Panels 2007 RSS conference
Thursday, Sept. 27
6:30-7:45: Reception, Linda Hall Library
8:00-9:30: Linda Hall Library
Patsy Schweikart,
Professor of English and Women's Studies,
Purdue University
"The Receiving Function: Ethics and Reading."
Friday,
Sept. 28
Holiday
Inn on the Plaza
8:30-10:00:
Ballroom A
1. "Understanding American Periodical Readers, From
the 1850s
2. to the 1950s."
Chuck Johanningsmeier, chair
a.
Jennifer Phegley, University
of Missouri - Kansas City
“Marketing
British Literature to American Readers: Literary
Piracy,
Transatlantic Taste, and Nationalism in Harper’s
New
Monthly Magazine, 1850-1855”
b. Chuck Johanningsmeier, University
of Nebraska at Omaha
“Training Is
Everything: High School Teachers, Literature,
and
Periodicals, 1880-1914”
c. Linda
Peterson, University of Nebraska at Omaha
“Reading
for the Hair Dryer Crowd: Flannery O’Connor’s “Good
Country People” in Harper’s
Bazaar”
2.
Ballroom B
Receiving
Victorian and Early Modern literature
Philip
Goldstein, Chair
a. Troy
J. Bassett, Indiana
University-Purdue University
Fort Wayne
“‘The
Sad Second Volume’: Victorian Responses to the
Three-Volume
Novel”
b. Emily
B. Todd, Westfield State College, “New England
Readers of Walter Scott in the 1820s.”
c. Ildiko Olasz, Michigan State University “Moving Eyes,
Shifting Minds: The Late-Nineteenth-Century
Reception of
the Verbal – Visual Dynamics in Illustrated
Novels
10:15-11:45
Ballroom
A
3. “Transatlantic Readers: The Audience for the Novel in
the
US and Britain
1750-1860”
Michael Davey, Chair.
a. Sandra
Vasconcelos, University
of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
“Crossing the Atlantic: English Novels in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.”
b. Marta Kvande, Valdosta
State University, GA. “Reading
Female
Readers:
The Female Quixote and Female Quixotism.”
c. David Bordelon, Kean University, NJ. “Raw Pork Steaks with
Treacle:” Nineteenth-Century American
Sensationalism and Oliver Twist”
d. Michael Davey, Valdosta
State University, GA. “American Novel, Transatlantic Audience:
Brown’s Ormond, the Representation of
Class in the US,
and its Reception.”
Ballroom
B
4. Reading Cultural Others
Edgard Sankara, Chair
a. Edgard Sankara, University of Delaware,
"The ambiguous reception of Hampâté Bâ"
b.
Jonathan Stallings, University
of Oklahoma
“Aftertastes,
Afterimages, and Lingering Sounds Without End:
Receiving
Classical Chinese Reception theories”
12:00-1:30:
lunch
1:30-2:45: Ballroom A
David Nord, Professor of Journalism and American Studies,
Indiana University
"Ephemeral and Elusive: Journalism History as Reading History"
3:00-4:30:
Ballroom A
5. Nineteenth-century American lit: panel 1
Jim Machor, Chair
a.
Paul Dahlgren, University of California,
Irvine “Genteel
American Poetry and the Rhetorical Tradition:
Harvard’s Phi
Beta Kappa Society and Reception Study”
b. Jim Machor, Kansas State University, "Whatever Happened to
Catharine Sedgwick?"
