2009 Conference

Purdue University

All sessions are in the Stewart Center

Friday

8:30-10: panels

1. Foucault, Reception, and Rhetoric STEW318

Chair, Phil Goldstein

Hector Amaya

Media Studies Department,

University of Virginia

“Lucia and Foucault on Becoming Political”

Philip Goldstein

Associate of Arts Program

University of Delaware

“From Aesthetics to Reception Theory: Adorno,

Derrida, Foucault”

 
Katherine Mack, Ph.D.
English Department
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

“Public Memory as Contested Receptions of the Past”

2. On-line Resources for Assessing Reception STEW322

Chair, Yung-Hsing Wu

Timothy Aubry

Baruch College

“Amazon and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Empathy.”

Cecilia Konchar Farr

St. Catherine University

“Let’s Talk About Texts: The Evaluative Language of

Everyday Readers.”

Yung-Hsing Wu

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

“The Magical Matter of Books: Amazon.com and The Tales

of Beedle the Bard.”

A. Robin Hoffman

Department of English

University of Pittsburgh

ALH73@pitt.edu

“The BFG and the Spaghetti Book Club: A Case Study of

Children as Critics”

3. "Reading Race." STEW320

Chair, Beth Flynn

Kette Thomas,

Michigan Technological University

“Traditions of Deception: How Slave Narratives

Helped to Create Haiti’s Restavecs”

Lesley Larkin

Northern Michigan University

“Learning to Read: Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place”

Elizabeth A. Flynn

Michigan Technological University

“Receiving” the Lost Girls of the Sudan”

10:15-11:45: panels

4. Medievalisms STEW 318

Chair, Mark Amsler

Laurie A. Finke,

Department of Women’s and Gender Studies

Kenyon College

Martin B. Shichtman,

Department of English Language and Literature

Eastern Michigan University

‘Medieval Hauntings: Rituals of the Ku Klux Klan’

Angela Jane Weisl, PhD
Department of English
Seton Hall University
"Confession, Contrition, and the Rhetoric of

Tears: Medievalism in Reality Television"

Mark Amsler,

English Department

University of Auckland,

“Where’s Neo? – Sovereignty and Multilingualism

in Medievalism and Neo-Medievalism”

5. Genre and Reception STEW320

Chair, Jim Machor

Will Scheibel

Department of Communication & Culture, Film &

Media Studies, Indiana University

“Shadowing Noir: Generic Inflections in the

Critical Discourse”

Allen H Redmon, PhD

Assistant Professor,

English Department

Tarleton State University-Central Texas

“How Many Lebowskis are There? Introducing the

Constructivist Use of Genre”

Jim Machor

Kansas State University

"Reading for Realism: Genre and the Reception of

Late Nineteenth-Century American Fiction."

6. Active Readers On-line STEW322

Amy Blair, Chair

Joanna Collins

Department of English

University of Pittsburgh

“Heaven Just Got a Lot More Interesting:” Online Responses

to Norman Mailer Obituaries

Jason Bryant

Dept. of English
Arizona State University

“Discriminating Tastes: Reception of Amazon’s Top

Customer Reviewer”

Stacy Erickson

Department of English

Manchester College

“Talking Back to the Canon: Reading Shakespeare and Milton

in the Digital Age”

12-1: lunch

1:15-2:45: STEW322

Michael Bérubé

Paterno Family Professor in Literature,

Pennsylvania State University.

"What Happened to Cultural Studies?"

Introduction, Philip Goldstein

3:00-4:30: panels

7. "Disaggregating Literary Audiences: Race,

Regions, Critics" STEW 318

Chair, Charles Johanningsmeier

Matthew Davis

University of Oklahoma

“‘In the light of history and experience’:

Charles Chesnutt, The Colonel’s Dream and the

Problems of Audience”

Emily Satterwhite,

Department of Interdisciplinary Studies,

Virginia Tech
“‘Resell Rural America to Americans’: Fan Mail,

Migrants, and Pastoral Nationalism”

Charles Johanningsmeier

Department of English

University of Nebraska at Omaha

“The Potential – and Limitations – of Using Fan

Mail to Assess Historical Reader Behavior: The Case of

Willa Cather”

Dr. Olga Kuminova

Abrahams-Curiel Department of

Foreign Literatures and Linguistics

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

“Committed to Public Care: Reader, Author,

and the Community in the Reception History of

The Sound and the Fury.”

