SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

*All Events Will Be Located in MEAD HALL*

Friday, June 6

12:30 Registration

1:30-2:00Opening Remarks

2:00-3:15Session 1

Panel A- Cold War Culture (Moderator - Peter Lee)

The Reel Good War: National Identity and Collective Memory in Contemporary American Film

Sophie Chapman-Smith, University of Adelaide

1953 and the Forging of Cold War Culture

Jessica Brandt, Drew University

Onkel Wiggly Wings: The Berlin Airlift and the Significance of Operation Little Vittles to US-German Relations

Kaete O’Connell, Temple University

Panel B- Archives and Methods (Moderator - Heather Bennett)

Examining Readers’ Responses to Browning: Tracing Audience Reception Using the 'Reading Experience Database (RED), 1450-1945'

Lauren Weiss, University of Glasgow

The Goldmine of Goodreads: Researching Authors' Reputations

Daniel Moran, Drew University

Detroit’s Mediated Past: Exploring the Spatial Archive

Joseph DeLeon, New York University

Panel C- Performing Race (Moderator - Hettie Williams)

Claiming a Space/Making a Place: African-American Women in the Post-Reconstruction Struggle for Cultural Identity and Citizenship

Candace Pryor, Drew University

Performing Racial United States Histories: Telling the Truth in The Scottsboro Boys

Lisa S. Brenner, Drew University

Kanye West, Runaway, and the Crazy-Making of a Black Auteur

Stephen Bennett, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities

3:30-4:45 Session 2

Panel A- Memory and War (Moderator - Ben Rubin)

Message to the Living: Reading the Tombs at Andersonville and Meuse-Argonne

Susannah Bingham Buck, Drew University

Pearl Harbor in Film and Memory

Jeff Ewen, Drew University

Displaying Emotion: Media Images of the Weary Soldier: WWII, Korean, and Vietnam Wars

Amy Lucker, Rutgers University- Newark

Panel B- New Media (Moderator - Max Thornton)

OMG Did You See That Knife In Court Today? Or How Social Media Has Changed Jury Trials

Rachel Marlowe, Widener University School of Law, Harrisburg

Digitalization of a Nation: The Impact of Video Games on American Life (1972-1989)

Chris Darby, Seton Hall University

Technological Innovation and the Limits of the Information Age

Derek Faux, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Panel C- Women in TV and Film (Moderator - Anne Ricculli)

“The Small Situation” of the Woman Television Writer-Star in 1950s America

Annie Berke, Yale University

Geisha of the Silver Screen

Michelle Smith, Independent Scholar

Military Women’s Sexuality in the Vietnam War: Movies and Television

Ariel Natalo-Lifton, Rutgers University

5:00Keynote Speaker

“Light It Up”:  War Porn and the Marine Corps' Optics of Combat in the Iraq War

John Pettegrew, Lehigh University

6:00Reception with Refreshments

Saturday, June 7

8:00Registration

8:45- 10:00 Session 3

Panel A- Adaptation (Moderator - Dan Moran)

From Book to Screen: An Interpretation of the Aftermath of War

Frank Viola, Drew University

Faded Green: Adaptation, Ecology, and the Legend of Brendan's Voyage

Gabriel Ertsgaard, Drew University

Salome: Reviving the Dark Lady

Alanna Gibson, University of Dayton

Panel B- Aesthetics, Ideology, and Class Struggles (Moderator - Adam Bell)

A Reengagement on the Aesthetic Front: Continuity in the Thought of Georg Lukacs

David Sockol, Drew University

From Sacrifice to Resistance: The Fracture of Upper Class Identity and Class Allegiance as Seen in War Literature in Britain during the First World War and in the Interwar Period

Mary K. Laurents, University of Maryland- Baltimore County

Panel C- Culture Wars (Moderator - Mark Lempke)

The Reagan/Lear Debates: How a Former Actor and Television Writer Changed the Course of America’s Culture Wars in late Twentieth-Century America

Benji Rolsky, Drew University

“‘For Mature Readers:’ Representations of HIV/AIDS within Popular American Comic Books of the 1980s

William Avila, Northern Illinois University

Forrest Under Fire: Critical Reaction to Forrest Gump (1994)

