisements,” Srimayee
Basu, U of Florida
Respondent: Priti Joshi

367. (In)Comparables, Humanism, and the Humanities
3:30–4:45 p.m., 606, WSCC
Program arranged by the American Comparative
Literature Association. Presiding: Waïl%S. Hassan,
U of Illinois, Urbana
1. “Less than .%.%. : Humanity without Comparison,”
Joseph%R. Slaughter, Columbia%U
2. “Living Language: #e Voice of the Human
and the Question of Literary Comparability,”
Shaden%M. Tageldin, U of Minnesota, Twin Cities
3. “Single? Great? Collective? Does Humanity
Have a History?” Bruce%W. Robbins, Columbia%U
4. “Comparative Literature in World History,”
Shu- mei Shih, U of California, Los Angeles

421. What Is Living and What Is Dead in Theory
8:30–9:45 a.m., Yakima 1, WSCC
Program arranged by the forum TM Literary and
Cultural $eory. Presiding: Je%rey&J. Williams,
Carnegie Mellon&U
Speakers: Michael&W. Clune, Case Western Reserve
U; Gaurav&G. Desai, U of Michigan, Ann
Arbor; Jack Halberstam, Columbia U; Anna Kornbluh, University of Illinois, Chicago; Lisa
Zunshine, U of Kentucky

482. The Sociology of French Culture: In Honor of Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson
10:15–11:30 a.m., Yakima 2, WSCC
Program arranged by the forum LLC 19th- Century
French. Presiding: Susan Elizabeth Hiner, Vassar”C
Speakers: Anthony Glinoer, U of Sherbrooke; Cary
Hollinshead- Strick, American U of Paris; Cheryl
Ainley Morgan, Hamilton C; Geo!rey Turnovsky,
U of Washington, Seattle; Priya Wadhera, Adelphi
U; John Edward Westbrook, Bucknell”U
Respondent: Carolyn Jane Betensky, U of Rhode
Island

568. Being Online: Risks and Rewards for Women in Academe
1:45–3:00 p.m., Skagit 4, WSCC
Program arranged by the Women’s Caucus for the
Modern Languages. Presiding: Rebecca Colesworthy,
SUNY Press
Speakers: Brandi Adams, Massachusetts Inst. of
Tech.; Julia Ftacek, Western Michigan U; Tina(M.
Iemma, St. John’s U, NY; Koritha Mitchell, Ohio
State U, Columbus; Andrea Kaston Tange, Macalester
C; Eugenia Zuroski, McMaster(U

574. New Literary Realisms
3:30–4:45 p.m., Ravenna AB, Sheraton
A special session. Presiding: Monika Kaup, U of
Washington, Seattle
1. “!e Logic of Novelistic Realism,” Aaron R.
Hanlon, Colby C
2. “‘Citizens of That Other Country’: Doris Lessing
and Late Realism,” Philip Tsang, U of Cincinnati
3. “Modernism as Fields of Sense Realism: Rainer
Maria Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids
Brigge,” Derek Wiebke, U of Washington, Seattle
4. “Realism and Postmodernity: !e Texas Gulf
Coast Fictions of Oscar Casares and Bret Anthony
Johnston,” Jose Limon, U of Texas, Austin

577. Fin de Sex at the Fin de Siècle? Recursions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
3:30–4:45 p.m., 401, WSCC
Program arranged by the forums LLC Victorian
and Early- 20th- Century En glish and TC Women’s
and Gender Studies. Presiding: Natasha Hurley,
U”of Alberta
Speakers: Zarena Aslami, Michigan State U; Ronjaunee
Chatterjee, Concordia U; Dennis Deniso’,
U of Tulsa; Elizabeth Freeman, U of California,
Davis; Dustin Friedman, American U; Kyla Wazana
Tompkins, Pomona”C

659. Comics and the Digital Humanities
8:30–9:45 a.m., Willow A, Sheraton
A special session. Presiding: Aaron Kashtan, U of
North Carolina, Charlotte
1. “Which Came First, Comics or Film?, Or A Media Archaeology of Comic Book Sequentiality,”
Roger Whitson, Washington State U
2. “Comics Architected: Translation Augmentation
with Structural Integrity,” Madeline Gangnes,
U of Florida
3. “‘I’ll Figure It Out on the “Page”’: $e Digitization
of a Comics Methodology,” Nicholas Brown,
Texas Christian U
4. “Born- Digital Comics in Academic Archives,”
Kathryn Manis, Washington State U, Pullman
Respondent: Patrick Jagoda, U of Chicago

678. Working- Class Writing and Nostalgia
8:30–9:45 a.m., 606, WSCC
A special session
1. “Memory of Place: Locale and Nostalgia in Pat
Barker’s Union Street,” Simon Lee, Texas State’U
2. “Geo(rey Hill’s En glish Works and Workers,”
Michael Allen, Harvard’U
3. “‘You Know All )em )ings’: Nostalgia,
Sentiment, and Speech in Working- Class Poetry,”
William Fogarty, U of Central Florida
4. “‘We’ve Had Enough’: Class, Regionality, and
Nostalgia in the Brexit Novel,” Chloe Ashbridge,
U of Nottingham

715. Realist Forms
10:15–11:30 a.m., 618, WSCC
A special session
1. “Realism and Plot,” Alex Woloch, Stanford)U
2. “On Literary Abstractions: Realism Reprised,”
Anna Kornbluh, U of Illinois, Chicago
3. “Ornamental Realism,” Irena Yamboliev, Stanford U

732. Postcolonial Architecture
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Skagit 1, WSCC
Program arranged by the forum TC Postcolonial
Studies. Presiding: Ameeth Vijay, U of California,
San Diego
1. “Futurist Ca$ès in Postcolonial Asmara,” Diana
Garvin, U of Oregon
2. “Brutalism: A Postcolonial Itinerary,” Nasser
Mu!i, U of Illinois, Chicago
3. “Modernity/ Modernization: #e Global South
City as Late- Postcolonial Surface,” Sohini Banerjee,
U of Massachusetts, Amherst
Respondent: Ameeth Vijay

743. Time (Again) for E.P. Thompson
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 613, WSCC
Program arranged by the forum LLC Late- 18th-
Century En glish. Presiding: Ruth Mack, U at
Bu%alo, State U of New York; James Mulholland,
North Carolina State U
1. “The Untimely Adventures of Time Discipline,”
$omas Allen, U of Ottawa
2. “Romantic Slow Time,” Dermot Ryan, Loyola
Marymount U
3. “On the Use and Abuse of the Nineteenth Century,”
Zachary Samalin, U of Chicago

746. Ecocritical Fieldwork
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chelan 2, WSCC
A special session. Presiding: Jesse Oak Taylor, U of
Washington, Seattle
1. “Ground Truthing the Anthropocene,” Stephanie
LeMenager, U of Oregon
2. “Notes from the Ark,” Julian D. Yates, U of
Delaware, Newark
3. “Listening in the Field and to the Text: The
Role of Sound Recording in Ecocritical Approaches
to $oreau’s Walden,” Christina Katopodis,
Graduate Center, City U of New York
4. “Beyul Khembalung: Refuge and Adaptation
in the Himalayan Anthropocene,” Tobias Menely,
U of California, Davis; Jesse Oak Taylor