8. Reading Practices: Material Conditions STEW320

Cecilia Farr, Chair

Thomas McLaughlin CANCELLED

Department of English

Appalachian State University

“Hexis and Hermeneutics: Reading as a Bodily Practice”

Jennifer Nolan-Stinson
Department of English
North Carolina State University

“Towards a Life History of Reading”

Derek W. Attig

Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Bookmobility”

9. Film/Media: Empire, Wives, Politics STEW322

Walter Metz, Chair

Jackie Gold

Department of History

Emory University

“The Adventure of Empire” (Indie films)

Mary Beth Haralovich

School of Media Arts

University of Arizona

mbharalo@u.arizona.edu

“They Also Serve: TV’s Military Wives Reach

Out to Women”

John Howard Wilson

Department of English

Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

jwilson3@lhup.edu

“Gandhi vs. Mishima: The Politics of Critical

Reception”

5:00-5:45: reception/cash bar,

Purdue Memorial Union, Room 118

6:00-7:30: STEW322

James Phelan,

Humanities Distinguished Professor,

Ohio State University.

"Rhetoric, Ethics, and Audiences in Fiction and

Nonfiction: Austen, Didion, and Others."

Introduction, John Duvall

Dinner on your own

Saturday

8:00-9:00: business meeting

9:00-10:30: panels

10. “Encoded Trauma: Crisis, Popular Media, and

Audience Meaning Making” STEW322

Chair, Walter Metz

Steve Carr

Department of Communication

Indiana Purdue University at Fort Wayne (IPFW).

“Eichmann TV”

David Church,

Department of Communication and Culture

Indiana University

“Of Manias, Shit, and Blood: The Reception of

Salò as a ‘Sick’ Film”

Walter Metz

Department of Communications

Southern Illinois University

“You’ve gotta be frakkin’ kiddin’ me!”: Science-Fiction

Fandom, Academic Television Studies, and Historical

Trauma in Battlestar Galactica

11. Shakespeare and Milton: Influence, Context, Empire STEW318

Jim Machor, Chair

Andrew Cutrofello

Loyola University Chicago

“More things in heaven and earth: The Musical Socrates and

the Melancholy Genius (Hamlet)”

Angelica Duran
English and Comparative Literature
Purdue University

“John Milton, Englishman: “Of the Devil’s Party” per the

Spanish Inquisition”

Ashley Hetrick

Department of English

UI at Urbana-Champlain

“Accessories / To his bold riot”: Audience and

Empire in John Milton’s Paradise Lost and the

Early Modern Travel Narrative

12. Political Impact: Gender, Sexuality, and Commodities STEW320

Chair, Philip Goldstein

Lisa Arnold

Department of English
University of Louisville
“Troubling the Discipline(s): Gender Trouble’s

“Complex Historicity” and Feminist Theory”

 
Tom Hertweck, 
Program for Literature & Environment

University of Nevada, Reno

“Commodity Narratives and the Sublime

Object of Consumption”

Mimi Iimuro Van Ausdall, Ph.D.

Purdue University

Department of English

mvanausd@purdue.edu

“Literature and Revolution: Lesbian Readers Remember

the Seventies”

10:45-12:15: panels

13. “Reading Complex Narratives: Issues in Serial

and Convergence Television Viewing” STEW322

Chair, Janet Staiger

Kelly Kessler,

DePaul University,

“Remember our Heroes: Network and Audience Negotiation

of a Series in Crisis”

Sharon Ross,

Columbia College (Chicago),

“’OMFG!’: The Incorporation of Fan Reception Practices

Into the Marketing and Narrative of Gossip Girl”

Susan McLeland,

University of Texas at Austin,

“DeadWife’s in the Pimp Spot: Reading American Idol

through Extratextual Discourses”

Elana Levine,

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,

“’What the Hell does TIIC Mean?’: Soap Viewing in a

Transmedia World”

Janet Staiger,

University of Texas at Austin,

“Lost in Lost: Reading Demands in a Convergent

Media Era”

14. "Reading and Re-Reading Across Ethnicity in the

1920s: A Roundtable" STEW318

Chair, Barbara Hochman

Barbara Ryan,

University of Singapore,

“Re-reading the Bible, Revising Ben-Hur:

The Man Nobody Knows”

Shlomi Deloia,

Ben Gurion University,

"Jewish Authors, Mainstream Readers, and the

Shaping of the the Jewish American 'Problem

Novel' of the 1920s"

Amy Blair,

Marquette University,

Jewish American 'Problem Novel' of the 1920s"

"Rereading Race for the Great White Way: Show

Boat's Reception as Novel and Musical."