c. David Dowling, University of Iowa,
“Is Ruth Hall
Autobiographical?”:
The Controversial Reception
of Fanny Fern’s Antebellum Bestseller”
Ballroom B
6. Receiving Modern Cinema: panel 1
Tom Poe, Chair
a. Joseph Militello, Emporia State University
“From Ostalgie
to Ostphobie:
Comparative Eastern and Western Responses to Recent
‘East German’ Cinema”
b. B.R. Sebok, University of Texas at Austen,
“Rethinking
Remakes: Postmodernity, Identity, and Structuring
iscourse, A Reception Study of Psycho (Gus Van Sant
1998)”
c. Katherine Haenschen
University of Texas
at Austin,
“Quantifying Audience Knowledge and Expectations: Results of an In-Theater
Survey of Filmgoers”
4:45-6:00:
Ballroom A
7. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century American lit:
panel 2
Jim Machor, Chair
a. Shannon L. Thomas, The Ohio State University, “Puzzl[ing] us
more and more”: The Reception of Post-bellum Women Poets
in American Periodicals
b. Barbara Hochman, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev
“children's editions of Uncle
Tom’s Cabin”
c. Allison Fisher, Ohio State University “The
Popular Delusion”:
Reader Reception and the Classification of Modernist Texts
d. Emily
Satterwhite, Virginia
Tech, “Deliverance from Suburbia:
A Reception Geography of the Romance and Nightmare of Appalachia”
Ballroom B
8. Receiving Modern Cinema: panel 2
Tom Poe, Chair
a. Rebecca Gordon, Reed College,
Cross-Cultural Responses to
Hiroshima Mon Amour
b. Lisa Siraganian, Southern Methodist University, “How Culture
Became Love: Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain”
c. Valerie Fazel, Arizona
State University, “Shakespeare films,
vblogs, and active audience theory”
6:00-7:30: dinner
7:30-9:00:
Ballroom A
Janet
Staiger, William P. Hobby Centennial Professor in
Communication
and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies,
University of Texas at Austin
"The
Revenge of the Film Education Movement: Cult Movies and Fan Interpretive
Behaviors"
Saturday
The University
Center
9:00-10:00 rm 116: business
meeting
10:15-11:45
Alumni Room
8. Rereading Huckleberry
Finn: panel 1:
Philip Goldstein, Chair
a.
C. Prescott Sobol, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
“No Last Laugh: Justice, Humor, and the Imaginary
Sainthood of Huck Finn”
b. Phil Goldstein, University
of Delaware, “Realism,
liberalism, and Huck Finn”
c. John
Casey, University of Illinois at Chicago,
“Reading
Huck Finn as sentimental fiction”
Plaza Room
9. Receiving the Popular
panel 1:
Tom Poe, Chair
b. Jeremy Wells, Southern Illinois
University – Carbondale
“Uncle Remus’s Empire”
“From Anarchy in the U.K.
to Cool Britannia: The Changing
Reception of British Music
1977-1997”
d. Michael Graves, University of Kansas,
“Guys, Where Are We?”: Participatory Culture, Collective Intelligence, and the
Reception of “Lost”
11:45-1:00 lunch
1:00-2:30
Alumni Room
10. Rereading Huckleberry
Finn: panel 2:
Philip Goldstein, Chair
a. Steve Hecox, Averitt University, “Race, Lies, and Huckleberry,”
b. Blake Wilder, North Carolina
State University,
“The New Grounds of Canonicity: Examining
Race, Gender, and
Sexuality in The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn.”
c. Mike
Jones, Webster, Texas, “Contexting:
How are Jim’s children doing?”
Plaza Room
11. Receiving the Popular
panel 2:
Tom Poe, Chair
a. Joseph Kerr,
Georgia State
University,
“Fan Reaction to the Grey’s Anatomy Controversy: Homophobia,
Racism, or an Overdose of Political Correctness?”
b. 13. Kevin Sanson, University of Texas
at Austin
“No Sex
Farce, Please. We’re American:
Translating
the BBC’s Coupling for US Network Television”
c. Catherine Preston, University of Kansas
“Does murder turn you on? Women’s responses
to the sexualization
of murder in recent crime drama television
series.”
d. Tara Scherner de la Fuente, University
of Cincinnati “Reading Audiobooks”
2:45-4:15
Alumni Room
12. "Receptions of Events"
Philip Goldstein, Chair
1. Steve Mailloux, UC at Irvine,
"Reading Events: Political Enactment and and
Rhetorical Hermeneutics"
2. Philip Goldstein, University of Delaware
“Evil, Interpretation, and Politics: Twenty-first Century
Post-Marxist Cultural Theory.”
3. Respondent: John Frow, University of Melbourne
Plaza Room
13. Modern American culture
Genevieve West, Chair
a. Inci Bilgin, Bogazici University
“How To Receive `Recitatif`: Morrison the Trickster and the Fall
of the Reader “
b. Genevieve West, Ferris State
University
“Truth, Lies and Genre: The Critical Reception of James Frey’s
A
Million Little Pieces.”
c. Janet Badia, Marshall University, ““Dissatisfied,
Family-Hating Shrews”: Women Readers, Literary Reception, and Feminism in the
Popular Imagination of the 1970s.”
d. Gary Weissman, University of Cincinnati, “The Virtue of Misreadings: Interpreting ‘The Man in the Well’”
4:30-6:00:
rm 116
John
Frow, Chair of English Language and Literature,
the University of Melbourne
“Afterlife:
Texts as Usage”
7:30-9:00 Banquet Ballroom of the Holiday Inn