RSS 2011 Program
Thursday 6:00-7:15
Reception
welcoming the participants
7:30-9:00
Daniel Cavicchi,
Professor of American Studies, Rhode Island School of Design, “Fandom Before 'Fan':
Shaping the History of Enthusiastic
Audiences”
Friday
8:00-9:15
1.
Reception in the Classroom
Chair, Robin Gallaher
Marcus
Meade, “Reintroduction to Literature: Course Goals and Reception of Popular
Texts”
Stancy Bond, “To
Read or to Do: Student Comprehension of Teacher Feedback”
Catherine
Clark, “Outlier
Writers: Writing Expectations and First-Generation Students”
2. Negotiations in the Nineteenth Century
and Beyond
Chair, Shirley Samuels,
Sharon
Hunter, “On Lydia Maria Child’s Earlier Fiction”
Sydney
Bufkin, “Sensation, Sympathy, and Disgust: Competing
Affective Responses in the Reception o
f Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle”
9:30-10:45
3.
Race, Region, Reception: The U.S. South and Its Audiences
Chair, Paul Dahlgren
Jeremy
Wells, “How magazine and newspaper reviewers responded to Thomas Wentworth
Higginson’s
Army Life in a Black Regiment (1869)”
Sarah
E. Gardner, “On Lyle Saxon’s 1937 novel Children
of Strangers”
Emily
Satterwhite, “South-as-Other, South-as-Self: Ethnicized Appalachia and Mission, Tourism, and Identity
in Fan Mail about Christy
(1967)”
4. Who’s your Mammy? Critical Responses to Tyler Perry, For Colored Girls, and “Meet the Browns”
Chair, Patsy Schweickart
Stephanie A. Allen, “Who’s your Mammy?
Tyler Perry and the Limits of Black Spectatorship”
Heather Finch, “Looking like you looking”:
Representations of Southern Black Men in Tyler
Perry’s Meet
the Browns”
Lydia Magras, “Whose
Audience? A
Look At For
Colored Girls: Nearly 35 years later and
considering
Tyler Perry”
11:00-12:15
5.
Lost in Translation
Chair,
Joseph Sullivan
Jonathan
Stalling, “Validation or Contamination: Does Chinese Literature need Western Readers?”
Liangyu Fu, “Reading Western Notes: Visual
Presentation and cultural Complexities of Translated
Music
in China during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”
Jarrod Stringer, “Shakespeare’s Poe-tic
Stamp on American Articulation of the Precariousness of Life”
6. Producing Reception
Chair, Phil Goldstein
Sharon
McQueen, “The Story of The Story of Ferdinand: The Reception of a
Classic and the
Creation
of a Cultural Icon”
Cecily
Garber, “Rose Macaulay’s Publishers and the Pluralist Public Sphere”
Kinohi Nishikawa, “Negotiating The Negotiations: How a Black Book Didn’t Cross Over”
12:30-1:30: lunch
1:30-2:45
7. The Library as a Site of Reception:
Marginalized Readers and the Limitations of Literacy
Chair, Phil Goldstein
Barbara Hochman, “Failed Promises of Literacy: Nella Larsen's Booklist”
Emily Drabinski, “Reading Lesbians in the Library”
Jane Greer, “Rural
Receptions: Literacy, Libraries, and Literature in the Moonlight Schools”
8. Public & Private America
Chair, Jim Machor
Gillian Silverman, “The Time of Reading”
Vanessa Steinroetter,
“Dead Letters, Absent Bodies, and the Uncertainty of (Re-)Union:
Representations of Letter Reading in
American Literature of the Civil War”
Olga Kuminova,
“The Virtual Reader-Author Relationship and the Nourishment of Subjectivity in
HBS’s Letters to George Eliot”
9. Readers
as collectors
Chair,
Joseph Sullivan
Elizabeth
Lenaghan, “Media’s Material MeaningsL
Book Collectors as ‘Alternative’
Audience”
Tom Koenigs, “The Commonplace Waldern: Commonplace Notebooks
and the History of
Reading
in Antebellum New England”
Joseph Sullivan, “Our Controlling Metaphor:
Shakespeare’s Complete Works as
‘Secular Bible’”
3:00-4:15
10. A
roundtable discussion of Jim Machor’s Reading Fiction in Antebellum America
Phil Goldstein
Barbara Hochman
Amy Blair
Patsy Schweickart
4:30-5:45
Shirley Samuels, Flora Rose House Professor
and Dean, Cornell University, “Reading
the American Novel, 1780-1850”
6:30-8:30: cookout at Mozingo
Lake
Saturday
8:00-9:00: Business meeting
9:00-10:15
11.
