Literature Compass MLA Panel & Pre-MLA Round-Up

All MLA attendees are warmly invited to the Literature Compass panel at this year’s conference, organised and chaired by our 18th Century Section Editor, Cynthia Wall and including our Editor-in-Chief Peter Brown on the panel. The session will also be recorded and made available available via the Compass website after the conference. It would be great to see as many of you there as can make it!

Friday, 28 December
159. Got ECCO? The Contents and Discontents of Electronic Media for Early Modern Studies
8:30–9:45 a.m., Atlanta, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Presiding: Cynthia S. Wall, Literature Compass
Speakers: Gail Aw, Univ. of Virginia; Peter Brown, Univ. of Kent; David A. Golumbia, Univ. of Virginia; Kathryn J. Lowerre, Michigan State Univ.; David Radcliffe, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ.; Christine Ruotolo, University Librarian

We are also very pleased to announce that Cynthia Wall has received an Honorable Mention in the 38th annual James Russell Lowell Prize for her book, The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century (University of Chicago Press). The announcement PDF, including details of the committee’s citation for Cynthia Wall’s book, is available here.

Finally, as the MLA fast approaches, below is also a list of panels which Literature Compass editors and board members will be involved in this year.

Best Wishes from the Compass Team!

List of MLA Panels with Literature Compass participants

Thursday, 27 December
66. Open Digital Communities
5:15–6:30 p.m., Columbus Hall G, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology
Presiding: Geoffrey Rockwell, McMaster Univ.
1. “The Best of Both Worlds: Peer Review through NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) and Social Research with the Collex Tool,” Laura C. Mandell, Miami Univ., Oxford
2. “Developing and Sharing Language Materials in a Consortium Context,” Robert James Blake, Univ. of California, Davis
3. “Cyberinfrastructure and Open Standards, Methods, and Communities,” John Merritt Unsworth, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
Respondent: David G. Nicholls, MLA

Thursday, 27 December
140. Global Technologies of Translation: Missionary Anthropology and the Planetary Challenge of Language and Culture
8:45–10:00 p.m., Colorado, Sheraton Chicago
A special session
1. “Melville’s Typee, Translation, and the Depths of Time,” Christopher Freeburg, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
2. “Christian Translations: Indian Grammar and the Quest for a Universal Language,” Sarah Rivett, Washington Univ.
3. “Techniques du corps: Senegalese Basketball and the Art of Translation,” Michael Ralph, Cornell Univ.
Respondent: Wai Chee Dimock, Yale Univ.
For copies of papers, write to srivett@wustl.edu after 1 Dec.

Friday, 28 December
159. Got ECCO? The Contents and Discontents of Electronic Media for Early Modern Studies
8:30–9:45 a.m., Atlanta, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Presiding: Cynthia S. Wall, Literature Compass
Speakers: Gail Aw, Univ. of Virginia; Peter Brown, Univ. of Kent; David A. Golumbia, Univ. of Virginia; Kathryn J. Lowerre, Michigan State Univ.; David Radcliffe, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ.; Christine Ruotolo, University Librarian

Friday, 28 December
243. Mid-Victorian Self-Assessments: Victorians between Past and Future
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., New Orleans, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on the Victorian Period
Presiding: Linda Kay Hughes, Texas Christian Univ.
1. “The Mill on the Floss, Sentimental Historicism, and the Time of Mid-Century Equipoise,” Nathan K. Hensley, Duke Univ.
2. “Structures of Regret: Promoting Strategic Investment in the Mid-Victorian Novel,” Rebecca F. Stern, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia
3. “Self-Conscious Self-Assessment: The 1850s Voice of George Eliot,” Kathleen McCormack, Florida International Univ.

Friday, 28 December
292. Global Perspectives on Modernism and Modernity
1:45–3:00 p.m., Columbus Hall E and F, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature
Presiding: Regenia Gagnier, Univ. of Exeter
1. “Modernity and the Texts of Anticolonial Ethics: Gandhi and Others,” Leela Gandhi, Univ. of Chicago
2. “Subaltern Modernity: Bordering on Asia, Latin America, and the United States,” Ramón Saldívar, Stanford Univ.
3. “Traveling Modernisms, Polycentric Modernities,” Susan Stanford Friedman, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Friday, 28 December
278. The Portability of the Enlightenment
1:45–3:00 p.m., Missouri, Sheraton Chicago
Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Presiding: Lynn M. Festa, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Gerónimo de Uztáriz and the Economics of the Spanish Enlightenment,” Jonathan E. Carlyon, Colorado State Univ.
2. “The Portable Sea: Representing Nautical Language and the Technological Enlightenment,” Janet L. Sorensen, Univ. of California, Berkeley
3. “The World Was All before Them: Permanent Exile and the Portability of Culture,” Charlotte Sacks Sussman, Duke Univ.