Matthew S. Hedstrom,

University of Virginia

“The Religious Book Club: Marketing Liberalism

through Print”

Barbara Hochman,

Ben Gurion University,

bhochman@bgu.ac.il

"Nella Larsen's Passing: Racializing Edith Wharton

in the 1920s"

15. Cultural Others STEW320

Chair, Edgard Sankara

Edgard Sankara,

University of Delaware

“Transnational Reception of paradox in Confiant’s

autobiography”

Olivier Tchouaffe,

Southwestern University Georgetown.

"Rue Case-Negres: Exilic Memory, Public Sphere 
and Politics?
 

Emily S. Davis

University of Delaware
"Questions of Methodology for Transnational Reception

Studies: Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love" as Case Study”

12:30-1:30: lunch

1:30-3:00: STEW322

Barbara Klinger
Professor of Communication and Culture,

Indiana University.

"Global Titanic: Film Piracy and Transnational

Reception in Central Asia."

Introduction, Janet Staiger

3:15-4:45: panels

16. Watching Horror STEW322

Chair, Janet Staiger

Joan Hawkins,

Indiana

University Bloomington,

“Psycho Killer, Qu’est-ce que c’est? Watching

Horror Downtown”

Andy Scahill,

University of Texas at Austin,

“Perverse Pollyannas: The Bad Seed, Revolting

Children, and the Possibilities of Queer Adoption”

Harry Benshoff,

University of North Texas,

“’Way Too Gay to be Ignored’: David DeCoteau’s

Beefcake Boutique Horror Films”

Jeff Sconce,

Northwestern University,

“In the Shadow of the Silent Zombie Majorities”

17. Editions and Readers: Jefferson, Civil War

Newspapers, Horatio Alger STEW 318

Chair, James Machor

Robert Barnet Riter

School of Information Sciences,

University of Pittsburgh

“Reading Boyd’s The Papers of Thomas Jefferson:

An Analysis of Audience Reception through a Study

of Book Reviews”

Ronald and Mary Zboray

Department of Communication

University of Pittsburgh

“‘Tombstones of Time’: Readers’ Reception of Newspapers

n New Year’s Day during the U.S. Civil War Era”

Kyoko Amano
Department of English
University of Indianapolis

“Selling 19^th Century Stories to 20^th Century Readers”

5:00-6:30: STEW322

Steven Zwicker 
Stanley Elkin Professor in the Humanities, 
Washington University. 
"The day that George Thomason collected his copy 
of the 'Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English 
and Latin, Compos’d at Several Times'."
Introduction, Jim Machor

7:00-10:00: banquet dinner

Dauch Alumni Center

Sunday

8:30-10:00: panels

18. Film/Media: Audience, Vids,

Adaptations STEW322

Chair, Philip Goldstein

James Paasche

Department of Communication and Culture

Indiana University.

“Recovering Lost Audiences: The Curious

Case of Business Screen”

Tisha Turk
Department of English
University of Minnesota, Morris

“Decoding the Decoders: Vidwatching as

Participatory Interpretation”

Ildiko Olasz, Ph.D.

Department of English

Northwest Missouri State University

olaszild@msu.edu

“Pick Up a Book or Go to the Movies? Film

Adaptations and Student Audience”

19. Readers and Reading: Canada, Serbia,

Russia, China STEW318

Chair, Steve Mailloux

Charlotte Templin

Indiana University
“Americans Read Canadian Novels: Cultural

Difference and National Agendas”

Dr. Biljana Djoric-Francuski
English Department

University of Belgrade

“Reception of the Novels by British Nobel

Prize-Winners in Serbia”

Tatiana Venediktova,

Department of Discourse and Communication Studies,

Moscow University

“Reading Differently as a Cultural Challenge:

Russian readers and reading since 1990s”

Leo Tak-hung Chan

Department of Translation,

Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

“Through a Glass: The Mediated Reception of

Translated English Fiction in China, from the

Eighties to the Present”

10:15-11:45: panels

20. Narrative and/as rhetoric STEW318

Chair, Patsy Schweikart

Matt Seybold,

University of California – Irvine

“Free Agency & The Fire Next Time”

Molly Abel Travis

Department of English

Tulane University

“The NEA’s “Big Read” and International

Relations: The Cultural Service of To Kill

a Mockingbird”

Steve Mailloux CANCELLED

Loyola Marymount University

"Receptions of St. Paul's TheoRhetoric,"

21. Literature: authors and readers STEW320

Chair, Olga Kuminova

Daniel Morris.

Professor of English and Jewish Studies

Purdue University,

“Embarrassing Exposures: Textualizing Images

to Influence Viewer Reception in Weegee’s Naked City”

Benjamin G. Sammons

Department of English

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Chesnutt’s Technology for a Warm Reception”

Zita Farkas

University of York, United Kingdom

Taking a Stance: Jeanette Winterson's Influence

on Her Own Reception

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