Michael Snyder, Rutgers University- Newark

10:15-11:00Session 4

Panel A- Serial Consumption (Moderator - Emily Marlowe)

Re-Reading Breakfast: An Examination of Charles William Post's Advertisements

1896-1900

Joseph Wright, McDaniel College

Serialized Periodical Literature at the Fault Line of Quality and Mass Production

Janina Rojek, Philipps- Universitat Marburg

Panel B- Legacies of the Civil War (Moderator - Jeff Ewen)

Sketch Artist: Alfred Waud Portrays the American Civil War

Kristilyn Baldwin, Arizona State University

“It’s All So Terribly True”: Reading The Birth of a Nation (1915) as a World War I Film

Mariah Hepworth, Northwestern University

11:15-12:00Session 5

Panel A- Queerness in Visual Media (Moderator - Maya Rook)

Batman and the Aesthetics of Camp

Lauren Levitt, New York University

Appropriation of Narrative in the Post-DOMA World

Patrick Spears, Freelance Scholar

Panel B- World War II Propaganda (Moderator - Michael King)

Bolstering the War Effort Through Film: Strategies to Promote American Support for Britain During WWII

Natalie Jonckheere, New York University

The Nazi Soldier in Combat: Killing and Dying in German Cinema, 1933-1945

Alexander Sycher, Bowling Green State University

12:00- 12:45 Lunch

1:00-2:15Session 6

Panel A- Visions: Utopia, Posthumanism, and Communication (Moderator - Max Thornton)

C. S. Lewis’s Un-Replicable Reception: A Platform at the Crossroads of Secularization and Communications History

Stephanie Derrick, University of Sterling

Mission Critical: Exploring the Ecological Function of Literary Utopia

Sarah Minegar, Drew University

"Searching for Cyborgs High and Low": Cyborgs in Theory and Popular Culture

Heather Bennett, Drew University

Panel B- Book History (Moderator - Cassie Brand)

New England Psalmody in Print and Practice: Cultural Hegemony Revisited

Brenton Grom, Case Western Reserve University

“Well Worth Stealing”: Dickens in 21st Century Literature

Brian Shetler, Drew University

Non-Mainstream Publishing: Methodological and Theoretical Issues

Christos Mais, Leiden University

Panel C- Queerness in Popular Literature (Moderator - Ellen Zemlin)

Drawing from the Well: How Mainstream Culture and the Lesbian Subculture Interpreted The Well of Loneliness

Nicole Rizzuto, Drew University

Queering Our Town: Latent Critiques of Sexual Normativity and the American Ideal

Drew Konow, Yale University

Sex, Self, and Ephemeral Memory

Benson Hawk, Drew University

2:30- 3:45Session 7

Panel A- History on Stage (Moderator - TBA)

The Tower: The Donner Party and Touching the Past Through Performance

Maya Rook, Drew University

The Barricaded Irish House: Eviction Resistance as Theatre

Daphne Wolf, Drew University

Recontextualizing Sound: Understanding History Through Hip Hop Sampling

Alex Edelstein, New York University

Panel B- War and Trauma (Moderator - TBA)

National Melancholia: Childhood and Terror in Homeland

Stephen McNulty, Rutgers University

The Anarchy of Power:  Pier Paolo Pasolini's 'Salò' and Kathryn Bigelow's 'Zero Dark Thirty’

Joscelyn Jurich, Columbia University

The Horrors of War, the Horrors of Television: How Rod Serling's Experiences in WWII Shaped the Twilight Zone

David Brokaw, Louisiana State University

Panel C- Imperialism in Print Culture (Moderator - David Reagles)

Turning Armchair Travelers into Steamship Passengers: Media Celebrity, the Union-Castle Steamship Company, and the Culture of Victorian Travel to South Africa

Britta Anson, University of Washington

“The Strain on the Leash:” Political Cartoons, Popular Sentiment, and Britain’s Changing Role in the Middle East, 1917-1939

Paul Charbel, Drew University

“Read As I Run”: John Wesley Powell, Scribner's Monthly, and American Magazine Literature of the 1870s

James Buttram, Drew University

4:00-4:30- Closing Remarks

Brigitte Ovry-Vial, Université du Maine, Le Mans