Friday, 28 December
297. Travel, Nationalism, and Medical Diagnosis
3:30–4:45 p.m., Gold Coast, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on the English Romantic Period
Presiding: Peter Manning, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York
1. “Transport: A Diagnostic Geography of a Romantic Emotional Category,” Miranda Jane Burgess, Univ. of British Columbia
2. “Hallucinogenesis: An Eastern Frame of Mind,” Elizabeth Fay, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston
3. “Locating Melancholy: Mme de Staël and the Sociological Imagination,” Eric Gidal, Univ. of Iowa
4. “This Uncertain Disease: Nostalgia, Lyrical Ballads, and the Poetics of Motion,” Kevis Bea Goodman, Univ. of California, Berkeley
For copies of abstracts, write to peter.manning@sunysb.edu after 1 Dec.

Friday, 28 December
356. Modernism in the World
7:15–8:30 p.m., Grand Suite 3, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century English Literature
Presiding: Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
Speakers: Eric R. J. Hayot, Penn State Univ., University Park; Saikat Majumdar, Stanford Univ.; Carrie J. Preston, Boston Univ.; Jahan Ramazani, Univ. of Virginia; Laura A. Winkiel, Iowa State Univ.

Friday, 28 December
377. Localizing Modernisms
7:15–8:30 p.m., Dusable, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century English Literature
Presiding: Talia C. Schaffer, Queens Coll., City Univ. of New York
1. “Making Love: Universality and Modernism,” Ashley Shelden, Tufts Univ.
2. “Dematerializing the Local,” Elaine C. Freedgood, New York Univ.
3. “Local Color and American Modernism,” Leslie R. Shimotakahara, Saint Francis Xavier Univ.

Friday, 28 December
375. Cultural Studies and Eighteenth-Century Studies in the Classroom
7:15–8:30 p.m., Mississippi, Sheraton Chicago
A special session
Presiding: Laura Rosenthal, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Speakers: Dwight Codr, Tulane Univ.; Thomas P. Di Piero, Univ. of Rochester; Laura T. Engel, Duquesne Univ.; Carl H. Fisher, California State Univ., Long Beach; David Samuel Mazella, Univ. of Houston, University Park
For copies of abstracts, visit http://long18th.wordpress.com/.

Saturday, 29 December
443. The Cosmopolitan Nation; or, The End of American Exceptionalism?
10:15–11:30 a.m., McCormick, Hyatt Regency
A special session
Presiding: Leonard Tennenhouse, Brown Univ.
1. “The Transatlantic Exception: Jefferson’s Notes and Crevecoeur’s Letters,” Ezra Tawil, Columbia Univ.
2. “Postnationalism and the Early American Empire,” Edward J. Larkin, Univ. of Delaware, Newark
3. “Charles Brockden Brown and Literary Nationalism,” Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Northeastern Univ.
Respondent: Leonard Tennenhouse

Saturday, 29 December
454. Outcomes Assessments: Problems and Perspectives
10:15–11:30 a.m., Columbus Hall C and D, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the MLA Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee
Presiding: Luca Somigli, Univ. of Toronto
Speakers: Patricia A. Belanoff, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York; Michael Bennett, Long Island Univ., Brooklyn; Gerald Graff, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago; Elaine M. Klein, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; José G. Ricardo, Shippensburg Univ.; Laura Rosenthal, Univ. of Maryland, College Park; Bonnie Kime Scott, San Diego State Univ.

Saturday, 29 December
479. Middle English Alliterative Poetry: Conquest and Contact
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Columbus Hall K and L, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer
Presiding: Robert W. Barrett, Jr., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
1. “Alliterative Poetry’s Latin Learning,” Ian Cornelius, Univ. of Pennsylvania
2. “English Alliterative Poetry in Old Jerusalem,” Andrew Scott Galloway, Cornell Univ.
3. “Outsiders in The Awntyrs of Arthur,” Michael Wenthe, American Univ.

Saturday, 29 December
514. Narrative and Image: New Theory for New Forms
1:45–3:00 p.m., New Orleans, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on Prose Fiction
Presiding: Laura Morgan Green, Northeastern Univ.
1. “Some Versions of Narrative Diagrammatics,” Nicholas Dames, Columbia Univ.
2. “Neurath’s Isotope System and Modernist Narrative Simplicity,” Michael Douglas Sayeau, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York
3. “Embedded Artworks: Who Sees Them and Why It Matters,” Emma Kafalenos, Washington Univ.