Contemporary Cinema
Chair,
Walter Metz
Rebecca Gordon, “The
Girl With the Killer Archive: Photomontage and Viewer
Experience”
Amanda Nell Edgar,
“Never Say Never: Bieber Fever and the Re-gendering
of the
American Dream”
Melissa Click, “Taking a Bite Out of the Twilight
Fandom: Exploring
fans’ active and
passive
responses to the vampire franchise”
12. The Long 18th Century
Chair, Jim Machor
Bryan Mangano, “‘Amicable Halves’: Enlightenment Friendship in
Eighteenth-Century
Authorship”
May Sung, “Blake and Surrealism”
13. Reading the feminine
Chair,
Cecilia Konchar Farr
Ashley Barner,
“‘Penny is Panicking’: Evaluations of Realism in Fan Culture”
Shannon
Thomas, “Perfectly Feminine: the Atlantic
Monthly’s Male Poetess”
Lesley Larkin, “Erasing Precious: Reading Percival Everett Reading Sapphire”
10:30-11:45
14.
First Person Narratives across Genres and Media
Chair:
Ildi Olasz
Nikki
Delp, “To Tell the Truth”: Reader Deception in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Adam
Drici, “This Statement is True: Your Reading is
False”: Rereading Metanarration in P
hilip Roth
and David Foster Wallace
Matthew
Loudon, “Just the Way She Is: Text/Film Authenticity and Reception in Bridget
Jones’s
Diary”
15.
Cinema and Reception
Chair,
Walter Metz
David
Blanke, “Stardom, Studios, and Spectacle: A Case
Study of Audience Reception
in Early Hollywood”
Eirik Frisvold
Hanssen, “Auteur Gazing: Notions of Spectatorship and
Auteurism in Fan
Mail
to Film Directors”
Walter Metz, “Men Who Hate Cinema and the Critics
Who Love Them”
16. Reading in the Academy
Chair, Paul Dahlgren
Charlotte Templin, “How Irony Happens: The
Ironist, the Text, and the Reader”
Tobias Meinel, “From the Ivory Tower to the
Iconoclast Reader: Reading Practices in the
Academy Since 1945.”
Jennifer Lozano, “Reading Into Things: The Intersections of Latino/a Literature,
Identity
and Activism among Latino/a studies Faculty”
12:00-1:00: lunch
1:00-2:15
Jonathan Gray, Professor of Media and Cultural
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
“The
Audience of the Rest of the Text: Hype, Spinoffs, Extratexts,
Paratexts, and Reception”
2:30-4:00
17. Frustrated Expectations, Misreading, Genre
Technologies
Genevieve
West, Chair
Kelly Mathews, “The Road of Good
Intentions: Trust and Loathing in Flannery O’Connor’s
‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’”
Jeremy Gulley, “Beckett and Basketball– Playing
the Game of Structuralism”
Ildi Olasz, “Genre Conventions across Centuries: The Changing
Reception of Mystery
and Detective Elements”
Genevieve
West, “Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Bits’ and the Problem of
Genre”
18. Focus on Format
Chair,
Cecilia Konchar Farr
Katie McCollough, “Borderlines: Blog Reading as a Site for Creative Activity”
Molly Travis, “The Future of Reading: the Book as
App.”
19.
Television Reception Studies
Chair,
Walter Metz
Holly
Holladay and Lars Kristiansen, “Let's Hug It Out, Bitch: An audience reception study
of hegemonic
masculinity in Entourage”
Pedro Curi, “How Global is
Global Consumption?: Brazilian fans watching American TV”
HyunJi Lee, “Developing Identities: An online ethnography of the Gossip Girl fan community
in Korea”
4:15-5:30
20. “The Present Future of Reception
Studies
Chair, Jim Machor
Paul Dahlgren – “Badiou
as a reception theorist”
Phil Goldstein – “How to Read Fiction”
Jim Machor -- "The Present (and Future?) State of Reception Studies."
21.
Film and Media Reception Studies
Chair,
Walter Metz
Brian
Myers, “Gender, Guns, and Gestures: Understandings of Humiliation in the Halo
Video
Game Series”
Anne
Gilbert, “How Comic Con Institutionalized Audience Subcultures and Fan Practices ”
Jackie Gold,
“Elephant Boys and Slumdogs: British
Responses to Films about India in the
Twentieth
and Twenty-first Centuries”
6:30-9:00: Banquet