Saturday, 29 December
511. Materializing the Mind: Literature and Psychology at the Turn of the Century
1:45–3:00 p.m., Burnham, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature
Presiding: Jennifer L. Fleissner, Indiana Univ., Bloomington
1. “Theology, Neurology, and Aesthetic Experience in Frederic’s Theron Ware,” Jane F. Thrailkill, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2. “Multiple Selves, Wordless Communication, and Twain’s Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts,” Randall Kent Knoper, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
3. “The Specious Present and the Matter of Literature: Jamesian Time Psychology and the Jamesian Sentence,” Jesse E. Matz, Kenyon Coll.

Saturday, 29 December
562. Reading Seventeenth-Century Genders in the Twenty-First Century
3:30–4:45 p.m., Columbus Hall H, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Presiding: Rachel J. Trubowitz, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham
1. “What’s Political in Seventeeth-Century Women’s Political Writing?” Mihoko Suzuki, Univ. of Miami
2. “Puritan Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage: A Presentist Perspective?” Thomas H. Luxon, Dartmouth Coll.
3. “War Times: Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writings and Their Afterlives,” Erin A. Murphy, Boston Univ.
Respondent: Mary Beth Rose, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

Saturday, 29 December
613. Pound and the Modernist as Decadent
7:15–8:30 p.m., New Orleans, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Ezra Pound Society
Presiding: Burton N. Hatlen, Univ. of Maine, Orono
1. “Pound, the Great War, and the Decay of the Male Body,” Vincent Sherry, Jr., Villanova Univ.
2. “Ezra Pound and the Empiricism of Decadence,” Kimberly Howey, Univ. Coll. London
3. “‘Hah hah ahah thmm’: The Cost of Beauty in Canto XX,” Ellen Keck Stauder, Reed Coll.
4. “The Loss of Romance, the Romance of Loss: Pound and the Great War,” Sophia Sherry, Univ. of Oxford

Saturday, 29 December
592. New Poetic Archives
7:15–8:30 p.m., Stetson F, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Presiding: Ann Louise Kibbie, Bowdoin Coll.
1. “Eighteenth-Century Scottish Poetry Online: Making the Case for Smaller-Scale Digital Archives,” Corey Edward Andrews, Youngstown State Univ.
2. “Early Modern British Poetry in Archives Old and New,” Lorna J. Clymer, California State Univ., Bakersfield
3. “Programming Poetry: Visualizations in the Poetess Archive Database,” Laura C. Mandell, Miami Univ., Oxford

Sunday, 30 December
727. The Humanities Indicators Project and the MLA
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Columbus Hall G, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Office of the Executive Director
Presiding: Patricia Meyer Spacks, Univ. of Virginia
1. “Project Background and Steps Needed to Make the Indicators an Ongoing Activity,” Norman Bradburn, Univ. of Chicago
2. “The Humanities Indicators Project and Other Data Activities at the MLA,” David Laurence, MLA
3. “The Humanities Indicators from a User’s Point of View,” Patricia Meyer Spacks

Sunday, 30 December
730. Class and Antebellum American Literature
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Plaza Ballroom B, Hyatt Regency
A special session
Presiding: Shirley Samuels, Cornell Univ.
1. “Materializing Identification,” Lori A. Merish, Georgetown Univ.
2. “The Class in Reading,” Thomas Augst, New York Univ.
3. “Returning to the Lower Middle,” Andrew Lawson, Leeds Metropolitan Univ.
Respondent: Amy Schrager Lang, Syracuse Univ.

Sunday, 30 December
739. After McKeon: The Public Sphere
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Burnham, Hyatt Regency
Program arranged by the Division on Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Presiding: Kathryn D. Temple, Georgetown Univ.
1. “Intimate Matters: On Materiality and Domestication,” Helen Thompson, Northwestern Univ.
2. “Slander, Conversation, and the Making of the Christian Public Sphere in Astell’s Christian Religion,” William Kolbrener, Bar-Ilan Univ.
3. “The Truth of the Innuendos and the Generality of Readers,” Gary R. Dyer, Cleveland State Univ.

Sunday, 30 December
760. New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Women
1:45–3:00 p.m., Missouri, Sheraton Chicago
Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
Presiding: Susanne Woods, Wheaton Coll., MA
1. “‘Bidizza’ and ‘Sapiri’: Knowledge, Beauty, and Gender in the Correspondence between Tommaso Campailla and Girolama Lorefice Grimaldi,” Yaakov Mascetti, Bar-Ilan Univ.
2. “‘Miseries in Woeful Cries / Deliver’d Forth’: Pamphilia Defined,” Susan Lauffer O’Hara, Georgian Court Univ.
3. “Drawing Networks in the Devonshire Manuscript (BL Add 17492): Visualizing a Writing Community’s Shared Apprenticeship, Social Valuation, and Self-Validation,” Johanne Paquette, Univ. of Victoria
Respondent: Margaret J. M. Ezell, Texas A&M Univ., College Station